2000 GREENHEART TIME, MAY 21st, 301 P.L
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Ciri (Twinwolf):Ciri had been examining the feed for quite a while, before realizing stuff is going on.
Hey, forgot to mention this, but there's a decent chance the shuttle we were looking for earlier got washed into a cave. The drone found this huge opening with a river going into it.
There's a rather profound silence from over the radio. It seems everyone is concentrating on other things. Cueball is stiching up a guy's arm, after it got ripped off. Graves and S.D., almost with most of the frenchmen, are backing away from some sort of hole in the ground that just opened up.
Seeing as it could be a sinkhole (supporting your cave theory), you take a closer look at what happened: A giant toothed maw just opened its mouth, swallowing whole something large and metal. You hear the sound of teeth grinding against steel.
Base StatusCargo Sled: Requires about 4 units of metal plating.
Jail: Requires some kind of lock, and 1 unit of metal plating per side.
Upgrade a Vehicle: You can give +1 armor on one side of either vehicle by replacing a Metal Plating from the vehicle with a Hull Plating from the destroyed shuttle.
The shuttle can be salvaged for: 4 Hull Plating from the cockpit, 10 Hull Plating from the body
The Armored car can be salvaged for: 6 Metal Plating
The Assault Gun can be salvaged for: 8 Metal Plating
The Thermal Lance can be used to cut metal plating and hull plating
You find one welding kit in the Assault Gun
You have 6 Hull Plating
Status: (All bodyparts can take 5 damage)
No damage to any limbs
Suit took 0/10 damage
Traits:
Timeskip: +1 to time-consuming actions
Reconnaisance: Reward: +1 to observance (reduces enemy stealth rolls)
(Miniquest) Rescue Operation: Locate the stranded shuttle (Reward: +1 to tracking targets)
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.
Oxygen Mask + Tank (5 minutes)
Trooper's Pistol (Power: 5) (Accuracy: 5 in close proximity, 3 at range)
2x pistol mags (8 shots each)
RC Drone (gets -1 to resisting wind)
Nole grinned a bit at Night's rhyme. "Competitions huh? I can only imagine that's a good way to stay motivated. Always striving to be on top. I'd be lying if I said there wasn't times where I don't really feel like doing something. Slacking off at work for example. But being here is like being splashed with cold water. I'm wide awake and want to succeed. I want to live!"
"You're right that we all come from different walks of life. I've been asleep for a long time, and at some point I would like to hear about the more recent history. I didn't really understand you or some of the others from the last hundred years, I guess. But I'll learn in time."
"I don't really care about all that. It's in the past. And besides, if you don't want to share you don't have to. I don't mean to pry into your personal life. Tell him if you want, or don't. Although I'm sure he'll hear your name eventually unless you want to start anew."
There's a pause as he thinks to himself. "And... you don't look disfigured to me. Just saying."
Well, physically she looks fine. Actually rather healthy. But she lacks pigmentation in her hair or her eyes especially, giving them a reddish appearance.
"Well, if I had to look back on the past few years of my life... er... when I was awake... exactly how long was it...?
Well, it's all a bit fuzzy. I feel like I'm a different person than before. I guess when they say someone is a product of his surroundings, they mean it.
But one thing that really stood out about our era is how nobody really cared about... real things. All the portals were designed to be as realistic as possible, as if realism was a good thing, but everyone saw real life itself as a bad thing, as limiting and boring... it's like some sort of mind-control spell, really."After some time of walking, you notice that the rain's stopped. But somehow... it's still raining behind you. In fact there's bigger-than-normal droplets falling along the boundary between this area and the last.
You have 10 red fish, 1 cooked
You have 6 green fish, 0.8 cooked
You have .9 cooked sand slug
Status: (All bodyparts can take 5 damage)
No damage to any limbs
Suit absorbed 1 puncture (9 left)
Traits:
It's not Rocket Science: +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)
(Miniquest) EE 417-Intro to Digital Communications: Build up a basic understanding of a local language (Reward: +1 to communicating and decyphering language/codes)
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
x5 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.
Redfish Blades (Power: 4) (Accuracy: 3 in close proximity, 2 at range)
Gardening Book (Gives +2 to planting an Earth-style garden)
"I maintain pods. Biggest deviation I've ever seen was a whole percent. Either an error or they're really alien. Unless this one guy is somehow... Huh. Think you could bring the other Frenchies around?
Damn, I wish we had a proper lab."
"Roll call! Where'd that dingus get off to, now? Hell, who am I kidding, he ain't shit but trouble."
Regardless of Graves' response, stitch the guy up. Have the shipbrain retry that genetic sim, surely it was an error. Have Cabinboy fashion a needle; there should be plenty of scrap around.
(4) Cabinboy makes a makeshift needle using his blowtorch to heat up a fishing hook from Graves' kit, and then bites it with his metal teeth, straigtening it. There's already a hole to thread the fishing line through.
[5] You stich up the arm stump with the fishing line, and it holds quite well actually. The other frenchmen seem to have conglomerated around S.D and are staying there, and Graves doesn't seem to be ordering them to move back.
(5) The shipbrain does a comprehensive scan upon your request, ensuring that there were no errors in the procedure.
The estimate is revised: You and Christophe only share ~5.233% of the same genes.
What Ciri found:
1x thermal lance (use for cutting through metal and drilling holes)
1x genetic sampler (use on wildlife to sequence their genes and compare them)
1x broken handheld microscope (casing is cracked, lenses are fine)
3x climbing gear (contains rapelling kit and insertable spikes)
1x handheld power saw (battery-powered cutting tool)
1x double battery charger
2x all purpose spade
What was taken from the Assault Gun:
>about thirty sandwiches
>6x binoculars
>6x knives
>soap
>water/drinks
>umbrellas
>wood planks
>lighters
>oil lamp
>adult magazines
>6x Revolvers
What was stockpiled beforehand:
>A fire extinguisher still inside its glass box, with a small window hammer buried in the sand nearby
>An advanced atmospheric analyzer capable of testing for particulates and biochemicals as well as gaseous composition
>A micro chainsaw meant for cutting fibers and soft materials like wood, bone, and cloth
>Three small spades with extensible handles, labelled 00, 01, and 07 respectively
>A metal detector with an extensible handle
>Parts from a Magnus hazardsuit dissected for parts (minus breathing kit, held by S.D.)
Current Armor: +2
Current weapon: Turretless 76mm G3 Weapon (Accuracy: 4far/3mid/1close)
Ammunition:
10x High Explosive (Power: 3) (Can hit multiple infantry)
22x High Velocity (Power: 4)
Status: (All bodyparts can take 5 damage)
No damage to any limbs
Suit absorbed 1 damage (9 left)
Traits:
Scavenger: +1 extra item when conducting a mass search
Inside Job: +1 to modifying electronics and computers
(Miniquest) Emergency Response: Heal two more wounds within a few hours of them occuring (Reward: +2 to healing a wound that happened within an hour ago)
Inventory:
x2 Bandages: Stops bleeding. Requires bandages equal to the amount of damage the bleeding will do in the next 3 turns, rounding up.
x0 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
I look for a faster way of digging the reactor up.
"Hey that's..." says the man called Graves, who approaches you as the frenchmen dig.
"A reactor! It looks like one of the ones we dropped as the starts for a base. Should use useful when we dig it out, though I'm not sure how it got so... buried."[1] One of the frenchmen hit something, and immediately drops the shovel and runs back, shouting "bouche de sable!" and causing the others to follow suit.
Graves wonders what hap--
The reactor starts to fall deeper into the sand, along with the column of sand it's buried under. This reveals a strange sort of maw in the ground that looks kind of like a sarlacc pit, though mildly less threatening. It swallows the reactor whole.
Status: (All bodyparts can take 5 damage)
Left arm: 1 damage
Left arm: 1 damage
Torso: 2 damage
Traits:
Scavenger: +1 to finding unusual hidden goodies
(Miniquest) Scavenger II: Find a hidden trinket worth lots of money and/or password to some account or safe (Reward: additional +1 to finding goodies)
Field Doctor: Reward: +1 to medical procedures
Just do it: +2 to using a weapon you've never used before. It also gains +1/+1 power/accuracy for that turn.
(Miniquest) Punching Bag: Block two more physical blows from dealing damage (through defense) (Reward: +1 defense against melee attacks)
(Miniquest) How does he do it?: Succeed in one more action that are highly unlikely to succeed (Reward: +1/-1 to actions that are impossible without rolling a 5)
Inventory:
x15 Bandages: Stops bleeding. Requires bandages equal to the amount of damage the bleeding will do in the next 3 turns, rounding up.
3.8x Penicillin
Military Pistol (Power: 5) (Accuracy: 5 in close proximity, 3 at range) (haven't used)
Creepy note
"You mean a year on this planet?" I would need to know the radius of this planet, the velocity at which it rotates, it's distance from the sun and it's velocity relative to the sun. Or hell I probably would know if I had paid attention when everyone else was figuring things out.
"My guess is it's a while." Well, I suppose it could also be a long while... hmmm "Tell you what, if I bump into a 2nd grade class out here I'll be sure to listen in and tell you what they say."
Keep searching for food or water. I have some of that gel so making a fire to boil water shouldn't be too hard.
You march toward the east what talking to the drone. It doesn't seem to react to the fact that you're moving. But it does seem to take your answer seriously:
"...Origin confirmed. Thank you... "
With that, it says nothing, although it does keep following you around.
It shouldn't be too hard to collect some rainwater. In fact, dying of thirst in this weather seems impossible. You could literally lay down on the ground screaming and you wouldn't die of thirst.
But since the water has to go somewhere, you figure there should be a river somewhere. [5-new Miniquest] And lo, you find a river. In the water there is a cryopod like yours--except smashed open somehow. Oxygel is diffusing into the water.
Nearby you find a body of a man underwater, with some fishing gear lying at the bank of the river. The body is covered in meter-long parasitic fish.
The drone scans the man's body through the water.
"Biodata confirmed as effigy. Engaging behavioral study."
It then sits there staring at the dead body.
Armored CarCurrent Armor: +2
Current weapon: 60mm Mark III Gun (Accuracy: 4close/3mid/2far)
Ammunition:
4x High Explosive (Power: 3) (Can hit multiple infantry)
6x High Velocity (Power: 4)
2x HEAT (Power: 5)
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
Destructive Testing: +1 to all damage rolls that are part of a scientific experiment
(Miniquest) Turn the Tables: Disarm 2 more weapons from armed characters (Reward: +2 to unarmed combat against armed opponents)
The Best Defense: +1 accuracy with rifled weapons
Grand Theft: Automatically hack cars and vehicles when you enter them.
(Miniquest) Tactical Positioning: Dodge two more rounds capable of damaging your vehicle (Reward: -1 Received Accuracy Modifier in vehicles)
Target Cracker II: +2 Accuracy on critical strikes (To upgrade: get 2 more critical strike(s))
(Miniquest) Keen Eye: Hit five moving targets at greater or equal to long range (Reward: +1 to long distance accuracy with all weapons)
(Miniquest) Explorer: Find one more landmark (Reward: +1 to finding landmarks while exploring.)
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: 2/4/5 at close/mid/far)
Greasy Gun (Power: 7) (Accuracy: 4/3/2 at close/mid/far)
Irroyal Arms M9 (Power: 4) (Accuracy: 5/4/3 at close/mid/far)
Grenade pin
Gas mask
Hoe (Power: 5.5) (Accuracy: 2)
((I just noticed theirs an open spot and I'm still on the waitlist so am i in?))
You wake up, rather groggily, inside your cryopod. It seems to be dusk outside, but the abnormal color of the sky suggests this isn't Greenheart.
It seems that you've landed. Why your pod is in a river, though, has yet to be explained.
You spot someone in a black hazard suit standing by the edge of the river. Further down the river, as you can barely see, is some sort of hovering black object that's distorting the water with its updraft.
The pod can be easily opened by the handle at your feet. There is an oxygen tank clipped to the inner side which is supposed to last five minutes or so.
Weather: Cloudy (No bonuses or penalties to stealth)
Status: (All bodyparts can take 5 damage)
Head took 1 damage
Traits:
Medical Problems: +1 chance of infection for wounds
(Miniquest) : Your next three 5's will give traits instead of miniquests
Inventory:
Oxygen Mask + Tank
What Ciri found:
1x thermal lance (use for cutting through metal and drilling holes)
1x genetic sampler (use on wildlife to sequence their genes and compare them)
1x broken handheld microscope (casing is cracked, lenses are fine)
3x climbing gear (contains rapelling kit and insertable spikes)
1x handheld power saw (battery-powered cutting tool)
1x double battery charger
2x all purpose spade
What was taken from the Assault Gun:
>about thirty sandwiches
>6x binoculars
>6x knives
>soap
>water/drinks
>umbrellas
>wood planks
>lighters
>oil lamp
>adult magazines
>6x Revolvers
What was stockpiled beforehand:
>A fire extinguisher still inside its glass box, with a small window hammer buried in the sand nearby
>An advanced atmospheric analyzer capable of testing for particulates and biochemicals as well as gaseous composition
>A micro chainsaw meant for cutting fibers and soft materials like wood, bone, and cloth
>Three small spades with extensible handles, labelled 00, 01, and 07 respectively
>A metal detector with an extensible handle
>Parts from a Magnus hazardsuit dissected for parts (minus breathing kit, held by S.D.)
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Topic: Blind Fate - Turn 42 (Updated 2/24) (Read 49106 times)