1730 GREENHEART TIME, MAY 21st, 301 P.L
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Arthur Staunch (Megggas):[1] Much to your dissatisfaction, you don't encounter any players in the near vicinity. You eventually reach the spawn point where there are bound to be players eventually. The grief potential is limitless!
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Back at the shuttle wreckage, you find one of your fellow players sitting in a trench beneath a tarp, which extends all the way down the shuttle. A carefully-arranged patchwork of panels and pieces of hull form a lining to keep mud and sand from pouring back into the hole.
There seems to be a stasis pod at the bottom with a player inside. She must have spawned underground somehow.
You do hear an odd rumbling noise from the north. A foglight is visible through the rain and mist, much like a car's headlights. It's not aimed in your direction, so it's unlikely they'll see you, and the source seems to be moving faster than your legs could possibly carry you.
Status: (All bodyparts can take 5 damage)
Head took 2 damage (Nose and tongue burned)
Left Arm took 4 damage (contains knife)
Suit absorbed 2 damage (8 left)
Traits:
(Miniquest) Massive Damage: Get a critical (roll a 5) on one more attack roll (Reward: You can launch one attack that ignores block rolls once per enemy)
Masochist: Wounds cannot be infected
Gamer's Focus: +1 to all accuracy when your head is damaged
Inventory:
Magnus Hazardsuit: Gives +1 to DEFENSE rolls. Also provides the user with air, chemical protection, and limited thermal regulation. Roughly 48 hrs left on battery.
x13 Bandages: Stops bleeding. Requires bandages equal to the amount of damage the bleeding will do in the next 3 turns, rounding up.
x2 Medical Gel: Facilitates rapid healing and pain relief in organic tissues. Paralyzes the bodypart if used.
Oxygen Mask + Tank (empty)
Trooper's Pistol (Power: 5) (Accuracy: 5 in close proximity, 3 at range)
Trooper's Rifle (Power: 6) (Accuracy: 2 in close proximity, 5 at range)
2x rifle clips (5 shots each)
2x pistol mags (8 shots each)
5x pearls
Stickyfish maw
You follow the stranger. The gel in your lungs lasts a rather long time, but your thoughts are still muddled from a long sleep. Your metabolism also seems slower, as you have a hard time keeping up.
Eventually, as you start to feel the urge to breath air, you approach what looks to be a shelter. No, it's actually a long triangular shape. It's--
It's a crashed shuttle. Shrapnel and spaceship guts are everywhere, and you almost cut your foot on a sharp piece sticking half an inch out of the sand. It seems partially sunken, but there is a trench dug nearby and covered with a tarp that's diverting rainwater away from the hole.
Inside the trench is a person wearing the same black suit as the man who brought you here. The shuttle is torn open; it looks like a peeled banana, almost, and you can see inside. There is a grand total of one box of medical supplies and two black suits hanging from a rack.
There are also seven pods scattered about. One of them is full of blue gel and seems to have a body inside, while the others are full of white gel and closed to keep the water out.
The rest of the ship's contents, if it had any other than pods and that medical box, must have fallen out.
Status: (All bodyparts can take 5 damage)
No damage to any limbs
Traits:
Fast Learner: You'll gain a full trait instead of a miniquest for your next base 5. This trait will then disappear.
Inventory:
Oxygen Mask + Tank (5 minutes)
Cryo Jumpsuit
He hands you the paperwork.
[2] Your suit has a few ports on the back of the heltmet to which you can plug in digital media. You insert the chip and access the whole of the library, which contains schematics of the liquid oxygen/hydrogen engines used on the shuttles, as well as conventional rocket engines useful for atmospheric flight. There's even an exmerimental drive that uses a large ionizing ring to create a noiseless helicopter sort of deal, but that is well outside of your production capabilities right now.
When it comes time to give him the blueprints, however, you realize that there are no computers in this entire camp. Nothing to plug the chip into. And your suit lacks a printer.
Status: (All bodyparts can take 5 damage)
No damage to any limbs
Traits:
(Miniquest) Scavenger: Find the 8th pod, or whether it exists (Reward: +1 extra item when conducting a mass search)
(Miniquest) Inside Job: Find out what happened to the batteries (Reward: +1 to modifying electronics and computers)
Inventory:
x10 Bandages: Stops bleeding. Requires bandages equal to the amount of damage the bleeding will do in the next 3 turns, rounding up.
x1 Medical Gel: Facilitates rapid healing and pain relief in organic tissues. Paralyzes the bodypart if used.
Magnus Hazardsuit: Gives +1 to DEFENSE rolls. Also provides the user with air, chemical protection, and limited thermal regulation. Roughly 48 hrs left on battery.
Printer Blueprints (Shuttle Parts)
Handsaw (Power: 4) (Accuracy: 4 in close proximity, 2 at range)
Paperwork: You are considered refugees in the ongoing war
You run oout of the building through the only entrance, the front.
You what--
You see him push the engineer over and dive on top of him. [5 > no new miniquest] But after a long, awkward pause, nothing happens.
Soon, Graves rises to his knees. The engineer, having apparently been kneed in the abdomen, curls up and moans.
"Umm... good? I guess? Was there an explosion?"You didn't hear one.
Status: (All bodyparts can take 5 damage)
2 damage to left arm - disinfected and bandaged (no infection possible)
Suit absorbed 2 punctures (8 left)
Traits:
Applied Phlebotinum: +1 to resourcefulness
(Miniquest) Destructive Testing: Perform 1 more destructive test (Reward: +1 to all power rolls that are part of a scientific experiment)
(Miniquest) The Best Defense: Carry three different types of rifles over the course of the game. (Reward: +1 accuracy with rifled weapons)
Inventory:
Magnus Hazardsuit: Gives +1 to DEFENSE rolls. Also provides the user with air, chemical protection, and limited thermal regulation. Roughly 48 hrs left on battery.
x14 Bandages: Stops bleeding. Requires bandages equal to the amount of damage the bleeding will do in the next 3 turns, rounding up.
x2 Medical Gel: Facilitates rapid healing and pain relief in organic tissues. Paralyzes the bodypart if used.
Oxygen Mask + Tank (empty)
Trooper's Rifle (Power: 6) (Accuracy: 2 in close proximity, 5 at range)
Grenade Pin: There's no grenade with it.....
[6] The slug has a rather noticeable aftertaste, as well as an odd, gritty, texture--almost like sand. But the sand, now coated in particulates and enzymes from the creature's metabolism, seems to have taken on a flavor of its own.
That's right.
Sand seasoning.The slug itself is quite tasty, but you're not sure if they can be considered sustainable for long. For starters, they seem to have a very slow metabolism, and they are quite rare. On the other hand, it may be possible to farm them, and the trail of sludge they leave behind is definitely interesting.
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[6] A transistor attached to a capacitor should function as a rudimentary switch. That, plus a small transformer should create a decent spark, especially in this wet and conductive atmosphere.
The woman in the pod seems to hear you. Smiling, she knocks on the glass as soon as you come back from building the circuit. She at toward the hinges on the lower part of the door, then curls up in a ball on the opposite side of the pod interior.
As this happens, you hear footsteps. The self-mutilating guy (you recognize him by his suit number: 1) brought back a survivor! She is a short woman, with short black hair and deep hazel eyes, still in her jumpsuit but not noticeably breathing. You realize she must still have lungs full of oxygel!
There are two spare Magnus suits left. The third one was cannibalized.
Status: (All bodyparts can take 5 damage)
No damage to any limbs
Suit absorbed 1 puncture (9 left)
Traits:
(Miniquest) It's not Rocket Science: Determine the length of the day and the year (Reward: Gain +1 to using scavenged gadgets, excluding weapons)
(Miniquest) Scout: Find a sustainable source of food (Reward: +1 to finding clues while tracking people and animals)
(Miniquest) Not Real Science: Successfully grow a plant (Reward: +1 to applied science such as botany, chemistry, etc)
Master Chef: Eating one of your meals gives you a +1 to a character's next action
Inventory:
Magnus Hazardsuit: Gives +1 to DEFENSE rolls. Also provides the user with air, chemical protection, and limited thermal regulation. Roughly 48 hrs left on battery.
Soil Analysis Tool
x15 Bandages: Stops bleeding. Requires bandages equal to the amount of damage the bleeding will do in the next 3 turns, rounding up.
x2 Medical Gel: Facilitates rapid healing and pain relief in organic tissues. Paralyzes the bodypart if used.
x3 Parachute Tube
x6 Microcharge: Wired explosive charge. Vs people it deals 5 damage if it explodes directly on a bodypart, otherwise roll a die for each bodypart (reroll 5's and 6's)
Oxygen Mask + Tank (empty)
A timer set on 1602, May 21st.
Spade (Power: 6) (Accuracy: 2)
Redfish Blades (Power: 4) (Accuracy: 3 in close proximity, 2 at range)
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