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[Yoink]

"Get doon!"

Take my own advice - throw myself flat in the pick-up's tray to avoid any shotgun blasts.
Wait and see what the drivers of both vehicles do - get ready to fight if the truck slows down, stops or crashes, or to return fire if I can get my hands on a ranged weapon of some description. Otherwise, just hold on, keep my head down, and see how the situation pans out.    

Spoiler: Ben Lash (click to show/hide)

Name: Ben Lash
Appearance: A swaggering, rangy young pirate in his late teens, with unkempt, short-ish dark hair, light eyes of some indeterminate blue colour and a complexion like a soggy crust of bread. Wears fairly standard pirate gear, with a few belts and pouches strapped to his person as well as the occasional mis-matched piece of armour such as sports pads or dented baking trays.
Keeps his trusty metal whip on his person at all times, usually coiled about his shoulder or wrapped tight around a gloved fist. 
Profession: Second-generation Land Pirate fighter       
Faction: Land Pirates 
Type: Human 

Stats
Body: +2
Wits: +2
Empathy: 0


Health
Conditions: Hungry   
Luck: 3

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

Experience Tallys: (none)

Stuff
Den: (somewhere in Land Pirate territory I guess?)   
Signature Gear: his lash, a length of strange, flexible metal (actually a near-indestructable bungee cord from the distant past) inherited from his father that has proven quite effective as a weapon. His father, a wandering scavenger whose fortunes improved greatly when he found this unusual metal rope in some ruins, added various attachments to it, blades, spikes, hooks and other such gadgets, gradually forming it into a potent, multi-purpose weapon and tool. He became so attached to his trusty lash that when he eventually joined the Land Pirates and (in a manner of speaking) settled down, he named his firstborn after it: Ben Lash.
When some years later Ben's father failed to return from a raid, none of the others who made it back would say exactly what had befallen him - but they did return his weapon of choice to his young son. Severely damaged from acid, to the point that there was nothing left but the cord itself, but still intact.
Inventory:

Spoiler: Quests (click to show/hide)

Personal Quests
1 - Upgrade my lash to improve its combat effectiveness
Spikes and barbs are what Ben needs, but most of the metal one finds is rusted or weak or hard to reshape. The pirates have learned of a razorwire factory in Lowestoft. Their first raid there managed to kit out one of the trucks with gnarly spikes, but apparently there's loads more back at the factory they didn't have the space to take.
Location: Lowestoft
Reward: x1 tally
2- Craft a useful and stylish piece of equipment from a slain mutant - Part 1 - Finding a target
Finding a mutant isn't that hard, there's loads of them crawling around the wastes nowadays, but finding one with a useful feature is a bit trickier. Pirates speak of a mutant with rubber-like skin, bullets and blows and vehicles just bounce off of him. A rubber suit made from this mutant would grant protection from all manner of harms.
Location: He's been seen near the University of Norwich
Reward: x2 tallies
3 - Vengeance Paternal - Part 1 - Someone's gotta talk
Your father disappeared that day and though you don't know what, acid has got something to do with it. Time to confront one of the raiders that went with him that day, Fatal Pete.
Location: Spooner Row
Reward: x2 tallies

Faction quest: Church Ambush (Land Pirates)   

[Dustan Hache]

"WHY CANT WE ALL GET ALONG?!"
P4 springs into action and tries to grab Marie by the coat, intent on dragging her into the living compartment and shutting the door behind them with a swift kick, hoping to use it as cover despite the the exposed cab, and trying to figure out a way to drive using his morph.
"I JUST WANTED INFORMATION, NOT BULLETS!"

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) Detected by land pirates (morph threatening situation)
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.

[notquitethere]

Dedham Vale Car Chase

Take my own advice - throw myself flat in the pick-up's tray to avoid any shotgun blasts.
Wait and see what the drivers of both vehicles do - get ready to fight if the truck slows down, stops or crashes, or to return fire if I can get my hands on a ranged weapon of some description. Otherwise, just hold on, keep my head down, and see how the situation pans out.  

[Ben rolled 3+5+2body=10]
[Ben rolled 2+1+2wits+1fighter=6]
Ben drops flat in the bed of the truck and his ears burn as the shotgun blast rings out above his head. With that danger immediately passed, his pirate compatriot leaps boldy off the side onto the bonnet of the bigger truck. Ben sees a one-shot pneumatic rifle on the bed of the pickup and scrambles for it. As he's leaning over, the bigger lorry rams the pickup, and Ben tumbles forward over the side of the vehicle. He manages to grab on tight to the side, and there he clings, one foot just about making purchase on the side.

Then, to make matters worse, the other motorbike that was in the Church convoy begins driving up beside the pickup on Ben's side. The rider, dressed in leathers and wearing a black helmet with a white dog-collar square on the front is wielding a stunrod.


Laxfield Labyrinth

“Damnit... ok.
I think mechanical dangers will likely be some of the easiest stuff for us to deal with, so yes, we go south. I don’t know about all of your powers, but I can probably at least somewhat disable moving parts with sonic booms and keratin spikes, and if I can get close, I can dismantle them, and I have the experience with these types of things to have a good idea of how to do that all properly. Let’s do this carefully.
Now, we’re all in this together, so I want openness. What can each of you contribute? Because right now, we live together, or we die together.”

The mutants go around in a circle and explain their powers.

"Immunity to most physical sources of pain, my skin can't be cut or bruised or burnt," says Balthazar.

"I got a killer voice," says Chloe Fontaine, "like, literally it can kill. And shatter glass like those cartoon opera singers."

"It's hard to explain exactly," says Gavel. "I holographically project an image of a hammer from my eyes, and it feeds back information on things it touches, like dimensions, temperature, texture... it's like having a sixth sense."

"I thought the sixth sense was proprioception?" says Doc Stone. "Well, in any case, you all know what I do... I can burst up obsidian pillars from the ground nearby in fountains of lava. You've seen the walls around Bungay. It took me ages to do that and everyone else had to keep a safe distance away."

Finally Big Ben explains what he can do, "I psychically connect to people and talk with them at any distance, use their knowledge and powers as if they were my own... only so far I've only got it to work with other people called Ben, or Benjamin, Benny... hence the codename. It also takes a bit of focus."

Cautiously the team head south. They pass through a switch-back passage built to block the sight of the next section. These would prove to be very common here in the labyrinth. They come into a section with a ceiling. they can see further along the passage splits southeast and southwest. A series of huge dangling blades swish back and forth in front of the southeast passage, while the southwest passage slope precipitously downwards, the ground slick wet from constant dripping from the ceiling.


Spooner Row

Roll into a ball towards the 4 humans aiming to crush them or scare them away

"WHY CANT WE ALL GET ALONG?!"
P4 springs into action and tries to grab Marie by the coat, intent on dragging her into the living compartment and shutting the door behind them with a swift kick, hoping to use it as cover despite the the exposed cab, and trying to figure out a way to drive using his morph.

Back away from this mess while they are still distracted. While attempting that: Jorge, walk into the  outer areas away form me, give out a Tortle call, and climb up a tree. The sound should shatter their psyche just long enough to get away.

[Sandra rolled 1+4+1body+1millipede=7]
[P4 rolled 5+4+2body=11]
[P4 rolled 3+3+1wits=7]
[Auze rolled 5+3+2wits=10]
[Auze rolled 5+1+2empathy+1tortler=9]
The rain begins coming down in big drops, soaking all around Spooner Row.

Sandra, the giant robotic millipede, curls into a ball and rolls towards Dell and the others from the Keep. The Forward General of Norwich's outpost leads his people in a wild panicking run back down the hill where they came from at the edge of the pirate encampment. There they bump into Auze who, ever sneakily, has ducked out of the camp while all attention was on the big truck. He recognises Dell from the description he was given: this is the man he came out to find.

At that time, there's a horrifying tortle cry from a nearby tree and everyone around instinctively flinches. Inside the big truck, P4, the big cybercat, has dragged his prey ably into the cab and has slammed the door. He tries to figure out how to drive the damn thing. Marie is screaming and thrashing about. P4 starts pulling levers. He releases the emergency catch, thereby separating the cab from the rest of the truck. Eventually he finds the accelerator and the vehicle bursts forwards on the road west out of the camp, leaving everyone behind (including those humans P4 had so recently met). Too many bullets flying around to slow down or go back now!

Half-way down her hill, Sandra slips on the mud, and she hurtles off the steep side of the hill right down into the Spooner Row encampment. A truck is driving out of view. People are running around and shouting incoherently, they seem to be moving towards their vehicles. The rain is now truly bucketing it down. There's a loud cry of some inhuman beast, and a bullet pings off her carapace. Some of the pirates have spotted her within their midst.



Watton

”Now Mr. Killazilla and television morph, may I request some information about any passing or staying Tourist Uploxeds?, it’s of the interest to the Legends and your help would be greatly appreciated”.

Ask the yellow dinosaur and squat television Uploxed about any news for residing Tourist Morphs that reside within Watton, and ask around people around town for information about if any live here.

[Karen rolled 2+1+1empathy+1journalist=5]
Glitterbox's avatar turns red on his television screen and his eyes buzz with static. "That's a mighty leading question you have there lady. First the mob is interested in us and now the Legends."

Killazilla laughs. "I'll tell you the name and location of every tourist I know of in East Anglia for just 1 kudos. Two more and I'll kill one of them for ya."

Glitterbox glowers at his companion. Karen tries asking other inhabitants of Watton, but they're either too busy to speak with her or aren't forthcoming with any information... as if someone had just tipped them off over Nexus about her questions...

”Now Murdok I need a human engineer to improve my teleportation technology that is built into my morph, I learned from the Nexus that your the man that can do that. If you value the rest of your life spent on tinkering, I recommend helping me.
Coerce Murdok into helping Jager by improving his shadow-step technology and figuring out how you would do that

[Jager rolled 3+1+3empathy+1warlord+0mob=8]
Murdok slowly exhales a puff of orange vapor as he considers the assassinbot towering in front of him. He gets up and stretches and peers over Jager's panels. "This is almost cutting edge Shadozer tech you have here. I've only seen one unit more advanced. If I had access to the quonbox or even just the schematics for it, I could upgrade yours. It'd be a pleasure to work on a machine like yours." He draws long on his digital pipe. "But... you might have some trouble getting to that unit. We sold it to a Legend operative calling itself Gh0st. No idea where you'd find it."

Make shadow tech more reliable - Part 1 - Quantum Interpretation is complete Jager gains +1 tally.

This next part is possible if you want to take it on:

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 1: Nexus, Watton or Buried Saint
Location 2:
Report location: Watton
Reward: +3 tallies,

Somewhere in GML territory

"Either way we're probably better off avoiding it."
Turn the RV around and drive out of the smoke, then find a different route to Castle Rising.

[Burt rolled 1+1+2wits=4]
They avoid the smoke and take a different route. Two hours later, they are well and truly lost deep in GML country. The first sign of trouble comes when three armoured zebras led by a razor winged flamingo appear in the rear-view mirror.

"I can take the wheel if you want to shoot these suckers," Rovin offers.


Sudbury

Start on C4, keeping two eyes open.

[Ed rolled 6+2-1wits+1trader=8]
Ed sneaks into Sudbury along the boarded up highstreet and looks for possible marketable goods. And then he sees it. All along the pavement, there are dozens of statues made from knives. The statues are held together by some kind of putty, but the knives could possibly be recovered if he didn't want the statues for their artistic merit.

The statues are bizarre. One of them is in the shape of a huge cat. Another a huge hand missing two fingers. A third is in the shape of a shinto shrine. Then he sees the artists. Three women, clearly mutants, their hands full of knives, obsessively putting together the statues. They occasionally look vacantly at each other, words having fled them. Blood soaks their ruined clothing: two (one with a crocodile face, the other with a prehensile tail) are dressed in torn sailor suits and skirts the other, steam leaking from her ears, wears shabby military camo of some foreign designation. They don't seem to have noticed Ed yet.


Cromer

"Well, Timmy, I reckon they ought to be at least somewhat civilized. Maybe one of them will be a fan, if you did happen to find my books in their Norwich facility." Theodore said with a smile.

"Hello there! My name is Theodore Ansen, and this is my friend Timmy. This is the Walt Labs base, yes? I was hoping to have a word with some of your scientists, or someone in charge if it isn't any trouble. Or whoever I need to talk to to get to talk to one of those people." He offered an introduction as he approached the gate person.

I refuse to give up hope that I can't get through a social encounter without lying. But if that fails, lie my way in to where I need to be. This is just like the myriad scenes in my Bosley Starshift anthology, which featured an interstellar spy who routinely lied his way into various high-stakes poker games, restricted access bases, and that bar with the galaxy's best Nebula Martini from which he had been banned in previous novels.

[Theodore rolled 4+1+0empathy+0walt=5]
[Theodore rolled 3+1+3weird+1scifi=8]
The woman with the big ears looks at Theodore askance. She slowly pushes a button hidden under her desk. She nods and pretends to listen to Theodore for as long as it takes for half a dozen men and women to rush out of the main gate with guns and, in one case, a burning hand.

"We have a potential pair of bodysnatchers here," she says.

"Get on the ground!" shouts a man with a gun.

Timmy looks sadly at Theodore. "You're going to do it again. Lie again aren't you?"

It's the only way. Taking on the convivial air of Bosley Starshift, Theodore lets his silver tongue do the talking. "I'm an old friend of your leader, he'll be most disappointed if you shoot me."

And the lie is almost the truth.

"Stand down, stand down," says a older gentleman in a white suit, jogging up to them out of the gates. "I've been waiting for these two lost friends for a while now. The rubbery one is harmless but the one with the whiskers is a Code 17."

Immediately, the assembled men and women hurry to grab ear plugs from inside pockets and apply them to their ears. The older man gives them a series of hand signals and together Theodore and Timmy are escorted into the zoo. In what was once the zookeeper's office, the white suited man bids them to sit down.

"My name is Jackson Davis," he says to them. "I helped make you both who you are today. I'm sure you have a lot of questions, but know that I will not tolerate powers being used against me. Now... how can I be of assistance?"



Deep in the Broads

Not much to do except wait for morning, then.  Although priority would be on mission #1, investigating that laptop first.  I can broadcast after I have a power source I own, so I can do so reliably.  If nothing occurs, investigate that hard drive tomorrow.

Fill slot #2 with whatever the next goal will be for the broadcast one, so probably 'acquire some kind of power source.'  I'd be happy getting it from the churce or the eye of gaia, as I haven't stolen from either of them in a while.

[Sandeep rolled 1+4+2wits=7]
[Sandeep rolled 6+3+2wits=11]
Sandeep sleeps until the next morning when lets the sun do its business on the solar panels. Eventually the moment of truth. He boots up the laptop with the correct cable and sees for the first time in this strange new world the loading screen of a computer waking up.

He's greeted by a password prompt. It takes the whole morning to type in every obvious possibility including PASSWORD, password, 123abc, password123, admin, qwertyuiop, and so forth. Sandeep eventually manages to log in to the guest account (with the password 'guestpassword') with no access to whatever files the main user (someone called M.Harmon) had had. He plugs in the external hard-drive. The file directory is labyrinthine but not password protected. It's the full backup of the Nexus-2 Project.

A lot of it relates to the technical specifications regarding a replacement of existing internet protocols. They're not easy to find, but Sandeep uncovers some high level design documents which explain the whole thing in more detail. The Nexus technology was a sort of successor to the world wide web: a network not made up of normal computers, but made up of computers running on a hardware of human brains. Implants had been invented which allowed computers to use the processing power of a brain. The Nexus was a network of these brains, where the implanted could share their thoughts, share web pages and so forth, using radio-frequency to broadcast the data between themselves.

The Nexus-2 project was to take this to a whole new level. Allow those brains to digitally mapped and uploaded into computers which then emulated those brains. The process necessarily destroyed the brain, but would allow the person to be uploaded losslessly, or uploxed as the term was. The Paradise Solutions was only one organisation of many working on this. Their speciality was in crafting pleasurable zones which they called 'heavens', webs of experience which would gift an uploxed an eternity of bliss. The catch was, the company would use most of their client's emulated brain power for their own purposes, leaving only that which was required to keep the pleasure simulation ongoing.

Sandeep doesn't understand how the software works, but he discovers a well documented tool for resetting the heavens: this would kick all the uploxed out of their simulations and give them back their full brain power, inevitably crashing whatever software is currently running using their brains. The program is a simple override which could be broadcasted to the orbital satellites where Nexus is stored, but a very powerful radio signal would be necessary: one of the radio towers. Sandeep considers what he wants to do with this information.

Attacking the Nexus - Part 2 - Power & Cables is complete Sandeep gains +3 tallies.

Sandeep takes on the following personal mission:

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

[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

“Balthazar, I want you to go check out the southeast passage, see if you can get the blades stopped, or at least slowed to a manageable level, or even just identified a way we could stop them. Gavel, if you could use your hammer to check out the blades and the southwest slope, that would help us a lot. There’s no good reason to take unnecessary risks when we can do this kind of stuff.
While we’re waiting, Ben, let’s see if we can extend your power a bit. If we could coordinate by thought, and share information just by getting it, it’d make this go far smoother.”

[Dustan Hache]

"MISS MARIE, I AM SO SO SORRY, BUT FOR YOUR SURVIVAL'S SAKE YOU NEED TO TAKE THE WHEEL! MY MORPH LACKS THUMBS AND CAN'T DRIVE PROPERLY!"
Try to keep control of the vehicle until Marie gets her act together enough to steer the Semi-trailer truck cab! Try not to let us drive off the road until that point!

[Shadowclaw777]

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

”You might call me a bounty hunter now Mr. Murdok, and I plan to get this Gh0st morph either peacefully or through him or her’s morph body on your work bench with this person’s technology as my bounty. I’ll see if anyone from the local town have any leads for this Gh0st before I head directly towards the Legends base”

Jäger shall leave Murdok’s workspace and go and try and find information from any of the residents here about the last known whereabouts for this Gh0st uploxed through a bit of carousing the town, going to the depraved chain man, Glitterbox, or Killazilla and anyone else worth mentioning for this crucial knowledge.

[auzewasright]

“Well, not what I was expectin - nevermind, no time to explain. I’m Auze, Tortle trainer, and here’s two of my three tortles. As for the third, he’s what you’ve been hearing-sorry, needed a distraction. Got all them over there stunned, even the Mockery*. We have ‘bout a minute to act upon it, and the Mockeries’re plannin’ somethin’ up on that hill, so what shall we do?”
Go with Dell, this is quite a situation we’re all in. Spend 5 tallies on increasing empathy

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

*a Galapagosian nickname for the uploxed, based on how “their actions are a mockery of humanity, their existence is a mockery of life, their Nexus is a mockery of heaven, and their morphs are mockeries of nature’s creatures”

[Pokeboss44]

”Sorry for the feelings of unpleasantness Glitterbox, the reasoning that the legends are interested in tourist morphs is to see if they have any information on the GML or other antagonists for us as a third party for information, no negative intent on our part. Is this is why you are a bit anxious Glitter, that you are a tourist or one of your best friends is one of them?”

Karen will approach and than try to calm down Glitterbox’s anxiety and try to gain the Uploxed trust, as well as trying to determine whether he is a tourist morph or knows any fellow tourists.

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

[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: 2

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

[Mutants only]Mutation:
Experience Tallies: 1

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

Let it Rain
Requirement: +1eyes
Sable is preparing to flood out the humans at Spooner Row, at the edge of the Eye's territory. They need a group to guard the cloud seeder for 24 hours while it creates the necessary deluge.
Quest Location: Spooner Row
Reward: +4 tallies, +1 kudos, +1eyes rep

Try to make my way back to the cloud seeder. Attack anyone who follows me

[King Zultan]

"Aw man zebras are my favorite animal, take the wheel I'm gonna shot them in their faces."
Let Rovin take the wheel, then go to the back of the RV and shoot the zebras from a back window.

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 (5/5)
 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

[Devastator]

Well, apparently I wasn't satisfied having stolen fire from the gods, so I had to steal Fire 2.0 as well.

It's also not quite right.  It might kill all the uploxed.  It might just make them really mad and really bored.  It might just kill the ones that have nothing to do with the surface world.

And I can't do some damage as a demonstration to force negotiations like I wanted.

Still, it's something.

..I need some advice on this.

Start a new personal quest to meet up with Harjinder again so I can talk to her about what I've found.  I don't know what she'll recommend, but she shouldn't set people on me.  Or at least more people.

Start quest 3 and sail the boat up the river again.  Don't go all the way to Mob territory, but try to get close enough for telepathic contact with Mitchel

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:
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.

[Beirus]

"Aha, I knew it would catch your attention. Just like in The Saturn Ring Scenario." Theodore was of course referring to his second-best-selling book, a part of the Bosley Starshift anthology in which Bosley, having been kidnapped and experimented upon, became the prototype of Mutacorp's Politico gene-treatment which made its subjects capable of manipulating people's thoughts and actions through their voice alone though causing the user's body to gradually waste away. Near the end of a book, Bosley gained access to Mutacorp's headquarters much the way Theodore had done, using his ability to keep the gate guards from shooting at him and knowing it would draw the attention of the CEO.

"Please be assured I meant no harm. I figured you would have the technology here to break them out of any negative effects of my ability since you have had roughly five hundred years to develop one. There are two matters that I wished to seek your help with. I seek a way to enhance or evolve my current mutations, and any information that your group is willing to release about the Hunger. I had a friend who was overtaken by it, and I want to help him." Theodore replies.

"Oh, also, who's idea was it to have all my books in the Norwich building? And you called me a Code 17. Does that stand for 'Mental Manipulator via Auditory Stimulus'?" Theodore recalled this from a list of codes he had developed while working on his last novel. It was supposed to be the newest Bosley Starshift novel, picking up after the last novel left Bosley floating through deep space in a stasis pod. He would land on a planet of human-like aliens whose genetics were prone to various, reality-bending mutations. The list of codes was something Theodore had developed when he realized the civilization must have some way of efficiently referring to the different mutations. Sadly, the electrical copy of the novel had mysteriously disappeared along with his notes, even the physical ones, one night while he slept. It was the disappointment from so suddenly losing what he perceived as his Magnum Opus that led Theodore to be cryogenically frozen.

Talk with Jackson Davis. Also let Timmy ask any questions he has.

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 and silver tongue.
Profession: Science Fiction Writer
Faction: Unaligned
Type: Mutant


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

Health
Conditions:
Luck: 2
Hunger: 0

Mutations: Silver Tongue
Your tongue is silver plated though it moves as it did before- only now others find your lies more believable.

Whiskers
Hundreds of fine bristles burst from Theodore's face, allowing him to sense objects in the dark, measure air currents and feel for upcoming threats.

Inventory: Bottle of vodka, Warp-powered bus, Jump boots
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: 0
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)
2 - Mutation Evolved
The problem with the mutations is that they're so random. Theodore wonders if it would be possible to improve existing mutations along a planned route. The scientists who did this to him must know something.
Quest location: Amazona Base, Cromer
Quest reward: x2 tallies

[Yoink]

Ben's eyes dart from the approaching rider to the truck he's clinging to and back again. He thinks quickly.

If I can pull self into the tray before my assailant comes within prodding distance, great! In that case, get up and strike them with my lash - aiming for their weapon-hand.

If not, wait for the right moment to swing my legs up and boot them in the faceplate, or at least deflect the cattle prod with my boots. As soon as they're dealt with, scramble back into the tray to catch my breath and grab the gun.

If worst comes to worst and I am zapped or otherwise dislodged from the truck, do my best to roll out of the path of all these vehicles - maybe get behind a tree that looks sturdy enough to give a driver pause, then take stock of the situation.
See if the now-riderless bike from earlier is nearby and if so, grab it, or maybe jump aboard another pirate vehicle to rejoin the chase.


 

Spoiler: Ben Lash (click to show/hide)

Name: Ben Lash
Appearance: A swaggering, rangy young pirate in his late teens, with unkempt, short-ish dark hair, light eyes of some indeterminate blue colour and a complexion like a soggy crust of bread. Wears fairly standard pirate gear, with a few belts and pouches strapped to his person as well as the occasional mis-matched piece of armour such as sports pads or dented baking trays.
Keeps his trusty metal whip on his person at all times, usually coiled about his shoulder or wrapped tight around a gloved fist. 
Profession: Second-generation Land Pirate fighter       
Faction: Land Pirates 
Type: Human 

Stats
Body: +2
Wits: +2
Empathy: 0


Health
Conditions: Hungry   
Luck: 3

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

Experience Tallys: (none)

Stuff
Den: (somewhere in Land Pirate territory I guess?)   
Signature Gear: his lash, a length of strange, flexible metal (actually a near-indestructable bungee cord from the distant past) inherited from his father that has proven quite effective as a weapon. His father, a wandering scavenger whose fortunes improved greatly when he found this unusual metal rope in some ruins, added various attachments to it, blades, spikes, hooks and other such gadgets, gradually forming it into a potent, multi-purpose weapon and tool. He became so attached to his trusty lash that when he eventually joined the Land Pirates and (in a manner of speaking) settled down, he named his firstborn after it: Ben Lash.
When some years later Ben's father failed to return from a raid, none of the others who made it back would say exactly what had befallen him - but they did return his weapon of choice to his young son. Severely damaged from acid, to the point that there was nothing left but the cord itself, but still intact.
Inventory:

Spoiler: Quests (click to show/hide)

Personal Quests
1 - Upgrade my lash to improve its combat effectiveness
Spikes and barbs are what Ben needs, but most of the metal one finds is rusted or weak or hard to reshape. The pirates have learned of a razorwire factory in Lowestoft. Their first raid there managed to kit out one of the trucks with gnarly spikes, but apparently there's loads more back at the factory they didn't have the space to take.
Location: Lowestoft
Reward: x1 tally
2- Craft a useful and stylish piece of equipment from a slain mutant - Part 1 - Finding a target
Finding a mutant isn't that hard, there's loads of them crawling around the wastes nowadays, but finding one with a useful feature is a bit trickier. Pirates speak of a mutant with rubber-like skin, bullets and blows and vehicles just bounce off of him. A rubber suit made from this mutant would grant protection from all manner of harms.
Location: He's been seen near the University of Norwich
Reward: x2 tallies
3 - Vengeance Paternal - Part 1 - Someone's gotta talk
Your father disappeared that day and though you don't know what, acid has got something to do with it. Time to confront one of the raiders that went with him that day, Fatal Pete.
Location: Spooner Row
Reward: x2 tallies

Faction quest: Church Ambush (Land Pirates)   

[WyrdByrd]

Well, isn't this quite the situation.

Ed sidles his way over towards the display, third eye closed, but ready to snap open at any moment. 

"Well, then, you've done quite the job on these."

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Mister Ed
Appearance:  A bat-like man, or a man-like bat, dressed in the tattered remains of navy-blue formal wear. Around his chest and back is an olive drab harness.
Profession:  Wandering Trader
Faction: Unaligned Monster
Type: Mutant
Big Dream: Get a suit.
Personal Goals:
1: Find out about the people I was traveling with, once upon a time
2: Restart the  merchant business I was once a part of. I was the boss, right? Yeah, that sounds right.
3: Educate the popsicles on what it means to be weird.
Stats:
Body: -1
Wits: -1
Empathy: 2
Weird:  3

Health:
Conditions: None
Luck: 2
Hunger: 4

Rep:
+0walt +0london +0mob +0keep +0church -1gml -1legends +0terra -1eyes -2pirates
Kudos: 0
Mutations:
Bat wings
You have large leathery wings that you wrap around you at night to keep warm. You can flap them hard to leap to high heights, and you can glide short distances with them.

Mimic Voice
With effort, your voice can mimic any kind of sound or voice with perfect fidelity.

Evil Eye
You can open a third eye on your forehead. People who gaze at it may be cursed with terrible luck for some time after.

Multiplication
You can split your body apart into smaller versions of yourself who share a single mind and experience what each other experience, but may act independently. These bodies can merge again. The more bodies, the harder it is to co-ordinate them.

Experience tally: 0

Stuff:
Den: An old garage, located under a highway south of Gaia territory
Signature Gear: The Rig, an armored harness designed for use with wings, made out of bicycle parts. Is able to support a decent amount of cargo while flying and gliding.

[auzewasright]

Still alive?