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Title: Dumped
Post by: Ozarck on June 17, 2022, 10:23:49 pm
You've been dumped. Like so many before you, and like so many will be after. But life goes on, and so shall you.

Probably.

If the drop pod doesn't incinerate in a too-steep descent into atmosphere, or fall too shallow and bounce off the Trash Planet's atmosphere, sending you careening through the star system for centuries or more, alone and cold.

And if the beasts of the Heaps don't devour you, nor the toxic wastes poison you too severely.

Well, at least you are not allergic to water or oxygen, as this planet apparently has both in abundance.

At least, that's what the in-flight instructional audio said. Repeatedly. Most of the rest of the instructions are a bit of a blur in your memory. Or maybe they were rather blurred coming out of the speaker.

The rest of your reminiscence is cut off as your pod hits hard atmosphere, the roar of air burning away the thin protective plating loud in your auditory sensors for what seemed longer than it probably was, before your pod finally slowed enough to drop slowly (by cosmic standards) through the denser low atmosphere. And then, a couple tense minutes as you wait for the race between the parachute and the ground to be decided.

Lucky you, parachute wins, this time. You land with a mere bone jarring thud, rather than the cell shattering splat that might have been. A warning light appears and the warning message is cut off mid sentence by the explosion that sends your pod's hatch hurtling outward. You hear a dull clang - the sound of metal on metal - and immediately after a much louder, sharper clang - the sound of something large and metal rocketing into your drop pod at explosive speeds. Auditory sensors ringing, nauseous, and feeling somewhat heavy, you stagger out of your limited crash chair and peek from your hatch to see several very identical pods nearby. it appears you've landed in an open, sparsely grassed area alongside others who have been dumped.

Spoiler: The Heck? (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Character sheet? (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Fluffe9911 on June 17, 2022, 11:18:48 pm
Ah screw it got nothing but free time hope this one lasts a decent amount of time

Spoiler: Chatters (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Egan_BW on June 17, 2022, 11:52:54 pm
Name: Alice!
Species: Human
Species distinctives: Big stupid skull which kills mothers, graspy thumbs, slow but efficient bipedal run, etc. Some minor additional evolution geared toward surviving in microgravity, which won't help here. Always prepared for the previous war, you know.
Status: Nominal
Quest objectives: Be Alive
Inventory: Prisoner Clothes
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lidku on June 18, 2022, 12:53:55 am
Name: Veron Maldrac
Species: Toad
Species Distinctives: Humanoid fungoid lifeforms that are naturally gifted at construction.
Status: Nominal
Quest: Attempt to contact and rejoin with Mushroom Kingdom Starfleet Navy
Inventory: Mushroom Kingdom Starfighter Helmet, Mushroom Kingdom Starfighter Uniform, Mushroom Kingdom Starfighter Boots, Fire Flower Thermal Pistol
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Devastator on June 18, 2022, 02:26:10 am
Name: Geryon Vagante
Species: Poltergeist
Species Distinctives: Incorporeal creature with natural telekinetic abilities.  Must posess some object to survive for more than a few minutes.  Must occasionally consume objects, rendering them into ash, rust, or other high-entropy forms to regain energy.  Innate radar sense capable of detecting and analyzing nearby objects.
Quest Objective: Form awesome body capable of retaking to the stars.
Inventory: Currently posessing an office chair.
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: King Zultan on June 18, 2022, 02:36:45 am
Name: Debby
Species: Deer person
Species distinctives: Has the body of a human but the head of a deer.
Status: Nominal
Quest objectives: Enjoy this really cheap vacation
Inventory: Casual clothing, Sunglasses, wide brimmed hat, cellphone, camera, suitcase filled with clothing
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Knightwing64 on June 18, 2022, 06:38:01 am
Name: Mr: Zorak

Species: Fifth-Dimensional Imp

Species Distinctives: Fifth-Dimensional Imp’s are incredibly powerful beings capable of warping reality to their whims; from a human viewpoint, they appear to be nearly omnipotent, but there are actually quite a few limits to their abilities which the imps refer to as “The 3 Rules”

1: Imp’s are never allowed to say their name backwards or they’ll get banished.

2: their powers have limits. (Decided by GM)

3: They always appear as a small humanoid male wearing a bowler hat.

Status: Nominal

Quest: Have fun and mess with people.

Inventory: Bowler Hat, fashionable clothes and a glowing crystal.
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lenglon on June 18, 2022, 09:01:31 am
Interested but exhausted because all-nighter. will follow-up after some rest. Might try to play Gwyn again? not going to hard-commit to that because tired me isn't allowed to make decisions.
I want in though!
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Ozarck on June 18, 2022, 10:19:50 pm
As per usual, it will help the GM remember your character if your sheet is posted in a spoiler with your actions.

The first thing you all notice is the smell. Except the poltergeist, which only really notices that it is a chair, and that the pod seems to have settled down, and that there is an outside.
As for the rest of you, the sulfur stink of rotten eggs is unpleasant at best, mildly revolting at worst. Might want to consider resolving that issue.

The second thing you guys notice is the very brightly glowing objects following your own planetfall trajectory rather alarmingly closely. There are possibly more than one latecomer soon to join your party, perhaps rather vigorously!

Ah screw it got nothing but free time hope this one lasts a decent amount of time

Spoiler: Chatters (click to show/hide)
You squint a lot and shy back into your pod. It's bright out there, yo. Landed on the sun side of the planet, apparently.

Name: Alice!
Species: Human
Species distinctives: Big stupid skull which kills mothers, graspy thumbs, slow but efficient bipedal run, etc. Some minor additional evolution geared toward surviving in microgravity, which won't help here. Always prepared for the previous war, you know.
Status: Nominal
Quest objectives: Be Alive
Inventory: Prisoner Clothes
Alice and her big, stupid, matricidal skull have achieved their first objective: be alive! Yep, definitely alive. As a reward, your ration pack and emergency kit are both actually functional! put those in inventory, I'm sure they'll come in handy. Also a flare gun, with flares, assuming you want anything on this planet to know where you are, ever.

Name: Veron Maldrac
Species: Toad
Species Distinctives: Humanoid fungoid lifeforms that are naturally gifted at construction.
Status: Nominal
Quest: Attempt to contact and rejoin with Mushroom Kingdom Starfleet Navy
Inventory: Mushroom Kingdom Starfighter Helmet, Mushroom Kingdom Starfighter Uniform, Mushroom Kingdom Starfighter Boots, Fire Flower Thermal Pistol
If that uniform/helmet combo were meant to be a sealed environment, something is clearly wrong, as environmental smells and sounds are leaking in pretty easily

Name: Geryon Vagante
Species: Poltergeist
Species Distinctives: Incorporeal creature with natural telekinetic abilities.  Must posess some object to survive for more than a few minutes.  Must occasionally consume objects, rendering them into ash, rust, or other high-entropy forms to regain energy.  Innate radar sense capable of detecting and analyzing nearby objects.
Quest Objective: Form awesome body capable of retaking to the stars.
Inventory: Currently posessing an office chair.
A wheeled office chair, I assume?

Name: Debby
Species: Deer person
Species distinctives: Has the body of a human but the head of a deer.
Status: Nominal
Quest objectives: Enjoy this really cheap vacation
Inventory: Casual clothing, Sunglasses, wide brimmed hat, cellphone, camera, suitcase filled with clothing
You are thankful for the sunglases and hat: it's pretty bright and fairly hot out there. You wonder if you remembered to pack sunscreen. Or bug spray. or antiradiation pills. Or a spare can of air.
You have your first objective! Name that reference! No penalty for failure. Reward: sunscreen, bug spray, antirad pills, and a can of air.


Name: Mr: Zorak

Species: Fifth-Dimensional Imp

Species Distinctives: Fifth-Dimensional Imp’s are incredibly powerful beings capable of warping reality to their whims; from a human viewpoint, they appear to be nearly omnipotent, but there are actually quite a few limits to their abilities which the imps refer to as “The 3 Rules”

1: Imp’s are never allowed to say their name backwards or they’ll get banished.

2: their powers have limits. (Decided by GM)

3: They always appear as a small humanoid male wearing a bowler hat.

Status: Nominal

Quest: Have fun and mess with people.

Inventory: Bowler Hat, fashionable clothes and a glowing crystal.
Getting banished sure is irritating. And you can't return for a year and a day, no less! Why did you even try that rhyming game after that many Zaphodian Vodkas? Well, at least these ... people ... look relatively amusing. Might not be too boring a year, if they stay alive, or if you find more like them. You idly wonder if there ARE more like them.

Interested but exhausted because all-nighter. will follow-up after some rest. Might try to play Gwyn again? not going to hard-commit to that because tired me isn't allowed to make decisions.
I want in though!
You'll arrive on the second wave of dropships, along with any others who still want to join. Welcoem to teh shi ... errr, Ozshow!
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Egan_BW on June 18, 2022, 10:34:44 pm
"Hey look, I have supplies. Really, that seems like it represents a shocking amount of effort paid towards keeping me alive, together with the sealed can and the parachute. Are the rest of you alive as well?"

Use senses to detect the source of bad smell, and large brain to determine if it is a threat to my safety, and if so whether it could be neutralized by shooting a flare into it.

As a secondary matter, use senses and brain to determine an ETA for the late wave of pods, and where they're likely to land so that I may avoid being scooshed.


Spoiler: Alice! (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: SuperDino85 on June 18, 2022, 11:39:34 pm
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lenglon on June 19, 2022, 12:22:10 am
Alternate:
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Egan_BW on June 19, 2022, 12:34:09 am
man, that game was complicated
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Devastator on June 19, 2022, 01:59:45 am
A wheeled office chair, I assume?

((Yeah, sounds good, although I was thinking the poltergeist could make stuff levitate, too.  I figure if a human could lift something, so can the Poltergeist.))

Roll outside and see what I landed in!  Flick any levers or buttons needed to open the door.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lenglon on June 19, 2022, 03:09:00 am
man, that game was complicated
facts :P I like complicated though. It is kinda funny how complicated even the super-condensed version I put here was.
by the way, I don't know what happened to the discord for that game, so I actually don't have a lot of the PM'd stuff anymore (and it's been long enough I forgot most of it).
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lidku on June 19, 2022, 03:46:42 am
"Well, hello everyone.." Veron said somewhat wary, seeing all the unique, but possibly dangerous lifeforms that have crashed in the same area all around him.

Also, while Veron knew he has crashed on a Trash Planet, he found it strange that the aromas here were strong enough to bypass his helmet environmental protections. Or was his helmet damaged? Veron would have to do field inspections and repairs of all his equipment later.

After that small greeting- a greeting Veron wasn't even sure everyone had heard, Veron would tap the comm button on the right side of his helmet, trying to contact Mushroom Fleet CIVV. He hopes that his fleet was victorious against the Bowser Imperium. Veron was fighting two star systems over, close to where this planet is in, but had to eject from his starfighter after receiving critical damage from anti-fighter emplacements on a destroyer he was targeting.

(LOL! I just read SuperDino85's sheet and realized he's Bowser!)

Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: King Zultan on June 19, 2022, 04:02:19 am
(Sorry I'm at a loss for what the reference could be, but I would like to know what it is.)

"Hello I'm Debby and this place looks nothing like what the brochure described and it said nothing about being put into a pod thing and shot out of a spaceship, I have a feeling I was taken advantage of and this isn't the vacation I spent my savings on, also should we be concerned about the smell?"
Search the inside of the pod thing and see if there's anything useful inside and after that see how hard it would be to pull the parachute off this thing.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lidku on June 19, 2022, 04:08:13 am
(Sorry I'm at a loss for what the reference could be, but I would like to know what it is.)

Spoiler: Space Bowser (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: King Zultan on June 19, 2022, 05:08:18 am
You have your first objective! Name that reference! No penalty for failure. Reward: sunscreen, bug spray, antirad pills, and a can of air.
This is what I was referring to, I did get the Bowser reference.
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lidku on June 19, 2022, 05:22:22 am
Oh.

lol
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Knightwing64 on June 19, 2022, 06:16:40 am
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

“OOOOHHHHH BOY! Look at all these new faces!

Now, before I get to know you guys, it’s hot and I just got banished, terrible experience by the way, it’s like somebody puts your whole body in a small suit case and punts it super hard. Kinda PTSD inducing, so I’m just gonna chillax for a bit first, alright?”

Snap fingers and make a luxury villa. Walk inside and relaxxxxxxxxxx
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Egan_BW on June 19, 2022, 12:10:41 pm
(Sorry I'm at a loss for what the reference could be, but I would like to know what it is.)
Can of air makes me think Spaceballs. If I'm right can I have the items? :3
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Egan_BW on June 19, 2022, 12:14:10 pm
"Oh, uh, hello. I'm Alice! With the exclamation point, very important."
Alice! waves at Veron, Debby, and Zorak in turn.

"You all speak Space-English? I didn't think- oh well, let's work together! We all probably need food and water, right?"
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lidku on June 19, 2022, 12:35:21 pm
"Yes, finding a source of consumables will be a must until help arrives." Veron stated, looking up at the sky.

Veron brought his head back down. Looking at Alice! and then at Tanya, Veron notices that both of them were wearing prison jumpsuits.

"Are you two.. escaped convicts?" Veron asked with a line of cautionary suspicion, "You're both not prisoners from the Mushroom Kingdom, are you?"

Spoiler: Veron Maldrac (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Knightwing64 on June 19, 2022, 12:39:02 pm
"Oh, uh, hello. I'm Alice! With the exclamation point, very important."
Alice! waves at Veron, Debby, and Zorak in turn.

"You all speak Space-English? I didn't think- oh well, let's work together! We all probably need food and water, right?"

“heh, space English. Mammals always come up with the cutest terms.”
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Egan_BW on June 19, 2022, 12:51:43 pm
"Yes, finding a source of consumables will be a must until help arrives." Veron stated, looking up at the sky.

Veron brought his head back down. Looking at Alice! and then at Tanya, Veron notices that both of them were wearing prison jumpsuits.

"Are you two.. escaped convicts?" Veron asked with a line of cautionary suspicion, "You're both not prisoners from the Mushroom Kingdom, are you?"


((Tanya isn't here yet, she'll arrive with the next wave of pods.))

"Wha- Mushroom kingdom? Like in Space-Mario? No, I was dumped here by the UWM."
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Egan_BW on June 19, 2022, 02:28:53 pm
((grumbling, now Leng has me wanting to run off and start P&&&P, now with a presumably wiser setup. Of course I'd want to pursue my 'glory days' of... 4 years ago, though surely 2018 was only 2 years ago, right?

Now considering that it would make sense to have a setup which is 1 mech vs 1 mage, with more players being normal soldiers with less complicated abilities. It'd be easier, and make some sense in terms of in-world tactics, a squad with one elite unit leading it. But maybe it wouldn't be so attractive to players if only two get to use the cool toys... mmh.))
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lenglon on June 19, 2022, 02:45:13 pm
((The trick to that is to focus on the normal soldiers for a while in design and make sure that they're highly interesting and fun. Like, design the game where the mech and the mage could both be NPCs and the gameplay would still be interesting. Maybe make it so that normal soldiers can EVENTUALLY get promoted to mech/mage? like, they save up for many encounters (3+) and then can get the cool toys? for example remember how people could get battlesuits or fancy amps or other toys in ER?))

((I now have a conundrum though, because if you actually did reboot P&P then I'd want to re-use Tanya, which means I should be submitting a different character sheet to this game. I DO have the time though and Tanya hasn't dropped quite yet... *begins working quickly* )
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Fluffe9911 on June 19, 2022, 02:54:09 pm
Chatters looks outside instantly feels nauseous and skitters back into the pod "Grrrr sky light make me puke sick! Will stay rest bit longer in pod borrow thing yes yes?"
Chatters shall stay rest in pod thing bit longer very nice good!

Spoiler: Chatters (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Egan_BW on June 19, 2022, 03:01:55 pm

((I now have a conundrum though, because if you actually did reboot P&P then I'd want to re-use Tanya, which means I should be submitting a different character sheet to this game. I DO have the time though and Tanya hasn't dropped quite yet... *begins working quickly* )

((Presenting me with an equal and opposite conundrum since I want to see Tanya in a game again, and I don't know if I'll actually restart P&P, thus you dropping in this game gives me a time limit to decide... huh 🤔))
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lenglon on June 19, 2022, 03:52:21 pm
Alternate Charsheet added.
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Ozarck on June 19, 2022, 04:04:57 pm
Well, all the landed characters have posted, sop let's see who gets squished by the latecomers!
(3)(5) whose pod ...(2) second posted character.
And also who gets affected by the smell!

Also, I'd like to remind you all ... so remind you I shall, right now: I like to put events that affect the whole squad at the bottom of the turns, so please remember to read the top portion and the bottom portion at least. Doesn't hurt to read each other's action outcomes either.

"Hey look, I have supplies. Really, that seems like it represents a shocking amount of effort paid towards keeping me alive, together with the sealed can and the parachute. Are the rest of you alive as well?"

Use senses to detect the source of bad smell, and large brain to determine if it is a threat to my safety, and if so whether it could be neutralized by shooting a flare into it.

As a secondary matter, use senses and brain to determine an ETA for the late wave of pods, and where they're likely to land so that I may avoid being scooshed.


Spoiler: Alice! (click to show/hide)
(3) The smell is nauseating. Not an immediate threat to life, but it could be? Or maybe the whole planet just stinks. It's coming from ... well, there's no wind, so it's local. Maybe one of your pods landed in it? as you ponder this, you glance at your pod, then up at the sky, at the bottom end of an incoming pod! (5) You terror dive-roll out of the way as the pod crashes heavily into your own pod, denting it pretty heavily and sending it tumbling through the makeshift camp. Now for the smell: (3) you lay there, adrenaline pumping, stomach lurching. You try to catch your breaht but it makes you want to heave, which makes you not want to breathe.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Your pod settles to the ground with a dull thump, and the door violently explodes outward (1) (3) , leaving your ears ringing. (the rolls are to determine if the door hit anyone, and who. I rolled based on order of character creation)

Your pod lands violently with a wild clang, listing heavily sideways and rattling [character TBD?] like those beans inside a maraca. (2) The pod eventually ends up door down, which is inconvenient when the door explodes "outward" into hard earth, sending a shockwave back into the pod, popping your eardrums and leaving you nauseated (or equivalent if you do swap characters before official introduction - the bundle of kittens is approved, by the way). you can already tell - this planet sucks. You have the status: slightly deaf, until your eardrums heal. For the sake of gameplay, I'll assume they heal over time and will roll a d6 each turn until I hit a 5.

A wheeled office chair, I assume?

((Yeah, sounds good, although I was thinking the poltergeist could make stuff levitate, too.  I figure if a human could lift something, so can the Poltergeist.))

Roll outside and see what I landed in!  Flick any levers or buttons needed to open the door.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
The wheels are less for locomotion, since I assumed you could levitated objects at least of that size, and more for opportunity for squeakiness. You roll outside and (6) a tumbling pod bounces right over your chair back, careening off your pod, sending your pod rolling down a slight incline. It keeps rolling, then bounces, then lands with a loud, splattery plop! Then it begins to sink.

You landed in chaos. Figuratively speaking.

"Well, hello everyone.." Veron said somewhat wary, seeing all the unique, but possibly dangerous lifeforms that have crashed in the same area all around him.

Also, while Veron knew he has crashed on a Trash Planet, he found it strange that the aromas here were strong enough to bypass his helmet environmental protections. Or was his helmet damaged? Veron would have to do field inspections and repairs of all his equipment later.

After that small greeting- a greeting Veron wasn't even sure everyone had heard, Veron would tap the comm button on the right side of his helmet, trying to contact Mushroom Fleet CIVV. He hopes that his fleet was victorious against the Bowser Imperium. Veron was fighting two star systems over, close to where this planet is in, but had to eject from his starfighter after receiving critical damage from anti-fighter emplacements on a destroyer he was targeting.

(LOL! I just read SuperDino85's sheet and realized he's Bowser!)

You attempt to reach your squad comm center, but all you get are 1) some kind of announcement about trash, and quarantine protocols, 2) the loud clanging and banging of terrible things happening in your immediate vicinity, and 3) a pod door to the face (3) your helmet protects you from brain injury, but you are thrown vigorously across the small clearing, and itno the side of another pod. You feel something break. some bone equivalent. You have the status "wounded: fracture." Your helmet is damaged beyond repair, and you are very disoriented and in pain. Also: (3) your brain is filled with the nasty sulfur smell. It makes everything even worse.

(Sorry I'm at a loss for what the reference could be, but I would like to know what it is.)

"Hello I'm Debby and this place looks nothing like what the brochure described and it said nothing about being put into a pod thing and shot out of a spaceship, I have a feeling I was taken advantage of and this isn't the vacation I spent my savings on, also should we be concerned about the smell?"
Search the inside of the pod thing and see if there's anything useful inside and after that see how hard it would be to pull the parachute off this thing.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
(2) sadly no, not even a single can of air. Fortunately, you avoid all the commotion outside, which is quite loud. (1) unfortunately, the sulfur smell intensifies, and you double over, vomiting. You have the status: nauseated, until you can be clear of the smell. As for the reference, Egan got it correct: Spaceballs. You'll have to check on the parachute when you can control your nausea.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

“OOOOHHHHH BOY! Look at all these new faces!

Now, before I get to know you guys, it’s hot and I just got banished, terrible experience by the way, it’s like somebody puts your whole body in a small suit case and punts it super hard. Kinda PTSD inducing, so I’m just gonna chillax for a bit first, alright?”

Snap fingers and make a luxury villa. Walk inside and relaxxxxxxxxxx
(4) you snap your fingers, and your pod gets a window with awning and shutter, a little porch with a rocking chair taking up the bulk of it, a small stone garden out back with a little trickle of water making a halfhearted attempt as a fountain, complete with muddy basin, and a cushioned seat inside next to the window. (1) no toilet, so, moments after you settle into the little chair, you lurch back outside to vomit. You have the status: nauseated, until you can be clear of the smell.

(Sorry I'm at a loss for what the reference could be, but I would like to know what it is.)
Can of air makes me think Spaceballs. If I'm right can I have the items? :3
That is the reference, you may have one (1) of the items, since it wasn't your quest.
...
want me to reprise my character from PnP, too~?

Chatters looks outside instantly feels nauseous and skitters back into the pod "Grrrr sky light make me puke sick! Will stay rest bit longer in pod borrow thing yes yes?"
Chatters shall stay rest in pod thing bit longer very nice good!

Spoiler: Chatters (click to show/hide)
Staying inside was probably for the best, what with the crash landing and all the stink. But it stinks in here too: (5) but not worse than you are used to.


Group status:
landed. stinky. sunny. A bit of a mess, thanks to the latecomers arrival in style.
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Egan_BW on June 19, 2022, 04:21:27 pm
I'll take a can of air, please. And crack it open quickly.

While the freshness lasts, use the Emergency Kit to set Veron's fracture.
Screw that, I'm not getting involved. Just go away from the smell with the deer person.

Do you mean reprise your P&P character in this game, or in P&&&P? Either way, I don't care. Was considering an anti-arcane field support gadget anyways.


Spoiler: Alice! (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Devastator on June 19, 2022, 04:24:55 pm
Go float towards the soft stuff and my sinking pod.  What sort of place did we land in?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Knightwing64 on June 19, 2022, 04:25:35 pm
Refrain from talking much due to the terrible smell, snap fingers and clear away the bad smells. Maybe conjure up some air fresheners?
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lenglon on June 19, 2022, 06:37:07 pm
I look around, attempting to get all of me out of this pod and to get away from this smell

Spoiler: Kit (click to show/hide)

In an alternate universe: ((This'll be the only turn I'll keep things divided like this. I want to give Egan some time to think before I commit. I would enjoy playing either character.))

I check on Rose and make sure she's okay, then attempt to work my way out of this pod. Is the door still pointed down?

Spoiler: Tanya Xelcarostia (click to show/hide)

Going with Kit
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lidku on June 19, 2022, 07:55:42 pm
Veron balked and loudly cursed as he flew from the hit from the pod door. Seconds after crashing on another pod door, Veron hurriedly takes off his ruined helmet. It would be dangerous if any broken helmet fragments injured his head further. Veron is further heavily disturbed by strange sulfur-like smell permeating his immediate vicinity.

He clutched his head as disorientation began setting in. Veron looked up from his sitting-leaned position on the pod and saw Alice! was approaching him to help him with an emergency kit in hand. He could only give a wordless nod as he sat down in grumbling pain.

Spoiler: Veron Maldrac (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: SuperDino85 on June 19, 2022, 09:04:48 pm
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Exit the pod with some degree of caution and take a good look around
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Radio Controlled on June 19, 2022, 09:47:53 pm
PTW!!

((grumbling, now Leng has me wanting to run off and start P&&&P, now with a presumably wiser setup. Of course I'd want to pursue my 'glory days' of... 4 years ago, though surely 2018 was only 2 years ago, right?
Now considering that it would make sense to have a setup which is 1 mech vs 1 mage, with more players being normal soldiers with less complicated abilities. It'd be easier, and make some sense in terms of in-world tactics, a squad with one elite unit leading it. But maybe it wouldn't be so attractive to players if only two get to use the cool toys... mmh.))
((I mean I played a mook in Pandas&Protocols 1 and it was great!))
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lidku on June 19, 2022, 10:10:12 pm
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Exit the pod with some degree of caution and take a good look around


Even with being heavily disoriented, Veron still had some semblance of perceptionatory cognition.

"Y-you're.." Veron started at shakily, "..Emperor Bowser!" He yelled out loudly.

Despite his welling disorientation, Veron unholstered and aimed his Fire Flower Thermal Pistol at Bowser. "Your capture would mean the end of the war!" Veron yelled. "Emperor Bowser, surrender now!" Veron continued to yell, but this time with an iron determination.

Spoiler: Veron Maldrac (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Egan_BW on June 20, 2022, 12:26:30 am
"Please don't fight."
That's all the canned air Alice! feels like blowing on stating something which seems like it should be blindingly obvious.
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: SuperDino85 on June 20, 2022, 12:59:06 am
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Exit the pod with some degree of caution and take a good look around


Even with being heavily disoriented, Veron still had some semblance of perceptionatory cognition.

"Y-you're.." Veron started at shakily, "..Emperor Bowser!" He yelled out loudly.

Despite his welling disorientation, Veron unholstered and aimed his Fire Flower Thermal Pistol at Bowser. "Your capture would mean the end of the war!" Veron yelled. "Emperor Bowser, surrender now!" Veron continued to yell, but this time with an iron determination.

Spoiler: Veron Maldrac (click to show/hide)

Bowser stares at the injured toad for a moment before speaking.
”You don’t look to good, pal. You sure you should be trying that by yourself in your current condition? What’s with the getup anyway?”
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Fluffe9911 on June 20, 2022, 01:00:32 am
Chatters sniffs around then shrugs "Well not leave going anytime soon! Commense observe look around pod hovel thing I shall shall!"

Observe look around pod hovel thing.

Spoiler: Chatters (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: King Zultan on June 20, 2022, 03:56:33 am
Egan got it correct: Spaceballs.
(Dang I had a feeling that the answer would make me feel dumb, especially since it wasn't that long ago that I watched that movie.)

"Oh shit the air is awful I gotta get away from it, I hate this planet!"
Try to find somewhere near the pods that has breathable air, also look around and try to see what's near us besides the pods we landed in.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lidku on June 20, 2022, 04:48:14 am
Quote from: SuperDino85
Bowser stares at the injured toad for a moment before speaking.
”You don’t look to good, pal. You sure you should be trying that by yourself in your current condition? What’s with the getup anyway?”

Veron huffed through the pain of his fracture, his hand still gripped tightly on his Fire Flower Thermal Pistol.

"I am Veron Maldrac, Starman 1st Class of the Mushroom Kingdom Starfleet Navy!" Veron reveals to Bowser, "Your Empire is in a state of aggressional war against the Mushroom Kingdom!" Veron yelled resolutely. "I ask that you surrender Emperor Bowser!"

Spoiler: Veron Maldrac (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Knightwing64 on June 20, 2022, 06:17:09 am
“Ooooooo, Drama!”
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: SuperDino85 on June 20, 2022, 09:59:00 am

Veron huffed through the pain of his fracture, his hand still gripped tightly on his Fire Flower Thermal Pistol.

"I am Veron Maldrac, Starman 1st Class of the Mushroom Kingdom Starfleet Navy!" Veron reveals to Bowser, "Your Empire is in a state of aggressional war against the Mushroom Kingdom!" Veron yelled resolutely. "I ask that you surrender Emperor Bowser!"

Spoiler: Veron Maldrac (click to show/hide)

Bowser chuckles
”Your courage is priceless. I can only imagine the pain you’re in trying to hold that thing up right now. But usually Mario is the one to throw me to next week and save the princess. Where’s he at?”
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lidku on June 20, 2022, 11:01:02 am
Bowser chuckles
”Your courage is priceless. I can only imagine the pain you’re in trying to hold that thing up right now. But usually Mario is the one to throw me to next week and save the princess. Where’s he at?”

"Grand Admiral Mario is still in command, managing the Starfleet Naval war effort against your Empire." Veron replied plainly. Coughing up a little in pain, Veron narrowly shakes it off, steeling himself further. "Now it's my turn to interrogate you, Emperor Bowser." He said with a surprisingly neutral tone.

"How did you possibly get here? Was your flagship in the battle a few star systems away from this planet? Was it shot down?"

Spoiler: Veron Maldrac (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lenglon on June 20, 2022, 07:32:31 pm
split-universe situation resolved, am going with Kit, and action post is edited.
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: King Zultan on June 21, 2022, 02:42:45 am
"There are more important things to worry about then pointing guns at people you don't like."
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lidku on June 21, 2022, 03:14:48 am
"This tyrant has killed trillions in his quest for expansion!" Veron yelled. "If he is stopped here, then the war ends!"

A sudden wrack of pain clubbed at the head of Veron. All the strenuous tone speaking had finally gotten to him. He was in no real means to do anything major at the moment, no matter how much he wanted to deny so. Slowly, but with great regret as Veron did so, lowered his Fire Flower Thermal Pistol back into its pistol sheath.

He angled his pained head toward Debby. "You're right.. but only for now." Veron relayed to them. He turned, straining his head back to give Bowser a wary look. "But once I get better, you're coming under my custody."

Spoiler: Veron Maldrac (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: SuperDino85 on June 21, 2022, 01:01:16 pm
"This tyrant has killed trillions in his quest for expansion!" Veron yelled. "If he is stopped here, then the war ends!"

A sudden wrack of pain clubbed at the head of Veron. All the strenuous tone speaking had finally gotten to him. He was in no real means to do anything major at the moment, no matter how much he wanted to deny so. Slowly, but with great regret as Veron did so, lowered his Fire Flower Thermal Pistol back into its pistol sheath.

He angled his pained head toward Debby. "You're right.. but only for now." Veron relayed to them. He turned, straining his head back to give Bowser a wary look. "But once I get better, you're coming under my custody."

Spoiler: Veron Maldrac (click to show/hide)

Bowser smiled at the toad.
”Oh don’t worry, I’ll give you a fair chance at trying to capture me just for the occasion. Bwahahaha!”
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Egan_BW on June 21, 2022, 01:21:02 pm
"None of you two's petty border conflict will matter to us if we die here. Now shut up and work together."
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Knightwing64 on June 21, 2022, 01:55:01 pm
“Hating someone for killing trillions is petty to you? Wow, cold…


Eh, I don’t care. Wanna play tag?”
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: SuperDino85 on June 21, 2022, 04:10:41 pm
”So I committed genocides. So what? I got people to protect you know!”

Bowser angrily stomps away a few yards.
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lenglon on June 21, 2022, 04:15:15 pm
((I'm looking forward to no longer being trapped in my pod so that I can interact))
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Devastator on June 21, 2022, 04:24:01 pm
((If you end up stuck after the next turn I'll help out.  Can help flip you over or something.))
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lenglon on June 21, 2022, 05:38:44 pm
((If you end up stuck after the next turn I'll help out.  Can help flip you over or something.))
((Thanks!))
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Ozarck on June 21, 2022, 11:20:10 pm
I'll take a can of air, please. And crack it open quickly.

While the freshness lasts, use the Emergency Kit to set Veron's fracture.
Screw that, I'm not getting involved. Just go away from the smell with the deer person.

Do you mean reprise your P&P character in this game, or in P&&&P? Either way, I don't care. Was considering an anti-arcane field support gadget anyways.


Spoiler: Alice! (click to show/hide)
The can of air clears your lungs, long enough for you to stumble a couple dozen yards away from the landing zone. (1) You step onto what looks like solid, dry, cracked ground and turns out to be the cracked surface layer of a three foot deep bog. Good news is, you know know what is causing the smell. Bad news is, you are wearing a lot of it, right up to your waist.

((no, I didn't really mean either of those. It was a mild attempt at horror humor, since it went so~~~ well~~ that time. just ignore it))

Go float towards the soft stuff and my sinking pod.  What sort of place did we land in?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
You landed in a relatively open place, and - as your fellow dumpee has discovered - right next to a bit of a muddy bog. Which is where you are going. (6) your pod stops sinking with the door completely above the mudline and everything, but it has stirred up a fresh wave of stink. Apparently, there is some sort of ecto-resonance too, because it is starting to make you uncomfortable a bit as well.

Refrain from talking much due to the terrible smell, snap fingers and clear away the bad smells. Maybe conjure up some air fresheners?
(2) you snap your fingers and remove a pocket of air from inside the pod. More air comes rushing in immediately. As does the (now somewhat more intense) boggy smell. (2) you conjure a bunch of air fresheners, but they really only add to the odors. The smell now is a mix of boggy rotten egg smell, pine scented car fresheners, whatever Febreeze smells like, and, like, all the Pine Sol (which is pretty strong cleaning stuff). So, whatever this is, you are sure it wasn't progress.

I look around, attempting to get all of me out of this pod and to get away from this smell

Spoiler: Kit (click to show/hide)

In an alternate universe: ((This'll be the only turn I'll keep things divided like this. I want to give Egan some time to think before I commit. I would enjoy playing either character.))

I check on Rose and make sure she's okay, then attempt to work my way out of this pod. Is the door still pointed down?

Spoiler: Tanya Xelcarostia (click to show/hide)

Going with Kit
I'm still chuckling at the image of eight kittens rattling around like beans in an awkward, oversized maraca. Well, anyway, (5) the door blew enoug ajar that the kittens can crawl out pretty easily. Now, as for getting away from the smell: (5) you scamper upwind of the bog  a ways. the smell diminishes, rises again because of the characters interacting with the bog, and then slowly fades a bit. It's still fairly strong, as you are not far from the bog, but it's manageable, for now. You find yourself in tall grasses, with insects and the sounds of other animals around. there are evidences of trahs already, as litter is all over the place, and some of the larger "rocks" you've climbed were tires. Ears: (2) no luck this turn.

LIDKU
I don't see a bolded action, so you remain where you are, talking and injured. (3) and distracted by the stink.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Exit the pod with some degree of caution and take a good look around
(6) you exit the pod in the most ominous way: reaching out and grasping one side with an oversized, clawed fist, then grabbing the other in a similar fashion, before slowly ducking your head to look out the door while shifting your body to step through the rather constrictive doorway. You then stand up, towering over the other characters, including the toad. Your eyes slide over him briefly, then away, as if the threat he represents were utterly unimportant. You are in a rocky clearing.

A stinky mud bog is to the south, where two of the characters are at the moment.

To the east, the bog edge gives way to hills of trash - the very dumping grounds that give this planet their name seem to stretch on to the horizon. And you are sure this is only one patch among many.

Toward the setting sun, greenery. It appears to be swampland, perhaps the source of the bog, but with flowing water and life. there are trees in that direction.

To the north is a patch of arid wilderness, hemmed in by a series of cliffs that rise up a few miles away from your current location. What lies above and behind the cliffs is unknown. (5) you notice signs of civilization - and not just trash. Some sort of settlements exist toward the base of the cliffs, surprisingly, they seem concentrated more toward the trash heaps than toward the swamps.

Chatters sniffs around then shrugs "Well not leave going anytime soon! Commense observe look around pod hovel thing I shall shall!"

Observe look around pod hovel thing.

Spoiler: Chatters (click to show/hide)
(6) you find a ration pack, an emergency kit, and a grooming kit. You find a button with three symbols: a flattened teardrop with a parachute at top, an arrow pointing from that to the third symbol, and a symbol depicting a small living pod. You push this, and the ceiling raises a foot, the walls sort of slide outward into more a cylinder shape, and the roof extends to create some overhangs - good for shedding rainfall. Unfortunately, the transformation unbalances the pod (you did roll a six) and the structure ends up tilting on it's side and rolling slowly.

Egan got it correct: Spaceballs.
(Dang I had a feeling that the answer would make me feel dumb, especially since it wasn't that long ago that I watched that movie.)

"Oh shit the air is awful I gotta get away from it, I hate this planet!"
Try to find somewhere near the pods that has breathable air, also look around and try to see what's near us besides the pods we landed in.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
You and Alice! wander toward the dry basin to the south, only for Alice! to step waist deep in bog. You stop and consider going the exact opposite direction, covering your nose to block the smell, and your mouth to block your laughter. as for what else you see - check Dino's section for a summary of the area. Also, (4) you don't gag or vomit or anything.

split-universe situation resolved, am going with Kit, and action post is edited.
Noted. Meow meow.
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Devastator on June 22, 2022, 12:15:40 am
Go land at the edge of the wet stuff, and do a quick check of the pod insides (and the hidden below-sludge area) for loot.  Are there any interesting items hiding below the surface?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lidku on June 22, 2022, 12:25:10 am
Scavenge the pod Veron crashed in for any medical supplies

Spoiler: Veron Maldrac (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: King Zultan on June 22, 2022, 01:10:28 am
"Hey Alice! you need help getting out of there?"
Help Alice! out of the stink bog if needed, then look around for something flat we can use as a sled to drag the injured guy.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lenglon on June 22, 2022, 01:35:59 am
((I'm very aware of the logistic issues of keeping track of all 8 of me, I will be putting in my best effort to put in extra organization and tracking. If at any point there is anything (at all) I can do to make the tracking easier, formatting, colors, reduce how much I spread out so you can handle more of me as a group, whatever, please say so and I'll do it. No need to give you a headache.))

((having said that, all eight of me failed to heal my ears? oof.))

I spread out a little, most of me hiding in the tall grass and waiting for my ears to heal, but three of me climb up on top of tires to try to look out and see what's around, and also to be seen by the people coming out of the drop pods in the bog

Spoiler: Collar Messages (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Status and Location (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Kit (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Fluffe9911 on June 22, 2022, 02:58:36 am
"Pod hovel thing change transform into doomwheel yes yes!"
Eat the rations, dump out the emergency kit, and throw away the grooming kit in disgust before seeing if I cant control where this thing rolls like a mobile home that doubles as a theoretically deadly barely controllable road roller.
Spoiler: Chatters (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Knightwing64 on June 22, 2022, 06:09:14 am
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Get rid of the bog. Conjure up a few more air fresheners in-case this doesn’t work.

“Hey friends! I’m kinda in the process of making a home for us, it’s a little cramped right now, but I can renovate it later. You can call me Mister Z!”
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: SuperDino85 on June 22, 2022, 09:59:13 am
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Explore the trash heaps. Perhaps there might still be something useful there.
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Egan_BW on June 22, 2022, 01:44:49 pm
"Ugh, probably."

Get out of bog and remove any muck-covered clothing.

Spoiler: Alice! (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lenglon on June 22, 2022, 03:14:12 pm
Explore the trash heaps. Perhaps there might still be something useful there.
Get out of bog and remove any muck-covered clothing.
"mrow"
Code: (collar of (1)) [Select]
--Hi I'm Kit-
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Ozarck on June 23, 2022, 01:25:53 am
Check bottom of the turn for group update.

Go land at the edge of the wet stuff, and do a quick check of the pod insides (and the hidden below-sludge area) for loot.  Are there any interesting items hiding below the surface?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
(2) You don't find anything of use in your pod. (1) A tentacle reaches out of the bog and grabs your chair. it isn't pulling or anything, yet. It just sort of flopped out of the bog, covered in wet, stinky mud, and wrapped around your seat.

Scavenge the pod Veron crashed in for any medical supplies

Spoiler: Veron Maldrac (click to show/hide)
You have the status "Wounded:Fracture," as I mentioned before. (2) your pod is empty. From the looks of it, someone looted it some time ago, and it never got refilled before dumping you on this planet.

"Ugh, probably."

Get out of bog and remove any muck-covered clothing.

Spoiler: Alice! (click to show/hide)
(4) you slosh over to the nearest dry spot and haul yourself up, then strip your lower garments and spread them out to dry. You leave your underwear on until you can find something to cover yourself with, to appease the censors and all.

"Hey Alice! you need help getting out of there?"
Help Alice! out of the stink bog if needed, then look around for something flat we can use as a sled to drag the injured guy.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Since Alice! got out under her own power, you devote your turn to finding a gurney. (3) You find a reasonably large chunk of tin siding. it's wide enough to place teh guy on, though it is somewhat long for dragging someone on: it's about 12 feet long.

((I'm very aware of the logistic issues of keeping track of all 8 of me, I will be putting in my best effort to put in extra organization and tracking. If at any point there is anything (at all) I can do to make the tracking easier, formatting, colors, reduce how much I spread out so you can handle more of me as a group, whatever, please say so and I'll do it. No need to give you a headache.))

((having said that, all eight of me failed to heal my ears? oof.))

I spread out a little, most of me hiding in the tall grass and waiting for my ears to heal, but three of me climb up on top of tires to try to look out and see what's around, and also to be seen by the people coming out of the drop pods in the bog

Spoiler: Collar Messages (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Status and Location (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Kit (click to show/hide)
I suppose just doing what you are doing now will be fine for keeping track. It does save me some effort having it laid out like that. I was, for the sake of simplicity, rolling for the gestalt, but I'll roll individually, I suppose. 5, 5, 4, 3, 2, 6, 5, 3 1, 2, and 7 are hearing repaired, while the others remain hearing impaired.

(2) Mostly, on account of being ankle high, the three who climb the tires see pretty much what they already have: tall grass, more trash, and the nearby terrain. And also a bird. And a leaf. Perhaps a taller climb would help? They are visible to anyone who wants to notice them, though.

"Pod hovel thing change transform into doomwheel yes yes!"
Eat the rations, dump out the emergency kit, and throw away the grooming kit in disgust before seeing if I cant control where this thing rolls like a mobile home that doubles as a theoretically deadly barely controllable road roller.
Spoiler: Chatters (click to show/hide)
Interesting ... (2) you can control it to go "forward" or "other forward" by virtue of facing with the floor on your left or on your right and crawling forward. Cna't see at all where it takes you though. this works poorly, since the door has been blown off, so you make most of a revolution, then step on dirt. Then teh house rolls ahead of you, leaving you sun exposed again.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Get rid of the bog. Conjure up a few more air fresheners in-case this doesn’t work.

“Hey friends! I’m kinda in the process of making a home for us, it’s a little cramped right now, but I can renovate it later. You can call me Mister Z!”
(1) You snap your fingers, and the bog sort of explodes, spraying bog water everywhere. The crater in the bog that you formed quickly fills in again with wetter, but still dark brown, water.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Explore the trash heaps. Perhaps there might still be something useful there.
You stomp off eastward and encounter a kitten with a collar that reads "Hey, I'm Kit." the trash heaps are vast, and there are probably lots of things in them, useful or otherwise. Let's gatehr the crew for exploring, as I am not going to run eight individual games.


So, the group of you, still getting your feet under you and familiarizing yourselves with this craphole of a landing area, are getting more and more nauseous the longer you stay near the muck, unprotected from the stench. and, since several of you have been interacting with the gross glump that is the source of your misery, that misery is compounding. Not only is the stink worsening, but the kind of insects that love those kind of locations are starting to swarm over and around you. You have a bit of time before the sun sets to get someplace else before making some kind of camp, but if you stay here, everyone will start taking health effects, and rolls will start being at disadvantage, and so forth. Also, someone has managed to wake some kind of bogtopus or something, and, well, there's sure to be more to follow.

I heartily recommend deciding together on a direction (trashward seems like the current favorite), and going. Of course, you CAN stay here, assuming Mr Z's magic manages to stabilize enough to eliminate the bog or the stink, or at least enough to make some decent filter masks.
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: King Zultan on June 23, 2022, 02:07:20 am
"Oh shit the stink pit just exploded."
After taking a second to get over that, she begins dragging the tin sheet over to Veron.

"Hey gun guy I found this bit of metal I'm gonna make into a sled so we can move you from this awful stinking place, and I'm thinking the piles of garbage will probably have something we can use to fix your leg with."

Fold the sheet of tin in half then drag it over to where Veron and see if I can't get a bit of rope from one of the parachutes to turn the bit of tin into a sled then see if Veron wants to get on it so I can take him away from the smell, also use some bit of clothing from my suitcase to cover my face so I don't have to keep breathing the stink.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lenglon on June 23, 2022, 02:37:02 am
I'll wait for the big people to finish playing in the disgusting, and just keep lookout and see if there's any hints as to where there might be useful stuff.
Also, the me that has ears healed and is in the grass is going to go near where the me that is on a tire but can't hear well is, so that I should be able to hear if something comes towards me.

"mrow!"
Code: (collar of (1)) [Select]
-Hi I'm Kit--
Spoiler: Collar Messages (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Status and Location (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Kit (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Knightwing64 on June 23, 2022, 05:52:55 am
“Don’t worry guys, I got this. I say we designate this spot as our base and then we go explore once I’m done clearing the bog/insects. Speaking of that, I would appreciate some help.”



Snap my figures and try once more to get rid of the bog and insects. If this doesn’t work, pout and insult the people who refused to help me.
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lidku on June 23, 2022, 06:16:55 am
"What the heck was that explosion?" Veron warily called out. He didn't see Mister Z snap his fingers previously, so he was unaware of the source of the explosion. "Maybe all the simultaneous crashes to this place has made the area unstable."

Quote from: Knightwing64
“Don’t worry guys, I got this. I say we designate this spot as our base and then we go explore once I’m done clearing the bog/insects. Speaking of that, I would appreciate some help.”

Veron shook his head in slight disagreement. "This place is a lost cause. I think it's better if we just leave here and quickly devise some sort of impromptu base somewhere else."

Quote from: King Zultan
"Hey gun guy I found this bit of metal I'm gonna make into a sled so we can move you from this awful stinking place, and I'm thinking the piles of garbage will probably have something we can use to fix your leg with."

Veron gave a moderate nod of thanks to Debby as they did all that. Meanwhile as that was happening, Veron would attempt to do some miscellaneous repairs on his helmet.

Spoiler: Veron Maldrac (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Egan_BW on June 23, 2022, 07:51:13 am
"I'd like to leave, please."

Implying that I can take my underwear off when I find something to replace it with? Ah well, reminds me of the ladies' raider armor in Fallout 3...

Help drag Veron trashward, or if people aren't leaving yet for some reason, grab a Kit and move trashward, hopefully ahead of the group rather than setting off on my own.
I'd rather not make your job harder by splitting up, but that doesn't mean I'll stay here and get diseased over it.


Spoiler: Alice! (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Knightwing64 on June 23, 2022, 08:10:29 am
“You fools! I have this handled! Just give me a minute and the bog won’t be a problem. Also, I hate to burst your bubble but your on a alien planet with absolutely no resistance to any of their diseases. If you haven’t gotten infected yet, you probably aren’t going to.”
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Egan_BW on June 23, 2022, 11:49:13 am
"The hell are you talking about?"
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Knightwing64 on June 23, 2022, 12:04:44 pm
I can magic away the Bog. We don’t have to leave. It would be better to all have a central home base and not all spilt up.”
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Devastator on June 23, 2022, 12:13:55 pm
Play dead and see if tentacle loses interest.

(Heading trashwards sounds good.)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: SuperDino85 on June 23, 2022, 01:28:52 pm
I can magic away the Bog. We don’t have to leave. It would be better to all have a central home base and not all spilt up.”

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

”If by ‘magic away’ you actually mean ‘blast apart in every direction’ then sure. But that trash heap might have some good stuff so it should be at least worth a look. Also, what is that?

Cautiously approach and observe the tentacle attached to Geryon’s chair
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Egan_BW on June 23, 2022, 02:24:39 pm
"Well then good, we're headed this way and neutralizing the bog with the magic of not being here any more. You coming?"
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Knightwing64 on June 23, 2022, 02:35:37 pm
"Well then good, we're headed this way and neutralizing the bog with the magic of not being here any more. You coming?"

Mr Z stomps his foot.

“But I have a house here and walking is exhausting…”
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Egan_BW on June 23, 2022, 03:44:48 pm
"Whatever."
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: King Zultan on June 24, 2022, 12:32:54 am
"So wait you made the hole of stench explode, why did you do that when people were near it, also how is blowing it up gonna make it not stink?"
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Fluffe9911 on June 24, 2022, 01:55:17 am
Chatters makes a attempt to chase after the slowly moving pod but cant currently see anything due to the sun blinding him
"GAHHH DESERTER TRAITOR DOOMWHEEL ARRIVE COME BACK TO CHATTERS NOW NOW!"

Have Chatters blindly run to the trash pile with everyone else while lamenting in anger over the betrayal of his doomwheel.
Spoiler: Chatters (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Knightwing64 on June 24, 2022, 06:24:46 am
"So wait you made the hole of stench explode, why did you do that when people were near it, also how is blowing it up gonna make it not stink?"

“My magic is kinda fickle, it interpreted ‘get rid of the bog’ as explode it. But I think I got it now.”
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: King Zultan on June 25, 2022, 03:25:40 am
"Note to self, don't let that guy use magic on me."
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Ozarck on June 26, 2022, 02:27:35 pm
"Oh shit the stink pit just exploded."
After taking a second to get over that, she begins dragging the tin sheet over to Veron.

"Hey gun guy I found this bit of metal I'm gonna make into a sled so we can move you from this awful stinking place, and I'm thinking the piles of garbage will probably have something we can use to fix your leg with."

Fold the sheet of tin in half then drag it over to where Veron and see if I can't get a bit of rope from one of the parachutes to turn the bit of tin into a sled then see if Veron wants to get on it so I can take him away from the smell, also use some bit of clothing from my suitcase to cover my face so I don't have to keep breathing the stink.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
(1) so, the bit of tin is basically siding for an industrial building and doesn't fold easily or well. You end up folding it crooked, and about at the 1/3 mark, creating a sort of metal check mark. You slice your hand open in the process and now have the status "bleeding: palm." That needs to be taken care of immediately. as for the parachute: assuming you don't get derailed, there are a few of them still available for use, including the ropes.

as for the stink: well, a face covering helps a little, but the stink goes through cloth. Speaking of which: (5) you're okay for now. Also, good effort on attempting to rescue an ally. I admire the team spirit! You get one fate point action token (heh heh, avoided a copyright strike. Nice). You can use that to roll at advantage on any one roll you choose.

I'll wait for the big people to finish playing in the disgusting, and just keep lookout and see if there's any hints as to where there might be useful stuff.
Also, the me that has ears healed and is in the grass is going to go near where the me that is on a tire but can't hear well is, so that I should be able to hear if something comes towards me.

"mrow!"
Code: (collar of (1)) [Select]
-Hi I'm Kit--
Spoiler: Collar Messages (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Status and Location (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Kit (click to show/hide)
(5) Your lookout has alerted you to a makeshift shelter, big enough for a group of people sized creatures! Apparently, land vehicles at least used to be a thing around here, and a couple freight trailers have been placed together, covered, and reworked. Want to explore it? (kitty 8 has spotted it). healing rolls: (2,2,3,4,4) No new healings) (edit: take an action point, for teamwork. You get advantage on one roll. What? it's nothing at all like in Opus Magnum. I don't kow what you are talking about.)

“Don’t worry guys, I got this. I say we designate this spot as our base and then we go explore once I’m done clearing the bog/insects. Speaking of that, I would appreciate some help.”



Snap my figures and try once more to get rid of the bog and insects. If this doesn’t work, pout and insult the people who refused to help me.
You come very close to snapping your fingers. You raise yor hand next to your ear, place your thumb and middle finger together, and start to press, when you suddenly freeze. You remember one of the THREE RULES: repetition is folly. You contemplate what doing the same action a second time might do. What it would do is create a sort of feedback loop of failure, compounding the previous action's negatives, while never having the kind of effect intended. You look at the swamp and imagine the small crater, multiplied one hundred fold. You imagine the wave of muck, expanding outward in all directions. You imagine just how nauseous this would make everyone, and giggle a little, until you remember your own nose: (3) and gag a little. You aren't incapacitated, but you are going to get disadvantage on all rolls until you get clear of this awful place.

"What the heck was that explosion?" Veron warily called out. He didn't see Mister Z snap his fingers previously, so he was unaware of the source of the explosion. "Maybe all the simultaneous crashes to this place has made the area unstable."

Quote from: Knightwing64
“Don’t worry guys, I got this. I say we designate this spot as our base and then we go explore once I’m done clearing the bog/insects. Speaking of that, I would appreciate some help.”

Veron shook his head in slight disagreement. "This place is a lost cause. I think it's better if we just leave here and quickly devise some sort of impromptu base somewhere else."

Quote from: King Zultan
"Hey gun guy I found this bit of metal I'm gonna make into a sled so we can move you from this awful stinking place, and I'm thinking the piles of garbage will probably have something we can use to fix your leg with."

Veron gave a moderate nod of thanks to Debby as they did all that. Meanwhile as that was happening, Veron would attempt to do some miscellaneous repairs on his helmet.

Spoiler: Veron Maldrac (click to show/hide)
Hard to repair "smashed in the face by a big metal door" without some dedicated equipment. Meanwhile, laying here in the stink, idling, you get severely nauseated, in addition to your wounds. If you don't get moving, and preferably patched up, you are going to become incapacitated pretty soon.

"I'd like to leave, please."

Implying that I can take my underwear off when I find something to replace it with? Ah well, reminds me of the ladies' raider armor in Fallout 3...

Help drag Veron trashward, or if people aren't leaving yet for some reason, grab a Kit and move trashward, hopefully ahead of the group rather than setting off on my own.
I'd rather not make your job harder by splitting up, but that doesn't mean I'll stay here and get diseased over it.


Spoiler: Alice! (click to show/hide)
Since you are attempting to help Debby help Veron, I am going to transfer your action to patching up Debby's hand. (1) The sight of the blood, combined with the stink, the heat of the day, and the general stress of everything, causes severe disorientation, you start to see black. You make a run for the trash pile (1). You TRY to make a run for the trash pile, and down you go. You roll on your back and just ... try not to die, really. ... I am giving you the same action point i gave Zultan, for good teamwork. Hmm should give one to Lenglon too. Use it to roll at advantage on one roll.

Play dead and see if tentacle loses interest.

(Heading trashwards sounds good.)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
You play dead like only a pol ... wait, poltergeists are known as active ghostly entitities, so I actually have to roll for you to be still. (6) you play dead just fine. Maybe a little too dead. You feel yourself becoming rooted to this chair. That's ... alarming. Well, let's see what the tentacle does: (6) Good news is, it doesn't pull you into the muck. It does, instead, whip you at the big angry turtle.

I can magic away the Bog. We don’t have to leave. It would be better to all have a central home base and not all spilt up.”

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”If by ‘magic away’ you actually mean ‘blast apart in every direction’ then sure. But that trash heap might have some good stuff so it should be at least worth a look. Also, what is that?

Cautiously approach and observe the tentacle attached to Geryon’s chair
(3) You step toward the stink and muck for some reason. The tentacle throws a chair at you, WWE style. You dodge it and it goes bouncing away somewhere. Never mind that, you've been challenged! You look around for some ropes to climb for a wicked sweet body slam against the Unknown Tentacle Monster. A second tentacle writhes up near the first, and htey both grope and prod the ground at the edge of the muck.

"Well then good, we're headed this way and neutralizing the bog with the magic of not being here any more. You coming?"

Mr Z stomps his foot.

“But I have a house here and walking is exhausting…”
(4)(6) So, disadvantage: I roll two dice and take the worse one. In this case, the 6, since it has "unintended side effects."

You stomp your foot in irritation, sending a shockwave along the ground and an echoing boom across the air. Birds fly up from the trees by the swamp. Silence ensues after the echo, for a few seconds, except for the sound of a chair tumbling in the dirt.

Chatters makes a attempt to chase after the slowly moving pod but cant currently see anything due to the sun blinding him
"GAHHH DESERTER TRAITOR DOOMWHEEL ARRIVE COME BACK TO CHATTERS NOW NOW!"

Have Chatters blindly run to the trash pile with everyone else while lamenting in anger over the betrayal of his doomwheel.
Spoiler: Chatters (click to show/hide)
You skitter off through the tall grass toward the trash. "With everyone else" is a bit of a stretch, considering the state of things, but you are going in the right direction, anyway. The wicked sun is still miles above the horizon, curse it! you don't manage any real shade this round, but the tall grass helps a little. Naturally, You carry out an endless gripe against hte wheel, the sun, the grass, your temmates, your clan, everyone else, and life in general as you go.


A Loud Boom and a shockwave ripple out from your landing area. Most of you don't know the source, but it is startling, loud, and echoey. And everything within dozens of miles around knows something is here now.

We have two(2) characters relatively out of the stink and headed toward trash.
We have three(3) characters still tempting fate at the muck pit.
We have three(3) characters wounded or otherwise incapacitated. Ironically, two of those wee doing their best to actually help.
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Knightwing64 on June 26, 2022, 03:05:50 pm
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“… Alright. You may have a point. I can’t handle much more of this, this smell is not fun. Maybe… if I did this?”

Snap my fingers and teleport us all away from the bog.
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lidku on June 26, 2022, 03:08:43 pm
"The hell is going on here!" Veron yelled in alarm, as he heard that loud noise, along with the following shockwave. Veron looked around, further yelling, "We need to get the hell out from this pit now!"

Veron had noticed something out of the corner of his eyes. It was Chatters moving toward someplace that was not this current Muck Pit. It was a stretch, but Veron had to optimistically think that Chatters had moved somewhere safe, or at least a location somewhat more stable than this.

Attempt to follow where Chatters had went

Spoiler: Veron Maldrac (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: SuperDino85 on June 26, 2022, 03:26:49 pm
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Spit a fireball at the tentacle monster go pick up that chair it threw
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: King Zultan on June 27, 2022, 01:58:56 am
"Damn it everything around here is exploding, need to get out of here."
Use another bit of my extra clothing to bandage my hand, then unfold the tin siding and use the edge of it to cut the parachute off of a pod then use it to make a lead rope on my tin sled, after all that grab Veron and put him on the tin sled and start dragging it to the trash piles.
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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lenglon on June 27, 2022, 03:20:26 am
I <7> cautiously head over to the shelter I <8> found, to look it over and see if it's already occupied, and I also keep trying to get the attention of the big people around me, hoping to show them what I found.

"mrowl!"
Code: (collar of all) [Select]
Found Shelter
Spoiler: Collar Messages (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Status and Location (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Kit (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Egan_BW on June 27, 2022, 03:33:23 am
Use action point, and... help Debby again. Try to lead us toward the shelter Kit found.

1 action point
Spoiler: Alice! (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Devastator on June 27, 2022, 11:05:37 pm
Levitate myself into the big hands of that giant lizard.

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Fluffe9911 on June 27, 2022, 11:15:05 pm
Continue complaining about everything and heading to the trash pile

Spoiler: Chatters (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: MonkeyMarkMario on June 28, 2022, 12:57:33 am
Looks like fun, if your still accepting new comers let's see what chaos I cause by landing now.

And if I can do anything when I land: Leave pod and observe surroundings.

Spoiler: Cy-Borg Bob (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Ozarck on June 29, 2022, 02:40:57 pm
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“… Alright. You may have a point. I can’t handle much more of this, this smell is not fun. Maybe… if I did this?”

Snap my fingers and teleport us all away from the bog.
(3) You teleport all the people who are close to the bog backward about 100 yards. Air's still gross, but its' not as bad as it was. You wave forlornly at your 'home' as you say goodbye and turn away.

"The hell is going on here!" Veron yelled in alarm, as he heard that loud noise, along with the following shockwave. Veron looked around, further yelling, "We need to get the hell out from this pit now!"

Veron had noticed something out of the corner of his eyes. It was Chatters moving toward someplace that was not this current Muck Pit. It was a stretch, but Veron had to optimistically think that Chatters had moved somewhere safe, or at least a location somewhat more stable than this.

Attempt to follow where Chatters had went

Spoiler: Veron Maldrac (click to show/hide)
(3) You start to walk trashward, get suddenly teleported to a different location, take a moment to regain your bearings, and then stumble on to rest next to a boulder (of actual rock). One of the Kits finds and meows at you. The stink is much less here.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Spit a fireball at the tentacle monster go pick up that chair it threw
(4) you spit fire at the tentacle monster and it withdraws both tentacles under the muck, the nyou grab the chair just in time to be teleported about 100 yards away from the bog. You look around to get your bearings and wonder momentarily where everyone else went. You contemplate the tentacle monster, the stink, and the group. Fight bog monsters, find shelter, help (or oppress) these random dumpees? What to do?

"Damn it everything around here is exploding, need to get out of here."
Use another bit of my extra clothing to bandage my hand, then unfold the tin siding and use the edge of it to cut the parachute off of a pod then use it to make a lead rope on my tin sled, after all that grab Veron and put him on the tin sled and start dragging it to the trash piles.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
That's a lot of actions in one turn, though I'll allow it considering you've been consistently trying to get these things done this whole time. (2) ... You get teleported before you can grab your suitcase to unlock it. Looking around, you see Veron is moving under his own power. Was he faking being badly injured? (5) you run back bogward grab your suitcase, and bandage your hand. It's still going to need proper care, but it is stable for now. (1) you head for a parachute and ... the wind picks up, filling the chute with air and dragging the pod away bogward. You experience a moment of real frustration at this point. You just know that was a good idea, to get the parachute, but it keeps sliding just out of reach. It's like chasing something in a dream. And then Alice tackles the parachute, holding it in place.

I <7> cautiously head over to the shelter I <8> found, to look it over and see if it's already occupied, and I also keep trying to get the attention of the big people around me, hoping to show them what I found.

"mrowl!"
Code: (collar of all) [Select]
Found Shelter
Spoiler: Collar Messages (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Status and Location (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Kit (click to show/hide)
[hidden] you peek into the shelter. It looks like no big people have been here in a long time. You smell around. there's oil smell, rust smell, some earthy smell, and the combined smell of the stale rot of aged trash of various kinds. There are spiders in here. One of the other Kits encounters Veron, who struggles up to a boulder near the Kit and sits down again. You also encounter the very complainy ratman creature and sort of accompany it to the shelter. It momentarily stops complaining when it sees the hovel.

Use action point, and... help Debby again. Try to lead us toward the shelter Kit found.

1 action point
Spoiler: Alice! (click to show/hide)
(3)(3) You get teleported away, then spend a moment looking for Debby. She's running back toward the bog, so you run along more or less toward her, but tryingto stay away from the bog. She's bandaging her hand with something from her suitcase. You can help there! So you run toward her. Wait, now she is running towards a pod? You follow, but the wind picks up and the pod starts bbeing dragged away by it's parachute. Debby stops and stands there, looking dejected. Not on your watch! irrationally, you chase the pod, and do a heroic dive tackle, knocking the air out of the parachute momentarily and wrestling it to the ground. "I ... I got it! Hurry, Debby! Kill it quickly!"

Levitate myself into the big hands of that giant lizard.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Done and done. You guys are now about 150 yards from the bog and more or less headed in the "right" direction, assuming the big lizard chooses to go that way.

Continue complaining about everything and heading to the trash pile

Spoiler: Chatters (click to show/hide)
You find a Kit! Now you can complain to twice as many ears! It guides you to a makeshift shelter. Now THIS smells and looks like home! No other rats around though. no one to stab, or fight over food with, or complain about the Seers to, or stab in the back, or steal from ...

Looks like fun, if your still accepting new comers let's see what chaos I cause by landing now.

And if I can do anything when I land: Leave pod and observe surroundings.

Spoiler: Cy-Borg Bob (click to show/hide)
No "control player character" powers. Those don't go down well in games like this. (3) Your pod lands, tilts sideways, then tumbles for a minute or two before ending up nose down. THe door explodes off, revealing a badly mangled spring mattress, the hood of an old land vehicle, an old oil drum, very rusted, and a scattered pile of very faded magazines.


I feel like this turn was a tad slow in terms of action, so I am willing to auto everyone who wants to regroup to arrive at the makeshift shelter at the start of the next turn. So you can post "Arrive at shelter, [do X]" where [do X] is your action for the turn, and feel free to RP with whoever else is at the shelter. If you wish to move in a different direction instead, post that action normally. Alice and Debby, consider the parachute subdued, and next turn performing a medical action on Debby's hand (even after moving to the shelter) will auto succeed unless teammate actions interfere.

Meanwhile, the new arrival drops further into the trash a ways. Anyone who had attention to spare noticed him dropping down from the sky, and he landed with a pretty audible thud, followed by the rumbling, clanging, screeching sound of a trash slide, so you have a reasonable idea where he ended up.
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Egan_BW on June 29, 2022, 02:48:18 pm
Arrive at shelter, heal Debby's hand. If there's spare action, scrounge for new pants also treat Veron.

Spoiler: Alice! (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: SuperDino85 on June 29, 2022, 04:32:47 pm
Arrive at shelter, shake the chair a little bit to see if the thing on it is still alive

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Knightwing64 on June 29, 2022, 06:37:30 pm
Not exactly my ideal living place, but I’m sure I can spruce it up a little bit. Everyone, please back away a bit, exploding isn’t very good for your health. I think, dunno. Could be.”

“Nice to meet all these new faces, and I hope we can get to know each other better now that we have a proper home. :). You’re welcome about the teleport btw, couldn’t leave my new friends behind, you know?


Arrive at shelter, snap fingers, spruce the place up a little bit. Add some air fresheners, fix any obvious damage form age, add a fresh coat of paint, basic living necessities, etc etc.

If I have any energy left over after that house renovation, use it to create a Little Rock buddy for sanity purposes, literally just a small rock man that can talk and is full of optimism.




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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lidku on June 29, 2022, 07:14:01 pm
"What the hell just happened?" Veron glanced confusedly at Mr. Zorak. "..You have psionic abilites?"

Arrive at the shelter and attempt to find medical supplies

Spoiler: Veron Maldrac (click to show/hide)

Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Egan_BW on June 29, 2022, 07:24:27 pm
knight pls try to avoid doing things which will mess up my attempts to heal people's injuries if you roll badly
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Knightwing64 on June 29, 2022, 07:50:56 pm
knight pls try to avoid doing things which will mess up my attempts to heal people's injuries if you roll badly

okey
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Knightwing64 on June 29, 2022, 07:59:48 pm
"What the hell just happened?" Veron glanced confusedly at Mr. Zorak. "..You have psionic abilites?"

Arrive at the shelter and attempt to find medical supplies

Spoiler: Veron Maldrac (click to show/hide)

“I mean… you can think of it like that, I guess. I would call it more limited reality warping derived through living on a higher plane of existence and deciding to take a vacation, more of a extended leave honestly, my boss kicked me out after one too many pranks, which is total crap.

I’m basically going to the Zoo and playing with the animals. Talking animals. Jolly good ‘fun’ I’ve been having so far, bet that bastard Mite purposely put me in this stink planet.”
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Devastator on June 29, 2022, 09:55:53 pm
Move the chair a bit to provide my lizardy friend proof of my existance.

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: MonkeyMarkMario on June 29, 2022, 10:34:18 pm
Understood about the "Control player characters" I changed it.

If I am able to: Arrive at shelter and introduce myself.

If I am not able to go to the shelter: View my surroundings and if I notice other beings head towards them and introduce myself.

Quote from: Cy-Borg Bob
Greetings, I am Bob, the first of my kind and I am a Cy-Borg. You may call me Cy-Borg Bob, Borg Bob, or just plain . . . Bob. I will be leaving this world and it's space and prove that Cy-Borgs are the superior race over humans by destroying the interlopers who tried to destroy me. If anyone would like to join me I will be willing to offer a portion of my power to you. Currently I have elevated healing and adaption. If you do not want to be injected with nanobots at this time then I will respect your wishes. This is an open invitation.

Spoiler: Cy-Borg Bob (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: King Zultan on June 30, 2022, 02:15:57 am
"That guy with a gun isn't as injured as he'd like us to think he is because I saw him moving around, also did anyone else suddenly teleport a few feet?"
Arrive at the shelter, after having cut the parachute free from the pod and leaving that bit of siding behind, then await the healing.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lenglon on June 30, 2022, 04:06:01 am
I guide the various individuals that dropped from the pods like me to the apparently abandoned shelter, and collect all of myself together there.
((didn't notice the ear-healing roll this last turn btw Oz. I'll assume for now that all five failed.))
((after some interactions, here's my action:))
scatter and start poking around this shelter, seeing if I find anything interesting.

After collecting together, I form a line so that all my collars can be seen simultaneously:
I need to make sure they know that I'm here and that I'm not just a bunch of random kittens.
All of me together: "MEW!"
Code: (1) [Select]
Hi! I'm Kit!-
Code: (2) [Select]
each of me is
Code: (3) [Select]
linked to the
Code: (4) [Select]
others and we
Code: (5) [Select]
-are all one-
Code: (6) [Select]
being. Please
Code: (7) [Select]
look out for-
Code: (8) [Select]
-----me------
Spoiler: Collar Messages (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Status and Location (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Kit (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Fluffe9911 on June 30, 2022, 03:53:27 pm
"Ah finally! Hovel home is mine mine! Grrrrr Chatters claims left north space corner!"

Eat some spiders and claim the northern left corner of the shelter for myself keep intruders out of my corner

Spoiler: Chatters (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Fluffe9911 on June 30, 2022, 03:57:31 pm
I need to make sure they know that I'm here and that I'm not just a bunch of random kittens.
All of me together: "MEW!"

Spoiler: Collar Messages (click to show/hide)

"Aghh why is kit food thing talk thinking! Get out of my corner hovel!"

Spoiler: Chatters (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lenglon on June 30, 2022, 05:06:43 pm
"Aghh why is kit food thing talk thinking! Get out of my corner hovel!"
I face Chatters and spread out, forming a semicircle around him (staying outside his reach) and facing him, vocalizing my opinion from each of me in a staggered fashion, so that at least one of me is constantly making noise.
"mrow!""mrow!""mrow!""mrow!""mrow!"
Spoiler: Collar Messages (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lidku on June 30, 2022, 05:24:12 pm
While looking for any sign of medical supplies, Veron would turn his head a moderate pace over to where he was hearing commotion. "Where did all these kittens come from?" Veron stated with amusement, sighting the squad of kittens encircle Chatters.

Spoiler: Veron Maldrac (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Fluffe9911 on June 30, 2022, 06:26:42 pm
I face Chatters and spread out, forming a semicircle around him (staying outside his reach) and facing him, vocalizing my opinion from each of me in a staggered fashion, so that at least one of me is constantly making noise.
"mrow!""mrow!""mrow!""mrow!""mrow!"
Spoiler: Collar Messages (click to show/hide)
"AGHHH! My hearing ears! I get get it! Not food things! Now cease stop noise assaulting Chatters hear hearing kit not food things!"

Spoiler: Chatters (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Knightwing64 on June 30, 2022, 06:28:36 pm
Awwwww…. Aren’t they just the cutest?
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Fluffe9911 on June 30, 2022, 06:30:57 pm
Awwwww…. Aren’t they just the cutest?

"GAHHHH! THEY ARE NOT NICE CUTE THEY ARE EVIL PIT BIRTH SPAWNS! AGHH!"

Spoiler: Chatters (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lenglon on June 30, 2022, 06:57:40 pm
Feeling proud of myself, I stop meowing at Chatters, and instead scatter and start poking around this shelter, seeing if I find anything interesting.
Spoiler: Collar Messages (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: King Zultan on July 01, 2022, 02:29:51 am
"This doesn't really seem like a place for small kittens, also why do they have collars that have messages on them is there someone controlling these things nearby?"
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lenglon on July 01, 2022, 02:48:22 am
"This doesn't really seem like a place for small kittens, also why do they have collars that have messages on them is there someone controlling these things nearby?"
One of me switches from searching the area to staring at the deer-headed person for a few moments.
Code: (3) [Select]
IJustToldYou-
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: King Zultan on July 01, 2022, 03:15:42 am
"Oh look it understood me and has a message, so wait does that mean they are connected together somehow, are they magic?"
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lenglon on July 01, 2022, 03:21:23 am
Code: (3) [Select]
-I Dont Know-
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lidku on July 01, 2022, 06:59:51 am
Veron tentatively walks up to one of the kitchens, with a goal of investigating the collars himself. What Debby was saying was correct. The collars on all eight of the kittens flashed sentences in response to either basic questions or statements from others.

"What the hell?" Veron asked aloud. "How are the collars doing that? Do each one of the collars have an AI installed?"

Spoiler: Veron Maldrac (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: King Zultan on July 02, 2022, 02:28:28 am
"But the collars seem to small to have an AI inside of it, they're ether really smart somehow or magic."
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lenglon on July 02, 2022, 04:55:04 am
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--Neurolink--
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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: King Zultan on July 03, 2022, 02:24:55 am
"So a bunch of baby cats all liked together somehow makes them smarter than baby, that's interesting."
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Ozarck on July 03, 2022, 09:45:19 pm
Arrive at shelter, heal Debby's hand. If there's spare action, scrounge for new pants also treat Veron.

Spoiler: Alice! (click to show/hide)
(5) you get Debby's hand stitched up with some autostitches from the emergency kit. She'll need to be cautious with it for a bit, but it should heal good as new. You look at her once more, thankful at least that your mother killing head isn't quite THAT big and deadly. (3) you find a weathered and torn curtain that you can fashion into a long skirt. Maybe you can find something to stitch it into pants, or just tie the bottoms around your ankles or something. You find an old pot you could fill with water to at least scrub out the worst of the gross from your undergarments.

Arrive at shelter, shake the chair a little bit to see if the thing on it is still alive

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Move the chair a bit to provide my lizardy friend proof of my existance.
The chair is shaken and rattles in return. It's alive! Sort of.

Not exactly my ideal living place, but I’m sure I can spruce it up a little bit. Everyone, please back away a bit, exploding isn’t very good for your health. I think, dunno. Could be.”

“Nice to meet all these new faces, and I hope we can get to know each other better now that we have a proper home. :). You’re welcome about the teleport btw, couldn’t leave my new friends behind, you know?


Arrive at shelter, snap fingers, spruce the place up a little bit. Add some air fresheners, fix any obvious damage form age, add a fresh coat of paint, basic living necessities, etc etc.

If I have any energy left over after that house renovation, use it to create a Little Rock buddy for sanity purposes, literally just a small rock man that can talk and is full of optimism.


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(4) THE containers are half buried under the trash, almost as if they were build to be mostly underground, so exterior paint is right out. But you tidy up the inside, removing a layer of rust, giving the containers a nice, smooth metal look and feel, straightening a few bent joints and clearing most of the dust, except in the northernmost container, where the rat went. You grow some grass above and in front of the main entrance, add a small white picket fence, a few flowers, and a few ceiling fans, which are a tad low for the human sized people, and definitely problematic for the big lizard.

As for basic living necessities ... (2) you create a wooden bucket with a word painted in black across it: "STOOL"

(1) you attempt to enchant a rock to be sapient, but discover two problems: first, it wasn't a rock, it was a smushed together conglomeration of old plastic toy soldiers, plastic dinosaurs, cars, and the heads of several plastic girls' dolls, caked in mud and sand and forgotten in a heap. The second problem is that they carried some emotional residue from their time as toys and after, and from their essence as anthropomorphic representations of human character. In short, the whole ball has gone mad and is now howling, crying, barking, sputtering, and moaning in a very, very unsettling way. And the second of your major rules comes to mind: no undo button. can't just reverse a mistaken action - instead you must solve the new situation brought about by your powers.

"What the hell just happened?" Veron glanced confusedly at Mr. Zorak. "..You have psionic abilites?"

Arrive at the shelter and attempt to find medical supplies
(3) you find an old sink that could be propped up or attached to a wall to hold water, a sturdy bench to lay victi - err .... "patients" on, and a hacksaw. And a liter of whiskey. For painkilling purposes? There's enough cloth around to work as bandages, and enough broken wood items to use something for a splint if necessary.

Understood about the "Control player characters" I changed it.

If I am able to: Arrive at shelter and introduce myself.

If I am not able to go to the shelter: View my surroundings and if I notice other beings head towards them and introduce myself.

Quote from: Cy-Borg Bob
Greetings, I am Bob, the first of my kind and I am a Cy-Borg. You may call me Cy-Borg Bob, Borg Bob, or just plain . . . Bob. I will be leaving this world and it's space and prove that Cy-Borgs are the superior race over humans by destroying the interlopers who tried to destroy me. If anyone would like to join me I will be willing to offer a portion of my power to you. Currently I have elevated healing and adaption. If you do not want to be injected with nanobots at this time then I will respect your wishes. This is an open invitation.

Spoiler: Cy-Borg Bob (click to show/hide)
(2)(5) It all turns out the same either way. You climb out of your damaged pod, climb to the top of your current junk pile, see the angry dinosaur, and think this is a great opportunity. So, yo uare in front of the shelter with the big koopa shaking a chair.

"That guy with a gun isn't as injured as he'd like us to think he is because I saw him moving around, also did anyone else suddenly teleport a few feet?"
Arrive at the shelter, after having cut the parachute free from the pod and leaving that bit of siding behind, then await the healing.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Your hand is stitched up, but you will roll at disadvantage for a while on complex actions with your hands.

I guide the various individuals that dropped from the pods like me to the apparently abandoned shelter, and collect all of myself together there.
((didn't notice the ear-healing roll this last turn btw Oz. I'll assume for now that all five failed.))
((after some interactions, here's my action:))
scatter and start poking around this shelter, seeing if I find anything interesting.

After collecting together, I form a line so that all my collars can be seen simultaneously:
I need to make sure they know that I'm here and that I'm not just a bunch of random kittens.
All of me together: "MEW!"
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Hi! I'm Kit!-
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each of me is
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linked to the
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others and we
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-are all one-
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being. Please
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look out for-
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-----me------
Spoiler: Collar Messages (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Status and Location (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Kit (click to show/hide)
I'll roll ten times this turn to make up for last turn. the sixth and tenth roll succeeded, so #5 and #8 are healed. Ding!
(6) you explore the shelter and find that it is, in fact, eight containers together. Two of them have had the walls between them opened to form a large open room, and in the same way the two behind those have as well. the other four are arranged along the sides of the back pair, facing perpendicular to the main rooms. So, in effect, you have a main room with the entrance facing west, then to the east a second large room that looks like a communal kitchen/storage area, with four "rooms" off that, two to teh north and two south. The entrances to those are small (for a human) but reinforced to provide structural stability. You find that one of the side rooms on the north has an exit into the trash heap, and one on the south used to, but that end of the container is collapsed. the trash pile outside would cover the entrance anyway.

You also find canned food in a pantry at the back of the kitchen! And a mousetrap that #7 steps in. He yelps quite loudly, and skitters off through the containers outside, howling, trap stuck on his foot.
You also find a plasma ball. you touch the surface and a little plasma arc leaps out from teh central ball to the glass under your paw.

"Ah finally! Hovel home is mine mine! Grrrrr Chatters claims left north space corner!"

Eat some spiders and claim the northern left corner of the shelter for myself keep intruders out of my corner

Spoiler: Chatters (click to show/hide)
You take over the back north container and hiss at anyone approaching. You eat half a dozen spiders and a grub! Your corner is cool and dirty and smells of trash.


Status: congregating at the container shelter.
You have a shelter made of 8 cargo containers. Six rooms in total: tow big ones (double containers) arranged west to east with the opening at the west,

and four smaller ones to the north and south. the back north one is claimed by the rat, and the front south one has one end collapsed under the rubble outside.
the front north one also has an exit

The imp tidied the place up a bit so it's kinda nice inside. There are a few functional cots in the rooms, a table in the kitchen area, and a couch and some chairs in the front hall. the entrance is big enough for Bowser, but he wouldn't fit into the side rooms.

(3) There is a distant sound, like thunder, coming from ... hard to say which direction really.
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Egan_BW on July 03, 2022, 10:02:46 pm
"This is... emotionally tiring... Ok. Hello Kit, may I pet a kitten?"

Help Kit7.

Improve happiness by having a rest and petting a cat if allowed. Adorable little toxoplasmosis carriers.
While petting cat, ponder if I should add any new quests. Maybe fixing up a corner of the shack as a medical area? Could be helpful to be able to treat things with advantage or something.


Spoiler: Alice! (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lenglon on July 04, 2022, 03:26:43 am
"This is... emotionally tiring... Ok. Hello Kit, may I pet a kitten?"

Improve happiness by having a rest and petting a cat if allowed. Adorable little toxoplasmosis carriers.
I start to respond to this but all of me visibly startle and jump simultaneously as I <7> accidently step into the mousetrap.
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!!Bad trap!!! I hurry over to Alice and show her my <7> trapped paw. I do also allow petting afterwards and will want comfort and all but I want this trap off!
I <4> also spend some time playing with the plasma ball, it's fun and different, it also gives me something to focus on and play with to distract me from the trap on my foot.
The rest of me continue exploring our shelter, learning where all the tiny nooks and crannies and shortcuts and hiding spaces are.

Spoiler: Collar Messages (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Status and Location (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Kit (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: King Zultan on July 04, 2022, 03:45:35 am
(Did I mange to get the parachute before I got to the shelter in the last turn?)


"Thank you for fixing my hand Alice!, if anyone needs me I'm gonna be looking around for anything nearby that could make this place less of a cave in a pile of garbage and more of a nice place to live.
Search the trash pile around the shelter for anything that could make our lives here easier or better.
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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Knightwing64 on July 04, 2022, 10:02:08 am
Huh. Can’t say I expected that, eh. Well… I don’t want it soooo, HEY, MAGIC FOX HIVEMIND, TAKE A SENTIENT BALL OF PLASTIC! FETCH!


I toss the magic tortured ball to one of the Kits.


Alright, now it’s time to get set up.

  I bring out my magical glowing crystal and turn it into a servant golem to do all the chores I’m too lazy to do. Sit back and relax as I play Rock Paper Scissors with a conjured up illusion of another person.




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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Egan_BW on July 04, 2022, 11:45:54 am
I start to respond to this but all of me visibly startle and jump simultaneously as I <7> accidently step into the mousetrap.
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!!Bad trap!!! I hurry over to Alice and show her my <7> trapped paw. I do also allow petting afterwards and will want comfort and all but I want this trap off!

"Ah, poor thing. Hopefully that's the last hand injury today, eh?"
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: MonkeyMarkMario on July 04, 2022, 03:09:54 pm
Investigate the area.

Quote from: Cy-Borg Bob
Greetings, turtle why are you shaking the chair?

Spoiler: Cy-Borg Bob (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Fluffe9911 on July 05, 2022, 07:36:08 am
Now my entrance has been guarded begin creating my under dwelling by claw digging through the floor surface! Or try to atleast.

Spoiler: Chatters (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lidku on July 05, 2022, 09:04:20 am
Attempt to use the bandages Veron found as a compression-aid to alleviate the head fracture pain

Spoiler: Veron Maldrac (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: SuperDino85 on July 05, 2022, 03:37:49 pm
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Bring the chair with me to the trash heap and look for anything of possible use
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Devastator on July 06, 2022, 12:52:28 am
Scavenge around by jumping from the chair to various other objects.  Start by looking for hand tools in particular.

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Ozarck on July 08, 2022, 12:30:55 am
I shoudl have mentioned at the end of last turn, but the imp has made an insanity ball out of a conglomerate of doll heads and other discarded and abused child's toys (the toys were abused, not the child). That insanity ball is getting on everyone's nerves right now.

"This is... emotionally tiring... Ok. Hello Kit, may I pet a kitten?"

Help Kit7.

Improve happiness by having a rest and petting a cat if allowed. Adorable little toxoplasmosis carriers.
While petting cat, ponder if I should add any new quests. Maybe fixing up a corner of the shack as a medical area? Could be helpful to be able to treat things with advantage or something.


Spoiler: Alice! (click to show/hide)
(3)(6) You get the trap off but get a bit clawed in the process. You also now have a very clingy cat stuck to you for a bit. At first it's pretty stressful, what with the yowling and squirming, but once things settle down you kinda zone out for a bit. Like, you sorta shut the world out and just focus on the fluff and the rumble of the purr. WHat was that about doing something? Never mind. Never mind. Whiskers. =.=

"This is... emotionally tiring... Ok. Hello Kit, may I pet a kitten?"

Improve happiness by having a rest and petting a cat if allowed. Adorable little toxoplasmosis carriers.
I start to respond to this but all of me visibly startle and jump simultaneously as I <7> accidently step into the mousetrap.
Code: (7) [Select]
!!Bad trap!!! I hurry over to Alice and show her my <7> trapped paw. I do also allow petting afterwards and will want comfort and all but I want this trap off!
I <4> also spend some time playing with the plasma ball, it's fun and different, it also gives me something to focus on and play with to distract me from the trap on my foot.
The rest of me continue exploring our shelter, learning where all the tiny nooks and crannies and shortcuts and hiding spaces are.

Spoiler: Collar Messages (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Status and Location (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Kit (click to show/hide)
(2)(1)(4) no healings this round. Alice gets the trap off #7, who is now stress-purring and clingy. (1) THe plasma orb ... goes out. It just completely goes black and stationary. You give it a few swipes, but it doesn't budge. It completely fails to distract yous from the mousetrap, so everykit is a tad anxious and skittish. (4) You find some insects under the couch. Theey skitter away from you along a metal wall until they disappear into a crack in the floor. You paw at the crack. The edge peels up a bit and flakes away, leaving a hole slightly larger than a paw. A musky scent and a whiff of something chemically tingles at the edge of your sinuses for the briefest of moments.

(Did I mange to get the parachute before I got to the shelter in the last turn?)


"Thank you for fixing my hand Alice!, if anyone needs me I'm gonna be looking around for anything nearby that could make this place less of a cave in a pile of garbage and more of a nice place to live.
Search the trash pile around the shelter for anything that could make our lives here easier or better.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Ya, you and Alice got the parachute before arriving at the shelter. (2) you wander the immediate area of the shelter for a bit, but find nothing of much interest. Or maybe you just aren't seeing the usefulness of what's around you. Those old cardboard boxes ... no, they've been rained on to the point that they are more dust than box. Even a cat would find little of interest there. A deflated basketball? it's got a bigass hole tear in it, so not much use for bouncing.

Huh. Can’t say I expected that, eh. Well… I don’t want it soooo, HEY, MAGIC FOX HIVEMIND, TAKE A SENTIENT BALL OF PLASTIC! FETCH!


I toss the magic tortured ball to one of the Kits.


Alright, now it’s time to get set up.

  I bring out my magical glowing crystal and turn it into a servant golem to do all the chores I’m too lazy to do. Sit back and relax as I play Rock Paper Scissors with a conjured up illusion of another person.




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(1) You toss the insanity ball. It falls back to you. You try to grab it. It remains just out of reach. it falls endlessly around you like some spiteful, depressing moon. (4) you avoid a mental breakdown for now. Buuuut, this is going to impact your magic, and your patience. (3) you create a golem, out of your crystal orb, but it can only do one chore. And playing with the insanity ball doesn't count.

Investigate the area.

Quote from: Cy-Borg Bob
Greetings, turtle why are you shaking the chair?

Spoiler: Cy-Borg Bob (click to show/hide)
(3) aside from the previously described stuff, you find a path through the nearby trash. It looks like the garbage around the path has been stacked to clear the path. Most of the stacks are pretty solid and have weathered time fairly well, as far as stacks of trash go, anyway. You didn't have time to investigate the path this round, and night is falling.

Now my entrance has been guarded begin creating my under dwelling by claw digging through the floor surface! Or try to atleast.

Spoiler: Chatters (click to show/hide)
(5) you bend the metal floor up and away from one of the walls and find a whole room beneath your room. It's too dark down there to see what's in it. [hidden] you don't hear or smell anything scary.

Attempt to use the bandages Veron found as a compression-aid to alleviate the head fracture pain

Spoiler: Veron Maldrac (click to show/hide)
I'm no doctor, but I don't think you alleviate fractures with compression. (1) well, YOU certainly don't. You pass out in an attempt to bandage yourself. by the way, since you are a humanoid fungus, do you even have bones? Or did you break some kind of cartilage or fungal fiber husk or something?

Oh yeah, now that you are unconscious, I need to start rolling against the insanity ball: (2) you t3witch and moan in your unconsciousness, haunted, hunted, hated. Nowhere to turn, no escape. no escape ....

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Bring the chair with me to the trash heap and look for anything of possible use
"Anything of Possible use" is a pretty big term. Even toxic waste is of possible use. So, in that regard you find a literal mountain of possible use. A whole planet. It's being used as a dumping ground for .... whatever this lot is, anyway. (6) you do find a big metal stick. You find it by leaning against a pile of junk, and the big metal stick falls on your head. You look up to see some other things falling your way too: (6) you manage to doge, but end up with your ass in a barrel for your efforts. You are now a comically oversized turtlelike lizard, with his ass in a 55 110 gallon drum.

Scavenge around by jumping from the chair to various other objects.  Start by looking for hand tools in particular.

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(3) you find a cinder block, the metal pole that clonked Bowser, and a surprisingly fresh two by four.


Night is falling.
(3) that thunder is still out there, accompanied by the occasional more solid thunk of something hitting something else.
There is an insanity orb in the base. One mushroom is unconscious and suffering a fit of some kind, again (sorry Lidku, bad luck).
Some explorers among the crew have found trash!
No one has found a medbay yet. Not even the old skull of a surgeon or anything.
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: King Zultan on July 08, 2022, 02:17:39 am
"What the hell is this weird ball thing and who let it into our fort?"
Use the parachute to capture the weird ball thing, then see if I can't drag it outside.
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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Fluffe9911 on July 08, 2022, 06:49:23 am
"Hmm wait for see eyes to adjust change yes yes!"

Wait in the darkness for my eyes to adjust enough that I can see things I am a giant rat who generally lives underground anyway after all im sure this wont go poorly!

Spoiler: Chatters (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lenglon on July 08, 2022, 07:49:30 am
Two of me gather at the weird hole and inspect and widen it, trying to see where it goes.
the one of me that had the mousetrap on his paw stays with Alice
the one of me that was playing with the plasmaball is searching for why it cut out, and how it was powered in the first place. Is there working power here?
the remaining four of me spread out and explore the four outer shelters.

Spoiler: Collar Messages (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Status and Location (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Kit (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: SuperDino85 on July 08, 2022, 11:10:32 am
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Get myself out of the drum and bring it, the metal stick, and the chair back inside
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Egan_BW on July 08, 2022, 04:59:36 pm
Check whether my ration pack is a pack of rations or more like a kit of food preparation stuff.
Regardless, attempt to make enough dinner for all of our organics by looking for edibles and/or food preparation tools. The turtle is big, but the kittens are tiny so it probably evens out, right?


Spoiler: Alice! (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: MonkeyMarkMario on July 08, 2022, 08:09:38 pm
Investigate the trash and see what(if anything) I can find.

Spoiler: Cy-Borg Bob (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Devastator on July 08, 2022, 09:41:38 pm
Help investigate the trash.  Pick stuff up, consume worthless junk, sort through piles of trash.

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Knightwing64 on July 09, 2022, 07:34:16 am
Okay. This might’ve been a bad idea. Sorry.


Realizing that he has been repressing his natural imp instincts for a while, he decides to let loose a little bit and prank Alice by turning her flare gun into a flare gone. Do it sneakily so I don’t get yelled at.


Use powers to make one container incredibly luxurious and set it as his home.



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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Ozarck on July 13, 2022, 10:39:20 pm
"What the hell is this weird ball thing and who let it into our fort?"
Use the parachute to capture the weird ball thing, then see if I can't drag it outside.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
(5) You wrap up the insanity toy and haul it outside. It still floats toward the containers, no matter what you do, so you take the parachute a considerable distance away and weigh it down with some bricks. It seems sturdy enough for now. You hurry back inside as the first stars begin lighting up the sky, then falling out of it. You get one action token for resolving the insanity issue.

"Hmm wait for see eyes to adjust change yes yes!"

Wait in the darkness for my eyes to adjust enough that I can see things I am a giant rat who generally lives underground anyway after all im sure this wont go poorly!

Spoiler: Chatters (click to show/hide)
(2) I mean, there's darkness, and there's darkness, ya dig? You climb down the hole, knock something over, and fall off of something with a big ol' clatter. Now you are down below, surrounded by whatever you just knocked over, and in the dark. Wait, is that a vague outline you see? No. That's more darkness.

Two of me gather at the weird hole and inspect and widen it, trying to see where it goes.
the one of me that had the mousetrap on his paw stays with Alice
the one of me that was playing with the plasmaball is searching for why it cut out, and how it was powered in the first place. Is there working power here?
the remaining four of me spread out and explore the four outer shelters.

Spoiler: Collar Messages (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Status and Location (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Kit (click to show/hide)
Hearing rolls (4, 5, 2) so Kit_4 regains her hearing.
(3) the two of you take turns pawing at the weird hole. You widen it almost enough to poke a kitten sized head through, but not quite. There's definitely a dusty, woody smell and a tingly, chemically smell down there. It's not unpleasant.
(1)The plasma ball suddenly turns on, stupidly bright, and startles the Kit that is examining it. This is how she realizes her hearing is back to full, as the crackle and hum it emits sends hard shivers down her spine, raising all the hairs on her body straight out. She skitters out of the room like her tail is on fire (it's not, that's a figure of speech). (3) she ends up outside the shelter, under half a tractor tire.
(1) What with the events regarding the insanity ball, the mousetrap, and the plasma ball, most of hte Kits send up some distressed yowling, and congregate in the middle of the big room where everyone else is (more or less), generally getting underfoot.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Get myself out of the drum and bring it, the metal stick, and the chair back inside
(2) you fail to shake the drum off your dinobutt. (2) similarly, you fail to get upright to get back inside. This will have consequences. See the bottom of the turn for what happens outside the shelter this night.

Check whether my ration pack is a pack of rations or more like a kit of food preparation stuff.
Regardless, attempt to make enough dinner for all of our organics by looking for edibles and/or food preparation tools. The turtle is big, but the kittens are tiny so it probably evens out, right?


Spoiler: Alice! (click to show/hide)
(5) turns out the rations come packed inside an autocooker, which is basically like a pie tin that self heats on the inside, with a few drops of an oily liquid that comes in the pack. There's a small hole to drip the oil into to activate the autocooker. You make enough food for everyone who eats, though a couple of the group are missing. You consider making some food for the insanity ball, but everyone kinda objects to the idea, so you pass, this time. It probably eats sadness or something anyway, so it'll probably be able to fend for itself. That's it for the food in the ration pack, but you have the autocooker with enough oil for quite some time, and a water filter system that can process enough water for everyone once a day, assuming the water is relatively clear and non-radioactive to start with. So no mud, blood, or liquid uranium.

Investigate the trash and see what(if anything) I can find.

Spoiler: Cy-Borg Bob (click to show/hide)
(6) you find a lot of trash. As I stated last round to people looking for "something," well, there's literally an entire universe of "something" to find, and you found some of it! You also find trouble, since you are outside, after dark, and looking for it. See the bottom of the round for details.

Help investigate the trash.  Pick stuff up, consume worthless junk, sort through piles of trash.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
For the most part, my response to you is the same as that to MMM above. Except, you are also consuming something "worthless," so I gotta roll for that: (5) You eat an entire book labeled "Opinions on the SpaceNet, Volume MMCLLXIV." It is satisfyingly hollow, trite, meaningless, energetic, and pointless. You get an action point, both for getting rid of such garbage, and because it was a very poltergeistly kind of meal.

Okay. This might’ve been a bad idea. Sorry.


Realizing that he has been repressing his natural imp instincts for a while, he decides to let loose a little bit and prank Alice by turning her flare gun into a flare gone. Do it sneakily so I don’t get yelled at.


Use powers to make one container incredibly luxurious and set it as his home.



Spoiler (click to show/hide)
"Flare Gone" .... hmm. (2) You snap your fingers and the flare gun disappears from her left hip ... and reappears on her right hip. Hah! You bet she's not even left handed, so it'll be super awkward for her when she needs to draw and fire it! Now to wait for the comedy to happen ....

(4) You turn the front room that has the collapsed back wall into a reasonably comfortable bed and bath, complete with a small terrarium made out of the collapsed part. Bits of trash ooze through the dust and dirt and brighten up, becoming figurines and small sculptures and a tasteful metal mobile. You even get a nice nightstand made out of a baseball bat, a coffee table leg, two whiskey bottles stacked on top of each other, and a Hello Space Kitty Umbrella for legs, topped with a large book of maps for some distant world as the table top.


Outside crew, you all start to hear the sounds of life in the trash heap. things are waking up, coming alive, mobilizing, hunting, being hunted, and in general getting dangerous. You each see hundreds of small red dots, some closer, some further away, each dot paired with another, as if they were eyes, which they are. (4) Bowser manages to tumble over and get his feet below him, wielding his metal rod, as a swarm of spider-like beings skitters out of the darkness toward him, only to be dive bombed by ... somethings with wings. Looks like you are in a food fight. Try not to be the food.

(2) Bob, on the other hand, is caught entirely unprepared as he is peering int o acrack between two stacks of trash. Something reaches out of the darkness, wraps several spindly limbs around his body, and yanks him back into the darkness.

(6) Geryon, full of all the "wisdom" and "humanity" of the opinions of millions of anonymous SpaceNetters, hovers up at Bowser's side and begins circling the area, letting out small sparks, making some wailing sounds, and tossing small pebbles, screws, broken glass, and the like around the area. This makes it a bit mroe dangerous for the creatures attacking, but kinda a bit mroe dangerous for Bowser as well.

Kit_4 is relatively safe under the tire she found, and is close enough to get back inside in a dash, so no roll this turn for her.
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: MonkeyMarkMario on July 13, 2022, 10:46:37 pm
Show this creature the error of its way on trying to ambush a Cy-Borg. Slashing and whacking at the arms with robotic arm. If I beak free retreat to the 'base'.

Spoiler: Cy-Borg Bob (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Fluffe9911 on July 13, 2022, 11:09:35 pm
...Chatters isn't no quitter! Its not my fault traitorous eyes are slow to adjust! I simply must wait a bit longer and soon I can see yes yes!

Spoiler: Chatters (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Egan_BW on July 13, 2022, 11:41:13 pm
I don't suppose there's water here? It would be nice to be able to wash my clothes... Oh well, if not just rest.

Spoiler: Alice! (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: King Zultan on July 14, 2022, 02:19:38 am
"I had to sacrifice the parachute to get rid of that weird ball thing, so if anyone sees it with something wiggling around inside leave it alone. Guess I'll have to go get another one tomorrow."
See if my cellphone can get a signal here, after that take pictures of the people around me with my camera. Also am I still nauseated?
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Knightwing64 on July 14, 2022, 06:49:06 pm
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Well. This might be time to make a focus.

Try to make a magic focus to enhance the power of my magic, and reduce the drawbacks.

Embrace the randomness of the universe and prank someone at random
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: SuperDino85 on July 15, 2022, 01:04:52 pm
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Breathe small amounts of fire in front of me for some light and make my way back to the containers. Clobber any hostile creature that gets too close with the rod
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lenglon on July 16, 2022, 02:28:56 am
I keep widening the hole, however, I'm also going to be careful about actually going into it. I don't have the body mass to handle bad gas well.
I do NOT want to stay outside with predators around. I'm too small, they'll try to hunt me! I run inside to hide in the shelter with the group of friendly big people.
the rest of me mostly just inside with the group, I don't want to get hunted! I'll have some food instead and rest.

Spoiler: Collar Messages (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Status and Location (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Kit (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Devastator on July 16, 2022, 03:04:20 am
Well, the two by four, the metal pole, and the cinder block are somewhat useful, I need more things.  I want wheels.  Cart wheels, bike wheels, car wheels.. something that's a little more substantial than the tiny wheels on this chair leg.  I'll need more mobility to find some decent tools.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Knightwing64 on July 16, 2022, 01:02:03 pm
(Alright, I added my action)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Ozarck on July 19, 2022, 10:23:06 pm
Show this creature the error of its way on trying to ambush a Cy-Borg. Slashing and whacking at the arms with robotic arm. If I beak free retreat to the 'base'.

Spoiler: Cy-Borg Bob (click to show/hide)
(6) The creature bangs a proboscis against a particularly hard part of your body and reels back, allowing you to twist free and crawl out of it's hole, giving it a good kick in the spiracles for good measure. You flop out of the hole face down in the dust. As you rise to your hands and knees, you hear scuttling. A lot of scuttling. You rush back to the base, never looking backward. A cat darts in the door ahead of you and you slam it behind you. "If you guys hear knocking, ignore it. We don't want visitors." You lean against the door as several heavy bodies bounce off it from teh other side. "No visitors!" You repeat, a slight metallic whine in your voice.

...Chatters isn't no quitter! Its not my fault traitorous eyes are slow to adjust! I simply must wait a bit longer and soon I can see yes yes!

Spoiler: Chatters (click to show/hide)
(4) Your eyes adapt, marginally. But you're a rat, so eyes were never your only means of navigation. Your whiskers go on full alert, your ears rotate like furry radar dishes, and your nose twitches in the dusty air.From the various cues and clues, you surmise that this was a sort of office at one point, with a desk, chair, file cabinets, and a bookshelf. You think this is what you knocked over on your way down. "If it's an office, yes, it has a door, yes." You mutter, feeling the walls for a handle or knob, which you find pretty quickly.

I don't suppose there's water here? It would be nice to be able to wash my clothes... Oh well, if not just rest.

Spoiler: Alice! (click to show/hide)
(5) From the Kits, you discover that there might be some sort of utility room below this floor of the base. There's probably water, or some sort of collection system, down there. You go over to where the kits are widening a hole in the floor, peek in to the various side rooms, and discover as trap door in the pantry in the back of the kitchen area. It wasn't hidden, exactly, but between the dust, debris, and a large milk create full of bottles of something that's probably gone very, very bad, it wasn't exactly exposed during the group's first explorations of the area.

"I had to sacrifice the parachute to get rid of that weird ball thing, so if anyone sees it with something wiggling around inside leave it alone. Guess I'll have to go get another one tomorrow."
See if my cellphone can get a signal here, after that take pictures of the people around me with my camera. Also am I still nauseated?
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
(5) remarkably, your phone gets signal here. There's even a GPS system in place. There must be a shell of satellites still active in orbit here. You take a few photos, doing that thing that photographers do where they lean way back to take the picture. You get a good action shot of the Kits pawing at the floor, a pensive shot of Alice looking tired, and what appears at first glance to be a casual shot of Bob leaning against the door, until you notice that he seems to be leaning a littel too hard against it, as if to keep it from falling down on him.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Well. This might be time to make a focus.

Try to make a magic focus to enhance the power of my magic, and reduce the drawbacks.

Embrace the randomness of the universe and prank someone at random

[hidden] you create a miniature replica of yourself. It looks almost like one of those trolls dolls, but with your features.Focuses like this tend to get consumed during use of magic, so it isn't permanent, but you don't know how many charges it has, ... or really what effect using it will have.
(2) You snap your fingers and feel the power happen. Somewhere, somewhen, someone got pranked. You feel the surprise, confusion, and annoyance of the recipient, but who, what, where, and how are all a mystery. No wonder imps hate being banished.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Breathe small amounts of fire in front of me for some light and make my way back to the containers. Clobber any hostile creature that gets too close with the rod
(1) You let out a long burp, but nothing more. (5) The creatures rush you in a big lump, and in the tumbling ,thwacking, roaring ,and scratching, you are knocked over, the barrel comes free, and you lurch upright with a big roar, throwing off the creatures around you. You start swinging and stomping, sending creatures flying as you go. (6) As you approach the base, you notice that it is currently under seige by a swarm of chittering, crablike creatures all piling up in front of the door like a spilled tray of pancakes. And you just brought a bunch of strange, hopping things with big noses and high pitched calls to the party.

I keep widening the hole, however, I'm also going to be careful about actually going into it. I don't have the body mass to handle bad gas well.
I do NOT want to stay outside with predators around. I'm too small, they'll try to hunt me! I run inside to hide in the shelter with the group of friendly big people.
the rest of me mostly just inside with the group, I don't want to get hunted! I'll have some food instead and rest.

Spoiler: Collar Messages (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Status and Location (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Kit (click to show/hide)
(2)(1)(3) no hearing gain this round. (1) you may have widened the hole as far as it's going to get. One of the Kits gets their paw into something sticky and black. It's gross!

Well, the two by four, the metal pole, and the cinder block are somewhat useful, I need more things.  I want wheels.  Cart wheels, bike wheels, car wheels.. something that's a little more substantial than the tiny wheels on this chair leg.  I'll need more mobility to find some decent tools.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I believe the metal pole is in Bowser's possession. He's using it as a bludgeon. (4) you find an upended trailer with three good tires and one damaged tire. Tehy're all flat, but the three good ones probably would hold air. THe damaged one is beyond repair by normal means.
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Egan_BW on July 20, 2022, 12:34:29 am
In hatch. To retrieve water for drinking and cleaning.

Spoiler: Alice! (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: King Zultan on July 20, 2022, 02:45:35 am
"What the hell's going on outside and who's the guy blocking the door, I don't remember him being here earlier."
See if I can call someone I know back on my home planet, then see if I can find a map of this place on my phone.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: SuperDino85 on July 20, 2022, 01:06:21 pm
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

”Hey no fair! If anyone does a siege it’s supposed to be me! Not some third grade rodents!”

Incinerate the creatures in front of the door with a blast of fire breath
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Fluffe9911 on July 21, 2022, 05:23:50 pm
”Hey no fair! If anyone does a siege it’s supposed to be me! Not some third grade rodents!”
From underground Chatters suddenly feels randomly offended but the feeling quickly passes "Strange bizzare! Grrrr anyway onwards foward! Whiskers and ears continue to lead me to success victory where traitor bad eyes can not!"

Continue onward further into my new domain!

Spoiler: Chatters (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Knightwing64 on July 22, 2022, 05:22:40 pm
WIP
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lenglon on July 23, 2022, 11:44:50 am
I head back out away from the bug-hole to clean off my paw, but I'm not going to lick it since there was that chemical smell, instead trying to find something else I can wipe it off with, and I also go over to the utility room entrance Alice found, and the rest of me just kinda spread out around the structure, giving me eyes and ears pretty much everywhere.

Spoiler: Collar Messages (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Status and Location (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Kit (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Devastator on July 24, 2022, 04:54:41 pm
Try to free a wheel by posessing lug nuts and untwisting them.  If I manage that, possess a wheel and bounce it over the small hostile creatures, bashing into them with wild abandon.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Ozarck on July 26, 2022, 12:57:48 am
In hatch. To retrieve water for drinking and cleaning.

Spoiler: Alice! (click to show/hide)
(2) the wooden stairs of the ladder seem sturdy enough at first glance, but naturally they collapse under your weight, dropping you with a painful thud to the floor below. You cough up a lot of dust, (1) and twist an ankle pretty bad. Can't walk on it. You hear something else moving down here. Also, it's dark. I figure that point is obvious, but ... As for the dust, it's not debilitating or anything. You hear another creature, rather large by the sounds of it, open a door and make it's way toward you, squeaking and snarling.

"What the hell's going on outside and who's the guy blocking the door, I don't remember him being here earlier."
See if I can call someone I know back on my home planet, then see if I can find a map of this place on my phone.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
(3) You weren't able to get an outgoing call, as the planet has some sort of exorbitent fees for voice calls off-world, but you are able to send an off-world text through the Cosmic Relay Network. No telling how long it will take to get there, but you text out "Vacation is going fine. The trash doesn't even stink!  Accommodations are modest, but the company is fascinating. You meet so many interesting people out here. Wish you were here (and I wasn't) xoxoxo." (6) You do find a map of the place from teh GPS system. It's pretty large though and you need to clear some space on your phone to access it. You don't need all those accessory features, do you?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

”Hey no fair! If anyone does a siege it’s supposed to be me! Not some third grade rodents!”

Incinerate the creatures in front of the door with a blast of fire breath
(6) You set off a powerful blast of fire breath, scorching a path through the creatures, and heating up the door to uncomfortable levels. Several of the creatures atually catch fire, and start running around recklessly, squealing and flailing. Unsurprisingly, this adds to the chaos in front of the door. Many of the creatures are scampering away, but many others start fighting in their panic, snapping and snarling. Well, at least you've established dominance over the trash heap scavengers in this area. You cross your forepaws and snarl.

”Hey no fair! If anyone does a siege it’s supposed to be me! Not some third grade rodents!”
From underground Chatters suddenly feels randomly offended but the feeling quickly passes "Strange bizzare! Grrrr anyway onwards foward! Whiskers and ears continue to lead me to success victory where traitor bad eyes can not!"

Continue onward further into my new domain!

Spoiler: Chatters (click to show/hide)
You hear a crash and thump outside your current room. Still more offended at existance than nervous about it's end, you open the door, squeaking and snarling to yourself. You peer out and see a ray of light to the left. You smell dust, and one of those more offensive smells you noticed on landing on this dump. Another person. It's Alice. Is she trying to steal your hideout?

WIP
oops.

I head back out away from the bug-hole to clean off my paw, but I'm not going to lick it since there was that chemical smell, instead trying to find something else I can wipe it off with, and I also go over to the utility room entrance Alice found, and the rest of me just kinda spread out around the structure, giving me eyes and ears pretty much everywhere.

Spoiler: Collar Messages (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Status and Location (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Kit (click to show/hide)
I'm going to hand-wave the hearing issue away now, since it's not really relevant anyway. So consider your sixteen ears all in good order. Also, Alice falls down the ladder into the basement. You KNEW there was something down below! You paw at a dirt patch on the floor for a bit to get as much of the sticky stuff off as you can without putting your paw in your mouth. Now your paw is sticky and dirty, but overall it's an improvement. Otherwise, you notice nothing beyond what has already been seen. Oh, except, the front exit gets really hot, and there's a commotion outside - the sounds of panic and fighting. And a big, menacing creature laughing?

Try to free a wheel by posessing lug nuts and untwisting them.  If I manage that, possess a wheel and bounce it over the small hostile creatures, bashing into them with wild abandon.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
(1) You possess a lug nut, but it is rusted on so tight you can't unscrew it. (4) You mentally shrug, possess the cart, and throw it entire at the mass of creatures, sending a handful of them flying and further adding to the chaos. The wooden bed of the cart shatters and splinters, but the frame and axles remain intact. The transfer to the nut and then to the cart drained you. You need to consume something useful before jumping to another object or doing more than simple tasks with the cart. You can still move it, like a weird, sick animal with three lame paws and one missing paw, no fur, and one eye.
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: King Zultan on July 27, 2022, 01:32:12 am
"Hope none of that stuff was important."
Spend a bit looking at the map and see what's around the building we're in.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lenglon on July 27, 2022, 04:59:52 am
I go bug the other occupants of the building, trying to get them to help Alice out of the utility room.

Spoiler: Collar Messages (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Status and Location (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Kit (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Knightwing64 on July 27, 2022, 09:00:25 am
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Snap fingers and use focus to create a wacky looking remote that has a bunch of funny and reality breaking functions.

After that, throw a pie in somebody’s face
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: SuperDino85 on July 27, 2022, 01:01:38 pm
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Swat the remaining creatures out of the way with a snarl and get through the door to the inside
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Devastator on July 27, 2022, 10:06:03 pm
Eat that rusted lug nut, because it's clearly usefully holding the rim to the wheel, and that's what lug nuts do.  I'll just park the cart, as it clearly needs a little fixing work before doing good work with it.

Think back.  Have I seen an air compressor or an air piston anywhere?  Any heavy machinery that I might be able to find one if I break it down?


Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: MonkeyMarkMario on July 27, 2022, 11:18:42 pm
"What the hell's going on outside and who's the guy blocking the door, I don't remember him being here earlier."

Quote from: Cy-Borg Bob
Greetings, I am Bob, the first of my kind and I am a Cy-Borg. You may call me Cy-Borg Bob, Borg Bob, or just plain . . . Bob. I will be leaving this world and it's space and prove that Cy-Borgs are the superior race over humans by destroying the interlopers who tried to destroy me. If anyone would like to join me I will be willing to offer a portion of my power to you. Currently I have elevated healing and adaption. If you do not want to be injected with nanobots at this time then I will respect your wishes. This is an open invitation.

As for what's going on outside. . . there are some unnatural monstrosities outside that seem to like flesh of any-kind. DO NOT LET THEM IN!

If the monstrosities are still banging at the door continue to hold against them. If not I go help Kit get Alice out of the Utility Room.

Spoiler: Cy-Borg Bob (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: King Zultan on July 28, 2022, 03:56:50 am
"Hello there Bob, I'm not sure I want to be injected with something from someone I just met but thanks for the offer."
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Fluffe9911 on July 28, 2022, 09:28:48 am
"Agh out out manthing! This is my mine lair hovel!"

Get smelly intruder out of my lair!

Spoiler: Chatters (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Egan_BW on July 28, 2022, 01:27:51 pm
"Don't approach or I'll set you on fire."

I will. (With the Flare Gun.)

Spoiler: Alice! (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Fluffe9911 on July 28, 2022, 03:26:05 pm
"Don't approach or I'll set you on fire."

"Grrr your bluff lying! Get out of my lair hovel! Its mine mine!"
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Egan_BW on July 28, 2022, 03:42:04 pm
"I'm not. Now piss off before I light up your rancid body oils."
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Knightwing64 on July 28, 2022, 04:25:02 pm
“I bet a rock that the rat gives her some sort of plague. Any takers?”
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: King Zultan on July 29, 2022, 02:39:15 am
"Why are people fighting and when did we find a basement?"
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Ozarck on August 01, 2022, 07:56:56 pm
"Hope none of that stuff was important."
Spend a bit looking at the map and see what's around the building we're in.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
A kitten begins meowing at you incessantly, giving you disadvantage on concentration tasks, like figuring out a planet sized map, finding your location on it, and getting any useful information from that.(4)(2) Between the meowing, the pop-up ads, the banner ads, the spam holograms of princesses in need, whom only you can help, and a really funny skit about lice you found on SapceTube, you fail to locate yourself on the world map this round.

 
I go bug the other occupants of the building, trying to get them to help Alice out of the utility room.

Spoiler: Collar Messages (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Status and Location (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Kit (click to show/hide)
Project: Pay Attention To Me is under way!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Snap fingers and use focus to create a wacky looking remote that has a bunch of funny and reality breaking functions.

After that, throw a pie in somebody’s face

A kitten begins meowing incessantly at you, giving you disadvantage on concentration checks, such as using complex transdimensional metaforces to adjust perceived quantuum states for chaotic, but controlled, alterations to the local space state. (1)(6) Covered, head to toe, in banana cream (the funniest pie filling), you place your hands on your hips, stare at the kitten, wait the comedicly appropriate two seconds, open your mouth and lick the cream, then scowl and say "WHAT?" in a typically pet-owner annoyed fashion.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Swat the remaining creatures out of the way with a snarl and get through the door to the inside
Since you are outside where the monsters are, you do not get disadvantage due to distraction at this point: (6) you swat the critters aside and kick the door in, snarling. Now, you are inside, but the door is kicked in. (3) you pick the door up and lean it at an angle against the door frame. It lists to one side, looking straight out of a Tim Burton movie, all bent aned mishapen and just not quite right. Also, that's not going to hold up to any pressure from the outside.

Eat that rusted lug nut, because it's clearly usefully holding the rim to the wheel, and that's what lug nuts do.  I'll just park the cart, as it clearly needs a little fixing work before doing good work with it.

Think back.  Have I seen an air compressor or an air piston anywhere?  Any heavy machinery that I might be able to find one if I break it down?


Spoiler (click to show/hide)
hmmm. You turn objects to rust (or etc) when you eat them. So, all the rusted nuts on the cart, plus all the bolts holding the frame together. So, now you have three possibly useful tires and a few bits of metal framing.

(4) you recall an image of a pile of appliances not too far from here. There are probably air compressors in there. Maybe for the cooling system from a refrigerator. What do you mean by air piston? Like, a pneumatic jack type thing?

"What the hell's going on outside and who's the guy blocking the door, I don't remember him being here earlier."

Quote from: Cy-Borg Bob
Greetings, I am Bob, the first of my kind and I am a Cy-Borg. You may call me Cy-Borg Bob, Borg Bob, or just plain . . . Bob. I will be leaving this world and it's space and prove that Cy-Borgs are the superior race over humans by destroying the interlopers who tried to destroy me. If anyone would like to join me I will be willing to offer a portion of my power to you. Currently I have elevated healing and adaption. If you do not want to be injected with nanobots at this time then I will respect your wishes. This is an open invitation.

As for what's going on outside. . . there are some unnatural monstrosities outside that seem to like flesh of any-kind. DO NOT LET THEM IN!

If the monstrosities are still banging at the door continue to hold against them. If not I go help Kit get Alice out of the Utility Room.

Spoiler: Cy-Borg Bob (click to show/hide)
You hear the big lizard out there, snarling, and the terrified sounds of skittering, squealing, and chittering, which begin to fade as the lizard sounds (or amphibian, I don't know what a Koopa qualifies as) stomp closer. Feeling as if the situation outside is more or less under control, all things considered, you step away from the door just in time for it to violently clatter inward. You look back, startled as the King Koopa grabs the bent metal sheet that was a door and mushes it into the hole in the wall that used to be a doorway. A few moments of processing, and you decide that you will have better luck fishing a human out of a hole than dealing with whatever just happened at the door. You walk over to the pantry and call down below: "Yoo hoo! Anyone alive down there?" Or words to that effect. (1) You bend over to get a better view, and naturally you also fall into the hole (1) ....riiiiight on top of the aforementioned human. Well done.

"Agh out out manthing! This is my mine lair hovel!"

Get smelly intruder out of my lair!

Spoiler: Chatters (click to show/hide)
"I'm not. Now piss off before I light up your rancid body oils."
Your argument is interrupted by the timely assistance of the Cyborg, right to the face. Alice is NOT having a good day, even by human standards. (1) look, that's three (1)s in a row here. Alice feels something in her shoulder snap, loudly and painfully. this has gone from a comedic misfortune with some physical obstacles to overcome to a full blown medical emergency ... again. Like, there might be internal bleeding, and not the fun kind.
And Chatters is now outnumbered, so he does what any good ratman would and slings back into the shadows, as far away from the annoying surface dwellers as possible.


Group Status update
There are now 3 people in the basement, one of which is in a medical emergency (thanks, space snake eyes).
Everyone but the poltergeist is inside, but the front door is now more a suggestion than a command.
The imp is covered in delicious comedy
Kits helped ... ?
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: MonkeyMarkMario on August 01, 2022, 08:10:18 pm
Quote from: Cy-Borg Bob
Shit sorry about that. I have elevated healing nanobots would you like me to inject you with some?
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Egan_BW on August 01, 2022, 08:32:27 pm
pained screaming
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: SuperDino85 on August 01, 2022, 08:34:35 pm
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Sit down with my back against the door to hold it there in case any of our “neighbors” decides to try again
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: MonkeyMarkMario on August 01, 2022, 09:35:52 pm
Quote from: Cy-Borg Bob
I'll take that as a yes. This might hurt I am not sure I haven't done this before.

Make sure the nanotube injection arm is attached correctly and then inject Alice with my nanobots.

Spoiler: Cy-Borg Bob (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Fluffe9911 on August 01, 2022, 10:58:55 pm
"Gahhhh rigged unfair! Coward man thing cant fight their own fight battles so summon calls robo thing to help steal home hovel! Grrr ill force make them regret screw messing with Chatters!"

Throw rocks, pebbles and other stuff at them from the shadows until they leave my lair retreat if they actually try fight me.

Spoiler: Chatters (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: MonkeyMarkMario on August 02, 2022, 12:59:09 am
Quote from: Cy-Borg Bob
Calm yourself rat-friend, I am trying to help. I fell down and I bet so did Alice. If you know the way out of here then help us out and we will leave you to your hole. First let me start the healing process for our friend here.
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: King Zultan on August 02, 2022, 03:28:29 am
"Damn it cat your bugging me with your noise, go bother someone else."
Go back to the map and try again to find where we are.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Knightwing64 on August 02, 2022, 08:15:13 am
“OH GODDAMMIT, DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU JUST COST ME? UGHHHHH, stupid fox hive mind.”

Consider cursing kit as a response but reluctantly decide against it



(Did I lose my focus? If I have it or not will decide what I do. Also, in all fairness IC there was no possible way to know what I was doing but logical responses are for losers who aren’t reality warping man child’s)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Fluffe9911 on August 02, 2022, 01:00:57 pm
Quote from: Cy-Borg Bob
Calm yourself rat-friend, I am trying to help. I fell down and I bet so did Alice. If you know the way out of here then help us out and we will leave you to your hole. First let me start the healing process for our friend here.
You hear some words echo in the distance "Forgive sorry cant perceive hear you! Too work busy internally talk thinking in void dark about throwing pebble rocks in your face direction!"
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Knightwing64 on August 05, 2022, 08:04:46 pm
Acquire revenge

Curse Kit

Be self satisfied

Realize that was probably a bad idea

Apologize to fox hivemind

Enhance the powers of my golem through metaphorical blood tears and sweat



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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lenglon on August 06, 2022, 09:49:45 am
Well that didn't go super well. I'm just going to slink off and pretend that I had nothing to do with anything going wrong anywhere for any reason whatsoever, keeping an eye on things from the side.
I spread out throughout the building and just go be in out-of-the-way corners of the rooms, so I should be aware of most everything but won't get caught up in stuff unecessarilly.

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Devastator on August 08, 2022, 07:41:23 pm
(Yeah, a pneumatic jack will have an air piston in it.  Another name for them is pneumatic cylinders.  They're basically just simple air pumps without handles, and use air pressure to extend or retract the business end, pulling cables, raising or lowering conveyor belts, opening or closing brake shoes, stuff like that.  One could be used as a compressor if you had a way to move the piston without it being attached to a handle.)

Head over to the machinery, while inside one of the wheels.  Lets see if I can rig up a compression station, and get these tires reinflated, as the first step towards making a functional vehicle.

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Ozarck on August 09, 2022, 11:06:45 pm
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Sit down with my back against the door to hold it there in case any of our “neighbors” decides to try again
(4) You start adjusting the door in it's socket ... err ... door frame and discover it was held in by a series of breakaway bolts and such. You notice a bucket of the things placed beside the door, disguised as an umbrella stand. You begin fastening new bolts to the frame. Apparently this isn't the first time the thing has been kicked in, and such behavior has been planned against.

Quote from: Cy-Borg Bob
I'll take that as a yes. This might hurt I am not sure I haven't done this before.

Make sure the nanotube injection arm is attached correctly and then inject Alice with my nanobots.

Spoiler: Cy-Borg Bob (click to show/hide)
(1) ah hah. Ahah. Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah. You find out that yes, this does in fact hurt. Whether it helps at all is another matter entirely.

pained screaming
Yes indeed. That is four ones in a row. You stare incredulously, still screaming, as the cyborg pulls off it's forearm. spraying hydraulic fluid everywhere, and then places a big-ass needle attachment onto the stump, the wrong way about. To his credit he does not immediately begin bludgeoning you with the blunt end of the attachment.

"Gahhhh rigged unfair! Coward man thing cant fight their own fight battles so summon calls robo thing to help steal home hovel! Grrr ill force make them regret screw messing with Chatters!"

Throw rocks, pebbles and other stuff at them from the shadows until they leave my lair retreat if they actually try fight me.

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(2) you throw random trash in their direction for a minute, before the robot pulls a giant needle off it's utility belt and proceeds to stab itself in the stump where it's forearm was a minute ago. That brings back some painful experime ... memories and yo uscuttle back into the darkness to consider your next line of insults and assaults.

"Damn it cat your bugging me with your noise, go bother someone else."
Go back to the map and try again to find where we are.
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(4) you find what looks like a candidate for your general location on the globe: northern hemisphere, there is a grand canyon sized cliff structure near a pretty massive dump pile: the pile grows the furhter east it goes. There might even be snow atop some of the larger peaks. There is the bog to the south which fades into some sort of wasteland, and swamps to the east, surrounding a river that eventually hits a pretty big inland lake. The map highlights some points of interest: settlements, radioactive waste, toxic hazard zones, and some massive biohazard threats. Aside from a few small pips of habitation up around the cliff, you are a considerable distance from most of the points of interest, though there is a minor toxic hazard zone feeding into the bog to the sought. There's also a mountain range that reaches up to the bog from the south: a finger of a larger range that encircles the planet like a really spiky belt. that range is large enough to breach atmosphere. the planet is clearly not quite spherical, as the equator bulges out enough for that to happen, effectively cutting off habitation between the north and south hemispheres. Hmm. there's a pretty massive radiation zone on the southern hemisphere.

Acquire revenge

Curse Kit

Be self satisfied

Realize that was probably a bad idea

Apologize to fox hivemind

Enhance the powers of my golem through metaphorical blood tears and sweat



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(3) You curse the fur completely off Kit #4's head. The universe is of two minds about whther this was a bad idea or not. You still have your focus. In what way do you wish to enhance the focus?

Well that didn't go super well. I'm just going to slink off and pretend that I had nothing to do with anything going wrong anywhere for any reason whatsoever, keeping an eye on things from the side.
I spread out throughout the building and just go be in out-of-the-way corners of the rooms, so I should be aware of most everything but won't get caught up in stuff unecessarilly.

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You make yourself scarce, but not before all the fur falls off #4's head for some reason.

(Yeah, a pneumatic jack will have an air piston in it.  Another name for them is pneumatic cylinders.  They're basically just simple air pumps without handles, and use air pressure to extend or retract the business end, pulling cables, raising or lowering conveyor belts, opening or closing brake shoes, stuff like that.  One could be used as a compressor if you had a way to move the piston without it being attached to a handle.)

Head over to the machinery, while inside one of the wheels.  Lets see if I can rig up a compression station, and get these tires reinflated, as the first step towards making a functional vehicle.

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(6) You find a compressor that would work if it had a power source. Well, YOU are a power source, so you posess the compressor and inflate 3 tires, then promptly eat one of them to regain energy.


Group Status update
Alice is probably going to die.
...
that is all.
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: King Zultan on August 10, 2022, 03:49:03 am
"Hey guys I found a map and our location on it, also holy shit this place is an awful shit hole there's radiation and shit allover the place."
Keep looking at the map and see if I can find any vehicles in the area around our base.
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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: SuperDino85 on August 10, 2022, 10:45:28 am
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Look over Debby’s shoulder at the map they’re looking at, just out of boredom from waiting for daytime
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Fluffe9911 on August 10, 2022, 03:11:50 pm
Chatters starts loudly monologuing "Gahh how dare provoke memory recollection of past trauma injuries! I hate hate metal thing! Must get revenge retaliation! Grrr... thought idea! Clearly it want man thing dead in torture agony! I shall trick deceive it into thinking I will help it murder torture man thing and when its back is rotate turned I shall tip push it over and treat the man things wound injuries! Another genius smart plan from Chatters yes yes!"

Chatters reluctantly steps out of the shadows "Psst hey metal thing! I grrrr see you trying to murder maim man thing! Mind if I help help? Chatters is very good at maim murder!"

If the metal thing declines or somehow comes onto my plan just make loud annoying noises at it from the shadows if they accept get them to turn around push them over then start treating the man things wounds... maybe steal some of the smelly man things stuff as well... for safekeeping of course! Afterall with my genius I can make more use of it then the man thing ever could!

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Knightwing64 on August 10, 2022, 07:31:03 pm
Use my magic to save Alice, or at least stabilize her condition.


Enhance my focus to have multiple uses and be just generally better




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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: MonkeyMarkMario on August 10, 2022, 10:19:31 pm
Quote from: Cy-Borg Bob
Rat friend, sorry, Chatters I am not trying to murder her, I am injecting her with my nanobots which give elevated healing. If you can help stabilize her then that is fine.

Reattached the nanotube injection arm correctly and then inject Alice with my nanobots.

Quote from: Cy-Bog Bob quite mumbling
I thought the way these things are designed it should have been impossible to put it backward.

Spoiler: Cy-Borg Bob (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Fluffe9911 on August 11, 2022, 01:10:40 am
Quote from: Cy-Borg Bob
Rat friend, sorry, Chatters I am not trying to murder her, I am injecting her with my nanobots which give elevated healing. If you can help stabilize her then that is fine.

Chatters stares back and forth at the screaming human and the robot for a couple of seconds "Right... right! 'Save healing' the man thing that is clear obvious what metal thing is doing I will totally help assist  'saving' the man thing yes yes!" Chatters winks
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lenglon on August 11, 2022, 08:00:16 pm
No action

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Devastator on August 17, 2022, 09:41:01 am
(I don't believe there's anything I can do about botched cyborg-healing.  Unless..)

Give my Action Point (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=179993.msg8390284;topicseen#msg8390284) to Alice to Not-Die.

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Fluffe9911 on August 17, 2022, 12:52:34 pm
Inb4 this turns into a too many cooks situation
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Ozarck on August 21, 2022, 01:15:14 am
"Hey guys I found a map and our location on it, also holy shit this place is an awful shit hole there's radiation and shit allover the place."
Keep looking at the map and see if I can find any vehicles in the area around our base.
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(2) Trash, trash, trash .... bog .... crater? ... you find some weird temple looking thing .... up on top of the cliff to the north. maybe mark that as a point of interest.

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Look over Debby’s shoulder at the map they’re looking at, just out of boredom from waiting for daytime
(6) You see what she sees. Then you notice something weird. You have her scroll back andzoom in. You find one of those huge-ass earth movers that's like, a whole buildiing designed to basically make craters in the ground to strip out resources. maybe mark the Giant Excavator Of Doom as a Point of Interest.

Chatters starts loudly monologuing "Gahh how dare provoke memory recollection of past trauma injuries! I hate hate metal thing! Must get revenge retaliation! Grrr... thought idea! Clearly it want man thing dead in torture agony! I shall trick deceive it into thinking I will help it murder torture man thing and when its back is rotate turned I shall tip push it over and treat the man things wound injuries! Another genius smart plan from Chatters yes yes!"

Chatters reluctantly steps out of the shadows "Psst hey metal thing! I grrrr see you trying to murder maim man thing! Mind if I help help? Chatters is very good at maim murder!"

If the metal thing declines or somehow comes onto my plan just make loud annoying noises at it from the shadows if they accept get them to turn around push them over then start treating the man things wounds... maybe steal some of the smelly man things stuff as well... for safekeeping of course! Afterall with my genius I can make more use of it then the man thing ever could!

Spoiler: Chatters (click to show/hide)
Use my magic to save Alice, or at least stabilize her condition.


Enhance my focus to have multiple uses and be just generally better




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Quote from: Cy-Borg Bob
Rat friend, sorry, Chatters I am not trying to murder her, I am injecting her with my nanobots which give elevated healing. If you can help stabilize her then that is fine.

Reattached the nanotube injection arm correctly and then inject Alice with my nanobots.

Quote from: Cy-Bog Bob quite mumbling
I thought the way these things are designed it should have been impossible to put it backward.

Spoiler: Cy-Borg Bob (click to show/hide)
(6) (1) (6) Cyborg Bob is Clearly trying to kill Alice (seriously, that was the fifth 1 for you and Egan in a row), so Chatters and Mr. Zorak double team him. Chatters knocks Bob down and steals his injector, which Mr. Zorak then magically attaches to chatters forearm. Chatters tehn gently pokes Alice in the shoulder with the neelde end: well, as gently as a Skav .... large Rattus Sapiense might be expected to do. She screams, of course, and passes out. A moment later, you see her shoulder writhe and hear the sound of bones grinding, then a different sound. Her shoulder actually glows a deep, blood-red for a moment. It no longer looks broken. That's a relief. And her whiskers look pretty good too, against her auburn fur.

No action

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Noted.

(I don't believe there's anything I can do about botched cyborg-healing.  Unless..)

Give my Action Point (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=179993.msg8390284;topicseen#msg8390284) to Alice to Not-Die.

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Not needed. Besides, Egan didn't respond, so keep the action point. she has her own anyway, I think.




After the screams die down, the rest of the night passes uneventfully, and people are somehow able to sleep. Chatters and Cyborg Bob discover that the main room on the lower floor is dedicated to several large stills, and barrels of alcohol. Rum, maybe.  At one end of the room is a self contained recycling pool for water - long disused and badly damaged. there's a pool of murky water in it, so Alice' water purifier has something to work with at least. You might be able to scavenge the parts to get the larger recycler fucntional again, if you so choose.

The morning is quiet, but not unnaturally so. Some of the Kits run off (but not far. just "in base" as it were) to chase rodents and insects - the normal kind that appear on most habitable worlds.
The sky is a beautiful radiant green, full of roiling clouds and arcing lightning that gives off distant, crackling thunder. underneath the cloud cover, the air is surprisingly clear. You notice a strange, moving dust cloud eastward, further into the trash mountains, and flocks of carrion birds to teh west, out by the swamps and forest. Speaking of birds, this planet seems to breed them in abundance, as, shortly after sunrise, the roiling sky is obscured by the wings of thosands upon thousands of some small, grey bird. the flock takes half an hour to pass, during which everyone kinda huddles inside, not so much because the birds might attack, but because that many cloacas flying directly overhead can leave an area rather unhygenic rather quickly.

poop. I am talking about bird poop. You guys stay inside to avoid a million birds all pooping on your heads. Once the flock is past, you look outside, and, sure enough, the area is just coated in it.
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: King Zultan on August 21, 2022, 03:48:47 am
"Nasty ass birds shitting everywhere."
Mark the temple as a point of interest, then try to figure out how to get to the giant excavator from where we are.
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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Fluffe9911 on August 21, 2022, 08:05:22 am
Chatters looks at the stabby needle thingy on his arm in fascination "Ohhh very nice nice! Think how many man things I can maim stab with this!" Chatters focuses back on the barrels "Anyway I shall... taste sample these barrels which are mine! For... death poison! Leave Chatters to it yes yes?"

Sample the beer and if it doesn't kill me drink the hell out of it also continue to keep things away from me especially that robot that may want its stabby needle thing back

Spoiler: Chatters (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: MonkeyMarkMario on August 21, 2022, 09:59:40 am
Quote from: Cy-Borg Bob
Chatters give me back my nanotube injection arm attachment.

If Chatters doesn't give me back my nanotube injection arm attachment take it back by force.

Quote from: Cy-Bog Bob quite mumbling
How is it possible for a rat-folk to inject a person and heal them. I must study their blood.

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lenglon on August 21, 2022, 10:39:04 am
I climb down to poke and inspect Alice. Did she get turned into a a big ratperson too?

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: SuperDino85 on August 21, 2022, 12:37:52 pm
Help Debby plan a route to the excavator and then challenge them to a race to it

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Fluffe9911 on August 21, 2022, 02:18:26 pm
Quote from: Cy-Borg Bob
Chatters give me back my nanotube injection arm attachment.
"Gahh no no! Chatters got stabby needle thingy honorable fair! Besides stabby needle thingy is stuck to Chatters hand arm! Removing it would probably kill murder me! So leave Chatters alone metal thing and let me enjoy the stabby needle thingy!"
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Devastator on August 27, 2022, 12:06:20 pm
Chemistry, maybe.  Chemistry might get me off this rock.  Stills.. Poop.. it's all good.

Gather some food, because I don't want to eat any more wheels.  Two can make a good vehicle.  One is much more dubious.  Use my action point on it.  Look for things like tangles of bent scrap, small wooden bits, containers with holes in them, etc.  Stuff that's not going to be useful without a lot of work, but still things.

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Ozarck on August 31, 2022, 06:50:17 am
"Nasty ass birds shitting everywhere."
Mark the temple as a point of interest, then try to figure out how to get to the giant excavator from where we are.
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Help Debby plan a route to the excavator and then challenge them to a race to it

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Rolling at advantage for route making since you are cooperating: (6)(4)You discuss several options and plot one route that goes essentially straight up over one of the more impressive trash heaps and would get you to the excavator in one full day of marching, or a more reasonable, less likely to involve trashalances, route along a more well established path. Looks like a route the rash handlers take to get deep into the piles when they need to .... whatever they might need to do in a planetary trash heap. Anyway, the second, more reasonable route willtake effectively a day and a half of travel, meaning you'd have to camp along the way, but at least you'd be able to arrive in time to do some scouting before nightfall the second day.

Chatters looks at the stabby needle thingy on his arm in fascination "Ohhh very nice nice! Think how many man things I can maim stab with this!" Chatters focuses back on the barrels "Anyway I shall... taste sample these barrels which are mine! For... death poison! Leave Chatters to it yes yes?"

Sample the beer and if it doesn't kill me drink the hell out of it also continue to keep things away from me especially that robot that may want its stabby needle thing back

Spoiler: Chatters (click to show/hide)
(5) beer's good yo. You get quite drunk. That's not really a state conducive to avoiding trouble though. See Bob's action for more info.

Quote from: Cy-Borg Bob
Chatters give me back my nanotube injection arm attachment.

If Chatters doesn't give me back my nanotube injection arm attachment take it back by force.

Quote from: Cy-Bog Bob quite mumbling
How is it possible for a rat-folk to inject a person and heal them. I must study their blood.

Spoiler: Cy-Borg Bob (click to show/hide)
Chatters spends his time in equal measure waving his needle arm violently in your direction, and drinking out of one of the kegs. During this tense stand-off, you discover that the needle arm is ... not even grafted on, but has become a part of chatters. it even has tufts of fur growing through it. You are pretty sure that in it's current state, the needle arm would do you little good, as it has become less robotic and more rattotic. You can still attempt to take it by force, but this will involve violently removing an arm, which I am happy to roll for next round if you like. You'll have an advantage, in that Chatters has been thoroughly enjoying the beer.

Alternatively, you can begin processing supplies for a replacement. Effectively, you'll need some techno bits to 'eat' so your nanites can break them down and rebuild them into something useful.

I climb down to poke and inspect Alice. Did she get turned into a a big ratperson too?

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She's still mostly human, but definitely furry and whiskered. Seems the trauma has given her a touch of space dementia as well.

Chemistry, maybe.  Chemistry might get me off this rock.  Stills.. Poop.. it's all good.

Gather some food, because I don't want to eat any more wheels.  Two can make a good vehicle.  One is much more dubious.  Use my action point on it.  Look for things like tangles of bent scrap, small wooden bits, containers with holes in them, etc.  Stuff that's not going to be useful without a lot of work, but still things.

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(1)(5) You spend the morning floating random bits into a pile near the base. Since you gain energy by increasing entropy, you do concentrate on more information dense materials: damaged electronics, anything printed, like books, magazines, flyers, t-shirts, and complex mechanisms like watches. OF course, organics are also pretty information dense, so real wood stuff, fur coats, and things of that nature go in the pile. Overall, you have several uses of the pile for consumption, and there are a few potentially usable things in there. All in all, a productive morning.


Team update:
While the poltergeist is building a pile of almost useful debris, everyone else is more or less in survivable and stable condition.

You've also acquired a mini-quest: explore the earth digger! it'll take two days to travel to, unless you take a risky route, so if you choose to go, start planning the trip.
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: King Zultan on September 01, 2022, 05:26:51 am
"I feel like we should get some weapons before we go trying to get to the excavator."
Search the piles near the base for a weapon or anything that could be used as a weapon.
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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: SuperDino85 on September 01, 2022, 08:05:16 pm
”Hmph. Fine. Be nice if there was something in the trash I could make a cannon with…”
Help the deer person look in the trash for weapons or something that could be made into a cannon
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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Knightwing64 on September 02, 2022, 08:31:00 pm
“Thievery isn’t good, you know? This is supposed to be a team effort.”


Curse Chatters for their insolence



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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Fluffe9911 on September 04, 2022, 07:33:57 pm
Hick "Chatters... shall... own rule..." Hick "The globe world!"

Walk around the place randomly in a drunken stupor

Spoiler: Chatters (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Devastator on September 04, 2022, 10:22:11 pm
Well.. I can just throw pointy stuff.  But I could use something better.

Try to make a weapon to give electronic shocks.  Look for capacitors and wire from the broken electronics to rig up a device where I can electrify wires to give powerful zaps.

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lenglon on September 06, 2022, 04:09:04 am
At this point I'm mostly waiting for us to no longer be trapped by the horde outside. So I have nothing to do until dawn I think. So I'm mostly going to be idle kittens being idle.

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Ozarck on September 06, 2022, 09:35:27 am
((it was dawn two turns ago. You are free to be more adventurous whenever you like))
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lenglon on September 08, 2022, 12:41:14 pm
Well in that case I'm going to head out and explore! have places to see and surroundings to scour!
one of me is staying back in case I get in trouble, but the rest of me are going outside and spreading out and looking around.

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Ozarck on October 02, 2022, 07:03:57 am
Sorry for the unannounced hiatus. Had a car accident, suffered some depression. Should be okay now.

"I feel like we should get some weapons before we go trying to get to the excavator."
Search the piles near the base for a weapon or anything that could be used as a weapon.
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(2) You find a rusty pipe with a pointy end, some chunks of heavy stone, and some broken glass. some of the glass is pretty thick: 4 or more inches deep. You also find a half a bottle of bleach.
You can remove nauseated and damaged palm as status effects.

”Hmph. Fine. Be nice if there was something in the trash I could make a cannon with…”
Help the deer person look in the trash for weapons or something that could be made into a cannon
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(5) you find a cannon. And two cannonballs. And two powder bags.

“Thievery isn’t good, you know? This is supposed to be a team effort.”


Curse Chatters for their insolence



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(6) You curse chatters. He now has three great big glowing hands pointing to him with the word THIEF! scrawled across them in big, legible print.

Hick "Chatters... shall... own rule..." Hick "The globe world!"

Walk around the place randomly in a drunken stupor

Spoiler: Chatters (click to show/hide)
You do so. You get into a drunken fight with the three big glowing hands that have materialized around you to judge you. Anyone listening to the argument would take 1d4 psychic damage and require a saving throw vs losing a point of intelligence. All in all, an impressive bender.

Well.. I can just throw pointy stuff.  But I could use something better.

Try to make a weapon to give electronic shocks.  Look for capacitors and wire from the broken electronics to rig up a device where I can electrify wires to give powerful zaps.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
You get the wires and capacitors set up to form shocks. seems like the most practical weapon to make with them would be some kind of prod or club, though if you have something else in mind, the set-up might work for other forms as well. Needs some kind of batteries or other source: (1) nothing in your inventory works for that.

Well in that case I'm going to head out and explore! have places to see and surroundings to scour!
one of me is staying back in case I get in trouble, but the rest of me are going outside and spreading out and looking around.

Spoiler: Collar Messages (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Status and Location (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Kit (click to show/hide)
You can remove the slightly deafened status. (6) You find a whole crate of miscellaneous batteries: car batteries, AA, AAA, D, C, crystaline resonance shards, even two nano-goop charge devices. You aren't entirely sure if it is, but at the bottom of the pile, you even find the legendary B cell battery. You also find a bear trap in possibly working condition, three mirrors, and a probably broken communication mini-hub. It's a cube about three feet to a side that contains some short and mid range communication equipment, along with a couple drones for establishing link points.


TEAM STATUS
fine mostly. making or finding weapons and fighting over medical attachments and alcohol.
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: King Zultan on October 03, 2022, 02:43:16 am
Sorry for the unannounced hiatus. Had a car accident, suffered some depression. Should be okay now.
(Hope your doing well after the accident.)

"Well this pipe is better than nothing, so I guess it'll do for now."
Grab the pipe and the bleach, then start looking for something I can use as rope.
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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: SuperDino85 on October 03, 2022, 10:18:49 am
”Aww YEAH! Home sweet cannon!”

Look for a larger bag that I could use to lug the cannon and ammo around in

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Egan_BW on October 03, 2022, 03:00:46 pm
Wake up. Check status.

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lenglon on October 04, 2022, 02:38:01 am
I make mental notes of where things are so I can guide the big people to them later, but all the various exploring Me go swarm over the Communication mini-hub, inspecting it top-to-bottom, inside and out, finding anything broken and figuring out what it needs to be repaired, my collective self is all focused on getting this working.

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Fluffe9911 on October 08, 2022, 11:30:04 am
"Gah! Chatters is no thief stealer! Everything I have got taken has been got taken fair fair! If anything your the thief stealer thief stealing my time schedule!"

Have a very loud drunkin argument with the floating hands filled with cognitive dissonance, what about-isms, and other logical fallacies.

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Devastator on October 09, 2022, 11:41:14 am
Help everyone get their stuff squared away, by searching for rope, bags and such.

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Knightwing64 on October 09, 2022, 12:26:58 pm
continue magically trolling Chatters, draw some power from my focus doll


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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Ozarck on October 17, 2022, 10:02:09 am
Sorry for the unannounced hiatus. Had a car accident, suffered some depression. Should be okay now.
(Hope your doing well after the accident.)

"Well this pipe is better than nothing, so I guess it'll do for now."
Grab the pipe and the bleach, then start looking for something I can use as rope.
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(5)You find a shipping container full of textiles, many of which are in good condition. Some are rotted out, but some are even in their original packaging. The reason they were dumped here  at all is a mystery, until you spot the Brand logo. THere was an extremely offensive cartoon character that was wildly popular in a certain stellar system for a brief time as they began expanding, oppressing their neighbors, committing piracy on the space lanes, defaulting on loans, and sparking a huge spacenet flame war over centuries old traditional entertainment franchises. Their planet was eventually glasssed from orbit, and their citizens exiled from the spacenet for generations. Anyway, amongst the offensive t-shirts, the awful croc style sandals, complete with toed socks, and the pennants, cargo shorts, and very tight onesies, you find several packaged ropes. Seems an odd choice to have ropes in the product line. You turn the package over and the image of a noose practically leaps off the page, along with some graphic suggestions on who to use it on, and why.

”Aww YEAH! Home sweet cannon!”

Look for a larger bag that I could use to lug the cannon and ammo around in

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(4) yo ushoulder past Debby into the container full of racist clothing and locate a not particularly offensive duffel bag. You turn it inside out anyway, and stuff the cannon inside. Is sticks out the top, but the bag is serviceable.

Wake up. Check status.

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You are alive and mostly well. Unfortunately, due to a combination of trickster magic, thieving vermin, and a comically incompetent robodoc, you are now mutated into an awkward mix of human and rat. also, Debby just found a container full of offensive clothing if you want to change up your wardrobe.

I make mental notes of where things are so I can guide the big people to them later, but all the various exploring Me go swarm over the Communication mini-hub, inspecting it top-to-bottom, inside and out, finding anything broken and figuring out what it needs to be repaired, my collective self is all focused on getting this working.

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(2) One of your selves paws the communication hub gently, then scratches at a seam. The noise of claw on metal and plastic wakes something up inside the hub. Not something electronic: a swarm of bugs begins pouring out every entry point in the hub. Yourselves back away and begin pawing at the critters before they al suddenly rise into the air, swirl around in a dizzying cloud of legs, thoraxes, and eyes, and then compress into a tight ballbefore falling to the ground in a big dusty pile of chitin.

"Gah! Chatters is no thief stealer! Everything I have got taken has been got taken fair fair! If anything your the thief stealer thief stealing my time schedule!"

Have a very loud drunkin argument with the floating hands filled with cognitive dissonance, what about-isms, and other logical fallacies.

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(6) You argue so much that the hands slit into two each to argue back more effectively. You now have six hands instead of three, but each is half the size. This cacaphony is enough to seriously distract anyone nearby. Unfortunately, most of the gang is outside and elsewhere this turn, so they are unbothered ... for now.

Help everyone get their stuff squared away, by searching for rope, bags and such.

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(4) the only one who seems to need help (besides CHatters, maybe) is the cats. You go over and gather up all the insects attacking hers, ball them up and eat them. They become dust, and you gain an energy point, or however we were tracking that.

continue magically trolling Chatters, draw some power from my focus doll


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(3) you spawn three spectral homunculi, each in the image of your doll, each riding one of the hands, each calling out different insults and other nonsense. When the hands split into smaller versions, instead of duplicating, the spectral homunculi simply split down the middle, so each of the six hands is ridden by one half-doll. This naturally affects their diction and enunciation. You notice as the argument goes on that some kind of friction is arising between the left  and right side dolls, as some of the inuslts are no longer directed toward the ratman, but toward each other.
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lenglon on October 17, 2022, 12:23:09 pm
I stare at the collapsing bugball for a few moments, and then resume attempting to decipher what we'll need to fix the communication hub, leaving one of me to watch over that bugball in case it does weird stuff again. If it does reanimate, then I'm probably going to be running away from the creepy thing.

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: King Zultan on October 18, 2022, 05:44:46 am
"Don't really need clothing, but others might need to keep this place in mind when I get back to base."
Grab several of the nooses and look around the container for a backpack or something similar.
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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: SuperDino85 on October 18, 2022, 11:43:03 am
"Don't really need clothing, but others might need to keep this place in mind when I get back to base."
Grab several of the nooses and look around the container for a backpack or something similar.
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”No problem.”

Plant the rod into the ground and tie one of the articles of clothing to it to make a makeshift flag

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: King Zultan on October 19, 2022, 03:49:23 am
"Well that will certainly make it easier to find."
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Fluffe9911 on October 19, 2022, 08:00:50 pm
Continue my drunkin argument until I win or someone stops me Chatters shall never admit defeat!

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Egan_BW on October 20, 2022, 11:05:57 am
Okay. Obtain offensive clothing and butcher them into inoffensive cloths, using the saws and stuff in our home.

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Devastator on October 20, 2022, 11:59:12 am
I'm ready to move on, so just wait around inside an object for everyone else to finish up.

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Ozarck on November 03, 2022, 09:25:04 am
I stare at the collapsing bugball for a few moments, and then resume attempting to decipher what we'll need to fix the communication hub, leaving one of me to watch over that bugball in case it does weird stuff again. If it does reanimate, then I'm probably going to be running away from the creepy thing.

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(4) The communications hub starts flashing a warning light. A small blinking icon appears, cycling between an image of a bucket with suds overflowing, and a spraybottle. A tinny voice repeats "clean me. clean me. clean me." There doesn't seem to be any otehr alarms, and there are a few green lights blinking at various spots on the cube, so maybe a good bath to get the bug goop out will do?

"Don't really need clothing, but others might need to keep this place in mind when I get back to base."
Grab several of the nooses and look around the container for a backpack or something similar.
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"Don't really need clothing, but others might need to keep this place in mind when I get back to base."
Grab several of the nooses and look around the container for a backpack or something similar.
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”No problem.”

Plant the rod into the ground and tie one of the articles of clothing to it to make a makeshift flag

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Right next to the duffel bags are a box of backpacks. They're a bit awful, in that they are sort of attached to a costume hoodie. Debby can't really wear the backpack as is without the hoodie on, and it is designed in such a way that the hood remains over your head. There are sun goggles that would obscure your eyes but let you see just fine, but the character you would end up cosplaying would get you severely beaten in any civilized part of the galaxy. Plus, it might interfere with your horns. Well, Bowser reached over, tears the head off the hoodie, and leaves you with a sweater/backpack with a ragged neckline and paws. Yup, the paws are built in. The backpack, at least, is quite roomy, and contains several useful pockets. Also, Bowser's flag thing works just fine. You can see the flag from a distance so you guys got that going for you.

Continue my drunkin argument until I win or someone stops me Chatters shall never admit defeat!

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(5)Somehow, Chatters manages to outlast teh fingers, which in the end all turn on each other, doing the rock paper scissors sign for a bit before colliding, creating a big, cartoony cloud, complete with fighting sound effects, before tumbling themselves out of existence. "And that's why purple is the smelliest sound-noise!" Chatters slurs, before falling unconscious and vomiting on himself.

Okay. Obtain offensive clothing and butcher them into inoffensive cloths, using the saws and stuff in our home.

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(4) inoffensive outfits get! They are serviceable, and even warm.

I'm ready to move on, so just wait around inside an object for everyone else to finish up.

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Waiting commencing.
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: King Zultan on November 04, 2022, 03:05:50 am
"Later I'll probably cut the paws off this thing but that can wait as we have an excavator to get to."
Start walking towards the location of the excavator.
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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lenglon on November 06, 2022, 01:31:47 pm
How heavy is the communications hub? can I push it back?
I look around and try to get the attention and help of nearby people
If Alice or anyone else nearby is willing to pay attention to me and help I lead them to the communications hub I found.

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Fluffe9911 on November 06, 2022, 09:48:27 pm
Sleep until I wake up or someone wakes me up whichever comes first!

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Egan_BW on November 06, 2022, 09:50:57 pm
"What?"
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lenglon on November 06, 2022, 11:18:43 pm
"What?"
Code: (7) [Select]
NeedsCleaning
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Egan_BW on November 06, 2022, 11:32:45 pm
sigh. "Okay then, point me to the chore."
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Knightwing64 on November 07, 2022, 06:21:41 am
Make chocolate rain from the sky like a chad
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Devastator on November 11, 2022, 10:53:35 pm
Accompany Debbie towards the excavator

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: SuperDino85 on November 11, 2022, 11:31:47 pm
Also resume making my way towards the excavator

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Ozarck on November 22, 2022, 07:23:11 am
"Later I'll probably cut the paws off this thing but that can wait as we have an excavator to get to."
Start walking towards the location of the excavator.
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Accompany Debbie towards the excavator

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Also resume making my way towards the excavator

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(3) You all walk a day's journey toward the excavator. In the evening you come across a dumpsite containing two foot thick, ten to twenty feet wide hexagonal plates all piled up at an angle and jutting out over the generic trash below. You are able to set up a camp under the overhang of a few of these, and on top of one. the surface is hard and smooth, with a dull reflectivity to it. These hexagons could have been anything, from the mirrors of space telescopes, to armor for battleships, to some parade display boards. Who knows. They do seem quite intact: all their corners are crisp and their surfaces are unmarked. As you set up camp, the wind picks up and storm clouds roll in. Ominous weather is ominous.

How heavy is the communications hub? can I push it back?
I look around and try to get the attention and help of nearby people
If Alice or anyone else nearby is willing to pay attention to me and help I lead them to the communications hub I found.

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sigh. "Okay then, point me to the chore."
The comm hub is too big for kittens to push, (4) but Alice is able to drag it back to base and inside.

Sleep until I wake up or someone wakes me up whichever comes first!

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You do that and (2) wake up dehydrted, head pounding, covered in vomit, and very angry at your own fists for some reason.

Make chocolate rain from the sky like a chad
(5) You make it rain Chad Brand chocolate treats of all shapes and flavors. It's like a fever dream of candy outside. Too bad half the team missed this, having set out to explore a point of interest.
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: King Zultan on November 23, 2022, 08:42:22 am
"Not liking the looks of that storm, we should probably find something to act as a wall."
Look around close to camp for a tarp or anything similar to use as a wall to keep the weather out of our camp.
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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Fluffe9911 on November 23, 2022, 04:38:30 pm
"Ugh... head brain pound hurting!" Chatters pukes for hopefully the final time "Grr this is your fault guilt!" Chatters stares at his hand angerly before slapping himself over the face with it "Agh! Traitor hand thing how dare challenge me! Chatters will show you who is pack boss leader!"

Fight my traitor hand I must put it back into its place!

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lenglon on November 26, 2022, 12:58:51 am
all but one of me spread out and monitor the area around our home, the last of me is watching the dirty comms hub (which needs cleaning and afterwards will hopefully be working) and seeing if anyone is willing to get it cleaned and working.

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Devastator on December 03, 2022, 08:11:39 pm
Cool!  This stuff looks amazing!

Jump into a few of these hexagonal plates, and try to figure out what tools I need to shape them or form them into body elements.

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Horizon on December 03, 2022, 08:46:42 pm
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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: SuperDino85 on December 04, 2022, 01:46:39 pm
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Wait out the storm inside my shell underneath the overhang of hexagons
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Ozarck on December 08, 2022, 08:21:14 am
"Ugh... head brain pound hurting!" Chatters pukes for hopefully the final time "Grr this is your fault guilt!" Chatters stares at his hand angerly before slapping himself over the face with it "Agh! Traitor hand thing how dare challenge me! Chatters will show you who is pack boss leader!"

Fight my traitor hand I must put it back into its place!

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(1) This goes exactly as one might expect. You bite your hand. Hard. it bleeds. You hurt. Now i roll for serious damage: (1) You sever a finger and cause nerve damage, making gripping objects difficult. Huh. Your teeth are pretty sharp and strong, after all. Let's call this one a "moral victory."

all but one of me spread out and monitor the area around our home, the last of me is watching the dirty comms hub (which needs cleaning and afterwards will hopefully be working) and seeing if anyone is willing to get it cleaned and working.

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(5) Your explorations yield results! You find an entire pile of Janitor Clones lying dormant. You paw one curiously and a panel on it's chest activates. "Clone boot up sequence, intitiating in 5 ... 4 ... 4 ... 1 ..." and then a mechanical appendage extents from the clone's backpack and delivers a swift, but solid, kick to another clone's posterior. that clone's panel flickers for a moment, then falls silent, until a second kick lights it up entirely. The clone rolls over, out of reach of the offending appendage, and rubs it's posterior as it slowly rises to it's feet, clad completely in it's standard hazmat suit, complete with mop, sniffer, broom attachment (sans broom head), and themronuclear incinerator (probably non-operational).

"Not liking the looks of that storm, we should probably find something to act as a wall."
Look around close to camp for a tarp or anything similar to use as a wall to keep the weather out of our camp.
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(4) you find enough material to seal up the shelter reasonably well, and enough wood for a small campfire. Now if only someone had dumped some hotdogs and marshmallows in this sector of the trash heap ...

Cool!  This stuff looks amazing!

Jump into a few of these hexagonal plates, and try to figure out what tools I need to shape them or form them into body elements.

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The hexagons are inert, nonmechanical. They'd work best as plating or structural pieces on a very large body or vehicle. to morph them for use on a person-sized body would require some pretty heavy energy use. You'd have to dissolve a lot of functional machinery. (3) you store a mental record of their structure for use though. You can make the same pattern out of other material later.

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Wait out the storm inside my shell underneath the overhang of hexagons
You very unhelpfully retreat into your shell and fall alseep.


Two event rolls: One for the home team, and one for the away team:
Home: (3) The Janitor Clones seem to be drawn to the Chad Brand chocolates, and march in force to the home base, hoovering up the chocolates as they go.

Away: (5) A building sized legged machine strolls near to your camp, occasionally interacting with the trash heap with mechanical arms, a cargo scoop, or the occasional sensor. Several spotlights shine out into the darkness, or down at the thing's footing as it goes. There are several smaller bots moving along with the Heap Crawler as well, some apparently darting about semi-randomly, some seeming to scavenge off the larger bot, and some apparently doing more specific tasks. You smell opportunity! Well, you smell garbage really. But the Heap Crawler is pretty neat, anyway.

Almost forgot:
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(6) You land surprisingly gently. And then your door explodes outward with a solid thunk, and tehn a second smaller thud immediately after, followed by a sickening splat sound.You see dozens fo hazmatted figures outside your pod, and a bloddstained lump under neath your door, which is currently being carried off to who knows where by several of the hazmatted figures. Suddenly, your pod lurches sideways, and slowly rises off the ground. Looks like yo umight be getting a bit carried away also ...
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: King Zultan on December 09, 2022, 04:03:52 am
"Well that thing looks like it could be interesting."
Carefully go out and investigate the robots up close.
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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Lenglon on December 09, 2022, 03:40:55 pm
I'm having trouble visualizing The Janitor Clones. Are they robots? Are they humans? I don't get it.

One of me follows the Janitor Clones to see what they're doing, the me still back at base continues to watch over the currently-requires-cleaning comms hub, and the rest of me keep exploring the area around our current home, Where did all the nighttime nasties go? Is there some kind of cave nearby they're hiding in?

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Fluffe9911 on December 15, 2022, 07:04:45 am
"Haha Chatters has shown traitor evil hand thing who is boss leader! Serves hand thing right! Although... now how do I... loot pick up treasure goodies?"

...Find some way to carry things without use of traitor hand!
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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: SuperDino85 on December 15, 2022, 04:34:56 pm
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climb on top of the larger bot and try to figure out how it’s being operated
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Horizon on December 15, 2022, 08:18:15 pm
Junior leaps out of the pod and tries to sneakily get away from the hazmat suit wearing weirdos

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Devastator on December 16, 2022, 02:48:46 am
I don't mind a really large body.. I can either practice until I can control all of it, or jump between parts and run it like a machine.  No worries either way.  This is good stuff.

Recording this as 'mental model of space plating.'

Wait out the thunderstorm.  Is there anything moving on or around the excavator?

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Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 17, 2022, 07:28:22 am
Take control of the robots, turn them into chad brand chocolate robots
Title: Re: Dumped
Post by: Horizon on January 11, 2023, 09:35:48 pm
D:<