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Everyone wants conflicting things. Need some more votes to decide.

Nah, I think it's more that the official propaganda is he's dead but there are rumors he's alive and soldiers probably know to look out for him. Otherwise we wouldn't had been stopped by some random soldier because our face looks familiar. Unless he's part of her elite unit or something.

Edit: Maybe get in contact with Bruce to see if we can find out more about his missing fugitive daughter. It's a long shot but maybe some of the documents we recover from our raid will contain information about her. Just because the government says they don't know where she is doesn't mean it's true. But don't give him any information about what we're doing, answer vaguely if he asks, just in case something bad happens.

Other than that, ready to go.

Well so much for transferring the data to out non broken one.

Now that the bots gone lets look through the pile of electronics it was hiding in.

You dive through the pile of electronics, looking for anything that isn't crushed or broken and might hold some value. Amongst the various wires, broken circuit boards and strange components you find two objects that stand out.

The first is some sort of tool. It looks very similar to the tools you took from the workbench, so you assume it fell from it and rolled here. You're not sure what it's supposed to be used for, but pressing both of the buttons on it at the same time causes the tip to emit a burst of sparks and heat for about a second, hot enough to half-melt a small hole on the floor. That could be very useful but also very dangerous. You don't know how much charge its power cell holds before it needs to recharge, so you should use it sparingly.

Item gained: Hot-burst stick (unknown power cell charge)

The second catches your attention because of how weird it looks. At first you mistake it for a clump of useless scrap and wires but just as you're about to toss it away, you notice there's something deliberate about the way it's made. The wires are carefully tied together to hold the materials in place, hugging, connecting and protecting a combination of electronics. You can make out a small power cell and a speaker but not much else. You press the small button on the back of the ovoid device and three metal spikes emerge from its front while a quiet warbling starts playing from its speaker. Your release the button, the spikes retract and the noise stops. It's weird. It's so different compared to all the other machines you've encountered. The machines you're used to are mostly ordered, full of squares and circles, right angles and curved edges. This one reminds you more of the diagrams of internal organs you saw in that medical book Eiwhyl gave you. It's as if someone turned such an organ into a machine. Or maybe a weapon.

Item gained: Organic-looking stabby device

There's also various shiny pieces of intact electronics in here. You don't know what most of them do or if they're useful or valuable, but they're shiny, so that's gotta count for something, right?

Thank you Clate and Kara, for saving me

"You're welcome. Though I wish things were better. What happened there? I thought you were just going to pick up some money, that's why I went back to the bore. Were you ambushed? If I'd thought something like that might happen..."

Tell the doc to do whatever is necessary to save Alex or at least keep him alive as long as possible. The doc can use our medical facilities in the bore or we can take Alex somewhere else if it would be better. Money isn't an issue. I can go and buy blood for transfusion if that's a thing that's sold here.

You struggle to your feet and grab the datapad. You hear the sound of metal striking against metal, the sound of droid's footsteps getting closer. You force yourself to dash away. A moment later you hear the clatter of the droid punching through the grate. Hearing that only makes you want to run faster.
Item gained: Workshop Datapad (broken?)
"-sues with their programming. The only ex-"
"Pursuing." the droid states as it comes after you.
As you run you retrieve your flashlight from your pack, as running with only the dim light of the datapad is sure to lead to you tripping on something and falling. That would be a very stupid way to die.
"-caution the Captain has asked all combat models to be locked in-"
With the flashlight on you stuff the datapad in your pack, where it continues its disjointed narration.
"-Captain and me have a keycard to Droid-"
You run through the room, the droid somehow managing to keep up and follow in your footsteps despite occasionally stumbling on the debris and overturned shelves. You reach the half-open door and exit into the short hallway.
"-at least we'll be landing soon. End of message."
You jump across the gap, land on the other side and turn around to face the door. You'll hold your ground here. If you're lucky it will fall down on its own, but even if it doesn't, with a strong enough push you should be able to send the droid sliding down the hallway towards the Main Elevator. Even if that doesn't take it out of commission, it should at least buy you some time. You're hoping that its grip on the floor, while good, is not as good as the one granted to you by your claws and your wings.
"-strange is going on. The elevator is on lockdown and the bridge isn't-"
The droid's hand grips the doorway, forcing it to open the rest of the way with a terrible screech of complaining metal and mechanisms. It emerges and quickly moves towards you.
"-my keycard so he can try and lift the lockdown-"
It's about to step into the gap, but then it freezes and takes a step back. It stands there on the edge for a few moments, waiting. You stand on two legs too, ready to use your hands to defend yourself.
"-pulled a droid from storage and put in a brand new logic core-"
Suddenly it bends its legs and jumps towards you, its arm extending to punch you. But you are ready. You have the advantage. You simply move out of the way and punch it back and down, the punch on its hard metal torso making your joints hurt. It falls back onto the inclined floor of the hallway and starts sliding away, its arms flailing wildly. One of them manages to grab you. With a surprised growl, you find yourself hanging from the corner.
"-should keep me safe while I examine this device they-"
The droid is relentless. It starts using you like a ladder, climbing you to get up. The damn thing is heavy. You lift your leg and kick it on the head. It stumbles for a moment but keeps going. You change targets and go for its hand instead. One hit. Its grip is loosened. Another hit. It finally falls. It desperately tries to grab something but flips and tumbles before it can do so. You hear it sliding and clonking on things long after it disappears from view, the sounds echoing down the hallway. With the droid temporarily dealt with, you get up on solid footing and take a minute to catch your breath.
"Hey, wait, what are you-"
"Engaging." comes a new voice from the datapad. It's heavily distorted but sounds awfully similar to the droid you just faced.
"You piece of trash! No! Stand do-Argh!"
There's a series of fwooshing and screeching sounds interspersed with sounds of struggle that eventually die down. The datapad falls silent and doesn't speak again.

Come up with something based on the memories we've consumed. We have so much knowledge and a seemingly superhuman ability to recall it, so it shouldn't be hard to come up with something plausible. Say we're from the country, where record keeping is looser.

Remember to make it mesh with Esme's story, just in case we're still going with the camping trip story.

"Attention. All team members are to evacuate the water immediately. Danger of electrocution."

Go use my power cord to fish out teammates that are still in the water (by tying it on something sturdy and throwing the other end at them, NOT by trying to pull them out using my tiny spider strength).

Once everyone is out of the water (or at least a safe distance away), throw that high power cable Yagyu cut into the water. I'm gonna fish me some demons.