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Just a damaged robot skull and my improved (Xd12) Death Ray.

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Description: Young, mid twenties kid with skinny limbs and body.  Ink enthusiast.

Status:

Strength d4
Dexterity d10
Endurance d6
Speed d10

Knowledge d6
Wisdom d8
Perception d6
Charisma d4

HP 30

SP 20

Filament Gun (100)
Improved Death Ray. Xd12 (500+?)
Specimen Container (Damaged Robot Skull) (30)
Filament Cartridge (10)

Cash: 360

The deathray would sell for 600,  The survey pays 2632 for the skull. According to their appraisers it shows evidence a unique AI system. 

Sell the glowing organ and the intact robot arm with the laser weapon for a hand.

Spoiler: Who gave this guy a gun? (click to show/hide)

Name: Hobo Bob
Description: A dirty man with unkempt hair and beard.

Strength: d8
Dexterity: d6
Endurance: d8
Speed: d6

Knowledge: d10
Wisdom: d6
Perception: d10
Charisma: d6

HP: 28/28
SP: 26/26

Weapons:
 Therma-Ray: (Dex) (d8)
 Thermo-Lash: (End)(1d8, leaps to another enemy for d4 and then d2)

Armour:
 Helmet: (d6 armor, protects only the head)
 Industrial Tunic: (d6 Armor, protects Torso and Abdomen)

Items: 8/8
 Oxygen Tank
 Arclamp
 Therma-Ray: (Dex) (d8)
 Helmet: (d6 armor, protects only the head)
 Industrial Tunic: (d6 Armor, protects Torso and Abdomen)
 Thermo-Lash: (End)(1d8, leaps to another enemy for d4 and then d2)
 Glowing Organ
 Intact robot arm, with some kind of potential laser weapon as a hand

Money: 0

2264 for the organ.
500 for the arm.

The arm is not an uncommon find, though full bodied examples of the machine it came from have yet to be found. Some prospectors have taken to grafting these limbs to themselves to make use of the advanced weapons tech.  The organ is highly mutagenic. Exposure to the contents would doubtless induce mutation.
 

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 Name: Anton Barrick

Description: a generic human male.

Stats:
STR: d10
DEX: d8
END: d8
SPD: d10
KNO: d8
WIS: d6
PER: d10
CHA: d6

HP: 36/36
SP: 30/30

Carry: 4/10

Items:
Helmet (d6 armor, head only)
Therma-Ray (DEX) (d8)
Fragment of the void
Human bone prayer beads

Money:0

selling:
weird crystal shard
Electromagnet module

228 for the shard
125 for the Electromagnet (they already have one).

The shard seems to be some kind of energy storage while the electromagnet is simply that.

"what do you guys thinks about a uniform?"
Jim will have the mechanical gizmo appraised and sold

Spoiler: Jim (click to show/hide)

stat points: 0
Name: Jim
Appearance: a young and wiry looking man
Strength: d8
Dexterity: d10
Endurance: d6
Speed: d10
Knowledge: d10
Wisdom: d4
Perception: d6
Charisma: d4

HP: 26/32
SP: 22/22

Armor:
Dented Helmet (d6 Head)
Tunic (d6 abdomen and torso)

Weapons:
Therma-ray (Dex)(d8)
Items:8?/8
Fragment of the void
Therma-ray
Dented Helmet
Arc-Lamp (turned on)
Log Book
Specimen Container (contains mech. Gizmo)
Filament Gun (loaded with filament container)
Websilk Tunic (logo of favorite sportsball team)
Money: 90

Spoiler: Idiot's guide to the Enigma (click to show/hide)

-big mean swamp gribbly in the toxic sludge
-Central island can only seem to support simple fungi
-some squid-things ambush people near the shore of the island
--included is a rudimentary description of the creatures behavior and physiology, along with a rough sketch. Size estimates put the beast at 30ft long, including the tentacles
-Giant striders wall through the muck.
The Journey East:
-small islands overrun with fungal growths seeming to eat away at the scrap "bedrock", various tiny flora and fauna dot these Islands; mollusks, crabs, mites, and stranger things flourish on these islands.
-As you get further away from the hole, the temperature decreases, the Eastern isle has frozen sludge on it's shores.
-The Eastern Isle appears to be populated by robots based on bioforms.
--attached is a little sketch of the Elkbot
Strange Tidings and a Castle:
-Strange, bullet-shaped robots(?) inhabit a castle on an island in the muck.
--The Bulletmen are living cannon shells created to both maintain the Enigma's cannons and be fired from them. With the crash of the ship and presumed death of their creators, the Bulletmen have spent their time holding a festival to honor their "glorious dead"
--They have little understanding of what we would consider society, but they seem to have something of a hierarchy based on caliber, with their leader being known by the title "Bullet King."
---Included is a sketch of the various calibers of bulletmen Jim has seen so far

406 for the gizmo (They have a few already). Its purpose is unknown.
Did you want to turn in your writings? They would currently be worth: 432  credits.

selling: Giant sewer octopus beak (with some trailing tongue/throat giblets)

Spoiler: Hlaine (click to show/hide)

Name: Hlaine Lockley

Appearance: A rather haggard looking man somwhere in between his early 40's and late 50's, it's hard to tell. Of average height, his skin looks pale and slightly sickly. He's a thin, wiry sort. He wears his hair shoulder length parted in the middle, and has a permanent unkempt beard going on. He wears a faded industrial overall, patched in a few places and the logo of the original company no longer legible, along with a pair of battered work boots and an old synthplas helmet.

Strength: d6
Dexterity: d6
Endurance: d6
Speed: d10

Knowledge: d8
Wisdom: d8
Perception: d8
Charisma: d8

HP:22/22
SP:32/32

armour:
Helmet: (d6 armor, protects only the head) A synthplas helmet in bright orange.

weapons:
Therma-Ray: (Dex) (d8)

Items:
Nim’s Parasite
- Telekinesis: (kno), requires line of sight, current max weight 300lbs, d4 SP activation

Bait:(Kno) x3
Log Book: (Kno) (journal)
Arclamp
Stimulant: Recover d10 SP.
Biogel: Recover d10 HP.

Loot: Giant sewer octopus beak (with some trailing tongue/throat giblets)

The octopus specimen gets 3437 credits.  This creature, or others like it, have apparently been sighted and caused several deaths but no physical specimens have been recovered until this point.


Charting total (A single sum, not given to each member) is 4000.

Let's head in a direction aside from towards the bulletmen.  Less value in exploring an already-explored area.  Use filaments, not their weird boat.  We have 40 filaments, and Kander is willing to use almost all of that to make a path.  Choose whichever direction seems most likely to find a wall, or... anything that's not toxic swamp, really.

Spoiler: Kander (click to show/hide)

Name: Kander Jattle

Appearance: A heavily built middle aged man with a gentle look in his eyes, that contrasts with a silver scar on the right side of his face which runs from his temple to his chin.  He's a veteran of a relatively minor uprising on a border planet, during which time he worked as a low level field officer.  He retired most of a decade ago after a severe head injury, and has been living comfortably and quietly off of his earnings from service.  He's enjoyed his quiet life, and isn't eager to go on dangerous adventures... but he was more or less begged to go on this expedition by his adoptive daughter, who was a child soldier he rescued during his military service.

Stats:
Str: d8
Dex: d4
End: d4
Spd: d4

Kno: d8
Wis: d4
Per: d10
Cha: d12

HP: 20/20
SP: 32/32

Armor: Head (d6)

Items: 8/8
War Drum (1d8 str, +1d12 Cha Buff)
Autoharness
Liquidoplas Bomb
Filament Gun
Oxygen Mask & Tank
Helmet (d6 armor, protects Head)

Small Autocage
---Carries 4 Filament Cartridges, 1 arclamp, 5 bait, 1 stimulant, 1 biogel, 1 logbook, 1 Liquidoplas Bomb

Money: 320

"If I had something like a sonar device, maybe..."

With Kandar. Look out for anything which might make valuable salvage on the way.

Spoiler: Xeriay (click to show/hide)

Name: Xeriay Jattle

Appearance: A short and thin teenage girl, with hair bleached grey by the light of a harsh sun. The backs and palms of her hands are tattooed with eyes, and her arms with blades. Doesn't like to talk and jumps at unexpected sounds. She was recruited by a paramilitary cult from a young age and honed her skill with a blade until she was rescued by her adoptive father.

Strength: d8
Dexterity: d8
Endurance: d6
Speed: d10

Knowledge: d8
Wisdom: d8
Perception: d10
Charisma: d4

HP: 32/32
SP: 30/30
Armor: d4 all + Advantage, Sealed Environment

Inventory 8/8
Mono-razor: (Spd) (Spd Roll, breaks on 1)
Death Ray: (Dex) (Xd10)
Biogel: (Recover d10 HP)
Autoharness: (Allows automatic movement via filament.)
Arclamp: (Provides bright omnidirectional light.)
Flak Mantle: (While worn, armor rolls are done at advantage.)
Storebrand 'Guild' Helmet: (1d4 head armor. Creates a sealed environment that is protected from many environmental threats.)
Apprentice Suit: (1d4 armor, all but head)

Large Autocage: (Cha) (Can hold a creature up to Elephant size. Or carry a ton of items, presumably!)

Credits: 50

Using a single filament line and their harnesses, Kander and Xeriay make their way across the swamp. Kander chose the northwest area, to the side of the bullet men, and as they emerge from the toxic smog of the swamp they see this area is not uninhabited, nor undamaged.

This section of the ship has been torn open, the alien metal ripped open by a jutting section of rock. This rock tore its way through and is still visible above, embedded in the ceiling. A great deal of sand has poured in and covered the floor to a depth of several feet, bits of debris poking up through it. However, what dominates the area is a massive wall. The wall is made of shipping containers, stones, and debris, and stretches pretty much from floor to ceiling, interrupted only by the stone jutting out into the room. The wall runs diagonally across the area, filling most of it and ended only slightly before the area to the east where the chanting and flames of the bullet men can be observed.

In front of the wall are about a dozen sentries, all of them snakemen, the true natives of the planet. These snakes are clearly outfitted for battle and are wearing an odd sort of armor. Its a sort of like collection of breast plates strung together with leather or cloth. It gives them an insectoid segmented appearance.   They're carrying a variety of weapons in their dozen or so hands; spear, rifle, sword, shield, etc.  They notice Kander and Xeriay and move from rather relaxed positions into ones of alertness; standing straight like a cobra about to strike. However, they do not move or make any threatening gestures or actions. They remain still.

Try flying up towards the blue star overhead a bit and see if it's actually getting closer or if physically moving there won't be possible, what with the warpy distances in here and all that. Take the iron maiden cage with me.

Also, if I use the biorhythm tracker on one of the blue-flamed painbois in the distance, does it only track that guy or does the tracking extend to the other bluebois?

Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)

Name: Yagyu d'Aubigny
Physical Description: Auditor, guns version
Background: Yagyu hates OMNITECH. But Yagyu likes money.
Class: Hazardous Materials Reclamation Crew
Promotion: Team Captain (100 Omni Raise, Access to all team shock implants. Crushing responsibility.)

Life: 3d8 (auditor)
Attack: d12 (pulse laser) + d10 (scrap metal) (Autonomous targeting system)

Stats:
Strength: d10
Dexterity: d10
Speed: d10
Endurance: d10
Will: d10
Knowledge: d10
Fate: d10

Skills:
Melee: d4
Guns: d12
Explosives: d4
Implants: d4
Mechanics: d8
Technology: d8
Medical: d4
Occult: d4
Speech: d6


Status: Comme ci comme ça
Sight: reduced fps
Smell: no smell
Hearing: text to speech
Taste: no taste (hah!)
Touch: no touch


Inventory:
OMNITECH Isolation Suit (Protection from many environmental dangers)
Cognition copier
bodyparts, enough for full body (in cold storage)       
goop thrower (d4 attack. Does no damage. If successful, target is immobilized.)

Modified goop thrower. Does no damage: if successful, target is immobilized. OVERDRIVE: higher attack at the cost of increased use die usage. For every more powerful use, use die is rolled at disadvantage.
   Standard [not in use]: d4 attack, regular use die usage.
   OVERDRIVE [currently selected]: d8
   -current goop tank d8/d8
   -3 spare goop tanks (all d8/d8)
3 spare carbine mags
3 spare shotgun mags
box of d10 damage scrap metal for ferromagnetic accelerator (d6/d6)

Sealing Tool (D4 use die)
environmental scanner
toolkit [3/3]
2 poking sticks
3 boxes
3 mental purgants (1 to Summer)
1 camera drone (borrowed from Ed)

Lockout switch and voter [10/10], quantum linked to suit comms.
isolation suit and TTS earbuds


Money: 3539
insurance: auditor-jetpack body (paid for: penal mission cycle)

-auditor-
1. Biorhythm tracker: Allows the tracking of a single target. Their outline will appear on the user's vision from any distance, through any material. Tracking can be initiated with line of sight OR DNA sampling.
Samples: Wil, Burt, Ed, Baldwin, Summer(?)
2. Autonomous targeting system: Allows for a second weapon to be fired as a secondary attack even after firing the standard single attack. Weapon must be held in the other hand and uses suit parameters instead of user skill. Light weapons use dex, heavy use strength.
3. Ammunition Transmutation forge: Shoebox sized device that allows ammunition of one kind to be transmuted into a different kind of ammo. Not one to one, requires equal or greater monetary value of the input to get the output. Ie a 20 omni bullet would require the sacrifice of at least 20 omni worth of other ammo to make.
4. Weakness Analysis protocols: Automatically detects and displays the structural or biological weaknesses of any targeted enemy.
5. Pulse Laser: Infinite use military grade laser fired from the point of the "Beak". Deals d12 but requires d6 turns to recharge after every use. Can use it on low-power setting to cut things open without having to recharge.
6. Micromissile Pack: Built into the hunched back, fires salvos of micromissiles that deal d6xd6 damage. Has a d4 use die. Guided via laser targeting using Gun skill.
7. OMNITECH ferromagnetic accelerator: Standard version of the system but built into the hands. Pick up metal objects and fire them. Damage dependent on object.
8. Wrist Mounted Shotguns: Same damage as "PUNCH!" shotgun (2d10 close, 2d6 medium, 2d4 long). current use die: d6/d6
9. hardsuit-style jetpack (integrated into auditor body)

[3]
Seems like it will take quite a while to fly up there.

The tracker just tracks the one guy, sadly.

"Well damn no maps, anyone got any idea of what us guys on the ground can do?"
Sit and play a game on my laptop while I wait for someone to say what the plan is.

Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)

Name: Burt Burt
Physical Description: An animatronic Dandy Fox with an old money southern drawl.
Background: Needed a job and got one.
Class: Advanced Combat Technician: (Gets an extra 100 Omni per mission)
Life: d6 Reactive fabric cape
Attack: d4 Personal Sidearm / d8 Close Sawn off Shotgun (d4 use die) with bayonet d4

Sight:
Smell: Nope can't do that.
Hearing: Set to text to speech
Taste: Doesn't have one.
Touch: Probably doesn't really have that ether.

Stats:
 Strength: d4
 Dexterity: d4
 Speed: d4
 Endurance: d8
 Will: d4
 Knowledge: d4
 Fate: d4

Skills:
 Melee: d4
 Guns: d10
 Explosives: d4
 Implants: d4
 Mechanics: d10
 Technology: d6
 Medical: d4
 Occult: d4
 Speech: d4

Status: No longer dead
Inventory:
 OMNITECH Red Jumpsuit
 OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack) x5 Magazines (d4 use die)
 OMNITECH Tool kit (3 / 3)
 OMNITECH Tool kit (3 / 3)
 reactive fabric cape
 High visibility flares x4
 Cognition copier
 Mysterious remote control
 Box of protein bars
 First Aid kit (1)
 Fire extinguisher (d6 use)
 Harpoon
 OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack)
 Sawn off Shotgun (d8 Close)(d4 use die) Box of shells (d6 use die) with Bayonet d4
 Cold Steel "Battle Ready" katana (d6 use die)
 OMNITECH Passive Personal Shield Generator (d12 life, d4 use die)
 Glow sticks (D6 use die)
 Hand held video camera. with up link to OMNITECH server.
 A gun effectively identical to the containment turrets, d8 ammo and not reloadable
 Rocket Launcher (d12+3 ranged explosive) No ammo
 Flashlight
 Laptop
 Smartphone
 A small ball that has complex etched designs on the surface and smolders with yellow flames
 Knife
 Machete
 Rifle (d8 ranged attack) would have d6 mags if I had any.
 2 Handguns (d6 ranged attack) would have d6 mag if I had any
 Three foot long section of pipe, my head fit inside of it.
 Robot lockout switch
 Ghost fox
 Mr. Frog: The big frog in suspenders, now with big brain and Handgun (d6 ranged attack) 3 d6 mags
 Miss Godiva Goose: The female goose with...a large chest...dressed in purple, furs and boa, now with big brain  and Handgun (d6 ranged attack) 3 d6 mags
 Prickly Dan: The porcupine in overalls and floppy cap, now with big brain and Handgun (d6 ranged attack) 3 d6 mags
Money:
 245 Omni
 6,000 Megabucks

Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)

Shot a giant gimp in the dick with a rocket launcher.
Let people use the harpoon gun to climb out of the giant's mouth.
Bravely ran away when the giant hand threatened to crush us.
Stood around and did nothing useful for a bit.

You play minesweeper. You'd think you'd have better games in the future but its really just minesweeper.

Well, okay!  Jump on top of the bone golem's head, scream "FUCK DERP!", and ride Bonem up towards the blue, to punch Derp in the face.

Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Wilfred Seven
Physical Description: An exaggerated eight-foot tall linebacker-shaped machine constructed out of slabs of white metallo-ceramic armor, laid atop a barely visible metallic undercarriage.  Its legs are stumpy compared to its arms, with a bulbous body due to the double rocket jump pack embedded between its shoulders.

Inside, he is an upsettingly poorly clothed buff catgirl.  Who still sounds identical to Wil Wheaton.
Background: He was batch manufactured along with nine other Wil Wheaton clones, for use in some film that he's never heard of and was never involved with; only the three "best" clones were actually selected for use in the film, while the other seven--really, the other six, Wil Three survived less than a week--were sold to OMNITECH as cheap labor.  Somehow, OMNITECH decided to hire Seven, rather than just enslave him, although he's not really sure what the difference is.  Notably, Wilfred's flaw that disqualified him from being selected is that his mind is nothing like the famous actor, and he actually hates being compared to the man.
Class: Class 02 weapon of mass destruction. (Always starts missions with a cognition copier)
Senior Xeno-Ambassador (+150 omni per mission)
Life: 2d8 Hardsuit] 1d4?
Attack: 4d4 Acidthrower

Stats:
Str 1d6
Dex 1d8
Spd 1d8
End 1d10
Wil 1d12
Kno 1d6 1d12 Subspace Library
Fte 1d12

Skills:

Mel d4
Gun d12
Exp d4
Imp d4
Mec d4
Tec d12
Med d4
Occ d12
Spc d4

Status: Drunk!

Inventory:
OMNITECH Cognition Copier (equipped)

TTS Earplugs
OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack) (Three d4 magazines)

Carried by Bonem, Bone Golem:
SMASHED: OMNITECH Hardsuit (2d8 life, d8 jumpjets)
---Can skim on smaller rockets
---Built in binocular view

Cat-sized woodlouse named "Rolly-Polly"
Anomaly detection watch
Hacked observation drone from Detroit
Psychometric Reconstructor (Occult tool)
Subspace Library Search Engine (Replaces know with tech)
Spiderbot
Glowsticks
Glow spraypaint
2x Nutrient paste
Transient psychokinetic stim
2x Euphoria generator grenades
Placed charge
Jerry can of monkey pump alcohol
Shock collar.  Should've made a doggirl body, not a catgirl body.

Advanced Cleaning Apparatus (4d4 ranged attack) and 3 magazines (d6,d6,d6)
2x Smiles Rifles (d6 ranged attack) and 5 magazines (all d6)


Fragile Darkness artifact gun () (Given to Baldwin)
"Cold Comfort" - OMNITECH Generic Security Rifle (d6 ranged attack) (Five d8 magazines) (Given to Baldwin)

Money: 150

Disasters caused:
--Attacked a ghost god and maybe accidentally broke the barrier between ghosts and reality, I've never understood what happened there.
--Opened a portal to HELL during the Derp mission, between that and... other actions, directly caused the deaths of six or seven teammates?  Didn't kill Derp, which could be considered to be a disaster!
--Accidentally destroyed a hospital and army with a ghost nuke and a fifteen foot tall skeleton kaiju.  Murdered or destroyed almost everyone and everything with significant details about our mission goal.  Animated a good chunk of a dead city into a colossal mecha in order to fight a former teammate who went full evangelion.  Generally killed a lot of civilian NPCs, but the only PC kill definitely deserved it!
--Gave Derp control of the pain dimension while trying to get him tortured.  Caused the executions of almost all our supervisors.  Wasn't specifically punished, somehow.

Spoiler: Mission Achievements (click to show/hide)

Helped cripple big pain elemental.
Caught and threw back a giant bone projectile that was going to crush the team
Threw Bob jaw-first into a pain-elemental's face.  Was is particularly useful?  Nah.  Was it totally fucking awesome?  Yes.
Got killed by a giant fist along with Kora, thus teaching the team that death is not permanent in this place.

[8]
You climb up onto the Golem's head and point up at the distant blue flame. The golem, with no visible form of propulsion, simply begins to rise up towards the flame. Its pretty comical to watch, especially because the golem doesn't change its position or pose whatsoever.
[4]
To everyone around Wilfred he ascends a good 20 or 30 feet and then seems to vanish. To Wilfred he ascends and simply notices that the floating island of flame is actually much closer than he expected. He's only about 50 feet from its underside. He can see what looks like ancient roman architecture peeking out over the edges. That, and dozens or hundreds of bodies tumbling off like a continuous waterfall of living people.

Go with wil and assist in explosives stuff I guess

Spoiler: kora sheet (click to show/hide)

I dunno, dying may have changed stuff?
explosives still d12 probably

don't care about other stats

no items

We'll assume you sit on a golem shoulder and ride up with him.

Dang. Try to salvage the destroyed squirrel bots into a functional robot of some sort, depending on what's left to work with. If this isn't an auto-fail, use one charge from my toolbox for this process.

Regardless, keep chilling while sticking to Yagyu's back with my optical camo on.

Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)

Name: Edward Paganini Scrum[/b]
Description: Edward has the look of a grumpy boulder, an impassive craggy face with lumpy, half swollen features. Once he made deal with a dog-sized flea in the cargo hold of a helium trawler near Jupiter. That trawler never made it back to port, but Edward did. He's been itchy ever since. Sometimes he sees things in the machines he fixes, sometimes he knows things he shouldn't. He won't talk about how he got here, what he intends to do, or what the deal he made was. He is quiet, fatalistic, distant, but prone to occasionally ramble with a distant look in his eyes. He's 36, but he looks 60.

After spending a mission as the EdPC, he now has a cyborg octopus body. Matte black and stands (slithers?) at about chest height

Life: d8
Attack: d4 sidearm (d4 use die current mag)

Stats: Octobody
Strength: d6
Dexterity: d8
Speed: d6
Endurance: d8
Will: d6
Knowledge: d12
Fate: d6

Skills
Melee: d4
Guns:d10
Explosives:d4
Implants:d4
Mechanics:d12
Technology:d12
Medical:d4
Occult:d4
Speech: d4

Inventory:
OMNITECH White Jumpsuit (pushbot)
OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack) x2 spare Magazines (d4 use die) (pushbot)
OMNITECH Override Fob (Allows activation of most vehicles)
OMNITECH Personal Computing Cube and Universal adapter
OMNITECH cognition copier
OMNITECH Microwave Gun (d6 + d12 tech skill. No use die.)


Toolbox (3 charges)
Fancy multitool: at least screwdrivers and a welding tool
3 Small camera drones that can fly and stick to walls
OMNITECH Magic 888-ball

OCTOBODY: About chest height, matte black. Has suckers on the 8 tentacles that allow sticking to surfaces, along with optical camouflage.
- OMNITECH Reactive Personal Shield generator (d8 protection but has d4 use die. Recharges between missions)
- OMNITECH Negotiation enhancer (A built in lie detector that will alert the user when someone is being untruthful around them.)
- OMNITECH Voice manipulator (Allows the user to modulate and adjust their voice manually or to copy a voice they have a sample of)
- OMNI-scient Network observer (A police scanner like device for the OMNI-scient network)
- Sensor suite: Stuff like infrared, heat, zoom, etc. Basically very fancy eyes.

60 OMNIBUX

Pushbot stats:
Skills:
Guns: d8
Melee: d8
all others: d6

stats:
Strength: d10
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d4
Endurance: d12
Will: d6
Knowledge: d6
Fate: d6

[7]
You mash the robots into a sort of flying drone with a single camera eye. Its rough, but functional.

Take Burt and start sliding down the body's shoulder towards the waterfall of blood.  Carry the spike-end of the spike and iron maiden thing with me.  The chain is arbritrarily long, after all.

Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)

Name: Summer
Physical Description: Batlike young woman with giant membranous wings in place of arms.  Long black hair.  About the size of a flying fox.
Background: Fomer sales pool worker who decided to throw away a promising career of forty years of utter drudgery for a much more exciting opportunity.

Life: d12 Force Field.  Also stimmed
Attack: d2 unarmed, d4 generic pistol

Stats:
Strength: d4?
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d6
Endurance: d6
Will: d6
Knowledge: d4
Fate: d6

Skills:
Melee: d4
Guns: d4
Explosives: d6
Implants: d4
Mechanics: d6
Technology: d4
Medical: d6
Occult: d4
Speech: d8

Status:
Flying fox sized.  May be stronger than normal.

Inventory:
OMNITECH Green Jumpsuit
OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack) x2 Magazines (d4 use die)
OMNITECH Medical Kit (3 charges. Expend one to gain advantage on a Medical roll)
Painkillers. d6 use die.
Stimulants, 3x
OMNITECH Passive Personal Shield Generator.
Foam Grenade d12
EMP Grenade d20, electronics

Toolkit (2 charges)

VR Robot Control program. (Can control a single ordinary robot through the VR headset without tech rolls, as if it was Summer's body.  Skills may only be used if robot has appropriate appendages.  Can be used to control different kinds of robots, but only one at a time.)

Stowed:
Radio earbuds with text-to-speech function.
Shock collar with quantum entanglement system.
Sensory deprivation suit.

Spoiler: Sensory (click to show/hide)

Sight: Normal
Smell: Normal
Hearing: Normal
Taste: Normal
Touch: Normal

No suit.

Sliding down the body's cheek, I assume you mean. [6] You don't just slide down the face and onto the cheek, you surf the iron maiden straight down into the blood. Its about as you enter the deluge of gore, hanging ten on your iron implement of torture, that you realize you don't know how to stop. The cheek is already quite a steep slope, but the blood has made it even slicker and harder to get footing. And you're sliding through it at quite a pace.

"well...it was cool at least."

"I wonder if there are any maps of this place."
Wonder if there are any maps of this place nearby.

Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)

Name: Burt Burt
Physical Description: An animatronic Dandy Fox with an old money southern drawl.
Background: Needed a job and got one.
Class: Advanced Combat Technician: (Gets an extra 100 Omni per mission)
Life: d6 Reactive fabric cape
Attack: d4 Personal Sidearm / d8 Close Sawn off Shotgun (d4 use die) with bayonet d4

Sight:
Smell: Nope can't do that.
Hearing: Set to text to speech
Taste: Doesn't have one.
Touch: Probably doesn't really have that ether.

Stats:
 Strength: d4
 Dexterity: d4
 Speed: d4
 Endurance: d8
 Will: d4
 Knowledge: d4
 Fate: d4

Skills:
 Melee: d4
 Guns: d10
 Explosives: d4
 Implants: d4
 Mechanics: d10
 Technology: d6
 Medical: d4
 Occult: d4
 Speech: d4

Status: No longer dead
Inventory:
 OMNITECH Red Jumpsuit
 OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack) x5 Magazines (d4 use die)
 OMNITECH Tool kit (3 / 3)
 OMNITECH Tool kit (3 / 3)
 reactive fabric cape
 High visibility flares x4
 Cognition copier
 Mysterious remote control
 Box of protein bars
 First Aid kit (1)
 Fire extinguisher (d6 use)
 Harpoon
 OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack)
 Sawn off Shotgun (d8 Close)(d4 use die) Box of shells (d6 use die) with Bayonet d4
 Cold Steel "Battle Ready" katana (d6 use die)
 OMNITECH Passive Personal Shield Generator (d12 life, d4 use die)
 Glow sticks (D6 use die)
 Hand held video camera. with up link to OMNITECH server.
 A gun effectively identical to the containment turrets, d8 ammo and not reloadable
 Rocket Launcher (d12+3 ranged explosive) No ammo
 Flashlight
 Laptop
 Smartphone
 A small ball that has complex etched designs on the surface and smolders with yellow flames
 Knife
 Machete
 Rifle (d8 ranged attack) would have d6 mags if I had any.
 2 Handguns (d6 ranged attack) would have d6 mag if I had any
 Three foot long section of pipe, my head fit inside of it.
 Robot lockout switch
 Ghost fox
 Mr. Frog: The big frog in suspenders, now with big brain and Handgun (d6 ranged attack) 3 d6 mags
 Miss Godiva Goose: The female goose with...a large chest...dressed in purple, furs and boa, now with big brain  and Handgun (d6 ranged attack) 3 d6 mags
 Prickly Dan: The porcupine in overalls and floppy cap, now with big brain and Handgun (d6 ranged attack) 3 d6 mags
Money:
 245 Omni
 6,000 Megabucks

Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)

Shot a giant gimp in the dick with a rocket launcher.
Let people use the harpoon gun to climb out of the giant's mouth.
Bravely ran away when the giant hand threatened to crush us.

Unfortunately no.

Okay then, summon a bone golem to rip the hardsuit out of its position, and carry it around for Wilfred.  Damn thing costs too much to just leave here.

Then uhhhhh.  I dunno, we're supposed to kill Derp, but how do we get up to Derp?  Figure out how to kill Derp.  Also, drink some more Monkey Pump.

Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Wilfred Seven
Physical Description: An exaggerated eight-foot tall linebacker-shaped machine constructed out of slabs of white metallo-ceramic armor, laid atop a barely visible metallic undercarriage.  Its legs are stumpy compared to its arms, with a bulbous body due to the double rocket jump pack embedded between its shoulders.

Inside, he is an upsettingly poorly clothed buff catgirl.  Who still sounds identical to Wil Wheaton.
Background: He was batch manufactured along with nine other Wil Wheaton clones, for use in some film that he's never heard of and was never involved with; only the three "best" clones were actually selected for use in the film, while the other seven--really, the other six, Wil Three survived less than a week--were sold to OMNITECH as cheap labor.  Somehow, OMNITECH decided to hire Seven, rather than just enslave him, although he's not really sure what the difference is.  Notably, Wilfred's flaw that disqualified him from being selected is that his mind is nothing like the famous actor, and he actually hates being compared to the man.
Class: Class 02 weapon of mass destruction. (Always starts missions with a cognition copier)
Senior Xeno-Ambassador (+150 omni per mission)
Life: 2d8 Hardsuit] 1d4?
Attack: 4d4 Acidthrower

Stats:
Str 1d6
Dex 1d8
Spd 1d8
End 1d10
Wil 1d12
Kno 1d6 1d12 Subspace Library
Fte 1d12

Skills:

Mel d4
Gun d12
Exp d4
Imp d4
Mec d4
Tec d12
Med d4
Occ d12
Spc d4

Status: Drunk!

Inventory:
OMNITECH Cognition Copier (equipped)

TTS Earplugs
OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack) (Three d4 magazines)

SMASHED: OMNITECH Hardsuit (2d8 life, d8 jumpjets)
---Can skim on smaller rockets
---Built in binocular view

Cat-sized woodlouse named "Rolly-Polly"
Anomaly detection watch
Hacked observation drone from Detroit
Psychometric Reconstructor (Occult tool)
Subspace Library Search Engine (Replaces know with tech)
Spiderbot
Glowsticks
Glow spraypaint
2x Nutrient paste
Transient psychokinetic stim
2x Euphoria generator grenades
Placed charge
Jerry can of monkey pump alcohol
Shock collar.  Should've made a doggirl body, not a catgirl body.

Advanced Cleaning Apparatus (4d4 ranged attack) and 3 magazines (d6,d6,d6)
2x Smiles Rifles (d6 ranged attack) and 5 magazines (all d6)


Fragile Darkness artifact gun () (Given to Baldwin)
"Cold Comfort" - OMNITECH Generic Security Rifle (d6 ranged attack) (Five d8 magazines) (Given to Baldwin)

Money: 150

Disasters caused:
--Attacked a ghost god and maybe accidentally broke the barrier between ghosts and reality, I've never understood what happened there.
--Opened a portal to HELL during the Derp mission, between that and... other actions, directly caused the deaths of six or seven teammates?  Didn't kill Derp, which could be considered to be a disaster!
--Accidentally destroyed a hospital and army with a ghost nuke and a fifteen foot tall skeleton kaiju.  Murdered or destroyed almost everyone and everything with significant details about our mission goal.  Animated a good chunk of a dead city into a colossal mecha in order to fight a former teammate who went full evangelion.  Generally killed a lot of civilian NPCs, but the only PC kill definitely deserved it!
--Gave Derp control of the pain dimension while trying to get him tortured.  Caused the executions of almost all our supervisors.  Wasn't specifically punished, somehow.

Spoiler: Mission Achievements (click to show/hide)

Helped cripple big pain elemental.
Caught and threw back a giant bone projectile that was going to crush the team
Threw Bob jaw-first into a pain-elemental's face.  Was is particularly useful?  Nah.  Was it totally fucking awesome?  Yes.
Got killed by a giant fist along with Kora, thus teaching the team that death is not permanent in this place.

[7]
The enamel of the tooth rises in a sort of building block golem shape; large geometric slabs floating  together in a roughly human configuration. They pick up the remains of the hard suit and place it on one vague shoulder.

[3]
*chug chug chug* Uh....have you tried just flying up there and punching him real hard?

"Thank you.  I shall use this to rid your home of that parasite."

Take the stake, chain, and iron maiden.

Fly back to the main group.  Try to grow a bit more, I've got a feeling I'm going to be getting stabbed with a giant iron stake, and I'll need enough flesh to survive that.

"Aight, I've got a plan.  We put him in this cage, and we then pull the cage through a portal back to our home dimension.  And we have like a nuke or something waiting for him.  Or a dozen robots with giant guns."

Quote from: syvarris on June 21, 2022, 10:34:41 am

Okay then, summon a bone golem to rip the hardsuit out of its position, and carry it around for Wilfred.  Damn thing costs too much to just leave here.

Then uhhhhh.  I dunno, we're supposed to kill Derp, but how do we get up to Derp?  Figure out how to kill Derp.  Also, drink some more Monkey Pump.

Give the squirrel bots, the VR headset, and the deadman's switch at Will and Edward

"You can make these into like an awesome bird-bot or something.  Just think it big or something.  It'll then carry as many people around as you can want."

Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)

Name: Summer
Physical Description: Batlike young woman with giant membranous wings in place of arms.  Long black hair.  Somewhat larger than normal.
Background: Fomer sales pool worker who decided to throw away a promising career of forty years of utter drudgery for a much more exciting opportunity.

Life: d12 Force Field.  Also stimmed
Attack: d2 unarmed, d4 generic pistol

Stats:
Strength: d4
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d6
Endurance: d6
Will: d6
Knowledge: d4
Fate: d6

Skills:
Melee: d4
Guns: d4
Explosives: d6
Implants: d4
Mechanics: d6
Technology: d4
Medical: d6
Occult: d4
Speech: d8

Status:
Partly embedded in flesh-ground.

Inventory:
OMNITECH Green Jumpsuit
OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack) x2 Magazines (d4 use die)
OMNITECH Medical Kit (3 charges. Expend one to gain advantage on a Medical roll)
Painkillers. d6 use die.
Stimulants, 3x
OMNITECH Passive Personal Shield Generator.
Foam Grenade d12
EMP Grenade d20, electronics

Thermite Charge 3d10, concentrated (on squirrel-bot)
Laser Trip Sensor (on squirrel-bot)

Toolkit (2 charges)

Mini-robot.  Basically a robot squirrel. x2!
d6 dex, d6 speed.

OMNITECH “Omni-fun” VR system
VR Robot Control program. (Can control a single ordinary robot through the VR headset without tech rolls, as if it was Summer's body.  Skills may only be used if robot has appropriate appendages.  Can be used to control different kinds of robots, but only one at a time.)
Has mind-control deadman's switch, cutting it off.

Stowed:
Radio earbuds with text-to-speech function.
Shock collar with quantum entanglement system.
Sensory deprivation suit.

Spoiler: Sensory (click to show/hide)

Sight: Normal
Smell: Normal
Hearing: Normal
Taste: Normal
Touch: Normal

No suit.

[6,1]
You fly back up to the rest of the group, dragging the heavy iron chain and coffin against all odds.  However, instead of getting larger you actually get smaller. You're about the size of a flying fox now, but just as strong as before.

If Bob recognizes any Derpness in the region of the goreswamp, he'll go an d eat that. Otherwise, he'll just be ready to rend and tear. To be worse than they are. He is the BFG

Spoiler: Bob (click to show/hide)

Name: Bob the Biter
Physical Description: Your basic primal swamp dinosaur. With a yellow hard hat.
Background: Who knows? The Company discovered that he has a knack for fixing ... things, and he hasn't eaten anyone important enough to care about yet. Somehow, some joker from the sanitation department got him on the payroll. He was there for quite a while before the bureaucrats found out and moved him to the engineering payroll.

Life: d4
Attack: d4 (Bite)

Stats:
Strength: d10
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d4
Endurance: d4
Will: d12
Knowledge: d4
Fate: d4

Skills:
Melee: d4
Guns: d4
Explosives: d4
Implants: d10
Mechanics: d12
Technology: d4
Medical: d4
Occult: d4

Status: Bob
Inventory: 1 OMNI Toolkit (Max charges) 3/3?
100 (-10) Nutrient Paste.
(brain thing that controls zombies or something?) plucked zombie chickens (raw, headless), 5 zombie hands

Money: 950

Spoiler: Bob's Business (click to show/hide)

Swamp of flesh and pain
Look at me. I am the projectile now!
Hang nail
bats. also, Best Friggin Gator.

Bob arrives in the blood swamp after traveling either a few hundred feet or a few hundred miles. Hard to say. The bats drop him straight into the gore slurry and he spends a few minutes paddling around, looking for signs of derpiness. When he finds none, he does the closest gator equivalent of shrugging and just starts floating around like a very content log.

Quote

[4] The blue flame seems to be evidence of the Friendly infection. Those pain elementals who show evidence of it are being actively attacked by those that do not. In fact, now that you actually take time to carefully examine and scan the islands around you, there seems to be a strange sort of war raging between the two. From what you can see....those that are killed by the flaming blue resurrect  under the control of that flame.

"Aaaah dammit. Guys, this infection is spreading fast, we need to get a move on before there's too many blue painboys to deal with."

Quote

"Aight, I've got a plan.  We put him in this cage, and we then pull the cage through a portal back to our home dimension.  And we have like a nuke or something waiting for him.  Or a dozen robots with giant guns."

"Sure, sounds fair enough and that cage could work, but I don't actually think they specified how we are supposed to get out of here and back home? Either way, maybe Korra can rig up some explosives to the cage so that we can quickly blow it up once we're back."

Quote from: King Zultan on June 22, 2022, 02:20:30 am

Quote from: Devastator on June 21, 2022, 03:49:37 pm

"Aight, I've got a plan.  We put him in this cage, and we then pull the cage through a portal back to our home dimension.  And we have like a nuke or something waiting for him.  Or a dozen robots with giant guns."

"Wouldn't it be easier if we just blow him up here instead of risking to take him home where he as more power?"

"I'm afraid Summer has the right of it, it really seems we'll have to capture him and drag him back to our realm if those two are anything to go by."


Can I determine where the source of infected gimps is? Like does it seem the infection is spreading from somewhere specific? So far only the blue star seems like it could be the source, but we haven't really confirmed this yet.
Try flying up towards the blue star overhead a bit and see if it's actually getting closer or if physically moving there won't be possible, what with the warpy distances in here and all that.


Try to remember how we were supposed to get back home. Do we just think ourselves a portal back? Did they give us any instructions at all?

Instead get handsy with Summer. As in, imagine her into having hands, yes, that. And whatever other mods she thinks to need to get the job done.
Make sure she is stripped of weapons first though before trying, in case things go wrong. Also be ready with the modded goop thrower to immobilize her if that happens. 

Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)

Name: Yagyu d'Aubigny
Physical Description: Auditor, guns version
Background: Yagyu hates OMNITECH. But Yagyu likes money.
Class: Hazardous Materials Reclamation Crew
Promotion: Team Captain (100 Omni Raise, Access to all team shock implants. Crushing responsibility.)

Life: 3d8 (auditor)
Attack: d12 (pulse laser) + d10 (scrap metal) (Autonomous targeting system)

Stats:
Strength: d10
Dexterity: d10
Speed: d10
Endurance: d10
Will: d10
Knowledge: d10
Fate: d10

Skills:
Melee: d4
Guns: d12
Explosives: d4
Implants: d4
Mechanics: d8
Technology: d8
Medical: d4
Occult: d4
Speech: d6


Status: Comme ci comme ça
Sight: reduced fps
Smell: no smell
Hearing: text to speech
Taste: no taste (hah!)
Touch: no touch


Inventory:
OMNITECH Isolation Suit (Protection from many environmental dangers)
Cognition copier
bodyparts, enough for full body (in cold storage)       
goop thrower (d4 attack. Does no damage. If successful, target is immobilized.)

Modified goop thrower. Does no damage: if successful, target is immobilized. OVERDRIVE: higher attack at the cost of increased use die usage. For every more powerful use, use die is rolled at disadvantage.
   Standard [not in use]: d4 attack, regular use die usage.
   OVERDRIVE [currently selected]: d8
   -current goop tank d8/d8
   -3 spare goop tanks (all d8/d8)
3 spare carbine mags
3 spare shotgun mags
box of d10 damage scrap metal for ferromagnetic accelerator (d6/d6)

Sealing Tool (D4 use die)
environmental scanner
toolkit [3/3]
2 poking sticks
3 boxes
3 mental purgants (1 to Summer)
1 camera drone (borrowed from Ed)
Summer's inventory (whatever got left behind)

Lockout switch and voter [10/10], quantum linked to suit comms.
isolation suit and TTS earbuds


Money: 3539
insurance: auditor-jetpack body (paid for: penal mission cycle)

-auditor-
1. Biorhythm tracker: Allows the tracking of a single target. Their outline will appear on the user's vision from any distance, through any material. Tracking can be initiated with line of sight OR DNA sampling.
Samples: Wil, Burt, Ed, Baldwin, Summer(?)
2. Autonomous targeting system: Allows for a second weapon to be fired as a secondary attack even after firing the standard single attack. Weapon must be held in the other hand and uses suit parameters instead of user skill. Light weapons use dex, heavy use strength.
3. Ammunition Transmutation forge: Shoebox sized device that allows ammunition of one kind to be transmuted into a different kind of ammo. Not one to one, requires equal or greater monetary value of the input to get the output. Ie a 20 omni bullet would require the sacrifice of at least 20 omni worth of other ammo to make.
4. Weakness Analysis protocols: Automatically detects and displays the structural or biological weaknesses of any targeted enemy.
5. Pulse Laser: Infinite use military grade laser fired from the point of the "Beak". Deals d12 but requires d6 turns to recharge after every use. Can use it on low-power setting to cut things open without having to recharge.
6. Micromissile Pack: Built into the hunched back, fires salvos of micromissiles that deal d6xd6 damage. Has a d4 use die. Guided via laser targeting using Gun skill.
7. OMNITECH ferromagnetic accelerator: Standard version of the system but built into the hands. Pick up metal objects and fire them. Damage dependent on object.
8. Wrist Mounted Shotguns: Same damage as "PUNCH!" shotgun (2d10 close, 2d6 medium, 2d4 long). current use die: d6/d6
9. hardsuit-style jetpack (integrated into auditor body)

[4,9]
You're pretty sure that the pain elementals are supposed to set up a portal for you once you finish the job. Assuming any are left...

You think Summer up some hands. Since she never said to get rid of the wings the hands just kind of sprout on them, near the "Wrist". They're a bit awkwardly placed but a hell of a lot easier to use than wings when it comes to manipulating things.

Quote from: Devastator on June 21, 2022, 03:49:37 pm

Give the squirrel bots, the VR headset, and the deadman's switch at Will and Edward

"You can make these into like an awesome bird-bot or something.  Just think it big or something.  It'll then carry as many people around as you can want."

"Hmm. I'll see what I can do."

Recieve the squirrel bots, vr headset and deadman's switch from Summer. Attempt to kitbash them into some kind of flying robot.

Also keep on sticking to Yagyu. Octo-powers go!

Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)

Name: Edward Paganini Scrum[/b]
Description: Edward has the look of a grumpy boulder, an impassive craggy face with lumpy, half swollen features. Once he made deal with a dog-sized flea in the cargo hold of a helium trawler near Jupiter. That trawler never made it back to port, but Edward did. He's been itchy ever since. Sometimes he sees things in the machines he fixes, sometimes he knows things he shouldn't. He won't talk about how he got here, what he intends to do, or what the deal he made was. He is quiet, fatalistic, distant, but prone to occasionally ramble with a distant look in his eyes. He's 36, but he looks 60.

After spending a mission as the EdPC, he now has a cyborg octopus body. Matte black and stands (slithers?) at about chest height

Life: d8
Attack: d4 sidearm (d4 use die current mag)

Stats: Octobody
Strength: d6
Dexterity: d8
Speed: d6
Endurance: d8
Will: d6
Knowledge: d12
Fate: d6

Skills
Melee: d4
Guns:d10
Explosives:d4
Implants:d4
Mechanics:d12
Technology:d12
Medical:d4
Occult:d4
Speech: d4

Inventory:
OMNITECH White Jumpsuit (pushbot)
OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack) x2 spare Magazines (d4 use die) (pushbot)
OMNITECH Override Fob (Allows activation of most vehicles)
OMNITECH Personal Computing Cube and Universal adapter
OMNITECH cognition copier
OMNITECH Microwave Gun (d6 + d12 tech skill. No use die.)


Toolbox (3 charges)
Fancy multitool: at least screwdrivers and a welding tool
3 Small camera drones that can fly and stick to walls
OMNITECH Magic 888-ball

OCTOBODY: About chest height, matte black. Has suckers on the 8 tentacles that allow sticking to surfaces, along with optical camouflage.
- OMNITECH Reactive Personal Shield generator (d8 protection but has d4 use die. Recharges between missions)
- OMNITECH Negotiation enhancer (A built in lie detector that will alert the user when someone is being untruthful around them.)
- OMNITECH Voice manipulator (Allows the user to modulate and adjust their voice manually or to copy a voice they have a sample of)
- OMNI-scient Network observer (A police scanner like device for the OMNI-scient network)
- Sensor suite: Stuff like infrared, heat, zoom, etc. Basically very fancy eyes.

60 OMNIBUX

Pushbot stats:
Skills:
Guns: d8
Melee: d8
all others: d6

stats:
Strength: d10
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d4
Endurance: d12
Will: d6
Knowledge: d6
Fate: d6

[1]
The "Kitbash" ends up being more of a "Bash with hammer" and you succeed only in destroying the squirrel bots.

Quote from: King Zultan on June 25, 2022, 02:15:31 am

"Where are you gonna get enough souls to do this portal thing, because if I remember right the thing in Detroit needed quite a few more people then we have here."

"The thing in Detroit was also massive. It was large enough to allow military vehicle's through, maybe even a giant mech. We don't need to produce something of that scale.

"Frankly, I don't know how many people we'll need to create something capable of letting a few individuals through, but I think it should be at least attempted. Even if we can only send one person, they can pass on some information to command"

Baldwin turns his gaze towards the hand in the sky.

"But first, I need to deal with this fellow once and for all."

Challenge the giant hand to a game of Rock-paper-scissors. Open with Scissors! Cut the hand into ribbons if I win!

Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)

Name: Robert Baldwin
Physical Description: A tall, pale, and thin man with green eyes and shoulder-length brown hair. You'd almost mistake him for a hippy if it weren't for how well-groomed he was. His hair has a shine to it that one could only get from the most expensive of shampoos and conditioner, while his complexion is flawless. No one knows where he gets his personal hygiene products from.

Also has blood wings (tucked in) and a blood halo now...

Background:  In a past life, Robert was a nature-loving hippy who abandoned his passion for cold-hard cash. Now a shameless capitalist, he thought up many money-making schemes as an occultist at OMMNI, but he encountered failure after failure before meeting his end within the SAM hivemind. Somehow he managed to make it back, but it's hard to gauge how much of his old personality is still intact.

Before even this, Robert had been a famous architect who distinguished himself with his avant garde designs. Life was good for the young upstart, until his preference for beauty over practicality caught up with him.

His biggest achievement, the Sierra Space Resort was a massive space station meant to house the wealthiest of space tourists. Modelled after a dance device from a bygone era, the station was a giant ball covered almost entirely in mirrors. It would reflect the light of a local star and spread it throughout the cosmos, broadcasting its brilliance to anyone in the solar system. This gave it the nickname the "Dazzle Star".

Though the clientele loved it, locals would get very pissed whenever the D-Star touched down in their corner of space. The reflected sunlight wreaked havoc on nearby planets, starting wildfires and even boiling oceans. Eventually enough people got mad and banded together to form a rebellion. The station was not designed to defend against such attacks and was quickly blown up, along with all the upper-classmen inside it.

Someone had to pay for that bloodshed, so Robert ended up facing the suit's wrath. As punishment he was cryogenically frozen for 200 years. Long enough to go out of style.

After serving his sentence, Baldwin applied for a job at OMNI, but the suits confused his unusual floorplans for diagrams of summoning circles. Robert was hired on the spot, but it was only during his second week of basic training did he realize that he may not have gotten the job he was looking for...

And you know the rest.

Life: 2d6 (OMNITECH Jumpsuit)
Attack: d? ranged (Fragile Darkness)
d2 fists

Stats:
Strength: d4
Dexterity: d4
Speed: d8
Endurance: d4
Will: d6
Knowledge: d6
Fate: d6

Skills:
Melee: d4
Guns: d4
Explosives: d8
Implants: d4
Mechanics: d4
Technology: d4
Medical: d4
Occult: d12
Speech: d6

Status: Pain Receptors: off

Sight: Not blindfolded
Smell: Nose plugs
Hearing: Text-to-speech earbuds
Taste: Normal
Touch: No Pain receptors, otherwise normal.

Inventory:
OMNITECH Black Jumpsuit
     The standard OMNITECH jumpsuit. Covers everything but the head, hands, and feet. Stain resistant, waterproof, breathable, light, and overall comfortable as everyday wear. Offers no protection against anything more dangerous than a spilled cup of coffee.  Has the employee’s name stenciled on the back like a sports jersey.  This one is Black and has a smaller “OCCULT” stenciled across the right side of the chest, just under the collar bone.
OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack) x3 Magazines (d4 use die)
     One of the “Generic” brand of OMNITECH weapons which are ubiquitous in OMNITECH installations. The Generic Personal Sidearm is a handgun as drawn by a 9 year old; A gray rectangle with a gray rectangle grip and a trigger that looks more like a light switch with a trigger guard that looks like an allen wrench. It is uncomfortable, unappealing, and very clearly designed by the lowest bidder, but can effectively put .45 slugs into targets.
OMNITECH Universal Containment Pod x 5
    OMNITECH Containment pods resemble a clear tube held in between two large metal ends with long rods forming a cage and reinforcing structure around the tube.  One of the metal ends has an iris design to allow it to open and allow a sample in before clamping shut. Though the tubes look to be glass they are a multilayer reinforced acrylic that is remarkably strong and non-reactive.
OMNITECH Null-Rod
    The Null-rod is a collapsible rod made of the same non-reactive acrylic as the inner lining of the containment pods. Used by Cultists for the investigative prodding and poking of things that look dangerous.


OMNITECH Jumpsuit (2d6 life, rocket packs for jumping, flight,etc.)

OMNITECH Placed charge (Demo pack, with remote, 3d10 damage, single use)

OMNITECH EMP grenade (d20 damage, only effects electronics. Single use)

OMNITECH Cognition Copier

The Artifact Occult gun "Fragile Darkness"
An enigmatic artifact recovered from the Detroit anomaly zone. Seems powerful.

"Cold Comfort" - OMNITECH Generic Security Rifle (d6 ranged attack) (Five d8 magazines, one empty magazine)
May spell the death of me....

Gentleman's Pipe
    This isn't a pipe. This is a text-based description of a pipe. And also a pipe.
Octarine Tobacco
   An ancient plant from 200 years ago. Used to be all the rage among people with "alternative" lifestyles, but it fell out of style once corporations began selling it legally. Turns out that once the man was in on it, nobody wanted to buy it anymore. By now it would be extinct if it weren't for the single potted plant in Baldwin's room. In the end, Baldwin was a sellout.
Idea Tube
   An old treasure from a past life. Even back then everything was done in CAD, but Baldwin always wanted to stand out. He drew his designs by hand and would store them here for safe keeping along with spare paper and writing tools. This created a tempting prize for any aspiring paparazzi, which lead to him being frequently covered in various magazines. He owes his career to those guys.

Good OMNITECH fishing rod

Some guy's wallet

Some guy's crumpled piece of paper.

A prospector's watch
It's got sensors and shit that detects anomalies. Allegedly ceases to function deeper into the zone

Military grade Electronic Binoculars.
Useful for scouting

OMNITECH Full Body Bio-prosthetic Clone

Money: 121 OMNI, 147 Megabucks.

[5]
The giant hand is still slowly drifting back upwards as the giant recoils. You slam your fist on your palm while shouting "Rock, Paper, Scissors!" and then thrust two fingers forward. When the hand, which is in a vaguely "paper" position, doesn't respond you "Snip" your fingers closed. The hand, slowly, splits in half from between its middle fingers and back to the wrist, releasing an absolute torrent of blood. The blood pours waterfall-like down onto the other cheek and side of the face.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Night Voyage
Physical Description: a biomechanical android male
Background: [REDACTED]
Life: d4
Attack: d6 ranged (OMNITECH Generic Security Rifle), d4 melee (OMNITECH Generic Security Baton)
Stats:
Str: d4
Dex: d4
Spd: d6
End: d4
Will: d6
Kno: d4
Fate: d6
Skills:
Melee: d6
Guns: d6
Explosives: d4
Implants: d6
Mechanics: d4
Technology: d4
Medical: d4
Occult: d6
Speech: d4
Status: fine
Inventory:
OMNITECH Riot suit (d6 Life)
OMNITECH Generic Security Rifle (d6 ranged Attack) and 3 magazines (d6 use die)
OMNITECH Generic Security Baton (d4 melee attack)
OMNITECH electrical behavior modification implant (implanted)
OMNITECH Omni-light
WEIRD TOOTH
Money: 0

Sight: Fine?
Smell: Fine?
Hearing: Fine?
Taste: Fine?
Touch: Fine?

follow team and shoot hostiles. 

Jack munches on yet more metaphysical crackers "Mmmm im still not entirely convinced we cant still get turned into mental vegetables. Mmm man these are good."

Just continue to keep with the group for now.

Spoiler:  Jack Blackwater (click to show/hide)

Name: Jack Blackwater
Physical Description: A average built jittery man with curled up short black hair and blue eyes who looks like he drinks way too much coffee.
Background: Jack was a security guard who by one day stumbling upon access to hidden cameras over the past couple weeks (but it feels like years) have been secretly watching the "MOOK Squad" through almost each and every one of their missions to date from unfortunate warp travel accidents to attempted ape murder Jack has seen it all with popcorn in hand. Of course nothing good last forever and the guys above eventually caught onto Jacks snooping but rather than "Firing" him it was decided that he would be transferred to work for the "MOOK Squad"... indefinitely.
Class: Security
Life: OMNITECH Riot suit (d6 Life)
Attack: OMNITECH Generic Security Rifle (d6 ranged Attack) / OMNITECH Generic Security Baton (d4 melee attack)

Stats:
 Strength: d4
 Dexterity: d4
 Speed: d6
 Endurance: d4
 Will: d4
 Knowledge: d12
 Fate: d6

Skills:
 Melee: d6
 Guns: d8
 Explosives: d4
 Implants: d4
 Mechanics: d4
 Technology: d4
 Medical: d4
 Occult: d4
 Speech: d4

Status: Fine
Inventory:
OMNITECH Riot suit (d6 Life)
    A set of all gray body armor notable for its heavy chest and back plates, spherical pauldrons, articulated gauntlets and face obscuring helmet. Has “SECURITY” stenciled across the front and a big OMNITECH eye logo stamped on the helmet.
OMNITECH Generic Security Rifle (d6 ranged Attack) and 3 magazines (d6 use die)
    One of the “Generic” brand of OMNITECH weapons which are ubiquitous in OMNITECH installations. It is an unassuming gray brick of a gun that most resembles a P90 as designed by someone with an intense passion for straight lines and 90 degree angles. It is a bullpup design with a large magazine slotted into a spot on the top of the weapon. Uses standard UEC 7.5mmx50mm steel-carbide rounds.   The word “RIFLE” has been stenciled along one side of the weapon.
OMNITECH Generic Security Baton (d4 melee attack)
    One of the “Generic” brand of OMNITECH weapons which are ubiquitous in OMNITECH installations. A non-collapsible metal tonfa with a square shaped striking surface to allow for both flat and edged blows. The solid metal construction is further enhanced with embedded weights to make the weapon both balanced and capable of more powerful strikes.  Has the word “BATON” stenciled on one side and “SECURITY” on the other.
OMNITECH electrical behavior modification implant
    A standard “contractual obligation enforcing” implant given to all Security personnel. Allows supervisors to inflict “Electrical Guidance” to the security agent if they are, in the supervisor’s opinion, acting incorrectly.
OMNITECH Omni-light
    A consumer brand flashlight produced by OMNITECH. Painted gray and labeled “FLASHLIGHT” to fit in with the generic brand of everything else.
A Cognition Copier
Earbuds Drowns out the screams
Metaphysical Saltine Crackers Tastes just how you imagine it
Money:
700 Omni

Waiting for someone to do something. Got it. 

"Heave-Ho!"
Jim will fire off a line in the general direction of the central island

Spoiler: Jim (click to show/hide)

stat points: 0
Name: Jim
Appearance: a young and wiry looking man
Strength: d8
Dexterity: d10
Endurance: d6
Speed: d10
Knowledge: d10
Wisdom: d4
Perception: d6
Charisma: d4

HP: 26/32
SP: 22/22

Armor:
Dented Helmet (d6 Head)
Tunic (d6 abdomen and torso)

Weapons:
Therma-ray (Dex)(d8)
Items:8?/8
Fragment of the void
Therma-ray
Dented Helmet
Arc-Lamp (turned on)
Log Book
Specimen Container (contains mech. Gizmo)
Filament Gun (loaded with filament container)
Websilk Tunic (logo of favorite sportsball team)
Money: 90

Spoiler: Idiot's guide to the Enigma (click to show/hide)

-big mean swamp gribbly in the toxic sludge
-Central island can only seem to support simple fungi
-some squid-things ambush people near the shore of the island
--included is a rudimentary description of the creatures behavior and physiology, along with a rough sketch. Size estimates put the beast at 30ft long, including the tentacles
-Giant striders wall through the muck.
The Journey East:
-small islands overrun with fungal growths seeming to eat away at the scrap "bedrock", various tiny flora and fauna dot these Islands; mollusks, crabs, mites, and stranger things flourish on these islands.
-As you get further away from the hole, the temperature decreases, the Eastern isle has frozen sludge on it's shores.
-The Eastern Isle appears to be populated by robots based on bioforms.
--attached is a little sketch of the Elkbot
Strange Tidings and a Castle:
-Strange, bullet-shaped robots(?) inhabit a castle on an island in the muck.
--The Bulletmen are living cannon shells created to both maintain the Enigma's cannons and be fired from them. With the crash of the ship and presumed death of their creators, the Bulletmen have spent their time holding a festival to honor their "glorious dead"
--They have little understanding of what we would consider society, but they seem to have something of a hierarchy based on caliber, with their leader being known by the title "Bullet King."
---Included is a sketch of the various calibers of bulletmen Jim has seen so far

Well then, we've obtained the large autocage, as well as great armor for Xeriay.  It's time to set out and explore the bowls of this ship!  I forget where we have to go for that, but whatever.  Ask again if Kander himself has forgotten.  Then head there!

Also store a Liquidoplas bomb in the autocage.

Spoiler: Kander (click to show/hide)

Name: Kander Jattle

Appearance: A heavily built middle aged man with a gentle look in his eyes, that contrasts with a silver scar on the right side of his face which runs from his temple to his chin.  He's a veteran of a relatively minor uprising on a border planet, during which time he worked as a low level field officer.  He retired most of a decade ago after a severe head injury, and has been living comfortably and quietly off of his earnings from service.  He's enjoyed his quiet life, and isn't eager to go on dangerous adventures... but he was more or less begged to go on this expedition by his adoptive daughter, who was a child soldier he rescued during his military service.

Stats:
Str: d8
Dex: d4
End: d4
Spd: d4

Kno: d8
Wis: d4
Per: d10
Cha: d12

HP: 20/20
SP: 32/32

Armor: Head (d6)

Items: 8/8
War Drum (1d8 str, +1d12 Cha Buff)
Autoharness
Liquidoplas Bomb
Filament Gun
Oxygen Mask & Tank
Helmet (d6 armor, protects Head)

Small Autocage
---Carries 4 Filament Cartridges, 1 arclamp, 5 bait, 1 stimulant, 1 biogel, 1 logbook, 1 Liquidoplas Bomb

Money: 320

*grunting noises that could mean something*
Do what's needed to help get the boat moving.

Spoiler: Who gave this guy a gun? (click to show/hide)

Name: Hobo Bob
Description: A dirty man with unkempt hair and beard.

Strength: d8
Dexterity: d6
Endurance: d8
Speed: d6

Knowledge: d10
Wisdom: d6
Perception: d10
Charisma: d6

HP: 28/28
SP: 26/26

Weapons:
 Therma-Ray: (Dex) (d8)
 Thermo-Lash: (End)(1d8, leaps to another enemy for d4 and then d2)

Armour:
 Helmet: (d6 armor, protects only the head)
 Industrial Tunic: (d6 Armor, protects Torso and Abdomen)

Items: 8/8
 Oxygen Tank
 Arclamp
 Therma-Ray: (Dex) (d8)
 Helmet: (d6 armor, protects only the head)
 Industrial Tunic: (d6 Armor, protects Torso and Abdomen)
 Thermo-Lash: (End)(1d8, leaps to another enemy for d4 and then d2)
 Glowing Organ
 Intact robot arm, with some kind of potential laser weapon as a hand

Money: 0

I'm also good to head back. I haven't posted the last week because I got sick with the 'rona and forgot to check in

((flak mantle costed 300))
"Well, there goes all of my money. But I think it was worth it, dad. Dad?"

Poke Kandar. Go with him if he appears to snap out of his dementia. Since he doesn't seem to remember, let's head for the big hole, where we can use the filament launcher to get down. We both have harnesses so that much is a milk run.

If not, cautiously play with the autocages, trying to train Cha in a relatively safe context.

Spoiler: Xeriay (click to show/hide)

Name: Xeriay Jattle

Appearance: A short and thin teenage girl, with hair bleached grey by the light of a harsh sun. The backs and palms of her hands are tattooed with eyes, and her arms with blades. Doesn't like to talk and jumps at unexpected sounds. She was recruited by a paramilitary cult from a young age and honed her skill with a blade until she was rescued by her adoptive father.

Strength: d8
Dexterity: d8
Endurance: d6
Speed: d10

Knowledge: d8
Wisdom: d8
Perception: d10
Charisma: d4

HP: 32/32
SP: 30/30
Armor: d4 all + Advantage, Sealed Environment

Inventory 8/8
Mono-razor: (Spd) (Spd Roll, breaks on 1)
Death Ray: (Dex) (Xd10)
Biogel: (Recover d10 HP)
Autoharness: (Allows automatic movement via filament.)
Arclamp: (Provides bright omnidirectional light.)
Flak Mantle: (While worn, armor rolls are done at advantage.)
Storebrand 'Guild' Helmet: (1d4 head armor. Creates a sealed environment that is protected from many environmental threats.)
Apprentice Suit: (1d4 armor, all but head)

Large Autocage: (Cha) (Can hold a creature up to Elephant size. Or carry a ton of items, presumably!)

Credits: 50

The satellite dish boat returns to the central island of the fuel swamp. As its occupants unload onto the unstable mass of slag and sludge they notice two more people descending from above.  They're coming down the filament line the first group used to get in, though they're doing it on the spidery legs of autoharnesses instead of climbing hand over hand. An autocage is following along behind them as well, tentacles rapidly flickering across the filament like a rock climbing octopus.  The pair and their autocage touch down easily upon the island and survey it for a long moment. The smaller of the two is wearing what looks like a space suit under a heavy cloak, their face hidden in their helmet. The larger of the two, a middle aged man, is covering his mouth and nose with one hand and looking at the swamp with watering eyes. Clearly he hasn't become as accustomed to the burning chemical miasma as the first group. As the two new comers take in the expansive swamp of metal debris and fuel-chemical sludge the first group climbs back up towards the filament and meets them.

Whether or not the first group wishes to simply continue upwards towards freedom, clean air, and payment or stay a while and speak with the newcomers is something they'll have to decide.

Pay the 150 for the offbrand helmet and however much for the mantle. Give Kandar my construction helmet and oxygen tank, sorry Kandar!
"Gosh, the only cape I could find is heavy armor in itself. Oh well, I do like to feel protected. Oof, heavy though. We certainly are going to need a new friend to carry our things for us."
Also pay 500 for a Large Autocage, but... Let Kandar handle it.

Spoiler: Xeriay (click to show/hide)

Name: Xeriay Jattle

Appearance: A short and thin teenage girl, with hair bleached grey by the light of a harsh sun. The backs and palms of her hands are tattooed with eyes, and her arms with blades. Doesn't like to talk and jumps at unexpected sounds. She was recruited by a paramilitary cult from a young age and honed her skill with a blade until she was rescued by her adoptive father.

Strength: d8
Dexterity: d8
Endurance: d6
Speed: d10

Knowledge: d8
Wisdom: d8
Perception: d10
Charisma: d4

HP: 32/32
SP: 30/30
Armor: d4 all + Advantage

Inventory 8/8
Mono-razor: (Spd) (Spd Roll, breaks on 1)
Death Ray: (Dex) (Xd10)
Biogel: (Recover d10 HP)
Autoharness: (Allows automatic movement via filament.)
Arclamp: (Provides bright omnidirectional light.)
Flak Mantle: (While worn, armor rolls are done at advantage. Takes up an inventory slot.)
Storebrand 'Guild' Helmet: (1d4 head armor. Creates a sealed environment that is protected from many environmental threats.)
Apprentice Suit: (1d4 armor, all but head)

Credits: 350

The large autocage is a circular metal disk under which lurks a mass of black tentacles; like an octopus glued to a manhole cover. It walks smoothly and efficiently in an odd flurry of wriggling and inflating tentacles that looks like pure chaos but somehow produces ordered movement. It cannot speak, but seems to understand your speech well enough and can make its feelings known at least vaguely through gestures and scribblings. It cannot write, but it does produce rapid pictograms by scribbling in the sand with the tips of its tentacles.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 Name: Anton Barrick

Description: a generic human male.

Stats:
STR: d10
DEX: d8
END: d8
SPD: d10
KNO: d8
WIS: d6
PER: d10
CHA: d6

HP: 36/36
SP: 30/30

Carry: 6/10

Items:
Helmet (d6 armor, head only)
Therma-Ray (DEX) (d8)
Fragment of the void
Human bone prayer beads
weird crystal shard
Electromagnet module

Money:0

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

follow group and shoot hostiles. 

(That moment when you realize that you could never talk and have just been grunting at people the whole time.)


Go mack to the boat and sit quietly wondering how people understood what I was saying despite the inability to talk.

Spoiler: Who gave this guy a gun? (click to show/hide)

Name: Hobo Bob
Description: A dirty man with unkempt hair and beard.

Madness:
 Mute. You must communicate using grunts, hand gestures, and other non-verbal actions. Writing is still acceptable.

Strength: d8
Dexterity: d6
Endurance: d8
Speed: d6

Knowledge: d10
Wisdom: d6
Perception: d10
Charisma: d6

HP: 28/28
SP: 26/26

Weapons:
 Therma-Ray: (Dex) (d8)
 Thermo-Lash: (End)(1d8, leaps to another enemy for d4 and then d2)

Armour:
 Helmet: (d6 armor, protects only the head)
 Industrial Tunic: (d6 Armor, protects Torso and Abdomen)

Items: 8/8
 Oxygen Tank
 Arclamp
 Therma-Ray: (Dex) (d8)
 Helmet: (d6 armor, protects only the head)
 Industrial Tunic: (d6 Armor, protects Torso and Abdomen)
 Thermo-Lash: (End)(1d8, leaps to another enemy for d4 and then d2)
 Glowing Organ
 Intact robot arm, with some kind of potential laser weapon as a hand

Money: 0

"It's been an experience meeting you guys, hopefully you won't begrudge seeing us later"
Jim will get back in the boat and write down what he has learned about the bulletmen in his logbook

Spoiler: Jim (click to show/hide)

stat points: 0
Name: Jim
Appearance: a young and wiry looking man
Strength: d8
Dexterity: d10
Endurance: d6
Speed: d10
Knowledge: d10
Wisdom: d4
Perception: d6
Charisma: d4

HP: 26/32
SP: 22/22

Armor:
Dented Helmet (d6 Head)
Tunic (d6 abdomen and torso)

Weapons:
Therma-ray (Dex)(d8)
Items:8?/8
Fragment of the void
Therma-ray
Dented Helmet
Arc-Lamp (turned on)
Log Book
Specimen Container (contains mech. Gizmo)
Filament Gun (loaded with filament container)
Websilk Tunic (logo of favorite sportsball team)
Money: 90

Spoiler: Idiot's guide to the Enigma (click to show/hide)

-big mean swamp gribbly in the toxic sludge
-Central island can only seem to support simple fungi
-some squid-things ambush people near the shore of the island
--included is a rudimentary description of the creatures behavior and physiology, along with a rough sketch. Size estimates put the beast at 30ft long, including the tentacles
-Giant striders wall through the muck.
The Journey East:
-small islands overrun with fungal growths seeming to eat away at the scrap "bedrock", various tiny flora and fauna dot these Islands; mollusks, crabs, mites, and stranger things flourish on these islands.
-As you get further away from the hole, the temperature decreases, the Eastern isle has frozen sludge on it's shores.
-The Eastern Isle appears to be populated by robots based on bioforms.
--attached is a little sketch of the Elkbot
Strange Tidings and a Castle:
-Strange, bullet-shaped robots(?) inhabit a castle on an island in the muck.
--The Bulletmen are living cannon shells created to both maintain the Enigma's cannons and be fired from them. With the crash of the ship and presumed death of their creators, the Bulletmen have spent their time holding a festival to honor their "glorious dead"
--They have little understanding of what we would consider society, but they seem to have something of a hierarchy based on caliber, with their leader being known by the title "Bullet King."
---Included is a sketch of the various calibers of bulletmen Jim has seen so far

Anton, Bob, and Jim return to the raft and find a good position in the curved interior.






(Are we ready to start heading back? Is everyone not posting because they have nothing to do? )

"Nice man... *sigh* Dad, I don't want you to get yourself in trouble like that, okay?"

Go with Kandar and pick up a nice cloak to wear over my suit.

Spoiler: Xeriay (click to show/hide)

Name: Xeriay Jattle

Appearance: A short and thin teenage girl, with hair bleached grey by the light of a harsh sun. The backs and palms of her hands are tattooed with eyes, and her arms with blades. Doesn't like to talk and jumps at unexpected sounds. She was recruited by a paramilitary cult from a young age and honed her skill with a blade until she was rescued by her adoptive father.

Strength: d8
Dexterity: d8
Endurance: d6
Speed: d10

Knowledge: d8
Wisdom: d8
Perception: d10
Charisma: d4

HP: 32/32
SP: 30/30
Armor: d6 head, d4 rest

Inventory 8/8
Mono-razor: (Spd) (Spd Roll, breaks on 1)
Death Ray: (Dex) (Xd10)
Biogel: (Recover d10 HP)
Autoharness: (Allows automatic movement via filament.)
Arclamp: (Provides bright omnidirectional light.)
Oxygen Mask & Tank: (Allows one to survive in areas with unbreathable atmosphere, presumably. May also explode.)
Helmet: (d6 armor, protects Head)
Apprentice Suit: (1d4 armor, all but head)

Credits: 1000

"What a nice man.  Anyways.  Good junk dealer!  Would you have any of these private brands for sale?  I am in need of a Guild-like helmet!"

Welp!  Go around asking for a private brand guild helmet, specifically one that works with guild suits.  Buy if it will work with Xeriay's suit, and is affordable (<=320 money).

Spoiler: Kander (click to show/hide)

Name: Kander Jattle

Appearance: A heavily built middle aged man with a gentle look in his eyes, that contrasts with a silver scar on the right side of his face which runs from his temple to his chin.  He's a veteran of a relatively minor uprising on a border planet, during which time he worked as a low level field officer.  He retired most of a decade ago after a severe head injury, and has been living comfortably and quietly off of his earnings from service.  He's enjoyed his quiet life, and isn't eager to go on dangerous adventures... but he was more or less begged to go on this expedition by his adoptive daughter, who was a child soldier he rescued during his military service.

Stats:
Str: d8
Dex: d4
End: d4
Spd: d4

Kno: d8
Wis: d4
Per: d10
Cha: d12

HP: 20/20
SP: 32/32

Armor: None!

Items: 6/8
War Drum (1d8 str, +1d12 Cha Buff)
Autoharness
Liquidoplas Bomb
Liquidoplas Bomb
Filament Gun

Small Autocage
---Carries 4 Filament Cartridges, 1 arclamp, 5 bait, 1 stimulant, 1 biogel, 1 logbook

Money: 320

[6][4]
Kander and Xeriay begin searching for a cape and a helmet as the market slowly fills with people. Finding a helmet proves to be pretty easy actually: there is an odd amount of off brand Guild equipment for sale, all of which is at least theoretically compatible with the official stuff. Multiple vendors, between hawking their wears, recommend that Xeriay at least repaint her suit to hide its authenticity. Lest some Guildmen eventually notice her and tear her head off in a hopefully metaphorical fashion.  After a good deal of wandering and haggling they finally get a 150 credit helmet. [1d4 head armor. Creates a sealed environment that is protected from many environmental threats.]

A cloak is a bit harder to find, ironically. At least one like what Xeriay is looking for: one which encircles the shoulders and hides all of the body except the feet. Preferably with hood, for extra concealment if possible.  Eventually, after much searching, they do manage to find something. The vendor says its a "Flak mantle", something apparently worn in the old days of ship salvaging. Its a dirty brown color and covers the entire body, minus the head. It has a big metal ring that is meant to sit on the shoulders, connected to  a space suit. In zero-g it would be nothing but here it weighs a good 20 pounds.
[Flak Mantle: While worn, armor rolls are done at advantage. Takes up an inventory slot.]

"well they've calmed down a bit"
To prove his point, Jim will showcase the various creatures he's documented in his log book.

Spoiler: Jim (click to show/hide)

stat points: 0
Name: Jim
Appearance: a young and wiry looking man
Strength: d8
Dexterity: d10
Endurance: d6
Speed: d10
Knowledge: d10
Wisdom: d4
Perception: d6
Charisma: d4

HP: 26/32
SP: 22/22

Armor:
Dented Helmet (d6 Head)
Tunic (d6 abdomen and torso)

Weapons:
Therma-ray (Dex)(d8)
Items:8?/8
Fragment of the void
Therma-ray
Dented Helmet
Arc-Lamp (turned on)
Log Book
Specimen Container (contains mech. Gizmo)
Filament Gun (loaded with filament container)
Websilk Tunic (logo of favorite sportsball team)
Money: 90

Spoiler: Idiot's guide to the Enigma (click to show/hide)

-big mean swamp gribbly in the toxic sludge
-Central island can only seem to support simple fungi
-some squid-things ambush people near the shore of the island
--included is a rudimentary description of the creatures behavior and physiology, along with a rough sketch. Size estimates put the beast at 30ft long, including the tentacles
-Giant striders wall through the muck.
The Journey East:
-small islands overrun with fungal growths seeming to eat away at the scrap "bedrock", various tiny flora and fauna dot these Islands; mollusks, crabs, mites, and stranger things flourish on these islands.
-As you get further away from the hole, the temperature decreases, the Eastern isle has frozen sludge on it's shores.
-The Eastern Isle appears to be populated by robots based on bioforms.
--attached is a little sketch of the Elkbot
Strange Tidings and a Castle:
-Strange, bullet-shaped robots(?) inhabit a castle on an island in the muck.

Jim shows off his log book to the Bulletmen. They seem puzzled by it. Obviously they don't understand the language but they look at the drawings and even the paper of the book itself with some curiosity. They hold it upside down, flip the pages with some trepidation and hold the object itself quite near the base of their mobility frames. Jim surmises this must be where their camera eyes are, but it does outwardly look like they're holding the book on their crotches.  Eventually they hand it back. If it had any influence on them, good or bad, its difficult to say.

"They seem to like the gift I've given them, maybe peace will work after all."
Sit to the side of the group and think about how much of the snake people language I know.

Spoiler: Who gave this guy a gun? (click to show/hide)

Name: Hobo Bob
Description: A dirty man with unkempt hair and beard.

Strength: d8
Dexterity: d6
Endurance: d8
Speed: d6

Knowledge: d10
Wisdom: d6
Perception: d10
Charisma: d6

HP: 28/28
SP: 26/26

Weapons:
 Therma-Ray: (Dex) (d8)
 Thermo-Lash: (End)(1d8, leaps to another enemy for d4 and then d2)

Armour:
 Helmet: (d6 armor, protects only the head)
 Industrial Tunic: (d6 Armor, protects Torso and Abdomen)

Items: 8/8
 Oxygen Tank
 Arclamp
 Therma-Ray: (Dex) (d8)
 Helmet: (d6 armor, protects only the head)
 Industrial Tunic: (d6 Armor, protects Torso and Abdomen)
 Thermo-Lash: (End)(1d8, leaps to another enemy for d4 and then d2)
 Glowing Organ
 Intact robot arm, with some kind of potential laser weapon as a hand

Money: 0

[1]
Bob considers how much of the snake language he speaks. He realizes he barely speaks any language, honestly. [Madness: Mute. You must communicate using grunts, hand gestures, and other non-verbal actions. Writing is still acceptable.]

"So... you gentlemen were saying something about a feast?"

Try to communicate with the bulletmen, see if they have any kind of economy or culture beyond dying in glorious battle.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Gambatta Ganyaro

Description: A kooky old man wearing an elaborate martial arts gi under his discount armor. As a proud grandfather and respected martial arts instructor, he's looking forward to retirement. His idea of retirement involves things you're not allowed to do when people are depending on you to be alive.

Leech: You no longer heal naturally and healing items are only 50% effective. Unarmed damage has increased to d8.

Suction: (d4 SP) d10 Damage. Leap onto your target, sink your teeth into their flesh, and drain their blood. Recover HP equal to damage dealt. Only effective on living, organic targets.

24/30 HP
24/24 SP

1d6 Strength
1d8 Dexterity
1d10 Endurance
1d6 Speed
-
1d6 Knowledge
1d6 Wisdom
1d8 Perception
1d6 Charisma

Items (6/6):

Industral Tunic (300): 1d6 Torso/Abdomen Armor
Helmet (50): 1d6 Head Armor
Human Bone Prayer Beads (300)
Galactic Slugger (150)
Small Autocage (200): Contains Vacrab: Looks, vaguely, like horseshoe crabs crossed with vacuum cleaners. These squat, six legged robots are scurrying across the boxes and gobbling up any bits of filth they find with spinning brush mouths. Their segmented, semicircular bodies make a rapid clicking noise as they move.
Leech Canister: Some sort of clear glass container the size and shape of a soda. The container has metal end caps and is filled with a faintly glowing green liquid. There's no obvious method to open the container, as the endcaps and glass are smooth and unyielding.

[2]
Attempts to deduce the greater society of the Bulletmen results in only confusion. It becomes rapidly clear that they do not have an economy or truly any concept of value in the monetary sense. The idea of trading valuables is as alien to them as the idea of trading emotions or perceptions would be for a human. Asking if they have any weapons to trade is no different than asking your neighbor for a cup full of existential dread. They value very little and seem to need very little. They do not need food, nor water. They have no familial ties, they have no great desires other than glorious death and the protection and betterment of their creators. Indeed, despite their apparent intelligence, they are extremely limited in terms of abstract conception outside of their two main desires. The only objects they seem to place "Value" on are those of their creators and those which help them succeed in their goals.

As per their culture, they make reference to a "Bullet King" who is their leader and there seems to be a rough Hierarchy based on "caliber".  They say that before the crash they spent most of their time working on and maintaining the cannons. Now that the ship is stuck and they cannot reach the cannons, they spend most of their time either celebrating the glorious dead, remembering the wonderful nature of the creators, or planning how best to seek the proper death they desire. It seems clear that their general limited thinking has prevented them from doing the last part to any success. As far as you can tell, they've literally just been down here having one long funeral pyre/celebration/war dance for countless years.

Also, and this is perhaps more interesting, no more bullet men are being "born". The ones here have been here since the crash, and those that die are never replaced. They are an endangered species hurling themselves towards death with gusto.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 Name: Anton Barrick

Description: a generic human male.

Stats:
STR: d10
DEX: d8
END: d8
SPD: d10
KNO: d8
WIS: d6
PER: d10
CHA: d6

HP: 36/36
SP: 30/30

Carry: 6/10

Items:
Helmet (d6 armor, head only)
Therma-Ray (DEX) (d8)
Fragment of the void
Human bone prayer beads
weird crystal shard
Electromagnet module

Money:0

Stay back and follow the group if hostilities engage GTFO

You stand back and wait.

Offer my Death Ray in exchange for something unusual.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Description: Young, mid twenties kid with skinny limbs and body.  Ink enthusiast.

Status:

Strength d4
Dexterity d10
Endurance d6
Speed d10

Knowledge d6
Wisdom d8
Perception d6
Charisma d4

HP 30

SP 20

Filament Gun (100)
Death Ray (500)
Specimen Container (Damaged Robot Skull) (30)
Filament Cartridge (10)

Cash: 360

[3]
You hand your Death Ray over to the nearest Bulletman; a large shell of a fella.  He "looks" at it carefully, turning it over and over in his hands with some degree of craftsman-like consideration.  After several long moments it rapidly moves, unbolting a panel with its bare hands and carefully but decisively thrusting fingers into the inner workings of the gun.  Then it equally rapidly reassembles the gun and hands it back without a word. [Improved Death Ray:Xd12 instead of xd10]

"So guys do we kill the rival hive or do we find another way?"
While other people figure out what we should do I'll ask Lud what their mission from the magi was and why they want their rival killed.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Debby
Description: Looks like a regular human woman but with the head of a deer.
Nature: All-Tounges
Status: Normal
HP: 10
Inventory:
 purple robe
 white gloves
 big ass needle (strange black magic)
 Sword
 Elizabeth Audrey Foxington, the living fox doll, now with parka: Is currently back at base
 Rope
 Rifleaxe
 10' rope
 Spork with sharp serrated edges on the spoon part
 Some bandages
 Sewing needle
 Chest piece it doesn't fit well
 Helmet doesn't fit well
 15' cloths line
 A kitchen knife
 Some thread
 Some Rags
 Some canned goods
 Can opener
Fate Points: 4

Spoiler: Needle Links (click to show/hide)

Orange   Grey
Blue       Genesis
Violet     Aaron

Lud, through Debby, gives a very long and complex explanation. You believe that what he is saying is that the Ants, not just him but all of them, are here to maintain the Leyline system which provides magical power to various installations around the world. There are many different schools of thought as to how this is best done, which gives birth to many families or houses which seek to enact their methods. His rival is apparently the patriarch of a different house which killed many of his vassals. But more importantly, they have the idiotic belief that the Leyline would be best redirected using a hexagonal configuration instead of the clearly superior octagonal configuration.

" Isee no reason to agree to such a thing. Our purpose is to protect the mundane from the chaos of unregulated magic, not to interfere in internal politics. This has nothing to do with us."

Ask the artisan again, explicitly, what he needs access to the ant cave to do, and why it matters.

Spoiler: Genesis (click to show/hide)

Description: Classic 80s action hero looks, kinda quiet. think Kurt Russel from the movie Soldier
Nature: Pureblood [Iteration 31195, Calderon Code: Phlogiston.  Investigation Corp, Patron: Sebiline the All-Seeing]
Status: Isn't falling out of or into anything
HP: 10
Inventory: Robe, gloves, needle. Hammer pendant of missile resistance and freezing when wet. 
Fate Points: 0

Spoiler: links (click to show/hide)

Debby, Tess, Luta, Grey, Hugh, Aaron.

The Artisan spells out that it needs to set up a new magical redirection node to provide power to a new installation. Part of the Planetary navigation grid. But the ants are preventing him from getting to the correct place and beginning the node construction. They keep carrying his parts away.

Grey asks the Artisan if the ants would notice if it made its crystalline lattice without their knowing.

Spoiler: Grey (click to show/hide)

Name:Grey
Description: A hairless pink colored man with lacking facial features, little more than a pair of eyes, two holes for a nose, and a line for a mouth.
Nature: Verbomancer (Maintain)
Status: Nominal
HP: 10
Inventory:Purple robe, gloves, giant needle charged with primal magic and a rifle fused to a glassifying saber
Fate Points: 1

Spoiler: Needle links (click to show/hide)

Red   Genesis
Orange Debby
Yellow  Aa-tou-tou
Violet Youare
Blue Tess
Indigo Hugh
Green Aaron

The artisan states that it attempted to do its work without informing the ants. They apparently swarm all through the stone and in the leyline area. Avoiding their notice is quite difficult.

"This seems like the sort of conflict that should be settled by the Magi. I wish I could find out who's problem this should be, but whenever I try, I get nothing but noise. Also, wouldn't killing an ant patriarch interfere with their kind's purpose?"


Aaron attempts to know what local or global consequences there would be if the Artisan had to wait to carry out its project.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Aaron Blackstar
Description: A thin, tall man with pale skin, long ink-black hair, and a carefully trimmed goatee. His eyes look like finely faceted balls of smoky quartz.
Nature: Cognizant
Status: Frustrated by formicid warmongers.
HP: 10
Inventory: Robe, needle, and gloves. Bloodthirsty serrated fighting knife. Needle charged by stabbing black magic plant monsters.
Sleeve contents:
1.A ripe avocado
2. A watercress sandwich
3. Flan
4. Calamari
5. Raspberry Lemon Meringue Pie
6. Baked potato soup
7. Oysters Rockefeller
8. Sticky Toffee Pudding
9. Chicken fried steak
10. Cinnamon Bread
FP: 0
Links: Red:Hugh, Yellow:Youare, Green:Grey, Orange:Genesis, Blue: Aa, Indigo:Tess, Violet:Debby

[?]
Hmmmm....probably the entire world will fly into the sun.

Play dumb.  Casually explain that Kander had heard guild helmets were some of the best around, and figured they'd be appropriate for an explorer new to the planet, like himself.  Ask the man if he knows where the guild's shop is.  They apparently have a great reputation, but how does anyone even get the equipment?  You'd think their marketing would be better.

Spoiler: Kander (click to show/hide)

Name: Kander Jattle

Appearance: A heavily built middle aged man with a gentle look in his eyes, that contrasts with a silver scar on the right side of his face which runs from his temple to his chin.  He's a veteran of a relatively minor uprising on a border planet, during which time he worked as a low level field officer.  He retired most of a decade ago after a severe head injury, and has been living comfortably and quietly off of his earnings from service.  He's enjoyed his quiet life, and isn't eager to go on dangerous adventures... but he was more or less begged to go on this expedition by his adoptive daughter, who was a child soldier he rescued during his military service.

Stats:
Str: d8
Dex: d4
End: d4
Spd: d4

Kno: d8
Wis: d4
Per: d10
Cha: d10

HP: 20/20
SP: 32/32

Armor: None!

Items: 6/8
War Drum (1d8 str, +1d12 Cha Buff)
Autoharness
Liquidoplas Bomb
Liquidoplas Bomb
Filament Gun

Small Autocage
---Carries 4 Filament Cartridges, 1 arclamp, 5 bait, 1 stimulant, 1 biogel, 1 logbook

Money: 320

[10] Char leveled.

Kander plays dumb very effectively. And indeed you would have to be staggeringly backwards and uninformed, especially as a human, to not know about the Guild and its methods. Even a backwater rube who didn't wouldn't usually be spared just due to ignorance of the laws.  But Kander manages to, through a combination of sycophantly and feigned ignorance, not only convince the Guildsman that he is completely unfamiliar with the crime has just committed but that he earnestly means no disrespect. The Guildsman, with the sympathy one would have towards an injure animal or stupid child, explains that buying guild goods is a crime in the eyes of the guild. Then, in a somewhat concessionary tone, recommends some "Private" brands which have  "Duplicated the Guild's designs, however inexpertly".

After the lecture he looks Kander over once more, shakes his head, and walks away..

Considering that it wouldn't be unusual for Kandar to have gotten into trouble, go and find him.

Spoiler: Xeriay (click to show/hide)

Name: Xeriay Jattle

Appearance: A short and thin teenage girl, with hair bleached grey by the light of a harsh sun. The backs and palms of her hands are tattooed with eyes, and her arms with blades. Doesn't like to talk and jumps at unexpected sounds. She was recruited by a paramilitary cult from a young age and honed her skill with a blade until she was rescued by her adoptive father.

Strength: d8
Dexterity: d8
Endurance: d6
Speed: d10

Knowledge: d8
Wisdom: d8
Perception: d10
Charisma: d4

HP: 32/32
SP: 30/30
Armor: d6 head, d4 rest

Inventory 8/8
Mono-razor: (Spd) (Spd Roll, breaks on 1)
Death Ray: (Dex) (Xd10)
Biogel: (Recover d10 HP)
Autoharness: (Allows automatic movement via filament.)
Arclamp: (Provides bright omnidirectional light.)
Oxygen Mask & Tank: (Allows one to survive in areas with unbreathable atmosphere, presumably. May also explode.)
Helmet: (d6 armor, protects Head)
Apprentice Suit: (1d4 armor, all but head)

Credits: 1000

[5]
After the Guildsman has left, Xeriay slinks out of the shadows and connects back up with Kander. She had left not long after he did and had finally tracked him down just moments before the Guildsman had confronted him. Considering her new attire, she faded into the shadows and waited to see how things played out. But now what the Guild is gone, she can reunite with her father.

"uh, oops"
Jim will explain he meant uh, cartographers and historians. Very sorry about that, snake is his second language.

Spoiler: Jim (click to show/hide)

stat points: 0
Name: Jim
Appearance: a young and wiry looking man
Strength: d8
Dexterity: d10
Endurance: d6
Speed: d10
Knowledge: d10
Wisdom: d4
Perception: d6
Charisma: d4

HP: 26/32
SP: 22/22

Armor:
Dented Helmet (d6 Head)
Tunic (d6 abdomen and torso)

Weapons:
Therma-ray (Dex)(d8)
Items:8?/8
Fragment of the void
Therma-ray
Dented Helmet
Arc-Lamp (turned on)
Log Book
Specimen Container (contains mech. Gizmo)
Filament Gun (loaded with filament container)
Websilk Tunic (logo of favorite sportsball team)
Money: 90

Spoiler: Idiot's guide to the Enigma (click to show/hide)

-big mean swamp gribbly in the toxic sludge
-Central island can only seem to support simple fungi
-some squid-things ambush people near the shore of the island
--included is a rudimentary description of the creatures behavior and physiology, along with a rough sketch. Size estimates put the beast at 30ft long, including the tentacles
-Giant striders wall through the muck.
The Journey East:
-small islands overrun with fungal growths seeming to eat away at the scrap "bedrock", various tiny flora and fauna dot these Islands; mollusks, crabs, mites, and stranger things flourish on these islands.
-As you get further away from the hole, the temperature decreases, the Eastern isle has frozen sludge on it's shores.
-The Eastern Isle appears to be populated by robots based on bioforms.
--attached is a little sketch of the Elkbot
Strange Tidings and a Castle:
-Strange, bullet-shaped robots(?) inhabit a castle on an island in the muck.

[3]
Jim spends the next several minutes trying to better explain the group. He actually does a pretty good job, especially considering his lack of formal training or proper anatomy. He thinks he explains their position more...accurately may be the wrong word. Diplomatically is probably closer. Unfortunately the opinion of the Bulletmen has already been tainted by the previous words and actions of the group. They're beyond convincing by simply using a new word at this point, but he has managed to calm them enough to prevent any immediate hostilities.

Now all he can do is hope no one on his team does anything to annoy the bullet men.

"Why are they all looking at me, do they want this thing?"
Take the small robot arm over to the bullet men and offer it to them.

Spoiler: Who gave this guy a gun? (click to show/hide)

Name: Hobo Bob
Description: A dirty man with unkempt hair and beard.

Strength: d8
Dexterity: d6
Endurance: d8
Speed: d6

Knowledge: d10
Wisdom: d6
Perception: d10
Charisma: d4

HP: 28/28
SP: 26/26

Weapons:
 Therma-Ray: (Dex) (d8)
 Thermo-Lash: (End)(1d8, leaps to another enemy for d4 and then d2)

Armour:
 Helmet: (d6 armor, protects only the head)
 Industrial Tunic: (d6 Armor, protects Torso and Abdomen)

Items: 8/8
 Oxygen Tank
 Arclamp
 Therma-Ray: (Dex) (d8)
 Helmet: (d6 armor, protects only the head)
 Industrial Tunic: (d6 Armor, protects Torso and Abdomen)
 Thermo-Lash: (End)(1d8, leaps to another enemy for d4 and then d2)
 Glowing Organ
 Intact robot arm, with some kind of potential laser weapon as a hand

Money: 0

[4] Charisma Leveled

Bob makes a show of approaching the bullet men, bowing reverently, and presenting the arm he scavenged to them. They have no faces so reading their reactions is difficult, but their immediate response seems to be one of surprise not anger. They wait for several seconds before taking the arm, in the same way a human might take a mouse from their cat. Though they clearly aren't very impressed with the offering, they seem to understand it comes from a place of good intentions.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Anton Barrick

Description: a generic human male.

Stats:
STR: d10
DEX: d8
END: d8
SPD: d10
KNO: d8
WIS: d6
PER: d10
CHA: d6

HP: 30/36
SP: 30/30

Carry: 6/10

Items:
Helmet (d6 armor, head only)
Therma-Ray (DEX) (d8)
Fragment of the void
Human bone prayer beads
weird crystal shard
Electromagnet module

Money:0

tell the bullet people that my comrade made a mistake, and that we are simply explorers.  get bob to stop digging and put down whatever he has already dug up.  if negotiations fail, get to the boat and lay down some covering fire. 

[1]
Anton, apparently believing he had mastered enough of the language to be of help, tries to talk to the bullet men. He is, for better or worse, utterly incomprehensible. His words are nothing but an incoherent mess of disconnected phrases and curses. The Bullet men are...well they're not pleased by it but they're also not evidently too angered by it. They seem to have accepted it as simply par for the course.

Take a closer look at boolet men. Are they armed? Do they look athletic, tough, agile, what?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Gambatta Ganyaro

Description: A kooky old man wearing an elaborate martial arts gi under his discount armor. As a proud grandfather and respected martial arts instructor, he's looking forward to retirement. His idea of retirement involves things you're not allowed to do when people are depending on you to be alive.

Leech: You no longer heal naturally and healing items are only 50% effective. Unarmed damage has increased to d8.

Suction: (d4 SP) d10 Damage. Leap onto your target, sink your teeth into their flesh, and drain their blood. Recover HP equal to damage dealt. Only effective on living, organic targets.

24/30 HP
24/24 SP

1d6 Strength
1d8 Dexterity
1d10 Endurance
1d6 Speed
-
1d6 Knowledge
1d6 Wisdom
1d8 Perception
1d6 Charisma

Items (6/6):

Industral Tunic (300): 1d6 Torso/Abdomen Armor
Helmet (50): 1d6 Head Armor
Human Bone Prayer Beads (300)
Galactic Slugger (150)
Small Autocage (200): Contains Vacrab: Looks, vaguely, like horseshoe crabs crossed with vacuum cleaners. These squat, six legged robots are scurrying across the boxes and gobbling up any bits of filth they find with spinning brush mouths. Their segmented, semicircular bodies make a rapid clicking noise as they move.
Leech Canister: Some sort of clear glass container the size and shape of a soda. The container has metal end caps and is filled with a faintly glowing green liquid. There's no obvious method to open the container, as the endcaps and glass are smooth and unyielding.

[5]
Gambatta considers the bullet men. If he had to guess, the living bullets could be considered armed. Though he'd be willing to bet their method of attack would be suicidal and explosive. They are bullets, after all. As per their general demeanor, their huge bodies and relatively tiny limbs make them look comically hulking and awkward. Their lack of faces make their opinions and emotions very difficult to read. They are equal parts menacing and amusing, like a dumb puppy holding a ticking timebomb in its mouth.

Subtly inch away from Jim/Bob (whoever the bullet men are advancing to). Keep an eye on the bullet men for now and see if they get more agressive, alsotry to guess how much they weight on average

Spoiler: Hlaine (click to show/hide)

Name: Hlaine Lockley

Appearance: A rather haggard looking man somwhere in between his early 40's and late 50's, it's hard to tell. Of average height, his skin looks pale and slightly sickly. He's a thin, wiry sort. He wears his hair shoulder length parted in the middle, and has a permanent unkempt beard going on. He wears a faded industrial overall, patched in a few places and the logo of the original company no longer legible, along with a pair of battered work boots and an old synthplas helmet.

Strength: d6
Dexterity: d6
Endurance: d6
Speed: d10

Knowledge: d8
Wisdom: d8
Perception: d8
Charisma: d8

HP:22/22
SP:32/32

armour:
Helmet: (d6 armor, protects only the head) A synthplas helmet in bright orange.

weapons:
Therma-Ray: (Dex) (d8)

Items:
Nim’s Parasite
- Telekinesis: (kno), requires line of sight, current max weight 300lbs, d4 SP activation

Bait:(Kno) x3
Log Book: (Kno) (journal)
Arclamp
Stimulant: Recover d10 SP.
Biogel: Recover d10 HP.

Loot: Giant sewer octopus beak (with some trailing tongue/throat giblets)

Just.. try to stay inconspicuous for the moment.  It should help if we end up fighting or if Jim gets things settled.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Description: Young, mid twenties kid with skinny limbs and body.  Ink enthusiast.

Status:

Strength d4
Dexterity d10
Endurance d6
Speed d10

Knowledge d6
Wisdom d8
Perception d6
Charisma d4

HP 30

SP 20

Filament Gun (100)
Death Ray (500)
Specimen Container (Damaged Robot Skull) (30)
Filament Cartridge (10)

Cash: 360

The rest of the group hangs back, waiting to see how things shake out. Hlaine spends the time trying to guess the weight of the bulletmen. Considering their metal bodies, even the small ones are probably quite heavy. The largest ones probably weigh half a ton or more.