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[auzewasright]

"I'll take you up on that offer, just give me a moment..."
Order Jorge to come back. Then, travel back with Dell. On the way back, discuss our situation.

Spoiler: Auze (click to show/hide)

Name: Auze
Appearance: Slightly on the tall side, brown hair, male.
Profession: Engineer, aspiring Tortle trainer
Faction: Unaligned Saviour
Type: Human

Stats
Body: 0
Wits: 2
Empathy: 3

Den: In the area South-west of the broads, a shack with gathered equipment and books salvaged from the plane.
Conditions:
Luck: 3
Kudos: 0
Rep: +0walt +0london +0mob +1keep -1church -1gml -1legends +0terra -1eyes +0pirates
Tallies: 4

Signature Gear: Tortleing gun, combining old weaponry with new electronics, it is capable of shooting someone, bashing someone's head in, and receiving and decrypting radio signals... so long as the encryption is Morse code. It is not very good at bashing someone's head in unless you get the add-on whip... which Auze didn't.

• Torteling gun with whip: Perhaps the closest thing to the ideal weapon for a Tortler, this weapon is effective at both ranged and melee, allowing one to shoot someone and then bash his head in if he is still breathing. Not bad for a gun that is often homemade out of scavenged parts.

Other items:
Diamond Dust
Giant Insectoid wing
Quest items:

Saviour: Auze is the guide and leader of the once-prestigious-but-now-banned-from-Ecuador-for-life Carolinian-Galapagosian Hallockes de Pinta family. His fellow relatives are:
Father, Auze Sr: An experienced tortle trainer who was fairly powerful in the Galapagos, and has fought off some monsters in his day. Preferred weapon: scourge followed with a dagger
Brother, Josh: Much more into weaponry than the Engineering-minded Auze. Is stronger, and likes the idea of revenge against the non-humans. A good tortle trainer himself.
Sister, Layla: Good with people, she likes to convince others to do something with charisma. The reason the family got banned from the Galapagos for life.
Cousin, Carol: The less said 'bout 'im, the better. There are only 3 extra members in the family.



Family Quest

Spoiler: personal quests (click to show/hide)

Personal Quests:

2 - Restore humanity to its former glory and kick out mutants and uploxed - Part 1 - Alliance
It'll be tough to fight against killer robots and rampaging mutants just as a family. Perhaps human allies in the fight could be found? The Land Pirates are most militant about getting rid of the mutants, while the Keep fight a good fight against the uploxed. The Postwick Mob are a bit more ambivalent, but their base is closest to your home.
Location: Norwich outskirts, or Norwich Castle, or Postwick
Reward: +2 tallies, possibility of +1 faction rep

Done (sort of)
1 - Establish a population of trained attack tortles - Part 1 - Tortle capture
The bad news is, tortles aren't normally native to the Broads; the good news is your family stuffed half the plane full of them; the worse news is that this is mostly why the plane crashed here and all the surviving tortles escaped into this interminable marshland. Time to catch some!
Reward: 1 tally per tortle caught
Part 2 - Tortle training

Done:
3 - Secure the future of the Hallocks de Piñta dynasty - Part 2 - Getting on with it (needs new description)
You could be cut down at any moment: you need to create a new generation of tortlers. That means meeting other humans... either a nice Señorita, or a lost child that could be adopted. There are plenty of humans at the Keep...
Location: Norwich Castle

* - O Brother!
Josh claims that a harpy flew off with his favorite sword. He says he thinks its hiding out in a boathouse on the river. If you help him get his sword back, he says he'll finally get around to adding the whip attachment to your Tortling gun.
Location: The broads
Reward: +2 tallies, a whip.

* - Electric Blues
Layla is getting fed up of the rather limited entertainment available to the family. She's found a couple of boomboxes, all she needs are some batteries or a power source.
Quest Location: Someplace civilised might have batteries to trade.
Report Location: Den in the broads
Reward: +2 tallies, radio broadcast capability.

Spoiler: Tortles (click to show/hide)

Jorge
Diego
George

[Glass]

Spoiler: Dr. Amoretto (click to show/hide)

Name: Dr. Darrin Amoretto
Appearance: Taller than average and skinny, though kind of awkward-seeming. Gets antsy when around a lot of people, though becomes much smoother when expounding on a topic he's interested in. Hair is short and brown, skin is pale and moderately sunburnt. His left hand is redder than the rest of him, and looks slightly burnt; it also seems to perpetually have ashes on it.
Profession: Scientist, Engineer, Skirmisher
Faction: Walt Labs
Type: Mutant

Stats:
Body: -1
Wits: 1
Empathy: 1
Weird: 3

Mutation:
Sonic Boom - You can create an intense blast of sound, enough to knock someone off their feet or more.
Blow Torch Thumb - Your thumb burns with an intense heat, glowing hotter the more you concentrate on it. It sheds light as a candle.
Keratin Spikes - You can launch sharpened keratin spikes out of the back of your hands.

Hunger: 1
Luck: 1
Kudos: 0
Condition:
Den: Rooms at Amazona Zoo in Cromer

Signature Gear: A fireproofed lab coat, with the Walt Labs logo printed on the shoulder.
Other equipment: old rifle (loaded), 14mm spanner, wristwatch, steel meterstick, damaged destruction matrix, thermometer, ski mask, spray-on flesh (?)

Wounds: None
Relationship: Dr. Jackson "Frost" Davis, one of Darrin's friends and a member of Walt Labs. Currently has a leadership position among the Walt Lab mutants.
Experience Tallies: 1
Rep: +2walt +1london +0mob +2keep +0church -3gml -1legends +0terra -1eyes -2pirates

Spoiler: Personal Quests (click to show/hide)

1 - Curing the Hunger - Part 1 - Test Subject Required
The researchers at Walt Labs know that the Hunger is driving mutants insane... but why and how it works is yet unknown. If they could study someone who has definitely been suffering from the hunger then they'd be able to make serious progress. It just so happens that Alex 'the Freak' Johnson went AWOL in Norwich after flipping out and attacking a member of the Keep. If he could be subdued then he would be invaluable to the research.
Location: The contact at the Keep said he disappeared in the warehouse district north of the river in Norwich.
report location: Amazona in Cromer
Reward: 3 tallies
2 - Why Are the Uploxed so homicidal?
Scouts have spotted a TERRATERROR drone nearby to the west. They're normally non-violent and will often answer questions. Maybe one could be induced to explain about Uploxed culture?
Location: Blakeny Nature Reserve
Reward: 1 tally
3 - Set up our own tower to jam signals - Part 1 - How to Jam?
Darrin knows the theory behind multi-spectrum radio jamming and had set up some prototypes, but they don't seem to have any sustained effect on the Uploxed. The clearest way forward seems to be to travel to Ipswich and ask the Church of the New Millenium how they do it. Surely they'll want more radio jamming in the world?
Location: Ipswich
Reward: 2 tallies

[Earlier, when Ben objects] "Fair enough. You're the one who knows how that works, I'll defer to your judgement there."

[Now] "Hard to believe that worked. Ok.
You can take a rest, Chloe. No talking until you're feeling better, doctor's orders."
"Gavel, what do you mean 'it tastes of gold'? And do any of you know what the 'CS' on the balls might mean?"

(By the way, if the metal balls are the size of footballs - whether American or European - that's not "small". That's fairly large for a metal ball. Small is more like... ball bearing size.)

[notquitethere]

The Keep

"I'll take you up on that offer, just give me a moment..."
Order Jorge to come back. Then, travel back with Dell.

Auze gathers up his tortles and travels back to the Keep with Dell and the others. They travel out of the rain and drive through the night. The sun is just coming up on the horizon when they slowly pick their way through the few navigable streets of Norwich. Eventually they pull in through the scrap gates of the Keep.

As they're unloading in the yard. "Those are remarkable creatures," Dell says. "Do you use them to fight?"


Laxfield Labyrinth

You can take a rest, Chloe. No talking until you're feeling better, doctor's orders."
"Gavel, what do you mean 'it tastes of gold'? And do any of you know what the 'CS' on the balls might mean?"

Nobody has any firm ideas what the CS could mean.

"Maybe's it's the maker's mark?" says Big Ben.

"Counterstrike?" suggests Doc Stone. "God damn I miss videogames."

"Computer Science?" muses Balthazar.

As for the gold, Gavel just says, "I can sense the broad composition of objects my hammers bounce off of. The signal grows much fainter and harder to determine the more surfaces they have to bounce off of first. But the signal of the element of AU is so strong in the room to the south that it doesn't matter that signal is so weak. There must be a lot of gold there."

[Naturegirl1999]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Bio
Name: Sandra
Appearance:  Millipede with antennae, mandibles and the ability to roll into a ball
Profession: Teacher
Faction: Eyes of Gaia
Type: Robo-bug uploxed

Stats

Body: 1
Wits: 2
Empathy: 1
Connexion: 2

Health
Conditions:
Luck: 2
Distance: 3

Rep
-1walt -2london -1mob -1keep -1church -1gml -1legends +0terra +3eyes -2pirates
Kudos: 2

Experience Tallies: 5

Stuff
Den:
 Spalding's Chair Hill
Signature Gear: (choose a single notable handheld or wearable item that says something about your character & gives +1 to relevant rolls)
Inventory:x3 Wd40 cans

Relationships:
Tas, a rebellious child in the Church.
Helen, a determined robo-squid in the Eyes of Gaia, usually lives in London.
Natrix, a grumpy robo-cranefly in the Eyes of Gaia.
Sable, a kind robo-scorpion in the Eyes of Gaia.


Personal Quests
- Help Tas escape the Church - Part 1 - Kudos for a Killer
Killazilla wants 3 kudos, but Sandra is pretty clueless about how the uploxed economy works. Still if she can get the Kudos, she can learn how to get into the Dead Zone...
Location: Watton
Reward: 5 tallies.

Destroy the Church of the New Millenium - Part 1
research on Nexus brings up that before the end days a mycologist at the West Suffolk College had been breeding on a fungus that rapidly eats away at dead flesh. If this was released among the population of the Church, it would destroy all of the walking corpses and leave the non-uploxed women and children alive. Perhaps a sample could still exist at the college?
Location: West Suffolk College, in Bury St Edmunds, near the Buried Saint Tower.
Reward: 1 tally

Protect the forests - Part 1 - Anti-Road Clearance
The Keep and the Londoners have been working to clear a series of roundabouts in Scole which are completely overgrown, this would allow their convoys to drive through the area much more easily. If someone were to destroy the road and plant some new trees there, that would hinder their destruction...
Location: Scole
Reward: 3 tallies

Non-Personal Quests

Get the Geezers
Requirement: +1eyes
Now that their base is covered by radio cover, it's time to act against the Londoners. The Eyes have received intelligence that some of the most powerful Londoners are out of the town, so they are planning a full assault on Bungay while it's safer to do so. Fighters are to assemble in Thetford before they march out.
Quest Location: Thetford Forest
Reward: +3 tallies, +2 kudos, +1eyes rep, +2 random spoils of war

"I'm not so sure nuking is a good idea, while ionizing radiation does does harm humans, it harms everything with DNA as well, I agree with you, nuking a place isn't ecological.  Where did you two even go to find one of those?"

[Glass]

Spoiler: Dr. Amoretto (click to show/hide)

Name: Dr. Darrin Amoretto
Appearance: Taller than average and skinny, though kind of awkward-seeming. Gets antsy when around a lot of people, though becomes much smoother when expounding on a topic he's interested in. Hair is short and brown, skin is pale and moderately sunburnt. His left hand is redder than the rest of him, and looks slightly burnt; it also seems to perpetually have ashes on it.
Profession: Scientist, Engineer, Skirmisher
Faction: Walt Labs
Type: Mutant

Stats:
Body: -1
Wits: 1
Empathy: 1
Weird: 3

Mutation:
Sonic Boom - You can create an intense blast of sound, enough to knock someone off their feet or more.
Blow Torch Thumb - Your thumb burns with an intense heat, glowing hotter the more you concentrate on it. It sheds light as a candle.
Keratin Spikes - You can launch sharpened keratin spikes out of the back of your hands.

Hunger: 1
Luck: 1
Kudos: 0
Condition:
Den: Rooms at Amazona Zoo in Cromer

Signature Gear: A fireproofed lab coat, with the Walt Labs logo printed on the shoulder.
Other equipment: old rifle (loaded), 14mm spanner, wristwatch, steel meterstick, damaged destruction matrix, thermometer, ski mask, spray-on flesh (?)

Wounds: None
Relationship: Dr. Jackson "Frost" Davis, one of Darrin's friends and a member of Walt Labs. Currently has a leadership position among the Walt Lab mutants.
Experience Tallies: 1
Rep: +2walt +1london +0mob +2keep +0church -3gml -1legends +0terra -1eyes -2pirates

Spoiler: Personal Quests (click to show/hide)

1 - Curing the Hunger - Part 1 - Test Subject Required
The researchers at Walt Labs know that the Hunger is driving mutants insane... but why and how it works is yet unknown. If they could study someone who has definitely been suffering from the hunger then they'd be able to make serious progress. It just so happens that Alex 'the Freak' Johnson went AWOL in Norwich after flipping out and attacking a member of the Keep. If he could be subdued then he would be invaluable to the research.
Location: The contact at the Keep said he disappeared in the warehouse district north of the river in Norwich.
report location: Amazona in Cromer
Reward: 3 tallies
2 - Why Are the Uploxed so homicidal?
Scouts have spotted a TERRATERROR drone nearby to the west. They're normally non-violent and will often answer questions. Maybe one could be induced to explain about Uploxed culture?
Location: Blakeny Nature Reserve
Reward: 1 tally
3 - Set up our own tower to jam signals - Part 1 - How to Jam?
Darrin knows the theory behind multi-spectrum radio jamming and had set up some prototypes, but they don't seem to have any sustained effect on the Uploxed. The clearest way forward seems to be to travel to Ipswich and ask the Church of the New Millenium how they do it. Surely they'll want more radio jamming in the world?
Location: Ipswich
Reward: 2 tallies

"Fair enough.
I suspect the gold room may be a trap. If you guys are interested in it, Balthazar, maybe you can scout ahead. I think we should go northeast, though; we'd be directly adjacent to the center."

[Pokeboss44]

”Hey fellow Uploxed with a killer mystique I am trying to infiltrate the Postwick Mobs to help against the fight of the Legends against them, are you a neutral agent willing to help me out and I could help you out?” Karen directly speaks to Jäger and asks for his assistance.

Spoiler: Karen Kablukov (click to show/hide)

Name: Karen Kablukov
Appearance: A feminine human figure with long blonde hair and face full of makeup in a business suit, hiding the secret of the interior flesh suit
Profession: Journalist
Faction: Legends (Bodysnatcher)
Type: Neozombie (Bodysnatcher)
Personal goals: Transform my personality routine into full-fledged self-learning AI, find interesting news stories for the Legends, infiltrate the Postwick Mob and become a faction agent of theirs

Stats:
Stats start at -1. Distribute 7 points across them, ranging -1 to 2
Body (using your physicality): 4
Wits (using your mind): -1
Empathy (dealing with people): 1

Health:
Conditions: (none; these add -1 to relevant rolls)
Luck: 2

Rep: Legends: -1walt +0london +0mob -1keep -1church -2gml +1legends +0terra -1eyes -2pirates
“Human Survivor”: +0walt +0london +0mob +0keep -1church -1gml -1legends +0terra -1eyes +0pirates

Kudos: 0

Experience Tallys: 1

Stuff:
Den: Buried Saints Tower
Signature Gear: Weaponized Umbrella, it’s a purple umbrella that has a knife blade at the end that can be utilized for stabbing as well as protection from weather
Inventory:

Quests: Transcendence - Part 1 - Antediluvian Research
You want transform your personality routine into full-fledged self-learning AI. AI research stalled on the advent of uploxing... but it's not completely dead. There's an old researcher called Meredith Wazashi who retired to Great Yarmouth. Great Yarmouth sank into the ocean years ago, but perhaps she left some research notes? You've got an image of her three storey townhouse downloaded in your memory banks. It's not a lot to go on, but it's a lead.
Location: Nelson Road Central, Great Yarmouth
Reward: 2 tallies
News for Legends
East Anglia is bound to be filled with breaking news and intriguing gossip to share with the Legends.
Location: There's got to be stuff happening in all the settlements in the area: Kings Lynn, Watton, Cromer, Fakenham, Dereham, Thetford Forest, Spooner Row, Scole, Norwich, Bungay, Lowestoft, Great Yarmouth, Dunwich, Iswich, Sudbury, Postwick.
Report location: Buried Saint
Reward: +1 tally for each story reported.
Infiltrate the Postwick Mob and become a faction agent of theirs - Part 1 - Getting a rep
Legends want someone on the inside of the Mob. You're that person. You'll need to get in their good books first.
Location: [See Mob 0+ quests]
Report location: Postwick
Reward: +1 tally

[auzewasright]

"Indeed, I do. These guys are trained to help fight, among others. They can also be trained to detect and search for things, and as you saw, they are masters at causing mayhem when they want to (as for other uses, their untrained cousins are a good source of meat and eggs, pretty handy when you live on a place with as unreliable agriculture as Las Islas Galápagos).  Good thing too, because when dealing with Hybrid and Mutant warlords, the (fortunately limited in presence) uploxed, and of course the uselessness that is the Ecuadorian Nationalists, we needed all the aid we could get. I guess now we're in a situation that's just as (if not more) chaotic, only with a few different groups. Which is why we want to arrange an alliance with the Keep." Tell him any information he wants to know about the Tortles and where they are located, as well as any other details.

Spoiler: Auze (click to show/hide)

Name: Auze
Appearance: Slightly on the tall side, brown hair, male.
Profession: Engineer, aspiring Tortle trainer
Faction: Unaligned Saviour
Type: Human

Stats
Body: 0
Wits: 2
Empathy: 3

Den: In the area South-west of the broads, a shack with gathered equipment and books salvaged from the plane.
Conditions:
Luck: 3
Kudos: 0
Rep: +0walt +0london +0mob +1keep -1church -1gml -1legends +0terra -1eyes +0pirates
Tallies: 4

Signature Gear: Tortleing gun, combining old weaponry with new electronics, it is capable of shooting someone, bashing someone's head in, and receiving and decrypting radio signals... so long as the encryption is Morse code. It is not very good at bashing someone's head in unless you get the add-on whip... which Auze didn't.

• Torteling gun with whip: Perhaps the closest thing to the ideal weapon for a Tortler, this weapon is effective at both ranged and melee, allowing one to shoot someone and then bash his head in if he is still breathing. Not bad for a gun that is often homemade out of scavenged parts.

Other items:
Diamond Dust
Giant Insectoid wing
Quest items:

Saviour: Auze is the guide and leader of the once-prestigious-but-now-banned-from-Ecuador-for-life Carolinian-Galapagosian Hallockes de Pinta family. His fellow relatives are:
Father, Auze Sr: An experienced tortle trainer who was fairly powerful in the Galapagos, and has fought off some monsters in his day. Preferred weapon: scourge followed with a dagger
Brother, Josh: Much more into weaponry than the Engineering-minded Auze. Is stronger, and likes the idea of revenge against the non-humans. A good tortle trainer himself.
Sister, Layla: Good with people, she likes to convince others to do something with charisma. The reason the family got banned from the Galapagos for life.
Cousin, Carol: The less said 'bout 'im, the better. There are only 3 extra members in the family.



Family Quest

Spoiler: personal quests (click to show/hide)

Personal Quests:

2 - Restore humanity to its former glory and kick out mutants and uploxed - Part 1 - Alliance
It'll be tough to fight against killer robots and rampaging mutants just as a family. Perhaps human allies in the fight could be found? The Land Pirates are most militant about getting rid of the mutants, while the Keep fight a good fight against the uploxed. The Postwick Mob are a bit more ambivalent, but their base is closest to your home.
Location: Norwich outskirts, or Norwich Castle, or Postwick
Reward: +2 tallies, possibility of +1 faction rep

Done (sort of)
1 - Establish a population of trained attack tortles - Part 1 - Tortle capture
The bad news is, tortles aren't normally native to the Broads; the good news is your family stuffed half the plane full of them; the worse news is that this is mostly why the plane crashed here and all the surviving tortles escaped into this interminable marshland. Time to catch some!
Reward: 1 tally per tortle caught
Part 2 - Tortle training

Done:
3 - Secure the future of the Hallocks de Piñta dynasty - Part 2 - Getting on with it (needs new description)
You could be cut down at any moment: you need to create a new generation of tortlers. That means meeting other humans... either a nice Señorita, or a lost child that could be adopted. There are plenty of humans at the Keep...
Location: Norwich Castle

* - O Brother!
Josh claims that a harpy flew off with his favorite sword. He says he thinks its hiding out in a boathouse on the river. If you help him get his sword back, he says he'll finally get around to adding the whip attachment to your Tortling gun.
Location: The broads
Reward: +2 tallies, a whip.

* - Electric Blues
Layla is getting fed up of the rather limited entertainment available to the family. She's found a couple of boomboxes, all she needs are some batteries or a power source.
Quest Location: Someplace civilised might have batteries to trade.
Report Location: Den in the broads
Reward: +2 tallies, radio broadcast capability.

Spoiler: Tortles (click to show/hide)

Jorge
Diego
George

[Shadowclaw777]

”Hey fellow Uploxed with a killer mystique I am trying to infiltrate the Postwick Mobs to help against the fight of the Legends against them, are you a neutral agent willing to help me out and I could help you out?” Karen directly speaks to Jäger and asks for his assistance.

Spoiler: Karen Kablukov (click to show/hide)

Name: Karen Kablukov
Appearance: A feminine human figure with long blonde hair and face full of makeup in a business suit, hiding the secret of the interior flesh suit
Profession: Journalist
Faction: Legends (Bodysnatcher)
Type: Neozombie (Bodysnatcher)
Personal goals: Transform my personality routine into full-fledged self-learning AI, find interesting news stories for the Legends, infiltrate the Postwick Mob and become a faction agent of theirs

Stats:
Stats start at -1. Distribute 7 points across them, ranging -1 to 2
Body (using your physicality): 4
Wits (using your mind): -1
Empathy (dealing with people): 1

Health:
Conditions: (none; these add -1 to relevant rolls)
Luck: 2

Rep: Legends: -1walt +0london +0mob -1keep -1church -2gml +1legends +0terra -1eyes -2pirates
“Human Survivor”: +0walt +0london +0mob +0keep -1church -1gml -1legends +0terra -1eyes +0pirates

Kudos: 0

Experience Tallys: 1

Stuff:
Den: Buried Saints Tower
Signature Gear: Weaponized Umbrella, it’s a purple umbrella that has a knife blade at the end that can be utilized for stabbing as well as protection from weather
Inventory:

Quests: Transcendence - Part 1 - Antediluvian Research
You want transform your personality routine into full-fledged self-learning AI. AI research stalled on the advent of uploxing... but it's not completely dead. There's an old researcher called Meredith Wazashi who retired to Great Yarmouth. Great Yarmouth sank into the ocean years ago, but perhaps she left some research notes? You've got an image of her three storey townhouse downloaded in your memory banks. It's not a lot to go on, but it's a lead.
Location: Nelson Road Central, Great Yarmouth
Reward: 2 tallies
News for Legends
East Anglia is bound to be filled with breaking news and intriguing gossip to share with the Legends.
Location: There's got to be stuff happening in all the settlements in the area: Kings Lynn, Watton, Cromer, Fakenham, Dereham, Thetford Forest, Spooner Row, Scole, Norwich, Bungay, Lowestoft, Great Yarmouth, Dunwich, Iswich, Sudbury, Postwick.
Report location: Buried Saint
Reward: +1 tally for each story reported.
Infiltrate the Postwick Mob and become a faction agent of theirs - Part 1 - Getting a rep
Legends want someone on the inside of the Mob. You're that person. You'll need to get in their good books first.
Location: [See Mob 0+ quests]
Report location: Postwick
Reward: +1 tally

Spoiler: ForHire (click to show/hide)

Name: Jägermörder
Appearance: A metallic humanoid figure made out of a titanium-gold alloy that contains a metallic hood, in the digital realm the avatar is a living wraith that travels from place to place.
Profession: Warlord
Faction: Unaligned (Assassin)
Type: Uploxed

Stats:
Body: 3
Wits: 0
Empathy: 3
Connexion: -2

Health:
Luck: 2
Distance: 0

Rep:
 -1walt -1london +0mob -1keep -1church +0gml +0legends +0terra +2eyes -2pirates
Kudos: 3

Experience Tally: 1

Stuff:
Den: In the middle of Great Marmite League,, Thetford Forest, and the Keep’s Radio Towers where no connection can connect. It’s an antique nuclear shelter.
Signature Gear: Scythe, an arm on the robotic chassis that can transform into an autoloading rotary minigun from the ammo reserve in the torso region.
Equipment: Bipedal Armored Chassis, Scythe (Out of ammo), PSG1 (Sniper Rifle), Shadozer Teleportation Device (Temporarily turn the robotic body into a shadow and then travels hundreds of miles, appearing as a shadow temporarily then morphing back into robotic form. Highly experimental: prone to flickering back into physical form mid-journey). Two human fingers, ripped open Bird Cage (Empty), box of gold leaf, semtex

Personal Quests
1 - Harden physical form against radio jamming - Part 1  - Catching the Oystercatcher Watcher
The kind of broad-spectrum radio jamming that the Church use has thus far eluded the Uploxed of East Anglia. Jägermörder has learned through nexus that an uploxed signal engineer who specialised in this kind of technology is birdwatching in the Alde Mudflats right now. She might be persuaded to help develop hardening against jamming.
Location: Alde mudflats
Reward: x2 tallies
2 - Make shadow tech more reliable - Part 2 - Gh0st Busting
The Legends uplox known as Gh0st has more advanced shadow-jumping technology. All you need is its quonbox component or the schematics for it. Who knows where Gh0st is hiding though. Someone in Nexus, Watton, or the Legends base might know.
Location: Nexus, Watton or Buried Saint
Reward: x1 tallies
3 - Terminate members of the Church of Milennium - Part 1 - Bash the Bishop
Hacked communications show that a church delegate is coming from London way to Ipswich. This would be a great opportunity to hit the Church without needing to get into their jamming zone.
Location: Dedham Vale
Reward: x2 tallies

”Alright human I think?, or are you one of those weird bodysnatchers, I have some business with the Gaia to attend to a meeting there to help encourage the death of puny fleshlings, so I’ll give you my gold leaf to make it seem like your infiltrating the Mob and it will help me out by making their tower go online so that Uploxed can works in that area, so here’s a gift and I’m out.”

Jäger shall give Karen, the box of gold leaf, and than Shadozer himself to the Thetford Meeting so that he gets a share of the loot and killing of humans.

[Devastator]

Go drop off the boat somewhere along the river.  Communicate telepathically with Mitchel to inform him of his boat's location.  Ask if he'd be interested acting as a contact should I find information pertinant to the Mob, or, say, become willing to give up the gun to them.

Regardless of if he accepts or refuses, break contact afterwards, activate mission #1, and try to sneak my way towards that bingo hall.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Sandeep Singh
Appearance: middle-aged turbaned Sikh with the characteristic thick mustache and short beard.  Beginning to gray.
Profession: Architect.
Faction: Unaligned
Type: Mutant Pariah

Body  3
Wits  2
Empathy  1
Weird  2
Mutation 2

Luck 2
Kudos was 2.

Den: house deep in the Norfolk Broads
Inventory:
Lighter.  (just sparks)
Scissors
Plastic Funnel
Rubber hammer
Screwdriver
Thin Wires
pack of water filters
Knife
Laptop
Laptop cable
HAM radio
Overclocking Laser: powerful device that can cause a feedback loop that permanently corrupts the uploxed data.
Canal Boat

Telepathy:
You can communicate with anyone within a few miles. You need to focus to pick out their mind, but once you've connected with someone, you can communicate with them mentally whenever you like so long as they're within range. And, until you break the connection, they are able to speak with you mentally at any time.

Powerful Jaw:
You have an immensely powerful bite. You can chew through anything as strong as bone without effort, and bite through much harder materials with focus.

Signature Gear: Narrow, wire-rimmed glasses.
Conditions: Ok
Hunger: 0
Relationship: Harjinder.  Spouse, had terminal disease before being frozen, now works for Walt Labs. Tim Tam, wild mutant child he abadoned in Norwich.
Rep: -1walt -1london -1mob -1keep -1church -2gml -2legends -2terra -1eyes -1pirates
Experience Tallies: 4

Personal Quests:
1 - Consult Hardeep
Last thing Sandeep learned was Harjinder was living somewhere in the north part of Norwich, in an old bingo hall Sandeep had once stayed in himself. It's time to re-connect.
Reward: +1 tally
Location: North Norwich city
2 - Establish mass communication method - Part 2 - Power to the people
Sandeep has a HAM radio. He wants a reliable source of power for it that isn't the boat (as he intends to give that back). He knows that several of the Uploxed factions have blimps which must have their own power source, so he could steal from them. Other than that, he could try robbing some solar panels from the Church.
Location: Either Buried Saint (Legends), Thetford Forest (Eyes), Dereham (Terraterror) or Ipswich (Church)
Report location: Den in the broads
Reward: +1 tally, power source
3 - Only Borrowed
Only Borrowed
Return Mitchel's boat to him or to where you found it.
Location: Norwich riverside
Reward: +1 tally.

[King Zultan]

Load three bullets into the rifle, then finish off the zebra and blow away the flamingo.

Spoiler: Dr. Burt Goldstine - King Zultan (click to show/hide)

Name: Dr. Burt Goldstine
Appearance: He looks like middle aged man with thinning hair.
Profession: Medical Doctor, Veteran
Faction: Unaligned
Type: Mutant Popsicle

Stats:
Body: 2
Wits: 2
Empathy: 0
Weird: 0

Personal Quests:
1 - Find some armour.
You found a faded brochure which showed a number of full suits of armour on display in Castle Rising, a 12th century castle deep in GML territory.
Location: Castle Rising, Kings Lynn
Reward: x2 tallies, armour
2 -  Get rid of the Eyes of Gaia - Part 1:  Catching the Oystercatcher Watcher
Rovin tells you that if the other Uploxed could stop the Eyes using their signal towers, they would do. The trouble is, there are no signals mechanics left alive and the ones in Nexus are enjoying paradise too much to be of any help... until now. One, Elsbeth Perotti in life was a signals engineer with a love of bird watching. Rovin has learned that she's currently piloting a drone looking at rare Oystercatchers in the Alde mudflats.
 If she could be found she might be pursuaded to work on the signal towers to prevent the Eyes from using them.
Location: Alde mudflats
Reward: x3 tallies
3 -

Mutation:
Prodigious Growth: You are much taller than you used to be, and with concentration you can grow even bigger still.
Lightning Touch: You can arc electricity from your fingertips.

Hunger: 0
Luck: 2
Kudos: 0
Condition: sorrowful
Den: farmhouse near Scole
Vehicle: Solar RV
Signature Gear: An torn old white lab coat
Inventory:
 Blacksmith Hammer
 Whistle
 Rebar club
 Cyberdog head hat
 Unstable Cabinet Armour
 scoped Lee Enfield No. 4 Mk 1 (2/5)
 box of 15 .303 British
 candle
 12 matches
 bread knife
 yo-yo

Stuff Back at the Den:
 Raincoat
 Small rock
 Bag containing 3 zip ties
 Flyer
 Printed news story
 Powdered caffeine pack
 8 sugar sachet

Relationships:
Benny the crazy homeless guy that lived behind an office building, Burt's only real friend.
Rovin the Red Cap, a cunning and violent pike wielding uploxed in the Legend faction.
Experience Tallys: 6
Reputation: +0walt +0london +0mob +0keep +0church -1gml 1legends +0terra -1eyes -2pirates

[Dustan Hache]

"PLEASE EXCUSE MY SPEAKER MISS MARIE, IT IS ON THE FRITZ AND STUCK AT MAX VOLUME FOR SOME REASON.
LETS START SMALL: WHO IS AMY, AND WHAT WAS THE TRADE YOU OFFERED TO MISS DULCAMARA?"
he would give them a moment to answer, pinging Staggerlee with an update on his current situation and the ongoing recording.
"ALSO, DO YOU KNOW WHERE WE MIGHT FIND SOME SASAFRAS OIL? WE ARE TRYING TO MAKE A TRADE, AND THAT IS WHAT WE NEED FOR OUR END OF THE BARGAIN."

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: P4-Nth-err
Appearance: Avatar is a nondescript person wearing a “Big cats” T-shirt, his drone of preference is a leopard.
Profession: Counter-hunter (basically the faction equivalent of a stream sniper)
Faction:G.M.L
Type: Uploxed
Personal goals: Find a human who actually cares about me, living a semi-normal life with said human.
Stats
Body (using your physicality): 2
Wits (using your mind): 1
Empathy (dealing with people): 0
Connexion (interfacing with the digital realm): 0
Health
Conditions: Minor knee injury (arrow to the knee : removed), Destroyed jaw flesh/exposed steel jaw(Right cheek:Gunshot)
Luck: 2?
Distance: 0

Rep
-1walt
-1london
-1mob
-1keep
-1church
+1gml
-2legends
+0terra
-1eyes
-2pirates
Kudos: 1

Experience Tallys: 1
Signature Gear: Mascot’s handkerchief: a dirty, tattered red rag from another time. it reminds some people of far more peaceful times. +1 empathy while interacting with non-hostile humans.
Inventory: mostly empty.
Den: Thuxton

[Beirus]

"Hm...I seem to have turned from persuasive malcontent to super infiltrator. Perhaps this will help while we look for a clean source of food and water. Maybe it would help us find Viktor, too. We might be able to cure him, or at least reset his battle with the Hunger. Though I do worry that it could be just as bad, considering the twinges of Hunger I felt during the process." Theodore remarks to Timmy as he considers their next move.

Let Davis know about the Hunger resulting from the Warp Isolate process and maybe ask about an alternate method just to reduce the craving of the Hunger, considering I now have more Hunger than before the process and that seems counterintuitive for Davis' stated aims. Then, head out with Timmy in the bus to whichever of King's Lynn, Sudbury, or Dunwich is closest. Find a vantage point to scope the place out first with my eyes.

Spoiler: Theodore Ansen (click to show/hide)

Name: Theodore Ansen
Appearance: A fairly average looking man, with very little remarkable about him. He isn't overly muscular or scrawny, having an average build. Even his facial features are nondescript, apart from his emerald eyes.
Profession: Science Fiction Writer
Faction: Unaligned
Type: Mutant


Stats:
Body: 0
Wits: 0
Empathy: 0
Weird: 3

Health
Conditions:
Luck: 2
Hunger: 1

Mutations: Doppelganger Flesh
With a bit of concentration, you can turn your appearance into anyone you can see before you. You can also change your skin colour at will in any combination. This can be used to match your surroundings.

Lizard Grip
Your hands are formed of intensely strong, curling fingers, allowing you to climb and hold on to things with your weird prowess instead of your normal bodily strength.

Hypervision
You can see in 360 degrees, and with effort may focus in detail on things very small or very far away.


Inventory: Bottle of vodka, Warp-powered bus, Jump boots, Warp Isolate Nutrient Mix, Warp Isolate Phone
Den: Allotment near the University in Norwich.

Signature Gear: An engraved pen given to him as a gift from his parents after the publication of his first book.
Big dream: Become a hero
Wounds: Slightly Singed Clothing
Relationship: Timmy Jenkins, his best friend since childhood; Viktor, a rogue mutant; a Legendary Gorilla.

Experience Tallys: 2
Kudos: 1
Rep: +0walt +0london +0mob +0keep +0church -1gml +0legends +0terra -1eyes -2pirates

Personal Quests:
1 - Establish a sustainable source of food and water
The water supply in Norwich is highly undependable, as the river thick with toxins. From reading old maps, Theodore has made a list of places which have a natural spring which would be much more reliable for water, and therefore food.
Locations: Kings Lynn, Sudbury, Dunwich
Reward: x1 tally per location surveyed (quest can be completed after just one location if desired)

[Pokeboss44]

”Hey fellow Uploxed with a killer mystique I am trying to infiltrate the Postwick Mobs to help against the fight of the Legends against them, are you a neutral agent willing to help me out and I could help you out?” Karen directly speaks to Jäger and asks for his assistance.

Spoiler: ForHire (click to show/hide)

Name: Jägermörder
Appearance: A metallic humanoid figure made out of a titanium-gold alloy that contains a metallic hood, in the digital realm the avatar is a living wraith that travels from place to place.
Profession: Warlord
Faction: Unaligned (Assassin)
Type: Uploxed

Stats:
Body: 3
Wits: 0
Empathy: 3
Connexion: -2

Health:
Luck: 2
Distance: 0

Rep:
 -1walt -1london +0mob -1keep -1church +0gml +0legends +0terra +2eyes -2pirates
Kudos: 3

Experience Tally: 1

Stuff:
Den: In the middle of Great Marmite League,, Thetford Forest, and the Keep’s Radio Towers where no connection can connect. It’s an antique nuclear shelter.
Signature Gear: Scythe, an arm on the robotic chassis that can transform into an autoloading rotary minigun from the ammo reserve in the torso region.
Equipment: Bipedal Armored Chassis, Scythe (Out of ammo), PSG1 (Sniper Rifle), Shadozer Teleportation Device (Temporarily turn the robotic body into a shadow and then travels hundreds of miles, appearing as a shadow temporarily then morphing back into robotic form. Highly experimental: prone to flickering back into physical form mid-journey). Two human fingers, ripped open Bird Cage (Empty), box of gold leaf, semtex

Personal Quests
1 - Harden physical form against radio jamming - Part 1  - Catching the Oystercatcher Watcher
The kind of broad-spectrum radio jamming that the Church use has thus far eluded the Uploxed of East Anglia. Jägermörder has learned through nexus that an uploxed signal engineer who specialised in this kind of technology is birdwatching in the Alde Mudflats right now. She might be persuaded to help develop hardening against jamming.
Location: Alde mudflats
Reward: x2 tallies
2 - Make shadow tech more reliable - Part 2 - Gh0st Busting
The Legends uplox known as Gh0st has more advanced shadow-jumping technology. All you need is its quonbox component or the schematics for it. Who knows where Gh0st is hiding though. Someone in Nexus, Watton, or the Legends base might know.
Location: Nexus, Watton or Buried Saint
Reward: x1 tallies
3 - Terminate members of the Church of Milennium - Part 1 - Bash the Bishop
Hacked communications show that a church delegate is coming from London way to Ipswich. This would be a great opportunity to hit the Church without needing to get into their jamming zone.
Location: Dedham Vale
Reward: x2 tallies

”Alright human I think?, or are you one of those weird bodysnatchers, I have some business with the Gaia to attend to a meeting there to help encourage the death of puny fleshlings, so I’ll give you my gold leaf to make it seem like your infiltrating the Mob and it will help me out by making their tower go online so that Uploxed can works in that area, so here’s a gift and I’m out.”

Jäger shall give Karen, the box of gold leaf, and than Shadozer himself to the Thetford Meeting so that he gets a share of the loot and killing of humans.

”Thank you robot who didn’t give me a name, good luck with what your doing in the wasteland and my farewells Glitterbox and Killzilla, hope that you have good luck on your future endeavors Glitterbox and your gig Killy. Now I have a meeting to set up with the mob, so goodbye for now.”

Karen will take the gold leaf from this mysterious Uploxed and than give her goodbyes to three Uploxed and tells them that they can hopefully meet them again for a chat in the future, then travels to the Postwick Mob tower to provide them with gold leaf. Thankful that she didn't have to knock or destroy the body of Glitterbox for the Mob and that they can still potentially be friends in the future.

Spoiler: Karen Kablukov (click to show/hide)

Name: Karen Kablukov
Appearance: A feminine human figure with long blonde hair and face full of makeup in a business suit, hiding the secret of the interior flesh suit
Profession: Journalist
Faction: Legends (Bodysnatcher)
Type: Neozombie (Bodysnatcher)
Personal goals: Transform my personality routine into full-fledged self-learning AI, find interesting news stories for the Legends, infiltrate the Postwick Mob and become a faction agent of theirs

Stats:
Stats start at -1. Distribute 7 points across them, ranging -1 to 2
Body (using your physicality): 4
Wits (using your mind): -1
Empathy (dealing with people): 1

Health:
Conditions: (none; these add -1 to relevant rolls)
Luck: 2

Rep: Legends: -1walt +0london +0mob -1keep -1church -2gml +1legends +0terra -1eyes -2pirates
“Human Survivor”: +0walt +0london +0mob +0keep -1church -1gml -1legends +0terra -1eyes +0pirates

Kudos: 0

Experience Tallys: 1

Stuff:
Den: Buried Saints Tower
Signature Gear: Weaponized Umbrella, it’s a purple umbrella that has a knife blade at the end that can be utilized for stabbing as well as protection from weather
Inventory:

Quests: Transcendence - Part 1 - Antediluvian Research
You want transform your personality routine into full-fledged self-learning AI. AI research stalled on the advent of uploxing... but it's not completely dead. There's an old researcher called Meredith Wazashi who retired to Great Yarmouth. Great Yarmouth sank into the ocean years ago, but perhaps she left some research notes? You've got an image of her three storey townhouse downloaded in your memory banks. It's not a lot to go on, but it's a lead.
Location: Nelson Road Central, Great Yarmouth
Reward: 2 tallies
News for Legends
East Anglia is bound to be filled with breaking news and intriguing gossip to share with the Legends.
Location: There's got to be stuff happening in all the settlements in the area: Kings Lynn, Watton, Cromer, Fakenham, Dereham, Thetford Forest, Spooner Row, Scole, Norwich, Bungay, Lowestoft, Great Yarmouth, Dunwich, Iswich, Sudbury, Postwick.
Report location: Buried Saint
Reward: +1 tally for each story reported.
Infiltrate the Postwick Mob and become a faction agent of theirs - Part 1 - Getting a rep
Legends want someone on the inside of the Mob. You're that person. You'll need to get in their good books first.
Location: [See Mob 0+ quests]
Report location: Postwick
Reward: +1 tally

[notquitethere]

Thetford Forest

Jäger shall give Karen, the box of gold leaf, and than Shadozer himself to the Thetford Meeting so that he gets a share of the loot and killing of humans.

Jager hands off the gold lead and hopes it will do him some good. Free of that obligation, he transports over to Theford Forest. On the way he briefly sees through the shadows a series of shambling figures covered in metal. More recruits for the war against Bungay? No matter, he's in a hurry and steps on quickly to Thetford forest...

"I'm not so sure nuking is a good idea, while ionizing radiation does does harm humans, it harms everything with DNA as well, I agree with you, nuking a place isn't ecological.  Where did you two even go to find one of those?"

[Sandra rolled 6+4+1empathy+3eyes+1teacher=14]
Crab sighs as Sandra schools him in the dangers of ionizing radiation. "Oh very well," he huffs, "I'll leave it in Thetford. Kalmar was giving these out at the last Ocean Patrol meetup over in Svalbard a few months back."

"Thank you for helping him see reason," says the Moth. "I'm Molets and this is my brother Rak. Pleased to meet a fellow environmentalist."

The three of them travel into the centre of Thetford Forest.

A great convocation is beginning in a mustering ground beneath the tower. Sable and Natrix are there, as their robo-scorpion and robo-crane fly morphs. Araneus the spider-bot is tending to the blimp. Helen, the giant tentacled bot, has arrived from London, resting on a new unicycle wheel. She's brought a giant robo-ant and a tiny robo-ladybird with her. In the Eye's Nexus hub, it's clear their names are Marcus and Lola. Lola hovers to and fro like one of the Terraterror drones.

Then there are the mercenaries and part-time members. The assassinbot she met before, Jägermörder. There's a tiny teddy bear with a glock 19. Towering over both is a huge blocky giant-like robot with cannons for arms. After the convocation goes on a while longer, three shambling piles of scrap arrive and join the throng.

Once everything had settled down, Sable, the scorpion-bot, addresses the assembly outloud in her hissing voice that carries over all of the assembly.

"We are gathered today to rid the sector of the mutant recruiters. They have been gathering monsters for their war against us in London. Our primary aim is to drive them from their settlement. We hope to destroy as many mutants as possible, but even should they flee into the wilderness, they will be easier picking than they currently are.

"We will split into three squads. Squad A will be comprised of Eyes veterans. We will be seeking out and destroying key infrastructure so they have no home to return to. I will be leading Squad A.

"Squad B will be comprised of seasoned Eyes field agents, your job will be to fight your way into the HQ and steal their records. If we can grab the inside scoop on all their abilities and what they know about us, then we will be able to turn the tide of the battle. Sandra, with her millipede morph is our top local agent and so she will be leading that squad.

"Squad C will be comprised of everyone else, your job is simple: harry the mutants, scare them aware or kill them if you can and keep them out of the way of Squad A and B. We are impressed by Jägermörder's resume, and he will lead that squad.

"Squad A will breach the wall on the weak point where the river runs through it. Squad B will be dropped in by airship right into the centre. Squad C will be sent in first to breach their main gate with high explosives: that should draw their attention and allow the rest of us to work.

"Everyone, assemble into your squads now. Are there any questions?"

The group shuffle into squads and the mercenaries grunt their names.

Spoiler: Squad A (click to show/hide)

Sable (robo-scorpion)
Natrix (robo-cranefly)
Helen (robo-squid)
Marcus (robo-ant)
Lola (robo-ladybird)

Spoiler: Squad B (click to show/hide)

Sandra (robo-millipede)
Molets (robo-moth)
Rak (robo-crab)
Araneus (robo-spider)

Spoiler: Squad C (click to show/hide)

Jägermörder (assassin-bot)
Clank (scrap pile)
Microwave (scrap pile)
Refurb (scrap pile)
Megastonks (giant killbot)
Wufus the Bear (teddybear)

[notquitethere]

Laxfield Labyrinth

"Fair enough.
I suspect the gold room may be a trap. If you guys are interested in it, Balthazar, maybe you can scout ahead. I think we should go northeast, though; we'd be directly adjacent to the center."

[Darrin rolled 6+3+1empathy+1londoners=11]
[Darrin rolled 2+2-1body=3]
On reflection all the others decide that it's not worth checking out a possible trapped room when there's a route that would seem to lead closer to the tower. Balthazar takes point and steps along northeast he calls all clear and the rest begin to follow. Darrin walks a little too close to one of the balls and a light pops on.

"Get away!" shouts Gavel shouts as he bounces one of his eye hammers off of it.

Darrin instinctively tries to scramble away but he leaps into another ball and the light pops on. Then the first ball explodes.

"RUN!"

Everyone scatters to the exits as the balls roll and explode around them. Darrin manages to scramble out to the west as the chamber collapses behind him.

Dusting himself off he looks around. Chloe Fontaine and Big Ben are with Darrin. Balthazar clearly managed to escape but in the chaos, who knows what became of Gavel and Doc Stone.

They're standing in a dank crossroad, a low passage formed of metal gantries which clank as they walk. From here they can go north, southwest, or south. The east passage has collapsed with the explosions.

"What now?" says Chloe.

_{"He's near. Benny is near..."} whispers Big Ben.

Spoiler: Map and Party (click to show/hide)

Chloe Fontaine: Can kill people with her voice and shatter glass - Exhauted
Big Ben: can psychically connect to people called Ben and use their knowledge and powers

Lost
Balthazar: looks like a devil, invulnerable to pain, cannot be cut, bruised or burnt
Gavel: send holographic projections of hammers from his eyes which can measure and assess
Doc Stone: can burst obsidian pillars out of the ground, haphazardly, with lava