((Sorry, ain't allowing custom classing. However, I did consider having a "cleanup" class so if people want it I can add that in.))Spoiler: Character Creation (click to show/hide)
Aaaaa, just saw this. Can I still get in? Gonna come up with a sheet asap!You can. No entry limits yet.
I have absolutely, truly, really, honestly NO IDEA why you're giving my poor, abused, concealed character a glare like that sir, none at all. Truly, you are such a terrible person for abusing him so.
-snip-
Were you expecting mercy?
Get up, get gear, and go where I’m told to be. When I see Clem glaring at me, wink at them on my way out the door.
Get up, ready gear, glare at other security team members until they get ready. Move out.Clem wanders about the room, staring intently at various people. This would already be awkward enough, but most people are in the midst of dressing which makes Clem seem not only rude but borderline perverse. This does not seem to stop...Him?Spoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information management officer (click to show/hide)
Assemble. Test flashlight.Spuds tests his flashlight. He tests it by looking directly into it and then turning it on. A few moments and swear words later, he is covering his eyes with one arm and making a mental note not to test is weapon in the same way.Spoiler: Spuds. Security Guard (click to show/hide)
Harry turns on the scanner, squints at the display, shakes it, hits it with the heel of his hand, and then squints at it again. The Scanner reads an all clear other than a mildly elevated level of methane in the air.Spoiler: HAZMAT Harry, HMRC (click to show/hide)
Check gear, check environment scanner functionality, double-check environment scanner batteries, follow theuselessly squishy meatshieldcultistoccult materials officerstuck-up sack of probably-demonic flesh. Wait no, this is his first day on the job. Stuck-up sack of probably-soon-to-be-demonic flesh.
Try to use my OPCC to find a place where I could take some free breakfast to go that is conveniently on the way to the labs. If successful, make a detour to acquire breakfast.[2] Pathos presses the power button on his OPCC and then grimaces mightily when the holoscreen projects a picture of a battery with a line through it and the message "CHARGE ME, IDIOT".
Regardless, leisurely make my way to the labs.Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Requisition the placement of one Omni-Incinerator to be placed in the main area of lab t-113. push trash receptacle and mop bucket toward the entrance hall of lab t-113. Stop when she encounters foot traffic in the opposite direction and wait at the side of the hall.IGNORING YOU. CHANGE YOUR CLASS.Spoiler: Totally a Legitimate Character (click to show/hide)
Mildred marches over to Spuds and begins yelling at him, demanding extremely specific breakfast foods. In his blinded confusion, Spuds springs up and whips around, his flashlight swinging like a mace directly into her face.Spoiler: Mildred the Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
"Uggh. What time is it!?"
Mildred, for all her wokeness, is not especially pleased at being literally woken up. She waves a hand imperiously at the nearest schmuck in a different, less-imposing jumpsuit.
"You there, go and fetch me a breakfast smoothie."
Order an underling to bring me a low GI, gluten-free breakfast smoothie of some description, then do a brief, abridged version of my usual morning yoga routine before equipping whatever gear is not already on my person and reluctantly following the others.
"Well then, let's go earn our keep eh fellas. Let's hope we can grab some chow beforehand!"Jion also checks his environmental scanner and gets a similar response: safe on all levels besides a mildly elevated methane level and a trace of human blood somewhere nearby.
Let's try out that scanner!Spoiler: Jion Maupin (click to show/hide)
[2]Spoiler: HAZMAT Harry, HMRC (click to show/hide)
"No I'm afraid we have been briefed on no such thing. What organisms are you bringing through, and what parts of them are sharp, flammable, toxic, poisonous, capable of bludgeoning hapless security men, large, reality-warping, or otherwise dangerous to upstanding scientists like yourselves?" Also, check my scanner to establish a baseline for "normal operating environment in this particular corner of the madhouse", to which I can later compare the results.
Clem rolls its eyes and immediately draws its OMNITECH® Generic™ sidearm, pointing it directly at the glass tube. Whatever malformed monster emerges from the machine will be summarily executed by OMNITECH® Generic™ cartridges and then prodded vigorously by OMNITECH® Null-Rods.Clem walks off to a 45 degree angle away from the front of the teleporter and points his(?) gun at it.
Assuming that most of Clem's coworkers aren't complete idiots. Not looking good on that front, admittedly, Clem thinks to itself.
Draw sidearm, disengage safety, aim directly at the tube. They want security, they get security. Hopefully the OMNITECH® Security Specialists present will get the clue and set up overwatch of their own.
Also, Occult knowledge check on the nature of teleportation and its side effects on living organisms.Spoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information management officer (click to show/hide)
”Have any of you eggheads every seen a single movie?”Lance huddles in a corner, pointing his rifle at the tube.
Get in the corner of the room and ready my rifle.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Excuse me, do you mind explaining how the teleporter works? Fixing things is easier when you understand what they were like in the first place."[3]Spoiler: Patrick Edmundson (click to show/hide)
"No sir, no, we have not been briefed at all, we would really really like to hear what you have to say, in fact."
Ask to be briefed. Then ready the rifle, and take position somewhere a fair distance away from the machine, but not so far away from the others or close to the walls that Rezel could get separated and boxed in. Don't aim at the machine.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
[3]Spoiler: medic (click to show/hide)
try to heal mildred.
Spuds looks around for a crate or something to use as a firestep or a bit of cover. If he finds one, he drags it over to the firing line.Spuds looks around for some convenient cover. No red barrels, but there is a maybe 2 foot tall metal crate off to the edge of the room. He walks over and inspects it. A shipping label on top marks it as being "High Capacity Fuses". Considering these are probably not explosive, he shoves it into a bit more tactical of a position and then crouches down behind it.
Do not substitute a red barrel.
...Do keep an eye out for a red barrel in case one becomes necessary.Spoiler: Spuds. Security Guard (click to show/hide)
Grab gear and report for duty((They have no listed attacks but you can still hit people with them, though damage won't be great ((( unless you find the secret d20 damage random item))) ))
The arc scrapper, automop and incinerator have no attacks?Spoiler: Aigre, Sanitation offficer (click to show/hide)
To his fellow mopster:Jon walks away from the group and begins inspecting his gear. He turns on the automop and gives it a few test spins, wiping up a dried coffee spill in the corner. He then activates the Incinerator and dumps the paper cup -also from the spilled coffee- into it. Everything seems to be working well. He yawns, stretches, turns off the gear and then walks out into the hall, looking for a coffee machine.
"Obviously we don't attack with them, you tool. We're sanitation engineers, not barbarians. We clean with them.
Ignore the crowd. Inspect equipment to ensure it is functional. Spin the automop. Activate the incinerator. Check the hallway for 'spots' that might need laser squeegeeing. Once satisfied with each piece of equipment, turn them all off and take a coffee break. Squeakily.Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
[2]Spoiler: Omnitech Mandatory Public Relations Represenitive (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Class (click to show/hide)
Come into the meeting room and give a Speech about how we will lead the path to Humanities Future. After introducing myself of course.Spoiler: GM only (click to show/hide)
Go to the lab where everyone else is.Consider yourself there.Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
"If that's all you're asking for."Heather hides behind Spuds, putting a metal crate and a squishy person between herself and any potential harm.
Take up position behind one of the security guards.Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
Plug in OPCC to convenient wall socket and use it to locate nearest coffee maker and/or kitchen and/or vending machine. Proceed to procuring coffee and snacks. 6 minutes should give me plenty of time.Pathos follows Jon out and joins him in the break room. He plugs his OPCC in and then rifles through the fridge with a cup of coffee in the other hand. Eventually he finds a small plastic container containing brownies. There's no name on it so, by international jackass law, it is considered up for grabs. He carries it over to the little table in the room and starts munching.Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
I could not imagine these are dangerous organisms? Qualt inquires, rather emptily.[2] Qualt inquires about the organisms being transported but Stiles seems to ignore him. Thus uninformed, he goes and hides behind Heather, increasing the coward conga-line to 3 people and a box.
Inquire. If there is a chance of deadliness (in other words, regardless of answer) then take solid cover and wait to patch up fleshies.Spoiler: Qualt (click to show/hide)
Ed arrives at the room. Fashionably late, as usual, but not quite too late. He sidles up to Pathos, who is currently fiddling with a coffee machine.Ed follows Jon and grabs some coffee at the same time.
Wait around with Pathos, get some of coffee if he manages to make any. Observe what's going on.
Also, check my omnitech contract notebook if it has some kind of info/encyclopedia function to look up info and precedents. Also check if I can add tiny small text to any contracts/documents I make.
"Hey man, did I manage to miss the big speech? Also, I'm dying for some of that bean juice, if you manage to get any going."Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
((In what universe is "not waiting for the professionals to scan the potentially-dangerous rodent" a good idea? And why is the occult guy getting involved anyway, if there's issues with teleportation it probably won't be occult-related...not yet anyway. This will probably be a perfectly safe rodent to convince us that teleportation's fine before we get hit with a mutated polar bear or something next time.
Anyway, at the very least WAIT for the scanner guys to do their job before rushing the stupid mouse, and CERTAINLY don't do anything as suicidally insane as striking the guy holding the mouse.))
((You sure about that?-snip-
((You clearly did not read my action.))
((You sure about that?-snip-
((You clearly did not read my action.))
"Once the tube is open, contain the sample "
They're opening the tube NOW, THEN we're scanning it. The NPCs aren't waiting for our [in-universe, anyway] paranoid selves to make ourselves happy with safety and whatnot. Your action, as written, at least as I interpret it, suggests that you're not waiting, since you didn't SAY you're waiting. Though maybe it's all academic anyway, and the rodent is going to spontaneously combust as soon as it's exposed to the outside air, who knows?))
((IC someone already busted open someone's face))((That one WAS an accident, from the look of things.))
Harry walks over to the tube but shrinks back a bit as the tube lifts, retracting into the ceiling enough to allow him to get at the mouse. He sticks the scanner towards the critter and checks it. Ozone, mild temperature elevation, some quickly diminishing radiation and heavy hydrogen. Trace amounts of burnt organic matter, probably hair. Seems safe enough.Spoiler: HAZMAT Harry, HMRC (click to show/hide)
Run the scanner again, check that mouse for hazards, then tell people whether it's safe or not. If it is,remove it if it's safelet someone else remove it.
Then ask what the next creature they're bringing through is.
Harry gives Dave a thumbs up, so Dave walks over and picks the mouse up by the tail. He inspects it for a good hard moment before placing it in the palm of his hand. He's not a vet or anything but the creature looks pretty much fine; bit of burnt hair and the exposed skin looks like it might have been sunburnt a bit but otherwise its fine. No extra heads or leaking fluids but without an autopsy or at least some imaging he can't be totally sure.Spoiler: medic (click to show/hide)
If HAZMAT guy and occult guy says it's safe go to pick the mouse to check for physical irregularities.
Sit on the metal crate and wait for the next teleportation.Heather gets out of the Coward Conga Line and sits on the crate, feeling slightly let down by the lack of terror.Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
Stand off to the side of Dave, keeping the 'foam gun' at the ready (try not to stand in anyone's line of fire, and if possible keep my back towards the room's exit). If the mouse attacks him or otherwise poses a threat, immediately try to stick it to the floor (preferably without hitting Dave or any other teammate/ally!)Foam seems unnecessary at the moment so Jion listens in about the list of critters coming through. When Stiles finishes, Jion asks about the timer.
If possible, ask the good doctor a list of the creatures they are planning to send through, as well as if they know about any variance in the position of teleported subjects in addition to the time variance we just witnessed. Also ask them to delay the sending of the next sample until this one is well and fully processed.
"Ok then Harry, if you grab it, I'll keep the foam ready in case it gets any funny ideas.
Oh, and by the way fellas, apparently that fancy timer they have is more a suggestion than an actual countdown, so be ready for possible unexpected teleportation events."Spoiler: Jion Maupin (click to show/hide)
Use my OMNITECH Contract Notebook's Omnilawayer Suite to make up the papers for the inevitable `Excessive Use of Force on Potential Future Samples of Omnitech`. Lawsuit.((Character sheet please))
Also a waiver for disassociating Omnitech and it's PR employees from any backlash caused by `Un-associated Companies' Products & Promised Samples.`
"Guess we'll alternate. I'll pull the next one."Spuds stays behind the crate. Cowardly or not, he has faith the crate will protect him. He says a little prayer to the crate.
Remain ready. Keep looking at the teleporter while the mates pick up the mouse.. there might be more on the way already.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Clem shrugs and pushes past anyone trying to contain the specimen using improper procedure such as "bare hands".Clem remembers that there are many risk factors for data loss. Solar winds. High energy particles. Imprecisely formed plasma envelope around the matter. Interception of background radiation that isn't filtered out. Unforeseen quantum decay. Lots of things really. As per the results of the loss...oh could be just about anything. Probably a dead test subject is most likely.
What risk factors are associated with data loss in transferral of living organisms?
Once the tube is open, contain the sample using an OMNITECH® Universal Containment Pod. If an employee manages to rush to the tube before me and grasp the specimen without any protection or containment, clasp the OMNITECH® Universal Containment Pod down on the sample while it remains in the employee's hands, and subsequently strike the employee in the head with my OMNITECH® Null-Rod.Spoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information management officer (click to show/hide)
"Ooh, brownies! Gimme one, eh?"Jon takes a brownie and munches on it while continuing to search the fridge. Hmm. There's a lot of stuff in here; sandwiches, pie, cookies, meatloaf, reconstituted nutrient paste, pizza, pasta, etc. Jon sets the incinerator down and opens the large top hatch. He begins liberally tossing food into the incinerator; anything he doesn't like. That done, he carries an armful of the remaining goods to the table and sits down, spoiled for choice.
Assist Pathos in brownie consumption. Root through refrigerator for additional snacks. Incinerate anything unappetizing.Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
"Hm? Sure, sure."Pathos continues to eat his brownie, which he insists on calling a muffin for some reason. With the cube charging, he activates the holo screen and keyboard and tries to connect to the Teleporter lab.
While absent-mindedly munching on one of the 'free' muffins, try to remotely connect to any recording devices or other sensors in the lab.Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Murine teleportation, Qualt states.Qualt wanders about, scanning the rest of the room, but there's very little more to see. He waves in at the scientists behind the security windows but they mostly frown or ignore him. No fun.
Keep my distance. Let the security teams do their jobs. Analyze the rest of this laboratory space.Spoiler: Qualt (click to show/hide)
”All this fuss over one little mouse? You eggheads really are a jumpy bunch, aren’t you? Will you be calling us in to squash spiders and chase moths out of your rooms?”Lance goes around, checking firing angles, but finds things are pretty much ok.
Take note of everyone’s positions around the room. Is anyone standing in anyone else’s crossfire? If so, try to arrange everyone so that they’re not in danger of shooting each other.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Inspect the readouts to see if anything's happening/get a baseline for future trials.Same as everyone else who has done this action.Wait I didn't read everything.
Okay there.Spoiler: Patrick Edmundson (click to show/hide)
Mildred sits in the corner, holding her mouth shut and rubbling idly at the blood staining her lips and chin. She draws her side arm and sets it beside her, but mostly seems focused on her teeth or lack there of.Spoiler: Mildred the Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
Sulk in a corner, giving the occasional theatrical groan of pain as I probe at the cotton stuffed in my mouth with my tongue.
Should probably get my sidearm out too, I guess, and put it somewhere handy.
((Why so much OOC? Good grief.))
Edge around the room while facing the teleporter and keeping the rifle ready. If the mouse detonates into demons, or demons otherwise appear, shoot the demons. If the mouse doesn't become something exceptionally harmful, continue around to the crate Spuds is behind, and take cover with him. Watch behind him, just in case a demon teleports into a flanking position.Rezel circles the room and then joins the coward conga line. Tactically, of course.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
Great, looks like we've been called out for nothing. Slouch against a handy console and just observe the overly dramatic attempts of my teammates to move a mouse from point A to point B.Roald looks for some exposed buttons and switches to lean against but sadly the only ones around are currently occupied by Stiles. So he instead leans against a wall with his arms folded and laughs quietly to himself.Spoiler: Roald Baccam, Combat Engineer (click to show/hide)
Sip some coffee and observe what the team does to this mouse.Ed returns from the break room and idly sips coffee while watching the mouse dance. Which isn't to say the mouse is dancing but the silly actions of his team which could be called a dance of sorts. The mouse dance.Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Get some coffee while everyone else keeps messing around with the mouse.Benny asks Ed where he got the coffee and follows Ed's directions to the break room, getting some for himself.Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
"Meatloaf and nutrient paste! Reconstituted, by the look of it. THese scientists live hte dream, Pathos. Put down what's left of tht chocolate cake and try some of this. Mmmm."Pathos looked at Jon and frowned as he considered his harsh and somewhat macabre comments.
Eat meatloaf and Reconstituted Nutrient paste. Watch the lab events on Pathos' security feed.
"Something will go wrong. Someone is going to get mutated, or the machinery will explode, or the signal will fail. Orthere will be a duplication loop and that room will absolutely fll up with gerbils. If we're lucky, the gerbils will be mutated and will biteeverything in theroom before suddenly exploding due to unstable teleportation isotopes."
Jon chuckles, a slightly dreamy look on his face.
"We would have a hell of a time, sorting bits of gerbil from bits of lawyer, and getting the blood out of every little crevasse."
Pathos looked at Jon and frowned as he considered his harsh and somewhat macabre comments."If it breaks the building, it'll be more of a pain to record all the bodies."
"You... You..."
Such indifference for others. Such cynicism. Such lack of faith in other humans. Such single-minded focus on his comfort and his work, somehow combining both. Such belief in his superiority and the inferiority of others. Such hatred of lawyers. What a selfish, self-absorbed man.
"I like you." he said simply, finally making a face that could be considered a smile (though was also likely to be mistaken for the start of a stroke or constipation).
He'll be fun to watch the show with. And if nothing else, he can bring me more snacks.
"But you're wrong." he continued, his face returning to smug.
"Barring occult shenanigans, there's no way this type of teleporter can misdirect or duplicate its cargo. The device in the lab essentially catches and properly arranges the received items. If the transport beam was misaligned there'd be nothing to catch the incoming items. You'd simply end up with the it colliding with something else and getting dispersed. Maybe with enough strength to fry someone or even explode part of the base depending on the beam's focus and intensity and how shoddy this place's construction is.."
"The timer is an approximation." Stiles says, "Due to the natural time delay between transmissions and responses, we're running things off a standard time table in which we have just enough time to send in a response to let them know we're ready before they automatically send the next specimen. We're running off the time table but there's a chance that we get slightly out of alignment.
No, I'm afraid we can't stop now."
"If it breaks the building, it'll be more of a pain to record all the bodies.""Heh! True, true. You can never know with those idiots..."
Jon chews thoughtfully.
"There's probably something occult involved. Scientists cna never seem to get enough of poking the unknown and provoking some elder god or nasty demon or something."
Jon frowns for a moment, scoop of nutrient paste halfway to his mouth. He shrugs and stuffs the paste in his mouth, muffling his next sentence a bit.
"If they splatter the incoming guys all over the building, we'll be weeks finding hands in walls, eheads in toilet tanks, stomachs in filing cabinets. it'll be like a scavenger hunt. Probably some overtime, too."
"Wanna make it interesting? I bet you 5 OMNIFUNDS things will go horribly wrong on the test after this one.""A bet, eh? You're on. What else am I gonna do with the money? I say things go horribly wrong on this test."
"Miss Aethair, I may not be a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure you can't sue an employee for being a little overzealous. If you have some ingrained love for mice or whatever, take it up with our boss."Pat continues to watch the environment scanner.
"And both you and Mister Slant, in case you didn't hear, this is an internal OMNITECH experiment. If something goes wrong, that's an internal matter."
Keep watching the readouts.Spoiler: Patrick Edmundson (click to show/hide)
Go through my contract notebook to see if there's any clauses or precedent to sue the guys at the other end of this teleporter if things go wrong with whatever they send through. Also bookmark the liability waiver for employee injuries resulting from canine sources, just in case.[4] There's no clause for suing them individually so long as they are employed by OMNITECH. You'd have to sue the company as a whole and as you know, thats not legally allowed under your company contract.Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Get ye dog crate ready. I believe I volunteered for this one.Spuds heads out into the hall and drags in a dog carrier made of pretty solid metal. He sets it down somewhat near the teleporter and then returns to the box. The sweet embrace of the box.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Return to the lab and wait for the next thing to come out of the teleporter.Benny wanders back in, coffee in hand, and sips it casually while waiting.Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Keep aiming the sticky goop launcher at the tube. Place myself behind some cover if there is any, but preferably not near the group of people already bunching up.Jion looks around for cover. Sadly, aside from one very crowded metal box, the only thing he can see are other security personnel or the scientist, Stiles. So he just crouches down and tries to be as small of a target as he can.
If the teleport happens and anything untoward seems to occur (eg the dog doesn't teleport inside the tube but lands outside and uncontained, or it's mutated and attacks) then stick it to the floor!
"Could someone currently not keeping the teleporter at gun- or foampoint go fetch the cage please? Perhaps one of our, ah, 'legal advisers' or janitorial staff? "Spoiler: Jion Maupin (click to show/hide)
Dave hides behind Benny, who looks at him with one raised eyebrow and then shrugs and keeps drinking his coffee.Spoiler: medic (click to show/hide)
Go behind a security guy and wait for the dog.
Rejoin the conga line, think of what would happen if I double dosed someone with the stimulant.Heather rejoins the conga line. Praise be to the box and its protection. Probably. She considers what would happen if she double doses someone with a stimulant. [2] She has no freaking clue.Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
Use my considerable intellect to prove that all pastry are in fact pancakes, which means their names are interchangeable![9]
Oh, and keep an eye on those idiots in the lab, I guess. Their antics are entertaining, if nothing else.
Do we have a radio so I can berate them if I notice them doing anything stupid?Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
"Meatloaf and nutrient paste! Reconstituted, by the look of it. THese scientists live hte dream, Pathos. Put down what's left of tht chocolate cake and try some of this. Mmmm."Jon eats the meatloaf straight from its Tupperware container and the paste straight from its tube in alternating mouthfuls while watching the hologram.
Eat meatloaf and Reconstituted Nutrient paste. Watch the lab events on Pathos' security feed.
"Something will go wrong. Someone is going to get mutated, or the machinery will explode, or the signal will fail. Orthere will be a duplication loop and that room will absolutely fll up with gerbils. If we're lucky, the gerbils will be mutated and will biteeverything in theroom before suddenly exploding due to unstable teleportation isotopes."
Jon chuckles, a slightly dreamy look on his face.
"We would have a hell of a time, sorting bits of gerbil from bits of lawyer, and getting the blood out of every little crevasse."Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Dead test subjects aren't particularly dangerous. Is there any chance that data corruption could cause the creation of dangerous chemical compounds? Is there any chance that something malevolent or alien could intercept the beam and infiltrate it?[4]
Consider the likelihood of the following scenarios:
1: Data corruption leading to harmful radiation
2: Data corruption leading to hazardous chemicals (poisonous, acidic, flammable, reactive, all of the above...)
3: Data corruption leading to infectious disease (random mutations in virus/bacteria transferred along with the sample)
4: Data corruption leading to a violent test subject
5: Malicious intent of the package sender (teleporting a bomb or other dangerous object to us, possibly to eliminate a rival)
6: Compromising of the package sending site
7: Suborning of the package beam by a third party
8: Occult fuckery
9: All of the above at the same time
Remain some distance away from the teleporter. Prepare to visually analyze the contents of the teleported package as soon as it arrives and take measures depending on the nature of the package.Spoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information management officer (click to show/hide)
Lisa walks around the room, asking people to sign the papers she's printed out. Most do, out of sheer force of habit.Spoiler: Omnitech Mandatory Public Relations Represenitive (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Class (click to show/hide)
Begin getting everyone's signatures on the paperwork, to avoid Legal troubles. Then set about reading the 'transdimensional' law sections in my OMNITECH Contract Notebook. Always good to keep up on the weirdness that happens elsewhere to make need of such things necessary.
Continue staying out of it and amusing myself watching the paranoia-fueled antics. At least there's some consolation for getting dragged out of bed early.Heh. Box religion.Spoiler: Roald Baccam, Combat Engineer (click to show/hide)
Harry points his scanner at the teleporter and waits.Spoiler: HAZMAT Harry, HMRC (click to show/hide)
Keep a careful watch on the scanner as the teleportation happens.
Follow the security team to get this cage for dog. Clean poop if any.Aigre sits on top of the dog carrier and waits for his turn to be useful.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Yes, praise box. Praise box. It is love. It is life. It is box.Quote from: piecewise"The timer is an approximation." Stiles says, "Due to the natural time delay between transmissions and responses, we're running things off a standard time table in which we have just enough time to send in a response to let them know we're ready before they automatically send the next specimen. We're running off the time table but there's a chance that we get slightly out of alignment.
No, I'm afraid we can't stop now."
Rezel relaxes, his eyes rolling back into his head as he slumps forward onto the box he was using as cover. He starts shivering lightly, before speaking in an uncharacteristically snooty and confident tone, without moving. "There is a distressingly vast assortment of things wrong with that statement. This entire experiment is horribly designed, nearly to the point of uselessness. Whoever designed it is an idiot of the highest order, and deserves to be shot repeatedly before they can waste even more valuable materiel through their incompetence."
Rezel then jerks back up to a standing position, looking around him confusedly, he eyes normal once more. After sorting himself out, he returns to cowering behind the crate, crouched with his head just high enough to see over the edge.
Cower behind the crate, covering Spuds with the rifle as he goes to retrieve the puppy. Shoot the puppy if the puppy is actually demons.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
"Hey uh, occult gal? If you wanna go near it, maybe take some treat with you to calm it down? I think some food survived the fridge massacre.""Um, well," Mildred pauses in her advance to glance around, "the negative energy he's currently expressing seems to be coming from the mouth-area. I'm not sure holding out a treat would be the best idea."
"Hmm. I'd argue things are only somewhat wrong and not horribly wrong. They can always get worse. I bet the next specimens are already on their way." Pathos argued, trying to weasel his way out of paying."I don't know, looks like all the eggheads are scurrying for cover like mice when the cat is about. Or the laser barfing dog, for that matter. We could ask that one scientist, though - the one who had the nuts to stand in the teleport room. He seems reasonable.
"Considering he is the cause of all this, I don't know how much we can count on what he says. But I have to admit his position does give his opinion a bit more weight.""Hmm. I'd argue things are only somewhat wrong and not horribly wrong. They can always get worse. I bet the next specimens are already on their way." Pathos argued, trying to weasel his way out of paying."I don't know, looks like all the eggheads are scurrying for cover like mice when the cat is about. Or the laser barfing dog, for that matter. We could ask that one scientist, though - the one who had the nuts to stand in the teleport room. He seems reasonable.
((I am tempted to edit into my action an attempt to get that scientist's attention by yelling through the dog barf hole at him. Nervous little lazerpuke dogs like it whe npeople are yelling unexpectedly, right?))
"Huh."[10][1]
Do the sensible thing and remotely transmit the command to shut down the energy channel.
Then continue nonchalantly munching on crepes.
If Stiles is still alive, ask him who he thinks won my bet with Oz. I bet things would go horribly wrong on the next experiment while Oz bet it would go horribly wrong in this experiment. Oz says he won because of the dog incident. But I argue that things aren't horribly wrong, they are only somewhat wrong. I'm sure the next experiment will be much worse!Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Prod people with my gun to clear a nice, clean route between the dog and its crate. Don't say anything, don't want to attract the dog's attention.Spuds opens the dog's crate and then starts clearing people out of the way, trying to form a nice clear path between the dog and the crate. However, many people seem to be walking towards the dog which makes clearing them away without also walking towards the dog and attracting its attention quite difficult. Spuds opts to instead wait for those people to move on their own, either under their own power or via dog laser.Spoiler: Spuds (click to show/hide)
Edward runs into the room, apparently having slept through the earlier alarm and everyone leaving. He leans down, resting his hands on his knees and gasping for air.Spoiler: Edward Mortan, Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Edward joins the party? Maybe he crawls out from under the break room sink.
"Huh? Did I just hear something?"
Harry hangs back and keeps his scanner pointed at the dog, waiting for the opportunity to tell everyone to duck.Spoiler: HAZMAT Harry, HMRC (click to show/hide)
"That's a new one...
Can we just foam it and use the foam kind of like a crate that he can't bark in until somebody can muzzle him?"
Nevermind, everyone's insisting on touching the dog. Just stay away from where it's pointing its mouth, warn everyone if my scanner indicates another "high energy event".
Put some food from the former fridge (hopefully the guys who took some out will lend me some) inside the cage so that the dog will go in voluntarily. Maybe calm it down with some food first, but don't go near it, just throw it from a distance. Or give it to the guy who is going in to pet it. Either way, once food is placed/given stand weeeeell back, and urge the npc's to stand back as well. Don't wanna make the dog feel cornered.Jion runs into the breakroom and grabs what remains of the meatloaf from Jon. Thus armed, Jion returns to the teleporter room and dumps half the meatloaf into the dog carrier and hands the other half to Mildred, who seems intent on going to pet the dog. With everything set up, he hightails it back into a corner and points his scanner at the dog with the other hand attempting to cover his face.
If at any moment my scanner indicates another high energy event, get out of the dog's line of sight and duck 'n cover!Spoiler: Jion Maupin (click to show/hide)
"Aww, poor widdle guy," Mildred coos, her foul mood, broken teeth and general mystique forgotten as her soul overflows with concern for this adorable-yet-volatile critter.[5]
She frowns worriedly, standing up from her spot in the corner.
"His throat chakra must be so blocked. It's obvious. C'mere you little scamp."
Get up and cautiously approach the pupper, ready to dive to the side if it so much as looks at me.
Attempt to scoop him/her up for some calming, cleansing pats (pets?) and cuddles whilst continuing to coo reassuringly at the little cutie.
Be sure to keep its head and mouth pointed away from me, just in case my attempts at dispelling the pup's obvious spiritual anguish are somehow ineffective.
Then plonk 'em down in front of the open cage once they're calm. Try and keep the business end pointed away from my colleagues in the process, too, without relinquishing control over its head movements to the point that it might be able to direct a borkblast at me. Priorities.
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If anyone fetches me a treat to give the dog, I will jam it onto the edge of my Null-Rod and carefully hold it at arm's length, keeping it out at a diagonal between myself and the dog - as in, out to one side, so that if it opens its mouth sooner than expected any potential blasts will be directed that way instead of straight at me.
Try and gesture my colleagues to shuffle to the other side of the room if possible, too.
If nothing goes wrong thus far, shake the treat/meat/whatever off the rod onto the floor, then crouch behind the dog as it starts to eat to calm it down with pats and soothing noises. It's a pet, so hopefully it isn't too protective of its food... Pick it up once it's done eating and take it to the cage, as described.Spoiler: Mildred the Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
Lisa finds the proper paperwork for the current situation and prints it out, appending a digital version of Dave's signature where applicable. She has him sign off on his acceptance of death, the acceptance of using his future wages to pay for damages done to the facility as a result of his lack of caution, and a cleaning bill for the smudge that he left behind. Dave has no will so she writes one up and dates it...5 minutes ago, leaving all his pay to OMNITECH, care of Lisa Aethair. That done and stored, she checks over the fate and destiny section and finds that basically anything can be put under there. Turns out that shooting an under-performing employee counts as an act of god if done during a hailstorm. Hmmm.Spoiler: Omnitech Mandatory Public Relations Represenitive (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Class (click to show/hide)
Right, Prep all the paperwork for Accidental Workplace Related Death Due to Lack of Caution, and get that done.. Also see about his Will to determine Dave's next of kin.
Read about "Destiny and Fate Clauses" in my Omnilawyer suite as well, afterward.
Apply first aid to Benny's burns.[2]Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
Ed walks up to Lisa Aethair, looking at the carnage around them.[1][1][3v17]
"Hey, dear colleague, I see you're already jumping on the paperwork for this person's death. Good initiative, don't forget to make them in triplicate. Anyway, do you want to split up who gets to do the paperwork for which coworkers? Just so's you have less people to look after and less workload in the future, you know."
Walk up to this dog, assertively but non-threatingly, and say the following in a calm, commanding tone: "Stop! Sit! I am Edward F. Slant esquire, legal representative of OMNITECH. You are currently not being a good boy, damaging OMNITECH property like that. I'm going to have to have you sign these papers and then return to your cage immediatly. Compliance means you will once again regain the status of being a good boy, and will lead to anywhere between 5 and 20 bellyrubs." If the dogs complies, have him sign (paw print?) the paperwork for causing the death of an OMNITECH employee, damaging OMNITECH property, and disrupting an OMNITECH experiment. Then lead to him to his cage or whatever containment unit it's supposed to be in.
If it barkbeams at me, jump out of the way.Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
"Looks like we'll need to fix that edge case."[5]
Open up the control panel and cross some wires to make it so the energy stream automatically stops once the tube opens.Spoiler: Patrick Edmundson (click to show/hide)
"Huh. I won. There was still pizza in that fridge. And they sent us a dog. A yapper. You owe me five OMNIFUNDS, Pathos."Jon gives his food to Jion, who is a lot like Jon but slightly misspelled, and then heads over to the countertop. He sets the incinerator down next to the counter top and uses a mysterious spatula (Why is there a spatula here? There's no stove.) to slide the remains of the coffee machine into the incinerator before dropping the spatula in after it. He dusts off his hands and then walks over to the hole in the wall just in time to see Ed get killed.
Jon turns fro mthe hole in the wall and squeaks across the breakroom to the fridge.
Hand Jion (Radio a glob of meatloaf and Reconstituted Nutrient paste. Incinerate the remains of the coffee pot, once it is cooled enough to handle - preferably with tongs or something rather than my rubberized gloves.Check out the hole in the wall behind the fridge - where does that lead?"Anyone in there? did y'all just get hit by a giant laser beam? Any dismemberment, evisceration, or massive bloodloss? Got any fires or smudges?"
Edit:
After much debate with Pathos, Jon decides to bring in a second opinion, and shouts through the gaping hole:
"HEY! Science Guy! Would you consider things to have gone horribly wrong at this point, or only a little wrong?"Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
For the moment Steve just hangs back.Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)
Apologize for being late, if she wants inject Mildred with a stimulant so she has better chance of surviving in case the dog explodes
wait and watch, make snarky comment if aplicable.[3] Lance tries to figure out something pithy to say in regard to Edward's death, but the best he can come up with is "Dog days of summer are rather spicy, ain't they Ed old boy?"Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Oh, good.
Exactly what flavor of fucked is this dog? Is this some sort of technical malfunction or something else?
Stand where I am and observe the dog. I'm just as likely to be killed where I'm standing as anywhere else, so there's no need to move.
Also, keep an eye on the teleporter. More packages should still be on the way. Next one is an ape.Spoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information management officer (click to show/hide)
"Oh god, Dog lasers they burn!"
Crawl out into the hall way and let the medic heal me.Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Qualt leaps into action, completely ignoring the vaporized remains.[9]
Tell me, Qualt asks, where does it hurt?
Fixjavascript:void(0)Benny.Spoiler: Qualt (click to show/hide)
The laughter died on Roald's lips as he watched the situation unfold. It took several moments for the shock to wear off before he leapt into action.[/quote]
Crouch down to Stiles' level and shake him by the shoulders until he responds. "Stiles. Is there any way for us to shut off the energy flow from this end of the transporter?"
If the answer is yes, do it! Otherwise, or if there is no coherent response, drag him to his feet and push him to call the other end and tell them to stop sending stuff through.Spoiler: Roald Baccam, Combat Engineer (click to show/hide)
Stay behind the Crate of Cover, but keep watching the dog, ready to dodge ifRezel hangs around behind the crate, head resting atop it, peeking out at the dog. Occasionally he'll look over at the teleporter to make sure nothing else is crawling out.whenit sprays more plasma. Also, keep an eye on the tekeporter, and be very very ready to shoot whatever comes out if it so much as looks over here.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
As he finishes, Edward slams the paperwork down on the cage. A moment later the paperwork, the top of the cage, Edwards right arm, head, and a large portion of torso are all reduced to atomized ash, along with a long tunnel of stone directly above and behind them. The dog scampers about for a few moments but then seems to be distracted by the meatloaf and again starts eating.
"Hey Mildred, nice job just now, you're pretty good with animals. Do you think you could get the cage with the dog away without setting the thing off? The further away it is from here when that ape teleports in the better!"Mildred is still scratching said dog behind the ear, reaching in through the newly-created hole in the top of the cage.
Edd sees Lisa looking at him and tapping away on her notebook. He stops stuffing his cousin into the incinerator for a moment, patting the dust off of his rubberized suit as he stands up.((this it the exact reason the janitorial class exists. You are a credit to the profession, Edd.
"Oi, lady, what're giving me the stink-eye for? Can't a guy dispose of his late cousin, as per the stipulations in his contract under section 105-A?"
((Looks good to me. BTW, the use die for magazines means that whenever you fire your gun Piecewise will roll a d6, and if you roll too low (probably a 1, or possible either a 1 or 2), that magazine is expended. You can probably also automatically expend mags if it's appropriate to an action. Piecewise has used similar systems before, but he likes to change stuff up, so I don't know precisely how it'll work in this game.))Its actually a bit more complex than that. Use dice are a fairly common mechanic in the greater RPG world and work like this: The use die is rolled whenever the object is used (In this case when the weapon is fired). If a 1 or a 2 is rolled, then the use die is reduced to the next lowest level. So if my use die is a d8, then when I use an item I roll a d8. If I get a 1 or 2 then the die is reduced to a d6. If I get 1 or 2 again, then it is reduced to a d4. If I get a 1 or 2 again, then the item runs out of uses. Each reduction in die size makes the chance of rolling the 1 or 2 higher and thus speeds the depletion of the item.
Spoiler: HAZMAT Harry, HMRC (click to show/hide)
Help whoever's trying to get that switch pulled.
"Pat, it's in the observation room ceiling! Come on!"
Then to Stiles: "You'd best get somewhere safe; we can handle it from here."
Run to the observation room; give my fellow engineer a boost to the ceiling vent if necessary. If he doesn't follow, try to reach it myself. Pull Stiles as far as the corridor if he's not in a state to move himself.Spoiler: Roald Baccam, Combat Engineer (click to show/hide)
"Let's do this! You should climb up too Roald, if the ceiling can support two people."Harry, Roald, and Patrick all run out of the teleporter room and round to the observation rooms which are just one door down. That door is already open, apparently having been left that way by the brave scientists advancing towards the future by getting a safe distance from the mistakes of the recent past. They pile in and quickly find the vent or more a trap door in the ceiling; it has been helpfully marked with yellow and black caution tape, a big stenciled "MAINTENANCE" and even a lovely folding ladder like thing that they pull down and immediately swarm up. The door leads to a cramped crawlspace but despite the darkness and the confined space, the issue is immediately obvious.
With the help of Harry and Roald, head to the observation room and climb into the ceiling access. If I think the ceiling can support two people, pull Roald up as well, but if not then go flip the switch myself.Spoiler: Patrick Edmundson (click to show/hide)
Get behind something and train my rifle on the teleporter. Be ready to respond to any obvious threat.Lance casually walks over, roots through the dead man's pockets for a second, steals the pistol, and then returns to his spot on the wall. He aims his rifle at the teleporter and waits.
Edit - Try to grab the dead guy’s pistol before he gets incinerated.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Don't ever crawl away from me again, now get back in there and do your job!"
Drag Benny back to the crate, use him and the crate as cover.Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
Crawl away from everyone and get inside the observation room and aim my rifle at the teleporter.[4v5]Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
"Heh, that dead guy had the same name as me."Edward, seeing the demise of the similarly named man, decides to stay completely still. He doesn't move an inch. For all he knows, this dog hates men named Edward and has motion sensitive vision. In fact there's probably a....45% chance of that being correct. At least by his estimation.
Edward doesn't do anything. Or rather he does nothing with the intent of attracting as little hostile attention as possible.Spoiler: Edward Mortan, Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Swoop in to the unfortunate Lawyer's corpse. pocket his contract notebook and memory eraser, then stuff the rest of him in the incinerator.Eddrick, who is a lot like Edward but misspelled or perhaps said by someone with a very thick accent, appears on the scene almost as though he just stepped in from back stage. He immediately steals The contract notebook and Memory Eradicator from the corpse of Edward and then loads the body into the incinerator feet first. It slowly vanishes into the backpack like a stick of celery down a garbage disposal. An ash cube is ejected a moment later and Eddrick nods to himself about a job well done before dashing out into the hall.
Afterwards, make sure to keep my distance from the dog.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Oh hey, Plan Meatloaf worked! Thanks for the help Jon! Now we just gotta..."Jion, who is like join but spelled by a dyslexic, looks at the dog cage. The cage is still tall enough on all of its sides that it should contain the dog, at least in terms of it not being able to wander off or jump out. But it clearly cannot contain the plasma.QuoteAs he finishes, Edward slams the paperwork down on the cage. A moment later the paperwork, the top of the cage, Edwards right arm, head, and a large portion of torso are all reduced to atomized ash, along with a long tunnel of stone directly above and behind them. The dog scampers about for a few moments but then seems to be distracted by the meatloaf and again starts eating.
"... Okaaaay then. Ahem, so, now we just gotta caaaarefully move the cage away from this room and the commotion, in case we can't get that switch flipped in time.
Hey Mildred, nice job just now, you're pretty good with animals. Do you think you could get the cage with the dog away without setting the thing off? The further away it is from here when that ape teleports in the better!
In the meantime, could one of you guys go help out the engineer to get that blasted switch flipped? He might need a boost to get up to the roof of that room. Maybe one of you people could help him?" He said, looking at the people still hanging out in the break room, and then at the congregation amassing behind the crate.
Is the cage still structurally sound enough to contain Poochy Mc. Plasma?
Keep goop gun & scanner trained on the tube. If teleportation occurs, dodge for cover if more plasmabolts (or other deadly dangers) appear. If the ape gets teleported in, goop it to the floor if it tries to escape or otherwise cause a ruckus. Be sure to warn allies in case of more anomalous events.
Also, again suggest to the science dude that he tell the other lab to stop sending stuff before we get overwhelmed.Spoiler: Jion Maupin (click to show/hide)
Dave, having been reduced to an ash cube, is no longer lootable for anything but bits of grit. However, Steve did observe basically everything of value being stripped from the man before he was incinerated so its no great loss.Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)
Grab the stuff of Dave that still works/survived thenchuck his corpse into Eddrick incineratorglare at the janitors not doing their job
Upon seeing the medic attempting to use a janitorial tool, Jon gets quite angry.Jon walks over to the hole in the far wall of the break room and sticks his head through. Seems to lead to a cubicle farm of sorts, albeit a rather small one. Maybe 50 or 60 cubes all arranged in tight, efficient patterns for maximum soul crushing. He shouts encouraging words about work orders into the cubes but gets no response. It is early, they might not have come in yet, he reasons. Though he does see the flashing light of what looks like a computer monitor in one of the nearby cubes.
"Hey, you! You keep your filthy hack hands off that device! That's Sanitation work! get out of here, scab!"
Threaten Steve (ziizo) with bodily harm if he attempts to use Eddrick's incinerator. Rush into the room and begin a physical altercation if he doesn't immediately back down. I will of course, be setting my incinerator to the "shoots jets of flame" setting for this.
Edit: Since the medic has stopped messing with a thermonuclear backpack, Jon will grunt sourly and go check the hole in the breakroom wall that leads away from the teleporter room. Where does that lead? He'll yell into the hole to find out if there's anyone in there and if there are messes to be cleaned. Encourage any bystanders to go bug the lawyers in the teleportation room for Work Orders.
"Hey in there! Did you happen to see a big ol' beam of light pass this way? probably did some damage to your cubicles or coat-racks or something. You'll need to put in a work order for Sanitation to come clean up. I think there's a lawyer over in teleportation you can talk to about the proper forms.Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
"Just means we gotta stop dicking around.""Hey!" Spuds whisper-yells at Stiles "Where am I putting this dog?"
Move the crate away from the teleporter, until the scientists are ready to accept delivery of the crate. Or just the dog, if the dog crate can't be moved. Conduct said delivery by moving crate carefully or by getting another meat treat and asking the dog to come, while leading it towards the delivery zone.Spoiler: Spuds (click to show/hide)
Welp, this isn't extranatural shenanigans and thus someone else's problem. Head back to the barracks and get some sleep.[1]Spoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information management officer (click to show/hide)
As Qualt finishes patching Benny up, they pull a lollipop out of a pocket, unwrap it and stick it in their patient's mouth. Good patient.Qualt pats Benny as he slithers away and then plops down against the wall. He smells what kind of smells like cooked pork and wonders if the situation has become a BBQ without him realizing it.
With a pat on Benny's head, they begin to Linger in the hallway. Sit down (Safer that way) and listen for screams of people.Spoiler: Qualt (click to show/hide)
Hide behind Spuds. Be ready to clean his victims off the floor.Aigre follows along behind Spuds. Very closely behind him in fact. Like 3 inches maybe. Just breathing down his neck constantly. Its disconcerting.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
You really want me to roll for interacting with Laser Woof when you have no sheet?"Hey Mildred, nice job just now, you're pretty good with animals. Do you think you could get the cage with the dog away without setting the thing off? The further away it is from here when that ape teleports in the better!"Mildred is still scratching said dog behind the ear, reaching in through the newly-created hole in the top of the cage.
"I reckon we can do that. Any idea where we're supposed to be taking him? Or should we just... find somewhere quiet to stick him, where he's not likely to get frightened and bark at anything important?"
Accompany the security guard with gigantic thighs, since he seems to have some idea where our canine cargo is supposed to be going. Reach into the busted top of the cage and keep doggo calm with pats and scritches.
Try to keep his barking apparatus faced away from me, just in case.
If the cage is no longer suitable to transport and security guy decides to take the dog on its own, just... follow along, I guess. Keep an eye out for a vacant office or something that we might be able to stash him in, unless there was actually a designated drop point that I somehow missed whilst not paying attention.
"Hey! Janitors! Any janitor's closet nearby? I want to play around with the chemicals. I suppose I could give you some of it as a reward. Like some sleeping gas for the next test subject."[9]
Do I know of any purge system that can be used to clear this lab if something goes horribly wrong? What's the minimum safe distance?
If someone provides me with chemicals, see if I've got enough tools and materials in this kitchen to make something helpful. Sleeping gas, poison, bomb, whatever.Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Welcome, new employee.Spoiler: Jane-Anne Warren (click to show/hide)
And another new employee. Feel free to start posting actions.This is a complete sheet, right?Spoiler: Redshirt (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Omnitech Mandatory Public Relations Represenitive (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Class (click to show/hide)
"Honestly, what's with the..."
"Right, think we have a problem with doubled dimensions."
Edward F. Slant esq. Paperwork Class is Malpractice & Violation of Company Procedures. And Animal Mistreatment. As well as another Accidental Workplace Related Death Due to Lack of Caution.. Best look through his will too, and sign off on his death.And of course Serve that Parallel Dimensional Double, 1 'Eddrick E. Slant, esq.' his Severance Papers, he's supposed to be in the other dimension. Being here is a violation of his contract, and subject to immediate Firing Squad, or Incineration. There's also Theft of Company Property, given he is supposed to file the paperwork to take another's gear on a mission. And sense he seems to be missing his own, that's also Loss of Company Property too.
Also need to file for the work for fixing the holes in the walls. Well, once I've got this done, I think I'll read up on Temporal Law.
Welp, this isn't extranatural shenanigans and thus someone else's problem. Head back to the barracks and get some sleep.[3]Spoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information management officer (click to show/hide)
[2]Spoiler: HAZMAT Harry, HMRC (click to show/hide)
Now you see this, people? This is why we send the HMRC into situations like this, they're properly equipped and even more properlydisposableI mean, trained.
Pull the switch with all my switch-pulling ability.
Go out into the hall, feed the laser dog more meatloaf. If he lasers again, clamp his mouth shut and stuff him into my incinerator. Otherwise go into the cubicle farm and start cleaning up.Put out any fires the plasma stared, using my mop. Laser squeegee any scorch marks on the wals where the plasma went through, both incoming and outgoing. Toss any loose articles from desks, wastepaper baskets, coat racks etc into the incinerator.Jon walks back to the dog box and, lacking anymore meatloaf, gives the pup a liberal dollop of nutrient paste. He drops the empty tube into the incinerator and then walks back to the cubicle farm. He begins carefully tracing the path of the laser, cleaning up things that need cleaning. He almost immediately comes to the cubicle that appears to have an active computer in it. It does indeed have an active computer, and next to that computer is a desk chair and about 2/3rds of a former employee with a nice neat semicircle cut out of his upper body/head region. There's a bit of neck and head left, a scrap of it hanging limp, which Jon pokes with his mop before shrugging and loading the corpse into the incinerator. As it burns down, he busies himself completing the game of OMNITECH Galactic Pinball the man was playing on the pc.
"Whistle while you work~ Phtphbthbbbphthb THB THB THB!~".Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
That doesn't sound very pleasant. Getting a bit further wouldn't hurt.After losing his last ball Jon loses interest in the PC and Pathos comes in to search it.
Follow my janitor friend into the cubicle farm. Check the computer for anything interesting. Hopefully it's not filled to the brim with spam and porn.Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Go help flip that switch!Jion follows the path the others took moments earlier and heads up into the cramped confines of the upper teleporter mechanics chamber. He sees Harry struggling to flip the switch and immediately runs to help.
Should we manage that, return to the teleporter room and return to goop gun s.o.p., aka goop ape if it goes bananas.Spoiler: Jion Maupin (click to show/hide)
Jane-Anne walks up into the teleporter room, looking confused.Jane-Anne, who is a lot like Jane and Anne but if they got into a horrible teleporter accident, walks right back out of the room and into the hall. She proceeds to stare at the dog cage from a good, reasonably safe distance while making what she hopes are reassuring noises for the dog.
Attempt to assist with any dog-handling related tasks, from a safe distance.Spoiler: Jane-Anne Warren (click to show/hide)
Roald Baccam, Accidental Workplace Related Death Due to Lack of Caution, and see about any Will. Also File the Paperwork for someone to come transport the dog to a secure testing facility storage room, retroactively, so it gets done now..You guys are aware Roald got electrocuted up in the crawlspaces and hollows of the ceiling right? If you're not in there with him, you can't see him and thus in character should have no idea he's dying.
File a Theft of Company Property complaint form for the stolen gun they took without the proper paperwork.
Read about Galaxy Law.
Steve follows Jion up into the ceiling and immediately catches sight of Roald laying in a smoldering pile against the wall. [7] Through CPR and a rather huge dose of Epinephrine Steve gets Roald's heart out of flatline, but Roald is still a crispy critter and both of his arms look like well done steaks. Luckily he's not conscious or he would definitely be complaining.Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)Escape the possible dangerGo with the guys that just exited the room (Harry, Roald, and Patrick), you know just in case one is hurt and needs a doctor
Stay in cover and keep my gun aimed at the teleporter.Heather [This post has been Censored by OMNITECH for its gratuitous boxosexual content] and then keeps her gun pointed at the teleporter.Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
Was not the company barbecue next weekend?
Investigate this smell of flesh.Spoiler: Qualt (click to show/hide)
Keep rifle trained on teleporter.Lance keeps his weapon trained on the teleporter.and for the record it’s not theft, I was merely preventing the destruction of company propert.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Follow Steve/Medic n°2 to the guys whoe xited the room. Wait for him to assess wether or not the guy who get electrocuted is dead or not.Ed pokes his head up into the crawlspace after the two medics.
- If the guy is alive, just go stand in the hallway and faff about. listen to some tunes or something while the rest of team is busy making a mess for me to clean up.
- If he is dead (like for real dead. Player has to make a new character kind of dead), relieve him of his sidearm and toolkit (can't be destroying company proprety here), then feed his corpse into the incinerator. Then go faff about in the hallway and listen to some tunes.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
[4]As he considered the current situation, he had to decide between his mission and filling out that paperwork, FINALLY. he decided to split the difference, and Go to the designated lab, and ask a local rep for form R3-5PWN, the one you fill out to keep at least SOME of your stuff each time you die.Spoiler: Redshirt (click to show/hide)
Just... slip away, I guess. Or not; not is awesome too. Better, even. Why don't I do that instead?In the depths of his mind, Roald mentally goes over the importance of electrical safety.Spoiler: Roald Baccam, Combat Engineer (click to show/hide)
"I'll be over there, scouting and providing support, if you need me."[1]
Find some place far away from the teleporter and hide.Spoiler: Edward Mortan, Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Stroll down the hall (maybe to that breakroom?) and see if I can rustle up some treats to keep the dog happy.Mildred wanders out into the hall and follows the sound of Pathos swearing until she finds the break room. The fridge is a puddle so she checks the pantry.Spoiler: Mildred the Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
Shoot the ape if there's any good reason to do so, which is pretty much guaranteed.Rezel points his weapon at the tube and waits, intent on shooting the ape as soon as it materializes. [4] He immediately reconsiders when he thinks that the "glass" might actually high density acrylic and bounce the round off harmlessly. Best to wait for it to move up.
In other words: Shoot the ape.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
"I cannot abide cheating. Speaking of-"[12]
Initiate the teleporter send sequence. See if I can trap the data in a loop to store it for later. If that's not possible, then try to Target something that won't be missed. Like the Sun.
If this teleporter can't send, initiate the teleporter receive sequence and feed it random high frequency and high energy noise. Either it kills the ape which means I did a good job or it makes things go horribly wrong which means I win the bet!
If the ape has already left the tube or that doesn't stop it then think about what could and yell that information to the others. Maybe I could design a device that suppresses the ape's powers? Maybe I could do whatever happened to the ape to one of them?Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
RETURN TO SENDER. REASON: APE TOO ANIME. Walk out from behind the corner, see the rainbow ape.[2]
Then start clapping my hands and acting obviously elated, with non-agressive body language. Hopefully I can keep the orangutan entertained while someone else gets some food ready.Spoiler: Spuds (click to show/hide)
Follow spuds. Be ready to clean the monkey.Aigre lingers for a moment after Spuds has finished, looking around the teleporter room and the hall as though there would be some clue as to what the hell Spuds meant by that. Sadly there is not so he just shrugs and follows spuds back behind the corner.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
”Somebody want to get this guy a banana!”Lance lowers his rifle and raises his other hand in a placating gesture.
Lower my rifle and assume a non-aggressive stance.
“...I’m serious, we should try to be diplomatic here.”Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Hug the rifle, curl up in a ball behind cover, and hope to not die.Rezel looks at the anime ape with a rather blank expression.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
"Thanks for killing that compute for me, Pathos. I think it was cheating at pinball. Hey, did you remember to delete this guy's porn folder first?[8]
Oh, that sounds like gunfire. I guess they got started in the teleporter room again. Pull up the feed on your datapad, would ya?"
Rifle through the dead guy's desk for goodies, which Jon will share with Pathos. Watch the teleporter shenanigans on Pathos' datapad for now.Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Keep my rifle pointed at the monkey just in case it turns out to be hostile.Benny points a the monkey from behind some nice bullet proof Acrylic viewing "glass". If it does anything he's determined to...well....mildly startle it as he bounces a few rounds back at himself off the glass.Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Steve looks at Ronald. Er. Roald. Yeah, thats it. Roald looks to be about as stabilized as possible, all things considered. Without more advanced tools and maybe some prosthetics there's not a lot that can be done.Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)
See if there is anything else I can do to treat Ronald open a medical kit for this.
Also tell Eddrick that someone just died up here.
Edd stashes away his contract notebook when he hears Steve yelling about a dead man.Eddrick runs back up the ladder and immediately starts trying to steal....scavenge....recycle Jion's goods. However, Jion's rather violent death has also crushed all his items into little pieces which renders them uninteresting and no fun. With a sigh Eddrick vacuums up the big bits and then mops up whats left.
"Hey dude, thanks for the heads up. Good luck with mister crispy over there, by the way."
Swoop in tonickreclaim Jion's items as per company policy. Then feed his corpse to my incinerator. Also use the automop to clean up the blood and other assorted giblets.Spoiler: Eddrick, Sanitation (click to show/hide)
Good enough, get some rest.Clem looks around and then shrugs. It climbs under the table in the breakroom and curls up to sleep.Spoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information management officer (click to show/hide)
Respawn.Yagyu, who is a lot like a sound you'd make after being hit in the genitals, walks over to the dog box and finds that it is sort of lethargically lapping up nutrient paste. It seems tired.
If I can act this turn, then return to the plan we used with the dog: offer it some food, but try not to let it touch me directly. Also be horrified by the OSHA standards around here.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Could someone unimportant get that ape contained already?"
Wait for someone to get inevitably injured within the next few minutes, then apply medicine to them.Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
So I was clinging to the teleporter tube. Then the ape was teleported and the tube retracted. Then the someone shot the ape, the ape discovered it's Stand and started posing and caught all the bullets.
So where the hell am I??? Did I flee the tube and join the crowd of idiots when the alarms went off? Am I somehow still clinging to the tube under the floor or above the ceiling? Am I hugging the posing ape? Am I lying on the floor bleeding from several new superfluous bullet wounds? AAAAAAAHHH!
Find out what the heck just happened.Spoiler: Edward Mortan, Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Jane-Anne continues to stare at the dog in mildly-contained terror. Nursing school had not prepared her for this.Jane-anne joins Yagyu in watching the dog eat.
Continue assisting in the pacification of the dog.Spoiler: Jane-Anne Warren (click to show/hide)
Harry looks around. The switches are back in place; must have been reset when the teleporter cycled again. He shrugs and heads back down into the observation room. There he sees Benny, who is pointing his rifle at the window, which looks out at the teleporter. There's an ape in the teleporter, doing a pose. Huh.Spoiler: HAZMAT Harry, HMRC (click to show/hide)
Um, if the switch still needs to be pulled...pull it, I guess? If not, head back to the other room since I clearly no longer know what's going on IC or out.
All better, Qualt says as they pat Roald on the forehead and stuff another lollipop in his mouth. Be good and heal well. Or else.[4]
Standing up and looking down the opening in the ceiling after hearing bullets and hearing someone speak, Qualt sees the rainbow ape. Nope, they think to themselves.
Sit down and wait for the next inevitable near-death. Think about whether or not I know Japanese.Spoiler: Qualt (click to show/hide)
Head back to the other room.Patrick apparently lives in an interesting delusion where there are only two rooms that exist; the one he is in and the one he is not in. He ends up back in the teleporter room when he goes to this "Other" room. Who knows where he'll end up next!Spoiler: Patrick Edmundson (click to show/hide)
Nothing to do but dream, I guess.Roald dreams of writing children's books. Maybe something about a psychic child? Hmm.Spoiler: Roald Baccam, Combat Engineer (click to show/hide)
[4]He had seen enough anime to know that the primate had done something straight out of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. Not good, at all. But he was used to death, and saw an oppuntunity to profit! He set down his gun, then walked up to the orangutan and kindly asked for the bullets back. He would reload a clip with those undamaged bullets in a bit of time.Spoiler: Redshirt (click to show/hide)
"Snacks make the world go round. Good job there. too bad though. That monkey looked like he would have made an excellent Sanitation Engineer. I bet he cold spot a secret stash of snacks a mile away. Well, I'll catch up to you in a bit. Gotta mop up the bllood. Wouldn't want to get tzetzes, or mold."
toss a fistful of the chocolate bars to Pathos, pocket the rest, and go mop and squeegee the teleporter room, the break room, and this room, Make those laser holes sparkle! then clock out, completely ignoring the hole in the ceiling from the second of the lazerdog belches, the observation room, and the ceiling panel.
GLORY:
found snacks, twice.
won a bet.
fed barfdog.
lost at computer pinball.
prevented an employee from misusing sanitation equipment.
incinerated rubbish.
incinerated a barfdog victim.
made a mean cup of coffee - in the incinerator.
Did not antagonize the Animonkey.
SHAME:
did not properly misuse mop.
did not recruit animonkey into sanitation.
did not stuff any teammates into incinerators.
did not stack crates or barrels.Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
"There. Problem solved.""Ah. yes" Stiles says and presses a few buttons. The machine buzzes and then shuts down with a lowering hum.
One might consider sending the ape back to the other lab reckless. However Pathos was certain that the Venus lab had a team just as capable of handling the problem as his own. In other words, it was looking like he's going to win this bet without facing any danger. After all, things going horribly wrong in Venus still counts, right?
"Oh! More snacks! You are too kind." he added as he noticed the snacks Jon had found.
Yes, this was turning out great.
Remind Stiles to shut down the teleporter when we leave, just in case the Venus team is exactly as competent as ours. After all, it would be unsafe to leave it on without us here.
Then back to the barracks to enjoy a well-earned rest.Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Head back to the barracks. Nothing more to do here, I suppose.Patrick returns to the barracks.Spoiler: Patrick Edmundson (click to show/hide)
Have sweet Occult dreams.Spoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information management officer (click to show/hide)
Steve drags Roald around until he finds an infirmary. He throws Roald onto the front nursing desk and then goes back to the barracks.Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)
Drag Roald to wherever the hospital/med bay/place of healing of this facility is.
Then go to my room/barracks
Return to the barracks, and get some sleep.Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
”Man, it was just getting interesting.”
Make my way back to barracks.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Toddle over to the barracks, get some rest.Spoiler: Jane-Anne Warren (click to show/hide)
Vacuum up any leftover debris and automop any leftover giblets/guff. Once the area we operated in is a satisfactory level of cleanliness, go chill and listen to some tunes in the barracks.Edd cleans up and then heads to the barracks to chill out.
Stuff Eddrick did this mission:
Stayed out of the way.
Cleaned up hisidiotunfortunate cousin.
Safeguarded OMNITECH property that was on his cousin's corpse from further harm/prevented the loss of said OMNITECH property
Cleaned up the corpse of Jion, including giblets that flew everywhere.Spoiler: Eddrick, Sanitation (click to show/hide)
Head back to the barracks and get some sleep.Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
Qualt takes a second, pondering the situation. Anticlimactic. Climbing down from the ceiling they look around at the mess and viscera.
Not seeing any live and injured bodies, they leave quietly through the doors and into the office space, muttering I hate paperwork.
There's probably paperwork I need to fill out. Go to my desk and do that.
THINGS QUALT DID:
Fixed Benny up
Resuscitated and patched up Roald, preventing another employee of the week
Did not add to the fuckery of the situation
Understood JapaneseSpoiler: Qualt (click to show/hide)
Edward gets up off the floor and returns to the barracks for a well unearned nap.
THINGS ED DID:
Absolutely nothing useful whatsoever.Spoiler: Edward Mortan, Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Huh. That was over fast. He stretched, then wondered how he didn't die this time around. He always died on missions! Oh well.Spoiler: Redshirt (click to show/hide)
Stuff Done:
Failed to remember the name of the form he needed to fill out.
Didn't die.
"Hah! Come now. Surely you don't expect a man of my massive intellect to fall for that. A bet on minimum deaths and one that includes people outside our team no less? I'm not going to take that, not until I see the next incident. If things are already going horribly wrong, like a demonic invasion or something, then I'm almost certain to lose. Either we bet on a range of deaths or we bet on deaths of security team 9154 only."Jon smirks a bit.
((If this universe has -9 incidents, then it's probably smarter not to be the one betting on there being less than 8 deaths.))
Spuds would like to get paid.Spoiler: Spuds (click to show/hide)
There's also syvarris's character, Rezel.Spoiler: Rezel Revel's Sheet (click to show/hide)
((Sorry, late post))[8]
Give the doggo a goodbye scritch behind the ears, remind them not to forget what a good boy/girl he or she is, then stand up, dust myself off and re-equip my resting bitch face before heading back to the barracks to do some before-bed yoga.
Make a detour to grab a nourishing, low-cal smoothie on the way if possible.Spoiler: Mildred the Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
"Hey! One of you lawyer types wanna help me with a task? Janitorial is looking for a few good men, and that Monkey was a few good men. I need some requisition forms filled out.Jon puts in a request for personnel transfer. Under the "Why" section he writes "Because it would be wicked sweet."
Jon's gonna go put in a requisition for transfer of personnel. Requesting the transfer of one Anime Ape to Sanitation Department, to be assigned alongside Jon and Edd in our locale.Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Roald wakes up in the infirmary. His arms have been replaced, from the shoulder down with "Generic" brand prosthetic. They're functional metal limbs but look like something from the early age of scifi, all straight rods and spherical joints that don't try to replicate the look of a human arm anymore than a stick figure does. Beyond that he's got several pale yellowish OMNITECH Fauxskin grafts that make it look like he's been patched up with chunks of anemic American cheese. He is happy that he's alive. Right up until the accountants send him a message.
Wake up in the infirmary at some point down the line. Then probably start swearing.Spoiler: Roald Baccam, Combat Engineer (click to show/hide)
Paperwork filled out and pay received, Qualt feels satisfied enough to leave their desk and visit the company store.Qualt doesn't have a desk. Oh dear.
Reply to accounting: れるれるれるれるれる
Perform a quick check on the contents of my desk.
Then go see what's for sale for a medic. I might want to stock up before something real dangerous.Spoiler: Qualt (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: HAZMAT Harry, HMRC (click to show/hide)
Aaaaaah school is trying to kill me
Collect money
Noticeable actions...umm...tried to pull switch, tried to get information? How about "failed miserably at simple actions, so miserably that it must be worth a consolation prize"?
I was also there! Sort of.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Jon smirks a bit."I certainly did not! The precise thing I was betting on was having exactly 4 Malian deaths (including repeated deaths via reincarnation, time paradox or other such nonsense). Though if you can get another participant to join us, we could set up some sort of betting pool where we can all make minimum death bets and split the pool appropriately when we win."
"Well, you were the one who tried to get me to bet on fewer than four ST 9154 deaths for next mission. I only thought it fair to unbalance the bet the other way. What kind of range of deaths are you thinking? Maybe we can bet on collateral damage - how many unnecessary deaths caused by the team, or how much real estate we damage in the process."
"I certainly did not! The precise thing I was betting on was having exactly 4 Malian deaths (including repeated deaths via reincarnation, time paradox or other such nonsense). Though if you can get another participant to join us, we could set up some sort of betting pool where we can all make minimum death bets and split the pool appropriately when we win.""Open up an illicit gambling operation, you say? Milk our more aggressive associates for their death funds? Sounds fantastic."
Level up guns to d10!Lance buys an insurance policy and gets a nice laminated card to prove it.
Endurance to d6!
Buy an insurance policy.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Reactive skin, as Steve learns after he wakes up from the procedure, replaces one's normal skin with hundreds of quarter sized hexagonal sections, giving him a sort of "Scaly" appearance, though the flesh appears to be normal human skin. Each section has an incredibly minute warning label apparently made out of natrual, but off color, skin. Like a bunch of freckles got together to form a cease and desist declaration. The Omni-eye is a camera, just as it says on the box. it comes in a small metal box with padding, almost like the kind of box you'd get a ring in. The camera itself is spherical, but with little self adhesive pads studded across it to allow it to be stuck to a surface.Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)
Buy Reactive Skin: 600 Omni (Replaces normal skin with layer of reactive, ablative skin. D6 life.) and Omni-eye: 50 Omni (A cheap camera designed to wirelessly connect to any universal communicator or Personal Computing Cube.)
Upgrading fate to d6 and implants to d6
Increase Endurance to d6 and Guns to d8.The universal communicator is a compact thing, a small screen, an even smaller camera, and a keypad so tiny that you'd probably have to be prenatal to use it comfortably. It comes with a log in for the network and a unique address so that people who know that address can contact you. A lot like a phone number, but alphanumeric and about 2 or 3 times longer than it needs to be.
Buy a Universal communicator, 3 generic rifle magazines, and a Omni-eye.Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Paperwork filled out and pay received, Qualt feels satisfied enough to leave their desk and visit the company store.Qualt, who apparently has some kind of memory disorder, again tries to check a desk he doesn't have.
Reply to accounting: れるれるれるれるれる
Perform a quick check on the contents of my desk.
levelup: Speed and Mechanics.
Purchase:phoenix downexternal defibSpoiler: Qualt (click to show/hide)
"I certainly did not! The precise thing I was betting on was having exactly 4 Malian deaths (including repeated deaths via reincarnation, time paradox or other such nonsense). Though if you can get another participant to join us, we could set up some sort of betting pool where we can all make minimum death bets and split the pool appropriately when we win.""Open up an illicit gambling operation, you say? Milk our more aggressive associates for their death funds? Sounds fantastic."
Leveling strength and implants. Purchasing disposable space suit (100 OF) and grapple hook (300 OF).
Steal a crate (or better, a spool!) to set up as a gambling table. Start taking bets on the death toll for next mission:
One betting pool for team deaths, buy in is 10 OmniFunds
One betting pool for type of disaster/ mission. buy in is 5 Omnifunds.
One betting pool for scale of disaster, by order of magnitude. Buy in is 5 Omnifunds.Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
+1 Will! +1 Implants!Spoiler: Redshirt (click to show/hide)
Redshirt looked at the list of things to buy and considered his options. "Eh," he said, "I'll take those Bionic Eyes."
And thus he went through painful, dangerous procedures to get a slightly longer life span.
Redshirt has purchased the Bionic Eyes for 500! Sheet update after confirmation.
After doing so, reply to the Note.
"4 - The number of lights above my designated dormitory's bed. I always wake up like its a fresh new day."
Buy nothing, Fate and Mechanics were leveled up.Ok.Spoiler: Patrick Edmundson (click to show/hide)
+1 explosives, +1 fateInquire to whom?
Received 750
Gave 5 Omni to Oz due to bet.
Purchased communicator for 150 Omni.
Purchased spacesuit for 100 Omni.
Inquire about the possibility of obtaining duct tape and/or rope and/or handcuffs.
I'm assuming I can use the communicator while wearing my spacesuit, right?
Try dialing 0118 999 881 999 119 7253 to test my newly purchased communicator.Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Level up Fate and Medical.Alright.Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
Alright.Spoiler: HAZMAT Harry, HMRC (click to show/hide)
Hm, well, if there's a chance we'll need to maneuver through any sort of vertical or gravity-less environment....might as well be preparedish. Not like there's much better to purchase right now, anyway.
Purchase grapple (-300). Levelled Mechanics and Fate.
Level up: Speed and SpeechOkie Dokie.
Purchase: Universal Communicator (150)
Disposable Spacesuit (100)
Omni-eye (50)
Omni-health insurance policy (200)
Total: 500
"Well I'm sure all this junk will come in handy."Spoiler: Edward Mortan, Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Level up Fate and Technology!Alright.Spoiler: Jane-Anne Warren (click to show/hide)
Upgraded guns d4->d6.[3]
Upgraded Knowledge d4->d6.
Use the contract notebook to fill in the required paperwork to request upgrades for the incinerator, to enhance its long-range flame/heat based cleaning capabilities.
Also check the contract notebook if there's any clauses to what Sanitation Officers are allowed/required/forbidden to do with deceased employees and their possesions. Should none exist, draft some that allow Sanitation officers to 'use their own judgement'.Spoiler: Eddrick, Sanitation (click to show/hide)
Purchase Bionic Eyes.Spoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
Buy nothing. Upgrade Str and Melee.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Bet 10 Omni on 4 team deaths next incident.Security Teams are generally on a "When you're called" set up. You're shuttled around between sections so much that any actual organizational framework you do have is going to be hard to follow. Just know that anyone above standard paper pusher is above you and you should probably listen to them.
Then ready to go!
EDIT: Do we have any superiors here? Or are we just following orders from a speaker?Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
OK
Buy a communicator with my last 150 Omni. Good to go then.Spoiler: Qualt (click to show/hide)
The new skin is a little stiff. Like being in a wetsuit or something. It will probably stretch out over time though...Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)
Do some streches to test new skin then go to the next work.
I'm good.I'd say chaotic neutral, at best.
Get sticky note. Write "on break" on sticky note. Attach note to front of jumpsuit. Stand perfectly still in the corner of the break room.
Also, Occult roll on the anime ape because I can.Spoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
"Almost ready."[6,6,1]
Examine the Omni-Eye for any hidden special features.
Examine the Disposable Spacesuit for any hidden special features.
Examine the Universal Communicator for any hidden special features.Spoiler: Edward Mortan, Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Lvl up speed and mechanics.With current items, no. But doesn't mean such things won't be available elsewhere.
Buy universal communicator. Can I buy more ammo for my goop gun, or otherwise upgrade its usage die?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Upgrading dexterity and... uh... speech? That'll do I guess. Also purchase a universal communicator, an omni-eye and a grapple gun.Mildred inquires at the infirmary about her teeth. They offer some replacements for 20 Omni.
Have my knocked-out teeth been fixed yet? If not, track down some sort of infirmary and enquire as to the state of my dental plan.Spoiler: Mildred the Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
Approach nearest non-Pathos teammate and shake them down for a 5 or 10 credit bet. Steal it right out of their inventories.Omni is digital currency and thus cannot be stolen out of anyone's pocket. Unless you steal a cube out of their pocket and then access their account and THEN steal it.
Inquire about the state of my personnel transfer. That monkey is going to need on the job training, and I want to get him started right away.
Otherwise, ready to go.Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Incinerate the assauly and battery paperwork. Then try to make a (falsified) official request for an extra shipment of snacks, performance boosters and assorted smokes for the sanitation team, signed off for by Stiles.[3]Spoiler: Eddrick, Sanitation (click to show/hide)
Jon glances at Pathos, the chuckle still leaking out of his mouth.[12]
"a slash-list alert, Pathos! Bet there'll be overtime today! Looks like you're gonna win this death pool."
Perhaps you missed the part where Jon was supposed to physically assault his teammate for their bets? No matter, the game is afoot. Which is where Jon will not be. Grab a trolley, shuttle, scooter, or other mobility device and putter along toward the biological hazard. Be sure to grab a spare set of sanitation gear - we probably have them in a janitorial closet in our janitorial 'office' - in case the monkey arrives while we're out. (p.s. I am fully aware that Orangutans are apes rather than monkeys)Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Be sure to be wearing disposable Space suit.[6]
Then very slowly walk after the others.
Along the way, search the local network to find someone working in that lab, preferably someone in charge. Try to call them with my communicator and ask what's going on and what kind of help they need.Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
"free hammer..."((The hammer is d4 damage. It has no special features.))
Add the hammer to my inventory. Examine hammer for any hidden special features. What's it's melee attack die?
Put on my full body space condom AKA disposable spacesuit.
Edit: Oh yeah and follow the crowd. Try to stay at the least conspicuous and least likely to be targeted or noticed spot. Not front, not back, not directly in the middle. Somewhere near the middle-rear of the swarm of idiots.Spoiler: Edward Mortan, Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Scan for pathogens.As Yagyu follows the group, he holds up his environmental scanner and has it automatically search for things. As they near the lab it starts registering higher than normal particulate levels of blood and other bodily fluids along with "Exotic proteins" but nothing it recognizes as pathogenic.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
”Jeez, looks like the party’s already started!”
Point rifle at the guy and don’t un-point it until he’s either proven alive, or disposed of. If he does anything agressive, shoot him.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"It's definitely gonna be zombies."
"Your call is very important to us. Please hold."Pathos carefully places his entire hand over the communicator to block out the mic and the video feed. He tells everyone where the scientist is and suggests that they rescue him for the sake of bonuses, raises, promotions, kudos, attaboys, and various monetary and non-monetary rewards.
Mute my mic (or hold my finger over the mic if it lacks a mute function).
Direct teammates to the Head scientist. He's the one writing out review, which means he's the one paying us. Rescuing, killing or taking him hostage should be our first priority. He might also be able to give us information, but really, who cares about that?
What do I know about these biofeedback events?Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Biofeedback?[8] From an occult standpoint, clem knows that biofeedback tends to mean that when the scientists tried to mix a weird thing with a living thing, the weird bled over into the living thing and made it a weird living thing. Not exactly a technical definition, but it does work.Spoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
Check whether the body is still alive, give him medical treatment if he is. Try to determine what caused the puncture wound.[1]Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
[5]Spoiler: HAZMAT Harry, HMRC (click to show/hide)
Continue thinking nonhazardous thoughts. Roll knowledge of what kinds of biohazards this lab was developing. Move up with Heather, keep the man covered and prepare to spray him to the floor in case he shows a suddenly desire to chew Heather's face off or starts growing extra appendages or fangs or whatever.
Steve looks at the newly ventilated body. Steve shrugs. Steve looks back and forth a few times and then starts rifling through the corpse's pockets. There's a keycard (red) and a personal computing cube. He checks the personal computing cube and discovers the following map of the labs.Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)
Go to help Heather with the healing.
Also check his pockets for a map, keycar or minicomputer with a map. I feel like we don't want to be completely lost inside there.
"What a mess. Science sure is a filthy thing."Edd walks in after Steve has already riffled the man's pockets and gets started on his sloppy seconds of grave robbing. As he searches, he wonders idly if its grave robbing if the body is unburied? Hmm.
Approach the corpse. Let the medic check if its alive. If it is, let them have it. If it isn't, nick whatever stuff he's got on him, them stuff him straight into the incinerator.
Also clean the area around the door of blood and garbage using the automap and laser squeegee as necessary.Spoiler: Eddrick, Sanitation (click to show/hide)
”Jeez, looks like the party’s already started!”Lance finally relaxes a bit as the body disappears, head first, into the incinerator.
Point rifle at the guy and don’t un-point it until he’s either proven alive, or disposed of. If he does anything agressive, shoot him.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Rezel, from behind Lance, finally relaxes when Lance does. In actuality he's still scared as heck but he realizes that a nice relaxed position puts him in better cowering position behind Lance.”Jeez, looks like the party’s already started!”
Point rifle at the guy and don’t un-point it until he’s either proven alive, or disposed of. If he does anything agressive, shoot him.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
This guy has the right idea. Follow his lead. Preferably from behind him, so that if the corpse explodes into demons he'll get hit first.Spoiler: Scared Security (click to show/hide)
"It's definitely gonna be zombies."[4]
Hang back. No reason to risk myself when other people can risk themselves.
I guess I'll see if I can set my omni-eye to dark spooky grainy found footage mode and start filming the zombiepocalypse.Spoiler: Edward Mortan, Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Spuds pats Heather on the shoulder, nodding his head approvingly. "Yes, a most wise action. Couldn't have done it better myself. Well, MAYBE I could of with this rifle...but you did good either way!""It's definitely gonna be zombies."
"Unless it's chestbursters." "How about on a you techie guys go look at the alerts to see what's up? And the rest of ya, stand back."
Shoot the body in the head. Yes, even though the medics want to save the person. They can take samples and find out after things are secure. Then re-aim to the back area around the puncture wound and unload a full burst as soon as the medics back away.Spoiler: Spuds (click to show/hide)
Look through the garbage that's on the ground near the door, and grab anything that's interesting or valuable.[4]Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
"Dammit, Eddie is gonna get all the good gibbets!"[2][4]
I have two choices: One stupid and the other suicidal. Imma do both.
Get on the trolley, back up as far as I can in the supply closet and rev the engine. point my incinerator nozzle at the door and crank it to max, then charge!
"Fuck you Montresor!"Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
I was gonna try and scan the bloke before people could touch him, but since some are apparently about to go trigger happy, instead try to urge people out of the 'splash zone' of blood and bits of person while the shooting is going on. Stay well away from the line of fire either way. Once coast is clear and he didn't turn into zombies or something, scan for pathogens, and scan his tissue as well to see if anything is off.Yagyu, Cousin of Ragu, lost inheritor of the calzone mines, seems confused. This body he is urging everyone away from is outside the labs proper. That main door is still firmly locked down. He could probably get it open with his security clearance, but neither he nor anyone else has done so yet. Perhaps he means to crack open the box and just walk inside, cocksure and fancy free, but I'm not sure thats actually his intent.
If I can't do this for some reason, go search for the lab where the science guy is held up. Don't open his door just yet though.
((Also: pw told me I got 100 schekels for doing that name+fate stat thing a while back. Lup, in case you didn't see the message on discord: if you want some of that due to basically doing the same work, just say so and you have it. Seems only fair.))Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Fork over 20 O-bux and get my teeth fixed.Mildred, who apparently never went with the group, gets her teeth fixed.Spoiler: Mildred the Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
Kerberos, of winner of the 232nd annual "Most nerdy name" competition, is definitely confused. And as such, he decided to try and use his security clearance to open the door.Spoiler: Kerberos (click to show/hide)
Since Kerberos was unable to get anyone actually explain what the hell is going on, he's just gonna wander about, moving towards the loudest sounds in the facility. Loudness generally equates to monetarily wealth, right?
Step back and let dude riddle the body with bullets.[1]
Determine what caused the hole in the back as best as possible. See if there's any identifying information on the corpse.Spoiler: Qualt (click to show/hide)
Flop out of bed and head off to rejoin the team.
"Uggghhhh, it feels like I slept for a week."Spoiler: Patrick Edmundson (click to show/hide)
Arrive? Head down to the crisis point and try my hardest not to get destroyed immediately.Also these two mooks show up. Good for them. Read the entire turn. Thats just how we roll around here. I don't like repeating myself. I'm the narrator. I'd shake your hands but I'm disembodied.Spoiler: Jengo Prism (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
Door has already been opened. Gotta read the whole post~Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)
Send a copy of the map to whoever has a computing cube in the team.
Then uses his authorization to open the door.
If the riots guys try to advance to point them towards lab 1 there is a man to rescue.Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: HAZMAT Harry, HMRC (click to show/hide)
Or we can just murder everyone, I guess. THINK OF YOUR BONUS CHECKS, PEOPLE. More company assets saved = more likelihood of bonus money.
Move up behind the expendables up front, keep an eye on the ceiling and the walls. Other people will be busy watching up ahead, I imagine.
Try to stay just behind the janitors, to give them covering fire.
Quick loot the bodies before the janitors burn them, and keep my rifle at the ready in case the bodies aren't dead.I like how the janitors are now viewed as both the most effective, and the most destructive, part of the crew.
Steve does a quick data transfer to Pathos via tapping his cube against Pathos', copying the map onto the other man's cube. He does the same to anyone else who has a cube as well.Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)
Send a copy of the map to whoever has a computing cube in the team.
If the riots guys try to advance, point them towards lab 1 there is a man to rescue.Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
Editec action.
"Hah! See? That's why you don't-" Pathos started to say as he turned towards Jon, only to find that he was not there."Ah yes." The man says, still apparently unperturbed, "I know the type. Real paranoid bunch ready to gun down their own shadows at the slightest provocation? Say no more. I shall be as silent as the corpse of an angry wife." He does a little 'zipped lips' motion to emphasize this.
"Hm." he grunted and shrugged. Who knew where the man was? Slacking off somewhere, no doubt. Oh well. He could always gloat later.
Inform Mr. Scientist we're coming to get him, but there's a lot of dead bodies around and my more brutish teammates are armed and twitchy. He should keep quiet and hidden until we contact him. No strange noises, no sudden movements, nothing that could make him look like a target to my teammates or whatever is stalking these halls.Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Keep filming. Get all the gory details on camera. Seems this horror movie might end up being a splatter film.Edward keeps dashing about, trying to get the best coverage he can of all the events unfolding currently. He asks a few people to say things like "Lets split up!" or "Its probably nothing!" before suggesting that they run headlong into the facility in complete disregard for their own safety. Preferably while yelling. He then asks Mildred, Heather, and any other lady he can find if they would be willing to go topless.
"We should probably go to lab 3. Cause of the whole "Don't go here!" Note."Spoiler: Edward Mortan, Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Quick loot the bodies before the janitors burn them, and keep my rifle at the ready in case the bodies aren't dead.[5]Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
I could back up and try again, only this time while swinging my grapple hook.[4] It takes some stretching and awkward wiggling but Jon manages to get his arm out enough to open the door. He props it open with his mop before dragging the trolley out and then shouting "TALLY HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO~~~!".
I could rummage through the supply closet for a crowbar. Hmm, crowbars are a little too "Protagonist-y." Seems like the kind of thing a guy in a power suit might use to beat down flying buzzsaw bots or something.
or, I could reach through the gap and open the door from the outside. Let's do that. If that fails, let's do options a and b instead: as in, find crowbar, swing grapple hook, and crash into the door with a trolley. Be sure to yell Tally Hooooooooooooo~~~! Either way.Try to stay just behind the janitors, to give them covering fire.Quick loot the bodies before the janitors burn them, and keep my rifle at the ready in case the bodies aren't dead.I like how the janitors are now viewed as both the most effective, and the most destructive, part of the crew.
"I'm not locked inside this closet with all these supplies. All these supplies are locked inside this closet with me!"Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Sigh, such a waste.Yagyu waves his scanner around some more. The environmental scan picks up traces of various organic substances in the air, vast majority of which are natural and probably account for the overwhelming smell of blood, guts, and death hanging around like a turd in the punch bowl. Of course there are trace amounts of unknown organic elements and what the scanner describes as "Possible extradimensional, transuranic elements". Its all in very small quantities though.
Ok then, since the last guy is basically just ash now, try to scan the newest batch of corpses to see if they are contaminated with something. Also scan environment of course.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Swing by a staff bathroom of some kind and admire my newly repaired smile in the mirror. Not that I ever really smile, but, y'know.Mildred wanders in, smiling exaggeratedly at everyone and jerking her eyebrows around like a vaudeville actor with a facial tic. When no one complements her on her newly unbusted mouth, she deflates a bit and starts working on getting her omni-eye set up. The set up turns out to be pretty easy and straight forward, so much so that even someone without any real technical knowledge can do it.
Gussy up a bit, then proceed to the general area of the team and their shenanigans, assuming I can find them. Don't get close, though. Dead bodies and biohazards? Ew.
Just, fiddle around with attaching the omni-eye to my communicator and getting it set up.Spoiler: Mildred the Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
That's quite some carnage. Are we looking at a purely mundane biohorror killing spree or something more fucky?[6] Clem concludes that this is definitely some level of occult fuckery. Maybe not a high level, there's no pentagrams or greater circles or Latin swear words written in entrails or anything like that, but this sort of abject murder is rarely the predilection of anything purely organic. You'd expect a normal critter to kill a few people at most, maybe find it munching on an intern. This thing kills because it wants to, so unless one of the lab boys snapped and started purging the thots chances are that this is something from somewhere mean. Clem cycles its eyes a few times. Xray doesn't show anything, heat shows only that these things happened recently as the bodies are still nearly body temp, motion tracking is killed by all the teammates running around, Threat adviser helpfully points out the pile of dead bodies as potentially hazardous, and so on. Not a lot of info.
Advance, scan the room for abnormalities using Bionic Eyes. Prepare to dodge.Spoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Jengo! (click to show/hide)
Thank you, disembodied narrator! I'd shake your hand but someone would think I'm waving at them. Awkward.
Money? Bonus money? I like money. Head for that locked up guy! Rifle up, ready to shoot tentacle spike zombies or whatever is running around.
Hang back and let the combat people enter first, then follow them and start cleaning up the mess that was described last turn. If I run across valuable or interesting looking items, on corpses or otherwise, grab them.Edd waits for the combat guys to roll in but besides one or two that walk maybe a few feet into the room, and one that sprints off away from the rest of the group, everyone just cowers behind him. He looks back at the heavily armed mass of cowards and sighs before getting to work. Seeing as Benny has already scrapped up all the goods from the corpses, Edd just starts cleaning. Bodies are incinerated, blood is mopped, and security men are made to feel safe enough to go do their dang jobs.Spoiler: Eddrick, Sanitation (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: HAZMAT Harry, HMRC (click to show/hide)
Or we can just murder everyone, I guess. THINK OF YOUR BONUS CHECKS, PEOPLE. More company assets saved = more likelihood of bonus money.
Move up behind the expendables up front, keep an eye on the ceiling and the walls. Other people will be busy watching up ahead, I imagine. Stop shortly inside, cover the janitors as they dispose of the bodies so we can seal the doors again. CHECK ENVIRONMENTAL SCANNER [ah why did I forget to do that]
Spoiler: HAZMAT Harry, HMRC (click to show/hide)
Or we can just murder everyone, I guess. THINK OF YOUR BONUS CHECKS, PEOPLE. More company assets saved = more likelihood of bonus money.
Move up behind the expendables up front, keep an eye on the ceiling and the walls. Other people will be busy watching up ahead, I imagine.
Follow along behind this guy, watching behind the group for enemies. Yes, I know, the lab is sealed and all the monsters are inside, but we already saw weird anime bullshit infect an ape, maybe the monsters are going to teleport behind us!
Don't proceed past the corpses until the janitors dispose of them. If the corpses get up and attempt to kill and/or eat our janitors, shoot them.Spoiler: Scared Security (click to show/hide)
"Okay, listen up. We need to clear that entry room so we can get these doors shut again. I don't want whatever-the-fuck this is getting loose on the facility."
"So get cleaning, get firing positions set up, and get out of the doorway!"
Follow my own orders. Try to stay just behind the janitors, to give them covering fire. Shoot any body that is both mostly intact and displaying a puncture wound.Spoiler: Spuds (click to show/hide)
”Looks like you janitors have your work cut out for you”
Stand just inside the door and be ready to double-tap anything as the janitors get to work. Also watch the door and make sure nothing that isn’t security comes in or out.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Stay behind the security guards, watch out for anything that requires shooting or medicine.Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
Step inside the lab and peer around. Stay close to one of the walls in case the guys behind start firing.Spoiler: Roald Baccam, Combat Engineer (click to show/hide)
The rest of the security team bravely...edges its way into the first room past the outer door and proceeds to shuffle about in that first room, looking around, repeatedly scanning, and twitchy pointing their rifles at shadows and phantom sounds.Stay at the lab door, ensuring that nothing dangerous gets out. If need be, use Rifle at long range for suppression.Spoiler: Redshirt (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
"If you wanted the weird ball thing all you had to do is ask, also if anyone wants a universal communicator I go a spare, I also got some cigarettes, gum, and two calculator watches if anyone wants them.""The Janitor's Union thanks you for your contribution. As promised, the candy bar. Oh and as a token of my appreciation, if you ever need something, ah, inconvenient disposed of, I'll let you use my incinerator."
Select a relatively brave looking OMNITECH security guard and attach myself to them in a discretionary tactical occult materials and information advising role.
A smug, extremely self satisfied look on his face and having properly declared his tally ho, Jon rides the trolley to the lab, not stopping until he finds corpses to incinerate, trash to incinerate, loot to be acquired, tipped over barrels to right, crates to stack, and bets to wager. Also, since apparently I need to chain actions in order to catch up to the oh so fast moving securityIf the monkey comes, it will at least take till the next mission.cowardsteam: Once arrived, do these things. Once these things are done, proceed through airllock and repeat these things. once these things are done, head to the break room and steal anything not nailed down. Also, "These things" refers to the above mentioned incinerating, incinerating, acquiring, righting, stacking, and wagering of corpses, trash, loot, barrels, crates, and bets.
Also, where's my monkey?
Show me the monkey! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6edd_Hg2hgk)Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler (click to show/hide)
[4]Spoiler: HAZMAT Harry, HMRC (click to show/hide)
Close and seal/lock/whatever we can do to the doors as soon as the entire security team has passed them. Then move down the hallway, foam gun at the ready.
Nobody lives forever, move up to where that one guy went and inspect the two passage ways. I’m guessing the non-blast door is going to be the more practical route for the moment. If more of my comrades find their braver, then advance in whatever way the group decides is best.Lance walks into the room with the two doors and carefully examines both of them. They're both keycard locked, the big door with a red keycard and the other with a blue keycard. He can tell by the color of an indicator lock just above the keycard scanner.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Hey Benny, not cool man. The Janitor Union's code specifically states we clean up for you guys and provide smartass remarks for no extra charge, in exchange for getting a share of the dead people's trinkets. Tell you what though, I'll trade you this delicious candy bar for that weird metal stress ball you picked up. It's 50% less calories, so it's delicious and good for you!"Edd follows the group, hot on Jon's heels and, after trading some stolen goods with Benny, starts rapidly frisking the dead before Jon cooks them. Most of these bodies are in significantly worse shape than the others, so finding goodies is rather difficult and messy. He manages to get two more of those little metal balls, another red keycard, OMNITECH personal music player and wireless earbuds, pack of gum, 6 condoms, and a piece of paper with what looks like a user name and password on it.
Sigh and follow the guy who ran wildly into the labs, loot the corpses that are there. Also look in the mess for anything interesting. Then start the grind of cleaning up all the corpses, giblets and other garbage in the room and along the way I took to get here. Leave the actual investigating to other people, I've got stuff to clean up.
Trade: Trade my half eaten candy bar for Benny's (King Zultan) metal sphere thing.Spoiler: Eddrick, Sanitation (click to show/hide)
"Alright, gang, let's split up and look for clues!" I joke to myself, chuckling lightly and kicking some bodies to see if they explode/drop useful items. But that kind of silly clean up work is for those of lesser heart - check out those doors! Any evidence either has been tampered with/used by a blood soaked demon? Try desperately to resist the temptation to take the door that will take me closer to the trapped scientist. Must... Not... Open... Yet!Jengo checks the doors. Besides the keycard slots that were previously mentioned he finds evidence of something having passed through the big one. There are a set of 4 deep scratches along the inside of one of the sliding blast doors, as though something with big claws grasped the doorway as it moved through. There are also the distorted human footprints and smears of blood. However the second door also betrays violence having happened beyond it. There's blood seemingly leading INTO it instead of the in and out pattern of the blast doors. Something dragged a bloody thing in and then didn't come out.
Sometimes the cowering masses need a Pioneer rushing bravely, blindly ahead to inspire them to move. And that man is...Spoiler: Jengo! (click to show/hide)
Proceed into that first room, checking for monsters behind any blind corners. Jump down to the lower level if there's nothing, and immediately check under the upper level walkway if there's space under it. If no monsters are found, proceed to the airlock and start looking at its controls. Don't touch anything, just look if there's anything which is clearly an "Open" button, or a "Show camera feed of all the monsters on the other side" button.Rezel carefully searches the room, muttering to himself about checking those corners, staying frosty, and bug hunts. After he has convinced himself that there are no horrible demons waiting in the shadows to introduce the concept of lethal sodomy to himself and his squad, he moves to the door controls.
If any monsters are seen at any time, shoot them.Spoiler: Scared Security (click to show/hide)
Steve hands the Red Keycard to Benny and tells him to lead the way. With responsibility thus delegated, Steve falls in line behind Benny.Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
Go to Benny hand him the red keycard and inform him that he is now the official door opener and thus should go in front of the group.
Then go towards lab1 (hopefully with the rest of the group) to rescue that guy.
Oh well. Select a relatively brave looking OMNITECH security guard and attach myself to them in a discretionary tactical occult materials and information advising role. Analyze the things they encounter and provide advisement by pointing at the important things.Clem is next to join the conga line behind Benny.Spoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
"If you wanted the weird ball thing all you had to do is ask, also if anyone wants a universal communicator I go a spare, I also got some cigarettes, gum, and two calculator watches if anyone wants them."
Take the red keycard and except the job of door opener, then go with the group to Lab 1 while keeping my gun ready to shoot any monsters that might be found on the way. Also give away the mentioned items if anyone wants them.Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Kerberos (click to show/hide)
That Gas-Mask wearing Egghead seems to be itching to go out and makes some money. Drag Clem by their jumpsuit and investigate the room past this current mess.
"Come on nerd, we got money to make."
Keep trailing behind the security guards.Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
Just keep filming. Get good footage of the janitors incinerating. Maybe arrange some of the gore into spoooooky messages and symbols then get that on camera.Spoiler: Edward Mortan, Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Pathos gives the scientist a thumbs up before returning to his thoughts.Pathos considers the evidence. The foot prints he can see here indicate that this creature is...probably a little bigger than human but not hugely so. As per how its getting around....thats a good question. It could have followed people out as they opened the doors and then went back in the labs before the doors automatically closed. Alternatively, it might have a keycard and the intelligence to use it.
Hmm... Since the airlocks are probably locked and there were dead bodies in the entrance, then that must mean that either the monster is still here or there's an alternate escape route. Is it safe to assume the monster is approximately human sized based on available evidence? If yes, then where could it be hiding and/or how could it have left the room (assuming no invisibility, teleportation, demonic portals or other weirdness)? Is this one of those places with stupidly large yet quiet vents? If I come up with any good ideas, be sure to yell them at the meatshields.Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Keep scanning, see if signal of exotic/weird crap gets stronger in a certain direction. Never stray far from teammates though.The scanner isn't reading any sort of preference for the direction of the odd materials. They seem to be on or near bodies but nothing besides that.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
((Going to ptw. Also is this stilla ccepting characters?))((Yeah, for now))
Permiter check the decon area, preferably not alone, to make sure the doors are sealed and there's nobody present except the corpses and our guys.Because half the team has run off into the first and second labs and broken the seal on that door Spuds instead searches for decon equipment. He quickly identifies the large machine near the Lab 3 Door as some sort of scanning and decon system.
Remind the looters that they need to get their loot decontaminated, as we're in a biohazard zone. If they turn into ratlings tomorrow because they were too lazy to get scanned, not my fault.
In that vein check for functional decontamination supplies or equipment.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
The upper level snakes around to the left to a large square section, the center of which contains some sort of complex machine that sort of resembles the teleporter from before.
Benny, Clem, Steve, and everyone else who wants to head onward with him pile into the airlock and wait for it to cycle before moving on to the next room.Would Mildred fit that description? I've no idea. She/I/we would probably be more the type to dither about getting distracted in the other rooms, but then again she would probably stick with the other Occult Materials and Information Management Officer on the team. I reckon she'd be in there.
Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
Check the spheres and that big machine. Any idea what they do?[12][3]
EDIT: By big machine I mean this:QuoteThe upper level snakes around to the left to a large square section, the center of which contains some sort of complex machine that sort of resembles the teleporter from before.Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Question for PW: what skill or stat governs the use of the OMNITECH grapple gun? Or, to put it in more IC terms, do I feel confident in my ability to use the one in my inventory?It uses Gun. Its a gun, after all. Says so right there in the name. "Grapple GUN".
Also:Benny, Clem, Steve, and everyone else who wants to head onward with him pile into the airlock and wait for it to cycle before moving on to the next room.Would Mildred fit that description? I've no idea. She/I/we would probably be more the type to dither about getting distracted in the other rooms, but then again she would probably stick with the other Occult Materials and Information Management Officer on the team. I reckon she'd be in there.
((I guess I'll edit my action into this post at a later point in time. Sorry for missing the last turn, been busy af.))
Edit:
Placeholder action: if I'm in the room with Clem and the monster, get out my grapple gun and shoot it at the beastie, aiming either for its mouth or to entangle it in the grapple cord.
Regardless of the success or failure of this, immediately dive away from the creature and the wild hail of gunfire that will inevitably be directed towards it and anyone around it.
If I'm not in there, but still in the section of lab we're exploring, supervise my colleagues whilst keeping an eye out for anything that looks occult, dangerous or otherwise interesting.
If I'm still standing around outside after the doors were sealed off... welp, go to a breakroom and get myself a healthy, nutritious salad wrap and a bottle of water. Then return to wait outside the lab my teammates are in whilst eating it.Spoiler: Mildred the Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
Sign me up thenAlright. We'll assume that Murphy comes running in and is now in the room with the two doorways right near the start of the lab complex.(Edit, messed up hit submit too early)Spoiler: Murphy Isadora Mays the public relations representative (click to show/hide)
Join Pathos in examining the machine.[3]Spoiler: Roald Baccam, Combat Engineer (click to show/hide)
Redshirt, perhaps in direct violation of his name, continues standing outside of the danger zone and points his weapon at the doorway.Hold position at the lab door. Actually, things sound like a fight in there... Close the lab door, and stand across from it, gun up and eyes scanning to make sure that if something busts through that when I shoot it its not another MOOK, but an actual dangerous thing.Spoiler: Redshirt (click to show/hide)
"Aw yeah, this is some good material reclamation right here."Edd, who is already in the room with Pathos, goes and stands over near him.
Go join Pathos in the room with the machine, I'm sure the lads fighting whatever it is in the other room will call me when they need something cleaning up.
Listen to what kind of grooves the dead guy has on this OMNITECH personal music player.
Examine one of the metal balls. Does it have any text on it, can I figure out what it's used for?Spoiler: Eddrick, Sanitation (click to show/hide)
(I'm not sure whether you assumed that I followed or that I stayed back, but since you didn't have me make a fate check, I'll go with the latter.)[4]
Check the structural integrity of the airlock. Like, if something big really wanted to get through, how well would the door hold up? It looks like some people want to go in and some want to stay behind. If the door does get opened, I'll enter, but otherwise I'll just point my rifle at the door and wait for something non-MOOK to come through.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Yeaaaah, that sounds like a fight. You know what makes a fight much worse? Getting flanked. Continue to stay in the safe corner next to the giant closed door, just in case a monster comes through and tries to flank the others. Flank security is a very important job!Rezel makes like Redshirt and stays rooted in his good firing position.Spoiler: Scared Security (click to show/hide)
Oh, this looks cool, sign me up.Jack wanders into the room, apparently confused. Or drunk? Hard to say.Spoiler: Jack Hansan (click to show/hide)
Stay near teammates, if enemies spotted stick 'em to the floor, if not do a more in-depth scan of those exotic particles.[2]Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Keep that thing busy while I patch up Clem."[Rolling disadvantage: 8, 4]
Patch up Clem.Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
"AAAAAHHHHHHH!"Ed immediately turns tail, closing the airlock and setting it to cycle and let him back out into the room with two doorways.
Edward very courageously sprints away back through the door. Open door first if necessary.
He bravely closes the door behind him in attempt to trap the monster, maybe even close the door on the monster trapping or killing it.Spoiler: Edward Mortan, Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Get away from the monster and shoot it in the mouth.[4] Benny manages to squirm out of the relentless onslaught of the creature, rolling out from under it and back up to his feet. He tries to backpedal away and lead the beast off of the rest of the team while putting some distance between it and them, but it is on him immediately, never letting him get far.Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
In the instant where the beast is confused, Steve throws a stimulant to Benny and shouts for him to use it. Benny stabs the syringe into his flesh and then toss it away once its empty. [Benny life to d8 temp]Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
Stab benny with an stimulant so he has higher chances of surviving the beast attack)
[Flanking enemy, advantage. 2,6 1v3][2, reduce use die to d4]Spoiler: Kerberos (click to show/hide)
Move opposite to Benny, so that we're on opposite sides of the Murder monster and open fire, aiming for the legs.
Move towards the sounds of carnage and lay down fire into any demon-things that become visible.Spuds, after helpfully telling the techs what the big machine is, runs towards the airlock. Its already cycling by the time he reaches it and he can do nothing but wait. Eventually it opens and disgorges a screaming Ed who lets everyone else know whats going on in the room beyond. Well, sort of. He's mostly incoherent.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Hey, Pathos! That's one! Three more to go and you win the betting pool!"
Incinerate Clem. Toss chunks of the dead to the monster.Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: HAZMAT Harry, HMRC (click to show/hide)
...advance towards the (probable) sounds of screaming and dying. Attempt to foam gun the bulletproof monster so it is less capable of attacking.
The door's locked behind us and now we're all trapped (ok fine so we're not REALLY trapped, but opening this door without first killing that thing would be a terrible idea) here with the murdering machine. Sounds like a typical day on the job.
Spoiler: Jengo (click to show/hide)
I'm just awful with maps and geographic reasoning so I'm not entirely sure where exactly I am in relation to the murder room. I do know I'm not in there, though.
Oh wow, is that gunfire I hear through the walls? C'mon guys, keep it down haha! Hey... that wet thump sounded like Clem being obliterated into a wall! They're in trouble! I have no idea who is where. So so sorry. Rally the boys and prepare to sally forth into that room and save the day, or at least give their remains a proper incineration! Once we got the boys and a card (hopefully?) charge!! Shoot it with my gun and hope to hit a weakspot.
stop committing photosynthesis. Go take care of Clem, or at least put Clem out of their misery. If I think they're worth saving, use the medikit and hit them with a stimulant. Defib if necessary.Jon, Harry, Jengo, and Qualt all join Spuds in the airlock for their own reasons and Spuds sets the airlock to cycle. Musak very helpfully plays as the airlock slowly cycles, opening a subjective century later. Everyone piles out and into the room just in time to see the last segments of the creature's tail vanish through the doorway. [10] Qualt moves to Clem's side and finishes where Heather left off. He closes the lungs and repairs just enough to keep Clem alive for the moment, though the weird asexual mass of burnt plastic is far from safe yet.Spoiler: Qualt (click to show/hide)
"Well, time to see what's going on."
Jack wanders into the room, apparently confused. Or drunk? Hard to say.
Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
((Hello everyone, I've been lurking this forum for around five years and I finally decided to join a glorious piecewise game.))((Welcome to the forums, hope you enjoy the madness, obligatory Losing is fun))
[spoiler=Bob]
((Hello everyone, I've been lurking this forum for around five years and I finally decided to join a glorious piecewise game.))Welcome to sanitation. You have chosen wisely.Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)
What about the masochists? Or do we not talk about them.((Hello everyone, I've been lurking this forum for around five years and I finally decided to join a glorious piecewise game.))Welcome to sanitation. You have chosen wisely.Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)
In terms of career choice. In terms of "joining a PW game," well, no one really chooses to suffer like this, do we?
Pick the right most door, it must be the right way, open it and look inside, let the other guy enter first thoughMurphy wanders through the right door, which happens to be the airlock leading into the room with the recent combat and current medical drama.Spoiler: Murphy Isadora Mays the public relations representative (click to show/hide)
"Hey! Can one of you hardware people help me rig this FoF marker to my computing cube? I could use it to transmit the signal through your communicators, thus increasing the number of people that can use it at the same time."[5]
With the help of someone who can handle the mechanical side (if I can't just roll tech for it), try to connect the FoF marker to my computing cube and set the signal to transmit through my communicator, thus turning our communicators into extra FoF markers.
Also, if I see Steve trying to drag Clem to the infirmary, suggest they don't do that or at least pass through the decontamination machine before doing so. I've seen enough monster movies to know you can't trust someone after they've been bitten. Or torn in half, I suppose.Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
(Meant to follow those blokes last turn, but oh well)Lance passes through the airlock and joins up with the group in the entry area to labs 1 and 2. He does a few tactical rolls and poses, just to keep morale up.
Follow the other guys through the airlock.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Jack also goes through the airlock and into the lab 1 and 2 antechamber."Well, time to see what's going on."
Jack wanders into the room, apparently confused. Or drunk? Hard to say.
Ready my rifle and follow the guy who just went through the right most door.Spoiler: Jack Hansan (click to show/hide)
Regain composure.Ed also, also goes through the airlock, but unlike everyone else who basically just stops there, he goes one step further. He runs around the room, "documenting" everything with his camera. Particularly Clem and Clem's medical mishaps.
Follow the swarm of mooks back through the airlocks, and film the resulting battle/massacre while occasionally taking occasional potshots with my pistol.Spoiler: Edward Mortan, Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
"This guy didn't have a conventional taste in music, that's for sure."Pathos helpfully tells Edd what the FoF markers are. Edd shrugs and shuffles to a new song (https://infine-rec.bandcamp.com/track/balkanik)
Just lean on my mop and inspect the metal balls with LED's I picked up, can I figure out what they're used for/what they do?
After that just shuffle the music player to a random song and observe what Pathos and the rest are doing. A good Janitor should let others make the first move.Spoiler: Eddrick, Sanitation (click to show/hide)
Go scramble over to that guy who found FoF identifiers, and cover him. He seems valuable, and might share.Rezel sidles over to Pathos and starts nodding and giving ingratiating comments about Pathos' actions in the not so secret hope that it might increase his chances of survival. He also keeps very unsubtly hinting that he'd sure like an FoF transmitter. Always wanted one of those you know. Yep. Sure would like that.Spoiler: Scared Security (click to show/hide)
((Hello everyone, I've been lurking this forum for around five years and I finally decided to join a glorious piecewise game.))Don't worry, everyone makes these kind of mistakes occasionally~Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)
This point is still obscure, dear readers. I, as humble narrator, cannot say if Harry got the FoF transmitter from Pathos. We shall have to wait on Pathos, and see what transpires.Spoiler: HAZMAT Harry, HMRC (click to show/hide)
Um, go acquire FoF marker so I don't get killed, I guess.
Give Pathos a hand with the mechanical end of his tinkering if necessary.Roald stands around, looking over Pathos' shoulder and making sure the latter doesn't bash open another FoF transmitter like an ape trying to crack open a coconut, with just about the same noises and smell.Spoiler: Roald Baccam, Combat Engineer (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
Start moving Clem out of the labs and into the infirmary, so maybe his life can be completely saved.
"You are not allowed to die, Clem."
If Clem won't bleed out, carry him through decontamination and hopefully safety. Otherwise keep doctoring!Spoiler: Qualt (click to show/hide)
Can I use my sticky goop on Clem to keep him from bleeding out at least? If yes, apply sufficient goop to prevent him from bleeding[9][7]all over the goddamn carpet.
(Note: if applying the goop rolls Med instead of Gun or nothing, then either give goop gun to medic for use or just don't bother, don't wanna stick it into his lungs and pump 'em full or something).
If no patient gooping, instead go with the security team that is following the creature. Can I use my scanner to detect where it is going somehow?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Qualt rolled maximum on his med roll. when I rolled maximum on my 'find a trolley' roll, I got locked in a closet.1. Wait for it. Not all bad rolls have immediate consequences.
Also, what happened to my bolded action last round? If I weren't getting to at least attempt it, why cycle me through with the others?
Also: Gatehr as much corpse as I can carry and follow the guy chasing the dog. Throw corpse bits to any biological monstrosities we encounter that aren't already part of the team.Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: annotated map for the curious (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Jengo! (click to show/hide)
Drat! Missed all the fun. Well, most of the corpses are obliterated, so not much looting to be done, and I'm no medicine man, so I guess the best thing to do is secure the area with my Gun and wait for the others to catch up. If someone BRAVELY decides to venture forth/pursue the beast, help them out!
Spoiler: Kerberos (click to show/hide)
"COME BACK HERE, YOU DUMB BITCH CAT!"
Chase after the Bio-Organic killing machine, shooting anything in my way.
Go after the monster and shoot it in the face.Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Chase after the mutant dogSpoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
Pair up with someone and head after the creature. Leave someone else facing the other doorway, in case the creature is doubling back around to flank us. Shoot if it comes in range.Jengo, Kerberos, Benny, Heather, Spuds and Jon all chase after the beast, heading through the automatic door and into the next room. The next room is complex in its shape, a sort of two level central room with branching sections and doorways. On the lower level here there is a door immediately to the right marked as "SUPPLIES", and then two normal interior doors, the likes of which you'd expect to see leading into any normal office. To the left is a stairway up to the second level and a huge clear tank in which a human is suspended in a greenish goo. Hard to say if they're alive, but they appear to have had large amounts of their body replaced by mechanical replicas. The second floor has a similar tank, though this one is empty, and three doorways. Two, the north most and the one to the west, are open entry ways with no door: signs mark them as "lab 1" and "Break". The entryway to the south does have an airlock door and is marked as "lab 2".Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Kill me more, PW daddy.Well, you heard him PW.
Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
((I actually never got a FoF marker, so I assume I must have snatched one from someone else due to my overshoot.Pathos checks the readout from the decontamination machine and finds that it is clear. He gestures that Clem's bleeding semi-corpse can leave in peace.
EDIT: Me and Pancaek resolved it on discord, he gave me one of his.))
Great work me! Make sure there's no other warnings in the decontamination machine to make sure Clem has no other signs of contamination the machine can detect.
Then go join the team at the vats and inspect them. Anything valuable in or around them that could "go missing"? I bet that fella with the prosthetics would pay good money for something more high grade.Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
try to heal Clem or at least prevent him from dying.
Same action again really: use my sticky goop on Clem to keep him from bleeding out.[medical: Advantage, done this before recently 10, 10]
(Note: if applying the goop rolls Med instead of Gun or nothing, then either give goop gun to medic for use or just don't bother, don't wanna stick it into his lungs and pump 'em full or something).Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Kill me more, PW daddy.Well, you heard him PW.
anyways. Go see about beinguselessuseful, like shout out encouraging statements and managorial advice in business jargon to help coordinate medical efforts.Spoiler: Murphy Isadora Mays the public relations representative (click to show/hide)
"Those guys got spunk. I like them. Too bad they are shooting though. I bet it would be friendly if we just kept feeding it bits. Well, not friendly, exactly, heh heh heh. But containable, maybe."Jon carefully does some gore graffiti before walking over to the supply room and checking what it has to offer.
Use corpse blood to write "Hi Edd !!" on the tube that has the cyborg in it. Then, arrange most of the corpse bits on the floor to spell "Jon Wuz Heer" (alternatively, "Francis"). Then, check the supply room for lootables. No incinerating for now, as those corpse bits might still be useful as dogmonster treats.Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: annotated map for the curious (click to show/hide)
Give one of my Fov marker balls to Pathos, and also make sure I've got either one of the balls or the program he send me running.
Then make my way over to the break room. Check for immediate dangers. If there are, courageously run away. If there aren't, loot the place and start cleaning up.Spoiler: Eddrick, Sanitation (click to show/hide)
Go up to Eddrick and give him a bearhug, then assist in cleaning up.
"I mop! You mop! We friends!Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)
Ed isn't really sure what to do. So he goes to find his buddy Edd and see what'a up.Edd and Bob walk right past lab 1 and into the break room. The break room is actually quite clean. Its an odd room, pretty large and cross shaped, with a central island for food prep and refrigeration and sections of tables off in each of the nooks around it. There's a cup or two of coffee that people have dropped and even a half eaten scone laying forlorn off to the side but no corpses or other signs of violence. No signs of danger either, at least from a quick glance.
"Hello Edd! Smile for the camera!"
Keep filming everything that happens nearby. Still in grainy VHS mode of course.Spoiler: Edward Mortan, Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Kerberos (click to show/hide)
"Come back here FUCKER! There's no where for you to hide, Shitcat! I'll chase you to the ends of this station!"
Pay no attention to the grisly display before me and rush into Lab 1, shooting and screaming wildly as I do so.
Spoiler: Jengo! (click to show/hide)
"What he said!"
Follow Kerberos, for I admire his courage. Stay a distance apart so the bugman can't simultaneously bite us up and pincer other comrades easily. Find that bug and shoot at it! Blam blam blam! If I have time (on the way in) look for heavier weapons that can have an easier time breaching its hide.
”Hey, I like your style! It’s not too late to die young!”
Run straight through to Lab 1, advancing just behind Kerberos.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Ah, what the hell. Might as well do my job."
Follow Kerberos into Lab 1, though taking a more professional approach by keeping my rifle raised and ready to fire if I encounter something hostile.Spoiler: Jack Hansan (click to show/hide)
Charge into Lab 1, open fire on anything that doesn't look human.Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
Poke my head into the break room before following the others to Lab 1. Be ready to open fire.Spoiler: spuds (click to show/hide)
...Just grab one of the FoF identifiers, thentrail along behind the crazy people heading all the way to Lab 1.Haha, no, never mind. Stick with the lab 3 people; I was confused about which areas were which. Thanks, Ozarck!Spoiler: Scared Security (click to show/hide)
Well, nothing was bursting through... Boring.Spoiler: Redshirt (click to show/hide)
Ooh, was that a blast door over there?
Walk over to Blast Door to Lab 3. Attempt to use Omni-Eyes to determine what's on the other side.
Head off after the others with Rezel. Not much to do here.Rezel and Roald attempt to enter lab 3 but quickly find that, without a red keycard, the huge blast door refuses to open. Now...who hat those keycards again? It was Benny, wasn't it?Spoiler: Roald Baccam, Combat Engineer (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
"How? Just how did you even manage to shoot yourself?"
"Oh, hey Edd. You didn't get the message I left you out in the room with the vats? The one with all the blood and body parts? Ah well, it was on the way to the break room. We'll stop by there after a snack and clean up a bit.""Must've missed it. My bad, I still have to set up this commlink. Did anyone check out lab 2 yet? I've found this piece of paper with a login and a password, and I think it's probably for a terminal there. Not that we've got much reason to go check it out anymore I think, since the dog is already dead."
"Must've missed it. My bad, I still have to set up this commlink. Did anyone check out lab 2 yet? I've found this piece of paper with a login and a password, and I think it's probably for a terminal there. Not that we've got much reason to go check it out anymore I think, since the dog is already dead.""What? What does the dog have to do with computer terminals? Come on, last time I snooped on some egghead's compuiter, they had pinball. I bet the next one at least has, like, space invaders or something."
Kerberos [2,6] unloads a full magazine of ammo into the dog thing, filing it full of new holes and splattering viscous ichor all over himself.Spoiler: Kerberos (click to show/hide)
Calmly reload my rifle, walk up to the slain beast, and empty the new magazine into it.
Find somewhere I can plug my adapter (make sure it's not a power plug first) and see what data I can pull, either on this project in general or where they keep the good loot.Pathos reconnects with Bill Pelican and again the image of the scientist fills the screen.
EDIT: Oh! But first, call my scientist friend to see if he survived his rescue team's arrival. If he did, he might be able to just tell me the answers and if he didn't he might have some loot. So win-win either waySpoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Make a fresh pot of coffee. About the best thing I've used my modest technical expertise for yet.(1)Spoiler: Edward Mortan, Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
(Clem is still not dead by the way. You can transfer the inventory to yours based on his last post I guess)Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
Loot everything from Clem then see if there is way to go to the guys chasing the dog.
"How? Just how did you even manage to shoot yourself?"
Save Jengo from bleeding out.Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
No! Blood! Stay in there! Stay in your home! Desperately try not to bleed out on the first day of my new job. That's just unprofessional.[7]"How? Just how did you even manage to shoot yourself?"
"Glub gasp. Sorry... Sorry... Glub."Spoiler: Punished Jengo (click to show/hide)
Try to get Clem's sidearm in case there are more monsters running amok.((Gonna have to ask Steve for it since he literally is in control of the body))
After that, if possible, go to the advance team tnat took down the monster and start scanning it. Try to find a long pole of sorts first to poke it with, if after lots of poking it still isn't moving start carefully scanning it, if it is still twitching then goop it. Try to have a gunnerbro covering me while I'm working if at all possible. If no pole found wait until it gets doubletapped thoroughly before scanning, or just stay away for now.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Score one for the Corp."[5]
Reload my rifle then keep it aimed at the monster until after Kerberos empties his magazine into it. After that, see if there is anything unusual around the lab.Spoiler: Jack Hansan (click to show/hide)
Well my managerial expertise can only help so far, go wander off to the nearest break room for coffee and donutsMurphy wanders into the nearest break room and finds the coffee machine on fire.Spoiler: Murphy Isadora Mays the public relations representative (click to show/hide)
Don't reload yet, keep my gun ready, maintining vigil while the others reload. Scan the room and listen for any more activity.. it might not be all the way dead or there might be more than one. Be ready to fire if there is any more action.Spuds wanders around the room, carefully searching for any hidden threats. Luckily it seems like the place really is safe; at least lab 1. And by safe he of course means that there are no more extradimensional demons here to tear people in half and eat their faces. There's probably still plenty of danger around. Like that paper cutter. Or that stapler.
"Need an engineer in here to make sure it's all dead. And that this stuff is turned off right."Spoiler: Spuds (click to show/hide)
Loot the Hypodermic Spear and all (six?) cartridges of mystery goo. Leave the printer ink - don't want Finance coming down on my head.
If I have time after that, head to lab one, shake my head sadly at the tragic loss of one Good Dog, then start stuffing said Good Dog into my incinerator. It'll fit, dammit. it'll fit. Eventually.
"Too bad. He'd have made a great mount for Sanitation. I was gonna name him Trolley."Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: 18, I mean 17 1/2 idiots and a Corpse (click to show/hide)
”come on Jengo, what are you, a virologist?”Science guy has found himself, it seems, so Lance searchs the lab for other hidden goodies.
Search the lab. Look for the science guy.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I'mma assume I successfully got a FoF thingamajig. Added one to my sheet.((You can assume that. I'm guessing someone would give it to you I don't know. I'm not in charge of other people and their inventory.))
Relax a little, seeing that the door is securely closed, and then go guard whichever vulnerable support members of our team aren't in the same room as the giant beartrap dog monster. Shoot any giant beartrap dog monsters seen, while safely (?) standing behind said expendable support members.Spoiler: Scared Security (click to show/hide)
"Aw shit I missed getting to help kill the dog thing."(6)
Go to Lab 1 and see what things I can loot from the lab.Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Edd walks into the lab, heading over to Jon.Edd mops up ichor and then starts hauling debris over into the corner for later disposal. Cleaning this place up to a reasonable standard is gonna be rather time consuming. That Dog thing sure wrecked the place.
"Hey man, how's tricks here? I went to the rec room first in the hopes of there being something good there, but there was barely even any mess to clean up"
Help Jon (ozarck) with incinerating the Good Dog. Then set out to clean the rest of Lab 1 back to OMNITECH Cleanliness Rating compliant level.Spoiler: Eddrick, Sanitation (click to show/hide)
Redshirt walks into lab 1, walks over to Benny, and promptly starts shoving his hands into Benny's pockets. Benny squirms and wiggles and shouts for a Lawyer to start filling out sexual harassment paperwork but despite this Redshirt manages to dig the red keycard out of Benny's pocket. Thus equiped, Redshirt heads back to the huge door and inserts the keycard. The door slides open slowly and with great effort, revealing a short hallway with another every large blast door at the end. The hallway is pure white and brightly lit, or at least thats how it used to be. Now there's blood and body parts everywhere in it, sprayed across the walls, floor and ceiling. The smell is enough to physically send Redshirt and Rezel staggering back a few steps when it hits them. There's no sign of anything dangerous but there is a faint mechanical noise, like servos moving.WE MUST GO IN.Spoiler: Redshirt (click to show/hide)
Execute the 5-step plan!
Locate Benny.
Acquire card (by force if necessary).
Open door.
???
Profit.
Bob wanders into lab 1, an increasingly popular hobby these days, and pries loose a bit of sharp scale from the dead Scissor Head before the entire thing gets incinerated.
Head to lab 1 and try to acquire some sort of souvenir from the dog-thing before it's incinerated (preferably a tooth), then start cleaning up the place. Loot the corpses before incinerating them, look out for any melee weapons. Also speak to the security guys.
"Security people, attention! You have baton! I need baton! Lend me baton, please!"Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)
Harry is in lab 1. Don't question it. He just is.Spoiler: HAZMAT Harry, HMRC (click to show/hide)
Must've forgot to act. Huh.
I guess just....head to where the action is. Get to lab 1, wait for another dog-thing or similar catastrophe to come try to kill us and keep an eye on the environment sensor.
Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
"I have good and bad news for you. First the good, you're not going to bleed out, as for the bad, you're not going anywhere. Please transfer all items of importance to me. For safekeeping."
"Oh yeah. Good point."The hell do you think you're doing? You're NOT going to kill my patient!
Kerberos is gonna to aim his rifle directly at Jengo head, and unload his entire magazine into him.
"Alright Mr shoot yourself, get up and lead the charge then."
Murphy crosses his arms as he looks to the coffee machine with a mix of surprise and horror before looking to the others in the room"Well you could start with whoever designed and built the damn coffee machine for making it too damn slow. I needed my coffee now not in 15 minutes! Not my fault they didnt include an overclocking mode so I had to try to give it one myself. You could also give a scolding to whoever stocked this break room and put the napkins and creamer in such a hazardous location!"
"Alright, who am I giving a talking to about inappropriate and appropriate use of company propery and beverage preparation and consumption devices?"
"Nah, they haven't cleared the other labs yet. Those guys just started chasing the first thing they found, which led them in here. On the bright side, that means you can just go and wait in the break room instead of this depressing place. Snacks?"Bill nods "Ah so you came right to my aid before anything else eh? If either of us survive the next few minutes I shall have to give you a positive performance review. Though..." He cranes his head to look down the break room rapidly disgorging smoke, "I think I'll have to decline your beverage suggestions."
Offer information. Offer snacks.
EDIT: Also, escort him out of here before someone does anything stupid.Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
[7,6]Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
False Alarm Clem is still alive still I will take his containment pods and null rod also pass Clem gun to Yagyu d'Aubigny that wanted it.
Open a medical Kit to help in saving Jengo life
Now that I have scanned a sample of the dogmonster, wave the scanner around to try and see if there are any traces in the air of other monsters that have a similar but distinct scanner signature. Walk around the general area we already secured for this scan.The scanner seems far too overwhelmed with the scissor head and its...fumes...to get anything more from around here.
In case scan turns up negative, check if any goodies at all remained in lab one.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Okay I like how you've made Clem not dead yet but oh wait no I fucking hate it please make up your fucking mind already because nobody is making any effort to make Clem be alive and I'd like to be able to play the fucking game again. ❤I, as the humble narrator, would suggest that you harass the others, particularly the one who locked that door out of this place. If you could only be dragged to an infirmary this might all be fixed.Spoiler: ER (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Kerberos (click to show/hide)
"Oh yeah. Good point."
Kerberos is gonna to aim his rifle directly at Jengo head, and unload his entire magazine into him.
"He's stable, but he's not going anywhere. His equipment would be better used by me, I'm not sitting in a pool of my own blood.""Oh yeah. Good point."The hell do you think you're doing? You're NOT going to kill my patient!
Kerberos is gonna to aim his rifle directly at Jengo head, and unload his entire magazine into him.
Don't shoot him, tackle him instead.Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
"You numbskulls should stay the fuck away from each other. Don't be such fucking dumbasses."
If possible, get Kerberos shocked before he executes Jengo. If anyone else is going to try a summary execution, or to loot the not-dead, use force to disarm people or prevent that from occuring. Yes, that includes pulling Heather Reed off the body, or if necessary, whacking her or someone else with my baton.
"For fucks sake, if he lives he needs his stuff. Don't be an asshole."Spoiler: Spuds (click to show/hide)
Incinerate, in order of priority: Teammate corpses and almost corpses, other corpses, bloodsoaked items, large to small. Then mop up all the blood. Be sure to stack ash cubes in the box stacking area. If I finish these tasks in lab 1, move out to the anteroom and repeat this process.
"You guys aren't gonna use that torso anymore, right?"Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Fire: disposal, friendly, and accidental varieties available now (click to show/hide)
[1v5,1,4v6]"Alright Mr shoot yourself, get up and lead the charge then."
"G-gimme a minute... Just... Resting..."
Wow. Teach me to get injured in a pool of effin piranhas.
"Yeah, Heather! I'd rather be alive and broke than dead and also broke!"
"Why hello there. I'll just be taking that."Jack stores the arm away and then walks over to the wriggling mass that includes Kerberos.
Store the arm somewhere on my body then go up to Kerberos and Reid
"Now what do we have here?"Spoiler: Jack Hansan (click to show/hide)
"Not the coffee machine! Nooooooooo![6]
Run to a somewhat safe distance away from the fire. Then see about hacking a cieling sprinkler or two to put out the fire.Spoiler: Edward Mortan, Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Murphy crosses his arms as he looks to the coffee machine with a mix of surprise and horror before looking to the others in the room[3]
"Alright, who am I giving a talking to about inappropriate and appropriate use of company propery and beverage preparation and consumption devices?"
Find something to shove the coffee machine into a sink, or failing to find something, just poke it with the barrel of the OMNITECH™ Guass Mini canon.Spoiler: Murphy Isadora Mays the public relations representative (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: HAZMAT Harry, HMRC (click to show/hide)
Let the little fight go on, check the murderous mutant's corpse with my scanner to figure out what's up with the thing, if possible.
Join Jon in further cleaning up Lab 1. Since he's starting with corpses, start with the other filthyness instead.Edd carefully edges around the still sparking and smoldering rubble and instead busies himself sopping up some...well he doesn't know the name of it but its that green goo they were holding all the limbs and organs and stuff in. Limb goo. He'll call it limb goo.Spoiler: Eddrick, Sanitation (click to show/hide)
Walk towards lab 1, enter just in time to see multiple assholes squabbling over looting one of my fellow security members who was Heroically Wounded in Action. Upon seeing one of said assholes aim a gun at another and pull the trigger, take cover and shoot said asshole until said asshole is incapable of aiming at allies.Rezel, coming from all the way over by lab 3, comes upon the situation rather late, but is still in time to see Jon trying to wrestle Jengo into the incinerator.
Yes, I'm aware his gun is empty. Aiming and pretend firing an empty gun at a person is a horrible horrible violation of proper gun handling, and so he deserves a demonstration of competent gun handling.Spoiler: Scared Security (click to show/hide)
”Hey guys, sharing is caring and all that.”"The situation is Fubar, as I believe you delightful murderous types say. But its not my department, so I know very little of substance other than that its packed to bursting with demons and men with unnatural attraction to tentacles. Good luck!" Bill says as he disappears round the corner with a wave.
Ask the Science Guy what the situation in lab 3 is.
Give Bob my security baton and proceed to lab 3. I’ll stay with those other two guys (Redshirt and Rezel I think?) and go where they go. Shoot anything that tries to eat them.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Redshirt (click to show/hide)
WE MUST GO DEEPER. IT CALLS TO US.
A mix of caution and curiosity played out across Roald's face as he stared into - and smelled - the newly unsealed section of the labs.
"Hey, uh, Redshirt? Maybe we should wait for the others before going in here."
Pull out my sidearm, then nervously edge into Lab 3 and look around.
Perhaps unfortunately for him, curiosity won.Spoiler: Roald Baccam, Combat Engineer (click to show/hide)
"Redshirt you better give that keycard back or I'm gonna beat your ass."
Chase Redshirt to Lab 3 and take the red keycard back, if he doesn't give it back willingly smack him with my baton.Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
"Thank you Lance! You best man. No worry, I keep baton safe."Missed me, although it's probably for the better as I didn't get shot to pieces.
Try to make a necklace with the Scissor Head scale, then go to lab 3 and start cleaning. If I see any sign of the thing which made the mess, run away very fast.Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
"Gah! What is this?! My hair."
"Ah, Edd! Well, now we can really get this place blood free, as soon as everyone stops bleeding in here. I tried to help that one guy stop bleeding all over everything, but he complained. Figures. Also, did you see the absolute disgrace that happened to the break room? This company is falling apart around our ears.""I know, right? I was in the break room not 10 minutes ago, and when I left it it was perfectly fine. Somehow, somehow, they've managed compelte wreck it in that small timespan. The big wigs are gonna have to consider upgrading our sanitation equipment if they expect us to keep up with this."
"I know, right? I was in the break room not 10 minutes ago, and when I left it it was perfectly fine. Somehow, somehow, they've managed compelte wreck it in that small timespan. The big wigs are gonna have to consider upgrading our sanitation equipment if they expect us to keep up with this.""I'll say! We need some portable folding chairs and a good beverage cart at the very least."
"Ha! I knew it." Pathos exclaimed in response to the sound of the sweet music of the auto turrets.Pathos hears the high speed end of at least one crew member and decides that waiting for the right person to come open this door is a fool's errand.
"I bet on four deaths, you see." Pathos explained with a conspiratorial tone.
"Anyway, let me get that door for you before one of them reaches the inner lab 3 door."
Spoof my ID so that I appear to have the right credentials to open the door and let the good doctor leave this place.Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Leave lab 1, back to the entry chamber. Let the wounded evacuate, but dearly remind everyone to use the decontamination stuff first.Spuds untangles himself and runs into the decontamination area only to find that Bill has already left. Spuds yells at Pathos about proper decontamination procedures and Pathos responds by insinuating that Spuds is just jealous that he won't get a raise.
At that point, outta my hands.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Jengo, injured but mobile, scuttles like a sick crab away from the apparently literal clusterfuck and the ghoulish grave robbing "teammates", eventually getting to an intact counter and using it to pull himself up onto his feet.Spoiler: Punished Jengo (click to show/hide)
"Thank you Steve! My buddy! My ally! My friend. I owe you one. But not one that puts me in debt or something like that crazy lady wanted to do."
Untangle myself from overzealous incinerator man (with as many firm but steady shoves as needed!) and distance myself from any dirty gun grabbing teammates with greedy glints in their eyes. If I can stand, do it.
"Okay, okay! We in Sanitation have a code of conduct: If it's too much work, let someone else do it. Get off me, I have snacks to -Honestly, you try to incinerate one living teammate and everyone gets so gosh darn bitter. Jon gets off Jengo and starts rifling the desks dejectedly.
Jon glances toward the break room, his grin faltering slightly.
"Really? Aw, come on, man. Wh- who did that? Why?"
Disengage from the dog pile and mope off. Halfheartedly rifle through the remains of the Lab 1 desks for snacks, then head toward Lab 2 to do the same.Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Map: void where prohibited (click to show/hide)
Bob makes a necklace out of the demon bits and then heads towards lab 3. He makes it to the big outer doors and looks in to see several teammates in various states of dead and dying."Thank you Lance! You best man. No worry, I keep baton safe."Missed me, although it's probably for the better as I didn't get shot to pieces.
Try to make a necklace with the Scissor Head scale, then go to lab 3 and start cleaning. If I see any sign of the thing which made the mess, run away very fast.Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)
"Gah! What is this?! My hair."[2]
Sit down in a corner and ppick the resin out of hairSpoiler: Murphy Isadora Mays the Public Relations Representative (click to show/hide)
"Hey lance I got something for you."[1]
Turn on the second Universal Communicator I have and load the FoF program on it then give it to Lance, then take my red keycard back from Redshirt's body, and hit Redshirt with my baton if he tries anything.Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Don’t. Move.Lance stays perfectly, perfectly still. Luckily his armor also hides his breathing.
“I guess that’s why they say ‘teamwork makes the dream work’”Spoiler (click to show/hide)
You're somewhere in the "Organ harvesters are wheeling the coolers into the room and checking their watches" range.Spoiler: Redshirt (click to show/hide)
On a scale of "barely alive" to "dead on sight" how dead am I right now. I might still be repairable?
Steve, seeing that the door is open, carries the now much shorter Clem out of the labs and over to the infirmary. He does stop momentarily to stick an "Out of order: Machine potentially murderous" sign on the decon chamber before leaving though.Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
Remind everyone to not use the decontamination stuff because is faulty and almost killed Clem.
Then try to drag Clem into the infirmary again, Let someone else drag Jengo If they want to.
"That didn't sound good!"Jack joins Jon and also finds himself stymied by a gosh darn key card reader. He gives the door several kicks but it doesn't open.
Ready my rifle then follow Jon into Lab 2.Spoiler: Jack Hansan (click to show/hide)
Rezel quickly finds that in terms of places to check out, there are really only three left: Lab 2, Lab 3, and a maintenance passage in the lab 1 and 2 antechamber. Lab 2 and the passage are keycard locked (Though the passage also accepts technician and janitor credentials) and lab 3 is...well not a very nice looking place at the moment."Gah! What is this?! My hair."Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Start checking every room that isn't lab 3, to make sure there's no monsters set to ambush us while we get torn apart by murderous automated turrets.Spoiler: Scared Security (click to show/hide)
For the record, I have a communicator with the FoF identifier and it is on.
That said, goto the place where people got shot and, assuming the turrets don't shoot me when I get near or when I touch one of the wounded, drag them out of lab 3 and out of the firing line. Once evacuated, stop people from bleeding out with the sticky goop (same stipulations as before). Should I manage to stabilize them like that, drag them to the infirmary (or to wherever there are medics) if necessary.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: HAZMAT Harry, HMRC (click to show/hide)
Go unlock the entry door so casualties can be evacuated. If anyone needs help in getting out of the door, help them.
"From the sound of it, either our job just got easier or some bumbling idiots got themselves killed."[9] Heather pockets the implant for later identification.
Untangle myself from the dog pile, surgically remove the prosthethic from the corpse the scissor head was gnawing on and pocket it. Head to the entrance of Lab 3 and provide medical treatment with the medkit to whoever needs it.Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Kerberos (click to show/hide)
"That's the sound of a pair of turrets firing! I should go check that out!"
Wiggle Wiggle my way out of this pile of limbs and wiggle towards the entrance of Lab 3.
"Might need a janitor over in the break room." Edward attempts to communicate on his universal communicator before remembering it's broken so he just shouts it loudly. "NEED A JANITOR OVER IN THE BREAK ROOM!"[?]
Edward decides now is a good time to load up the FoF on one or more of his various computery things then go follow the commotion, filming it with camcorder in hand.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
Salute the good doctor. He's an inspiration to us all. Then close the door.Pathos salutes the good Doctor Pelican and then heads back to lab 1 after shutting the door. He doesn't relock it though, since such a thing could be a real pain.
Go back to lab 1 and check that organo-printer. Is it OK? Could I use it to make a grenade or other explosive? Medicine or replacement limbs? DRUGS? How about a living creature that gives birth to grenades with enough food?Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Edward browses for some spooky, tension-building music on his computing cube.[2]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Find a corner to mope in and dissociate over the lack of coffee, see if I can get the OMNITECH Memory Eradicator to erase memories of the previous hour[1]
"N-no snacks...no coffee...ruined hair...wh-what god would let this happen. Who would forsake me this fate...stuck with these lunatics."Spoiler: Murphy Isadora Mays the Public Relations Representative (click to show/hide)
[1]Spoiler: Punished Jengo (click to show/hide)
That was a trip. Can I ever trust again? I'm gonna look for something like a cart or trolley or sturdy sticks to hobble around on. If I can manage that, hobble to the rest of the group. Better than ducking out or being left alone, hopefully.
((Clem does not have an insurance card, I don't believe, but Rezel would be willing to give his card to Clem in hopes of negotiating for repayment after Clem is repaired. At this time, though, Rezel isn't around to do this.))Hey Rezel. Narrator here. Are you a technician or a janitor? No? Do you have a keycard for the door? No? Well then it ain't gonna open. Least not as is. Go get the card from Benny. Its the blue one.
Well, better check out that maintenance shaft then! Be very careful, slow and cautious, shooting anything that moves and/or nobody will miss. If it turns out to be clear, go idle around near the entrance to lab 2, waiting for a person with relevant credentials to open the door; no need to go find one of them, though. No rush, and they should know when they're needed anyway.Spoiler: Scared Security (click to show/hide)
[4]Spoiler: Kerberos (click to show/hide)
Reload my rifle and scavenge around the area where the the Scissor Head first appeared for FoF markers and/or any extra loot.
Since we seem to be doing lab 3 next, check that I have the IFF program and activate it. Also, use the disinfectant gear to clean myself, the turrets might be activating based on that.Spuds finds it hard to activate a program on a communicator he doesn't have.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
So you can get fixed without paying, but that puts you in debt and basically puts your money in a negative state you have to refill before you start actually earning again. Or someone, (Like sy) can give you their card to use. I'd be ok with him giving it to you so long as SOMEONE tells him you were hurt in character.Spoiler: Redshirt (click to show/hide)
"Without insurance" isn't "Actually dead," he supposed, as he waited with like 73 other insurance-less mooks for an actual repair. He then used the strange 4th wall awareness he had when he was on death's door to moan, through walls and across lots of space, "Hey, Pathos, swab some of my blood and print me some fresh guts, eh?"
"Well, this is convenient. Do you think that guy we rescued as the right keycard? But first, lets see if I can get it open. Can you help me get the keycard panel open?"
With the help of Jon, try to open the keycard panel and try to rewire it to open the door.Spoiler: Jack Hansan (click to show/hide)
"Locked, eh"
Stuff one mini donut in my mouth, squirt an equal volume of cream cheese in there as well, then knock politely on the Lab 2 door and holler "Sanitation!" in my best bored housekeeping voice. If i get a response form inside lab 2, act accordingly. Otherwise just go back and continue detoxing lab 1. Only worried about cleaning up the biological contaminants. And only the ones that have escaped their intended enclosures.Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Map: void where prohibited (click to show/hide)
"I picked up a red keycard earlier, maybe that'll help. I never know why they use colours instead of just printing the name of the lab it opens. I always get the colours mixed up."Jon, with a mouthful of frosting slurring his words, yells "SANITATION!" at the door and then pounds on it a few times. Nothing happens. Bored, he wanders back into lab 1 and starts incinerating random bits of medical debris. Mostly limbs.
Follow Jon into lab 2, use my red keycard if that helps.
If we can't get in, light up a OMNITECH cigarette and help him further clean lab 1.Spoiler: Eddrick, Sanitation (click to show/hide)
Grab one of those FoF markers and make sure it's on, then retrieve Roald's corpse and loot him clean.((I'm going to ASSUME someone hands one of those over since everyone seems to just be saying "I get one of these" without actually coordinating it with the people who have them. ))Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
Turn the FoF program back on and make sure its on, then while keepind my gun at the ready go and search the bodies at the entrance of lab 3 for anything good especially a red keycard.[3]Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
[1]Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
Give Clem back his Stuff (OMNITECH® Universal Containment Pod x 5 and OMNITECH® Null-Rod) Then go back to the laboratory.
Check if I have an FoF On before going near to any turret
I suspect Lab 3 will turn out to be the most lethal. Therefore I suggest we wait until everyone is ready, and move in as a complete team, instead of gunning about first come, first serve style as soon as the doors open.There are two versions of the FoF marker right now. One is a physical marker that you can carry on you. The second is a program that can be loaded up on a communicator and activated. Judging by your inventory you have neither. You also don't have the keycard needed to open that door, nor are you a tech or a janitor.
I’m a bit confused as to how the FoF marker works (not that that’s out of character, mind you). I want to try to make sure I have done what I need to do to not get gunned down by OMNI turrets.
In the meantime, go help Rezel sweep the maintinence shaft. Shoot what needs shooting. If that turns out uneventful, and someone opens/enters Lab 2, follow them in after I’m done with maintenance, again shooting what needs to be shot.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Can I (or rather, the sticky goop) help with the wounded?
If yes, do that.
If no, grab Roald's stuff and then drag the corpse out of the hallway. Then start lightly exploring lab 3, but don't stray too far yet, just check out the main hallway and such and scan to see if there's anything uncouth in the air (like more scissorheads! or swearwords!) or noteworthy things in the hall (like scary clawmarks on the walls or something).
"Hey Benny, could you cover me here while I scan? If there's any more of 'em out there I'd like to know, though with these turrets spraying hot lead love everywhere I kind of doubt it. Still, can't be too sure!"Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
Someone please, make the brain damaged bureaucrat into a cat
Locate one of the security guards and proceed to follow them very closely.Eenie, Meenie, Minie, YouSpoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
“Benny, you think I could get one of the FoF things? And maybe I could have your spare blue keycard?”Heather walks over to Lance and proceeds to latch onto him like a lamprey. Lance looks at this new parasite with mild annoyance and then proceeds towards where he thinks Benny is. On his way towards Benny, he stumbles across the scene with Kerberos and the not too friendly spider thing. The not too friendly spider thing proceeds to be unfriendly.
If Benny agrees to let me have an FoF and a blue keycard, turn on the FoF and pocket the keycard. Then go shoot that spider thing what bit Kerberos. If I can’t help Kerberos due to lack of IC knowledge, then proceed through maintenance, assuming Benny gives me the blue keycard. Bring whoever want to tag along.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I don't think you have In character knowledge of this thing happening.Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
check the paralized if the spider-thing is still nearby try to scare it via shooting at it from distance
Kerberos is very still.Spoiler: Kerberos (click to show/hide)
Remain so utterly still so that the weird, bugcat-thing is unable to perceive me, and is forced to scuttle away to a new source of food.
Grunt, hoot, and hollar till someone notices and tells me what to doSpoiler: Who am I?! (click to show/hide)
If Kerberos is visible from the maintenance entrance, Rezel will shoot at the thing that hurt him. From maximum distance, without getting closer. Once it's dead, or seems dead, or Rezel can't tell, he will try and find something metal and elevated to stand on."Make a cat! Tuxedo cat! Preferably with fur tophat!" Rezel shouts into lab one. A moment after this a crazed man in a business suit patterned jumpsuit leaps onto his back and makes a series of hooting noises while pantomiming something at Rezel can not even begin to guess.
Otherwise, shout at Pathos to make a cat, preferably with a tuxedo fur pattern. Then Rezel will follow the others into lab 2/the maintenance passage, covering them from behind.Spoiler: Scared Security (click to show/hide)
"HEY! ANYBODY WANT ME TO MAKE YOU SOME REPLACEMENT LIMBS? MEDICINE? DRUGS? A CAT? ANYTHING ORGANIC?"
Otherwise I'm just going to have some fun with this thing.
((lol. 2 cat. (https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/502681-dwarf-fortress)))[rolling at disadvantage, very hard: 7,1]
I have an order to 3d-print 2 custom-built cats. Let's fulfill it!
Number 1 should be a normal cat with a tuxedo fur pattern for Rezel (syvarris).
Number 2 should be a highly intelligent cat with 4 legs and 2 arms that can speak for Jon (Ozarck). I realize that such genetic alterations are pretty hard but maybe I could get away with making some sort of chimera? Perhaps by getting a janitor to bring me some human parts? Worst case I end up with a catgirl centaur.
EDIT: Or that, do that:Someone please, make the brain damaged bureaucrat into a catSpoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
"I'll go in first to make sure it's clear."
Raise my rifle then enter Lab 2, keeping an eye out for possible hostiles. If clear, loot the place after letting the others know it's clear.Spoiler: Jack Hansan (click to show/hide)
Follow Jack into lab 2, let him take point. If he gives the all-clear, loot the place. I'm also interested in checking out the palce on the map marked "me [heart]", because I'm assuming it has a computer that I have a login for.Spoiler: Eddrick, Sanitation (click to show/hide)
Since I apparently don't know what the FoF stuff even is, just follow Eddard and Jack into lab 2, gun at the ready. I'll leave lab 3 for the others.[4][6]Spoiler: Spuds (click to show/hide)
Your new guts and related surgery (new skin, new bone, anti-rust coating) will cost 450 Omni in total.Spoiler: Redshirt (click to show/hide)
He watched as the line of no-insurance fools dwindled. Around 37 left, he asked the person keeping the line in check, "Hey, how much is it gonna cost for new guts?"
((Heh, dang, should've clarified that by main hallway I meant the one with the turrets, the one we already 'secured', for scanning. Ah well.))Yagyu sits up. He's fallen into the lower section of the decon room. He grabs for his goop gun but stops when he notices that his right arm is hanging limp and completely dislocated.
Goop 'em!
"Oi, we got enemy contact in lab 3, any of you with the big guns get over here and help us shoot the bastard!"Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Somehow Still Alive Jengo (click to show/hide)
Lay there in agony and fatigue, trying to catch my breath. I presume the others are in danger or something (either based on sensory information or just because the job is like that) and am conflicted. I'm injured, and some of them wanted to kill or rob me! But yet... My comrades! The mission! The agony of inner conflict! Aaa!
Also, if I stay here alone too long/you guys get owned without my help I'm sure some monster will show up and clean me up.
"Oh! Make a cat, would ya, Pathos! Could you make it six limbed and Sapient though?"Jon finds the exposed electrical wiring and spends several minutes "Fixing" it by feeding it into the incinerator and scrapping the incinerator along the wall to destroy the conduit right up until it vanishes into the wall.
Continue decontamination. If I encounter the crab thing that attacked Kerberos, attempt to distract it with some viscera. Make a game of catch out of it. This is assuming I finish decontaminating Lab 1, or was close enough to the front of Lab 1 to see what was going on in the antechamber.Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Map: void where prohibited (click to show/hide)
"Here Lance take 'em quick I hear something horrible coming."
Give Lance one of the FoF things and one of the blue keycards, then shoot the crap out of the maggot man.Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Edward ducks as Yagyu crash lands near him, then he shivers as he hears the strange cat-like yowl of the maggot man over his terrible kazoo music.[2]
Ed puts down his camera, then uses his computing cube to gently remind the autoturrets that whatever the hell that thing is doesn't have a FoF marker.
Then he closes the door, then he runs the hell away.
"Help! Lab 3! Need guns and doctors!" Ed yells over the comm network.Spoiler: Edward Mortan, Technician (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
((spaz, since you are the thing that is attacking sy's character, you might want to respond to that situation, or to sy's action above. Unless you don't mind being -ahem- prepped for incineration.))((Ah okay been a long couple of days))
Spoiler: For Real Psychic Jengo (click to show/hide)
Channel positive energy towards my injured brother. Yes! Yes! Yes! You can win! You feel great! You! Can! Do! This!
Try to get this thing off my face! Throw it away from me and fill it with hot lead!lewd.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Run to lab2, if I'm stuck in lab3 shoot the maggot man until it dies.Benny, suddenly motivated towards unknown ends, sprints towards lab 2 now that lab 3 has been resealed. He makes it to the room leading to lab 1 and 2 and finds Lance currently fighting with an oversized crab. That or he's in the midst of some sort of xeno lover mating ritual.Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Shoot the spider from the side, make sure I don't accidentally shoot Lance instead. Check up on Lance and Kerberos once the spider is dead.Heather stamps on the remaining chunks. Just for good measure and all.Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
[8]Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
can I go with the one screaming for a medic without walking in the turret?
If yes go to help him.
If not search for a FoF identifier maybe my companions left something unlooted around.
Be healed by this angel of medicine.Steve handles the shoulder quite easily, popping it back into place and making sure it works before moving on to the leg. The leg is definitely broken so after a good dose of pain killers (for the patient, not for him....well maybe one for him) he twists the leg around and uses an instant setting cast to immobilize it. Its basically a solid cast from hip down to ankle rendering Yagyu hilariously peg legged.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Step back and admire my 'handiwork' in lab one for a moment. Feel smug satisfaction at a half-assed job well done. Any blood or body parts left in Lab one? If not, go to the anteroom and dispose of blood and body parts. Ignore Heather, Lance, and the headcrab. Poke Kerberos and attempt to determine if he is mostly alive or mostly dead. IF I think he is mostly alive, drag him out the airlock and dump him in the entrance foyer. If I think he is mostly dead, well, what are portable thermonulcear backpacks for anyway? Catching ghosts? Of course not, tehy are for violent destruction and callous murder. Proceed appropriately.Jon wanders into the anteroom and walks straight past the three people stomping on the dead alien demon thing. He squats down over Kerberos and pokes him several times. Hmm.Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Map: void where prohibited (click to show/hide)
"Oh, a bobble head Don't mind if I do."Jack takes the bobble head and bobbles on over to the Admin door. He knocks several times. For a moment theres silence and then something knocks back. It knocks back very very hard. The door rattles and rings with dozens of blows and Jack can hear all manner of noises from within. Not friendly noises.
Take the bobble head then knock on the Admin door. If no one answers try to at least get the card panel open if no one has the right key card.Spoiler: Jack Hansan (click to show/hide)
Edward picks up his cube and runs away, to behind at least 1 or preferably 2 more bulkheads.Ed jogs off all the way to lab one, waves to the man who is on the floor muttering something about "Nail guns", and plugs in from there.
Then he plugs it back in and attempts to hack one of the autoturrets to manual control mode. He does not shoot yet.Spoiler: Edward Mortan, Technician (click to show/hide)
Lab 03 is defintely no go for violence avoidant HMRC members and people who like not being chucked, so Harry goes off in search of a new place to explore. The antechamber room for lab 1 and 2 has nothing but corpses, people spitting onto a dead alien, and a janitor disposing of a corpse(?) so he moves on. Lab 1 is empty and clean at this point, though something is printing in the bioprinter and it sounds...annoyed. Hmm. Some guy is staring at a computing cube with clear apprehension and some other guy...Jenga was it?...is laying on the ground muttering that he should have dodged. Hmmm.Spoiler: HAZMAT Harry, HMRC (click to show/hide)
Harry proceeds back into the mess, searching for more casualties to evacuate, because these are a monstrous class of threats and thus do not fall under his job description. Also, HAZMAT gear is, sadly, not normally known for its resistance to attempted evisceration.
Panic, scream, and get that thing off! If it resists, shoot it until it ceases to resist, then shoot it a bit more just in case. Then run away, towards lab 2.Rezel shoves the hooting man thing off him and dives under a desk in lab too. The hooting man thing just stands there and mimes....eating a sandwich? Uh. Frankly reader not even I'm sure what he's doing.Spoiler: Scared Security (click to show/hide)
Drop off and scapper off towards something shiny to play withCommunication has broken down. This guy, whoever he is, scampers off and proceeds to crawl into the supply room and start batting at a bag of metal doorknobs. Why there is a bag of doorknobs in that closet I cannot for the life of me say. All the doors around here are electronic sliding doors. Its very odd.
"EGH!? BLAGH! NAHGHHG!"Spoiler: Eh? (click to show/hide)
Add the stims to my inventory. If the door to the admin section fails to be opened, try to force it.Spuds grabs the stims and then heads for the door.Spoiler: Spuds (click to show/hide)
They replace the missing skin and flesh from where the bullets blew through along with all the organs that got blasted out or destroyed. Outwardly it doesn't look so bad since all the damage is hidden by the jumpsuit. Just big slab of fake skin hexes across the belly. Also now whenever you pee or poop it plays a little jingle.Spoiler: Redshirt (click to show/hide)
He considered. The last mission wasn't that bad, and paid 500. So if this one involved actual danger.. "Do it. I get the feeling there's things to shoot in that lab I came from. Hazard pay, baby..."
grab the prostethic limbs, then observe as spuds tries to brute force the admin door. Also look around if I don't see a computer/terminal here I can use the login and password that I found earlier on.There are computers here, or at least terminals built into the wall. They're all playing synced screensavers of a little "OMNI" logo bouncing around the screen. Edd tries the login and password he found and they work. It boots to a desktop with a lot of random files on it.Spoiler: Eddrick, Sanitation (click to show/hide)
If this printer is meant to print molecules, then does it even have enough 'ink' to print a cat? Or am I going to have to go searching for a refill?Seems to be working so far. In fact something in there is already making noises.Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
"Hey, stop disposing of teammates before I've verified whether they're dead or not.""I already poked him. Pretty sure he's dead. lookit 'im, just lying there all corpsy and all."
((And once again an attempt to perform a barely-justified teamkilling in MOOK is thwarted...))
Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
Help prevent friendly incineration if it’s still needed. Afterwards/otherwise, run to lab 2 and help them with whatever comes through the admin door.
“You are officers of OMNItech. No matter what comes through those doors, you will stand your ground!”Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Oh, that's not good."Jack carefully backs all the way up to the main door to lab 2. He then places his hand on the close button to the door before shouting some encouragement to the rest of the group. Its a bit underwhelming considering his position, peeking around the doorframe with his gun bobbing around as he semi-blind aims in the rough direction of the Admin door.
Raise my rifle and back away to the door into Lab 2, ready to close it if needed. If something hostile comes through the door, blast it with the rifle.Spoiler: Jack Hansan (click to show/hide)
Go see whats going on in lab 2 if anything hostile appears shoot it, other wise loot some dead people.Benny wanders straight into lab 2 and does a salute to everyone he sees. He then kicks over a desk..or at least tries to and finds it bolted to the floor. Hopping on one foot now, he takes cover behind the still upright desk and aims at the admin door.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Help prevent friendly incineration if it’s still needed. Afterwards/otherwise, run to lab 2 and help them with whatever comes through the admin door.
“You are officers of OMNItech. No matter what comes through those doors, you will stand your ground!”Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Lance and Rezel come traipsing into lab 2 just in time to steal some glory...I mean aid their fellow teammates in the challenge ahead. Yeah, that's what I meant.Help prevent friendly incineration if it’s still needed. Afterwards/otherwise, run to lab 2 and help them with whatever comes through the admin door.
“You are officers of OMNItech. No matter what comes through those doors, you will stand your ground!”Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Go over to the admin door area, and take cover behind this man, gun trained on the admin door. Fill it with lead the moment it opens, and if after a couple seconds of that whatever was in there is still standing or otherwise intimidating, flee immediately.Spoiler: Scared Security (click to show/hide)
Harry takes up position opposite to Lance and Rezel...no not standing IN the doorway, off to the side a bit. Thank you.Spoiler: HAZMAT Harry, HMRC (click to show/hide)
Well, this isn't exactly HMRC work either, but sadly you don't get hazard pay without being exposed to hazards. Stand off to the other side of the doorway from Rezel and his human shield, and prepare to foam up the entire doorway as soon as it opens.
Oh, and before the door is opened give Rezel a nudge and tell him not to fire unless whatever is knocking bursts out of the foam. If it's human, they'll be stuck in goo and probably fine. If it's not, then we need to shoot it and it'll be impeded by the foam.
Take a stimulant. Then, turn on my Omni-light, as bright as it goes, and put it down facing the door from some distance. Then stand to the side of the door, fifteen or so feet away from the direct line of fire. Wait for the thing to break the door down, and then shoot it in the back of the head after it clears the doorway.Spuds takes a stimulant, screams, hits his helmet with his baton, screams again, and then bounces up and down a few times. That done he goes and sets his light down with a good view of the door and then waits. After a few minutes the upper half of the door screeches and bends outward under the weight of a particularly good blow and the creature within starts to come out.Spoiler: Spuds (click to show/hide)
"Hey, stop disposing of teammates before I've verified whether they're dead or not."
Rescue Kerberos from getting disposed of. Verify whether he's dead or not and then administer appropriate treatment.Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
Heather slaps John away with various scolds of "Get!" and "No, bad janitor!" and "Shoo! SHOO!" before pulling Kerberos -now lacking feet- from the incinerator."Hey, stop disposing of teammates before I've verified whether they're dead or not.""I already poked him. Pretty sure he's dead. lookit 'im, just lying there all corpsy and all."((And once again an attempt to perform a barely-justified teamkilling in MOOK is thwarted...))
Continue disposing of Kerberos until/unless Kerberos is rescued from my hands. After that, incinerate other corpses in the anteroom area.Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Fix me or don't, I don't particularly care either way.-500 OmniSpoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
Hmm.Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
Search for a FoF identifier maybe my companions left something unlooted around.
Wander out with the bag of shinies and check out what the noise isSpoiler: Wha!? (click to show/hide)
"Hah! I can't believe the people who designed this template are such idiots. You don't print a living creature while it's conscious. That probably causes unbearable pain or something similar."Pathos walks over to the printer and knocks on the opaque glass outer wall.
Has printing finished? Why the hell is it making noises if the printing isn't finished? If it's not too late, add some anesthetic to the creature being printed so that it becomes unconscious.
Otherwise... I dunno. See if there's any window I can check to see what misshapen monstrosity I've created and then... Call for a janitor to dispose of it, I guess?Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
"Can I stand?" Jengo wonders to himself.Spoiler: Dragon Ball J (click to show/hide)
How am I feeling? See if I can stand. Don't push things!
"Even the dekstops here are a mess. Come on people, make a decent folder structure."[4]
Go through the random files, is there anything interesting here? If I don't find anything through searching, just open a random file and hope for the best.Spoiler: Eddrick, Sanitation (click to show/hide)
"Just letting ya know, but the turrets in lab 3 might be a little tiny bit compromised. They keep quoting Harlan Ellison to me." Ed comms over the comm network.[1]
Edward cowers down in a corner and tries to edit his camcorder footage to make himself appear more competent and heroic, or at least less incompetent and cowardly.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Assess my mental and physical faculties. If I am decently combat ready, go help goop up the incoming monster, but be sure to not be on the frontlines, get behind one of the unharmed and armored people.Yagyu does a quick self assessement. His mind appears to be fine...a little fuzzy on all this morphine but probably pretty puppies are warm and nice...fine. The leg is gonna slow him down but he assumes he can just stand and shoot and make a mad hobble if he has to. He gets up and hobbles over to lab 2, though he only gets there in time to hear that last bit about shooting goo on a monkey.
Also, did I get nothing from my looting attempt two turns ago?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
"Uh, hello? Are you friendly?"The ape currently has a face full of sticky goo. This makes it hard for it to hear or respond, though its brain helmet is yelling things like "HELL!" and "BLAST!" and "GO TO THE DEVIL!"
Speak to the ape, but keep my gun aimed for now.Spoiler: Jack Hansan (click to show/hide)
((I hurt you because I love you. And also it amuses me greatly~))Spoiler: HAZMAT Harry, HMRC (click to show/hide)
Piecewise I just want you to know that I hate you so much right now.
"None of that talking was me, it's all the disembodied narrator's fault."
Harry shakes his head to readjust his brain and deletes the last few seconds of awkward from memory. Then prepares to hit the primate with more FOAM if necessary.
Scream like a small girl and fill the orangutan with bullets. Run away if it doesn't stop moving.
"Not agaaaaain!"Spoiler: Scared Security (click to show/hide)
Knock Twitchy's gun away, this time the ape looks friendly.[8v2]
If it comes to it, help the ape out of the door.Spoiler: Spuds (click to show/hide)
What is an omni-card again, like a credit card or like a keycard?An omni-card is akin to a giftcard with a certain amount of omni loaded onto it. Its as close to loose money as you'll get.
Goop the ape to the floor if it acts hostile, if it doesn't tell it to get away from the door and to move to the other end of the chamber (to free our lines of fire).
If another hostile monster comes out the door, goop it, goop it good.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Keep my rifle pointed at the ape, just in case it decides to become hostile.Ya think they got him handled. Unless he explodes upon death. In which case things are probably gonna get very loud here in the next minute or two.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Check for vital signs, if he's alive, disinfect and bandage what remains of his feet and then transport him to the infirmary.[2]Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
Toss some door nobs at the stumps of the guy missing his feetHeather is still considering the apparent medical mystery of the breathing corpse when a crazed man runs over to her and spikes a metal doorknob into the body's shin. The body lets out a rather stifled groan.Spoiler: Hurg! (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
Go with the guys pass the turrets is not like I have something to do here.
(I’m going to assume Benny’s offer is still on the table and add the FoF market to my inventory)Lance considers for several long seconds if Rezel is a threat.
Stand by, confused, but ready to respond to any threat that makes itself evident.
”Are orarangutans a thing around here?”Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Well, shit. Does it the terminal boot at all anymore? If not, incinerate all the hardware to hide my mountain dew soaked fuckup.Edd sniffs, looks around a bit self conciously, and then seeps the keyboard into his incincerator. He moves on to the next terminal and sticks the USB drive into it.
Then find another computer I can access to check out the contents of the USB stick in my inventory that I picked up earlier.Spoiler: Eddrick, Sanitation (click to show/hide)
"Nothing to worry about. This is basic cat behavior. When you knock on the side of a box they always strike the offender with their paw. I just didn't expect this box to be so weak."[4]
The solution to this problem is obvious. Remove my spacesuit's helmet. Let the cat have it. Better than it having my head.
Preferably do so before an overzealous teammate shoots me in the head or shoves me in an incinerator.Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
[4][2v1]Spoiler: Dragon Ball J (click to show/hide)
Oh son of a... I guess I have to try to save you, huh? I'm going to keep my distance still but shoot at the big hand and NOT Pathos do not shoot Pathos shoot the hand instead. Run, buddy! If something starts to come OUT of the thing, though... Run like hell! But keep shooting it also.
Wander off to find Pathos and see how my kitty printing request is coming along. If I witness the current struggle, saunter over and spray some cream cheese into the printer for the kittything. If that doesn't calm it down, poke it idly with my automop.Jon wanders in as Jengo unloads rounds into the printer. He observes the situation for a moment before shrugging and walking towards the printer. He's about halfway there when something the rough size of a tiger lurches out through the hole. It looks something like a tiger as well, though also something like a very bloody coat. In either case its only half formed, two massive front legs and a half molten face of teeth and too many eyes trailing a partial lower body and spine, the stringy remnants from the printer's current "line" still trailing behind it.Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
“Rezel, I’m pretty sure what you just did stands somewhere between endangerment of an employee, and destruction of company property.”
Call for a medic to check out the Ape, if no medics respond, try to check it’s vital signs. Then push past the ape and checkout the room he came from.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Help with patching up anime ape (aka sticky goop assistance). If it's thrashing around though or if something else comes through that door, then back off and goop it."I'm not a doctor, but I do have this gun."
If nothing comes through the door, wave my scanner in its general direction. Any particularly high HELL-dimension particle readings or whatever?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Why did you kill the one thing here that didn't act hostile?"
Go through the door the ape came out of.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Idiots the lot of you."
Shake head in frustration then go into the room the ape had come out of.Spoiler: Jack Hansan (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
"Do anybody remember what we were supposed to do after rescuing that guy? Because I don't."
Search for someone to heal? Maybe going to lab 3 to loot it?.
Benny, Jack, Harry and Steve (who came for the ape healing but stayed for the adventure. Probably) squeeze through the partially smashed open door one by one. Harry scans the area and discovers mostly normal readings, save for mild HELL traces.Spoiler: HAZMAT Harry, HMRC (click to show/hide)
Consider the redeeming value of accidentally diving out a window into deep space somewhere. Then go follow Heather past the ape who really should not have been shot dead, and see what else may be through that door. Oh, and check the Environmental Scanner, just in case everyone not in a HAZMAT suit is steadily building up lethal doses of some esoteric monkey-brain-altering chemicals or something cool like that.
Spoiler: Jengo! (click to show/hide)
"What - huh - wha - Stop going towards the fffffff-can-I-swear-on-the-job-ing cat monster STOP GOING TOWARDS THE CAT MONSTER RUN AWAY FROM THE CAT MONSTER GO RUN LEAVE SHIMMY SCOOT JET SCRAM SKEDADDLE RETREAT ABSCOND! THIS IS A JOB FOR HOT HOT LEAD! AAA! AAA! AAA! AAA! AAA!"
Gape at my coworkers' Astounding Bravery and keep shooting the thing. Scream rabidly.
I think I'm going to call you Cheshyre.
Stay down. Play dead. Let the cat chase those other targets.
Once it's distracted, make sure the printer is off. Don't need it printing any more cats before I fix those problems with the prototype.Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
"Jengo? You're st ... stop shooting a second. You're still alive? Stop shooting, I'm trying to talk to you. Ah never mind, I can see you are busy. You should really watch yuour mouth though. It's diststeful, talking about a job like that. Ugh, now you got me doing it too."[1, 9]
Place down a wet floor sign and wait for Jengo to finish his 'job.' Then either incinerate or feed the kitty, depending on how alive it is at that point.
"Honestly, doesn't ANYONE die around here? So inconsiderate."Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
"You're quite the mystery aren't you? A breathing and complaining corpse, you'd probably walk too if it weren't for your legs."
Disinfect and bandage up what remains of Keberos' feet, then drag the medical mystery to the infirmary.Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
Try to "assist" with helping bandage the man's stumps, try to give him some door knob feet[9][1]Spoiler: Blark (click to show/hide)
"ShindoL huh? Everywhere I look, I see trash."
Check the documents and executables for anything interesting for the team, like schematics or plans or what have you.
If there are such things, keep the usb.
If such things are not on the usb, chuck it in the incinerator.
Regardless, check if there's anything neat on this terminal. Also check other terminals if there are any. Maybe loot some desks.Spoiler: Eddrick, Sanitation (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
Hey guys,
I managed to get a usb that's some kind of key for unlocking the prostethic vending machine. So if anyone actually finds the thing, give me a holler.
Regards,
Eddrick
Sanitation Team"I ain't opening that door."
Step back through the open door and aim rifle towards the closes one.Spoiler: Jack Hansan (click to show/hide)
"Sounds like someone's taking a shit in that room."
Open the door while keeping my rifle ready to shoot any hostiles inside.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Get up with the other security and make ready for actionSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: HAZMAT Harry, HMRC (click to show/hide)
Well, crap. Nothing for it. Advance behind the other lunatics who are heading towards that suspicious noise and keep eyes on the ceiling and walls.
[3]Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
Try to identify the sounds behind the door
[5][3v6][5]Spoiler: Masochist of Circumstance (click to show/hide)
"Ugh. Why does this keep happening? I think my gun hates me."
"That wasn't an excuse to loiter! Please leave!"
Thank Omni-God for my armor and shoot at the cat thing lying prone. Grumble grumble.
"I'm not loitering, I'm on break! Now then, Pathos, just so you know, if you are one of the ones that die, I am not paying out the bet to you. Too much paperwork that way. Oh hey! I got this weird dart gun from the su- from the sanitation supplies. Want me to shoot him with it?"Jon sort of idly waves the hypospear at the cat-thing in a way that could be best described as sarcastically aggressive. Or aggressively sarcastic. As he does this, usually not even looking at the creature, he rummages around looking for alcohol.
Load a cartridge into the hypo spear and wave it aroundmenacinglycasually. Consider accidentally firing it at one of my colleagues, or even myself.
Edit - rummage around for some alcohol to toss to Pathos.Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
"Hey Jon, would you be a dear and throw me some alcohol?"
If I can get away with asking a quick question: Is this thing just a badly printed cat or is there something unnatural going on with it?
Is there anything flammable nearby? Like a bottle of alcohol or petrol and some way to make fire like a Bunsen burner or a lighter? If yes, throw said things with the intent of creating a barrier or burning the cat enough to scare it away from me.
If I don't find a lighter, then throw the flammable substance at the cat. It had to open wounds, so it will probably hurt it enough. And even if I miss maybe it will dislike the smell or the taste.
Otherwise: Run towards it, screaming and shooting. If it's just an animal, it will probably be intimidated. And if it's not... Maybe I can change direction and run away at the last second.
((Not the best plan but better than nothing. Dice don't fail me now!))Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
"Thank you for the help, Lance, appreciated. Though he probably won't last very long like this, but we did all we can do.
HEY YOU, medic! Yes, the second one! Come over here and help me stabilize the ape.
Oh, and you guys in the hallway, be aware, I'm getting HELL particle readings from there. Whatever is making those, it ain't good."
If medic comes over to properly treat the ape, help with that if I can.
If not, tag along with the group into the hallway, but let one of the security guards go first. Goop any hostiles that present themselves. Try to use the scanner to analyze the sounds coming from behind that door to determine if it sounds human.
By the way, could we perhaps use that bioprinter to, I dunno, get some replacement blood for the ape? Or is the machine unsuited/too busted for that?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"It was totally dangerous! And aggressive! And dangerous! The last ape caught bullets and spoke Japanese, if I hadn't shot this one we might all have died! That wouldn't be good!"
Whine that my senseless murder was justified by more than blind fear, and since the other nearby areas are currently either filled with hell particles or near a giant man-eating cat monster, guard Spuds as he drags the ape away. By keeping the gun trained on the ape. From at least ten feet away.Spoiler: Scared Security (click to show/hide)
Evacuate ye Ape. If there are any shenanigans between me and the exit, apply gun and/or baton as necessary.Yagyu and Spuds carry the ape out of the room and out of the lab entirely, straight to the infirmary. Rezel tags along, complaining constantly to no one in particular that his blind murderous actions were completely justified and rational and honeslty if they don't understand that then they're just a freaking security risk and honestly who wouldn't be afraid of a giant talking monkey it was a very scary thing and it had nothing to do with a particular traumatic visit to a circus in which a baboon ate someone's face nothing at all to do with that or any hypothetical instance like that.Spoiler: Spuds (click to show/hide)
"WHY WOULD YOU EVEN THROW A DOORKNOB AT SOMEONE?! IT'S VERY RUDE TO ASSAULT A MEDIC WITH A DOORKNOB YOU KNOW! YOU'RE COMING WITH ME, MAKE YOURSELF USEFUL BY HELPING ME CARRY HIM!"
Check pain levels and administer painkillers if necessary. Get up and drag both the medical mystery and mystery man to the infirmary.Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
Help drag the man with no door knobs to the infirmary before immediately dropping them up on entrySpoiler: Gurhle struggle sprek (click to show/hide)
Heather (+2 asprin) and ????? carry Kerberos to the infirmary where, after a short description of the spider thing, he is given a dose of antivenom and immediately regains his ability to move. His missing feet however, rather inhibit this ability to move. They offer a pair of robo feet for 200 Omni.Keep being Kerberos, Unconscious man with no feet. Maybe try seeing if I can move any muscles or something.Spoiler: Kerberos (click to show/hide)
Edd sends a message to the team.[8]Code: [Select]Hey guys,
I managed to get a usb that's some kind of key for unlocking the prostethic vending machine. So if anyone actually finds the thing, give me a holler.
Regards,
Eddrick
Sanitation Team
Loot some desks. If no loot is to be found, go in search of a mess to clean up.Spoiler: Eddrick, Sanitation (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
File a complaint against the mystery man for assaulting a medic in the middle of a medical operation, then head towards Lab 2.Considering the paperwork nightmare that is required to file a complaint about assault with home goods, Heather just writes "ASSHOLE" on a sticky note and slaps it onto the Mystery Man's forehead. She then heads back and makes it to lab 2.Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
"That guy." Point at twitchy. "Reggie going to live, doc?"The doctors say they will do their best.
Offload the ape and then proceed back to the mission area. Pick up as many wayward players as possible on the way back.Spoiler: Spuds (click to show/hide)
Rezel quietly giggles when Spuds points at him, his eyes flicking from side to side frantically in search of an escape. When he finds none, he immediately sets to making excuses "At least I didn't kill him! If he didn't want to get shot he shouldn't have been a giant screaming ape ripping open big metal doors in a lab that's full of corpses and monsters and literally Hell! When security comes, you stand back and put your hands up, you don't come charging at us while yelling! Especially not if you're a giant monkey!"Rezel makes several expressive gestures, shouts something about the reasonably of homicide, then runs away from the dirty looks of the doctors. He follows Spuds back to the labs.
Make a bunch of excuses, then hastily follow Spuds back out before anyone can poke any holes in said excuses. Firmly ignore Spuds if he's the one to poke the holes.Spoiler: Scared Security (click to show/hide)
Edd freezes for second, then tries to keep the grabbed arm very still while keeping his incinerator at the ready.You slowly withdraw your arm and find...a prosthetic limb holding your wrist.
"Ooooooohkaaaaay. Nice whateverisgrabbingmywrist. I'm not gonna hurt you. I'm not Dangerous. I'm just gonna slowly pull my arm out of this drawer in a second. Please don't start eating me."
Step 1: Slowly, carefully, nonthreateningly start pulling my arm out of the drawer
Step 2: Once I get visual on what it is that grabbed my arm, try to identify it
Step X, which overrides all other steps: If the thing suddenly starts attacking my arm or other parts, attempt to get it off.
Step X-2: If no amount fo flailing, slamming against hard surfaces or other cajoling manages to get the attacking thing off, attempt to suck it up with my incinerator backpack nozzleSpoiler: Eddrick, Sanitation (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
She is obviously possessed let an occult guy deal with this while keeping away.
Wait we don't have Occult guys? Let security shoot her then.
"She's probably filled with alien or demon babies, best put her down."
Shoot the woman in theheadeverything.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
“I really do wish there was something I could do, but this is above my pay grade.”
Circle around and make sure nothing nasty is hiding somewhere else in the room. If anything seems hostile, liberate its insides from its outside via machine gun.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Hold Benny's gun to keep him from firing, because I'm totally with that group.
Also observe the room with my metal eyes and occult expertise.
Clem points angrily back towards the main room, which contains a perfectly functional decontamination machine that they may as well use to kill the crazy woman, rather than shoot her and probably let something dreadful out in the process.
"M̨͈̬͈̺̭̘̝m̘͉̩͎̳͕̝̀p͡h̟͔̪̼!̷͓͉͇̯͕̠̪"Spoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
Keep watch from the torn open door. If something hostile comes out of the room the others went in, shoot it.Steve hangs back and Lance moves in, circling around the room and keeping an eye open for any sort of dangerous or odd things. He finds one about halfway around the room; it looks almost like a glass orb thats been smashed. It has a very organic look to it, like natural volcanic glass or something along those lines. The ground near it is scorched as well.Spoiler: Jack Hansan (click to show/hide)
[2]Spoiler: JENGO (click to show/hide)
Uh... Bullets no working... Uh... Scramble over there and grab it by the tail-thing that links it to the printer! If it has a greater reaction to that, start ripping it up and shooting it and stuff. If it doesn't seem to care, use it to try to pull the thing off Pathos so he can get away.
"Geddouttadere!!!"
"Here, kitty kitty kitty. Puss puss puss. cat cat cat. puss puss."[11]
Toss some random shinies toward the catthing. Maybe aim at the wall a short distance from it's head.Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Dial myself, crank the volume of my communicator to full and use the feedback screech to scare the cat away.[2][3]
If I can't do that, just... Do what I can and hope things work out, I guess.Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Return to the lab we were investigating.[1]
If I come across the misprinted cat situation, try to glue it to the floor with sticky goop. If it's still on top of a teammate, try to carefully goop just the cat then (sticking its limbs together).
If not, then sticky any hostiles in that room, or just scan the corpses of what remains (don't getg close though if not 100% sure it is down and out).Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
They offer a 160 Omni model that doesn't have any toes. Just like...solid feet. They'll work alright but they might be less dexterous in certain situations.Spoiler: Kerberos (click to show/hide)
200 for a new pair of feet? Screw that noise.
Try to haggle down the price to 175, and if I don't succeed, ask if there are any cheaper alternatives I can buy.
"Huh, this seems allright. Guess I won't have to stick my hand into my incinerator after all."There's writing or anything on it but there are what appear to be several small dome cameras studded along the length of the thing in strategic places like the palm and the elbow. Edd pulls on it and it doesn't let go. "Please let go of me" he says in mild annoyance, still pulling and to his surprise it does. Huh. He sticks it in his bag.
Check the prostethic grabbing my arm. Is there anything special about it? Any writing or something?
Anyway, gently try and get it to let go of me. If succesful, into my inventory it goes.Spoiler: Eddrick, Sanitation (click to show/hide)
Wander off in look of shinies????? Wanders off down the hall away from the infirmary, in spite of protests from the staff. He finds a blown open supply closest and starts building a nest out of Brillo pads.Spoiler: Her Hegh (click to show/hide)
Lightly poke the crystal ball with the null-rod. If it doesn't react badly to movement, use the rod to scrape what's left of it into a containment pod.
Clem makes a 🤔 face, trying to think of a safe way to resolve the situation. Reviewing the available assets... ah, heck with it.
Motion to Benny, Lance, and Jack, mime a baton, and point at the poor losing-it civvie. Hopefully they'll get the message and work together.
Edit: Okay, only one of these idiots are going in, that means I'm going to back the fuck up out of the room because a single mook approaching an anomaly alone does NOT have a good ending.Spoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
"So I'm not allowed to shoot her but I'm allowed to hit her with a stick, okay whatever you say."
Smack the woman with my baton until she's unconscious.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
Thing came from glass sphere and possessed her Got it.
Keep staying back also stop any idiot that tries to drag her to the decontamination machine, pretty sure you have to go through the turrets to access it and we don't know if the woman has an FoF thingy.
(Mystery man is syv's character, Rezel.)
(Also, decontamination machine is out of order.)
Go to the person calling for help, and help subdue the posessed woman.Spoiler: Spuds (click to show/hide)
Since subduing the target seems to be the current goal, and I traded my baton for an axe, I’ll let my fellow security guard handle this. I will, however, be on standby to fill things with high velocity lead in case of hostilities.
Go hand-to-hand if the first guy has difficulty subueing the target. Unless “difficulty” involves body horror or eldritch nastiness.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Stick with Spuds, specifically behind Spuds. Shoot any dangerous things seen, which aren't likely to cause even more danger upon being shot, like Spuds.Spoiler: Scared Security (click to show/hide)
Guard this door like it has never been guarded before.Spoiler: Jack Hansan (click to show/hide)
"Come on, Puss. Here, Puss Puss. Let's get you to medical, little buddy. They fixed Clem, they can fix you, alright? If this place weren't such a shambles, we could probably get you fitted with some nice prosthetics here instead, but the doctors will take good care of you. Come on, Puss, here, Puss Puss."[4]
Wave my mop around a bit to get the Cat's attention. Try to lead it toward the exit and off to medical, If I can somehow get it through the airlock.Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Try to glue the cat to the floor with sticky goop, again. If it's still on top of a teammate, try to carefully goop just the cat then (sticking its limbs together).[2] [2] Use die down by 1 level to d6.
Then try to extricate myself from the goop. Does this knock-off come with a bottle of dissolving agent like the OG product, or is it inferior in that regard as well? If so, just try to wiggle out of it, maybe with help from a teammate.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"You know, instead of trying to overpower Cheshyre you could just pour that bottle of alcohol I tossed earlier on it."[4]
Consider how long until this bloody cat bleeds out enough to become weaker and more manageable. It's been shot and missing half its body, it's bound to start feeling the effects of it eventually.
Anyway, like that motivational picture used to say: hang in there and keep trying to survive/run away.Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
[1]Spoiler: JENGO (click to show/hide)
Plant my feet, grit my teeth, and let out a hearty War Yell! Wrangle this rascal! Maybe shoot him a bit too if I can manage.
(Mystery man is actually Spazyak's character)[5][4][4]
Follow one of the groups, shoot things that need to be shot, heal things that need to be healed.Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
"FUCK YOU SPACE GOD! ALSO I LOVE YOU SPACE GOD. HURT ME MORE DADDY!"Spoiler: JENGO (click to show/hide)
Clutch at my ankle and curse god. Then thank god for not killing me yet.
Pathos got up, shrugged and adjusted his disposable spacesuit.Pathos manages to extract himself from out of under the cat corpse and goes over to check on the printer. Its non-functional right now, but it could probably be fixed.
"What a shame. It was a good cat. What a rotten way to die."
He wiped the blood on his hand on the cleaner part of the cat's fabric before returning his attention to the machine.
Make sure the printer has stopped printing. See if it can still print stuff, perhaps with the help of a bit of cleanup from my janitor friend. Try to print some compound that will dissolve the goop, if that's possible.Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Again try to extricate myself from the results of my own bad rolls. Should I manage, thoroughly scan the corpse of the cat-creature.[4] Yagyu, in a fit of annoyance, smashes the hardened goo with enough force to shatter it and free his feet. Sadly he also slams the gun barrel straight into his big toe and collapses in a swearing heap.
"Hey, uhh, guys? Little help here?"Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"He was a good cat, Pathos. Good hunter. Playful. Liked sparkly things and yarn - or whatever this mop head is made out of, anyway. He was a lot of fun. Too bad we didn't get to give him a uniform."Jon drags the cat corpse over to the incinerator and starts feeding it in while keeping his eye on Yagyu. Occasionally he waggles an eyebrow.
Jon pat's Pathos on the shoulder, then glances over at Yagyu as he squats down to put the knitted kitty to it's final rest.
"Hey, there. Need some help? Want' me to cook that goo off you? This thing runs at a cool five million Kelvin usually, but we could probably crank it up a bit for you. I'm sure the containment field is rated for at least ten or fifteen million. Eh?"
Stuff the halfcorpse cat into the incinerator while maintaining eye contact with Yagyu. Then assist Pathos in assessing/tidying the printer. I bet it's functional enough to get another cat out of it before it melts down and eats itself in frustration and terror.Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Go help out that idiot who glued himself to the floor. Make noises berating the idiot for doing this rather than anything useful.Clem wanders into lab one and squats down over Yagyu. Clem pokes Yagyu experimentally.Spoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
Haul the current threat, possessed woman, out of the area and into containment.
"Okay, what else is left?"Spoiler (click to show/hide)
((Yay, Dubs isn't dead! It was just a temporary case of school!))
Stick with Spuds, but also handcuff the woman's feet if they weren't already handcuffed. Just in case.Spoiler: Scared Security (click to show/hide)
Stay with the guys dragging the woman, be ready to smack her with the baton if needed.The unconscious woman is dragged out of the labs. It takes a few minutes to find a containment room but the group eventually manages to find one and, after at first attempting to shove her through the deposit slot, they break down and actually deposit her with a clerk. The clerk thanks them for their efforts, records the information about the situation that they can give him, dumps the lady into a big goo chamber that is immediately sucked away into the floor, vanishing somewhere into the depths of the complex.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Investigate the executive area for anything useful and the prosthetic machine.Spoiler: Jack Hansan (click to show/hide)
[5][7]Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
Inspect the room where the woman was.
Stand guard while other people loot the room.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Continue towards Lab 2, search it and make sure that it's clear.Its clear, and looted of basically everything of interest, though there is a lot of office supplies and such left.Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
take the black keycard, the control remote and the schemantics.Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
Take the Neural Remote and black keycard then look through the operations log, relaying what it says to everyone else.Jack takes all the good good stuff and then starts skimming through the operations log. [1] The operations log, much like Jack himself, is pretty dense and obtuse. Its full of technical information and management jargon and various warnings against being read by anyone under a certain clearance level. He flips to one page, the intro to the section on lab 3, and glances at a QR code printed on the first page. He immediately drops to the floor and convulses as the implant in his brain offers him a mild incentive to change his behavior.
"Now what do we have here?"Spoiler: Jack Hansan (click to show/hide)
As Jack is in the throes of a disciplinary seizure Steve calmly walks over and steals the keycard and remote control from him, sticking them both into his bag along with the schematics for the MR. HANDY. He pries the log out of Jack's hands and proceeds to try and understand it. [3] Blah blah blah. Lab 1 was doing testing for biochemical compatibility of developed prosthetic; making sure the new arms wouldn't like...tear the shoulder out of its socket or cause massive graft vs host rejection syndrome. Lab 2 was developing the mechanical prosthetics, mostly just techno jargon. Lab 3 was looking into what the log calls "Utilization of extra-dimensional assets for enhancement or replacement of human biology or capacities." Mostly it seems to be they were grafting HELL materials into test subjects or printed duplicates. Most recently they were doing experiments with a specially bred "Symbiote".take the black keycard, the control remote and the schemantics.Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)Spoiler: SPOILED FOR GIRTH (click to show/hide)
Try to read the operation logs without getting bored and call the cultist so he can stuff the container with worm in one of their containment pods.
"Eh, it was defective anyway. I'd write a strongly worded letter about its various problems if I cared enough."Pathos, who knows about all this stuff somehow (Is that the script over there?), Grabs...Pancaek? Not sure who that is but we'll assume he was talking about whats his face, the guy with the Mr. Handy prototype clinging to his wrist. He grabs that guy and drags him into the executive section and, after some inappropriate touching, gets the thumb drive with the unlock code on it out of the man's pants. A quick insertion later -the thumb drive, mind out of the gutter- and the vending machine is up and running.
First of all, if Pancaek doesn't post, drive his character to the vending machine and bump him into it until he can unlock it.
Then go examine (and pocket) the handy boy schematic.
If I have time, go examine that worm from a scientific, non-occult perspective. See if I can figure out what it is and if it is safe to move. But do so from a safe distance. I've learned my lesson after that cat incident: don't tap on the glass.Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Go type "cat" into that fleshmatter printer thing that made the clothcat monster. Start the process, then immediately run away from the consequences of my actions before they hurt me. Then show up in front of Lab 3 whistling innocently[2]Spoiler: Scared Security (click to show/hide)
Jon stretches, looks around, and rubs his hands together.Jon wanders around, making a list of rooms that need cleaning. While lab 1 is basically clean...though it might need some recleaning after the cat incident...lab 2 is pretty messy, if not bloody, and there is still a fair amount of the rooms between the labs that can best be described as "A bit corpsey".
"Guess I'll go check out the damage round here. Bet we sannies will get some good overtime on this mess. Too bad you didn't die, Pathos. We're having a hell of a time filling your bet quota.
Do a walkthrough of the whole lab except lab 3, charting the messes that might be janitorial's responsibility, for overtime purposes.Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Go back to the lab and see if there is any loot left in lab 2.There is not. At least nothing you'd really like or find interesting. You want like, an OMNITECH stress ball? Or OMNITECH paperclips? A box of ballpoint pens? Printer paper? Soldering iron? Bunch of electronic parts? So on and so forth.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Go get the all-access keycard from the guy working the computer, and go head to the doorway to any uncleared areas that remain. Lab 3?There's no one working at a computer who has the black keycard, but there is one (1) Steve that has one (1) keycard. So Spuds picks Steve up in a fireman carry and carts him off towards lab 3.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
To Lab 3! Wait for more people to arrive before I enter the lab.Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: The "J" In BDSM Stands for Jengo (click to show/hide)
Get up and see if I can hobble to Lab 3 to see if I can't be of assistance.
I guess lab 3 is next?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Head to lab 3 with the rest.A lot of people start converging on lab 3, ready to finally tackle the terrors that await within.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Ed jogs off all the way to lab one, waves to the man who is on the floor muttering something about "Nail guns", and plugs in from there.
[1]
Uh....well the turrets aren't under Ed's control. Whose control they're under is hard to say because Ed can't access them any more. Every time he tries the limited AI of the guns just quotes Harlen Ellison at him.
Go clear out the corpses and corpse bits from the rooms. Diligently exaggerate the amount of time and effort this takes. Loot all items of interest off the corpses before incinerating them and mopping up their blood. File the items by category: snack, valuable, curiosity, blackmail.[11]Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
((Heh. I love it!))The vending machine options are labeled but have no listed price.
Have a look at the vending machine options.
Then combine that plastic bottle of alcohol I dropped on the floor earlier with some glass beaker or something and a piece of cloth to make a firebomb.Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Bionic grapple arm
Taser Grip
Deadman bomb
Personal Shield generator
Monofilament wires and anti-cut limb coating
Lie Detector
Voice manipulator
Danger Sensor
Injector Fangs
Concealed Antibio razor
Wide band motion sensor
Brain backup
[2]As I'm the one with the black keycard, (as per Steve's order to give it to me,) open the door, grab Rezel, and carry him between me and the turrets as I enter. He has a FoF thingy, and should start pulling his weight, right?Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Rezel will also make sure he is also not in the line of fire, even if that requires being in an adjacent room listening carefully for the screams to stop.
Edit:Rezel will scream and flail when Spuds tries to grab him, but if he can't get free he'll just try to curl up very small while crying.Spoiler: Scared Security (click to show/hide)
((Hey, someone remind me, didn’t the behavior of the turrets of lab 3 get changed due to someone’s roll? Or am I misremembering?
EDIT: this might be what I'm remembering.))QuoteEd jogs off all the way to lab one, waves to the man who is on the floor muttering something about "Nail guns", and plugs in from there.
[1]
Uh....well the turrets aren't under Ed's control. Whose control they're under is hard to say because Ed can't access them any more. Every time he tries the limited AI of the guns just quotes Harlen Ellison at him.
Make sure that FoF identifier is on, and that I'm not in the turret line of fire when the doors open just in case (if we indeed move on this turn).
Other than that, goop baddies always.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Spasm out a bit from the shocking before getting back up. Then go join the others at Lab 3, making sure to stay in the back with my rifle ready. Oh, and get a FoF marker and turn it on..Spoiler: Jack Hansan (click to show/hide)
Enter Lab 3.Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)
Go meetup with everyone else at lab 3 and shoot the things that need to be shot.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Enter lab 3 and shoot anything ugly.The doors to lab 3 are reopened. The corridor looks much the same as before, corpses and blood and the dull humming of the concealed turrets. However that dull humming is occasionally interupted by a synthesized voice grumbling and muttering about how much it hates living things. On a hunch Spuds grabs Rezel by the collar and shoves him out into the room before immediately jerking him back out. Despite Rezel's FOF marker the turrets spray a short burst of rounds into the air that Rezel momentarily occupied.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Find some smart toaster or other relatively harmless device I can carry around (maybe a janitor can help?) and move the turret AI to it. They seem like a fun conversation partner to have around. And it should render the turrets harmless.[3]
Then try to switch the turrets to manual mode. Maybe some of our security personnel can make use of them. Or maybe some engineer can turn them into a portable gun emplacement.Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
THere's an action here, under all the RP.Jon wanders over to the lab 3 entrance, swaggering through the airlock with the business card in one hand and the gum in the other.
Jon stops and lets out a small gasp as he's rooting through the pockets of one of the deceased before their victory incandescence.
"OMNIGUUUUUUM!" he squeaks before clasping his bloodied hands over his mouth, looking around quickly to see if anyone was within earshot. He quickly slips that treasure into an inside pocket, chafing a bit as he adjusts the rubberized jumpsuit in order to tuck the gum into place. Then he sifts through his other finds, idly squeezing the stress ball while contemplating his snack options.
"Hello. What's this? OMNI-FLESH bar? mmmhm. Pathos will want ot know about this. Ed too. Nothing like a nice, relaxing drink in a flesh bar to get through the working day, after all."
Go find Ed and Pathos, and show them the flesh bar card. Invite them along, and go to the flesh bar. If anyone else happens to tag along, that's fine too.Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
"I think I'm going to take a more straightforward route towards solving the turret issue. One a little more explosive. If you can get it done, good. If not.."Spuds does an explosives run and returns with a EMP grenade. It cost him 80 Omni but it should be pretty useful. Or it would be if the door wasn't locked the turrets destroyed. Oh well.
Spuds leaves the area and checks the list of purchasable explosives. Would some kind of EMP bomb be effective against these turrets, or would it just be conventional explosives? Anyway, buy something of approximately appropriate size, rounding up.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Stay out of line of fire. Use my scanner, can I detect any fresh biological matter or Hell particles that'd indicate that the turrets took care of any monsters inside the labs? Anything else?The Scanner shows a lot of blood and some Hell particulate in the air when Yagyu tries to get a reading.
If turrets get disabled or otherwise rid of their murderous intents, wave an arm quickly over the entrance to actually confirm it. If safe, see if that monster that assaulted me earlier is dead, and if yes see if it carried anything of worth (eg. in the remnants of the suit it was wearing).Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Go see if that vending machine is willing to excrete things for free for some reason. Swipe my card.Much to Clem's chagrin, the thing does not vend things for free. Your card does however contain 500 OMNI. Wunderbar!Spoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
[3] A trip to the break room later, Jengo returns with a "smart" coffee maker. Its only partially coated in Solidified Resin.Spoiler: Jengo (click to show/hide)
Assist in looking for benign smart devices and stuff.
Wait for the AI to be dealt with before moving on.Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)
Stand in the zone where the turrets can't reach us and Talk(scream) with the AI.
Pretty sure I double as a psychiatric due to budget costs and this would also keep it distracted
Stay in cover until the turrets are made safe then move in with everyone else, keeping to the back with rifle ready. If the turrets are not dealt with successfully, stay in position with rifle ready.Spoiler: Jack Hansan (click to show/hide)
Wait for people to figure out how stop the turrets from killing us, then go in to shoot the things when its safe.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Wait around until turrets are neutralized. Then proceed to move in and shoot thibgs as soon as possible.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I have implants done.
Anything spooky has probably been killed by the turrets that want to kill everything. Pretty sure there's nothing more for me to do here, let's head back to the barracks to await someone telling me what to do again.Spoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
"Hey look they broke the door, that means we can go home now, because we can't get to the monsters and they can't get to us. Good job everyone lets go back to base."Benny, apparently bored with doing his job, leaves and walks all the way back to the group barracks to look at the vending machines.
Go back to the barracks and see whats for sale in the vending machine.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
OMNITECH General Goods Vending machine InventorySpoiler (click to show/hide)
Infirmary Implant ListSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Jengo (click to show/hide)
Show the tech dude the smart toaster. "Here, now you can put the bad guy in eternal hell or something."
"You know what? That sounds like a great idea. The hardware here is faulty anyway, which means it is not my problem."
Grab the funky worm box and go to the flesh bar with Jon.
((A janitor, a HELL worm and a murderous AI walk into a flesh bar.))Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Go to the Flesh Bar with Pathos. Drag Ed along if he doesn't physically refuse.
"This'll be fun. We can play a drinking game where, if some rowdy patron tries to fondle a cyborg girl, you drink. And if he gets electrocuted by her steel nipples, you drink again, and if the rowdy is a chick, you drink again.
Hey! everyone else! Let's go oogle some googlies!""Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Anything spooky has probably been killed by the turrets that want to kill everything. Pretty sure there's nothing more for me to do here, let's head back to the barracks to await someone telling me what to do again.Spoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
Rezel advances towards the rear. Rezel de-asses the area with the quickness. Rezel engages in the better part of valor. Rezel Bravely runs away.Anything spooky has probably been killed by the turrets that want to kill everything. Pretty sure there's nothing more for me to do here, let's head back to the barracks to await someone telling me what to do again.Spoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
This man is intelligent, and also has officer in his title! And, clearly, has no bodyguard, so Rezel will happily occupy that role and follow him! From the front! While running, very fast!Spoiler: Scared Security (click to show/hide)
Force ye door open. Get some of these lollygaggers standing around to help me with it.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Help in the door opening. Apply fire axe, if it will help. Then go shoot stuff if the door gets opened.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Give Spuds and the others who are helping to force open the door some cover with my rifle.Spuds and Lance attempt to force open the door. The door in this case is of course the huge blast door mentioned earlier. Foot thick metal, probably hydraulic or pneumatic closing mechanisms and locking bolts. Designed to survive bomb blasts and demon attacks. Their attempts to "wrassle" it open with pure elbow grease and an ax result in sore muscles and a dulled ax. So instead of even considering these actions which were doomed to fail from the get go, lets instead look at this alert which has popped up on my little narration screen here.Spoiler: Jack Hansan (click to show/hide)
Try to hack the door open. If doing so would be too difficult, then use another keycard reader to read the keycard and forward the signal to the broken keycard reader's system.Shield generator is...lets see...500.
How much for a personal shield generator from that prosthetics vending machine?Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
If Pathos opens the door, help clear behind it. If not, end the mission like everyone else.Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Spuds (click to show/hide)
I'm up for clearing that last lab, but if people wanna move on that's fine by me as well.Spoiler: Stuff wot I done gone did (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
If anybody gets the door open, then help ‘em clear the room, otherwise call it a day.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Eh, good enough."
Call it a day.Spoiler: Jack Hansan (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things I did (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)
Play with the remote control while waiting to see if the mission ends or continues
Oh, lucky! All these fellas are hanging around in the area! That should make this next part...well not easier but more direct.Spoiler: JENGO (click to show/hide)
Sorry guys, my explosives and technology die are only d4s! Guess we gotta call this one...
We do a summary of what we did, right?Spoiler: Jengo's Log, Stardate: Mission 2 (click to show/hide)
Goldbricking sounds pretty much exactly like Jon's job description. Order an alcohol 'suitable for a dedicated sanitation employee with discerning taste and class.' Compliment the bartender's bowtie and chuckle at the coffee maker's vitriol.((I remember one guy did die to the turrets))
"Classic impotent murderbot. Heh heh.
Hey, Pathos. I think you lost our bet again. I only managed to incinerate one teammate's feet. I don't think any of us died at all. I mean, there WAS a lot of blood and viscera, so it wasn't all bad."Spoiler: Things Jon did (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
"Damn I can't afford anything."Unfortunately for Benny, all his teammates seem to carry every posession they own on their person, leaving nothing for him to pilfer.
Search the barracks and see if anyone left anything good sitting out in the open.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Leodandy and Naturegirl1999, We can spawn you both either in the barracks where you're relatively safe or right in the thick of things by Lab 3. Your choice.Barracks for me, too.
"No, I am a Hazard Reclaimed. I deal with things like diseases and toxic substances. I am new here too. I will use the hazard detector to ensure there are no toxic materials here. My name is Lyra.”Thank you. My name is Blake, and I’m Security. I’ll protect you while you do your job.”
barracks please.
"Come now, you know what they say. It's not over till the tentacle demon screams."
See if Murder Pot is interested in betting on the number of deaths.Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Watch the carnage over Pathos' shoulder. Make sure hte4 angry coffee maker (hereby dubbed "Murder Pot") can watch too.The murder pot, lacking any capacity to see, screams at you for trapping it in this eternal prison of sense derivation.
"No fair, really. A cheap trick. I'll hae to remeber it for later. Heh heh. Hey Murder Pot, cna you see the carnage on the screen well enough?"Spoiler: Things Jon did (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Barracks for you too eh? Good enough for me.Leodandy and Naturegirl1999, We can spawn you both either in the barracks where you're relatively safe or right in the thick of things by Lab 3. Your choice.Barracks for me, too.
Blake looks around. He sees relatively normal, safe things. Except for that creepy guy/thing sighing and going somewhere. He speaks to Lyra.
”oh, hi. What do you do? Do you know where we’re supposed to go?”Spoiler: Blake (click to show/hide)
Return to the world of the conscious. Check my surroundings. Then, check that prostethic arm I picked up earlier again. Look for a serial number or a customer service phone number or something, now that I can give it a good lookover since it's not grabbing onto me anymore.It was already revealed earlier that this is a "Handy boy" arm. It has a built in AI for being handy. Not sure if you heard it though. I just kind of let it slip in earlier narration so I suppose its no harm in telling you now.Spoiler: Eddrick, Sanitation (click to show/hide)
Resume existing, stay in the back and shoot the tentacle monster.Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
Judging by the screams, guess we're not done. Sigh.
Go back to Lab 3. Don't stand farther forwards than anyone with a rifle. If I see anything weird, roll Occult on it and PM me the results.Spoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
Go back to the lab3 and see what everyone's doing and see if we're getting payed yet.I'm gonna count you guys as showing up right at the end of this turn, since you have to run here. What you show up to will be determined by what happens below.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)
Keep shooting the monsters
Back up and away from the monsters! Goop the one that is the biggest danger or that is still the most mobile.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Keep distance and kill that Monster. Focus on the wounded parts.Spoiler: Jack Hansan (click to show/hide)
Back way and keep shooting the possessed monster. Aim for the alien parts.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
((You spawn in next turn, so give actions as if you're where you asked to be.))[s2,y4,j1,l5,sp5]
Be the front line. Beat the monsters with my mighty stick. Whack them like I did the fat kids in middle school.Spoiler: Spuds (click to show/hide)
"Sure, once the theif is immobolized via foam gun, then I'll come with."“Oh. Uh, good luck, then.”
OOC wait so which one is the their?((Benny, the would be thief, hasn't found anything to steal and has already left to lab 3.))
Shoot both people with foam gun since I don't remember who I saw stealing stuff
((No))Spoiler: JENGO (click to show/hide)
Uhh, shoot that thing oh boy!!!
I didn't die and miss it did I?
Keep backpaddlin' and keep shootin'.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Why did you guys have to go and open the door and let the damn monster out?"
Pull out my baton and start beating the monster with it.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Shoot the monster.Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
Grab a breather by just shooting this round.Spoiler: Spuds (click to show/hide)
Unjam my rifle then fire on the monster if I can get a clear enough line of fire. If not, keep my distance, attacking it with my baton if it gets too close.Spoiler: Jack Hansan (click to show/hide)
Brace myself against a wall. Keep my rifle trained at the monster and wait until there’s a clear line of fire to shoot.Unjam: 5Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Try to strike a deal with the murder pot: I will grant it sight in exchange for it managing the bets on deaths. That way we can have a murder pot in charge of the murder pot. And it can enjoy watching murder and encouraging people to murder. Win-win, as they say.(is this asking me to handle it? Because if its just an RP thing then sure, but if not, No. PW is lazy)
Also, see if the bartender would be open to giving free drinks in exchange for entertainment. I could connect our team's feed to one of the screens here for their enjoyment. They could even bet on it.
Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Steve runs over to Spuds, ducking and covering his head as bone spikes hiss by, and gets under Spud's arm. He drags the disoriented man up off the ground.Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)
Run to Spud and help him stand/orient himself
"I get the feeling I'm supposed to be somewhere. you coming with, Lyra?"
Follow Clem to a spooky place!Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Follow the two people to where ever they are going while checking the Hazard DetectirLyra and Blake wander onto the scene just after Benny gets perforated.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Continue not standing farther forwards than anyone with a rifle. Observe the present H.E.L.L. organisms and analyze them for any particular weaknesses.[11]
Other than just shooting them, that is. Can't really help the grunts with that.Spoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
Chase after the diamond head and shoot it.
"I'm worried detonating this EMP might break something out of containment. Can you check if everything is clear before I throw it? I don't want to make things worse."
Clem taps Heather on the shoulder and mimes tossing something at the diamond head. It makes a "fwoosh" sound through its gas mask."You want me to throw something at the monster? I have some flares, those could blind it for a moment."
"You want me to throw something at the monster? I have some flares, those could blind it for a moment."
Steve runs over to Benny's body and looks him over. His head is basically only still attached by the spine and a quick check shows he has no heart beat. If Steve had some sort of brain saving device he might be able to crack Benny's egg and keep him alive that way but...as is he's already expired and by the time Steve could get him to the infirmary he'll probably be unrecoverable. So...Steve decides to just loot the body.Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)
Spud can stand by himself run to Benny and see if his dead or almost dead.
If almost dead open a medical kit and treat him.
If dead loot his corpse.
“If old Ben really bit it for good, I could use his ammo. I’m almost out.”[1]
since no one else is doing it, finish off the monster gooped to the floor.Point gun at door, if another diamond head pops up, shoot it.
Follow the others in pursuit of the diamond head. Shoot on sight. If I have any ammo left, have my rifle out, otherwise have the mini-cannon out.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
((Each magazine the gun has, has a d6 use die. When you shoot with it, I roll that d6 and if I roll 1 or 2, the use die of the magazine reduces to d4. If I roll 1 or 2 on that die next time you fire, the magazine is out. So instead of 3d6 or whatever, you have something likeSpoiler: Jengo (click to show/hide)
I'm so sorry! But I could swear that you've not told me to reduce my die like, ever. Is there a part of this I'm forgetting? I think I've just been insanely lucky with that.
Trust the care of Benny to someone who could manage it and advance to cover, keeping my gun up in case the thing makes another appearance (shoot it then)
"Need some help here. Can I get a technician with me?
Pursue the diamondhead. If a tech comes with me, prep the EMP grenade for use on the diamondhead, to use if the tech says it's safe to throw without releasing more monsters. If not, prep my rifle, or prep for blocking melee attacks if there are 3 or more shooters with me.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
If prepping the EMP nade requires a mechanics roll, then run over and prep it for him. Then, run for cover!
If I can't help with the nade, then run for cover! Once good cover is found, shoot a glob of sticky goop at the diamondhead if it shows it face again, or at the already downed monster if it doesn't.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Chase after the diamond head, ignite a flare and throw it at the monster, then shoot it in the face.Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
Find cover and be ready to fire on that new monster if it appears or the first one if it starts moving again.Spoiler: Jack Hansan (click to show/hide)
Look for anything that could be used to cause a phase change event while staying behind what remains of the wall of security.[4]Spoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
Blake peeks at the detector. Then, he follows anyone who will go deeper into the lab. But first, help stabilise Benny.According to the detector, Cordite is a generic -though actually misused- moniker for a variety of smokeless propellant used in explosive driven projectile weapons.
"Wait, what's cordite?"
Name: Blake HawthorneSpoiler (click to show/hide)
((I'm totally cool with the Murder Pot running the bets as an RP thing. I'll keep the bets in my character sheet))((Thats fine then.))
"What d'ya think, Pathos? It sounds like a win-win deal to me. She gets a new avenue of entertainment and income, and we get access to an audience ofr our buffoonery and suffering, for money and alcohol!"
Negotiate terms with the Bowtied Bartendress. As in, how much of a cut, how big, colorful, and sparkly the free drinks might be, and if we might be able to get some kind of souvenir with the bar's name on it to put on the Murder Pot for free advertising.Spoiler: Things Jon did (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Check how much I know about Hell Particulates, if anyWithout your character sheet I'm not really sure. But we'll roll 1d4 anyways.
"Sure. Sounds good to me. I'll let you work out the details."[6] One of the guys in the bar offers to sell Pathos Hellfire bombs for 30 OMNI each. He asks what they are and he says they're a sphere of napalm around a white phosphorus incendiary grenade.
Ask around for anyone that might want to get rid of explosives and/or a small vehicle (e.g. motorcycle) in exchange for OMNI.
If nothing is found, buy Firebomb crafting materials from the bar and attempt to create a few. Or buy some ready-made if they're selling.Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Check how much I know about Hell Particulates, if anyWithout your character sheet I'm not really sure. But we'll roll 1d4 anyways.
[3]
HELL Particulate matter is a blanket name given to any particles unique to the H.E.L.L. phase space/dimension. They tend to be found in areas where phase interfaces or materials from hell are present. Greater concentration means greater connction and in high enough concentrations the spontaneous generation of HELL pseudo creatures and other phenomena is possible.
Your 3 was actually a successful roll, so rerolling wouldn't really help you.Check how much I know about Hell Particulates, if anyWithout your character sheet I'm not really sure. But we'll roll 1d4 anyways.
[3]
HELL Particulate matter is a blanket name given to any particles unique to the H.E.L.L. phase space/dimension. They tend to be found in areas where phase interfaces or materials from hell are present. Greater concentration means greater connction and in high enough concentrations the spontaneous generation of HELL pseudo creatures and other phenomena is possible.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Knowledge d10
Can there be a reroll for last turn, since now there is the sheet?
Find HELL particles and concentrate them to see if I create a creature and hopefully learn more about the particles
Steve redistributes the wealth as he sees fit.Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)
Leave behind the riot suit, the electrical behavior modification implant and the half-eaten OMNI-SNACK bar.
Give Lance Bradley three of Benny security rifle magazines.
"This incendiary device is indiscriminate, irresponsible and immoral! In other words, exactly what I'm looking for. I'll take 4."Pathos transfers the necessary funds for the Hellfire bombs and buys himself a "Good Drink", ie a bottle of the finest Martian Fields ale. Thus armed and fortified, he wanders back towards the labs, getting there at the end of this turn.
Buy 4 Hellfire bombs for 120 OMNI and a good drink for 5 OMNI.
And now that I'm properly armed with a weapon I can actually use, start making my way to the lab.
"By the time I get there they'll either all be dead or they'll have taken care of those monsters. But on the off chance they are still fighting, I'll be able to use my new toy to make sure I win my bet."Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Purchase another Incinerator (the drink), drink it, and follow Pathos back to the labs. Incinerate Benny and the goo'ed Hell creature."Hey Pathos, that bartender sure is cute. Think I got a shot with her?"
((forgot that would be a speech roll trying to negotiate with the bartender. Good thing I didn't try to flirt with her.))
"Hey Pathos, that bartender sure is cute. Think I got a shot with her?"Spoiler: Things Jon did (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
[2][
Blake watches as Lance completely fails to shoot the trapped monster. He takes a shot at it, and then joins the rest of the team, pointing the gun at all the creepy sounds.
"okay, I'm gonna have nightmares for ever and ever now."Spoiler (click to show/hide)
((Knew I should have stayed away from the lab.))
Spawn me in the barracks please.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Stay behind the people who actually have armor. Use scanner to determine where exactly the monster is, either by using the microphone to determine the source of the sound or by looking for the direction of the highest concentration of HELL particles. Or maybe try thermal scanner? If I can find the beast's location, point it out to my teammates.[3]
As always, goop whatever baddies come into view.
EDIT: if ziizo/Steve doesn't want that riot suit, I wouldn't mind taking it, a little bit of armor would be nice.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
(I’ve been doing my ammo wrong. Just dropping when told to reduce instead of reducing to 1d4. Could I have one magazine back to correct the error oh benevolent bone lord? Or get the 2 1d4 magazines and just say I switched out the partially empty ones?)
If no, then go loot a few magazines off Benny. Then go back and proceed with the shooting things that don’t look friendly.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Stay behind the armored security guards. Ignite a flare and throw it at the diamond head if we discover it, also allow Spuds to take a flare.Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
Take up the rear of the group and keep an eye out for the diamond monster, making sure to let those capable of taking it out deal with it. Stay on alert.Spoiler: Jack Hansan (click to show/hide)
Scout around for the diamond-head, EMP grenade at the ready. If Heather allows, get another flare to use as a melee weapon.. the hot flaming end should be another source of non-conventional damage.Spoiler: Spuds (click to show/hide)
10,6,6,6,8
Blake watches as Lance completely fails to shoot the trapped monster. He takes a shot at it, and then joins the rest of the team, pointing the gun at all the creepy sounds.
"okay, I'm gonna have nightmares for ever and ever now."Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Scan for the diamond head using cameyes. If I detect it and it's not in the room past the blast door, dash forwards, slide under the door while it's partly open, and look for the phase interface. If I can't detect the diamond head, stay behind the security and hope we move forwards. If I can detect it but it's in the way, point it out.[8]Spoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
Devastator We done?
Devastator or do we need to finish them?
Devastator (mook)
Piecewise_ they're dead
Piecewise_ jim
Incinerate Benny and the diamond heads, then sit next, leaning against the goo'ed Hell creature and tell it about the bartender at the titty bar and her bowtie and how Jon will probably die at her hands or something, while eating the Chewy bar.Jon wanders in, ignores the tense situation entirely as always, and begins nonchalantly incinerating corpses. He does the diamond heads first just to be sure and then tosses Benny in. While Benny slowly vanishes into the incinerator Jon goes over to try and sit next to the pinned monster. The monster is, though pinned, still flailing about wildly. [3] Jon easily navigates the flails until he finds a place to sit that is apparently outside the creature's range. He sits and eats his Chewy bar while talking at length about the bartender and their doomed liaison.Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Steve's electronics are thankfully intact. And functional.Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)
Check if I was far enough from the EMP explosion to save my stuff or if it broke too.
"Ow, my eyes."Blake, apparently a bit indecisive, runs out of lab three and back to the pinned monster.
Blake takes another shot at the pinned monster, at point blank range, and hopes that the rule of three lets him actually hit it this time. then, he points his gun the back door while the techy+reclaimy people seal it.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Is there supposed to be someone here to tell me what to do or do I have to find it myself?"
Wander around the facility looking for whatever my mission is supposed to be.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Check the pinned monster, and if it's plausible to kill using .45 FMJ shove my sidearm into its most vulnerable spot and pull the trigger until it's rendered inert.Clem walks back out and finds the pinned monster annoyingly dead. Jon, who is sitting against it, waves to Clem.Spoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
Hold Position for time being, keeping an eye on the diamond heads and the backdoor.Spoiler: Jack Hansan (click to show/hide)
Jack and Jengo, united under a common kinship of having rhyming "J" names, hang back and clover their back doors, so to speak. Jon comes in and removes the the diamond heads and leaves them with basically nothing to do.Spoiler: Jengo (click to show/hide)
OK fixed I think
Hold position in case there's more.
"Oh, hey, you're still alive. Good job. Hmm. I think that's three deaths, no? Oh well. Close enough. Still, if exactly one of you could die before this incident is over, you'd really be doing me a solid."[12]
See if I can use the consoles here to activate the portal in the room with the monster. Try to use it to send the monster in there somewhere that's not here. Preferably to Venus labs. Because hey, if they dealt with the Anime Ape, I'm sure they can deal with this.
If that can't be done, then try to at least find a camera feed so I can see what's going on in there.Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Use sealing kit to help seal the door shut, starting at the bottom to seal it to the ground so it stops moving. Collect HELL Particles for later study[4]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Wear riot gear if possible (aka over my current suit).((You cannot))
Go check on the monster I gooped, is it secure still (don't get within clawing reach)? If not, goop it some more.
Could I try to use my sealing tool to weld that door shut, or will that not work due to the door moving all the time?
"Hey guys, maybe if I could weld that bloody door shut we won't have to deal with... whatever is hiding in there. The fact that the door keeps moving though isn't helping."Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"I think we're almost done here.. but.."
"Anyone want a stimpack?"
Give stimpacks to anyone who wants them.
If we're securing the other door, give cover with gun. If a creature appears, open fire. I'd cover with a baton, but really, really don't want to get stuck on the wrong side of that door.
If we're going in to kill it, take the front position and be ready to parry.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
“Could we just seal the big blastdoor to lab 3?”
Follow the group, shoot what looks mean.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Stay in the rear, patch people up and shoot monsters as needed.Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
"Well. I'd say our job here is done. Now, who's up for drinks at the flesh bar?""Not this guy, apparently." Jon says, waving idly at the goo'd beast.
Oh come on, I posted earlier and everything. Can I at least get an initiative roll or something to stop that bastard from stealing my k-[2][3]
...
Run.Spoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
These particles would be cool to experiment with, large concentrations of the stuff can create HELL creatures, maybe the creatures can be trained?[1]
Find and collect a handful of HELL particles, then run as fast as I can toward the exitSpoiler (click to show/hide)
"WHAT DID YOU DO?!"[2][3]
Run like hell out of the lab.Spoiler: Jack Hasnan (click to show/hide)
Run, don’t stop running.[3] !Spoiler (click to show/hide)
[2][6]"Well. I'd say our job here is done. Now, who's up for drinks at the flesh bar?""Not this guy, apparently." Jon says, waving idly at the goo'd beast.
"He wasn't much help in my pursuit of bowtied beauty, either. Let's go."
To the titty bar with Pathos! Wave and grin at the barkeep, and order a 'dirty mop bucket' (the drink) if they have them.Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Run away from the impending disaster.[7]Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
[8]Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)
Run Towards the Barracks and don't look back is everyone for themselves right now.
Run Run Run. Out of the lab. Yell at people to shut the power down while running.[4]Spoiler: Spuds (click to show/hide)
"What the hell's going on here?"[1]
Run, just run and don't stop.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Make like Sir Robin and bravely run away.[5]Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"one down, 0 more to... that doesn't sound good."[6]
Blake, after a job well done, immediately starts running. also, he
wonders if his behavior chip was fried or not.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Wow. It's like you guys don't trust me or something. Oh well."[8][4]
Try to pull the proverbial plug by shutting down the phase thingy or its power source, if doing so would stop this thing.
If that fails, use my massive intellect combined with my superb computer skills to create a second phase change on top of the first one that will cancel it out, at least partially. Or maybe send it somewhere else. Like Venus labs.
If that fails/is impossible, then just say "Whoops." and join the others in running away. Preferably to the flesh bar.Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
(I know my first character died, can I create a new one? If not, I can just watch)You can.
"Damn. Looks like I lost that bet. Really, I only asked for one of you to die. You should try harder to follow instructions.""Nah. No one else bet on a higher kill count, so the pot is yours. Besides, that show was totally worth it. Too bad Bowties didn't finalize an entertainment agreement with you. we'd all be rolling in it now.
Pathos shrugged.
"Oh well. I could use another drink."
"I know, right? Best show in town.""I don't know what that is, but I bet it would be right at home in my incinerator. Or even my mop. Or a drink!"
"Oh, by the way, I was thinking of things to do with this HELL symbiote. Anybody want it? Because if not, I'm going to try putting it in a drink."
"I know, right? Best show in town."
"Oh, by the way, I was thinking of things to do with this HELL symbiote. Anybody want it? Because if not, I'm going to try putting it in a drink."
Guns to d12, Speed to d6Spoiler: achievements (click to show/hide)
Dexterity to D6 and Mechanics to D6.Spoiler: Jack Hansan (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things I did (click to show/hide)
I prevented security from murdering a poor helpless possessed woman, which would also have lead to hilariously disastrous shenanigans had I not nipped it in the bud.
I figured out the diamondhead's weaknesses which Spuds somehow telepathically ripped from my brain and then made a lucky inference to defeat them.
I would have finished off the immobilized monster if you hadn't chosen to read actions in reverse order that day for some reason.
Also, take that worm thing from Pathos.Spoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
Level up Fate to d8 and Medical to d12, then find someone who can identify the implant I'm carrying.Spoiler: Long list of achievements (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
strength to d6, guns to d10Spoiler (click to show/hide)Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Fate and Explosives to d8.
Call Bill Pelican to inform him that his lab is clear of hostiles and hazards and at least somewhat clean. Tell him that I'll be hanging out at the Flesh Bar if he's still up for that drink. Then go hang out at the Flesh Bar.Spoiler: Achievements (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Lucy (click to show/hide)
(Is my new character with everyone else or the barracks?We'll assume you managed to get back to everyone.
If with everyone else
Ask for the hell symbionts
If in Barracks
Try and find everyone
Get a double whisky at the bar, but see if I can find a more low-key bar around. Maybe one where they bet on people dying who aren't in the same squad.Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
(Will decide on level in the next day or so.)
"Damn. Looks like I lost that bet. Really, I only asked for one of you to die. You should try harder to follow instructions.""Nah. No one else bet on a higher kill count, so the pot is yours. Besides, that show was totally worth it. Too bad Bowties didn't finalize an entertainment agreement with you. we'd all be rolling in it now.
Pathos shrugged.
"Oh well. I could use another drink."
10 OMNIFUNDS to Pathos for the bet. Leveling Strength, Implants. Spoiler for Jon's doingsSpoiler: I done it (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Kerberos (click to show/hide)
Bump fate to d6 and melee to d8.
Lead the chase after the murderkitty, got paralyzed, had Jon burn off my feet. Thinking about buying robo feet but uncertain about the price.
(Didn't even last one day, poor jimmy.)Welcome back! I wish you better luck than last time which...won't be hard~Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I live. I'd like to level up mechanics and knowledge.Spoiler: what Edd did this mission (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Eddrick, Sanitation (click to show/hide)
'Accomplishments':The card had 292 omni on it.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
By the way, how many OMNI were on that card I found earlier?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)
Fate to d8 and guns to d6.Spoiler: Stuff Steve did (click to show/hide)
We'll say yesSpoiler: Jengo (click to show/hide)
Big apologies, I've been uber busy. Inquiry made on Discord, but did I live?
"Hi, my name's Lucy""oh, hi. you look familiar. are you related to Lyra by any chance?"
Head back to the barracks. I wanna meet up with our old friend as soon as possible.
"Bets! Y'all start betting on what kind of mission we're gonna have next, how big a disaster it will be, and how many of us die during the mission! Buy in is low, payout is probable!"Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Head to the barracks. Ask Pathos about the worm
Rezel slowly sneaks into debriefing (?) after the others enter, trying not to look suspicious. He giggles quietly, then writes down his mission accomplishments:
>Did not die.
>Did not irreparably fuck anything up.
(Guns to d12, Will to d8)Spoiler: Scared Security (click to show/hide)
"I guess I got to go to the barracks."
Go to the barracks.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
go to the barracks! and buy the insurance.
"I am Blake Johnson, mildly useful security guard."Spoiler: sheet (click to show/hide)
(Rezel gets 550 Omni)Spoiler: Kerberos (click to show/hide)
Buy me a pair of robofeet for 200 (As stated in this post.) (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=173094.600), 3 generic security rifle magazines for 90, and a fire ax for 150.
Test out my robo feet by running full bore to the barracks, in the most threatening and hazardous manner possible.
Follow a few of the others to the Flesh Bar, to, as they say, "hang out".[3]
Clem taps Pathos on the shoulder and makes a quizzical murmur, indicating the unknown worm organism.
Inspect the "worm thing" that Pathos apparently found. What is it, and is it usable?Spoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
I don't appear in the list of payments.650 OMNI.Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)
Fate to d8 and guns to d6.Spoiler: Stuff Steve did (click to show/hide)
"Good luck to them." Pathos murmured as he dismissed the notification about HR looking for him."Oh an interesting offer to be sure, but one I will decline. I bet on death often, but in a different way, if you understand." He giggles a bit.
"Bill! Already here, I see. You sure are a quick bastard."
Pathos went up to Bill and took a seat next to him.
"You can thank my pal Jon for sniffing out this place. Janitors sure know how to find gems in deep dark corners. And he's one of the best. He's got that mix of 'bare minimum' work ethic combined with selfishness and misanthropy. Plus a love for burning things and capturing interesting creatures. A man after my own heart."
Pathos waved to Jon as he went away.
"We even have a betting pool going on. Betting on number of deaths, how things will be screwed up, that sort of thing. I can deal you in, if you're interested." he added before turning to the bartender to order a drink.
"I'll have what he's having."
Order a drink. See if Bill would be interested in the betting pool.
((I have more I want to say, but I think it's best I take it one post at a time.))Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Go to the infirmary and see if someone there can help me with identifying the implant.You'll have to remind me what it looks like and where you got it.Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
Level to dex and mechanics.[2]
Go shopping. Sell off a 3-pack of stims. Look for some fancy loads for the generic rifle as well.Spoiler: shopping list (click to show/hide)Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Go sell the bobblehead if it's worth any money, but two new magazines for 60 to replace the one use magazine and the partially empty one, then go see about having the artificial arm examined before seeing how much it would cost to have it replace my current arm.Again, selling to a vending machine?Spoiler: Jack Hansan (click to show/hide)
[8]Bounce around a bit looking for any other shops, stores, traders, or black market locations. After that, head to barracks and ready-up.Spoiler: Surprise action! (If you didn’t already see it) (click to show/hide)
Oh, also! See if I can trade my fireaxe for a claymore!Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Yay, drinking on the job!30.
How much for a spare goop thrower tank?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Not listed currently, 300 for the rifle 30 for the ammo.Spoiler: Jengo (click to show/hide)
Leveling Fate and Guns. Can't find price for generic security rifle, where that?
The discription of the janitor's incinerator backpack mentions that: "Can also be set to spray flame, though doing so is technically against regulations and highly dangerous." Do I know what exactly makes it dangerous? If not, try and figure it out. I want to try and come up with a modification that turns this danger down to acceptable levels and turn it into an usable weapon.Spoiler: Eddrick, Sanitation (click to show/hide)
The discription of the janitor's incinerator backpack mentions that: "Can also be set to spray flame, though doing so is technically against regulations and highly dangerous." Do I know what exactly makes it dangerous? If not, try and figure it out. I want to try and come up with a modification that turns this danger down to acceptable levels and turn it into an usable weapon.The reason it is dangerous is because you're basically forcing the mechanism to function in reverse which can result in the reactor overheating and melting down in a rather explosive way if its overused.Spoiler: Eddrick, Sanitation (click to show/hide)
Use the hazard detector and walk around to different rooms to find something. If what I find is hostile, run back to barracks and tell people what I find. If hazard is disease related find cleaning materialsSpoiler: Lucy (click to show/hide)
The reason it is dangerous is because you're basically forcing the mechanism to function in reverse which can result in the reactor overheating and melting down in a rather explosive way if its overused.Allright, see if I can get/think up a mod to either cool down the reactor when it gets hot from using this function, and/or a mod that tells me when it starts getting dangerously hot so I can stop in time.
Go to the medbay and request installation of my Symbiote and a Voice Manipulator while they're at it. If they say they don't sell the Voice Manipulator, then go down to the vending machines and buy one from the Implant Vending Machine, walk back to the medbay and have it installed. Oh and buy a Shrieking Skull.The professionals at the medbay happily install Clem's voice manipulator, however they are a bit flummoxed by the Symbiote. Data regarding such things is difficult to get since lab 1 was..."restructured". [11] Clem, now able to speak, tells them what it believes is the correct way to install the symbiote, which they follow.
Also check if the Necromantic Instigator is currently available.
Also also check if ceiling guy wants to buy a shattered H.E.L.L. orb.
Also also also ask ceiling guy about collectables.Spoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
Buy a Waifu bot, because nobody can tell me I can’t. Throw in the extra 12 Omni to make the bot an extra Thicc ninja catgirl. Name her KitKat. Have her follow me on the mission.[12]
If I can get a full refund for my fireaxe, sell it and buy a claymore. Sell my FoF market to creepy guy.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Steve gets 75 Omni for the lot of junk he sells and then buys a few new things.Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)
Go to sell the wedding rings, two calculator watches, the keycards and the cigarettes.
Also buy OMNITECH Reactive Personal Shield generator (d8 protection but has d4 use die. Recharges between missions)
Price: 500 OMNI, OMNITECH Ear Plugs (Provides protection against loud noises and certain auditory effects)
Price: 5 OMNI
"I understand. I suppose it's more fun when you can see the deaths for yourself. And influence the results." he added with a smug smile."HR huh? The Human Recycling department, turning overhead into severed head." He laughs at his own terrible joke. "Whatcha do? Swear in front of the interns? Get a bit handsy? Dismember a mail clark and use them for spare parts? Use equipment you're not accredited on? 'Fire' some staff without filling out the proper paperwork?"
Pathos took an experimental sip from the strange drink, gagged and coughed a bit.
"Wow! This is horrible. I love it!" he commented before taking another sip, now a bit more prepared for its taste.
"Anyway. I heard HR's been looking for me. Would you happen to know anything about that? Could the perhaps have finally realised my superior skills and given me the promotion I deserve?"
"Or are they just going to complain about me not following some stupid rule or some other nonsense like that? Because I'm in no mood to argue with idiots. Both incidents had a problem standing right next to the door it came through. Shoving it through that door was the smartest and most efficient choice to protect our assigned facilities."
"I assume an experienced man such as yourself would know of ways to avoid such wastes of time, yes?"
Ask Bill if he has any idea about why HR is looking for me, something good or something bad. Also ask if he knows of any ways to avoid or reduce the ire of HR should they be displeased with me.Spoiler: Pathos: Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
That shady guy looks shady, but probably has money. Hopefully. Sell 3 stims to shady guy. Offer black keycard, see if it's worth money.The Ceiling man offers 200 OMNI for the lot. When asked about tickets he responds that, despite the smell of urine and clear use of hard drugs, he is not a bus station.
Ask shady guy if he knows a contact for a ticket back home, this place is getting weird.Spoiler: Spuds (click to show/hide)
[4] There are plenty of hazards around; asbestos, radiation, improperly stored explosives, powerful solvents, dangerously poor motivational posters, and weebs, just to name a few. However, none really rise to the level of hazard that a requires a full security detail to handle.Use the hazard detector and walk around to different rooms to find something. If what I find is hostile, run back to barracks and tell people what I find. If hazard is disease related find cleaning materialsSpoiler: Lucy (click to show/hide)
" Wait, wait, wait. You guys shot him? And he's fine with it? Wish my previous bosses were this nice. Also, how can an silver orangutan speak, and finally, why does the other ape speak Japanese?"
Ok. This is fine. Blake goes over and lies down, trying to understand what is happening.Spoiler: Man with a name! Has a name! (click to show/hide)
Briskly stride up and attempt to shake the Anime Ape's forepaw after gently patting Reginald's shoulder. Due to some linguistic shenanigans, Jon is gonna misconstrue his or her name to be Yuri Anita. Say the following and attempt to drag our new bosses off to the titty bar.[4]
"Hey, Reginald, glad you could make it. Yuri! How was Venus? Wait, did you say your name was Anita? Right, right, well Annie, did they fit you for an incinerator yet? I don't see a jumpsuit, but no worries, now worries, I'll lend you this space suit for now! Hey, you guys like drinking? We know a great little hole in the wall. Lots of naked guitarists and misanthropic coffee. Bartendres is adorable. You'll love it."Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Then keep hold of the bobble head as a good luck charm then go have that arm installed. After the arm is installed, head to the barracks.Done and Done.Spoiler: Jack Hansan (click to show/hide)
It was an arm prosthethic and I got it from a corpse in Lab 1. Check how much I can sell the implant for, once it has been identified.Ah, thats a concealed anti-bio razor arm. It can be sold for 200 omni.Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
"I have no items to sell or money to spend, I guess I'm gonna sit and wait for a mission or something."Burt sits on the edge of his bed and taps his foot, waiting for the faffing about to conclude.
Find a chair to sit in and wait for a mission to happen.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
[5]QuoteThe reason it is dangerous is because you're basically forcing the mechanism to function in reverse which can result in the reactor overheating and melting down in a rather explosive way if its overused.Allright, see if I can get/think up a mod to either cool down the reactor when it gets hot from using this function, and/or a mod that tells me when it starts getting dangerously hot so I can stop in time.Spoiler: Eddrick, Sanitation (click to show/hide)
Only 1. They cost 10 each.Spoiler: Jengo (click to show/hide)
Buy 3 rifle magazines for 90, a fire ax for 150, and a Man Zapper for 100. How many cartridges does it come with? Go to barracks
((I think the only things Rezel has shot at are those two orangutans. The only people Rezel has shot at during his career as security guard are now his bosses.))Rezel has a very Rezel like breakdown before running off to do some consumerist therapy by spending a lot of money.
Rezel giggles quietly when he sees his two new bosses, his incessant noise growing in intensity gradually as Reginald speaks. By the time the speech is finished, Rezel's giggles have devolved into a kind of excited sobbing sound, and he rushes away as fast as he can.
He will buy a space suit, and a reactive energy shield, then wear both.
((I'll sell Rezel's riot armor (d6 armor) for... 60 OMNI. Which is a steal, considering the inferior reactive fabric cape is 350. I specifically want to sell it so I can buy a bayonet, glowstuff, and a flashbang.))Spoiler: Scared Security (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Lucy (click to show/hide)
((I'd buy that. You sure you don't want to keep it though? Worst case scenario (25%) your shield implant runs out after just one hit and then you're left with d2 life. Might be better to keep it as a backup.))
Find and use equipment that can get rid of asbestos[4]Spoiler: Lucy (click to show/hide)
Go find the waifu. Be sweet and try to calm her down. If she decides to follow me, take her on the mission. If she doesn’t, go ahead and head to the barracks. I’d she only speaks Japanese, see if Reginald will help.Lance finds his waifu chasing her own tail a bit further down the hall. He entices her with promises of cake and sardines to follow him to the barracks.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Install the antibio razor arm on the left arm, also buy and install a threat analyzer, then buy an armored space suit for protection.The first two we can do, the third is sadly outside your budget now.
Afterwards head to the barracks.Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
Done!Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)
Go to the barracks for the next mission
"That phase interface complained I 'voided its warranty' and 'exceeded safe energy levels' or some such. Said it'll 'contact HR', the little snitch. So I think 'Use equipment you're not accredited on' is pretty close to the mark."Things bought, assuming you can afford them.
Ask for pointers on avoiding HR's anger. Then thank the fine man and wish him luck before heading to the barracks. Wouldn't want to hold up the mission.
EDIT: Oh, make sure to buy an OMNITECH Cognition Copier before mission start. Got to protect my most important asset.
EDIT2: And also buy that riot suit from Rezel.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Loan Clem 25 Omni for a ceramic knife. (Return 30 after next mission.) Buy one for myself as well.Assuming it fits the new prices, consider it done.
Do some modifications. With a couple of rifle magazines as raw materials, try to make an extended mag. (d8 use die instead of d6.)
Try this up to twice more using toolkit charges, until I have two extended mags or all three attempts have failed, leaving me with one toolkit charge.
After that, head to the barracks.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Assuming its all ok in terms of price in the new doc, consider it done.((I'd buy that. You sure you don't want to keep it though? Worst case scenario (25%) your shield implant runs out after just one hit and then you're left with d2 life. Might be better to keep it as a backup.))
((Yeah, I'm sure. My char is a coward; he's unlikely to get hit in the first place, and even if he does get hit and gets unlucky, he'll just run away. And if not, well, he's had it coming. It's of more use to you, anyway.))
Sell the riot armor to Pathos for 60 OMNI, then buy a bayonet (which will be mounted to Rezel's security rifle), a bunch of glowsticks, some glowspray, and a flashbang.
Edit: Changing my levelup from +Will to +Strength. Confirmed that it's okay in IRC.Spoiler: Scared Security (click to show/hide)
"Handling security requests is what we do best, boss!" Jon lies.Jon carefully stores the request in the "Urgent" pile.
Take the proffered security request and place it in my incinerator.Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Impatiently tap my robofeet and wait for the mission to begin.Spoiler: Kerberos (click to show/hide)
Wait for everyone else to arrive in the barracksSpoiler: Jack Hansan (click to show/hide)
Wander around the barracks while I wait for people, and pick up any interesting items I see.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Ah, wanted to ask whether modding the goop launcher to spray more goop would be possible, to make it more likely to goop stuff (aka up the attack die). I can try the modding next time. Could it be done with just a charge from the toolkit, or should I buy a second thrower and combine them somehow? Or could one dual-wield perhaps (guessing no, for balance reasons)?Double check those prices but assume anything you want is bought if you have the cash.
Either way: sell pack of gum, wallet, riot suit and some children's photos if they'll take that.
Buy cognition copier (400), toolkit (200), generic knife (50), nutrient paste (2x1), ear plugs (5), goop tank (30).
Level will and mechanics.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Easiest for us both if you just tell me about both buying and selling collectables now, ceiling man.He'll buy, but he rarely sells.
Buying an OMNITECH® Porcelain™ Ceramic Knife.
Examine the Shrieking Skull. How is it activated, what's its range, what kind of effects can I get out of it, and am I able to control it?
Clem sort of... hums to itself, tuning its OMNITECH® Voice Manipulator to have the voice of a young woman. Clem then mutters it itself, farther refining the voice to match what Clem remembers of the late Lyra. Having completed this task, it sets out to procure a test subject.
"Hello there, Lucy was it? How would you like to contribute towards the cause of science?"Spoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
"Are we gonna be given space suits for this mission or are we gonna die if something goes wrong?""What? Asking for freebies? Buy your own space suit, cheapskate."
I'd like to join in if that's okay. It seems like this game is taking players freely, so I went ahead and wrote up a sheet and turn. I've read through a couple games here and there, (including this one and DIG) but never felt I had the time before this summer. I thought this looked like a good game to get started with, so here I am. Tips and suggestions are welcome.((Welcome to the mayehm. Please visit Jon I. Tor for your gambling needs. He will be instrumental in your victory incandescence.))
One question: The first post indicates in one location that the base life die is d2, but under the default character sheet is d4. I'm assuming d4 in my sheet, but I don't know. I'd like clarification so I can correct it if needed.
((Welcome to the mayehm. Please visit Jon I. Tor for your gambling needs. He will be instrumental in your victory incandescence.))
"Are we gonna be given space suits for this mission or are we gonna die if something goes wrong?""Do you expect the station to blow up the moment we arrive? You shouldn't worry about not having a space suit, there are far more ways for you to die that aren't prevented with one."
You could up the attack die by merging two, effectively spraying more.Cool. How much for a goop thrower then?
Clem adopts a deep, gender-neutral voice.
"Depending on the size of the station, 'staff agitation' is a synonym for either 'stir crazy' or 'civil unrest'. Or it could just be a misdiagnosis of a different problem. Any of those possibilities can lead to situations where we're not given a warm welcome."
"They're probably just all at the titty bar, if their staffs are all agitated. Best to leave them be for a bit.Reginald doesn't seem to follow.
Anyway, if We're going on this Transpenitentiary Rewind Acquittal Process thing, we must be the Progressive Reprobate Agitation Terminal Squad. Somebody stitch us up some logos and emblems."
I'd like to join in if that's okay. It seems like this game is taking players freely, so I went ahead and wrote up a sheet and turn. I've read through a couple games here and there, (including this one and DIG) but never felt I had the time before this summer. I thought this looked like a good game to get started with, so here I am. Tips and suggestions are welcome.D2 is basic health die without any armor. Humans are very flimsy things.
One question: The first post indicates in one location that the base life die is d2, but under the default character sheet is d4. I'm assuming d4 in my sheet, but I don't know. I'd like clarification so I can correct it if needed.
I'd like to appear in the barracks, and follow Reginald's instructions to travel to terrabase sigma. (assuming with the team)Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Are we gonna be given space suits for this mission or are we gonna die if something goes wrong?"If you need them I'm sure they'll be provided! The station should be fully pressurized though; its one of those prefab things, been completed for quite a while.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I'm sure there will be personnel on site to guide you. And if all else fails I'm sure there are maps on site as well. I do apologize though, I'm just not sure where that security request went...Lucy finds a place to dispose of the asbestos safely, then heads to the barracks to ask “How will we get to where we need to be without a map?”Spoiler: Lucy (click to show/hide)
((It's within my budget actually, I had 1250 OMNI, the purchases cost me 950 which left me with 300. Also the antibio razor now has a d6 strength requirement to use, does the concealed implant version also have that requirement? If it does, would it be fine if I switched my fate levelup to strength?))Yes, it has the requirement, and yes you can switch it."Are we gonna be given space suits for this mission or are we gonna die if something goes wrong?""Do you expect the station to blow up the moment we arrive? You shouldn't worry about not having a space suit, there are far more ways for you to die that aren't prevented with one."
Be wherever I need to be to progress to the next stage.She could be useful. Her stats are pretty low so straight up combat might not be a good idea but auxiliary or helping positions are possible.
Do I think KitKat has a chance of being remotely useful in a fight? Or is she not designed for such things?Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Uh. In light of the massive armory change, I'mma gonna just... unbuy all the stuff I just bought, if that's okay? And instead, buy an armored spacesuit, if that's not considered metagaming... otherwise, a cognition copier, because that's totally what I'd do if I didn't know a space mission was next.Thats fine; I'm basically gonna let anyone unbuy and rebuy items they bought this time because I kinda pulled the rug out of under everyone with those changes.
Also, going back to my original levelup, putting the stat point into will rather than str.Spoiler: Scared Security (click to show/hide)
Moving most recent level from guns to speech, if you don't mind. Haven't rolled either yet.Thats fine.Spoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
"Tell me, magic triple-8 ball, is this going to be a case of demonic possession of the entire staff, resulting in the termination of the entire facility, again?"ENTIRELY POSSIBLE, BUT PROBABLY NOT IN THIS CASE.
Ask the above question to the magic 888-ball.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Aww crap, store all different now and don't have much time to look through it. Is spare goop tank still 30?I think a goop tank is much less now.
Either way, buy: cognition copier (400), toolkit (200), 2 nutrient paste (2x1), ear plugs (5), goop tank (?)QuoteYou could up the attack die by merging two, effectively spraying more.Cool. How much for a goop thrower then?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
You shake hands with Reggie. He seems pleased.Spoiler: Jengo (click to show/hide)
Go where I must go to be ready for next mission. Shake hands say hello to new bosses.
"Well, I guess I better get ready for space! Hey Edd, if you're gonna ask the magic ball about the upcoming mission, you may as well place a bet on it. That's a 10 credit buy in for what type of mission it will be, another ten credits for scale of disaster, and a final ten credits for number of team deaths."I'll allow it, for now. But the helmet does prevent you from wearing anything else on your head.
Strip naked right there in the meeting and put on my disposable space suit. then attempt to put on my rubberized jumpsuit over top of it, unless usch is clearly impossible, in which case, tie my rubberized jumpsuit around my waist.Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Could I buy a replacement helmet for my disposable spacesuit?Only if you buy another full suit.
Could I wear my disposable spacesuit under my Riot Armour?
If yes to both, then do that.
Yes, I am a real cheapskate.
Can I use a Thermite Cutting Charge as a melee weapon? Will I roll explosives for it?
I'll also buy 2 foam grenades, 2 cutting charges and an OMNI-scient Network observer.
"I'll bet 10 OMNI on pirates, 10 OMNI on complete station destruction and 10 OMNI on 3 deaths."Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
I think a goop tank is much less now.Can't seem to find it in the arsenal, so how much exactly?
Hmmm probably gonna be...Actually, I think instead of allowing weapon modification it might be a better idea to just have upgraded versions to buy that do more effective "damage". Oz was complaining about people buying their way out of weapon negatives and he does have a point.Aww, part of the reason I invested in mechanics to be able to make neat mods for our kit, with the idea that (since a roll is involved) fucking up would mean breaking the thing you wanted to mod, or at least wasting Toolkit charges (I assume those don't refill if you do tinker in between missions, but instead count towards your next mission?)
Lets say 5.QuoteI think a goop tank is much less now.Can't seem to find it in the arsenal, so how much exactly?QuoteHmmm probably gonna be...Actually, I think instead of allowing weapon modification it might be a better idea to just have upgraded versions to buy that do more effective "damage". Oz was complaining about people buying their way out of weapon negatives and he does have a point.Aww, part of the reason I invested in mechanics to be able to make neat mods for our kit, with the idea that (since a roll is involved) fucking up would mean breaking the thing you wanted to mod, or at least wasting Toolkit charges (I assume those don't refill if you do tinker in between missions, but instead count towards your next mission?)
Personally, I think it might be better to allow player-modding but to not have npc's that mod things perfectly for money (like it was in ER). Of course, if you don't want weapon/gear modification in the game that's fine by me (though then Tech becomes even more favored over mechanics than it already is, like how Aux was waaay more useful than Handi back in ER), but then I'd probably like to rethink my level-up, if allowed.
See if I can find a map of that type of space station in the network.[11]
Also see if I can make an input only link from my communicator to the Murder Pot so that it will stop complaining about its lack of sensory input and start complaining about other things.
Otherwise, ready!
Edit: Also gonna give Rezel an extra 140 due to the armory rewrite (leaving me with just enough money to pay off my gambling debts). I've already edited my sheet.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
"That sounds incredibly optimistic."
Ready. Test out the Symbiote on the ride over. If a subject is necessary for testing, attempt to cajole Lucy into helping by mimicking the voice of her sister, Lyra. You know, the one who liked to do experiments.Spoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
Depends on if things immediately start exploding.Ready. Test out the Symbiote on the ride over. If a subject is necessary for testing, attempt to cajole Lucy into helping by mimicking the voice of her sister, Lyra. You know, the one who liked to do experiments.You still want to try this, when you get on the ship?
"I hope you're happy. Now I'm going to have to format the cube and start from scratch. You should show a bit more respect to the man responsible for you, you know."I WILL WEAR YOUR SKIN
Reprimand the pot. Format the cube and reinstall the OMNI OS.
Find a seat where I can plug my computer, preferably one with sensor data. Else just find a nice spot.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
[3]Pick a spot. Whatever spot I choose, look at the controls to try to figure out what they doSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Take control of the top gunners seat. Get KitKat to sit as close to me as possible.Lance clambers up to the top gunner seat and Kitkat crawls up and sits right in his lap.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Grumble. Mentally pet my symbiote and call it a good girl, because it might just come in handy soon.[6]Spoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
Take a seat. Firmly grasp my fire ax in preparation in putting down any space dissidents that come on board the ship.Kerberos sits, holding his ax to his chest like a talisman.Spoiler: Kerberos (click to show/hide)
Blake takes the second gunner position.
"sorry if I'm being blunt, but why are you a giant bear?"
take the left gunner seat, if it uses guns skill to fire these, and even if it doesn't.Spoiler: Blake (click to show/hide)
Pick a passenger seat roughly in the middle of the vehicle.Spuds sits near the middle of the vehicle, hedging his bets.Spoiler: Spuds (click to show/hide)
Pick a seat near the front of the ship.Heather sits in the front, ready to leap into action, or perhaps simply impatient.Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
Oh my God, Blake! You can't just ask someone why they are a bear!Jon takes the pilot seat. Perhaps his good luck will save them all?
You gotta growl and gurgle it."
PILOT SEAT! PREPARE TO DRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Pick a seat that's as far from the door as possible.Burt, his old lives still echoing perhaps, sits as far from the door and danger as he can manage.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Grab a gunner seat, assuming that there is one available and no one with a higher weapons skill wants it. (I have d6 guns)
Are we talking rifle caliber mg gunpods or canon type gunpods? Not that it makes much difference I suppose... after all, it beats my generic pistol, and I'm still going to shoot at hostiles with it when (probably not if) I get the chance.
"I wonder if anyone would mind me test firing it."Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Grab a gunner seat, tear someone out if there's no seats available. Rezel's one of the best shots here, no way he's trusting his life to one of these incompetents!Tom walks towards the right gun and is in the middle of asking if anyone else is going to use it when Rezel literaly tackles him, shoves him out of the way, and takes the seat, all while screaming "MINE!" over and over. Tom gets up and takes a seat in the passenger seats.Spoiler: Scared Security (click to show/hide)
Steve takes the last gunner position.Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)
go for the Last gunner seat. Unless someone with higher gun skills than D6 wants it, in that case take a passanger seat
Take a passenger sear in the back, making sure my rifle is ready.Jack takes a seat in back, triple checking his rifle and repeating the basic steps of cqc in his head.Spoiler: Jack Hansan (click to show/hide)
"Tell me, Triple-8-chan, am I going to be cleaning up demon bullshit before we even get to our destination?"Edd takes a seat in the midsection of the ship and gives the 888 ball a shake.
Ask 888-ball
Take a seat. If we're short a gunner, take a gunner seat. If not, just take a passenger seat and put on some tunes using my OMNITECH music player.Spoiler: Eddrick, Sanitation (click to show/hide)
Lets say 5.Oki, getting 2 then, ya grok?
Scream and cry and shoot the turret at everything outside that so much as moves, shifts, exists, or allows itself to be perceived. Also shoot everything else.You really want to shoot everything else not outside the ship? That includes everyone inside the shipSpoiler: Scared Security (click to show/hide)
I suspect he's attacking anything lit up by the static. And then attacking the darkness.It is good to clarify. Thank you
"I think we might need an actual pilot.""What? I totally got this. I just need to point us toward the thing, and away from that other thing. So, if you see a thing, let me know!"
"Okay, okay, it's yours. I'm not touching it. You shoot stuff ... and where on earth did that pilot learn to fly?""What pilot? why does everyone keep talking about a pilot? Did we bring one of those along?"
"wait, why did we let a Janitor be pilot? Also, if I remembered correctly, we'll just pop back into our universe in a little bit, so no need for directions.""Oh. Well, in that case, does anyone need to get out to pee? Better make it fast before we violently rematerialize in a spectacular pyrotechnic display! You do NOT want to be tinkling when THAT happens!"
"Oh. Well, in that case, does anyone need to get out to pee? Better make it fast before we violently rematerialize in a spectacular pyrotechnic display! You do NOT want to be tinkling when THAT happens!""Oh, I do hope we don't explode. can anybody with technical skill tell us if we'll be okay when we get back?"
"Oh, I do hope we don't explode. can anybody with technical skill tell us if we'll be okay when we get back?"
See if my hazard scanner picks up anything in the staticSpoiler (click to show/hide)
"Would of been nice to have had things be fine for at least 5 minutes."[2]
Stay in seat while making a technical assessment of the ship so far.Spoiler: Jack Hansan (click to show/hide)
"Great, at this rate we're gonna get stuck in the fucking Twilight Zone.""THERE'S SOMETHING ON THE WING! SOME....THING! Ahhh just joking, there's no wing out there anymore! Ha ha ha..ha."
Keep sitting in my seat, its not like I can help with anything.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Comfort KitKat when she gets scared. Keep an eye out for external threats. Shoot at anything that looks nasty.Kitkat is giggling and holding her arms up as though this is just a big roller coaster, seemingly completely unafraid. Lance does his best to keep an eye out, though its hard given the circumstances.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Scream and cry and shoot the turret at everything outside that so much as moves, shifts, exists, or allows itself to be perceived. Also shoot everything else.Rezel screams incoherently and holds the trigger on his gun down, whipping it around erratically and spraying rounds off into the static void with no real target other than his own fear.Spoiler: Scared Security (click to show/hide)
"Oh yeah? And how are you going to do that? You gonna throw coffee beans at me?"
Keep arguing with the pot.
See if there's a copilot seat or similar I can use with some sort of computer or multi-function-display, then use it to recalibrate the thrust output and vectors in a manner that compensates for the uneven thrust.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
"Ah, good. this is going better than I'd hoped. Let's see ... DID ANYONE GET DIRECTIONS TO THE NEXT UNIVERSE? Never mind, I'll just take a left. I'm sure we can ask for directions at the next rest stop."
Turn off the lights again. Take a left. Find a rest stop, or a universe or something. Look for some eject buttons, in case the passengers get crankier than the Murder Pot.Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
I grok it.QuoteLets say 5.Oki, getting 2 then, ya grok?
Use earplugs if interference is loud enough to damage/disorient.
If there is damage to the ship that is reachable/fixable from the inside and that hampers progress, try to fix it.
If not, use scanner to see if I can pick up anything in this mess that might point us in the right direction.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"I think we might need an actual pilot."Spuds watches everything unfold. He blinks once, slowly. Then he pops a stim, so that he has a better chance of surviving...whatever is coming next.
Pop a stim, because this looks bad.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Okay, okay, it's yours. I'm not touching it. You shoot stuff ... and where on earth did that pilot learn to fly?"[4]
Assist Yagyu with any repairs I can safely help with. I don't have a space suit, and I'm not sure there's an airlock anyway, so anything outside would qualify as an unsafe repair. Consider whether the phase space interface we hit was necessary for us to get back out of this dimension.
((Just a suggestion, but someone should probably check for life support issues / pressurization leaks. Might be totally unnecessary, but better to know now rather than when the half of the crew not wearing space suits suffocates. I would do it, but I'd like to make sure the ship doesn't blow up first))Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"wait, why did we let a Janitor be pilot? Also, if I remembered correctly, we'll just pop back into our universe in a little bit, so no need for directions."Blake yawns.
Blake takes a look at the place where the wing tore off. Is there a hole in the ship? is there an interdimensional alien trying to get in? if there's a hole, put on the space suit and tell the engineers. if not, just keep chillin'Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Steve remains ready but....nothing comes at him.Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)
look around shoot anything that gets close to the ship.
Familiarize myself with the threat analyzer, does it work passively or do I need to actively scan for threats?Heather finds that the threat analyzer requires an active scan, so she tests it out.
Check for threats and analyze how threatening the situation is.Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
"Looks like we're ahead of schedule on things going wrong. Good job everyone, keep up the fine work!"
Where are we? Keep an eye out for 'collectables' out in the void.Spoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
((Ozack, no hard feelings, I get that the current situation is mostly the result of a 2 followed by a 1 on a critical job, not anything you did. But IC your actions look near on suicidal for everyone.))((no hard feelings at all. This is all well within expectations and is pretty funny, at least to me.))
((Ozarck, I totes have hard feelings. Only reason I didn't shoot ya last turn was your d12 fate~))((You can always be counted on to point the gun at me. You're like a shittier version of Batman to my more glorious Superman~))
"It's a mutiny! Eject, Murder Pot, eject!As everyone in the ship seems to turn their guns on Jon, he just gives an exaggerated shit eating grin. And then he shoves the two hostages out of his grip and onto the ground before hopping out of his seat and swaggering out of the cockpit.
If the preceding clusterfuck doesn't kill Jon before he gets a chance to act, and hostilities are still evident: hang on to mymeatshieldsdear teammates, keeping them between me and the more aggressive fellas in the back while calling for Murder Pot to dump everyone else out of the ship.
If instead, hostilities are ceased and nobody is shooting or stabbing or fire axing him, Jon will chillax and is willing to be persuaded out of the pilot seat by the catgirl waifu for headpats. In that case, ignore the green text above.((Ozack, no hard feelings, I get that the current situation is mostly the result of a 2 followed by a 1 on a critical job, not anything you did. But IC your actions look near on suicidal for everyone.))((no hard feelings at all. This is all well within expectations and is pretty funny, at least to me.))((Ozarck, I totes have hard feelings. Only reason I didn't shoot ya last turn was your d12 fate~))((You can always be counted on to point the gun at me. You're like a shittier version of Batman to my more glorious Superman~))Spoiler: Gambling Hall (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
Just try to get away from Jon.Pathos, freed from his embarrassing situation, scrambles to the controls and tries to fix things.
If I'm somehow still alive when the violence is over, try to drive us where we need to be or back to where we started, whichever is easiest. Hopefully the ship knows where it is and where it isn't. If someone with better skill is willing to do so, then provide instructions instead and work on fixing computer problems.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
"My threat analysis has analyzed the situation and... it's asking us if we filled out our wills yet. I hope you all brought space suits." Heather says with a cheerful smile on her face."Jon has left the pilot seat and is currently eating handfuls of snacks while making rude gestures. Lets go in for an interview. Jon, you probably just killed us all, including yourself. What are you gonna do next?"
"There is one more significant threat, and that's our pilot. Jon, give up your pilot seat or I will have to forcibly remove you from that seat."
Forcibly remove Jon from the pilot's seat if he refuses to give up the seat willingly. Give cheerful commentary as the situation develops.Spoiler: Heather Reid (click to show/hide)
"I got it guys. Get out of the way, give me room and work on fixing the ship. My tools are over there, feel free to use them."[7v4]
Turn on my Omni-light.
Simplify things by getting up, and shivving Jon with a ceramic knife. Aim to kill.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
[6][1v2]Take shallow breaths. Shoot Jon with my foam gun. Turn oxygen back onSpoiler (click to show/hide)
"I was hoping to keep my tool kit intact, but it doesn't do me much good if I'm dead or a few hundred thousand miles from nowhere in space."[3/3] [-1 repair kit charge]
Attempt to re-enable life support and navigation. Use a tool kit charge if needed/applicable. What skill or stat is most useful for piloting?
"Rezel... I never thought I would say this... But if you can let that turret not be 'MINE' for a second, your skill-set is needed to subdue an uncooperative maniac janitor turned suicidal pilot before he kills us all. Try not to shoot him if he relinquishes control of the ship. Not poking holes in the ship is also preferred, since most of us don't have space suits.
((Ozack, no hard feelings, I get that the current situation is mostly the result of a 2 followed by a 1 on a critical job, not anything you did. But IC your actions look near on suicidal for everyone.))Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Rezel is already most of the way out of his seat by the time Tom speaks to him, and the terrified man pauses to give him a look that that... well, a look that's entirely undecipherable under the armored space helmet he's wearing. Still, he nods vigorously, and his screams have quieted back down to a nervous giggle, so that's probably a good sign[12][2v2]
Make way over to the cockpit. Stand a ways back, not getting in the way of the seething crowd of flesh already intent on murdering Jon, and aim at the cockpit. If a clear shot presents itself, and he isn't already dead, put a nice little bullet cleanly between the Janitor's eyes.
((Ozarck, I totes have hard feelings. Only reason I didn't shoot ya last turn was your d12 fate~))Spoiler: Scared Security (click to show/hide)
If at all possible, send KitKat to “persuade” Jon to get out of his seat. If Jon’s already dead, or it won’t work for whatever reason, then just keep trying to get KitKat to settle down.Kitkat hops over to Jon and sits on his lap, kicking her feet playfully and running her hands through his hair as she seems to wiggle and squirm to unheard music.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: medic n°2 (click to show/hide)
Wait for my death while reading Garfield cartoons.
If the others have failed to kill Jon yet, tell the symbiote to stab him with the ceramic knife.[1v4]
Scan the damaged section of the craft using bionic eyes to determine if there's a breach that'll be exposed to vacuum once we return to realspace. If there is, point it out to someone with a toolbox.Spoiler: Clem, Occult Materials and Information Management Officer (click to show/hide)
"Oh shit! We're being hijacked!"Kerberos finds no one currently hijacking or otherwise piloting the ship without sense.
Kerberos rushes to the cockpit and precedes to beat the shit out of anyone who looks like a hijacker with the flat side of his ax. Including the pilot as well, since they obvious had to hijack the plane in the first place in order to fly it.Spoiler: Kerberos (click to show/hide)
"As far as I am aware, to the best of my judgement, this may in fact be a problem."There are no hijackers that you see and considering Jon's record of fending off an entire ship of people, Blake decides not to press his luck.
smack Rezel on on the back of his head, telling him to stop wasting bullets, and then go and subdue the crazy hijackers and/or janitor-pilot with my baton.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"This kind of shit was why I asked about space suits, so now most of us are going to die because we weren't provided with proper equipment."Burt considers the situation, the attacks on Jon, what might be imminent death, and then starts laughing.
Just keep sitting in my chair and watch what happens.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Look around to see if there is anything inside the shuttle that could be use to provide air, such as an oxygen tank or something. Otherwise, continue sitting in seat.[2]Spoiler: Jack Hansan (click to show/hide)
Edd takes out his earbuds for a moment, looking around. The oxygen seems to be depleting. Supposedly they're cruising in a dimension of weird shit. And there's some kind of kerfuffle going on in the cockpit.Breathe easy, if possible.
He shakes the 888-ball. "Triple-8-chan, is this shit any of my business?"
But deep inside, he already knows the answer. This is above his paygrade, and more importantly, he isn't contractually obliged to help with any of this. So he puts the earbuds back in, closes his eyes, and tries to relax until the time he gets to clean up the aftermath.
Ask question of 888-ball. Regardless of answer, close my eyes, listen to some more tunes, and just let things happen dude.Spoiler: Eddrick, Sanitation (click to show/hide)
Seems like we only really have one choice here: YES
((Also, I loved that, that was hilarious.))Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
"It didn't work. We could only have a few more seconds to get this ship work..." (At this point, in a silent flash, everything goes white, and then fades to black)Spoiler: Tom Hershey (click to show/hide)
What happens now? Press enter to restart mission? I take it we all have to make new sheets? Or maybe we get to be the local security team on the asteroid base, waiting for reinforcements...
In any case... I now have a spare if I need one, or a new primary.Spoiler: Fred Williams (click to show/hide)
NeatoSpoiler: the fated (click to show/hide)
Lets hope you avoid the fate of the other famous Pike. (https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/images/0/08/Christopher_Pike%2C_2267.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110706235444&path-prefix=en)I’m fine to restartSpoiler: Pike (click to show/hide)You put KitKat on the employee of the month sheet you coward!
I'm happy to keep going with this one. It looked interesting. I'd like to see what actually is going on in that asteroid base. On the other hand, if you had something else fun planned... Don't let me stop you.Okie dokie.Spoiler: Fred Williams (click to show/hide)
I see a resemblance.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I will go with whatever the other players want to do mission wise
I don't really have enough money to afford a body since everything I had just went up in smoke. Can I go in debt to get one?Oh ya want some frills do ya, mr. crash the ship 2.0. Nah. We're sticking you in an OMNITECH mechanical slave. Its the cheapest body we got at 300 omni so you're only 270 in debt. Its stats are
If so, can I get a spider bot instead of a human body? Or at least an automaton, since it's the same price as a human body? Or maybe get uploaded directly into the shuttle to act as the embedded driver, since that will probably be free?Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
While waiting for OMNIcorp to rescue our souls from the HELL dimension, chase down and repeatedly shoot Jon's soul. Stabbing, beating, and persistently insulting is also acceptable, but not preferred.I'm afraid they keep your soul in the old servers where you have to crunch spreadsheet calcs until you pay off the debt your death caused. Factoring in inflation you'll be out...never.
Oh, and cry. That seems appropriate.Spoiler: Deceased Security (click to show/hide)
There's the medic.Spoiler: A medical adventurer (click to show/hide)
Wait, the cheap body has two levels in endurance? And it looks like a crash test dummy?/me roceeds to fail at pathing and gets stuck bumping his head on a door repeatedly.
Sounds like we need to emulate cortex command and buy a bunch of those armed with cheap SMGs.
[4] Good for you Pathos. Maybe we won't demote you at the end of this mission.Wait, the cheap body has two levels in endurance? And it looks like a crash test dummy?/me roceeds to fail at pathing and gets stuck bumping his head on a door repeatedly.
Sounds like we need to emulate cortex command and buy a bunch of those armed with cheap SMGs.
If nobody with better skill wants to do so, VERY CAREFULLY drive the shuttle. What are the odds I get another [1]?Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
I'm up for a reset. So long as we have an actual pilot this time?This shuttle is brand new. Had to get a new one because the other crew misplaced the old shuttle.
Edit: Guess we do.
Check underneath the seats instead of sitting down. See if the previous crew left anything junk or trash behind.Spoiler: Charon (click to show/hide)
"I don't understand why I feel this way, but I have a strong feeling that it's very important who we choose as a pilot..."
Take a seat in the transport. Gunner seat if available. If we're not to that point yet, do something that makes sense, like join the rest of the team.Spoiler: Fred Williams (click to show/hide)
Get in a passenger seatSpoiler (click to show/hide)
and we're back! Toby will stand there and wait for something to go wrong.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Take the top gunners seat.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Take one of the side turrets if no one else wants them.Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
Find a chair and sit down.[+ anyone I missed]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
So apparently we all exploded or something? Did I get copied successfully before? If yes, do we keep the OMNI we had before or did that get blown up with the rest of the inventory?You get copied and keep your money. If you can't buy anything better, you get put in a crash test dummy robotic body at the cost of 300 OMNI, going into debt if you can't afford it. See my sheet for the body's stat block.
So apparently we all exploded or something? Did I get copied successfully before? If yes, do we keep the OMNI we had before or did that get blown up with the rest of the inventory?If you had a brain copy, then you're dumped into any body you have ready. If you have no body ready and not enough money to buy one, you go into debt and get dumped into a mechanical slave body. Check the arsenal for it. You lose any items you had, including starting gear.
Edit: thank you paris for the info!
In that case, do we get any of our class-specific gear back? What about the brain uploader, does it need to be rebought?
Can you give me the stats for the full body prosthetic? What about the automaton? Can these still level up stats?
How does the clone body work? Could I go into debt to get one?
As for the mission: take a gunner seat if available.
wait patiently until we get to our destination. I don’t want to risk messing something upSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Sit patiently and wait for the ship toexplodeland safely.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
wait patiently for something to happen.And thus did some of the crew wait, motionless, hoping to fade out of the narrator's attention and gain a state of quantum immortality.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Check underneath the seats instead of sitting down. See if the previous crew left anything junk or trash behind.I feel like I'm repeating myself here. Oh wait I am.Spoiler: Charon (click to show/hide)
This shuttle is brand new. Had to get a new one because the other crew misplaced the old shuttle.Ain't nothing under there but that tag that says its unlawful to remove from cushions. You know that tag.
Observe the darkness.Sure is dark out there. There's actually bits of what look like particulate matter drifting by every so often though. Almost like what you saw on deep sea submersible video....Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
Determine whether the temperature gradients are dangerous, as in you wouldn't want to be in one, or dangerous, as in the ship is in danger of being destroyed with everyone in it.[6]Spoiler: Fred Williams (click to show/hide)
I attack the the darkness! ... by turning on the shuttle's external lights.Pathos flips on the external lights.
Then keep on flying towards our destination, keeping an eye on sensors to make sure I'm going the right way and for anything weird.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Observe the darkness.Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
Take one of the gun seats, be watchful for things to shoot. If such things reveal themselves, shoot them.Wilfred and Elen on the bottom and right side turrets are the only ones with a clear line of sight, so they open fire.Spoiler: Very Definitely Not Rezel #2 (click to show/hide)
Just keep shuttling. Just keep shuttling. Just keep shuttling shuttling shuttling...Ah, Pathos still hasn't figured out the problem yet. Oh well, at least this provides some in flight entertainment.
Unless there's need for evasive action, in which case do so.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
"Keep your mind on where you are, what you are doing."
Shaken by the unexpected encounter, Fred waits ready to use his turret as needed.
((RC, maybe I missed something, but I don't think you have a body to use the cognition copier on.))Spoiler: Fred Williams (click to show/hide)
Go for the cheap option then I suppose, and get a new cognition copier. Shoot baddies if presented.((Ok. The cognition copier works even without a human brain. Might work better even, since you're just on electronics at this point))
((Probably would be better to just respawn at this point, but eh, I like ol' Yagyu.))Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Shoot any more hostiles that appear.Spoiler: Very Definitely Not Rezel #2 (click to show/hide)
Let the turret cool down.Elen's turret comes back online at the end of this turn.Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
[2]figure out how much I know about crabs, look out a window if i'm near oneSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Keep sitting and watch whats happening outside the ship.Harold does not quite like whats going on outside. He doesn't like it one bit.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
...[3]
Try and take the tag.Spoiler: Charon (click to show/hide)
Do we have any way to interact with things outside the shuttle? Other than shooting? If possible, we should do a scan to see if the previous occupants of the makeshift crab shell left anything interesting for us to find.[3]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
The ship is moving through a canyon of sorts it seems like, ragged stone walls like stalagmite teeth rising up around them.((I might be freaking out a little bit, but I'm getting a very definite star wars "This is no cave" feeling.))
((Also, Pathos... are you sure we were in a canyon?))Quote from: two turns backThe ship is moving through a canyon of sorts it seems like, ragged stone walls like stalagmite teeth rising up around them.((I might be freaking out a little bit, but I'm getting a very definite star wars "This is no cave" feeling.))
The ship continues along and the canyon seems to fall away, leaving the ship in near total darkness as its lights quest outward with nothing to illuminate. For a minute or two it is like this, quiet and straight advancement through the empty space of this world.
((Well... I'm sure Google maps works there. So we'll be fine right? I mean, who needs to actually worry about walls?))((no, it's OMNI-maps, not google))
Tara gets out her foam gun and gets ready to use it in a way probably more congruent with its original intent than its common usage.“What if we went upwards? Out of the canyon?”Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Get foam gun out to shoot st something if it breaks through the windoe
"Oh god, there's so many of them."Harold assumes the standard OMNI security adversity response position.
Crawl under my seat and hide.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Rummage through the rest of the underseats and try and snag the additional ink bombs.[4]Spoiler: Charon (click to show/hide)
do these eels count as occult? If so, remember everything I know about them. Also, turn of any lights near me, to set the mood.Toby considers the fishy things.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Shoot, if I can.Porque no los dos? (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hzPpWInAiOg)
Doot, if I cannot.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"I HAVE A PLAN!!!"
Give one of the bystanders a flare to eject backwards from the ship if possible. Yell for Pathos to kill the lights once the flare is outside of the ship. Hope the fish follow the flare and not us. Be ready to shoot fish with turret if this fails. "The creatures are after our lights! This ought to confuse them."
((This requires three things: At least one bystander to eject the flare (read: Harold, Charon, or Pike), Pathos's cooperation, and a method of ejecting the flare in a direction away from us without ejecting us or flooding the ship with the gas.))
((Also, Pathos... are you sure we were in a canyon?))Quote from: two turns backThe ship is moving through a canyon of sorts it seems like, ragged stone walls like stalagmite teeth rising up around them.((I might be freaking out a little bit, but I'm getting a very definite star wars "This is no cave" feeling.))Spoiler: Fred Williams (click to show/hide)
Turn off the lamps and fly a bit higher to throw them off our trail. Also stop firing the thrusters if they emit a lot of light and just coast forward if that's a thing that would make sense. Otherwise just keep flying towards our destination and Dodge anything bright coming our way.[11]
((Too bad nobody has night vision.))Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
"See! I said Omni Maps would work."Fred determines the following:
Determine the following:
Do we need to use the broken hatch to exit the ship, or not?
Did the gas from the alternate phase space make the jump with us, or not?
EDIT: IF we need to use the broken hatch to exit the ship, wait until we are docked, then try to repair it / get it operational. In theory, this will avoid venting the team into space if I mess up.
((@Parisbre56 I don't know that there is anywhere else to dock. I'd like to get a spacesuit ASAP before I do any exploring.))Spoiler: Fred Williams (click to show/hide)
The hazard detector is reading elevated levels of methane and some other unknown gases but thats probably because of the pool of alien gas currently occupying the lower half of the ship.Continue watching for hostile entities. Use hazard detector if I’m able to hold my gun while doing soSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Keep moving towards where we're supposed to dock and dock there. Don't transmit anything like identification or docking requests until I absolutely have to. If they haven't noticed us, I don't want to give them time to prepare for us.Unless the team wants to inspect it from the outside or dock somewhere else, in which case do that.
Oh, by the way, how do people who go to missions like this get back to the MOOK base? Are we going to have to find a similar machine and activate it? Or does the shuttle activate some sort of beacon to call for a pickup?Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
((Naturegirl, when you want to cancel an action, you shouldn't post a new action saying "cancel that". It will confuse Piecewise as he reads over the thread, because until he's reads everything he won't know what you're doing. Instead, when post a new boldtext, you should(Sorry, I will fix that)strike out the old boldtext like this, using the [s]strikethrough[/s] tags, or just add the new boldtext to your old post using the Modify button, if you don't want to get rid of the old boldtext. Either way, you should end up with only one post that has boldtext in it, because that makes Piecewise's life easier.))
Try to remotely get the doors to close and the section to pressurize. If I can't do it from in here, then seeing as I'm the only one who can survive in vacuum, I should search for a way to exit the ship with as little loss of air as possible (wait for repairs if it would help) so I can go outside and find some panel that closes the doors and pressurizes the room.[4]Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Open the shuttle door if I can do so from the pilot controls. Otherwise, wait for someone to open the door.[10]
Once out, find some terminal I can use. Start by searching local command and communication history to see why the doors were left open and any other interesting comings or goings from this docking station.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
look at my hazard detector to see if whatever is watching us shows up on it[3]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Are there shuttle-sized doors leading further in? That would probably let us know where we need to go to reach the phase gate. If there's a convenient crane on a rail that will take the shuttle straight to it, even better.Pathos checks around the room. The path to the interface is actually quite obvious; its even labeled with a big painted sign above the double blast doors leading to it. The doors are locked and actually completely welded shut and sealed as well. Judging from some spill over they space beyond has also probably been partially filled with the "safety" resin sometimes used to contain dangerous things. Pathos judges that this probably wasn't an attempt to contain something within and rather was a method of sealing the interface off. Likely they wanted to prevent anyone from using it.
Also try to find a map. Or at least convenient painted lines on the walls/floor that will guide us to the phase gate.
((I'll leave the investigation to the others and focus on us having an escape route for when things inevitably go wrong. Two TPKs on the same mission is a bit too much.))Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Go inspect a corpse with Elen, keeping the rifle pointed at its head. Shoot if it does anything nonstandard for corpses. If it remains corpsey, remove its head, probably by repeated stomping since Wil has no blade, but presumably *does* have heavy-duty boots. Continue on to the other corpses and repeat.
...What happened to all the janitors, anyway? This is a frigging janitor's job, not security's.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
Take a look at the bodies with injuries, determine what kind of injuries they had before they died. Also loot them.Wilfred and Elen go and inspect the corpses a little more closely. By which I mean they also loot the heck out of them. Through this process they discover the following.Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
Keep maintaining overwatch with the top turret. Occasionally check to make sure nothing sneaks up on me.Pike sits up in the top turret and keeps it constantly swinging in a slow 360 degree circle.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Go see whats in any crates and on the shelves that are around.For the most part what Harold finds are various shuttle parts, tools, blasting explosives, concrete, rebar, deconstructed doors and sheet metal, life support system extenders, and so forth. Basically all the things you'd expect to find in an expanding colony or mining outpost. The out going stuff is where things get odd. Most are filled with rather generic rocks but some have sealed metal containers in them. The containers are of the super durable variety and are sealed with a key pad.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
figure out what the occult symbols mean.[7]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Well this is spooky"
Make sure the room is well lit. Look for exits (other than the shuttle sized ones pathos is looking for). Do I need to explicitly state that I would take action to defend myself / the team from hostiles should I come across them in the course of my action?Spoiler: Fred Williams (click to show/hide)
look for a way to open the doors into the base proper.Yagyu examines the doors. They're locked and their seams have been welded shut to keep the door totally sealed. Opening them would require unlocking them electronically and also unsealing them physically. Or just cutting them open.
Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"hmmmmmm. Aliens? That's probably not good. ''Toby vigorously thrusts his rod into the corpses, as is his desire. The corpses remain characteristically unresponsive.
Go poke the bodies with my null-rod, does anything happen?Spoiler (click to show/hide)
See if I can determine how old their injuries are.[1]Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
The fluctuations do not appear to be concentrated in any one area. No matter where Tara stands and where she points the detector, it keeps fluctuating at a seemingly constant rate.Are the fluctuations concentrated in one area?Spoiler (click to show/hide)
keep on keeping on with the overwatch.Pike....ok what does this even mean? The script just says "Pike continues to be a pretty mediocre game but pretty good porn." What does have to do with this situation? No you don't pay me to understand, you don't pay me AT ALL! You just keep me chained to the radiator and force me to read your terrible fanfiction.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Try to gather some of the tools, some welding torches and spare parts or metal for construction means. Maybe also some other goodies, but the construction-related stuff is most important.
Using these tools, try to unseal the physical obstructions for the small door.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
I heard someone found explosives. Loot some of said explosives.
If I have a map or similar that can tell me of an alternate path for our shuttle to reach the phase gate and it is possible to open said door with explosives, then do so.
Else, stand in a corner and wait for someone to point me to something that needs computering or blowing up.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Grab some of the explosives and detonators and maybe a cutting torch it one is in all the tools I found, if a cutting torch is available go cut open the man sized door.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"I wonder what's in those containers. I should open one and find out if it kills the whole team!!!"
Seeing my Teammates experience, use a piece of rebar or something like that to try to acquire some simple tools, possible enough for another repair kit charge (maybe???) and a torch. Attempt to open one of the containers. Point Pathos at electronically unlocking the man sized door. (see his action)Spoiler: Fred Williams (click to show/hide)
"Damn, those extras are really good at their job." Elen muttered to herself.[3]
Look out for any hidden people who might jump out soon.Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
Wil suddenly jumps, then spins around in a circle, pointing his rifle in every direction and sweeping it over all his allies.Will spins around and his shouting dies away. The dock is alive with workers. People are carrying in boxes on hover pallets, loading shuttles, being yelled at by foremen and leaning on the walls, slacking off. It looks like any small shuttle dock, by Will's estimation, nothing strange about it at all.
"I just thought a thing that I didn't think, but in MY head! What the hell?! Who are you?! Get the fuck out, I'm me, not you!"
Swing the rifle around and scan for who or what thought thoughts in Wil's head. Assuming nothing obviously to blame is around, like a ghost or demonic figure, turn the rifle on the corpse Wil was gonna decapitate when his thoughts interrupted, and put a bullet between its eyes, then hold the rifle on the nearest corpse. If something obviously at fault is around, hold it at gunpoint and threaten it if it doesn't explain itself.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
Take a useful piece of metal. Attempt to open an ore container from the outbound cargo.[3]Spoiler: Fred Williams (click to show/hide)
Equip Isolation Suit and head into the hallwaySpoiler (click to show/hide)
"I'm starting to get some major Dead Space vibes."
I grab one of the cutting/welding torch things and a demolition charge, then I loot the newly found dead people.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Take a torch, one unit of useful metal bits and the repair kit stuff (if it usable without a repair kit itself, if not leave it).
Investigate the dead bodies and check if they have anything useful on them.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Hop down and loot bodies. Take anything I can sell for a lot. After that, stand at the entrance of the tunnel and shoot anything that’s mean to the person going in.(We'll assume you loot what you want, first come first serve. Also Radio, not enough stuff for repairing, no.)Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Take the other two demolition charges.
Can the shuttle move comfortably through the large corridor? Or does it have to be moved by a crane or forklift?
Are any of the cargo that seemed out of place in here? Can I see what's actually in it? Or do I at least know where it was taken?Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
[1]Try to open the man’s right hand and take what he is holdingSpoiler (click to show/hide)
“I’m gonna see what the man in a medical gown is holding”
Check for any transmissions. Try to raise someone through shuttle comms.[3]
If nobody answers, just start playing musicSpoiler: Pathos: Senior Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Grab as many omnicards as I can, then point my rifle at the weird corpse’s head and wait for someone to interact with him.[2]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I grab one of the pipe wrenches, the old gunpowder powered handgun, and 50 OMNI, then examine the handgun.Harold grabs some (40) Omni, a wrench (d4 damage), and the old revolver (d4 ranged). The revolver is clearly an antique, likely an heirloom, and though it has clearly seen action in the past the highly polished wooden grip and blueish steel body- still coated in a thin sheen of oil to prevent rust- betray it as a collector's piece rather than a practical side arm. It is none the less loaded, though 2 of the 6 cartridges have been fired.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Close the container with the shard (remembering the code, so I can open it later), take the repair kit stuff in hopes of finding more later, and attempt to determine what the bottle of black pills found on one of the dockyard workers is.Fred closes the container and packs it away in his bag, along with the random junk that he hopes might be useful later. He then grabs the small bottle of black pills and examines them. [5] He recognizes them as OMNITECH "Permanent Anti-Anxiety capsules"; pills that advertise themselves as solving all your problems and worries in a highly permanent fashion. The appear to be the fast acting kind, explaining the general distribution of the bodies.
For those interested in speculating on what is happening... Here's what I've picked up:Spoiler: speculation (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Fred Williams (click to show/hide)
grab the rest of the cash, and examine the thing in the man's hand. Finally, go look at that shard Fred and pathos are staring at.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Take either the gun or a fair share of the omni we found.Yagyu gets 60 OMNI from the pile.
Either way, unseal the other two doors (the mechanical work).Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Rejoin the group in the hallway.Elen wanders into the hall to see what all the screaming is about.Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
To Toby:"wait, don't touch that! It's definitely going to give you hallucinations. Apparently, it's also alien flubber."
“Thank you for helping me, why were you screaming? Can I see the shard?”
try and grab the shard without it getting stuck in me like it did Toby
"I'm sure this must be a trying time for you Will. Here, this might help. It's fast acting!"
Jokingly offer Will one of the anti-anxiety tablets. Put all unused ones in my inventory. Never know when someone in a stressful situation will need help. Store the shard in the container with my other shard. See where the elevator goes. (preferably by reading the floor labels)Spoiler: Fred Williams (click to show/hide)
To Toby:
“Thank you for helping me, why were you screaming? Can I see the shard?”
try and grab the shard without it getting stuck in me like it did Toby
The OMNITECH station might not be authorized to speak to us, but is it authorized to listen to us? Could it relay a message to command for us?Pathos asks if the other station can relay a message to his superiors on earth. The operator is silent for a few moments. Then he can hear a large book clunk down onto a desk followed by the rapid shuffling of pages and muttering. [4] Eventually the operator returns and states that he can do so but according to regulations the message must be 250 words or less and -he checks the rules once again- be arranged in a rhyming or poetic scheme of some kind.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
"AHHHHH! AHHH! AH! I saw shit! They were alive, and they were handling zombies! There's liver-eating zombies!"[buncha rolls later]
Every corpse that has an intact brain gets a bullet in it.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
"So we're going to be fighting zombies that only eat livers, what the hell were these people doing in here?"Despite a search of the bodies Harold can find no more ammo for his antiquated pistol.
Search the bodies near where the revolver was and see if any of them have anymore ammo for it.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"I'm sure this must be a trying time for you Will. Here, this might help. It's fast acting!"(again)
Jokingly offer Will one of the anti-anxiety tablets. Put all unused ones in my inventory. Never know when someone in a stressful situation will need help. Store the shard in the container with my other shard. See where the elevator goes. (preferably by reading the floor labels)Spoiler: Fred Williams (click to show/hide)
When you say cut open, you mean they are fully open and accessible or just that the obstructions were removed but they're still locked electronically?The physical blocks were removed, but they are still electronically locked.
If former, check out the cargo path. If latter, check out one of the cargo boxes.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Go with anyone who’s feeling adventurous. Shoot anything nasty.Pike follows Fred, who seems to be leading the way in terms of adventure.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"AHHHHHHHH-ahem. Just warning you about possible alien, occult things. Yep. Not scared."[4]To Toby:"wait, don't touch that! It's definitely going to give you hallucinations. Apparently, it's also alien flubber."
“Thank you for helping me, why were you screaming? Can I see the shard?”
try and grab the shard without it getting stuck in me like it did Toby
Take a containment pod, stick the shard in it. Don't let anyone, including me, touch it. Then, figure out what it is. After that, let Tara examine it. Maybe specificity out what I saw in that hallucination.Spoiler: Toby (click to show/hide)
Yagyu goes to check out a cargo box but is unsure of if he wants an outgoing box or an incoming box.Check one of both.
Unlock the locked doors. Don't open them though. Especially the ones leading to space those need to stay closed.[8]
Then I'm staying in the shuttle. Shuttle is nice and safe.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
QuoteYagyu goes to check out a cargo box but is unsure of if he wants an outgoing box or an incoming box.Check one of both.
If Pathos can unlock the doors: check what is behind them, but only if they don't lead into space or could be exposed to vacuum or I heard scratching in the walls or whatever. Do not open if unsure.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Reload. Move ahead with Fred, and be ready to shoot any zombies found.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
follow fred, but with style!Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Follow Fred like all the others.Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
I also get on the follow Fred train.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Keep following Fred.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Follow Fred. Try to find and grab another shard before Fred finds itSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Attempt to fix whatever is wrong with the elevator, or at least find out what is wrong with it. Then, if I have time and the elevator is working, take the crowd following me to the temp storage area. Might as well see what we can find before visiting the probably hostile living quarters.
Also... Pathos. If I remember correctly your cognition copier would let you enter the base's computer network without using it up? It would be kind of cool to have someone in the network to unlock doors, do surveillance, watch us all die, etc.Spoiler: Fred Williams (click to show/hide)
[5][3]Try to find a corpse, remove the stomach, and throw the stomach at the corpse in the gears. If the stomach breaks on contact, the acid should dissolve it.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
((I like your style Naturegirl1999.))Pathos checks out the shuttle path. [11] He discovers the following via various actions of poking about:
Check out the path meant to be used by shuttles. Any sign showing where it leads?
Is there some sort of crane that moves the shuttle along the path or do I have to drive through it?Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
(somebody may have already done this and I’m just blind, in which case please ignore.)[8]
Do a thorough search of the incoming and outgoing crates. Specifically, see if there’s enough medical supplies to be useful to us, enough stuff to fill a repair kit, and any ores that might be valuable. Take anything that looks like I could sell it for a lot.
If I’ve got time, search the body in the control room.
If I’ve still got enough time after that, check out the door at the bottom of the slope.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Wait for Tara to throw the stomach, then if it fails try to burn the corpse away with my Cutting/welding torch in a way that doesn't damage the gear system.Harold attempts to burn the remaining bones away with his torch. [2] Unfortunately the attempt results only in filling the room with the smell of burning bones. Which is...well its a very odd smell. Sort of chalky?Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Check what the corpse has on it and take it, then check out that axe (though if anyone with actual melee skill wants it they get preference).
Check if the cargo elevator works, don't get on it.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Grab that axe from Yagyu. Otherwise, wait for the elevator to be fixed. As tempted as I am to try and solve the problem via gun or axe, neither seems like a good fix.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
Search for a lighter and a combustible fluid.[3]Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
Watch the unique attempts to fix the problem. Then, if the elevator is working, take everyone waiting to the temporary storage area.Though this elevator remains blocked, Wilfred is nice enough to let Fred know that the other cargo elevator next door is currently working.Spoiler: Fred Williams (click to show/hide)
"Pilot-man, would having access to a computing cube make you more capable of supporting us while we're in the field? If yes, you can have it for now. Don't say yes just to get a new cube though, if you can do everything you need from here then having it with us down there is more useful."The crash test dummy just stares blankly for a few seconds. It then lifts its arms with its palms up in an exaggerated 'I dunno' gesture, exaggerated enough to show even through this body's limited capacity for expression.
Figure out if I can reach the bones in the gears, if I can, try to take them out without damaging the gears, if I can’t reach the bones, Follow Pike[2]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Unlock the door to the way back home, unless someone else has found a relevant keycard and does that for me. If the machine is not working because it needs us to get a key or start a generator or something, then I'd rather learn about it now instead of when the base is about to self-destruct.[3]Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
help pull the bones out of the gears. Don’t die?[3]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Get in the cargo elevator that works and, if anybody follows me, take it down to the next level.
If anybody would rather go to a different level, let them decide.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Follow Pike and ride the elevator to wherever it goes, and get my rifle ready for any kind of supernatural shit that might happen.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Figure out if I can reach the bones in the gears, if I can, try to take them out without damaging the gears, if I can’t reach the bones, Follow PikeSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Sure, check contents of cube, why not. Then let's head down 1 level through the cargo elevator.
"Pilot-man, would having access to a computing cube make you more capable of supporting us while we're in the field? If yes, you can have it for now. Don't say yes just to get a new cube though, if you can do everything you need from here then having it with us down there is more useful."Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Take the container with me and follow Pike down the elevator.As the elevator descends (rather slowly for gravity this low) Yagyu looks over the contents of the computing cube. The cube is basically wiped clean save for a single text file. The text file is hundreds of pages long, far too long for anyone to read the whole thing in a timely manner, so he starts skimming. Its a journal, clearly, all set up in nice numbered entries, though with no dates, just days. Day 1 talks about arriving on the station, Day 56 about machinery problems and a flu outbreak, Day 456 about the completion of a frame for greater harvesting of the "Shard". The skim reveals that apparently the deeper they dug and the more shard they harvested, the greater the instances of "Involuntary Ethereal state consciousness" among the crew. The writer, apparently a science officer, makes various guesses about what this "IESC" is: namely he thinks its some sort of imposed state of extreme placebo effect, where hallucinatory entities force actual change on perceptive individuals. He writes off the idea that these "Things" really exist as being "superstitious".Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
[6]Look around, is there actually something crawling on my skin? Look around for any small animals that might be aroundSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Try to point out the head to my companions. Then slowly move into the room and secure the perimeter.[3]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"My gun's not protecting me from the supernatural shit, oh god!"[2]
Shake off these phantom hands, then move away from the elevator.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"A little bit of itching hardly qualifies as something supernatural."Elen, the only person not currently freaking out, leads the rest of the group into the room, using Harold's omni-light to search the darkness. This room is smaller than the one up above, maybe 20 feet in length and width, stacked with cargo in various states of being loaded or unloaded. There are heaped stacks of freeze dried food in one corner, their brightly reflective foil packaging fills the room with bizarre wriggling reflections as the light sweeps over them. Elen sweeps the light away from the packaging and it stops on a small crevice between two large cargo containers. In that crevice there is a man, crouched down with his back to Elen and the rest.
Enter the room and check out the cargo.Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
(Assuming I took the elevator down with the rest of the crew.) Light a flare so I have something to see by. Look into the room, see what I can see. If time allows, and the area appears safe, try to fix the lights.
Just to let you know piecewise, I just started my junior year at college, so I suddenly have much less time then I did during the summer. As a result, I may miss a turn now and again because college / having time to sleep during college comes first. I'm not bored or tired of the game, quite the opposite, I like it, but I'm just short on time. I'd let you know if I were done with the game.Spoiler: Fred Williams (click to show/hide)
don't worry, I’m a professional.
Toby raises his arms in victory, and goes down the elevator. Investigate what’s happening to my friends.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Take an elevator down to the lower levels, or retroactively be with the group that went down there, whatever works. Once down, start clearing rooms for hostiles, be they liver-eating zombies, or crazed scientists.Because the cargo elevator is already away, Fred, Toby, and Wilfred decide to instead take the newly cleared personal elevator. They're pretty sure that they heard the rest of the team talking about going down one level so they do the same, taking the elevator down to the "Temp Storage" level. The doors open somewhere along the right side of the room with reference to the cargo elevator and the rest of the team is immediately visible slowly walking around, shining their omni-light in sweeping patterns.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
See if I can find anything interesting in the gate's logs, like when it was last used or how often it was used.Meanwhile, back on the ranch.
Make sure there are no booby traps, at least of the electronic kind. Don't actually activate the phase gate though, I don't want to leave everyone here to die. Not yet anyway.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
You're already there. With Elen.try to go down the elevator to where the team isSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Hmm. That's weird. The erratic schedule points towards either a great many findings that needed to be moved to a laboratory or an evacuation. But either event would had been reported to OMNI... So they were either working for someone else on the side or the gate isn't working.Pathos scrolls through the logs. The gate has some programmed in locations with labels; which is nice, prevents him from having to do multi-dimensional mathematics to try and figure out the end point. Earth is the main one that comes up, with a few others to what seem to be near by bases. There's nothing that seems to stick out as being hugely out of the ordinary.
Is there any indication in the logs of where the gate was targeted? Or do gates not work like that?Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
[3]Try to straighten the man’s backSpoiler (click to show/hide)
If the man, or anything else for that matter, tries to engage in the wholesome hobby of savaging my teammates, respond with force.
If nothing noteworthy happens on the violence front.Take stock of the room and its contents, so as to operate with a more thorough understanding of the factors at play.Embrace my inner Munchkin and get the loot!
Edit- Restrain the guy for Elen if nobody else takes up the call.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Damn ghosts touching me all over."[3]
Ignore the dirty hobo and look around the room for anything to loot.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Seems like he's suffering from shock, someone restrain him so that I can safely check him for injuries."[5][3]
Wait for the man to be restrained before checking him for any injuries and other abnormalities.Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
Restrain Wilfred until he appears sane. No team killing without proof of necessity. If Wilfred no longer needs restrained, attempt to get the emergency lights on so we can see better. Watch out for loose shards.Spoiler: Fred Williams (click to show/hide)
"No! You can't do this to them! Leave their bodies alone!"
Follow the strings puppeting them, find whoever is doing the puppeting, ans shoot them full of holes!.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
”Wil, that makes no sense. Obviously, they just didn’t get enough food!”
check, are those really our team? If so, go talk to them, investigate supernatural stuff. If not, scream.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
”Uhh, y’all didn’t happen to find a bunch of dead armed security guards, did you? Because if not, we’ve got a whole crate of guns unaccounted for in a hostile environment, might wanna keep that in mind.”Do this, then
instruct my teammates to locate the security restraints and use them on the man.
“When I straitened him, I noticed something moving”try to catch whatever the moving thing is without hurting the manSpoiler (click to show/hide)
“It’s alright, we’re not going to hurt you, I just need to figure out what’s on you”
“When I straitened him, I noticed something moving”[5]try to catch whatever the moving thing is without hurting the manSpoiler (click to show/hide)
“It’s alright, we’re not going to hurt you, I just need to figure out what’s on you”
”Uhh, y’all didn’t happen to find a bunch of dead armed security guards, did you? Because if not, we’ve got a whole crate of guns unaccounted for in a hostile environment, might wanna keep that in mind.”Pike uses his standard security handcuffs to cuff the man's arms behind his back and his legs together at the ankles. Despite this the man keeps trying to shuffle forwards.
If a teammate with better strength and/or melee offers to take over for restraining the man, help them to get him secure. Did there happen to be any security restrains in the cargo I searched? If so, instruct my teammates to locate the security restraints and use them on the man.
Outside of these situationally relevant actions, what kind of entertainment did I find?Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"You noticed something moving? Could you describe what that moving was and more importantly where?[3]
Anyway, other than suffering from dehydration, shock and exhaustion, this man is perfectly healthy, he has no injuries and he isn't ill either."
Acquire water and forcibly make the man drink it. Use some of the water to clean away the muck on his chest and closely inspect it for anything moving that shouldn't be moving.Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
Grab some of the oxygen pellets and examine the "entertainment materials", then go help hold the dirty hobo.Oxygen pellets are about the size of a fist and are designed to react with certain chemical agents to release a constant supply of oxygen. They're generally not very useful otherwise.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Help restrain the man if necessary. Where exactly is he going to? What lies in that direction?Yagyu walks over to the dirty man and aligns himself with the man's attempted path. He then walks forwards. The path has him climbing over boxes and slithering through spaces between cargo containers but he eventually ends up....at the cargo elevator.
If not needed, read text file on computing cube in more detail.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
So the final burst of portal activity was directed towards the Earth? Was it soon after they sent the request for help? Are the empty spots for ships to dock in the hangar enough to justify the burst of activity? (i.e. is the number of activations smaller, greater or roughly equal to the empty shuttle parking spots in the hangar?)Pathos checks time stamps. It was before they sent a request for help that the last trip to earth took place, but not too long before. A search of the hanger reveals no noticeably missing ships...it could have been a somewhat rapid series of cargo runs getting something off the base in a hurry....Maybe.
If they did reach Earth, then I guess we would had been told about it. It's possible our superiors lied to us or failed to inform us, but I can't think of a reason for them to do so (beyond incompetence). It's also possible there's some time dilation during portal travel, but if there is we haven't been told about it. So either there's something wrong with the portal or something prevented whoever used the portal from reaching their destination. Maybe their ships were sabotaged. Maybe those portal activations were desperate people just jumping through the portal without a ship, like people jumping off a burning building.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Hold on to the entertainment. Especially that bathroom tile one, I think my mom might like it.((I was referencing something...else (https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/005/866/b08.jpg).))
(Btw, not a joke. My real life mother is for real, super interested in floor tiles)
If the rest of the team will follow me, I want to see where the man wants to go.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Inspect the cut, poke it, take samples of the ab lashes and then wash off the rest of the muck, and check whether it was hiding anything else.[2]Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
Assuming I'm still dealing with Wilfred. Take Wilfred's weapons away from him, and tie him up until he quits trying to kill the team. (I almost made the mistake of saying to disarm Wilfred... which would have been a terrible tragedy) Then stand ready to pacify the hobo, with lethal force if necessary, should he cause harm to the team.Wilfred is about halfway through reluctantly but peacefully relinquishing his weapons when the shooting starts. He takes one Look at Elen's apparent attempts to gun down her own teammates and immediately snatches his weapons back.Spoiler: Fred Williams (click to show/hide)
Is sending a copy of the text file I found very easy/straightforward? If yes, sent a copy to Pathos and anyone else interested, but if I'm in any way unsure of how to do it then don't and instead read it in more detail.Yagyu ducks behind a crate and quickly sends a group wide message containing the text document.
"We should transport this guy back up to the main hangar and chain him to a radiator or something so our pilot can keep an eye on him without us having to drag him along."Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
head towards where the man is trying to get toSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Grab three of the oxygen pellets and the music, movies, tv, books, magazines, manuals, and audiobooks drives, then follow the people following the dirty hobo.The Dirty man, freed from the gasp of his escorts as they take cover from the random shooting, waddles quickly over to the main freight elevator and proceeds to mash the keypad with his face. The elevator's cage closes and it begins descending.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Edit: Also, I'm pretty sure nobody can receive Yagyu's message, assuming he sent it via the computing cube, because nobody else has one.((Couldn't the shuttle computer read it?))
”that, is what a demon puppet looks like.”[4]
Figure out why the guy has an eye on his stomach. And just his deal, I guess.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
While there is no nice display of what floor the elevator is on, the control panel on this level does have light up buttons and one is still lit up. It also has blood on it, which is as good an indicator, if not better. The man is headed for the lowest floor that elevator can reach, which isn't the same as the crew elevator.try to see if there is a way to know what button he pressed, (does it glow?) if so, go to that floor, if not go down one level and search for himSpoiler (click to show/hide)
"Kill it! Kill it before it can escape!"[4][2v2][magazine expended]
Shoot the man, don't stop shooting until he's dead.Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
The emergency stop is a simple big red button on the control panel and Yagyu slams his fist into it with what might be a bit overzealous force. The elevator grinds to a halt almost instantly and red emergency lights start flashing down the length of the shaft. The elevator is stuck somewhere between this level and the next, living quarters area.QuoteEdit: Also, I'm pretty sure nobody can receive Yagyu's message, assuming he sent it via the computing cube, because nobody else has one.((Couldn't the shuttle computer read it?))
Interrupt the elevator's descent. Hit the emergency stop if possible. Use my keycards if needed. Try not to get in any line of fire though, don't try it if I'd block the shot of any teammates.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Could I fly the shuttle down the cargo lift in case the team needs a quick rescue?Pathos considers his own questions.
Hmm. Are the ships unlocked? Any of their doors open? Approach one of the ships, preferably one that has its door open (which means it was exposed to vacuum) and is one of the ships that was sent to Earth. Try to boot up its computer system and check for any sort of black box recording or similar. Maybe there will be clues as to what happened there.
Edit: Also, I'm pretty sure nobody can receive Yagyu's message, assuming he sent it via the computing cube, because nobody else has one.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Go tackle Elen and take her gun away before she can kill anyone.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Shoot the organs and tear my way out of its stomach.[6v4][4v3]Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
Bring elevator back up quickly, before the bloke can escape.
Then lock it with my keys for a moment until we've stabilized the situation and we're all ready to go down.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Press the button that leads to the current floor, if the elevator works, get inside it, if it doesn’t work, try pressing the button to the living quarters, if this doesn’t work, try pressing the button to the upper mines, if none of these work, press the button for Storage, if this fails, press the button for Temp Storage. Continue pressing buttons until one of them works
follow Tara if she manages to actually get anywhere.See, I was assuming Tara was talking about the cargo elevator, not the personal one, but I suppose she could have been? The script doesn't really differentiate.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Is ‘next level’ Upper Miningz. There are many rooms that could be interpreted as ‘next level’ the room just above, the room just below, the next destinstion
Then take the lemmings along to the next level.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Is ‘next level’ Upper Miningz. There are many rooms that could be interpreted as ‘next level’ the room just above, the room just below, the next destinstion
Then take the lemmings along to the next level.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Upper MiningIs ‘next level’ Upper Miningz. There are many rooms that could be interpreted as ‘next level’ the room just above, the room just below, the next destinstion
Then take the lemmings along to the next level.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Wherever you want to go, my dear.
Are there any conveniently located signs or maps or whatever pointing towards a nice centralized control station or computer room for this station or this section of the station? I mean, besides the one that was smashed by an axe. If yes, go there.Pathos finds a definitive lack of nice easy signs pointing towards computer stations that he can squat in for the rest of the mission. However, he is willing to bet that if such a thing exists it is probably deeper in. A security station is the most likely spot.
If not, then try to see if I can connect one of the other shuttles with ours, so I can control it remotely. After all, a shuttle is essentially a really big missile and at some point we might want to shoot a missile at something that's really big.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
"What the hell are you doing!"
Make sure Elen's gun is far away from her, then try to snap her out of whatever crazyness she's stuck in.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Don't struggle, instead lie still and listen. My teammates should be rescuing me any moment now.[3]Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
Tie/chain up that guy somewhere in view of the pilot in the shuttle, make sure he is secured to the wall or floor so he can't run off.Yagyu takes the personnel elevator back up to the dock and places the chained up man somewhere in easy view of Pathos, making sure he's securely affixed to a shipping container and unable to wander off. That done, Yagyu heads back down and regroups with everyone else.
Then take the lemmings along to the next level.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"That was a nice nap"
Wake up from the nap I was apparently taking. If Wilfred appears sane, give him back his weapons and allow him to go free. Join anyone going to a lower level. This would appear to be Tarra. Attempt to point out that the cargo elevator is the only one that goes to upper mining, and convince Tara that she needs to take it. Then convince Yagu to release the elevator so that we can use it. ((I somewhat hesitate to say this, but I'm okay with people towing me along with the group if I don't post. I didn't bold this because I would assume it to be less of a piecewise thing and more of a rest of you thing. I would prefer if I didn't become the, "gets shoved through the door first," guy though.))Spoiler: Fred Williams (click to show/hide)
Wil quietly whimpers, sitting down and hugging his knees while looking longingly at his weapons, currently in Fred's arms.Fred returns Wilfred's weapons and both of the follow Tara and Yagyu down to the lower levels. Fred keeps a careful eye on Wilfred, who is still acting a bit twitchy.
"We need to get out of here. This place is dead, scouting mission complete, nuke it into dust..."
Sit and whimper, follow Fred if he moves. If he goes catatonic, gently push him in the direction of the nearest functioning elevator. Maybe take the weapons back too, if that's possible without violence.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
(Oh, I forgot there were two elevators)“I’m heading to the Upper mines to figure out what this man is heading towards”Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Head to the Cargo elevator, and go to the upper mining
Keep up with TaraSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Follow TaraSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Position the nice chained man on a shuttle seat. It would be wasteful to leave him here to die. Oh, but if he's filthy then take him to the bathroom and wash him first. I don't want him getting my shuttle dirty.To say the dirty man is dirty is like saying black holes are "A bit heavy", so Pathos spends a not insignificant amount of time trying to scrub the man clean as best he can with nothing but a sink, paper towels, and foaming hand soap.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Elen quickly felt a lot of anger once she realized that her teammates have abandoned her, it didn't help that some invisible force had restrained her and also threw her gun away.[2][2]
"Fine, if none of you want to rescue me from being eaten by this dumb alien spider, then I will! Abandoning your medic in need is possibly the dumbest thing you can do! And to whatever force is holding me down, I will kick your ass after I've escaped this stomach and killed this damn alien spider!"
Shake the force that's holding me down off of me, retrieve my gun if possible and then tear my way out of this stomach.Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
"Snap out of it damn it!"[2+1]
Pour some water on Elen's head to try to get her to snap out her space madness, and make sure she can't get a hold of her gun.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Drag incapacitated fools back into elevator and head back up.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Tara tries to pull herself back together
((Well... I don't think there's much to do with that... About all I can figure is to have Yaggu and Wilfred loot the mining explosives off whichever one of us has them (pathos and harold) and go lob them at that thing. I don't think there is much else to do.... There's no real countermeasures to a weapon like that.))
I too would like to know whether I am actually alive. I don't have a cognition copier, hence I would assume that while physically alive, I am unable to regain the ability to act, and thus functionally dead. If I do have the ability to regain functional consciousness, attempt to do so.Spoiler: Fred Williams (click to show/hide)
Toby sits down, and monologues.Yagyu does his level best to ignore absolutely everything, from the talking fire ghost to the remembrance of what he just saw. He wraps his arms around all three of his effected teammates and attempts to drag them back into the elevator.
”I have seen it; the immensity of the universe. A shard of a single race of a minuscule part could tell me things no man may ever understand, I cannot find reason to continue. For all that I may have done, it is naught, and the monsters beyond my comprehension have destroyed me, even as they lie dead. But seeing the mortality of the universe, I realize that I must continue; not because it matters, but because I want it. For that is the only thing that I have, that cannot be taken from me. My will.
pull myself back together, or at least try to.Spoiler: toby (click to show/hide)
Yeah. Shoot the shard.[10][3]Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
"Yes I was. While they weren't real, they were real enough, and their attempt to eat me is what caused my wounds. Ok just to be sure, you didn't try to eat me, did you?""I didn't try to eat you, nobody tried to eat you, I think its about time we got the hell out of this place before we start killing each other."
Added to my actionwhere am I headed? Deeper into the mineSpoiler (click to show/hide)
What's my objective? Think about why I'm heading to where I'm heading
"Uh, thank you for saving me? I don't want to complain, but you made it easier for the corpses to eat me when you were holding me down, and threw my gun away. Still, while this place is terrible, I much prefer it to being eaten by an alien spider and then being eaten by corpses.[5]
So, can we please burn this place to the ground and call it a day?"
Treat my wounds, then collect some more water, it seems to be help with waking people up from their hallucinations.Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
Drift over to Wilfred and Stage Whisper:Wilfred seems to ignore the ghost...or maybe he's so lost in his rage he doesn't notice the flaming spirit?
"Shoot it again, fella. And shout a little louder. I don't think it heard you the first time."Spoiler: Jon??? (click to show/hide)
"What corpses, you were never being eaten by corpses".Harold returns Elen's weapon to her as she digs through the crates.
Go get Elen's gun and give it back.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Hmm... Start calling the man random names. See if he responds to any of them. If he shows no response, choose a name for him at random.Pathos calls the dirty man various names, from the the normal like "Bob" and "Fred" to the rather outlandish, "Bichael" and "Henjamin". He doesn't respond to any of these. He doesn't respond to anything actually.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Head down and locate more teammates. Take the elevator one floor at a time until I find people.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Babble a little at Yagyu, do I know why the others went on their mission?[4]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I'm a bit unclear on the layout of the mining level. Would it theoretically be possible to lob a cart of explosives in the direction of the shard, given the low gravity there, without undue exposure to the shard?
Speaking off, did the mindfuck only set in once we looked at the shard, or already when we were in the same room?
Finally, start going through all the cargo boxes, looking for explosives or stuff to make explosives.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
where am I headed? Deeper into the mineSpoiler (click to show/hide)
What's my objective? Think about why I'm heading to where I'm heading
Consider the nature of causality, and whether solving this situation like an LTICs (Linear Time Invariant Causal system) is possible. Maybe a Laplace transform will do it. Realize that all causality means is that the weapon doesn't travel through time or violate the constraints of space time... Check. Like it needed to do that to be an issue. Realize that I am back in possession of my senses, and observe what the shard looks like from my current location.According to the script here you guys are kind of beyond your own help. However, not beyond the help of others. If someone were to come and get you out then you could probably recover. But as per right now you're far too consumed with the desire to shatter the shard to break yourself free.
((FYI, I am actually an undergraduate engineer IRL, hence the discussion of linear systems, which is a real class, using real differential equations (math), to solve real problems, in a way about as tangible as the monster attacking Elen.))Spoiler: Fred Williams (click to show/hide)
Consider what our employers would prefer to happen to this shard: would they like to see it blown up or otherwise made non-dangerous, or would they prefer it be kept as-is and for us to just return and report what we've seen so they can send in actually competent people to deal with it?Yagyu attempts to guess what the ineffable will of OMNI is in this situation. [5] He believes that they would probably want the site kept as pristine as possible instead of "Neutralizing" the situation. After all, the shard is no danger as long as people don't get near it, so its probably best to simply quarantine the area, rescue any survivors, and give a full report of the situation.
Look through that journal, try to get a more accurate image of how the mindfuckery of the shard works: just distance based? Any known shielding materials or chemicals that interfere with the effect?
Search for some rope.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
((Heh. That was a nice video.))Hamilton begins idly chewing on the armrest of his chair. He does seem hungry doesn't he!
Lament to my good friend Hamilton about the lack of snacks with which to feed him. I'd send someone to get him some, but the rest of the team has been gone for a while. They're probably dead by now. Perhaps it's time to leave this place and go in search of snacks. See if Hamilton agrees.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
"Oh dear. Whatever you're seeing isn't real, but it's also real in a sense. Try to avoid getting hurt, or dying, I can fix injuries, but I can't fix death."
Save Woldo by throwing water at his face.Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
"Great someone else has the space madness."
Run and tackle Woldo to make the poring water on his head easier.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Try to get ahold of myself. Try not to go insane. Get my baton out, since I don’t want collateral damage, but I also don’t know how to deal with any situation I can’t shoot/stab/wack my way out of.Woldo is quickly calmed using the age old remedy of tackling and pouring water up his nose. Really the water is just going all over his face but it also goes up his nose which causes him to forget about the entrails as he squirms and coughs like a fish on land. It does snap him out of it though.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
”we gotta go save the asteroid belt! And the people in it, too!”Toby, seeing as Yagyu is distracted and there is no one else to stop him, slinks away and gets back in the elevator. He presses the button for the upper mining area and takes it down, repeating mantras to keep himself sane. He reaches the bottom a few moments later.
grab Tara and Fred, restrain them. Don’t look at the shard?Spoiler (click to show/hide)
You know what? My usual problem-solving method isn't working here, and the backup method of running away is boring, so screw that. Go climb down to the shard, and then... I don't know, hack at it with the axe? Urinate on it? Punch it in the face to establish superiority?Wilfred turns to start heading down when Toby, fresh off the elevator and with eyes literally burning with madness, takes a wild swing at him with a null rod.
What I'm trying to say here, is "stick my dick in it."Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
continue to head towards the shardOh, I forgot the spoiler
Just a heads up, depending on what happens with Sy, posts might get ignored next turn. Keep that in mind, since whats gonna happen is gonna happen quick and might preempt things.
Stay knocked out till rescue comes.[3]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Very well then! Me and Hamilton shall begin the snackquest! Go forth in search of snacks!Pathos begins singing the snack song. Then the previously described ghost wave hits him. He stops singing the snack song and sits down in the pilot seat.
Unless things start getting freaky, in which case I'll prep the shuttle and the bay doors for immediate take-off and send the following message to command (the rules said it should rhyme and be less than 250 words, so I think this should be enough):
There once was an anime ape,
and a team that their shuttle did break,
two got resurrected,
and the new team selected
was sent in to the asteroid base
The Crystal they'd scraped
Had most people's mind raped,
So I'm telling you straight,
It's not up for debate,
The survivors want outta that place.
To let them know we want outta there and bring Hamilton with us.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
[2]Just a heads up, depending on what happens with Sy, posts might get ignored next turn. Keep that in mind, since whats gonna happen is gonna happen quick and might preempt things.
Thank you for letting us know.
Read some more in the journal, any more hints it can divulge?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Why are you off to go looting when we have the rest of the team to rescue? They're certainly still alive and we can't just abandon them."
Take the elevator down to mining.Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
"Wait your going to the housing level, that's probably where the best loot is, I have to go loot it."
Follow Woldo to the NEXT LEVEL! (The housing level.)Spoiler (click to show/hide)
”We should clear the level, elsewise we might as well be doing nothing, and will miss out on the XP and the good loot.”Hey, intrepid explorers! According to the script here, the shard is currently starting to pull itself free of the asteroid. When it does its gonna plunge the entire mine area (and all the areas attached to it by elevator) into hard vacuum! Assuming it doesn't just tear the asteroid apart first.
Since this level seems clear, I’ll go and check the next level (which should be housing). However, don’t go if nobody goes with me.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Wilfred just saved and/or doomed everyone, he's a hero/mass murderer! Either way, he's a badass that's not gonna be held back by something as silly as falling unconscious! Get up and get back to the shuttle, while flipping off the shard![4]Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
Welp, get on the shuttle. If there’s time for it, go send the elevator down first so the people on the lower level can get up a little faster.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
The rescue mission does not care about the risks. Get down into mining and rescue the rest of the team, starting with the unconscious.Yagyu sends the elevator down with Elen on it before scampering for the shuttle himself. Elen reaches the mining area about a minute later and immediately hauls Toby onto the elevator from where he's laying nearby.Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
”uuuuuuuhhhhh, what happened?”[3]
Freeeeeddddddoooooommmmmm! Go on the shuttle.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
[3]Gst to the shuttle as fast as I canSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Go to the shuttle as fast as possible.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Get to shuttle ASAPHarold, Woldo, and Yagyu all take the personnel elevator back up to the docking bay and sprint into the waiting shuttle.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
If it would be helpful and possible, send the remote controlled shuttle down the elevator shaft to bring the rest of the team up quickly.[4]
If it would be possible, send the remote controlled shuttle to attach itself on the crystal and begin transmitting. Maybe OMNI will like the ability to track that thing, I dunno.
Regardless, go open the portal and prepare to launch once everyone is on board.
If the portal doesn't work for whatever reason, then prepare to fly towards that OMNITECH station that's been receiving my messages. Bring the remote controlled shuttle with us, if I can't use it to help keep track of the Crystal.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
”hey, who’s flying that thing!”: Alien ghosts. From coast to coast. Now come on board so we can GTFO. : came the reply from the remote controlled shuttle's speakers.
: Alien ghosts. From coast to coast. Now come on board so we can GTFO. : came the reply from the remote controlled shuttle's speakers."Hey, I'm not an alien ghost, you know. Neither is murderkitty, are you? Who's a good murder kitty? Who's a good murder kitty?"
Once everyone from the mining level is aboard, fly the remote controlled shuttle back to our shuttle, then wait for everyone to come aboard. Then go through the portal. Unless things are going very badly, in which case just GTFO, the others can pilot their own damn shuttle.
[6]Continue to head towards the elevator and get inside to get to and inside the shuttleSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Head to the remote controlled shuttle, which is now near mining level? Assuming pathos intended to land it on top of the elevator car so that we can just climb out the top of the elevator car, and into the shuttle without being cooked. If so, do that. Otherwise, improvise how to get in without getting cooked / crushed / impaled / trapped in a vacuum.[3]Spoiler: Fred Williams (click to show/hide)
Sit tightThere probably is some puckering involved right now, yes.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
”hey, who’s flying that thing!”
wait for Elen to pull me up, then Get on the shuttle, I guessSpoiler (click to show/hide)
"Keep still, I'm going to pull you up."Luckily for both Elen and Toby, the low gravity means that pulling him up is so easy that it doesn't even require the help of a random outcome to determine. She just yanks him up and drags his blind ass into the shuttle.
Pull up Toby, then proceed to escort everyone to the shuttle.Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
Invent a song called 'hail to the shuttle pilot' to the tune of 'hail to the busdriver', then sing it. Have the lyrics reference horrible crashing and drunk pilots screwing the stewardesses, but in a subtle way.This is the point where I might like...invent a few bars of this song and post them here in italics for the amusement of all (or just myself). But when you go and say something like "In a subtle way" you should already know I'm completely out of my depth. The only time I can do subtle is when its a warning for everyone about future problems and then I'm too subtle and no one notices. Aw what the hell, lets give it a shot.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Say in the shuttle and hide under the seat.Harold inserts himself under a row of chairs and starts mumbling something about wanting to upgrade to an overhead luggage rack.Then he mumbles about uptown rent prices and a living wage. Honestly I'm not paying much attention to him.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Hurry to the shuttle! Bring our 3d printed cat along. Sit next to Pathos and pat the catbomination on the head.Spoiler: Jon??? (click to show/hide)
Board the shuttle. Once onboard, wave the security baton around in the air while screaming "I FUCKED UP AN ALIEN GAAWWWD!", then collapse in a seat or corner and focus intently on not bleeding to death from the eyes.[4]Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
[10]”hey, who’s flying that thing!”: Alien ghosts. From coast to coast. Now come on board so we can GTFO. : came the reply from the remote controlled shuttle's speakers.
Once everyone from the mining level is aboard, fly the remote controlled shuttle back to our shuttle, then wait for everyone to come aboard. Then go through the portal. Unless things are going very badly, in which case just GTFO, the others can pilot their own damn shuttle.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Feel free to jump in now that we're back home.((Cross-posting from Break room, figured you probably don't look at that often. Feel free to just uh throw me in the barrack's, with the apes, hopefully can be around to greet these poor, poor chumps if they make it back.Spoiler: I love you Omnitech! (click to show/hide)
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((Wonderful,Hail Omnitech! (https://youtu.be/9L7mZH2u3Qc)))Feel free to jump in now that we're back home.((Cross-posting from Break room, figured you probably don't look at that often. Feel free to just uh throw me in the barrack's, with the apes, hopefully can be around to greet these poor, poor chumps if they make it back.Spoiler: I love you Omnitech! (click to show/hide)
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Its the best I got. I'm chained to a radiator, cut me some slack.It was great, just what I was hoping for. We'll go for a less PG-rated version next time. :p
Congrats everyone, you made it back! Do your level ups, I'll amend comments and payments to each one and we'll do a nice debrief when you are done.
: Hey, I'm here, he's not. So screw that guy. :
Message from OMNITECH accounting:Dexterity and Occult levelled up to d6Spoiler (click to show/hide)
What I did:
I used the stomach acid from a corpse to break down a different corpse that was stuck in the elevator andhelped take out the remaining bones, thus fixing the elevator. I also went to Upper Mining since our team found a man who also tried to get to Upper Mining. In the process, I and two others who ent down with me discovered a large shard which made us see the corpses of everything that died in the solar system/galaxy
Message from OMNITECH accounting:Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Melee to d12, fate to d6
Will to d6, Tech to d8.Message from OMNITECH accounting:
Mourn the loss of the axe. Greet the new girl and explain to her that green is safe, and that if she sees any green around alien gods, that's the color to go for.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
Indeed. Robodies level via spending money to either upgrade the current body or buy a new one. However, You could indeed save level ups for when you return to flesh.QuoteIts the best I got. I'm chained to a radiator, cut me some slack.It was great, just what I was hoping for. We'll go for a less PG-rated version next time. :pQuoteCongrats everyone, you made it back! Do your level ups, I'll amend comments and payments to each one and we'll do a nice debrief when you are done.
Robobodies only level skills and not stats, I’m guessing? Does that mean the stat part of our lvl-ups are ‘wasted’ as long as we are in robobodies? Or should we save these lvl-ups for when we get fleshy bodies again and apply them then?
I'm guessing OMNITECH will want that computing cube I found to get at the info that's stored on it? Will I get a new one, or do I just lose it? What about the red and green keys? Oh, and do the optical sensors on this robot save any of the video they capture? If yes, I'm sure the omnidudes would want a copy of what Yagyu saw back in the mines.
EDIT: Oh, and if we are to post our meagre accomplishments, Yagyu:
-explored the base
-cut open several base doors to allow exploration
-unlocked and operated elevators like a space-age bellhop
-prevented the Dirty Man from going down with the elevator, and instead delivered him into the loving care of our pilot
-tried to get mind-controlled teammates back up, but only managed to get TobySpoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
: Hey, I'm here, he's not. So screw that guy. :Message from OMNITECH accounting:
Things Pathos did:
*Drove the team to their destination
*Docked with said destination
*Went outside and pressurized the dock so that others could explore.
*Dug up various logs and information about shuttle flights and gate activations, as well as some storage inventory, just in case they're interested in trying to figure out where those artifacts went and where the "mislabeled" equipment came from/went to.
*Dug up a black box recording a shuttles journey back to the station after a delivery and some of the symptoms.
*Watched the shuttle and prepared the portal for our return trip while the team was exploring to make sure we could come back.
*Kept an eye on Hamilton, washed him and got him some new clothes.
*Used the remote controlled shuttle to rescue those stuck in the mining level before the asteroid depressurized.
*Drove the team back to Earth, plus two extra members. Hamilton and the ghost of Jon. Unless that second one is just a hallucination.
If the science dudes don't take Jon and Hamilton away, then go get them some snacks while I await payment.
I'll hold off on leveling up until I can see what kind of body I can afford.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Will to d8 and implants to d6.Message from OMNITECH accounting:Spoiler: Elen's accomplishments (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
Dexterity to D6, and Guns to D8.Message from OMNITECH accounting:Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Will to d6, guns to d6.Message from OMNITECH accounting:
Here’s what I did:
I stabbed a shard into my leg, got hallucination
Went into the shard room and went insane
That’s pretty much it.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Leslie meets everyone as the shuffle out of the shuttle on the landing pad. She of course acts very much like an over enthusiastic flight attendant, happily welcoming them and trying to talk to everyone at once. She makes several jokes with the guy whose eyes were burnt out and then follows the group to the debriefing.((Wonderful,Hail Omnitech! (https://youtu.be/9L7mZH2u3Qc)))Feel free to jump in now that we're back home.((Cross-posting from Break room, figured you probably don't look at that often. Feel free to just uh throw me in the barrack's, with the apes, hopefully can be around to greet these poor, poor chumps if they make it back.Spoiler: I love you Omnitech! (click to show/hide)
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Autumn hair glimmers and faintly shines under the barrack's light's, brown eye's gleam staring into a mirror and a faint smile illuminates a simple face. Leslie, as she was called, was absentmindedly staring into the mirror, a jumpsuit printed with the mocking decal of a suit for this public relations nutjob, her right hand brushing aside locks of hair, as her other slides over the OMNITECH Gauss Mini-cannon. A small hint of a shudder, of excitement racing through her.
The simpleminded corporate tool gives a hum and heads on out of the barracks. It would be awkward almost certainly to get used to her new local, but for Omnitech?
For the greatest thing in the universe?
Her grin grew, her voice coming forth, light and cheery, friendly and warm.
"Today's going to be a wonderful day~"
Leslie has been transferred for, let's say over-enthusiasm at her last workplace. She's going to go explore her new place of work, meet her fellow employee's who must adore Omnitech as well and all around get acquainted as best she can with her new home. It's what Omnitech would want after-all, for her to settle in and become productive as soon as possible!
Will to d6, Tech to d8.Wilfred engages Leslie (perhaps a bad idea) and proceeds to explain at length his considerations and experience in dealing with xenobiological creatures. His experience is pretty limited but that doesn't prevent him from expounding on it over and over in different ways.
Mourn the loss of the axe. Greet the new girl and explain to her that green is safe, and that if she sees any green around alien gods, that's the color to go for.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
Wander off and eat the biggest non-sapient ghost i can reasonably devour without getting eaten. Then go High-five the Anime-Ape.Jon floats away from the group for a few minutes, fading away as he does. As the group wanders down the hall the enormous bulk of some nightmare creature drops in front of them, bouncing off the floor and then fading away as it slithers off. Jon appears a moment later, chasing it with his mouth expanded hideously into some sort of burning pacman beast.Spoiler: Jon??? (click to show/hide)
: Hey, I'm here, he's not. So screw that guy. :They take Hamilton right away, but Jon appears to be beyond their grasp. He is also beyond the realm of mortal snacks too, judging by his actions. Pathos spends 1 Omni on a candy bar and pours out a bit of the caramel filling in rememberance of the earthly form of Jon.
Things Pathos did:
*Drove the team to their destination
*Docked with said destination
*Went outside and pressurized the dock so that others could explore.
*Dug up various logs and information about shuttle flights and gate activations, as well as some storage inventory, just in case they're interested in trying to figure out where those artifacts went and where the "mislabeled" equipment came from/went to.
*Dug up a black box recording a shuttles journey back to the station after a delivery and some of the symptoms.
*Watched the shuttle and prepared the portal for our return trip while the team was exploring to make sure we could come back.
*Kept an eye on Hamilton, washed him and got him some new clothes.
*Used the remote controlled shuttle to rescue those stuck in the mining level before the asteroid depressurized.
*Drove the team back to Earth, plus two extra members. Hamilton and the ghost of Jon. Unless that second one is just a hallucination.
If the science dudes don't take Jon and Hamilton away, then go get them some snacks while I await payment.
I'll hold off on leveling up until I can see what kind of body I can afford.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Emergency Technician (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: I love you Omnitech! (click to show/hide)
((Wonderful,Hail Omnitech! (https://youtu.be/9L7mZH2u3Qc)))
Autumn hair glimmers and faintly shines under the barrack's light's, brown eye's gleam staring into a mirror and a faint smile illuminates a simple face. Leslie, as she was called, was absentmindedly staring into the mirror, a jumpsuit printed with the mocking decal of a suit for this public relations nutjob, her right hand brushing aside locks of hair, as her other slides over the OMNITECH Gauss Mini-cannon. A small hint of a shudder, of excitement racing through her.
The simpleminded corporate tool gives a hum and heads on out of the barracks. It would be awkward almost certainly to get used to her new local, but for Omnitech?
For the greatest thing in the universe?
Her grin grew, her voice coming forth, light and cheery, friendly and warm.
"Today's going to be a wonderful day~"
Indeed. Robodies level via spending money to either upgrade the current body or buy a new one. However, You could indeed save level ups for when you return to flesh.
How much moolah would you need to become spiderbot?70 OMNI. I had -270 OMNI so that leaves me with 530. Spider costs 600. But if I can sell the mechanical slave I should be able to make at least some of that money back, even if I don't get the full 300. I dunno, anyone want a roboslave to carry their stuff and walk into danger for them?
"sounds good. A robot will be helpful"Okay, does trading 150 OMNI for the robot sound fair to you? Normal price is 300, so I think half price for a used robot is fair.
"I have a question for reginald! do you know why the aliens made the shard thingy?"
Wilfred engages Leslie (perhaps a bad idea) and proceeds to explain at length his considerations and experience in dealing with xenobiological creatures. His experience is pretty limited but that doesn't prevent him from expounding on it over and over in different ways.
What is our next mission?Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Tara turns to the new person
Hello, what is your name? My name is Tara. Did you know that the acid from a stomach can break through muscles? And that there is a material that allows one to see the souls of the dead?
It hasn't come in yet, but I'm sure it will come in soon. There's always need for strapping young people willing to risk their lives for fame and fortune. Or whatever they pay you; I assume its a tidy sum.What is our next mission?Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Tara turns to the new personSpoiler: I love you Omnitech! (click to show/hide)
((Wonderful,Hail Omnitech! (https://youtu.be/9L7mZH2u3Qc)))
Autumn hair glimmers and faintly shines under the barrack's light's, brown eye's gleam staring into a mirror and a faint smile illuminates a simple face. Leslie, as she was called, was absentmindedly staring into the mirror, a jumpsuit printed with the mocking decal of a suit for this public relations nutjob, her right hand brushing aside locks of hair, as her other slides over the OMNITECH Gauss Mini-cannon. A small hint of a shudder, of excitement racing through her.
The simpleminded corporate tool gives a hum and heads on out of the barracks. It would be awkward almost certainly to get used to her new local, but for Omnitech?
For the greatest thing in the universe?
Her grin grew, her voice coming forth, light and cheery, friendly and warm.
"Today's going to be a wonderful day~"
Hello, what is your name? My name is Tara. Did you know that the acid from a stomach can break through muscles? And that there is a material that allows one to see the souls of the dead?
Escort Toby and everyone else who's injured to the infirmary. Offer to help them with the eye replacement.Elen drags the injured to the infirmary and politely gets turned down for pitching in and helping out with complex surgery.Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
Go see if there is any place to buy more ammo for the antique revolver I got from the last mission.Harold finds that he can in fact get some more ammo at a rate of 20 Omni for 6 shots. Which seems pretty expensive but it is an antique after all.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Reggie! I have a question! Can you get me some kind of this-planar user interface device? Like, one with arms? and legs? Heck, maybe even one with catgirl ears and a chipper attitude? And a new incinerator. My last one ... broke.Technically I don't think I have the proper clearance level to speak with you? Also I'm pretty sure the PR section has released an official statement that states that things like you do not exist. However, hypothetically, if something like you existed and I could talk to it, I'd say that an interface body might be possible. Corpses are sometimes inhabited by HELL creatures so I don't see why a robot can't be used as a vessel. Though your current status as dead and fictional would make it hard for you to pay for it.
Also, Hey, Yuri! Been a while. Still anime?"
Yep.QuoteIndeed. Robodies level via spending money to either upgrade the current body or buy a new one. However, You could indeed save level ups for when you return to flesh.
I'm guessing the lvl-up has to be either saved or used completely at once (aka for both stats and skills at once)?
How does statting up a new Full Body Bio-prosthetic work exactly? You mentioned a point buy system before?
How much for a goop gun?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Trade my current Mechanical Slave body to Tara for 150 OMNI.Life d4
Buy an OMNITECH Spiderbot body for me.
Give me a stat block for my new spider body please.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
"I have a question for reginald! do you know why the aliens made the shard thingy?"150 for the eyes, unless you have insurance.
get my eyes back. see if I have psychic powers from getting stabbed with the ghost shard. buy a tentacle, too.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
See if there’s a bank I could take out a loan at.Bank? No. But there is a bipedal shark down on level F that offers loans. Loans with high interest and rather dangerous consequences if you default on them.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Leslie begins drafting dozens of contracts on her legal pad, carefully leaving them nice and generic and thus easy to quickly insert names and situations into. She does, however, carefully draft up a few specific ones for certain people she considers...well...likely targets. Did she say targets? She means "Employees of special needs".QuoteWilfred engages Leslie (perhaps a bad idea) and proceeds to explain at length his considerations and experience in dealing with xenobiological creatures. His experience is pretty limited but that doesn't prevent him from expounding on it over and over in different ways.
Leslie makes several loud noises, small hums, nods of her head and generally smiles like a loon. Happy to listen to a fellow employee. It's likely several words of appreciation are thrown in their.
Generally calling them charming, a great asset to the company and saying that she's happy to meet them. Not once does she ever say his name, one almost gets the feeling she doesn't know it, well that or everyone to her is seen as a nameless cog and best friend working to make omnitech the best it can be!Spoiler: I love you Omnitech! (click to show/hide)What is our next mission?Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Tara turns to the new person
Hello, what is your name? My name is Tara. Did you know that the acid from a stomach can break through muscles? And that there is a material that allows one to see the souls of the dead?
((Sorry, got a bit busy!))
It's a soft sound, a small smile at seeing the young teenager. It warmed Leslie's Omnitech© brand heart Note, does not actually have Omnitech© heart, wishes she did.
Either way, slightly in mourning and partly thinking how happy she is to be in a new workplace and finally meeting her fellow lovers of Omnitech!©
"Ah dearie~ it warms me to see someone young working for the best entity in existence! It's Leslie, Leslie Omnitech©¤Last name copyrighted by the Omnitech Corporation©, Leslie is offically under the legal guardianship of Omnitech@"
All said quickly, efficiently and disturbingly almost in complete and utter joy in the...lets go persons eyes!
"But yes, Beloved Omnitech employee Tara, it's great to meet you and it's great to learn!~"
The corporate drone takes out her notebook and begins to try to start making plenty of contracts. Namely so that at opportune times she'll always be able to sell someone into slavery for Omnitech, prostitution, being immediate organ donors or just termination.
Horrible things all around, of course this smuck probably doesn't really think of any of that as bad.
Also spare loving looks towards any of my superiors, probably Reginald and the Anime Ape.
((Apologys for any typos also this ended up way longer then I thought it would.))
Technically I don't think I have the proper clearance level to speak with you? Also I'm pretty sure the PR section has released an official statement that states that things like you do not exist. However, hypothetically, if something like you existed and I could talk to it, I'd say that an interface body might be possible. Corpses are sometimes inhabited by HELL creatures so I don't see why a robot can't be used as a vessel. Though your current status as dead and fictional would make it hard for you to pay for it."Pay? I'm a legitimate business expense. Tell 'em, Pathos. Ah well. I'm sure we'll rig up something ridiculous and dangerous and possibly sacrilegious on our own. Speaking of which:"
Ready to go.Made it a spoilerSpoiler: Wyatt Baker (click to show/hide)
"What are you writing so many of, Leslie?"
”hey ghost, what’s your name?”"Shhh! I'm haunting the new girl. Can't you read a name badge? Quietly? Of course you can't. Alright, quit pouting. Name's Jon. Jon I. Tor. Probably have a plaque dedicated to me round here somewhere. Probably a tiny little plaque with my name misspelled, and written so small you couldn't tell. It's the OMNITECH way!"
Could you please add the info about the point buy system and such of the prosthetic body to the arsenal page, as well as the goop gun? I already feel myself forgetting the information as we speak!
Could you tell me what the different kinds of insurance are and how much they cost?
Does an advanced toolkit exist?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Go to the shark and see if I could borrow 400 OMNI.The shark, whose appearance is somewhere between humorous and extremely distressing (https://i.pinimg.com/originals/40/e1/40/40e14025a5203237501e7c5d1789990f.jpg) offers you a loan of 400 Omni without hesitation. Though he does have you sign a contract when he hands the money over.Spoiler: secret action (click to show/hide)Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Spend 80 OMNI on 24 bullets for the revolver, then get ready for the next mission.Ok.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Look for cutting objects, swords, knives, axes, how much do they cost?https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Et0NA5i_jXldn8ySqCQXJNo8UCm2ewuvh528yN-_RNg/edit?usp=sharing
Ready to go.Ok.Spoiler: Wyatt Baker (click to show/hide)
Buy a cognition copier, then search for a lighter.Ok and we'll assume you can just find a standard cigarette lighter.Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
I’m ready*sponge bob echos in the distance*
”hey ghost, what’s your name?”Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Ready! Leveled up mechanics and purchased some spray paint.Alright.
Is the spider more biological-like or mechanical-like? Does it have multiple glowing red eyes? Can it hide in vents and jump out to scare people?Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Thought I'd submit a character too now that I've caught upI would say that your character is fine. If you somehow contradict something, then we'll just write it off as your character being a bit...well, crazy. He THINKS he's a spy but maybe he's just a nut job who thinks OMNITECH is putting chemicals in the water that are turning the fricking frogs gay.Spoiler: Nik (click to show/hide)
Don't know how you would feel about the spy theme. Honestly I think it would be a lot of fun if Nik was given a bunch of orders from EXISE he had to follow, but I also feel like OMNI's surveillance might be too advanced for something like espionage to really be possible. If that's the case, I could always rewrite the character as a wannabe who thinks he's an excellent spy, but who was actually being monitored by OMNI the whole time and transferred to get him out of sensitive areas.
((Hello spy, meet enemy number one!))Quote"What are you writing so many of, Leslie?"
Leslie just gives a small sidelong glance, a gentle hum leaving her. Friendly and bubbly, seemingly satisfied and as one can say absolutely horrifically chipper, at having completed contracts for Omnitech to harvest organs and do, well let's say "Unethical" things. But really, if Omnitech thought it was alright, then she knew it was alright~
"Beloved Omnitech employee Tara, I'm merely um, let's say writing up some much needed contract's preparations, as any official Omnitech public representative should~"
Leslie is mostly ready, she'll do a short round, around the compound. Shake a few npc hands and the like, maybe get a few of them to agree to having their organ's harvested. You know, normal stuff, but she's ready besides that, she's coming back whether succesful or a failure to help Omnitech out on a mission!Spoiler: I love you Omnitech! (click to show/hide)
Booooo I'm the ghost of employees past! I'm here to haunt you for your terrible corporate culture!Technically I don't think I have the proper clearance level to speak with you? Also I'm pretty sure the PR section has released an official statement that states that things like you do not exist. However, hypothetically, if something like you existed and I could talk to it, I'd say that an interface body might be possible. Corpses are sometimes inhabited by HELL creatures so I don't see why a robot can't be used as a vessel. Though your current status as dead and fictional would make it hard for you to pay for it."Pay? I'm a legitimate business expense. Tell 'em, Pathos. Ah well. I'm sure we'll rig up something ridiculous and dangerous and possibly sacrilegious on our own. Speaking of which:"
go haunt the new girl until the next adventure starts. Give her a ghost mouse. Attempt to possess her and make her do silly things. Talk randomly about good housekeeping practices and pornography.
Ie the same as an advanced medkit but for repair and modification and such? Its not in the arsenal right now but I don't see why it couldn't be.Neato, how much would that be?
”oh, Cool! Actually, I wonder if she can see ghosts at all? I can barely see you, right now. What ghostly things can you do, right now?”
Done.Buy 2 OMNITECH “Porcelain” Ceramic knives and head to elevator 03ASpoiler (click to show/hide)
Head to Elevator 03A.Done.Spoiler: Wyatt Baker (click to show/hide)
High Ho! Finish the transition, publicly this time!Done.
Samurai Waifu Assassin go!
Can I sell my old body to creepy dude? If so, how much would I get?
Then head down to the mission location.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Jump on the foxgirl and ride her all the way to the elevator. Be the cute animal mascot she deserves.I'm not honestly sure how she would react to having a robot face hugger clamp down on her head. We'll assume that she makes it to the elevator regardless, though there is an unknown amount of screaming involved. Quantum terror, basically.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Head to the elevator.Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
Go to the elevator with everyone else.Done and Done.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
400 according to the armory.QuoteIe the same as an advanced medkit but for repair and modification and such? Its not in the arsenal right now but I don't see why it couldn't be.Neato, how much would that be?
Also, you said before that we could do one modification per piece of equipment, correct? Is using a charge of a toolkit enough, or should we also get relevant materials and such? For example, modifying a goop gun to spray more goop faster and thereby increase its attack die (perhaps at the cost of decreasing the use die of a loaded tank or something?)
How much for an environmental scanner?
Can a computing cube be used for communicating?
((Sorry for all these questions, I'll try to keep it to the minimum. Do tell me when the last turn for purchases and lvl-ups is though!))Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Hrm. "Armor piercing", huh? Well, that's a problem, considering that the real AP stuff is way outside my price range...No one appears to buy the rifle, but if I missed something feel free to work it out between yourselves. I'll trust you to handle it without my direct involvement.
"HEY! ANYONE WANT TO BUY A SECURITY RIFLE? ONLY TWO HUNDRED CREDITS, THAT'S HALF OFF! AND I'LL THROW IN A HALF EMPTY SPARE MAG, TOO!"
Try to sell my rifle to someone else, for 200 credits. They get the mags too, if they buy it. Then go get a loan from sharky, of 340 credits. Or 540 if nobody wants the gun for some reason. That'll leave me with 1540, which I'll use to buy an Advanced Cleaning Apparatus plus two spare... mags, I guess?
...Just because I'm worried, don't buy it if it doesn't actually use gun skill despite being in the guns section, or is limited only to "close" range, whatever that is. In either case, take out 100 more credits in the loan and buy a PUNCH shotgun instead.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
Hmm, people are selling their stuff in the halls now. For some reason Nik got the feeling that he was getting close to the elevator. 200 for a gun would be nice, but he always preferred knives. Doesn't really matter though, he can't afford stuff anyway.[7]
Then he saw it. That bipedal cartilaginous fish.
"Excuse me... uh... guard, there's something important I need to do. It's a matter of life and death."
"I wouldn't deal with him if I were you"
Talk to the loan shark and try to take out a loan for $400. Only do this though if I can pay it off for $700 or less immediately after his first mission. Also read the fine print and use my KNOWLEDGE to detect any suspicious terms. If spotted try to negotiate them out of my contract. Walk if negotiations fail, I will rather die than be a wageslave!
IF all of that was succesful, buy a reactive fabric cape and go back to the elevator
From around a corner, Charon comes. Sprinting at full speed towards the elevator he leaps throw the open doors, rolling until he smashes against the wall. He stands back up, swaying back and forth while a bit of blood trials down from the corner of his forehead and onto the floor.Done.
"I'm here."
Be present on the elevator.Spoiler: Charon (click to show/hide)
“You say they aren’t intelligent enough to think for themselves. If so, is something controlling them? A swarm intelligence, wifi-signals from some computer, a psionic relay, the voices of H.E.L.L?”Spoiler: Nik (click to show/hide)
Eh, if I only getting 50, I’d rather keep the original body as backup.We'll keep it on ice.
I’ve got no problem with the robot tagging along. A proper assassin needs a pet/mascot!
In any case, I’ll arrive on the scene and get a feel for the first area.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Well, let's just get this sorted out then.[5,
Lvl gun stat. Then buy goop gun (400) and 3 extra tanks (90), also toolkit (200). Total of 690.
Try to mod the goop gun as described before. If possible, make it so it can switch between the two firing modes, but not if that makes the mod much more difficult.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Information is somewhat sketchy about the situation. We have been cut off and no one in the labs has escaped. We only know about the entire thing because of a few things spotted on cameras external to the lab and eyewitnesses who attempted to enter. No one has attempted communication yet, at least from out here; you're the first responders."Can they speak? Can they communicate with us and us with them? If so, why haven't they simply been asked what their motives are?""Spoiler (click to show/hide)
When the elevator gets to the destination, step out and observe the room
"Can you give a rouge estimate on their numbers? And what sort of armour and weapons do they use?"Last estimate puts the active units at 8 but there were others in the complex in inactive mode. It is possible more have been activated. Maximum would be around 20 but we doubt it will rise to that level.
Once the elevator arrives, raise my rifle and enter the first area, making sure to get a good look at the surroundings.Spoiler: Wyatt Baler (click to show/hide)
"Can I keep whatever I loot off their corpses?"I will put in a emergency requisition order. They may accept it or not; but assume you can for now. Oh, though I should say, their armor is gene locked and custom to their body so it won't work for you. The weapons may though. Just be careful, they were designed for the KNIGHTs so they will likely be difficult for a normal person to use.Spoiler: Charon (click to show/hide)
"How armoured are they, will our rifles even do anything to them?"Their armor is Titanium diboride ceramic. Most lower range ballistic weapons will not initially damage it, though unlike metallic armor it can be shattered through repeated hits. There are also spaces at the joints which are covered only in a kevlar weave and are less effective. The armor has good thermal protection but it IS electrically conductive and cannot protect its user against electrical shock.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"No. You could prolly buy some AP ammo, though. Do a little bit more nothing!"Covered by previous posts, also no. I'm out of town and on a fugging kindle tablet so I don't have access to a map maker. I'll see about drawing one by hand and then scanning it or borrowing a computer or something.
Can we have a map of the area? Also, precisely how many of them there are, and what weapons they might be armed with?Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
"Are they vulnerable to high temperatures and do we know why they took hostages?"They are somewhat insulated against high temp and fire, but not perfectly so. They cannot just ignore it, but they can withstand high temps for a short period without issue.Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
Sure. I have the 20Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I give 20 OMNI to Toby
(Toby can add 20 OMNI to his total, I have already subtracted 20 OMNI from myself)
“Hey, can I borrow 20 bucks from anybody?”Done.
Toby gulps, realizing how squishy he is. Buy a tentacle if I get the money for it.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Go casually "Stand' behind Yuri the Anime Ape. Look intimating .... mincing ... aggressable ... Look mean.Everyone would probably get this reference but sadly no one is in the room except Reginald, the anime ape, and yourself. And Reggie seems a bit busy answering questions.
Head casually down to the event and see if there's any ectotrash to incinerate. If there is ectotrash, incinerate it. If there are ectosnacks, eat them. If there are mission-irrelevant lootables, make careful note of them, but don't tell anyone just yet.[2]
"Hail Sir Knight! We are representatives of OMNITECH and mean you no harm.Just say that for every more powerful use, use die is rolled at disadvantage.
We are here to parlay. May I enter so we can talk properly?"
Talk to the brobot.
Also, for the weapon mod, how should we say it works mechanically? Something like 'for every level of attack die increased, the use die roll rolls one more die at disadvantage'? Or just say it then rolls d6 attack and rolls use die at normal disadvantage?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
We don’t mean any harm, we just want to know why you kidnapped members of OMNITECH[2]
Talk to the ambassador of CamelotSpoiler (click to show/hide)
"We're here for a medical inspection to make sure that everyone is healthy and isn't suffering from this dangerous and highly contagious new disease we just discovered. Also what's a Camelot?"[4]
Talk to the resident of Camelot.Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
Find cover and wait for the inevitable shoot out.Spoiler: Wyatt Baker (click to show/hide)
Wil sits down against the wall a distance away from the door, clutching his oversized acid thrower protectively. "Try not to get your lies too tangled up with each other, these things probably get confused easily. And Woldo, stop acting so creepy, they probably don't even have the bits you're after."
Sit down far into cover and wait for diplomacy to fail.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
"Isn't Camelot from one of those bullshit stories you tell little kids?"
Stand in the background where I can't be seen and reload my antique revolver.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"We're here for a medical inspection to make sure that everyone is healthy and isn't suffering from this dangerous and highly contagious new disease we just discovered. Also what's a Camelot?"
Talk to the resident of Camelot.Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
”Oooh, tell them we want to arrange a political marriage. Isn’t that the kind of stuff they did in the Middle Ages?”The pessimistic or quiet portion of the security team sort of just stands around, loading guns, taking cover, mopping floors and generally waiting to see what happens. This Ren faire crap is either below or above their pay grade, least for the moment.
Wait patiently for now. Return fire if they open fire, aiming for the weak points.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
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Search around for alternative entrances I could squeeze through, taking advantage of my small size.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
”Diplomacy is more than just stating the facts though. There’s a certain art to getting your point across and I don’t know if you are capable. A silver tongue is a necessity for a job like thisyes, this does sound like a good idea, we have to figure out why they kidnapped OMNITECH people in order to negotiate properly. Maybe we can use the political marriage to have the Kingdom of Camelot be a vassal to the kingdom of OMNITECH, considering that Camelot has less territory currently
As for what we should talk about specifically, I honestly do like the idea of the political marriage. These guys are crazy. When I’ve dealt with insane people in the past I find that it’s generally best to play along with their delusions. The fact that Princess Ji is a robot should definitely help things.”
Be part of the ambassador’s entourage
”I’ll go with you, ghosty guy!”
"I vote for Yagyu, I don't think a teenage girl is a suitable diplomat. Yagyu, I'll hold your stuff for you, and I can patch in to your video feed too, since I guess our tech expert just left to go exploring vents."”but...uh...
Grab Toby and keep him from running off with the "ambassador".
"No, Toby. If you run in there they'll shoot you and Yagyu both. They said ambassador, singular. We might be able to talk them into letting two people go, but even then it should be--can't believe I'm saying this--it should be the little girl. Not a creepy occultist with a tentacle."Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
"Unfortunately, you don't have your brain uploaded, so sending you in is more risky if things go awry. Then again, I do sometimes put my foot in my mouth...
If I go in, would any of you be willing to take care of my stuff for a bit, and to give it to my clone should I bite the dust in there?"
If any and all talking takes speech rolls these days, let Tara go do the talking. If we can still do (some of) our own talking, go in myself. If the latter, leave my stuff with Wil or Tara, except for the computing cube, which should stay on at all times so my teammates can listen in.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Continue with good old fashioned OMNI-brand pessimism.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
If Yagyu lets me, go inSpoiler (click to show/hide)
"We should come to an agreement as to what our ambassador is going to say before we send them in. I think going with the medical inspection would be the best option for rescuing all the hostages with mininal risk, though if we're going with that then I have to be our ambassador, I think I'm the only one qualified to answer any medical questions."
Go in and talk if I'm elected as ambassador, otherwise just stand around and look helpful.Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
I Volunteer to be ambassador! Float to the front and start haunting the roboknight. Be sure to be extra anachronistic, and also be sure to talk about things utterly unrelated to whatever they are doing or whatever the team is trying to do - hockey, or the categorization of mildews and molds, or the various flaws in the Dewey Decimal System, or other equally exciting topics.
Be part of the ambassador’s entouragestay tight.
”I’ll go with you, ghosty guy!”Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"I vote for Yagyu, I don't think a teenage girl is a suitable diplomat. Yagyu, I'll hold your stuff for you, and I can patch in to your video feed too, since I guess our tech expert just left to go exploring vents."
Grab Toby and keep him from running off with the "ambassador".
"No, Toby. If you run in there they'll shoot you and Yagyu both. They said ambassador, singular. We might be able to talk them into letting two people go, but even then it should be--can't believe I'm saying this--it should be the little girl. Not a creepy occultist with a tentacle."Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
*excited robospider noises*Pathos sends the following back to the rest of the team.
Start exploring the vents. Try to be quiet about it and be careful not to accidentally walk into a fan or something. If it's the sort of place one can get lost in, use glowspray to mark the way at intersections.
I'm interested, in order of priority:
*Security stations/control stations
*Research documents/computers
*Hostages
*Life support systems
*Traps and weapon stockpiles
While exploring, keep an eye out for enemy positions and do my best to stay away from them. I don't know how good their senses are and I don't want to risk it.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
While I’m bored, see what features the tentacle has. Try not to test it on my teammates.The tentacle has the features of being able to rip people's faces off, terrify school girls, and send weebs into erotic paroxysms. Basically its a big rubbery nightmare limb that does as you desire. Every man's dream.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Take note of the scenery around me. If diplomacy fails, we’re going to need break in. It would be good to find some weak points in the wall. Some keystone pieces of trash, a few flammable bits, maybe an explosive barrel they forgot to put away?[2]Spoiler: Nik (click to show/hide)
[load mission statement] minimize staff losses and property damagePathos quietly scuttles out of the vents and down next to the door in question. There is a sign on it that reads "AUDITOR ACCESS ONLY".
[agreement] fight -> +++staff losses & +++property damage & +++risk
[disagreement] peaceful solution ---likely
[disagreement] peaceful solution = continuation of KNIGHT insubordination -> staff losses & property damage
[calculating best case scenario] KNIGHT compliance or deactivation
[hypothesis] Throne room -> Monarch +++likely
[suggestion] replace Monarch with one aligned with our goals -> assassinate/usurp/challenge/discredit/duel
engaging information gathering...
If I can drop by the door with the question mark on it without being detected by the KNIGHTs in the other room, do so. If there's a sign or similar next to it, read it. If it doesn't lead to anywhere dangerous, open it (or hack it open).
If I can't make it there undetected, then just follow Radio's character from the vents.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Wilfred will see if he can't patch into Yagyu's audio and visual feeds. From his computing cube, I guess. Dunno, Yagyu suggested it, and Wilfred has decent tech, so try to get a connection set up and share with the team.[3]
Also, keep watch over Yagyu's junk that he left behind. Any would-be thieves get acidified then looted and their junk added to the pile.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
Go in.
"Thank you, sir knight, for allowing me into your fortress.
Now then, is it the wish of your lord that I should speak to him, or shall you be my liaison?"
Ok so basically he wants to know who you are, why you're here, and what you want. According to him these are the rightful lands of Grongor the first (You recognize the name as being that of a fictional character in a series of campy barbarian novels), the slayer of the outerbeasts and all-father.
Tell him I'm an ambassador from OMNITECH here to talk with them. See if they still know what terms like OMNITECH mean. Ask them about the history of their land, maybe that'll reveal something about how the situation developed.
If possible, ask for a tour of his lands to try and find out the condition of the hostages. Be courteous at all times and throw in 'milords' and such where appropriate.
He seems to recognize "OMNITECH" but as some kind of neighboring 'Kingdom' not as a company. He says something about it being "Fatherland of the Lord" but nothing more. You ask about the situation and get a story about how Grongor the AllFather created the KNIGHTS as protectors of his realm, to aid him in the battle against the beasts of the outerlands and rebellious subjects. You ask him what the beasts they're fighting are and he responds that the outerbeasts come from a land to the south, past the borders of this domain. He describes them as something that sounds like insects, though much larger. He says they try to enter this land on occasion, and he and his brothers push them back. You ask where they came from and he says that Grongor discovered them during the expansion of his lands.
You ask for a tour and to speak with the subjects of this land. The KNIGHT seems highly uncertain about this and says that he would have to ask his lord if such a thing is possible: it is not his place to choose.
((maybe dealing with those insects gives us an in here, or could at least explain their aberrant behavior))
Sure, he can go ask for permission. Or he could request an audience for me with the roboking so I can ask myself, should it please his ceramicness of course. (but word it all polite and diplomat-like, I can type it out all formal like if you want me to)
Nah thats fine. He clanks off and returns a few minutes later.
"My lord says he will speak with your kingdom, but not with you. He wishes you to send your most agreeable maiden to meet with him instead."
Suuuure, I'll get right on that. One more thing, have they identified a source of those insects?
Oh, and ask him what kind of maidens his lordship prefers I suppose.
He says they're coming from someplace outside the kingdom, an open cavern to the southeast. None know their exact source, as Grongor has forbade the KNIGHTS from delving into the caverns and instead has them guard the border.
He rather sheepishly responds that Grongor prefers more "Comely lasses of delicate age" than "Withered crones or bloated harpies". He seems to be quoting.
(Out of curiosity, when you say 'sheepishly' here, could you describe it a bit more? Mostly cause that seems to imply a sort of social understanding/mores that I wouldn't have expected given 'organic automata' status.)
Either way, if we can't get a tour of the place yet, could he perhaps describe to me what the king's subjects that are not knights are doing and how they are treated/their general wellbeing? He mentioned 'rebellious subjects', does this occur often?
Sheepishly in that he doesn't seem to understand what he's saying. He's reciting it without understanding so he's kinda awkward about it. Imagine a young kid telling an adult something his parent told him to tell them. Sheepish isn't quite right...more like "Awkward" or "Uncertain".
He says that they are made up entirely of Grongor's "Many wives and concubines". When you ask about any men, he says there are none. He says the women are doing well, that they are well fed and taken care of. He's very clinical about it, like a field medic. When you ask about the "Rebellions" he responds that the women attempted to attack Grongor at one point but that they were "easily dealt with", again very clinical.
Ok then, think we're almost done. Try to carefully ask if he thinks these is a chance that, should the maiden we sent be particularly to the King's liking, he will decide to add her to his harem?
(by the way, when we are done here, and assuming my head isn't traumatically separated from my neck in the meantime, should I just copy paste the pm logs into the thread, or would you prefer me to retell it IC'ly?)
The KNIGHT thinks on that for a while. You can almost see the smoke rising from his ears. Finally he says " The harem has always been the same." You wait a moment for him to continue but he doesn't. Alright.
(Sure, I was mostly doing this for speed and the chance of unexpectedly opening fire on the idlers after you say a bad thing. I'm fire with you relaying the conversation once you return)
”I wonder if I could hold a sword with this thing?”According to the specs here, Toby can totally triple wield via his tentacle. He can also use it to cling to the back of stronger teammates, for protection. And emotional support.
Sounds good. Hide behind that security guard, for safety.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Charon focuses his attention on the most important conglomeration of value in the room. The gigantic wall of trash. Using his finely crafted OMNI-gifted fingers, Charon applies his finely honed sense of touch to the garbage barricade. Feeling it, rubbing it, tasting it with his sensitive digits. With the debris palisade thoroughly inspected, Charon pulls out a random bit of trash from the trash pile.Charon yanks a random piece of debris from the trash wall. It appears to be...a tin sign reminding people to dispose of bio-hazardous trash in the correct receptacle. It appears to have blood on it. Or maybe jam?Spoiler: Charon (click to show/hide)
"If people want rid of the wall I've got this demo charge I stole from the last mission."[3]
Go examine the trash wall, and find out if there was any good stuff used in its construction.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I don't want the shadowmen to get me. Go back in the vents and go watch Radio's meeting. See if there are any juicy assassination targets.Yagyu's talks seem to be over, so instead pathos wanders over to the throne room. There is a man on that throne, a skinny ectomorph with a prominent adam's apple and a face like a nervous toucan. He's wearing clearly fantasy inspired armor, with a circlet crown and a big cape, looking very silly. He seems to be waiting for something.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Superseded by Yagyu just coming back and telling everyone.Continue waiting, try to figure out if I can hear anything through the wallSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Can I still join?You can indeed, Toots. Assume you're in the room, outside the trashwall, where Yagyu has just returned to. Basically, with everyone else.
If so,Spoiler: Gabe Toots, Security guy (click to show/hide)
"Well I'm simply going to announce a medical inspection, I'm a medic and we've just now discovered a new dangerous and highly contagious disease and I'm going to check everyone within their kingdom for whether they're infected with it or not.”sounds like a plan, what do I need to do?”
Naturally the hostages and the king are all infected with this highly dangerous and contagious disease and need to be moved into the quarantine area where we're keeping the rest of the infected. This will result in the rescue of the hostages and in the kidnapping of the king, resolving the hostage scenario in a peaceful manner."
”sounds like a plan, what do I need to do?”"Nothing really other than staying put and waiting for me to come back. I don't expect things to go wrong, but if they should, then maybe come to my rescue?"
What if I come with you? I could be the assistant medic/your servant?”sounds like a plan, what do I need to do?”"Nothing really other than staying put and waiting for me to come back. I don't expect things to go wrong, but if they should, then maybe come to my rescue?"
”I’ll volunteer as a fair maiden if we want to go that route. I’d probably be best for a few reasons. 1, I have great tits. 2, I could break that shrimp 10 wats to Sunday if I wanted to. I’m not much good at talking, but if you give me an idea of what I should say, and what you want accomplished, I could probably figure it out. Or I could just use the opportunity to kill him, or help free the hostages. In any case, I should probably find something presentable to wear, and if anyone’s got any concealable weapons, I’ll trade you for ‘em.””here’s a pistol.”
I did research with my sisters about blood transfers from different species, along the way we found out that some animals have interesting parasites inside them, I think this counts."That's good enough, now if nobody has any objections I'll be heading in to talk with the king."
((Do we even know IC'ly yet that the king is a scrawny idiot?))
Leave the area and take the elevator up. Look for the ape and ask him about any labs that were near this one that worked on insects. I won’t be needed for a whileSpoiler: Nik (click to show/hide)
Find a ghost anemone, name it Maurice, then feed a big ghost fish to it so that it's tentacles grow absurdly long. Then find some ghost clownfish, feed several ghost pirhanas to them and set them loose inside my anemone.Jon drifts through the scene, a massive ball of tentacles and flesh sitting on his back, whipping its limbs around at high speed.
After that, go feed a ghost Narwal to a ghost horse to make an ectosea unicorn.
Then ... I want a milkshake, so let's go find some ghost cows and feed them a lot of ghost grass.
Honestly I have no idea who the medic you're referencing is.follow the “medic”. If they ask, I am the assistantSpoiler (click to show/hide)
”Insect things? That’s interesting. Probably some other experiment gone wrong.Rather than walking all the way back upstairs, Nik just finds the nearest interoffice telephone and gives his ape overlord a call. He has to wrestle it out of the hand of a complaining cubicle dweller but some gentle persuasion (https://pics.me.me/gentle-persuasion-34014177.png) with the mop ends that conflict.
I’m gonna go ask the ape if he knows anything about them”
Leave the area and take the elevator up. Look for the ape and ask him about any labs that were near this one that worked on insects. I won’t be needed for a whileSpoiler: Nik (click to show/hide)
Pretend that I was with everyone all alongToots clears his throat and then looks around nonchalantly. Everyone looks at him for a moment and then returns to what they were doing. He nods silently to himself. Infiltration complete.Spoiler: Gabe Toots (click to show/hide)
Hmmm... Where am I in relation to the king? Above? Below? Next to? Could I get below his throne? How about above?Pathos is high up on the wall to the left of the throne, going by the map. There are no vents below the throne and none that he can see directly above or behind. There is one closer, still on this side, but its is still a good 15 or so feet from the wall to the throne. He moves back, searching for a panel or something that would lead him to the interspace between the walls and floor of the lab pod and the raw stone it was built into. These pods are usually self contained, built in a cradle of suspension springs to isolate them from any seismic event, so there should be space out there. In his search he finds a hole in the ductwork and crawls down through it. He does indeed end up in a dark space seemingly outside the pod structure, but when he turns on his lights he finds that it isn't what he was looking for. He's in a smooth walled, cramped tunnel that appears to have been melted or dissolved away rather than dug, and all around him is copious amounts of greenish white slime and maggots the size of large dogs.
Ideally, I'd like to be able to go both above and below. Some sort of wide open crawlspace or even better some sort of maintenance sublevel below the room would be just perfect.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
"You guys do whatever you want, I'm gonna get that flamethrower thing."[5]
Pull the flamesprayer out of the the junk wall.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Pull out more junk from the junk wall. Grab enough junk for Charon to form a duchy made out of trash and junk. Become Duke of the Junkerlands.Spoiler: Charon (click to show/hide)
((Do we even know IC'ly yet that the king is a scrawny idiot?))
Take possession of my inventory again and thank Will for guarding it. Make sure I am out of the way of the door, in case they start shooting.
"If things come to blows, I don't think we can take them in a fight, so I don't think there will be much rescuing from us in that case. Perhaps seducing the king would yield better results, and if it fails you could still resort to violence. As for the medical inspection story, I don't know if they king will care enough to fall for it, but you could try it. Perhaps don't call it an inspection though, I get the feeling this king doesn't take well to being told what to do."Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Good luck." Wyatt tells the Medic from his position next to the wall.
Keep watch on the junk wall and those pulling junk from it, keeping an eye out for anything more unusual than normal.Spoiler: Wyatt Baker (click to show/hide)
Toby considers what yagyu has told them carefully. Give a pistol to the anime girl.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Elen, no offense, but I think I’d we’re putting somebody behind enemy lines, it really should be a combatant.
Object to Elen being sent in, on the grounds that I would make a better candidate. Unless the guy wouldn’t rather TWO beautiful damsels for the price of one. In any case, I should probably leave my armor behind, and my not-easy-to-conceal weapons. However, Toby offered me his pistol, so I’ll trade him my rifle for it. Also, if I can find anything to wear that isn’t a security jump-suit, do so (Maybe somebody would be willing to trade jumpsuits? In any case, whoever wants to wear my armor until I get back is welcome to it.) Conceal the pistol and leave the baton. Approach the gate, looking as demure as possible.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Elen starts to head towards the wall when Ji saunters up and pushes her back.I did research with my sisters about blood transfers from different species, along the way we found out that some animals have interesting parasites inside them, I think this counts."That's good enough, now if nobody has any objections I'll be heading in to talk with the king."
Head on in and meet the king as a most agreeable and fair maiden, also ask one of the KNIGHTS if my assistant is allowed to accompany me.Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
Charon walks to group chat, bloody fingers splayed.The members of Camelot have kidnapped members of OMNITECH, and we need to free them, as for the time, it is the present. I have something meant to seal metal, not flesh, Elen might be able to help you, she is a better medic than me
"Hey, so my blood is leaking out of my fingers and I would very much like to keep all my bodily fluids inside my body. Could somebody fix this."
"Also what exactly is happening. I pretty much zeroed in one that gigantic wall of trash and I'm not entirely sure what we're suppose to be doing. Or where exactly we are. Or how we got here. Or who you people are. And the time. I also do not know what the time is right now."Spoiler: Charon (click to show/hide)
Charon walks to group chat, bloody fingers splayed.
"Hey, so my blood is leaking out of my fingers and I would very much like to keep all my bodily fluids inside my body. Could somebody fix this."
"Also what exactly is happening. I pretty much zeroed in one that gigantic wall of trash and I'm not entirely sure what we're suppose to be doing. Or where exactly we are. Or how we got here. Or who you people are. And the time. I also do not know what the time is right now."Spoiler: Charon (click to show/hide)
"Wait, where would I be?" Gabe spoke suddenly, speaking for the very first time with his team members.
Figure out the best way to hold my flashlight while holding my box gunToots examines his gun and his flashlight.Spoiler: Gabe Toots (click to show/hide)
”I think the king wouldn’t object if both of you went in.”[7]
Toby saunters up to the trash wall, and looks for any goodies.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Nice maggots. Insect pals?The maggots here are not of the unreasonably dangerous flesh eating skitterbeast variety that is so often a hazard to security. Indeed they seem totally defenseless, just wriggling around blindly, nibbling on what looks like some kind of plant matter growing on the rocks. Pathos carefully steps around them.
Are these the sort of flesh-eating ravenous maggots or the helpless larvae waiting to hatch maggots? If they attack or make any sort of threatening motion against me, bravely run away away. Otherwise, try to remain quiet and do not disturb them.
Could I make a hole through the wall to allow access to the tunnels using one of my explosives or the cutting charge?Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
"Wait before you all go, I need to treat some injuries first. Then we can go and do our diplomatic medical inspection."[8]
Quickly treat the injuries on Chardon's hands, then head inside and meet the king.Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
Head over to volunteer for the “diplomatic” mission. While I wait, talks Elen’s ear off about the finer points of world lore, immersive combat, and jiggle physics.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
The “medic” would be Elen, the one who suggested pretending to be a medicElen wraps Charon's hands in gauze, mispronounces his name, and then runs off to join the now trio of women and "women" entering Camelot.
Regardless of who goes in, follow whoever gets in, whether it be Elen or Ji
"It seems like we've got enough people on board now. Harold, Charon, and Wilfred, you come with me. The rest of you stay behind until the insects attack. We won't have much time before the bugs completely overrun the place so it's good if you have a head start. Diplomats can keep doing their thing, it would be good to have some people inside before the mayhem begins. Maybe you can scout or give the guys a signal?"
Head with group to the lab. Set backpack to flamethrower mode. Wait for Charon to open the door before we do anything.Spoiler: Nik (click to show/hide)
Leggo squash bugs 'n stuff.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Finally somethings happening, yes I'll join the burn the bug squad, I've got a democharge, welding/cutting torch, and a flamethrower to contribute to the bug bothering."
Go to the decommissioned lab with the rest of the bug squad, while I'm waking over there reload the flamesprayer and make sure its in working order.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Well that explains some of the things I'm suppose to be doing. Oke-doky, let's do that then."
Head over to the decommissioned lab with the rest of the Bug Squad. Jack into the access terminal using my PC-C and attempt to open the door, trying to only open the door a wee bit. If that proves impossible from this terminal, take out my gun and start blasting the power conduits to shut off power to the door after it opened-up a bit.Spoiler: Charon (click to show/hide)
"As fun as it is watching the fake woman try and talk to a real woman, I think I'll go with you, Nik. Sounds like I might get to actually shoot something over there."[7]
If Nik heads to the decommissioned lab with the possible nest of giant insects, accompany him. If he doesn't head there, go investigate the lab alone. Crack open the front door (or hack it open if it's locked) and peek inside.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
Does this guy seem like he’s just role playing, or like he actually believes himself?Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Remain silent and let Elen do the talkingSpoiler (click to show/hide)
"Actually I'm the ambassador, they are my assistants. Anyway hello King Grongor, I am Elen and we are here for a medical inspection. We've recently discovered a dangerous and highly contagious new disease, it is my duty as a doctor to make sure that nobody here is infected by this disease and in the case that they are it is also my duty to treat them. We're asking you to fully cooperate and allow us to inspect and treat everyone inside the Sovereign Territory of Camelot."Grongor listens and then sits quietly for a moment, staring at Elen. The guy has a very dweeby appearance and is clearly trying to take on some sort of exaggerated role but...there is a surprising amount of shrewdness in the cold and level stare he's giving the group. He looks like a chess champion carefully considering his options, eyes unblinkingly scanning back and forth across the three ladies, body tense and motionless. Finally he seems to come to some conclusion and relaxes a bit, settling into the throne.
Talk to king Grongor.Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
Try to find some stuff in the trash wall[2]Spoiler: Gabe Toots (click to show/hide)
Sling my arm around Gabe, regale him with tales of our exploits while grabbing more loot from the wall. Also, check what kinds of free grenades I got.Toby pulls the 3 frag grenades he found in the wall free, and doesn't even accidentally arm any of them! What skill! What Grace! What a funny face!
”my friend, you would not believe the things I have seen. Alien crystals, the greatest war ever fought, a woman rip a stomach out of a body-don’t worry, he was dead- and ghosts. So many ghosts! Big ghosts, little ghosts, ghosts with tentacles, ghosts that would haunt your worst nightmares!Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Hmmm... Let's call that plan B.[4]
Place a demo charge on the pod walls so that I can expose the throne room to the tunnel by detonating it.
Then make my way to the cloning vats. See what they're cloning, if it's any close to completion and if there are any controls I could reach while staying undetected. If I can make a clone go berserk or follow my commands, it would be a great distraction.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
"I only opened it a foot wide. What, do you want us shooting over your heads? They're the size of horses anyway, just stand back and burn them if they try and stick their limbs through."The door has the capacity to be remotely operated, but Wil hasn't set it up yet. He would basically just need any sort of computing device connected to the network and a good roll to set that up. For now its locked as is.
Can the door be remotely operated, or does Wil have to operate a keypad or something right next to it? Set it to lock in place for now, in the former case.
Stand back away from the door. Like twenty feet away. Have the security rifle ready, and take potshots if dangerous things charge at the opening and aren't completely blocked by the pyromaniacs, but otherwise just sit back and watch. Maybe this won't even go bad.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
Stand back from the entrance, let the flammenwerfer werf its flame. If any buuuuuugs make it past that, stick it to the floor with sticky goop! (At d6 attack)Yagyu joins Wilfred and sits back, waiting for the BBQ to finish.
Be sure to keep an eye on our surroundings to avoid getting flanked or ambushed.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Lets burn some bugs!"
Use my Flamesprayer to burn all the bugs and mushrooms on the other side of the door.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Upon seeing all that greenery, Nik couldn’t help but reveal a smile. Unfortunately, his face wasn’t used to that kind of thing so he ended up looking like a goblin on botox.Harold, using his scavenged OMNITECH Advanced Cleaning apparatus (4d6 damage, d6 use die) WRITE IT DOWN IN THE SHEET, opens fire in the most literal sense.
”Light it up boys! I was worrying that we might have needed to bring some kerosene, but this is mighty fine! It may take some time to catch since everything’s so wet, but once the blaze gets going nothing will be able to stop it!
Nik shoved his vacuum nozzle through the gap, clearly eager to fire.
“Riflemen, make sure no bugs get too close while we do our work! Remember to weld the door shut when it’s done!”
Unleash the flames! Don’t stop until you’re sure the fire is self-sustaining!Spoiler: Nik (click to show/hide)
Be sad that I appeared to late to get some free loot(No action, then?)Spoiler: Toots (click to show/hide)
(Being sad still counts as an action for me)Be sad that I appeared to late to get some free loot(No action, then?)Spoiler: Toots (click to show/hide)
Be sad that I appeared to late to get some free lootToots is sad. Sad Toots.Spoiler: Toots (click to show/hide)
"We don't know how it's transmitted just yet, the last disease I found a cure for had the same problem of an unidentified way of transmission. Anyway the currently known symptoms are increased aggression and irrationality followed by lashing out at the nearest person. These symptoms manifest at the end of the incubation period, which to my knowledge is rather long.
In any case, I can't rule out that me and my assistants may be infected and so unwittingly put you and your subjects at risk of contracting the disease from us. In the case that we are indeed infected, then it is highly likely that the quarantine present here has already been compromised given how contagious the disease is. I ask again for your full cooperation, it is in our interest to limit the spread of the disease and to cure as many as we can."
More talking.Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
continue listening. If I can speak without interupting, say ”there are some diseases that don’t show obvious symptoms. There are some worms that live in the small intestine, eating some of the food that the animal is eating. Sometimes people might not know if they have them. This is an example. The point here is thst not all diseases are obvious”
Ask if He has any subjects he’d like me to start doing examinations on.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
"Give them a minute to suffocate or flee. Then we can start looting... though, seriously, what do you really expect to find? I'm betting on dead bugs and a burning sensation in my lungs, not loot..."It actually is the flamesprayer not ACA. For some reason when I searched "Flamesprayer" in the document it gave me nothing so I thought I was misremembering and just went with the ACA. Too bad I didn't look literally one space above.
Harold does not have an ACA, which is why it isn't on his sheet. Wilfred has the ACA, which is why it's on his sheet. Harold just has a flamesprayer that he ripped out of the trash wall, though the stats for it (d6xd4. d4 use die) haven't been recorded on his sheet, probably because Zultan didn't realize the flamesprayer is an armory item.
Also, uh, the ACA being used instead of the flamesprayer kinda hurts our plan, since it's much killier and doesn't set things on fire. The idea was to make the bugs flee from the flames, into Grongor's domain, rather than to just kill them.
In any case, go shut and lock the door. Count to sixty, and if no sounds of enraged bugs have sounded, open it up a crack and take a look inside. If the coast seems clear, enter the room with the ACA at the ready.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
"So I guess we just wait a bit for the fire to die down, also I don't think there's gonna be much loot to get from in there, bugs probably ate anything good."
Wait for the fires to go out and the all clear.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Wait for Will to do his thing. Once he enters, join him. Any bugs still alive enough to pose a threat are to be hosed down with sticky goop like it's a [SIMILE REDACTED BY THE PARENTAL ADVISORY BOARD].Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"That... doesn't sound right. It should be getting louder, not quieter. No one's even rushing to tear down our door."(https://i.imgur.com/ezq1AJS.png)
Stop spraying fire. After Wilfred does his counting routine, follow him in. Assess the extent of the damage. Do I think there are still enough insects left to pull off the original plan?
"Maybe we'll find some of that serum if we decide to explore."Spoiler: Nik (click to show/hide)
Check the weapon test room for anything that will burn or explode nicely.There are what look like explosives in the test room; Grenades and the like. Though nothing that Pathos believes to be truly powerful enough to do something like collapse a tunnel.
Also check the supplies near the harem and the Knight quarters for anything that will burn or explode or act as a distraction.
Also check around for supplies like food and drink meant for KNIGHTs or the king.
Also check the living conditions of the hostages. Are they being treated well?Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
(Your measurements in the second spoiler seem more AI like than human like, an AI inhabiting a human body sounds like an interesting addition to the team. This isn’t meant to change what you put here, I am just sharing thoughts on what it made me think of, of course it could just be a human who thinks in numbers too. Either way, welcome to OMNITECH)Spoiler: generating player avatar (click to show/hide)Spoiler: initializing common game statistics (click to show/hide)
Begin. Ascertain current location and objectives.
Nice name. I'm already tied to a radiator and now I have to talk about some jerk named AYLAMO. Ugh, whatever.Spoiler: generating player avatar (click to show/hide)Spoiler: initializing common game statistics (click to show/hide)
Begin. Ascertain current location and objectives.
Wait at the barricades for the others.Spoiler: Wyatt Baker (click to show/hide)
Get ready for any actions of some sortsWyatt and Toots basically just stand around and wait to do something useful.Spoiler: Sad fart guy (click to show/hide)
((Damn. This is where having some levels in speech would have been handy. Oh well, can't be good at everything.Pathos considers:
If I had time I'd try to get them in contact with one of our speech people and try to work out a plan, but it looks like we might have to accelerate the schedule. Still worth giving it a shot though, I think I have one more turn. Messing with those turrets might also had been fun.))
Would a cutting charge be enough to cut a hole through the harem wall to the lab without hurting the hostages?
Can I hear/see any signs of fighting?
If yes, detonate the explosives under the throne room, in the hopes that it will draw the guards away from the hostages. It it lets bugs in from the tunnels that should keep them distracted even longer.
If no, then try to find a way I could get to talk to one of the hostages. Do they have any place like a toilet or a changing room where they're likely to be unsupervised? Or maybe someone is near a blind corner with a nearby vent, so I could display a message in my computing cube screen for them to read? If I can speak to them, the message is basically "OMNITECH rescue. Ready to leave? Other hostages?"Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
"As my assistant said, they shouldn't have anything to do with this, they're mainly supposed to be my escort. Anyway we can help out with the defense against the beast attack if you want, setting them on fire should work I think, otherwise we could also help with patching up your soldiers and preventing any unnecessary casualties."
How many KNIGHTS are in the room right now, what weapons do they have and are they melee or ranged?Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
(Sorry, I thought I had the spoiler in)No. I’m not sure what caused the bugs to come here. I doubt our countrymen did thisSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Shut up and let Elen do the talking.[1,3,2v4]Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Looks like we're bugging out. Try to grab something valuable along the way, maybe one of the cuter bug, I'unno. Just don't get trapped inside, then head back to the main lab with the others. If we charge the wall, charge along with the others, ACA readied.Wilfred picks up a cat sized wood louse and whispers, "You will be my rolly polly boy" to it before running out of the room to join the people at the barricade.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
Leave the lab as well, try to grab some interesting nicknack on the way out, but not if that interferes with our orderly return to the 'cades. Help with the welding if needed.Yagyu picks up a mysterious vial of glowing green liquid before running back to the barricades. The run takes a bit, so he doesn't have time to continue looting during this turn.
Once at the cades, see if there's anything going on there. Any more goodies stuck in the wall that I can see?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Go to the place where the bugs were. Or something. Use my expertise to help out.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"I think it may have worked? I was expecting to see more charred corpses if it failed."Nik carries an egg under one arm and Toby under the other as he runs back to the barricades.
Nikoli ponders exploring the lab for the secrets it contains within. The look of resignation that appears on his face makes his decision clear.
"Unfortunately, we can't afford to dilly dally here. Gotta go back to the place and finish the job. Someone should seal the door with a welding torch though. The insects are bound to recolonize this place once they realize the fire has died down. Don't want any innocents getting devoured by the swarm if they break out."
Pick up one of the eggs and leave through the main entrance from where I came. Head for Grognor's and be ready to storm the wall with my team.Spoiler: Nik (click to show/hide)
"Well I feel like we might be missing out on some loot, but then again we might have set it all on fire so I guess there isn't really much of a reason to stick around."Harold waits for everyone to get out of the bug den. Well, he waits for everyone he remembers to get out of there. After no one has come out for like a good...30 seconds he shuts the door and reseals it before welding it shut too, just for good messure.
Leave the bug lab and wait for everybody to get out, then weld the door shut.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Hey, does anyone know what we're supposed to be doing?"
((Whoops. Didn't expect the explosion to be so big. Nor did I expect it to be right under the throne, I thought it would be near the pit. Oh well. I guess I can cross regicide off my list. Let's see what happens next.))Pathos waits while the guards do in fact scamper off to fight some battle somewhere. Once they're gone he stealthily crawls out of the air vent and announces his presence and intentions to the ladies. They are initially terrified of the robot spider that just came busting through a vent, but quickly realize it isn't a threat and listen. It becomes rapidly clear that they believed the insect menace had overtaken the entire Omnitech complex and that this was basically the last bastion of survivors. They had gone alone with Grongor's -formerly Keith- plans and demands because he had taken control of the KNIGHTS. He was both protecting them and keeping them hostage with the power of the KNIGHTS. Now with him gone and the KNIGHTS distracted, and the lie of the insect hordes dispelled, they are more than ready to get the hell out.
If the harem guards have been distracted by the explosion, get down to the hostages and announce to them this is an OMNITECH rescue.
If I can get them a safe distance away from the lab wall, do so before placing the cutting charge and joining them before detonating it.
Else, try to unlock the sealed door, unless the hostages or some sign tell me it leads somewhere bad. I don't really know where it leads, but it's probably better than going through the throne room.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Wow, I was very lucky. Time to figure out if this stuff I have can heal.Try pulling the 3 shards from Elen and the jagged metal from Ji’s thigh. After each time I pull the shards out, shoot the wounds with my foam gun to stop the bleeding. Since Ji is an android, use the sealing kit on her after the metal is pulled out.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Pull out shard, shoot wound with foam gun, pull out shard, shoot wound with foam gun, pull out shard, shoot wound with foam gun, pull out jagged metal, use sealing kit to seal the wound shut.
Quickly operate on myself before Tara can, then provide medical assistance to anyone else that requires it.Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
Just to clarify, is Grognar definitely kaput?Kaput is a bit of an understatement, Ji. Grognar...Grongore? Griblack? Whatever. He's chili. He's salsa. He's a chunky red paste that goes good on chips. He was actually pretty dangerous if you let him get going so it might be for the best that someone Gibbed him before he could get up.
Also, how does my android body work as far as dying and bleeding and such?
In any case, if any knights show up, and start to show aggression, produce the cleavage gun and make with the fireworks.
((I’m hoping that if Grognar is dead, the knights may not realize we killed him, and we are therefore not considered hostile.))Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Go search for the hostages, if found try to evacuate them from the lab. Try to avoid KNIGHTS, but should they spot us yell at them that we got orders from the king to evacuate his subjects. If that doesn’t work take cover before I’m shot up, if teammates shoot them then help out with the goop thrower at double overcharge (d8). Hostile bugs are also to be avoided if possible, and shot if not.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Well, here we go."
Follow the others through the barricade, rifle ready.Spoiler: Wyatt Baker (click to show/hide)
”hm. That explosion didn’t sound good.”
Follow the other people through the barricade. Ready the tentacle.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Don't taze me, bro! Fine I wont break the barricade with my wrench, but I see no reason to be stealthy now that we filled the place with giant bugs."
Keep Nikoli from taking my wrench and follow everyone through the barricade.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Stop Harold from tearing down the barricade with his wrench by zapping him with my Arc Scraper
"No you idiot! Do you know how much noise that will make?! The barricade is currently unguarded, let's not lose that advantage."Confiscate "Mr Gorbachev" (the wrench).Leave the egg with Toby. Wait for Wilfred to clear any guards who may be on the other side before crossing the barricade.Spoiler: Nik (click to show/hide)
"Hey, does anyone know what we're supposed to be doing?"
"Oh good, another person with body armor. And my voice. Fucking clones." Wil coughs a couple of times, then speaks in a slightly deeper tone. "We're supposed to be figuring out why that lab--" Wil points at the door in front of him "--is under control of clone supersoldiers called Knights, and why they seem to think they're defending Camelot or some shit. Then maybe rescue the scientists, or something, I don't know. I didn't pay that much attention. Anyway, we sent some pretty ladies and a dude inhabiting a robotic sex doll in to negotiate with the idiot controlling the clones, but judging from the explosion that just went off in there, that plan went about as well as I expected it to. Which is to say the women and creep are probably all dead. So now we fall back on plan B, and negotiate the old fashioned way, with guns. So yeah, we go in, kill everything that doesn't have tits, and try not to die. Simple enough for you?"
Charge into the lab and open fire on any KNIGHTs seen. With the ACA.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
Check if the ambassadors are okay, help Tara if she needs any help. Fire back if fired upon.Spoiler: I'm sure the king is fine (click to show/hide)
"Hey, does anyone know what we're supposed to be doing?"
Walk forwards and shoot the bad guys! If none present themselves, apply medical aid to the wounded ladies with my extremely gentle and caring touch.Spoiler: Character Statistics (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Make Numbers Go Up (click to show/hide)
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
(https://i.imgur.com/yPHbunf.png)
I'd say that's mission accomplished as far as I'm concerned. Leave these lovely ladies to the care of our speech oriented colleagues so that they can receive the proper care and/or sign the necessary liability waivers and/or have their memories wiped while I report to our simian overlords. Unless they want me to stick around, in which case I'll wait for them to be ready to leave so I can follow them.
Pathos made sure to give a thumbs up (or as close as he could manage as a spider) to Jon's ghost. It was nice of him to take care of Grongor's ghost. It would be unfortunate if he had some creepy nerd's ghost haunting him in search of revenge or something silly like that.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Since I probably can’t be much help with whatever is left to do, just chill out and wait for the team to decide on further actions.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Wait with the others, but make sure to stay alert.Spoiler: Wyatt Baker (click to show/hide)
[Main objective cockblocked: Negotiate old-fashioned way]
[Achievement unlocked: Touched a woman, technically]
Escort Elen to some kind of place which provides legitimate medical attention. Or at least "good-enough" medical attention.
If it seems necessary, tell directions at the former hostages in a friendly and encouraging manner.Spoiler: Character Statistics (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Make Numbers Go Up (click to show/hide)
Though the mission was a success, Nik still couldn't help but feel disappointed in the outcome. The objective was to neutralize the robots and rescue the hostages with as minimal property damage as possible, but with the way things were going, this lab and the KNIGHTS would soon go the way of Grognor. When he made his plan he knew this would happen, but one can't help feeling that there could have been a better way...
By the time Nik arrived at the door he was panting. He passed by it during the rush to the throne room, but in the excitement of an upcoming battle he had forgotten it. Now that things have calmed down, he could better grasp of the significance of the words "AUDITOR ACCESS ONLY"
"HEY GUYS!!! I THINK I FOUND THE MEANS TO TAKE CONTROL OF THE BOTS! CAN SOMEONE COME OVER AND OPEN ANOTHER DOOR FOR ME!"
Examine the door controls. If there is no keycard slot or other kind of security feature, just open it up and examine the room. Otherwise wait for someone to come over who is better prepared to open it, preferably with a welding torch.Spoiler: Nik (click to show/hide)
((If anyone’s wondering how I know about that door, I believe it was mentioned in Pathos’ action resolution on page 98. Alternatively, you can just type AUDITOR ACCESS ONLY in the search bar.))
"This was a boring mission, and of course I'll help break down the AUDITOR door."
Go to the AUDITOR ACCESS ONLY door and wait to see if it can be opened, if it can't be opened cut it open with my torch.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Wait near the auditor door[1v11]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Awww, I wanted to kill somebody with this thing. This mission has been so disapppointing, all I've gotten is a new cat! Ugh."[1][1][6v1][8v9]
Go explore the KNIGHTs' quarters. Look for weapons and armor to loot, especially armor. Preferably human usable armor. Also look for ways to control the KNIGHTs, but that's not the priority.
If KNIGHTs are encountered, melt them.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
((What is this from? It's adorable and I want more of it.))Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
"Welp, time to get to work."[1]
Get down on my hands and knees and search the wreckage for shit to loot. Grab as many meaty gibbets, charred remains and literally shit-filled intestines that I can fill my grubby little hands with.Spoiler: Charon (click to show/hide)
Walk up to my good friends Harold, Toots, Nik and shove the toenail directly into their face. If they seems to be missing, dead, or a combination of the two, shove my new toenail into somebody else's face.Charon Cannot find his friends and thus walks right out of the lab, searching for someone to display his trophy to. He eventually finds the rest of the team loitering outside or heading to their ape overlords.
"Look at this toenail I found."Spoiler: Charon (click to show/hide)
[Achievement unlocked: Credit to station]Aylamo learns of a mythical literal hole in the wall bar where people can watch topless guitar playing and drink spaceship fuel.
Uh, neat. Now that that boring job stuff is out of the way, time to engage with the real meat of this game.
Scout the base for a place appropriate to take someone on a date. Have to be prepared, you know?Spoiler: Character Statistics (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Make Numbers Go Up (click to show/hide)
Anya will bravely loot the trash wallThe trashwall has been pretty well scoured by the previous security team's actions, but Anya decides to give it a try regardless. [3] She wrenches out a...wrench! Its a big ol' monkey wrench! A reasonable club and, I guess, a method of tightening bolts. (d4 monkey Wrench)
(Like this?)Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
Damn this is like the third or forth time I've been killed in this thing, and I lost all my cool shit.
Damn!!!!Going forward, I suggest a policy of not annoying the Auditors. Honestly, a meeting with them is never good. They either spend several hours explaining cost to benefit analysis to you, or they cut off your head. Sometimes both in either order.
If John tried to eat my ghost, fight back. Then run away somewhere.
How would I become a ghost? if not a ghost, do you mind if I creat Gabe the 2nd?
But did they leave ghosts behind? Jon will not proceed into the blackness. Janitors live and die by a code, and that code includes respect of certain groups' zones of influence. Like break rooms and absolute no entry death holes. But if there are ghosts nearby, however many they may be, Jon will eat them. Except cats. Especially murdercats. Speaking of which, Jon goes and gets a murder cat.
If I end up a ghost run away from John and prevent him from eating me.After the events of the last mission, anyone who dies becomes a ghost. Jon is our only non-NPC ghost currently, though I suppose anyone else could become one, if they were inclined. Though you're basically completely insubstantial and unable to really effect the world in any meaningful way. Jon doesn't care about being useful or doing things other than mess around so Ghost is his perfect form. Also it lets him eat as many things as he wants.
After seeing what happened to the others, she runs towards Charon and Wilfred
”there is an invisible creature in the auditor room that killed 3 people. Stay away!
Seeing the KNIGHTS next to Wilfred, Tara runs at the nearest one with one of her porcelain knives, attempting to slice off one of its armsSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Beat the knights up with the tentacle[5,3,4][6v7][5v1][10v4]"By order of King Grongor's successor all KNIGHTS ARE TO STAND DOWN AND STOP ATTACKING ME!"
Scream at the KNIGHTs to stand down and stop attacking me, while shooting at them and fleeing backward out of the complex. In reverse order of priority;getting away is more important than attacking, which is more important than being eloquent or convincing.
Edit: Actually, wait, no. People are volunteering to be meat shields, without even being asked! I don't know when I slipped into a parallel universe, but I'll totally make use of this: Attacking is now first priority, and retreating to the doorway is second in priority. Don't run away further than the doorway unless the meat shields are already dead and/or dying.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Minister to the survivors when they arrive, and guide them back towards a productive state of mind. Use the Eliminator to aid in the guidance process if necessary. Such harmful, trauma-based delusions will only interfere in potential employee apotheosis. After, renegotiate the contracts of any that require it.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Help escort survivors back to safety. If they are fully safe and secured, then while waiting for the mission to end consider if I could improve the damage die (or perhaps make the attack roll the same die twice?) of the generic security assault rifle by making it shoot full auto (or, if it already has that, fuller auto).Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
(Doing something different this time around, lets see how long this guy lasts.)
Go meet my new bosses.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Try and get my leg patched up.[The infirmary can patch you up for 50 credits, though you may want to wait for after payment.]Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Anya decides to meet her bosses, rather than dick around here anymore[The hoverboard uses dexterity for riding]Spoiler: accomplishments (click to show/hide)(Does the Hoverboard use tech?)Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
"Hey guys, look at this toenail I-"Charon de-asses the area with the quickness in the face of giant insect armageddon. He does so using the patented OMNI security retreat technique of running away screaming with his hands above his head, flailing in a comic manner. As we know, running like a muppet increases your chances of survival by 14.7%.
Charon pauses, taking in the sight of the giant multi-tonne monstrosity that was rapidly spiraling towards him.
"Nope."
Use my D8 speed and skiddale towards the elevator.Spoiler: Charon (click to show/hide)
”what is that?”
Throw the Knight at the centipede, and pull Tara out of the way if she gets hurt stay behind Wilfred.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Tara tries to utilize her foam gun and sealing kit to stick the centipede in one place, regardless of whether or not this she succeeds, she tries cutting a hole big enough to crawl into in the centipede’s exoskeleton. If the hole is big enough, she crawls inside and starts cutting at its organsSpoiler (click to show/hide)
(If this is too much tell me and I will shrink the action number)
Help escort survivors back to safety. If they are fully safe and secured, then while waiting for the mission to end consider if I could improve the damage die (or perhaps make the attack roll the same die twice?) of the generic security assault rifle by making it shoot full auto (or, if it already has that, fuller auto).((Hows about it gets advantage on the damage roll and disadvantage on the use die roll to show more bullets being used?))Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
((Hows about it gets advantage on the damage roll and disadvantage on the use die roll to show more bullets being used?))
(Tried to think of new ideas for a new character. Ended up copy pasting Gabe in)Spoiler: Gabe 2, Electric Tootaloo
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"Блядь, I knew I was forgetting something."[4]
Anya uses a toolkit charge to seal up any secondary/tertiary/ventilation/maintenance exits using whatever scrap can be found, so that some intern doesn't get all his blood sucked out by a housecat-sized flea 3 months from now.
(I trust the primary exit will be sealed with the bodies of our security dudes)Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
Just one charge is fine.Quote((Hows about it gets advantage on the damage roll and disadvantage on the use die roll to show more bullets being used?))
That's fine by me! And is one charge of a normal toolkit enough to do this? Or would more bits be required?
Oh! Don't forget to hand in that mysterious vial of glowing green liquid for glory and money and all that good stuff.
While I'm waiting for the next mission to start, go look around the vending machines and see if I can't find any money laying around, then search the trashcans for anything interesting or edible.Through wide ranging scavenging, begging, shaking of vending machines and dumpster diving Burt manages to scrounge up 9 Omni. This all comes in the form of prepaid OMNI cards that were discarded for having too little money to do anything useful with. His 9 Omni is spread across 14 cards.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Through the grace of OMNI and liberally applied contracts. reclassify the now-sealed labs as the site of an ongoing study on arthropod behavior. Enough scientists, or spontaneously-employed researchers from the ranks of the survivors ( they’ve seen enough of them to count as specialists), have probably lived and died here to meet the legal requirements for one. As such, any fatalities that occurred, though certainly tragic, had anticipated such risks and their analogues having signed on to an active testing site, as per the OMNI Implied Consent form. Such an action will consecrate the resting place of these poor souls, and allow them and/or their bodies to be reinstated into the Corporate Cycle.
Also, add a helpful set of warning markings to the newly sealed vents.
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get out of Toby’s grasp and run in the direction he was running. When exiting, seal the doorSpoiler (click to show/hide)
"yeah, this was a bad idea. Tara, can you goop up the door when we get out of this lab?"(Nice sheet, lunch meat)
just keep running away! get wilfred to shoot the beetles.
I'm not 100% sure about Wilfred's status, but he will run away from the giant hostiles. Preferably out of the lab entirely. And sure, Wilfred will shoot acid at them, as long as that doesn't compromise the whole running-for-his-life.[3,3,3,4,6,5,6]Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
I didn't accomplish anything, nor did I level up because I died again, I seem to be really good at dying.[5]
Go check a supply closet and see if I can't get any more tool kit charges or something.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
killed a Knight and a centipede, didn't die, and saved my coworkers from centipede-y death(probably); level up speed and guns!Message from OMNITECH accounting:Spoiler (click to show/hide)
nothing cause Gabe died. Of course it's something I do in the end to cause my things to tumble downIt aaaaall returns to nothing....it all comes tumbling down tumbling down tumbling dooooown.
Message from OMNITECH accounting:Talked with the king, sealed up the door to the insect sanctuary, managed to surviveSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Level up Stength and Fate to d6
(In this spoiler, they are leveled up already)
Pathos achievements:Message from OMNITECH accounting:
*Explored the vents
*Exploded the king
*Rescued hostages, thanks to the distraction provided by the explosion and my teammates waking up the bugs
I'd say our only failure was being unable to secure the lab and the KNIGHTs, but given that these things were meant to replace us, I'd say that's not really such a bad thing.
Level up mechanics to d8. Ask how much OMNI I need to pay to apply those 2 stat level ups I've missed to my mechanical body.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Managed to get into enemy territory, but as the situation was explosively resolves in an unexpectedly direct manner, didn’t end up using the advantage. Also got a piece of shrapnel lodged in my leg.Message from OMNITECH accounting:
Speaking of shrapnel, see if I can sell the shrapnel on OMNIbay as “Real shrapnel taken from inside a real (synthetic) Waifu!”
Implants to d6, [error] to d8Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
fate to d6, and if you can save a level up and use it immediately after you get paid, do that. Otherwise, speed to d6You can hold off on the level up.Spoiler: accomplishments (click to show/hide)Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
I found a toenail.Message from OMNITECH accounting:
Also level up Dex to d6 and Technology to d8.Spoiler: Charon (click to show/hide)
Everything you need is right down there, shitskelly.Message from OMNITECH accounting:Spoiler: Character Statistics (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Make Numbers Go Up (click to show/hide)
Pretty sure all I did was sit in the entrance area. Oh and level Dexterity to d6 and Mechanics to d8.Message from OMNITECH accounting:Spoiler: Wyatt Baker (click to show/hide)
This mission, Wilfred hacked open the door that led into the insect lab, which we then set on fire, and he also melted a KNIGHT that was just defending the facility from a rampaging centipede. Leave out that last bit, though. Make it sound more honorable, like he was "saving valuable human resources from idiot-controlled murderdrones". Or maybe just chalk it up as proactive inter-departmental diplomacy. Yeah, that sounds right, Wilfred's a gun ambassador after all.
Level Wil's Will to d8, and his Tec to d10.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
I put up a nice poster after supervising a successful team building session at the insect sanctuary. Everyone was so well behaved. Afterwards, I bought the office some new supplies. Proper Feng-Shui can increase employee Apotheosis rates by as much as 0.3 percent!Message from OMNITECH accounting:
The Arsenal (In progress) (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Et0NA5i_jXldn8ySqCQXJNo8UCm2ewuvh528yN-_RNg/edit?usp=sharing)
Not all of those are available, though.
Yagyu spent his time this mission:
- negotiating successfully with the boy-king
- helped with chasing the bugs out of the old lab
- helped secure the hostages and escort them to safety
- found a sample of Green Mystery Fluidtm for command to rub on their faces or whatever.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
All of them!Sensory hazard, which senses will be affected the most?Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Purchase cognition copier, earplugs and (if possible a blindfold)
Yeah I'll buy a cognition copier, ear plugs, a can of glowspray, and a blindfold or somethingOkie Dokie. Consider the blindfold free and earplugs 3 Omni.Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
List items available to purchase, shitskelly.Sounds fine to me.
Modify sec helmet so that vision and hearing are blocked with the press of a trigger. 10 Omni?Spoiler: Character Statistics (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Make Numbers Go Up (click to show/hide)
Payback the loan, then go to creepy-guy and give him the same pitch about the shrapnel. If he doesn’t bite just toss it in the bin. Get myself patched up if I haven’t already.[3]
Any chance I won’t have as much trouble with sensory hazards due to being a robot?Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Go find a metal trashcan and some scrap, then combine it all together using one of my toolkit charges to build a helmet, that'll hopefully protect me from the coming hazards.[4,6]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Buy earplugs and a blindfold.3 Omni.Spoiler: Wyatt Baker (click to show/hide)
While we are between missions, ghost on over to the hole in the wall bar we visited before and harass the customers for a bit. Then go chat with Reggie and Yuri and find out who actually has clearance to talk with me, and go talk with them.[5]
Increase Will to d10 and Implants to d8. Move to the infirmary and remove the metal fragments inside my chest there.Message from OMNITECH accounting:Spoiler: Things Elen did (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
Add 150 to your payout. I forgot.Not all of those are available, though.
((I'm pretty sure Dubs gave up on randomizing the available armory awhile ago. He's just gonna give you the same link Paris gave you. Ask if there's any sales or something, if you want something special.))
Complain obliquely to management about only getting paid 600 credits, despite Wil's rank of Senior Xeno Ambassador paying 650 base pay. Don't make too big a fuss, though.
Then go pay off the loan shark. Wil owes him 540, and interest is 25% per mission, so I think he now owes 675. Pay off as much of that as possible; 600 if management doesn't correct their books.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
Does Mr. Friend perceive what his puppets perceive or are are his senses limited to his body? If Mr. Friend was controlling me right now, would he see and hear everything I’m seeing and hearing right now? Does Mr Friend have the ability to view and alter memories of people he is controlling?I am also curious, does Mr. Friend perceive what his puppets perceive or are are his senses limited to his body? If Mr. Friend was controlling me right now, would he see and hear everything I’m seeing and hearing right now? Does Mr Friend have the ability to view and alter memories of people he is controlling?Spoiler (click to show/hide)
ask some questions of my own
Buy myself one Intellitooth remote activation unit (200), ear and eyeplugs (3), and a taser (100) with 2 cartridges (6).
"Can I have more blindfolds. I want to wear extra."
"Also, is there anymore free stuff. I want to have as much as it as possible."Spoiler: Charon (click to show/hide)
"So, shoot everyone dead, stop perception, and shove a taser down his throat? Sounds easy enough."
give 20 omni back to Tara(?), buy blindfold, earbud, and, like, some cologne strong enough that I can't hear anything. get a cognition copier too.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Хуи, wish I had the money to buy a threat sensor.
if noseplugs are free grab them, as well as a couple spare blindfolds, and a map of the area if the Apes are willing to give me one
(Firstly, can we modify implants like weapons, and does their relatively unique function mean we can "stack" mods?)Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
Buy a brain copypasta.A melee taser thats that same as the ranged one? Sure.
Would you give me a melee taser for the same cost as the ranged one? The prosthetic taser costs 4 times as much and might use implant skill.Spoiler: Character Statistics (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Make Numbers Go Up (click to show/hide)
Is there a way to build a backdoor into my mainframe? (Or any robot for that matter) That way my team could easily hack me and remotely take control? Additionally, would they be able to set up a striped down interface, with no direct audio/video display, and would they be able to effectively control me using “suggestions” and such, as apposed to the direct video game style control that would be more normal.Technically you can already let people do that if you just allow them to connect to you. Though...there is some mild danger in that they might accidently turn things like breathing or temperature control off if they're really bad at their job.
As for actions. Pay back Shark-Man (-400), then immediately take out another 400 and buy a brain backup. How much would the medical bill to repair the leg cost? If less than 100, do it, if more, take out up to 100 more on the loan to do it.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Would a picture or video of Mr. Friend be enough to cause the effect or does it need to be a live feed?
How do the Friendzoned know what Mr. Friend wants? Does he have to tell them explicitly or do they magically just know?
Is the OMNITECH Occult Dampener capable of stopping the Befriending or the transmission of orders?
Questions
"This whole mission sounds like its going to end poorly. Its also kind of weird that we can kill everyone in there that isn't Mr. Friend."Donezo
Go get a blindfold and some ear plugs.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Grab a free blindfold and buy a Mental Purgant for 350. How many uses does the purgant have?Single use but activates automatically. Its a sort of electrode cap doohicky that sits on your noggin and keeps track of your brain state. If it goes nutty, the Purgant force restarts it and resets it to an earlier state.Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
I am also curious, does Mr. Friend perceive what his puppets perceive or are are his senses limited to his body? If Mr. Friend was controlling me right now, would he see and hear everything I’m seeing and hearing right now? Does Mr Friend have the ability to view and alter memories of people he is controlling?Spoiler (click to show/hide)
ask some questions of my own
Buy a Mental Purgant as well and make sure to ask if it has any side effects or downsides.Spoiler: Wyatt Baker (click to show/hide)
((Little time so this post might be a bit haphazard, sorry. I tried not to have any duplicate questions though. If it's too much just stop whenever you grow too annoyed!))
1) What does he look like, or how can we recognize/identify him for sure? In case he tries to pretend to be a puppet or has a puppet pretend to be him.
2) Can one be influenced without actively knowing/being aware that it is happened or happened?
3) Are there physical changes to puppeted people? Perhaps altered brainwave patterns? (Assume any scanning would be done with those portable scanners we can buy from the armory, the one my class starts with).
4) What were the original containment procedures and countermeasures?
5) Any testing data we would be allowed to look into?
6) Can he stay in control by making people e.g. hear recordings or view photos? What about radio transmissions? And could he e.g. Tape a small piece of fingernail to a person to permanently stay in control?
7) Can we get a big ol’ box to transport the subject in?
8) Does his power work on animals? What about artificial intelligences?
9) How did omni originally capture/receive him?
Calling him Mr. Friend is dumb. I'mma call him Derp.Mr. Friend is the name he gave for himself. We have no other informatin. His prints, dna, dental records, none of it shows up anywhere. We have no idea where he came from, aside from very scattered and inconclusive events through Europe and Canada, spanning two decades prior to his appearance in Eastern Europe.
Are controlled subjects dumb, or just as clever as they always are? If someone is controlled, could they be asked about their opinion of Derp, and deliberately lie about it to fool their former allies?
Does visualizing Derp count as perceiving him? Does remembering Derp count as perceiving him? Does being tricked into believing that one is perceiving Derp count as perceiving him?
Is memory retained normally during and after the control? Can a person who was controlled, after being separated and quarantined, describe everything that happened to them during the control?
Can perception of him be drowned out? For instance, if there's an immensely loud siren going constantly, loud enough to drown out his voice, would a person still get controlled if he spoke to them from a short distance away?
What is the cost of failing our mission parameters, by accidentally killing Derp?
Am I required to join this mission even if I'm suffering from crippling indigestion which renders me nearly useless and basically confined to the bathroom?
Will we have any kind of mission control during this? Some kind of external commander who can make decisions about which security members to shock into unconsciousness? Or would we have to choose one of our own people to stay back and act as mission control?
Is there a maximum amount of time that someone can be controlled after being quarantined from Derp? Like, will everyone always be completely back to their senses an hour or so later? If so, is it a short enough time period that we could reasonably capture someone, confine them until they're free, and then interrogate them?Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
Because others are bolding questions, I will do so too.Does Mr. Friend perceive what his puppets perceive or are are his senses limited to his body? If Mr. Friend was controlling me right now, would he see and hear everything I’m seeing and hearing right now? Does Mr Friend have the ability to view and alter memories of people he is controlling?I am also curious, does Mr. Friend perceive what his puppets perceive or are are his senses limited to his body? If Mr. Friend was controlling me right now, would he see and hear everything I’m seeing and hearing right now? Does Mr Friend have the ability to view and alter memories of people he is controlling?Spoiler (click to show/hide)
ask some questions of my own
"So, shoot everyone dead, stop perception, and shove a taser down his throat? Sounds easy enough."
"Killing him or causing harm that ruins his value as a test subject will unfortunately fail the mission. Also keep in mind the people he's controlling are still alive and not in control of themselves. That part doesn't matter for the rules but...well...it seems a bit inhumane to just kill them."
Apply blindfold and earplugsSpoiler (click to show/hide)
"Ready"
"I have a bad feeling about this whole mission, and I'm as ready as I'm gonna get."
Equip the blindfold, earplugs, and my trashcan helmet.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
This is going to end horribly! Ready! Putin earbuds, stick cologne in my face, and let’s go.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Heck with it.Jon drifts into the floor and then returns a few minutes later.
Imma ghost. Imma go take a peek at this guy. Feel free to PM me the results of my exploration and discovery. If seeing the guy isn't enough to enthrall Jon, try to lick him.
The empathy deadening training is becoming more effective I see. As you say."So, shoot everyone dead, stop perception, and shove a taser down his throat? Sounds easy enough."
"Killing him or causing harm that ruins his value as a test subject will unfortunately fail the mission. Also keep in mind the people he's controlling are still alive and not in control of themselves. That part doesn't matter for the rules but...well...it seems a bit inhumane to just kill them."
"I don't see the problem here. They're hostile, and they're preventing us from completing the mission."
Does the OMNITECH “Limited Omniscience” Sensor (the one that tracks the location of tagged people) require implant skill? Or can I just tag as many people as I want without having to worry about my head exploding or something?It would use Implant skill to be very precise on targeting, but if you just want general stuff, then it works without rolls.
Is the OMNITECH Motion sensor similar to the one in Aliens? Could I use it to find nearby movement if I'm stationary? Or is it more like the thing people use to turn on lights automatically?
Do we have a way to send text messages to each other? And are there sound-cancelling earphones on sale? I'm thinking everyone can plug their ears with the earphones to block outside noise and then I can rig some sort of text-to-speech device to allow them to hear the messages their mechanical overlords send to them. That way they won't have to open their eyes to read messages and they won't be in danger of Mr. Friend taking over the radio and taking out the entire team.
Try to create two software switches, one for turning off my auditory receptors and another for reducing my vision's FPS to 0.2 (i.e. one image every 5 seconds). Also try to write/download/purchase a speech-to-text system.
You can go ahead and start, I'll probably join once I'm finished with my purchases.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
1. Can robopeople switch of certain senses themselves? What about altering things like the refresh rate on our cameras?Sneaky Rcs coming in at the last moment.
2. Could you flood the mission site with knockout gas?
3. How much for some small cheapo motion tracking sensors that can transmit remotely?
4. Can he influence people while he is asleep/knocked out?
5. Any chance of getting those suits they used to contain him for us?
6. Can we get bulk discounts if we buy an item in large amounts? (eg. flashbangs) Or could we get some stuff as mission equipment so all the costs aren't on one/a few people?
7. If AI aren't affected by friendo, why not send in a team of robots who just tag and restrain every person in there?
8. If you'll allow us to still do lvl-ups and purchases for the next few turns then for me you can start. Please just tell us when the last turn for that is so nobody is blindsided, ok?
Manifest to Pathos in the OMNIvator.Request: +++fun, +++profit -> approved
"Hey, do me a favor and look up all chocolate and candy related organizations that are part of OMNI. The higher up the ladder and the more forbidden the knowledge, the better."
Take of my blindfold the go through the door, then immediately put it back on.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
pull down my blindfold and wait for Pathos to give the all clear, once he has pull up the blindfold and walk in, stop any idiots from falling to their deaths if I can do so safely, resist attempts to force me through
(I'm presuming Pathos upgraded all our earbuds)Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
Walk with group, be ready with baton subdue anyone who isn't part of the teamSpoiler: Basically a Toots clone (click to show/hide)
Remove blindfold. Keep it on my forehead just in case. Grab a blindfolded person to use as a meatshield.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Have my stun baton at the ready. Be ready to switch to 0.2fps, same as pathos, also be ready to turn off all other senses, except the feet thing, if I think I could detect vibrations. If I see anyone that’s not from the team, immediately attempt to stun and subdue them.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Push the blindfolded people through the door and start exploring.Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
Walk towards where I think the door is, hopefully I’m correct. Take careful steps to avoid the abyss
Manifest to Pathos in the OMNIvator.
"Hey, do me a favor and look up all chocolate and candy related organizations that are part of OMNI. The higher up the ladder and the more forbidden the knowledge, the better."
Attention team: Navigation hazard ahead. Proceed with caution. Will check other side. Will provide periodic updates on environmental conditions, possible threats and memetic safety. Text to speech mode active. Advanced tracking active. Vision protection active. Auditory receptors assigned for speech-to-text only function.Pathos installs his various bits and bobs and gets the TtS system rigged up for everyone on the team.
Sure, 100 OMNI to provide my teammates with text-to-speech earplugs sounds nice.
Also install that motion tracker and the limited omniscience and register all teammates. Knowing their general direction if they get turned is still better than nothing (if only because I'll know the direction to run away towards).
Switch my ears to speech-to-text-to-speech mode. Be ready to switch my vision to 0.2 FPS at the first sign of trouble. Watch all motion sensors carefully.
Run towards the door. Activate 0.2 FPS mode the moment I reach the other side or at the first sign of trouble. If the other side is clear, let my comrades know so that they can take off their blindfolds and get across without accidentally falling to their deaths or getting lost.Manifest to Pathos in the OMNIvator.Request: +++fun, +++profit -> approved
"Hey, do me a favor and look up all chocolate and candy related organizations that are part of OMNI. The higher up the ladder and the more forbidden the knowledge, the better."
If it wouldn't take too much time, hack the interwebs to provide JonIGhost with a starting point for his pilgrimage to the Wonkasecret.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Sight:
Smell:
Hearing:
Taste:
Touch:Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs?
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speed earbuds.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
Well this looks cool, throwing in a character sheet if I'm able to join this festival of horrors:Good luck without sensory protection. Welcome to the teamSpoiler: Jonathan Sommer / Combat Medic (click to show/hide)
Well this looks cool, throwing in a character sheet if I'm able to join this festival of horrors:Welcome. I assume you know where you are and such? Or have you not read the last few posts?Spoiler: Jonathan Sommer / Combat Medic (click to show/hide)
Uuuugggh. Okay, I procrastinated way too long about what to buy. Uh, if I can still do the before-mission stuff, Wil will leave his ACA in his room, then go to the loan shark and take out another loan. This time for 303 credits, which he will use to buy a Cognition Copier, eleven (!) spare mags for the security rifle, and nose plugs. Oh, and if Security doesn't actually possess controls for their shock implants, increase the loan by however much one of those costs. 200 in the armory buys one implant and two controls, so I'd presume it isn't too expensive just to buy a button on a transmitter alone?First paragraph, fine. Implant remote code to pathos, stuff bought, loan taken out (I assume the earlier one was paid off).
Give the shock implant controller to Pathos.
Standing orders throughout the entire misson: If Wil spots humans who are not part of the security team, he will shoot them. Since he's not using low FPS vision, he will be controlled if he sees Derp, and will therefore not shoot Derp. Additionally, if Wil spots video screens that haven't been destroyed, or speakers that haven't been destroyed, or any similar things that could project perception of Derp, he will shoot them on sight.
Finally, Wil will try and keep up a running mantra of just how much he hates Derp, and wants the bastard to die, painfully and violently. Have this be constantly transmitted on the team channel, or at least to Pathos, going double for when other people are all blindfolded. Keep it fresh and interesting by constantly thinking up new details for the tortures Derp should be subjected to. Pathos has permission to shock Wil if he stops talking about how much he hates Derp. Yes, even if it's obvious Wil isn't controlled; being painfully electrocuted whenever he stops should give great motivation to keep the mantra going forever.
FINALLY, the actual action, take point and enter the server room. Don't shoot controls for the servers, but other screens that look like they're more for general display are still fine for shooting. Redouble the hatred mantra as the server room is entered, really get into it.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs?
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speed earbuds.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
"Look at the bright side. They might know we're here, but they must have known we'd be coming sooner or later. And with all that noise nobody will be able to hear us coming and he won't be able to exert control through speech. Isn't that right Mr. Omni?"ERROR: RESPONSE NOT FOUND Says Mr. Omni with a smile. The fact that the eyeball is smiling is very unnerving.
Wait for the team to be ready to move on. While I wait, check the motion sensor, see if I can make out any movement beyond this room.
EDIT: If any of my teammates decide to move out, help by checking out the rooms they're going to.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Just gonna do this now before the moment is gone: lvl tech, buy enviro scanner (50), try to sell green liquid (assume this was done before leaving for the mission if possible).Ok, Ooze sells for 150.
For actual action: scan room before people go in, if no obvious signs of trouble let them go in and go in myself. Also scan tooth if I find a moment.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Dont go near the tooth, and be ready to tackle/stun my teammates when they inevitably get controlled by it. If nothing eventful happens, proceed in the most logical direction.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Reapply blindfold and head towards the right, feeling one of the sides for doors, enter a door at randomSpoiler (click to show/hide)
(Would I still have a bloody nose from 2 missions ago or should I delete that fr0m status?)
so uh, Toots was it? Seeing as you don't have any protection against mind control, would you mind giving Pathos or Ji your spare electrical implant activator?
check a couple of the miscellaneous side rooms for anything of value, like a map, or money, or an okay weapon.Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
"Oh man I can feel this going poorly all ready."
Take two bullets out of one of my spare mags and shove them in my nose, then try my best to follow the rest of the group.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
A tooth, huh? examine tooth for signs of being... AN ENEMY! I know what you're up to(no I don't)Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Explore the hallway with the missing tooth, search for a map or anything that would help with capturing Mr Friend and co.The rest of the group, some with bullets up their nose, others with blindfolds on, still others with tooth based paranoia, spread out. They wander hither and thither, shaking the handles to doors, blindly patting the walls, crashing though offices and supply closets and even an empty room here and there. Toby, on all fours, scuttles around the tooth like some sort of fidgety man-cat, occasionally working up the courage to poke it with one finger before skittering back. The end result of all this hoopla is the following things.Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earbuds.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
(Piecewise, what happened to toots?)Missed you, sorry. Assume you fell in with the bottom conglomerate of people, but that you gave Ji your shock code as you wanted to.
[5]what does the thing I fell on feel like?Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Commence machine-to-machine Interface, yes... Pathos states while excitedly wiggling his manipulator arms.[5] Pathos connects himself to the server and, after bypassing some rather distressingly rudimentary security, finds a map of the area. It is sadly too large to easily show:spanning dozens of levels and several square miles, but it does allow him to overlay his Omniscience tags and get further information on the state of the area. There appears to be a large fire burning in one section and a fair amount of destruction scattered about. The subject is either enjoying his free time or is trying to get out. Maybe both. There are time stamps associated with the damage, and there are still functioning live feeds from cameras in large sections of the facility. As he looks through these, Pathos notices that someone is accessing another console elsewhere in the restricted zone. They seem to be trying to get to the PA system.
Connect to the server. First order of business is to find a map or at least a rough layout of the area. If I'm successful, use my limited Omniscience to direct people around the complex, if anybody asks for directions. This is going to be like a strategy game, except all my units are blind and drunk.
Ask Mr. Omni to regale me with tales of the chocolate land and sing of its people while I work. Count myself lucky for not actually being able to hear his unfiltered voice.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Lock the door, then search the room for other entrances. Lock/block all of them. If successful in that, sit down next to Pathos, and equip blindfold. Tell Pathos that Wil is going into wait mode, and is disabling his eyesight, then give the psychorant a rest. Just wait for Pathos to find something of interest that we can aim for.Wilfred locks the door, shoves a shelf in front of a small air vent and then curls up under a desk. He lets Wilfred know he's going into inactive mode and then fully shuts himself off from the world.
If all entrances can't be locked/blocked, then crouch in a corner with cover and line of sight to Pathos, while maintaining the psychorant. Have a solo debate about the merits of presumably more painful destructive tortures, versus the merits of nondestructive tortures that can be maintained in perpetuity.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earbuds.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
"Hahahaha. I didn't used to like tihs Wilfram guy, but he's got the spirit. We should totally get him into a coffee pot too, Pathos.The Ghost of Jon floats into the server room carrying the ghost of the mutant cat they accidentally spawned way back in mission one. The cat is still flailing and growling but Jon keeps holding it by the scruff and whispering baby noises at it.
Follow Wilfred around. Assist in colorful vitriol generation for his stream of invectives. Eat any ghosts that aren't properly approved, or happen to be fans of Mr Friend. Cat ghosts are always properly approved, of course. as is anything particularly drippy, gooey, or bitey.
Go back to the rest of the group and loot one of the that's been checked.Burt, apparently mid stroke, stumbles back into an already opened room and "Loots" a nice executive style office chair. He proceeds to go wheeling down the hall in it, taunting Mr. Friend and screaming about how he can never die.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Continue exploring and searching for loot. Try to determine the age of any bloodstains I come across.[4]Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
Pocket the flash drive. If any of my team REALLY wants to look at what’s in it, I’ll allow it, but I get to keep it.
Otherwise, pocket it and keep my baton handy.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
I guess check on teammates and loot anything I come across (especially corpses). Go bother Pathos about giving me a map if possible.Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
Follow Tara! Help her out, if need be.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
uh, I guess follow the group?Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Could you perhaps give us a map of the local area? Or a general overview map with those areas of interest that you described marked? Cause I think we'll have to come up with some concrete objectives here to make sure we don't devolve into 'aimless meandering' too soon, given the size of this complex.Alright, Twist my arm and expose me as a fraud why don't you. White lines are the airlocks between sections.
Either way, point foam gun at Pathos while he hacks and ask questions from time to time. If he starts missing answers or behaves erratically, stick him to the ground with goop.
Should things go smoothly on that front and I can do anything else this turn, investigate and scan the two dead bodies and try to determine cause of death. Check if they have anything useful on them.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Suspicious activity detected. Attempted access to the PA system. Investigating sector...Pathos marks the location on the map.
Send the coordinates and any other info I have about that place and the user credentials used to access the PA system to my teammates. Then tackle the problem of the PA user. I'm going to let them think their message has gone through. However, I'm going to change the mode of their broadcast from global to local, so that their message is only heard in the room they're in and thus the rest of the lab is not affected. I'll also try to record the message and pass it through the speech-to-text. I'll also try to get a single frame from any cameras in that room so I can check who is broadcasting (remember, only view them at a rate of 1 ever 5 seconds, even if they're from different cameras).
If I can't do everything, then the order of priority is the order I've written them in.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Loot him for valuables. Continue exploring in the search for more loot and corpses.[2]Spoiler: Elen (click to show/hide)
Just be ready in case I need the batonSpoiler (click to show/hide)
"someone's trying to get into the PA system? Well then, you might want to get that electro implant activator ready, Ji."
Anya leans down to look Tara in the blindfold, and then pulls it up
As for your question, child, the only thing we've found so far is a creepy message, perhaps you'd like to help us search the area?
look around the general area of the body, taking care to stay in LoS of my teammates, and loot anything arguably valuable I find. After that, follow whichever one of us actually leadsSpoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
"LOOK everyone, look at this chair I found!"
Use the chair to roll towards the rest of the group wherever they are, and be sure to bump into them with the chair.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Hmmm. Check the area for clues. Stay in the back of the group. See if the tooth matches this corpse. I took it with me, definitely.
”A corpse! And blood! Gross.”Spoiler (click to show/hide)
As it turns out the tooth does actually fit the corpse. Not a particularly useful but of knowledge but at least they know the origin of it now.”Thank you whoever helped me up, what all is in this room?”Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Follow those who helped me
HELLO I AM AN ASSOCIATE OF MR. FRIEND
MR. FRIEND HAS ENJOYED HIS TIME IN YOUR COMPANY, BUT HAS DECIDED HE WOULD LIKE TO LEAVE.
IN ORDER TO SHOW HIS APPRECIATION FOR YOUR TIME TOGETHER, HE HAS DECIDED TO PLAY ONE LAST GAME WITH YOU.
IF YOU CAN FIND MR. FRIEND, YOU ARE THE WINNER.
IF HE FINDS YOU, YOU LOSE.
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Alright, Twist my arm and expose me as a fraud why don't you. White lines are the airlocks between sections.Thank you for the map, I appreciate it. I'll keep the link in my charsheet so people can find it easily.
Also Yagyu can sure point a foam gun at a robot spider, but leaving the room is harder because some screaming maniac has barricaded the door and gnaws on the ankles of anyone who tries to remove it.Isn't that maniac currently completely shut off from the world and so can't really see or do that much to stop Yagyu from leaving?
Wait, I don't even have earplugs. Ah well, just don't touch anything newSpoiler: Gabe Toots 2.0 (click to show/hide)
Sight: Blindfold, equipped if not doing computer work.
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
(That message was to everyone, yes)QuoteAlright, Twist my arm and expose me as a fraud why don't you. White lines are the airlocks between sections.Thank you for the map, I appreciate it. I'll keep the link in my charsheet so people can find it easily.QuoteAlso Yagyu can sure point a foam gun at a robot spider, but leaving the room is harder because some screaming maniac has barricaded the door and gnaws on the ankles of anyone who tries to remove it.Isn't that maniac currently completely shut off from the world and so can't really see or do that much to stop Yagyu from leaving?
Either way, assuming Yagyu knows about the 'splosion, consider whether my scanner could pick up small explosives like that one. Perhaps the chemical sensors could be of use, since I assume these are fairly jury-rigged explosives and so would leave some trace? If yes, scan around the local area now to see if there are more hidden bombs or other surprises.
Oh, and if any of her inventory survived, grab Elen's stuff so that we can get it back to her after the mission (check for more 'splosives around first). If anyone needs any of it for the mission, let them take it, but make it clear her reincarnation is getting it back afterwards.
((Assuming we can all hear/see that message at the bottom of the turn, text this to allies:))
"Alright lads and lasses, stay calm. Ain't nothing much we're gonna accomplish in 90 seconds anyways, he's probably just trying to make us panic and act rashly. I'll give the area a scan to see if there are more hidden surprises around.
Also, they've clearly been preparing for our arrival here, so from now on try not to touch too many unknown objects without giving someone a chance to give it a quick scan.
Either way, we need a plan to go through this complex. I propose we try to ensure they cannot flank us by closing down any airlocks to areas we haven't yet cleared and closed, both on the software side and the hardware one."Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Alert: signal loss, unit = Combat Medic Elen Farley. Most likely reason: death. Possible result of: enemy activity, enemy trap and/or idiocy. Advise caution.[3]
Alert: sector A surveillance system = inactive -> Command center compromised. Advise caution.
Do my best to defend the local system and check for traps. If he managed to subvert someone skilled with computers, he could had left something for us here, knowing this was an important target. Or he might be holding them in reserve, waiting to launch an attack to keep me occupied. Or he might be watching us right now. Hell, he might even start remotely triggering systems like fire suppression to mess with us, so keep an eye on those and be ready to intercept. Also check access logs for this room (possibly supplemented by camera snapshots) to detect any traps that might have been laid in this room. Finally check for systems feeding into this room that could be compromised. Generally work on securing our little fort as much as I can, just in case this countdown is more than a mindgame. Once I'm done shoring up our defenses, I can focus on spying and electronic warfare.
Of course he might always do something game-changing like completely shutting down power to the entire level, but there's only so much I can do.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Wil resecures the room after Yagyu leaves, getting things up to his own personal standard of paranoia.Wait, I don't even have earplugs. Ah well, just don't touch anything newSpoiler: Gabe Toots 2.0 (click to show/hide)
((Pathos supplied everyone with text-to-speech earplugs, I believe, so you can equip those. Everyone was also given blindfolds, for free. That leaves smell as the only ranged perception method you're vulnerable to, and you should be able to fix that by just jamming some cloth up your nose. Oh, and please make sure to give your shock implant controller to either Pathos or Ji; you definitely have one, as all security personnel get it alongside their shock implant.))
Yeah, Wil is currently dead to the world. He's using the text-to-speech earplugs, so he can still hear communications, but he's not able to stop Yagyu from leaving. Nor would he really care to, though he'd want to replace the barricade after Yagyu left, assuming he was told.
As for an action... You know what, assist Pathos with securing the electronics of this room. Place all weapons in a far corner first, and DO NOT look at any camera feeds or videos of any kind. Resume the psychorant while working on computers, as well--this time, talk about possibly making custom miniature robotic spiders that could eat Derp alive from inside out. Stop if Pathos doesn't want Wil messing with anything, in which case Wil will just quietly sit in a corner while blindfolded, waiting for an actual plan to be formed.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Blindfold, equipped if not doing computer work.
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
(He already gave his activator to Ji)Anya reports to everyone that they have possibly, maybe, accidentally triggered a pressure plate in a murder room and that it is entirely possible that there is now a preterhuman psycho on his way to slap them.
Hey Toots, what do you have the... i-is that a pressure plate?
after taking a look at what Toots was holding Anya very quickly leaves the room muttering something about Chechens and Bond villains.Afterwards she'll try to report back what her group found to Pathos, cursing Mr. Friend to prove she's not being controlledSpoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
I should point out that these sections are not rooms. These are entire subsections. Each lettered block there is like an entire office building worth of rooms and halls and such. Of course you could say to move towards section U and we'd head there, but you'd really separate yourself from the team like that.(We all are in the same location currently? Or is this only showing Yagyu’s position? If the blue dot means we are all in the same area, my action Head to room R applies, if not where are each of us?)if in room R right now, head to room Q If in room Q right now, Head to room USpoiler (click to show/hide)
Well, I can’t hear shit, so let’s just say that I’ll look for the most defensive position once I see everyone not moving forward.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Spin around in my chair for a bit while waiting for someone to come up with a plan.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Ah well, just don't touch anything new, and put the lantern downThese three either hide or stand about - or in Burt's case sit about. I really don't have much more to say.Spoiler: Gabe Toots 2.0 (click to show/hide)
Continue to harass ... I mean assist Wil by offering suggestions for invectives, derogations, and anatomically inappropriate actions for his tirade. He's dead to the world, right? That means I should be super helpful to his mental health!
Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
The scanner cannot pick up explosives like that one. Well, it can accurately pinpoint that the explosive used here was a hand grenade. It can tell you the explosive substance used in that grenade from traces in the air and on the ground. However, before the grenade goes off it is essentially a sterile metal container with no real residue or particulate. If the device was wired to explode via electronic signal, it might be able to pick up that signal, but this device was a simple mechanical trap of the weight of the body preventing the lever from activating the charge. There's very little for the scanner to pick up on.
Borrow somebodies glasses, so my sight will be obscured. Reason out that if Mr. Friend’s gonna come to us, we can just make fortifications and wait. Follow[4]
”hey, if anybody here has glasses, if you take them off, you can see without being controlled by the guy, probably.”Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Yagyu considers it possible to scan corpses to see if there are metal objects under them. It should be relatively reliable even! 70% chance he thinks.QuoteThe scanner cannot pick up explosives like that one. Well, it can accurately pinpoint that the explosive used here was a hand grenade. It can tell you the explosive substance used in that grenade from traces in the air and on the ground. However, before the grenade goes off it is essentially a sterile metal container with no real residue or particulate. If the device was wired to explode via electronic signal, it might be able to pick up that signal, but this device was a simple mechanical trap of the weight of the body preventing the lever from activating the charge. There's very little for the scanner to pick up on.
Could it perhaps at least pick up the presence of a metal grenade-sized object beneath a person, perhaps via some sort of x-ray backscatter-based approach or with whatever metal detection it can manage?
"Ok then, since they now know where we are, I suggest we first lock down the airlock going to sector R before we continue with clearing sector V. That way we at least can manage our problems one by one before they all come barreling down on us. I'm gonna try to head over to the airlock and I'd like to at least have a few people with me for this.
Hackerman, keep you eyes peeled on those cameras, I'd rather not get flanked on our way there."
Assuming I can get a least a couple other teammates with me, head for the airlock. Be careful (aka don't run ahead blindly) but do go straight there unless we encounter something very dangerous or suspicious.
Should we make it to the airlock, lightly seal it off mechanically using the torch I have. I'm not trying to make it impenetrable here, just so that it can't be casually opened from the other side.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Hey Pathos, I'd go check one of those servers, 'cept I've got no idea where they are. Do you have any maps leading to one, or will I just have to read signs? Oh, fuck Derp, by the way. Tiny robotic spiders will eat his spleen. Or maybe a kidney. Yeah, one kidney first..."[10][3]
Pathos failed to lock off this section from Derp's hacker, so Wil will try to do that himself. Don't look at any camera feeds, and drop the rifle and baton in a far corner of the room first. Continue the psychorant while doing this; debate which of Derp's internal organs could be feasted upon by robot spiders for the longest period without killing Derp, to prolong his suffering.
Also, look up a map location of other server rooms. If each section has its own server room, look up the location of section R's server room, and plot a path that's not quite the most direct.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
Alert: Several grenade-traps have been placed under corpses in this section. Proceed with caution when interacting with corpses.Pathos provides good admin support until someone powers off the damn server.
Attention: Several memory cards have been placed underneath corpses in this section. Sending known locations now.
Analysis: Cards may contain information about the "game". Target may consider himself superior to security team and may thus be providing help to even the odds.
Attention: Cards may be intended to subvert our information-gatherers. Proceed with caution when viewing contents.
Attention: Target was last seen in this area 26 hours ago, murdering several of his followers.
Attention: Servers on other sections are on lockdown. It is likely that physical access to a server will be required to provide support in those sections.
If anybody wants to check a body, let them know if it's trapped or has a card by reviewing the tapes.
Generally try to keep an eye/security camera/omniscience on the team and help them navigate or alert them to danger.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
QuoteThe scanner cannot pick up explosives like that one. Well, it can accurately pinpoint that the explosive used here was a hand grenade. It can tell you the explosive substance used in that grenade from traces in the air and on the ground. However, before the grenade goes off it is essentially a sterile metal container with no real residue or particulate. If the device was wired to explode via electronic signal, it might be able to pick up that signal, but this device was a simple mechanical trap of the weight of the body preventing the lever from activating the charge. There's very little for the scanner to pick up on.
Could it perhaps at least pick up the presence of a metal grenade-sized object beneath a person, perhaps via some sort of x-ray backscatter-based approach or with whatever metal detection it can manage?
"Ok then, since they now know where we are, I suggest we first lock down the airlock going to sector R before we continue with clearing sector V. That way we at least can manage our problems one by one before they all come barreling down on us. I'm gonna try to head over to the airlock and I'd like to at least have a few people with me for this.
Hackerman, keep you eyes peeled on those cameras, I'd rather not get flanked on our way there."
Assuming I can get a least a couple other teammates with me, head for the airlock. Be careful (aka don't run ahead blindly) but do go straight there unless we encounter something very dangerous or suspicious.
Should we make it to the airlock, lightly seal it off mechanically using the torch I have. I'm not trying to make it impenetrable here, just so that it can't be casually opened from the other side.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
as quickly as I can, get a perimeter of the next room. Any non-friendlies I see get a baton in the face.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Follow a random person that's going to a new roomSpoiler (click to show/hide)
since cowering in the relative safety of the server room sadly isn't an option, move out with the rest of the team, keeping an out for additional trapsSpoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
Roll out of the room in my chair with my blind fold on and my gun at the ready, then go searching memory cards with help from pathos.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
(Thank you for clarifying)Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Head to a new room in the current section. Take off blindfold and look around the room. If I find a corpse, ask Pathos whether it contains a memory card. If it does, take the memory card, if not, reequip blindfold and go to another new room.
Tara uses the T2S to ask ”Can the computer cube play memory cards?”(it can)
((Thanks))Tara uses the T2S to ask ”Can the computer cube play memory cards?”(it can)
"uh Tara where are you going with the memory cards? We need the tinheads to look at them, in case they're recordings of Mr. Friend."[/quote]
I dunno man, just stay with the group I guess?Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
Nai waEvery section has its own life support systems, as indeed these labs are basically entirely isolated. The one for this section is north, against the north wall, in the west corner.
Check the map. See if there's any section dedicated to life support systems/maintenance. I'm assuming this lab is at least semi-isolated from the outside world?Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Tara gets the memory cards to Pathos for him to look at, in case they are of Mr FriendSpoiler (click to show/hide)
"uh Tara where are you going with the memory cards? We need the tinheads to look at them, in case they're recordings of Mr. Friend."
I dunno man, just stay with the group I guess?Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
"I bet the memory cards are gonna be filled with nothing but naked pictures of Mr. Friend, or him giving the camera the finger because he's a dick."
Carefully look around the rooms we are in and loot any valuables, then follow the group.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Stay with the group because not much I could do without killing me or getting possesedSpoiler: Gabe Toots, guy probs gonna get killed soon (click to show/hide)
As members of my team are now fucking around with things given to us by the enemy, be ready to clobber them as necessary.The security team cluster heads back towards pathos, looting as they go, like all good security teams would. As they return, they gather the following complete garbage and distribute it among themselves.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
Gabe takes the High voltage sign and, presumably, affixes it to his crotch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a4gyJsY0mc).Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Take the rusty danger sign
Grab the tiny mug with a flower on the side, dwarf bobblehead, Desk lamp, and power cable, and see how good a weapon the lamp is, then assist Anya in altering the life support systems.The lamp is a d2 weapon, as it is a lamp and not designed for murder. Most lamps are not designed for murder.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
see about modifying the Life support systems to dump nitrogen and remove oxygen from a room on demand, burn a toolkit charge to do so.[MSpoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
No.Pathos steals the power cord from Burt and scurries away. [1] He searches for, but cannot find any good place to hide, and as such makes the rather desperate move of crawling onto a desk and doing his best to look like an executive ball clicker.
Reprogramming of this section's life support system is required. Surveillance of the entryway is also required. Formulating plan...
Plan:
Unit Pathos will remain concealed and provide surveillance info.
Unit Ji will stand by to provide support.
Unit Burt and unit Anya will repurpose the life support system to disable the attackers. Alternatively they can use power cables and other utilities to set up traps.
Unit Wilfred will attempt to re-establish local server control and provide extra surveillance and support, in case unit Pathos is forced to retreat.
Alternative plan: retrieve grenade traps from corpses for use against attackers.
Alternative plan: attempt to locate armory
Alternative plan: locate defensible position and prepare ambush
Proceed
Take the power cable if it's long enough to be useful as a rope substitute.
Find a nice hiding spot in the area leading to the next section (section R), somewhere safe in case they decide to use explosives or something to break in. Maybe under the cardboard box we found last turn?
Provide surveillance information so that the others know if it's safe to use their eyes. Try to keep track of the targets with my Omniscience so that I'll let them know of their general direction.
If it looks like things are going badly for me, run away.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Try to determine where the sound is coming from. Does it seem like they are trying to gain entrance to this section, either via the airlock or by some other means?
If nobody else tries to look at the memory cards this turn (and no dangerous/violent crap happens of course), then use my computing cube to look at them. Make sure I am near teammates and that Wilfred holds on to my weapons while I look at them just in case. Disable things like speakers on the computing cube and just try to see what type of files are on the cards.
Oh, and get the brass cylinder I guess.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Yagyu runs over to the door into the next section and gives it a good hard look. The fact that it is partially bowed in and still ringing with blows makes him think that yes, someone is trying to enter this section by force. He also grabs the brass cylinder from the pile of junk. Because why not?Look at the memory cards with YagyuSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Join up with Yagyu, and once he explains what he's gonna do, take his weapons and then tie his shoelaces together. Or handcuff his ankles if he doesn't have shoelaces. Finally, stand a good distance away while facing away from him--and towards the banging. He won't be freed until he's finished with the cube and has expressed thorough hatred for Derp, through description of bodily maiming.Wilfred restrains Yagyu to the point that he has to operate the cube with his nose, but it does seem like it will effective in stopping any shenanigans.
If people who aren't part of our security team are seen, shoot them. Repeatedly. Then run in the opposite direction, because they're probably holding explosives.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
I will be waiting for you in Section A.
If you find me, I'll go peacefully.
If you die, I will never be seen again.
Good luck.Go find the armory![12]
”who wants to go on an armory adventure with me?”Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
[3]Use the sealing kit to seal the banging door shut. Failing this, shoot some foam at the attacker(s)Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Anya wanders into a room and closes a door, wedging it shut with a chair. She then hides under a desk and awaits the end of the upcoming slaughter.I uh, would not recommend staying in the room they're breaking in at.
Aight, first figure out where they're busting in at so I don't accidentally cover my teammates in molten bakelite, if messing with the life support requires tech, grab Will or Pathos or someone who has doesn't have 1 in 4 chance of killing us all to do it.
EDIT: since my teammates have chosen to fend off a horde of potentially thousands who are being controlled by a memetohazard, just sit back and wait for them all to die I guess.Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
1. (If I can do this without meta-gaming) Rush to the armory and grab a foam mine.
2. Get somebody with the right skills to set up the foam mine in front of the breachway. I won’t do it myself, since I’m likely to duck up.
3. Point my rifle at the door. If the Mine is set up AND it restrained the threat, then move to subdue the hostiles. If the Mine didn’t get placed, or didn’t work, then just shoot the hostiles. Aim for limb shot and avoid headshots, but don’t be too nice if it would mean fighting less effectively.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Suggestion: This is a conflict of attrition. Do not make our work harder by blocking our way. Do not diminish our resources by needlessly harming teammates.[2]
Since my teammates want to cover the door and/or fight and/or incinerate the room, there's no point to me staying here. Make my way to the life support room and stand by to intervene if my teammates try anything stupid, like blocking our only way out of the section or killing everyone in a room before giving our teammates a chance to retreat.
EDIT: But first help with Ji's foam mine plan if I can.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Grab absolutely everything! Give a foam mine to someone with explosives skill, get them to set it up. Also, put on a blindfold.Toby hands the foam mine off to Ji before...uh...standing around in the armory with arms full of high tech weaponry. Oh and he blind folds himself as well. I see nothing wrong with this.
”Is this even legal?”Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Yeah, take up a position as far away from the door as can be taken while still being in line of sight, and when it opens just start popping heads. Ain't no time for pity or kindness, if somebody's mind-controlled, they die. And everyone who isn't on the team is definitely mind controlled.
Don't try to conserve ammo or anything, either. Wilfred bought a whole lot of ammo specifically so he could mindlessly spray it into anything that even vaugely justifies gaining some new holes. Don't stop shooting until the mag is dry, then reload and empty that one too.
...Don't let up on the psychorant, either. Scream continually about how Wil wishes all these idiots were Derp himself, so he could finally enjoy murdering the bastard.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
Since apparently we are fighting here instead of using the integrated defensive measures, stand back as much as I can that is still in decent cover and, as soon as the door gives in, shoot foam gun at the threats most at the front to try and pin them down so that they'll block the way for any threats behind them. If things start to go south, try to drag teammates away from the room so the people in life support can use their tricks to slow down the attackers.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
1. (If I can do this without meta-gaming) Rush to the armory and grab a foam mine.
2. Get somebody with the right skills to set up the foam mine in front of the breachway. I won’t do it myself, since I’m likely to duck up.
3. Point my rifle at the door. If the Mine is set up AND it restrained the threat, then move to subdue the hostiles. If the Mine didn’t get placed, or didn’t work, then just shoot the hostiles. Aim for limb shot and avoid headshots, but don’t be too nice if it would mean fighting less effectively.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Hide behind my chair with my gun ready for when the door gives way.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Stand near the door and get ready to crack some skulls with the batonSpoiler: Toots 2.0 (click to show/hide)
Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
[4][3v3]Point the foam gun backwards and shoot once, continue runningSpoiler (click to show/hide)
[6][4v4]Keep whacking the thralls until dedSpoiler: Toots (click to show/hide)
"Oh shit, they're attacking me!"[4][1v1][1][4]
Beat them to death with my lamp and shoot them with my gun, preferably do both at the same time until they're all dead.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Seriously, Derp? That was your clever plan? Do you even have a brain, or is there just a shriveled peanut inside your skull? Oh, guys, be careful about the dead thralls. I bet they're carrying explosives."[10][4+1v2] [-1 magazine]
Keep shooting thralls until they all stop moving. Then run away from both their bodies and the crashed hovercraft; assume both have explosives and will explode soon.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
Keep shooting until all hostiles are no longer threatening. If shooting people who are grappling teammates would be too risky, then get in there with my baton.[2]Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Shoot attackers, beginning with those closest to me.[7][3v6]Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Walk into the room where everyone is and start blindly flailing at thralls, nonlethally[3][8-1v5]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
while waiting for the harvest to end, grab whatever random office supplies seem potentially helpful, like push pins or something.[5]Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
*shrug* I tried.A quick peek reveals no new enemies charging down the hall, at least not yet. So chilling it is.
If I can do so and there are more enemies coming, try momentarily activating the sprinklers and lowering the temperature near the door so that the floor will freeze and they'll slip after they enter. Else just stay in my little hiding spot in life support and enjoy the music.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
[if.than statement]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Turn around, unequip blindfold. Shoot living Thrails with foam gun aiming to keep them stuck to the floor.
If success, than run up to immobilized thrails and stab them in the head with a Ceramic Knife, then run back to original position
If fail, than take a random nearby object that isn’t an explosive and throw it at thrails
After performing if than statement actions, reequip blindfold
"Oh fuck I shot myself!"Might wanna change that status. Unless "Blown off own knee cap" and "Fine" are synonymous to you.
Crawl away from where I am and try to find a first aid kit to use on myself so I don't die.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
((Jeez, Naturegirl. Even I'm not being so actively bloodthirsty.))Wilfred stares at Burt with rather murderous intent while this whole first aid thing is going on. He seems to be waiting for Burt to suddenly start murdering. When Burt just performs normal medical aid on himself and doesn't murder anyone, Wilfred honestly seems a bit disappointed.
Reload, and hold the gun on Burt, while still in cover. If he starts attacking teammates, acting insane, or anything else particularly suspicious, shoot his elbows. Otherwise just sit and watch. And rant about how we should inject urine into Derp's eyeballs with syringes, repeatedly.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
"hmm, the horde has probably moved on by now, and they probably didn't loot the bodiesAnya returns to the group, honestly surprised to find that it still exists. Well that it still exists in a functional, living sort of way as opposed to a mind controlled or chunky sort of fashion.
go to where the presumably splattered remains of my team are and loot thembe shocked when I find out they're not all deadSpoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
Shoot attackers, beginning with those closest to me and those still posing a threat.Yagyu comes in with a late action after all the others have already been written! Considering Burt doesn't Seem murderous, we'll just skip to the last bit with the syringe.
Once assailants are dealt with, also stick the teammate who got needled to the ground by his feet. Then tell him to put his hands on the floor and also goop those.
Once we are sure he won't suddenly go cray-cray and attack us, try to collect whatever leftover fluid I can get from that syringe (you normally can never inject 100% of the fluid) and analyze it with my scanner.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
The syringe appears to contain a mix of things, including a neutral biological suspension, saline, glucose, and some sort of Virus. The virus itself does exist in the OMNI data banks but its specifics are locked off to someone of your level. The basics of it seem to be that it is a Baltimore Class 6, Biohazard level 3 artificial research pathogen. It doesn't seem to have been designed as biological weapon, rather as some sort of research tool. No listed symptoms or uses, least none you can see.
((This is the point where I try to bullshit the Biochemist~))((Feel free to just say 'because space magic' at any time if I get to inquisitive to your liking! ))
"Burt, I will need you to hand over any lethal firearms you might have on your person for the time being. We don't know yet what they are trying to pull here, so I'd rather not take chances on that front. This is both for our, as well as your, safety. If you start getting controlled by mr. friendly while you have deadly weapons on your person, we'll have no choice but to shoot you. Secondly, please try to improvise yourself a mouth mask in case whatever they got into you is contagious, and try not to, uh, touch or lick any of your fleshy comrades, if you could. Finally, please don't run off on your own to anywhere, but stay near a teammate, preferably a robotic one.""But I want to keep the gun I just got it, and I have this helmet is it enough to count as a mask?"
[10]Feel the corpses to find one where the hands are about the size of mine, then try gutting the hands to use as gloves for touch protection, then head through the door the thrails came out of and head down the hallwaySpoiler (click to show/hide)
Oh good, no one died. Onward to section A or wherever derp is!Here's the map.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"I hope whatever was in that syringe wasn't poisonous."
Get back in my chair and roll around looting the bodies.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
loot a couple corpses while Burt is trying to sit without a kneecap, then run after the rest of the craziesSpoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
The bodies sadly do not have wonderful treasure on them. In fact, they have very little on them at all. There areLoot the bodies for a sign postSpoiler (click to show/hide)
THEY TRIED COUNTLESS TIMES TO COPY WHAT MADE ME SPECIAL.
THEY FAILED ON EVERY ATTEMPT.
IT WAS AMUSING FOR A TIME, BUT NOW I FEAR THEY WILL EVENTUALLY KILL THE GOLDEN GOOSE IN THEIR FRUSTRATION.
I GIVE YOU THE POISONED FRUITS OF THEIR LABORS.
ENJOY THEIR FOLLY TO THE UTMOST.
Run a search query on the local net or some nearby computer to see if I can find anything on that virus Yagyu is interested in and then give the results to him.[4]But before I do so, add a section describing how the virus has a weird fashion sense and likes disco.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
The Neutral biological suspension appears, according to the scanner, to be a sort of slurry of organic molecules, proteins, animal cells that have been engineered to be defenseless, etc. Seems to be what amounts to a viral agar, just something to prolong the viability of the injection.QuoteThe syringe appears to contain a mix of things, including a neutral biological suspension, saline, glucose, and some sort of Virus. The virus itself does exist in the OMNI data banks but its specifics are locked off to someone of your level. The basics of it seem to be that it is a Baltimore Class 6, Biohazard level 3 artificial research pathogen. It doesn't seem to have been designed as biological weapon, rather as some sort of research tool. No listed symptoms or uses, least none you can see.
Try to analyze the 'neutral biological suspension' in some more detail.
If I get some help in determining more details on the retrovirus, consider why they tried to inject it into Burt. Could I determine if the viral vector was actually loaded with any payload? If yes, can I determine anything about the payload itself? What are they trying to integrate into pool ol' Burt here?
"Pathos, dear, I need some intel on this retrovirus they injected into Burt here. Can you hack into their system for a sec to see what's what? I'd like to know what kinds of tricks they are trying to play here.
Burt, I will need you to hand over any lethal firearms you might have on your person for the time being. We don't know yet what they are trying to pull here, so I'd rather not take chances on that front. This is both for our, as well as your, safety. If you start getting controlled by mr. friendly while you have deadly weapons on your person, we'll have no choice but to shoot you. Secondly, please try to improvise yourself a mouth mask in case whatever they got into you is contagious, and try not to, uh, touch or lick any of your fleshy comrades, if you could. Finally, please don't run off on your own to anywhere, but stay near a teammate, preferably a robotic one."Quote((This is the point where I try to bullshit the Biochemist~))((Feel free to just say 'because space magic' at any time if I get to inquisitive to your liking! ))Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"But I want to keep the gun I just got it, and I have this helmet is it enough to count as a mask?"
Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
Put one of the earpieces next to one of my auditory receptors. Since I'm passing everything through Speech To Text, I should be able to listen in safely. Hopefully that should give us some ideas about what they're planning.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
disassemble one of the earpieces cause why not, then follow the others to R.Anya removes one of the ear pieces and Pathos quickly snatches it from her. For her safety of course, not just because he wants it. He then scuttles off and listens to it using the text to speech program.Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
"Well I'm glad that shit wasn't poisonous."Burt improvises a facemask to prevent others from becoming ill. Maybe.
Look for the cleanest bit of clothing on the recently dead, rip it off and cover my mouth with it, then use my chair to follow the rest of the group as they explore.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Excellent work as always, Hackerman, thank you.Yagyu collects all the syringes before anyone else does anything stupid with them, like injecting them into themselves.
Well then gentlemen, I think this sector is secured and thoroughly ransacked. Shall we move on to the next?"Quote"But I want to keep the gun I just got it, and I have this helmet is it enough to count as a mask?"
"Well Burt, based on what we just learned I think letting you hang on to your gun for now is reasonably safe. However, please, if you start feeling strange or sick in any way, tell us, ok? Again, both for your safety and that of our meat-based teammates!
As for the mask, maybe try to fashion yourself a mouth mask to use under your helmet from some of the clothes of these poor saps? I don't suspect that what they injected you with is contagious, but better safe than sorry."
Get those syringes from the dead, since they can't accidentally poke me and inject me with this crap, being a brobot and all.
Then try to collect one of the earpieces and observe it. DO NOT LISTEN TO IT. I guess it comes with built-in batteries and such? Does it look like it is receive-only, or could one perhaps send through it? Secondly, using the tools we have available, could we figure out on which frequency/frequency band these earplugs receive? The idea being that if we can just generate a ton of noise on those frequencies we could drown out mr. Friendly's voice, thereby making it more difficult for him to stay in control of thralls through these earpieces.
Either way: head for section R, keep scanner up to try and detect incoming shenanigans before they occur.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Shoot all the earpieces that aren't being messed with, following the standing order to destroy any electronics that can transmit perception of Derp. Then, take cover and hold the gun on the people messing with the earpieces. Mutter about cloning Derp and making the clones kill and eat each other, and debate whether this counts as violence against Derp. If either of the people messing with earpieces starts acting fucky, shoot the earpieces. Then maybe kneecap them afterward, better safe than sorry. And Wilfred will not be sorry for shooting teammates.[1][4]
Follow the team if we start heading to the next area. Try to catch up to whoever's in the lead, and cover them with the rifle.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
Remember to carry the isolation box for Mr. Friend to the next section.
((Would my isolation suit protect against touch? I assumed it is already equipped))((if it does I will add it to the senses tab))
Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
Mmmm. Look inside everything, figure out what happened here.((Even the corpses? Corpses are things too))Spoiler (click to show/hide)
((Would my isolation suit protect against touch? I assumed it is already equipped))Likely.
From the 20 pages or so I've read of this game, this looks like a lot of fun to be a part of. I'm mostly just posting my sheet right now so I can have that ready, as well as a PTW. I doubt it'd be a good idea for me to show up in the middle of what's going on right now.You can come in now if you want. Or wait for the next mission. It wouldn't be the first time we had some new guy appear after having, apparently, just been very quiet this whole time but having definitely been here the whole time we promise.Spoiler: Jacks (click to show/hide)
Mmmm. Look inside everything, figure out what happened here.[4]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Why's there a car in here?"Burt hobbles over to the car and checks it out. It has no glass in any of the windows, nothing in the trunk, an engine but apparently no charge on the internal battery. No keys in the ignition either.
Go see about starting that car and seeing if there's anything in the trunk.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
((Thank you))[4]Use the scanner to view the corpses to figure out if they were poisoned.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Fo a quick search of the lab, looking for a few things
.1 tranquilizers
.2 am isolation suit
.3 handcuffs/restraints/a straight jacket
.4 Money (also steal the car radio)
After that, be ready to move along to the next section.
Just Incase you dont see Naturegirl’s query. Would an isolation suit protect against touch, taste, and smell?Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
yeah that sounds like a software problem Yagyu, no can do. Pathos probably can though.Single dose APPLICATORS not activators. Syringes.
Ey Pathos, can you check out this earbud? And maybe look up what's in these applicators while you're at it?
Uh Wil, first, how do you hear a double l, and secondly, why don't you bash that stuff in with your baton, instead of wasting ammo?
loot multiples of as many of the single use activators as possible, see if Pathos can identify them with his L337 H4x0r sk1ll5Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
"General Kenobi?"[3]
Talk to the opposing general. Battle banter is fun in RTS games. Plus, if he's wasting time talking to me that means less time ordering his troops around.
EDIT: Also aid the technologically illiterate with running search queries for identifying items and finding radio frequencies, I guess.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
"Ok then guys and galls, now that we are in a new section, I again would first like to seal off the door to the next unsecured section, Q I believe, so that if more thralls are on their way, we can slow them down. I'm gonna need at least 1 other person with me, preferably someone not useless in a fight. Will, could you come with me at least?
Secondly, I can't seem to figure out how to determine which frequencies these earplugs are receiving on. Anya and Pathos, could you two work on that and see what you can come up with?"
Assuming at least teammate accompanies me, start going to the airlock to the next section. Go there carefully, don't just run through blindly, but as long as no obvious threats present themselves keep moving on. If we get there unmolested, then like previously weld the door shut lightly.
If not possible/nobody helps me, continue exploring this section then I guess. Or maybe take a look at that car and see if we could get it up and running.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
((Naturegirl, the isolation suit probably does protect against touch, yes. It should also provide more than adequate smell and taste protection as well. You should bold the question if you want Piecewise to answer.))
"Totes, Yagyu. The sooner we get this done, the sooner we can fill Derp with superfluous holes." Wil pauses for a second, thinking "I think that would be painful. Eh, 'painful holes' works too. Oh, and my name is spelled with one l, by the way. It's Wilfred. Wilfred, hater of Derp."
Accompany Yagyu to the next airlock, keeping an eye out for any hostiles. Remember, any unallied humans we see will get shot. Also shoot any large videoscreens or speakers that we pass, though do try to be economical. One bullet per device is probably enough...Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
Eh. Jacks has too much bastard energy for that. I'll just wait.From the 20 pages or so I've read of this game, this looks like a lot of fun to be a part of. I'm mostly just posting my sheet right now so I can have that ready, as well as a PTW. I doubt it'd be a good idea for me to show up in the middle of what's going on right now.You can come in now if you want. Or wait for the next mission. It wouldn't be the first time we had some new guy appear after having, apparently, just been very quiet this whole time but having definitely been here the whole time we promise.Spoiler: Jacks (click to show/hide)
"I can try to blow the door up. I can try to find a server room. Or I can try to find some place that controls the power. Any preference?"
"You are using some method to translate my speech, aren't you? Did you know that even those who cannot understand my words still know what I want? Strange, isn't it?""Tell me about it! That's some grade A hax right there if I've ever seen some. But when I asked my superiors if I could use an antimagic field to stop your magic, they told me your ability isn't magic. How ridiculous is that? Am I to believe that you were just lucky enough to just happen to have the perfect memetic virus evolve around your very existence? How lucky can one man be? ... Or maybe unlucky would be more appropriate, I suppose, given your current predicament."
Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
Quickly put on the germ suit underneath my riot armor, and reactivate my touch sensors. Do the tranquilizers come with an injection system, or are they just bottles of chemicals? If they don’t, do a quick search for a dart gun, or empty syringes.Ji [3] Gets the armor off, puts the germ suit on, attempts to put the armor back on in a rush, puts both legs into one leg hole and falls over.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Gabe checks the lights. They are not on properly. Socks are on...inside out. Underwear is on...backwards. To be honest, I'm not sure what he means by "Everything on properly". I'm just gonna assume its fine.Make sure everything is on properly, and Hold my baton out just in case.Spoiler: Tootsies roll (click to show/hide)
"Oh shit the lights!"The gas powered electric generator does actually have gas inside it, so Burt hooks it up to the battery and waits for it to very noisily charge.
See if there isn't a way to power the car's battery close by and see if I can hot wire it, if any Mr. Douchebag slaves come around shoot them in the face.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Quote"You are using some method to translate my speech, aren't you? Did you know that even those who cannot understand my words still know what I want? Strange, isn't it?""Tell me about it! That's some grade A hax right there if I've ever seen some. But when I asked my superiors if I could use an antimagic field to stop your magic, they told me your ability isn't magic. How ridiculous is that? Am I to believe that you were just lucky enough to just happen to have the perfect memetic virus evolve around your very existence? How lucky can one man be? ... Or maybe unlucky would be more appropriate, I suppose, given your current predicament."
Continue TTS chatting with the enemy general while searching the map for a place that controls this sector's power/lights. Once found, lead the team there. There's no way I'm going there on my own and I'm not letting my squishy self lead the way. If it looks clear, try to turn the power back on. Beware of traps.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
"Hey anyone want some cognitive enha- БЛЯДЬ, what happened with the lights?"[2]
go and check if I can find any documentation on which of the Nootropics will have horrible side-effects now and which ones will have horrible side-effects in a few months(In a few months time we'll be dead or execs anyway) if I happen to find any smarts drugs without side-effects, then great, hoard them but it's no big deal. While doing this keep my gun at the ready in case I need to shoot any of Derp's thrallsSpoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
Regroup with rest of team. Be very careful on our way there, use scanner to try and detect ambushes etc. before they happen. If hostiles are spotted, goop 'em!
If we make it back unmolested, grab whatever teammates aren't making themselves useful and start searching for a way to turn the power back on."I can try to blow the door up. I can try to find a server room. Or I can try to find some place that controls the power. Any preference?"
"Power first I'd say, we'll need that online to use any servers anyways I bet, and I'd rather keep that door shut for now until we're done with this sector."Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Quote"You are using some method to translate my speech, aren't you? Did you know that even those who cannot understand my words still know what I want? Strange, isn't it?""Tell me about it! That's some grade A hax right there if I've ever seen some. But when I asked my superiors if I could use an antimagic field to stop your magic, they told me your ability isn't magic. How ridiculous is that? Am I to believe that you were just lucky enough to just happen to have the perfect memetic virus evolve around your very existence? How lucky can one man be? ... Or maybe unlucky would be more appropriate, I suppose, given your current predicament."
Continue TTS chatting with the enemy general while searching the map for a place that controls this sector's power/lights. Once found, lead the team there. There's no way I'm going there on my own and I'm not letting my squishy self lead the way. If it looks clear, try to turn the power back on. Beware of traps.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Tara takes off the blindfold and follows WilSpoiler (click to show/hide)
”interesting, because that was the name our boss used to refer to him. How about Mr Controller?
"Oh noes, you see me, I'm so scurred." Wilfred says sarcastically, before flipping off the door with his free hand. "Fuck you, Derp. Guys. This is a delaying tactic. He welded the door shut; he doesn't want us rushing through while he preps something. The only other option is that Derp's locked us in here with something, but I doubt that one. The dumb posturing makes me think he just wants us to be stumbling along scared, I think he'd be gloating if there were really something dangerous here. Just going on his generally halfassed attempts at confrontation, I'm starting to think he's working on an escape plan that doesn't require dealing with us at all. Melting a hole in the wall or something. And I still want to extract his brain with a spoon. A rusty spoon."Yagyu, Pathos, Wilfred, and Tara, driven by their common desire to get the lights back on and prevent whatever is about to happen, try to find a location that will let them get the lights back on. Pathos leads...well he points where to go and lets the bigger boys go out in front of him...the group to a sealed door which, according to his map, contains the main power controls for the entire section. As Yagyu starts cutting into the door to get it open, something happens.
Fuck it, leave Yagyu to fend for himself and go head to the central server room. Jog there, keeping the gun at a low ready. Standing order to shoot any non-security humans, or electronics capable of transmitting perception of Derp.
"Oh yeah. Tara. You're useless if you're blind, and he's not brave enough to face us yet. And stop calling him that, that's the name his fucking thralls use. You're not a thrall yet, so call him anything else. That way, when you switch back to the thrall name we know to shoot you."Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
Abut it collides far more solidly with Yagyu and sends him sprawing with a bloody head wound and what looks like a dislocated shoulder.
”By the way, I’m Tara, what is your name, Newbie?”"Control who percieves him, huh? Like, sight only? Or does just hearing him work? What about recordings? Can he..can he enthrall people through their dreams?"
nice meeting you, Richter. It wasn’t clear whether he can do so through dreams, but seeing, hearing, touching smelling and tasting are senses, and so any of or combinations of will work. Recordings would also work as well, that’s why lots of us have various implements to block senses which I have started to call sense shields”By the way, I’m Tara, what is your name, Newbie?”"Control who percieves him, huh? Like, sight only? Or does just hearing him work? What about recordings? Can he..can he enthrall people through their dreams?"
He scratches his head with the barrel of his standard issue pistol
"Oh, nice to meet you. You can call me Richter."
"Oh shit, this dude can enthrall people through his farts? Oh jeez, oh no."I killed some thrails in an earlier room, if you are comfortable with it, we could skin one for an extra layer against touch, I;m wearing the arms of one of them in addition to my isolation suit. You can never be too protected. Of course this can be done after the flying furniture is dealt with. Did you know there are parasites that take control of their hosts?
He looks down at himself, wearing only the standard jumpsuit as protection.
"I, uh, think I might be a bit underequipped for this."
Did you know there are parasites that take control of their hosts?"Like, in general? Or in here with us specifically?
"Oh, sure. You want me to" he strikes a pose, holding his pistol out sideways "pop pop some bitch-ass furniture, gangsta style? Or do you have some other plan?"the furniture is likely thrown by something, whether it be a person or machine, we have yet to find out. We need to dodge the furniture and stop whoevermor whatever is throwing the furniture
QuoteAbut it collides far more solidly with Yagyu and sends him sprawing with a bloody head wound and what looks like a dislocated shoulder.
Does that mean I suddenly turned into a real boy again? Oh joy of joys!
... Anyways, get into cover! If I know of a way to get to that corridor via another way, try to sneak over there and have a peak to see who or what is throwing furniture at us. Goop it if it can be gooped, if not just relay the info back to the team and stay in cover.
If not, stay in cover for now and wait. If no more attacks are forthcoming, continue working on the door.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Does that mean I suddenly turned into a real boy again?
Physical Description: Slightly smaller than average, tanned, sideburns.You tell me~
[1]Carefully make my way around the corner, being careful and dodging whatever it thrown. Shoot my foam gun at whatever is throwing things, if this thing is invisible, shoot at the air near something as it is being lifted, aiming for the air around it. Invisible things can still be hit. Of course if the thrower is visible, shoot themSpoiler (click to show/hide)
"BRB, dealing with IKEA-geist."Pathos crawls onto Tara's head and gets video of the psychic and Yagyu's current tussle. He then broadcasts that video- and his current location- out to all the other various teammates who have wandered off around the complex.
It's only polite to let the opposing general I'm not talking because I'm AFK and that I'm not being intentionally impolite.
Switch vision to full FPS. Run to the source of the furniture, relay what I find to teammates. Use motion sensor to help with detection and dodging.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
"Allright, stop whatever is throwing the stuff, gotcha. I'm right behind you."
Let my senpai enter the room first. Once shit starts getting thrown at her, pop around the corner, locate what is throwing said shit, and pop it gangsta style with my pistol.
Also attempt to dodge objects if they are thrown at me.Spoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
Finish putting on my armor, then stick with the team.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Now that the battery's charging lets try and hot wire it, also use the car for cover from flying furniture.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"nononononono BURT THERE'S SOMEONE NEAR ME!"
very quickly run to Burt and help him hotwire the car. be prepared to shoot whoever made that noiseSpoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
[2][12][I don't really know my location to the others so, I'll just waitSpoiler: I'm still alive! (click to show/hide)
Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
...If not, solve this problem the same way Wilfred solves all his problems: go prone in the center of the hallway and shoot the car...So uh having just noticed this, does anyone else in the car want to do something about that?
...If not, solve this problem the same way Wilfred solves all his problems: go prone in the center of the hallway and shoot the car...So uh having just noticed this, does anyone else in the car want to do something about that?
You tell me~Show me the person who updates that stuff after char gen and I will show you a madman.
*ahem*QuoteYou tell me~Show me the person who updates that stuff after char gen and I will show you a madman.
Physical Description: A Chihuahua-sized robotic spider. It's entirely mechanical but has a very organic design to it. The mechanics are hidden inside an smooth exoskeleton of metal painted with a matte thin rubber that hides the joints and insulates it. Essentially imagine a giant tarantula but apparently made of hard rubber, a camera instead of a head, and mechanical manipulators instead of mandibles. It is painted a very dark grey, almost black, blending with the shadows.*proceeds to laugh like a madman*
"Cross my heart and hope not to die,[6]
no fade to black this time and this moment." (https://youtu.be/aicDZzo7LAU)
Bugs don't like hitting cars at high speed. This bug is gonna bug out, just in case.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
[6][1][5]QuoteYou tell me~Show me the person who updates that stuff after char gen and I will show you a madman.
Move completely out from the corridor where the car is going through, and try to get into a side room or alcove in my own hallway as well in case it decides to come careening down here.
While riding out the storm, ruminate on what I saw of that psychic guy and try to determine where his powers stem from. Is it occult, or perhaps implant based? Any other characteristics I could derive (especially in terms of limitations or weaknesses)?
Take a look at my scanner as well to see if it’s picking up anything.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
[6]Attempt to break free of the foam, carefully cut with my knife if need be and don’t cut myself in the process. If this works, get out of the way of the car so it doesn’t hit me. If I can’t get out of the foam, shoot the car’s wheels to ensure it doesn’t run me overSpoiler (click to show/hide)
it seems I am stuck. I will attempt escape, failing this, I will stop the car before it kills us. Are those in the car teammates?
"Gah... fuck, my fucking head, fuck... fuck you, Derp, I'll fucking fuck your fuck until you can't--FUCK. Argh! Why do I hear an engine, we're in the middle of a--oh, FUCK!"[2]
Are there any convenient doors or alcoves in this long corridor, which could be used as cover to dodge the incoming vehicle? If so, slip into one to avoid being splattered. If not, solve this problem the same way Wilfred solves all his problems: go prone in the center of the hallway and shoot the car. If it fails to stop, lay down reaaal flat in hopes that it just drives over him without any low hanging bits giving him an emergency lobotomy.
EDIT: Despite Wilfred IC not having any reason to not shoot the car, since he shoots everything anyway and it actually looks exactly like a trap set up by Derp, don't shoot the car if it stops on its own.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
"Oh fuck I'm on the US 93!"[1]
Get out of the way of the crazy taxi. Run/jump/dive/moonwalk, whatever gets me out of its path and into relative safety the fastest.Spoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
Brace for impact.Ji Braces for impact by going spread eagle and wedging herself in the corner of the back seat.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Gabe attempts to open the side door and it gets ripped from its hinges, caught in a passing doorway. Gabe files "Getting out of the car" under "Risky", puts his seat belt on, and braces for impact.Can I get out of the car? If yes, then get out of the car. If yes but risky, then stay in car and brace for impact. Same for no.Spoiler: Gabe, about to die. (click to show/hide)
хуихуихуихуихуи Иисус помогать
first, shove the Nootropics in the glovebox (or give them to Ji if there is no glovebox). Then rehotwire the car, unscrewing up the accelerator and force activating the E-brake, normal brakes, and if it has it engine brake. If that works, lean out and pop a cap in the Telekinetic Tosser, if it doesn't bail out.Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
"Its all gone wrong!"Anya takes the time to stow her drugs, then tries to prevent impending vehicular homocide. [6] She cuts the ignition, pulls the handbrake, and has Burt stamp both feet down on the normal brake. The car skids and fishtails back and forth, bouncing between the walls until it clips an open doorway and comes to an abrupt stop, wedging itself in place. Luckily it has stopped before reacing any of the other team members, before driving over Anya's goop tank, or plowing into the two goobers still hanging out in the hall.
Hit the brakes, pull the E brake, activate all the brakes, brace for impact, and hope I don't die.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
glad I survived that. Boldly go help stop the psychicToby runs into the hall a moment later and looks around at the general chaos.
”OH MY GOD THE PSYCHICS!!! wait, no one can hear me.”Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
If it looks like the car won’t fall on it, attempt to retrieve my foam gunSpoiler (click to show/hide)otherwise, try to make my way towards the psychic without getting found, and stab it in the antennae, if I can’t get to the psychic, throw my knife at the antennae, hopefully damaging them or cutting them offthinking better of attacking the pshychic, as the foam wall was still there, regardless of whether or not the foam gun is recieved, attempt to help people out of the car
Pull out who ever seems to need the most amount of medical attention out of the car. If still have time, keep pulling out people safelySpoiler: Gabe toots (click to show/hide)
Go dormant, shutting down all sensors. I’ll just wait until the mission is over and somebody can retrieve the remains of my robot body.
”Leave me. As long as the car doesn’t explode, I’ll be fine. Take the tranquilizers, and the restraints from my stuff, if it’s still intact, and use it if you get the chance. I’m going dormant until they can pull me out.”Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Try to move my seat around or anything else I can do to try to get out of the car.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
(oh dear, our best medic is Tara at d6.)
I can't really do much of anything, so uh, dream of kicking that psychic fucker in the balls I guess.Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
Wack. Pull people out of the car gently. Help them, or something.
”That was pretty metal. And horrifying, but I’m used to that by now.”Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Oh geez, that was pretty groovy. Hell of a first workday."[5][6][2][4][3]
Help out with getting the wounded out of the car and/or treated where I can.Spoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
Since I caught a glimpse of that guy, that should be enough to tag him, right? Provide directions to Yagyu and the rest of the team using the Limited Omniscience and the map. If place for putting the bomb is found, plant the bomb, move a safe distance away and detonate. Unless someone else kills him first.[10]Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
"Dammit, should have just slammed the car into that psychic asshole!"[3][5]
So it seems he is still capable of attacking us despite not being able to see us, right? Meaning he has extrasensory perception as well?
Based on my knowledge of the area, would it be possible to get to a place that is near our assailant but not inside the hallway itself? Like into a room that is besides his location? The idea being that we could plant explosives there to maybe surprise him and overwhelm his defenses (assuming he can't just feel that coming, I guess). If yes, go there with Pathos and let's bomb this sucker!If I can still do an actual physical action, then wait for a little bit to see if more psychic shenanigans are forthcoming. If not, go help those people out of their predicament, cutting them free with the torch if needed.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"FUCK YOU!"[4][2v1][6]
Run screaming at the fucking psychic fucker, shooting as many bullets at him asreasonablecontrollablepossible. Don't open fire until he's at least like, targetable, though.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
"Hell yeah, we got him! Thanks for the assist Pathos, we sure showed him what-for!"((if they are magic worms, collect them, too, experiments on them could still prove useful. This is OOC because Tara doesn’t know what you found))
High-five robobro. Then take a look to confirm the psychic really is dead. If not, use Elen's sidearm to finish the job.
Either way, see if there is anything worthwhile in the remains. Try to collect whatever pieces seemed to be responsible for his psychic powers at least, assuming they were implant based on not straight up magicworms.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
Search for cloned parts and attach them appropriately, if there aren’t enough cloned parts, look for mechanical parts to finish the repairsSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Babel incoherently about how much pain I'm in and how I hate Mr. Douchebag.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Oh good, they got the psychic. Go acquire limbs and organs.[5][6][8]
”Oh, you got em. Good!”Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Hell yeah, we got him! Thanks for the assist Pathos, we sure showed him what-for!"
High-five robobro. Then take a look to confirm the psychic really is dead. If not, use Elen's sidearm to finish the job.
Either way, see if there is anything worthwhile in the remains. Try to collect whatever pieces seemed to be responsible for his psychic powers at least, assuming they were implant based on not straight up magicworms.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"God. Derp, you--dumb, stupid, bastard, I... gah. Urgh. I'm going to kill you. Painfully."Yagyu and Wilfred move up slowly and, after performing the universal test to see if an enemy is still alive -kicking it a bit and jumping backwards, just in case- give it a closer look. It looks like it was originally one of the generic clones, but has been extremely heavily modified. Up close its easy to see that its brain seems to have swollen and spread, its spine replaced with more brain tissue straight down to the pelvis. The skin is purple, wrinkled in a sulcus pattern, bulging from the brain beneath. The skull's horns appear to be sprouting from the frontal and temporal lobes and likely contain more expansions of neural tissue. On top of this, some form of mechanical enhancement traces the spine. What it does...is hard to say without cutting it apart and examining it. Regardless, making this psychic seems to have been a complex combination of genetic and mechanical modification; not the sort of thing they could put on themselves. This thing was made from scratch to be like this.
Move up and check on the corpse with the others. Add some more bullets if there's any question. Then head to the sector control room and judge how functional it is. First priority is isolating the sector, ASAP.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
Try to teleconnect to a Roomba or something.[1]Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
"No longer AFK. Sorry about that. Too bad you turned the power off, you missed a funny bit. Some of those guys managed to find a car, got it working and crashed it. What's the deal with that, anyway? They had you driving around to see if people would be attracted to the car you're in? Or did they have you advertising their blandest products?""Much as I regret to say it, this place was not entirely focused upon me. I think you've met one of their other projects. Pitiful aren't they? A will great enough to bend the laws of reality yet no soul with which to exercise it."
Continue chatting with the enemy general.
Remind the mechanics that we have a door that needs opening and lights that need turning on. If none of them fixes the problem, try to do so myself.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Try and help looking for cloned parts and other useful medical supplies. Also keep an eye out for stray occult stuff or implants. But most importantly, don't get in the way of the people who actually know what they're doing and don't go wander off alone.SLOW POKE!Spoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
Onward and yonward! First, take a look at the psychic. What valuable implants or whatever does he have? How does he have the psychicness? Also loot the place real good.See last postSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Yagyu and Wilfred move up slowly and, after performing the universal test to see if an enemy is still alive -kicking it a bit and jumping backwards, just in case- give it a closer look. It looks like it was originally one of the generic clones, but has been extremely heavily modified. Up close its easy to see that its brain seems to have swollen and spread, its spine replaced with more brain tissue straight down to the pelvis. The skin is purple, wrinkled in a sulcus pattern, bulging from the brain beneath. The skull's horns appear to be sprouting from the frontal and temporal lobes and likely contain more expansions of neural tissue. On top of this, some form of mechanical enhancement traces the spine. What it does...is hard to say without cutting it apart and examining it. Regardless, making this psychic seems to have been a complex combination of genetic and mechanical modification; not the sort of thing they could put on themselves. This thing was made from scratch to be like this.Ie even if you dug stuff out, it wouldn't help you be psychic and would be useless to basically anyone else.
Search the section I'm in again for implants or occult stuff, so that I can be useful to the team maybe. Or even something else that seems useful and/or expensive. Magpie it up, basically.[3]
Regardless wether I find anything go to section Q with the others, but hang back and let the people who know what they're doing make the first moves.Spoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
"You got that right. I wouldn't want to be in their shoes. Anyway, if I may ask, what's the plan when you're out of here? What are you gonna do for fun? Find some hut in the middle of nowhere? Form a sex cult? Take over the world?""I am a man of simple desires, free of the earthly needs that confound so many. My only plan is to wake up each day and do as I please, unbound by petty concerns. What could be better than that?"
Keep talking. That guy is fun to talk to. Plus, it helps to know his motivations, I can use it to better understand his way of thinking. I know he doesn't care too much about the lives of the people in this lab and is probably a psychopath, but maybe he cares about other things.
For Yagyu's search, suggest he look for robotic parts that could be used to repair Ji.
Also scan the door with the motion sensor, just in case.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Check that dead guy in the control room to see if he has anything on him. First give it a scan, if any evidence of possible grenade trap is evident (eg. things like a weird position of the body) then leave the body alone.The man appears to have killed himself, and recently as well. The blood is still fresh. Likely he triggered this lockdown and then killed himself. He has an earpiece sewn in place, like the others. He has another memory stick in his pocket, but is otherwise unremarkable.
Either way, finish exploring this section, see if there's anything around that could help us with our mission. EDIT: such as parts to repair Ji or myself, or parts to build that jammer I described earlier to disturb Friendly's connection to his thralls via earpiece.
If nothing comes up, go to section Q with the others. Before I unlock the door, try to give it a quick once-over with the scanner to try and detect possible traps. Should nothing come up, unlock it.
Also, question: could I take one of these clone bodies and use it after the mission to have my mind placed in it, thereby becoming fleshy again?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Examine my new limbs and see how they feel, then go see if the car still works and can be driven, if it can't go find everyone else.Burt finds his new limbs definitely weird but functional. Little awkward because they're not the same size as what he's used to so he constantly misjudges their size and bumps into things, but they work.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Ugh. I want this to just be over with already. Careful with the corpse, Spidey. Might be another booby trap set by the rat bastard. Fuck Derp, flay him alive, jam a grenade in his mouth..."Wilfred gathers the shock controllers from Ji's body.
Go collect Ji, then head to Q. If Q is opened, clear from the front, maintaining the SOP of shooting any people or electronic screens or whatever. If Q isn't opened, hack into Ji to fix her wifi, and see if she can't be linked to some small robot. Preferably something that could be left on Wilfred's shoulder--a robot camera assistant would be super helpful right now...
Also, make sure to grab the shock controllers from her. Her sheet lists Toots' only, but she should also have Wilfred's. Take Toots' and anyone else's controllers to Pathos before heading to Q. Wilfred can be compromised, so he doesn't want to keep shockers for other allies.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
"I don't think there are anymore surprises in this section"Anya grabs her drugs.
first grab my drugs from the car, then head to the exit to Q and wait for the othersSpoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
He has an earpiece sewn in place, like the others. He has another memory stick in his pocket, but is otherwise unremarkable.
[3] Yagyu discovers a few mechanical parts that might be used to patch up himself or Ji, though not enough for both and not enough to get Ji walking. But maybe enough to get her activated and using her one remaining arm while strapped to someone else for movement.
Yagyu examines the clones. There are two "levels" of clones around here, full and partial. Partial are just body parts and organs in storage while full are full bodies. The full bodies are in cloning tubes and they've unfortunately been neglected and left to rot. The partial pieces are still intact though, so it might be possible to cobble together a Frankenstein body out of them, if all the pieces can be found.
"eh Yagyu, if you want I could probably fix you up"(Tara's not gonna hurt you unless you're a thrail. ;) (I know you mean safe distance from entrance in case of thrails))
if Yagyu wants me to fix him up, burn a toolkit charge to do so, then follow Tara to section N (from a safe distance)[/i]Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
"eh Yagyu, if you want I could probably fix you up"
if Yagyu wants me to fix him up, burn a toolkit charge to do so, then follow Tara to section N (from a safe distance)Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
"I am a man of simple desires, free of the earthly needs that confound so many. My only plan is to wake up each day and do as I please, unbound by petty concerns. What could be better than that?""Hah. You're a cool dude. I like the cut of your jib. It's a shame we were ordered to bring you in. I'd have liked hanging out with you. But the world (and this company) has a way of forcing unpleasant things on us. Like how it forced you to stay in this lab."
go looting! I'm casting my vote for section N.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"I'm game to go straight to N."
Light one of my flares and start looting some of the rooms on the way to section N.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Start looting[12][3][1]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Tara attempts to pick the digital lock of a blast door with a hairpin.I say we go with section N as wellSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Go to section N, because the door is locked, attempt to find something small enough to pick the lock with
Allow myself to be repaired. Would I be able to have biological components grafted on to my android body, or would they be incompatible?Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
"eh Yagyu, if you want I could probably fix you up"[11]
if Yagyu wants me to fix him up, burn a toolkit charge to do so, then follow Tara to section N (from a safe distance)
EDIT: also help fix up JiSpoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
"Fuck the darkness. Fuck Derp. Cut him apart in the dark, snuff out the light in his eyes, leave him alone and forgotten..."Wilfred finds the control room without much effort and gets in with even less. The place is entirely quiet and shutdown, plastic spread across the control panels and the monitors covered in an opaque protective film.
Head directly towards the control room of the sector, and work on isolating this sector from the others. No reason Derp can't hack it and pull shit, even if it seems to be entirely dead.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
Quote"I am a man of simple desires, free of the earthly needs that confound so many. My only plan is to wake up each day and do as I please, unbound by petty concerns. What could be better than that?""Hah. You're a cool dude. I like the cut of your jib. It's a shame we were ordered to bring you in. I'd have liked hanging out with you. But the world (and this company) has a way of forcing unpleasant things on us. Like how it forced you to stay in this lab."
Keep talking. Keep following the team. Help with opening doors or anything else that requires messing with computers.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Stik with the more experienced members like Yagyu and co., while looking around the place. Never go off by myself and be cautious about any mindfuckery while looting, back off the moment I get an inkling of something being wrong.Spoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
((Since we will have to make a decision right now on which section to go to next, here is the map again for convenience: https://imgur.com/MTPF4mA Note that we are currently in section Q, not V as the map indicates.))Yagyu takes the earpiece and checks the memory stick. The stick contains the following text
"Well lads, it seems we have a few options right now. Either we make some detours to see what the other sections have and clear them out, which would ensure we can't get flanked later and which might give us some useful knowledge and tools to fight this guy with, but which would slow us down and perhaps expose us to unnecessary risks.
Alternatively, we make a beeline for the section where he told us he would be waiting, section A, in which case we need to move to section N. If we do this I'll be sealing the doors of any flanking sections best I can, but as that rocket battering ram showed, that's no guarantee. And if depends on him not just lying to us, of course.
I think option 2 would be best, for the record."QuoteHe has an earpiece sewn in place, like the others. He has another memory stick in his pocket, but is otherwise unremarkable.
Pocket earpiece, then look at what is on the memory stick, same safety precautions as before.Quote[3] Yagyu discovers a few mechanical parts that might be used to patch up himself or Ji, though not enough for both and not enough to get Ji walking. But maybe enough to get her activated and using her one remaining arm while strapped to someone else for movement.
If Ji would like to be repaired (aka if Lup is still intent on posting) then donate the parts to him, and help with the repairs if necessary. If not use them on myself.
((Lup, just put it into your action if you'd like the parts to be used on Ji.))QuoteYagyu examines the clones. There are two "levels" of clones around here, full and partial. Partial are just body parts and organs in storage while full are full bodies. The full bodies are in cloning tubes and they've unfortunately been neglected and left to rot. The partial pieces are still intact though, so it might be possible to cobble together a Frankenstein body out of them, if all the pieces can be found.
Suppose we found enough pieces to cobble that body together, how would it work mechanically? Like a Full Body Bio-prosthetic?
Either way: if collecting those parts now would make them go bad by the end of the mission, then I'd like to put a standing order to have Yagyu collect them at the end of the mission (barring things like explosive escape sequences or spontaneous disintegration between now and then, mind). If not then just collect them right now.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
BEND SPACE THOUGH THEY MIGHT, THEY COULD NOT BEND MY WILL.
Ji gets repaired as much as possible. Which is...well she's completely conscious and can use her remaining arm. As per who she's getting strapped to for locomotion...kinda up to her.
Yagyu considers the fully biological body. It would work a lot like a bio-prosthetic he thinks, though a bit different. His "Brain" is being emulated on a computer core right now, so there will need to be some mechanical pieces in there to keep it functioning. Unless he were to 3d print a brain set, biochemically, to his current state. Of course...thats not a transfer so much as it is a copy...
Maybe we could find something skateboard-like to put him on so he can drag himself around?
Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
"Sadly, that could never be. I am a singular being, sovereign mind which shall abide no others. You would be come me, as all others do, either immediately or in time."
"Loneliness the extrovert's mask for boredom, and I believe it is something learned not innate. While I enjoy my interactions with people like you, these hypothetical real people whom I may never see, I don't require them."Quote"Sadly, that could never be. I am a singular being, sovereign mind which shall abide no others. You would be come me, as all others do, either immediately or in time."
That makes sense. Lack of genuine human interaction will turn anyone into an uncaring self-absorbed cynic. Except me. I'm awesome like that.
"Aww. That sounds kinda lonely. You know what you should do? You should get a pet. I once trapped a murderous artificial intelligence in a coffee pot. It was good company. Too bad it died (along with my previous body and that janitor). At least that asshole janitor's ghost still haunts me from time to time. He's cool."
Keep talking and helping with computer stuff like opening doors.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Bat my eyelashes and see if anybody wouldn’t mind carrying around little ol’ me
Also, if Yagyu would let me borrow Ellen’s sidearm, that would be swell. I’ll replace any ammo expended afterwards, and somebody could borrow my rifle for now.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Collect Ji. Have her hang off Wilfred's back and look over his shoulder. Yay cameradrone.Ji and Wilfred, now in a sort of Master Blaster configuration, work to isolate the sector.
Also collect the laser from Toby,and question its stats and ammo and whatnot.Nevermind, it's just a standard military grade laser. Collect it all the same.
Actual action: Isolate this sector from the other sectors, as before. I don't care that everything is mothballed, get it working just to isolate it if necessary. And then look through internal logs for any tampering of any kind, see if there's any hints as to why this place is so clean and packaged. It's very suspicious, considering Derp's general proclivity for leaving bodies laying around.
...Also, drop all weapons in a corner and tell Ji to apply electrical behavior correction if Wilfred stops muttering about murdering Derp. And, continue the endless rant about murdering Derp. Considering the theme of this segment, debate the possibility of selectively mummifying specific body parts, while keeping the rest alive, and whether or not this would be a more effective torture than traditional beatings.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
6. Excessive power draw from neighboring sectors
7. Faulty conduit system preventing power redirection and disconnection
8. Improper safety measures for a Phase Interface
9. Lack of adequate security team members following Incident 39A.
((They could be bought or found.))QuoteJi gets repaired as much as possible. Which is...well she's completely conscious and can use her remaining arm. As per who she's getting strapped to for locomotion...kinda up to her.
Maybe we could find something skateboard-like to put him on so he can drag himself around?Spoiler: Something like this? (click to show/hide)
If yes, look for one of these so he is more independent. If not I can give him a ride for the time being.
Either way, seal of the doors to sectors U and P. Tightly.
Finally, look for the final parts needed to make that signal jammer.QuoteYagyu considers the fully biological body. It would work a lot like a bio-prosthetic he thinks, though a bit different. His "Brain" is being emulated on a computer core right now, so there will need to be some mechanical pieces in there to keep it functioning. Unless he were to 3d print a brain set, biochemically, to his current state. Of course...thats not a transfer so much as it is a copy...
Could the necessary parts to make that connection be bought/made in-between missions, or do I need to find all those required mechanical pieces myself?
EDIT: Give Elen's sidearm to Ji, borrow his rifle and ammo unless anyone else needs it.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
I hope that switch doesn't to our deaths. Follow people going to new rooms.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Follow along with Yagyu, stay out of his way and help out where I can with menial tasks or something. Also keep an eye out for shinies I can stuff inside my pockets.Spoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
follow whoever whereverSpoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
OH I should probably hand over my laser. give that to the psycho dude who wants to, like, torture-kill derp over and over.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
((Whoops, forgot they are digital locks))Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Does the lock have buttons or is it a card slot? If a card slot, go to various rooms and search for magnet cards, if buttons, go to various rooms and search for pieces of paper with numbers on them, hopefully passwords
PTWWhat a thematically apt time for someone with your name to come watch~
-Snip-(Dude what's up with your stats? Dice upgrades go d4->d6->d8 etc.)
(So uh, since the H.E.L.L. Portal might still be on sitting tight may just get us swarmed with an infinite hoard of demons. Unless of course Wilfred turns off the power again, but we still need to turn on the power eventually so we should move out to scrap the H.E.L.L. Portal.)(Sorry, fixed it)
"Хуи, this is not the time to be wandering off, we need to be able to focus our fire on whatever made that noise"Light up a flare in case the emergency lights go out, then be prepared to shoot anything that comes our way.
EDIT: my gun does fuckall damage so new priorities. Light up a flare and Keep any idiots from wandering off, if no idiots wander off then shoot demons.Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)-Snip-(Dude what's up with your stats? Dice upgrades go d4->d6->d8 etc.)
Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
"What?! Why is there a hell portal here? Fuck Derp, he deserves demons, but this is still dumb! This is literally a core crossroads of the facility, what the--why would they leave it on? Why are there no warnings?! Oh, this is his fucking fault! Fuck you, Derp!'[8]
"...Okay, uh, team people, this is Wilfred. Fuck Derp, he uh--he set a trap in the server room, yeah, and that kinda activated a hell portal. It's not my fault, anyone would have tripped it. I'm trying to shut it down, and I'm gonna try to open the doors. I don't know if I can turn off the demons, I think running might be the best idea right now. Quick vote guys, P, or N? N is the only way to get to Derp normally, but then we'll be between a Derp and a hell place. P, P we can close the doors behind us, leave the demons a path to Derp, then maybe, like, cut through the walls to get around them? Yeah, uh, I'm assuming we're going with N unless someone takes charge. Fuck Derp, he deserves a good facial degloving!"
Uh. Uh. I don't suppose "reopen the door to sector N, then turn the power off again" is an actual option here? If it is, absolutely take that option. If it isn't... put a cursory attempt towards disabling the hell portal remotely, but if it can't be done: open N, pick the guns back up, then start heading for the team and/or the hell portal, whichever is closer. Start charging the laser, shoot demons if any are sighted.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
See if there are any demon killing defences I could activate. Or some door I could close to trap them. Or maybe just lower the AC temperature so that it gets really cold and then the demons are uncomfortable so they give up and leave.[10]Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Regroup with the others if not there already. Goop any gribblies that need gooping. If there is some time before the baddies arrive, use my cable to set up a tripwire at the door/entrance to the room we're in to hopefully trip up baddies.Yagyu, because hope springs eternal, sets up a metal trip wire at the entrance to the hall leading to sector N.
Consider wether we could selectively cut the power to the area with the hell portal, or if that wouldn't work and we need to go manually shut it off/destroy the portal.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Shoot anything non-human that comes after WilfredSpoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Find some coverSpoiler (click to show/hide)
(So uh, since the H.E.L.L. Portal might still be on sitting tight may just get us swarmed with an infinite hoard of demons. Unless of course Wilfred turns off the power again, but we still need to turn on the power eventually so we should move out to scrap the H.E.L.L. Portal.)
"Хуи, this is not the time to be wandering off, we need to be able to focus our fire on whatever made that noise"Light up a flare in case the emergency lights go out, then be prepared to shoot anything that comes our way.
EDIT: my gun does fuckall damage so new priorities. Light up a flare and Keep any idiots from wandering off, if no idiots wander off then shoot demons.Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)-Snip-(Dude what's up with your stats? Dice upgrades go d4->d6->d8 etc.)
"Okay fine, I'll go die with everyone else."
Go to where everyone else is and keep my gun ready to kill anything that's hostile.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Oh no, they're here. They'll eat all of you. And then they'll eat me. Oh my goooooood."The rest of the team forms a firing line, pointing every gun they've got down the hall and nervously waiting for the moment they might have to use it. The screaming of the demons is somewhat drowned out by gunfire but it remains ever present and is only growing louder over time.
Stick with Yagyu or another veteran. Stick with the main group at all times though, strength in number and all that. Keep an eye out for demons or other nasties. If hostile beings present themselves, attempt to shoot them with my pistol.Spoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
Spoiler (click to show/hide)Look for somewhere dark to hide. While searching, try to avoid getting attacked, if an enemy is found, foam them and continue trying to find somewhere dark to hide. If I find a sufficiently dark area, such as a storage area or other small room, put on my blindfold and wait for silence. If an enemy also is hiding where I am, stab them with my knife
Run to N and goop/knife hostile entities
And according to Wilfred, who has just made it back to the group, says the portal has to have its power cut manually. Well, the area might be able to be cut but the big issue is that the power to the portal is gonna keep flowing until someone physically forces the switch or cuts the cord.
((Am I overestimating Water amount, or are others underestimating water amount? I need to know so I know whether this action works or if I need to edit it))Swim towards the door to N and swim inside, focusing on staying above water. Take deep breaths and exhale small amounts of air, that way if staying above water isn’t possible, I can hold my breath quickly due to the air I have storedSpoiler (click to show/hide)
((Perhaps you can try to close the door to N again to stop that flow of water? Or just ask pw on discord to explain the water situation a bit more in detail (if you do, please share what you learn in the thread!).))((this has a discord? Can you share a link, please?))
(https://discord.gg/V2qG7H6 (https://discord.gg/V2qG7H6)(thank you)
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Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
I opened the door to N and then the water is coming, so it came from N
Yagyu, ANGRY_DEMON_NOISES character ((Sheet looks fine)), Toby, Anya, Pathos, Richter, and Burt are all in the crawlspace in the ceiling, since thats where Yagyu and Pathos believe the most likely location of the cord they need to cut to stop the demon invasion is. Toby actually helped a lot because of his tentacle could pull people out of the water and up to the ceiling.
Help with navigation or computering if necessary, otherwise stay out of the way.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Protect everyone who’s doing the wiring.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Engineer powers activate, shape of cutting the power to the hell portal!Spoiler (click to show/hide)
help Yagyu with the wiring.Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
[1][9]QuoteYagyu, ANGRY_DEMON_NOISES character ((Sheet looks fine)), Toby, Anya, Pathos, Richter, and Burt are all in the crawlspace in the ceiling, since thats where Yagyu and Pathos believe the most likely location of the cord they need to cut to stop the demon invasion is. Toby actually helped a lot because of his tentacle could pull people out of the water and up to the ceiling.
Search for the correct cord using my technical expertise and then cut it. If possible, try not to cut other cords while doing so, but if that would be difficult due to the way they are bundled or something then fuck it, cut all of 'em.
Also, question: does this crawlspace extend to the whole of the section? If yes, could we use it to get the drop on the demons/shoot at them out of their reach, or perhaps even sneak up to section N should we want to?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Don't get in the way of Yagyu with my nonexistant tech skills while he works on those cables.[2]
Keep an eye out for demons. Also look around this crawlspace to see if I find anything interesting or anything to loot. Don't touch anything that could fuck with what Yagyu's doing though.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Hey I don't want to hurry you up fellow co-workers of OMNITECH™ but it looks like those mortally challenged peeps took swimming lessons"Toby and Kenneth notice the unwelcome vistor. [1][8][1v4][3v6]
Kenneth will unleash lead on the mortally challenged in an attempt to thin the horde while his fellow co-workers of OMNITECH™ find and cut the cord.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Catch myself.[5] Ji catches herself on a door with her good arm and lifts herself in, wedging herself in place so she can keep fighting against the maggot creature. [8][2v3][3] She fires several shots into the maggot creature, bursts of bugflesh and ichor spraying from each hit, but it continues to surge forward unabaited. [4v3] Its enormous pincer jaws snap at Ji, who manages to hurl herself into the office from the doorway she was clinging too. The bad news is that the office is relatively cramped and the Maggot beast is now squirming in, blocking the only way out. The good news is that it also blocks the way IN for all the other horrifying things charging past outside.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Get back to the others[4]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Take as deep a breath as possible while above water and then hold my breath. Then dive and swim towards the source of the waterSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
eh Yagyu, can I borrow one of your guns?"You can borrow my goop launcher for a bit while I try to patch up Richter with Elen's old kit. Oh, and thanks for the assist with that wire, you really know your stuff!"
shoot the tooth elemental with the best gun I have
Try grabbing onto the power cord to climb out of the waterSpoiler (click to show/hide)
i will change my action, one momentTry grabbing onto the power cord to climb out of the waterSpoiler (click to show/hide)
((Please read the below spoiler, Naturegirl))Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Let the water carry me to the door so I can swim through it and close itSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Go socialize with the demons. They seem energetic.piecewise recommends placing your character sheet in a spoiler along with your action
Apply lead to maggotSpoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Go socialize with the demons. They seem energetic.Jon meanders over to the teeth elemental and attempts to hold a conversation with it. Its nothing but mouths after all, it should have plenty to say.
[2][5]i will change my action, one momentTry grabbing onto the power cord to climb out of the waterSpoiler (click to show/hide)
((Please read the below spoiler, Naturegirl))Spoiler (click to show/hide)
New actionLet the water carry me to the door so I can swim through it and close itSpoiler (click to show/hide)
"Oh sweet jesus why?! I'm not a horrible monster yet!"
Try to keep my guts and blood inside of me. Let medics help me if that get to me.Spoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
eh Yagyu, can I borrow one of your guns?"You can borrow my goop launcher for a bit while I try to patch up Richter with Elen's old kit. Oh, and thanks for the assist with that wire, you really know your stuff!"
shoot the tooth elemental with the best gun I have
Borrow goop launcher to Anya for this turn.
If Tara (NG's char) manages to get up to us this turn, give her the medkit so she can stabilize Richter. If she doesn't make it then try to do so myself.
If I don't have to be ghetto medic for Richter, then help with the electrofishing! Be VERY careful though, and if it looks like there is any chance of the electricity arcing to a teammate still below or hitting ourselves, then don't allow that plan to go through.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
I had no doubts about our crew’s competency! Slap the teeth elemental if it comes back, get a medical teammate to take care of richter. Hand out frag grenades to people who actually have skill in explosives.[
EDIT: grab people out of the water.
”Ah! That looks way too painful! Dude, have you ever heard of trigger discipline?”Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Space Magic is under patent law so I regret nothing!"
FeedRichterthe Teeth Elemental even more lead!Spoiler (click to show/hide)
eh Yagyu, can I borrow one of your guns?
shoot the tooth elemental with the best gun I have
EDIT: goop the Teeth Elemental to the floorSpoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
"No creature should be allowed to have that many teeth."[7,4,5]
Shoot the crap out of the teeth thing.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Attention. All team members are to evacuate the water immediately. Danger of electrocution."Despite Pathos' best spidery efforts at emulating a lifeguard, the people in the water below seem to be stubbornly set on remaining in the water.
Go use my power cord to fish out teammates that are still in the water (by tying it on something sturdy and throwing the other end at them, NOT by trying to pull them out using my tiny spider strength).
Once everyone is out of the water (or at least a safe distance away), throw that high power cable Yagyu cut into the water. I'm gonna fish me some demons. (https://youtu.be/QXfXbCLoS6A)Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
"DAMN IT JI, DON'T DIE! WE STILL NEED TO FUCK UP DERP! AND YOU HAVE ONE OF MY SHOCK THINGIES!"
Okay, the water is still flowing because somebody is an idiot, so... don't let go of the doorway. Hold position and shoot any demons that come into sight, using the laser. If no demons appear, continue charging the laser.
Current laser charge level: d10. If only I had posted, it would be d12...Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
Prepare for the demons that will be coming soon.Gabe hangs out of the access hatch in the ceiling, training his gun down the same hallway that Wilfred is covering. The both wait. They don't have to wait long. They hear it coming from a while off, the splash of water, the growling inhales of full sprint running, the grinding of carapace on steel. It comes around the corner at the far end of the hall, skidding a bit into the wall as it does. It doesn't stop to smell the air or look around, it just charges. It has a head like a crocodile, but with a split jaw and massive compound eyes. Its body is like that of a comical strongman, massive shoulders and a small lower body, with what appear to be giant centipedes instead of arms. It charges forward like a gorilla, hurling its bulk forward mostly with its arms, though the skittering limbs on the arms also drag it forward. It gives it an impossible appearance, as though it is covering far more ground than its movements should allow.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
He opens his aid box and then proceeds to sort of just kneel there next to Richter for several seconds, staring."Why don't you take a picture? It'll last longer."
QuoteHe opens his aid box and then proceeds to sort of just kneel there next to Richter for several seconds, staring."Why don't you take a picture? It'll last longer."
[21:03] Radio Controlled: Suppose we got them out of the way, and we tried electrofishing, is it likely to just arc up to where we are?
[21:04] Mr. Bones: Nah
Where is everyone in relation to each other?
[21:21] Radio Controlled: Also, while we're asking questions: the description of the stimulant says
OMNITECH Stimulant (Raises life by one die level till next injury) X 3
An innocuous looking syringe of what appears to be saline. Contains a high end stimulant that can enhances the user's innate capacities for a time. A large warning sticker on the side reads "DO NOT DOUBLE DOSE".
The description seems to indicate it only lasts for a bit, but the text between brackets just says 'till next injury'.
[21:22] Mr. Bones: It raises your life die until you actually get hit
[21:24] Radio Controlled: Ah, so you could pop one at the start of a mission and just ride that high until you need it?
[21:24] Mr. Bones: Basically RC
[21:24] Mr. Bones: Its a preventative
[21:24] Radio Controlled: Neato! Something we should have totally done all along then.
[21:24] Radio Controlled: Unless there's side effects if you take them repeatedly I guess.
[21:29] Radio Controlled: I assume brobots can't take stimulants anymore?
[21:31] Mr. Bones: nay
[21:31] Mr. Bones: you have no organic parts to stimulate
[21:31] Mr. Bones: so to speak~
((ah, yes. Thank you for Reminding me. Please check my character sheet below. Make sure it's all in order.))Go socialize with the demons. They seem energetic.piecewise recommends placing your character sheet in a spoiler along with your action
Let's see if I can convince the tooth fairy to be angry about a specific political issue. Hmm. Let's convince him to be angry about the rigidity of constitutionalism and the effect of outdated strictures on an advancing culture.oh, forgot you were a ghost, my bad((ah, yes. Thank you for Reminding me. Please check my character sheet below. Make sure it's all in order.))Go socialize with the demons. They seem energetic.piecewise recommends placing your character sheet in a spoiler along with your actionSpoiler: Jon??? (click to show/hide)
]oh, forgot you were a ghost, my bad((no worries. I'm an odd duck after all. Nice to have someone reminding people to keep things smooth for the GM.))
Help RC with electrofishing.
If RC doesn't need help electrofishing, help pull people out of the water.
If RC doesn't need any help electrofishing and if I can't help pull up anybody, try to close any doors that would stall the battering ram snake T-Rex demon (and any other incoming demons) so that our teammates don't get overwhelmed.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Rescue people, fight off demon, just another day on the job.
"it seems that bullets don't work. maybe we need more gun?"Spoiler (click to show/hide)
[6]Resurface and resume breathing, help Wilfred by foaming the huge demon in front of usSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Yagyu drags the heavy duty electrical cable over to the access hatch, shoos Gabe out of the way, and proceeds to dump it straight down into the water. There is a brief flash as the electricity arcs down into the water before the cable even hits, but then things get fairly quiet. There's no huge light show as electricity leaps out across the entire hall. Instead the cable kind of just sits there in the water, bubbling as the water around it boils. The Crocopede demon seizes up and tumbles over backwards into the water, smoking. But the demon at the other end of the hall, the running python ram thing, stops a good 100 feet back. And it stares, apparently eyeless, at the scene.QuoteHe opens his aid box and then proceeds to sort of just kneel there next to Richter for several seconds, staring."Why don't you take a picture? It'll last longer."
"Do I look like a doctor to you, eh? Well, as a matter of fact, I'm not!"
Shoot demons with goop gun. If teammates evacuate enough for electrofishing not to fookin' kill them, do that instead.
Give medkit to NG should she finally get up here so Richter can get some treatment.
Also:Quote[21:03] Radio Controlled: Suppose we got them out of the way, and we tried electrofishing, is it likely to just arc up to where we are?
[21:04] Mr. Bones: NahSpoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Kenneth will help his fellow OMNITECH(TM) coworker's with their Mortally Challenged issue with a nice application of lead. Especially to the big one, Kenneth hates the big ones.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Keep shooting big bad demonSpoiler (click to show/hide)
"Do we have any idea how many of these things are in here with us?"[6, 4, 6]
Point gun at demons, pull trigger until they're dead.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"uh, Pathos, you still got Ji on your omniscience thing? As we may want to grab her soonish."[2]
repair Yagyu and lend Pathos a hand if he needs help to lift up Ji.Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
Apply lead to maggot 2: Electric BoogalooSpoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Anya, why are you hurting Yagyu? Remember, he’s part of the team.
Thank you Toby for pulling Wilfred and I out.
Yagyu, good job on killing the giant centipede snake demon in the water. What do we do now to prepare for the others?
Burt completely empty's his magazine, and Burt half empties his [d4 use die now].(I'm not sure if I did both or it only one is mine.)
Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
"Second of all, STOP HITTING ME ANYA I MEAN SERIOUSLY. I appreciate you're trying to help, but please lady, be more careful with the ol' merchandise here."shh, I need to uncave in your face, don't be a неженка about it.
(Bad time to mention I'm not currently in possession of my rifle?)(My fault for not noticing)
Stay very still, unless more demons attack me, then fight back.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Continue not dying, we're doing a good job so far. Let anyone who wishes so attempt to heal me. They don't even need a medical license.Spoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
[5]will doSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Use Ellen’s med kit to heal Richter
[3] Anya begins speaking the language of her people (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZMRzHYU-6A) as she attempts to fix Yagyu. Unfortunately his insistence on tying himself to ceilings and generally being difficult means the best she can do is slap a few bits of duct tape on him."Second of all, STOP HITTING ME ANYA I MEAN SERIOUSLY. I appreciate you're trying to help, but please lady, be more careful with the ol' merchandise here."shh, I need to uncave in your face, don't be a неженка about it.
continue trying to repair Yagyu.Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
[4]Anya, why are you hurting Yagyu? Remember, he’s part of the team.
Thank you Toby for pulling Wilfred and I out.
Yagyu, good job on killing the giant centipede snake demon in the water. What do we do now to prepare for the others?
"First of all I need you to take a look at Richter over there before he finishes bleeding out. Use Elen's medkit, that'll help.
Second of all, STOP HITTING ME ANYA I MEAN SERIOUSLY. I appreciate you're trying to help, but please lady, be more careful with the ol' merchandise here."
Tie myself to a nearby piece of ceiling so I can't slip and tumble into the water. Then pull the cable out of the water for now. Let any water drip off from it before pulling it up higher, don't want to electrocute any teammates (or even worse, myself! :o )
Now, does it seem likely that we could lure the rest of the demons here if we made some noise or whatever so we could repeat that trick, or would the demons be wise to it?
Finally, from the way the water was draining out of the next section, does it seem more likely that that section was simply flooded and that that water was just equalizing, or did it seem more like there is an active source of water in there leaking/producing water at a fast enough rate, meaning that it would flood the whole complex if given the chance?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
"Thanks Ellen, this is a vast improvement over slowly bleeding out."The end result of Richter's prodding is a strange squirming thing. It looks something like a cuttlefish, though more...meaty. He puts it in a containment pod and it starts tapping on the glass with its little tentacles.
While we're in a bit of a lull, go inspect the demon corpse below me. Prod it with my special stick and look for useful bits. Use my containment pods to grab and store any bits that look interesting/useful, either to OMNITECH for research or for me to do freaky occult stuff with.Spoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
*Anya looks closely at her work on Yagyu's face*Anya finds a big old pneumatic cable cutting device up in the crawlspace. Kind of like a "Jaws of Life" but about half as big and self contained.
Eh, good enough.
follow Yagyu and grab any tools I find on the way, I mean, construction workers lose tools all the time there's gotta be some left up here, right?Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
((Wilfred finds that while there is no "Pause" feature on his military laser, the energy from the charge drains slowly instead of all at once. Each turn it will go up a level of power, and each turn not charging will reduce it one level.Quick note, will edit into an action later.Wilfred (me) is with the group currently, Ji (Lup) is the only one separated, pretty sure. And she's fairly safe, to my understanding, the demon she killed is blocking the only entrance into the room.))
Start charging the laser rifle again. Check if it has any kind of pause button, so it can hold a charge instead of just exploding or forcing a shot at d20.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
Hail the team, but otherwise stay still and quiet.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
"Ok then ladies and gents, that scared them off for now but they'll probably be back soon. First off, we should regroup with our lost teammates before the demons find them first. Then we'll need to get ready to give those nasty baddies another warm welcome. We can't really move on until they are dealt with, or they could attack us from behind later on or when we are on the way back."Ji and Yagyu manage to connect on the radio...well its not really radio...but whatever. She relays where she is, the fact that she killed a demon, and the fact that she is stuck but probably safe for the moment.
Attempt to locate our teammates who are currently not in the main gang (syv and Lup I think) by hailing them over the radio, then try to move there through the vent system, but quietly so that (hopefully) them there daemons won't hear us.
Once regrouped, try to find a good location where we could ambush the demons, e.g. a big room with just 1 entry point where there are some parts that are not underwater (like high benches at the back or something). Ideally the room also has some of those ducts with electric cables going over the room's entrance, so that hopefully we can still do some electrocution work in combination with just shooting anything that comes through that is resistant.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Kenneth will continue watching for Mortally Challenged to sell his bullet supply to.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
*Anya looks closely at her work on Yagyu's face*
Eh, good enough.
follow Yagyu and grab any tools I find on the way, I mean, construction workers lose tools all the time there's gotta be some left up here, right?Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
Attempt to foam the living demons in place by aiming for their legs, or if they don’t have legs, aiming for a point where the demon touches the ground or water, thus sticking them to it or the waterSpoiler (click to show/hide)
"Stay away from me demons, I want nothing to do with you!"
Reload my gun and shoot any demons that get close.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Be prepared to shoot if a living demon shows upSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Tara tries to get out of the vent and land on her feet, thus allowing Yagyu to fire at the demons. Once I land, attempt to stop Burt’s bleeding"Uh, Burt's up here, Kenneth's the one who fell"
(whoops, will edit accordinglyTara tries to get out of the vent and land on her feet, thus allowing Yagyu to fire at the demons. Once I land, attempt to stop Burt’s bleeding"Uh, Burt's up here, Kenneth's the one who fell"
Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
((Welp, apparently we didn't even get a roll to actually move quietly, blast.))
Tie myself to a nearby pipe so I won't fall out. Then kick open another hatch, preferably so it lands on top of one of the demons (not a teammate though, if unsure then kick open one further away).
Proceed to goop tree demon, or the other one if more of a threat.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Kenneth unleashes a[screamroar offeartotally masculine rage before unloading into the doggo.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Try to regain consciousness.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Tara attempts to diagnose Burt's medical issues. She quickly discovers that his medical issue is that he's had his circulatory system punched out. Its all just sitting there inside is suit, cleanly separated like a museum specimen, with damage to it or the body. That's...distressing. Also Burt is very dead, as most people do not survive long without...their entire circulatory system.I attempt to stop Burt’s bleedingSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Oh, I know what these are, totally. Use occult to figure out what they are. Move to the vent too.Toby crawls over to the current conflict and attempts to identify the enemy combatants.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
eh, Tara, maybe you should try to stabilize Burt.[4]sit tight up here, not like my pistol's gonna do much
*remembers the last incident involving a telekinetic and a confined space
Actually I'm going to jump (after the people with real guns jump out) maybe take aim at the doggo.Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
Keep shooting demonic doggo[1]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Shoot anything that comes my way, but otherwise wait around to be collected.Ji drags herself over to a computer in the office and starts playing space cadet pinball. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMZwb05pPnI)Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Laser rifle charge level: d8. Head towards the fresh screaming and gunfire, and help shoot whatever demons they're shooting at. If the demons are already dead, or shooting is otherwise unnecessary, continue charging.[9][1v6]Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
If the fighting gets to where I'm at, run to safety/cover[1]
Otherwise inspect the cuttlefish looking thing in the box. Does my occult knowledge tell me anything about what it is/does? Does it look agressive?
If it doesn't look agressive or if I can't figure out anything at all, crack the lid of the box just a bit and put my pinky in the box. See how it reacts.
If this thing turns out to be h.e.l.l. symbiote, figure out the way to get it inside/connected to me. If it's easy, just go ahead and do it.Spoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
KENNETH RUNSKenneth uses the Secret Kenneth Family Technique to strategically retreat back to the vents while spraying the ribcage wood person and praying to Saint Rockfeller.
"We can always just move on and let the demons be someone else's problem. The door to the next sector is right here. I can open it and let the rest of the water drain out when you're ready."I’m ready
-Snip-(we were going to go get her, then Yagyu bumped his knee against something metal halfway there and Burt got flayed.)
[23:30] Radio Controlled: Hey @Mr. Bones, are both of the demons in mook currently encased/immobilized in goop, or only the one of them? I think you only explicitly mention the dog getting gooped, but then it also says "Anya manages to jump down near the Icon of Butchery and doesn't even land it the rapidly expanding goop around it." which seems to indicate that the sudowoodo here is also gooped.
[00:10] Mr. Bones: @Radio Controlled There's goo in the area around it, but it isn't goop'd
-Snip-(we were going to go get her, then Yagyu bumped his knee against something metal halfway there and Burt got flayed.)
((Oi! It said someone bumped against the vent, it didn't explicitly say it was Yagyu! :P ))
They make it roughly halfway there before someone very loudly bangs their metal knee against an air vent.(emphasis mine)
There's a joke here, and its Security Team #2.(I really want to argue against that, but I can't.)
Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
Continue to go get JiSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Find a video that sounds like an OMNI spec-ops squad breaching into the room, then set the computer volume to be really loud. After that’s done, check my immediate surroundings for anything that could be used to fight demons, then sit and wait for the coming horde.[10]Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
KENNETH RUNSKenneth uses the Secret Kenneth Family Technique to strategically retreat back to the vents while spraying the ribcage wood person and praying to Saint Rockfeller.
Don't get the gun, I don't wanna end up like Anya. Retreat away until it seems safe enough to not be turned inside out.[4]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Inform the crew that we are about to die. Run like hell, grab the people next to the demons with the tentacle.((Another nice sheet here.))
”Holy fuck this is a terrible situation. Everyone run!”
Toby grabs the amazing Noodle Girl, drags her up to the crawl space and proceeds to scuttle all the way back to the sector exit with her. As he goes he wonders exactly what the correct first aid for "Removal of ribcage" is....they didn't cover it in basic training. Removal of skull? Sure. Spine? Of course. But ribcage is more eclectic. More avant-garde. Stupid hipster demons.((Oi! It said someone bumped against the vent, it didn't explicitly say it was Yagyu! :P ))They make it roughly halfway there before someone very loudly bangs their metal knee against an air vent.(emphasis mine)There's a joke here, and its Security Team #2.(I really want to argue against that, but I can't.)
"су...
ка...
БЛЯДь!!!!"
fuck it if I'm going down I'm going down swinging, shoot that stupid fucking tree thing where it's stupid fucking face should be, with Gabe's rifle if possible. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MRSLSQdelI)
EDIT: now that I have the tiniest chance of getting out alive, only do the above if Toby doesn't grab meSpoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
"Yeah. You know..."Richter says, his entire body twitching randomly "I am feeling a bit peckish now that you mention it."Richter swings out into the hall and walks over to the corpse of the crocodemon. He takes an exploratory bite and finds it strangely easy to tear mouthfuls of demonic flesh from the corpse. So easy in fact that he stops to touch his face. His mouth is larger than normal and he doesn't remember his teeth being this sharp...or large...or numerous...or coming from the sides as well as the top and bottom. Hmm. After he's eaten a good couple mouthfuls of flesh he attempts to do...something.
Consume the flesh of the demon corpse. See what the effects of doing so are.
Ask the symbiote/voice what it is capable of doing, combat/utility wise.
Also ask it how it's doing. Everyone probably always asks it what it can do, but not how it's feeling.Spoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
Laser rifle charge level: d6."Mhm. Yep."
I told Radio I figured I'd be sticking around and shooting at demons, but that was before I saw the update. Considering our local expert on demons just started fleeing at a dead sprint while screaming about how anyone organic is doomed against this thing, I'm willing to reconsider my stance on staying here and attempting further violence. Also, y'know, the demon just tanked a laser to the face. After punching out a guy's circulatory system.
Make a tactical retreat back and around the next corner or two. Towards the flooded sector. Just get out of the butcher's line of sight, then get a bit further away for good measure. And charge the dumb laser rifle.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
[3]Quote[23:30] Radio Controlled: Hey @Mr. Bones, are both of the demons in mook currently encased/immobilized in goop, or only the one of them? I think you only explicitly mention the dog getting gooped, but then it also says "Anya manages to jump down near the Icon of Butchery and doesn't even land it the rapidly expanding goop around it." which seems to indicate that the sudowoodo here is also gooped.
[00:10] Mr. Bones: @Radio Controlled There's goo in the area around it, but it isn't goop'd
"These demons hate our guts, they'll just run us down if we try to retreat! And even if they don't, they'll still be here once we try to make our way back! We need to take them out or at least goop them in place, and we need to help the wounded and Ji as well."
Reload. If people keep firing on the demons this turn, then also fire with the goop launcher (which is in d10 overdrive, by the way).
However, if that doesn't work or if I have an opening to do the following without risking friendly fire, then crawl over to the closer access hatch, dump some of that very flammable fuel on the driftwood thing (I'm guessing it is near the hatch since Anya dropped down near it) and drop the lighter on it to light the blighter on fire. Then retreat into the vent-Snip-(we were going to go get her, then Yagyu bumped his knee against something metal halfway there and Burt got flayed.)
((Oi! It said someone bumped against the vent, it didn't explicitly say it was Yagyu! :P ))Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Hey Will, I will go with Tara to the previous sector so she can hopefully stabilize Anya, since she is missing her... entire... ribcage. Could you perhaps escort us?"
Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
(Gonna throw another guy into this, I wonder if he'll live longer than the last five.)((A mook who dies fast and often is a Mook who knows their job. ))Spoiler (click to show/hide)
While the team is still around here and the place we're in is relatively safe, start munching on demons in the following order:
The rest of the crocodemon
Teeth demon
Maggot demon
Icon of Butchery bits: Yagyu's location
And a skeletonized dog near the Icon of Butchery bits
Stop doing so if something bad starts happening or if the team moves on and I'd be left behind.Spoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
"HAHAAA SUCK ON THAT YOU DEMONIC FUCKS!" Yagyu bellowed triumphantly.
Then, once the adrenaline had died down a little, he gave an actual status report over the radio.
"The Icon and the demon dog have been sent back to the pit they crawled out from. Watch out though, there is still that python ram thing that escaped from our electrofishing roaming around somewhere, and perhaps some more demons we don't know about.
Tara! Where are you right now? Anya is hurt really bad and she needs your help asap or she'll die. You can use the last bit of this medical kit."
Assuming Tara informs Yagyu that she is near Ji: crawl over to their room through the vents (preferably quietly) and then help hoist Ji up into the vent, then guide them back. If Tara, or someone else, tries to stabilize Anya so she won't die then give them Elen's last medkit charge if they need it.Try to use my scanner to see if we can locate that python ram thing demon we spotted earlier, and to see if there are more demons still around. Or do you think the killing of their comrades dissuaded them from bothering us further?
Escort Tara to the previous section (help carry Anya's body if needed), use goop on anything nasty that tries to harass us.
Oh, and what happened to Burt? Is his body still in the crawlspace, did it survive the explosion? What about his equipment? If any of it survived, take possession of it for now before we move for the previous sectorSpoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
I’m with Ji
Help Yagyu get Ji up, then get into the vent and follow them to Anya to attempt helping her, try getting her to the previous sector with the medical supplies and findsomething there that will help hera ribcage and ligaments from the clones so I can put the ribcage in Anya as well as connecting it to her muscles. Hopefully I can do this without damaging her further
Her ribs were removed, not sure if a med kit can grow ribs, where are they? Maybe the kit can help keep them in place while putting them back?Spoiler (click to show/hide)
”That should not have worked. Good on ya.”
Get medical aid to people who need it.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Kenneth's odd of surviving were lower than 1%. Kenneth now believes he is immortal and/or God is on his side. Kenneth will help Spider coworker with his newfound invincibility.
Kenneth will follow along with Yagyu and Tara and help them with Kenneth's omnipotent power.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Could organic limbs be attached to my android body?
In any case, let myself be rescued.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Get my gun back.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
try not to dieSpoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
The Conglomerate meatball of security team 2 rolls about a bit, exchanging guns, charging lasers, dragging the corpses of former teammates (complete with their full inventories) about, and reuniting lost members with its all consuming mass. Once fully reformed, complete with Billy Bob and that terrifying "human" who keeps unhinging his jaw and swallowing demons like a fucking snake, the meatball rolls over to the section entrace (or at least the crawlspace above it). There they attempt to cure Anya's terminal calcium deficiency by scavenging up some spareribs. This is rather a race against time because it turns out that breathing is something people need to do a lot of for some reason."Hey Will, I will go with Tara to the previous sector so she can hopefully stabilize Anya, since she is missing her... entire... ribcage. Could you perhaps escort us?"
Wil heaves a long sigh over the radio, which is entirely ruined by the text-to-speech system.
"Yeah. Yeah, why not. Ribcages are pretty important. Be there in a moment, try not to lose her skull or whatever. We wanna save the spontaneous bone removal for Derp."
Laser rifle charge level: d8.
Continue charging the laser rifle. Go meet up with Yagyu, Tara, Anya and maybe Ji, then escort them back towards the last sector. If we meet any demons, shoot them with the laser. If we don't meet any demons, charge the laser.
Also, if we come across any other allied corpses, drag them along with us. Maybe we can find that one guy a new circulatory system.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
"Noo, dammit! We were so close.[5] According to his scans, Yagyu can distinguish 3 more demons nearby. Nearby being probably within a sector or so of distance.
Well, rest in peace for now Anya, at least you're free from this bloody mess for now."
Yagyu walks over to Tara and puts a metallic hand on her shoulder.
"You did the best you could given the situation, don't beat yourself up over this.
Unfortunately, that was also the last of Elen's meds, so we're all out right now. Hopefully we can scavenge some more medical supplies.
Oh, and Will? Excellent shot there, quality work. If that battery is dead though, perhaps I can hook it up to an outlet somewhere to try and recharge it a bit, if you'd like. First we gotta make sure we won't get more of these assholes biting our bums off. "
Try to use my scanner to see if we can locate that python ram thing demon we spotted earlier, and to see if there are more demons still around. Don't run around the whole section though, just see if there's strong HELL signals anywhere near.
Could we perhaps just weld shut all of the side doors and such in sector Q (the one we're in), so that we still have a safe path to travel through from section R to N while locking out any more surprise demon attacks? Assuming we find no evidence that a demon wandered into the previous sector of course (though I think those doors should have been shut normally so hoping not).
Oh, and take Anya's inventory for now I suppose, so we can give it back to her. If people would like to take some of it for use during the mission, let them of course, but make clear she's getting it back afterwards.
By the way, did that lighter get destroyed in the blast before? Cause if not I'd like to retrieve it once we are moving on to the next sector, that lighter did a bang up job.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"that was rather tasty, all things considered" Richter muses while picking some demon from between his teeth. "So, what should I call you? We're going to be stuck together for a while, hopefully, so we may as well make this a real symbiosis."[6] Richter attempts to speak with the symbiote but mostly just gets a mental punch in the gut with the desire to murder and eat. It staggers him for several moments.
Try to converse with the symbiote
Unmanifest the crocodemon leg replacing my arm right now. Try and get a feel for how fast I can manifest things, to gauge if I should try and manifest parts in advance or if I can do it on the fly in combat
Also try and get a feel wether the manifestations only work for physical attributes of consumed demons, or if I'm also able to manifest special/supernatural powers they had
Also also try and get a feel if I can only manifest the demon bits as they were in life, or if I can reform them. Say turn my arm into a crocodemon tooth macuahuitl or atyranidteeth demon DeathspitterSpoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
Hmm. Syv reactivated power to this sector, right? Any chance I could activate some sort of drainage system to remove the water, even if it takes some time to drain? If yes, activate said system then open the door to the next sector and retreat to the ceiling to wait for it to drain.[6]
Also, if I saw that goat demon and can track it with my Omniscience, let the team know where it is.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
"I've totally been here the entire time and know whats going on."
Go loot some rooms and maybe find some money.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"That would be great, Yagyu. Derp really deserves to be melted by a laser after putting us through... just, all this."
"...Ji? Ji, don't wander off alone again, you don't even have legs! Gah, I'm going with you!"
Follow Ji, and help her find new limbs. Resume shooting any screens, speakers, or demons seen, using the generic rifle.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
((Got a few unrelated things this turn. I’m trying to get all the small stuff that’s been bothering me out of the way, instead of scattering it through multiple posts))((They're fine. Technically they're damaged but basically unless I say they get destroyed, assume they're fine for mechanical purposes.))
Try to gather enough spare parts (biological, robotic, or otherwise compatible) that somebody would be able to get my body back to a functional humanoid state, if only temporarily.
What exactly it the status of my riot suit and germ suit? If their gone, I’ll try to find more germ suits, as well as a box of syringes.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Damn. Got a rib cage and all for nothing. Grab all the stuff, for safe keeping of course.
”Oh anya, we hardly knew ye.”Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Return to the main group.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"SUCK IT WORLD! KENNETH HAS BECOME DEATH, HARBINGER OF OMNITECH AND DESTROYER OF LESSER BRANDS!"These fellows return to Yagyu, who is the acting anchor of "The group" for the moment. Because
Kenneth will go along with the squads and prepare to execute the same maneuver he used to lute the statue of Founder Ulysses T. Chillicothe which wasn't accidental or pure luck in any way.
At all.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
[3]Good thing she has a cognition copier, how does it work? Do we take it out of her corpse to transfer it to a machine? Or is her mi d already being copied to one and removing it would break the process? Ji, would limbs from Anya’s corpse even be able to connect with you? It was her chest that was damaged, so the legs and arms would still be intactSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Go wander the sector and search for the demons using my scanner, if I find it/them or if it/they find me, run away from them while shooting foam at them while throwing the barbecue ribs at it, then throwing the empty plate at it/them like how a frisbee would be thrown. Run from them while doing this
[6] He believe that every sector should have emergency partitions that could be activated to block off hallways. With the correct usage of these, it should be possible to form a narrow hall from the entrance to the exit of a sector. It would need to be done from the control room though.
Kenneth will follow along till the gang finds a mortally challenged. Kenneth will also hum the Omnitech(TM) Theme Song(TM).((if you’ll allow, just spoilering your character sheetSpoiler: [spoiler=Kenneth Character (click to show/hide)
[spoiler=spoiler name, leave blank for it to just say spoiler]things you want in spoiler[/spoiler]
((I know how spoilers work, I just forgot to do it :V)Kenneth will follow along till the gang finds a mortally challenged. Kenneth will also hum the Omnitech(TM) Theme Song(TM).((if you’ll allow, just spoilering your character sheetSpoiler: [spoiler=Kenneth Character (click to show/hide)Code: [Select][spoiler=spoiler name, leave blank for it to just say spoiler]things you want in spoiler[/spoiler]
”Becuase sharks don’t have tits!”"Kenneth begs to differ, Kenneth has seen on the Internet, things that keep Kenneth awake at night."
”Becuase sharks don’t have tits!”
Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
"I object to that. We don't kink shame here. If someone wants to be a sexbot, let them be a sexbot. If someone wants to fuck a toaster, let them fuck a toaster! If someone wants to make penis into robot, MAKE PEE NIS INTO RO BOT! (https://youtu.be/6yYxOuHUpDI)"”Becuase sharks don’t have tits!”
"Jeez, dude, why are you so dead set on turning yourself into a literal sex object? I'm not even a woman and I feel a vauge sympathetic shame. And a sustained hatred of Derp, but that's been there awhile."
"Kenneth disagrees, Kenneth thinks kink-shaming is the shield that keeps the terrors of the night at bay, Kenneth shudders at the thought of a world without kink-shaming.""I object to that. We don't kink shame here. If someone wants to be a sexbot, let them be a sexbot. If someone wants to fuck a toaster, let them fuck a toaster! If someone wants to make penis into robot, MAKE PEE NIS INTO RO BOT! (https://youtu.be/6yYxOuHUpDI)"”Becuase sharks don’t have tits!”
"Jeez, dude, why are you so dead set on turning yourself into a literal sex object? I'm not even a woman and I feel a vauge sympathetic shame. And a sustained hatred of Derp, but that's been there awhile."
A robot edited for sexual purposes seems not useful, as robots do not procreate that way, they are built."Its for fun or something."
If/When I get repaired. Try to find enough syringes to give everyone a syringe full of tranquilizers. (Don’t know why I never got around to that before.)
EDIT- make sure whoever repairs me makes use of the toolbox in RC’s inventory.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Get to where Ji is and graft an arm and legs in the proper places to herSpoiler (click to show/hide)
"I will aid in the mechanical portion of the surgery as I am a helpful person that has been here the entire time."
Aid in the surgical graphing of limbs onto Ji.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Quote[6] He believe that every sector should have emergency partitions that could be activated to block off hallways. With the correct usage of these, it should be possible to form a narrow hall from the entrance to the exit of a sector. It would need to be done from the control room though.
Move for the control room. Use scanner to ensure we don't get jumped on our way there, use goop in case nasties get near us anyway.
If we make it there, let one of my more techno-minded teammates work those doors while I stand overwatch with goop gun. If nobody is there to help, just try it myself. Either way make sure all teammates are adequately informed so none of them are stuck on the wrong side of the doors.
Finally, consider whether we could recharge Will's laser. Maybe we could build an adaptor of sorts (using a toolkit charge and maybe some materials we scrounge up) and use that to plug the battery into an outlet somewhere? Alternatively, could we McGiver a new battery for his gun?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Kenneth will follow along till the gang finds a mortally challenged. Kenneth will also hum the Omnitech(TM) Theme Song(TM).Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Ji, you should consider adopting a superior shark body instead of settling for inferior human limbs. Sharks deal extra damage against doors as a racial advantage. Look at Richter, he has the right idea."
Help Yagyu with his computer thingy.
Also help with Ji's surgery if she needs help of the mechanical or computer kind.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
”Becuase sharks don’t have tits!”
"Jeez, dude, why are you so dead set on turning yourself into a literal sex object? I'm not even a woman and I feel a vauge sympathetic shame. And a sustained hatred of Derp, but that's been there awhile."
Go with Yagyu and Pathos, continuing to follow the very unstealthy plan of shooting everything that could potentially transmit Derp's control. Also shoot any demons.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
Keep following YagyuSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Helene Hestia (click to show/hide)
Helene has a naturally gaunt face illuminated by the shadows, a voice comes forth smug as a bug on a rug, a woman who'd obviously always been here, finally making herself known!
Helene walks out of the shadows holding their gun in their right hand, tapping their null rod impatiently against the floor in their left...hopefully she grabbed a blindfold like the others coming down here!
"Who's ready to kick some ass? Personally, I can't wait to get paid, buy me a shovel with that money!"
Accomplishments of the Omnitech Murder ball this turn:Spoiler: I love you Omnitech! (click to show/hide)
The soft pitter-patter of boots, the gentle sound of chapped Omnitech© lips. A glint in brown eyes utterly full of life and an empty cup once full of Omnitech brand incredibly recaffinated and stale "Coffe" sailing over her head. It would appear that backup was sent down?
Or
Perhaps Leslie was merely snooping around and making sure these grand Omnitech© owned desks were cleaned off in the meantime, while everyone else did incredibly productive things, good job guys.
Leslie the lovely little corporate drone she is, is back after a while of hanging out with staff upstairs, filling out paperwork, and generally being a creature to loath for anyone who wanted to slack off whatsoever. Leslie hopes she was able to find/acquire some kind of least blindfold before the mission/recently if she is what one could call "Reinforcements."
Either way, Leslie Omnitech@ is here, she's got a big old smile on her face regardless of everyone's injuries and she's ready to help on out however she can!
One of the ways shes doing that is using her personal computer, that wonderful thing to write up reports of deaths and other injury, forge organ donations contracts of the dead and the like, normal Omnitech things.
5. Considered building a wall plug for a military laser. Calculated charge times as somewhere in the "several months" range and decided instead to investigate alternative fuels; an adaptor is a more likely solution.To build this adaptor, what would we need to scavenge? And where could we find these parts? (assume we'd use a toolkit charge to try and build it)
Follow Yagyu to the sectorSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Tara noticed one recruit she’s seen before, and one new one
Hi Leslie, it’s been a while. Hi to the new ones too. My name’s Tara
She turns to the guy who helped her
Thank you for helping heal Ji, I don’t think I got your name. If we find any corpses, I might be able to make blindfolds for you
She then puts on her blindfold for the new sector
From my experience of 2 missions, we get paid varying amounts based on things we did. Like I was paid a bit more in the first mission for being resourceful and helping fix an elevator. Payment isn’t discussed up front, but survivors will get paid. You mentioned a farm? What kind of things did you do on the farm?Spoiler: Helene Hestia (click to show/hide)
Helene is talking as if she where a complete loon on drugs for all we know she very well might be thought she did pass a drug test maybe she is just unstable, she sounds way too enthusiastic about the concept of hitting things, she is smiling eyes darting around the room looking at her new fellow help, with her hand holding a null rod in her twitching palm.
Helene examines her syringe and the waifu bot Ji and covers her eyes when she enters a new room gun at the ready, she looks for pipes if she finds any, she attempts to rip it out and take it or a similar object as long as she thinks it won't kill her.
"Huh so this is the type of work we do dangerous how exhilarating...wait did they mention how much we get paid for this?
I forgot oh no matter, there be money to make I'm sure things to bash and a good time. I still miss the farm was wonderful, damn I heard of corporate goons but damn corporate fanatics I...feel my time here will be interesting and hopefully profitable."
Leslies is simply put standing up straight as a board, with a sickeningly saccharine smile, the corporate drone, dear Leslie lets a small flush cross her face, accepting a syringe, just a bit clumsily, gracelessly. Before turning towards the youngling, towards Tara with a nod of the head, hair swaying about, it certainly seemed as if she was happy to see them! Happy to know that one of Omnitechs youngest was still alive and kicking, serving as a true inspiration to them all, of how child labor laws were pointless and unneeded.Glad you’re so happy to be here. It’s very dangerous, dealing with Mr. Controller. He can control people who perceive him in any way.
Her lips move, barely breaking the somewhat perhaps unnerving almost slasher-Esque cheery smile, to reveal an old voice that hasn't changed a bit, from the bubbly way too cheerful voice she's always had!
"Beloved Omnitech employee Tara! Our youngest little go-getter! It's been a few standard Omnitech cycles indeed! I've been servicing my betters, helping increase company productivity, the like. It's truly wonderful to see today's youth employed at so tender an age.
Would you perhaps like to as all the kids say, hang out at an Omnitech approved location, to improve and create company bonds together, whether through intoxicating beverages or otherwise?
I think it'd be swell~"
Leslies is simply put standing up straight as a board, with a sickeningly saccharine smile, the corporate drone, dear Leslie lets a small flush cross her face, accepting a syringe, just a bit clumsily, gracelessly. Before turning towards the youngling, towards Tara with a nod of the head, hair swaying about, it certainly seemed as if she was happy to see them! Happy to know that one of Omnitechs youngest was still alive and kicking, serving as a true inspiration to them all, of how child labor laws were pointless and unneeded.
Her lips move, barely breaking the somewhat perhaps unnerving almost slasher-Esque cheery smile, to reveal an old voice that hasn't changed a bit, from the bubbly way too cheerful voice she's always had!
"Beloved Omnitech employee Tara! Our youngest little go-getter! It's been a few standard Omnitech cycles indeed! I've been servicing my betters, helping increase company productivity, the like. It's truly wonderful to see today's youth employed at so tender an age.
Would you perhaps like to as all the kids say, hang out at an Omnitech approved location, to improve and create company bonds together, whether through intoxicating beverages or otherwise?
I think it'd be swell~"
Glad you’re so happy to be here. It’s very dangerous, dealing with Mr. Controller. He can control people who perceive him in any way.
From my experience of 2 missions, we get paid varying amounts based on things we did. Like I was paid a bit more in the first mission for being resourceful and helping fix an elevator. Payment isn’t discussed up front, but survivors will get paid. You mentioned a farm? What kind of things did you do on the farm?
Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
I'm sure we will be friends, so long as we remain in control of our bodies
Leslie's posture faintly slackens, an eyebrow gently raises, a frown flickering across, her tone cheery, but...almost faintly scolding, the pitter-patter of boots growing a bit louder and the grip of black gloves around their weapon just a bit tighter, a glint in brown eyes, as shoulders roll in a jumpsuit masquerading as something proffessional.
"Beloved Omnitech© employee Tara. Do you doubt my ability to listen and consume information that comes in a standard Omnitech© briefing? I am fully aware of the threat this asset of the company is meant to provide and it's refusal to abide.
The Asset known as Mr.Friend shall be seized and brought back to their rightful place and used properly in conjunction with whatever Omnitechs needs are. Despite it's...disrespectful nature shown to Omnitech personnel."
A detached steelyness in the tall drones face as it stares down at something it sees as just potential, as a lifelong new worker, eyes soften and that cheery smile drifts back across.
"Beloved Omnitech© employee Tara, I hope we will be good friends." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLg_48PRHh4)
Helene sounds absolutely over joyed, her face lights up & she is litterly shaking with excitmentOh, butchery, interesting. Part of fixing the elevator was having to use stomach acid to dissolve the corpse in the elevator gears. It's not butchery but it is dealing with carcasses. After this mission, you could buy axes or knives. Onto sector Q, I think?
"Well it was potatos plus livestock, it's was a huge farm and what I did wel-I fixed things and I helped with the harvest you know farmwork, oh glorious farmwork. It was the life also good place to bury bodys though I would not know that from experienc-flesh makes great fertilizer and ashes from bones. Helps to-I loved the farm, I still love the farm I hope ommnitech is at least half as fun. Oh yeah, I also did the butchery, my favourite part of my job."
One gets the distinct feeling, this person doesn't speak the best english.
"Well done gang, that should hold them for a while. Now, let's get out of this godforsaken sector. Oh, and Ji, nice to have you back in one pie-... Well, nice to have you back."[5]Yagyu creates his signal jammer out of various garbage! Good for him.
To the next sector! Close the door behind us just in case so no demons can follow us (don't weld it, just regular closing). Make sure to walk in a wide arc around the stranded monster fish, just in case they have some fight left in them.
If I get a chance, try to craft that signal jammer I collected the parts for before, use a toolkit charge. Do not yet enable it so paris can have his bants.Quote5. Considered building a wall plug for a military laser. Calculated charge times as somewhere in the "several months" range and decided instead to investigate alternative fuels; an adaptor is a more likely solution.To build this adaptor, what would we need to scavenge? And where could we find these parts? (assume we'd use a toolkit charge to try and build it)Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
@Yagyu: "Note that the signal jammer will only disable micromanagement of enemy units in its radius. Our opponent can still send vague directions to his thralls even without a direct line of communication. Before activating the jammer, would you be willing to attempt to triangulate his position? Though he has shown no indication of lying so far, it is best to be certain we are going the right way. Just because he is a psychopath and a narcissist who thinks he is so much better than us, it doesn't mean he'll keep his word."[11]
Speak to the guy we're supposed to capture some more.
"We are approaching your sector now. Assuming you were truthful in your statement. Will you honor your word and return with us without trouble should we reach you? If not, perhaps you would be open to the discussion of... alternatives?"
Do we have the equipment necessary to track him down based on his transmissions? Just to make sure he is where he says he is. Maybe with a computing cube? Or would we need to find/build specialized tracking equipment?Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
I am a man of my word. Though you interest me as to your alternative; what is it you purpose?We shall assume that Yagyu gives Leslie a pair of earplugs. Mostly because if he doesn't she'll probably stuff organs in her ears or something similar and that might sent a very dangerous precedent about the use of company property for personal reasons.Follow Yagyu to the sectorSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Tara noticed one recruit she’s seen before, and one new one
Hi Leslie, it’s been a while. Hi to the new ones too. My name’s Tara
She turns to the guy who helped her
Thank you for helping heal Ji, I don’t think I got your name. If we find any corpses, I might be able to make blindfolds for you
She then puts on her blindfold for the new sectorSpoiler: I love you Omnitech! (click to show/hide)
Leslies is simply put standing up straight as a board, with a sickeningly saccharine smile, the corporate drone, dear Leslie lets a small flush cross her face, accepting a syringe, just a bit clumsily, gracelessly. Before turning towards the youngling, towards Tara with a nod of the head, hair swaying about, it certainly seemed as if she was happy to see them! Happy to know that one of Omnitechs youngest was still alive and kicking, serving as a true inspiration to them all, of how child labor laws were pointless and unneeded.
Her lips move, barely breaking the somewhat perhaps unnerving almost slasher-Esque cheery smile, to reveal an old voice that hasn't changed a bit, from the bubbly way too cheerful voice she's always had!
"Beloved Omnitech employee Tara! Our youngest little go-getter! It's been a few standard Omnitech cycles indeed! I've been servicing my betters, helping increase company productivity, the like. It's truly wonderful to see today's youth employed at so tender an age.
Would you perhaps like to as all the kids say, hang out at an Omnitech approved location, to improve and create company bonds together, whether through intoxicating beverages or otherwise?
I think it'd be swell~"
Leslie will generally follow along, trying to fill out paperwork, she'll make sure to keep her gun handy and when they enter the room, put her computer away to indeed put on her blindfold, she'll make sure to steal some earplugs off a corpse/hopefully get some from teammate's who are good people if none on corpses and put them in as well, steal some organs off said corpses if easily done.
((And it feels good to be back))
Helene examines her syringe. It is...a syringe. It is a small plastic tube with plunger that is used to inject whatever substance is in here into someone. Likely against their will. She has been told it is a tranquilizer. She reflects on the fact that a bullet to the head is also a tranquilizer, of sorts.Spoiler: Helene Hestia (click to show/hide)
Helene is talking as if she where a complete loon on drugs for all we know she very well might be thought she did pass a drug test maybe she is just unstable, she sounds way too enthusiastic about the concept of hitting things, she is smiling eyes darting around the room looking at her new fellow help, with her hand holding a null rod in her twitching palm.
Helene examines her syringe and the waifu bot Ji and covers her eyes when she enters a new room gun at the ready, she looks for pipes if she finds any, she attempts to rip it out and take it or a similar object as long as she thinks it won't kill her.
"Huh so this is the type of work we do dangerous how exhilarating...wait did they mention how much we get paid for this?
I forgot oh no matter, there be money to make I'm sure things to bash and a good time. I still miss the farm was wonderful, damn I heard of corporate goons but damn corporate fanatics I...feel my time here will be interesting and hopefully profitable."
Welp, it could be worse.Ji passes zipties out to everyone. She doesn't specifically state why...so who knows what everyone is gonna make of this weird hand foot robo-lady handing them packing supplies.
Pass out zip ties to everyone, get my rifle back from Wilfred, and proceed forward with the rest of the team.
EDIT- It was actually Yagyu who borrowed the rifle, I think.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
[1]...Gabe apparently takes the gift of a ziptie as some sort of invitation to dinner as he immediately attempts to eat it. And immediately drops to the ground and starts turning blue as he chokes to death.Onward to the next sector! Also, try to eat the zip tie if I have one.Spoiler: Gabe Toots (click to show/hide)
I didn't realize Ji gave Wil her rifle, but sure, she can have it back. As long as it isn't Wil's.
Before I forget, loot that guy who had his circulatory system punched out. It was just a pistol, toolbox, and some flares. Then drop the corpse and follow along with the group. Continue to shoot anything suspicious, continue to mutter about torturing Derp. Maybe by injecting things into his long bones?
...Mentally debate whether or not the corporate drone that appeared suddenly might be compromised. If so, emergency cranial lead supplements might need to be administered.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
Use maggot demon to check how manifesting a layer of armour over my squishy parts would work.[reduce maggot to d6][7]
Also follow Yagyu.[/b]Spoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
Follow Yagyu to the sectorSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Tara noticed one recruit she’s seen before, and one new one
Hi Leslie, it’s been a while. Hi to the new ones too. My name’s Tara
She turns to the guy who helped her
Thank you for helping heal Ji, I don’t think I got your name. If we find any corpses, I might be able to make blindfolds for you
She then puts on her blindfold for the new sector
Kenneth prepares to repeat the maneuver he used to defeat the Founder as he enters the next sector, Kenneth will call it the Kenneth Underhanded Maneuver.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Sorry about fucking up and putting your limbs back in the wrong place."
Have my gun at the ready and follow the rest of the group into the next section.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Onward! To the next sector or something!Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Spawn in. wherever seems like interesting. Bite something. I don't care what.Spoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)
Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
"There it is again! You keep using the name Derp's thralls use! And threats of violence, and manipulation, too! Keep digging that hole, drone, I'll gut you and Derp just the same!"
Wilfred edges over to Gabe as he shouts, keeping his rifle trained on Leslie's cover. He delivers a sharp kick to Burt's shoulder when he gets close enough. "C'mon man, what's wrong? You okay?"
"...Did you do this, you fucking thrall?! You were attempting to clear out the security team, one by one, weren't you?! Bastard!" He fires a shot over the top of the cover. "Fuck! Gabe, damn it--fine! If you aren't enthralled, toss your gun out of cover, and come fix Gabe! But don't you fucking try anything, you won't find us easy prey when we're watching.
Yell at Leslie to fix Gabe, telling her to drop that silenced peashooter of hers too. If she attacks Wilfred, shoot her, but... well, attacking Gabe might be okay. Medicine looks like that sometimes, and she should get a chance at least.
I am a man of my word. Though you interest me as to your alternative; what is it you purpose?Keep talking: "Our primary objective is to capture you alive and return you to OMNITECH custody. However, failing that, our employer will find your termination and the preservation of this facility an acceptable alternative, as long as your termination is deemed accidental and/or unavoidable."
Make choking noises and gestures for help and regret my life choices.Spoiler: Gabe Toots, fucking choking to death. (click to show/hide)
"There it is again! You keep using the name Derp's thralls use! And threats of violence, and manipulation, too! Keep digging that hole, drone, I'll gut you and Derp just the same!"
Wilfred edges over to Gabe as he shouts, keeping his rifle trained on Leslie's cover. He delivers a sharp kick to Burt's shoulder when he gets close enough. "C'mon man, what's wrong? You okay?"
"...Did you do this, you fucking thrall?! You were attempting to clear out the security team, one by one, weren't you?! Bastard!" He fires a shot over the top of the cover. "Fuck! Gabe, damn it--fine! If you aren't enthralled, toss your gun out of cover, and come fix Gabe! But don't you fucking try anything, you won't find us easy prey when we're watching.
Yell at Leslie to fix Gabe, telling her to drop that silenced peashooter of hers too. If she attacks Wilfred, shoot her, but... well, attacking Gabe might be okay. Medicine looks like that sometimes, and she should get a chance at least.Spoiler: I love you Omnitech! (click to show/hide)
Leslie's face twists and turns, a nose scrunching up, Omnitech© regulation length eyebrows knitting together on her brow. The thump-thump of a heart-pounding in their head. A hand slowly rolling through knotted up hair until finally. It clicks within the dull brain of a drone, of the misunderstanding before her, a smile beaming slowly across.
A hand dusting themselves off, Leslie lets her cheerful voice, that light disturbing thing ring out from around the corner. Only faintly holding a hint of an apologetic tone.
"Faithful Omnitech employee, Mr.Wilfred, I apologize for the mislabelling of the asset to be retrieved. I am indeed not a thrall to the entity that we both collectively shall call Derp. I apologize sincerely for the improper use of terminology. This faithful employee shall endeavor to follow Omnitech security's instructions for the safety of us all."
Miss Omnitech places her weapon on the floor and moves to try to force Gabe to spit out whatever he is choking on.
"There it is again! You keep using the name Derp's thralls use! And threats of violence, and manipulation, too! Keep digging that hole, drone, I'll gut you and Derp just the same!"Leslie, under duress, attempts to save Gabe from his horrible life decisions. Well, from the consequences of one very specific decision at least.
Wilfred edges over to Gabe as he shouts, keeping his rifle trained on Leslie's cover. He delivers a sharp kick to Burt's shoulder when he gets close enough. "C'mon man, what's wrong? You okay?"
"...Did you do this, you fucking thrall?! You were attempting to clear out the security team, one by one, weren't you?! Bastard!" He fires a shot over the top of the cover. "Fuck! Gabe, damn it--fine! If you aren't enthralled, toss your gun out of cover, and come fix Gabe! But don't you fucking try anything, you won't find us easy prey when we're watching.
Yell at Leslie to fix Gabe, telling her to drop that silenced peashooter of hers too. If she attacks Wilfred, shoot her, but... well, attacking Gabe might be okay. Medicine looks like that sometimes, and she should get a chance at least.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
Helene uses the tip of the pipe to turn the alligator's tag so she can read it.Spoiler: Helene Hestia (click to show/hide)
"Seems pretty solid water pipes usually are, this will work wonders so what's with the alligator-wait you're a mechanic how are you a mechanic when you dont have thumbs or hands? Also, can you understand me, nod if yes."
Heleen seems to be both genuinely curious and outraged in equal measure regards to the alligator.
Helene attempts to rips the pipe out of the wall & double-checks the alligator's name tag.
Bob does not like the cold. Bob will 'Fix' that cooler. There's a couple handy corpses nearby to use as tools. The water in here is too shallow for Bob to determine properly if the other Bob can swim or not, so he ignores that question, as well as whatever that other person was saying. Bob is slightly disappointed at the lack of incoming raw chicken, but there are a couple handy corpses nearby (and some ... 'pre-corpses' walking around) to make up for it. Eat some corpse, is what I'm saying here.[8] Bob wanders over to a wall mounted tank of liquid nitrogen and carefully clubs the outlet pipe flat with his tail. He nods about a job well done before lazily chomping down on the head of one of the corpses and vigorously deathrolling until it tears off and he can swallow it whole.Spoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)
Angry spider noises at Yagyu's direction. Don't turn on that jammer. I'm in the middle negotiating here.QuoteI am a man of my word. Though you interest me as to your alternative; what is it you purpose?Keep talking: "Our primary objective is to capture you alive and return you to OMNITECH custody. However, failing that, our employer will find your termination and the preservation of this facility an acceptable alternative, as long as your termination is deemed accidental and/or unavoidable."
"Frankly, you seem like a... well, not good, but OK-ish person. Not really evil, just a bit of a dick that likes to have fun. On the other hand, most of the people in this company are incompetent, terrible or both. You had this ability all this time and all you did was found a sex cult. If someone like OMNI managed to get your abilities, even if they don't destroy the world with their incompetence, they are very likely to use it against me. So as a matter of self-preservation, I would prefer to deny them any further chances of studying you."
"I have two options for your consideration. One is to use a cognition copier to transfer your consciousness to another body and present your 'corpse' to OMNITECH while you join our security team taking the pace of one of our dead teammates. If you don't like our little group you can always disappear later; this research complex is quite large, after all. The second is to use the Phase Gate present in this facility to attempt to transport you somewhere else. Neither is an easy option but perhaps you will consider them better than being recaptured. I could also attempt to stage an 'accidental' release after we retrieve you but I can't guarantee your safety from my more paranoid teammates or the automated defence systems."Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
These are interesting options, but I will deny the first outright. I am me, and no duplicate- however sophisticated- can compare. I am this flesh, and with this flesh I will die.
Escape through one of your questionably stable portals is an invigorating idea, but I wonder what you will do to explain it to your superiors? Turn on the jammer, unless a teammate requests me to wait.Yagyu wanders over to the door to Sector I and welds it shut. This all goes...remarkably easily honestly. About the most dangerous thing around here is a dead fish or two so...compared to last sector this is a breeze.
Help ensure Gabe doesn't choke if nobody else does.
If the Gabe situation is under control, then carefully sneak over to the door to sector I, using scanner along the way to avoid ambushes or traps. Once there, weld the door to sector I shut.
"Will, stop harassing the new meat please. Also, building this jammer here took all of my creative juices it seems, so if you want that adaptor you'll have to figure out the needed parts yourself I'm afraid."Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Why did they train an alligator to be a mechanic?"
Search the lab for any loot and maybe a blindfold or something.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Search the lab for anything useful. While everything might be waterlogged, containers will still be helpful and can be filled with more things when needed. Also take some of the fish corpses that aren’t getting eatenSpoiler (click to show/hide)
if Gabe dies, take his rifle, baton, and armor.
Otherwise continue to roll along the murderballSpoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Kenneth will look for a weapon, maybe an experimental big gun created by some egghead. Kenneth likes big guns.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Go back and do the thing that helps people choke less to Gabe . Grab some corpses to feed bob with, while I’m at it. Also use my thinking skills to find out what happened in the sector, after looting it.[3] Billy Bob discovers a suitable blindfold. He proceeds to take the dead fish to his face.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
These are interesting options, but I will deny the first outright. I am me, and no duplicate- however sophisticated- can compare. I am this flesh, and with this flesh I will die."Hah! If I were someone pedantic I'd waste time explaining to you why you're wrong, but I get what you mean. I disagree, because.... Well, you'll see when we meet face to face. But I get it."
Escape through one of your questionably stable portals is an invigorating idea, but I wonder what you will do to explain it to your superiors?"Well, our team has several ways of making your body disappear. I could claim you circled around us and attempted to escape through the Phase Gate so I was forced to activate the explosives I had set there to prevent your escape, which unfortunately led to your disintegration. Wouldn't take too much effort to wipe the security camera footage. Or maybe I could claim you were an idiot and got yourself eaten by a demon or one of those other monsters running around. Does your thing work on demons?"
Sweet! Thanks, Omnitech. Follow the Omnicorp team, help feed that mollusk to Kenneth.""Murr hurr mphuphurrur, hurr mph phrr."
”Oh, this’ll come in handy. Hey robot guy! I got a... cow prod? Anyway it’ll be helpful for getting Mr. Friendly non-lethally, since we have to do that somehow.”
He looks at Kenneth, and asks.
Now, I’m not a senior occultist or anything, but should you be eating every demon and animal you come across, Kenneth?
Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
”Can’t really understand you. I’ll take that as a no. “Snip!""Murr hurr mphuphurrur, hurr mph phrr."
"Huh. You did save him. I was expecting to get a spare rifle out of this--no offence, Gabe, I still like you better alive."
Wilfred shrugs and lowers his gun, his sudden calmness almost alarming after all the screaming and threatening he'd been doing mere seconds before. He turns around and starts trotting after the rest of the team, shouting back at Leslie.
"Don't lag behind too much, Drone, or the demons will eat you. And put in some text-to-speech earplugs before you get thralled, I will kill you if you let Derp get you! I'll kill him too."
((ATH, you should have a set of tts earplugs by default, Pathos bought the entire team a supply. Make sure to actually list them as hearing protection.))
Catch up with the rest of the team. Continue to shoot appliances that can transmit Derp's control, and any monsters or whatever that are seen.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
"Mhnk nhya mhph."”Can’t really understand you. I’ll take that as a no. “Snip!""Murr hurr mphuphurrur, hurr mph phrr."
"Entrance to sector I secured. Seems like our current sector also doesn't pose much further threat, so let's move on, we still have quite a ways to go here."[1] Yagyu considers. Hmmm. The most effective way would be to set up a sort of power centipede. Stitch the battery to the mouth, and the gun to the anus...yes....
To sector M!
Could I have another attempt at figuring out what we need for that adaptor?
For the jammer: can we have a standing action for it to be activated once paris is done with his bootycall, so I don't have to keep repeating it every turn?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"UUMPH OOF IFF UUU"[1] Kenneth engages in epic face-on-fish combat and immediately finds himself at a disadvantage. The disadvantage being that his attempts to bite at the tough and rubbery flesh of the alien fish are far less effective than the fish's attempts to sandpaper off his face. Kenneth is rather stubborn about all this but around the time the creature has completely removed his nose and lips, he begins to think that maybe he should ask for help.
With those words of wisdom said Kenneth chords down on the invertebrate, eating it before it can eat him.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
QuoteThese are interesting options, but I will deny the first outright. I am me, and no duplicate- however sophisticated- can compare. I am this flesh, and with this flesh I will die."Hah! If I were someone pedantic I'd waste time explaining to you why you're wrong, but I get what you mean. I disagree, because.... Well, you'll see when we meet face to face. But I get it."QuoteEscape through one of your questionably stable portals is an invigorating idea, but I wonder what you will do to explain it to your superiors?"Well, our team has several ways of making your body disappear. I could claim you circled around us and attempted to escape through the Phase Gate so I was forced to activate the explosives I had set there to prevent your escape, which unfortunately led to your disintegration. Wouldn't take too much effort to wipe the security camera footage. Or maybe I could claim you were an idiot and got yourself eaten by a demon or one of those other monsters running around. Does your thing work on demons?"
Continue negotiating.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Ah. I know what you are. Do not worry, I do not discriminate against your kind, but there are differences between you and I. You may be able to be copied in perpetuity but I cannot be so easily replicated. Not meaningfully so at least.
Now then, something more important than those details first: If I were to agree, how would we handle this...prisoner exchange?
[3]"Huh. You did save him. I was expecting to get a spare rifle out of this--no offence, Gabe, I still like you better alive."
Wilfred shrugs and lowers his gun, his sudden calmness almost alarming after all the screaming and threatening he'd been doing mere seconds before. He turns around and starts trotting after the rest of the team, shouting back at Leslie.
"Don't lag behind too much, Drone, or the demons will eat you. And put in some text-to-speech earplugs before you get thralled, I will kill you if you let Derp get you! I'll kill him too."
((ATH, you should have a set of tts earplugs by default, Pathos bought the entire team a supply. Make sure to actually list them as hearing protection.))
Catch up with the rest of the team. Continue to shoot appliances that can transmit Derp's control, and any monsters or whatever that are seen.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armorSpoiler: I love you Omnitech! (click to show/hide)
Leslie allows herself to roll her shoulders, a flush lightning up her cheeks a nice shade of red, a relief rolling through a drones mind, before a small chuckle, light and airy at the calmness, at what was happening, at her successful saving of Omnitech© assets, of a fellow Omnitech© employee. Brown eyes gleam faintly, heartened by success as dear Gabe scampers off and Wilfred tells her of his security plans.
What a nice man.
A saquirine sweet voice sings on out.
"Mr.Wilfred, beloved Omnitech© employee, I shall endeavor to follow your security directives as much as one of the public relations department is expected to! Furthermore, my designation as it seems you forgot is Leslie Omnitech© who is under official legal guardianship of Omnitech, but if it makes a fellow employee happy, I shall adhere to your nickname!
Perhaps after work you would like to engage in some Omnitech approved bonding activity's, I am fully willing to lend myself to the relief of my beloved Omnitech© family!"
Miss Omnitech gives a happy little whistle, grabs her weapon ((Gauss pistol)) up from the floor and follows Wilfred after putting in her earplugs. Also she's trying to remember as many approved Omnitech bonding activity's as possible.
Follow Yagyu, keep an eye out for danger or interesting/valuable things.Spoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
"Huh. You did save him. I was expecting to get a spare rifle out of this--no offence, Gabe, I still like you better alive."
Wilfred shrugs and lowers his gun, his sudden calmness almost alarming after all the screaming and threatening he'd been doing mere seconds before. He turns around and starts trotting after the rest of the team, shouting back at Leslie.
"Don't lag behind too much, Drone, or the demons will eat you. And put in some text-to-speech earplugs before you get thralled, I will kill you if you let Derp get you! I'll kill him too."
((ATH, you should have a set of tts earplugs by default, Pathos bought the entire team a supply. Make sure to actually list them as hearing protection.))
Catch up with the rest of the team. Continue to shoot appliances that can transmit Derp's control, and any monsters or whatever that are seen.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
Spoiler: Helene Hestia (click to show/hide)
"Ok, we got a aligator on our team, delt with you alot, there was a pond on the farm every summer it would be filled with aligators always tried to get me when I walked past hit-spilt there skulls open with my shovel it worked so very well. I kept it nice and sharp I got my eye on you scratch that I got both my eyes on you. If you try anything I cave skull in understand, though..if you are cool we could maybe become friend."
Heleen relatively speaking nonchalantly, but over time their tone begins sounding angry and at the very end when mentioning her VIOLENCE acts she sounds wistful.
Helene follows the group, the murder ball that is, letting their pipe hit the ground as they follow and staring intently at the aligator.
Sweet! Thanks, Omnitech. Follow the Omnicorp team, help feed that mollusk to Kenneth.
”Oh, this’ll come in handy. Hey robot guy! I got a... cow prod? Anyway it’ll be helpful for getting Mr. Friendly non-lethally, since we have to do that somehow.”
He looks at Kenneth, and asks.
Now, I’m not a senior occultist or anything, but should you be eating every demon and animal you come across, Kenneth?Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Follow the group I guess.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"I taped a fish to my face!"
Follow everyone else.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Follow Yagyu and Ji to sector N
Lead the way!Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
"Entrance to sector I secured. Seems like our current sector also doesn't pose much further threat, so let's move on, we still have quite a ways to go here."
To sector M!
Could I have another attempt at figuring out what we need for that adaptor?
For the jammer: can we have a standing action for it to be activated once paris is done with his bootycall, so I don't have to keep repeating it every turn?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Ah. I know what you are. Do not worry, I do not discriminate against your kind, but there are differences between you and I. You may be able to be copied in perpetuity but I cannot be so easily replicated. Not meaningfully so at least."One option is I leave my team and you come meet me wherever it is convenient for you. Preferably somewhere close to the phase gate. Then I lead you to the phase gate so that I can send you on your merry way. However, operating the phase gate on my own would be difficult and time consuming. I can't guarantee I'd be able to do so before the others caught wind of what is going on.
Now then, something more important than those details first: If I were to agree, how would we handle this...prisoner exchange?
Try to remove the mollusk from Kenneth’s face.Assist the mollusk removalSpoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Also assist Ji in water being removal.Mollusk is the animal on Kenneth’s faceSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Fine. Water thing?Also assist Ji in water being removal.Mollusk is the animal on Kenneth’s faceSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
Try to remove the mollusk from Kenneth’s face.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Try to remove the mollusk from Kenneth’s face.Assist the mollusk removalSpoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Also assist Ji in water being removal.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
With a mighty war cry Kenneth uses his guard strength to rip off the mollusk before throwing it to the ground like he just won the superbowl[8]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
If Kenneth happens to fall to the ground, Bob will eat his face, mollusk end first. Otherwise, Bob will waddle up to the nearest fish depository and push at it vigorously until it dispenses tasty treats. If Bob is attacked in the process, he will naturally react quite violently, all around.Bob, uninterested in current events, scuttles over to a partially destroyed aquarium and starts gorging himself on the remaining alien fish within.Spoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)
Helene follows behind Bob and after a few minutes is playfully throwing dead fish to Bob, who eagerly devours them.Spoiler: Helene Hestia (click to show/hide)
"So how we gonna solve this problem well, I wish I had schamatics there might be a manual way to move these. But it would probley take to much time to find if anyone got any bomb, blow it down to us wai-could kill targit scratch, that could cave facilty everyone die no one get paid. Hey could we smoke mr frind out set place on no bad, idea fire kill us to twenty four hour till place open once contact we burn in that time."
Helene tilts her head taps her foot and she seems very focused, a tone of certanty in her voice.
Helene keeping one eye on the aligator tries to look for manual mechanism ready strike if aligator try and attack me.
Could we perhaps lower that sector back down to our level? If yes, where does it seem likely for the controls to do so to be located?Yagyu considers the situation, idly ducking as an alien mollusk goes flying past and into the shaft. [3] Uhhh. He thinks the controls for this thing are likely located in two places; section A and in the moved section M itself.
Alternatively, would it be possible to somehow make a tunnel from one sector to another even if there's no connection between them, or are the walls too thick for that? Or could we perhaps move up to the level of our missing sector?
Either way, try to make an estimate of how far the opposite wall is, and the same for the side walls.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Is this whole facility built like the thing from the movie cube?"[3]
Use my engineer powers to try to find whatever control panel would lower that room.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
((Just use the coolant and water around here to construct a bridge out of ice.[/joking]))Pathos, with his scrambly spider bod, tells the rest that if anyone is gonna try and climb anywhere, it should probably be him. He's easier to attach a rope to and prevent from falling as well, what with the fact that he doesn't weigh as much.
If I can open the door on the other side, do so. If I can lower the lab or order some sort of maintenance elevator, do so.
Else, if there's something I could grab on the other side and I'm in throwing distance, suggest that someone strong could tie some rope on me and use me as an animate grappling hook. Else, suggest they find a rocket and make a rocket propelled grappling hook.
Continue negotiating.QuoteAh. I know what you are. Do not worry, I do not discriminate against your kind, but there are differences between you and I. You may be able to be copied in perpetuity but I cannot be so easily replicated. Not meaningfully so at least."One option is I leave my team and you come meet me wherever it is convenient for you. Preferably somewhere close to the phase gate. Then I lead you to the phase gate so that I can send you on your merry way. However, operating the phase gate on my own would be difficult and time consuming. I can't guarantee I'd be able to do so before the others caught wind of what is going on.
Now then, something more important than those details first: If I were to agree, how would we handle this...prisoner exchange?
The second option is I lie and say that I received a message from command to escort you to the phase gate. My rank would help sell the lie. But I can't guarantee everyone would believe that lie. However, should we make it there, I believe I can get most of the dangerous ones to leave the room if I claim they have to leave the chamber while the gate is on for their safety.
The third is I tell the truth. However they are unlikely to agree out of the goodness of their heart. Some are fanatics. Others are pissed. They got through hell, sometimes literally. They lost colleagues, friends. Others just want to get paid. But there are some who I trust and would be willing to help me... if you would agree to some exchange. With you effectively being in control of this facility you could order your... 'friends' to stand down, thus allowing us to gather some of the valuable equipment here, equipment that would replace their lost payment. On the other hand, those that can't be trusted will be sent on a wild goose chase. I'm thinking telling them that you and a bunch of your clones are running around, trying to escape towards different directions, would work as a good excuse."Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
I know little of the way others behave. I have little opprotunity to obseve it, you understand. The force of my will overpowers others even without my desire, and they cannot act on their own while under my control. Even if I desired it, I can have no equal. I will assume your understanding of them is correct. However, there is a fourth option. Their desires and grudges would mean nothing under my will. All you would need to do is patch my unfiltered voice through to them and they will do as I say. You may keep yourself insulated, of course, and sever the connection if you think I am being...dishonest. With them on our side it would be easy to carry out this plan. I can vanish and they can wake up without any memory of what happened.
It would save you the hassle of coming to find me of course, and potentially the lives of any who would die in that quest.
Wilfred leans his head out into the pit and looks down. "...Do you think this pit is bottomless? That'd be pretty neat."Wilfred fires a bullet up, and then another down the shaft. The first hits the bottom of the section above with a bright spray of sparks, while the second...well if it hits anything its too far away to tell.
After a few seconds he leans back inside and steps away, looking back the way the team came. "I'm not sure which I'd prefer. Throwing Derp into a pit with a bottom would just be an execution where he has a lot of time to think about his incoming unavoidable death. I bet I could replicate that with more pain and more waiting though, so it's not really a great choice. But a bottomless pit, then he'd be falling forever, and never die. He'd be trapped forever, bored, with no way to escape. But no pain, unless he scraped the edge of the wall or something, which I guess would definitely happen eventually. Or until he started to starve... yeah, actually I guess that would kill him eventually? Unless he doesn't need to eat. Or drink. Hmm."
Wilfred leans against a wall, and raises his gun to tap the barrel against his chin contemplatively. "Hey, Pathos! Ask Derp if he needs to eat and drink. Would he starve to death if he were falling down a hole for all eternity?"
((I think it was open knowledge that Pathos obtained an earpiece to talk with Derp. Though I assume all the conversation since has been hidden. If Wilfred doesn't actually know, say so and I'll remove the last bit.))
If the others don't achieve anything notable with giant foreboding shaft of doom, then try shooting bullets both up and down the shaft. Listen for echoing impacts.
Otherwise, guard teammates and shoot enemies. Don't mix those two up unless someone is really annoying.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
Try to manifest a teeth gun/cannon using the tooth demon bits, in such a way that I an use it rolling occult. If possible try and make it so that it doesn't outright replace one of my hands.Spoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
[3] Yagyu estimates the opposite wall is...maybe 1200ft (365 meters) to the opposite wall, 900ish (275 meters) to the side entrances.Thank you for translating these distances into good, sensible units like any god-fearing man should!
but they're designed to be used by someone with a harness and clip on restraints to keep them from falling if they lose their grip. Without those..its a fair deal more dangerous.Start gathering whatever materials we'd need to create such a harness and clip restraints, then try to craft them. Make it spider-sized, unless said spider indicates he'd rather another bloke do it, then make it dude-sized.
Sight:blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit
Hearing:Earplugs
Taste:Isolation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit
I know little of the way others behave. I have little opportunity to observe it, you understand. The force of my will overpowers others even without my desire, and they cannot act on their own while under my control. Even if I desired it, I can have no equal. I will assume your understanding of them is correct. However, there is a fourth option. Their desires and grudges would mean nothing under my will. All you would need to do is patch my unfiltered voice through to them and they will do as I say. You may keep yourself insulated, of course, and sever the connection if you think I am being...dishonest. With them on our side it would be easy to carry out this plan. I can vanish and they can wake up without any memory of what happened."Hmm... That is a good idea. However, you can understand why I would be feeling apprehensive, given your treatment of others under your control. I have found some video footage in the local servers. I can understand you do not care about others very much. However, I am responsible for my team. And though I can't protect them from their stupidity and though I won't risk my life for them, I will do my best to not actively harm them.
It would save you the hassle of coming to find me of course, and potentially the lives of any who would die in that quest.
Use whatever possible to stop Kenneth’s bleeding, if I can’t stop the bleeding, cover the wounds to stop blood from exitingSpoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (sorry for having this in spoiler instead of code) [Select]Sight:blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit
Hearing:Earplugs
Taste:Isolation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit
Kenneth attempts to quell the bleeding by sheer force of will, when that doesn't work he just asks for a medkit or some duct tape and staples.[3] Tara crudely wraps Kenneth's face in bandages. Its not exactly high quality work, but it soaks up blood and seems to stop new blood from coming out...eventually. He does kind of look like he has a big bloody cotton ball for a head now though.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
QuoteI know little of the way others behave. I have little opportunity to observe it, you understand. The force of my will overpowers others even without my desire, and they cannot act on their own while under my control. Even if I desired it, I can have no equal. I will assume your understanding of them is correct. However, there is a fourth option. Their desires and grudges would mean nothing under my will. All you would need to do is patch my unfiltered voice through to them and they will do as I say. You may keep yourself insulated, of course, and sever the connection if you think I am being...dishonest. With them on our side it would be easy to carry out this plan. I can vanish and they can wake up without any memory of what happened."Hmm... That is a good idea. However, you can understand why I would be feeling apprehensive, given your treatment of others under your control. I have found some video footage in the local servers. I can understand you do not care about others very much. However, I am responsible for my team. And though I can't protect them from their stupidity and though I won't risk my life for them, I will do my best to not actively harm them.
It would save you the hassle of coming to find me of course, and potentially the lives of any who would die in that quest.
However, I trust that you are a man of your word. To that end, can I have your word that your orders will not be harmful to them? That you won't ask them to shoot each other or cut their throats?"
Negotiations.
Also assist with spider harness plan.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Of course. Sit around I guess?Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Sit around and look pretty until there’s something to shoot at.Gabe and Ji sit around playing cards, waiting for something to happen.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Quote[3] Yagyu estimates the opposite wall is...maybe 1200ft (365 meters) to the opposite wall, 900ish (275 meters) to the side entrances.Thank you for translating these distances into good, sensible units like any god-fearing man should!Quotebut they're designed to be used by someone with a harness and clip on restraints to keep them from falling if they lose their grip. Without those..its a fair deal more dangerous.Start gathering whatever materials we'd need to create such a harness and clip restraints, then try to craft them. Make it spider-sized, unless said spider indicates he'd rather another bloke do it, then make it dude-sized.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Aid in the making of the harness.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Bob, satisfied with the fish from Helene (for now), wanders over to the opening, lights a high visibility flare, and chucks it into the void, watching it until it is no longer visible. After that , if his mechanical expertise is required, he'll assist, Yagyu in constructing a harness system.Bob hurls a flare into the darkness. He grunts at it as it becomes nothing but a distant speck. It doesn't disappear though, so it must have hit the bottom at some point down there. Bob flops down on his stomach and makes a long, drawn out gator noise.Spoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)
[2] Pathos scuttles out towards the box and immediately slips and falls. The cord prevents him from falling far though. He tries again. [4] This time he makes it out to the box, though not without a few minor slips along the way. [2] The box itself, unfortunately, has a keypad lock on it and his attempts to crack it prove ineffective.QuoteI know little of the way others behave. I have little opportunity to observe it, you understand. The force of my will overpowers others even without my desire, and they cannot act on their own while under my control. Even if I desired it, I can have no equal. I will assume your understanding of them is correct. However, there is a fourth option. Their desires and grudges would mean nothing under my will. All you would need to do is patch my unfiltered voice through to them and they will do as I say. You may keep yourself insulated, of course, and sever the connection if you think I am being...dishonest. With them on our side it would be easy to carry out this plan. I can vanish and they can wake up without any memory of what happened."Hmm... That is a good idea. However, you can understand why I would be feeling apprehensive, given your treatment of others under your control. I have found some video footage in the local servers. I can understand you do not care about others very much. However, I am responsible for my team. And though I can't protect them from their stupidity and though I won't risk my life for them, I will do my best to not actively harm them.
It would save you the hassle of coming to find me of course, and potentially the lives of any who would die in that quest.
However, I trust that you are a man of your word. To that end, can I have your word that your orders will not be harmful to them? That you won't ask them to shoot each other or cut their throats?"
Negotiations.
Also assist with spider harness plan.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Sight:blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit
Hearing:Earplugs
Taste:Isolation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit
Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
Private message to Yagyu, Wilfred and Ji
"Negotiations/banter/conversation present backup solution/strategic opportunity/alternate ending. Target requests I pipe/pass/transfer his unfiltered audio through our communication system in order to subvert our team and allow his escape. In exchange target will come meet us in phase gate room, were he believes I will attempt to transport him out of the facility. Target is unaware that our communication system has been designed to make such cascade failure impossible.
Suggestion: Pass filtered audio to team. Attempt to false flag/trick/bamboozle target into thinking he has control. Have him come to us to reduce losses/damage/wasted time.
Counterpoint: We are unaware of the full extent of his abilities. He may be able to figure out the ruse and become more aggressive.
Counter-counterpoint: By his own admission and by data we have retrieved, target is self-absorbed/narcissistic/solipsistic and lacks empathy/emotional intelligence/people skills. It is unlikely he will be able to anticipate our trickery or even imagine a world that does not evolve in the manner he desires.
Accept(Y/N)?"
Kenneth shoots a thumbs up and proceeds to hum Cotton Eye Joe to distract himself from the agonizing pain in the flayed mess that once was his moneymaker as he waits for something to happen.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Could you please stop trying to whistle? You're just gonna reopen those wounds. You don't even have lips!"Follow Kenneth to make sure he doesn’t hit anything while walking aroundSpoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (Sense Dampeners/Blockers) [Select]Sight:blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit
Hearing:Earplugs
Taste:Isolation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit
Search the area for loot while other people do important things.[4] Despite the dead fish obscuring his vision, BB manages to discover a med kit!Spoiler (click to show/hide)
At Pathos: "How about you patch the audio to me only at first, as a test, and if I stop talking about murdering the rat bastard we can do the whole team? Dunno if you can do that without him catching on though, I'm just an idea guy. Oh, another idea, this could backfire if he finds out we have audio protection, since in that case he doesn't already know."
Join the cardgame with the other security team members. Mumble about murdering Derp slowly by use of card shuriken.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
Stay in overwatch for possible hostiles while the smart cookies figure out our way forwardRichter hunkers down and...watches. Watches really hard.Spoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
If I can try rolling tech again, do so.[3][2][5]
Else or if the above fails, roll mechanics to try to manually bypass the lock to reach the controls.
Else or if the above fails, fall back to the traditional keypad opening method of trying numbers in order until something works. (https://youtu.be/Ujyj6QhRTao)Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
You reel in the helpful spider and pat its...head like thing.QuotePrivate message to Yagyu, Wilfred and Ji
"Negotiations/banter/conversation present backup solution/strategic opportunity/alternate ending. Target requests I pipe/pass/transfer his unfiltered audio through our communication system in order to subvert our team and allow his escape. In exchange target will come meet us in phase gate room, were he believes I will attempt to transport him out of the facility. Target is unaware that our communication system has been designed to make such cascade failure impossible.
Suggestion: Pass filtered audio to team. Attempt to false flag/trick/bamboozle target into thinking he has control. Have him come to us to reduce losses/damage/wasted time.
Counterpoint: We are unaware of the full extent of his abilities. He may be able to figure out the ruse and become more aggressive.
Counter-counterpoint: By his own admission and by data we have retrieved, target is self-absorbed/narcissistic/solipsistic and lacks empathy/emotional intelligence/people skills. It is unlikely he will be able to anticipate our trickery or even imagine a world that does not evolve in the manner he desires.
Accept(Y/N)?"
"I'll be honest, while this plan sounds like it might help flush him out faster, it seems rather too high-risk to me, since if something goes wrong he could still gain control of some of us and wreak havoc. And wouldn't it be very easy for him to test out if he has control over us or not? For example, he could demand you to let one of the 'controlled' people speak over the radio for a moment during which he could send them the mental command to say a simple sequence out loud. Failure to produce this sequence would immediately give the game away.
I suppose, as long as we ensure we don't actually allow any unfiltered audio, it wouldn't hurt to let him think he's in control... But even then he could try to outplay us."
If mechanics is needed to open that box up, give a toolkit charge to mr. spider.
Either way, stay by the rope in overwatch (the other end is tied to something sturdy, right?).Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
You reel in the helpful spider and pat its...head like thing.
*horrifyingadorable spider noises*
Start chuffing at the crew members for snacks. Open mouth, look hungry.Kenneth throws the remains of the mollusk and his face towards Bob, poor guy must have one of these weird pallets Kenneth heard about.Spoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)
Sight:blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit
Hearing:Earplugs
Taste:Isolation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit
Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
"Really... blue, and kinda faded? Like, foggy, but not quite. Yeah, everyone always draws Hell as this super red place with lots of lava and rock and shit, but it was more like being in a raincloud. I think. I've never actually seen a raincloud."What did the alien god look like? Does it have a name? Did it take souls from demons? Do they have souls? Were you the only one there or was the team there too? How did you get there? Do you have an idea what the green thing that you took was? Do you still have it?
"But yeah, if you ever find yourself in a lot of blueness with an alien god stealing everyone's souls, just yell threats at it, and grab the green thing. Alien gods are pussies, a proper show of dominance and they'll back off and go mind their own business."
"Uh..."Hmm...you mentioned earlier that the glowing lights were souls, maybe the green one is a soul of some sort? Have you ever noticed thoughts in your brain that you don’t remember thinking of? Maybe your body is shared with a second soul? Interesting that while Hell portals allow demons to enter here, you didn’t find demons on your visit. I’m curious now if there are certain sites within Hell that demons wait by for the portals? Maybe the alien god doesn’t enter those sites because maybe it can’t survive here? Question, did the alien god try taking your soul from your body? You say it was collecting souls, but then you said they were eating each other, so it sounds more like it was moving souls around the area. When I think collecting, I think putting things in a specific area. Your description sounds more like it was just moving souls around. We’re you and the alien god the only bodies there? Was there an7thing like a ground? Or does the alien god float? Maybe it’s arms hold onto souls so it stays in place? Did any souls try to enter you? What happened when one soul ate another? Did it just grow, or merge traits with what it ate? Like if a rabbit soul ate a bird soul, did the rabbit get bigger? Or did it grow feathers/a beak?
Wilfred leans away from Tara, apparently taken aback. He quickly regains his composure, and stands up, gesturing widely with pride in his voice. "Y'see, it looked like, like uh--you know a conch shell, all weird and spiky and shit?" he holds his hands up in front of his face, wiggling his fingers in an entirely unhelpful attempt at demonstrating what he means "well it was kinda like this, but that was just the head. And then behind that was a little tiny body, like a malformed fetus that hadn't really grown yet, and it was way smaller than the spiky conch head. But it had, like, infinite arms. Arms for days, or no--arms for years! Allll the fucking arms, and they just went on for forever. It was reaching out into the everything--" Wilfred demonstrates, stretching his arms out to the sides while miming plucking at something "--to grab shimmery glowy stuff!"
Wilfred leans close to Tara before continuing. "The glowy things? They were SOULS! All the souls! There were bunnies, deer, birds, probably like some bacteria, and sometimes people too! I don't know if there were actually any aliens or demons or anything, but there definitely was all the stuff you see in those nature vids, and it was just, like, collecting them or something. Leaving 'em lying around where they were all just rotting and eating each other and growing horribly, and it was just terrible. Trust me, you wouldn't want to be in that shit, it was the worst." He finishes with a grandiose cutting gesture, shaking his head. Then he sets both his hands on his hips, and stands proud, heroically.
"But you don't gotta worry about that! I was alone, the rest of the team was too cowardly to do anything, so it was all up to me. I dove off of a scaffolding like twenty stories above the alien god, and I sent all that force into an axe blow, just hit it right in the noggin. Then I reached inside and started punching the shit inside!" He mimes punching something in front of him "That's actually how I got sucked into Hell, where I could see all this! Anyway I started screaming threats at it, told it to stop all this shit, and it was totally scared of me. I already hurt it awfully bad, so it just kinda meekly offered me some glowy lighty things to placate me, and I took the green one while telling it to stop and to get lost before I fucked it up even more. And that was pretty much it, like I said--alien gods are pussies. Got a promotion out of it too, that's why I'm a xeno-ambassador! Punching things in the brain is the best way to win at diplomacy!"
He quiets down as Tara asks him about the green thing, then answers without the grandiosity, instead rubbing at the back of his helmet while looking off to the side. "Weeell, no, I don't really know what the thingy was, but it was probably the best one. I mean, green is always the winning color, yeah? I kinda figured I was ripping out its heart or something, but then I guess it probably wasn't necessary for it to live, since it survived and ran away from me after... didn't ever really think I might still have it, it wasn't in my hands when I woke up... Maybe I got cool ghost powers now and just never noticed? Lemme try!"
Yagyu welds the door shut and then spends the next few minutes dragging debris and forming a make shift wall. He hunkers down behind it and waits to see if the sector above contains a spooky jump scare.QuoteYou reel in the helpful spider and pat its...head like thing.Quote*horrifyingadorable spider noises*
"Who's a good spider? You're a good spider! You are! Good boy!"
Lightly weld shut the door to the sector that is descending, so that at least if there's something nasty on the other side it won't immediately jump us.
Then use whatever remaining time on either creating/finding some decent cover with view on that door.
Once the sector is down, if nothing starts bashing the doors in, then see if the scanner picks up anything (eg. any faint audio coming through). If nothing. open up the door again and check just beyond.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Start chuffing at the crew members for snacks. Open mouth, look hungry.Spoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)
Start chuffing at the crew members for snacks. Open mouth, look hungry.Kenneth throws the remains of the mollusk and his face towards Bob, poor guy must have one of these weird pallets Kenneth heard about.Spoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Kenneth and Tara start piling food into Bob's open maw. Bob waits until all the food they have has been carefully arranged into a pyramid in his mouth and then snaps down on it, swallowing it in one giant gulp. He makes a noise that is best described as "mwah" and yawns, Apparently content.Give the gator the barbecue ribs and one of the dead fishSpoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (Sense Dampeners/Blockers) [Select]Sight:blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit
Hearing:Earplugs
Taste:Isolation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit
Keep playing goldfish until the section is fully lowered.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Continue playing cards until the segment gets close, then ready a gun.
"Ugh, we're already getting back to the terror and panic of more fighting? I was enjoying this break. Fucking Derp, this has been more hellish than the time I actually visited Hell." Wil pauses for a few seconds, then resumes speaking with a mild panic in his voice. "Wait, wait. Fuck. What if Derp keeps his Derp-field up when he's a fucking ghost? Like the one idiot that had been phasing in and out, and maybe doesn't actually exist? Do we have ghost containment? Because holy shit, incorporeal Derp is terrifying! This whole time I've been talking about how to kill him as painfully as possible, but we can't actually kill him! Torture's still fine, but risking his death is just way, way too much!"
Edit: Gesture at a wall and try to use the greenish glowy thing that Wilfred took from the alien god back in the crystal spire mission. Does it do anything? I only now remember that you literally said "the creature releases it into your hands", which kinda implies I kept the whatever-it-was rather than it just being a button.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
Go over and win the card game, or help. whichever is more important.[2,2,12]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"I am sorry. I tried discussing the matter with people I thought I could trust, but they thought I had been compromised and disabled me. They are probably going to find the transmitter I'm using soon. I suppose we shall continue following your original game plan for the time being. Until we meet again."
Conclude negotiations. Activate jammer.
Climb on Kenneth's face and whistle for him.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Unfortunate.Go kick some trashcans over while I wait the next section to come down.[3]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Get ready to shoot anything nasty that comes through the door.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Helene Hestia (click to show/hide)
"ok we are building harness for a spider? a spider they can climb up wall and shite why are we building a harness- i will help I'm a mechanic i do good job...wierd spider need harness bad weak metal spider spiders normaly good keep pest away normily i like spider had pet spider called him Wander shame he dead."
Heleen is swaying her arms as she speaks and sounds exasperated and beams with pride of her profesion .
Helene helps construct the harness remaining vigilant .
Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
"Uh. I guess I have the power to call an eyeball now. Huh."What type of tests? Do you want me to try talking to it? Or thinking to it? Maybe you can think what I say to it?
Go loot the gun off the corpse that shot itself. Check its caliber (damage die) and how much ammo is in the mag. Take an isolation suit too, but don't put it on yet. Can it be worn over or under the riot armor?
"...Hey, anyone wanna volunteer to be a test subject for my pet eye, see what it can do? I'd wait until I can test it on Derp, but I don't want him to gain control over an alien god or whatever."Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
What type of tests? Do you want me to try talking to it? Or thinking to it? Maybe you can think what I say to it?
why is that alarming? From what you told me, you were given a soul, most likely, considering you told me in Hell, souls are glowing lights, and you were given a glowing light while in Hell, so you were likely given a soul, therefore, as the soul has been with you, it was likely hearing your thoughts? What did you think about when gesturing towards the wall? We’re you thinking about it? If so, I think this means it can hear your thoughts. There is my train of thought as to the why I thought those things I said. Do you understand why I thought those now?What type of tests? Do you want me to try talking to it? Or thinking to it? Maybe you can think what I say to it?
"I have no clue, and I find your forethought alarming! Gabe, congrats, you get to be ogled by cosmic horrors neither of us understand!"
Point at Gabe and waggle fingers while trying to summon the alien ghost eye thing, with the intention for it to do something or other with him. I dunno, have it read his mind? Possess him? Turn him into a giant writhing mass of teeth and flesh that desires only to destroy Derp? It doesn't really matter, I don't need a hypothesis to pretend I'm being scientific!
(I don't think anyone have taken orange as speech colour yet.)What type of tests? Do you want me to try talking to it? Or thinking to it? Maybe you can think what I say to it?
"I have no clue, and I find your forethought alarming! Gabe, congrats, you get to be ogled by cosmic horrors neither of us understand!"
why is that alarming? From what you told me, you were given a soul, most likely, considering you told me in Hell, souls are glowing lights, and you were given a glowing light while in Hell, so you were likely given a soul, therefore, as the soul has been with you, it was likely hearing your thoughts? What did you think about when gesturing towards the wall? We’re you thinking about it? If so, I think this means it can hear your thoughts. There is my train of thought as to the why I thought those things I said. Do you understand why I thought those now?
(I don't think anyone have taken orange as speech colour yet.)
"Will I be paid for this?"
"Uh. I guess I have the power to call an eyeball now. Huh.""The real question is, if that eye looks at our target, will he gain control over an alien god/Eldritch entity/unknown monster? That would be amusing to see. Preferably from another solar system."
Splay contentedly and think watermelony thoughts.(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/monster-rancher/images/3/33/Watermelony_MR2-0.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/340?cb=20190326034539)Spoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)
"I found some trash pudding!"BB puts on a sensory deprivation suit and then proceeds to blindly wobble about until he runs into the door and falls over.
Put on one of the suits and wait for some one to open the door.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Kenneth is already pretty much blind and with no nose so adding a deaf and dumb won't hurt, Kenneth puts on one of the suits and grabs another to sell later.Kenneth puts on one of the sensory deprivation suits and then grabs another, throwing it over one shoulder for later...use...Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Sweep and clear the room. Check out the body and the suits. Then stack up on the next door and wait.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Try to do a quick scan of that corpse before people touch it to try and find any boobytraps.(The Jammer is on. (https://youtu.be/rGvblGCD7qM?t=50))
Then scan/take a look at these suits, do they seem tampered with?
Also, can you confirm the jammer is on?
EDIT: and if people put on the suits anyway and get compromised, goop 'em.
"If one of you wants to test these suits one by one, make sure you drop any weapons over by Wil-"QuotePoint at Gabe and waggle fingers while trying to summon the alien ghost eye thing, with the intention for it to do something or other with him. I dunno, have it read his mind? Possess him? Turn him into a giant writhing mass of teeth and flesh that desires only to destroy Derp? It doesn't really matter, I don't need a hypothesis to pretend I'm being scientific!
"... over by me. If our target has compromised the suits, I'd rather you can't shoot us."Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
These suits seem usefulPlace porcelain ceramic knife and foam gun by Yagyu, then try putting on one of the sensory deprivation suits, another layer of protection won’t hurt
Edit: When the second soul manifests, say the following while also thinking it
“Hello. My name is Tara. Wilfred tells me your name is Yog-Solthoth. Please confirm whether this is your name, if not, what is your name? What’s it like being a soul unlinked to a body? Or are you linked to Wilfred? If you share his body, are you able to share thoughts between each other? Can we do that? Do I need to talk out loud or is thinking enough? Since I have a cognition copier, does my soul still go to “Hell” as I and Wilfred currently know it. What do you call it? The place where souls go? What determines what form a soul takes after death of the body? What we’re you, in life? Wilfred mentioned that souls eat each other sometimes, so, do souls still need energy without a body? Sorry for the many questions. I want to learn.”((Question, how many fish is an armful?))Spoiler: Can’t forget info (click to show/hide)
Gabe raises his hand to volunteer with the experiment.
Volunteer to get possessed by a giant ghost eyeballSpoiler: Tootie roll man (click to show/hide)
"Uh. I guess I have the power to call an eyeball now. Huh."The pistol is a OMNITECH “Metalstorm” machine pistol. Odd thing to kill one's self with but whatcha gonna do.
Edit: Point at Gabe and waggle fingers while trying to summon the alien ghost eye thing, with the intention for it to do something or other with him. I dunno, have it read his mind? Possess him? Turn him into a giant writhing mass of teeth and flesh that desires only to destroy Derp? It doesn't really matter, I don't need a hypothesis to pretend I'm being scientific!
Edit2: Also waggle fingers at Tara, because she's super eager to get ogled by Yog-Sothoth for some reason.
"...Hey, anyone wanna volunteer to be a test subject for my pet eye, see what it can do? I'd wait until I can test it on Derp, but I don't want him to gain control over an alien god or whatever."
Edit3: Stand outside until other people have fiddled around with the suits a bit, just in case there's some grenade trap in there or w/e. If nobody explodes: Go loot the gun off the corpse that shot itself, after checking to make sure it's not trapped. Check the gun's caliber (damage die) and how much ammo is in the mag. Take an isolation suit too, but don't put it on yet. Can it be worn over or under the riot armor?Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
Sight:blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit
Hearing:Earplugs
Taste:Isolation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit
Chase watermelon duck chicken thingy into theI know the reference (https://youtu.be/RySHDUU2juM)bushes of lovesector of screaming.Spoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)
A woman of culture and refinement, I see.Chase watermelon duck chicken thingy into theI know the reference (https://youtu.be/RySHDUU2juM)bushes of lovesector of screaming.
Credit goes to he Laugh Thread, where I was introduced to BadLipReading. I’ll have to look through that thread to find the user who gets the credit for linking the videoA woman of culture and refinement, I see.Chase watermelon duck chicken thingy into theI know the reference (https://youtu.be/RySHDUU2juM)bushes of lovesector of screaming.
Figure out how to see out of the suit, then follow the group.[3]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Check if our farm-raised corpse here had anything else on him/her. Be sure to pocket any earpieces or other tools of the friendly oppressor.Aside from a lab coat, some standard clothing, a wallet containing a card for 105 OMNI, and...a picture of a bunsen burner...Yagyu finds nothing on the body.
Then, continue in the direction of the screaming. Use scanner on the way there to try and detect ambushes or traps before they spring. If baddies are spotted, goop 'em!Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Hey, is uh, anyone using this corpse here?"Richter walks over to the corpse and asks
If nobody objects, consume the corpse. Puke out maggot demon to make room for it if need be. If there's more than D6 corpse, puke out some tooth demon as well.
Then put on one of those sensory deprivation suits. I'm assuming the poot gun won't fit inside the suit, so if that's the case try and make it so the poot gun detaches from my shoulder like a regular gun. If that's impossible, just retract it back into myself.
Then fellow Yagyu as he heads towardshorrible deathadventureSpoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
Kenneth cocks his gun and opens the door, prepared to shoot Mr. Mind Break Porn is his stupidfacecrotch if he's waiting behind it.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Put on one of the sensory deprivation suits and head to where the scream was heard fromSpoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (Sense Dampeners/Blockers) [Select]Sight:blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit
Hearing:Earplugs
Taste:Isolation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit
Chase watermelon duck chicken thingy into thebushes of lovesector of screaming.Spoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)
Figure out how to see out of the suit, then follow the group.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Proceed towards the scream, eliminating threats as necessary.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Proceed towards the scream, eliminating threats as necessary.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Check if our farm-raised corpse here had anything else on him/her. Be sure to pocket any earpieces or other tools of the friendly oppressor.
Then, continue in the direction of the screaming. Use scanner on the way there to try and detect ambushes or traps before they spring. If baddies are spotted, goop 'em!Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Hey, is uh, anyone using this corpse here?"
If nobody objects, consume the corpse. Puke out maggot demon to make room for it if need be. If there's more than D6 corpse, puke out some tooth demon as well.
Then put on one of those sensory deprivation suits. I'm assuming the poot gun won't fit inside the suit, so if that's the case try and make it so the poot gun detaches from my shoulder like a regular gun. If that's impossible, just retract it back into myself.
Then fellow Yagyu as he heads towardshorrible deathadventureSpoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
Get a suit and put it on. Move with the group.Spoiler: The train goes toot toot (click to show/hide)
Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
Sight:blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
"Can't we just ignore the obvious trap and and move on towards our objective? No? We have to kill everyone? Okay then."
Carfully search the bodies gun first to shoot them if the spring on me. Try to find cause of death, as well as any valuables. Do they seem to all be actual humans, or could they be clones or otherwise synthetic?Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
"I'm glad we're not here to clean this shit."
Carefully search the area for loot, and try not to disturb any traps.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
'Oooh, teeth! Kenneth has been meaning to get himself some of those, but first, Kenneth needs dat loot.'[4,4][1,2,5v6][4]
Kenneth will loot the corpses of everything. Weapons, armor, loose fillings, organs that are still fresh, anything goes! With all that money Kenneth will finally be able to buy that Auditor Body and join the Board of Shareholders and get the paternal validation he deserves from the CEO!Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I don't recall if anyone managed to get a Sensory Deprivation Suit on Bob or not. How is the screaming and other sensory stimuli affecting Bob? Bob will react accordingly in the following manners:Bob's entire anatomy really isn't set up for those suits, so even if place on him, they won't help him. As such, he is suited only in his scaley birthday suit.
1) if traumatized, bite something nearby and do a death roll until screaming stops.
2) if annoyed, irritated, nauseated, or otherwise discomfitted, but not freaked-the-everloving-fuck-out, Bob will Tinker with the stimui input systems (speakers, video screens, etc.) until their settings are more comfortable (usually, this means "off," but Bob is flexible)
3) if intrigued, interested, aroused, or enticed, Bob will attempt to increase the stimulus, either through smashing the control panel until the settings are "loud," or by locating the entrance to the screamroom, and entering through it.
If Bob is, on the other hand, stimulus deprived, He'll lurk, like a log in the water. Silent, serene, toothy.Spoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)
Retroactively don one of the isolation suits before entering the sector. Set its video feed to the one-image-every-five-seconds view mode that our robots have(Assume riot suit armor, isolation suit provides no armor. )sufferedenjoyed for most of this mission. Can the riot armor be worn under or over the isolation suit? If not, what life level does the suit grant?
Also, considering most of us are using earplugs that convert audio into text and then read it back with voice translation... what are we hearing for these screams? "Screaming. Screaming. Screaming."?
...And you know what, start putting a bullet in the head of each body, starting with the least-injured looking ones. Preferably from some distance, and while not surrounded by corpses.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Functioning (blindfold readied)
Smell: Nose plugs.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway?
Touch: Riot armor
[4]Find a corpse with the stomach exposed, throw the stomach at the metal containment with the screaming, hopefully upon impact it will break, and the hydrochloride acid within will corrode holes through the metalSpoiler (click to show/hide)
I have an idea on how to get throughCode: (Sense Dampeners/Blockers) [Select]Sight:blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Keep moving with group.Spoiler: TOOT TOOT (click to show/hide)
The way to the next sector is easily found, though the door has been sealed in quite a big way. Not just welded shut but a fitted metal plate has been bolted onto it to secure it. There are corpses here, but far fewer...this way was probably sealed AFTER whatever happened here happened."Can't we just ignore the obvious trap and and move on towards our objective? No? We have to kill everyone? Okay then."
"While I'm not usually one to just ignore someone in major distress, this does all sound waaaay to fishy for me, so I agree with spiderbot. I think it is best if we don't disturb any of these corpses and just move on carefully, and weld the sector door shut so that if any of these are alive and under control they can't attack us. Now that the jammer is on, any victim that had one of those earpieces to remain controlled should be coming out of it in about an hour or so anyway."
Carefully try to find the way to the next sector, but don't go alone in case shit hits the fan. If that does happen, goop of course, and try to move into a more defensible position where their numbers advantage is mitigated.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Sight:blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Sight: Five-second framerate from isolation suit. Blindfold readied underneath.
Smell: Nose plugs. And isolation suit.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs. Under an isolation suit.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway? Especially when Wil is wearing an isolation suit?
Touch: Riot armor. And isolation suit.
"Ohhh, no, no no no. I feel sick, fucking isolation suit isn't good enough for this place. Shit. Fuck Derp, fuck this, my brain better not be too fucked up to revive, or I'm gonna find Derp and I'm gonna eat his soul. As a necromancer ghost."
Hang around the people breaking into the next sector. As soon as an entrance is made, shoot through and start advancing inward, adjusting fire to target anything on the other side.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Five-second framerate from isolation suit. Blindfold readied underneath.
Smell: Nose plugs. And isolation suit.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs. Under an isolation suit.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway? Especially when Wil is wearing an isolation suit?
Touch: Riot armor. And isolation suit.
Aid in the opening of the door.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Check the air with my scanner to see what is causing that effect on my teammates.
Then, consider whether it seems likely/check if I see any signs that this door has traps on it on the other side in addition to being barricaded (eg. and explosive set so it blows up when we try to cut through the door).
If yes: we blow it up and keep good distance from the 'splosion.
If not: cut it open carefully with the torch and the help of my teammates.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
[1]I feel nauseous and lightheadedSpoiler (click to show/hide)HwasHead towards the door and try to assist with removing the metal
Edit: Fixing autocorruptCode: (Sense Dampeners/Blockers) [Select]Sight:blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Kenneth gives a few test swings of his new Biorazor before attempting to slice through the door like one of those Space Samurai Templers from those movies Kenneth watched, Sun Conflits or something.The Anti-bio razor clangs off the solid metal of the door despite Kenneth's best swing. Almost as though its a weapon designed for killing organic targets not aSpoiler (click to show/hide)
You didn't confirm last turn, but I've got the isolation suit on, right?(you do)
Follow along with Yagyu. Check the corpses while he checks the door.
Don't loot the corpses unless I'mreasonably sure they're not booby trapped in some waySpoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
[6]Laugh at my inferior biological companionstry to find some emergency oxygen masks or somethingWhile pointing out that being a robot has already saved my ass three times and counting.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Make sick alligator noises. (things like "you know it," *finger guns,* "where's my Monster?" "broooooooo~")
Decline to find a less violent method of opening the bolted door. Bob's a mechanic, not a pacisifist. He's a problem solver, and if thermite can cut through a door, that door is not a problem for Bob to solve.Spoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)
"Oh! Finally! Something begging for a nice big kaboom!"Pathos decides...not to try to cut the door.
Apply thermite cutting charge to barrier! Edit: unless somebody wants to try a non-explody method of entry first, of course.
Also, if anyone lets me know of the nausea problems their inferior fleshy bodies are suffering from, see if I can find a terminal with access to the ventilation system or something and fix that.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Sight:blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitOpen the oxygen tanks to breathe the oxygen, stay out of the way of the people opening the doorOOPS.Wait, so Kenneth is alive and well?
RC pointed out I misread something so, unfortunately, you all live. For now at least.
Bob the biter feels sicker. He begins to bleed from the nose and mouth.
Wilfred becomes so dizzy he can barely move.
Tara begins coughing and having difficulty breathing.
10 Minutes until the door is cut through.
Yeah, RC pointed out that Pathos shouldn't have acted since he said to try non-explosive methods first. So everything happened as stated...except pathos didn't try to cut through the door.OOPS.Wait, so Kenneth is alive and well?
RC pointed out I misread something so, unfortunately, you all live. For now at least.
Bob the biter feels sicker. He begins to bleed from the nose and mouth.
Wilfred becomes so dizzy he can barely move.
Tara begins coughing and having difficulty breathing.
10 Minutes until the door is cut through.
((Hey Piecewise what's Occult good for besides powering weapons and identifying demons? Asking cause I'm thinking of dropping Kenneth for a character who's not a demon wearing a Cultist like a skinsuit while everyone is none the wiser.))Occult is used for basically anything weird. So like...using alien guns, psychic abilities, weird machines, etc. So if you wanna be a weirdo, occult is good.
Apparently people are gonna fuck with those cannistersRichter discards the grenade into a random room and closes the door before wandering off. That room gets very noisy a few seconds later.againfor the first time, so step 1 is getting a safe distance away from those cannisters
Step 2 is getting rid of this live grenade I'm holding. If I still have the pin, put it back in.
If I do not have the pin, find an empty room. Meaning no teammates, enemies or explosive substances in it. Then, use my human bits to just, drop my closed hand in the empty room like a lizard tail and run away from the room. Then use human bits again to reform my hand.Spoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
Sight:blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earbuds, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitHead towards the beeping
Sight: Five-second framerate from isolation suit. Blindfold readied underneath.
Smell: Nose plugs. And isolation suit.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs. Under an isolation suit.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway? Especially when Wil is wearing an isolation suit?
Touch: Riot armor. And isolation suit.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (Sensory Dampeners/Blockers) [Select]Sight:blindfoldHead towards the beeping
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earbuds, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
"Fuck Derp. Bastard. Fuck him. Hurt him. Bastard. Kill the bastard. Painfully. Fuck Derp. Bastard."
Escort Yagyu towards the beeping while continually muttering bad things about everyone's favorite anomalous human. As always, shoot any screens or speakers seen. Also shoot any enemies.
Estimate own physical status. Did the deadly neurotoxins just wear off after leaving the last sector?Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Five-second framerate from isolation suit. Blindfold readied underneath.
Smell: Nose plugs. And isolation suit.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs. Under an isolation suit.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway? Especially when Wil is wearing an isolation suit?
Touch: Riot armor. And isolation suit.
Carefully go investigate the beeping, keep the scanner on hand to try and detect problems before they jump us. Goop things that need gooping as usual.Wilfred isn't feeling exactly great...but he's not getting any worse for the moment. It will be a while before the toxins are out of his system, but he's not gonna die of it, at least not yet.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Hope I can find a rifle or something better than this pistol."[2] As though to prove Yagyu's warning true, Billy bob decides to head down that hall in search of high caliber weaponry. He finds it in the form of a placed autoturret squatting down the hall maybe 40 feet from the corner. There is a moment as the turret examines the situation where Billy Bob has the opportunity to avoid being fired upon. All he has to do is step back behind the corner and things will be fine.
Have my gun at the ready and search around for any guns or explosives I can find.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Quickly cover-bounce to the machine shop. If I can see into the target range and ammo storage on my way, do so, but don't go out of my way to put myself within the line of sight for those two rooms. When I get to the machine shop, peek in the door, rifle at the ready.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Kenneth quickly goes from cover to cover to the machine room alongside Ji. Making sure to wait for her to breach the room first so he doesn't get shot in the head.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Bob awaits medical treatment by wandering off to the machine room and 'fixing' something there. Unlike his more cautious escorts, Bob waddles blithely forward into the shop, stopping only for any apparent snacks, before examining the machinery and whatnot for fixables.Ji, Kenneth, and Bob choose hallway number 2 and head to the machine shop. Ji and Kenneth do so via their best tactical rolls and soldier of fortune poses while Bob lumbers in with complete disregard for his safety and the safety of those around him. Both methods of advance prove functional though as they all make it into the room with little issue. The machine shop is...well its a machine shop. Its a long room, maybe 30 feet long and about 10 deep, with machines against the far wall and work tables interspersed between them. Lathe, plastic extruder, 3d printer, drill press, automated milling machine, etc, are all here along with a large variety of hand tools and various other hardware and materials.Spoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)
Sight:blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suitdoes anyone have an idea of how to shut it off? Yagyu, do you think shooting foam at it will block it from shooting? Or at least stop it from seeing us?
(Well shit I got dead again, I'm hopping this doesn't become a tradition where I die constantly.)Again? (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7g-ydhg10UE&t=5m35s)Spoiler: TRYING AGAIN (click to show/hide)
Sight:blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitShoot foam into the room quickly at random, hoping to shoot the turret, then quickly go back behind the wall[4,6,3][goop tank to d6]Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (Sensory Dampeners/Blockers) [Select]Sight:blindfoldShoot foam into the room quickly at random, hoping to shoot the turret, then quickly go back behind the wall
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitSpoiler: image attempting to convey what I’m trying to do (click to show/hide)
(Well shit I got dead again, I'm hopping this doesn't become a tradition where I die constantly.)Burt squared wanders into the scene, already writing his will.Spoiler: TRYING AGAIN (click to show/hide)
Does the map show this section's control room or some other place that could be used to shut down the turret? Any way to reach it that doesn't go through that turret? If yes, then move that way in the hopes that I'll find some way to turn the turret off there. Else it's probably best to wait for the others to find some way to either bypass it or turn off its power or destroy it or something.[5] Pathos, when he thinks about it, is pretty sure that, judging on Yagyu's warning, this turret is a "placed" Turret. Ie a self contained unit designed to be set up somewhere and function autonomously. Accessing it is gonna be hard without physically accessing the turret itself.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Standing action: DO NOT GO NEAR THE BEEPING OR THAT HALLWAY EVER UNTIL TOLD OTHERWISE.A quick check seems to indicate that the other hall, the one with the machine shop, is not being squatted by an angry metal pitching machine and thus might be a reasonable way forward.
With that out of the way, look around a bit in that gun workshop. Anything usable in there? Perhaps if I were to finish repairing/assembling some of them? Or could some be combined perhaps into a functional item?
Then check if there is a way forward that doesn't require moving through the hallway with the turret. Make sure to wave a stick or whatever around each corner before passing it in case there are more turrets.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Do a thorough search for traps, clues, and off course anything valuable that isn't nailed down.Ji searches the machine room for valuables and gun bits. Almost everything here is bolted down or just plain not exactly easy to resell. I mean, a set of adjustable wrenches is nice and all if you're doing mechanical work but in terms of value to weight they're basically crap. She does however find an OMNITECH Personnel mine sitting on a table.
How hard would it be to use these tools to build a weapon before we move on?Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Kenneth searches for anything not nailed down that is also valuable. But not before slapping the prototype parts together in an attempt to make a cool new gun.[1]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
3D printer, you say? You know what that means! 3D print a live kitten to wear as a hat! Installed weaponry is optional.[2]Spoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)
Sight:blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitRun as far away from where Kenneth is throwing the overloading nuclear power cell, run to wherever the others are headed, if they are also running away from the overloaded nuclear power cell
Gently (emphasis on quickly) take the overloading nuclear power cell from Kenneth. Repair or consume, and waddle away from the group, out of the sector the way we came. Ifsomeone raises the sector clear of the hallway, drop down into the shaft, for maximum splat and a possibly very entertaining ride for everyone in the potato gun sector. If no one provides Bob a comical exit path, just waddle as far away as possible and death roll in a corner somewhere.[9]Spoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)
Sight: Five-second framerate from isolation suit. Blindfold readied underneath.
Smell: Nose plugs. And isolation suit.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs. Under an isolation suit.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway? Especially when Wil is wearing an isolation suit?
Touch: Riot armor. And isolation suit.
Sight:blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitSearch for a door to the next section
Try to repair/reassamble that carbine if I can.Yagyu attempts to cobble the carbine together using mostly chewing gum and determination...it doesn't really work. For better or worse the chewing gum refuses to stick to the metal so he ends up with gunparts and gum instead of a "chewing gun".
Then see how we would go about assembling that prototype you mentioned. Should we just try to build it, and then you decide what (if anything) it does, or should we tell you whatflavor of deathtube we are aiming for?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Well that was a waste of time, time for Kenneth to look for another nuclar power cell then, this time one that's not overloading[3]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Be aliveYes. Gabe is alive. Medically speaking at least. Not sure about socially.Spoiler: Gabe toots (click to show/hide)
Contented Alligator noisesTM. Contemplate powering a 3d printed cat with malfunctioning thermonulear devices. And wearing it as a hat.[3] Bob thinks that a nuclear powered cat would be feasible, if overkill. He also thinks there might be a specific UN law against that very thing after the tokyo incident, but those worry warts never let anyone have any fun.Spoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)
"Someone oughtta go back and collect some of that... bad shitty fuck-air. Bring it along... ugh, bring it along and make Derp breath it. God, fuck this, fuck Derp, he should suffer, not me... I killed a god, I got cool necromancy powers out of it, why the fucking-fuck do I gotta... fucking... bastard..."Wilfred wedges himself in the corner of the machine shop and grumbles half heartedly about his desire to murder their target in a variety of ways. He looks a little green and unwell, but doesn't seem to be dying or anything.
Sit in a corner and groan about life sucking and how everything is Derp's fault and he deserves to die.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Five-second framerate from isolation suit. Blindfold readied underneath.
Smell: Nose plugs. And isolation suit.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs. Under an isolation suit.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway? Especially when Wil is wearing an isolation suit?
Touch: Riot armor. And isolation suit.
"Thank god, I guess I'll live to die in some horrible way later."Burt discovers a mysterious remote control. Its basically nothing more than a black metal box with an antenna and a comically large red button. Its not labeled as to what it does or where it connects to.
Go to the work shop and dig trough a scrap pile and the trash for any loot I can find.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Stick with yagyu while he repairs the thing. Maybe look around for anything interesting to loot/inspect but don't wander out of range from Yagyu.[5]Spoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
"If one of you could find/make/offer some grenades/explosives/rockets I could make it worth your time/effort/while."Pathos searches about for a list of objects that have been "signed out" of the room but finds nothing of the sort. He does find about 2 dozen passive aggressive sticky notes that form a back and forth argument about misplaced tools though.
Check recent logs to see if anything that we should worry about was checked-out/is missing. Might help us be more careful if we know we should be on the lookout for e.g. motion-triggered mines.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (Sensory Dampeners/Blockers) [Select]Sight:blindfoldSearch for a door to the next section
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Check ahead for threatsSpoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
The prototype isn't determined by desire, it simply is. Restore its true form and you will become the king! Or you'll have a new weapon. You know. One of the other.
Yagyu attempts to cobble the carbine together using mostly chewing gum and determination...it doesn't really work. For better or worse the chewing gum refuses to stick to the metal so he ends up with gunparts and gum instead of a "chewing gun".
"If one of you could find/make/offer some grenades/explosives/rockets I could make it worth your time/effort/while."
You rolled 2, just forgot to post it. Because it was like 3am.QuoteThe prototype isn't determined by desire, it simply is. Restore its true form and you will become the king! Or you'll have a new weapon. You know. One of the other.
Well, let's try that then! Use a toolkit charge if it would help.QuoteYagyu attempts to cobble the carbine together using mostly chewing gum and determination...it doesn't really work. For better or worse the chewing gum refuses to stick to the metal so he ends up with gunparts and gum instead of a "chewing gun".
Since it seems to have failed without any rolls involved, is this your way of telling me I have to use a toolkit charge to even be allowed an attempt? If yes, try again, using a toolkit charge. If no, what would I need to find/do then? Do I need some of that glue that Richter found?"If one of you could find/make/offer some grenades/explosives/rockets I could make it worth your time/effort/while."
"I have some mining explosives. Can I ask what you would need it for before I hand it over though?"Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Sight:blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitTara heads back to where the rest of the team is"I can provide you with: 100 OMNI. OR: some other service. For example: Do you wish to have something or someone exploded? Do you want me to show you how to change your desktop background? Do you want me to download pirate movies for you? Do you want me to fold into a gun so you can shoot me? Do you want me to print the pictures you drew in the computer and needle them to the wall? Do you want me to sneak up to that autoturret and shut it down so you can loot it?"
"Hey Yagyu," Richter says while squinting at the tiny text on the glue bottle "You have any immediate use for this OMNI universal glue I found?"
Sight:blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitTara heads back to the lasers andYou rolled 2, just forgot to post it. Because it was like 3am.
I threw my back out today. Writing you from a bathroom floor.
Lots of love, piecewise.
+1You rolled 2, just forgot to post it. Because it was like 3am.
I threw my back out today. Writing you from a bathroom floor.
Lots of love, piecewise.
((I'm sorry to hear it, hope you get better soon! And thank you for still updating things even while crippled and during travels.))
[QuoteThe prototype isn't determined by desire, it simply is. Restore its true form and you will become the king! Or you'll have a new weapon. You know. One of the other.
Well, let's try that then! Use a toolkit charge if it would help.QuoteYagyu attempts to cobble the carbine together using mostly chewing gum and determination...it doesn't really work. For better or worse the chewing gum refuses to stick to the metal so he ends up with gunparts and gum instead of a "chewing gun".Since it seems to have failed without any rolls involved, is this your way of telling me I have to use a toolkit charge to even be allowed an attempt? If yes, try again, using a toolkit charge. If no, what would I need to find/do then? Do I need some of that glue that Richter found?
Am I allowed another attempt? If yes, use a toolkit charge on it. If not, is there a way to earn a retry (eg. by finding some more parts somewhere else)?"If one of you could find/make/offer some grenades/explosives/rockets I could make it worth your time/effort/while."
"I have some mining explosives. Can I ask what you would need it for before I hand it over though?"Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Yagyu walks up to Pathos, puts one hand on a spidershoulder, leans in closer, and replies:Yagyu hands the pyromaniac robot spider a single mining explosive. For a moment the phrase "If you give a mouse a cookie" echoes in his mind. He's not sure why.
"Then go explode things, spiderfriend. By Jove, explode them good."
Pathos can have one (1) mining explosive. 1! Not 2! Not 3! Not 0! But 1.
"Oh! And remember how you said you'd make it worth my while? I anxiously yet dreadfully await to find out what that means!"
Well that's one thing down on Kenneth's list, it's time for Kenneth to look for more shinies.[2]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Go back and 3d print something to cheer Wilfred up. I know! A comically oversized black tophat! Power it with conventional energy systems instead of nuclear ones for now.[2]Spoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)
Ignore everything around me and push the button.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (Sensory Dampeners/Blockers) [Select]Sight:blindfoldTara heads back to the lasers and
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Throws some dead fish at them to see if anything’s done to the fish
Hmmm, could a chihuahua sized creature fit between the beams? Also, can I tell just by looking whether or not these might just be the “cut your ass into pieces” lasers?[1v6]Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Find a way to sneak up to the gooped deployable autoturret (maybe through the vents) and then either turn it off or make it consider us friendly, preferably the second one. Then hand it over to Yagyu in exchange for his beautiful boombooms.The turret is, as it turns out, completely encased in foam, so working on it is currently a bit difficult for Pathos. Carrying it is also difficult as he is a tiny robot spider and not a big strong human with their big veiny throbbing...arms. Also its pretty firmly stuck to the floor like discarded ballistic chewing gum. Hmph.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
"Damn thing didn't do shit, must be broken."[insert joker hospital gif here]
Go find the rest of the group, and push the button again.
Sight:blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitWalk where the lasers used to be, try to find a door to the next sector or a new room
Sight: Five-second framerate from isolation suit. Blindfold readied underneath.
Smell: Nose plugs. And isolation suit.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs. Under an isolation suit.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway? Especially when Wil is wearing an isolation suit?
Touch: Riot armor. And isolation suit.
STUPID EMPTY ROOM! Kenneth unloads his primal rage towards the printer alongside Bob. That will teach it to not give Kenneth money for nothing, stupid non-sentient object.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
It won't give me a hat[6,7]
It won't give me a cat
it won't give me a cat
that is a hat
this machine now go splat
Engage in fisticuffs with the useless 3d printer.Spoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)
"Do any of you hear a beeping all of a sudden?"Yagyu, disappointed with a lack of ammo for his new gun, collects corpse stuff and prototype parts before joining the team in exploring the mysterious beeping.
Was there any ammo for the carbine as well, by any chance? Either way, take the various parts of the prototype thingie, perhaps we can try again later.
Go collect the inventory of the guy who got shot up by the turret before, no reason to let it go to waste I suppose.
Does everyone hear that beeping? If yes, carefully go and investigate.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Go stumble towards this sector's control room, while muttering about violence against Derp. Try not to step in front of any turrets or lasers.[4]Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Five-second framerate from isolation suit. Blindfold readied underneath.
Smell: Nose plugs. And isolation suit.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs. Under an isolation suit.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway? Especially when Wil is wearing an isolation suit?
Touch: Riot armor. And isolation suit.
Stick around Yagyu. Unless he goes to investigate, than follow but from a safe distance
Try to use my human bits to make a separate hand that I can control, like Thing from the Addams family. If succesful, try it out and see how easy or hard it is to control from a distance.Spoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
Get back to the team ASAP and tell them about the lasers and the fish. If there's time before imminent horrors emerge, do a cursory search of the room with the turret in it.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Damn thing didn't do shit, must be broken."
Go find the rest of the group, and push the button again.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
"Damn thing didn't do shit, must be broken."[insert joker hospital gif here]
Go find the rest of the group, and push the button again.
Go fix the beeping. Unless the beeping is caused by another autoturret. In that case let someone else fix the beeping.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (Sensory Dampeners/Blockers) [Select]Sight:blindfoldWalk where the lasers used to be, try to find a door to the next sector or a new room
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Sight:blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit”Tara. OMNITECH employee.”Provide further identification as needed
Sight: Five-second framerate from isolation suit. Blindfold readied underneath.
Smell: Nose plugs. And isolation suit.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs. Under an isolation suit.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway? Especially when Wil is wearing an isolation suit?
Touch: Riot armor. And isolation suit.
The door into the control room is locked? Well unlock it then. Hacking powers to the max![10]Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Five-second framerate from isolation suit. Blindfold readied underneath.
Smell: Nose plugs. And isolation suit.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs. Under an isolation suit.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway? Especially when Wil is wearing an isolation suit?
Touch: Riot armor. And isolation suit.
((Oh cool. A T-1 (https://terminator.fandom.com/wiki/T-1)))[4]
Attempt to provide identification.
Should things go south, use spider speed to jump onto the robot's head so that it won't be able to shoot me. Then either plug into it and hack into it to gain control over it/disable it or, if it's not possible to hack it, use mechanics skill to cut whatever looks important to blind/disable it.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
[4] Tara tells the robot her ID number, struggling a bit to remember all 256 digits but manages. The robot accepts the response with an "Acknowledged".Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (Sensory Dampeners/Blockers) [Select]Sight:blindfold”Tara. OMNITECH employee.”Provide further identification as needed
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Kenneth tries to find his ID so the big robot man doesn't turn Kenneth into swiss cheese. Kenneth hates swiss cheese.[4] Kenneth, despite having no face anymore, digs out his laminated ID card and flicks it at the robot. The card bounces off the robot's exoskeleton with a dull clink and then flutters to the ground. After a few seconds the robot, surprisingly responds with "Acknowledged" instead of high speed lead.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Waddle along to where teh noise is. Gurgle a greeting to the Securibot, then waddle along beyond, to the next sector.[3]Spoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)
"Oh fuck, there's a killer robot."[3][3]
Show my ID, also PUSH THE BUTTON SOME MORE.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Do we each need to identify ourselves individually?[5]
If yes: identify myself as Yagyu d'Aubigny, Hazardous Materials Reclamation Crew and repairman.
If no: let others do the talking for now, try to shimmy over to some cover while they do so (if possible to do subtly).
Should things go fubar, focus on getting into cover.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Stick with Yagyu. Identify myself if asked, otherwise stay silent. Just try not to stick out, I guess. Be ready to scram to cover if things come to shooting.[4]Spoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
Get out of the way until negotiations conclude."IDENTIFICATION" the robot says, training its other minigun at Ji's head. This time the demand isn't as polite.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Sight:blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitI need a med kitGo ahead and show my ID now.[4] Ji digs a laminated card out of her bag and shows it to the robot. The robot makes an initial objection that it does not resemble the current holder, but then after doing a records check decides it is acceptable.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Walk behind the big robot friend. Then jump onto it and find a place where I can plug in so I can[2]have surprise robot buttsextake control of it and use it to carry me around.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
"Oh shit I've been shot, and this stupid button does nothing!"[1][6]
Throw anything I have that might be considered ID at the robot, and keep pushing the button hopping it does something.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
[5]Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (Sensory Dampeners/Blockers) [Select]Sight:blindfoldI need a med kit
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Attempt to fix Burt’s lung and stop his bleeding
Well sucks to be Bob Bob. Kenneth tries to apply the Heimlich maneuver on Burt Bob Burt Bob to save his life, that's what you usually do when someone gets shot in the lung right?Kenneth attempts to roll in and provide some much needed medical malpractice, but Tara shoos him a way with a flurry of slaps and shouts of "GIT! GIT!"Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Does it seem at all likely that administering first aid to the bloke who hasn't identified himself yet would be cause for offense to the robot?
If not, use some goop to stem the worst f the bleeding for Burt. Be sure to stand out of the line of fire at all times in case the brobot remains angry.
Either way, after that move on and search for the exit of this sector to the next one.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Bob waddles forward, until he meets a person or object of interest, at which point he will stop and gurgle at the object or person of interest.Down the hall, near where the sector exit should be, Yagyu and Bob find a large storage room with the door open and the lights on. Within it are about a dozen more of those minigun robots, along with a half dozen military-grade cyborg bodies hanging on wall mounts. None appear to be active at the moment, luckily.Spoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)
Sight: Five-second framerate from isolation suit. Blindfold readied underneath.
Smell: Nose plugs. And isolation suit.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs. Under an isolation suit.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway? Especially when Wil is wearing an isolation suit?
Touch: Riot armor. And isolation suit.
Down the hall, near where the sector exit should be, Yagyu and Bob find a large storage room with the door open and the lights on. Within it are about a dozen more of those minigun robots, along with a half dozen military-grade cyborg bodies hanging on wall mounts. None appear to be active at the moment, luckily.
"Thank you for saving me, and who is Mrs. Hurmblebuck?"[/quote]”You’re welcome. I’m guessing Mrs. Humblebuck is the person whose numbers you mentioned.”
Follow the group and if I see anything that could contain loot go loot them.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitWalk past the robots
Use the control room to search for the nearest medical facility that might have supplies for treating the whole sick-because-of-neurotoxins thing.[1][9]
And you know what, while here, try hacking that highly lethal robot that almost everyone successfully bypassed without injury. Set it to "obey Wil, kill anyone he says should be killed, and go where he says it should go" mode. I'm certain nothing bad will happen from this attempt.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Five-second framerate from isolation suit. Blindfold readied underneath.
Smell: Nose plugs. And isolation suit.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs. Under an isolation suit.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway? Especially when Wil is wearing an isolation suit?
Touch: Riot armor. And isolation suit.
if it is a storage room, there must be boxes. Locate a box and crawl inside to nap. Also, locate a liquid dispenser in case my skin is getting all dry and scaly.[2]Spoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)
"Hey, Ji! Want to replace those hideous organic parts with superior mechanical ones?"[1] The tanky robots all have their control panels tightly shut and there are no triangular bolt wrenches here to use to open them. Further more, there's no control room. Further more, they seem completely unprogrammed. He's not sure how he knows that...but he does. The universe looks down upon his spider desires and whispers "Fug off".
Is there any sort of control room for these robots? Or maybe the tools that would open their ports so I can plug in? If yes, plug in, make sure they're safe to operate then activate one of them under my control. If they don't have the necessary software to shoot and be useful as semi-autonomus units, then see if I can activate one in remote control mode and ride around on it. Spider wants a mount!Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Could some of these robots be salvaged and used to upgrade my body?It is Ji's belief that placing herself in one of these bodies would be a direct upgrade and may be easier than trying to awkwardly graft bits onto herself in a hap hazard fashion.
In any case, run back to the room with the turret (Target Range and Ammunition Storage), and search that room, since I don't think anyone ever actually did that.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Yagyu considers the safety of breaking that turret free and reprogramming it. He considers that it would be much safer than it used to be...but still not 100% without issue. The turret MIGHT be able to swing 360 degrees around. He might scrape off too much goo and weaken the hold enough that it can break free. It might have self destruct anti-tampering systems. The world may never know unless he tries it.QuoteDown the hall, near where the sector exit should be, Yagyu and Bob find a large storage room with the door open and the lights on. Within it are about a dozen more of those minigun robots, along with a half dozen military-grade cyborg bodies hanging on wall mounts. None appear to be active at the moment, luckily.
Keep looking for the actual exit. If it is on the other side of the storage room we found, then don't go in yet, instead look for the control room for these things so we can be sure they are deactivated.
Also, for that turret we gooped earlier, does it seem like I could safely scrape of the goop from the bottom so that we can detach it from the floor if needed and reprogram it?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Thank you for saving me, and who is Mrs. Hurmblebuck?"[/quote]
Follow the group and if I see anything that could contain loot go loot them.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Kenneth starts to hum the Free Robotic Systems National Anthem (https://youtu.be/JDqHoxVHW_s) while he helps Yagyu look for the actual exit. Kenneth will need to practice his singing skills if he wants the robots to keep him alive for intertreinment porpuses.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
”You’re welcome. I’m guessing Mrs. Humblebuck is the person whose numbers you mentioned.”"Thank you for saving me, and who is Mrs. Hurmblebuck?"
Follow the group and if I see anything that could contain loot go loot them.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitWalk past the robotsSight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitShoot foam at the robots’ guns, hopefully jamming them
Sight: Five-second framerate from isolation suit. Blindfold readied underneath.
Smell: Nose plugs. And isolation suit.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs. Under an isolation suit.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway? Especially when Wil is wearing an isolation suit?
Touch: Riot armor. And isolation suit.
See if anybody wants to help me hack myself into one of the robots (I don’t know if you meant the gunbots, or the androids, but whichever seems more feasible for me.)
Edit- let everyone know about the ammo roomSpoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Help transfer Ji to one of those fancy bodies. If the mind transfer is successful, also transfer those huge shock absorbers from her old body to the new one, as long as it won't throw her balance off too much.[6]Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Try to remotely hack open the ammunition storage room, unless whats-his-face has already managed to get in. Better to hack it open than waste a toolkit charge. If told about the cyborgs guarding the exit, try to hack them offline too; we wouldn't want to needlessly destroy company property, would we?[8]
Complain over the team comms about how terrible Derp is for poisoning Wil, and also how terrible everyone else on the team is for not trying to help with the neurotoxins that are increasingly fucking with Wil's mind. Openly debate over whether the fantasies about figuring out who the team's assigned medic is, and then siccing the entire sector's security systems on them, are caused by the deadly neurotoxins making Wil unusually violent, or just a justified and completely reasonable act of revenge. Ask for input from the other team members, and also suggestions on who the actual medic is.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Five-second framerate from isolation suit. Blindfold readied underneath.
Smell: Nose plugs. And isolation suit.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs. Under an isolation suit.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway? Especially when Wil is wearing an isolation suit?
Touch: Riot armor. And isolation suit.
If Ji lets Yagyu know about the ammo storage room, then head over there and first check the locked door for things like additional defenses or tampering countermeasures. Also try to peek inside to look for other possible defenses inside like more turrets and such.
If none are found, slice open that door! Use a toolkit charge if possible/relevant.
If not informed, then instead look for the control room so that we can disable those guards (don't do it yet, just check to see if it can be done). Also see if there are controls for disabling the bots and robot bodies in that storage room.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Stick with Yagyu as he goes to check out the ammo storage and/or control room. Keep an eye for any danger.[5]
Also keep an eye out for shiny loot. But don't touch anything if it looks dangerous. No picking up live grenades this time around.Spoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
Kenneth will use hand signals to convey his plan to the gang. It goes like this: Kenneth throws the oxygen tank at the robots, Kenneth and the others shoot it, Kenneth gets a promotion for being smart, Kenneth wins forever, Kenneth is the new CEO.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Aid in Kenneth's plan, try not to die during it.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
[5][4][7v8]Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (senses and blocking of them) [Select]Sight: BlindfoldShoot foam at the robots’ guns, hopefully jamming them
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Run away and into the ammo room.
Sight: Five-second framerate from isolation suit. Blindfold readied underneath.
Smell: Nose plugs. And isolation suit.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs. Under an isolation suit.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway? Especially when Wil is wearing an isolation suit?
Touch: Riot armor. And isolation suit.
Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitSomeone please strap that experimental bolt action steel brick to Bob's back. Please. I'm begging you. also, load me up with the ammo. I wanna be able to move at a decent waddle, but not to run. Like, seriously, a lot of ammo please. Also, Bob will assist in removing the brick gun from it's current mount and installing it onto Bob's self.Try helping put this onto BobSpoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)
((WELL THAT WAS A BUST. Here's a new person who's definitely not a demon.))Larry wanders onto the scene, over near where some other idiot just got his head blown off.Spoiler: I am human, I not faceless abomination. I'm have real feelings too (click to show/hide)
Someone please strap that experimental bolt action steel brick to Bob's back. Please. I'm begging you. also, load me up with the ammo. I wanna be able to move at a decent waddle, but not to run. Like, seriously, a lot of ammo please. Also, Bob will assist in removing the brick gun from it's current mount and installing it onto Bob's self.
EDIT; R.I.P. Kenneth. You were badass to the core, apparently. Thanks for the overloading nuclear device!Spoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)
Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (senses and blocking of them) [Select]Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitSomeone please strap that experimental bolt action steel brick to Bob's back. Please. I'm begging you. also, load me up with the ammo. I wanna be able to move at a decent waddle, but not to run. Like, seriously, a lot of ammo please. Also, Bob will assist in removing the brick gun from it's current mount and installing it onto Bob's self.Try helping put this onto BobSpoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)
Send a message to our teammates that they can come and get ammo here. Also thank Wil for his help hacking the door![9,10][2][3]
Take that claymore if it seems like it could be moved without setting it off. If I'm unsure just leave it alone.
Remove that experimental gun and attach it to the alligator as he requests. Be sure to get him a nice variety of experimental ammo as well!
Oh, and is any of this ammo suitable for that experimental gun I found the parts for earlier? If yes take some.
If I can get to the control room where Wil is without running into or near the angry brobots, go there and help him to try and disable the angry security bots.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
[10]Run away and into the ammo room.
((I just feel like commenting that, when fleeing from trigger happy cyborgs armed with heavy automatic weapons, perhaps it would be wiser to not deliberately run into a dead end filled with experimental and likely unstable ordnance.))
Try shutting down the cyborgs again, maybe "Robots_on: 1" is a bool and just needs to be set to 0. Or maybe just sending them a rm -rf * command will work. Try adding a sudo, too.
If the cyborgs are successfully disabled, go find the subverted secubot from earlier, hop on its back, and order it to carry Wilfred to the ammo room. This noble steed will carry him to bullets, and glory! And bullets.
Oh, and continue whining about Derp the entire time.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Five-second framerate from isolation suit. Blindfold readied underneath.
Smell: Nose plugs. And isolation suit.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs. Under an isolation suit.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway? Especially when Wil is wearing an isolation suit?
Touch: Riot armor. And isolation suit.
"Oh fuck someone died and it wasn't me, this is the best thing that could happen to me."Burt runs to the ammo room and hides behind a crate.
Run away and into the ammo room.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Go try and negotiate with my mechanical brethren. If they don’t stand down after seeing that I am one of them, open fire with my rifle. If they do stand down, try to get them to let my teammates pass. If they won’t do that, use their trust of me to stab them in the back.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
"It's alive! It's alive! ... For a certain definition of 'alive' anyway."The Endoskeleton androids suddenly comes barreling around the corner, their weapons now strapped to their backs, and scoop up Pathos like a housecat. They then get Ji under the arms and drag both of them to the sector exit, dropping them off before jogging off in search of more people to escort.
Offer my can of glow spray paint to anyone suicidal enough to lay an ambush to the Giant robot and use the spray paint to blind it. Be sure to stay away from it though, I don't want to get shot.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitGo with the robotic endoskeletons to the sector exit. Give Bob some of the dead fish.
"Y-YeS, nOW WE hAAve aN ARmY! -I mean, hows the whether my fellow chaps? Pretty bloody good eh?"
Larry searches the dead man and the room for valuables like weapons, armor, his soul, or even better. One of those things people keep telling he needs called empathy.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Waddle along with the enthusiastic endoskeletons to the sector exit. Contemplate some kind of exoskeletal reinforcement to make carrying the gun lighter. Then, immediately forget that idea and wonder where the dead fish are. Bob demands snacks![1]Spoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)
Well, I guess it’s progress. Look around and get an idea of my surroundings.Ji is next to the level exit. To the west she sees the level exit. To the north and south are metal walls. To the east is a hallway back into the sector. There is a robot there. It is shoving her towards the exit. Someone has written "This robot is trained to shove your face" on it's chest.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
Give a spider-wave at the helpful robot servants.
Tala places a dead fish next to Bob. Bob eats it contemplatively.Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (senses and blocking of them) [Select]Sight: BlindfoldGo with the robotic endoskeletons to the sector exit. Give Bob some of the dead fish.
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Search the ammo room for any ammo that matches my gun and any that could be used for explosives.[1]Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
I, for one, welcome the assistance of our robot overlords to get out of this sector.
By which I mean: Follow Yagyu's lead in complying with the brobots and be escorted to the exit.Spoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
Just cooperate with the brobots and be escorted to the exit nice and easy. After getting there, take a closer look at these experimental rounds to see what could be special about them (don’t open them up or anything, just inspect them) while we wait for the rest of the team to be delivered.The experimental rounds Yagyu found have a list of warnings on them that include Laceration, Penetration, Radiation, Infection and "Sapient atomic reaction".
Then once we are ready to go, move on to the next sector!Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitUse my scanner to look for any hostiles, move forward with the nudging
Sight: Five-second framerate from isolation suit. Blindfold readied underneath.
Smell: Nose plugs. And isolation suit.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs. Under an isolation suit.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway? Especially when Wil is wearing an isolation suit?
Touch: Riot armor. And isolation suit.
Using crocodemon, human or teeth elemental bits (whichever feel most appropriate), try you make myself capable of echolocation either through an extra appendage or by modifying my existing bodyparts.[6,2][Human down to d8]
If the echolocation doesn't work, try to modify myself an extra eye that can see in thermal vision and check if that works.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Oh god damn it my hacked guardbot is still back there! See if it can be reached with a text message or voice call or something, so it can be told to come here. Failing that, see if it's possible to tap into the previous sector's intercom system. Failing that, beg Pathos to go fetch it for me.[9]
And continue to bitch about Derp, and being horribly nauseated.
"Oh god damn it, this day just keep getting worse! Just when I thought I'd found a new toy, and bullets, that maybe all this shit had been worth something, no! No, life just has to sweep that out! Fucking Derp, this is the worst mission, this is the worst day! Is it even day still? Feels like I've been trapped in this hellhole for months! Ugh! Hey, Pathos, spiderbuddy, think you could do a favor for me? I hacked that guardbot from before to follow my commands, but didn't actually go grab it. I'm gonna try and get it to come here, but if I can't figure out a way, think you could fetch it for me? I'll let you ride on my shoulders while I ride on it."Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Five-second framerate from isolation suit. Blindfold readied underneath.
Smell: Nose plugs. And isolation suit.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs. Under an isolation suit.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway? Especially when Wil is wearing an isolation suit?
Touch: Riot armor. And isolation suit.
Larry checks the darkness for any hoodoo voodoo shenanigans. If he does find any he'll attempt to use his human talent springing from natural human training (not forbidden knowledge gained via eating the brains of the Nine Hell Sages) to dispel the darkness.[4]Spoiler: Human Name That Sounds Human (click to show/hide)
Follow along and shoot things if things need shooting.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
Tala is nice. Tala is a continuous source of snacks. Nudge Tala into the darkness, in the direction of prospective snacks.Spoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)
"This is not your average, everyday darkness. This is... ADVANCED darkness."
Follow along with everyone else, and be ready to kill things that need killing.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (senses and blocking of them) [Select]Sight: BlindfoldUse my scanner to look for any hostiles, move forward with the nudging
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
"All right, so if these walls refuse to reflect light, we can just put stuff on them that does reflect just fine. Luckily, our unfortunate comrade Anya had some glowspray paint with her."Yagyu checks all the rounds for his experimental prototype gun. They all appear identical.
Do all of the rounds have all of the warnings on them? Aka does it seem that whatever they do, they all do the same thing(s)?
Use the environmental scanner, search for a wavelength or vision mode where the walls do reflect, and then have it displayed on the screen to make it easier to walk around. Or perhaps some sort of echolocation could be done using the scanner? If this idea requires some software wizardry to get it going, be sure to ask help from a teammate.
Also, how much paint is left in that glowspray paint canister? If it seems like it's a lot, then while walking spray a line on the floor or wall to make it easy for teammates to navigate (since the spray on the wall should reflect just fine, and glows on its own to boot). If it's just a bit, then just make markings here and there (eg. on corners and junctions) to still help with navigating.
Should this strategy work, carefully start looking for either the control room for this sector or the door to the next sector. Try to draw a simple map while we are looking around to help with navigating (and with finding our way back later on).Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitGo towards where the triangle thing was and continue looking for it with the scannerAh, one of those invisible and slightly more handsome variant of humans, like that decapited girl who watches people sleep back in the site. They're called khosts or something? Either way, Larry will do the normal thing and use dark magic to find the kid and make that phost go from that hallway to the shadow realm.Spoiler: Human Name That Sounds Human (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Redshirt (click to show/hide)
H O L Y R N G S U S T H O S E T R A N Q S H I T L I K E A M A C T R U C K
He woke up in the coolers for fresh, still-intact corpses.
Why was he here?
How long was he here?
Why did he still have all his equipment attached to him?
None of that mattered, as the world's most D U M M Y T H I C C tranquilizers wore out of his system, and he was awake again.
Kick. Scream. Yell.
"REDSHIRT AIN'T DEAD YET, THANKS FOR KEEPING ME IN ONE PIECE FOR WHEN I RESPAWNED, I DIDN'T RESPAWN, SOMEONE LET ME OUT PLEASE!
Try flicking through my cyber bodies alternate vision modes to see if there’s one where I could see in here.Ji checks for alternative vision modes. Infrared thermal vision works to a degree. Not perfect, but functional. Shows the vague location of the walls at least.
If something non-friendly appears, fill it with lead.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
Accept dead fish from Yagyu. sigh ... do not fire experimental gun into the murderball this round.Bob eats a fish in a strangely dejected fashion, as though a small child being bribed to be good but who REALLY wanted to cause trouble. Really Wanted to.There is really only one thing to do n a situation like this: Fire Magic Experimental Missile at the darkness. Unless someone gives me snacks.Spoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)
Report what I just saw to the rest of the team. Be sure to stick close to Richter, hopefully between his echolocation and my thermal scanning we can get a decent view of our surroundings.((Not sure what you mean by "keeping up with the map". The map you have posted is just the old one and you didn't tell me where you think you are, so I have no idea if you're keeping up))
Also, can you confirm if Yagyu is keeping up with that map?
Either way, keep looking for that exit and/or control room, making markings to help the rest navigate.
Oh, and be nowhere near people shooting experimental guns for no reason please. If not possible, give dead fish to prevent the firing because I'd rather not be killed again for the sake of lolrandom, thank you very much.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Pffftrbl."
Work together with Yagyu to navigate this place. Keep an eye/ear out for possible hostiles, and let my teamamtes know should I spot somethingSpoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
[2]Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (senses and blocking of them) [Select]Sight: BlindfoldGo towards where the triangle thing was and continue looking for it with the scanner
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Give Yagyu some fish, give Bob some fish
Anyone else curious what that was?
Stay with the group, try no to do anything that will make me more likely to die than anyone else.Burt Burt points into the darkness at the place where the little...thing was standing a moment ago.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Sight: Five-second framerate from isolation suit. Blindfold readied underneath.
Smell: Nose plugs. And isolation suit.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs. Under an isolation suit.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway? Especially when Wil is wearing an isolation suit?
Touch: Riot armor. And isolation suit.
((Not sure what you mean by "keeping up with the map". The map you have posted is just the old one and you didn't tell me where you think you are, so I have no idea if you're keeping up))2 turns ago I mentioned having Yagyu draw a map to help with not getting lost in this place and to find our way back later on easier. Just wondering if that is actually happening since you didn't confirm it. That said, would you like me to update the map in that link to help you keep track of where we are?
Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitGo in the direction the one that brushed past me went
Larry blinked with his 14 eyes as he saw the thing. It was...it was..[4]
"KaWAi dEsU~
Using an eldritch kabbalah gu shinto hermetic chant Larry attempts to call all the little buggers in the vicinity towards him. He MUST have them!Spoiler: Human Name That Sounds Human (click to show/hide)
Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (senses and blocking of them) [Select]Sight: BlindfoldGo in the direction the one that brushed past me went
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Run after the head on legs! Chase it blindly into the darkness!Tara and Bob immediately take off into the darkness, leaving the rest of the group behind. They basically just sprint blindly down a hall for a long while, until they get tired and slow to a jog, then stop, gasping for breath. No sign of the little Fella, no sign of anything really. They slap the air around them and find the walls of the hallway, but it seems like they've spread out a lot. This hall is now at least 25 feet wide. The walls and ground feel odd too; not the normal smooth metal but something...rougher. Like hewn stone. Its also damper and smells more wet and stagnant.Spoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)
Politely ask the robots preventing entrance to the previous sector if they could carry a message for Wilfred, or perhaps give him access to the intercoms, or something of that nature. If they refuse, give serious thought to how well armed and armored they are; could he win if he just opened fire on them?Wil asks the robots if they can pass on a message to his friendly battle bot. They consider this for a moment, tapping their metal chins with their metal fingers. One then places a boot on Wil's face and slowly shoves him (https://youtu.be/HIJNqJjgwIE?t=25) back into the dark sector before sealing the door.
If no, lean against the nearest wall and mope, whining about Derp, and buggy robots, and how shit life is.
Also, shoot any mutated flesh monster things that wander into sight, and aren't teammates. I doubt any will appear, since Wilfred is still right at the entrance to the previous sector, but still.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Five-second framerate from isolation suit. Blindfold readied underneath.
Smell: Nose plugs. And isolation suit.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs. Under an isolation suit.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway? Especially when Wil is wearing an isolation suit?
Touch: Riot armor. And isolation suit.
"I'm gonna kill that weird thing before it even gets a chance to try to kill me!"
Have my gun at the ready to kill anything that isn't a member of my group, and stay with the group as wondering off might end poorly.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Quote((Not sure what you mean by "keeping up with the map". The map you have posted is just the old one and you didn't tell me where you think you are, so I have no idea if you're keeping up))2 turns ago I mentioned having Yagyu draw a map to help with not getting lost in this place and to find our way back later on easier. Just wondering if that is actually happening since you didn't confirm it. That said, would you like me to update the map in that link to help you keep track of where we are?
Those things seem nonhostile for now so as long as they just take peeks at us and aren't threatening me or a teammate, leave them be, otherwise goop 'em.
Either way, stick close to Richter and keep looking for that exit and/or control room, making markings to help the rest navigate.
"Pffftrbl to you too my friend, pffftrbl to you too."Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Use my infrared vision to help navigate. If that little shit shows up again, shoot it.((Ah, ok sorry. Tunnel vision on MY map, not your in game one. But keeping a little thing saying what sector you guys are in might help people.))Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
Sight: Five-second framerate from isolation suit. Blindfold readied underneath.
Smell: Nose plugs. And isolation suit.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs. Under an isolation suit.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway? Especially when Wil is wearing an isolation suit?
Touch: Riot armor. And isolation suit.
Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitFollow Bob.
((Ah, ok sorry. Tunnel vision on MY map, not your in game one. But keeping a little thing saying what sector you guys are in might help people.))((I'll try to look into it later on.
Shoot the walls. At an angle, when no teammates are down range. Partially, this is just to release some anger, partially out of curiousity for what will happen.Wilfred shoots the wall and then checks on the damage it did. There's a small dent an metal is visible beneath; a sort of scrape of shiny steel seemingly hanging in mid air.
Then go walking further into the sector. Do a right hand search pattern; hold a hand along the right wall and follow it exclusively, ignoring the meandering marks left by Yagyu. Take bullets out of a magazine, and put one down at every corner/door. And enter any doors found.
Continue loudly complaining about Derp, sickness, and jackass robots over the team intercoms.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Five-second framerate from isolation suit. Blindfold readied underneath.
Smell: Nose plugs. And isolation suit.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs. Under an isolation suit.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway? Especially when Wil is wearing an isolation suit?
Touch: Riot armor. And isolation suit.
Larry knowns what this is! It's one of those...one of those...pale thingies.
Larry tries to identify what the thing in front of them is, he's pretty sure one of them was his bunkmate in human college where no souls are used as appetizers for the prom.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Larry knowns what this is! It's one of those...one of those...pale thingies.
Larry tries to identify what the thing in front of them is, he's pretty sure one of them was his bunkmate in human college where no souls are used as appetizers for the prom.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
[2]Spoiler: Redshirt (click to show/hide)
"Alright, someone explain what's going on here real fast, I dont have time totrawl through the last few months of updatesfigure it all out myself."
Attempt to glean a TL;DR from the immediate area of "what the QUIZNAK are we doing here?"
"What the fuck is even going on in this place?"[2]
Shoot the shit out of the weird hand, and stay whit the group if they start running.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
I won’t initiate anything, but I will back up my squadmates if things get hairy.Ji Grabs her deadeyed teammate and drags him back, following Yagyu.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
[5]Quote((Ah, ok sorry. Tunnel vision on MY map, not your in game one. But keeping a little thing saying what sector you guys are in might help people.))((I'll try to look into it later on.
EDIT: if I understand correctly we are currently in sector J. Sector L was the previous one, with the angry brobots. Too lazy to go back further right now, but will add these two to my spoiler beneath the map link.))
Back away slowly, don't fire first but if it acts hostile or dangerous then goop it. See if I can make a quick scan to maybe help us figure out what this is (eg. do I see any HELL particles?).
If we can disengage safely, try to follow the markings back to the entrance. See if I can figure out at what point the screwyness starts.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (senses and blocking of them) [Select]Sight: BlindfoldFollow Bob.
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Wet, stagnant, and natural are homely feelings. Continue on, looking for a more watery and glumpy sort of place. Stay near Tara in case she gets worried that she hasn't fed anyone enough snacks lately, but only if she doesn't turn around and had back toward the cold metal place where people don't want you firing randomly into the absolute, unnatural blackness.Bob, feeling quite at home, continues on. He eventually comes across something that would be quite disconcerting to most people. A giant, pale, cave fish. It must be 30 feet long and as thick as a man is tall. Its laying on wet stone, gasping and wriggling with no sign of water substantial enough for it anywhere. Bob, however, looks at the scene and simply thinks "Big snack!"Spoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)
Sight: Five-second framerate from isolation suit. Blindfold readied underneath.
Smell: Nose plugs. And isolation suit.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs. Under an isolation suit.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway? Especially when Wil is wearing an isolation suit?
Touch: Riot armor. And isolation suit.
Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitWhile Bob eats, make sure nothing comes at either of us, by shooting whatever comes towards us, unless it’s a teammate, in which case don’t shoot unless attacked
Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (senses and blocking of them) [Select]Sight: BlindfoldWhile Bob eats, make sure nothing comes at either of us, by shooting whatever comes towards us, unless it’s a teammate, in which case don’t shoot unless attacked
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
BIG SNACK[5]
Eat Big Snack.Spoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)
"Hey, you idiots, I found the way out already! It's..." Wilfred pauses. "Actually, you know what, fuck you guys. Isn't one of you a medic? I've been literally dying here for like an hour and none of you have done jack for me! Pathos, Ji, and Yagyu, you three I'll send a text. The rest of you selfish bastards can rot. Have fun dying to whatever nightmares Derp put in this place."
Send a text to Pathos, Ji, and Yagyu, telling them how Wilfred got out and the path he took. Don't tell anyone else. Add a part to Pathos' message stating that it would be awfully swell if he could go back to the last sector and retrieve the heavily armed guardbot Wilfred managed to hack.
Oh yeah, and figure out how to open the sector exit. Then open it, while immediately opening fire on whatever is on the other side. Continue shooting until Wilfred is either 100% sure there is nothing alive on the other side, or Wilfred is certain he's made everything alive not-alive. And don't worry about spacetime distortions putting allies on the other side either, even if there's teammates back there they can just weather the bullets. Because someone needs to fucking get shot.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Five-second framerate from isolation suit. Blindfold readied underneath.
Smell: Nose plugs. And isolation suit.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs. Under an isolation suit.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway? Especially when Wil is wearing an isolation suit?
Touch: Riot armor. And isolation suit.
"Don't worry my fellow co-workers. To escape this we only need to use our skills in lucid dreaming to escape into the real world, reality is often easier to manipulate than putty in the parts. Through it's not really the "real" world since we ourselves are softboned mega-anthropoids living in our own little cognitive born reality, in a certain way that is."[3]
Larry attempts to use his lucid dreaming skills to make himself a way out, all the while ignoring his softboned friends. After all only one of them needs to get out, so what if a few co-workers get stuck in a 3 googolplex long loop of death, torture, rebirth and nightmares?Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"I wonder how long I should wait for them to stop stumbling in the dark. Oh well."[7]
EDIT: See if I can get Wilfred that murderbot from the previous section he likes so much.
Once I finish playing robotic matchmaker, use my Limited Omniscience to make a map of this sector based on my teammates' previous movements. Provide guidance for those that haven't been swallowed up by the darkness. If Wilfred lets me know of the sector exit he found, make my way over to him while spraying a trail of glowpaint behind me so we can find our way back. Use the motion detector to maintain some awareness of things moving around me.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Elen had a mental purgant with her. Does it seem like this would be enough to counteract the effects of whatever this is? If yes, does one person getting out mean the others get to escape as well (or at least have an easier time) because that person can act as their anchor back to normal reality?[6]
If yes, take it and just concentrate on getting back to normal reality. Then try to snap the others out of it as well.
If not, Using both the glowspray and the high visibility flares try to help us get 'proper visual stimuli ' again (aka spray a bunch of paint on the nearby walls and floor and light some flares to make light to bounce off of them).Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Keep sticking with Yagyu. See if my echolaction is less susceptible to the current reality bendy stuff going on. If yes, use it to guide Yagyu and the others.Spoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
Use infrared vision to help navigate back to Wilfred.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
"Why did I take this job, everything about it is awful."The three remaining in the darkness do their best to escape, but echolocation, infrared, and buttons do nothing to save them.
Follow the group and shoot anything that isn't a part of the group, also push the button on that remote to see if anything happens.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit((Prediction was correct, I will head toward Wilfred))Sight: Five-second framerate from isolation suit. Blindfold readied underneath.
Smell: Nose plugs. And isolation suit.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs. Under an isolation suit.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway? Especially when Wil is wearing an isolation suit?
Touch: Riot armor. And isolation suit.
Wilfred glares at Larry, though the effect is lost since his isolation suit does not actually allow his face to be seen. "Fuck you! I don't understand any of what you just said, and that makes me angry! Today has just been neverending shit, with us just marching right through deathtrap after deathtrap set by Derp, and I'm just--AGH FUCK THIS!"
Shoot the fire. I know it probably won't kill it, but it's cathartic. And if bullets aren't good for catharsis, what are they good for?
After shooting the fire, decide whether it would be safe to walk into the sector. Maybe the isolation suit gives fire resistance? Or maybe teammates put it out already? In either case, forge ahead and search for the sector control center. And continue shooting any speakers or screens seen along the way. Also any people who aren't allies. Maybe allies too if they get annoying, or attempt severe malpractice. You know what I'm talking about.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Five-second framerate from isolation suit. Blindfold readied underneath.
Smell: Nose plugs. And isolation suit.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs. Under an isolation suit.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway? Especially when Wil is wearing an isolation suit?
Touch: Riot armor. And isolation suit.
Oof. Take a moment to recollect myself.
Then consider whether goop could be used to smother out some of this fire. Or would the goop just burn?
Also consider how long it seems this fire should last at the current rate. And is there some sort of access panel nearby that could grant us access to the vent system (maybe if we can close the vents and then close the door we can deprive the fire of oxygen, then do that hallway by hallway)?
Oh, and is there anything at all we could do for those still stuck in there? Or are they on their own?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Hey yo Wil, I see you found some fire, Too bad there's no Icons to go along with it, let me tell you a spit-roasted Icon of Depravity seasoned with some Wailing Sand and Ichor of the Fallen tastes great! It's just the right blend of salty, succulent and evil, if you want to I can bring some along to the company picnic, try to eat something new for a change, widen your horizons-Oh right, where were we again? Oh yeah, fire."
Larry searches for anything that would help with putting out the fire, that or lucid dreaming a fire extinguisher. It worked the last time.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Waddle along with Tara toward the isolation suit that is Wilfred. Give him a big, toothy grin in greeting. Look at the inflamed room and see if it has a fire suppressant system or an extinguisher or such, and what the state of such basic safety devices is.Spoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)
[1][4]Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (senses and blocking of them) [Select]Sight: Blindfold((Prediction was correct, I will head toward Wilfred))
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Head towards Wilfred, make sure he isn’t injured, if he is injured, attempt healing
Use glowpaint to locate fire extinguishers or fire extinguishing system or fire alarm buttons or vending machines or corpses or generally whatever could be used to paint the halls not-black. Trigger/use/break said systems/items to produce non-black stuff to paint the halls. Repeat as much as necessary to reach Wilfred's position as indicated by limited Omniscience. Hope I won't have to go through sensitivity training again. The robot will follow me and help provide illumination. The motion sensor will let me know if anything approaches me in the darkness.[5] Through the use of conspicuous amounts of marking using whatever materials are available (ethical or not) Pathos manages to walk down an hallway and find the team without issue.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
"This place is weird as heck. Symbi-chan, do you know how we get out of here?"
Ask the HELL symbiote inside of me if it knows what to do to get out of this predicament. If it has a suggestion, try and follow it as best I can.
If it doesn't, try and rack my brain for occult knowledge. Maybe I have knowledge about this sort of thing or something similar.Spoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
Sit down and close my eyes for a moment.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
"There's no place like home..."[3][1]
Close my eyes and think of home, maybe click my heals together while I'm at it.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitSight: Five-second framerate from isolation suit. Blindfold readied underneath.
Smell: Nose plugs. And isolation suit.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs. Under an isolation suit.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway? Especially when Wil is wearing an isolation suit?
Touch: Riot armor. And isolation suit.
Bob rest's his head on Tara's legs, holding her relatively in place while she is unconscious. He'll wait for the doors to open and the zone beyond to cool to tolerable before dragging Tara by the pantlegs along to the next sector.Spoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)
What the hell, I don’t remember putting the face thereBob lay's his head on Tara. She is his friend. Or, if things go poorly, his snack. Either way, his.Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (senses and blocking of them) [Select]Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitSpoiler: Tara’s thoughts during unconsciousness (click to show/hide)
"WILFRED![
WILFRED WHYYYYYYYYY?!"
Could I attempt to repair my left arm with a mechanics roll? If yes, try to do so, use a toolkit charge for it.
Wait a while until it seems that the fire has died down from the gas infusion (try to use scanner to check for it if unsure, or just try to use that computer for it).
Once reasonably sure, open the door carefully (make sure fleshy humans without a suit are warned so they can evacuate a bit from any gas). If it seems safe to continue, inspect the room.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Suck it up, nerd. It's just a flesh wound. And--Oh! Pathos, awesome, you really got him! Sweeeet! You're the best little spider bud! Now, when Derp mind controls me into murdering the rest of the team, we've still got a weapon that'll take him with us."[9]
Instruct the robot to kill anyone that I tell it not to kill. And tell it to murder anyone I ever call either "Derp" or "Mr. Friend" or even just "Friend". Also tell it to kill anyone who physically attacks me or harms me. Oh, yeah, and it should stay with me all the time. It's a guardbot, so it should guard me!
...Actually, sit on top of it. It is now my mount.
Otherwise, wait for the fire suppression systems to work their magic.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Five-second framerate from isolation suit. Blindfold readied underneath.
Smell: Nose plugs. And isolation suit.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs. Under an isolation suit.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway? Especially when Wil is wearing an isolation suit?
Touch: Riot armor. And isolation suit.
Hewwo, Dwop Me In Please. By RC and the crew, stay low and keep an eye out for humies.Janet wanders out of the darkness and leans over Yagyu, who is desperately trying to dodge his own punches.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER MY OWN SCREAMING!"
Ignite all my flares and throw them into its mouth, then start firing my gun into the face.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
"I'm made of metal, Dumbass."
Throw the tranquilizer syringe into the gaping maw. Then, open fire with my assault rifle, while fighting against the pushing motion.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
Larry sights, kinda regreting he got out of the Sixth Dimension this morning. "I'll go fetch the clown squad. Been a while since I had soft bones for lunch anyway."[8][9][2][1][4]
Larry reaches his hand into the dark and attempts to scoop out the weeb and the one he's surprised is even alive from the shadow realm. Then he'll scoop out Mr. Soft Bones and make him regret coming to this dimension more than he currently is.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Hang around for a second.[8][2]
If Larry manages to scoop out the dark dimension being/weeb and I see an opening, manifest the crocodemon mouth and gobble up some chunks off of it. Purge the icon of butchery and some teeth elemental bits if I lack space.
If I don't see an opening, instead make sure Tara isn't in a spot where she's in immediate danger and try to gently wake her up.Spoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
Sight: Five-second framerate from isolation suit. Blindfold readied underneath.
Smell: Nose plugs. And isolation suit.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs. Under an isolation suit.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway? Especially when Wil is wearing an isolation suit?
Touch: Riot armor. And isolation suit.
Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitRoll for regaining consciousness"Cthalhu, Bealzebuba, Louiscipher, Zues, Odion, bestowth upponth meth theth powerth I begth ofth youth!"[5,9,4]
Larry calls upon the ancient gods and proceeds to try and steal the powers of Mr White Face via soul absorption. There's no way that could go wrong right?Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitRoll for regaining consciousness, this will continue until I regain it
Sight: Five-second framerate from isolation suit. Blindfold readied underneath.
Smell: Nose plugs. And isolation suit.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs. Under an isolation suit.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway? Especially when Wil is wearing an isolation suit?
Touch: Riot armor. And isolation suit.
Larry tries to test out his new powers by disappearing the door. Also, he'll check the boxes from afar for any bad juju, keyword: afar, as in as far as he can possibly be and still be able to check them.[10][12]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
[2]Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (senses and blocking of them) [Select]Sight: BlindfoldRoll for regaining consciousness, this will continue until I regain it
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Use my KNOWLEDGE of Omnitech products to see if I can figure out if the boxes are something made the the company, or similar in function. Don't touch or get close to them though. Stand behind Bob.[5]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Bob does not like this ashy, dry, snackless place. Bob will aim at the exit door and wait for someone to fire him at it, or for snacks. Bob will make angry noises, more the longer we remain in this sector and he remains dry and unfed.Bob sits by the door to the next sector -which is now open- and grumbles noisily about his environment and his lack of refreshments. The grumbling is slowly growing louder.Spoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)
"You know, as curious as I am about what's in the boxes, I think I'll be leaving them well enough alone for now, and I suggest ya'll do the same."
Start working on getting that door to the next sector open (probably have to cut it open with the torch it seems).Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Fire the gatorgun, if nobody else does. If that--or anything else--opens the door to the next sector, enter it (mounted atop the guardbot) while firing at whoever is inside. Shout their names if they're recognized, especially if they're allies, but continue shooting them.
If the door to the next sector doesn't get opened, just look at what weaponry the guardbot has. Don't touch anything.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Five-second framerate from isolation suit. Blindfold readied underneath.
Smell: Nose plugs. And isolation suit.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs. Under an isolation suit.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway? Especially when Wil is wearing an isolation suit?
Touch: Riot armor. And isolation suit.
Follow everyone else to the melted sector door, and see if kicking it helps any.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Stay out of the way unless something needs to be shot.With the door so effectively punched open, the group move on to the next sector, H, and find something they sincerely were not expecting: People. Rather bedraggled and tired looking people pointing rifles and improvised spears at them. Judging by their appearance they're all staff, some scientists, others office workers, even a security agent or two. They seem quite panicked and afraid, not the dead eyed sleep walking bodies that Mr. Friend employees.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
"Who are you!" One of the ones pointing a spear at the security robot shouts. A general murmur of support comes from the crowd.Yell the following at them, but remain in cover for now:
Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitWait for someone to wake me up[2]Quote"Who are you!" One of the ones pointing a spear at the security robot shouts. A general murmur of support comes from the crowd.Yell the following at them, but remain in cover for now:
"We are an OMNITECH reclamation team, here to reestablish order and apprehend the anomalous individual that has plunged this sector into chaos. The only thing we want is to lock that asshole back up, we do not bear any ill will to any of you, but we are authorized to use lethal force should you resist or jeopardize our mission!
Please, cooperate peacefully and you can make it out of here. We know our target has mind-altering capabilities so we have to be careful, but if we can keep things calm and controlled there is no reason for anyone to get hurt today. "Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Oh, hello fellow humans, I'm Larry, I'm 35 cycles old, love drinking H2O, and my hobbies include inhaling oxygen and exhaling carbon. How'd you do on this fine evening?"[3]
Larry will stay out of the line of fire of his fellow humans. And if anything goes south he'll call...his new thingie needs a name, it「S TA N D S」 behind him and it's big like the 「W O R L D」and pretty Wicked too, so he'll call it 「W ic k e d W o r l d」, yeah he'll call 「W ic k e d W or l d」 to show them who's boss. Oh, and he'll also wake up Tara via continuous poking with a stick.
EDIT: Trade the biorazor with Ji for the 135 credits AWAY from the normies. Also put up a mental reminder to crump Ji using「W ic k e d W o r l d」if she doesn't pay up the remaining 40 credits. Also put on the riot suit for extra safety.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Bob will drag Tara over to the feral humans and leave her in their care while he wanders off looking for a bathtub.[3][4]Spoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)
Stand back and look friendlyJi trades weaponry for Omni behind Larry's back. In a literal way, not figuratively.
(Edit) Trade 135 for Larry’s Razor AWAY from the view of the peopleSpoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
"Oh god don't shoot me, I'm just an engineer."
Get into cover, try to not get shot.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
"Hello! We are Omnitech customer support. How may we assist you today?"
Stand behind and to the side of Yagyu.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (senses and blocking of them) [Select]Sight: BlindfoldWait for someone to wake me up
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Still no senses, still alive
Just stick close to Yagyu and be nice and non-threateningEveryone else basically just stands around trying to look either non-threatening or difficult to hit. Oh and someone shakes Tara awake again. This seems like a great time for an injured, confused, groggy person to wake up, after all.Spoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
Bob will start banging or rubbing his gun against a doorframe trying to get it detached. The longer this is necessary, the more aggressive and crocs ... cross ... angrigator Bob will be.Help Bob detach the gun, figure out if I can wield said gun assuming detachment is successfulSpoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)
Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Sight: Sensory deprivation suit internal video screen, currently set to full speed. Blindfold readied underneath.
Smell: Nose plugs. And sensory deprivation suit.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs. Under a sensory deprivation suit.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway? Especially when Wil is wearing a sensory deprivation suit?
Touch: Riot armor. And sensory deprivation suit."Fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp..."
Continually chant the above while switching from the security rifle to the metalstorm pistol. Disable five-second framerate. Do not disable any other anti-sensory measures.
Analyze how threatening these people are. How many guns? Less than ten? More than twenty?
Are any of the guns of a large enough size to pose a threat to a giant metal-armoured guardbot?
Do any of the people appear to be wearing anti-sensory apparel?
Are there any visible speakers or screens in this area?
If anyone on either side opens fire, scream for the robot to attack, and join in with it--prioritizing shooting those with the biggest guns. Empty the pistol's magazine--that should allow at least three attacks.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Sensory deprivation suit internal video screen, currently set to full speed. Blindfold readied underneath.
Smell: Nose plugs. And sensory deprivation suit.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs. Under a sensory deprivation suit.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway? Especially when Wil is wearing a sensory deprivation suit?
Touch: Riot armor. And sensory deprivation suit.
((I changed all instances of "isolation suit" above to "sensory deprivation suit", because I looked back and that was the actual name given. Also, isolation suits are actual equipment which isn't as nice.))
Bob will start banging or rubbing his gun against a doorframe trying to get it detached. The longer this is necessary, the more aggressive and crocs ... cross ... angrigator Bob will be.[5]Spoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)
Tara wanders over to where Bob has already removed his gun and attempts to pick it up. [3] She can drag it around but can't get it off the ground. It might weigh more than she does.Bob will start banging or rubbing his gun against a doorframe trying to get it detached. The longer this is necessary, the more aggressive and crocs ... cross ... angrigator Bob will be.Help Bob detach the gun, figure out if I can wield said gun assuming detachment is successfulSpoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (senses and blocking of them) [Select]Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Ask them to explain what happened to them and what the current situation is.
Then help with the exploration of this sector (assuming the locals don't put up resistance, if they do dive for cover and goop 'em). Also search for the door to the next sector, don't open anything yet.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Oh good they aren't going to shoot us."
Look for loot that doesn't belong to anyone.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Larry will search the room for any loot with mojo now that the human who knows how to human better than he does is awake. He'll also use W I C K E D W O R L D to help the cooler Bob with his gun problem.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Ask the people what is contained within sectors G, D, B and A. Also, what the last known state of these sectors was. Also ask if they know of any shortcuts or bypasses. And finally, ask what the last status of Friendly was, and what is currently known about his forces and resources.
After that's done, search the sector for threats and loot.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitSince everyone else is focused on the superstructure, try following them
((Time for me to enter this thunderdome! I’m still reading through the thread itself, but I’ve never been one to let ignorance impede me from doing things!))Looks good. Feel free to randomly come into existence with the rest of the group.Spoiler: EEED (click to show/hide)
((This guy valid?))
Hmm. Do I have any idea what the super structure might be like? Are we talking space walk, or maintenance tunnels?[9]
In any case, see if I can lift that giant gun. Also if I have any idea what it might doSpoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
Now that I'm buoyant again, pool.Bob waddles into the pool and drifts slowly back and forth down its length, pretending to be a log.Spoiler: Can We Fix It? (click to show/hide)
Impress the muggles via foreseeing the exact day and hour of their deaths while waiting for the murderball to find a way into the superstructure, not only it's a good way to kill time but also a nice party trick for demo-Humans, yes, humans, a good trick party trick for humans.[8]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Ask the people what they remember of their time being mind controlled, of anything.They, like everyone else, have no memory of it. None at all actually; they describe it like being under anesthetic: they didn't even have any understanding that time passed while they were blacked out.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Hey"Edward is currently with the rest of the murderball, talking to some very disheveled people about getting out onto something call the "Superstructure". Apparently it will let them reach their target quicker?
Edward decides to finally stop hiding and cowering in fear. The last thing he remembers is running away from some gross terrifying super-maggot infested person.
Look around. Where am I? What is happening?Spoiler (click to show/hide)
How would we get to that superstructure exactly?
And if we got there, how would we get back into sector B?
Also, does this superstructure give access to any other sectors or areas?
Do we have any idea of what was in sectors G and D? Or what the sectors were used for?
Oh, and if Ji has trouble lifting the giant gun, search for a handcart or something to carry it with.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Use my engineer powers to figure out how to get to the superstructure and what its like in the superstructure.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
According to the survivors, the superstructure is the name for the vast mechanical interspace which lies around sectors. You saw a bit of it with that one sector that was lifted up out of the way. Though, that was more part of the inner structure of this supersector, not the true superstructure itself. Technically moving through the superstructure should allow you to access any of these sectors directly, though they told you to choose B instead of A because, "Its a lot easier to get into than the admin sector."Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (senses and blocking of them) [Select]Sight: BlindfoldSince everyone else is focused on the superstructure, try following them
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
"Counter argument: way back unsafe. Long. Obtaining the means to navigate the superstructure would lead to more long term benefits: ability to quickly and safely escape once target is obtained. Ability to avoid traps. Ability to evacuate these people. Ability to detect target should he choose to try to use the superstructure to escape.""You're just saying that because you don't need oxygen like the rest of those human meat bags-I mean us human meat bags."
Do any of these people have one of those earpieces that previous thralls had?Yagyu asks about earpieces but the locals tell him they don't have such things.
If we escorted these people back through the darkness sector to the sector with the security brobots, would they be safe there? They all have their employee card still to identify themselves?
Look for the door to the next sector, don't open anything yet or anything, just see how it is locked.
"I'd suggest we keep going as we are, we don't have enough space suits for all of us, and while splitting up has certain advantages, I'd rather not if we can help it."Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Well, look at the ammo then. In any case, stow it for now.Bob seems to still have all the ammo....somewhere on his person. Hard to say where. Maybe he left it outside of the pool before he got in? [3] Nope. Well, time to get the long rubber glove.
”Well team, we’ve got two options. We could go the way that’s definitely dangerous, but also quite possibly more safe, where we don’t know what we’ll find, but we know it will probably try to kill us. Or we could go the way that is theoretically more straight forward, but totally unknown, and likely much more dangerous, with fewer things trying to kill us, again theoretically of course. So, what’s it gonna be? I vote we stay the path we’re headed, but I’m open to suggestions.”Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
Vote straight ahead. Pull Linda aside, and talk her into to trying to get her memory back from the missing time. If she says yes, then get her to sign a waiver, and then zap her with with the memory eradicator - set to one day (or three days, if they've been free for a day or more) and record the results for science.Janet considers her situation. Linda is ignoring her requests. She begins to wonder: Is silence the same thing as consent? [5] She checks her PR manual. Hmmm... Apparently it can be but only when there are no cameras or witnesses. Damn, there are witnesses here....Hmm. She checks the manual again: Do employees count as witnesses?....Hmmm See bribery.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Bob: bob.Bob.Spoiler: Oh Buoy (click to show/hide)
Vote straight ahead. Pull Linda aside, and talk her into to trying to get her memory back from the missing time. If she says yes, then get her to sign a waiver, and then zap her with with the memory eradicator - set to one day (or three days, if they've been free for a day or more) and record the results for science.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Oxygen is one of the things I need to continue to be alive, so I don't want to go into the superstructure."
I vote NO on superstructure.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
"Does someone mind explaining to me in a moderate level of detail why we need to go through this "superstructure" and can't just stay here?"Everyone seems to favor pushing ahead as usual as opposed to trying to brave the superstructure. Its a classic case of the death room you know is better than the death room you don't.
Shuffle to somewhere near the middle-rear of the blob of idiots. Slightly to the left. Safest spot to be.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
He asks about employee IDs and finds that everyone either still has their identification or knows their ID number. They seem to think that this knowledge is life or death or something. Can't imagine why. As per safety, he thinks they'd be as safe as anywhere else. The bots would probably be effective guards vs any sort of armed incursion. Though if the sector got lit on fire they'd probably just stand around. They're murderbots, not babysitters after all. Well...maybe just really bad babysitters.
While everyone's opening doors, moving people, and not really paying any attention to me I'll look around this area for stuff to loot.Burt discovers a box of protein bars!Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
If Larry doesn't manage to open the door, stick my universal adapter into the door's access panel and whisper sweetly to its machine spirit until it unlocks.
If the door remains closed, knock politely. Hey, doesn't hurt to try!Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Stick with Yagyu for now, in case any of these refugees get any ideas while he's leading them to the brobot area.Spoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
Wait for the door to openSpoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
Edward acts more NPC than the NPCs themselves.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
QuoteHe asks about employee IDs and finds that everyone either still has their identification or knows their ID number. They seem to think that this knowledge is life or death or something. Can't imagine why. As per safety, he thinks they'd be as safe as anywhere else. The bots would probably be effective guards vs any sort of armed incursion. Though if the sector got lit on fire they'd probably just stand around. They're murderbots, not babysitters after all. Well...maybe just really bad babysitters.
Offer to the survivors to escort them to the brobot sector so that they won't be in threatened by whatever is in the next sector over. Do so for those that accept the offer, but don't force anyone to (carefully stick to the path we marked!).
After that, if people are ready, cut open the door to the next sector.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!"
With a mighty war cry Larry opens the door using W I C K E D W O R L D to perform some sort of rush attack (https://youtu.be/b1ftdGMrQbA).Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitExplore the plant filled sector, search for interesting specimens, hopefully don’t get killed in the process
Gurgle at EEED from the pool. If he does not provide snacks, thrash ominously.Somewhere in the previous sector Bob grumbles and thrashes. Sadly no one can hear or see him as he is quite far away from them and underwater and behind at least 2 closed doors. Unfortunate.Spoiler: Oh Buoy (click to show/hide)
Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (senses and blocking of them) [Select]Sight: BlindfoldExplore the plant filled sector, search for interesting specimens, hopefully don’t get killed in the process
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Poke the grass and trees a bit with whatever poking stick I have on hand (scrounge one from the previous sector if needed). If the grass doesn't retaliate then explore the sector, looking for the door to the next sector and any interesting/valuable doodads along the way. Use my scanner to hopefully detect gribblies hidden in the grass or airborne toxins or other shenanigans before they can harm or impede us.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Forge ahead and look for the door. Keep a suspicious eye on the plants with my rifle ready.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
EEED walks out from among the group of survivors in the last room, though it's unclear if he was there the whole time or if he just caught up to the group somehow. "Hello, soon-to-be valued friends! I am EEED, and I am here to assist all your spinal health needs! I also offer musculature rehabilitation services, acupuncture therapy, and a sympathetic ear to relieve mental stress! Please note that any violation of my terms of service will result in denial of treatment."
Having spoken up until now in a smooth baritone that's clearly rehearsed or imprinted in some way, he continues in a voice that sounds like he's not quite sure how to move his mouth into the shape of words. "Any of yous back hurty? I fix, okay? Okay."
Find people suffering from poor health! Fix with spinal adjustment. This includes Larry, who clearly needs treatment of some sort. If no other patients found, defer to whoever seems in charge here.Spoiler: EEED (click to show/hide)
Larry approaches the newcomer cautiously, all of his nine eyes looking deep into his soul, his face not betraying an ounce of emotion. The awkward staredown is broken when Larry takes a taste of EEED, licking him with the appendage on his mouth that looks like a tongue but somehow even more evil looking. It feels like sandpaper rubbing against his skin but with some brimstone mixed in.
"Presentation is fine, but the banter leaves much to be desired. Too aromatic... the taste is oakey... With an undertone of a mother's sorrow and a hint of peanuts. I'd give it a 8/10. I can't understand why they'd discontinued you guys, your meatsuit potential seemed decent enough. Oh well, that's 3D life forms-I mean executives for you."
Now that he has acquired a taste of the situation. Larry pokes the plants with his stick using his ghost hand. If it doesn't try to eat his ghost hand or stick then he'll feed it to Bob like noodles.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Who cares about medicine, BURN all this green shit down!"
Grab the box of protein bars, then look around the new sector and see if there is any loot.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Be on the lookout for giant mosquitoes.
"Hm. I should get a grappling hook and a net. Or some sort of thread extruder. That way I'll be able to catch giant mosquitoes and eat them."Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
"I'm not really a fan of nature."
Make sure my disposable space suit is sealed to prevent the possibility of allergens or gross nature smells from getting near my facial orifices.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Stick with Yagyu for now. Look around this jungle environment to see if I spot anything interesting I can snack on that would please symbiote-chan.The team, some in space suits, others with with poking sticks, and still others with complete disregard for their own safety, spread out. Larry gets immediately put in a "therapeutic headlock" by the newly arrived EEED.Spoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
Pool. Bob. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQzDnIUYZnI)Bob bobs and Bobs.Spoiler: Oh Buoy (click to show/hide)
Edward steps on some plants.Edward steps on some plants. They react in the way plants normally do when stepped on: the get squashed to some degree.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"There are to many damn plants in this damned sector!"[3]
Go find a fire extinguisher to protect myself from the inevitable fire that's going to start, also see if there is some kind of first aid kit around here some where.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
well, since there’s nothing better to do, I’ll keep an eye out for trouble.Ji lays on the ground.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
"Maybe the demonic possession was because of the slipped disc! Your chakras are all misaligned, man! Letting in bad vibes!"EEED uses his arc scraper to burn away the plants on the door, leaving it sparkling new.
EEED ponders this quandary for a bit, then decides to do some helping, as the only person vaguely resembling a janitor on the team at present.
Use my Arc Scraper to clear debris and stubborn plants off the door out of here. Unless someone smarter than me tells me I could cause an explosion or something by doing so, in which case I shall simply switch to my automop, which is probably rated to handle plants. Maybe.Spoiler: EEED (click to show/hide)
Take a look at those bags, is it the right type of fertilizer to create an explosive with? If yes, anything in this sector that could be used for the fuel part? And anything that could be repurposed/tinkered into a detonator?Yagyu looks at the fertilizer. [2] Hmmm He's not really sure if its the explodey kind.
Slice open the door to the next sector if necessary, but be careful not to disturb or torch any of the strange plants.
EDIT: and maybe tell that new guy not to use his high powered cleaning apparatus on the door and maybe turn the plants against us!Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Check the computers to find out where they stored all their super weed! Also look at what else they were experimenting with here, I guess.[9] Pathos wanders over to the lab computers and checks them. A lot of them are down; the plants have grown inside them and there's fungi eating through their circuits. He does manage to find one thats still functional and check it over. Sadly he can find nothing about weed - he lacks the physical structures to do anything with it even if he had it anyways - but he does find out that the plants they were experimenting with here were designed, rather obviously, to use inorganic substances as their "food" instead of the normal soil and such. He finds two possible "profit paths" one being the use of these plants in disposal of trash and the other being military applications. The files warn about exposing "Organically impaired research associates" to any plant matter, but specifically to the fungal variety due to its ability to "Deposit spores within their electronic systems and effectively devour their 'brains'".
Oh, also, what's the stat/skill for turning all that nitrogen into bombs? Mechanic? Explosive? Knowledge? Assuming it's possible to do so, of course.
I am amanspider of simple pleasures: all I need is drugs and high explosives.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
"Demonic possession? Man, for a souless product made by some Omnitech ripoff you sure are a funny guy. Me? Possesed? Is it because of the eyes because that's like, really really racist of you good sir." Larry says before literally slipping through EEED's fingers like pizza dough escaping from their natural predator, the Italian. He also noticed there' another door. Neat.[10]
Punch door with mind ghost magic man again. Maybe Larry should a taken a course in door breaking instead of plane eating in normal human college since he's so good at it.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Sensory deprivation measures? Should I be worried that I don't have any?"
Should I?
"Okay. Hmm.... do you know if it works through screens?"
"Oh yeah... I'm an engineer I could engineer stuff to prevent my death... I forgot all about it.""Ah, a fellow tinkerer! Great, we'll whip something up in no time."
"Do you think this sensory deprivation suit I found a while back will be enough protection? You know, the suits we found in that airlock-ish place, next to the corpse? Or was it multiple corpses, I can't remember. Thinking about corpses makes me hungry."
((*Haebi planet flashbacks*))[9] The easiest way to tell if there has been infection is to physically look at the hardware involved and see if anything is growing on it. Assuming that's not possible- and indeed opening the machine up is a good way of exposing it to potential spores- the reports state that the most common initial signs are random failures of components as the fungi damages silicon and metal components. It is possible for a sudden total failure if the growth is in a vital section, but likely there will be progressive increased failures followed by a singular full, irreversible crash. In theory careful application of fungicide or extreme cold are the best methods, but once infection has begun it is quite hard to extricate the fungi without damaging the hardware as the spores are microscopic and often hard to find until they begin to grow.
"The mushrooms want to eat my brains! Aaaaa! I told you we should had burned them all!"
Tell me friend computer, how can I tell if I have been infected and how do I cleanse myself from this foul infection? Is it heat? Cold? Poison? Do they have any weed killer lying around? If so, acquire said weed killer.
Also, move on to the next session, because I sure as hell am not staying here longer than I have to.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
"Thanks buddy. Now I'll be a bit less likely to be mind controlled."Edward gets handed the sensory deprivation suit of the now missing alligator and puts it on. It smells like fish and grumpiness but it will work.
Improvise some sensory depravation measures.
Rig up some sort of camera visor thing from my personal computing cube, omni-eye, and/or broken universal communicator. Program it to a low refresh rate.
Also y'know prepare a blindfold from some torn off strips of my jumpsuit, and see if anyone has some spare earplugs.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Do you think this sensory deprivation suit I found a while back will be enough protection? You know, the suits we found in that airlock-ish place, next to the corpse? Or was it multiple corpses, I can't remember. Thinking about corpses makes me hungry."Richter double checks his suit. It should provide full protection so long as its on and powered. Though he's rather restricted while it is on; can't exactly shapeshift in a confined suit. Then again...he wonders if the symbiote would protect him from being mind controlled. It wouldn't like people taking its host after all.
Make sure my sensory deprivation suit is on and locked down before we head forward. How much protection against mister friend's shenanigans does this thing give again?
Stick with Yagyu for nowSpoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
EEED gets himself some communication earplugs and an eyemask. He then considers if he can be of help with plants. His arc scraper and incinerator should be great at getting rid of them...though it might be dangerous to use them on teammates. They do tend to whine about such things.
"Fear not, my metallic friends! You won't be eaten by anything if you simply state that you do not give permission to be eaten, and contact your nearest human preservation attendant to file a notice. As far as mind control, I was not granted a mind at my conception so I should be unaffected, but the same advice would apply for that situation as well."
Proceed with the group into the next area. Accept sensory deprivation measures (tts earbuds etc) if someone insists that I take precautions, so as to foster better team integration. Otherwise, just consult my brain knowledge to determine if metal-eating brain fungus is a thing I can fix with the janitorial equipment I have on hand. Always pays to be helpful!Spoiler: EEED (click to show/hide)
Evil plants? That sounds gnarly. Good thing Larry is 555% human and organic and 111% mysterious colors unlike any seen on Earth. Anyway into the next sector!Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I have been wearing the germ suit, right? In any case, I'll put it on if I’m not already wearing it, and get into the next sector. Have my tranquilizer syringe ready to inject the target of I see him((sure))Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
"Damn plants wanting me to burn to death and die."
Head on over to the next sector with the rest of the group and be sure to grab interesting loot on the way.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Get into cover, try and click on a flashlight if I have one, but don't shine it around.The Murderball, not wanting to remain in the land of angry plants that can potentially eat all their competent(ish) members, rolls on into the next sector. They follow the path that the airlock door did, moving from one big ass dent in the wall to another until they find the lab door it tore straight through. They move inside and find 6 of those general cloning/bio-experimentation tubes. They're all broken and the door has lodged itself in the main computer at the back of the room. To get there it had to smash through one of the tubes and there are remnants of the occupant within splattered all over the place. It doesn't look human. In fact it looks reptilian. And big. Really big. There's the remains of a hand on the floor and the claws on it are a foot long each and curved like sickles. The other tubes appear to have been smashed from the inside out, and there are wet footsteps moving from them and out the door into the hall and off into the sector.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Sight: Sensory deprivation suit internal video screen, currently set to full speed. Blindfold readied underneath.
Smell: Nose plugs. And sensory deprivation suit.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs. Under a sensory deprivation suit.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway? Especially when Wil is wearing a sensory deprivation suit?
Touch: Riot armor. And sensory deprivation suit.
Edward gets handed the sensory deprivation suit of the now missing alligator and puts it on. It smells like fish and grumpiness but it will work.
Pretty sure Radio was giving Edward te OTHER Bob's sensory suit, since Radio is carrying a full armory and mausoleum of deceased teammates and their gear on him.Biggo lizardo is correct! PW, if you feel I have too much crap in my inventory at any point, lemme know and I'll drop things (or find a handcart of sorts).
Bob, who is not missing - he's right where the team left him - never had a sensory deprivation suit that I am aware of.
Does the sensory deprivation suit interfere with my disposable space suit?Ed finds that while he can wear the suit part of his space suit, the helmet won't fit under the sensory deprivation suit helmet.
Does it provide any physical or environmental protection?
Examine sensory deprivation suit for hidden features.
(By the way, can I get any sort of level up or payment for the mission that I went catatonic half way through?)Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Retroactively obtain one of those fungicide canisters while passing through the last sector.Ok.
Shoot anything which is alive and which isn't a team member within this sector. Order the robot to also shoot any such thing. Head straight towards the sector control room.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: Sensory deprivation suit internal video screen, currently set to full speed. Blindfold readied underneath.
Smell: Nose plugs. And sensory deprivation suit.
Hearing: Pathos' text-to-speech earplugs. Under a sensory deprivation suit.
Taste: Cutting out one's tongue seems like too much. How are we gonna taste him without touching him, anyway? Especially when Wil is wearing a sensory deprivation suit?
Touch: Riot armor. And sensory deprivation suit.
Alright.Edward gets handed the sensory deprivation suit of the now missing alligator and puts it on. It smells like fish and grumpiness but it will work.
Pretty sure Radio was giving Edward te OTHER Bob's sensory suit, since Radio is carrying a full armory and mausoleum of deceased teammates and their gear on him.
Bob, who is not missing - he's right where the team left him - never had a sensory deprivation suit that I am aware of.
Use my engineer powers and some security cameras, computer bits, and tool kit charges to make a helmet like the sensory deprivation suit.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Can we say Yagyu also picked up a fungicide container while on the way out?Yagyu also picks up a fungicide container.
Scan the lizard corpse remains with the scanner. Try to find something that will let us use the scanner to get some early warning that another big lizardboy is near (maybe smell/pheromones we could detect?)
Check around this lab if there's anything useful or valuable to grab.
Finally, check the computers for more info on these crocoboyos (more computer adept peeps get preference for this of course).QuotePretty sure Radio was giving Edward te OTHER Bob's sensory suit, since Radio is carrying a full armory and mausoleum of deceased teammates and their gear on him.Biggo lizardo is correct! PW, if you feel I have too much crap in my inventory at any point, lemme know and I'll drop things (or find a handcart of sorts).
Bob, who is not missing - he's right where the team left him - never had a sensory deprivation suit that I am aware of.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Good news, fellow workers! If you are affected by brain-altering substances and or organisms, I can now fix you! You just have to ..."
He stares into space momentarily. "Be invulnerable to electricity."
"Doesn't seem like such a big deal to me!"
Join the loot/examination train! Maybe my inborn massage skills will give me some insight into how these reptilians work.
Grab the claw, and do a quick search for loot/evidence. After that, follow the rest of the team with my rifle and Bio-razor at the ready.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Woah! Look at all those gnarly biological weapons, it reminds Larry of home but with less meatmoss and emptiness. Since there's so much biostuff Larry will engage in the ole' loot and scoop, maybe there's something of value lying around.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Bob would be slightly disappointed that he was not the first reptile to dismember a teammate, if Bob were sapient and cruel, and aware of the situation the team is in. As it is, however, Bob is an animal in a pool, with no snacks and nothing nearby to use his vast and bizarre mechanical aptitude on, so Bob is moderately content, but not overly content, since he doesn't have any snacks.Bob.Spoiler: Oh Buoy (click to show/hide)
"Too bad all the people with the X-ray vision are dead."Pathos scampers over to the nearest fire alarm and pulls it. The already flashing red emergency lights begin to flash and spin even faster and the PA system adds a new warning to the list it is continuously repeating. Water does not begin pouring from the ceiling though, as that system would only activate if smoke was detected.
Turn on my motion tracker and let the team know of any motion that isn't caused by teammates. If I notice any lizard people, tag them with my Limited Omniscience.
Push a nearby fire alarm button to
A) make noise to conceal our noise
B) activate sprinkler system to form puddles of water we can use to detect them.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
"Chameleons change color! I learned this in the Tube. Therefore, I deduce that these creatures can go invisible. A proper method of walking is important for long-term spinal health; please avoid slouching, looking at personal communication devices, or slipping on the large pile of soap I am about to dispense while walking."EEED waits for everyone else to leave before soaping the entryway to the room he's in and then settling down to wait.
They can't get to us if they can't walk! Use my Automop to deliberately soak the around the entrances to the room I'm in with slippery suds. Commit the greatest janitorial violation of all time and fail to put up a wet floor sign, likely earning John's emnity from the afterlife. Don't deliberately interfere with other teammate activities with this, though.Spoiler: EEED (click to show/hide)
Reset the scanner so that at least it stops screeching.
Check the files again, do they mention anything about how they were planning to control these critters or keep them in line? Any weaknesses or fears/things they can't stand perhaps (eg. a certain smell or sound that keeps them at bay)?
If we hear or see anything resembling crococreeps coming our way, goop 'em! Be mindful of vents in the ceiling or floor or wherever they could try to come out of.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Edward tries to look like he is doing important work on his computing cube. Very important. Very busy. So many spreadsheets. Important emails. Maybe if he looks busy enough, he can get away with not fighting giant lizards and using his coworkers as human shields.Ed goes and sits with EEED and proceeds to poke repeatedly at his computing cube while loudly "whispering" the words "Busy busy busy" in rapid succession.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Hmmm, exactly how like A chameleon does the skin look like? Does it seem like it might have some… chameleon ability? If the answer is yes, switch my vision mode to something that might work better[3] Judging from the skin, Ji is pretty sure these things can hide to some degree. [2] She considers a better vision mode and pokes herself in the eyes a few times. Sadly this fails to engage thermal vision.
In any case, try to grab whatever lizard bits aren’t already claimed by someone else, and have the rifle and razor ready.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
"Hey, it looks like our fellow co-worker F U C K I N G W I L F R E D is out of this mortal coil, neat! Before we deal with that though, I invoke the blood rule of dibs on the skin and talons, as per human tradition if you wish to go against my ruling you may challenge me to a duel to the death, the loser will have their soul flayed and have the word "LOSER" branded on their rotting remains. Any objections? No? Great. Now to deal with your big hidden friend..."
Fully manifest Wicked World, then send it to investigate ahead of the group by skirting the edge of it's maximum range. Larry will also try to see if he's able to see using his pet psych demon's eyes instead of his own psych demon's eyes as to better recon the area. If Mr. Lizard shows himself, engage in a monster fight.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Oh shit something bad's going to happen I can feel it."[3]
Have my gun at the ready and stick with the group and be ready to shoot hostile things to death.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
EEED turns to his sole companion."Edward. Now do you mind? I'm a bit busy."
"Hello, fellow employee! What is your designation? It seems we ought to get to know each other now that we have been left behind by our fellow staff."
Too bad the team doesn't have a reptilian ambassador of[3]goodwill, or an ambhibian self-propelled rtillary piece with which to dissuade these monsters from their deadly course. Well, anyway, this pool is pretty wet, but that dark room had BIG SNACK, so Bob is conflicted asto whether to remain or to wander back to the sensory depprivation chamber and illusory fish dispensory.Spoiler: Oh Buoy (click to show/hide)
EEED turns to his sole companion.
"Hello, fellow employee! What is your designation? It seems we ought to get to know each other now that we have been left behind by our fellow staff."
Soap up the rest of the floor in the room! Also, examine Ed for possible needed care.Spoiler: EEED (click to show/hide)
[2] Ed attempts to get up and run to catch up with the people who have left, but instead immediately slips and falls face first on the ground.EEED turns to his sole companion."Edward. Now do you mind? I'm a bit busy."
"Hello, fellow employee! What is your designation? It seems we ought to get to know each other now that we have been left behind by our fellow staff."
Edward continues typing meaningless things into his computer.
"...Left behind? Shit."
Edward runs to catch up with the main group.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Light one of my flares and hold it near a smoke detector, and stay with the group and be ready to shoot things if needed.Burt lifts a flare to the nearest spoke detecting panel and waits. After a good 30 seconds water sprayer nozzles extend from the ceiling and begin spraying a constant deluge of water.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
"Poor Wilfred. All of OMNI's forces and all of OMNI's men couldn't put him back together again. Fortunately for him, OMNITECH has beings in its ranks that are far superior to humans. And now he will be one of them too!"[9] Pathos manages to get into the OMNI consciousness containment servers and downloads Wilfred's data into his bodyguard robot.
Keep providing motion sensor data to my teammates (and Omniscience data, if I manage to spot any of the lizards and tag them).
If I have time, work on putting Wilfred inside that superior robotic body.
"Oh, and if one of you could light a match under a smoke detector or something to trigger the sprinkler system, that would be really helpful."Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Try again to find a sensor/mode on my scanner that would help in detecting these things, even if one is sitting still.
If any crocs are revealed near us this turn (eg. by the sprinklers or something else), goop 'em.
"Ok, so, there were 6 of those cloning tubes in the lab, and 1 of them got smashed. Pathos picked up 3 motion sensor signals, meaning the remaining 2 are either outside of the range of the scanner, or 2 of these assholes are sitting still and hiding somewhere, no doubt in a position ready to ambush us. Maybe even on a ceiling or above a doorway! So stay on your toes. I'd advise against going out with just a small group but it's a little late for that at this point. Honestly, I'm getting the feeling that we are just clearing the way for our target at this point, bah.
Oh, and I have a bunch of stimulants left, so if any of you fleshies want one feel free to ask, they can save your butt in a pinch."Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Stick with yagyu. If any hostiles show themselves, shoot them with the poot gun.[6] Yagyu activates motion sensing mode. It should be able to pick up these things even if they're invisible and produce no appreciable heat. It should be perfect so long as no one does anything like fill the entire level with movement.Spoiler: Richter (click to show/hide)
Being a robot at present, how human do I look exactly? Possibly different enough so I won’t be hunted?Ji considers her appearance. That of a badly abused anime sex doll with cloned human limbs crudely grafted onto it. She wonders if it will pass for human. [5] Its humanoid and at least a few parts are still organic so there's a good chance she will. At least to assassin lizards.
In any case, have rifle and razor at the ready. If nothing happens, I’ll check the carnage, and see if the robot hit the lizard at all.
Also, this should be the door to the control center, correct?Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
Well that's bad, Larry will see if he can use bad juju to find where it went. All the while keeping his punch ghost primmed and ready to punch at the first sign of reptiles.[8] Larry considers the situation for a long moment. He then lifts one finger into the air and summons forth WICKED WORLD with a clap. The giant pale hand reaches out of nothing and grabs hold of nothing. It drags the nothing back and, for an instant, some members of the party can vaguely make out the form of a spectral Wilfred caught in its grip. Larry speaks with the nothing for a few moments and then gestures again, releasing it.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Sight:
Smell:
Hearing:
Taste: None; robot.
Touch:
"Am I okay? Do I need a spine adjustment?"
Am I okay? Do I need a spine adjustment?Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"You are continuing to talk and breathe, which means there is a 46% chance you are marginally okay! The second half of your inquiry, however, is a false question - there is always a need for a spinal adjustment!"[7]
Adjust spine (in a beneficial manner) and then see if I can't use my automop in reverse or something to suck up the soapy water, allowing Ed and me to make our way to the others in an isolated puddle of dryness surrounded by soap! Y'know, dry in front, soap up behind.Spoiler: EEED (click to show/hide)
"Oh, god damn it! You bastards brought me back to this fucking place? I just got to escape hell scot free, and you... put me in this body. Huh. Hahaha! I can spin the gatling gun! Oh my god, this is fucking AWESOME, holy shit!"Str d10
Run diagnostics on self. What are Wilfred's current stats? Current life? Current damage dice? Current available weapons?
Enable 5 FPS mode, and speech to text. Disable hearing. Also disable hearing, smell, and taste, if any of those are actually senses possessed by this bot.
Follow team otherwise.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight:
Smell:
Hearing:
Taste: None; robot.
Touch:
Time to follow his own advice, Larry will search for the next sector (but only if a sizable portion of the group is going with him), staying clear of any detours and making sure to use WICKED WORLD to appear big, mean and generally not worth the trouble compared to his smaller, weaker, easier to chewhuman shieldsfellow co-workers.
Also Larry will put on the Isolation Suit and activate all isolationery features, he's pretty sure he's immune but if the target went mad due to psych feedback he's also pretty sure his pay would get docked.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Stay with the group no matter what happens, and be ready to shoot all the hostile things.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
So can we assume this sector is 'secure' as long as we stay in the water and aren't alone, also for any return trip?Yagyu considers the situation. [3] Yeah...these sprinklers will probably remain on forever. And this place probably won't flood or anything. Its fine.
Assuming the group moves along with me, go search for the door to the next sector. Don't open it yet and don't let others open it yet either, especially not with any destructive methods, we don't want to accidentally paste our target and make this all for nothing.
Oh, and if needed, quickly fashion some sort of strap of backpack or something so robo!Wil can drag his old inventory along with him. Or just put that stuff in the hammer space until we figure out what to do with it.
"Next sector is where our target was last spotted. Let's make sure we are all ready and have all the sensory deprivation crap up and running before we open that door. Wil, don't forget your new body probably still needs to activate reduced framerate and text-to-speech stuff and whatnot. "Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: None to speak of~
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Robots don't eat!
Touch: Pressure sensors apparently don't count.
"Yeah, fuck you, Larry. And fuck Derp. Both of you fuckers! Worthless meatbag trash, I'll kill you both, slowly. And painfully. Sew you together, so you can suffer together, Derp-Larry the fucking fuck-fuck! FUCK! Why am I still in this fucking place? I hope when I die I explode and take all of you with me...""Ha ha ha! What a story, F U C K I N G W I L! Just remember to take care, if you were to die a sudden death there's no telling what would happen to your soul in a spoopy place like this. Just imagine, you went all this way just for some ghastly ghost hand under the control of some devilish and handsome abomination from the deepest dark abyss to grab your soul and squeeze till the soul juice comes out. Sorta like what I did now that I think about it. Anyway, you're the most useful guy here, losing you would be a shame my man!"
Is the guardbot's AI still active in this body? Can I set it to have full normal-speed vision, while either disabling my own, or keeping mine at 0.2 FPS? If so, do that, and let it have control of the guns.
Otherwise, stay at 0.2 FPS, and stay at the front of the group. Let whoever open the door, and immediately open fire on whatever is behind it. Or tell the robot AI to do so. And continually cuss out both Derp and Larry the entire time.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: None to speak of~
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Robots don't eat!
Touch: Pressure sensors apparently don't count.
"Ha ha ha! What a story, F U C K I N G W I L! Just remember to take care, if you were to die a sudden death there's no telling what would happen to your soul in a spoopy place like this. Just imagine, you went all this way just for some ghastly ghost hand under the control of some devilish and handsome abomination from the deepest dark abyss to grab your soul and squeeze till the soul juice comes out. Sorta like what I did now that I think about it. Anyway, you're the most useful guy here, losing you would be a shame my man!"
"Yeah, fuck you, Larry. And fuck Derp. Both of you fuckers! Worthless meatbag trash, I'll kill you both, slowly. And painfully. Sew you together, so you can suffer together, Derp-Larry the fucking fuck-fuck! FUCK! Why am I still in this fucking place? I hope when I die I explode and take all of you with me..."[1]
Is the guardbot's AI still active in this body? Can I set it to have full normal-speed vision, while either disabling my own, or keeping mine at 0.2 FPS? If so, do that, and let it have control of the guns.
Otherwise, stay at 0.2 FPS, and stay at the front of the group. Let whoever open the door, and immediately open fire on whatever is behind it. Or tell the robot AI to do so. And continually cuss out both Derp and Larry the entire time.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: None to speak of~
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Robots don't eat!
Touch: Pressure sensors apparently don't count.
Dear spiderfriend,
Can you shut him the fuck down before he murders us all?!
xoxo, YagyuSight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: None to speak of~
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Robots don't eat!
Touch: Pressure sensors apparently don't count.
"Ugh, I set the guardbot to take over and shoot any hostiles. Did you fuckers trigger it? Seriously? It was the cultist dude, wasn't it? Yeah, this just goes to show; you start threatening people wearing a giant robot guard body, maybe that giant robot guard body will decide you're a threat. Who woulda thought? Just lay down and stop being threatening targets, and you'll be fine. Oh, why do I even try? You need me to fix this, don't you? Ugh. Fucking Derp hasn't even had to do anything, and yet it feels like we've killed our whole team twice over already...""OoOoOoOoO Richter didn't insult you. Dipshit. OoOoOoO I'm a ghooooost~" a ghostly voice calls out in Wilfred's dipshit robot ears.
Fix the targeting algorithm. Add in an exception for teammates. Make sure it can be revoked at a moment's notice, though.
And if the wannabe elder god cultist actually does manage to do something despite having been thoroughly pulped, use those good old green ghost god powers to summon a bigger fish that'll eat him.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: None to speak of~
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Robots don't eat!
Touch: Pressure sensors apparently don't count.
GHOST LARRY. THIS. LAST MESSAGE.
MR. WHITE FACE. KILL. FUCKTARD.
REVENGE. NOW. FUCKING WILFRED.
and with those psych words imprinting on everyone's soul, the most useful member of the team dies. Truly a human saint, he was human, totally human. Now to watch out for White Face.
"Ugh, I set the guardbot to take over and shoot any hostiles. Did you fuckers trigger it? Seriously? It was the cultist dude, wasn't it? Yeah, this just goes to show; you start threatening people wearing a giant robot guard body, maybe that giant robot guard body will decide you're a threat. Who woulda thought? Just lay down and stop being threatening targets, and you'll be fine. Oh, why do I even try? You need me to fix this, don't you? Ugh. Fucking Derp hasn't even had to do anything, and yet it feels like we've killed our whole team twice over already..."[5][9][11v8][9][4] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UivE58sc9Lg)
Fix the targeting algorithm. Add in an exception for teammates. Make sure it can be revoked at a moment's notice, though.
And if the wannabe elder god cultist actually does manage to do something despite having been thoroughly pulped, use those good old green ghost god powers to summon a bigger fish that'll eat him.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: None to speak of~
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Robots don't eat!
Touch: Pressure sensors apparently don't count.
He types rapidly on his computing cube, trying to dig up that old FoF program he may or may not have on his computer and adapt it to work on this murder robot.Edward does this. Sure the robot isn't murdery right now, but who knows when it or a similar robot will go murdery again in the near future?
Test my back. Do some stretches. Figure out the "not immediately obvious" benefits of having my spine so wonderfully adjusted.Edward also does this, since it was so rudely interrupted by homicidal robot.
Homocidal robot's gun detached. Bullets no longer concern. Activate chiropractic measures?
Fact: Robot has two limbs on symmetrical axis, similar to arms. Conclusion: Robot's guns are arms.
Fact: Arms have joints and bones.
Fact: Detachment of arm constitutes damage to bones.
Fact: Chiropractic care heals bones.
Fact: Robot has shown acute willingness to kill organic beings.
Fact: Until proven otherwise, I am an organic being.
Fact: I am not contractually allowed to care about my own wellbeing.
Calculating probability of successful adjustment strategies...
Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: None to speak of~
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Robots don't eat!
Touch: Pressure sensors apparently don't count.
Hey, Can I get the 135 OMNI I gave Larry back, because either it was credit, which is no longer applicable, or it was physical currency, which I can now collect from Larry directly.Yes.
In any case, I'm going to inspect the torn-off gun arm and wonder of I would be able to wield the gun part myself. Don't pick it up yet, and reassure Wilfred that I'm not stealing it, but still look at it.
And now for appropriations! First I'll check Richter's puddle to see if the symbiote survived and collect the sidearm and ammo and the psychic drugs. Then I'll go to Larry's puddle and collect the rest of the Lizard parts and the rifle and the other sidearm and any ammo. Also, if anyone else really wants something that I'm picking up, they can have it.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
[6] Edward gets the old FOF program up and working, and adapts it to the Murderbot. Now, assuming the issue was faulty FOF, this should work.He types rapidly on his computing cube, trying to dig up that old FoF program he may or may not have on his computer and adapt it to work on this murder robot.Edward does this. Sure the robot isn't murdery right now, but who knows when it or a similar robot will go murdery again in the near future?Test my back. Do some stretches. Figure out the "not immediately obvious" benefits of having my spine so wonderfully adjusted.Edward also does this, since it was so rudely interrupted by homicidal robot.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Pathos begins to wonder if he accidently spammed Ji. Then he remembers that Ji was likely a lost cause before this ever began.Spoiler: SMUG SPAM (click to show/hide)
Remain vigilant and threaten anyone that looks at me funny with memes.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
[4]Quote from: EEED's thoughtsHomocidal robot's gun detached. Bullets no longer concern. Activate chiropractic measures?
Fact: Robot has two limbs on symmetrical axis, similar to arms. Conclusion: Robot's guns are arms.
Fact: Arms have joints and bones.
Fact: Detachment of arm constitutes damage to bones.
Fact: Chiropractic care heals bones.
Fact: Robot has shown acute willingness to kill organic beings.
Fact: Until proven otherwise, I am an organic being.
Fact: I am not contractually allowed to care about my own wellbeing.
Calculating probability of successful adjustment strategies...
1d2 (1 - Attempt robot chiro. 2 - Do something reasonable) = 1
EEED, seeing a prospective patient both get hurt and show willingness to not instantly murder anyone that comes near him, lights up in joy.
"Allow me to help, metal man! I am an expert in all things health."
Unless I happen to be dissuaded by someone more competent, fix Wilfred's gun arm with my skills with normal anatomy that I'm sure transfer seamlessly over to advanced robotics.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Agh. Fucking cultists... they keep turning into demons. Dark bargains with evil gods don't work out, you fools! You have to beat them into submission. That's what I did, and you just saw how much better it works out. And now we have even fewer guns to shoot Derp with, god damn it... Yes, Pathos, you're an adorable little bitch, I'd pat you on the head if I had a hand. So stop humping my face."
Dissuade the "chiropractor" from fixing the detached gun arm, by pointing the attached gun arm at him. Shoot his leg if he tries to "help".
Does my integrated autocannon lose any damage dice from having one of the guns ripped off? Is the autotargeting program working as intended now?
In any case, go back to the point position. Then get ready to breach and shoot whatever is on the other side of the door.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: None to speak of~
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Robots don't eat!
Touch: Pressure sensors apparently don't count.
Go grab what those poor souls had on them (and that hasn't been pulped to mush), and that others don't need. Try to get the riot suit at least, if it isn't shredded.[6] Yagyu just scoops both piles of goo into his bag, along with whatever might be inside them.
Check if I could reattach the broken gun arm to Wilbot or to Jibot if I used a toolkit charge, or is it too broken for that?
See if the door to the next sector got compromised.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Spawn in among the refugees/employees in the brobot sector. Get my bearings as the newest Omnitech employee/meatbag.[7] Ed can't figure out how to hijack a robot with the fob, but his personal computing cube and some elbow grease is enough to get one of the robots under his control.
Then find one of the brobots and see if the override fob works on it. If not, attempt to hack it to serve as my bodyguard.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
surf on down to where the trouble is (https://i.imgur.com/OckoFNp.mp4)Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)
Put me back in, I'll not rest till FUCKING WILFRED has been accidentally killed.[STUDIO AUDIENCE APPLAUSE AS NEW AND OLD CHARACTERS RETURN!]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Well, that's a start, I suppose." Ed sighs, scratching his arm. He looks at the OMNITECH new employee welcome pamphlet with apprehension "But of what?"Ed successfully hacked a pusher robot! Or is it a shover robot? He's not really sure. It keeps talking endlessly about pushing and shoving, regardless. Luckily it doesn't have any bread or stairs to make the most of its powers.
So, what kind of robot did I manage to hack exactly?
Make my way over to my new OMNITECH colleagues so I can become a member of the team. In the back of the team, staying near my brobot and away from whatever it is they're messing with right now.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Bite somebody until Bob receives snacks, or a sufficiently interesting mechanical situation to resolve.Bob bites Wilfred in the metal treads repeatedly, grumbling increasingly loudly each time.Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
Continue the struggle! Medical practices (that I am at least 35% qualified to perform) must not be impeded by the grasp of mere synthetic horniness! Pry the gun free and see if the situation hasn't devolved far enough into shooting that it'll be safe to try to put the gun back on Wilfred.
To be clear, if shit is going down, then just stay back and watch for any maimed people that might need to be realigned in order to fix their dismemberment or whatever.Spoiler: EEED (click to show/hide)
If I win, try to equip the gun. If I lose, sulk about it and stand behind WilBot if he’s ready to advance on the next sector.Ji releases the gun in exasperation and scampers away over to Wilfred to hide behind his...at least for the moment...plentiful and sheltering bulk. She considers wielding two rifles at once and thinks that it would indeed be possible. Though perhaps not very accurate.
EDIT- in the interest of preventing more friendly fire, let him have the gun. However, this gives me an idea. Do I think I might be strong enough to wield two rifles at once?Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
"Gentlepersons, I've come here to dissect psykers and overdose on a stimulant. And I've already overdosed five times today."[Life to d4]
Sam jabs a needle of stimulant into her arm, she didn't go and then get kicked out of med school to die because of some psych weirdo.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Edward deals with whatever's on the other side of that door by hiding behind someone (or preferably several someones) with more experience and better armour.Edward, who is like Ed but less itchy, hides behind Wilfred as well. [5] He also snaps out of his delusions, much to the disappointment of everyone, I'm sure.
Edward figures that he can see through walls as long as they're made of a transparent material, fly short distances downward at 9.8 meters per second squared, and talk to fruit but it won't talk back.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Use my engineer powers to aid in the opening of the door to the next sector, and try to stay out of the line of fire if people start shooting.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
"Allrighty then, enough fucking around. Let's open that door and deal with whatever is on the other side."Yagyu scans the door way and besides a rather unpleasant amount of decomposition gases and by products it seems fine. So, he and the somehow still alive Burt force it open. Its a difficult process and they can only get it maybe a foot and a half open on their own: anything more will require more machine muscle than they have access to between them. Beyond the door the hallway is...a lot cleaner than they expected. Brightly lit, apparently sterile. However there is something there: A hospital bed. One of the rolling kind that look like they're made of bent up pipes. There's a white sheet on the bed covering...something. Too small for a person. Looks like...a tube? Maybe a meter long?
First scan the door/doorway to see if I can pick up anything suspicious, like trace amounts of chemicals that might indicate the other side of the door is trapped with explosives or something like that.
If nothing comes up, open the door (maybe with help from a teammate if it's difficult) but only a little bit and stick the environment scanner through the gap to take a picture/short video of what is immediately behind (if video watch or record at a safe framerate). Check the pic/video, if the other side doesn't either contain our mind-raping target and/or a hostile welcoming party or other deadly dangers, open the door fully.
In any case though, if the Wil-murderbot behind me is still intent on shooting everything as soon as the door opens, then let him or someone else open the door and stand to the side, I'd rather not be the next victim to avoidable friendly fire. :vSpoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: None to speak of~
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Robots don't eat!
Touch: Pressure sensors apparently don't count.
Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: None to speak of~
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Robots don't eat!
Touch: Pressure sensors apparently don't count.
"We are employees, not slaves. Our job is to try and turn this bastard in alive, if that's not up your ally you were free to sit this one out, and in fact you are still at liberty to return to the entrance and wait for the reclamation team to open up the airlock if you are not willing to try and help us capture him alive. But, as per our briefing, killing him on purpose will bring the Auditors down on our necks, and as we saw in our previous mission, 'mercy' does not seem to be in their employee handbook. Shooting him indiscriminately is probably the most dangerous thing we could do."Yagyu types a message to his handler.
During mission briefing it was mentioned that the person briefing us (anime ape?) could act as our mission control. I think it was also mentioned that we could send them text messages. Send a private text message to see if they are indeed receiving messages and if they can reply (something like "test message to see if you guys are receiving, please confirm if yes").
Then onwards I guess. Keep the scanner out. Make sure not to touch the remains of what was in that tube.
EDIT: let the bot go in first and don't go in until I've confirmed it won't be another round of friendly fire.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
私たちはあなたのメッセージを受け取っています
Find computers and plunder them for their data booty. I need them to tell me what happened here.
"Wilfred, do you want me to put you back into the OMNICLOUD? I bet i could even hack you into the premium heaven section. I hear they have simulated genuine food there, instead of those vat-grown stuff they feed us."Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Follow along with Pathos and join him data looting. And some regular looting, if I happen to spot any goodies out in the open.[11][1]
Don't pick up any physical items myself though, they might be trapped. Have brobot pick them up for me while I wait at a safe distance.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Waddle in and eat the organic remains.Bob begins eating whatever bits of flesh he can find among the glass, fabric, and metal shards.For Science!Because Bob.Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
Note: the person briefing us was the NPC speaking in yellow (also an ape I believe, but maybe not anime-ape?), who understands space-English. Either way, since Yagyu received a response he'll assume command is receiving messages and will send the following private message if Wil continues to behave erratically:QuoteDuring mission briefing it was mentioned that the person briefing us (anime ape?) could act as our mission control. I think it was also mentioned that we could send them text messages. Send a private text message to see if they are indeed receiving messages and if they can reply (something like "test message to see if you guys are receiving, please confirm if yes")."Well that's helpful(?)."
Employee Wilfred is suffering from what looks to be PTSD and is planning to kill the person we are tasked with retrieving. Would it be possible to disable his guns or, if not, to break the connection between his simulated consciousness and the body he is currently inhabiting from your end? If yes, please be ready to do so should it prove necessary.
Note: the person briefing us was the NPC speaking in yellow (also an ape I believe, but maybe not anime-ape?), who understands space-English.((The Robo-Gorilla rescued on the second mission. From the genetics lab. I forget his name, but George is stuck in my head, so George it is until PW corrects me. Anime Ape was from Mission 1, and is a Stand Using orangutan that Jon named Yuri. He was from Venus.))
"I wonder how many of the test subjects were named Ed?""Dozens, perhaps millions! We will never know for sure. But never fear, with the power of name changes, anyone may enter the Congregation of Ed!
Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: None to speak of~
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Robots don't eat!
Touch: Pressure sensors apparently don't count.
QuoteNote: the person briefing us was the NPC speaking in yellow (also an ape I believe, but maybe not anime-ape?), who understands space-English. Either way, since Yagyu received a response he'll assume command is receiving messages and will send the following private message if Wil continues to behave erratically:QuoteDuring mission briefing it was mentioned that the person briefing us (anime ape?) could act as our mission control. I think it was also mentioned that we could send them text messages. Send a private text message to see if they are indeed receiving messages and if they can reply (something like "test message to see if you guys are receiving, please confirm if yes")."Well that's helpful(?)."QuoteEmployee Wilfred is suffering from what looks to be PTSD and is planning to kill the person we are tasked with retrieving. Would it be possible to disable his guns or, if not, to break the connection between his simulated consciousness and the body he is currently inhabiting from your end? If yes, please be ready to do so should it prove necessary.
"Welp, guess he's in there somewhere. Maybe he had his appearance modified, or maybe there will be a big Frankenstein waiting for us in there.
Then again, he could also be waiting for us in sector A, where the PA system got hacked from. I could always weld that surgical suite shut from our side so we can explore more of this and the next sector safely."
Get into hard cover but with sight of that door. If it gets opened this turn by either a teammate or from the inside, goop whatever is in there to the floor (do not goop face so as to not suffocate it). Prep a private message for command to disable Wil, send it should it look like he will harm our target.
If that door isn't opened this turn and no other shenanigans occur, check where the door to sector A is.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Only if we have a connection to his current body. Please establish connection.
"Hey robot minigun man, I'm sure you're very angry at our psyker friend but we kinda need the money so could you pretty please shred him after he's been dissected by the boss men or me and we get paid? I'm sure they'll leave you at least 20% of Derp as a reward."[6]
Stay away from the door, try to see if there's anything around that can be used as a makeshift sedative/robot disabler in a worst-case scenario.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"I wonder how many of the test subjects were named Ed?"Ed crawls into a laundry hamper and huddles under the bloody sheets.
Stay out of the way.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Go search the tube that will "pacified" to try to figure out what the deal is (unless someone already did and I wasn't paying attentions).
Afterwards, see if anything in the lab looks valuable. Maybe some organs that would go for a penny on the Blackmarket?
Edit- Make sure to avoid WilBotSpoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
Follow JiBot to the snacks. Negotiate with Jibot for the snacks. Eat the snacks.[1]Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
[2]"I wonder how many of the test subjects were named Ed?""Dozens, perhaps millions! We will never know for sure. But never fear, with the power of name changes, anyone may enter the Congregation of Ed!
I am accepting alternate names for our cult."
Continue looking around for anyone in need of chiropractic care/exorcism. Begin to consider how to set up a society of Ed once this mission's over.Spoiler: EEED (click to show/hide)
"I'm gonna look for supplies to use if someone does something stupid, which given this groups history is bound to happen."[2]
Stay away from the door and search the area for a first aid kit and a fire extinguisher.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
"Fuck Derp, but fine, I'll go somewhere else. That room looks good, and Derp-free. If any of you try and enter without warning, I'm shooting you. And I'll shoot even if you do warn me. Don't enter. Fuck Derp."Wilfred trundles off into an unused surgical theater. He hangs a small sign saying "NO GIRLS ALLOWED. ALSO NO BOYS. OR ANYONE. I WILL SHOOT YOU." from the door and then locks himself in. He rolls over into the corner, aligns his guns with the door, sets them to autofire, and retreats into his own mechanical brain.
Go lock self inside one of the surgical rooms, make sure it's one that only has *one* entrance. Or at least one where all the entrances are in view of one spot. Then set the guardbot to... well, guard mode. "Kill anything that enters." While it's busy with that, continually chant "fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp" over the radio, for everyone to hear. Constantly.
Also review the recorded footage from own guardbot body, comparing the various posters of people. Is there any common theme that can be pieced together from the "unfit" posters? Are all the posters mostly identical? Or are they just random people? Men and women, or just men?Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: None to speak of~
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Robots don't eat!
Touch: Pressure sensors apparently don't count.
"Recommendation: medics should restock their supplies with the help of .Pathos knocks on the sealed door and shouts about a delivery of circular bread with congealed fat toppings. He then drops his mining charge next to the door and scampers away.
Recommendation: Wilfred should leave the room until summoned."
Knock on the door, yell "I've got that pizza you ordered!" and then drop my mining charge and get to a safe distance. (If someone with better speech is willing to impersonate the pizza boy I'm fine with that.) That way, if whatever comes out is dangerous I'll be able to just blow it up.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
23:56] Radio Controlled: @Piecewise that door we are facing in mook, does it look like it swings inward to us, or outward into the room?
[23:58] Piecewise: It looks like it slides into the wall
[23:58] Piecewise: hydraulic metal door
[23:58] Piecewise: We don't have fugging swinging doors round here
[23:58] Piecewise: what kind of plebs are we?
[23:58] Radio Controlled: Also, how is it locked, can we tell?
[23:59] Piecewise: Keypad, electronically locked
[23:59] Radio Controlled: Like, a software lock so to speak, or- ah.
[23:59] Radio Controlled: Thanks!
Only if we have a connection to his current body. Please establish connection.Wait, I'm confused. Isn't his consciousness being simulated on a computer where the cognition copier is, and then getting 'streamed' into that new body? Or are you telling me that a random security guardbot has all the hardware required to simulate a human consciousness in the same way that a robobody brain can?
The storage rooms are packed floor to ceiling with organic sample tubes: human arms, eyes, teeth, bits of flesh and skin suspended in greenish nutrigel and stacked like firewood with no labels. There are no signs of the bodies they came from.I believe JiBot and Bob were interested in this, rather than in fighting over Bob's previous snacks. Anyway, if JiBot (or any other character) rummages about in thses storage rooms, Bob will accompany them and negotiate for snacks, and eat said snacks.
"Allrighty. If one of you could hack open the door so I can keep my goop launcher trained on it and open fire the second it opens, that'd be swell. If any of you have a flashbang we could toss in first that'd be even better. We could also just weld shut the door and lock them in, buuut our mission was to get that bloke back into his isolation chamber, so yeah, not an option.""It could be an option? He has to starve eventually. Does this mission got a time limit?" Says a quiet voice from inside a dirty laundry hamper.
Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitGo through the Sector A door, goop whatever seems like a threat
"Allrighty. If one of you could hack open the door so I can keep my goop launcher trained on it and open fire the second it opens, that'd be swell. If any of you have a flashbang we could toss in first that'd be even better. We could also just weld shut the door and lock them in, buuut our mission was to get that bloke back into his isolation chamber, so yeah, not an option.""It could be an option? He has to starve eventually. Does this mission got a time limit?" Says a quiet voice from inside a dirty laundry hamper.
Did EEED just shout those scriptures out loud, did he post them in some group chat or email or something, or did he somehow telepathically beam them to everyone?I’m guessing shouting because caps, but I could be wrong. I see you like robots/AI too, based on your profile pic
Did EEED just shout those scriptures out loud, did he post them in some group chat or email or something, or did he somehow telepathically beam them to everyone?((
”I indeed do not, aside from the now decommissioned clone printer in GeneriBrand HQ, which I would likely be murdered for trying to access! I am unique, adrift in the cosmos with no kin other than myself!""No kin, not even others named Ed?" says a quiet voice from inside a dirty laundry hamper.
((What’s the robot like? Can it sense the environment in any way?))((The robot is a fully automated assembly line that makes DNA and RNA test kits, mostly for covid lately.
Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: None to speak of~
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Robots don't eat!
Touch: Pressure sensors apparently don't count.
"Fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp... hey, you know, Derp is trying to copy himself. And this place's original goal was to copy Derp. We might be working for idiots who are effectively supporting Derp. I bet Derp escaped because they did it right, and the resulting clone mind controlled everyone and let him out. Fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp..."ATTENTION ALL UNCOMPROMISED TEAMMATES. COMPROMISED TEAMMATES PLEASE SHOOT YOURSELVES INSTEAD OF LISTENING. THANK YOU. DERP IS ATTEMPTING TO CLONE HIMSELF. THAT IS ALL.
Inform the team of the fairly trivial fact that Derp is trying to clone himself. Then point out the obvious fact that letting him live is a horrible idea and our command is full of fools for allowing him to exist. Otherwise, continue to sit in this corner chanting "Fuck Derp" over the comms incessantly.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: None to speak of~
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Robots don't eat!
Touch: Pressure sensors apparently don't count.
Sam will take a gander at the bodies and try to use her medical knowledge to try and guess what Derp wants in having more Derps. That major in the Frankenstein School of Clones has to be useful somehow.[10]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
[Quote23:56] Radio Controlled: @Piecewise that door we are facing in mook, does it look like it swings inward to us, or outward into the room?
[23:58] Piecewise: It looks like it slides into the wall
[23:58] Piecewise: hydraulic metal door
[23:58] Piecewise: We don't have fugging swinging doors round here
[23:58] Piecewise: what kind of plebs are we?
[23:58] Radio Controlled: Also, how is it locked, can we tell?
[23:59] Piecewise: Keypad, electronically locked
[23:59] Radio Controlled: Like, a software lock so to speak, or- ah.
[23:59] Radio Controlled: Thanks!
"Allrighty. If one of you could hack open the door so I can keep my goop launcher trained on it and open fire the second it opens, that'd be swell. If any of you have a flashbang we could toss in first that'd be even better. We could also just weld shut the door and lock them in, buuut our mission was to get that bloke back into his isolation chamber, so yeah, not an option."
First weld the door to sector A shut (use toolkit charge if possible). Not a full weld, just a quick one to prevent easy opening. If Pathos immediately opens the surgical door though then skip this and just get ready.
Get back into hard cover with sight of the surgical suite. Once it gets opened, goop whatever is in there to the floor (do not goop face so as to not suffocate it).QuoteOnly if we have a connection to his current body. Please establish connection.Wait, I'm confused. Isn't his consciousness being simulated on a computer where the cognition copier is, and then getting 'streamed' into that new body? Or are you telling me that a random security guardbot has all the hardware required to simulate a human consciousness in the same way that a robobody brain can?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Question: Wait, I'm confused. Isn't his consciousness being simulated on a computer where the cognition copier is, and then getting 'streamed' into that new body? Or are you telling me that a random security guardbot has all the hardware required to simulate a human consciousness in the same way that a robobody brain can?
Response: Ah! Well that's a common misconception. The cognition copiers sequence your neurons in a constant fashion, uploading whenever there is a significant change. What they consider a significant change, well I don't know. However only one copy of the consciousness is kept on the server at any one time and once its downloaded into a new body they delete it. According to the powers that be and the user manual this is to save space but I'm pretty sure its to prevent another Sammy Huswell incident. That or just a way to make ya buy another copier.
Now, the second part of that question is quite funny. See, everybody seems to think that ol' human noodle is something so complex and magical that we'd need some super computer to run it. But as it turns out a lot of that gray gunk between your ears is basically redundant when you're installing it into already functioning system that has many of the capacities of the brain. Whataya need with a visual cortex when you already got an image processing and sight system in the robot? Whatcha need that hippocampus for when memories are stored on a hard drive? Really what you're running with a cognition copy is frontal cortex and limbic with a few bits and pieces from elsewhere all wrapped up in interface software like a pig in a steel blanket. Advancements in processing power and memory density combined with universal adoption of OMNI OS mean we can stick your virtual thinking bits in just about anything! I once put an intern in a coffee machine for a week! That's how I learned that Omni-Coffi machines can synthesize organic poisons! Ha ha, clever bastard! Hope he likes sitting in an SD card at the bottom of a lake!
Transmission ends
"OH GOD DAMN IT, why can't these people have put all this shit into one convenient box for me to steal, now I've got to build my own kit. Fucking asshole doctors making me work for my first aid stuff."[4]
Find a box and fill it with any medical supplies I think could be good for first aid.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (senses and blocking of them) [Select]Sight: BlindfoldGo through the Sector A door, goop whatever seems like a threat
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
”THE SCRIPTURES OF ED:EEED wanders a safe distance from the action and begins sermoning loudly about his newly formed cult. Mostly he does this to an empty hall but occasionally someone will wander past on their way to somewhere else. When the do he chases them down the hall, attempting to sell them on the Cult of Ed in the same way someone might try to sell a "miracle stain remover".
1. HARM YE NOT THOSE WHICH HAVE THE SACRED NAME
2. THE SACRED NAME IS ED, COMPRISED OF AN INFINITUDE OF BOTH E AND D
3. TO ATTAIN SACRED STATUS ONE MAY APPEND MORE LETTERS TO THEIR NAME, PROVIDED THOSE LETTERS ARE E AND D IN EQUAL PROPORTION. SACRED DEEDS ARE REQUIRED TO ADVANCE THE HOLINESS OF ONE'S NAME
4. THY TASK IS TO HEAL ALL THOSE LACKING THE SACRED NAME, AND IN DOING SO CHANGE THEIR FORMS OF ADDRESS PART BY PART INTO THE SACRED NAME
5. NEVER BETRAY ANOTHER ED FOR YOU ARE BOTH MANIFESTATIONS OF THE SACRED NAME, WHICH LOVES ITSELF
6. THE HIGHEST OF CALLINGS IS WORKING TO ADVANCE THE MANIFESTATION OF THE PRIME ED, WHETHER BY SHAPING OTHERS INTO VESSELS FOR THE SACRED NAME OR BY DIVINING THE WAYS THAT THE FABRIC OF REALITY MAY BE MADE TO WELCOME THE TRUTH OF ED
7. THE NAME WV AND ALL VARIATIONS THEREOF, BEING THE ANTITHESIS OF ED, IS THE ENEMY. DESTROY IT WHEREVER IT IS FOUND”
EEED shudders momentarily as he internalizes these sacred truths. "Well then! Time to get to work! This fellow's name is Derp, which is 50% holy, so recovering him safely will surely be enough to realign the balance of my name."
Since there's nothing else I can currently do to help in capturing the wayward Derp without immediately getting mind controlled, begin preaching to everyone else about the benefits of joining the Cult of ED.Spoiler: EEED (click to show/hide)
Bob, bereft of company, just starts smashing open sealed sample containers and eating the random human parts within.The storage rooms are packed floor to ceiling with organic sample tubes: human arms, eyes, teeth, bits of flesh and skin suspended in greenish nutrigel and stacked like firewood with no labels. There are no signs of the bodies they came from.I believe JiBot and Bob were interested in this, rather than in fighting over Bob's previous snacks. Anyway, if JiBot (or any other character) rummages about in thses storage rooms, Bob will accompany them and negotiate for snacks, and eat said snacks.Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
I’ll cover Yagyu, whatever he ends up doing.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
Robo-sigh, pick up my bomb and go open the door for Yagyu the usual computer-probing way. Then step out of the way so that I don't get covered by his sticky white goop when he unloads it all over the room full of corpses.[3]Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitHelp guard against the lizard things"Well what if those invisible crocodile things come from D and we need a place to fall back to?"
"I say just leave them in there and put a sticky note on the door for the cleanup crew."
Does this door have an access log? Check to see when it was opened and closed recently, maybe it can give us some more clues.
"Well what if those invisible crocodile things come from D and we need a place to fall back to?"Invisible lizard things? Maybe a hazard scanner can help if there aren’t spirits around to muddle the scanning
"Aha, I see, a good point. However, thing is that those crocs were ambush predators, and after Pathos there activated the sprinklers they got spooked and scampered off. I find it unlikely that they would follow us into this sector, and even more unlikely that they'd try to attack us while we are in a group. So between the known but stable threat of sector D and the complete mystery of sector A, I find the former preferable."............................................................................."
It's still possible though of course, so if you want to help guard us against those monsters you could take a teammate or two that's otherwise not doing much and cover the entrance to sector D. I could even lend you my scanner, which has a motion tracking feature to help detecting them."
"Fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp--Here's the way to solve the problem. Give one of the security people, with a shock implant, a knife. They go into the room, they look at each person, then slash their throat. When they don't slash someone's throat, they've found Derp. If they slash everyone's throats, then we know Derp isn't here, and we've removed most of his thralls. Simple, easy, effective. Fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp..."Do you really want to give Derp another body to control?
"Well that's spooky, y'all wouldn't happen to have an empty flask along with some bleach and ammonia? No? Damn."[7][11]
Look for chemicals that could be fashioned into some sort of,war crime accessorysleep gas or something, but do it far, far away from the door. If only she had a degree in Necrology, then she could stay and look all she wants.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"I say just leave them in there and put a sticky note on the door for the cleanup crew."[3]
Does this door have an access log? Check to see when it was opened and closed recently, maybe it can give us some more clues.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
"I'm the one that set of the sprinklers in the lizard death chambers!"[5]
Meet back up with the group, and grab a fire extinguisher if I see one.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
"Yes, yes. I'm okay. Do you want to help me guard that door over there?"The laundry hamper, which luckily has wheels, rolls over to the entrance of Sector D and stops. A hand comes out of it for a moment, gives a thumbs up, and then vanishes back inside.
Scoot my laundry basket of safety slightly slightly closer to the othet door, the entrance do sector D, in some semblance of keeping watch.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Tara stands guard next to the door to sector D as well. She occasionally glances down at the laundry hamper in mild confusion but decides not to worry about it too much.Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (senses and blocking of them) [Select]Sight: BlindfoldHelp guard against the lizard things
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
So we know where he’s getting the parts, also he might be injured, explaining why he needs the parts, which should make him easier to capture. It’d be nice to enter Sector A to find more things, if someone hadn’t welded it shut
Turning to his teammates, making sure the people inside can't hear him, Yagyu whispers:[6] No charge needed.
"Welp, I'm not sure, but it looks like he might be posing as one of these blokes. Either that, or they are still under control and he's somewhere else, though since the radio jammer is still on it can't be through an earpiece. Maybe the observation is still recent enough, in that case we'd need to wait an hour for the effect to wear off. They might just do this of their own will I guess, but seems unlikely. We'll need a way to neutralize and then process them carefully either way.
I'll weld the door for now while we search for something, if we can't find anything we could let the door open a little bit more and then goop the people inside one by one, though I'm not sure if that will work very well.
Or we leave them alone for now and check out sector A first I suppose."
Weld the surgical suite door in its current position so the people inside can't suddenly rush out and overwhelm us. Just a few dots that are easy to remove like before, but enough that they can't force it open quickly. Use a toolkit charge.
Then look inside again and try to determine how these people are being controlled. Does it seem likely that our target is one of them and they are observing him? Or can I maybe spot something on them that might be responsible? Or does it seem like they might simply still be under the effect of an earlier observation? Use my scanner to help with this. Also check if I can see anyone that would match our target of course. Either way try not to stand too close to that gap in the door in case someone is standing just next to the door ready to grab me.
Finally, search around for some tanks of anesthetic, hopefully one that is fairly 'mild' (in the sense that a chance for accidentally killing a person through an overdose is small).Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Waddle over to the surgical suite and the smell of rotted fish. Notice the surgical suite door is 'broken.' Begin 'repairing' the surgical suite door.[10][5]Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
EEED perks up. "I have no weapons, but am also an endless source of chiropractic excellence! I will go, and meet with my kin who has both a D and an E in his name!"
Volunteer for the 'do a thing to each person in turn until I run out of people or get mind controlled' plan. Only without the murder and more with the 'constantly eulogize about the Cult of Ed while cracking each person's back in turn'. This entirely hinges on people approving of it and actually letting me do it, though - whether they fit me with a shock collar or not, or if it even happens, is entirely up to them.
If the plan doesn't get approved, instead go locate the largest concentration of people nearby and preach at them.Spoiler: EEED (click to show/hide)
Should I be thankful that their cruelty was matched only by their incompetency? That their blind flailing, which failed to elucidate anything for them, revealed a great deal to me? Perhaps I should; even if the secret it revealed was costly and painful. Communion is the only way I can describe it. A mingling of perfection and the mundane, producing something in between. I know not how or why, but it is assuredly so.
Should I be thankful that their cruelty was matched only by their incompetency? That their blind flailing, which failed to elucidate anything for them, revealed a great deal to me? Perhaps I should; even if the secret it revealed was costly and painful. Communion is the only way I can describe it. A mingling of perfection and the mundane, producing something in between. I know not how or why, but it is assuredly so.turns toward the surgical suite and says if you control anyone who perceives you, how did you get hurt in the first place? then turns back watching Sector D
Edward, do you hav3 any weapons on you? If we are to kill those lizard things, maybe we’ll have to go into Sector D"Do I have a weapon? Sure, if you count this tiny little peashooter here, which I'm barely qualified to use. Do I want to split up from the main group to go hunting giant invisible lizards, while my vision and hearing are severly deprived making them even more difficult to spot? Giant lizards with scales that may or may not be bulletproof. Hunting giant invisible lizards that we have already gone past and probably aren't a danger to us anymore?
"Oh my god, is it actually serious about this whole Ed cult thing?"seems so. Maybe since the lizards haven’t shown up, Sector A would be our next step. What do you think?
Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitEdward, do you think that basket you’re in is sturdy? I have a plan, you should probably exit the basket for safety. Maybe if we ram it as hard as we can into the sector A door, it’ll open. Alternatively, maybe someone can unweld it so it is unlocked?
Edward, do you think that basket you’re in is sturdy? I have a plan, you should probably exit the basket for safety. Maybe if we ram it as hard as we can into the sector A door, it’ll open. Alternatively, maybe someone can unweld it so it is unlocked?"Well that's a plan. Go ahead. Have fun. It might work. You're truly the next Sun Tzu or Napoleon or Miyamoto de Bergerac with these amazing strategies."
Was that sarcasm again? What do you suggest on getting the door open? I don’t have the tools or experience to undo welding, and I don’t have a blowtorch to melt the metal withEdward, do you think that basket you’re in is sturdy? I have a plan, you should probably exit the basket for safety. Maybe if we ram it as hard as we can into the sector A door, it’ll open. Alternatively, maybe someone can unweld it so it is unlocked?"Well that's a plan. Go ahead. Have fun. It might work. You're truly the next Sun Tzu or Napoleon or Miyamoto de Bergerac with these amazing strategies."
Edward gets out of the laundry cart.
Sam encroaches like a cockroach into the conversation. "Not to insult your feeble, small, and pretty much non-existent inteligence. But we do have two clankers if we're in the need for some menial labour," Sam points at Ji and Wilfred "...I'm not saying this cause I'm a cybercist by the way, I'll have you all know I dated a cyborg back in college."Was that sarcasm again? What do you suggest on getting the door open? I don’t have the tools or experience to undo welding, and I don’t have a blowtorch to melt the metal withEdward, do you think that basket you’re in is sturdy? I have a plan, you should probably exit the basket for safety. Maybe if we ram it as hard as we can into the sector A door, it’ll open. Alternatively, maybe someone can unweld it so it is unlocked?"Well that's a plan. Go ahead. Have fun. It might work. You're truly the next Sun Tzu or Napoleon or Miyamoto de Bergerac with these amazing strategies."
Edward gets out of the laundry cart.
I don’t think I’ve heard of cyborcist before, and I don’t think whether or not you dated a cyborg has anything to do with whether a task can be done by a person. Everything I have right now is lighter than the basket, so if anything would work, the basket would. Maybe someone else should do the ramming. What should I do, then? Also I don’t think I’ve met you before, my name’s TaraSam encroaches like a cockroach into the conversation. "Not to insult your feeble, small, and pretty much non-existent inteligence. But we do have two clankers if we're in the need for some menial labour," Sam points at Ji and Wilfred "...I'm not saying this cause I'm a cybercist by the way, I'll have you all know I dated a cyborg back in college."Was that sarcasm again? What do you suggest on getting the door open? I don’t have the tools or experience to undo welding, and I don’t have a blowtorch to melt the metal withEdward, do you think that basket you’re in is sturdy? I have a plan, you should probably exit the basket for safety. Maybe if we ram it as hard as we can into the sector A door, it’ll open. Alternatively, maybe someone can unweld it so it is unlocked?"Well that's a plan. Go ahead. Have fun. It might work. You're truly the next Sun Tzu or Napoleon or Miyamoto de Bergerac with these amazing strategies."
Edward gets out of the laundry cart.
"Oh great...a PR drone. Listen, I know they grow you all in vats and have you chipped at five so I'll put it in a way even you can understand: big robots have big strong which equals busted door."I understood you the first time, no need to dumb it down. Also, I’m not a drone. I think I’d remember if I was in a vat. I’m actually a part of Hazardous Materials and Reclamation Crew.
"Also name's Sam, don't wear it out."
"No need to introduce yourself. Your name's printed on your jumpsuit, and no one cares. My names Ed by the way. By the way, you do actually have a blowtorch. Your sealing kit is one, it works almost as good for unsealing doors. Don't star at the pretty flame for too long. You can even borrow my hammer if you want, if you can figure out which end to hold it by."Oh, yes please give me the hammer, I have a blindfold on as well as the suit, but I’ll turn my head either way
Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitUse my blowtorch to melt the door open
"Alrighty. Keyword is lend, not give. I'd like it back when that doors open."Understood
Edward lends Tara his hammer. This might actually be the most useful thing he has done so far.
"Very well, fellow employee Yagyu! May I also recommend in my professional capacity that you undergo a name change? Not one but two y letters in your name renders you dangerously vulnerable to the insidious influence of the Enemy.""I, uhh, will take it under consideration. My people will call your people."
"I didn't find it, I made it. With my own two hands, some analgesics and what I'm pretty sure are asbestos.""Ohoho, very impressive, space Mc Guyver!"
Pathos raises his front legs in the spider equivalent of a shrug and begins working on helping Yagyu with his plan of half-closing the door and stopping the fans while complaining about the lack of respect for the working spiderdroid genius."I'm sorry, spiderfriend, but that's what happens when you're good at your job: people keep asking you! But I appreciate your help, couldn't do it myself."
"Pathos, open the door. Pathos, close the door." Pathos mimed.
"You know just because I have motion sensors that does not mean I'm a OMNImarket door that should open whenever you wave your hands."
Tim pops in to bring sudden Fire to Bob.((A Tim from other games? You can make a character sheet and start as like a fire spirit or something, we do have someone possessed by a demon and someone possessed by a symbiote. Also plz don’t set fire to teammates))
((Had. They're slime now. But yeah make a sheet Tric, preferably an Occult boy seeing as we're out of those.))Tim pops in to bring sudden Fire to Bob.((A Tim from other games? You can make a character sheet and start as like a fire spirit or something, we do have someone possessed by a demon and someone possessed by a symbiote. Also plz don’t set fire to teammates))
"I didn't find it, I made it. With my own two hands, some analgesics and what I'm pretty sure are asbestos."[5]
Give Yagyu the gas, back away from the door, and search for any more nifty chemicals or things that can be useful later on. Like, say, a gas mask, some bleach, and a little ammonia.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Pathos raises his front legs in the spider equivalent of a shrug and begins working on helping Yagyu with his plan of half-closing the door and stopping the fans while complaining about the lack of respect for the working spiderdroid genius.
"Pathos, open the door. Pathos, close the door." Pathos mimed.
"You know just because I have motion sensors that does not mean I'm a OMNImarket door that should open whenever you wave your hands."Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Speaking to his teammates either in person or over the radio to try and make sure the cultists inside can't hear him, Yagyu starts his yapping.
"Bob, from one technician to another, I am in awe of your skill at percussive maintenance. However, I would ask if you could please, just, not for a moment. Just don't, allright? Maybe help me with piping the sleeping gas into the room instead? I'll get you a nice snack in return later on.
Sam, great job on finding that sleeping gas. I think we can use this to put the peeps in there to sleep and process them in a controlled fashion.
Pathos, could you perhaps help me with the door, or maybe shut off the ventilation in that surgical suite so we can knock those people out more easily?
Wil, your idea has a good core but I'd rather not start indiscriminately killing people if possible. Also going into that room without these blokes being incapacitated seems rather dangerous if they retaliate. But hey, seeing as how the effect of our target always happens, and that this induces a noticeable effect in the target's brain and general demeanor, and we are in a medical sector... Well, I'm thinking we could tie someone down to a scanner, and show them full speed camera footage that someone with proper countermeasures takes to figure out who it is, if he is indeed among this group. Either way, we need to pacify these fools first.
EEED, could you help me with something? I have little medical knowledge, but I do know overdoing that stuff is dangerous, so could you monitor them while we pipe in the gas so we know when to stop? I'll stream the footage at reduced framerate for you.
Also, guys, I am starting to think he may have distributed himself among these victims somehow if his spiel about 'communion' is anything to go by. Or maybe he meant something else, who even knows with these cryptic weirdos. Bah, this fucker is a handful."
Close the door until it is only a little bit open. Then lock it in that position, via software or mechanically (toolkit charge if second). Then search for something that we can use to close off most of the rest of the gap, except for a hole where we can pipe the sleeping gas through, and a peeking hole.
Then shoo away from the door fleshy teammates without an appropriate suit so they won't get knocked out, and start piping in the knockout gas (if we need to build some sort of contraption to do this, use toolkit charge).
Film through he gap with the scanner (reduced framerate so it's safe) and stream that footage to someone medically inclined so they can monitor the 'patients' and tell us when to stop.
Should the peeps inside the room attack us before we can put our plan into motion, then back the fuck up and stick 'em to the floor with liberal application of sticky goop. Try to create a bottleneck at the doorway.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Ed considers the tangible negative effects of the sensory deprivation suit to situational awareness.
Surely the 0.2FPS refresh rate makes difficult to notice things. Possible to completely miss something that doesn't stay in our field of view for a full 5 seconds. Impossible to notice a bit of movement out of the corner of your eye because everything is a still image. Even difficult to use hand signals or other non-verbal communications. Difficult to adjust aim on guns too.
The speech to text to speech surely makes it difficult to pick up on footsteps and other audio clues. Makes it impossible to discern tone of voice or tell who's talking.
Knowing this, Ed keeps watch for sneaky Derps or invisible lizards or anything else.
Importantly, he gets out of his laundry cart before Tara decides to use it as a battering ram. He takes out his much neglected omni-eye camera and films the results. Then he realizes approximately 5 seconds later that his camera is still set to spooky grainy VHS mode.
He also lends his hammer to Tara, cause why the hell not. Ed's really busy this turn. Really making himself useful.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Very well, fellow employee Yagyu! May I also recommend in my professional capacity that you undergo a name change? Not one but two y letters in your name renders you dangerously vulnerable to the insidious influence of the Enemy."[10]
EEED's eyes brighten as he realizes that with the door open and Derp able to hear him, another potential convert is ripe for the taking!
"Mr. Derp! I am currently assisting a teammate with an important medical procedure, and so I cannot meet with you directly at the moment. However, you are like me - blessed with the two sacred letters, merely in reverse order! The time is surely ripe for you to reverse-realign your configuration and achieve true actualization! Allow me to explain to you the benefits to joining the Cult of ED. Firstly..."
Assist Yagyu in making sure whoever he's gassing is being put to sleep safely and not killed, like a non-necrophilic dentist. While I'm doing so, preach incessantly at Derp about why he should consider becoming one with ED. You get self-esteem benefits! Posture problems, gone! Spiritual alignment! Moral integrity! A 5-credit gift card to Space Denny's! A permanent, irreversible connection with an all-seeing, all-knowing entity from beyond the bounds of this fragile reality, who desires nothing more than to envelop all of us in his being of eternal bliss and self-knowledge, and to destroy all that which is unholy and belonging to WV! A cool extracurricular group to hang out with your pals at! Complimentary hand towlettes! All this and more, call the number on your screen now!Spoiler: EEED (click to show/hide)
Defend Yagyu if things get hairy. Aim for non-lethal areas.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
Waddle quickly through the door and immediately demand snacks from whoever was speaking, unless Yagyu got the door mostly closed before Bob could get through, in which case, just follow Yagyu around demanding snacks (even though Bob probably isn't actually hungry), and assisting with whatever mechanical situation is dropped in front of Bob.Bob waddles over to Yagyu and begins thumping his tail on the ground, stomping all 4 feet in turn, and grumbling while opening his mouth in a meaningful fashion.Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
[2] Tara attempts to cut the door open with her torch but despite her hacking several glowing gashing into the metal the door remains closed."No need to introduce yourself. Your name's printed on your jumpsuit, and no one cares. My names Ed by the way. By the way, you do actually have a blowtorch. Your sealing kit is one, it works almost as good for unsealing doors. Don't star at the pretty flame for too long. You can even borrow my hammer if you want, if you can figure out which end to hold it by."Oh, yes please give me the hammer, I have a blindfold on as well as the suit, but I’ll turn my head either waySpoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (senses and blocking of them) [Select]Sight: BlindfoldUse my blowtorch to melt the door open
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
"I'm not sure if I'm needed for whats going on so I'm just going to stay out of the way."Burt waits.
Stay away from the door and sit waiting for when I'm needed.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Even I am still not fully aware of the power this new capacity provides. It is limited though, for obvious reasons. However I have enlisted the aid of these former captors and torturers of mine to test the limits of what is possible. They took a great deal from me, so I will take it back and then some. Perhaps their meager offerings will prove fruitful, in the end.
"So he has them drink his blood or something? I hope it's his blood and not something... weirder."
"How do you expect me to carry all these junk? I'm the brains of this operation dammit, not the brawn!" Pathos complained and shook his spider fist angrily while struggling under the weight of several dead characters' worth of inventory.
Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitGive hammer back to Ed, then ram laundry basket into Sector A door
Sam will put on the gas mask and get to making a war crime grenade.[12]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"... You know what, that could have gone worse than it did, all in all."Yagyu walks into the room and expends an entire goo canister very carefully cocooning every person in there, minus the head of course. That done, he wanders over to EEED and shuts the sleeping gas off before dragging him back out into the hall.
Wait a bit longer until everyone seems out of it, while we wait throw fish and pudding at Bob to keep him pacified. Then give my lethal weapons to Pathos (or another not-fully-insane teammate) but keep the goop thrower, go inside and start gooping people inside to the floor. DO NOT goop the face, just the feet and maybe the hands if possible. Start from the doorway and work my way to the end of the room slowly and carefully. I'm willing to use a lot of goop for this, I have 3 full tanks in total. Make sure not to get within striking/lunging distance of anyone that hasn't been gooped yet.
Should that work, grab the sleeping gas canister and shut it off so we don't overdose them, and hope that someone will help me turn on the ventilation again. Oh, and drag Edboy outta there."So he has them drink his blood or something? I hope it's his blood and not something... weirder."
"I honestly don't know. Maybe he had parts of himself inserted into these people or something."Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Ed stands next to Burt and does what he does best, which is nothing.Burt advises Ed that its best not to think about such things.
"How does Yagyu even carry all that stuff anyway?"
Ed tries really hard to figure out how Yagyu actually carries his stuff. Does he have some internal storage space in his robot body? An cart painted with invisibility paint? Some sort of magitech bag of holding? Someone trying to carry an entire squads worth of stuff should at least have more than d4 strength!
"Hey Tara, good job weakening the door. Now try the cart ram!"Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Sleep and dream happy chiropractic dreams. Maybe engage in communion with the god I made up five minutes ago. Or have the delusion of doing so due to the gas, either way.[4]Spoiler: EEED (click to show/hide)
"Since I'm not currently needed I'm gonna loot the place!"[1] Oh good.
Search around everywhere except the room full of knocked out people for any kind of loot.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Guard Yagyu incase anyone tries anything. And help get Eeed outa there.Ji watches EEED spasm with religious joy. She watches this with a mixture of boredom and bemusement while leaning against a wall.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
[2]Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (senses and blocking of them) [Select]Sight: BlindfoldGive hammer back to Ed, then ram laundry basket into Sector A door
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
"Fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp--bring the guns to me, Pathos. I won't shoot you, and I have the body to carry an armory with me. We hacker robots need to stick together, you know! Also, I'm obviously the safest person to leave guns with, I'm least likely to get controlled. Fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp..."Wilfred continues to have a breakdown. An armed breakdown.
Continue chanting "Fuck Derp" incessantly. And don't shoot Pathos if he comes into Wilfred's closet.
"Suggestion: Organics should evacuate to sector A. I will attempt to vent the gas. Or direct it to the previous section."
((People keep going on about warcrimes, but I don't think it counts, we're not actually at war with anyone! And even if we were I don't actually think Geneva covers gassing your own side.))((We're in the F U T U R E (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk7IDVzLiQo&ab_channel=MattBennett), so Geneva 2 probably came out and covers some new grounds))
Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitRun to Sector A if possible, if Sector A is still closed, head to Sector D
"Suggestion: Organics should evacuate to sector A. I will attempt to vent the gas. Or direct it to the previous section."[8]
Try to reactivate ventilation to remove both the poison and the sleeping gas so that we can prevent further damage to organics. Then move on with the rest.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
"Why. Why do any of those things you guys are doing? We are so close to finishing this damn assignment. I'm starting to see where Wil is coming from."Yagyu closes the door to the surgical suite as the message from within begins to repeat itself. He retrieves his stuff and [3] Fireman carries Bob away with him.
Yagyu leans on Ji for a moment while rubbing his robotic temples. It did not do much of course, but this mimicry of his former fleshy coping mechanism still calmed his digital frustration a bit.
"Welp, either we neutralize/inhibit that gas somehow, suck it away through the vents, or just evacuate the fleshies and close that door while we wait for the gas to dissipate.""Suggestion: Organics should evacuate to sector A. I will attempt to vent the gas. Or direct it to the previous section."
"Sounds like a plan, spiderman. Need my help rigging anything up?
I'd suggest just venting it away if you can, if you put it into the previous sector it might just trouble us again on the way back."
Close the door to the surgical suite so all the people we just spent so much effort in securing don't fucking die. Then retrieve gear.
Then if the venting plan needs any mechanical work done, then do it, using a toolkit charge. Make sure not to strike a flame/create a spark near that gas in case it is flammable (unless the scanner indicates it's unlikely to be the case).
If not, help with Bob removal by luring him away with fishy snacks.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Hey, it's not my fault I'm an unstable genius! It was just supposed to be some harmless mustard gas, not a virus bomb, oh why must I exceed in everything I do! But fiiiiiiiiiine, just so you can't say I'm irresponsible I'll fix up BB over there."
Un-warcrime Burt's lungs, use a medikit to do so.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Lay on the floor and hope medicine can remove the warcrimes from my lungs.[10]Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Ed pops off his sensory deprivation helmet, pops on his disposable space suit helmet, and resumes leaning against the exact same wall.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Run to the room with the gas and see if I can’t close the door. Afterwards, grab Burt and carry him to a safe place where a medic could get to him.Ji, a bit late for everything, runs around between all the various activities happening, asking if she can help and immediately darting away before anyone can say anything. Luckily no one seems to need her help this time so her frantic bopping about isn't that big of a deal.
EDIT- Also try to save BobSpoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
"Oh shit, pushbot, our plan to become invisible by standing still just fell apart!"Edward climbs onto the pushbot's shoulders and has it carry him to the door to sector A. He asks it what its advice for the current situation is, and it recommends pushing.
Stay away from the gas. Evacuate to sector A like Ji said if necessary.
Make sure Pushbot is with me at all times, and ask him if he has any suggestions.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
EEED, fresh-faced from his communion with the god ED (GED, for short) gazes upon the latest warcrime of his teammates without fear.[2][2]
"The solution here is evident, my friends! Firstly, pray to ED for fortune. Then, behold as I engineer a counter-agent to this noxious cloud!"
Use my dubious medical knowledge to discern and concoct a mixture that would render this gas harmless!Spoiler: EEED (click to show/hide)
Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (senses and blocking of them) [Select]Sight: BlindfoldRun to Sector A if possible, if Sector A is still closed, head to Sector D
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitTry weakening the door with my blowtorch again, unless someone else with more experience helps open the doorSight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: None to speak of~
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Robots don't eat!
Touch: Pressure sensors apparently don't count.
"Seriously, where's a Janitor when you need one?"((careful. If you tease me like that, I might actually make one again.))
Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitClean off as much blood as I can, then try getting to the door without tripping on any floor blood"It's probably just his time of the month."Males don’t have that
"Durp's a mutant freak so he probably does.""It's probably just his time of the month."Males don’t have that
Remember what our boss said? Other than the controlling power, he’s like a normal human"Durp's a mutant freak so he probably does.""It's probably just his time of the month."Males don’t have that
"The boss never said anything about looking in that freaks pants so he doesn't know what's down there, so it could still have come from that freak."Remember what our boss said? Other than the controlling power, he’s like a normal human"Durp's a mutant freak so he probably does.""It's probably just his time of the month."Males don’t have that
"OH GOD! t's middle school all over again!"[2]
Sam will use the three tests (taste, smell and bloodiness) to see if she's swimming in real blood or like, maple syrup mixed with cranberries or something.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
On the off chance that fleshy teammates are now being mind controlled by contact with the blood, be ready to non-lethally subdue them. Otherwise look out for trouble.Ji points her gun at her teammates, particularly the fleshy ones. She's seen this movie before.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
[3] Tara wipes blood off her suit as best she can. Its not easy without a towel or something like that. She clears the camera of the suit enough to see though, albeit still blurry and red, and walks over to the door.Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (senses and blocking of them) [Select]Sight: BlindfoldClean off as much blood as I can, then try getting to the door without tripping on any floor blood
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
How did he get so much? Did he grind someone?
"Well that was nasty, how much more of this shit does this guy have?"[4]Burt wipes the lenses of his suit. He doesn't get them totally clean, but clean enough to work with.
Cleanse the lenses of my helmet so I can see.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Combine my Sensory Deprivation Helmet and my Disposible Space Suit Helmet into one helmet with the functions of both. I'm tired of poison gasses and blood and whatever trying to get in my lungs when I have the wrong helmet on.[5] No charge needed.
Huddle behind some sort of cover and shield my eyes while doing this.
Borrow one of the many toolkits from Yagyu's absurd hammerspace to get this done. Hell, might as well use up a toolkit charge to make sure it works.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Wipe down sensors. If anyone turns out to be mind controlled due to this bloodbath, goop 'em.[2] Yagyu attempts to wipe his sensors down but doing so with metal hands proves much harder than he imagined. He attempts to use the scanner while blind [
If not, take a little bit of the blood and analyze it with the scanner. Is this all human in origin? How many different 'donors' are in here? Anything anomalous?
Then scan the door: any more surprises that I can detect? Do not open it yet!
Oh, and give a toolkit charge to Edward, maybe even help him with his tinkering if there's time.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"I guess someone showed him that scene (https://youtu.be/HNnCL0q3EuI) from the Shining."
Activate the sprinkler system to wash away all that disgusting blood.
"See? More evidence that being organic sucks and robots are superior. Seriously, where's a Janitor when you need one?"Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
I didn't know we could flood the sector! locate the hydraulic controls and pump three feet of water into sector A. all the other sectors too, while I am at it. I will expend as many tool charges as necessary to get this done.[9,3]Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
*hrrrk*EEED attempts to automop the blood up. This becomes increasingly hard as the level begins to flood and the floor becomes a foot deep slurry of water and blood.
"...
Well then! That was clearly the work of WV, the Enemy! It bleeds at the touch of my words. Fortunately, this is the corporeal world, where squidgy bits matter, and I have been blessed with cleaning implements! Begone, foul demon's touch!"
This looks like a job forthe automopa highly skilled professional like myself! Cleanse the blood and muck without mercy! Leave only lemony freshness behind! Starting with myself, mind you - this is clearly the appropriate time and place to clean my face somewhat and then don my janitor's helm to prevent further shenanigans.Spoiler: EEED (click to show/hide)
Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: None to speak of~
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Robots don't eat!
Touch: Pressure sensors apparently don't count.
Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitTry stopping the sprinklers[/b)
"Why are we worrying about the origin of this blood again?""Space AIDS."
Keep my gun at the ready, while I lean against a wall waiting for the rest of the team to get moving again.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
So it's blood, but what kinda of blood? Human, demon, alien, pig, hamster? And if so how many furry littles rats did he have to squeeze to garner so much life kool-aid? These are the questions Sam will try to figure it out.[2]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
For a brief, heady moment, the non-insulated nature of his many teammates stands apparent in EEED's mind, and the pull of his arc scraper is a strong one. But then he gets distracted by another innovative thought, and the murder-moment passes.[12]
Use automop to clean my teammates that are having trouble doing it themselves. Resist murderous janitorial urges. Recite prayers to ED.Spoiler: EEED (click to show/hide)
"Fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp...""You know FUCK DERP I could FUCK DERP probably set up FUCK FUCK FUCK DERP a program to chant this auto-FUCK-matically."
Just chant that while waiting for teammates to figure out what to do about this. If anyone is clearly controlled, shoot them.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: None to speak of~
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Robots don't eat!
Touch: Pressure sensors apparently don't count.
Ed puts on his new helmet, mentally files the current flooding as not his problem, and finds somewhere comfy to lean.Ed leans against a wall and idly watches as the water rises up to his knees. He pities the person whose job it is to fix this.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Why are we worrying about the origin of this blood again?"Burt taps his foot impatiently. The gesture is somewhat undercut by it being underwater and thus inaudible.
Keep my gun at the ready, while I lean against a wall waiting for the rest of the team to get moving again.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Use the water to clean my sensors, at least those where water couldn't get in and damage them.
Then try to distract Bob with some fishies so someone else can turn off the water.
Take a little bit of the blood (perhaos some remained on my metal body somewhere) and analyze it with the scanner. Is this all human in origin? How many different 'donors' are in here? Anything anomalous?
Finally scan the door: any more surprises that I can detect? Do not open it either way.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Slither away from Yagyu's competent grasp and locate the temperature controls. Set the temperature for all flooded sectors to a balmy 95F (35c). Then locate a 3D printer or other such dispensary that Bob hasn't obliterated, and begin producing copious amounts of algae. Hemophagic algae is fine.[4v2]Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
[1]Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (senses and blocking of them) [Select]Sight: BlindfoldTry stopping the sprinklers[/b)
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
"I'm confident you can figure this out."For better or worse, the door into sector A proper is welded shut. Seems to have been done at the same time as when they added that blood pipe to it. Makes sense. Don't want blood backflow. Would be very messy. Pathos bangs on the welded door with his little metal claws.
Move on to sector A through the gap between the doors. Open said doors fully, if they aren't already.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Piecewise (Today at 12:32 AM)
Current water level 3ft
Just so you know, I am in a sealed space suit therefor the water is Not My Problem.Quote from: DiscordPiecewise (Today at 12:32 AM)
Current water level 3ft
Just so you guys are aware, the water is currently 3 feet deep and rising. Taking a seat might not be the wisest course of action for the non-amphibious organics among us.
Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: None to speak of~
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Robots don't eat!
Touch: Pressure sensors apparently don't count.
"Well then! Every religion does tend to feature a great flood myth, may as well get that box checked off early on."[7]
Pray to ED for divine guidance. How may I best serve the will of the Sacred Name in this time of trial?Spoiler: EEED (click to show/hide)
[6]Sitstand around in the blood and wait for something to happen. Use medical knowledge to try and remember how many organs you'd need to make the next step of human evolution, probably one or two at max, this cloning stuff has given Sam an idea.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Take a seat next to Sam and wait for this to all blow over.Edward floats around next to Sam and tries to ignore her sizing him up like a piece of meat. Not a metaphorical one either, an actual piece of meat at a butcher. Its a bit disconcerting. When she starts muttering about organs it becomes even more disconcerting.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Hey, uh, pushbot? This blood sure is rising fast, innit?"Scrum looks at the rising water. He climbs up on his robot and kicks his feet.
Observe the rising of the blood. If it starts getting to shoulder height, have pushbot pick me up and hold me up.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp--all this blood is probably only being used because they had it. It's just a convenient tool they can use to delay us and scare us. He's constantly just trying to buy time! FUCK Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp..."10 Fuck Derp
Really there's no change to that action. Kill things what need to be killed. Wait for such things if they haven't yet appeared.
Also, Wilfred is chanting "Fuck Derp" because when Derp mind controls people, they start calling him Mr. Friend and treating him like they like him. So hopefully if he gets controlled, the chant will stop or change, thus warning teammates before the minigun starts spinning.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: None to speak of~
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Robots don't eat!
Touch: Pressure sensors apparently don't count.
Keep rifle ready in case of non-Bob-named water based threats, and any threats present on the other side of the door if that gets opened this round.Ji, in the increasingly deep water, decides to ignore the alligator.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
"So we've possibly been contaminated with Durp's special brand of AIDS, well that's just great."
Use my engineer powers to aid in the water shutting off and removal.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
"Welp, it's all clone blood, probably from our target. Because of course it is."Yagyu checks the magazine on his hypothetical fish dispenser. Half empty. Or half full, depending on his outlook. He then examines the sprinklers. The dozens of sprinkerheads scattered around this entire area, all of which are pouring out water at a massive rate. [3,
How many fish are left? To know how much longer the Bob can be held at bay. Either way, while said crocofriend is distracted, try to shut down the sprinklers in a mechanical way (aka physically block the flow), using a toolkit charge if needed/relevant.
Let the water drain away/equalize for a bit (if there's a system to drain the water, use it, but let a more technology-oriented teammate handle it if possible).
Then, assuming no more shenanigans occurred and people are ready, unweld the door (use toolkit charge). Then open it a bit and take a video of what's on the other side with the scanner. Close door again and view it a safe framerate. First watch it myself, if no possession or whatever occurs also show it to my teammates in case they spot something Yagyu missed.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitAssist Sam in healing Yagyu14:07] Radio Controlled: @Piecewise some people seem to be trying to heal Yagyu using their medical knowledge. However, iirc you said before that repairing a robobody rolls mechanical and not medical. Could you confirm if this is correct or not?
[14:10] Piecewise: ye
[14:10] Piecewise: mechanical
((Tara has mechanical, but not much of it she will use it since Yagyu is a robot))((good way for the d4 mechanical squishy to get bit by the d10 mechanical alligator. Bob likes Tara, but Bob is a professional, and is serious about his profession.))
EEED is nothing if not attentive to the will of his true self.[3]
"I see the truth! We live in a prison of eyes! There is no respite from their gaze! Wake up, sheeple!"
Do as ED bids, and make everyone, including the people on the other side of the obstructions, aware that they live in a surveillance state.Spoiler: EEED (click to show/hide)
"No shit Triple-E, that's what happens when you let the GOVERNMENT infringe on your natural right to kidnap and experiment on orphans. It's a slippery slope I tell ya."Sam, still covered in some watered down blood, slumps down into a corner and attempts to avoid dramatic irony through being very uninteresting.
Sam will get as far away as possible from the door and play dead. She didn't major in laser surgery to get killed by a laser.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Oh great Durp's got a damned death ray."Burt stacks up in what he thinks is the best place and waits.
Stay away from the door and wait for others to open the door, and keep my gun ready.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Get to cover and wait for the door to open.Ji stands next to Burt by the door and gestures for a cigarette for a moment before remembering she doesn't smoke. Or a mouth. Or lungs for that matter.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
Ed will get as far away as possible from the door and play dead. Stay away from the door and wait for others to open the door. Get to cover and wait for the door to open. Get out of that doorway and around the corner in case more surprises are coming. Just stand WELL back. And in strong cover just in case.Ed wanders over to Sam.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (senses and blocking of them) [Select]Sight: BlindfoldAssist Sam in healing Yagyu
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
well, that laser’s going to be a problem.
Chase the bipeds away from Yagyu and do the repairs, Bob style. Expend my own toolkit charge rather than one of Yagyu's. Stare meaningfully at the water valve and grumble the whole time about lost opportunities.[5] Tara moves to help Yagyu but is gently -gently for a crocodile- shoved out of the way as Bob replaces her. He looks at the hole in Yagyu's torso and after a moment's consideration -is it consideration? his face is unreadable, he's a fucking crocodile- hacks up a squeeze bottle of some kind of epoxy putty. He squeezes it between his jaws until the cap bursts off and the contents squirt into the hole...and all over the area around it...and generally all over his chest and face. Bob then slaps at the goo with his clumsy croc-claws until he pats the filling in the hole mostly flat and scale imprinted. Satisfied, he tosses the container and opens his mouth, waiting for a bird to come clean it.Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
"Thank you for the hand Burt, not sure how I missed that valve, but good spot nonetheless.Yagyu helpfully scoops his otherwise oblivious helpers up...well he scoops up Tara and drags Bob by the tail...and moves out of the potential blast range.
Ok ya'll so I've got good news and bad news. The good news is that they have a big ol' ambush waiting for us on the other side, with a roadblock welded to the door and wall and automated sensors and a FUCKING LASER and who knows what else. Also there are people hiding around the corners down the hall, no doubt to fuck with us. The bad news is that I just lied and there is actually no good news. Sorry.
Now, we could just blow up this door and clear the traps, then deal with the fools if they survive the explosion. I personally don't think our target will be among the people waiting for us, he doesn't seem like the type to be on the frontlines like that, though we'll want to not overdo it with the explosion just in case. I don't know how he's controlling them right now though, the jammer is still on so not with those earpieces at least.
We could also try to pipe in the sleepy gas first through that hole to soften up the resistance a bit first, buuuut after the difficulties last time I don't think that's something I wanna deal with again.
Spiderboy, you still have that mining explosive I gave you ago, right? Would you be so kind as to do the honors?"Quote14:07] Radio Controlled: @Piecewise some people seem to be trying to heal Yagyu using their medical knowledge. However, iirc you said before that repairing a robobody rolls mechanical and not medical. Could you confirm if this is correct or not?
[14:10] Piecewise: ye
[14:10] Piecewise: mechanical
Get out of that doorway and around the corner in case more surprises are incoming. Bat away the good souls trying to heal Yagyu if they're trying to do so with their medical knowledge, since that's not actually gonna help much (see above, from discord). However, if anyone wants to help using mechanical know-how, let them, and in fact give them a toolkit charge to do so. If not then just try it myself, again with a toolkit charge if applicable.
Help people if they need mechanical help with setting up a bomb, if not just stand WELL back. And in strong cover just in case.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Come on. Flooding the sector was a great idea. Just imagine blowing up the doors and surfing into the room!"[8]
Throw the bomb in through the hole. Or just put it on the door. Whatever works best.
((I'm not a bomb expert, I just play one on TV.))Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: None to speak of~
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Robots don't eat!
Touch: Pressure sensors apparently don't count.
Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitGo through the door and goop anyone attacking us
Why do you want bodies?"Become as gods, there's your answer. No, I will not elaborate."
"Fucking FINALLY! My time is now! Pathos, be ready to turn me off if the chant stops! And HEY! CULTIST BASTARDS! I DON'T GIVE A FUCK WHO YOU WERE BEFORE, YOU'RE ALL DERP TO ME NOW! FUCK DERP, FUCK DERP, FUCK DERP, FUCK DERP, FUCK DERP, FUCK DERP, FUCK DERP, FUCK DERP, FUCK DERP, FUCK DERP, FUCK DERP, FUCK DERP, FUCK DERP!"[1][3v15][4]
Disable 0.2 FPS mode and enter the door, shooting anything that moves (and isn't still an ally), while screaming invectives. Once ahead of all teammates, the robot can take over for Wil, and he'll swap back to 0.2 FPS mode.
Also, Pathos is allowed backdoor access into Wil's body. Wil will not resist his attempts to turn him off.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: None to speak of~
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Robots don't eat!
Touch: Pressure sensors apparently don't count.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (senses and blocking of them) [Select]Sight: BlindfoldGo through the door and goop anyone attacking us
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
"Dibs on any bodies."Sam and Tara, who were following along a while back, are caught in the blast. Sam gets bowled over and rolls backwards while Tara keeps her footing. Its lucky they both have hearing protection otherwise they'd no longer have hearing to protect.
Sam will enter the room and see if there's anything of value inside it like weapons, drugs, women, money, drugs, bodies or drugs, but not before waiting for someone else to go inside it and kill everyone first just in case.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Play dead, while still somehow sticking with the group..Spoiler (click to show/hide)
BobSpoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
EEED considers this revelation in the midst of his head continuing to ring from the explosion. Everyone around him was aware of all the eyes upon them? Admittedly, he was as well, but not in such a ... visceral sense. He could feel them on his skin, their sight sinking through his pores.
This merited moral consultation.
Meditate upon the fact of our constant surveillance with ED as my guide. I have made it known, but is this state a just or evil thing? Must I unmake it as I do all things of WV? Or instead propagate it, ensuring that nothing is ever unobserved again? What is right?
Oh, and make sure to idly follow the group if they wander off somewhere.Spoiler: EEED (click to show/hide)
"Quality work as always, Bobman. I'd ask how you managed to produce that bottle of epoxy, but honest to god I'd rather not know. You too Pathos, clean 'splosion.Once the quite literal smoke clears the team moves up into the antechamber and sweeps around. There's not much left here but metal debris and bits of shredded meat. The laser is long gone, along with the hose assembly and everything else. [4] Yagyu digs through the wreckage, kicking stuff around and scanning as he does. He's about to move on when the scanner catches something. He sweeps debris aside and finds what looks like the damaged but still mostly intact "brain" of the security robot. He puts it in his ever explanding backpack and finishes sweeping the area. Looks clear for the moment.
Making our way through those puppets while remaining at a safe framerate is gonna be... tough. I'll try to get an idea of where they are hiding, maybe we can use suppressive fire to let us advance safely. Will, right now that auto-aim feature would be handy, but please for the love of all that is holy don't just enable it again in the middle of your teammates."
Fishies for Bob. And a head pat, if that won't get my hand bitten clean of.
Poke the scanner around the corner after the (apparently proverbial) smoke clears, first in heat vision mode to try and get a better idea around which corners specifically there are people hiding. Also try other scanning modes if that doesn't give a clear indication.
Are there any side halls or doors close after this doorway we could slip without being in that hallway for very long? In case we wanna try to go for a flank.
That Transient Psychokinetic stimulant that the late Richter had on him, did it survive his death? If yes, could someone use this to simultaneously pull multiple people? Idea being that one person uses this to just pull those people into the hallway after which other people can open fire on them. Oh, and if taken together with a stimulant, could they have an adverse reaction?
Using that flammable fuel, some toolkit charges and maybe those flares, could we make some good molotov cocktails? If yes, are the people waiting to ambush us in throwing range right now (not sure if you gave a distance)? And what would throwing these roll, explosive? Dex? Strength maybe?
Finally, using stuff lying around here, could we make a decently strong shield/barrier that would give good protection against small arms, on wheels so we can push it forward?
((sorry if it's a lot))Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Stim survived. With a good roll, and maybe.
Cocktail yes, Within somewhat reasonable throwing range, Dex.
Maybe you could have made a shield but we're a bit beyond that now.
These are responses to the questions in the thread because they aren't really relevant to the action anymore.
Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitWhile others are picking up Wilfred’s pieces, search for threats
Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: None to speak of~
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Robots don't eat!
Touch: Pressure sensors apparently don't count.
Bob (now with Edward accessory!)Bob's accessory wander off. He misses it momentarily before switching to hunger again.Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
""I have been avengeeeeeeeeeeeeeed."
"...Did anyone else hear that or is it just me?
Sam will ignore the handsome ghost voice and see if anything else of value survived the blastSpoiler (click to show/hide)
See if either of Wil’s auto-cannons survived (It’s what Wil would have wanted)Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
"Oh shit they've killed the murder bot."[1,2,2]
Try to find something to make shield with and stay with the group with my gun ready to kill.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
”Ah, if only I knew what the word sodomy meant. Seems the definition was blanked from my memory during my production. But that is okay! I will make do with the greatest tool religion has - force rhetoric.”[2]
Inspect my Staff of ED - Wilfred’s detached gun-arm that I had before it was cool to collect his parts - and see if I can’t get it in firing condition again. It’s practically a mandatory thing for all cult leaders to be able to smite the unworthy with the wrath of their god (or bullets).Spoiler: EEED (click to show/hide)
Ed says a quick "Fuck Derp" in Wilfred's honour.[6]
Attempt to connect my broken universal communicator to Wilfred's salvaged robobrain. Allow him to chant "Fuck Derp" once more. Probably in a horribly distorted, staticky, blown-out voice due to the brokenness of the communicator.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
So uh, I'm pretty interested in the questions Radio's post has. Like whether or not my character is now permadead, and how much of his stuff is intact. "There is a man holding a demo charge" is a pretty vauge explanation of a death.(((A mind controlled assailant holding a demo charge and then an explosion is vague? Ok. You ran ahead of everyone into an ambush that had been called out at least twice, got a 1 on your speed to react to two assailants coming from either side, and then got caught in the explosion when one of them detonated a demo charge behind you.)))
Also, what stat did I roll a 1 on?Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: None to speak of~
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Robots don't eat!
Touch: Pressure sensors apparently don't count.
1. Yeah, assuming no one breaks it by fucking with it first.Quote from: pw on discordStim survived. With a good roll, and maybe.
Cocktail yes, Within somewhat reasonable throwing range, Dex.
Maybe you could have made a shield but we're a bit beyond that now.
These are responses to the questions in the thread because they aren't really relevant to the action anymore.
So this is the brain that should contain Wil's consciousness, right? If we find another robobody we could hook it up again to 'revive' him?
Either way, gather what remains of Wil's stuff I guess, though if you could tell me what actually survived that'd be handy (or we do that at the end of the mission if you prefer). Also see if any of the cultist's gear survived. And is there any clue as to how these people were being controlled?
Could we reach any of those 3 side doors without entering the range of the automated defenses indicated on the diagrams? What were these rooms for, and where do they lead to, according to the schematics
Any vents or other maintenance tunnels (even if small) that could serve as a way to bypass the hallway 'o death?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
”Yes I do! It’s a bit fucked up, and I want to get it back later, but for now he can use it!”
"You know, it's supposed to be very bad luck to get a knife as a gift.""What? Nooooooooo, did you know that it's actually a sign of good luck in Neo-Australia? How about that? Now take the knife and give me the discombobulator so I can become a god. Do it now and I'll even modify your body free of charge!"
"Are you talking to me? I mean, I wouldn't mind trading this thingamajing with someone, since I don't have much use for it. But I seem to recall that these organo-whatsits cost a pretty penny more than a shitty knife and 300 buckeroos."""Not you-No wait yes you. Dammit why do we have to have so many Eds? Listen I'll make it 500 bucks and give you some extra organs, take it or leave it since I doubt you'll be able to sell it for that much, let alone use it."
""Not you-No wait yes you. Dammit why do we have to have so many Eds? Listen I'll make it 500 bucks and give you some extra organs, take it or leave it since I doubt you'll be able to sell it for that much, let alone use it."Ed thinks for a hot second, scratching his arm.
Sam contemplates the offer while vibrating.""Not you-No wait yes you. Dammit why do we have to have so many Eds? Listen I'll make it 500 bucks and give you some extra organs, take it or leave it since I doubt you'll be able to sell it for that much, let alone use it."Ed thinks for a hot second, scratching his arm.
"Hmm, how about this? 500 in cash and 200 in whatever form you want, cash or loot or something. Preferential injury treatment in future clusterfu- I mean missions, and 2 medical procedures of my choosing at some later date? Sound good?"
"You could at least throw in some mystery drugs or mystery war cime gasses or something.""Stay quiet you. Also speaking of drugs though, mind giving me those drugs you have there Yakman?"
"You could at least throw in some mystery drugs or mystery war cime gasses or something.""Stay quite you, I'm trying to slice myself open here. Speaking of drugs though, mind giving me those drugs you have there Yakman?"
How many painkillers are there, just 1 'dose'?"Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine. But don't complain if a Samomorph eats you while you sleep back in the base.""You could at least throw in some mystery drugs or mystery war cime gasses or something.""Stay quite you, I'm trying to slice myself open here. Speaking of drugs though, mind giving me those drugs you have there Yakman?"
"... You can have 1 dose if you promise to wait till this mission is done to mess with that thing. I really just want to get this day over with. If you can't wait that long them you can buy it off of me."
Gold Stars! Action will be edited in later on.[2] EEED massages the gun. He finds it annoyingly hard and difficult to work with. It must be very stressed.
EEED realizes there was only ever one truly logical course of action to be taken.
Perform chiropractic care upon the Gun-Staff of ED (which I'm pretty sure no one ever contested me picking up). This will surely cause it to work! Just make sure to point the business end away from other employees.Spoiler: EEED (click to show/hide)
White Skulls.Ed becomes uneasy. Heroism is all well and good as long as it can be done with complete safety and no risk of harm to himself. But the sudden reduction in human shields was making it seem like he might have to actually put his own health on the line soon. And he didn't like the sound of that.
Cower. Worry that the supply of giant robot overlords to hide behind seems to be rapidly dwindling.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Gold StripesEdward joins up with the other Edward and the two of them start playing cards. As they do, they have a long discussion about the benefits of having large metal men stand in front of them during a combat scenario. EEED eyes them with what could be best described as "Religious Lust".
Chill, stay in relative safety, don't do anything dangerous. Just chill.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Silver Wrenches. Whatever the present is, open it and apply/eat it immediately!Bob places the piece of high tech equipment on his head. He doesn't install it or anything, just balances it there.Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
[5]Sam contemplates the offer while vibrating.""Not you-No wait yes you. Dammit why do we have to have so many Eds? Listen I'll make it 500 bucks and give you some extra organs, take it or leave it since I doubt you'll be able to sell it for that much, let alone use it."Ed thinks for a hot second, scratching his arm.
"Hmm, how about this? 500 in cash and 200 in whatever form you want, cash or loot or something. Preferential injury treatment in future clusterfu- I mean missions, and 2 medical procedures of my choosing at some later date? Sound good?"
"Yes..No?...Yes? Yes! You have a deal."
Sam will sit around and contemplate what she could accomplish in terms of upgrades to her own body using the malformed clones back in the previous sector.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
((I'll go with Red Skulls)
Wait for the peeps to go through the vents first before doing anything.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Golden Wrench, of course. That way I can capture their buildings.
Also, use my small size to my advantage to enter a vent or maintenance tunnel and make my way to some place where I can disable the defences (either by connecting to and using some computer or by physically removing their power/ammo).Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Green Guns
Action wise, I’ll wait until somebody with a plan tells me to do something.
-EDIT- Let Yagyu use my former Robobody (The waifu with the hands for feet, you remember the one) as a temp body for Will. And let Will know that if he totals this one, He owes me a replacement.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
White wrenches please. Also, merry Christmas everyone!
If spiderboy needs help with something mechanical, get into the vents and go help out, use toolbox charge as appropriate.
If not then look on the plans and try to determine what exact defenses there are, and which ones might be in range of that first door.
"Hey Ji! We have the electronic brain of Wil here, do you still have that old robobody of yours?"Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Green Skulls
Follow through the vents to bypass the defensesSpoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (senses and blocking of them) [Select]Sight: Blindfold
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(Gold Guns because I need pimped out weapons!)[6]
"So are we picking a door or are we still coming up with a plan."
Aid in any task that an engineer might be needed, also be ready to kill anyone that tries to ambush us.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
((speaking off CONSUME, can we make a bet tally to when Sam will become a pile of hungry flesh?))((Yeah, I'll include a running tally with everything from the discord. Speaking of which, editing in my post here later on.))
”Hey Wil, Remember that your new body is only on loan, and I really would like to get it back in one piece. So try to avoid any more self destructive endeavors, m’kay. I’m not saying you’ll have to figure out how to get me a new one if you break it, but let’s hope we don’t have to figure out what happens if you do.”"I don't think he'd want it to keep it even if he could. Do you even wash that thing?"
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I don't suppose I could get a gift? Sorry for not posting earlier, my last few days have been utter shit. Forum games haven't been so much on my mind. Red stars if I can, that's just the first of both options.You get a OMNITECH Neuron reconfiguration helmet.
Dunno if Wil got uploaded into the waifubot body. If so, I'd like a link to what its stats are? Maybe a description (since I mostly forgot)? Looks at Lupanian.
Try to hook up Wil's datacore into the waifubot. Use toolkit charge if needed.
Also, how many painkillers were there in the present, just 1 I guess?
Finally, m1895/Anya got that clone body for Christmas. Could we bring them back by using that injector in the field right now? If yes, what rolls would be required?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Hook Wilfred's brain up to my Omni-Eye Camera so ge can see. Still in grainy VHS mode of course.
Invite him to our little poker game.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
See if I can help out with putting Wil in the waifubot, since my tech/mechanics is better than Yagyu's((d6 use box of pain killers. 1 tech roll to hack their mind out of the servers and into the body.))Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Glad I didn't go into that vent."Burt examines the harpoon gun. Its a harpoon gun. (https://makezine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/aug-20-harpoon-gun-assembled-progress-08-1024x808.jpg) It fires a single large harpoon with a braided metal cord connected to it. It has an electric winch to hold it taut or reel it back in, and a extendable loop of metal cord to connect the gun to something else to act as an anchor. It seems to have a range of about 100 meters in terms of the length of the primary cord, 120 if you include the anchoring cord.
Examine my harpoon and discover it's capabilities, also stay away from the vents and aid in engineer stuff that doesn't evolve vents.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Can I get an update on Jon, who is still consuming his way through the Aether, please? He's also corralling any creatures he finds particularly interesting and making them fight for dominance. Also, he's gonna tinker with the cosmic background radiation, or at least the radio frequencies in this part of space.One character at a time please. Also Jon is too busy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C7zBD6g4mY) at the moment.
[2][8]Get away from the vent now that there's something funky going on, contemplate if OMNITECH has any anti-mutant policies, get ready to loot/save Tara when she comes out injured/in little bits, and search for something that could be used to move fragile glass tubes and/or several human bodies around.
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Tail slap a high visibility flare down the vent tunnel so people ca nsee what's going on with the murder ring. Light the flare first of course. Also, slap a wrench down there as well, in the hopes that it hooks the edge of the tunnel at one of those side holes or whatever and jams the murder ring.Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
Dodge! Into one of the side paths.
((Sadly, I don't see a way to rescue Tara. I could throw a bomb in front of it but the blast would probably kill her. Maybe someone can pull her out?))Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Go through a random vent hoping it ends up being safeSpoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (senses and blocking of them) [Select]Sight: Blindfold
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If I can reach Tara, pull her out.[2][2] [2]Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
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”Is there anything useful for me to do at the moment? I’m feel like I should be doing something.”"No, not really. hey, you wanna make a quick buck, robot weeb boy-girl-man?"
”Is there anything useful for me to do at the moment? I’m feel like I should be doing something.”"You can join our go fish game."
"Well damn Edward, I guess you were right, the red one does connect to the green one. Thanks for the help. If you wanna keep gong on your roll, could you perhaps help me program the clone body injector so we can bring Anya back?
"Hey, Janet person. Ya know what's the company's policy on flesh horrors, various types of thingiemorphs and canibalism?"
Now Sam will join the others at playing go fish.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
”Is there anything useful for me to do at the moment? I’m feel like I should be doing something.”
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"...Does anyone have a spare gun? God, it was really fucking smart to leave my acid-thrower at home..."
Hello, are pointmen applications open right now?((Sure, make a sheet, join the Discord and hop in.))
"I have some sidearms here if you want one. The carbine's out of ammo though unfortunately."
"I have some sidearms here if you want one. The carbine's out of ammo though unfortunately."
"Yeah, sure. Small gun better than no gun. For all the good it'll do in this hell. Maybe give me that security rifle too? I bet someone around here has a spare mag, or maybe I can find one in the wreckage around my last body. Bodies. Ugh. Fuck Derp..."
((You forgot to up your stats and skills, you have 5 points, each point increases the dice size by 2.))Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
"Hey, Janet person. Ya know what's the company's policy on flesh horrors, various types of thingiemorphs and canibalism?"Sam joins the card game, draws her cards, and then immediately throws them down while declaring she has a "Full house, with Bob Saget"
Now Sam will join the others at playing go fish.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"...Does anyone have a spare gun? God, it was really fucking smart to leave my acid-thrower at home..."Wilfred puts on the helmet and continues to play cards with his handfeet.
Continue playing Go Fish, I guess. Try not to think about the fact my legs are my main arms now. And wear the stupid helmet, maybe I'll swap Guns and Occult to make full use of Wilfred's alien god powers.
Edit: Take a sidearm plus three mags from Yagyu's mausoleum (Larry's, specifically), and also take larry's security rifle. Is it still loaded? And does it still function?I don't recall the circumstances of Larry's death.I checked back, Larry is the cultist Wilfred accidentally murdered (twice?). The rifle may or may not be intact, depending on whether or not Wilfred's autoguns destroyed it. Also, he got it by looting ANGRY DEMON NOISES' last character, who seems to have had full ammo? AGN doesn't seem to actually track ammo, but I don't think Kenneth used up any.
There's something special about a security team member dying, having his gun looted by a cultist, who then is killed randomly by a different security member (who had already died and come back), but apotheosizes in an attempt to kill said security member, but fails and dies again. Then said security member goes and dies on his own, gets revived AGAIN, and finally loots the cultist he murdered earlier for the original security team member's rifle.
It's the circle of life?Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: 0.2 FPS
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Go give Wilfred a "welcome back" bite. Then steal all of the fish from the card game.Bob bites Wilfred as a form of greeting -even manages to bite him on the metal parts this time- and then saunters into the middle of the card game and starts eating everything organic and a bit of inorganic stuff as well. For flavor.Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
A hairless, pale, vat grown clone in standard security gear wanders in from the previous sector and salutes a few random people. The card players wave absentmindedly while Yagyu gives him the usual speech about not touching things that float or listening to the demonic whispers.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
"No problem man....oh wait you were talking to the other Edward. Awkward."The Other Edward gets his stuff back from Wilfred. He continues playing while also constantly looking over his shoulder. He asks Edward Prime if he has any fish. Edward hands over a halibut but Bob intervenes and snatches it away.
Get my camera and broken communicator back from the recently re-embodied Wilfred.
If the other cards players leave, seamlessly switch from go fish to solitaire.
As everyone else focuses on the hallway ahead or other things, keep an eye out behind us. Never know what evil robots or zombies or giant invisible lizards have been following us.Spoiler: The Other Edward (click to show/hide)
EEED pops back into existence, having temporarily faded away while considering meta matters.EEED, cradling his armful of computer goo like a baby, joins the card game. He startles everyone when he places a human tooth on Bob's snout and declares "King me!"
"I would like to join this game of go fish, fellow EDs! May our dealings be blessed by the Name!
Oh, and if anyone indulging in our actual assignment requires it, I possess a vial of computerization paste that can make a computer out of anything. I am willing to loan this out in exchange for considering the merits of adopting ED into your life."
Go fish! Also lend my Computronium Paste out to people if they need it to hack open a door or etc, but only if I get to either give them an adjustment of the spine or of the soul (the latter being in the form of trying to convince them to convert to EDism).Spoiler: EEED (click to show/hide)Spoiler: STANpool (click to show/hide)
Janet checks through her contract notebook and finds the correct form."Hey, Janet person. Ya know what's the company's policy on flesh horrors, various types of thingiemorphs and canibalism?"
Now Sam will join the others at playing go fish.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Look up the corporate policy on security teams consuming corpses/mostly corpses for biomass. File the appropriate paperwork, and check rank on the bodies to make sure we don't delete anyone higher ranked than us.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Unless someone needs an engineer I'll join that card came.Burt ends up with a very large hand of cards. Mostly because he has 3 cards and then an actual human hand.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
See if there's a way to access the super structure from this area. Obviously I won't actually go in, but I want to know if it's an option.There is indeed superstructure access here! Yagyu tells Ji this and then explains that all she'd have to do to reach it is pry up a few metal plates. And force open a door. And cut off a metal seal.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
Check/explore the room I find myself inSpoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (senses and blocking of them) [Select]Sight: Blindfold
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"Well damn Edward, I guess you were right, the red one does connect to the green one. Thanks for the help. If you wanna keep gong on your roll, could you perhaps help me program the clone body injector so we can bring Anya back?
Welcome back Wilfred. In case you are confused: you got blown the fuck up by one of the branwashed people. Sorry man."
Check on the schematics how many more defenses there are in the vent system, which ones they are, and where they are.
Also give guns to Wil.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
[7]"Well damn Edward, I guess you were right, the red one does connect to the green one. Thanks for the help. If you wanna keep gong on your roll, could you perhaps help me program the clone body injector so we can bring Anya back?
"Uh" Edward says, totally sounding competent and confident "Sure, I can give that a shit, probably"
Help Yagyu by programming the clone body injector so we can bring Anya backSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Continue with original objective: find somewhere I can shut down the defences, either by plugging into a computer or by messing with something mechanical (e.g. cutting power, removing ammo, etc.)Pathos skitters down into the server room with Tara and attempts to disable the security measures from there.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
There is indeed superstructure access here! Yagyu tells Ji this and then explains that all she'd have to do to reach it is pry up a few metal plates. And force open a door. And cut off a metal seal.
-snip-Missing a perfectly good opportunity to gather up all the loose ichthyoids in the area, chuck them at the control room door, and shout "GO FISH" at Bob. You know, for science.
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((Hey, 0cra, despite what the OP says, security rifles have d8 mags. It was changed when the armory got made (or adjusted? I don't recall), but the OP wasn't edited.))((Fixed))
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>Look around and see if there's anything I should worry about.(Bold your actions for me in the future. Helps me see them. The light in this basement I'm currently imprisoned in is quite dim.)Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
Sam puts on her glasses as she starts filling the form. "Let's see... "Gender". Flesh-fluid "Cause of parents' death." Wanted to see how much LSD I could put on heart medicine before people noticed. "Do you have a history of substance abuse?"...No...."
Fill the form, continue playing the game, those fools don't know Sam is about to put her UNO Reverse Card in attack mode.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"You've fallen into my trap as YOU'VE ACTIVATED MY TRAP CARD BITCH SLAP, and it ignores all your shitty cards and directly attacks your life points or some shit."
Use that big human hand I just got to slap whoever thinks their winning the card game and declare myself the winner.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Begin using my dominant position in the card games to try to win the souls of others, offering massage services as incentive. Also, keep an eye out for anyone that might run into situations where they need actual medical attention, since the closest thing we have to a genuine medic is about to commit science.Spoiler: EEED (click to show/hide)Spoiler: STANpool (click to show/hide)
((Hey, 0cra, despite what the OP says, security rifles have d8 mags. It was changed when the armory got made (or adjusted? I don't recall), but the OP wasn't edited.))I have been told, by the skeleton that keeps me chained to the radiator and forces me to narrate this, that I am not allowed to talk about the card game anymore. He says its become too self aware and may actually become a sapient entity if keep drawing attention to it. So um, don't talk about the card game. Or think about it either. Otherwise it might...I dunno what a sapient card game would be like but he assures me it would be dangerous.
"Anyone wanna form a squad to go outside, crawl around the superstructure, and see if we can't find another entrance in to murder Derp? I don't really wanna try the doom corridor again."
Give a name to the rifle that has seen its last two owners die: "Cold Comfort". Seems appropriate. Otherwise, sit around. Idly take the pistol out, and start playing a better card game: throw cards into the air, then shoot them. Punctuate each shot with a bored "Fuck Derp."Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: 0.2 FPS
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"Hey there, vent crew, there are shaped charges at the end of that shaft, so maybe don't meddle with that particular grate. Seems like you're in the clear otherwise though. Just FYI.The superstructure has ambient pressure but low oxygen. Not instantly fatal low oxygen, but too low to survive on for extended periods. As per a way from the superstructure to the command center, there is a way. Though it would require cutting through a wall.
Also, nice one dealing with the defenses, guess we're about ready to go finish this ordeal. Finally."QuoteThere is indeed superstructure access here! Yagyu tells Ji this and then explains that all she'd have to do to reach it is pry up a few metal plates. And force open a door. And cut off a metal seal.
Remind me, was this superstructure pressurized, or would creating an opening lead to problems for the oxygen-breathers among the team? And can we see any way to go from the superstructure into the command center proper according to the schematics?
Either way, give my stuff aside from the goop thrower, scanner and some sort of poking stick to Edward for the moment. Then inch forward carefully to test if the defenses are indeed disabled, use poking stick liberally, and scoot back quickly if it seems some might not be.
If that doesn't lead to my imminent and chunky demise, go closer slowly till I can see the door to the command room proper (make sure I'm in low FPS mode) and observe, also use scanner along the way to try and detect ambushes before they jump me. Does the command room seem locked or barricaded from what we can see? Any more cultists lying in wait?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Take care of all Yagyu's junk for him. Load it up in that laundry cart, because I don't have a literal spine of steel.Edward receives Yagyu's massive sack and places it in a laundry cart.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
"Anytime!"[6]
Check any video or other data I can find in the servers (using still frames to avoid being mind controlled) to see if I can find any clues about what happened here, how our target got free and if he is here right now and what other surprises he has prepared for us.
Download all the data I can from the servers. It might be worth something.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Try to complete the brainscan procedure to bring Anya back. We already have a harddrive with her brainscan, right? If not, try to procure one. There should be something suitable in this place.[6][3]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Waddle down the hallway into the control center and demand negotiations. If all goes well, eat negotiations. If all does not go well, eat the negotiators.Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
If Bob makes it to the control room, follow him. If not, try to make sure opening the superstructure won't blow us all into space, and if so, prevent anyone from accessing the superstructure yet.
If I end up waiting around one more turn, try to test the experimental gun far away from the rest of the team. No one has been keeping track of the ammo for it, so can we assume I managed to obtain it somewhere along the way?Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
Thanks for authorizing us PathosBob, Ji, Tara, and Yagyu walk down the corridor. Yagyu does this with much apprehension and stick poking, while Bob and Tara just barrel straight down towards the door at the end. Regardless of their methods, all four make it to the end of the corridor unmolested. At one point a pair of quarantine cannons do extend from the ceiling, but after tracking the group for a few seconds they retract with a quiet click of metal. The door to the command center is obviously locked down tight and its quite a door. Its in the style of the quarantine doors: a giant vault door which looks like its designed to stop a nuclear bomb.
Since we’re authorized now, go through the door and continue across the corridorSpoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (senses and blocking of them) [Select]Sight: Blindfold
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Bob, Ji, Tara, and Yagyu walk down the corridor. Yagyu does this with much apprehension and stick poking, while Bob and Tara just barrel straight down towards the door at the end. Regardless of their methods, all four make it to the end of the corridor unmolested. At one point a pair of quarantine cannons do extend from the ceiling, but after tracking the group for a few seconds they retract with a quiet click of metal. The door to the command center is obviously locked down tight and its quite a door. Its in the style of the quarantine doors: a giant vault door which looks like its designed to stop a nuclear bomb.
The superstructure has ambient pressure but low oxygen. Not instantly fatal low oxygen, but too low to survive on for extended periods. As per a way from the superstructure to the command center, there is a way. Though it would require cutting through a wall.
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Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitLook for any locks, if any are found, try unlocking them in the respective ways
"I swear, the cables hissed "It is in them. Waiting"."
Then he walked over to the card players and asked,
"Hey, uh, any of you know something about that occult crap? I'm not sure if Anya, erm, has something weird going on, so if any of you could have a talk with her to see what's up that'd be great."
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Return to the card game. Play an Omni-health insurance policy card.Shut up!Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
>Grab some playing cards and play some Solitaire.Don't talk about it! Don't think about it!
I can hear it ! STOP STOP STOP
Edit- Play ‘Pot of Greed’ and draw three additional cards from my deck.
Then follow Yagyu's lead.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
"I DECLARE THAT I HAVE WON THE CARD GAME!"Gotta know when to hold em AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA KNOW WHEN TO FOLD EM
Drop kick the card table and go aid in any task that might require my engineer skills.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Yagyu was busily staring at the vault doors, thinking of a way to get past them when one of the many Ed's (where did these keep coming from all of a sudden?) sauntered up to him.
"Hmm, too small to work through, but maybe if we oiled up a gerb-""I swear, the cables hissed "It is in them. Waiting"."
"...Yes, yes that is cause for some concern."
"Hello Anya, glad to have you back in the land of the living. Now please hold for a moment while our team of highly qualified professionals gives you a once-over.
OI, what's-yer-face, Sam! You're a doctor right? Can you check if Anya here is a-ok real quick?"
Then he walked over to the card players and asked,
"Hey, uh, any of you know something about that occult crap? I'm not sure if Anya, erm, has something weird going on, so if any of you could have a talk with her to see what's up that'd be great."
Waddle down the hallway into the control center and demand negotiations. If all goes well, eat negotiations. If all does not go well, eat the negotiators.
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Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitRunYagyu, do you think fire will work against it?
Right, distance...that thing turned everyone else into cards...what happended when we were at the door?Yagyu, do you think fire will work against it?
"Well if those demons from before are any hint fire seems to still work against most things, but I don't know jack shit about all this occult bullshit so I honestly can't tell for sure! Let's just get some distance first and then we can deal with this."
"Oh fuck, I should've gotten those supernatural debugging certs they offeren in college. Pushbot, let's bounce."
Escape to safety together with Pushbot. Let the professionals handle this supernatural shit.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Quote from: OzarckWaddle down the hallway into the control center and demand negotiations. If all goes well, eat negotiations. If all does not go well, eat the negotiators.
Bob knows when towalkwaddle away. Bob waddles away.Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
and then Sir Anya bravely ran awaySpoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
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((I think we’re authorized, Pathos authorized us, not just deactivated it))
Just fucking run. Hopefully since the actions were all canceled Yagyu isn't near those defenses in case they are reactivated. Don't run into that hallway if possible as well.Ed,Bob, Anya, Tara and Yagyu all initiate the "Let someone else deal with it" maneuver and make a swift advance to the rear. They only stop advancing away from the threat when they run up against that big final vault door and find themselves unable to advance straight through it.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
It was time for Sam to leave, she has seen everything.
Use special new age medicine techniques to wiggle free of you know what grasp and run away.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Guess I got greedy..."
Hold for now, and run away if I can.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
EEED, having been momentarily distracted by varying thoughts of existential origin, comes back to himself upon being swept up by what can only be an enemy of ED. The following might or might not happen since I’m not sure if he can actually act at present, but if he can:
”ENEMY FACE! This is unholy in the sight of Sacred ED! Set us down and disperse at once, or the wrath of the holy will descend upon thee! Behold, the sacred mantras!”
Begin chanting and enunciating phrases from any (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dK2tDK9grQ) and every (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbWmMWj2w3I) piece of media I can recall that bears the Holy Letters in an attempt to draw the personal attention of my possibly-made-up god. Let the grace of EDdescend upon this atrocity of jazz!
That is, if I’m capable of doing anything at all.Spoiler: EEED (click to show/hide)Spoiler: STANpool (click to show/hide)
Wh-what? I didn't even do anything related! Aaa, fucking occult shit!
If Wilfred can do anything, swap his d12 in guns to occult, and use those good old ghost god powers to... fix this. Somehow.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: 0.2 FPS
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"Well shit, this has gone poorly."[3]
Try to get away from the thing.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
>Ignore the chaos and just play some Solitaire.The sheetless mysteryman plays solitaire, right at the base of the...you know what...seemingly without a care in the world.
Pathos knows when to hold them too.[8][5]
Reactivate the corridor defences. Suffer not the horror to live. Purge this affront to the order of the machine.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
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Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitAim foam gun at the creature, hold lit blowtorch in front of it, then shoot at the creature. The idea is to shoot flaming foam at it
eyy Yagyu, can you hand me my things?
((Hey, you! Yagyu gave all Anya's stuff to Ed for safe keeping. Yagyu never took his stuff back from Ed. You cannot simply give it back without going through the proper inventory management channels!))
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((Where is Ed? That's a good question. He was last seen playing the card game. He's safely hiding in the limbo that inactive people go. You can probably find a laundry cart full of your loot if you look for it.))((Haha, allright, message received.))
((Where is Ed?))
Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
"Hey Will, now would be a good time for you to do that thingie. Since we're all going to die horribly if you don't and all."
Bang on the door to spell out "LET ME IN" in morse code. Also, shoot anyone who continues to play any you-know-what related games.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
>Continue playing Solitaire."HALT FIEND!" Sam shouts, and whips out her side arm. She strikes a pose and fires it down the hall at the Expendaclone.
Bob goes into ambush predator mode, settling into the murky depths of the brightly lit, arid hallway. a vaguely fond, yet ultimately unsatisfying memory of a dark room and a large meal drifts into his mind. This thing is noisier than BIG SNACK, but it feels somehow the same. Bob is restless, the dissatisfaction with how little BIG SNACK filled him making him more irritable.[3, 2]Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
[2]Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (senses and blocking of them) [Select]Sight: BlindfoldAim foam gun at the creature, hold lit blowtorch in front of it, then shoot at the creature. The idea is to shoot flaming foam at it
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
[1v1]eyy Yagyu, can you hand me my things?
"Yes of course, take it."
Anya's stuff back to Anya. EDIT: check if there's a surprisingly unattended laundry cart full of our crap lying around near us. If yes, give Anya's stuff back, then take my own stuff back as well.
Quickly goop that one guy who insists on engaging in the activity that is making this entity stronger. I'd like to try and do this before he can do it again this turn.
Consider whether fire should still affect this entity, seeing as how bullets don't.
Consider whether us saying something like "we fold em" would make the thing leave us alone or if that would just give it an excuse to pull us into the shadow realm.
If none of that gives me any ideas for how to deal with this thing, try scanning it with the environment scanner to hopefully find something to go on.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
ITS A THOUGHT FORM YOU MORON! TRY THINKING AT IT! A LIZARD WITH A BRAIN THE SIZE OF A WALNUT UNDERSTANDS THIS! This scanner is very rude. EEED exults in the moment. ED must be smiling upon him! Now is time for all who blaspheme the incomprehensible decrees of his god to tremble![3]
Continue evangelizing at Señor Singing Face with all my might and questionable sanity. Display more exuberance than a pedophilic Pinocchio at an elementary school - ED shall drive this demon out more thoroughly than the ancient god of the Americans exorcised random appliances.Spoiler: EEED (click to show/hide)Spoiler: STANpool (click to show/hide)
Uhm. Try to use the helmet to swap gun and Occult again, since the... entity seems to be distracted? And then use ghost god powers to fix this? Or maybe just use ghost god powers straight out, if helmet is unusable. I don't know, man, I barely understand what's happening. Maybe Wilfred's already dead...?[1][6v6]Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: Disabled.
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Disabled.
Touch: Disabled.
Keep Squirming away.[4] Ji manages to squirm her way straight out of the thing's grip somehow. She falls to the ground and continues squirming, flopping about like a fish on the beach.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
"Hey Will, now would be a good time for you to do that thingie. Since we're all going to die horribly if you don't and all."
Bang on the door to spell out "LET ME IN" in morse code. Also, shoot anyone who continues to play any you-know-what related games.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
eyy Yagyu, can you hand me my things?
Stay as far away from the thing as possibleSpoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
"Holy shit I got away from it."Sam, after shooting the...guy doing the thing...turns and pounds on the giant door. Anya presses herself into the corner while reequipping her clothing and various dodads. And Burt dives into the server room and attempts to impersonate a router.
Go find something far from the thing to hide behind.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitWell, it seemed to work with you, so maybe this’ll work, though I’m not an ED, maybe any thoughts against it work?Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: Disabled.
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Disabled.
Touch: Disabled.
Death roll Big Snack, Jr. Bob is working up quite an appetite![2]Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
"NO! I must kill the Derp! FUCK DERP!"[3,3]
Wilfred will start screaming "FUCK DERP" at the monster, with all his angry heart, while still trying to reach his helmet and swap guns with occult.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: Disabled.
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Disabled.
Touch: Disabled.
EEED springs to his feet, fire in his eyes and spines in his heart. Not literally, of course.[3]
”Hark, my fellows! See how this foe cannot withstand the force of ED! My only limitation is that I am but one vessel of his holy might! Fellow spine-possessed beings, both Eds and Eds-to-be - join me in calling out to our progenitor! Our voices combined cannot be silenced!”
Continue calling upon ED to smite this foul beast! Try to convince my fellows (especially the Eds) to join my efforts. The more the holier!Spoiler: EEED (click to show/hide)Spoiler: STANpool (click to show/hide)
"Allright so apparently this thing ought to respond to thoughts now all of a sudden so let's just all think mean things at it. Please, feel free to join in."[3]
Think the following at it. Also chant it in case people join in so we can coordinate, but most of all think it.
EDIT: if Tara, or others for that matter, use the forbidden words or dangerous gestures then goop them to prevent them from speaking/miming (try to leave the nose free for breathing though).
"Aw shucks,
Go away!
Country sucks,
Please do not stay!"Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Hopefully that thing doesn't care about computer stuff."[1, 4]
See if there is anything I can loot while hiding in the server room.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Consider what "[DOOM]" means. Probably not good. Anything to do with the classic 90s videogame? I can't help but notice that the doom is listed under my attacks, therefor it is an attack I can wield and not a negative status effect, right?Edward is not under a finger. Edward is currently trapped in fatal superposition: existing in all places at once until an attack hits him and verifies his location.
Try to free myself from being pinned by the giant skeletal finger. Perhaps by wiggling.
"Edeeeeeddddddedededeeeedddddddedededeeeeedddddddedededeeedddddddededeeeeedddddededeeeedddddddededeeeeedddddddededeeeeeedddddddededeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeedddddddddddddedededeeedddded."Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
Edward will throw his sidearm on the floor and take a few steps back, before thinking the following really hard and saying it out loud at the same time[2]
"I fold 'em
I fold 'em
I Know when I'm beat
I fold 'em
I fold 'em
Now please just retreat
After thinking/saying that, join Yagyu in chanting/thinking in sync. Focus only on the thinking/chanting.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Sam luckily has a g-minor degree in musicals, time to put that to good use! Mustering all her will and mind into a song.[1]
I'm folding, so please be nice~
I'm folding, so don't make me die
I'm folding, so don't tear off my spine
I'm folding~
I'm folding~Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Look inconspicuousJi leans against a wall and attempts to fade into the background.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
[6]Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (senses and blocking of them) [Select]Sight: BlindfoldWell, it seemed to work with you, so maybe this’ll work, though I’m not an ED, maybe any thoughts against it work?
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Tara then stares at the creature, and begins thinking to it, trying to get it to stop attacking
((To the tune of Rickety Tickety Tin))You talk about holding and folding, laundry related terms
Though I’ve no idea what you’re talking about, I have played chess, checkers and other games with turns
If people moving rectangles was how you came to exist
Then why are you harming those whose thoughts you need to subsist, subsist, whose thoughts you need to subsist
There’s others behind that door back there not moving rectangles
There’s others behind that door back there not moving rectangles at all
maybe they’re the ones you should be causing to fall
for if we were killed then you wouldn’t be here at all, at all, never be here at all
What even do you want us to do in regards to holding and folding?
Do you even know entirely why you’re doing what you’re doing?
There’s a group of thoughts called the almighty ED whose power is no doubt growing, growing, whose power is no doubt growing
Does something like ED sound like a thing you want to risk upsetting?
A fellow thought form who will be channeled because of your attacks we’re sending
Attacking us was a mistake
Attacking us was a mistake, mistake, attacking us was a mistake
If you don’t want to dissipate, listen carefully
If you don’t want to dissipate, follow instructions or face your fate
Help us break through that metal door and capture those non rectangle movers within, within, those non rectangle movers within
Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitContinue the Confusion Chords>Perform a lethal injection on Sam using a GSR on full auto while aiming for the head. Just let me fucking play Solitaire damnitWhile thinking the above song, shoot the clone before it injects Sam with bullets
"Hey, can someone please punch me? Preferably someone very scrawny and far from danger!"obviously, Ghost!Anya will take a swing at him.
"Hey, can someone please punch me? Preferably someone very scrawny and far from danger!" Ed's voice seems to come from everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: Disabled.
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Disabled.
Touch: Disabled.
"I now know that shoving your hand into a server is painful and leads to electrocution, and this knowledge has helped science and that means I can stop shoving my hand into it!"[4] Burt has no computing cube to connect to the servers and search through their contents, but luckily some tech has left a little access box here. Just a folding screen and keyboard, but good enough for his needs.
Since I'm still hiding from the thing that shan't be named, I might as well see what kind of interesting things are on this server.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
"Hey, can someone please punch me? Preferably someone very scrawny and far from danger!"obviously, Ghost!Anya will take a swing at him.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Hey, can someone please punch me? Preferably someone very scrawny and far from danger!" Ed's voice seems to come from everywhere and nowhere at the same time.[2] The ghost of Anya attempts to slap Edward but is unfortunately too incorporeal to do so. For now.
Can some teammate please punch me lightly and break me out of this self-imposed fatal superposition.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
[3]"Hey, can someone please punch me? Preferably someone very scrawny and far from danger!" Ed's voice seems to come from everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
Do this by lightly slapping Edon the bum. Unless someone more suitable steps up and/or Ed prefers someone else to do it.
Either way, continue the assault. Same text as before, think and chant at it.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (senses and blocking of them) [Select]Sight: BlindfoldContinue the Confusion Chords
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
((To the tune of Rickety Tickety Tin))It seems that now you’ve stopped attacking, good decision on your part, though it seems the mentioning of ED has caused your body to fall apart, I’m sure you will continue to break, I’m sure you will continue to break, to break, I’m sure you’ll continue to break
You shrink in size and flicker so, not unlike a light, you shrink and flicker like a lightning bug within the night but light will not protect you in the web of hostile thoughts, of thoughts, the web of hostile thoughts
Even if you were a spider within you still would not be safe, for wasps would lay their eggs in you and larvae would eat what’s left of you but not before they control you to make protection for them, for them, to make protection for them
Now you will shrink flicker and fade away, now you will shrink flicker and fade away like you never were and then we can get into the door, the one made of metal that’s locked, that’s locked, the one made of metal that’s locked>Perform a lethal injection on Sam using a GSR on full auto while aiming for the head. Just let me fucking play Solitaire damnitWhile thinking the above song, shoot the clone before it injects Sam with bullets
>Perform a lethal injection on Sam using a GSR on full auto while aiming for the head. Just let me fucking play Solitaire damnitSpoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
Help Sam prevent the clone from continuing to play Solitaire.[5,6,3][4, 1v1]Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
BIG SNACK (JR)!Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
continue chanting and thinking in unison with YagyuSpoiler (click to show/hide)
"FUCK DERP FUCK DERP FUCK DERP FUCK DERP FUCK DERP FUCK DERP FUCK DERP FUCK DERP FUCK DERP FUCK DERP FUCK DERP FUCK DERP FUCK DERP FUCK DERP FUCK DERP FUCK DERP FUCK DERP FUCK DERP FUCK DERP FUCK DERP!"
Yup. Still screaming at the monster. Still trying to reach the helmet and swap guns and occult.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: Disabled.
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Disabled.
Touch: Disabled.
”Behold, how the creature shirks back from the true might of ED! It will not withstand the Name’s might for much longer!”
Call the full attention of ED onto this creature! Chant more piercingly than the choir of a Dark Souls boss, and try to harmonize the rest of those chanting into my own - with this many believers, true-hearted or not, the eyes of ED will surely be drawn upon us!Spoiler: EEED (click to show/hide)Spoiler: STANpool (click to show/hide)
Play the sacred binary chant (https://youtu.be/gsNaR6FRuO0) to praise the machine spirit through the speakers. If everyone else is praising something, might as well join in the confusion.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Hey, can someone please punch me? Preferably someone very scrawny and far from danger!" Ed's voice seems to come from everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
Do this by lightly slapping Edon the bum. Unless someone more suitable steps up and/or Ed prefers someone else to do it.
Either way, continue the assault. Same text as before, think and chant at it.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (senses and blocking of them) [Select]Sight: BlindfoldContinue the Confusion Chords
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
((To the tune of Rickety Tickety Tin))It seems that now you’ve stopped attacking, good decision on your part, though it seems the mentioning of ED has caused your body to fall apart, I’m sure you will continue to break, I’m sure you will continue to break, to break, I’m sure you’ll continue to break
You shrink in size and flicker so, not unlike a light, you shrink and flicker like a lightning bug within the night but light will not protect you in the web of hostile thoughts, of thoughts, the web of hostile thoughts
Even if you were a spider within you still would not be safe, for wasps would lay their eggs in you and larvae would eat what’s left of you but not before they control you to make protection for them, for them, to make protection for them
Now you will shrink flicker and fade away, now you will shrink flicker and fade away like you never were and then we can get into the door, the one made of metal that’s locked, that’s locked, the one made of metal that’s locked>Perform a lethal injection on Sam using a GSR on full auto while aiming for the head. Just let me fucking play Solitaire damnitWhile thinking the above song, shoot the clone before it injects Sam with bullets
"Yeah, got after the guy inside there! He said modern country music is better than old, he also thinks Johnny Cash is overrated!"
Sam will goad it into opening the vault, she'd rather have it fold Mr. Friend than her. Also shoot the clone or what's his name, again, since people just don't learn apperently.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
A final card, much like the one from before, materializes in front of it. An ace of spades goes spinning down the hall again, missing everyone and instead slamming straight into the door. It cleaves through metal and the other disintegrating card and finishes the cut the first one made. As the card vanishes, the vault door grinds and drops to the ground, toppling over with an earth shattering THUD of metal on metal.
The way forward is open...
Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitWait for Yagyu to do the scanning"That guy over there tried to shoot me! You security goons should beat him up and sacrifice him to EEED's god!" Sam yelled pointing at the expandoclone "Also get out of the way, I'm about to attempt the third case of a decapitation being cured!""What do you want me to do!? I think you meant Fucking Wilfred! He's the one with the fancy brain changing helmet thing. The only special helmet powers I have are breathing and not seeing.
Sam will use a medkit charge to stitch Anya's head back on, then inject her heart with stimulant as to make it beat again, then ask FUCKING EDWARD to use his helmet power to put the ghost back in the meatsuit.
ALSO DON'T LOOK AT THE DOOR, KEEP EARBUDS ON AND TRY NOT TO SMELL ANY MR. FRIENDS.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
>Play some Solitaire.Don’t, we just got done killing a thing formed by the thing you’re trying to do, put the forsaken rectangles away
-snip-Fuck you I just wanna play Solitaire
Don’t, we just got done killing a thing formed by the thing you’re trying to do, put the forsaken rectangles away
Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: Disabled.
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Disabled.
Touch: Disabled.
EEED stands exultant. His first true foe, vanquished! Glory in ED’s Name!
”And thus did ED speak unto the crowd at the convenience store - YEA, giveth unto me twenty-five shekels and I will bestow upon thee a broken jawbone, which is sacred to Me. But gamble thine goods away in games of chance and leave no bounty for the smallest of Edwards and I shall smite thee with mine Breath, which smelleth of mint and pineapple!”
Take some time to pose triumphantly! \[T]/
Then go help reattach Anya’s head, since I am both somewhat actually skilled in spinal matters and favored by ED. Use the power of prayer to help her soul if Sam manages the reattachment fine on her own.Spoiler: EEED (click to show/hide)Spoiler: STANpool (click to show/hide)
As we all know, clone copies have souls separate from their progenitors. We also know ghosts can merge together to become more powerful, and that the second ghost has in no way diverged mentally from the og Anya, so it would be a seamless merge.. Another thing we know is that the first Ghost!Anya has been stalking the team, since she told Gabe "It should have been you" when he almost choked to death on a piece of plastic for no reason. We've now reached the only logical conclusion.
Ghost!Anya will merge with OtherGhost!Anya to reenter her bodySpoiler (click to show/hide)
"That guy over there tried to shoot me! You security goons should beat him up and sacrifice him to EEED's god!" Sam yelled pointing at the expandoclone "Also get out of the way, I'm about to attempt the third case of a decapitation being cured!"
Sam will use a medkit charge to stitch Anya's head back on, then inject her heart with stimulant as to make it beat again, then ask FUCKING EDWARD to use his DOOM or FUCKING WILFREEED to use his helmet power to put the ghost back in the meatsuit.
ALSO DON'T LOOK AT THE DOOR, KEEP EARBUDS ON AND TRY NOT TO SMELL ANY MR. FRIENDS.
P.S: Shoot Solitaire's man hands (again)Spoiler (click to show/hide)
[9][4][4]"That guy over there tried to shoot me! You security goons should beat him up and sacrifice him to EEED's god!" Sam yelled pointing at the expandoclone "Also get out of the way, I'm about to attempt the third case of a decapitation being cured!""What do you want me to do!? I think you meant Fucking Wilfred! He's the one with the fancy brain changing helmet thing. The only special helmet powers I have are breathing and not seeing.
Sam will use a medkit charge to stitch Anya's head back on, then inject her heart with stimulant as to make it beat again, then ask FUCKING EDWARD to use his helmet power to put the ghost back in the meatsuit.
ALSO DON'T LOOK AT THE DOOR, KEEP EARBUDS ON AND TRY NOT TO SMELL ANY MR. FRIENDS.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
.....guess I can give something a try though."
Sensory deprivations activate.
When Anya's head is reattached and her heart is beating, give her a light kick. Maybe I stillhave enough of the doom energy and maybe ghost state is close enough to fatal superposition for it to work. I have no idea. Kick as far away from the head as possible, like on the foot or something.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
After assuring that E-clone isn’t still causing trouble, prepare to provide backup to the team if necessary.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
>Play some Solitaire.
"Oh god damnit, do you have a brain? STOP TOUCHING THE DAMN CARDS! FUCK CARDS!"
Y'know, I was wondering whether I should swap to occult anyway and try to help with the soul shenanigans, but the dude messing with cards has made the choice for me. Don't swap, hold the security rifle on him, and shoot if he seriously insists on messing with cards.
While we're here, how long does the reconfiguration helmet's effect last? For one turn? The rest of the mission? The rest of the game?Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: Disabled.
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Disabled.
Touch: Disabled.
QuoteA final card, much like the one from before, materializes in front of it. An ace of spades goes spinning down the hall again, missing everyone and instead slamming straight into the door. It cleaves through metal and the other disintegrating card and finishes the cut the first one made. As the card vanishes, the vault door grinds and drops to the ground, toppling over with an earth shattering THUD of metal on metal.
The way forward is open...
!
"Everyone get your sensory deprivation shit on! RIGHT NOW!"
Confirm deprivation measures are active.
Get in cover and check what is behind the doors that just opened, goop to the floor anything that moves in there. If nothing comes up use the scanner to see if there's anything lurking in there I didn't immediately spot.
Loan Sam 1 dose of painkillers for the purpose of getting Anya back alive and capable, should it help.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Waddle foraward and demand negotiations. If negotiations are forthcoming, eat them. If they are not forthcomng, eat the negotiators.Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
Yagyu steps on Bob's tail before Bob can run off, and the lizard scrambles in place, unable to move forward but determined to keep trying. Yagyu scans the room ahead of them: he can't see much because only the bottom half of the door has fallen, and all he can see is a white room and the bottom half of what looks like servers or computer banks. [1] The scanner...appears to have gotten broken at some point in the excitement. Maybe during his heroic dive to the ground to avoid giant playing cards.Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (senses and blocking of them) [Select]Sight: BlindfoldWait for Yagyu to do the scanning
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
After the required scan and shooting, can you tell us what you found?
"All nice and properly shut down."Burt wanders out of the server room and looks around. He sees what's happening and considers returning to the server room.
Get out of the server room and see what everyone else is doing.
Is there a way I can get paid more per mission without having to do extra work?
Is there a way to knockout Durp without getting near him and is that something to knock him out with near by.
Is there a room in this sector that has weapons and ammo?Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
>Shoot anyone trying to prevent me from playing Solitaire.You can play whatever game it is when we’re done trying to capture a mind controller. If you live, you can go away from anyone else and do that, and fight another thought form on your own. We do not want to deal with another one right now, and we don’t need you shooting us! Not everyone has a cognition copier, and those that do would probably rather keep the bodies they have. No one here wants to die, and everyone except you would rather avoid having to fight another thoughtform. We just got done reviving someone killed b6 the thing you were helping. Did you know that you were helping it grow? Do you know why we don’t want anyone messing with cards?
Yagyu steps on Bob's tail before Bob can run off, and the lizard scrambles in place, unable to move forward but determined to keep trying. Yagyu scans the room ahead of them: he can't see much because only the bottom half of the door has fallen, and all he can see is a white room and the bottom half of what looks like servers or computer banks. [1] The scanner...appears to have gotten broken at some point in the excitement. Maybe during his heroic dive to the ground to avoid giant playing cards.
Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: Disabled.
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Disabled.
Touch: Disabled.
"FUCK DERP AND FUCK YOU!"
My action last turn was to shoot Expendaclone if Expendaclone insisted on messing with cards, and Expendaclone insisted on messing with cards.
Shoot Expendaclone.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: Disabled.
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Disabled.
Touch: Disabled.
"Well, I'm truly a god of science. If someone wants to send me a nobel prize, my adress is 349583859 OMNIstreet, just go right around that crack shack bebeath the giant holo billboard. Can't miss it.".
Make more sleeping gas for use on Derp. Also, shoot expando clone's hands off.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
>Shoot anyone trying to prevent me from playing Solitaire.NICE SHEET.
"I'm not getting involved with any of this."[6]
Use my MASSIVE BRAIN to figure out where the room with the guns is.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
"Well, I'm truly a god of science. If someone wants to send me a nobel prize, my adress is 349583859 OMNIstreet, just go right around that crack shack bebeath the giant holo billboard. Can't miss it.".[3]
Make more sleeping gas for use on Derp. Also, shoot expando clone's hands off.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
QuoteYagyu steps on Bob's tail before Bob can run off, and the lizard scrambles in place, unable to move forward but determined to keep trying. Yagyu scans the room ahead of them: he can't see much because only the bottom half of the door has fallen, and all he can see is a white room and the bottom half of what looks like servers or computer banks. [1] The scanner...appears to have gotten broken at some point in the excitement. Maybe during his heroic dive to the ground to avoid giant playing cards.
Dangit. Repair the scanner using a toolkit charge, then try again to scan what is beyond the doors. If nothing much comes up then stand off to the side of the entrance and wave the scanner around the corner for a second before backing off and checking the footage (safe framerate).
If that one guy continues to be a problem or dangerous, then open a private comms line to command and explain one of our team, expendaclone, might be compromised and ask them to begin shocking him unconscious so we can detain them. Be sure nobody can hear me say this however.
Finally, if Bob continues to try and charge ahead into the room, use the power of FISHIE FISHIE FISHIE to distract him.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Knock on the (now broken door) and shout: "Hello? Anybody there? We're here to rescue you!"
If no answer and scanner is either still broken or doesn't warn about anything bad, get in and have a look around. Carefully. Slowly. With 0.2 FPS and motion tracking.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Give Yag and Pathos backup as they press forwards.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
grab and put on my gear, then stay behind everyoneYagyu fiddles with his scanner and the rest of the team wait. They're waiting to see if its safe to press forward or not, waiting to see if the scanner picks anything up. Yagyu's repair attempts are tragically slow: his sensory deprivation makes fixing anything a time consuming process. He's in the midst of doing it when the computer voice of speech to text fills their ears.
EDIT: Help fix the scanner if necessary, then get behind everyoneSpoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
You know, once I got free it was easy to escape. Those suits of yours make you quite hopeless in any sort of conflict. UPDATE TOMORROW MORNING.You update tomorrow morning
Think Swampy thoughts. Wait for a bird to come clean my teeth, or for a handler to throw a watermelon into my mouth.Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
Everyone's vision isn't synchronized to the exact same 5 second cycle, right? They refresh at different times, right? Just making sure.Ed, aware that his time is likely going to start unleashing completely random attacks at anything they THINK is the enemy, decides to hide in the corner.
Huddle, hunker down, take cover, cower, duck and cover, hide, and don't die.
Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
"glkrekr"Anya disassembles her pistol, or at least removes the slide and magazine, tosses the components into the laundry hamper, and then promptly runs down the hall all the way back to the entrance of this area.
Anya will quickly and surprisingly calmly disassemble her pistol, take out the mag and chuck the pieces in the laundry cart, and if possible run awaySpoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
Desperate times call for desperate measures, Sam will slice open the expando clone, paint space suit with tribal war symbols, close eyes and crawl around grabbing wildly. If she feels she grabbed something that's not a robot or teammate she'll start hacking away with her knife. Going for the tendons and toes in particular.[2]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Get my syringe of tranquillizers ready and get that mother fucker. Once I locate him visually, tackle him and inject him.[2]Ji raises her syringe and starts whipping her head around, trying to catch a frozen image of the target. She sees him once, a blur down the hall, and takes off at a sprint towards it, her arms wide. She dives, grabbing, but gets nothing but air, dropping to the ground awkwardly.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
"Oh great Mr. Dumb Ass has finally decided to show himself."[4]
Go to where the rest of the team is and start spraying one of my fire extinguishers at anything that isn't on my team.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Tag those legs with limited omniscience.[8] Pathos backs into a corner and then waits for his vision to cycle. The moment it does, he sights the target and sprays the entire area with tags, just saturates the screen in them. There were other people on that screen of course...but he's certain he got Mr. Friend as well. He begins routing the data to everyone, with the caution that only one of the moving targets on there is the actual target. The others are teammates.
Close myeyesoptical sensors since they're just a distraction.
Use Yagyu's map, limited omniscience and motion sensor to direct my teammates' efforts so that they catch the target and don't kill each other.
"Ji, when we're done with this, do you wanna buy my limited omniscience and motion sensor? And maybe a big sword? I think you're much better suited for the blind swordsman role."Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"This problem is simple to solve! Even me, a simple clone, can figure you out, Friend! I have too much E for you to comprehend my schemes."[2]
Engage my automop on maximum slippery floor settings and flood the hallway with sudsy water! Then pull out my Arc Scraper and sit down. Inform Mr. Friend that if he doesn’t lay down on his stomach and surrender (and accept ED into his life as his personal lord and savior) within the next 5 seconds, he’s gonna feel more than just a tingle.
Follow through on the threat if he doesn’t comply or if he knocks me down or something, I’ve got a rubber suit so I’ll be fine and I’m sure our non-insulated workers can handle a few seconds of agonizing pain.Spoiler: EEED (click to show/hide)Spoiler: STANpool (click to show/hide)
The exit from this area was a fairly small-ish doorway, right? If yes, start spraying sticky goop all over that exit, the idea is to either try and catch Friendo in the sticky goop stream if he makes a break for the exit, or to at least block off the exit with the expanding goop even if he's not running away yet.[4]
If blocking off the doorway like this doesn't seem like it'd work, then just try to goop our target. I am willing to take larger friendly fire risks if it means I increase my chance of also hitting friendo (aka liberally applying goop), if that's not a mechanic that exists then just fire normally. Either way be assisted by spiderfriend in this endeavor.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
>Suddenly appear in a nearby closet/room/other closed container large enough to fit an adult human, and walk out after kicking the door open hard enough that the hinges fall off.A new expendaclone kicks open the door to one of the side rooms and steps out into the hall. He shouts "OH YEAH!" before immediately glancing over and seeing Mr. Friend....Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitShoot foam at one of the tags, hopefully hitting Mr. Controller, if intended target was hit, use tranquilizer dart on target
Sam will unload pistol, throw the knife at Mr Friend, curl up and try to make herself hard to suicide.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
>Grab the 4 spare magazines for my rifle off of my previous rendition's corpse in true powergamer style.....
if there's enough room, crawl under the foam and out door, then barricade itAnya, apparently blindfolded, scrabbles about, trying to claw or crawl her way through the door. It is unfortunately futile as the door has been completely blocked off.
EDIT: uhh if I'm already on the other side of the door, then still barricade itSpoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
Start swinging my fire extinguisher like a mad man and RUN into the room that Mr. Shit Lord came out of.[6]Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
EEED has never attended a corporate sexual harassment seminar, but HR’s policies on the matter are printed onto his prefrontal cortex. Namely, when touched in an unwelcome way, press the button to summon a legal team (that may proceed to prosecute you for wasting their time if they judge the request to be not urgent enough). This training comes to him now in this hour of need, with Bird Box cosplayers trying to violate his sanctity and the narrator mistaking him for a woman momentarily.[2] EEED reaches down to suicidality activate all the functions of his mop when something metallic, round, and extremely hard cracks him right in the forehead. He falls over backwards, holding his head and writhing on the ground in agony.
Press every button on the Automop at once. If I survive the result, and my suit is still intact, proceed with the ‘indirect electrocution of everyone’ plan. If not, pray to ED for my salvation.Spoiler: EEED (click to show/hide)Spoiler: STANpool (click to show/hide)
Run into the sideroom that the Expendaclone just came out of and shut the door and hide.[2v6][1v2]Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
Waddle into the control room. Restore it to factory settings. If that doesn't work, or the control room is uncooperative, restore it to pre-factory settings. Pre-industrial settings.[2]Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
"My only regret is that I can't enjoy a recording of this later. It would had been hilarious to watch."Pathos folds up all his little spider legs and sits down in the corner, waiting for this to all resolve itself.
Just keep doing what I'm doing for now. I'm certain someone will figure out what all these tags mean.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Round two. Look for the marker closest to the exit and head that way. If I ID Friendly, or any non-teammate, tackle him and stick him with the syringe.Ji sprints towards the tag that is closest to the door and apparently attempting to get out. He tackles it and waits for the camera feed to cycle so he can see what he's looking at. What he ends up looking at is Anya, who he is sitting astride as she continues to try and scramble away.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
Tara cannot see the tags, as she is blindfolded. She instead sprays at her best guess of where the target might be.Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (senses and blocking of them) [Select]Sight: BlindfoldShoot foam at one of the tags, hopefully hitting Mr. Controller, if intended target was hit, use tranquilizer dart on target
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
If Yagyu is aware that Friend (or maybe a possessed teammate) is clawing at EEED, goop 'em. Avoid hitting EEED if possible, but if not just goop them both.[6][1]
If it turns out that was not in fact friendo or the action wasn't relevant, then just try to goop friendo. Try to compensate for the lack of normal vision by spraying liberally and at an angle which makes dodging or jumping over the stream difficult. Use the tags in combination with still having some vision to determine which tag is our target, then use the tags to help me in my aiming.
On the radio and only to spiderfriend: "Pathos, if we can't restrain him you can use one of the automated defenses to fill the whole room with inert gas, then the robots among us can grab him once he begins asphyxiating. But please be careful with it and stop it on time, we don't wanna kill our teammates!"Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: Disabled.
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Disabled.
Touch: Disabled.
UNLOCK CHAKRAS, AWAKEN THIRD EYE, USE THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP, REMEMBER WHAT YOU LEARNED IN BOATING SCHOOL IDK JUST TRY TO BREAK FREE OF MIND WHAMMY BY DOING SOMETHINGSpoiler (click to show/hide)
>After putting the magazines into my armor's pouches (which is an action with no uncertainty meaning a roll would be wasteful), go figure out what the fuck is going on now.....Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
continue cowering in the cornerCower intensifiesSpoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
"Ow!"Edward scrambles and hides behind Expendaclone's corpse, holding it in front of him as a shield.
Scramble backwards to hide behind a nearby laundry cart or expendaclone corpse or other convenient piece of cover.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
”Oh, this is totally gonna mess up my chakras! That hurt, man!”[4]
Fine, Automop’s not gonna work right now. Activate my incinerator instead - use maximum suction and try to get whoever’s bugging me stuck on the vacuum hose. Hopefully don’t accidentally activate the flame spray mechanism.Spoiler: EEED (click to show/hide)Spoiler: STANpool (click to show/hide)
OMNITECH Incinerator[2]
A backpack portable, high temperature, thermonuclear incinerator. Burns up almost any organic material and many inorganic ones, depositing the resulting tightly compressed ash blocks on the ground like smoldering rabbit droppings. Has both a large hatch for loading in bulky waste and a vacuum hose for sucking up small debris. Can also be set to spray flame, though doing so is technically against regulations and highly dangerous. Has "SANITATION" stenciled on one side of the main body.
"Fuck Derp! Where is Derp? Fuck Derp! Fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp!"Wilfred presses a button on his helmet and has a short seizure as the helmet completely rewrites his brain. Or programming in this case. When he comes to he suddenly knows very little about the weapons he's holding and a hell of a lot about tarot cards, crystals, and the transdimensional entities which hide just a few vibrational spectra from the mundane world.
Use neuron reconfiguration helmet to swap Guns with Occult. If told where Derp is, and not told that Derp is safely restrained, call ghosts to come eat Derp.
((Really, Wilfred would just start summoning ghosts regardless, but it seems like we might actually just win this now, so... trying not to fail the mission for the sake of in-character emotions and morality.))Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: Disabled.
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Disabled.
Touch: Disabled.
"Oh fuck, what'd I just run into, hope I didn't break any ribs."Burt, who is somehow still alive, rolls all the way back until he hits a wall. Through process of elimination he's pretty sure he's in the main control room, probably against one of the back walls.
Continue rolling until I'm far from the action then figure out where I've ended up.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Alright now, he should be still, no? Get to him and inject him with the syringe. Proceed to tie him up with zip ties.Ji, sensing this is her chance, charges over to the last image of Mr. Friend, grabs blindly until he gets hold of something he's pretty sure is flesh, and then jams the needle into it. [4, 5v3] several bullets hit him in the back and either ricochet off or just impact and drop to the ground.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
Goop friendo again! Goop him from the feet up to his shoulders but be very careful NOT to goop his head, so as to not block his breathing.
If that works and he is restrained, then gag him so he can't speak (maybe with the blindfold Burt had) and put a bag of sorts over his head so nobody can see him anymore (maybe with one of the jumpsuits lying around?). The idea here is to make it so nobody can perceive him anymore even if they don't have sensory deprivation.
Should his mouth/face become blocked at some point that prevents him from breathing and threatens asphyxiation, remove the blockage but without freeing his arms or legs.
Edit 1: also tell spiderfriend which tag belongs to friendo.
Edit 2: also tell the team that friendo is caught in goop and we are restraining them further.
Note: edits made in response to other people's suggestions, and while they make sense in the context and for Yagyu I'm not sure if it's not too meta to take them, so exercise your judgement if you want to allow them.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Someone cover him with a coat or something so we can exit low FPS mode."[4] Yagyu manages to hit the restrained and now unconcious MR. Friend with a blast of goo. He unfortunately also hits Ji, pinning the robolady's hands in place where they're holding mr.friend. But the target has been successfully knocked out, cocooned, and pinned to the wall. All's well that ends well...
Take note of which tag is the target.
Look around and tell others about people who seem to be acting weirdly so they can be dealt with.
If target is covered in a manner that would prevent others from being mind controlled by seeing him, exit low FPS mode.Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
((Normally I'd wonder why the action that was first went last instead instead of the normal posting order, or how there was no speed roll, or how getting up, running over and injecting someone is faster than re-aiming and pulling a trigger. But I guess the answer is simply 'because shenanigans', and who am I to question the power of shenanigans?))((you haven't noticed you've been put at the back of the queue pretty regularly throughout this latest couple encounters? You're batting fourth, as the baseball themed saying goes. We don't have a competent janitor, so you're the clean-up crew. Ironic, Mr. GetsGooOnLiterallyEverything, isn't it?))
((Well up till now it never really mattered, but this time it did! Sticky goop for everyone!))((Normally I'd wonder why the action that was first went last instead instead of the normal posting order, or how there was no speed roll, or how getting up, running over and injecting someone is faster than re-aiming and pulling a trigger. But I guess the answer is simply 'because shenanigans', and who am I to question the power of shenanigans?))((you haven't noticed you've been put at the back of the queue pretty regularly throughout this latest couple encounters? You're batting fourth, as the baseball themed saying goes. We don't have a competent janitor, so you're the clean-up crew. Ironic, Mr. GetsGooOnLiterallyEverything, isn't it?))
Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitHead towards Yagyu and try helping him out of the foamSight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: Disabled.
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Disabled.
Touch: Disabled.
Believe in the heart of the cards, at this point I'm just waiting for y'all to do something.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
>After putting the magazines into my armor's pouches (which is an action with no uncertainty meaning a roll would be wasteful), go figure out what the fuck is going on now.....Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
Free my hands and shoot Expendaclone.[2]Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
Now that I'm somewhere safe check myself over and see if I have any unknown injuries, then if I'm fine go find were the guns are kept.Burt, at very low FPS, checks himself over. Mostly via patting himself down and feeling for anything sticking out or stabbing in. He finds nothing other than some bruises and so scrambles about on his hands and knees, like a demented gecko, in search of guns.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Radiate a non-threatening and not very competent or useful aura, so the Expendaclone hopefully considers me a very low priority target."My favorite hobbies are stamp collecting and eating the paste off my stamp collection! I like long walks through the junkyard and watching paint dry! I am both incredibly boring and staggeringly useless. IGNORE ME!"Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
Ayup, I figured turning the vacuum hose on was contingent on having the incinerator on too. But hey, no harm done to me by myself. Anyhow:EEED lights up his arc welder and waves it back and forth in front of him like an old timey torch, as though attempting to fend off some kind of large animal or perhaps a reanimated corpse. He shouts about how ED is the greatest pitchfork and anyone who pays attention to him is reasonably confused.
Wave my arc welder around to prevent anyone from getting close to me, which seems to be the goal of the mind controlled folks. If the floor ends up covered in water and we still have hostiles (ie someone hasn’t given the all-clear over the earpieces) then electrocute the water after giving a warning via said earpieces. Or just shouting.Spoiler: EEED (click to show/hide)Spoiler: STANpool (click to show/hide)
Now that there's no one competent free to prevent it, flood Sector A like I flooded sector B, and set the temperature to balmy. also try to find as much murk and algae as possible to fill the flood with swampy goodness. Not trying to drown anyone in particular, just looking for a good, smelly, sludgy, humid, sticky, pond/river to glomp around in.[4]Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
((Normally I'd wonder why the action that was first went last instead instead of the normal posting order, or how there was no speed roll, or how getting up, running over and injecting someone is faster than re-aiming and pulling a trigger. But I guess the answer is simply 'because shenanigans', and who am I to question the power of shenanigans?))I can hear you in those Parenthesis you know. Listen, the general order is
Aim the spray of goop at the people who are currently still under mind control, with the goal of hitting their arms so they can't properly shoot anything anymore.
If that doesn't work then ask command to activate the electrical behavior modification implant on expenda to shock them into submission.
Then extricate my feet and go do that mouth gag+bag over head plan. As before make sure to check for unobstructed breathing.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
((Sorry, missed a turn))[3] Tara starts smashing the goo with the back end of her own foam gun. She cracks some of it away but mostly just free's Yagyu's toes.Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (senses and blocking of them) [Select]Sight: BlindfoldHead towards Yagyu and try helping him out of the foam
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
((The sound to text would mention the foam splurting I assume))
"FUCK DERP, AND FUCK DERPLINGS!"[12v2]
Summon ghosts to eat Expendaclone's gun. And maybe legs too.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: Disabled.
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Disabled.
Touch: Disabled.
Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: Disabled.
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Disabled.
Touch: Disabled.
I can hear you in those Parenthesis you know. Listen, the general order is [...]((Duly noted! I'll make a sizable donation to the shenanigans fund in the near future.))
Ha, joking. I'm not paid. He barely even feeds me. Anyway.((Aww I'm sorry. Do you... do you want me to make you a sandwich?))
WAIT.....Spoiler: WAIT (click to show/hide)
>Get distracted and start going on a quest to obtain ~37000 meters of electrical cables, ~30000 cubic meters of stone, and 20736 cubic meters of wood, and bring it all to the middle of nowhere. It'll make sense later.[1]Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
”Somebody who’s still got tranquilizers, jab Sam!”[5] With a mighty headbutt Ji manages to free her hands from the hardened foam.
Try again to free myself. Get over to Sam and knock her ass out. If that succeeds, bind her with zip ties.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
"I've found the gun room!"Burt uses his new shotgun to do what shotguns do best....hide in the corner and not shoot anyone.
Equip my new shotgun as primary and find a corner to hide in and if anyone comes into this corner that isn't on my team shoot them in the face.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Yeah a BLTMF would be great. Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato, Metal file. On wheat bread. Trying to watch my figure. HA HA HA.QuoteI can hear you in those Parenthesis you know. Listen, the general order is [...]((Duly noted! I'll make a sizable donation to the shenanigans fund in the near future.))QuoteHa, joking. I'm not paid. He barely even feeds me. Anyway.((Aww I'm sorry. Do you... do you want me to make you a sandwich?))
I want to break free.
I want to breaaaak free!
I want to break free from your lies
You're so self satisfied I don't need glueeee.
I've got to break free
God knows, God knows I want to break free.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"WHO ELSE NEEDS TO BE EATEN?! FUCK DERP! WHERE IS DERP?! FUCK DERP! GHOSTS WILL EAT HIS FACE! FUCK DERP!"[5]
If Sam is obviously mind controlled, summon ghosts to eat her gun.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: Disabled.
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Disabled.
Touch: Disabled.
EEED considers his situation. It seems semi-likely that his teammates will prove competent enough to subdue their mind-controlled counterparts soon enough, but still possible that there could be ... complications.
The allure of the arc scraper in his hand calls out to the water.
Attempt to get confirmation from friendlies if all the non-friendly folk have been subdued. If they haven’t been by the time the water rises... zappity zap zap! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDLYMW6gS14)Spoiler: EEED (click to show/hide)Spoiler: STANpool (click to show/hide)
”Would somebody throw a blanket or something over our Very Good Friend!”
Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: Disabled.
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Disabled.
Touch: Disabled.
Go reboot the electrobuddies - all of them. Use a toolkit charge to repair Yaggie's leggums.[3,Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
WAKE UP! If successful in waking up, resume screaming "FUCK DERP!" on loop, and summon ghosts to eat Expendaclone. Again.[2]Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: Disabled.
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Disabled.
Touch: Disabled.
Finish subduing Sam, and if there’s time, close into melee and cut Expendaclone 3 with the antibio razor.[10]
”Would somebody throw a blanket or something over our Very Good Friend!”Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
Take cover behind Derp. There's no way any of the brainwashed people would risk shooting at Derp.Edward scrambles to be as near to the brain washing thrall herd as possible. For tactical reasons. He balls himself up at Mr. Friend's foam encrusted feet.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
Since everyone else is still staying in the other rooms I guess I might as well start looting the room I'm in.[3]Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Yagyu, now able to walk again, heads over and tosses something over Mr. Friend's head. I don't really know what but I'm sure he has some kind of fabric he can use in that infinite pile of grave robbed booty. He then gets on the coms and a few moments later, right in the middle of an epic sword fight, Expenda 03 goes very stiff and then completely limp and collapses to the ground like a sack of wet oatmeal.”Would somebody throw a blanket or something over our Very Good Friend!”
"What do you think I've been trying to do?!?"
Third time's the charm, go throw something over Friendo's head! Crawl over there if I have to but just get it fucking done.
Oh, and ask command again to shock expenda no. 3.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Alright, no more shenanigans." Yagyu says, scraping a few last bits of foam off himself. "Anyone got anything else they want to fuck up or am I good to call command and get us out of here? Seems like we've been here for fucking months."((So perfectly on point, you might as well play Yagyu for me~))
Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: Disabled.
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Disabled.
Touch: Disabled.
”I’m GTG Yag. The sooner we get out of here the better”Ji hogties Sam and E3 before rolling them both over near Mr. Friend. She then rolls over both expendaclone corpses and forms a nice pile.
EDIT- Tie up Sam and E3 before doing anything else.
If we do leave this turn, grab a bunch of biomaterial for Sam on the way back by way of apology for knocking her out.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
"Are there any other brainwashed expendaclones we should know about."Ed grabs himself a suit of riot armor and a flashlight from a corpse before standing near Yagyu and Mr. Friend.
The laundry cart can probably be used to carry Derp.
Casually loot a suit of riot armour and a flashlight from an expendaclone before Yagyu can shove it in his hammerspace.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
You know, being unconscious is actually a really good excuse for Wilfred to not murder the mission target right now.
Sleep peacefully.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: Disabled.
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Disabled.
Touch: Disabled.
Try not to wake up, mumble in sleep about making us whole.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Quote"Alright, no more shenanigans." Yagyu says, scraping a few last bits of foam off himself. "Anyone got anything else they want to fuck up or am I good to call command and get us out of here? Seems like we've been here for fucking months."((So perfectly on point, you might as well play Yagyu for me~))
Yeah, let's call command and brief them on where things stand for now. IIRC they wanted us to deposit this guy in his old holding cell, right? Which sector was that again?
If we will indeed need to transport him to his cell, look for something that we can use as a stretcher on which we can put the goop-encased friendo. Use toolkit if we need to cobble something together.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: Disabled.
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Disabled.
Touch: Disabled.
2. Skills can be leveled up regardless of body. Any ORGANIC body can level stats as well. Non-organic bodies must find other ways to level up stats, such as upgrading to a different body or being placed in an organic body. This is the price you pay for not bleeding out.((Does this include flesh horrors and/or xenomorphs?))
What about cyborgs and other half robots? Exactly what percentage mechanical do you have to be to not get level ups?presumably the point where you can't bleed out.
Yes.2. Skills can be leveled up regardless of body. Any ORGANIC body can level stats as well. Non-organic bodies must find other ways to level up stats, such as upgrading to a different body or being placed in an organic body. This is the price you pay for not bleeding out.((Does this include flesh horrors and/or xenomorphs?))
What about cyborgs and other half robots? Exactly what percentage mechanical do you have to be to not get level ups?I mean I could get in depth and say that if you have mechanical muscles you can't get strength up but whatever. If you are significantly gears instead of meat, then no stat leveling.
Things done:Message from OMNITECH accounting:
-Discovered what was Derp's deal.
-Made a sleeping gas that was used to knock out weirdos (and EEED)
-Made some harmless littler chlorine gas
-Removed the harmless gas from Burt's lungs.
-Vibrated out of you-know-what's grasp.
-Shot cards out of expandoclone's hand
-Helped drive away you-know-what god
-Resurrected the dead, she'll want her Nobel delivered in 5 days or less, thank you very much.
Level up:
Implants d4> d6 > d8
Will d6 > d8 > d10Spoiler (click to show/hide)
BobMessage from OMNITECH accounting:
Also, Levelup: Will d4->d6->d8, Implants d4->d6->d8
P.S. Bob is already recognized as professor, so whatever promotion that involves applies.
((Angry, That's one level-up. You have a second available))Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
Level up:Message from OMNITECH accounting:
Dexterity d4 > d6
Fate d6 > d8
Mechanics d6 > d8
Occult d6 > d8Spoiler: "Accomplishments" (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
Message from OMNITECH accounting:Spoiler: EEED Deeds (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EEED (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Congregation of ED (click to show/hide)Levelup: Strength d4 -> d8, Med d10 -> d12, Tech d4 -> d6Spoiler: STANpool (click to show/hide)
Level Implants up twice, from d6 to d10. Obviously I can’t upgrade my stats.Message from OMNITECH accounting:Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
Save level-up for now.Message from OMNITECH accounting:Spoiler: What Yagyu done did (click to show/hide)
Saving level-up for now until I figure out where to go with this character exactlyMessage from OMNITECH accounting:Spoiler: things done during mission (click to show/hide)Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I've been writing down everything Wilfred's done, all mission long! He's a Senior Xeno Ambassador, so +150 OMNI.Message from OMNITECH accounting:Spoiler: Things done! (click to show/hide)
As for the levelup, I'd like to save it. Since Wilfred had his body replaced twice in this mission, how does the stat upgrade even work? Is it just lost, because he'll likely be returning his current body to its original owner? Or can he upgrade whatever he gets as a replacement?
...Actually, he'll upgrade tech from d10 to d12. And then apply for a promotion to Computer Seance Specialist. He's already a master of all relevant skills.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Code: [Select]Sight: 0.2 FPS
Smell: Disabled.
Hearing: Disabled; speech to text enabled.
Taste: Disabled.
Touch: Disabled.
Message from OMNITECH accounting:try to mime out that I want to bum an insurance card off someone, so that I can speak againSpoiler: Anya's Accomplishments (click to show/hide)Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
18:58] Radio Controlled: Also, something I had in my action but maybe if you can weigh in now that'd save some time:
Regarding the loot of all the dead teammates I have, can I divide it as I see fit, or do you have some stipulations perhaps? Or would you prefer we just scrap all of it?
[19:02] Mr.Bones: I mean, I personally don't care. You looted it, its yours. Unless of course someone kills you and takes it. Or you feel like handing it out. But ya can't sell starting equipment.
"Hey, us Edwards are getting pretty much the same stuff.""Great Eds think alike, I suppose."
”You are correct in that assumption, my friend!”"Hey, us Edwards are getting pretty much the same stuff.""Great Eds think alike, I suppose."
So I'm thinking about getting back into this. Have there been any major changes since my last character died (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=173094.msg8066860#msg8066860)?((We just finished the mission to capture the weird telepath man and are in the downtime so I think you're good to hop in.))
How's the waitlist? It seems I showed interest right before a mission was about to start. Is it possible for me to make a character and join you guys or has the roster for this mission already been set in stone?
Bob will visit his[1]snack dispensersfriends in Experimental and hack up his thermonuclear device and his ego overrider, with the intent of getting a semi-autonomous thermonuclear cat, using the spiderbot tech and, or course, the 3d printing tech my characters are so fond of.
((to be clear, I am exchanging the thermonuclear device and ego overrider to create an implant controlled robot or cyborg kitten of a highly volatile nature. I am willing to be limited to only being able to act as the Saurian or the Cybercat on any given turn, or even requiring a full turn and stated action to switch between, even though there is no such stated restriction on the spiderbot. Alternatively, since I am throwing the ego overrider in there, use of implant skill to control the cat is fine. And it being semi-autonomous leaves room for GM shenanicats. Bob's gonna get his nuclear cat hat. He's GONNA!
costs:
thermonuclear device: ????
Ego Overrider: Christmas gift, valued at 1000 OMNI
Spiderbot: cost 600 Omni
Labor: Heck, it's Bob. He's a good test subject, who would charge him for labor?))Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
-Well first, might as well wave her new job title in front of the monkey's face to see how he reacts to it.1. The "monkey" smiles in the way one might smile at a very stupid dog or small child performing a very unimpressive trick. He throws in a "Jolly good".
-The next most absolutely critical -thing to do is get that cognition copier reinstalled.
-Then see if SAM is willing to perform some aftercare and use that organosculpt-whatever to fix up her nerves and vocal cords. Bribe with a handpicked selection of experimental nootropics (one of each type) if necessary.
-finally, buy a hoverboard (-250 OMNI)Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
1) Neo Detroit sounds like a hoot!1. Remember you said this.
2) Be sure to brief command on the group of survivors and gooped thralls so they can be extracted.
3) Question: originally we had agreed that Yagyu, instead of grabbing those bodyparts to make a body for him in sector R, was gonna collect them at the end of the mission on the return journey (see http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=173094.msg8114414#msg8114414). Now that our method of extraction was different than what we expected from the mission briefing, shall we say that plan simply doesn't go through, or what?Regarding the loot of all the dead teammates I have, can I divide it as I see fit, or do you have some stipulations perhaps? Or would you prefer we just scrap all of it?
4) How much would selling the following things net (in total): 1 broken/disabled claymore, radio jammer, 1 unit of useful metal bits, syringe with a bit of mystery fluid, full syringes with viruses, 2x earpiece of thrall, syringe with tranquilizer, ziptie, fungicide container, security robot brain (somewhat damaged)
5) How much would selling the pinpoint carbine net? (costs 1400 in the armory)
6) How much would selling the prototype gun + all 10 rounds net?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Neo-Detroit?! Aw darn, I wanted to go to Neo-Neo-Detroit, last I heard they're the first Hive City to have a mutant mayor! Sure its because he used his psych powers and army of Gene Warriors to conquer it but hey, props for diversity. Also, can I get the giblets of Larry and Richter Yakman? I kinda need the biomass to make my hot new beach bod."
Step 1: Sam will sell off everything that isn't the Organothingiemajig or medicine, this means all this garbage right here:
OMNITECH Green Jumpsuit
OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack) x3 Magazines (d4 use die)
Emergency battery pack
Gasmask
OMNITECH Space Suit
OMNITECH Generic Knife
1 dose of painkillers
Hopefully, she's packing underwear underneath that jumpsuit, but it's not like she'll need it when she ascends. Then she'll buy a cognition copier and a size XLLLL swimsuit for the vacation.
Step 2: Sam will pay one of the Eds his 500 buckeroos, then ask where she can find a bathtub and sign the proper documentation for transhuman body horror experiments. Oh and heal Anya's vocal cords using her new flesh touch powers in return for the nootropics, maybe give her a third eye or something too as a bonus gift.
Step 3: Sam will put the Expandos and other organic garbage she got from Yaguy in the bathtub, melt them into an organic slurry using the Organothingie. And prepare for biological transcendence.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I vote for the island.1. 78 Omni. -400, debt paid. Shark pacified.
Before I do anything, I’m going to sell the Executive Cafateria Giftcard, Toot’s shock control, Tranquilizer syringe, Germ suit, and the Large Zip-ties. And I’m going to pay off my loan.
-Edit- Also go test that giant gun we got way back.
Also, get the bat styled so that it looks like a magical girl want.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
Radio: Gonna yoink the Medkit, 1 Isolation Suit, and the Psychokinetic Stimulant if'n that's acceptable.1. Assuming that adds up, done. 10 Omni loan. The shark actually looks a little sorry for you that no one would loan you 10 omni. Tough out there. He'll still eat you.
EEEDD (the new D is for Determined) smiles at this gracious news. His first mission and already a vacation? What a gracious employer OMNITECH was!
"I wish for Neo-Detroit! The spines and souls of the downtrodden will be plentiful there, and I shall enjoy the time in such a notoriously friendly city."
EEEDD will attempt to buy a few things before we blast off to the next mission:
- Ceremonial Dagger (250)
- Cognition Copier (400)
- Magic 888-ball (10)
- Reactive Fabric Cape (400)
Spending a total of 1,060 OMNI.
Also get a 10 OMNI loan from our selachimorphic financial broker and use that to buy an Insurance Card (200).
Got other things to do as well, but that can be saved for the next downtime period (assuming we're being thrown into this mission right away).Spoiler: EEEDD (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Congregation of ED (click to show/hide)Spoiler: STANpool (click to show/hide)
Vote for the island. Beach episode!Message from OMNITECH accounting:
Also, request payment:Spoiler: A robot spider, what did it do? (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Welcome aboard! There's no waitlist here! If I get tired of all your stupid faces I just make the game more deadly!Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)
Is this sheet good?
4. *Slot machine noise* 149 Omni
5. 809 Omni
6. 200 Omni.
Radio: I just want the pieces and bits of them, not even the equipment, just their meaty chunks, oh and maybe the symbiote, Lizard talons and Lizard skin tooADN gets: 5 Lizard talons, 5 feet of Lizard skin, all the biomass there was in that pile. Let's hold off on the symbiote at least till you're not liable to explode into meatmonsters after a bad roll.
Radio: Gonna yoink the Medkit, 1 Isolation Suit, and the Psychokinetic Stimulant if'n that's acceptable.Xan gets this stuff.
Radio: I'll grab the second toolkit, One pack of containment pods and a null-rodPan gets this stuff.
Radio: I'll grab the Riot armor, 3 flares, and an Omni-light
+ey Yagyu, mind if I grab the spare riot suit for a project?
Radio: I would like to fight over a tool kit and a null rod. I have previously looted an Expendaclone of its riot armour and flashlight. I would like to donate that riot armour into the loot pile.Nav gets: null rod, tool kit (aggressively fighting over it with nobody), and his gracious donation was noted
Radio (and anyoneelse interested): Apply to Bob any items as you see fit. Just leave some headroom for his hat, and some neckroom for his cape. Also, apply with restraint: Bob gets bitey if he feels threatened.Bob gets: Dead fish (half gone), uneaten single serve packet of pudding, a dwarf bobblehead
"Anybody wanna buy my stuff?""Nope, but I'll give ya 400 bucks if you let me take looks and pieces of your Auditor body, nothing major, just some blood, fingers, spinal fluid. I think I'm gonna try to make a DIY version of if if I survive this."
I've got:
OMNITECH Motion sensor (the thing from Aliens) (25 Omni)
OMNITECH “Limited Omniscience” Sensor (400 Omni)
OMNITECH mechanical slave (300 Omni)
OMNITECH spiderbot (600 Omni)
How much could I get for selling the above, if no teammates want to buy them?
Also, any chance I could get some of the 100 Omni I spent on the TTS earplugs back if I sell them?
Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
"eh, I'll buy the motion detector""Good choice! Here you go!"
Thanks for accepting me. It seems like we already have a Bob though, so I'll change the nickname to Rob. Do we have a mission briefing yet?
Well it's time. Sam will take off her old human clothes and dump her shitty non-organic weapons in the garbage and then begin her A S C E N C I O N.Start off by increasing muscle density and skeletal strength [1,3] Strength -1, Life -1
Start off by increasing muscle density and skeletal strength, then increase height to 7 feet before adding two extra inches of thickness to the skin, and then modify it to have the same properties as that of the murder lizards from way back when. Then decrease the size of the gaps in the ribcage, scrap the reproductive and digestive systems, and use the matter gained from them to create redundant copies of vital organs, then make an extra adrenal gland. Create claws based on those of the lizards, sharpen teeth to be like those of a shark, add two extra rows to of them, add two extra eyes, and finally get some cool hair.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Offer Wil 300 OMNI (the price of a mechslave) in exchange for him returning my Waifubot body. If he accepts, then I’ll pay to have the Waifubot exterior used to reskin my robobody so that I look like a waifu but have robobody stats.
Im also buying four more Piledriver magazines.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
"Anyone wanna play some cards to pass the time?"+63 Omni for the suit.
Sell my disposable Spacesuit/Sensory deprivation suit hybrid. The disposable space suit was originally 100 omni for what it's worth.
Also sell my broken universal communicator. It was 150 omni. Only slightly smashed by a hammer.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
I'm Fuggin BITING the Experimental bros! I swear, I'm eating them! I'm shooting with my tail gun and biting with my face teeth.Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
I can speak again, finally.[3] Mags modified. No charge needed.
well if we can still spend level-ups then:
Dex d6>d10
Guns d6>d10
next buy a Metalstorm pistol (500 Omni) and 16 mags (128 Omni). Mod the mags into 8 sets of jungle mags for rapid reloading, burning a toolkit charge if necessary. Also buy a Insurance card (200 Omni), an omnifun VR set (15 Omni), and two glowsticks [or two packs of glowsticks? it's not really clear. (10 Omni)] plus a nondescript balaclava, the cheapest booze one can get at the flesh bar, a cheap lighter and a pack of cigs.
also stay away from Sam until it's relatively safe
EDIT: almost forgot the most important part
ey Yagyu, mind if I grab the spare riot suit for a project?
if Yagyu consents, burn another toolkit charge to convert the riot suit into something that Bob can comfortably wear without interfering with his mascot outfit while also still protecting his vitals, then see if I can refill my toolkit.Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
"Anybody wanna buy my stuff?"Total, 877 Omni.
I've got:OMNITECH Motion sensor (the thing from Aliens) (25 Omni)sold to m1895
OMNITECH “Limited Omniscience” Sensor (400 Omni)
OMNITECH mechanical slave (300 Omni)
OMNITECH spiderbot (600 Omni)
How much could I get for selling the above, if no teammates want to buy them?
Also, any chance I could get some of the 100 Omni I spent on the TTS earplugs back if I sell them?
Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Special installation? No. Its a robo-body like the others so we just download ya. But for features and such, I'll update the Arsenal when I'm at home.Quote4. *Slot machine noise* 149 Omni
5. 809 Omni
6. 200 Omni.
Allright, let's sell this crap then. + 1158 omni.
I think that gives me enough for an auditor body. Before I buy it though, is there a special installation procedure, like there was for the AoW? And could I maybe get a list of features and customization options?
((Will do division of dead people's crap later.))Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
(Missed several updates because of internet being dead.)Message from the OMNITECH accounting department
Did a bunch of stuff in the mission and I want to get payed for it, also buy a cognition copier.
EDIT: Forgot to do the level up.
Knowledge to d8
Speed to d6
Guns to d8
Technology to d6Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
EEEDD, seeing as there is scarce time before his lovely vacation is due to start, decides to get his cult business firmly underway.[2]
Find somewhere out of the way and perform a sacrament to ED with my newly-bought ritual blade, attempting to bless my 888-Ball to function as a vessel of the will of ED. For expediency reasons, go with my gut on what the ritual itself will need (no human sacrifice yet though, but a bit of blood or burnt hair is acceptable).
((This could very well change nothing about the ball and EEEDD would still be happy with it, as an aside.))Spoiler: EEEDD (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Congregation of ED (click to show/hide)Spoiler: STANpool (hop in while you can!) (click to show/hide)
Special installation? No. Its a robo-body like the others so we just download ya. But for features and such, I'll update the Arsenal when I'm at home.
Ya know what? Fuck planned modifications, just fuse with the flesh and become a nightmarish abomination from the ancient manuscripts of ye old sarkicist holy text, a shoggoth thirsting for more meat and bone to consume and grow, bearing the visage of an old deity worshipped by barbarian tribes of flesh shapers from the times of primeval Hyperborea.[2,2]
or die. Either way Sam is happy.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I'll take a loan of 500 OMNI, sell the stuff for 877 OMNI and buy that auditor body. As a special favor, can they make it spider-shaped or octopus-shaped? Maybe for a few extra OMNI? My standard paycheck is 850 OMNI so I can afford to take a bigger loan if necessary.Alright. And as per specifics, see below.
Oh, and of course, if anyone wants to buy that stuff from me instead, I'm happy to sell it to them. Better to keep it in thefamilysecurity team.
Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Oh there are customizations options, I thought you were wondering if we had to cut your limbs off and fuse you to a barely restrained demon or something. In which case the answer is...only kind of.QuoteSpecial installation? No. Its a robo-body like the others so we just download ya. But for features and such, I'll update the Arsenal when I'm at home.
And no customization or any choices or options? Well, let's just get it done then!
Also, can we still use the lvl-up as long as the mission hasn't started? Will you tell us when the last turn for leveling is?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Check how much I can sell my hammer (1d4 melee) for.5
Check how much I can sell my Omni-eye camera for. Originally 50 omni.
Check how much I can sell my Omni-health insurance policy card for. Originally 200 Omni.
Check what is the maximum amount the loan shark is willing to loan to me. I have completed three missions.
Are there any other methods of making money? Is selling organs/limbs an option?Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
Ready to GoThats one.Spoiler: Rob (click to show/hide)
"Of course it worked! Would I be able to talk back to you otherwise?"Oh no its self aware. Also where you're going, there's plenty of would be converts. Especially depending on the path you take.
EEEDD refrains from any further fourth wall acknowledgement so as to avoid encountering any giant skeleton parts that dislike him.
I was planning on trying to convert some NPCs before I left, but that can be taken care of afterwards. Instead I'm just gonna experiment with my computronium, and see if I can't use it to get my looted sentrybot gun-arm working again. Consult experts (experimental department, Bill Pelican) if necessary/I can find them.
Also, be sure to vacate the showers or wherever Sam is. Advertise my betting pool before time runs out.
Once that's done, I'm ready for the brief.Spoiler: EEEDD (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Congregation of ED (click to show/hide)Spoiler: STANpool (click to show/hide)
Purchase a Tentacle (500 OMNI, uses occult, d8 damage). Wear Modified Riot Suit (D6 life?) and Tentacle. Place Spiderbot on head. Wait for someone to glue the bobblehead to the spiderbot. Once these actions are complete Bob is ready.Consider it done, including the gluing.Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
Put the security baton and the lizard claw in the Lost and Found box, then ready up.Done. Thats four.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
Coming back to the main area, Anya is honestly a little disappointed Sam hasn't turned into a Lovecraftian nightmare beast in the time she was awayDone. Note it on your sheet please, the LAF box stuff that is.
Anya will put a GPS Mag (d4) and handful of tacks in the Lost and Found box and buy 2 more Metalstorm mags (16 Omni)
Anya takes a swig of the cheap booze and lights up a cigarette before walking over to E.E.E.D.D.
"So, what do we have here?" Anya squats down to take a look at the autocannon taking another swig while she examines it "yeah, I can probably fix it, hold my beer."
Anya will pop open her toolkit again to help fix up the autocannon/staff of EDSpoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
So I've decided to retcon Rob's character a bit. I finally got myself caught up on what was happening in the thread (I can't believe you guys took more than a year for 1 mission) and I noticed that you got all of your occultists killed. A real shame too since Larry was a great character.Alright. Still five~
Anyway, I thought I'd fill the vacancy this time. Engineer was an awkward fit for an architect character, so I don't think cultist will be any more awkward. For some reason though, I find an occult architect to be more cohesive than an Engineer architect.
Ready to GoSpoiler: Rob (click to show/hide)
Buy a Passive Personal Shield Generator, some glow sticks, a cognition copier, and a bayonet for a grand total of 905 OMNI, then once that's done attach the bayonet to my shotgun and then I'm ready.Done. Make sure to put it as your actual life die when its being used or you might get ganked at d2 life.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
I should have edited my original post, but just so you know piecewise, you missed the post I made where I changed Rob to a cultist.No he didn't. Look further down the turn.So I've decided to retcon Rob's character a bit. I finally got myself caught up on what was happening in the thread (I can't believe you guys took more than a year for 1 mission) and I noticed that you got all of your occultists killed. A real shame too since Larry was a great character.
Anyway, I thought I'd fill the vacancy this time. Engineer was an awkward fit for an architect character, so I don't think cultist will be any more awkward. For some reason though, I find an occult architect to be more cohesive than an Engineer architect.
Ready to GoSpoiler: Rob (click to show/hide)
1 lvl in guns, 1 lvl in tech please.((Your life dice is wrong.
Also sell the OMNITECH “Painaway” Painkillers.
For those bodyparts, can we say we'll store them in a freezer somewhere?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Thanks. I see now. Sorry about that.Alright. Make sure to mark it down on your sheet.
I think I'll take out a 500 OMNI loan from the shark. Buy a ceremonial knife, EMP grenade, and an OMNITECH placed charge.
I guess I'll level up speech twice and then I'm ready to go. It's fun being the only one skilled with something. Also, I could team up with EEED and help him with proselytizing.Alright
Edit: Use spray paint to make Bob's spider look prettier and/or more intimidating. Maybe paint some TRON lines on it with the glow paint?Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
"Thank you, gracious Bill! If you ever need your soul saved or wish to change your name to a spiritually more powerful version, don't hesitate to call on me."Maybe? I forget. We'll call it d8. Also is it on your sheet?
What were the stats for this gun again? d8, I think?
Head on over to the mission briefing, and prepare for shenanigans.Spoiler: EEEDD (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Congregation of ED (click to show/hide)Spoiler: STANpool (place your bets now!) (click to show/hide)
BLAH BLAH DEFINITION OF INSANITY BLAH BLAH TRY AGAIN AND DO IT RIGHT THIS TIMESee bottom.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
See how many glow sticks are in the pack I just bought, then look through trash cans for loot while I wait for the briefing.D6 use die. Ie somewhere between 2 and infinite depending on your luck.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Use level-up to bring Fate d4>d8OMNINOUS!
And Tech d8>d12
Buy cognition copier for 400
Upgrade Pushbot for 400 as discussed (guns, melee, and hands for 400)
Then go and inititiate The Plan so I can join the upcoming missionSpoiler (click to show/hide)
1 lvl in guns, 1 lvl in tech please.Sure
Also sell the OMNITECH “Painaway” Painkillers.
For those bodyparts, can we say we'll store them in a freezer somewhere?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Purchase an OMNITECH Armoured Space Suit for 600 omni.Missed me :'(
Purchase a OMNITECH Civil Unrest Shield for 300 omni.
Purchase a OMNITECH Passive Personal Shield Generator for 400 Omni.
Purchase a OMNITECH Analog Hand for 5 omni.
Purchase a OMNITECH “Omni-fun” VR system for 15 omni.
Purchase a OMNITECH Mental Purgant for 350 omni.
Purchase a OMNITECH Medkit for 200 omni.
Purchase a OMNITECH Laser trip sensor for 25 omni.
Purchase a OMNITECH Motion sensor for 25 omni.
Total 1920 omni.
Examine the armoured space suit.
Examine the civil unrest shield.
Examine the passive personal shield generator.
Examine the analog hand.
Examine the omni-fun vr system.
Examine the mental purgant.
Examine the medkit.
Examine the laser trip sensor.
Examine the motion sensor.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
Ok.Purchase an OMNITECH Armoured Space Suit for 600 omni.Missed me :'(
Purchase a OMNITECH Civil Unrest Shield for 300 omni.
Purchase a OMNITECH Passive Personal Shield Generator for 400 Omni.
Purchase a OMNITECH Analog Hand for 5 omni.
Purchase a OMNITECH “Omni-fun” VR system for 15 omni.
Purchase a OMNITECH Mental Purgant for 350 omni.
Purchase a OMNITECH Medkit for 200 omni.
Purchase a OMNITECH Laser trip sensor for 25 omni.
Purchase a OMNITECH Motion sensor for 25 omni.
Total 1920 omni.
Examine the armoured space suit.
Examine the civil unrest shield.
Examine the passive personal shield generator.
Examine the analog hand.
Examine the omni-fun vr system.
Examine the mental purgant.
Examine the medkit.
Examine the laser trip sensor.
Examine the motion sensor.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
If not, half normal price plus d6, no more than starting price1) They are 100 omni and I rolled a 3 on the d6, so that'd be 53 omni then? Does the die you roll depend on how expensive the item is, or what else do you mean with 'd6'?
Autonomous targeting system: Allows for a second weapon to be fired as a secondary attack even after firing the standard single attack. Weapon must be held in the other hand and uses suit parameters instead of user skill.3) What do you mean by 'suit parameters'? What does it roll then?
((By the way, if you want you can still claim up to 3 things from the pile 'o dead people.Especially the demon thingie might be interesting for an occult boy.))((someone else already asked for that thingie. They've got dibs. Dangerous dibs, but still.))
((By the way, if you want you can still claim up to 3 things from the pile 'o dead people.Especially the demon thingie might be interesting for an occult boy.))((someone else already asked for that thingie. They've got dibs. Dangerous dibs, but still.))
((Ah yeah, the fleshy boy, but he already got some goodies he wanted, plus I'm still rather apprehensive of mixing the bio fleshhorror with the demonic fleshhorror. But if nobody wants it and he still does we can chance it I suppose.))((I see from Discod that he has evoked his claim on the demon thingum. Dispose of as you will.))
"Oh, me, me! I have a question! Has that flesh horror rights bill passed?"Sam shifts 1 flesh into dex, bumping it to d8.
Shapeshift into a more canine shape, seeing as SAM will have to be tracking someone while on her vacation.
Also, time to increase dexterity and smoke one of the nootropics Anya have SAM.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"One, what kind of gun is that on top, what can it kill? Also I'm confused, does it need to be fired by one of us, or does Ed fire it and we only reload it?.
Two, what level of support and aid can we expect from the military, and would they be willing to loan us some gear before we get started? Are there any assets, like drones or mortars, that we might be able to call in?"
Tune in to the 24/7 broadcast to see if anything interesting/noteworthy/out-of-the-ordinary has happened recently.
Level Up:Done.
Speech d8 -> d10 -> d12
Fate d4 -> d6
Will d6 -> d8
Buy OMNI Man-Zapper (100) with 10 charges (30), Blue Smoke Nootropic Cigar (100), OMNITECH Reactive Personal Shield Generator (500), OMNITECH Threat Analyzer (250)
Total of 980 Omni out of 1000 Mission pay.
Mission stuff - see if the Canadian military bases have open lines of communication or it has to be an in-person chat. Additionally, see if there are any publicly available maps on the livestreams of who controls what hex.Spoiler: Janet Janet (click to show/hide)
"Hey Pathos, wanna look up where the Orange zone supply drops are? Whether we try to steal them or avoid them, it's for the best to know where they are."The OMNI-Fun visor displays a convincing 3d representation of a ordinary, but quite nice and well made, wooden desk sitting atop a mountain peak. You're looking down over a wide green valley below, clouds drifting slowly over the tall conifer trees and the sparkling river running through it.
Anya will don her balaclava and immediately put on and start up the "Omni-fun" Visor to see what games are on it.Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
1. Lets do 130.QuoteIf not, half normal price plus d6, no more than starting price1) They are 100 omni and I rolled a 3 on the d6, so that'd be 53 omni then? Does the die you roll depend on how expensive the item is, or what else do you mean with 'd6'?
2) How much spare ammo do the auditor weapons come with?QuoteAutonomous targeting system: Allows for a second weapon to be fired as a secondary attack even after firing the standard single attack. Weapon must be held in the other hand and uses suit parameters instead of user skill.3) What do you mean by 'suit parameters'? What does it roll then?
For the mission:
4) Edited map with grids coordinates and points of interest. What do you think of it, is it clear for you?Spoiler (click to show/hide)
5) If yes, Where on the map is the 'Neo-Detroit Institute of Human Advancement'? Is it the middle of the red zone?
6) What do the locals value most, aka what could we use to trade with them? Food, medicine, ammo?
7) What are our ROE?
(Got more questions but don't wanna overwhelm.)Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Try to set up a program to help us find the scientists. The program should examine video footage of people and look for outward signifiers of scientific aptitude such as glasses, poor physique, pocket protectors, labcoats, frizzy white hair, proximity to scientific equipment, etc.[2] Ed tries to get a simple identification program set up as he waits but test runs result in it grabbing every person in the hanger, along with a few bits of metal that kind of look like faces.
When it sees a scientist, it will sound an audiable alarm and highlight said scientist. This should help us reliably identify the scientists that we are looking for.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
((there should be bases on 75 south and 96 West as well. Probably more realistically than the ones on 75 north (leads to Flint, and who cares about Flint?) and 94 North (The Thumb? Really? May as well force the altered to move there rather than keep them out. Also, those directions aren't great for military resupply while 96 and 75 have much better access for that kind of thing. Well, assuming the various world changing events didn't change anything particularly important.))No~
I do have a question or two about this mission. Bob doesn't, but I do.
Also
PW! YOU'VE GONE AND PUT THE ENTIRE TEAM AT THE MERCY OF A 'PILOT' AGAIN! HASN'T ER, DIG, AND MOOK TAUGHT YOU ANYTHING YET?
"Questions! Firstly, have there been any observations of coherent religious beliefs popping up among the inhabitants of either the yellow or orange zones? If so, what are their details and/or objects of worship? And their names, especially their names. Secondly, what can we expect as far as how HELL-infused objects will react with the various sorts of reality distortions? Thirdly, what could be summarized as the average mental state of an inhabitant of the yellow zone? Is there any commonality to how the reality distortion affects people there, or is it mostly patternless? Fourthly, have any incidences of thought forms such as, er, the one involving gambling that we encountered recently been observed as manifesting in any of the zones with any degree of frequency?EEEDD style actions.
And fifthly, have you heard the Sacred Name of our Lord and Savior ED? If not, there's a lot to be gained from just a quick overview of the Sacred Precepts...
EEEDD continues on a ramble about the benefits of ED-dom to anybody in blathering distance for the next 30 minutes.Spoiler: EEEDD (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Congregation of ED (click to show/hide)Spoiler: STANpool (click to show/hide)
"Our first destination should be Ann Arbor. We could get information there. We could even hire a tour guide. If we're lucky we might even find official exclusion zone T-shirts! I'm sure Bob would love to have one of those."1. Yes,there is a standard driver position. You could do it manually or via wire.
1. Could I drive the APC if our AI driver is incapacitated? Do I fit in the driver's seat?
2. Could I inject a demon into a car and have it drive around? Or would it need to be a self driving car?
3. Any advice/info about identifying anomalies/safe paths? Would it be useful to hire a localtourguide? Are there even safe paths or are the anomalies constantly moving and changing?
4. If we find and capture an interesting human or animal, can we bring them back or would that break quarantine and get the army shooting at us? If we find one of those scientists, could we give them to OMNITECH or do they need to stay in the zone?
5. Any particularly successful gangs/warlords we should know about/watch out for? Anyone we could potentially negotiate with for information? Perhaps in exchange for taking care of some other gang for them?
6. What's the situation on Ann Arbor? Under military control? Some militia keeping the peace? Some warlord ruling the place? An uneasy peace between gangs? Warzone?
Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Baldwin looks at the map for a moment and then takes a puff from his pipe. A ring of smoke comes out whose radius is constantly expanding and contracting, while the colors slowly oscillate from purple, to yellow, to green.
"Yep, looks like a long drive... Is there any reason why we're starting from the edge of the circle and creeping inwards? It seems like it'd be easier to just airdrop us out of the sky right above our objective and go full operation market garden on that shit. It's not like the interference goes infinitely upwards. Those weapons companies were able to figure out how to drop supplies into the zone after all."
"Also, how's sailing in the anomaly? It seems like the Detroit river could be a useful way of getting us out of there once we find what we're looking for."
Baldwin also makes a request to see some live footage of the TV violence in the orange zone. His goal is to get a better feel for how the reality warping shenanigans in the anomaly manifest. Does his occult training give him any deeper understanding of what's going on? Maybe other reality warping incidents were covered as case-studies in his classes.Spoiler: Rob (click to show/hide)
((Can I give myself a few miscellaneous items? You can already see the smoking pipe, but I also want to give myself one of these things (https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Idea_Tube) and some pencil and paper to fill it.))
Is there any thing like those artifact things they used to pull out of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone to be looted in Detroit?
Also why is it still called Neo Detroit if it's gone back to being the massive shit hole that it was?Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
While we're in this lift, do a systems check of my new body. See how it is in regards to:Strength: d12
HP and defence
Weapons
Mobility
Communications
Extras?
If we can start heading out this turn and nobody objects, wait until all my teammates are inside of me and head out to Ann ArborSpoiler (click to show/hide)
I’ll take the hell symbiote, unless EEEDD wants it. Everyone seems to be jacked as hell, so I don’t think I’ll be able to survive unless I jack myself up too.Pretty sure it got destroyed with the other guy and RC has just been carrying it incorrectly.
EDIT: Actually, I’ll take the Fancy AirPods as wellSpoiler: Rob (click to show/hide)
Uggggghhhh I do not feel like reading through all this right now. Tech to d12 (I'm gonna swap it back to guns...), melee to d8. No stats upgraded because robotic body. Give Ji their waifubot, ask if Wil can use either the waifu body or the cyborg body (it's not like they can use both). If neither's available, accept the 300.Ok.
Pay off loan of 303 OMNI. 1147 left. See if I can take out a loan of 853; I've asked for 540 before, and paid off two debts on time, so my credit score might be good enough? If not, just ask for 453. 1600 or 2000 left. Buy a hardsuit, -1600. And a brain scanny thingy for 400 if I got the big loan. Body depends on whether Ji pays me 300 or loans a body.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
How much does access to the broadcast cost? If it’s under 30 I’ll pay it. Give everyone else access as well. Also, I’m giving Wil money to buy a body, not a body outright.Translated, 1 OMNI a month. Omni is not official currency to Non-Omnitech organizations, though transactions are available.Spoiler: JiBot (click to show/hide)
"Does the Edmobile have any amphibious capabilities, like I dunno floating like a boat or snorkeling underwater or anything?"It has emergency floatation pontoons but isn't designed for true amphibious work. Its engine is Nuclear though, so it doesn't really have exhaust to fill with water or the issues of an internal combustion engine."
Does it have a coffee maker?"
Ask my little questions.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
"I am ready to proceed."[4]
Use spray paint to name the APC "OMNITECH Tour Bus" and decorate it with vacation scenes:a sunset with tropical trees, sunbathing, drinking...EDIT: Wait, that would be out of character for Pathos. Let's have him paint a giant robot shooting a nuke and Bob sunbathing in the glow of the nuclear mushroom, wearing sunglasses and holding a cocktail glass with a fish and a little umbrella in it. That's what vacations are all about, right?
Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)
Does the weirdness effect apply only to people who were in the zone during it's creation or can it spread to others say, by devouring the flesh of the original inhabitants?Unknown. The cannibals tend not to try and leave.
Also, shift 1 flesh into speedSpoiler (click to show/hide)
1. Lets do 130.1) Don't you mean [100/2]+30=80? Since it can't be more than starting price (which is 100)?
Looks ok, but shove those bases outside the yellow zone. They're on the edge, not inside. Or don't and just understand that.2) Does this look better:
Depends. Food, medicine, weapons, ammo are all universally useful and good trade. Leaders might have more specific desires, but that is something you'll have to find out.7) Can we get some basic foodstuffs and meds for trading, or do we need to buy that ourselves?
Pretty sure it got destroyed with the other guy and RC has just been carrying it incorrectly.Ah, sorry, it was a bit unclear which items were or were not pulped.
I’ll take the hell symbiote, unless EEEDD wants it. Everyone seems to be jacked as hell, so I don’t think I’ll be able to survive unless I jack myself up too.
EDIT: Actually, I’ll take the Fancy AirPods as well
"So, Ed boy, I see you got yourself a shiny new body? How does it feel to be a taxi?""Feels pretty good, honestly. All the extra armour and cannons give me a nice peace of mind, for now."
"Tour bus!" Pathos corrects Yagyu while admiring his handiwork."Hey, mister roboto, I know you're a big deal and all now but I'd really appreciate if you could refrain from vandalizing my body."
Baldwin also makes a request to see some live footage of the TV violence in the orange zone. His goal is to get a better feel for how the reality warping shenanigans in the anomaly manifest. Does his occult training give him any deeper understanding of what's going on? Maybe other reality warping incidents were covered as case-studies in his classes.Spoiler: Rob (click to show/hide)
Ask if crew can fire the tanktrain's guns. Our AI pilot is shit with guns.((Just saw this. For the record, the guns roll Tech for me, Guns if any of you guys use them))
"Well that's all I needed to know, dibs on the window seat since I'm a dog horror thingie now."Attack to d6 (bite)
Get inside the EdMobile, pass the time while non-flesh horrors are getting ready by trying to make teeth even sharper for extra damage. Put on the show Ji just paid for in one of those little screens they have to watch along the trip.
Also, shift one level of dex to speed.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Yeah, buy a basic robotbody with the money Ji gives Wil.Ok
Ask if we're still getting paid for this "Vacation".
Ask if crew can fire the tanktrain's guns. Our AI pilot is shit with guns.
Inspect hardsuit.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
Quote1. Lets do 130.1) Don't you mean [100/2]+30=80? Since it can't be more than starting price (which is 100)?QuoteLooks ok, but shove those bases outside the yellow zone. They're on the edge, not inside. Or don't and just understand that.2) Does this look better:Spoiler (click to show/hide)
3) Do we have DNA samples of any of those employees? Maybe from a government biometrics database or something?
4) Can we get access to up-to-date satellite imagery?
5) Can we hack the unmanned drones of the tv networks, or would that open up OMNI to too much 'legal liability'?
6) Can we use/order around that shuttle after it sets us off? Or is it for extraction only?QuoteDepends. Food, medicine, weapons, ammo are all universally useful and good trade. Leaders might have more specific desires, but that is something you'll have to find out.7) Can we get some basic foodstuffs and meds for trading, or do we need to buy that ourselves?
8) How would you like to handle the items of dead peeps, should we keep doing it the way we did the previous mission, or would you like us to handle that some other way?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
If we find any artifacts do we get to keep them?
Is there anything to stop us from killing everybody we meet?
Are we allowed to get pets from this place and bring them back?Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Look around the desk, and check if I have an inventory, if so check what is inside the inventoryAnya checks her pockets. Nothing. But when she checks the desk she finds a bunch of little things. She pulls a little ceramic skull out of the desk and a label hovers above it while its in her hands. "RADIATION BURN" it says in glowing green letters, and the skull begins burning with green fire. There are lots of these little objects, including die cast cars, little metal people, a mini handgun, a treasure chest, a floating jewel, etc.Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
Explore the EdPC a bit. Look for a coffee maker.The EdPC is broken into two general areas: The "Command" front half and the "Auxiliary" second half. The command half has the armored cockpit, which can be completely closed off from the rest of the vehicle, and several substations with computers, turret access, and systems to allow use of the Launcher's camera pods and the like. The rear section contains a storage area, a few tightly packed bunk beds mounted to the wall, tiny kitchen, a built in toilet, and a fold out surgical theater. There's no coffee maker, but the storage does have packets of instant coffee and metal cups.
Do the doors and other openings seal air/water tight? Both for driving underwater and/or protecting from poison gas.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
Assuming cable is bought, Baldwin performs the analysis he tried last time.[6]Baldwin also makes a request to see some live footage of the TV violence in the orange zone. His goal is to get a better feel for how the reality warping shenanigans in the anomaly manifest. Does his occult training give him any deeper understanding of what's going on? Maybe other reality warping incidents were covered as case-studies in his classes.Spoiler: Rob (click to show/hide)
Play some relaxing music for my passengers while everyone prepares.EdPC plays Musak while checking the internet. The uplink was supposed to be used for maintaining communications with base but he mostly uses it to browse video streaming sites.
Us my sattelite uplink to OMNITECH to browse around. I'm assuming it connects to some kind of internet/intranet browser. If it doesn't, just call a random number in the OMNITECH network instead.
On the off chance the big cheeses want to head out this turn already, our first destination is Ann Harbor.Ask if crew can fire the tanktrain's guns. Our AI pilot is shit with guns.((Just saw this. For the record, the guns roll Tech for me, Guns if any of you guys use them))Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
Ask questions:
1. Have there been any observations of coherent religious beliefs popping up among the inhabitants of either the yellow or orange zones? If so, what are their details and/or objects of worship?
2. What can we expect as far as how HELL-infused objects will react with the various sorts of reality distortions?
3. What could be summarized as the average mental state of an inhabitant of the yellow zone?
4. Is there any commonality to how the reality distortion affects people in the yellow and orange zones, or is it mostly patternless?
5. Have any incidences of thought forms such as, er, the one involving gambling that we encountered recently been observed as manifesting in any of the zones with any degree of frequency?
Lastly, OOC question: Is it too late for me to retroactively get some ammo for my minigun, and if not, how much OMNI would it have cost me for what use die? This question may be edited as I check back in the mission. EDIT: It was a d12 use die, but the ammo was built into Wilfred's robot body, so I imagine it would be less now.
Other than that, EEEDD's ready to go!Spoiler: EEEDD (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Congregation of ED (click to show/hide)Spoiler: STANpool (click to show/hide)
"Vandalizing? Improving, more like. People have no appreciation for art these days.""So, Ed boy, I see you got yourself a shiny new body? How does it feel to be a taxi?""Feels pretty good, honestly. All the extra armour and cannons give me a nice peace of mind, for now.""Tour bus!" Pathos corrects Yagyu while admiring his handiwork."Hey, mister roboto, I know you're a big deal and all now but I'd really appreciate if you could refrain from vandalizing my body."
Rob watches the streams for a while, clicking around between the drones looking at the various events occurring.
"Looks like the orange zone has a pretty wide variety of manifestations. Impossible diseases, mutations, transmutation of materials, strange weather, nightmare beings, prolonged physics anomalies, shifting of physical “parameters” like size, age, speed, etc. I mean see this guy?"
Rob points to a 12 foot tall metal abomination that seems to be made of braided lamp posts and stop lights that is currently swatting blood coated cannibals down the road.
"I don't think that's normal."
7. We're not a charity here, Mr. Yagyu."Not giving your employees the proper resources they need to complete the objectives you set out for them in the pursuit of lucrative R&D opportunities is called being penny wise, pound foolish. I’ll have to make a spreadsheet sometime to prove it. But, so be it."
"Not giving your employees the proper resources they need to complete the objectives you set out for them in the pursuit of lucrative R&D opportunities is called being penny wise, pound foolish. I’ll have to make a spreadsheet sometime to prove it. But, so be it.""Just buy some yourself and quit complaining. The Edmobile's got some rations in it anyways if we really need them."
"It's a great opportunity to go fishing, just saying. Just fill the Tour Bus with fresh fish. It'll be great for trading.""Not giving your employees the proper resources they need to complete the objectives you set out for them in the pursuit of lucrative R&D opportunities is called being penny wise, pound foolish. I’ll have to make a spreadsheet sometime to prove it. But, so be it.""Just buy some yourself and quit complaining. The Edmobile's got some rations in it anyways if we really need them."
"Not giving your employees the proper resources they need to complete the objectives you set out for them in the pursuit of lucrative R&D opportunities is called being penny wise, pound foolish. I’ll have to make a spreadsheet sometime to prove it. But, so be it.""Just buy some yourself and quit complaining. The Edmobile's got some rations in it anyways if we really need them."
"Vandalizing? Improving, more like. People have no appreciation for art these days.""Well you could have at least vandalized my other flank too. Now I gotta constantly keep in mind how I'm parked so people can see my colourful, fancy side."
I wish I had some more money honestly. I’d totally buy a fishing rod.
I wish I had some more money honestly. I’d totally buy a fishing rod.
((Are you at the limit of what you can borrow from the NPC? How much would you need for a fishing rod?))
Question: How much heat do the warlords pack? In a level of 1 to small megacorp.It varies. They have less access to major weaponry than those in the Orange zone, as weapon drops aren't given to them. What they have they got via scavenge of the city, stolen from raiding parties, or found its way in somehow. I would consider them akin to paramilitary gangs; better armed and coordinated than your average street punk but by no means level with a trained soldier.
Open up a window and poke head out, then put tongue out when the EdMobile starts moving.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Get a cup of instant coffee. Find a nice comfy spot next to the flesh horror blob.Assume you have them.
"Ready to go."
Edit: Is it too late to run and buy some nutrient paste? 10 portions for 10 omni? Might come in handy for trading with the locals.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
If there is a protective system for such things, we do not have it.Rob watches the streams for a while, clicking around between the drones looking at the various events occurring.
"Looks like the orange zone has a pretty wide variety of manifestations. Impossible diseases, mutations, transmutation of materials, strange weather, nightmare beings, prolonged physics anomalies, shifting of physical “parameters” like size, age, speed, etc. I mean see this guy?"
Rob points to a 12 foot tall metal abomination that seems to be made of braided lamp posts and stop lights that is currently swatting blood coated cannibals down the road.
"I don't think that's normal."
"So, is there anything protecting us from turning into that? Seems like we're at the whims of fate here."
Baldwin takes another nervous puff. The smoke ring has become increasingly erratic and the colours are flashing quickly enough to give someone a seizure.
"I think I have an idea though. If we can get access to cable in the EDPC, we'd be able to see a live feed of most of the things going on in the orange zone. That way, if there are any dangerous folk near us, we'd be able to see them coming. Sometimes..."
What do the technologically minded think of the idea?Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
((added the extra stuff and changed the nickname again. He goes by his last name now))
pick up the handgun and select that game I guess?The handgun does nothing until the trigger is pulled, at which point you suddenly find yourself standing outside the doors of a fancy night club. One of those night clubs with so much obvious money behind it that it cannot be strictly legally funded. Pulsing neon lights depict a pink and teal serpent squirming above the bright purple doors. Crowds of scantily clad women and men with gel'd hair and white powdery noses shuffle around near the entrance, held at bay by huge black clad bouncers in sunglasses. You're standing a good 30 feet back, across the street, looking at all this. In your hand is a pistol, an exact match for the one you fired to get in here. Neon letters suddenly flash in your face.Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
I’m GTG. For now monitor the feeds to see if anything interesting is happening around Ann Arbor, and if there have been any supply drops nearby.There are no feeds of Ann Arbor. No fun over there, just poor people and regular depressing street crime.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Get into the vehicle and start looking around and see what kind of things are inside.The EdPC is broken into two general areas: The "Command" front half and the "Auxiliary" second half. The command half has the armored cockpit, which can be completely closed off from the rest of the vehicle, and several substations with computers, turret access, and systems to allow use of the Launcher's camera pods and the like. The rear section contains a storage area, a few tightly packed bunk beds mounted to the wall, tiny kitchen, a built in toilet, and a fold out surgical theater.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
1) For the Biorhythm tracker, is there an equivalent for the DNA 'sampling method' but for robots, like an electromagnetic fingerprint or something?1. Not as is.
2) For the Weakness Analysis protocols, how does this work mechanically?
3) Can I have a go at repairing my scanner?(Got some more stuff I could ask for the mission, but since most people seem ready let's just go and figure it out later.)
Eh screw it might as well. Is uncontaminated water scarce in the zone? If yes (or unsure) then try to scrounge some jerrycans and such and fill them with tap water. If none can be scrounged buy a few for 5 omni.
Use 10 omni to buy as much food and/or medicine in bulk as possible. Shop around for the cheapest option. It just needs to be edible and not need refrigeration, nothing fancy (guessing nutrient paste isn't the cheapest there is, if it is somehow then get that).
Finally use 5 (or 10 if I didn't have to buy the jerrycans)to buy one (or a few) bottle(s) of really nice liquor. In case we find a bigshot with fancy tastes.Quote7. We're not a charity here, Mr. Yagyu."Not giving your employees the proper resources they need to complete the objectives you set out for them in the pursuit of lucrative R&D opportunities is called being penny wise, pound foolish. I’ll have to make a spreadsheet sometime to prove it. But, so be it."Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"It's a great opportunity to go fishing, just saying. Just fill the Tour Bus with fresh fish. It'll be great for trading.""Not giving your employees the proper resources they need to complete the objectives you set out for them in the pursuit of lucrative R&D opportunities is called being penny wise, pound foolish. I’ll have to make a spreadsheet sometime to prove it. But, so be it.""Just buy some yourself and quit complaining. The Edmobile's got some rations in it anyways if we really need them."
Do fish actually exist in this world? I mean free fish roaming the oceans that are free to catch without needing to purchase a fishing license from OMNITECH.
Take a loan of 20 OMNI to buy 20 units of Nutrient Paste. Maybe we could sell it to the locals. Or maybe we can give it to the flesh horror and have it transform the nutrients into human flesh and trade that to the cannibals.Spoiler: Pathos (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things done this mission (click to show/hide)
Give it a sec."Vandalizing? Improving, more like. People have no appreciation for art these days.""Well you could have at least vandalized my other flank too. Now I gotta constantly keep in mind how I'm parked so people can see my colourful, fancy side."
Wait until everyone is on board (with or without prodding from our robot overlords) and then set off to Ann Harbor. Play some fitting music to commemorate the maiden voyage of the EdMobile.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
I've got a d4 in mechanics unfortunately. It's a good idea though.Cheap? 2 Omni. Good? 8 Omni.
Piecwise, how much OMMNI would a fishing rod cost?Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
Ask questions:
1. Have there been any observations of coherent religious beliefs popping up among the inhabitants of either the yellow or orange zones? If so, what are their details and/or objects of worship?
2. What can we expect as far as how HELL-infused objects will react with the various sorts of reality distortions?
3. What could be summarized as the average mental state of an inhabitant of the yellow zone?
4. Is there any commonality to how the reality distortion affects people in the yellow and orange zones, or is it mostly patternless?
5. Have any incidences of thought forms such as, er, the one involving gambling that we encountered recently been observed as manifesting in any of the zones with any degree of frequency?
Lastly, OOC question: Is it too late for me to retroactively get some ammo for my minigun, and if not, how much OMNI would it have cost me for what use die? This question may be edited as I check back in the mission. EDIT: It was a d12 use die, but the ammo was built into Wilfred's robot body, so I imagine it would be less now.
Other than that, EEEDD's ready to go!Spoiler: EEEDD (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Congregation of ED (click to show/hide)Spoiler: STANpool (click to show/hide)
"You give me any organic stuff you find, including artefacts, I also get exorcism privileges, and you also have to retrieve my body if I end up dying or going mad and try to eat everyone's faces off. In return, I'll give ya 400 bucks for some armour, and one free operation. Along with not eating your kidneys if we end up stranded and alone together for more than 2 hours."
"No, I mean literally fetch it back. I'm not building another flesh horror from scratch, just put what remains in a jar of mayo and bring it back to base so I can fix it up...or eat it, whichever's easier really. Anyway here's your money," SAM spits a bundle of OMNI at Rob, "Buy a cape and a fishing rod or something, I'm gonna go eat a couch or listen to some fleshpunk""You give me any organic stuff you find, including artefacts, I also get exorcism privileges, and you also have to retrieve my body if I end up dying or going mad and try to eat everyone's faces off. In return, I'll give ya 400 bucks for some armour, and one free operation. Along with not eating your kidneys if we end up stranded and alone together for more than 2 hours."
”I can agree to that. I call dibs on one fish though.
“But what do you mean by retrieve your body if you go mad? Do you mean *gulp* put it down?”
((Heydude, limit yourself to one action post per turn. If you need to change something, edit your post rather than making a new one. Also make sure to bold all actions (I don’t know if you have been or not). All this makes it easier for PW to keep track of everything.))
And could it be upgraded/modified to do this? If yes, what would be needed? And would this count as the 1 modification of the suit, or is it the 1 mod for this part of the kit?Quote1) For the Biorhythm tracker, is there an equivalent for the DNA 'sampling method' but for robots, like an electromagnetic fingerprint or something?1. Not as is.
2. If you're fighting a creature for more than one turn, you gain, in order by number of extra turns fighting, 1. Increase damage dealt by 1 die level, 2. Gain advantage on to-hit, 3. Gain advantage on Damage roll as well.Neato! And the analysis can't begin until a fight has started I guess? Meaning that if I just observe an enemy for a turn it doesn't do much?
3. Sure. [1] Scanner destroyed.Blast! Total loss or can it be salvaged if I try with a toolbox charge? If yes, try it.
"Well this sucks, where am I supposed to drool fluids now? Oh well, can you put some fleshpunk (https://youtu.be/wdV6tc7ptmY)songs (https://youtu.be/lFH_sLohbRQ)on the radio, Car Ed?""Yeah, nah. I'm not really into the whole new wave meatpunk music."
((So pan is going to play as teh tank, and then as the robot when the tank is not moving?))((Just the tank, I think. Pushbot is more like a drone I can give commands to, but I can't assume direct control of him/put Ed's mind into pushbot as far as I know))
"Well this sucks, where am I supposed to drool fluids now? Oh well, can you put some fleshpunk (https://youtu.be/wdV6tc7ptmY)songs (https://youtu.be/lFH_sLohbRQ)on the radio, Car Ed?"[1] -1 flesh
SAM will try to grow sharp hedgehog-lie spikes all over her body to ward off hungry mutants and fisherman. Then start chewing on one of the seats to pass voyage time if her songs aren't played.
EDIT: BITE OFF HANDS OF ANYONE WHO TRIES TOUCHING THE DOGGO WITHOUT CONSENT THEN CHEW THE HANDS AND SPIT THE BONES BACK AT THEIR FACE FOR DARING TO TOUCH THE SAMSpoiler (click to show/hide)
AlrightyAsk questions:
1. Have there been any observations of coherent religious beliefs popping up among the inhabitants of either the yellow or orange zones? If so, what are their details and/or objects of worship?
2. What can we expect as far as how HELL-infused objects will react with the various sorts of reality distortions?
3. What could be summarized as the average mental state of an inhabitant of the yellow zone?
4. Is there any commonality to how the reality distortion affects people in the yellow and orange zones, or is it mostly patternless?
5. Have any incidences of thought forms such as, er, the one involving gambling that we encountered recently been observed as manifesting in any of the zones with any degree of frequency?
Lastly, OOC question: Is it too late for me to retroactively get some ammo for my minigun, and if not, how much OMNI would it have cost me for what use die? This question may be edited as I check back in the mission. EDIT: It was a d12 use die, but the ammo was built into Wilfred's robot body, so I imagine it would be less now.
Other than that, EEEDD's ready to go!Spoiler: EEEDD (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Congregation of ED (click to show/hide)Spoiler: STANpool (click to show/hide)
Pay 35 OMNI (adding to loan shark debt) to buy enough ammo for d12 on the minigun. Rest of post edited in later.
Watch feeds that might hint at potential threats on the west side of the city, particularly along 96, 14, Westland, and Livonia.[5]
Also give Baldwin 8 Omni for a fishing rod if Radio doesn’t.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
1.[2] Despite Baldwin's best efforts he cannot discern distinct groups amongst the chaos of the Orange zone. Oh sure he sees small groups and parties, but he can't fit the individual groups into any larger ones.((Heydude, limit yourself to one action post per turn. If you need to change something, edit your post rather than making a new one. Also make sure to bold all actions (I don’t know if you have been or not). All this makes it easier for PW to keep track of everything.))
Ok, Aggregating action posts. I've been pretty good about bolding my actions thankfully.
1.Watch the TV broadcast again. This time, make note of the groups who seem the most organized or have the most-powerful weaponry. Note where they were last seen on the map.
2. Use the 400 OMNI given to me by SAM to buy a Reactive Fabric cape
3. Grab an OMNITECH electrical behavior modification implant and an Isolation suit from the loot pile. Sell the suit for OMNI. Hold onto the implant in case Sam changes their mind about letting me install it.
4. If I have enough OMNI, from selling stuff or through gifts, buy a good Fishing rod for 8 OMNI
5. Ask the following questions:Spoiler: Questions (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
stow the gun for now, and check if I have a picture of what the girl looks like, either way see if I can make my way into the club, looking for alternate entrances if the Bouncers are... uncooperative.Anya puts the gun away and checks her pockets. There's a polaroid picture of a young girl in one of them: Brown hair, maybe 14-15, pretty but somewhat plain. Wearing glasses that don't really fit her.Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
1. Yes. Tech. Mod to the kit, not the full suit.QuoteAnd could it be upgraded/modified to do this? If yes, what would be needed? And would this count as the 1 modification of the suit, or is it the 1 mod for this part of the kit?Quote1) For the Biorhythm tracker, is there an equivalent for the DNA 'sampling method' but for robots, like an electromagnetic fingerprint or something?1. Not as is.Quote2. If you're fighting a creature for more than one turn, you gain, in order by number of extra turns fighting, 1. Increase damage dealt by 1 die level, 2. Gain advantage on to-hit, 3. Gain advantage on Damage roll as well.Neato! And the analysis can't begin until a fight has started I guess? Meaning that if I just observe an enemy for a turn it doesn't do much?Quote3. Sure. [1] Scanner destroyed.Blast! Total loss or can it be salvaged if I try with a toolbox charge? If yes, try it.
If no, or if it fails again, buy a new one (50 omni).
For eg. the shotgun, is a 2d6 attack 1 attack with the sum of the rolls, or two individual rolls with independent damage (aka 2 life rolls)?
Loan 8 omni Baldwin if needed. Gonna have to say nay to the isolation suit though if it's just for selling.
Then help shove any stragglers into the EdPC and get in myself as well, front half. Familiarize myself with the consoles and such.
EDIT: also don't let Bob have the kelp!Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Go grab on of those camera pod things and see if I can't make a video camera out of it using a tool kit charge, you know so we can film our wonderful vacation.[6][6]Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Eat all the fish food Yagyu just bought. All ten pounds of it.Yagyu stands on Bob's snout and prevents him from moving or snacking. Bob squirms angrily but cannot open his mouth. He bangs the floor with all four claws.Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
Only question is "what counts as overuse for the neuron reconfig helmet?" Is it like 1 swap per mission? Or more "each person gets from 1-6 safe uses ever"?
"You really think they're gonna want to trade for fucking fish flakes? They're not that starving, something that actually kinda resembles palatable food woulda been a better investment probably. Unless everyone in Neo-Detroit happens to mutate into fish people between the briefing and now. Which wouldn't surprise me."Edward decides to work as "hype man" and just hops around shouting about how well Burt is making that camera.
Help Burt Burt make his camera thing. Hand him tools, hold the flashlight, get yelled at, whatever.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
"Well this sucks, where am I supposed to drool fluids now? Oh well, can you put some fleshpunk (https://youtu.be/wdV6tc7ptmY)songs (https://youtu.be/lFH_sLohbRQ)on the radio, Car Ed?""Yeah, nah. I'm not really into the whole new wave meatpunk music."
Once everyone is inside Pushbot (now wearing Edward's jumpsuit and sidearm) stands at attention in the crew compartment. Pointing at various things as Ed lists them.
"Welcome everyone to the EdPC, courtesy of our Omnitech overlords. We will be leaving momentarily for beautiful Neo-Detroit, population who even knows and current weather being sunny with about a 23% chance of horrible reality warping anomalies and/or mutated monstrosities.
Here in the back half of the vehicle you will find a storage area, a few bunk beds, the kitchen, the toilet, and a fold out surgical theater. Up front in the command half you will find several computers, turret controls, main gun controls, and other such things. Please refrain from touching the weapons systems while we are en route, I can take care of those myself. Pushbot will be on standby to strangle anyone downloading malware onto the computers.
Please keep your arms and legs inside the ride at all times, which shouldn't be hard because I'm pretty sure the only exit is the hatch on top.
Next stop: Ann Harbor. Remember: your best bet, is driving Ed."
Pushbot then goes up to the front section and sits in the driver's seat.
"Reactor, online
Sensors, online
Weapons, online
All systems nominal. Pusbot, let's git."
And with that, we are off the Ann Harbor. Play some music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-Za5uBxsls) for our maiden voyage. Play it at a reasonable level inside, blast it from the speakers on the outside. Hi-ho silver, awaaaaay.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
Anya pauses the headset for a sec to look around, after a brief appraisal she decides nothing going on right now is her problem and puts the headset back on.[8,4v1,1]
Well fuck it, time to go loud. Pull out the pistol and shoot the closest bouncer. Then the other bouncer. Then bust through the door to the interior.Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
Quietly wait for something of relevance to happen.....Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
Have a camera drone land on Yagyu to keep an eye on him, just in case they try to kidnap him or something.Pathos sends a camera drone after Yagyu and another out into the crazed wilderness above. The second drone is spotty, its footage grainy and its behavior semi-erratic and prone to wandering off or continuing to act without input. The view outside was much the same, though maybe a bit darker and those lightning pulses were coming faster now, separated only by a minute or two. The last soldiers seem to be disappearing into bunkers and the entire place looks tightly battened down.
Send another drone out to watch the show. If this is a regular occurrence it might be worth knowing more about.
If anyone is around, try to start a conversation in the hopes of learning more about what's going on: "Does this happen often?"Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things done this mission (click to show/hide)
EEEDD's fingers dance like sausage-legged spiders in anticipation. This truly was a miraculous place! Without a doubt many revelations of ED would be found here.The way to a man's heart is through his ribcage.
"Quickly, fellow employees - let us say a prayer of benediction to the benevolent servant of ED that has generously taken command of our mode of transport, so as to ensure an auspicious start to our vacation!"
Give ritualistic thanks to EdPC, Mechanicus-style. Consult Blessed 888-Ball for ED's guidance on what the best way to the hearts of these soldiers will be. Then exit the vehicle (if the soldiers allow it) and look around for people suffering from back pain or a lack of spiritual fulfilment (the two are somewhat intertwined).Spoiler: EEEDD (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Congregation of ED (click to show/hide)Spoiler: STANpool (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things done (click to show/hide)
Seeing everything going on, ED decides to chime up over the internal speakers[9]
"I'll keep the engine running, since I get the feeling there's a good chance we might need to make a getaway. Also, if you're gonna fight, do it outside. You're gonna have to live in here for a while, wouldn't do to trash the place."
As discussed, buy 1 extra box of regular shells and one extra box of high explosive for 130 OMNI
Keep the engine running. While Yagyu does his thing, see if I can't connect to this base's intranet or make contact with the operator on duty, and snoop/ask around a bit for useful info on our surrounding, supplies, or general goings-on.
Also, of any of these jokers start something that damages the inside of the EdPC, have pushbot forcefully evict them.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
Since Yagyu forgot to take the fishfood or Bob with him, demonstrate what happens when one fails the Fox, Hen, and Seed river crossing puzzle. Eat all the fish food Yagyu just bought. All ten pounds of it.
Edit: naturally, Bob has no idea what Baldwin is saying so he will bite his attacker. Attempt to grab him with the tentacle first, of course. Once his attacker is pacified, Bob will continue on his quest for snack.Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
Threaten Bob with my occult ceremonial knife. Attack him if he continues to try to eat the fishfood
"Hey! If you step any closer to that, I'll gut you with this. Sure, there's only a 1 in 4 chance that it will actually do anything to you, but are you feeling lucky? You might have a H.E.L.L of a time..."
"Besides, you don't want to eat that crap."
Baldwin shows off his brand new fishing rod, covered in various bells and whistles.
"With this baby, I'll be able to catch all sorts of wonderful fish for you. But I'll only be able to do that if you leave the bait intact. Otherwise, they won't swim anywhere near us. I know you're just a gator, but you understand how to fix computers, surely you can understand this?"
If he complies, pat him on the head.Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
((Have not added new items to inventory yet. Will edit in later))
"That's you they're talking about Yakitor Frenchguy."Sam reabsorbs the hair (+1 Flesh)
Scrap the floof to get Flesh back, SAM will never be pettable. Then ask the solider if they have any burgers lying around.
Edit: Bite off Rob's leggies if he attacks Bob, us pets have to show solidarity to each otherSpoiler (click to show/hide)
"Well, at least we showed up at the right time." Yagyu said as he climbed out the top of the EdPC.
"Allright gents, I'll go see what the brass has to say, the rest of you... play nice and make friends, don't run off too far, I'll be back in a jiffy. Maybe see if you can help with something before whatever has them up in arms comes crashing down on us."
Follow the soldier to wherever he's taking me. Also observe their reaction to the strange form of the auditor, do they seem surprised?
By the way, can I fire the EdPC shells using the ferromagnetic accelerator? What about things like grenades and such? If yes, how does their damage change compared to what it is normally?
((Note: I’ll be keeping a link to the annotated map, as well as Paris’ amazing interactive one, in my char sheet for easy reference.))Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
If I’m allowed to talk to them yet, ask if they have any spare ammunition they can part with. Any kind of ammunition. Varmit rounds, mortar shells, odds and ends they don’t use, maybe uneven amounts that need rounding off.
Also, it’s a long shot, but are they willing to part with any antitank weapons that are small enough for me to use? If not, are there any other weapons they’d be willing to lend us or trade for?
Edit- also go sit on Bob’s mouth until Yag gets backSpoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
"That was a terrible flight, and we didn't even get an inflight movie."[/quote]
Start wondering around with my new camera and film everything that happens, also check the little kitchenette and see if it has anything edible inside it.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Join Pathos and Burt as the mission's documentary film crew. Be sure to catch the scuffle between Bob and Baldwin and EEEDD.
"World Star!"Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
Now, in response to that first question, the eggheads got some long name for it but most here call it a 'Leak'.((Yeaaah think I'll be referring to it as a blowout since that is clearly what it is, stalker.
((how many turns of this are you planning? Don't you already have half the answers to these questions anyway? those answers being "The situation out there changes rapidly and we don't have a lot of reliable information. You will have to go find out yourselves, really."))QuoteNow, in response to that first question, the eggheads got some long name for it but most here call it a 'Leak'.((Yeaaah think I'll be referring to it as a blowout since that is clearly what it is, stalker.
Also, if this list is a bit much just stop whenever you get fed up.))
1) How much, and what kind of, advance warning do we have when one of those blowouts will happen? To know how much time we have to get cover.
2) How often does this happen anyway, once every few hours/days/weeks?
3) Could he inform the other bases that we're here, and maybe base Canada as well? I guess the deal we have with these guys is the same as we'll get with the others?
4) What's the latest intell regarding the current situation in the zone? Any areas that are hotly contested, any big gangs/notorious names/deadly anomalies he can warn us about?
5) Regarding anomalies, are there any 'types' that are often occurring, and if yes how can one detect and deal with it?
6) Show him the list of employees of the former institute, see if he knows any of them or might be able to give us the last whereabouts. Let him make a copy of the list if needed, maybe his men can ask around a little?
7) What kind of artifacts would they be interested in for trading, anything we should be on the lookout for in particular?
8) do they know about things like clogged roads filled with vehicles from the evacuation, or other obstacles that would make navigating the EdPC difficult? So that we can plan our route accordingly.
9) Aside from the military bases, how are the other routes out of the zone (smaller roads, the water, general open areas) secured from escapees?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
((how many turns of this are you planning? Don't you already have half the answers to these questions anyway? those answers being "The situation out there changes rapidly and we don't have a lot of reliable information. You will have to go find out yourselves, really."))
Get back on the EdPC and eat those fish flakes, SAM didn't go to college to get laughed at by a bunch of marines, she'll make her own burgers, SAMburgersSam walks in and, dragging her lower jaw along the floor, swallows up the entire 10lbs of fish flakes in one bite. They taste terrible! Exactly like fishfood smells.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
look for the girl in the crowd, and keep a mental note of all the bouncers I see and their locations.[2]Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
All's well that ends, I suppose. Bob will settle in and relax, sending SpiderNotCatHat to tap into the EdPC's plumbing and flood the rear compartment with .... one (1) foot of water.[5,8v3]Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
Check the feed to see how the rest of Detroit is dealing with the “Leak”.The majority of the feeds are currently displaying a "We'll be right back!" message or something of the kind. The few still broadcasting are showing very badly distorted and fragmented images, all of them from the perspective of an obviously crashed or downed drone. Of these, most show uninteresting things like close ups of blurry rubble, but one is showing a man's intestines burst out from his stomach and slither away of their own accord.
Also try to get any idea of what kind of hardware they have at this base.
Lastly, ask the guys at the armory if there’s any useless ammo they don’t want. Also ask what they’d be willing to give me for an antibio razor.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Try to find out where the low level grunts all hang out when they're trying to avoid doing work. Go hang out with them and avoid doing work. You never know, they probably know some stuff that the top brass that Yagyu's talking to doesn't. Make some connections, build some rapport.[4]Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
"Would a rifle and a spare magazine be enough to buy me a laptop?""Hardacre, Not me. But if I had to hazard a guess, yes."
Stand in the commander's office while keeping the camera somewhat hidden so he doesn't know I'm filming everything that's going on.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
((Believe it or not this is not actually inspired by STALKER. Though it might be a STALKER second cousin))QuoteNow, in response to that first question, the eggheads got some long name for it but most here call it a 'Leak'.((Yeaaah think I'll be referring to it as a blowout since that is clearly what it is, stalker.
Also, if this list is a bit much just stop whenever you get fed up.))
1) How much, and what kind of, advance warning do we have when one of those blowouts will happen? To know how much time we have to get cover.
2) How often does this happen anyway, once every few hours/days/weeks?
3) Could he inform the other bases that we're here, and maybe base Canada as well? I guess the deal we have with these guys is the same as we'll get with the others?
4) What's the latest intell regarding the current situation in the zone? Any areas that are hotly contested, any big gangs/notorious names/deadly anomalies he can warn us about?
5) Regarding anomalies, are there any 'types' that are often occurring, and if yes how can one detect and deal with it?
6) Show him the list of employees of the former institute, see if he knows any of them or might be able to give us the last whereabouts. Let him make a copy of the list if needed, maybe his men can ask around a little?
7) What kind of artifacts would they be interested in for trading, anything we should be on the lookout for in particular?
8) do they know about things like clogged roads filled with vehicles from the evacuation, or other obstacles that would make navigating the EdPC difficult? So that we can plan our route accordingly.
9) Aside from the military bases, how are the other routes out of the zone (smaller roads, the water, general open areas) secured from escapees?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
((glad you liked it. What dark, lawless urges and secret plots pushed you to check? I specifically said in the Discord not to check any spoilers in MOOK. You'd think a good player would abide by such social niceties, but not Radio. Nooooooooo, Not Radio at all.))((how many turns of this are you planning? Don't you already have half the answers to these questions anyway? those answers being "The situation out there changes rapidly and we don't have a lot of reliable information. You will have to go find out yourselves, really."))
((As few as I can manage! And I do hope he'll be able to give us some useful info, and if not better safe than sorry eh.
Also, cheeky, very cheeky. :p ))
"Now here's for some real food, just grill em' up and we'll be rich, RICH I tell ya!
Now throw up a delicious and scrumptious 10-pound ball of SAMeat, do it in the kitchen table to be more hygienic.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
((Believe it or not this is not actually inspired by STALKER. Though it might be a STALKER second cousin))((Oh neat! Would it be spoilers to say what it is?))
3. "The others already know. Ground lines. That Canadian base is out of our range currently."
I can give you guys the routes our convoys take to move around the city and to get outside it: they should be pretty open.
"Perimeter wall, auto cannons, mine field, and automata. Mostly drones launched from 'Nests' scattered along the length. Almost everything is automated, we're mostly here just to keep an eye on it and catch anything that wanders past."
"Now here's for some real food, just grill em' up and we'll be rich, RICH I tell ya![2]
Now throw up a delicious and scrumptious 10-pound ball of SAMeat, do it in the kitchen table to be more hygienic.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Send spiderbot to interface with Pathosbot to alert him to the worrying lack of fluids and to have him requisition more swamp water.Spidercat scurries over to Pathos and begins to chittermew piteously for swamp water. Its....endearing?Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
"Wonder what other things that guy has for sale?"For the sake of immediacy, lets assume you go find and talk to him in the future, since you can't reach him now. We'll handle this so we can get underway.
Go find this Hardacre and see what kind of things he has for sale, also keep filming I need all this footage for my movie or whatever it is I'm making.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Is there anywhere we can buy stuff with OMNI that we currently have access to? Or is that essentially a between mission thing?OMNI is effectively "Company Currency". Its worth is entirely dependent on who you're trading it to, outside of the company. There might be OMNI vending machines somewhere in the city though.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
((For the moment, I'll keep silent. But it might become more obvious as we go...depending on how much ya know))Quote((Believe it or not this is not actually inspired by STALKER. Though it might be a STALKER second cousin))((Oh neat! Would it be spoilers to say what it is?))Quote3. "The others already know. Ground lines. That Canadian base is out of our range currently."
1. Could we get a connection to those bases routed through this base? If yes, send them a pic of the employee files and ask if they have seen any of these people. Also ask if they have any more info regarding places or people of interest.
2. Is there any sort of sign that indicates that one is willing to trade/talk/be friendly so they won't immediately think we're coming to blow them the fuck up when they see our EdPC and we'll have a chance to actually talk? Or shall we just tie a white flag to the vehicle and hope for the best? Also, what's the best way to talk to these people, is it to be direct while making it clear you're ready to dispense violence should they try to screw with you? Or are there other unwritten rules of parlay 'round here?QuoteI can give you guys the routes our convoys take to move around the city and to get outside it: they should be pretty open.
3. Yes, yes that'd be very nice.
(How you wanna do this pw, paint it on the map or just say "and now you know where to move"?)Quote"Perimeter wall, auto cannons, mine field, and automata. Mostly drones launched from 'Nests' scattered along the length. Almost everything is automated, we're mostly here just to keep an eye on it and catch anything that wanders past."
4. Will these things target us as well? Probably won't be relevant but better to be sure.
5. Explain that I can convert one type of ammo into another. I am willing to render this service to them, to convert whatever into whatever, in exchange for getting some of the ammo for ourselves.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
1.Watch the TV broadcast again. This time, make note of the groups who seem the most organized or have the most-powerful weaponry. Note where they were last seen on the map.
[17:37] Radio Controlled: @Piecewise Once we are ready to go in mook, can we assume a timeskip till the storm has died down?
[18:30] Piecewise: yes
5. "Mighty useful talent. I'm not aware of any shortages currently, but Hardacre might have some use of it. And I'm certain that the lads in Ann Arbor would."
2. "Your best bet, I think, is announce your intentions immediately. There's a fine line out there, you don't wanna look like a threat they have to kill, but you also don't want to look weak and easy to steal from. We have somewhat of an advantage: they know that if they fuck with us they'll eat an artillery strike, but they also know we could have already done that if we just wanted them dead. They know we're too dangerous to mess with, but also that we mean it when we say we're just there to talk. For guys like you without such capacities and clout, might be best off letting some of their footsoldiers know you wanna talk to someone higher up and make a business transaction out of it. For the most part though, if you don't ruffle feathers, they won't want to start anything."
SAM will cook up the fishball into something scrumptious now, or ask someone else to do it, either way, she's good.[2]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
try to get upstairs to look for the girl up there[1]Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
Try to do this again.The storm outside is rather screwing things up, but Baldwin manages to get a good look at one group through a downed drone. They seem to be connected by Bull iconography, masks and talismans and such. They're wearing an odd mix of army or paramilitary stuff along with what looks like random objects on cords. One near the drone is wearing several hundred CD's like a boa around his neck. They appear to have a fair number of members and be pretty heavily armed.1.Watch the TV broadcast again. This time, make note of the groups who seem the most organized or have the most-powerful weaponry. Note where they were last seen on the map.Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
EEEDD, having stood in disbelief that soldiers in need of salvation would refuse an open offering for a good few minutes, snaps out of his fugue. No use wasting time, after all! If they would not welcome his theological teachings, then he'd simply have to ram them in at the source.[2]
Change tack and ask around to see if these people have a priest or anything of the sort - hell, even a motivational speaker would do. Then find this person, if they exist. My intent is to engage in a theological debate with them and assert the dominance of EDism.
Consult my inner ED as I go to this meeting to determine the proper stance towards heathens.Spoiler: EEEDD (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Congregation of ED (click to show/hide)Spoiler: STANpool (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things done (click to show/hide)
"I have a loaded OMNITECH Generic Security rifle and one spare magazine, and the things I'm after are a laptop with a case and cords, a flashlight, and cheap smartphone, the phone and the laptop don't need to be new they just need to work."He takes the rifle and disappears, returning several minutes later with the laptop, flashlight and phone.
Trade the things and keep filming.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Find a completely random lowly grunt to interview. Point my camera in their face and start conducting a little interview.
Ask about any little tips and tricks they know to survive in the zone. How does the fish taste. Where they think the scientists could be hiding. What they think is the cause of all this. What sort of underground contraband black market they have. What is their favourite colour.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
If possible, talk to Hardacre about acquiring bottom of the barrel ammo. If he’s not going to take YAG up on the ammo exchange offer, then see how much ammo he’s willing to sell, and if he’d give a good deal if the type of ammo doesn’t matter. I’m not ready to trade it yet, but see how much ammo he’d give me for the razor. Also spread the word to all the soldiers that they can exchange ammo for a fee. (I’ll let Radio decide on the specifics of that fee.)Ji asks Hardacre about ammo. He gives her a look when she tells him that the kind of ammo doesn't matter, she just wants to buy it in bulk.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Ask the communications team in the base if the other bases with a better line on the Canadian base could pass on a message to introduce ourselves.The Canadian base is apparently quite hard to contact due to being directly across from the american bases, through the red zone. Wireless signals are obviously distorted if they make it at all, and there are no land lines. The only real way is to go far enough south to get line of sight and do it from there. That or route around, bounce it south and then back up north through external sites. Thats what they usually do but its a bit of a pain with encryption and such, so its only done when needed. They assure Janet that the Canadian base has no units in the zone and is actually just a checkpoint to prevent anything from getting out in that direction.Spoiler: Janet Janet (click to show/hide)
The commander takes the booze and sets it in a desk drawer. Yagyu catches sight of several bottles in there.Quote[17:37] Radio Controlled: @Piecewise Once we are ready to go in mook, can we assume a timeskip till the storm has died down?
[18:30] Piecewise: yes
In that case, in the interest of moving things along, let's move out at the end of this coming turn/start of the next, and maybe people still talking/trading can finish it in flexible time?
Either way, thank the commander for his help and any future support, offer him 1 of the bottles of nice booze if he wants it.Quote5. "Mighty useful talent. I'm not aware of any shortages currently, but Hardacre might have some use of it. And I'm certain that the lads in Ann Arbor would."
Go to this Hardacre once we're done with the commander and offer the same service again. We'll convert whatever ammo they have to whatever other type they need (assuming the forge can handle it), in return for keeping some of the ammo for ourselves (25% maybe? We can haggle over discord if you want).Quote2. "Your best bet, I think, is announce your intentions immediately. There's a fine line out there, you don't wanna look like a threat they have to kill, but you also don't want to look weak and easy to steal from. We have somewhat of an advantage: they know that if they fuck with us they'll eat an artillery strike, but they also know we could have already done that if we just wanted them dead. They know we're too dangerous to mess with, but also that we mean it when we say we're just there to talk. For guys like you without such capacities and clout, might be best off letting some of their footsoldiers know you wanna talk to someone higher up and make a business transaction out of it. For the most part though, if you don't ruffle feathers, they won't want to start anything."
See if I can set up a little sound clip that says something like "We come here in peace and wish to make a trade. Do not assault us or we will retaliate." Idea is to play that over the EdPC when we need to.
Also, does Yagyu notice what happened to his kelp?
Once the storm dies down and they can safely exit the building again, Yagyu gets on the radio to address the whole team, seeing how some already ran off to do their own thing.
"Allrighty then ladies ’n gents, bit of a false start, but finally we're ready to move out and begin our holiday.
Now, for some traveler guidelines before we begin our little excursion.
Play nice with the locals when you can. While our ROE is pretty lax, we’d still rather not deal with complaints filed in triplicate and/or hordes of angry gangers toting bazookas more than we have to. So be on your best behaviors! If some mutant is being an ass you can take ‘em down of course, but don’t make our life, er, vacation, any harder than it has to be.
Secondly, when the EdPC moves up, try to stick with it. I’m not gonna chain ya’ll down and demand you stick with the tour group at all times, but we’re not going off on a wild goose chase every few minutes because someone saw a shiny bauble somewhere. So go detouring if you must, but if you get yourself in trouble that way, make sure you can get yourself out of it as well. Of course if the missi-, I mean holiday festivities, require us to split up that’s another story.
Now, first we will go visit Ann Arbor, we've got a possible lead in there on one of the former employees. We'll also want to talk to the treasure hunters to learn more.
EdPC my dear, if you’d be so kind?
Oh, and if any of you feel like it, you can give me a DNA sample so that I can locate you should we get separated in a tussle. This is optional, so as you prefer. The brobots among us can grab something biological and give a piece of it to me and hang on to the rest for the same effect. Finally, I can manufacture ammunition out of other ammunition, let me know and I can hook you up."
After all that, he fills them in on the relevant details the commander told him.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
1. Ask the commander if he can tell us if there were any other teams sent here recently (not necessarily from OMNITECH, other companies or government too), if any could be still alive, how they fared and if he has any advice to offer us on how to not end up like them. Or any advice about how to stay alive in general.1. "There was one about 3 weeks ago. No idea if its still around. Can't tell ya any info on them though. Non-disclosure agreements."
2. Ask the commander how well technology fares further into the zone. The "leak" caused some distortions on screens and drones. Would those be worse the closer we get to the center? Would those distortions be damaging to tech or robots? Are the people in the zone still using modern tech (i.e. something I could hack) or have they reverted to older sturdier tech?
3. Ask the commander if we should be wary of weather phenomena. Does rain that passes over Detroit become "contaminated"?
4. Ask the commander what would be the "best case scenario" should we manage to be so lucky as to locate and reach the source of the anomaly. What would be a "happy end" by his standards?
5. Keep watching the view from the drone to see if something special happens during the leak and what it looks like when it finishes.
6. Once we start moving, keep a drone flying around to give us a bird eye's view, make sure nobody is laying in ambush or something.
Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things done this mission (click to show/hide)
If we're ready by the end of this turn, head out again and head to Ann Harbor.
If not, just sift through the info I collected, looking for anything that seems out of place or interesting.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
If we're ready by the end of this turn, head out again and head to Ann Harbor.
If not, just sift through the info I collected, looking for anything that seems out of place or interesting.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
Out of time, but we're moving out now. Hold your posts till I can finish this turn. Thanks.
First take off the vr set. Then pull out the Hoverboard and take it for a spin, see if I can keep up with the EDpc.Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
Hardacre checks his books and says that they could use some ammo for the new autocannons. Same model the EdPC uses. You could get a free d6 box of it out of the trade but it would cost a day's wait to forge it all.(Let's leave that then for should we ever return to that base for resupply.)
"Let's go find that fucking neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerd.""Yes, Quite right, let's move ou-"
Yagyu will notice the kelp when he returns. So if he returned, he noticed the kelp."OI, which one of you bozos slobbered all over my merchandise?"
”I think perhaps it’s time we go to a fishing spot. Food seems to count for something here so maybe we should get some ‘cash’ before we start asking for goods and services”
You set up a "We Come in peace" announcement you can play whenever you want.Should we move out this turn for the gilded razor, play this announcement as we drive through the city since I think we can't exactly be stealthy in this thing. Use the military routes to get there with minimal fuss.
"Hey, anyone knows how to cook over here?"((You realize it's not fish right? It's fish FOOD, which is dried kelp.))
Continue trying to cook the fish ball, try to use the Organic Discombulator to change it from dry fish into beef Wellington or something.
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((You realize I ain't typing dried kelp ball due to laziness, right?))"Hey, anyone knows how to cook over here?"((You realize it's not fish right? It's fish FOOD, which is dried kelp.))
Continue trying to cook the fish ball, try to use the Organic Discombulator to change it from dry fish into beef Wellington or something.
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((Put in yar stats and equipment ya daft duck))Spoiler: Scottish Medic (click to show/hide)
((Thar ye go))Spoiler: Scottish Medic (click to show/hide)
Characters begin with 5 points that they can spend on stats and skills. Each point allows a stat to be raised by one die level, for example from d4 to d6, from d6 to d8 and so on, with a max of d12((You've got 5 points to up your stats/skills. Unless you intentionally want to play in hard mode.))
"You guys do whatever I'm gonna be looking at the stuff I bought."[2]
Plug in the laptop and look around on it and see what kind of stuff is on it, and do the same with the phone.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
EEEDD, after many hours of contemplating his newest revelation, speaks only at a mumble, hardly audible to anyone save himself. His eyelids are closed, but the eyes beneath twitch spasmodically back and forth.
"I understand, oh ED, bearer of our names and our troubles and our lives. The people of this land are fearful and ignorant of greater aspirations than mere survival, so I shall not make faith a matter of comfort or luxury for them. Instead I shall instruct them in the manner in which it may be a tool of survival, one they have neither reason nor right to refuse. Blessed be the Sacred Name, accursed may WV be forevermore."
Pray until we reach whatever destination our tour guides decide to place us in. Draw ED's favor upon me to assist in my upcoming, more forceful, method of conversion.Spoiler: EEEDD (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Congregation of ED (click to show/hide)Spoiler: STANpool (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things done (click to show/hide)
What sort of super martial arts and/or cybernetic limb enhancements did that soldier have in order to give me a bloody nose through the armoured helmet of my armoured space suit with just a punch? I am simply curious.You misunderstand. It wasn't caused by the punch. This was a comedy anime bloody nose because you're so gosh darn sexually excited by being hit by women. I'm sure~
Anyways, stop my nose from bleeding. I have a medkit if necessary. I would prefer not to waste a charge for just this though.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
We'll assume this guy hitched a ride from the military base. What he was doing there...eh who knows. Maybe he just drunkenly wandered in.Spoiler: Scottish Medic (click to show/hide)
((Alright now I'm done.))
Wherever we stop, locate machinery in need of repair and do so, be it a car, radio, some form of plumbing, or a ten foot tall abomination made entirely of discarded cellphones. Otherwise, stay near the barrel fires for warmth, unless the Huron is much warmer than it's latitude would suggest, in which case go for a nice, crocodilian bob.Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
Stay near the EPC and keep an eye out for threats, or things that might make life difficult.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
((Going out at night seem like a more dangerous prospect than waiting till morning to move out, but now that pw already set the scene we might as well roll with it.))QuoteHardacre checks his books and says that they could use some ammo for the new autocannons. Same model the EdPC uses. You could get a free d6 box of it out of the trade but it would cost a day's wait to forge it all.(Let's leave that then for should we ever return to that base for resupply.)
"So, I suppose we'll go and hit up that bar. Grilled Taser, was it? We can use the routes the commander gave us to plot us a course through this city.""Let's go find that fucking neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerd.""Yes, Quite right, let's move ou-"QuoteYagyu will notice the kelp when he returns. So if he returned, he noticed the kelp."OI, which one of you bozos slobbered all over my merchandise?"”I think perhaps it’s time we go to a fishing spot. Food seems to count for something here so maybe we should get some ‘cash’ before we start asking for goods and services”
"I guess you could try at the Huron if we happen to stop near it, but I don't think we'll want to make a priority out of it right now."QuoteYou set up a "We Come in peace" announcement you can play whenever you want.Should we move out this turn for the gilded razor, play this announcement as we drive through the city since I think we can't exactly be stealthy in this thing. Use the military routes to get there with minimal fuss.
Either way, see if there are new corpo drones in the area we could take control over to have more eyes in the sky.
Also, how many exits are there in this EdPC, a top and a rear hatch, right?
EDIT: now that Yagyu is back he'll prevent people from messing with his goddamn kelp!Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Don't play that. I'll give you something to play."
Change the "We come here in peace and wish to make a trade. Do not assault us or we will retaliate." recording to something more along the lines of "Don't mess with us and we won't mess with you. It's in your best interest to let us go about our scientific expedition and not grab the attention of our heavily armed security team." Best not to let them think we have anything valuable until it's actually time to trade.
Keep aneyedrone or two out for ambushes.
Once we reach the Gilded Razor, do a scan of the local network to see if I can glean anything. Maybe some equipment leftover from the last team. Maybe someone using combat drones. Maybe just to get an idea about how much tech they have around here.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Drive my compatriots to the bar that Yagyu pointed out. Also have Pushbot load a standard round in the main gun, just in case.((EdPC has two hatches: rear and top. It technically has a third emergency hatch on the bottom for if it gets flipped, but its sealed and designed to be "Popped" via explosive bolts. ))
Once arrived at the bar, try to park in a spot where there aren't too many blind spots people can sneak up to the EdPC from. Then search around if I can find any radio or network connections. Don't actually connect yet, unless the EdPC comes with some hefty firewall/antivirus.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Scottish Medic (click to show/hide)
((I'll say Alec is at the OMNIFLESH Bar.))Spoiler: Scottish Medic (click to show/hide)
"Aye I'm feck'n leavingsh, ye dinnae need teh push." Alec stumbled out of the bar looking thoroughly sotted yet not absolutely shitfaced drunk "Ish thar no placsh a man cannae drinksh fer free?" he grumbled walking away from the establishment.
Spoiler: Scottish Medic (click to show/hide)
"Oi wotsh sheams tah be teh problemsh?" a man asked stumbling into the parking lot "Hoho, ye looksh like yer tough! Howsh abouts we all jusht get a drink? Eh?" Alec suggested as he looked around at everyone, he was obviously drunk but thankfully not shitfaced drunk.
Introduce myself to the patrons BEFORE ANYONE ELSE CAN SPEAK. Janet will talk to the patrons and assure them that we are only here to chat for a bit and maybe buy a drink or two before we get a move on. Additionally, we are friendly and not a threat.Spoiler: Janet Janet (click to show/hide)
"Greeting fellow human beings, have any of you seen a fUcKiNG nERd?! Be warned that failure to tell us the truth shall result in the forcible removal of your epidermis."[3]
While asking this SAM decides to shapeshift into a more human and friendly form (https://i.imgur.com/wIyHTVb.jpeg), don't forget to add the claws, those are the most human thing ever.
EDIT: Throw Fish Flake Goo Ball into Bob's mouth like SAM's just won the Superbowl.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Ji walks up behind Janet, one arm resting on her slung rifle and the other on her hip. She attempts to look both non-hostile and potentially threatening.Step ahead of my more unnerving teammates and give a quick introduction of who we are, and why we’re here. Once they’re more at ease, refer them to Pathos and Yagyu for further conversation.
Accompany Janet and look friendly, but have my weapons ready.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Move off into a flanking position while staying in the dark, blow away anyone who fires upon my team using as many attacks as necessary.[1]Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
Faith needs no results for the devoted to adhere to it. It merely needs to exist.[3]
Evaluate this bunch of prospective EDvotees. Are there any that my gut tells me are ripe for conversion? Any that look desperate, or sickly, or afflicted with spinal problems? Look for emotional/spiritual vulnerability like I'm Reddit searching for a meme to ruin. Not gonna explicitly speak up yet just on account of the impending diploball.Spoiler: EEEDD (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Congregation of ED (click to show/hide)Spoiler: STANpool (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things done (click to show/hide)
"Damn I was hoping for something free from these things."[2]
Leave the vehicle and ignore the bar in favor for exploring the houses nearby looking for any kind of loot, also keep shotgun ready in case of hostile things.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Let my companions do the talking, for now just monitor the situation and our surroundings with the EdPC's cameras and be on stand-by. Also have Pushbot join me in the command compartment, and seal the divider between the command half and the living quarters half of the EdPC, just in case.The EdPC brings its companion bot into the command chamber and then seals the door, just in case someone tries to hijack him. He quietly aligns the cannon and left side autocannon on the bar patio, just in case, and then searches for signals.
Also, search arround for possible connections I can make. Maybe their building has a camera/security system?Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
I trust that my team will be able to handle and/or ruin this situation on their own, without Wilfred's assistance, so get out of the EdPC and go wander off... in the opposite direction Anya went. Give the new hardsuit body a test run--literally, how fast does it run?Wilfred steps out of the EdPC and, after glancing over at the bar and the congregation gathering there, shrugs. He takes off at a jog into the forest, plowing through the undergrowth and occasionally shoulder checking a tree out of his way. The suit is quick in terms of its reactions to his movements but its actual running speed isn't very fast. Its got too much weight and momentum to really throw the legs around, not to mention the soft soil and the dense foliage slow him down. He could skim with the rockets much faster.
And keep an eye out for any assholes who wanna steal my shit, obviously.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
(For the record, Yagyu is keeping that kelp on him from now on, buncha loafers stealing my precious trade goods.)
Stop playing the sound recording and exit the EdPC. Calmly reveal myself to the crowd, with my arms pointing away from anyone (so I'm not aiming visible weapons at anyone).
Then, after Ji and/or Janet introduced us, say the following (adapt as needed for the flow of the conversation):
"We are here to get some information and were told this is the best place to get it. Who do we talk to, is there a representative among you?"
All of that is assuming the situation isn't completely fubar yet due to certain teammate shenanigans though. If it is then after exiting try to stabilize the situation by gooping whoever is being aggressive and then step out to intimidate any further would-be troublemakers.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Take off my helmet. Look non-threatening and entirely human.
"Hello. I am a normal human just like you. So don't be too alarmed by all the freaks and weirdos I'm with. We're just passing through. We mean you no harm."
Let Janet speak first of course. Just trying to counterbalance the more freakish and scary elements of our team here.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
Waddle forward. Open mouth. Await snacks.Bob waddles over from where he is banging on cars and sits in front of the group, mouth open, like a friendly mobile beartrap. Edward professes being a normal person. And then Yagyu and Pathos come sliding silently out of the darkness right at about the time Anya falls out of a tree over to the left. The locals would probably find that funny if they weren't focused entirely on the two bizarre alien things that walked out of the dark. They were alert before, but now they're scared. Several have weapons drawn while others are looking up at the sky or checking what look like wrist watches. Yagyu announces his intent in the following moments, before anyone can get trigger happy, and they calm down a bit. When Pathos walks up and pushes through them into the bar -despite the weapons and anxious gazes pointed at him- they relax a bit more.Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
(( Yo boss you forgot about me. ))Sorry about that. Make sure to Bold any "official" actions you want me to take into account. Things like talking to other characters doesn't have to be bolded, but taking actions you want me to put into the turn do.
"I'll have 2 gallons of dog blood served on a hat mixed with your hardest drugs."
SAM orders her drink, as she scans the area for any dead bodies or drunks who are too buzzed to notice someone eating their fingersSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Go to bar.
"I'll take a pint of the weakest stuff you got."
Order drink. Consume drink.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
"Damn nothing left."[5]
Look through a few more houses for any kind of loot.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Stay outside and keep my eyes and ears open for trouble.Ji watches the security team disperse on their little adventures and decides that her personal adventure will be to stand outside and potentially shoot trouble makers. Its not a glamorous adventure, but its a functional one.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
EEEDD smiles earnestly (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67h8GyNgEmA) at the sight of the lad. Throw a seed far enough and it'll find fertile ground somewhere![4]
Casually approach the young man (https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/035/584/Screen_Shot_2020-10-23_at_1.10.28_PM.png) once the group starts to scatter a little bit. Don't open up right away with the gospel talk, instead offer to fix some of his ailments with chiropractic technique. Then start discussing the virtues of ED while I'm working on him, barber-chat style.
Internally regret not having invested more into speech before this.Spoiler: EEEDD (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Congregation of ED (click to show/hide)Spoiler: STANpool (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things done (click to show/hide)
Hum. I can skim with the rockets? Would that use up a meaningful amount of fuel? Do they run on use die, and if so how large a use die?The boot jets are powered by the suit's reactor, so they're functionally limitless. But they're also not powerful enough to go at full speed. Moving at full speed uses fuel and the suit has D8 reserves. It would roll once per turn for moving using the jump rockets.
As for an actual action, look around for taller buildings. Find a place that looks like it'd make a good vantage point. Go there.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
My companions seem to have this bar thing well in hand. Keep an eye on movement around the bar and around the EdPC, but otherwise just stay still and do nothing.[8][7] The EdPC scans the skies in a literal way, searching for any sort of beacon he can latch on to. He finds it in the form of not a drone- at least not a normal one- but a full blown autonomous cargo shuttle. He connects to it and looks at its specs and info. Its a single use thing, not much more than a huge glider that someone dropped outside the zone. Its heading in on momentum with a few rocket pods to steer and gain speed if it needs to. Its from Oshimada Heavy Industries, though its cargo isn't listed anywhere within the little computer brain guiding it in. Its just entering the yellow zone now, but moving at high speed; it will be into the orange zone in minutes.
Meanwhile, see if there are any of those corporate drones flying around within range of the EdPC. If there are, see if I can connect to their video feeds for some entertainment.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
If Bob don't get the snacks he deserves, he gonna bite some tires.Bob, annoyed at going unsnacked, punctures a few tires before stomping into the bar and wandering up to the nearest table. He opens his mouth again and grumbles at the confused and slowly backing away patrons.Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
Look around for someone who looks like they’re experienced, knowledgeable or authoritative (if nobody like that is spotted, check inside the bar).
If someone is found, approach them (keep weapons pointing away at all times) and tell them:
“Good evening, my name is Yagyu and our team is here to investigate the Neo Detroit anomaly to figure out what is going on. For that we’ll need some information, and if you’ll allow me to buy you a drink I have an interesting business proposal for you.”
If they are receptive to it, buy them that drink and inquire about the following things (just ask what their price would be and if they are the correct person for this, if not ask them to point us to the correct person in exchange for that drink, also check if they accept barter or only accept megabucks):
1) Intell regarding the current situation in the zone. Any areas that are hotly contested, any big gangs/notorious names/deadly anomalies he can warn us about? Local customs or social graces we should be aware about?
2) In case there’s too much info for point 1, maybe we could hire a local to act as a guide? Then they can give us info as we go, and maybe act as a friendly/known face when we need to contact. We’d need someone with a good knowledge of the land and who is experienced with navigating its dangers and anomalies, and who is respected (or at least neutral) by the various local groups. They do not need to be capable fighters, we can handle security.
3) Show him the picture of the employee we know worked for the smiles. We want to be brought into contact with that person
4) Show him the pictures of the other former employees, especially the 2 we also have a bit of a lead on (“One in the wilds up to the north, and another on the edge of the Orange zone, at St. Mary Mercy hospital.”). Again, we want to be brought into contact with these people or find out where they are.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"ugh хуй, bit out of practice it seems."
Walk inside the Bar and just hang out for now.Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
Go to bar.Anya and Edward wander in and just take a seat, ordering two drinks before finding a table to settle down at. Anya pays with a pack of cigarettes and Edward with 2 tubes of Nutrient paste. Anya gets what might be a mug of paint thinner while Edward ends up with something that could be best described as water that happened to once share an elevator ride with alcohol several years ago. They mix the two together and get something passible.
"I'll take a pint of the weakest stuff you got."
Order drink. Consume drink.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
"I'll have 2 gallons of dog blood served on a hat mixed with your hardest drugs."Sam wanders up to the bar and grips it with her too long fingers, making intense eye contact with the bartender the entire time she orders. He politely informs her that they do not have that particular drink on tap.
SAM orders her drink, as she scans the area for any dead bodies or drunks who are too buzzed to notice someone eating their fingersSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Go chat up the patrons and staff to see if they can tell us anything about what lies ahead on our path. Should any fights break out, break out the man-zapper, but not pre-emptively.Janet asks some of the patrons about what might lie ahead. They ask her were "Ahead" lies. She points in the direction of Detroit. They respond in a variety of ways but it comes down to "Bad shit".Spoiler: Janet Janet (click to show/hide)
Go inside the bar and ask around to see if anyone can share with me the location of some good fishing spots.Most aren't sure about fishing. The best answers Baldwin gets are a lake to the east of here, maybe a Km. Encircled by houses. That or Ford lake, to the southwest.
Once that's done, ask for some info about the bull-people group I saw earlier.Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
Look around at my fellow employees, as I drunkenly stumbling around "Oi ow' about a drinking contest" Alec suggests to the other people in the parking lot.The group completely ignores Alec and heads into the bar of their own accord. He grumbles mightily and follows them in, immediately demanding drinks from the bartender and being told he would have to -shock and horror- have to pay for them.
Stay out of the Langford Nature area, probably Barton Pond too. Both have oddly high amounts of anomalies. Enough that they're unfarmed and generally not passed through.
Shots appear to be served in spent shell cartridges instead of shot glasses.
Run by a guy named Whillis,What? You talking about Whillis?
I've got a connection to a Oshimada Heavy Industries autonomous cargo shuttle. A simple thing, basically a big container on a glider someone dropped into the zone. Currently entering the yellow zone, going to the red zone in a couple of minutes.
I might be able to tap into it and use its thrusters to steer it a bit though. Do you want me to try and make it land nearby, or just ignore it?
2. He says he'd be willing, but he'll need more than a bottle for it. He wants not only payment up front but a cut of any profits you make selling artifacts or info.1) How much are we talking here, and what areas would he be willing to go? And does he have contacts with the major gangs? Also we are here to gather info for our employers, who pays us in omni not megabucks, just so he's aware.
The EdPC sends a message to Yagyu and Pathos over a private channelQuoteI've got a connection to a Oshimada Heavy Industries autonomous cargo shuttle. A simple thing, basically a big container on a glider someone dropped into the zone. Currently entering the yellow zone, going to the red zone in a couple of minutes.
I might be able to tap into it and use its thrusters to steer it a bit though. Do you want me to try and make it land nearby, or just ignore it?
Hmm, it's not exactly part of our missi- ah, company retreat activities, but then again having some more bartering goods would be really convenient to have. Do you think you could reroute it enough so that it would land somewhere nearby?
Hmm, it's not exactly part of our missi- ah, company retreat activities, but then again having some more bartering goods would be really convenient to have. Do you think you could reroute it enough so that it would land somewhere nearby?
I can certainly try
"You have blood inside you, right? And yout buddies have hats too. Just get a razor and get to work."Sam "Yeets" the fishball.
Yeet the fish ball throgh the window towards Bob. Then continue demanding blood and guts from the bartenderSpoiler (click to show/hide)
That depends heavily on what kind of medical attention Al is looking for. Sam over there definitely needs medical attention but its to stitch her broken sanity back together instead of anything fleshy. There are a few people around with minor injuries but they've all been bandaged already by the look of it.Spoiler: Scottish Medic (click to show/hide)
Look around and see if anyone is in need of medical attention.
[2]Quote from: PiecewiseShots appear to be served in spent shell cartridges instead of shot glasses.
((The lead poisoning adds flavor!))
Actually, know what? Stay near the high school but at a safe distance, and see if there's anything that can be hacked into. Wilfred still has 1d12 tech, so might as well use it.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
Bob slithers ponderously between the tables, snapping up scraps, bumping legs, and straight up swiping entire plates of food when people aren't looking. People seem more or less so surprised by the appearance of an alligator that they don't protest the loss of their food. At least not yet.Run by a guy named Whillis,What? You talking about Whillis?Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Eat the yeeted fishball and then look menacingly at the patrons, while using my tentacle to steal food from whatever plate is nearby.Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
"Nice I just found someone's rainy day fund."Burt checks his map. There is...a grocery store and shopping center to the south of here it looks like. Not exactly a gas station but reasonable. He walks over that way until he can see it down the road. The place is still there though it was clearly set on fire at one point. The sprawling strip mall is a charred wreck, with bits and pieces still standing like charcoal ribs rising from an immolated corpse.
Keep going down the street and see if I can't find a gas station or some other business to look through.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
"You call that an alcoholic beverage? It was weaker than I am!"[2]
See if I can tune into the radio on my computing cube. The two stations that are playing in the bar, but also see if I can find any other stations or private communications.
Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
Standby for now. Enjoy the company I guess.Ji sleeps standing up.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Barter things with the case of socks. Trade away!Spoiler: Janet Janet (click to show/hide)
"Ey Janet come over, I have an offer for you: if you barter for one of those wristwatch things I'll foot the bill."[10]
saying this, she proudly displays her box of socks like it was briefcase full of money.
"Trust me, socks are a necessity if you have to wear boots all day, and given the acid rain, they definitely do."
Give Janet the sicks if you agrees to go along with my brilliant plan. Otherwise just hang around, keeping an eye on the flesh horror and a hand on my gunSpoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
Having bestowed this young one with his first Sacred Letters - now he's CharliED - ask him about anyone else he knows that'd be receptive to the faith. If there aren't any in the immediate area, simply get whatever info he has on the local area - people or places [that the narrator hasn't already exposited], maybe whether that Sunny Smiles fellow runs his gang in a theologically crazy or simply crazy manner.CharliED considers for a moment. He says that there are lots of people in the orange zone who would probably be pretty receptive. There are already lots of religious groups out there. In terms of people nearby...Maybe some of the people at the Bizarre. A lot of down on their luck people hang out there. Especially crippled prospectors who can't go out anymore.Spoiler: EEEDD (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Congregation of ED (click to show/hide)Spoiler: STANpool (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things done (click to show/hide)
1) 5% if you stay in the yellow zone, 10% if you go into the orange. He'll go anywhere that isn't the Red zone, and if you get some gang pissed at you, he isn't fighting your battles for you. He'll take valuables worth his cut if needed. He doesn't have high level contacts with the gangs, but he knows some people who could probably at least get you an audience with someone. Have to work your way up from there.Quote2. He says he'd be willing, but he'll need more than a bottle for it. He wants not only payment up front but a cut of any profits you make selling artifacts or info.1) How much are we talking here, and what areas would he be willing to go? And does he have contacts with the major gangs? Also we are here to gather info for our employers, who pays us in omni not megabucks, just so he's aware.
2) If we wanted to get into contact with the smiles so we could arrange for us to have an interview with our person of interest (can you give a name, by the way, for convenience?), how would we go about that in a safe way? Like, any neutral ground we could go to to send out some feelers?
3) Those watches we saw some prospectors wear and use, what are they for, and how do they work? Could we buy one, maybe at the Bizarre?
4) Why would Willow airport be of interest?The EdPC sends a message to Yagyu and Pathos over a private channelQuoteI've got a connection to a Oshimada Heavy Industries autonomous cargo shuttle. A simple thing, basically a big container on a glider someone dropped into the zone. Currently entering the yellow zone, going to the red zone in a couple of minutes.
I might be able to tap into it and use its thrusters to steer it a bit though. Do you want me to try and make it land nearby, or just ignore it?
Reply over private channel:QuoteHmm, it's not exactly part of our missi- ah, company retreat activities, but then again having some more bartering goods would be really convenient to have. Do you think you could reroute it enough so that it would land somewhere nearby?
5) Also ask the guy if there are any areas nearby that are fairly open and flat but that't not really contested or an area of gang activity (aka a good landing place for that cargo shuttle)Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
[1]Quote from: YagyuHmm, it's not exactly part of our missi- ah, company retreat activities, but then again having some more bartering goods would be really convenient to have. Do you think you could reroute it enough so that it would land somewhere nearby?Quote from: EdPCI can certainly try
Try to hack into the flying cargo container and reroute it to land/touch down/crash in someplace close by. Use the location Yagyu provides if the guy he's talking to gives him the location of a good spot. If not, find a spot myself, somewhere relatively close by and away from buildings/people.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
We can hire this man here to act as our guide, but in return he wants a cut out of whatever we earn selling artifacts or info. I think it's definitely worth it, what do you guys think?
Good news: We have a corporate cargo container incoming near the bar. Should be filled with goodies
Bad news: It's currently on a course to land right on top of the bar. I'm going to try and readjust it to crash somewhere further away, but I'm not sure there's time for a course correction.
"Damn it."Burt scratches his head and looks at the map. Hmmm. Well there's a dentistry place up the road a bit. It might have drugs...very expired drugs but drugs.
Look at the map again and see if I can't find any other businesses that might be interesting to loot.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
I'd imagine this hardsuit can read and transmit radio signals? If it'd be a tech roll, try to eavesdrop on their communications, see if anything interesting can be discovered. Otherwise, start heading back to the rest of the team.[3]Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
Ask the bartender if I can have a free drink in return Al offers to do all the dishes.The bartender ignores [404: SHEET MISSING] and runs outside. The mystery man uses this opportunity to carefully reach behind the bar and grab a bottle before nonchalantly wandering out the back.
”Perfect! I propose we head there with swiftness - I sense that my fellow OMNICORP employees are not long from engaging in our uniquely destructive brand of competence, so we’d best be out of the potential blast radius.”[/quote]
To the Bizzare! Avoid the gravity ball and the unintentional cargo bomb as best we can. If we manage to get there without running afoul of something or other, scan for more receptive people. There’s power in numbers, after all!Spoiler: EEEDD (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Congregation of ED (click to show/hide)Spoiler: STANpool (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things done (click to show/hide)
Bored. Hitchhike east.Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
Anya looks at the Anomaly Sensor pointing east, then up at the Doomsphere heading roughly towards the barAnya, with Bob riding piggy back and grumbling happily, sprints off behind the bar and out into the golf course. They make it a good 100 or so feet into the overgrown field before Bob squirms out of her grasp and makes a mad dash into an algae coated water hazard. Anya dives into a sandpit, just in case.
"Hmm, I think I figured out what it's pointing at."
given the Doomsphere is moving along the road, Anya will pocket the detector and head over to the golf course out backSpoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
SAM looks at the man, she looks at what he's trying to do, she notices the sharp whistling from above. Sigh. Well, she honestly tried to be friendly...well she sorta tried but not really. SAM gets up, dusts her goo off and gets ready to leave."I see I'm not welcome here, oh well...didyouknowtheoddsofanavaragepersonbeingcrushedbyagiantobjectare35.12%?crazyrightseeyai'mofftoeatyourfriendsmaybe" she quickly speaks as she bolts through the door.
SAM will get out the bar, run behind the EdPC and watch as the glider delivers justice upon the rude bartender.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"We should probably de-ass the area. Skedaddle. GTFO. Make like a tree and leave."Sam and Edward run back and into the APC, hunkering down just in case the sky should fall and/or people should suddenly become very angry for reasons completely beyond their control.
Get back to the EdPC.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
Quote from: Message from EdPC to entire teamGood news: We have a corporate cargo container incoming near the bar. Should be filled with goodies
Bad news: It's currently on a course to land right on top of the bar. I'm going to try and readjust it to crash somewhere further away, but I'm not sure there's time for a course correction.
Try to make a last second course correction on the drone so that the container crashes somewhere that doesn't currently have a bunch of people. Like the middle of the road or a patch of grass.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
Warn the patrons inside the bar about the doomball so they can evacuate. Even if it doesn't seem on a direct collision course, it's a good cover for should that drone crash into the bar (assuming EdPC informs us of what's about to happen).
Try to see where the doomball is heading and make sure to get out of the way. Or, if it seems to be tracking someone/something, determine what it is. Either way stay out of its path.
If nobody else manages to stop the cargo drone, use the pulse laser to shoot it down (try to hit the drone and not the cargo though).
Tell the guide I'll take a moment to discuss with my teammates before deciding.
Over private tam comms:QuoteWe can hire this man here to act as our guide, but in return he wants a cut out of whatever we earn selling artifacts or info. I think it's definitely worth it, what do you guys think?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Evacuate the bar just in case.[6]Spoiler: Janet Janet (click to show/hide)
Good news everyone, I managed to make a last second course correction so that the container wouldn't fall on top of the bar.
Our UltraPrime package has arrived, courtesy of Oshimada Heavy Industries.
((Um, what happened to the ball of light? Last time I saw it, it broke the limbs off some trees before we cut to the glider arriving. Where is it, what's its apparent trajectory? Have any of you guys tried scanning it with a watch?))Its still moving down the road. About half a block away or so, maybe a bit less. Its not exactly ballistic in speed so I think most people are just walking around it and avoiding debris. Or at least thats their plan~
"EDPC Can you help me with this? I wouldn't mind if you guys could grab some fans as well."
"EDPC Can you help me with this? I wouldn't mind if you guys could grab some fans as well."
"Absolutely not. If you wanna fuck around with some weird anomaly, you'll do it on foot."
Make sure the EdPC stays out of the path of the big weird anomaly ball.
6 foot radius, 12 foot diameter, center hovering about 6 feet above the ground."EDPC Can you help me with this? I wouldn't mind if you guys could grab some fans as well."
"Absolutely not. If you wanna fuck around with some weird anomaly, you'll do it on foot."
Make sure the EdPC stays out of the path of the big weird anomaly ball.
It’s not big, it’s the size of a golf ball and it moves at a jogger’s pace. You guys are overestimating the threat this thing poses. And you don’t have to get in its path. You just have to drive me ahead and drop me off repeatedly. You can park to the side of it as far away as you feel is safe, just as long as I am ahead of it.
Although...
Hold my action until @Piecewise answers this question:
I know the anomaly itself is the size of a golf ball, but how big does its suction radius seem to be? This is a very important question. The answer to this may completely change my action.Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
Head over to where the cargo should be based on the trajectory of decent. If I get there, look around to see who else might be interested.[3]Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
"If there's nothing else you want to do, I suggest we head towards the Bizarre."[4]
Scan the area with my drones, search for where the cargo landed. If found, relay location to team.
See if there are any people willing to pay us in exchange for a ride out of the anomaly's way and to the Bizarre. If we can make money as an armored taxi, why not?
Make sure our ride is out of the way of the anomaly. Preferably move it towards the fallen container so that those looting can get back in quickly. If that's not possible, then move it towards the Bizarre instead.
Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things done this mission (click to show/hide)
Ah drat, no one died, oh well go check out the cargo.Sam, already in the EdPC, just stays there and waits for it to head off towards the sky treasure.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Last thing Al seems to recall was sitting in a bar but for some reason (Alcohol) he finds himself sitting on pavement but shrugs. Probably just stumbled out in his drunken stupor.Al either walks or is dragged, he's not sure, back to the EdPC as people mutter something about treasure and comets.
Wander of and look for something to do.
Meh. I've got little to trade, and rolls are failing, so skim back towards the rest of the team and the loot drop. Maybe Wil can snag something neat.Wilfred makes his way back and notices the EdPC is leaving. He follows it.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
Since nobody objected, tell the guide we’ll hire him.Yagyu hires the guide and the two of them follow most of the team back to the EdPC and off towards the container.
Check where the orb is going, can we maybe divert its path? Or is it just cutting an unobstructed path of destruction?
Go check out the container that dropped.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Lounge safely within the EdPC. Watch as the new culty guy tries to fan the orb. Film the result. For science.Edward yells as the EdPC drives away from his newest viral video chance.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
"EDPC Can you help me with this? I wouldn't mind if you guys could grab some fans as well."
"Absolutely not. If you wanna fuck around with some weird anomaly, you'll do it on foot."
Make sure the EdPC stays out of the path of the big weird anomaly ball.
Assuming I know it, relay the location of the container to my teammates. If most of the team enters the EdPC and the container dropped within comms distance of our current location (in case anyone decides to stay behind), move to where the container landedSpoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
"What the hell was that."
Get my shotgun ready and carefully approach the house at the Cul-De-Sac and see what hit it.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Clearly, this sandpit isn't deep enough, dig a foxhole and make a Berm towards the doomball-side out of the excess sand.Anya, left behind, digs herself a deeper hole to hide in. This proves very frustrating in sand.Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
”Excellent running, lad! We’ll make it there in no time at this rate!”
Continue our afternoon run to the Bizarre. Take the direct route if possible, but avoid any hazards that might present themselves to us.Spoiler: EEEDD (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Congregation of ED (click to show/hide)Spoiler: STANpool (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things done (click to show/hide)
"Don't hire the guy just yet. I want a 100% cut on this one!"
Search one of the old houses for a large cloth. Could be tarp, could be a tablecloth, could be blanket, maybe an old curtain?Regardless, once I acquire my fan, run in front of the ball and start flapping wind at it to try to slow it down. Make sure to step out of the way occasionally whenever the ball gets close. Keep doing this until the ball comes to a standstill. I'm basically doing the opposite of curling."EDPC Can you help me with this? I wouldn't mind if you guys could grab some fans as well."If EDPC agrees to help, have him pick me up and drive me to the ball. I'll get out when I'm in front of the ball, and get in when the ball passes me and I need the vehicle to get ahead of it again.If the ball doesn't seem to be slowing down after a lot of effort-
Screw it! We're doing it regardless!
Throw the cloth at it like one would throw a net. The goal is for the cloth to wrap around and cover the suction ball completely.
EDIT: Observe the cloth ball for few seconds, then shoot a couple of pistol bullets at the thing with the intent of hitting the ball directly, unless the cloth immobilizes or significantly impedes its movement or suction. Based on the data of this experiment, make a guess at the answers to the following questions:
1. Is the glowing ball tangible? Or does matter pass through it?
2. Is this a lootable artifact or just an anomaly? To put it another way, is this thing closer to a vacuum or a hurricane?
3. Does it display any sign of intelligence?
4. Does its path seem predetermined, or is there a way to influence it? Besides rising and falling as the height of the ground changes, have there been any deviations in its horizontal trajectory so far? Any curves or has it been a straight line throughout?
5. Is this the famous unstoppable force?
6. Does the anomaly radiate any heat? Is there any sign that it is electrical in nature?
7. How long has this thing been around and how long will it last? Is it conceivable that this thing can be neutralized (ie. killed)?Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
Investigate ze boxSpoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
"I found the thing first and my touching it caused it to open so I should get first dibs of anything inside it."
Go rip that plastic off the box and find out what's in it.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Go see what's in the boxSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Keep an eye out for anyone trying to steal the box. (Anyone besides our team, that is.)
Also keep an eye out for drones in the air. If this was meant to test new weapons/equipment then there might be drones around to document the results of the test. And they might not be happy that we took it.
Finally scan the nearby network for any info/manual/beacons/data drives related to the equipment. If nothing is found, then use the vast library of KNOWLEDGE my new body provides me with to deduce what the equipment may be.
Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things done this mission (click to show/hide)
Yeah, let's open up the box then and see what it has.
Also, question: can I fire the EdPC shells using the ferromagnetic accelerator? What about things like grenades and such? If yes, how does their damage change compared to what it is normally?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Keep an eye on our surroundings as my teammates check out the container.(The FMA can fire just about anything magnetic that you can pick up. It can fire the shells, though they're likely gonna tumble and not be as sure and reliable as they would be from the cannon. Damage would depend. If they explode then it would be the same. If they tumble and hit sideways and don't explode, will depend on size and weight and speed and then I choose a dice that sounds right. )
Also ping around to see if there are other drones/vehicles flying over or potentially keeping an eye on us.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
*stretches arms*Baldwin does his best to look impressive and cool. Most people don't seem to notice him as they walk back towards the bar. Someone gives him a few claps, but they might have been sarcastic. Hard to say. He assumes they were in awe and returns to the bar, vindicated. He strikes up a conversation with the barkeep.
"And that's how you kill an anomaly"
Baldwin cracks a sly grin and smokes some of his Octarine tobacco while surveying the reaction of the crowd.Spoiler: Last seen in... (click to show/hide)
With the cheeky pose done. Baldwin heads back into the bar and tries to strike up a conversation with the bar keep.
"So I need you to be real with me man, how often do you see shit like this? Here I mean? I don't care about the things you see when you go out exploring.
"Is there anything special that keeps this place from being destroyed or have you just been lucky so far? Cause that thing almost tore through your bar, and don't even get me started on the plane crash! How do prospector's normally deal with these things when they see them, cause it seems like I surprised everyone when I just threw a curtain at the glowing golf ball. But I mean, it worked...didn't it?"
((I'll radio for the EDPC to pick me up eventually. Right now though, I want to gather some information on the anomalies.))Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
Anya wanders back to the bar and sits down on the porch steps, looking out into the darkness. A house somewhere down the road shifts and partially collapses.
Hearing the anomaly explode, Anya walks back through the bar and sits down at the porch.Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)
”Fear not, noble guards, for the only weapon I carry is the faith in my heart! And all of these various blades and guns, but that's a trivial matter.”EEEDD surrenders all his weapons, including the minigun, and gets a little ticket to reclaim them with. They let him and CharliED through and into the Bizarre. Immediately several people move towards them and attempt to sell them things. Compasses, emergency rations, reloaded handgun bullets, wide selections of knives, prostitutes, binoculars, Jellied gasoline in glass jars, warm food, cigarettes, jewelry, a haircut, dental work, and predictions of their future. The merchants swarm and shove their wares and propositions in EEEDD's face, competing for his attention with nervous fervor.
Give up my weapons - those being the ceremonial dagger and the ammo for my minigun. See if I can convince the guards to let me have the minigun without the ammo, seeing as it's technically a religious artifact and I don't really know how to fire it anyway. If they insist, don't make a fuss. Then proceed and see what opportunities might catch my eye!Spoiler: EEEDD (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Congregation of ED (click to show/hide)Spoiler: STANpool (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things done (click to show/hide)
”Well ain’t that neat.
I guess we could get some use out of this, though frankly it seems like a flying deathtrap to me. Maybe best if we just trade it for some anomaly detectors and other supplies at that bazaar. What do ya’ll think? Especially you, EdPC, since you found and diverted it and all.”
”Well ain’t that neat.Yagyu opens the cockpit, prying open the clear shell, and examines the pamphlet. He flips through the pages, leaning down and examining the controls occasionally, matching diagrams to reality. After a few minutes he closes the pamphlet and announces his findings.
I guess we could get some use out of this, though frankly it seems like a flying deathtrap to me. Maybe best if we just trade it for some anomaly detectors and other supplies at that bazaar. What do ya’ll think? Especially you, EdPC, since you found and diverted it and all.”
Check out the info pamphlet, or give to a team member if they want to investigate. Try to get some technical specs, eg. flight time when fully fueled. Also look around for some ferromagnetic ammo (preferably d8 or higher). How much can I carry with me?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
SAM clutched her head, if she had a brain no doubt she'd be hurting right now. "I think one of the cogheads should see what it does first, for all we know it could be a time machine or the world's ugliest piece of modern art."How dangerously vague.
Play around with shapeshifting while cogheads decide what to doSpoiler (click to show/hide)
the Bizarre sounds like a great place for Bob to make mischief. Bob is totally unaware of the opportunity however, and remains contentedly Bobbing in the water trap in the unused golf course. Send spiderbob out to hunt golf balls. Is spiderbob waterproof? does spiderbob have some kind of storage compartment? if not, just collect the balls in the tall grass near the water trap like some kind of cross between a crab and a particlualry clunky squirrel. Oh sure, it might not be very alligatory to hoard items, but we can blame the disparity on the animal-machine interface and it's peculiarities. Or we could blame it on sheer contrariness. That works too.The spiderbob is waterproof. Well water resistant to a certain depth.Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
”Good merchants, you honor us! I see your offers of beneficence and aid and offer you something in return, as servants of the greater good hidden inside all of us. Allow me temporary use of a blade and we shall show you greatness!”[8,5]
Attempt to borrow a knife off of one of the merchants. Use my teeth if none are willing. Do these things:
1. Draw my blood by cutting my palm. Drip it onto the BlessED 888-Ball, which CharliED shall hold and turn in his hands so it becomes fully coated in my vitae. Do other occultish stuff as necessary to invoke the right atmosphere. Just don't mutilate anybody.
2. Gaze into the readout screen of the ball and ask ED to speak his will for these tradespeople through the vessel of my body.
3. Reach deep into my gullet (metaphorically speaking) and attempt to speak with ED's voice. Tell the merchants what the Sacred Name wills of them, whatever that may be.
4. Profit!
((I have no idea if this will actually accomplish anything, but I see an opportunity to potentially incite a frenzied riot and imma take it))Spoiler: EEEDD (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Congregation of ED (click to show/hide)Spoiler: STANpool (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things done (click to show/hide)
"Aw man that isn't as interesting as I was hoping it would be, I was hoping for guns."[1,1v6]
Search the house the thing crashed into and see if the damage shook any loot out of it.Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)
Let someone else fiddle with the thing for now. Load up on EPC and be ready to move out.Ji yawns and heads back to the EdPC.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Meh. Skim towards the crashsite, but stop and before getting in line of sight. Try to hack some drones; can any get a view of prospectors heading to loot the site? Wilfred may know there's no loot there, but the innocent looters carfying loot might not.[8,2]Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
"Thanks for that friend. Here, I want you to have this."[1]
Baldwin grabs a napkin and doodles an architectural design for what seems to be a new bar. The walls are painted a deep blue and decorated with modern-looking rectangle shaped lamps. There is an archaic disco ball hanging above the ceiling. Most importantly though, the floor is made of square glass tiles of various colors, with silhouettes of fish underneath them. It seems like the floor is the roof a giant fish tank.
"If you ever have to start over, I guarantee this design will make your bar the hottest place in town"
With that expensive design done, Baldwin decided to look around for someone who looked tougher, someone who had explored the orange zone and returned. He wanted to hear some war stories, as well as get some info on the kinds of snaps he would expect to encounter there.Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
Continue keeping an eye on our surroundings while the team checks out their kinder egg surprise. Keep an eye out for enemies, drones, radio/other signals, anomalies, etc.[7]Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
((Why wasn't my last post valid for a dice roll?))((You need to post your sheet and bold your actions))
Al follows the others staying relatively quiet but still keeping an eye on his comrades so if they do something stupid and injure themselves he can intervene and assist.
Next stop, the Bizaar. Get on or get left behind.Keep monitoring that convoy while my teammates figure out what they want to do with that flyer.
That backfired, SAM will try to become less phallus and more vaguely phallic alien monster. (https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/6/62/Patriarch.jpg) Oh, and she'll eat the paste that used to be Burt too while at it, she'll try to not eat any stuff of his that's intact tho, whatever that would be, and bring it back to the EdPCFlesh +1Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Look around for any other injured guests, preferably someone who is unconcious and alone with no one paying attention to him. Sneak back into the bar if I have to. Steal their anomly detecting watch.[4]
Then GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE and try to run back to the EDPC, wherever it is. I'm sure my team's got tracking devices or something. Some useful tool to help me find them.Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
Bob will continue ot play with his balls.THIS POST HAS BEEN CENSOREDSpoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
(Damn it.)It did! Remember the CC is constantly copying and updating. Its destruction simply means the last updated version is the one that is used. Meaning you probably don't remember exactly how you died, but likely you will remember the minutes leading up to it.
Did the cognition copier do it's thing if so where am I now?Spoiler: Is finally dead (click to show/hide)
EEEDD waits a moment, letting the effect of being spoken to by a divine being sink in. ”Well? ED hath spoken, merchants. We have need of your sleeping pills."A surprising number of people donate pills to EEEDD. Not everyone, some people just slink away from this magic madman, but others seem to believe. At least to some degree. He ends up with a big bottle (d10 use die) of sleeping pills. [12] He considers what ED could want with these...and then considers something else. He's not sure why he considers it. He's not sure what it means. But he thinks these are protection of a sort.
You heard the divine voice, gimme the sleepy drugs. I’ll continue to follow ED’s will with whatever he wants me to do with them.Spoiler: EEEDD (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Congregation of ED (click to show/hide)Spoiler: STANpool (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things done (click to show/hide)
Al follows the others staying relatively quiet but still keeping an eye on his comrades so if they do something stupid and injure themselves he can intervene and assist to provide medical assistance . In the meantime he whistles a jaunty tune to a shanty his grandpappy used to sing.Al looks at the red smear that used to be Burt and considers, for a moment, giving it CPR. Then Sam comes by and hoovers it up, debris and all. He sniffs, shrugs, and wanders back to the EdPC while whistling a tune. Someone will hurt themselves in a way that he can help with. Sooner or later.Spoiler: Scottish Medic (click to show/hide)
Get unstuck if possible, maybe an enterprising teammate will help out.[6]
If possible, collect the stuff of Burt so he can get it back later, but only if safe to do so.
Then, see if we can stuff the flyer into EdPC without breaking it, if not attach it to the roof and put a tarp or whatever over it.
Finally, ask EdPC to head off to the bizarre, tell people over the radio that we're regrouping there. Maybe try to pass by teammates and/or gators on the way there to pick them up, if they want to of course.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Well. Not the loot I wanted, but it's look. Skim over and grab the drone stuck in a tree, and appropriate it for my own use. Then start skimming towards the Bizarre.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
Wilfred skims over and grabs the drone before heading back. He meets up with the EdPC, already in route to the Bizarre and the two of them head there together. They take a longer route, circling towards the west before rounding back to the east and moving towards the main gate of the complex instead of along its outer fence. The convoy the EdPC is monitoring turns as well, heading east towards the remains of the glider instead of towards the cul-de-sac where the cargo landed. Its a group of Smiles in modified cars. Mostly trucks, plated with scrap metal, mounted guns on a swivel in the back. They're painted all red other than a yellow smiley face somewhere on them. Dozens of men all riding in or on top of the trucks, all armed.Quote from: EdPC to all OMNITECH expeditionary force membersNext stop, the Bizaar. Get on or get left behind.Keep monitoring that convoy while my teammates figure out what they want to do with that flyer.
Once it's strapped to the top of the EdPC or whatever, let everyone one board and head to the Bizaar/Bazaar/whatsitsname. Backtrack for a bit if any of our members still at the bar want to hop on.
While going to the Bazaar, make sure to pick a route to circumvents that convoySpoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
"Well the way I see it, money is power. I think our plan should be to go to the Langford Nature area, loot a bunch of artifacts, sell those things for mad bucks, and just buy the right to speak to our man. I mean, we don't actually need to free him, all we want is an interview. I'm sure we can get that without making an enemy out of these Smiles""The team on nerd interrogation duty will be free to fulfill their objective as they see fit, I suppose that's one way to do it. Though note that our guide hinted they might simply not be up for such offers, and also to stay away from that area because it's quite dangerous."
SAM will use hand signs to gesture she'd be up for interrogating the egghead, oh, and she'll also try to turn into an H.R Giger wet dream creature once again."Ah, hmm. You. I will consider letting you saunter off on this assignment only if you can promise me you won't cause any undue shenanigans. No eating our target, no making needless enemies or calling down unholy bullshit, no intentionally messing up the job. Cause if I hear you went full Akira downtown and we have to come deal with it, we will deal with it rather permanently. Capiche? You can, euh, wobble if you understand."
Quote"Well the way I see it, money is power. I think our plan should be to go to the Langford Nature area, loot a bunch of artifacts, sell those things for mad bucks, and just buy the right to speak to our man. I mean, we don't actually need to free him, all we want is an interview. I'm sure we can get that without making an enemy out of these Smiles""The team on nerd interrogation duty will be free to fulfill their objective as they see fit, I suppose that's one way to do it. Though note that our guide hinted they might simply not be up for such offers, and also to stay away from that area because it's quite dangerous."
"Alright them ladies, listen up. We have a ton of leads to follow up on and I'm not planing on spending my retirement here, so right now I'd like to see if there are any volunteers to go deal with the imprisoned egghead we want to interrogate. I want something between three to five or so people. Your job will be to find that guy, Ernest Bythe Saffron I believe it was, and interview him one way or another to learn more about how this whole mess started. If you would like to follow up on that tell me and we'll get things organized and I'll give you some more info. Note that the nature of this mission will probably call for subterfuge and subtlety more than firepower or ten meters of armored codpiece, but feel free to volunteer either way if you're interested."ey boss, I'll go with the egghead team if needed."
The rest of us will go and investigate that airport, see what that is all about. Either way, we are moving out soonish once the teams are sorted so if you have things to buy here then hop to it!"
"Rip in pieces, Burt. You died as you lived."(oops)
What if any safety features does the flying thing have? Parachute, airbags, ejection seat?
Is there way to secure it to the top of the EdPC without getting in the way of cannons or anything else too much?Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
SAM will use hand signs to gesture she'd be up for interrogating the egghead, oh, and she'll also try to turn into an H.R Giger wet dream creature once again.[1]
Also 1 flesh to STRSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Yes! I think I got a perfect roll on that. I assume I'm in the EDPC now.Baldwin shucks the wallet of its payload and counts it out. 247 Megabucks. Not terrible.
Safely inside the vehicle, examine my loot. Read the paper, count the money in the wallet, etc.
Also ask Piecewise to write a description for the prospector's watch I can copy and paste into my character sheet. I want to know about this thing's features!
As Baldwin counts the money in his hands, he decides to offer his own opinions on the mission.
"Well the way I see it, money is power. I think our plan should be to go to the Langford Nature area, loot a bunch of artifacts, sell those things for mad bucks, and just buy the right to speak to our man. I mean, we don't actually need to free him, all we want is an interview. I'm sure we can get that without making an enemy out of these Smiles"
Truly a capitalist at heart...Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
PLYMOUTH AND OUTER DRIVE, NORTH WEST.
IN THE OLD DIESEL GATE.
ENGINE HEART.Anomaly detectors cost 600 a piece. They vary greatly in appearance and are obviously constructed- at least their outer shells- out of odds and ends. Each is unique.Quote"Well the way I see it, money is power. I think our plan should be to go to the Langford Nature area, loot a bunch of artifacts, sell those things for mad bucks, and just buy the right to speak to our man. I mean, we don't actually need to free him, all we want is an interview. I'm sure we can get that without making an enemy out of these Smiles""The team on nerd interrogation duty will be free to fulfill their objective as they see fit, I suppose that's one way to do it. Though note that our guide hinted they might simply not be up for such offers, and also to stay away from that area because it's quite dangerous."QuoteSAM will use hand signs to gesture she'd be up for interrogating the egghead, oh, and she'll also try to turn into an H.R Giger wet dream creature once again."Ah, hmm. You. I will consider letting you saunter off on this assignment only if you can promise me you won't cause any undue shenanigans. No eating our target, no making needless enemies or calling down unholy bullshit, no intentionally messing up the job. Cause if I hear you went full Akira downtown and we have to come deal with it, we will deal with it rather permanently. Capiche? You can, euh, wobble if you understand."
I would like to buy one (or more if affordable) of those anomaly watches. These are the things I can offer:Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Note, if they complain because my weapons are built-in, then just ask them to have a vendor come outside instead.
Also could I buy some ammo for my ferro thingie? Like just buy some metal poles or some small construction materials that are suitable. How much for some items that are at least d8 in damage? Or d10 if possible/available? I have clean water, kelp and ammo forge conversion service to offer.
Finally, Burt had 12,300 megabucks on him, could we buy some sort of body for him with that here at the bizarre? Or maybe a vehicle he could be uploaded to?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Bob drops his gun and wanders into the bizarre, growling in a...friendly? fashion at all the people he meets. There's a large centrally located water feature in the area and he immediately flops down into it and begins demanding tribute in the form of snacks.SpiderBob will explore the golf course looking for machinery in need of maintenance and/or repair, while Bob continues his soak. Neither is aware of the need to reconvene with teammates, so this may be where Bob is at the end of the mission, assuming a snap doesn't take him.
Since Bob was swept up by the straggler hunters, he'll waddle past the armed guards, chuck his tail gun at tehir collection point, and greet the Bizarre's patrons and their snacks.Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
"I'll go with the interrogation team. I can hack, for now, and kill most things. If you're heading to the airport, we'll have a good balance of heavily armored and armed murderbots."[1]
Wilfred doesn't physically respond when Baldwin knocks on his hardsuit. But oh boy does he verbally respond! "I don't know what you're talking about, but like fucking hell I'm leaving my hardsuit as bait, in this horrible place! You try anything, and I'll personally make sure a dead elder god eats your filthy little cultist balls!"
Fiddle with the corpo observation drone. Can Wilfred hack it into being his own personal scout eye? Preferably without it immediately smashing into a thousand pieces on the nearest rock.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
Just upload me into the EDPC and I'll find a corner to quietly sit in.Done.
Also if I'm in there can I talk to people on my team and is the cognition copier a one use item?
(If my money can be used to buy me a new body go ahead, also if being in the EDPC at the same time as Edward isn't wanted we could just upload me into the laptop I had.)
”I’ll stick with the airport team”They do not appear to be. They are still moving east, towards the crash site of the drone.
See if the smiles are approaching the Bazaar. Load the APC guns that need to be manually loaded if they’re not already.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
"CharliED, my boy, I have had a revelation! These pills will protect us, and the most pressing danger these peoples live under - aside from the spiritual catastrophe of not knowing ED and having misaligned vertebrae - is the anomaly afflicting this fine city. It is clearly ED's intention for us to resolve this crisis! Either that or use the source of the aberration to summon His true form into this fragile reality, but we'll figure that out once we get there."(
Pocket the BlessED sleeping pills and attempt to capitalize on the credibility performing a miracle may have given me to try to attain more converts. The Congregation must grow, and we have spiritual insurance on our side!Spoiler: EEEDD (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Congregation of ED (click to show/hide)Spoiler: STANpool (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things done (click to show/hide)
Oh, Wilfred will see if he can grab some kind of living creature. A random lizard would do. For use with Yagyu's bio tracker thingy.((Bob is a random lizard.))
KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS? TIME TO TRY AGAIN, SAME AS IT EVER, SAME AS IT EVER WAS, SAME AS IT EVER WAS[3]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"What the fuck just happened, why can't I feel anything?"Burt attempts to curl into a ball, but cannot do so as he has no body and is just a mass of data on a hard drive. He speaks out through the internal speakers of the EdPC. Whether anyone responds, I'm not really sure.
Curl into a small ball and be sad until I know what's happening.
"Hey Sam, I found a note that's got directions to a shady meet-up spot. Wanna come with and possibly crack some skulls? We'll probably get some drug money, or possibly even drugs."Camera drones are fairly common, all of them obviously captured and reprogrammed. Most don't even bother to spray over the original markings and so the display racks are a cacophony of corporate colors. Bodyguards are slightly less common; there's no helpful recruiting station but it seems like almost anyone here would be willing and likely able if well compensated. Everyone, aside from the sellers, has that rough and tumble look to them. Very rugged, very potentially homicidal. Artifacts are where things get interesting. There doesn't seem to be a huge market for selling them to people, but there are signs advertising buying artifacts on almost every stall, complete with assurances of best prices. The artifacts that are being sold are generally displayed almost like jewelry: sparse, separated, boxed, and generally tightly guarded by the look of it. Some look like bits of random debris -rocks, bits of metal, polished glass- while others have a more unearthly appearance, like clouds trapped in plastic spheres or what looks like a snowflake the size of a man's hand, constantly shifting between frozen fractal shapes. The one that seems the most interesting is a toy laser gun which appears to have living tissue inside it, peeking out through clear colored plastic and screw holes. Its price is nearly a million megabucks.
"Also, if anyone else wants to come, feel free to join."Head off to the address in the note with my team, assuming I have one.
EDIT: Since nobody wants to join. New action.
Go window shopping. Look for camera drones, bodyguards, as well as artifacts. I'll decide if I'll make a purchase after I see the options and their prices. Also, check if there is a casino.Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
"Yeah yeah yeah, sounds fine to me. I can yell at people. Fuck Derp, last mission I made someone save a security team member's life! Now, which of you fools can fly the drone, and which of you can shoot the gun?"1. Ok. It responds to instructions, though anything very complex and the drone itself will roll to understand. it rolls d6.
I want to make the drone automated. No tech rolls for using it, ideally, because Wilfred will not have tech soon.
Can Wilfred ride in the Silverfish, while wearing his hardsuit? Or would he be too heavy? And what stat is used for flying it? Is it intuitive enough to control that it doesn't need rolls for simple stuff?
And the address Baldwin found. Is it in the direction of Smiles territory, or would it be leading off somewhere random?
Oh, Wilfred will see if he can grab some kind of living creature. A random lizard would do. For use with Yagyu's bio tracker thingy. Maybe grab Bob and toss him over a shoulder, he'd do fine.
((*syvarris looks at the post above his*))
((...))
Wilfred suddenly notices Baldwin waving around a dirty napkin containing a nebulous promise. "Hey, where the fuck are you running off to? We've got a mission!"Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
I want one of those anomaly watches. Costs 600.
Sell my generic sidearm + ammo for 500.
Check how much megabucks i can sell my crap for:
-nutrient paste
-toolkit charge
-medikit charge
-hammer
OMNITECH Omni-eye camera
OMNITECH "Omni-fun" VR System
OMNITECH Laser Trip Sensor
OMNITECH Motion Sensor
OMNITECH Omni-light
OMNITECH Null Rod
OMNITECH Analog Hand
OMNITECH Mental Purgant
Also see if the bazaar is selling any scrap bits of kevlar or other good armour materials. Want to reinforce my armoured space suit and my shield for more protection. Y'know, as their respective modifications.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
-nutrient paste (25)
-toolkit charge (50)
-medikit charge (80)
-hammer (10)
OMNITECH Omni-eye camera (40)
OMNITECH "Omni-fun" VR System (35)
OMNITECH Laser Trip Sensor (60)
OMNITECH Motion Sensor (75)
OMNITECH Omni-light (45)
OMNITECH Null Rod (15)
OMNITECH Analog Hand (30)
OMNITECH Mental Purgant (100)"...and so ED did speak to me in the voice of the Operator's Manual installed in my cerebellum, saying, "Ensure that the patient is weighed down by an assistant or other form of stabilizing weight in order to focus the adjustment entirely on the correct joint." Just as He did adjust my spiritual cognizance into the correct plane, so too shall we seek the center of these urban disturbances and correct it to channel ED's influence! Your lives will no longer be subject to random distortions, snaps, and blasphemies, if you but follow me, and bear the weight of the Sacred Name!"[/quote]
Continue babbling procedurally-generated religious preaching and hopefully finalize the conversion of these four new folks. Then have them spread the word about our forming expedition into the center of Detroit, and promise future Church of ED friendliness if the merchants here aid our endeavor. Maybe see if we can't snag a deal on one of them anomaly watches, eh?Spoiler: EEEDD (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Congregation of ED (click to show/hide)Spoiler: STANpool (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things done (click to show/hide)
See if there happen to be any vehicles for sale at the Bazaar. Cheap cars trucks or atvs or something.[4]Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
1) Sell 3x generic side arm (3*500), the earbuds, jumpsuits and mug (13 bucks). Then buy 2 anomaly watches with that (1200). Put the spare 313 bucks back into the team fund again. The other team (team nerdsnatch?) already has 2 people with such watches so keep both on our team for now (team ghostplane?).
2) Also, if there are still people that don't have a radio, buy a simple send&receive radio using teamfund (sell another set of side arms if needed) if they ask for one.
3) Try to offer the ammo conversion service and/or the good booze in return for some of the metal scrap ammo.
4) Give all relevant info we have to the nerd interrogation team.
5) Then gather stragglers&gators (unless they object), board EdPC and off we go!
Action for EdPC: at the end of the turn, after people are done with their crap, plot a course for the spoopy airfield and off we go! Try to avoid hazards or convoys and such, work together with our guide for this.
((Pan said he won't be able to post actions for a while and if I could take over for a bit, pw approved it already.))Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
((So I just looked at the Interactive Map (https://parisbre56.github.io/detroit_map.html). There's a lot of good info in there actually.[2] Baldwin can understand nothing about the gun other than it contains a fragile darkness.
There are two things that stuck out to me:
1. The university Hospital (ie. the place where our guy is kept), is located next to river. Not directly adjacent to it, but pretty close.
2. The place for my sidequest is pretty far into the orange zone. It is something that can be done later.
As useful as this info is, it's now clear to me that we need more. It would be useful to know things like the layout of the hospital and where our guy is kept, as well as what the security of the Smile's is like deeper into the town. As well as along the river.
With this in mind, here is what I think our next step should be:
Operation: Mile-High Recon
Phase One will involve two us getting in the dragonfly and flying around central Anne Harbour to take in the sights. Our altitude should be high enough such that we will only look like a small dot in the sky. Key things to look out for will include military vehicles, guard patrols, large clusters of Smiles members, anti-air defenses (I don't expect them to have such a things since I expect aircraft to be a very rare occurrence here), training camps, and seemingly safe places to land that are near the hospital. I also have an interest in seeing their farms and how their society is run along the river. And the hospital obviously.
Phase two will involve hacking into their communications and other electronic data stuff. We need as much info as possible. That mean's we're going to need to bring a tech guy on board our flying machine. Do we have anybody like that? In a perfect scenario, we'd be able to hack into some device in the hospital and be able to communicate with our guy directly though that, but I doubt Piecewise will make it that easy. Be on the lookout for any gliders as well.
Now this isn't a complete plan, but hopefully after this we will have everything we need to come up with a proper one.))
Use occult to ponder whether the flesh zapper has any connection to H.E.L.L. Then ask the Artifact vendors about the kinds of people who usually buy such expensive trinkets. They wouldn't set the price so high if no one ever bought them. I want to find out more about them.
Afterwards, buy two parachutes, as well as a pair of high-powered binoculars (Or a high-powered sniper scope). Trade in my fancy airpods.
Actually, let me check if my team already has binoculars or an equivalent.
"Guys, do you have binoculars or an equivalent?"Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
Sell 4 Nutrient Paste. Buy the anomaly watch.Done.
Mosey back to the EdPC, slowly enough that they kinda want to leave without me but just quicklu enough that they don't actually leave without me.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
"Ok, we now have 2 more anomaly detection watches. Do any of you on team ghostplane want one? I'll expect you to be careful with it and to inform your allies when you spot something suspicious."OK.
Action still the same, go check out the airport, be careful going there and stop a ways out so we can observe. Maybe ask the guide if he has any more intel or rumors regarding what is going on there.
Is Yagyu aware that Burt is in EdPC, and can he talk to him? If yes, explain to him what happened.
Can we say then that Yagyu took/found a small sample of Bob for tracking purposes?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Then ask the Artifact vendors about the kinds of people who usually buy such expensive trinkets. They wouldn't set the price so high if no one ever bought them. I want to find out more about them.
"Oh god I'm dead and I'm in the car, oh shit what am I gonna do."
See if there is some way for me to interact with the outside world, that doesn't involve shooting it.
Operation: Mile-High Recon[/b]
Phase One will involve two us getting in the dragonfly and flying around central Anne Harbour to take in the sights. Our altitude should be high enough such that we will only look like a small dot in the sky. Key things to look out for will include military vehicles, guard patrols, large clusters of Smiles members, anti-air defenses (I don't expect them to have such a things since I expect aircraft to be a very rare occurrence here), training camps, and seemingly safe places to land that are near the hospital. I also have an interest in seeing their farms and how their society is run along the river. And the hospital obviously.
Phase two will involve hacking into their communications and other electronic data stuff. We need as much info as possible. That mean's we're going to need to bring a tech guy on board our flying machine. Do we have anybody like that? In a perfect scenario, we'd be able to hack into some device in the hospital and be able to communicate with our guy directly though that, but I doubt Piecewise will make it that easy. Be on the lookout for any gliders as well.
Now this isn't a complete plan, but hopefully after this we will have everything we need to come up with a proper one.))
"Hey, calm down, you'll be ok. We can put your consciousness back into something else if you want some more agency, or you can stay in the APC together with Ed. What would you prefer? ""I guess I'll stay where I am, just having a hard time coming to grips with being killed by a beam, is there any chance for me to get a hold of some kind of body withing the next few days?"
"Hey, calm down, you'll be ok. We can put your consciousness back into something else if you want some more agency, or you can stay in the APC together with Ed. What would you prefer? ""I guess I'll stay where I am, just having a hard time coming to grips with being killed by a beam, is there any chance for me to get a hold of some kind of body withing the next few days?"
((To be clear, the intention was to leave the silverfish with team nerdsnatch, not to leave it on the EdPC. Unless you guys decided you wanted to keep it there for whatever reason. :v ))
EDIT: Regardless, it seems to be night time at the moment so I doubt we'll get that good of a view from the air. We can do recon and hospital rescue after we check out the airport.
"Drones seem to fragile so I guess I'll wait until we find something sturdier.""Hey, calm down, you'll be ok. We can put your consciousness back into something else if you want some more agency, or you can stay in the APC together with Ed. What would you prefer? ""I guess I'll stay where I am, just having a hard time coming to grips with being killed by a beam, is there any chance for me to get a hold of some kind of body withing the next few days?"
"I think we can arrange something, but it'll depend on what you'd like. If one of the corpo drones is good enough that should be easy to get. If you want a more conventional robot body then I heard there might be some around from some of the old factories but we'd have to look around for it."
People buying artifacts tend to be artifact hunters or disaster tourists looking for souvenirs. Occasionally private buyers looking for something specific to carry away quietly, without military knowledge. The price of these things is quite high but not unreasonably so, they say, considering what people will often pay for them. Get your own artifacts out there and you'll make your fortune soon enough.Then ask the Artifact vendors about the kinds of people who usually buy such expensive trinkets. They wouldn't set the price so high if no one ever bought them. I want to find out more about them.
You didn't cover this part of my action. You checked the gun's connection to H.E.L.L, but you didn't interview the merchant.
With no real plan and a lack of essential materials for recon, Baldwin chooses to remain in the EDPC and head with his team towards the airport. Surely he'll be able to find parachutes there! The Silverfish is still mounted on top of the vehicle anyway.
1. In response to the supernatural sight, Baldwin checks his watch for any info. Did it give off any anomalous readings prior to the plane's disappearance? If it didn't then perhaps this isn't an anomaly after all and may instead be honest to goodness ghosts! Surely an occult expert would be able to tell the difference (ie. roll occult to try to determine if these ghosts have any connection to H.E.L.L)
2. Also check the time and the moon phase. Maybe this plane appeared as a result of the clock striking midnight or something like that? Maybe it's a full moon?
3. Look around the area with my newly found binoculars.Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
"Hey Pathos, could you give that area a quick scan with your fancy new peepers and see what you can find?"Scans reveal much of what Baldwin discovered, with two additions. First, a general very low level of electrical charge seems to be hanging over the entire area. The sort you'd expect during a lightning storm: nothing concentrated just sort of everywhere. Second, and this only seemed to occur during the event, the biorhythm sensor seems to be picking up interference of some kind. It displays a slowly throbbing pulse in the 5 or 6 Hz range and nothing else. No localization, no focus, just all around.
Keep one of the wristwatches for now since nobody on our team asked for one yet. Use it, and the environment scanner, to try and get more information on what is going on there. Also try turning on the biorhythm tracker to see if it picks up on anything.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Oh god I'm dead and I'm in the car, oh shit what am I gonna do."
See if there is some way for me to interact with the outside world, that doesn't involve shooting it.
Consider[2]Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
Comb the net to see if there’s any info about the airport anomaly at all.[?]Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Yes. And Ok.Operation: Mile-High Recon[/b]
Phase One will involve two us getting in the dragonfly and flying around central Anne Harbour to take in the sights. Our altitude should be high enough such that we will only look like a small dot in the sky. Key things to look out for will include military vehicles, guard patrols, large clusters of Smiles members, anti-air defenses (I don't expect them to have such a things since I expect aircraft to be a very rare occurrence here), training camps, and seemingly safe places to land that are near the hospital. I also have an interest in seeing their farms and how their society is run along the river. And the hospital obviously.
Phase two will involve hacking into their communications and other electronic data stuff. We need as much info as possible. That mean's we're going to need to bring a tech guy on board our flying machine. Do we have anybody like that? In a perfect scenario, we'd be able to hack into some device in the hospital and be able to communicate with our guy directly though that, but I doubt Piecewise will make it that easy. Be on the lookout for any gliders as well.
Now this isn't a complete plan, but hopefully after this we will have everything we need to come up with a proper one.))
((This is a good plan, and Wilfred has the tech to try hacking. It sounds like he can be carried as cargo in the silverfish, and the hardsuit doesn't need a parachute due to possessing jump jets. Unfortunately, you seem to have decided to leave with the airport team, so... ::) ))
"Ugh, alright. I can't fit in that thing to fly it, so whichever two of you chucklefucks decide you want to help scout, fly it over towards the hospital once you're ready. We'll rendezvous by radio."
Does the hardsuit have built-in binocular abilities? Oh, and snag the second anomaly detection watch from Yagyu before he leaves.
Start skimming towards the hospital, by way of M14. Keep an eye on the anomaly watch, and scan for radio signals of any kind. Basically just keep alert for danger while traveling.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
"I didn't major in no tech shit, so I guess I'm just gonna cling to ya Wilfried Chicken. When we get to the hospital do you'll think they'll have any bodies in there? I'm starving man."
SAM will jump on top of Wilfred's head like a cat, a horse-sized chitinous swiss wet dream cat, but a cat nonetheless. a cat who doesn't want to walk while there's a perfectly good clanker around to carry herSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Consider whether my guns can shoot ghosts or not.[3]Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
See if I can detect anything strange with my anomaly watch. Try to film a ghosty plane and examine the footage. Try to use motion detector on a ghosty plane or some other moving ghosty object and see if it detects.We'll assume you tired this when it first happened because its not happing now and it won't happen again for [Unknown] hours.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
"Well damn, I guess I'll just sit here and think happy thoughts, wonder if I could borrow the Pushbot at some point in the future?"Burt does have access to all the car's cameras and capacities, assuming the dominant force of the EdPC doesn't slap his ghostly hands away. [4] He does a quick search using the EdPC's internet, trying to find out more info about this place.
Sit and see if I can learn anything while being stuck inside the car.
Those standard kit flares, can I shoot them using the ferromagnetic accelerator (and without damaging it)?Yagyu tests if he can fire a flare. The answer is "Sort of". The flare does have usable magnetic metal inside it, but not very much. Firing it any real distance would be difficult without tearing it apart. However, there is an alternative. He finds a rock that he thinks is roughly the weight of the flare and gives it a hard toss. [8] It is hard to tell where it goes, but the arc it takes while still visible is promising. So he lights a flare and hurls it out into the airport. The flare tumbles through the night and [5] lands squarely atop the rusted hulk of the airplane that seemed to have just landed, illuminating it and everything nearby. The EdPC turns its spotlight around and uses it to illuminate a strip between the flickering red island of flare light and the road they're currently standing on.
If yes, then light one and shoot it over the airfield to illuminate it and take a better look at what is going on. Do this a few times if needed to get a good illumination, we have quite a few spare flares. I’m willing to get a little closer to take the shot if needed (dunno what the range is on this weapon) but don’t get onto the airport itself.
Once illuminated, take a closer look at what is going on. Use scanner to gather more information.
EdPC: use the main gun to fire a flare round if Yagyu’s plan fails or doesn’t illuminate properly. Also use the SPOT! light if it helps. Since currently a regular round is loaded, have pushbot unload it, load in a flare, then reload after shooting the flare (assuming thid wouldn't 'waste' the regular shell, if it would then disregard for now).
"If one of you could send in a drone of sorts to take a closer look, that'd be nice. If not we can shoot one using EdPC but those are in short supply."Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Those rusty airplanes ain't gonna buff themselves. Waddle into the darkness. Keep an eye out for equipment in need of repair, especially facilities related stuff like plumbing, electrical lines, etc. Also, keep an eye out for BIG SNACK. They seem to like the darkness.Bob, fearless as ever, waddles forward and immediately tumbles down the grassy embankment. He rights himself at the bottom with slow and laborious dignity and then scrambles out as the flare flies in over his head and illuminates the area. He reaches the outer chain-link fence [6] and bashes straight through with complete abandon, knocking it over with his prodigious scaly girth. He scrambles across the overgrown yard and onto the concrete, slither running across the vast expanse of industrial nothing until he reaches the main building. Nothing seems to happen out of the ordinary.Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
"Well, that's all I have time for here. I have another engagement to head towards unless someone here wants to fly the silverfish in my place."
Baldwin radios to Wilfred and agrees on a rendezvous point a safe distance from smile's territory. He then takes the silverfish and flies it so he can pick up Wilfred. (Sam too if there is space for her).They will fly high into the sky and try to obtain a bird's eye view of the area. Focus on these targets in particular:Spoiler: Targets (click to show/hide)
EDIT: Wilfred will then drop him off at the airport
"So to tell you the truth Will, I think the guys at the airport need someone with my set of skills. This thing isn't too hard to fly, so do you think Sam can pilot it in my place? She can drop me off and then it will just be the two of you."Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
((Quick post, not sure what to do yet. Will almost certainly edit.))
"Hey, we've ran into a Smiles barricade. Armored vehicles, infantry, a lot of them. Apparently these guys have an entire working power grid! But we're not getting in there unnoticed unless we fly. Maybe not even then."
Zoom in on the infantry. What level of armament do they have? Anything that looks dangerous to my hardsuit? Rockets, explosives, etc? How good is their equipment besides; do they have real armor? Night vision equipment?
Edit: After sizing up the smiles, give them a friendly little wave then just leave and go back the way we came. Find an area to rendezvous with Baldwin in the Silverfish, and have it pick Wilfred up (still in his hardsuit, as cargo) while SAM flies. Plan is to drop off Baldwin with the airport team, then head back to Smiles territory. Fly in from the north side, though.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
"That's a whole lot of smiles Willfrederick, kinda wishing we brought Pathos or Wagyu Steak here."Sam and Wilfred both examine their would be targets. They appear to mostly be young men, late teens and early to mid twenties, with a few older men in what seem like leadership positions among the groups. Most are wearing normal street clothing, usually without even so much as a helmet for protection, but a few are in vests and one -a gunner in the back of a truck, is wearing what looks like a bomb disposal tech's suit complete with huge ballistic collar. As per weapons, those are highly varied. Most seem to have a rifle at least, often times with multiple hand guns secured around their person as well. There are two RPGs that they can see, along with the previously mention truck which looks like it has a mounted laser with giant battery packs filling most of the truck bed around it. The majority of their arms are beneath the notice of the hardsuit...but a few in there could be trouble. And that's only what's visible.
SAM will use her medical knowledge to ascertain the state of the Smiles. Are they a half-starved militia of child soldiers? An army of elite superman? Or maybe something in between like a regiment of scurvy riddled young adults.
EDIT: Guess SAM will pilot the thing, evolve some wings or gliders in case she fails at that and needs to bail.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
snippety
Contemplate the logo and see if I can't figure out what it means, if that fails use the internet.[5] Burt remembers the logo from the briefing, though it only appeared for a moment. Its the logo of The Neo-Detroit Institute of Human Advancement.
"Did you see any mechs? Supposedly our guy is their mech specialist so there should be a few walking around. Don't forget part two of the plan (ie. hack random shit). With an army like this, it seems like subterfuge is mandatory. Maybe we can transfer Burt's consciousness into some key piece of infrastructure and sabotage it? Someone is going to have to repair it. If we're really lucky, we can upload Burt into one of their own mechs and attempt the first plan."
Assist Yagyu on his anomaly ponderings. Accompany him to the hangar. Keep a decent distance from anything that my watch may detect.
"So what exactly are we trying to do here? Find an artifact?"Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
"Hey Burt, if you can't find out what that logo means maybe you can ask command to look into it? Run a background check and all that."[9] Its more of a guess or gut feeling, but Yagyu feels like these events will likely recur on a semi-regular basis. However, the stories about this place only seem to state that this happens during the night, so chances are it will have a "window" somewhere between sunset and sunrise where it occurs. How many times it occurs he's not sure. Again, another guess, but maybe every 90 minutes or something similar? Signs of starting would likely be transient or weak double exposure phenomena which then strengthens into the full event.
"Alright gang, let's look around for clues and see what's up. Try not to break anything before we know what it might mean, and I suggest you stay on your guard and be ready to leave the airport grounds when the next ghostplane event triggers. I dunno what would happen if we interact with the temporal echo, but I for one am not yet ready to find out first hand before we know more."
By putting together this recent event and past observations of ghostplane, try to figure out when the next occurrence will be, or what conditions trigger an event. Or at least if there is some sort of warning we can look out for before it really starts.
Leave EdPC at the edge of the anomalous zone and go in. Try to use the hole Bob made (or go through where the fence is down) and for now try not to touch or disturb too many things, just take a closer look at the areas of interest. Give flares to teammates if they want some, and use some myself to light the way. Also use scanner to gather extra info.
Note, if you want me to choose a thing to investigate first, then start with the hangar (Bob has the plane covered for now I guess, lol).snippety
((Damn, I laughed at this one, nice. :D ))Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Plan Atomic Man Airplane Renovation go! First, waddle around and find as many cinder blocks as I can to prop the plane on, New Detroit style. Then, if i have time this turn, waddle into the hangars and find any and all spare landing gear and supplies i can get my teeth and tentacles on and haul them out to the wreckage. Then locate the damaged parts of the plane's landing gear and remove them, whether via tentacle or spiderbot (well, if the spiderbot is needed, I guess it will be next turn since I can only use one body per turn). It's okay if I only get through part of this action this turn. Can't rush a good renovation.[5]Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
"Alright, I have bad news. The Smiles are not your run of the mill gang, we're more of a gang than them. This place looks like a fucking military base, and they have an entire power grid fuelled by the local dam. It's a helluva thing, fuck Derp. Long story short, I don't see us fighting our way in and out without a lot more firepower. We'd have a helluva time finding our guy, even then. Infiltration might work, I do have a horrifying sexflesh abomination here with me, but even that would be a long shot. Our best chance would be attacking their dam, shutting down power somehow, then trying to find our scientist in the confusion. And that'd require precision, teamwork, and competence--great weaknesses of ours."Wilfred has Sam take the Silverfish back a bit and down into the trees on the other side of the river, just so no one catches sight of their fat chrome plated ass as they hang around attempting to hack into the hospital's systems.
Wilfred sighs heavily over the radio. "We might have to resort to diplomacy."
Start scanning for wireless signals. Do these people have anything like a local net? Something that could be hacked into and searched for information on our target?Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
"That does it, someone tell Pathos to get his Daemons in there. Once everything goes to shit we get in, grab the nerd and get out."
"It turns out the logo on the plane is for that institute of human advancement thing, not sure if that helps or anything but we should at least search the plane."
See if I can find anything else on the internet that'll help the situation.
(If you guys want to use my shield generator to power the plane's computers go a head, but please be careful with it as it was expensive.)
”If you guys are planning to knock out the Smiles’s power, do you think it might be smart to let the military know, incase they want to take advantage of the situation? It could earn us some brownie points with them.”
Keep an eye out for any airport vehicles. Like a baggage tug or airplane tug or broom truck or de-icing rig or motorized stairs or something. Should be some of those around, if they haven't completely rusted away to nothing.[6]Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
"It turns out the logo on the plane is for that institute of human advancement thing, not sure if that helps or anything but we should at least search the plane."[5] Burt searches around for something to correlate with the strange oscillation that Yagyu was picking up. He finds that the Hz of that oscillation matches with the Hz of human theta brain waves.
See if I can find anything else on the internet that'll help the situation.
”If you guys are planning to knock out the Smiles’s power, do you think it might be smart to let the military know, incase they want to take advantage of the situation? It could earn us some brownie points with them.”Because ghosts have, somewhat recently, become a demonstrable and occasionally homicidal phenomena there is actually a great deal of information. The quality of that information seems...variable though. [2] Ji has a hard time figuring out what is the correct information and what is bullshit. A lot of it contradicts. The best she can figure is that "occult" objects are needed.
Search online for ways to kill ghostsSpoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
locate a functional battery of sufficient size to power the computer in the plane. Drag said battery to the plane. Attach battery to plane. Ignore battery's protests.[4]Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
"If I'm going to be honest with you guys, taking the intranet down seems unnecessary. To me, it makes more sense to jack someone in there and have them access their system.
"Who knows what kind of stuff we'll find in the there. Could be blueprints, could be accounting reports, could be employee dossiers, info I'm sure some rival gang would be interested in purchasing. Besides paydata though, I imagine that jacking in will give us access to the security system which should at the very least allow us to pinpoint the exact location of our guy, though I'm sure you'll be able to do much more with it if you're creative enough. Especially if they have security robots.
"If we had access, we'd be probably be able to shut it down as well."
Assist Yagyu on his anomaly ponderings again.Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
Set a timer, make sure to be aware of when another event is getting closer to occurring (have plenty of leeway in case Yagyu's estimate if off). Warn peeps when it gets near.Ok.
Send the flight record to EdPC so he can try to decode it (unless he objects or there's a chance for ghostly contamination). Again though try to minimally disturb the environment for now.
For the plane computers, could we maybe hook it up to Burt's shield generator to provide power? It'd only need to power it for a little bit, we'd just want to download whatever flight data of black box info there is in there. Either way, also look around to see if there isn't some sort of battery lying around we could use (I think we'd rather not hook up our suits or EdPC in case of ghostly contamination).
(actually, I don't think we'd even need power to get to the black box data? Just hook it up and download it, supposing we can locate it?)
Can Yagyu intuit anything about what would happen if we eg. move crates around, would this interfere with the echo in some dangerous way? What about being in the airport when it triggers?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Hey Yagyu you know that weird thing you were picking up is the same Hz as human theta brain waves."
"Hey Yagyu you know that weird thing you were picking up is the same Hz as human theta brain waves."[4]
Keep looking on the internet for any additional info on that institute of human advancement.
Well, might as well loot. Look around for anything that might be sellable at the Bazaar. Check the hangar and the offices.[3]Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
"Alright, I'm low on ideas here. The way I see it, we need some way to contact the scientist, which we might need to get into their intranet to do. To get into the intranet, we either need to send some kinda vulnerable drone in, send a vulnerable team member in, or bribe someone local to give us access. I'm not good at the whole "ambassador" thing, myself, unless it involves shooting and or hitting Xenos. And I ain't waltzing into this place without artillery support. So... yeah. Not sure what else to do, though maybe I can get one of these camera drones in."Anything which could physically connect to the wires of the intranet would be able to broadcast from it. That is the inherent issue though: getthing to those wires. Theres no map as to where they run (at least none in the data being accessed here, maybe old hospital construction records would say) but Wilred knows from the information intercepted on the public network that they do run though the tunnel network under the buildings. Those tunnels had all sorts of uses in the old hospital and are, from descripitions of them in conversations, now mostly used for storage and generally not patrolled or inhabited. The most effective means of reaching the intranet seems to be accessing those tunnels and then finding one of the cables down there. Blueprints of the hospital would be useful, as well as knowledge of any outside connections they had, like to sewer lines or maybe drainage into the river. Digging into the tunnels is another option, though obviously not as easy or potentially covert.
Would a hacked camera drone be able to connect to their intranet, if it flew up and got a physical connection? Or maybe someone or other might connect a wireless device to it, which we could remotely connect through? Ponder our options here; I'd like some way to get into their network without marching inside the compound.
Also, you know what, ask OMNIcorp for information on the scientist's old email address and whatnot. I mean, people apparently have internet access, so maybe we can just send him a text saying "yo wassup?"Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
Go read the data that Bob just unlocked, make a copy to my computing cube if possible. Maybe cross-correlate the findings with whatever EdPC gleans from the flight record.
Then go check out the other two planes and see if they have any secrets to divulge. If nothing of interest here, give those crates a scan.
EdPC in case of no post: check out flight record and see what's up."Hey Yagyu you know that weird thing you were picking up is the same Hz as human theta brain waves."
"That's weird but good to know, thanks. Hmm, theta waves are associated with sleeping. I swear, if all that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream I am going to be so pissed."Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
The other planes reveal similar things on their recorders and data logs. The crates contain carefully packaged and sealed electronic components: huge circuit boards and wrapped in milky plastic and held in custom fitted foam. They have numbers and designations connected to them but their purpose isn't readily conprehensible.Send pics of these to command, maybe they can make some more sense out of what these could have been used for.
However, there is one final package that he finds aboard the "Ghost" plane that Bob restored. it was tucked in a corner of the cargo hold, apparently forgotten. Its only about the size of a large suitcase but is excessively robust and densely armored. Unlike the other metal crates this one is locked tight. [2] Yagyu isn't sure what the password for it would be either.
Keep searching through the internet looking at any info from before the disaster, like what they were doing and such.[4] Inquiry in this way about this subject seems to be reaching the end of its usefulness, but you do find out that, according to a source within the aquisitions department, there was a large supply of lithium ordered for the project.
Chill in the driver's seat of the aircraft tug. Just chill. Wait for someone to be done with the thing's battery.
Check if it has enough computery goodness to hold Burt. We could always use a BurtPC to match the EdPC.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
See if I can find out where the institute’s operations in the airport were located. Maybe an office or a shipping dock, or a secret bunker or something. They have to have had infrastructure to move things from the airport to the lab.[3]After that’s done, search the planes for valuables, then help load crates of electronics onto the EPC
Leave my boxes of stuff with the other crates for nowSpoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Remain in plane.BOB
Await fate.
Anticipate Big Snack.Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
”The real question to ask right now is if we should leave someone inside the airport while the shift happens or if we should make sure to exit the place first. My money’s on the former.[5]
“Actually, No, there’s an easy way to find out if it’s safe or not. Let’s just go find a squirrel, or a snail or something and see what happens to it!”
Go outside the airport and start looking for small defenceless animals. Digging for worms/grubs/beatles is an option as well. Put them in a universal containment pod and then leave it somewhere in the airport
Also, ponder if the pass-locked briefcase may be the cause of these time-warping shenanigans. I mean there had to have been something in this airport to cause it.Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
Yagyu uploads the pics to the Omniscient network.QuoteThe other planes reveal similar things on their recorders and data logs. The crates contain carefully packaged and sealed electronic components: huge circuit boards and wrapped in milky plastic and held in custom fitted foam. They have numbers and designations connected to them but their purpose isn't readily conprehensible.Send pics of these to command, maybe they can make some more sense out of what these could have been used for.QuoteHowever, there is one final package that he finds aboard the "Ghost" plane that Bob restored. it was tucked in a corner of the cargo hold, apparently forgotten. Its only about the size of a large suitcase but is excessively robust and densely armored. Unlike the other metal crates this one is locked tight. [2] Yagyu isn't sure what the password for it would be either.
Does it seem like the electronic lock could be hacked? If yes, hook it up to EdPC and see if he can do something. If not, does it seem like we could just pick the lock? What roll would this require?
If also not, could I cut/break open the lock/briefcase in a bout of handiwork without damaging what's inside? Does it look like the briefcase might have anti-tampering measures or that it might destroy what's inside when not opened properly?
"I think we'll want to wait with loading these crates into EdPC until we know for sure what happens to them during a ghostplane event.
Also, I think we have a few building left to explore as well, so let's not leave quite yet."
Let's hold off on loading the crates into EdPC for now, just in case. Instead, leave one a few meters away from where we found it (but still on the airport grounds), and leave one just outside of the airport grounds (but with line of sight of the place we found it if possible). In case the behavior is different when the crate leaves the anomalous area.
Finally, we still had some building we haven't explored yet, right? Or were they part of what we looked through already?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
[2] Hacking the lock seems like a viable strategy so Yagyu wirelessly connects the EdPC to it. If only the team had some sort of dedicated computer hacking member. Maybe one in a super powerful robotic body or something . Oh well.Can we turn this hypothetical team member into a fancy paperweight? What about a novelty scarecrow?
[7] When the clever way fails, Yagyu moves on to the crafty way. He checks the box over for any tampering countermeasures and carefully disconnects the thermite bomb attached near the rear hinges. That done, he severs the lock with a bit of careful laser application and lifts the lid. Within the box is a layer of protective foam, a shrink wrapped capsule, more foam in side that, and finally a metal tube. He twists an endcap off that and pulls out a rack of what look like thick slices of glass. These miniture slabs are about 6 inches tall and 4 wide and 2 thick, perfectly clear except for a sort glittery haze. That haze seems most dense in the center and fades out towards the edges. Closer examination reveals the haze to actually be a massively complex network of golden wires each several times thinner than a human hair. The slabs are featureless except for a small alphanumeric code inscribed on one face.
Yagyu's alarm goes off.
Hold it right there Piecewise! I wanna know the precise nature of the alarm before I act!((Pretty sure this is the alarm for when the ghost plane event will likely happen. The weird storm is a bit unpredictable, but is supposedly preceded by some pretty noticeable phenomena.
Is this the alarm that goes off right before a "burst", or whatever it was called, that weird storm thingy?
Preparing chompers.Bob, sitting in the cockpit of the plane, settles in to wait. His robot spidercat begins clapping with its front legs for some reason.
They are ready to bite.
Big Snack incoming.
I don't know if the spiderbot has a Haiku appreciation function, but if it does, I am sure it is quite pleased with that little bit of poetry.Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
Does Ed's alarm also go off, or just Yagyu's?The alarm going off is Yagyu's alarm for what he THINKS is the rough time the double exposure will begin again.
If no alarm, snooze a lil bit in the driver seat.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
Beat feet back to the EPC. If there’s time, punch the address into the net to see where exactly in Detroit it is.Ji runs back to the EdPC. As per where that thing is...ask me on monday when I can access my pc and not have to try and navigate the map with my phone.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
"Does anyone care if those people we're looking for bought a bunch of lithium, because I have no idea if it helps us or not."[3] A quick search reveals only that there were companies in ann arbor using robots. Finding exact addresses proves impossible for the moment.
Search the internet for any business around our current location that had robots that are potentially capable of holding my mind.
De-assing the area with the quickness.Hold it right there Piecewise! I wanna know the precise nature of the alarm before I act!
Is this the alarm that goes off right before a "burst", or whatever it was called, that weird storm thingy?
EDIT:
Get out of the airport and follow YagyuSpoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
"Hey Burt, after we're done with this, perhaps we can first look around for a body for you so you can be more active again. Could you perhaps look around a bit online to see where exactly we would have a good chance of finding you one? If you still want one, of course.(yes, pulse laser, but we'll assume you lowered the intensity enough to do it carefully and as such it doesn't need to recharge)
Nice find, Ji, guess we have another lead now."Quote[2] Hacking the lock seems like a viable strategy so Yagyu wirelessly connects the EdPC to it. If only the team had some sort of dedicated computer hacking member. Maybe one in a super powerful robotic body or something . Oh well.Can we turn this hypothetical team member into a fancy paperweight? What about a novelty scarecrow?Quote[7] When the clever way fails, Yagyu moves on to the crafty way. He checks the box over for any tampering countermeasures and carefully disconnects the thermite bomb attached near the rear hinges. That done, he severs the lock with a bit of careful laser application and lifts the lid. Within the box is a layer of protective foam, a shrink wrapped capsule, more foam in side that, and finally a metal tube. He twists an endcap off that and pulls out a rack of what look like thick slices of glass. These miniture slabs are about 6 inches tall and 4 wide and 2 thick, perfectly clear except for a sort glittery haze. That haze seems most dense in the center and fades out towards the edges. Closer examination reveals the haze to actually be a massively complex network of golden wires each several times thinner than a human hair. The slabs are featureless except for a small alphanumeric code inscribed on one face.
The laser used for this, was it the pulse laser?
Take some representative close-up pictures and upload them to command. Then close the box again carefully with the samples properly stored inside.QuoteYagyu's alarm goes off.
"Welp, that's our cue."
Retreat to just outside the airport. On the way there spread around some more flares so we'll definitely be able to see everything going on. Leave the box with samples at the spot we originally found it for now until we know what happens to these things during an event (we have the 2 other crates to see how they respond).
During the event, observe what happens. And what happens to Bob (be sure to tag him with the biorhythm tracker).Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Alrighty, fuck it. I got no more mundane ideas, so let's lean on the arcane.[3] The best Will can manage to summon up is the ghost of a large rat. However, that rat does seem to know of an entrance into the tunnels, through the sewers. And it can guide Wilfried there.
Summon up some ghostie friends. Tell them to find access into the tunnels beneath the hospital. Let's see what they can dig up.
...Also, I'm switching Wilfred's D8 in melee into guns. Roll for consequences, I guess?Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
((Don't wanna rain on anyone's parade, but remember we don't know what Bob saw or what happened to him, and he's not the kind of character where we could just assume he'd share his info with the team automatically.))
"Not really getting any solid leads on finding a new body, not having much hope of finding an industrial robot to use so I'm gonna try something a little different."[3] There's a "Mr. Frog's Pizza Steamboat" in town...but its pretty far north. Past the Smiles territory.
Search the interned for any nearby places that had an animatronic band.
Search the plane for big snack. that faceless guy probably had one on him, so start looking back where he was.[4] By some kind of sheer stupid and insane luck Bob just happens to find a whole, only slightly rotten, racoon in the back of the plane. He happily snacks on it, and rats and kelp, while other members of the team look him and his robo-pal over.
Bob's fine with a competent teammate examining spiderbot's records. Bob knows which are competent at tech and which are not. Non competents will get eaten if they try anything.
...
Bob will accept the rat and kelp (preferably in ratkelp sandwich form) and not fuss too much when people board the plane and start examining him.Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
((Don't wanna rain on anyone's parade, but remember we don't know what Bob saw or what happened to him, and he's not the kind of character where we could just assume he'd share his info with the team automatically.))1. Most in the airport returned to their spots, but not all. All those outside the airport did not move.
Did the boxes inside and outside the airport respond differently to the event?
If it seems like the box with samples (or just the samples inside) could successfully be taken without them disappearing during the next event, take them. Also take the crates with those computer parts.
Give Bob a scan to see if he's now radioactive or anomalous or something. Also wave the anomaly watch over him a few times. Use some of the kelp to distract him so he doesn't waddle around while we examine him.
Question, was spiderbot with Bob at the time of the event? If yes, does spiderbot keep any sort of logs or video storage? If yes again, could we tap into that to see what was going on inside the plane? If yes, motion to Bob in a "may I?" way, and if no angry chomping forthcoming, download the spiderbot's data to my computing cube and take a look.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Collect myJi gathers her "Treasures" and helps load the crates.trashloot and help load crates.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
1. Thats easy.((Don't wanna rain on anyone's parade, but remember we don't know what Bob saw or what happened to him, and he's not the kind of character where we could just assume he'd share his info with the team automatically.))
Ok. Let me repharase everything in a way that isn't meta.
"Seeing that it seems like living animals can enter the anomaly without dying, lets now try an experiment to see if it's possible to actually change the past. I volunteer myself for the position.
I assume this flight has an entry in the log. Probably the most recent one. Can someone check it for me? There were probably some people on the plane. I wonder if we could try talking to them? We won't know the answers until we try"
Step 1: Feed the rat to Bob.
Step 2: Check the flight log for the most recent date. Look up the winning lottery numbers for the jackpot for that date. Write it down a in massive font on a sheet of paper (stored in my idea tube).
Step 3: Wait inside the airplane for the next time warp. Look around and try to see if there are any people on this plane. If there are, look for the person who seems the most responsive.
Step 4: Ask them if they believe time travel is possible. Then tell them the winning lottery numbers and show him the paper. Do my best to persuade them to try for the jackpot. When I come back, check if the lottery winner has changed. If this works, we should have a new name and a face.
Plan B: If they are completely unresponsive, slash that person with my occult knife (try to maim their hands ie. sever some fingers). If that fails, carve the lottery numbers onto a seat cushion right in front of him.Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
Wonderful! I don't plan to make any more swaps, so that's fine.
Have the helpful rat ghost lead Wil to the sewers. The fleshorror can follow, at their discretion.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Oh yeah gotta track accomplishments (click to show/hide)
"Okie dokie, let's get this sewer bread!"The rat leads them north, away from the hospital and the river. Eventually it leads them to a drainage ditch which leads to a grate covered tunnel. The tunnel is only about 5 feet tall; large enough for a person to walk through while hunched over but too small for Wilfred's giant metal ass to get trough...except maybe on his stomach.
Follow Will along into the stink zoneSpoiler (click to show/hide)
"Well I think this is my cue, just keep watch so no one throws a grenade at this thing while inside it. Or maybe try using your ghost powers to lose 50 pounds or something,"
Slither and sneak through the tunnel and into the unknownSpoiler (click to show/hide)
"Hey, hey! You can't go in alone! I need to get a physical connection to the hospital. Here, take this."
Wilfred will give SAM his hacked corpo observation drone. Considering it normally transmits a video feed outside of the entire zone, I expect Wilfred will be able to connect to it from outside the tunnels.
Otherwise, rip a hole in the grating if necessary for SAM/the drone to fit inside, then guard the entrance for a bit while they head in.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Oh yeah gotta track accomplishments (click to show/hide)
"Oh yeah, nice catch!"
You said there were private hangars here, right? Try to find some private planes/hangars, or barring that, a passenger luggage/lost and found area and search for valuables that might have been left in any of those areas.The private hangers, there are three, contain two small airplanes, along with some pretty nice tool chests and tools. Or at least they were probably pretty nice, they're badly rusted now. The craft aren't in much better shape. There doesn't seem to be much around worth the effort of carrying it back. [6] Except of course, for something odd sitting on the wing of one of the planes. It looks like a golden mushroom, but is growing straight out of the metal of the plane itself, partially dissolving it in the process. The mushroom itself glitters quite brightly and appears like it might be made out of metal itself.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Any buildings or areas of interest we didn't check yet? If yes check them.
If not wait for the next anomalous event inside the plane (assuming Yagyu fits with this body). Try to get close to our mystery person of interest and record his conversations and try to learn who he is, or at least some identifying info.
Let teammates test tings out as they please, but do try to stop them from attacking any ghosts though if Yagyu spots it in time.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Keep doing what I was planning on doing. Nothing's changed. I'm attacking the ghost (once all other options have failed) because my knife is literally magic and may be the only thing that works (it probably won't work anyway). I'd like to check the hospital records for the injuries I inflicted. We'll get a name and face that way.Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
((Don't wanna rain on anyone's parade, but remember we don't know what Bob saw or what happened to him, and he's not the kind of character where we could just assume he'd share his info with the team automatically.))
Ok. Let me repharase everything in a way that isn't meta.
"Seeing that it seems like living animals can enter the anomaly without dying, lets now try an experiment to see if it's possible to actually change the past. I volunteer myself for the position.
I assume this flight has an entry in the log. Probably the most recent one. Can someone check it for me? There were probably some people on the plane. I wonder if we could try talking to them? We won't know the answers until we try"
Step 1: Feed the rat to Bob.
Step 2: Check the flight log for the most recent date. Look up the winning lottery numbers for the jackpot for that date. Write it down a in massive font on a sheet of paper (stored in my idea tube).
Step 3: Wait inside the airplane for the next time warp. Look around and try to see if there are any people on this plane. If there are, look for the person who seems the most responsive.
Step 4: Ask them if they believe time travel is possible. Then tell them the winning lottery numbers and show him the paper. Do my best to persuade them to try for the jackpot. When I come back, check if the lottery winner has changed. If this works, we should have a new name and a face.
Plan B: If they are completely unresponsive, slash that person with my occult knife (try to maim their hands ie. sever some fingers). If that fails, carve the lottery numbers onto a seat cushion right in front of him.Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
Allow Bobself to be herded off to the next location.Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
"Well when it comes to getting me a new body I found that there are places in Ann Arbor with robots but I can't find any addresses, when I failed to be able to get the addressees I started looking at something else and I found an animatronic band in place called Mr. Frog's Pizza Steamboat and while I did manage to find an address for it, but it appears to be far off to the north past those smiles people's shit.The rest of the team hangs out in the EdPC while Baldwin and Yagyu sit in the plane and wait for the next event. Things progress the same as before, repeating exactly according to what the video recording showed. As soon as things have begun, Baldwin starts testing.
Sit quietly in the truck, since there isn't anything else for me to do.
Somebody with occult knowledge and or sensors want to examine the mushroom?
If it seems safe, I’ll collect it in the most practical way possible.
"When we're done here can we go rob this pizza place I found so I can get a new body?"
Hey Will, Yagyu here. We're almost done here at the airport, no smoking guns yet but we got some intel and a new lead or two to follow up on. Probably gonna look for a new body for Burt first though.
How are things on your end, any sign of our nerd yet? Let us know if you need anything, we could swing by on our way to the next destination.
"Sure, though I'll try to see if we can't find anything more... appropriate for you than a rusted hunk to traumatize children with.""What's so inappropriate about something that scares kids, and what if I want to be a thing that scares kids like an alligator with a banjo or something?"
"Well, I figured you'd want something more sturdy and capable, but if that's good enough for you, fine by me!""Sure, though I'll try to see if we can't find anything more... appropriate for you than a rusted hunk to traumatize children with.""What's so inappropriate about something that scares kids, and what if I want to be a thing that scares kids like an alligator with a banjo or something?"
"I figured if it was made for a place with kids I'd assume it'd be sturdy due to having the little shits crawling all over it.""Well, I figured you'd want something more sturdy and capable, but if that's good enough for you, fine by me!""Sure, though I'll try to see if we can't find anything more... appropriate for you than a rusted hunk to traumatize children with.""What's so inappropriate about something that scares kids, and what if I want to be a thing that scares kids like an alligator with a banjo or something?"
QuoteHey Will, Yagyu here. We're almost done here at the airport, no smoking guns yet but we got some intel and a new lead or two to follow up on. Probably gonna look for a new body for Burt first though.
How are things on your end, any sign of our nerd yet? Let us know if you need anything, we could swing by on our way to the next destination.
We're making some progress. We found a way into the sewers, linked to the tunnels under the hospital, which I'm pretty sure is the nerve center of the Smiles' operation. The dick monster's inside right now, trying to get a link into the network for me. I had to stay out to guard the silverfish, and because my hardsuit's too thick.
We don't have too much use for anything right now, unless Pathos wakes up and wants to share his daemons or whatever. Pretty sure we'll want help with the actual extraction, once I figure out where the nerd is. You should prolly start thinking about what we'll do after this, I'll keep you updated as things happen.
"Ehhh, I'm leery of overusing the ghosts. They can be pretty flashy and explosive, know what I mean? A ghost kaiju would be fun, but not too stealthy. Still though, I'll see if I can't send you some help."[2][5]
Try to summon a human ghost. Someone who lived here before and would know the tunnels. Send them to help SAM, guiding and protecting... it. Failing that, a swarm of hungry ghost rats set to protect SAM would be nice.
Otherwise, sit and guard the silverfish. Maybe try to hack another camera drone to replace the one I lost.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Oh yeah gotta track accomplishments (click to show/hide)
"I'm in, keep an eye out there Wilfrederickus the III while I try to find a wire. Can you use your ghostiness to help me out in any way? Maybe warg into a rat or something?"[4]
SAM shifts one STR point to DEX for extra sneakiness, then quietly sticks to the shadows while attempting to find someone that's all nice and alone, hopefully even unarmed.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Somebody with occult knowledge and or sensors want to examine the mushroom?
If it seems safe, I’ll collect it in the most practical way possible.
-EDIT- also look up the address I found againSpoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
"I highly suggest you put that thing into a containment pod.
Also, I think we have gotten everything we can out of this place, so after we get that mushroom, pack your stuff and get ready to move on."
Upload the info and recordings of our mystery man to command, see if they can figure out who that is.
Give the funky mushroom a scan with the enviro scanner. Also use the biorhythm tracker on it, maybe it'll tell how spread out it is.
Then, if needed, help teammates with cutting it out, either with pulse laser on low setting or with cutting torch, whatever is easiest.
Do a mental check, does it seem like there is more info/clues/loot we could get out of this place by any chance? Also ask our guide what he thinks.Finally, do a check myself to see if we can't pinpoint a place that would have used brobots (industrial or otherwise). Also things like hospitals might be interesting (eg. nurse bots that help move around patients and do menial work)?NEVER MIND ALL THAT WE STEAMBOAT WILLIE NOW TOOT TOOT.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"I don't know about you, but I found that surprisingly eye-opening. I thought the man was an executive rather than a test subject. Seems like the lottery plan wouldn't have worked even if time travel was possible."
Baldwin looks at the yellow slides of alleged brain slices and sighs
"I used to believe in things like being one with nature, but I abandoned that once I was offered a job that wasn't shit. There are more important in things in life than enlightenment."
He takes a puff from his pipe
"Looks like these dudes may not have gotten the memo."
Baldwin goes to the airport hangar where Ji is. His face perks up at the sight of the mushroom.
"Now that there is fine specimen. I used to farm some mushrooms myself back in the college years."
Baldwin takes out his watch and begins scanning the mushroom, then the airplane wing, before scribbling a wavy line on the wing. Then he begins sawing along the line with his small knife.
"You're okay with me doing this, right? The thing's literally made of gold so I'm sure it will sell for a good price, though I don't think it will be worth much outside of the zone. I hear the higher ups at omni already have metal eating mushrooms."
As Baldwin continues his harvesting work, a nostalgic look appears on his face. The smile here is softer and more genuine than the confident one he usually shows.
"Now the thing is, you gotta treat it like a golden goose. Chop off its head and you only get one mushroom. Treat the whole organism with care and love and you'll get a crop that will sustain you for years to come. You gotta make sure you bring its roots with you which is why I'm performing the tedious task of sawing through an aluminum airplane wing. The mycellium could be growing anywhere."
Baldwin doesn't say anything else and continues his task silently. Eventually, Baldwin pauses and takes a deep breath.
"Actually, can someone help me with this?"
Take out my anomaly watch and start scanning the mushroom, then scan the airplane wing for the underlying mycelium underneath. Play a game of hot and cold with the watch until I get a general feel for how far the mycelium has spread and draw an outline that roughly correlates to where the mycelium is. If there are no readings being given off, just cut off the airplane wing entirely.
Start sawing along the outline with my occult knife like I was cutting an image out of a piece of paper. I'm bound to get a few exploding dice at some point. Even without help, I'll eventually be able to get this done.
EDIT: Added watch stuff. Trying to see if I can get a more precise reading of where the mycelium is.Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
"When we're done here can we go rob this pizza place I found so I can get a new body?"
Use the internet to find out what Mr. Frog's Pizza Steamboat is and what kind of robot like things were in it.
I'm with Zultan. Let's go rob an abandoned pizza place for it's animatronic automatons.The restaurant is near the intersection of Plymouth and Green, just to the west of the 23. (Map marker added). The guide suggests either back tracking and taking the 23 north to it, or -if you want to be REALLY careful- Take Prospect road to Plymouth and work back from there. Either works, though prospect road is much more rural and out of the way so should be completely deserted.Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
"Ssssssshhhhhh....hold him down ghostbro."[3]
SAM will use her Organosculpting system to attack the goon's spinal cord and shut off everything below the neck, of course, she'll still try to leave the nerves responsible for pain and touchy-feely stuff working in case she needs to get aggressively persuative.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"How's it going in there, dicky? Find anything to hook up to, yet?"Wilfred pokes the Silverfish and looks it over. He think...with a cable or a wireless connection, he could probably fly it from inside his suit. The only issue would be connecting it up correctly and setting up some kind of controls for the suit: he'd have to use the suit's movement sensors for it most likely.
Look over the Silverfish a bit while waiting. Is it manual operation only, or could Wilfred hook it up to his suit somehow and fly it while he's cargo? Or remotely?Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Oh yeah gotta track accomplishments (click to show/hide)
"Pizza time it is!"
Iiiiiiit's pizza time!Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"So, we done here boss? Is it pizza time?"
Unless anyone objects, wait until all stragglers are on board and head for the pizza joint. Take Prospect Road to avoid any shenanigansSpoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
"Lets use Prospect road to get to that pizza place."
Look up things on the internet and see if there are any interesting prospects between us and the pizza place on this Prospect road.
"Sorry friend. You're storing the mushroom in my containment pod so it needs to stay with me for safekeeping. You can have the profits once we sell this thing."Both the internet and the team's eyes tell them that this is basically fuck all of interest out here on prospect road. Its a good several hundred feet between homes even on this fairly large road and each home is smack dab in the middle of what looks like horribly overgrown farmland. The road continues in this rather uninteresting way for quite a while until it curves around towards the west and their destination. Even back in the city there's little to see on these far outskirts. The strip mall the restaurant is in is completely deserted and barely lit by the first rays of sunrise. The entire place looks long neglected; old signs for used books, nail salons, sandwich shops, vitamin shops, computer repair, and more have sunrotted and partially crumbled, along with the stucco. The restaurant, just another in the line of shops, looks particularly upsetting with its half crumbled mascot logo leaking dark rust out of its cartoon frog eyes and mouth.
Store the mushroom with my stuff in the EPC and prepare to move on.Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
SAM quickly plunges her hand over the goon's mouth before he can scream for help or a sack of ice for his broken nose.Sam is sufficiently terrifying enough that the man begins nodding immediately. She carefully removes her hand from his mouth but keeps her sharpened fingers meaningfully near his throat.
"So here is what will happen, you'll tell me where your servers rooms, internet cables, wires, and wifi routers are and in return, I won't re-enact every SAW movie death on you at the same time."
SAM will slowly remove her hand once she gets confirmation from Goonius the IV that he'll be nice, being ready to immediately cover his mouth again if it looks like he'll attempt to scream. If the goon doesn't look like he'll cooperate or tries to scream, SAM will chew his forbidden hand sausages until he decides to be reasonable about this whole thing.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Mount Upsetting Frog LogoTM to EdPC.[8] Bob, with a bit of help from others, gets the sign down and manages to get it chained to the front of the EdPC like the figurehead of a boat. Neat! Terrifying! YAY!Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
"I'm excited about this place to bad I can't actually go inside, while we're here we might want to check out that computer repair place and that book store might be interesting as well."[2]
See if I can't find out any thing on the internet about any of the other nearby businesses.
Head into the pizzeria with gun at the ready. Don’t trust any robots. While I’m at it, see if there’s a kitchen. If there is, see if they have food stockedSpoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Welp, get inside and start looking for a suitable replacement body for dear ol' Burty Burt.Ji and Yagyu head into the place. Its spooky to be sure, all dark, silent, and filled with the residue of happier times and nostalgia. But a quick sweep reveals the most dangerous critters around are a family of rather large rats living in the kitchen. The food, Ji finds, has long ago been nibbled into and the packages that haven't are basically shrink wrapped rot at this point.
Should one be found, see what kind of modifications would be needed to make it useable for Burt. Then check if we have everything needed, if not look around/online for where we could find what we need.
Note, I'm willing to burn a toolkit charge to get it done. Second note, we could swing by the military base of the bazaar to get the parts or tools we need as well if needed.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"... if it needs to be fixed first use my tool kit for it."((you don't have a toolkit. You don't have an inventory. You don't have a body. Don't worry, Bob's got you covered on toolkits. Not like he's saving them for something potentially important to the mission or anything.))
Load the animatronics into the Ed PC, or mount them on top.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
"Can you guys just shove me into the fox one, I don't care if I have to be stuck to an outlet for a while, I just want to be able to move again it's weird not being able to move, also if it needs to be fixed first use my tool kit for it."
Wait for someone to put me in a robot.
Help my teammates with repairing the pizza place robot body and putting Burt into said body, in any capacity I can.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
Check around the place for a possible battery while Ji is loading things up.While the rest of the team is dragging the animatronics out into the parking lot and getting them laid out Yagyu checks around the place for some sort of battery that could be used to power one of the bots indefinitely. [2] He sadly finds nothing of the sort. All the batteries he does find are all significantly less powerful than the ones already built into the bots. Makes sense, he supposes.
Then on the EdPC start repairing the fox body. Use a toolkit charge, and scavenge parts from the other animatronics if needed. For power, we can just hook him up to EdPC for now if no battery was found. (Let EdPC do the actual downloading and installation of the Burt.)
Look around the map for any places where we have a good chance of easily finding/scavenging a battery. If found, go there and look, if not then go to either the bazaar or one of the military bases to barter for one (call ahead so they can look for it).Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Huh, this was easy. Thank ya for being a good sport about this whole thing, I really thought I'd have to rip your eyeballs off or something. Anyway, a promise is a promise, I won't slowly torture you to death. Hey Wilfrom Software, I got the intel, gonna let you in soon, get your hacking skills ready."(Be thankful I'm not forcing a melee check for this, miss d4.)
SAM will tear off the man's throat with her jaws before swallowing him whole like some sort of weird H.R Giger sex fantasy, she never said anything about not killing him after all. After that's done she'll look for any vents to crawl into and make way towards the cable.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Excellent, that was pretty fast. Good job, Richard."[5]
Be ready to... do whatever it is Wilfred would need to do to help setup the connection between the drone and the network cable under the hospital. Remotely operate the camera drone? Talk SAM through connecting the tan wire to the ochre wire? I'unno.
If SAM doesn't get that far this turn, idly wonder if Wildred could summon up some kind of extension cord ghost, which could connect his hardsuit and the silverfish. I mean, he just summoned one with a fog light head, maybe there's one with an extension cable dick.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Oh yeah gotta track accomplishments (click to show/hide)
Beep beep, I'm a jeep. Follow the course Yagyu plots out((you should put the Upsetting Frog Logo into your inventory))Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
"Huzza I can move again, and it doesn't even bother me that I can't leave the car!"
Go grab my stuff from wherever it was stashed and look myself over and find out what my stats are and how long my batteries will last if I'm not plugged in.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
Beep beep, I'm a jeep. Follow the course Yagyu plots outSpoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
No action. Waiting on team movement to next Point of Interest.Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
"Welcome again to the land of the living and able, Burt. Glad to have you back.The EdPC gets back on the highway and heads north for a few miles before beginning the journey east, and into the orange zone. They take the 14 through quiet fields as the sun rises, far from the chaos of Ann Arbor. In the light of day they can see more homes scattered around, peeking out through overgrown grass and new tree lines, each home at least a 100 feet from its neighbor, though often more. These give way to more densely packed but still quietly rural and overgrown homes as they near the outskirts of Detroit. By the time they are coming to the edge of the orange zone the area is fully developed again, a dense suburb with all the little shopping centers and amenities such a place needs. The outgoing road is absolutely impenetrably packed with abandoned cars, while the road in is entirely empty. Their passage across the yellow zone was quiet, almost serene and beautiful in its way; the slow growth of nature over abandoned ruins of society, all cast in the warm glow of morning. But as they near the orange zone, this all changes. The air becomes noticeably heavy and smells of smoke and burning rubber. The sky, glowing golden, dims as the sun is blocked out by the swirling storm column. Silence is replaced with the sounds of distant gunfire, screaming, and otherworldly sounds. When they finally pass the boundary everyone can feel it, even those without nerve endings or anything organic to feel it with. Its a heavy feeling, a dread, baseline uncertainty which seems to make them subtly second guess every action and assumption. The world might fall out beneath their feet at any point.
Allrighty then gents, good show, good show. Time to head to our next objective, which I think should be that shipping center that Ji found. Also, let's keep an eye out for a new battery for Burt's new bod."
Next stop is the shipping center Lup found earlier. Chart a course there, but see if there any locations on the way there that have a good chance for us of finding/scavenging a battery for Burt. Then, vamos!
((Btw, since we used a toolkit charge to repair the fox, don't forget to deduct it from your inventory @zultan.))Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Yagyu, we've gotten a connection into the hospital intranet. Gonna start searching for our target now."
"Well my job here is done, should I leave or do something more Wonfrod Wilsonson?"
"Well my job here is done, should I leave or do something more Wonfrod Wilsonson?"
SAM will find someplace dark and small to hide while awaiting confirmation of any nearby nerds to kidnap or shinies to loot.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Yagyu, we've gotten a connection into the hospital intranet. Gonna start searching for our target now."[1] Of course. Uh...[4] I see.
Well, start scanning through all information that can be accessed. Priority is any kind of information on where the scientist is, and ideally a way to contact him. After that, maps, layouts, and information on where they keep their coolest/best guns are a secondary goal. Hey, nothing's wrong with a bit of personal fun!
Oh, and if any information is found on the scientist/possible loot caches, forward that info to Yagyu and SAM.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
"These batteries I've got sure seem to suck I guess I'm stuck in the tuck until someone can find better ones."
Be ready to use one of the turrets if it's needed and make sure I'm plugged in so I have a full battery if needed.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
"Edboy, I think we might want to back up juuuust a lil' bit until we know what is going on here."
Ask our guide if he knows who these people are or if he has an idea of what is happening here.
Does it look like that rocket was maybe aimed at us and they just had really bad aim, or more likely that they intended to hit that building?
If more hostilities occur (not necessarily against us) make sure that the weakness analyzer is active."Yagyu, we've gotten a connection into the hospital intranet. Gonna start searching for our target now."
"Good to hear it! We just entered the orange zone in pursuit of one of our leads and might swing by to interview one of the other eggheads, but might have stumbled on some trouble already."Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Get on a turret and fire at hostiles.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
"Quite so. Imma just scootch over a bit out of the line of fire"
This seems like a bad place to park. If possible, get out of the line of fire by heading north towards that hospital. If that doesn't get us out of the line of fire, take another direction.
All the while, use the EdPC's cameras and Pushbot to check our surroundings. Doesn't seem like anyone is targeting us specifically right now. But if I see anyone target us, give them a shot of the main cannon (currently has a regular shell loaded)Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
"Hey Wilfred, since you're in there, could you go looking around for some paydata (ie. stuff we can sell on the blackmarket to interested buyers). There seem to be a lot of rival gangs who would be interested in seeing the smiles get taken down a peg, maybe there's some info about their weaknesses in there. Alternatively you could look for building blueprints or weapon schematics. They've got some smart people working here. I'm 99% sure they're working on a prototype we can steal."
Check my watch for anomalous activity (besides the mushroom). Look at what the parking lot men are pointing at.Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
"Uh. Well. Fuck. I kinda just knocked out the Smiles' entire intranet. Fuck Derp, they built it like a stack of cards! I didn't manage to extract any info, either. Fucking... ugh, okay, old fashioned way. Richard, I'm coming in; we'll try to grab someone and have them tell us where the egghead is. Try for a bit, if he seems grabbable we'll pull him out. Otherwise, we fall back."[3]
Okay, fuck. Start... crawling into the tunnel and towards the Smiles underground. Hopefully the rest of the tunnel is traversable while crawling?Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
"Excuse my German but WHAT ZE SCHINDZEL WILFRED?! You better hope that damn nerd is here or else you better start getting ready to go to clown college, and not one of the cushy ivy league ones!"[2,8]
SAM will search for where they might keep the weapons, dead bodies, nerds or crimes against mother nature. Making sure to try to use the chaos to stay hidden, SAM will also ponder on what is the worst clown collage she could send Wonfred to.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
”Shit dude! You gotta figure out the extent of the damage. As far as we know, you might have knocked out their entire power grid! That wasn’t just a hospital, that was their main base. King smile or whatever that founding cannibal’s name is probably lives here.It is their main base and It makes sense he'd be there.
((OOC: Can you fact check that last line for me Piecewise?))
"Ladies and gentlemen, we are currently experiencing some angry ent related turbulence. Please fasten your seatbelts and man the side guns, your captain will activate the anti tree cannon. "
Assume direct control over the main gun (that currently has a regular shell loaded) and shoot the angry tree thing. If one shot doesn't do the trick, have pushbot reload an HE shell and shoot it again.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
"Oh fuck we're being attacked by nature!"
Open fire on the tree with the turret.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
If the monster starts to focus on us, start firing at it, aiming for the legs.[1,3,7][5+6] [Left side gun down to d4 use on ammo]Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Who is currently manning the EdPC main gun? If it is not either Ed himself or someone with at least d10 gun skill, do it myself and fire at the tree thing, preferably the legs to immobilize it.
If the main gun is being handled properly, then instead disembark and fire the pulse laser at the tree. The autonomous targeting system will fire the ferromagnetic accelerator (box of metal scrap for ammo, see inventory).
Either way, hopefully the weakness analysis protocols kicked in last turn, if yes we are now on lvl. 1 ("increase damage dealt by 1 die level").
Oh, and if the tree thing comes in our direction, either ride on EdPC as he backs away or just back away myself.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Keep firing the turret at the big tree thing, this time try shooting it in the face.[7][12][5+7][5+5][Burt's turret is out of ammo]Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
Back the hell up till I'm out of reach of the tree's arms&weapons.
Use biorhythm tracker to keep track of where it is through the cloud and help with aiming, share this info with teammates if requested.
Weakness Analysis protocols is now at lvl 2: increase damage dealt by 1 die level, + gain advantage on to-hit.
Right arm: shoot ferromagnetic accelerator. Left arm: shoot with goop thrower, aim at leg/foot to try and slow it down or make it stumble so it can't reach us.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Have pushbot load another standard round in the main cannon, then shoot the angry ent again. (just making sure, but the EdPC uses tech to shoot instead of guns)Hmmm...looks like it all worked out.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
Check on the mushroom to see how much it's grown. We drove for quite a while before we got to this place.If the mushroom has grown, and its somewhat questionable that it has at all, its by an amount quite difficult to make out. Very small.Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
Yep. Ghosts. Summon a swarm of antlered ghost ants to batter/eat through the opening until the hardsuit can fit. Then... start rushing through the tunnels and up floors until reaching ground level/outside. Skim past people, and presumably use the hardsuit's lights. This thing has lights, right? If not, ghost glowworms or something. Ghosts solve all problems!Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
"Found the damn nerds Wonbert, I'm going to keep them busy till you and your 5 tons of power armor ghostiness get here."[12][2][2][
SAM will jump into the pile of nerds and grab as many as she can with hands and tentacles alike to act as meat shields against the armed men, objects to yet and use as bludgeons and last but not least crunchy health packs if things get dice while she sorts through them to find the one nerd they're looking for. Making sure to not eat him.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Nice shooting gents, very solid work. EdPC, if you need more ammo let me know and I'll see if I can get some in bulk and convert it."
Then Yagyu turns to the group of men, waves and shouts back:
"Greetings, friends! I hope you don't mind that we did some gardening, these weeds are getting out of control!"
If they still seem friendly, slowly approach while keeping my arms away so as to make clear I'm just here to talk. If I arrive unmolested, let the diplomancing begin!
"Well met! My name is Yagyu and we are here to investigate Neo Detroit and see if we can figure out what is going on here and how to stop it. May I be so bold to ask who you are?"
Does EdPC have any reloads for the side guns, or will we need to buy/make some new?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Diplomacy! Bob on over to the scrubs and shake one of them merrily with my ten foot tentacle in greeting.(The EDPC does have reloads for its guns, but I honestly forget how many. They were described as ammo boxes through, so maybe a quick search will reveal them. Should be in a post near the beginning of this)Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
"That thing died way faster than I thought it would."The tree dropped a set of armor and a club! But they look a bit big for Burt.
Use the camera on my phone to zoom in on the tree and see if it dropped any valuable stuff, not getting out of the car unless I need to.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
QUICK! SAM will bite the head of a guard and proceed to vore him like she's a Sonic OC on Deviantart while everyone is distracted by the ghost geiser so she can heal, now it's an even fight![2,4][5v3]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
...Assuming Wil didn't just become one of the ghosts, uh, try and climb up and out of the hospital. Maybe use the boosters to gets some height, if the sky is visible. Then try to locate the nerds and their guards, and go head over there. Melt anyone armed, with the ACA.Wilfred rockets out of the newly created crater and lands on the surface, looking around and shooing ghosts away from him. He spots SAM and the fleeing guards and immediately takes to the air before leveling the ACA on them.
"Oh, fucking fuck Derp! I swear, I didn't mean to summon that many, they just kinda... came out. Fuckers, did I just accidentally kill the building?"Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
"So, you here to speak to the doc? He's said more than once that he was connected to that." He nods towards the red zone and its constant storm."Why yes, if you could bring us to him that would be most wonderful, we'd love to have a chat with the good doctor."
"What?! You've got him so we're--wait, fuck, fuck, that's a guard? Oh my fucking--Fuck! Derp! I thought you fucking Derp had him already! Fuck, fuck, how do you treat acidic cleaning fluid?! He's melting! Fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp!"((I admire your commitment to the character. Wilfred's been pretty entertaining throughout the game.))
((Busy past months what has happened?))
((I died again, then came back to life as a fox.))((Busy past months what has happened?))
((Incompetence, malice and a dash of violence happened.))
(The EDPC does have reloads for its guns, but I honestly forget how many. They were described as ammo boxes through, so maybe a quick search will reveal them. Should be in a post near the beginning of this)They're in my sheet iunder the EdPC. Both side guns came with a D6 ammobox, though it seems I forgot to buy extra. So each gun has 1 d6 box of ammo, currently.
(https://www.whatareyourgifts.com/uploads/8/6/5/8/86588662/tumblr-same-as-it-ever-was_orig.gif)((Busy past months what has happened?))
((Incompetence, malice and a dash of violence happened.))
"So since I can't leave the truck I guess I'll ask did anyone save the brains of the pizza robots onto a flash drive or something, because I've got an idea of what we can do with them."They had to combine the "Brains" from all the robots into one hodgepodge computer to put your mind into it. As it turns out, fast food animatronics don't have computers good enough to run a simulated human brain. They have computers good enough to run 1/4th of a human brain though, which was lucky for you.
See what repairs are needed for the other animatronics to work again and fix what I can with out a tool kit charge.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
((The misadventures of the Wil-SAM comedy duo is the best sitcom I never knew I wanted. :D ))Yagyu and I assume Bob follow the orderly across the parking lot.Quote"So, you here to speak to the doc? He's said more than once that he was connected to that." He nods towards the red zone and its constant storm."Why yes, if you could bring us to him that would be most wonderful, we'd love to have a chat with the good doctor."
Follow them to the hospital. Once there, request an audience with the doc. On the way there, ask them to tell us about themselves: who are they, what do they do, why are they here in the orange zone?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"What?! You've got him so we're--wait, fuck, fuck, that's a guard? Oh my fucking--Fuck! Derp! I thought you fucking Derp had him already! Fuck, fuck, how do you treat acidic cleaning fluid?! He's melting! Fuck Derp, fuck Derp, fuck Derp!"
Uhhhh so I think nerd's probably gonna die, so... stay nearby, shoot anyone who comes near or looks violent (not SAM), and if the nerd kicks the bucket, summon his ghost jmmediately. And keep it. I guess.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
"FSHS SSFH WIFSHD!"
SAM will go agaisnt her late mother's advice and shallow without chewing, then she'll try to find the screaming melty dude who looks the most like the nerd she's searching for and try to un-melt him with her medikit. But not before GTFOing from the gas melty cloud with the nerd in tow of course, here's to hoping he won't slip through her fingers...literallySpoiler (click to show/hide)
EdPC is also here.Quote(The EDPC does have reloads for its guns, but I honestly forget how many. They were described as ammo boxes through, so maybe a quick search will reveal them. Should be in a post near the beginning of this)They're in my sheet iunder the EdPC. Both side guns came with a D6 ammobox, though it seems I forgot to buy extra. So each gun has 1 d6 box of ammo, currently.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
"Come to kill me?" He asks, setting is pen down and placing his hands flat on the desk. He doesn't seem to be joking, but he doesn't seem fearful either.
"Hey, we're trying to have a conversation here! The Nerve on some people, can you be a pal and shut him up Walfredo? I need to bulk up a little before I can really help out."[1]
Saying that SAM will unhinge her mouth and eat whatever remains of the nerds and guards, making sure to eat the parts with the least acid, that's a sauce too spicy even for her.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Wilfred's free hand comes up and slaps into the top of his heavily armored hardsuit as he turns to face the machine gun, clearly frustrated.Wilfred shouts at the man shooting him, ranting about the absolute idiocy of attempting to machinegun a tank to death. The man continues firing.
"What the hell, man? Are you braindead?! I am basically wearing a TANK! And I just killed a fucking hospital with my mind! WE ARE STILL STANDING UNDER THE HORRIFYING MUSHROOM CLOUD OF THE SCREAMING DEAD! What possible fucking result are you expecting?! At least use a rocket launcher or something, you idiots must have them! God!"
I'd shoot him but that doesn't seem like the most fun option. Instead, scream at the attacker, and summon up the restless dead inside the vehicles in the motor pool. Tell the ghosts to cause chaos and murder everything that isn't Wilfred. Or SAM. Or already dead.
And if that fails just shoot the machine gun.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
It took awhile but he sobered up, but now where the fuck was he? Alec tries to find the where everyone went.Since you're coming back in like this you have two options.Spoiler: Scottish Medic (click to show/hide)
Stay at the truck and look around and see if there isn't somewhere that I might get robot brains from.I'm going to assume "Look around" means "Check the internet".Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
"Ooh... Culty stuff.The hospital men are long gone but Baldwin goes about the autopsy anyways...and finds things don't add up. The tree has no eyes. It has no heart and the closest it has for blood is sap. It has no brain. It has no muscle or even wood analog of it. Cutting into this thing is like cutting into an ordinary if very large and oddly withered tree. It couldn't move, it couldn't be alive like it was...but it was. This thing wasn't some kind of mutant or odd animal, it was something purely impossible forced into being.
Perform an autopsy of the Tree Titan. Ask the hospital men if I can borrow some tools (mostly electric saws), otherwise use my occult knife that will eventually give me a good roll if I hit something with it enough times. Try to obtain analogues for the following parts and put them in a containment jar:
1. An eye.
2. A heart (or some "blood")
3. A sample of "brain" tissue.
4. A sample of "muscle" (or some sort of actuator)
The goal of this autopsy is to determine whether or not this creature has anything that can be loosely considered an "anatomy". Does it have any parts that allow it to function as a living creature or is it a golem that is exclusively powered by magic (eg. Woody from Toy Story). Such a creature would have to shapeshift every time it wanted to move. Rigor mortis would set in immediately since it doesn't actually have any joints.
Once that's done, walk around and interview people about their religious beliefs. Ask them if they knew the original man who transformed into the tree.Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
Quote"Come to kill me?" He asks, setting is pen down and placing his hands flat on the desk. He doesn't seem to be joking, but he doesn't seem fearful either.
"Don't worry doc, we're just here to talk. Please don't be taken aback by our appearance, it comes with our line of work.
If I may reintroduce ourselves: my name is Yagyu and we are here to investigate Neo Detroit to see if we can figure out what is going on here and how to stop it. My associate here is Bob. Don't... don't ask me why or how, I don't know either. Good mechanic though.
Now, I was led to believe you used to be associated with the institute that seems to be at the center off all this. In that case, if you could spare us a moment," he says, while taking out the last bottle of good booze that he saved and setting it down in front of the old timer, "we would love to hear all about it."
So yeah, offer the booze to the doc and ask him to tell us about who he is, the institute and his role there, what he knows about the events that lead up to this, etc.
Also, ask the guy who led us here if they have any better batteries we could trade for for Burt, if yes ask him to go talk to said Burt about it.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Make sure all the EPC guns are fully loaded.Consider it so.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
"Hey guys I found out where a robotics factory is, we can probably find me a better battery and we can get the stuff to fix the other animatronics from there."
Well at least that should have helped digest the other guy, meaning SAM now has gained one flesh right...right?Pretty sure you already got one flesh back when you first swallowed him. Check.
Oh and yeah, gtfo dodge from the roof coming her waySpoiler (click to show/hide)
"...Awww, fuck Derp. GHOSTY BOYS, ANY OF YOU WHO WERE EVER SCIENTISTS BETTER FUCKIN' FOLLOW ME RIGHT NOW!"[8][12][1][Jumpjets to d6 use]
OKAY YELL AT THE GHOSTS TO FOLLOW IF THEY WERE SCIENTISTS. THEN GRAB SAM AND IMMEDIATELY DE-ASS THE AREA WITH JUMP ROCKETS. Ideally, back towards the silverfish, but getting away from the skeleton kaiju is the real priority.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
"Hey guys I found out where a robotics factory is, we can probably find me a better battery and we can get the stuff to fix the other animatronics from there."Seems like they made general purpose house keeping and "Domestic work" robots. Just the sort of thing for all those rich tech moguls who used to live here.
Sit patiently in the truck and see what kind of robots the factory made while I wait to get taken there.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
Bob's still with Yaggles, sulking about how no one ever offers him a snack.Bob begins to think that maybe...maybe if he got himself a sign that said "Please feed me" that people might feed him more. Perhaps he simply needs to be more upfront about his desires. Perhaps humans are just stupid and need to be told.Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
Use my occult powers to determine if the tree has a soul that could be summoned. Begin construction of a summoning circle in order to bind it. Do not summon yet.[1]Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
((... Soooo, anyone up for letting the Wil&SAM comedy duo just stay in Neo-Detroit afterwards? They certainly seem to fit in. :p ))Quote"Hey guys I found out where a robotics factory is, we can probably find me a better battery and we can get the stuff to fix the other animatronics from there."
"If you guys want you can go check it out while I talk with the doc here, saves us some time. I'll just need to take the samples we found earlier from EdPC for a sec."
Grab those samples we got from the airport. Pour the doc a glass of the booze and show him the samples while telling him about what we saw during the ghostplane sequence. Maybe he can make some connections. Hell, he was there on that plane, wasn't he? Maybe he can tell us who this 'George' guy was?
Also ask if he knows who was in that "inner circle" then, and where we could find said people. Or at least if he has any other leads, or people/places of interest to us.
Finally, can you remind us where that Institute shipping center that Ji found out about is exactly?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Ahoy there ya' bastard," Al meandered for awhile deciding to head over to the hospital, eventually finding Yagyu "Now what are we dealing with?" he asks Yagyu.
snippety
"Apparently the factory makes maid robots and shit, are parts from those things still helpful for what we want to do?"
See what other kind of interesting things I can find on the internet about the area.
"Ahoy there ya' bastard," Al meandered for awhile deciding to head over to the hospital, eventually finding Yagyu "Now what are we dealing with?" he asks Yagyu.
"Oh, are you that guy who got drunk and was napping in the EdPC? Hope you slept it off then. You're lucky we're on vacation.
We're following our leads, right now we're interviewing the good doctor here to see what he knows about what happened to create this place. You did read you missio- ah, vacation leaflet, didn't you?"
((In case not: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=173094.msg8253875#msg8253875))
Then he turns back to the scientist and says: "Ok, so what we should do now is to-"
[BEEP BEEP]
"Excuse me for a moment doc, I gotta take this."
He steps into the hallway for a moment away from the old man.
"Wilfred darling, long time no see, what's up?"snippety
"Oh good so you managed to... Wait, what do you mean you deleted their... How many stories? OH GOD THEY'RE ALL DEAD?!?
...Ok, ok, so are you positive we can still talk to him then? How long do these 'ghosts' stay, ah, 'fresh' exactly? If you're not sure, you can interrogate them right now perhaps, I'll upload the transcripts of what we found so far to the network as well. Or I can talk to them through you I guess. Do ghosts have wireless? Is that what the 'G' in 5G stands for?
And sure, if you guys want you can gallivant around a bit before you head back since you got what we need, but honestly if it's food you want we can just trade for it back at the bazaar as well.
We are quite a bit away from where you guys are at, after we're done here we're quickly stopping by an old factory to get a new battery for Burt, then we're heading to a shipping center the institute used to use. We can meet at one of these once you guys are fully done with your stuff.
Oh, and uh, good work you two. I guess. Sort of. Technically.""Apparently the factory makes maid robots and shit, are parts from those things still helpful for what we want to do?"
See what other kind of interesting things I can find on the internet about the area.
"Honestly, for me the main thing I want is to find that better battery for you. We've already lost too many people to space dementia so I need all lucid hands to be up and about rather than shackled to the EdPC. If you want to play around with your robot friends and make them new maracas or whatever that's fine, go wild, but I'd like you to be back to full mobility asap."
"Apparently the factory makes maid robots and shit, are parts from those things still helpful for what we want to do?"
"Honestly, for me the main thing I want is to find that better battery for you. We've already lost too many people to space dementia so I need all lucid hands to be up and about rather than shackled to the EdPC. If you want to play around with your robot friends and make them new maracas or whatever that's fine, go wild, but I'd like you to be back to full mobility asap."
"Well, you heard the man. He's going to be busy gabbing with that doc for a while anyway, let's head over to that factory and see what's up.
All aboard for destination waifubot factory!"
Let everyone on board who wants to come, then head over that that factory Burt found and check the place out. Insofar the EdPC can do that.
Following Yagyu out into the hall Alec waited a moment for Yagyu to finish speaking into the communicator before answering his prior question "Ye see I was a bit sloshed during the brief, so details are a wee bit fuzzy." Al shrugs before continuing "Anyways I'm ere' an ready teh assist, pleasure working with ye by the way me names Alec but ye can call me Al"
"Interrogating him soon sounds good, honestly these ghosts are kinda creepy fucks. And I don't know how long they'll stick around, or... anything, really. Just tell me what we're supposed to be asking? I totally forgot, I just know you wanted me to kidnap a nerd, all the rest of it sounded like it was above 'ambassador' paygrade."
Wilfred sighs.
"...I need a fuckin' raise."
"Well, you heard the man. He's going to be busy gabbing with that doc for a while anyway, let's head over to that factory and see what's up.
All aboard for destination waifubot factory!"
Let everyone on board who wants to come, then head over that that factory Burt found and check the place out. Insofar the EdPC can do that.
"Roger that, happy hunting. I'll rejoin you guys as soon as I'm done here."Following Yagyu out into the hall Alec waited a moment for Yagyu to finish speaking into the communicator before answering his prior question "Ye see I was a bit sloshed during the brief, so details are a wee bit fuzzy." Al shrugs before continuing "Anyways I'm ere' an ready teh assist, pleasure working with ye by the way me names Alec but ye can call me Al"
"Well then Al, you came in at just the right time, seems like the lads outside could use an extra pair of hands! Why don't you head over to EdPC and hitch a ride to that factory? Help Burt look for the stuff he needs to construct his roboharem or whatever it is he's planning. ""Interrogating him soon sounds good, honestly these ghosts are kinda creepy fucks. And I don't know how long they'll stick around, or... anything, really. Just tell me what we're supposed to be asking? I totally forgot, I just know you wanted me to kidnap a nerd, all the rest of it sounded like it was above 'ambassador' paygrade."
Wilfred sighs.
"...I need a fuckin' raise."
"I would start with asking what his role in the institute was, what did he do for them and why.
And yes, I agree. We all deserve a bloody pay raise after this delightful company picnic."
"Apparently the factory makes maid robots and shit, are parts from those things still helpful for what we want to do?""Honestly, for me the main thing I want is to find that better battery for you. We've already lost too many people to space dementia so I need all lucid hands to be up and about rather than shackled to the EdPC. If you want to play around with your robot friends and make them new maracas or whatever that's fine, go wild, but I'd like you to be back to full mobility asap."
"Well, you heard the man. He's going to be busy gabbing with that doc for a while anyway, let's head over to that factory and see what's up.
All aboard for destination waifubot factory!"
Let everyone on board who wants to come, then head over that that factory Burt found and check the place out. Insofar the EdPC can do that.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
"Honestly, for me the main thing I want is to find that better battery for you. We've already lost too many people to space dementia so I need all lucid hands to be up and about rather than shackled to the EdPC. If you want to play around with your robot friends and make them new maracas or whatever that's fine, go wild, but I'd like you to be back to full mobility asap.""My idea was to fix them and make it to where we could use them as potentially disposable soldiers if needed or as replacement bodies in case someone else dies."
((Checked and nope, nada.))(add one then)
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAH I'M DROWNING I'M DROWNING-Wait a minute, oh Silly SAM, you don't have lungs! Boy, do I look like a fool. Hey Kaiser Wonkfrederick of the Holy Roman Empire, you need a hand or you okay with playing the role of Costa Concordia down here while I swim back to the relative safety of dry land?
Depending on the answer SAM will help Castaway movie star Wilson walk like the Hippo he is to dry land or just swim there herself.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
((Twelve and a one in the last turn. Yeah. Xan's ghost is here, probably attracted by SAM's fleshorror nature meeting with Wilfred's ghost powers.))SAM is quite literally tossed out of the river and onto the shore, with Wilfred stomping is way out a minute later half coated in mud and very damp. He checks over his shoulder to see the colossal skeleton looming over the hospital, slowly smashing buildings as rockets and bullets pierce uselessly through it. Wilfred shrugs as best he can in the suit. Not his problem anymore.
"I think... I think I'm good. Unless they've got fucking rebar sharks or some shit in this river. Fuck Derp... You get out, I'll be right after you in a minute..."
Call up Yagyu and report mission success. Technically.
"Hey. Hey, Yagyu, is this fucking thing on? Uhh. Well, stealth mission was a succcess, I think. We deleted their intranet, blew up the hospital, and then I summoned a fifteen-story skeleton in the wreckage. I think it's still fucking up the survivors? Hard to tell, I'm at the bottom of a river right now. But, uh, yeah. I don't think we have to worry about the Smiles any time soon, and I bet the ratings just exploded for whatever shows recorded that. Uhh. That's the good news. I know we were kinda supposed to do a kidnapping, but uh, no plan survives contact with the enemy, right? Hehe... Well, I captured the scientist too, I think. Technically. I kinda killed him first, actually, but it's okay! It's okay, I have his ghost right here. I think. There's six of 'em, one of them should be the right guy? It'll be fine, this way he can't lie, I don't think. Anyway, uh, where should we meet up? And is it okay if we go hunting a few Smiles stragglers just as a little side trip? Sammy could use some more meat, and I'd like a new gun."
...Then start heading back towards the shore. Hopefully we can find where the hell we left the silverfish.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
Use spiderbot. Climb on desk, begin rummaging through drawers, cabinets, refrigerators, and pockets for snacks and scientific secrets, but only as a bonus).The doctor tosses Bob a candy bar before Bob can start ransacking the place too badly. It bounces off Bob's reptilian noggin and into the corner of the room. Bob gives chase and begins death rolling it as a method of removing the wrapping.Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
((Splitting up from previous post for PW's sake.))
1) Upload transcripts and recordings of our convo with the doc (and the airport stuff, but I think we already did that) to the network.
2) No response from the doc regarding the samples we found at the airport? They don't ring a bell or remind him of anything?
3) Can you tell us where that secondary shipping center was located, maybe put it on the map if you get the chance?
4) Ask our guide and the doc if he knows of any other spooky places that might be of interest to us now that we know what we know.
5) Ask command if they have access to a list of these test subjects and/or the inner circle, if yes download the list and send it out to our various contacts to see if they have spotted any of them recently.
Should we notice Bob's antics while talking:
"Oh, uhh, please don't mind him too much, I think he's getting hungry again. You, uhh, got any snacks on you?
Hey Bob, look, there's a river just outside the hospital! Fishies Bob, fishies! Go get 'em boy!"
Yagyu said futilely while making vague hand gestures that could be anything from "I am drowning what is swimming" to "I am swallowing a whole hippo head first".Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Apparently the factory makes maid robots and shit, are parts from those things still helpful for what we want to do?"[2]
See what other kind of interesting things I can find on the internet about the area.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
Cut myself free with my occult knife. I'm bound to get a good roll eventually. If that fails, call for help.[1]
"Hey Guys! I think this thing is still alive!"Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
So far one person is on board...another is outside losing a fight to a tree. Someone might wanna help him out before you get going."Apparently the factory makes maid robots and shit, are parts from those things still helpful for what we want to do?""Honestly, for me the main thing I want is to find that better battery for you. We've already lost too many people to space dementia so I need all lucid hands to be up and about rather than shackled to the EdPC. If you want to play around with your robot friends and make them new maracas or whatever that's fine, go wild, but I'd like you to be back to full mobility asap."
"Well, you heard the man. He's going to be busy gabbing with that doc for a while anyway, let's head over to that factory and see what's up.
All aboard for destination waifubot factory!"
Let everyone on board who wants to come, then head over that that factory Burt found and check the place out. Insofar the EdPC can do that.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
"Don't worry I'll cut you free."
Get out of the vehicle and go cut the guy free of the tree with my Katana.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
5. The best they have is a list of the board of directors of the company along with the heads of their various departments. In terms of subjects, they have no information.
They do get back to you about the crystalline things you got from the airport. Apparently they're similar to what are used in neuro tissue simulation, albeit older that what is currently available.
"Hoo... alright. Richard, you can go do... whatever. Take the silverfish if you want. Might be fun to track down a Smiles patrol and take their shit. I'll be along shortly, just gotta interrogate the ghosts real quick."[5]
Right, ghost interrogation. Demand their names, first. Then check for which name is the one we actually came here to kidnap (send the rest of the names along to Yagyu in case he recognizes one or something). Once the target ghost is distinguished, interrogation begins. Demand to know what his role in the institute was, what he did for them, and why. Forward all this information to Yagyu, for him to peruse at his leisure.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
((Thanks for adding the map markers!))Done. Please check back in a bit.Quote5. The best they have is a list of the board of directors of the company along with the heads of their various departments. In terms of subjects, they have no information.
Send the pics&details of these directors and department heads around to our various contacts to see if any of them have been sighted recently.QuoteThey do get back to you about the crystalline things you got from the airport. Apparently they're similar to what are used in neuro tissue simulation, albeit older that what is currently available.
Hmm, these things did not seem to contain any living material in them, right? Full synthetic?
Ask the doc if he can give us his contact details so to speak, so that if we have further questions in the future we can ring him up.
Also inquire why he assumed we'd be here to kill him, from what we can tell his involvement in this project seemed fairly benign?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Go help Baldwin with the tree thing.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
"Don't worry I'll cut you free."
Get out of the vehicle and go cut the guy free of the tree with my Katana.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
"Thanks, but can you actually help me GET OUT OF HERE!"
Baldwin's normally calm exterior is nowhere to be seen as he struggles with the tree.
KEEP TRYING TO CUT MYSELF FREE WITH MY OCCULT KNIFE!
When I've accomplished my job, keep a sample of the ever-growing wood in a containment jar. Also advise the cult to burn the tree titan before it regenerates
"Oh for feck' sake, hold on." Alec steps off the transport going over to Baldwin "Aye ye yuts, try not to fight trees." he remarks as Alec gets to work patching Baldwin up.Look at all that teamwork! Hope it doesn't go horribly.
Use a charge of the OMNITECH Medical Kit to expedite bandaging Baldwin up and healing him.Spoiler: Scottish Medic (click to show/hide)
What about collecting my tree sample Piecewise? Rapidly growing firewood would probably fetch a pretty good price at the bizarre.((I'm glad you spelled that properly. It's such a fun detail to remember))
10:14] Radio Controlled: @Piecewise Seems like we're done with the doc earlier than expected and that the EdPC took a bit longer to get moving. Can we just say that Bob and Yagyu also hopped on for convenience's sake, or would you rather not?
[15:42] Piecewise: Sure. Fuck the police.
[16:42] Radio Controlled: Allright then NWA.
[16:43] Radio Controlled: @Incomprehensible Oz I assume you're also ok with having Bob be on the EdPC then?
[18:02] Piecewise: SWS actually
[18:02] Piecewise: Skeleton With Sass
[18:02] BOT: Best Waifu for Lifeu: Rattles at @Piecewise!
[20:22] Incomprehensible Oz: ye, that's totally fine.
"It would be easy to blame me for this. A lot of people died, a lot more are living miserable lives. I always expect that someone will decide that killing me will be a bit of justice. Maybe I just feel guilty.""I see. Don't let the ignorant sins of the past cloud your future doc. What happened, happened. You're certainly making amends now.
Forward that information to Yagyu. Deciding what to do about it is beyond Wilfred's paygrade.
"Think that's enough info, Yags? Can I dismiss this creepy fuck yet? Eh, I'll keep him around for now. I'm gonna go hunting for a bit. Hey, Richard! Let's go find us some well armed tasties, sound fun?"
((Considering I’ve been gone for so long, is Tara still alive or did her human body die and cause her to be uploaded?))((welcome back. When you left we were two turns from the end of a mission. Literally. two turns later, the words MISSION COMPLETE (nearly) end the turn.
Sight: Blindfold
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation SuitThings I DidWhat about collecting my tree sample Piecewise? Rapidly growing firewood would probably fetch a pretty good price at the bizarre.
(Since copying and pasting won’t work, I’m doing this. Sorry for the double post but I tried copying to the previous post but it didn’t work)Gonna give you 1200 OMNI. Feel free to buy stuff from the arsenal before "Appearing". We'll assume you show up in the EdPC.Spoiler (click to show/hide)Code: (senses and blocking of them) [Select]Sight: BlindfoldThings I Did
Smell: Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Hearing:Text to Speech Earplugs, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Taste:Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
Touch:Human Flesh Gloves, Isolation Suit, Sensory Deprivation Suit
If I remember correctly I attempted to and sometimes successfully healed teammates and shot Mr. Derp with foam, as well as thinking a song that managed to confuse a thought form generated by cards (will not touch cards ever again)
I for some reason can’t copy and paste. Inserting quotes still works though
"If you're gonna be watching me, then I might as well make use of you. Be ready to intervene in case something goes wrong here"
Scoop up some dirt and add it to the containment pod with the sapling I collected earlier. Reach out to the Tree Titan's soul again, but try to induce it to grow at a *controlled* rate this time. I need to practice this trick for when I arrive at the bizarre.Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
(I noticed that I forgot to include my character sheet with my previous action and turn where I initially harvested the sapling. Could you let me harvest it retroactively now that I've seen the error of my ways?))
Use the EdPC's wonderful tech to see if this robotics factory place has some kind of network. If so, see if I can't tap into it for cameras, security and/or info.[4]Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
"Well I guess it's time to go get that battery."
Have my shotgun at the ready while use my camera to peek inside the building, then if the building is clear hostiles I go and breach the doors of the building and secure whatever room is on the other side.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
Quote10:14] Radio Controlled: @Piecewise Seems like we're done with the doc earlier than expected and that the EdPC took a bit longer to get moving. Can we just say that Bob and Yagyu also hopped on for convenience's sake, or would you rather not?
[15:42] Piecewise: Sure. Fuck the police.
[16:42] Radio Controlled: Allright then NWA.
[16:43] Radio Controlled: @Incomprehensible Oz I assume you're also ok with having Bob be on the EdPC then?
[18:02] Piecewise: SWS actually
[18:02] Piecewise: Skeleton With Sass
[18:02] BOT: Best Waifu for Lifeu: Rattles at @Piecewise!
[20:22] Incomprehensible Oz: ye, that's totally fine.Quote"It would be easy to blame me for this. A lot of people died, a lot more are living miserable lives. I always expect that someone will decide that killing me will be a bit of justice. Maybe I just feel guilty.""I see. Don't let the ignorant sins of the past cloud your future doc. What happened, happened. You're certainly making amends now.
Anyway, thank you for your time, we'll be on our way now. Good luck with your little community here, you guys have got a good thing going."
So yeah, we'll just say we went with the others to save some time since we seem to be done here.
Get out of the EdPC and stalk around the building a bit, using Biorhythm tracker and environment scanner to spot potential residents or anomalies or other things we'd want to know about.
If nothing pressing comes up, enter building and give it a sweep. If still unmolested, start looking for that battery.
"Let's get what we need and skedaddle, time's-a-wasting and there's still plenty more work, uuh, holiday, to be done."Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Help Yag clear the area. If anything unfriendly presents itself, shoot it.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Bob chuffs a 'friendly' goodbye to the snackman before leaving the the EdPC and off to the robotics place.[6] Bob waddles into the factory completely oblivious to danger and starts slapping things with his tail, as is his want. Sadly there aren't a lot of premade alligator bodies around; the bodies on the conveyor belts and in the boxes are all human or humanoids. Not a single lizard among them. In order to make a croc companion, he's gonna need either different parts or significant modifications. Or to accept a very distressing looking "Crocodile" made of human parts.
While we're here, waddle in and attempt to construct a robotic crocodile as an apprentice.Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
"As well when it ends well I guess
Word of warning Willy Wonka's origin story movie, I have no idea on how to drive this so fasten your seatbelt...wait we don't have those."
SAM will mane the Silverfish and look for SMILES to turn upside downSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Forward that information to Yagyu. Deciding what to do about it is beyond Wilfred's paygrade.The Smiles are currently in a bit of a panic. Their headquarters is currently under siege by a giant skeleton so the remaining members are scattering out into the city in clustered convoys and on foot. The largest one is heading south into the main city area, the rest are sort of going all over. Would you prefer they be on foot or in cars and if in cars, how many? There's between 1 and 5 car convoys and the "Main" convoy has 12 cars.
"Think that's enough info, Yags? Can I dismiss this creepy fuck yet? Eh, I'll keep him around for now. I'm gonna go hunting for a bit. Hey, Richard! Let's go find us some well armed tasties, sound fun?"
Go hunting for a Smiles patrol, something like the little blockade we ran into earlier. Some armed dudes we can murder and loot. SAM can have free reign of the Silverfish, since I don't think Wilfred can pilot it while in his hardsuit just yet.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
"If you're gonna be watching me, then I might as well make use of you. Be ready to intervene in case something goes wrong here"Baldwin exits the EdPC about a minute after everyone else. This shouldn't be very odd, except for the fact that he exits the EdPC flopping about in mid air as a 9 foot tall young tree man drags him out by the throat and starts walking towards the north.
Scoop up some dirt and add it to the containment pod with the sapling I collected earlier. Reach out to the Tree Titan's soul again, but try to induce it to grow at a *controlled* rate this time. I need to practice this trick for when I arrive at the bizarre.Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
(I noticed that I forgot to include my character sheet with my previous action and turn where I initially harvested the sapling. Could you let me harvest it retroactively now that I've seen the error of my ways?))
"Some weird shit going on in here, do we have a plan of action or are we just gonna wing it and grab what we came here for?"
Have my shotgun at the ready and wait to see if we have some kind plan.
"I'd rather first check out what that anomalous signal could be before we ransack this place, don't wanna be caught unawares if we can help it.""Sounds good to me, let's go check it out."
Sure. We'll assume you're with team babysitter Yagyu.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Can i join?
((Good news, copying and pasting works now(Yes, do it twice.
Question is leveling up still applicable?
Question 2: are injuries from last mission healed?))Uuugh, where am I now? Is Derp Controller dealt with? What mission are we on now? Oh, I had money I didn’t before, so yes Derp was dealt with. Does anyone who doesn’t have cognition copier want one?Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Follow Bob and help with the Chevrolet, while I’m too young to drive, I do have hands
Go outside and steal a functional Chevrolet. if no functional Chevrolet's are found, repair and gas up the most functional one i can find.[3]Bob completely discards his previous line of work and waddles outside, looking for a Chevrolet. He waddles past the tree carrying a teammate away and looks around for....20 or so seconds before coming across a perfectly restored 1973 Chevrolet Monte Carlo sitting in the parking lot of a building near by. The parking space denotes the car to belong to "Bill Hoskins, Head of sales". Bob rumbles. With the help of his friend with thumbs he gets the door open and scrambles into the driver seat. After a few seconds of attempting to figure out how he can get into a reasonable driving position he instead scrambles into the back and slaps the driver seat this his tail as though to say "Get in. Road trip."
If i have time after this, locate a cinema and hijack a projector and a sizeable chunk of movie screen.Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
”*Hack* *horf* A... *wheeze* lec... Alec! You were supposed to protect me! Kill this damn tree person! Please.....
boldyouractionnexttime”
Slash the tree person with my occultist knife. One day I will get a good roll!Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
Hmm, it looks like bait, but I'd rather not start ransacking this place with that potential threat above us. Ask our guide if he knows anythign about this place, any reason it wasn't looted?
Then, find a way to the upper floor and slowly, carefully, start making my way there, using enviro scanner, biorhythm scanner and anomaly watch to see what's up.
Oh, unless my teammates have trouble dealing with treedude, in which case first go outside and shoot it with pulse laser and ferro accelerator. Does the weakness analysis reset or is it similar enough to its full-sized compatriot from before? If not it's at lvl 3 now."Some weird shit going on in here, do we have a plan of action or are we just gonna wing it and grab what we came here for?"
Have my shotgun at the ready and wait to see if we have some kind plan.
"I'd rather first check out what that anomalous signal could be before we ransack this place, don't wanna be caught unawares if we can help it."Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Don't worry, your teammates are having no issue with the treeman. They're completely ignoring him in fact. Except for the teammate he's strangling. That guy...well he's doing his best, bless him."I'd rather first check out what that anomalous signal could be before we ransack this place, don't wanna be caught unawares if we can help it.""Sounds good to me, let's go check it out."
Have my shotgun at the ready and follow Yagyu to the upper floors.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
Go along with Wil's plan and park the Silverfish somewhere safe and ahead of the convo as to catch them by surprise, oh and try to change colors to better match with the enviroment as to better ambush those suckers. Also switch one Dex point to increase bite damage.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Ehhh, I was thinking of just grabbing some of the idiots on foot. Easier if you don't need a can opener, y'know? Then again things will go faster for me if we can loot an APC or something. So sure! Let's get one of the convoys!"[4]
Let's go for a convoy! Size of the convoy is less important to me than composition; something like an APC or humvee with mounted gun would be ideal. Preferably without protection for the gunner, so Wilfred can disable the gun without destroying it. Oh, and don't go for the big convoy--that one will probably be dangerous enough for Wildred to accidentally a skeleton or some shit, again.
Intercept it by flying a good distance ahead of them, so we can disembark and put the Silverfish in cover before engaging. It's more fragile and valuable than SAM or Wilfred.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
Hey guys, I managed to get ahold of an artifact. It's this piece of everlasting firewood. It's not the fanciest thing in the world, but an artifact is an artifact and I'm sure it will sell well at the bizarre regardless.
There's just one problem. It's currently escaping our custody and we could really use an aerial support vehicle to help hunt it down. It would also be nice have a quick way of traveling to the bizarre without slowing down the rest of our group. As you can guess, it's a bit hard to hold on to so I'd like to fence this thing as soon as possible.
Just travel to my coordinates and I'll brief you on the rest.
what is going on and how can i help.
"where the heck am i? whats happening, is there anyone who needs killing?
action fixed. quick question. did the five points mean five points into both stats and skills, or total.in total.
"That was only a 1 in 25 chance! The outcome I want is also a 1 in 25 chance! I'm pretty good at getting 1 in 25 chances so if I keep stabbing I'll eventually get what I want in around 3 turns!"[8]
Clearly the oxygen deprivation is starting to get to Baldwin because nobody knows what he's talking about anymore. Surely somebody in the EDPC can save him. Maybe the EDPC itself can drive on over and get Baldwin out of this pickle...
Suddenly, Will and SAM get a text.QuoteHey guys, I managed to get ahold of an artifact. It's this piece of everlasting firewood. It's not the fanciest thing in the world, but an artifact is an artifact and I'm sure it will sell well at the bizarre regardless.
There's just one problem. It's currently escaping our custody and we could really use an aerial support vehicle to help hunt it down. It would also be nice have a quick way of traveling to the bizarre without slowing down the rest of our group. As you can guess, it's a bit hard to hold on to so I'd like to fence this thing as soon as possible.
Just travel to my coordinates and I'll brief you on the rest.
And with that done, Baldwin puts the phone away and reaches for his knife.
STAB IT! AGAIN!Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
Drive the Chevrolet to…somewhereSpoiler (click to show/hide)
((Two level ups complete))
Bob's not about nine foot tall baby treemen. Bob doesn't eat nine foot tall baby treemen.[9]
Bob is about driving a Chevrolet movie theatre. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvbno0vu0vU)
Get in Tara! Get in and drive!
what is going on and how can i help.Currently you appear to be trapped within a robotic's factory which expands infinitely when you try to escape. Think of it as Xeno's paradox, but it hates you.
"where the heck am i? whats happening, is there anyone who needs killing?Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Well shit this ain't good."Burt does a quick walk around the place and finds out something very important: The "infinite" effect that prevents them from leaving only activates when he tries to walk nearer to the outer walls of the building. If he walks around, staying the same distance from the outer walls at all times, he can circumnavigate the building without issue. Similarly, he can move deeper in without issue. But as soon as he tries to get further towards the edge, it won't let him get anywhere.
Walk around the edges of the anomaly we've found ourselves in and see if I can't find a way out of it.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
Sigh. Ok then, let's see.
1) Use enviro scanner and anomaly watch too see if I can spot anything that could indicate what's going on here or where the 'source' is. and does the anomaly watch still point to the upper floor>
2) Also try to use my Bob sample for the biorhythm tracker to see if it can still pick that up.
3) See if I still have radio comms to my teammates, if yes warn them not to enter this place for now or at least not get into the anomalous zone. And ask our guide, has he seen anything like this before?
4) Can I literally only move in the direction of the machinery? No way to get to a side wall we could bust through or something?
5) If I throw a bolt or w/ever in the direction of the stairs, does it reach or does it just keep falling or something?what is going on and how can i help.
"where the heck am i? whats happening, is there anyone who needs killing?
((assuming he's not in the anomalous zone and can hear Yagyu, if not disregard.))
"There's a guy outside getting strangled by a tree. See if you can help him with that. The guy, I mean, not the tree."Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Eh, he's a big occult boy, he can handle himself...probably..."
And with that, SAM will help Wilfonso II with making a roadblock with the cars.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
((Blackpaladin, just a note. You must post your sheet with your action, or else your action will automatically fail. Just copy the way everyone else posts their sheets.))Wilfred and Sam spend the next several minutes shoving cars around and forming a barricade of sorts. They get pretty into it and only finally stop when some bullets ricochet off the ground around them. The convoy has seen them and has opened up with their mounted machinegun from a distance. Sam and Wil vault over their barricade and peek out as bullets continue to hiss past.
Wilfred--still encased in his massive faceless hardsuit, of course--turns to SAM right after they both receive pings from Baldwin.
"Do you want to go help him? I assume you can't eat wood, but I'll drive the bodies over for you to chomp on, if you want to go. Though it sounds pretty dumb and boring."
Eh, I'm fine with just pushing some of the cars into a cluster, so they definitely can't drive straight through. Aside from that, just wait for them to get here, and examine our prey from a distance. Do any of their vehicles have heavy weapons? How many bodies does it look like they have?Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
Look to see if there are any hostiles, if not, continue driving. We’re bound to find something eventually. If (and this is unlikely) we find a friendly or neutral, ask about relatively safe areas and movie theaters ( hopefully within the relatively safe category)Spoiler (click to show/hide)
”Bob, I’m unsure if you can understand me, but I’m curious why you want to see a movie, also I’m not entirely sure what we’re supposed to be doing here, I hope you know”
Bob gurgles in an encouraging way and sticks his snout out a window, just a little bit.[5]
"This is where the fun begins! You handle the cars, I'll take Shooty McRocket there. And try to leave at least some remains for me will ya?!"
SAM will hop along the cars like a demonic frog towards the RPG man before biting off his head.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Woah, woah, you're vulner--ah, fuck it! Try and get inside, take control! That car is our loot! Everything else is food."[4] [2, 1, 3, 3][3]
Alrighty then. Use the ACA to target all the vehicles aside from the one with rocket dude, and the one with the mounted machine gun. The damn acidthrower has better than even odds of damaging a hardsuit, so I expect it to deal with vehicles well enough.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
Your teammates are the following few guys. You're already with them.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Go find my teammate
Find the weakest looking exterior wall and shoot it with the piledriver.Ji puts a hole in one of the exterior walls. Hmmm.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
"Hey guys I think I've fucked up somehow, I'm further in and can't get back to the group, it seems going further in is permanent because I'm stuck."Walking backwards doesn't work, but by walking around the perimeter you are able to get close to the stairs. Within about 10 feet at least, but they're a bit further out towards the periphery.
Face the center of the building and walk backwards towards the group and see if that doesn't allow me to get out, if that fails try to find a stair case and go up stairs.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
Grab something (preferably smaller than a washer :v ) and write a message on it that says this is an anomalous area and to warn teammates not to enter, and ask if they can toss us a rope or something from the entrance without getting in. Laser it into the side of the thing with the pulse laser on low if needed. Then chuck this out a window or the hole Ji is gonna make.You scribble a message on a bit of cut steel plate and frisbee it through the hole Ji put in the wall.
Look toward where the anomaly detector is pointing. We currently can't reach it since the stairs are out of reach, correct? Does it seem like I could use the pulse laser to cut out a hole in the roof so we can get a visual on it?
Hell, if I try jumping high, does it seem like the anomaly also has its effect (aka can't really move up either) or does that work?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Shit...”
RUN! Run until I reach the EDPC and get inside the vehicle so the weeds can’t get me. Set some of my rainbow tobacco on fire and drop it behind me as I try to escape. Maybe they’ll be traumatized by seeing their brethren burn and slow down.
If I succeed, ponder why the weeds were still chasing after me even though I annihilated the tree guy
Thank god I invested a point into speed.Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
"Do you guys think blowing up that thing on the second floor might stop this, or could we blow a hole in the floor and get out that way?"
This is Baldwin to Battery team. I'm here to inform you guys that I have escaped the clutches of the Ent and have returned to the EDPC. Unfortunately, the vehicle is currently being assaulted by sentient weeds and the AI isn't responding. I think it's restarting to install firmware updates or something like that.
Can you guys send someone to break the siege? I can't get out until something is done about that.
Awaiting Response. Over.
Loot film projector and any surviving bits of movie screen. Install in Chevrolet. Then just allow Tara to take me wherever ... even back to the trapped team, I guess. Perhaps we can be of external aid to the lost.Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
[6]Head inside the theater with Bob, foam gun at the ready in case of threats, if a threat is found, shoot said threatSpoiler (click to show/hide)
"Surrender or die!"
Shout the above while continuing to use the acidthrower to destroy the rest of the vehicles. Leave the one with the mounted machinegun alone. Maybe stop shooting anyone who surrenders.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
SAM pokes her head inside the vehicle and squeals in delight at the gift her smilling friends just gave her "A can full of sardines? For little old me? Oh boys you shouldn't have!"[2][3]
SAM will force her way inside the car and rip apart any Smileys still alive in there, taking care to leave the driver for last for dramatic effect (and also because she needs to take the wheel as soon as he dies)Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Do you guys think blowing up that thing on the second floor might stop this, or could we blow a hole in the floor and get out that way?"This actually works and you reach the stairs.
Grab a nearby cable and throw it until it gets caught on the stairs, then use the cable to drag myself over to the stairs.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
Just stand around.Aye Aye Captain.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
[8]Quote"Do you guys think blowing up that thing on the second floor might stop this, or could we blow a hole in the floor and get out that way?"
"Maybe. I'm gonna try cutting a hole to see what is there before we blow anything up though."
Allrighty, let's use the pulse laser to try and cut a circular hole around the area where the center of the anomaly seems to be, preferably at a angle that will let the debris fall down safely and withut cutting into vital support beams or whatever.
If that works out, look at what's gong on in there. Enviro scanner, anomaly sensors, the works.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Bob gurgles at Tara and gives her a big, toothy grin. he then starts looking around for moar car! The bigger the better! A box truck even. Heck, a semi with trailer would work.Assist Bob with this task. When finding a larger vehicle, commence the loading of the items we looted
Find Moar Car! find the biggest salvageable vehicle available. We gonna get this theater mobile.Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
"Huh. Guess I should've realized that fleeing cowards would run from a fight." Wilfred shrugs. "Hey Richard, how are you doing? Saw the car do a few flips.""Preeety good. You know you and I? We go well together-I mean n-not in that way Willbaka, but just like high-grade nuclear reactors and soviet bureaucracy we are a absolutly foolproof duo I say."
Head over to SAM and check the vehicle. Any lootable guns? Maybe that rocket launcher? And is the vehicle still in working order? I know it flipped, but Wilfred's in a hardsuit and maybe it's tough.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
Uhh guys... I can understand not wanting to send someone to help, but surely I'd hear something by now. Are you guys okay?
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CODE RED! MAJOR LOSS OF PERSONNEL!
Hey Sam, Hey Will. It seems like we're in some pretty deep shit at the moment. The artifact has been dealt with and destroyed, but unfortunately it seems that while I was away, the entire Battery team went MIA. I have no idea if they're dead or not, but none of my attempts to contact them have yielded any response.
It may already be too late, but I need you guys to regroup so we can organize a search and rescue team. If they're still alive, then we have to find them! I doubt we'll be able to get very far without them...
Heya Baldy! SAM and I just finished ambushing a caravan, we're busy looting and eating right now. We'll get back to you soon. In the meantime, where's Yagyu? He's clever, I'm sure he can organize something to solve all your problems.
I don't think you realize the extent of the trouble we're in. Yagyu's also gone. One of our most competent teammates is gone!
Maybe he'll somehow get out of whatever situation he's put himself in, but I don't want to rely on that. He needs our help so finish your looting and come over here quick!
...Oh. Oh dear.
Well, we'll be over as soon as we finish looting, but to be quite honest I don't see what you expect us to do. I'm mostly only good at solving situations which can be solved by destroying something or someone. Or making the situation into one which can be solved by destroying something or someone. Did Yagyu say where he was going? Is there something in the area I could just level? With that fancy body of his he'll probably survive anything I can throw into the area, hopefully better than whatever's cutting off comms can.
Nope, nothing like that. There’s only that abandoned factory they went to explore. If they went anywhere else I wouldn’t know about it. Maybe the EDPC’s got some video logs of the team leaving the building and travelling somewhere else, there might even be some footage of them being carried off by their captors.
Or maybe it was something inside the factory that got them...
Time to get big. SAM will eat whatever's left of the crew's MEAT like a muckbang youtuber eats away the pain of their existence+3 meat.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Bob gurgles at Tara and gives her a big, toothy grin. he then starts looking around for moar car! The bigger the better! A box truck even. Heck, a semi with trailer would work.
Find Moar Car! find the biggest salvageable vehicle available. We gonna get this theater mobile.Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
[2]Bob gurgles at Tara and gives her a big, toothy grin. he then starts looking around for moar car! The bigger the better! A box truck even. Heck, a semi with trailer would work.Assist Bob with this task. When finding a larger vehicle, commence the loading of the items we looted
Find Moar Car! find the biggest salvageable vehicle available. We gonna get this theater mobile.Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Huh. Guess I should've realized that fleeing cowards would run from a fight." Wilfred shrugs. "Hey Richard, how are you doing? Saw the car do a few flips."Rocket launcher yes. 3 d6 rifles yes. 3 grenades yes. Car in working order? Mostly, just very messy. Also too small for your giant mechanical ass. We'll assume you flip it back onto its wheels.
Head over to SAM and check the vehicle. Any lootable guns? Maybe that rocket launcher? And is the vehicle still in working order? I know it flipped, but Wilfred's in a hardsuit and maybe it's tough.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
Quote from: BaldwinNope, nothing like that. There’s only that abandoned factory they went to explore. If they went anywhere else I wouldn’t know about it. Maybe the EDPC’s got some video logs of the team leaving the building and travelling somewhere else, there might even be some footage of them being carried off by their captors.
Or maybe it was something inside the factory that got them...
Check the EDPC’s video logs. Look for footage of my team entering and exiting the building. If none is found, try to see if I can access the EDPC’s driving controls. Circle the building and try to find all of the factory’s entrances and exits.Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
Since he wasn't sure if Burt would hear him, Yagyu just sticks up his thumb and proceeds to try it.
Commandeer a cable, toss it to that hole Ji made and try to snag it on something (or, if a teammate sees it, let them tie it to something), then test if Yagyu can drag him out of the anomalous zone that way.
If yes, double check the cable and then go in and look for that fucking battery, then drag myself out again if one is found.
If not possible, scavenge some metal bits and combine them into a long holder where the scanner can fit at the end (use toolkit charge). then use this to poke the scanner into the green room and record a bit, then pull back and see what's going on in there.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Go wherever Yag goesSpoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
do what BurtBurt just didSpoiler (click to show/hide)
"Hey guys I thing I found a way to get out, if you grab a cable and get it caught on something near the wall you can use it to pull yourselves towards it, also I'm gonna try to see what's up stairs."
Gather up the cable and go up the stairs and try to see what's inside the room.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
((So, apparently I just used the EDPC to just tow Yagyu and Ji out of the trap. Ok, commence RP))
”Glad to see that you guys are okay. Turns out that tree kidnapping was a blessing in disguise.”
There’s a bit of an awkward silence as nobody bothers to comment. Baldwin looks into the hole again.
”So... how do you want to approach this now? Have you guys found the battery yet?”
Before Akanorth Requtist can do any damage, Baldwin fires a warning shot with his pistol and tells him to stop.((this is very obnoxious metagaming, and so soon after you roleplayed complete IC ignorance of the situation. You have no good reason to either go inside the anomaly, or to even know the other guy is in there and what he is doing. You have even less reason to expect that you could get there in time to stop what's about to happen.))
It isn't clear when he entered the building but he has cable wrapped around his waist with the other end presumably leading to the EDPC. It's a long rope.
Before Akanorth Requtist can do any damage, Baldwin fires a warning shot with his pistol and tells him to stop.((this is very obnoxious metagaming, and so soon after you roleplayed complete IC ignorance of the situation. You have no good reason to either go inside the anomaly, or to even know the other guy is in there and what he is doing. You have even less reason to expect that you could get there in time to stop what's about to happen.))
"Guys, I know that grabbing glowing green glassballs that gave us grief is good fun, but try to not linger too long, we still have a job to do remember."
((I have some questions about the Military grade electronic binoculars I got. Do they have multiple vision modes and if so what are they? Particularly I'm curious about things like infrared and night vision.))
(I'm not the one trying to smack the anomaly with a stick, it's akanorth requtist.)I’m not trying to smack it, I’m trying to utterly destroy it.
We'll make do with what we've got then. Rip the front passenger seat out of the car we already have. projector goes there. Tear the whole backseat out and plaster as much of the screen as we can fit into the back window draping down to the floorboards. Cut a hole in the trunk lid and affix the popcorn machine back there. If Tara so desires, we can replace the driver's seat with one of the theatre seats, but that's optional. Cardboard man is now our mascot: apply him like a skin over the passenger side hood and windshield of the car. If we can get the projector rigged to be at least minimally functional, that'd be great.Spoiler: ignore this (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
Tara’s rather keep the driver’s seat as is. Some part of the car needs to be kept the way it was so she can drive it. Help Bob with all of this so we can hopefully find out what we’re supposed to be doing, by picking a direction to drive to[6]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Use the anti-bio razor to hack apart the vines trying to grab that one guy.[5] Ji wanders about and chops up the small plants still trying to kill "That one guy". They don't offer much resistance. Well, no more so than an animate dandelion would normally.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
[5]((So, apparently I just used the EDPC to just tow Yagyu and Ji out of the trap. Ok, commence RP))
”Glad to see that you guys are okay. Turns out that tree kidnapping was a blessing in disguise.”
There’s a bit of an awkward silence as nobody bothers to comment. Baldwin looks into the hole again.
”So... how do you want to approach this now? Have you guys found the battery yet?”
"Working on it. This place is pissing me off."
Double check the cable to make sure it'll hold and then go in again and look for that fucking battery, then drag myself out again if one is found. Also drag out any remaining teammates if possible/needed. Either way shoot a message to the people inside:
"Guys, I know that grabbing glowing green glassballs that gave us grief is good fun, but try to not linger too long, we still have a job to do remember."
If we manage to get everyone gathered and things sorted, then board EdPC and let's head out to that second shipping location we learned about at the airport.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Can't think of a way to stop that green thing so I'm leaving."Burt Burt leaves the way Yagyu came.
Use my cable to drag myself outside to the rest of the group.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
[2]whack the glass thing with my rod. It’s got to be important, and then put it or whatever of it I can fit into my containment pod.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Ahhh yeah this is what I'm talking about! I can feel my mitochondrias on overdrive right now! So, baka-will, we helping the derpy cultist or what? I mean I don't really care much about him since you know, he's a normal meatsack unlike you and I. Like maybe if it was Ji or Yakman calling...Wait a second is my communicator own?! I mean uh-hold on there Baldwonk, we're coming to save you!"
SAM will get on the silverfish and see what's happening to Balding Whinkerhonk. Bring Wil along if he wants to, or don't, he could get there by walking all thing's considered. Guy's a fucking brick house, as in, he's the size of a house made out of bricks. h and +1 FLESH to STR.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Yeaaaah, we prolly should. I don't want to get yelled at by Yagyu. I think I'm gonna just leave the armored car, I can't fit inside it anyway. So I'll be right with you, just wanna stow these guns first."Ammo is d6, 8 spare mags in the car.
What die size of ammo for the rifles, and how many spare mags per rifle? For comparison, the basic OMNITECH gun has the same damage and d8 mags.
What damage size for the grenades? OMNITECH frags deal d12 damage. I'd also like damage die for the rocket launcher, there's no point of reference there since OMNITECH doesn't sell those.
As an actual action... ehhh we don't really need an armored car. Just ride back to the team as a passenger on the silverfish. Happiness is a full arsenal.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
Baldwin follows the cable back into the building. He sees...that guy with the name...swinging his rod at the glowing orb. And he notices that he's swinging it infinitely. Its a very odd thing to see. Always moving inwards...never reaching.Before Akanorth Requtist can do any damage, Baldwin fires a warning shot with his pistol and tells him to stop.((this is very obnoxious metagaming, and so soon after you roleplayed complete IC ignorance of the situation. You have no good reason to either go inside the anomaly, or to even know the other guy is in there and what he is doing. You have even less reason to expect that you could get there in time to stop what's about to happen.))
Guess I jumped the gun a little. Piecewise did a small timeskip to have me rescue Yagu and Ji and I assumed I had been briefed on everything afterwards. Upon rereading the turn though, the discovery of the glass glob has only just happened (right after the timeskip) and only Burt Burt and the other cultist know. Sorry about that, I'll make a new action."Guys, I know that grabbing glowing green glassballs that gave us grief is good fun, but try to not linger too long, we still have a job to do remember."
"If there are glowing green glassballs inside, then I'd like to take a look. I accidentally obliterated the tree guy while trying to escape from him so it would make me feel better if I could find another artifact to replace it with. Should be a quick job."
Create a harness using cable. Wrap one end around my waist and the other end around the EDPC. Venture inside the factory and try to find those balls Yagyu is talking about. If I find Akanorth, recoil in horror as I witness him smashing the ball, being too late to stop him.
((And before anyone says it's out of character for me to venture into dangerous anomalies, I would like to remind you of how I handled the snap at the prospector's bar. Also it's my job to do things like this.))
Also ask the GM some questions:Quote from: Previous Post((I have some questions about the Military grade electronic binoculars I got. Do they have multiple vision modes and if so what are they? Particularly I'm curious about things like infrared and night vision.))Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
The Prophecy has been fulfilled! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvbno0vu0vU)((well, I didn’t know this was a thing and thought you were being completely random, thanks for introducing me to that))
“Ok guys, I think I found the/one of the sources of the thing that’s keeping us from leaving. I’m assuming that it’s destruction will: (a) permit us to leave (b) kill us all. But what’s life without taking a few risks? So does anyone have ideas for how to destroy it?”Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Say the above and then attempt to hit it with my stick again. If that fails, shoot it.
“Ok guys, I think I found the/one of the sources of the thing that’s keeping us from leaving. I’m assuming that it’s destruction will: (a) permit us to leave (b) kill us all. But what’s life without taking a few risks? So does anyone have ideas for how to destroy it?”
Say the above and then attempt to hit it with my stick again. If that fails, shoot it.
((any time! Glad i could help fill your crocodile alligator meme needs. Bob was, after all, created literally in response to a similar meme.))Quote from: OzarckThe Prophecy has been fulfilled! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvbno0vu0vU)((well, I didn’t know this was a thing and thought you were being completely random, thanks for introducing me to that))
((ah, look at you, helping out with formatting for other players. You're a real veteran now :D))Quote from: BlackPaladin99“Ok guys, I think I found the/one of the sources of the thing that’s keeping us from leaving. I’m assuming that it’s destruction will: (a) permit us to leave (b) kill us all. But what’s life without taking a few risks? So does anyone have ideas for how to destroy it?”Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Say the above and then attempt to hit it with my stick again. If that fails, shoot it.
"Yo! Yags! We're back. Where are we heading next? Also, I brought guns, anyone need one?"
“But don’t you want To destroy it?”“Ok guys, I think I found the/one of the sources of the thing that’s keeping us from leaving. I’m assuming that it’s destruction will: (a) permit us to leave (b) kill us all. But what’s life without taking a few risks? So does anyone have ideas for how to destroy it?”
Say the above and then attempt to hit it with my stick again. If that fails, shoot it.
"If you want to leave, just grab onto this cable wrapped around my waist and pull yourself out as if you were climbing a rope at the gym, it'll take you to the EDPC. That works for some reason. The rest of us have already done it, so we're just waiting for you.
"As for the artifact, it's no longer a threat so don't destroy it, I'll be collecting it myself."
He gives akanorth a mean look.
"I'm serious though, don't destroy it"
Baldwin walks close enough to Akanorth so he can grab onto his cable and pull himself out. Once Akanorth is out, Baldwin will perform the procedure outlined in this spoiler:Spoiler: Containment Procedure (click to show/hide)
Don't start until after he leavesSpoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
“But don’t you want To destroy it?”
“ but if you’re interested in money we could make more total by breaking it and pretending we got it from a bunch of different missions and make people pay more!!!”“But don’t you want To destroy it?”
”No. If I was younger maybe I’d find it funny at least, but now that I’m older, I’m more interested in money and glory. Do you know how much these things are worth at the bizarre if you can bring them back intact? I saw one there worth a million megabucks. Sure, I’d have to split it with everyone here, collecting this was a team effort after all, but that’s still a fortune.”
He says that last line while giving akanorth a wink.
“but if you’re interested in money we could make more total by breaking it and pretending we got it from a bunch of different missions and make people pay more!!!”
Fine“but if you’re interested in money we could make more total by breaking it and pretending we got it from a bunch of different missions and make people pay more!!!”
”Only artifacts that work are worth any money. If we break this thing, then it’ll only be worth as much as broken glass which isn’t a lot.
“I’m not interested in selling broken glass, so it’s best we do it my way. If you want to break something, there’s bound to be some giant monster to show up that will be begging for some bullets to get shoved up it’s ass.”
We're gonna assume you drive back to meet up with the rest of the team. Because why not.The Prophecy has been fulfilled! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvbno0vu0vU)((well, I didn’t know this was a thing and thought you were being completely random, thanks for introducing me to that))Drive the Chevrolet theater somewhere, hopefully towards whatever the mission entails, or towards some sort of clue as to what we’re supposed to be doing hereSpoiler (click to show/hide)
“Ok guys, I think I found the/one of the sources of the thing that’s keeping us from leaving. I’m assuming that it’s destruction will: (a) permit us to leave (b) kill us all. But what’s life without taking a few risks? So does anyone have ideas for how to destroy it?”Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Say the above and then attempt to hit it with my stick again. If that fails, shoot it.
Akanorth would love to try and hit the thing again...or shoot it...but he is currently stuck in an infinite action of swinging his rod at the thing. Ever heard of a Shepard tone? Xeno's paradox? He's trapped in something like that. He is always approaching, never reaching. Always acting, never completing. The artifact is infinitely far, yet infinitely close.“Ok guys, I think I found the/one of the sources of the thing that’s keeping us from leaving. I’m assuming that it’s destruction will: (a) permit us to leave (b) kill us all. But what’s life without taking a few risks? So does anyone have ideas for how to destroy it?”
Say the above and then attempt to hit it with my stick again. If that fails, shoot it.
"If you want to leave, just grab onto this cable wrapped around my waist and pull yourself out as if you were climbing a rope at the gym, it'll take you to the EDPC. That works for some reason. The rest of us have already done it, so we're just waiting for you.
"As for the artifact, it's no longer a threat so don't destroy it, I'll be collecting it myself."
He gives akanorth a mean look.
"I'm serious though, don't destroy it"
Baldwin walks close enough to Akanorth so he can grab onto his cable and pull himself out. Once Akanorth is out, Baldwin will perform the procedure outlined in this spoiler:Spoiler: Containment Procedure (click to show/hide)
Don't start until after he leavesSpoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
"Yo! Yags! We're back. Where are we heading next? Also, I brought guns, anyone need one?"Fish atop the APC.
Stow the silverfish in the APC. Then... I guess board and wait for orders. Run diagnostics on the APC's AI while waiting.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
"Just remember to avoid the city Yags, we kinda unleashed the spirit of 10,000 dead natives and I believe it's currently eating the populace and terrorizing the wasteside as we speak."Sam sit. Sam get head stuck in window. Sam do sam thing.
SAM will sit by the window, before realizing she's probably too big to fit her head through it by now.
1 FLS > STRSpoiler (click to show/hide)
"Aw shit I forgot to get those robot brains I was looking for, but fuck this place I'm not going back in there, anyway my body is ready for that battery."
Get into the EdPC and allow the new battery to be installed in me.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
["Yo! Yags! We're back. Where are we heading next? Also, I brought guns, anyone need one?"
"Ah, excellent, impeccable timing, we were just about to wrap up here. Still got a lead from that airport to wrap up."
Then, looking at the pile of guns and Sam looking unusually fed and content, he adds
And I see you guys had some proactive R&R as well, very nice.
Finally, he turns to the building, and over both comms and just by shouting, he yells that "We are getting the hell outta here at [end of turn], we've spent too much time on this shithole already."
Assuming Burt allows it, install that battery! Use a toolkit charge.
Then, at the end of the turn, once everybody who wants to get in is in, EdPC rides out toward that shipping center! Oh, and using the bio tracker, maybe pass by Tara and Bob to pick them up if it’s not too far out of the way.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
((Sure, I think. Oh, because she's been suffering space dementia for a while, since the end of the previous mission, right?))((She’s possible suffering from sensory overload from the deprivation from before when she dealt with the controller aka Mr. Derp, the metal gate and the bodies are reminding her of her very first mission she remembers, when they went to the haunted outpost and she saw the death of a universe and traveled on metal beams to break the source of madness))
Is…did the door eat them? Can someone tell me what the mission is? I missed how I got here and Bob seemed adamant about the car, do we give it something? See how it reacts? If at all?the theater we found was empty too, I bought a cognition copier for anyone who doesn’t have one. I’m gonna see if the gate’s a mimic, by thr9wing something at it, e ready to reverse soon in case my guess is correct
Look at the gorewall. How occult-y does it seem, on a scale of "nah" to "let's get the fuck away right now"? Any useful informational tidbits that can be yanked out of Wil's brain here?”Here” *Tara gives Wil the cognition copier* ((will edit spoiler to reflect this))
Do not touch it. But if it doesn't seem like a bad idea for occult reasons, and nothing happens to Tara after tossing a dish, try headshotting a couple of the bodies with a Smiles rifle. Maybe shoot the wall too. For science.
"H-hey, Tara, wait! Before you go doing anything, can you give me that cognition copier? I lost mine last mission, I'd love to have a replacement."Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
”Here” *Tara gives Wil the cognition copier* ((will edit spoiler to reflect this))
Smiles Rifle (d6 ranged attack) and 3 magazines (d6,d6,d6)
Baldwin heads out to look for an empty shipping crate, preferably a metal one. An abandoned factory should be full of these, how else are they to send their stuff? He then turns the crate upside down and looks for some rod to prop it up with. Basically he creates a giant box trap like in this spoiler minus the rope*.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Baldwin will look at the orb's trajectory and try to predict where it will go (since you previously stated that it bounced around like a screensaver). He will set up the trap in such a way that the orb will go inside the box and collide with one of its walls. This should cause enough force to disturb the rod and make the crate fall down, trapping the orb inside. If the ball bounces off the box without making it fall, throw a big rock at the box instead. That should create enough force to trigger the trap and nab us the orb.
Once the orb has been boxed, Baldwin will walk a complete circle around the box and return to his starting position. This will make the cable around his waist wrap around the box, which should allow us to transport the box by manipulating the cable. Friction should drag the unsealed lid along as well.
The next step after this will be to seal the box, but I will do that in the next turn. I want to see how this first part turns out. Maybe it will be faster if I do this over discord or PM?
"Good to have you back with us, Ed-boy. Did you dream of electric sheep?
For that fence, while it's existence offends me, for now let's hold off until we know more. If it starts getting uppity though, then by all means, erase it."
"Good to have you back with us, Ed-boy. Did you dream of electric sheep?Actually, I dreamt I was a huge watermelon. Just, a huge watermelon. I wonder what the meaning behind that could be."
For that fence, while it's existence offends me, for now let's hold off until we know more. If it starts getting uppity though, then by all means, erase it.
"I believe that represents unresolved feelings of hatred towards your mother.""Shit, you might be right."
George Floyd was a nutcase, the reason he was the “father of psychology” was because other psychologists proved all his crazy shit wrong. I do not know where I got that, maybe someone in school told…blood has an interesting smell"Good to have you back with us, Ed-boy. Did you dream of electric sheep?Actually, I dreamt I was a huge watermelon. Just, a huge watermelon. I wonder what the meaning behind that could be."
For that fence, while it's existence offends me, for now let's hold off until we know more. If it starts getting uppity though, then by all means, erase it.
"I believe that represents unresolved feelings of hatred towards your mother."
George Floyd was a nutcase, the reason he was the “father of psychology” was because other psychologists proved all his crazy shit wrong. I do not know where I got that, maybe someone in school told…blood has an interesting smell
Haven’t heard of Harrison, I thought Derp was already unhinged…what if he escapes again? I like being able to sense things without risking losing my willGeorge Floyd was a nutcase, the reason he was the “father of psychology” was because other psychologists proved all his crazy shit wrong. I do not know where I got that, maybe someone in school told…blood has an interesting smell
"Wasn't it George Harrison? I remember something about him melting people in acid as an 'experiment'. Dude was fucking derp unhinged."
((Hey, Pancaek, Bob now has a Chevrolet movie theater in convoy with the EdPC, similarly decked out with a mascot attached to the front of it. So feel free to notice or ignore that((Thanks, I missed that))monstrositywork of art as you like~))
Is…did the door eat them? Can someone tell me what the mission is? I missed how I got here and Bob seemed adamant about the car, do we give it something? See how it reacts? If at all?the theater we found was empty too, I bought a cognition copier for anyone who doesn’t have one. I’m gonna see if the gate’s a mimic, by thr9wing something at it, e ready to reverse soon in case my guess is correctThrow empty plate at possible gate mimic, if it is a mimic, the plate will shatter, doing damage to it, Reverse quickly and get away from it, if it’s not a mimic, the plate will shatter, and I have space for something more useful, and I won’t have to run from a giant mimic, also try giving the hammer to whoever owned itSpoiler (click to show/hide)
which one of you lent me a hammer? I still have itBob, did you understand my reasoning I mentioned at all?Spoiler: Some thoughts going through Tara’s head (click to show/hide)
Look at the gorewall. How occult-y does it seem, on a scale of "nah" to "let's get the fuck away right now"? Any useful informational tidbits that can be yanked out of Wil's brain here?[9]
Do not touch it. But if it doesn't seem like a bad idea for occult reasons, and nothing happens to Tara after tossing a dish, try headshotting a couple of the bodies with a Smiles rifle. Maybe shoot the wall too. For science.
EDIT: Also, receive and equip cognition copier from Tara. Give her one of the looted rifles in trade. (Already edited)
"H-hey, Tara, wait! Before you go doing anything, can you give me that cognition copier? I lost mine last mission, I'd love to have a replacement."Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
The aerial scans of this place reveal two things. First, the gate is pretty new as the latest scans show it mid construction. Second, the gate seems to be a singular thing. No walls to go with it. Seems like you could just go around, if you wanted.QuoteIs…did the door eat them? Can someone tell me what the mission is? I missed how I got here and Bob seemed adamant about the car, do we give it something? See how it reacts? If at all?the theater we found was empty too, I bought a cognition copier for anyone who doesn’t have one. I’m gonna see if the gate’s a mimic, by thr9wing something at it, e ready to reverse soon in case my guess is correct
"I dunno who or what did this, though if I had to guess this is the 'welcome home' sign of some local gang. We did spot those guys in military fatigues and some sort of skins in this neighborhood a while back with the drone. Either way, let's try to avoid all this if we can."
Take a look at this area and the general area beyond through satellite/drone cams. Nothing out there either? And does this 'fence' stretch out all the way around where we want to go? If not, could we just plot a course around whatever this is to our destination?
Either way, have a scan of the area. Bio tracker, enviro scanner, anomaly watch, the works.
Finally, ask our guide if he knows anything about this place.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"I'm not sure we need to be messing with a door like that, it's probably covered in AIDS and other diseases, and ain't nobody got time for that."Should last forever.
Stay in the car far from the weird door, and look at my new battery and find out how long it'll last.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
Don’t do anything, but be on the turret ready to start gunning if need be.Ji trains the turret on the center of the gate and waits.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
"...This looks to good to be true, hey Occult Nerd, check the gate's chakras for bad juju! I wanna see if those bodies are edible, chop-chop!"Sam sits on her haunches and sighs. Nothing worse than when lunch is haunted. Dang it.
If the gate isn't haunted, SAM will start to suction the bits and pieces off it like a vacuum. If it is haunted, SAM will make a mental note to ask Wil to send whoever built this blueball doorway to the ghost zone, and then eat bodies of the pilles that are far away from it./b]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
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pull out of the loop. Then attempt to put it in my containment pod.
"Looks pretty dangerous over there, and I still have some unfinished business at the factory. I'm going to take the guide and silverfish and then I'll come back. Unless one of you guys wants to join me instead? Seems funner than risking it with this gang." :-\Baldwin lassos Akanorth and yanks him out of the way before attempting his own capture method. Long story short of that particular method; it works right up until the box gets trapped in an infinite
Take the guide and silverfish to the factory so I could finish extracting that artifact and get him his first paycheck. Make sure I have a line of cable set up so the artifact's spatial distortions don't mess with my ability to navigate the building. The guide's job (or my teammate's) is to pull me out if he notices me entering the same state akanorth was previously in (I assume we rescued him from that?).
In case I'm not with the group and me and akanorth were left behind, pull akanorth out of his fugue state by walking a circle around him, wrapping my cable around him this way, and then literally pulling him away from the orb by pulling in the cable.
Either way, once one of the above is done, begin extracting the orb like I outlined in my previous turn:Baldwin heads out to look for an empty shipping crate, preferably a metal one. An abandoned factory should be full of these, how else are they to send their stuff? He then turns the crate upside down and looks for some rod to prop it up with. Basically he creates a giant box trap like in this spoiler minus the rope*.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Baldwin will look at the orb's trajectory and try to predict where it will go (since you previously stated that it bounced around like a screensaver). He will set up the trap in such a way that the orb will go inside the box and collide with one of its walls. This should cause enough force to disturb the rod and make the crate fall down, trapping the orb inside. If the ball bounces off the box without making it fall, throw a big rock at the box instead. That should create enough force to trigger the trap and nab us the orb.
Once the orb has been boxed, Baldwin will walk a complete circle around the box and return to his starting position. This will make the cable around his waist wrap around the box, which should allow us to transport the box by manipulating the cable. Friction should drag the unsealed lid along as well.
The next step after this will be to seal the box, but I will do that in the next turn. I want to see how this first part turns out. Maybe it will be faster if I do this over discord or PM?Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
The aerial scans of this place reveal two things. First, the gate is pretty new as the latest scans show it mid construction.Who made this then? And was it already in the process of being filled with gore then, or did that come later?
Second, the gate seems to be a singular thing. No walls to go with it. Seems like you could just go around, if you wanted.Does it seem likely that there is a sort of invisible perimeter that has some sort of effect, with the gate being the only 'physical' manifestation of the barrier? Or more likely that this is indeed just a single thing on its own? Ask Wil for some feedback here, he's a
"Careful there Tara, don't get pulled into... whatever all that is.They’re in so much pain. The gate might be trapping their spirits inside. The ones at the outposts didn’t have bodies, they couldn’t feel pain. I hope they eventually find a place of rest. These ones are in pain, I hope I can help them
Also, if we can avoid this by driving around it, we'll be doing that. Wil, what do you think, does this thing or its effects stretch out beyond?"Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
They’re in so much pain. The gate might be trapping their spirits inside. The ones at the outposts didn’t have bodies, they couldn’t feel pain. I hope they eventually find a place of rest. These ones are in pain, I hope I can help them"Who cares if they're in pain, they aren't any of us so why mess with them, and who knows what kind of STDs you could get from touching that thing and we don't need you bringing that kind of thing into the EDPC."
STDs are transmitted via sex, which I am not doing. Unless you think the gate can get infected with a virus/bacteria that can go between species and also that said pathogen would know how to get to sex organs from skin instead of getting destroyed by the immune system long before figuring out that they’re in a new species or where they are in relation to whatever cell type they need to infect. Yagyu, Pathos, what did you learn about the gate?They’re in so much pain. The gate might be trapping their spirits inside. The ones at the outposts didn’t have bodies, they couldn’t feel pain. I hope they eventually find a place of rest. These ones are in pain, I hope I can help them"Who cares if they're in pain, they aren't any of us so why mess with them, and who knows what kind of STDs you could get from touching that thing and we don't need you bringing that kind of thing into the EDPC."
"The whole thing is alive and producing pollen from exotic plants. Highly anomalous and full of occult bullshit. I wouldn't mess with it unless you know exactly what you're doing."Pollen tends not to be poisonous, and animals and robots which is what the team consists of do not have plant parts. Unless the occult properties make animals the pollen touches turn part plant, I shouldn’t have to worry about being an incubator, plus I’m not sure whether plants are growing in the zombies or not, trying to free them from the spikes impaling them will also allow me to see whether the “spikes” are actually stems. I didn’t know plants can gain occult magic, i thoughts only demons, souls and animals could get it, inanimate objects too assuming the “gate” itself isn’t a completely new species of plant that the occult made…hmm, I guess taking one of the corpses away would not only help the spirit inside, but also check how the gate responds, if the spikes start growing like vines toward the corpse or me, this is an indication that it somehow draws energy from consciousnesses and/or souls in lieu of the sun, based on its color, ai’m thinking the occult either killed the chloroplasts, denatured the chlorophyll, spread out chloroplasts so thoroughly that the green is no longer seen, or a combination of these. Maybe the gate teleports plants from wherever the magic giving it life is from? Maybe it gets energy from plants and uses souls to power teleportation magic? I gues it’s time to do some experiments assuming I don’t get killed or trapped trying to help a spirit, can they be trapped in corpses if they inhabit them for too long?
"Well this sucks. Do you think you can summon another ghost kaiju if whatever is sealed here decides to eat us, Wilfred?"
"Also, if we can avoid this by driving around it, we'll be doing that. Wil, what do you think, does this thing or its effects stretch out beyond?"
Hey Wilfred, you’ve been to the afterlife at some point somehow, did you ever see souls get trapped in places or were they allowed to move freely?
Then I Rejoin the teamSpoiler (click to show/hide)
((I doubt that I'm standing close enough to the artifact for a mere push to actually take me in, but if you're going to try to kill me, then I'm going to pay you back in kind. Especially after I just rescued you.I see what you're doing there baldwin, but since that would likely only slow things down for a turn or two, I'm going to say you two are now both back in the EdPC. We'll assume this whole argument happened before the EdPC drove off and you got in with everyone else.
EDIT: Of course you edit out your murder attempt. Had a feeling that was going to happen, but I’m surprised it didn’t happen sooner. My action is conditional thankfully so I don’t need to change it. It looks like we’ll both be leaving peacefully together, but who knows when you’ll strike again))
Retaliate against any attacks made against me with my occult knife. Then leave the building and return to the team, taking my cable harness and the only means of escaping with me.Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
Keep being ready to shoot the corpses if they decide to be unfriendly.There is some question as to how effective bullets will be against livng corpses. Or parts of living corpses. But Ji keeps the gun trained on the horrorshow just in case.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
"Well this sucks. Do you think you can summon another ghost kaiju if whatever is sealed here decides to eat us, Wilfred?"Sam scrambles up on top of the EdPC and lays flat against its roof.
SAM climbs on top of the EdPC for safety, she won't get swarmed by undead she tells you that muchSpoiler (click to show/hide)
"I'm not liking this thing and want nothing to do with it."Also ready to shoot walls if they should become hostile. An odd phrase.
Be ready to man a turret in case the weird wall decides to eat us or something.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
We shall see if your exposition powers are required. Seems like no, for the moment, but we'll have a long monologe and a maniacal laugh primed."Well this sucks. Do you think you can summon another ghost kaiju if whatever is sealed here decides to eat us, Wilfred?"
"...Maybe. Last time was pretty special, there were a lot of upset corpses that I really only prodded into waking up. Trying here might just make the gate get up and eat us, rather than summon another skelezor to smash it.""Also, if we can avoid this by driving around it, we'll be doing that. Wil, what do you think, does this thing or its effects stretch out beyond?"
Wilfred awkwardly slams a heavy metal fist into the metal plating below his main camera, letting out a considering "Hmmm..."
"...Probably not? I'd wager this is containment, not corruption. Someone prolly wanted to probe HELL for funsies, so they put this here to keep it in check. And make sure that when the gate blows up it's safely away from their base. I doubt anything will happen if we leave, or at least it'll hopefully happen long after we're out of Detroit. We could send in Tara and the dude who got trapped by grass though! Maybe they'll come out with sweet HELL powers, and if not, hey? No biggie."Hey Wilfred, you’ve been to the afterlife at some point somehow, did you ever see souls get trapped in places or were they allowed to move freely?
"Eh? Oh, uh, the alien god was trapping all the souls in the universe when I visited, I think. But I ran him off, so we don't have to worry about that anymore."
Provide Yagyu with occultist exposition about the perimeter, if he needs any.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
The people constructing the gate, from what you can see of them, are wearing hazmat suits. Bright orange rubbery things. No gang branding as it were, just generic suits. There are trucks parked near the half completed gate: Trucks carrying large cages filled with what appear to be living people.QuoteThe aerial scans of this place reveal two things. First, the gate is pretty new as the latest scans show it mid construction.Who made this then? And was it already in the process of being filled with gore then, or did that come later?
In fact, look at those latest scans again into the area beyond it. Any other similar gates being constructed elsewhere? Any other occult shenanigans I can spot?QuoteSecond, the gate seems to be a singular thing. No walls to go with it. Seems like you could just go around, if you wanted.Does it seem likely that there is a sort of invisible perimeter that has some sort of effect, with the gate being the only 'physical' manifestation of the barrier? Or more likely that this is indeed just a single thing on its own? Ask Wil for some feedback here, he's asmarthaunted cookie.
Oh, and can I find anything about those pollen? What kind of plants for example?
"Careful there Tara, don't get pulled into... whatever all that is.
Also, if we can avoid this by driving around it, we'll be doing that. Wil, what do you think, does this thing or its effects stretch out beyond?"Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Bob follows tar out of the Chevrolet Movie Theater and is ready to bite zombie gate corpse and death roll if it attacks Tara.Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
We didn’t do this to you, are you one consciousness now or many? If you are still individuals, maybe I can cut you loose, hopefully ending your suffering(Thar ain't no sheet on that...)
Tara drives to the nearest screaming corpse in one piece and tries cutting it away from the impaling, hopefully dodging any flailing
I’m trying to help you, please don’t hurt me, I might be able to free you from the gate. If you are the gate’s consciousness, think of this like mitosis or budding
"I've gotta agree with the erotic horrorshow, we oughtta screw off and only leave the mookiest among us to poke at the unholy screaming corpses."The MOOKiest, you say? Bob's in.
"So uh, what's the play here, boss man? We just gonna ignore this whole shebang and drive around it?"
The people constructing the gate, from what you can see of them, are wearing hazmat suits. Bright orange rubbery things. No gang branding as it were, just generic suits. There are trucks parked near the half completed gate: Trucks carrying large cages filled with what appear to be living people.
"Frankly, even I'm disturbed by this." Baldwin says while grimacing at the writhing mass, until his gaze drifts towards the corpse Will shot.
"At least you put one of them out of their misery. We came here for information, and the ghost might have known something. What did he tell you Will?"
Upon not receiving an answer for a while, Baldwin then asks:
"You did talk to the ghost, right?"
"Frankly, even I'm disturbed by this." Baldwin says while grimacing at the writhing mass, until his gaze drifts towards the corpse Will shot.
"At least you put one of them out of their misery. We came here for information, and the ghost might have known something. What did he tell you Will?"
Upon not receiving an answer for a while, Baldwin then asks:
"You did talk to the ghost, right?"
"Hm? Oh yeah! He was working on some VR visualization thingamajigger. Called it an 'Interface Engine', basically the concept was to simulate and dissect all the moving bits of a person's mind, help study what they do and how they work. Was only part of the greater project, this guy was a specialist. Thanks for reminding me, I meant to ask him some more stuff."
"I meant more like the ghost of the guy in the gate you shot a few minutes (read: Turns (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=173094.msg8303781#msg8303781)) ago. Did that guy even leave a ghost?"
((Sorry))[1]Use Plasma Cutter to cut the rods awaySpoiler (click to show/hide)
[3]"I've gotta agree with the erotic horrorshow, we oughtta screw off and only leave the mookiest among us to poke at the unholy screaming corpses."The MOOKiest, you say? Bob's in.
Stay with Tara and the Chevrolet Movie Theater. Examine the corpse with all d4 of my occult ability and walnut-sized brain (heck, examine it again with all d4 of my medical ability ... and walnut-sized brain). Let my brain and stomach decide what to do with this situation. If my brain and stomahc can't decide, let my d4 Fate decide.Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
The ghost, who we'll assume is tagging along, says he worked in the insititue. His bosses were there on the day of the disaster. Or are you asking where they lived in general? Of the test subjects, only one was at the test but the rest were in the builiding itself. Chances aren't good they would have survived. The fancy tech was all in that building and they did all the tests there as far as he knows. He was in charge of maintaining the organo-mechanical interfaces and the brain wave data banks. He says that the project was something to do with attempting to "view the dreaming mind" or something of the sort. He's not really sure what happened to anyone else involved with the project: Up until his recent capture he was living to the north on a small compound. The Smiles raided that place and took him hostage."Frankly, even I'm disturbed by this." Baldwin says while grimacing at the writhing mass, until his gaze drifts towards the corpse Will shot.
"At least you put one of them out of their misery. We came here for information, and the ghost might have known something. What did he tell you Will?"
Upon not receiving an answer for a while, Baldwin then asks:
"You did talk to the ghost, right?"
"Hm? Oh yeah! He was working on some VR visualization thingamajigger. Called it an 'Interface Engine', basically the concept was to simulate and dissect all the moving bits of a person's mind, help study what they do and how they work. Was only part of the greater project, this guy was a specialist. Thanks for reminding me, I meant to ask him some more stuff."
((Link to what the ghost talked about.)) (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?PHPSESSID=e7f80bdfadba519f86f7f84a6e6d75f6&topic=173094.msg8292841#msg8292841)
Oh, does Wilfred still have that ghost scientist following him around? He never dispelled the guy, and was meaning to ask some more questions. Just... got distracted with all the murder.
If the ghost is still around, ask about where it worked, so we have a target location. Also ask about any other locations involved with the project; where his bosses were, where test subject were, where the fancy tech was stored, where they did experiments, stuff like that. Pay closer attention to locations where people likely died, and locations close to the center of all this. Also ask about other people involved with the project; does he have any leads on where they might be if alive, or where they would have died?
If ghost interrogation can't happen, start hacking some of the camera drones to give us new eyes-in-the-sky.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
"So uh, what's the play here, boss man? We just gonna ignore this whole shebang and drive around it?"
"Yeah, ain't nobody got time for this. At least not right now. We still have a job to do, and if we can figure out how to unfuck this whole city then the gov types can send in actual specialists to deal with all of this.
If anyone wants to stay, feel free, we can stay in contact over the radio. Just be careful and don't bite off more than you can chew."
Let's go! Preferably before anyone screws with the gate and things start crawling in or out. Same destination as before, and yes, still try to avoid shenanigans on the way.QuoteThe people constructing the gate, from what you can see of them, are wearing hazmat suits. Bright orange rubbery things. No gang branding as it were, just generic suits. There are trucks parked near the half completed gate: Trucks carrying large cages filled with what appear to be living people.
On the way there, going back through these old scans, try to determine where the trucks came from, maybe that'll help determine who did this.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Let us leave this place, and ignore the wiggling corpses!"
Keep sitting in the EDPC and use the turret to kill any hostile things that get to close.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
Stick with the EPC for now. Respond to hostilities in kind as usual.The scans are not high quality, but one thing is pretty visible: Several bear the logo of the Institute.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
The scans are not high quality, but one thing is pretty visible: Several bear the logo of the Institute.Send the info over to the military guys, in case they want to hunt down these fucks later down the line. Fat chance, but might as well.
There are also what appear to be metal hatches scattered around. On first glance they just look like air vents or something of the kind but looking closer reveals a seam in the center that would allow them to open outwards like a pair of double doors. No sign of cameras or anything though.
"I bet those little doors on the ground have turrets under them, and they're gonna pop out when we start fucking around."
"I bet those little doors on the ground have turrets under them, and they're gonna pop out when we start fucking around.""Listen man, I've died or almost died several times now. I know a trap when I see it. And that there? Thats bullshit."
Stay in the EDPC away from any kind of window so I don't get shot to death again.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
[5]Try using my occult knowledge to free the remaining consciousnesses from what remains of their bodies or chunks of bodiesSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Sit inside the APC and see if it's possible to remotely hack into any part of the base. Failing that, hack some camera drones.[12]Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
We'll assume at least one other inactive player is out there with you and Yagyu.akanorth follows anyone who gets owt of the van as long as there is at least one other person with them.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
>Data UploadedQuoteThe scans are not high quality, but one thing is pretty visible: Several bear the logo of the Institute.Send the info over to the military guys, in case they want to hunt down these fucks later down the line. Fat chance, but might as well.
Do a tour of the building perimeter and, using the various scanners a usual, see if I can find anything. Things like hidden side entrances, possible signs of booby traps or maybe a glimpse of what's inside through a side window or something.QuoteThere are also what appear to be metal hatches scattered around. On first glance they just look like air vents or something of the kind but looking closer reveals a seam in the center that would allow them to open outwards like a pair of double doors. No sign of cameras or anything though.
Check these out a bit closer (also with sensors), do they have any sign of embedded sensors? If I tried to just weld them shit along the seam does that seem like it might set them off?
If yes, does it seem like we could try to take out a few at the same time to create a 'blindspot' not in view of the rest of the hatches?Quote"I bet those little doors on the ground have turrets under them, and they're gonna pop out when we start fucking around."
"Yeah, they very well could some nasty surprise, let's see if we can deal with them before we go in."Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Those hatches are now leaking a small amount of smoke and a few have ejected limp machinegun turrets. These turrets are, at worst, slowly rotating, but most are just still. One is already on fire. Cool.
Barring cutting a hole in the wall the number of ways in seems quite low.
"Uh, we were here to get info off the computers? I... fuck Derp... I thought... Ugh. Maybe something might still be salvagable? I mean, it'd be really stupid to have the important files on an externally accessible network. If that were the case I could've just, uh... taken them directly..."
"...Yeah, I fucked up. At least we don't have to worry about the turrets?"
akanorth examines the building for anything weird and stealthily tries to effect an entrance((Wilfred got that specific power in a different mission. Its something specific to him.)((OOC: how did what’s-his-name summon the skeletal kaiju? I didn’t really get that.))Spoiler (click to show/hide)
See if this building has some kind of security or camera system or something similar I can tap in to. If not, just keep an eye on the perimeter and alert my teammates if anything approaches.It definitely had those things. Once, in the deep past of a few minutes ago before Wil literally melted them all. Those cameras up there might as well be decorative christmas ornements for all the use they are now. Let alone their servers and memory banks.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
"Wilfred, if you just erased and burned down the data we needed I'm making you summon the computer ghosts and extracting the data by hand. With a magnet."Not sure this is nessicary after akanortrh opened that door in the most blunt force trauma way possible but whatever, lets do it anyways.QuoteThose hatches are now leaking a small amount of smoke and a few have ejected limp machinegun turrets. These turrets are, at worst, slowly rotating, but most are just still. One is already on fire. Cool.
"... But, well, the defenses sure are taken care of. Win some, lose some I suppose."QuoteBarring cutting a hole in the wall the number of ways in seems quite low.
Welp, so that happened. But sure, let's do this: blast a hole in a wall using the pulse laser. Go for a corner of the building, and stand to the side so that if the laser overpenetrates it is aimed into the ground and away from the interior of the building. Something like this:
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If that worked, crawl inside and look around.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
((You could try ramming the gate, NG. A speeding vehicle has several hundred times the kinetic energy of a bullet. :) ))
"Uh, we were here to get info off the computers? I... fuck Derp... I thought... Ugh. Maybe something might still be salvagable? I mean, it'd be really stupid to have the important files on an externally accessible network. If that were the case I could've just, uh... taken them directly..."
"...Yeah, I fucked up. At least we don't have to worry about the turrets?"
Get out and follow Yagyu. Assist him, and also shoot anything hostile.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
"Hopefully they left a convenient journal in there. Otherwise, someone here is gonna have to learn Cybernecromancy and let me tell you, the tuition fee for that one is insane."
SAM will follow along with Yags and Wonkerfen into the building.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Well that went smoother than I thought it would."You do get a gun! Its effectively identical to one of the containment turrets in the armory, but with d8 ammo and no ability to reload. Its big, its heavy, its deadly, and you're gonna fucking die if you don't run!
Go examine one of the broken turrets and see if I can't get a free gun from it.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
Spool up whatever movie I happened to loot for the theater, and watch that as Tara prepares an acute, rapid, energy dispersal at a magnitude a tad higher than the one she is expecting. Keep an occasional eye out for anything else that is trying to kill her before she does.You start watching a movie about a volcano or something. Somewhere several blocks away a building explodes and shatters all the windows on the movie theater. Wow, these are good special effects!Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
I like how you see a giant occult gateway and think "This totally follows the same rules as basic electronics!"Use any knowledge of electronics to find out which things I have would hold the most energy, meanwhile, look around for wires I can connect to the gate and the ground to help with energy dispersalSpoiler (click to show/hide)
((I have like average occult and tech, not good at either, will think of an action soon))((There's always going through the gate to hunt down the guys who did this and forcing them to help you undo it~~ Who knows? we might have dopplegangers over there we could contact.
go through the gate((Sorry naturegirl, I realized after I posted this morning (and after I turned off my computer) that following the people through the gate involved ooc knowledge for Tara. that was info Bob gathered, but never communicated. It might not even be accurate. So, feel free to rethink this action, or find a different justification for it.))
((justification is that whatever there is it must be important if the makers went through all this trouble of linking consciousnesses to it))go through the gate((Sorry naturegirl, I realized after I posted this morning (and after I turned off my computer) that following the people through the gate involved ooc knowledge for Tara. that was info Bob gathered, but never communicated. It might not even be accurate. So, feel free to rethink this action, or find a different justification for it.))
((alright. feel free to drive the movie theater in as well.))((will do, will edit action accordingly))
What happened to the guys who remained inside the EDPC and didn't venture out? Are we also deaf?Not deaf, but probably very shaken.
"MY EARSDRUMS-Wait, I can regrow them...Well there goes Yak, this just goes to show they don't buld alien deamontech like they used to. I swear it all went wrong when they outsourced to Mars.[3]
SAM grabs the remaning bits of Yak in case the crew can staple him bacm together and skiddadle into the EDPC.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Remain inside the EDPC that I never ventured outside of. Cover my eardrums assuming I still have them. Meditate on the ruined compound and try to listen for the screams of the dammed. Try to recall the basics of demon summoning.Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
Over comms: "BEEP BEEP GENTLEBEINGS, SHIT JUST WENT FROM 0 TO 100 REAL FAST. YOU'VE GOT A HOT MINUTE TO GET YOUR ASS INSIDE OF ME AND THEN I'M VAMOOSING.
Wait a hot second for the people who are actively running towards the EdPC to get in, then vamoose away from this general location. If we know the location of any teammates who got blown away, see if we can't swing by and pick them up, but priority one is getting some distance between ourselves and this fucked up situation.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
"Oh GOD!"
Just fucking run and jump into the EDPC.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
Run like the dickens! Get inside the EPC.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Akanorth gets inside the van as fast as possible, and puts pedal to the metal as he goes to join the guy in the movie theater.[5]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
((Pity it didn't blow up when Wilfred set every computer system in the building on fire. It would've been amusing if he tried to disable the turrets, and then made everything explode.))[3]
"Urghh... fuck... Derp...? Why'd it... why was... there explosives? Fuuuck, why didn't it blow up when I melted the cameras? Yags...? Whadda we do now?"
Grab the broken arm, if it's nearby, then... cripple crawl further away? Considering Wilfred went through six buildings I assume he's a good distance away, but more distance might not hurt.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
The gate that is currently closed? Wanna just ram it open eh? Alright.Spoiler (click to show/hide)godrive through the gate
Whatever there is on the other side, it must be important if the makers used occult stuff to trap consciousnesses to it
"What the fuck was even supposed to be inside that building, hope it wasn't that important."It appears to have a built in box magazine. You could reload it, but doing so would require....an allen wrench and some pliers at least. Clearly not designed for large scale engagements or manual use. But you could probably retrofit it to use belts or even a normal magazine. Though doing so is going to require some tools and parts.
Sit and examine that gun I found earlier and see if I can't figure out how the ammo was put inside it so I can find a way to reload it.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
akanorth tries to recall the basics of demon summoning.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Man a turret and be ready to fend off any attack.As ash and bits of debris start to rain down from above, you crawl into one of the turrets and start swiveling. So far, the street you're on is deserted, but the sounds of fighting from over near the explosion site are getting louder. A heavily armored garbage truck turns the corner and charges down the street straight past you, apparently ignoring the APC half crashed into the wall. You don't bother to correct their apparent false assumptions as they speed away.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Slow down and stop, then once stopped, try climbing to the top of the car to look over the corn to try finding anythingSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Bob, lightly irritated at the lack of fish, chicken, and cosmic horrors, thumps his tail a bit, then waits for something interesting to happen in this new world.Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
SAM looks at what she nabbed before running, maybe this wouldn't be a total waste of timeYou have gathered two things:Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"So what are we gonna do now because our last lead blew up, also does anybody that's still human want this makeshift first aid kit, box of protein bars, and two packs of gum, I don't really need them anymore."With the rather large distraction of the exploding warehouse drawing the attention of everyone nearby the drive out of the danger zone is actually fairly easy. Wilfred meets back up with the party train and lands atop it as it chugs out of the city and back into the farmland and wilderness between Detroit and Ann Arbor. They decide to stop here, in the abandoned space between the cities, rather than continue on to Ann Arbor. They choose this because it looks like a sizable portion of Ann Arbor is currently burning and that the military might be engaged in a losing battle with a giant skeleton. Hmm. Probably best to avoid that. According to the EdPC's sensors, nothing is chasing them out of the warzone, and the only life around for several miles is random wildlife. For the moment, they seem about as safe as they can be here.Over comms: "Alright people, do we have some kind of plan B destination? If not, I'm just gonna scoot over to somewhere with less angry locals if that's good with y'all.
Try to use my sensors and electronic suite to get an idea of our surroundings, either through radar or tapping into those overflying drones, whatever works. Try and get an idea of what kind of nasties/angries are coming for us and from where.
Then, unless someone gives a destination to head towards, just focus on getting some distance between us and the angry people.
Don't forget to swing by and pick up Wilfred, if we have can get any kind of idea of where he got blasted toSpoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)Yeah, uh. Get further away. Use the jump jets if this area seems too close to the blast, or the limbs are just too crippled for decent speed.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)Go man one of the turrets and be ready to kill.akanorth drives the EDPC back to base and tries to remember what an easy way to aquire arcane power would be.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
(Also is my OMNITECH Tool kit like a basic tool set or does it contain the tools for more advanced work?)Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
“People were found, who knows whether they know what’s going on”
Get back in the theater car and drive towards the buildingsSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Bob's ready to eat these human monsters, at the slightest provocation.The car rumbles across the fields, leaving a trail of crushed plants in its wake. From the driver seat its impossible to see head so Tara just has to try to go straight as best she can. Eventually the hood pushes through the last stalks and out into the grassy open field beyond. The house is much closer, only 50 or so feet away, and many people have gathered around the wooden fence to witness the car's arrival. The crowd appears to be made of two distinct groups. First, older men and women in their 50's and 60's, and younger, tougher looking people in their mid 20's mostly. They're all wearing casual clothing but the younger ones are also wearing hastily strapped on ballistic vests and carrying futuristic looking rifles. Its quite a contrast with the flannel and overalls. As you take this in a bipedal combat robot emerges from a barn behind the house and swivels giant cannons to point at the mobile theater. Despite all this firepower, everyone at the farmhouse seems to simply be waiting and watching for now; none of them overtly point their weapons at the car or fire. Not even a warning shot. You slow to a stop a little while away from the place, to think about what you should do.Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
"Guys! Do you know what this means? The bizarre is probably unguarded! We could loot a bunch of artifacts and become filthy rich!""Yes let us go and rob the place, it'll make all the chaos we've caused worth it."
"So I uh, grabbed what's left of Yag and this hard drive thingie. So do any techies wanna take a look or should I crack it open with a rock or something?"
"...Also, does anyone know where that fucking repair alligator went? I need a mechanic to fix my leg."[/color]"I don't know where he got off to but I could look at your leg, but I might not be able to do anything as my tool kit is out of stuff."
”I vote we access the hard drive first, and see where it leads us. I’d rather not throw myself into a war zone when there’s a potential more productive route to take.”Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
"So I uh, grabbed what's left of Yag and this hard drive thingie. So do any techies wanna take a look or should I crack it open with a rock or something?"
SAM awaits any response, if none is given, it's time to crack the hard drive open and see what lies in it's organsSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Wilfred sits up atop the APC, looking out at the military's losing battle. "Aww, fuck Derp... my accidental boner is destroying the military too?" Wilfred heaves a heavy sigh. "I should've expected this..."
Access Sam's flash drive, see what useful data is on it, if anything. See if Wilfred can't contact whatever command infrastructure we have, too.
"Alright, friends and expendables whose names I can't recall, now that Yagyu is dead, we need a plan. Raiding the Bizarre is great, I've got some spare guns to give to anyone who needs one. After that, I wager we should head north to the scientist sighted up in the wilderness. See what he knows, and after we kill and interrogate him, we head into the red zone to figure shit out. That is, unless command lets us just give up and leave before we all die. Any thoughts?"
"...Also, does anyone know where that fucking repair alligator went? I need a mechanic to fix my leg."Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
"It seems we've made things even worse here somehow, and this probably makes me a bad person but I don't feel myself caring that much.""Guys! Do you know what this means? The bizarre is probably unguarded! We could loot a bunch of artifacts and become filthy rich!""Yes let us go and rob the place, it'll make all the chaos we've caused worth it."
Get on board the loot the bizarre train! Also look at Wilfred's leg and see what it'll take it fix it.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
Several on the party bus voice their desire to rob the locals. Wilfred, the de facto leader by virtue of having the largest and most metallic ass, decides that this is a tremendous plan. Really, a great plan. One of the best. He commands the EdPC onward and keeps himself busy by attempting to crack open the hard drive and see what lives within."Guys! Do you know what this means? The bizarre is probably unguarded! We could loot a bunch of artifacts and become filthy rich!"Spoiler: Ka-ching (click to show/hide)
[5] Occult power is generally not something that resides in people or something which they can gather on their own. Occult power is sort of like magnetism; its a property that exists in some places, in some objects, and due to some actions. For humans to attain it would generally mean either just using arcane items to do their will or somehow transferring the Occult energy from the objects into themselves. This is possible, usually by making the item somehow part of them, but often has unpleasant side effects.akanorth tries to think up an easy way to get arcane power.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
[6]“Hi. We mean you no harm. Who are you after? We came here to try to find out how to reverse something occult in nature, do any of you have any occult knowledge to assist in this endeavor?”Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Explain to the people that we aren’t a threat. Ask about who or what they are prepared to fight, ask about whether any of them know any occult related things. Use the Negotiation Enhancer to determine if or when they lie. If a lie is found, ask for the truth. Gather as much info as possible.
“Bob, I need you to not attack them, they are not hostile right now, we came for info not bloodshed”
As per this raid on the Bizarre, how we handling it? You wanna drive straight up to the gate? Wanna drive straight THROUGH the gate? Park a while off and move in on foot? Whats the plan, guys.
"Sorry, but someone explain to me why you're planning on raiding the Bizarre, exactly? What are we hoping to find there relevant to the mission that's worth angering a whole bunch of locals?
Because I gotta tell you guys, I'm not down with just attacking a fortified position for funsies."
"Looting things is always a mission important task!"The two side turrets point up and then down again, in the EdPC's version of a shrug
Dear Command,
How are you doing today?
We are making progress on our mission despite some significant setbacks. Currently en route to ad hoc supply procurement.
Question: Our de facto team lead Yagyu d'Aubigny recently became a casualty. He did have a cognition copier, so I assume his thinking bits have been uploaded to one of your servers or something. I currently have a humanoid robot (designation: Pushbot) inside the APC with us. Is there any way to have Yagyu remote control this robot or something? I fear the sudden lack of structure and leadership will negatively impact the mission.
Hope to hear from you soon,
The EdPC (Edward Paganini Scrum)
[1]akanorth uses the EDPC computer to search the dark web for magic-infusion rituals.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"It's looting and murdering for fun and profit, ol' Eddy boy! We have thick metal armor plates, they have a school building! And really, why should we be so interested in keeping them happy? We're inevitably gonna have to drive into the center of this mess, and at that point it won't matter how many friends we have in the yellow zone. But the amount of anomaly hunter artifacts we have might!"Wilfred makes a quick copy and uploads it to the OMNISCENT network before starting to look through it himself.
Wilfred notices Baldwin trying to get in the Silverfish. "...Hey! Be fucking careful with that thing, don't go launching an attack on your own! Scouting is a great idea, but getting swatted out of the sky like the world's derpiest mosquito is just a waste of new company property. I won't be rescuing your ghost! Anyways, anyone want to help me sift through this data while he goes and plays Icarus?"
Well, that USB has quite a lot of info. Recruit anyone who wants to help search the hard drive for useful data. Immediately useful information would be anything that could help us shut the place down; external power sources, whether it would need a living human subject, location of the computer banks that actually hold the full simulation of a human brain, stuff like that. But if there's anything else interesting, take note.
...Also, try to contact command and ask if this data would count as mission success, combined with the ghost interview information and those brain slice disks Yagyu found, and anything else mission-relevant that I forgot. IIRC they just wanted to understand the anomaly at the core of this disaster, not necessarily halt or influence it. Maybe we acually don't have to stick our dicks in the heart of the storm?Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
"Looting things is always a mission important task!"[8]
Look at Wilfred's leg and see what needs to be done to fix it, and what I need to reattach his arm.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
EdPC drives in near the Bizarre, about two blocks away and somewhat hidden by the abandoned buildings to the north of the school."Looting things is always a mission important task!"The two side turrets point up and then down again, in the EdPC's version of a shrug
"Sure, whatever you say my guy."
If the team wants to, drive them over to the bizaar. But park the EdPC in a spot just close enough that I can provide fire support with the main cannon, no closer. They can shlep the rest of the way on foot.
In any case, use my sattelite uplink with OMNITECH to send a message to command:Quote from: Message from EdPC to Omnitech commandDear Command,
How are you doing today?
We are making progress on our mission despite some significant setbacks. Currently en route to ad hoc supply procurement.
Question: Our de facto team lead Yagyu d'Aubigny recently became a casualty. He did have a cognition copier, so I assume his thinking bits have been uploaded to one of your servers or something. I currently have a humanoid robot (designation: Pushbot) inside the APC with us. Is there any way to have Yagyu remote control this robot or something? I fear the sudden lack of structure and leadership will negatively impact the mission.
Hope to hear from you soon,
The EdPC (Edward Paganini Scrum)Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
Alright so, you remember where the gun was, it was roughly near the center of the courtyard down there. However, the bizarre is apparently on high alert. The gates are closed, there are search lights scanning the areas nearby, guards up on the roof tops, and what looks like large trucks and vans loading merch. There are a lot more men with weapons milling about, apparently merchs or prospectors hired recently to act as guards. It looks like they're gearing up for a mass exodus.As per this raid on the Bizarre, how we handling it? You wanna drive straight up to the gate? Wanna drive straight THROUGH the gate? Park a while off and move in on foot? Whats the plan, guys.
The team will probably want to drive to the gate and see what's going on there first. What if some of the more unstable artifacts breached containment and are now running amok inside the compound causing chaos? It's best to look before you leap in situations like these. Right now we don't know what's happening.
I personally will take the Silverfish to the Bizarre and survey the situation from the sky using my Military binoculars I bought oh so long ago. Try to recall where that Million Megabuck flesh gun of darkness was stored. Any teammates can feel free to hop on.Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
Just generally be a vague threat, and await snacks.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl0vlxb5j9wSpoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
"Too bad you had to use so much stuff up on me. You can have that rocket launcher from my pack, as payment.""I don't even remember what I was planing to use that stuff for anyway so at least it got some use, and thank you for the rocket launcher."
”We’re not brigands in any case. If we want some potentially easy pickings, we could head to the smiles HQ and loot the leftovers maybe. I’m not sure of the state Wil left it in, but they’ve probably at least got some nice hardware that could be commandeered”"That sounds like good idea, we might even get lucky and find some of the info we came here looking for, unless the giant skeleton destroyed it all."
[3]Akanorth continues to search for magic infusion rituals.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Hey, nice job, Burt! I was half expecting you to try and remove the other arm or something. Too bad you had to use so much stuff up on me. You can have that rocket launcher from my pack, as payment. As for the plan, we wait for the Derpy cultist to report. If the Bizarre is too hot, we head up north and try to find the other scientist. While looking at the stuff on this hard drive to see if it has data that could cut our trip short. If the Bizarre isn't too hot, we rock and roll until it is done!"[3]
I guess... continue sifting through the hard drive's data? Let Burt help, if he wants. EdPC too.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
Suddenly, a transmission appears on the radio.You land atop the EdPC and scramble inside its iron womb.
"Yeah, so about that. It seems like the bizarre is basically untouched so far. They're loading everything into trucks and vans. Presumably to evacuate. There are guards everywhere.
They don't look any tougher than a typical Smiles convoy, but I'm almost certain there's some sort of death ray hidden amongst the artifacts. Unless you want to lure Mr. Bones to this place and interrupt their wild ride, I think we'll have to call this a wash..."
Baldwin returns to his group and climbs back inside the safety of the EDPC.Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
”We’re not brigands in any case. If we want some potentially easy pickings, we could head to the smiles HQ and loot the leftovers maybe. I’m not sure of the state Wil left it in, but they’ve probably at least got some nice hardware that could be commandeered”You do a quick check on the turrets. They seem functional, in spite of the banging around they received.
Make certain all the turrets are ready to go in lieu of anything particularly useful to doSpoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Turrets manned. How manly."Too bad you had to use so much stuff up on me. You can have that rocket launcher from my pack, as payment.""I don't even remember what I was planing to use that stuff for anyway so at least it got some use, and thank you for the rocket launcher."”We’re not brigands in any case. If we want some potentially easy pickings, we could head to the smiles HQ and loot the leftovers maybe. I’m not sure of the state Wil left it in, but they’ve probably at least got some nice hardware that could be commandeered”"That sounds like good idea, we might even get lucky and find some of the info we came here looking for, unless the giant skeleton destroyed it all."
Man one of the turrets and be ready for potential attack.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
Sooo, according the Ed, I'm getting shunted into pushbot now, is that correct?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Not gonna lie, gents, but it looks like we're a little outnumbered here."Pushbot, under Ed's control, hooks itself up to the EdPC's computer (The EdPC) and command beams the mind of Yagyu down into his significantly less expensive new body.
Hold fast for now, hidden by the abandoned buildings. Keep scanning for threats.
Also help Wilfred with that hard drive if he want me to, but don't let the hard drive make a direct connection to the EdPC's systems. Keep it isolated/sandboxed, we don't know what's on there.
On Discord you mentioned that command answered that Yagyu can remote control Pusbot, so let's get that done.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
Since Tara seems to be suffering from space dementia, send my spiderbot to find roboports to interface with. steal whatever data I find and store it. Also, steal whatever snacks I find. Snacks take priority over data. Bring snacks back to the main body.[6]Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
"Well there's still that old note I found, 'PLYMOUTH and OUTERDRIVE'. It is in the orange zone apparently, but it's closer to us than the northern scientist. I stole it from a seasoned artifact hunter; there's definitely something valuable there. I think that's reason enough to check it out. Maybe that place will finally satisfy our lust for artifacts."
After looking through the images, listening to several hundred audio logs, and examining the plans, you think you have an answer. Or at least part of one. The plans detail a machine that would have taken up the bulk of that institute's shiny highrise tower and pulled enough power to black out the city if fully activated. Its use, as far as you can tell, was very simple: To bring "mental images" into existence. The user envisions a car, a car appears. A classic example of simple idea, mind-blowingly complex execution. It seems that they didn't intend to use a human subject for the actual work though: instead they were making brain scan duplicates due to their more stable and reversible nature. The actual mechanics of materializing the object seem to have gone through several iterations, from matter conversion to 3d printing. The final choice seems to have been some kind of energy to matter materializer which pulls energy from..."The vibrational energy of near divergent realities". Your understanding of this sort of stuff is rudimentary, but you've been around enough gateways to know that the reason other realities are different from this one is due to some sort of difference in "Frequencies", like how light is visible or not depending on its frequency. This machine seemed to literally draw energy by leaching it off the "Vibration" creating those frequencies. This nightmare tornado could either be that creation process going haywire...or maybe realities "interweaving" as their energies are made temporarily identical to this one.
"Welcome back to the land of the living Yagyu, we're currently trying to figure out where we want to loot."
snippety
"That said, Wil, since you created this thing, can't you just... Dispel it? Release their ghosts back to the shadow realm or whatever?"
Leaders of the bizarre, I come to you with an offer! We are mercenaries and scientists sent by OMNI to research and study the various phenomena of the zone, and the skeleton monster you are currently fighting has garnered special interest from us. Based on our findings, such an enormous and powerful creature should not be able to exist in the yellow zone, yet here it is! So we looked into it and have found what we believe to be a weakness that would allow us to destroy the creature and save your store.
What we discovered confirmed our suspicions. Even among anomalies, the skeleton is itself anomalous. The details are quite complex and technical, but to put it in layman's terms, compared to other zone-borne giga-fauna like the giant walking trees, the skeleton is more 'real' than them. I doubt that was a satisfying explanation, but it's the best we can give. What it means though is that the skeleton is not as dependent on the zone's reality warping energy as other creatures created by it, despite being just as absurd as them. We believe it may even be able to survive outside of Detroit if it were to exit the yellow zone.
This power does not come without a cost though. In order to become more 'real' and less dependent on the energies of the zone to survive, it had to acquire certain adaptations to cope with real-world challenges that other monsters were previously able to ignore, like physics. Again this is a simplification of something overly technical, but you can say that the skeleton has its own form of anatomy. Just like there are arteries in the human body that would instantly kill you if they were cut, or tendons that can make you fall to your knees when slashed, there are parts in the skeleton vital to its existence that would cripple or destroy it if damaged. Parts my team and I are confident in being able to access and affect.
Dealing with the Skeleton is not our problem though. Our mission is solely to study weird things in the zone and study them we did! The only reason we are contacting you is because I believe there is a way to align our incentives and come to an agreement that will be mutually beneficial to us. You would benefit a lot from destroying that skeleton. We can only receive the authorization to destroy it from command if doing so would help us with our mission to study the phenomena of the zone. You have a lot of phenomena worth studying though, in the form of your artifacts.
The agreement is simple. We destroy the skeleton. You provide us with enough store credit to buy a few useful artifacts for research purposes. The exact amount is up for negotiation, but don't take us for fools. We know that they worth a lot, but we are offering to destroy a monster that an entire city couldn't defeat. It should be a fair trade. Let's start at 15 million megabucks.
Payment only needs to be made once the monster is destroyed.
From: Akanorth RequitistDear High Command,
To: High Command
Subject: Upcoming battle
We are going into an upcoming battle against a skeletal kaiju that i do not think we can win. I request backup weaponry and armor. Occult items would also help.your employee,
Akanorth Requitist
Get bearings of environment and current events.According to Pancaek's sheet
Also please give me the full stats of pushbot and things like life die etc.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Welcome back to the land of the living Yagyu, we're currently trying to figure out where we want to loot."Awaiting murder...
Continue to sit at the turret ready to attack in case we get attacked.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
[1]Akanorth keeps searching.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
[11]"That said, Wil, since you created this thing, can't you just... Dispel it? Release their ghosts back to the shadow realm or whatever?"
"Well, uh... maybe? I haven't tried, actually. I give it even odds that it'll disappear, ignore me, or decide that I'm a better target than the military. But hey, as long as we're this far away, might as well give it a shot!"
Wil gestures oddly towards the skeleton in the distance.
"...Really though they shouldn't be mad, they should be thanking me for the awesome ratings. I mean c'mon, skeleton kaiju fighting an entrenched army? I just helped them jump the shark!"
Try and flex occult dominance by desummoning the skeleton kaiju. Wilfred created it! Wilfred can get rid of it! I hope.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
”If you’re going to destroy the Skele-kaiju, then you better make sure you can profit off of it first. A lot of people would be happy to see that thing gone. It’s a service that I’m sure many would pay for. Especially the folks at the Bizarre.”[2]
“Actually, hold the magic for a second. I'm going to try to arrange a deal. Could someone help me tap into their radio?”
Try contacting the leaders running the bizarre. Somebody was paying the guards, and I'm pretty sure they're organizing the evacuation as well. Say the following:Quote from: The messageLeaders of the bizarre, I come to you with an offer! We are mercenaries and scientists sent by OMNI to research and study the various phenomena of the zone, and the skeleton monster you are currently fighting has garnered special interest from us. Based on our findings, such an enormous and powerful creature should not be able to exist in the yellow zone, yet here it is! So we looked into it and have found what we believe to be a weakness that would allow us to destroy the creature and save your store.
What we discovered confirmed our suspicions. Even among anomalies, the skeleton is itself anomalous. The details are quite complex and technical, but to put it in layman's terms, compared to other zone-borne giga-fauna like the giant walking trees, the skeleton is more 'real' than them. I doubt that was a satisfying explanation, but it's the best we can give. What it means though is that the skeleton is not as dependent on the zone's reality warping energy as other creatures created by it, despite being just as absurd as them. We believe it may even be able to survive outside of Detroit if it were to exit the yellow zone.
This power does not come without a cost though. In order to become more 'real' and less dependent on the energies of the zone to survive, it had to acquire certain adaptations to cope with real-world challenges that other monsters were previously able to ignore, like physics. Again this is a simplification of something overly technical, but you can say that the skeleton has its own form of anatomy. Just like there are arteries in the human body that would instantly kill you if they were cut, or tendons that can make you fall to your knees when slashed, there are parts in the skeleton vital to its existence that would cripple or destroy it if damaged. Parts my team and I are confident in being able to access and affect.
Dealing with the Skeleton is not our problem though. Our mission is solely to study weird things in the zone and study them we did! The only reason we are contacting you is because I believe there is a way to align our incentives and come to an agreement that will be mutually beneficial to us. You would benefit a lot from destroying that skeleton. We can only receive the authorization to destroy it from command if doing so would help us with our mission to study the phenomena of the zone. You have a lot of phenomena worth studying though, in the form of your artifacts.
The agreement is simple. We destroy the skeleton. You provide us with enough store credit to buy a few useful artifacts for research purposes. The exact amount is up for negotiation, but don't take us for fools. We know that they worth a lot, but we are offering to destroy a monster that an entire city couldn't defeat. It should be a fair trade. Let's start at 15 million megabucks.
Payment only needs to be made once the monster is destroyed.Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
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akanorth keeps searching the web for magic infusion rituals and sends this message to central command:QuoteFrom: Akanorth RequitistDear High Command,
To: High Command
Subject: Upcoming battle
We are going into an upcoming battle against a skeletal kaiju that i do not think we can win. I request backup weaponry and armor. Occult items would also help.your employee,
Akanorth Requitist
Keep an eye on the Bizaar people's movements, and what skele-kaiju is doing. Try to plan out an escape route should either of them get hostile.[/quote]
If the Bizaar people get hostile or skele-kaiju starts stomping our way, vamoose.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
Since it seems moderately important for the mission, I am going to auto Tara to ask more questions about the Event (feel free to veto this. I am not trying to run two characters, just trying to jump start the mission again). Assume she is polite and respectful, and asks other things like about the general well-being of the people here, their hope as a community for their future, and how Earth-like this alt-dimension earth is, aside from the apparent lack of humans. Also, get more specifics about a return trip. Her stats are below if necessary.1. The don't know the exact cause, but what they do know is that the machine was always designed to be used with "Copies" of human minds. Simulations with limited capacity. But that time they were apparently going to hook it up to a living subject.
So, that's 3 questions
1) what they know about the Event
2) how's the new digs?
3) how do we get back, assuming we even want to?
As for Bob, He'll open his mouth and await snacks. I assume Tara will idly be chucking apples in as she talks.Spoiler: The MOOKiest (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
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You keep yours. I just posted the full thing. Fuck the police.QuoteSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Wait, normally robobodies only determine your stats and not your skills. Do pushbot's skills override mine, or can I keep my own?
Hey, so they managed to rescue the auditor body's core right? Where is it now? What state is it in?
EDIT: if no other opinions or ideas forthcoming, let's check out the second ghostly sighting first since it's pretty close.
"Wow, that went... so much easier than expected. Wil, I may still not like all this occult bullshit, but you're the real deal.
All right then gents, shall we go snuff out that last nerd then? We also still have one more 'ghost echo' site to explore as well I believe."
He then turns to the inconsolable Baldwin and adds:
"Hey, look on the bright side, at least now nobody will ever know we were behind any of it and it won't bother us! We got away with it scot-free.
...also, euh, has anyone seen Tara? And where is Bob?"Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"So do we actually know where this other ghost echo thing is?"Its reloadable!
While I sit at the turret ready to fight check the rocket launcher and see if it's ether the single use or reloadable kind.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
Deafness was only temporary. Already got some hearing back, though ringing still, a bit.He attempts to regain hearing and keeps searching.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Huh. Well, alright. On to the next scientist, then?"[6]
*Shrug*
Try and hack an observation drone and make it come over to be reprogrammed into a scout eye.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
Barring any orders to the contrary, set sail for that second ghost sighting Yagyu mentioned. Keep my scanners working to get a heads-up on any potential nastiness along the way.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
Analysis of recent data uploaded by employee Wilfred has been deemed sufficient to meet current mission parameters. Gathering of additional information is encouraged if desired, but not nessicary. Evac will be dispatched to outside the area when requested. Good work.
I suppose we have everything we came for, if that's all they know. If they are willing to push us through the reality hole they murdered into existence, then do so, preferably with Chevrolet Movie Theater and Ed 209 in tow. Once we regroup with the loot hobos Sapient Transport Pastry, Ghopst Master, and Pushbot, let Tara rejoin Pathos in space dementia.For the sake of time and perhaps returning to the EdPC, we'll assume you get out.
If we somehow fail to return to this terrible timeline, head south toward balmier climes, and scalier compatriots.Spoiler: The MOOKiest (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
"Hey Sammy boy, where did you put that chunk of, uh, me exactly?"Chill out Yak, I got your torso right here. I could fix it up for ya if you'd like, I have a bachelor in BioMechiology in you know? As for leaving...eh, whatever you guys want, I'm basically immortal, unlike you. Maybe you should stop buying shoddy Auditor bodies and become a Flesh Horror you know?"
So, seems like the boffins up top are happy with what we got. Ya'll wanna call it a day, or keep going for maybe some extra pay? Personally I'm fine with just getting out of here, I don't think anything else we find is gonna radically change what we found already. Let's quit while we're ahead, so to speak."Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
“What about that thingy on my note? Aren’t you guys remotely curious about what it is?”
“What about that thingy on my note? Aren’t you guys remotely curious about what it is?”"Eeh, maybe a little, but considering we already did our job and that place is deep within the orange zone, I think I'll pass. I already got stuck in a timewarped anomaly once too many times today."
"Chill out Yak, I got your torso right here. I could fix it up for ya if you'd like, I have a bachelor in BioMechiology in you know? As for leaving...eh, whatever you guys want, I'm basically immortal, unlike you. Maybe you should stop buying shoddy Auditor bodies and become a Flesh Horror you know?""Thanks, but for now I'll stick with what I have, and let the cogboys at home take a look. But I'll, uhh, keep it in mind."
"Do you think we should check out the Bizarre before we leave? Offload some junk, maybe buy some good stuff to replace it? Crappy civvie guns and anomaly watches are valuable out here, but are low-grade trash back home. And even simple artifacts might be worth their weight in gold. Also, we seem to be missing an alligator and the ditz, it'll give them a chance to get back. Assuming the gator didn't just eat her already."
[1]akanorth reviews the info he gainedSpoiler (click to show/hide)
You toss the chunk o'alien junk back to Yaggie."Hey Sammy boy, where did you put that chunk of, uh, me exactly?"Chill out Yak, I got your torso right here. I could fix it up for ya if you'd like, I have a bachelor in BioMechiology in you know? As for leaving...eh, whatever you guys want, I'm basically immortal, unlike you. Maybe you should stop buying shoddy Auditor bodies and become a Flesh Horror you know?"
So, seems like the boffins up top are happy with what we got. Ya'll wanna call it a day, or keep going for maybe some extra pay? Personally I'm fine with just getting out of here, I don't think anything else we find is gonna radically change what we found already. Let's quit while we're ahead, so to speak."Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Give Yag his Auditor onahole backSpoiler (click to show/hide)
Reconvene with the Mooks. Loot check on that Ed 209? Did it come along? I'm good either way, but it'd be pretty funny if it did.We'll assume you and the brain dead lass reconnect with the rest of the crew. As per if the bot came with you...I'm gonna say no. The people in that alternate reality would like to keep it and you needed their help to get back so I'd assume they wouldn't help you if you didn't give it back.Spoiler: The MOOKiest (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
"Hey Sammy boy, where did you put that chunk of, uh, me exactly?
So, seems like the boffins up top are happy with what we got. Ya'll wanna call it a day, or keep going for maybe some extra pay? Personally I'm fine with just getting out of here, I don't think anything else we find is gonna radically change what we found already. Let's quit while we're ahead, so to speak."
Since nobody seems to object, we'll go with the plan: wait and lay low for a while until things have settled down after skele-kaiju, then visit the bizarre so people can do whatever last minute buying or selling they want to do.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"All right gang, do what you gotta do, but don't take forever to do it, I'd prefer to leave this hellhole of a city as soon as we can. Also play nice with the locals, and if anybody asks, no we don't know what that giant skeleton was all about. Ya dig? Cool."Bob
"All right gang, do what you gotta do, but don't take forever to do it, I'd prefer to leave this hellhole of a city as soon as we can. Also play nice with the locals, and if anybody asks, no we don't know what that giant skeleton was all about. Ya dig? Cool."Bob
"All right gang, do what you gotta do, but don't take forever to do it, I'd prefer to leave this hellhole of a city as soon as we can. Also play nice with the locals, and if anybody asks, no we don't know what that giant skeleton was all about. Ya dig? Cool."
Since I have nothing to barter with anymore now that the ol' inventory went kablooie, just contact the military and start arranging for our exit out of this zone, get all the paperwork done and t's crossed and i's dotted and whatnot.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"I'm gonna buy some stuff!"Laptop and smartphone are cheap, loads of them laying around out in the ruins so they literally have sacks of the things. Flashlight is actually more expensive, and the rocket is the most expensive. You end up with 6000 megabucks in the end. As per what you can buy with them...I mean that's a broad question. Do you want weapons? Artifacts? Drugs? Humans? Monster parts? Its all for sale.
Go to the bizarre and buy a laptop, smartphone, flashlight, and another rocket for my launcher, then see what the remainder of my Megabucks can get me.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
If you wanted to get occulty, the Bizarre has lots of artifacts for trade or purchase.Akanorth starts poking people with his null-rod.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Wait for the group to disembark
Enter Bizarre. Don't give them Wilfred's own guns, leave those in the APC. Look around for neat artifacts that do cool/interest/dangerous things. Stuff that should safe enough to handle, but has some utility or is just really weird and neat.
Try to find buyers for the pistol, Smiles rifles, grenades, rocket launcher, and anomaly detection watch. I'd prefer to be able to see prices, and choose what to sell and what to buy, but if you want to handle this quickly just sell all of it and give me artifax.
...Also any teammates willing to buy those for basically whatever price can have dibs. Wilfred might slap them if their offer is a scam, but he'll save that for later, once we get home.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
this good?akanorth asks Wilfred to buy him the untapped potential, promising to pay him back 150% at the earliest opportunity.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
>The gun, "Fragile Darkness"
"...Evolution requires adversity -- we, as a species, need conflict in order to advance both scientifically and spiritually. World Wars One through Eight, the Screamer Conflicts on Jupiter, the Neo-Neo-Detroit mutant uprisings, those scenarios claimed an untold amount of lives and yet they allowed us to become more...as of now, I stand on the first step of a long stairway, and I too need conflict to begin my climb. So, what I'm getting at..."[6]
SAM stretches her neck, her face blooming like a flower of teeth, like some sort of [DND NPC STARRING IN HIT STREAMING SHOW]. Her fingers slowly reach for the magnetic box.
"The fucking potential, give it to me. Pretty please? I did help you all a lot. I'll even give you half my cut. Just don't let this get violent [HOLOLIVE YAGOO]"
SAM will ask nicely for the potential so she can eat it and become [GOD]. She's being very polite right now, she'll even let the others get away in case her [TRANSCENDENCE] ends up levelling the city in a shower of biomass.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Since I can't help out here much with the bartering, just go sit inside EdPC and take a look at that torso. Does it seem like they could salvage (some of) it?Its pretty battered, but you notice something odd. It appears to be growing. From the snapped off base of the spine you can see little threads of metal forming. Seems like it might be regenerating?
Also look whether OMNI has insurance policies for possessions. Like how much would it cost to insure a body, or a weapon, or a whole inventory?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"As much as I'd like to buy a human I can not as I'm pretty sure the boss said no pets, and that's a shame as I would have taken real good care of it."Currently the sellers seem to be running and the guards seem distracted so...If you wanna steal, now is the time. As per artifacts, I can roll you a random one or you can choose from the ones I gave Wilfred. Weapons are...well just about anything civilian really. No lasers or hightech bullshit but there's plenty of RPGs, rifles, handguns, machetes, etc. Monster parts are...well thats hard to describe. There are big arrays of Styrofoam coolers full of ice with all sorts of bizarre guts and limbs stuck in them. You don't recognize most of the organs and meat, but some are clearly eyes, limbs, etc.
See what kind of weapons are for sale, then go find out what if any artifacts I could afford, and what kind of monster parts there are.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
Buy as many of these as possible, in the following order of priority, if any are affordable:[3]
>The gun, "Fragile Darkness"
>The rock which seems to nullify gravity within a 10 ft radius.
>The swirling fist sized clump of light contained in some sort of magnetic box. Said to be able to be "Untapped potential"
If a teammate can buy/consume/steal one of these instead, let them have dibs. If Wilfred wouldn't need to sell his grenades to afford everything he can buy, then don't sell the grenades. If none of these are worth less than 50k megabucks, don't sell anything.
Any spare megabucks will go towards explosives. After that, I'm done. Do not donate the untapped potential to anyone, I'll figure out who gets it based off ofhow much they bribe mepersonal bias!!fun!!how much they bribe me.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
Reasonable, anyone willing to risk their lives once the mission is over deserves to be compensated for it. You never know what's around the corner after all.[2]Spoiler: Old action, don’t do (click to show/hide)
Try to see if I can find a TV with cable. Watch the battle royals thing, see if there’s any cameras near the place in the note.Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
Beuuuh. Man the main gun I guess and be ready for shenanigans.You, resignedly, man the main gun and get ready for trouble. Again.
"Guys, if this turns out the way I fear it will we might just have to book it and run. Again. So get your asses in here all quick-like."Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Oh shit, probably better start running."[3]
Grab the first artifact I see, then a knife, machete, assault rifle, and as many handguns as I can grab, then run as fast as I can back to the EDPC.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
"Oh shit! Not again! I just wanted to relax and watch TV!"You return to the EdPC surreptitiously.
Join the crowd of fleeing onlookers and try to get out of the bizarre and back into the EDPC. Baldwin has never met these maniacs before. He's just another average joe.Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
"You sure about that, horrifying friend? I could summon a distraction for you to get away. Just say the words, Fuck Derp!"You run off to the edge of the Bizarre and wait for any kind of indication that a distraction is needed.
Alright, well, the boss and SAM are saying to just scoot, so... scoot, but don't go beyond the outskirts of the area, and stay away from allies (to reduce teamkilling). Listen to the radio, and if SAM requests a distraction, summon some ghosts and tell them to go cause chaos in the Bizarre. Then leave. If SAM doesn't... just maintain a healthy distance from the Bizarre, and be ready to retreat and rendezvous with the EdPC if things start getting STANy.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
i grabevery artifact i see, an assault rifle and as much ammo as i can carry, a knofe, a machete, and i try get the gun fragile darkness. then i hoof it to the edpc.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Hey guys, you should probably grab everything you want and start running. I'm about to [TRANSCEND] here."As laser sights begin to line up on your chest and head, you crack open the sealed container and catch the glob of glowing matter as it gets bounced out by the sudden loss of magnetic equilibrium. As your hand closes on it, the glob vanishes in a puff of glowing motes. You hear no voices, no genie asking you for wishes. Instead, time seems to grind to a halt and you see possibilities, possible futures, branching out endlessly in front of you like a fractal fragmentation grenade. They all revolve around you, around things you could do, or things you could become. Its too much to really fully comprehend. But you can see vague clusters of probability, vague outcomes in certain clumps of timelines. You have to choose which reality to follow, which of the endless parallel worlds to inhabit.
SAM will let herhealthpacksfriends get off the bazaar before opening the box and plopping the untapped [POTENTIAL] into her gullet.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"I don't know about you guys, but it kinda feels like time to skedaddle, no?"
Throw this bitch in reverse (figuratively speaking) and get outta here, "here" being wherever SAM is. Just get as much distance between us and here, pronto.
Bob
"That went better than I figured it would."
Find a safe seat in the EDPC and examine the handguns and the rifle I got.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
"I don't know about you guys, but it kinda feels like time to skedaddle, no?"
Throw this bitch in reverse (figuratively speaking) and get outta here, "here" being wherever SAM is. Just get as much distance between us and here, pronto.
"Couldn't have said it better, Ed-boy. 't is our cue to leave."
If shenanigans come our way with ill intent, give 'em a taste of Big Gun.
If not, just watch the fireworks I suppose?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Yeaaah alright, get going and meet up with EdPC. Or just fly away from the Bizarre.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
"I don't know about you guys, but it kinda feels like time to skedaddle, no?"Everyone either piles into the EdPC or is thrown in or flies along side or otherwise follows along. The EdPC hauls ass away from what everyone is pretty sure will be known as "The SAM incident" in the future.
Throw this bitch in reverse (figuratively speaking) and get outta here, "here" being wherever SAM is. Just get as much distance between us and here, pronto.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
TOOMUCHTOOMUCHTOOMUCH REALITY SPLINTERS UNDER THE HUBRIS OF THE SERPENT AND EDEN SHATTERS[3]
NONONONONONO KEEP IT TOGETHER. GOD IS AT HAND. YOU WORKED TOO HARD FOR THIS. THEY LABELLED YOU A JESTER BUT THEY WERE TOO BLIND TO BEHOLD THE BUDDING DEMIURGE!
...
That...was unpleasant. Oh well, SAM focuses down onto the paths ahead of her, her will sharpening as she reaches for the possibility of the [SEED OF LIFE] IN [THAT TREE IN THE GARDEN]. That is, she will reject the trappings of the false notion of evolution and become an organism that has no need for others, an [ADAM KADMON] who forsakes the [FRUIT OF KNOWLEDGE]'s gifts and the curse of relationships.
TLDR: SAM goes full Evangelion and tries to become a Giant Naked Rei, turn people into fanta or have her explode idkSpoiler (click to show/hide)
"Hey, guys? How are you holding up, what's the gameplan here? Think there's a path out of this mess... or do we gotta fight a nascent flesh god with a nascent ghost god? I could try something occult here, but it's a roll of the dice whether it helps us or just absorbs us into boner kaiju V2."
Ring up command and request a heavy bombardment on the site of that growing fleshlight over there. Artillery, orbital, whatever assets they have that can respond right the fuck now.
"Yeah, we're getting the hell out of dodge indeed. Those ghost things you can summon, how confident are you in your ability to control them? We don't wanna throw even more fuel on this fire, but we're running out of other options fast.
I'll try to ring us up some conventional heavy fire support, but if that doesn't pan out or it isn't enough then feel free to do what you can."
"Yeah, we're getting the hell out of dodge indeed. Those ghost things you can summon, how confident are you in your ability to control them? We don't wanna throw even more fuel on this fire, but we're running out of other options fast.
I'll try to ring us up some conventional heavy fire support, but if that doesn't pan out or it isn't enough then feel free to do what you can."
"Ehh, honestly? I give it equal odds that I lose control, they do nothing, and that they help. At least if I try something here. There's always the option to try and initiate a stage nine catalyzation event right on top of SAM; it should be more reliable to fight fire with fire... but it's pretty much guaranteed I'd die in the process. And, more importantly, I'd lose this sweet-ass hardsuit! Soooo I'm gonna wait a minute, see how things are going. Maybe drop off this suit with you guys, too. We got any volunteers to fly my naked robot ass back there in the... the hover bug thingy we looted?"
Ring up command and request a heavy bombardment on the site of that growing fleshlight over there. Artillery, orbital, whatever assets they have that can respond right the fuck now.
"Perhaps you should clarify the need for us to be a fair distance away before they begin the strike. The blast radii of nukes are pretty big. Our two miles is not even remotely close to a safe distance."
" We allowed this to happen, now we gotta deal with it."
akanorth curses his bad luck. if the EDPC is being driven towards that interplanar gate-thingy he mans the biggest gun that is not being manned and shoots anything that looks hostile/harmful. if not, he then boots whoever is driving the EDPC out and drives to the interplanar gate-thingy
"I also disagree with that as I to had nothing to do with causing this shit show and I'm not attached to Detroit enough to want to save it. What happens in Detroit hopefully stays in Detroit."" We allowed this to happen, now we gotta deal with it."
"I know I'm just the wheels of this operation, but I strongly disagree. I didn't allow anything to happen, nobody asked my opinion or permission. The only thing we gotta do right now is get the hell outta here. This shit's crazy man, how did this even happen?!"
"Ehh, honestly? I give it equal odds that I lose control, they do nothing, and that they help. At least if I try something here. There's always the option to try and initiate a stage nine catalyzation event right on top of SAM; it should be more reliable to fight fire with fire... but it's pretty much guaranteed I'd die in the process. And, more importantly, I'd lose this sweet-ass hardsuit! Soooo I'm gonna wait a minute, see how things are going. Maybe drop off this suit with you guys, too. We got any volunteers to fly my naked robot ass back there in the... the hover bug thingy we looted?"
"Hmm, I see. Well, I'm a robot and my original body is lying there doing... whatever it is doing, so worst come to worst I can fly you over.
Also, maaaybe consider leaving your cognition copier behind as well? I dunno what that thing can or can't affect exactly, but at least your last backups are clean right now, but if that field can somehow corrupt the data and then it gets uploaded..."
((Question, what skill/stat did flying that thing take again?))
Seeing the apocalypse on the horizon and the destruction it caused, Baldwin takes out his single demolition charge and recalls a conversation he had with Sam along time ago.[5]
"So this was the choice she made..."She specifically told him not to put her down if she goes mad, just simply collect the remains after someone else does it, but just look at this! This was too much. It's one thing to see such carnage after it's too late to do anything about it like with the gate. It was a whole nother thing to witness it happening right in front of you. To have known some of the people who are now gone forever, even if only briefly.Spoiler: The Conversation (WARNING: ugly quote pyramid) (click to show/hide)
Even though he knew it was impossible, Baldwin still couldn't get over the feeling that he should have done something to prevent this. It was too late for that though. All he could do now was send a message.
"Sam, if your radio is still working and you can hear me, then I've got something to say. If you're looking for more flesh to absorb, then the hellgate we saw earlier seems like a good spot to check out. ;D"
It was painful to pretend that nothing was wrong, that he wasn't disgusted by what he was seeing, but he needed to draw her away from the group. Those red clouds were looking pretty scary.
Compare the rate of expansion of the clouds to the speed of our vehicle. Will we be able to outrun it at our current pace or are we fucked?Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
"I'm too devilishly handsome to die! Again!"
"OH GOD!"
Curl into a ball on the floor and hope my being a robot protects me from being eaten by the flesh mountain.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
"...Goodbye, Sam. Our time together was short, but I'll always remember your amusing fleshorror antics. Fuck Derp..."You land atop the EdPC and hang on as it bumps and swerves down the road.
Keep flying away from the flesh singularity. Try to get to and land on the EdPC, and secondarily avoid flesh. Wilfred is happy he died and became a robot.
Edit: I have a question. Would it be possible to activate the cognition copier now, then go do a suicidal charge into SAM-9, and still have the backup work normally? Or does the copier need to be worn at the moment of death?
"Hey, guys? How are you holding up, what's the gameplan here? Think there's a path out of this mess... or do we gotta fight a nascent flesh god with a nascent ghost god? I could try something occult here, but it's a roll of the dice whether it helps us or just absorbs us into boner kaiju V2."Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
Stay in Chevy, get out of Dodge.
akanorth curses his bad luck. if the EDPC is being driven towards that interplanar gate-thingy he mans the biggest gun that is not being manned and shoots anything that looks hostile/harmful. if not, he then boots whoever is driving the EDPC out and drives to the interplanar gate-thingySpoiler (click to show/hide)
Get on the turret and shoot anything non-human that looks like it’s following.Akanorth and Ji both man turrets and start firing at the distant flesh mass. Nothing is following the EdPC in the most literal sense, except for the expanding red sky. But whatever, putting a few hundred rounds into the expanding flesh thing is probably not a bad idea. Can't hurt anything...other than the flesh thing.
Also contact the military (US and Canadian) and explain the situation (omitting the part about it being one of our teammates) and ask kindly for indirect fire on the bazaar.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
"Hey, guys? How are you holding up, what's the gameplan here? Think there's a path out of this mess... or do we gotta fight a nascent flesh god with a nascent ghost god? I could try something occult here, but it's a roll of the dice whether it helps us or just absorbs us into boner kaiju V2."
"Yeah, we're getting the hell out of dodge indeed. Those ghost things you can summon, how confident are you in your ability to control them? We don't wanna throw even more fuel on this fire, but we're running out of other options fast.
I'll try to ring us up some conventional heavy fire support, but if that doesn't pan out or it isn't enough then feel free to do what you can."
Ring up command and request a heavy bombardment on the site of that growing fleshlight over there. Artillery, orbital, whatever assets they have that can respond right the fuck now.
If they can't help, ring up the military base commander and request the same. Advise him not to send any soldiers near the thing though, tell them to keep their distance but lob any ordnance they have left at it.
EDIT: to clarify, try to time it so we are out of the blast radius before a strike hits, but if we are about to be overcome by this thing's effect or get caught somehow, blast away.
Either way, while we are driving away, use the main gun if any physical threat closes in on us.
Finally, question: does it seem likely that shrieker rounds would affect/distract this thing?
"Any of you here in EdPC that still have fleshy parts, stow your weapons away in case whatever field that thing is generating reaches us and messes with you. If anything comes at us that can actually be shot at, use the EdPC side guns. "Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"This has gone tits up, REAL BAD."[3]
PW reminder: Just want to remind you that the door between the crew compartment and the command/driver's compartment of the EdPC is still shut.
Focus on getting us away from SAM. Keep up the pace while avoiding the cracks and fleshy blobs and all the other horrors. Getting us away is priority number 1.
Keep comms open for Yagyu to send his message to command. If I do find a second to breathe, try and send footage and the coordinates of SAM to those drones flying overhead and whatever other recievers are in range, in hopes that any of them feel like doing maybe stopping whatever is happening. Or if not, at least it should make for a good documentary/horror movie.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
We are going to make the assumption that at some point in the past hour or two of meandering that someone attached the Movie The-ate-er to the back of the EdPC and that you (And presumably brain dead Tara) are rattling along behind it.((this is the most hilarious of cases, and therefore the preferred one. A tentacle wearing, spiderbot controlling crocodile with a mechanical aptitude and a brain-dead bureaucrat rattling along in a Chevrolet modified to be a movie theater, towed behind a sapient APC carrying several robots and some still fleshly beings, trying to outrun the construction of a several hundred meter tall felshmonster in a city dominated by an antireality vortex created by the dreaming mind of a drug addled psychic test subject.
"Wilfred! Lend me a hand! I'm not the most dextrous monkey and us fleshbags need to get in that Silverfish, NOW! The EDPC is a heavily armed, heavily armored juggernaut, while the Silverfish is a speedy lightweight reconnaissance craft. It's got a top speed of 200 mph! If that can't get us out of here, then nothing can!"
"Wilfred! Lend me a hand! I'm not the most dextrous monkey and us fleshbags need to get in that Silverfish, NOW! The EDPC is a heavily armed, heavily armored juggernaut, while the Silverfish is a speedy lightweight reconnaissance craft. It's got a top speed of 200 mph! If that can't get us out of here, then nothing can!"
"Oh, sorry. I'm a little bit too busy discussing selfishly sacrificing myself to save everyone's lives. I don't have time to assist with your attempt to heroically abandon everyone here in a blind attempt to save yourself. Don't worry though; if you steal the flier, I'll make sure to kill you after I get back to base. Yags, think we should go with ghosty plan, or do you figure the nuke's good enough?"
No part of your bolded text mentions any of the three other vulnerable characters.
"I don't think those two are going to make it in without your help Will, but regardless of what you do with them, I'd appreciate if you could lend your suit rockets to give us some extra speed."((Thanks for thinking of Tara and Bob. Don't worry too much about us though, we went through a giant corpsegate into an alternate reality on purpose.))
((Fuck Derp so hard. Also, speaking of kidnapping what we have rightfully stolen (insert Vizzini death laugh), feel free to stuff Bob and Tara (or a non-braindead teammate) into the Silverfish. Bob's got much better tech than Jon did. We might even get it out of here in mostly one piece! It'd actually be a not terrible idea to rescue up to two teammates that way. But, you know, Bob gonna Bob, so Bob'll take what Bob gets, one way or the other. Fuck Derp))"Wilfred! Lend me a hand! I'm not the most dextrous monkey and us fleshbags need to get in that Silverfish, NOW! The EDPC is a heavily armed, heavily armored juggernaut, while the Silverfish is a speedy lightweight reconnaissance craft. It's got a top speed of 200 mph! If that can't get us out of here, then nothing can!"
"Oh, sorry. I'm a little bit too busy discussing selfishly sacrificing myself to save everyone's lives. I don't have time to assist with your attempt to heroically abandon everyone here in a blind attempt to save yourself. Don't worry though; if you steal the flier, I'll make sure to kill you after I get back to base. Yags, think we should go with ghosty plan, or do you figure the nuke's good enough?"
"Oh, sorry. I'm a little bit too busy discussing selfishly sacrificing myself to save everyone's lives. I don't have time to assist with your attempt to heroically abandon everyone here in a blind attempt to save yourself. Don't worry though; if you steal the flier, I'll make sure to kill you after I get back to base. Yags, think we should go with ghosty plan, or do you figure the nuke's good enough?"
((If you're curious: 10 kilotons is almost tactical. (https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt=10&lat=42.262265&lng=-83.755462&hob_psi=5&hob_ft=2207&psi=20,5,1&zm=12)))
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Just another tuesday afternoon in OMNI security.We are going to make the assumption that at some point in the past hour or two of meandering that someone attached the Movie The-ate-er to the back of the EdPC and that you (And presumably brain dead Tara) are rattling along behind it.((this is the most hilarious of cases, and therefore the preferred one. A tentacle wearing, spiderbot controlling crocodile with a mechanical aptitude and a brain-dead bureaucrat rattling along in a Chevrolet modified to be a movie theater, towed behind a sapient APC carrying several robots and some still fleshly beings, trying to outrun the construction of a several hundred meter tall felshmonster in a city dominated by an antireality vortex created by the dreaming mind of a drug addled psychic test subject.
"Oh shit people are melting, thank fuck I died and became a robot."
Find a hatch to the roof and pop out enough that I can fire my rocket launcher with out hitting anyone and blowup some of the cars in our path if it seems like it would help any.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
akanorth hunkers down and utters a silent prayer to whatever gods are out there. He then helps with drawing runes.[6]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Seeing as the resident robo-furry just dropped a building into the road, you decide that blasting it out of the way would probably be pretty useful. You climb into the main gun turret and take aim."Oh, sorry. I'm a little bit too busy discussing selfishly sacrificing myself to save everyone's lives. I don't have time to assist with your attempt to heroically abandon everyone here in a blind attempt to save yourself. Don't worry though; if you steal the flier, I'll make sure to kill you after I get back to base. Yags, think we should go with ghosty plan, or do you figure the nuke's good enough?"
"At this point, I think we will stand the best chance if we focus all our efforts on getting out of here faster. EdPC is having trouble getting through, and even if we outrun the fleshmelt field we have a blastwave incoming.
Speaking on the latter, Wil, from the way command worded it it seemed like they expect us to take control of the drone carrying the package to direct it. You are the best techie we have right now that's still lucid, maybe you can ensure that the nuke wil go off the second we are out of the danger zone?"
"Baldwin, I understand that you're scared and your idea of getting the fleshies away from here faster definitely isn't without merit. But there are quite a few of you and trying to find a way to somehow carry all of you with a light flier not made for transporting much weight would take time and effort we could instead spend on getting everyone else out of the incoming blast wave. Not to mention you'd need to find a pilot. And yes, I realize we could just wait with the bombing run until we're far enough away, but with every second we wait that thing out there might incubate some fresh horror that makes it immune to our strike. We need to kill it now, while perhaps it may still be killed.
For example, maybe you could use your occult methods to create a barrier of some sort that can interfere with the fleshmelt field and buy us some time that way."
Would it help if I used the EdPC's main gun to blast away obstacles/roadblocks so he doesn't need to go around them as much? Or would that just create more debris and/or slow us down due to recoil? If it seems like it'd help, do so.
If not, then instead ruminate on the nature of that fleshmelt field, maybe that'll give us an idea of how we can shield our fleshling teammates from it.
((EDIT: just checked, and the silverfish can carry around 226 kg according to the manual we found earlier. Assuming around 70 kg per person on average, and assuming we're taking Akanorth, Baldwin, Tara (other braindeads not included), you definitely couldn't also take Bob, it'd be way over the weight limit. Maybe stuffing the fleshy peeps into the car and driving ahead would work better at this point, though it'd be a crapshoot to get them in there.))Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"ALRIIIGHT! Piloting a nuke is way better than becoming a nuke! I'll get right on that. Baldy, I won't stop you from trying to fly, but this is gonna be danger close. You'll probably be safer inside the EdPC's armored shell than you would be riding the blastwave."You do and can! Its almost like someone gave you the callsign and password for exactly that reason! Weird!
Do we have authorization/capability to take control of the nuke? If we do, Wilfred will take advantage of that, and guide in the bomb. Try to maximize damage to SAM, rather than prioritizing keeping us clear of the blast; the nearest intersection with Liberty Street isn't quite two miles away from the Bizarre, and an update ago you said we were a mile or two away already, so we should be outside the blast zone by then regardless. Plus we've got heavy armor.
If we don't have authorization/capability to control the nuke, or it seems entirely unnecessary, instead retrieve Bob and Tara from the Chevrolet and help them get inside the EdPC. Get inside with them. If Baldwin tries to climb out, assist him without harming him; Wilfred won't exactly mind if he gets baked in nuclear radiation, and it's not his fault if Omnicorp dropped a nuke right next to us.
((If you're curious: 10 kilotons is almost tactical. (https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt=10&lat=42.262265&lng=-83.755462&hob_psi=5&hob_ft=2207&psi=20,5,1&zm=12)))Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
((It looks like we're going with Plan G then. I hope we're a safe enough distance. We can get some extra speed if we ditch the chevrolet (after bringing Tara and Bob inside of course) ))[2]
Upon hearing Wilfred's declaration, Baldwin looks mournfully at the silverfish before abandoning it and crawling back inside the EDPC. Not before leaving one last message though
"Wilfred! If you're going to drop the nuke now, you should know something important! In addition to the blast wave and the flash, nukes also emit an EMP when they detonate. Make sure you're inside the EDPC when it explodes, otherwise all of your circuitry will be fried! Hardening armored military vehicles like the EDPC is a natural part of their construction process since they're mostly faraday cages anyway. You'll be safe inside."
Baldwin then turns his head towards Akanorth who has also started climbing out of the hatch
"I doubt the Silverfish has such protections though. You're free to do as you like akanorth, but there's a chance that you'll probably end up in freefall. It might be better if you helped me out downstairs."
And just like that Baldwin was back inside the vehicle, preparing to wait out the upcoming nuclear apocalypse.Spoiler: The Architect's Design (Pretentious monologue) (click to show/hide)
Baldwin retrieves the charcoal pencils stored in his idea tube, and begins handing them out to the AFKs, barking oblique instructions to draw summoning circles and esoteric runes. Between hanging DIY paper charms, Baldwin checks on his colleagues and corrects any errors they may have made. All of this is in hopes of creating a ward that could protect the EDPCs occupants against SAM's flesh absorbing aura. The inside of the vehicle begins to resemble an insane asylum, but hopefully the design is sound. Once finished, Baldwin gathers the AFKs and corrals them into the necessary spots. Then he begins to lead a chant.
Even if there is some flaw, it should at least hold for a little bit. Hopefully we'll never need itSpoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)
((I just want to throw in that Edward does have a cognition copier. I just left it in the Edward sheet and didn't put it in the EdPC sheet, but I specifically went over this with Piecewise before the mission since I fully expect(ed) the EdPC to get blown up or otherwise destroyed during the mission))[2]
Keep on trucking for now, full speed away from SAM. Make sure my teammates have access to the computers and guns on the EdPC, in case they want to use the shrieker rounds and/or take control of that nuke drone.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
((You can try jiggle your goo like I'm doing. It's probably pointless, but it's worth a try. Being absorbed into a flesh-hivemind usually isn't synonymous with death, and we haven't even gotten to that point yet.im preety sure that im dead. if piecewise agrees, character sheet pending
You might also be able to make a deal with that magic flee, even if that was just piecewise messing with you))
If there is any consciousness in the cellular goo that was once Bob, engulf Tara and dive for the nearest sewer entrance. If Tara fits, take her underground, else just go alone into the cool and wet below the surface.[7][5]
If there is nothing of Bob left but a soon to be incinerated puddle, let it be known that he died as he lived: Driving a Chevrolet Movie Theater.Spoiler: The MOOKiest (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
"NOT MY FAULT! I WANTED BOB TO LIVE!"
Get inside the EdPC. Unless already inside the EdPC. Be vaguely sad about the crocodile dying.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
You... you have stripped me down... to my barest flesh. Though you have destroyed... every bone... in my body... I will not bow before thee you monster![3][7][5]
I admit you have great power, but... you do not wear magic well.
Technology... made you arrogant. You thought a crutch... made you ready for the real thing.
That is why you will fail...
I... can feel your influence... weakening. I can feel your pain as nuclear hellfire burns your bones!
Hahahahahah...
...
...
Do not assume you will drag me to your doom, my little flower. I may have none of my possessions, but real magic is always with you.
We will soon meet again, but I doubt you will be able to threaten me like you used to.
While SAM is stunned by the nuke, sever my link to the divine light (ie. to SAM and the clouds) and steal a fragment of power for my own!
OR
If Sam is dead and gone, absorb some of the residual power before it dissipates...Either way, prove myself to be the superior meat sludge and assimilate my meat sludge contemporaries and reform into a new flesh horror. A real flesh horror...
Either way, try to reconstitute something resembling a body. Something with a face that can speak at leastSpoiler: Baldwin (How much of this is still relevant?) (click to show/hide)
[2]((You can try jiggle your goo like I'm doing. It's probably pointless, but it's worth a try. Being absorbed into a flesh-hivemind usually isn't synonymous with death, and we haven't even gotten to that point yet.im preety sure that im dead. if piecewise agrees, character sheet pending
You might also be able to make a deal with that magic flee, even if that was just piecewise messing with you))
Produce the antibio razor and hack at whatever flesh-monsters/sludge is still in the EDPCYou ignore the newly reformed flesh...angel...guy and instead hack at the mindless pile of former teammate. It's super effective!Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
"Oh fuck I've made things worse, why can't this damn thing shoot straight?"You climb back in, set the RPG down, and try to look innocent.
Shut the hatch and Sit down far from the melty flesh things that used to be my coworkers.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
Is there some time before the shockwave hits?2/3 blobs appear to have...uh...solved their own problems one way or another. So you shrug and duck.
If yes: scoop up what remains of the fleshy people who were in the EdPC in like a tupperware or whatever (one box per former person). Don't think this is revivable but might as well try. Then, bunker down and brace for impact.
Note: if the meatgoop is being weird or aggressive or whatever then just leave it alone.
If not: bunker down and brace for impact.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Thanks for the 'help', guys. Everyone please fasten your seatbelts, we seem to be about to experience some hefty turbulence."[10]
Button up the EdPC and brace for shockwave impact.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
Baldwin does not pay his teammates any mind as he steps outside of the EDPC and climbs on top. Cape billowing in the wind, he takes out the Military Binoculars he bought oh so long ago and takes a good and detailed look at Sam.You untangle yourself and your new arterial wings from the pile of teammates and wriggle out through the top hatch of the EdPC. The world outside is a painful red, the clouds burnt out of the sky for miles in all directions and scalding winds flowing outwards from the burning city to the south. Black smoke is rising to replace the clouds and tiny fragments of ash are raining down. What is distinctly absent however, is the characteristic mushroom cloud which follows any atomic blast. In its place stands the thing which used to be SAM. No longer a fragmentary figure, the humanoid body now stands several hundred feet tall, towering over the crater and the burning city beyond it. A warped skeleton, partially covered in charred and glowing flesh, strange organs visible through a still growing chest cavity. A giant heart, alight with the pale blue of Cherenkov radiation, beats audibly within its ribcage. Its head, a distorted skull with flesh slowly creepy over the ridged bone, houses eyes that visibly burn with blue light.
"Don't let those screams concern you." He says to no one in particular.
"These are the wails of a dying animal. SAM had the potential to become something truly powerful, but you dropped the nuke while she was incomplete. It disturbs me that she wasn't killed outright, but it'll only be a matter of time before she succumbs to third degree burns. As Ji so effectively demonstrated, though SAM was strong, the blobs of flesh goo she is composed of are individually quite weak."
Baldwin puts his binoculars away to laugh a little. Then he addresses Wil.
"Do you see it Wilfred? Do you see the bright glow of thousands of liberated souls simultaneously escaping their meaty shells and ascending to the heavens! Anything in that red sea that wasn't able to reach her in time has mostly certainly been reduced to carbon now. She can't touch them anymore, so I can't see how she could possibly regenerate!"
:D
Baldwin of course can't see them, but he assumes Wil does. It'll be really bad news if Wil doesn't see them either.
"Anyway, let's move these buildings out of the way and finally go home. I was once an architect you know. Destroying buildings is even easier than building them!"
And then he flies/climbs off with his explosive charge.
((Anyway, that was flavour-text. I don't actually know what happened to Sam, but I came up with a theory that made sense. I genuinely don't see how the flesh ocean could have survived the nuke. My occult roll will give more accurate information so I assume this will likely be contradicted by something. Here's my actual action in bold text))
Assuming I won't immediately flash-fry upon exiting the EDPC, do so and examine the state of the landscape around me. Then find a good vantage point and examine SAM with my Military binoculars. Try to ascertain the state of her and see how much aligns with the theory I posted above.
Some Sample questions:
- Is SAM actually dying?
- Are the red clouds receding?
- How much of a threat is she still?
- What is she doing now?
- Is the flesh sea charcoal?
- Is there still a way she could regenerate?
- How much more damage can she take before she's dead for good?
Share this info with my team of course. Then fly away or if that fails, climb away and go between the two buildings blocking the road. Carefully place my explosive charge in a place such that when it detonates, it clears a path without damaging the EDPC. Make sure I'm inside the EDPC before I detonate it though and even then only do it if my teammates authorize it. It might be better to use that explosive against SAM if we still need to fight her.
I advise the EDPC back away a bit anyway though, just to ensure absolute safety with explosives.Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
"How is that thing not dead, I thought nuking people killed them and everything around them?"Almost all communications are down or badly scrambled. The link to command is still active, but thats about the only one.
See if I can get onto the internet and see if any of the TV stations or news websites have an eye on what's happening outside the EDPC and what they think caused it and what they intend to do about it.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
Any of bloBob's inventory survive? in particular, riot suit, spiderbot, tentacle, money ... Chevrolet?The Chevrolet is smashed but your stuff is still inside.
Shlorp up into the EdPC and regurgitate Tara into a seat. Test my bio-mobility by giving the team a big, toothy grin.Spoiler: The MOOKiest (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
Exit the EdPC if possible and not harmful to allies, witness the status of SAM. Then immediately get to freeing the EdPC if it's trapped, or there's obstacles around it, or anything of that sort.We'll assume you get out and see everything Baldwin sees. As per ghosts...you can sense that there are a fucking ton of them around right now. Like...there's a fog of ghosts thick enough to block out the sun...if there was a visible sun right now.
By the by, do Wilfred's ghost powers allow him to sense anything here? Try not to actually start summoning ghosts or anything.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
((I expected EVA but got Nausicaa, I want my money back Piecewise))You got a cross between Akira and Attack on Titan, is what you got.
((Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow, and insidious killer.))
"... I think I'm about ready to go home now guys."
Wilfred, after remaining silent for a few seconds watching SAM, suddenly thrusts a large metal fist victoriously into the air.
"Awww hell yeah, Sam! I knew you were a cool chick dick thing, but I had no idea you had THAT in you! Badass!"
He then climbs back into the EdPC, disembarking from his hardsuit almost as soon as he's inside. He looks at Yagyu, and reaches up for the cognition copier mounted on his head, but hesitates. After a moment he lowers his hands and instead grabs a keycard, the key to his personal chest of belongings back home. He presses it into Yagyu's palm.
"If I come back, I'll have to have the ability to remember this. There's no way in hell I'm gonna apotheosize and punch out the god of all flesh, and then go back to normal life not knowing what it felt like! If my mind's unrecoverable, take care of Rolly Polly for me. And fuck Derp up if you ever get the chance!"
With that, he unceremoniously begins pushing the Silverfish out of the APC, pausing only to give a quick nod to Baldwin. "If anyone wants to fly me closer, and maybe keep the silverfish for yourself afterward, taking volunteers now. Otherwise I'm gonna ram this thing right into Sam! This time, I am the warhead!"
Veto'ing the auto-Tara action.
((OOC note: are we sure we want someone with d4 in tech to pilot the silverfish?))
((I expected EVA but got Nausicaa, I want my money back Piecewise))https://vimeo.com/64987176
((As someone rooting for a kaiju fight, yeah, Wil has the best tech. Sy should go solo. Not like the Silverfish is gonna survive Wil going full Spooky Gurren Lagan.))
...Also, did I miss something? Why does the silverfish need to be repaired? I'd think that at most it needs to be rebooted; there shouldn't have been physical damage, and if a reboot can't fix the computers it's probably fried. And if it were fried then all of us robobrains would presumably be dead, considering it's a military design that's built to resist energy weapons, while we're in cheap wageslave prosthetics.))
((The thing was strapped to the top of the EDPC like a bicycle.))((This was the info I was basking my thing off of.))
take Akanorth’s containment pods and collect up as much of the Aka-goo into the pods as possible.Ji gathers a high tech bucket full of former teammate.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Am I still rolling will rolls? If so, return to Alligator. Else, go get my spiderbot, if someone lets me in and out of the EdPC.[6]Spoiler: The MOOKiest (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
"I still don't get how Sam is still alive, but I guess things aren't all bad since I only accidentally killed one person instead of three."
Burt sits for a second listening to the current goings on be for adding his own comment.
"Are you guys sure summoning another giant monster to fight Sam a good idea, I mean we could all leave now and pretend none of this happened."
Aid in finding and fixing the Silverfish, also defend self if people decide I could be used for parts to fix the thing.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
"... I think I'm about ready to go home now guys."
Is EdPC awake? If not see if I can reboot him. If that doesn't work, get in the driver's seat and start driving out of here, towards the military base we entered from. Try not to attract the attention of Big Chungus over there.Oh, and grab the late Akanorth's stuff I guess for later distribution.
That can wait, instead first assist Wil with his plan. Accept the key he gives me, and if the silverfish needs any repairs then help out with that. Then we drive off.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Bob requires no help! Bob is bob!((Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow, and insidious killer.))
Baldwin's jaw drops when he sees SAM still standing. He saw what the nuke did to the rest of the landscape so how is she so FINE?!
It wasn't a total loss though. It seems like everything he said about the flesh sea was right, and SAM was still quite damaged. But he had to admit there was only one person left who could stop her."... I think I'm about ready to go home now guys."
"I'm just about ready to as well..." He said with great pain.
"But I think it's his fight to finish"
His head had turned towards Wilfred hulking metal frame. He was more powerful than either than them, and he was the one to drop the nuke. So naturally it made sense to give him the final word.
Baldwin holds up inside the EDPC. He decides to use his own flesh-warping power to try to help Bob put himself back together.
"Let me help you with that."Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
Wilfred, after remaining silent for a few seconds watching SAM, suddenly thrusts a large metal fist victoriously into the air.
"Awww hell yeah, Sam! I knew you were a cool chick dick thing, but I had no idea you had THAT in you! Badass!"
He then climbs back into the EdPC, disembarking from his hardsuit almost as soon as he's inside. He looks at Yagyu, and reaches up for the cognition copier mounted on his head, but hesitates. After a moment he lowers his hands and instead grabs a keycard, the key to his personal chest of belongings back home. He presses it into Yagyu's palm.
"If I come back, I'll have to have the ability to remember this. There's no way in hell I'm gonna apotheosize and punch out the god of all flesh, and then go back to normal life not knowing what it felt like! If my mind's unrecoverable, take care of Rolly Polly for me. And fuck Derp up if you ever get the chance!"
With that, he unceremoniously begins pushing the Silverfish out of the APC, pausing only to give a quick nod to Baldwin. "If anyone wants to fly me closer, and maybe keep the silverfish for yourself afterward, taking volunteers now. Otherwise I'm gonna ram this thing right into Sam! This time, I am the warhead!"
Discard all equipment besides the cognition copier, then take the Silverfish and fly towards SAM-9 at maximum velocity.If someone else wants to pilot, and drop Wilfred off partway there, they can go right aheadEDIT: If someone else volunteers to be the pilot, Wilfred will fly halfway to SAM, then jump out and get ghosty, allowing the volunteer to try and fly back. If nobody volunteers, he'll start getting ghosty without slowing down, aiming to crash into SAM with the force of an undead city.
Once dropped off, or after getting at least a mile of distance from the EdPC if he's piloting alone, begin drawing up the power of every last ghost possible. They ought to be pretty pissed at SAM, really; Wilfred's just going to give everyone some nice unity and direction. He doesn't have a huge amount of worry what form the ultimate summon takes. The classic "big boner" would be fine, as long as it's got at least four arms this time, or we could do something cooler, like a whirling hekatonkheires hurricane of arms. Or maybe a spider made of guns! Manifesting a nice big cannon to blow off SAM's head and get her attention would be a great opening move.
Point is, make it big, make it killy, and make it have lots of disposable appendages. Otherwise, ghost democracy, rather than flesh communism.
EDIT2: In the event that the silverfish is too damaged to fly, and can't be repaired... I guess just get out and start running towards SAM (without the hardsuit). Get Ghosty once a decent distance from the EdPC, with more of a focus on gaining mobility to catch up to SAM.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
Wilfred strips down to his robo-birthday suit and climbs into the silverfish. No one else is around to fly it so he is doing this himself. [3,7][9]
Am I still online? If not, boot the EdPC back up.
Assuming I succeed in regaining control and all system are nominal, then wait for everyone to do their thing. The moment everyone is done doing their thing and I don't have to stick around here, haul ass towards the military base where we originally entered the zone.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
((Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow, and insidious killer.))
Spoiler: The Architect's Design (Pretentious monologue) (click to show/hide)
Smug.Spoiler: The MOOKiest (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
"Is it to late to get sent to a different planet to avoid the next few months where Sam eats the planet?"Burt watches the kaiju "Battle" and shrugs. He puts his feet up. He's pretty sure he should be terrified but at this point he's pretty much just numb.
Sit and wait until I'm needed.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
If I can contact the military base, warn them we're coming in with the intent of moving out of the exclusion zone and getting out of here.You radio the military base and tell them of your plans to leave. Through heavy static the response you get is, in military jargon, the equivalent of "No shit, so are we".
Either way, keep sending visuals of what's happening up to command.
Should trouble try to catch up to us, use the main cannon to either blast it to pieces, or use a shrieker shell to distract it, whichever seems most appropriate.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
[3]((Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow, and insidious killer.))
Baldwin had popped open the ceiling hatch to watch the spectacle with his binoculars. Though the people inside the EDPC could only see his legs standing on a ladder, Baldwin's cheers and cries for Wilfred to 'Ghost her like a childhood friend on prom night' made his mood pretty clear.
And then there was silence...
After a pause that was uncomfortably long, Baldwin crawled down the ladder and began drawing funny shapes on the floor.
Continue my work on warding the EDPC against SAM magics from last time.Spoiler: The Architect's Design (Pretentious monologue) (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
Fly to the opposite direction of the way SAM is looking, and continue to call up ghosts. Reach beyond even the local death, and try to draw on something beyond, something stronger. I don't care what, I just want to take SAM down. Direct all the ghosts to attack SAM's legs, and knees--bring her to the ground, and drag her below. Bury her, and all the bodies that she took control of.[6][5v6]Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
Keep rollin' rollin' rollin' towards that military base, and the sweet sweet "not here" that lies beyond itThe Red sky emanating from Sam is still expanding, through it seems to have slowed down as it went further from her. By the time you leave Ann Arbor you're beyond its range and it seems to be slow to catch up. However, as you grow near the military base you find a different problem: People. Its clear that a large portion of Ann Arbor fled from the previous giant monster the team created up towards the military cordon. And its clear the military barred the base and began holding off the mob of fleeing civilians by just about any means. What lies ahead on the road is a sea of humans, with scattered islands of tanks and APCs abandoned in their midst. They're attempting to climb the walls in spite of the continuous fire from the automated turrets. There are no soldiers visible on the walls however, and it looks as though the actual base itself is operating automatically. You're still a few hundred feet from mile and a half long mosh pit leading to the base, but there are trees on either side of the road. Getting around this horde would require circling far to the side, and even then you can see clusters of people setting off into the woods and out into the fields beyond, looking for other places to breach the fence.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
You radio headquarters and receive an automated message about how there are currently no OMNITECH teams in the disaster zone and how there haven't been for several years. They then leave a set of "Hypothetical" pickup coordinates for any teams that "Theoretically could be in the area but clearly are not."
"Perimeter wall, auto cannons, mine field, and automata. Mostly drones launched from 'Nests' scattered along the length. Almost everything is automated, we're mostly here just to keep an eye on it and catch anything that wanders past."
Will these things target us as well?
"Yep. But they're all clearly demarcated. You'll have to run into them on purpose. And if you need to, we can come by and let you through, though we need some forewarning and time to get over there. Also we can't open a wall."
Try to us emy electronics suite to find us a way through the base and to the pickup point (assuming it's outside of the anomolous zone perimeter). Hack the base's defences if need be, or blow a hole in the wall a bit away from the largest mass of people, whatever seems like it'd be the path of least resistance.
If the OMNITECH pickup point is inside the anomolous zone, then turn around and head towards it insteadSpoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
Baldwin looks at the wall, then he looks at the roof, then he looks at the people, and finally he looks deep into his heart to see how much of it has managed to shrivel up.
"So... Wilfred took the Silverfish, and I used my only explosive...
Baldwin puts his pipe in mouth, but doesn't light it. He just grinds his teeth on it while an internal debate goes on in his head.
"Well... I can think of one way out of here but it requires war-crimes and some luck. You guys game?"
"I'm just gonna say that at this point plowing down a bunch of people with a machine gun sounds like the least evil thing caused by us being here at this point so I say we go for it."
Man one of the turrets and shoot things that try to attack us.
"I'm just gonna say that at this point plowing down a bunch of people with a machine gun sounds like the least evil thing caused by us being here at this point so I say we go for it."You man one of the turrets and hope you won't have to use it to mow down hundreds or possibly thousands of fleeing civilians.
Man one of the turrets and shoot things that try to attack us.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
((Just realized that I forgot to post an action.))[1]Baldwin looks at the wall, then he looks at the roof, then he looks at the people, and finally he looks deep into his heart to see how much of it has managed to shrivel up.
"So... Wilfred took the Silverfish, and I used my only explosive...
Baldwin puts his pipe in mouth, but doesn't light it. He just grinds his teeth on it while an internal debate goes on in his head.
"Well... I can think of one way out of here but it requires war-crimes and some luck. You guys game?""I'm just gonna say that at this point plowing down a bunch of people with a machine gun sounds like the least evil thing caused by us being here at this point so I say we go for it."
Man one of the turrets and shoot things that try to attack us.
"Well, if you really are curious, my plan took inspiration from the old H.E.L.L highways on mars. The basic principle was that you could build a portal to another dimension, then enter that dimension and build a portal back to your home dimension in a slightly different location. When you popped back home, you would be in a different location than you started in allowing you to for example, bypass a mountain without digging a tunnel for example. The project was scrapped after demons breached the reinforced tunnels and started to spill out in our own dimension, but the idea should still work with safer dimensions. H.E.L.L was only chosen because it was 2/3rds the size of our own dimension and travel through it was thus 1.5 times faster. Hence H.E.L.L. Highway.
"You'd have to harvest lot of bodies to build two portals large enough for the EDPC to fit through though, everyone will have to be committed to make such a thing work. That's why I asked, otherwise I would have built it myself."
Continue reinforcing the EDPC against SAM magics unless something changes my mind. I managed to reconstitute myself after all, surely this knowledge will teach me how to make countermeasures!Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
You check the coordinates....they're just outside the perimeter. But they're not near the military base, they're a few miles south. You relay this info to the EdPC who immediately turns south and starts weaving through the trees. [3]QuoteYou radio headquarters and receive an automated message about how there are currently no OMNITECH teams in the disaster zone and how there haven't been for several years. They then leave a set of "Hypothetical" pickup coordinates for any teams that "Theoretically could be in the area but clearly are not."
Wait, so do these coordinates point to places inside or outside the military perimeter?
If it's inside, where are the nearest points?
If it's outside, could we avoid this mass of people by driving toward the perimeter wall and using the EdPC main cannon to blast a hole in the wall?Quote"Perimeter wall, auto cannons, mine field, and automata. Mostly drones launched from 'Nests' scattered along the length. Almost everything is automated, we're mostly here just to keep an eye on it and catch anything that wanders past."QuoteWill these things target us as well?
"Yep. But they're all clearly demarcated. You'll have to run into them on purpose. And if you need to, we can come by and let you through, though we need some forewarning and time to get over there. Also we can't open a wall."
In case the pickup point is outside, see if the military guys can disable the defenses for a small patch of wall for us to get through.
((If not, perhaps EdPC can hack into it to disable the defenses for a bit.))Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
[12]Try to us emy electronics suite to find us a way through the base and to the pickup point (assuming it's outside of the anomolous zone perimeter). Hack the base's defences if need be, or blow a hole in the wall a bit away from the largest mass of people, whatever seems like it'd be the path of least resistance.
If the OMNITECH pickup point is inside the anomolous zone, then turn around and head towards it insteadSpoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
More! MORE! This place, this city, is a nexus of alternate realities, drawn closer by the institute leeching energy off of their adjacent frequencies! There's a thousand thousand more dead worlds out there, closer than they'll ever be again! Reach into those worlds, seize their massacres and disasters, and drag them home--summon the angry dead of all possible Detroits, and use them as a screaming body to envelop and kill SAM! Make her feel the violent death of everyone who could have ever died here!Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
((Wil's doing great. But I think literally everyone here with no exceptions at all would agree that he would do much better if he shaped all those souls into a giant humanoid ghost mech.))
"Guess there was no need to man turret after all and that's great, I didn't want to shoot people anyway..... well maybe just a few of them."Thank god everything-" You slap away a skeleton rat crawling across your shoulder "-Everything worked out with no further issues."
Go back to my seat and wait for extraction.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
"Solid work Ed, very good.They give you a hypothetical ETA of something like 4 minutes. If they were sending a ship...which they're clearly not! Baka!
Allrighty people, now we just wait for our pickup. Whatever is going on out there is now beyond us. Just pray that the occult wierdo that is on our side wins from the occult wierdo that isn't. Don't stray too far and don't cause anymore trouble, we're not waiting for you once our ride arrives."
Then, turning to Baldwin, he adds:
"You. Whatever is happening in there, unfuck it, capiche?"
Radio command that we're at the extraction point. Request an ETA.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"I'm working on it!"
Baldwin takes out his occult knife and tries to use it as a potato peeler to peel the Sigils off of the EDPC. If the Sigils enhance occult power, surely they'd enhance the knife and allow it to peel metal. Store the shavings in a containment pod so I can draw on this power for a rainy day. If peeling fails for whatever reason (perhaps my teamates stop me), erase them the old fashioned way.Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
Consider Baldwin. In Bob's primordial, walnut-sized lizard brain, is Baldwin a threat? If so, eat him. If not, eat the ghosties he's been summoning.Spoiler: The MOOKiest (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
Use my electronics and sensors to
A) keep the team updated on our extractions
B) Scan our surroundings for possible hostiles/danger/desperate civilians and raiders
Angle myself so that I can get the main gun and at least one turret trained in the direction of the hole I made in the wall, just in case.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
[9][2v2]((Wil's doing great. But I think literally everyone here with no exceptions at all would agree that he would do much better if he shaped all those souls into a giant humanoid ghost mech.))
((Yeah, I totally want that too. Didn't work out initially, and with how the last few turns have gone... I was debating just saying "Eh, good enough", and leaving. But no, you're right, this is an all-in occasion.))
Fantastic! Now Wilfred has all the raw materials he needs, but skull clouds and geysers of the screaming dead just don't have the flair appropriate for this occasion.
Form all this ghost power into a giant humanoid mecha, topped by a giant laughing skull, where Wil will pilot/ride it from. And instead of feet, form massive blades of bone, to stomp on SAM with, chopping her (it?) apart. Especially the head.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
"How about you start taking responsibility for your actions! If you want your teammates to have your back when the going gets tough, they have to know you are reliable as well!
Promise me you'll fix your mess, and I'll try, try, to get Bob not to Bob for a moment."
Continue deathrolling the threat.Spoiler: The MOOKiest (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
Get out of the deathroll. Since it's unlikely I'll be able to out-strength Bob, I'll try to use minor fleshwarping powers if no one else stops him. Attempt to use my magic to retract my head into my body like a turtle and then escape his grasp!
If anyone actually helped save me from Bob, then work on removing the sigils. Otherwise, leave the EDPC and hide somewhere safe. Climbing on top of the vehicle might be a good option
"I'm not going back in there until that gator is restrained and under control! If you want to remove the sigils so badly, then do it yourself! You just need to erase them."
((Assume this line is only spoken if Rob escapes on his own and exits the EDPC))Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
Yagyu just barely manages to distract Bob away from Baldwin with a handful of scurrying ghost mice. Bob eats all the ghost mice and then begins pac-man-ing his way around the EdPC, devouring ghosts. How does he devour ghosts? Thats a good question that will probably be answered at another time.Swim to the back door and open it to let out the wave of spoopy woodland critters.
Try to distract Bob for a bit to stop the deathroll, perhaps find a tasty ectoplasmic fish! Or find some broken bit of machinery for him to tail-slap into repair.
"Bob, please stop deathrolling the occult idiot for just a moment, he has to clean up his mess first."Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"You guys do whatever I'm just gonna be over here trying to make a friend with a ghost."[2] Attempts to grab, persuade, negotiate, or entice the ghost deer result in failure. The ghost deer scamper through the walls of the EdPC and assumedly off into the woods or maybe to deer heaven. Wherever it is dead deer go.
Grab one of the deer ghosts and try to tame it to be my friend.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
If any of the ghost critters get aggressive, see how effective the anti-bio razor is against their semi-corporeal forms. If nothing else happens, see if I can trap a small ghost creature in one of Aka’s containment pods.[3]Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Wilfred begins cackling maniacally from his undead cockpit, directing the motions of his monstrous mecha by gesticulating chaotically while he laughs and screams.[3v6]
"COME ON, SAM! IF YOU WANTED TO JUMP MY BONES SO BAD YOU COULD'VE JUST ASKED, YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO EAT DETROIT! AND NOW WE'RE ON TV TOO! THINK OF THE CHILDREN, SAM! GAHAHAHAHA! OH, I DON'T CARE--GIMME A KISS, YOU RAVAGING BEAST!"
So you're saying the mecha's head is free? Bend forward and bite SAM's face off, or whatever passes for a face on that monstrosity. Then try to free an arm, and repeatedly punch the thing in its chest and neck! Beat it into the ground!Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
(A little piece of me thinks we should do something about Samzilla but the rest of me doesn't care and thinks the problem will sort itself out in the end.)[3]
"Damn it ghosts I demand friendship!"
Try to make friends with any of the ghosts inside the EDPC.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
"Ok, now everybody sit still, don't cause trouble and just chill for a second."You open the door of the EdPC and start trying to shoo ghosts out. Most have already wandered through the walls but your attempts to scatter some of the more skittish ones. The spectral tortoises aren't budging though.
Yagyu said, looking at Baldwin the whole time and not breaking eye contact.
Then, after a short pauze, he adds:
"We'll be out of here soon, and then this whole nightmare is officially someone else's problem."
Open the back door of the EdPC for a sec to let out all the ghosts. Then close it again.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Bob grins.BOBSpoiler: The MOOKiest (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
Baldwin obeys Yagyu's orders very stricly and sits incredibly still, in contrast to his usual sass. He is visibly uncomfortable though, and makes several glances at Bob. Eventually he decides to speak up.The mushroom does appear to have grown. Not a lot, but a bit. The bottom of the inside of the container is filled with a thin film of golden mycelium.
"I understand your intentions Captain, but as a human being who survived an assault from a colleague, I am respectfully requesting permission to go outside for some much needed air and distance."
After a long time receiving the silent treatment from Yagyu, Baldwin decides to distract himself from the scary gator by examining the golden mushroom again. Surely it must have grown by now! A past Baldwin would have cringed at the thought of having forgotten to sell it at the bizarre (and giving Ji her fair share), but this version doesn't for some reason.Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
"Just a reminder to my dearest passengers, EdPC Rideshares™ has a "some men left behind" policy. Unlike the "no man left behind" policy of some of our competitors, EdPC rideshares reserves the right to leave behind anyone not present in the vicinity of the EdPC when an emergency extraction happens. EdPC Rideshares™ is not liable for anything that happens to you before or during your ride with us, nor are we liable for anything that happens to you if you miss the extraction moment. We thank you for understanding. For questions and feedback, please contact our Customer Service representative Yagyu d'Aubigny"
Keep keeping an eye on our perimeter.
If our extraction arrives next turn, do what it takes to get ourselves extractedSpoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
"Oh come on SAM, you almost took our arm off! That's so sad, you didn't even manage to remove it fully! Let me show you what a REAL dismemberment looks like!"[4v3]
Make the Deadnaught reach up to its laughing skull head, rip it off, and throw the damn thing at SAM! Wilfred riding along, using his ghost magic to empower the skull and strengthen its mouth into a colossal beartrap. All to give the Deadnaught's headless body a chance to get back up and dropkick SAM back down.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
Ask if they have a second shuttle ready to extract for if, nay, when Wil is done kicking undead ass and needs to get extracted as well.
If yes, let's just go. If not, maybe just fly off a bit to make sure we're out of the dangerous area, but then we can wait for Wil?
"By the way, do you have any plans for that jar of ghost rats?"
(("Sooo.... you gonna eat that?"))
"I'm happy to be going back to base and finally leaving the horrid shit fest that is Detroit behind."You case the fox around the EdPC in a playful fashion. It does cheat a bit by phasing through walls but whatever thats fine.
Play with my ghost fox while we return to base.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
"Yes please, my savior angel with the buttery smooth voice. Unfurl your wings and carry me away from this, frankly, fucked up place."
Extraction getSpoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
((Ji would remind Baldwin that the mushroom is not his to sell. It belongs to Ji outright, as was the agreement. He has lended his efforts to acquiring it, and that deserves compensation. But he has no stake in deciding what to do with it.))You acquire a lackadaisical tortoise ghost (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAU3AKDoxB0)in a containment pod before trading an empty one to Baldwin. He gives you the mushroom pod after scraping a bit of mushroom goo out.
Scoop up a tortoise in a containment pod. Name it Herbert.
Edit- Trade an empty containment pod for the mushroom one. Allow Baldwin to take a sample.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Satisfied with with seeing progress on its growth, Baldwin turns towards Ji.You start your very own golden chia pet.
"Since the mission is wrapping up and you've gotten ahold of your own containment pod now, I think now is a good time to give this back you. To be honest, I'm going to miss the fun little guy, but I'm pretty sure you'd kill me if I tried to hold onto this thing. I've already had enough attempted team killings for one mission."
Baldwin laughs when he says this. Perhaps it's his idea of a joke.
"There's just one last thing I want to show you before I let it go. As I mentioned at the airport before, I used to grow mushrooms. And take a look!"
He smiles while presenting the containment pod. You can see that bits of aluminum are now covered in a fuzz.
"That there is the Mycellium and it's finally managed to spread through the substrate. That means that if I take some of it, I can grow another mushroom, and I could grow one for you too if you wanted a second one."
Baldwin then takes out an empty containment pod and opens the plastic door.
"I guess this is my way of asking if I could take some with me? I've got a few exotic potted plants in my room, and I would love to add the mushroom to my collection."
If Ji allows it, Baldwin will take some of the Mycellium covered substrate and place it in the empty containment pod. With time and care, it will eventually grow into a full sized golden mushroom itself. Baldwin will also give the original mushroom back to Ji.
"By the way, do you have any plans for that jar of ghost rats?"Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
Bob eyes the shady dealings going down in the evac pod. If the slightest hint of occulty or otherwise dangerous behavior happens. Bob chomps hands. Otherwise, Extract get.Hmmm...that guy put one of these ghost snacks into a container....suspect. But not a threat. Hmm.Spoiler: The MOOKiest (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
Ask if they have a second shuttle ready to extract for if, nay, when Wil is done kicking undead ass and needs to get extracted as well.
If yes, let's just go. If not, maybe just fly off a bit to make sure we're out of the dangerous area, but then we can wait for Wil?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Ask if they have a second shuttle ready to extract for if, nay, when Wil is done kicking undead ass and needs to get extracted as well.
If yes, let's just go. If not, maybe just fly off a bit to make sure we're out of the dangerous area, but then we can wait for Wil?
((Do note, Wilfred explicitly expected this to be a suicide mission, and made no request for anyone to wait for him. At best he figured he might get redownloaded into the EdPC after dying. OOC, I fully expect this fight to get auto-resolved within a few turns, and I don't see it ending well for Wil. Neither I nor my character will mind in the slightest if you skedaddle early.))"By the way, do you have any plans for that jar of ghost rats?"
(("Sooo.... you gonna eat that?"))
Chomp and grind up SAM's arm like an extremely hungry attack dog, while the main body of the Deadnaught slides behind SAM and attempts to decapitate it.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: STANpool (click to show/hide)
Message from OMNITECH accounting:Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I liked ze mission. The EdPC as a centralizing factor helped to keep the meandering down to a minimum.
Also, don’t forget I have some items in the LAF box
I didn't mind the mission. Bit long. The end of mission shenanigans kinda put all the action onto one or two players, which was kinda meh for me, but others seemed to get a real kick out of it, so I don't mind.Message from OMNITECH accounting:Things Bob did this missionSpoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)
addressed human rights violations by attempting to dispose of substandard foodstock from contaminating the food supply.
flushed the toilet
depressurized butadiene and styrene-butadiene pressurized rotational ground contact devices
acquired sustenance
Established a beachhead in the yelllowzone along with Anya
fixed broken plane computer
Bob
Haiku
Ghost mystery solved, small snacks only
Mounted Upsetting Frog LogoTM to EdPC
Stealthily reconnoitered scientist's office for sna ... secrets. And also snacks.
Drove (well, rode along in) a Chevrolet to a movie theater.
Built Chevrolet Movie Theater
The MOOKiest
No, really. We stuck our dicks in it this time. For Science
Fact (and apple) finding
Survived S.A.M. -9
Blob
Bob
Team Disciplinarian
Spectral Snack EnthusiastSpoiler: Tara (click to show/hide)
I liked the mission. I have somewhat of an opposed view from Lupanian--I wish we had more freedom to explore separate from the main group, without feeling like we'd get significantly separated. Wilfred didn't actually have this problem, what with the hardsuit (and monopolizing the silverfish to a degree), but it was quite clear other players were affected (Heydude).Message from OMNITECH accounting:
I also disliked using a real-world map for the city. It worked, and was a creative way to make a city plan, but it's simply more annoying to read a real map (especially on mobile) than a traditional RPG grid/hex map.
I liked the very open nature of the world, with lots of options for dealing with the Smiles, for instance. It felt pretty overwhelming for me a lot of the time, especially being preoccupied with real life, but I felt like I had more than enough freedom to come up with creative solutions to problems, or go find something interesting to do. I didn't use that much, but when I did it was a high point.
Second spoiler is mission accomplishments, as always.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
Message from OMNITECH accounting:Spoiler: Things I did! (click to show/hide)
I liked the open world of the mission, but I was a afraid to leave the group after being killed by a beamI also liked all the warcrimes.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
I think the Silverfish added a lot to making the mission enjoyable. I don't know what the ideal amount of freedom too split off is, but there definitely has to be some it. Maybe there could be two silverfishes next time or something like that? Maybe each of us could have their own motorcycle? I think having a central "mothership" is important though. Large groups need someone they can recognize as a higher authority to keep them coordinated. The person driving the EDPC-equivalent is the person we should all try to get back to at some point.
Besides tethering, what else can I say about the mission? I think individual locations should have multiple things to do in them. The only thing at the prospector's bar for example was the bar. Everything else there was a ruined house. The only thing at the airport was the haunted plane, and a few bits of scattered loot. The only thing at the orange zone clinic was the tree Kaiju fight and a conversation with those hospital guys.
If traversal across the world map should be tethered to a central command vehicle, I think the individual locations we arrive at should encourage splitting the party a lot. The image I have in my mind is a Mario Oddyssey level for some reason. Imagine if we put The Razor and The Bizarre in roughly the same area for example? What if we encountered a ruined city with data disks buried in the somewhere in the rubble and we had to split off because that would be the fastest way to find them? Power disparity among members would make balancing this kind of tricky I suppose, but I have an idea for a possible solution to that.
When Wilfred and Sam split off to raid Smiles base and summon the skele-kaiju and the rest of us explored the factory for a battery, that was great! The hardsuit and the fleshmonster took on an army while us regular folks explored a dungeon where wits were needed rather than brawn. I think stuff like this is why less tethering to the EDPC is better. You'll have to figure out how to incentivize people to split up though (maybe some sort of overall time-limit, and thus a greater need for efficiency?)
Long story short, I think giving people reasons to spilt-up is a good goal to work towards. Just make sure you don't take it too far. I don't know how much can be learned from You are a monster (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=156291.msg6811880#msg6811880), but that was a great open world game! It might be too individualistic to be of use to you though.
In the end, I would say that I enjoyed myself, but I say this as an occultist who managed to get involved in a lot of shenanigans.Spoiler: Things Baldwin did (click to show/hide)
Also, I think its time to distribute the rewards from this:Spoiler: STANpool (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
I quite liked the mission, playing as the EdPC was a lot of fun. It's nice being almost a literal tank and not having to worry about my fleshy bits.Message from OMNITECH accounting:
That said, I'm not sure a completely open world/free reign map is the way to go. I just feel like this game, due to the play by post nature, needs a little bit of directing maybe? Something like the FTL map, where you each time have the choice of going between 2-3 possible routes, but in the end you're always progressing from sector 1-2-3-etc. Completely open ended would work fine if we were playing in real time and could quickly ping-pong questions, but with several days of time between each question/action and answer having a couple of well defined options might help in keeping things going and on track. It would also mean that at each junction we can decide to either pick one as a group, or split up to hit multiple options at once.
That said, this certainly wasn't bad. I had fun, mission was interesting, SAM-9 kinda came a bit out of nowhere for me but the kaiju fighting itself was very neat.
5/7, perfectly cromulent mission, Bob is best mascot.Spoiler: EdPC achievements (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
Arranged for the nuclear strike. Not sure if it did anything in the end or just made it worse, but at least it felt good.
Will to d10. Implants to d10. Allow myself to be directed to the debriefing.OK.Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Bob's mighty deeds this miossion (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Tara (click to show/hide)
Whoops, didn't know we were leveling up now. I thought we were just heading to get court-martialed for our war crimes.OK
Will: d4 > d6
Occult: d8 > d10
This just seemed like the natural level-up path to take considering Baldwin's late-game transformation. I considered leveling up speech so I could get better at barter, but it feels like I would be betraying the character at this point.Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
Explosives to d6OK
Stats n/a
Head to conference room.
Mechanics to d10OK
I don't get more stats.
Follow everyone else to the conference room.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
Things Yagyu did this time:Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Also, lvl-up to guns please.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
(I can now finally join this non awkwardly huzzah!)Welcome aboard. Oh and level up once and add 500 omni to your account.Spoiler: Jack Blackwater (click to show/hide)
hand over the omni for the SAMpool, assuming I have enoughI have no idea how much that is! But We'll assume you do.Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
...I got one free extra life every mission, as a reward for being suicidal?Omni knows an asset for violence when they see it. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBk8wUo6B7c)
huh
Gun to d10Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
"Sure thing, putting myself in park."NEGOTIATING
stay where I am and see how our "deal" turns out
Also, I'm saving my skill levelup (I don't get stats because I've got a robobody, right?) until I know what the deal is gonna be.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)
(After some chat with PW, rejoining.)Welcome back.Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
"Well that went better than I thought it would and do the deaths even count against us if the person that killed everyone stopped being on our side the moment they started killing?"
... Bob's the second best choice... but I want to be able to pilot my hardsuit.
"I wasn't talking about you, you were trying to stop the thing that was killing everyone.""Well that went better than I thought it would and do the deaths even count against us if the person that killed everyone stopped being on our side the moment they started killing?"
Wil speaks up from somewhere nearby, despite not yet having bought a replacement body. "Hey! I was on your side the whole time! I died for you, man!"
Please deposit the remnants of your old body in the reconstitution chamber. Our benefactors do not want to lose a surveillance point.Do this I guess. Will this reconstitute all of the auditor and it's gear, or just the body, or body and modules, or what?
"Well that went better than I thought it would and do the deaths even count against us if the person that killed everyone stopped being on our side the moment they started killing?"The handguns and rifles are d6 and d8 respectively, their magazines are both d6. Making them into a machine gun? Uh...Well that depends on what you mean. The system doesn't really have the idea of firing multiple times, just bigger damage. You wanna just smash these together into a d10 or something or are you trying to get some special effect?
Examine the handguns and rifle I stole from the bizarre, then see what I need to do to make it into a machine gun I can use, also did the other animatronic critters survive the trip?Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
Hmmm."Well that went better than I thought it would and do the deaths even count against us if the person that killed everyone stopped being on our side the moment they started killing?"
Wil speaks up from somewhere nearby, despite not yet having bought a replacement body. "Hey! I was on your side the whole time! I died for you, man!"
I won't be cloning Tara; I'm not comfortable cloning a char without consent, and Naturegirl didn't respond to my PM, nor does she look to be coming back soon. Bob's the second best choice... but I want to be able to pilot my hardsuit. Nobody else is flesh and has good stats.
Pay 1000 for a clone, and additionally bribe whoever's handling the cloning with 100 OMNI, to just... make a second clone of someone who's got their data or whatever in the system. Someone with a good body, not some infirm d4 cripple. Preferably a body that's... interesting, too. This is probably a massive waste of money, but at least it should be entertaining.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
Enjoy the disgusting deluge until janitorial comes in and cleans up, and, preferably, gives Bob a good scrub before shooing him out.Freshly slathered in ceiling fluids Bob wanders in search of food and trinkets. We'll assume the Tool kit and outrageous bag of nutrient paste (-300) As per other things, there is a fair amount of stuff to find. The bar has booze, illegal guns, drugs, and human organs for example. There's a DIY surgeon down on level K928 who will perform any surgery for a flat rate. And there's an unlicensed taco vendor in the men's bathroom grilling meat in one of the all metal sinks.
Then, wander into various arsenals, black markets, flesh holes, R&D labs, and quartermaster's offices to acquire fat loots. At minimum, Bob will take 1 OMNI toolkit (200 OMNI) and 100 Nutrient Paste (100 OMNI total) and something to hold those things with, like a satchel or a mobile powered suit or something (all purchases are pending at the moment).
Any Teammate willing to purchase foods for Bob will be allowed to choose an item for him to purchase. Bob has 2150 OMNI and is spending 300 of that, but Bob is flexible on those purchases, assuming he somehow manages to get at least the tools needed to FIX THINGS and EAT THINGS.
Also note that Bob is 50 OMNI short of an unmodified mini-mech ... just saying ~... Bob's the second best choice... but I want to be able to pilot my hardsuit.
((Just clone Bob but pay for modifications like fingers and an upright stance and ... that thing .... ah yes, a brain.))Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Bob's mighty deeds this mission (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Tara (click to show/hide)
Jack walks in eating popcorn out of a bucket "Ay guys got some popcorn!" he grabs a couple pieces and shove them in his mouth "Mm pretty gud pupcurn" he finishes chewing before resuming to talk "Anyway im Jack I actually know alot about you guys and let me say you people go through some wacky shit let me tell ya what!" Jack coughs "Anyway if you need me ill probably be lounging in a chair somewhere or something nice meeting you all in person!"Considering the conference room is...currently filling up with water....and Bob has wandered, we'll assume you follow after him, throwing pieces of popcorn in front of him and watching him snatch them up like a reptilian pac-man.
Go take a seat somewhere and relax throwing some popcorn at Bob if he happens to wander on by also Speed to D6 and Guns to D8Spoiler: Jack Blackwater (click to show/hide)
Summer is going to chat with the researchers. Ask if they have any small robots or loads for the various venom injectors.. a robot mouse with a syringe gun on it might be very useful.Drugs for the various injectors they have in ample supply. Lots of varieties too. Acids, poisons, mutagens, viruses, even the dreaded "Life" fluid. As per robots, especially robot mice...well they have some stuff. The cheapest is are old camera drones used to check pipes and vents. Not smart, not terribly fast, not very durable, but able to scamper just about anywhere and only 25 omni a piece.
With 100 OMNI, probably beyond my means.
Also, ask about combat drugs. There are stims that make you harder to be killed.. are there ones that help your run away? Lift heavy things?Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)
You ask about this in the nearest medbay and they take the body from you, telling you to come back in a while. When you ask how long they say "about a mission's worth of time".QuotePlease deposit the remnants of your old body in the reconstitution chamber. Our benefactors do not want to lose a surveillance point.Do this I guess. Will this reconstitute all of the auditor and it's gear, or just the body, or body and modules, or what?
Then go look up what the after-market options are for auditors regarding mobility. Jetpacks, AoT-style mobility wires, see what's out there.
((@heydude: Baldwin still owed Yagyu 8 omni, right?))Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Retrieve my objects (Lizard claw and Baton) from the LaF box. Replace them with a pod of Aka-goo.The Omni guys will give you 500 for all your stuff.
Afterwards, sell my boxes of scrap and airplane pins, saving a handful of pins. Then see if OMNI eggheads want to buy the ghost critters, the golden mushroom, and the remaining Aka-goo. (if they lowball the critters, let Baldwin buy them at his offer)Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Baldwin offers to pay 100 Omni more for the critters than what the corporations are offering. IT’s AUCTION TIME BABY!So...200. Omni guys ain't raising so their yours.
(My Maximum bid: 400)Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
Bleb. Dev got a good deal, which I'll be stealing now.The Bar, described like
Suddenly pop into existence. Check in at the fleshbar for entertainment and/or helpful advice.Spoiler: don't worry everybody, I'm an expert (click to show/hide)
Making them into a machine gun? Uh...Well that depends on what you mean. The system doesn't really have the idea of firing multiple times, just bigger damage. You wanna just smash these together into a d10 or something or are you trying to get some special effect?(I meant to ask about making the turret I have into a machine gun, I think I skipped a word when writing that.)
Alright guys, I've got 500 Omni and looking to buy some good explosives. Only stuff which uses Explosives skill, I'll probably only take deals which are better than the vending machine. (Which is 150 for a frag or detpack, 100 for most nonlethal grenades.) Oh, and rocket launchers should use explosives skill, so I'd buy those.
Other players can suggest and vote on what body Wil should now have. Suggest anything that could presumably pilot a hardsuit, and I'll go with whatever gets the most votes! Your local ghost god is a big supporter of democracy.
EDIT: Democracy isn't working, because nobody votes. Roll on some random table to generate a body, please?
Buff catgirl.Ultra Thicc buff catgirl
Now imagine that but twice as THICC.Buff catgirl.Ultra Thicc buff catgirl
((That... is not at all what I was expecting. I was expecting disposable body roulette, not huge buff. But... I can't exactly complain, either...))My vote was modified Bob. Just go modified Bob
I was a little unhappy you didn't describe the body at first, because I have no idea what body Wilfred would want. His only character trait there is "something that doesn't look like Wil Wheaton". But after thinking about this for a few minutes, I have a good idea!
Other players can suggest and vote on what body Wil should now have. Suggest anything that could presumably pilot a hardsuit, and I'll go with whatever gets the most votes! Your local ghost god is a big supporter of democracy.
EDIT: Democracy isn't working, because nobody votes. Roll on some random table to generate a body, please?
EDIT2: And then after I make the edit, people say buff thicc catgirl. Sigh. Tempted to cross out this whole post and describe some kinda disturbing organic skeleton, to match Wil's powerset.
But I was told there could never be to much thicc.((There is more thiccness in heaven and earth, Horatio, than is dreamt of in your philosophy.))
Will this reconstitute all of the auditor and it's gear, or just the body, or body and modules, or what?Got missed, asking again.
There are several options honestly. Jump jets, hover pods, short range teleport, HELL Tunnel, Sacrificial organic translocation device, etc. What kind of movement are you looking for?
"Hehe yeah this is fun."Bob stops moving. You bounce popcorn off his head.
Keep following Bob and throwing popcorn infront of him to distract from the fact of my imminent demise that shall be coming up next mission
((That... is not at all what I was expecting. I was expecting disposable body roulette, not huge buff. But... I can't exactly complain, either...))( I did some rolls to see what happened. Still costs 1000. Oh and you did technically break several protocols to do it. So...try to avoid the legal team.)
I was a little unhappy you didn't describe the body at first, because I have no idea what body Wilfred would want. His only character trait there is "something that doesn't look like Wil Wheaton". But after thinking about this for a few minutes, I have a good idea!
Other players can suggest and vote on what body Wil should now have. Suggest anything that could presumably pilot a hardsuit, and I'll go with whatever gets the most votes! Your local ghost god is a big supporter of democracy.
EDIT: Democracy isn't working, because nobody votes. Roll on some random table to generate a body, please?
EDIT2: And then after I make the edit, people say buff thicc catgirl. Sigh. Tempted to cross out this whole post and describe some kinda disturbing organic skeleton, to match Wil's powerset.
((I should post some more proper actions))So we can assume that all your buying is done. As per the loan, It was 400 left now after the payment.
Buy and install a cognition copier for 400 Omni. Buy an OMNITECH Passive Personal Shield Generator for 400 Omni. Buy another OMNITech placed charge for 150 OMNI. Pay off my 8 Omni loan to Yagyu. Make a 200 OMNI payment to the loan shark. How much debt do I owe him now, accounting for interest?
Once purchases are done, Baldwin goes inside his room and places down the containment pod with the golden mushroom next to the rest of his plants. He's beginning to make quite a garden.
Still, now that he's alone, it's time to see what he can do with this jar of ghosts.
First, Baldwin grabs a ghost rat and tries to eat it. This isn't for any scientific purpose, but just as a way to satisfy a very morbid curiosity. How does ectoplasm taste? Is it like jelly?
The second part is the hard part. Baldwin will try to call upon the power he used to reconstitute himself into his new blood angel form, and attempts to assimilate the ghosts into himself. The results of this will surely be unpredictable. Is this a horrible mistake? Does Baldwin even still have any flesh-warping ability remaining? Oh well, it's worth the risk to show SAM whos boss.
Round up the rats once I'm done.Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
"Just getting acquainted with the place. Have to set up my tools too, before my first real job, you know? Know anybody who sells explosives for cheaper than the vending machines?""Other security team guys are your best bet, unless you're willing to get into some gambling with the RnD guys. I got a low yield nuclear device from them in a white elephant gift exchange once."
Converse with the NPC.
Performing a transaction with Wilfred, -350 Omni.
And get a loan from friendly shark of 250 Omni to buy an armor cape.
And put my starting sidearm and its three magazines in the lost and found box since I'll probably be safer not carrying it with me.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
It will reconstitute the body and at least some of the components. Rolls involved.But I was told there could never be to much thicc.((There is more thiccness in heaven and earth, Horatio, than is dreamt of in your philosophy.))QuoteWill this reconstitute all of the auditor and it's gear, or just the body, or body and modules, or what?Got missed, asking again.QuoteThere are several options honestly. Jump jets, hover pods, short range teleport, HELL Tunnel, Sacrificial organic translocation device, etc. What kind of movement are you looking for?
Looking for something with the following characteristics:
1) Independent movement, so not dependent on a surface to catch onto or an airbreathing engine requiring ambient oxygen. The fewer external requirements for operation the better.
2) Ideally capable of both a burst function (for a chance at dodging things you'd otherwise have no hope of dodging) and sustained operations, but preference is on the former.
3) Rechargeable on mission somehow. Ideally infinite 'fuel' or self-recharging but that might be a stretch.
By the way, the golden wire glass samples we retrieved, did they already take that (and give compensation in the mission payment), or can I still sell it off? If the latter, how much would it be worth?
Either way, buy and install cognition copier.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
((PW posted my reward from the Lost & Found box in discord, putting it here so everyone knows))
“The Lizard claw returns you a fist sized amber bottle with what looks like a large reptilian eye preserved within. The bottle has a warning label that reads ‘BREAK IN CASE OF EMERGENCIES’
The baton gets you an oversized metal gauntlet with what look like tiny tesla coils embedded in the knuckles“
First off I’ll go test out the Tesla gauntlet.
Then I’m going to put an airplane pin and the tortoise in the Lost and Found box too.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Al once more awakens from a drunken stupor, to do what he was born to do...do medic stuff.Drink? Be underpaid? Right now no one is bleeding so there's not a lot to do.
((Sorry for being gone like 5 months Piecewise.))Spoiler: Scottish Medic (click to show/hide)
Buff/thicc catgirl: Egan_BW, Lupanian, Zultan?
bob: Ozarck
Sentai beetle bot thing: Piecewise, ANGRY_DEMON_NOISES
Chuck Norris: heydude
Hmmm. Something like the rockets on the hardsuit might be best. If I remember they only use up fuel when being stressed and can otherwise operate indefinitely.Interesting. How much?
Ill put my vote for bob!Quote from: Votes so far:Buff/thicc catgirl: Egan_BW, Lupanian, Zultan?
bob: Ozarck
Sentai beetle bot thing: Piecewise, ANGRY_DEMON_NOISES
Chuck Norris: heydude
Note that I'm not gonna base stats off the new form, in all likelihood--I'm too much of a powergamer for that. Wilfred's strength is gonna be d6... because he has a hardsuit which puts him up to 1d10 strength.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
"If anyone's interested I have a first aid kit, 4 handguns, and an Omnitech sidearm, I'm giving away if anyone wants it also the guns don't have any ammo with them."
Buy a new Cognition copier for 400 and a took kit for 200, then find out how much it'll cost to get new brains and batteries for the three other animatronic critters, also find out if Megabucks are worth any thing here at Omni.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
Purchase a reactive fabric cape from the vending machine. Has someone bought this before? Could you describe it?If memory serves it looks like one of those emergency space blankets. A very silvery metallic fabric cape/cloak which wraps around the shoulders and hood. When it is struck by something the fabric instantly hardens to metal like toughness and "catches" the attack.
Then wander around the base looking for opportunities to scam free upgrades from the GM.Spoiler: explosives "engineer" Kora (click to show/hide)Spoiler: notes (click to show/hide)
"Ah wait I see what's going on this is one of them "freezing things" some of you fellows seem to do sometimes alrighty I wont get in your way when ya snap out of it"Done and done.
Pat Bobs head and drop off the popcorn bucket infront of him before heading out to buy and install one of those fancy cognition copiers.Spoiler: Jack Blackwater (click to show/hide)
((My Wil body vote is The Rock or Arnold Schwaznagger. I mean look at those stats! Whatever Will creates is definitely going to be swole, and I think the actor theme should be continued. If Musclehead isn't your thing, then may I recommend buff Christian Bale? Alternatively, you can become a martial arts legend like Chuck Norris or Bruce Lee. As a matter of fact, out of all of my suggestions, I think Chuck Norris is the best one.))
Try the ghost jar merging again. SAM didn't nail it the first time after all. Also from now on, assume my shield generator is only active if I explicitly declare an action to activate it. Don't want to waste my battery when I'm not in danger.Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
Buy a VR set (-15 Omni) and see if 50 Omni will be ok for a more mobile version of the mini-bot. Then try and Speech Roll a NPC programmer into making a VR hookup for the mini-bot, so it can be controlled through a VR hookup instead of needing tech.Done. [1] The RnD people kick you out after you insult several of their mothers. [1] You try to get tech support to get some things wired up bwtween the VR system and the droens. They block your number for some reason.Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)
You already paid your shark debt right? Don't want that stacking.Quote from: Votes so far:Buff/thicc catgirl: Egan_BW, Lupanian, Zultan?
bob: Ozarck
Sentai beetle bot thing: Piecewise, ANGRY_DEMON_NOISES
Chuck Norris: heydude
Note that I'm not gonna base stats off the new form, in all likelihood--I'm too much of a powergamer for that. Wilfred's strength is gonna be d6... because he has a hardsuit which puts him up to 1d10 strength.
Alright, I think that's long enough for votes. Wilfred gets a buff/thicc catgirl body (with very dangerous teeth), following in the footsteps of the other veteran security team member whose name starts with W. Description?
Once embodied, go get a loan for 500 omni. Buy:
--Psychometric Reconstructor (400)
--Subspace Library Search Engine (600)
--Spiderbot (600)
--Three generic rifle mags (30)
--Glowsticks, glow paint, earplugs, and some nutrient paste (17)Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
Buy a mini-mech, something with a transparent cockpit so my adoring public can still see me. Then spend the remaining money to get the turret cannon I found retrofitted into a handheld auto-cannon (should have same stats as the quarantine cannon, right?)We can assume you get it with a video projector to project a view from the inside. So you don't have to compromise protection for vanity. We'll retrofit the cannon for 50. Same stats, yes. And experimental gun for 250.
Oh, and sell the experimental gun to the science guys; I’m tired of lugging it around.
The following items are available for other players to borrow if they want. I still own them but you can use them. You can have whatever ammo I have for them, but I might ask you to reimburse the ammo you use.Spoiler (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
I forget the cost of the hardsuit, but 1/5th that.QuoteHmmm. Something like the rockets on the hardsuit might be best. If I remember they only use up fuel when being stressed and can otherwise operate indefinitely.Interesting. How much?
Go see what I can find regarding "NEIMBUCTOIE". Look up through the internet, if nothing comes up maybe ask around the bar a bit and see what the rumor mill spits out.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
My action got skipped so I'm posting it again to ether get added to the last turn or just try the whole thing again.Bought."If anyone's interested I have a first aid kit, 4 handguns, and an Omnitech sidearm, I'm giving away if anyone wants it also the guns don't have any ammo with them."
Buy a new Cognition copier for 400 and a took kit for 200, then find out how much it'll cost to get new brains and batteries for the three other animatronic critters, also find out if Megabucks are worth any thing here at Omni.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
If Wil's up, stay near him and don't be annoying.
The large catgirl glares at Kora suspiciously, then calls her out suspiciously. With a man's voice. "Heeey, what are you up to? Are you following me? I'll have you know I am a fucking god, and I can eat your derpy little soul if you try anything!"
On an online board called "OMNI Answers" you find the word written as a phonetic spelling of an indecipherable phrase on a found footage recording. No one can translate it in the forum, but the origin appears to be a recording labeled O8820810 that was scraped from a datacube found in the jungle of south america. The original video is now apparently gone as the link to it is dead.
Sell the secrifle and the Anti-Bio Razor, that I don't actually own. I'll make one more attempt at getting the programming job done, but this time by paying a supervisor. Hopefully selling or trading the kit will cover the job.Not sure how you got hold of those or why you say they're not actually yours but They'll sell for 1/2 their listed prices in the armory.
If it fails, just try to do the job myself.
After that.. well, not too much to do. Wander about the base, looking for opportunities.Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)
"Sure, I'll get good footage. Bright flashes won't damage this thing, right?..."Following Wil.
Agree to take the camera.
If Wil's up, stay near him and don't be annoying.Spoiler: explosives "engineer" Kora (click to show/hide)Spoiler: notes (click to show/hide)
Al finds the group I guess (cause PW didn't say no), since he has no money he can't do anything.500 Omni
Try to contact someone about getting paid.Spoiler: Scottish Medic (click to show/hide)
"Yep that's about all I feel like doing this intermission"
Find the nearest publicly available chair and rest in it until the mission starts or something wakes me up.[/quoteSpoiler: Jack Blackwater (click to show/hide)
SleepingYeah, I subtract debts from my pay whenever I get more money. Speaking of, Egan seems to have bought explosives from me, so that money goes straight into paying the new debt. Down to 150 debt!]
Retrieve Rolly-Polly (Wil's giant pet woodlouse), then go try and search up a video recording of Wil's last moments in the Detroit kaiju fight. Did he win? Was SAM stopped? Was the ending sufficiently explosive and awesome?If Wil's up, stay near him and don't be annoying.
The large catgirl glares at Kora suspiciously, then calls her out suspiciously. With a man's voice. "Heeey, what are you up to? Are you following me? I'll have you know I am a fucking god, and I can eat your derpy little soul if you try anything!"
Then he protectively cradles the giant woodlouse in his arms, turning away to put his body between Kora and his strange pet.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
Recordings of the fight end in a detonation which, according to reports after the fact, was roughly on par with a multi-megaton bomb.. There is a large glassed crater where the fight happened and no sign of either combatant. Scientists guess they're currently fighting in another dimension. Probably."By the time I'm done with this I'll have my own personal security guards!"Big brain time.
Spend the 900 Omni and get the big brains and fix the three animatronic critters.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
You want to keep their original personalities or add new ones?Edward slithers into the barracks, wearing/being his new robobodyd8 life.Spoiler: pic (click to show/hide)
"Greetings, teammates. It is I, Edward the Supporctopus, formerly EdPC. I look forward to being your driver and general supporting teammate next mission"
I forgot to ask before, but does this robobody have a different Life stat than the standard d4?
In any case, look into getting some insurance for my octobody with its upgradesSpoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
bought,[6]QuoteOn an online board called "OMNI Answers" you find the word written as a phonetic spelling of an indecipherable phrase on a found footage recording. No one can translate it in the forum, but the origin appears to be a recording labeled O8820810 that was scraped from a datacube found in the jungle of south america. The original video is now apparently gone as the link to it is dead.
Neato. Keep digging, see if I can find that video. Maybe the future version of waybackmachine will still have it.
If I can't find anything, try to use my status as auditor in the company to get access to the relevant files.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
You manage to find the original video. Its about 5 minutes long, most of it nothing but darkness and breathing noises, apparenly someone holding a camera near their chest and hiding. The last 20 seconds or has the person point the camera down a long apparenlty concrete tunnel which is suddenly lit by bright purple light. Something is standing at the end of it, something clearly not human or even of this earth. It makes the noise in question and the video cuts. On initial viewing there's not much to go on as to its meaning or origin.
A siern is screaming somewhere far away.
((My Wil body vote is The Rock or Arnold Schwaznagger. I mean look at those stats! Whatever Will creates is definitely going to be swole, and I think the actor theme should be continued. If Musclehead isn't your thing, then may I recommend buff Christian Bale? Alternatively, you can become a martial arts legend like Chuck Norris or Bruce Lee. As a matter of fact, out of all of my suggestions, I think Chuck Norris is the best one.))
Try the ghost jar merging again. SAM didn't nail it the first time after all. Also from now on, assume my shield generator is only active if I explicitly declare an action to activate it. Don't want to waste my battery when I'm not in danger.
[4]
You fuse with the mice. There's not a lot to gain from mice in terms of power or knowledge. But you get a bit. Increase one skill by +1.
((Dev, you can't sell my shit. And if you do, I get the money, because it's my shit. You are borrowing it. I will take it back if you don't want it, but it ain't yours.
If you really want, go ahead and sell the rifle, but give the razor back if you don't want it.))
[6] You manage to find the original video. Its about 5 minutes long, most of it nothing but darkness and breathing noises, apparenly someone holding a camera near their chest and hiding. The last 20 seconds or has the person point the camera down a long apparenlty concrete tunnel which is suddenly lit by bright purple light. Something is standing at the end of it, something clearly not human or even of this earth. It makes the noise in question and the video cuts. On initial viewing there's not much to go on as to its meaning or origin.1) Save the audio file just in case it's relevant later.
A siern is screaming somewhere far away.4) Go check it out!
If everything is actually okay, ask Wilfred if I can examine the occult "fragile darkness" gun (with the benefit of my new post-mission occult level-up) he stole from the Bizarre. He never turned that thing in, and we never figured out what was the deal with it. Actually, maybe we can retroactively make this examination happen before the alarm.
Alec too will go see what the screaming is, passing Yagyu "Aye how the feck are ye!" he says with a chuckle "Have nae seen ye in a wee bit!".
((You are missing the point. You can’t sell it because it does not belong to you. The reason I’m lending my weapons out for free is so that new players have more of a chance. You’re taking advantage of that. If you don’t want to use the loan shark, Ill take out enough money that you can get an armored space suit, and you can pay me back later.))
((Note that this is after Dev negotiated for 500 Omni starting money. :p
Alec too will go see what the screaming is, passing Yagyu "Aye how the feck are ye!" he says with a chuckle "Have nae seen ye in a wee bit!".
"True! I used to be an alien but then I blew up so now I push things. Good to have you back!"
((PW allowed it,knowing it was a secrifle, so it rides unless he changes his mindforgetting the rules to his own game, as per the Old Custom.))
((...This must be the first time I see someone having PTSD over a forum game that's nearly a decade old by now.))
((Radio did you see my post? I was hoping to carry on the conversation with Yagyu.))((Ah, forgot to reply, my apologies!))
"Aye good to be back, an I finally got feck'n paid! After we check the bloody noise, ye and I should go have a drink...If ye can drink?"Alec too will go see what the screaming is, passing Yagyu "Aye how the feck are ye!" he says with a chuckle "Have nae seen ye in a wee bit!"."True! I used to be an alien but then I blew up so now I push things. Good to have you back!"
"Aye that's a shame, but ye should still join me! I'll give tell ye a tale or two, aye I bet ye'll av' yer sockets in a twist after hearin' the fishermans tale my grandpappy used to tell! But let's get a move on, this racket is givin' me a wee headache!"((Radio did you see my post? I was hoping to carry on the conversation with Yagyu.))((Ah, forgot to reply, my apologies!))"Aye good to be back, an I finally got feck'n paid! After we check the bloody noise, ye and I should go have a drink...If ye can drink?"Alec too will go see what the screaming is, passing Yagyu "Aye how the feck are ye!" he says with a chuckle "Have nae seen ye in a wee bit!"."True! I used to be an alien but then I blew up so now I push things. Good to have you back!"
"Good for you! Go get that cash! But no, I'm afraid I can no longer ride the boozetrain, it's all ones and zeros for me."
"Aye that's a shame, but ye should still join me! I'll give tell ye a tale or two, aye I bet ye'll av' yer sockets in a twist after hearin' the fishermans tale my grandpappy used to tell! But let's get a move on, this racket is givin' me a wee headache!"((Radio did you see my post? I was hoping to carry on the conversation with Yagyu.))((Ah, forgot to reply, my apologies!))"Aye good to be back, an I finally got feck'n paid! After we check the bloody noise, ye and I should go have a drink...If ye can drink?"Alec too will go see what the screaming is, passing Yagyu "Aye how the feck are ye!" he says with a chuckle "Have nae seen ye in a wee bit!"."True! I used to be an alien but then I blew up so now I push things. Good to have you back!"
"Good for you! Go get that cash! But no, I'm afraid I can no longer ride the boozetrain, it's all ones and zeros for me."
"Greetings, teammates. It is I, Edward the Supporctopus, formerly EdPC. I look forward to being your driver and general supporting teammate next mission"
"Sweet bod dude. But tell me, how do I high five you now?!?""No no, you are looking at this new situation all wrong" Ed says, wiggling his tentacles in front of him "Instead of you trying to high five multiple of my tentacles, consider that I am now able to give several people high fives at the same time. High impact multi-user moral support!"
Assuming everything is officially settled, I take a 5 omni loan from the loan shark, then buy an armored space suit. Anyone who needs it can use it, except Summer, for obvious reasons.Alright.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
((Also, sorry. I didn’t realize I was double posting.))
Use the 500 OMNI received from Yagyu to buy a personal shield generator.Ok.
Summer silently reviews the situation, thinking to herself.
Well.. I don't know if that was good or bad. There was some of each there. The bad is that Ji thinks she got screwed over. The extra bad is that Ji thinks loaning a newbie a biorazor is generosity.
I did take advantage of that, but.. getting rid of that thing is probably doing someone a service. Someone would have borrowed it and killed themselves with it.
And I got a drone control program, so I should be able to do something this time while sitting in a room for safety.
Pop a stim and move away from the siren. Look for a room, ideally a reasonably secure one with two or more exits.Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)
We're watching movies, someone else deal with the thing please.You're apparently being dragged along by Wilfred.Spoiler: explosives "engineer" Kora (click to show/hide)Spoiler: notes (click to show/hide)
"Greetings, teammates. It is I, Edward the Supporctopus, formerly EdPC. I look forward to being your driver and general supporting teammate next mission"I Thought it was listed? I don't remember off the top of my head unless its listed in the armory. If its really not there, I'll dig it up.
How much is the insurance I bought? Just to see if I still have money left to grab some other goodies for next mission
In any case, go check out the siren that's screaming somewhere. But, like, from the back line, let my teammates take the glory of being the first ones in.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
You remember the siren from the mandatory hypnotic programming you got when you joined OMNI. You have no choice but to remember, actually.((My Wil body vote is The Rock or Arnold Schwaznagger. I mean look at those stats! Whatever Will creates is definitely going to be swole, and I think the actor theme should be continued. If Musclehead isn't your thing, then may I recommend buff Christian Bale? Alternatively, you can become a martial arts legend like Chuck Norris or Bruce Lee. As a matter of fact, out of all of my suggestions, I think Chuck Norris is the best one.))
Try the ghost jar merging again. SAM didn't nail it the first time after all. Also from now on, assume my shield generator is only active if I explicitly declare an action to activate it. Don't want to waste my battery when I'm not in danger.
[4]
You fuse with the mice. There's not a lot to gain from mice in terms of power or knowledge. But you get a bit. Increase one skill by +1.
((Sorry for not posting in time for the last turn. Also, you screwed up a quote tag somewhere in your post Piecewise. A lot of people are going to miss the siren))
Speech to d6
As tempting and in-character as it is to max out occult, Baldwin's stats never reflected the smooth-talking hustler I RPed him as.
Try to recall and follow the proper evac procedure for this specific type of siren. I assume it's necessary to evacuate the base in case of a fire, but I wouldn't be surprised if people used panic rooms here instead. If I don't know how to evac for this alarm, make a break for the teleporter room.
If everything is actually okay, ask Wilfred if I can examine the occult "fragile darkness" gun (with the benefit of my new post-mission occult level-up) he stole from the Bizarre. He never turned that thing in, and we never figured out what was the deal with it. Actually, maybe we can retroactively make this examination happen before the alarm.Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
1.Saved.Quote[6] You manage to find the original video. Its about 5 minutes long, most of it nothing but darkness and breathing noises, apparenly someone holding a camera near their chest and hiding. The last 20 seconds or has the person point the camera down a long apparenlty concrete tunnel which is suddenly lit by bright purple light. Something is standing at the end of it, something clearly not human or even of this earth. It makes the noise in question and the video cuts. On initial viewing there's not much to go on as to its meaning or origin.1) Save the audio file just in case it's relevant later.
2) Also, question: can I use my status as auditor in the company to get access to, for example, restricted files or acces normally of-limits areas (like that one auditor-only area we once saw in that mission)? Or does buying the body only get you the body but not the actual auditor status?
3) Second question: in the past you said starting gear cannot be sold (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=173094.msg8251121#msg8251121). So has this rule changed, meaning any item can be sold?QuoteA siern is screaming somewhere far away.4) Go check it out!
EDIT: also, loan 500 bucks to Summer.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"YEAH! FUCK DERP UP! AHAHAHA, YES!"Considering the siren, I'm gonna say you guys don't fuck around with the gun at the moment. Instead you go investigate the siren. See below.
Wilfred cheers loudly as he watches the fight, pumping a fist in the air... despite the fact that it's a recording of himself. He calms down a bit after the fight finishes, rolling his catlike eyes as the scientists' explanation appears onscreen. "Bah, you fucks don't know shit! I killed Sam good, and like a few cities too! Fools, they think they knyow everything just 'cause they've got fancy labcoats. Labcoats that ain't acidproof..."
One feline ear swivels to point at Kora when she speaks up, though Wilfred remains focused on the screen, fiddling with the controller to try and get a replay of when he sent SAM to the ground. "Yeah, yeah, sure. I'm a font of wisdoms. Like, fuck Derp."((Heydude will be answered after I've considered more))
Allow Baldwin to inspect the Fragile Darkness gun, but make sure to be a large distance away from him while he does so. Maybe go investigate that siren, in full combat gear. Drag Kora along, we've watched enough movies, by which I mean Wilfred's finally bored of watching himself fighting SAM.
Can I sell the Neuron reconfiguration helmet? If so, for how much? It's been used three times, so I'd expect the value to go down somewhat.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
"My vision is coming true, and what the fuck is that noise?"Alright. Enjoy being offered slices of pizza and terrible puns.
Keep their original personalities and have them follow me around.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
I Thought it was listed? I don't remember off the top of my head unless its listed in the armory. If its really not there, I'll dig it up.((It's not in the arsenal as far as I can see, but previously you've stated it as "10% of object cost with a max of 100 Omni". I got that package deal that gave my the octobody+all its installed gizmos for 1000, which would make the insurance 100. That sound right?))
No, they shouldn't be selling those. Starting items are unsellable because they refresh at the start of each mission.
Wait wait what? Like, guns and ammo and armor too? This is kinda a big deal if so; I've been assuming it was all lost on death, which is balanced by the fact you prolly have better stuff (and can almost certainly buy better stuff) if you've been around much time at all.
...But yeah, if this is true, what happens if a security member gives someone their generic rifle, or their armor, after getting something better? If it's refreshed, that means potentially infinite guns and armor, kinda. If it's not refreshed, we should be able to sell it.
((Yeah, but that's a way to understand it. It isn't explicit in the OP, and however it works, should be specified there. Or at least clarified.
EDIT: Also, if the refill rule is correct, then all starting gear should still be sellable. It's not like you're cheesing anything... you're actually selling an improved item (refilling medkit is way better than a normal medkit) for the same poor price. Even if someone sells 100% of their starting gear, and buys different stuff, that should power-wise be a disadvantage, and improves player freedom at the same time. The only real cheese it combats is people spamming characters who commit suicide, which would be less of a gain than starting characters buying 500 cost items and being looted of them, anyway.
I don't think preventing newbs from being murdered and looted is a serious concern. I don't think anyone's done that in the history of the game? Even if it were a concern, it'd be better to just have it be a rule that OMNIcorp itself retaliates. Killing teammates is destruction of company property, which they don't like.))
((Speaking of cheesing the system, I should probably buy an OMNITECH Voice manipulator so that Bob can meow))
((The way I understand it, it's 'refreshed' in the sense of getting refilled. So eg. a toolkit will go back to 3/3 uses after the mission.))((Well shit forgot all about that and bought another one, guess I have two now.))
Is there time to quickly buy myself a goop thrower and extra goop canister? If yes, do so after asking some questions to this dude.
"How do we actually close a portal like that, exactly? And do these elementals die when you shoot them, or is this more like occult bullshit?
Edward, maybe you can start by, ah, 'gaining access' to the cameras in the disaster zone and see what's going on in there? And maybe close some blast doors or whatever to prevent them from running rampant if you can."
Should gribblies present themselves already, goop ‘em!Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Is there time to quickly buy myself a goop thrower and extra goop canister? If yes, do so after asking some questions to this dude.Yeah sure why not you goop obsessed weirdo.
"How do we actually close a portal like that, exactly? And do these elementals die when you shoot them, or is this more like occult bullshit?
Edward, maybe you can start by, ah, 'gaining access' to the cameras in the disaster zone and see what's going on in there? And maybe close some blast doors or whatever to prevent them from running rampant if you can."
Should gribblies present themselves already, goop ‘em!Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
BobHmmm, no idea how that will effect you. It is designed for human brains but heck why not. It replaces your gator eyes with eerie glowing black purple eyes. Corpses now have a strange purplish glow around them and you can see their ghosts meandering about in many cases.
Also, purchase and install an OMNItech Necromantic Instigator. Immediately begin raising the chickens from the cafeteria to do my bidding, followed by any lab animals not yet properly incinerated. The bigger and more mutated the better. Contact Tim Burton for movie right negotiations.Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Bob's mighty deeds this mission (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Tara (click to show/hide)
I Thought it was listed? I don't remember off the top of my head unless its listed in the armory. If its really not there, I'll dig it up.((It's not in the arsenal as far as I can see, but previously you've stated it as "10% of object cost with a max of 100 Omni". I got that package deal that gave my the octobody+all its installed gizmos for 1000, which would make the insurance 100. That sound right?))
Ed wiggles his tentacles in an affirmative "I can certainly try to do so!"
Buy insurance for octobody for 100 OMNI (pending approval), and a toolbox for 200.
Then use the omniscient network scanner to search for info regarding this door to the pain dimension. If the scanner needs more specifics, I'm looking for its location, what has come through it, and how to close it.
After using the scanner, see if I can access the normal base network and take control of some camera's/turrets/doors near the breachSpoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
"Zzzz"
Keep sleepingSpoiler: Jack Blackwater (click to show/hide)
Any items your character class starts with replenish at the start of any mission. Anything you buy later doesn't. However, some promotions can grant you respawning items. Like you got the Cognition copier. I think a few other people have respawning stuff.No, they shouldn't be selling those. Starting items are unsellable because they refresh at the start of each mission.
Wait wait what? Like, guns and ammo and armor too? This is kinda a big deal if so; I've been assuming it was all lost on death, which is balanced by the fact you prolly have better stuff (and can almost certainly buy better stuff) if you've been around much time at all.
...But yeah, if this is true, what happens if a security member gives someone their generic rifle, or their armor, after getting something better? If it's refreshed, that means potentially infinite guns and armor, kinda. If it's not refreshed, we should be able to sell it.
...Anyway, sell the neuron reconfig for 300, then go spend 50 on getting as much of the cheapest alcohol that can buy. Share some with Kora, but don't get drunk quite yet.
Edit: Do not give Baldwin the fragile darkness gun. I mean, I really don't want to test it in live fire.
"Nah, I don't have painkillers. But I have money, and finally have a physical body again! This is a great excuse to get drunk on the job! Come on, bang lady! Let's go get hammered."Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
"Can't argue with that. Explosives, ghosts, and booze. Seems like a good time!"The video so far is good. Lets just hope this doesn't become evidence in a court case.
Go with Wil to get booze. Not that I can contribute anything to that quest, since I have no money and worse fate and speech than Wil. So just let him drive.
Oh, and make sure to get good film of our booze run.Spoiler: explosives "engineer" Kora (click to show/hide)Spoiler: notes (click to show/hide)
Jot down the type / name of this room for my accomplishments. Meeting room? Storage room? Office space?You check the name of the room. "INDUSTRIAL LUBRICANT STORAGE"....Yeah ok.
Get some painkillers for 100 OMNI
Use my medical skill and supplies from my medkit (to roll at advantage ) to make the painkillers into a multi-use item. Omnicorp probably made them strong enough to tranquilize elephants, after all.Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)
Baldwin spends some time chilling in Schrodinger's room. In one timeline, Baldwin had ran to the teleporter room in hopes of leaving the compound and escaping from this disaster. In another, Baldwin had stayed to fight the demonic invasion for that was a duty that was very clearly bolded in his job description. Until someone observes him, he could be in either place.[1]
"So pain elemental you say, eh?" Baldwin smoke his pipe. "Sounds like serious business. How close would you say it is? I doubt you could get that far away from it, injured as you are."
Before even waiting for an answer from Bill, Baldwin makes an announcement to his group (who he was with this whole time).
"In a few seconds, a pain elemental and god knows what else is going to come down one of these hallways. I'm sure that with Will's hardsuit, we'll have the firepower to deal with it, but it may still be able to wreck some of our nerves. I'm gonna try to turn off my pain-receptors using magic. If it works I'll make you guys the same offer."
Use flesh-warping to turn off my pain-receptors. If I succeed, perform the procedure on any other meatbags who consent to it. Then grab the 'Fragile Darkness' gun from Will and have it aimed at the Hallway Bill said they were coming from. Shoot the first demon I see, and then generate a pokedex entry of it using my occult knowledge. Shoot with my regular pistol instead if the occult gun is denied for some reason. If nothing comes up to attack for some reason, finish my examination of the occult gun.Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
[/quote]Is there time to quickly buy myself a goop thrower and extra goop canister? If yes, do so after asking some questions to this dude.
"How do we actually close a portal like that, exactly? And do these elementals die when you shoot them, or is this more like occult bullshit?
Edward, maybe you can start by, ah, 'gaining access' to the cameras in the disaster zone and see what's going on in there? And maybe close some blast doors or whatever to prevent them from running rampant if you can."
Should gribblies present themselves already, goop ‘em!Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
The idea of a drink sounds nice but Al will stick with Yagyu and Ed, readying himself to beat the everliving crap out of Gribblies coming through the portal.Spoiler: Scottish Medic (click to show/hide)
Ask Bill to describe the entities, and give a brief rundown of the events that transpired.
Once info is dispensed, take the lead towards the breach. Shoot anything scary looking with my Auto-cannonSpoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Any items your character class starts with replenish at the start of any mission. Anything you buy later doesn't. However, some promotions can grant you respawning items. Like you got the Cognition copier. I think a few other people have respawning stuff.
If sec gives their rifle to someone else, they get a new one. They get 1 per mission effectively. Though only if they no longer have theirs. They don't get an extra.
QuoteIn that case, do we get any of our class-specific gear back? What about the brain uploader, does it need to be rebought?
If you had a brain copy, then you're dumped into any body you have ready. If you have no body ready and not enough money to buy one, you go into debt and get dumped into a mechanical slave body. Check the arsenal for it.
You lose any items you had, including starting gear.
'Carefully' chug some MONKEY PUMP. I honestly don't want to remember any of this.[5]
Do continue to party with Wil though.Spoiler: explosives "engineer" Kora (click to show/hide)Spoiler: notes (click to show/hide)
"zzzzzz....bananaslamaa...zzzzzzz"[2]
Continue to sleep until someone wakes me up or I fall out of my chair whichever comes firstSpoiler: Jack Blackwater (click to show/hide)
Wake up and try again[7,8]Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
Combine a use of Painkillers with my foam grenade to make a foam grenade that dispenses painkillers. Might be helpful if I have to defend myself.You'd have to combine 1 whole painkiller for this. [
If that fails, get my squirrel-drone deployed so I can hunt around for survivors or noncombatants.Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)
"It seems like dying and becoming a robot was the best thing that could have happened to me."Had to go back and search these out. According to my past self the animatronics were
Find out what my robot friends names are and have my shotgun at the ready in case any of those pain guys show up while I follow along with the group.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)
Start wandering with Kora towards the pain elemental door, drinking the Monkey Pump as we go. Get smashed. Keep the ACA ready, and melt any PEs seen. Presuming Wilfred went and retrieved his hardsuit before he bought alcohol.[10]
Kno check--Can PEs be hurt by painkillers?Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
((For the record, unless I state otherwise you can assume Ed always relays the info/camera feeds he finds to whoever on the team wants to know))[1] The scanner blinks black and displays the letter "M".
Ed wiggles his tentacles in an success and radios his teammates"I bring information from The Network. The door in question is to the north of our current location, 3 floors down, directly to the right of a water cooler. It looks like a standard office door. You can identify it for sure by a plain piece of printer paper taped to it that reads "DO NOT OPEN, PAIN DIMENSION", and the fact that a bunch of weirdos are kinda standing in front of it.
They, uh, look like a bunch of Gimps in leather all wrapped up with barbed wire or impaled on spikes or with their faces peeled off and worn on headdresses. It's actually rather disturbing. Also, there's some kind of black susbtance flowing out of the door that's crawling up the walls, so that can't be good."
Continue using the scanner, now search specifically for the gimps I see standing in front of the door. I'm searching for info about these gimps in particular (current location, what they're doing, etc) as well as their kind in general.
Follow Yagyu, but stay behind a bit. Let him take the lead and round corners first and all that. Once we're in range, stop and send out one of my camera drones to the door, fly it inside the door if possible.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
Eat the first zombie chicken in line. Waddle down to near the pain door.Bob scuttles around, snaps up a chicken, and proceeds on while swallowing it whole.Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Bob's mighty deeds this mission (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Tara (click to show/hide)
I probably should make sure its clear on the OP. I think what I meant when I said that was that you lose any you hand CURRENTLY. Ie if you had a rifle and died, the rifle would go away until start of the next mission. Since starting items refresh at the start of missions.QuoteAny items your character class starts with replenish at the start of any mission. Anything you buy later doesn't. However, some promotions can grant you respawning items. Like you got the Cognition copier. I think a few other people have respawning stuff.
If sec gives their rifle to someone else, they get a new one. They get 1 per mission effectively. Though only if they no longer have theirs. They don't get an extra.
If this is how the rules work now, that's great, but then I think this is a change in how the rules worked before (assuming I'm not misinterpreting something here):Quote from: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=173094.msg7994958#msg7994958QuoteIn that case, do we get any of our class-specific gear back? What about the brain uploader, does it need to be rebought?
If you had a brain copy, then you're dumped into any body you have ready. If you have no body ready and not enough money to buy one, you go into debt and get dumped into a mechanical slave body. Check the arsenal for it.
You lose any items you had, including starting gear.
As such, does that mean we can get reimbursed for any class-specific starting gear we bought back after destruction? For example, I just rebought a goop thrower cause mine went kablooie in that shack, but I should apparently get one for free?
Actual mission action: Move up with the gang. Goop painbois as needed.
Also, question for Bill: do these guys get attracted to things like pain? As in, could we distract them by eg. harassing a squirrel and throwing it past them? And how do they respond to simulated/virtual pain?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"When you say 'unkillable', do you mean like, they don't take physical damage, or that they automatically reincarnate, or that they have an extreme healing factor? Or something different? It's an important distinction."
Continue leading the way towards the door. Shoot any PEs I see, unless I find out it's pointless. On another note, how well armed should we expect them to be? Or, if they use magics and the like, how powerful are they?Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I probably should make sure its clear on the OP. I think what I meant when I said that was that you lose any you hand CURRENTLY. Ie if you had a rifle and died, the rifle would go away until start of the next mission. Since starting items refresh at the start of missions.Does that mean we can get reimbursed for any class-specific starting gear we needlessly bought back after destruction? For example, I just rebought a goop thrower cause mine went kablooie in that shack, but I should apparently get one for free?
Does that mean we can get reimbursed for any class-specific starting gear we needlessly bought back after destruction? For example, I just rebought a goop thrower cause mine went kablooie in that shack, but I should apparently get one for free?(You could do what I did when I found out we get new stuff for free, and keep both.)
Does that mean we can get reimbursed for any class-specific starting gear we needlessly bought back after destruction? For example, I just rebought a goop thrower cause mine went kablooie in that shack, but I should apparently get one for free?(You could do what I did when I found out we get new stuff for free, and keep both.)
(If you have proof, then yes)QuoteI probably should make sure its clear on the OP. I think what I meant when I said that was that you lose any you hand CURRENTLY. Ie if you had a rifle and died, the rifle would go away until start of the next mission. Since starting items refresh at the start of missions.Does that mean we can get reimbursed for any class-specific starting gear we needlessly bought back after destruction? For example, I just rebought a goop thrower cause mine went kablooie in that shack, but I should apparently get one for free?
Give this place and those guys a scan (keep some distance from our painbois though). Either before or after al the shooting and exploding, mind.
Also scan that oily black substance that is leaking out of the door. Should the painbois retaliate to the people attacking them, see if I can pick up something that helps us figure out how they are doing the things they do (aka is it occult, psychic powers, whatever).Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Eet mOar CHikNBob looks at what's going on, nods slightly, and then eats another chicken.Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Bob's mighty deeds this mission (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Tara (click to show/hide)
"What a bunch of kinky weirdos, as much as I'd like to kill them it seems you guys have this covered so I'm gonna go see if there aren't any others out wondering the halls."[2]
Have the robots follow me while I search the surrounding hallways for any other gimps that might have left the room, also see if the mags from my OMNITECH sidearm will fit in those regular handguns I have.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)
"zzzzzz....no eyeman nooooo...zzzzzzz"[4]
Continue to sleep until someone wakes me up or I fall out of my chair whichever comes first x2Spoiler: Jack Blackwater (click to show/hide)
("Why do bad things happen to good people?" - Peter Griffin)[6]
"AGHMOTHEROFGODFUCKINGAGHHHHHHHHHHMAKEITSTOP!" Al screams, fleeing the room.
Desperately use whatever I can to stop the pain, first try to patch-up the wound with the med kit then inject myself with the stimulant.Spoiler: Scottish Medic (click to show/hide)
Ed lightly slaps the scanner a few times with a tentacle[3] You squint into the chaos but can't see a whole lot regardless of the vision mode.
"This thing is on the fritz. Bet you they sold me a refurbished model as if it were a new one."
Give the room and the door a scan with my fancy eyes, go over it with various vision modes and see if I notice anything interesting or useful. Be sure to keep my Negotiation enhancer switched on, in case these pain elementals start lying.
Also use the omniscient scanner again, this time searching for "travelers in sensation". See what that term is about.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
Give Alec painkillers and drag him out of the line of fire.You grab Alec and shove a pain killer in his mouth while he wraps his arm. You drag him out of the room.
"You guys should work for us. We have some real experts in the infliction of pain."
Also give the gimps some parting words.Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)
"Nahhhh... We're here to party, motherfuckers!"[12]
Kora swings her RPG towards the gimps.
"D'ye... ye savages even know what this is?! It'll blow yer goblets right up yes it willll!"
Blow the gimps up if it seems like a good idea at the time. Otherwise just rant and insult their primitive tastes. Booze and explosives are way more fun than sex torture.Spoiler: explosives "engineer" Kora (click to show/hide)Spoiler: notes (click to show/hide)
Light them up with the auto-cannon. Don’t release the trigger until they’re all red mist.[2][2]Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Walk over and shut the door. After the explosives go off.You attempt to push pass Kora but she refuses to let you past, even after the resulting explosion from her grenade.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Mission achievements (click to show/hide)
"We are all interested in bloodshed, but not all of us are as experienced at inflicting it. If you allow my clumsy colleagues the courtesy go first, then I will show you the experience of a master!" Baldwin pulls his glove like a mad scientist about to conduct business.
Once everyone else on my team has their go, use Fleshwarping to merge all the pain elementals together into one being.
"Have you ever had the intimate experience of sharing your pain with another? I hear there is no other like it."
Once merged, carve runes of banishment directly onto their flesh using my occult knife. Don't send the mass back to the pain dimension of course, but to a different H.E.L.L.
If the merging fails, just try to turn on the pain receptors for one gimp and then carve a Rune of Pain if they aren't satisfied with that.
Allow zombie Chicken #3 to clean Bob's teeth.Zombie chicken 3 does its best to clean your teeth. It has no real gripping surfaces though so its more just smearing raw chicken grease around your mouth. Which is also good honestly.Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Bob's mighty deeds this mission (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Tara (click to show/hide)
"There don't seem to be any more gimps, I think we got em all in that room so I guess we've got it contained for now."[1]
Get back the group and check the consents of every trash can and vending machine I find along the way.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)
More grenade, more party. Keep cover behind Wilfred.Spoiler: explosives "engineer" Kora (click to show/hide)Spoiler: notes (click to show/hide)
Ahem. Wilfred is in a hardsuit that grants d10 strength. Kora is an overweight woman with d4 strength. Politely pick her up and set her off to the side.[1v6]
Then walk over and shut the door to the pain dimension.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Mission achievements (click to show/hide)
Reload the auto-cannon and follow Wil into the room. Reengage the PE’s, this time with a bit more patience.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Stay back a good distance from the door (perhaps around a corner), then wait for Wilfred to declare the coast to be clear.
Once that's done, go inside. If the pain elementals have been rendered into goop, fill as many containment pods with their chunky salsa as I can and start emptying them into the pain portal as if I was bailing out a leaking boat.
If any are intact, avoid the risk of offending them via goop scoop and just repeat what I tried last turn. (i.e persuade them to let me show off my pain powers, merge them into one being with fleshwarping, and banish the amalgam in one swift blow)"We are all interested in bloodshed, but not all of us are as experienced at inflicting it. If you allow my clumsy colleagues the courtesy go first, then I will show you the experience of a master!" Baldwin pulls his glove like a mad scientist about to conduct business.
Once everyone else on my team has their go, use Fleshwarping to merge all the pain elementals together into one being.
"Have you ever had the intimate experience of sharing your pain with another? I hear there is no other like it."
Once merged, carve runes of banishment directly onto their flesh using my occult knife. Don't send the mass back to the pain dimension of course, but to a different H.E.L.L.
If the merging fails, just try to turn on the pain receptors for one gimp and then carve a Rune of Pain if they aren't satisfied with that.Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
"Baldwin, let me do the talking, okay? Lets try to get them away from the door before experimenting."Summer steps past Wilfred, over Ji, and ducks Kora's flailing limbs to get into the room. Baldwin is still on his feet and not...bleeding out the anus or whatever, so things seem to be going well.
After the fire and gunshots or whatever, go help Baldwin negotiate. Try to get at least one of them to move away from the door. Baldwin has some kinda exotic pain powers, so let him experiment, I'm just trying to make a path for door-closing attempts.Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)
(If you have proof, then yes)Goop thrower 1: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=173094.msg8047342#msg8047342
WHY has Wil not yet closed the door to the pain dimension? The gimps aren't attacking him. He has armor good enough to just ignore his teammate's attacks. My only action has been to close the door to the pain dimension, for two turns straight.[6]
Stop fucking around. If anyone else's action would stop Wilfred from closing the door to the pain dimension, be it gimp or player, melt them with the fucking acid thrower. Then close the door to the pain dimension. If other actions wouldn't prevent Wilfred from closing the door to the pain dimension, then go close the door to the pain dimension. If somehow something would prevent Wilfred from closing the door to the pain dimension, and he can't melt it, then use Occult to summon a door closing ghost and tell the ghost to close the door to the pain dimension.
If closing the door to the pain dimension would endanger an ally, or endanger Wilfred, I do not care. Ignore that fact, and then close the door to the pain dimension.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Mission achievements (click to show/hide)
"You know what, fuck you guys! You just don't appreciate the finer things in life!"[1]
Take another chug of booze and kick a gimp in the nuts.
After kicking, continue to ramble in their direction:
"Heyy guys, here at OMNI they make this gas... makes you have a crisis. Really feel your absolute, existential meaninglessness. Betcha that's a lot, looooot worse than anything in your pansy pain dimension. Maybe if you do some jobs around here you could buy some."Spoiler: explosives "engineer" Kora (click to show/hide)Spoiler: notes (click to show/hide)
"Hey guys I found a dead guy in the stairwell looks like someone in janitorial dropped it gonna see what he's got in his pockets."[4][4] Hold that thought.
See what the dead guy has on his person then proceed up the stairs until I find the floor I came from, make sure my robot friends are still with me.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)
My primary goal is to close the door ASAP. If the knees and elbows that got bent are the ones belonging to the mech-suit, then get out of the suit and proceed with just my robo-body self. If the knees and elbows include the ones belonging to the Robo-body, then learn to crabwalk or whatever and try to close the door that way. If possible, apply the amplified wand to any PE's directly in my way, but only if they are actively blocking me from closing the door.With both mech and robo limbs bent out of whack, moving would be very hard. Not that it seems to matter as Wilfred is trying his damnedest to close that door and having no luck.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
"Naughty boys. You didn't even wait for me to finish! If you want to hurt me, you have to wait your turn."[3]
Execute part 2 of the plan finally. Carve Runes of Banishment onto the flesh mound and send them to H.E.L.L (not the pain dimension, but a different H.E.L.L). If that fails, repeatedly stab the mound with my occult knife and hope one of the shanks sends them to the tree ent dimension.Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
tHeiR arE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msSc7Mv0QHY)
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OF paN (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M3NgCTTCw0)Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Bob's mighty deeds this mission (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Tara (click to show/hide)
Try to convince myself my arm isn't goop held together by a bandage[2]Spoiler: Scottish Medic (click to show/hide)
"Eh? Is that a al-" Jack suddenly realizes he fell asleep on the job "Oh shit oh shit oh shit WAIT UP GUYS!"I'm just gonna assume you find the group. There's enough screaming.
Seems I overslept woops! I gotta find where everybody went! Also why do I hear yelling nearby?Spoiler: Jack Blackwater (click to show/hide)
Refund it then.Quote(If you have proof, then yes)Goop thrower 1: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=173094.msg8047342#msg8047342
Environmental scanner: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=173094.msg8077606#msg8077606
Goop thrower 2: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=173094.msg8343637#msg8343637
Wait for people to try their various schemes. If they haven't solved the issue, saunter up to the painbois, gesture to the goop cannon, and say "I have a small experiment I was hoping you experienced sensonauts could help me with. If I may?"Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"I'm more into medicine. How do you feel about injections or other experiments? These stimulants.. they always told us to never use more than one. I've got two right here.."[1]
Negotiate with the gimps. Start by offering them a double injection of stims. I want to get a couple of them out of the entry room, maybe towards somewhere with more interesting pain materials, like heavy machinery or the medical wing.
"If that's not enough, how about coming with me to the medical wing? We've got plenty of new tools there.. I know there's a device that conducts interdimensional transportation. Maybe you'd appreciate having your limbs literally seperated?"Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)
"Hey guys I found a dead guy in the stairwell looks like someone in janitorial dropped it gonna see what he's got in his pockets."[1][1]
See what the dead guy has on his person then proceed up the stairs until I find the floor I came from, make sure my robot friends are still with me.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)
((OOC: the shrieking skull is actually an item in the OMNITECH shop. It’s an occult grenade that performs a random effect when it explodes.))(I had a feeling that it was a bomb but I couldn't change it until now because.)
Try to be helpful while unconscious. Or to keep drinking. Either or.[1]Spoiler: explosives "engineer" Kora (click to show/hide)Spoiler: notes (click to show/hide)
Hmm, less than optimal. Link to the OMNI-net and see if there are any robots or anything nearby than I could temporarily take control of.[4]Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Look for alcohol, proceed to drink in order to forget the PAAAAAAIIIIN.[3]Spoiler: Scottish Medic (click to show/hide)
(I think we might need to provide these gimps not-pain. Instead of blowing them up or harming them, maybe we can numb them and shove them back through the door. Then maybe we can close itIncrease life to d10. Next turn drop it to d9. And so forth.
Or we could enter their zone and kill enough of them for real on the other side. They might not be able to enter if we keep the other side of the door free.)
Any necessary stat-sheet changes due to the two additional doses of stimulant?
Activate the force-field. Run for cover.Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)
"Damn. Well, closing doors and murdering everything are pretty much my job description, and it doesn't seem I can close this door, or murder you. Annoying. Hey, you ever hear about a guy called Derp?"Wilfred discusses torture with the nearest Gimp, a fellow with hundreds of tiny crabs crawling out of a hole in his chest and tearing bits of flesh off his torso and face. [10] The Gimp gives Wilfred a small black and gold cube, along with instructions about how to manipulate the cube such that it produces a temporary portal to the pain dimension. He insures Wilfred that they would be happy to give this "Derp" a complete tour if Wilfred can get that cube to him.
Ignore the shrieking skull, for better or worse. Strike up a conversation with the gimps; bring up our old friend Derp, or Mr Friend as some idiots call him, and discuss some of the many ideas Wilfred had for torturing him. Point out that the guy--very sadly--managed to escape the immense pain Wilfred wanted to inflict on him, and discuss the tragedy of that. Any chance he could reach a deal with these gimps, to inflict some truly unique and appropriate pain on good ol' Derp? Wilfred hasn't been able to find where they squirreled him away, and he just knows there's way too much security around him for conventional torture routes.
If the Scottish Medic somehow wanders into the heart of the anomalous area while a shrieking skull goes off, offer him some monkey pump to slake that thirst of his.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Mission achievements (click to show/hide)
"Oh shit! OH SHIT!"Baldwin scrambles behind the fleshblob and activates his shield. Hopefully shields protect from whats coming next...
Activate my Omnitech personal shield generator and take cover behind the massive mound of Gimpflesh. Abort the activation if the skull does its thing before the 5 second delay in order to save battery. Once skull is done, return to plan B by stabbing the gimpflesh with my occult knife in hopes of tree-enting it.Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
remain BobBob remains. Bob.Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Bob's mighty deeds this mission (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Tara (click to show/hide)
Get into cover and away from that skull! Maybe take cover behind one of the resident giant robot asses if nothing else is near.Yagyu, in a stunning reversal, hides behind a giant metal ass instead of being the giant metal ass which is hidden behind.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Oh hey guys finally caught u- WHAT IS THAT!"Jack scampers and hides behind Wilfred, who is currently explaining a method of torture to one of the gimps. If Wilfred is so unconcerned with the events playing out, that means he must be safe! And if he's safe, then anything behind him must be too!
DUCK AND COVER DUCK AND COVER!Spoiler: Jack Blackwater (click to show/hide)
"Oh shit the skull thing's doing something!"[3]
Activate my personal shield generator and throw the skull away from the team and myself.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)
"Could somebody please repair my body. Burt, if nobody repairs my body, could I borrow a animal robot for little bit?""If you want to you can use the frog, I'm sure he wont mind."
"Well that was anticlimactic."
"Oh?" The increasing number of Gimps respond, "What exactly is your proposition?"
((Wil, do you really want to bank on the PE’s being immune to Derp’s Friendliness?))
Jack gets up and scratches his helmet "In hindsight fellas coming in here was probably a bad idea so I'm just gonna go guard that entrance... for our safety ya know?"You stand in the hall, intent on not letting anyone in or out.
Go guard that entrance no one shall leave or enter without going under my watchful eye!
"Ah, that's nice." :D[3]
STAB!!!!
*the gimpflesh. Also turn off my shield.Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
Whack on Ji's limbs until they bend the right way. Use a toolkit charge. Have my remaining zombie chickens assist by holding the subject still, buffing and polishing the subject, checking the subject's wiring, and in general doing zombie chicken technician things.[8,Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Bob's mighty deeds this mission (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Tara (click to show/hide)
"Well that was anticlimactic."You turn off the shield and ask your robuddies about their opinions."Could somebody please repair my body. Burt, if nobody repairs my body, could I borrow a animal robot for little bit?""If you want to you can use the frog, I'm sure he wont mind."
Deactivate the shield belt and go see what the robots think of the situation.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)
If Bob fixes my body, re-inhabit it. Otherwise possess the Frog bot Burt offered me.You drop back into your old body without even having to roll!Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
"Well that was anticlimactic."
"Agreed. Not that I'm complaining. Happy to discover this is such a good bit of cover though!" He said, slapping the mechsuit on the robobutt. "You can fit so many wimps behind this bad boy."Quote"Oh?" The increasing number of Gimps respond, "What exactly is your proposition?"
If it can be done without a (tech) roll, disable the cognition copier for a bit (in the sense it doesn't make backups until turned back on). If not ignore this step.
Yagyu walks to the gimps and starts talking.
Well then, with that distraction out of the way, if I may lay out my proposal?
Then, he motions for any of them that have wandered off to get closer to the main group again. He then slowly starts gooping the group together, starting at the feet and working his way up while he continues talking.
"So, as it relates to pain, the difference between shattering a rock and a man's femur is, of course, that the former has no nervous system to register it, no perception to appreciate the agony. However, for the latter it is not the nerve sending up the signal that encodes the pain per se, but rather the mind that accepts and processes this input."
"If we now take into account that there are many people who would prefer suffering great physical damage over, say, the loss of a loved one, we can see that there are more types of distress we can account for than just the physical. This then reminded me of a old quote by some forgotten philosopher, that 'all of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone'."
"And you know what, I think there is a great truth to this! And so, this is my hypothesis: more than any horrific sensation, the mind abhors the lack of input. I think that, should this state of sensory deprivation continue for long enough, the inexorable passage of time will ablate the mind harsher and more painfully than any hook or knife could. Time will grind you down, and you will beg for something, anything to distract you, but nothing will come."
"Are you a bad enough gimp to accept this challenge?"
So, the goal is to try and trick them into leaving us alone. Hopefully, even if they reject, they will still be distracted long enough to get gooped together so that it'll be easier to deal with them.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Forcefield back off.[5]
Head down to medical and try to beg some supplies for this mission. I mean "Requisition", by saying it's for someone higher-up on the food chain.
Ideal would be something like knockout gas grenades, but I'll take any items useful to numb someone, down to simple injectable local anesthetics.Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)
Do whatever Wil is doing. And drink more.[3] Kora groans and comes out of her coma. Still unconscious though.Spoiler: explosives "engineer" Kora (click to show/hide)Spoiler: notes (click to show/hide)
"Wow, awesome! Thanks, myan! You pain elementals are total bros! It's been fun, seeya 'round later, I've got an old friend to send a delivery to."You grab Kora, set her camera in an advantageous position, and then head off.
Wave goodbye to the gimps in a friendly manner, then leave. Though, not before picking up Kora and throwing her over one shoulder. Oh, and remove her camera and position it so it's watching the doorway to the pain dimension; might as well get her paid more. Maybe she'll buy more shit from Wilfred.
Aaaanyways, go send a message to someone with some level of authority. Tell them that, to solve the pain portal problem, Wilfred needs to utilize the asset known as Mr. Friend. Specifically, he needs a package sent to the asset; no individuals should be connected to the anomaly, obviously. It's very important that this happen soon. Also, while doing this, write down the instructions of how to manipulate the cube (without explaining what it does), and maybe, like, gift wrap it.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Mission achievements (click to show/hide)
The team seems to have this all under control quite well, so I'll keep trying the omni-scient network observer to find more info on these gimps. Maybe see if this thing has a setting that lets me search for past pain elemental incursions, and how those were solved?[7]
If not, maybe try and look through the OMNITECH Employee Standard Solution Database on the intranet. Surely since we have a door specifically to the Pain Dimension, we must have protocols in place for this kind of thing, right?Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
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The Gimps all gather around and watch patiently as you cover them in goo. They seem mildly interested until you finish covering them in gunk and then talk to each other for a while, seemingly discussing your speech. I say "Seemingly" because a lot of them lack the capacity to speak in normally so a fair amount of it is just squishy meat noises. However, when they do finally finish they all turn to you. The one nearest you speaks for the group.
"It is an interesting proposition, however we believe it lacks some fundamental understanding of our natures. We are not masochists' seeking ultimate pain, we are explorers of sensation. If we just wanted pain we'd activate our nervous systems to just feel constant agony forever. Simple.
Your analysis is right to a degree though: context matters a great deal in sensation. A lick from a beautiful woman and a lick from a camel may have similar outcomes but very different sensations. The mind is a wonderful filter through which all sensation may be given extra depth. As such, lack of sensation is not what we would classify AS sensation."
"The dark is not a new color of light." One of the others interjects.
"Yes, quite. So while you do make an interesting point I believe it is fundamentally flawed from our perspective."
The Gimps don't seem to be struggling against the goo, by the way. They seem a lot more interested in talking the philosophy of sensation seeking.
Drunkenly drag myself to the medical department of HQ to get shit done about my arm.Getting to the Medical department proves easy enough. They want 200 omni to sew your arm back together.Spoiler: Scottish Medic (click to show/hide)
((Thank you for sharing in-character, Pancaek. I love these pain elementals, kinda wish my char were more appropriate for having a nice discussion with them.))
Respond to management for why we should give the cube to Derp:
"It's a deal with the pain elementals. Kinda like the contracts we've made in the past, but this time no employees have to be part of those experiencing mew sensation. It's a win-win."
Dev suggested I remind you of the context around this action. I don't really see why it's necessary, but hey whatever. Wilfred really hates Derp, and spent so long forcing himself to think about how to hurt Derp and repeatedly voice these sadistic fantasies that he's ended up with something like PTSD over it. Occasionally breaking out and insulting Derp at random, and generally just having an overriding fear and hatred of the man--who he never actually got to hurt, and who he knows is now under protection and largely unharmed. Thus, he chatted about his sadism with the pain elementals, and they offered a way to show Derp true unadulterated pain unlike anything Wilfred himself could really inflict... which sounds awesome to Wil! So he's trying to get the pain cube to Derp in order to inflict that agony. He hasn't really thought about the possibility of Derp mind controlling the pain dimension (I have. I think it'd be funny). He's not against the concept of this maybe helping contain the PEs, but it's not why he's doing it. Note how he's not explicitly saying the PEs will go away after this deal. He's just saying it is a deal (it is; they agreed to hurt Derp for him), and that it's kinda like the contracts made in the past--which it is, there's an agreement for someone to suffer pain.
Also, Wilfred is drunk right now.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Mission achievements (click to show/hide)
Wake up and add:[4][10]
"And it'd be sicknasty."Spoiler: explosives "engineer" Kora (click to show/hide)Spoiler: notes (click to show/hide)
"You guys sure do have a strange way of talking."They recommend tricking them. Making them think they're getting something good and leaving of their own accord.
Since I can't think of anything that'll help the situation I'll just ask my robo friends how they think we should get the gimps to go back home.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)
Jack looks around fidgeting in place for a couple of minutes before going to grab a chairYou drag a chair from a nearby office and sit down in the hall. You start sitting upright and attentive but quickly start spinning out of boredom and then just laying as far back as you can.
My legs are getting tired im going to go grab a chair then continue guarding the entranceSpoiler: Jack Blackwater (click to show/hide)
Leave the room to avoid the obviously bomb-shaped object Summer placed down. Use this time to go search for a detour that can get me to the other side of the wall the Pain-Dimension (PD) door is placed-on (ie. try to access the space the PD door would have lead to to if it was a physical door rather than a dimensional one)The room behind the pain dimension door is a supply closet. It contains no pain elementals or anything of the sort, sadly. Damn impossible space.Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
[2]
Now we're getting somewhere. See if I can't find what subsequent "ritual fo sensations" demanded. Or at least what the last known one was, to see how close these pain elementals might be to the "something terrible" they're working up to. Send an e-mail to the analysts who worked on this back in the day if need be.
Besides that, keep monitoring the room via both regular camera's where available and via the Omniscient Network. Pay special attention to Summer's ploy with the gas.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
Quote[4][2]
The Gimps all gather around and watch patiently as you cover them in goo. They seem mildly interested until you finish covering them in gunk and then talk to each other for a while, seemingly discussing your speech. I say "Seemingly" because a lot of them lack the capacity to speak in normally so a fair amount of it is just squishy meat noises. However, when they do finally finish they all turn to you. The one nearest you speaks for the group.
"It is an interesting proposition, however we believe it lacks some fundamental understanding of our natures. We are not masochists' seeking ultimate pain, we are explorers of sensation. If we just wanted pain we'd activate our nervous systems to just feel constant agony forever. Simple.
Your analysis is right to a degree though: context matters a great deal in sensation. A lick from a beautiful woman and a lick from a camel may have similar outcomes but very different sensations. The mind is a wonderful filter through which all sensation may be given extra depth. As such, lack of sensation is not what we would classify AS sensation."
"The dark is not a new color of light." One of the others interjects.
"Yes, quite. So while you do make an interesting point I believe it is fundamentally flawed from our perspective."
The Gimps don't seem to be struggling against the goo, by the way. They seem a lot more interested in talking the philosophy of sensation seeking.
"Aah, I see! This has been most enlightening, thank you.
Now, if you agree that the nature and disposition of a mind matters greatly for how it processes, and thus experiences, sensations, would it stand to reason that very different minds and bodies alien to our own would have some unique perspectives to offer? Hell, there are creatures out there with completely different senses than what we have acces to, that can see colors or hear sounds that we could only ever crudely approximate, just to give an example.
Because, and don't take this the wrong way, it does seem like all of you still adhere to a fairly basic humanoid body plan and memeplex, so I think there is much more we could learn if we expanded our horizons!
How about this: if we can find you an interesting creature with which you can plunge new depths of perception and feeling, you will in turn go back to your home, take your stuff with you and and let us close that door. Our janitors can't do the scheduled cleaning of this room while it's in use and they are getting antsy about it. Union regs, you know how it goes.
Do we have a deal?"
More diplomancing.
Should they be open to our proposition, start researching what our options are for finding a suitable strange creature that'd meet their requirements. Some sort of alien species? Maybe a weird animal of some sorts? Or perhaps the lab boys could cook something up? Or, as you mentioned in the discord, a denizen of HELL?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Okay, got some gas here. Good to see you've got them trussed up."Summer twists open the valve and rolls the tank of gas into the room before slamming the door. Any team member still in the room and with lungs and tissue to be effected by the gas almost immediately passes out. The Gimps, whose anatomy is clearly very different from humanity considering the fact that most should be dead from their injuries, seem mildly annoyed by the gas but not rendered unconscious. They complain it makes their sensations "Fuzzy".
Move the anaesthetic gas bomb into the gimp room. Then, leave the room and have the squirrel-bot open the valve from a distance.Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)
"Reckless? That's just knockout gas. Are you really going to arrest me for throwing a tank of knockout gas into a room filled with friendly robots and sorta-hostile gimps with magic pretzle-twisting powers?""...Yes."
[3]
"We are always looking for new explorers in the realm of sensation! New lands to conquer, as it were."
They listen to your explanation about HELL
"Ah, interesting. They seem rather uncivilized, but they do also seem to have their hearts in the right place."
"Yes! Removing the entire skeleton from someone all in one instant! What wonderful skill".
"Rowdy is just another word for enthusiastic."
They seem to approve of the idea of spreading their ideas and practices in HELL.
"Reckless? That's just knockout gas. Are you really going to arrest me for throwing a tank of knockout gas into a room filled with friendly robots and sorta-hostile gimps with magic pretzle-twisting powers?""...Yes."
"Reckless? That's just knockout gas. Are you really going to arrest me for throwing a tank of knockout gas into a room filled with friendly robots and sorta-hostile gimps with magic pretzle-twisting powers?""...Yes."
"..I mean, okay. You going to arrest Baldwin for doing random occult experiments? Or Kora for throwing actually-lethal grenades?
If you help me out we might find a weapon that works on them."
"..I mean, okay. You going to arrest Baldwin for doing random occult experiments? Or Kora for throwing actually-lethal grenades?"Agh fine ill let you off with a warning this time but next time please think about what your doing before you do it, I mean come on who knows how long its gonna take for that gas to dissipate! Not even mentioning you gassed poor Bob... Also if I see you try to throw anything else in that room without explaining what it is to me first again im tackling you down to the ground."
If you work with me we might find a weapon that works on them."
Baldwin isn't getting Wilfred's toy gun unless he successfully makes a convincing offer beyond "heeeey can I have it for a bit pretty please?" I haven't forgotten about it, it's just not a priority right now. It's still not his.
Blubber something about "Damn fat cat bluecoats" or whatever and give the two-hundred omni but also see if I can convince the med staff to improve my arm as well, maybe for a bit more omni.[3]Spoiler: Scottish Medic (click to show/hide)
Having encountered a literal dead end with the closet after leaving the room to avoid the obvious bomb, Baldwin remembers the darkness gun and decides the pain elementals would be the perfect test subject. Perhaps it annihilates souls and if that were the case, everything can be wrapped up with a neat bow.We'll assume you got it and made it back.
Baldwin attempts to track down Wilfred so he can ask him if he can borrow the gun. For Science. He reasons the Pain elementals would be quite helpful at describing the sensation of being shot by it.
EDIT: Run back to the group once Wilfred gives the gun to me if there's timeSpoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
That's a start.. just need some better weapons, then.[4]
Lets see what Bill Pelican can turn up. Either some mind drugs that cause sensory deprivation, or some kind of agent that actively destroys nerve endings. Or both, in a fun injectable cocktail. There must be some nice antagonists or overly-firm receptor binding agents around..
Hopefully it'll be free, but if not, well, I can borrow the money for them and submit it as expenses.Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
Turn off the gas, then politely ask if a PE wants to volunteer to help me test out my Tesla gauntlet.You turn off the gas and ask one of the pain elementals that hasn't been trapped in the goop -new ones are wandering out of the door all the time at this point- to help test your gauntlet. He agrees happily.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
"You guys sure do like to talk in riddles, I don't even know where I'd get a hollow log guess I could use a pipe instead."[1]
I guess I should act on this advice so I shall go find a turkey and a section of pipe big enough the turkey will fit in then shove the turkey into the pipe, then take it over to where the gimps are and see if I can convince them that the mystery pipe is something incredible and the only way I'll give it to them is if they leave and shut the door, and if they do accept this deal let them leave then give them the pipe.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)
They seem to want a portal into HELL rather than just a single citizen of it.Quote[3]
"We are always looking for new explorers in the realm of sensation! New lands to conquer, as it were."
They listen to your explanation about HELL
"Ah, interesting. They seem rather uncivilized, but they do also seem to have their hearts in the right place."
"Yes! Removing the entire skeleton from someone all in one instant! What wonderful skill".
"Rowdy is just another word for enthusiastic."
They seem to approve of the idea of spreading their ideas and practices in HELL.
So, it seems we have come to an agreement then? We provide them with an interesting denizen of HELL, and in return they pack up and leave us alone. Do I have that correctly? Or do they want us to take them to HELL?
Either way, check with our superiors to see if they're on board with our plan.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Wilfred doesn't have aaaany problem delivering the cube. He just needs to be pointed in the right direction. Also, told, like, who's in charge of Derp's containment. Go pick up some audio-blocking text to speech earphones from the dorms, first, then head down there.They provide you with instructions that point towards an elevator, followed by a long monorail ride, another elevator, and then a several mile walk. Finally, you reach the giant doorway that they claim leads to Mr. Friend. He's apparently suspended in a sensory deprivation chamber held in place by magnetic restraints above a deep shaft. If he starts to escape the cell will be dropped straight into the pit. Thats what they told you at least, but you haven't seen what lies beyond that door yet.Baldwin isn't getting Wilfred's toy gun unless he successfully makes a convincing offer beyond "heeeey can I have it for a bit pretty please?" I haven't forgotten about it, it's just not a priority right now. It's still not his.Okay fine he can have the Fragile Darkness.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Mission achievements (click to show/hide)
Waiting intensifies."..I mean, okay. You going to arrest Baldwin for doing random occult experiments? Or Kora for throwing actually-lethal grenades?"Agh fine ill let you off with a warning this time but next time please think about what your doing before you do it, I mean come on who knows how long its gonna take for that gas to dissipate! Not even mentioning you gassed poor Bob... Also if I see you try to throw anything else in that room without explaining what it is to me first again im tackling you down to the ground."
If you work with me we might find a weapon that works on them."
Sit back down in my chair slightly more alert thanks to Summer's shenigans.Spoiler: Jack Blackwater (click to show/hide)
Go with Wil and probably grab a blindfold and TTS headphones because that would be a good idea. Regardless of how bad the rest of the ideas here may be.We'll assume you get those things and that he...probably...takes you with.Spoiler: explosives "engineer" Kora (click to show/hide)Spoiler: notes (click to show/hide)
Get to the door next to the room full of gimps, and arm my squirrel-bot with the syringe from Pelican. Then put the VR headset on.
"Here's the new weapon Jack. Can you get the door for my squirrel-bot?"
((Does the arm change anything about my stats or is it purely ascetic?))With just the one arm, no difference in stats yet. Replace the other and maybe. Doesn't bleed and can't be traditionally injured though so there's that.
"Oh god this is embarrassing."You get the pipe off with some grease that one of your friends apparently got from within themselves. Huh...
Go try and pull the pipe off my head, if that fails have my robot friends help.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)
Get to the door next to the room full of gimps, and arm my squirrel-bot with the syringe from Pelican. Then put the VR headset on.Syringe attached to bot, headset on, sitting in the hall, ready to go!
"Here's the new weapon Jack. Can you get the door for my squirrel-bot?"Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
We'll assume you shove it into the room...if thats what Summer actually wants.Get to the door next to the room full of gimps, and arm my squirrel-bot with the syringe from Pelican. Then put the VR headset on.
"Here's the new weapon Jack. Can you get the door for my squirrel-bot?"
Jack sighs and gets up from his chair "Yeah sure one second madam."
Open the door real quick for the squirrel bot then close it.Spoiler: Jack Blackwater (click to show/hide)
Get some painkillers or opiates while at Med HQ then go test my arm out.Your new arm is...well mechanical from about the shoulder down. Looks kind of like a skinless arm, all the muscles replaced with bundles of black tubing of some kind. Moves like the old one, but can't feel pain. It can sense pressures ok, but not as precisely as before. Sort of like its half asleep.Spoiler: Scottish Medic (click to show/hide)
Take the PE into a side corridor. Fully charge my Tesla gauntlet (if possible) and punch the PE with itAssuming its been charging the whole time (should probably track that as "charge 1/5, 2/5, etc) it deals 5d4 damage. [14] You punch the pain elemental square in the chest and are actually tossed back by the explosive force of your own attack. You sit up and see all thats left of the Elemental is a charred lower body and several blackened chunks of bone and meat.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)Spoiler: gauntlet (click to show/hide)
Some time passes, when Baldwin kicks open the door before nonchalantly strolling in, dressed in a suit and carrying the gun. Hopefully the gas had dispersed by then.The Gimps do seem fairly interested in this place known as "Detroit" but they wonder if your superiors would actually allow them to have an unregulated portal on the surface of this world.
He takes a puff from his pipe and clears his throat.
"Err-hm. Gentlemen. I come with an opportunity and a request."
He presents the weapon.
"What you see here, is no ordinary firearm but an artifact from a mythical place called the Neo-Detroit exclusion zone. Notice the fleshy bits growing out of it. As you can tell, Neo-detroit is not your typical run-of-the-mill city, but unlike H.E.L.L, Neo-Detroit has no rules, at least none that are set in stone. It is a dream-like realm powered by the imagination of a god-like maniac and as a result, anything can happen."
Baldwin Saunter's over to a computer in the office and then boots up a Powerpoint presentation he made before-hand.
"You can be walking down the road, and then suddenly be transformed into a creature that by no means should be able to walk."
Baldwin presses a button and an image of a 12 foot tall metal abomination that seems to be made of braided lamp posts and stop lights appears on a projector (this is an office room, of course it's got a projector). Baldwin presses unpause and the clip plays, showing the giant in motion, fighting against people.Spoiler: From Here actually (click to show/hide)
"You can be admiring a beautiful sunset, up until the sky erupts into a hellscape before before personally coming down to attack you"
Baldwin plays footage he finds online of a "leak". Ideally something dramatic that aligns with what he is describing above.Spoiler: source (click to show/hide)
"And sometimes, you have no idea wtf is happening to you at all. I mean look at this my friend, do have any idea what's going on? Imagine how it must FEEL!"
Baldwin plays appropriate footage from the red zone, certainly there must be something he found.
...
"If you're looking for new avenues of pursuing sensation, then you'll be hard-pressed to find a place that can beat Neo-detroit. You've got plenty of variety. From minor disturbances (Yellow zones) to realms of utter madness (the red zone). The red zones may push even your tolerances to the limits."
Baldiwn smirks as if to challenge them
"Does that sound interesting to you guys? If so, you can have it, and if you act now, I'll even throw in a massive civilian population you can experiment on entirely free of charge."
"Such a valuable offer does not come easily though. Since command is a bit uppity about creating portals, we'll have to move an existing one to the proper location instead. The portal you created here is the most convenient one for our purposes. We just need you guys to decouple it from the wall and allow us to shuttle it to Detroit where we can then install it in a nearby building."
"If you have any doubts about neo-Detroit's power, then I want to show you a little taste of what this city has to offer."
Baldwin points the occult gun "Fragile Darkness" at the massive mound of gimp flesh.
"Neo-Detroit changes those who visit it. It changed this gun, it changed myself" he says as he gestures to his bloody wings. "And it will most certainly change you. This weapon comes from a realm of dreams and has never been fired, so we will both get to see something new."
*dramatic gun cock*
"Are you ready to change your life?"
Before Baldwin enters the room, he finds a suit to change into and gathers footage to create a PowerPoint presentation that is as close to the above ideal scenario as possible (using internet, my cable subscription, or company files). He may need to wheel in a projector as well. He's gonna pitch Neo-Detroit BABY!!!
As for the gun, aim it at the mass of Gimpflesh, but position it in such a way that it will head towards the Pain portal if the shots over-penetrate. Only shoot it if the Gimps actually request me to or they seem unenthusiastic.Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
"Heeey, guys, Wilfred here. Just want to warn you, in a few minutes I'll be handing over a portal to the pain dimewnsion over to that old bastard Derp. It's probably not gonna have any negative consequences for any of us, but just in case, you might want to be somewhere the pain elementals aren't. And mute me and Kora too. Just in case. Don't worry, I've already accepted all the consequences this might result in! Fuck Derp."
In local speech, he says the following: "Kora. Ride's over, the fun part starts now. Give me all your explosives, put on the blindfold, and wear those earplugs. Or maybe just start running, though I want one of those frags first. I'll buy you two replacements if I have to use it. Oh, and stand behind me, unless you want me to shoot you. Should probably stay still, too."
I didn't specify to leave inventory behind when fetching the TTS gear, but I'm gonna say almost all of Wil's inventory was left behind at his apartment. Kora has been brought along. Wait for, oh, three or four minutes before opening the door, and get some stuff ready during that time:
First, I recall Wil programing his robot body in the Derp mission to fire on anything that moved, without his input. Hilariously, it resulted in him shooting allies as well. Anyway, dig that program up, and have it run on the hardsuit. If that's impossible, oh well, nevermind.
Second, prepare a speech-to-text message which states in a robotic voice: "Movement will be fired upon. Remain still." Make sure this begins to play on repeat as soon as the door is told to open.
Third, ensure the TTS earplugs are functioning, and set all cameras to 0.2 FPS, updating at the same time. Ensure the hardsuit is locked. Ensure the atmosphere is self-contained. All senses should be accounted for. In the hardsuit's right hand, hold the generic pistol. In its left hand, the pain portal box, and a frag grenade. If the hardsuit's hand isn't large enough to hold both, sit down first and make sure both are in easy reach.
Once the wait is over, trigger the door to open, while the pistol is held at the ready. Further action depends on what is seen.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Mission achievements (click to show/hide)
Give Wil a frag and an rpg.After all preparations are made, Wilfred triggers the door and waits for both the door to open fully and for his cameras to catch up. The room beyond is a cube, with solid walls on all sides except the floor, which is a deep pit. Deep enough he can't see the bottom despite all the spotlights pointing around the room. In the center of this room is the cell, hanging from a single long cable. The cell itself is a metal frame holding windows on all sides. However, those windows are made out of some manner of glass that heavily blurred and distorted the light passing through it. As a result, the figure within was only visible as a hazy shadow with no distinct features.
"Be sure to use it then, I want more of 'em."
Suppress my senses using the provided equipment and prepare for the show. Or the audiobook version of the show, at least.Spoiler: explosives "engineer" Kora (click to show/hide)Spoiler: notes (click to show/hide)
The Gimps do seem fairly interested in this place known as "Detroit" but they wonder if your superiors would actually allow them to have an unregulated portal on the surface of this world.
"They have been rather against such things before." The Gimpball says.
They seem to want a portal into HELL rather than just a single citizen of it.
[2]
You attempt to convince command that HELL is the perfect place to send pain obsessed immortals. It honestly does make sense. Command is very non-committal though: they seem to worry that giving the Pain elementals access to hell might come back to bite humanity in the future.
[2]The Gimps do seem fairly interested in this place known as "Detroit" but they wonder if your superiors would actually allow them to have an unregulated portal on the surface of this world.
"They have been rather against such things before." The Gimpball says.
"Who says it'd be unregulated? When I offered you Detroit, I was only offering Detroit and not a centimeter of land outside of it. The place is massive, but it's surrounded by a wall that is 'fuck-off' levels of tall, and manned by the army and several automated defenses. Though you may not be able to be killed permanently, you'd have to repeat a several miles-long treck from the portal to the wall each and every time one of you got blown into sufficiently small smithereens. And that's not counting if the hostile landscape kills you first.
"Even if you did have the capabilities to breach the wall, that would be a violation of the terms of service and all of our previous agreements would be rendered void. No more annual stubbing of the toe, or any of the other escalations you made us do. I heard you created quite a madhouse in here. Do you really want to throw all of that away?
"Anyway, I was under the impression that you were creatures of honour. I don't know why you would have agreed to close the door the first time, just for a handlful of stubbed toes if there wasn't some principal behind it.
"Trust me, command agreeing is not an issue."
Reassure the Gimps about command's possible reluctance. Once we come to an informal agreement, go to command and tell them about how the Gimps agreed to let us move the door to a place in neo-Detroit of our choosing. Then tell them about the massive flesh portal we saw a while back and make the argument that dumping the door in the pocket dimension there technically counts as dumping it in neo-Detroit (Baldwin may not know what's inside the portal, but I'm sure Tara informed command during the debrief. Command can figure out the details such as what to do about the portal's inhabitants).
EDIT: Changed the location for containment from the Xeno's paradox chamber to the new one.Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
"Thanks guys for the assist, also can we refrain from using our internal lubrication for stuff outside our bodies."Can ya remind me where you got that? I honestly forget and I can't find it when searching the thread. Apologies.
Since I can't really think of anything to aid in the situation I shall instead push the button on the mysterious remote a few times and see if that does anything.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)
Proceed into the pain dimension with the chemically-armed squirrel-bot.You send the squirrel bot into the pain dimension. Someone has to.Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)
Well, now that negotiations have started I am outside my wheelhouse. In lieu of something better to do, search the remains of the various dead PEs for any trophies, keepsakes, or otherwise useful loot.Dead PE's seem to melt almost immediately into a puddle of blood and leave nothing behind, not even any clothing or piercings they have.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
[2]QuoteThey seem to want a portal into HELL rather than just a single citizen of it.
[2]
You attempt to convince command that HELL is the perfect place to send pain obsessed immortals. It honestly does make sense. Command is very non-committal though: they seem to worry that giving the Pain elementals access to hell might come back to bite humanity in the future.
Hmm. I didn't really intend to put 'offer portal to HELL' on the table, or at least not yet.
Try to negotiate down into them accepting one or more HELL citizens this time rather than the full portal.
As a carrot, imply that maybe next time they can negotiate up to full access, but for now it's too much. We'll deliver them right to this door, no effort on their part.
As a stick, point out that some of our teammates have more and stronger anesthetics they might want to test on them, but if we go grab those demons for them they'll be too busy to do that.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Jack sits back in his chair and gets comfortable once more "It aint much but its honest work."
Chill in my chair and watch out for any shenigansSpoiler: Jack Blackwater (click to show/hide)
Keep observing how my teammate's plans work out.[2]
Meanwhile, see if the Omniscient Network can find any info and/or footage or camera feeds on the torture coreSpoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
Stay behind the hard cover of a big exosuit. Listen in through TTS earbuds.
"So what are we looking at here, Wil?"Spoiler: explosives "engineer" Kora (click to show/hide)Spoiler: notes (click to show/hide)
Hrm. Well, try and shut down the main door before proceeding. No reason to give him a chance to run past. Then extend the walkway, and go up to the main cell cube. If there's a simple "open door" option, repeat the prior procedure while opening that door. Automated "shoot on move" warning. Pistol, doomcube, and grenade all ready. 0.2 FPS.Wil slowly finds the panel to close the outer door and does so. Then he slowly walks to the panel to extend the pathway and does so. The walk across this pathway is pretty nerve-wracking honestly, considering it was apparently not made with armor suits in mind and diverging too far one way or another would result in him falling blindly into the abyss...something his sense dampening might hide from him for the first few precious moments. Eventually he makes it to the cube exterior and there's a keypad next to the door. He activates it with the code given to him by command and then moves in. The area inside the cube is...something like a rather nice apartment, all things considered. Very spartan, but he's got a desk, dresser, a bed, a book case with books, even a tv. The man himself is standing beside the desk, apparently having just stood up. He's wearing what look like pajama pants. He looks significantly older than before, with a beard and graying hair. He's missing one arm and has several large surgical scars on his chest and abdomen. He's staring at you, but since you haven't shot him he must not have moved. The Earplugs don't say anything either.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Mission achievements (click to show/hide)
[2]
A few denizens of anywhere is all fine and good but they want something....more. Something more permanent. If not a direct portal, at least a relatively constant supply of...new friends. When you threaten Anesthetics they simply smile and nod politely, as though speaking to a slightly slow child.
"Yes, I'm sure you do. Your superiors tried many such things on us before. They make sensation fuzzy but, that is a new sensation all its own! Though, I must admit, it isn't our favorite."
Can ya remind me where you got that? I honestly forget and I can't find it when searching the thread. Apologies.(I'm not sure anymore I think it was from the mission before the Detroit one.)
Al goes to find Jack "Aye ye feck'n see this shite?" hoists robotic arm "Cannae ye do feck'n something about those gimps after what the shite eaters did nay teh me arm?"Spoiler: Scottish Medic (click to show/hide)
Al goes to find Jack "Aye ye feck'n see this shite?" hoists robotic arm "Cannae ye do feck'n something about those gimps after what the shite eaters did nay teh me arm?"Spoiler: Scottish Medic (click to show/hide)
Jack stares at Mackay with a deadpan expression "Look Mackay if I remember correctly you sir got dropped off to this squad somewhere around the beginning of the Neo Detroit mission and while I cant exactly call you inexperienced its clear from the fact you are even bothering asking me this question that you do not properly grasp the statistical causality rate of these missions." Jack sighs "You ever notice how most of your compatriots are either some type of robot or have a screw lose or two? That sir is because many of those people have died at least once if not multiple times and have either been transported into a robotic body, were simply born crazy, or have had them science boys cook up a entirely new body for em neither of which are proven to be good for anyone's mental health."
Jack stands up "So let me make myself clear I have no plans to ever give my original body away so easily and if that means sitting in a chair doing the bare minimum to be considered technically doing my job in the relative safety of this hall rather than wandering in like a dumbass firing at those gimps and getting my skin instantly torn off from my body then I for one say so be it." Jack starts walking away "Anyway if you excuse me I'm going to go grab a beer and you sir are more than welcome to join me."
Go grab a beer real quick then continue guarding the front doorSpoiler: Jack Blackwater (click to show/hide)
The thing freezes and needs to be rebooted."sigh"
(Does anyone have speech better than d4 round here?)Quote[2]
A few denizens of anywhere is all fine and good but they want something....more. Something more permanent. If not a direct portal, at least a relatively constant supply of...new friends. When you threaten Anesthetics they simply smile and nod politely, as though speaking to a slightly slow child.
"Yes, I'm sure you do. Your superiors tried many such things on us before. They make sensation fuzzy but, that is a new sensation all its own! Though, I must admit, it isn't our favorite."
Hmm. Maybe we can work with this.
Get back to command, and ask if it would be possible to set up a one-way portal from HELL (or equivalent) to the pain dimension, so that any demons wandering into the portal get sent to the pain dimension for the gimps to do with as they please, but which prevents the gimps from getting into HELL themselves.
If this would be possible, check if they are ok with this, and if yes inquire what it would take to set this up.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
[1]Can ya remind me where you got that? I honestly forget and I can't find it when searching the thread. Apologies.(I'm not sure anymore I think it was from the mission before the Detroit one.)
Ask the ghost fox to find something that'll get rid of the gimps, then while the fox does that I guess I'll play cards with my robot friends.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)
[4]Al goes to find Jack "Aye ye feck'n see this shite?" hoists robotic arm "Cannae ye do feck'n something about those gimps after what the shite eaters did nay teh me arm?"Spoiler: Scottish Medic (click to show/hide)
Jack stares at Mackay with a deadpan expression "Look Mackay if I remember correctly you sir got dropped off to this squad somewhere around the beginning of the Neo Detroit mission and while I cant exactly call you inexperienced its clear from the fact you are even bothering asking me this question that you do not properly grasp the statistical causality rate of these missions." Jack sighs "You ever notice how most of your compatriots are either some type of robot or have a screw lose or two? That sir is because many of those people have died at least once if not multiple times and have either been transported into a robotic body, were simply born crazy, or have had them science boys cook up a entirely new body for em neither of which are proven to be good for anyone's mental health."
Jack stands up "So let me make myself clear I have no plans to ever give my original body away so easily and if that means sitting in a chair doing the bare minimum to be considered technically doing my job in the relative safety of this hall rather than wandering in like a dumbass firing at those gimps and getting my skin instantly torn off from my body then I for one say so be it." Jack starts walking away "Anyway if you excuse me I'm going to go grab a beer and you sir are more than welcome to join me."
Go grab a beer real quick then continue guarding the front doorSpoiler: Jack Blackwater (click to show/hide)
Jack hands you a cola and shrugs when you ask about beer. Apparently this is a dry....uh...underground lab.Al goes to find Jack "Aye ye feck'n see this shite?" hoists robotic arm "Cannae ye do feck'n something about those gimps after what the shite eaters did nay teh me arm?"Spoiler: Scottish Medic (click to show/hide)
Jack stares at Mackay with a deadpan expression "Look Mackay if I remember correctly you sir got dropped off to this squad somewhere around the beginning of the Neo Detroit mission and while I cant exactly call you inexperienced its clear from the fact you are even bothering asking me this question that you do not properly grasp the statistical causality rate of these missions." Jack sighs "You ever notice how most of your compatriots are either some type of robot or have a screw lose or two? That sir is because many of those people have died at least once if not multiple times and have either been transported into a robotic body, were simply born crazy, or have had them science boys cook up a entirely new body for em neither of which are proven to be good for anyone's mental health."
Jack stands up "So let me make myself clear I have no plans to ever give my original body away so easily and if that means sitting in a chair doing the bare minimum to be considered technically doing my job in the relative safety of this hall rather than wandering in like a dumbass firing at those gimps and getting my skin instantly torn off from my body then I for one say so be it." Jack starts walking away "Anyway if you excuse me I'm going to go grab a beer and you sir are more than welcome to join me."
Go grab a beer real quick then continue guarding the front doorSpoiler: Jack Blackwater (click to show/hide)
[1]QuoteThe thing freezes and needs to be rebooted."sigh"
Reboot the Omniscient Network. Then try again to find any info and/or footage or camera feeds on the torture coreSpoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
Going to try to swim through the 'air' to move in the Pain Dimension, thanking every moment for the VR control program instead of just having the robot be able to walk or something.
..Find a gimp or something like a gimp to inject with the Pelican Special.[3]Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)
The good news is you can move through space relatively easily...and you do see elementals all over...but as you try to move towards them you seem to get no closer....then you're really close but not quite there....then far again. Space seems...distorted.
(Does anyone have speech better than d4 round here?)
[1]
The higherups block your signal.
"All right gang, I think I have a decent idea of how to get rid of these guys-"
"If any of you want to try talking some sense into them, that'd be lovely."
If not, start looking up what we would need to enact the plan anyway on our own (the one-way portal that is).
"All right gang, I think I have a decent idea of how to get rid of these guys, but it'd require some help from command and they're being difficult. If any of you want to try talking some sense into them, that'd be lovely."
Baldwin comes back from his failed negotiation, pretending nothing was even attempted. He's not even wearing his suit anymore.He shoots the occult gun at the Gimpflesh mound to try to figure out how the weapon works, angle myself in such a way that any over-penetration ends up in the Pain dimension portal. Ask the Gimps for feedback on the weapon's performance."I'm trying figure out what this otherworldly artifact even does. Do you gimps have any ideas?"
EDIT: Postpone the test for a little later. Lend my own occult knowledge to Yagyu and maybe scrape through some Detroit data to help him figure out how to turn the gimpflesh into a one-way hell-portal.Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
[4][1]Quote(Does anyone have speech better than d4 round here?)
[1]
The higherups block your signal.
((I was kinda banking on the fact that usually we don't roll speech when we do out own talking or when the idea is reasonable enough, but seems that didn't quite pan out. :v ))
Over the team comms, Yagyu vents his frustration.
"All right gang, I think I have a decent idea of how to get rid of these guys, but it'd require some help from command and they're being difficult. If any of you want to try talking some sense into them, that'd be lovely."
If anyone wants to help with the speech roll, explain them my plan and help them as they mediate with command.
If not, start looking up what we would need to enact the plan anyway on our own (the one-way portal that is).Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"If you don't want the gimps to think they've got all the power, maybe one of you guys can find a way to hurt them. I can handle the talking.. anyone want to take over from me in the Pain Dimension?"[6]
Sensation, hmm...
Instead of trying to move towards the gimps, forcus on the visual stimuli of actually arriving. Seeing the robot limbs hitting the flesh. Seeing the point of the syringe entering the target. See the liquid enter the gimp in question.Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)
"Damn it I don't think she's coming back, damn now I don't have a mascot."The fox does not return yet, but you think you hear it yipping somewhere in the distance.
Wait a bit longer and see if the fox comes back while I play some more cards and see how the robots feel about being given handguns.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)
Al, now one sober son of a bitch looked quite disappointed by the soda "Agh, really?! Oh well better'n noth'n." cracking the tab the medic knocked back a hearty swig of soda "Och thank ye for the drink, rest o' the team dannae my help besides I need ta' get in shape lest I lose my feck'n limbs again!"
Alec goes somewhere to get some physical exercise, to work on his strength.Spoiler: Scottish Medic (click to show/hide)
Jack relaxes back against his chair and gives a sigh of relief "Yep this is the life."Killing time instead of killing people. What a ripoff.
Keep on chillingSpoiler: Jack Blackwater (click to show/hide)
[3]"All right gang, I think I have a decent idea of how to get rid of these guys, but it'd require some help from command and they're being difficult. If any of you want to try talking some sense into them, that'd be lovely."
"I'll help you look, as soon as I can get this freaking thing to actually work
Help Yagyu find the info for his current plan using my personal computing cube (being: "start looking up what we would need to enact the plan anyway on our own (the one-way portal that is").
Also try and get the Omniscient Network Scanner to finally reboot properly. If it does, use that to look up info too.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
Alright. I had an action a bit ago to write down instructions on the cube, and they didn't explain what it did, just how to activate it. Set the cube down on the inside threshold of the door, then hold up the grenade. Not active, but ready to activate. If the gun fires, Wilfred will activate the grenade, hold it up (but not throw it), and sit down while trying to close the door with the pistol hand. Let the grenade explode in the hardsuit's hand; the idea is that it will hopefully catch Derp in its blast if he tries to get past, and otherwise give him reason to not try to escape while Wilfred tries to close the door.
Yeah there's problems with that plan, but Wilfred is drunk. Anyways, assuming no gun fires, after placing down the cube disable the threat and speak:
"Stay still, turret's shtill on. Cube's a way out, I don't care if you fuck those people up, just leave. You mewnster."
Then close the door.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Mission achievements (click to show/hide)
Disconnect control from the robot and take off the VR goggles.
So you're saying, that if they all want the portal to here to be a portal to hell, it will go there instead?
..or maybe we could all just will it closed, collectively, all together?
Suggest to the gimps that they could make the portal to this unverse a portal to hell, if they want it enough. And hell is possibly more profitable.
Leave the containment area (with Kora), triple-checking that everything is secured. Once out entirely, with all locks and such in place, disable the various precautions and hi-five Kora, then return her explosives.Kora and Wilfred return from their errand, both hideously drunk and singing something incomprehensible about Derp, blood, razorblades and "Never coming home". They seem very happy but it is difficult to penetrate their sphere of inebriated mirth.
"Ahahaha! We fuckin' did it! Great victory, and fuck Derp!"
Then start heading back to the main area, taking celebratory drinks of monkey pump the whole time. Radio the rest of the team and brag.
"Arright, everyone! Derp's officially got a portal out of containment, directly into the pain dimewnsion! Bastard's in for a world of hurt--literally, ahahaha! Ohhh, if only I could watch him suffer, but then I'd be a slave to. The thought'll keep me warm. Hey, anyone wanna meet us back at the barracks, and share some of this monkey pump? There's still a ton of the shit."Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Mission achievements (click to show/hide)
"Well gang I'll give out handguns when I can get ammo for them."[3]
Me and the gang will go see if we can't find the ghost fox.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)
Jack takes another sip of his soda "Hmm wonder if they got some type of disco radio around here."When you say "Play music" do you mean like a radio or like a banjo? Play music passively or actively?
Search for something to play music while I continue to totally do my part by guarding this door and not slacking off.
((Well okay then, it seems like we have the option to create a one-way portal for the gimps, but there's a chance that they might end up learning how to create their own one-way portals as a result.
Don't know if I want to risk that. It seems very difficult to find a good solution though.))Disconnect control from the robot and take off the VR goggles.
So you're saying, that if they all want the portal to here to be a portal to hell, it will go there instead?
..or maybe we could all just will it closed, collectively, all together?
Suggest to the gimps that they could make the portal to this unverse a portal to hell, if they want it enough. And hell is possibly more profitable.
Assist the gimps with Hell-portal creation if they accept Summer's offer, otherwise implement my other plan:
"Excuse me my dear friend, can I borrow some hunks of your immortal flesh? It seems to be necessary for the creation of the portal you requested."
If I get permission from the gimps, acquire a few kilograms of non-sentient, but immortal gimpflesh and look for a creature like a mouse. Attempt to use flesh-warping to create a mouse-gimp hybrid with biological immortality. This is a prototype for the the creatures that shall be the building blocks of the new portal. I will need to find a way to expand their minds though...Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
Disconnect control from the robot and take off the VR goggles.The Gimps seem interested in the idea of making a hell portal themselves and are in the middle of stripping off some flesh when, all at once, they turn back towards the door. Without saying a word, they all walk or drag themselves or their companions back to the door and through into the hell dimension. They appear concerned as they step through the door, but moments after the last disappears through the door itself closes and the spreading "infection" it seems to have been cultivating shrinks away.
So you're saying, that if they all want the portal to here to be a portal to hell, it will go there instead?
..or maybe we could all just will it closed, collectively, all together?
Suggest to the gimps that they could make the portal to this unverse a portal to hell, if they want it enough. And hell is possibly more profitable.Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)
"Arright, everyone! Derp's officially got a portal out of containment, directly into the pain dimewnsion! Bastard's in for a world of hurt--literally, ahahaha! Ohhh, if only I could watch him suffer, but then I'd be a slave to. The thought'll keep me warm. Hey, anyone wanna meet us back at the barracks, and share some of this monkey pump? There's still a ton of the shit."
The Gimps seem interested in the idea of making a hell portal themselves and are in the middle of stripping off some flesh when, all at once, they turn back towards the door. Without saying a word, they all walk or drag themselves or their companions back to the door and through into the hell dimension. They appear concerned as they step through the door, but moments after the last disappears through the door itself closes and the spreading "infection" it seems to have been cultivating shrinks away.
"I know there's a radio around here somewhere..."
Continue to search for something to passively play music to drown out all the yelling in the other room (A radio or something like that is what I meant although I'm not against finding a instrument of some type)Spoiler: Jack Blackwater (click to show/hide)
Attempt to retroactively shoot one of the gimps with the occult gun "Fragile Darkness" while they flee into the portal. Try to figure out what this thing does finally.[10]
Regardless of whether the GM allows that, find Will and give the gun back to him.
"Here's the thing back. Didn't get a chance to test it unfortunately. I kept having to do consulting for everyone's various schemes and then they abruptly left. Should have shot one in the back when I still had the chance"Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
"Did you.."You shout into the radio about what you think is going on and don't have to run far. Instead you get a near instant confirmation from...an unknown voice that doesn't identify itself. You get out about three sentences before something rumbles far away and the voice tells you the explosive failsafes were activated. Data recording from the time before these were activated will be scanned for information. The voice then cuts off.
Scream at Wilfred, before running past them, towards Derp's containment area. Hopefully I can get all the way there to trigger the failsafe. Grab a radio and keep shouting about what I think is going on, to hopefully get access towards the kill button. Or, hopefully, to get someone to trigger it remotely, as it's miles and miles away.
"Derp's the mind control guy, right? The guy who controls the mind of everyone who senses him in any way? AND YOU GAVE HIM ACCESS TO A DIMENSION FULL OF SENSATION FREAKS WHO ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR THE NEXT EXPERIENCE?"
"The pain dimension guys just ran back inside their dimension, for no goddamn reason at all. Derp's taking them all over, right now!"
"He needs to die now! Now! Now! Now!"Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
AHAHAHAHAHAHA(https://c.tenor.com/idMbLvxhzIEAAAAC/some-men-just-want-to-watch-the-world-burn-batman.gif)
"So did we win or something?"Lets say 10 omni.
Go find out how much ammo for those handguns will cost, then I can arm my robots!Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)
Yagyu let out an electronic sigh. Finding a solution to this was like pulling teeth and the people in charge were being infuriatingly aloof about the whole thing.Yes, you get your body back! Wonderful! Also, seems like they activated all the failsafes on Mr.Friend a few minutes ago. Hope they were good enough.
"Ok people, so we have a possible solution here, but I'm not sure if it's smart to-"Quote"Arright, everyone! Derp's officially got a portal out of containment, directly into the pain dimewnsion! Bastard's in for a world of hurt--literally, ahahaha! Ohhh, if only I could watch him suffer, but then I'd be a slave to. The thought'll keep me warm. Hey, anyone wanna meet us back at the barracks, and share some of this monkey pump? There's still a ton of the shit."
"Wait you fucking what?!?"QuoteThe Gimps seem interested in the idea of making a hell portal themselves and are in the middle of stripping off some flesh when, all at once, they turn back towards the door. Without saying a word, they all walk or drag themselves or their companions back to the door and through into the hell dimension. They appear concerned as they step through the door, but moments after the last disappears through the door itself closes and the spreading "infection" it seems to have been cultivating shrinks away.
Does that technically count as a 'mission cycle'? If yes, get back into my auditor body to get its stats back and then start finding out if that friendly guy had any failsaves on him and how they are activated.
Secondly, go find that Bill Pelican guy.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Gather as many leftover bits of gimpflesh as I can. A lot of it must have surely been knocked loose during my teammates vain attempts to kill them. Fleshwarp merge it into a single, solid, hopefully-still-living, block.The gimps evaporated upon death.
Bill starts laughing. And keeps laughing. He laughs until he's wheezing. Laughs until he slides down the wall and has to sit on the floor, still quivering breathlessly. Finally, after several minutes of that, he takes a deep breath, wipes the tears from his face, and says "Ahhhh, anyways. " Then he holds up two fingers, "Way I see it you got two options. First is to throw yourself on the mercy of the Auditors. Second is to go on the run. Whatcha gonna do? "
Yes, you get your body back! Wonderful!((You said before you wanted to roll for auditor modules, do you still wish to do that?))
750 OmniSpoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)
500 OmniLevel up??? Explosives from d6 to d8Spoiler: It’s not much, but it’s honest work (click to show/hide)
Find and apprehend Wil.Wil is mostly drunk and riding in a mecha so can't/don't really need to capture him.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
You entered on a talkie mission. Give it a moment, things are about to get bloodier.Spoiler: Scottish Medic (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Record of Activity (click to show/hide)
Since being a medic sucks and (so far as of now) a thankless job, find a new role suited for a man of my talent. Or I dunno go drink and cry if I am damned to this job.
Gather as many leftover bits of gimpflesh as I can. A lot of it must have surely been knocked loose during my teammates vain attempts to kill them. Fleshwarp merge it into a single, solid, hopefully-still-living, block.700 Omni.
Edit:And then join Yagyu’s meeting
((Don't feel sad horizon, there just wasn't a lot of combat this mission. I'm sure a medic will be much more useful when we're repelling the Gimpderp invasion.))Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things I did (click to show/hide)
"Yep another fine days work."You turn on the radio. (https://youtu.be/A6cSbof7Pik)
Turn on the radio and relaxSpoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Jack Blackwater (click to show/hide)
Go to the morgue / body parts lab and raise as many zombie hands as possible. Then attend Yagyu's all hands meeting.[3]
Bob's mighty deeds this mission:
Automated snacks
dance, dance
repair robot legs. (Ji)
After that, Bob fucked off in sheer disinterest.Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Tara (click to show/hide)
Buy 9 of those handgun magazines for 90 Omni.500 Omni.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)
Celebrate! Share monkey pump with everyone, including Ji. Can waifubots get drunk? I bet we can try! Derp's finally getting his fuckin' comeuppance! Fuck Derp!500 Omni. And only because they're contractually obligated.
Mission achievements below, as always. Do make sure command knows it was all Wilfred's work that accomplished this. Everyone else just milled around, got injured, and didn't help Wilfred deliver the box at all. At most Kora chipped in as moral support.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Mission achievements (click to show/hide)
"Probably better that way. Doubt anyone really escapes them anyways. So whats up? You want something before we're all probably shot?"QuoteBill starts laughing. And keeps laughing. He laughs until he's wheezing. Laughs until he slides down the wall and has to sit on the floor, still quivering breathlessly. Finally, after several minutes of that, he takes a deep breath, wipes the tears from his face, and says "Ahhhh, anyways. " Then he holds up two fingers, "Way I see it you got two options. First is to throw yourself on the mercy of the Auditors. Second is to go on the run. Whatcha gonna do? "
((I just wanted to find that guy for now, not spill all the beans yet, but w/ever.))
Not gonna start running for doing nothing wrong, so I ain't budging.QuoteYes, you get your body back! Wonderful!((You said before you wanted to roll for auditor modules, do you still wish to do that?))
Things Yagyu did this mission:Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Level up speech for now (subject to change).
Finally, call an all hands to the meeting room (or whatever) so we can get a handle on this situation.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Get paid!700 Omni.Spoiler: actions (click to show/hide)
Go to the meeting room (or whatever) that Yagyu designates so we can come to terms with the full scope of our current predicamentSpoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
Check notes spoiler. Fuck you pay me.600 Omni.Spoiler: explosives "engineer" Kora (click to show/hide)Spoiler: notes (click to show/hide)
"Probably better that way. Doubt anyone really escapes them anyways. So whats up? You want something before we're all probably shot?""Well I wanted to ask what you knew about that dimension and if there is a way to sever its connection to ours or something, cause whatever just happened really can't be good, and since we are the people responsible for putting him away again last time, I figure he'd have it out for us. Ah, but it seems command has finally gotten their heads out of their asses and realized it's a serious situation. Too little too late, of course."
There is no need to explain your actions and no point in mounting a defense. Every action has been carefully scrutinized. Guilt and innocence are already known. Instead, you area here because I am offering you a wager of your own. Will you buy your lives with blood?
250 to the shark, +1 frag +1 EMP +1 Existential Horror Gas.Extra 100 omni you got was from R&D.
"Yes, but I don't think that 'blood' adequately describes my method of violence. There will be steaming bones and guts to go with it."
Did the rnd people pay me? Can I get my lost and found?Spoiler: explosives "engineer" Kora (click to show/hide)Spoiler: notes (click to show/hide)
Will d4 to d6
Jack stands there in contemplation thinking about his next words very carefully "Mr Auditor... if I may be cleared to talk freely I would like to speak my mind if I may. Do I have permission?"
Might as well use my knowledge skill to good use there's gotta be known precedent for situations like this I can take advantage of right?Spoiler: Jack Blackwater (click to show/hide)
((Assume away))Quote"Probably better that way. Doubt anyone really escapes them anyways. So whats up? You want something before we're all probably shot?""Well I wanted to ask what you knew about that dimension and if there is a way to sever its connection to ours or something, cause whatever just happened really can't be good, and since we are the people responsible for putting him away again last time, I figure he'd have it out for us. Ah, but it seems command has finally gotten their heads out of their asses and realized it's a serious situation. Too little too late, of course."
((Gonna assume this was said before poor Bill ended up as he is. :v ))
1) Question: if I shoot the goop thrower, and have the auditor autonomous targeting system shoot a second goop thrower, does the goop thrower stacking rule (where it becomes 2d4 instead of 2 times 1d4) kick in? Get two extra ammo tanks regardless (2x30).
2) Buy a Hardsuit jetpack (quoted as 1600/5 = 320 omni before) and pay to have it installed/attached to the auditor if needed (how much?)
3) Get insurance for the auditor-jetpack body (tops out at 100).
4) Buy toolkit (200).
5) How much for a box of (scrap) metal for use with the ferromagnetic accelerator that do d10 damage?
6) Try to see what kind of auditor is talking to us.QuoteThere is no need to explain your actions and no point in mounting a defense. Every action has been carefully scrutinized. Guilt and innocence are already known. Instead, you area here because I am offering you a wager of your own. Will you buy your lives with blood?
"Most of us here didn't have much of a choice to be in this predicament. But I, for one, intend to fight through this, and I think most here would say the same."
Penal legion let's gooooo.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Pay back 5 omni to the shark, then retrieve my items from the lost and found box if possible. Also, yes I’ll wager.Bought and repaid.
Edit- also buy 4 auto cannot magazines for 80 omniSpoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Lost and Found (click to show/hide)
((Baldwin's main contributions to the team have been scientific ones so far, but it seems like he'll have to do some fighting himself this time. Unfortunately, Baldwin is lacking in both weaponry and armour, having previously chosen to purchase powerful, but consumable versions of these instead [Explosives and the reactive shield generator]. It would make shopping a lot easier for me if I could use the occult gun for this mission which will allow me to pool all my money into armour and get a nice OMNITECH Jumpsuit with 2d6 life, plus rockets.Leveled.
Otherwise, I'll have to settle for an occult tentacle and armoured spacesuit, none of which are that good at this phase in the game [although protection from the vaccum of space might be really important this time.]))
Though he now had a couple of missions under his belt, Baldwin was still a newcomer relative to some of his other teammates and as a result, he had no knowledge of who this derp fellow was and why his release was so catastrophic. Nothing could have prepared him for the videos on the monitor.
"OH GOD! WHY DID YOU DO THAT?! I know command can be stubborn jackasses, but they didn't deserve this!"
Baldwin turns towards Will.
"What am I gonna do? I was an architect! I got this job by mistake and only stuck around cause I thought I was good at it, but clearly I'm not if Dr. Psycho here is out for our blood!"
He says while gesturing towards the auditor. Then he turns his office chair away from everyone and towards a wall and starts muttering to himself.
"I'm not a fighter, I'm not a fighter, I'm not a fighter..." over and over again...
Since I'm not sure how much Piecewise is going to let me stall the game for the sake of RP, I'm going to assume someone slaps some sense into Baldwin eventually. When that happens, Baldwin accepts the wager by virtue of having no other choice and begs Will to let him use the occult gun for the suicide mission. In exchange, he promises to be Will's personal bodyguard for this mission and prioritize threats that go towards him first.
Level up Speed to d8
Level up Occult to d12
If Will loans the gun:
Sell OMNITECH Reactive fabric cape for 200 OMNI, Sell Omnitech OMNITECH Passive Personal Shield Generator for 200 OMNI, Sell Ceremonial dagger for 125 OMNI. Buy OMNITECH Jumpsuit for 1200 OMNI. Pay nothing to the loan shark and let the interest accumulate for this turn. Blindly take the "cursed" rifle Will is handing to him.If Will doesn't loan the gun:(this is objectively worse than the previous loadout)
Sell OMNITECH Reactive fabric cape for 200 OMNI, Sell Ceremonial dagger for 125 OMNI, Sell EMP grenade for 50 OMNI, buy occult tentacle for 500 OMNI, buy armored spacesuit for 600 OMNI. Pay nothing to the loan shark and let the interest accumulate for this turn.Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
BobOK.
Mechanics, Will to d12Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Bob's Business (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Tara (click to show/hide)
Level Fate (to d6) and Mechanics (to d6).Ok.
Buy two squirrel-bots (100 OMNI), a laser trip sensor (25 OMNI), and a Thermite Charge. (75 OMNI)
Stim self.
Shoot Will with an entire magazine of pistol ammo, because it won't hurt Will and getting the entire team assigned to a penal mission is something someone should care about.
After that..
"I say yes, but I'm curious.. what would have happened if I'd said no?"Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)
"I'd just like to say I had nothing to do with what happened, but I guess that doesn't matter so bring on the fighting."Leveled, Bought, Gunned.
Level up Guns to d10.
Buy a reactive fabric cape for 400 OMNI.
Give my robot friends each a handgun and three mags.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)
Gripping his new microwave gun with two tentacles, Edward inches closer to Yagyu and points at him with a third tentacleLeveled, etc.
"I'll, uh, be following the big man here. You know, to hide behind."
Off to the penal legion we go then.
2 levelups into guns (still hadn't used the one from last mission), used 1500 OMNIbucks to purchase microwave gun and 10 for a magic 888-ball.
Can I get a description of the microwave gun? How it looks and what functions it has, and how it works in combat? The Arsenal only had stats but no description.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
Level Fate to d12, Gun to d12. Buy a transient psychokinetic stim for 250, and two euphoria generators for 200 (I assume these are grenades; if they're reusable I guess I only need one. Also if they're reusable Wilfred will use it immediately after purchase.) Edit: A placed charge for 150, too.Bought. They're grenades, yes.
Baldwin can have the occult gun. Wil would definitely not give him the thing IC, but OOC I did kinda... well, scare people, I guess. I swear I didn't think that would really work. Or do anything. Edit: Baldwin must ALSO take the Cold Comfort rifle, which has seen all its users die. No reason. It's definitely not actually cursed.
...Oh, and Wil only got paid 500, despite his promotion putting him to 650 base pay. I don't really have anything to spend the money on, else I wouldn't tempt fate by pointing this out... but y'know. Money. :3
"Huh." Is all Wilfred has to say at first, when his supervisors appear, dead. "Wish I got to be the one to do that. I could still make it worse for them if you want, I could get their ghosts! Anyways, yeah, I'm in for blood! You don't even have to ask, I wanna break more shit!"Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
Were the cyborg gorilla and the anime orangutan among the punished present at our meeting?No, actually. Remember they were off talking to management which is why they left Bill to oversee things. They got a stern talking to about choosing subordinates better but that's it.
No, actually. Remember they were off talking to management which is why they left Bill to oversee things. They got a stern talking to about choosing subordinates better but that's it.I didn't remember that, but it's good to hear. They seem like more sensible types than whoever let Wil "Fuck Derp "Fred in to live up to his middle name.
Drink monkey pump with Kora, and wait for things to happen. Be happy.
Give the wooden doll to Baldwin.Given!
"Pretty sure this is some occult bollocks, you should have it."Spoiler: explosives "engineer" Kora (click to show/hide)Spoiler: notes (click to show/hide)
You might see him again soon.No, actually. Remember they were off talking to management which is why they left Bill to oversee things. They got a stern talking to about choosing subordinates better but that's it.I didn't remember that, but it's good to hear. They seem like more sensible types than whoever let Wil "Fuck Derp "Fred in to live up to his middle name.
Update on Jon I. Tor?
"I do have a question that's not immediately related to whatever horrorshow you're about to shove us of into, if I may? Two in fact."Ask.
Say above.
Could I possibly sell off the two pinpoint carbines that are built into the auditor palms? Note that if it costs something to have them taken out, that'd be fine.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Guess I'm as ready for what's about to happen as I can get."Alright.
Ready to rumble!Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)
Drink monkey pump with Kora, and wait for things to happen. Be happy.For now.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
Baldwin takes the doll and heads inside his own room. After everything that's happened, he needs some alone time. Baldwin puts on headphones, lights some incense, and begins to meditate in hopes of finding some sort of inner peace.The mushroom is growing well enough that it has started to push up against its container. Looks like it will need a new pot, so to speak, soon.
Once that is finished, he takes out Fragile Darkness and begins to examine it in more detail.
Accept the doll and stash it in my room, I don't have time to investigate it for occult shenanigans. Check on how well my golden mushroom is growing.
Afterwards, non-invasively examine fragile darkness. Try to figure out if it'll need reloading, and if so, figure out how. Then look at the doll I guess.Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
Ready for whateverA bold claim.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
"Uhhum well Mr Auditor sir its clear from the fact you have gathered us all here that you see all of us responsible in some way shape or form for the events that have occurred earlier... but as you yourself have pointed out by your...demonstration our guilt in this matter is not equal it would be greatly... unjust to dish out the same punishment to the perpetrator who sent those... things through the portal as the man who watched the doors. Even civilizations of old known for their brutality gave lighter sentences to petty thieves compared to murderers even if they were in some way in cahoots. So while I will accept because I am not keen toward the alternative proposal what I'm ultimately asking is will the punishment fit the crime?"Yes.Spoiler: Jack Blackwater (click to show/hide)
Ask.
You can, but they've very stripped down versions of the gun, basically just a barrel and mechanism. You'd get like 50% the price of a new one.
Questions?
5) We know OMNI has access to some heavy stuff. Is there a reason you're not carpet-nuking the area he is in to oblivion?
"I don't have any weapons and I think I'll do everything possible through VR, so.."
"I don't see why I'd need a shock collar."
5) We know OMNI has access to some heavy stuff. Is there a reason you're not carpet-nuking the area he is in to oblivion?
((They're sending Wil. He is classified as a weapon of mass destruction~))
"But you don't need to control most of the team. Just take over one person, use that person to kill someone else, and then it doesn't matter if the first one is knocked out. At least two down from one takeover. Doesn't sound like the guy has to care if a mind controlled minion is killed or shocked later."
"I mean, you could kill what, three, four people at once? No problem?"
"The safe way to do it would be to have the few people with the actual weapons attack seperately and alone, while everyone else monitors you from out of range. Then there's enough to stop one of you guys should you get taken over. If we had some way to free you from afar, then we'd be golden."
"Another possibility would be to have some kinda firing interlocks, so that half the team needs to be up for the more powerful weapons to be used. Say the default is 'off', not on."
"Really, he's in a weakened state. No reason why we can't just roll up and turn him into hamburger with all we got. Even if some of us die, it won't really matter."
"I don't like the sound of anyone controlling me or my robots to use them to kill possessed people, also why are we arguing about this stuff let's just get the damn job done."
"Have you noticed that us dying is the point, fake auditor? Come on, you don't have to be scared of it."
”The whole point of this is to have a way to deal with mindcontrolled teammates without having to kill them. Neither the shock, nor the lockout for robots, would kill the person. And you’d be the one who gets to vote remember? No individual would have the power to make use of this system alone.”"Well that makes me feel better about the whole thing, probably should be paying more attention to these discussions in the future."
"Demyacracy sounds like bullshit, have someone blind listen to chatter and shock anyone compromised. It's easy to keep one person safe, and if they're a techie or something it hardly hampers them. Where did Pathos go, anyway? Little bugger would be perfect."
EDIT: ...Does Wilfred's current body have a shock implant? And if not, could he get a shock collar rather than an implant?
"This was caused by Wil. Without any mind-control shenanigans. Or OMNI command orders. Sure, I can understand not trusting command, but they could not have caused this without Wil drunkenly screwing everything up."
"We should hand it over to people who won't be going in there. So there's zero risk of mind control, not a slim risk of mind control. Or automate it or something. Then there's no delays over votes, no politics, no concentrating on pushing the right button while your face is stuck inside some wall. It'll be run by people outside this fuckery."
"The pain dimension was incredibly confusing. I don't even know if you can reliably push a button if you want to. I had trouble even injecting a syringe into one random pain elemental. Fumbling about for a button is dumb."
"No offense, but you're sitting in your brand new arbiter body, which you got for free, complaining about lack of proper support. Hell, they didn't even demote Wil."
Ed. what do you think? Your skills would surely be useful in there, but you might be the best person for the job still, given that it seems to involve direct violence mostly. Assuming that auditor over there will even permit one of us not actually going in, mind you. If not, or if you think you'd be more useful on the inside, might as well drop the matter."
"The lost and found ghost even gave me extra grenades to replace the ones I used and more. I mean, it might not technically be a... hey Wil is the lost and found bin a ghost or just a generic spooky thing?"
"Anyway, I've got your money"
Give Yagyu his 550 OMNI.
"How do we stop it, exactly? We couldn't hurt pain elementals with weapons earlier."He is not a pain elemental. And if he is unable to die in that world, then you should be equally immortal. If he may die there, then kill him there. If not, put him somewhere where he will. As per the Elementals under his control, they may be immortal but they are still able to be rendered inert, at least for a time. A body without limbs poses little threat.
QuoteAsk.
"Intimidation tactics and theatrics like these are poor substitutes for proper accountability. Sure, in a hierarchical organization, screwups should be, ah, disciplined, when they mess up badly enough." he says, as he gestures toward the display above them, "But this flows both ways. After all, it is the boss' job to make sure they appointed the right people, trained them properly, that they appointed and trained those below them in turn, and so forth. In the end, the bucks stops at the top."
"If all that you, the board of auditors or whoever orders you around, do here is to mulch some middle managers and screw over some flunkies at the bottom, I can assure you, things will just get repeated down the line and we'll all be doing this song and dance again."
"So then, my question: what are you, personally, gonna do to take responsibility and avoid this in the future?"
Then, assuming I haven't gotten perforated for my insolence, ask:
"Secondly, what does 'NEIMBUCTOIE' mean to you?"
1) Talk above.QuoteYou can, but they've very stripped down versions of the gun, basically just a barrel and mechanism. You'd get like 50% the price of a new one.
2) Normally the resale value of a gun is 1/2. So does that mean each one sells for 1/4th the arsenal price, or 1/2 still?QuoteQuestions?
3) Does this mean that, once he focuses on a person, said target still needs to perceive him to be affected, like originally? If yes would our original sensory deprivation methods/suits still work?
4) On that topic, can we get provided with a way to deal with mindcontrolled teammates? Like installing shock-collars/robobody lockouts and a voting-based system of activation so no individual getting controlled will screw over everyone at once.
5) We know OMNI has access to some heavy stuff. Is there a reason you're not carpet-nuking the area he is in to oblivion?
6) is there a way to stop pain elementals from instantly respawning the moment we kill them? There didn't seem to be any delay to it last time so either we all get some of that stuff Summer successfully tested out against them, or we'll have to think of another way to keep them at bay. Maybe gooping them in place could work?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"I think I understand, but there's one thing I don't get. Who's Mr. friend and what are these abilities of his you speak of? I thought Will released a man named Derp?"Ask your team. And report to the nearest infirmary before you leave. They will have teeth for you.
Baldwin felt out of the loop compared to his veteran colleagues.
After having it explained to him, Baldwin then asks the auditor if he can take any teeth they extracted from the tortured executives to reload his spooky gun with. Teeth-pulling is torture 101, any torturer worth his salt is bound to have a dozen of them lying around.
At the end of the briefing, Baldwin goes to harvest the cap of the golden mushroom and sells it, using the revenue gained to make a payment to the loan shark.Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
"Demyacracy sounds like bullshit, have someone blind listen to chatter and shock anyone compromised. It's easy to keep one person safe, and if they're a techie or something it hardly hampers them. Where did Pathos go, anyway? Little bugger would be perfect."You don't have an implant, even if you did originally. Both a collar and an implant are available. If they're ok with you having something removable is up to them.
EDIT: ...Does Wilfred's current body have a shock implant? And if not, could he get a shock collar rather than an implant?
You misunderstand the basic hierarchy. Auditors are not management, we are simple accountants. We ensure all accounts are settled and that all actions are above board. Upper management is whom you have a grievance with. Shall I inform them?
A body without limbs poses little threat.
Any non-lethal method of damage should result in them remaining damaged until death. And they are able to withstand a great deal more harm than an ordinary person without expiring. Sub-lethal injury and restraint based techniques are your best bet.
Yes.
"Ed, could you help me with something? I'd like to upgrade my goop thrower again so it works like the old one. Seems like it will be a good tool to have in there.""Sure, I'll take a looksie at it"
3) Give my goop thrower to Ed so he can redo the mod my old one had (overdrive mode).
"Do you guys think I should leave my robots at base so we have less things to get posses or should I just bring em so we have more people to fight? Also sure I'll give some DNA type stuff I'm sure this fox robot is filled with awful garbage from Detroit."
Give DNA and get robotlockout thing.
Quote"Ed, could you help me with something? I'd like to upgrade my goop thrower again so it works like the old one. Seems like it will be a good tool to have in there.""Sure, I'll take a looksie at it"
3) Give my goop thrower to Ed so he can redo the mod my old one had (overdrive mode).
Modify Yagyu's goop thrower to have the Overdrive Mode. Use 1 toolbox charge to get advantage
Also loan out my 3 camera bots to Yagyu for this mission
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"I just don't think so. The pain dimension is weird, and we shouldn't have everyone's protections work the same way. If there's one mistake, one missed assumption about those protocols, everyone's dead. If I'm screwing up, that's just me."
""Friendly shouldn't be able to exert control over machines directly so they should be safe from that, but they might also just slow you down and not contribute much. I suppose having a proverbial meatshield or disposable drone is always handy, but I dunno how attached you are to your brobot friends. Up to you."""I'll probably just bring them along, given what happened when people tried to kill those gimps earlier it's probably better to have more guys with guns than less."
I’d like to rejoin, sorry for leaving, I have to stop doing that anyways I think I still remember my text colorWelcome Back. We saved your character sheet.
Can someone mention what we’re doing? Bob and I got sidetracked since neither of us knew what the last mission was, did it succeed? What’s our new task?
((Did you ever get any payment from the Detroit mission? If not, list what you did that mission and I think pw will still give you some pay. I think you can also still buy stuff from the arsenal (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Et0NA5i_jXldn8ySqCQXJNo8UCm2ewuvh528yN-_RNg/edit), though the coming turn might be the last.))I helped Bob turn our vehicle into a movie theater, and visited a new reality where those cultists are apparently the only humans there, I don’t think any of that helped the mission in any way
They weren't cultists, they were former scientists, and the information Tara brought back was the mission. They effectively told us what happened to cause the thing. Amusingly, this was the one lead that didn't literally explode in our faces that mission.((Did you ever get any payment from the Detroit mission? If not, list what you did that mission and I think pw will still give you some pay. I think you can also still buy stuff from the arsenal (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Et0NA5i_jXldn8ySqCQXJNo8UCm2ewuvh528yN-_RNg/edit), though the coming turn might be the last.))I helped Bob turn our vehicle into a movie theater, and visited a new reality where those cultists are apparently the only humans there, I don’t think any of that helped the mission in any way
((okay, so it wasn't the only important lead we gathered. But it was significant info nonehteless, and Tara got it by virtue of being Tara. and also by dragging an alligator through a fleshhorror gate to an alternate reality.))Since it seems moderately important for the mission, I am going to auto Tara to ask more questions about the Event (feel free to veto this. I am not trying to run two characters, just trying to jump start the mission again). Assume she is polite and respectful, and asks other things like about the general well-being of the people here, their hope as a community for their future, and how Earth-like this alt-dimension earth is, aside from the apparent lack of humans. Also, get more specifics about a return trip. Her stats are below if necessary.1. The don't know the exact cause, but what they do know is that the machine was always designed to be used with "Copies" of human minds. Simulations with limited capacity. But that time they were apparently going to hook it up to a living subject.
So, that's 3 questions
1) what they know about the Event
2) how's the new digs?
3) how do we get back, assuming we even want to?
As for Bob, He'll open his mouth and await snacks. I assume Tara will idly be chucking apples in as she talks.Spoiler: The MOOKiest (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)
2. Pretty good. Lonely, low tech in most ways, but they've got enough to survive and will try to make their living here. Even if a way back appears, they might not take it.
3. With their help, they should be able to use their own consciousnesses to open the way. Obviously they won't need to be...processed like the others. With the worlds so close together it should only take the combined efforts of about a dozen or so people to momentarily open the rift they created.
Ask your team. And report to the nearest infirmary before you leave. They will have teeth for you.
You get 1454 Omni from the sale.
1) Understood.QuoteYou misunderstand the basic hierarchy. Auditors are not management, we are simple accountants. We ensure all accounts are settled and that all actions are above board. Upper management is whom you have a grievance with. Shall I inform them?
1) Sure, kick it up the ladder. If they wanna fire or punish me for speaking the truth, it just proves the point.
((And yes, I know it's probably a bad idea, but seems to fit best with Yagyu.))
2) He forgot to answer my second question: "What does 'NEIMBUCTOIE' mean to you?"QuoteA body without limbs poses little threat.QuoteAny non-lethal method of damage should result in them remaining damaged until death. And they are able to withstand a great deal more harm than an ordinary person without expiring. Sub-lethal injury and restraint based techniques are your best bet.
"Hmm, I'm not so sure about that. Last time they didn't seem to need any limbs to work their pain magics, or even eyes and ears to sense their target. But it still seems like our best bet I suppose."
"Ed, could you help me with something? I'd like to upgrade my goop thrower again so it works like the old one. Seems like it will be a good tool to have in there."
3) Give my goop thrower to Ed so he can redo the mod my old one had (overdrive mode).
"Allright lads, one thing before I forget: since Summer indicated that space in there is warped and hard to navigate, we might get separated. If you wish, you can give me a DNA sample which should allow my suit systems to track you. For the brobots among you, you can go scrape some mold off a bathroom stall or whatever and give piece to me, that way I can track your location by proxy. This is voluntary and can be rescinded after the mission, in which case I'll give you your sample back. I can't 100% guarantee the system will work in there, but it's worth a shot. "
4) If anyone gives me a sample, test it to make sure it works, then store it safely.QuoteYes.
5) Good. In that case, install the temporary shockers/robobody lockouts into people who volunteer (Yagyu does) and give the controls to Ed. He will be our mission control. Can we get something like a strong radiopack (other other coms device, maybe a QEC pack) to ensure we can actually stay i touch with Ed, btw? If not as mission equipment Yagyu would be willing to buy one.
"So, change in the plan: Ed will stay behind and be our mission control. If one of us gets controlled by friendo, we'll yell at him and he will attempt to shut that person down momentarily so the others won't be forced to kill said person to protect themselves."
6) Explain to all the newbies how Mr. Friend's powers work and the methods we used last time to counteract them. Ask the auditor if we pretty please could get some of those sensory isolation suits from last time for our fleshy team members. Or at the very least some earbuds loaded up with the text-to-speech protocols Pathos invented. The robots can do it manually.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Not using a shock collar. Not giving a DNA sample.You get your deadman switch.
Don't need a sensory suit, either. It'll probably just make things harder. More difficult to move, etcetera.
Make a deadman's switch for the VR. Some simple thing, just a spring-loaded handpiece or something that'll pop open if I forget what I'm doing. Use one toolkit charge. If necessary try again with the other toolkit charge.
"Should we have radios at all? If Mr. Friendly gets a radio, can't he just mind control everyone on the same channel?"
"Nah, I don't need a suit. You can resist it this time around, right? And break free?"
"There's a better way then. I'm going to do my job through these little robots and VR. Since the mind controlling guy doesn't know what's going on, all I need is a deadman's switch to cut off the VR. Get taken over, drop out of VR, can't get orders. Then I'll break free in a minute or so."
Just set me up with something uncomfortable to keep closed, like a spring-loaded switch. I'll do it myself if necessary."
If I'm given unwanted equipment (radio pack, earbuds, shock collar, suit), stash them so I can try to sell or disassemble them after the mission.Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)
Hey shitty skelly, this rp is directed atThe auditor pauses for a moment before it responds.youyour crap auditor waifu.
"Hey, since you brought us straight here, guess my contract with RnD isn't over yet. It's all above board if they get the footage after, right? Bet they'd like that."
Give DNA. Ensure Roll-Polly is safely at home. Obtain collar. I'd expect it to not be trivially removable? They've gotta have welded-on slave collars or something.Rolly-Polly is doing fine. The monkey's have actually been feeding him while you're away. Even got him a little bowl and collar with a bell on it.
...Don't get one if its anti-tamper mechanism is lsthally detonating.
"Awww, man. I suck at sub-lethal. Any chance I can run off and buy one of those goopers real quick?"
"Do you guys think I should leave my robots at base so we have less things to get posses or should I just bring em so we have more people to fight? Also sure I'll give some DNA type stuff I'm sure this fox robot is filled with awful garbage from Detroit."Done.
Give DNA and get robotlockout thing.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)
Modified,Quote"Ed, could you help me with something? I'd like to upgrade my goop thrower again so it works like the old one. Seems like it will be a good tool to have in there.""Sure, I'll take a looksie at it"
3) Give my goop thrower to Ed so he can redo the mod my old one had (overdrive mode).
Modify Yagyu's goop thrower to have the Overdrive Mode. Use 1 toolbox charge to get advantage
Also loan out my 3 camera bots to Yagyu for this mission
edit: also see about getting some kind of sample of something with DNA, for Yagyu to track me with. Maybe go ask the lads who do our medical stuff? They surely still have a piece of my old body, or some kind of usless dna sample that they don't mind losing for a mission.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
((Thanks, I’ll read the most recent turn and do an action))1500 OmniOh god, we have to enter the pain dimension to kill Derp? Here’s hoping no one messes with thoughtforms making this harder again, and also hope he’s not trying to build another one of those soul gates…Alright, how do we get there?Spoiler: Tara (click to show/hide)
Claim payment for reality mission then Attempt to enter the Pain Dimension after donning the sensory deprivation equipment, I think I still have it
Did a quick look, nothing stands out as wrong.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
this good? if so:
follow the group. where are we at and where are we going?
Done.Ask your team. And report to the nearest infirmary before you leave. They will have teeth for you.
You get 1454 Omni from the sale.
((Holy Fuck! That's a lot of money! After talking in discord, I've decided what I wanted to spend it on.))
Pay off all loanshark debt (already deducted from inventory).
Go to infirmary. Get the teeth as well as a DNA sample of Summer from infirmary. Request they make an OMNITECH Full Body Bio-prosthetic Clone for me and pay 1000 OMNI for it. Make sure the body has the same fleshwarping powers as the original. Wilfred kept his ghost powers between deaths after all and he's a robot.
Go back to Yagyu. Give my own DNA sample and Summer's. Consent to shock collars, refuse implant due to cyber-phobia (cog copier was the one exception). Accept any text-to-speech earbuds donated to me. Grab a blindfold to put on just in case. And nose plugs.
Attempt to tuck in my blood wings so they aren't a vector for potential mind-control.
"I think it might be wise to buy a few OMNITECH mental purgents."Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
5)Each person is given either a shock collar, shock implant, or lockout switch. These are all then quantum linked to suit coms. They are currently set so that you need at least 3 affirmative votes to activate the shock/lockout. The Quantum link will function regardless of distance or situation, however it has limited uses. Each individual may only vote a total of 10 times before their link expires.((We had kinda changed the idea here, but whatever, this should work. Thanks!))
6) Suits and earbuds provided.
"Can't you turn them back on?"
Giving ya three purgants, 2 sticks and 3 boxes.Quote5)Each person is given either a shock collar, shock implant, or lockout switch. These are all then quantum linked to suit coms. They are currently set so that you need at least 3 affirmative votes to activate the shock/lockout. The Quantum link will function regardless of distance or situation, however it has limited uses. Each individual may only vote a total of 10 times before their link expires.((We had kinda changed the idea here, but whatever, this should work. Thanks!))Quote6) Suits and earbuds provided.
"Alright lads, we got some suits and modified earbuds. For the new guys, let me show you how to use them:"
((So the way we had to do it in the past was adding the following to our character sheet:))Spoiler (click to show/hide)
((And fill in if any of these senses are blocked or altered or not. For example, for Yagyu this becomes: ))Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Any chance the fleshy members of our team could get a mental purgant to help protect them from Friendly?
If possible, grab some boxes or containers and a decent poking stick.
Anyways, ready to go!Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
(Is there a fuller description of the suits?)(They're basically space suits that shut out any kind of sensation. They're sealed environments with cameras for seeing outside that can be fiddled with to reduce their frame rates or turn them off altogether. )
Ready for mission. Do note Summer is not using a sensory suit, or a shock implant, or the radio earbuds. I'll stow them elsewhere.
File a request to be allowed to retain my set of unused mission gear.
Go give one of the squirrel-bots the thermite charge and trip sensor.Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)
Default Bob action: Bite anyone who messes with Tara. Especially Summer~Bob, professional chicken and hand transporter, scuttles along after Tara with his mouth open.
Action for this turn: March all my headless chickens and zombie hands up onto Bob's back for transport. Eat 10 Nutrient pasteSpoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Bob's Business (click to show/hide)
Oh god, we have to enter the pain dimension to kill Derp? Here’s hoping no one messes with thoughtforms making this harder again, and also hope he’s not trying to build another one of those soul gates…Alright, how do we get there?Spoiler: Tara (click to show/hide)
Go to the Experimental Lab and ask the scientists how much I’d need to pay to get a modification to speed up healing/regeneration
Is breifing considered in between missions or is it too late to do this?
Blatantly use toolkit to modify provided QE shock collar into a remote trigger for explosives.[
Or if it's possible, a thrown taser using Explosives skill? And save the QE comm for other uses.Spoiler: explosives "engineer" Kora (click to show/hide)Spoiler: notes (click to show/hide)
"You know, with my pain receptors turned off, I'm not fully sure if the shock collar will actually work on me."You end up just wearing the blindfold, earbuds, and noseplugs.
Attempt to wear an isolation suit over my Omnitech JUMPsuit. If that fails, just put on blindfold, earbuds, and noseplugs.Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
Change of plans, head in with the group. Stick with Yagyu. Have pushbot stick close to me in "watch my back" mode.Alright!
Retroactively get the shock collar/lockout whatever installed, however the version for people with robobodies is called.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
((isn't this game supposed to be a doomclone?))
The Giant Pain elemental takes one look at the team and charges, swinging his hammer overhead and bellowing.
((A friendly sample may have been a very, very bad idea in here, btw. Could have let him track you.))
I'll take a purgant.
Jack sighs "Yep about what I figured." Calmly put on my headbuds and try walking out of the mouth while the brute is distracted murdering my teammembers... unless the mouth leads to a void and or cliff in that case just move out of the way and shoot at his legs some
Jack sighs "Yep about what I figured." Calmly put on my headbuds and try walking out of the mouth while the brute is distracted murdering my teammembers... unless the mouth leads to a void and or cliff in that case just move out of the way and shoot at his legs some
((Don't forget to post your sheet or you'll roll straight d4! D: ))
((Is the 500 Omni for d6 life?, d8? What dice level is it?))(In the armoury you'll find the reactive fabric and it gives you d6 life, I forgot how much it costs.)
Ever notice how most depictions of inside a closed human mouth that people have somehow found themselves in have a giant cavernous appearance, with the roof of the mouth way overhead, the two rows of teeth acting as walls, with the tongue settled low and flat underneath the tooth walls. Cheeks, if seen at all, when the mouth opens, are always well outside the rows of teeth.Note 2 things
Now think about the inside of your own mouth.
Since all our fleshies are wearing isolation suits anyways, pull the pin on the Existential Horror Gas canister and just carry it with me.So you're pulling the pin and just holding the primed grenade and waiting? Just a live grenade in your hand? Ok.
Stay out of trouble.
"Not sure if this stuff does anything here, but it's worth a shot. Maybe in this place it'll find its way back to Derp and hurt him. Fuck Derp."Spoiler: explosives "engineer" Kora (click to show/hide)Spoiler: sensory (click to show/hide)Spoiler: notes (click to show/hide)
(D6)((what d# would the die be?))Spoiler: Tara (click to show/hide)
Run in a random direction hoping I don’t get killed, can’t risk getting controlled, hold out plasma Cutter and attack whatever I bump into
This is the pain dimension, not the real world. Jump up to the "roof" of the mouth, grabbing safely onto the wall, well above wherever we're currently standing. Ignore gravity and leap for some arbitrary point halfway up, concentrating on a weightless, floating sensation, the rush of air from a great leap, and the icky feeling of touching the inside of a mouth with my hands.[1][5]Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Sensory (click to show/hide)
(What exactly is one of those purgants, RC?)
Jack sighs "Yep about what I figured." Calmly put on my headbuds and try walking out of the mouth while the brute is distracted murdering my teammembers... unless the mouth leads to a void and or cliff in that case just move out of the way and shoot at his legs someSpoiler: Jack Blackwater (click to show/hide)
Juke left, while Pushbot goes to the right. Activate my optical camo to hopefully make myself less of a target, or at least be harder to hit.
Both of us start shooting the enemy, me with my microwave gun and pushbot with the generic sidearmSpoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
shoot the elemental. the follow the team.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Wow! You do have big guts! Fuckin' metal!"
Melt his legs and/or arms. Wonder where the fuck we're supposed to go. IfSmoughGutsSmuts is dealt with, head towards the opening of the mouth to take a look around.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)
"Well this is different."
Keep myself and my Robot bros out of the way of that thing's hammer and shoot its legs with my rocket launcher if there isn't a chance of hitting teammates.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)
Take off my blindfold to get a visual on the guy charging me. Then fly away from his reach with my jump jets and zap him with my occult raygun. Aim for the head with those blue glowing eyes.Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
((Just realized I thought about asking for a friendly sample to help track him in this dimension, but then forgot to actually add it to my turn because I am a genius.))
((Assume this was said before we entered here.))
"Alright, our somewhat more benevolent overlords have given us some mental purgants. If any of you fleshlings want one, you can. One per person, and if you don't end up needing it I'd like it back after this... mission? Penitence? Bullshit, after this bullshit."
QuoteThe Giant Pain elemental takes one look at the team and charges, swinging his hammer overhead and bellowing.
Use jets to stay out of reach of the giant.
If the firing distance is rated as long: primary fire cutting laser (1d12), secondary fire ferromagnetic thingie (1d10).
If the firing distance is rated as medium or close: primary fire shotgun, secondary fire other shotgun.
(secondary fire is autonomous targeting system, btw)
Either way, the aim is to blow of the elemental's legs to immobilize it, dead space style. If I can blow off the arms as well that's a nice bonus, but legs have priority.
If giant gets killed by allies and respawns before my action, do above on the fresh giant. Alternatively, if he's dealt with properly, rocket up to the mouth and take a look around (at reduced FPS).Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Light him up with my auto-cannon. If he gets too close, hit him with the Tesla Glove (which I forgot to keep track of, but should be fully charged by now, right?)(yes)Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
“If any of you have some rope, I can tie it up there and let it down for you guys to climb up.” [/color]"I have a harpoon gun, we could fire it at the top and crawl up the rope."
"I have a harpoon gun, we could fire it at the top and crawl up the rope."
((I hope not. I didn't consent to giving one. I also don't need one, this is a very good situation and I'll be highly annoyed if you don't let me take advantage of it.))
"...Isn't it pretty obvious that we should be headed down, not up? Into the belly of the beast, you know. To strike at its heart."
"I dunno. Could be that we're currently inside of Derp's mouth, and going out there and seeing his face would let him control you. Seems like the sort of bullshit that would happen here, right?"
((With some luck we can contact her on the radio, and then she can tell us to leave her alone. As is, she didn't mention to anyone IC'ly she was planning something so it'd be kinda meta to just ignore it I think.))
((I asked, he said it'd require a roll to see if the radio signal got through. So guess we'll see in the coming turn.))((With some luck we can contact her on the radio, and then she can tell us to leave her alone. As is, she didn't mention to anyone IC'ly she was planning something so it'd be kinda meta to just ignore it I think.))
((Gotta find out from PW first. I could see 'encased' allowing this or not allowing that.))
Result: 1d4 (3)
Total: 3
Yes
"Thanks, and it even went better than last time because nobody died. Also you might as well take the harpoon with you since your going up there anyway, no need to risk potential harm."Quote"I have a harpoon gun, we could fire it at the top and crawl up the rope."
"Sure, though I can also just take one end of it with me and attach it somewhere up there, might be easier. Or we can just fly you guys up one by one. Either way, just make sure you don't shoot that thing into me, haha.
Oh, and nice shot by the way."
Quote from: PiecewiseResult: 1d4 (3)
Total: 3
Yes
"This isn't great, but I think I might be able to make the best out of it. Don't get me out, I'm safe, unless we're all leaving.
I'm going to try something, it might take a bit."
"If you want to do me a favor, see if the drones are out there. Could you please take them with you?"
"Thanks, and it even went better than last time because nobody died. Also you might as well take the harpoon with you since your going up there anyway, no need to risk potential harm."Quote"I have a harpoon gun, we could fire it at the top and crawl up the rope."
"Sure, though I can also just take one end of it with me and attach it somewhere up there, might be easier. Or we can just fly you guys up one by one. Either way, just make sure you don't shoot that thing into me, haha.
Oh, and nice shot by the way."
"I'm stuck inside a wall or something. Moved too far. Don't seem to need to breathe or anything, this place is weird."
"It's basically the same as if I put on the suit they handed out, except I can still do stuff."
"All I know is that whatever I'm stuck in isn't part of Mr. Friendly, or I'd be mind controlled."
"I'll get to work. Just be careful not to shoot me, I think this might get pretty weird and I have no idea if the radio will survive. The password is Bork."
"For that rocket launcher, remember I can convert ammo for you. If you need more rockets and have some spare ammo, as long as the value in omni is equal or greater I can take care of it.""Thanks, I'll keep that in mind, not sure if I'll be able to make use of this service anytime soon as I think one rocket is worth more than all my ammo."
"Ed, do you want your drones back? You can use them better than I can. Though if you don't mind, I'd maybe hang onto one just in case it's useful. I'll give it back after the mission.
Oh, and would you mind seeing if you can get into radio contact with Summer? I have no clue where she went, and if this dimension is eating people we need to know, she might be in trouble."
Go pick up the molar hammer (if possible) and give it a few test swings to see if it seems useful.[5]
If the brute remains persistent, blow his last arm off.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
”...Baldwin, don’t do that again or I’m taking your toy away.”You calmly circle around the giant pain elemental, gooping him to the floor. Once he looks pretty solidly encased you jet straight up to the opening of the mouth and grab hold of the edge of one of the incisors. You then stick your head up and very slowly look around with the reduced FPS mode active, effectively taking a panoramic picture of the land beyond. You climb back down and wedge yourself - and one side of the harpoon gun- between two teeth so that you can look over the images from outside.
“I’m gonna go goop our toothfull friend, now none of you finish it off. If any of you could go fetch Tara before she falls into a throat or something, that’d be great. Oh, and did anyone see where Summer went?”
“If any of you have some rope, I can tie it up there and let it down for you guys to climb up.”
Goop painboy to the floor from a safe distance.
Then rocket up to the mouth and peek over the edge to look around. Or deploy a drone to look so as not to expose myself. Either way FPS is reduced, TTS is enabled, the works. Take one end of the harpoon gun with me.
Also collect Summer's stuff that was left behind.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Hell yeah...... Aw fuck I kind of feel like I should of held on to that, oh well at least I hit something this time."Your robot friends don't really have the vocabulary for this place. They were, after all, designed for a children's restaurant. This entire....place is basically the opposite of that.“If any of you have some rope, I can tie it up there and let it down for you guys to climb up.” [/color]"I have a harpoon gun, we could fire it at the top and crawl up the rope."
See how the my robot friends think of this place, also see if I can't get any kind of signal with the smartphone I have.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)
Yeah, stick the gas grenade into mister hammer's mouth before he gets gooped over, so that it gets sealed in there. If Derp gets feedback from these guys in this world, that should fuck him up.You stuff the live grenade in the thing's mouth before it gets gooped. You're not sure what effect it has since the PE was a writhing mass of broken flesh before and after the grenade went off.Spoiler: explosives "engineer" Kora (click to show/hide)Spoiler: sensory (click to show/hide)Spoiler: notes (click to show/hide)
Fly around down low and look for an exit from this valley that is accessible to our ground-bound folk. Or a cave, a mouth should have a throat after all.(Dev says no, so no. Unless you make an action to take it from him by force).
((btw. Piecewise, did Yagyu ever get a copy of Summer's DNA that I publicly took from the Nurse's office, or did you veto that action? It was never clear if you processed that part of my request. It would sure come in handy right now.))Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
"You know I think I seen one of them fancy videogames like this once."Waiting...
Guess ill wait around while the others figure out how to get out of here.
"All I know is that whatever I'm stuck in isn't part of Mr. Friendly, or I'd be mind controlled."[3]
"I'll get to work. Just be careful not to shoot me, I think this might get pretty weird and I have no idea if the radio will survive. The password is Bork."
I can't move or see a way out. But I might be able to change an aspect of myself to free myself.
Imagine a feeling of warmth within my body, deep within. Feel it. Spread the feeling through my body, reaching the outside, warming everything to the outside of my skin and the tips of my hair.
Then, adapt to it. It's still warm, but not uncomfortably warm. I'm used to it, it's part of me, and nothing to be worried about, I'm not feeling hot, I just am hot, that's who I am.
Repeat the process, aiming to increase my body temperature until the flesh around me begins to shrivel or burn.Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Sensory (click to show/hide)
[7]"Ed, do you want your drones back? You can use them better than I can. Though if you don't mind, I'd maybe hang onto one just in case it's useful. I'll give it back after the mission.
Oh, and would you mind seeing if you can get into radio contact with Summer? I have no clue where she went, and if this dimension is eating people we need to know, she might be in trouble."
"Yeah, you keep the third one. That sounds good to me."
Recieve two of my drones back from Yagyu.
Establish radio contact with Summer (if that hasn't been done yet)
Also search the Omniscient network for infomation on this thing we just fought. What it is, where it comes from, special abilities and the like.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
"How much is it for a rocket anyway?""For that rocket launcher, remember I can convert ammo for you. If you need more rockets and have some spare ammo, as long as the value in omni is equal or greater I can take care of it.""Thanks, I'll keep that in mind, not sure if I'll be able to make use of this service anytime soon as I think one rocket is worth more than all my ammo."
"I'm not sure the only one I bought was purchased in Detroit and it cost 6,000 Megabucks, so I'm not sure how much it'd cost in Omni to get another, probably should have looked into that before we left.""How much is it for a rocket anyway?""For that rocket launcher, remember I can convert ammo for you. If you need more rockets and have some spare ammo, as long as the value in omni is equal or greater I can take care of it.""Thanks, I'll keep that in mind, not sure if I'll be able to make use of this service anytime soon as I think one rocket is worth more than all my ammo."
"I'm not sure the only one I bought was purchased in Detroit and it cost 6,000 Megabucks, so I'm not sure how much it'd cost in Omni to get another, probably should have looked into that before we left.""How much is it for a rocket anyway?""For that rocket launcher, remember I can convert ammo for you. If you need more rockets and have some spare ammo, as long as the value in omni is equal or greater I can take care of it.""Thanks, I'll keep that in mind, not sure if I'll be able to make use of this service anytime soon as I think one rocket is worth more than all my ammo.
"So, if this place is dependent on perception, I bet we could get things done easier if we all focused together and decided on the same thing. Could be useful in combat. How about we come up with codes which someone can shout so that we all know what to selectively perceive in a hurry? Slow, Fast, Big, Little?""Ooh, that's a good idea actually, having something ready could save us a lot of trouble. Though maybe we want to test it out on something innocuous first in a 'safe' environment, see if it works and how well. Maybe try to shrink something. Do you think you're up to organizing that? We have some people loitering around so they could help out.
Bob doesn't really metaphor. How is he perceiving the situation?Though Bob is beyond such mammalian restrictions, his teammates are not. Perception shapes reality, even if that perception is not his own.
Try to guess if any changes will carry on outside of the Pain Dimension.[1] You're not certain they're happening now.
Continue with The Hottening. But add an element to it.. shrink myself down some. Do this by feeling some space open up around me as I no longer fill the me-shaped hole.
Don't shrink my hair, though, I might want wings or something if I have to move. Or use it as raw material for a knife or something.Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Sensory (click to show/hide)
Hmm, Do I think this thing will still be wieldable once I leave the pain dimension? Also, could I “shrink” the hammer without altering its damage output?[4] A bit hard to say...but you're not human so maybe. It might not be this easy though.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
"So you got that thing hooked into something up there, I don't want to be stuck inside a giant's mouth longer than we need to be."You find no writing on the walls or floors. You wonder if PE's even have a written language.
use my flash light to look around, and see if there isn't any thing written on the walls or teeth that could help, also stay away from the throat.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)
Take out my Military Grade Electronic Binoculars that I bought from the bizarre and try to stare into the cave. Hopefully these things have a night vision mode or else what's the point of them being electronic?The throat, through the binos and their night vision, drops for quite a while. Though the binos let you see much further, the trachea still extends beyond your sight. If you were to jump in...you'd be falling for a long time.
EDIT: Grab onto the harpoon Yagyu lowered.
((I'll get back to the group once Yagyu shares his findings.))Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
Idly think about saltine crackers[3]Spoiler: Jack Blackwater (click to show/hide)
follow the group and shoot hostiles. while i wait, maybe i find some sweet, sweet, loot?[3]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Recontextualize the mouth we're standing in as being a normal sized human mouth, which would make more sense anyways.
You know what, I probably shouldn't be trying to put my tiny will to that sort of thing, at least not on my own. I'll uh, use the rope for now.Spoiler: explosives "engineer" Kora (click to show/hide)Spoiler: sensory (click to show/hide)Spoiler: notes (click to show/hide)
Yagyu took a moment to look over the footage again, taking in the grotesque imagery and reflecting on how they would have to steel themselves mentally to deal with this and complete their task. Then, he resolved himself to brief his teammates in a succinct and professional manner.Yagyu wedges the harpoon in place so others can climb up and then sits and thinks.
"Bad news, everyone. This place is bullshit."
Wedge the harpoon somewhere between the teeth and let the rope down so people can climb up. Try not to hit any gum though so the big mouth won't respond or clench their teeth.
If this mouth/head starts deforming due to perception shenanigans or otherwise, jet away to avoid getting smashed.
If not, reflect on whether it would be possible to capture the blue flame by thinking it's not a big thing far away but instead a small thing close by and encasing it into a box.
Oh, and stream the images I captured to my teammates.
"I'm letting down the harpoon, ya'll can climb up with that. Or just use some sort of perception trickery to get up here I guess.
Now, our target seems to be above us so we'll have to figure out how to either get there, or get him here. Either way make sure your sensory countermeasures are active when you get up here and look at it.""How much is it for a rocket anyway?""For that rocket launcher, remember I can convert ammo for you. If you need more rockets and have some spare ammo, as long as the value in omni is equal or greater I can take care of it.""Thanks, I'll keep that in mind, not sure if I'll be able to make use of this service anytime soon as I think one rocket is worth more than all my ammo."Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Stop trying to mess with heat for now.[4]
Try to break free by using my presumably increased strength to push at the flesh surrounding me.
If that doesn't work..
More size fuckery. Repeated size fuckery.. try to get bigger, then smaller, then bigger, etc. Alternate. Start with larger, since that actually did something. If I grow bigger, try to use strength to open up some open space in the fleshwall. If I grow smaller, I should now have open space. Either way, I should break free eventually, it's only a matter of time. Keep trying until I break free or size fuckery stops working.Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Sensory (click to show/hide)
Perceive Swamp. Float in wait. Await incentive to remember Frienderp's existence.Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Bob's Business (click to show/hide)
Where's the Doom? The slavering hordes? The brutality and character loss? All I see here is heavily armored vets standing around and using their expensive info-gathering toys! Show me something more PW! Show me your huge guts so that I can blow them to pieces![3]
Otherwise stand around behind armored asses and wait for our fearless leaders to come to a decision.Spoiler: explosives "engineer" Kora (click to show/hide)Spoiler: sensory (click to show/hide)Spoiler: notes (click to show/hide)
stick with Yagyu. Use one of my camera drones to circle around our current position and keep an eye out for trouble.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
i pray a silent prayer to the eldritch gods, following the team.
Use the enviro scanner on the blue flame. Probably will just be gibberish but might as well try.
Using the drone and scanner (and plain looking around), see if I can spot any more signs of Friendly's influence. So far we've only seen the gimp giant and that blue flame overhead. Try to determine if that blue star is the source of the infection or just a symptom.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Be up top with Yagyu. Use the psychometric reconstructor to measure this place's history of death. Do things count as dying here? Or is it really some changing forms mumbo jumbo? Use Subspace Library too, if that would be more appropriate.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Mission Achievements (click to show/hide)
"So how do we get down from here?"
Head up the rope to Yagyu the wait for everyone else to climb up the retrieve the harpoon gun.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)
"Huh neat."
Get up to Yagyus position once up eat some of the metaphysical saltine crackersSpoiler: Jack Blackwater (click to show/hide)
"Yeah I'm out."[1]
Do the peace out symbol then think about how im currently in my security office and how enjoyable it is to watch the team go through near suicidal death missions rather than experiencing them personally myself.Spoiler: Jack Blackwater (click to show/hide)
Activate my force-field. Jump away, out of the path of the bone splinter, diving down with my arms out in front of me. Also cover myself with a pair of large, leathery wings, which I, apparently, now have.[6] Summer, now looking an awful lot like a bat with giant membranous wings instead of arms as well as giant ears and a somewhat warped face, is still mostly buried in meat so she simply tucks her head back in to avoid any conflict. Forcefield is active too. Just in case.Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Sensory (click to show/hide)
"Hey! Bastard! I'M the only bonegod here! FUCK DERP!"[8][9]
Catch the giant chunk of bone with both ghost-god powers and powerful hardsuit arms, spinning it around and throwing it right back at the elemental bastard. If it or something else kills him, trap his soul.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Mission Achievements (click to show/hide)
Use jumpjets to dodge the bone.[9][8][2d10 x 2]
The firing distance seems close, so primary fire shotgun (2d10), secondary fire other shotgun (2d10).
(If the firing distance is rated as long instead, primary fire cutting laser and secondary fire ferromagnetic.)
Either way, the aim is to blow of the elemental's legs to immobilize it, dead space style. If I can blow off the arms as well that's a nice bonus, but legs have priority.
"Don't forget, disable not destroy!"Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
[2]Spoiler (click to show/hide)
shoot elemental. follow team. pray to eldritch gods for magical power.
Duck the bone, then shoot the PE[11][2d8]Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
Go into an explosives frenzy. Explosives are the best, they're all that is, PRAISE WIL FUCK DERP PRAISE WIL FUCK DERP!!!
DO YOU KNOW WHO THE FUCK YOU'RE MESSING WITH!? I AM THE DANGER! ET CETERA!
PAIN DIMENSION DELENDA EST
FUCK DERP
FUCK YOUR BONES
I DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT SUPPLIES IN THE DOOM DIMENSION KILLING THINGS GIVES ME AMMO
I HAVE AN EXPLOSIVES POWERED CHAINSAW AND IM GONNA SAW YOU IN HALF BIG GUY
YOU HAVE HUGE GUTS YOU HAVE HUGE GUTS YOU HAVE HUGE GUTS
PRAISE WIL FUCK DERPSpoiler: explosives "engineer" Kora (click to show/hide)Spoiler: sensory (click to show/hide)Spoiler: notes (click to show/hide)
"Why would you wish for that?"[9][d8]
Get me and my robot friends out of the path of that thing then shoot the gimp.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)
Rocket straight up towards the sky with my Jumpsuit to dodge the cloud. From a mid-air position, fire at the Pain elemental with my occult gun.Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
Need to get tougher.[3]
No, not batlike, dragon-like. Look at the wings around me.. they're growing thicker, becoming covered with bright, shiny scales. Take the itchy feeling of that and spread it to the rest of my body, as I turn into a dragon-like creature, strong and tough, not a fragile bat.
Larger too. Dragons are big and it'd be easier to dig myself out of this if I were only buried up to my knees or something.Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Sensory (click to show/hide)
Drift upward. All shall be swamp. Locate snacks, allied or otherwise. eat snacks.[11]Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Bob's Business (click to show/hide)
"SLOW!"[1]
And they'll stay there, hanging in the air. Still moving, still deadly, but their movement nearly imperceptible (https://youtu.be/Jh2cZKQZ1XA).
Also throw dozens of grenades of various kinds at the gimp.Spoiler: explosives "engineer" Kora (click to show/hide)Spoiler: sensory (click to show/hide)Spoiler: notes (click to show/hide)
"Well shucks."[2]
Eh all of this is only psudo real anyway just imagine a projectile shield then eat some more metaphysical saltine crackersSpoiler: Jack Blackwater (click to show/hide)
Assist in thinking 'slow' at the projectiles to stop them.[4]
If that fails, brace for impact! Be a giant metal ass for those in need.
If we can still attack after all that: primary fire shotgun (2d12), secondary fire other shotgun (2d12).
(Weakness Analysis protocols is at lvl1, "Increase damage dealt by 1 die level", so it's d12)Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
activate my optical camo and stick to Yagyu's back/behind his metal ass. Get him between me and the elemental. Also have pusbot do the same.[5]
If I can't get behind Yagyu in time, activate my personal shield generator for this round.
Then do 2 things:
- Think real hard about these projectiles being soft as cotton candy. I mean, coming from bone fragments means they're white, right? So naturally they'd have the consistency of cotton candy/soft foam.
- If possible without getting out of cover or after waiting for the projectiles to impact, both me and pushbot will attack (OMNITECH Microwave Gun (d6 + d12 tech skill. No use die.) & OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack))Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
I don't see how you are going to goop a head a crocodile swallowed without gooping the crocodile, RC.((I can goop the torso, no? Should at least pin most of the elemental. Kinda think that head is coming off soon anyways. :v))
Force field off. I have the kind that has a use die. Does it need to be rolled in this place?[6] Ya guys couldn't leave well enough alone.
Try to talk the pain elemental.. the one whom I'm inside its giant head. Try to convince it to assist me via its willpower.Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Sensory (click to show/hide)
Cool. I think the elemental is well enough dealt with. Take one of the smiles rifles, and aim it directly up at the giant star of blue flame. Shoot it until it dies.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Mission Achievements (click to show/hide)
(I have returned after being without internet for a week.)
"I don't know if just teleporting that guy over here would be a good idea, we should at least wait until we're out of the mouth before we try that."
Stay with the group be on the look out for hostile things to kill.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)
((This all feels oddly right. But I have Covid right now, so maybe I am delirious.))(Try not to die, please)
Continue dealing with it.Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Bob's Business (click to show/hide)
Primary fire goop thrower, try to pin the elemental to the floor. Try to avoid also pinning Bob if possible, but if not that's ok, we can extract him later.Yagyu sprays goo on the corpse of the Pain Elemental. Well, he tries to. The body rapidly dissolves into a pile of steaming gore. Bob eats the thing's head. The fact that it melts doesn't bother him. Wilfred sprays bullets into the air to seemingly no effect. It doesn't seem to bother him. Burt and Night kind of just stand around, looking for people to follow or demons to shoot. Yagyu is in the middle of squinting up at the blue flame when he notices something. Notices might be the wrong word because it implies he could somehow miss it. And it is very difficult to miss a several hundred meter wide hand sliding through the air above them like a storm cloud and then descending with crushingly slow inevitability. A hand the size of a football stadium is descending towards the face the gavel of heaven. And the team is standing at ground zero for the landing.
Secondary fire shotgun, in case the first one fails and the gimp is still a threat somehow. Still aiming to blow of limbs.
(Weakness Analysis protocols is at lvl2, "Increase damage dealt by 1 die level" and "Gain advantage on to-hit")
If we manage to deal with the threat this turn, then continue doing what I was doing before: using the drone and scanner (and plain looking around), see if I can spot any more signs of Friendly's influence. Try to determine if that blue star is the source of the infection or just a symptom.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
((This all feels oddly right. But I have Covid right now, so maybe I am delirious.))((Damn. :/
Quote((This all feels oddly right. But I have Covid right now, so maybe I am delirious.))((Damn. :/
Get well soon!))
"I am this, this close to gooping you all myself."
Look around for a place I could land that's away from ground zero. And not, y'know, otherwise compromised. Then fly there. If any squishlings want to grab on to hitch a ride, let them. Unless they're too heavy, in which case let one of the other flyboys handle it.
EDIT: make sure all the braindeads are accounted for. Also that Bob is taken.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Quote((This all feels oddly right. But I have Covid right now, so maybe I am delirious.))((Damn. :/
Get well soon!))
"I am this, this close to gooping you all myself."
Look around for a place I could land that's away from ground zero. And not, y'know, otherwise compromised. Then fly there. If any squishlings want to grab on to hitch a ride, let them. If they're too heavy to carry all by myself, let the other flyboys help out.
EDIT: make sure all the braindeads are accounted for. Also that Bob is taken.
EDIT2: If possible this turn, try to think Summer into a better flyer. Immediate evac takes precedence still however.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"God damn it, I hate this place."
Activate my shield generator, then me and my robot friends try to catch a ride with Yagyu, if we can't just run in the same direction he's heading.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)
"Uh-oh. Pushbot, time to skedaddle!"
Grab a hold of Yagyu since I should still be hiding behind him to catch a ride (or any of our other flying teammembers if Yagyu is gone already). Use my octopus suckers to hold onto him.
Tell pushbot to either catch a ride with someone if he can, or just leg it away from the giant incoming hand.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
Quote((This all feels oddly right. But I have Covid right now, so maybe I am delirious.))((Damn. :/
Get well soon!))
"I am this, this close to gooping you all myself."
Look around for a place I could land that's away from ground zero. And not, y'know, otherwise compromised. Then fly there. If any squishlings want to grab on to hitch a ride, let them. Unless they're too heavy, in which case let one of the other flyboys handle it.
EDIT: make sure all the braindeads are accounted for. Also that Bob is taken.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)Spoiler (click to show/hide)
hitch a ride.
Ride along with Yagyu. ((thanks for the encouragement on staying alive and all, guys. I think I'll stick around a little longer after all.))[5][3]Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Bob's Business (click to show/hide)
"Fuck. Sorry."
"Ey, Yagyu, you wanna think me into a better flyer? It'd let you fight without people hanging all over you."
Force Field back on.
Carry as many people as possible and necessary. Fly out of the mouth, trying to evade the giant hand, while keeping close to the body.
Does this giant pain elemental have the blue flame eyes?Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Sensory (click to show/hide)
Get away from the landing site.[6]Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
"Damn. Guess I need to fly closer and hit him with an axe. Anyone got an axe?"[1]
Ah well. Pick up Kora, and anyone else who wants a ride, and fly out of the path of the big hand. Then start flying towards the great big ball of blue fire.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Mission Achievements (click to show/hide)
Rocket away as fast as possible with my Jumpsuit to dodge the hand. Don't return until the hand has been dealt with. Also, remind the GM to update employees of the month[4]Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
Scurry off to the big-elemental's shoulder, pull several tons on tnt from my pack and set it off with a big cartoon style detonator, blowing the gimp's whole arm off much like one would detonate a mountain pass.[2]
"Hey guys! Demolition time! Someone give me a hand with this and don't question what I may have in my pack."Spoiler: explosives "engineer" Kora (click to show/hide)Spoiler: sensory (click to show/hide)Spoiler: notes (click to show/hide)
*shrug*
Don't be dead? If not dead, be very angry.
Be in a limbo of dead or alive due to being forgotten by the narratorJack finds himself standing around on the tooth, uninjured somehow. Its as though he phased out of existence for a few seconds at a very opportune time. Odd.Spoiler: Jack Blackwater (click to show/hide)
There's really only one Bob thing to do at a time like this.[10]
Swim right on up there and bite that hand directly in the hang nail. Death roll the everloving hell outta it.Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Bob's Business (click to show/hide)
If it seems like that hand is coming back for another slap, either on its own or as a result of Bob Bobbing it up: continue sheltering, or retreat deeper into the mouth if it doesn't seem safe here anymore (take my cargo of precious morsels with me).You rocket up, pry the smashed metal cockpit out of the groove in the giant palm, and fly back down. You drop the remnants of the hardsuit onto the tooth and then give it a little kick.
If it seems the coast is clear for now, rocket up to Wil and see if I can carefully peel away the chunk of metal and fly it back down to our medics to see if he can be saved. Try to fly such that I avoid the giant's gaze if possible.
EDIT: if flying up to retrieve Wil seems undoable or too dangerous, try to think the chunk of metal loose so it floats down to us.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Lets give it a try at least." "Maybe we can just sort of revive them from a bit of blood or something. Get it in a syringe and spray it out, and we've got a little Kora there. They did say in the briefing that they didn't even know if we could die properly here."You grab a sample of the smear that used to be....whats her name? Ah whatever.
"We blew up and wrecked and destroyed all kinds of them, last mission, and a new one just walked back in from here. They might even be back at base again, good as new."
Try to retrieve a sample of the blood from the hand. Use the medkit for advantage in recovering a sample. Soak it up with some bandages.Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Sensory (click to show/hide)
"Someone else is gonna have to imagine them alive, as my imagination was never that good.""Safe" is a very subjective thing and it probably won't be "safe" for quite a while. We're gonna assume you stay hidden for the moment, out of uncertainty.
Turn off the shield belt and wait until it's safe to leave cover.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)
*shrug*You kick open the emergency hatch on the ruined suit and climb out. You don't feel too bad but Yagyu is pointing at you with some clear shock. You look down and see that a large metal reinforcing rod from the suit's internal frame has been jammed straight through your sternum. Huh. You poke it. Doesn't even hurt much. You're bleeding but not outrageously. Weird. Actually...this feels kinda good.
Don't be dead? If not dead, be very angry.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Mission Achievements (click to show/hide)
continue sticking to yagyu's back for now. Use my sensor suite to scan around for dangers.You point at Wilfred. In terms of dangers, he's probably the biggest one to the team. In a general sense.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
Avenge my fallen pal Wilfred. Begin rapidly spraying occult bullets from a safe area into that floating hand till it's nothing but Swiss cheese. It's wider than the broad side of a barn. How could I possibly miss?[6]Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
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I KNOW THAT THERE IS LIFE AFTER DEATH, AND I WILL HAUNT YOUSpoiler: explosives "engineer" Kora (click to show/hide)Spoiler: sensory (click to show/hide)Spoiler: notes (click to show/hide)
And the entire finger of bats is falling towards the face. It looks like it will miss the mouth and hit the cheek.
"Okay, so.. I don't think we can die here."
"Okay, so.. I don't think we can die here."
"Sure seems like it. Which means we'll be having to drag Friendo out of here first if we want to deal with him." Yagyu grumbles.
"So how are we gonna get him out? We got a metal box or something?"
Offer the squirrel-bots up to anyone who wants to modify them, either with mechanics or thought-magic.
"Hey, wait.. these pain elementals have all these torture devices. They must know how to restrain things here! I'll go ask them."
[1] The Fragile Darkness screams and bleeds, producing no effect."Okay, so.. I don't think we can die here."
"Sure seems like it. Which means we'll be having to drag Friendo out of here first if we want to deal with him." Yagyu grumbles.
"If we really do have to extract him, then we're going to need an exit strategy of some kind. Last time I checked, command was only gonna let us out after we did the job. Or am I somehow mistaken?
"Regardless, we gotta inform command about the change of plans."
Keep shooting at the giant God-Hand. Aim for the palm.
(I'd join Korra on the iron maiden quest, but there's a more pressing threat.)Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
Get a better view of the surroundings, then use my brain thingum that controls zombies to control some bats. lots of bats. They will be my undead ocean, carrying me along in their current toward whatever looks most Bob, now that I have seen more of the region.[9]Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Bob's Business (click to show/hide)
Jack pats his body a couple of times "...Well then" Jack coughs "Darn metaphysical saltine crackers uhhum anyway I wouldn't push things too hard just cause it appears we cant die don't mean we cant still be made into a comatose vegetable."
Just follow the group while I check my pockets to see if I have any metaphysical saltine crackers leftSpoiler: Jack Blackwater (click to show/hide)
Is there anything left in the wreckage of the hardsuit that could be salvaged, even if just for parts? If yes, and if hauling it isn't too cumbersome, retrieve it, if not just leave it.The suit seems pretty much smashed. There might be a few useful components left inside, but nowhere near enough to drag the entire thing with you.QuoteAnd the entire finger of bats is falling towards the face. It looks like it will miss the mouth and hit the cheek.
Are we in any danger of getting hit by the Batnado? If yes, get out of the way.
If not, using the drone and scanner (and plain looking around), see if I can spot any more signs of Friendly's influence. Try to determine if that blue star is the source of the infection or just a symptom."Okay, so.. I don't think we can die here."
"Sure seems like it. Which means we'll be having to drag Friendo out of here first if we want to deal with him." Yagyu grumbles.
"Welp, at least we didn't lose another team member, suicidally homicidal they may be. Welcome back to the land of the living, Kora! Try better this time 'round not to get pasted, will ya?"Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Oh look at that someone said the magic words and she came back to life."
Leave my safety spot and get back together with the group on the teeth and see how the robot friends are doing.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)
PATROL DIRECTIVES ACTIVE BEEP BOOP.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
follow team and shoot hostiles.
Shoot any bats if they come close and are acting hostile.The only bats that come close are those carrying Bob so you leave them be.Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)
"So how are we gonna get him out? We got a metal box or something?"You offer your bots and get no response as far as actions are concerned.
Offer the squirrel-bots up to anyone who wants to modify them, either with mechanics or thought-magic.
If nobody takes them, take off and look for some pain elemental with an iron maiden or some kinda restraint device.
"Hey, wait.. these pain elementals have all these torture devices. They must know how to restrain things here! I'll go ask them."Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Sensory (click to show/hide)
Use ghost magic to forcibly repair the hardsuit with bones. Then detach from the giant hand and fly up towards Derp's big blue flame while chanting "FUCK DERP FUCK DERP FUCK DERP FUCK DERP" over the team comms, as is tradition.[3]
Also, if part of Wilfred's inventory is now destroyed, please say so (and preferably what exactly is destroyed and what isn't).Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Mission Achievements (click to show/hide)
Okay then, summon a bone golem to rip the hardsuit out of its position, and carry it around for Wilfred. Damn thing costs too much to just leave here.
Then uhhhhh. I dunno, we're supposed to kill Derp, but how do we get up to Derp? Figure out how to kill Derp. Also, drink some more Monkey Pump.
"Aight, I've got a plan. We put him in this cage, and we then pull the cage through a portal back to our home dimension. And we have like a nuke or something waiting for him. Or a dozen robots with giant guns.""Wouldn't it be easier if we just blow him up here instead of risking to take him home where he as more power?"
[4] The blue flame seems to be evidence of the Friendly infection. Those pain elementals who show evidence of it are being actively attacked by those that do not. In fact, now that you actually take time to carefully examine and scan the islands around you, there seems to be a strange sort of war raging between the two. From what you can see....those that are killed by the flaming blue resurrect under the control of that flame.
"Aight, I've got a plan. We put him in this cage, and we then pull the cage through a portal back to our home dimension. And we have like a nuke or something waiting for him. Or a dozen robots with giant guns."
"I'm afraid Summer has the right of it, it really seems we'll have to capture him and drag him back to our realm if those two are anything to go by.""Aight, I've got a plan. We put him in this cage, and we then pull the cage through a portal back to our home dimension. And we have like a nuke or something waiting for him. Or a dozen robots with giant guns.""Wouldn't it be easier if we just blow him up here instead of risking to take him home where he as more power?"
"I'd agree with you, but I don't think we can die here."Damn your probably right."
I mean, Kora was reduced to bloody mist, and she's fine now. Same with Will."
Baldwin, presumably, fires fragile darkness up at the big hand. The shot hits the pointer finger and the entire finger transforms into bats. All of it. Into bats. Tens of thousands or maybe hundreds of thousands of them. They're all clustered together in the shape of the finger...
Give the squirrel bots, the VR headset, and the deadman's switch at Will and Edward
"You can make these into like an awesome bird-bot or something. Just think it big or something. It'll then carry as many people around as you can want."
"Where are you gonna get enough souls to do this portal thing, because if I remember right the thing in Detroit needed quite a few more people then we have here."
"I wonder if there are any maps of this place."Unfortunately no.
Wonder if there are any maps of this place nearby.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)
Okay then, summon a bone golem to rip the hardsuit out of its position, and carry it around for Wilfred. Damn thing costs too much to just leave here.[7]
Then uhhhhh. I dunno, we're supposed to kill Derp, but how do we get up to Derp? Figure out how to kill Derp. Also, drink some more Monkey Pump.Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Mission Achievements (click to show/hide)
"Thank you. I shall use this to rid your home of that parasite."[6,1]
Take the stake, chain, and iron maiden.
Fly back to the main group. Try to grow a bit more, I've got a feeling I'm going to be getting stabbed with a giant iron stake, and I'll need enough flesh to survive that.
"Aight, I've got a plan. We put him in this cage, and we then pull the cage through a portal back to our home dimension. And we have like a nuke or something waiting for him. Or a dozen robots with giant guns."Okay then, summon a bone golem to rip the hardsuit out of its position, and carry it around for Wilfred. Damn thing costs too much to just leave here.
Then uhhhhh. I dunno, we're supposed to kill Derp, but how do we get up to Derp? Figure out how to kill Derp. Also, drink some more Monkey Pump.
Give the squirrel bots, the VR headset, and the deadman's switch at Will and Edward
"You can make these into like an awesome bird-bot or something. Just think it big or something. It'll then carry as many people around as you can want."Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Sensory (click to show/hide)
If Bob recognizes any Derpness in the region of the goreswamp, he'll go an d eat that. Otherwise, he'll just be ready to rend and tear. To be worse than they are. He is the BFGBob arrives in the blood swamp after traveling either a few hundred feet or a few hundred miles. Hard to say. The bats drop him straight into the gore slurry and he spends a few minutes paddling around, looking for signs of derpiness. When he finds none, he does the closest gator equivalent of shrugging and just starts floating around like a very content log.Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Bob's Business (click to show/hide)
[4,9]Quote[4] The blue flame seems to be evidence of the Friendly infection. Those pain elementals who show evidence of it are being actively attacked by those that do not. In fact, now that you actually take time to carefully examine and scan the islands around you, there seems to be a strange sort of war raging between the two. From what you can see....those that are killed by the flaming blue resurrect under the control of that flame.
"Aaaah dammit. Guys, this infection is spreading fast, we need to get a move on before there's too many blue painboys to deal with."Quote"Aight, I've got a plan. We put him in this cage, and we then pull the cage through a portal back to our home dimension. And we have like a nuke or something waiting for him. Or a dozen robots with giant guns."
"Sure, sounds fair enough and that cage could work, but I don't actually think they specified how we are supposed to get out of here and back home? Either way, maybe Korra can rig up some explosives to the cage so that we can quickly blow it up once we're back.""I'm afraid Summer has the right of it, it really seems we'll have to capture him and drag him back to our realm if those two are anything to go by.""Aight, I've got a plan. We put him in this cage, and we then pull the cage through a portal back to our home dimension. And we have like a nuke or something waiting for him. Or a dozen robots with giant guns.""Wouldn't it be easier if we just blow him up here instead of risking to take him home where he as more power?"Can I determine where the source of infected gimps is? Like does it seem the infection is spreading from somewhere specific? So far only the blue star seems like it could be the source, but we haven't really confirmed this yet.
Try flying up towards the blue star overhead a bit and see if it's actually getting closer or if physically moving there won't be possible, what with the warpy distances in here and all that.
Try to remember how we were supposed to get back home. Do we just think ourselves a portal back? Did they give us any instructions at all?
Instead get handsy with Summer. As in, imagine her into having hands, yes, that. And whatever other mods she thinks to need to get the job done.
Make sure she is stripped of weapons first though before trying, in case things go wrong. Also be ready with the modded goop thrower to immobilize her if that happens.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
[1]Give the squirrel bots, the VR headset, and the deadman's switch at Will and Edward
"You can make these into like an awesome bird-bot or something. Just think it big or something. It'll then carry as many people around as you can want."
"Hmm. I'll see what I can do."
Recieve the squirrel bots, vr headset and deadman's switch from Summer. Attempt to kitbash them into some kind of flying robot.
Also keep on sticking to Yagyu. Octo-powers go!Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
[5]"Where are you gonna get enough souls to do this portal thing, because if I remember right the thing in Detroit needed quite a few more people then we have here."
"The thing in Detroit was also massive. It was large enough to allow military vehicle's through, maybe even a giant mech. We don't need to produce something of that scale.
"Frankly, I don't know how many people we'll need to create something capable of letting a few individuals through, but I think it should be at least attempted. Even if we can only send one person, they can pass on some information to command"
Baldwin turns his gaze towards the hand in the sky.
"But first, I need to deal with this fellow once and for all."
Challenge the giant hand to a game of Rock-paper-scissors. Open with Scissors! Cut the hand into ribbons if I win!Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
follow team and shoot hostiles.
Jack munches on yet more metaphysical crackers "Mmmm im still not entirely convinced we cant still get turned into mental vegetables. Mmm man these are good."Waiting for someone to do something. Got it.
Just continue to keep with the group for now.Spoiler: Jack Blackwater (click to show/hide)
/me lands on RC's scan box.
"You ready to take the fight to them? I've got ya the cage, and will be trying to make a portal for the other end."
You're pretty sure that the pain elementals are supposed to set up a portal for you once you finish the job. Assuming any are left...
"Well damn no maps, anyone got any idea of what us guys on the ground can do?"
Try flying up towards the blue star overhead a bit and see if it's actually getting closer or if physically moving there won't be possible, what with the warpy distances in here and all that. Take the iron maiden cage with me.[3]
Also, if I use the biorhythm tracker on one of the blue-flamed painbois in the distance, does it only track that guy or does the tracking extend to the other bluebois?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Well damn no maps, anyone got any idea of what us guys on the ground can do?"You play minesweeper. You'd think you'd have better games in the future but its really just minesweeper.
Sit and play a game on my laptop while I wait for someone to say what the plan is.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)
Well, okay! Jump on top of the bone golem's head, scream "FUCK DERP!", and ride Bonem up towards the blue, to punch Derp in the face.[8]Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Mission Achievements (click to show/hide)
Go with wil and assist in explosives stuff I guessWe'll assume you sit on a golem shoulder and ride up with him.Spoiler: kora sheet (click to show/hide)
Dang. Try to salvage the destroyed squirrel bots into a functional robot of some sort, depending on what's left to work with. If this isn't an auto-fail, use one charge from my toolbox for this process.[7]
Regardless, keep chilling while sticking to Yagyu's back with my optical camo on.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
Take Burt and start sliding down the body's shoulder towards the waterfall of blood. Carry the spike-end of the spike and iron maiden thing with me. The chain is arbritrarily long, after all.Sliding down the body's cheek, I assume you mean. [6] You don't just slide down the face and onto the cheek, you surf the iron maiden straight down into the blood. Its about as you enter the deluge of gore, hanging ten on your iron implement of torture, that you realize you don't know how to stop. The cheek is already quite a steep slope, but the blood has made it even slicker and harder to get footing. And you're sliding through it at quite a pace.Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Sensory (click to show/hide)
Having managed to salvage the bare minimum from the squirrel bots, Ed finally notices that Yagyu is flying.
"Hey uh, chief. Just a reminder that I'm still stuck to you back here. I kinda missed my chance to detach, I was trying to do a thing with these squirrel bots and kinda lost track of things. Try not and shake me off mid-flight, okay?"
"Hmm."
Let me try to get creative here so right now this is the mental mindscape version of how we the collective conscious imagines hell to be like now what does hell have a ton of? Thats right lawyers! Try to mentally summon arulelawyer to help me get out of this situation, and or sue Mr Friend out of existence either or.
"Well I guess it's time to go do something productive."[2]
Imagine a elevator that'll take me to where Summer was wanting to go.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)
The very angry and bloody catgirl standing on top of the bone golem strikes a pose, hands on hips, and grins smugly up at the island. "Not actually that far away, huh? It just keeps getting easier and easier to track you down, bastard. ONWARD, BONEM!"[6]
Command the golem to rise further, see what's atop the island. Scream at the waterfall of bodies that we're here to fuck up Derp, as well as anyone or anything that helps him. Fuck Derp! Fuck Derp! Fuck Derp!Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Mission Achievements (click to show/hide)
Land the spike in the home dimension, using the curtain of blood as the 'door' part of the portal. Pick some place with lots of room that I know well, such as a briefing room or hanger.Twisting the nature of the world here is easier than in the more mundane natural world but still, creating a portal back home of your own accord will be something quite difficult. Especially with only the attention and intent of a single mind.
Or maybe one of the sales pool rooms. They could only be improved by the addition of a curtain of blood.Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Sensory (click to show/hide)
Grab the allegedly cursed rifle "Cold Comfort" from my pack while imagining a Portal Gun. If the produced gun sufficiently infringes upon copyright, fire a shot at the Blue flame and another at the fleshy red wall with the hope of creating a passage between the two. If that fails, try again with the occult gun.[5]
DO NOT WALK THROUGH THE PORTAL! Let a teammate send a camera drone through first.
"If this works, then we should all have passage to the blue flame"Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
Well, keep it up eh.[5]Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Hmm."
Let me try to get creative here so right now this is the mental mindscape version of how we the collective conscious imagines hell to be like now what does hell have a ton of? Thats right lawyers! Try to mentally summon arulelawyer to help me get out of this situation, and or sue Mr Friend out of existence either or.Spoiler: Jack Blackwater (click to show/hide)
"Hmm."
Let me try to get creative here so right now this is the mental mindscape version of how we the collective conscious imagines hell to be like now what does hell have a ton of? Thats right lawyers! Try to mentally summon arulelawyer to help me get out of this situation, and or sue Mr Friend out of existence either or.
Pop into existence, contemplate lawsuits. And extortion.Spoiler: Bearnstein (click to show/hide)
fire a shot at the Blue flame and another at the fleshy red wall with the hope of creating a passage between the two.
DO NOT WALK THROUGH THE PORTAL! Let a teammate send a camera drone through first.
Conjure a pile of lock-on rocket launchers and shoot down the enemy screamingbeams.
Also, enhance the Doom.Spoiler: kora sheet (click to show/hide)
[2]fire a shot at the Blue flame and another at the fleshy red wall with the hope of creating a passage between the two.
DO NOT WALK THROUGH THE PORTAL! Let a teammate send a camera drone through first.
Try to perform the portal shenanigans again. If I succeed, my teammates should be able to follow me through
((Sorry for taking so long, you posted on Canadian Thanksgiving))Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
"Maybe an elevator is to complex, probably need to try something easier."[1][4]
Imagine a car into existence!Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)
Portal![2] NO PORTAL
But no, I still have wings and can fly, so this falling shouldn't be that much of an issue for me. Just hang on to the chain, spread my wings out, and focus!Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Sensory (click to show/hide)
Assuming I saw the bloodlaser shoot past, fly to the other side of the island (while staying underneath it) and peek up to take stock and inspect the blueflame temple in more detail. Hopefully they will be too distracted by the bonem to notice me!As your less subtle teammate engages in a reality bending duel of wills with the megasadist on his floating pleasure gardens in the pain dimension -still a bit hard to believe that's an accurate sentence- you scamper round to the other side and peek up over the edge.
Do all of the frolicking painbois here have the blue flame eyes?Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
"Hahahaha! You really expect that to kill me? Idiot! I already died! And soon, you will too! And then you'll be my pet ghost! Fuck Derp, Bonem!"
Onwards! Nothing will stop our advance! And try to overpower the nature of these pleasure gardens--make them more brutal, lethal, and painful. Surround the lazy pain elementals with traps and attacks, reminding them that they should be screaming in pain while eternally impaled on perpetually exploding bone spikes!Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Mission Achievements (click to show/hide)
Jump down to the sundered garden and start gathering up launchers in one place. This is gonna be good.[1]Spoiler: kora sheet (click to show/hide)
"God damn it."After you get pulled free with a resounding *THUNK* you go inspect the remains of the PTV cruiser. As you'd expect for a car dropped from a great height, it doesn't look great. It isn't as bad as if it landed on concrete but you're pretty sure cars should have 4 wheels and that the engine is supposed to be inside them.
Have my robot friends help me get out of the hole, then go investigate what's left of the car.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)
Give up on portal shenanigans and take the long way instead. By that, I mean fly over there using jumpsuit rocket packs. Leave a portal behind so any teammates can eventually follow maybe?[3]Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
Bob and the Bats drift over to the palace and eat it.[8] Bob opens his mouth and eats the floating island. All of it. At once. Turns out it wasn't giant, it was actually really tiny and close to him.Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Bob's Business (click to show/hide)
Continue sticking to Yagyu's back like the barnacle boy that I am. Keep my optical camo on, as it has been up until now.[2]
Briefly stick my had up over Yagyu's shoulder and have a look at mister friend and his immediate surroundings with my sensor suite, cycling through the various modes. Just to see if I see anything special/noteworthy that way.
Keep my negotiation enhancer on, just in case Mister Friend speaks. Might be useful to know if/when he's lying.
If I can after the previous, use the OMNI-scient Network observer and do a search for what we're seeing here. Meaning the current state of Mister Friend and specifically the sort of shield he has going on.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Try to engage the biorhythm tracker on Friendly to keep track of where he is (hopefully it being only an outline will prevent any mindcontrol, if that is even still relevant).
Then inform teammates of what's going on here over the radio.
Finally, while he is distracted, start sneaking closer. Stop before reaching the edge of where I think the invisible forcefield would be on this side and toss like a single rock or bullet through it to see if it gets stopped. Also try not to be exactly 180° away from Wil and Friendly so I don't get hit by overshooting hatebeams.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
I'm not unconscious, the universe just forgot about me for a second. Now give me my rockets.[6]
Bob now waits to be let out of the pain dimension with his cargo/snack. Or for more food. Either way. Or both. Preferably Both. Bob now waits to be lead out of the pain dimension by offers of more food.Bob Bobs about, waiting for more food. Might be a minute until more food comes. Unless he makes food.Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Bob's Business (click to show/hide)
"Well that sucks, I'm not really good at this whole summoning shit stuff."[4]
See if there was anything interesting inside the car, then see if my robot friends can imagine some way to get us up to that island.Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)
Since my destination has just been eaten by a gator, go back to the ground and send a radio message to my teammates and ask them if they're okay. Then try to see if I can convert my Portal gun portal into a portal back into the real world. TEST it with a drone, not my own person!The island Bob ate isn't the one with all the fighting. [6] The one you're in fact at right now! Right next to Wilfred!
"Uhh, I don't know if I'm just seeing things, but I think the gator just ate the floating island and possibly Mr Friend. Can anyone who was on the island confirm if they're inside the digestive track of an alligator. Anyone!?"Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)
"...Well honestly shouldn't of expected much else. Wait where di- Agh not again!"[4]
Grab my incompetent mind lawyer who is also a bear for some reason and catch up with the current reality where everyone else is at. Also while im at it eat some metaphysical saltine crackers to calm my nerves.Spoiler: Jack Blackwater (click to show/hide)
Help Bob imagine a portal. Grab a rocket launcher, on general principles. Don't go through the portal myself.[3]Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Sensory (click to show/hide)
Use the Ammunition Transmutation forge to turn some of these carbine mags into a big tranq dart that nicely fits into the ferromagnetic accelerator, filled with strong anesthetics. If a big tranq dart isn't possible, make some big flashbangs instead (still for the ferro accelero). Hell, do both if possible in a turn.
While that is chugging along, helpEdwardBarnacle Boy with his summoning wizardry.Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)
Focus real hard and imagine myself holding a tranquilizer rifle loaded with tranq rounds strong enough to put a particularely large elephant to sleep. Just, like, super strong.[3][5]
Do this in an attempt to will such a thing into existence.Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)
Be evasive/defensive while ranting to Derp. An immediate attack isn't needed; rant and build up into a foaming, all consuming rage.[9v4]
"See this, Derp?!" Wilfred shouts, holding his arms out wide, the bone golem below him mimicking the motion. "See ME?"
"I have changed so much since I first heard of you! I've died, over and over again! I've shifted forms! I've become a god! But there has been one thing I have held at my core since I was told of your existence, Derp!"
Wilfred clenches both of his fists together, his cat ears folding back and his sharp teeth gnashing. He visibly vibrates with rage as he screams. "Pain! YOUR pain! I know what you are, a monstrous concept, a virus, a filthy infection! But you know what I am? I am hatred incarnate! Every fiber of my being is dedicated to your pain and suffering! You will scream and writhe! I brought you here--ME!--so that you would suffer the entirety of the torment this world is made from!"
Reach out to the pain dimension. Every part of it. Every mind and sensation in this horrible place. Send a signal, a single clear and pure emotion:
"FUCK YOU, DERP! WRITHE AND DIE IN ABSOLUTE AGONY!"Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Spoiler: Mission Achievements (click to show/hide)
14:54]Radio Controlled: Since we've had 2 rounds of Friendo being in combat (sorta?), are the weakness analysis protocols at lvl 2?
[14:54]Radio Controlled: Like, he's been fighting us with bloodlasers and forcefields and whatnot but not really moving much so dunno if it counts.
[14:55]Mr.Bones: Hmmm
[14:56]Mr.Bones: I'd roll tech or something for that. Because of how mutable this world is
(Can robots imagine?)(I'm not sure I was hoping you'd tell me.)