Form a layer of padding tissue around my brain (cartilage or fat or something) and then form a layer of bone around that, for starters. Then get the remaining amount of cells I have into a roughly circular shape and utilize the bottom half to form four short legs with digitigrade feet on them. Then form some wings of an appropriate proportion in order to fly from my body and form sensory organs ie eyes/ears on my 'front bit' in reference to my wing direction. The torso of myself will be fairly standard for now; basically for now a bird-like shape with no feathers, four legs, and sensory organs covering the front.
If this is done within the turn, make the motions of maniacal laughter (don't actually make lungs or anything), thank Doc nonverbally, and fly off to the food area. I'm pretty sure there's a food area. Follow the signs and such.
If it takes more than one turn to do, continue transforming for the turn.
Repeat.
[will:4+1]
You begin transforming yourself into some sort of bizarre dog legged, winged, pacman head thing.
"Hmm. Problem is your life support systems. Can't really fuck around with those so there's gonna be a pretty big chunk of your body that we can't change. And we probably want to keep some armor around it too...You're basically gonna be a skateboard with a big fat torso in the center of it."
((Hm...unless you made the skateboard big enough that the "big fat torso" didn't stand out that much...))
Grate watches the little animal skitter around.
"Okay, little guy, I'm putting you back in the box now. I promise I'll find a better arrangement for you soon!"
Recapture the little mutant and put it in the box. Try to think of a good name. (Would this be an Intuition roll, an Intelligence roll, or what?)
Search the ship for a box large enough to fit them all in comfortably, but small enough that it can fit in the locker (or some other storage that I can be fairly certain won't be sabotaged by a marauding teammate/accidentally vented into space/searched by a janiorbot/etc).
Stop by the cafeteria and grab a variety of foodstuffs, including meat, plants, and if available at least one kind of fungus. Bring the box and the food to the place where I left the little guys.
Transfer them to the larger box. Make sure they're doing well, then feed them the food and see what they eat. Also how.
Finish off this terrarium-creating stuff by grabbing a dish, filling it with water, placing it into the box, and finally sticking some chunks of scrap metal or something into the box so they can feel safe.
"I'm gonna call you...Bitey."You get yourself a box from the armory, a giant plate of food from the cafeteria and lump everything together in your locker. The little whatevers seem to like meat and veggies, but stay away from the icecream. Oh well, more for you.
try to lick my own elbow
(I seriously have no idea what to do here and I don't want to test my luck with a mal bonus again.)
At this point you're basically waiting for The two giant synthflesh men to decide if your life is worth playing with or not. Welcome to the HMRC, 10 hours of digging a trench followed by 3 seconds of intense action and pain then waking up in the infirmary. It's like ditch digging combined with roller derby.
((As hilarious as it would be for STEPHEN HAWKING to have an encounter with a wheelchair bound cripple (I INVENTED THAT LOOK!) I am reasonably sure that he wouldn't survive the encounter. So I'll probably just stay and make gore angels.))
Arrange the assorted parts into an "angelic" form, then sew them together. Also obtain sewing materials.
Now, pardon my asking, but when you say angelic do you mean generic cherubim, or are we talking "real"
angels? Because real angels are much
neater. Get out of the Sword. Examine landscape thru scope.
The landscape is red and dusty. Mars like. And becoming increasingly covered in blood, organs and debris. HMRC like.
Hmm. This hopefully would go away in time...
Seeing that Maurice is otherwise occupied, Teal decides to make himself scarce.
Join the crew on the Blacktop.
((Kudos, Kriellya. Didn't see that.))
Not sure where the blacktop is...Maybe the Gangway?
Sit in a nearby room, and start flying some drones around to try to spot some of the opposition.
[aux:6]
The drones fly around you in a dizzying flurry of metal, like being trapped in some sort of centrifuge filled with ball bearings.
Try and assist Leo.
Str 3; Dex 3; End 3; Cha 5; Int 4; Wil 12//Spe 0; Int 1; Han 0 (-1); Con 1; Unc 0; Exo 8; Aux 1 (+1); Med 0
Mk II Suit; Microwave PK Amp; laser rifle: normal cigarettes; blue smokes; datapad (with platformer shooter); nanoghosts; shock trigger (with Jack for this mission)
Appearance: 5'11'', 170 pounds in a rather unmuscular frame, shoulder-long brown hair, short goatee, brown eyes, a rather long chin that earned him his nickname. Age 32
Half a robot foot. Robot right arm.
You can't even get near him. Admittedly, the effect is kinda cool. He looks like he has a shield made of metal and rocket exhaust flying around him.
Figure out if one can designate targets for the lasers sans reprogramming. If not, start thinking up how to change the program to accommodate that. (dynamic bonus)
Yeah, it's the dynamic bonus one.
(( Good to me. If Feyri can't deliver Milno and crew their gear, I can try and drop by in the blackship. Mostly dependent on whether I can stop at them safely or not. Or if I can get the AM to pack their gear in a droppod... that would be slick.
... you know, something occurs to me. I know we said they're weak at close range, but let's be honest... how weak can something with the strength to safely wield the LESHO possibly be?
Oh, and Renen is already *at* the towers. Damn, that was some impressive mod work the doctor did XD ))
Alright. Shadow Hunter team, Skylar Air will be departing for tower air-space shortly. Be aboard or make your own way. Flyers, you're welcome to hitch a ride to the towers and hop out at any point in flight.
Pan, welcome aboard, get ready to watch our views for incoming LESHO rounds. Try and deflect them with your amps, not destroy them. I don't know if the nuclear LESHO's will detonate on a near miss, but I know they'll blow up if they start to lose integrity.
Feyri, let me know if you can take Joker squad's gear, otherwise I'd like to get it loaded up for us to drop to them.
Anyone joining the Shadow team is welcome aboard, just be aware that there is a high risk of nuclear LESHO fire.
If any sweep teams want to be dropped at the top of a tower, that is a possibility we can discuss. I'll either drop you first, in the hopes that our friend hasn't gotten setup yet, or I'll want to do a few passes around the towers before setting you down.
More control examination! Today's goals: Figure out if there are different vision modes for any exterior cameras, and see if I can gauge how much lateral maneuverability I'll have in flight.
If no one else volunteers to take Joker squads gear, ask the AM if we can get Joker team's gear packed up in a drop-ready case, and ask someone heading towards the blackship or idling around the blackship to pick it up.
Your cameras have about the versitlity of cam eyes, you are pretty dang maneuverable-ship was probably designed for both space and in atmosphere flight- and the AM tells you that she's had their gear packed up in a box and that it is waiting in the hanger.
((Holy shit I just read Piecewise's blog thing that's in his sig and gotta say, that was the funniest thing ever.))
I really should update that some time...
Keep waiting, observing any movements. See if I got any alteration done to my senses, like Cameyes or a better hearing. Try to deduce where the Shadow Walker would have put any traps. If see something hostile coming in my direction, enter BT to avoid and attack. Send messages.
Hey, Renen here. I'm at the towers where the SW may be in, waiting outside because there may be some traps here. And I ask for the people who have bots to put them to fly around searching for the SW and the Amp specialist. And please come here ASAP because he may run away.
Do I have cam eyes or anything that upgrade my senses?
Do you have any tips on how to fight an Amp specialist?
Running out of time here. Um. Basically you see that there's laser trip wires around the base of the towers. Same shit other people have been dealing with.