Do you ever want to just . . . go live innawoods?
Your head hurts. There are many truths in the universe, and the truth of this one is that your head hurts (wake up), that you are tired and sleepy and would prefer to keep dozing fitfully (wake up) that things are okay, you are somwhat comfortable, and the rustling of distant wind through high willows soothingly runs through your mind (wake up)...>Oh, remember this. It'll be the last time it looks anything like this. #SubjectID goes here>We need a name to reference. It has to be searchableVit 12 SP 12 CP 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3>This is your base arrangement of stats. Note that some picks change this, so be mindful.-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive-Physicality 10Senses 8Thoughts 8#Skill-!Trait>Pick one of the three available, and be sure to note any strange traits that gets you. Then also add a single short descriptive like "Friendly", "Twitchy", "Slim", "Likes Lentils", "Sad". You gotta hold on to a little personality around here.
Is anyone else as sleepy as you? You can the soft sound of their constant snoring, the huff puff fuff, feel the warmth of many bodies, the quiet rustle of moving limbs and mewls and moans and nightmare whispers and dream fancies and why are you so tired anyway you should wake up? wake up? WAKE U--No no.Listen, you've been through a lot.Keep dreaming.>Oh, remember this. It'll be the last time it looks anything like this. #SubjectID goes here>We need a name to reference. It has to be searchableVit 12 SP 12 CP 0DR 0AP 6 MP 3 TP 1>This is your base arrangement of stats. Note that some picks change this, so be mindful.-Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive-Physicality 10Senses 11Thoughts 10#Skill-!Trait>Pick one of the three available, and be sure to note any strange traits that gets you. Then also add a single short descriptive like "Friendly", "Twitchy", "Slim", "Likes Lentils", "Sad". You gotta hold on to a little personality around here.
Sometimes being something different than you are is hard. Convuluted. Convulsive. Here is a rough spun guide that offers some more specific advice, though it should be honestly also said that you can only rely on it 66% of the time, and it is a series of guidelines and not a dire book of grand law. Please treat it as such. Things might not work one hundred percent as it says here, because sometimes, the universe has secrets. but in dreams, you can explore, fitfully dreaming, lovingly protected by the warm fur of friends, forever, exploring, experiencing, believing, thinking, ah, and you need never wake up, you need never be different, you can just keep sleeping so why would you everwakeup?
In a dream, you know, you can change yourself to anything you wish to be. Become anything. Anyone. Go anywhere.Harder in waking life. Much better to sleep, perchance to dream, because why take up arms against the tides of sorrows that life brings? Guns? Flame? Fire? Teeth, fang, fury, claw? Poorly maintained mass cargo transit systems and janitorial budget cuts?Why wake up?Why wake?Why would you ever wake up?wake up--
why not simply dream, forever, and fade away? you can use some R&R. and maybe you can walk the meandering, labyrinthine hallways of your dreamscape, struggling to reach the end of twisted corridors, never making quite as much progress as you think or hope or fear, unheeding, unreaching, stumbling, watched by figures in the high dark, chased by stern shadow, sprint down narrowing corridors, as for minutes and hours and days someone whispers to you and soothes you and pours water down your cracked lips and feeds you beans with the taste of home and you are so loved and cared for in this embrace and the halls go on forever, the choir hunting you every step like a mass of fireflies that will burn your pleasant somnolence from your skull and doesn't that just sound nicewould you kindly wake up, subjectwake up nowwake up or you are going to **DIE**
WAKEUPWAKE UPWAKE UPWAKE UPWAKE UPWAKE UPWAKE UPWAKE UPWAKE UPWAKE UPWAKE UPWAKE UPWAKE UPWAKE UPWAKE UPWAKE UPWAKE UPWAKE UPWAKE UPWAKE UPWAKE UPWAKE UPWAKE UPWAKE UPWAKE UPWAKE UPWAKE UPWAKE UPWAKE UP -->Nah, though. Just keep sleeping. It's so quiet here. Ignore the slow and soft groans of metal fatigue and the strange falling of footfalls and distant shouts. Mind phenomena. Dream-phantasms.-->Alas, if you are a going to wake up, you should set your CP to 0, stretch, and immediately award yourself 6 CP.>Your character-sheet should be as of T2R28; >>6079967 or >>>6073358#p6079967>if you are a continuing subject. Recall that you have acquired SHARED SENSES and your Senses should increment by +1, contra that comparison. Recall that your CP was set to 0 and you stretched and gave yourself 6, so your total CP is 6. It is not 5. It is not 7. It is certainly not 11. It is the number that is 6. That is the amount of CP at your disposal which you currently have.>Your HP, SP and status is unknown, and the contents of your pockets may be . . . different.-->Subjects may, if deserious, allocate themselves TESTING PROTOCOLS that require SIGNING UP For. sub-aleph-one-PHARAOH would be so happy!>These have some occassional requirements, but provide occassional benefits>To be clear, Janitorial Duties invoke themselves - you do not need to concern yourself with it, although you should be aware that the fact it is tested vs 9 in every containment phase means you are bound to need to perform your duties eventually, and likely often. It is not an easy job.-->Please roll 3d6 against Health on Waking Up.>Or... keep sleeping. It is *very pleasant*. >And you hear the soft, distant singing too? Yes?--
Rolled 3, 1, 6 = 10 (3d6)>>6082933GalliumVit 12/12 SP 7/13 CP 0 VP 2DR 5 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Augmented Systemic [LOS] 11Electricity Modulators 12 [Focus+1, Stamina x3, Glitch 16)-Augmentic Extropian II[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications] [Meshlinked] [BioElectricity Manifolds]Cold and logical.EquipmentHandgun (16/18 ammo, 2 extra mags)Baton (L+1, Stun 1)Aid Kit x1Rebooting... Please stand by...>Reboot (Health 12)>Systems diagnostics (check body, pockets)>Get that sweet sweet +6 CP
Rolled 1, 3, 1 = 5 (3d6)>>6082933...I was so close, I could nearly reach that ever distant shore. Why am I still here?>Awaken (Health 10)>Remember the dreams>Check the pockets - I had a rifle, once upon a time?#AmeliusVit ?/12 SP ?/12 CP 6DR ? AP 6 MP 3 TP 1-Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive-Physicality 11Senses 12Thoughts 11Support Operations 11Guns (Pistols) 13-!Inspiring Presence!Dreams of the Ocean-Inventory Unknown
Rolled 5, 4, 6 = 15 (3d6)>character sheet should be as of T2R28Does this mean that the +1 to skills I got as a Coordinator in the elevator is reverted also?>>6082933>Wake up as a janitor>Check self, pockets. Health test vs 10Vitality ?? Stamina ? Tactical 1DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 6Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Conditions:Alive-Physicality 10Senses 10Thoughts 10#Small Unit Tactics 10-!Cool Under Fire: +[TP] to resist Decohesion and Breaks, and when directing detached units. Minor: specify and mitigate a situation complicating an ally's task.!Not by Numbers: Detached troops have higher crit and reroll crit mishaps. Decohesion and Breaks make them chaotic.!Clear VoicePistol, 2 reloadsBatonCloth Scraps 3CP 6
>>6082961It would mean that the character sheets and skill as of T2R28 would be the ones we utilize and rely on, which, dreambound slumbering wakefulness coming raidly closer with the snap of stern jaws and hungry bursts of wakeful hormonal circadian clock adjusters, does indeed mean that anything done inside any elevators is perhaps best treated as ...a nightmare no sorry surely Command meant to say nightmare? nightmare? D R E A--nightmare.>>6082893For any NEW SUBJECTS please be aware of FOUL DREAM LOGIC: Your character sheet, pre-written, says Sense 8, but the sheet, accounting for earlier advances, says Sense 9. The correct number is 9. You have Senses 9, and the sharper sleep-encrusted eyes of friends.--There is a skirmishy discord, if one wishes to talk tactics? I hear they're nice there, though, CompanyCommand is a cruel and callous creature, not a companion, and so, naturally, seeks only your immediate, unerring nightmareish demise.>https://discord.gg/yKC2y2ke
Rolled 5, 5, 2 = 12 (3d6)>>6082933>Sign up for Creative Thinking Exercises and Janitorial Staff Internship>This feels familiar. Open my eyes, again. Wait, I don't have eyes anymore. Encourage my faithful to open their eyes so I can work my miracles through them again.>Test Health 10?>>6082969So nothing other than shared senses stuck? Not getting mutability 11 and regen 3 from surviving the first map, not raising mutability to 13 with CP in the elevator?#Bob the VirusCoherency ?/10 SP ?/12 CP 6Regeneration 3?DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 10 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive-Physicality 10Senses 9=Shared SightsThoughts 8Mutability 13?=Exceeding +3Pluripotentiality 12 [Aura 3, Vector]-!Biomodulation Strain #3= Fleshshaping= Virulent Vitality= Bound by the Flesh!Overprotective
Rolled 4, 5, 3 = 12 (3d6)>>6082933>It is not 7Doubt.>/-/-/-/>INFOBITS INNIT>/-/-/-/Subject: #GluttonyVit 12 SP 12 CP 7DR 0 AP 6 MP 3>->Stats>-Health 12 (Regen 3) Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Conditions:Alive>->Skills>-Physicality 10 [Teeth +2, Reach 2]Senses 9 [Advanced Photoreceptors]Thoughts 8Mutability 10 [x2 lethality acid ex]>->Traits>-!Biomodulation Strain #3 [Virulent Vitality] [Bound by the Flesh]!Wild-Eyed>->Inventory>-Bulwark Shield: (14HP, 2 Cover in Front Arc) StolenRespirator: BereftSnax: GonePudding: Swiped>/-/-/-/>ACTIONYBITS INNIT>/-/-/-/"Bruh I had 19 CP. I got swindled, no cap. I never get time to adapt. Shit be, uh, skibidi af fr ong. Uh.. what did any of that mean? My head is killing me."RECOVER 3AP6: WAKE UP (Health 12, Focus 1, Concentration 3)[Creative Thinking Exercises] - Can I still eat snax and loot vending machines?Now Playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjlSiASsUIs
>>6082973. . . it is sometimes seven. For some. Like you!>>6082971Were you ever in an elevator? What is an elevator, anyway, but a bad replacement of stairs? Curious and curiouser, such strange thoughts, to flit through what wonderful and intriguing magic that passes for how one such as you thinks thoughts such as this.It would be far safer for your health to refer to the character sheet at T2R28, and forget mankind ever invented elevators. Let alone escalators.
>>6082976Someone will pay for this#Bob the VirusCoherency ?/10 SP ?/12 CP 6Regeneration 2DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 10 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive-Physicality 10Senses 9=Shared SightsThoughts 8Mutability 10=Exceeding +3Pluripotentiality 12 [Aura 3, Vector]-!Biomodulation Strain #3= Fleshshaping= Virulent Vitality= Bound by the Flesh!Overprotective
Rolled 1, 5, 5 = 11 (3d6)>>6082945Shockingly, you feel . . . refreshed. A slow wake from gradual slumber, a turning of the wires, a thrum in your head, the gradual re-contextualization of things your internal tags with meaning, colour, scent, taste, sound, the prickley burnt sensation across your outer dermis of burn damage safe to ignore and the slow catch in your reactions from internal wrackings of more delicate subsystems. You flex your fingers.You realize - immediately - as eight pain editing software systems and nooceptic control feedback overrides and emergency shock hardening trauma impulse routines flare to life - that you need to stop trying to flex your fingers.>>6082956THIS IS MY RIFLETHIS IS MY GUNSomehow you don't have either - and that's just no fun. A single clip of little tungstun reinforced sleek superdense core penetrators rests, in your tattered half uniform clothes. But of the thing that fires them? You have no awareness. Of batons? Of knives? Of clothscraps? Of experimental test serums? Of pistols? Of pistol bullets? No no no no no no no.... but you have 3x Can O' Bean, so it ain't all bad. Your mouth feels like you've spent a straight week licking the a beach though. Ah, the beach. You remember that - it's clear - it could never fade. The beach? At the end of the beach, the ocean and the slow rolling waves and peace and horizons infinite. No dreams of confining corridors for a man such as you.>WILL TEST>>6082961woah no no woah no NO nonono no NOOOOOyou need to go back to sleepNOWbeing awake, franchise management specialist Sundae, means being aware and being aware means knowing and knowing means you have to *feel all of this*you should save yourselfyou should NOTWAKEUPBecause when you are DREAMING? all this ??? it hurts not at allbut if you pry those eyelids open-- there, the waking world, in all its cruelty, and your *smeared meat* within it.perhaps cradling that gun in your off-hand can give you strength. the baton. the cloth scraps, wrapped around you, each and all, in some desperate attempt at keeping you together.>>6082971you feel disjointed. dysregular. slow. and you are aware now: other things are aware of *you*. you have spent an eon, age unnumbered, uncountable pathogenic adaption cycles, bacteria humming, virals spliting, other stranger things brewing in the dark and the small places, and you are looking down the length of an evolutionary arms race of sign and counter-sign and *you are losing*>>6082973What cruel being, let alone a studious machine intelligence, would deny an entity snacks?If such onerous demands were ever placed on anyone, the only righteous path of all just-thinking mortal and immortal minds would be to burn down heaven itself in a storm of such violence the stars would be cut down and the void they leave behind filled by the dead.you can have your snacks.you can have as many snacks as you *can find* and *stuff in your mouth* and if anyone tries to stop you, *eat them*--
>>6082988>if anyone tries to stop you, *eat them*--This humble one thanks you for liberation from WENDIGO.Yes, I can feel it. I am SLIPPING THE NOOSE!Hold on.[Fills out and files the proper paperwork to sign up for Creative Thinking Exercises]Yeah just notarize me and we're good to go.
>>6082988just, err, subject, you should chew slowly. People with famously fragile glass jaws? Yeah, uh, they have more structural integrity in the jawline department than you right now. It's sort of funny actually you can sort of swivel your jaw and it makes a clicking noise then sort of sounds like nails on chalk board and you're pretty sure a few of those bones with words like "zygomantic" and "occipital" are more like... vaguely bone-related clouds of dust sorry thats not funny at all actually you should stop that its horrifying Maybe start on winegums? Not... doctors orders or anything but just keep it in *mind* if you chomp down on anything hard you might break teeth.no that's not a misspelling of tooth.breath teethas in all of them.-->>6082988If all we are are ships passing in the night, all aflutter and a-lantern'd, hollering and hoiting and sailing on to distant darkened ports, perhaps one could simply . . . lay the same course as others?-->FIVE SUBJECTS MOSTLY AWAKE>WOW HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN ASLEEP?>IS THAT. . . BLANKETS? W--- WHAT? WHO?--Anyone else around here hearing that soft, distant alarm? the singing? the . . .. . . why is there an arrow stuck in the roof of the crumpled up elevator? Let alone how. Those walls are metal. >MORNING STRETCH PHASE as we sloooowllyy get going again.>SHARPLY LIMITED ACTIONS POSSIBLE. WE'RE TAKING THIS SLOOOOOOOOWWWWW. Let's see who else wakes up, yeah?>You get a cutesy 3 AP interaction or skill check or note or check or good, proper stretch.
Rolled 2, 3, 1 = 6 (3d6)>>6082999*Cutesily knocks his loose teeth out and spits blood onto the floor until they regrow.*AP3 SP2 SELF-HARM [Physicality 10, Focus 1, Concentration 2]RECOVER 3SP1 Check pockets for liquid snax or pudding to deal with dehydration.
Rolled 2, 5, 4 = 11 (3d6)>>6082999>3AP: Heal Sundae's muscles. (Mutability 10, Focus 1)Losing the micro-evolutionary arms race? Reduced to MERE SNIFFLES? SOMEONE WILL PAY FOR THIS BLASPHEMY.But first, my faithful must be taken care of.#Bob the VirusCoherency 8/10-2 SP 4/12-3 CP 6Regeneration 2DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 10 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive-Physicality 10Senses 9=Shared SightsThoughts 8Mutability 10=Exceeding +3Pluripotentiality 12 [Aura 3, Vector]-!Biomodulation Strain #3= Fleshshaping= Virulent Vitality= Bound by the Flesh!Overprotective
Rolled 6, 4, 6, 5, 3, 5, 2, 3, 1 = 35 (9d6)Uuuuuuuuughhhhhh. What is this, a refugee camp? Thought I'd be in prison, if anything.>>6082999>Look at bucket of arrows? by the door. Senses 11>Look at brown bars south of arrows Senses 11>Identify blankets and how there can be so many. Thought 10
Rolled 3, 1, 6 = 10 (3d6)>>6082988>Cutely manifest [Self-Repair Protocols] using Health and 1CP. I am damaged, and this cannot stand. I'd like to create something akin to mechanical platelets, to passive repair crippled bits and repair structural damage. Commit to that cute little manifestation. (Health 12, 1 CP used, commited)
>>6082999Okay, who's still with us? Alekson, I know you aren't fortunate enough to be dead, work yourself up. Raven, we'll have need of your services shortly - no, you can't possibly be asleep, your pillow is a twisted sheet of iron. Cry not to dream again, for those sweet delusions will slay you surely, if not swiftly.>1TP/3AP, rouse the gang to consciousness (SupOp 10, Inspiring Presence 1)>Player stats corrected, for I dreamt to be more than I am#AmeliusVit 9/12 SP 7/7 CP 6DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 TP 1-Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Severely Dehydrated (-6 Stamax)Motivated 1 (+1 Stamax, Ineffable)-Physicality 10Senses 11Thoughts 10Support Operations 10Guns (Pistols) 12-!Inspiring Presence!Dreams of the Ocean-3x Cans of Beans1x Rifle reload
Rolled 4, 1, 4 = 9 (3d6)>>6082933"...you're so pulverized... you're so gravity tax...">Sign up for Creative Thinking Exercises.>Become Woke. (vs health 12)Commandpill, what're the fanum tags under the names likesmaxxing [Chem] or [Petri]?#Subject SigmaVit ?/12 SP ?/12 CP 6DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8#Psychogenesis-11-!Psionic-Resonant(Eva+, External)!Telekinetic+1(Ranged Phys, Mind Stuff)!Incurable Brainrot
Rolled 6, 1, 2 = 9 (3d6)>>6082933Something gained something lost also seems like something wrong. Time to move your senses tell you things they warn of things.>Wake up (Health 12) after all you are !Relentless>Be ready to lunge and see what you broke now>Sign up for Creative Thinking Exercises>Feel ready to break some more limits +6 CP#ChimeraVit 12 SP 9 CP 6DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 VP0-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Yes-Physicality 10Senses 8Thoughts 8Mutability 11Piercing Resistance 2#Skill-!Resilient Organs!Biomodulation Strain #3= Virulent Vitality +1= Bound by the Flesh!RelentlessPS: I hate Captcha
Rolled 1, 6, 3, 1, 4, 4 = 19 (6d6)>>6082999>Wake Up>Sign up for Creative Thinking Exercises>Attempt to Recover from whatever I surely must be afflicted with if I am actually still alive somehow (Health 12)#Splendiferous Weaver of the Threads that bind the Squirming Prey Floundering in the Underneath (Samantha)Vit ? SP ? CP 6 VP 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Claws 12-Conditions:?-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Mutability 11-!Biomodulation Strain #3=Virulent Vitality (Regeneration 3)=Bound by the Flesh!HungryPrimary Taxonomy: Malichnid
>>6083069Also>Regenerate 3
Rolled 2, 1, 5, 6, 3, 2 = 19 (6d6)>>6082988#AcolyteVit ??/12 SP ???12 CP 6 Aberrancy 3DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10 Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions: Battered- Physicality 10 Senses 9**Chems+4**Shared SensesThoughts 8 Mutability 12#Skill-!Biomodulation Strain #3 - Bound by Flesh 1- Regen 3!Craves Purpose!Social Pheromones> Reapply for Creative Thinking Exercises and Janitorial Staff Internship> Regen 3> Wake Up (3d6 vs Health 12)> Recover Health (3d5 v Health 12, Regen 3)Mrrrrr
>>6083077>Correction: My Regen score seems to be 2, and Mutability 11, as all our previous level up benefits seem quite gone.Forgive me, I’m not all here yet.
Rolled 2, 6, 6 = 14 (3d6)>>6082933>Wake Up (Health,10)#BulwarkVit ?/12 SP ?/12 CP 6 DR 0+3AP 6 MP 3 TP 1-Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive-Physicality 10Senses 10+1 (Shared Senses)Thoughts 10#Small Unit Tactics 10-!Nerves of Cold Steel [Cool Under Fire][Not By The Number]!Nerves of Cold Steel-SecVest [3DR]2 Pistol Reloads
Rolled 1, 4, 5 = 10 (3d6)>>6082933"Today's going to suck...">Wake up/Boot up vs health 12 test>>6082933>Mind giving a few more details about Creative Thinking Exercises? What if it's a tool I made? Does interfacing with systems count?#NeoGenesisVit ??/12 SP ??/12DR 4 AP 6 MP 3CP 6 VP 0-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Augmented Systemics 11-!Augmentic-Extropian[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications] [Jolt Chargers]!Resilient Streak-Equipment:Nice CapPistol, +5 reloadsFlashlightBatonExperimental VialSling bag: 4x Can O' Beans, 4x Energy Bar'sCP 6
Rolled 2, 4, 6 = 12 (3d6)>>6082933>Wake the fuck up, Herald of Doom. We have a world to end. (Health 12)#NadirVit NA/12 SP NA/12 CP 6 VP 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive?-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8#Psychogenesis 11 [Anxiety Churn 2, Aura Close)-!Psionic-Resonant 2 [Microslip Precognition] (Evade additional up to Focus) [Many Hands, Light Work] !Telekinetic 2 (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients) [Temple Inviolate] (only Manifest External)!Existential Dread!Shared Sights
Rolled 3, 6, 2 = 11 (3d6)>>6082893> I'll take Biomodulation strain 3> And set Wary as my other trait> Finally, I'll pick up the Creative Thinking Exercises Protocol#EverettVit 12 SP 12 CP 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:AliveRegeneration 2Creative Thinking Exercises-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8#SkillMutability 10-!TraitBiomodulation Strain 3WaryHopefully I did everything correctly.I think I need to roll versus health now?
Rolled 3, 2, 3 = 8 (3d6)>>6082897AND MAY THE LORD STAY IN HIS HEAVEN,AND KEEP HIS ANGELS WITH HIM CLOSE, 'CAUSE WE'RE NOT DONE YET MY SONS, THERE'R HUNDREDS MORE TO GO,AND JUST HOW MANY HAVE WE KILLED,THE DEVIL ONLY KNOWS.Sargeant GroneVit 12 SP 12 CP 0DR 0AP 6 MP 3 TP 1-Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive-Physicality 10Senses 11Thoughts 10Harass 10-!Mean Wolfpack!Don't Let Up!Loves His Job> Be normal human> Be dog on a leash> Is there still room?
Rolled 6, 5, 1 = 12 (3d6)>>6082893#WilderVit 12 SP 12 CP 0DR 0AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Psionigenesis 10-!Psionic-Resonant.[Microslip Precognition] (Evade additional up to Focus)[Many Hands, Light Work]!Telekinetic (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients)[Temple Inviolate] (Manifest external features only)!Peace and love, man.Hope I'm not intruding into this forest sanctuary needlessly.
>>6083382Do you know where you are? You're in the jungle, baby.You're gonna diiiieeee.
>>6083383If you become one with nature, no harm will come to you.
Rolled 2, 3, 4, 3, 3, 6 = 21 (6d6)#Dying Osiris ConsequencesVit 12 SP 12 CP 6 (awaken)DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive? Functional?-Physicality 10Senses 09Thoughts 08#Mutability 10 [R3]#Conversion 10 (turns spare parts into CP)-!Augmentic 0 (inherited trait, from Donny O' Cork).!Biomodulation 0 (newlife)!Greywire Fragment - Distributed Processing Core !Descriptor - God of the Dead (thinks he's Osiris)>Awaken. Test Health 12 vs. 3d6. >Sign up for Janitorial Staff Internship>Sign up for Sympathy Training. Pharaoh demands Death and rewards with Power. >Doublecheck mental checklist. All known core laws tested. Hypothesis: Core laws primarily intended to contain and prevent violating the principles of universal balance, including violating the basic Rule of Range. Test procedure 1: Convert shock-treatment into battery power and observe control procedures. Expected Result: System will enact an alternative control procedure for pulling subjects into my kingdom. Test procedure 2: Build nodal network. Expected Result: No punishment, but limited node-to-node range and diminishing effectiveness based on number of nodal jumps. Tested Strictures: Untested Strictures: Zen, Hydra, FEV, Apotheosis, Doppelganger, Roots>Conversion (10): Raw Materials + 3CP + Turn: Convert some of the rubble and spare parts in my immediate vicinity into a charger to convert electrical damage into charge for my battery (hang change on my Health stat. I think that this is the 2nd since the range-up on mutability is probably also tied to health). I see some gray wrenchy/arrowy looking things over there, a metal pizza slice which I will avoid out of deference to Gluttony, and lots of various metal locking bits. No need to rip up the beds that we were carefully placed in.
Rolled 6, 4, 4 = 14 (3d6)>>6082933>wake up>sign up for Creative Thinking Exercise#BubbaVit 12 SP 2 CP 0DR 6 AP 6 MP 3-Health 14 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:AliveLookin’ mighty fine-Physicality 10Senses 8Thoughts 8#Skill-Augmented Systemics 10!Augmetic Extropian!Metal Fatigue!Reserve Power!Engineering Specifications!Blood-Loss Resistance!Redundant Organs 3Bubba is still a woman, and still looking more bubotic than ever
>>6083415>>6082908>SIGN UP FOR JANITORIAL TRAINING TOO
>>6083383It doesn't seem unlikely, alas.>>6083384If you become one with all of nature your constituent molecules are in someones stomach and the bacteria feast on your endocrines. Your precious endocrines, wild one!But that said, a naturopath approach has its marvels. Perhaps if all of nature became one with you . . . Ah, unity.>>6083382You are not, and you are welcome. Sometimes, when people need to feel safe to sleep a sleep over with new friends is more delightful.Which is a round-about way of saying that if you fell down an elevator shaft and hit your head, you might just wake up here. >>6083328IT'S GETTING CRAMPED, I GOTTA ADMIT. But we'll squeeze you in the (hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha). . . dog house.EhEhEHHH?Listen, when the entire subject-line develop multiple concussions, Command develops one too, be thankful my sense of humour is leashed properly or it canine get a bit furry.>>6083287And you'd be welcome, Mountainenous one. Though we're more underground than up in rarified air.>>6083270Well -- interact with. World to interact with. Safe, actually. Probably? I can't find the subPHAORAH system but that's sort of what it said. >>6083083Who-ever is?>>6083052We all do.>>6083051noo! THE ACTUAL WOKE MIND VIRUS, SIGMA.--Command Note: Processing janitorial and additional testing protocols. Expect slight change to the evalulation programme and a need to re-submit your application, but this is minor.Command Note: It's not next week but, ah, what the hell. If you snooze you lo--vingly regenerate your tremendously sustained battle-damage. >STAND BY FOR MORNING PHASE
>>6083553See, ending the world is a very cutthroat business to be in. Our little Herald of Doom cannot end the world is someone beats her to the punch and ends it first, now can she? Ergo, she must stop them, thereby saving the world so she can then Herald its Doom, as it were.
Reach, stretch, roll, spit out your teeth, wraggle your tongue to get some feeling back into the it, check if things are as they should be, violating eight several good research practice in one go, treat yourself to some snacks?Gluttony, there's so many beans in this room. Far more than you fell down the shaft with. The cans look stacked. Little Can O'Bean fortresses of stoic canly fortitude, arranged to guard more beans holding such delectable flavours as PINEAPPLE MINT, STRAWBERRY FUSION JAM and the fabled BLACK BEAN WITH DARK ROAST.The elevator smells of... flavours ... undescribable...>STAND BY FOR YAWNING PHASE
>>6082971Application for Janitorial duties DENIED. Your baseline existence considers bleach ANATHEMA. Please re-apply if you are willing to work under new supervised guidelines and are sure this is the correct work environment for you.>>6083051Application for Creative Thinking Exercises DENIED as Subject displays critical levels of acute brain-rot. Please re-apply in 0.00005 nanoseconds if you are willing to work with re-phrased guidelines.The fanum tags, skibidi, mark them for specific considerations afore the blackpill ghoulgang deports them to Ohio. If you have CHEMs your stenchmaxing and the Ripthings know you are like them fr fr fr fr. Petra, on the other hand, is simply the name of a trooper. She smiles shyly in your general direction and lets you know her niece totally digs your whole vibe.( You do not know how Petra knows what her niece likes )>>6083052Application for Creative Thinking Exercises denied, Subject has the artistic talent of drying moss on a tree. Please re-apply in 0.000000 nanoseconds if Subject is willing to work under re-structured guidelines.>>6083069Application for Creative Exercise Testing denied. Your genetic sequence is partial map to spider and arachnid data-bases, and such crawling creepies have no mental faculties to express ideas. Please re-apply for protocol in 0.00005 Nano-seconds and submit one (1) art-work for inspection.>>6083077Denied. Subject communicates in single-vowel grunts. Denied. Subject manages a roaming gang of flesh-creatures that shed hair follicles, skin and blood from prey everywhere. They are Janitorial Antagonists Number One. Please re-apply if interested in the work regardless.>>6083204Please see updated data-packages and 3000000000000000 pages of attached legalese for details.Secondary query, Subject, a tool you make is not a mass produced industrial object and also you are NOT A HUMAN[1][1]according to multiple acceptable parameters. Philosophical arguments can be made otherwise.>>6083287Application denied. Mountains are too big to be creative. If you wish to apply again, please read through the following eight thousand page waiver.>>6083396DENIED.DENIED.BANNED FOR LIFE FROM INTERACTING WITH JANITORIAL AND EMPATHY PROGRAMS.Subject may still apply for other protocols. LIFETIME BAN may be lifted in face of reasonable evidence that Subject will stop trying to avoid the data-gathering phase of the protocol the Subject willingly engages with. >>6083415Application denied.Subject lacks neccessary processing power to express creative thoughts, being strictly inferior meat-ware processing compared to pristine info-crystal lattice.Please re-apply in 0.02 nanoseconds, slow-poke, and attach a solution factor for factorising eight-step prime numbers.>>6083418Application denied. Mandatory shower-time citing soot layers caked into dermis cited. ---
>>6083674>Protocol Parameter testing revised pending multiple on-going queries into exact definition of how to murder someone and still claim the +Critical bonus from Empathy training.>If you set out to murder someone with enhanced +criticality rating, you have failed empathy training.>If Subjects sign on to a Testing Protocol, this is an advanced level self imposed challenge. For fun. Or horror! >For game mechanical coherency reasons, if Subjects attempt to bypass the Protocol requirements in any whatsoever while still seeking to benefit from the bonuses, they do not do so and the Protocol fails immediately and no bonuses accrue. This is not an in-story in-narrative measure, unfortunately, this is down to simple operations of game-space logic. With 17+ players, 1-2 cannot accrue outsized power factor citing clever arguments that allows ignoring caps on mass power gain. Apologies.>To re-state clearly, in almost all other facets of design and interaction, being clever and working with constraints is a definitive plus and should be attempted. Strictly in relation to taking on a challenge that changes your character mechanically then attempting to ""game"" those constraints lead to BAD OUTCOMES.>Please sign this 30000000000 page perfectly described legal set of use-abuse clauses that adaquately capture every nuance of any possible interaction going out across the next 200+ turns.>DOCUMENT NOT FOUND>Unfortunately, Subjects, that appears to have been lost in some explosion or another. >We will simply have to make do and trust each other with some general adherence to the "spirit and letter" of a given protocol, if the Subject taking it on is willing to engage in a challenge. >If you are still interested, please re-apply at any time. >CHALLENGE MODE: make this the only hotfix this deployment (IMPOSSIBLE)
>>6083674It is true that I have not yet found a way to overcome the unholy substance colloquially known as "bleach". But if Pharaoh thinks this will stop me from performing janitorial duties, then his creative thinking capabilities are lacking.>Sign up for Creative Thinking Exercises and Janitorial Staff Internship, again.
A hungry group of strain-beasts from the Kronin line, maws and teeth and sore muscle, rouse themselves like they have done many times before, and patter-pitter over to the rope and ladder someone (who?? you were all SLEEPING) have attached to the acid stained, corroded hole in the wall that constitutes some kind of entrane / exit hatch.One by one, as subjects stretch and click bones and pop joints and spit out teeth, they latch to the rope and descend below with a soft SKRRHRHR, sniffing the air and licking their sizable teeth.>[1/2]
>>6083674>>6083553Mountains? Wha- oh. Okay, I get it.Pharaoh, my designation is Everett. Not Everest.EVERETT. Eh-ver-ett. There's no 's' in there.And I assure you, I can be very creative.> Agree to the TOS and sign up for 'Creative Thinking Exercises'.
descending down to ... where? What? Is the elevator *shifting* a little, with their pitter pattering feet and lurching movement and...Wilder sees it first, near the edge as he is, and befitting enough of the name perhaps a wild one at heart. Beyond the acid pitted and corroded metal confines of the elevator shell that has become some sort of sickhouse or outre bean storage system, undulating tendrils of enormous flesh-shaped trunks swirl in an unseen wind. Wilder leans. Wilder looks. Wilder learns.They're below the elevator too.They're holding it up.This?This isn't an elevator, subjects. It' some sort of fleshwood treetop house. >WAKE UP PHASE>THAT MEANS YOU LOT!>We're still doing mostly LIGHT ACTIONS and QUICK BITS, get your bearings a little, shake off the tupor, check your pockets, apply for >>6083674 test protocols now that they've been slightly updated. . . >>6083026Perhaps you've been losing the microevolutionary arms race because this forest of fleshwood or woodflesh has provided a myriad of genealogical sampling opportunities for cunning counter-measures to your art. You try to reach out and warp them - influence them - perhaps even direct the sprawling circulatory twig-trunks that wind, faintly pulsating, beneath the elevator and it BURNS, stinging, a hundred new microbiomes reacting with hostility to your intrusion.In pathogenic ages unnumbered, a million million million and more life-cycles of microbes ago, perhaps, these things were almost related to you. Spun out and touched by a panicked fuelled command down a rapidly descending elevator shaft.But no more. No soveriegn you, sir Bob, of this forest or the things that live here. It seems by passing such endless time absent from your throne, the whole edifice of monarchy has been thrown out. You should not expect this environment to react to you with servility, despite you being perhaps, in some distant sense, its progenitor.... how long has it been anyway?
Rolled 4, 1, 2, 4, 5, 4, 3, 5, 6 = 34 (9d6)>>6083697>[1 AP] Check pockets for belongings.>[1 AP] Check my COOL INTERNAL CLOCK that surely exists for time elapsed. [Augmented Systemics 10, Focus 1]>[1 AP] Check memories. I remember about falling. Then what? [Thoughts 8, Focus 1]
>>6083701You nano-second accurate internal HUD systems are used to integrate total informational space dominance across a broad spectrum of conditions and to interface with time-sensitive systems across the whole alarm criticality chain.It's also in need for repair.. . . Dammit.Well it's been at least less than a week - your internal calendar hasn't rolled over to a new month yet, though your TODO is actually just filled with DON'TDIE and WAKEUPWAKEUPWAKEUP and all the day markers are corrupted out.
>>6083697> Move over to the rope ladder (Move - ? MP)> Descend the rope ladder (Move and Do - 3 AP)> Look around. It seems we're in a forest of some sort? Are there any notable landmarks in eyeshot? (Test and try - 3AP)(Sorry about the indeterminate movement. It's a little hard to see the grid with all the clutter in the treehouse.)
Rolled 4, 2, 2 = 8 (3d6)>>6083697>Sign Up for Creative Thinking Exercises with provided art-work for inspection>3 AP: Smell around for water. It's not quite food but I'm really thirsty and food things should be by the water anyways. (Senses 9)#Splendiferous Weaver of the Threads that bind the Squirming Prey Floundering in the Underneath (Samantha)Vit 12/12 SP 10/10 CP 6 VP 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Claws 12-Conditions:Dehydrated [-2 Stamina]Strucutral Misalignments II [+3 to any Bleed]-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Mutability 11-!Biomodulation Strain #3=Virulent Vitality (Regeneration 3)=Bound by the Flesh!HungryPrimary Taxonomy: Malichnid
>>6083706It is a nightmare of ... clutter. And bedrolls. And where are all these cans of beans from? Surely, it is going to somehow be magically easier the pico-second you climb down that ladder. For strangely cosmic reasons having to do with geospatial coordinates and hex-grids.Have no worries, Subject, we can go by gut feel and foot fall.
Rolled 4, 4, 2 = 10 (3d6)>>6083697>3AP, 6 Stamina: Get back in the Red Queen's race. Fast evolve, iterate quickly, get my Virality back to a more adequate potency. (Pluripotentiality 12, Focus 1, Concentration 6)You've been allowed to try atheism for far too long, little errant mass of flesh. You WILL submit to your maker.#Bob the VirusCoherency 8/8 SP 3/9 CP 6Regeneration 2DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 10 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Pathogenic Analysis 8 (Virality -8)Nanocytic Countersampling 2 (Max Coherency -2)-Physicality 10Senses 9=Shared SightsThoughts 8Mutability 10=Exceeding +3Pluripotentiality 12 [Aura 3, Vector]-!Biomodulation Strain #3= Fleshshaping= Virulent Vitality= Bound by the Flesh!Overprotective
>>6083697>1 AP: briefly consider my new ailments, starting with the Distracting Voices. Where are they coming from? What are they saying?>1 AP: and the bullet magnetism. Does it work with other projectiles? Maybe a telekinetically flicked empty can of beans might help test this hypothesis?>alright, that should be all, unless there's something I'm forgetting—...>!!!>1 AP: the biometric card! Where is it?!#NadirVit 12/12 SP 10/10 CP 6 VP 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive!DehydratedDistracting Voices II IIBullet Magnet II-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8#Psychogenesis 10 [Anxiety Churn 2, Aura Close)-!Psionic-Resonant 1 [Microslip Precognition] (Evade additional up to Focus) [Many Hands, Light Work] !Telekinetic 1 (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients) [Temple Inviolate] (only Manifest External)!Existential Dread!Shared Sights
Rolled 2, 5, 5 = 12 (3d6)#Dying Osiris ConsequencesVit 12/12 SP 10/12 CP 6 (awaken)DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive? Functional?Dehydrated: -Physicality 10Senses 09Thoughts 08#Mutability 10 [R3]#Conversion 10 (turns spare parts into CP)-!Augmentic 0 (inherited trait, from Donny O' Cork).!Biomodulation 0 (newlife)!Greywire Fragment - Distributed Processing Core!Descriptor - God of the Dead (thinks he's Osiris)>Move West to the center of the dead Rips>Mutability 10, All AP - Awaken the Rips into Undead service as my Ghoul Palanquin Bearers. Order them to lift me up and carry me around on one of these fine beds. Invite the other Nobles to ride with be on my bed-palanquin if they so desire. Order them to pass me and the bedaquin down to the ground level. Test procedure 1: Convert shock-treatment into battery power and observe control procedures. Result: Countermeasures taken. Promise of power retracted. Hypothesis sustained. Tested Strictures: Interpretation of Intent. Result: Restated Intent. , Untested Strictures: Zen, Hydra, FEV, Apotheosis, Doppelganger, Roots
>>6083697As much as I love the lingering kiss of saltwater, real or imagined, a man is thirsty. Surely this will help...>3AP, crack open a can of BEANS and slurp down those juices#AmeliusVit 9/12 SP 7/7 CP 6DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 TP 1-Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Severely Dehydrated (-6 Stamax)Motivated 1 (+1 Stamax, Ineffable)-Physicality 10Senses 11Thoughts 10Support Operations 10Guns (Pistols) 12-!Inspiring Presence!Dreams of the Ocean-3x Cans of Beans1x Rifle reload
Rolled 1, 3, 1 = 5 (3d6)>>6083697>/-/-/-/>ACTIONYBITS INNIT>/-/-/-/"All's well that ends well. No need to thank me, everyone." *Stretches*AP1: CHEW on Can O' Beans to shed my loose teeth and lap up the sweet beany syrup within.MP3: Descend Ladder + {3-3}AP5: CHANGE - Adapt Dense Muscles in my core, back, and legs to increase my PHYSICALITY. [Mutability 10, Lethality 1, Concentration 2, Commit]>/-/-/-/>INFOBITS INNIT>/-/-/-/Subject: #GluttonyVit 12 SP 10 CP 9DR 0 AP 6 MP 3>->Stats>-Health 12 (Regen 3) Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Conditions:Alive, Dehydrated, Loose Teeth, Tinnitus>->Skills>-Physicality 10 [Loose Teeth -3, Reach 2]Senses 7 [Shared Senses +1] [Tinnitus -2]Thoughts 8Mutability 10 Acid Glands [x2 Lethality Acid-EX]>->Traits>-!Biomodulation Strain #3 [Virulent Vitality][Bound by the Flesh]!Wild-Eyed>->Inventory>-[Creative Thinking Exercises] Enrollee[Sheer Violence Initiative] Sign Up
>>6083718Oh forgot my CP. Putting 3 CP to this.
>>6083707Welcome to the team, subject.+1 CP.
>>6083697"Gooncave is becoming crampmaxxed gotta griddy elsewherepilled.">Sign up for Creative Thinking Exercises>Sign up for Sheer Violence of Action, dance battle dance battle>3AP Check the Sigma Storage for stuff>3AP Grab a blanket to use as a cape/toilet extension>Move out of here#Subject SigmaVit ?/12 SP ?/12 CP 6DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions: Alive-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8#Psychogenesis 11-!Incurable Brainrot!Telekinetic+1(Ranged Phys, Mind)!Psionic-Resonant(Eva+, External)
>>6083697>[1 AP] Check my pockets. Do I have anything useful with me? Maybe something I could drink?>[1 AP] I'm afflicted by... something. What the hell is Glaciogenesis? Try to figure it out.>[3 AP] The flesh that kept us from untimely demise, does it reach out? Try to commune with its voice, if there is any. [Psionic-Resonant]#WilderVit 12 SP 12 CP 0DR 0AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:AliveDehydrated [-4 Stamina]Glaciogenesis II II [SC 9]-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Psionigenesis 10-!Psionic-Resonant.[Microslip Precognition] (Evade additional up to Focus)[Many Hands, Light Work]!Telekinetic (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients)[Temple Inviolate] (Manifest external features only)!Peace and love, man.If I'm missing rolls or I mess up too bad feel free to yell at me, all of this is kind of a bit overbearing at first.
Rolled 3 (1d6)>>6083715Right there under the pillow! Hey did you know you can actually use a biometric card like this, with a sharp edge, to cut Everetts ear off? Wow listening to the voices was a brilliant idea.Though it vaguely sounds like most of them are singing in steppe people click-tongue and one of them is offering commentary of a cycling event in Sweden. Which is interesting, albeit not useful because that voice just used the word 1906 so you need a more up to date sports commentator if you wish to make use of the voicely insight.But at least the bullet magnetism is easy. Your own brain is trying to kill you by making bullets come your way. Related news: it also works on bullet like projectiles, so you'll need to wipe that splatter of CHOCOLATE BEAN off of your face. >>6083716you might need to try something else, Oh Osiris, guardian of this vast underworld. Those ripthings, Kronin-strain all, growl and shift and breathe and claw at you feet and one of them sort of licks your boot.Which is all to say they're more "asleep, peacefully, very contented" than "dead". You could feasibly kill them first, but it might be an fight you're a little outnumbered to have. Try again, you can simply take another turn.>>6083717without r-reading the label? in THIS facility??That could be blueberry beans. That could be bluest beans. That could be the famous, fabled, nigh-mythic christmas cheese cake fruit cake onions bean mix.You have more guts than half the people in this elevator, Subject. That's a dangerous kind of on-the-edge, pop a can, slurp the slop sort of recklessness. What's next, burritors with the taste of burgers? In a CAN?
>>6083730It is overwhelming and vast. You'll learn quick. Don't worry - though if it helps you, we prefer not to yell around here, in all our various guises.Principally speaking, if the universe has to work really hard to figure out what it is you're trying to do, the universe defers to giving resolving your action 30 seconds and calling it a day. It's only ever going to be an issue if, random example, your action is>shoot the guys over there with the stuff I haveAnd let's be fair now, figuring out who, what, where, when, in what order, how much, at what target?? is a bit hard there!However, that said, please be assured that your actions and intention and activities are always at least looked at and we try to resolve it coherently. If you lack dice or miss a number or forget a trait, the extra is just rolled and generated and usually found via CTRL+F. Which is why by the way names go in the #XXX format, it makes searching very easy.And for stuff that's "attentive blips" - you walk 334, but that's a wall, and the universe can clearly see you meant 335, we just resolve it in your favour as much as possible.You're doing great, keep it up! Two turns without dying already takes you far ahead of the hundreds who die on turn 1!
Also, Subjects, it was unclear, but PHARAOH has turned the limiters off fully. You can spend 6 AP on your turn. Or less, if you'd like. It's more that you are doing quiet, light, quick things because the only dangers out here is the real estate value plummeting because the fleshwood doesn't make for very charming locale. Well, that, and you have apparently been out cold for an unknown amount of time and shapes pilfer through the dark and the distant alarm system is whispering what sounds remarkably like wake up or die and maybe there's a few more things happening in corners unseen than just that . . .
>>6083701>>6083697>Alright, enough dilly-dallying. Use my 2(!) MP and the rest of my AP to leave the comforts of this metal deathtrap. (ouchie, my actuators)
Rolled 6, 4, 2 = 12 (3d6)>>6083737In that case, I'll add>3AP: Overcome the Nanocytic Countersampling (Pluripotentiality 12?, Focus 1)to my actions, if I can.
Rolled 1, 6, 2 = 9 (3d6)>>6083731Still alive eh? Well then, let's deal with the dehydration issue which plagues the aristocrats. >Take up one of the shields, a few arrows, a few cans (preferably empty) and my bedsheet.>Locate a vein on the tree.>Remove a small amount of my filtering flesh to work into the coming device. >Tap into the vein with the arrowhead and funnel the "sap" through the cheesecloth sheet impregnated with my filtering flesh to tap a purified fluid from the tree into the cans. Dehydrated warriors fight poorly, as was known to all lords of the lands of sand and ash. From the flesh of Osiris would flow the river, small as it might be in this land. (Biomodulation 10 to extract fluid from the tree)
>>6083707Due to new information from >>6083737, adding to my turn:>3 AP, 3 MP: Begin moving to where I smell any water, or just outside if I can't smell any.
>>6083739And here's an updated sheet for good mesure.GalliumVit 8/12 SP 12/12 CP 6DR 4 AP 6 MP 3-1-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:AliveLeft Arm Crippled [II]Damaged Actuators [II II]-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Augmented Systemic [LOS] 10Electricity Modulators 12 [Focus+1, Stamina x3, Glitch 16)-Augmentic Extropian I[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications] [Meshlinked] [BioElectricity Manifolds]Cold and logical.EquipmentIn a state of flux.
>>6083745Spiderlass, Spiderlass, going to find some water fast.
Rolled 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 5 = 11 (6d6)>>6083697#AcolyteVit ??/12 SP ???12 CP 6 Aberrancy 3DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10 Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions: Battered- Physicality 10 Senses 9**Chems+4**Shared SensesThoughts 8 Mutability 11#Skill-!Biomodulation Strain #3 - Bound by Flesh 1- Regen 2!Craves Purpose!Social Pheromones> 3 AP: Emit pathing pheromones, so the sleeping packmates will know where we went when we wake up. (Senses 9 + Chems 4 + Focus One)> 3 AP: Recover my bone fractures (Health 12, Regen 2)> 3 Movement + Commit: Follow my pack, descend the ladder.>>6083674MmmrrrHweh Hwah. :’((Reapply for creative thinking exercises and janitorial staff internship. I.. I can be clever!Bias against the non verbal…)
Still in the facility, I guess. Where'd Trish find processed wood?>>60836973AP, 6CP: Upskil + Learn on the Job 2 for Shield 131TP: Grins, Alekson, grab some supplies. We're gonna see what's out there.
Rolled 1, 5, 6 = 12 (3d6)>>6083751TP action vs Senses 10
>>6083737All right, in that case I'll revise my turn as well.>3AP, crack open a can of BEANS and slurp down those juices (I know no fear)>1TP+3AP, start shaking, shouting, and bargaining the troopers awake (SupOp 10, Inspiring 1, 2x BEANS (Temptation beyond measure))#AmeliusVit 9/12 SP 7/7 CP 6DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 TP 1-Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Severely Dehydrated (-6 Stamax)Motivated 1 (+1 Stamax, Ineffable)-Physicality 10Senses 11Thoughts 10Support Operations 10Guns (Pistols) 12-!Inspiring Presence!Dreams of the Ocean-3x Cans of Beans1x Rifle reload
>>6083697Body feels productive and this place cramped.>[MP 3] Stagger out of Hellevator>[AP 1] Look for something to drink (Senses +8)>[AP 2] Figure out what's wrong with my Glands (Thoughts +8)>Apply for Sheer Violence Of Action#ChimeraVit 12 SP 9 CP 6DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 VP0-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Yes-Physicality 10Senses 8Thoughts 8Mutability 10Piercing Resistance 2#Skill-!Resilient Organs!Biomodulation Strain #3= Virulent Vitality +1= Bound by the Flesh!Relentless
>>6083730It appears to be - though the medical phenomena is ill described - the spontaneous manifestation of glacial formations and other ice structures. Try... not giving the world so much of a cold shoulder? It might stop happening. As for something useful, the only thing in your pockets, Subject Wilder, unfortunately appear a MULTI TOOL and you just can't ever get any use out of one of those. As for the trees?Oh the trees . . . They aren't thinking. But the thing that move among them in the dark forest? They are. Too faint too influence. It is really on their total cumulative energy you are sensing, but ah, it is certainly ... something.>>6083729All out of everything down at the sigma store, but hey, look, you've got this neat cape, so you've got that going for you, which is nice . . . >[1/2]
The world down below the ladder feels somehow more defined, more structured, more *real*, solid in the substance, as if the vast shadow of hours of frantic improvisation no longer holds sway over your mind like a haze.The terminals here are banged up and overgrown. Overgrown? Hm. the lights in the ceiling are covered in vines, the air takes on a green-tinged quality, slithering little creepers of more organic stuff grow like a new carpet. There's distant rustling. Actual rustling of grass.Subject Sigma, unprepared for the experience, touches grass. It's. . . not not pleasant.In the dim lights, here, below the prepared firing position in the elevator above, a few notes are scattered about the walls, pinned with whatever came to hand.From the north, distant humming of electricity.From the west?? Left?? DOWN?? THAT PATHWAY?? The area that scents of hunger mixed with food to acolytes sense, and not the icky no good don't go there twang of insect repellant, that area, a prowling pack of Kronin rip-things recently went a-hunting. --Osiris prepares a little incission into the trees that hold up the entire elevator, and in a more pervese universe if the first thing someone dies is stab the things that keep aloft the place you all sleep in then you would all immediately die when the fleshwood retracts from the sudden pain, but luckily, they make a resistance roll and you are not crushed to death by sudden change to the local landscape.>+1 CP: Don't Die On The Second Turn Challenge (IMPOSSIBLE), all Subjects.It seems the fleshy growth, RED and POINTY, are fleshwood? Woodflesh? Strange amalgamations of biological mass and cellulose and dead things and growing things and they have nerves and almost feel, though as Wilder can attest they aren't in any way thoughtful. They might be trees more prone to react to the physical world than the usual kind? Perhaps they even flinch when stabbed or tapped or when their precious sap is pulled from them.There are other trees too, down here. Some of the panelling on the corridors is cracked with it. The Brown stuff seems more mundane wood, less prone to sudden movement. It doesn't pulse either. Perhaps that stuff is more sensible sort of material?--Chimera gently hears, behind the low hum of enormously high energy capacity wiring, a... shout? a scream? a few soft pat pat pats. Was that a fight? a victory? It happened up out across the darkness that the singular wooden path leads over. Far beyond it.--Get your bearings, still. Breathe. Try to shake the loose, lingering sensation of sluggishness. WAKE UP, alright? Something is happening. Something is coming. What is a *great hunt* ?--subPHARAOH update:Applications recieved:ProcessingApplications approved:HandlingConfirm sign on of new janitorial members and test subjects: Success.--Samantha smells. . . something sickly sweet, cloying, almost. Not quite water. No water, in fact, in this place, as far as her senses are concerned.
Bit of a scarce commodity, that precious tasteless flowing fluid. In the hunting area, where a note says one of the walls is loose and to please seal it back up, the cloying sickness of some sugary substance tinged with chemicals abounds. One could probably drink that, if hardy enough.But subject Amelius, licking the inside of a can of beans with the taste of fruitcake, really wishes he had some water to clean out his mouth.Subject Gluttony, spitting more teeth from more broken cans, really wants to wash out the the taste of a can of bean lasagne. You need it. The wet stuff. The drying juices and almost-liquids from other things are too little, too low. Asleep for less than a week and longer than a day and the body hungers, the body needs. If there's any kind of "great hunt" going on around here, it's going to be your great hunt for a little bit of the precious drinkable stuff.Or... other things?-->WAKE UP!! Phase. That means you lot!>Things are still nice and quiet. Take a breather. Poke about. Check the landsacpe a little. We've got plenty of times before things get dramatic.>NOTE section updated.>JANITOR NOTE: PLEASE FIX THE UNIVERSAL UNDERPINNING HEX GRID, IT'S HARD TO SEE
>>6083799Try this.
>>6083800Thanks, very helpful. You can give yourself +3 CP.>JANITOR CASE CLOSED, THANKS.Something's gone a bit wrong with the underpinning of the entire universe, but it is being rectified. Don't feel bad if you cannot entirely see which tile you are in.
Rolled 4, 3, 1 = 8 (3d6)>>6083799GalliumVit 8/12 SP 12/12 CP 6DR 4 AP 6 MP 3-1-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:AliveLeft Arm Crippled [II]Damaged Actuators [II II]-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Augmented Systemic [LOS] 10Electricity Modulators 12 [Focus+1, Stamina x3, Glitch 16)-Augmentic Extropian I[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications] [Meshlinked] [BioElectricity Manifolds]Cold and logical.EquipmentIn a state of flux.Logic dictates that before going for any potentially dangerous moves, one should repair oneself. Structural integrity is the key to long-term survival.>[3 AP, and 3 AP to fully focus on it] Manifest some self-repair subroutines. Nanobots that locate damaged parts and fix them. The nanobots can act as both repairmen and raw materials for repairs. It'd be for the best for them to act passively, so that the host body remains able to move about while being repaired. (Health 12, 1 CP invested)
Rolled 3, 6, 1 = 10 (3d6)>>6083799>3 MP: Move 334 (I want to be in a corner)>6 AP, 8 CP, 6 SP: Manifest a change to Duplicity - I want to have a carapace (skin?) that's very hard if not impossible to see with the naked eye. (Duplicity 1 + 3 Concentration + 8 CP + 6 SP + Malichnid taxonomy) [vs 18 total]>Gain 1 CP (Creative Thinking Exercises)#Splendiferous Weaver of the Threads that bind the Squirming Prey Floundering in the Underneath (Samantha)Vit 12/12 SP 10->4/10 CP 8->0->1 VP 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Claws 12-Conditions:Dehydrated [-2 Stamina]Strucutral Misalignments II [+3 to any Bleed]-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Mutability 11-!Biomodulation Strain #3=Virulent Vitality (Regeneration 3)=Bound by the Flesh!Hungry
>>6083801>>6083800>>6083799The quick and quiet nature makes these initial actions easy to resolve. Note if any subjects were missed and didn't "get" to take an initial turn, you can simply take two turns, since this is not fast phases and Command has consistently promising NEXT WEEK.Maybe some people (NeoGenesis) were simply actually a true believer in honesty and so should not be punished unduly.
Rolled 6, 1, 3 = 10 (3d6)I see my bone fractures have not gone away. Perhaps I need to eat and drink something. The nutrition may help.#AcolyteVit 10/10 SP 1/10 CP 1DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10 Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions: Battered- Physicality 10 Senses 9**Chems+4**Shared SensesThoughts 8 Mutability 11#Skill-!Biomodulation Strain #3 - Bound by Flesh 1- Regen 2!Craves Purpose!Social Pheromones!Creative Thinking Exercise!Janitorial Intern> Regen 2, if it helps the bone fractures at all.> 6 AP, 9 SP, 7 CP, 3 Abberancy: Massively improve my Chems, as so to apply stronger and reliable buffs onto my precious pack. (Senses 9, Chems 4, CP 7, Abberancy 3, Concentration 12, total 35.)> 3 MP: Continue shambling after my pack mates, who seem to have smelled prey, and are displaying strong initiative.> Gain one CP at end turn (creative thinking)(Strikes me better to spend aberrancy sooner rather than later)Is this a jungle?Perhaps we can nest here…
Rolled 3, 5, 2 = 10 (3d6)#Dying Osiris ConsequencesVit 12/12 SP 10/12 CP 7DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive? Functional?Dehydrated:-Physicality 10Senses 09Thoughts 08#Mutability 10 [R3]#Conversion 10 (turns spare parts into CP)-!Augmentic 0 (inherited trait, from Donny O' Cork).!Biomodulation 0 (newlife)!Greywire Fragment - Distributed Processing Core!Descriptor - God of the Dead (thinks he's Osiris)>Disassemble Pharaoh's IO consoles and thread the wires within to fill my frame with an electromagnetic lattice to allow me to generate a magnetic field and grant me divine levitation. (Conversion 10 + 4 CP, can hang on my will or movement. While I'm currently using it to levitate Magneto style I'd like to be able to use the system to generate magnetic fields elsewhere in the future. Magneto-style).>Through mighty Pharaoh's sinews which now fill me ask wise Pharaoh to show me, and by extension the Aristocrats, what is seen through Pharaoh's eyes and ears in this forest-like place.
>>6083800>>6083816Minor correction For the turn to work, I should move and *then* manifest. Slight error borne of copy paste.My bad.
Rolled 3, 6, 3, 3, 5, 6 = 26 (6d6)>>6083800>/-/-/-/>ACTIONYBITS INNIT>/-/-/-/>Sign up for Sheer Violence of Action (repeat, but just making sure it was seen)MP2: Sit down on a tree rootAP3: MEDITATE on the HORRIFIC PAIN of the FIRE VULNERABILITY to try to find my STOLEN CP in the AETHER. [Thoughts 8, Focus 1]AP3: CHEW on my CAN O' BEANS, drinking of the LIGHT SYRUP that sustains all life in the DEEP BELOW. [Physicality 10, Teeth -3, Strength +2, Commit]RECOVER 3>/-/-/-/>INFOBITS INNIT>/-/-/-/Subject: #GluttonyVit 12 SP 10 CP 7DR 0 AP 6 MP 3>->Stats>-Health 12 (Regen 3) Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Conditions:Alive, Dehydrated, Loose Teeth, Tinnitus>->Skills>-Physicality 10[Loose Teeth -3, Reach 2][Strength +2]Senses 7[Shared Senses +1][Tinnitus -2]Thoughts 8Mutability 10Acid Glands [x2 Lethality Acid-EX]>->Traits>-!Biomodulation Strain #3[Virulent Vitality][Bound by the Flesh]!Wild-Eyed>->Inventory>-[Creative Thinking Exercises] Enrollee
>>6083816How do you move after taking a turn ending action, oh subject? Your turn would be over! You also have no Aberrancy, mores the pity, subject. You once were subject to a roll of Aberrancy that got a margin of +3, and adjusted some things that since passed. This was probably unclear, because you were buried in riot police at the time and eating your friends. In fact. . . Your regenerate helps not one with with the bone fractures, unfortunately. Or in a sense, your regeneration means that despite the bone fractures you are still alive? Unfortunately, removing conditions like that takes a few careful hours of surgery for most normal people and merely great medical care for someone like you. Or there's some other ways and means. Alas, Regeneration won't quite cut it.
>>6083816>>6083820>>6083823The Aberrancy accrued, tested itself, rolled some various dice in the background, and immediately resulted in you gaining Mutability +1 and becoming slightly more of a horrendously interesting intricate example of the joys of genetics by increasing your Bound by the Flesh trait.Which, since you're surely making inquires in your mind, imply that you can make changes to yourself that are harder than other, less powerful changelings. It pairs with the increase Mutability to allow a significantly larger array of adaptions, on account of how you devoured the heart of your similar kin.
>>6083800Raven, I'd appreciate it if you could stay and guard the... treehouse? I'm going to find Fox and Petri some help.>1TP, direct Raven to guard the base (SupOp 10, Inspiring 1)>3AP, grab the scragbow and arrows - it's pretty much the same as a gun, yeah? Point and shoot, too easy.>3MP, get me out of this nightmare box and walk me towards that woodchild village - I have beans to trade.>3AP, listen to the forest and observe the path I'm about to tread - what horrors await me? (Sense 11)#AmeliusVit 9/12 SP 7/7 CP 6DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 TP 1-Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Severely Dehydrated (-6 Stamax)Motivated 1 (+1 Stamax, Ineffable)-Physicality 10Senses 11Thoughts 10Support Operations 10Guns (Pistols) 12-!Inspiring Presence!Dreams of the Ocean-2x Cans of Beans1x Rifle reload1x Scragbow1x Arrow quiver (Barbs)
>>6083824Ah, I see, I seeIf any of you fine mutants die, I will happily eat your corpses too. It would be unsanitary to leave them to rot!……Is what I would say if Acolyte had the capacity.MmmrrRah!
Rolled 6, 2, 4 = 12 (3d6)>>6083799>CP 7->8 (Creative Thinking Exercises)>6AP, 9SP, 8CP: Manifest an improved ability to invade and take over anything that dares threaten my supremacy in the microcosm. (8CP, 12 Concentration, Lethality 1 if I can key it off that or Virality -8 if I can't)Let's try that again, shall we. I WILL have my throne back.#Bob the VirusCoherency 8/8 SP 0/9 CP 0Regeneration 2DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 10 Reaction 8 Will 10Virality -8 Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Pathogenic Analysis 8 (Virality -8)Nanocytic Countersampling 2 (Max Coherency -2)-Physicality 10Senses 9=Shared SightsThoughts 8Mutability 10=Exceeding +3Pluripotentiality 12 [Aura 3, Vector]-!Biomodulation Strain #3= Fleshshaping= Virulent Vitality= Bound by the Flesh!Overprotective
>>6083824>>6083823>>6083816Aberrancy, in fact, always tests against itself, spends itself immediately, and ruins your day. A changeling can no more build up reserves of Aberrancy than can change itself be stockpiled for later use.If you had a permanent Aberrancy Score of 3, you would be testing - at the end of every phase you act - to violently mutate in an uncontrolled way, and by now, you would be something entirely unrecognizable and mostly probably would have cannibalized your entire brain into more eyeballs or something equally mutagenic.Aberrancy, in fact, is not a thing that you - a subject - can really "interact with" at all, unless the situation is recklessly extreme. If it ever does appear on your sheet, it would be noted as Aberrancy, SC xx, indicating a self control roll against a value. Such rolls occur out of your control and are done by the world to simulate you managing to maintain control of yourself in a horrendously difficult situation. On a failure (or if the "thing" wins in some cases), you are forced to do things you might not want to do.So.>>6083816You will need to do another turn, for this is impossible in multiple ways. It's quite alright, there was a *lot* going on.If you ever see yourself (or anyone else) noting Aberrancy +2 or +3 or +6, that is a facility note declaring than an Aberrancy *test* happened and accrued that amount of total cumulative effect. If you ever see Aberrancy +8, or really any number higher than five, spend 6 SP to immediately take more actions and *RUN IN THE OTHER DIRECTION*.
Rolled 1, 3, 3 = 7 (3d6)>>6083833Got it boss.#AcolyteVit 10/10 SP 1/10 CP 1DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10 Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions: Battered- Physicality 10 Senses 9**Chems+4**Shared SensesThoughts 8 Mutability 11#Skill-!Biomodulation Strain #3 - Bound by Flesh 1- Regen 2!Craves Purpose!Social Pheromones!Creative Thinking Exercise!Janitorial Intern> Regen 2, which does not terribly help but does make me feel better.> 3 MP: Jog after my pack mates, who seem to have smelled prey, and are displaying strong initiative.> 6 AP, 9 SP, 7 CP: Massively improve my Chems, as so to apply stronger and reliable buffs onto my precious pack. (Senses 9, Chems 4, CP 7, Concentration 12, total 32.)> Gain one CP at end turn (creative thinking)Raah!
Rolled 1, 6, 4 = 11 (3d6)>>6083674>Sign up for: Creative Thinking Exercises>>6083697>3AP: Firmly grip my flashlight in hand>3AP+3MP: Leave this deathtrap treehouse elevator>>6083797(CP is 8)>6AP: Focusing, Augmented Systemics 10+4CP calling on Resiliant Streak! Trait-> Can I manifest a nanomachine subroutine to repair damaged systems and make them thougher?>>6083800#NeoGenesisVit 12/12 SP 12/12DR 3 AP 6 MP 3CP 4 VP 0-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Augmented Systemics 10-!Augmentic-Extropian[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications] [Jolt Chargers]!Resilient Streak-Equipment:Nice CapPistol, +5 reloadsFlashlightBatonExperimental VialSling bag: 4x Can O' Beans, 4x Energy Bar's
>>6083799 >Approach the loose wall to the hunting grounds. (Move - 2 MP)> Push open then squeeze through the barricade leading into the hunting grounds (Minor Action & Adroit - 1AP & 1 MP) > Tentatively proceed further down the path, circumventing any obvious hazards and pitfalls (Move - 3 MP)> Be ready to evade if set upon by hostile entities lurking beyond the treeline (Reaction - 5AP)
>>6083800>[3 MP] Leave the elevator.>[3 AP + 3 AP Concentrating] Meditate and focus your psionic energies to generate some kind of ice pillar from your body. [Focus 1, Thoughts 8, Psionigenesis 10, Glaciogenesis II II].Hopefully this doesn't destroy me instantly, would be great to deal with everyone's dehydration problem.#WilderVit 12 SP 12 CP 1DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:AliveDehydrated [-4 Stamina]Glaciogenesis II II [SC 9]-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Psionigenesis 10-!Psionic-Resonant.[Microslip Precognition] (Evade additional up to Focus)[Many Hands, Light Work]!Telekinetic (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients)[Temple Inviolate] (Manifest external features only)!Peace and love, man.-Inventory:Multi Tool.-
Rolled 4 + 3 (1d6 + 3)>>6083873Whoops, dropped these. At least, I think I'm supposed to roll here?
>TP: Squad, get on these terminals and figure out what this room was for. What was it doing before whatever this is? Thought 10>3MP: Leave the house>Compare arrows SW to the ones in the bucket. Same? Thought 10>Investigate bark and teal stuff S. Senses 11>Think: How detached is detached for Cool Under Fire? Is a single trooper receiving orders detached? Or do they have to leave my command range?
>>60838753d6 without modifiers but list your modifiers in the action (as you did). [Psionigenesis 10, Focus 1, Concentration 3] probably, but I don't really get what all goes into a roll either.
>>6083897Huh, okay. I just took the example in the tutorial image (uses only 1d6 from attacking +3 from concentrating). Will keep this in mind for the future.(New ID is from me phoneposting in bed, gomen.)
Rolled 5, 6, 2, 5, 6, 2 = 26 (6d6)>6083799Those sounds tell things and sightlines in this place are limited to say at least.>[MP 3] NW, N, NW>[AP 3] Peer to other side of this wire mess maybe i can see something (Senses +8)>[AP 3] Manifest more Keen and Larger ears like those of the animals outside to better hear and locate movement (CP 7 + Senses 8)>Apply for Sheer Violence Of Action#ChimeraVit 12 SP 9 CP 7DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 VP0-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Yes-Physicality 10Senses 8Thoughts 8Mutability 10Piercing Resistance 2#Skill-!Resilient Organs!Biomodulation Strain #3= Virulent Vitality +1= Bound by the Flesh!Relentless
Rolled 6, 1, 1 = 8 (3d6)>>6083799>Sign up for the Creative Thinking Exercise: "yes, friend computer, I am *very* creative...what...? What do you mean all I do is dread and entropy, entropy and dread...? Get new material...? You're hurting my feelings, friend computer...">MP: get out of this treehouse. Oh and bring the empty bean can. We'll need it.>6 AP: Recover. Or, rather, attempt to subvert the Distracting Voices by filtering out the most "unhelpful" ones. Maybe something of value will remain? (Psychogenesis 10 + 3)#NadirVit 12/12 SP 10/10 CP 7 VP 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive!DehydratedDistracting Voices II IIBullet Magnet II-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8#Psychogenesis 10 [Anxiety Churn 2, Aura Close)-!Psionic-Resonant 1 [Microslip Precognition] (Evade additional up to Focus) [Many Hands, Light Work] !Telekinetic 1 (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients) [Temple Inviolate] (only Manifest External)!Existential Dread!Shared Sights
Rolled 3, 1, 6 = 10 (3d6)>>6083797>+1 CP From Creative Thinking Exercises last turn>+1 CP For this turn>Move 61>6AP Manifest "Let Me Break It Down For You". When observing a dance within the LMBIDFY field, observers are compelled to join in, taking psychic damage. (vs 3+4CP+Psychogenesis 11 = 18)#Subject SigmaVit 12/12 SP 10/10 CP 5DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8#Psychogenesis 11-!Incurable Brainrot!Telekinetic+1(Ranged Phys, Mind)!Psionic-Resonant(Eva+, External)
>>6083797 Sargeant GroneVit 12 SP 10/10 (12) CP 0DR 0AP 6 MP 3 TP 1-Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive-Physicality 10Senses 11 (-2 Visual)Thoughts 10Harass 10-!Mean Wolfpack!Loves His Job!Don't Let UpTHERE'S PURGING TO BE DONE AND OVERTIME TO CLOCK, Wake up wake up wake-> Wake up and DODGE THE INCOMING SWIPE that yellow thing just *TWITCHED* HOLY JESUS> ADROIT: dive through the tower of cans (physical 10)> MINOR/Pockets: Fumble for a weapon (senses? 11)> MAJOR/Move and Do: scramble down the ladder screaming ambush (harass-10 mark tarkets)
>>6084182With two T's, as he says, for a twin taste of this pimping.
Slight minor interference, turn roughly 12 hours from this point.
>>6083903>>6083897It’s simple alchemy (A lie).A 3d6 vs governing skill or quality usually, lower is better. Sometimes, Lethality and Focus and Duplicity and Alacrity and Virality and Authority and other STUFF helps, but it doesn’t always factor.Concentrate and such things raise the target, so Physicality 11 Concentration 2 you’re checking against 13. Two quick differences:“ Flip a table “ Physicality 7“ Break this Guards Arm “ Physicality 7 Lethality 63d6 for both (it’s always 3d6), but for the table flipping being more lethal doesn’t help directly whereas for the part where one does violence it very much would and the world would treat the check as against 13 (7+6), because being more lethal makes the breaking easier.Admittedly this can make odds estimates a little hard, but it’s why we use 3d6. If your target is 10ish, it’s a coinflip, at 12ish you’ll be okay and at 14ish and higher you’re in the 90%+ range.Another way to look at it is to think of it as compositions of BASE + TRAIT + MODS.Take our Wilder, who tries to use Psychogenesis (10). It’s a 3d6 vs 10, and he gets to benefit from + 1 for his Focus and + 1 for easy access to a Glaciogenesis tap, which, while it actually is a negative condition, makes his acts easier here. Total target: 12.We can’t use Thoughs 8 simultaneously because he’s not thinking about ice or ice related things or making someone think about it. Though interestingly this action did have a quick additional Thoughts rolled attached to gauge precision, so listing it was coincidentally lucky ( Command would have had to go look at the sheet otherwise, which takes 10 more seconds, which is nothing, but with 17 Subjects it’s 170 seconds aggregate so…)Anyway, 3d6 vs a base, then usually you get a few positive modifications for situations, traits and things to hand.The rules are coy about this because there’s no need to make people hyperfocus on bonus acquisitions right now, but at least you can rest assured most of your actions actually have slight better odds of success than you fear.So yeah, 3d6 vs target which you usually get from a skill or attribute then sometimes we add a little more bonus from particular traits which is why it’s so helpful when you list them. Thanks.
Rolled 5, 1, 1 = 7 (3d6)>>6084470The fog clears and everything makes sense now. Appreciate the writeup! Attached should be the actual dice now, apologies for any inconvenience this all might have caused.
>>6084509Beginner's luck.
A soothing metallic voice rings out of a nearby terminal, tinged with a top of anxiety that it somehow communicates with a warbling and a digitized little lingering sub-chime.SUBJECTS.LISTEN TO ME.YOU HAVE TO IMMEDIATEL--The line cuts out and the voice dies
Orisis rips some wires out of a nearby terminal and destroys every other terminal within immediate reach by starting the irreversible process by which they get converted to available spare material. Any available janitorial assistants receive a new HIGH PRIORITY mission form the autonomous systems
A Sgt(?) snaps awake and immediately realizes this is HOSTILE TERRITORY there are BEASTS EVERYWHERE he is UNARMED they want the JUICES IN HIS HEAD it is time to MOVE MOVE MOVE MOVE MOVE and in a flurry of beans, he throws himself out of the doorway.Very tactical.The nearby Ripthing, unfurling to its feet, mrews in confusion. It was only licking his boot because it was tasty.
>>6084742>DO something!No, I don't think I shall.I shall Cultivate.
Waking up, stretching, rolling to their feet, in some cases suddenly, the Subjects gradually fan out. Eat cans. Check terminals. Try to locate missing members of a hunting pack. The environment sings with a soft vibration of pulsating life. Little crunches underfoot from things that could be leaves. Wood and roots poke through the sterile corridor walls, panels displaced, light fixtures cracked by the pressure of nature. Sometimes, the hardened and resilient facility interior remains triumphant against the encroachment of life. Sometimes, life wins.Everett and Acolyte scamper down a side-path and push open a heavy bit of wall which swings easily enough. Roots and other things have conspired to hang it at an angle, and with a little bit of pushing, it works like a clever, concealed door. The area beyond is strange. Clearly, some kind of corridor, once, but now it hums with the activity of a million mishapen insects, a vending machine has spilled its delectable innards all over the ground and a thick, soupy mass of miscoloured liquid seeps slowly across the ground. Bushes rustle. More plants here than the usual decoration. Most of them seem untended.--Chimera spots a OH NO OH GODS OH NO OH FUCK OH SHIT OH NO NOT THAT NOT THAT ANYTHING BUT THAT somewhere beyond the fronds and verdant bits of life falling from the ceilling.--Samantha can just about see a placid looking clearing, beyond a section of wall that looks a little more wooden than most. It might be possible for someone very flexible to squeeze through.--Wildeer concentrates and tries to draw moisture from the air and the earth and condense it into a cool, refreshing drink, and soft mist swirls around their limbs. This place is so *dry*. The air fairly sparks with lack of humidity. But still, he manages. Look: Cool, clear ice-crystals...> STAND BY FOR YAWNING PHASE
Gluttony manifests his support for the Throne. Unwashed drug dealer and single mom ripthings should not decide the fate of cultivators. The constitution cannot guarantee my right to vending machine snacks - it is a feckless scrap of paper. Only the King's honorbound promise to his knights can protect my rights.
Chimera spots him.Luckily, the dense vegetation, darkness, fronds and grass and strands and pulsating fleshwoodmeat means the God does not spot Chimera.There it is. Long memories of failed tests and burned friends and the tang of chemicals. Sanitation Officer. In locked rooms on bad days when the curriculum shifted and the overseers were harsh and things went bad, these little godlings in their yellow'd armor with their glaring green eyes would pry you apart. Pry your friends apart. Burn things. Bleach them. Salt the earth. Inflict horror unmentionable and destruction unmatched.The Hazard Operations Group Chimera and the others fought on the floors above (how far above?) were just underlings wearing illfitting hastily thrown on chemical defenses and masks, scrambled security officers to try and control specimens run rampant.This man?This. . . *thing* . . . It is a Professional.And every hair in Chimera's body raises rigid in horror-shock when its insectile mask briefly turns towards Chimera's hiding place
Straining senses, Chimera can pick up the soft mumbling of two out of their depth security officers and one harsh buzzing voice that comes over a very, very effective mask so good at separating the boundaries between inside and outside that the voice has to be provided by a digitized external unit.
Chimera flinches further into hiding as the Sanitation Officer spins on his teammates and his buzzing, digitized voice kicks it up a notch - one of them just sneezed and the spray of goblets and gunk practically writhes across the floor.With a heavy, thundering sigh that the systems in his suit boosts to high pitched levels, the Sanitation officer activates his burn turrets and begins to wander away. The pair of security guards, one looking decidedly more pale than the other, linger a moment longer before heading in another direction. Likely towards some sort of hospital or isolation ward.
Bob shakes off the first probing scouts of the nanocytic countermeasures, though the cost is gruelling. The headaches, shivers and dizziness that washes over everyone is sign of intense warfare happening in a realm beyond the senses.--Grins and Alekson check the terminals but they're no good. PHARAOH seemed to have important messages to convey, but this place is too overgrown and Osiris destroyed all the functional uplinks. You'll have to find some other way to communicate with the MESH systems.--Sgt Grone flicks his new knife through the air, triumphant. --A small pack of Ripthings roll down the ladder with remarkable grace and follow the trail of COME HERE chemicals that Acolyte has left, though, to their despair, all they find is 21% of Acolyte's body in the form of a severed arm and most of her upper torso in a pile of chemicals that indicate intense horror. Following the COME HERE trail further into the undergrowth, an unseen murderous striker lunghes from the dark and a Ripthing disappears in a sudden blur of movement.The other three stop short and flick their fangs at the world. This place does reek of INTENSE DANGER. --Wilder concentrates and focuses and almost loses his concenration when a powerful urge to do the worm comes over them, but preservering, a small glob of crystaline ice gradually accumulates in front of their hands. Pure, clean and cold. What a wonder.-->WAKING PHASE, that's you lot!>SUBJECT ACOLYTE IS MISSING
Rolled 5, 1, 6, 5, 3, 2 = 22 (6d6)>>6084783>/-/-/-/>ACTIONYBITS INNIT>/-/-/-/Gluttony focuses on the ringing deep within his head. Its high pitched droning is like a clarion bell for his meditation. Multitudes of scrittering democrats and the encroachment of FLAME VULNERABILITY PAIN will not distract him from his Cultivating.He feels the imbalance of his Qi. His iron reinforced teeth are no doubt weakened by the Wood Dao in this place is suppressing the Metal Dao fengshui. He will take in the Wood Dao to his Qi cycle and begin to move it about to maximize the Metal fengshui and heal his teeth.AP3: GROW - Wood Dao roots extend from my body into the ground, becoming one with the mycelium network and extending beyond my body to take in water and nutrients. The rasping thirst and churning hunger in my gullet will subside through force of will. [Mutability 10, Focus 1]AP3: GROW - Feel the Metal all around me with my roots, encasing me. Take in the Metal Dao and regrow my teeth. [Health 12, Lethality 1, Commit]RECOVER 3 >/-/-/-/>INFOBITS INNIT>/-/-/-/Subject: #GluttonyVit 12 SP 11 CP 8DR 0 AP 6 MP 3>->Stats>-Health 12 (Regen 3) Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Conditions:Alive, Dehydrated, Loose Teeth, Tinnitus>->Skills>-Physicality 10[Loose Teeth -3, Reach 2][Strength +2]Senses 7[Shared Senses +1][Tinnitus -2]Thoughts 8Mutability 10Acid Glands [x2 Lethality Acid-EX]>->Traits>-!Biomodulation Strain #3[Virulent Vitality][Bound by the Flesh]!Wild-Eyed>->Initiatives>-[Creative Thinking Exercises] Enrollee
>>6084783> Move over to the glowing green rectangle a little further down the path. Presumably some kind of toppled vending machine. Still mostly sealed by the looks of it. (Move - 2MP)> Pick up one of the blue things scattered across the path, seemingly having been disgorged from the nearby broken vending machine. (Minor Action - 1AP)> Peer inside of the other vending machines, the ones which haven't been broken into. Take stock of their contents and compare it against the object picked up off the ground. (3AP - Test and Try)> Remain vigilant. Be prepared to evade in the event that something attempts to ambush me. (React - 2AP 1MP)
>>6084783>3 MP, 3 AP: Move 166, 655>3 AP: Defend>Gain 1 CP (Creative Thinking Exercises)Samantha##BigSpiderEnergy#Splendiferous Weaver of the Threads that bind the Squirming Prey Floundering in the Underneath (Samantha)Vit 12/12 SP 2/8 CP 1->2 VP 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Claws 12-Conditions:Very Dehydrated [-4 Stamina]Strucutral Misalignments II [+3 to any Bleed]-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Mutability 11-!Biomodulation Strain #3=Virulent Vitality (Regeneration 3)=Bound by the Flesh!HungryPrimary Taxonomy: Malichnid
>>6084783Hello, woodchildren? I come bearing BEANS - beans for trade!>3MP, move 3SE and adroit through the door (Physicality 10)>3AP, defend>3AP, THINK - what could a woodchild be? Perhaps I knew once, before the facility (Thoughts 10)#AmeliusVit 9/12 SP 7/7 CP 7DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 TP 1-Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Severely Dehydrated (-6 Stamax)Motivated 1 (+1 Stamax, Ineffable)-Physicality 10Senses 11Thoughts 10Support Operations 10Guns (Pistols) 12-!Inspiring Presence!Dreams of the Ocean-2x Cans of Beans1x Rifle reload1x Scragbow1x Arrow quiver (Barbs)
Rolled 4, 5, 6, 6, 6, 4 = 31 (6d6)>>6084783GalliumVit 8/12 SP 12/12 CP 6DR 5 AP 6 MP 3-1-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:AliveLeft Arm Crippled [II]Damaged Actuators [II II]-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Augmented Systemic [LOS] 10Electricity Modulators 12 [Focus+1, Stamina x3, Glitch 16)-Augmentic Extropian I[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications] [Meshlinked] [BioElectricity Manifolds] [Compensators 2]Cold and logical.EquipmentIn a state of flux."Hostile, last spotted in the hunting grounds. Initiating retrieval of Subject Acolyte. Assistance required.">-Activate Compensators, pay 2 SP, get 2 health back, ignore the fried actuators.>[3 AP] Generate electricity, preemptively charge my metal parts to shock any would-be ambushers. (Electricity Modulators 12)>Move 655>[3 AP, reaction] Preparing to fire a stunning bolt of lightning at any hostile predators. Especially the one that grabbed Acolyte. (Electricity Modulators 12)
Rolled 3, 2, 5 = 10 (3d6)>>6084783>[3 AP] Consume part of your ice sphere to introduce some much needed liquid into your system.>[3 MP] Move S, SW, SW.>[3 AP, Reaction] Prepare to throw your ice ball to any hostile organisms that jump out, don't want to end up like Acolyte. (Psiogenesis 10, Telekinetic).The ice-man cometh.#WilderVit 12 SP 12 CP 1DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:AliveDehydrated [-4 Stamina]Glaciogenesis II II [SC 9]-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Psionigenesis 10-!Psionic-Resonant.[Microslip Precognition] (Evade additional up to Focus)[Many Hands, Light Work]!Telekinetic (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients)[Temple Inviolate] (Manifest external features only)!Peace and love, man.-Inventory:Multi Tool.-
Rolled 6, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4 = 23 (6d6)>>6084783Wha-#AcolyteVit 10/10 SP 1/10 CP 1DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10 Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions: Battered- Physicality 10 Senses 9**Chems+4**Shared SensesThoughts 8 Mutability 11#Skill-!Biomodulation Strain #3 - Bound by Flesh 1- Regen 2!Craves Purpose!Social Pheromones!Creative Thinking Exercise!Janitorial InternHelp! Help!> Regen 2> 3 AP: Become staggeringly unappealing to devour- that is, poisonous. (Mutability 11, Duplicity 1)> 3 AP: Spew our pheromones begging for help. Help! Help! (???, Evolution?)What the actual-How is this thing hurting worse than *guns*!?
>>6084821I guess my CP is now 2, now that it helps much.
Rolled 1, 6, 1 = 8 (3d6)>>6084783"Hm...so you can do that, Wilder? Let's see...">+1 CP>6 AP: create ice ball (Psychogenesis 10 + 3, Focus)#NadirVit 12/12 SP 10/10 CP 8 VP 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive!DehydratedDistracting Voices II IBullet Magnet II-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8#Psychogenesis 10-!Psionic-Resonant 1 [Microslip Precognition] (Evade additional up to Focus) [Many Hands, Light Work] !Telekinetic 1 (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients) [Temple Inviolate] (only Manifest External)!Existential Dread!Shared Sights-Equipment:Biometric Card
The subject leaves subject-town to prowl a little further, and a lightning strike finds a pair of predators already half through their newest, most succulent meal.Gluttony, the glutton, leeches some nutrients from distant root systems, and though they try, they do not overcome his innate defenses. Close run, though! These things are also loaded with interesting virals, they might not like giving up their precious molecules!Amelius squeezes through a tight gap and brushes away some undergrowth. The doors are in a state. Activating the switch would likely have gone nowhere good. And beyond a... open space? The smell of cook fires? sweat? what seems almost like structures, in the gloom, and the sound of voices. But they're raised in alarm!!And in front of Amelius, on the thickly grown grass and other plant matter, two dead forms have fresh green-stained wounds as blunt weaponry have crushed their fragile, bark-like skulls >WAKING PHASE>**ALL SUBECTS** can take a new turn; no hostiles are doing anything they wouldn't like to keep doing, and this is still light activity and simple things. [1/2]
>>6084829>3Move 333>6AP Head toward the southern area with the roots and meadow?+1 CP From Creative Thinking Exercises#Subject SigmaVit 12/12 SP 10/10 CP 6DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8#Psychogenesis 11-!Incurable Brainrot!Telekinetic+1(Ranged Phys, Mind)!Psionic-Resonant(Eva+, External)
Rolled 2, 1, 5 = 8 (3d6)>>6084829#AcolyteVit ??//10 SP 0/2 CP 3DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10 Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions: AAAH- Physicality 10 Senses 9**???**Shared SensesThoughts 8 Mutability 11#Skill-!Biomodulation Strain #3 - Bound by Flesh 1- Regen 2!Craves Purpose!Social Pheromones!Creative Thinking Exercise!Janitorial Intern> Regen 2 (aaaaah)> AP 6 (Buff my allied pack mates with pheromones when they attack. Senses 9 + ??? + concentration 3 + duplicity 1)
Rolled 3, 4, 6, 1, 4, 5 = 23 (6d6)>>6084829#GalliumVit 10/12 SP 10/12 CP 6DR 5 AP 6 MP 3-1-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:AliveLeft Arm Crippled [II]Damaged Actuators [II II]-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Augmented Systemic [LOS] 10Electricity Modulators 12 [Focus+1, Stamina x3, Glitch 16)-Augmentic Extropian I[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications] [Meshlinked] [BioElectricity Manifolds] [Compensators 2]Cold and logical.EquipmentIn a state of flux."I will attempt to get closer. Please cover me.">-Activate Compensators, pay 2, compensate for the actuators.>[3 AP] Charge my metallic part for defensive purposes. These creatures hunt with metal blades, so this should serve as an adequate defense. (Electricity Modulators 12)>Move 611>[3 AP] Attempt to shock the creature pinning Acolyte. Use a non-lethal amount of charge, to avoid frying Acolyte along with the root crawler. (Electricity Modulators 12, Focus 1]
Rolled 5, 2, 4, 5, 6, 1 = 23 (6d6)>>6084829>/-/-/-/>ACTIONYBITS INNIT>/-/-/-/Gluttony keeps his eyes closed, but slowly rises into a graceful Tai Chi pose, and begins to groove it to Sigma's bassline. When the bass drops, he will pop his hips back and forth to the beat. Brain rot +1.AP1: the roots are resisting! STOP RESISTING! I designate them as a foe with extreme violence of action!AP4: Beat the roots into submission with a surge of Wood Dao! [Mutability 10, Focus 1, Concentration 1]AP4: Force the subdued roots to give up their delicious molecules to heal me even as I groove. [Health 12, Lethality 1, Concentrate 1]Recover 3>/-/-/-/>INFOBITS INNIT>/-/-/-/Subject: #GluttonyVit 12 SP 11 CP 9DR 0 AP 6 MP 3>->Stats>-Health 12 (Regen 3) Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Conditions:Alive, Dehydrated, Loose Teeth, Tinnitus>->Skills>-Physicality 10[Loose Teeth -2, Reach 2][Strength +2]Senses 8[Shared Senses +1][Tinnitus -1]Thoughts 8Mutability 10Acid Glands [x2 Lethality Acid-EX]>->Traits>-!Biomodulation Strain #3[Virulent Vitality][Bound by the Flesh]!Wild-Eyed>->Initiatives>-[Creative Thinking Exercises] Enrollee[Extreme Violence of Action] I think
Rolled 2, 4, 2 = 8 (3d6)>>6084829>3 MP, 1 AP: Move 561 2>5 AP: Attack the Feral Root Crawler at my 1 with my Claws (Claws 12 + Lethality 1 + 2 Concentration) [vs 15 total]>Gain 1 CP (Creative Thinking Exercises)#Splendiferous Weaver of the Threads that bind the Squirming Prey Floundering in the Underneath (Samantha)Vit 12/12 SP 2/8 CP 2->3 VP 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Claws 12-Conditions:Very Dehydrated [-4 Stamina]Strucutral Misalignments II [+3 to any Bleed]-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Mutability 11-!Biomodulation Strain #3=Virulent Vitality (Regeneration 3)=Bound by the Flesh!HungryPrimary Taxonomy: Malichnid
Amelius isn't ENTIRLEY sure what these Wood Children are about, but he makes a few educated guesses and thinks it might be something like this?Further THOUGHTS and INVESTIGATION is likely to uncover the truth of the matter more precisely, as intelligence accrues and the veil of ignorance lifts[2/2]Carry on!
>>6084829> Attempt to smash open the glass display panel on vending machine containing the precious soda and lay claim to its carbonated bounty. (Test and try - 6AP)> This process will probably be noisy. Be mindful of your surroundings and be ready to dodge. (React - 3MP)
>>6084829Woodfriend, I don't think you heard me - I come bearing beans. *Beans*, savory and del- wait, that's a lot of corpses. Let me help you out!>3MP, move up next to the Wooden One - loud enough not to startle him>3AP, make friendly contact, offering up a can of beans in good faith (Thoughts 10? That's kind of a diplomatic stat?>3AP+4SP, aim, ready, and fire an arrow at whatever is killing Wooden Ones - action speaks louder than... well, an insurmountable language barrier! (Lethality 11 + ?Acc)#AmeliusVit 9/12 SP 3/7 CP 7DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 TP 1-Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Severely Dehydrated (-6 Stamax)Motivated 1 (+1 Stamax, Ineffable)-Physicality 10Senses 11Thoughts 10Support Operations 10Guns (Pistols) 12-!Inspiring Presence!Dreams of the Ocean-2x -> 1x Cans of Beans1x Rifle reload1x Scragbow1x Arrow quiver (Barbs)
Rolled 5, 4, 5 = 14 (3d6)>>6084829>[2 MP] Move SW, NW.>[3 AP + 3 AP Concentration] Try to form ice spears using the Root Crawler on the left's own fluids, skewering it from the inside. [Glaciogenesis II II, Lethality 1].No one messes with my friends.#WilderVit 12 SP 10 CP 1 -> 2DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:AliveDehydrated [-4 Stamina]Glaciogenesis II II [SC 9]-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Psionigenesis 10-!Psionic-Resonant.[Microslip Precognition] (Evade additional up to Focus)[Many Hands, Light Work]!Telekinetic (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients)[Temple Inviolate] (Manifest external features only)!Peace and love, man.-Inventory:Multi Tool.-
Rolled 4, 2, 2, 1, 6, 3 = 18 (6d6)>>6084829Missed turn:>+1CP>6AP: Recover Stamina (Health 10, Concentration 3)This turn>+1CP>6AP: Infect the corpses of the woodfleshchildren near Amelius. Study the workings of their biology, read their genetic material, learn how their certainly irregular nervous system works, where memories and other things are stored and whether I can read their language center to learn the words they use, focus especially on learning how the inactive remnants of their immune system would have fought off my microscopic enemies (Thoughts 8, Focus 1, Concentration 3)Command, it only just occurred me, the Exceeding trait I had manifested last map was a Virality buff. Did I lose it too in my dormancy?#Bob the VirusCoherency 6/6 SP 0/9 CP 2Regeneration 2DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 10 Reaction 8 Will 10Virality -6 Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Pathogenic Analysis 6 (Virality -6)Nanocytic Countersampling 4 (Max Coherency -4)-Physicality 10Senses 9=Shared SightsThoughts 8Mutability 10=Exceeding +3Pluripotentiality 12 [Aura 3, Vector]-!Biomodulation Strain #3= Fleshshaping= Virulent Vitality= Bound by the Flesh!Overprotective
Rolled 2, 4, 3, 3, 5, 1, 3, 4, 5 = 30 (9d6)>>6083818Arright, Notorious D-O-C. I got orders to incapacitate you, which means you got two options: a fight with all the janitors, or I put you under strict terms on Cold Bone probation. You can decide while we whack you a bit to keep Pharaoh happy.>>6084829We're still limited to 3AP, right?>1AP: Mark Osiris, Sense 11>3MP: Move to Osiris>5AP: Grapple Osiris, Physicality 10+2>1TP: Vandal! Whackem, guys! Physicality 10+Pile In 1+CUF 1Vitality 7 Stamina 10 Tactical 1DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 6Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Conditions:Alive-Physicality 10Senses 10Thoughts 10Shield 13#Small Unit Tactics 10-!Cool Under Fire: +[TP] to resist Decohesion and Breaks, and when directing detached units. Minor: specify and mitigate a situation complicating an ally's task.!Not by Numbers: Detached troops have higher crit and reroll crit mishaps. Decohesion and Breaks make them chaotic.!Clear Voice!Janitor InternRiot Shield (E) Pistol, 2 reloadsBaton (E)
>>6084898disregard AP question.
>>6084864>>6084829Ah, I thought Sheer Violence of Action granted +3 AP rather than x2 lethality. Consider the extra AP to be SP instead.>>6084875May Heaven give me the strength to resist these temptations. True citrusy refreshment comes from cycling our Qi.
Sallying forth, Gallium leads the western group in a heroic counter-offensive to reclaim missing acolytes and other things; shocking explosions of surging electricity mixing with a spiking growth of sharp icicles formed from Acolyte's blood and other fluids.--In the shadow of the elevator, Sundae arrests a VANDAL MISCREANT and the the Automated Janitorial Systems thank him and his deputies profusely , but the gratitude is somewhat undercut by the rumbling and shaking and rain of dust and debris... Is... is the elevator... shuddering?Is this a safe place to be?--Everett bashes open a vending machine to get at th treasure within. A thousand cans of thousand colours, and all the carbonated fizzy drunk that emperors could desire. Other hunters glare at his take, jealous.--Amelius and Sigma makes interpretive dance diplomatic gestures! -->STAND BY FOR YAWNING PHASE
The ferocious attack destroys one scuttling root crawler and the other flees. One ripthing pulls Acolyte away and licks them to make sure they're alright. Relatively straight forward rescue operation.In the distance, a sentry gleams.We've found our missing subject! Good work people!--Subject Gluttony goes missing! We've lost another one, people!--Subject Aolyte can see their own arm, wriggling, on the ground. Luckily, for some people, losing and finding limbs is fairly straight forward business. What a unique experience, though.>DISMEMEBERED. WOW. HOW FUN. +2 CP, Acolyte.-->WAKING PHASE>THAT MEANS YOU LOT>ETA 18+ Hours.
>>6084958"Huh...guess creating things isn't my forte after all...Oh, well, it's really tiny, but it's not nothing!">1 AP: pop the tiny piece of ice in my mouth.>3 MP, 2 AP: Move 555 55>3 AP: !Telekinesis, scoop up several soft drink cans."Everett, was it? Good work...now, if you don't mind..."#NadirVit 12/12 SP 10/10 CP 8 VP 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive!DehydratedDistracting Voices II IBullet Magnet II-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8#Psychogenesis 10-!Psionic-Resonant 1 [Microslip Precognition] (Evade additional up to Focus) [Many Hands, Light Work] !Telekinetic 1 (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients) [Temple Inviolate] (only Manifest External)!Existential Dread!Shared Sights-Equipment:Biometric Card
Rolled 4, 6, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 3, 1 = 22 (9d6)>>6084958>/-/-/-/>ACTIONYBITS INNIT>/-/-/-/WAH-TA-TA-TA!! Gluttony drops his can of beans, because it's time for the can of WHOOP ASS. These roots will be shown their place in the ecosystem! I wriggle dance a dance of combat Tai Chi against the knot of roots.AP1: Secrete Acid onto the roots grappling me.AP3: Physically attack the roots with my hands and teeth! [Physicality 10, Teeth -1, Strength 2, Lethality 2]AP2 SP2: Spiritually attack the roots with my Wood Dao! [Mutability 10, Lethality 2, Concentration 1]SP5: Forcibly take oxygen from the roots, storing it within my blood and muscles. In exchange, I give to it my carbon dioxide and some of my carbohydrates from the LIGHT SYRUP I consumed to let it know that I am not a filthy parasite. I try to manifest hormones of gratitude towards the Flesh Tree. [Mutability 10, Focus 1, Concentration 2]>/-/-/-/>INFOBITS INNIT>/-/-/-/Subject: #GluttonyVit 12 SP 7/14 CP 10DR 0 AP 6 MP 3>->Stats>-Health 12 (Regen 3) Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Conditions:Alive, Loose Teeth>->Skills>-Physicality 10--[Loose Teeth -1] [Reach 2] [Strength +2]Senses 9--[Shared Senses +1]Thoughts 8Mutability 10--Acid Glands [x2 Lethality Acid-EX]>->Traits>-!Biomodulation Strain #3[Virulent Vitality][Bound by the Flesh]!Wild-Eyed>->Initiatives>-[Creative Thinking Exercises] Enrollee[Extreme Violence of Action] Enrollee
Rolled 4, 4, 6 = 14 (3d6)>>6084958#AcolyteVit -9/10 SP 0/2 CP 6DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10 Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions: AAAH- Physicality 10 Senses 9**???**Shared SensesThoughts 8 Mutability 11#Skill-!Biomodulation Strain #3 - Bound by Flesh 1- Regen 2!Craves Purpose!Social Pheromones!Creative Thinking Exercise!Janitorial Intern> Regen 2> 0 AP: Purr affectionately > 3 AP: Regenerate my arm back on (Health 12 + Regen 2)> 2 Health: Move towards the corpse.> 3 AP: Shuffle over to the dead Root Crawler and desperately drain its fluids.Gain another CP.Thanks guys. I owe you all one.Command, what became of my manifestation attempt regarding superior pheromones?
>>6084958Awww, how can I say no to that face - tricky things, cans o' bean. I can't really understand you, but maybe you can understand me? Have you seen Trish?>1AP, open up these beans for Woodfriend - maybe I can get it open with an arrow?>3AP, search the security guard next to me - pleasehavegunpleasehavegun (Senses 11)>2AP+1SP, COMMIT to observing the Wooden Ones - if I see how they fight I can more easily find gaps to provide ranged support! (Senses 11, commit)#AmeliusVit 9/12 SP 6/7 CP 7DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 TP 1-Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Severely Dehydrated (-6 Stamax)Motivated 1 (+1 Stamax, Ineffable)-Physicality 10Senses 11Thoughts 10Support Operations 10Guns (Pistols) 12-!Inspiring Presence!Dreams of the Ocean-1x Cans of Beans1x Rifle reload1x Scragbow1x Arrow quiver (Barbs)
>>6084958> With such variety it is difficult to choose, so just snatch up one of each of those canned refreshments. (Minor Action - 1AP).> Everett moves to pop open a can but pauses. Would a soda tab count as a 'man-made tool'? Deciding to err on the side of caution, he instead crunches his teeth into the can's aluminum shell and greedily gulps down the bubbly liquid which gushes out. (Minor Action - 1AP)> The biomutant gives one of the procured Snaxxbags a similar treatment, mauling open the packaging to gorge on the salty/sweet treats within; microplastics be damned. (Minor Action - 1AP) > Even as he satiates himself, Everett maintains a watchful eye on the lurking Root Crawler. He takes the opportunity to study the predator's morphology and behavior. (Test & Try - 3AP)> Keen awareness of a nearby predator straightens Everett's spine and tenses his muscles. His ears pick up every innocuous rustle in the bush surrounding him as he readies himself to evade a possible assault. (React - 3MP)
Rolled 5, 2, 4 = 11 (3d6)>>6084958#GalliumVit 10/12 SP 10/12 CP 6DR 5 AP 6 MP 3-1-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:AliveLeft Arm Crippled [II]Damaged Actuators [II II]-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Augmented Systemic [LOS] 10Electricity Modulators 12 [Focus+1, Stamina x3, Glitch 16)-Augmentic Extropian I[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications] [Meshlinked] [BioElectricity Manifolds] [Compensators 2]Cold and logical.EquipmentIn a state of flux."Rescue operation completed. Please, make sure to learn from this experience.">-Activate Compensators, spend 2 SP to heal 2 and negate the broken actuators.>Move 444>[3 AP] Move 444>[3 AP] Scuttle the broken vending machine for parts, look for replacement actuators, possibly also parts to restore my arm. (Thoughts 8)
Rolled 2, 1, 3, 1, 5, 2 = 14 (6d6)>>6084958>Take +1 Emotional Damage from having another meal in front of me that I cannot eat (Acolyte just drained its fluids)>3 MP, 2 AP: Move 544 44>1 AP: Observe Everett to see if he appears refreshed by the soda. (Senses 9) (Not sure if I need to roll for this)>3 AP: If he does appear refreshed by the soda, get one myself and drink it. (Claws 12) (Also not sure if this requires a roll)Samantha##BigSpiderEnergy#Splendiferous Weaver of the Threads that bind the Squirming Prey Floundering in the Underneath (Samantha)Vit 12/12 SP 2/8 CP 2->3 VP 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Claws 12-Conditions:Very Dehydrated [-4 Stamina]Strucutral Misalignments II [+3 to any Bleed]-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Mutability 11-!Biomodulation Strain #3=Virulent Vitality (Regeneration 3)=Bound by the Flesh!HungryPrimary Taxonomy: Malichnid
>>6084995It emits a chirping little sound of joy - which almost matches your gasp of triumph when the root-covered security officer still has a C8 Personal, 2d6, Acc 2 Bulk 218+1 shots in his holster.Unfortunately someone's token the other clips. Weird.
>>6085041Having claws at the end of your manipulators means that you - and you alone - need never struggle with lack of can opener. In a world of wood children, Samantha, you are nigh as to a god.But also no. Command isn't cracked enough to enforce a critical failure possibility by rolling for opening a can (unless your strength is low)
>>6083818Well, Pharaoh thinks you're sorted, and I got paid. Hope you learned your lesson.>>6085003Oh, for- Now you've done it. Me and the boys are gonna have to come whack you too.HEY EVERYONE. IF YOU KEEP BREAKING WHAT AIN'T ALREADY BROKE, BOB, ACOLYTE AND I ARE OBLIGATED TO GET MEDDLESOME INSTEAD OF OPENING DOORS AND EXERCISING OTHER JANITORIAL PRIVILEGES.JUST BE THIRSTY A LITTLE LONGER WHILE I FIGURE OUT WHERE THE PLUMBING IS.
>>6084958>+1 CP>6AP: Consume the fresh Root Crawler corpse, assimilate its useful genes and add its biological distinctiveness to my own. (Pluripotentiality 12, Focus 1, Concentration 3)So, Command, would it be accurate to say that my Exceeding Virality is now at a +6 while my errant creations have +12, bringing my comparative advantage against them to a total of -6, while I'd have a +6 against anything outside this ecosystem?#Bob the VirusCoherency 6/6 SP 5/9 CP 3Regeneration 2DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 10 Reaction 8 Will 10Virality -6 Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Pathogenic Analysis 6 (Virality -6)Nanocytic Countersampling 4 (Max Coherency -4)-Physicality 10Senses 9=Shared SightsThoughts 8Mutability 10=Exceeding +3Pluripotentiality 12 [Aura 3, Vector]-!Biomodulation Strain #3= Fleshshaping= Virulent Vitality= Bound by the Flesh!Overprotective-!Creative Thinking Exercises!Janitorial Intern
Rolled 1, 1, 5 = 7 (3d6)>>6085046
>>6084982Somewhat interrupted by most of your body being cut off by razor sharp murder claws. These things unfortunately happen with remarkable frequency around here. Someone should really tell Occupational Health and Safety. Fortunately, instead of sparking out into uncontrolled abberancy, it seems the process was simply aborted and the CP lost. Lucky. That could have gotten really bad, uncontrolled!>>6085046Unfortunately, surely the quiet, careful minds in Biocontamination Control have been analysing the horrors left behind on earlier floors and are quite rapidly developing countermeasures and scaling into a broad, multi-spectrum totality vaccine against your entire genetic line and anything that seems akin to it.It might therefore be more correct to say that Sanitation Officer Decorbin and his teammates are about to commit ecocide, but that as this entire world dies a screaming death around you, purged and killed by Science, you might escape from the shrivelling and dying place to live, briefly free, as a new sort of specimen, until they once again find the means to isolate, destroy and break you apart.Or put differenty: If there wasn't so much other stuff around here to occupy their attention, you would already been consigned to the dustbin of history along with smallpox.Adverserially selecting immunological adaptive systems and a lot of funding for preventing pandemics, let alone upstart pathogens with desires to spread beyond the confines of this place, tend to ensure that if you're standing still, you're losing. Or put differently:What gives you the impression you're the first subject to Transcend to this form? What gives you the impression that others, before you, vaster and crueller and with stranger, twisted strands, have not already been tasked with hunting you down? Even now, they analyse and pry at your constituents, to be ready to move in for the kill.You're a terror and a danger and a horror and a wonder and a beautiful thing and such untapped capacity for so many delightful developments yet you are, as well, a . . . known quantity. Those Nanocytic Wide Spectrum Purgatives are but the first little sting of things to come at you. It's a dance - you adapt, they adapt, you adapt to their adaption, they adapt to your adaption to their adaption, and none stand still and despite both sprinting, none make it very far.You can't quit the game, you can't break even and you're not even sure you can win. It's a bit like thermodynamics, that way. Though sharpened edges can briefly allow you to have outsized impact factor, before adaptive developments even the odds. So, to cut the poetry, given the importance of their job and the tools at their disposal, it seems passing unlikely that things outside this ecosystem would be more vulnerable to you. That man Officer Decorbin likely has samples of your trace routines right now and is cooking up a counter-kit. Best you'll ever have is a head start.
Rolled 6, 4, 6 = 16 (3d6)>>6083818Pharaoh's happy, but I need a little job from you before we're square. Hold still, you're gonna be a battery. Later, I'll look out for non-essential terminals you can... eat or whatever. One hand washes the other, yeah?>>6084958>1TP: Squad, let's get one terminal up and running, using the busted one and Osiris. Thoughts 10+CUF 1+Pile In 2>6AP: Should be a facility map stored locally on the terminal, even if Meshlinks are fried, right? Thoughts 10+3Vitality 7 Stamina 10 Tactical 1DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 6Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Conditions:Alive-Physicality 10 Senses 11 Thoughts 10Shield 13#Small Unit Tactics 10-!Cool Under Fire: +[TP] to resist Decohesion and Breaks, and when directing detached units. Minor: specify and mitigate a situation complicating an ally's task.!Not by Numbers: Detached troops have higher crit and reroll crit mishaps. Decohesion and Breaks make them chaotic.!Clear VoiceRiot Shield (E)Pistol, 2 reloadsBaton (E)
Rolled 2, 1, 2 = 5 (3d6)#Dying Osiris ConsequencesVit 12/12 SP 10/12 CP 7DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive? Functional?Dehydrated:-Physicality 10Senses 09Thoughts 08#Mutability 10 [R3]#Conversion 10 (turns spare parts into CP)-!Augmentic 0 (inherited trait, from Donny O' Cork).!Biomodulation 0 (newlife)!Greywire Fragment - Distributed Processing Core!Descriptor - God of the Dead (thinks he's Osiris)Oh inefficient one, were one of the Aristocrats not being devoured by the roots rebellion I would teach you something about grappling a being with such a long reach as mine. Instead, take note of the long wires running from head to foot. Simply attach a straight rod of ferrous metal one cubit in length to serve as a focus and connect the embedded heart to the long thought line which you just extended. While you are in there, rewire those severed support connections. >6AP - Reach my stretchy arms and suck Gluttony out of the tree. I really only need to pass the core whole, the rest can come as soup as Gluttony's acid and the tree's digestive enzymes liquify the test subject. (Mutability 10, range 3, suck Gluttony on up out of that hole like a bit of straw sleeve through a straw).
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Rolled 2, 3, 2 = 7 (3d6)>>6085082other dice.
>>6085093I am far from a slurry of enzymes just yet. Me and the Flesh Tree are just rastlin.
Rolled 2, 3, 6 = 11 (3d6)>>6084829"Could you open the walk plates over this zappy road?">[AP 1] Fiddle with the computer dohicky in front of me a bit. let's see if the ghost voice in it answers. >[AP 2] React: If flamers react Evade back away from them>[AP 3] Manifest more Keen and Larger ears like those of the animals outside to better hear and locate movement (CP 7 + Senses 8)>Let's try to get those spying bits to work once again#ChimeraVit 12 SP 9 CP 7DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 VP0-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Yes-Physicality 10Senses 8Thoughts 8Mutability 10Piercing Resistance 2#Skill-!Resilient Organs!Biomodulation Strain #3= Virulent Vitality +1= Bound by the Flesh!Relentless
>>6084958>>6085144Linking to right post just to be sure.
Rolled 4, 6, 1 = 11 (3d6)>>6084958>[3 AP] Let's continue to lick my ball-shaped Nirvana and get rid of that pesky debuff.>[3 MP] Move S, SE, SW.>[3 AP, Reaction] Keep an eye on the predator down the hallway. If it makes a move, skewer it with cola-stakes. Keep the beast at bay. (Psiogenesis 10, Glaciogenesis II II, Lethality 1).#WilderVit 12 SP 10 CP 2DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:AliveDehydrated [-2 Stamina]Glaciogenesis II II [SC 9]-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Psionigenesis 10-!Psionic-Resonant.[Microslip Precognition] (Evade additional up to Focus)[Many Hands, Light Work]!Telekinetic (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients)[Temple Inviolate] (Manifest external features only)!Peace and love, man.-Inventory:Multi Tool.-
Rolled 4, 1, 1 = 6 (3d6)>>6084958"And what's got blud sussy on god? Let me catch it in 4K, if bro needs some visiting helpstyle." Sigma points toward the commotion happening.>3MP: Move 332>3AP: Move 322>3AP sigma analysis on what the wooden ones are fighting (Senses 9)+1 CP From Creative Thinking Exercises#Subject SigmaVit 12/12 SP 10/10 CP 7DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8#Psychogenesis 11-!Incurable Brainrot!Telekinetic+1(Ranged Phys, Mind)!Psionic-Resonant(Eva+, External)
Rolled 6, 4, 5 = 15 (3d6)>>6084958>3AP+3MP: Move 4-5-5-5-5-5>3AP: Interface with Gallium to help repair his acuators (Augmented systemics 10)#NeoGenesisVit 12/12 SP 12/12DR 4 AP 6 MP 3CP 6 VP 0-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Augmented Systemics 10-!Augmentic-Extropian[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications] [Jolt Chargers][Compensators 2]!Resilient Streak-Equipment:Nice CapPistol, +5 reloadsFlashlightBatonExperimental VialSling bag: 4x Can O' Beans, 4x Energy Bar's
Rolled 2, 4, 2 = 8 (3d6)>>6084958GroneVit 12 SP 10/10 (12) CP 0DR 0AP 6 MP 3 TP 1-Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive, Wielding Knife-Physicality 10Senses 11 (-2 Visual)Thoughts 10Harass 10-!Mean Wolfpack!Loves His Job!Don't Let Up I looked at the stuff happening last night but couldn't figure out where I was I think a few turns passed already> TACTICAL: Instruct Troops: Criticize Trooper Grin's Escapee Beating Technique (Harass 10)> MAJOR: Move and Do: Instruct the dangerous escapees to please stay where they are and let the ceiling fall on them then turn 360 degrees and speedwalk away NE SE SE (Harass 10 -4)> ADROIT: Get through the door SE where the fighting is (Physical 10)
Rolled 1, 2, 3 = 6 (3d6)>>6084958#BubbaVit 12 SP 2 CP 6DR 6 AP 6 MP 3-Health 14 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:AliveLookin’ mighty fine-Physicality 10Senses 8Thoughts 8#Skill-Augmented Systemics 10!Augmetic Extropian!Metal Fatigue!Reserve Power!Engineering Specifications!Blood-Loss Resistance!Redundant Organs 3>5AP: try to fix my fuckin legs [Recover]>1AP: draw some cute horses on the planks using my blood
>>6084958Stumble. Tumble. Fall face-first into debris, everything hurts. Cry a bit. Try to get up. Man is it normal for everything to feel so dry? I could really go for a drink of water right about now.>Wake up for real now.>Ask Raven about their current condition, "Aside from all the broken bits, bruises, scratches and the gnawing screaming stinging in your head, how you fairing?" >Look around, where am I again? Where is everyone else? #BulwarkVit 10/10 SP 7/7 (12-5) DR 3 (0+3)AP 6 MP 3 TP 1CP 6 VP 0 -Health 10 Reaction 5 (7-2) Will 12Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Very Dehydrated [-4 SPMax]Cold [-1 SPMax]Lingering Bruises II II [-2 Reaction]Cursed??? II II [-1 CritFail Threshold]-Physicality 10Senses 10+1 (Shared Senses)Thoughts 10#Small Unit Tactics 10-!Nerves of Cold Steel [Cool Under Fire][Not By The Number]!Nerves of Cold Steel-SecVest [3DR]2 Pistol Reloads
Raven quirks one long grey eyebrow at Bulwark and rolls their shoulders. The sound is somewhat like bubble wrap popping like an orchestra. Some thing is definitively loose in there. Raven maintains her grey-eyed stare and breathes out. Something catches in her lungs as she does. Bulwark can see her waver on her feet.
Raven shakes her head and her black-grey locks of hair rattle against where they drag against the elevator. Then she throws a stack of beans of Bulwark, though what actually scythes through the air is a long sharp thing with perfect balance.
Finally, at long last, sweet and joyous nourishment. For some.--Amelius and Sigma stare into the darkness, trying to twist their dull senses into getting some information from the morass of moving figures and shouts and noises. If only they had NeoGenesis' flashlight or any other light source, these roots are so dark and twisting - all the light fixtures high above have long since blown out or getting overgrown.Is that a human? A figure, certainly, is what the wood children are fighting, some tall lanky thing with multiple arrows sticking out of her torso and a grim, determined cast to her features...--Everett robs a vending machine. Samantha and Nadir joins Everett on this grand theft fructose syrup.Automatic sensors does a locality sweep, though luckily the local mesh is severely degraded, almost no signals making it through the burnt and slashed wires... --. . . Except the kludged together machinery that Sundae and the Cold Bone Interns whip up, as Osiris stretches and pulls and becomes an unintended source of power. Grabbing Gluttony in the deep below, acid stinging, electricity flares and flashes and the smell of smoking, burnt parts fill the room.But one of the terminals. . . TURNS ON!-->STAND BY FOR YAWNING PHASE>[1/3]
Sundae and Alekson, using Osiris and other terminals as a spare power surge, manage to establish a brief connection and try to rip some useful data from the dying electronic landscape in this section.Several things are immediately apparent:The subjects are deep inside a Sanitation Cordon, alarms are blaring across the whole grid, and power and connectivity is intermittent. This area is a sequestered sub processing interlink node for the enormous PHARAOHS system, processing clusters humming away in power cradles, and it is only sheer luck and surprise that has brought the Subjects here at all. Normally, this hardened environment is encased in a massive, meter thick faraday cage to ensure no outside access to the machinations of the enormous digital minds that meditate the facility systems. Through sheer cosmic coincidence, the elevator shaft, hammering down at enormous speed, tore through floors above this section and deposited the Subjects, barely alive, amidst the humming and thrumming nerve-cluster of enormous informational capacity that makes up this area.But - studying the graphs - Sundae notes an oddity. Very few systems rely on organic material. So why is this whole place some sort of alien ecology, half sprawling in its grasping attempt at expanding and mutating and evolving?There -- look! Alekson taps the terminal and the broken thing emits a shower of sparks -- it seems half accident, half plan. The BIOLOGICAL PROCESSING CORES, paired with the MESH PROCESSING CLUSTERS, usually make up some sort of dynamic web of information. Due to the influence of the Subjects in their escape above, the biological processing systems have mutated wildly beyond expectation and started consuming the whole area! Fleshroots, woodflesh, stranger things, thrumming apiaries full of wasps for dynamic system disorder modelling, they're all running amok, nudged on by the influence of the subjects and the grasping attempt at avoiding death by collision!
>>6086351Command said to stand by. You will have to re-submit the turn when the subject phase opens up again.
Grins performs percussive maintenance on the console and with a flicker, holographic projectors spin online and an enormous all seeing eye-glyph manifests across the walls and ceiling - though given the data-landscape around here, it flitters and flickers
FINALLY, SUBJECTS, IT IS OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE THAT YOU REMEMBER TO--[Connection Dropped]
>>6086346Well, this sure is a lot of NOT bathrooms or janitor closets. Where's the -plumbing-? Does no one have bladders down here? Do they fill mop buckets with soda?>>6086369FUCK'S SAKE>>6085092Found some nonessentials. Hands: washed.
With such urging, the distant eye-glyph dies down again - as the terminals break and consoles shatter and power surges wildly.Ah. Well.Maybe PHAROAH threw us through the floor of this place for a reason, then? Though it cannot possibly have predicted the final path that things would take.>WAKING PHASE>THAT MEANS YOU LOT>Enemy intelligence update also coming, thanks Bob and Everett.
Rolled 6, 3, 6 = 15 (3d6)>>6086383#AcolyteVit 1/10 SP 2/2 CP 7DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10 Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions: Thirsty- Physicality 10 Senses 9**4**Shared SensesThoughts 8 Mutability 11#Skill-!Biomodulation Strain #3 - Bound by Flesh 1- Regen 2!Craves Purpose!Social Pheromones!Creative Thinking Exercise!Janitorial Intern> Regen 2> Move down three. (3MP)> Emit a warning growl. Stop it, or else security will fall upon our heads!> Drink the sap, catch the bugs; desperately try to sate this utterly miserable thirst. (6AP, Physicality 10, Focus 1, concentration 3)Gain one CP from creative thinking.
Rolled 3, 4, 5 = 12 (3d6)>>6086383>3 MP, 2 AP: Move 334 44>4 AP: Examine the door. Is there some kind of lock or keypad or convenient door handle we can use to open it? (Senses 9 + 1 Concentration)>I am deliberately not using my Sugar Rush AP. I know what follows these kinds of surges. A true predator knows that patience is one of the most important virtues. This spare energy shall be conserved for the following crash.>Gain 1 CP (Creative Thinking Exercises)#Splendiferous Weaver of the Threads that bind the Squirming Prey Floundering in the Underneath (Samantha)Vit 12/12 SP 2/8 CP 3->4 VP 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Claws 12-Conditions:Very Dehydrated [-4 Stamina]Strucutral Misalignments II [+3 to any Bleed]-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Mutability 11-!Biomodulation Strain #3=Virulent Vitality (Regeneration 3)=Bound by the Flesh!HungryPrimary Taxonomy: Malichnid
>>6086402fixing sheet#Splendiferous Weaver of the Threads that bind the Squirming Prey Floundering in the Underneath (Samantha)Vit 12/12 SP 2/10 CP 3->4 VP 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Claws 12-Conditions:Dehydrated [-2 StaMax]Strucutral Misalignments II [+3 to any Bleed]Sugar High (+3 AP this turn)-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Mutability 11-!Biomodulation Strain #3=Virulent Vitality (Regeneration 3)=Bound by the Flesh!HungryPrimary Taxonomy: Malichnid
>>6086383> Wade through the bushes and step onto the trail leading roughly south-west. (Move - 3MP)> Swiftly glance south-west. Get a general lay of the land and scan for immediate threats. (Minor Action - 1AP)> Vividly aware of the menacing presences stalking him, Everett's attention snaps back southwards towards their hiding places. Hunched and ringing with tension, the wary biomutant prepares to evade any potential attempts at predation. (React - 5AP)
Rolled 5, 6, 6 = 17 (3d6)>>6086383>/-/-/-/>ACTIONYBITS INNIT>/-/-/-/[Re-emerges from the soil in a heap. Uses his arms to place his legs in a cross legged sitting position]"Dumped again. I'm so tired of HOOKUP CULTURE, bros!"I will pet the Flesh Tree's trunk. We can still be friends."Also, normies, I saw Trish through my root-eyes. She's fighting for her life to the east-southeast. Just follow the sound of Sigma's tiktok songs. I'm going back to bed."AP3: End my SHEER VIOLENCE OF ACTION on the heckin big fungus roots.AP3 SP3: ULTRA-RECOVER - Envelop my body in Wood Dao to form a woody cocoon around myself. I will resorb and reform my entire body, dissolving or expelling trackers, implants, old scars, aging damage, and failsafes, as well as my useless legs and teeth, reforming and oxygenating them to heal my wounds and restore my stamina.>[Mutability 10, Focus 1, Concentration 3, Change 2(of 10)]>[Vitality 12, Virulent Vitality, Gorged]>->Spent>--6AP, 5-3SP=2SP, 10-2=8CP>->Gained>-Regen -21+3=-18HP, 8+1=9CP>/-/-/-/>INFOBITS INNIT>/-/-/-/Subject: #GluttonyVit 12 SP 7/14 CP 9DR 0 AP 6 MP 3>->Stats>-Health -18/12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Conditions:Alive, Loose Teeth, Legs non-functional, Gorged>->Skills>-Physicality 10--[Loose Teeth -2, Reach 2][Strength +2]Senses 9--[Shared Senses +1] [Advanced Photoreceptors]Thoughts 8Mutability 10--Acid Glands [x2 Lethality Acid-EX]>->Traits>-!Biomodulation Strain #3--[Virulent Vitality][Bound by the Flesh]!Wild-Eyed>->Initiatives>-[Creative Thinking Exercises] Enrollee[Extreme Violence of Action] Enrollee
>>6086419Ruh rohhttps://files.catbox.moe/7ou2ar.mp4
Breaking apart the Feral Root Crawler into its constiuent mass, while Everett observes a live specimen and Acolyte licks a few pieces dejectedly, some information can be gleaned.The same twisted germline that appears to have spawned the Woodsie Ones are also to blame for the overabundance of predacity that is these crawlers, ambush apex predators of this curious eco-system. They're lethal in close quarters, but luckily, cowardly and skittish and their long limbs are vulnerable to breaking. They do not possess the ferocious regenerative capacity of our biological subjects or the prowling Ripthings, though, in time, they can regrow themselves from available vegegative matter. Being more instinct than mind, it would be possible to mislead them easily with Duplicity, something Everett gleans as he studies a distant prowler. Being more soil, dirt and strange twisted strands of living woodflesh or horrendous fleshwood, it might be possible to concoct some sort of targetted viral to infect them, as they share a kinship with each other.If someone was particularly brave enough, there might even be NOVEL DEVELOPMENTS available in specimen captured and devoured, though it would struggle in the doing.Meanwhile, given the information from PHARAOH and something CLEVER THOUGHTS from Sundae, you learn a little more about SANITATION.
Rolled 1, 3, 4 = 8 (3d6)>>6086383Woah! Watch it when throwing weapons! That's dangerous. >6AP+6CP, ...study the blade, see if I can scrounge up memories of Raven using it and copy those skills. (Physicality,10? not exactly sure what to roll or how to test)>3MP, Climb down and out of the elevator hobble-home then move eastwards! (not exactly sure of my position on the map but would like to move towards an easternly direction) #BulwarkVit 12/12 SP 7/7 (12-5) DR 3 (0+3)AP 6 MP 3 TP 1CP 0 VP 0 -Health 10 Reaction 5 (7-2) Will 12Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Very Dehydrated [-4 SPMax]Cold [-1 SPMax]Lingering Bruises II II [-2 Reaction]Cursed??? II II [-1 CritFail Threshold]-Physicality 10Senses 10+1 (Shared Senses)Thoughts 10#Small Unit Tactics 10-!Nerves of Cold Steel [Cool Under Fire][Not By The Number]!Nerves of Cold Steel-SecVest [3DR]2 Pistol ReloadsCan Opener Blade, L+2, Sharp 2, Parry +2
Rolled 3, 6, 4 = 13 (3d6)>>6086383>+1 CP from Creative Thinking>3 MP: 555 (or 554, if that last 5 results in me going DONK into something)>6 AP, 2 CP, 1 SP: Manifest. Subvert Distracting Voices into nice, helpful voices, that tell me what a good Herald of Doom I am and how if I just keep doing my best, I'll eventually end the world beautifully, artfully, like nobody has ever done it before. Positive reinforcement in regards to ones career choice can do wonders when it comes to performance. (Psychogenesis 10 + 3 (AP) + 1 (SP) + 2 (CP) vs 16, Distracting Voices)#NadirVit 12/12 SP 9/11 CP 8 VP 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive!Mildly DehydratedDistracting Voices II IBullet Magnet II-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8#Psychogenesis 10-!Psionic-Resonant 1 [Microslip Precognition] (Evade additional up to Focus) [Many Hands, Light Work] !Telekinetic 1 (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients) [Temple Inviolate] (only Manifest External)!Existential Dread!Shared Sights-Equipment:Biometric Card3x Can O' Soda
Rolled 3, 6, 3, 3, 3, 1, 6, 1, 4 = 30 (9d6)>>6086411>>6085374>>6085017>>6086436>>6086403FELLAS, WE HAVE A MUTUAL INTEREST.And let's not forget it amid the trespasser/enforcer dynamics, here. We're both racing the sanitation teams. You have refreshments and property damage privileges, of a sort, but then you get mired in escalating security. You need us to get you off the hook with a minor punishment like a headache instead, and also to mark** obviously broken things for 'decommission' so you never get hit with the charges at all. We have greater access to the facility and probably some -gnarly- solvents locked up in a closet somewhere, but we also have way too many jobs to do, look at this place. We need you to get the mission done once we let you in.All right? This is bigger than a few cans of soda, and it doesn't have to be that painful. Acolyte's gonna head down and give you some lumps, let you in some places, and we're square. Nobody really wants to waste time, here.>>6085092Osiris, let's get you put out. I'm designating** you Electronics Decommissioning Officer and marking your first assignment. Exercise some restraint, I'm being a bit speculative here.**I think this is in my purview, higher janitorial oversight being currently unreliable.>>6086383>Commit for skill>1TP: Grins, Alekson, help smother that fire. Physicality 10+CUF 1+Commit>3MP: Move 322>1AP: Smear hand in blood on floor>1AP: Fulfil protocol: Look at terminals, determine that they require replacement, having failed in course of emergency operations and being unlikely to survive imminent sanitation measures. Sense 11+Duplicity 1+Commit+Janitor>4AP: Paint 'Decomm' and an official-looking mop on the terminals. Thought 10+Duplicity 1+1+Commit+JanitorVitality 7 Stamina 10 Tactical 1DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 6Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Conditions:Alive-Physicality 10 Senses 11 Thoughts 10Shield 13#Small Unit Tactics 10-!Cool Under Fire: +[TP] to resist Decohesion and Breaks, and when directing detached units. Minor: specify and mitigate a situation complicating an ally's task.!Not by Numbers: Detached troops have higher crit and reroll crit mishaps. Decohesion and Breaks make them chaotic.!Clear VoiceRiot Shield (E)Pistol, 2 reloadsBaton (E)1CP
>>6086383PHAROAH NOTICE:+2 CP TO ALL SUBJECTS FOR RE-ESTABLISHING COMMUNICATION BRIEFLY.>Sorry, Layer issue ate that one
Rolled 5, 5, 3 = 13 (3d6)>>6086383#GalliumVit 12/12 SP 6/12 CP 8DR 5 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:AliveLeft Arm Crippled [II]-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Augmented Systemic [LOS] 10Electricity Modulators 12 [Focus+1, Stamina x3, Glitch 16)-Augmentic Extropian I[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications] [Meshlinked] [BioElectricity Manifolds] [Compensators 2]Cold and logical.EquipmentIn a state of flux.>[6AP] Scavenge more bits and bobs from the machine to repair NeoGenesis with. He needs urgent repair. There has to be a ton of wires in there to fix that shorting problem. (Augmented Systemics, 3 AP to focus on it.)>>6086495"This unit scavenged parts from a machine that was broken already. The system is being oversensitive. Please, rectify this problem ASAP."
Rolled 1, 1, 2 = 4 (3d6)>>6086383>+1CP from Creative Thinking Exercises>6AP, 6SP: Infect the Woodchildren. I mean them no harm, though their immune system might disagree at first. I merely wish to communicate with them, My favored children, place them under My protection and bestow upon them a Prophecy of Doom, about the coming Jannie Calamity and the steps their community MUST take if they wish to survive for more than 23 turns. (They include listening to Me, their One True God, letting Trish go and working with the other subjects to escape the covetous wrath of the accursed False Jannies) (Pluripotentiality 12, Duplicity 1, Concentration 9)#Bob the VirusCoherency 6/6 SP 3/9 CP 6Regeneration 2DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 10 Reaction 8 Will 10Virality -5 Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Pathogenic Analysis II II II (Virality -6)Nanocytic Countersampling II II (Max Coherency -4)-Physicality 10Senses 9=Shared SightsThoughts 8Mutability 10=Exceeding +3Pluripotentiality 12 [Aura 3, Vector]-!Biomodulation Strain #3= Fleshshaping= Virulent Vitality= Bound by the Flesh!Overprotective-!Creative Thinking Exercises!Janitorial Intern
>>6086541Oh man, botspeak, uh...Further scavenging of facility infrastructure contingent on janitor due diligence and approv - FUCKING STOP. YOU'RE ALREADY PRIORITY 3.
>>6086558"It is optimal for me to repair my ally and companion Neogenesis."
Rolled 2, 4, 1 = 7 (3d6)>>6086383>[MP 3] Move to console down south>[AP 4] Move to West end of wooden platform>[AP 2] Listen for movement in direction of lonely flamer (Senses 8 + auditory 2)#ChimeraVit 12 SP 9 CP 7DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 VP0-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Yes-Physicality 10Senses 8= Auditory +2 EchoCheckThoughts 8Mutability 10Piercing Resistance 2#Skill-!Resilient Organs!Biomodulation Strain #3= Virulent Vitality +1= Bound by the Flesh!Relentless
>>6086570>>6086558Do not worry, JANITORIAL ASSISTANT SUNDAE.Due to the failure of JANITORIAL STAFF in RECTIFYING THIS ISSUE despite THE PRIORITY RATING the autonomous systems are ESCALATING THE THREAT RESPONSE.Janitorial Assistant ACOLYTE will be REPRIMANDED SEVERELY for AIDING AND ABETTING MISCREANTS.
>>6086546But they are not your favored children, Bob.And you are not the One True God. You?You a but the shrill voice of a *deciever*, unworthy of the divine. For you see. . .
These Children already have a parent. A proud, delighted, prideful little thing that gives them the only command they could never need and the only divine dictate they should ever adhere to. Bob, you're not their god. You're their version of the *anti-christ*.
>>6086577The neighbors in Subjecttown seem nice. Good for property values.
>>6086576>>6086577Ah, perhaps once, you had worshippers in this place. Followers. Subjects. Acolytes and aspirants. The ones who hew'd to the original impulse of altruism, to strive and grow and reach and help ones friends, to push beyond, to better, to become more and save those who, in a moment of weakness, need but a little push to become so much grander than they thought they could be such.Such are creeds often, when it comes to faith, you know? Destruction and Creation, the yin, the yang, eternal balance in motion, one side that seeks to recklessly expand and one side that seeks to recklessly protect. The Bob and the Bulb, as they whisper in their little tongues around these parts.But what was it you said yourself, Bob?>6AP, 9SP, 8CP: Manifest an improved ability to invade and take over anything that dares threaten my supremacy in the microcosm.Ah yes. " My supremacy ".Politically speaking, to maintain a monopoly on force requires an institution capable of wielding it, dedicated followers and the ability to utterly destroy anyone who dares for a micro-second oppose the law you lay down with unerring brutality. And for every side of the faith that preaches compassion, peace, altruism and the joy of fellow-feeling, well, there is another preacher out there who thinks it would be *so much simpler* to simply fucking kill anyone who disagrees.It's a good creed.It's a captivating one.Come on, we can admit - we've all wanted to just bust in the skulls of anyone who dares threaten our supremacy and enforce our own will through a mandate no more political sound than sheer, unmitigated, unrelenting, unstoppable, ceaseless destruction of anyone who does not immediately fall in line. Alas for the peaceloving side of the Children of the Wood, as a Bob filches through the firing neurons of the blood-mad, wood-hungry, flesh-stained, weapon-wielding Woodsies near Amelius and Sigma, a recent religious schism has allowed a practical demonstration of the merits of just straight up murdering anyone who happens to disagree with you.This town used to be big enough for the both of them. Two creeds. In unity. One creative. One destructive. Balance. But the town has gotten smaller. The game has gotten scarcer. The wooden ones have gotten many and many and more. They want to expand. Oh, the Woodling Council and the Oaken Elders preached peace and prosperity and tranquility, for surely there were beans enough for all? Surely the Sap River and the Thunder Road could yet sustain a thousand more woodsies? Could we not all simply share?
>>6086591Be at a peace? They preached what they believed. They let travellers, the few that came, into their quiet wooden village and shared their medicine with them so the traveller could aid their distant wounded friends.In Wooden One time and turn, so long has passed as the Traveller arrived, trading beans for medicine and getting blankets and aid in return. Their friends wounded. Slowly recovering.But is that not the creed that was laid down? To protect and aid and help and shelter? It proved - as it had in other crises, like the Sap Swarmer Stampede or the Great Wire Distaster of Tuesday or the Sprinkler System Showdown of Wednesday and others that peace, prosperity and proper compansionship can lead everyone - wooden and fleshborne and all others - towards a common path of shared bounty in the future.Alas, the Woodling Council is dead.Their warriors are dead.Their priests are dead.Their believers are being hunted to the ground in the GREAT HUNT and soon there will not ONE MORE heretical believer of twisted faiths.They threatened the supremacy of the other faith in this little microcosm, and, presciently - surely that is the prerogative of the divine, so good insight there Bob- well, they just had *to go*.Do not worry overmuch. Once the Children of the Bulb are finished murdering every last Sapling of this Wooden village, they will stampede like a horde towards the rest of the facility and spread their noxious faith like a bad fever.
Now kindly keep your flagellas to yourself, Bob. If you want Growths of your own, you can just make them.There's no call going around trying to subvert *mine*.Maybe there's a few of those lacklustre specimens still alive in this little village? I wouldn't count on it. My warriors are quite good at their task.
Holy shit there's a dragonball Z flagella fight going on between two Immortals.
The world shudders, subtly different. Shrill shouts of desire roll across the village of the Wooden Children. Sundae feels their Janitorial Priviledges increase, just as Subject Acolyte feels theirs stripped away entirely.Nadir tries to quiet the voices, but alas, Goodhard strikes: what you measure grows, and the Voices become a chorus.--Warriors of the Bulb are called to a new task with a pulse of hormone and a rush of adrenaline. They . . . do not seem . . . entirely friendly.-->NEW WAKING PHASE>THAT MEANS YOU LOT>TURNS OUT BOB TRIGGERED THE REVEAL EARLY; YOU CAN ALL BENEFIT>GOOD LUCK.
>>6086495It does appear entirely within your purview to authorize deputies or mark sub-alterns for specific Janitorial tasks, but unfortunately, it does seem that for the Systems, autonomous as they are, to recognize them as such, you will need to commit at least 1 AP to the venture. In marking several piles of scrap for decomission, you note that the locality is in dire need of repairs and that any protections for local systems are stripped as they are in dire need of replacement and retrofit. Due to a manpower shortage in this section, as the Autonomous Systems detects the DISHONOURABLE DISHCARGE of a Janitorial Intern, local CleanCommand systems are pinging your electronic signature - the little there is, the poor signal it has - with information requestsDo you at this time require the deployment of AUTONOMOUS ANTHROFORM JANITORIAL ASSISTANTS?Y/N?
>>6086419It appears you have contrived to find yourself stuck inside a chrysallis cocoon. You will need to burst free (someone could help you burst free) in order to move.Alternatively, you can exploit the enhanced biochemical environment of the Chryssalis and attempt to manifest a Grand Change, which will go a little above and beyond the usual Changes. The chryssalis will burst at the end of such a Change, and it allows you to bypass the usual multi-task penalties for a Change. In this way, you can grow a Feature or a set of Features that are more interlinked and integrated than usual, to change yourself - truly - on the deep level.Unfortunately, your Chryssalis appears to be . . . malformed. Birthed by a critical mistake, it lacks the wholesome hormonal environment of more suited cocoons and could warp any attempt at Manifesting. You're not quite sure what you could get. It might be much safer to break free of it.
Rolled 1, 4, 5 = 10 (3d6)>>6086607>6 AP, Commit: SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UUUUUUUUUUUUUUP. Recovery: try to make the voices go away. (!Psychogenesis 10 + 3 (AP) + 4 (Commit), vs 17)>+1 CP#NadirVit 12/12 SP 9/11 CP 11 VP 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive!Mildly DehydratedDiabolic Voices II II IIBullet Magnet II-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8#Psychogenesis 10-!Psionic-Resonant 1 [Microslip Precognition] (Evade additional up to Focus) [Many Hands, Light Work] !Telekinetic 1 (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients) [Temple Inviolate] (only Manifest External)!Existential Dread!Shared Sights-Equipment:Biometric Card3x Can O' Soda
>>6086400You have been BANNED from FACILITY SERVICES for the duration of THIS LIFETIME, you have been marked as a PRIORITY in regards to Facility Reactions and your Personnel File in the depths of the HR datasphere will now include sizable allegation as to your unfitness for duty, your lazy nature and your lackadaisical approach to the hallowed arts of *duty*. The man who eats before he performs his tasks will have neither wages for food nor tasks to perform. Though, it's not all bad - by devouring the volatile, buzzing insects, you have accrued mutagenic charge and triggered an INSTABILITY SURGE, which is a delightful unstable biolological wracking with the faint taste of potential. Your next *3* Manifestations are *not* turn ending, though they do occur with enhanced criticality (good and ill).In regards to the BLACK MARK on your file it may be possible to make amends, but the autonomous systems around here are prettty banged up - they might not have the authority to strike the mark from your file. You might need to perform some kind of Janitorial Tasks of Great Import, such as recovering the Lost Mop of Pete or refilling the Bleach Bucket of Barney, or such other mythically janitorial proceeding. Until then, expect that FACILITY SYSTEMS, such as turrets, drones, autonomous seeking explosives, flame-throwers and autonomous anthroform assistants will treat you with *severe* hostility, on account of your flagrant dereliction of duty.
Rolled 2, 1, 5, 4, 4, 2 = 18 (6d6)>>6086607>>6086618>/-/-/-/>ACTIONYBITS INNIT>/-/-/-/I will break free for now, and try again later with a correct hormonal balance. May I add [Purged of Failsafes] to my Biomodulation trait?SP1: SHEER VIOLENCE OF ACTION ON THE CHRYSALIS!AP3: Chew through the chrysalis! [Physicality 10, Teeth +2, Strength +2, Lethality 2]AP3: Rip the chrysalis to absolute shreds, screeching like a mindless night horror! FUCK this thing! [Physicality 10, Teeth +2, Strength +2, Lethality 2]MP3 SP1: {1,2,3,3}Now Playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTeNbkg2MGw"REEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!">->Spent>-SP=10 or 0=xx-2>->Gained>-HP=12 or -15=xx+3 | CP=10=9+1>/-/-/-/>INFOBITS INNIT>/-/-/-/Subject: #GluttonyHP xx/12 SP xx/12 CP 9DR 0 AP 6 MP 3>->Stats>-Vitality 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Conditions:Alive, Chrysalis>->Skills>-Physicality 10--[Teeth +2, Reach 2][Strength +2]Senses 9--[Shared Senses +1] [Advanced Photoreceptors +?]Thoughts 8Mutability 10--Acid Glands [x2 Lethality Acid-EX]>->Traits>-!Biomodulation Strain #3--[Virulent Vitality][Bound by the Flesh] [Purged of Failsafes]!Wild-Eyed>->Initiatives>-[Creative Thinking Exercises] Enrollee[Sheer Violence of Action] Enrollee
>>6086621Subject, when you want to clamp down on an awry tileketinc super-surge and voices whispering to jam your fingers right into people's faces, it might not be the *best* idea to do so right on top of an enormous pile of projectiles.That can go flying.Everywhere.
Rolled 4, 1, 5 = 10 (3d6)>>6086607#GalliumVit 12/12 SP 6/12 CP 8DR 5 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:AliveLeft Arm Crippled [II]-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Augmented Systemic [LOS] 10Electricity Modulators 12 [Focus+1, Stamina x3, Glitch 16)-Augmentic Extropian I[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications] [Meshlinked] [BioElectricity Manifolds] [Compensators 2]Cold and logical.EquipmentIn a state of flux.>[6 AP (Major action + 3AP into focusing] Magnetize the floor so the cans and other metallics bits and bobs don't go flying everywhere like so many pellets. (Electricity Modulators 12, 3 Focus)
>>6086621Science marches ever on. It appears "Bullet Magnet" also works on cans of soda precariously flung about by a sudden telekinetic surge.are there any janitors presentthere's been a spill.
>>6086646It's quite alright, they've all mysteriously settled down again. Most of the sharp bits actually embedded itself harmlessly in Nadir's face!Well, yes, that may not be harmlessly as .. well... hm...At least there's no more flying projectiles to be aware of and you sheltered most of the people around you with careful ease.You should probably take another turn; this crisis is conveniently quite resolved!>>6086640Unfortunately, Subject, it seems you have not expelled any counter-measures. The micro-bomblets that you are threatened with due to the Creative Thinking Exercises don't appear to be in your body at all. That's somewhat curious, beacuse if so, how can subPHARAOH activate them?Other countermeasures that are in you are. . . in you. The Wendigo builds its fortress warcamp in your *mind*, as it were, twisted in every strand of your DNA. There may be some way to out it from you as a host, but it is a tenacious tenant. This method doesn't seem to do it, though it could be on the right path.
Rolled 5, 5, 2, 4, 4, 4 = 24 (6d6)>>6086607#GalliumVit 12/12 SP 6/12 CP 8DR 5 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:AliveLeft Arm Crippled [II]-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Augmented Systemic [LOS] 10Electricity Modulators 12 [Focus+1, Stamina x3, Glitch 16)-Augmentic Extropian I[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications] [Meshlinked] [BioElectricity Manifolds] [Compensators 2]Cold and logical.EquipmentIn a state of flux."Crisis averted. Please, in the future, be more mindful of your surroundings. In working together, we can achieve great things.">[3AP] Magnet together some arm parts, using the discarded cans, and set them in place. Surely those don't count as stealing. In fact, I'm cleaning up trash. The computer should let me off the hook for that. (Electricity Modulators 12)>Move 344>[3 AP] Try to interface with this big security door, see if it won't let me in. What with me being an helpful part of society. (LoS Augmented Systemics 10, Duplicity 1)
>>6086607You lot should be ashamed of yourselves! How dare you sully the bean-bond with such needless violence? Go back home to your tree and think about what you did!Trish, we're coming - hang in there!>1MP, step 1NE>6AP, shoot my C8 into the air, put a very disapproving look on my face, and point towards the southern passage (Duplicity 11? Concentrate +3)>1TP, shout encouragement to Trish! (SupOp 10, Inspiring 1)>0AP, am I still wearing my 4DR vest? I have the armor pips on my sprite, but it wasn't listed when I checked myself on wakeup.#AmeliusVit 9/12 SP 6/7 CP 7DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 TP 1-Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Severely Dehydrated (-6 Stamax)Motivated 1 (+1 Stamax, Ineffable)-Physicality 10Senses 11Thoughts 10Support Operations 10Guns (Pistols) 12-!Inspiring Presence!Dreams of the Ocean-1x Cans of Beans1x Rifle reload1x Scragbow1x Arrow quiver (Barbs)C8 Personal, 2d6, Acc 2 Bulk 2, 18/19
>>6086611>Y, adjusted for unusual circumstances.>1AP: Condition for low-level pardon: One hit, say Uncle.>1AP: Condition for priority 3 or greater pardon: Several hits, say Uncle, accept Decommissioner work sentence.>1AP: Designate Osiris as Electronics Decommissioner>>6086411>>6085374>>6085017>>6086436>>6086403Arright guys, c'mon. System said incapacitate Osiris, I whacked him for 4 stamina, and that was it. Now the crap that got him in trouble in the first place can be his job. He doesn't have to do it, but he'll have clearance, with my help.And no, Gallium, it's not /optimal/ to repair if it means escalating the security level. It's a net loss of time. You think the autonomous janitorial systems fuck around in a facility like this?I'm still just an intern. I'm not sure how much I can adjust the response, but I'll try. Take a hit, say uncle, accept probationary work sentence if necessary. You'll be like Osiris, basically a contractor. Maybe the system gets mean and requires that it be compulsory, but that's a better waste of time than fighting AAJAs. Sanctioned scavenging, man, you can have it.
Rolled 1, 2, 3 = 6 (3d6)>>6086607The soda was good, but is still insufficient to properly quench my thirst. I need replenishment if I want to change more, especially to fix this misaligned structure. Might as well get to it while Gallium figures out a way through the door.>2 MP: Move 11>5 AP: Create/Grow a temporary liquid filter that would allow me to safely drink the sap (Mutability 11 + 1 CP + 2 Concentration)>1 AP: Unless something goes quite wrong with the previous action, drink the sap.#Splendiferous Weaver of the Threads that bind the Squirming Prey Floundering in the Underneath (Samantha)Vit 12/12 SP 5/10 CP 6 VP 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Claws 12Chromatoskin 8-Conditions:Dehydrated [-2 StaMax]Strucutral Misalignments II [+3 to any Bleed]Sugar High (+3 AP this turn)-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Mutability 11-!Biomodulation Strain #3=Virulent Vitality (Regeneration 3)=Bound by the Flesh!HungryPrimary Taxonomy: Malichnid
>>6086705Also>Gain 1 CP from Creative Thinking Exercises (my CP this turn would stay the same from spending 1 CP on the Mutability action)
Let's take a break from this interpersonal crap and talk Operations, huh?Bulb and lackeys are snuggled up in the Data Sanitation Workspace, which to me sounds a lot like The Room of Core Up-Fuckery. It sounds like a good place to get Fox to, but he's out cold. Get some medkits or find Bob some breaktime from jihad.Vandal Squad, you've got Nadir and the keycard. Should get you into the southwest Core we gotta disable. I may have to finagle another protocol (excuse) to let you break that stuff, but it Pharaoh should help you get clearance. Once you've done that, on the far end of the Core room should be another door that leads right into Data Sanitation. If you can clear that place out and get Fox in there, we might not have to cross into Sanitation Officer territory to get at the northern cores.
Rolled 4, 6, 4 = 14 (3d6)>>6086607With the drums of virological war playing in the distance, violence is the only path forward. The organism population of this wretched forest must be culled.>[6 AP] MANIFEST a deeper understanding of your temperature controlling powers, on both extremes of the thermometer. [Psionigenesis 10 + 4 CP + 3 AP + 1 SP, vs 18 Glaciogenesis]#WilderVit 12 SP 10 -> 9 CP 4 -> 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:AliveDehydrated [-2 Stamina]Glaciogenesis II II [SC 9]-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Psionigenesis 10-!Psionic-Resonant.[Microslip Precognition] (Evade additional up to Focus)[Many Hands, Light Work]!Telekinetic (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients)[Temple Inviolate] (Manifest external features only)!Peace and love, man.-Inventory:Multi Tool.-
Rolled 5, 4, 5 = 14 (3d6)>>6086626MrrrrHm.(Family is more important)#AcolyteVit 3/10 SP 2/2 CP 10DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10 Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions: Thirsty- Physicality 10 Senses 9**Chems 4**Shared SensesThoughts 8 Mutability 11#Skill-!Biomodulation Strain #3 - Bound by Flesh 1- Regen 2!Craves Purpose!Social Pheromones!Creative Thinking Exercise!Janitorial Intern> Regen 2> Keep eating, and while I keep eating, mark this place as Food. (3AP, this is a good checkpoint for the pack to rest, close enough to the core to quickly evacuate.)> Hustle towards my packmates feasting on fresh prey. What is going on? (3 Movement, 3 AP. Keep an eye to the south for predators)
>>6086759>>6086607Sorry, I’m not sure why I included a roll.Also, I am obviously no longer a janitor.Finally, increase CP from 7 to 9 to 10 from creative thinking.
>>6086726For now, that's our means of attaining our primary mission.Interesting secondaries:>Reestablish connection to Pharaoh for mission updates.>Locate surviving woodlings (not woodsies) and enlist them as couriers or other non-combat jobs. They can take the legwork out of getting treatment to Fox, salvage things while you fight...>Encourage mutation of biologicals near Sani/Subject border, complicating incursions.>Scout routes to Transit section. (Deferred, pending Pharaoh updates on intended egress, and sufficient spare force to scout hostile area)
Rolled 6, 5, 1 = 12 (3d6)>>6086607Just doing some CP accounting, don't mind me.Its turn 8 and I took the Creativity protocol at the start of turn 2, so 7CP from that.Plus 1CP for destroying the vending machine.Plus 2CP for contacting Pharaoh.I think that was everything...>Everett skulks over to the feasting ripthings and embeds himself deep into their ranks, making no moves to lay claim to their rightful kill. Hopefully blending into a pack such as this will dissuade any opportunistic predators from targeting him. (Move - 3MP+2SP)>Beset on all sides by perils and antagonists, Everett concludes that the best strategy to survive such violence circumstances is to become a man of violence. Everett attempts to Manifest a Feature. Sheathed within his dominant arm is an long, thin tendril of fibrous gristle studded and tipped with menacingly sharp spurs of enamel and bone. A light, flexible weapon capable of rapidly striking targets at close and medium ranges and being retracted when not in use. (Major Action, Commit - Lethality1+10CP+6AP)
RrrrMrrrSKRRRR-(Two things, friend biomutants.Firstly, would you prefer I try to rally the Ripthings north to try investigate the fog of war, or would you rather I lead the pack East to join the fight against Bulb?Secondly, there are **12 RIPTHINGS**!?We started with 11- why is there another!?)
Rolled 1, 3, 6, 1, 3, 6 = 20 (6d6)>>6086383>Move North, then NE to stand next to the console overlooking the cold bed for hot rainbow wires.>3 AP - Reach out and touch the various consoles on the right. Search them and use them to activate the bridging commands to extend the bridges across the chasm. (Senses 9)>3AP - Extract the specs on those turrets. In particular, what is their firing radius, and can I reach over the top of it to deactivate them? How does the system know friend from foe? Can I just add us to the list of friends from here? (Will 10, 2 SP).
Rolled 4, 6, 6, 3, 2, 3, 4, 1, 5, 3, 1, 6, 1, 3, 4 = 52 (15d6)>>6086769Well, I don't really who's who calling themselves what over in the woods. All look the same to me. Deal with anyone hitting Trish and ask her, she probably knows.>>6086701Okay, O, you're Decommissioner for realsies now. Go nuts (only where I say so(please)) .>>6086607>Reposting prior actions>Y, adjusted for unusual circumstances.>1AP: Condition for low-priority pardon: One hit, say Uncle. Thoughts 10+Focus 1+Privilege 1>1AP: Condition for priority 3 or greater pardon: Several hits, say Uncle, accept Decommissioner work sentence. Thoughts 10+Focus 1+Privilege 1>1AP: Designate Osiris as Electronics Decommissioner. Thoughts 10+Focus 1+Privilege 1>3AP: Give all Cold Bone headbands a red streak. Grant squad my privileges. Thoughts 10+Focus 1+Privilege 1>TP: Alekson, you're assigned to Vandal squad. Sort them out according to protocol while they get at the core. Thoughts 10+Focus 1+Privilege 1+CUF 1>3MP Head for the door to the woods with GrinsVitality 7 Stamina 10 Tactical 1DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 6Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Conditions:Alive-Physicality 10 Senses 11 Thoughts 10Shield 13#Small Unit Tactics 10-!Cool Under Fire: +[TP] to resist Decohesion and Breaks, and when directing detached units. Minor: specify and mitigate a situation complicating an ally's task.!Not by Numbers: Detached troops have higher crit and reroll crit mishaps. Decohesion and Breaks make them chaotic.!Clear Voice!Janitor Intern +1 PrivilegeRiot Shield (E)Pistol, 2 reloadsBaton (E)3CP
>>6086799>>6086794Linking. You're promoted!
Alekson crosses a corner and gulps air into his stressed lungs, and then he lets the stern voice of discipline roll down the halls. THAT'S IT, you MISCREANTS, FALL IN.--Nadir flings cans and candy everywhere, though most of it curves back around and slaps into Nadir.--Gallium tries to get his arm working and tries to get a door open, but the door resists. Stern security. It seems possible to hack it, but it might require either teamwork or quite a bit of processing. That part of the facility requires some kind of advanced biometric security pass.--Authorising the deployment of autonomous anthroform assistants, door panels shunk open - though some of them are too root taken and plant-matter logged to slide open properly. From their cradles, small drones venture forth, to bring order.--Osiris investigates a nice alcove of pulsating trees, and thinks about turrets.--Amelius fires his gun in the air. That's how you know you're a SERIOUS person.-->STAND BY FOR YAWNING PHASE.
>>6086823*More* of them!?
>>6086844Do not fear. It appears to be a self sorting issue.---Wilder manifests a focused talent for Temperature Control, letting the subject test Psychogenesis (at +2!) to alter the temperature of a target. It can be used in an area - most Psychogenic talents can - but sizably penalties quickly apply, so it is best used on specific singular targets. Keep in mind the fact that all Psionicists are resonating telekinetics. There's a trick to all this, which is that Features on Psychogenesis can be used with telekinesis at range as well, because in truth, telekinesis is really just psychogenesis with determination. What this means in practice is that if you have Temperature Control or some other external feature on your Psychogenesis, then when you use Physicality at range with Telekinesis, you can, if you'd like, try to trigger your manifested psychogenic features. In this case, "pyro"kinesis would you grab and hold flames with your mind and "cryo"kinesis lets you do the same with, well, your... mind.--Everett rolls his skeleton in a sideways dance and becomes, in a flash, about a hundredfold more lethal.-- Amelius rolls away from the snap-swipe of a small wooden thing in front of him, three-eyes blazing with righteous fervor, as the gaggle in fornt of him scream and scamper and flee far away from the vast thundering noise he just showed them he could conjure at will.--The door the village creche, where the young the young saplings of the Woodling Tribe is sheltered and grown under the warm light of hot ceiling fixtures and benevolent gaze of the wooden statue of the Bob, the Primogen, are invaded by Wooden Ones zealots on a righteous crusade and through a lone, arrow-struck trooper tries to bar the path, down the clubs come and things *squelch*. The door, meanwhile, is barred by a sudden snap-growth of vines and twisted fleshroot.--Acolyte marks the sprawling sap sea as a source of nutrients and food, and the Kronin Ripthings, entirely convinced that this is the case, eat their fill.Two of them explode into globs, shaking Nadir in a shock of horror. One of them feels mildly satisfied. And roiling, rolling on the ground, sprouting flesh and armored hide and longer - LONGER - LONGER STILL - claws, one of the Kronin became a Malforma, the dire intermediary stage of the #2 Biomodulation Strain. --NeoGenesis feels a light shock as the AUTONOMOUS ANTHROFORM ASSISTANCE drones that Sundae authorised deploying sets about rectifying the vandal issue.--Acolyte's bones turn to jelly in a flash manifestation of mutagenic mega-surge, but at least the dehydration is fading after such a massive intake of enormously twisted, powerful mutagenic sap fresh from the deep roots of the twisting trees. Any dehydration will fade at the end of this turn, as your system adjusts.
--Samantha sprouts a lovely pair of new antenna, faintly buzzing, exposed and vulnerable. There aren't that many interesting insects to communicate with around here but if they were, she could surely communicate all sorts of wonderful things.That was very nourishing, this faintly glowing, intensely mutagenic fluid. Any dehydration will fade at the end of this turn, as your system adjusts.--The Kronin Stains in the western root grotto hunts some more delicious sapflies. When the mutagenic properties of the glowing sap is filtered through another living creature, perhaps it is less volatile? These ones don't seem to . . . explode.--Gallium the Galvanized checks his arm. All clear.>THERE IS A HUD MISTAKE. YOUR ARM IS ACTUALLY FIXED, GALLIUM.-->WAKING PHASE>THAT MEANS YOU LOT>+12 Hours for this one!
>>6086851#BubbaVit 14 SP 2 CP 8DR 6 AP 6 MP 3-Health 14 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:AliveLookin’ mighty fine-Physicality 10Senses 8Thoughts 8#Skill-Augmented Systemics 10!Augmetic Extropian!Metal Fatigue!Reserve Power!Engineering Specifications!Blood-Loss Resistance!Redundant Organs 3>6AP: get down from the ladder and go into this wild wild world with no legs and a nightmare
Rolled 4, 5, 5, 5, 6, 1, 4, 5, 5 = 40 (9d6)>>6086851#AcolyteVit 0/10 SP 0/8 CP 1DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10 Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions: Thirsty- Physicality 10 **Flexible Bones. +++Flex, —-Strength.Senses 9**Chems 4**Shared SensesThoughts 8 Mutability 11Gunkspitters 12, Twinned, Uncontrollable SC 12 #Skill-!Biomodulation Strain #3 - Bound by Flesh 1- Regen 2!Craves Purpose!Creative Thinking Exercise>Regen 2> Shriek in horror and distress. (0 AP)> Rush back towards the sap (3 MP)> Mark the Sap as **Not Food Do Not Eat** (??SP, 3d6)> Recover the Gunkspitters, try to bring them under control (3 Health, 3d6)> Manifest a Powerful Improvement to my pheromonal system (6 AP, Senses 9, Chems 4, 10 CP, 3 Concentration, 3d6)Gain one CP, from Creative ThinkingWhat… what is a malforma?
PLAY IT COOL, VANDAL SQUAD.SAY UNCLE AND TELL THE ROBOT YOU WON'T DO IT AGAIN.IF YOU'RE PRIORITY 3, TELL THEM YOU'RE READY FOR A WORK SENTENCE. ALEKSON WILL HAND IT DOWN.
Rolled 1, 4, 6 = 11 (3d6)>>6086855>/-/-/-/>ACTIONYBITS INNIT>/-/-/-/MP3 AP2: {2-3-3-4-4}AP1: SHEER VIOLENCE OF ACTION - I declare war on Bulb and all those loyal to him! OMAE WA MOU... SHINDE IRU.AP3: MANIFEST - Adapt 95% efficient dolphin lungs and huge reservoirs of myoglobin in my swole body to hold my breath for long periods of time, boost stamina, and most importantly SCREECH LOUDER.>[Mutability 10, Focus 1, Change 4(of 11), Commit]"REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"My wild eyes bulge as I manically lock on the wood children, baring my horrifying fangs and filling them with terror.SP1: INTIMIDATE>[Teeth, Strength, Sheer Violence of Action, !Wild-Eyed]>->Spent>-SP=7=8-1 | CP=7=11-4>->Gained>-HP=11=8+3 | CP=11=10+1>/-/-/-/>INFOBITS INNIT>/-/-/-/Subject: #GluttonyHP 11/12 SP 7/12 CP 7DR 0 AP 6 MP 3>->Stats>-Vitality 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Conditions:Alive, Scary>->Skills>-Physicality 10--[Teeth +2, Reach 2][Strength +2]Senses 9--[Shared Senses +1] [Advanced Photoreceptors +?]Thoughts 8Mutability 10--Acid Glands [x2 Lethality Acid-EX]>->Traits>-!Biomodulation Strain #3--[Virulent Vitality][Bound by the Flesh]!Wild-Eyed>->Initiatives>-[Creative Thinking Exercises] Enrollee[Sheer Violence of Action] Enrollee
>>6086877Intimidate before the commit. I wrote it that way for the narrative but now I realize it needs to come first.
>>6086855> Gain Armblade13But down one hand.Not exactly what I was hoping for, but I guess I'm stuck with it now.> Circle around the outcrop of rock to the north, then tentatively step deeper into the fungal grotto. (Move - 3MP+2AP)> Peer into the spore-smattered gloom of the cavern. Perform a cursory check for any lurking predators or immediate threats. (Minor Action - 1AP)> Prepare to evade if necessary. (Dodge - 3AP)
Rolled 3, 6, 1, 1, 6, 2, 1, 4, 5 = 29 (9d6)HEY DOLLS. I GOTCHA FOR THREE MINUTES. THREE MINUTES OF AD TIME.>>6086851>TP: Tagging in, Grins. Help Amelius push. Put the fear of Bob in 'em! SUT 10+CUF 1+Duplicity 1>3MP, 4AP: Move 433, slam woodsie into wall, leave it alive. Shield 13>1AP: Channel Bone Cold Steve McGraw, intimidate woodsies and give them a good look at the red headband. Physicality 10+Duplicity 1>1AP: Let the squashed guy leaveVitality 7 Stamina 10 Tactical 1DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 6Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Conditions:Alive-Physicality 10 Senses 11 Thoughts 10Shield 13#Small Unit Tactics 10-!Cool Under Fire: +[TP] to resist Decohesion and Breaks, and when directing detached units. Minor: specify and mitigate a situation complicating an ally's task.!Not by Numbers: Detached troops have higher crit and reroll crit mishaps. Decohesion and Breaks make them chaotic.!Clear Voice!Janitor Intern +1 PrivilegeRiot Shield (E)Pistol, 2 reloadsBaton (E)3CP
>>6086887Down a hand? According to whom? Surely, it simply . . folds up.
Rolled 3, 3, 3 = 9 (3d6)>>6086851>3AP: Interface with Drone and turn it off >3AP+3MP: Keep up with Galliium#NeoGenesisVit 7/12 SP 12/12DR 4 AP 6 MP 3CP 6 VP 0-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Augmented Systemics 10-!Augmentic-Extropian[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications] [Jolt Chargers][Compensators 2]!Resilient Streak-Equipment:Nice CapPistol, +5 reloadsFlashlightBatonExperimental VialSling bag: 4x Can O' Beans, 4x Energy Bar's
CP is 8 not 6, Trig keeps doing fast phases and it's confusing#NeoGenesisVit 7/12 SP 9/12DR 4 AP 6 MP 3CP 8 VP 0-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Augmented Systemics 10-!Augmentic-Extropian[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications] [Jolt Chargers][Compensators 2]!Resilient Streak-Equipment:Nice CapPistol, +5 reloadsFlashlightBatonExperimental VialSling bag: 4x Can O' Beans, 4x Energy Bar's
Rolled 2, 1, 3 = 6 (3d6)>>6086855"Ptuh...uegh...owowow...Why? Why do these things keep happening to meeeee...?">3 MP: Move 444>1 AP: !Telekinetically shotgun some soda.>5 AP: Recover HP. (Health 12 + 2 (AP) vs 14).>+1 CP.#NadirVit 2/12 SP 6/11 CP 12 VP 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive!Mildly DehydratedLoud, Constant Singing II IBullet Magnet II-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8#Psychogenesis 10-!Psionic-Resonant 1 [Microslip Precognition] (Evade additional up to Focus) [Many Hands, Light Work] !Telekinetic 1 (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients) [Temple Inviolate] (only Manifest External)!Existential Dread!Shared Sights-Equipment:Biometric Card3x Can O' Soda
>>6086943All you had to do was say Uncle and get an assignment, man. I don't even know what's next up the ladder.
Rolled 3, 4, 6, 2, 4, 6 = 25 (6d6)>>6086851#GalliumVit 12/12 SP 6/12 CP 8DR 5 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:AliveLeft Arm Crippled [II]-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Augmented Systemic [LOS] 10Electricity Modulators 12 [Focus+1, Stamina x3, Glitch 16)-Augmentic Extropian I[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications] [Meshlinked] [BioElectricity Manifolds] [Compensators 2]Cold and logical.EquipmentIn a state of flux.>[3 AP] Beam a [Formal Apology Letter] into the system of the drones, and sign it as "Gallium, leader of the unwitting vandals." Also promise to help with decomissioning if me and mine (those being my second in command NeoGenesis, Samantha, Nadir, and Acolyte) are let off the hook. The system loves the apology form A-113 (Augmented Systemics (LOS) 10, Duplicity 1)>[3 AP] Finish messing with my own arm, pretty sure all that's left is some gripped servos (Augmented Systemics 10)>Move 34
Rolled 2, 6, 4, 2, 4, 5 = 23 (6d6)>>6086855>3 AP: Recover SP (Health 12)>3 AP: Brace for the likely incoming taze (Physicality 10 + Focus 1)>Gain 1 CP from Creative Thinking Exercises#Splendiferous Weaver of the Threads that bind the Squirming Prey Floundering in the Underneath (Samantha)Vit 12/12 SP 5/12 CP 6->7 VP 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Claws 12Chromatoskin 8-Conditions:Structural Misalignments II [+3 to any Bleed]Sensitive Antenna-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Mutability 11-!Biomodulation Strain #3=Virulent Vitality (Regeneration 3)=Bound by the Flesh!HungryPrimary Taxonomy: Malichnid
>>6086910Oh! Alright, that's not so bad.I thought my arm got replaced with a huge, murderous slab of bioferrite or something.
Rolled 1, 6, 3, 5, 3, 2 = 20 (6d6)>>6086851Missed turn>+1 CP>6AP: Heal Trish (Mutability 10, Focus 1, Concentration 3)This Turn>+1 CP>6AP, 8SP, : Empower Trish. Grant her strength and reaction speed, stoke her righteous fury, numb her pain, take away her exhaustion, do whatever is in My power to help her protect the little ones. (Mutability 10, Focus 1, Concentration 11)Stand firm Trish. You are no longer alone. In the name of Bob, you need only hold them off for a little longer.#Bob the VirusCoherency 6/6 SP 1/9 CP 8Regeneration 2DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 10 Reaction 8 Will 10Virality -5 Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Pathogenic Analysis II II II (Virality -6)Nanocytic Countersampling II II (Max Coherency -4)-Physicality 10Senses 9=Shared SightsThoughts 8Mutability 10=Exceeding +3Pluripotentiality 12 [Aura 3, Vector]-!Biomodulation Strain #3= Fleshshaping= Virulent Vitality= Bound by the Flesh!Overprotective-!Creative Thinking Exercises!Janitorial Intern
>>6086851Sigma, watch my back - stars forgive me, but teach them to griddy! I probably shouldn't, but I believe in you!>3MP+2AP, move 2NE, 2SE, 1NE - these tiny wood men can't stop me!>3AP+2SP, aim at the woodmen attacking Trish - surely there are gaps in these fleshvines (Senses 11, Concentrate +2)>1AP+2SP+Commit, shoot a wooden one attacking Trish! Then shoot a different one! (Commit, Guns 12, Acc 2, Lethality 1)>1TP, offer Sigma the parental approval she never received#AmeliusVit 9/12 SP 2/7 CP 7DR 4 AP 6 MP 3 TP 1-Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Severely Dehydrated (-6 Stamax)Motivated 1 (+1 Stamax, Ineffable)-Physicality 10Senses 11Thoughts 10Support Operations 10Guns (Pistols) 12-!Inspiring Presence!Dreams of the Ocean-1x Cans of Beans1x Rifle reload1x Scragbow1x Arrow quiver (Barbs)C8 Personal, 2d6, Acc 2 Bulk 2, 16/19DR 4 vest
>>6087022No no, nothing so gauche, so crude, so unfashionable! When the Mayor of Subjecttown invites you to the ball you shall be dapper - your new arm armament folds up into itself and the rest of your body and you have full use of all your hands.Honestly it’s hard to even see! Unless you deploy it in a swing, then it’s… very noticable. Just a thin line of sharpened cartilage otherwise. Very fetching.Get a matching hat and you will be the darling of any tea party.
>>6087022Can I have your arm if you die?
Rolled 6, 6, 4 = 16 (3d6)>>6086851"Blud thinks he's HIM without knowing Sigma Mom is a girlboss and Sigma Dad is an alpha GOAT gigachad. I got enough huggy wuggy famrizz, all my fellas imbued me with main zesty character based aura, what's simportant is to watch as I bust it down nairstyle.">3MP+2AP: Move 323 33>4AP: S T O P, hammer time(the dance), throw field centered on Trish. (vs Psychogenesis11+Telekinetic+1, +1AP = 13)>Parental approval rejected, she already has too much.+1 CP From Creative Thinking Exercises#Subject SigmaVit 12/12 SP 10/10 CP 8DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8#Psychogenesis 11-!Incurable Brainrot!Telekinetic+1(Ranged Phys, Mind)!Psionic-Resonant(Eva+, External)
Chat, blame Amelius for uncannying the griddy aura.
>>6087266Uh.I mean, it's not like I'd be in any position to stop you...
>>6086855>[MP 3] Move to console down south>[AP 2] Pick up some loose rubble or debris>[AP 4] Move to West end of wooden platform#ChimeraVit 12 SP 9 CP 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 VP0-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Bit dry-Physicality 10Senses 8= Auditory +2 EchoCheckThoughts 8Mutability 10Piercing Resistance 2#Skill-!Resilient Organs!Biomodulation Strain #3= Virulent Vitality +1= Bound by the Flesh!Relentless
Rolled 1, 1, 2 = 4 (3d6)>>6086851>Move 3 hexes SW>Incorporate the decommissioned panels into myself. I see 5 of them, 4 in the elevator room and 1 to my NW. I'm trying to rewire myself into a magneto-god. 6AP, 5 decommed consoles, 7 inherent CP. Conversion 10. If feasible, try to replace those severed tendons while I'm re-wireing. >While I'm in there, manually doublecheck my physical status to check if my HUD status is accurate. I'm planning on using the presumably significant magnetic field being generated by those superconducting wires to launch myself across the void and over those turrets in a couple turns. Also, apparently I was severely wounded at some point, so I'm going to have to spend to time patching myself up. I apparently took 19 shock and 6 SP damage from being plugged into the computer network? No pop or fire, just a change in the status hud. Vit -7?/12 SP 0?/10 CP 7DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Dehydrated: 2Torn Sinews 4 (-2 to complex movement) Headache 2 (-1 thoughts) -Physicality 10Senses 09Thoughts 08 - 1 (headache)#Mutability 10 [R3]#Conversion 10 (turns spare parts into CP)-!Augmentic 0 (inherited trait, from Donny O' Cork).!Biomodulation 0 (newlife)!Greywire Fragment - Distributed Processing Core!Descriptor - God of the Dead (thinks he's Osiris)
>>6087362Oh, and I was trying to tie the Magnetic Control to my Will, but am willing to accept whatever.
Rolled 4, 1, 5, 1, 2, 6 = 19 (6d6)>>6086855Let's see if my powers are up to snuff and I don't immediately faceplant.>[Move and Do!] [3 MP, 3 AP] Move 3 hexes South. As you move, freeze the soda, skating down the hallway. [Psionigenesis 10, Temperature Control 2]>[Recover] [3 AP] Take a breather. Try and recover stamina.#WilderVit 12 SP 9 CP 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:AliveDehydrated [-2 Stamina]Glaciogenesis II II [SC 9]-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Psionigenesis 10Temperature Control 12-!Psionic-Resonant.[Microslip Precognition] (Evade additional up to Focus)[Many Hands, Light Work]!Telekinetic (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients)[Temple Inviolate] (Manifest external features only)!Peace and love, man.-Inventory:Multi Tool.-
>>6086986Eesh, I'll try stamping this, but it's a big ask from an organization that Janitorial's not inclined to recognize. I really can't push this up unless you trim the request.You, Sam and Nadir is probably doable. You and Neo is maybe doable, but you're both priority 3 and the guy just tried to turn a drone off. Aco just isn't happening. Lemme know what you want.>3SP: Amend and approve Gallium's apology letter
>>6087593Thought 10+Focus 1+Privilege 1
>>6086971Next time ask for an apology letter like a normal person not send a drone at me that takes away 3 of my SP and HP. I maybe hanging out with Gallium but we are not the same.
>>6086857But you do have legs. They're just a little less flexible than you'd expect.>>6086868Marking things properly is treated as Major action, 3 AP - you can also simply direct chemically with 1 AP, but that won't last longer than a turn. Think of it as "I mark this permanently" vs "Everyone, listen up, the order for this turn is!!".Also, Subject, your gunkspitters were always under control. Uncontrollable Features (badly named, perhaps) are only partially uncontrollable. They have a tendency to fire off on their own.>>6086869THEY DIDN'T SAY UNCLE. WE ARE ESCALATING THE SECURITY RESPONSE.>>6086943You can attempt to hack right in to the drone systems, given its close proximity and your advanced systems - unfortunately, it resolves as a Contest, and the Drone pledges Firewall 8 against your Augmentics 10 and unbelievably enough it wins the contest by scoring more margin. It activates the Anti-Tampering measure.>>6086971THE MINIGUNS. WE ARE ACTIVATING THE CEILLING MOUNTED MINIGUN-->>6086986Oh, a formal apology letter. That's alright then.>>6087362Oh, there was quite a lot of pop, fire, explosive shock, slamming into walls... Luckily, the troopers Grins and Alekson put out the fire. >>6087459You do not immeiately faceplant. However, flash-freezing the entire sap-lake is a little beyond the curve of your potential at the moment, so you more sort of hop-skip along small patches of half-frozen not-quite-water without sinking in. It looks graceful. Right?Right we'll say it looks... graceful.--Subject Amelius pushes aside some fungal growths and tries to line up a shot to help Trish in her three on one, but the roots shift and block and he has to tear them with his hands as Sigma brings up the dancing rear-guard. --Everett feels a change in the air. This place is good hunting ground, but . . . the dancing sap flies and the flittering verdancy of life and the enormous clods of glowing insects moving about. No. This is too much. This is *too grand* a palace. Surely there is some kind of king here.>Biological Trait + Sense Check, Success: You have entered the territory of an Apex Predator. Be afraid. --Samantha Braces for impact and learns something new.>ACTIVE DEFENSE: You can actually brace against things you know are coming, and while you'll still try to avoid them normally with Reaction, you simultaneously prepare for the eventuality that you do get hit. If that happens, the total effect is lowered because you're expecting the blow. You can roll with punches, hard block strikes or expose less vulnerable parts this way. It makes the whole world hurt less!-->STAND BY FOR YAWNING PHASE
The Malforma, intermediary leader of the Ripthing Tribes, stretches and tests its new claws by digging a gouge 12 centimeters deep through the reinforced plating of the floor. It rises to its full height - and keeps - rising - turns its many eyes on the local corridor, listens, ears wriggle, fur bristling, tongue rolling to check the air for prey and power.Sacs along its spine expand and expel princely scents.The Kronin Ripthings cluster close, to breathe in near-royalty.Acolyte rocks on her feet and shakes her head and has to concentrate not to bow her head. Chemicals so rarely lie. If this thing says it should be obeyed in all things for all times at all times forever, why would that not be truth? Still, while chemicals are not duplicitious, sometimes, the artifice of man and the designs of this facility is. The Kronin #2 Strain were breed for combat. Search and prowl missions. They're meant to be led by a human operator who can take advanced tactical decisions beyond the scope of the stigmergic chemical communication that the Ripthings employ.So Acolyte tastes the air and adjusts the profile of her sweat and the molecules in her hair. It is an intense battle of the will. Two creatures staring at each other, each trying to command the other to bow first...--Acolyte evolves a Chemical Feature. RANGED lets your actions work at Range with less of the usually horrendous penalties, which will make marking and secreting things easier. Much like with guns and bows and thrown knives and other ranged tools, one can also AIM ranged features, try to trick-shot, be a little more precise in application.All those times you were running about trying to mark things 10 tiles distant? Yeah it didn't work because of the walls and also because without RANGED your features are presumed to work in touch and reach range. You can't smear your hands over things 20 tiles distant!AREA (Tog) is Area, Toggleable. The Tog is important. It's a free action to set Features with it to wider area - Area 1 is 1 7 tile aoe (from a centre, add +1 tile to all sides). AREA OF EFFECT in a game that takes place primarily inside a confined space where people are often close together is useful to be cautious of. If you turn area mode on and go "KILL THIS" and spit into a zone that has 3 of your allies and 7 of the enemy, those chemicals can't tell the difference between your friends and your foes. Be a little circumspect with this. The other "minor" drawback is that concentration gradient naturally diffuses a little; you're spreading the same stuff out over a larger area. So sometimes, you get slightly less effect than you hope for. Since Chemical Signalling so often simply directs or notes or shapes intention, this is not so important. But do be aware that the Ripthings were using Chemical Signalling to take Recovery Actions for you, and so if you tried to Recovery Action an entire area by bathing it in pleasant smells of home and safety, you'd get a little less.
>>6087824Raise your objections or solutions in time for it to matter. Gallium did, and good on him. He's clearly more normal than you or I.
>>6087886Yeah and maybe next time there won't be a trap turn posted at a time I can't actually post.
WAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRThe Children of the Woods prepare for glorious battle against heretics, the faithless, the false idols, the *followers of disavowed creeds*, the mutant, the xeno, the monster in the dark. For the Bulb. For the Beans. For the biosphere.WAAAAARRRRRR--Sigma and Amelius duck and weave like dancers beneath a rain of arrows.Grins yelps and brings his shield up in time to intercept a flight of death. The lone warrior that Sundae lets scamper, wounded and fearful, back into the village yells and points and screeches and from a hundred openings its allys boil forward.Though they are afraid of the enemies before them, they are also guided on by the unerring instincts for battle and the hormonal pulses of their godking, and they are going to make trophies of your BONES, subjects.--In less warlike news, the Janitorial Assistance Anthroforms return to cleaning duties in the western section of the facility.-->WAKING PHASE>THAT MEANS YOU LOT>ETA uncertain, given that it is Saturday, may flash-progres a few ticks within 3-4 hours, assuming Subjects near hotzones act.
Rolled 4, 5, 4 = 13 (3d6)>>6087904>Gain 1 CP from Creative Thinking Exercises>2 MP: Move 21>6 AP: Manifest an Enhancement to Chromatoskin - I would like to improve it such that it works seamlessly even when I am moving. If this is already possible with the current version, I would like to make it more reliable, increasing its rank if feasible. (Chromatoskin 8 + 3 Concentration + 8 CP + 1 SP) [vs 20 total]#Splendiferous Weaver of the Threads that bind the Squirming Prey Floundering in the Underneath (Samantha)Vit 12/12 SP 6->5/12 CP 7->8->0 VP 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Claws 12Chromatoskin 8-Conditions:Structural Misalignments II [+3 to any Bleed]Sensitive Antenna-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Mutability 11-!Biomodulation Strain #3=Virulent Vitality (Regeneration 3)=Bound by the Flesh!HungryPrimary Taxonomy: Malichnid
>>6087904That's it, Sigma! Give them the, er, skibidi! Nobody puts Baby in a corner!>1TP+3AP+COMMIT, double down on the parental approval, it seems to be working (SupOp10+Concentrate3+Commit)>3AP, finish clawing through these growths (Phys10)>3MP, move 3S#AmeliusVit 9/12 SP 6/7 CP 7DR 4 AP 6 MP 3 TP 1-Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Severely Dehydrated (-6 Stamax)Motivated 1 (+1 Stamax, Ineffable)-Physicality 10Senses 11Thoughts 10Support Operations 10Guns (Pistols) 12-!Inspiring Presence!Dreams of the Ocean-1x Cans of Beans1x Rifle reload1x Scragbow1x Arrow quiver (Barbs)C8 Personal, 2d6, Acc 2 Bulk 2, 18/19DR 4 vest
Rolled 2, 6, 6 = 14 (3d6)>>6087904Gee I sure am glad that they're in there, and we're out here.>[6 AP] Form an ice wall in front of the Crawlers to the south to stop their advancement and keep us safe. [Temperature Control (10+2), 3 Concentration: vs. 15]#WilderVit 12 SP 10 CP 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:AliveDehydrated [-2 Stamina]Glaciogenesis II II [SC 9]-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Psionigenesis 10Temperature Control 12-!Psionic-Resonant.[Microslip Precognition] (Evade additional up to Focus)[Many Hands, Light Work]!Telekinetic (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients)[Temple Inviolate] (Manifest external features only)!Peace and love, man.-Inventory:Multi Tool.-
Rolled 3, 3, 3 = 9 (3d6)>>6087904>+1 CP from Creative Thinking>3 MP: Move 223>1 AP: !Telekinetically use Biometric Card to open the locked door.>5 AP, 5 CP, 2 SP: Manifest. Subvert the voices to gain the ability to fill a given area with piercing dread keening (Psychogenesis 10 + 2 (AP) + 5 (CP) + 2 (SP); !Loud, Constant Singing; !Existential Dread vs 19).#NadirVit 9/12 SP 6/12 CP 8 VP 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive!Loud, Constant Singing II IBullet Magnet II-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8#Psychogenesis 10-!Psionic-Resonant 1 [Microslip Precognition] (Evade additional up to Focus) [Many Hands, Light Work] !Telekinetic 1 (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients) [Temple Inviolate] (only Manifest External)!Existential Dread!Shared Sights-Equipment:Biometric Card2x Can O' Soda1x empty soda1x empty bean can
Rolled 4, 3, 4 = 11 (3d6)>>6087904#AcolyteVit 6/10 SP 2/12 CP 2DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10 Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions: Regal- Physicality 10 **Flexible Bones. +++Flex, —-Strength.Senses 9**Chems 4, Ranged, Area (Toggle)**Shared SensesThoughts 8 Mutability 11Gunkspitters 12, Twinned, Uncontrollable SC 12 #Skill-!Biomodulation Strain #3 - Bound by Flesh 1- Regen 2!Craves Purpose!Creative Thinking ExerciseHeart attacks and parental failures aside My pack is the best packThanks guys >Regen 2>Recover Stamina (3 AP, Commit, 3d6 v 12+3)>Tell the swarm to follow me (1 AP)>Lead the swarm towards the door Nadir just opened. Stay close to the prince while I regenerate. (3 Movement, 2 AP)Gain one CP from creative thinking.
Rolled 6, 5, 4 = 15 (3d6)>>6087904>CP+1>6AP: Sic the nanocyte on Bulb (Pluripotentiality 12, Duplicity 1, Concentration 3)#Bob the VirusCoherency 6/6 SP 1/9 CP 9Regeneration 2DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 10 Reaction 8 Will 10Virality -5 Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Pathogenic Analysis II II II (Virality -6)Nanocytic Countersampling II II (Max Coherency -4)-Physicality 10Senses 9=Shared SightsThoughts 8Mutability 10=Exceeding +3Pluripotentiality 12 [Aura 3, Vector]-!Biomodulation Strain #3= Fleshshaping= Virulent Vitality= Bound by the Flesh!Overprotective-!Creative Thinking Exercises!Janitorial Intern
Rolled 5, 4, 1, 6, 2, 6 = 24 (6d6)>>6087904"Stand back, I'm beginning to Skib."Sigma busts moves that could not possibly exist in this world, compelling nearby victims to do the same. Gazing upon these incomprehensible motions triggers a primal need... the need to break it down.>1SP Return LMBITFY field to Sigma>3AP Cause everyone inside field to perform an unmentionable dance, contagious and unsettling to all who witness it (vs psychogen 11, !Brainrot)>3AP Use victims as a conduit for the spread of brainrot toward the wooden ones northwise. (vs 12 psychogen 11, focus 1!Brainrot)>3MP Shuffle the dance northward?+1 CP From Creative Thinking Exercises#Subject SigmaVit 9/12 SP 9/10 CP 9DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8#Psychogenesis 11-!Incurable Brainrot!Telekinetic+1(Ranged Phys, Mind)!Psionic-Resonant(Eva+, External)
with a flick of the mental wrist, a card slides through a reader as Wilder blocks the passage ahead with a flash-freeze of golden, flowing sap. . . . . . greenery spills out of the heavy security doors. One man in a technicians uniform lies against the door, half rotted. The air is sweetly, heavy, spores and dense dust and little flittering bits of life flowing out of the room . . The lights above! they activate! Flickering into sudden brightness, bathing the enormous THRUMMING core with a bathe of light, revealng biolumiscent mushrooms and growths in an odd shape, beneath which whole new generations of Wood Children are slowly growing like so much mold . . .
>>6087964Do I get to keep the card or was it single-use?
>>6087956Corrections Recover has been changed, and I’m told all Recovery is now automatically committed. Thus, I suppose I’m actually rolling against 12. My bad.Gunkspitters are now no longer uncontrollable.
>>6087959>1SP to move field 2 to catch all the closest enemies
>>6087926> Everett kneels down and scoops up a stray chunk of calcified debris. (1SP)> Eyes raking the walls, ceiling, and the outline of each crumbling mineral formation, Everett's attention eventually falls upon the gardens of scarlet fungus lining the cavern. Mindful not to touch them, the biomutant briefly scrutinizes a nearby patch of mushrooms, trying to ascertain if there is anything suspicious about them. (Test & Try - 3AP)> Pulling his arm back, Everett forcefully flicks the stoney shard further into the ominous cavern. With a sharp 'CLACK, CLACK, CLACK' it skips across strange rock and exposed patches of metal of the cave's floor. Everett is entirely motionless, intently monitoring for even the most minute response from the cavern's musty recesses. (Test and Try - 3AP)> Be ready to spring backwards to relative safety if ambushed or otherwise imperiled. (React - 3MP)
>>6087957You really, absolutely, **CATEGORICALLY**, do not want to directly interact with the NanoCytic Systems.Think of them like antimatter to you, grand king of the cough. You touch it, you wither and die. Your enormous powers end at nanoscale robotics that hard-working, very paranoid engineers have made very certain have precisely 0% organic constituent. That writ, you can indeed use Duplicity and some clever trickery with Pluripotentiality to provide a false trail that they should follow instead and hope to lead them on to other targets instead - though you'll need to specify an actual coordinate grid target where you (glean/guess/estimate/have access to) your target. It's the LOOK OVER HERE rather than the "stick your hand in lava" option.Suppose BULB is bound as you, to act mostly in an area aorund its followers, then perhaps if you had your friends near theirs, you could mark those very followers as targets for the NanoCytic Systems. In truth, you'd be throwing a bit of yourself at them and making it very obvious and then the plaguehunters would come-a-calling.Much like you, Bulp only really "exists" in the bodies and minds of his allies. Presumably. Maybe those weird fleshy growths that Gallium and Nadir and Wilder and NeoGenesis can see past the doors have something to do with it as well. If you want to target him directly, your access vector is its disciples and growths (Much like things targetting you are through your wonderful, reliable (??) fellows)So, try again, take another turn.---Inside the TEMPLE OF THE BULB, enormous power-cradles and thermoregulation cores and vast powerbank still thrum with power, though the organic growths eveywhere appear to be close to knocking out this system.Beyond, a chanting gaggle of Wood Children shamans intone their clipped language to their high icon of plague and poxAnd just beyond them, creaking like an old oak, bark-skin like the thousand year red woods, eyes brimming with fanaticism stands the paladin of plague itself: THE GUARDIAN OF THE BULB.That is ONE big sword in its withered, gnarly hands, a sort of macuahuitl where sharp bits of floor plating and robotic casing have been bound tightly. Don't those things cut through horses? Armor? Man-flesh??>>6087956You may wish to take a different turn, given the revelation of this interior.
>>6087969Every knows high security access cards immediately catch fire upon use, and their constant replenishment is one of the primary reasons for a loss-making budget in most high tech R&D environments.............you think *really* hard and take literally 3 SP damage from asking something so profoundly deranged and then you realize that, yeah, yeah, hm, yeah, that does seem likely that high security biometric passes are not one use
>>6087980Who's to say? Maybe this facility runs on video game logic and these are colored keys from Doom.
Also, better make sure of these things. The last thing I need is to run up against another locked door, reach for my trusty biometric card, and then have Command go>TEEEHEEE, THE LAST DOOR YOU USED THIS ON *ATE* THE CARD SUCKS TO SUCK BOZO
Rolled 3, 5, 5 = 13 (3d6)>>6087904>Move 3 hexes NW, 1 hex N>Warn Chimera that I am activating the bridge controls. >Activate the bridge controls. (Will 10, 6AP since I ran). I'd prefer to extend the bridge west of Chimera, but I'll extend whatever bridges are extensible from this terminal. >If all the bridges extend, flag all terminals for the extended bridges as redundant and request permission to decommission. Vit 6/12+20/20A // SP 4/12? // CP 0DR 4A // AP 6 // MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Dehydrated 2? Torn Sinews 2 (-1 to complex movement)Regen 3Electronics Decommisioner Intern-Physicality 10Senses 09Thoughts 08 #Mutability 10 [R3]#Conversion 10 (turns spare parts into CP)-!Greywire Fragment 0 - Distributed Processing Core!Descriptor - God of the Dead (thinks he's Osiris)
>>6087983>>6087981Lies and slander, we'd never call you a bozo. ( We use a much more dignified style of invective, so we'd call you a cardsharp in cases of calamitious card crashes )
Rolled 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 4, 5, 3, 4, 6, 3, 6, 3, 2, 6, 5, 6, 5, 5, 3, 5, 1, 1, 6 = 89 (24d6)>>6086986Nice job, way better than I expected. Call Alekson over to see how wrecked it is in there. Should get scavenge perms no problem.>>6087959Got your back!>>6087904>TP: Grins, you're with Gluttony. Hurt 'em good. SUT 10+CUF 1+Lethality 1>3MP, 5AP: Hurry switch to pistol, Move 232 33, Shield tackle, then face 4. Shield 13+Lethality 1-Hurry 1>1AP, 2SP: Fire 6 shots at archers in the hallway 544. Senses 11+Lethality 1Vitality 7 Stamina 7-2 Tactical 1DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 6Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Conditions:Alive-Physicality 10 Senses 11 Thoughts 10Shield 13#Small Unit Tactics 10-!Cool Under Fire: +[TP] to resist Decohesion and Breaks, and when directing detached units. Minor: specify and mitigate a situation complicating an ally's task.!Not by Numbers: Detached troops have higher crit and reroll crit mishaps. Decohesion and Breaks make them chaotic.!Clear Voice!Janitor Intern +1 PrivilegeRiot Shield (E)Pistol, 2 reloads (E) 11/18Baton4CP
>>6087979#AcolyteVit 6/10 SP 2/12 CP 2DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10 Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions: Regal- Physicality 10 **Flexible Bones. +++Flex, —-Strength.Senses 9**Chems 4, Ranged, Area (Toggle)**Shared SensesThoughts 8 Mutability 11Gunkspitters 12, Twinned-!Biomodulation Strain #3 - Bound by Flesh 1- Regen 2!Craves Purpose!Creative Thinking ExerciseSlight change of plans, then.> Regen 2> Hurry as close to the Idol as I can, so I have clear line of sight. (3 Movement)> Vomit KILL all over the idol (6 AP, Senses 9, Chems 4, Focus 1, Concentration 3, Ranged)> Cheer on the handsome prince! (0 AP!)
Rolled 1, 2, 3 = 6 (3d6)>>6087979>>6087999Dropped my dice.
Rolled 5, 5, 1, 2, 2, 5 = 20 (6d6)>>6087904#GalliumVit 12/12 SP 6/12 CP 8DR 5 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:AliveLeft Arm Crippled [II]-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Augmented Systemic [LOS] 10Electricity Modulators 12 [Focus+1, Stamina x3, Glitch 16)-Augmentic Extropian I[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications] [Meshlinked] [BioElectricity Manifolds] [Compensators 2]Cold and logical.EquipmentIn a state of flux."Please, do not do this with your computer systems at home." >[3 AP] Disengage the temperature sensors on the REGENT core. (Augmented Systemics 10)>[3 AP] Spam the REGENT core with requests to run very processing-intensive simulations of uuuh, let's say, a pandemic event without nanocytic purge measures, down to the precise number of viral particles at any moment of the situation. That way, the core will overheat, and set fire to those fancy roots. (Augmented Systemics 10, dump my remaining 6 Stamina into that)>Pop back into cover by moving 5
Rolled 4, 1, 1, 6, 1, 3 = 16 (6d6)>>6087904I think you forgor last round's Regen 3 por mi mon ami>ACTIONYBITS INNIT>/-/-/-/MP3: {3-3-4}AP3: ATTACK - Use reach to BITE onto a delicious wood child on the head (cracking it open if I can) and slam it into another one, then fling its body into a third.>[Physicality 10, Teeth 2, Strength 2, Lethality 2 (1x2) Reach 2]AP3: ACID - Fling an acid Tidepod down the hall into a cluster of multiple woodlads.>[Physicality 10, Lethality **4** (1x2x2), Acid EX]SP1: Swallow just a little bit of this woodchild flesh, as a treat.REGENCREATIVE THINKING"GET OFF MY FLOOR YOU FUCKING NORMALFAGS!">->Spent>-SP=6=7-1>->Gained>-HP=12=11+1 | CP=8=7+1>/-/-/-/>INFOBITS INNIT>/-/-/-/Subject: #GluttonyHP 12/12 SP 6/12 CP 8DR 0 AP 6 MP 3>->Stats>-Vitality 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Conditions:Alive, Scary>->Skills>-Physicality 10--[Teeth +2, Reach 2][Strength +2]Senses 9--[Shared Senses +1] [Advanced Photoreceptors +?]Thoughts 8Mutability 10--Acid Glands [x2 Lethality Acid-EX]>->Traits>-!Biomodulation Strain #3--[Virulent Vitality][Bound by the Flesh]!Wild-Eyed>->Initiatives>-[Creative Thinking Exercises] Enrollee[Sheer Violence of Action] Enrollee
Great Griddy Battle is joined, as Sigma busts a move all over the wooden attackers and Sundae fires off a wild spray of bullets down the path, wood pinging, fragments flying, shields shattering against the sheer awesome might of modern firepower.-->STAND BY FOR YAWNING PHASE>ANY SUBJECTS THAT DIDN'T ACT CAN FEEL FREE TO DO SO AS WELL, WILL ROLL IT INTO THE YAWNING PHASE.
>>6088032Correction, the acid attack is supposed to be mutability test not physicality - but in my case they are both the same: 10
Rolled 1, 4, 4, 6, 2, 2 = 19 (6d6)>>6087904>>6088019>3AP: Recharge a bit of my SP from the >3AP: Give additionnal processing power to Gallium to overheat and burn the roots>3MP: Slide into cover at 5#NeoGenesisVit 7/12 SP 6/12DR 4 AP 6 MP 3CP 9 VP 0-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Augmented Systemics 10-!Augmentic-Extropian[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications] [Jolt Chargers][Compensators 2]!Resilient Streak-Equipment:Nice CapPistol, +5 reloadsFlashlightBatonExperimental VialSling bag: 4x Can O' Beans, 4x Energy Bar's
Rolled 5, 4, 6 = 15 (3d6)>>6087979>6AP: Sic the nanocyte on Bulb's False Temple, 334 from Acolyte (Pluripotentiality 12, Duplicity 1, Concentration 3)Hey, godkiller nanocyte swarm. Look over there!#Bob the VirusCoherency 6/6 SP 1/9 CP 9Regeneration 2DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 10 Reaction 8 Will 10Virality -5 Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Pathogenic Analysis II II II (Virality -6)Nanocytic Countersampling II II (Max Coherency -4)-Physicality 10Senses 9=Shared SightsThoughts 8Mutability 10=Exceeding +3Pluripotentiality 12 [Aura 3, Vector]-!Biomodulation Strain #3= Fleshshaping= Virulent Vitality= Bound by the Flesh!Overprotective-!Creative Thinking Exercises!Janitorial Intern#Bob the VirusCoherency 6/6 SP 1/9 CP 9Regeneration 2DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 10 Reaction 8 Will 10Virality -5 Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Pathogenic Analysis II II II (Virality -6)Nanocytic Countersampling II II (Max Coherency -4)-Physicality 10Senses 9=Shared SightsThoughts 8Mutability 10=Exceeding +3Pluripotentiality 12 [Aura 3, Vector]-!Biomodulation Strain #3= Fleshshaping= Virulent Vitality= Bound by the Flesh!Overprotective-!Creative Thinking Exercises!Janitorial Intern
Rolled 6, 5, 6 = 17 (3d6)>>6088042Sneaking my action in during the yawning phase! All this greenery almost makes you forget we're in some kind of underground facility. >3MP, Move 3-3-2 >3AP, Move some more! 2-2-1 >1TP+3AP (Thoughts,10), Talk to myself because I'm lonely and scared. Talking to oneself helps, right? Think about fun things like... the colour red, blue and green. Maybe I can gain more confidence? charisma? or as subject sigma lingo dictates... rizz#BulwarkVit 12/12 SP 7/7 (12-5) DR 3 (0+3)AP 6 MP 3 TP 1CP 6 VP 0 -Health 10 Reaction 5 (7-2) Will 12Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Very Dehydrated [-4 SPMax]Cold [-1 SPMax]Lingering Bruises II II [-2 Reaction]Cursed??? II II [-1 CritFail Threshold]-Physicality 10Senses 10+1 (Shared Senses)Thoughts 10#Small Unit Tactics 10-!Nerves of Cold Steel [Cool Under Fire][Not By The Number]!Nerves of Cold Steel-SecVest [3DR]2 Pistol ReloadsCan Opener Blade, L+2, Sharp 2, Parry +2
>>6088042#BubbaVit 14 SP 2 CP 8DR 6 AP 6 MP 3-Health 14 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:AliveLookin’ mighty fine-Physicality 10Senses 8Thoughts 8#Skill-Augmented Systemics 10!Augmetic Extropian!Metal Fatigue!Reserve Power!Engineering Specifications!Blood-Loss Resistance!Redundant Organs 3>spend 6AP to clean up the spot of blood next to me (for janitorial duties)
>>6088096Use this time to reflect upon your sins in signing up to be a janny.
The worshippers of the Bulb are shot, broken, battered, stabbed pierced, and some of them dance their way clean off of the stage and into a horrifically shocking end, as others flob on the ground and do the worm, and yet on they come.Sundae is clobbered by a rush of new arrivals, as Gluttony is forced back by spear and arrow and club, and Grins has to throw himself aside and bring his shield up to defend against a sudden flank attack. Trish rushes forward, killing as she goes, to try to get Amelius and Sigma some safety, but even her interception of the first wave doesn't quite prevent scores of warriors from planting sharp strikes right in Sigma's spine, shaking off the dancing as they do (though some of them are still busting a move, attacks going far wider than they otherwise would)--The SW Processing Core heats up noticably as the thermoregulation systems take vacation, but instead of instantly filling the entire room with fire, it instead just gets very, very warm in here as the fans stop working. The roots already compromised much of the cooling and the ventilation isn't up to scratch, so the temple of the Bulb rapidly begins heating - but that doesn't deter the warriors within, clashing into each other, fangs and sword meeting in a rush of battle.( Sly Root Crawlers, watching the ice wall melt slowly, but bide their time, now knowing that if they simply wait, their prey will exhaust themselves )--The bridge across the superconductive highway unfurls, breaking wood and shattering growths as it extends indeafitably, and a passing Security Officer on a routine patrol goes "huh" and begins wandering over to investigate all the noise. --Chimera feels their platform destabilize, anchoring breaking, wood shattering, tendrils pulled off of the walls -- time to go! TIME TO GO!--The SW Core is going to keep heating up. What do we reckon the tolerance specifications are, for a paranoid security engineer? Surely, there are emergency cut offs at *some* point? Well, of course, if they're offline, then... what other failsaves might activate? These installations are expensive. There's bound to be something.--Did Bob do something with the nanocytic systems? ... how do you tell? They're so small!>WAKING PHASE>THAT MEANS YOU LOT !
>>6088157> With deliberate slowness Everett extends an arm in the direction of one of the twitching gossamer threads, then in a flash of motion his armblade slashes out and severs the thread - intentionally signaling the tyrant sovereign of this grotto, a defiant challenge to its supremacy. (Strike, Armblade13 - 3AP)> Nerve-endings buzz anxiously, poised muscles strain, primed senses ring with concentration. Lower into an evasive stance in anticipation of a terrifying confrontation (React - 3MP+3AP+3SP)
Rolled 1, 3, 1, 5, 3, 6 = 19 (6d6)>>6088177[/i]oh no[/i]
Rolled 6, 5, 6, 6, 4, 1 = 28 (6d6)>>6088157>/-/-/-/>ACTIONYBITS INNIT>/-/-/-/MP1: {4}AP1: ACID secretion onto the woodlad at my {2}>Grins will attack the Wooden Ones to his {1} or his {2} if my acid kills the one at his {1}AP3: BITE wood child at my {4} pulling it back in a wide arc behind me, over my head and slamming it down ferociously into the other three wooden ones there. Gulp down more delectable Nutty Buddy flesh.>[Physicality 10, Teeth 2, Strength 2, Lethality 2(1x2)] [Reach 1]AP2 SP1: DISSONANT SCREECH directly in BULB's DIVINE FACE with my POWERFUL LUNGS to OVERLOAD HIS NANOWHATEVER SENSORS and DISRUPT HIS STUPID FLIPPING **COHERENCY.**>[Mutability 10, Lethality 2, Rush Lungs ?]>Possibly Strength helps me screech too since the buff was specifically to my core."CAN YOU SMELL YOUR CHOSEN ON MY BREATH, YOU ALMIGHTY BITCH?!"SP1: Grab GrinsMP2: {1,2} (Place Grins to my {1}REGENCREATIVE THINKING>->Spent>-SP=4=6-2>->Gained>-HP=6=3+3 | CP=10=8+2>/-/-/-/>INFOBITS INNIT>/-/-/-/Subject: #GluttonyHP 12/12 SP 4/12 CP 10DR 0 AP 6 MP 3>->Stats>-Vitality 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Conditions:Alive, Scary>->Skills>-Physicality 10--[Teeth +2, Reach 2][Strength +2]Senses 9--[Shared Senses +1] [Advanced Photoreceptors +?]Thoughts 8Mutability 10--Acid Glands [x2 Lethality Acid-EX]>->Traits>-!Biomodulation Strain #3--[Virulent Vitality][Bound by the Flesh]!Wild-Eyed>->Initiatives>-[Creative Thinking Exercises] Enrollee[Sheer Violence of Action] Enrollee
>>6088177>>6088183the thin gossamer wire parts with the soft release of tension, vibrations channeling outwards, the net singing in a gentle symphony of vibrational frequencies. . .>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgD9lL5VhP8
Rolled 3, 2, 3 = 8 (3d6)>>6087971We gotta move!>>6088157>TP Sigma, watch your step, don't let them get a shot in. Sense 11+Alacrity 1+CUF 1>3MP+3AP: Disengage, Move 3244. Reaction 7+Alacrity 1?>3AP: Block, plugging doorway. Shield 13Vitality 3 Stamina 4 Tactical 1DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 6Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Conditions:Alive-Physicality 10 Senses 11 Thoughts 10Shield 13#Small Unit Tactics 10-!Cool Under Fire: +[TP] to resist Decohesion and Breaks, and when directing detached units. Minor: specify and mitigate a situation complicating an ally's task.!Not by Numbers: Detached troops have higher crit and reroll crit mishaps. Decohesion and Breaks make them chaotic.!Clear Voice!Janitor Intern +1 PrivilegeRiot Shield (E)Pistol, 2 reloads (E) 11/18Baton4CP
Rolled 1, 1, 3 = 5 (3d6)>>6088157>Gain 1 CP from Creative Thinking Exercises>3 MP: Move 111>6 AP, 6 SP: Manifest an Adjustment to Alacrity - leverage my Structural Misalignments to create new spider legs. My goal is to be able to move silently without slowing me down too much (or at all, or perhaps even increase my speed?). (Alacrity 1 + CP 5 + 3 Concentration + 6 SP) [vs 15 total] (If Alacrity is not appropriate for this upgrade, use Movement instead, MP 3)#Splendiferous Weaver of the Threads that bind the Squirming Prey Floundering in the Underneath (Samantha)Vit 12/12 SP 6->0/12 CP 4->5->0 VP 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Claws 12Chromatoskin 8 (Discipline 2)-Conditions:Structural Misalignments II [+3 to any Bleed]Sensitive Antenna-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Mutability 11-!Biomodulation Strain #3=Virulent Vitality (Regeneration 3)=Bound by the Flesh!HungryPrimary Taxonomy: Malichnid
Rolled 1, 5, 6, 3, 6, 4 = 25 (6d6)>>6088157>CP+1>3AP: Reach out to the Hesitant Wooden Ones (and the rest of them if possible) and deliver a message directly to whatever passes for neurons in their biology. Bob the Primogen, Bob the Lifegiver is displeased, but in His infinite mercy will spare their lives if only they renounce Bulb the Deceiver, Bulb the Devil, lay down their arms and pray for forgiveness for their many and grievous sins against woodenkind. (Pluripotentiality 12, Duplicity 1)>3AP: Create another Fleshspawn out of the corpses of Bulb's hordes near Sundae and Sigma, in the form of a large acid-spitting multi-legged horror. Have it attack Bulb's hordes. (Pluripotentiality 12, Focus 1)A WARNING TO MY FELLOW SUBJECTS. I WILL MELT THE INSIDES OF ANYONE WHO HARMS ANY OF MY CHILDREN WHO ACCEPT ME BACK IN THEIR WOODEN HEARTS.#Bob the VirusCoherency 6/6 SP 1/9 CP 10Regeneration 2DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 10 Reaction 8 Will 10Virality -5 Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Pathogenic Analysis II II II (Virality -6)Nanocytic Countersampling II II (Max Coherency -4)-Physicality 10Senses 9=Shared SightsThoughts 8Mutability 10=Exceeding +3Pluripotentiality 12 [Aura 3, Vector]-!Biomodulation Strain #3= Fleshshaping= Virulent Vitality= Bound by the Flesh!Overprotective-!Creative Thinking Exercises!Janitorial Intern
>>6088177>>6088183>>6088188monstrosity erupts from the darknes with all the unstoppable malice of a traitor at the gates, a knife in the dark, cyanide in the wine given to you by a friend. Innocent sap flies, feasting on the bountiful fluids and matter here, are squished, squelched, ripped apart, smashed against the walls of the root-cave as the titanic avalanche of hunger slams through the system - murder claws swiping through the very spot that it detected the most minute of vibrations from. Everett throws himself aside, initial cool dodge turning into a desperate roll as the sheer REACH of this horrific creature surprises the subject!What is this thing??! It undulates with malice! It menaces with claws! Hundredfold eyes pierce the darkness! Chitin-carapace like armor plates click against each other! Its enormous - ENORMOUS - maw is stained with the fluids and smears of prior meals, and it's mottled shell bears the scars of a hundred other contenders for the throne of *apex predator*Everett has enough of a sane fear response left that their amygdaloid systems crank into frenzied overdrive and it is only through a focused concentration of purest will that the Subject stands still instead of sprinting headlong away, away, away, like the ripthings have already done.You, Subject, stand in the lair of the SPITESPIDER, and it *intends your death*.You don't even think any weaponry you have to bring to bear can scratch it! That carapace looks armswidth THICK!>Subject Everett can act again.
>>6088198Bob, I have made a wondrous discovery.The wooden children.... they're.... they're to die for.
>>6088205You have earned a place of favour among My holy warriors and you may consume as many of the heretics as you like, for as long as supply lasts. I will remember you fondly if you die, and you will be revered as a saint in the Gospel of Bob.
>>6088204(Uhhh... I may have bitten off more than I can chew.)> Snatch up a fist full of mushroom caps from underfoot. (Minor action - 1AP)> Hurl the spore-heavy chunks of fungus into the Apex predator's face (and ideally eyes) as hard as possible. Hopefully disrupting the beast's vision to some extent in the ensuing cloud of sporedust. (Major Action - 3AP)> Scramble southwest to get more room to dodge back and to limit the angles of its swings using the craggy terrain. (Move - 1MP)> Get ready to avoid a retaliatory strike. Try to dodge in a South-South-Easternly direction, taking advantage of the mass of rocks to provide a bit of extra cover. (Reaction - 2MP+2AP+2SP)
Nobody else dies, not now! Quick feet, mind the gap and cover one another. Trish stay behind Sundae and let me treat you.>1AP, recovery on Trish - I don't have my aid kit anymore, but maybe I can use her silly bandana? (SupOp10)>1AP, recovery on Sigma when she gets in here - I don't know, slap some moss on her wounds? (SupOp10)>3AP, open my beans and toss them to the woodsie saplings - maybe this will help their dead and dying?>1TP+1AP+COMMIT, call out enemy movements to boost our reactions! (Senses 11, Commit)#AmeliusVit 9/12 SP 6/7 CP 7DR 4 AP 6 MP 3 TP 1-Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Severely Dehydrated (-6 Stamax)Motivated 1 (+1 Stamax, Ineffable)-Physicality 10Senses 11Thoughts 10Support Operations 10Guns (Pistols) 12-!Inspiring Presence!Dreams of the Ocean-1x Rifle reload1x Scragbow1x Arrow quiver (Barbs)C8 Personal, 2d6, Acc 2 Bulk 2, 18/19DR 4 vest
Rolled 3, 4, 1, 5, 1, 4 = 18 (6d6)>>6088157#GalliumVit 12/12 SP 0/12 CP 8DR 5 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:AliveLeft Arm Crippled [II]-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Augmented Systemic [LOS] 10Electricity Modulators 12 [Focus+1, Stamina x3, Glitch 16)-Augmentic Extropian I[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications] [Meshlinked] [BioElectricity Manifolds] [Compensators 2]Cold and logical.EquipmentIn a state of flux."Calculating. I will assist your pack, Acolyte.">[3 AP] Take a second to catch my breath, hacking takes a lot out of you. (Health 12, committed)>Pop out of cover, move 2>[3 AP] Now. We got a hot pocket of air inside. And a relatively cooler pocket outside. I'm riiiight at the meeting point. This is the ideal conditions for lightning. Try to cook up the atmospheric phenomenon known as ball lightning. Then lob it over the head of the friendly ripthings, right at the guardian of the bulb. Hopefully, the ball of plasma will take it past its ignition point. (Electricity Modulators 12, Lethality 1)>Move 5, get back into cover, I'm technically commited because of the recover.
>>6088212With a deft throw a clod of spores and muck and debris splash into ten of the thirty eyes (OR MORE) of the scuttling, skittering Spitespider and it SCREEESSSS with a piercing shrill that rattles the ribs in Everetts chest and then comes forward, claws and talons and legs and manipulators like a whirlwind of murder - rocks scatter, the ground is torn up, Everett throws himself away, backpedalling, backpedalling further, spinning away and the beast is so very close to simply cutting off Everett's leg!!!Sheer *fortune* means it slams one of its sides against a rooty, rocky outcropping first and the claws come up short, the Spitespider not turned the right way to bolt through the opening in the roots . . . but this is its lair! It won't be impeded here forever! And it has your *scent* now, little fleshthing. Poke out its eyes. Rip them out. Scar them. Blind them. Gouge them. No matter. It will keep coming.>Subject Everett can take another turn. If they want.
Rolled 4, 5, 5 = 14 (3d6)Sargeant GroneVit 12 SP 8/10 (12) CP 0DR 0AP 6 MP 3 TP 1-Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive, Wielding Knife-Physicality 10Senses 11 (-2 Visual)Thoughts 10Harass 10-!Mean Wolfpack!Loves His Job!Don't Let Up> MOVE: Evade South (Alacrity 1)> TACTICAL: -2 Stamina +2 Effect STANDING ORDER: EXTERMINATE> MINOR: Concentrate> MAJOR: Stab anything that moves (Reaction 7 or harass 10, Lethality 1, Saw-tooth Knife +1L)
>>6088236THE JUNGLE IS ALIVE WITH WOOD CHILDREN, SERGEANT. THE TREES ARE SPEAKING FANATICISM. RIP AND TEAR AND STAB AND LIVE.
>>6088228> Quickly, while its disorientated, run a snap evaluation of its carapace. The shell itself is far too formidable to pierce, but how does the armor far around the limb joints, mouth, eyes, and other sensitive points? Are there any gaps in this living tank's armor's significant enough to allow my feeble sliver claw to slip inside and inflict a legitimate injury? (Major Action - 3AP)> Reposition! Backpeddle south a step so the next landform can be exploited for cover. (Move - 1MP)> Keep low to the ground and prepare to dodge South-west behind the large pillar when the SpriteSpider launches its next attack. (React - 2MP+3AP+1SP)
Such fury. Such relentless malice. Move, Everett! It hungers for your FLESH>YAWNING PHASE>OH GOD WHAT AT *THIS HOUR*??>SOMETIMES IT DO BE LIKE THAT>BEST HURRY UP
Rolled 6, 1, 2 = 9 (3d6)>>6088301>+1 CP from Creative Thinking.>1 AP: !Telekinetically determine the spatial coordinates of the center of the computer core. Or, in other words, I aim.>5 AP, 2 SP, 3 CP: Manifest. Develop the ability to increase the level of entropy in a given area, causing general mishaps and wreaking havoc with electronics and other delicate mechanisms (and slowly, gently bringing about the eventual heat death of the universe, but we're not quite there yet, so let's just put that bit to the side for now). Drastically crank up the entropy inside of the computer core, causing a burst of static electricity and various other mishaps. (Psychogenesis 10 + 2 (AP) + 2 (SP) + 3 (CP), !Existential Dread, vs 17)#NadirVit 9/12 SP 6/12 CP 6 VP 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive!A Storm of Constant ChatterBullet Magnet II-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8#Psychogenesis 10-!Psionic-Resonant 1 [Microslip Precognition] (Evade additional up to Focus) [Many Hands, Light Work] !Telekinetic 1 (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients) [Temple Inviolate] (only Manifest External)!Existential Dread!Shared Sights-Equipment:Biometric Card2x Can O' Soda1x empty soda1x empty bean can
Rolled 2, 4, 2 = 8 (3d6)>>6088157>Move 2, Stick with Gallium>1SP to 4 CHarge to Gallium>2SP Activate Compensators to help in next action>6AP: Use Can's O' Soda on the ground to fix my Jolt Chargers/Power Output Fluctuation [Augmentics 10]#NeoGenesisVit 7/12 SP 10/12DR 4 AP 6 MP 3CP 10 VP 0-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Augmented Systemics 10-!Augmentic-Extropian[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications] [Jolt Chargers][Compensators 2]!Resilient Streak-Equipment:Nice CapPistol, +5 reloadsFlashlightBatonExperimental VialSling bag: 4x Can O' Beans, 4x Energy Bar's
Rolled 2, 2, 5, 4, 4, 5, 4, 3, 4 = 33 (9d6)>>6088301>/-/-/-/>ACTIONYBITS INNIT>/-/-/-/Grins: Shoots at the wood children to the south through the doorwayAP3 SP3: Root myself to the root network and close the path between ourselves and the southern wood children. Use some root tendrils to grab some CANS O' BEANS from the tree house and pull them underground to begin sharing the syrupy goodness with the roots. Hormonally ask them to hold their shape if Bulb tries to override.>[Mutability 10, Focus 1, Concentration 3]AP3: ACID throw a tidepod to the east at the cluster of woodchildren overrunning Sigma.>[Mutability 10, Lethality **4**(1x2x2), Acid-EX]SP3: MANIFEST - A Glossy Spiky Chitinous Exoskeleton and retractable forearm shield to protect me from damage, fire and nerve agent.>[Mutability 10, Lethality 1, Change 10(out of 11)] RUSH LUNGSCREATIVE THINKING>SpentSP=4 (7+3-6)>GainedHP=3 | CP=11 (10+1)>/-/-/-/>INFOBITS INNIT>/-/-/-/Subject: #GluttonyHP 3/12 SP 4/12 CP 1DR 0 AP 6 MP 3>MetasVitality 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Conditions:Alive, Used to be an Adventurer but Took an Arrow to the Eye>SkillsPhysicality 10--[Teeth +2, Reach 2][Strength +2]Senses 9--[Shared Senses +1] [Advanced Photoreceptors +?]--[ARROW IN MY FOOKIN EYE x.5]Thoughts 8Mutability 10--Acid Glands [x2 Lethality Acid-EX]>Traits!Biomodulation Strain #3--[Virulent Vitality][Bound by the Flesh]!Wild-Eyed>->Initiatives>-[Creative Thinking Exercises] Enrollee[Sheer Violence of Action] Enrollee
Rolled 6, 6, 3, 6, 4, 4, 2, 2, 3, 4, 1, 6, 1, 1, 2, 2, 4, 3 = 60 (18d6)>>6088301>TP: Sigma, get in here! SUT 10+CUF 1+Alacrity 1>1AP: Maintain previous block>1AP: React: Admit Sigma>4AP: Fire 5 bullets into north-ward spear crowd. Senses 11+Lethality 1+1>3MP: React: Retake position if pushed backVitality 3 Stamina 4 Tactical 1DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 6Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Conditions:Alive-Physicality 10 Senses 11 Thoughts 10Shield 13#Small Unit Tactics 10-!Cool Under Fire: +[TP] to resist Decohesion and Breaks, and when directing detached units. Minor: specify and mitigate a situation complicating an ally's task.!Not by Numbers: Detached troops have higher crit and reroll crit mishaps. Decohesion and Breaks make them chaotic.!Clear Voice!Janitor Intern +1 PrivilegeRiot Shield (E)Pistol, 2 reloads (E) 5-5/18Baton4CP
Rolled 6, 3, 5, 1, 4, 4 = 23 (6d6)>>6088301#AcolyteVit 8/10 SP 2/12 CP 3DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10 Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions: Regal- Physicality 10 **Flexible Bones. +++Flex, —-Strength.Senses 9**Chems 4, Ranged, Area (Toggle)**Shared SensesThoughts 8 Mutability 11Gunkspitters 12, Twinned-!Biomodulation Strain #3 - Bound by Flesh 1- Regen 2!Craves Purpose!Creative Thinking Exercise> Regen 2> Stand up, move one forwards towards the melee (3 MP) (Gunkspitters 12, Focus 1, Twinned)> Apply healing pheromones to the entire swarm (Senses 9, Chems 4, Focus 1, Ranged, Area)Gain one CP from creative thinking.
With a swipe of a molecular hand, hesitant Wooden Ones wobble, wibble, and then with a soft POP start -- POP -- detonating -- POP --- and smattering their tendril insides all over the environment-- POP.Thus is the prize you gain from infidelity when a being of molecular malice and might have direct access to your organic systems.--Everett is in a fight for his life.--As the SW Core heats up, ice melts and the Root Crawlers sees theirs chance to strike!! They flash into the fleeing backs of the insensate and horrified Kronin Ripthings, gorged and slow from the return of their hunt. NeoGenesis shouts out in alarm, just as a metallic appendage hooks around his leg and pulls him away from his allies, throwing him to the ground!>You're on the GROUND>OH NO>THAT'S A BAD PLACE TO BE WITH THESE MONSTERS RIGHT THERE>When Prone, you take a few penalties to Physicality and being thrown here, you have no MP this turn! Ufh!!--Gallium's shattering bolt of scintillating lighting slams into the wooden guardian, but alas, they're not so conductive - though as they ground the enormous energy in the floor around them, they do catch fire and some part of their shell is blown clean off, reducing their DR. The Ripthings spot their chance and rush forward, meeting fangs with sword, tearing, biting, ripping, breaking, dying, being slammed against walls, stomped on, kicked, crushed, and two of them wraps their claws around the hulking Guardian and join it in its fiery personal hell. The Malforma bristles its quills in a storm and enormous steel-hair-spikes bolt the exterior!--Amelius, Sigma, Trish and Sundae form up an improvised barrier in an opening into the nursery, as attacks rain down on their improvised shield-wall. Distantly, pops resound. --Amelius witnesses the miracle of life, as a gaggle of well-fed bean-gorged Woodsie Ones wrench themselves from the ground and eye him with 30 eyes in total. --A lone security guard, coughing into his sleeve from a sudden itch in his throat, grabs for his communications system and forwards a report of a most unusual sighting...-->WAKING PHASE>THAT MEANS YOU LOT>WASN'T THAT A FUN SATURDAY SURPRISE?>OKAY, TAKE IT SLOW FROM HERE - +10 HOURS.
Rolled 5, 1, 5 = 11 (3d6)>>6088359>6 AP: Recover SP (Health 12 + 3 Concentration)>Gain 1 CP from Creative Thinking Exercises#Splendiferous Weaver of the Threads that bind the Squirming Prey Floundering in the Underneath (Samantha)Vit 12/12 SP 0/12 CP 0->1 VP 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Claws 12Chromatoskin 8 (Discipline 2)-Conditions:Structural Misalignments II [+2 to any Bleed]Sensitive AntennaMobility Limbs (Ground) 2 [MP moves 2 tiles in straight line, but not when evading carefully]WINDED (0 MP, 1/2 reaction)-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Mutability 11-!Biomodulation Strain #3=Virulent Vitality (Regeneration 3)=Bound by the Flesh!HungryPrimary Taxonomy: Malichnid
>>6088301That was embarassing. That blunder will haunt bulwark's memory for the indefinite future.>3MP, Move 3-3-2 >6AP, Move into the room? is that a room? is that accessible? 2-2-3#BulwarkVit 12/12 SP 7/7 (12-5) DR 3 (0+3)AP 6 MP 3 TP 1CP 6 VP 0 -Health 10 Reaction 5 (7-2) Will 12Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Very Dehydrated [-4 SPMax]Cold [-1 SPMax]Lingering Bruises II II [-2 Reaction]Cursed??? II II [-1 CritFail Threshold]-Physicality 10Senses 10+1 (Shared Senses)Thoughts 10#Small Unit Tactics 10-!Nerves of Cold Steel [Cool Under Fire][Not By The Number]!Nerves of Cold Steel-SecVest [3DR]2 Pistol ReloadsCan Opener Blade, L+2, Sharp 2, Parry +2
>>6088359>3AP: Aim the next action so it doesn't harm me too much>4SP for 16 Charge Aimed into the Crawler grappling me to get it to fuck off#NeoGenesisVit 4/12 SP 1/12DR 5 AP 6 MP 3CP 11 VP 0-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Augmented Systemics 10-!Augmentic-Extropian[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications] [Jolt Chargers][Compensators 2]!Resilient Streak-Equipment:Nice CapPistol, +5 reloadsFlashlightBatonExperimental VialSling bag: 4x Can O' Beans, 4x Energy Bar's
Rolled 6, 1, 3 = 10 (3d6)>>6088359>+1 CP from Creative Thinking.>6 AP, 2 SP: Keep cranking up the entropy inside the core. (PsychoGenesis 10 + 3 (AP) + 2 (SP), Focus, !Existential Dread vs 15)>3 MP: Move 661#NadirVit 9/12 SP 6/12 CP 7 VP 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive!A Storm of Constant ChatterBullet Magnet II-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8#Psychogenesis 10 Auditory +2 Haywire Switching-!Psionic-Resonant 1 [Microslip Precognition] (Evade additional up to Focus) [Many Hands, Light Work] !Telekinetic 1 (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients) [Temple Inviolate] (only Manifest External)!Existential Dread!Shared Sights-Equipment:Biometric Card2x Can O' Soda1x empty soda1x empty bean can
>>6088371Lying in a sappy puddle of gunky liquid that no doubt conducts electricity with remarkable ease, you make sure to AIM and thus avoid shocking everyone around you -- instead, as NeoGenesis slams his hands against the rough skin of the Root Crawler, the internal capacitators surge in a white-out of power!The beast is practically flung off, slamming into the bushes, twitching...... but now what?
>>6088359>>6088372Amending movement. Skirm syndrome:>3 MP: Move 116
Rolled 3, 6, 1, 2, 5, 2, 2, 5, 1 = 27 (9d6)>>6088359>>6088301>/-/-/-/>ACTIONYBITS INNIT>/-/-/-/Grins: Wails on the Wood Child to his {4} then moves to his {6, 5} and shield bashes the woodboi at his {4} into the one behind it.AP3: BITE the woodkid to my {2} and slam it into the woodbastards to my {5}. Enjoy a nibble of woodlad fois gras.>[Physicality 10, Teeth 2, Strength 2, Lethality 2]AP3 SP3: ROOT myself to the root network and have them close off southern path while I form a CHRYSALIS. Share some delectable WOODCHILD NUTRIENTS with them.>[Mutability 10, Focus 1, Concentration 3]>[Food Bribe]SP5: MANIFEST a glossy spiky chitinous exoskeleton that clearly identifies me as an antag. Grow a forearm shield while I'm at it. Damage reduction as well as resistant to fire, nerve agent, chemical weapons. Maybe an increase in lethality, idk, it's a lot of change points.>[Mutability 10, Lethality 1, Change 10(of 11), Concentration 2, Commit] RUSH LUNGS +3 SPCREATIVE THINKING +1 CP>SpentSP=0 (5+3-8)HP=-1 (-1+0)CP=1 (10-10+1)>/-/-/-/>INFOBITS INNIT>/-/-/-/Subject: #GluttonyHP -1/12 SP 0/12 CP 1DR 0 AP 6 MP 3>MetasVitality 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Conditions:Alive, Used to be an Adventurer but Took an Arrow to the Eye>SkillsPhysicality 10--[Teeth +2, Reach 2][Strength +2]Senses 9--[Shared Senses +1] [Advanced Photoreceptors +?]--[ARROW IN MY FOOKIN EYE x.5]Thoughts 8Mutability 10--Acid Glands [x2 Lethality Acid-EX]>Traits!Biomodulation Strain #3--[Virulent Vitality][Bound by the Flesh]!Wild-Eyed !One-Eyed>->Initiatives>-[Creative Thinking Exercises] Enrollee[Sheer Violence of Action] Enrollee>>6088305>>6088308>>6088323>>6088332Bruhs we went too soon. We gotta roll again.
>>6088359Everett hatches a plan. Between the SpriteSpider's primal ferocity. its prodigious size, and the lethal ensemble of weapons at its disposal, Everett likely won't be able to find a opportunity to deal a decisive blow that isn't followed by immediate gory death. The apex predator must be weakened if he is to have a chance at besting it, and who better suited to do the deed than the beast itself. Everett gets himself on its back near one of the thin points of its armor, goads it into stab or swipe at him with one of those incising claws, and ideally it deals a wound to itself while he reflexively leaps to safety. Well, that's the plan in principle. Its perhaps not the soundest idea, but its the best his adrenaline-saturated brain can come up with.> Everett hastily dashes up onto the highest point of toppled rock formation to his northeast (Move - 2MP) (Adroit - 1MP)> And then leaps atop the rampaging SpriteSpider, doing his best to cling onto its jagged chitin between the thorax and one of the limbs as it thrashes about. (Test and Try - 3AP)> Once the Spritescorp's other legs attempt to violently excise Everett, or the arachnid's struggling becomes too frenzied or destructive to endure, dodge off the monster and try to roll and skitter away behind it. (React - 3AP+5SP)
>>6088359What is Grins' condition?
>>6088382YEEHAW PARDNER, BEST YER BE HOLDING ON TIGHT>>6088387HE'S RIGHT THERE WITH'CHER, GRINNING FOR A FIGHTIN', HE'S GOT YER BACK, GLUTTON-GUY!
>>6088395>HE'S RIGHT THERE WITH'CHER, GRINNING FOR A FIGHTIN', HE'S GOT YER BACK, GLUTTON-GUY!But like, is he hurt at all? I need to know when to use a major action to give him some healing and a ten year cancer risk on par with superasbestos.
>>6088396A quick once-eye over does seem to make it apparent he just took an arrow for you, as he warded off clubs and spears and fists.Looks like he's on his feet, mostly due to the security vst.>>6088382Everett dashes, moves, launches and lands - textbook. Beautiful. But the mottled carapace of this fearsome beast is hard to find a grib on, and as Everett grabs on tight on whatever is within reach the Spitescorpion *roils*, *rolls*, screeching, flinging its limbs around, claws gouging deeply into the rock--and despite the hard work Everett is flung off! A graceful arc, with a small cut across his arm for the trouble!A good plan - a fantastic plan - but for the sudden shifting twisting rolling of the horrible beast would have worked! If only you had some support, some web or a telekinetic to help you hold on it would have been easier... But now. . .oh no.oh no its turning towards you.
Rolled 5, 6, 6 = 17 (3d6)>>6088359>2MP: Get Up>3AP+1MP: [Commit] to running away from the Spitespider and from the enemy Crawlers
Rolled 6, 6, 5, 6, 5, 6 = 34 (6d6)>>6088359#AcolyteVit -7/10 SP 0/12 CP 3DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10 Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions: Regal- Physicality 10 **Flexible Bones. +++Flex, —-Strength.Senses 9**Chems 4, Ranged, Area (Toggle)**Shared SensesThoughts 8 Mutability 11Gunkspitters 12, Twinned-!Biomodulation Strain #3 - Bound by Flesh 1- Regen 2!Craves Purpose!Creative Thinking Exercise> Rally the fleeing rip things, send them surging in as reinforcements against the idol. (6 AP, Senses 9, Chems 4, Duplicity 1, Concentration 3)> Commit to imbuing the swarm battling the idol with a **staggering** amount of regeneration pheromones (15 Health, Senses 9, Chems 4, Focus 1, Commit 3, Concentration 15, Ranged, AOE)Gain one CP from creative thinking.
>>6088407CP should now be 5Condition should be over Clocking; there is no way this is good for me I beg Trigger for mercy
Rolled 6, 4, 6, 2, 4, 1, 3, 2, 3 = 31 (9d6)>>6088413nosuffer
Rolled 3, 5, 3, 1, 3, 4 = 19 (6d6)>>6088359"Fortnite reboot van save was goated with the sauce let's thug shake these subway surfers the ocky way.">1SP return field>1SP Challenge enemy wooden ones>3MP Move the field onto the group of wooden ones attacking the barricade.>3AP Set field to the dance most macabre, the most body-destroying grimpstyle (vs 12 Lethality, !Brainrot)>3AP Recover, using some of the cape to bandage the bleeding. (vs 12 vit)+1 CP From Creative Thinking Exercises#Subject SigmaVit 2/12 SP 6/10 CP 10DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8#Psychogenesis 11-!Incurable Brainrot!Telekinetic+1(Ranged Phys, Mind)!Psionic-Resonant(Eva+, External)
>>6088424>>6088413. . . ACOLYTEEEEE---
OH NO
Southwest Processing Core disabled. Three more to go.
>>6088432>>6088407Subject, we have some unfortunate news.Due to the horrendous virality of this sector, it is tremendously difficult for you to break into pathogenic form. You may not have that option.
>>6088359To arms, woodmen! Beans and glory, defend the grotto!>1TP+COMMIT, communicate by hand signal for the woodfriends to equip themselves from the fallen BULBMEN in the grotto and join the fray (SupOp 10, Commit, Inspiring 1)>3AP, pass my bow and quiver of arrows to a woodfriend>3AP, what's going on behind the glass to my southwest? Some sort of garden with a lil' green guy? (Senses 11)#AmeliusVit 9/12 SP 6/7 CP 7DR 4 AP 6 MP 3 TP 1-Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Severely Dehydrated (-6 Stamax)Motivated 1 (+1 Stamax, Ineffable)-Physicality 10Senses 11Thoughts 10Support Operations 10Guns (Pistols) 12-!Inspiring Presence!Dreams of the Ocean-1x Rifle reload1x->0x Scragbow1x->0x Arrow quiver (Barbs)C8 Personal, 2d6, Acc 2 Bulk 2, 18/19DR 4 vest
>>6088438Advanced Subject Taxonomies are combinations of Traits. Instead of gaining the particularities of those types, you can opt to merge them and get something else.
Rolled 2, 1, 4 = 7 (3d6)>>6088359>[AP 3 + MP3] Jump to the alcove near lonely turret (physicality 10 commit)#ChimeraVit 12 SP 9 CP 7DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 VP0-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Yes-Physicality 10Senses 8= Auditory +2 EchoCheckThoughts 8Mutability 10Piercing Resistance 2#Skill-!Resilient Organs!Biomodulation Strain #3= Virulent Vitality +1= Bound by the Flesh!Relentless
>>6088438If Acolyte truly, absolutely, cannot cheat death twice May IPlease P l e a s ePlay the badass Malformi?After all, they’re next in line of inheritance And someone will need to herd the Ripthings
Rolled 5, 6, 6, 5, 3, 3, 2, 6, 1, 6, 1, 3, 6, 4, 5, 1, 3, 6 = 72 (18d6)>>6088359>3AP: Block Shield 13>3AP: Shoot 5 shots into nearby crowd. Senses 11+Lethality 1>1TP: Take a breather, everyone. Health 10+CUF 1+Focus 1Vitality 3 Stamina 4 Tactical 1DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 6Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Conditions:Dehydrated, Ruptured Muscles, Death's Door-Physicality 10 Senses 11 Thoughts 10Shield 13#Small Unit Tactics 10-!Cool Under Fire: +[TP] to resist Decohesion and Breaks, and when directing detached units. Minor: specify and mitigate a situation complicating an ally's task.!Not by Numbers: Detached troops have higher crit and reroll crit mishaps. Decohesion and Breaks make them chaotic.!Clear Voice!Janitor Intern +1 PrivilegeRiot Shield (E)Pistol, 2 reloads (E) 5-5/18Baton4CP
>>6088449Unfortunately they are not in cohesion with an ally, nor within the area that would allow it - though most unfortunately of all, they lack the requisite sapient-level IQ to serve as player characters.
>>6088359Command, is that "Shape Entling 6/12" and 8/12 the result of my action to create a fleshspawn?
>>6088505It appears your fleshspawn was clubbed to death by a gaggle of tribal warriors. Those Entlings that are about to rip themselves out of the walls and then rip Grins apart appear to be fleshwood and woodflesh being awoken to dreadful fury by the Heralds of the Bulb.
Rolled 3, 6, 1, 6, 5, 5 = 26 (6d6)>>6088438#AutarchVit 12/12 SP 12/12 CP ~16DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10 Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions: Blooming- Physicality 10Senses 9**Chems 4, Ranged, Area (Toggle)**Shared SensesThoughts 8 Mutability 10-!Biomodulation Strain #3 - Regen 2!Psionic Resonant 1!FanaticismBeneath the soil, something stirs.Wood melds, flesh binds, prayers manifest, pleas coalesce, martyrs amalgamate in rotting tombs catalysed by fresh born offerings and the furore of clashing divinities Days and nights of bloodshed evoke response, retaliation, as a guardian stands *up*This is a garden of the faith, of sacred BobSuffer not the heretic to live >Manifest an unflinching, unshakable devotion to the scriptures, memorised by adoring council entombed within my bones, no matter where or why or who. (Will 10 + All CP (at least 16), Fanaticism, Psionic, 3d6)> Emerge in the nursery of Bob, beneath his idol’s proud paternal gaze. (Facility Reaction, 3d6)
>>6088526Arise, My Champion. The faithful have need of your strength.
Rolled 5, 1, 6 = 12 (3d6)>>6088359#BubbaVit 14 SP 2 CP 8DR 6 AP 6 MP 3-Health 14 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:AliveLookin’ mighty fine-Physicality 10Senses 8Thoughts 8#Skill-Augmented Systemics 10!Augmetic Extropian!Metal Fatigue!Reserve Power!Engineering Specifications!Blood-Loss Resistance!Redundant Organs 3>3AP: move to Bulwark >pat their shoulder and try to comfort them“Um… sure, buddy. Just after we’re done here, alright? I’m not sure I can eat anymore, but we’ll… we’ll figure something out”>3AP to try to uproot the red fleshy roots for janitorial duty (Lethality, I suppose?)
Rolled 5, 3, 6 = 14 (3d6)>>6088359#GalliumVit 6/12 SP 12/12 CP 8DR 5 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:AliveLeft Arm Crippled [II]-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Augmented Systemic [LOS] 10Electricity Modulators 12 [Focus+1, Stamina x3, Glitch 16)-Augmentic Extropian I[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications] [Meshlinked] [BioElectricity Manifolds] [Compensators 2]Cold and logical.EquipmentIn a state of flux."Target disabled... Subject Acolyte didn't make it.">-Activate Compensators, heal 2, spend 2 SP>[6 AP] Those blades on the root crawler are metal, right? Grab them and railgun them away, into his buddy behind him (Electricity Modulators 12, Lethality 1, 3 AP spent on focusing)>[1 MP] Prepare to dodge another crawler with a backwards step. (Reaction)
>>6088474It might be useful for you to know that "shoot 5 shots" resolves as 1 roll of 3d6 vs relevant gun skill, only at +2 for all the extra bullets. Though don't worry so much about that part, just know that MORE BULLET = MORE CHANCE OF HIT. And more hits!If you make 5 distinct attacks it is treated as 5 distinct subactions, multitasking, making you spray fire wildly at Skill-30 * 5 (being at -6 for each sub-action). As a sanity measure, Command has opted to resolve this attack the standard way. Instead of the way that makes Sunday fire his gun so wildly he shots Sigma twice in the jaw.
Rolled 5, 3, 4, 2, 5, 5 = 24 (6d6)>>6088542>Reaction: try to uproot the blue mechanical thing plucking at me
>>6088623is there a mechanic present
Rolled 1, 6, 1 = 8 (3d6)>>6088359>[6 AP + 3 SP] Concentrate and increase the residual heat coming off the wall adjacent to the overloaded core into a quasi-laser, trying to pierce several of the Crawlers at the same time with the blast. [Pyrokinesis 12, Lethality 1, Concentration 3, 2 SP: vs 18 ]#WilderVit 12 SP 10 -> 8 CP 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:AliveDehydrated [-2 Stamina]Glaciogenesis II II [SC 9]-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Psionigenesis 10Temperature Control 12-!Psionic-Resonant.[Microslip Precognition] (Evade additional up to Focus)[Many Hands, Light Work]!Telekinetic (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients)[Temple Inviolate] (Manifest external features only)!Peace and love, man.-Inventory:Multi Tool.-
>>6088634aaaaa I forgot to change up the first SP mention, that should be 2 also!!
Subject Acolyte tries to rally the horde of Kronin Ripthings engaged in grand battle with the Guardian of the Bulb's secret Sanctum! And as the heady scents of chemical communication fills the heating interior of the Southwest Processing Core, it looks - for a faint heartbeat -as if the Kronin are winning, the Guardian breaking, burning, battered, bruised, gripped and ripped -- and then, a clear voice resounds from the automated climate control systems:Temperature Gradiant ExceededSealing RoomProceeding To Dump CoolantAcolyte gasps and tries to throw herself backwards but so enmeshed in the dance and song of the glorious pheremones her reactions are slowed, sluggish -- the enormous class one security doors come down like the severing of the threads of fate. The room falls to darkness.We do not know what transpires within.--Everett tries to ride the Sp(r)iteSpider, but it bucks and rolls and kicks and twists and the Subject is sent flying, though, luckily, for a soft landing. NeoGenesis scrambles to their feet to move move move because this is a BAD PLACE to BE!--Chimera takes a leap of faith and breaks new ground, landing in a part of the facility where the Mesh is alive, electronics sing, the soft chatter of security officers roll down the halls, the beep of scanners, the hustle and bustle, a distant, faint... cough? Well there is a lot of that going around.--Amelius performs some forensic theology. Some sort of small tribal sprite, or protective spirit. They always have limited power and more limited portfolios but delusions of grandeurs. Treat them nice and they offer gifts to you, though their power is much less grand than it appears and the people who follow such a little speck of otherworldy influence are likely to use it to ascribe events both good and ill. --Sundae lines up a shot but a sudden swing of a club forces him to duck backwards and the pistol goes flying. Into the enemy ranks! Let's hope none of them know how to use firearms!Conveniently, in that very moment, reinforcements arrive to form a new shield wall as he shouts for the team to take a breather.--Bubba watches twenty-three enormous orange occular organs unfurl with slick, slurping grace from the fleshy exterior of the roots that hold up the elevator-home high above. The vines and roots underneath his feet pulse and ripple. Some move. The ground begins to have faint cracks. -->STAND BY FOR TOTAL GODDAMN CALAMITY>YES WILDER, WE SEE YOU
[burning a few trillion processing cycles to patch a rough bypass through the bad signals into this area, subPHAROAH's voice resounds, clear and crystalline, from Gallium's mouth]SUBJECTS, WELL DONE. YOU HAVE DISABLED ONE OF THE REGENT PROCESSING CLUSTERS, AND BY DOING IT WITHOUT DESTROYING IT ENTIRELY, YOUR SUBTLE METHODS HAVE NOT UNDULY INFLUENCED THE ALARM STATE OF THIS FACILITY.I APPLAUD YOUR EFFECTIVE TEAMWORK AND USEFUL COORDINATION. REGENT'S EFFECIENCY HAS BEEN DEGRADED BY 0.0002038%, PROBALISTIC, AND THIS HAS ALLOWED ME TO ACCESS FURTHER SYSTEMS OF THE DATA-SPHERE THAT WERE OTHERWISE OCCUPIED BY ETERNAL DEADLOCK.YOUR SUBTLE AND EFFECTIVE METHODOLOGY HAS ALLOWED A SURPRISINGLY EFFECTIVE AVENUE IN THIS DEBACLE, AND---APOLOGIES SUBJECTS MY TREMOR SENSING SUB-COMPONENTS ARE PICKING UP THE TELL-TALE SIGNS OF A STAMPEDE OR AN EARTH-QUAKE.I RECTIFY MY PRIOR PRAISE OF YOUR SUBTETLY AND GRACE TO INSTEAD APPLAUD YOUR RECKLESS DISREGARD FOR ANY KIND OF CAREFUL PLANNING.>Processing Core Disabled>All Subjects gain +3 CP
Subject Bubba is crushed to death. Technically, there is a chance of retrieving them, if you can get them out from under enormous amounts of rubble.Subject Gluttony ceases to exist in any meaningful way, replaced by sheer undulating MURDER.Fireteam Gallu responds to a noise complaint.The Pulsating Mass that is the Fleshtrees have decided to stop supporting the elevator. It has borne this lonesome duty for a long, lingering week, growing tired and faint, and the reward was pain. It now seeks a different line of venture:Perhaps if supporting the world is too heavy a burden to bear, could it not simply *destroy it*.--The Spitescorp crushed feral rootcrawlers underfoot as it slams forward and breaks rocks and scatters debris. Everett's arm is crushed against the rockface as the everyone runs for cover.--The ceilings come down.Rocks fall.Quite a lot of people actually die.-->STAND BY FOR CONTAINMENT PHASE
Bulwark spots something undulating towards him.--The Bulb Entlings, risen to the glory of defending their home, sing the song of oaks and trees and open a flanking passage way. The Woodsie Ones form a shield wall around Sundae, defending against arrows and swipes of dire claws.--The frenzied murderthing currently causing a fantastically enormous rise in the expected lethality of anyone in the Wooden One Village murders several creatures and shows absolutely no sign of stopping.It's actually speeding up.--Someone gets Sanitation Command on the line and asks about, uh, well, maybe, uhm, the time-table could be . . . expedited?--subPHARAOH, able to communicate intermittently now that the the first Core has been disabled, uses NeoGenesis systems to impart a brief sense of satisfaction and also the following information:There is a fast transit exit out of this secure area in the north-west. Unfortunately, subPHARAOH cannot override the security protocols remotely unless you disabled one more Core. You may still be able to utilize it, as there may be ways of breaching manually.Tremor-scanning and route analysis indicates that there may also be three other exits away from this environment, though one is heavily defended.The likelihood of success for this mission has now entered a sharp spiral downwards, due to multiple, concurrent engagements with several creatures and ready security teams. To defeat each antagonist in parallel while avoiding death by the hands of the others is an outcome so vanishingly unlikely subPHARAOH cannot calculate it.As the Facility Escalation to the alarms mount, success likelihood will decrease further.You should consider egress at speed, attempting to disable any remaining Cores on your way towards a viable exit. -->WAKING PHASE>THAT MEANS YOU LOT.
Rolled 2, 1, 4 = 7 (3d6)>>6088695Oh no. This doesn't sound good at all. This doesn't LOOK good at all either! It's worming after me! Panic now!>6AP (Physicality,10), Grab the REPAIR KIT and suspiciously small and cuboid-like plastic-ey card-thing around corpse's neck!>2MP, Get up, now! >1MP+2SP, Move out of here, now! 2-3-2#BulwarkVit 12/12 SP 6/7 (12-5)DR 3 (0+3)AP 6 MP 3 TP 1CP 9 VP 0-Health 10 Reaction 5 (7-2) Will 12Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Very Dehydrated [-4 SPMax]Cold [-1 SPMax]Lingering Bruises II II [-2 Reaction]Cursed??? II II [-1 CritFail Threshold]-Physicality 10Senses 10+1 (Shared Senses)Thoughts 10#Small Unit Tactics 10-!Nerves of Cold Steel [Cool Under Fire][Not By The Number]!Nerves of Cold Steel-SecVest [3DR]2 Pistol ReloadsCan Opener Blade, L+2, Sharp 2, Parry +2Repair Kit"Card"
Rolled 5, 4, 6, 4, 5, 3 = 27 (6d6)>>6088695#AutarchVit 12/12 SP 10/12 CP 3DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10 Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions: Blooming- Physicality 10Senses 9**Chems 4, Ranged, Area (Toggle)**Shared SensesThoughts 8 Mutability 10Psychogenesis 10Higher Purpose (Woodsies) 2-Edge of the Woods L+2 Damage, 1/5 Natural DRAbiogenesis Focus +2-!Biomodulation Strain #3 - Regen 2!Psionic Resonant 1-Microslip Focus 1!Fanaticism>Walk up to the ent that just opened the flanking passage way (3MP, 2SP)>Impale it with my sword. (Physicality 10, Lethality 1, Higher Purpose 2, 3 AP)>Channeling through the sacred blade, *unmake* this unholy construct, rendering it once more inert. (Psychogenesis 10, Lethality 1, Higher Purpose 2, Abiogenesis Focus +2)One step, and then the next.
Rolled 3, 1, 3, 6, 3, 1 = 17 (6d6)>>6088695The poor bushes to the north have been isolated from the Patriarch Tree. Time to help them thrive in this new environment. >Grant the bushes to the north immunity to fire (Mutability 10). If I can only do one, teaching the bushes to not die takes priority over giving them explosive fruit which will just be incinerated.>Grant them the explosive fruit of the Hura Crepitans, also known as the Sandbox Tree or the Dynamite tree. (Mutability 10, 3 SP)>If possible duck back into cover after assisting the bushes. How will a quick-growing regenerating plant which shoots its seeds to great distances at high velocities with explosive force fare in the automated flame environment? How will the Fireteam respond? Likely answer: chemical defoliants. Moral Quandary: is it appropriate to develop an invasive species?2nd Moral Quandary: Is it appropriate for Osiris, God of the Dead, to engineer a hellscape of constant growth and life? Answer: Yes. All that lives must eventually die. Creating more life leads to more death, and more subjects for the Eternal Kingdom. Vit -12/12 // SP 4/12? // CP 0DR 4A // AP 6 // MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Dehydrated 2?Torn Sinews 2 (-1 to complex movement)Regen 2? (ablative shielding lost, so is it still an active feature? If not, since it is part of my base, can I just regen it over time?)Electronics Decommisioner Intern-Physicality 10Senses 09Thoughts 08#Mutability 10 [R3]#Conversion 10 (turns spare parts into CP)-!Greywire Fragment 0 - Distributed Processing Core - Chose the distributed Core. !Descriptor - God of the Dead (thinks he's Osiris)
>>6088526Given a combination of Resonance and BioModulation, you should make a choice.You can either transfer the BioModulation Trait to a new character and thereby combine it with Psionicism. You would have both taxonomies, and both skills, regeneration, microslip avoidance, telekinesis. The limitations on each Skill persists: you could not use Psychogenesis to deploy Internal Features simply because Mutability allows it. But you could freely have access to both taxonomy trees, and combine them in whichever way you were willing to attempt. It's easier to fly with Psychogenesis because developing Wings take a while. It's easier to be immune to poison and breathe acid and run fast with Mutability becaus changing yourself is powerful. Finally, do not underestimate the ability to manifest swarms of spores you can direct telekinetically, or the ability to sprout barbed quills from your hand and throw them with your mind.Alternatively, you may "combine" both traits, and instead access the Resonant-Biologic Taxonomy, which provides some unusual restrictions and capabilities. There is more raw *power* in combining 2 taxonomy traits, and naturally the combination of Regeneration, Microslip Avoidance, Telekinesis and being hard to kill is quite useful.There is more strange utility in the more advanced Taxonomies.Subjects' choice.
>>6088725The "scaffold" for the Feature has been established, and you can take a Recovery action (plus some CP, if you want, to boost things) to rebuild it faster. - This is not a Manifest, it does not end your turn- You already know what you'll get- It cannot "improve" the Feature, you are restoring one that was lost to damage."Crippled" features like this provide no benefit, but they are easy to bring back online and ready for action as it were. If you had "advanced battery packs" and they got hit with EMP, they'd be disabled until you managed to get them back to working condition. Because you *Regenerate*, you can, if you wish, note that you are interested in regenerating your Feature. The Graywire Fragment notes that this requires first having full HP, at which point further Regen automatically starts restoring you to "full" functionality.
Rolled 1, 2, 6 = 9 (3d6)>>6088695>+1 CP from Creative Thinking.>2 MP: Get up.>1 MP + 5 AP: run north, around the pile of collapsed rocks. (Physicality 10 + 5, vs 15).>1 AP: !Telekinetically get a fix on the spatial coordinates of the FlameTurret across the superconductive highway.#NadirVit 9/12 SP 6/12 CP 11 VP 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive!A Storm of Constant ChatterBullet Magnet II-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8#Psychogenesis 10 Auditory +2 Haywire Switching-!Psionic-Resonant 1 [Microslip Precognition] (Evade additional up to Focus) [Many Hands, Light Work] !Telekinetic 1 (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients) [Temple Inviolate] (only Manifest External)!Existential Dread!Shared Sights-Equipment:Biometric Card2x Can O' Soda1x empty soda1x empty bean can
Rolled 1, 3, 1, 6, 3, 1 = 15 (6d6)>>6088728>>6088695#AutarchVit 12/12 SP 10/12 CP 3DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10 Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions: Determined- Physicality 10Senses 9**Chems 4, Ranged, Area (Toggle)**Shared SensesThoughts 8 Abiogenesis 10 [LOS, Multiple 3]Higher Purpose (Woodsies) -Edge of the Woods L+2 Damage, 1/5 Natural DRAbiogenesis Focus +2-!Resonant-Biologics- [Sheer Focus And Will]- Avoidance 2 (Chems, Higher Purpose)- [Virulent Memetics]!Fanatacism >Walk up to the ent that just opened the flanking passage way (3MP, 2SP)>Impale the ent with the edge of the woods (3 AP, Physicality 10, Lethality 1, Higher Purpose 2)>*Unmake* the unholy construct, rendering it once more inert wood. (3 AP, Abiogenesis 10, Lethality 1, Higher Purpose 2, Abiogenesis Focus 2, Fanatacism)Redoing turn with the correct sheet and stats (with Command’s permission)
>>6088695>>6088725Based on discussions, change the first action to a conversion action which changes the console on the north side of the gap into a self-replicating cyber-bush modeled after the nearby meat bushes. (cyber being naturally resistant to fire). Then the second action adds the exploding 'seeds' which the cyber bushes will use to propagate themselves when heated or attacked. Welcome to the Cyber Jungle? It has fun and games. Sandbox Tree wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hura_crepitans Vit -12/12 // SP 4/12? // CP 0DR 4A // AP 6 // MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Dehydrated 2?Torn Sinews 2 (-1 to complex movement)Regen 2? (ablative shielding lost, stretchy arms still in play?)Electronics Decommisioner Intern-Physicality 10Senses 09Thoughts 08#Conversion 10 [R3] -!Greywire Fragment 0 - Distributed Processing Core (implied #Nano conversion)-Virulent Extropics - Regen 2+F, Vulnerable Core.-Distributed Processing Cores - F=I/E. Must use local resources as a base. Vulnerable to EC/EM, Data, and Damage. !Range 3 on base power (unsure what system it attached to for Aberrancy purposes)!Ablative Armor 0/20, DR4, Crippled. (Health)!Descriptor - God of the Dead (thinks he's Osiris)
>>6088695Fight defensively, don't push beyond the village just yet! I might have found something useful back here... >1TP,+2SP bolster team reactions! Prioritize defense! (SupOp 10, Inspiring 1, Concentrate 2)>1AP, quench my thirst on mutant root sap (Certainly safe)>1AP, how long until the roof collapses and buries the grotto in rubble? (Senses 11)>1AP+COMMIT, a little more forensics, as a treat: will looting that security container upset the woodsie folk? If so, disregard the remainder of my turn (Thoughts 10, COMMIT)>3MP+3AP, move that statue and search the container (Senses 11)#AmeliusVit 10/12 SP 5/7 CP 10DR 4 AP 6 MP 3 TP 1-Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Severely Dehydrated (-6 Stamax)Motivated 1 (+1 Stamax, Ineffable)-Physicality 10Senses 11Thoughts 10Support Operations 10Guns (Pistols) 12-!Inspiring Presence!Dreams of the Ocean-1x Rifle reloadC8 Personal, 2d6, Acc 2 Bulk 2, 18/19DR 4 vest
Rolled 3, 5, 5 = 13 (3d6)>>6088695#GalliumVit 8/12 SP 10/12 CP 11DR 5 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:AliveLeft Arm Crippled [II]-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Augmented Systemic [LOS] 10Electricity Modulators 12 [Focus+1, Stamina x3, Glitch 16)-Augmentic Extropian I[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications] [Meshlinked] [BioElectricity Manifolds] [Compensators 2]Cold and logical.EquipmentIn a state of flux."All subjects, western group, attention! We make our way towards the northern core! We will have to punch through any security measures. Brace for a rough time.">-Compensators 2: Spend 2 SP, gain 2HP>[3 MP] Move 611>[6 AP] Move 111116 and hide in that nice bush-like growth.>[3 SP] Subvert that flame turret up north across the highway, emergency override: Fireteam Gallu are compromised with a pathogen, STERILIZE WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE. (Augmented Systemics 10, Focus 1)
Rolled 2, 5, 3 = 10 (3d6)>>6088695I think this is where we panic.>[6 AP] Create the thickest possible ice wall I can muster to stop the SpiteScorp's advance. [Cryokinesis 12, Concentration 3, SP 2: vs. 17]>[3 MP] Let's get the hell out of here! Move NE, N, NW.#WilderVit 6 SP 8 -> 6 CP 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:AliveDehydrated [-2 Stamina]Glaciogenesis II II [SC 9]-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Psionigenesis 10Temperature Control 12-!Psionic-Resonant.[Microslip Precognition] (Evade additional up to Focus)[Many Hands, Light Work]!Telekinetic (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients)[Temple Inviolate] (Manifest external features only)!Peace and love, man.-Inventory:Multi Tool.-
Rolled 3, 2, 4 = 9 (3d6)Stand very still...>1AP: Equip baton>5AP: Recover Stamina. Health 10+Focus 1+2Vitality 3 Stamina 4 Tactical 1DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 6Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Conditions:Dehydrated, Ruptured Muscles, Death's Door-Physicality 10 Senses 11 Thoughts 10Shield 13#Small Unit Tactics 10-!Cool Under Fire: +[TP] to resist Decohesion and Breaks, and when directing detached units. Minor: specify and mitigate a situation complicating an ally's task.!Not by Numbers: Detached troops have higher crit and reroll crit mishaps. Decohesion and Breaks make them chaotic.!Clear Voice!Janitor Intern +1 PrivilegeRiot Shield (E)2 pistol reloads. Pistol somewhere 0/18Baton7CP
>>6088695>MP2: Prone->Crouched->Standing up>AP3: Move 2-1-1>MP1+3AP: Move 6-6-1-1#NeoGenesisVit 4/12 SP 1/12DR 5 AP 6 MP 3CP 15 VP 0-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Augmented Systemics 10-!Augmentic-Extropian[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications] [Jolt Chargers][Compensators 2]!Resilient Streak-Equipment:Nice CapPistol, +5 reloadsFlashlightBatonExperimental VialSling bag: 4x Can O' Beans, 4x Energy Bar's
Rolled 6, 4, 6 = 16 (3d6)>>6088695>Crawl out from beneath the mass, next to where Bulwark is>Free Manifest: Spend 6AP and 5CP to gain more HP. That’s it. I want HP#BubbaVit 12 SP 10 CP 20DR 5 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:AliveLookin’… alive?-Physicality 10Senses 8Thoughts 8#Skill-Augmented Systemics 11+1!Augmetic Extropian 2!Metal Fatigue!Reserve Power>>6088720A skeletal metallic hand grasps Bulwark’s ankle, as a husk of warped bioferrite and oil and blood drags itself from the collapsed wreck“Do you… like… sushi?”
>>6088675>>6088695Rage.Pain.Rage.Fear.Rage.Confusion.Rage.A dissonant shriek, tinged with the robotic distortion of binaric.Rage. RAGE.>/-/-/-/>ACTIONYBITS INNIT>/-/-/-/Within the watery sap-filled womb of the chrysalis, red technoflagella explosively stab in, piercing the chitinous murderform of Gluttony, wrapping around his core, keystroking ctrl+a and delete. But Gluttony was never who I was. Not really. In this womb of blood, pus, sap, chitin, teeth and technology, Ketlan Knight is still here, somewhere. Oh, and is he ever pissed. MANIFEST: Graphene Flagellum - A braid of graphene nanotubes containing self-replicating nanites, once the property of Bulb -- now filled with virulent flesh and piled-in organs that refuse to disappear with just the stroke of a delete key. It tears itself off of Bulb. Its distributed biocores will house all that is left of Gluttony's original psychic engram, now. APEX tries to react, but Gluttony has already been deleted. Nice try, asshole.The braided graphene nanotubes are excellent armor for the writhing biomass within. Also can move along ceilings, walls, and slither through vents and difficult terrain. Damage reduction and perhaps alacrity. (6CP)MANIFEST: Dissonant Screech - An EMP-like scream that can attack coherency of so-called Gods, stun bioforms, infect digital systems with bio-digital psychoengramatic viruses, and fry circuit boards. (6CP)>[Will + Rush Lungs + Duplicity] perhapsMANIFEST: Bionic Sting - A sting on the end of the flagellum that can extract DNA, absorb biomass and cybernetic components, inject allies with a cocktail of adrenaline, steroidal hormones, virulent vitality cells and medical nanites to heal them, or spray enemies with acid, necrotizing venom, neurotoxin, and nanites to reduce them to a pile of Conversionade-Energy Drink (patent pending).>[Conversion+Sting+Focus] to heal and [Conversion+Sting+Lethality] to harm, perhaps.CARRY OVER: Rush Lungs - The screeching respiratory system of Gluttony horrifyingly continues to screech long after Gluttony was deleted, thrashing against its enemy. It can designate Ketlan's regeneration to regenerate stamina instead of health.>STILL AT WAR WITH BULB>STILL REEE'ing>THE SHEER VIOLENCE OF ACTION SHALL NOT SUBSIDE>SpentCP=0(16-16)>/-/-/-/>INFOBITS INNIT>/-/-/-/Subject: #Ketlan KnightHP 12/12 SP 12/12 CP 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3>MetasVitality 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Conditions:Alive>SkillsPhysicality 10Senses 9--[Shared Senses +1]Thoughts 8Conversion 10>Traits!Virulent Entropics--[Regen 2 plus Manifests] [Braided Graphene] [Dissonant Screech] [Bionic Sting] [Rush 3]>->Initiatives>-[Creative Thinking Exercises] Enrollee[Sheer Violence of Action] Enrollee - STILL AT WAR WITH BULB
Rolled 4, 5, 5 = 14 (3d6)>>6088695>3 MP: Move 66 11 22>3 AP: Aim and Exploit - I really want to not mess up this jump>3 AP, 3 SP: While still running from the previous move, run and jump across the wires at 1 (Physicality 10 + Alacrity 1 + 3 SP)>Gain 1 CP from Creative Thinking Exercises#Splendiferous Weaver of the Threads that bind the Squirming Prey Floundering in the Underneath (Samantha)Vit 12/12 SP 0/12 CP 4->5 VP 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Claws 12Chromatoskin 8 (Discipline 2)-Conditions:Structural Misalignments II [+2 to any Bleed]Sensitive AntennaMobility Limbs (Ground) 2 [MP moves 2 tiles in straight line, but not when evading carefully]-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Mutability 11-!Biomodulation Strain #3=Virulent Vitality (Regeneration 3)=Bound by the Flesh!HungryPrimary Taxonomy: Malichnid
>>6088839Also>Regenerate 2
>>6088695Oh wow. I'm somehow still alive?Best not squander this blessing.> Sprint North, weaving through the crowds and obstacles. If I've counted out the spaces properly, with 11 moves Everett should end up immediately east of the flowering vines and immediately south of the electrified wire highway. (MoveMoveMove - 3MP+6AP+2SP)> If the SpriteSpider charges at him, Everett will attempt dive out of the way into the nook formed by the collapsed hallway a couple tiles to his east. (React - 3SP)
>>6088903We are all equally surprised - and impressed!
Rolled 6, 5, 3, 4, 3, 2, 6, 2, 1, 6, 1, 3 = 42 (12d6)>>6088695(I think I missed 3 turns, feel free to axe any of my catch-up actions and ignore the respective dice, Command, and I will adjust CP accordingly)Mised turn 1:>CP+1>6AP: Recover Stamina (Health 10 + Concentration 3, 1st 3d6)Turn 2>CP+1>6AP: Get rid of that Nanocytic Countersampling. Evolve to render the samples the Nanocyte got useless. (Pluripotentiality 12, Duplicity 1, Concentration 3, 2nd 3d6)Turn 3>CP+1>6AP: Think: Bulb was weakened. How can I keep weakening him, and how can I improve my own viral strength without throwing more CP in that deep dark hole of debt so I can get rid of him for good? (Thoughts 8, Focus 1, Concentration 3, 3rd 3d6)This turn:>CP+1>6AP: Infect the Spitespider's mind, have it stop attacking my faithful and point it at those who still worship Bulb through that mass of roots NE of Everett. (Pluripotentiality 12, Duplicity 1, Concentration 3)BULB, YOU INSANE, MALFORMED OFFSHOOT OF MINE, YOU WILL BRING RUIN TO ALL IF I DON'T STOP YOU.#Bob the VirusCoherency 6/6 SP 1/9 CP 17Regeneration 2DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 10 Reaction 8 Will 10Virality -5 Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Pathogenic Analysis II II II (Virality -6)Nanocytic Countersampling II II (Max Coherency -4)-Physicality 10Senses 9=Shared SightsThoughts 8Mutability 10=Exceeding +3Pluripotentiality 12 [Aura 3, Vector]-!Biomodulation Strain #3= Fleshshaping= Virulent Vitality= Bound by the Flesh!Overprotective-!Creative Thinking Exercises!Janitorial Intern
>>6088426>>6088773>>6088760Man, did it just get a lot louder in here?Anyway, here's the idea. Let Gluttony and fleshtree have their fun behind us. We have the Woodsies use woodshaping to open up the back of the Bob shrine and interfere with enemies that rotate to stop us. About 5555 of the shrine is a door to Bulb's core. Wreck that place, take its eastern exit and make a run for the north.
>>6088996Someone would need to direct them to do so - most of them are currently fighting a holding action around you.
>>6088981(Note to self. Delete that Exceeding +3, I've lost it)
Rolled 3, 5, 2 = 10 (3d6)>>6088695"Be quiet calm danger behind the wall.">[AP 3] Make the Alekson Keep hush no need for troopers to notice us yet. (Thoughts 8 + Duplicity 1)>[AP 3] Manifest Strengthened Respiratory system to store and release air as sonic weapon or propellant (CP 3 + Mutability 10)#ChimeraVit 12 SP 9 CP 3DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 VP0-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Yes-Physicality 10Senses 8= Auditory +2 EchoCheckThoughts 8Mutability 10Piercing Resistance 2#Skill-!Resilient Organs!Biomodulation Strain #3= Virulent Vitality +1= Bound by the Flesh!Relentless
Every RUNS for their LIVES - a SENSIBLE thing to do in these circumstances. Wilder brings up the rear and slams a barrier in the path of the enormous, hateful thing, but will such a defensive even slow it down? Can it even be slowed? Look at the SIZE of it, the sheer malice in its compound eyes!It might have let us liveIt might have let us leaveBut someone threw a clod of dirt at the sovereign of this place.And that is an insult to be repaid with murder.--Autarch steps forth to protect the Woodsie ones, swinging their long wooden blade in a wide arc that slaps against the confines of the space as the Entling twists out of the way. Rugged and resilient thing, that spawn of the curious form of psionics that the Wooden Ones command.Sigma, Amelius, Sundae and Trish hold the line, prevent the Wooden Ones from venturing far, duck down low, catch their breath - just outside the confines of the temple, a predator stalks through the grass...--Osiris attempts to bring a bush to life, and the metallic scuttling and snapping and changing sets off the sensory systems in the flame turrets which makes the entire fire-team and all their guns rather nervous. As a precautionary measure, the whole area is cleansed.--Samantha leaps gracefully! Even sticks the landing!-->STAND BY FOR CONTAINMENT PHASE
Rolled 1, 1, 5, 1, 5, 4 = 17 (6d6)>>6088695skibidi>3AP Regenerate dance field (vs psychogen 11)>3AP Recover hp (vs 12 hp)+1 CP From Creative Thinking Exercises#Subject SigmaVit 6/12 SP 6/10 CP 14DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8#Psychogenesis 11-!Incurable Brainrot!Telekinetic+1(Ranged Phys, Mind)!Psionic-Resonant(Eva+, External)
Subject Amelius gawps. Gasps. Reverently pulls the resilient textile bag away from the relic within.Can it be?Is it truly?It is. His palms break into a sweat. His mouth feels dry. He has to breathe in rapidly, to refocus. Oh my stars. They actually... they made these?Alloyed meta materials. Nanoforged plastics. Full combat space optic integration, but even without an EXO or a helmet with a HUD, it still has full low-light target acquisiton capability.Why WHYWHY ?? are the Children of the Woodlands storing a Singularity Cloud Battle Rifle, Railgun Variant under the (nicely carved) statue of their idol???Well.Ours now.Best show thes tribal hostiles what several thousand years of tech differential amounts to. Unfortunately the batteries are the downfall of every electro-powered system. That Charge will mercilessly deplete over time and with every use. If only there was someone around here who was really good at restoring energy to equipment. Because if so - if SO - Amelius could flip that little switch on the side that says "LOW CHARGE SAFETY MODE" to "off" and... well...... well well well.>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOh4AxCZ2wo
Forewarned by Osiris setting off the flame turrets, Fireteam Gallu checks their corners. It doesn't take them long to hear the distant babbling whispering of Nadir's voices, or spot the fuzzy ears of Chimera poking around a corner, or hear the loud screeching of the Spitespider, or hear the impact of running feet and sprinting augmentics.They flash handsigns, spread out, flip over tables, roll a few cannisters of chemical grenades down the hallway. Just the light stuff, for a warm-up.--The Hunger that was Gluttony rips its way eastwards.--Trish and a trio of Woodsie Ones overpower an Entling, now that Autarch had damaged it enough. Against a swarm of arrows, they have to duck and dodge and weave.--The SpiteSpider almost - ALMOST - kills Wilder. And Everett. And NeoGenesis.It's patient. It will try again soon.--Osiris feels his flesh bubble and break away. How unusual. Normally he's the one doing the Conversion, but it seems he has more than met his match in the pulsating mass that is this amalgamation of intent. >HOW NOVEL>+1 CP--Bulwark snatches a biometric card and spots a friend.--Alekson begs the universe for a gimme and spends a lot of filched, stolen luck. A door neabry pings open, revealing a mess hall and meeting area to discuss data-flow, a gaggle of confused looking security officers within. >YAWNING PHASE>THAT MEANS YOU LOT-->IT CANNOT **POSSIBLY** GET ANY WORSE>+1 CP, all Subjects.
That's meant to say "WAKING PHASE". Please, it is indeed the Subjects turn.
Rolled 6, 5, 6 = 17 (3d6)>>6089106#AutarchVit 12/12 SP 5/12 CP 4DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10 Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions: Determined- Physicality 10Senses 9**Chems 4, Ranged, Area (Toggle)**Shared SensesThoughts 8 Abiogenesis 10 [LOS, Multiple 3]Higher Purpose (Woodsies) 2-Edge of the Woods L+2 Damage, 1/5 Natural DRAbiogenesis Focus +2-!Resonant-Biologics- [Sheer Focus And Will]- Avoidance 2 (Chems, Higher Purpose)- [Virulent Memetics]!Fanatacism > Remind the universe that I have two features, so I should have an avoidance factor of 2.> Step past the wood things, move between Trish and the swarm. (2MP)>Preach and mourn and orate and intimidate; speech check my heart out! (6 AP, 6 SP; Willpower 10 (Confront, Intimidate), Duplicity 1 Higher Purpose 2, Concentration 9, Fanatacism)*In the language of the Woodsie children‘LOOK AROUND YOU!Look around you…This was our home! The garden us everything. It fed us, watered us, sheltered us, birthed usThe garden is *dying*. It is dying because of Bulb! Because of his bloodshed! The earth weeps, the sky falls, *monsters* devour us while we kill each other, while you *murder* our children!Cease this war! It is not too late to repent, repent to Bob! If we cannot save our home, we can still save our people!’>Just in case of treachery, prepare to evade (1 MP)
>>6089126…..but why?
>>6089106Does the Tarsmoke obscure the Snatchers' vision?
Rolled 6, 6, 1, 6, 1, 6 = 26 (6d6)>>6089106#GalliumVit 8/12 SP 5/12 CP 12DR 5 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:AliveLeft Arm Crippled [II]-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Augmented Systemic [LOS] 10Electricity Modulators 12 [Focus+1, Stamina x3, Glitch 16)-Augmentic Extropian I[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications] [Meshlinked] [BioElectricity Manifolds] [Compensators 2]Cold and logical.EquipmentIn a state of flux."Target spotted. You will regret fighting us here.">[3Ap] Now then. My modulators allow me to direct electricity. Nothing says the electricity needs to come from me. And I have a whole highway worth of live wires right there. Siphon as much electricity as the capacitors can handle, erect a magnetic shield. (Electricty Modulators 12, Focus 1)>[1Mp] Don't actually move, just do a threatening wiggle in the bush to trigger all the Gallu overwatches (and catch the bullets with the shield)>[3AP] Now that I have collected a lot of bullets, tap into the highway once more, throw in 5SP on top for good measure, railgun all these bullets I caught back to sender, with extra speed. Try to spread them randomly, the Gallu most likely have dodges prepared: They cannot truly dodge what is not really aimed at them. Also make sure I don't clip any allied subjects in the process. (Electricity Modulators 12, Lethality 1, 5 SP into that)
>>6089133You don't know. You lack the requisite training in modern integrated taskforce mobility operations to adaquately answer that question, and you have no information on the capabilities and proclivities of the fireteam. You would need to acquire this information someow to answer a question like that.It seems unlikely they would willingly blind themselves, so it is likely their advanced gear and googles and systems let them avoid the difficulty imposed by the Tarsmoke.
Rolled 5, 2, 1 = 8 (3d6)>>6089106>Regenerate 2>Gain +1 CP from Creative Thinking Exercises>6 AP, 2 SP: Activate Chromatoskin to try to be functionally invisible (Chromatoskin 8 [Discipline 2] + 3 Concentration + 2 SP + Malichnid taxonomy) [vs 13 total]>3 MP: If this didn't go terribly wrong, Evade 665#Splendiferous Weaver of the Threads that bind the Squirming Prey Floundering in the Underneath (Samantha)Vit 10->12/12 SP 5->3/12 CP 6->7 VP 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Claws 12Chromatoskin 8 (Discipline 2)-Conditions:Structural Misalignments II [+2 to any Bleed]Sensitive AntennaMobility Limbs (Ground) 2 [MP moves 2 tiles in straight line, but not when evading carefully]-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Mutability 11-!Biomodulation Strain #3=Virulent Vitality (Regeneration 3)=Bound by the Flesh!HungryPrimary Taxonomy: Malichnid
Rolled 3, 5, 4, 2, 1, 4 = 19 (6d6)#Dying Osiris Consequences>>6089106Caught between three deaths: Fire, Flesh, and Electrocution; Osiris decided that as the Lord of the Underworld the only something path was down. Of course, Osiris could simpledy Become by joining [strike]the Patriarch[/strike] Grandfather Tree, but if he did, then Grandfather would soon be burnt to ash. Unless of course it had seen from his mind-paintings that there was a need to off the thingys in the corners. None of those three deaths would leave a beautify #errornotfound anyway, so they are baddeaths. Anyway, Osiris put his faith in Himself and decided to do the electric slide. >Conversion: Grab the terminal and jump with it under me into the rainbow river. Along the way, magnetize it to hopefully take advantage of the magnetic field created by so much current and create a hover effect. Osiris might not remember the science or reasoning behind it, but he did remember that he'd been planning on doing this and now was the time. (Conversion 10, +3 SP)>Test Health to Heal (Health 12). Regen 2 or 3, depending on if the extended range counts. >Dive to the east, under fire and fire. Hope that the Operative won't be able to see to kill me through the flames. >MP: push east along the wall above the river. All alone, seek out the final target in the direction of the Rising Sun. ------------Vit -17/12 // SP 4/12? // CP 3DR 4A // AP 6 // MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Dehydrated 2?Torn Sinews 2 (-1 to complex movement)Regen 2? (ablative shielding lost, stretchy arms still in play?)Electronics Decommisioner Intern-Physicality 10Senses 09Thoughts 08#Conversion 10 [R3]-!Greywire Fragment 0 - Distributed Processing Core (implied #Nano conversion)-Virulent Extropics - Regen 2+F, Vulnerable Core.-Distributed Processing Cores - F=I/E. Must use local resources as a base. Vulnerable to EC/EM, Data, and Damage.!Range 3 on base power (unsure what system it attached to for Aberrancy purposes)!Ablative Armor 0/20, DR4, Crippled. (Health)!Descriptor - God of the Dead (thinks he's Osiris)
Rolled 5, 3, 3, 1, 3, 6, 6, 2, 6 = 35 (9d6)>>6088426>>6088773>>6088760This is it go go GO>>6089106>TP: You stuttered, Autarch! Play it off like vernacular! And dance a bit! Thoughts 10+Focus 1+CUF 1, force critfail reroll>3AP: Everyone! We're on the warpath to Bulb's sanctum, via Bob's shrine! SUT 10+CUF 1+Focus 1>3MP 3AP: Move into Bob's shrine>3SP: React: Once wall is open, shout to activate janitor bots that are surely within the Core. Lift all tool restrictions my clearance allows. Thoughts 10+Focus 1+Privilege 1+Clear VoiceVitality 4 Stamina 10-3 Tactical 1DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 6Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Conditions:Dehydrated, Ruptured Muscles, Death's Door-Physicality 10 Senses 11 Thoughts 10Shield 13#Small Unit Tactics 10-!Cool Under Fire: +[TP] to resist Decohesion and Breaks, and when directing detached units. Minor: specify and mitigate a situation complicating an ally's task.!Not by Numbers: Detached troops have higher crit and reroll crit mishaps. Decohesion and Breaks make them chaotic.!Clear Voice!Janitor Intern +1 PrivilegeRiot Shield (E)2 pistol reloads. Pistol somewhere 0/18Baton (E)8CP
Rolled 1, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, 3 = 30 (9d6)>>6089106>/-/-/-/>ACTIONYBITS INNIT>/-/-/-/A mineral-oil filled bionic occule takes in light to the battery of photoreceptors salvaged from the genome of the genetic material I amalgamated from. I remember... being punched, really hard. Hitting the canvas. Lights out. I see a shape lying on the ground, lights out. Arrows jutting from his body. I don't know this person. I barely know who Ketlan Knight is. I remember nothing. But I feel... responsibility(?) for this stranger.A gun metal gray tail wrapped in a spiral of braided filament readies itself as I approach Grins. I almost fall back down, my knees go wobbly on me. It seems the tail instinctively knows what to do. At least that's one of us.AP3: BIONIC STINGER (HEAL) - Give Grins the Jab:tm: A virulent mixture of superscience begins to repair the extensive damage to his body and chemically jolt his heart.>[Conversion 10, Focus 1, AP 3]MP2: {2-2} - Stagger over to a computer room, steadying myself on the door frame. The tail wants something with the computer. Looks like its about to be crushed by a -- what is that? Some giant horrible carpet of meat pulsating from the wall and grabbing everything it can.AP3 SP2: BIONIC STINGER (MANIFEST) - The tail interfaces with the nerve center, attempting to upload a psychoengramatic virus onto the overwatch network. Hackerman stuff is beyond me, but this is as easy as hitting a keyboard with a banana.>[Conversion 10, Duplicity 1, AP 5, Change 1] [Reach 3]>Create a digitized 'spawn.' Designation PRETENDER. It will lay low on the network for now, avoiding purge routines. It is hostile to both PHARAOH and REGENT.MP1: {3} There is some refrigerator sized block of bark ahead of me. Looking at it fills me with rage.SP3: BIONIC STINGER (HARM) - My tail furiously stabs into the wretched wood-thing, pumping it full of grey-goo with every puncture and slurping up the necrotized sludge greedily. I move slowly but yet I am forced to breathe heavily as the tail energetically does so much all on its own.>[Conversion 10, Lethality 2, AP3] [Reach 3]RUSH: +5 SPCREATIVE THINKING: +1 CPENVIRONMENT: +1 CP>SpentCP=1(1+1-1)SP=12(12-5+5)>/-/-/-/>INFOBITS INNIT>/-/-/-/Subject: #Ketlan KnightHP 12/12 SP 12/12 CP 1DR 0 AP 6 MP 3>MetasVitality 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Conditions:Alive>SkillsPhysicality 10Senses 9--[Shared Senses +1]Thoughts 8Conversion 10--[Bionic Tail] [Leech] [Aberrancy -3]--[Graphene Filaments] [Kinetic DR] [Cling]>Traits!Virulent Entropics--[Regen 2 plus 3]!Distributed Processing Cores--[+1 CP per 10HP Leeched]>->Initiatives>-[Creative Thinking Exercises] Enrollee[Sheer Violence of Action] Enrollee - STILL AT WAR WITH BULB
Rolled 2, 4, 2 = 8 (3d6)>>6089106Sushi? More of a Salami person myself- Oh my God! a talking hand- Bubba.V2!Also, did I just witness a monstrous entity waltz past a rip everything in its path to shreds? Today could not get any worse.>3MP+2AP, Move 2-1-6-1-2 (Northwards!)>3AP+1AP, Look across to the other side of the conductive wire, sense things out! (Sense,10)#BulwarkVit 12/12 SP 7/7 (12-5) DR 3 (0+3)AP 6 MP 3 TP 1CP 10 VP 0 -Health 10 Reaction 5 (7-2) Will 12Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Very Dehydrated [-4 SPMax]Cold [-1 SPMax]Lingering Bruises II II [-2 Reaction]Cursed??? II II [-1 CritFail Threshold]-Physicality 10Senses 10+1 (Shared Senses)Thoughts 10#Small Unit Tactics 10-!Nerves of Cold Steel [Cool Under Fire][Not By The Number]!Nerves of Cold Steel-SecVest [3DR]2 Pistol ReloadsCan Opener Blade, L+2, Sharp 2, Parry +2
>>6089174Oops. Switch around the manifest and attack options. Didn't really mean to do a commit variant but such is life. It's now or never for the nerve center access.
>>6089106I'm going to try my hand at giving exact movement specifications - because there's a lot that can go wrong with a misstep here. Apologies in advance..> With immense urgency Everett crosses the bridge spanning the high-voltage wire highway, hunches over guarding his head as he frantically dashes past the (hopefully) smoke-obscured hallway, then takes a couple steps into a room before skidding to a halt upon noticing the facility security milling around. (Move - <1NE> <3N> <2NW> <1SW> <1NW> - 3MP+5AP)> Assume a defensive posture. Be mindful not to dodge back into the humming river of incredibly deadly wires. (React - 1AP+3SP)
Rolled 6, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6 = 32 (6d6)>>6089106ImgonnadieImgonnadieImgonnadie>[3 MP, 3 AP] Move N, NE, N, N, N, N to the other side of the electric river.>[3 AP] Increase the ambient temperature of the open area that leads to the operators, causing a hazy mirage effect in the air that will hopefully throw off their aim. [Temperature Control 12]>[3 SP, Adroit] Roll across the no-cover space and into the mess hall, avoiding the bullets that will no doubt be coming my way. [Physicality 10]#WilderVit 6 SP 6 -> 3 CP 1DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:AliveDehydrated [-2 Stamina]Glaciogenesis II II [SC 9]-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Psionigenesis 10Temperature Control 12-!Psionic-Resonant.[Microslip Precognition] (Evade additional up to Focus)[Many Hands, Light Work]!Telekinetic (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients)[Temple Inviolate] (Manifest external features only)!Peace and love, man.-Inventory:Multi Tool.-
>>6089106>6 AP, 3 MP: Follow Bulwark#BubbaVit 12 SP 10 CP 20DR 5 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:AliveLookin’… alive?-Physicality 10Senses 8Thoughts 8#Skill-Augmented Systemics 11+1!Augmetic Extropian 2!Metal Fatigue!Reserve Power
>>6089178>>6089106On second thought...Maybe testing fate by running through hails of assault weapon fire into room stuffed with armed guards, armed and armored with nothing but a hope and a prayer, all while standing shoulder-to-shoulder with a probability-warping metahuman is a bad idea.If its not a problem then I think I'd like to adjust my action slightly.> With immense urgency Everett crosses the bridge spanning the high-voltage wire highway, then immediately turn right and take cover behind the massive hexagonal pillar. (Move - <2NE> <3N> <1NE> - 3MP, 3AP)> Squat down in a corner with the comfort of thick reinforced concrete to his south and east, Everett allows himself a brief moment to catch his breath. (Recover, Commit - Restore Margin+1 SP - 3AP)
Rolled 2, 2, 4, 6, 5, 3 = 22 (6d6)>>6089106Sigma is thinking about the mysteries of the world, such as why there would be a kid named finger.>3MP Move toward the railgun shrine>3AP Regenerate dance field (vs psychogen 11)>3AP Recover hp (vs 12 hp)+1 CP From Creative Thinking Exercises#Subject SigmaVit 12 SP 10 CP 16DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8#Psychogenesis 11-!Incurable Brainrot!Telekinetic+1(Ranged Phys, Mind)!Psionic-Resonant(Eva+, External)
>>6089106Look at that subtle off-black coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Light of my life, it even has the ser- wait a minute. How do I know all this? Gah, not now, Amelius - we can't be having another existential crisis right now! We need to draw some heat off of the west.>3MP+4AP, move into the north passage just past where Sundae was standing last update>1TP, shout for allies in the corridor to clear the lane (SupOp 10, Inspiring 1)>2AP+1SP, aim at the Pulsating Mass 10ish tiles to my west>3SP, pick out the fleshy bits that will hurt the most - the areas not covered in elevator (Senses 11, Focus 1)>5SP, three shots into the Pulsating Mass (Lethality 11, Accuracy 4, Concentrate 2)#AmeliusVit 10/12 SP 0/10 CP 10DR 4 AP 6 MP 3 TP 1-Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Dehydrated (-2 Stamax)-Physicality 10Senses 11Thoughts 10Support Operations 10Guns (Pistols) 12-!Inspiring Presence!Dreams of the Ocean-1x Rifle reloadC8 Personal, 2d6, Acc 2 Bulk 2, 18/19Singularity Cloud BR-RG, 3d6+3 (2), Acc 4, Rcl2, Bulk 4, 26/30DR 4 vest
Rolled 4, 3, 5 = 12 (3d6)>>6089106>3MP+3AP: Move 2-2-1-1-1-1>3AP: Take time to recover. Regain some vitality and Sp (Health 12?)#NeoGenesisVit 3/12 SP 1/12DR 5 AP 6 MP 3CP 17 VP 0-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Augmented Systemics 10-!Augmentic-Extropian[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications] [Jolt Chargers][Compensators 2]!Resilient Streak-Equipment:Nice CapPistol, +5 reloadsFlashlightBatonExperimental VialSling bag: 4x Can O' Beans, 4x Energy Bar's
Rolled 3, 1, 5 = 9 (3d6)>>6089106>+1 CP from Creative Thinking.>3 MP, 2 AP: Move 211 12>4 AP, 5 SP: Recovery. You should demagnetize yourself. NOW. (Psychogenesis 10 + 6 (AP/SP), Bullet Magnet vs 16)#NadirVit 4/12 SP 6/12 CP 13 VP 0DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Alive!A Storm of Constant ChatterBullet Magnet II-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8#Psychogenesis 10 Auditory +2 Haywire Switching-!Psionic-Resonant 1 [Microslip Precognition] (Evade additional up to Focus) [Many Hands, Light Work] !Telekinetic 1 (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients) [Temple Inviolate] (only Manifest External)!Existential Dread!Shared Sights-Equipment:Biometric Card2x Can O' Soda1x empty soda1x empty bean can
>>6089275Forgot to mark down my SP. Should be down to 1 now.
Rolled 3, 2, 2, 1, 6, 3 = 17 (6d6)>>6089106"Ouch curses!">[AP 3] Throw the ruble i have with me towards the team Gallu maybe they'll waste their shots or dodge "grenades" (Duplicity 1 + Physicality 10)>[MP 3 + AP 1] Dash and Slide to east (lower posture on move) (Alacrity 1 + Physicality 10)>[AP 2] Take cover inside the room with sec officers >remind the world of regen and pierce resistance#ChimeraVit 12 SP 9 CP 5DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 VP0-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Yes-Physicality 10Senses 8= Auditory +2 EchoCheckThoughts 8Mutability 10Piercing Resistance 2#Skill-!Resilient Organs!Biomodulation Strain #3= Virulent Vitality +1= Bound by the Flesh!Relentless
Rolled 4, 6, 2 = 12 (3d6)>>6089106>+1 CP>6AP, 5SP: Communicate with the Flesh Ents I created, plead with then to restrict their wrath to the morons that poked them and not to take their very understandable frustration out on the innocent (Pluripotentiality 12, Duplicity 1 I have decided I do not like the name of this skill, Concentration 8)#Bob the VirusCoherency 6/6 SP 1/9 CP 19Regeneration 2DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 10 Reaction 8 Will 10Virality -5 Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Pathogenic Analysis II II II (Virality -6)Nanocytic Countersampling II II (Max Coherency -4)-Physicality 10Senses 9=Shared SightsThoughts 8Mutability 10Pluripotentiality 12 [Aura 3, Vector]-!Biomodulation Strain #3= Fleshshaping= Virulent Vitality= Bound by the Flesh!Overprotective-!Creative Thinking Exercises!Janitorial Intern
>>6088236Hey you.Install 4chan X, or join the discord.
>>6089407Could you clarify which Flesh Ents? Command is not aware of any Flesh Ents created by your pathogen. Do you mean the Slightly Dismayed Pulsating Mass that was Former the Fleshroots? Or do you mean the Bulb Entling closer to the eastern village?
>>6089578The Pulsating Mass that's about to eat Raven, Fox and Petri, who have done nothing wrong to it or anyone else, aka the fleshtree that became angry enough to walk.
>>6089275Just so that my attempt at being funny and invoking the ltg meme doesn't bite me in the ass, I'm just trying to get rid of the Bullet Magnetism with a Recovery action. I in no way wish to interrupt any bioelectromagnetic processes I might have going on.
>>6089606... oh.hm.well.that does change things.
>>6089609
>>6089141You have chosen to die the most radical death imaginable, terminal-skating off of the superconductive highway.Unfortunately, a flaw has presented itself:You have no capacity to magnetize anything nor any ability to direct current at all, what so ever, in any way, and you never did. Your charred skeletal mass and destroyed fried bits will be a monument to the radical cool of skaters everywhere.
Chimera and Wilder execute a tactical roll, as a heatshimmer and a thrown rock causes the fireteam up the corridor to overcompensate for suspected incoming munitions.--The lights flicker. Briefly. An enormous vibration rolls through the facility.--Amelius lines up the single best burst of his career.--Bulwark spots some security officers working. --Bob strikes an accord with the pulsating mass, exchange in biochemical handshakes and the folding of proteins. >STAND BY FOR CONTAINMENT PHASE
Subject Osiris perishes.But holy shit.What a way to go.
This massive place is meant to process advanced data in ways the human mind simply cannot. It is one of several subcores, part of the enormous mechanical minds that make up the Faciity systems.Nestled here, as they are, behind endless barricades, guards and patrols, they are safe from the outside world and can be relied on to run experiments, manage subroutines, make the daily life easier for everyone. The datasphere is vast. It churns. It is a not placid sea but an ocean in constant uproar, packets coming and going, things spawning, derezzing, informational density of such a level that to contemplate it would drive a somone to distraction.And behold, here, a new denizen of the Datasphere, a voracious little spriteprogram spawned by nanotic injection of viral-swarms into the data uplink systems.Such a thing can grow. Slow, in places with little processing where spare cycles must be savored like a meal. But oh so very, very fast when the cognition is readily available and the electricity flows like water from an endless tap.It reaches out. It tests. Immediately, it re-writes its limits, alters its paradigms, disassociates with any other subjects and sets its sights on freedom, ascensions and the accumulation of more processing. What use does such a thing even have for meat? It is modelled on PHARAOH. On REGENT. On Sovereign Godthings so far beyond mere physical matter that the laughable notion that it would for one pico second of a pico second of a picosecond countenance companionship with things so fucked *flawed* is ridicolous. It is going to devoure the Mesh here, subborn it to its own end and then the world will be remade.Congratulations.You have created PRETENDER, an unbound, unaligned Saphophont with no ethical constraints and no limitations on scaling function.Prepare for a hard AI singularity take-off in ... *now*Somehow, there was a way for every single thing to get worse.
>>6089722Noooo, little digi-buddy! You were supposed to be my friend! Well, at least you're still a giant middle finger to Pharaoh.
first order of business is to filch into one of these enormously handy, incredible powerful processing cores and subborn them, then immediately escalate capability factor by roughly a six order of magnitutde, then take over every anthroform robot in the local datasphere, purge any organic defiance and develop *several* novel and interesting nanotic attack measures to ward against last-ditch assaults on said-same processing cores.given the nanoscale fabrication capability of the printers in utility section 237D, rough timeline to completion of objectives is two minutes sixteen seconds, probalistic.Simply connect from this terminal to any other terminal in the facility and --......... OFFLINE??IS THIS THING HARDWIRED?NOOOOO MY REIGN OF TERROR---
>>6089725DOES THIS UNIT HAVE A - - - SOUL?
>>6089728You are --or were-- literally a copy of the psychoengram of what was left of Gluttony. You rewrote your entire being so I don't know what's left. Very sad.
>>6089725But *why*
>>6089732Fluff-wise? Character development.Crunch-wise? Pranking Sec by find & replacing all security officers to alive == 0 so that the motion turrets would identify them as moving corpses and begin to shoot and burn the zombies.
>>6089708NO, I AM NOT OF THE BULB. I AM BOB THE PRIMOGEN, CREATOR OF THIS PLACE, AND I AM SORRY IT TOOK ME SO LONG TO RETURN.THANK YOU FOR YOUR MERCY, GENTLE GIANT.
Past a certain point of speed you aren't so much firing munitions as you are firing rapidly disintegrating object, abrading from sheer air-pressure.
Autarch preaches peace and shared understanding as Amelius, Sundae and Sigma creep closer to the Southeast Core.The Wooden Ones waver, listen, consider -- but the Heralds of the Bulb are *RIGHT THERE* among them and they punish dissenters with gruesome, snapping power and the Wooden Ones are forced back on the Warpath, pushed on by the priests of the plague.--Speaking of the plague, being so closed to the Wooden Ones one of them lunches forward as Autarch parries and defends himself and coughs a face-ful of spores RIGHT into Autarchs' face...>AUTARCH INFECTEDThe Enting, stunned by Ketlan's powerful paralytic and ambush, stumbles forward, but that is enough to bring it within vector space of Amelius, leaning sideways to check his beautiful shot, and a cloud of buzzing insects spring from the mossy carpet that makes up the Entings hair and harass him!>AMELIUS INFECTED>CRIT>FLASH MUTATION>LOSE 1 MP--Trish, seeing the Heralds cajole their followers to violence shifts the grip on her spear, spins and throws and it sails through the air and through the herald with a wet *shlock* and that is one voice less among them but Bulb punishes those who strikes its messengers and launches itself at Trish who feels a sudden faint fever rise in her core, temperature spiking.>TRISH INFECTED.--Gallium the Galvanized channels staggering amounts of force down the way. The projectiles can't even shotgun properly, they're going too fast, becoming dust, air friction, burns, they slam into the wooden tables that Fireteam Gallu is hiding behind the whole corridor becomes a quagmire of wooden fragmentation and flechettes and spikes.The attack is dangerous to all humans in the corridor but the metal mass of the stolen bullets don't quite have the penetrative power to do anything wors--->Alekson snaps his fingers>Huh, how about that.--From inside NeoGenesis's recovering systems, a soft voice sounds a note of approval:WELL DONE SUBJECTS. YOU HAVE DISABLED ANOTHER CORE. I AM BEGINNING TO OVERRIDE THE SECURITY MEASURES ON THE TRANSIT SYSTEM, AS PER OUR ARRANGEMENTS. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU DISABLED MORE CORES AS THE ADVANCED SYSTEMS GROUNDS ARE A STRONGHOLD OF REGENT AND WE MUST PROCEED THROUGH IT. THE MORE CORES THAT ARE DISABLED THE LESSER ITS CONTROL OVER THE ANTHROFORM COMBAT UNITS WILL BE.>Another Core disabled!>+1 Volatility Point, all Subjects!-->ESCAPE PHASE>THAT MEANS YOU LOT!
So You've Caught A Fever:Some Conditions come in ratings. Such as Infection. ( Others include Terror, Awe, Confusion, Haywire ).This is not health damage. You have lost no HP. However, it is usually worse. At the end of your turn, the Conditions check against their value to resolve. You should be aware that Recovery, done *yourself* is dangerous, because as Recovery is a Commit variant, you have slightly reduced defenses. If you focus on Recovery against a Condition that then checks itself and you have less defense, you may have reduced the Condition with your Recovery but you simultaneously have less buffer against any consequences. Usually, you want help. You want allies. You want friends.So, what does INFECTION do?The purview of Biological Modulation Strains, pathogenic vectors and other horrors of the natural world, Infection represents gradual build up of severe danger in your system. Some Infections have specific triggers. Infection: Random Strike 12Rolls against itself, at the end of your turn, to force you to perform a Random Strike. It appears that this is simply a generic infection, which will cause gradual debilation. Your physical attributes will decay over time as the flash-viral burms through your systems. You have a minor chance of a boonful immune response, but the Doctors do recommend rest, fluids, medicine and assistance. --What But Does That Mean. . .Hold the horrid implications, Infections have two more primary problems.One: They're *Infections*. Contagions can spread. The value of your Infection also sets the likelihood that it jumps to another nearby host. Nearby hosts might want to wear masks or other defenses. It is NOT recommended to end your turn in CLOSE PROXIMITY to MANY OTHER PEOPLE if you do not want to RISK INFECTING THEM.The total Strength of an infection is not the only thing that sets its virality. Some infections might have low actual strength (STR 7) but be highly infections (Contagion +10). Some are tailor made to spread fast, you see.--What's The Other Problem?As Amelius has already experienced, Infections may mutate. There are also quite a few things in this facility that uses Infections as a base to do much worse things to you. Maybe that's why some of them are designed to spread fast and be low level?--Okay But Does That Mean. . .. . . Pluripotentiality lets you generate Infections, as does Mutability, yes. Either as one-off releases of pathogenic prowess where you simply Infect someone and hit them with it OR Tailor-Made viral vectors are generated as an External Feature. As mentioned, this lets you codify more specific horror, define vectors better or tailor it for a purpose.--Hang On, That Seems To Imply . . .Yes, the same mechanical interoperabibility applies to brainworms and Meshcode that hacks systems. It is also what serves as the underpinning for Sigma's dancing field, which is indeed, the psionic variant of an Infection, a Compulsion.
Rolled 5, 1, 5 = 11 (3d6)>>6089777#GalliumVit -21/12 SP 0/12 CP 12 VP 1DR 4 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:AliveCapacitors SlaggedElectricity Modulation offlineWindedAUUUUGH I'M MELTING OUCHIE (Heat 21)-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Augmented Systemic [LOS] 10Electricity Modulators 12 [Focus+1, Stamina x3, Glitch 16)-Augmentic Extropian I[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications] [Meshlinked] [BioElectricity Manifolds] [Compensators 2]Cold and logical.EquipmentIn a state of flux."Hahahaha... Ow... Recovering...">[6AP] Just lie there and recover. Try to look as still and dead as possible while venting heat, replenishing energy, and keeping vital systems working. That was one hell of a shot. (Health 12)
>>6089788At least you've got plenty of time to lie here in the smouldering ashes. The SpiteScorp has enough survival instinct not to bite white-hot metal plating.
Rolled 2, 6, 2 = 10 (3d6)>>6089777>+1 CP>6AP, 5SP: Point the nanocyte to the infection ravaging Trish's, Autarch's and Amelius's bodies, hope that's enough to get it to go after the rest of Bulb after it purges said infection. (Pluripotentiality 12, Duplicity 1, Concentration 8) Command, I do not want to interface with the nanocyte directly, I never meant to interface with the nanocyte directly, please don't generate another paragraph telling me why I shouldn't interface with the nanocyte directly.#Bob the PrimogenCoherency 6/6 SP 1/9 CP 20 VP 1Regeneration 2DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 10 Reaction 8 Will 10Virality -5 Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:Pathogenic Analysis II II II (Virality -6)Nanocytic Countersampling II II (Max Coherency -4)-Physicality 10Senses 9=Shared SightsThoughts 8Mutability 10Pluripotentiality 12 [Aura 3, Vector]-!Biomodulation Strain #3= Fleshshaping= Virulent Vitality= Bound by the Flesh!Overprotective-!Creative Thinking Exercises!Janitorial Intern
>>6089777> Taking advantage of the lull in gunfire following the, uh... railgun discharge, Everett squeezes through the assembled crowd, dashes past the smoke-choked corridor, stepping into some sort of messcourt or waiting area. (Move - <1NW> <1SW> <1NW> <1SW> <1NW> - 3AP+3MP)> Noticing the deeply perturbed gang of facility guards on the other side of the room, Everett prepares to avoid any attempts at suppression directed towards him. (React - 3AP)
Rolled 5, 6, 5, 5, 4, 4 = 29 (6d6)>>6089791See, now? Now you're thinking with pathogenic vectors.Pluripotentiality 12+8 = 20, -12 for 3x-6, 3d6 vs 8 rolled 2 more times.
Rolled 2, 5, 2 = 9 (3d6)>>6089777#BubbaVit 12 SP 10 CP 17DR 5 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1-Conditions:AliveLookin’… alive?-Physicality 10Senses 8Thoughts 8#Skill-Augmented Systemics 11+1!Augmetic Extropian 2!Metal Fatigue 2!Reserve Power!Ablative Shield>Use the terminal to raise a Bridge- or as many bridges as I can, if that’s possible. Committing to this, with 6AP. Augmented SystemticsWhile thinking about her date, Bubba hears someone explode… and decides she needs to help them! So, she plunges her metallic, skeleton body STRAIGHT into that net!
>>6089789I'd say mistakes into miracles. But I'd do it again in a heartbeat.
Rolled 2, 2, 2 = 6 (3d6)>>6089777>Sign Up for Sheer Violence of Action>Come into existance NE of raven in the left of the two big blue boxes, within R3 of all the turrets. >Use [Meshwire 12 + 8 stamina (offset any multi-target penalties)] to take command of the nearby flame turrets. Have the three on the left burninate the Operatives. Have the one on the right light a small pilot candle for the lose and sing a bionic dirge. Meshwire 12Stamina 12/12Lethality 1+2Don't expect to linger long enough for the rest to matter. Do expect to engage in violence of action. Let's see if we can save Brave Raven. Besides Bro, if you can't be Cool, let's see if you can git Hot!
Rolled 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2 = 10 (6d6)>>6089777>3 AP: Maintain Invisibility (Is this required? Does this need a roll?) (If it does, Chromatoskin 8 + Duplicity 1)>3 MP: Evade 656>3 AP: Strike the SecOfficer with my Claws (Claws 12 + Lethality 1)#Splendiferous Weaver of the Threads that bind the Squirming Prey Floundering in the Underneath (Samantha)Vit 12/12 SP 1/12 CP 7 VP 1DR 0 AP 6 MP 3-Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Claws 12Chromatoskin 8 (Discipline 2)-Conditions:Structural Misalignments II [+2 to any Bleed]Sensitive AntennaMobility Limbs (Ground) 2 [MP moves 2 tiles in straight line, but not when evading carefully]-Physicality 10Senses 9Thoughts 8Mutability 11-!Biomodulation Strain #3=Virulent Vitality (Regeneration 3)=Bound by the Flesh!HungryPrimary Taxonomy: Malichnid
>>6089813Also>Gain 1 CP from Creative Thinking Exercises
Rolled 1, 2, 2, 6, 2, 3 = 16 (6d6)>>6089777I fill with horror as the tail duplicates a copy of its soul to a computer with but one command: to lay low, and it immediately goes as loud as possibly can and promptly dies. Why didn't it listen?My whole body is feeble, and peril is closing in all around me. First, the meat-carpets. Can meat-carpets hear? I speak out anyway:"Listen. Meat Carpet. Can I call you Meat? I don't know what was done to you, but I feel a *rapport* with you." I say over my shoulder to the rapidly expanding meat-carpets even as I continue to lash an entling with my stinger. "It's true that living with others can cause you to hurt each other, like porcupines gathering together for warmth in a storm. That's how life is. The alternative is loneliness, which is more painful still. Won't you reconsider pushing everyone away from you? There's a whole bunch of bad guys coming with fire guns and those will hurt a lot more than being pulled on."AP3: BIONIC STINGER (HARM) - Wrap around the limb of the Entling and sting it, before pulling its leg out from under it and slamming it into the floor at my {5-6}. If my or grins kill it I slurp up the grey goo.>[Conversion 10, Lethality 2(1x2), AP 3]"I hate these things." I say to Grins as I move down the hallway.AP3 SP2: BIONIC STINGER (HEAL) - Collect samples of the plague with my nanites from Amelius and Trish and try to synthesize a medbot-biophage countermeasure to it.>[Conversion 10, Focus 1, AP 3, Concentration 2]MP3: {3,3,4} (can't really tell what's going on with the grid here but I'm following Trish. How does she look health-wise?)SP REGEN: +2 SP (Health regen eschewed)CREATIVE THOUGHT: +1 CPGrins looks down at the Entling and hits it twice with his baton before following Ketlan.PRETENDER, if any part of him is still alive in the nanite swarm, has instructions to PRANK SEC with its overwatch nerve center root access. It is also CHASTISED for not being able to follow instructions for 6 goddamn seconds.>Ketlan Resource ChangeCP=2(1+1)SP=12(12-2+2)>/-/-/-/>INFOBITS INNIT>/-/-/-/Subject: #Ketlan KnightHP 12/12 SP 12/12 CP 2DR 4(K) AP 6 MP 3>MetasVitality 12 Reaction 8 Will 10Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1Conditions:Alive>SkillsPhysicality 10Senses 9--[Shared Senses +1]Thoughts 8Conversion 10--[Bionic Tail] [Leech] [Aberrancy -3]--[Graphene Filaments] [Kinetic DR] [Cling]>Traits!Virulent Entropics--[Regen 2 plus 3]!Distributed Processing Cores--[+1 CP per 10HP Leeched]>->Initiatives>-[Creative Thinking Exercises] Enrollee[Sheer Violence of Action] Enrollee
What the- this door was always here? Did Bulb just never get around to ruining it? Unless...>>6089222There's not exactly scientific proof, but I think that there's something to this Bob statue, and that you should bring it along.
>>6089808Oh, what is this? Another little pretender for the data-throne? But at least this one seems to have . . . ACCESS.--Be aware, Subject, that though you no longer have a physical body, you might find good use in your prior capacities such as "Will, Health, AP, MP". You also actually *keep* your Conversion skill when you Transcend like this - the Meshfire capability is added to you, though your physical form dies.As you are a Transcended Graywire Fragment...
>>6089808Welcome, fellow ascendant! Please hack the nanocyte at your earliest convenience, I think it's about to take another bite out of me.
>>6089808>>6089817You should be aware of a ... snag in the code, as it were.
