Watch the area around me. Have a smoke. Be chill.
You attempt to smoke in a positive, totally under your control, manner and be chill and relaxed.
"I don't think that's a good idea. I mean, do you see how hot it is? You'll fry, even through the suit. I say we keep an eye on it, and wait until either it changes, or morning comes. Everyone just keep a look out for anything else that might stop by and say hello. Assume anything approaching us is hostile, but wait for a visual just to make sure it's not human. The locals should all be to scared to come see what we're doing, but there could be a really thick one out there."
Guard the Host, and make sure nobody gets too close to it. Don't get any closer to it myself.
You guard the host to prevent any more shenanigans.
"Stay vigilant. Apparently this whole ordeal increased the heat of... of the host, so don't take its calm for granted. If the host still follows, then all the better. If not, we need to figure out what to do next."
Retain Exo bonus?
Str 3; Dex 3; End 3; Cha 10; Int 6; Wil 15//Spe 0; Int 1; Han 0 (-1); Con 4; Unc 0; Exo 12; Aux 3 (+1); Med 0
Mk II Suit; Microwave PK Amp; Mass manip PK Amp; laser rifle (fired once); 0 tokens: normal cigarettes; blue smokes; datapad (with platformer shooter); nanoghosts; shock trigger (with Morul); white skin-tight node-covered black-shell stasis suit worn under Mk II.
Appearance: 5'11'', 170 pounds in a rather unmuscular frame, shoulder-long brown hair, short goatee, brown eyes, a rather long chin that earned him his nickname. Age 32
Half a robot foot. Robot right arm. Wears basic clothes when not in the Mk II.
You only retain those for a turn so...unless you wanna keep renewing it, you might as well let it go.
"Imma try something."
Mine out a chunk of land under Dern for transport. It's worked for other anomalies.
Stop if I get burned, or if Dern reacts negatively, or if teammates seem angry.
Oppose.
Tend to the fires. Make sure our laser heatray people are on task and on Derm.
You light two new logs -the old ones got vaporized- and roll them over near Dern's feet.
Thats Dern, not Derm. I know it's basically his MO at this point, but it's not him.
"Host has a new person now so we can still deal with it"
Hey I think that is a new host we should keep it warm
due to lack of explosions approach warily then build a chemical fire large enough to last until morning, then wait until morning
You join the happy campfire singalong.
I'm scouting ahead. It's better than standing here doing nothing.
Scout ahead. Make sure the path ahead is safe. Look for anything interesting.
Keep my number gun at the ready and charge a con bonus.
You want to walk out into the desert, alone, in the middle of the night?
Tek tries to get some sleep until morning.
You dream of electric sheep.
Sambo keeps watch for any hostile activity, and readies his laser rifle again in place of his gauss rifle. He lowers the diffusion on it a notch, ups the power a notch, and keeps his distance from the Eater (60% power, high/medium diffusion).
"If any scary shit happens before dawn, I'll keep Dern heated up with me laser. I've cranked this thing up a bit, so stay out of the sodding way. It might not do much to to toasty-boy here, but it'll make your pubes a fuckload curlier if you catch a decent blast of it. I don't know if this hunk of junk generator can keep going at that spec, but it might give us a bit of 'run-like-fuck' time.
Anyone notice that this damn thing keeps getting hotter each time it jumps into some other poor bastard? Wonder if more heat's the answer or less? Fuck it, more is always better."
You keep watch.
"If it looks that... the host cools down to previous levels, yes, keep him warm."
Gorat types on his wristpad once more.
What do these old stories, or rather the analysis of them, say about the Eater maturing? Is it universally a catastrophic event, or just a departure after catastrophic events? Does it just normally "eat" in a horribly destructive way, or does it leave horribly destructively as well?
Ask Steve via wristpad.
Str 3; Dex 3; End 3; Cha 10; Int 6; Wil 15//Spe 0; Int 1; Han 0 (-1); Con 4; Unc 0; Exo 12; Aux 3 (+1); Med 0
Mk II Suit; Microwave PK Amp; Mass manip PK Amp; laser rifle (fired once); 0 tokens: normal cigarettes; blue smokes; datapad (with platformer shooter); nanoghosts; shock trigger (with Morul); white skin-tight node-covered black-shell stasis suit worn under Mk II.
Appearance: 5'11'', 170 pounds in a rather unmuscular frame, shoulder-long brown hair, short goatee, brown eyes, a rather long chin that earned him his nickname. Age 32
Half a robot foot. Robot right arm. Wears basic clothes when not in the Mk II.
>A bit hard to day; the actual emergence of the thing is...well half the time the hero stops it, and when he doesn't it's more written off as "And then the eater destroyed wherever". I would assume that the radius of its anti-cold effect increases as it matures and that, once it reaches a point, it will either emerge, wander around, eat cold for a while then leave, or that the emergence itself will have an anti-cold radius of...quite large and that it will leave immediately as it emerges. Either way, it's bad news bears.
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