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[vishdafish]

((Did Skeletor take my swords with him when he teleported?))

Attempt to get out of the pool.

[_DivideByZero_]

((Did Skeletor take my swords with him when he teleported?))

Attempt to get out of the pool.

He... did.

Weta crawls out of the pool, life supoort field fizzling weakly. It's not destroyed, but it's letting heat out much more than before.

[WunderKatze]

Is that how he controls his shield? Raioyris draws his Samurai Edge and his Nitro Express in an instant.

Pulling both triggers he sends a high pressure 9mm at the closest grenade and a .60 at the skeletons hand.

Yeah, I didn't read the full post.

[NRDL]

Nix touches the image of the Red Planet.

[_DivideByZero_]

Nix touches the image of the Red Planet.

Your finger goes through, and disappears with but a ripple in the portal. It feels incredibly cold on the other side, even through whatever you are wearing. You pull it back and find specks of red dust on your hand.

[HighEndNoob]

"That was unexpected. I say we should leave the coward to lick his wounds, and progress towards the objective."

Reprocess the former soldaten and look for an entrance into the subway.

[NRDL]

"Agreed.", Nix says, rubbing the red dust in a perfect vertical line down his chin, the mark of a warrior.

Nix looked for an entrance to the subway.

[vishdafish]

look for an entrance to the subway.

[Hawk132]

Kensei accompanies the rest in looking for an entrance to the subway.

[WunderKatze]

"Well." Raioyris says, a certain ennui characterizing his response to the latest events. He gathers up his gear off of the ground.

"Cordelia we better get going." At the sound of her name Cordelia begins crossing the road in big bird hops. "Geez, you must be freezing." As she approaches Raioyris scoops her up and holds her in his arms.

Raioyris follows the others spending more time looking about then searching for a subway entrance.

[_DivideByZero_]

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

The city has been plunged into darkness. The planet's thin haze of nitrogen atmosphere allows some light to refract over the horizon, but for the most part it is much dimmer than moonlight. You are forced to use flashlights instead.
It's almost claustrophobic, really. You explore a world where the sky is black as anything not illuminated by your flashlight. It seems that subway entrances are coupled with bridges in this city, and there exists a loading crane at every such dock where a bridge originates and a subway ends.

There is a deep passageway into the earth, about a hundred meters in depth, but the more perceptive among you can clearly see snow at the bottom. Rails and ladders, covered in nitrogen snow, line the walls of the passageway, and there are several levels for subway units to travel through. This seems like a sorting station of sorts. Maintainence ladders above the ground seem to have been destroyed, and are mixed in with shattered pieces of the same vine that covers all the structures.

The subway (marked blue on the map) only leads further from the central building. Several stories up, however, there is a monorail also connected to the same crane system. This monorail goes through a tunnel which services the nearby arcology. Alternatively, there is a monorail route that heads southeast, which splits to service two other arcologies further away. You spot a loading tower at the far arcology with a working maintainence ladder.

((Whelp, that worked. ))
Now to Reinstall something into the Vines... Perhaps if Used a Copy of my Source Code... Whelp I won't know the Results until I try!
I Try copying myself into the Vines.

It's a wonder what this technology of the future can do. Even the hardware itself has pattern recognition circuits that help you connect your senses to whatever peripherals are present. You upload a copy and do some work to link it into the serpentines' control net, hopefully allowing your alter ego to directly control the vines. As a plus, he should be able to predict what you're thinking to a reasonable extent, so you won't even need to tell him what vines to move where. It'll just... move, from your perspective.

[d12+1: 12] The alter-ego has been planted.

You expect some sort of change. Instead, there is none. You ping the system to see if your copy is operational. There is a response.

"It appears the code you inserted is not compatible with psionic network cells. It will be some time before we get it operational. Thank you for your contribution."

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)

Injured foot (-1 to Agility 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:
4x Desert Eagle

Ammo:
A large amount of .50 AE rounds

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

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)
1 M26 frag grenades (chest)
1 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.")

[HighEndNoob]

"It's probably a bad idea for all of us to go in a dark, cramped subway. Some of us should explore the rest of the city, maybe find out where those skeletons came from."

Stay above ground and watch the area close to the entrance for potential dangers.

[NRDL]

"At least until one of us finds a source of light to carry."

Nix heads back up, exploring the nearest open building.

[crazyabe]

Eh... whelp, I might as well try climbing then.

[vishdafish]

Go down the subway, cautiously.