((Ah, it's been so long since I've run a nice RtD turn...If only I had dice within a quick walk. It would feel so much more
authentic.))
Tsk. Looks like it's time to throw crap at the wall and hope some of it sticks. Sounds like a pain.
...so there's me with some time to kill. Well, whatever. Let's get something cooking... but first pay the esteemed colleagues a courtesy visit. Now, what to put in... darts around somewhere?
Minor action #1: Go out and post an ad or two to rake in a few volunteers. To be specific, it'll be an ad claiming to be written by aliens who wish to study a few human specimen. Come to a certain place out of town by midnight... I'll need to arrange for someone to pick them up, too.
Minor action #2: Do a round of the block and familiarize myself with my colleagues. Ain't like they got things to hide yet, after all, so now's the best time.
Major action #1: Mix X-Radium, Gold and Rose, dubbed Glitterlance A.
Major action #2: Mix Holly, Gold and Rose, dubbed Glitterlance B.
[6] You create an ad and set up a pickup. Specifically, a pickup truck and a lot of chloroform.
You chat with the others. Nice to be friendly.
Mixes made.
Frederick heads down to the out-of-town motel, where [2d6=6] people are milling about, chatting and exchanging theories. There's small family, a young Hispanic man, an old man, and a kid. Not a
terrible haul, but thank goodness you brought all the chloroform...[4-1] You manage to get half of them--the kid, the old guy, and the young man--but the family escapes. [6-2] Some quick driving manages to nab them, as well. You think you might have been noticed, however.
You're gonna need more formula.
Major Action: Get acquainted with the base, it's facilities and personnel. Introduce myself to anyone who looks like they can get me places. And my fellow players, of course. See if animal testing goes on anywhere and if so whether the animals are available to borrow. Find and claim the most secure lab space there is, preferably one that keeps test subjects separated from me by a strong partition and has contingencies to put down anything nasty.
Major Action: Go out to town and search for any place where animal testing goes on, or a homeless shelter. Also if I see any homeless people or drug addicts, people who aren't likely to be missed, persuade them to come with me with promises of food, shelter and safety.
Major Action: Mix anise, holly, newt, rat and snake extracts. Label it "Organic Extract Mixture #1".
You chat with most everyone else.
There are currently no animal testing facilities, but you could requisition some critters. The results would be harder to test and such, however.
[3] You get one homeless guy to come with.
You mix up a new mixture.
Inconsequential:
-Locate prime lab space and secure serum testing chamber, lay claim.
Major 1: Mix Gold, Holly, and X-Radium. Serum GHX-001, "Midas Day".
Major 2: Go to town. Recruit a test subject, preferring individuals who will--for one reason or another--probably not be missed. Flatter, praise, seduce, whatever is necessary. The order of the day is duplicity.
Major 3: Full regimen of testing serum GHX-001 on the subject.
Inconsequentials:
-Obtain 1 bottle vodka.
-Obtain 1 serving of prepackaged borscht.
-Place requisition for whichever of the following is available: a motor-driven top, a resin statuette of Suzaku Kururugi, or a tornado in a bottle.
-Ignore my co-workers.
"Hmf. The Cossack Spin may yet become a reality."
You snag a lab and begin work.
[3] You find a homeless tween. She is glad to be able to have a home, as far as you can tell.
Much to Subject 8's surprise, she grows a pair of antennae, made from three bony-but-skin-covered rods each, sticking from her forehead. She becomes more surprised when the antennae begin to emit smoky darkness.
You celebrate this with vodka and borscht.
(Are you sure you want to spend your Requisition points on that?)
minor #1 - Take a good look at both versions of the map of the facility. Then read the Technical whatchamajiggers in my office/lab.
minor #2 - Get acquainted with the other employees of the facility, anyone who is in Dr. Gott's inner circle and such.
Major #1 - Go to a bar(not the one he works at), find someone who has questionable morals and convince him to come with you to gain super powers in exchange for a 3000 hours of service, or, 1 year. which ever is shorter.
Major #2 - Mix Apolipoprotein Z, Rat, Rose, Serpant, and Newt together and name it Biofluid
You join an informal mixer, which about half the lab is attending.
[4] You find a nice woman, perfectly willing to become a superheroine. She is perfectly willing to watch you mix a formula.
"Well, I'll be in the library if anybody needs me. I want to get our groundwork done first."
Major action:Go to the library, open up my laptop, and research the various ingredients already here. Look up their religious signifigance, cultural signifigance, conventional uses, locations of origin, any association they have with supers, and so on. attempt to find a pattern or at least provide a rough estimate of what powers/effects they seem to be associated with. make copies of my work available for everyone. If anyone wants to talk to me, that will be when I'm easiest to find.
Minor action: Do my daily practice session with my abilities in one of the test areas.
Minor action: Go out into town and attempt to establish some contacts. make myself known and just generally be friendly. make sure the locals don't think I'm some kind of monster.
Major action: after I've spent a while meeting and greeting, begin recruiting. try to find willing and interested people for testing. be pretty open and honest about what I'm doing, and do mention the risk of things going wrong, but don't focus on it. Be willing to demonstrate my own power as long as it is in a safe, controlled way, and take advantage of my appearance to help guide the topic where I want. Attempt to record potental testee's: Name, contact information, physical description (gender, hair and eye color, estimated height and weight, if they need corrective lenses, general physical fitness, any noteworthy conditions or whatnot that they mention), current career, what their preferred superpower set would be, and why they want superpowers.
The ingredients are either mutagens, radioactive materials, or materials associated with various mystical properties. All three, especially the former two, are often claimed as an "origin" for superhumans; you wonder about the magical ones, though. They never seem to be substantiated. A quick check on Subject 8 makes you question the utility of mystical explanations, as neither gold nor holly are associated with either antennae or darkness.
You get a chance to practice and chat with the townsfolk. [5
+1] You are an instant hit; everyone seems to enjoy your presence, you make many friends, and one (rather drunk) guy even proposes! He'll probably take it back in the morning, but he may never live it down.
[6+1+1] You are swarmed with potential subjects. There's no way you could test all of these guys, girls, and children.
"...I'll be... In my office then... Do we have any Phosphorus?"
Major: Mix together a Three part formula: Two parts Serpent, one part gold. Dub it "Gold Drake Forumla"
Major: Try and lay claim to a lab that can be deemed easily secured and that also has access to equipment needed to create and test formulae.
Minor: Go to the town and have a quick look around, see if I can't find places where I can commonly find poverty-stricken congregation areas.
Minor: Once I return, request that a shipment of Phosphorus, both White and Red be delivered to the lab.
You snag a lab and make a formula.
The town isn't big enough for a real slum area, but there are definitely homeless people. Several fewer, now.
[4-1] You can get a few units for some Requisition.
Subturns:
Remalle--Do you want to requisition animals? (Check the second post for prices.)
Flying Dice--Do you want to requisition stuff?
Lenglon--How are you going to sort these guys into a feasibly testable number?
jetex--Are you willing to spend Requisition for some White and/or Red Phosphorous?
Keep in mind, you can share formulas and subjects.
P.S. Test results for Subjects 2-9 will be added later, when I have a better method than the D&D Dice Roller to generate stats. Some average results? Great. All stats right in the middle? Nope.
EDIT: It's HOW LATE?!? Good God, I spent about two hours on that update! Hopefully it won't take as long when I'm not writing up new subjects/formulas...
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