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[Weirdsound]

The mission itself went according to plan. You and your gang sabotaged the human steam cannons at Ft. Greenglen, avoided the guards, and slipped into the shipping containers provided by your shady employer, which you were told would deliver you back to the village near your home den. Sadly, it seems as if there has been some mistake, else you have been doublecrossed - The trip has taken way too long; The only reason you survived it was because you packed yourself in with the gang's food and water stores.

After several hours of stillness and silence, you pry open the box you are in and stumble out into a dimly lit warehouse. You see no guards, and many boxes. The air is a bit stale, but seeing as you have spent weeks traveling in a box with your own biological waste, it is sweet nonetheless. You shake the cobwebs and take inventory of yourself and your situation. You are a gremlin, a small and ugly relative of the gnome with a great talent for and compulsion towards sabotaging the handiwork of others. Aside from the shit-smeared cloak on your back, which allows you pass as a rather deformed halfling or gnome in a pinch, your dwindling reserves of food and water, and your basic toolbox, you have only one item of note to your name.

Pick a Starting Item:

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Wartool Kit: Many of the items in your toolbox double as effective weapons, and you are skilled at using them, as well as dodging. Although fighting an armored soldier of a larger race would be suicide, and even an untrained human adult could do you harm if you are unlucky, you are far from a sitting duck.

Infiltrators Doping Kit: You possess a small collection of powerful consumable drugs, pills, potions, and tonics designed to heighten your abilities or otherwise tip the scales in your favor in many situations that a Gremlin might encounter behind enemy lines. These fit easily in your toolbox.

Unsubtle Saboteur Kit: Many Gremlins are content to simply throw a monkey wrench into the works of their foes, but you would much prefer that monkey wrench to explode. In your toolbox is an assortment of goods and chemicals that allow you to leave not only an impression, but a crater.

Gremlin Flight Pack: A magictech backpack that allows for about 15 minutes of low altitude controlled flight. It is Powered by a gremlin's less than pleasant nature, and refueled by acts of theft or sabotage.

Pet Slag Squirrel: A being the size of a rodent made by combining organic matter with waste products from steel production. Its tough body makes it difficult to destroy without a powerful bronze or steel weapon. It is intelligent enough to understand even complex commands, and loyal enough to obey them.

...Your present situation is an interesting and potentially dangerous one. You are in a warehouse full of lootable boxes, but you have no clue how long you are going to be alone with them for. There are several windows you can climb to, made out of warm colored gems or stained glass, as well as a door which you expect to be guarded. You are also limited by the fact that as a small creature with limited toolbox room, you cannot carry much treasure away.

As for the boxes themselves, you spot several small and almost square shaped plywood boxes that do not appear to be unlocked, and that you could easily smash open anyhow. There are also a handful of deadbolted thick wood boxes that you could get into, either via lockpicking or brute force, with enough time. Lastly are the supposedly empty shipping crates from the front line that you came in. They are unlocked, and you suspect that you will find the dehydrated remains of your gang -as well as their gear- inside several of them, but there are a good three dozen of the things so sorting through them might take some time. You will also draw attention to the fact that there is now a gremlin presence in the area if you leave a bunch of Gremlin Corpses strewn about - it might be best to give yourself a head start; The corpses, if left undisturbed, won't be discovered until the locals decide to load the empty crates back up at some (hopefully distant) point in the future.

What is your starting item, and what do you do?

...Oh. And you also have a name. What is it?

[Arcvasti]

Slag Squirrel

We are Grikxtnak

Loot our fallen Gremlin brother's toolboxes

[Taricus]

Unsubtle Saboteur kit; Because let's be honest, it's better when things don't just go wrong but horrifically wrong for whomever we're targeting.

Now, action-wise. We'd be safe to assume that the stained glass or gem windows are indicative or either a wealthy landowner, or a religious building of some kind. Would be worth looking out to check here we are before jumping out. As for looting, we'd probably want to grab something more valuable as opposed to more mundane things, which means leaving the rest of the gang's bodies sealed up (Though presumably it's best to leave those ones closed to keep the smell in them.)

Open one of the small thin boxes out of curiousity.

[~Neri]

Slag Squirrel

We are Grikxtnak

Loot our fallen Gremlin brother's toolboxes

+1.

[Yourmaster]

Unsubtle Saboteur kit; Because let's be honest, it's better when things don't just go wrong but horrifically wrong for whomever we're targeting.

Now, action-wise. We'd be safe to assume that the stained glass or gem windows are indicative or either a wealthy landowner, or a religious building of some kind. Would be worth looking out to check here we are before jumping out. As for looting, we'd probably want to grab something more valuable as opposed to more mundane things, which means leaving the rest of the gang's bodies sealed up (Though presumably it's best to leave those ones closed to keep the smell in them.)

Open one of the small thin boxes out of curiousity.

+1

[tryrar]

Unsubtle Saboteur kit; Because let's be honest, it's better when things don't just go wrong but horrifically wrong for whomever we're targeting.

Now, action-wise. We'd be safe to assume that the stained glass or gem windows are indicative or either a wealthy landowner, or a religious building of some kind. Would be worth looking out to check here we are before jumping out. As for looting, we'd probably want to grab something more valuable as opposed to more mundane things, which means leaving the rest of the gang's bodies sealed up (Though presumably it's best to leave those ones closed to keep the smell in them.)

Open one of the small thin boxes out of curiousity.

+1

[StrawBarrel]

Slag Squirrel

We are Grikxtnak

Loot our fallen Gremlin brother's toolboxes

+1.

+1

[Weirdsound]

Whelp. I want to get this started before I crash, and we have a tie... to Random.org!

...And we are starting with the Slag Squirrel and Corpse Looting. I actually started writing that update awhile ago before things got tied up, so I should post pretty soon.

[Weirdsound]

Slag Squirrel

We are Grikxtnak

Loot our fallen Gremlin brother's toolboxes

Searching for corpses is easy when you have a pet with a good nose. You instruct the slag squirrel to point out particularly corpsish smelling boxes, and then begin the grim task of cataloging the corpses of your friends, kin, and belongings. It is distressing work, not even a gremlin particularly cares for the death and decay of those he is close to, and the bodies reek worse than your own shit smeared crate to boot. Still, the labor bears fruit, and much of their gear is ripe for the taking.

Belongings of Srinx, Your Elder Brother and Gang Leader:

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Srinx's Partially Decayed Gremlin Corpse (Large)
Srinx's waste smeared suit (Equipment, Full Body)
Srinx's Toolbox
Basic Gremlin Tools
Bloodcog Gang Logbook (Small)
Bloodcog Gang Coinpurse (Small, Contains 16 Gold, 14 Silver, 4 Copper)
Bloodcog Gang Signet Ring (Tiny, Equipment, Hand)
Srinx's Tarnished Silver Wedding Ring (Tiny, Equipment, Hand)

Belongings of Varmit, Your Friend and Gang Tinker:

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Varmit's Partially Decayed Corpse (Large)
Waste Smeared Smith's Apron (Equipment, Upper Body, Provides 3 Small Storage Slots)
Waste Smeared Kilt (Equipment, Lower Body)
Varmit's Toolbox
Gremlin Smithing Tools
Portable Furnace Kit
Brass Ingot (Small)
Lay Pewter Ingot (Small)
Trophy Tooth Necklace

Belongings of Ingrinip, Your Sister-in-Law and Gang Thug:

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Ingrinip's partially decayed corpse (Large)
Waste Smeared Robe
Rusty Gnomish Collapsable Steel Plate (Equipment, Full Body, Heavy)
Bronze Scimitar (Equipment, Two Handed, Heavy)
Ingrinip's Toolbox
Basic Gremlin Tools
Torture Kit
Lesser Healing Potion (Small)
Lesser Healing Potion (Small)
Grimdark's Field-guide to The Anatomy and Torture of Common Races, 7th Edition (Small)
Ingrinip's Journal + Interrogation Notepad (Small)
Ingrinip's Tarnished Silver Wedding Ring (Equipment, Hand, Tiny)

Belongings of Skrimplin, Your Mentor and Gang Scrapdruid:

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Oddly Preserved, yet rather mutilated Elfish Corpse of Skrimplin (Large)
Partially Decayed Corpse of Tingle, Skrimplin's pet Tin Lemur
Elfish Ranger's Garb (Won't Fit, Large)
Longbow (Won't Fit, Large)
Wyrmscale Quiver (Large, Contains 18 Wooden Arrows tipped with Scrap Metal)
Skrimplin's Heavy Toolbox (Large, Heavy)
Largefolk Tool Set
Mummified Mouse Corpse (Small)
Mummified Blue Ring Octopus Corpse
Mummified Dove Corpse
Jar of Pickled Eyeballs
Rusty Iron Spike
Nickle Figurine of a Human Soldier
Pack of Voodoo Powder (Small)
Sewing Equipment

Belongings of Talshorx, Your Only Daughter and Gang Sneak:

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Talshorx's Partially Decayed Corpse
Waste Smeared Black Leather Bodysuit (Equipment, Full Body)
Clip on Pouch of 7 Poison Tipped Throwing Stars (Equipment)
Talshorx's Toolbox
Basic Gremlin Tools
Black Leather Mask (Equipment, Head)
Torch of Silence (Equipment, Hand)
Gremlin Ear Necklace (Equipment, Head, Tiny)

By the time you are finished searching the boxes you are a bit numb. Perhaps the reality of the loss hasn't struck you yet, or perhaps you in in pure survival mode. As you hear no voices and identify no immediate threat of discovery, you decide to take a few minutes and come to a better understanding of your surroundings; The building is indeed shaped like a church, as the stained glass suggests it might be, but it has been long stripped of its other holy trappings. You see indents on the floor where the altar and seating may have once been, but it is clear that the place in which you stand is indeed a warehouse, and nothing more.

You give the windows a more in-depth examination. They are made of some red decorative gem, and engraved to depict several prominent scenes from The Epic of Queen Tholtig, a well known story from Dwarven myth and Theology. Outside the window is a pitch blackness interupted only by light from several large glowing mushrooms and the windows of other buildings. You are underground. Great.

You return to the loot and decide what to take, as well as plot your next action...

Grikxtnak, First Lieutenant and Sole Survivor of the Bloodcog Gang:

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Status:
Filthy
Heartbroken
Frightened

Skills:
Adept Mechanic/Tinkerer
Talented Animal Trainer
Talented Liar
Skilled Biologist
Skilled Scrap Druid
Skilled Diplomat
Skilled Sneak
Skilled Disguise Artist
Adequate Unarmed Fighter
Adequate Furnace Operator
Adequate Metal Smith
Novice Engineer

Equipment:
Waste Smeared Cloak (Full Body, Bonus to Disguise, Provides 1 Small Item Slot)
Toolbox (Left Hand, Provides 4 Standard and 2 Small Item Slots)

Inventory:
Basic Gremlin Toolkit
3 Days Food and Water Rations
2 Empty Standard Item Slots*
3 Small Item Slots*

*You can fit two small items into one standard slot. You do not presently have any slot to place a large item in, but I'm sure a creative way to take a desired large item with you can be found.

[Weirdsound]

I'm just gonna bump this...

[Arcvasti]

Take the coinpurse, one healing potion, the voodoo powder pack and mummified dove corpse. Reseal the dead gremlins in the crates they died in, as both a sort of burial and to conceal them from being found. Send the slag squirrel to scout outside for anything potentially hostile.

[Terra162]

Take the coinpurse, one healing potion, the voodoo powder pack and mummified dove corpse. Reseal the dead gremlins in the crates they died in, as both a sort of burial and to conceal them from being found. Send the slag squirrel to scout outside for anything potentially hostile.

+1 I see nothing wrong with this. XD

[Lord_lemonpie]

Take the coinpurse, one healing potion, the voodoo powder pack and mummified dove corpse. Reseal the dead gremlins in the crates they died in, as both a sort of burial and to conceal them from being found. Send the slag squirrel to scout outside for anything potentially hostile.

+1 I see nothing wrong with this. XD

+1

[~Neri]

I'm sorta wondering why they just sat in the crates and died.

[LuckyKobold]

I'm sorta wondering why they just sat in the crates and died.

It must have been boring outside obviously!