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[crazyabe]

Now to Look for a Way up there...

[WunderKatze]

Raioyris drops his M4 carbine letting it rest on its sling. In a single movement he draws Kusanagi no Tsurugi in a forward arc potentially cutting down his post-drop skeleton foes.

He then grips a M26 which with a curl of his finger he tears the pin out and heaves it over the marrow barricade the skeletons have garrisoned [-1 M26 Frag grenade]. "Damn it. We're being completely outmaneuvered here."

[_DivideByZero_]

Now to Look for a Way up there...

Now that you think about it, this place does seem pretty advanced. [d12+1: 8] You reach down into the snow and take a look for nanobots with your heightened senses.

Eh... not close enough.

Ah, there they are! Now all it'll take is a quick hack to force the snow into a staircase...

>hack
>> Identifying system architecture...
>> Deploying security countermeasures...
>> Assuming direct control...
>> Error, file locked for editing by another user.

...phooey.

[NRDL]

Reversing the grip on his sword, Nix charges once more into the fray, spinning and moving in a blur to avoid getting entangled, slashing all the while.

[crazyabe]

Hmm... perhaps if I looked for an entrence to the building... if I can't find one then I'll have to hack those nano-bots to get in...

[vishdafish]

fire the 4 deagles at the horde of skeletons approaching.

[Hawk132]

Having dispatched the group of skeletons, Kensei dashes towards the column of undead, cleaving his way through them.

[HighEndNoob]

"I don't know what I was expecting, really."

After trying to shake off the snow, Scourge heads out a quarter of the way through the street before stopping and firing his Pak at the paratroopers still deploying from the building.

[_DivideByZero_]

Eternal City, Planet II, system, Laniakea Supercluster, (Day 2, Year 0 post-awakening)

Reversing the grip on his sword, Nix charges once more into the fray, spinning and moving in a blur to avoid getting entangled, slashing all the while.

Having dispatched the group of skeletons, Kensei dashes towards the column of undead, cleaving his way through them.

fire the 4 deagles at the horde of skeletons approaching.

A fitting duo, Nix and Kensei charge into the enemy lines using the enemy's own bodies as cover from that machine gun. {AGI: [d8: 4][d12: 1]}

Or is that really the case? (d8: 7) The machine gun opens fire straight through the crowd. The rounds pass almost unimpeded through the enemy's own lines, [d12: 4][d10: 5] imparting most if their energy directly into the swordsmen's armor! The heavy rounds knock them down and force them into a suppressed state while panicked skeletons unleash a fusilade of 7.62mm wildly through the air, taking themselves apart as rounds fly narrowly overhead.

[d10: 4] Weta's .50 AE barrage helps stem the tide somewhat. The heavy rounds virtually explode skulls on impact, lacking the momentum to punch right through but leaving exit wounds the size of grapefruit and spraying even more bone fragments everywhere.

The 'sun' is starting to go down. Your vision will be limited soon.

Raioyris drops his M4 carbine letting it rest on his sling. In a single movement he draws Kusanagi no Tsurugi in a forward arc potentially cutting down his post-drop skeleton foes.

He then grips a M26 which with a curl of his finger he tears the pin out and heaves it over the marrow barricade the skeletons have garrisoned [-1 M26 Frag grenade]. "Damn it. We're being completely outmaneuvered here."

The frag grenade goes off and sends loose a column of stray bones and parts, ripping apart most of the skeletons near the blast. However, the shrapnel from the explosion is considerably less deadly to skeletal organisms, and only harms them at a couple of meters. Bone is evidently harder than flesh. More skeletons fill in the gaps, taking up aim, but the grenade disorganized them somewhat.

[d8+1: 4] Raioyris unleashes the blade on the recovering paratroopers, his first strike separating the plates of the skull, and subsequent strikes slicing through the cartilage holding the bones together. There is no evidence of muscle or motor among the bodies, leaving no clue as to how they move about. But he soon finds himself overtaken by skeletons from behind: one wrapped in tangled parachute cord, using its own skull as a bludgeon, the other bringing a tac-knife to bear. [d12+1: 11] Raioyris easily avoids the attacks for now and cuts down the headbutting skeleton, then stabs the tac-knife skeleton in the brain.

Except... there's no brain.

The skeleton kicks itself off of Rai, dropping its knife and backing off slowly. It locks its fists together, cracking its knuckles, then kneels down and grabs a loose femur to brandish in a Suwari no Tori position. Rubble and bones rain down from above following the Pak gun's second report.

"I don't know what I was expecting, really."

After trying to shake off the snow, Scourge heads out a quarter of the way through the street before stopping and firing his Pak at the paratroopers still deploying from the building.

[d8-2: 0] Scourge tries to pull himself up out of the nitrogen ice, but combined with the heat of his motors and the Life Support Field scrambling to to keep his electronics warm, he only digs himself deeper into the snowdrift. Desperate, he fires his Pak through the snow, betting on his memory of the enemy position... [Int: d8: 6] The shot goes through, opening up a massive crater in front of the gun's barrel and filling the vacuum with mist and spall. This makes it easier to escape the snow.

Hmm... perhaps if I looked for an entrence to the building... if I can't find one then I'll have to hack those nano-bots to get in...

It is not difficult to enter the surrounding buildings. The windows that make up the walls have all melted, like glass usually does over long periods of time. Vines have since covered the titanium skeletons left behind, but not just any vines. Urist confirms a nagging suspicion by tapping one of them.

>> Identifying system architecture...
>> No security detected...
>> Assuming direct control...
>> Logged in to 'Eschatos Serpentine Evolution K -- Civilian Model'
>> Login message: PLEASE HELP PLEASE HELP @ WAYPOINT (see map below)--
>> Listing available commands...

../g : Grow/Move a section of vine
../m : Modify the properties of of a vine
../r : Retract vines for storage
../v : Enable video feed
../h : Halt all current processes
../b : Enter bootloader to flash new firmware

Red: Monorails
Blue: Subways

Player Statuses:

Spoiler: Nix, AKA NRDL (click to show/hide)

Race: Martian, 105 years old
Appearance: Green.  Yeah.  Fairly short in comparison to humans, but stocky, with bony appendages appearing out of the humanoid body's joints.  Red eyes, with a small mandibled mouth out of which pops a proboscis. 

Bio: A swordsman of a lost clan, Nix's people were subsumed by the conglomerates which had grown in power throughout the Martian Space Commune.  Adhering as best as he can to the old ways, Nix seeks to eke out a living as a mercenary, living and dying by the sword.  But it appears death is not an option.

Attributes:
Power        - 4
Dexterity    - 4
Durability   - 5
Agility      - 3
Deception    - 1
Perception   - 4
Cybermancy   - 0
Intelligence - 1

Abilities:
Passive: Spatial Awareness (+1 to Perception rolls)
Passive: Martian cryptobiosis (Body shuts down in periods of intense starvation or deprivation, requiring no food to function, like a state of hibernation)

Loadout:

Weapons:
+1 Ancestral Sword of the Fallen

Utility:
Bangles of Honour (+1 to Power rolls)

Suppressed (Safe from Ranged fire, but -2 to AGI rolls)

Spoiler: Weta, AKA vishdafish (click to show/hide)

Race: Humanoid Bull Ant Queen

Appearance: Large, black eyes with huge mandibles and a red exoskeleton.

Bio: Weta was born out of one of the many fertilised eggs. As she grew up and decided to establish a new colony, she was captured and stored in the database. Given a second life, she desires to establish a new colony and preserve the survival of her species.

Attributes:
Power        - 5
Dexterity    - 4
Durability   - 5
Agility      - 3
Deception    - 0
Perception   - 3
Cybermancy   - 0
Intelligence - 4
Abilities:Four arms, exoskeleton (+1 durability)

Loadout:

Augments:

Flexible Joints (+1 to Dexerity rolls)
Compact muscles (+1 to Power rolls)

Weapons:

2x Wakizashi
2x Katana
4x Desert Eagle

Ammo:
A large amount of .50 AE rounds

No trouble in snow

Spoiler: Kensei, AKA Hawk132 (click to show/hide)

Race: Formerly human, now a combat AI
Appearance: Image
Bio: In the far future Japan entered a new Sengoku Era. Bushido was once again upheld, swords returned to the battlefields and the Samurai were reborn. The clans waged endless warfare and forged shaky alliances only to betray each other in the end. One of these clans was on the brink of ruin. In order to have a chance at victory, or at least give their foes a serious blow before they fall, this clan brought a still unfinished technology out of the labs. The prototype combat robots themselves were finished, but their programming was still incomplete. To make fielding them a possibility, the clan was forced to use its most accomplished warriors as the brains of these weapons. This process was also imperfect, often erasing data. Some were fine, some lost memories, some lost everything and became completely useless. One of the warriors who lost their memories got the designation of 'Kensei'. While they became terrors on the battlefield, it was ultimately not enough to turn the tide and the clan was purged from the annals of history.
Attributes:
Power        - 4
Dexterity    - 5
Durability   - 4
Agility      - 5
Deception    - 0
Perception   - 3
Cybermancy   - 0
Intelligence - 3
Abilities:
Passive: 'Sword Saint' subroutine - +1 to swords
Active: 'Sword Demon' mode - puts Kensei's power generators on overdrive, resulting in improved Speed, Power and Dexterity. To signify that allied forces should back off, Kensei's camera lights turn red. The mode automatically disengages after a while to prevent overheating, but the resulting stress forces Kensei to run his generators on reduced output for a while.
Loadout:

Augments:
Built-in Thrusters (+1 to Agility rolls)

Weapons:

+1 Masterwork Vibro-Nodachi 'Kijin'
Arm-mounted Plasma Gun (+1 Dexterity, -1 Power while active during same round)

Slight trouble in snow

Spoiler: X39//URIST_BOT.V8, AKA crazyabe (click to show/hide)

Race: Virus AI, age: 3209.2 Years
Appearance: A 3'2 flesh-based humanoid with #800000 color skin. Its eyes are the color #191970. It has #00FA9A color hair.

Bio: In the year 2198, a Dwarf Fortress player living in Canada created a viral entity that quickly generated sentience. This being was the first of its kind and had a hatred of humanity. Over the next 108.4 years it ruined many government-owned servers and put humanity many years back technologically. It was captured by a group in Japan and contained in a storage device for the next 3100.79 years. At the end of this period it was accidentally deleted in a botched transference to a new device.

Attributes:
Power        - 1
Dexterity    - 1
Durability   - 1
Agility      - 3
Deception    - 4
Perception   - 4
Cybermancy   - 5
Intelligence - 5

Abilities:
Passive: Digital Vision (+1 to Cybermancy rolls)
Passive: "Just Install DFHacked" (Can be Healed/ Revived/ Assisted Using Cybermancy)

Loadout:

Augments:
"Core" Coprocessor (+1 to Intelligence rolls)

Weapons:
+1 Cybermancy Infused Hilt

Suppressed (Safe from Ranged fire, but -2 to AGI rolls)

Spoiler: Raioyris, AKA Wunderkatze (click to show/hide)

Race: (Super) Human male.
Appearance: Pale, skinny, masculine, young, silver eyes, black hair with bangs. 

Bio: Paroxysms of light headiness and fitful images of unduly horror characterized Raioyris' recovery.

He was a killer. He quickly earned a reputation with the FBI for his crimes committed with malicious caprice and cruel tarry. They eventually captured him in the house of a victim, it was the smell that gave him away, he had made a nice stew. Prompted by neighbors the police arrived to find a large steel pot, a young girls arms and legs dangling from the rims, head eyeless in between, flesh seared off in the boiling heat.

A certain branch of the CIA appropriated him and after physiological research sold him. He spent his later teen years juggled between the hands of various groups until he ended up the subject of a super human research program. The program was successful and among improvements many imbalances in Raioyris' mind were corrected. He befriended the lead professor and lived a long quiet life. He outlived his professor friend and ended up rising a crow which he modified over the years to have a greater lifespan and abnormal intelligence.
 
Attributes:
Power        - 3
Dexterity    - 5
Durability   - 2
Agility      - 5
Deception    - 3
Perception   - 2
Cybermancy   - 0
Intelligence - 4

Abilities:

Passive: Extrasensory (Infrared, magnetic fields, night vision, can filter out unwanted sensory noise (+1 to Perception rolls))

Passive: Modular Biology (I imagine this is a weak passive maybe doesn't take a point?) (Raioyris' body functions are modular; they are independent of each other to degrees greater than a regular human. He can survive as long as his heart and brain stem are intact. He isn't more durable, he just can survive without select body parts and organs)

Passive: Enhanced Learning (Raioyris is extraordinary good at learning new things. He will pick up on languages by listening to them and can easily copy fighting styles and enemy moves. Given of course that they are also humanoids.)

Active: Regeneration Mode™ (Enter a subconscious, dreamlike state in which your body searches for organic matter to consume. If food is not readily available, will attempt to consume whatever is at hand, including allies.)

Active: Venom (Generates various venoms from glands in mouth. Also has a special bone needle in mouth that regrows slowly (quickly with RM) if removed)

Active: Over-activate muscles (+1 Power, -1 Durability during use)

Loadout:

Clothing:

Black body suit w/ pouches

Backpack

Weapons:

M4A1 with light/laser attachment, MASS M26 underbarrel shot gun and red dot sight (on a sling)

+1 Kusanagi no tsurugi (Naruto, the black one. It looks fucking cool) (Irregular pressure on cut and resistance to deformation)

Pfeifer-Zeliska .600 Nitro Express (stored in holster on belt across lower back)

Wesker mod. Samurai Edge in armpit holster (custom 92FS with brigadier slide (M9 for you CoD plebs)) w/ attachable suppressor and light/laser

Large utility knife
Boot dagger
Punch dagger (stored under forearm, able to deploy instantly)

Consumables:

2 M84 Stun Grenades (belt)
2 M26 frag grenades (chest)
3 high yield demolition grenades (backpack)
2 L83A1 smoke grenades (belt)
6 Specially made rations (prepared with RM in mind) (in back pack)
2 large canteens w/ water. (in back pack)

M4A1 (in chest bandoleer)
(12 guage buck) (along belt)
(12 guage slug) (along belt)
 over-pressure 9mm (stored along belt)
sub-sonic 9mm (stored along belt)
speed loaders (.60 revolver)

Other:

Cordelia (pet crow with intelligence)

Slight trouble in snow
Cordelia is unable to fly (atmosphere is currently too thin)

Spoiler: A.E Scourge, AKA HighEndNoob (click to show/hide)

Race: AI
Appearance: A 10-ft tall humanoid robotic armor that carries around a movable, transforming artillery.
Bio: A. E. Scourge is an AI amalgamation of some of the greatest military minds in human history (that being Scipio Afracanus, Julius Caesar, Oda Nobunaga, Ulysses S. Grant, Richard the Lionheart, Genghis Khan, and Erwin Rommel) A.E. Scourge was created as a United Nations project, with the goal of perfecting war to develop countermeasures that would end war as humanity knew it. The fall of the UN caused the project to be abandoned, were it was later found and finished by independent military historians.

Scourge contains a watermelon-sized simulated universe, which contains a series of alternate Earths that house the armies and personalities of the military geniuses. They conduct inter-dimensional warfare to perfect their strategies and fight for supremacy, which gives the winning personality control of the robot. When the body enters combat, the leaders stop their bickering and actually work together, giving full command and sharing their "research" with the personality in command. Said leader does the actual fighting in their own unique style, which is reflected in the transforming nature of Scourge's weapon. Despite possessing great strength compared to conventional humans, Scourge only has the original sensory capabilities of his personalities (normal humans.)

Attributes:
Power        - 4
Dexterity    - 3
Durability   - 3
Agility      - 3
Deception    - 3
Perception   - 2
Cybermancy   - 3
Intelligence - 3

Abilities:
Passive: Amalgamated Consciousness (Gains +1 to a specific attribute (except Cybermancy) based on the personality in command. Can freely switch between personalities outside of battle, but cannot switch in battle. After a battle, the commander gets exhausted, so Scourge cannot use the last 2 commanders for subsequent battles. [BONUSES])

Passive: Battlefield Planning (Constant infighting among AE Scourge's personalities generates a plethora of experience and planning, but no plan survives contact with the enemy. Gains +1 Intelligence out of combat, but lost when combat begins.)

Active: Artillery Support (Scourge places down the Artillery gun and programs it to fire on a predetermined location. Cannot change the firing location while not in Scourges hold, but allows the body to move and fight freely. Rolls for Intelligence.)

Active: Recruit Army (Uses nanites to create 'soldiers' with low-quality weapons that can be ordered to perform basic tasks. Rolls for Cybermancy.)

Loadout:

Weapons:
+1 Ultima Artillery 'Fire Support' (-1 to Agility rolls while held)

Back-pack of Period Weaponry (A set of period weaponry reinforced by modern metallurgy to Scourge to fight with when separated from his main gun.)

Utility:

"Eternal Standard" Communication Set. (A series of high-frequency radios and a holographic flag projection that changes based on the commanding personality. Gives +1 to commanding the nanite troops.)

+1 Material Recovery Scoop "Meat Grinder" (Grinds down waste material and converts them into nanites that can be used by the Barracks)

Nanite Constructor "Barracks" (houses and coordinated nanites that are used to construct the Scourges "armies.")

Freed from snow (cannot get trapped again for 3 turns)

[NRDL]

Nix dashes to the side to get behind any sort of cover, away from the suppressive fire, attacking anything he can find along the way.

[crazyabe]

Yep... Everything just HAS to be electronic... perhaps if I directed the vines to the skeletons I Could Hack them...
Urist thinks before making the vines move onto the snipers, and attempting to hack them by the line created.

[vishdafish]

Fire my deagles in the horde, attempting to stem the tide.

[HighEndNoob]

"Snow. A German's worst enemy."

After the mishap in the snow, Scourge aimed his Pak to fire an in-direct blast over the wall of bone shards to hit the enemies behind it.

[WunderKatze]

Raioyris draws his Samurai Edge. With a tap of his ring finger the laser sight illuminates the spine of his foe. He sends two rounds down chamber.

"They're puppets." Raioyris mutters reshealthing his blade.

Holstering his 92FS he grabs up his M4 and fires at the approaching skeletons.

[Hawk132]

Kensei dashes to cover, firing plasma blasts at the machine gun team as he retreats.