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Einsteinian Roulette:Mission 9: What?
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Einsteinian RouletteWhat the Heck is this? In short:Spoiler (click to show/hide)
> A Roll To Dodge/Die game
> In the future
> IN SPACE!
>Mission based
>Combat oriented
>Incredibly fatal
>Black Comedy
In long:Hello, and welcome to the Hazardous Materials Requisition Corps.
Please stop screaming.
I'm sure you all have your reasons for being here. A lot of you probably angered your local Magister. That was a bad idea. Some of you probably committed crimes against the state. Also a bad idea. Some of you might have even joined voluntarily. You poor, deluded bastards. Well, my name is Steve and I'm a computer. They made me out of whats left of the brains of the unit before you. There wasn't much.
Here's the deal. The HMR Corps has one mission: to gather research materials for the Magisters to aid in whatever xeno-war we're dealing with now-a-days. What that means to you is being sent to every godforsaken .3 degrees above absolute zero planetoid, irradiated hellhole and unimaginably warped sector of space-time in the pursuit of some more then likely meaningless alien can opener. And all you have to do is do that 10 times and you're free and clear, full pardon and carte blanche to do as you please. And thats the rub my newly made and no doubt transitory friends, there are only 2 ways out of the HMR Corps: you complete 10 missions or you die. There is no honorable discharge, if there's enough of you to scrape up and dump in something mechanical, we'll keep putting you out there. You complete 10 missions or you die. Any questions? No? Good.
You may start screaming now.
Rules:
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[1] – Eat vacuum and die, space cowboy (complete failure and bad side effects)
[2] – Traumatic amputation (Failure)
[3] – Look on the bright side, its only radiation. (Lesser failure)
[4] – Squeaking through with most of your limbs (partial success)
[5] – Everything going my way (complete success)
[6] – Yes, I used a kilowatt laser to clean the windows in the ammunition storeroom, what of it? (Success so over the top that it has bad side effects)Character sheet
Spoiler (click to show/hide)Name:
Age:
Gender:
Appearance:
Personal information:
Reason assigned to HMRC: (Murder, sedition, treason, etc)
Stats: (see below)
Skills: (see below)
Profession:(see below)
Stats
Spoiler (click to show/hide)(You get 20 points to put in at the start and 5 for every successful mission. Every 5 points in any skill is a extra 1/3 chance of a +1, so every 15 points you get a +1 in related rolls. Having less then 3 in a stat means -1 on rolls)
Strength: How good you are at lifting heavy things and then putting them down. Useful for wielding certain weapons.
Dexterity: Not tripping over your big stupid feet.
Endurance: Being able to run more then 10 feet before your heart explodes and not passing out from a paper cut.
Charisma: Are you a cool dude?
Intelligence: It helps you not be a god damn idiot (sometimes). Used to operate certain weapons, like field manipulators.
Willpower: Bending spoons and (usually) not losing your mind. Used to operate certain weapons, like psychokinetic amps.
Skills
Spoiler (click to show/hide)(You get 5 points to assign in the beginning and 3 with every successful mission. Every 3 points in any skill gets you a 1/3 chance of +1 to rolls, so 9 points in any skill means a +1 to all related rolls. Having a zero in a skill causes an automatic -1 because you're so gosh darn incompetent)
Speech: A handy skill for when you want to talk a bullet out of embedding itself in your faceplate. Handles all aspects of interpersonal communications. Probably not used very much.
Intuition: That six sense, tingly feeling in the back of your neck that lets you know that the meatloaf is bad or that someone's just lobbed a microton grenade into your latrine. Helpful for guessing your way through defusing a H-bomb or finding your way back to your bunk after a half dozen to many drinks.
Handiwork: Making things, breaking things, and otherwise turning stuff from X into laserguided, thermonuclear Y.
Conventional Weapons: By conventional weapons we mean anything that follows the general concept of “A metal tube which you point at things and potentially lethal somethings shoot out”.
Unconventional Weapons: Covers your non-death-tube armaments. Explosives, hand to hand weapons, field manipulators, etc.
Exotic weapons: Things which blur the line between weapon, augment and supernatural force. Includes various psychokinetic amps, implants, genetic augmentation and most alien weaponry.
Auxiliary systems: The operation of things that are not purely weapons, or of weapons that are part of large systems. Includes mecha, exosuits, space ships and other vehicles, as well as computer controlled weapons, drones and etc.
Medical tech: A mechanic both for people and the systems that keep people from dying in various ways. Professions:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)(note: the + and -'s are to rolls, not skill totals)
Technician: Sometimes things need fixing, or breaking, or changing or some other permutation of broke or un-broke. Thats where you, a heavy piece of steel and what you technical types like to call percussive maintainable, come in. Unfortunately you're rather set in your ways and new things fill you with sudden incompetence. +1 to Handiwork -1 exotic weapons
Transhuman: Humans are weak and squishy things that desperately need reinforcement, be it genetic, mechanical, biological or something in between. You don't really care as long as you can get in jammed into your flesh to give you superpowers. Too bad your desire to separate yourself from humanity makes you a bit...unsettling. +1 to exotic weapons. -1 to speech and charisma
Mercenary: Even before this whole mess you made a living on killing things before they killed you. You've survived with nothing but your wits and weapon of choice and this certainly isn't going to change anything. Too bad that cocksure set of skills doesn't include patching yourself up or repairing your weapon. That +1 to intuition and either conventional, unconventional or exotic weapons, -1 to medical tech and handiwork.
Physimancer: Conventional weapons? Mundane tools of mundane people. Exotic weapons? The bizarre cudgels of an unstable fringe. Why kill with such inelegant weapons when you can twist the laws of nature to your will? Rain fire down upon your foes and crush them beneath the weight of all the laws of physics? Yes, that sounds fine. Hopefully all this righteous arrogance doesn't cloud your intuition. +1 unconventional weapons -1 to intuition.
Fleshtech: These idiots, always getting themselves blown up and exposed to vacuum, charging in like lemmings and coming back in chunks. Good thing you're here to stitch them back together, fix their toys and fly them home. When it comes to saving lives, raining long range death and getting the hell out of Dodge, no one's better then you. Too bad you're not so great with these blasted normal weapons. +1 to medical tech and Auxiliary systems. -1 to conventional weapons.
Grunt:You always knew you'd grow up to do great things. The fact that you didn't just reinforces the knowledge that you're not all too bright. You're an ordinary shlub, just some poor jerk yanked into service because of some minor screw up. You're not a hero or a genius but you're flexible and that might be enough. +1 to a skill of your choice, -1 to a skill of your choice.
Armory
(Note: All weapons come with 1 magazine/battery of ammunition. Extra ammunition is available for a price New items may become available in the future.Prices subject to change. Satisfaction and survival are not guaranteed. You may buy things for others but may not pool your tokens.)
Conventional
Spoiler (click to show/hide)(note: In the case of lasers and some other weapons, batteries are rated by time rather then shots. A 50 second battery can be used for a continuous 50 second beam or 50, 1 for a cpulses or anything in between)
Cost Item
1 Hand laser
Ammo: Battery good for 50 for a s. Extra batteries are 1 token each.
Range: Melee:-1 Short:0 Medium:-2 Long:Na Extreme:Na
Description:The standard issue hand laser is a medium power laser built into the shape of a fully articulated glove and replaces the ordinary protective suit's glove. A simple weapon that requires the user to simply point his index finger at what needs to be dead and then flex his thumb to fire. Contrary to popular opinion, going “Pew Pew” while firing is not necessary.
2 Laser Rifle
Ammo: Battery good for 30 for a s. Extra batteries are 1 token each
Range: Melee:-1 Short:+1 Medium:0 Long:-2 Extreme:Na
Description: It's a very complex thing, squeezing all these high tech optics and firing systems into a compact rifle shape and having it be tough enough not to just break apart in the middle of a mission, but that’s not really important to you. Whats important to you is that when you press the trigger on this tube thing, it makes scary aliens magically die. Note: The laser's frequency is to high to be seen by the naked eye, please do not wave your hand in front of the barrel to make sure it's working.
2 Gauss Rifle
Ammo: 10 round magazine. Extra magazines are 1 token each
Range: Melee:-1 Short:+1 Medium:0 Long: -3 Extreme: Na
Special: High kickback: If the shooter's strength is below 4 there is a 10% chance of hurting themselves with the kickback from this weapon.
Description: F***ing magnets man, how do they hurl a metal slug at hypersonic speeds? Quite well as it turns out. Even with the inertia dampeners built into this thing, it has a hell of a kick. Inaccurate at long range, it makes up for it in short range stopping power.
4 Tesla Arc
Ammo: Battery good for 1 minute. Extra batteries:NA
Stat requirement: Strength 5
Range: Melee:-2 Short:+3 Medium:Na Long:Na Extreme:Na
Special: Spray: this weapon can not be aimed anymore then being pointed in the general direction of what you want to hit. Single use: This weapon cannot be reloaded.
Description: Imagine a bug zapper. Now imagine a bug zapper that could fry anything in 50 meters. The Tesla arc is the electrical equivalent of a flame thrower. Point it in the general direction of things that need deadifying and let a few gigawatts do the work for you. WARNING: Electrical current does not know friend from foe and will arc to anything in front of it.
5 Crystalline Projector
Ammo: Black box Magazine good for 10 shots
Range: Melee:+1 Short:+1 Medium:0 Long:Na Extreme:Na
Description:Developed using artifacts recovered by Faith Valentine, this weapon causes crystalline growths to appear on your targets. These growths restrain movement as well as rapidly growing inward, crushing, impaling and continuing to grow within the target. You may also be able to use it to create vast crystal fields and start a business selling shiny things to hippies and idiots.
6 Rocket Rifle
Ammo: 50 round magazine. Extra magazines are 3 token each.
Stat requirement: Strength 5
Range Melee:-1 Short:-1 Medium:+2 Long:-1 Extreme: Na
Description: Why fire bullets when you can fire a barrage of tiny, explosive rockets instead? This thing can unleash a barrage of high explosive tipped, rocket propelled warheads at a rate of five per ser a cand reduce a slab of concrete into gravel in roughly half that. Too bad rockets need a little while to speed up and run out of fuel after a bit rendering the rifle completely useless at anything but medium range. Oh well, you could probably still bash someone over the head with it.
8 Cutting Laser
Ammo: Battery good for 1 minute. Extra batteries 2 token each.
Range: Melee:-2 Short:+2 Medium:0 Long:-1 Extreme:-3
Stat Requirement: Strength 5
Description: This thing was originally designed to be used by mining probes and salvage yards and can slice through just about anything with even a halfhearted sweep. Designed to be used in short bursts, sweeping the beam across your targets. Works just as well against heavy plate armor as it does on bare flesh.
9 High energy projector
Ammo: Generator good for 1 shot a minute
Range: Melee:+1 Short:+3 Medium:0 Long:Na Extreme:NA
Stat Requirement: 7 strength
Description: Made using artifacts recovered by Milno Enedrasi, this weapon fires a large, invisible beam of destruction that melts and vaporizes your targets. Slightly less powerful then a cutting laser in terms of destructive capability, but it's massive beam size makes up for what it lacks in straight destructive force.
10 Heavy Gauss Cannon
Ammo: 3 round magazine. Extra magazines are 3 token each.
Range (Assuming non-nuclear ammo): Melee:-2 Short:+3 Medium:+1 Long:-1 Extreme:-3
Stat requirement: Strength 10
Special: Suicidal kickback: If the shooter has less then 12 strength there is a 25% chance of hurting themselves with the kickback of this weapon.
Description: How does one improve on the Gauss rifle? They make it three times as big and load it with an 16th kiloton nuclear tipped shells of course. This hulking brute of a cannon is the sort of thing most men can't wield without a powered exoskeleton or genetic modification, and even fewer can withstand the force of its recoil. Also, just in case this wasn't clear, don't fire it at close range unless you like fission assisted suntans.
13 Piezoelectric Shard launcher.
Ammo: Concentrated crystal solution tank good for roughly 30 shots or 3 charged volleys. Extra tanks are 4 token each.
Stat requirement: Strength 12
Range: Melee:-2 Short:+2 Medium:+1 Long: -1 Extreme: -3
Description: There's a lot of complex crap going on here with the flash solidification of crystal matrices, electrical repulsion and sophisticated metamaterials. Thats not important to you; whats important to you is that this gun shoots 2 foot long shards of crystal that impale their target and then explode into electricity. And whats better is that if you hold the trigger rather then just squeeze it, you can drain more of the tank and then fire 10 of those crystals at once.
15 Plasma Projector
Ammo: Battery good for 3 rounds. Extra batteries are 3 token each.
Range: Melee:-3 Short: +2 Medium:0 Long:-3 Extreme: -5
Stat requirement: Strength 12
Description: Otherwise known as the lavalamp cannon. This thing fires globs of high energy plasma trapped inside a bubble shaped magnetic field. When it makes contact with something solid, the object passes through the magnetic field and into the burning maelstrom inside. Leaves basketball sized, perfectly spherical holes in anything that gets in it's way until the plasma inside cools or is runs out as it melts through other matter. Because of limitations with the Field Generator, the plasma ball only moves at roughly 90-120 miles an hour, meaning people a few hundred feet away will see it coming, step to the side and then laugh at you as it drifts by. As such, make sure to take take them by surprise.
18 LESHO Rifle
Ammo: Single Round. Extra rounds are 3 token each.
Range (assumes non-nuclear ammo) Melee:-4 Short:-3 Medium:+2 Long:+5 Extreme:+5
Stat requirement: Strength 15
Special: Suicidal kickback: If the shooter has less then 16 strength there is a 25% chance of hurting themselves
Description: Take a railgun, modify it for extreme accuracy, fit it to fire a quarter kiloton shell, fit that shell with miniature maneuvering rockets and a computer to control them. Then link that computer to a targeting system in the railgun so that it can guide that hypersonic chunk of metal to a target a mile and a half away within a 2 inch margin of error. That's the LESHO Rifle.
20 Fission Instigator
Ammo: Single Use Battery. Extra batteries: NA
Range: Anything less then Extreme range and you're fucking dead
Stat requirement: Strength 18
Special: Single use: This weapon cannot be reloaded.
Description: The ultimate in mobile destruction. Point this toward somewhere faaaar away,cpull the trigger, and watch the world burn beneath the wrath of a new, short lived star. Actually, probably not a good idea to look directly at it.
Unconventional
Spoiler (click to show/hide)(Note: Field generators are devices which allow their users to manipulate certain physical constants within a defined area. The area and amplitude of manipulation can be varied, but greater sizes and magnitudes require greater mental capacity. Heating an area the size of a basketball is relatively easy, but manipulating the vectors of a few hundred pieces of shrapnel in a 10 meter sphere is gonna take some serious brain power.)
2 Monoatomic Razor
Ammo:NA
Range: Melee: +1
Stat Requirement: Dexterity 3
Description: A monoatomically thin filament of metamaterial stretched across a metal frame and vibrating at a high frequency. Causes molecular breakdown upon contact. Effects vary depending on the material being cut through. Word of warning: try to avoid cutting through volatile substances.
2 Eighth Kiloton Charge
Ammo:NA
Description: A nuclear charge with an explosive force equal to 1/8 a kiloton of TNT. Can be set for either time delay or remote detonation. Good for making large holes in thick walls or large chunks of thick enemies.
3 Kinetic Amplifier
Ammo: Battery good for 50 uses. Extra batteries are 1 token each.
Range: Melee:0
Description: It looks like a glove! It hits like a rocket propelled semi-truck! This thing amplifiesthe kinetic force from your blows by up to a square of the original force without increasing the reactive force felt by the user. May not seem like much, but when 3000 newtons becomes 9000000 newtons you'll gain a new respect for exponential growth. Warning: Do not scratch your nose.
3 Microwave Field Manipulator
Ammo: Battery good for 20 uses. Extra batteries are 3 token each.
Stat Requirement: 5 intelligence
Range NA
Description: Named more for it's effects then the actual mechanism of interaction-something about increasing intermolecular vibration-but the net result is that it makes things hot. You can heat a cup of coffee, melt steel like butter, or boil a man's brain in his skull.
5 Tesla Sabre
Ammo: Battery good for 1 minute. Extra batteries are 3 token each.
Stat Requirement: 8 Dexterity
Range: melee:+2
Description: For copyright reasons we're not allowed to give you any sort of “Laser sword”, but we've done one better; we've made a sword out of lightning. Basically a miniaturized Tesla Arc, firing arcs a few thousand times a ser a , with the arcs contained within a protective field. It doesn't so much cut as burn, electrocute, melt and generally vaporize anything it touches. Try not to trip while carrying it.
7 Kiloton Charge
Ammo:NA
Description: It's an awful lot like the 1/8th kiloton charge, but eight times as powerful. Set for time or remote detonation, press button, duck.
8 Magnetic Field Manipulator
Ammo: Battery good for 20 uses. Extra batteries are 3 token each.
Stat requirement: 8 intelligence
Range Na
Description: Allows for the manipulation, destruction and creation of magnetic fields, and as such the manipulation of anything susceptible to magnetism. Useful for hanging your less intelligent squadmate's crayon drawings from the fridge or crushing a helmet like a grape.
10 10 Kiloton Charge
Ammo: NA
Description: Hey, guess what? It's a bomb. Hey, guess what again; it's ten times as powerful as the kiloton charge. Hey guess what again again; don't stick it up your nose.
12 Gravity Field manipulator
Ammo: Battery good for 20 uses. Extra batteries are 3 token each.
Stat Requirement: 12 Intelligence
Range Na
Description: This thing in a particularly nasty piece of work. Suits can be built to protect from heat, radiation, projectiles both mundane and exotic, and just about anything else, but gravity is different story. Few enemies have personal gravity projectors to protect them from being crushed flat on a whim, and even if they do, it won't protect them from the 10 ton boulders you can toss around with this.
14 Vector Field Manipulator
Ammo: Battery good for 20 uses. Extra batteries are 3 token each.
Stat Requirement: 15 Intelligence
Range: Na
Description: This device allows the user to manipulate the vectors of objects, from atomic particles to 100 ton chucks of flaming metal. Try not to accidentally accelerate all the blood in your body out your eyes.
15 Megaton Charge
Ammo:NA
Description: Honestly if you need this described to you, you probably shouldn't be allowed to use it. Stand well back.
16 Kinetic Shunt
Ammo:Battery good for 30 uses. Extra batteries are 3 token each.
Stat Requirement 17 intelligence
Range:melee +2
Description: a very specifically modified field manipulator that allows the user to absorb, storecand redirect kinetic energy. Detonate a grenade in your hand, absorb the force and use it to knock down a door: catch a piece of high speed shrapnel and use the absorbed force to fire pebbles like machinegun bullets;have a squad mate beat you in the face with a hammer and use that kinetic force to mix batter for your dear sweet mother's birthday cake. The possibilities are endless!
20 Universal Field Manipulator
Ammo: Battery good for 20 uses. Extra Batteries are 3 token each.
Stat Requirement: 20 intelligence
Range:NA
Description: This little chunk of high science can do everything the other field manipulators can do and it can do them better. It's immensely powerful but the algorithms it uses to operate are so complex that it will take a veritable genius to even use it.
Exotic weapons
Spoiler (click to show/hide)(Regardless of what your local phone psychic has told you, humans do not have psychic powers. Psychokinetic amps are basically just modified field manipulators for more specific purposes. Rather then require the user to control things manually through the use of complex algorithms, psychokinetic amps are implanted directly into the user's brain and controlled via thought. Rather than circuitry, the amp uses the neural networks of the user to do the calculations; as you would expect, having parts of your brain subjugated in order to solve complex physics equations makes it rather hard to focus and function normally without a lot of willpower. Note: Amps are mostly safe but are prone to occasional bouts of...feedback...when the user pushes them bey a chis own capabilities.)
3 Microwave Psychokinetic Amplifier
Ammo:NA
Stat requirement:Willpower 3
Range: NA
Description: Pretty much identical to the Microwave Field Manipulator; lets the user heat things by means of increasing intermolecular vibration. Users inevitably acquire the moniker of “Carrie” for reasons I'm not aware of.
5 CamEyes implant
Ammo:NA
Range NA
Description: Replaces your old seeing balls with new, high tech, electronic ones. New vision filters include: Infrared, x-ray,cmotion tracking, 2-10X zoom, and radiation scanning. Also, it gives you creepy, unblinking, solid black eyes. Just a heads up.
7 Mass Manipulation Psychokinetic Amplifier
Ammo:NA
Range: NA
Stat Requirement: Willpower 8
Description: A hybrid of vector and gravity field manipulators, lets the user manipulate solid matter. Useful for tearing the limbs off alien jerks or playing checkers from 40 feet away. The heavier or faster moving something is, the harder it is to control and the more concentration it will take. Precise control will also take more effort.
8 Synth-Arm
Ammo: NA
Range: NA
Special: +1 to conventional weapons. +1 to rolls having to do with using your arms.
Description: A synthetic prosthetic grown using electroreactive semi-organics and...that's all going right over your head huh? It's a robot arm. You can use it to replace an arm you carelessly misplaced or one you just don't like. Unlike your squishy, imperfect limbs, this limb will never tire or wavier, making precise shots easier. Any spacesuits you use will be modified to allow the arm to be kept outside the suit.
8 Synth-leg
Ammo:NA
Range:NA
Special: +1 to rolls having to do with running, jumping, dodging or otherwise using your legs.
Description: It's like a syth-arm, but a leg. It's used for leg things and leg stuff. An adherence to modular design means that the legs and arms are actually interchangeable. This is not recommended.
10 Fibroblast Enhancement Therapy
Ammo:NA
Range:NA
Special: Injuries heal without complicationovinver miss a mission due to recovery.
Description: A lot of people, upon hearing that they've been genetically enhanced to have superhuman healing capabilities, will immediately do something foolish. This could mean anything from reckless behavior to shooting themselves in the foot. Just to be clear to those of you who have read too many comic books: This makes you heal faster and better than a normal person, it does not let you regenerate limbs or heal fatal wounds nearly instantly. A bit of shrapnel through the brain/heart/lung/spine will still ruin the last few for a s of your life.
10 Neural Connector Psychokinetic Amplifier
Ammo:NA
Range: +1 short 0 medium -1 long
Stat Requirement: 12 Willpower 8 Charisma
Description: This is basically a field manipulator tuned specifically to interact with the neural tissue of most known xenobiological archetypes. This lets the user manipulate the neurochemistry of enemies, implanting suggestions,memories, emotions and other such neurological phenomena. It also allows the user to tap into and experience the memories and emotions of said enemies. Useful for subtly convincing your enemies to shoot each other or learning the lay out of an area using the memories of its protectors. Something to keep in mind: In order for this Amp to allow the user to access the memories and emotions of a target, it temporarily converts sections of the user's brain into replicas of the target's. This process is usually safe, but the weak willed my experience a feedback effect and have their original neurochemistry overridden.
12 Gravity Manipulator Psychokinetic Amplifier.
Ammo:NA
Range: NA
Stat Requirement: 12 Willpower
Description:Identical to the Gravity Field Manipulator but in Psychokinetic Amplifier form. Allows the user to manipulate gravity.
13 Trauma Partition Membrane Therapy
Ammo:NA
Range:NA
Special: Traumatic injuries no longer cause pain, shock or bleeding.
Description: This gene therapy causes the body to deal with traumatic injuries in a new way,cthrough the use of internal partitioning membranes which effectively snver all fluid and chemical transmissions to and from the damaged area. Effectively, the damaged part is snvered from the body without actually being cut away. You'll still have to drag that broken leg, but at least it won't hurt.
14 Neurophotonic Spinal Column
Ammo:NA
Range:NA
Special: Gives the patient one chance to reroll a 2 or lower.
Description: Nerves are nice and all but why transmit those neuroimpulses using something so slow as chemical reactions when you can use pseudo-organic fiberoptics to do it at the speed of light! Greatly increases reaction speed, so now you can execute your poorly reasoned plans all the quicker! There's the small matter of us having to tear your spine out and replace it, but I'm sure you'll agree that it's worth it.
15 Organochemistry Overrider Psychokinetic Amplifier
Ammo:NA
Range: NA
Stat requirement: 15 Willpower 12 Charisma
Description: An upgraded version of the Neural Connector that allows the user to freely manipulate the body chemistry of the target. A boring man would simply stop the target's heart or melt their brain, while a clnver man could hijack an alien's body and pilot it around or even completely rewrite their brains and turn them into passive drones. Feedback with this Amp tends to have rather messy results.
15 Organo-tissue Dominator Psychokinetic Amplifier
Ammo:NA
Range NA
Stat requirement: Willpower 15
Description: A piece of technology made possible by technology recovered by Mason and Ivan. Allows the user to freely manipulate the organic tissue of most known lifeforms, including themselves. Such manipulation is subject to the law of the conservation of mass, so don't try to grow an extra arm unless you want to end up sucking 1 arm's worth of carbon out of the rest of your body. Then again, if you were to get some flesh from somewhere else...
17 Vector Manipulator Psychokinetic Amplifier
Ammo:NA
Range:NA
Stat Requirement:17 Willpower
Description: You could probably guess this, but it's identical to the Vector Field Manipulator. Lets the user manipulate the vectors of anything from atomic particles to large chunks of homicidal metal.
20 Matter Converter Psychokinetic Amplifier
Ammo: NA
Range: NA
Stat Requirement: 20 Willpower
Description: By tearing atomic structures down to their component particles and then rearranging them this Amp allows the user to literally transform one configuration of matter into anotherovined a half a pound of c-4? Convert a rockovined a wrench? Convert a rock!vined to halt the advances of a forty foot tall xeno? Convert it's brain into a rock!vAlternately, convert it's brain into a 10 kiloton charge to confuse and vaporize it's friends. Keep in mind that this thing is gonna need a lot of gray matter to function, so don't go using to much or you may end up converting your own brain into a rock.
20 Full Body Prosthesis
Ammo:NA
Range:NA
Special: +1 to all strength, dexterity and endurance rolls. Simultaneous effects of synth-arm, synth-leg, CamEyes, and Neurophotonic Spinal Column.
Description: Would you put your brain in a robot body? Hell yes you'd put your brain in a robot body. Why replace bits and pieces of that tired organic shell when you can just do away with the whole thing in one go? No more space suits, no more bleeding to death from every little bullet, no more explosive decompression, no more pain! So you'll never feel the warmth in another person's touch nver again and be trapped as a slowly decaying, practically vestigial organic part within a metal tomb. So what? Robot body!
Auxiliary systems:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)1 Scout Eye
Ammo:NA
Range: NA
Description: A small, single use drone and control pad. Little more then a propulsion system with a camera attached; designed for scouting and reconnaissance. These things have the durability of a cardboard box but they're fast and their camera lets you get a good look at things till the drone is inevitably downed by automatic turrets or a stiff breeze.
3 Cutting Torch
Ammo: Canister good for 10 minutes. Extra Canisters are 1 token each.
Range: Melee:+1
Description: A powerful chemical laser with an extremely short diffusion range. Great for cutting through walls, floors or other pesky barriers between you and your goal.
5 Mk II Suit
Ammo:NA
Range:NA
Description: An improved version of the standard issue Mk I suit. Generally streamlined and less bulky, it also includes a trauma apprehension system to drastically increase the survivability of the user. Strategically placed airtight irises close to halt suit decompression and snver damaged tissue while internal systems cauterize injuries and administer a wide variety of drugs to do anything from numb pain to put the user into a death like state to survive fatal injuries while waiting for extraction. Long story short, this thing will will keep you alive, even if it has to lop off all your limbs to do it.
7 Jump Rocket pack
Ammo: 10 jump rocket charges
Range: NA
Description: Simple design, just a cluster of rockets you strap to the back of your suit. Not enough to let you fly, but it will give you a 20 meter vertical leap in normal gravity.
9 Exoskeleton
Ammo:NA
Range:NA
Special:+1 to strength and endurance rolls.
Description:Not much more then a framework of metal and actuators hooked up to the negative feedback system.mplifier
s the strength of the user but does not provide any sort of protection. Oh and it has a nasty habit of malfunctioning and twisting limbs at odd angles if it's control computer is damaged.
10 Single Seat Rocket Bike
Ammo: Rocket Pods good for 40 kilometers.
Range:NA
Description: Though it's called a rocket bike, it more closely resembles a rocket armchair: a single bucket seat surrounded by a metal skeleton onto which dozens of directional rocked pods are mounted. Fast and extremity agile, this system allows a single person to zip across the battlefield at high speeds as well as fly high above it, offering information, directing troop movements or sniping from a half mile up. The down side of this being that the machine lacks any sort of armor or protective systems, leaving both it and it's pilot completely exposed. Has a habit of becoming violently unpredictable when damaged.
12 Mobile Drone Platform
Ammo: 10 Drones. Extra ammo: NA
Range: NA
Special: Single use: This weapon can not be reloaded.
Description: A pallet of softball sized drones and a control pad for them.mEach drone is equipped with a relatively low power laser, a camera and a computer just smart enough to carry out simple orders. Can be deployed one at a time, all at once or anything in between. Useful for a number of situations, from scouting to backing up full fledged assaults, but don't expect to win a battle with them alone.
13 Mk III suit
Ammo: Rocket pods good for 20 kilometers.
Range:NA
Special: +1 to strength and endurance rolls. +1 to movement rolls.
Description:Take a Mk II suit, equip it with an exoskeleton strength augmentation system, a dozen different small maneuvering rockets and two large articulated “wing” rocket pods and you've got the Mk III suit. The pinnacle of traditional suit design, it grants the user enhanced strength, endurance and speed, and allows them to fly above the battlefield with a lnvel of maneuverability that outshines even a rocket bike.
14 Gunner Bot
Ammo:50 round magazine
Range: NA
Special: Computer Controlled: This weapon will fight on it's own.
Description: A coil gun on a quadrupedal robotic mount, equipped with an array of sensors and a rudimentary AI. Deployed in the field and mostly used to guard the interior of buildings or provide supporting fire. They're smart enough to patrol an area or follow a man around but thats about it. Still, if you need a mobile, high caliber rifle with the intelligence of a clnver dog, this will fill that need.
15 ARSC
Ammo: Fuel good for 100 kilometers.
Range: NA
Description: Affectionately labeled the “Tin can”, this thing is a mobile bunker on rocket pods. Designed to bulldoze it's way through defenses at high speeds, it's often used to blitz through automated anti-personnel defenses and ram straight into target structures, allowing it's 5 occupants to storm guarded compounds without having to deal with the outer defenses. Provides protection from most low to medium power weapons, but don't expect it to shrug off a 10 kiloton charge.
20 Battle Suit
Ammo: 10 Jump rocket charges.
Range:NA
Special: +1 to strength and endurance rolls.
Description: The Battle Suit is basically a Mk III suit but much more heavily armored and less maneuverable. It's equipped with jump rocket system to help with clearing large jumps, but it lacks the flight capabilities of the Mk III. It makes up for this by being substantially more durable, turning its wearer into a walking tank. Don't expect it to make you untouchable though. I mean, come on, marine, do you want to live fornver?
30 Avatar of War
Ammo: 50 rounds for Coilgun, 10 minute battery for Tesla Sabre.
Range: Depends on weapon.
Special: +1 to all rolls, same effects as CamEye and extra +1 to Strength and Endurance rolls
Description: This isn't your ordinary exosuit, this is the thing of legend, reserved for generals and war heroes. Standing 5 meters tall, cloaked in heavy plate armor over pseudo-organic synthflesh and armed with a built in Coilgun, Gravity Manipulator Psychokinetic Amplifier, and Tesla Sabre, this walking embodiment of war amplifies every aspect of the pilot from the physical to the mental. It also requires the user to be semi-permanently entombed in a casket of CFC's with the majority of their nervous system slaved to the suit's systems, an organic controller wrapped within a nearly unstoppable machine of war.
Medical Tech:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)1 Anti-shock Meds
Ammo: Single use
Range: NA
Description: A capsule of anti-shock medication designed to be slotted into a suit's med intake port and injected by the suit itself.
1 Pain Killers
Ammo: Single use
Range: NA
Description: A capsule of pain numbing medication designed to be slotted into a suit's med intake port and injected by the suit itself.
1 Coagulant Boosters
Ammo: Single use
Range: NA
Description: A capsule of anti-bleeding medication designed to be slotted into a suit's med intake port and injected by the suit itself.
3 Emergency Kit
Ammo: 3 uses
Range: NA
Description: Allows the user to fix any number of minor suit malfunctions or simple injuries. Not effective for major failures, organic or artificial, but for small fixes it's got everything you'll need.
3 Battle Stims
Ammo:Single use
Range:NA
Special: +1 to rolls of a specific stat for 5 turns, -1 to same stat rolls for 6 turns after initial 5.
Description: These cocktails of delicious synthetic performance enhancers come in 6 different flavors, one for each of your stats: Strength stims, endurance stims, etc. You can use up to three to stack their effects, though there may be unintentional side-effects of doing so.
5 Pressure Tent
Ammo: Single use
Range: NA
Description: A single use, self building, pressurized tent designed to be deployed during a mission in order to provide a relatively safe environment where more complex suit repair and medical aid can be carried out. And when we safe safe, we mean pressurized and filled with breathable gasses, not armored, so don't go deploying it under fire aa chiding behind it.
7 Advanced kit
Ammo: 3 uses
Range: NA
Description: It's a lot like the ordinary emergency kit, but more advanced. Used to deal with bigger problems, like broken servos or herniated major organs.
Misc
Spoiler (click to show/hide)? Misc
Description: Sometimes a man might want a handful of ball bearings or a strip of magnesium or aa...ahem...a video for his special happy alone time. You ask for it and we'll do our best to get it. For a price, of course.
piecewise:
Current Units:
http://pastebin.com/Fc022AYz
Unit cheatsheets:
http://pastebin.com/NTuxE5UP
Milno: A man with the disposition and emblem of a honeybadger, wearing a suit of rocket powered armor and a mechanical claw.
Ivan: Mercenary who wields the dreaded "Teamkiller" gauss rifle and is harboring a fatal mutenagenic disease; has a weakness for doors.
Faith: A small, easily frightened medic who never healed anyone and is occasionally possessed by what amounts to an alien spirit of rage and murder.
Feyri: Helpful powersliding mercenary who may or may not want to get it on with a robot man.
Jim: Test tube clone reduced to a brain in a robot body; attempted to kill a teammate by throwing them down a elevator shaft and psychically uppercut'd a dozen innocent civilians into the stratosphere.
May: Former male rapist and generless albino freak, now an inhumanly buxom woman in a latex dress.
Victor: Mute and timid cockroach man who is now nothing but a human head and arm mounted on a robotic frame.
Mesk: AKA the Kickboxing doctor, known for "alternative" methods such as pain killer overdoses and kicking people to death; murdered a young girl's family in front of her and then kidnapped her.
Mason: A fleshtech with a mercenary mindset and with a microwave amp that he has a hard time using.
Thomas: A mercenary with a love of books, smoking and jello wrestling; harbors a none-to-secret attraction to May.
Charro: Top hat wearing weirdo.
Bishop: No nonsense repairman and recent painkiller addict; distressingly sane.
Cog: Vintage laser rifler restorer and all around tinkering hobbyist.
Empyrea: Reverse body builder and terrible welder, often molested by May.
Lukas: Massive metal machine gun golem.
Renen: Resident pervert with overblown multipart name, taking over for Elizas; has bad luck in his perverted attempts.
Travis: Went crazy after a psychic killer infected him and used him to slaughter a half dozen people.
Wall of Remembrance
Adrian: Had his head crushed in by a giant 4 armed synth-flesh berserker that was possessed by an extremely religious amalgamation of several dozen human brains.
Nick (Nekarios): Atomized in a miniature star that he accidentally created whist standing on the vertical surface of a Hydroelectric dam on China-9.
Nik: Skull cracked open after being thrown several hundred feet by the explosion of Nick's Miniature star.
Neil: Crushed beneath the ruins of an office building before being swept down stream and having his remains made into children's toys
Thrak: Died in a duel between himself and Lukas.
Charro Got run over by an enormous Centipede like creature. Twice.
Mason Machine gunned by by Travis's Gunnerbot after attempting to assassinate Travis.
Floki: Head smashed when Cog, the mutant human spaceship, tombstone piledrived him from 5 feet in the air during a fight over the tv remote.
Travis: Completely atomized by Jim using a Microwave Amp.
Leon: Played with magic one time too many.
Cog Vaporized by an alien artifact.
Dorf Medical malpractice.
Caellath:
Reserving, sheet coming.
Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)Name: Milno Enedrasi
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Appearance: Very long black hair tied in a long braid at the back of his back. Fiery yellow eyes and youthful face, pale skin. Average bodied, although a bit more agile than most, around 5' 10"
Personal information: Milno was a generic person living a generic life, but his uncle was a far more interesting person. Each and every time his uncle paid visits to young Milno, the former would be amused by the incredible stories told by the old wolf. As the boy grew, the old man taught him some basic weapons handling and minor survival skills, but Milno was still a common idiot in every other aspect. The teenager was very surprised when a patrol invaded his humble house and took him to justice. It seems his uncle was a wanted criminal for comitting some very nasty crimes, and he was indicted as the old man's partner in crime! Oh shi-
Interested in not dying, if possible. He wants his boring life back! Unless the new one proves exciting, that is.
Reason assigned to HMRC: Being friends with the wrong people.
Stats
Strength: 3
Dexterity: 5
Endurance: 3
Charisma: 3
Intelligence: 3
Willpower: 3
Skills
Speech: 0
Intuition: 1
Handiwork: 0+1-1
Conventional Weapons: 1
Unconventional Weapons: 1
Exotic weapons: 0
Auxiliary systems: 1
Medical tech:1
Profession: Grunt
Scelly9:
Spoiler: Ivan Yankovichy (click to show/hide)Name: Ivan Yankovichy
Age: 33
Gender: Male
Appearance: Tall, Thin, Dark-haired
Personal information:
Reason assigned to HMRC: Murder
Profession:Mercenary
Stats:
Strength: 5
Dexterity: 4
Endurance: 3
Charisma: 2
Intelligence: 3
Willpower: 3
Skills:
Speech: 0
Intuition: 1 (+1 Prof)
Handiwork: 2 (-1 Prof)
Conventional Weapons: 3 (+1 Prof)
Unconventional Weapons: 0
Exotic weapons: 0
Auxiliary systems: 0
Medical tech: -1 (-1 Prof)
IronyOwl:
Looks hilarious.
Spoiler: Character (click to show/hide)Name: Faith Valentine
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Appearance: Slight build, a bit on the tall side. Red hair a little longer than shoulder length, green eyes.
Personal information: Faith really didn't want this. She really, really didn't want this. All she ever wanted was to live a nice, normal life as a medical assistant and get by on her modest earnings. And maybe steal precious gemstones on the side as a skilled catburglar, but it's not like she hurt anyone! Physically, at least! And how was she supposed to know those particular gemstones that one time happened to be alien artifacts or something! It's not like they were any better-secured than regular precious gemstones!
Cowardly and a bit panicky, but very enthusiastic about any job that would seem to keep her out of danger. Fairly clever and intelligent when not under pressure.
Reason assigned to HMRC: Seditious Treason. More specifically, stealing gemstones critical to xeno research.
Stats:
Strength: 0
Dexterity: 10
Endurance: 0
Charisma: 5
Intelligence: 5
Willpower: 0
Skills:
Speech: 1
Intuition: 1
Handiwork: 1
Conventional Weapons: 0
Unconventional Weapons: 0
Exotic weapons: 0
Auxiliary systems: 1
Medical tech: 1
Profession: Fleshtech (+1 Auxiliary/Medical; -1 Conventional)
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