Do you want a shotgun or a rifle instead of the sniper rifle? You don't start with enough funds to get a sniper rifle and the light medical kit.Sure, rifl3.
Oh hey, this started for real. How did I not notice?k
Well, my char's already in, so I'll wait until the armory's updated to buy stuff. Something I forgot to reccommend is light body armor, something like a basic bulletproof vest and helmet. Maybe 15 coins would be a decent price?
If no one minds then I'd be fine with letting spayz keep it. think of that +1 as a reward for keeping your character alive through the test game.Thanks dude
I added in a sheet to my earlier post. There is a medic now. I'll add more to the inventory after I take a closer look at the armory.if you're going to be the medic I may just be the engi with a sniper and a wrench to do little more then hit people with even though I have a knife...
I meant a dedicated medic. Anyway, I'm going to need an assistant for all my (possibly inhumane) experiments involving Daemon/person interactions. You could probably help with that if you want.I added in a sheet to my earlier post. There is a medic now. I'll add more to the inventory after I take a closer look at the armory.if you're going to be the medic I may just be the engi with a sniper and a wrench to do little more then hit people with even though I have a knife...
awesome. guess I am more of a combat medic.I meant a dedicated medic. Anyway, I'm going to need an assistant for all my (possibly inhumane) experiments involving Daemon/person interactions. You could probably help with that if you want.I added in a sheet to my earlier post. There is a medic now. I'll add more to the inventory after I take a closer look at the armory.if you're going to be the medic I may just be the engi with a sniper and a wrench to do little more then hit people with even though I have a knife...
Varion looks from the one creature that looks suspiciously like Gru to the man with thick glasses before shoutingThis will definately be my first action of the game and to add onto it.
Fuck! Not again!
locate and secure one parachute
Would you mind if I changed Willhelm to Nikolai at the last minute? I just think an angry slav might make a cooler mechanic than a silent german.
thanksWould you mind if I changed Willhelm to Nikolai at the last minute? I just think an angry slav might make a cooler mechanic than a silent german.
go ahead.
Having returned a pair of airmen back to New York, Ohe decides, against his better judgment, to stick with them and their "friend" for awhile, and invites them onto his ship.[Ole charisma 1] To say that Ohe is a poor negotiator is to say that Stalin killed some people, it goes far but not far enough, by the time the negotiations are done Ohe has managed to raise the price of the crews shares to the equivalent of any of the other three planes he also is forced to give 2 .50 browning in the catalina's gun blisters and throw in the parachutes and the beasts he had in the hold for good measure.
[Varion charisma 5] Varion by dint of clutching the parachute he grabbed from the Catalina, hissing at everyone, and waving his rifle around in an agitated manner manages to hang onto the parachute.Varion looks from the one creature that looks suspiciously like Gru to the man with thick glasses before shoutingThis will definately be my first action of the game and to add onto it.
Fuck! Not again!
locate and secure one parachute
Shove any thing and anyone that gets in my way of obtaining a parachute.
Sure, quick questions, how are you on slope surfaces with wind?"Blin, that sounds like fun. Nikolai can handle any kind of slope! High slopes, low slops, slopes in the bushes. There is no slope that Nikolai cannot defeat!"
((Fakedit: Dang it, Pan took my color.))((Would you like green? If you do, I'll switch over to Tomato, since I've been using that in most games I'm in lately.))
((Nah, I was just joking around because my avatar is green.))((Fakedit: Dang it, Pan took my color.))((Would you like green? If you do, I'll switch over to Tomato, since I've been using that in most games I'm in lately.))
Welp, welcome on."Thank you! Nikolai will make sure the rustbu- I mean airplane will not spontaniously tear itself apart, yes?"
((Works for me! Thank you!))
See if I can help Ohe re-negotiate the terms of our contract. Hope I don't make it worse.
"Hey. Hi. Hi. You guys want some help? I can shoot real straight. That's a nice plane you guys got there. I know a bit about daemons. Help reinforce the plane I bet. That's helpful right? Names Thaddeus. What's your guy's names?"
An odd man with two kits in his hands approaches the plane after seeing the help wanted sign.
"Hey. I'm Damian. I fix people. And I'm good with daemons. You, with the head wound. You want it fixed? I'll do it for free if you all let me bunk here."
If Grue accepts, see if I can fix his wound. Or just tape something over it so it maintains a normal head shape.
((Fakedit: Dang it, Pan took my color.))
Upon hearing his name spoken by Varion, Groo shouts "Yay, friend!" and wraps him in a tight bear hug.Groo lumbers over to Varion and embraces him in a hug [intelligence 2] his two brain cells, still mourning the loss of their comrade fail to tell Groo's muscles to stop hugging and Groo [strength 6] [Varion strength 1] begins shouting about the wonders of friendship as Varion slowly suffocates under the hug.
He completely fails to notice the person offering to fix his head wound.
Ohe just sits in the corner and wonders where everything went so wrong.[Intelligence 5] You sit in the corner looking dejected, you ponder your life analyzing it and looking for what major mistake you made that caused you to become a legally blind, broke shroom addict. You're no psychologist but your pretty sure it was when you agreed to smuggle a shipment of shrooms into New York and ended up crashing into an abounded balloon observation platform. Somehow surviving this crash you were forced to consume about 75 pounds of shrooms when you ran out of emergency rations while waiting for rescue. That was bad trip. But you manage to not collapse to PTSD amazingly.
Put on parachute, go see what people would be willing to give for it then go comfort Ohe.
[engineering 3] You aren't really sure as to whether anything major is wrong with the plane. It's probably because you were distracted byWelp, welcome on."Thank you! Nikolai will make sure the rustbu- I mean airplane will not spontaniously tear itself apart, yes?"
Give the airplane a once-over, see if there's anything that really needs to be fixed.
((Well shit))Your in New York, so there are plenty of quick jobs for someone of your skill set. The question is, how moral are you feeling today?
"Oh, those nice guys left already. I just wanted to talk to them. Oh, I'll be helpful! I'll see if anyone has some quick jobs and buy back the guns and parachutes. Or maybe I'll only make enough to buy myself a parachute. Who knows?"
Wander away, see if I can't convince someone to help me out by giving me some quick jobs to do for gold.
"Nikolai cannot see any pressing defects in airplane. It will fly just fine, probably. If anything breaks we can just fix in air, yes?"Yes, you can fix things in flight.
Groo's frown immediately splits back into a beaming smile. "Friend good! Groo lucky to have tough friend!"Varion chuckles a bit
"Aaaaaa lord rng why have you forsaken me."You call up to the heavens about something called an RNG, the machine gun dealer looks conceded by this sudden besechment and looks at you in worried manner until he notices the pugent stench of shrooms that permates from your every pore ever since that piss poor landing.
Spend some of my 20 gold on .30 ammo if Varion gets the gun.
Varion struggles to scream out BAD GRU BAD! No hugging! Down boy down!!Groo releases you and you go to take inventory of the plane
If Gru releases or I manage to get out, check if we have any ammo for a .30 browning. if we do take it, if we don't refuse and resume putting on parachute.
((Sure, beat someone up. I feel like a gun fight may be a bit...too lethal right now. At least for starting out. Ask me again in a couple of missions. If Thaddeus survives that long))Whee! Go punch people in the face. For money! Or, I guess, use my stunning Charisma to not get the shit kicked out of me
Edit: Nevermind, screw that. Use my Charisma and find a transport job for us. Preferably one WITH an escort. And that pays enough to get a different, less rusty, flying rust bucket.
While the others are trying to find a job, see if I can do some freelance doctoring to earn a bit of money for us.You would do this as well but seems as if a job has already found you.
Get the gun, Go with the strange man, gun at the ready in case he tries anything.You follow along after the OSS agents, clutching your rifle for protection as you walk through progressively rougher areas, though wisely not pointing it directly at either of the agents, they don't take well to being directly threatened.
Ohe glares at the boogeymen with the annoyance of a thousand misfortunes.
"Alright then. Come on, Groo, let's talk to these 2spooky4me gentlemen."
Follow the spooks, dragging Groo along.
Ohe glares at the boogeymen with the annoyance of a thousand misfortunes.
"Alright then. Come on, Groo, let's talk to these 2spooky4me gentlemen."
Follow the spooks, dragging Groo along.
Thaddeus stares at the two new men, before finally the faintest glimmer of recognition appears in his eyes.[Charisma 4] [OSS agent's intelligence 5] While your endless chatter is irritating and less hardened people would probably crack and just tell you where you are headed these are hardened killers and they have listened to idiots chatter before, they know how to block it all out mostly by looking forward to the eventual silences that the need to breathe creates.
"Oh hi Mr. Oh-ess-ess man! I thought you never wanted to see me again? Ooo, will you let me shoot someone again? Or another beast? That was fun. Oh oh, will it be like that time where I shot that guy, he fell into that beasts mouth, then the beast choked on him? That was funny. We should do that again. Where are we going? Do you have soda there? I would like some soda right now. Would you like some soda? What about that one time we all got into the fight with..."
Walk. Talk Mr. Scareys ear off. Find out what !!FUN!! and exciting things we will be doing
Damian watches the two spooks for a moment, his expression one of boredom.The agent's clearly don't care what you call them as long as you are following them and they continue to lead the way in stony silence.
"Oh gee, you guys are so spooky. Sooooo spooky. For a second there, I thought I had accidentally summoned a couple of spooky daemons. Do you have that material I wanted? No wait, those were different spooky guys. You all look the same to me. Normally I wouldn't want to work for somebody who doesn't let anyone see their eyes, but I guess we need the money. Lead on, Agent Smith. Or would you prefer Count Spookula?"
Go with the "spooks".
Groo follows the green-speaker, whatever his name is.Groo's duo of brain cells are clearly acting up again and he thinks he can hear color. Nevertheless he diligently follows Ohe and plods along behind the suited men.
"What are you talking about? Obviously people talk in colors. Otherwise how would you know who is speaking?"[Charisma 5] [spooks intelligence 4] The agent's are stunned by the sheer stupidity of this statement and fail to react in a violent way, clearly realizing that Groo and Thadeus are not perhaps not the only members of limited intelligence here, the speaking spook repeats his offer in very slow terms using expansive hand gestures and the occasionally foray into sign language, before drawing his pistol pointing it at your forehead when he gets to the part about killing you in cold blood. before asking, "Now, Mr. Sukuodi are you sure that you are still busy?"
Ohe procures a rather thick novel, and turns to a page in which the protagonist speaks in a northern green accent.
"Anyway, spooks, I'm afraid that I'm going to have to accept your offer to murder me in cold blood. I'm awfully busy, you see."
Accept the offer.
"Mr. Oh-ess-ess helping my country is always a good thing what kind of idiot would say no? Oh oh, next time can I be the person that shoots the idiot that says no and disposes of the body? I think it's funny when the beasts fight over the body and then usually one of them chokes on a part of the dead guy. Or gets eaten by another beast. What's your favorite beast? I like the ones that are kinda big and look like dogs kinda, but not too big, just like, big enough, you know? Like you could ride them around and people would run screaming from you and it would eat anyone you didn't like. Oh, and if they are multi-colored that's even better, the more colors the better. What about you? What colors do you like? This one time I got to a really really big one up close and it had lots of colors and..."[Charimsa 3] [Agent intelligence 6] Your attempt to drive the agents insane through inane chatter is cut short when the silent agent suddenly produces from his jacket a vibrating Daemon knife and points it at you while holding a finger to his lips. It's pretty clear what he want's you to do.
Accept of course. And talk. Talky talk talk. Use circular breathing to talk with out stopping to take breaths.
"I'll go along with it, why not. But we need parachutes. One for each of us. Just incase, you know? It'd probably be better if we had to walk it there if we end up going down, rather than just losing that package in the wilderness."The talking agent glances at you "Relax, you will all be provided with parachutes, we wouldn't want to risk damaging the blueprint if you crash now would we?
I'm in. But I want parachutes."Nikolai wants to serve his country, blin. But parachutes are important, yes."
In, but parachutes are wanted.
Keep oursss parachute, harm anyone who tries and takes its froms us, its our preciousssssss!!You clutch your parachute to your chest and begin to hiss about precioness and asking the the spooks what in their pockets The agent looks at you and then at his silent partner and then suddenly starts ranting about everyone referencing some WWI vet named Tolkien these days. Not sure what that's all about.
Don't worry You'll get one.
"What are you, an idiot? I said I'm busy. I already told you my preference. What's the holdup?"You would rather flippantly insult the man holding the gun to you head, but you unfortunately were just tackled and got the wind knocked out of you by your resident field medic who is know lying uncurious next to you.
Speak.
Damian peeks up when the agent draws the knife, his interest drawn to it.The silent one nods slightly and points at the pic tograms he already made for Thadeus.
"Daaamn, that's a nice knife. Probably better than the ones in the store, right? Did you bind that daemon yourself?"
Yay, parachutes. I'm definitely onboard with this mission.
There are many things Thaddeus doesn't recognize, but a daemon knife being pointed at him is something that is near universal. You can see his eyes glaze over and almost see the war going on in his head as he struggles between staying alive and asking about the knife. Unfortunately, the knife askers won.[Charisma 5] [spook intelligence 6] Perhaps pleased by seeing that the threat proved effective in causing you to stop asking inane questions and start asking important ones, the silent spook reverses his grip on the knife and slams it into the table, he then begins to cut a detailed description of the daemon and the ritual into the table, clearly knowing about your difficulty reading the spook helpfully made it into picto grams, isn't that nice. Looking over it it would appear as if the ritual would be extremely hard and the daemon is a very high frequnecy daemon in fact it's so high the human ear can't even hear it that's going to mean some pricey specialty equipment if you want to follow a similar ritual.[+1 to doing that particular ritual with that particular frequency of daemon]
"...which daemon and how hard was the ritual?"
Hopefully not his last words. After getting an answer, shut up. Even if there is no answer, shut up.
Ask the spooks what we need to do, silent my fellow team mates.Suddenly breaking the tense battle of wills between Ohe and the spook, you launch yourself at Ohe with a blood curdling cry [dex 4] and slam into him in an off centered manner, [strength 6] [ohe strength 3] luckily your sheer bulk slams Ohe out of his chair and leaves him sprawled on the floor with the wind knocked out of him. Unfortunately for you, you hit your head on the table [end 1] and have completely knocked yourself unconscious from the force of it.
ok guys enough fooling around, we ne3d to get down to buisiness
"Neat! You have any tips for imbuing daemons into things? You ever try imbuing one into one of those endo exosuits? You think you could share some of your knowledge with me if we make it through this? Please?"That is common knowledge any daemonist would already know. You can bind daemons into anything made of metal, however the stronger the daemon the higher quality the metal has to be in order to prevent shattering from the resonance. If the knife shatters the daemon is freed and bad things happen. Daemons knifes are extremely high quality steel in order to resist shattering.With the regular knife that you guys are given you could infuse it but it would only have a chance of containing a weak daemon and would only be able to guide the knife slightly, no rolling for daemonism instead of strength and dex instead it would give a bonus to dex on success i.e. nothing happens on a 4, a +1 on a 5 and a direct +1 on a 6, it wouldn't be able to block bullets and would risk shattering every time you used it.
I have a few more questions. Wonder if I could bind a daemon to the knife I currently have.
((These spooks seem to have fairly high intelligence...))Why would you want dumb spies?
((Good to know. Didn't see any of that anywhere before, but maybe I just didn't look in the right place.))It's not in any particular place, since I wasn't really sure where to mention common knowledge such as this, so I'm just answering it as it comes up. Since this game is semi historical in terms of planes, weaponry, and general political atmosphere, I will also be doing the same thing if you guys are about to be screwed by something that the player wouldn't necessarily know, such as the fact that the .30 browning was considered a very high maintenance gun or that the Nordon bombsight's effectiveness was overestimated by Allied commanders.
Groo casually leans over and lifts Varion onto his shoulders in a fireman's carry. Then he turns back to the spooks, with a smile on his face, and asks a question:[Strength 3] Varion is a heavier than he looks and Groo just can't get a good enough grip to lift him up. Eventually abandoning that plan, Groo's duo of brain cells muster their effort to speak, and say "Where Groo go?" to the spooks. Both spooks look stunned for a moment by the fact that Groo actually spoke and almost a formed a complete sentence, before the gun wielding one recovers and says "Mr, uh, Groo, you all will be leaving very shortly, in fact as soon as your two daemonists stop staring at my partners knife, There is a loud thwack followed by a thump of someone's head hitting the table, the gun wielding agent glances at the scene to his left and says " actually when you all manage to pull your buddy's hand free from that knife, then you all will be given the briefcase and sent on the mission."
"Where Groo go?"
Well? Where Groo go?
((These spooks seem to have fairly high intelligence...))[Charisma 1] [intelligence 6] Apperntlly incised at your further questioning, the silent spook wordlessly cocks his arm back and [daemonism: 1+4=5] hurls the knife which with an earsplitting screech embeds itself in your hand [no dex roll because of the five and the daemon infused knife] [resilience 1] and goes clean through your hand severing the tendons in it, and embeds itself in the table as well thus sticking your hand to the table, [resilience roll for pain 1] you immediately pass out from pain.
"...huh...I didn't...do you have anymore items imbued that you would be willing to share about? What happens when someone is cut with that?"
Study the ritual and deamon. Learn. Don't get killed. Let's do this! Yeah! Hopefully half of us won't get killed like the test mission!
"Neat! You have any tips for imbuing daemons into things? You ever try imbuing one into one of those endo exosuits? You think you could share some of your knowledge with me if we make it through this? Please?"Something tells you that you should probably stop asking questions right now. It's probably the dude with Daemon knife in his hand whose passed out from pain and is now lying on the table. Regardless you quickly look over the pictogram ritual. [+1 to doing that particular ritual with that particular frequency of daemon]
I have a few more questions. But I'll stop asking them if the Spook doesn't feel like answering me. Also study the pictograms of the ritual and daemon.
Damian's eyes twinkle as he sees that one of his companions is wounded.The spook pulls the knife out of Thadeuses hand and the wound begins bleeding now that the knife is no longer applying pressure to the artiers. [medicine 2] you pay absolutely no mind to your patient and begin to consider how whether or not the table is going to be easy to repair. [interior decorating 5] Hmm, in your opinion between the daemonic ritual scratched into the surface and the deep knife mark not to mention the blood stains the owner would be best served just tossing it in the trash.
"Yay, now I get to practice my medicinal skills. You're my favorite spook. We'll be out of your hair as soon as we can remove that guy from the table. Don't worry, unconcious guy, it's just a flesh wound. I'll get you all patched up. Probably."
See if I can help get the unconcious guy off the table after the Spook takes his knife back. Then see if I can patch up his hand on the way to the plane.
((A pain management roll would probably be nice in most cases, but it also seems like rolling a 1 on a wound resistance check would still lead to major pain, even with a success on the pain resist roll. Unless you wanted to also factor in the numbness that comes with shock and use that as justification for ignoring pain on good rolls. Seems like it could get complicated though, or just downright ridiculous when someone rolls a 1 on resilience for the wound and a 5 on mental resilience, then just ignores the pain of a mangled limb while it bleeds out. Also, I feel that there would be a surplus of "Its just a flesh wound" jokes in that situation.))
Continue to be unconcious grumble of how screwed we are..[resilience 6] you wake up suddenly and bang your head on the table again [resilience 5] luckily aside from a bruise you're completely fine.
Continue trying to carry Varion[perception 1] Groo completely fail's to notice that Varion is sitting up and rubbing his head and continue's his efforts to pick him up. [dex 1] His attempts to grab the medic fail when Groo trips over a chair and hit his head on the table on the way down[resilience 6] Luckily, there isn't enough brain matter in Groo's head to actually give him a concussion.
Slip out in the confusion and run very far away from these madpeople, never to return.Ohe stares at the chaos and emitting a high pitched shriek runs out the door, the gun wielding spook shakes his head sadly and motions towards the silent spook who nods his head and quickly runs after Ohe. A minute later there is a loud scream and then the silent spook walks back in cleaning his daemon knife.
just sit there quietly and take in the madness. It's quite comfy in its own way.Nikolia shows significantly more sense than Ohe and simply watches the chaos unfold and notes down various details that he can later make fun of his teammates for, he thinks about what kind of insult would be fitting for a man with a knife wound to his hand. [int 3] He supposes simply saying Knife to meet ya while shaking his hand might work.
((Bring me the adolescents in long pants!))
"Damn, that table is ruined. Oh! Your hand is still bleeding. My bad. Priorities."
Actually try to fix Thadeus' knife wound now that the more mportant damage to the table has been considered, unless the other guy manages to fix it. Preferably fix it once we get on the plane.
While I'm not all there, I'm not motivated by candy, nor am I prone to assuming that random planes are full of it. I arrive under the impression that the owners of this plane are in need of occasional violence, and that they may stumble across piles of currency, which is a thing that I desire, as it gets me more knives usable for occasional violence.
TL;DR: I'm an adventurer.
Just get on plane and take up my position near the back of the plane. Figure out what we're doing.You man a side gun blister and hear the crackling of the OSS agent over your radio. Alright listen up people you are going to take off now and fly towards Detroit we already marked it on your map so navigation shouldn't be a problem. Remember you're going to be flying low and slow so be prepared for beast attacks. Now get going. You also hear the revving of circular saw followed by a magical laughing. That can't be good.
Once I get thrown on the plane, do the pre-flight checks to see if all systems are a-go.Bracing your self against the horror that the late Ohe would have inflicted on the cockpit you clamber into it, and begin the pre flight check [piloting 2] Ohe has covered everything in such a fungal mess it's nearly impossible to read the labels of the switches, you hope everything is still standard or else things might get dicey. ((note: the piloting roll did not affect the fact that the cockpit was a fungal mess, if you had rolled better you merely would have been able to figure out more of what each lever and switch did))
Content in my righteousness, go find a quiet corner of the plane and admire my knives.
((Seriously. I hope I'm not this bad at daemonism, but I'm not gonna test that on thad's hand replacement.))
Bandage Thad's stump, then assist with the hand replacement.
"Prostethic hand?" He asks in between ripping fungus off of panels "Eh, I could always give try. Do we have some junk lying around here I could use? I don't think is good idea to use parts currently attached to plane, yes?"You have some spare parts for the engines in your kit and you could probably jury rig something with that it would cost you the use of those parts but that's a problem for another day, unfortunately you lack a welder in the light engineering kit, however since you have yet to leave you could run out of the plane and quickly rent a welder from someone on the dock. It's two gold per use.
Make a quick little pirate's hook thing by attacking a cleaver or knife to Thaddeus' stump. Fix him up otherwise before rturning to my isolation with me and my parachute of safety.[doctor 4] noticing that nothing is happening you sprint down the hall and grab a tourniquets from your light medical kit, while you don't get it perfectly positioned the flow of blood has slowed significantly…... and he's started going into shock.
Content in my righteousness, go find a quiet corner of the plane and admire my knives.You hide in the corner and admit your knives until a massive Groo suddenly appears in saying how he is you friend and offering up Thaddeus's severed hand in a greeting. [intelligence 1] how nice.
[Charisma 3] Groo is now friend…Happy to see you and presents Thaddeus's severed hand to Adre. Adre kindly accepts the offering.Content in my righteousness, go find a quiet corner of the plane and admire my knives.
NO. Groo make new friend, Groo show it off!
...Groo also grab lonely hand, and shake it with new friend. Groo know this polite way to meet new friend!
"This is bullshit. Where does the moss even come from? Idi Nahui."[Strength 2] This stuff is the very devil to get off and despite your best efforts it won't come off. [Piloting 1] you constant pulling has made everything even less recognizable you have no idea where anything is now.
Try to wipe away/pull off some of the moss so I can read the labels. Then do the pre-flight checks again.
After pre-flight checks, use some random scrap I find laying around to make a hook hand for our one handed teammate.
((Seriously. I hope I'm not this bad at daemonism, but I'm not gonna test that on thad's hand replacement.))
Bandage Thad's stump, then assist with the hand replacement. Afterwards, go see if Nikolai would be willing to make a prosthetic hand for Thad. Put his rotary saw back first. If threatened, joyfully thank the person for volunteering for my less humane experiments. Offer to take the other hand off free of charge.
((Sorry, some shit came up and I didn't have time to grab my phone. Anyways.))
Threaten best doktor Damian with multiple stab wounds next time a glorious idea fills his pea brain. Just...sit in silence mourning the loss of my hand. Contemplate the idea of eating my own hand. Try to not die.
((Damn work, making me miss a chance to reply before the update. So much character development lost. Also, MidnightJaguar, my action said bandage the stump, didn't it? I really don't care if Damian ends up just stuffing gauze on the wound and barely managing to stop the bleeding or not really being effective because of the 3, but I'd really like to see the results reflect the action I submitted. I'm not trying to be a dick, but it seems lIke you just ignored the content of the action. I don't know the challenges you face GMing this gamr, and I haven't run one myself so I can't relate, but it irks me to see my action and then see results that seem unrelated to what I was attempting. Really, I'm sorry for getting nitpicky and I don't mean to offend you, but I wanted to bring it to your attention.))((Most I could personalh see coming from this is bandages wasted, some blood cleaned up)0
((Damn work, making me miss a chance to reply before the update. So much character development lost. Also, MidnightJaguar, my action said bandage the stump, didn't it? I really don't care if Damian ends up just stuffing gauze on the wound and barely managing to stop the bleeding or not really being effective because of the 3, but I'd really like to see the results reflect the action I submitted. I'm not trying to be a dick, but it seems lIke you just ignored the content of the action. I don't know the challenges you face GMing this gamr, and I haven't run one myself so I can't relate, but it irks me to see my action and then see results that seem unrelated to what I was attempting. Really, I'm sorry for getting nitpicky and I don't mean to offend you, but I wanted to bring it to your attention.))Ah, my apologies, I'll go fix that.
Just...focus on not dying. Please. Just...just, don't die.((don't worry if you go out we'll bqndage you up and jump start you by attaching jumper cabl3s to a car battery and your nipples...That's how it works, right?
Find something to Start a fire, Cautorize his wounds
Someone put your coat or a blanket ovee him, also might need to give him plasma and some blood, hopefully not...Grue, could you help apllie pressure to something? I need you to squeeze above the stumo of this man! Just be gentle, m'kay?
((I'm glad that I helped come up with the system over IRC though which Groo is about to ruin everything. [32]->[3]->[+0 to next roll]))Find something to Start a fire, Cautorize his wounds
Someone put your coat or a blanket ovee him, also might need to give him plasma and some blood, hopefully not...Grue, could you help apllie pressure to something? I need you to squeeze above the stumo of this man! Just be gentle, m'kay?
Overjoyed to be of use, Groo rushes over with a massive split in his face, or perhaps a wide smile. "Groo help!"
Groo help!
If you go through Nikolai's engineering kit you could borrow a butane torch. You could also attempt to jury rig a battery to act as electric cauterize toon kit although that does have decent chance of electrocuting him if if you fuck it up.Butane torch sounds better.
Right so this is a situation where assistance rolls come into play which is totally something I thought long and hard about and totally did not just use the system that Egan and Syv came up with last night. :PFind something to Start a fire, Cautorize his wounds
Someone put your coat or a blanket ovee him, also might need to give him plasma and some blood, hopefully not...Grue, could you help apllie pressure to something? I need you to squeeze above the stumo of this man! Just be gentle, m'kay?
Overjoyed to be of use, Groo rushes over with a massive split in his face, or perhaps a wide smile. "Groo help!"
Groo help!
Calmly meditate on the nature of violence.[intelligence 2] You contemplate the nature of violence. It seems pretty fun
Nikolai throws his hands in the air. "I give up! Even though I am pilot I cannot even do something as simple as pre flight checks. Perhaps is brain damage, perhaps is universe of hating me. Either way, am no longer qualified to fly this thing, blin."You abandon the plane and decide to go to a nearby bar and get wasted, approaching the bartender you ask for a bottle of vodka, it's 2 coins and you happily pay. grabbing the booze you take a deep swig [resilience 6] Blin, you are still stone cold sober.
give up on pre flight checks or piloting this thing at all. Get some booze that will get me drunk.
Bandage it properly and tightly, preferably before someone burns it. Elevate the arm above the level of Thad's heart. Then give Thad some plasma to replace the lost blood and apply fast-acting sedative or anesthetic, because cauterization is gonna hurt. Remove the bandages if someone gets a viable tool for cauterization and has it working to the point they are ready to cauterize, but not before. Apply painkillers and more plasma afterwards.[doctor 4] You get the bandages set up elevate Thaddeus' arm and get some morphine into him until Varion is ready for the cauterization, then you yank the bandages out of the way and let Varion cauterize the wound, however it takes you a while to find a vein to poke the IV in and and when you finally do Thadeus is even more pale than he looked before.
Just...focus on not dying. Please. Just...just, don't die.[resilience 2] You are still going into shock despite the best efforts of both doctors and nurse Groo. You must now pass a resilience roll by getting 4 or above
Groo stares at the corpse for a while, seemingly mourning the loss of an ally. It takes awhile, but eventually he breaks his vigil to ask a question "How you sleep with eyes open? Groo wish Groo could sleep while see."STOP THIS NOW! Any means short of killing
Eventually, Groo will get bored and wander off. He will find the cockpit, and remember his wonderful glory days of piloting and destroying planes. He will attempt to relive these glory days.
((Ok, I know I made my sacrifice to RNGesus this week))You char sheet has been accepted, consider your self currently staring in shock at your twins corpse.Spoiler: Thaddius Vern (click to show/hide)New character sheet incoming. Please stand by.See help wanted sign. Wander over to plane. Freak out when I see my dead twin.
[Dex 6] [Groo dex 3] Varion launches himself at the human gorilla and manages to slam into Groo before he can actually make it to the cockpit and knocks the both of them down, unfortunately Groo likes to wrestleGroo stares at the corpse for a while, seemingly mourning the loss of an ally. It takes awhile, but eventually he breaks his vigil to ask a question "How you sleep with eyes open? Groo wish Groo could sleep while see."STOP THIS NOW! Any means short of killing
Eventually, Groo will get bored and wander off. He will find the cockpit, and remember his wonderful glory days of piloting and destroying planes. He will attempt to relive these glory days.
"Yay, Groo love wrestling!"The street fighter music begins to sound as both opponents square up before launching themselves into each other
Groo happily wrestles Varion with a smile on his face.
When these two start fighting, draw four knives and throw them to pin Groo to the floor of the plane.well, you would do that, but you're not sure that a football tackle followed by a staring contest that inexplicably resulted in Groo knocking himself out on the plane's metal floor would actually count as fighting.
((I have the best threat ever now.))You root through your medical bag and find a syringe filled with morphine, twirling it in your fingers you wonder if you should also buy a gas mask. You remember you saw a one for 5 coins in a shop that you passed on your way to the plane.
"Can we not fight? Because if our other medic got hurt, I would have to be the one to fix everyone up afterwards. Also, guy that looks like the dead one, he bled out during treatment to repair a daemon knife injury given to him by someone much scarier than you, and who also happens to be paying us for this job."
Just stand back out of the way. Maybe grab a syringe with sedative inside. Just incase I need to sedate someone aggressive by injecting it into their carotid artery.
Sell my brothers rifle and shotgun. Find out how much a decent burial costs and how much to get more weapons/ammo for the plane. Make sure to grab my brothers parachute.You mournfully take up your brothers possessions and set about seeing if you could sell them since they are brand new and never used before you manage to get a full return on investment, taking the 20 coins you go to the nearest mortician. The man dressed very solemnly says that a decent burial would cost 7 coins and would consist of the body being cremated and then released by either the family or as part of the funeral service over the ground by bomber. There is also the cheaper option available to those who died as privateers or in the army where the body is wrapped in a parachute and dropped from a plane as a burial at air this is free if the parachute is provided or costs five coins if the parachute is not. ((all purchases that are not used and don't have too much blood on them can be sold for full price everything else will roll on charisma.))
Nikolai grabs his bottle of vodka and makes his way back to the plane.Full of slightly alcohol induced vigor you stride triumphantly into the cockpit ignoring the strange table of Groo on the floor and snoring loudly with a bomb on his head and Varion staring straight ahead seeing nothing. [piloting 6] you look at the fungus covered and practically recognizable controls. Everything seems perfectly in order now, absolutely no one but you has any idea where anything is, but your beginning to see why Ohe liked that. It's a form of job security you suppose.
"Fuck, guys, I tried to get plastered but this vodka is some weak shit. I-" He stops, looking at the dead twin and then the twin standing near the corpse. "Ooooi, blin. This vodka is stronger then I thought. What is it made of, hullicini...hallucino...drug potatoes? Never mind guys, looks like I got plastered all right, blin. I'll see if this baby can fly."
Now that I have vodka in veins my Slav genes must be activated, go do the pre-flight checks again. If cockpit is occupied, patiently wait for the occupant to leave while staying out of arm's reach.
Wait, do you want to buy medical books? Because there are no medical books in the plane.how much and would they provide a bonus. also go use the dead guys stuff to get two guns and some ammo for them to be used to protect the plane
((Ah, right. Im'ma edit my action then.((cool, thank you, that will give me time to keep the plane in plane state))
@Spaz Kinda beat you to it on that one. Currently looking at various armaments and other goodies for the plane.))
right, so what sort of thing do you want for the plane? Machine guns? Cannons? ammo?Plane wings sharp like katana.
Try not to die, just....try and keep people from dieing and make sure Grue is okay. Find a nice collar for Grue buddy.You would go racing towards the nearest sex shop to buy a collar, but you suddenly remember you have no money. You suppose that you could always steal one, but you somehow think that the spooks won't take kindly to the police being called on a privateer they are employing.
Thaddius furrows his brow in thought. Thaddius and Thaddeus were the only family they each had left, and they were pretty much each others best, and only, friend. And Thaddeus did like to think of himself as a privateer of sorts. So a privateer burial it will be.You look far and wide going into various shops and investigating a number of various cannons of wide ranging quality and caliber all are to expensive until you finally find a 15mm one within your price range. The smiling salesperson explains that it since it hasn't sold in 3 month and he needs the space for high quality 30mm cannon, he's being forced to sell it at a small loss. It's 20 coins and it comes with a complementary 70 rounds of ammunition. Do you take it?
"...hmm."I have my own parachute, right? And Mr. Dead Twin over there had his own, right?Privateer funeral it is. He might be my brother, but I'm not above saving some money by just dumping him out of the plane and keeping his parachute. Anyways, it's not like Mr. Dead Twin will mind(he would). Be sure to give him a good eulogy. And blame the others for his death.
Before all of that though, look for armaments/ammo for said armaments, or anything else the plane might need for 20 coins.
Groo sleep happy.
((I vote for a cannon of some type, as ammo is expensive. .303 is ten to the coin at best, and .50 bullets are each worth a coin. If we use an automatic, we'll be hemorrhaging money.))
((Hmm. Syv has a good point. What are my options as far as cannons go?))The one being sold to thaddius is the only one that's in your price range right now.
They cost five coins each, and are specialized in a specific sort of injury, like broken bones (regardless of the location--it works for skull fractures and tib/fib breaks). If you have a relevant book, you can roll intelligence as an "assist another" action, and apply the bonus to your med skill.Wait, do you want to buy medical books? Because there are no medical books in the plane.how much and would they provide a bonus. also go use the dead guys stuff to get two guns and some ammo for them to be used to protect the plane
You could do something creative and stick the cannon in the front. And move the two .30 browning's to the waist blisters. Want to do that? It would give airplane more fire power in the front as well as providing protection for the sides. It would also be significantly more stucterally stable since the recoil is being braced against the entire plane rather than only part of it.
...
((egan feel free to run my char on here whil3 am away))[charisma 2] Your attempts to exploit a loose definition of favor are foiled by the fact that the shopkeeper appears happily married at least judging by the numerous pictures of him and his wife ahem showng off some of the products. Your plot foiled you trudge gloomily over to the plane and climb abroad.
Offer the sex guys a...ahem, favor for it
Yes, I will absolutely take the 15mm cannon and ammo. Get it back to the plane. Put it in whichever empty weapon blister would make the most sense. Be sure to ask my teammates for help. Man that weapon when the plane is in flight.For the sake of expediency lets just say that using Groo as a makeshift forklift and crane you manage to get the cannon installed in the Catalinas front turret without using an engineering roll and mount the other two guns on the waist blisters.
Once in flight, do this:
Privateer funeral it is. He might be my brother, but I'm not above saving some money by just dumping him out of the plane and keeping his parachute. Anyways, it's not like Mr. Dead Twin will mind(he would). Be sure to give him a good eulogy. And blame the others for his death.
Groo happily mans the new cannon, examining it and making pewpew noises while mock-firing it at whatever targets are convenient. He also makes sure it's loaded.Groo lumbers to the front of the plane and into the forward turret where the cannon is mounted, he ignores the protests of Varion as he calls to Groo from the depths of the ship to make sure the cannon isn't loaded before playing with it, and happily squeezes the trigger while pointing the cannon at some vaguely threatening trees. The second the hammer hits the shell then suddenly a horrible screeching noises begins rining through everyone's earphones and Groo showing a surprising amount of sense stumbles away from the cannon as it suddenly begins to vibrate like one of the products at Varions favorite shop. with an inhuman screeching the daemon that seems to have been residing in the cannon twists the metal of the cannon and the interior of the nose turret it into an avatar for itself. Groo backs up while this it's doing this and manages to retreat to the pilots compartment just as Nikoli finishes explaining to Thadeus the finer points of the shroom covered cockpit.
The order of these actions is intentionally left unspecified.
Help Nikolai with flying the plane.
After stealing Mr. Dead Twin's parachute, giving him a good eulogy, indirectly blaming everyone else and dumping the body.
Stick to the cargo hold going over the stuff we have, Try to keep grue from actualy firing the gun.You wander into the living quarters and stare in wonder at the massive quantities of shroom growing everywhere in the living quarters you turn to go and stop Groo but only make it to the pilots quarters before there is a earsplitting shriek and Groo stubmles back into the pilots quarters muttering about doing a bad thing.
((guess who got wifi for the night, thanks to someone's unprotected wifi))
Sit quietly and wait for the screaming to start.You sit in the living quarters and then when you hear the earsplitting screech run into the [dex 5] pilot area with your knives drawn and an animalistic snarl on your lips. you know that screech means daemons are about.
Keep her steady, keep flying to our destination. Show my new copilot which button does what, so he doesn't have to figure it out by himself.You keep the plane flying steadily when as your explaing what it means when the shrooms move a certain way to Thaddius you hear a loud screech and the front of the plane seems to wrap inwards part of the and about half the crew runs into the piloting area. You've either drank way to much or something very bad is happening.
"Hello mister living Thaddius. What brings you to the cockpit?"
Go take inventory of what is in my medical kit and daemon kit. Not so much noting quantity as much as noting what different types of things I have.You have the equivalent of a officers medical kit (http://www.mtaofnj.org/content/WWII%20Combat%20Medic%20-%20Dave%20Steinert/EquipmentOfWWIICombatMedic.htm#Medical%20Equipment%20of%20an%20Officer) in the medical kit. The daemon kit has number of tuning forks for various pitches and a simplistic and light(for 1940) radio equipment. It also includes a small kit of paint and paintbrushes because the GM occasionally forgets to mention certain basic things.
Damian comes rushing from his bunk when he hears the screeching, a manic look in his eye and his daemon kit in his hand.((I volunteer my knife to this))
"Daemon! I heard a daemon! I can do this! I have the kit!"
Find a quick and easy binding or controlling ritual to tame the daemon or find some way to banish this daemon or bind it to something.
((If anything, I'd use my knife. But I kinda just want to paint a sword or something on my hand incase I lose my knife. I could still infuse a daemon for your knife later. If I manage to be more proficient at this than medicine, anyway. I'd much rather bind or control the Daemon so we have a golem.))((you're choice dude))
Do I spawn on the plane? Also how do I make grenades?
Varion asks in that tired voice only a parent tired of their kids shot makes looking at grue
Grue. What happened?
"AHHHWHATTHEHELLDIDYOUJUSTDO!?!"[daemon attacking with sound 4] the daemons screeching reaches a crescendo as it streches an arm towards you and launches a small pressure wave at you. [marksmanship 2]your fire your shotgun at the daemon in an attempt to interrupt the attack but you miss. [resilience 4] the pressure wave luckily grazes you and only pops your eardrums. I mean compared to what could of happened that could've ended very poorly. [resilience 1] You drop your weapon clutch you hands to your ears and start screaming before suddenly losing conciouness
Shotgun it till its dead. Unless our resident daemon experts want to do something about it. Shotgun anything/anyone the daemon forcibly inhabits, if shit goes catastrophically sideways.
After this crisis is taken care of, track down my twins handto properly respect him and bury it, see if the resident chef will make me a handburger.
Varion asks in that tired voice only a parent tired of their kids shot makes looking at grue[intelligence 4] you're pretty sure that isn't going to work.
Grue. What happened?
This is why we don't mess with daemons, GO FIND SOME HOLY WATER OR SOMETHING
"Alright.[dex 6] [daemon dex 4] [strength 5] [daemon end 1] You charge forward towards the twisted gun metal monstrifoty screaming something about a universal communicator as you do so you chainsaw drags along the side of the plane cutting a gash in it and as you get close to the daemon you easily dodge it's clumsy dodge and bring the chains saw in a horizontal slash cutting it in two and dropping each part to the floor. [daemon end 2] the daemon seems stunned by this new development and choose to just sit there while you back buffeted by the rather strong winds blowing through the plane now that there is a huge gash in it's thin skin. eh, some duct tape and it should be fine.
Who the fuck brought a Demon on board?! I'll fucking tear your neck out!"
Violently rip apart the Demon with a chainsaw before anyone can foolishly try to tame it.
Damian comes rushing from his bunk when he hears the screeching, a manic look in his eye and his daemon kit in his hand, his medic kit slung over one shoulder.[intelligence 1] you charge forward towards the bisected daemon and implae yourself on one of the spikes that represents it's legs. [resilience 2] yep that's definitely going to hurt in the morning. ((it's an internal wound so someone else is going to have to take a look to figure out what the problem is.)) [resilience 5] That smarts but you can still function despite the massive pain and what your sure is probably pretty severe bleeding.
"Daemon! I heard a daemon! I can do this! I have the kit!"
Think of ways to perform a quick and easy binding or controlling ritual to tame the daemon or think of some way to banish this daemon. Or to bind it to something lIke a quickly painted image of a sword on my hand. Oh, or to make it become a daemon infused hardsuit. Then do whichever one is more effective but still relatively quick in order to reduce the possibility of crewmembers getting injured or killed. If the binding or taming succeeds and somebody tries to damage my new toy, give them an injection of sedative to the carotid artery.
"Oi Blyat, what the fuck."[piloting 5]
Keep the plane steady. Read the instuments to see what the damage is.
Try not to get killed by any daemons on board. Examine surroundings for ship components or people in need of repair.You wake from your shroom induced coma where you had been hiding inside the mushroom forest that is the ship's living quarters. Shaking odd the after effects of the trip. You head towards both and see a man stumbling with his hands to his ears and without any weapons before collapsing. your pretty sure you can't treat him for more than pain with the stuff you have in your light medical kit. Oh and someone else just impaled them selves on a next to unciounus Daemon…smart.
As the Daemon twisted the gunmetal into a horrible visage, Groo paused. He utters a single phrase before fleeing: "...Did Groo err?"You follow what Varion is doing. which is to say you do nothing.Varion asks in that tired voice only a parent tired of their kids shot makes looking at grue
Grue. What happened?
Groo responds with a scared whine "Groo not knooow! Groo just play with gun and gun get mad at Groo!"
Groo mopes about, and follows Varion.
((Why was it an intelligence roll instead of a daemonism roll? Does think up a daemon ritual not roll daemonism?))I had it be modified by dameonism mostly because massive overshoots when it's something that involves thinking about something just don't really make any sense, not to mention I'm not really sure what say an 8 for a thinking about style roll would look like.
((So it would have affected the d6 roll, then? Or the d36 roll? Is there a d36 roll on stats? And if it is the d36 roll, why? It seems like that would have a miniscule effect compared to the effect that levels in daemonism would normally apply, which is what I had thought would happen after reading the description of daemonism on the first page. What did I roll for daemonism after modifiers, anyway? Just out of curiosity.))
((I misread the first post and thought the d36 table also applied to stats. And damn, so many low rolls. Fucking RNG.))
"That daemon wasn't one of mine. Where did it come from? Also, ow, I think my insides are bleeding."
Head towards the back of the plane. Give myself some morphine for the pain if I need it. Just enough to dull it, not enough to put me in a loopy state of mind where I can't function. Try to assist with any medical procedures to fix me.
((Nah, Thad is renegade's character. Mine is Damian.))((I misread the first post and thought the d36 table also applied to stats. And damn, so many low rolls. Fucking RNG.))
"That daemon wasn't one of mine. Where did it come from? Also, ow, I think my insides are bleeding."
Head towards the back of the plane. Give myself some morphine for the pain if I need it. Just enough to dull it, not enough to put me in a loopy state of mind where I can't function. Try to assist with any medical procedures to fix me.
I'm morphining you right? Poke and prod around to see if there's any more bits to fix.
Varion stands there, clicking his tounge as he looks at the carnageYou turn grab a handful of shrooms, the only food items on this plane right now, that are growing on the wall and [dex 5] toss it into Groo's open mouth. Groo [end 4] when you ask him what he's seeing he says flying thing, so he's probably fine. ((note: these kinds of rolls were purely for comedic purposes.))
And that is why we don't fuck with daemons on the plane. Well all of you who still can, get up and fix the plane. We'll comemorate the poor sod afterwards. Still, he saved our asses from a whole lotta trouble.
first order of husiness, pet grue and give him a treat
Help any wounded people, then go use ductape to fix the plane.
If I have time, write a eulogy for Gregor
Adre stands still for a moment, chainsaw still humming in their hand, and looks out of the gaping hole in the ship.You go back to your corner in the back of the plane and sharpen some knives. Gegor unfortunately brought his gear with him when he jumped out of the plane.
"That was kinda dumb. Bored now."
Back to my corner. Wait for inevitable beast attack. See if I can't loot some of Gregor's Demon equipment.
"...gurgle..."[resilience 2] a thin stream of drool comes out of mouth matching the rapidly clotting thin stream of blood from you ears.
Wake up?
((MidJag, I recommend that in the future, you just roll daemonism for similar situations. If you don't think daemonism's d6 system works logically for it, just roll it like a normal skill with the d36--it's still breaking the rules, which is bad, but at least it's not doing so in a way which is particularly dangerous.Groo follow's Varion around watching the large bird multi colorod cartoon bird that is perched on Varions head. [int 2] Groo's neurons happily conclude that they are now in toontown.
Also, who was Gregor, and why'd he jump out of the plane? Beirus plays Damian, and I don't see any other actions saying to capture the demon. Was he an inactive player who was auto'd?))
Groo is currently just following Varion around like a lost puppy.
Izalis drags Thaddeus Vern to safety and tries to stabilize them by injecting them withsodium thiopentalmorphine.
((I misread the first post and thought the d36 table also applied to stats. And damn, so many low rolls. Fucking RNG.))
"That daemon wasn't one of mine. Where did it come from? Also, ow, I think my insides are bleeding."
Head towards the back of the plane. Give myself some morphine for the pain if I need it. Just enough to dull it, not enough to put me in a loopy state of mind where I can't function. Try to assist with any medical procedures to fix me.
I'm morphining you right? Poke and prod around to see if there's any more bits to fix.
Help Damian instead since Thad doesn't need much help. Drug him good with those sweet painkillers and examine for fixable damageFor internal wounds you guys might want to roll for diagnosis especially if the wound seems unclear, however this is a fairly obvious wound since it went straight through you and has two holes that match up I had you guys roll for diagnosis at +4 since the wound was pretty clear cut.
Is the plane daemon free yet? If not, why are we all not doing combatty things?((it's gone we lost a crew member because he charged it and they both fell out of the plane))
((You didn't lose your engineer, you lost your daemonist/beastmaster, which has probably overall increased our chances of survival.))((oh, well...I feel a lot better then)
((Except in missions where we'll be fighting beasts, which he probably could have tamed or helped us to kill them more effectively.))(If they're bags we're fine. Varion has experience with those and the butt of his gun)
((But what if they're sacks, which I have been told are different from bags?))((They all die the same, backs you chrush, sacks you cut...there is a very bad castration, or vesectomy, joke in there.))
Go ducttape up the hole in the plane
Try, try again to wake up. Or have good dreams. Either way works really.[resilience 1] You sleep very deeply [-2 to future resilience rolls to wake up your probably going to be passed out for 2 more turns so just enjoy the ride through dreamland I guess.]
You surreptitiously walk over to Daemians still form and attempt toStealborrow Deamean's Daemimaonsim Kit while he's all doped up.
"Hey look, I am competent at medicine. Neat. And you, stop eyeballing my kit. We don't need a repeat of the daemon incident. I'mma go to sleep now. Please don't move me too much, or the wound might reopen."You arrange the medical bags behind your as a crude pillow and hold the daemon kit in your arms. you drif off to sleep lulled by the morphine and the exhaustion of the agony you just went through.
Clutch my daemonism kit and medical kit possessively. Cuddle with them and sleep.
Go ducttape up the hole in the plane[engineering 3] You find the duct tape but you can't get the damned thing to unstick from the rest of the roll.
Groo watches as the pretty birdy lifts off from Varion's head and flies through the plane. His mouth splits into a wide smile, and he joyfully runs after it until it leads him to Adre.Groo embracing the hallucinations lumbers over to the giant kitty and attempts to grab it so that he can pet it [dex 5] [Adre dex 4] Groo lunges towards the Kitty cat and [strength 4] [Adre strength 2] engulfing it in his huge arms Groo manages pinning Adre's arms to it's sides groo manages pat it on the head briefly before realsing it and wandering away.
"...KITTY!"
Pet the adorable giant kitty that's sharpening its claws!
[engineering 3] Okay well you get some scrap metal from the kitchen you had to dissemble the oven for it but oh well and get enough that it might act as a safety railing at the least but you can't really figure out how to put it all together yet.Go ducttape up the hole in the plane
Find scrap metal, or failing which, scrap wood to help patch the hole. Maybe nail the plane plaster in place rather than taping it..
"Anybody else needs repairs?"
... Dex roll to dodge despite being unaware, due to unstable gait?Works for me. Its groo and he's hallucinating I couldn't think of a better combination to create an unstable gait.
[dex 4] Seeing Adre grab a knife from his bandolier you cross the space and move yourself into the path of the knife before Adre can bring his arm around to the throw…unfortunately it's Adre your talking to and he throws the knife into your lower abdomen rather than Groo's instead. [resilience 2] a worrying amount of blood leaks from the wound. [ resilience 2] You begin to scream for a doctor extremely loudly .I got a plan! Duct tape the duct tape roll with another duct tape roll so the duct tape roll(s) don't fall off the plane and stop working like duct tape should do (everything!)
Or you know just unravel a bit more tape a cut it off with my knife, but one way is more boring then the other.[
Don't do the above until gure buddy's safety is secure! Protect Grue with my knife
"Don't fucking touch me."[dex 6] you to attempt to throw the knife into Groo's abdomen but it ends up in Varions abdomen instead. Funny how that works.
Throw a knife into Groo's left knee.
Groo happily giggles and stumbles away from the giant kitty, following his hallucinations whereever they take him. Dex roll to dodge despite being unaware, due to unstable gait?You wander away in you hallucinogenic haze and turn when Varion starts screaming. Did Kitty do a bad thing?
((MidJag, in answer to your PM'd questions, Groo would probably just assume the kitty was scratching him, and either gingerly hold its paws away if it didn't hurt much, or violently smash the kitty's skull in if it hurt a lot. Strangling would also have been fine, yes.))
Welp, just ride this out. Probably safer here, than in reality at the moment.[int 1] The dream suddenly turns into a nightmare your brother's soul has come back from the dead and is tearing your plane apart out of anger for you not shilling out for his funeral. Cackling he throws your dream body into a black room completely featureless and lacking a floor as an endless array of beasts ceaselessly devour Thadeusses one handed corpse as his ghost cackles with sadistic glee at you terror and horror. He begins to laugh particularly hard when you start sobbing after seeing the corpses eyes become home to a half earth worm half blender beast tunneling through the soft tissues and making the moth move in horrific parody of speech before slithering out again. That one would haunt your nightmares if it wasn't doing that already.
New plan:[engineering 1] you find a ripped and tattered piece of canvas that Ohe seems to have used for holding shrooms, you go to nail the canvas to the plane and hit you hand with the hammer [resilience 2] breaking you thumb [resilience 4] holy mother of god that hurts. You let out a small whimper of pain.
Find a piece of canvas, stretch it across the giant hole at the front of the plane. Tape or nail the sheet in place. Then try reinforcing the structure around it with metal bars.
"That was kinda dumb of you. Shouldn't be surprised that you get stabbed when you put your body in the path of a moving blade.((Just so you know, pulling the knife out will make him bleed more.))
Sorry."
Assist Varion with bandaging himself. Make sure to pull my knife out before I let him bandage up the wound.
cautirize wound, bandage self up.
Varion speaks in a very pained tone as he tries to rais his rifle with one hand while clutching at his wound with the other.
Okay, grue. Grab me a welding torch, and bring it here. You, back the hell away!
"That was kinda dumb of you. Shouldn't be surprised that you get stabbed when you put your body in the path of a moving blade.[Adre medical 2= indirect -1 to Varion's medical roll] [Varion medical roll 1] Varion is clearly not thinking clearly from the blood loss lets Adre pull the blade out before Varion even has bandages in his hand much less ready to shove into the wound, blood starts pouring out of the wound seems his iliac artery was clipped by the knife and he's bleeding rapidly. [resilience 6] despite the massive hemorrhaging Varion manages to keep himself conscious and clear headed though he's getting pale and his hands start shaking. This can't be good.
Sorry."
Assist Varion with bandaging himself. Make sure to pull my knife out before I let him bandage up the wound.
curl into a ball and whimperyou curl up into the fetal postion and clutch your thumb and making a high pitched keening sound.
Happy thoughts! Think happy thoughts! Like the time we narrowly got away from those beasts that mimicked people's voices. Or the time we found that dead beast that had a small fortune in gold in it and we lived like kings for a couple of months.[int 3] With a sudden flash the nightmare is replaced with you once again flying the plane endlessly by your self. Well this is better, boring but better.
Continue sleeping off the morphine. Dream of practicing daemonism and creating a successful hybrid organism of daemonism and medicine.[int 4] You dream of making an artificial daemon infused arm not a very ground breaking procedure but certainly impressive.
Still just keeping her steady. Keep on chugging to our destination. How are my instruments looking, and how are the skies looking?[piltoing 6] Judjing by the mold you'd say that everything is going surprisingly well the engines are running worringlly hot since they have to be at combat speed to keep you airspeed past stall point and your airspeed is worringlly low but given that the plane is missing it's nose everything seems pretty okay.
Groo spins around upon hearing Varion gasp, and rushes to his side. "What happen?!"[dex 4] [perception 4]
He rushes off shortly afterward, to get a welding torch for Varion.
Find a welding torch for Varion! Bring it to him!
"Where... Did I put those bandages..."Cautorize the wound first, scream as loud as I can
Stuff him full of cloth bandages.
"Where... Did I put those bandages..."[doctor 4] you stuff the original knife wound full of bandages while that seems to have slowed the bleeding Varion seems to be thinking a lot less clearly than everyone thought and just evsicerated himself.
Stuff him full of cloth bandages.
[doctor 1] As you stare at you wound you suddenly realize that the best way to help get the cauterizing iron bar to fit in there would be to make the wound bigger. seizing the knife from Adre you drag it along your abdomen exposing and slicing up your intestines and they come spilling out of you abdomen. [resilience 6] displaying an amazing amount of endurance Varion manages to keep himself conscious and mostly clear headed [-1 to actions requiring logical thought,] [look you got a 6 but that's a lot of blood you've lost] though he grows ever paler. At least the major arterial bleeding has stopped and he has a plasma bag in him."Where... Did I put those bandages..."Cautorize the wound first, scream as loud as I can
Stuff him full of cloth bandages.
Doctorrrrrrrrrr!
((Damian is thinking clearly now, right? If so, I'll help.))You are clear headed and have a lingering +1 to end though each turn you move you will have to do a resilience roll. Not this turn though since I didn't tell you that until now.
Wake up. Go fix Varion with cauterization and whatever else I need to do. No amputation this time. And get my daemonism kit back.
Fuss around like a worried puppy, but avoid being a nuisance.Groo dances around emitting a high pitched keening noise when Varion disembowels himself.
Wake up? After that, go and help Nikolai in the cockpit.Gratefully tearing your self away from you strange dream you go to the cockpit just as you hear the sound of a beasts howl the sound of metal tearing and the plane starts losing airspeed and altitude.
"Fortuitous. This is no longer my problem. Oh violence, bend to my will, follow my blade, rend my enemies. I will spill blood today, one more step. Reach heaven through violence.[perception 1] The beasts look completely harmless you grin in misplaced confidence Perfect, a worth warm up, for my ascendent to heaven.
Open the door to the front of the plane and stand just inside the room. Hold three smaller knives in the left hand, one larger dagger in the right. If one strikes, dodge and counter-strike with the dagger. If they both stay back, throw all three knives at the closer one. If both attack, retreat back through the door. If they have a ranged attack, take cover beside the door and attack if they come through.
Attempt to apply pressure to self, Try not to bleed out. Shoot any beasts that come here. Stay still for doctors but try to keep grue safe![resilience 1] you begin to feel dizzy and not fully there oh dear you think you heart is failing. You attempt to plead with Damian to try to save you in some way but all he does is flip you off and curse you for eating you banana. your vision fades and you die.
Everythings...reeeeaallly dizzzyyyyy
Fix Varion, dangit. No amputation or disembowlement. Maybe just stuff the guts back in and suture him up.[doctor 2] Actually fuck him, the man ate your banana he clearly had disembowelment and cardiac arrest coming.
"SONOFABITCHISTHISPLANECURSED?!?!?"[perception 2] you don't get a good look at the beasts but you fire your shotgun at them all the same.
Shotgun time! Don't shoot my teammates. Only, like literally, only take a shot if no teammates are in the way.
Groo follows the kitty and uses his rifle to support it![perception 3] the beasts seems to be of vastly different shapes but right now Groo is currently devoting an entire neuron to worrying about Varion and the other one is conceded with holding the assault rifle the right way around.
((Groo doesn't have an assault rifle. Also, wow, this game is lethal, though I don't think any death hasn't been avoidable. Except Groo's.))[beast strength 5] [Groo resilience 3] The beast thrashes it's head around slamming Groo into the bulkheads of the catalina however it only manages to further open the wound causing more bleeding [resilience 5] Groo just endures the pain without so much as a grunt. [dex 3] Groo manages to fumble his second mag out of his bandolier but he can't quite fit it into his gun angered by this he goes for the old fashioned bash it's brains out [strength 6] [beast 1 resilience 4] With a roar of anger Groo reverse his rifle into one hand and holding it like a club brings it down in one mighty stroke on the beasts head managing to stun it through it's thick skull but also cracking his rifle's butt in the process
How nice of the cute little hampster, putting its head where it can easily be shot! Reload and shoot it in the head.
((Aww, dang it. Guess that was the end of my good rolls. Sorry Spazyak, I tried. Hey MJ, did I get my daemonism kit back? Gonna be hard to do my stuff if I didn't.))((uhh, you sure you want to attempt this without the heavy daemon kit? Because without that it converts the roll from having direct bonus to an indirect bonus with only a +2 to it.))
Paint myself up with the image of the strongest, most fearsome beast I can. Like a Dragon or something. Then imbue a daemon into the paint.
"AAAAAHHHH!!!!!"[marksmanship 5] You realize the use of the shotguns unusual pump action and start pumping while holding down the trigger. You discharge your entire tube expect for one shot into the beast 1 [ beast one resilience 1] The beasts chest collapses having been weakened by the rifle fire and shotguns shell and it collapses as it heart fails and organs rupture. Good job. [Beast marksmanship 5] It launches a spike directly into you chest through the bulkhead [resilience 2] You suddenly can't breath well. [Resilience 3] You manage to choke out medic
Moar shotgun tiem!!! Work that pump and unload into the beasties.
Double-mobius-piledrive five knives into it's skull.[dex 4] [beast 1 dex 5] It moves it's skull out of the way before you can punch it. Then it's chest explodes from Thaddidius shotgunning.
Kill! Kill![dex 3] Howling in ecstasy you throw one of your knives at the beast…It narrowly misses. Then you get covered in gore and you howl even louder.
((Which part? The painting or the imbuing? Either way, I want to at least have my kit back.))[doctor 2] You stare at Thaddius with blank incompreshsion what did he say? Something to do with the letter "m" Monkey perhaps? You arn't really sure how a monkey is supposed to help the knife in his chest nevertheless you diligently scour the mushroom forest/creq quarters for a monkey. There are many strange things in there but you don't see a monkey. Damn
Edited previous action:
Just get my daemonism kit. Paint a heated cauterizing rod on my hand and imbue a daemon into it. If I need the heavy kit for that too, then just be ready to start treating any of our crewmembers who get wounded, starting with the most grievous injuries.
Present action:
Treat Thad. Give him morphine first, and have a cauterizing rod heated, whether the one I painted or one that I had to get someone to heat. Have plasma bags ready. Then remove the spike, cauterize the wound, bandage it, and give plasma as necessary.
fix my own thumb.[doctor 6] You bind your thumb with a splint while your at it you also bind the rest of your fingers…wait.
"...medic?"[Resilience 2] "Fuck, I my twin dies and now I have a bone spike could this day get any worse?", you think as the knife in your chest stabs into you as you struggle to breath. ((An oxygen mask would do you good. So would fixing your lung but that's a bit beyond the abilities of the light medical kits.)) [-2 to actions next turns actions.] you do manage to crawl back to the door but thats mostly because the beast is a bit conered with the fire Groo is laying down.
Medic? Get away from the beast, find some place somewhat safe for a medic to work on me. If able to, reload the shotgun. Otherwise let the medic do their job.
Finish reloading the rifle, then finish murdering the last beast, via headshot.
Finish reloading the rifle, then finish murdering the last beast, via headshot.You reload the rifle and point it towards the beast Marksmanship you empty half your clip into the beast beast 2 [-1 small target] [marksmanship 5] Groo places a single shot into the beasts center of mass since it seems to lack all cephalization what's so ever. [resilience 1] The ballon like beast explodes from within showering Adre with gore and generally making a mess.
Go EVA and fix those engines with my great -1 Engineering skill!((Stop that, Egan! Using stupidity and incompetence to doom our teammates is my thing!))
"*cough cough*...is it...me...or is...the...plane tilting?...*cough cough...wheeze*"Give the medic the bird.Explain to them I don't want to meet my brother again so soon. I would really appreciate it if they could keep me from dying.
Also, ask loudly why the plane is tilting.
If I am able after getting doctored on, go and take over flying for Nikolai.
((EDIT: Heh. Fine, fine, I'll be nice))
Keep trying to help Thad in the previously mentioned manner or by getting him an oxygen mask. But if he flips me off or is rude, don't give him morphine before any painful treatments.
Groo wanders back to Varion, and politely asks his corpse to bandage him up.
Also, if I'm understanding the turn correctly, Groo has three magazines--one empty, one with three shots, and one with a full eight. He'll reload the empty one with four shots from the full one, and leave the three-round mag in his gun.
BAIL OUT BAIL OUT BAIL OUT
WHILE WEARING A PARACHUTE
"Blin, guys, we are still losing speed and altitude! We need to get engines fixed, or we are going down!"You guys have yet to buy an auto pilot, so you decide to keep flying the plane
Is there some kind of autopilot here? If yes, put it on and go try to fix the engines, making sure to clip onto a line so as to not fall out of the plane.
If not, keep flying it as best I can.
Go EVA and fix those engines with my great -1 Engineering skill![Engineering 2] You clip on and climb out onto the wing of the plane the wind buffeting you and causing the tools you stole from Nikolias toolbox to jagle around you. You stare at the engine. You have no idea what the hell is wrong with it but that doesn’t stop you from tinkering around with it it makes even more of a sputtering noise that doesn't sound good.
((seems everyone is fucked, nice to know I wasn't the only one :Pswords would be about 2 coins though it would be rather unwieldy with a -1 for a short sword and a -2 to a long sword when using it on the plane. Spears would have similar charectiecs but would also be useful for fighting beasts
Hey, quick question. How much would it cost for a sword? For my next char of course))
medicYou call for a medic. Reciving no help you sit on the floor watching as the blood of your arm pools and grin manically for you are getting a hell of warriors death [Resilience 1] You keep the smile on your face as your vision fades and you die laughing.
"Oops, sorry. Got distracted by the plane blowing up. I'll fix you and the others on the ground if we make it."[Dex 1] You run to the briefcase but the plane tilts slightly and you end up falling out the nose of the plane without your chute. You hit the ground just before Thaddius.
Oh, for fuck's sake. Grab the oxygen tank, cauterizing rod, and any spare medical or daemonism kits, grab my parachute, and bail out. See about healing folks when I land. Oh, and grab the briefcase with the mission objective if nobody else grabbed it. If I can't carry all that, tie the spare kits together with their straps to the briefcase, wear my parachute, and forget about the cauterizing rod and oxygen tank so I have a free hand to pull the cord on my chute.
((I'm half tempted to say "Fuck it" and chance binding a powerful daemon to the plane in order to try to make it a mech or giant hardsuit that could mitigate the crash, even knowing about the indirect roll and only +2 bonus. Would I get a bonus for using multiple daemon kits?))
Bailbailbailbailbailbail. Try to land near teammates. Rip the sleeves off my shirt/jacket/whatever upper garment and shove it into my sucking chest wound. Maybe it will help?[dex 1] You try to run for your parachute but in your panic to escape you end up jumping out of the plane without your chute. You impact the ground with a rather sickening crunch right after seeing Damian impact.
Bail out. Curse a lot on my way out.[dex 4] it’s close but you manage to bail out before the plane gets too low and pull your ripcord immediately it hurts but it’s better than being dead.
Groo smiles and watches the plane crash. Once he hits the ground, he heads to regroup with his buddies.With a stupid on his face Groo watches as the plane crashes into the ground. He will land in a turn.
((...Did anyone aside from Pancaek and I survive? Wow.))
When Groo lands, he continues towards the wreck. If he happens upon any of his teammate's corpses, he'll loot them.
like a one handed hatchet style thing? or a two handed axe.1 handed hatchet. Or an ice climbing pick sorta thing.
leather duster sure. collar and leash why would you need that? Beasts just need brain surgery.Trust me, it's not for the beasts.
((...Did anyone aside from Pancaek and I survive? Wow.))Groo wanders towards the wreck after landing and [perception 1] completely fails to notice the two corpses, and their plethora of mostly broken equipment instead he frolics through the viscera of the two deceased airmen. For the purposes of this mission not taking forever though Groo manages to find his way to crash site and meets up with Nikolia.
When Groo lands, he continues towards the wreck. If he happens upon any of his teammate's corpses, he'll loot them.
After Nikolai untangles himself from his parachute, he looks over to the far-off crash site of the plane. He puts his hands on his head, distraught.You landed farther away from the corpses but you manage to make it to the crash site you just followed the trail of smoke rising out of the treetops without getting eaten by beasts, you meet up with Groo.
"Oi, Blin! My vodka was in there."
He unholsters his sidearm, and makes starts off towards the the wreck, head hung low.
Continue towards the wreckage. If I come across any of my former teammates, check to see if they are dead. If they are, loot them. If they are not, see how badly they are doing.
Name: Rufferto
Description: Vaguely hispanic man, soft-spoken and helpful. Glad to help out with most things, but he swears off firearms. Things are haunted, you know. He's apparently an old friend of Groo, though confirming that with said inhuman monster may prove difficult.
Stats
Strength: -1
Intelligence: +1
Dexterity: +1
Resilience: -1
Perception: +0
Charisma: +0
Skills
Piloting: +1
Marksmanship: -2
Daemonism: +0
Doctor: +1
Beast mastery:+0
Engineering: +0
Inventory:
service knife
backup service knife
emergency backup service knife
chef's knife
aviators clothing
medkit
medical book: laceration
ame: Adrian Peirce
Description: Youn looking though definately showing that he has had quite a few close calls with beasts, he isn't a looker or a talker and his first instinct when he sees a beast is to kill it, and with demons it's to run then kill it if he can. Infact stabbing/shooting/maiming is usualy his first answer, what you wanted an actual storu? This guy is just a blood thirsty sob who likes hunting. He wasn't around for the begining of the whole Beast and demon invasion, but he sure as hell enjoys it. He loves the hunt and the thrill of being a member of a flying band of merry misfits and buccaneers jusg adds on. Though he does not know how to use the plane at all.
Infact this man is basicaly there for the hunt. He's a huntsman at heart and little more.
When he isn't flying in a plane he wears a black shirt with a duster and some basic pants.
Stats
Strength:+1
Intelligence: 0
Dexterity: +1
Resilience:+1
Perception:0
Charisma:-3
Skills
Piloting:-3
Marksmanship:+2
Daemonism: -2
Doctor: +2
Beast mastery:-2
Engineering: +1
Inventory: what you have on you.
knife (if I can trade this in for a large collar and a leash that is fine. You know, like the ones from Varion's favorite shop)
aviators clothing
Sniper
Hand axe (hatchet)
Leather duster.
Spoiler: character sheet if you need any (click to show/hide)
Name: Damion McWehrnecigul
Description: Damion looks like his brother Damian. His eyes are blue
Like his brother, he has devoted his life to his twin focuses of Daemons and Doctoring, to the exclusion of pretty much everything else. His greatest interest lies in the interactions of daemonic forces aND humans, and he dreams of one day creating a breakthrough fusion of these forces that allows a human conciousness to control a body filled with the might of daemons. He was often used by his brother to practice treating wounds, and is more resilient as a result.
Stats
Strength: 0
Intelligence: 0
Dexterity: 0
Resilience: +3
Perception: -3
Charisma: -3
Skills
Piloting: -3
Marksmanship: -3
Daemonism: +3
Doctor: +3
Beast mastery: -3
Engineering: -3
Inventory: what you have on you.
knife
aviators clothing
Light medical kit
Amateur Daemon kit
"Oh, blin. Well, Grue, let's look for the briefcase, da?"[perception 5] You manage to find briefcase but nothing else. You also stumble upon a number of knives and a large amount of blood the seems to be pooling out from a smashed in part of the tail that you assume is Adre and a very grisly looking corpse that you assume is Izzie. It's head and chest seems to have been smashed in by the force and there is still a number of morphine syringes sticking in the corpses arm…. well at least she didn't suffer. her medical kit's glass bottles look to have been smashed to pieces but the stitches and tourniquet look to be in decent shape. Her engineering kit is crushed within the plane. You also find the survival kit's map of balloon sites. If you can get to one you should be able to find a radio there and hail a rescue plane.
Look for the briefcase in/around the wreckage"Okay!"[perception 3] Groo's duo of neurons fail to spot anything interesting.
Find the briefcase, and/or dead buddies to loot!
Groo looks around the crash site again, searching for any ammo, either from pockets or the MGs.[perception 1] Groo completely fails to notice the containers filled with ammo next to the two .30 brownings. Instead he digs around the wreckage for some shrooms and stuff's a large amount into his pocket for safe keeping eating a couple as he goes. [end 4] oh look Kitty has a big boo boo
Groo'll follow Nikolai if he heads anywhere.
Wait a little while for groo to loot the plane further. While he's looting, look at the map and orientate myself. Once Groo is finished, head over to the nearest balloon site.[int 3] Man this map is hard to figure out…. OH! that's why, you were holding it upside down. You quickly rectify this situation. [+1 to effective intelligence stat for future attempts to read this map]
"Blin, maps are hard. We should really make small rectangle that tells you correct way automatically."[int 5] Ah, that was the trick you call to Groo and the two of you set off for the balloon site. THe joinery goes quite fast almost like your until you hear a loud snarl, that is very terrifyingly close. [perception 3] you don't see anything, though that doesn't mean something isn't there.
Attempt to read the map again. If I manage to deduce the way to the nearest balloon site, go there.
Groo continues searching around while waiting for his last standing buddy to go somewhere.[perception 5] Groo searches around and finds a man surrounded by sausages with his eyes close and a bent and twisted rifle. Good thing the magazine is still fine. he ejects it and pockets a full magazine he also finds a large amount of ammo from the two machine guns though they run a %25 percent risk of damaging the gun when used. They have rather low quality powder. [perception 3] Groo also fails to notice anything.
Wee! Groo is ready with his rifle, prepared to fend off any angry hampsters that may attack![marksmanship 4] Groo is ready to fire and he looses two shots towards the beast as it charges towards his gun. [beast dex: Yeah, some beasts you meet might be able to briefly move fast enough to dodge one or two bullets. though they will be tired a suffer a dex and strength penalty if they do so. 5] The beast seems to blur and with a massive boom the beast is next to Groo and trying to grab his gun. [Groo strength 2] [Beast strength 6] The beast Grabs the gun from Groo's limp hands form and smashes Groo in the face with the rifle but. [resilience 6] Luckillly Groo manages to move his arm into the path of the clubbed rifle and only suffers a hairline fracture to his left arm.[resilience 6] which he doesn't even notice.
"Ah, blin."You draw you m1911 from your holster and aim at the beast that is currently trying to beat Groo to death with his own gun. [marksmanship 6] [beast resilience 1] You fire you entire clip into the beast's spry frame, putting four shots into it's back you finally end it's suffering with two bullets to the head. never can be too careful with beasts.
Get out my m1911 and make sure I've chambered a round. Shoot anything that is not Groo and looks like it wants to kill me. In fact, even if doesn't look like it immediatly wants to kill me, shoot it anyway, unless it's Groo.
"Idi nahui, urod! Blin!Cursing vehemently you reload your pistol and look over the beast [perception 6]"AHHHHHAH! IT MUST HAVE TWITCHED! KILL IT!" You put another two round's into what's left of it's head just for good measure. You also stomp it's rib cage in just to be safe. As for loot, the beasts genetic material might be useful to any beast masters you meet. They also might become available in the armory if you manage to bring it back though beasts don't like it when you carry around dead beasts. Other people might also attempt to take the dead beasts off your hands.
Groo, tovarish, how are you doing?"
Reload pistol, then check up on Groo. Also check to see if the beast is well and dead, and if it has anything that could serve as loot.
Try to move away from from this spot and go onwards to the balloon site as soon as possible.
Groo smiles. "Groo good! This is fun!"Groo obedientlly follows Nikolai. Exchanging his 6 round mag for a 4 round mag.
Groo retrieves his rifle, and switches to a mag with four rounds in it. And he follows Nikolai, of course.
Idly unload three rounds from the six round mag, and put them into the currently empty mag.Groo loads his magazine with 3 rounds and loads his rifle again
Yeah, nah. Leave the beast where it is and head out for the nearest balloon site.You ignore the beast and get to the fulton balloon site. There is also a hot air balloon but it's slower and much more vulnerable to popping while it gets set up, though it doesn't rely on another plane being around.
Groo keeps watch for more beasts, and shoots them if he sees any. He'll also move wherever Nikolai tells him to move, like into a balloon basket.[Perception 2] their growls seem to be moving away.
"Ohh, Groo understand. Tovarish imaginary friend! Groo used to have those, but they died."With an angry roar the [perception 2] indistinct beast charges out the underbrush and Groo immediately fires on it [marksmanship 4] [beast resilience 3] the two .30 bullets slam into one of its heads killing that head not affecting anything else.
Stand guard while Nikolai sets up the balloon. Don't help with it.
"Silly Groo, you are tovarish. Means friend in Nikolai's home.[Engineering 3] your attempts to get the balloon going were unsecussrufl since you got the burner set up but you can't figure out how to connect the propane tank to it. Blin.
Allright, let's try to get the balloon going before more monster come, yes?"
Let's get this balloon going, with me and Groo in it, before more nasties come to munch our faces.
More bullets solve everything!
...Except balloons not being set up. Continue to not help with that.
"Blyad."[Engineering yournunder stress right now so it's not any easier it just will make the 3 act like a 4 if get another three: 5] you finish getting the balloon setup in record time and turn to the beast that just body slammed Groo away from the balloon.[marksmanship 4] you discharge half your clip into the beasts faces hoping [beast resilience 6] the heads bones plates begin to crack under the hail of semi arum attic fire but nothing else happens.
Continue trying to get the balloon set up, should be easier now that part of it is done already, eh?
Make sure Groo is also in the balloon if I manage to lift off this turn.
"Groo, tovarish, I really need you to get up and into this balloon right now!"[Marksmanship 6] you unload your entire clip into the beast devoting two shots to the body and one to a head and then draw your knife. [Beast resilience 4] the beast shudders slightly as the one of the billets breaks a head bone plate and punctures a backup pair of lungs. [Beast dex 1] the beast charges Nikolia but gets caught up in its own legs and goes down in a heap. Taking advantage of this opportunity Nikolia few crisply reloads [dex 6] he manages to reload and even does a showy twirl once he gets the magazine in.
Unload the rest of my magazine into the beast. If Groo makes it into the balloon, set off together immediatly.
((Sure, sure, autoing is fine. Schedules are difficult to work with.))
Groo gets into the balloon, and then tries to shoot the beast some more.
Unload rest of magazine into beast if it attempts to get up. Help Groo get in the balloon and set off as soon as he's in.[Marksmanship 2] you fire 4 shots but your beginning to panic at this point because the beast just got up again, and they all miss. [Beast dex 5] the beast gets to its feet shakes it many heads and begins to gather speed again. [Beast dex 6] the beast enraged now the beast continues to charge forward completely forgetting its heads and instead opts for the tried and true body slam[ dex 2] Nikolia competition fails to get out of the way instead only slightly moving away. The beast slams into him [resilience 1] Nikolias is slammed by the beast his neck fractures from the impact and his limp form tumbles away.
((Oh, wow. Does operating the balloon from here require any rolls? If so, Groo's scrood.))[dex 4] [beast dex 3] with a roar of rage to rival he beast own Groo draws his knife and charges the beast while he doesn't make it to the pistol Groo manages to successfully engage with the beast before it can fully recover from its charge. Still roaring Groo stabs his knife into the beast [strength 5] beast [resilience 2] the knife cuts through numerous redundant organ systems and gets at the heart of the problem. The beast heart. The knife stabs into the beast primary heart propelled by Groos brute strength and ifnlicts a mortal wound on it.
Okay, would using a knife one-handed get a penalty? Or the pistol Nikolai dropped? If not, Groo gets mad and charges the beast with his knife. He'll try to get close to Nikolai's corpse, within pistol-grabbing range.
If one-handed weapons still get a penalty, reload the rifle and kill the damn thing.
((HAHAHAHA! Yes! I expected Groo to die, 'cause we've got a 90% death rate in this round alone. Just... yes!))Groo grabs the beast heart whilen his arm is till inside it and forcefully yanks his arm out pulling the heart out with his arm and his knife. He grabs his friends corpse and whistling a [charisma 1] truly attrcious rendition of a cheery tune he grabs the pistol and the spare mags and sllings the lot into the balloon before cutting the cord and flying away.
Groo'll chop off a small piece of the beast and keep it. He'll also toss Nikolai's corpse into the basket (and grab the pistol) before cutting the rope and flying away.
"Come on Tovarish! We're all gonna fly home together!"
The high lethality of this game looks attractive.Spoiler: charsheet (click to show/hide)
I'm for the Sunderland, it's tougher than the Lancaster if less well armed.((I support this))
((Even though it probably won't get enough votes, I vote for the flying fortress.))((this actualy))
Sunderland! We got a bargain bin Daemon infested machine gun last time, and it resulted in the whole plane going down. Let's not repeat that incident.Just a Thought, But don't you think he "might" have been talking about the Plane YOU Voted on? Having a Demon Infested Plane Could be Fun, on the Other hand if the Plane Literally Falls apart Under you because of how low quality is was...Spoiler: Seriously, look at the stuff MJ's been saying in IRC (click to show/hide)
((Damn it work, making me miss everything.))((I can use the collar on it))
Handle it with my +3 Daemonism if we don't have anybody charismatic enough to placate the plane. Handle it by making the daemon my bitch, that is. Only if the plane is going to kill us, though. Otherwise let others handle it and stay quiet.
((Damn it work, making me miss everything.))[ASSIST]
Handle it with my +3 Daemonism if we don't have anybody charismatic enough to placate the plane. Handle it by making the daemon my bitch, that is. Only if the plane is going to kill us, though. Otherwise let others handle it and stay quiet.
Someone not me do the talking. Spaz sounds good.My charisma is the worst of the group.
And if we get it off the ground, Doomguy is wearing a parachute the whole time onboard.
*I* Could do the Talking, I do have a Three in it I Think.
Tied with two others.Someone not me do the talking. Spaz sounds good.My charisma is the worst of the group.
And if we get it off the ground, Doomguy is wearing a parachute the whole time onboard.
Elbow Vincent in the ribs to get him to negotiate. If he fails or refuses;((Damn it work, making me miss everything.))[ASSIST]
Handle it with my +3 Daemonism if we don't have anybody charismatic enough to placate the plane. Handle it by making the daemon my bitch, that is. Only if the plane is going to kill us, though. Otherwise let others handle it and stay quiet.
Rufferto looks surprised and pleased to see Groo, but Groo is unsurprisingly fast, and Rufferto doesn't have time to say anything before being tackled, and presumably the events of the next turn occur.
Groo gasps upon seeing this man. Then, Groo does a flying tackle-hug into him.
"RUFFERTOOOO!"
((Damn it work, making me miss everything.))
Since we'll have a Heavy Daemon kit, enchant Groo's katana with a suitable daemon.
Then, in regards to the plane situation:
Handle it with my +3 Daemonism if we don't have anybody charismatic enough to placate the plane. Handle it by calming it down or making frequencies to make it happy and mellow, like the soundwave version of cannabis. Only if the plane is going to kill us, though. Otherwise let others handle it and stay quiet. If the cannabis frequency works, then try to tame the daemon.
Groo slams into you and you both go down in a tangle of limbs. What a good friend your pretty sure he didn't even break any ribs this time.Rufferto looks surprised and pleased to see Groo, but Groo is unsurprisingly fast, and Rufferto doesn't have time to say anything before being tackled, and presumably the events of the next turn occur.
Groo gasps upon seeing this man. Then, Groo does a flying tackle-hug into him.
"RUFFERTOOOO!"
Events which, by the sound of IRC, are going to be catastrophic! Look forward to that!
Elbow Vincent in the ribs to get him to negotiate. If he fails or refuses;((Damn it work, making me miss everything.))[ASSIST]
Handle it with my +3 Daemonism if we don't have anybody charismatic enough to placate the plane. Handle it by making the daemon my bitch, that is. Only if the plane is going to kill us, though. Otherwise let others handle it and stay quiet.
Groo gasps upon seeing this man. Then, Groo does a flying tackle-hug into him.
"RUFFERTOOOO!"
Edit: Formally saying that I want to unbuy the daemon mace, and give fifteen of the resultant coins to Beirus, so that he can upgrade his kit into a professional kit. The remaining five coins go toward buying a katana and the materials to enchant it.Spoiler: For convenience, I updated Groo's sheet for you. You can copy/paste it. (click to show/hide)
Try to wake up. If everyone else fails, try the 420 frequency again if I can manage with the last of my strength. Hope someone gets me to a hospital.
"Rookies".
Doomguy grabs vincent, and walks over to the pile of gear that is the professional kit.
"Make a deal with it"
Doomguy then grabs the kit and throws it away from the plane.
"Something about us not fucking with it if it doesn't fuck with us."
Back off head for highground,
If talking fails do following.
aim for knee joint then sprint away perpendicular to the creature
Adrian would run back trying to find higher ground screaming out
Doom guy, folow me, aim where I aim, shoot when I shoot. Holefully together we can cripple it. Rest of you fan out and keep apart, aim for joins on legs and shoulders first.
Try to wake up. If everyone else fails, try the 420 frequency again if I can manage with the last of my strength. Hope someone gets me to a hospital.[resiliance 6] You wake up suddenly and feel no pain...thats' probably the shock setting in [resilience 6] grunting you attempt to roll towards the ddaemon box [eery limb broken -3 to effective skill dex 1] You completely fail to get close to the box and instead are left screaming in the same pool of blood you were in before.
Try to wake up. If everyone else fails, try the 420 frequency again if I can manage with the last of my strength. Hope someone gets me to a hospital.
((All four of your limbs are broken, but you're still trying to get the daemon mech high? Points for persistence, I suppose.))
"Rufferto! Groo missed you so much, thought you died! Groo found cool stuff, like katana and--Oh! Groo show you shiny Groo found in park!"
Oblivious to the the daemon mech, Groo runs off, dragging Rufferto with him.
"It's good to see you too, friend, but can it wait for a minute? I need to fix our plane."
Try to slip out of Groo's grasp.
Groo continues dragging Rufferto to a park, where he searches for a shiny he found yesterday.Groo drags Rufferto over to the indrustial park of the Clark park completely obvious to the scream of sirens heading towards the airfield, where he points in the vernal direction of a pond and say's Shiny.
Get dragged while making halfhearted complaint. It's not like I wanted to talk to that thing really.[Charisma 2] You say nothing as you are dragged along. Oh well.
Sprint away from the plane and towards the exit of the hangar in a winding zigzag motion, then move to the right and torwards cover. once Doom guy has it distracted pop out and aim for the head[dex 1] You trip and stumble failing to the payment and cracking your head on the concrete [resilience 2] stunning you [-1 to anything requiring a clear head] with a shriek of metal as the arms are moved into position the daemon takes aim[marksmanship 5]. The daemon cackles as the machine guns begin to fire spewing lead and death directly at the prone Adrian [Resilience 3] the .50 bullets chew up Adrians body blowing off his legs first and continuing up his body until Adrians corpse is lying in a pool of his own organs and limbs.
"Rip and Tear!"[dex 1] [resilience 3] You run up to the Daemon chainsaw held high but end up tripping and opening up your knee when you foolishly brin your hands down to catch yourself and with them the chainsaw. . [resilience 4] "BAD BAD CHAINSAW" . The daemon finishing it's onslaught of bullets at Varion [dex 4] turns and brings the massive sword crashing down upon your prone and bleeding form. [resilience 3] You only lose both your lower legs due to rolling ever so slightly as the massive sword swung towards you.
Sprint up to it while it's aiming at Spaz and dive through the legs, crotchstabbing with the chainsaw.
((I fucking hate Dex rolls.))[resiliance 4] [dex 1] With your last breath you sit up and scream at the sky. The sky fails to scream back.
Try again. Or try using the vibrations of my screams to the same effect. Or just die so Damien can take my place.
And here's my character sheet for Damien:
The exact same as Damian and Damion, but with orange eyes. His inventory includes a daemon knife, with the extra 5 tokens going towards making the knife stronger to contain a stronger daemon.
Damien action if you'll let me do that:
420 frequency all the way.
((*Smug british accent* You enjoy all the killing, that's why!))((giggity?))
Name: Chase Valentine
Description: This man just like shooting people for money. Old people, kids, adults, dogs, cats, doesn't matter, he just likes killing. He also has something to do with the military police, mainly that he follows them cause that means more killing with less moral dilemmas, as if a sociopathic murderer could have any.
Stats
Strength:+0
Intelligence: +0
Dexterity: +0
Resilience:+1
Perception:+2
Charisma:-3
Skills
Piloting:-4
Marksmanship:+4
Daemonism: -3
Doctor: 0
Beast mastery:+0
Engineering:-3
Inventory: what you have on you.
knife
aviators clothing
sniper
thermite
Axe
I RUN AWAY FROM THE ****ING PLANE!
"Very shiny, Groo. We should find a place to sit down."Notcing that there is a perfectly fine looking park bench next the tree Groo just carved into a seat you move over there, and relax, listening to the sound of distant explosions.
Disentangle self from Groo, loiter in park until this madness passes. If any park benches are handy, sit on one of those instead of a fallen tree.
"Oh! Groo make seat!"
Groo draws his katana and chops down an adjacent tree. Then, he sits on the trunk and calmly observes the Shiny.
Hmm.. Two legs good, no legs bad.[resilience 2] your shock continues to worsen and you fear that you will be going to the big gun range in the sky soon. [Doctor 5] Ignoring the pain and the ever worsening cold, you grab both legs in your massive hands and try to apply pressure to them it works surprisingly well. Congrats you just bought your self another turn to live. Asuming that you keep passing resilience rolls.
two wounds, two hands. Try to reduce bleeding with pressure as best I can.
((So now I can act, right?))[dex 5] You sprint away from you incompetent comrades and aim for the away Kit grabbing it before the Daemon has even noticed you, [Daemnosim 1+3=4] [Daemon 6+4=10] you attempt to calm the daemon with your late brothers kit but the daemon is clearly not having any of it and offhandedly points one of it’s machine gun arms at you [marksmanship 5] [resilience 5] The bullets tear into you turning your organs into paste and but giving you one turn to contemplate just how badly your life has screwed up.
Get to the Daemon kit and use the 420 frequency on the plane mech.
((actually that brings up an ideal could I trade in the hatchet for a gasmask?))((Sure))
Walk into the back of the place, fire a shot at the daemon, then move out and to a window to fire in through that.
Continue holding on to legs.[resiliance 3] Your grip gets weaker and you feel yourself further slipping into shock.
Chuck thermite at the daemon., grab the nearby corpses and wounded who can't fireof the military police and book it out of there. Drop the wounded outside and carry the dead to an alley way for subsequent looting if no one is paying attention to me.
((Can my new guy show up now?))
Get in there, grab Damien's Daemon knife and imbue a daemon into it, then try to get any surviving daemonists to assist me with the 420 frequency.
Groo continues resting, eventually falling asleep watching the tranquility of the lake from his masterfully carved and comfy chair.Groo kicks back and relaxs on his chair, it’s amzainglly comfy and lacking splinters, he mutters osmehting about shinies before falling asleep, waiting for the rest of the group to stop dying.
((How many of the MPs are even left alive now? I'm really happy Groo didn't fight.))
Try to hold on[resilience 1] Your grip further weakens and blood comes pouring out of your legs, gasping you try to squeeze them shut again but the terrible cold and the weakness of you muscles is too much, with a shuddering groan you die.
((The one fucking time it fails a roll! God damn it! Fucking RNG!))
((And now that that's out of the way, how does the dead daemon stop me from doing the first part of my action with the knife?))
Head into the tear gas to help recover wounded and nab any loose lootables, then go to the dead non military police and nab their lootabkes, and then go search through the planes daemons remains.[random luck that the bullets didn't destroy everything: 1] Seems the daemons bullets absolutely shredded everything.
Groo pops awake and hurries away to the daemon's death site, disappointed about missing a fray when he gets there. Oh well--might as well loot the dead!Groo wakes from his nap unfortunately the daemon's bullets seem to have made most loot unusable. Damn
Grab the shredded stuff, I will find a use foor them, then go help with moving wounded and see what further assistance the military police needYou collect the shredded stuff and pile it into your groups apartment. It would appear as if the MP's need no further assistance and upon seeing two spooks approaching you rapidly gather their dead and wounded and leave.
((Honestly, if this doesn't end in four planes going down, I'll be rather surprised.))The spook also stays silent as he waits for any questions.
Groo stays silent.
Go search through gubbins I be grabbin' earlier, then go be a porate cause a pirate is freeYour gubbins are at the apartment, not that they would be useful unless you had a heavy engineering kit, The spook politely ignores you running around screaming, ARR I'M A PIRATE, ARR ME HEARTIES, THAR BE TREASURE IN THOSE SHIPS.
)ARRRRRRR
((Damn, missed another turn while trying to decide what armor I wanted. I figured out I want two arms, though, so hopefully I can survive long enough to buy and imbue them. Unless you'd be kind enough to let me retroactively purchase them and imbue daemons into them?))
Rufferto will, of course! Groo will drag him up to the cockpit and assist his flight, just like the good 'ol days!Right because none else has posted any actions preventing this from happening and some one needs to fly the plane I'll just roll with it
Grab me gubbins and remains of the last crew if I can, then go stow away in back of plane with parachute. Point gun at anyone nearbyYou would do this expect that the Rufferto attempts to take off and manages to completely destroy the planes wings and engines.
It's more like a death march, but you are screaming, crying. and shitting yourselves all at once.ftfy
Loot the plain remainsYou already sold them.
Get groo to do it.i support this
Get groo to do it.
Get groo to do it.i support this
Groo will happily fly the plane! He's happy his skills are being recognized!
Go find this nazi scum lord then! Hunt for scetchy looking people but do not attack...yet
Yes! Groo will murder and kill whoever needs murdering and killing! While wearing the pretty outfit the OSS guy gave him!((hold your horses))
Groo gets out and takes cover behind the car. Then, he tosses his frag grenade at the trio of people and picks off and survivors with his pistol. Once they're all dead, he moves up adjacent to the building's door, katana drawn.Assist bug keep distance, particularly the same distance as a frag blast diameter
Groo gets out and takes cover behind the car. Then, he tosses his frag grenade at the trio of people and picks off and survivors with his pistol. Once they're all dead, he moves up adjacent to the building's door, katana drawn.Assist Groo's Marksmanship rolls.
Groo gets out and takes cover behind the car. Then, he tosses his frag grenade at the trio of people and picks off and survivors with his pistol. Once they're all dead, he moves up adjacent to the building's door, katana drawn.[dex 1] Groo grabs his frag grenade from his belt and pulls the pin, but fumbles the release and up slamming it down towards his feet, Groo attempts to run from the greened [Dex 1] and falls flat on his face next to the grenade. Ah geez.
[dex 6] You burst out of the rear window of the car away from the Groo and his grenade and do an impressive cartwheel past the lounging gangsters. It takes them a second but they quickly recognize the flash of the steel buttons and grab their guns. uh ohGroo gets out and takes cover behind the car. Then, he tosses his frag grenade at the trio of people and picks off and survivors with his pistol. Once they're all dead, he moves up adjacent to the building's door, katana drawn.Assist bug keep distance, particularly the same distance as a frag blast diameter
[dex 2] you manage to take a couple of steps before the grenade goes off. not that it helps much. added in later because you've actually got not half bad odd's of surviving a grenade especially when you can get a little way away. [resilience. 6] rufferto is fine if only for a couple of disturbing holes in his shirt.Groo gets out and takes cover behind the car. Then, he tosses his frag grenade at the trio of people and picks off and survivors with his pistol. Once they're all dead, he moves up adjacent to the building's door, katana drawn.Assist Groo's Marksmanship rolls.
Get in cover and out of range of any accidental explosions. Once the sentries are gone and the coast is clear, move up to the other side of the door with my daemon knife. Stay away from any windows. If we need to finish off the sentries, have my knife fire off a few slivers of metal at the enemy vital spots, like necks or eye sockets.[Dex 6] you smash through the front window of the car and cower in between two parked cars hopefully the gangsters can't get an angle on you.
Stay in cover and shoot anyone who comes near me work way torwards grue corpse and his lootablesyou get close to the Groo's corpse but don't unite make it there, You also take a shot at the Goons, [marksmanship 5] [resilience 2] You shoot the last of the thugs and he takes a mortal wound to his throat, blood spurting out of his throat. Yeah your pretty sure people know that they are being attacked.
Have my knife fire a shard at each thug outside. Aim for the neck/throat, and have the shards ricochet upwards into the thugs' brains. If it doesn't kill them quickly, hopefully it'll disable them and impair their ability to call for help. Try to stay at least somewhat in cover while doing this incase they notice me.[daemonism 3+3=6] Your knife laucnes a large amount of small splinters of metal at the group [resilience 4] [resilience 6] [resilience 4] The first goon already bleeding from his neck due to Vincent's spiner fire and he goes down under the wave of splinters, the second one manages to keep himself out of danger by shoving the third one in front of him and hiding as the third one is killed by the splinters, deprived of daemonic enegery the splinters fall to the ground. Geez you feel a bit tired from that.
Go retrieve Groo's corpse so we can give it a suitably gratuitous funeral.
Don't let the loot-drunk hunter steal from my friend. Maybe stab him a little bit if he doesn't get the message.
Take Grue's Everything, shoot Egan if he attacks me then hack his head off if he is still alive.Rufferto gets to close to use your sniper rifle so you go for the tomahawk instead.
Then focus on the Irons and shoot them if there are any around
if there are none near me loot grue's everything and give beirus the katana
Kill the last Iron with more slivers. And if the other two crewmembers keep looting or fighting amongst each other instead of killing the remaining enemy with a gun, and the ones who are probably about to come out of the house, I'll kill them both with my daemon knife. Also, get Grue's katana if I can when there are no enemies around, on account of being the resident daemonist and being able to get the most out of it, and not just because I want to go Samurai X on some gang members. Offer to place it back with his body whenever we bury him, if we actually get through this.
((It's funny because we'll probably kill each other before the Irons do.))
Die?[resilience 1] sure.
Stay in sturdy cover. Try to recuperate my energy. Use the daemon knife/buckler to block attacks if I have to. And if all else fails and I'm about to die, send the daemon knife into my bloodstream as miniscule fragments and have it merge with my body. Let the daemon take care of the gangsters.You cower further behind the car hoping it's steel frame will shield you from the two marksmen, [marksmanship 2] The first sniper misses yet again. [marksmanship 4] The sniper bullet tears through the realitivlly flimsy car metal and aim at Damion [daemonsim 4+3=7] The knife moves in a blur shifting into it's buckler form and defeclting the bullet back towards the sniper despite it missing the sniper is nevertheless freaked out enough to start screaming about a daemonist. [resilience 4] You sink down to the asphalt utterly drained by this action. From the busted windows you hear someone calling to you.
((It was inevitable when you consider the three team members who were left.))
((Warning: This action may be subject to edits in the near future.))
Name: Jhon Jhonovitch
Description: A beast-herder from the faraway, frigid land of Canada. Gruff, Grizzled, etc.
Stats
Strength: +1
Intelligence: -1
Dexterity: +2
Resilience: -1
Perception: -1
Charisma: -1
Skills
Piloting: -1
Marksmanship: +0
Daemonism: -3
Doctor: +1
Beast mastery: +3
Engineering: -3
Inventory:
Knife
Foreign Aviation Clothing
Wooly Fluffy Comfy Parka
Badass Cowboy Hat
Beast Kit
Damiin remains quiet in the chair after his screaming stops, recovering his energy and biding his time. He idly wonders who will be interrogating him.[resilience 3] You manage to mostly stop your screaming and wait as your interrogator walks over holding a rather nasty looking Iron bar. He has one eye and asks Who sent you?
Recover energy. Wait.
((I Just Remembered that I was Involved in this.))[Dex 6] [strength 1] You dash across the street and slam your shoulder into the door attempting to burst it open instead you just make a lot of noise and, [resilience 5] slightly bruise your shoulder.
I Draw my Swords And Charge in From some Questionable Direction.
Damiin eyes the bar for a moment, wondering how much of a beating he would have to endure before his energy recovered enough to slaughter these picks that broke his legs. Suddenly, an idea popped in to his head. "You are Herr Splint, yes? I have a message for you."[Charisma 6] Yeah I'm howard splint, what's the fucking message this display of bravado from a man with two broken legs and hands are handcuffed behind a chair stuns the mob boss to the point where he doesn't hit you with an iron bar for now though he seems a bit pissed at the bravado.
Try to recover energy and stall. How's my energy?
Charge Again!?![Strength 2] You slam into the door again, and utterly fail to damage it in anyway.
"I'll need a moment to translate the message. Some of the words don't have the same meaning in English."[charisma 5] this response placates the gangsters, and splint doesn't hit you.
Still trying to recover energy.
One more Try... Wait Did I even try the knob? I'd better do that Before I Ram the Door again!You turn the door knob and the door opens up [sniper marksmanship 4] [resilience 3] You take a bullet to your shoulder that only manages to hurt a lot and pass through the other side of your shoulder missing the major artiers [resilience 2] You scream like a little girl and then fall backward.
"That must be the kill squad I'm supposed to warn you about. I would have done it sooner, but you broke my fucking legs. That wasn't the most important part of the message, though." Damiin waited a moment to see how they would react, an evil grin slowly creeping across his face. "The important part of the message was: BURN IN HELL, YOU NAZI-LOVING FUCKS! AHAHAHAHA! AMERICAAAA!"[charisma 2] They don't seem too convinced especially, a Splint raises the bar out of his anger for the at the insult. [dameonsim 1+3=4] You send a wave of splinters towards the gangsters and [Splint resilience 4] [gangsters ((just made it an average for my sanities sake)) resilience 2] The wave of splinters sends the goons down to the ground with numerous injuries and reducing their number to 3. Splint is largely fine though.
If they buy the kill squad thing, try to recover some more energy before uttering the last sentence and blasting them. If they don't buy it and Splint is going to hit me or worse, blast them! Blast them now while they're still mostly grouped up. Try to get the splinters to rebound and hit the thug by the door and any other gang members too, and maybe to break my handcuffs as well if it won't cost me a finger or worse.
Remove Shirt, Tie Shirt over Bullet Hole, Grit Teeth, Draw Sniper Rifle, Shoot that F***er.[doctor 4] you tear off your shirt and then tear it up so that it forms a bandage and then tie the shirt bandages onto your shoulder slowing the bleeding considerably. Your're gonna have to change those bandages eventually though. Ignoring the clouds of slivers flying around the warehouse and putting holes in everything. [Marksmanship 4] [sniper one resilience 6] [resilience 4] You fire a shot into the snipers arm but it's only a flesh wound.
((Good to know. And darn, I was hoping I'd do more damage. The good are effectively neutralized though, right?))[Splint str: 5] [Damion resilience 5] Splint slams the Iron bar into Damions jaw breaking a number of teeth and his jaw, [resilience 4] Damion screams again through the mangled jaw but maintains his focus enough to attempt Daemonism. [dameonism 6+3=9] You feel the daemon cackle in happiness as you angrily pour energy into the knife preparing to launch nearly the entire blade at the gangsters the knife responds to your actions and flattens out into inky matte black pool as splint brings his bar back for yet another crushing blow, With a scream of rage you unleash the daemon and 90% of it splinters into a countless amount of metallic and jet black splinters which inflict hundreds of pinhole sized wounds onto splint he looks down at these hundreds of bleeding holes before slowly dropping the bar and dropping to the ground, the splinters not yet sated by Splints blood swarm into the dying gangsters embedding themselves into their bodies. [meele mobster resilience roll 4] They also expire from this con tuned onslaught. [sniper 1 dex roll 5] [sniper 2 dex roll 4] The first sniper ducks down behind a handy barrel and is fine and the other sniper only recivices a dozen pin holes in his leg when he was slow about dodging one of the clouds. You feel that you might have burned through a lot more energy than would be recommended [resilience 2] You suddenly feel a burning sensation in your left arm, looking behind you with your rapidly swelling jaw you can see the arm become brittle and hard as cracks spread through it and you scream in pain when your entire arm begins to separate from itself the tendons and and muscles separating and cracking into the their base cellular components eventually becoming a mass of red white pigment that begins to fly around the room along with the splinters. You look at your arm. You're bleeding rather heavily. Fuck.
Fire splinters at Splint.
A person that looks like varion named nioran randomly appearsThe mission is almost over then everyone can spawn. Two turns at most.
I Wait for Those splinters to Either Stop moving, or Come after me, Either way I ain't going in there.You wait, those splinters are still not stopping.
((The only good thing about losing my arm is that now my remaining hand isn't handcuffed to anything.))[dex 1] The splinters now uncontrolled due to failing that resistance roll slam into your chest as you fruitlessly attempt to move out of the way but you are hampered by both legs begin broken. You stare down in shock as your own creation flys away, to add insult to injury some of the bone fragments of your own arm have embedded themselves in your chest. That is the last sight you see as you fall off the chair and slam into the concrete,blood oozing out of the dozens of holes in your chest.
Remove the daemon knife from my clothing. Have what's left of the knife vibrate itself or otherwise heat up enough to cauterize the wound of my missing arm. If that doesn't work, try to tear off some clothing and apply pressure to the wound.
I Look in, and try to Shoot another Fucker(or end the first one)You recycle the bolt take a breath and fire at the stunned sniper [marksmanship 6] You fire twice at the sniper [resilience 6] The stunned sniper suddenly gasps as both of his ears fall to the ground. [sniper 1 dex 2] The stunned sniper is to slow to dodge the swarms of the splinters and loses his legs. He falls to the ground screaming [sniper 2 dex] The second sniper continues to spin gracefully past the splinters seeing his brother fall to the ground lacking legs, he calls to you in a thick country accent as he dodges yet another swarm Don't shoot I, I'll give up if you can go help my brother.
((So those splinters forcefully entering my body seems like it would have been the perfect time for my assimilation last resort action that we talked about before. What happened to that?))((They were traveling at high speeds and you didn't have control over them at that point. If you had gotten managed to preserve some semblance of control over it than you could have done it whenever. When the daemon splinters stop though one of the new Damions would be able to grab the hilt of the knife, and possibly repair it. Like you might have been able to do it if they had actually gotten stuck inside you but they weren't they just shot through you.))
((Alright, I'll throw a sheet up for Damiun in a bit. Um, is there anything I could have him buy that would be good at preserving body parts for a bit? Like a cooler and ice or something? I want to try some daemonic/medical experiments, and I think there were a few corpses laying around.))
Wait for After the Storm of pointy bits has gone past again, then take out that guy's knees.You wait freed of it's host the daemon should eventually get bored and go back wherever the hell it comes from. You reckon that since the spinters already seem to be only half heatedly trying to kill the snipers this will be about one more turn.
((I think the changing of the system might render those sheets invalid. Primarily through the removal of -3 stats.))aww, it was going to be a surprise.
((@Dustan(One, you are not the GM. Two, the skill/stat cap is stated to be -3 to+4 in OP. Three, I still need to know how much my dart gun will run me before I solidify my build.)
Your stats are fine, but you skills have one too many negative levels (you only need six negative levels for two +2s, you have seven), and I'm fairly certain you can't put stats down to -3. I'm not completely sure because daemonism and beast mastery use a different system from the other stats, but I imagine they're locked to -2 minimum like everything else.
If you keep piloting at -1, put engineering down to -1, and leave daemonism and beast mastery at -2, you can start with your two primary skills at +2 without any long term inefficiency.))
I am not sorry.[Accepted]Spoiler: GROOVY TREE! (click to show/hide)
Well you have two options, you could make a semi auto or single shot style air gun style dart gun yourself materials for it would be about 5 coins but you would need a a heavy engineering kit in order to do that which you don't have or seem specialized in. Or you could hire someone to build you a single shot style one.Spoiler: MEDIC-K (click to show/hide)
Ugh, fine.4 tokens is fine for .45 revolver takes longer to reload and one less bullet so it seems fairly balanced. As for the beast, I would suggest a couple of bags for now. Don't worry next mission is a beast mission perfect for the aspiring beast master.
Changelog: even worse of a pilot, no longer a medic because screw you guys.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
MJ, tell me if 4 Tokens is alright for a .45 revolver. Also, tell me what kinds of beasts I could get for >6 Tokens, and how much it would cost to rent a workshop with the equivalent to a beast kit.
((Darn rule change. Screw it, I'm going Full Metal Daemonist. Could I get a daemon arm and daemon leg unimbued for 10 tokens each?))When you say inert do you mean unimbued?Spoiler (click to show/hide)
((Sorry if I won't have a character sheet up, got a really bad middle ear infection. I can't hear anything and my balance has gone to shit))Damn, dude, from experience, ear infections suck. Hope it gets better soon.
((@Dustan(One, you are not the GM. Two, the skill/stat cap is stated to be -3 to+4 in OP. Three, I still need to know how much my dart gun will run me before I solidify my build.)
Your stats are fine, but you skills have one too many negative levels (you only need six negative levels for two +2s, you have seven), and I'm fairly certain you can't put stats down to -3. I'm not completely sure because daemonism and beast mastery use a different system from the other stats, but I imagine they're locked to -2 minimum like everything else.
If you keep piloting at -1, put engineering down to -1, and leave daemonism and beast mastery at -2, you can start with your two primary skills at +2 without any long term inefficiency.))
[accepted]Spoiler: MEDIC-K (click to show/hide)
((Darn rule change. Screw it, I'm going Full Metal Daemonist. Could I get a daemon arm and daemon leg unimbued for 10 tokens each?))[accepted]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Fuck bags. Those things are useless. Get me one dog-sized beast and let me stick a big damn dart thrower on it. And a workshop so I can have some semblance of a chance of success.
And change that Beast Kit on my sheet to a light one. I changed it after you said that you'd make the Beast Kit 10GP. But then you didn't. >:(
[accepted]Spoiler: char sheet (click to show/hide)
Go imbue my arm and leg with the heavy daemon kit. Then go look at the site of Damiin's demise.[arm 6+4=10] resilience 1 [leg 2+4=6] [resilience 1] oh geez [50/50 odds due to only slightly overshooting the second time [1]] aw fuck.
Thank the based dice. Reach out and connect with the beast and see what kinds of orders it's responsive to. Maybe this will help to figure out what organs I put in it, too, assuming that I hooked them all up right.
Patiently await my orders.
Go where ever I am told to go,otherwise search for anyone needing a mover to help move stuffYou would, but Damion seems to have just committed suicide. [perception 4] Wait, did his metal arm just twitch?
Take inventory; How much equipment was looted off of Groo (or destroyed), and what does he have left?He's got the m1911 and the clips his body shielded it
Don't stand near damnainain for no reason.Your're already on the other side of the city but nevertheless the beast your controlling moves a couple of steps to the further away.
"Damn, I put explosives in there? Easy now..."You withdraw your consioncess and stagger around for a second, disoriented from seeing from through your own eyes again, once you've made sure all your parts are where you last left them, you paw through the light beast kit until you come to the bag labelled milk bone beast treats,underneath it says made with real human bone marrow. You toss one to the beast and it happily snaps it up. Using some of the bone treats you lure the beast into a cage and load it into the van that your friend helpfully provided for you, you make a mental note to send him a coin as reimbursement for gas money once you get some cash to your name again. You think it's unlikely that you will find a job for your services in the rather upperclass neighborhood your friend lives in and thus begin to drive to the seedier side of town.
Hop out of its mind and give it a treat for it's trouble.
Afterwards, go out and look for a job.
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Go inside, imbue my arm and leg with a single daemon. Then go look at the site of Damiin's demise and see if he had anything interesting on him, and check the quality of his body.
ooh, a new corpse to practice on! Go down and examine the guy who apparantly committed suicide. Check them for anything valuable and then start extracting their kidneys.You meander over to the corpse [perception 4] Only thing he's got on him is a daemon infused arm and leg….wait did he just twitch? You move close but are suddenly taken aback when the corpse raises up and begins to stagger towards Adrian.
Welp guess I ought to put damian out of his pain, unless he says somethingYou don't think he's going to say anything what with the copious amounts of blood oozing out of the group near his face, [marksmanship 3] You put a bullet with your m1911 into his chest. Nothing happens for a second until suddenly the daemon arm suddenly slams upwards and jerks the rest of the body up, it begins to advance slowly towards you like a puppet on a string the the human limbs flailing around in random matter. You see his ribs poking out of his chest obviously due to the force of the impact and his face is horribly smashed, you watch as a chunk of skull falls away exposing part of his brain.
Groo wanders into the building, looking at the devastation his team left. Is anything salvageable inside?Groo bypasses the police tap and looks around the scene [luck 2] Just about everything but the hilt of damiens scythe, which seems to have been kicked under an empty box and forgotten, about as evidence. Don't worry the hilt is considered part of the knife it's just that it's size has been significantly reduced.
Give Damiun a wide berth and head into the apartment to get my limbs imbued. Gotta fight daemons with a single daemon, evenly distributed between two limbs. And a weapon, if I can find it. Go see where Damiin died to see if he had any weapons.[daemonsim 6+4=10]You infuse the daemon into both of the limbs, they end up both being much stronger and significantly faster than a normal human limb, and both posses slight shape shifting,
back away, fire aiming for His head,specificaly at the hole to his brain.[marksmanship 3] You put a glancing shot into the side of it's head it doesn't seem to mind.
zombies animated by daemon infused limbs? I am not impressed.[marksmanship 5] You put a shot right into his chest, the zombie doesn't seem to care though.
knock him out again with a morphine dart and go for the kidneys again!
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I want those kidneys damit! Cut the zombie open with my scalpel and get to it, moving or not![str 3] You run up to the zombie, and attempt to cut into it's back instead of cutting out it's kidneys like you expected to, you end up completely missing. 'It's a lot easier to cut these things when they aren't moving around.' You think.
Sprint back and fire at his arms.[zombie 1] [Adrian dex 2] Adrian attempts to sprint away from the zombie as it stands there gathering strength for it's next lunge, but he is still nursing the cut on his side and doesn't end up moving away, nevertheless he turns to fire his rifle at the monster [marksmanship 6] Putting two rounds into the joint where the metal meets flesh causes the metal to writhe around the areas where it's joint is damaged [daemon resilience 5] the daemon manages to successfully draw on the concrete around it to repair itself though.
Head over to the airport and make a nice sign from cardboard and sharpie.[engineering 2] You borrowed a sharpie from your friend before you left, but you clearly didn't borrow you're friends skill with writing, By the time you've finished scribbling out the various misspellings and problematic turns of phrases, [3 minutes earlier] No I can't just say powerful bone, people might get the wrong idea,[present time] the sheet of cardboard has become so saturated with marker that's it's solid black and droplets of sharpie are beginning to drip onto your hands and the marker has run out.
QuoteBEASTMASTER LOOKING FOR JOB
VERY FEROCIOUS BEAST W/ POWERFUL SPUR LAUNCHER
RATES NEGOTIABLE
Groo takes the knife hilt, and wanders off to find the OSS. Once found, he tells them he was gonna kill the bad people, but they already died before Groo got there.Groo wanders around [luck 5] by sheer chance he manages to meet the OSS spooks right as they are walking out of yet another seedy apartment carrying a pair of briefcases. While the speaking spook is momentarily taken aback by your sudden reappearance he quickly recovers and saying Don't worry about it Mr. Groo, we all have jobs like that. Just congratulate the rest of the team on the good work and move on. Now it's a good thing you showed up anyway, since we need a new set of privateers with ground experience to pick through some ruins and net uncle sam a beast egg. At least we think it's going to be an egg, you might need to actually grab the mother itself if it looks like a mammal base. Alternatively, we have a couple of Fith columisnts we've identified in the criminal world, and we would appreciate you clearing house so to speak.
So I have successfully imbued limbs, a +4 in daemonism, and a heavy daemon kit. How's my energy? If it's good, get what I need and go tame those rogue limbs. Then collect those limbs. If it isn't enough, rest.In a word, your energy is shit. So you rest.
Spayz currently the best higher ground is to go into a apartment. Currently the set of buildings that will cause the least conflict upon entering is the one you have a room in. The zombie is curentlly between you and the building.(action edited)
Shoot the zombie in the joints and just keep running away.[marksmanship 1] Panicking slightly you miss your shot and the sniper rile bullet embeds itself into the zombies chest. [zombie 2] [dex 2] Deciding that discretion is the better part of valor, you duck a slice from the zombie and but make little headway against the zombies speedy limping.
"Gee, I sure should have figured out exactly what I was going to write ahead of time. :/[charisma 4] You call out that you are beast master with a powerful beast several times it all proves fruitless until an extremely panicked looking man who thrusts some money into your hand and says that he'll give you more if you to fight the three guys charging down the alleyway you were lurking in.
Oh well, as my mother used to say, there's always another way of getting hired to herd horrible monsters. Or something like that."
Time to start asking around in person.
Agh, I don't have time for this! AMPUTATE THE DAEMON LEG![str 5] You launch into a frenzy of cutting with your scalpel as the zombie single mindeddlly charges Adrian. You manage to flay the flesh from the bone, but you have no idea what how you are going to cut the bone using your scalpel.
Rest some more. By the heavy daemon kit with all the supplies I need for taming a daemon ready to go just incase a zombie comes in. Actually, could I set a trap for a daemon to bind it in place if it entered the room?You flip through some scholarly daemonism periodicals you brought with you as you wonder how your going to explain the broken window to the landlord. [charisma 3] Saying that a daemonist did it should work. You can never trust those bastards.
"Groo have lots of ground experience! Groo can't buy bed. Who does Groo kill?""Right, well the main man we want you and by extension anyone who you know to kill is a man by the name Felix Mueller."He holds up a black and white mug shot featuring a man with a square face, short dark hair, and and a number of scars on his knuckles. "We've received word that he is currently attempting to smuggle partial schematics of a one of our Nordon bombsights. We clearly can't have that so we need you and who ever else you wan't to come with you, to intercept the shipment."
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Why it's simple voice in my head, I don't have to! I just have to cut the tendons and cartilage holding the bones together away, and the leg will fall right off! Continue cutting until aforementioned tendons and cartilage are severed from the bones at the joint!Assist by distacting the zombie by continuing to remain out of arms reach and shooting at it's limbs. nope nothing can go wrong there
(knowledge of anatomy for the win!)
Why it's simple voice in my head, I don't have to! I just have to cut the tendons and cartilage holding the bones together away, and the leg will fall right off! Continue cutting until aforementioned tendons and cartilage are severed from the bones at the joint![str 5] You hack at the connective tissue of the hip joint, after much sawing and hacking you successfully cut the bone away at the joint. The leg falls away and the zombie turns toward you, identifying you as you a greater threat. [Zombie 4] [dex 3] The zombies blade turns into a whip and wraps around your leg as you try to dive out of the way.
(knowledge of anatomy for the win!)
[marksmanship 1] [Dustan ressiliance 5] Your’re shot overpenetrates the zombies sternum, and narrowly misses Dustan as he attempts to pull his leg from the zombies grasp.Why it's simple voice in my head, I don't have to! I just have to cut the tendons and cartilage holding the bones together away, and the leg will fall right off! Continue cutting until aforementioned tendons and cartilage are severed from the bones at the joint!Assist by distacting the zombie by continuing to remain out of arms reach and shooting at it's limbs. nope nothing can go wrong there
(knowledge of anatomy for the win!)
"Okay!"Groo’s aimless wanderings eventually take him back to his apartment. Where a shiny man is hugging an angry man.
Groo takes the mugshot if offered, and then starts wandering around the city until he runs into either the guy he needs to kill, or someone who looks like they might help him kill the guy.
Jhon grabs the cash that the man is offering.You set the beast on the ground and tell it to not kill anyone. You draw your revolver and aim it at the three goons. They freeze when they notice the gun, The one in the center of the trio speaks, "Hey, buddy, we don't want no trouble. We're just trying to settle things with our friend here."
"...Fine. You better pay up later though."
Set the cage on the ground, and smoothly slide open the door. Make contact with the beast just enough to tell it not to wander off and not too kill anyone that's not hostile.
As for myself, take aim at these fellows, and yell the following at them.
"Hey you kids! Why don't you hold up and we can talk about this!"
Rest if I still need more energy. Otherwise, get the equipment and go tame those rogue limbs. Preferably from a decent distance away, if I can.Well you aren’t at 100% but your good enough to move around, and could at least attempt it.
Try to us knife as a bayonet to stab the zombie's sword arm.[str 1] You slam the knife onto your sniper rifle and charge forward missing horribly and impaling Dustan [resilience 3] In the muscle of his left upper leg.
A wonder it's still standing, concidering it's missing a leg. Oh well, amputate the whip-arm in the same fashion as the leg. failing that, kick the other leg out from under the bastard.[zombie 4] [resilience 5] The zombies whip arm contracts on your foot and you suddenly feel as though the inside of the whip has become sharper. [str 2] Your attempts to hack the arm off are foiled as you fruitlessly try to free your leg.
"Ah, so it may be. But this "friend" of yours just so happened to give me a lot of money to tell you lot to leave him alone. So scram.The goon [perception 4] Doesn't seem all that phased by the gun or the threats
Vague threats!
Welp, if they're hugging, they're probably not good assassins. Keep wandering. Maybe Groo will find a nice doggy to pet![luck 5] Groo's random wanderings through the city, eventually bring him to a stray black dog of indeterminate breed that he happily pets.
Rest up a bit more. Be prepared to use the 420 frequency to calm the daemons if they start to target me.Stretching back yo pick up the daemonism periodical you dropped and go back to reading about how to lay traps.
"Ey, don't stab the doctor here! I already got enough trouble cutting this corpse up!"[zombie 5] [ Dustan resilience 2] The whip tightens around your foot as the blades become sharper easily slicing through flesh and bone, severing your foot from the rest of your body. You scream in agony, as you reflexively pull your stump away from the contracting whip as it absorbs your foot and seems to anchor itself further into the late Damains shoulder.
Kick the damn leg out from under the damn zombie so it loses balance! it'll either go down and become a easier target, or let go and attempt to stabilize itself with it's arms.
"Look, son. I could understand if you're making a counteroffer, but I'm not usually in the business of screwing over people who pay me. And I recommend if you think you know where your head is, not to waste my time. Either leave, or lets get to business, one way or the other."At the suggestion of your hostile intent your beast perks up and growls at the goon, the goon snarls back. You get a sudden suspicion that something is right behind you. enemies beast mastery [6+1=7] [resilience 3] Something suddenly slams into your back cutting it up and knocking you to the ground, it's still clinging to you. At this sound the rest of the goons charge you The speaking one cackling screaming it always works and charges while the one to his side produces his switchblade and charges. The one on the left however is still staring straight ahead.
Command the beast to take aim and be ready to take the speaking dude's head off.
Fuck, umm sorry, just hold that whip still.[str 2] With a cry of rage your charge towards the zombie and begin to poke ineffectually at the zombies whip.
try to damage the zombie's whip.
Groo gasps, and then makes a sound approximating a 'squee'. "Doggy! I'm gonna call you Rufferto! Here, Rufferto!"Groo tosses a the piece of meat that he had in his pocket to the mutt, which happily snaps it up and wags it's tail. It seems to like the name and follows along behind Groo. As he continues to saunter along, oblivious to the stares at his bloodstained head.
Feed the nice doggy a little bit of (human) Rufferto's flesh which Groo totally looted from the gang base, then continue along, (doggy) Rufferto in tow.
Read more about traps while recovering energy. See if there is anything I could quickly set up in the apartment that could immobilize or tame the daemon limbs. Also, see if the results are in this periodical about that study "they" totally did on the amount of time it takes for a daemon limb to expend it's energy while possessing a corpse.You read along, well it looks like you need access to the some spare bits of metal in order to build a really good trap, in a pinch you could probably build one by smashing up furniture in the apartment, though you might get fined for that. Lets see in the periodical it says that the daemon tends to leave as soon as it's amputated however the daemon tends to get bored and leave once everyone around it either runs away and it can't easily catch them or everyone in sight distance dies. Interesting.
(I Dislike how you are completely ignoring my actions, and instead giving the zombie my action instead. I should be able to kick the bastard even with a whip wrapped around my leg! also, you have given my action to it TWO TIMES now.)"Ey, don't stab the doctor here! I already got enough trouble cutting this corpse up!"[zombie 5] [ Dustan resilience 2] The whip tightens around your foot as the blades become sharper easily slicing through flesh and bone, severing your foot from the rest of your body. You scream in agony, as you reflexively pull your stump away from the contracting whip as it absorbs your foot and seems to anchor itself further into the late Damains shoulder.
Kick the damn leg out from under the damn zombie so it loses balance! it'll either go down and become a easier target, or let go and attempt to stabilize itself with it's arms.
It's not wrapped around your leg anymore, time has been reset to the beginning of when you cut off it's leg.(That's... going to be significantly harder to disconnect. especially if it is mounted at the shoulder where the joint is.)
Oh and sorry about this spayz but when I was looking at the turn again and looking at the source material for Damians arm, full metal alchemist, I realized that poking at the arm isn't going to damage it since it's metal and mounted to his body like this.Spoiler: large image (click to show/hide)
[int 1] clearly throwing it into a meat grinder is the best way to get rid of it though you aren't sure where to find. Or how you would get it into the meat grinder.It's not wrapped around your leg anymore, time has been reset to the beginning of when you cut off it's leg.(That's... going to be significantly harder to disconnect. especially if it is mounted at the shoulder where the joint is.)
Oh and sorry about this spayz but when I was looking at the turn again and looking at the source material for Damians arm, full metal alchemist, I realized that poking at the arm isn't going to damage it since it's metal and mounted to his body like this.Spoiler: large image (click to show/hide)
Attempt to find a way to cut the metal arm away, noting how it is mounted carefully. Don't actually attack yet, though.
retreat and find something like a sledgehammer.[int 1] clearly throwing it into a meat grinder is the best way to get rid of it though you aren't sure where to find. Or how you would get it into the meat grinder.It's not wrapped around your leg anymore, time has been reset to the beginning of when you cut off it's leg.(That's... going to be significantly harder to disconnect. especially if it is mounted at the shoulder where the joint is.)
Oh and sorry about this spayz but when I was looking at the turn again and looking at the source material for Damians arm, full metal alchemist, I realized that poking at the arm isn't going to damage it since it's metal and mounted to his body like this.Spoiler: large image (click to show/hide)
Attempt to find a way to cut the metal arm away, noting how it is mounted carefully. Don't actually attack yet, though.
In the mean time the zombie seems to recover from it's stunned state.
Shoot the other arm at the jointBy other arm you mean the fleshy one right?
I thought both were metal, okay non fleshy one thenShoot the other arm at the jointBy other arm you mean the fleshy one right?
[luck 5] You run into the apartment complex and run down into the boiler room. While there isn't a sledge hammer there is a massive wrench that should do the job nicely.retreat and find something like a sledgehammer.[int 1] clearly throwing it into a meat grinder is the best way to get rid of it though you aren't sure where to find. Or how you would get it into the meat grinder.It's not wrapped around your leg anymore, time has been reset to the beginning of when you cut off it's leg.(That's... going to be significantly harder to disconnect. especially if it is mounted at the shoulder where the joint is.)
Oh and sorry about this spayz but when I was looking at the turn again and looking at the source material for Damians arm, full metal alchemist, I realized that poking at the arm isn't going to damage it since it's metal and mounted to his body like this.Spoiler: large image (click to show/hide)
Attempt to find a way to cut the metal arm away, noting how it is mounted carefully. Don't actually attack yet, though.
In the mean time the zombie seems to recover from it's stunned state.
Shoot the other arm at the joint[marksmanship 4] You fire a shot into the zombies daemon arm [resilience 2] The hole the sniper rifle makes is only partially repaired with concrete, changing the caliber of hole the bullet made from .32 to something approaching a .22. The zombie emits a growl of anger and lashes it's arm into a long and thin sword.
That's not gonna help. For one there isn't enough stuff in the light medical bag to help reatach arteries. And for two The tech for reattaching nerves and letting him continue to use that arm doesn't exist. At least right nowI never said I would sew it back on functionally, just enough to slow the bleeding and apply a tourniquet to.
You do have tornoquiets though.
Groo continues wandering until he finds something interesting, be that his target or potential allies.[luck 2] Nothing particularly interesting happens. Though Groo and Rufferto do seem to be wandering away from Steel territory. +1 to meeting his target. -1 to meeting allies.
PURIFICATION IN PROGRESS (https://youtu.be/Q6GD9uZq5kQ)[marksmanship 2] You try to swing the revolver towards the beast but can't get an angle on it. [enemy beast mastery 2+1=3] the beast further tears your back apart and wraps it's tail around your gun arm.
>Jhon: Shoot the damn thing. REPEATEDLY.
>Beast: Take left gangster's head off with a dart. Physically block the other two's advancement.
Run away, draw pistol, and fire at it. "me-m-meeeeedddIIIIICCCC!"[dex 5] You run like hell away from the daemon [marksmanship 4] While running like hell you turn and fire two shots at the daemon arm.[resilience 6] The daemon regenerates from the bullet wound's sucking up a sizable portion of cornet and further embeds itself into the shoulder of the late damian.
Medic senses tingling! GO GRAB THAT ARM AND GET IT SEWN BACK ON TO THE POOR SOD THAT JUST LOST IT![Dex 1] You trip while trying to run into the zombies melee to retrieve the arm, that Adrian lost. [zombie 3] The zombie arm converts from a long sword into a long thin arm with a steely maw on the end and bites into your left arm. You scream as you feel your Humurus fracture.
((Dang it. Also, what does the slight shapeshifting let me do?))
Calmly close my periodical, set it down, and grab the gear that I need for taming or calming the daemon. Head to a window or a roof where I can see the fight without being in range of attacks, then use the 420 frequency to calm that daemon down. If I fail and the daemon notices me, get ready to try to forcibly tame it. Block any of its attacks with my daemon arm, through daemonism.
420 HARDER![daemonism 4+4=8] [daemon 5+4=9] You attempts to exert enough bob marly vibes onto the zombie fail yet again.
continue running like hell to a hospital after unloading all i have into the zombie[markmasnhip 6] You fire your entire clip into the zombie and then throw the gun itself at it. [resilience 2] The zombies 6 bullet holes remain for now. [dex 5] [luck 3] No hospital or aid comes into sight despite you frantic sprinting and screaming…though you seem to be have sprinted into a nicer part of town. [resilience 1] You're legs go weak and you collapse against a wall as you're body goes into shock.
[beast mastery 6+3=9] Oh deary me. Seeing that you are currently screwed at by just about anyones standards you decide to do the two things that essentially all beast masters tell you to never do. One you let the beast do whatever it wants to do, without any input from you and two by doing this you let the beast's personality thats currently hiding your mind out this may or may not have some interestingly mutagenic effects depending on how you roll. [int 1]…oh dear With a snarl the beasts personality takes over and you howl in rage as you roll over and [str=6] proceed to bash the enemies beasts brains in with the butt of your revolver You feel your tendons break in your arm but you don't particularly care. [beast 6] Your beast is a blur as it fires it's head into the throat of the leader while shooting it's bone dart into the head of the the beast master. Once it retracts it's head, the beast easily evades [beast dex 5] the clumsy attempts of the mobster to hit it [ criminal dex 3] and tears his throat out. Meanwhile you have gone stark raving mad as your body begins to morph in response to the hive mind organ infiltrating you.((due to having a -1 to int and rolling a 2] Your eyes narrow to slits and you begin to shudder violently before your arms violently twist backwards and your chest balloons outwards filling with stomach acid. You then savage the corpse of one of the gangsters for more material Large spikes of bone protrude from your raw and bloody back and your knees audibly break as your body shifts into a quadrepedpedal form. With a snarl the two beast retreat away from the site of carnage as the sounds of police cars scream down towards the site of the carnage.Use superior weight and strength to force the beast to the ground, and shoot at the humans. Beast should enter melee with the beastmaster.
UNLEASH THA BEAST
Groo continues wandering! He is Groo the Wanderer, after all![luck 4] ooh flashy cars are heading that way.
Get away, get away fast! try to keep my limbs as intact as possible![dex 6] Tearing away whats left of your arm from the daemons maw, you sprint like hell away from the daemon.
Go grab the daemon metal arm and leg. Hack the arm off with my daemon arm if I need to. Offer to infuse the arm for whoever needs a replacement arm.[daemonsim 2+4=6] You sharpen your fingers to razor sharpness and plunge them into the flesh as you brutally tear your way through the corpse. the corpse ends up with a missing about a third of its chest. But you end up with the arm and leg.
Hope A nice man tries to help me[luck 5] As you wait for death, a door next to you suddenly opens and a man carrying a doctors kit walks out, apperntlly returning from a house call, he glances in your direction and notices the copious amounts of blood pouring out of you. Bye God, what happened? He cries as he tears off his belt and fastens it around your arm, you only weakly respond as he grabs a long and thing mirror handle from his bag and uses it as a torsion device to stop the hemorrhaging. [resilience 6] You manage to stay lucid enough to reply when he talks to you he notes this as a good sign, until you abruptly pass out. You wake up several hours later in a hospital bed, with a bandage around your stitched up stump IV's in your arm and a doctor saying your lucky to be alive.
[Metagaming: 5]. Head the opposite direction--they must be running away from somebody really powerful, who can help Groo!
>Boot mind in safe mode.((Eh, why not someone might as well participate in the carnage.))
>Perform system recovery.
Stop the bleeding from my arm, gather up the amputated limbs, and try to find a buyer in the medical community before they start to decay. it's either that or finding a freezer.[medical 1] You attempt to bandage your arm but in your haste to stop the bleeding you don't tie it tightly enough and they end soaking through. You tell your self not to panic though, you have plenty of supplies left.
Let's go see what jobs are available to an enterprising mercenary like me.
Does Groo have paymoney?Let's go see what jobs are available to an enterprising mercenary like me.
Groo has a job available!
/sv_cheats onYou explode covering the police in stomach acid, Your former beast also explodes covering the police in shrapnel and bone splinters.
/explode
Go see where Damiin died, look for anything interesting inside or on his corpse. Like money or daemon metal.[luck 1] Unfortunately the police investigation is in full swing by this time and they seem to be looking at your bloodstained body somewhat suspiciously.
Thank the doctor and try to tell him all that happened in the followingThe doctor calmly writes all of this down on his notepad. Well the stitches were free however we have a couple of choices for prosthetics, the doctors coughs and looks somewhat awkward. We can give you a normal mechanical hook prosthetic it is essentially a hook pulled by your muscles free of charge. Unforutnelyl the rest of our prosthetics are to complex and difficult to make to provide free of charge. the cheapest is 10 coins and that is unfortunately unimubed.
"A, uh, daemon was making people undead via some metal prostetics. I was trying to help a guy in disabling the things and removing the prostethips. One of them removed the guys arm and cut mine off, I don't know if my rifle is there, I just ran fire my hand gun into him trying to do my best to help the other guy, I was no use dead for him. I went to get help and stay alive to warn others."
Tell him the location and askif there is anyway I can repay him
Stop the bleeding, use a tourniquet to slow it enough to bandage.you partial tourniquet the blood flow, enough to get bandages around it and stop the bleeding.
Name: Jhoinic Jhonovitch[Accepted]
Description: She's a gun for hire, and has a very large gun. And another equally large gun.
Stats
Strength: +1
Intelligence: -2
Dexterity: +0
Resilience: +0
Perception: +0
Charisma: +1
Skills
Piloting: -2
Marksmanship: +2
Daemonism: +1
Doctor: +0
Beast mastery: -1
Engineering: -2
Inventory: 4 GP
Sweet-Ass Cowboy Hat
Handsome Trenchcoat (fur lined!)
Aviators Clothing
Naval Sabre (-2 GP)
Magnum (-6 GP)
Another Magnum (-6 GP)
36 Magnum Bullets (-2 GP)
Knife
Let's go see what jobs are available to an enterprising mercenary like me.
Intelligence: -2
Following this "Groo" person seems like a great idea!
You meet Groo.Does Groo have paymoney?Let's go see what jobs are available to an enterprising mercenary like me.
Groo has a job available!
Now that that's done, grab all severed limbs and dropped items, then get to the nearest hospital with them. Sell off the leg, and return the arm to it's owner if I find them.Well, the thing is medical schools prefer corpses that are not sliced and diced or are massively tainted by being possessed with a daemons or beast mastery. Luckily you remember this before you randomly walk up to the medical school carrying a corpse that has it's major internal organs spilling out into the street. You also don't manage to make it through the door with the arm, because hospitals tend to frown on you carrying random arms into the hospital. Though they do ask if you want to get the bloodstained bandages looked around your arm looked at and stitched up.
This:The doctor politely declines your offer. Saying that he is perfectly satisfied with his house calls and practice.
"Sorry, chap but I will have to refuse, I'll see what my friends can do first, if you are interested in doing more then house work and earning more pay then you can join the company I work for."
Just go back to the apartment and read my periodical.You quickly leave before any starts asking any akward questions such as why one of your arms is covered in blood and go back to your apartment, picking up you periodical you resume where you left off. Oh so thats how you your supposed to hit the resonance piece.
Groo heads out to find his target, along with his two trusty sidekicks! Should go quickly, considering he's gotten a +2 to finding the guy.[luck 3+2=5] Groo, Rufferto, and Jhoinic wander through the seedy part of Detroit they pass a number of angry looking people with fairly vicious beasts standing around until the finally come to a 5 story apartment complex at the very outskirts of the city. Jhoinic is fairly sure that their target is at the top floor. The question is, how are they going to get there?
Knock?
There's currently two groups which one are you looking for? Groos group or dustan and Damian?Dustan
Knock?
Yeah! And ask for the guy we have a picture of--show it, so they know who we're talking about!
rest , get the mans business card, before searching for the group dustanYou rest up before finding you way back to the apartment.
"I'm back, bitches"?Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Cookie for the one who can figure out what I'm trying to say.
ob nob nom:D
"Welp, time for the killing!"Munching on a cookie that sponteouslly manifested in you hand, you entertain the notion of sharing with Groo before banishing it from your ming and[str 6] smashing down the door of the apartment, firing your revolver at the man, who is in the processes of grabbing a shotgun from the table [marksmanship 5] [resilience 1] You fire a single shot directly into his head, his brain explodes out the back of his head and splatters the wall behind him with grey matter and blood.
Flying quad drop spinkick the door the fuck down and put some fucking fire down onto that apartment.
"Groo is helping!"
Help the spinny kicky girl! Kill everything else! Especially our target!
open the minibar and give booze to the doctor.Minibars don't exist yet. They weren't invented until the 1970's. Also, I thought that you were back with Damian and Dustan….not that the hospital would have a minbar in it anyway.
Rest and recover energy if I need to. If my energy is full, see about imbuing a daemon into the unimbued leg. Carefully!You'r not gonna want to imbue a limb until it's actually attached to someone.
"Damn I'm cool."
I say it's time to GTFO, and I'll shoot anyone who disagrees!
((You said I was at the apartment))You walk up to Dustan and poke him a little….he seems a little unresponsive right now.
wander up to dustan and check on him
"Sir, I ummm a could use a new arm."
"Hey, I've got an arm over here. Probably the one that cut yours off over here. If we can get somebody to attach it, I could imbue it so you'd have a functional arm. Probably better than functional if you could control it, actually."[luck 2] you don't find any pictures of beasts or dragons or anything like that, seems it's going to hinge on your imagination.
See about painting myself up like a powerful, flying beast. Like a dragon. Actually, see if somebody left a periodical or picture book around here about neat beasts to get ideas from. Don't actually paint myself yet though if I do find pictures to get ideas from.
Was that our target? If not, continue inside and kill our target (and everyone else).That was not your target.
If so, are there other people inside, with guns and such? Follow along after the girly girl if so, otherwise go grab the shotgun real quick before following her.
Groo fires a single pistol bullet through the wall, before grabbing the shotgun and going through whatever door or hallway is on the right side of the room, clearing with the shotgun. Upon seeing a person, he gives them pellets to the face.[luck 1] Groo hears a scream, much higher pitched than before, that quickly turns into a wet gurgling sound, followed by a lot of shouting, a door slams open and you hear the sound of someone running down the hall. Groo hears a another gun shot followed by a thump. catiouslly advancing Groo grabs the shotgun from the table and bursts open the door, sweeping the room with the shotgun. All there is is the bathroom with a broken window some blood spatters on the floor leading to the window and lots of holes on the opposite wall.
But I don't have his arm, because hospital wouldn't let me bring it in! It's outside on the sidewalk.Actually none of you are bleeding right now, your arm is crushed and tornlquited thoug and your leg also hurts a lot but you got it to stop bleeding as well. Might be best to go the hospital for that arm though. Or at least stich your leg up.
Also, Get some wound care from them. How long have I been bleeding?
Shoot the mans.You glance out the doorway and see a man running down a hallway, after hearing a door slam shut, [marksmanship 5] [running man resilience 1] Smiling slightly to your self you line up your revolver with the mans head and pull the trigger, watching in satisfaction as a massive hole is blown out the back of his head and his lifeless corpse drops to the ground.
Find that prosthesis that was spoken ofYou grab the currently inanimate Daemon arm off the ground and hold it up to Dustan, he seems a a little busy staring at your original and by now completely drained of blood arm. You back away a little.
((I will be Daemian DaVinci, greatest body painter ever!))[4+4=8] walking up to the apartment, you strip down and taking a brush, a mirror and lots of paint, you adorn yourself with the paint, giving yourself durable leather wings like a bat, a powerful looking tail seemingly wrapped in razor wire and with a slight coating of frost on it. Claws looking sharp enough to tear through steel, and breath that seems to be able to freeze things. The dragon you are currently painted as All in all the painting turned out pretty well. The paint is mostly blue and and white with some greys mixed in, giving you the appearance of weird looking drowning victim with scales painted on.
"I have the prosthesis with me. It won't do you any good if you can't find someone to put it on first, though. I'll keep it safe until then, incase the daemon decides to reinhabit it."
Paint myself up as a powerful, durable, flight-capable, human-sized beast with natural weapons (like fire breath). Like a Draconian, but 10 times more badass.
((Yo MJ, didn't I grab the daemon arm and leg like two or three turns ago? I'm pretty sure I did. Also, how long does the transformation from the painting last?))The transformation will last has a chance to last three turns if you roll a 9 or 10 Anthony else but a 5 will likely last 2 turns. And if you get a 5 it will last two turns but not require as much energy.
Find more mans to shoot.[Int 1] You decide that the logical way to go about this is to walk through the door the man just ran out of because clearly thats the one that that will have mans in it. Inside the door you find a mortally wounded wo-man clutching her throat as blood burbles out of her with every pours out of it. She glances up at you as you walk in her eyes wide in shock and fear as you walk in, she trys to move away but is to weak from blood loss as you walk up to her, press your pistol to her head, and pull the trigger.
Grab my old arm, slap him with it, then hand him the new one to work on[str 3] You stumble trying to grab the arm from Dustan, ignoring him you walk over Damian who is currently standing stark naked in the apartment covered in blue paint. Muttering to yourself about crazy daemonsits you grab the daemon arm from the pile of clothes in the corner of the room and walk over to Dustan handing him the arm.
Groo leans out the window, checking if there's a fire escape or some other safe way to descend. If there is, he'll use it (and take any opportunity to shoot a fleeing person). If there isn't, he'll shoot any fleeing/bleeding/pancaked person he can see below, then leave the room.Looking out the window Groo notices that there is a fire escape leading straight to the ground. he also notices a man running away from the fire escape, shouldering his newfound shotgun Groo sights up on the fleeing man [marksmanship 6] and fires a single shot directly at the mans head [resilience 1] ((…sweet jesus what is up with these dice.)) A cluster of pellets impacts the mans head, tearing a bloody hole into it and dropping him to the ground. Groo calmly descends the ladder and walks over to the man, well it's kinda hard to tell because the picture of him didn't have a hole in his face but it's definitely your man alright. Now, where would those blueprints be?
If Groo does leave this turn, he'll check the corpse of the man the girl shot, to see if they're the target. If not, he'll leave the building and check the corpse of whoever jumped.
((I had meant to make it clear that I was carrying the arm and leg. That was the whole reason I cut the arm off. I'll give it to them whenever they actually go to do the surgery, but I wanted it in my possession up to that point.))The daemon is already imbued into your painting, sorry I didn't make that clear last turn. Your're again at full energy since you arn't in combat or on a true mission right now. The way it works is that the painting determines the daemons power, and the roll in the field determines how much energy your giving the daemon so that it can animate the painting. Note the more impressive the transformation the more energy the daemon needs animate it.
Imbue a daemon into my painting.
Go slap Damian and tell him to get some clothes one with my bloodless arm. Go tell that other guy, what was his name? Ohh dustan right? Slap him till he works on me daemon arm[str 5] Using the severed arm for extra reach you slap Damain in the face he turns to face you his eyes flashing in anger. he turns pulls his dampen arm back and his eyes briefly flashing with an organge flame slams his fist into your gut. You drop to your knees vomiting.
Paint a high quality daemon knife onto a piece of paper or book cover or something like that. And if somebody tries to slap me because they can't tell the difference between two names that start with a D, punch them in the gut with my daemon arm, using daemonism.You get slapped and decide the best action is to punch the dude in the gut . [daemonsim 2+4=6] [Adrian resilience 1] Damian pulls his arm back and delivers a single powerful blow with the force of a professional boxer to Adrian Adrian drops to the ground vomiting and curls up into a ball, as Damian shakes his head at his own tiredness, and picks up his brush again.
"What was I thinking! I coulda cut her head off and saved a bullet!"…I honestly have no idea what this action means. Neverthless, you feel proud of your basic ability to count.
Three bullets down, 9 to go!
Groo loots the body of anything interesting, like another pistol, and then cuts off the man's head. He sticks it in his backpack then wanders away to find the OSS spooks, showing them the head as proof of his success.Groo finds another pistol completely empty, and spare clip. [str 3] Groo hacks at the head but can't quite sever the tough tendons in the neck, however while he's doing this Rufferto shows up and starts gnawing on the corpses intestines. Good dogie.
Oh, and he tries to find Rufferto, too. Keep the doggy safe.
Aim vomit at him. craw away from the daemonist who refuses to be of use to the medic[resilience 6] [Damian dex 3] You stand up, stare and stare at Damian for a solid five seconds, before sticking a finger down you throat and vomiting onto Damians legs and feet. He curses at you as the acid burns into his skin and he runs to the bathroom to wash it off. You then proceed to Dry heave for a solid five minutes before weakly crawling or more accurately half falling down the stairs of the apartment, and weakly pawing at the foot of the currently Braindead Dustan.
Good doggy! Rufferto gets a pat on the head, then Groo finishes decapitating the corpse. He'll also tear off any easy meat to keep for Rufferto later, if it won't slow him down. After the head's detached, and maybe some meat grabbed, Groo will head back to the OSS spooks.[Str 6] Groo expertlly finishes cutting off the head and proceeds to butcher the remains, disemboweling the corpse and leaving the entrails for Rufferto.He also slices off some choicer cuts for treats later….The police are gonna have an interesting time with the autopsy.
Looks like the Grue has wandered off, guess I should go follow it.You meet up with Groo as he finishes slicing up the corpse keeping parts of the rib bones and their meat and abs as dog treats.
Go rest to fully recover my energy, away from the idiot who slaps people instead of asking nicely.When you walk out of the bathroom you are pleased to see that Adrian is once again gone. You sit down in the least vomit covered area, the couch, and go back to thinking about how the hell you are going to explain all of this to the landlord.
"Great! Now for the paying-part!"
Get mony.
"Great! Now for the paying-part!"
Get mony.
"Great! Now for the paying-part!"You both happily return to the OSS, the talky one raises an eyebrow at the severed head Groo happily displays but shrugs and gives you both 6 coins.
Get mony.
Go get a good prostethis from that nice house doctor, offer him my pistol and what ever ammo I have for it, take both the metal arm and the old arm with meYou crawl over to the hospital again and after a lot begging and offers of fire arms you manage to get a daemon arm that has slightly subpar strength and reflexes compared to your original one. It's good enough to shoot, though it might be a problem in melee.
Guard the prosthetics I took from my late brother. Slappy McVomit can't have one now. And see about painting that daemon metal knife on a book cover now.
((Character sheets would be more work, but it would probably make it easier for us to keep track of our stuff quickly. Still, we could always just go check the first page. Do whatever you feel is best.))You clutch the book to your chest as you lie down on the couch and take very long nap. Which soon turns into you being woken up at about 2 AM with the sound of drunken revelry as Jhoinic bursts into the room singing loudly and with her face smeared with lipstick. You curse vehemently, as she stumbles into the bedroom and slams the door. You hear a crash that was probably some of the paint cans you were storing in there falling over.
Go take a nap, guarding my stuff.
((It's fine as it is.))You take a night on the town while Everyone goes about their business, You come to in the morning, You are completely covered in multi colored paint. You also vaguely feel like you might have made some interesting designs last night. Mostly because you have no idea why your knife is covered in blue blood.
Spend newfound mony on booze and wenches!
Rob dustan of his stuffYou rob the coma victim of his
Groo will use five of his six coins getting the daemon knife reforged, or if that's impossible, he'll buy and enchant a katana for the five coins. He'll use the remaining token to buy some sort of chest rig which can hold all of his weapons in easy grabbing position.Groo get the katana.((the knife would have had issues given the fact that one it's original owner is dead and thus the daemon probably isn't going to take to kindly to being reformed with out the original person who claimed it being there to do it, you could have still reforged it it just would have probably been needed to be re-enchanted, though if the repair roll had gone well it could've been fine as well.)) [daemonism 4+1=5] You take the katana out, of it's infusing area. and examine it, it's a extremely sharp blade that should give you the edge in a sword fit and let you block a couple of bullets. In other words it's the same as a store bought katana just cheaper.
Also, you didn't add the pistol he looted from the dead guy to his inventory. Assuming you also didn't add the spare magazine he got with it, Groo now has three seven round M1911 mags, and two M1911s loaded with seven rounds each. And a shotgun loaded with 4/5 rounds.
((Notable: Groo currently has our highest piloting skill, at a whopping -1. Let's hope that mission doesn't involve planes, yeah?))
Welp, I spent it all? Time to- take a nap.((Did you not want to spend all of the mini mission wealth? I had just thought from your action you had wanted to.))
Welp, I spent it all? Time to- take a nap.Yes you did indeed spend it all. You immediately fall back asleep.
Grab my stuff and go look for a job. See if anyone wants any daemons imbued or painting done, as long as they provide the supplies and a modest fee.[charisma 2] No one seems to want a picture made by a paint covered man. Phooey.
o see who needs help with any thing
Go give the doctor the medical kitYou give the doc the light medical kit as a token of gratitude for saving your life and fixing you up with a daemon limb. He looks thankful and insist you take 5 coins as payment.
See if I can get claws for 5 monies for myself and have demon hand fingers sharpened into points, if not spend 3 on sniper ammo, 2 on the pistol.Define claws, like beast claws or just like sharpend metal mounted to your daemon hand.
((sorry about double post, it's been a long week with little sleep and bad health))
"So we're hunting demons in a place experimenting with demons and people? Goody. Tell me beasts too?"
Beast clawsSee if I can get claws for 5 monies for myself and have demon hand fingers sharpened into points, if not spend 3 on sniper ammo, 2 on the pistol.Define claws, like beast claws or just like sharpend metal mounted to your daemon hand.
((sorry about double post, it's been a long week with little sleep and bad health))
"So we're hunting demons in a place experimenting with demons and people? Goody. Tell me beasts too?"
Beast claws would cost more than five coins.(since they come with a strengthening augment for your bone, tendon, ligament, and muscle so that you can really do some damage with your new biomettalic claws.) you could have someone sharpen your daemon hands finger to be more like knives though.Oh, I was just going of the 5 token beaat mod, okay, well then guess I can go ammoe and has beast hand sharpened into knives
*Snore*You snore loudlly. Some one bangs on the wall of your apartment and yells for you to keep it down.
Yeah, she's not waking up for awhile.
"Yes! Isn't Rufferto cuuute?!"The spook stares at the large black dog Groo just lifted easily into the air, as it pants and looks happy despite the blood coating it's muzzle.
Groo picks up the dog and holds it out towards the talky spook while saying this.
See if I can get claws for 5 monies for myself and have demon hand fingers sharpened into points, if not spend 3 on sniper ammo, 2 on the pistol.
((sorry about double post, it's been a long week with little sleep and bad health))
"So we're hunting demons in a place experimenting with demons and people? Goody. Tell me beasts too?"
"Can we keep what we find? Like neat daemon objects? I could always use more."
Make sure I have all my gear, think about all the neat daemon stuff I might find while I wait for the mission to start. Oh, and grab what I need for the 420 frequency. This place must be full of daemons who need to learn how to not worry, be happy.
I forgot to ask, do you want to sharpen you fingers your self or have some else do it? The difference is about 2 coins. 1 coin is the base for buying the right tools for sharpening ones daemon metal fingers. 3 coins is to have some one do it perfectly and making them quite sharp.3 for perfect sharpening, 1 coin for ammo into both sniper and pistol.
Groo ready!Is Groo brining Rufferto?
Hey, you've been pretty reliable for awhile. Everyone needs breaks now and then, plus it's nigh impossible to update every day so consistently for a long time. Even PW missed some updates. And most Heph updates. >:(
Take as long as you need, we can wait.Your too kind so have an update. One where I'm not writing it at 11 PM and barely conscious. Hurrah.
Completely miss briefing, keep sleeping on the way there.You slumber through the increasingly loud yelling of the speaking spook to wake. Barelly stirring when in desperation he starts firing his pistols into the ceiling. Eventually the spook gives up and motions for Groo to carry you into the plane. You awaken suddenly as a gruff man unceremoniously shoves you out of plane with Groo coming right after you. You watch as Groo suddenly appears along side you his eyes squeezed shut as he focuses on the herculean task of counting to three. ONE…….TWO……he pauses momentarily as he seems to summon some deep reserve of strength. THREE! he happily exclaims as he pulls the rip cord and is seemingly yanked up wards. You yourself pull your rip cord as well, wincing as the parachutes straps pull against your bruised ribs.
Groo ready!
Mcfuckyou ready.I'm just gonna assume Damian is ready.
"Ok, awake now."With a cry you slam into the door [str 1] you do nothing but end up further bruising you side. Somewhat sheepishly you try the handle, it easily swings open, revaling a darkened room, that you guessing is some form of lobby, from the vague shapes you can see. You don't actually enter the room for now.
Kick the goddamn door down and shoot the things!
Move about the area in a circle searching for signs of violence before taking up place beside the door.You don't see any signs of violence on the platform your on. Shrugging your shoulders you take up position next to the door were Jhonic is standing.
Groo feeds Rufferto some treats to comfort him, then draws his blade and a pistol, following his allies. He'll shoot/stab whatever enemies appear, as appropriate.Groo tosses a bit of viscera to Rufferto which he happily wolfs down. He seems to have calmed down again. Groo also stands right behind Jhonic, peering into the gloom.
Check for signs of daemonic activity cautiously, preferably with the assistance of my daemonism. Let the others take care of any physical confrontations so I can save my energy, but defend myself and fight back with daemon limbs or that book knife as a last resort if threatened.You decide to send out a small ping to determine if there are any daemons in the area [daemonism 4+4=8] This small ping turns into a massive sonic boom, your equipment flickers with needles in the danger zone as your mind is subjected to the reverberations and answers of many daemons all at once throughout the base. A few are off the charts in size compared to your response. Must be whatever the researchers were working on. [resilience 6] You screw your eyes shut and focus on the compartmentalizing the noises and regaining some control overself. It seems to work pretty well, though you notice you seem to be crying blood right now.
Onward! Wield pistol and sword indoors.
You and Groo walk into the room and try flick the light switch, the lights flicker for a second but eventually turn, illuminating a worrying scene. At one end there are chairs and a single table pilled into a makeshift barricade, on the other side of the door right next to the lights switch there is a man missing half of his head with a pistol in his hand. The man is dressed in a bloodstained US air force officers uniform.Onward! Wield pistol and sword indoors.
bash and rend at the door[str 3]You beat at the wide open solid metal door with your gun and do absolutely no damage to it.
"Keep your eyes open. This place is lousy with daemons, including some really powerful ones."You wipe the blood from your eyes onto your jacket sleeve and follow after Groo and Jonhinc. You take it slow trying to recover from that massive back blast. Your feeling pretty damn tired.
Wipe the blood away. Follow behind the others, try to recover my energy.
Walk in, take his pistol, search his pockets for ids, documents, letters, pictures of loved ones, and keys :-\You begin to strip the body, you find that he has multiple what look like stab wounds in his lower torso. He has a card identifying him as chief inspector. You also find his wallet in his left pants pocket in it is a picture of what you assume of him and his wife. He seems to have an daemon eye in the picture. His pistol is empty though. Looks like he was one of those save a bullet for your self types.
Shoot the zombie. (?)You walk up and shoot the corpse in the chest. It puts a decent hole in him but doesn't do much else. He looks pretty dead.
After teammate actions have resolved, dismember the corpse. If Rufferto doesn't think it smells too bad or anything, harvest some Ruff treats.Taking your extremely bloody knife you [str 3] Manage to get his left arm most of the way off. Rufferto seems to be shying away from the corpses meat, though.
Keep recovering energy. Stay behind the others.You chill, your feeling better but still winded.
Silly GM, Groo has a sword! He doesn't need to use the daemon in it to chop off the limbs.((heh, whoops))
Move forward and shoot the stuff.
"I've a feeling having demon infused stuff here is going to be an issue."You loot his empty pistol and his holster.
Take his pistol stuff and move on to the barricade, bash it down.
"I'd recommend not touching anything made of daemon metal. If it's imbued, the daemons might try to leech your energy. And I sensed some rather large, powerful daemons in here. If one of the rooms starts talking, don't aggravate it."You continue to rest up, your feeling better but not great.
Keep resting and following the others.
[Int: 5 (!)][marksmanship 4] You fire a glancing shot into the daemon arm. It does little but mar the surface of the arm.
"H- Heyyyy. That seems suspisis. Suspicious."
Blow the hell out of that demon arm!
"Groo mad now! GROO KILL CORPSE!"[str 6] With a roar of animalistic rage Groo slams the katana into the corpse severing the left leg in one mighty blow. Howling as his ire is further inflamed by the lack of severed limbs he hacks the right leg off with two more savage hacks. Frustrated beyond description at this last unsecured arm Groo throws his katana away and drawing his knife strips the ligaments away from the joint before finally tearing off the mostly severed arm with his bare hands. His fury still not satiated he drops his knife and with his teeth and hands disembowels the limbless corpse still howling like a wolf, before stomping the chest in.
FUCK THIS BODY AND ITS STILL ATTACHED LIMBS! ALL OF THEM, OFF!
poke the demon arm and if it does nothing take it, find a back pack to store all my lootYou poke at the daemon limb with your fleshy hand. The severed arm feels like it's buzzing when you touch it, as though it has some subtle vibration.
Move on, do not touch the demon arm with my demon armyou open the door at the end of the hall, inside of it is a heavy duty door with a number of hard hats and gas masks along with the words danger do not enter with out protective equipment.
Groo stands there for several more seconds, growling at the ruined corpse. Then he sees Rufferto cowering, and his expression turns upside down--almost literally--with joy. "Rufferto! Bad corpse dead now!"Groo lumbers over to Rufferto who is clearly happy that the corpse is no longer recognizable as human happily accepts the cuddling from Groo as he wanders down the hall after Adrian.
Groo then recollects his katana and Rufferto, then procedes to give the latter some intensive cuddling. I suppose he wanders into the hallway while doing so.
"Fucking not going to ambush me later."You settle down for an interesting bit of target shooting. It takes in total 6 six shots from the your pistol but you manage to get to render the arm completely useless as an arm. Mostly because you just put 6 six shots into it's joint.
Shoot the limb point blank until it can no longer function as an arm. Without touching it with the gun.
Armor get! Is there any protective gear for Rufferto? Wrastle him into it if so!
Don protective equipment, follow the others. Keep an eye out for non-infested loot. Blast any hostile daemons with the 420 frequency.
Put the protective gear on.
Get ye gas mask. Advance.You strap on the gas mask and put the hard hat on. At the bottom of the of shelf you notice a wool covering for your feet and a larger one for your helmet, shrugging you slip it over. pulling the door open you wander into a smallish metal foundry, the furnaces still burned out and the metal formed into useless slag.
"Boring! Boring. Why won't the bad things just come out so I can shoot them?!"[3+1=4]
Bang metal sword on a wall to make it vibrate at a nice frequency, and try to draw some demons out of hiding.
Grab some slag and inspect it, try to figure out what metal it was and ready my rifle.You wander over to the slag and inspect it [int 6] Well, clearly this metal is composed entirely of metal of some kind, probably the kind that's used to make daemon metal. How the hell theres so much of it is clearly because the lizard people have been holding out on the rest of the world.
Groo makes a loud, almost high pitched noise, and picks up Rufferto for some more cuddling. He's so adorable in the ill-fitting gas-mask!Groo embraces Rufferto in a hug. Snuggling him tightly he scans the foundry….Yup everything seems pretty much in order the vats have stopped moving theres a dead guy walking towards Groo…wait. [marksmanship 3] Groo's shot impacts the zombies head destroying the brain but little else.
If hostiles are sighted, he'll drop the dog (dogs always land on their feet, right?) and headshot it with his pistol. If the hostiles fail to go down, use the daemon katana.
Chillax hostile daemons with the 420 frequency from behind the others.[daemonism 4+4=8] [daemon 4+2=6] Your powerful Bob marly vibes slam into the daemon calming it into a placid state, as Groo shoots it in the head.
((@spazyak:You mean Arstotzka?))((oh thanks))
"Hells yeah! Now this is more my style!"[marksmanship 2] You fan the hammer delivering a rapid but extremely inaccurate stream of fire from your revolver. You put a single hole in the zombies torso, Cursing you reholster it as the zombie continues to stand stock still. You pull your other revolver up [marksmanship 2] and manage to put one more hole in the zombies torso making an even match. Grumbling under your breath about damn spaghetti westerns, you draw your sword and charge.
FAN THE HAMMER THAN DRAW AND FAN THE HAMMER ON THE OTHER ONE THEN DRAW AND CUT IT IN HALF
GRAB THE SLAG SO I MAY RELEASE IT TO THE PUBLIC AND DEFEAT THE EVIL LIZARD PEOPLE! GLORY TO ARSTOTZKA! THE COUNTRY OF FREE HUMANS!I think I've done a poor job of setting the scene. You are currently examining a large metal vat, in which there is a large amount of what is probably daemon metal which you are currently standing next to, though there is a number of pig iron like bars of probably daemon metal on the floor.
"Try to sever any daemon metal pieces of the zombies. Without contact to the body, it should be unable to keep animating it."Eh, it's only one fairly weak zombie. It's not draining that much energy you just need to keep rolling to keep it calm. [daemonism 5+4=9 daemon 2+2=4] good job, it's still calm.
Recover energy if I need to, stay behind the others. Or keep up the frequency if more daemons show up and it won't completely drain my energy on an overzealous attempt (don't do it if an overshoot would drain all my energy.)
Sword the zombie! Delimb it!Groo charges forward at the stock still zombie drawing his sword as he lets out a battle yell. [daemonism 3+1=4] groo's slice neatly opens the zombies left arm up, but does little else. The zombie also doesn't particularly care.
Grab some pig iron if I can then with normal human arm, find something to stache them in[Str 2] The bar's are a lot heavier than the look, and being able to use only one hand doesn't help.
Grahh! Disarm it entirely!
"Rules of Nature!"[str 5] You slice your naval saber into the zombies stomach, opening it's guts up.
Yes, yes! Split it wide open!
Keep calming the zombie. Or if it's dead, use my knowledge of daemonism to evaluate that metal. If it is unissued daemon metal, take some.[daemonsim 6+4=10] [daemon 4+2=6] You continue to keep the daemon in a fairly placid state.
Help the others rend the demon to bit, use knife and demon hand[str 1] you sprint forward waving you knife around and end up completely missing ever swipe and you nearly end up stabbing Jhonic.
Groo stops hacking at the zombie, just staring at it instead. He pokes its forehead, blinks a couple of times, then shrugs and walks past the thing.Becoming bored with the zombies lack of response, Groo looks around the small foundry, Theres a number of pig iron bars assembled like this
Ignore the zombie, go exploring the area behind it for loot! And bunnies!
"And they run when the sun comes up!"[str 6] Hacking into the stationary corpse again, you cut deeper into the stomach, it takes a couple of solid slices but you manage to completely bisect the zombie and watch as it stumbles to the ground.
WITH THEIR LIIIVES ON THE LINE! ALIVE!
Keep calming the zombie.
"Woo! That was fun."You dump out the empty shells and reload, your revolvers, this ammo heavy style is metaphorically bleeding you dry, though it seems to be keeping things from literally. Drawing you naval saber you disjoint legs from the hip bone, and sling them across your back. You hear a faint buzzing behind your back, it's vaguely annoying.
Reload x2. Hack the metal bits off the corpse and loot them before spaz does, tha magpie.
Grab pig iron bars, call dibs on next zombie on punishment of death[str 5] This time you properly set your feet and show good posture as you pickup one of the bars tie a strap around it and sling it over your back, theres a vague buzzing behind your head, as though a bee is just behind your head.
Go check out those metal bars, using my knowledge of daemonism to see if they are daemon metal, and take some if they're not possesed.[daemonism (knowledge) 1+4=5] You look over your equipment and examine each bar of metal in the line, imeedetelly your equipment starts acting up, warning lights start randomly flashing up as a number of dials begin to fluctuate randomly, yeah, that's not supposed to happen even with normal daemon weirdness.
"Rufferto! Where is the bunnies?! Find bunnies, boy!"Rufferto does not fucking like that body, he's growling though through the distorted nature of the gas mask it's pretty adorable, and the hair on his back is raised. Perhaps the bunnies are in the body? Ah, the bunnies must be hiding within the body so that they could be safe.
Examine Rufferto. Tell him to find bunnies, then faithfully follow him to them!
"SHUT IT!"Yeahhhh, thats essentially not gonna work. I mean you can try it but it would kinda be like trying to preform brain surgery with nothing but a hammer.
Hit the metal legs against the ground to counter their vibration.
Well, clearly that corpse needs to be thoroughly dismembered, and then hacked apart so that Groo can search its insides! Those clever little bunnies, you never know where they'll hide![str 3] Drawing your katana you hack the left arm off the corpse.
Raise sniper and move forwardsYou draw you sniper rifle, the daemon still making a buzzing in your ear and look around [perception 5] You see a door on the far end that looks unlocked, a door on the other side that looks locked, probably the supervisors office judging by the fact it says supervisor at the top and then a long tunnel with mine carts at the end.
Well, clearly that corpse needs to be thoroughly dismembered, and then hacked apart so that Groo can search its insides! Those clever little bunnies, you never know where they'll hide!
"Dibs on whatever's in there!"[dex 3] You catch up to Adrian, right after his failed attempt to head but the door. Laughig historically you calmly walk over to the door and attempt to kick it down [str 2] The door remains resolutely unopened.
Destroy the door to the supervisor's office, then destroy the contents of the supervisor's office until it is rendered inanimate.
Nope! I will fucking shoot you. Mine. It's mines, it's mine preeeeccioouusss loots[dex 6] You out pace Jhonic and are the first to earn the privilege of slamming face first into the door. [resilience 3] you rebound off the door with an almighty crash. Your a little stunned but otherwise arn't hurt.
Race after Egan, if he gets to the door first, slam the butt of the rifle into the back of his legs, duck inside, and close the door.
"Stop messing with the hazardous metals, you stupid, shiny-obsessed fucks!"[daemonsim 3+4=7] You cautiously take a clamp and hook it up to one piece of the vibrating metal, then you take another clamp and hook it up to the other piece of vibrating metal. Seeing that you still can't make heads or tails of it you shrug and taking a pointed metal out of it's cradle and stab it into your arm. Immedetlly you get a bunch of disjointed images along with sudden flashes of pure rage and terror, rotting bodies being stuffed into body bags, creatures stumbling around as blood pouring from their eyes and nose as they howl and scream. Other creatures lie slumped over seemingly dead dried blood around their mouth and running from their ears. You feel something even worse coming your way, and quickly pull the wire from you, shaking your head as the blood runs down your arm mixing with your body paint. What the fuck was that.
Stick with Groo. Try to carefully get a better idea of what exactly is wrong with the metal here through daemonism. Could it be a single large daemon imbued through the single pieces? Or a more intelligent smaller daemon in each?
Groo meanwhile continues to hack at the body, blissfully unaware of the resident daemonsints screams. [str 6] Whistiling merrily Groo Slice and Dices the corpse carving the chest into a number of chunks and systematically cutting off the remaing limbs. while he's opening up the chest he hits something hard in the mans shirt pocket, pulling it out he finds a shredded ID card and a key.Well, clearly that corpse needs to be thoroughly dismembered, and then hacked apart so that Groo can search its insides! Those clever little bunnies, you never know where they'll hide!
"Bloody hell. Magpie getting a bit carried away, yeah? Hahaha!"[luck 1] The bullet rchotetes off the lock, [luck 3] grazing you with metal fragments. You try the lock again, it's completely frozen. Fuck.
Shoot the lock out with one bullet.
Assist in shooting the lock, then tear open the door, literaly if possible, and enter[str 3] Your frenetic shoulder bashes have little effect on the door.
"MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE Mine mine mine mine mine mine " BREATh "Mine MINE MINE mine Mine"
"Groo find shiny! Good boy, Rufferto!"You grab the key and shredded ID and stick into your pocket, you then toss a treat to Rufferto, which bounces of his nose because he's still wearing the gas mask. Shrugging your shoulders you come up just as Jhonic tries to shoot the lock off a door and ends up freezing it instead.
Collect the key and shredded ID, then give Rufferto a treat, for being such a good doggy. After, go wander after the Amazon and Magpie.
Analyze the frequency that the metals are vibrating at. Then tag along with Groo.[5+4=9] You still have no idea what the frequency is so it's back to the old stab things into yourself and see what happens, though this time your feeling a lot more risky and go for poking it into your face. [resilience 6] Your mind begins to melt and warp on itself as you are again assaulted with sheer horror, this time the feeling is different the daemons memories horrifying though they are seem weaker, another beings memories come to the forefront, this has fewer images instead, Instead you see a distorted inhuman face made of steel scream D͢͜I̵҉̧̛͘E̵̢͜͏!̷͟͠͞ ̷̕Y̸͘Ó̧͝͞U͏́͘҉ ̴͠Ţ̷͏R̨҉̷̢̀À̶͘͞Ì̴̧͝͡T̴̡͜͟͝O͘͢҉̸R̴͘̕͡O̶̡̢͞U̷͘͘Ś̴̷͜͢ ̸̛W̷̶̛͜Ò̕͡͞R̢̀͘͡M̶̀̀ and then suddenly you are in agony. You scream as your body feels as though hundreds of nails are driven through it. Through the pain you think you can just make out a number hovering in your line of vision. Screaming in agony you take a staggering step forward, with each step the nails are driven deeper into your psyche, but you press on until you can finally make out the swirling ever shifting numbers 5̶̡̡͡͞4͟͜͏҉5̵̡̀͜͞.͏̸̡͡3̵́͜͡6̷͘7̴̶̛8̴̡̕͜ 545.3678
"Fuck it all."
Sit on top of Damamainaionm and guard him.
"Fuck it all."You crouch over the daemonisnt. You swivel your two guns around making a beep noise every time you reach the end of your swivel.
Sit on top of Damamainaionm and guard him.
I'mma just rest here on the floor now.You cough up some more blood and try to make yourself comfy in the sandy floor. Another wave of pain comes over you [resilience 2] You shudder uncontrollably your daemon limbs put deep gouges in the sand, before vomiting up a mixture of blood and bile. Something tells you this might become unpleasant if you don't do something soon.
Point sniper right against lock, fire
Groo, follows Jhonic like a metaphorical lost puppy while Rufferto follows Groo like a literal lost puppy. Clucking like a massive blood-soaked mother hen, Groo examines Damian without touching him, he seems to be bleeding from his eyes and nose and vomiting up blood."Fuck it all."
Sit on top of Damamainaionm and guard him.
Follow this girl like a lost puppy. Upon seeing Daenyan's wounds, fuss over him worriedly (but no touching).
Jhonic pokes Demnonom in the ribs.[int 5] Clearlly he's been infected with something, you don't how he got infected but it seems to probably be lethal eventually and somehow related to daemonism. Hmm, if it's related to daemonism, would that mean that a frequency would work?
"I've got no clue what's wrong with you. Sucks?"
Try to figure out some way to help Deamamoninm, but don't do it yet.
Walk forwards, sniper at ready , shoot the things if they prove hostileYou take a step forward [dex 4] A long tendril of metal shoots out from the darkness and clips you, though the force sends you spinning to the side of the doorway. [luck 4] You fire blindly into the darkness the flash illuminating a bloodstained figure sitting in the chair, his daemon arm shifting spasmodically.
"Shiny guy, nooo!"Groo backs up clutching a worried Rufferto for comfort, as Damian conctrates moves a lot of dials on his equipment and stabs a metal rod into his arm.Hold Rufferto in front of Demniant's face to comfort him.
Back away like Darnian said to do, while hugging Rufferto for comfort. If he gets back up, chop off his daemon limbs with the daemon katana.
"I have a *cough* favor to ask of you all. Stand back a bit while *hack* I try something. And if I don't survive it, please take *cough* care of any of my brothers that show up. Their names should be some variation of *hack* Damian. Our parents weren't very original. If I do die, and my body gets back *cough* up, cut off the daemon limbs. Should stop any possession. And, uh, thanks for giving a shit."[daemonism 6+4=10] You take a deep breath, which is somewhat spoiled by the bloody coughing fit that this causes, and taking a notepad begin to write down some complicated equations using the best writing material at hand, occasionally coughing to replenish your supply, you quickly work out a way to do it, at least you think you do, it's kinda hard to tell what with the bouts of ever increasing pain that slams into you. Hurridelly you twist the knobs into the right positions and with shaking fingers stab a metal rod into your arm before taking out a a blunt from your special stash. Lighting it, you inhale and let the frequency out.
Modify the 5453678 frequency with my 420 frequency and use it on myself.
((Must every mission end with us crashing? We stopped flying planes so this wouldn't happen, but nooo, the entire island needs to crash. >.>))[str 1] Man, Damian and his gear is a lot heavier than he looks, Groo makes a staggery half step towards the door before dropping Damian to legs onto the floor again.
Start dragging Darnations out, hopefully with the amazon's assistance. Were fultons or something dropped with us, or are we just fucked?
Back through to the otherside of the door and fire two more shots then go rush for parachute[marksmanship 2] you fire a single shot into the head of the zombie, though nothing appears to happen. The zombie appears to be pretty damn chill right now. Your not sure how long thats gonna last. [dex 5] You run from the doorway and back towards the door labeled emergency at the end of the hallway opening it you see several rows of parachutes.
"WE GOT A DAEMON HERE!"
"Fuuuuuck."You walk outside and see a box labelled emergency fulton strapped to the side. It seems to have parachute straps for it.
Welp. Get outside and find some fulton devices.
"Well, this is a welcome change from the complete darkness that usually happens when I over do it. A nice place to wait out the time until I inevitably die due to circumstances that I have no control over but probably set into motion. Story of my life." Damian says to nobody in particular as he walks over to one of the empty chairs.
Have a seat. Pour two drinks. Relax. See if anyone else shows up. Offer them a drink.
whoops sorry about missing the turn yesterday, got home at like 1:30AM. Didn't really feel up to writing a half decent turn then.Yeah, I think I explained this poorly.For fultons to work you need to radio somebody an SOS. You also have hot air balloons if your feeling desperate.((Must every mission end with us crashing? We stopped flying planes so this wouldn't happen, but nooo, the entire island needs to crash. >.>))[str 1] Man, Damian and his gear is a lot heavier than he looks, Groo makes a staggery half step towards the door before dropping Damian to legs onto the floor again.
Start dragging Darnations out, hopefully with the amazon's assistance. Were fultons or something dropped with us, or are we just fucked?
((Fultons and parachutes are on the base, they are essentially emergency equipment on non entirely floating rock bases kinda like life boats.))
Grab a parachute and go outside putting it on.[dex 5] you grab a parachute and walk outside as you clip it on.
((Since MJ isn't counting down for us: we have four more turns to get parachutes or brace.))[str 4] Groo mutters under his breath as he manages to drag Damian to the front office.
Keep dragging the guy with the expensive and shiny limbs outside!
Follow the instructions on the fulton device.You look over the instructions on the device, it has a picture of a person talking into a radio with and under it says, send out an SOS to contact planes for pickup.
((Heh, I saw that edit, MJ.))[charisma 4] Before launching into your speech, you decide to take a quick hit from your special stash to calm your nerves, this makes your speech a little slurred and you aren't quite sure he got everything. The
"I'm not too certain, but judging from the information and memories I acquired earlier, it seems to be a sound-based disease generated by an at least partially sentient weapon. It seemed to kill many daemons. I don't know how it works, exactly, but I would hypothesize it's bonding to the metal in me, specifically in my blood, to resonate throughout my body. Its intent seems to be to kill daemons, but judging from the behavior of the beings we encountered, I'd guess it killed the host with daemonic augments and drove the daemons insane as they possessed the husk. The frequency I used on us should have slowed down the disease, but I'd need time to develop an actual cure if I can't find someone else with the relevant knowledge."
"And if I may, sir, let me apologize. They always taught us that daemons were mindless creatures, like animals, aside from the very large ones that showed sentience. The memories have proven this wrong. I am truly sorry for binding you and taking you away from your life. If we survive whatever catastrophe is sure to occur with my luck, I'll spread this knowledge to others so that hopefully such infringements on the freedom of a sentient species may stop, and I'll try to help you in any way I can, to make your stay here more comfortable if I cannot find a way to safely send you back. Perhaps there might even be a way for our species to work together, to the benefit of both, if your species ever forgives us. But if I do die at some point in the near future, I want you to know that I am sincerely sorry."
"How rude of me to forget introductions, though. My name is Daemian McWehrnecigul."
Talky stuff, hopefully without CHA roll. Offer a handshake after the introduction if the daemon accepts.
((That's certainly an interesting use of bbcode tags.))((oh hell, I did that last night while extremely tired, must've his img instead of bold.
Well fucking radio a plane, then. Exactly how we were supposed to get out of here originally.[dex 1] You take off spiriting towards radio room, except you end up in the kitchen, your not entirely sure how you did that.
((Three turns.))Groo grabs the three parachutes clipping one onto himself, the second onto Rufferto and the third onto the softly muttering form of damian. [str 4] Groo drags Damian the rest of the way outside.
Take one of the parachutes and clip it on. The do the same for Rufferto. And then for Daeninny. And then drag Daemingy outside.
http://Wait for orders, maybe go see if any lootables, precious lootables, are nearby[/bb]You stand around outside, your not seeing much in the way of valuables, theres a hot ir balloon in a crate, a fulton system, and a Groo and company, but your pretty sure that you can't steal them.
"The weapon infected us. Or mostly me, I guess. It'll be easier if I show you. This is where it happened, and the aftermath."You give a brief description of what you experienced, detailing the memories you ripped from the daemon infused brick, as well as as the emotions you felt once you processed the information, though you arn't quite sure if he believed the remorse part. The daemon, stares at you for a long moment, the cracks on his face becoming deeper and deeper, before he speaks in a low and slow voice.Leave my company, I need a moment to gather my wits.
Show the daemon the memory from the weapon and the aftermath of the infection to the point where I lost consciousness. Include the processing of the memories acquired from the weapon and daemons, and the emotions that came with processing that information. Like the remorse. Don't try to make the daemon actually feel any of the emotions in those memories, though. Just show the information, don't try to force any decision on him.
steal groo
Uhhh... grab a parachute, get outside.[dex 4] completely befuddled You jog back to the parachutist pad.
Does jumping off the edge of the island next turn have any penalty compared to jumping this turn? Like, if there's a lot of intervening ground that needs to be crossed?Well if your leaving via hot air balloon next turn then it will take longer to get out of beast range
If so, does Rufferto's parachute have an altimeter-device thingamajigger to make it auto open, like last time? I'm guess not, 'cause Groo, but might as well ask. If not, Groo will clip Rufferto onto himself and then jump. If so--or if Groo thinks so--Groo will toss the doggy off the island and then jump after him. Oh, and throw Derminated off with Rufferto if these are the auto-opening sort.
If there's no penalty to jumping next turn, open the hot air balloon crate. With the katana, if necessary.
"Take all the time you need. If there'should anything you need, or memories you want to see, just let me know."You respectfully retreat from the sitting room, and go out the door nearest to, you, emerging into a breakfast room in charming blue and white.
Give the daemon some space.
steal groo
[dex 3] [Groo marksmanship 5] [Adrian resilience 4] You charge Groo screaming, I'M JUST GOING TO STEAL YOU AWAY! Groo showing the instincts of a big game hunter, snatches his shotgun from the rig on his chest and quickly takes aim, he fires, the buckshot slamming into Adrians stomach, putting 8 holes into him, and knocking him down He screams quite loudly.steal groo
If this means anything like "harm Groo": Shotgun Magpie.
Does Rufferto's parachute have an altimeter-device thingamajigger to make it auto open, like last time? I'm guess not, 'cause Groo, but might as well ask. If not, Groo will clip Rufferto onto himself and then jump. If so--or if Groo thinks so--Groo will toss the doggy off the island and then jump after him. Oh, and throw Derminated off with Rufferto if these are the auto-opening sort.
((One turn.))
Nope, that's fine. I just wanted to know in case I was missing something like "The edge is a hundred meters from where you are, so you'll have to pass a dex roll to get there/drag Daemniart there"--I've been assuming the edge of the island is close enough to jump off without a roll of some sort. Since that assumption is apparently correct:Does Rufferto's parachute have an altimeter-device thingamajigger to make it auto open, like last time? I'm guess not, 'cause Groo, but might as well ask. If not, Groo will clip Rufferto onto himself and then jump. If so--or if Groo thinks so--Groo will toss the doggy off the island and then jump after him. Oh, and throw Derminated off with Rufferto if these are the auto-opening sort.
Craw away, try not to die and patch self up. Weap that I failed to steal Groo's heart...and that I am shot[Medical 4] You tear apart your inner shirt and shove it into the hole, you seem to mostly stop the bleeding though a fair amount of blood is still leaking out. You weep once you finish this. You watch the ground get ever closer to you, the daemons rumbling rendition of Bob Marellys greatest hits continuing to blare at you. [resilience 1] The force of the island crashing slams you into the metal wall, head first….yeah, even Groo might have had some trouble shaking that one off.
Do I have a parachute? I don't think I do, so I'll grab demdommdom and jump off the edge with him, using his parachute to slow both our falls. I'll just be sure to maintain a death grip on him while I pull the cord.you drag the limp body of Damian off and shove him off the platform as you jump off you self, You hold onto his unconscious body and pull the cord praying your strength hold out. [str 1] The force of the parachute opening tears it out of your hand and you watch in horror as Damian is jerked out of your grip. You look down, well at least you last sight is a beautiful view of an untamed forest.
That's how that works, right?
Groo pats Rufferto on the head, and removes the doggy gas mask so he can feed it a treat. "Good Rufferto! Next time, you can do it yourself! Groo not taught, so had to jump lots before Groo figured it out."Groo remove Ruffertos mask and, and sticks it into the nebulous subspace called the inventory, he turns and walks away at a brisk walk from the falling island, he stares at it as the island slams into the ground. the ground shakes with the movement.
Remove Rufferto's mask, add it to inventory. Then walk away from the falling island. Watch it land; would it be possible to get back up there and recover Spazy's body?
((Thanks, Egan.))You look around the breakfast room, it's decorated in white lines over the table blue wallpaper and an oven to the at the corner of the room, the room has a medium sized metal chandelier at the top of it, the candles blazing away with a blue flame….wait. This realization by the daemon striding out, his human face cracking in a dozen places light pouring through in between the cracks. The daemon hurls a glove at you, before speaking his voice crackling with energy and emotion. I challenge you to duel for honor. As the challenged party you shall have the privilege of choosing the weapons.
Just keep waiting on the daemon. Look around the breakfast room.
Assume dead until further noticeYour pretty dead.
((Those are some horrible rolls. I feel bad for Egan. Not so much Spazy because you kinda brought that on yourself, but still.))Groo watchs as a screaming figure slams into the groundnjust in front of him blood and organs squiting out from the [luck 5]. Shrugging he grabs whats left of the body, slotting the revolvers into holsters on his rig, and garabbing the saber and its scarbard he attaches it to his belt.
Watch the girl with the guns fall from the sky, and loot her entire invdntory for great justice. Then start looking for a way to climb back up the island.
((Would you feel better if we found a snail to pour you on?))this duel shall be fought till submisom . the daemon says with a slighr smirk.
"Maces. Like knights did. I guess we go until the other yields or can no longer fight?"
Maces. It's time to d-d-d-d-dddd-duel! Follow proper procedure, but try to make it quick and knock his weapon away once the duel starts.
"Aww, Groo like angry gun girl." says the beastman as he begins looting her corpse, his progress slightly slowed by the frightened canine still strapped to his chest. "Now it just you and Groo, Rufferto. Oh, and Tovarish!" he mutters while stripping the choicest bits of meat away, to give to Rufferto later.Grabbing his knife Groo slices off parts of the thighs and sides from the ribs, before pocketing them and wandering towards the crashed isle. It's a sad sight, the metal struts have crumpled into the rock, with has partly embedded itself in the ground, giving the entire island a lopsided feel.
Then he stops. He slowly looks around. "Tovarish? Where are you? TOVARIIIIISH!". With dawning horror, Groo realizes he forgot about Tovarish, and as he looks up towards the top of the island, he remembers exactly where.
Don't forget to grab the choicest cuts from the corpse!
But yeah, start climbing back up the crashed island. Need to rescue Tovarish ASAP. This is more important than the meat.
"Very well. Let's begin, then."The daemon watches his eyes narrowing into slits as he waits, his face distorts briefly as he hefts the mace. You nervously heft your own mace. You glance at the stopwatch 3 seconds left. 2 seconds, 1 second. The stopwatch rings loudly [dex 5] [daemon dex 1] The daemon charges at you somewhat clumsily as you quickly close the gap, you swing your mace at its hand [daemonism 3] [Daemon dex 5] The daemon quick as a snake dodges out of the way of your blow, and counterstrikes with a swing at your leg [daemon str 1] [dex 4] The daemon is clearly not used to using such a hefty weapon in a duel and merely swipes the air as you dodge out of the way.
Wait for the duel to actually start, then try to disarm the daemon or aim for the daemon's midsection to try and knock him out of the ring. Hopefully I'm competent at this with my +4 Daemonism, and not in a way that's going to piss the daemon off.
Who said Groo would leave Rufferto on the ground? I never said to unhook him, did I?oh yeah, whoops, never mind then, Rufferto is instead strapped to your chest. [dex 4] Groo continues to clamber up the unsteady mountain, he doesn't dislodge anything time, and but only manages to make it a little farther up the mountain, up above him he can see the original platform he jumped off of. To the right and up above him, he can see a mass of twisted metal that seems to have opened up when the base crashed.
Regardless, Groo continues climbing up. If need be, he'll be ready to solve dangerous things via daemon katana. Chopping falling rocks apart with an evil artifact while climbing with a dog strapped to one's chest is a great idea! A Groo idea!
Smite Groo for desecrating my corpse![divine power 5] he receives a painful static shock on the next piece of jagged metal he touches. He yelps in pain.
Continue trying to disarm the daemon or maneuver him out of the ring.[daemonism 5] [daemon dex 1] you slam you mace towards the daemons mace as he recovers from his missed swing, knocking it out of his hands. [ daemonsim 3] [daemon dex 4]The daemon easily ducks the next blow that comes his way [daemon dex 4] and grabs the mace from the floor. He takes a step back clearly impressed by your move.
Continue trying to knock the daemon out of the ring or disarm him again.[daemon str 6] [dex 3] The daemon sweeps his mace in a chrushing blow for your chest, you stumble out of the way and the mace loses most of its momentum through your thick flight jacket you bruising you shoulder and sending you stumbling. You manage to recover before you get in danger of going out of the ring. [daemonism 6] [ daemonism dex 6] You retaliate with a cry swining your mace in a brutal two handed swing for the daemons arm. The daemon notices your overly telegraphed move and deftly falls back, watching your swing miss him completely.
Keep on heading up. Groo's pretty much a monkey, really.[dex 2] Groo continues his climb up as he climbs though he manages to dislodge yet another piece of rock [daemonsim 6+1=7] drawing his katana Groo half slices half bats the rock out of the air in front of him, in a flurry of movement Groo then uses his katana as a partial climbing ax slamming its blade into the rock and metal as he ascends in a frenzy of steel striking rock and the howling of a terrified Rufferto. He clambers onto the final platform where there is door half hanging on its hinges and collapses, exhausted from his frenetic climb up.
((That was awesome, if OP.))Yeah, I might need to dial back Groo's 7's a bit, Groo only has a 5 katana after all, it's good but not Rules of Nature good.
Search for Tovarish! And if any random corpses are found, loot them!
Continue dueling the daemon.[daemonsim 1] [daemon dex 1] Your feeble blow is only matched by the daemons pathetic dodge. You both stare at each other for a moment mutually humiliated, after a moment of silence in memory of your shared moment of mutual incompetency the daemon launches himself at you. [daemon str 2] [dex 5] You leap out of the way of the daemons blow, and launch a counter attack [daemonism 6] [daemon dex 3] your mace slams into the daemons leg your mace encountering a weird resilience when it hits the daemons leg, The daemon wobbles for a second but manages to hop back away from you. His face cracks deepen ever more. His eyes narrow into slits.
((That was awesome, if OP.))
Search for Tovarish! And if any random corpses are found, loot them!
[daemonism 1] [daemons dex 6] You dive for the daemon seeking to psychically force him out of the ring while he's still off balance from the bash to his leg, instead you completely miss him as he jukes out of the way using slamming his arm into the back of your head and sending you stumbling out of the ring. The daemon stands up the cracks on his face getting shallower and eyes becoming more humanoid. Technique is lacking, but theres a foundation in there, you can follow the rules of combat at least. The daemon stops and stares at you for a second before asking in a slow and deliberate manner, Where did you learn all of this?
Knock the daemon out of the ring now! End this.
"Tovarish? Is that you? Mean bars trap machine guns when sleepy, no fair!"[daemoism 4+1=5] With a mighty yell and form that would do a samurai proud Groo slams the daemon katana into the thin wooden door repedetlly, the daemon infused metal easily cutting through the area around the door and opening up a way past the obstruction which turns out to be a set of bunk beds and crawls through the hole, Rufferto in tow. On the other side of the barricade a man dressed in bloodstained janitors clothing sits holding in a shotgun in an iron grip and pointing it at Groo. He is surrounded by mattress piled behind him. Presumablly against another door at the end of the wall.
The door is barred, you say? Well, this has a clear solution, doesn't it? Daemon katana. Same as every other problem.
Fire at grue if he attacks, otherwise try and get past him. To the outsideYou walk carefully past the heavily armed man with a horribly mangled face and a steel plate screwed into the back of skull. You walk outside and stare down the paracpice that Groo clambered up to.
Groo stands there staring at the man, clearly confused "...Where is Tovarish? Groo come to save Tovarish..."You ask about Tovarish but the man doesn't respond instead he walks out side the corridor and stare out towards the forest that the island crashed into. Groo looks around the room. There's not a lot there that hasn't been hapharzlly piled into a barricade on either side of the room. Groo hear a distant thump from the other side of the barricade at the far end of the room.
If the man shoots, block as many pellets as possible with the katana while diving out of the way, and then quickdraw one of the revolvers and headshot the guy. If he aggressively charges into melee in a hostile way, decapitate him, but if he just wants to leave, that's fine.
If instead he acts sanely and doesn't do anything aggressive to the heavily armed beastman, ask him about Tovarish and search the room if he's okay with it.
((Good luck with your papers and tests.))((Thanks dude. The tests went really well actually.))
"You probably won't like the answer. Part of learning to be a daemonist was that we had to learn to use the types of weapons that are usually imbued. Broadswords, longswords, maces, flails, those kinds of things. We also had to learn to play instruments to study resonance. I learned violin, piano, and trombone. My dad taught me the rules of dueling. I have a lot of brothers who wanted to be daemonists, and our dad taught us the rules so we didn't kill each other while practicing. You can check my memories of you want to verify any of it."
More talking. Just facts, not trying to sway the daemon.
Return to room, slowly, keep shot gun at ready incase the weird man tries anything. Attempt to salvage what ever I can into a nice neat pile. DO NOT TAKE ANYTHING AGAINST THE BACK WALLWell theres some empty bed frames and general bedroom accouterments, sheets and pillows and things like that. Theres also a couple dozen foot lockers. Most of the foot lockers are pilled against the back wall.
Aww. Head back out, and look for any corpses still lying around on the surface. Failing that, look for a hot air balloon crate.Groo walks out to the peripice ignoring the sounds. He sees a trail of blood leaking out of some structure above him, and [perception 5] See a distant figure of some fabric drapped across the tree. Next to the peripice he sees a a stray human arm. Presumably it's owner is somewhere in the mass of twisted metal that is the bowels of the base now.
"We were trained to duel to preserve our safety, not to better use daemons. We could have learned how to use the weapons without it, and probably had more than a few fatalities. Not that it matters much now. Five of my brothers are dead. Within the past week, actually. From what the letters told us, the first one fell out of a plane. The second one angered a daemon inhabiting a plane. The third got shot trying to calm the daemon down. The fourth died on a mission, taking out many enemies of our country before his weapon perforated him in the chaos. And the last one, I saw what was left of him. He overtaxed himself, spending too much energy to imbue daemons into his arm and leg. They possessed him and killed him. I saw his possessed husk, fighting two people trying to stop it. The others should still be alive. But I've lost too many brothers to a practice I found out was not what we thought. There is nothing worth enough to justify enslaving other beings that can think and feel. Their lives were wasted committing crimes against your people, and I am sorry."
Talky stuff. Then sad Damian is quiet, remorseful. But still not trying to influence the daemon, just sad at the actions of his brothers. Let one manly tear slide down his cheek.
Grab some blankets and what ever that fabric the groo sees, back out, try to tie the blankets into a rope.[engineering 5] You get the knots tied up with no fuss whatsoever, making someone payed attention during the knotting course in boy scouts.
((Aww, no loot. :( ))[Perception 5] Man RNJesus loves guys tonight.
Search for surviving escape equipment, like a hot air balloon, or fulton or something.
((He would have been with his family for all those deaths before he showed up, though, so he should have at least been able to get to a more stable place with support, and the knowledge that it was expected. The only one he actually saw dead was Damiun, and that was pretty obviously caused by a known hazard of being a daemonist. He and his brothers have come to accept that they are pretty much daemonist lemmings, likely to die swiftly for the stupidest of reasons. He'd miss them, sure, but he also has 20 or so more brothers that all look almost alike. Besides, some of those brothers he lost were responsible for him losing an arm and a leg. His family doesn't really respond to losing one of their own with sadness, they know there is nothing they can do to change the situation, and there areally still plenty more of them to avenge the dead ones if necessary. It's why they are so willing to throw their lives away. His family is kind of fucked up. That's why they produce so many daemonists.))
((Wait, what? There's at least twenty-one brothers who all look alike? Damn their mother must be tired. Either that, or their father has a harem and some really dominant genetics. ::) ))Syv actually brings up a good point. how does that even work? I mean like in terms of ages and biology….because man that's a bit hard to wrap my head around….they could be like a couple of sets of quadruplets or something though odds for that happening are low to say the least…..hmm, I'm to tired to figure out how that would work right now..hmm, if possible would you mind explaining this strange family tree please?
((The ammount of stress from repeated quintuplit births would absolutely destroy the poor woman...hell the last kid could just walk right out of there.))[engineering 1] try as you might you just can not tie a good knot.
Tie one end of the blacket rope to the edge of the drop.
Let's get that crate down here.[dex 6]
((They were born in five sets of quintuplets. Each one has a different eye color, and there are slight physical differences between sets.))
Sure drop the plus one to strength so charisma can be at -2, and drop marksman down to zero and drop doctor to -2 and beast to -2[str 5] After a lot of clanging, banging, and cursing, you mange to get the blanket rope securely fastened to the island.
Just jam some of the jagged metal no doubt sticking out through the cloth and try and bend and bash the end of it to prevent the blanket from falling off
Groo uses his daemon katana to open the crate. Then, without taking actual action, Groo wonders about how to set the balloon up.[Groo str 6] Groo uses his daemon katana to hack the crate open cutting the wires that tie the lid down in a couple of whacks. He also puts deep gouges in the wood as well. [int 5] Groo isn't entirely sure but he thinks that if took the smelly stuff and used a match while holding the big baggy thingie over it something good might happen.
"Okay. I don'the know how coherent they'll be. And I should probably wake soon, we weren't exactly in a good situation when I passed out, and it probably hasn't improved."[int 4] taking a breath you summon the images the memories playing front of you like a movie projection screen. Though it’s not in black and white, Weird. You start with the memory of your first duel with your brothers using maces.
Reminiscing time. First, the memory of watching Damian and Damien fighting with maces until Daemian's arm broke. Then the scolding from dad about how important our family is to each other and how hurting each other didn't help any of us. Then the lecture on how death in pursuit of a greater goal was noble, and death by irresponsible sparring wasn't. Then dad teaching us how to duel, and reminding us that it was important to know how to fight without daemons, since we may not always have them or be able to rely on them. And the utility of beating up pompous rich kids in duels to knock them down a peg when our honor was insulted. And that ought to cover it.
Groo sits and stares at the opened box for several minutes. Eventually, his lonely brain cell comes to the startlingly intelligent conclusion that Groo should really not try to set up a hot air balloon. Several more minutes of standing and staring follow; how can Groo get it to fly, then? A second intelligent thought eventually passes through his mind: find someone else who can set it up. And Groo knows just the person, the one he met while riding the last hot air balloon he was in.((I thought you climbed up here though))
"TOOOVARRIIIIISH! Groo need help with floaty basket!"
Go find Tovarish! And keep an eye out for any other shinies that might be lying around, while at it.
((Spaz, Groo is currently on the island. The one that you're climbing off of. And before that, he fell from the sky. Not sure what you're going for, there.))
((Yeah. He jumped off with a parachute, then immediately climbed back up as soon as the island landed. That wouldn't be particularly obvious to your char, though the used parachute would be.((Get an ideal where we are
Still not sure what your goal is. Trek across the beast infested wilderness to another place that has a disassembled hot air balloon?))
Climb down my blanket rope to where ever the hell it goes.You climb down the rope to the bottom of the of the newly made mountain theres not much there just a lot of random debris…wait, what was that sound?
Groo sits and stares at the opened box for several minutes. Eventually, his lonely brain cell comes to the startlingly intelligent conclusion that Groo should really not try to set up a hot air balloon. Several more minutes of standing and staring follow; how can Groo get it to fly, then? A second intelligent thought eventually passes through his mind: find someone else who can set it up. And Groo knows just the person, the one he met while riding the last hot air balloon he was in.Groo meanders along in his search for Tovarish, [dex 5] As he climbs the various areas in his search for Tovarish, he literally stumbles upon a discarded daemon arm it's owner a smashed mess oozing out of a crumpled bulkhead. Groo picks it up and examines it, it's in fine condition despite the mangled state of it's owner.
"TOOOVARRIIIIISH! Groo need help with floaty basket!"
Go find Tovarish! And keep an eye out for any other shinies that might be lying around, while at it.
((Spaz, Groo is currently on the island. The one that you're climbing off of. And before that, he fell from the sky. Not sure what you're going for, there.))
"I am glad you think so. I must wake now though, and see what kind of situation we are in. I hope that you will help me, or at least not fight me, while I try to get us somewhere safe. I wI'll return as soon as I am able to continue our discussion, if you would be amenable to that."I will do my best, for if you die I will surely expire. Just go out the front door that should return you to consciousness.
Time to wake up. See about shape-shifting daemon arm and leg to have climbing spikes or something so I can safely climb down the tree. If I fall, activate draconic transformation to absorb the impact. Preferably not doing anything that completely drains my energy and causes me to be possessed like Damiun.
Gun out, gun ready, look around worriedly. Shoot any beasts or zombies, run away from demons back up to groo[perception 2] You don't see anything as you look around wildly, suddenly a beast that looks like a cross an ostrich and a bobcat thats on steroids. It's long hairless neck ends in a feline mouth filled with far to many teeth as it runs at you on it's four legs. It's got a number of holes along it's side. it comes at you screaming in a weird distorted way. You curse as you scramble away from trying to get enough distance to bring your gun to bear [beast dex 3] [marksmanship 3] The beast gets close up to you as you try to bring your gun to bear on it. [dex 1] [beast strength 3] The beasts barrels into you, it's flexible neck biting into your left arm.
Climb the wreckage (or blanket rope) to try and regroup with any survivors with the help of my daemon limbs. Preferably without burning too much energy.You start walking towards the wreckage, when you hear a loud yell followed by a beasts scream.
Yayy! Pocket the arm, then continue wandering and loudly shouting for Tovarish to come help set up the balloon.Groo slides the arm into the space between the clipped on Rufferto and Groo's chest. It vibrates in a relaxed state.
use body weight and arm to pin it to the groune[str 2] [beast str 3] Your attempts to pin the beast to the ground and discharge you shotgun into it are subverted by the beast biting down harder onto your arm and breaking the bones, you scream in pain.
Jam the shot gun into its body and fire, if its still alive, do ot again,
Phineas realy wishes he had his crowbar on him.
earing the same scream and roar that Damian did, Groo perks up. "Tovarish? Tovarish, Groo save you!"[marksmanship 3] Groo's shot is pretty far away but he manages to hit it in front left leg [beast resilience 3] it starts to bleed about the standard amount for a high caliber round.
Head to the edge, and carefully aim and fire a single magnum round into the head of the beast that's assaulting [Spazy's char]. Don't risk falling over if the edge is precarious or something, though--Groo might risk that for Tovarish, but not some random stranger.
Upon hearing the noise, Damien sighs. "I should have just stayed asleep." He mutters before diverting his course to go check out the noise.You run up to the beast
Go check out the source of that noise. If the others have fired and the beast still isn't dead, shift my arm and behead it. Block any stray shots coming at me with my shifting arm.
"Damn, overdid it. Sorry 'bout your arm. At least you aren't going to get eaten by a beast."[str 5] fighting the complaints of your aching muscles you barely manage to haul yourself up to platform Groo initially climber up to before just decding that sitting against the bulkhead and resting is a good idea. Man you are tired.
Climb the blanket rope to see what's going on. Utilize daemon arm and leg for assistance if necessary, as long as it won't burn too much energy.
Wait for Demwin and Spazguy to climb up.Groo waits, ppetting Rufferto in his carrier harness.
Knock some of its teeth out for clecting and climb up.you grab a stray tooth from the crushed mass of the head and then try to haul yourself up one handed [str 2] You collapse to the ground the first pull, knocking the wind out of you, you feel a little light headed you look down at your barely attached arm, thats a worrying amount of blood seeping out of you….Might want to address that sooner than later.
Try to stop the bleeding.[doctor 5]
"Shiny guy! Groo can't find Tovarish! And Groo not know how to make floaty balloon floaty! Tovarish always do it for Groo!"Groo, pokes at the sleeping shiny guy repeatedly whining about Tovarish being lost.
Groo whines at Demnemniant about his hallucinations.
"Maybe the new guy could help if you go get him. I'm just gonna stay here for a minute or two and keep watch...on the back of my eyelids."You nod off. [Int 5] Your dreams are suprisinglly pleasant. Though they are all populated by some mysterious figure who refers to himself as Tovarish.
Rest, recover energy.
Drag shiny metal guy over to the parachute crate. Maybe softly rub his head agaibst it--that's how intelligence works, right?Groo slowly drags Damian over to parachute crate, and rubs his head against it, nothing seems to happen. Though Damian starts screaming in his sleep so thats something.
See if this Tovarish guy can offer any helpful info about what to do when I wake up. Or on how to set up a parachute. Other than that, keep sleeping.[int 6] You chase along after this mysterious figure but every time you get close enough to him he vanishes, cackling about Groo being cursed. On the third try he stops suddenly confused what? your not Groo. wait…. he vanishes. He seems to have a fairly thick Russian accent. He suddenly appears again a his neck twisted at an unnatural angle, a strange worm like beast slithers in and out of his eyeless head. I REMEMBER YOU! YOU WERE ON THAT еба́ть PLANE WEREN'T YOU? at this he vanishes again. A a battered, red steel tool box appears where he was.
Try to get up to the rest of the guys[int 3] You rack your brains for something you learned about how to pull your self up while lacking arms, something about knots and a friend….unless that was from that one shop you worked at.
Groo feeds Rufferto some treats to comfort them. Then gives a couple treats to Daermin for comfort. Groo then fidgets nervously for a few minutes, before getting the bright idea to let Rufferto snuggle with Darmations as the best comfort of all--which he promptly does by tying the dog to the guy.Taking the bag of treats Groo grabs a handful of juicy meat and thrusts it into Damians mouth, noticing that he doesn't seem to be chewing and thus gaining the full advantage of the meaty tang, Groo manually moves Damians jaw up and down which also effectively silences the screams, before tossing some to rufferto. Groo also clips Rufferto onto Damains pachute clips. Rufferto seems somewhat confused about being strapped to this new person but he seems to accept it after a few more treats.
Oh, he'll go pull screamy rope guy up too.
Grab the toolbox and wake up. Check my energy.[int 3]You pick up the toolbox and look around…wait….how do you wake up from here? You're in an empty void with nothing but the toolbox for company now...As you think this the toolbox seems to rattle slightly.
Grab hols of the rooe with good arm and tug on it a couple times and scream for the others to pul on the ropeYou grip the rope and are slowly hauled up by Groo.
Go help grue set up the hot air baloon[Engineering 5] you quickly set about the arcane task of setting up the hot air balloon. While it's a little awkward to set up the balloon one handed with occasional use of Groo as an anchor you manage to set everything up and get the balloon inflated in record time.
Open the toolbox. If nothing else interesting happens, wake up. Actually, try to wake up anyway.[Int6]As you open the toolbox a bottle of vodka sails out and smashes into your head followed shortly after by a maassivly oversized wrench. You black out when the wrench hits your head and when you wake up your in the real world. You have a surprisingly tasty meat of some kind in your mouth and Groos dog fastened to you. The dog is currently licking at your face. You feel like you have some mild idea as to how to set up a hot air balloon.
With nothing better to do, Groo wanders around shouting for Tovarish to come set up the hot air balloon. And he stays far away from the edge and other dangerous things, mostly through sheer luck rather than any self-preservation instinct.Groo wanders around the destroyed compound in a mild daze. Barely noticing when the one armed man walks up and thrusts a rope into his hands, the rope briefly struggled for a while but Groo managed to tame it it until the one armed man comes back.
"Oh! Tovarish set us up the balloon! So nice."
Shout out thanks to Tovarish, wherever he is, then get in the balloon. Drag anyone who needs help getting in, in.
Get in the balloon with Rufferto.It's a little awkward climbing into the balloon with Ruferto haphazardly strapped to your chest but you manage it all the same.
Rope guy shakes head at Grue pointing to himself, he seems quite upsetYou look around the area but don't see anything particularly valuable looking and you would grab some supplies but theres already enough in the balloon to last you for a long time. Returning back to room you grab the foot locker and slowly drag it back to the hot air balloon. Your not entirely sure if the balloon will acutely lift off with the foot locker on board, but you'll be dampened if you don't try.
do a quick search around the area for loot or supplies, if I somehow can get back to my secret hidey hole of oh fuck I am going to die, go carry/toss the foot locker to the hot air baloon,
Get in the hot air baloon.You climb into the hot air balloon next to the foot locker it's a bit cramped between Groo Rufferot Damian and the massive foot locker, but you still fit.
Now that Daefitty is awake, he doesn't need Rufferto anymore. Groo detachs the dog from him and reattachs it to himself.You reattach Rufferto to you. He seems much happier strapped to your chest than to Damians chest.
yep
Liftoff time.
Yesss!
Explain to them, in written form, what happened. And request a new arm. Then go search through the foot locker[charisma 1] your attempts at recounting the tale of the base spiraling into madness, quickly becomes a fairly explicit set of memoirs about that one time you got fucking hammered and decided it would be a good idea to try and make love to a beast…Whoops.
"It crashed. Your weapon infected everyone. That's why you lost contact. It got me too. I have the command frequency for it, if either of you would be willing to help me develop a cure before it kills me. And I can explain more, but I'd like to not be infected and liable to die before that."Hmm, the brass did say something about the weapon being out of control, but, only one way to find out. My partner will oversee the curing processes walk with him please. The silent spook motions for you to follow and starts walking towards a government issued car.
For the love of RNGeesus, don't make it a Charisma roll.
"Groo found new guns!"That's very nice Mr. Groo, were did you get them? I seem to recall one of your tea mats having a similar pair.
Groo strikes a heroic, non-threatening pose with his two new revolvers. Rufferto is still securely strapped to his torso, of course.
Explain that it was worth it and both I and the beast were verry happy then go scavenge through the foot locker.[charisma 4] You add a postscript detailing you interpreted the beasts movements and sounds as a sign of consent and sign your name illegibly.
((I suggest you write the turns in a text editor before posting; it makes it much more difficult to lose the post, and I find it to be easier anyway. I recommend Notepad++ (https://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v7.1.html), since it's pretty awesome, and is really good about preserving your text files, but really any editor works.))((thanks for the advice and the recommendation.))
"Uh-huh! Girlie flew from sky and went pop on ground. Groo do that before, but Groo always get up?"
Ahem. Payment?
Enter THE WALLbucknaked you burst through a nearby fence with your great shield screaming OH YEAH! The spook stares at you for a second before shrugging and motioning you towards the group.
Go with the spook, get cured.
"Okay!"((I still want the knife, syv. Need to get stuff and payment sorted out first, though.))
Groo returns the leg, and is quite happy with his ten coins.
((Question for other players: What things would you guys be interested in buying from Groo? He's got two M1911s with three spare mags, two revolvers with two reloads, a shotgun, and a currently non-functional daemon knife hilt +9 (?). I'd like to get another ten coins so Groo can purchase bone plates, but selling to other players is always preferable to NPCs. Any offers?
Question for MJ: How much is the market price for buying revolvers? And how expensive is the ammo?))
"Okay!"((Indeed.))
Groo returns the leg, and is quite happy with his ten coins. Edit: Oh, and for his levelup Groo will put one point in perception (bringing it to +0), and the other stat point will be put in endurance (so it can go to +3 next level). Both skill points will be invested in daemonism, bringing it up to +2.
((Question for other players: What things would you guys be interested in buying from Groo? He's got two M1911s with three spare mags, two revolvers with two reloads, a shotgun, and a currently non-functional daemon knife hilt +9 (?). I'd like to get another ten coins so Groo can purchase bone plates, but selling to other players is always preferable to NPCs. Any offers?
Question for MJ: How much is the market price for buying revolvers? And how expensive is the ammo?
Trivialedit: That is by far the most practical pain chart I've ever seen. It actually questions based on a valid, understandable metric. Most are bullshit "Does it hurt a little bit, or a lot?" things.))
Ask them to give me the daemon arm to replace my injured arm, I want something for repair and dextrous work.An uinbuied standard arm is ten coins.
((syv: I can give you two GP, three more GP if I ever survive to get paid, and one mission of personal tank services for that knoife. Using a hilt as a weapon is a proud dark souls tradition, after all. Or at least I hope it is.I think I told you this on IRC a while ago but just in case that's a product of my sleep deprived imagination it's 2 hands for carrying you can like slam it down and take cover and all that though.))
MidnightJaguar: At +3 Str does the greatshield require two hands to use or just one? At +3 Str can I still carry it in one hand and attack with the other, without using it to defend?))
THE WALL runs up to Speaking and waves, then holds his shield between them.
Daemian's eyes light up when he hears the spook speak, his interest making him completely forget about the situation he is in. "Your voice. You fused with a daemon? Or are you a daemon in a human body? Actually, I suppose it doesn't matter. Your business is your own. I only ask out of professional curiosity. Well, and a healthy dose of childlike fascination. One of my brothers dreamed of accomplishing such a fusion before he died. But I suppose my current predicament is more immediately pertinent than my questions."T̴alk Lat̵e̛r.̀ ͏O͜per͟a̛t̨iòn mus̡t be͝ ͞done͘ s̸oo͠n
"What if you integrate it? Shouldn't be as dangerous to me as trying to remove it, and not as dangerous to others as me carrying it without control. I have the control frequency of the weapon, and a modified version that I rigged by combining it with an old family frequency. The modified version served to drastically slow the progress of the infection back when we were on the base. If you use the modified version, it might make it easier by pacifying the infection. A side effect of using that frequency is that it also brought me into contact with the daemon inhabiting my arm and leg. I'm sure you are aware of the sentience of daemons, and since he would inadvertently share any consequences of my decision, I would like to discuss the options with him before I make a choice, if that would be alright and you could keep me alive while I'm unconcious. I'll need a blunt, though. Should be one in the top pouch of my pack. I think that's part of how I made the link the first time."
If it is okay with daemon spook, spark up a blunt and go talk to the daemon. Please don't let it be a CHA roll.
"Oh, just our continued survival. I am currently being treated for the weapon's infection. We had two options. Finish the treatment and be a carrier for the infection, possibly transmitting it to others without our control even though we would suffer no side effects , or try to eradicate it and probably die in the process. And by probably, I mean almost certainly. I suggested a third option, that the infection be integrated into me. It's less risky than eradicating it, and safer for others since we would not be spreading it uncontrollably. It may even be beneficial to us, but it at least won't be hazardous. I merely stopped by to ask for your opinion, since this decision affects you as well. And I wanted to thank you for helping me earlier, getting down from that tree. Time is of the essence, though. The infection could still kill me if we do not choose a treatment path quickly."You leave me in an unenviable position. I can not in good faith become a carrier for such an act would be of grave subterfuge, to make this plauge non existent in myself would mean I would likely die in this processes and I'm sure that you humans would still somehow find a way to weaponize my very corpse. I see that hybridization is my only option. Take my benediction and go. His voice dripping with scorn. Respectfully nodding your head you dive through the door again waking up from the dream, the spook is staring at you." W͟h͘at̴ ̸i͞s͟ y̴o̸ur d͞ȩcis̸i̶o̡n "
Civil information giving, hopefully without a CHA roll. When I get the daemon's answer, wake up.
Ask them to out the daemon arm I found on my hans.You have your mangled arm replaced with a daemon arm and the dexterous hand.
Groo will sell both his revolvers and all the ammo for them, then buy a bone plate beast modification for himself, and a case of ten shotgun shells.Groo sells both the revolves and buys a bone plate beast mod When he wakes up he has several large surgery scars on whats left of his head and his chest.
"Integrate it. I just hope we survive. Maybe that frequency I gave you will help."The spook shrugs his shoulders in affirmation and the sound from the spooks chest suddenly increases in frequency followed swiftly by the feeling that your veins are on fire, your screaming reaches the pitch of vibrations from the spooks chest when suddenly he smacks his forehead in remembrance and presses down on the plunger for your anesthesia, you mercifully pass out. When you wake up every inch of your body hurts even the daemon legs and you have numerous rows of small stitches along your chest and your arm…and you leg and what looks like welding and grinding work on the daemon limbs. The spook is now wearing extremely bloodstained and scorched scrubs and looks exhausted.
Integrate it.
Purchase a flak jacket and see if anyone will sell me one of those water proof tarp capes that can also be made into an improptu tent for a token...a trenchcoat also worksYou buy a flack jacket and then buy one of these? (https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/ae/47/f8/ae47f8c791c5796a9ac49e8476c2a677.jpg)
Go outside and play with Rufferto.Groo wanders outside of yet another shady apartment and goes to play fetch with Rufferto. He throws the human radius he keeps for just such occasions around with his dog. the perfect image of peace.
Yes
Yesokay.
"I woke up, and I can still feel pain, so I guess the procedure worked. Looks like it was pretty extensive. What all did you do? Oh, and thank you, both in general for your aid and for presumably saving my life or bringing me back to life during that procedure."
Yeah, now I want info on what I can do. SUPERDAEMONIST!
Just a Groo and his dog, and the remains of their departed friends.As Groo and Rufferto play fech with some bones and the tower stands there living up to his name. A third spook approaches and nods to the speaking spook who is idillly stripping his pistol. The speaking spook nods back and reasamblles his gun standing up. the new spook speaks in a midatalantic accent My friends partner is currently indisposed, so I will be his replacement for now. Would any of you fine chaps be interested in taking out some Nazi cargo planes?
"I can talk to daemons? Fantastic! I suppose now would be the time to give you the mission report, but I was wondering if you would be willing to stick around after and talk. I still have questions for you if you would be willing to answer them."You talk slowly working through the pain as you go, the daemonist spook seems to be following along until you get to the suggestion of the pacification frequency the spook stares at you for a second and and sadly shakes his head saying, if o̸n̸ly ̴that ̢w̷er͝e tru͢e under his breath. Rekovering he reaches into his pocket and takes out 10 coins and hands them to you. P̛aym҉e͝nt
"I pinged the base when we arrived, picking up multiple daemon signatures and a few very large ones. I suppose one of those was probably the weapon, and another was the daemon used to keep the base aloft. When we first entered the base, we were greeted by the sight of a man who appeared to have blown off part of his head which held a daemon eye. As we proceeded further, we encountered another corpse who seemed to have cut his daemon arm off before he died. We encountered one possessed corpse, controlled by the imbued daemon, which attacked us in a frenzy. I kept it docile with a frequency while the others hacked it to pieces, literally. We passed through a smelting room with many bars of daemon metal on the floor. They were all buzzing, an effect of the weapon as I came to find out. I performed an experiment to try to determine the frequencies the metals were affected by, by jamming a metal wire into my arm. The first attempt flooded my mind with the last memories of the daemons the weapon was used on. So much anger and death. It seems the weapon infected the host, and in the process of killing them it drove any imbued daemons insane if it didn't kill them outright. My second experiment was more productive, as I jammed the wire into my forehead and saw the intelligent weapon. It shouted at me, trying to kill me. It was angry, but that anger was undirected and it lashed out at everything. It killed the workers in the facility. I got infected, but I managed to obtain the frequency. I combined it to make the modified frequency I gave you. I used it, and I think I overdid it. The last thing I heard before falling unconcious was a very loud voice saying that everything gonna be alright. I think that was the daemon keeping the base aloft. I'm not sure what happened after, as I was inside my mind talking with the daemon in my arm and leg. We dueled, I showed him a few memories, and then I woke up to find myself in a tree. I climbed down, went to save someone from a beast, climbed the remains of the base, got in the air balloon and we headed back with the weapon and possessed both neutralized. If you send a team, you might still be able to retrieve notes or plans before the beasts take it over."
"But I'd like to make a suggestion. I saw what that weapon did to daemons, and it seemed as cruel as the things I've heard that the Nazis do. But my modified frequency worked to neutralize a very powerful daemon and the other daemons in range. What if you base the new weapon off that frequency. Make the weapon a transmission vector that doesn't kill off the host, and amplifies the effect of that frequency to pacify all the enemy daemons hearing it. The enemy loses their daemon tech and their will to fight, the daemons aren't killed, and you get hostages to get information from."
Mission debriefing. Go slow, enunciate, get all the info conveyed. And with the suggestion, don't try to convince him to do it. Just throw it out there. Don't need no CHA rolls up in here.
Poke Speaking.The speaking spook stares at you as walk up to him and poke him in the chest. He stares at you before taking a step backwards and drawing an envelope and pencil from his pocket.
Wander about, see who needs any help fixing planesThe spook calls out to you.
Groo blankly stares at the new spook for several long seconds, before giving a happy, unconprehending response: "Okay!"Wonderful, now gentlemen the main problem we have right now is that the Germans are currently transporting a piece of one of their varied superweapons by plane. Now the only reason that we now this is because we cracked their code, but we don’t want the Germans to now that, so you gentlemn will be in charge of bringing down or stealing that piece of blueprints and making it look like a pirate attack, don’t worry about flying we already have a pilot lined up. Any questions before we embark?
Daemian sighs when he sees the spook's response. "Too much to hope for, I guess. So, I wanted to ask earlier, are you fused with a daemon? Or a daemon in a human body? Or something like that?"
After getting an answer, Daemian speak again. "And one more question. Would you be willing to teach me? You seem like a very knowledgeable and advanced daemonist, and also probably one of the few people that would have some idea of what I can do now. I want to learn how to use my new abilities better, and how to better utilize daemonism without completely burning myself out. I promise I'll work hard."
Talking to the spook, asking questions. Still not wanting a CHA roll.
Sit down and go eatGroo and Tower are also here.
Go get seated. Grumble about not even getting a chance to buy anything with my pay.You grumble to yourself about spooks being bastards whith their timetables, and secrecy, and fast acting sedatives and hurling you into planes while your still recovering from said sedatives nonsense. nonsense.
Groo stations himself at the front gun turret. He'll ensure Rufferto is safely strapped to his torso once more.Rufferto is once again clipped onto Groo this makes holding the gun awkward Fairlly awkward as Groo is currently in the front ball turret with the approximate personal space of between man and dog being fuck all.
Go move to the cabin to assist the pilot if need be.You go into the cabin and take a seat in the copilots seat.
Climb into the leech craft and prepare to hit the big red button within.you, clamber into the leech craft your massive shield clanging on it's narrow sides. you strap into one of the three seats and wait the button staring seductivlly at you.
Continu to assist pilot.You pull up a chair next to the pilot and stare at him as he ready to step in the second he has a problem. The air is suddenly filled with gunfire and the sound of Rufferto howling in surprise. The pilot curses and suggests that you might want to either get to a gun and start shooting or take that leech craft into the plane.
Reluctantly, Groo will release Rufferto with a pat on the head. That done, he'll ready the nose gun and start firing as soon as an enemy plane comes into view.Groo realses Rufferto and the dog gratefully sits by Groo near the front turret. The cloud clears and suddenly a Heinkel He 177 is just in front of you. Groo opens up on the planes midsection [marksmanship 5] [plane resilience 2] his .30 machine gun tearing into the planes back turret gunner wounding him horribly as the the bullets tear into him the entire plane shudders slightly. [Tail gunner marksmanship 3] [plane resilience 4] he tail gunner lands a couple of mostly superficial hits to the wings. [front turret marksmanship 4] [plane resilience 4] The Avro shimmies slightly and the pilot curses as the turret gunner places shots into the underside of the avro Damaging little of vital importance though, your pretty sure your rest bunk is kindling at this point.
Ready to pilot the leech craft when given the go signal to the targetYou nod towards the pilot, and run to the leechcraft from the pilots seat you dodge around the massive hole in the floor of the bunk room where the 20 mm hit the plane and clamber into the leech craft.
((I googled the bomber we're fighting. It apparently has substantially larger guns than us. O.O))[Marksmanship 3] [plane resilience 4] The sound of Groo's staccato firing reverberates through the plane the bullets slamming into the glazed glass of the tail gunner and crazing, protecting the gunner but but restricting his vision. He returns fire [marksmanship 2] The panic of being shot at along with his partly blinded nature sends his shots flying wide and well away from the Avro. [dorsal front turret gunner marksmanship 4] [Avro resilience 6] The German turret gunner fires into the Avro the shots mostly just end up damaging the rear turret as the Avro gets closer.
Keep firing! Take out the tail gunner next!
Oh, if Deafcon wants a gun, he can just take whatever. Groo won't stop him; Groo's too busy shooting nazis.
See if I can borrow a pistol or revolver from Groo, loaded, then grab a parachute and get in the leech craft.You grab a pistol from Groo who is currently laughing his head off and burst firing at the Avro while Rufferto whines and keens. you grab the pistol from Groos pack and take off running for the leech craft, you [dex 5] grab a parachute as you go in your mad dash shrugging into it as you go for the leech craft you clamber the min plane and just manage to haphazardly strap yourself to the seat as the impatient WALL slams his hand onto the big red button releasing the leech craft from the bomb bay.
I ain't waiting for some shriveled dumb mutant! Hit tha button!You press the button once everyones here real sing the leech craft from it's bomb bay holding and dropping you. The rocket motor engages slamming you into your seats as the acceleration presses on you. It's up to Phineaus now.
((Groo has knocked out the top rear turret.))((oh then let's just ram that then.))
Pilot the leechcraft into the rear of the plane seeing as the gunner was taken out and there is probably a good sized hole now.
Groo will focus fire on the second top turret, hopefully taking it out before the leech craft gets itself shot down.[makrsmanship 4] [plane ressiliance 4] Groo unleashes a hail off bullets upon the cupola that houses the gunner the bullets slam into the reinforced glass, the glass cracks in a couple of places but the gunner can still see pretty well. [Tail gunner marksmanship 3] The tail gunner blindly fires his cannon in the general direction of the leech craft at the guidance of his cremates. Not that he hits anything he is firing through an extremlly cracked piece of already not very clear glass. The dorsal gunner also fires hoping his remote control gun might help [marksmanship 4] [piloting 6] The tracers get close to the leech craft but Phineaus manages to juke and jink away from the torrent of death, stressing the frame and and rattling the people inside it a bit.
((You probably don't want to ram. If you ram, and the plane goes down, you all die. Also, ramming will seriously disrupt the aerodynamics of the bomber. Though, I suppose you only have one pilot, who can't pilot both the leech and bomber, so maybe you're kinda just screwed either way.))
((Unless we just jack the bomber. Either way, please don't ram it. I want to live, and the best chance of that is hoarding the plane.))you tumble into the turret right after the wall. [marksmanship 6] You fire your entire clip at the front dorsal turret gunner [FDRTG resilience 6] missing every single solitary shot by a mile, it might have helped if you hadn't squealed like a little girl and flinched every time you fired. The [FDRTG marksmanship 4] fires a couple of shots down range in response as he clambers out of his turret to face these new boarders. The walls shield takes the shots as it blocks a good half of the hallway down the plane.
Wait to board. Once we board, take down hostiles using the pistol with my daemon arm while utilizing cover, like the Tower's shield. Use daemon arm and leg to block incoming attacks if I can't avoid then. If I end up in free fall somehow, activate parachute. If I end up in an incredibly dangerous situation that isn't covered by my other actions, activate draconic transformation.
"WHEN YOU COME TO IT AND YOU CAN'T GO THROUGH IT AND YOU CAN'T KNOCK IT DOWN, YOU KNOW THAT YOU FOUND, THE WALL!"[dex 4] Very slowly you begin to walk forward your massive shield slowly making its way inexorbially towards the FDRTG as he calls out in German. You are about a a fifth of the the way to him. [FDRTG marksmanship 3] He fires off three bullets from his luger bullets impact the edges of the shield richoteing off it's edges. The rear ventral gunner also appears carrying a shotgun. He doesn't take shot though because the pilot [heinkel pilot piloting 2] suddenly bring the heinkel around in a steep turn a risky maunder in this bomber and pulls up. Clearlly trying to outmaneuver the Avro and get it's ventral guns on it.
Charge!
Move to shoot any hostiles with shot gun, if the wal takes care of them then just start looting[marksmanship 5] [FDRTG resilience 6] You fire you shotgun at the FDRTG and the pellets slam into the airman's leg, he staggers and leans against the bulkhead blood oozing down his trouser leg.
Finish off the tailgunner then![makrsmanship 6] [heinkel ressilaince 2] Groos wild bursts of firing impact with the tail gunners cupola and finally fragment the hardened glass filling the gunner inside with .30 caliber holes. The heinkel turns shaprlly and pulls up gaining altitude as it's engines scream up to their red lines.
if (enemy==alive){
shoot();
shank();
loot();
}
else{
loot();
}
*twitch*if (enemy==alive){
shoot();
shank();
loot();
}
else{
loot();
}
Fix'd.
Tank.[dex 3] The wall slowlly staggers forward once again. He makes a little more progress this time truly living up to his namesake.
Shoot at any turrets which are still firing, or shoot the front dorsal turret if none are.[FVTG marksmanship 5] [Avro resilience 5] The Ventral turrets cannon turn towards the Avro and the gunner takes careful aim before unleashing the full force of the twenty mm cannon on the british bomber. The explosive rounds damaging one of left exterior engine of the Avro but for now it continues to sputter on though theres a worrying amount of smoke coming from it and you can hear the pilot muttering about fire risks. The sharpenel also misses Groo and rufferot but turns the walls next them into swiss cheese ruffferto barks in worry as a he gets minor cuts form the. [marksmanship 2] [plane resssilaince 3] Groo returns fire the machine gun blazing away as it discharges its lethal load towards the heinkel, the cupola around the pilot is damaged but he can still see and shoot.
I'll admit to having all the programming knowledge of a fish so forgive me if I miss some obvious jokes I could have made with the set of instructions.*twitch*if (enemy==alive){
shoot();
shank();
loot();
}
else{
loot();
}
Fix'd.
If my programming teacher saw my quick and rushed work he'd be ashamed of me
Throw the gun at the rear ventral gunner with my daemon arm. USING DAEMONISM! Continue hiding behind cover.[daemonism 5+4=9] Your arm swings back to throw and the entire world seems to go into slow motion and a weird techno sound suddenly comes from nowhere, as you realse the gun it blurs forward as though shot from a rifle and tears off the [ressilaince 6]right foot of the rear ventral gunner he stares at the stump in shock as he falls backwards into the relative cover his cupola provides, the gun travels onwards through the plane and [enemies luck 5] missing all of them and flys through another bulkhead, your pretty sure you heard a thunk when it hit the ground but you might just be imagining it. You feel pretty knackered and duck behind the tower again as the luger toting dorsal gunner [marksmanship 1] completely misses every shot he fires the rounds coming dangerously close to the foot less ventral gunner.
Keep shooting until nobody is shooting back!this
Count effective enemies. If there's only one left, drop the shield and run forward to grapple him.[dex 5] [ gunner dex 1] The wall plants his shield and making a break for it as the gunner reloads he's not gonna be making a track record any time soon, but he gets there in time to grab him [gunner str 6] [wall str 4] The wall grabs for the gunners shooting hand, but the gunner manages to keep a hold of the gun. He's sweating though and clearly is surprised by the amount of strength in the Walls wiry form.
Keep shooting until nobody is shooting back!Groo fires upon the Front ventral gunner again as the plane continues to climb.[marksmanship 2] [Heinkel resilience 2] Groos fairly innacruate volley impacts the reinforced window of the plane fracturing it and sending dozens of glass shards into the Gunner. He responds with a vengeance [marksmanship 4] [Avro 3] The gunner returns fire sending fire into the damaged engine and heavily damaging it as it explodes into flames you hear a Sweet christ in fucking heaven! over the radio, as the pilot [piloting 1] keeps the plane in the air but miscalculates his feathering of the engine causing it to reduce it's drag slightly but not by a lot. The engine also is still on fire seems the fuel has yet to be switched off.
Phienaus fires at the Luger toting gunner as he's closest [marksmanship 3] Well The wall's grappling with him and your not entirely sure if firing a shot would be the best idea whith allies in front of you.Keep shooting until nobody is shooting back!this
Hide behind cover, recover energy.You hide behind the walls discarded shield and recover energy.
Crush his head.
Is that turret still firing? If so, keep shooting it. If not, go strap on a parachute and a dog.[marksmanship 4] [Heinkel ressiliance 1] The glass collapses under Groo's steady barrage of fire and shatters inwards the gunner dying as the bulleets tear into his body. The entire heinkel shutters as bullets tear into it's superstructure. The heinkel levels off and flies over the Avro now out of Groo's guns angles [Avro piloting 1] the pilot tries yet again to feather the now engulfed in flames engine and watches horrified as the fire begins to spread to the second engine. Damn, this is gonna be a bad un.
Continue recovering in cover.
Loot!Well theres not a lot to loot, though in the bomb bays welded shut doors theres a mysterious red tarp with a massive swastika over it
Strap on parachute. Strap on dog. Prepare to jump.Groo knows to get out while the gettings good, grabs a parachute hanging by him and his dog strapping both to himself he pops open the emergency hatch as the pilot attempts one more try to stop the fire from spreading [piloting 1] The pilot pulls at the fuel switches for engine three watching in horror as the fire spreads to the wings and begins to heat up the fuel tanks near the wings. his voice comes over your ear BAIL OUT BAIL OUT! He yells abandoning the controls before the fire can reach the fuel tank. The uncontrolled plane begins to spin. Groo is knocked out of the plane and begins to tumble to earth yet again. Old hat at this Groo pulls his ripcord and gently floats to the ground. [Pilot dex 4] ((this is because he spent his time trying to fix the plane rather than escape)) you see the pilot go tumbling out to he also pulls his parachute
Continue recovering and gauge my energy.You keep ducking and covering behind that shield. Your feeling half decent, another two turns and you'll be golden, but one more should be fine as long as it's not excessive.
https://youtu.be/8D4eH76nwEg?t=1m48s[Str 6] [Gunner str 6] You both launch into a elaborately choreographed fight scene filled with witty banter that neither of you understand and is intercut with elaborate gun play as you both mutually miss pistol shots out of respect for each others skill. By the end of this romping adventure the gunner has two black eyes and the Luger has one round left.
Let's see what's under tarp number 1! (https://youtu.be/UzOdDKaYJvU)'AND BEHIND CURTAIN NUMBER ONE IS' you yank off the tarp to reveal an abomination against humanity.' Jesus, christ what the hell is this thing' there is a cage under the trap though it's not padlocked clearly it's mostly just to provide a case for the human abomination. It clearly was or is human that much you can tell beyond that you have no idea. It's limbs are stretched and contorted with hideous metal pistons stretching between limbs, working them mechanically forward and backward with each breath the creature takes. The torso and head have been fused together the head seeming to have been absurd by the torso's expansion save for one eye which seems to have been sewn into the center of the chest and stares out from the center of the chest as you watch it blinks at you. dozens of what you assume to be blood filled tubes are haphazardly stuck into the bloated torso of the creature and from within you hear some deep moaning sound when the creature seems to breath.
Shoot it! For the love of all that is good, shoot the damn thing! Put it out of its miseryOverwhelmed by a feeling of pity you heft your shotgun, [int 4] not entirely sure where to shoot it but you guess that the eye is probably the best place to shoot, at least it'll stop staring at you then. You place the shotgun right in front of the eye, it seems to widen briefly perhaps what ever little humanity is in there still recognizes the sight and then close it's eye The shotgun and the entire abomination shudders under the impact of it the buckshot and a moaning is heard deep inside it. There is a large hole where the eye was revealing off to the center of it a small organic looking orb with dozens of wires and catheters snaking off it. As you peer into the hole you also see a human brain hooked up to some of the wires and tubes. You heft your shotgun again and take care of the brain putting the thing out of it's misery.
Groo dusts himself off, gives Rufferto a treat, then starts walking to meet up with the pilot. He'll have his 1911 and katana readied.Groo, dusting himself off hands Rufferto yet another human bone treat which he happily accepts and then begins to wander around pistol and sword at the ready looking like an anarchistic and culturally confused swashbuckler. He calls out for the pilot and then sees him drift gently down somewhat near to Groo near a clearing. Groo begins to walk that way and eventually meets up with him, the pilot has a pistol out and is looking carefuly around. Well, shit, I've never been down to the surface before, but I remember that during basic training they said your best bet was flagging down other planes. Think those boarders have a shot at seizing control?
Continue hiding and recovering.You keep turtaling, you are a fine example of duck and cover.
Find a convenient hole in the hull to throw him out, then punch the gunner.[str 4] [str 2] You bash the Gunners head into a wall a number of times while you Scream about one or the other breaking first. The gunner goes down in a heap with a severe concussion. You [str 4] [str 1] You turn and deliver an uppercut as the Ventral gunner tries to bring his gun up to blow you away, you grab the shotgun from his dazed form and smash the but of it into his face. He also goes down but with a fractured skull to boot.
Go crack the pilot's skull.
go search farther into the planeYou go further back into the bowels of the plane. It seems aside from a shipment of fruit and vegetables you see little in the bombing area. Moving backwards you come upon the corpse of the tail gunner. You find a luger pistol and a spare clip of ammo attached to his belt.
if I see people, shoot them
if I see dead people, loot them
Groo shrugs. "Maybe we ask when they come down?"The pilot stares at Groo for a second before shaking his head in disbelief and walking after Groo. [perception 5] You see a number of bags startled by something going on in the forest East of you, the plane is heading north. The pilot curse and draws his holstered pistol.
He then dutifully marches after the flying bomber.
Follow behind others from a distance, recovering. If we get attacked, defend self with daemon arm and leg and get to cover. If the foe is in melee range, instead pulp his head and/or chest with my daemon arm.You follow behind the wall, but do not get shot at because you are behind and in cover when the wall opens the door.
Go assist the with taking out the pilots, when pilot is down go pilot the plain to be above the other plane.[Dex 1] You go sprinting down the corridor and smack you head on a door frame as you go spinning you around disorienting you.
"Stay behind Groo."The bags seem to be diving at something, but are otherwise keeping their distance, Groo continues to march onwards the pilot following behind with his pistol.
Groo watches the bags carefully, but continues on his way. If the bags attack, he'll shoot them down and slash any that get close.
Find something small to throw. If the enemies are still alive but can't shoot me, smash their heads in with my daemon arm, but don't use too much energy.[daemonism 3+4=7] Grabbing a pencil from the map room you lean your daemon arm out of the door way and hurl it toward the wounded Gunner [gunner resilience 6] The pencil tears into his wounded torso embedding into him like a javelin, He screams in agony. You fell kinda tired but okayish.
Crack some 'eads.[Gunner marksmanship 2] The gunner misses his shot [str 3] you lunge across the room and crack him in the face. [Gunner resilience 3] He's dazed but not out for the count.
Steady self and keep going to the pilots, help take them out[dex 4] You stumble along making a decent amount of progress towards planes cockpit…it's probably helped by the fact that the plane is doing a dive right now.
Finish him! Fatality![str 2] [str 3] You try to slam the unfortunate gunners head into the wall of the plane but he's having none of it, he's shot full of holes his legs don't work and and he has a pencil stuck in his his intestines, but man this guy has some impressive upper body strength. the pilot takes a hand away from his controls and grabs for his pistol [dex 1] As he draws his pistol it he squeezes the trigger out of nerves and it discharges into his leg [resilience 1] It goes straight into his femoral artery. Blood begins to rapidly hemorrhage down his pant leg dripping onto his seat. He instinctively grasps at his right leg attempting to slow the rate of blood loss and lets go of the stick, the heinkel begins to nose downwards.
Recover in cover. Find something else to throw just incase, but don't throw it unless one of my teammates is going to get killed, and try not to use too much energy.You grab a pen from the side of the desk you are still cowering behind and use it as cover. You hear the retort of a luger and then The plane starts to tip. Shit.
Once out of sight of the bags, Groo stops. He turns to the pilot, a mildly confused expression on his face. "Where Balloon? Groo always leave by balloon, because plane always crash."The pilot pulls out a map with a number of sites on it. He also draws a sextant and his watch and glances at the position of the sun. Haven't done this since piloting school. [int 3] He, begins to write down a lot of magical numbers and symbols that Groo doesn't understand, judging by the pilots expression though he doesn't seem to be getting anywhere quickly.
Hopefully follow the pilot to a balloon site.
Groo calmly paces little circles around the pilot, while softly humming and petting Rufferto. Hopefully one of them will spot any beasts before they attack.[preception 6] [Rufferto perception 3] Groo keeps a careful eye on the forest. He thinks he might see some movemnet over in the trees by the clearing they are in but he's not sure. Rufferto just looks like his standard level of unease. The pilot mutters to himself and tries to get the calculations to work out. [int 1] In frustration he tears up the paper and starts again. God, damn useless navigators always getting in the way when you're trying to have a bit of fun with a lady friend, never there when you stuck on the god damn surface.
Get to the cockpit now! Fix the nose dive and level out the plane[dex 5] Slipping and stumbling you manage to make it to the pilots seat shoving the hemorrhaging pilot out of the seat and grabbing the controls [piloting 4] You firmly grasp the blood soaked stick and pull up with all your might, slowly the massive behemoth of of German steel begins to pull up and level out. You feel everyone breath a sigh of relif and then the Wall and the shot to hell gunner go back at it.
Use my daemon arm to throw the pen at anyone trying to attack our pilot who is trying to stabilize the plane, like the German pilot or gunner if they somehow become a threat with no mobility, numerous bullet wounds, and a pencil in their intestines. Aim for the head or vitals. Consciously try to not burn too much energy on the throw. Otherwise, recover energy in cover.Well the pilots [medicine 4] cutting his pants leg up and trying to stuff it into his bullet hole right now. He doesn't look like much of a threat and the other dude is either dead or unconscious you can't tell.
PUUUUUUNCH[str 5] [str 1] The knockout punch slams into the gunners head putting him down for the count…..he might also be dead, it's hard to tell with the thick clothing on.
NJust keep the fucking plane from crashing and pilot it over to the other plane((The other plane crashed like two turns ago.))
((oh...well fuck))NJust keep the fucking plane from crashing and pilot it over to the other plane((The other plane crashed like two turns ago.))
Use knife to cut the necks of all the nazis, and throw their bodies off the plane.You grab a knife and begin cutting throats and dumping bodies after Damian strips them.
Check the bodies for guns, gear, blueprints, etc, before they get thrown off the plane. And keep the pilot alive for the spooks to interrogate if they want, preferably by aiming his own Luger at him with my daemon arm, out of his reach, or tying him up with rope using my daemon arm and holding a pen menacingly in my daemon hand near him. They might pay us more for a prisoner.[medicine 1] The pilot figures he might as well get this over with rather than have to deal with the pain and agony and chill of bleeding out. He goes for the gun.
Try to locate the remains of the crashed planes[perception 2] You look around but you don’t see the plane anywhere, hmm, this might require some searching.
Groo turns to watch the area the disturbance came from, but if it doesn't show itself to be anything for a couple second he'll return to his little patrol circles.[perception 2] He doesn’t see anything now, [Rufferto perception 5] but Rufferto is growling and pointing east, something is definetlly up, Groo hefts his shotgun and gets ready. [Pilot int 4] Well I’m pretty sure that’s right, can’t say I’m positive though.
"Groo knooow! And they keep dying whenever Groo come to ground! Why Groo always only one alive? Living not hard!"
Groo readies his shotgun, and makes sure his katana is ready to be drawn if needed. If the beast goes for the pilot, Groo'll shoot it and body block it.Groo hears a loud snort from where Rufferto points at him, suddenly a bull like beast comes charging out of the underbrush, It’s sides are seemingly growing a long set of vines from it. [Marksmanship 3] Groo fires his shotgun into the head of the bull like creature, it’s bone plates audibly crack about half way but it doesn’t even slow down,[dex 4] Groo hurls himself out of the way of the charging beast, he pick himself back up as the creature comes back around and snorts the vines shifting into a writhing mass as it gathers up it’s strength again.
Take a nice nap.You lie down and fall asleep near the dead abomination, hopefully it won't be featuring it self in any of you nightmares.
"Damn, I was hoping a live Nazi would be worth something to the spooks. Still, we've got what we need. The spooks should be able to get plenty of use out of the papers and the corpse. Should be fine to head home after we find the others. I'm going to see about cracking that safe. Nice job getting control of the plane. Just get us home on one piece and we can get paid." Daemian says to Phineas before leaving the cockpit. He stops in the navigator compartment by the safe. Since he has a moment of peace, he decides to try out his new abilities. Hello. he sends into the daemon infused object that he selects.Neither the safe or the gun seem to be daemon infused, though you feel some faint draw of daemon when you touch the safe. Perhaps something is in there?
Time to test out my new abilities. See if the safe or bullet riddled gun are daemon infused. If so, greet them. If not, greet the daemon in my book knife drawing. And if we are in immediate danger of crashing somehow, bail out and pull my parachute. If I don't have time to do that, activate dragon transformation.
((Well screw you too! >.<))((Can't really do anythig for you, most I could do is drop some supplies off and hope))
You could drop off some Fulton balloons. They come standered with most planes. I'll let you know specifically if they don't.Oh okay then.
Groo's eyes narrow as he meets the beast's gaze. Calmly, he holsters his shotgun, taking his katana into both hands. He squares his stance as the beast digs into the ground, and growls a guttural challenge back at the monster.Drawing his katana, Groo charges at the beast [daemonsim 3+2=5] [Beast resilience 4] Groo charges at the beast, and jumps up his katana slamming into the thick bone plates that make up the beasts neck. It cuts a little more than halfway through the extremely thick bone and sinew and the bull continues it's wayward charge bleeding heavily from it's neck, as it goes though it's vines fan out to sucker punch or entangle Groo [Groo dex 6] [vines 5] Groo dances away from the vines but one of them still lands a glancing blow on his side…that ones going to hurt in the morning. The pilot fires his pistol into the beasts side as it turns [marksmanship 6] [beast ressilaicne 4] The .45 bullets slam into the side of the beast tearing away a couple of vines and perforating it's liver, it continues to bleed. The pilot needs to reload next turn.
Groo meets the beast's charge with one of his own, attempting to decapitate the thing with one precise slash.
Go drop some fultons and circle about, take the time to look about the cockpit for lootablesYou fly over to the [piloting 6] and drop you fultons over the area where Groo and the pilot are fighting for their lives. The balloons gently drift to the ground on their parachutes…You swing around to inspect where they landed oops, that one might have got stuck on a tree.
((Groo always finds his way back, though. As much as I'd like to save Groo, the longer we spend trying increases the chance of the cataclysmic fuckup we seem to suffer every mission.))The mass of color slams into you again. THAT IS AN ACCEPTABLE AGREEMENT.
I would like to speak with you more, once we get somewhere safe, if that would be alright. Daemian sends to the daemon in the book knife before looking at the safe.
Open the safe with my daemon arm (with daemonism), in a way that won't do excessive damage to the plane, or any damage if I can help it. Say hello to whatever daemon object is inside.
Find some music to play while I wait for grue to find the fulton, check how much fuel we haveYou glancing around the plane you see a large magnetic tape with the words zwingend notwendig nacho Reienfolge von Führer on it. Stretching you manage to push what you think is the play button. Immedietlly this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05eVjgMEuWs) begins to boom through the plane.
zzzYou sleep through the sound of Wagner now blasting through the plane. You mutter in your sleep as shrieking women in viking helmets come sweeping through your mind.
Daemian opens the safe, reaching in to make contact with the object inside. Hello.You reach in and find a pair of what appear to be earrings, but they look ilke they might be for looping about your ears? You say hello all the same. Who the bloody hell are you? you hear two different yet extremely similar voices chime in.
See what is in the safe. Greet it with my abilities.
With an enraged feral scream, Groo charges back after the beast before it can recover, aiming to finish his attack on its neck.The beast turns around and faces Groo again, Groo screams in defiance and rage and charges forward the bull becoming huge as the vines growing from it fan out to add width to it's charge. [daemonsim 4+1=5] Groo charges forward his katana slicing through the protective fan of vines and slamming into the beasts neck [beast resilience 1] The katana easily cleaves through the neck of the beasts and it comes off it's momentum propelling it forward as it dies.
Hey, if nothing else, them nazis have good taste in musac.Your dream self shrugs and goes on a rollicking adventure with the women, carrying away the souls of the battle dead to Vallahalla …or maybe you got carried away to it? All you know is that there was a lot mead involved.
Start humming noisily and, presumably, horribly.[charisma 3] You begin humming in the most boring and dull manner possible, if the wall wasn't asleep then he would have already passed out from boredom.
Groo stands above the beast's corpse for a couple seconds, watching and waiting for it to show more signs of life. Once he's confident it won't be getting back up, his angry expression flips back to a joyfully dopey one. "Good boy, Rufferto! Groo not see beastie!" he says, feeding another treat to the utterly terrified canine strapped to his chest. He gives Rufferto a hug with his free arm, petting the dog's head as he turns to the pilot. "Pilot know where to go yet?"[str 6] Groo takes the katana and with skill of an expert butcher quickly and efficiently dismembers the beast he frees a bone plate and grabs a vine tendrils He also collects a large amount of beast meat for Rufferto. The pilot shakes his head st this Well, I suppose we best be getting that fulton down, before another one of them things comes along. Groo nods I'm assuming that Groo would use daemonism to use it just because otherwise good luck chopping the tree down. [daemonism 1+2=3] The daemon is clearly tired from all of this and the swing only takes a small piece out for the trunk., Groo is a bit tired himself and the daemon completely misses the tree barely missing the pilot who was wise enough to stand outside the blood circle.
He then starts hurriedly butchering some of the Beast's corpse while waiting for a response.
Groo's gonna cut out any valuable bits of the beast that he can get to. Also, the entire head, 'cause why not? After he's done, he'll do as the pilot tells him, presumably either getting into a fulton or chopping down the tree the one fulton got stuck in.
"Crap, they're British." Damian mutters to himself before continuing to "speak" with the daemons. My name is Daemian. I suppose the two of you are siblings? What are your names? And do you know where you are?Well, Mr.Damian why the hell you asking all these questions. you hear a set of subdued whispering. The voices both come back very suspicious now …You a copper?
Talking to Daemons. And it's simple questions, not trying to be persuasive or anything, please don't give me a CHA roll.
(("It's not persuasion, it's just a statement that happens to be exactly the right thing to persuade them into liking me!"))Whoops, that's more due to me being tired than Groo. Sorry about that I'll fix it.
Groo will try cutting the tree down again, this time using his full +2 to daemonism. Unless the reduced daemonism bonus is due to being tired, in which case he'll shoot the branch off the tree with his M1911.
(("It's not persuasion, it's just a statement that happens to be exactly the right thing to persuade them into liking me!"))((It's Daemian's actual belief. He isn't lying or trying to manipulate them.))
(("It's not persuasion, it's just a statement that happens to be exactly the right thing to persuade them into liking me!"))((It's Daemian's actual belief. He isn't lying or trying to manipulate them.))
((They can be suspicious, Daemian doesn't care. It's a statement to give them information on his views. It's their call to trust it or not. Daemonism fixed what?))(("It's not persuasion, it's just a statement that happens to be exactly the right thing to persuade them into liking me!"))((It's Daemian's actual belief. He isn't lying or trying to manipulate them.))
Except that they have no reason to trust you.
Also daemonism fixed it. Sorry about that.
((In that case, you're free to not try to be charismatic, but that means you'll automatically fail at it~))((Nah, I can just try to not persuade them of anything. I've already got precedent in my interaction with the daemon in my limbs.))
((If we're just going by precedent we should excuse you from having to roll anything other than your Daemonism.))((That's what I've been saying! Glad to see you agree. :P But anyway, I don't have a daemon tooth yet so CHA rolls are still something I need to avoid.))
Damian chuckles for a moment at being mistaken for a cop. "Fuck the coppers. Always sticking their noses where they don't belong, investigating "strange persons" just because of where they hang around or how they look. He sends back.Alright, so your not a copper. Fine, but if you aren't a copper then what the fuck do yah want?
More daemon talking. It's a statement, not persuasion.
(("It's not persuasion, it's just a statement that happens to be exactly the right thing to persuade them into liking me!"))[daemonism 1+2=3] Groos chop again takes out a tiny sliver of tree. Groo shakes the katana around…maybe it's defective? Shrugging his shoulders he goes for a tried and true method, guns. [marksmanship 2] The shot hits but the branch but fails to make a decent impression. The pilot joins in [marksmanship 4] It takes him a couple of tries but he eventually manages to shoot the branch off and watch as it crashes to the ground. Nice shootin, if I do say so myself.
Groo will try cutting the tree down again, this time using his full +2 to daemonism. Unless the reduced daemonism bonus is due to being tired, in which case he'll shoot the branch off the tree with his M1911.
Go pick upthe guyswhen they set upthe fulton and fly home.[piloting 2] You barelly avoid snagging the ling in your prop and have to do an emergency maneuver to keep from killing you all. shaking your head to clear it you try again [piloting 4] You manage to get it hooked on and Groo and the pillot are yanked to safety.
"I want to know if you know where you are and what you can do."Now why the hell do yah want to know that? We's good honest citizens is all yah need to know….unless yah got a certain fellow who needs a bit'a boshing?
More talking.
With the pilot's assistance, Groo will strap into the fulton (double checking that Rufferto's safely attached to him), and ride his way to freedom!With the officers help Groo, Rufferto and the pilot strap into their fulton chutes and are carried away into the plane from the ground. Groo even manages to keep hold of the beast parts he severed and butchered.
((What is boshing? Do you mean bashing? I'm gonna assume you mean bashing.))Look, mate tell you the truth, we're both in a spot of bother right now, just can't seem to figure out where the hell either of us are. Perhaps you can help us out? To tell the truth neither of us quite now what's going on we had a bit of whiskey while we laid low and the next thing we know we both wake up in different rooms with some newfangled sound emitting contraption putting each others voices into the room between the two of us.
"You're both stuck in a pair of what seem to be earrings. I think your bashing days might be behind you, unless you can do something really amazing with those rings. But you two seem like the type that wouldnt mind a bit of morally ambiguous work. We just finished appropriating this plane, stick with me and maybe we'll run into something else that might require knowledge of dubiously legal things. Although it would help to know what those earrings do."
More talking. If we arrive next turn, pocket the rings.
Go help grue and the pilot up, if possible. Then get flying homeUhh, yeah, you kinda need to be piloting. So we'll have them pull themselves out. The get in so you set course for home.
Yeah, uh, we can climb in ourselves. Maybe the pilot should just man the controls? >.>[str 4] Groo manages to pull himself into the back of the plane the pilot follows along.
Groo looks around in confusion upon boarding the plane. "Why is radio nazi so mad?"Groo lets Rufferto of the chest rig and the dog happily scampers about the plane free to run around at last. He looks happy, but clearly would like some beast meat.
Groo will pet Rufferto a bit, then let him run free. Little doggy deserves it, after that whole fiasco. He'll then go to find Daemead and get his pistol back.
Send the following morse code message by repeatedly turning on and off the radio through out the ship:This is your captain speaking, we are going to ummmmmm have a nice flight home. temperature outside is a ummmm balmy seventy degrees out. ummm terbulance shouldn't be too bad. comolimentary snacks will be provided from stewardish grue.You send the mission
get us home
Damian keeps a hand on the rings in his pocket to maintain the conversation. "It's not good news. You're in a different world now. Those rooms you're in are the mental representation of the physical rings you're bound to. Seems like they're meant for communication. Anyway, I know a guy that might be able to help you two out once we get back."The pistol is currently on the surface…because you threw it through the bulkhead. Anyway the plane has landed you have a turn to grab what you want before the spooks and a bunch of guys in 1940's era hazmat suits come in.
Get the original pilot to handle the radio for landing and whatnot. Keep talking to the daemons. And go find Groo's pistol to give it back.
((I like how a mere thirty minutes after the game's been updated, every player has already posted their action.))((That's what happens when everyone in the game are obsessive lurkers.))
((You seem to have accidentally killed a [/quote tag, there.))You grab two Lugers and Tyler Rufferto gnaw into the beast head. He seems to enjoy it a lot.
Aww, poor Rufferto. Most of Groo's meat is human meat, but he'll let Rufferto gnaw on the beast head a little bit, while he tries to grab as much of the looted nazi equipment as possible. Gotta replace that pistol, after all.
Go pick up the cage with the dead beast in it, and carry it through the streets until I find some spooks.Uhhhhh, yeah I might have explained this poorly. But it's a Nazi abomination not the beast and there's a bunch of men in hazmat suits and the spooks running over to plan right now to pick up that specific object....and pay you for it of course.
Take the music tapeand radio if I can. Go through out the plane and do one last look through for lootables
Go help Groo get a new pistol. And take one for myself. Like the one the pilot shot himself with. Also, grab pencils, pens, and other improvised throwing weapons.You grab a Luger for yourself and give let groo have the other two. You grab a two pencils and a pen as well as a compass.
Just grab the Wagner tape, continuing my characters' recent trend of collecting classical music.Phone is already has that. You want to try take it from him?
I seem to remember there also being a shotgun on one of the nazis, so grab that too. Then leave the plane with Rufferto, making sure to take the beast head.The wall is clutching the shotgun.
((I figure we can redistribute the guns after we get paid.))
Take the radio,we must never give up our wagner.
protect the wagner protect it with life and arm[Engineering 3] You manage to get the radio out of it's case but your not sure which wires to disconnect, since you can't read German.
Daemian moves over to the daemon spook, whispering so hopefully he isn't overheard. He doesn't want his new things taken away before he can figure out what they do, after all. "I found a pair of daemon objects aboard the plane too, in a safe. The daemons inside seem to be related, not sure if that has any effect on what the items do. But they mentioned a room next to the room they each occupy, along with some sort of device that allows them to communicate with each other. I think that room might be the space for a person's mind to occupy, and these rings might be a communication device. Would you mind helping me verify it? Oh, and it seems like the daemons were criminals in their world. Might not want to affect any sort of authoritative air if you communicate with them." He politely asks the daemon spook.Currentlly the trio of spooks are all standing in a group but luckily neither of the other two care that your whispering very audibly in the daemons spooks ear.
If daemon spook agrees to help me test, let the daemons in the rings know we're gonna try to figure out what they do. Give daemon spook one of the rings. Use the other ring and send a generic thought: Testing, one, two, three, testing. If that doesn't work, try it verbally.
Oh, I am? Just throw it full force into Groo's face then.[str 5] [Groo ressiliance 6] The wal lefts the Shotgun in a two handed throw and hurls it at Groo. It slams into Groos' face and bounces off. Leaving a massive bone bruise on his face like someone hit him with a pipe but doesn't damage much else.
Smile and thank the wall for the shotgun. Toss him a treat, too.
Hey, egan what's your level up? Also spayz you need to finish your level up. You've only done half.Oh? +5 to daemonism
lvl up: +5 dex, +5 marksmam
Purchases:
7 get finger of human hand tipped with claws
3 get battery and pack to hold radio in, get someone more competent then I to hooke it all up.
Action:
Just cut all the wirses, we can figure out which connect to which later.
Apollagize for killing the thing and write down an apollagy about how it looked to be in pain and had puppy dog grue eyes.
Also go try and sharpen the daemon hand fingers into claws and lightly poke the local daemonologist and point to the hand and make talking motions
See what I am purchasing for 3 tokens
Wagner is love, wagner is life
Be the wagner
Proect your wagner
Venorate the god-wagner
"No. Murder good."Spoiler: spaz don't look at this. you probably won't like it. (click to show/hide)
Hm̷m͜,̴ ͞I ̧a̕m ҉b҉u̢s͝y,̢ ̢and͜ ͏would҉ ̧th͢u̢s̶ ͜bę un̡able ͢t͏o ̕offȩŗ ̡mu̢c͝h ̀in̵ ̧the ̧w͠ay of a̸ḑv́i͜c͡ȩ. I c͟o̧u͡ld̛ ͟gi̸ve͡ t͞h̵is de̴vi̢ce tǫ ̧an͏ ͝às̀s̸ist͏ant͞ t́hǫugh. ̢Is ̸th͏a̶t a̵n̛ a̛c̷cep̡t͟able arrang͘ȩmén̡t̨?̵((The last time one of your characters tried to get a nonverbal message across to Daemian, he got punched in the gut. I'd recommend you use your words.))
((Edit: MJ has informed me your character is mute. Nevermind.))
"That depends on your partner. I understand you are both very busy men, but if he were willing to keep the other ring, it would permit us to stay in contact on missions. It might even prevent catastrophes like the ones I heard occurred before I got here. And it would be nice to be able to get advice from a more experienced daemonist, if you would be amenable to that." Daemian says, the last part of the statement directed at the daemon spook. "If not, I don't know that I'd have more use for them than you would. You can have them for seven coins."
Talking stuff. If daemon spook doesnt want to keep in contact, remove my ring and give it to them for seven coins. Then greet the daemon in Phineas' hand, see what it's like.
Level up: +2 Charisma, +2 Engineering
"Yaaay, Groo get more money! C'mon Rufferto, Groo has great idea!"Groo takes the trade and then takes the shotgun and lugers to a gunshop. Hmm, the salesman tells Groo first of all…why dos the shotgun have all this splintering on the butt, and why is there all of this blood on all of them? Recovering from his shock at the bloody mess that's smeared all over the guns. Hmm, I'll give you 2 and a 1/2 each for the pistols. Not a lot of call for Lugers right now I'm not sure if the bloods gonna help or hurt the sale. As for the shotgun, it would help if I knew why it's so banged up on the but and why it's got Nazi markings on it.
Take the trade, putting Groo to 10 tokens. Go get the lugers and shotgun valued, but don't sell them. Yet.
As for levelup, Groo will put both stat points in resilience, getting him to +3 resilience. Yay for tankiness. The two skill points are TBD.
((Reminder that we get double levelups in Mainpiston, due to the death rate. Spaz, you've only done half your levelup.))
Get beast arm on in place of human hand and make sure demon hand is in place(The stats were indeed off, but don't worry I fixed it.))
Phineus looks at the Wall for a long time before hissing out WWWWRRRRYYYYYYYY! (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pywjdJ7P-7o)
You can probably assume what I want to do to the wall ((here's a hitn, the red text is a link)
Also shouldn't my str, daemonis, and marksmanship be +1on the char sheets at the end of your posts and dex be at 0.
"I think that would work. I suppose your assistant could always give you the device if I encountered an issue that required more nuanced advice than they could provide, right? If so, I agree." Daemian responds to the spook before looking at Phineas. "You can go take the radio back in a bit. If you want me to do this, you need to hold still." He states. While that sounds wonderful, I'm afraid I can't this time. You see, your new lodgings are in the limb of one of my allies. The good thing is that you are in his hand, so you could probably still bake and cook if you wanted to. I understand this may be confusing for you, but I wanted to ask you to aid my ally however you can. Daemian sends to Granny daemon. "Alright, you can go kill thathe other guy. Or take the radio back. Or whatever." He says to Phineas.Oh such a polite young man. Take care dearie don't worry about my I have my Knitting and kitchen to keep me occupied.
Mostly talking stuff, then go see if there's a police auction going on where I could buy Damiin's knife fragments.
((Do any of you want a luger or the shotgun? Or should I just sell the guns? We can share the proceeds, since I don't think there's anything I want to buy immediately anyway.))Ah, so your privateers eh? Well some customers like things like that. All that swashbuckling and shit. But regardless I think an offer of 6 coins for your "Groo gun" would be fine.[\blue]
"Groo crew kill lots of nazis, take plane and guns! Groo think Wall hit nazi over head with shotgun, like this!" he mimes bashing a head in with the shotgun. "Oh... what if Groo keep nazi shotgun, but give Groo shotgun?'
Explain the blood and bashing marks. Then ask if they will accept the non-nazi shotgun, while Groo keeps the nazi shotgun.
As for skillpoints, both go to piloting. I have the distinct feeling our pilot's gonna get himself killed eventually.
If by "eventually" you mean right now. You realize that I have +3 str, right?You buy the arm. But it would appear as if the surgeons don't sell upgrades for that cheap.
Purchase for 7 tokens a human-mod beast arm, and pay an extra 3 tokens to make it as strong as possible.
((Heh, no need for the profuse apologies; to my memory, you have a nigh-perfect record of updating every day. Taking a holiday off is to be expected. Enjoy your break! :) ))Thanks, I did indeed enjoy it.
"WHEN YOU COME TO IT AND YOU CAN'T GO THROUGH IT AND YOU CAN'T KNOCK IT DOWN-"[str 3] you slowly but surely begin to push the prone phineas towards the edge of the tarmac and thus towards the edge of the island.
Use my shield to gradually roll the prone phenonrze over to the edge of the platform.
Unload my shot gun and grab hold of something[Str 1]
Groo will unload the three rounds from his shotgun, then sell it for six coins. He'll keep the lugers for now, and buy however much luger ammo a coin gets him. Two mags?Groo hands over the guns and buys his ammo. He then wanders over to Damian as he squares his shoulders and heads towards the police auction.
Then he'll leave and go find some member of his team. Daearth?
So is there an auction going on? Or a chance they'll let me buy the fragments before the auction?You ask around for when the police auction is. It seems that your in luck, they are auctioning off your bothers possessions since the case is closed. Your pretty sure that they won't sell it early it being an auction and all.
((...Stored strength, Spazy? Did you get confused about which game this is?))((on the character sheet it says my daemon handbhasnstored energy in it))
Groo will happily great Dimaen, and start following him like puppy, occasionally stopping to give his actual puppy some petting.
((I could be mistaken, but I think that means it's store bought, and its power level is 5, like standard store bought daemonism stuff. Beast mods likely have similar power levels decided upon installation, as beast mastery uses the same system as daemonism.))((ok, my bad))
Just keep myself from getting shoved off the island.[str 2] Your beast hands twitting fails to grab onto the floor with any force.
throw knife (which should be dex I think) at the wall using daemon hand
use beast hand to dig into ground
((...Stored strength, Spazy? Did you get confused about which game this is?))
Groo will happily great Dimaen, and start following him like puppy, occasionally stopping to give his actual puppy some petting.
Keeping the shield between me and Pheonas, keep pushing him until he's right at the edge.[str 5] The wall shoves his sheld forward until the prone and rolled phineaus is teetering right on the edge.
Welp, wait until the fragments come up for auction. Pat Groo on the head for luck. Place a first bid of 2 coins. Go up to 7 if bidding actually occurs for unusable fragments of a criminal's knife. If it goes up to 7, ask me again then.You square your shoulders and head into the hives nest of the enemy the police station. You stomp into the station your blood boiling with rage. What kind of right do these pigs have to put good people like my brother under investigation just as we got past the mourning and hold. You think as you make your way towards the auction room. As you walk towards the open door marked auction an officer trips and stumbles into. [Charisma 1] Your rage at the police erupts GET YOUR GODDAMN HANDS OFF ME YOU FUCKING PIG. you scream at the officer. The entire police station turns towards you, a couple of the officers reach for their nightsticks while several of the more worried ones take a step back and begin to reach for their revolvers but don't draw them yet. Groo on the other hand is giggling as rufferto runs in circles around Groos legs.
Ry and keep from falling to death. Fuck it, the wall can get the wagner tape. I'll find some more good classical music, just try to keep from falling.You regretfully concede the Wagner tape to THE WALL. Now that you think about it, that arm looks weird as hell and non standard, why did they put all those bioluminescent sacks on it? You disregard the thought when the sets his sheild down, so that it relies on it's simple girth to keep from tipping over, and reaches his arm over to grab your shotgun. You hand it over and he pulls the sheild back. letting you gratefully flop away from the edge. He hands the shotgun back over to you onc
"LOOK DOWN AND SEE YOUR DEATH, SCRUBLORD! INCHING CLOSER, CLOSER, EVER CLOSER TO YOUR DEATH."You slam the shield into place keeping him in place and then grab the shotgun and knife. After you do that you let him not fall off the edge.
The Wall's arm begins to glow faintly, and takes on a less threatening posture, in hilarious contrast with the Wall's overall stance.
"H͝ưh.͘ ̶My.̛.. ̡arm ͏thi̢nk҉s t͏h̸at ̨I ̕s̀hǫuld͏n͟'t̶ ̕kill you̴.̛ ̢I'͢ll ̡be ne͏e͘d͝i͏n̶ǵ p̀eơple l͝i̕k͟e you͏,̀ who̸ ̛wat͜c͜h͏ ̸my͡ b͏a͜c̕k͠.
̢Şo ͘h̨erȩ's͠ ̴t́h͠é ḑe͜a̷l:͟ ̴I g̵iv̢e y̸ou̕ y҉oùr̕ ̢lif͜e̷ ́no̷w̷, ͜I̴ ͘ke̷e̛p ţh̶e ̷ta̶pe,͟ ̧a͢nd ͟w͏e ͞w̕on't͢ ҉k͘eep ̨fighting͟ e̡a͏ch͏ ̛ot̛ḩèr.̢"
Make sure to grab the knife he threw and the shotgun he's barely holding on to, for both of our safeties. Then let him go.
"Holding an auction for my brother's things. The fucking nerve." Damian mutters as he continues to make his way to the auction.
Brush it off and go to the auction.
"Awww, look at Rufferto! He's so cuuute~!"A younger officer approaches you, he tips his hat to Groo and politely pets the happy doggy on the head. He speaks in a polite and respectful tone. Why yes he is very a very cute dog. But, ah sir, but do you perhaps need a drive to the hospital? That's an awful lot of blood on you. He glances up at Groo's smiling face. He turns ever so slightly green.
Groo keeps playing with Rufferto, and tries to follow Daemain too. If any police come up to him, he'll pick up Rufferto and hold him out to the officer, offering to let them pet the nice doggy.
Hopefully they won't care about his blood and paint drenched clothing, or the veritable armory carried beneath...
gather up stuff, get wound fixed, Wander off and go try to find more music tapes or someone selling them.You gather your stuff that wall tosses to you and then crawl to the nearest field tent to see about getting your tendons reattached to muscles. The medics look up from the forms they're filling out, and after inquiring what the hell happened to you give you to which you respond with a simple shrug, they shake their heads and give you a form, stating that you give the hospital the right to preform experimental treatments with the grafting of beast flesh to damaged tissue to promote faster healing, you sign mostly because they don't really give you a choice and they give you a shot of morphine. You wake up a while later with a set of stitches on your heel the skin around the stitches curiously discolored to a bright blue and your beast arm seems to have had some beast tissue stitched onto it. Shaking off the aftereffects of the anesthesia you get up and hobble out of the hospital, it seems whatever weird substance they injected into your heel seems to have worked, you've already got pretty good funcotnallity, your sure that by the time the next mission occurs you'll be right as rain, for now at least as long as you don't go spiriting anywhere or run a couple of marathons you'll be fine.
Concider publishing beast story under title of Beauty And The Beast: Homecoming.
Wait for the fragments to go up for bidding. Start bidding at 2 coins, or 1 if nobody else has bid. Go up to 7. Check again with me if it goes higher than 7. They'require useless fragments for most people, so I'm not sure if they'd even go for that much, but I want them.You go to make a bid of 1 no one else seems to bid on it and the auctioneer is about to say sold when the officer you insulted and then followed you in calls out two. in response you raise your bid to 3, and the police man reciprocates raising it to 4. you call out 6. The police man clearly satisfied decides to let you have it at 6, and walks away smugly.
"Silly officer, that's beast blood! Groo is fine, Groo take lots of trips to surface! Oh, Groo have to go, before he loses damdem. C'mon Rufferto!"I see, uh well have a good day, uh sir. the rookie glances over to an older member of the force. He gestures at the lack of blood on the floor before just shrugging and making a go ahead signal. the rookie turns back to the oblivious Groo Uh, enjoy the auction sir. he lowers his voice and says in a whisper and tell your friend to not insult the whole station next time.
Groo tells the officer the above, then runs off after Demdam. He'll watch the auction for fun stuff, like guns!
((MJ, you may wish to reread your post. Remember what I said about midnight writing being non-ideal?))
Give Pingas back his knife and shotgun.
Get some swing music (must say parlov stellar has warmed me up to swing music)
Also go buy some ingredients for a cake
We're going to go indulge grandma daemon and make a cake for the team.
Cooking for psychoes starring granda Daemon and her mute deary
Filmed infront of alivehorrified audience.
The legend never dies!You fulfill the legend of the walls. By standing perfectly still with your feet together and arms outstretched and not moving on a semi deserted street corner with a pilots cap at your feet and the sheild half resting half strapped to your outrstreched and slightly glowing beast arm. Amazingly no one seems to be that interested in the half naked man holding a tower sheild.
Get some swing music (must say parlov stellar has warmed me up to swing music)You purchase some swing music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY2B4h_lNgU) and some ingredients for Black forest cake, [int 6] You and the granny daemon set to work assembling and baking the cake, in the merry chaos of making it you think you might have added a fair bit of kirsch but oh well, it's all just flavor in the end. In a complex bit of sign language the granny daemon communicates how happy she is to be baking again.
Also go buy some ingredients for a cake
We're going to go indulge grandma daemon and make a cake for the team.
Cooking for psychoes starring granda Daemon and her mute deary
Filmed infront of alivehorrified audience.
Groo, not understanding how to bid, just shouts "Want!", but otherwise fails to achieve anything. Instead, he keeps following the Draemin. He'll also accept the offer for the knife hilt.After the awkward moment where the auctioneer momentarily stops his chatter and looks at groo in confusion before continuing, Groo hands over the knife handle and receives the two coins in return.
"Oh, Deaner, friendly officer said whole station hate you. Groo wonder why, Daener and police all so nice, not even shoot Groo..."
"I hate them too. But you're my friend, Groo. And they are jackasses who wouldn't pick a fight they couldn't win without grievous losses. They'd rather butt in to a law-abiding daemonist's business repeatedly. Hey, that knife handle you have looks neat though. I'll give you two coins for it." Daemian replies, ignoring the incorrect name.You hand over the coins and receive the knife handle. It takes a couple of times to get a response from the knife handle but you eventually hear a faint moan followed by. God damn, what the hell did I drink last night. I feel like every wave of my being is pain right now. Where the hell am I, why is the last thing I remember stabbing a guy in a warehouse. Alright keep it together just need to shift frequencies a bit and they'll never know it was me then I'll find someplace where I can get a stiff drink and then try to patch up the shattered pieces of my self….oh god damn it, where the hells the rest of me. The voice trails off as if suddenly realizing you are there. What the hell do you want I'm in the middle of realizing that I misplaced 70% of myself.
Leave the police station. Give Groo two coins if he wants them for the daemon knife handle. Go back to the apartment and make contact with the daemon in the knife handle.
Groo stares at Demdam, increasingly confused as he listens longer "But... Groo already Demdaem's weapon and friend! And Groo not harm Deamdaem ever! Groo can't do that now, but Groo still want all his pieces!" He seems to be on the verge of tears.((The italics is supposed to be thoughts, syv.))
;-;
I want to know if you want to be whole again, since I believe I have your missing pieces. There are two condition before I help you pull a reverse Humpty Dumpty. The first is that you will not harm me, ever. I'm not looking to mimic my brother that you killed. The second is that you will work with me and support me, not hinder me. I need a weapon, and you are powerful enough that I think it would be beneficial to work together.Well look, I'll try okay? But let me tell you, your brother was really overtaxing himself was a bit unstable you know what I mean? But as long as your saner then your brother I suppose we can reach an agreement. at this point Phineaus runs up and drags you and the teary eyed Groo over to the plane, where he silently presents a slice of black forest cake to you.
Dealing with daemons the polite way.
Groo stares at Demdam, increasingly confused as he listens longer "But... Groo already Demdaem's weapon and friend! And Groo not harm Deamdaem ever! Groo can't do that now, but Groo still want all his pieces!" He seems to be on the verge of tears.
;-;
((Oh. Would have been nice to know, if only to avoid the issues my phone has with formatting the text. It doesn't like the italics button.))((Sorry about that, I thought I told you about that when I told you about the weapon abilities, but clearly I was mistaken. My apologies.))
"I'm talking to the knife, Groo. You have all your pieces. I think."
Go gather everyone up to eat cake.You find some plates and silverware lying around in the officers mess hall, you grab them, and take them back to where the cake is now. Right next to the captured meshermit. You lead the the wall back to the cack, seeing him savor the flavor of the delicious cake and then you run off to fetch Groo and Damian.
Try and find some plates and silverware for everyone.
Go find some energy-rich foods to fuel my prodigious metabolism.You, alerted by your finelly tuned senses, namely Phineaus tapping you on the shoulder and making an eating motion and a flying motion with his hands, to the fact that there is some form of food near the plane. You follow Phineaus back to the plane and find glorious cake as Phineaus runs off to find Groo and Damian.
If it's just repair the knife then engineering and light engineering kit is the stat for it and equipment for it.((I thought you said I could use daemonism to have the knife pull itself back together, it would just take energy. Back when I asked about the knife the last time.))
Eat slice of cake and play the music I have. Give everyone a thumbs up.
after everyone is done eating see about getting some scrap metal from the german plain and using it to armor the back of and toes of boots or shoes.
The Wall eats most of the cake before everyone else gets there.
Groo forgets his sadness upon seeing the cake, and hurries to gobble down whatever is left!Phineas slots the tape into the radio, sets it down on the ground next to the cake grabs a slice for himself and starts up the swing party. While the Wall eats about 6/10's of the cake in a somewhat messy fashion and then goes off next to the plane to admire his shield. Groo soon arrives and consumes almost the entire rest of the cake leaving just enough for two small slices or one largish slice.
Name: Aigresaur[ACCEPTED]
Description: Rawr Rawr Rawr It's an Aigresaur
Stats
Strength: +1
Intelligence: -2
Dexterity: -1
Resilience: +1
Perception: -2
Charisma: +2
Skills
Piloting: -2
Marksmanship: -2
Daemonism: -1
Doctor: -2
Beast mastery: +3
Engineering: +1
Inventory: what you have on you.
knife
aviators clothing
whatever you bought from the armory.
Beastmaster Kit
Time for another nap! The life of THE WALL is a simple one.satisfied with his successful demolition of the cake, THE WALL leans his shield against the plane and is soon fast asleep beneath his makeshift lean to.
Just bend some metal around the back of the leg with a bit of overhange above the heel that should help[engineering 4] You get the metal strip into the shape of a shin guard and drill a couple of holes to serve as holes for the straps, you get those tied on as well. The overall effect is a little uncomfortable and bulky, but your shins feel pretty protected against cutting attacks.
"Is that better?"The daemon voice sounds pained
Asking the daemon. If it needs energy to repair the blade, donate some of mine. Or go use the heavy daemon kit to strengthen it.
Groo bored again. Groo go find spooks! They always fun, ask Groo to kill bad people.Groo with Rufferto at his side and Aigresaur clutching to his back like a remora hitching a ride on a shark wanders towards one of the dingy aparemtents the spooks like to meet in.
Aigresaur eats the cake happily and decides to love partner Groo. Huggle the Groo if it lets me.Aigresaur wolfs down the cake and then sprints over to give a hug to Groo. Latching on like a lamprey, he clings to Groo’s adomen as he slowly lumbers after Ruffferto towards one of the many dingy apartments the group always seems to find the spooks at.
Go find a spook.We're off the find the wizard, the wonderfull wizard of loot
"S͜pook͘. P͡risc͢i̕lla wa͘n̕t̡s̛ ͝m͞ore ͏go̧l͠d͡, ̶so͏ ͜g̛ive TH͏E W̛A̕LL ̀a ͠job̵."
Go find a spook.We're off the find the wizard, the wonderfull wizard of loot
"S͜pook͘. P͡risc͢i̕lla wa͘n̕t̡s̛ ͝m͞ore ͏go̧l͠d͡, ̶so͏ ͜g̛ive TH͏E W̛A̕LL ̀a ͠job̵."
Go get suited up and be ready for the embark.
"Okay!"
Okay!
I think you took a bit too much. I'm really tired. And I'm guessing the others have all run off to find another job. I'm gonna try to recover a bit before we get into trouble." Daemian sends to the knife daemon.You decide to visit the daemons place. You take a massive hit from the special blend and then the whole world slowly fades away, replaced by the sitting room in the daemons house. The daemon is once again sitting in the room The room itself has many holes punched in the walls and several of them have been hastily repaired and covered over in wall paper. The daemon stares at you, before asking in a somewhat unhappy way, his face visibly cracking. “Why am I living with this buffoon? It was bad enough by myself, but this I just can’t stand” Then suddenly you hear a door slamming and the sound of something shattering COMPANY?. The daemon clearly on the verge of some violence, manages to compose himself. Yes, company he says, clearly exasperated. And please tell me that was not my china. AH, SO THAT’S WHAT YOU CALL IT, I JUST USED IT FOR CUTTING FRUIT IT WORKED POORLY. The daemon’s well what look like eyes on a mask flash with anger. You should have let this half sentient abomination kill us. He whispers to you as the weapon walks in. The weapon is a massive pile of frequencies towering above you and is completely stark red, his frequency is very slow though for a daemon, exactly in time to your heart…weird, his face makes no sense of course and he is stark naked. HELLO Mr. DAMIAN he shouts. I AM WEAPON NUMBER 3B#453 BUT YOU CAN CALL ME WEAPON OR 53 FOR SHORT. He punches a wall for emphasis on short sending plaster raining to the floor, the daemon does not flinch when he does this, instead just staring straight at you with angry eyes.
Time to get some rest. Actually, this would probably be a good time to check on the Weapon and limb daemon. Smoke and go talk to them in my head while I recover. Mainly just seeing if they're alright, and what the Weapon is like.
"Just checking in. I hope everything is alright here. How are the two of you getting along? And my name is Daemian." He says once he enters his mental space, greeting the daemon and introducing himself to the Weapon.
Phineus shrugs and then nods before walking over next to grue
Copiloting time!
get in the plane before grue!
Go Capture the beast. Follow Groo onto the plane and watch him drive. Strap self down. Don't touch buttons with my epic piloting skills.Anywhere you want to sit in particular? Theres the tail gunner if you want an actual seat and the turret gunners if you prefer the standing gun.Theres also a seat in the rear ventral gun and a added on one in the front ventral gun. Finding none of those to your liking you could also just hold onto something in the bomb bay. Damian is there right now with clearly high as a kite.
((Good luck with your exams, MJ.))((thanks))
"You've never dealt with children before, have you daemon? Let me see if I can make this situation a bit more manageable." Daemian says to the daemon before turning to the Weapon. "53. First, I want to say thanks for doing so well helping me talk to other daemons. I'm proud of you. But it seems we need to set some rules. No more breaking the house. It makes me sad to see it broken like this, and it makes Mr. Daemon mad. If you want to punch something, I think i can make something for you to punch. Also, no more taking or using Mr. Daemon's things without his permission. And no more breaking his things. It is not considerate. If you want your own things that you can break, then tell me what you want and I will try to make it for you."
Conversation. Really hoping there won't be a CHA roll, but I can't really argue against it without knowing how 53 perceives Daemian. Anyway, you said Daemonism was for making things in the mental realm, right? Daemonism up a reinforced punching bag or training dummy for 53. Also Daemonism up new china for Mr. Daemon, and any non-dangerous stuff 53 asks for.
Start plotting a course and getting on our way.[piloting 4] You take a pencil out and chart a course that should take you around most of the beast hot spots that you know of at least. With that boring task done you get to the fun part. You grab the controls and race through the preflight it's not like you can understand any of the checklist, it's all in German anyway. Tossing it aside you act on your general ideas of the rules of avionics and mange to get the plane started and warmed up. You taxi down the runway and take off into the wild blue yonder. As you fly you look around, Seems a couple of bags are around but they don't seem to be doing much. You eventually see the airfield the name FORD clearly emblazoned on it. Taking a calming breath you set the plane down in the overgrown runway. You check your map, the building looks to be about 1 mile away.
Start cleaning up the bloodstains. By letting my arm slurp them up, of course.I believe we already discussed this on IRC. To recap, give it a mouth or some aviolis or something and then you can do that.
Strap down in the forward gunner's seat where I can see everything. Be ready to go fix jams and malfunctions with my +1 engineering skill.YOu strap into the Ventral gunners seat since THE WALL and Priscilla are already in the Front gunners seat. You watch as some bags fly around. Nothing that threatening though. Their just bags. And theres only like five of them. Unlike when theres a big swarm, when you'd get a hundred of the fuckers, could strip a cow to the bone in seconds.
Groo will wait in the bomb bay, playing with Rufferto. Both he and Ruffs will be wearing parachutes for the whole ride.Groo and rufferto both strap into parachutes, Groo reaches into his pocket and after a little bit of rummaging around extracts a rib bone from it and begins to play fetch with Ruffferto using it.
"Perhaps this is fate's way of giving you that opportunity. You could teach the Weapon. Teach him to control himself and act with restraint. You seem to be pretty good at that considering you haven't tried to kill me yet. Maybe teaching him to duel would help him learn control. And he may grow smarter as he gets stronger, so it wouldn't be too different from raising a child." Daemian says to the daemon as he recovers. "I'll make some new china for you once I get the energy, and then I can see about patching those holes."The daemon makes a sound that you assume is a sigh,Why, must I always play the maid to your mistakes? But you seem too now what this is and thus out of a lack of anything else, I will teach the weapon to duel, if it's old enough to destroy my house it's at least old enough to learn how to fight me over it. Perhaps in time and with education he will eventually make a useful scribe. Or become knowledgeable in the natural sciences. The daemon stares at you his frequencies shifting in a barely controlled meter. But, if this things utterly destroys this house, because you misjudged it's nature. The next time you come here, only one of us will leave hear alive. My family has owned this house for three generations, I will not see it destroyed piecemeal by whatever ruffian you drag in.
It takes a daemon to raise a weapon. If I recover enough energy, see about getting the daemon a new set of china.
I really like this video about non-pilot airmen manning the guns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueBSG97qkScI watched it. Was pretty interesting.
Load gun and wait near the exit.You lock and load and stand by the door.
Groo exits the plane, not strapping Rufferto to himself quite yet, and looks around for beasts to kill. For now he'll keep his katana at the ready, but won't preemptively shoot anything.Groo steps out of the plane, and for the first time that he can remember, intentionally sets foot on the ground.
((I just checked, Groo should have 17 coins, should have the normal shotgun removed, and have three more loose shotgun rounds. Also, two luger mags, one of which would be loaded into the empty luger.))
"We should go make sure 53 is aware of how things are going to go." Daemian replies, ignoring the daemon's threat for the moment as he makes his way to the basement. "53, we're here. Please stop hitting things so we don't get accidentally hurt." Daemian loudly announces as they get closed to where the Weapon is. "So, here is how things will work. You will refrain from destroying this house any further. It has sentimental value to Mr. Daemon, who still hasn't seen fit to tell me his name, and I'm afraid continued destruction may drive him mad. Then I'll have to deal with his outrage and I will be very unhappy. In return, he will teach you how to duel to teach you control. He will also be responsible for teaching you other things as you grow. Think of him like a parent or mentor. And do not kill him. Also do not let him kill you." Daemian pauses for a moment to let the Weapon process the information before continuing. "You said you were made to destroy, and you are. But you cannot destroy anything from in here, and you shouldn't destroy anything here because it would upset Mr. Daemon. What you can do is help me to destroy my enemies. The most effective way I can think of, short of being able to actually attack with your power or use it to imbue objects to use, is for you to provide energy for me to use the daemon tools that I have. If you could do that, it would be very helpful. Do you have any questions?"While its a struggle to be heard over the sounds of a solid steel statue being slowly pummeled into a piece of scrap metal. [charisma 6] Your fairly sure that 53 gets the message but it's hard to tell, he doesn't seem to stop pummeling the statue, however he does seem to slow down his pummeling. 53 responds I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THAT SIR! I'M NOT ENTIRELY SURE I CAN PROVIDE ENERGY!….SPEAKING OF SIR WHAT IS ENERGY? BUT ARE YOU SURE I CAN'T DESTROY ANYTHING OUTSIDE? I HAVEN'T TRIED YET!
Talky stuff. If my energy fully recovers, see about making some fine china for Mr. Daemon with daemonism.
Go forth and Tank.
Go forwards and support
Groo will boldly lead the way to the team's goal, to the best of his ability!
We're here already, without any glorious air combat?
Go forth and catch em all. Stay a safe distance behind the wall.
"Hmm, maybe you can. We will test it later, in a safe, controlled environment where I can get medical attention if something goes wrong. Or in a dangerous, uncontrolled environment if I have no other options. Energy is...hard to explain. It's like power. It lets you do things. I'm sure Mr. Daemon will teach you about it." Daemian replies to 53 before stopping for a moment. "I think it's time for me to wake up. The others have probably gotten a job and flown us there while I was asleep. Or more likely crashed on the way. You two be nice to each other. No more unwarranted destruction of Mr. Daemon's things." He says before heading for the front door.YES SIR! 53 replies enthusiastically as he slams his fist into the training dummy. The daemon winces at the noise before glancing around the carnage and ruefully shaking his head. He begins to walk down towards the basement where 53 is while you see yourself out. Namely by opening the door and striding confidently into the inky blackness…..your never quite sure why you always wake up in the sitting room yet exit out the door, but that seems to be the way things work here.
Wake up, go with the others. Stay in a safe spot, like the back or middle of the group.
"What'd I miss? What are we supposed to get paid for this time?"
All clustering around a wall? So much for combat spacing.((truely the perfect action, may I sig this?))
set down a bear trap equivalent. Stand behind it and be bait. Shake butt to entice the quarry.
This beastmaster kit... what does it do anyway?
((I think it lets you tame a live beast, and possibly perform field surgery on beast corpses to get the neat parts outo of them. If they corpses aren't completely destroyed by gunfire, anyway.
Also, MJ, I think you might need to edit the daemon knife info in my sheet since the daemon fixed it.))
"Hey, you all healed up in there? We might be getting into a fight soon and I'll need your assistance." Damian sends to the daemon knife as he watches his surroundings and those bags on the corpse apprehensively.
Check up on the knife daemon. Stay in the middle of the group, or at least behind the Wall. If those bags attack us and get into melee range, or if something else sneaks up on us ans gets into melee range, carve them up with my knife wielded by my daemon arm. Double daemonism combo! And hopefully some sort of useful benefit over wielding it with my fleshy arm.
Duck behind THE WALL!You were already clustering by the THE WALL so it’s more just hiding. [Marksmanship 3] You fire wildly at the bags it hits about 5 bags on the outskirts of the beast carcass but sends the rest into a frenzy. They swarm at the group. [Beast arm str 3] You try to grab a couple of them, but they are far too nimble. In retaliation some of the bags try to swarm you [bags 1] [dex 4] The bags swarm is weak and scattered you even manage to crush a couple as you go.
and open fire on the bags, if anyone gets close enough for melee go try to brag one with my claw hand and stab it with the other hand
Face enemy and hold down right click.The wall puts up his shield, and braces as the swarm of bags slam into him [bags 3] They slash at him but it seems his shield mostly manages to send them breaking around him like a rock. He does get a couple of superficial scapres though.
Groo holsters his shotgun, and starts taking out bags with his .45 pistol. He'll protectively wield his sword in his off-hand, but dodging behind the wall is preferable to parrying a blow.Groo pulls his pistol and starts doing some target practice. [Marksmanship 2] Groo takes out a couple of the bags. But there’s still about 3
All clustering around a wall? So much for combat spacing.You do the sexy wiggle dance as bags swarm around you. You also toss a net at them. [Str 6] It captures about 2/5’s of the bags and sends them tumbling to the ground.
set down a bear trap equivalent. Stand behind it and be bait. Shake butt to entice the quarry.
((I think it lets you tame a live beast, and possibly perform field surgery on beast corpses to get the neat parts outo of them. If they corpses aren't completely destroyed by gunfire, anyway.[daemonism 2+4=6] Your knife shifts into a long almost flyswatter like contraption and takes out a number of bags.
Also, MJ, I think you might need to edit the daemon knife info in my sheet since the daemon fixed it.))
"Hey, you all healed up in there? We might be getting into a fight soon and I'll need your assistance." Damian sends to the daemon knife as he watches his surroundings and those bags on the corpse apprehensively.
Check up on the knife daemon. Stay in the middle of the group, or at least behind the Wall. If those bags attack us and get into melee range, or if something else sneaks up on us ans gets into melee range, carve them up with my knife wielded by my daemon arm. Double daemonism combo! And hopefully some sort of useful benefit over wielding it with my fleshy arm.
Rip and tear![str 2] Your clumsy attempts to tear the bags apart are easily dodged by the bags.
Groo shoots an annoyed look at his pistol, then holsters the weapon with a shrug. He firmly grips his daemon katana with both hands, then lets loose an angry war cry and starts cleaving bags to pieces![daemonism 5+2=7] Groo hefts his katana and with a blood curdaling scream of rage begins to angrily swing his katana around as though he were a samurai fighting off huns. He takes out few bags though less than Damian. [Bag 2] [Groo dex 6] He easily sidesteps a bag counter attack and they go sailing by.
Swat them bags.[3+4=7] Your knife forms into a slightly better fly swatter making holes in it self that allow it to become wider all around and move faster, you wave it around and manage to down a few more bags than you did last time, you also feel a bit more tired. Nothing too bad though.
Duck and Cover away from the bags. Keep spewing out more traps at any that try to chase me.[dex 2] You try to run out of the swarm and are entierlly unsuccseful in this endeavor as you get lost amid the swirling bags panicking you throw you another net net [str 3] It goes sailing by most of the bags getting a single bag that’s tardy in it’s dodge.
What else do I have in this thing besides nets?
Spew nets galore to trap ALL THE BAGS. Then find a cattle prod equivalent to stun and shock the captured bags into submission!
This beastmaster kit... what does it do anyway?
It comes with a variety of ropes, nets, and large syringes filled with fast acting tranquilizers….. try not to overdo those. In addition to that it comes with bone saws, a couple of scapels that resemble a butchers cleaver along with some other knives and grabbers at the bottom of it all is a reciprocating rotary saw with a huge battery. It's also got a variety of acids to chew through metal, in a little pocket by the side of it, theres a see through plastic case with a business card on it. It reads we understand that beast anatomy is vastly varied, in the event that you encounter a beast that you are unable to dissect or capture please contact this number at the first available opportunity. It also lists a radio frequency and the words. We Deliver.
Tank.You hunker down by your shield and hide there. You don't see any threats around but that's nothing a healthy does of paranoia can't fix.
Groo finds Rufferto, and gives him a treat while checking him over for injuries. If puppy is fine, Groo will go over to the big beast corpse and try to butcher what little remains.Rufferto seems mostly fine, seems he was smart enough to crawl into a hollow tree trunk when the bags started swarming. Smart dooogie.
Recover energy.You stare around nervously for any new enemies while you try to recover some energy, you feel a bit better. you'd rate your self as okayish.
Reload, count shells leftYou reload, you've got 6 shells in the magazine, and 4 looses shells in your pocket.
Hang bag o' bags over shoulder, whistle, follow tracks.((Bagception!))
((so got bored and decided to google Rferaetios I gqot a portugese company that manufactures refractory materials))((intresting, considering I literally just typed that in at random))
Move to watch the bags in the bag. If beasty boi fails to tame them or contain them, start ripping and tearing with knofe and claw.
Hang bag o' bags over shoulder, whistle, follow tracks.You put the bag on you shoulder, noting that it is surprisingly light, seems the bags don't weight that much. [charisma 1] You whistle tunelessly yet somehow somberly as you begin to follow the tracks.
Hand the bag of bags over to The Wall.
Gather all the traps and stuff and follow along.
Find a clearing set, down a lure and surround it with bear-traps or net-traps or something. Then move a safe distance away to see what comes out of the woodworks.[engineering 6] You grab a tons of chunks of long pig, assorted beast chunks, and some mushrooms from you resident butcher, Groo, and quicklly pile them in the center of the street. Right next to several of the model T’s. In a frenzy of engineering energy you string nets up between model T’s and create an overcomplicated series of trip wires attached to a variety of nets and various places where you have placed syringes. All which are tied to one single Model T abandoned in the center of the of the road. By the time you finish all of this frantic trap making, you notice a lot of weird shapes lurking near the doorways as well as the subtle sound of feathers ruffling. [Dex 4] You decide that now might be a good time to hightail it out of here, you take off running but stumble as you run and nearly fall, slowing your progress towards the comforting bulk of the wall and causing you to only get half way there.
Move behind the wall and prepare to fire if need beYou sidle up next to the wall and aim your shotgun downrange towards running Aigresaur and the traps.
Groo pauses just outside the gate to try and affix Rufferto's new nametage to the doggy's collar.Groo possessing a suprsing amount of creativity, [engineering 6] ties the entire femur bone to Ruffertos’ collar, Rufferto barks once as he collapses to the floor unbalanced from the weight and length.
Get into cover. Recover energy if I need to. If I get attacked, defend myself with the daemon knife.You hide behind the wall as Aigreasur lays down a variety of traps and then starts running as several shapes begin to form in the doorways.
TANKYou stand proudly your shield hefted confidently as two of your teammates cower behind you.
TAAAAAAANKYou stand fast as everyone else cowers near you. [Str 5] You don’t even flinch when Aigresaur rams into you at top speed and collapses to the ground when slams into your shield.
Keep running for the wall. Try to stay low and/or rolltododge if I end up in the line of fire.[dex 6] You stumble along and crash into the wall as you run into THE WALL
Fire at any beasts movring torwards our groupFor now they mostly seem to be investigating the bait. And growing angry with the traps.
"Good dogge!"Groo begins to frolick and tries to get Rufferto to play with him. [Rufferto int 3] It takes a while but seems to be beginning to figure out how to compensate for it. He should eventually figure it out on his own at this point. He gives Groo a happy bark as he looks up at Groo from his somewhat unsteady feet.
Groo will play with Rufferto, helping the pup learn to compensate for the excessive weight of his new nametag!
Cut down any beasts that attack our group and get into melee range. Block any ranged attacks aimed at me with the knife.Right now the beasts seem to be looking at the bait with caution. But there is a lot of noise coming from the city hall.
Fire at any beasts movring torwards our groupx2
"WHEN AN UNSTOPPABLE FORCE MEETS AN UNMOVABLE WALL, THE UNSTOPPABLE FORCE FUCKING STOPS."You stand there screaming defiance at the world in general and Aigresaur in particular as he runs around placing razor wire to the left and right of you.
If you want to get past me, you better learn to shatter steel, because that's the weakest part of THE WALL!
We have razor wire?You have some razor wire. Not a ton though.
Deploy cheese wire on our immediate flanks, and hide behind THE WALL and other team mates.
[marksmanship 1] Phineasuses shotgun roars right next to the Walls ear, deafening him, and completely missing the charging beast.Fire at any beasts movring torwards our groupx2
Cut down any beasts that attack our group and get into melee range. Block any ranged attacks aimed at me with the knife. Or dodge if I can't block. Push off with my daemon leg for better dodging. If my life is in severe danger of ending, activate dragon painting, freeze breath my attackers, and fly back the way we came.
((Everything THE WALL says is solid gold XD ))Groo is mindless of the screaming about being shot at that damian is doing, or the roar of a Phineauses shotgun as it spits lead at the charging bull like beast. [rufferto int 5] Rufferto has completely figured it out at this point. Being just as agile as he was.
Groo continues to play with Rufferto, safely outside the village and unaware of his team's impending danger.
((Seems like it, syv. I want to assume that's for another game, but it's funnier to assume Groo is having a mental breakdown.))((I mean we are gettjng attacked by a beast, guess its name is now mirella.
Try to shoot the beast in the net with a non leathal shot.[str 1] [marksmanship 6] [ressilliance 5] The bull like beast lumbers forward still entangled in the net, you sight up and fire two shots into the beasts legs, but between the range and the indistinct outline of the creatures legs due to it's skirt you don't think that you end up getting any good hits on the beast. Though it's skin skirt has a number of buckshot sized holes.
While hiding behind THE WALL, make rawring mating calls to agitate the attacking thingies.
Continue taking cover behind the Wall, attacking any melee aggressors with my daemon knife and dodging or blocking ranged attacks. Wait for the big beast to emerge. Summon my book knife after telling the book daemon that I need its help and cooperation.You keep hiding behind the wall and grab the book knife from you backpack. Sir yes sir, what do you need sir? I am well versed in knives and the throwing of said knives. is the resounding reply.
"I WAŃT̨ ͞I͢T.̶ S͢T͢E͢AL ̛T͜H͢AT̛ GIA͠ǸT ̀B̛ÉAST ͡FÓR ̕T̢HE̸ S͘W̨E͜ET ̡DO͠L͜LAR͡ C̡ÓI̕ǸS͞."
TANK
If there's something in one of the nets, and it's nearby - like pushing against THE WALL's shield kind of near, stick it full of tranquilizers.[charisma 6] [bull beast bravery 4] You howl and screech at the same time a difficult feat for human vocal cords, but are successful in making a challenge to the bull like beast, However it doesn't seem to be that intimated by the bulk of the wall though it slows it's charge slitghlly just in case it needs to flee.
Make more animal sounds: This time, try to intimidate and challenge. Hide behind THE WALL and make it look like that big thing is making animal challenges at the surrounding beasts.
Shoot the Guy![beast str 6] [marksmanship 6] [beast resilience 5] The beast finnaly tears free of the nets confining embrace and begins it's charge towards you, in a panic you fire a shot into the beasts head and but it doesn't seem to slowdown.
"Bad Mirella, get her Rufferto! Save president Groo, president Groo make more guns so ruffy puppies shoot more bad Mirellas!((I figured.))
Groo continues to play imaginary games with his dog, completely oblivious to the danger nearby.
((Yeah, that was my post for Kindred. Whoops. >.> ))
CAN'T BREAK THIS WALL[str 5] [wall resilience 5] [beast str 5]((…holy shit that was a lot of fives)) The beast slams into the Walls shield, it’s horns embedding themselves in the shield as the wall by some feat of strength still clutches to his shield, is lifted bodily up and carried along on the beasts rampage.
Keep shooting! aim for the legs[marksmanship 2] Your shot goes wide and the bull like beast keeps going and as it slams into the wall, you dive out of the way [dex 3] Your foot gets kicked by a powerful hoof in your dive as the beast passes with it’s passenger but your makeshift steel toed boots keep you from any serious harm.
"I need you to tell me the best way to take out a charging beast with a thrown knife without damaging its brain. And this will probably hurt, but I need a knife to throw."Well sir, I would suggest that you throw a knife at it’s legs, or perhaps throwing it in such a way that the knife thunks into it’s vital organs. And my apologies sir, but I’m not sure why needing a knife to throw would. He suddenly cuts off and your head is filled with a wordless scream of agony that lasts for 30 seconds until he finally finds words and begins to scream SWEET FUCK MY HAND WHERE THE FUCK HAS MY HAND GONE? FUCK! WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT? This soon degenerates into him simply sobbing as you hurriedly cut off the connection. But hey, you got a nice if paint spattered bowie knife.
Summon one knife from my book painting. Get instructions from the book daemon if they are helpful, then throw the knife at the beor using my daemon arm. Aim for the throat, spinal cord, or vitals.
Groo looks around, suddenly realizing he and Rufferto are alone. Of course, judging by the gunshots and roars nearby, that will change soon.With a roar of realization matched by Ruffertos howl, Groo draws his katana and his pistol looking like for all the world like a modern day swashbuckler. Groo lumbers into place, and takes aim with his pistol. [marksmanship 1] [beast resilience 5] Groo’s shot is a glancing hit and does little but a flesh wound to the beast. Groo watches as the wall is lifted off his feet screaming YOU CAN’T BREAK THIS WALL....BUT YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO MOVE IT![/size]
Draw the daemon katana and a 1911, then charge over to assist the team! Take a shot at the charging beast, aiming for a leg.
Groo begins laughing maniacally, as he holsters his pistol and grips his katana in both hands.[daemonism 3+2=5] [beast resilience 1] With the laugh of a madman, Groo calls upon the daemon within his blade and charges the beast being half being pulled and half directing the blade. It stirkes into the beast just after it kicks the wall, and with a single blow cuts through the beasts right front leg. The beast goes down in a heap from the imbalance of the weight of it’s massive form. It’s not dead though.
Groo charges directly towards the bull, intending to cut off as many legs as possible.
Pick up Damian and hoist him over my shoulders, move him towards the wall and grue. keep claw hand free so that, if worse comes to worse, I can use Damian as a shield and strike with the claws[str 4] You lift the limp form of Damian up and take a couple of steps to towards the now rolled over bull. Damn those metal limbs make him heavy. He summons the energy to groan at you as you move him.
Place Pricilla inside the beast's spinal cord.[str 1] [beast str 4] [wall resilience 6] in the midst of the beast thrashing around the wall makes a fateful mistake, he takes his beast arm away from the shield to go for a slash of the beasts spinal cord, just as the bull like beast throws it’s head and flings the wall to the ground overcoming his human limbs strength. The Wall instead of being trampled to death instead only takes a blow to his leg hard enough to make a simple fracture in his left femur. He is sent rolling away, by the force of the blow, out of immediate danger though.
Recover energy. If my life is in immediate danger or Phineas tries using me as a shield and puts me in danger, go draconian and lash out my attacker with my barbed tail and frost breath. Maybe throw in a few claw swipes and bites too.Damian recovers enough to look a bit more energetic. Having the energy to groan when Phineas lifts him off the ground. Looks like he will be able to stand up on his own in a turn.
No matter. Rip and tear at its leg stump.[resilience 5] You slowly drag your self along the ground towards the beast and the manic Groo, [str 4] You stab your beast arm into the beasts stump and tear it off screaming THE WALL DOESN’T NEED TO WALK. BECUASE WALLS DON’T MOVE!
Throw more nets and attack with more tranquilisers![str 5] You hurl your net at the beast and it wraps around it’s remaining legs perfectly [beast str 2] The net begins to tear a bit but, it holds for now. Undaunted you hurl yourself, at the beast, holding a syringe that’s got a tube the size of three fingers and a needle that resembles a roundel dagger. [beast mastery 2+3=5] [beast resilience 1] Jabbing your way past the bone plates, you stab the syringe directly one of the beasts major veins, and eyeballing the amount squeeze in just the right amount of tranquilizer into the beasts blood stream. You watch as it stops it’s thrashing and goes still. It does seem to still be bleeding a lot though, you reckon about two turns before it dies.
Keep away from the beast till Damian is awake again[str 2] You struggle to stay standing with the burden of Damian on you, However he seems to wake up now.
Groo keeps laughing and hacking at the beast! Disarm it! Unhand it! Dehorn it![daemonsim 5+2=7] [beast resilience 2] Continually laughing, Groo hacks his katana down towards the thrashing beast. One swift chop, takes the small little horns and a good bit of the skulls bone plate off the of the beast, while the next one takes the left rear leg of the beast. Right after that a net goes hurtling by Groo and he Aigreasur stabs the beast with a huge syringe. Groo feels quite tired now. That hasn’t stopped his cackling though.
((Huh. I thought Groo had grabbed rope from somewhere at some point. Would have made this so much easier. Also, MJ, what do you mean by Daemian waking up? He didn't pass out this time.))((Ah, sorry that was unclear, I just meant that you had recovered enough energy to stand on your own power. Poor choice of description on my part.))
"Damn, wish we had some rope. So, any of you folks want to take a shot at butchering that beor? If you fuck it up, we probably won't get paid. Might be better to haul the carcass back to the plane and let the spooks sort it out. That bull is probably worth some tokens too."
Go retrieve that bowie knife I threw if it is retrievable, along with any intact portions of the brain, entrails, and other gore that it tore out if I can get some coins for them. Recover more energy. Let the book daemon know I'll patch it up when we get home, and that it did a good job. Also, stay away from the bull beast.
"FULTON IT."You retrieve you shield and relax on top of it’s battered surface. Completlly ignoring Phineaus
Rip my shield off of the beast's face, and have a lay down on top of it.
Start dragging corpses back to the plane, try to contact people using the radio or rather try to get the frequency and such while shoving the microphone into THE WALL!'s faceEveryone else seems kind of busy trying to hack the beasts apart so in the intrest of not getting hacked to bits you just try to get the frequency right [int 6] You manage to get the frequency nailed down, you get some weird interference from a couple of other stations but the sound qualities pretty good in total. The wall however totally ignores you. The radio operator is a little confused about the silence and background noise. Anyone there? Whats all that noise? Any one copy?
Why stop at just brains and gore?[str 3+2(due to ] assist roll [Groo str 5] There is precious little of the beors internals left that would be considered enough to preserve a knife moving at about mach 3 really does a number on the internals. Between the two of you though you manage to salvage enough bits of flame making organs that the Agents might actually pay you. Everything else is blasted beyond recognition
Dismember all the limbs from the beast for use later as spare parts for our own beasts.
If Daiman permits, we should preserve brain and heart as well for PARTS AND SCIENCE!
Groo cut up beastie! Groo helpful, and good at cutting!" He smiles wide and pops some long pork jerky into his mouth to emphasive his point.please see Aigres post.
Groo will go help by butchering the beor's corpse!
Groo and Rufferto will help haul everything back to the plane!((We are more privateers, as in we do stuff for money))
((It occurs to me. We're pirates, yes? We could totally call that delivery number, then steal their plane and everything onboard. Not something to do right now, but maybe later.))
((We're neither. we are, in fact, slaves to the OSS.))((Oh....so we should rebel?))
Make Phenus drag me on my shield like a sled, back to the plane.
hand the wall back to the plane hand him the radio[str 5] [Groo str 4] You pull on the walls shield and with the help of Groo you manage to Drag the walls shield and the wall back to the plane. You hand him the radios mic.
Groo and Rufferto will help haul everything back to the plane!You help Phineaus drag the Wall back to the plane.
((It occurs to me. We're pirates, yes? We could totally call that delivery number, then steal their plane and everything onboard. Not something to do right now, but maybe later.))
What about the externals, can we preserve chunky limbs for science?[str 6] You finish dismembering the beor, not exactly the most difficult dissection job and grab what's left of the limbs from the be ors corpse, you sling them over your back and move onto the bull like. Seeing that most of the limbs have already been severed the you pick them up and haul them to the plane.
Haul the loot back to the plane, make the other muscle people help.
"That wasn't your purpose, but my life was in danger and I had to improvise. Besides, I have an idea of how I might be able to make it up to you."
Recover energy. Go with the others in the middle of the pack. Help carry stuff if they need me to and it won't burn my energy.
((They wouldn't pay slaves, though. We're more like plow-sharers, or those folks that worked for the mills and factories back in the 19th and early 20th centuries that lived in the company-owned villages.))Funny you should mention that, the town you guys are in right now is supposed to be the remains of a company owned village.
((Aww man, I should have seen if there was a salvageable Model T or something while we were there. I'd doubt there was, but still. Could have had a classic car. And then modified it into a daemonmobile.))((I don't wish to push our luck))
Good to go. Make sure I'm wearing a parachute. Then recover energy on the flight back.
Go home, get monies.You strap into the plane.
Fly home, make grue the co pilot, Play us some victory music.
Stash all the loot and spare parts in the cargo hold, maybe secure it with rope or duct tape. Then secure self to the gunner seat above the cockpit.You grab the loot and store it in the repurposed bomb-bay and then you clamber into the front gunners chair.
((Aww man, I should have seen if there was a salvageable Model T or something while we were there. I'd doubt there was, but still. Could have had a classic car. And then modified it into a daemonmobile.))You stumble onto the plane, making sure that you grab the parachute from the bulkhead.
Good to go. Make sure I'm wearing a parachute. Then recover energy on the flight back.
Yep, all ready to fly home for late Christmas! Groo love Christmas, he's gotta get a good gift for Rufferto.Groo climbs into the plane and straps into the pilots seat as
"Priscilla wonders if THE WALL also gets a present. THE WALL does not care, is wall."
Examine substance inside the bottle, then stow it for later.
((Happy new year, y'all.))You open your present, inside it is a an old style ring.
Open my present. Make contact and say Hi. Go see about painting the knife picture into a daemon metal golem. Buy the additional paint or shade of paint for daemon metal if I need to with my payment from the mission. Wish the book daemon Merry Christmas and summon the golem if I have the energy to not have a chance of dying, after ordering it not to harm me of course. Merry Christmas.
Open the present and taste the bottle, wave good by to satan clausYou take a sip of the bottle. It would appear to be extremlly highgrade alcholol, high enough to make a Molotov cocktail in it, or diluted could have quite a few parties. You also open the present, it’s a small very high RPM rotary saw. Perfect for fine metal working and some mild sculpting. You wave goodbye as Santa Claus hightails it back to his government issued car. This santa has a very modern slay.
(Merry x-year also I have something I so want to make on this that will make up for the lack of strength of the daemon hand))
Yayy! Open present, then get paid!
Groo will chase car faithfully!Groo runs after the car as the spook careens down the streets of detroit [dex 2] Clearlly Groo is not the terminator and can't keep up with car. it soon leaves him in the dust as the spook calls out the window. D̡ON̡'́T W͝OR͝RY ̶MR̵. ́ĢROO,̛ YO͞U̶'L̨L͟ ͘BE̸ PAI҉D A͢S̡ ͟S̨O͠ON̢ ͢AS͟ ̛W̛E ͘G̕E͞T T̨HI҉S ̨L̀IT͞T͡LE͡ ̶P͏R͜O͟B̶ĹE͜M TAK͢ĘN̴ ÇAR͢E̴ OF.
"Groo want coins! Groo need to buy Rufferto doggy gift!"
Open the present! If it's a living thing, welcome my new friend!You open it up, inside is a long snake like beast. It has three eyes, and the markings of a cottonmouth, muscly and a razor sharp tail. It seems to be ready to go for taming.
Slowly head over torwards the source of the screaming.You begin to saunter after the sound. It should take another two turns of walking, since time is slowed right now.
+2 to piloting (so it should be at 10/15 to +3)
+1 to dex
+1 to strength (should put it half way to +2)
"Ow, damn it. That was my arm! You only lost your hand, and I'm trying to give you a body to make up for it. You have the material, I can give you the energy to shape it to whatever form you want if you stop trying to kill me."[Cha 2] You would give a very clever and impressive speech but your kinda occupied with screaming about your arm being gone. Irony is a cruel mistress. You keep running though clutching your bleeding stump. [dex 5] You put some distance between your self and the daemon mech as it stamps out of the wall it cut through. roaring with anger and pain, the daemon mech again charges forward before hurling it's arm open wide and disgorging a wave of knives from it's body Screaming in agony as it does so. [daemonism 5+4=9] You knife expands flattening into a buckler which moves with inhuman speed knocking the wave of knives out of the air and shielding your various internal bits. Your exhausted though and it's a struggle to keep moving as the daemon seems to recover from the amount of pain it just experienced. You hear the screech of tires taking something round the bend a bit sharp. your not sure how close it is, your hearings not great from all the screaming.
+2 Cha
+2 Engineering
I never thought I'd knowingly choose to make a CHA roll, but I have almost no options. Keep running while talking though, or just run if I can't manage to speak clearly. Haul ass back to where the others were. Block any attacks using my daemon knife.
"QUIET, PRISCILLA. MONEY IS NOT EVERYTHING."
Go eat something massive and delicious from a Diner.
+2 Str
+1 Piloting
+1 Beast Mastery
Nom nom nom.You begin to chow down on the monster sandwich. It is delicious, and you have eaten half of it so far. continue? y/n
And add my levelup to the the characters spoiler, please.
Keep walking and load the shotgun while I am at itYou continue to down the streets of detroit and reload your shotgun. Several of the pedestrians and onlookers give a brief glance over as you do this before shrugging and completely ignoring you, clearly it's a tough part of town.
Continue chasing that car down! Groo may have forgotten why he was chasing it, but that doesn't matter![dex 6] Groo chases after the rapidly disappearing car as it takes off veering around traffic. he just barely keeps it in sight and he bowls over quite a few people as he goes. It finally stops three blocks down. and the daemon gets out his customary suit completely disheveled and missing his hat and sun glasses. he draws a long tube out of his pocket and points it at the daemon mech, as it finishes it's death hug and glances at it. Then he draws aa tuning fork and some from of gun from his jacket lightly tapping it with the tuning fork and pointing it at the mech. The golem immediately shifts it's focus towards the spook Roaring in anger.
Keep trying to pacify the daemon with words. Keep running though. Make use of cover. If he isn't pacified, go draconian since you said that it doesn't cost energy to activate. Even if it does cost a little, I'm out of options so do it anyway. If the golem gets close, hit him with my freeze breath. Try to block any projectiles with my tail and wings, or any available cover.[cha 4] You manage to stop screaming and manage to gasp out, Hey? Why don't we try to talk this out, first of all I'm truly sorry for ending up cutting off your hand. But why don't we just all calm down and in a little bit I can give you the energy to fix your self up again. [daemon being pissed off 5] The daemons clearly still a little pissed off to say the least. and it screams in frustration as it begins it's charge again. [dex 2] you slow you pace as the blood continues to hemmoraghe out of your arm gotta calm down a little. Out of options you go draconic. You scream in agony as your mouth lengthens and grows a set of sharp teeth and your core suddenly is freezing as though ice water where in your veins and you feel yourself growing a tail and wings forcefully growing out of your back as your muscles begin to grow. The transformation is fast though you are left without a single shred of surplus energy. [resilience 5] You manage to keep moving though and shake off the terrible tiredness that descends upon you. As the daemon charges Still cursing your name. As the golem charges you inhale deeply and feel something catch in your chest before exhaling and sending a blast of cold towards the daemon. [daemon str 4] It keeps on moving not even slowing down from your ice. It charges at you sweeping it's arms horizontally at you as though in a spiky hug. [dex 2] Your new form is clumsy and slow and you fail to get entirely out of the way of the death hug. It's arms slice through your tough skin as though it was butter even tearing your daemon arm away and hurling it away from the rest of you. Blood begins to pour from these two newly opened wounds. Something tells you, your arn't long for this world. From your right you hear a car door slamming. and the daemon suddenly seems to be occupied with spook.
love the snakey, pet it, feed it, and name it Pete! Slippery Pete!You pet the snake but it mostly just hisses at you, maybe you should do the taming first? Then Slippery Pete will truly be the best of friends.
YESYou continue to devour the sandwich in a messy manner as the rest of the patrons ignore you. A man with a beast arm and incredibly dented and scorched, massive shield walking into your diner is business as usual. Being this close to the airport they get privateers and others of similar cloth all the time.
Knowing that they might be his last, Daemian tries to form words. "If I don't make it, please give my stuff to my brother."[resilience 2] In a last ditch effort at preserving your life you try to breath your ice breath over yourself, you manage to ignore the pain and shock long enough to take a deep gasping breath and try to blow it in a steady stream onto the stumps that are one your hand, but it comes out as a more of a ragged cough than a steady stream and you don’t get it sealed up very much, exhausted, you collapse to the floor as your vision begins to fade and your muscles begin to fade. You hear sudden clatter of many knives collapsing to the ground and you suddenlly feel wait paint run around you. As you begin to drift away to whatever awaits you, you feel a hand on your shoulder and you gasp. I bequeath everything over to my brother. Treat them well.
Fuck it. Freeze breath my open wounds shut. Potential frostbite is better than bleeding to death. If I'm attacked, try to control the daemon to stop or somehow borrow energy from the limb daemon and weapon to do something miraculous. Hope for a miracle at this point, basically.
Be ready for anything. Continue walkingYou keep walking, no one pays you any mind though again and you come upon a massive Dragon thing slowly disappearing to reveal the mutilated form of Damian. The spook has steam coming off his body, and Groo has an oil splattered katana embedded in the spooks’ cars engine.
Tame Slippery Pete, and love it lots.[beast mastery 2+3=5] Slicing open the head of slippery pete you extract the main mass of the hive hive mind and then taking a mirror and a steady hand you stuff it into your own brain. You quickly wake Slippery Pete up and begin to pet him, showering him with adoration.
"Now Groo does what Groo does best!"[daemonism 4+2=6] With a cry Groo charges forward and while the spook's distracted with the daemon Groo slices his katana downwards cutting into the engine and sending oil and steam everywhere. Seems Groo managed to cut into the radiator well as slice into a piston. The car is a generic inline six black ford. Government plates. The spook ignores Groo though, and seems to tense up as the daemon hurls a knife at him before suddenly seeming to blur and catch it in midair. Tapping it with his tuning fork the daemon recoils and the spook blurs again seeming to reapier next to the daemon before grabbing some strange device out of his coat and slamming it into the golems chest. There's complete silence and the daemon seems to slowlly collapse clearlly a little confused as it dies. Clutching at the strange device as the knives that compose it’s being fall apart and turn back into paint. The spook adjusts his tie and shakes his head sadly before walking over to the bleeding out Damian and listening to him intently as he dies. After Damian has breathed his and the dragon form begins to fade. The spook gets up and collects the the two daemon limbs, and a suddenlly producing a knife and cutting the attached daemon leg off. He also grabs a ring from Damians finger and his knife. As the spook begins to walk back to the car he suddenlly seems to realize that it has a massive cut into it with the katana still sitcking out and a proud Groo still trying to pull it out. He stares at it for a long time before saying Mr. Gr̀o͟o,̛ ̴why͢ di͘d҉ ̴y̡o̶ú de͘stro҉y t҉hi̕s̶ car̡?
Since the car has come to a stop, Groo draws kis daemon katana and charges, completely eviscerating the vehicle! After all, why else would he be chasing something?
Get a fork and scoop up all the bits that inevitably fell out of the sandwich. Also buy a cookie for desert.Taking a fork from the table near you, you use finish devouring the few chunks of meat left on your plate, and the go back to the counter. You select a macadamian white cookie from the shelf and attempt to pay with another coin but the cashier stops you. Your coin payed for it already. she says as you sit back down at the table and devour your cookie.
Just watch and shoot anyone that goes to attack meYou watch as the dragon completes its transformation in the mutilated form of Damian. Nothing tries to attack you.
Groo looks up at the spook, then back down at the car, then back up at the spook, then down at the car. He stares at it for a couple of seconds, before his gaze returns to the spook, and he answers with a simple shrug.[str 1] Groo strains and strains, but the katana is stuck fast in it. Watching Groo's increasingly upset expression the spook eventually sighs in exasperation, before grabbing the katana and easily yanking it out of the destroyed engine. He sighs again M̶r.̧ Gŗơo͏, ̸in͟ ̴the̢ ͠f̧utur̀e̡ ́we ̢wo̡ul͘d aṕp̧re̴c̸įat͜ę ҉i̸t́ ̨i͝f ́you̴ would ͢refrai̴ņ ͝from̴ de͢st̸r̵o͞y̢i̛ng͢ gov͡ern͢me͘nţ ̢p̴rop͟er̨ty. He bends down again and pulls the hood up before examine the damage. He sighs, before walking around the back and extracting an attaché briefcase from the trunk of the car before placing the limbs into the briefcase and walking away and pocketing the bloodstained knife ring and earring. He puts on his sunglasses and places his hat on his head.
Finish yanking the katana out!
Make Slippery Pete do tricks to see how strong he is! Maybe have him find a small animal to overpower and devour.You toss slipppery pete a couple of cans you find lying around the base and watch as he easily crushes them. Well that's something, now to see if theres any small animals about [luck 1] all you find is a couple of springs lying around near some of the planes.
Head with the spooks!You follow along after the spook ignoring the sirens that are approaching the old apartment.
"Okay!((Thank you. It's been a fun hundred pages.))
Follow the nice spook. Oh, and check for Rufferto, he didn't get lost in the chase, did he? Dogs are good at chasing cars, but maybe Groos are better.
((Edit: Oh, congrats on one hundred pages!))
That done, head back to the plane for a powernap.Satiated you wander back to the heinkel to slumber until you are called upon again. You curl up on top of your shield and are soon fast asleep. When you way up you will find 6 coins stacked near you.
Groo's gonna go sell his two lugers, hopefully for at least five coins, and then he'll go buy himself a pair of wings for 27 coins. If he has any money left over, he'll spend it on a Christmas gift for Rufferto. Maybe a beast mod, if he can afford anything.Lugers are gonna be 3 coins each. Captured German weaponry is always a nice bit of prestige. Groo wanders over to the gun store and hands the pistol over in exchangee for a total of six coins. Groo bids goodbye to the guns garnering a slightly bemused smirk from the cashier as he leaves and crosses the street to the beast surgery center. Nearly, running into The Wall as he goes to get Priscella a tune up. Unperturbed by this near collision Groo heads into the beast clinic and after signing a mountain of waivers with an X. Groo is lead into the operating theater and pass’s out. When he wakes up he has a pair of wings and a ravenous hunger. After snacking on the massive plate of cookies the clinic has in the foyer. Groo then goes to the beast section of the clinic with Rufferto. For two coins he buys a little used beast mod and mildly experimental beast mod for improved smell. Which given his already sensitive nose should allow Rufferto to track things quite well.
As for the levelup, all points to endurance and marksmanship.
Buy a coat of white fur and a mouth for Priscilla, costing 1+2 coins. 5 coins remain.You head into the beast surgery center nearly bumbping into Groo After breiflly inquring within the beast surgery center over what sort of procedures they do for five coins you find that they can do more spikes mostly embedded into the the knuckles of the beast arm, in such a way that they extend when curled into a fist and a certain muscle flexed and sharper claws for 5 coins. Does that sound good?
Could I get anything to improve the melee power of my arm for 5 coins? More muscles? More spikes? Maybe some limited morphing ability?
Purchase a case of shotgun shells for 2 coins save the restYou wander into the gunshop and after a brief spate of confusion and aggravated pantomiming over what exactly you want, you manage to walk out of the store the proud owner of a case of shotgun shells.
Follow Spook, Bring Pete!
MOAR SPIKES for five it is then.You decide that having spikes is always useful and hand over the five coins. They nod and usher you into an operating theater, where you get a quick IV jab and the next thing you know you have spike knuckles and a couple of various spikes on the far side of your arm.
Groo will exit the clinic and play with Rufferto while testing his new wings, flying around and hovering just above the doggie.Groo returns to the privateers section of the airport. Streching his wings out he gives a powerful flap as he lifts into the air, doing a couple of quick spins and generally enjoying himself as Rufferto barks excietedlly at Groo.
Get ahold of some springs, some metal, some wire, a knife blade, and straps. Work on making what is effectively a switch blade mounted on the wrist. The blade folds out when the latch released when the wire is pulled and then a spring pushes a tab up into place to hold the blade in place, the wire will be tied around the middle finger so that a flick of the wrist will push the blade out. To fold up the blade the latch that prevents the blade from moving would need to be lowered down and folded back into place where it will be held down by the latch the cable releases.[engineering 5]
This is meant to be mounted on the lower arm near the wrist on the daemon hand
Head to the beast surgery centre... Inquire if there's a way to make pete faster or more killy.At the beast surgery center the lady behind the counter glances at your beast kit and says. Well, we have certainly have some extra fangs, some spikes and a number of blades for you beast. Those do tend to cost some coin though. Course you could always use that beast master kit to do it yourself. Up to you.
Groo swoops down to pick up Rufferto, then goes flying back into the sky to explore the city. He'll sing some happy song about exploration while doing so, whatever comes to mind!Groo grabs rufferto attaching him to his customary place on Groo's rigging and flying up into the Detroit sky. He waves to a couple of bored looking sentries stationed on top of several skyscrapers. They give an answering wave as. Flying on Groo begins to sing in an off key way about the wonders of exploration going something like this.
Go find a spook to poke for more money.You look around for a spook, and see the telltale signs of one. Namelly the beast spook looking around while standing by the car. You walk over and ask about money. He looks at you for a second and then looks around seeing the coast is clear he says. Well, old sport, if you want to make some money, theres always something to be had in the arena.
Go look about for things to cook with or people to helpWell you could always flag down Groo and make some long pig. But as for general things to cook, you head into the grocery store. Looking around you see that most of it is plant material of some kind. But the grocer seeing your a privateer, quickly beckons you away from browsing the vegetables to a number of strange and unusual meats. Direct from the beast colleges. High quality beast meat. Good for the adventurous.
Beastmaster tinker:By prototyping you mean install into Pete right?
We may not have all the materials for this yet, but we'll setup and start making plans for the following:
This will be a beastmaster feasibility study. If possible, make prototypes.
Amniotic Stemcell (placenta) regeneration treatment: Our beast will have a gland full of stem cells that make more stem cells that stimulate rapid tissue healing.
Fang Projectile System 1: Acid Sacs: Similar to the red wood ant or Anthia Beetle: Fires a liquid acid projectile as an attack.
Fang/spike Projectile System 2: Solid projectile fang or spike launcher with toxin delivery: Delivered through Elastic Mechanical Force, using the body's muscles as a crossbow.
Toxin Cocktail for spikes and fangs: Modeled after the black Mamba Which uses a combination of Neurotoxins, Cardiotoxins and Fasciculin (muscle) toxins to disable victims really quickly.
How big is Pete?
Go get some beast meats to cook up and soak in that booze to make into some steaks for the crewYou purchase a slew of beast meats for a coin and soak it in the booze before borrowing a stove from the mess kitchen. [Cooking 3] Well you will let it roast for a while. Steaks should be done in a turn.
W̶è̡ ̴̢h͝͏a̵̕v̀͝e̛̕ ̡͢͞a̸ǹ̡ ̛͟͜ą̡͜r̸͟e̡ņą̸̕?We do indeed have an arena. Though it's well past it's prime from before the war started. You can make a bit of coin fighting some beasts. Though I do ask, try not to kill the beasts, Now a days they mostly use the arena as a training ground for the up and coming beast masters.
asking
Groo finishes his song with a "So Grooo, Loooove, Exploooriiiinnggg!", smiling widely as Rufferto joins in with some happy howling. "Good doggy!" he says, tossing a chunk of meat to the hound. He fails to notice that the wind rips it away from the pair before coming anywhere close to Rufferto's face.
Groo will practice aiming and firing his weapons, in particular the derringer, while flying around. Is he finally fast enough to outpace those damn squirrels?!
"W̷ha̕t͢ȩv̸͏er,̧̨ ̵̨n͢e̷r̷̡d̨̢̡.͜"As you wish. But do keep my offer in mind.
Go test those new claws on something.
Groo's gonna fly to the edge of the island, then look down. Could he fly back up from down there? If so, he'll start exploring underneath the city, looking at the underside of the island.Groo can fly down the side of the island. But bear in mind that the
Finish cooking and begin to set up the table.You take the well done beast steaks off the grill and set the table in the style of barbecue picnic. You put on your chefs hat and complementary apron and ring the dinner bell.
Hunt for game animals to feed to Pete. Try to make Pete bigger.
Groo can fly down the side of the island. But bear in mind that the
Groo can fly down the side of the island. But bear in mind that the
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Groo can fly down the side of the island. But bear in mind that the
((That the...?))
Groo will land in the caves, giving himself a rest! Go forth and explore with Rufferto, katana and 1911 readied!
Gather everyone for food eating!
WALL is full and is able to sleep through food smells.
Get the Spooks too to also eat
Groo will take the mushroom and rest if he needs it, then he'll fly back to the bomber.Groo takes a knife and severs the mushrooms from the cave wall stuffing them into one of his numerous pockets. After taking a long break and snaking on some of his meat, Groo is recovered enough to fly all the way back up to the the surface and return to the plane. Once there he grabs twos steak and messily devours one while feeding the other to Rufferto.
Groo will give Phineas a big hug, and hand him the mushroom he found. Then he'll get in the cockpit and fly off. Presumably to Chicago.Groo gives a hug to Phienaus and hands the neon rainbow mushrooms over to phienas before clambering into the pilots seat and heads off. [piloting 6] After a number of looped loops and the narrow avoidance of beasts along with some minor damage to one of the planes wings, Groo manages to land the plane in Chicago airport Ohare.
Copilot!You clamber into the front gunners seat and begin to wave the gun around until priscilla tells you to stop acting so foolish.
Go check on the different parts of the plan, see if anything needs patched up, and then get ready to help pilot if need be.Everything looks good on the plane, well except for the shattered plexiglass shards everywhere
Retroactively, use beastmastery to make Pete Bigger and give it a ranged spine attack like a hydralisk!
Then get to thee plane, keep Pete in the cargo bay, keep it happy.
Search for edible organics (besides the team) to feed to Pete as a snack. Also strap in and enjoy the ride.Pete is fully grown now, he's 23 feet in length. You and Pete follow Groo and the rest of the party into the workshop.
Groo will lead the way with his shotgun and katana drawn, bashing down the door and attacking any nazis he finds on the other side![str 1] With a yell Groo slams into the door bouncing off of it, before shaking his head a little bit and meekly opening the door shining the flashlight around. Opening up the door, he finds a dusty and dilapidated workshop. There is a rusting circular saw in the table in the middle of the room and on the cork board by the right wall there are a number of places for holding tools.
Get ready to shot gun people, if they get into melee grab someone by their throat after releasing the hidden bladeYou also walk into the workshop. and stare at the footprints.
TANKYou hold your shield up and move into the workshop.
((Here's a sheet.))Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Go find out what happened to Daemian
What did we do with that bag of bags that Aigre captured last mission? Did we sell those?
(Let's hope they don't get out and cause trouble...What did we do with that bag of bags that Aigre captured last mission? Did we sell those?
They aren't tamed and no one seemed to want to carry them around so they're currently back in Detroit by the plane.
"Your voice...You're the-Ahem, I mean, yes. Do you know how he died? The last couple of letters he sent home were very interesting. And do you know anything about the crew he flew with? I need a job, so I might as well sign up with them when I find them." Daemien's eyes sparkle with interest for a moment upon hearing the spook speak before he manages to compose himself and speak of business.Y͡es͢,҉ ̶I̶ ͝wa̢s al̴way͝s̀ ̸t͜o͜l̕d ̡I ͡ha̢d̵ a͠ ̶distǫr̸t͢i̕v̷e҉ ̡v̷oi͞c͠e̸, ̷nȩv̧er̴ ͞t̵ho̸ugh̷t ͜m̵u͠ch͞ ̛o͜f́ it ̡m͞y͟s̢e͢l̵f̀, ̴b͡u̡t ęn̢o̸u̡g̛h a̛bǫu͢t͝ ͏m̸y҉ vo͡i͜c̀e͏, yo͠ur̛ br҉other ́dięd̷ ҉ơf b͡l͝o̶o̸d̡ l̴os̷s̵, ͏m̀ostly d͡u̷e͏ ̛to̢ lo҉s̵in͠g a̷ ͢nųmber ͝o͠f͞ ̵limb̶s ̨af̢t̢e͜r̡ t͢ur͢nin͝g ͞i̛nt̴o͠ a ̸dr̛a͜g͞on aņd͜ ͡fiǵht͏in̡g͟ a knįfe go͠ĺem ҉h̛e͝ s̕ummo̢ned҉ ͟a̛nd ͡c͡o͟mplete̶ly̨l fa̢il͝ed to c̷o͏n̸t͜ro͜l͜. ̀ ͟A̸ ̨t̀r̵a̕g̷įc a͘ccįdeņt. ͡As͏ ͢for͟ th͞e ͝cre̕w͟,̕ c̀ur͝r͢en̴ţl͏y̢ ̡they w̕ęre ̨s̴en̸t t̡o ̸Chi̶cag̨o to ̀h̢e̸l͢p ̵ćle̢ań h̨o̸use i͡f ͜yo͝u̡ follo̢w w͡ha͏t I mean. ̢ ̧Th̴e’ll͜y b͠e b͢ac̷k in a̧ ҉d͠a̴y͢ ̴o̧r͡ so̵ at ̢ḿo͞st̷.͞ ̴I’m͞ ̴s͞ure̷ ͢th̶e͡y̛’d̷ b҉e̵ h͝appy to g̵ain another dae̸m̡on͡i̵st̨.
Conversation stuff.
Search through for loot!
TANKYou follow behind Groo and Rufferto as they go through the two rooms with unnering accuracy.
Pete and Aigresaur take position behind THE WALL.
"Let's get 'em, Rufferto!"With a scream of rage that echo’s through the rooms. Groo begins to charge into the other room following the faint trail of footsteps. While he looses it a couple of times Ruferto seems to have latched onto some sent and unerringly seems to be lead onwards. Through two more rooms Rufferto leads Groo to a small hole in the wall. It’s cramped narrow and dark. [Perception 6] From the tunnel Groo hears the sound of German drifting it the tunnel. It sounds alert. With less screaming now, Groo begins to crawl through the tunnel .as Rufferto follows him as does the wall and Aigresaur.
Screaming loudly, Groo will charge through the door the footsteps lead to, and through every other door that dares to try and block his path, until nazis are found and butchered!
"Sounds like something he'd do. Hell, it was somewhat surprising to the rest of us that it wasn't sooner, judging by the rate at which our other brothers died.. What all did he leave me?"Yès͏,̡ ̛y͡ou͞r br͝ot̶her̡ l͟eft y̢o͠ų so͡me ̢vari͟o͟ųś tr̀i̧n̢ket̕ş as ͠we͝lĺ a͜s th̸e h̸eav̢y̶ ̀Da̧emon ki̴ţ,̶ h̴e̢ l͢ef̧t̕ ͜yo͡u ̴á da͞ȩmo͡n̶ kn̷if͠ę, Which he produces from his coat pocket and hands to you ,̧ ͝A̴ ve͢r̷y͟ ̴ah͠e̡m͟, ̨i̡ntȩr̵es͏tin͠g ͘s͝et̨ ̷o͘f̶ ͟d̛a̶em̡on a̷rm a҉nd̛ l̴e̡g.̧ A̸s we͡l͜l ͜as ́a ̧si̴n̵gle ̵r̸i͠n͞g.͢ He ͏al͠s̴o͏ ҉an͜oth́er ͟un͞im͞bưe̵d̛ lèg͡ a̵nd̸ a͝n a ͟l͝ęft arm̨. As he says this he walks over to a car, which he seems to have had parked nearby and produces a briefcase, which he casually hands to you, you grunt. It's quite heavy.
More Talky stuff.
Charge down the gun nazi and hit him with an absurd 8-hit combo using Priscilla.[str 2] The wall begins to slowly advance towards German as he's pinned down by Aigres covering fire fires a three shots into the ever more battered sheild. With a slow and lazy swipe of priscila [dex 3] He takes a long chunk of flesh out of the mechanics arm causing him to scream and drop the gun.
Groo follows behind THE WALL, charging out from behind it once THE WALL gets into melee range! Two hands on the katana, CLEAVE AND SLASH!Groo gets behind the wall as he slowly moves up towards the German. As he drops his gun, Groo steps out from behind the wall roaring and sends his katana in one huge two handed sweep of his blade [6+2=8] [ressiliance 5] The mechanic falls to the ground as his legs are taken off. And he lays on the ground screaming and clutching at his stumps.
Pete will use suppressive fire with his spine projectiles to provide cover for charging allies to let them close with the Nazi.[beast mastery 2+3=5] [ressiliance 6] You slip into pets mind and feel yourself seeing everything in thermal as your nose fills with alien scents. Your head begins to fill with a subtle whispering, hunger. Meat? and you feel some vague sensation in your jaw. Ignoring these sensations you focus on aiming petes bones spike. The spikes thud into the wall of the by the
Aigresaur becomes one with Pete, the battlemeld helping with Pete's coordination and aim.
Catch up to the others and start help shoot up nazis and fuck them up if they get into melee
Finnish off any remaining Nazis and hide behind Gru and the WALL!Walking over to the screaming mechanic, you stare at him silently as he screams and presumablly begs for help in German. He clutches your leg looking up at you pleadingly. You kick him away before bending over and [str 6] Taking your beast arm you swipe through his throat, and he begins to buck and heave before eventuallly collapsing to the ground never to rise again. Once he's stopped twitting you go through his pockets. You find a coin and a small wrench for your collection. That done you hide behind The Wall.
then go search through the nazis
Groo will use his Daemon katana to separate the 30mm cannon from any mounting it had, then he'll holster the blade so that he can wield his new gun with both hands, using THE WALL as a mount if it's too heavy to carry unassisted.Grabbing the rifle from the mechanic Groo begins to call GROO WANT'S TO PLAY WITH NAZIS! WHO WILL PLAY WITH GROO? as he advances behind The Walls comforting bulk. [Marksmanship 3] [resilience 1] Using his captured rifle, Groo leans out from behind the wall and fires a shot toward the machine gunners, the carrier goes down with a bullet to to his gut as the other two hunker down and resume firing.
Armed with his new weapon, he'll atart laughing and screaming for the nazis to come play, while advancing behind THE WALL.
"FUCK YOU, NAZIS! GET OUT HERE AND GET REKT!"You scream defiance and begin to move up. As Aigresaur launches a set of bone spikes just over you head, as you hear the crack of one flying just above you. You scream an insult of FUCKING WATCH WHERE YOU POINT THAT THING! THE WALL DOESN'T BROOK WITH BACKSTABBERS But you continue to move up the narrow tunnel opening up to a well lit cavern with a number of bulbs strung up along the ceiling. In the center is a large pile of powder and set of wires and various other gizmos. Theres also a set of Nazis who have set up a machine gun [marksmanship 4] 14 7.52 bullets slam into the wall and the shield shakes and you can see a visible dent as it takes the blows. Seems it might be needing some repairs sooner than later.
Advance.
Suppressive fire into the tunnel. If team mates try to run into the tunnel, make them keep their heads down.[Beast mastery:4+3=7] The ache in your jaw is fully present now, and the whispering seems to have become more prevalent. But you press on. and over activating Petes tired muscles have a quick succession of bone spikes launch from him down the hall.
"His letters mentioned a few interesting things about daemons. He also mentioned the complications that arose during the modification. Is there a specialist you would recommend to get the limbs installed? Or would you be able to do it?"Th̨er͟e͏ ͞is͞ ą wo͏nde̸r̵ful̨ s͡pec͜ia͡l͞is͟t͡ f̀or̢ ́l͜im̡bs͏,̸ he͠ŕe,̡ thoug̀h̕ I͘ ̢f̛ea̕r̕ as tḩou̢g͠h ̴hìs ͝de͟si͘g̕ns ̷t̛e͝n͝d to ̸b̕é ̢ŗa͟t͏h͏e͟r̴ ͝d̕uļl̨..͠ I̴ co͏ul̶d a͝l̴wa͘ys ̶try̧ ͠m͜y h̀a̢n̛d̴ at̨ it.
See about getting daemon limbs installed.
"I AM THE LAAAAAWWWWW!"[Marksmanship 6] [str 2] The gunners still keeping their heads down from the barrage of fire coming at them. As the wall gets closer the bullets slam into the shield with increasing fervor as the gunner completely abandons discipline. and just pours lead, the walls shield dents ever more the and nearly breaks from the onslaught, but hold out long enough for the wall to slam his sheild into the machine gun as Groo pops out from behind you and starts slashing. You've got the feeling that your shield is not long for this world at this rate.
Charge down the machinegun and knock it over. Discard shield and start fucking up nazis in melee.
Sling the rifle and charge forward with the wall! Swording time![daemonsim 3+2=5] [Loader ressiliance 4] Popping out of the walls failing cover Groo slips around gun emplacement The sword managing to cut deeply into the arm of the loader as the gunner takes off running down the tunnel. [dex 5] Quickly vanishing into the gloom, though he's still visible to Aigres melded thermal vision.
Move behind the WALL and give him covering fire for the assault on the machine gun[Marksmanship 5] [gunner resilience 6] Keeping behind the Walls sheild you inch out and your shotgun roars as you pump it rapidly sending buckshot, the gunners duck but overall, keep their heads together, they've seen worse fighting the russian war bears on the eastern front, and keep pouring lead into the oncoming wall.
Move behind THE WALL and fire more spines at the machine gunners. Aim to kill.[beast mastery 5+3=8] [Nazi resssiliance 6] Pete once again strains his tired muselces, launching his bone spikes again and again until to the pointn of deterioration. Meanwhile the Voices in your head build to a crescendo. KILL Eats Hungry Lights bad HAIRLESS ONES. The Bones spikes launch a massive number of arrow like darts as they smash into the Gunners makeshift barricades. The gunshot loader takes the brunt of the fire shielding his comrades with his body. The rest of the gunner crew is lightly injured. Taking shrapnel from the bone spikes in the arms.
"If it wouldn't be too much trouble, I would appreciate it if you could install the daemon limbs. The unimbued ones too if it wouldn't be too much trouble."W̕o͘n̢der̕ful he says as in a blur of movement you wind up with a needle stuck in your vein, you stare at it for a moment as you slowly collapse.
Get daemon limbs installed.
Claw[str 4] As the German falls to the ground screaming from his chest wound and lack of an arm, the wall finishes the job by cutting his head off with one swipe from Priscilla.
DevourSevering your meld with Pete, you charge across the room and giving into the voices start stuffing your mouth with his intestines, pulling the long links out of his abdomen and wolfing them down splattering your face with congealing blood.
Slash, stab, and claw people, try to capture one to force feed the shrooms I have[str 4] Jumping onto the bandwagon of corpse disfiguration, you cut his guts open spilling them onto the floor.
Slash[daemonism 3+2=5] [ressiliance 2] With another slash, Groo takes off the nazis arm and puts a deep slash in his leg as he tries to back off. He goes down screaming and The Wall takes off his head silencing his screams.
Sleep. See if anything happens or when I wake up.You slumber, your dreams vaguely intermixed with pinpricks of pain that you do your best to ignore and have a nightmare about a weird worm thing crawling in and out of your one of your brothers eyes. As you come to the first thought that hits you is overwhelming pain caused by the fact that all of your limbs were just amputated and replaced with dameon filled versions, the second thought, is that the arm is pitted and scarred but also generally seems weightier as though it's become buffer, and it feels like something has been shoved in there.
Welp time to start looting the dead and butchered bodiesWell theres the machine gun. Seems a little heavy but nothing too bad, however Groo seems to want it a lot right now. Theres also a lueger in the gunners holster. Aside from that theres always some nazi internal organs if you want them.
I meant that PETE should get a nice feast for all his hard work.After an arm is sliced off by The Wall during the feasting Pete is able to get his mouth and around it swallow the arm whole Meanwhile you pick through the corpses, while you are initially unable to decide which piece looks the best but after much advice and recipe swapping with your fellow cannibals you eventually settle on his pancreas.
Pete: DEVOUR
Aigresaur: check corpses for interesting parts. Eat the tastier parts.
Feed Priscilla some manflesh. THE WALL does not care for manflesh, he much prefers submarine sandwiches.Taking a claw you easily tear open the other nazis rib cage and let Priscilla munch to her hearts content on the rich feast of organs that is the human abdomen. You also delimb the corpses for if anyone wants to carry a snack on the go.
Yes, Groo need more gun despite his overuse of katana. Let the looting commence![str 5] with a heave and grunt of effort, Groo begins to carry the machine gun, while he's not gonna be ramboing it, he can easily carry it from point A to point B and set it up there. The MG has about 100 rounds left in it's belt.
"Anything I should know about these limbs? The arm feels different."Th̨e͘ d͠aemon a̛r̕m̀ wa̴s ̨a ͡we̡aker͜ th̶a͠n ho͘pe҉d ̵fo͏r͝, ̕im͟p̕ròvisa͟ti̢on ҉was̡ ̕n͠e͠cęssary. Y̸oư ́s͘h͘o̷ul͠d̶ b̀é fin͘e,́ ̸a̧nd ̸h̷ave͝ so̷me ̛im̶p͝ro͝v̴éd sh̢ap͠e̵ shfi͠t́i̢ng a͜bi̸lit̛i͘es i҉n͘ yo͜ur҉ ̧arm.͏ As for̸ ̸the̴ ̨da̧emons̵ ̨i͞n͘ ͡y͏o͘u͘r arm, ҉u̕nk̀n͢own,͘ w͝e hav͟en't c̸h͏ecke͝d҉ y͡e̡t.
Ask questions. Greet the daemons in the knife, ear loop, and the ring and introduce myself.
Could Groo mount the MG on THE WALL, thus making use of THE WALL's +4 str and his own +3 marksmanship? If so, try to do so. If not, just morosely let the wall have the thing and use a rifle to kill Nazis. In either case, ONWARD TO MORE MURDER!You try to mount the gun onto the wall but he keeps moving away saying that Walls arn't deaf. Saddened Groo sets down the gun and grabbing his rifle runs off down the tunnel, emerging to daylight, there is a strange looking plane, it seems to lack wings and has it's propeller mounted on top of it, how strange. The weird plane is slowly beginning to spin. Meanwhile about five nazis have actually taken up proper sandbagged positions, and the one closest to the chopper seems to be carrying a flamethrower.
Take the Luger and follow the WallYou pick up the lueger and shove it into your pack while the wall stands around.
Keep all the meat for snacks later. Is Pete's hunger satiated? Keep feeding Pete Manflesh.Keeping all the meat would require hauling around one and a half adult humans worth of meat. You could just bring an arm and a leg if you want. Also Pete seems pretty satisfied with his arm for now. You still hear some voices though.
"Ah. Well, thank you for helping me and installing the limbs. I guess I'll check up on the daemon in them once I settle things with the ones in these objects."
"He's dead. I'm his brother."
"The brother of the dead guy you used to work with."
"My name is Daemien. My brother was the one who contacted you before, but he died."
Talking to daemons.
Grab machinegun in offhand and follow Groo. Hold machinegun sideways, gangster style, and hose down Nazis with unreasonable firepower.[marksmanship 3] Waving your gun wildly you fire a good 25 shots all over the place, you don't manage to actually wound anyone but all the same two of the nazis towards the front do duck as well as cause your allies to reconsider your sanity but on the whole it doesn't work. [FG marksmanship 3] [dex 1] [resilience 5] The flame truppen sprays fire towards the wall, but his clumsy and slow roll out of the way, leaves him vulnerable to the brunt of the fire, the jet of flame splashes all over him, Completely engulfing him in flame, The Wall screams in agony, before beginning to stop drop and roll, his lack of clothing aiding him in extinguishing the fire, while Priscillas fur does not help. Phineaus pitches in as well helping to beat off the fire, By the time he’s managed to extinguish himself as well as phienaus aiding in the fire he is horriblly burned having a set of massive burns all along his front side where the fire intially struck and the horriblly singed fur on priscilla, and yet he continues to breath,....mostly by gasping for breath but hey breathing is breathing. The very act of movment is pain though.
Follow the wall, focus fire on the flame thrower guy[Marksmanship 1] Your shot goes way wide, just missing the wall as he rolls around on the floor screaming. And then you notice that The WAll is curretnlly a !!Wall!! And begin to help beat the fire out.
Groo will reload his 1911 as he takes cover, and then start using it to pop Nazi heads![Dex 6] Groo dives behind a hefty toolshelf and reloads his m1911. Before leaning around he begins to take potshots at the two nazis closesest to him. [marksmanship 2] [resilience 1] Groo fires off three shots, while two of them endue going wide one of them slams into the soldiers chest, he gasps for air and sinks behind the sand bags again. Groo ducks as the return fire comes in.
He gave a daemon-what we refer to you and folks like you as- a body in our world. Then the daemon tore him open."Ah, he seemed the type. but don't worry buddy, I'm definitely not that type. You hear a slight smile in his voice.
"He gave one of your people a body to interact with our world. Then they cut him open. I wasn't aware that was how daemons showed their thanks."
"It's okay, ma'am. He died doing what he loved. Might I ask your name? And is there anything I could do to make your stay here more bearable? From what my brother told me before he died, you should have your own room or house, but is there anything I could add for you?"
More daemon talking.
Haul a limb as loot. Follow THE WALL and Groo. Lay beartraps to cover our rear. Have Pete provide forward covering fire as necessary.You grab a limb and stuff it into your head, while the voices are still there a bit, giving into that hunger seemed to help a bit, though now your jaw does hurt a bit. [Engineering 2] AS you lay the traps to the back of the tunnel system, you nearly end up getting your own leg caught in the trap when one spring slips as you try to prime and the jaws snap shut just above your hand….after quikclly making sure that all of your hands are still there. Shaking it off you meld with pete once agiain and [3+3=6] [FG ressiliance 3] You launch a set of bone spikes at the flammethrower weilding solider. And he takes a spike to his arm. He screams and ducks behind cover, stopping his stream before the wall is completlly engulfed in flames. The whispering once again gets a little more intense and your jaw aches, as though something were worming it’s way into it. [Nazi spy #1 marksmanship 3] [Pete ressiliance 6 ] One of the Germans crouhced behind the sand bag takes a shot at him with his lueger but manages to only shave off a scale with his round, while the rest begin to try to fall back towards the whrilly plane now that the MG has been taken out.
"Bitch! I'M THE WALL, AND I'M GONNA MAKE YOU PAY FOR IT!"[resilience 6] Ignoring the agony that is doing anything involving movement, the wall slowly picks himself up and slowly moves his arms wide as he unsteadily takes a step forward. He tries to yell, something about being the wall but it comes across as more of a raspy cough that sends you back to the floor wheezing. No one actually bothers too take a shot at the burn victim.
Drop everything, stand in the open, and pop a "well what is it" pose.
Go back to shooting, back away from the wall[marksmanship 6] [FG ressiliance 1] [luck 1] You fire your shotgun and it slams into , into the FG's flame backpack, and it explodes violently spraying oil and inert gasses flame everywhere. The FG guy stunned by the sudden explosion of the aerosol gasses spraying around, ends up squeezing his trigger a little bit as he collapses, The remaining liquid in his line sprays out, and ignites on the pilot light, igniting the aerosolized oil that was just sprayed everywhere and setting the entire cave ablaze. He begins to roll around screaming as he begins to burn to death.
More bullets to nazi heads! Screw cover, Groo is booletproof! Groo will take their weird plane for his own![marksmanship 1] [FG ressiliance 2] Groo sights his luger up on the FG His bulllet is far to the side as it just skims off the metal canisters of the flamethrower mans tank. [Makrmsnaship 3] [resilience 4] The spy fires a round at Groo but it's stopped by his chest bone plate. It cracks a little bit though.
Fall back and drag the burn victim out of here (The Wall that is, not the nazis).You fall back and begin to drag the wall back, as he fires his machine gun into the flames. [luck 6] He hears the sound of metal being punctured by a number of rounds followed by a slight change in pitch of the helicopters whirring blades.
"Rrarrgh! Fire not stop Groo!"[resilience 5] Groo charges through the flames, and emerges with smoke and embers clinging to his, clothing. He charges forward and with a howl worthy of a norse berserker hurls himself at the nearest nazi, [nazi saboteur marksmanship 1] the pilots startled by the sudden appearance of a katana wield bersker from the flame sends his shotgun shots wide as Groo charges him [daemonism 5+2=7] [resilience 3] Groo's wild slash, slams into nazis right arm as he throws it up and in block, The katana bites into his shotgun leaving him with nothing but two halves between the stock, and long shallow cut down his uniform. he recoils. grasping for his pistol. The other nazi points his own pistol at Groo. [makrmsmasnhip 4] [daemonism 2+2=4] Groo's katana suddenly blurs, deflecting the shots away from him though one does graze his leg. Groo feels a fair bit tired.
Holster the pistol, draw the katana and hold it with both hands. THEN CHARGE THROUGH THE FIRE AND EMBRACE RAGE, TEARING THROUGH THOSE STUPID NAZIS WHO THINK FIRE WOULD STOP A GROO!
"I'll think about it. You already killed one of my brothers, if I remember the letter right."That was the old me, I've been born again, had time to reconsider my life.
"Probably was him. Doubt he went quietly."
"Mrs. Habadaway, what is your husband's name? I'll try to keep an eye out for him. If he was taken to this world, I might be able to find him."
More daemon talking.
Charge. Devour. (meld instructions)Pete slithers forward, and recoils initially at the sight of the flames, [beast mastery 1+3=4], but soon begins to worm his way around the flames, keeping well away from them, as they overwhelm his heat sensitive vision. He arrives just in time to see some the weird and whirly plane sway a little bit and some fluid begin to leak down the side of the whirly bird.
Move back to support Grue and the beast master in shooting up nazisYou drop the chared Wall and move back to the firefight. The flames are still burning, and you arn't quite sure that you can take a good shot without either crossing the [luck 6]
Groo quickdraws a pistol and headshots the armed nazi immediately. Then he finishes chopping the other nazi to pieces.[marksmanship 1] [nazi resilience 2] Whipping out his pistol Groo fires a one handed shot at the nazi, but he ends up pulling the trigger prematurely from all the excitement going on around him, and ends up putting a round into his leg instead of his head. He screams in an annoying way and fires his pistol at Groo [marksmanship 1] but is clearly disgracted by the pain of getting shot in your leg and his pistol shots go wide as he dives for cover. [Daemonism 2+2=4] [ nazi resilience 3] [nazi marksmanship 4] [resilience 6] Groo's one handed hacking with the Katana ends up putting a nasty looking gash in his leg, and the mans shot hits Groo's chest cracking the bone plate a bit more, one or two more pistol hit and he feels as though it might crack. Groo feels a bit more tired by this.
"I'll consider it. I have a few other things to take care of now, so I'll be going. My name is Daemien, by the way."Yes, I believe your brother had a similar name. Some kind of inside joke?
"He was. I have some other things to attend to, so I'll be going now. I'm Daemien, by the way."
"I'll keep an eye out for him, and your daughter as well, Mrs. Habadaway. I have to take care of some other things now, but I'll check up on you when I get the chance."
Time to get high and see what's in my limbs.
Devour. (Pete) Shoot spines in the general direction of the enemy if we can't get through the flames or if it looks like they will shoot us before we can devour them.Pete snakes forward, [beast mastery 3+3=6] [Nazi perception 2] Slithering around the flank the two Nazi's are busy fighting the screaming culturally gestalt barbarian, He sneaks up wraps his coils around the nazi who Groo just shot at. [Pete str 6] [nazi str 1] Quick as a flash Pete, wraps his coils around the Nazi and begins to squeeze chrushing his chest down and stopping his diaphragm from working, while his powerful further affect the blood flow to his heart, the Nazi falls unconscious. One more round of squeezing and he's dead. You head really hurts now with all the whispering, and your sure that your jaw feels loose now.
"The most recent to come here, yes. You may be referring to my brother that died recently. He mentioned a couple of people that inhabited these limbs, but he didn't mention you. Who are you? How did you get here?"Ah, well sorry for your loss, but still the fact that your here is wonderful news, perhaps you can tell me a little about this patient. He's currently mostly insensible, and well the other fellow has not been the most helpful in telling me the history of him. As for myself I am Dr. Crowley. As he says this theres a slight gleam in his inhuman eye.
Meeting new people.
Rargh. Both of those chumps are torn up pretty bad, so Groo will leave them to bleed out and hop into the plane. Find the pilot!
Spike that other nazi then nom nom the one we have coiled up. Eating should make everyone feel better.[beast mastery 6+3=9] [int 1] As the Pete suffocates the nazi and launches his spike you suddenly feel very odd, as though your some part of your head has just fallen off, you then collapse to ground and begin to writhe as you feel you body begin to rearrange it self. The whispering surrounds you. As this happens, increasing in crescendo as the changes set in until every voice booms through your head with the force of a battering ram. Your legs begin to fuse together, the flesh bubbling and boiling as it fuses together becoming a long snake like tale, your mouth warps you feel tendrils forcing your jaw forward as sharp teeth fill your now unhinged jaw. You go blind as your eyes rework themselves under the influence of the tendrils in your head, and just as suddenly you can suddenly see again as your vision suddenly resembles that of a thermal camera and scents flood your nostrils, or rather whats left of your nostrils as they recede back into your face as it elongates, your arms also change, becoming thin and with sharp bones edge ding on them with powerful muscles coiled around you, your back bulges as it suddenly has a set of bone spikes protruding from it. You are a beast now, and it's time to kill everything.
Aigresaur will run up and stab the coiled up Nazi with a tranquilizer, or any other debilitating drugs we can find to help with the squeezing process.
Welp, Time to go search about the non burning area for anything of interest
"I feel a new hunger, don't you, wall?"beastmastery to modify doctor roll. [beast mastery 3+1=4] [doctor roll 4+1] As the wall collapses seeming to be content with his misery Priscilla seems to awaken, working quickly, she begins to devour the most serious burns on the walls chest and his arm and legs, Acting as a crude debrding as well as taking a fairly hefty chunk of muscle out as the rest of her arm seems to writhe, parts of her beginning to integrate into the walls using the wall groans in pain, as Priscilla eats her through the burns. By the end, Priscilla, has replaced the chest and arm skin of the wall with a strange and writhing version that very closely resembles Priscillas flesh, though the underlying muscle is still human for now. the legs are still a bit burned though.
Remove wall's burnt bits, try to restore him to working order. If I need to put a bit more beast in him, so be it.
"The daemon is the insensible one, right? The Weapon should be the other one. My brother mentioned him. He's young, and his whole existence was geared towards destruction before a fragment was integrated here. My brother mentioned he seemed simple, only focused on fighting and destroying. The daemon, did he tell you his name? Was it Phineas Habadaway? I would like to see him."Yes the daemon was the insensible one, very weak and feverish. Never got his name. Could always ask him yourself though. You walk up the stair and gently creak open the door of to the bedroom, the daemon is there, with huge jagged lines down his face, he appears to be bed ridden, and the The Weapon is huddled by the foot of his bed, protecvilly guarding the daemon from any further harm. You arn't the one who reduced me to this, what happened to him?
Talky stuff. Go see the mental patient.
Nope, nope, NEWP! Whole lotta no. Get out of there and back to the wall. Have shot gun at the ready to shoot if he attacks meYou fall back from the newly formed snake like monster. You point it at the beast but for now he seems mostly occupied with tearing the remaining nazis to shreds….you have never seen a mans skull actually be embedded in his body before. Impressive.
He only has a knife? Just shoot him in the face. If he dies, climb into the pilot seat and start figuring out how to fly this thing.[marksmanship 3] [daemonism 5+1=6] Groo looses a shot at the nazi, but his knife blurs and deflects it away from him, with a yell he charges towards Groo.
Block any incoming hits with the katana, keeping his knife away, and then drop the pistol and draw the shotgun. Shoot him point blank with it, and if he tries to attack the gun itself, parry him with the katana.[daemonism 4+1=5] [daemonism 3+2=5] The pilot charges forward, his knife seeming to bend ever so slightly as he slashes, But the katana seeming to move by it's own accord still parries it. [str 5] [daemonsism 4+1=5] [daemonism 1+2=3] As Groo trys to level his shotgun at the pilot, the pilots knife seems to have just enough of a bend to knock the shotgun away before Groo can line up a shot.
Just pump some extra energy into the legs, and try to stand.[beast mastery 6+1=7] [doctor 2+2=4] Priscilla ends up getting a fair bit of healthy skin and muscle off of the walls legs, but it ends up getting covered over enough to stand up and limp around.
Back away from the wall too, while I am at it. Wait to see if he becomes a horrible monster too, if not lead him back to the snake and protect self from the snekWell the Wall looks weird as fuck right now, but monstrous would be a fairly cruel term. He manages to stand up at least.
"My brother? He's dead. Killed by a daemon golem. Although I believe I may be able to help you. He did mention a similar situation concerning a daemon in a knife that was able to reconstruct itself using his energy. You can use mine to try to pull yourself together if it would help. I would like to know your name, though. My brother mentioned you never told him. And would you happen to know a Phineas Habadaway?"Shame, He gasps for air for a second before recovering, he was someone to talk to at least, as for your question the name Phineaus Habdway…Habdaway, why yes, I did know a Hadbway, was taken well before me though.
Let the daemon use some of my energy to fix himself, preferably not enough to kill me or cause permanent harm, though.
Kill everything. (leave friendlies alive)For now it's fine, as you manage to distract yourself from the delicious scent and heat signature of your friends by swallowing the other two nazis. But their gone now, and the others look tasty.
"Rawr."[aigrebeast marksmanship 2] The Aigrebeast heaves in a huge breath, visibly inflating as it launches a spike, sending it flying away and into a wall. The wall moves forward in his own slow way, still a bit stiff from the sudden beast debridment, moves towards the reeling Aigrebeast [str 4] [aigrebeast dex 5] As the Aigrebeast tries to slither away, Priscillas claws rake into his flesh, inflicting minor wounds onto his flank. Pete lunges at the wall Jaw unhinged str
Go harvest some of Aigre tasty genetic material.
Help the wall with gun fire.[Marksmanship 5] [Aigrebeast ressiliance 2] You pump two rounds into the beast that was your former comrade. It shrieks as the buckshot slams into it side, though it manages to stay up, pete on there other hand is clearly pissed and launches a bone spike at you. the spike sails through the air [Pete marksmanship 3] [resilience 5] the round deflects harmlessslly off your flack jacket.
GRAAHHH. GROO HAS HAD ENOUGH, FORCE THE KNIFE AWAY WITH THE KATANA, AND THEN SHOVE THE SHOTGUN DOWN THE NAZI'S THROAT![Daemonism 6+2=8] [5+1=6] Groo's katana sings through the air, vibrating as it goes and slams into the Pilots knife, while the knife seems to curve into a thin style of a scimitar in an attempt at a block, the katana slams into the knife and knocks it completely out of the nazis hand, sending it flying away. With his counter slice, the nazi's fingers go fall from his hand. While Groo feels rather tired by this sudden and violent swing he has strength enough to grab his shotgun. [Str 1] [Nazi 5] As he tries to force it into the nazi's throat he dodges neatly and grabs the shotgun with his fingerless hand while hitting Groo in the nose with his palm. Groo barely manages to keep control of the shotgun under this furious assault.
nom some Nazi Calcium. And get nice chetin and keratin carapaces on Aigresaur and Pete. Use beastmaster skill to evolve.Well you would try this, if you hadn’t just been shot and then forced to dodge away from The big humans traitorous claws.
"That's a shame. I promised his wife I would try to find him. Guess I'll have to keep looking. But you answered my question. Use as much of my energy as you need, but don't take it all or you might just end up in the same state if I die."
Let the daemon use my energy to repair himself.
Offer genetic material to THE WALL. Love the wall and lick it silly if it accepts and plays nice.Giggity?
BEASTDrawing back priscilla the wall gives a roundhouse punch to the serpent that's trying to constrict him. [str 6] [dex 6] The wall slams his hand forward ctchig the beast in the side and tearing a large number of protective scales off his side.
"He drained too much. I'll recover. How is the daemon doing?"Oh why he's doing quite well, I had to restrain him in fact, was worried that he'd hurt himself in this sudden rush of energy.
Recover energy.
Offer genetic material to THE WALL. Love the wall and lick it silly if it accepts and plays nice.YOur genetic material is your internal organs in this case. But anyway you try to even lope the Wall in your loops of coils, but he fends you off with a roundhouse
JUST SHOOT HIM
continue to assist the wall[marksmanship 6] [Pete ressiliance 1] YOur shotgun roars as it sends two rounds of buckshot towards Petes head, 90% of each round impacts dead on the mark, mashing his head into paste. The Aigrebeast roars in anger.
Squeeze THE WALL silly and love it roughly.
Separate the Aigrebeast into two easily manageable halves. Harvest genetic material.
"WHY NAZI NOT DEAD YET?!"[daemonism 2+2=4] [ressiliance 4] Groo offhandidlly slashes his daemon katana at the struggling pilot, the pilot sticks his wounded hand up before the hit can connect with his face and ends up getting his entire palm slashed open, blood drips down from the wound, collecting on the ground as the two men continue to struggle, the nazi going for any other desperate emote shifts his weight [Nazi str 3] [Groo str 2] and manages to get Groo to stumble back a bit, though neither of them let go of the shotgun.
Okay, stab him then! He can't really defend against that since he lost his knife! Damn the exhaustion, Groo has +3 Endurance!
Continue shooting![marksmanship 1] Your shotgun spray goes wide, slamming into the side of the fuel tank and flames to shoot up in an impressive display of pyrotechnics.
"I definitely overdid it. Couldn't stop the transfer of energy once it started. Hopefully he can use the excess energy for something constructive. Also, I happen to have an extra daemon metal arm and leg. I was going to propose the idea once the daemon was better, since my brother mentioned that there was a bit of discomfort over the daemon sharing space with 52. I was thinking that 52 could move over to my other arm, and you could move into the leg if you wanted your own space for research or something. It'll have to wait until I have the energy to do more than focus on not dying, though."Hmm, an interesting thought, though judging from what I've seen of the one you call 52 are you sure he's capable of living by himself? I have been with him only briefly, but he does not strike me as the most independent. As for myself though, a small area for some of my research would be nice, if likely little visited.
Bed rest and conversation.
You know what, use daemon hand to throw the knife at aigreosaure...Aigreasuare, aigreotops? What ever, something aigre and dino sounding...just aim for the eyes[dex 5] [ressiliance 1] You hurl your knife at the aigrebeast, it tumbled end over end before slamming point first into just above the eye socket of the snake, it's bones stopping it from penetrating further blood pours down though, and blinds it's eye all the same.
Priscilla? Still covered in spikes, yo.
"As long as it serves to make my leg and arm functional, it doesn't bother me if you or 52 do not use the space much. Perhaps there would be a way to connect it to this space so that you could move between them freely without further stretching the daemon and weakening him. What type of research do you do, anyway?"
Talking.
Groo angrily stares down at the maimed nazi, panting with his katana poised for another blow, yet remaining still. After a long deliberation, he slowly moves his other hand to point outside the vehicle, growling something unintelligible at the man.The nazi, clearly of the intelligent sort of spy rather than a true fanatic, decides that Germany is not something worth getting decapitated for by a crazed swordsman and stumbles out of the helicopter into the flaming, smokey, and monster filled hell that is the cave. Groo ignoring all of this, and the horrified cursing of the German as he begins to try to slip by the flames smoke and monsters. [int 4] [piloting 6] Groo's lonely brain cell knows exactly what to do to make this funny plane fly, all he has to do is pull on this lever here, hit this button here, flood the engines with fuel at this point, violently throw the stick to the left ignoring the horrible screeching of metal as the landing gear scrape on the rough cave floor and viola, the helicopter sansa a landing gear is now tilted nearly horizontally as it zooms away from the cave, the sudden injection of air from this maneuver sending the flames in the cave ever higher.
If the nazi decides to be a brave fool, and does anything aside from run the hell away, decapitation. If he does remember discretion, Groo will collect his dropped knife, then get into the cockpt and start trying to figure out how one flies this thing.
Well, avoid the flames and I dunno, finish off the aigre beast[marksmanship 1] Your shot goes completely wide, one of the bullets putting a flesh wound in the walls human arm. He gives you a glare after the Aigrebeast falls off the edge. To which you sheepishly shrug.
Please make sure to add that daemon knife to Groo's inventory, I said he'd grab it before leaving.fixed
Groo will fly the weird plane back into the city and land it where he normally finds the spooks. Or as close as it can come, I'm not sure how big a helicopter this is.
Throw the Aigrebeast off the island.[str 1] With a grunt of effort, the Wall slowly begins to push the serpent back, you feel your str weaken, but Priscilla takes up the slack, slamming herself into the side of the cave a number of times to dislodge the treacherous serpent, and w
Snuggle THE WALL and drag it down in bitter vengeance![str 1] You wrap your coils around Priscilla one more time, but She bashes her self against the cave wall and try as you might, you just can't hold on. You are sent flailing over the edge, you slam into the ground with a bloody splat. You are dead.
"Sounds interesting, and useful if understanding how you arever bound here could allow me to use my energy better to manipulate and transform my limbs. If you would like, I can share the information I know, and a hypothesis or two. I would like to ask that you reside in whichever limb you are linked to when we go on assignments if it requires you there to function. From the stories my brother has written, having functional limbs is rather important when encountering life or death situations which occur with greater frequency than you might assume."Your energy aint bad, aint good either.
More talking and resting. How's my energy doing?
RIP. Haunt The Wall.Absorb its soul.
Steal their soulsRIP. Haunt The Wall.Absorb its soul.
well...hmm go search about for loot before trying to find the way out of here?
GUD. Prey slaughtered. Time to return home.
RIP. Haunt The Wall.
Sasitifed with your work, you collect Aigreianity as it floats around making spooky ghost noises and sit down by the large burning center of the cave to see if meditation will restore your humanity to you. It seems to help especially when you clear your mind by flexing your hand closed, it seems the reflex helps, and when you stand up you feel inverted again.RIP. Haunt The Wall.Absorb its soul.
"What? Rufferto right here, helped fly Groo back!" says the beatman, quickly scooping up Groo and presenting the dog to the spook. He holds the canine out for a few seconds, before noticing the daemonist hanging around--at which point he promptly drops Rufferto and rushes over.The spook just sadly shakes his head as he bends down to pet the startled pooch. Groo runs over to Damien and begins to shake him violently, to which he just mumbles something about the nature of the universe being metaphysical limb boxes.
"Oh, oh! Dremnemen! Groo not see you in awhile, where you been?"
Go speak to Damnimnem. Groo will reload his various weapons as he does so.
Once you finish your rather lengthy dissertation on the perceived nature of the universe to the daemon he's quiet for a while Hmmm, interesting, yes I did meet a fellow with a very nice voice, it sounded like it came from fine stock, very unlike your standard human voices. hmm, don't ask him yet, I'd like to try several experiments myself, perhaps proof that I know what I am talking about would better convince him.Take my time explaining things to science daemon. Do not speak too quickly, and make sure to take plenty of pauses so he can absorb the information. It's a lot to say, but I'm not trying to rush it.Spoiler: Wall o' explanation (click to show/hide)
Signing up as OPFOR
Name: Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Hero of the Third Reich
Bio: Hans was drafted into the Luftwaffe at the age of 16. He also served as a sapper in the battle of Berlin. He was also a member of the Nazi Party when it was fashionable to be one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Dietrich_Genscher
Stats
Strength: 1
Intelligence: 1
Dexterity: 1
Resilience: 1
Perception: -2
Charisma: -2
Skills:
Piloting: 2
Marksmanship. 2
Daemonism: -2
Doctor: -2
Beast mastery. -2
Engineering: 2
start heading back to the plane and then toclutching your new found loot You go back to the plane and hang out there while everyone else seems to stare listlessly at the fire.hellhome.
See other part of postThat's not how skills work dude, to quote from the OP
Name: Aigresaur MK2
Description: The world is actually populated by very prolific Aigres. These things are everywhere and in everyone! This version is a Daemonic Beastmaster!
Stats
Strength: 1
Intelligence: 2
Dexterity: -2
Resilience: 1
Perception: 1
Charisma: -2
Skills
Piloting: -2
Marksmanship: -2
Daemonism: 4
Doctor: -2
Beast mastery: 4
Engineering: -2
((That's not how skills work, Aigre. The only way to start with a 4 is to have -2 in all other skills. The cost for each increase is equal to the level you are trying to reach, if I remember right.))Well you would say this but Groo just dropped a dog onto and you are currently suffocating on fluff. Gentlly pushing the dog off of you, you are suddenly confronted with the face of Groo, it's a not a pretty face to say the least, there is a gleam of the bare metal plate that composes his forehead horribly dented and bloodstained with the metal beging to have the flesh grow up and around the edges of it, the rest of his face is little better, his nose broken, and missing a number of teeth. Jezz, your brothers letters did not quite convert the exact details of him.
"Alright. I guess I'll leave you to your own devices. I'll try to come back in a while to see if the daemon has recovered, but for now I think someone is trying to wake me up. I'd rather not have my neck sore if they shake too hard. I'll try to visit again before we leave on a job, to see about getting you your own room."
Wake up. Ask Groo who he is and why he's shaking me.
"Are you Groo? My brother mentioned you. Please stop shaking me."
Groo's face twists into a disturbing mockery of a pout. "Ehh? Drimdramdroom not remember Groo? But we've been on so many adventures, died a lot, mostly drimnimin, but still! How could you forget?!" he whines sadly. After a pause, he suddenly smiles and exclaims "Oh, Groo knows!" and immediately drops a large and heavy dog on top of Daemien's head.Groo tosses his dog onto the face of the the dazed daemonist, after he manages to recover from fur induced asphyxiation, Damian just stares at Groo for a while. He seems to recognize you at least.
Dropping Rufferto on the daemonist, in hopes of jogging his memory with adorable. Force him to appreciate the soft cute doggy.
Go drag the other back to base
Home! Money!
((I find it remarkable that, despite this system specifically using single points rather than multiples of five, people still think it's the latter.))I only did it so I could spend 3/5 of a point into working torwards piloting, honestly a dumb thing as I could have waited...infact I should have 2 points somewhere else...ah well
Groo will put two points in Endurance, two points in Marksmanship. Yay max skills! Then he'll go wander off to find the spooks and get money, being bored with the quiet daemonist.
Phineous smiles and nods quickly before holding out his hand2 coins for dynamite is fine. Lugers gonna be 3 coins. Engineering kit is 6 coins. survival ponchos gonna be like a coin. radio is 3 coins. You still want to sell everything?
Get monies?
See about selling the dynamite for 2 tokens a stick, the luger for 5 tokens, sell light engineering kit for 10 tokens (keep the saw though), sell the survival poncho for how ever much I can, sell radio for 5 tokens, that should put me at 48 tokens (more if depending on the poncho) w
Then get paid for the mission and put all tokens into getting endo exoskeleton. Tell me how much I have remaining
Skill upgrades: 5 into piloting, 5 into marksman
Stat uogrades: 5 into dex, 5 into perception.
((I find it remarkable that, despite this system specifically using single points rather than multiples of five, people still think it's the latter.))Groo receives seven coins from the spooks.
Groo will put two points in Endurance, two points in Marksmanship. Yay max skills! Then he'll go wander off to find the spooks and get money, being bored with the quiet daemonist.
+10 Int
+5 Marksmanship
+5 Engineering
Priscilla twitches in just the same way that human arms don't.
"GOLD."
Daemien waits until Groo has left, watching him before speaking to the daemon spook. "I guess I'll be working with him and the others, then? I think I got everything sorted out in the limb. When I get my energy back, would you be willing to help me transfer one of the daemons to another limb? And possibly the Weapon too?"
Talk to daemon spook and rest to recover my energy.
Sell the stuff, should put me at 30, 43 with my monies, then sell the flack jacket I have which, if it sells at full price will put me at 50 enough for the exo endoskeleton, if it sells for half that should put me at around 47, in which case go beg from the others for 3 monies.
Groo will happily give three coins to his companion, if he needs them! Then he'll go and spend a couple coins on daemon paints, and give his new spinny plane a badass paintjob! Maybe hotrod flames. Or bunnies! Or flaming bunnies!
Of course, he'll roll daemonism for this, with everything that implies.
Get someone to stick more metal on my tower shield. Done!
Afterwards, get someone to look at my mortal wounds.
"Thank you. I'll need to recover my energy first, though. Would you mind indulging my curiosity while I recover? If my questions make you uncomfortable or are too personal, I will not press the issue. Anyway, the researcher daemon made an interesting comment about your voice, said you sounded like you were of fine stock. Would I be right in guessing that your voice is so distinctive because the manner in which daemons create speech, or even just the frequency they exist at, doesn't interact properly with human or organic vocal cords?"Th̕at͏ wo̧u̧ld̸ b̀e a͜n̸ ҉a̡s͝tu҉t̛e ͞li͘n͞e o̵f ́re͢a͡so̷n͜in͠g,͜ ̢w͏e͠ ̴woul̢d ̸say.͜ ͡N͝ot en͝ţįrel͞y cơŕr̵e҉c̸t bu͞t ast͟u̶t͝e̡ ͡non͡eth̷e̷le̸s̢s.͜ O̵ne c̢o͡uld͝ ̕a͏l̛so sa̕y th͢at̨ ͠w͏e ̶ar͡e͏ ̶of ͡a ҉b̡i̸t ̴o̡f ͠m̵i͡xe͝d st̸ock͟. ͘Bu̴t ͟hi̛s fin̶e ͜sto̷c͜k c͢om̛me̷nt͡ i͝s ̢certa̢i͞n̡ly f̧lattering͟. I͟ ẃo̧uld ́a̛s̢k t̸ha̕t y͡ou͜ ho͟ld ̨your͞ q̶u͞e̕st͟i͞o̶n̢s ̸u͟n҉t̵i̶l w͏e are i̧n҉ ̧a m҉oŗe̴ ̷p̶r̶iva͝t̢e pl̕ac͜e͜. ̵Ce̛rt́a͜i͢n҉ se̴crets̨ ̛are ͠not̷ ͡the҉ be͝st to ͞be ͢vo̵i͜ce̵d i͢n ̕th҉e͞ op̕en ͢air̢ y̷ǫu se̕e̛. As he says this he becones you towards the spooks car.
Speak to spook, recover energy.
Groo's gonna take his spunnyflane out on a joyride around the city! Learn how capable it is in the sky!
Sign yes and agree, suit upTaking a deep breath you sign yes, ad nod your head in agreement towards the doctor. The doctor nods and be cones you along, you walk towards the operating table where, even now the orderlies are fin shin g up wheeling in mechanical pieces and a beast with a long stinger stands by it's handler looking at your wearily. Near him a daemonist is connecting a set of wires to face concealing helmet, one reminiscent of a knights helmet though it seems to lack eye holes, instead possessing a very slight indentation about where the eyes would be. You lie down on the operating table and are strapped down as the stinger hovers over you. You might feel a slight pinch. The beast master says as the beast stinger pierces into your chest. you buck against your restraints as it suddenly feels as though you've been stabbed, but gradually the pain fades away to a mild dull throb, and then that fades away to a complete numbness. The now masked doctor walks over. He sees the confusion in your eyes and moves to placate you. Relax Mr. Phineaus you are in good hands, the operation requires a certain level of consciousness to properly integrate with the daemons, but not to worry, you shouldn’t feel a thing. As he says this another surgeon also in his white scrubs and yellow gloves, selects a scalpel and cautery knife and begins to carve your arm open, you reflexively try to move your arm, but find that you can’t. Content to watch, and mostly having nothing else to do but watch, you stare at the doctors as they busy around, flaying your limbs open and drilling in metal plates on top of them, you watch as they move inwards, opening up the skin holding your ribs in place and replacing them with beast bone that subtly writher and squirms as it’s sewn inside you. As they finish they roll you over and do the same to your spine, it integrating as the beast parts come into a more welcoming environment more metal plates are screwed into the bone. Then the daemonist comes into play he taps each plate with his tuning fork and suddenly the air is alive with vibration, as the orderlies add ever increasing pieces of metal, and pistons are embedded in the muscles of your arms. Then the doctors move on, they take your eyes, slowly and silently plucking them from your head, and place what you assume to be the helmet onto your. As the helmet is placed on your head, someone whispers to you. Relax, they will be stored on a beast until you request use of them again. . Followed by the sound of the helmet being ratcheted shut In your visionless void and now senseless void you seem to float for an unknown amount of time. But suddenly you hear a muffled voice of, There, that should do it and a suddenly noise fills your head, lacking eyes you don’t know how long it lasts, aside from you feel as though your head may burst from this noise, it’s the kind of noise from a crowded stadium, but hooked up to a amplifier and pumped into your brain. Eventually one voice breaks through and quiets all the others. Ah, fuck, just when I think I’m finally fucking free, I get dragged back here, just my fucking luck. Well what the hell do we have here? No vision? This won’t fucking do at all. Alright A slight change in pitch comes over and you feel a sudden sensation of pressure, it suddenly passes and you gaze out from your strapped down table, the doctors and nurses gathered around you eagerly. The head surgeon takes off his mask when he sees you begin to move your head and the beast eyes that are embedded in the metal of the helmet begin to gaze out upon the world in their own suspicious way Gentlemen, I believe this operation was a successes, any questions Mr. Phineuas?
Attempt to figure out how much shorter I could make my machinegun's barrel without breaking it. Rendering its accuracy to be shit does not count as breaking it.engineering
"Ah, right. My apologies, my curiosity got the better of me."You get into the spook car as he peels out of the airport and ends up back a federal building, quickly crossing through it with you in tow he escorts you to an unmarked door which he unlocks and ushers you through, inside it is a daemon lab. He speaks finally. Wha͏t i͜s̸ ̢i̕t ̛tha͠t̶ ̛y̢ou͢ a͟s̵k us?̀ Your energies at tip top now.
To the spook car. Is my energy any better?
give them a thumbs up and try to find a mirrorYou flash a thumbs up at the doctor, as the orderlies scramble around unlatching your now metal sealed form from the operating table. one of the nurses wheels a full length mirror over as you push your aching muscles up from the table, listening to the curiously clear sound of the .
Groo's gonna keep flying, and if he doesn't see anything particularly interesting on the surface, he's gonna fly around below the island. Are there any caves large enough to land the spunnyflane inside? Land inside one.After circling around for a while Groo sees absoutlyly nothing of interest on the surface and heads over to the cave system, theres three caves that he can immedetlly see that look as though the spunnyflane would fit, nudging it into the cave he gets out and examines it. There seem to be two tunnels branching off from each other.
(It is fine midnight. It is fine, I can wait for such a fine game as this)((I'm Just changing the text color just so it's more distinguishable, does not reflect a change in tone or anything like that.))
Phineas would grunt a couple times as he'dspeak to the daemon in his mindWow that sounds really emo now that I think about it
His thoughts sounding particularly brittish to to daemon
"Well my fine dispossessed voice, I am Phineas Rex. I was once a pilot though it seems those days have reached their end since I have this...peculiar band of scoundrels. Though I do not mean such a term harshly, I do believe I am both of those. I appolagize if you are not happy with your accomadations in here. I wish that you come to fidn it a nice and welcoming place"
"Can you contact daemons in the place they come from? And what happens to daemons when we banish them, or they dissipate without energy? Do they go back home?" Daemian seems to be almost vibrating with excitement and eagerness, taking visible effort to make sure he only asks a few questions at a time.The spook is visibly troubled by the question and takes a moment to respond.
Talking about daemons.
Groo disembarks from the spunnyflane with Rufferto, and looks around at his surroundings with a wide smile. He pats his dog on the head, and says "Rufferto, Groo think this make perfect secret club house! Let's explore, maybe there's secrets and loot!"
With that, he charges forward into the tunnel on the right, katana and 1911 drawn. He'll adventure around until he finds something, or feels like he's explored all the tunnels.
"No! This meat Groo and Rufferto's now!"
Groo will chop off the vines attached to the corpse, and set about looting it and then butchering it. He'll feed a bit of the meat to Rufferto, then start exploring the more open tunnel. The nest itself is left alone, of course.
((Where'd everyone else go? Groo's little excursion was just meant as a way to pass time while they got their stuff done...))The thing is an egg, or at least it looks like an egg, with a number of long intestinal like tubes running from it into the human corpses slashed open abdomens. Groo pumps two rounds into and the sphere ruptures as the buckshot tears into it. Spilling a small horribly deformed fetus like thing out onto the corpses. Theres a loud shrieking from deeper within the caves, and Rufferto starts to whine, while shying back towards the path leading to the helicopter.
Shoot the thing with the shotgun! If it clearly isn't dead, shoot a few more times, before stabbing it with the katana a few more times. Even if it isn't clearly alive, stab it a few times anyway.
Go walk about and find grue
"The death of my brother nearly broke the daemon in his limbs. It may have been due to the link between them, and I hope that banished daemons return home as well, but if that's the kind of fate a dissipated daemon faces, I can't help but feel bad for them. If they do return home, hopefully they have the knowledge there to fix them."Hm̛m̨,͡ a̵n i͠n͜tres͘t͠in̢g̴ r̵e͢qu҉es̀t he pauses and thinks for a moment, before smiling showing, off strangely shiny white teeth. Bu̡t w҉e͢ ͟t̸hin҉k th̀at ̵wę ͠c͏ould͏ ̵h͝e̸ĺp̶.͜
"Looks like I've recovered my energy. I want to move the Weapon into my arm and the new daemon into my leg. There are concerns that the Weapon is not mentally ready to live on his own, and the other daemon stated that he would like to be able to check up on the original daemon, so I would like them to be linked so that they can travel between the limbs. It may be more difficult, but it is what they want. More like making additions to a house than giving them each a new house. You think you could help me do it?"
Little bit more talking.
This time I think I'll get an enormous salad, rather than sandwich.
"What is it, Rufferto? Did you find something? Did Draemitten fall off island again?!"Groo sprints after Rufferto asking ever more urgent questions as the two run down the hallways. Rufferto reaches the helicopter first, scampering into the still open door, Groo arrives shortly after, still completely oblivious to the ever louder sounds behind him. Eager to save his daemonist friend, Groo quickly starts up the helicopter and flys out of the cave.
Rush back to the spunnyflane with Rufferto, we need to rescue our daemonist!
Groo will fly around for a bit, desperately searching for the fallen Daemonist, before eventually despairing and flying back to the airbase he started at. Then he'll wander off to find his surviving teammates.Groo takes his spunnyflane out, of the cave hovering low of over the treetops, and widly zigzagging high in the sky as he searches for his fallen friends. Eventually however niehter he nor Rufferto are able to find the daemonist and in despair he glumly flys back over to the airport and disembarks from his spunnyflane, before wandering into the same diner the wall is in.
((Dang, thought I had posted this for the last turn.))The two of you walk along, until you come to a room with a thick heavy door, opening it you come to a strange cross between a surgical thearter and a padded and carpeted room whith a small ring cut in the carpet. The sppok has you lie down on the table, before what appears to be a saw with a megaphone strapped to the motor, drilling it into the arm of you you hear a sudden screaming as the saw cuts off a small cross section of your, before the spook takes a welding torch and hurrdilly welds it into another section of your daemon leg. It’s at about this point that the schreecing in your head reaches a fevered pitch, and the spook slips an IV into you. You wake up later, with functioning if somewhat ugly welded limbs and an aching head and ears. Though judging by the smile on the spooks face it seems things went well.
Daemon and Weapon transfer time.
Hmm, what to do, what to do.Taking you massive form, you decide to head to a public library to check out a book, your heavy and rather loud metal form causing the wood flooring creak ominously as the librarian politely ignores the loud sounds that echo through the library. Finding the filing cabinets containing the catalogue you discover a problem, your hands are too thick to open the filing cabinet doors.
.oh I know, lets go read some fine literature and cook books
NUTRITION
Agree to the daemon insideAlright, so I'll be act as a voice, provided that you help me out with some ah, problems I might have every now and then. you quickly agree to this, and the daemon speaks to the librarian I WOULD, oh sorry, library, I would like to check out a book on gourmet cooking, unfortunately my hands seem to be a bit large to open the
Groo will glumly take a seat near THE WALL, and snack on some of his long pork reserves, feeding some to Rufferto.
"GROSS. GET SOME REAL FOOD."you request two hamburgers, and which are cooked with a side order of completlly unintelligible cursing. The wall places one of them the floor where it is happily devoured by Rufferto. The other is ignored by groo as he enjoys his cannbalisitic snack.
Order two hamburgers for Groo and his dog.
"Thank you. I hope the daemons and Weapon made it through the ordeal alright." Daemien thanks the spook.You touch your limbs to your own limbs, and the voices respond.
"Is everyone still alive in there?"
Check on the daemons and Weapon, preferably by just touching my limbs or something to communicate instead of going into my mental space.
Wander about and look for others, try and show them my new voice!You find the others in a dinner where Groo is just finishing up his hamburger and the Wall is devouring the last of his salad. Ah friends, how are you on this fine morn? Your Groo and the Wall briefly wave before going back to eating.
"Oooh! Good Wall!"Groo messily devours his hamburger as one of the spook's walks in, dragging a comatose Damian in with him. He tips his hat to the lady as the dinner quickly becomes deserted. Sorry about that ma'am we needed to talk to these en. Ahem, gentlemen this mission will be a little different from the last couple you have done, for one thing you wil not be in friendly territory, you will be in Occupied France, specifically an island off the coast of Paris. We've heard the Nazi's have set up a beast lab in there, your job is make sure nothing gets done in there. We will explain a bit more once you get to Britain. But for now any more questions?
Groo happily devours his hamburger, only slightly more messily than Rufferto. He's clearly forgotten all about his earlier sadness!
"Uh-huh! Is there water off coast? Groo thirsty now."
Ready.
Ready for happy murder fun time!You nod you armored head happily.
"WE LIKE KILLING NAZIS. HEARD A RUMOR THAT THEY HAVE NO SOULS. AND EAT MANFLESH LIKE BEASTS AND GROO."The spook smiles at hearing this. Ah good, I see your bloodlust has not abated.
"If their base happens to get blown up or otherwise destroyed beyond repair, do we get paid more? Not saying it will, but I figured I'd ask just in case. My brother mentioned the destructive coincidences that sometimes happen around this group."
((Correct, the daemon is currently acting kinda like a text to speech program though in your case it's more thought to speech.))((Okay))
((So I am able to speak now, correct?))
Geat ready and head off. Test my new found strength on something metal
Tank while also Rambo.You hold your shield up in one hand and your machine gun in the other and stride confidently forward after Groo.
Loot the scientist
Dismember the scientist, then kick open the doors!
((Nice one, had me going for a moment. >.<))
Pick up some pencils or other small, throwable objects incase I need them later. Follow the others.You grab a couple of spare lock pieces and shove them into your pocket.
Through that door!You run through that door right after phineuas to find another room, this one in better shape save for a bisected man in the center, he's not dressed in any uniform you've seen before, it seems to be some kind of rubber suit maybe, lots of places where hoses could be attached, everything in this room is more administrative as well. So you're not sure how he got here.
punch the non burning door and throw the door knob at anything angry and opposed to us. Then punch said thing a couple times just to be sure[str 5] You punch the non burning door straight in the knob and it slams open easily revealing a bisected man in a rubber suit as the wall and the new Damian come up behind you.
"Careful, Rufferto! Fire is hot!"[ressiliance 5] With an animalistic roar Groo rushes into through the flames and seizes the flame trooper, and ignoring the incredible heat that drags him back out. Looking for all the world like a insane fireman, his jacket smoldering and what is left of his hair singed as he cradles the disemboweled man in his arms before roughly tossing him onto the floor. Rufferto shies away from the burnt organs. The man groans something in German before falling back weakly grasping at his stomach.
Charge into the heat to retrieve the flame trooper, and drag him back out.
Follow Priscilla through the door. If we find enemies, carve them up with my daemon knife. If they have something that would make melee combat too risky, or there is too much distance to cover where they could shoot me, throw a lock piece at them while hiding behind The Wall's shield.You follow the Walls better half through the door to see the strange rubber suited man.
"They seem to be doing a good job destroying the facility themselves. Maybe we could just go back home and get paid."
"The spooks still want their notes, though.You look around paging through the German documents for anything that looks like what the spooks want. While you can't read German you do recognize the trappings of bureaucracy. You grab a couple of letters and stuff them into your bag just in case they end up being important.
And since this seems to be going well so far, I can only guess that whatever beast is killing all of them probably made a nest out of those notes. According to my brother's letters, this group can't have an easy mission. Except that one with the fire bull. He said that was easy."
Search the room for valuable intel.
Loot the bisected man then go search for other doors to punch open.Theres not much to loot except for the mans suit itself, it seems to be form fitting and very tight…in fact now that you look at it looks almost like it's fused to the skin itself. Curious.
Finish off the flame trooper, then loot him. Is Groo finally gonna get a flamethrower?Taking his katana Groo puts the man out of his misery, before examining him. His flamethrower seems mostly functional, picking up the heavy backpack Groo sloshes it around. It seems about half full.
Head deeper into the facility, continue to be a living battering ramYou charge through the room, bashing down a second door, you emerge into a different room, as you charge through the thin office door you are confronted with a small mail room. You charge through it scattering papers until you suddenly come upon a hole in the floor and your armored foot is caught in it, as you clang to the floor.
Tank. Except for people who would rather rush ahead and not have a tank to protect them.You follow after the exo endo suit at a much more sedate pace. Arriving just as he seems to have realized that his foot is stuck in a hole in the floor.
Follow the group. Keep an eye out for useful notes or files that the spooks would want.You follow coming upon Phineus
Groo isn't actually strong enough to easily carry the flamethrower's tank, so he'll drag it safely outside the building, then rush to catch up with the group.Groo drags it outside and loads it onto the spunnyflane before rushing over to the rest of the group.
Gather up all the papers that "look important".You run through the mail room grabbing up papers and feeding them to Priscilla, with instructions to regurgitate them later.
get my foot out and go lootthose rooms for important documents.[Str 6] Placing your hands near you foot, you pull hard and with a tearing sound the metal peels back, making an even bigger hole. In the darkness you can see a faint glint of something off to the side, and maybe a small amount of movement? Hard to tell.
Look for other exits from the room, and any nazis that need to be decapitated.Well theres the floor that Phineus just tore up. Would be big enough to fit through at this point. Theres a door to the left and and another to the right.
Continue looking for important papers or things I could possibly sell and/or throw at enemies.
Help Phineas widen his hole.giggity
Make the hole big enough for the others to fit through[str 4] With Groo's help and the strength of your muscles you manage to tear that hole a new hole and make it big enough that you can all fit in there. With the increased light you can better make out the form on the bottom of the room, but it's a tall ceiling, and you can only make out that it's got a strange skin color, all striped black and white and you think that glint was from a series of chains on it. It seems try to shy away from the light.
See if I can make Priscilla do that morphing thing that she did after she drank the potion.[beast mastery 6+1=7] Priscillas legs pull morph from her body and the eye opens, at the same time both of your eyes close and you can feel your body lock up. All of the sudden Priscilla falls from your body, and through her eyes you feel as though you could move around using them…the feet feel strangely grippy, like you would imagine a gecko's foot would feel.
Help Phineas widen his hole.[daemonism 4+2=6] Groo takes his katana and begins to slice longways down metal as Phineaus pulls on them between the
Be prepared to kill any threats that come out of the hole with my daemon knife. Also ponder what the ring is supposed to do.[int 1] Your pondering only leaves you with a headache, maybe pounding the ring against your head and muttering think think think to yourself was not the best idea.
lower the others in, if the beats seems violent start cuching stuff at itYou sling your rope down and acting as an anchor point start lowering people in. The beast seems to do nothing, and you don't hear the tell tale signs of Groo being violent, so you refrain from hurling things.
Go down the hole and crawl onto the ceiling. Take a look around the room. If it seems fairly clear, crawl to right above the beast down there, and drop down to pierce its spine with my spikes.You crawl over and hang from the ceiling on your many segmented limbs, with your beast eyes you can easily penetrate the gloom, as you look closer you realize it's a woman, or at least whats left of a woman.
Be lowered into the hole, shotgun and katana pointing at the beast. If it makes any aggressive actions, unload into its face, and defensively use the katana to parry.You rapel into the room shotgun primed and katana poised for a strike at any threats, all the strange creature does is moan and try to move away from you, the chains restraining hem from doing that though.
If the beast attacks the others entering the hole, throw a lock piece at it with a daemon arm. Once it's dead, or if it isn't hostile, follow the others into the hole.
What may have been a glorious creature, ruined by the cruelty of man. Kill it, and absorb what essence I can.[str 4] Through Priscilla's eyes the wall watches as she stabs the creature with her spikes and begin to gnaw on it, the creature doesn't seem to react, and priscilla continues to worm her way ever deeper in. She'll be finished and able to see what she got in a turn.
Ignore the mutilated woman and search the room for treasure! Or at least another exit
climb downYOu jump down out of the way of the rest of the group and examine the mutilated corpse of the women with the rest.
Keep a good distance from the mutilated person. Look for important documents.Horrified you back away and stumble into an operating cart, scattering a number of instruments and folder. You pick it up and stuff it into your suit.
"A fray!" Groo shouts happily[daemonism 2+2=4] With a a cry Groo slices into the lock of the door managing to weaken it's retaining bar. The Phineaus with his iron fist slams into the door and bursts it open. Groo follows after and unleashes a battle cry of RUFERTOO! and runs forward unloading his shotgun in the general direction of the figures, [marksmanship 1] [resilience 5] Groo's shot clips the side of one the backpack wearing figures, the one to the far right.
Get to opening that door, via katana if necessary. Then charge in and join the fray, hacking and shooting whoever's closest!
Help Grue out with punching door and what ever is beyondYou draw your arm back and throw a powerful punch into the weakened door, [str 4] The punch slams into the door, busting open the weakened lock, and throwing the door open to a scene of carnage, backlit by fire and smoke 7 figures grapple with each other, surrounded by a mess of detritus and multicolored blood.
Follow the others through the door if they need help with fighting. Use thrown items against ranged enemies that are threatening me and the knife against melee enemies. Also use the knife to block projectiles if necessary.You stumble out after the other two eager ones. and watch as the combatants seem somewhat engaged right now. Though Groo just shot one of them so you'll see how this goes.
Groo will fire the shotgun again, aiming at tentacle dude's tentacle wound! He'll stay out of the thick of it for now, using his katana defensively.[marksmanship 3] [tenctaly ressiliance 1] Groo's shot goes into the ropy mutants wound and comes out the back, the hole becoming even bigger, and the mutant dropping to the floor as it's leg's collapse, it's spinal cord having been is torn to ribbons. The guard formerylly fighting it moves to assist the other guards in fighting the other mutants, and help fight Phineaus.
Punch the guards![str 4] [Guard's backpack 6] With a cry of rage magnified by the daemon to an earsplitting level, you charge forward drawing your arm back for a powerful punch. AS you get within a 5 foot distance to the guard, the tentacles of the backpack shootout wrapping around your foot and pulling it out from under you.
Finish eating and return to the wall. Drop down the hole and spray machine gun on everything.You finish subsuming the corpse [ressiliance 4] [beast mastery 2+1=3] Priscillias burps and bubble floats out of her mouth. it floats around for a moment before popping and spattering the ground with stomach acid….weird. Undanundted Priscilla clambers back over to the wall and reattaches herself to him. The wall opens his eyes and stretches before grabbing his shield and MG and jumping down the hole, as he runs outside and takes aim however a voice, unlike any he's heard before including Priscillas, suddenly fills his head. No, no, friend. Yes, friend. [int 3] and also manages to freeze his trigger arm.
Keep punching and kicking, grab the tenctacles, and yank up and then down on them in a whiping motion.[str 1] [tentacles 1] You try to grab the tentacles as it retracts. Grabbing hold you apply far too much force and end up crushing the tip off of the tentacle, leaving the rest to drag around the ground, you grab weakly for it but end up missing it.
"WHO."The voice resounds in your head, and your left eye suddenly focuses on the bone mutant. us Your left eye goes back to normal just as quickly as you drop the MG and grab your familiar shield. you charge forward, [str 4] [tentacles 1] The tentacles of the guard deploy as always but you plow through them, and smash into the guard, knowing him flat on his. Back. [resilience 1] He's got the wind knocked out of him and he lies there for a moment, the tentacles waving around uncertainly.
Discard the MG and shield-charge a nazi. Can't parry a wall of metal!
Holster the shotgun, and then follow the wall in while twohanding the katana! Start severing the backpack tentacles!Groo slings the shotgun over his back. and two hands the katana, Screaming he charges the guard closets too him. [daemonism 6+2=8] [tentacles 5] Groo, charges along swinging his katana in a whirlwind of death, as the tentacles dance and weave with him sacrificing themselves to proctet their wearers. The mutants wisely back off as the Groo charges in. Soon, Groo is surrounded by 12 different extremely damaged tentacles from the backpack and a very panicked guard. The tentacles move stiffly and jerkily as though Groo has damaged some part of their mechanisms. Groo feels pretty tired.
See if I can touch one or more of those backpacks and order it to bind its wearer, preferably without getting shocked. I want a[dex 6] [daemonism 5+4=9] [backpacker int 3] You charge towards the unoppied guard and dive towards him, the tentacles protectively deploy and you grab hold of on as it strikes towards you. immediately your mind is flooded with sensations of drowning, but you push through and begin to exert your will on the daemon. Inside your mind you hear the weapon roaring happily, as he begins to make mery chaos inside the backpack. The tentacles writhe around, before suddenly wrapping around the guard. You feel incredibly tired and just want to lie down.meatsacktargetprisoner tomutilatevent my disgust at their treatment of people atinterrogate. Use daemon knife to defend myself from attacks.
"Abominations are friends! Crush the skinheads!"
Use the shield the crush the downed nazi under me. Then pick back up and push the next one.
Start puching the other baddiesYou look for more nazis to punch, and see the one surrounding Groo with his backpack tentacles. You charge towards him the demon releasing a cry that shakes the room. [str 6] [tentacles 2] Easilly stomping through the stiff and slow moving tentacles and slam your fist into his face. slamming him into the floor and splitting his head open.
"Ahahaha! Nazi dies now!"[marksmanship 3] [resilience 3] Groo grabs his pistol from his belt and looses a quick shot at the guard. It slams into his knee, causing him to collapse to the ground. The tentacles writhe and move towards Groo. [Dex 4] groo nimbly scampers out of the way calling NAZI TAG IS EASY NOW!
Quickdraw a pistol and headshot the now undefended nazi at point blank, then swap to the shotgun and assess the situation. Katana is readied defensively.
Try to recover some energy. If necessary, use the daemon knife to defend myself and the Nazi. Can't get info out of a corspe.Forcing yourself to stand, and not fall, you hold the daemon knife in a shaking hand and point it towards the oncoming wall calling out. Wait, wait, we can can get some info out of him.. The wall doesn't stop, but he does slow down his advance somewhat. You still feel incredibly tired.
Phineus gives a fist pump before screaming outThe demon resounds in your head. Sounding strangely amused. Word play, how nice. Anyway so who's the guy who's head you just knocked off?
"Guess I gave him a splitting head ache! ...Too much?"
Say above bad pun then search the nazi
"Priscilla, would you *yawn* please get your host to stop poking my prisoner? He still *yawn* has feelings. Like pain and terror, which I intend to help him fully experience."Conceding the point to the man with the shield, you move over by the open door of a cell and rest, you keep your knife close to you though, glancing at the mutants every now and then. You raise an eyebrow when priscilla crawls off the walls body and moves towards the nazi, before going back to watching the mutants. the bone one and the massive headed one are standing stock still while the rope one is trying to stand on legs that don't work, you watch as it burbles in frustration, before an abdomen tentacle snakes out and cruses it's legs off, letting it stand on it's ropy arms.
Keep recovering energy in a safe place. Hide behind cover if necessary. Daemon knife for defense if I really need it.
Priscilla flops off the wall, producing a flurry of raised eyebrows for those with eyebrows and nonnegative intelligence. Priscilla scuttles of the wall, towards the guard, who watches helplessly as Priscilla slams a talon into his head causing him to stop moving, and then beginning to move hive mind into his brain. [beast mastery 3+1=4] [int 2] Priscilla manages to extract a fairly recent set of memories, but trying to sort through the mass of random thoughts and events proves far more difficult and leaves the Wall with a strange wanting for dressing in black leather and seigheiling. A voice chimes in. perhaps we could help with that? I have some skill in sifting through memories.Pick the MG back up and poke the alive backpacker's face with it.
Detach and bore into his brain to get his memories directly.
Shotgun the nearest fighting nazi! If no nazis are still up, then shotgun any mutants that attack anyone! Otherwise, just be ready for combat, and scan for new targets.Groo cradles his shotgun in his arms as he waits for anything to happen, but a voice suddenly booms through his empty head. Thank you for your help, though I fear our psychical friend will not be as much help any more Groo feels a sudden wave of shame. But who are you and what are you doing here?
Keep recovering energy, go get that undamaged backpack from the daemonist I subdued once Priscilla is done doing whatever she is doing. Don't actually put it on yet, though.You wander over to the backpack and examine it, certainly seems to have daemons in it. A pretty strong one at that.
It would be good to learn.
Accept help.
((You sure do like ghostly voices, don't you MJ.))
Take the Shield and baton then burst through the nearest door to continue caving heads itNazi, Hmm, one of those black wearing blokes? What do they want with these freaks?
"Guard, Nazi...being attacked by his...subjects."
Groo looks around for the source of the voice, randomly swinging his shotgun around and shoutingThe voice chuckles ah, no nazis. Merelly a victim of one. Though if you want to kill them, they are right over there. Groo's arms suddenly swing towards a door at the far end of the wall.
"Huh?! Who is there?! More Nazi?! Groo kills nazis!"
Get someone to help with the dooryou turn your armored head over your shoulder as the demon calls. HEY WHATS YOUR NAME, GET OVER HERE AND HELP. Once you slam the door open you hear a scientist scream something to which the daemon responds. Oh yeah, this reminds me, I had some business here once. I could translate.
"What we're here to find out."
Groo, laughing, will charge to the door and breach using his standard method--the ridiculously sharp daemon katana. Then he'll charge inside and start blasting at anything which moves, with his shotgun.Hearing the call for assistance Groo draws his katana and charges towards the door. [daemonism 1+2=3] [Phineaus str 5] Groo's katana cuts into the door just a little bit this time, but Phineaus takes his fist and slams it into the door, bursting it open. inside is a group of men in white lab coats banging on the opposite door, They turn as the door slams open, and watch in horror as Groo gives them a big grin and hefts his shotgun. [marksmanship 3] [ressilliance 2] Groo's first blast slams into one the scientests side, spilling his intestines on the floor. Another one turns before cowering down and screaming something in German.
Informative and nutritious. Thank you.beast backpack? It's daemon dude.
While we're knocking around in this guy's brainspace, take a look at the connection to the beast backpack. You know, say hi.
Keep recovering energy. If it won't take more energy than I recover, say hello to the daemon in the backpack.You recover as you rest and wait. as you wait you reach out and touch the backpack. Immedetlly your head is filled with sobbing. MY BABY WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY BABY? WHERE IS SHE?
Phineus holds his hand up in front of grue[str 5] [dex 4] Phineaus divesat Groo his armoered bulk smashing into Groo, he only manages to get an arm around Groo's leg but that's enough, he howls in confusion and his hand twitches for his shotgun as the scientists continue to franticlly beat the door down. You hear the daemon wrly comment. Well if you still want to know as you fight this galoot, that one is begging for mercy, that is saying fuck you the third reich is winning, the other one is screaming at the guy who just said that to shut up, and the rest are too busy screaming.
"Translate for them please."
Restrain Groo while the daemon talks to the scientists
I mean that while I'm wrist deep in the brain of this demon's master, I should be able to use that connection as a proxy to command the demon. Tell it to release its master and enter a base state where it can accept a new master. I have +1 Demonism.Ah, sorry, so it can't really release it's master, for a couple of reasons that you can probably begin to figure out from Beriuses interactions with them, but There is one way to do it. you could have it kill the guy and or order it to cut itself off of the guy, since your essentially using your daemonism but having the daemon think you are it's master. wanna do that?
((Quit trying to jack my loot, Egan. :P I didn't burn a good chunk of energy guaranteeing one would be in pristine condition just so someone else could take it.))The women still sounds hysterical? Summoned? I wasn't summoned. Who who who are you?
"Ma'am, I don't know what happened to your child. Did you have her when you were summoned? Do you know where you are?"
More recovering, more daemon talking.
Groo stares at Phineus' raised hand for a couple seconds, clearly confused, but he quickly recovers and shouts "Sword need no translation! Sword universal! Hahahaha!"Groo is tackled from the side, and his left leg is pinned to the ground by the bulk of phineaus arm. He growls and reaches for his katana, pondering his next move.
Holster the shotgun and start butchering nazis. Fleeing ones first, then cowering ones. Ignore any that Phineus has already grabbed or otherwise controlled; Groo is no kill stealer!
Keep Grue from killing them, take his shot gun and put it against the head of the one saying the third reich is winningWell you would do this except Groo just severely damaged your hand with his katana,your head is also filled with dozens of voices screaming.
"Tell them if they want to live they'll all shut up and gather their stuff. They're prisoners now."
If you think I can figure out why it can't release the guy, you're wrong and I'm dumb. And then you said it basically can? So, uh, tell it to release the guy.((Sorry about being unclear on that, ah essentially the daemon won't abandon the master, but you can tell it to sever itself from it.)) [daemonism 2+1=3] You hear a high-pitched sobbing within your shared consciousness, but the backpack flops about, not accomplishing much.
"My name is Daemien. What is yours?"
Guess I'll have to take this slow. Keep recovering energy.
EscapeGroo's brain switches from fight to flight and he begins to thrash about in Phineaus grasp, and in desperation, he grabs his katana by the hilt and unsheathes it, before stabbing it down towards phineauses hand, [daemonism 6+2=8] [phineaus resilience 3] Groo's katana penetrates into the metal that makes up phinesues wrist, penetrating into the bone and before embedding there. The daemon gives a scream of pain and releases Groo clutching at the hand the katana still stuck into the wrist and preventing the muscles from retracting, keeping the hand open. Groo scrambles away, clutching at his precious shotgun.
Why are you crying? Please, release.prisicilla makes calming noises, speaking slowly, before gently trying again, [daemonism 2+1=3] Nothing happens again and you feel the daemon beging to go from sadness to anger. You arn't him, are you?
Again tell the demon to let go, but maybe gentler this time.
Just drag the nazis with me and leave the damn room, if groo attacks throw something at himLacking any form of or other restraint that would allow for such a thing as well as lacking the ability to both hold a scientist and throw something at Groo you opt for the closest nazi and a glass bottle As Groo's shot pings off of your arm, you hurl the bottle at him. [str 4] [dex 1] The bottle smashes into Groo's broad forehead, the force of it putting a crack in Groo's bone plate, and embedding shards of glass in his face. He roars in anger and staggers about, blood streaming down his face.
Retreat back the way we came, using wings to go faster, while firing shotgun blasts at any exposed flesh on Phineas (or use the bolt action rifle if he's completely metal). If he manages to close into melee, use the daemon knife to disable his other arm, or to damage his head if it's vulnerable.[dex 5] Groo's wings unfurl to their full length, and he hurtles down the hall screaming, as he flys he shoulders his bolt action rifle and takes aim. [marksmanship 2] Groo's shot hits the armor of phineus, The high-powered bullet just skimming the thinner piece of armor that covers the shoulder joint. Phineaus hurls a glass bottle at him, which Groo fails to dodge out of the way and gets hit in the face with, leaving him staggering around and half blind.
"GIANT METAL MAN IS TRAITOR! IT PROTECTS NAZIS FROM GROO! GROO KILL IT!"
Damien removes his hand from the backpack for a moment. "Groo! Phineas! Stop fighting! We need the Nazis alive. I'm sure the spooks will let you kill them after they talk to them. We get less money if they're dead." After that, he resumes talking to the backpack daemon. "I'm here to stop bad people. The same ones that took you from your daughter. I can explain how they did it, but you won't like it. And these people also made my own kind into monsters."((Should, be in just gonna er on the side of yes even if turn wise it didn't work out exactly. I mean two weeks is a pretty long time to wait. ))
Keep taking it slow. Is my energy full yet?
((Yay. Also, would you mind giving me a response from the daemon for the stuff I asked?))Ah, sorry about that, not sure how I missed that action.
No, I am myself. I do have his body in pretty mint condition, if you want to join me in the skull. I can imagine you'd appreciate having a real body?YOU KILLED MY CHILD! You, You bastard, HOW COULD YOU? [Daemonism 2+1=3] [daemon 4+2=6] the backpack wriths, throwing Priscilla off and sending her across the room, the tentacles pickthem selves up and begin writhing towards Priscilla.
Fly around the portion of the team that isn't Phineas and scream continually.Groo flits around Priscilla and her brain feast in a frenzy screaming the top of his lungs about traitors. He breiflly stops when Priscilla gets sent flying away, but then resumes the screaming, this time including tentacles in the traitor list.
Continue to walk off dragging the nazi sto the exit, have the demon interrogate him about what they were doing here, if groo attacks go throw more stuff at himI'm not sure I understand, what exit are you talking about? You came in through a hole in the floor and the only other door you've opened continued a locked door door and the scientests.
Punch the door open and continue to drag him with me.. See how much damage would be caused by taking the katana out.You punch open the door away from all the crazy people fighting each other and open a door leading to a new hallway. AS for the katana, [doctor 5] well it's gonna hurt for sure, you're pretty sure that taking it out would give you the use of your arm back, but might cause you to start leaking hydraulics and blood if your screw up the removal.
"Evil nazi backpack! Groo will save fluffy!"[daemonism 2+2=4] With a cry Groo draws the daemon knife and charge for the backpack, Damien suddenly steps in the way, and his eyes seem to go completlly unfocuesed, Groo charges towards him anyway, Groo’s knife bending ever so slightly, Berius knife suddenly splits into dozens of incredibly thin tendrils, that embed into Groo’s body.
Groo still has that daemon knife, he'll take it to the backpack, stabbing and smashing it until it stops moving (and then a little more, for catharsis).
"Groo! Stop! And leave the metal man alone. Live Nazis will get us more money, and the spooks might let you kill them later. Plus I'll buy you a treat when we get back home. The backpack won't hurt them. Priscilla, please stop angering the daemon. I'm the daemonist, let me do my job." Daemien shouts to the others, huffing in irritation before turning back to the backpack.Seeing that diplomacy has failed you step forwards towards the charging Groo and prepare to recive him.
"Hmm, I think I know what happened. The Nazis that trapped you made you think one of them was your baby so you would protect them. We can talk through this as long as you need, but I need you to stop attacking the others around you right now. They tend to get a bit...proactively defensive when they think they are threatened."
Shouting at idiots, more daemon talking, defend the backpack with my daemon knife if necessary, calm backpack daemon down through my abilities if absolutely necessary.
*Hiss*Priscilla hurridelly scuttles back up to the wall, who has by now fallen down the hole in the floor, and is lying face down on the dead mutant, She hurridlly scuttles over and reatches and with a roar of rage the wall stands up, screaming CAN’T KNOCK DOWN THIS WALL! He takes aim with his MG [marksmanship 3] and does his best Rambo impression, while spraying lead everywhere, several bullets are deflected by the tendrils of the knife forming into a small shield, and one of the bullets grazes Groo’s bone plates on his side, but fails to crack it.
Reattach and spray the backpack with MG bullets until it stops moving.
"That. Is. ENOUGH! I'M TRYING TO HELP SOMEONE IN EMOTIONAL DISTRESS! THE NAZIS MADE THE DAEMON LIKE THIS, AND YOU WANT TO KILL HER FOR IT? QUIT YOUR FUCKING SHIT! BAD GROO!" Daemien screams at Groo and the Wall.[daemonism 6+4=10] Realizng that your time may well be up you bid farewell to the daemons the sound of the weapon softly crying and waving you goodbye as the other two daemons comfort him stays with you as you block the bullets the walls fires at you. With a cry of rage you grab your daemon knife in your human hand, and point you daemon arm towards the wall. You also bid farewell to the spook, and you can hear his bizarre voice crack with emotion as he bids you goodbye. [Wall resilience 4] The Walls ears rupture and he falls to his knees as his teeth shatter and his shield has dozens of micro fractures in it, and blood pours from his mouth, With your own mouth now contorted into a snarl as the skin on you begins to vibrate and slough away You point the knife at Groo and [Groo resilience 4] The shards fly into Groo's other arm, tearing the arm off it, Groo howls and clutches at his arm as blood begins to pour down it. [Damian ressilaicne 2] Damians eyes close one final time as his skin entirely sloughs off into a pile on the floor, the sound of daemons surrounding him, as the last bit of his skin sloughs off something seems to vibrate and then vanish.
If they back off, go try to talk to the backpack daemon like I wanted to last turn and recover energy. If they insist on pushing me, then use the knife tendrils, sonic cannon, whatever. I'm hoping I won't die from exhaustion, but if I'm going to burn out, I'm taking them with me. As in, complete destruction of their bodies. Use my rage for extra power if possible. If it wouldn't kill me to do it, I'd be fine with just disabling Groo's arms and killing Priscilla/The Wall, but nevermind if that would still kill me. No kill like overkill, after all. Try to draw on Weapon or Daemon power for energy if possible. And apologize to my daemons and 52 for failing them, and for the trauma they might end up going through from my death. Let them know I'm also sorry that I couldn't stop myself from trying to protect the backpack daemon. All I wanted was a new backpack, and I'm fucking fed up with people interfering. Oh, and apologize to the spook/spook's assistant through the earing. See if he can take care of my stuff until a family member shows up to claim it if any of it makes it back. And if at any point in my action the ring would be useful, use it since I still don't know what it does.
The demon is still attacking me, I presume? In that case, daemoin is actively protecting something that's now trying to murder me. So spray him down with MG. Can't block rapid, high-caliber bullets while you're tired. Also holding up the shield in the other hand, obviously.[marksmanship 6] The wall holding his shield up holds his trigger down and spews lead towards the suicidal daemonist, Damians limbs suddenly block the spray, the arm flattening and forming a shield as it receives the high caliber bullets. The bullets penetrate deeply into the arm but just barely are slowed.
"WHY, DEMNYAMNEM HURT GROO?! DAEMINAZI?!?!"Groo flys down the hallway, [marksmanship 2] His shots again by absorbed by the dameon limbs of damian, the knife shards the damian sends Groo's way, tear off Groo's arm and cause him to roar in rage as he clutches at it.
OOC I'm not terribly into teamkilling, but, I mean, Groo's not exactly the sort who gets stabbed and then decides "Oh, he's my ally". So...
Groo's going to immediately retreat, flapping his wings at full force, while forming the knife into a shield or something to block any attacks. He'll simultanously blast at Dremenimimi's head with his shotgun.
Head down the hall wayYou head down the hallway, ignoring the sounds of the fight echoing towards you. You see the mutants hurriedly freeing other mutants, they turn and stare at you as you drag the nazi after you, him weakly clutching at his mouth, the bone encased one echoes in your head, we could interrogate that one for you.
Pounce forward and eat Daemaoianm's brain while it's still fresh, preserving as much as possible. Also consume the rest of his flesh to make replacements for myself.[beast mastery 1+1=2] [doctor 1]
Drop the scientistWonderful, the mutants seem to go silent again, and the scientist begins to clutch at his head and bang it against the floor.
"He's yours."
Groo will collect his severed arm and give it to Rufferto, then wander back over to Dearmition's body and give a low whine. Maybe he'll try and use daemonism to attach one of the now unused daemon limbs to his arm stump.
"Groo feel funny..."
Continue exploring the placeYou move on shouldering away the seizing nazi as a faint scream echoes through your head. You look around, theres a couple of signs that the daemon confidently informs you say, labs non sentient beasts armory..
Groo will calmly sit down next to Daemiun's corpse, and pet Priscilla while she works. Adorable.Groo plops down next to prisscilla, and watches as she works, blood still trickiling down his arm. He's beginning to feel a little light headed.
You mean wristache, right?[beast mastery 4+2] Paging through the beast masters kit, despite priscillas ringing wrist ache, there is indeed a handy manual that shows how to collect the brains of a melted man, granted it also goes into details about how get the voices in your head to shut up for a minute, but your fairly sure that those two arn't related. Regardless after locating the head, turns out it tends to collect right near the heart, Priscialla collects and stores the brains of damian, deciding that she will look through the memories at a later date.
Oh well. Grab five of deamoinm's coins and toss five to groo. Also grabbing his ring.
Maybe the beastmaster kit has a handy manual that could show me where the damn head is on a melted corpse. I'm sure that comes up a lot in this profession.
Break the door down and enterYou smash the door labelled labs and find that it it appears to be an initial large room, with a massive machine in the center which you can't tell what it does from the distance, from the other side of the room theres a set of tables, with one particually massive one taking the center of the room, while it clearly used to have a creature on it as evidenced by the blood on the floor, the creature is nowhere to be seen. Though theres a door off it's hinges towards the rear of the lab.
Use a bit of Daeaeaeamon's flesh to patch up Groo's arm.[doctor 5] [beast mastery 6+2=8] Priscilla scuttles over to the hemorrhaging Groo before extending a prosicibus from her mouth and sticking it into one of the gaps between where Groo's stump is and the daemon limb, before extruding some of the late damians flesh into the gap and stopping the bleeding, watching as the hive minded flesh bond and integrates to Groo's flesh and daemon hand creating strange and interesting scars and shapes…it also moves a writhes a little bit of it's own volition, but that's probably fine.
Allow the adorable fluffy to heal Groo. Scratch it behind the... whatever appendage that has an itchy spot behind.Groo watches as priscilla stops the bleeding, and rufferot licks the blood off of himself as Groo dilly scratches stretches priscillas wrist. Her finger taps rapdilly in time with the scratching.
Go through the door way, be ready to continue punching stuffstomping through the smashed lab you walk through the open door, emerging into a mass of corpses all fused together into a strange almost egg like structure, it's a little taller than you are but you can't see within nor can you see how deep into the room it goes. From within there is a deep rumbling sound, like heavy breathing.
Mmm, a spark of life? not only is this fine, it's desireable! Cultivate the stuff connecting Groo to the daemon arm into a true daughter.[beast mastery 2+1=3] The spark of life wriggles a little bit, and gerarlly looks adorable to the eyes of priscialla, but fails to evolve into anything greater right now, perhaps it just needs some time to settle in?
Groo will let the soft work, and call Rufferto over to get some petting. He'll also retrieve his arm from Rufferto's jaw.Groo pets rufferto, and retrieves his arm, which tries to attach to his daemon arm without any success, his dream of triple wielding will have to wait.
"Hello?"You call out to the mass, and the breathing seems to increase rap dilly, before turning into a piercing cry that echoes through the halls.
Be ready to fight back if needed
"Good Soft! C'mon Rufferto, let's find Groo sword!"Groo grabs the knife and wraps it's incredibly pliable metal around his wrist, the thing humming with power. He then begins to charge towards phineus, using his wings for extra speed, Groo suddenly hears the sound of shriek as he hurtles towards phineaus, arriving at the egg like structure with his bolt auction rifle pointed at it.
Groo cheerfully thanks Priscilla while getting up, then loots Daemien's 9-knife. He'll form both that knife and his other into Assassin's Creed style hidden blades, then go running after Phineas with his bolt action rifle ready.
Grab the leftover demon kit and try to use it to create some quick-and-dirty demon ears. Just infused bits of steel stuck into my wrist so I can hear again.[daemonism 5+1=6] Grabbing a piece of metal that's fallen from daemonic you stab it into your human wrist and infuse it with a daemon, after a lot of painful turning the piece and a buzzing that your positive can't be good for your bone structure you can finally hear again, it's horrifically tinny but hey it works. just in time to hear a schreech in come down the hallway, Priscilla seems to not like the screeching.
Punch it, and punch anything that tries to mess with me.[str 2] You shove your free hand into the mass of flesh up to the wrist and root around before tearing it out again, whatever is in there it's in deep while it's difficult to still feel any sensation through your hands you have the distinct impression that thing inside of it, is going to be about a forearms length in. You suddenly hear an answering shriek coming from the opposite direction.
Quickly fly over to Phineas, tear the katana out (perhaps using daemonism to make it come out easier), then fly back away and out of range.[str 2] [daemon ism 2+2=4] Groo flys over and grabs the katana, before giving a firm heft, it's still stuck, but the hole it's in seems a little wider, maybe with some determined wiggling it could pull out.
Remind myself of my general surroundings. And figure out if that one voice in my head is still there. And ask it if I can get some more voices, it's nice to have company.You are standing in a hallway with several prison style portals in it, all steel doors with viewing ports. While the voice in your head seems to have left, Priscialla seems to be wanting to go down the hallway that Groo and Phineaus went down, saying something about the ones being there.
Yeah...you know what, time to back away and just wander deeper into this placedecding that it might not be best to deal with whatever is in that egg thing or whatever is rushing towards the egg you decide to head deeper within the facility, bursting open a side door you run out of it, Groo still clinging to your arm as you jog onwards down a hallway. Emerging into a room containing gas masks and hazard suits. Theres another door leading onwards.
((I can't help but imagine Groo standing horizontally on Phineas, feet planted on his arm, tugging desperately at the katana while Phin screws around with the fleshmass obliviously. It's an entertaining image.))[str 5] [daemonism 3+1=4] Groo gives a massive heave, before tearing the katana out of phineuses hand, it cutting slightly as it does so, on the plus side for phineaus, now he can actually use the hand, on the minus side now he's bleeding. The deed done, Groo spreads his wings and flaps back to the wall, rufferto still clutched to his chest.
Get that darn katana out! Rip and tear! Then flee back to THE WALL and its soft.
That sounds suspiciously like the GM trying to keep the party together, so obviously head in exact opposite direction.
Tear up one of the hazmat suits into a bandage and patch up hand, glare angrily at groo[doctor 6] You tear the suit into shreds and tie it to your hand taking some time to make sure that it's tight enough as you glare at the rapidly retreating form of Groo. You've gotten the bleeding to stop now.
Groo happily flits in front of THE WALL, and happily waves his katana at the man. "Groo have katana again! Yay!"
Greet THE WALL, but before becoming actually helpful he'll wander off again and eventually return to the Daemonist's corpse. He will then proceed to loot everything of value that hasn't already been taken; the limbs and earrings, I believe.
Please actually move the stuff I looted off of daemoon into my inventory spoiler.
I looted the coins, demon kit, and christmas present ring, leaving the limbs, the demon knife, and the earring for Groo to loot. I also gave groo five of those coins.
Go search about the roomTrusting in your suit to protect you from whatever is in there you push through the airlock, inside there are a number of surgical drapes around a bed inside the room next to it is a collection of documents next to stack of petri dishes and sample tubes.
[rufferto perception 1] Ruffertos hypersensitive nose perks up, detecing a faint scnet of something down the opposite hallway, he barks twice signaling Groo to follow him and takes off, Groo chasing after him, as he rounds a corner he sees Rufferto suddenly sliding back along the corridor on his side yelping in pain a huge roar of a beast follows and a massive multi tentacled monstrosity rounds the corner, it has a beak at the center of it's face, and four massively thick legs the tenteclales surround it's face like some mockery of of a seanemone.Search in a completely different area than the other two.
Actually, no, release Rufferto and tell him to lead Groo to shinies!
Search in the same place as Groo.The wall runs down the hallway after Groo as he chases Rufferto, He too skids to a stop as the tentacled monstrosity appears around the bend.
Grab the pitri dishes and documents, then head out and rejoin the othersYou grab the petri dishes and the documents, the daemon notes that they seem important, before beginning to wander back to towards the sound of gun fire and roaring which in a near pavelonian response you associate with your friends. You come upon the wall and Groo locked in combat with a tentacled beast.
((it's fine, good to see yeh back))
Sever the nerves that the beast uses to control its tentacles. Once it's immobilized I'll decide what to do with it.[beast str 4] [wall resilience 6] [str 3] [beast ressiliance 4] The beasts charges forward the tentacles around it's mouth writhing as it slams into the walls shield, the tentacles snaking around to clutch the wall as the beasts beak embeds itself in the walls shield, Priscilla springs to life as the rest of the wall contends with holding up the beast, fending off the advances of the beast and keeping any of the tentacles from actually impacting the walls bare flesh.
Groo roars in rage, aerially charging forward while blasting the thing nonstop with his shotgun! Upon collision, he'll start hacking and cleaving with his two daemon wristblades. Nobody hurts Rufferto![marksmanship 4] [ressilaince 1] Groo flys forward with a howl of rage blasting away with his shotgun as he flies forward, the heavy shot slams into the beasts body, tearing it's heart and lung apart, for a moment the beast slumps all life gone from it, but just as suddenly it picks back up with renewed vigor, the priscilla going back to her defensive work. [daemonism 1+2=3] As Groo slams into the beasts, which is now pouring a coupious amount of blood, he pulls his two wrist blades from his wrist and starts trying to cut, finding that they don't seem to be keeping any edge, the one he snagged from damian actually doing the least, deforming like clay.
Welp, time to stash away the petri dishes and such and go punch the shit out of this tentacle beastYou stuff the petri dishes away and look over the documents as the daemon in your suit translates. From what you can gather they sound like the documents the spooks were asking for.
Grah! Just leave the useless daggers stuck in the thing, and pull out a REAL weapon--the katana! Then hack and slash until the thing stops moving! And maybe a bit longer![daemonism 2+2=4] Groo's katana slides out of it's sheath and slices into the beasts belly while it doesn't go deep it's enough to completely disembowel Groo still feels happy to contribute.
Take full advantage of the fact that melee attacks use strength, and that I have +4 strength, and that originally +4 was described as making you always succeed barring pretty strong extenuating circumstances. And sever its nerves.[str 5] [ressiliance 2] Prisiclla reaches out and slams her talons into the monsters neck severing the spinal column.the beast drops to the ground it's brain no longer linked to it's body. Groo stabs it again just for good measure anyway and Phineaus smashes it's head open with his foot.
I am fine. Get out with the petri dishes and such.You grab the petri dish and join the crew in the exodus from the doomed lab, following after Groo as he flies up and out of the cell where you all initially found the beast women and following him to the helicopter.
Groo will quickly grab Rufferto's wounded body, and rush back to the spunnyflane while comforting him. Rufferto needs to get fixed!Groo engulfs Rufferto in his arms and clutches him protectivlly to his chest before spreading his wings and hurtling back the way he came emerging out of the lab in record time, and whirling back into the spunnyflane. Throughout this he constantly whispers in a worried voice to Rufferto about everything going to be okay. He anxiously awaits for his team mates to arrive.
((Yeah, I'm fine with wrapping things up.))
Recover what's left of the beast's brains. Eat whatever flesh I have room for, grab the rest for later. I guess Phoonaus completed the mission objective, so head back to the spunnyflane. Invite those nice beast mutant people to come back with us.Priscilla slithers in and devours the brains of the beast while the wall hefts whats left of the corpe up onto his shoulder and slowly lumbers after Groo, walks after Groo. As he walks Priscilla asks the beast mutant people if they need to be transported somewhere else, she only hears what she thinks might be laughter before hearing that they can find their own way to more civilized places, the voices do add however that one of their number will come as a gesture of good will. As she hears this the ropy mutant appears from nowhere and begins to slouch along with Priscilla and the wall.
Only problem is that I wanted more stat points and money to make Wallcilla even more stupid OP.
Try not to kill us all in flying backClambering to the front of the cockpit you begin the pre flight checklist while Groo drags a massive flamethrower into the back of the helicopter.
Groo's fine with not flying, he's too distracted with comforting Rufferto. Not quite distracted enough to forget about that flamethrower he looted before, he'll make sure that's securely inside.
"IT IS A FRIEND. ONCE WAS HUMAN, NOW BEAST. NAZI EXPERIMENTS. INTRIGUING."
+2 Intelligence
+2 Beast Mastery
"It's true."
+1 daemonism, +1 marksmanship, +2 Charisma
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