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[Coolrune206]

Rune displayed an OS picture of Rune not hitting the Thing with the laser, then a computer generated image of Rune and the Thing hugging it out.

[TheBiggerFish]

(/)* smiley *(/)  (/)*another of the original query that was probably language-related.*(/)

[Coolrune206]

Rune was uncertain of what this query meant, so he just put a few question marks before showing a CGI image of the Thing using parts to repair Rune, Rune blowing stuff up, the Thing brutally dismantling people, then them hugging again.

((I do hope for Yourmaster's Sake that Rune does not notice him with valuable repair components. That would not end well for him.))

[TheBiggerFish]

(/)*pictures of the symbols Rune uses in his OS.*  *query.*(/)

[Coolrune206]

Rune replied, printing "Binary" on his OS, followed by a meaningless string of 1's and 0's

[TheBiggerFish]

(/)*Binary* *strings of ones and zeroes.*
*each symbol, individually.*  *query*(/)

[Zormod]

Go back to the crates I knocked over and check if I am compatible with the SH batteries. If I am, take some time to recharge. Store some knives and grab a stunblade.

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Power Control: 240 EU max. Currently 105 EU, -5 EU/turn.

Name: X-297, "Wraith"
Race: Assasinbot. Medium, Inorganic. Secret Compartment [small], Arm-Weapon [Kinetic], Power Control [SC-4 Batteries]. +Agility, -Fitness.
Gender: Robotic male
Age: 2
Stats: +2 Dexterity, +1 Speed, +1 Logic, -1 Wisdom, -2 Toughness.
Skills: +1 Firearms [all], +1 Repair [/fabrication].
XP:30(Speed)
Crime: Assassination and other related crimes.
Bio:This bot was stolen shortly after production, resulting in it being on the blackmarket quite frequently. It was captured by the authorities after it's latest owner ordered an attempt to kill a galactic leader that was travelling nearby. The bot looks like a standard assassinbot,a thin black model with a visor shaped eye and reverse jointed legs, but has a thin stripe of dark purple on it's left shoulder.

[Peradon]

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Hunger: 42/100 (+2/turn)
Fatigue: 46/100 [F 0] (+1/turn)
Size [Small; 50/100]

20 XP (Charisma)

Name: Blorn
Race: Yellow Slime. Size Varies, Organic. Absorption, Acid Trail, Shapeshift, Acid Gush. +Toughness, -Speed.
Gender: N/A.
Age: 2
Stats: +2 Toughness, +2 Wisdom, +1 Strength, +1 Speed, -1 Dexterity, -2 Knowledge.
Skills: +1 Absorption [/slime], +1 Shapeshifting [/slime].
Current Size: Small.
Absorption: Currently up to hardness: wood [up to one size category smaller].
Traits/Flaws: Being a slime, Blorn is fairly slow. He does leave a trail of acid wherever he goes though.

Crime: Absorbing several small villages, attempting to absorb largely populated towns.
Bio: Blorn was created by a mad scientist, who, in the last days of his life, wished to create something he could call his offspring. So, he created Blorn, a slime, made of acid. Blorn, not having any special feelings toward his "father", decided he wasnt fed enough. After the digestion of flesh and bones, Blorn began to wander the wild. He ate anything and everything in his path, making him very large. At one point in his lifetime, he became large enough to engulf small houses, which he did with glee. Then, he ate villages. It was about this time that he was picked up by the Multiverse Officials. They managed to get his mass down to a more reasonable size, and then sent him to the Aetherworld prison...

Break the shapshift, and fling myself at the man! Engulf him in my acidic body! Absorb!

If I manage to do this, eject the knife, offering it to Erizen

[DontBanTheMan]

Turn 6

Attempt to set the mystery assailant's clothes on fire by casting Sparks on them.

Break the shapshift, and fling myself at the man! Engulf him in my acidic body! Absorb!

If I manage to do this, eject the knife, offering it to Erizen

Erizen Initiative: [6] = 6
Blorn Initiative: [1 + 1(speed)] = 2
Man Initiative: [2] = 2

Erizen attempts to cast Sparks on the man's clothes. KNOWLEDGE: [10 + 1(M.Knowledge/Industry) + 1(Knowledge) - 1(difficulty)] = OVERSHOT; CASTING: [2 + 1(Dexterity) + 2(Previous Roll) + 2(wand) - 1(difficulty)] = 6
Without even glancing at his spellbook, Erizen instinctively waves his wand and sends a wave of flames at the man's clothing. He may have overdid it a bit, though... AIM: [4 + 1(wisdom) + 1(roll)] = 6 VS REFLEX: [9 - 1(distracted) - 3(difficulty)] = 5
A wave of fire washes through the room, burning the man as he dives out of the way. FORTITUDE: [9] = CRIT SUCCESS
Unfazed, he pats out his clothing and books it for the door.

Hungry for a meal, Blorn eagerly pursues him after letting his slime fall into its normal, blobby self. PURSUIT: [10 + 1(speed)] = OVERSHOT VS FLEEING: [4] = 4
Blorn reaches the man and crashes into him. GRAPPLING: [2 + 2(previous roll) + 1(strength)] = 5 VS ESCAPE: [2 + 1(dexterity)] = 3
Unable to free himself, the man is trapped underneath Blorn's crushing weight as the slime absorbs him. ABSORB: [2 + 1(absorption) - 1(dexterity)] = 2
The man's screams in pain as his skin starts to be melted off, his flesh stripping away to be sucked in by the ever-hungering slime sitting atop him. Blorn savors the process while turning to Erizen and ejecting the knife, propelling it to the ground at Erizen's feet (Man: 10% absorbed).

Capotti away from the colossus murdering everyone, preferably in a direction yet unvisited.

You dance away from the colossus, heading through the door the soldiers were presumably guarding. DANCE: [6 + 1(dance) + 1(dexterity)] = 8
Making your way into the room, you take note of your new surroundings. PERCEPTION: [8] = 8
You are now in a corridor branching off into two directions. Screaming can be heard from the left, so you decide to head right down the whitewashed hallway. Further down you see a few doors built into the walls.

While Rune apologizes to the Thing, he looks around for more spare parts. Is it possible the humans brought any spare parts with them? Anything on them he can re-use? If he finds nothing or his progress is impeded by the humans, he just kicks their teeth in.

You look around for more spare parts. PERCEPTION: [3 - 2(wisdom)] = 1
Seeing nothing, you grow angry and stomp around, hoping to find any unfortunate humans. LUCK: 2
Luckily for them, you are unable to locate any meatsacks to obliterate. You are enraged - how dare they hide from you!

Break out of the trance, and try to find a way out.

The song stops, allowing you to shake free of the spell and search for a way out. Fortunately, there's one right there! You head through the open doorway. PERCEPTION: [10 + 1(wisdom)] = OVERSHOT
You arrive in a whitewashed hallway with two branching paths, and try to figure out which way to go. To the left, you hear screaming. To the right, there's the guy who put you into that trance. And behind you, there's a bunch of dazed/dead guardsmen, bloodthirsty prisoners, and insane robots. This leaves you poised in indecision.

Try to find people. Or other life in general.

You attempt to find other lifeforms. PERCEPTION: [9 - 1(wisdom)] = CRIT SUCCESS
Seeing a few (presumably) humans heading through a door, you scurry over, keeping low and out of Rune's (oblivious) sight. When you arrive, you see a few incapacitated/dead guards, a human sitting on his knees with his hands cuffed behind him, and the doorway through which the two humans just went through.

Go back to the crates I knocked over and check if I am compatible with the SH batteries. If I am, take some time to recharge. Store some knives and grab a stunblade.

Unfortunately, you are not compatible with the SH batteries: they are far too large to fit into your power control system's battery slots. You figure the giant robot might run on them, though; you could also try to find/rig together an adapter with which to plug them directly into your Power Control, but you don't really want to risk damaging your critical systems. You resign yourself to grabbing a few knives and a stunblade. (New Category) Secret Compartment: [+3 Knives, +1 Stunblade]

Thing will attempt to repair the wand once it has stabilized, and duck into cover till then.  Cautiously duck into cover.

You duck into cover and wait a few moments as agony washes over you. The pain subsides into manageable (though still incredibly painful) levels a few seconds later, allowing you to communicate with Rune and attempt to repair the wand. REPAIR: [4 + 1(logic) - 1(difficulty) - 1(lack of materials) - 1(lack of tools)] = 2
Without any tools, spells, knowledge, or materials with which to repair the wand, you're unable to fix it. You keep the two halves in case this changes in the future.


Erizen: +20 XP (M.Knowledge/Elemental), +Sparks [Memorized]
Peradon: +25 XP (speed)
IcyTea31: +10 XP (dancing), +10 XP (wisdom)
wipeout1024: +20 XP (wisdom)
Yourmaster: +30 XP (wisdom)

[Coolrune206]

Furious, Rune began charging around furiously attacking any and all humans.

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Power Control: 8000 EU max. Current: 710 EU [-10/turn]. [DAMAGED: Unable to overcharge cells; Operating System must be at 75% capacity].

Name: Rune
Race: Bronze Colossus. Huge, Inorganic [bronze]. Arm-Weapon [Laser Cannon], Power Control [Advanced], Internal Operating System, Reactor Core [uranium], Powered [nuclear, solar, SH-Batteries] Armor Plating [4]. +Fitness, -Agility, -Wit.
Gender: N/A
Age: Several thousand years
Stats: +3 Strength, +2 Toughness, -1 Dexterity, -1 Speed, -2 Wisdom.
+30 XP (Strength)
+40 XP (Dexterity)
Skills: +1 Laser Cannon (Charging, Aiming), +1 Unarmed Combat [/Melee].
Traits/Flaws: Reckless. Due to the fact that the Bronze Colossus is inhuman and almost AI like, an IQ test (logic roll) must be taken whenever he will take an action that will unnecessarily put his life at risk, to see if he himself stops himself.
Laser Cannon: Charge, -100/charge. Max 5 charge. [OFFLINE: Operating System must be at 60% capacity].
Operating System: Conducting analysis. Self-repair on standby. Damaged [47% capacity].
Reactor Core: Capacity 200 units. Current: 66 units [-1/turn]. +40 EU/turn.* (Already calculated into the EU/turn)

Crime: Destruction of DF 95, Destruction of an Aetherworld Prison.
Bio: After he destroyed the dome of the original Aetherworld Prison, Rune was hit with many large chunks of the dome. He became trapped, and separated from a good deal of his body. Over time, utilizing the self repair module, he repaired the pieces he found, and used a small GPS to locate the other pieces, which he accessed by reprocessing what parts of his body he did have into a wheel. Eventually, after regaining all of his limbs and various body parts (Minus a chunk of his torso he never located), he activated the self-repair module and went into somewhat of a hibernation mode, set to wake whenever all of his systems were re-functional. During the hibernation he became almost fully repaired, although the laser cannon had been heavily damaged and as it was not of his origin, he could not repair it to exactly the way it was: The laser cannon is no longer nearly as powerful as it once was.

[TheBiggerFish]

Continue hiding away from Rune, investigate current location but keep an eye out for Rune at all times.

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Magic Core:
EU:260/450
Name: "AUGH WHAT THE HECK IS THAT THING", "Thing" to anyone that has managed to survive their encounter with it.
Race: Sentient Magical Anomaly. Size Varies, Inorganic. Amorphous [limited, costs EU], Natural Weapon [misc. pointy bits], Made of Magic [vulnerable to certain magic, can sense magic], Bound Magic [cannot use learned magic, can use any magic items absorbed by it at a large bonus], Absorb Item [may absorb magic items and spells (IF APPLICABLE: not always!) to restore health and increase power], Magic Core [absorbed magic, M.Batteries]. XP Cost: N/A. May only gain skills through absorption.
Age: About 2 months.
Stats: +2 Knowledge, +1 Logic, +1 Wisdom, +1 Dexterity, -1 Toughness, -1 Strength.
Skills: +2 Magic Usage [absorbed items].
Languages: Telepathy (projecting images into the minds of others; must learn words before telepathic communication. Until then, only images).
Current Shape: Sphere.
Current Size: Small.
Absorbed Abilities: +0.5 M.Knowledge (Astral), Wind Wall [(3/elemental)], Ray of Destruction [/void], Valor [/holy], Read Mind [/arcane], Immolation [/elemental], Boil [/elemental].

Crime: Existing inside a prison world.
Bio: After a particularly vicious fight between mages, a leaky magic battery interacted with a damaged spellbook and the remnants of some golems, giving birth to what appears to be a haphazard mishmash of magical items floating within an octarine glow.

((Also, (/)*PAIN*(/) was Thing's equivalent of a scream.))

[Zormod]

Check for unopened crates.If there are none then go back to the area I encountered guards.

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Power Control: 240 EU max. Currently 100 EU, -5 EU/turn.

Name: X-297, "Wraith"
Race: Assasinbot. Medium, Inorganic. Secret Compartment [small], Arm-Weapon [Kinetic], Power Control [SC-4 Batteries]. +Agility, -Fitness.
Gender: Robotic male
Age: 2
Stats: +2 Dexterity, +1 Speed, +1 Logic, -1 Wisdom, -2 Toughness.
Skills: +1 Firearms [all], +1 Repair [/fabrication].
XP:30(Speed)
Inventory:3 knives, 1 stunblade
Crime: Assassination and other related crimes.
Bio:This bot was stolen shortly after production, resulting in it being on the blackmarket quite frequently. It was captured by the authorities after it's latest owner ordered an attempt to kill a galactic leader that was travelling nearby. The bot looks like a standard assassinbot,a thin black model with a visor shaped eye and reverse jointed legs, but has a thin stripe of dark purple on it's left shoulder.

[wipeout1024]

Run down the hallway to the right, and take out my laser rifle and shoot anybody who tries to attack me.

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Thirst: 43/100 (+3/turn)
Hunger: 42/100 (+2/turn)
Fatigue: 47/100 [F: 0] (+1/turn).

Name: Aadhaya Gupta
Race: Human. All skills cost 80% XP.
Gender: Female
Age: 45
Stats: +1 Wisdom (20 XP), +1 Logic, +1 Strength, -2 Speed, -2 Toughness.
Starting Skills: +2 Physics [/science], +1 Knowledge (Navigation), +1 Golf [/sports][/b]
Traits/Flaws: Rotund. You have a larger figure, and this gives you a penalty to Speed (-1 Speed).
Outspoken. You tend to say you what's on your mind, giving a bonus to Perception, but a slight penalty to Charisma.
Inventory:
2 water bottles (full)
3 cans (beans)
+1 Laser Rifle (100 EU)
Crime: Murder
Bio: Aadhaya used to be a promising physicist, but when she found out one of her rivals was getting her ideas, she murdered them, to make sure she was the one to get the recognition. She was found out, and was sent to the Prison.

[H4zardZ1]

I'm off

[IcyTea31]

Follow Aadhaya Gupta, in a decidedly nonaggressive fashion.

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Thirst: 16/100 (+3/turn)
Hunger: 24/100 (+2/turn)
Fatigue: 44/100 [F: 0], (+0/turn)

Inventory:

• Top hat (-1 F/turn)
• 1 can (Food)

XP: 50(Wisdom), 60(Perform), 10(Dancing)

Name: Der Heldentenor
Race: Human...?
Gender: Male
Age: Appears to be around 30, but records of similar personae exist starting from the late 18th century.
Stats: +2 Knowledge, +1 Charisma, +1 Dexterity +1 Toughness, -1 Strength, -2 Speed.
Skills: +1 Perform [Singing], +1 Perform [Dancing], +1 Disguise, +1 Magic [Dance].
Traits/Flaws: Live Through Song: Communicates through loud singing. Unable to be subtle, but enough audacity can compensate; for example, the operetta number With catlike tread is a valid sneaking strategy. When communicating, must roll a Singing check; success gets the message across, while failure results in a mixed message or annoyed recipient.

Crime: Repeatedly disrupting order and halting production on several planets with spontaneous yet choreographed, hypnotic opera numbers.
Bio: "Seriously, I made the greatest flash mob ever and you're locking me up for it?" This odd character has appeared around the world for a long, long time, usually in a protagonist role in various operas and musicals. But what happens when the curtain is lowered and the play ends? Where do the characters go? What if an actor...wasn't acting? What if that 'actor' leaves the theatre? The fourth wall has broken a few times, leading to sudden song and dance numbers in the streets, with everyone knowing the lyrics and choreography despite having never rehearsed. Those incidents always have someone behind it. Der Heldentenor is one of those someones.