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[m1895]

try to get upstairs to look for the girl up there

Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Anya Sokolova
Physical Description: Wiry, roughly 6'4/193 cm tall, Anya cuts a striking figure compared to the diminutive height of most women at OMNITECH. Her nearly shoulder length blonde hair and blue eyes merely amplifies that affect
Background: born in some rural shithole in Novosibirsk, Anya worked on her parents farm, mainly fixing up their only tractor. She decided to join the Russian engineer troops to make something of herself. One... eventful career later, and she decided it be better to go to OMNITECH than the Hague. Sometimes she wonders if that was the right choice.
Class: Combat Engineer
Unused level ups: 0
Life: d6 Riot Suit
Attack: d6 Metalstorm Pistol (d6/d6)/d4 monkey wrench

Stats:
Strength: d4
Dexterity: d10
Speed: d6
Endurance: d4
Will: d4
Knowledge: d4
Fate: d8

Skills:
Melee: d4
Guns: d10
Explosives: d4
Implants: d4
Mechanics: d12
Tech: d4
Medical: d4
Occult: d4

Status: Vertical, breathing, slightly disorientated
Inventory:
OMNITECH Metalstorm Pistol d6 (d6/d6)
Metalstorm Jungle mags (d6/d6) ×8
Metalstorm Pistol magazine (d6) ×2
OMNITECH riot suit
OMNITECH red jumpsuit
Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged)
GPS magazine ×2 (d4)
Omnitech Tool kit (1/3)
High visibility flares ×8
monkey wrench (d4)
Cognition copier
Glowspray paint
Earplugs (upgraded with TTS)
Blindfold
Noseplugs
Box O'socks
Box O'tacks
Bunch O'smart drugs
Pneumatic Cable Cutter
Nondescript balaclava
An indeterminate amount of Cheap booze
Cheap lighter
Pack of cigs
Omni-fun VR kit
Pack of glowsticks (d8) ×2
Omnilight
Motion Detector
Lost and Found:
GPS magazine (d4)
Handful of tacks
Money: 148
Sight:
Smell:
Hearing: TTS earplugs
Taste:
Touch:

[heydude6]

Try to do this again.

1.Watch the TV broadcast again. This time, make note of the groups who seem the most organized or have the most-powerful weaponry. Note where they were last seen on the map.

Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)

Name: Robert Baldwin
Physical Description: A tall and thin man with green eyes and shoulder-length brown hair. You'd almost mistake him for a hippy if it weren't for how well-groomed he was. His hair has a shine to it that one could only get from the most expensive of shampoos and conditioner, while his complexion is flawless. No one knows where he gets his personal hygiene products from.

Background: In a past life, Robert had been a famous architect who distinguished himself with his avant garde designs. Life was good for the young upstart, until his preference for beauty over practicality caught up with him.

His biggest achievement, the Sierra Space Resort was a massive space station meant to house the wealthiest of space tourists. Modelled after a dance device from a bygone era, the station was a giant ball covered almost entirely in mirrors. It would reflect the light of a local star and spread it throughout the cosmos, broadcasting its brilliance to anyone in the solar system. This gave it the nickname the "Dazzle Star".

Though the clientele loved it, locals would get very pissed whenever the D-Star touched down in their corner of space. The reflected sunlight wreaked havoc on nearby planets, starting wildfires and even boiling oceans. Eventually enough people got mad and banded together to form a rebellion. The station was not designed to defend against such attacks and was quickly blown up, along with all the upper-classmen inside it.

Someone had to pay for that bloodshed, so Robert ended up facing the suit's wrath. As punishment he was cryogenically frozen for 200 years. Long enough to go out of style.

After serving his sentence, Baldwin applied for a job at OMNI, but the suits confused his unusual floorplans for diagrams of summoning circles. Robert was hired on the spot, but it was only during his second week of basic training did he realize that he may not have gotten the job he was looking for...

Life: d6 (reactive fabric cape)
Attack: d4 ranged (OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm)
d4 melee exploding occult (Ceremonial Dagger)

Stats:
Strength: d4
Dexterity: d4
Speed: d6
Endurance: d4
Will: d4
Knowledge: d6
Fate: d6

Skills:
Melee: d4
Guns: d4
Explosives: d8
Implants: d4
Mechanics: d4
Technology: d4
Medical: d4
Occult: d8
Speech: d4

Status: No injuries yet.

Inventory:
OMNITECH Black Jumpsuit
     The standard OMNITECH jumpsuit. Covers everything but the head, hands, and feet. Stain resistant, waterproof, breathable, light, and overall comfortable as everyday wear. Offers no protection against anything more dangerous than a spilled cup of coffee.  Has the employee’s name stenciled on the back like a sports jersey.  This one is Black and has a smaller “OCCULT” stenciled across the right side of the chest, just under the collar bone.
OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack) x3 Magazines (d4 use die)
     One of the “Generic” brand of OMNITECH weapons which are ubiquitous in OMNITECH installations. The Generic Personal Sidearm is a handgun as drawn by a 9 year old; A gray rectangle with a gray rectangle grip and a trigger that looks more like a light switch with a trigger guard that looks like an allen wrench. It is uncomfortable, unappealing, and very clearly designed by the lowest bidder, but can effectively put .45 slugs into targets.
OMNITECH Universal Containment Pod x 5
    OMNITECH Containment pods resemble a clear tube held in between two large metal ends with long rods forming a cage and reinforcing structure around the tube.  One of the metal ends has an iris design to allow it to open and allow a sample in before clamping shut. Though the tubes look to be glass they are a multilayer reinforced acrylic that is remarkably strong and non-reactive.
OMNITECH Null-Rod
    The Null-rod is a collapsible rod made of the same non-reactive acrylic as the inner lining of the containment pods. Used by Cultists for the investigative prodding and poking of things that look dangerous.
Ceremonial Dagger (d4, uses occult, die explodes and increases level each explosion)
    A prototype self defense weapon with an entangled connection to the Highly Evil, Logarithmically Lethal plane (H.E.L.L.). Has an over designed appearance to it with a human bone handle and a hooked, serrated blade, almost like a linoleum knife designed by someone who wants to make the linoleum suffer. It’s unknown if the design is somehow conducive to the entanglement or if it's just someone’s idea of a joke. Normally the knife functions like any other mundane instrument of murder, but occasionally it will manifest high levels of H.E.L.L. resonance, producing short lived demonic emissions on contact. Has no OMNITECH branding and never saw a commercial release as of yet due to concerns of cross dimensional bleedover and possession.

OMNITECH EMP grenade (d20 damage, only effects electronics. Single use)

OMNITECH Placed charge (Demo pack, with remote, 3d10 damage, single use)

Fancy Airpods

OMNITECH Reactive fabric cape (1d6 life)

Gentleman's Pipe
    This isn't a pipe. This is a text-based description of a pipe. And also a pipe.
Octarine Tobacco
   An ancient plant from 200 years ago. Used to be all the rage among people with "alternative" lifestyles, but it fell out of style once corporations began selling it legally. Turns out that once the man was in on it, nobody wanted to buy it anymore. By now it would be extinct if it weren't for the single potted plant in Baldwin's room. In the end, Baldwin was a sellout.
Idea Tube
   An old treasure from a past life. Even back then everything was done in CAD, but Baldwin always wanted to stand out. He drew his designs by hand and would store them here for safe keeping along with spare paper and writing tools. This created a tempting prize for any aspiring paparazzi, which lead to him being frequently covered in various magazines. He owes his career to those guys.

Good OMNITECH fishing rod

Money: -500

[Xantalos]

EEEDD, having stood in disbelief that soldiers in need of salvation would refuse an open offering for a good few minutes, snaps out of his fugue. No use wasting time, after all! If they would not welcome his theological teachings, then he'd simply have to ram them in at the source.

Change tack and ask around to see if these people have a priest or anything of the sort - hell, even a motivational speaker would do. Then find this person, if they exist. My intent is to engage in a theological debate with them and assert the dominance of EDism.

Consult my inner ED as I go to this meeting to determine the proper stance towards heathens.

Spoiler: EEEDD (click to show/hide)

Name: EEEDD (Entertaining, Educational, Elastic, Disposable, Devoted)

Background: Created as part of a product line of quick-use clones with pre-installed memories, skills, and behavioral sets in order to fill gaps in high-skill fields for a comparatively cheap price, EEED’s entire line was scrapped when someone realized his name-acronym sounded like it was describing a sex toy and the resulting onslaught of memes caused the forced ‘retirement’ of the executives that had initiated the idea. This EEED, gestationally imprinted with chiropractic and massage techniques, was somehow missed in the purge of defective product and ended up finding a job with OMNICORP before his parent company’s legal team/hit squad could track him down.

Description: A big, doughy ball of a man, with earnest, simplistic facial features that look like someone crudely shaped them out of clay. Small, circular eyes peer out at the world with innocent warmth, contrasting his oddly large teeth that are perfectly square and just a little larger than normal, enough to be noticeable. He has absolutely no hair, though his scalp is tattooed with his terms of usage, patterned in such a way that suggests a balding fringe.

Rank: Team Priest (+1 Occult level)
Life: d6
Attack: d4 exploding occult dagger

Stats:
d8 Strength
d4 Dexterity
d4 Speed
d4 Endurance
d4 Will
d4 Knowledge
d12 Fate

Skills:
d4 Melee
d4 Guns
d4 Explosives
d4 Implants
d4 Mechanics
d6 Technology
d12 Medical
d6 Occult
d4 Speech

Status:
Inventory:
Rubberized Jumpsuit
Incinerator
Arc Scraper
Automop
Staff of ED (d8 minigun, d12 use die)
Protech Computronium (1 liter)
Ceremonial Dagger (Occult d4, explodes/upgrades)
Cognition Copier
Magic 888 Ball
Reactive Fabric Cape (d6 life)
OMNITECH Insurance Card (Good for 1 treatment)
Medkit (3/3)
Psychokinetic Stimulant (1)
Isolation Suit
45 OMNI owed to Loan Shark

Spoiler: Congregation of ED (click to show/hide)

Details about the most wholesome, innocuous religion OMNICORP's ever seen!
Current members: EEEDD

THE SCRIPTURES OF ED:

1. HARM YE NOT THOSE WHICH HAVE THE SACRED NAME
2. THE SACRED NAME IS ED, COMPRISED OF AN INFINITUDE OF BOTH E AND D
3. TO ATTAIN SACRED STATUS ONE MAY APPEND MORE LETTERS TO THEIR NAME, PROVIDED THOSE LETTERS ARE E AND D IN EQUAL PROPORTION. SACRED DEEDS ARE REQUIRED TO ADVANCE THE HOLINESS OF ONE'S NAME
4. THY TASK IS TO HEAL ALL THOSE LACKING THE SACRED NAME, AND IN DOING SO CHANGE THEIR FORMS OF ADDRESS PART BY PART INTO THE SACRED NAME
5. NEVER BETRAY ANOTHER ED FOR YOU ARE BOTH MANIFESTATIONS OF THE SACRED NAME, WHICH LOVES ITSELF
6. THE HIGHEST OF CALLINGS IS WORKING TO ADVANCE THE MANIFESTATION OF THE PRIME ED, WHETHER BY SHAPING OTHERS INTO VESSELS FOR THE SACRED NAME OR BY DIVINING THE WAYS THAT THE FABRIC OF REALITY MAY BE MADE TO WELCOME THE TRUTH OF ED
7. THE NAME WV AND ALL VARIATIONS THEREOF, BEING THE ANTITHESIS OF ED, IS THE ENEMY. DESTROY IT WHEREVER IT IS FOUND

Spoiler: STANpool (click to show/hide)

For people who've chosen to bet on when Sam will destroy her own mind and turn into an uncontrollable gribbly flesh horror that needs to be put down. Any bet may be placed, doesn't have to be OMNI, along with a time when you think it's gonna happen by. If that time passes without a STAN incident, you either forfeit your bet to the pool or can choose another time, but you have to put in another bet on top of your original one - again, can be anything. Whoever's guess lands closest to the inevitable STANification wins the pot.

ANGRY_DEMON_NOISES: 500 OMNI for 'on or before Sam's 5th mission'
m1895: 200 OMNI for 'on or before Sam's 4th mission'
Xantalos: 1 E from EEED's name + 50 OMNI for 'on or before the conclusion of Neo-Detroit'

Spoiler: Things done (click to show/hide)

[King Zultan]

"I have a loaded OMNITECH Generic Security rifle and one spare magazine, and the things I'm after are a laptop with a case and cords, a flashlight, and cheap smartphone, the phone and the laptop don't need to be new they just need to work."
Trade the things and keep filming.

Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)

Name: Burt Burt
Physical Description: A generic looking bastard.
Background: Needed a job and got one.
Class: Combat Engineer
Life: d4
Attack: d4 Personal Sidearm / d8 Close Sawn off Shotgun (d4 use die) with bayonet d4

Sight:  sensory deprivation helmet
Smell:  sensory deprivation helmet
Hearing:  sensory deprivation helmet
Taste:  sensory deprivation helmet
Touch: OMNITECH Red Jumpsuit

Stats:
 Strength: d6
 Dexterity: d6
 Speed: d6
 Endurance: d4
 Will: d4
 Knowledge: d8
 Fate: d6

Skills:
 Melee: d4
 Guns: d8
 Explosives: d4
 Implants: d4
 Mechanics: d8
 Technology: d6
 Medical: d4
 Occult: d4
 Speech: d4

Status: Fixed lung, other bullet wounds, chemical burns in lungs
Inventory:
 OMNITECH Red Jumpsuit
 OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack) x5 Magazines (d4 use die)
 OMNITECH Tool kit (1 / 3)
 High visibility flares x4
 Mysterious remote control
 Box of protein bars
 First Aid kit (1)
 2 Fire extinguishers (d6 use each)
 Harpoon
 OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack)
 OMNITECH Generic Security rifle (d6 ranged attack) 1 Magazine (d6 use die)
 Sawn off Shotgun (d8 Close)(d4 use die) Box of shells (d6 use die) with Bayonet d4
 Cold Steel "Battle Ready" katana (d6 use die)
 2 Pack of gum
 OMNITECH Cognition Copier
 OMNITECH Passive Personal Shield Generator (d12 life, d4 use die)
 Glow sticks (D6 use die)
 Hand held video camera. with up link to OMNITECH server.
Money: 245

[NAV]

Find a completely random lowly grunt to interview. Point my camera in their face and start conducting a little interview.

Ask about any little tips and tricks they know to survive in the zone. How does the fish taste. Where they think the scientists could be hiding. What they think is the cause of all this. What sort of underground contraband black market they have. What is their favourite colour.

Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)

Name: Edward Mortan
Physical Description: He's a bit scrawny and unshaven. Never opens his eyes more than halfway.
Background: Edward can replace a lightbulb without too much difficulty, and he watches a lot of youtube videos. Edward endeavours to do as little as possible in his life and so far has performed admirably.

Life: d8 (Armoured Spacesuit) + d10, requires dex roll (Civil Unrest Shield)
Attack: d4 ranged (OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm)
d4 melee (Hammer)


Stats:
Strength: d4
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d6
Endurance: d6
Will: d6
Knowledge: d6
Fate: d8

Skills:
Melee: d4
Guns: d4
Explosives: d4
Implants: d4
Mechanics: d8
Technology: d8
Medical: d6
Occult: d8
Speech: d6

Status: Bored

Inventory:
OMNITECH White Jumpsuit
OMNITECH Armoured Space Suit
OMNITECH Civil Unrest Shield
OMNITECH Passive Personal Shield Generator
Omni-health insurance policy

OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack) x3 Magazines (d4 use die)
Hammer (d4 melee)

OMNITECH Tool Kit (3/3)
OMNITECH medical kit (3/3)
OMNITECH Override Fob
OMNITECH Personal Computing Cube and Universal adapter
>FOF program, works on murderbots
Omni-eye camera
OMNITECH "Omni-fun" VR System
OMNITECH Laser Trip Sensor
OMNITECH Motion Sensor
OMNITECH Omni-light
OMNITECH Null Rod
OMNITECH Analog Hand
OMNITECH Mental Purgant
10 nutrient paste

Money: 153 omni

[The Lupanian]

If possible, talk to Hardacre about acquiring bottom of the barrel ammo. If he’s not going to take YAG up on the ammo exchange offer, then see how much ammo he’s willing to sell, and if he’d give a good deal if the type of ammo doesn’t matter. I’m not ready to trade it yet, but see how much ammo he’d give me for the razor. Also spread the word to all the soldiers that they can exchange ammo for a fee. (I’ll let Radio decide on the specifics of that fee.)

Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)

Name: Ji Fuchikoma
Rank: Senior Security Expert
Physical Description:

A Short, Athletic, and Absolutely Stacked Girl, who has an uncanny resemblance to an anime character. She has pale freckled skin and, fiery red hair, and large ember green eyes. She as a pair of fox ears and a fox tail.
She is a Waifu-Bot based on a player avatar from the Waifu Assassins Guild series.

Background:

Once known as Woldo, a gamer who replaced his physical body with an android based on his famous video game avatar.

Life: d10 Robobody
Attack: d6 rifle x3mags

d6 Generic Security Rifle
Anti-bio razor (2d6 against living/ 1d6 vs others)
2d6 Piledriver Carbine
d6+d8 Amplified Wand

Ammo:
Rifle (use d6)(3 magazines)
Piledriver Carbine (use d4)(6 magazines)
2 pistol mags (use d4)

Stats:
Strength: d10
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d4
Endurance: d12
Will: d6
Knowledge: d6
Fate: d6

Skills:
Melee: d12
Guns: d12
Explosives: d4
Implants: d10
Mechanics: d4
Technology: d4
Medical: d4
Occult: d4
Speech: d4

Inventory:
Amplified Wand (Bat)
Piledriver Carbine
OMNITECH electrical behavior modification implant
OMNITECH Omni-light
Anti-Bio Razor
OMNITECH Generic Security Baton (in LaF box with the claw)
Brain Backup
Experimental Gun
Lizard Claw (in LaF box with the baton)


Money:
502

[Radio Controlled]

[17:37] Radio Controlled: @Piecewise Once we are ready to go in mook, can we assume a timeskip till the storm has died down?
[18:30] Piecewise: yes

In that case, in the interest of moving things along, let's move out at the end of this coming turn/start of the next, and maybe people still talking/trading can finish it in flexible time?

Either way, thank the commander for his help and any future support, offer him 1 of the bottles of nice booze if he wants it.

5. "Mighty useful talent. I'm not aware of any shortages currently, but Hardacre might have some use of it. And I'm certain that the lads in Ann Arbor would."

Go to this Hardacre once we're done with the commander and offer the same service again. We'll convert whatever ammo they have to whatever other type they need (assuming the forge can handle it), in return for keeping some of the ammo for ourselves (25% maybe? We can haggle over discord if you want). 

2. "Your best bet, I think, is announce your intentions immediately. There's a fine line out there, you don't wanna look like a threat they have to kill, but you also don't want to look weak and easy to steal from. We have somewhat of an advantage: they know that if they fuck with us they'll eat an artillery strike, but they also know we could have already done that if we just wanted them dead. They know we're too dangerous to mess with, but also that we mean it when we say we're just there to talk.  For guys like you without such capacities and clout, might be best off letting some of their footsoldiers know you wanna talk to someone higher up  and make a business transaction out of it. For the most part though, if you don't ruffle feathers, they won't want to start anything."

See if I can set up a little sound clip that says something like "We come here in peace and wish to make a trade. Do not assault us or we will retaliate." Idea is to play that over the EdPC when we need to.

Also, does Yagyu notice what happened to his kelp? 


Once the storm dies down and they can safely exit the building again, Yagyu gets on the radio to address the whole team, seeing how some already ran off to do their own thing.

"Allrighty then ladies ’n gents, bit of a false start, but finally we're ready to move out and begin our holiday.

Now, for some traveler guidelines before we begin our little excursion.

Play nice with the locals when you can. While our ROE is pretty lax, we’d still rather not deal with complaints filed in triplicate and/or hordes of angry gangers toting bazookas more than we have to. So be on your best behaviors! If some mutant is being an ass you can take ‘em down of course, but don’t make our life, er, vacation, any harder than it has to be.

Secondly, when the EdPC moves up, try to stick with it. I’m not gonna chain ya’ll down and demand you stick with the tour group at all times, but we’re not going off on a wild goose chase every few minutes because someone saw a shiny bauble somewhere. So go detouring if you must, but if you get yourself in trouble that way, make sure you can get yourself out of it as well. Of course if the missi-, I mean holiday festivities, require us to split up that’s another story.

Now, first we will go visit Ann Arbor, we've got a possible lead in there on one of the former employees. We'll also want to talk to the treasure hunters to learn more.

EdPC my dear, if you’d be so kind?

Oh, and if any of you feel like it, you can give me a DNA sample so that I can locate you should we get separated in a tussle. This is optional, so as you prefer. The brobots among us can grab something biological and give a piece of it to me and hang on to the rest for the same effect. Finally, I can manufacture ammunition out of other ammunition, let me know and I can hook you up."

After all that, he fills them in on the relevant details the commander told him.

Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)

mook map
Interactive map, courtesy of Paris

Name: Yagyu d'Aubigny
Physical Description: Auditor, guns version
Background: Yagyu hates OMNITECH. But Yagyu likes money.
Class: Hazardous Materials Reclamation Crew
Promotion: Team Captain (100 Omni Raise, Access to all team shock implants. Crushing responsibility.)

Life: 3d8 (auditor)
Attack: depends on weapon. Currently equipped: shotgun (2d10 close, 2d6 medium, 2d4 long)

Stats:
Strength: d10
Dexterity: d10
Speed: d10
Endurance: d10
Will: d10
Knowledge: d10
Fate: d10

Skills:
Melee: d4
Guns: d10
Explosives: d4
Implants: d4
Mechanics: d8
Technology: d8
Medical: d4
Occult: d4
Speech: d4


Status: 'kay

Inventory:
Modified goop thrower. Has 2 firing modes. Does no damage: if successful, target is immobilized. Multiple guns used in concert stack. Some targets immune. d8 use die. OVERDRIVE: higher attack at the cost of increased use die usage. For every more powerful use, use die is rolled at disadvantage.
   Standard [not in use]: d4 attack, regular use die usage.
   OVERDRIVE [currently selected]: d8
   current goop tank: d8/d8 use die

3 spare carbine mags
3 spare shotgun mags
'a few' mining explosives (1 used for killing the psychic, 1 used for blowing up a door)
Cutting/welding torch
Toolkit (3/3 charges)
computing cube
a large spool of synthetic cable
environment scanner
bodyparts, enough for full body (in cold storage)
113,562354 liters of tap water
4,5359237 kilograms of kelp
3 bottles of pretty good booze

cognition copier
Money: 15
8 omni loaned to Baldwin (heydude6).

-auditor-
1. Biorhythm tracker: Allows the tracking of a single target. Their outline will appear on the user's vision from any distance, through any material. Tracking can be initiated with line of sight OR DNA sampling.
2. Autonomous targeting system: Allows for a second weapon to be fired as a secondary attack even after firing the standard single attack. Weapon must be held in the other hand and uses suit parameters instead of user skill. Light weapons use dex, heavy use strength.
3. Ammunition Transmutation forge: Shoebox sized device that allows ammunition of one kind to be transmuted into a different kind of ammo. Not one to one, requires equal or greater monetary value of the input to get the output. Ie a 20 omni bullet would require the sacrifice of at least 20 omni worth of other ammo to make.
4. Weakness Analysis protocols: Automatically detects and displays the structural or biological weaknesses of any targeted enemy.
5. Pulse Laser: Infinite use military grade laser fired from the point of the "Beak". Deals d12 but requires d6 turns to recharge after every use.
6. Micromissile Pack: Built into the hunched back, fires salvos of micromissiles that deal d6xd6 damage. Has a d4 use die. Guided via laser targeting using Gun skill.
7. OMNITECH ferromagnetic accelerator: Standard version of the system but built into the hands. Pick up metal objects and fire them. Damage dependent on object.
8. Wrist Mounted Shotguns: Same damage as "PUNCH!" shotgun. current use die: d6/d6
9. Palm mounted Carbines: Same as Pinpoint Carbine. current use die: d6/d6

[ANGRY_DEMON_NOISES]

Sam spits up some goo at Yakuza d'Boyardee at his request for some DNA.

[Doomblade187]

Ask the communications team in the base if the other bases with a better line on the Canadian base could pass on a message to introduce ourselves.

Spoiler: Janet Janet (click to show/hide)

Name: Janet Janet
Physical Description: an extremely plain looking woman with unnaturally pale skin, Janet Janet is average in very way.
Background: Joining the PR division out of law school after an unfortunate incident involving two classmates, a professor, and a group essay on the ethics of corporations.

Public Relations

Life: d8
Attack: d4 (Gauss Minicannon)
Stats:
Strength: d4
Dexterity: d4
Speed: d6
Endurance: d6
Will: d8
Knowledge: d8
Fate: d6

Skills:
Melee: d4
Guns: d4
Explosives: d4
Implants: d4
Mechanics: d4
Technology: d4
Medical: d4
Occult: d4
Speech: d12

Status: uwu
Inventory:
OMNITECH Armored Space Suit (d8)
OMNI Man-Zapper (10 Shots)
Executive Jumpsuit
OMNITECH Gauss Minicannon (d4 ranged attack) x3 magazines (use die 4) (Silent)
OMNITECH Memory Eradicator
OMNITECH Contract Notebook
Special Earbuds or something

Sight: sunglasses, but can pull off the official PR Balaclava look
Smell: coffee in the morning
Hearing: a nice song
Taste: pickles
Touch: "Official" leather gloves

Money: 0

[Parisbre56]

1. Ask the commander if he can tell us if there were any other teams sent here recently (not necessarily from OMNITECH, other companies or government too), if any could be still alive, how they fared and if he has any advice to offer us on how to not end up like them. Or any advice about how to stay alive in general.

2. Ask the commander how well technology fares further into the zone. The "leak" caused some distortions on screens and drones. Would those be worse the closer we get to the center? Would those distortions be damaging to tech or robots? Are the people in the zone still using modern tech (i.e. something I could hack) or have they reverted to older sturdier tech?

3. Ask the commander if we should be wary of weather phenomena. Does rain that passes over Detroit become "contaminated"?

4. Ask the commander what would be the "best case scenario" should we manage to be so lucky as to locate and reach the source of the anomaly. What would be a "happy end" by his standards?

5. Keep watching the view from the drone to see if something special happens during the leak and what it looks like when it finishes.

6. Once we start moving, keep a drone flying around to give us a bird eye's view, make sure nobody is laying in ambush or something.

 

Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)

Name: Pathos
Physical Description: About 3 meters tall, though often looks shorter because it tends to be hunched over.  Its head is triangular, lacking any recognizable details like eyes or mouth, and instead looks almost avian. One point of the triangle is elongaged, forming the front of the "face", while the others are pulled back, forcing a sort of curve into the bottom leg of the triangle that gives it a sort of horned appearance. The horns wrap back around to form a ring about a foot and a half across. Inside this ring floats a black sphere which seems to be slowly and constantly pulsing. The triangle is segmented, with thin groves running back up along its length and giving it a sort of chitinous appearance, like the shell of a woodlouse. Its body is roughly humanoid though its proportions and geometry is distinctly alien: not only looking nothing like a human but nothing like what a human would create.  It has a thin, fiberous neck, a huge hunched back and shoulders, a pelvis that twists forward at an almost painful angle, and long arms and legs, both of which have an extra joint to them. Its shoulders look almost like nautilus shells, a row of thin needle sharp spines runs down its neck and back, apparently along its spine, and it seems to have no palms to its hands nor thumbs, just a series of 8 fingers that connect to a wrist joint.  It looks, all and all, much more like something they dug out of an alien tomb than something any engineer would have made. It has a faint blue glow emanating from its groves and crevices, as though the black armor was simply containing some radiant being within.
Background: Delusions of grandeur. Took this job as a way to rapidly advance the ranks and see cool things. And because it would give him plenty of opportunities to set things on fire without his superiors being close enough to yell at him. Lost his original body in a freak shuttle accident. Was a spiderbot for a while.
Class: Senior Tech Officer (+200 OMNI per mission, built in computing cube)
Lead Demolitions Tech (+150 OMNI per mission, repairs will be deducted from paycheck)


Life: 3d8: Auditor Armor
Attack: d4: Auditor Punch

Stats:
Strength: d10
Dexterity: d10
Speed: d10
Endurance: d10
Will: d10
Knowledge: d10
Fate: d10

Skills:
Melee: d4
Guns: d4
Explosives: d8
Implants: d4
Mechanics: d8
Technology: d12
Medical: d4
Occult: d4
Speech: d8

Status: *excited auditor noises*

Inventory:
Omnivision: Able to see in several dozen vision modes, this system scans through them constantly alerts the user to any oddities it detects and projects them. Can be manually cycled as well.
Skeleton Key Protocols: Automatic system override protocols. Single use and will fry the system they're used on after forcing it to perform one action. 10 installed and will be replenished between missions
Superstructure hatch access: All superstructure hatches and some admin tunnels are available for use without incurring... issues.
OMNI-scient Network Scanner: Continuous access to the OMNI-scient Network.
Built in computing cube and universal jack capacities
Daemon Box: A collection of 6 high end AI Daemons which can be injected into technology and will act as ordered.
Limited Optical Cloaking system: Renders the user invisible, but only so long as they remain motionless. Has a use die of d6, rolled once per turn while active.
Wideband Motion Sensor
Sensor Hive: A self contained miniature manufacturing plant which produces flying spy eye drones the size of a ping pong ball. Max 5 active at a time.
Computing cube (embedded in rank)
    -Text-to-speech earplug control
OMNITECH Thermite cutting charge (3d10 damage but concentrated, no splash, single use. Cuts through metal)
Glowspray paint
20 units of nutrient paste
Power cord

Money: 2 (Debt: 520)

Spoiler: Things done this mission (click to show/hide)

*Painted a mural depicting our mascot Bob on the APC OMNITECH Tour Bus to inspire my fellow employees to do their best and enjoy themselves in this corporate trip.

[Ozarck]

-snip-

Grumpy cat is grumpy.

[Pancaek]

If we're ready by the end of this turn, head out again and head to Ann Harbor.

If not, just sift through the info I collected, looking for anything that seems out of place or interesting.

Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)

Name: Edward Paganini Scrum
Description: Edward has the look of a grumpy boulder, an impassive craggy face with lumpy, half swollen features. Once he made deal with a dog-sized flea in the cargo hold of a helium trawler near Jupiter. That trawler never made it back to port, but Edward did. He's been itchy ever since. Sometimes he sees things in the machines he fixes, sometimes he knows things he shouldn't. He won't talk about how he got here, what he intends to do, or what the deal he made was. He is quiet, fatalistic, distant, but prone to occasionally ramble with a distant look in his eyes. He's 36, but he looks 60.

Life: d2
Attack: d4 sidearm (d4 use die)

Stats (tanktrain stats TBA)
Strength:
Dexterity:
Speed:
Endurance:
Will:
Knowledge:
Fate:

Skills
Melee: d4
Guns:d6
Explosives:d4
Implants:d4
Mechanics:d12
Technology:d12
Medical:d4
Occult:d4
Speech: d4

OMNITECH White Jumpsuit (currently worn by pushbot)
OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack) x3 Magazines (d4 use die) (currently equipped by pushbot)
OMNITECH Override Fob (Allows activation of most vehicles)
OMNITECH Personal Computing Cube and Universal adapter
OMNITECH cognition copier
Hacked Brobot (pushbot)

Traded OMNITECH Organosculpting system to Sam for 700 omnibux and 2 medical procedures, + preferential medic treatment in future missions
570 OMNIBUX, SAM has 200 debt left


Pushbot stats:
Skills:
Guns: d8
Melee: d8
all others: d6

stats:
Strength: d10
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d4
Endurance: d12
Will: d6
Knowledge: d6
Fate: d6

Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)

Strength: d12
Dexterity: d4
Speed: Depends. d4 from dead stop, d12 at full speed
Endurance: d12
Will: d4
Knowledge: d4
Fate: d8

Life d8, 100 HP
60MPH top speed

OMNITECH Mounted Turret (2d8. D6 use die.) X 2
OMNITECH Electrical Interdiction system (d12. D4 use. Effects entire outer surface)
OMNITECH “Genesis” Multi-function launcher (d6 Flares, d6 Camera pods, d6 Nets, d6 Shriekers, d6 +1 spare box Shell (3d10 damage), d6 high explosive. Must be reloaded after every shot. Tank gun sorta deal)
OMNITECH SPOT! Light. Remote controlled, mounted on top. Complements the normal rack of lights.

Radio, loud speakers, satellite uplink to OMNITECH.

[piecewise]

SAM will cook up the fishball into something scrumptious now, or ask someone else to do it, either way, she's good.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Samantha "SAM" Endashale
Description: Sam used to be a research scientist at a prestigious biotech company until her distressing vigor for human experimentation got her fired. That, or perhaps the 3 graduate students that went missing under her tutelage. Regardless of the reason, she ended up finding work at OMNITECH. She chose a field position herself, and seems to be eagerly awaiting the chance to try....something....

She currently looks like she's about to tell a swordsman with anger issues to commit crimes

Senior Medical Officer (+100 Omni)

Flesh: 4 (10 MAX)
Attack: d6 bite

Stats
Strength:d4
Dexterity:d4
Speed:d8
Endurance:d4
Will: d4
Knowledge:d4
Fate: d4

Skills
Melee: d4
Implants: d8
Medical: d12
Shift: 1
Shape: d4
Manipulate: d4
Survive: d4

Status: DOG
Sight: DOGGO
Smell: PUPPERINO TIER
Hearing: DOGE
Taste: PITBULL, SO PROBABLY BABIES
Touch: CHEEMS

OMNITECH Medical Kit (5 charges. Expend one to gain advantage on a Medical roll)
OMNITECH Organosculpting system
Hover Dolly
Cognition copier
One of each nootropic type Anya had


Credits 20 (-200 debt)

Things done:
-Returned to primordial goo

[2]
Sam stares at the fish lump and tries to cook it with the intensity of her glare.  She thinks it might be warming up but its hard to tell.

try to get upstairs to look for the girl up there

Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Anya Sokolova
Physical Description: Wiry, roughly 6'4/193 cm tall, Anya cuts a striking figure compared to the diminutive height of most women at OMNITECH. Her nearly shoulder length blonde hair and blue eyes merely amplifies that affect
Background: born in some rural shithole in Novosibirsk, Anya worked on her parents farm, mainly fixing up their only tractor. She decided to join the Russian engineer troops to make something of herself. One... eventful career later, and she decided it be better to go to OMNITECH than the Hague. Sometimes she wonders if that was the right choice.
Class: Combat Engineer
Unused level ups: 0
Life: d6 Riot Suit
Attack: d6 Metalstorm Pistol (d6/d6)/d4 monkey wrench

Stats:
Strength: d4
Dexterity: d10
Speed: d6
Endurance: d4
Will: d4
Knowledge: d4
Fate: d8

Skills:
Melee: d4
Guns: d10
Explosives: d4
Implants: d4
Mechanics: d12
Tech: d4
Medical: d4
Occult: d4

Status: Vertical, breathing, slightly disorientated
Inventory:
OMNITECH Metalstorm Pistol d6 (d6/d6)
Metalstorm Jungle mags (d6/d6) ×8
Metalstorm Pistol magazine (d6) ×2
OMNITECH riot suit
OMNITECH red jumpsuit
Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged)
GPS magazine ×2 (d4)
Omnitech Tool kit (1/3)
High visibility flares ×8
monkey wrench (d4)
Cognition copier
Glowspray paint
Earplugs (upgraded with TTS)
Blindfold
Noseplugs
Box O'socks
Box O'tacks
Bunch O'smart drugs
Pneumatic Cable Cutter
Nondescript balaclava
An indeterminate amount of Cheap booze
Cheap lighter
Pack of cigs
Omni-fun VR kit
Pack of glowsticks (d8) ×2
Omnilight
Motion Detector
Lost and Found:
GPS magazine (d4)
Handful of tacks
Money: 148
Sight:
Smell:
Hearing: TTS earplugs
Taste:
Touch:

[1]
Anya starts shoving her way though the crowd but halfway through walks straight into a man and knocks him over. As he falls he knocks over someone else and within a few seconds there's a pile of a dozen or so people at Anya's feet. This is a rather notable thing unfortunately and she looks up to see at least 3 bouncers moving her way from upstairs and on this level.

Try to do this again.

1.Watch the TV broadcast again. This time, make note of the groups who seem the most organized or have the most-powerful weaponry. Note where they were last seen on the map.

Spoiler: Baldwin (click to show/hide)

Name: Robert Baldwin
Physical Description: A tall and thin man with green eyes and shoulder-length brown hair. You'd almost mistake him for a hippy if it weren't for how well-groomed he was. His hair has a shine to it that one could only get from the most expensive of shampoos and conditioner, while his complexion is flawless. No one knows where he gets his personal hygiene products from.

Background: In a past life, Robert had been a famous architect who distinguished himself with his avant garde designs. Life was good for the young upstart, until his preference for beauty over practicality caught up with him.

His biggest achievement, the Sierra Space Resort was a massive space station meant to house the wealthiest of space tourists. Modelled after a dance device from a bygone era, the station was a giant ball covered almost entirely in mirrors. It would reflect the light of a local star and spread it throughout the cosmos, broadcasting its brilliance to anyone in the solar system. This gave it the nickname the "Dazzle Star".

Though the clientele loved it, locals would get very pissed whenever the D-Star touched down in their corner of space. The reflected sunlight wreaked havoc on nearby planets, starting wildfires and even boiling oceans. Eventually enough people got mad and banded together to form a rebellion. The station was not designed to defend against such attacks and was quickly blown up, along with all the upper-classmen inside it.

Someone had to pay for that bloodshed, so Robert ended up facing the suit's wrath. As punishment he was cryogenically frozen for 200 years. Long enough to go out of style.

After serving his sentence, Baldwin applied for a job at OMNI, but the suits confused his unusual floorplans for diagrams of summoning circles. Robert was hired on the spot, but it was only during his second week of basic training did he realize that he may not have gotten the job he was looking for...

Life: d6 (reactive fabric cape)
Attack: d4 ranged (OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm)
d4 melee exploding occult (Ceremonial Dagger)

Stats:
Strength: d4
Dexterity: d4
Speed: d6
Endurance: d4
Will: d4
Knowledge: d6
Fate: d6

Skills:
Melee: d4
Guns: d4
Explosives: d8
Implants: d4
Mechanics: d4
Technology: d4
Medical: d4
Occult: d8
Speech: d4

Status: No injuries yet.

Inventory:
OMNITECH Black Jumpsuit
     The standard OMNITECH jumpsuit. Covers everything but the head, hands, and feet. Stain resistant, waterproof, breathable, light, and overall comfortable as everyday wear. Offers no protection against anything more dangerous than a spilled cup of coffee.  Has the employee’s name stenciled on the back like a sports jersey.  This one is Black and has a smaller “OCCULT” stenciled across the right side of the chest, just under the collar bone.
OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack) x3 Magazines (d4 use die)
     One of the “Generic” brand of OMNITECH weapons which are ubiquitous in OMNITECH installations. The Generic Personal Sidearm is a handgun as drawn by a 9 year old; A gray rectangle with a gray rectangle grip and a trigger that looks more like a light switch with a trigger guard that looks like an allen wrench. It is uncomfortable, unappealing, and very clearly designed by the lowest bidder, but can effectively put .45 slugs into targets.
OMNITECH Universal Containment Pod x 5
    OMNITECH Containment pods resemble a clear tube held in between two large metal ends with long rods forming a cage and reinforcing structure around the tube.  One of the metal ends has an iris design to allow it to open and allow a sample in before clamping shut. Though the tubes look to be glass they are a multilayer reinforced acrylic that is remarkably strong and non-reactive.
OMNITECH Null-Rod
    The Null-rod is a collapsible rod made of the same non-reactive acrylic as the inner lining of the containment pods. Used by Cultists for the investigative prodding and poking of things that look dangerous.
Ceremonial Dagger (d4, uses occult, die explodes and increases level each explosion)
    A prototype self defense weapon with an entangled connection to the Highly Evil, Logarithmically Lethal plane (H.E.L.L.). Has an over designed appearance to it with a human bone handle and a hooked, serrated blade, almost like a linoleum knife designed by someone who wants to make the linoleum suffer. It’s unknown if the design is somehow conducive to the entanglement or if it's just someone’s idea of a joke. Normally the knife functions like any other mundane instrument of murder, but occasionally it will manifest high levels of H.E.L.L. resonance, producing short lived demonic emissions on contact. Has no OMNITECH branding and never saw a commercial release as of yet due to concerns of cross dimensional bleedover and possession.

OMNITECH EMP grenade (d20 damage, only effects electronics. Single use)

OMNITECH Placed charge (Demo pack, with remote, 3d10 damage, single use)

Fancy Airpods

OMNITECH Reactive fabric cape (1d6 life)

Gentleman's Pipe
    This isn't a pipe. This is a text-based description of a pipe. And also a pipe.
Octarine Tobacco
   An ancient plant from 200 years ago. Used to be all the rage among people with "alternative" lifestyles, but it fell out of style once corporations began selling it legally. Turns out that once the man was in on it, nobody wanted to buy it anymore. By now it would be extinct if it weren't for the single potted plant in Baldwin's room. In the end, Baldwin was a sellout.
Idea Tube
   An old treasure from a past life. Even back then everything was done in CAD, but Baldwin always wanted to stand out. He drew his designs by hand and would store them here for safe keeping along with spare paper and writing tools. This created a tempting prize for any aspiring paparazzi, which lead to him being frequently covered in various magazines. He owes his career to those guys.

Good OMNITECH fishing rod

Money: -500

The storm outside is rather screwing things up, but Baldwin manages to get a good look at one group through a downed drone. They seem to be connected by Bull iconography, masks and talismans and such. They're wearing an odd mix of army or paramilitary stuff along with what looks like random objects on cords. One near the drone is wearing several hundred CD's like a boa around his neck. They appear to have a fair number of members and be pretty heavily armed.

EEEDD, having stood in disbelief that soldiers in need of salvation would refuse an open offering for a good few minutes, snaps out of his fugue. No use wasting time, after all! If they would not welcome his theological teachings, then he'd simply have to ram them in at the source.

Change tack and ask around to see if these people have a priest or anything of the sort - hell, even a motivational speaker would do. Then find this person, if they exist. My intent is to engage in a theological debate with them and assert the dominance of EDism.

Consult my inner ED as I go to this meeting to determine the proper stance towards heathens.

Spoiler: EEEDD (click to show/hide)

Name: EEEDD (Entertaining, Educational, Elastic, Disposable, Devoted)

Background: Created as part of a product line of quick-use clones with pre-installed memories, skills, and behavioral sets in order to fill gaps in high-skill fields for a comparatively cheap price, EEED’s entire line was scrapped when someone realized his name-acronym sounded like it was describing a sex toy and the resulting onslaught of memes caused the forced ‘retirement’ of the executives that had initiated the idea. This EEED, gestationally imprinted with chiropractic and massage techniques, was somehow missed in the purge of defective product and ended up finding a job with OMNICORP before his parent company’s legal team/hit squad could track him down.

Description: A big, doughy ball of a man, with earnest, simplistic facial features that look like someone crudely shaped them out of clay. Small, circular eyes peer out at the world with innocent warmth, contrasting his oddly large teeth that are perfectly square and just a little larger than normal, enough to be noticeable. He has absolutely no hair, though his scalp is tattooed with his terms of usage, patterned in such a way that suggests a balding fringe.

Rank: Team Priest (+1 Occult level)
Life: d6
Attack: d4 exploding occult dagger

Stats:
d8 Strength
d4 Dexterity
d4 Speed
d4 Endurance
d4 Will
d4 Knowledge
d12 Fate

Skills:
d4 Melee
d4 Guns
d4 Explosives
d4 Implants
d4 Mechanics
d6 Technology
d12 Medical
d6 Occult
d4 Speech

Status:
Inventory:
Rubberized Jumpsuit
Incinerator
Arc Scraper
Automop
Staff of ED (d8 minigun, d12 use die)
Protech Computronium (1 liter)
Ceremonial Dagger (Occult d4, explodes/upgrades)
Cognition Copier
Magic 888 Ball
Reactive Fabric Cape (d6 life)
OMNITECH Insurance Card (Good for 1 treatment)
Medkit (3/3)
Psychokinetic Stimulant (1)
Isolation Suit
45 OMNI owed to Loan Shark

Spoiler: Congregation of ED (click to show/hide)

Details about the most wholesome, innocuous religion OMNICORP's ever seen!
Current members: EEEDD

THE SCRIPTURES OF ED:

1. HARM YE NOT THOSE WHICH HAVE THE SACRED NAME
2. THE SACRED NAME IS ED, COMPRISED OF AN INFINITUDE OF BOTH E AND D
3. TO ATTAIN SACRED STATUS ONE MAY APPEND MORE LETTERS TO THEIR NAME, PROVIDED THOSE LETTERS ARE E AND D IN EQUAL PROPORTION. SACRED DEEDS ARE REQUIRED TO ADVANCE THE HOLINESS OF ONE'S NAME
4. THY TASK IS TO HEAL ALL THOSE LACKING THE SACRED NAME, AND IN DOING SO CHANGE THEIR FORMS OF ADDRESS PART BY PART INTO THE SACRED NAME
5. NEVER BETRAY ANOTHER ED FOR YOU ARE BOTH MANIFESTATIONS OF THE SACRED NAME, WHICH LOVES ITSELF
6. THE HIGHEST OF CALLINGS IS WORKING TO ADVANCE THE MANIFESTATION OF THE PRIME ED, WHETHER BY SHAPING OTHERS INTO VESSELS FOR THE SACRED NAME OR BY DIVINING THE WAYS THAT THE FABRIC OF REALITY MAY BE MADE TO WELCOME THE TRUTH OF ED
7. THE NAME WV AND ALL VARIATIONS THEREOF, BEING THE ANTITHESIS OF ED, IS THE ENEMY. DESTROY IT WHEREVER IT IS FOUND

Spoiler: STANpool (click to show/hide)

For people who've chosen to bet on when Sam will destroy her own mind and turn into an uncontrollable gribbly flesh horror that needs to be put down. Any bet may be placed, doesn't have to be OMNI, along with a time when you think it's gonna happen by. If that time passes without a STAN incident, you either forfeit your bet to the pool or can choose another time, but you have to put in another bet on top of your original one - again, can be anything. Whoever's guess lands closest to the inevitable STANification wins the pot.

ANGRY_DEMON_NOISES: 500 OMNI for 'on or before Sam's 5th mission'
m1895: 200 OMNI for 'on or before Sam's 4th mission'
Xantalos: 1 E from EEED's name + 50 OMNI for 'on or before the conclusion of Neo-Detroit'

Spoiler: Things done (click to show/hide)

[2]
All the people continue to avoid EEEDD as though he were radioactive. The more he attempts to ask them anything or otherwise interact, the more they try to avoid him.  One man literally crawls under the EdPC in order to get away.
_{"Human Rights End where our lives begin"}

"I have a loaded OMNITECH Generic Security rifle and one spare magazine, and the things I'm after are a laptop with a case and cords, a flashlight, and cheap smartphone, the phone and the laptop don't need to be new they just need to work."
Trade the things and keep filming.

Spoiler: Dead man walking (click to show/hide)

Name: Burt Burt
Physical Description: A generic looking bastard.
Background: Needed a job and got one.
Class: Combat Engineer
Life: d4
Attack: d4 Personal Sidearm / d8 Close Sawn off Shotgun (d4 use die) with bayonet d4

Sight:  sensory deprivation helmet
Smell:  sensory deprivation helmet
Hearing:  sensory deprivation helmet
Taste:  sensory deprivation helmet
Touch: OMNITECH Red Jumpsuit

Stats:
 Strength: d6
 Dexterity: d6
 Speed: d6
 Endurance: d4
 Will: d4
 Knowledge: d8
 Fate: d6

Skills:
 Melee: d4
 Guns: d8
 Explosives: d4
 Implants: d4
 Mechanics: d8
 Technology: d6
 Medical: d4
 Occult: d4
 Speech: d4

Status: Fixed lung, other bullet wounds, chemical burns in lungs
Inventory:
 OMNITECH Red Jumpsuit
 OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack) x5 Magazines (d4 use die)
 OMNITECH Tool kit (1 / 3)
 High visibility flares x4
 Mysterious remote control
 Box of protein bars
 First Aid kit (1)
 2 Fire extinguishers (d6 use each)
 Harpoon
 OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack)
 OMNITECH Generic Security rifle (d6 ranged attack) 1 Magazine (d6 use die)
 Sawn off Shotgun (d8 Close)(d4 use die) Box of shells (d6 use die) with Bayonet d4
 Cold Steel "Battle Ready" katana (d6 use die)
 2 Pack of gum
 OMNITECH Cognition Copier
 OMNITECH Passive Personal Shield Generator (d12 life, d4 use die)
 Glow sticks (D6 use die)
 Hand held video camera. with up link to OMNITECH server.
Money: 245

He takes the rifle and disappears, returning several minutes later with the laptop, flashlight and phone.

"All works, but the flashlight might need batteries changed soon and the laptop apparently runs out of power pretty quick when not plugged." He says, sliding the stuff over to you.

Find a completely random lowly grunt to interview. Point my camera in their face and start conducting a little interview.

Ask about any little tips and tricks they know to survive in the zone. How does the fish taste. Where they think the scientists could be hiding. What they think is the cause of all this. What sort of underground contraband black market they have. What is their favourite colour.

Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)

Name: Edward Mortan
Physical Description: He's a bit scrawny and unshaven. Never opens his eyes more than halfway.
Background: Edward can replace a lightbulb without too much difficulty, and he watches a lot of youtube videos. Edward endeavours to do as little as possible in his life and so far has performed admirably.

Life: d8 (Armoured Spacesuit) + d10, requires dex roll (Civil Unrest Shield)
Attack: d4 ranged (OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm)
d4 melee (Hammer)


Stats:
Strength: d4
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d6
Endurance: d6
Will: d6
Knowledge: d6
Fate: d8

Skills:
Melee: d4
Guns: d4
Explosives: d4
Implants: d4
Mechanics: d8
Technology: d8
Medical: d6
Occult: d8
Speech: d6

Status: Bored

Inventory:
OMNITECH White Jumpsuit
OMNITECH Armoured Space Suit
OMNITECH Civil Unrest Shield
OMNITECH Passive Personal Shield Generator
Omni-health insurance policy

OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack) x3 Magazines (d4 use die)
Hammer (d4 melee)

OMNITECH Tool Kit (3/3)
OMNITECH medical kit (3/3)
OMNITECH Override Fob
OMNITECH Personal Computing Cube and Universal adapter
>FOF program, works on murderbots
Omni-eye camera
OMNITECH "Omni-fun" VR System
OMNITECH Laser Trip Sensor
OMNITECH Motion Sensor
OMNITECH Omni-light
OMNITECH Null Rod
OMNITECH Analog Hand
OMNITECH Mental Purgant
10 nutrient paste

Money: 153 omni

[1]
Edward shoves the camera in a random soldier's face and demands of her "Tell me everything! I'm here to expose you, you insidious so and so!"

She punches him straight in the nose and walks off as he follows behind, still demanding things in a nasal voice has he attempts to stop the nose bleed.

If possible, talk to Hardacre about acquiring bottom of the barrel ammo. If he’s not going to take YAG up on the ammo exchange offer, then see how much ammo he’s willing to sell, and if he’d give a good deal if the type of ammo doesn’t matter. I’m not ready to trade it yet, but see how much ammo he’d give me for the razor. Also spread the word to all the soldiers that they can exchange ammo for a fee. (I’ll let Radio decide on the specifics of that fee.)

Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)

Name: Ji Fuchikoma
Rank: Senior Security Expert
Physical Description:

A Short, Athletic, and Absolutely Stacked Girl, who has an uncanny resemblance to an anime character. She has pale freckled skin and, fiery red hair, and large ember green eyes. She as a pair of fox ears and a fox tail.
She is a Waifu-Bot based on a player avatar from the Waifu Assassins Guild series.

Background:

Once known as Woldo, a gamer who replaced his physical body with an android based on his famous video game avatar.

Life: d10 Robobody
Attack: d6 rifle x3mags

d6 Generic Security Rifle
Anti-bio razor (2d6 against living/ 1d6 vs others)
2d6 Piledriver Carbine
d6+d8 Amplified Wand

Ammo:
Rifle (use d6)(3 magazines)
Piledriver Carbine (use d4)(6 magazines)
2 pistol mags (use d4)

Stats:
Strength: d10
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d4
Endurance: d12
Will: d6
Knowledge: d6
Fate: d6

Skills:
Melee: d12
Guns: d12
Explosives: d4
Implants: d10
Mechanics: d4
Technology: d4
Medical: d4
Occult: d4
Speech: d4

Inventory:
Amplified Wand (Bat)
Piledriver Carbine
OMNITECH electrical behavior modification implant
OMNITECH Omni-light
Anti-Bio Razor
OMNITECH Generic Security Baton (in LaF box with the claw)
Brain Backup
Experimental Gun
Lizard Claw (in LaF box with the baton)


Money:
502

Ji asks Hardacre about ammo. He gives her a look when she tells him that the kind of ammo doesn't matter, she just wants to buy it in bulk.

"We have a few boxes of rounds for an older model autocannon; nothing we got uses them so I can trade them no issue. For that razor, I'd give you...oh 3 or 4 boxes."

Ask the communications team in the base if the other bases with a better line on the Canadian base could pass on a message to introduce ourselves.

Spoiler: Janet Janet (click to show/hide)

Name: Janet Janet
Physical Description: an extremely plain looking woman with unnaturally pale skin, Janet Janet is average in very way.
Background: Joining the PR division out of law school after an unfortunate incident involving two classmates, a professor, and a group essay on the ethics of corporations.

Public Relations

Life: d8
Attack: d4 (Gauss Minicannon)
Stats:
Strength: d4
Dexterity: d4
Speed: d6
Endurance: d6
Will: d8
Knowledge: d8
Fate: d6

Skills:
Melee: d4
Guns: d4
Explosives: d4
Implants: d4
Mechanics: d4
Technology: d4
Medical: d4
Occult: d4
Speech: d12

Status: uwu
Inventory:
OMNITECH Armored Space Suit (d8)
OMNI Man-Zapper (10 Shots)
Executive Jumpsuit
OMNITECH Gauss Minicannon (d4 ranged attack) x3 magazines (use die 4) (Silent)
OMNITECH Memory Eradicator
OMNITECH Contract Notebook
Special Earbuds or something

Sight: sunglasses, but can pull off the official PR Balaclava look
Smell: coffee in the morning
Hearing: a nice song
Taste: pickles
Touch: "Official" leather gloves

Money: 0

The Canadian base is apparently quite hard to contact due to being directly across from the american bases, through the red zone. Wireless signals are obviously distorted if they make it at all, and there are no land lines. The only real way is to go far enough south to get line of sight and do it from there.  That or route around, bounce it south and then back up north through external sites. Thats what they usually do but its a bit of a pain with encryption and such, so its only done when needed.  They assure Janet that the Canadian base has no units in the zone and is actually just a checkpoint to prevent anything from getting out in that direction.

[17:37] Radio Controlled: @Piecewise Once we are ready to go in mook, can we assume a timeskip till the storm has died down?
[18:30] Piecewise: yes

In that case, in the interest of moving things along, let's move out at the end of this coming turn/start of the next, and maybe people still talking/trading can finish it in flexible time?

Either way, thank the commander for his help and any future support, offer him 1 of the bottles of nice booze if he wants it.

5. "Mighty useful talent. I'm not aware of any shortages currently, but Hardacre might have some use of it. And I'm certain that the lads in Ann Arbor would."

Go to this Hardacre once we're done with the commander and offer the same service again. We'll convert whatever ammo they have to whatever other type they need (assuming the forge can handle it), in return for keeping some of the ammo for ourselves (25% maybe? We can haggle over discord if you want). 

2. "Your best bet, I think, is announce your intentions immediately. There's a fine line out there, you don't wanna look like a threat they have to kill, but you also don't want to look weak and easy to steal from. We have somewhat of an advantage: they know that if they fuck with us they'll eat an artillery strike, but they also know we could have already done that if we just wanted them dead. They know we're too dangerous to mess with, but also that we mean it when we say we're just there to talk.  For guys like you without such capacities and clout, might be best off letting some of their footsoldiers know you wanna talk to someone higher up  and make a business transaction out of it. For the most part though, if you don't ruffle feathers, they won't want to start anything."

See if I can set up a little sound clip that says something like "We come here in peace and wish to make a trade. Do not assault us or we will retaliate." Idea is to play that over the EdPC when we need to.

Also, does Yagyu notice what happened to his kelp? 


Once the storm dies down and they can safely exit the building again, Yagyu gets on the radio to address the whole team, seeing how some already ran off to do their own thing.

"Allrighty then ladies ’n gents, bit of a false start, but finally we're ready to move out and begin our holiday.

Now, for some traveler guidelines before we begin our little excursion.

Play nice with the locals when you can. While our ROE is pretty lax, we’d still rather not deal with complaints filed in triplicate and/or hordes of angry gangers toting bazookas more than we have to. So be on your best behaviors! If some mutant is being an ass you can take ‘em down of course, but don’t make our life, er, vacation, any harder than it has to be.

Secondly, when the EdPC moves up, try to stick with it. I’m not gonna chain ya’ll down and demand you stick with the tour group at all times, but we’re not going off on a wild goose chase every few minutes because someone saw a shiny bauble somewhere. So go detouring if you must, but if you get yourself in trouble that way, make sure you can get yourself out of it as well. Of course if the missi-, I mean holiday festivities, require us to split up that’s another story.

Now, first we will go visit Ann Arbor, we've got a possible lead in there on one of the former employees. We'll also want to talk to the treasure hunters to learn more.

EdPC my dear, if you’d be so kind?

Oh, and if any of you feel like it, you can give me a DNA sample so that I can locate you should we get separated in a tussle. This is optional, so as you prefer. The brobots among us can grab something biological and give a piece of it to me and hang on to the rest for the same effect. Finally, I can manufacture ammunition out of other ammunition, let me know and I can hook you up."

After all that, he fills them in on the relevant details the commander told him.

Spoiler: Yagyu d'Aubigny (click to show/hide)

mook map
Interactive map, courtesy of Paris

Name: Yagyu d'Aubigny
Physical Description: Auditor, guns version
Background: Yagyu hates OMNITECH. But Yagyu likes money.
Class: Hazardous Materials Reclamation Crew
Promotion: Team Captain (100 Omni Raise, Access to all team shock implants. Crushing responsibility.)

Life: 3d8 (auditor)
Attack: depends on weapon. Currently equipped: shotgun (2d10 close, 2d6 medium, 2d4 long)

Stats:
Strength: d10
Dexterity: d10
Speed: d10
Endurance: d10
Will: d10
Knowledge: d10
Fate: d10

Skills:
Melee: d4
Guns: d10
Explosives: d4
Implants: d4
Mechanics: d8
Technology: d8
Medical: d4
Occult: d4
Speech: d4


Status: 'kay

Inventory:
Modified goop thrower. Has 2 firing modes. Does no damage: if successful, target is immobilized. Multiple guns used in concert stack. Some targets immune. d8 use die. OVERDRIVE: higher attack at the cost of increased use die usage. For every more powerful use, use die is rolled at disadvantage.
   Standard [not in use]: d4 attack, regular use die usage.
   OVERDRIVE [currently selected]: d8
   current goop tank: d8/d8 use die

3 spare carbine mags
3 spare shotgun mags
'a few' mining explosives (1 used for killing the psychic, 1 used for blowing up a door)
Cutting/welding torch
Toolkit (3/3 charges)
computing cube
a large spool of synthetic cable
environment scanner
bodyparts, enough for full body (in cold storage)
113,562354 liters of tap water
4,5359237 kilograms of kelp
3 bottles of pretty good booze

cognition copier
Money: 15
8 omni loaned to Baldwin (heydude6).

-auditor-
1. Biorhythm tracker: Allows the tracking of a single target. Their outline will appear on the user's vision from any distance, through any material. Tracking can be initiated with line of sight OR DNA sampling.
2. Autonomous targeting system: Allows for a second weapon to be fired as a secondary attack even after firing the standard single attack. Weapon must be held in the other hand and uses suit parameters instead of user skill. Light weapons use dex, heavy use strength.
3. Ammunition Transmutation forge: Shoebox sized device that allows ammunition of one kind to be transmuted into a different kind of ammo. Not one to one, requires equal or greater monetary value of the input to get the output. Ie a 20 omni bullet would require the sacrifice of at least 20 omni worth of other ammo to make.
4. Weakness Analysis protocols: Automatically detects and displays the structural or biological weaknesses of any targeted enemy.
5. Pulse Laser: Infinite use military grade laser fired from the point of the "Beak". Deals d12 but requires d6 turns to recharge after every use.
6. Micromissile Pack: Built into the hunched back, fires salvos of micromissiles that deal d6xd6 damage. Has a d4 use die. Guided via laser targeting using Gun skill.
7. OMNITECH ferromagnetic accelerator: Standard version of the system but built into the hands. Pick up metal objects and fire them. Damage dependent on object.
8. Wrist Mounted Shotguns: Same damage as "PUNCH!" shotgun. current use die: d6/d6
9. Palm mounted Carbines: Same as Pinpoint Carbine. current use die: d6/d6

The commander takes the booze and sets it in a desk drawer. Yagyu catches sight of several bottles in there.

Hardacre checks his books and says that they could use some ammo for the new autocannons. Same model the EdPC uses. You could get a free d6 box of it out of the trade but it would cost a day's wait to forge it all.

You set up a "We Come in peace" announcement you can play whenever you want.

Yagyu will notice the kelp when he returns. So if he returned, he noticed the kelp.

1. Ask the commander if he can tell us if there were any other teams sent here recently (not necessarily from OMNITECH, other companies or government too), if any could be still alive, how they fared and if he has any advice to offer us on how to not end up like them. Or any advice about how to stay alive in general.

2. Ask the commander how well technology fares further into the zone. The "leak" caused some distortions on screens and drones. Would those be worse the closer we get to the center? Would those distortions be damaging to tech or robots? Are the people in the zone still using modern tech (i.e. something I could hack) or have they reverted to older sturdier tech?

3. Ask the commander if we should be wary of weather phenomena. Does rain that passes over Detroit become "contaminated"?

4. Ask the commander what would be the "best case scenario" should we manage to be so lucky as to locate and reach the source of the anomaly. What would be a "happy end" by his standards?

5. Keep watching the view from the drone to see if something special happens during the leak and what it looks like when it finishes.

6. Once we start moving, keep a drone flying around to give us a bird eye's view, make sure nobody is laying in ambush or something.

 

Spoiler: Pathos: Senior Tech Officer (click to show/hide)

Name: Pathos
Physical Description: About 3 meters tall, though often looks shorter because it tends to be hunched over.  Its head is triangular, lacking any recognizable details like eyes or mouth, and instead looks almost avian. One point of the triangle is elongaged, forming the front of the "face", while the others are pulled back, forcing a sort of curve into the bottom leg of the triangle that gives it a sort of horned appearance. The horns wrap back around to form a ring about a foot and a half across. Inside this ring floats a black sphere which seems to be slowly and constantly pulsing. The triangle is segmented, with thin groves running back up along its length and giving it a sort of chitinous appearance, like the shell of a woodlouse. Its body is roughly humanoid though its proportions and geometry is distinctly alien: not only looking nothing like a human but nothing like what a human would create.  It has a thin, fiberous neck, a huge hunched back and shoulders, a pelvis that twists forward at an almost painful angle, and long arms and legs, both of which have an extra joint to them. Its shoulders look almost like nautilus shells, a row of thin needle sharp spines runs down its neck and back, apparently along its spine, and it seems to have no palms to its hands nor thumbs, just a series of 8 fingers that connect to a wrist joint.  It looks, all and all, much more like something they dug out of an alien tomb than something any engineer would have made. It has a faint blue glow emanating from its groves and crevices, as though the black armor was simply containing some radiant being within.
Background: Delusions of grandeur. Took this job as a way to rapidly advance the ranks and see cool things. And because it would give him plenty of opportunities to set things on fire without his superiors being close enough to yell at him. Lost his original body in a freak shuttle accident. Was a spiderbot for a while.
Class: Senior Tech Officer (+200 OMNI per mission, built in computing cube)
Lead Demolitions Tech (+150 OMNI per mission, repairs will be deducted from paycheck)


Life: 3d8: Auditor Armor
Attack: d4: Auditor Punch

Stats:
Strength: d10
Dexterity: d10
Speed: d10
Endurance: d10
Will: d10
Knowledge: d10
Fate: d10

Skills:
Melee: d4
Guns: d4
Explosives: d8
Implants: d4
Mechanics: d8
Technology: d12
Medical: d4
Occult: d4
Speech: d8

Status: *excited auditor noises*

Inventory:
Omnivision: Able to see in several dozen vision modes, this system scans through them constantly alerts the user to any oddities it detects and projects them. Can be manually cycled as well.
Skeleton Key Protocols: Automatic system override protocols. Single use and will fry the system they're used on after forcing it to perform one action. 10 installed and will be replenished between missions
Superstructure hatch access: All superstructure hatches and some admin tunnels are available for use without incurring... issues.
OMNI-scient Network Scanner: Continuous access to the OMNI-scient Network.
Built in computing cube and universal jack capacities
Daemon Box: A collection of 6 high end AI Daemons which can be injected into technology and will act as ordered.
Limited Optical Cloaking system: Renders the user invisible, but only so long as they remain motionless. Has a use die of d6, rolled once per turn while active.
Wideband Motion Sensor
Sensor Hive: A self contained miniature manufacturing plant which produces flying spy eye drones the size of a ping pong ball. Max 5 active at a time.
Computing cube (embedded in rank)
    -Text-to-speech earplug control
OMNITECH Thermite cutting charge (3d10 damage but concentrated, no splash, single use. Cuts through metal)
Glowspray paint
20 units of nutrient paste
Power cord

Money: 2 (Debt: 520)

Spoiler: Things done this mission (click to show/hide)

*Painted a mural depicting our mascot Bob on the APC OMNITECH Tour Bus to inspire my fellow employees to do their best and enjoy themselves in this corporate trip.

1. "There was one about 3 weeks ago. No idea if its still around. Can't tell ya any info on them though. Non-disclosure agreements."
2. "Depends. Further you get in, worse the distortions will get. The more complex something is, the more things that have to be working in perfect alignment for it to function, worse it will fare.  Haven't heard of anyone in a mechanical body getting brain wiped though, so maybe there's exceptions.  In the orange and yellow zones at least. Red, all bets are off. Nothing can be taken for granted out there."
3."Be wary of goddamn anything, especially as you go further in, and especially if it comes from above. Zones seem mushroom shaped, extend further higher up. Rain out in the yellow zone might have transient orange zone level properties.  Strong corrosive seems most common in that case though. Apparently a lot of water further in is acidic to a deadly degree."
4."For all I know there's a pissed off genie in there. Happy end by my standards would be getting rid of this thing entirely but I doubt you can do that. They've dropped Thermonuclear bombs into it, trying to destroy or destabilize it. No dice."
5. [2] Nothing you see.
6. Ok.

[piecewise]

If we're ready by the end of this turn, head out again and head to Ann Harbor.

If not, just sift through the info I collected, looking for anything that seems out of place or interesting.

Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)

Name: Edward Paganini Scrum
Description: Edward has the look of a grumpy boulder, an impassive craggy face with lumpy, half swollen features. Once he made deal with a dog-sized flea in the cargo hold of a helium trawler near Jupiter. That trawler never made it back to port, but Edward did. He's been itchy ever since. Sometimes he sees things in the machines he fixes, sometimes he knows things he shouldn't. He won't talk about how he got here, what he intends to do, or what the deal he made was. He is quiet, fatalistic, distant, but prone to occasionally ramble with a distant look in his eyes. He's 36, but he looks 60.

Life: d2
Attack: d4 sidearm (d4 use die)

Stats (tanktrain stats TBA)
Strength:
Dexterity:
Speed:
Endurance:
Will:
Knowledge:
Fate:

Skills
Melee: d4
Guns:d6
Explosives:d4
Implants:d4
Mechanics:d12
Technology:d12
Medical:d4
Occult:d4
Speech: d4

OMNITECH White Jumpsuit (currently worn by pushbot)
OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack) x3 Magazines (d4 use die) (currently equipped by pushbot)
OMNITECH Override Fob (Allows activation of most vehicles)
OMNITECH Personal Computing Cube and Universal adapter
OMNITECH cognition copier
Hacked Brobot (pushbot)

Traded OMNITECH Organosculpting system to Sam for 700 omnibux and 2 medical procedures, + preferential medic treatment in future missions
570 OMNIBUX, SAM has 200 debt left


Pushbot stats:
Skills:
Guns: d8
Melee: d8
all others: d6

stats:
Strength: d10
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d4
Endurance: d12
Will: d6
Knowledge: d6
Fate: d6

Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)

Strength: d12
Dexterity: d4
Speed: Depends. d4 from dead stop, d12 at full speed
Endurance: d12
Will: d4
Knowledge: d4
Fate: d8

Life d8, 100 HP
60MPH top speed

OMNITECH Mounted Turret (2d8. D6 use die.) X 2
OMNITECH Electrical Interdiction system (d12. D4 use. Effects entire outer surface)
OMNITECH “Genesis” Multi-function launcher (d6 Flares, d6 Camera pods, d6 Nets, d6 Shriekers, d6 +1 spare box Shell (3d10 damage), d6 high explosive. Must be reloaded after every shot. Tank gun sorta deal)
OMNITECH SPOT! Light. Remote controlled, mounted on top. Complements the normal rack of lights.

Radio, loud speakers, satellite uplink to OMNITECH.

Out of time, but we're moving out now. Hold your posts till I can finish this turn. Thanks.

[m1895]

First take off the vr set. Then pull out the Hoverboard and take it for a spin, see if I can keep up with the EDpc.

Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Anya Sokolova
Physical Description: Wiry, roughly 6'4/193 cm tall, Anya cuts a striking figure compared to the diminutive height of most women at OMNITECH. Her nearly shoulder length blonde hair and blue eyes merely amplifies that affect
Background: born in some rural shithole in Novosibirsk, Anya worked on her parents farm, mainly fixing up their only tractor. She decided to join the Russian engineer troops to make something of herself. One... eventful career later, and she decided it be better to go to OMNITECH than the Hague. Sometimes she wonders if that was the right choice.
Class: Combat Engineer
Unused level ups: 0
Life: d6 Riot Suit
Attack: d6 Metalstorm Pistol (d6/d6)/d4 monkey wrench

Stats:
Strength: d4
Dexterity: d10
Speed: d6
Endurance: d4
Will: d4
Knowledge: d4
Fate: d8

Skills:
Melee: d4
Guns: d10
Explosives: d4
Implants: d4
Mechanics: d12
Tech: d4
Medical: d4
Occult: d4

Status: Vertical, breathing, slightly disorientated
Inventory:
OMNITECH Metalstorm Pistol d6 (d6/d6)
Metalstorm Jungle mags (d6/d6) ×8
Metalstorm Pistol magazine (d6) ×2
OMNITECH riot suit
OMNITECH red jumpsuit
Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged)
GPS magazine ×2 (d4)
Omnitech Tool kit (1/3)
High visibility flares ×8
monkey wrench (d4)
Cognition copier
Glowspray paint
Earplugs (upgraded with TTS)
Blindfold
Noseplugs
Box O'socks
Box O'tacks
Bunch O'smart drugs
Pneumatic Cable Cutter
Nondescript balaclava
An indeterminate amount of Cheap booze
Cheap lighter
Pack of cigs
Omni-fun VR kit
Pack of glowsticks (d8) ×2
Omnilight
Motion Detector
Lost and Found:
GPS magazine (d4)
Handful of tacks
Money: 148
Sight:
Smell:
Hearing: TTS earplugs
Taste:
Touch:
VR Game Last Moment:
knocked over a bunch of people in front of 3 bouncers in the club.