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[heydude6]

No part of your bolded text mentions any of the three other vulnerable characters.

((More than three unfortunately. We can't forget AFK players like the other ED (Harry Baldwin's character). Akanorth I could honestly take or leave (I'm still a little salty about the aborted murder attempt), but with Tara and Bob, I handled them the way I did because I didn't want to dictate your every action. If for whatever reason you decided not to save them I would have left them to their fate.

You have to believe me when I say the bold text was an oversight because I thought the rest of my post made the intent clear enough. Especially when my second piece of bold text uses the word "us" implying multiple people make it on to the Silverfish (I also doubt that you would boost the ship if I was the only person on it). It definitely is a problem that needed fixing though, so I'm glad you pointed that out.

As for the issue of overloading the vehicle, to be honest I didn't plot out every detail. It's a solvable problem though and that's what these discussions are for. I just wanted to get across the basic gist of:

• Silverfish is much faster than EDPC
• Organic players need to get on it so they can outrun the blast

cause before I thought of this, I thought we were completely doomed. I don't want to dictate the actions of every other player in the opening post, because first, it isn't fun to have someone else tell you what your character should do, and secondly I'm bound to overlook something anyway (I completely forgot about blue ED when I made the first post) so discussion is still necessary. Also, I thought that since you were the one bringing Bob and Tara on board, you would be the one who would try to squeeze them in. Or they would initiate the squeezing themselves since ultimately their characters were the ones who would be doing the action of climbing aboard. Baldwin is just some guy sitting in a cockpit.

If you want my thoughts on the capacity issue though, the simplest solution I can think of is to stuff as many people in the vehicle as we can, and then have the gripper/landing-gear clutch your body while you hold the stragglers in your arms. If you use your rockets, that might even prevent the weight slowdown you were talking about.

Wouldn't you have rather used a solution you came up with though?

Making cable harnesses for everyone is another alternative I can think of, but that would take more time to set up.))

[King Zultan]

"Oh shit people are melting, thank fuck I died and became a robot."
Find a hatch to the roof and pop out enough that I can fire my rocket launcher with out hitting anyone and blowup some of the cars in our path if it seems like it would help any.

Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)

Name: Burt Burt
Physical Description: An animatronic Dandy Fox with an old money southern drawl.
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:
Smell: Nope can't do that.
Hearing:
Taste: Doesn't have one.
Touch: Probably doesn't really have that ether.

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

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

Status: No longer dead.
Inventory:
 OMNITECH Red Jumpsuit
 OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack) x5 Magazines (d4 use die)
 OMNITECH Tool kit (0 / 3)
 High visibility flares x4
 Mysterious remote control
 Box of protein bars
 First Aid kit (1)
 Fire extinguisher (d6 use)
 Harpoon
 OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack)
 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)
 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.
 A gun effectively identical to the containment turrets, d8 ammo and not reloadable
 Rocket Launcher (d12+3 ranged explosive) One spare rocket
 Flashlight
 Laptop
 Smartphone
 A small ball that has complex etched designs on the surface and smolders with yellow flames
 Knife
 Machete
 Rifle
 5 Handguns
Money:
 245 Omni
 6,000 Megabucks

[Ozarck]

"I don't think those two are going to make it in without your help Will, but regardless of what you do with them, I'd appreciate if you could lend your suit rockets to give us some extra speed."

((Thanks for thinking of Tara and Bob. Don't worry too much about us though, we went through a giant corpsegate into an alternate reality on purpose.))

"Wilfred! Lend me a hand! I'm not the most dextrous monkey and us fleshbags need to get in that Silverfish, NOW! The EDPC is a heavily armed, heavily armored juggernaut, while the Silverfish is a speedy lightweight reconnaissance craft. It's got a top speed of 200 mph! If that can't get us out of here, then nothing can!"

"Oh, sorry.  I'm a little bit too busy discussing selfishly sacrificing myself to save everyone's lives.  I don't have time to assist with your attempt to heroically abandon everyone here in a blind attempt to save yourself.  Don't worry though; if you steal the flier, I'll make sure to kill you after I get back to base.  Yags, think we should go with ghosty plan, or do you figure the nuke's good enough?"

((Fuck Derp so hard. Also, speaking of kidnapping what we have rightfully stolen (insert Vizzini death laugh), feel free to stuff Bob and Tara (or a non-braindead teammate) into the Silverfish. Bob's got much better tech than Jon did. We might even get it out of here in mostly one piece! It'd actually be a not terrible idea to rescue up to two teammates that way. But, you know, Bob gonna Bob, so Bob'll take what Bob gets, one way or the other. Fuck Derp))

[BlackPaladin99]

akanorth hunkers down and utters a silent prayer to whatever gods are out there.  He then helps with drawing runes. 

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 Name: akanorth requtist
Physical Description: he is tall and wiry with light brown hair and eyes.
Background: amnesia patient.  Works as a cultist because when he woke up in the hospital they told him he worked at omnitech.
Class: cultist
Life: d4
Attack: d2 punches, OMINITECH Generic Personal Sidearm d4 ranged attack
Stats: d8 fate, d6 dexterity, d6 speed, d4 strength, d4 endurance, d4 will, d4 knowledge
Skills: d6 occult, d6 melee, d6 guns, d4 explosives, d4 implants, d4 mechanics, d4 technology, d4 medical, d4 speech
Status: normal
Inventory: OMNITECH Black Jumpsuit, OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack) x3 Magazines (d4 use die), OMNITECH Universal Containment Pod x5, OMNITECH Null-Rod
Money: 0

[Radio Controlled]

"Oh, sorry.  I'm a little bit too busy discussing selfishly sacrificing myself to save everyone's lives.  I don't have time to assist with your attempt to heroically abandon everyone here in a blind attempt to save yourself.  Don't worry though; if you steal the flier, I'll make sure to kill you after I get back to base.  Yags, think we should go with ghosty plan, or do you figure the nuke's good enough?"

"At this point, I think we will stand the best chance if we focus all our efforts on getting out of here faster. EdPC is having trouble getting through, and even if we outrun the fleshmelt field we have a blastwave incoming.

Speaking on the latter, Wil, from the way command worded it it seemed like they expect us to take control of the drone carrying the package to direct it. You are the best techie we have right now that's still lucid, maybe you can ensure that the nuke wil go off the second we are out of the danger zone?"

"Baldwin, I understand that you're scared and your idea of getting the fleshies away from here faster definitely isn't without merit. But there are quite a few of you and trying to find a way to somehow carry all of you with a light flier not made for transporting much weight would take time and effort we could instead spend on getting everyone else out of the incoming blast wave. Not to mention you'd need to find a pilot. And yes, I realize we could just wait with the bombing run until we're far enough away, but with every second we wait that thing out there might incubate some fresh horror that makes it immune to our strike. We need to kill it now, while perhaps it may still be killed.

For example, maybe you could use your occult methods to create a barrier of some sort that can interfere with the fleshmelt field and buy us some time that way."


Would it help if I used the EdPC's main gun to blast away obstacles/roadblocks so he doesn't need to go around them as much? Or would that just create more debris and/or slow us down due to recoil? If it seems like it'd help, do so.

If not, then instead ruminate on the nature of that fleshmelt field, maybe that'll give us an idea of how we can shield our fleshling teammates from it.

((EDIT: just checked, and the silverfish can carry around 226 kg according to the manual we found earlier. Assuming around 70 kg per person on average, and assuming we're taking Akanorth, Baldwin, Tara (other braindeads not included), you definitely couldn't also take Bob, it'd be way over the weight limit. Maybe stuffing the fleshy peeps into the car and driving ahead would work better at this point, though it'd be a crapshoot to get them in there.))

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

mook map
Interactive map, courtesy of Paris

Name: Yagyu d'Aubigny
Physical Description: a ghost with no shell
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: d6
Attack: I WISH

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

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


Status: EXPLOOOSION

Inventory:
ERROR 401: INVENTORY NOT FOUND

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

[heydude6]

((Since it seems like our discussion is coming to a standstill, I was thinking that it might help to take a more utilitarian approach to our problem. As a result, I have decided to create a dossier of all of the personnel on this mission. The variables I'm tracking include whether they are organic, whether they have a cognition copier, and whether they are active/inactive. I believe that with this information, we can determine who actually needs saving and make plans appropriately.

Spoiler: The Dossier (click to show/hide)

Character Name

Player name

Organic or synthetic?

Has cognition copier?

Is active?

Last seen Active

Other notes

Samantha "SAM" Endashale

ANGRY_DEMON_NOISES

Transcendent

Yes

Yes

Still is

KILL ON SITE!

Bob the alligator

Ozarck

Organic

No

Yes

Still is

Mascot of the team. Bob is a precious angel who we cannot afford to lose

Akanorth

BlackPaladin99

Organic

No

Yes

Still is

They are an occultist

Robert Baldwin

Heydude6

Organic

No

Yes

Still is

Shameless Capitalist

Alec "Al" Mackay

Horizon

Organic

No

No

Healing Baldwin's wounds after his first encounter with the tree

Drunk Scottish Medic

Edward Mortan

NAV

Organic

No

No

Falling asleep in the EDPC driver's seat right in front of the airport

They are a Security officer

Janet Janet

Doomblade187

Organic

No

No

Fleeing the prospector's bar as the first snap approaches it

They are a PR executive

Tara

Naturegirl1999

Organic

Yes

No

Initiating conversation with the portal people

Is currently sitting with bob in the chevrolet

EEEDD

Xantalos

Organic

Yes

No

Failing to convert new followers at the first bizarre trip

Founder of the cult of ED

Anya Sokolova

m1895

Organic

Yes

No

Expressing disinterest in being the pilot for Operation Mile-High Recon

They are a combat engineer

Yagyu d'Aubigny

Radio Controlled

Synthetic

No

Yes

Still is

Team Leader

Edward Paganini Scrum

Pancaek

Synthetic

No

Yes

Still is

The EDPC

Burt Burt

King Zultan

Synthetic

No

Yes

Still is

Animatronic fox

Pathos

Parisbre56

Synthetic

No

No

Opening the box that contained the silverfish. Was frequently talked about afterwards, despite not making an appearance since.

Veteran Spiderbot

Wilfred Stevens

syvarris

Synthetic

Yes

Yes

Still is

Paranoid Hardsuit boi

Ji Fuchikoma

The Lupanian

Synthetic

Yes (I assume that's what a Brain-backup is)

Yes

Still is

Waifu-bot

In addition to the names in the Dossier, there is also the guide Yagyu hired. I'm going to assume that we parted ways at the Bizarre and he has now been absorbed into the Sam Amalgam. Poor guy.


Let's get to the analysis though. After compiling the Dossier, I can share the following bits of useful information:

• There are 9 organics involved in the mission in total
• Of those 9, 6 of them do not have cognition copiers
• Of those 6, 3 of them are still active players.

If we decide to be heartless and desperate, we can save those 3 by squeezing them onto the silverfish (bob can be transported via landing gear gripper). If we decided to save the AFK's without cognition copiers, then Janet can easily be retconned as having fled the team as an overreaction to the snap scare, which leaves us with two additional AFKs overall. Still a problem though. Maybe Piecewise will be more creative with the retcons if he is even willing to do such a thing.

Abandoning the guys with cognition copiers doesn't come without a cost though. They will need to acquire/purchase new bodies once their old ones are dissolved. I personally am willing to donate part of my paycheck to this cause as a gesture of OOC goodwill. I'm not a greedy bastard IRL after all. I also believe EEEDD can be retconned as having abandoned the group to continue his ministry so we won't have to pay for his replacement body at least.

We can assume the retconned players eventually ended up somewhere safe like the military base.


Let's start discussing some possible plans now though.

Spoiler:  My ideas for Plans (click to show/hide)

Plan A: Save the Pearls

Load Akanorth, Baldwin, and Bob onto the Silverfish. Use it to flee.

Tara, EEEDD, and Anya will have to use their cognition copiers. Alec, Edward, and Janet perish for good (unless Janet is retconned as a deserter).


Plan B: A Bit of a Stretch

Load Akanorth, Baldwin, and Bob onto the Silverfish. Additionally find a way to load Alec and Edward (assume Janet retcon) onboard. Use it to flee

Risk: the extra weight might slow the Silverfish down too much to escape the fleshfield. All of us die then.


Plan C: Wilfred's Mighty Arms

Load Akanorth and Baldwin onto the Silverfish (maybe try to squeeze Bob in somewhere too). Wilfred will be gripped by the landing gear and in turn he will hold Alec and Edward (and Bob if squeezing fails) within his strong mechanical arms and which will allow all the one's without Cog copiers to be carried to safety. The weight issue will be resolved by Wifred using his jets to compensate.

Requires Wilfred's cooperation though.


Plan D: Convoy

Load Akanorth, Baldwin, and Bob onto the Silverfish. The other organics are put in other vehicles to try to escape. Could be abandoned motorcycles, could be the Chevrolet. Whatever you can think of.

Risk: The other guys will probably still be screwed, but at least they'll have a chance that way. You can find vehicles for the ones with cognition copiers as well.


Plan E: Hunker Down

We stop trying to flee and instead focus on trying to survive the flesh-blast and the nuclear blast. We can try to create protective summoning circles. We could try fleeing through portals to other dimensions using the blood of the ones with C-copiers as fuel. We could try sealing eachother into individual airtight rooms to keep our fleshy mass from escaping and hope we can be reconstituted into our normal selves once this is all over. Lots of possibilities.

Risk: We don't know if any of these methods will actually work. Potentially has the best outcome, but there are a lot of unknowns involved


Plan F: Kill SAM

We ignore our own survival and try to kill SAM as quickly as possible, using the Silverfish's speed offensively rather than defensively. Wilfred's plan. Best case scenario, we kill SAM before the flesh-blast reaches us and then we all survive. A more likely possibility though is that we kill SAM, but do it too slowly and lose the organics. The worst case scenario is that we fail to kill SAM despite our best efforts and we all die anyway.

This plan will save the most civilians, but do we actually care about those at this point?


Plan G: Nuclear SAM

A hybrid of plan E and F. Drop the nuke on SAM immediately. Assuming this works, the flesh blast will stop and then we can simply focus on the relatively easier task of surviving the nuclear blast. Find a basement, a fallout shelter, a bank vault. Hide in any of those and once the blast passes make our way home.

Risk: The nuke might not be enough. The nuke might not arrive quick enough. No adequate shelter against the nuke is available.

Anyway, these are some basic frameworks I came up with to try to save our asses. Please tell me which ones you find the most preferable. Our final plan will probably use elements from multiple of these, but it's important to know what the options are. None of them are ideal, but my favourite is plan C, with plan E as the runner up. I'm perfectly willing to abandon SAM on the planet as long as we make it out alive.))

[syvarris]

"ALRIIIGHT!  Piloting a nuke is way better than becoming a nuke!  I'll get right on that.  Baldy, I won't stop you from trying to fly, but this is gonna be danger close.  You'll probably be safer inside the EdPC's armored shell than you would be riding the blastwave."

Do we have authorization/capability to take control of the nuke?  If we do, Wilfred will take advantage of that, and guide in the bomb.  Try to maximize damage to SAM, rather than prioritizing keeping us clear of the blast; the nearest intersection with Liberty Street isn't quite two miles away from the Bizarre, and an update ago you said we were a mile or two away already, so we should be outside the blast zone by then regardless.  Plus we've got heavy armor.

If we don't have authorization/capability to control the nuke, or it seems entirely unnecessary, instead retrieve Bob and Tara from the Chevrolet and help them get inside the EdPC.  Get inside with them.  If Baldwin tries to climb out, assist him without harming him; Wilfred won't exactly mind if he gets baked in nuclear radiation, and it's not his fault if Omnicorp dropped a nuke right next to us.

((If you're curious: 10 kilotons is almost tactical.))

Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Wilfred Seven
Physical Description: An exaggerated eight-foot tall linebacker-shaped machine constructed out of slabs of white metallo-ceramic armor, laid atop a barely visible metallic undercarriage.  Its legs are stumpy compared to its arms, with a bulbous body due to the double rocket jump pack embedded between its shoulders.
--The hardsuit's right arm has been torn off, and its right leg has been badly crushed... but both were repaired extremely skillfully by Burt.  Good Burt!

Inside, he's a plain robotic body.
Background: He was batch manufactured along with nine other Wil Wheaton clones, for use in some film that he's never heard of and was never involved with; only the three "best" clones were actually selected for use in the film, while the other seven--really, the other six, Wil Three survived less than a week--were sold to OMNITECH as cheap labor.  Somehow, OMNITECH decided to hire Seven, rather than just enslave him, although he's not really sure what the difference is.  Notably, Wilfred's flaw that disqualified him from being selected is that his mind is nothing like the famous actor, and he actually hates being compared to the man.
Class: Senior Xeno-Ambassador (+150 omni per mission)
Life: 2d8 (Hardsuit)
Attack: 4d4 Acidthrower

Stats:
Str d10 (Hardsuit buff from d4)
Dex d4
Spd d4
End d4
Wil d4
Kno d4
Fte d4

Skills:

Mel d4
Gun d8
Exp d4
Imp d4
Mec d4
Tec d12
Med d4
Occ d12
Spc d4

Status: Pristine Robot Body inside a Hardsuit

Inventory:
Cat-sized woodlouse named "Rolly-Polly" (Left at home)

OMNITECH Neuron reconfiguration helmet (Allows the level of two skills to be switched. Overuse causes reduction of levels.)
---Used three times
OMNITECH Hardsuit (2d8 life, [sub=d8 max]d6[/sub] jumpjets)
---Can skim on smaller rockets
---Built in binocular view
Anomaly detection watch
OMNITECH Cognition Copier (equipped)
Hacked observation drone from Detroit

OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack) (Three d4 magazines)
"Cold Comfort" - OMNITECH Generic Security Rifle (d6 ranged attack) (Two d8 magazines, one empty magazine)
Advanced Cleaning Apparatus (4d4 ranged attack) and 3 magazines (d6,d6,d6)
2x Smiles Rifles (d6 ranged attack) and 5 magazines (all d6)
3x Smiles Grenades (d12 explosive)
1x Rocket Launcher (d12+3 ranged explosive)
Fragile Darkness artifact gun ()

Money: -853.  Owed to loan shark.

Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)

--Scouted Smiles territory from the air
--Summoned a ghost rat which led him to an entrance into the tunnels under Smiles territory.
--Accidentally knocked out the Smiles' hospital intranet without getting any useful information... but, like, technically the Smiles are our enemy, so...
--...Accidentally knocked out the Smiles' entire hospital base with a ghost nuke.  Accidentally.  But, like, again.  Technically our enemy.
--......Aaaaaand then accidentally melted the guards guarding the scientist target, the other scientists, and the scientist we wanted to kidnap.  VERY TECHNICALLY THESE WERE ALL OUR ENEMIES.
--At least Wil grabbed the scientist's soul right after killing him?
--Accidentally summoned a fifteen-story skeleton kaiju in the middle of the Smiles base, probably fucking over everyone there who wasn't already fucked over.  Which... honestly, at this point, Wil should try to negotiate contracts with the corporations recording all this.
----Said skeleton kaiju then left to attack the military perimeter around Detroit.  Who really weren't our enemy, but I guess they are now.
------But he destroyed the skeleton kaiju!  So it's all good!
--Interrogated the ghost of the former institute scientist, gaining presumably valuable intel.
--Destroyed an evacuating Smiles van.
--Accidentally destroyed all the computers in an institute building we wanted to investigate.  Technically some of these were hostile computers controlling turrets, so it wasn't counterproductive in the end.  No, not counterproductive at all...
--Hacked into the flash storage drive that SAM found after Yagyu detonated, containing a ton of information about the central institute building.  Also figured out what said institute building was designed to do.
--Stole an artifact gun worth millions of megabucks from the Bizarre... I guess?  SAM provided the distraction.

[heydude6]

((If you're curious: 10 kilotons is almost tactical.))

((indeed, it's only 2/3rd's the strength of Hiroshima. It's hard to tell if that will be enough to take out SAM, but if it is, then that makes Plan G a lot more viable.))

[Ozarck]

That was a pretty impressive post, heydude6. Lots of research to find all the players of this mission, good formatting, lots of good ideas.

Radio says the silverfish can carry about 226 kg total, which is just at the lower end of Bob's possible mass, or two human adults.

That means the only plan for flying Bob out that would work is the one where Wil carries him and flies, thoug hhis rockets are not for extended use, but short bursts of speed. Still could be enough to give us that last edge.

I think the nuke will be enough to obliterate SAM's current stockpile of flesh. Whether that ends the untapped potential or not remains to be seen.

[King Zultan]

(I just realized my action isn't gonna do jack shit so I'm gonna change it.)

[Radio Controlled]

snippety

((That's a wiki-gnome-worthy effort there, nice one! 

But yeah, like Oz indicated, Bob's probably out regarding transport by silverfish, he is a Big Boy. For convenience, here's the post where I got the weight limit from, has some other info as well: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=173094.msg8270543;topicseen#msg8270543

Anyway, it seems akanorth is also trying to board the flier and get out, so I guess the question is largely moot at this point. Wil could maybe still grab Tara&Bob himself and fly ahead with them, but he's focusing on flying the bomb and trying to do both sounds like a bad idea imo.))

[Pancaek]

((I just want to throw in that Edward does have a cognition copier. I just left it in the Edward sheet and didn't put it in the EdPC sheet, but I specifically went over this with Piecewise before the mission since I fully expect(ed) the EdPC to get blown up or otherwise destroyed during the mission))


Keep on trucking for now, full speed away from SAM. Make sure my teammates have access to the computers and guns on the EdPC, in case they want to use the shrieker rounds and/or take control of that nuke drone.

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, d4 +1 spare d6 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.

[/quote]

[heydude6]

((It looks like we're going with Plan G then. I hope we're a safe enough distance. We can get some extra speed if we ditch the chevrolet (after bringing Tara and Bob inside of course) ))

Upon hearing Wilfred's declaration, Baldwin looks mournfully at the silverfish before abandoning it and crawling back inside the EDPC. Not before leaving one last message though

"Wilfred! If you're going to drop the nuke now, you should know something important! In addition to the blast wave and the flash, nukes also emit an EMP when they detonate. Make sure you're inside the EDPC when it explodes, otherwise all of your circuitry will be fried! Hardening armored military vehicles like the EDPC is a natural part of their construction process since they're mostly faraday cages anyway. You'll be safe inside."

Baldwin then turns his head towards Akanorth who has also started climbing out of the hatch

"I doubt the Silverfish has such protections though. You're free to do as you like akanorth, but there's a chance that you'll probably end up in freefall. It might be better if you helped me out downstairs."

And just like that Baldwin was back inside the vehicle, preparing to wait out the upcoming nuclear apocalypse.

Spoiler: The Architect's Design (Pretentious monologue) (click to show/hide)

Baldwin opens his third eye and imagines the non-euclidean space around the EDPC. If he is to protect himself from the intrusion of SAM's foul magics, he must convert this place into a fortress. Anyone can tell you that the first step is to make walls, floors, and ceilings, which Baldwin does by drawing anti-magic runes on the respective surfaces, but as an architect, he also knows that he can make a building more durable by adding arches and beams. The triangle is the strongest shape so obviously he'll add several of those and buttresses will help redistribute pressure from the walls to the floor and vice versa.

Baldwin creates invisible pillars by drawing an array of summoning circles on both the floor and ceiling, making sure they are aligned precisely. Near the corners where the building will receive the most stress, Baldwin carves the symbols with his own knife and fills the grooves with his own blood to strengthen these weakspots.

One wonders if any of this will actually work though. Architecture and warding are only loosely correlated after all. It's unlikely that this will withstand Sam's onslaught forever, but if it's done properly, it should at least hold for a bit

Baldwin retrieves the charcoal pencils stored in his idea tube, and begins handing them out to the AFKs, barking oblique instructions to draw summoning circles and esoteric runes. Between hanging DIY paper charms, Baldwin checks on his colleagues and corrects any errors they may have made. All of this is in hopes of creating a ward that could protect the EDPCs occupants against SAM's flesh absorbing aura. The inside of the vehicle begins to resemble an insane asylum, but hopefully the design is sound. Once finished, Baldwin gathers the AFKs and corrals them into the necessary spots. Then he begins to lead a chant.

Even if there is some flaw, it should at least hold for a little bit. Hopefully we'll never need it

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 4
    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 Universal Containment Pod with Golden Mushroom and Aluminum
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)

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

Some guy's wallet

Some guy's crumpled piece of paper.

A prospector's watch
It's got sensors and shit that detects anomalies. Allegedly ceases to function deeper into the zone

Military grade Electronic Binoculars. Is there still any movement?
Useful for scouting

Money: -500 OMNI bucks, 147 Megabucks.

[BlackPaladin99]

(( what was the info i got on demon-summoning a while back again?  Also, with the cognition copier, would it be possible to get copied into an inorganic body? ))

[piecewise]

We are going to make the assumption that at some point in the past hour or two of meandering that someone attached the Movie The-ate-er to the back of the EdPC and that you (And presumably brain dead Tara) are rattling along behind it.

((this is the most hilarious of cases, and therefore the preferred one. A tentacle wearing, spiderbot controlling crocodile with a mechanical aptitude and a brain-dead bureaucrat rattling along in a Chevrolet modified to be a movie theater, towed behind a sapient APC carrying several robots and some still fleshly beings, trying to outrun the construction of a several hundred meter tall felshmonster in a city dominated by an antireality vortex created by the dreaming mind of a drug addled psychic test subject.

Just another tuesday afternoon in OMNI security.

"Oh shit people are melting, thank fuck I died and became a robot."
Find a hatch to the roof and pop out enough that I can fire my rocket launcher with out hitting anyone and blowup some of the cars in our path if it seems like it would help any.

Spoiler: Is no longer dead! (click to show/hide)

Name: Burt Burt
Physical Description: An animatronic Dandy Fox with an old money southern drawl.
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:
Smell: Nope can't do that.
Hearing:
Taste: Doesn't have one.
Touch: Probably doesn't really have that ether.

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

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

Status: No longer dead.
Inventory:
 OMNITECH Red Jumpsuit
 OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack) x5 Magazines (d4 use die)
 OMNITECH Tool kit (0 / 3)
 High visibility flares x4
 Mysterious remote control
 Box of protein bars
 First Aid kit (1)
 Fire extinguisher (d6 use)
 Harpoon
 OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack)
 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)
 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.
 A gun effectively identical to the containment turrets, d8 ammo and not reloadable
 Rocket Launcher (d12+3 ranged explosive) One spare rocket
 Flashlight
 Laptop
 Smartphone
 A small ball that has complex etched designs on the surface and smolders with yellow flames
 Knife
 Machete
 Rifle
 5 Handguns
Money:
 245 Omni
 6,000 Megabucks

You climb up the helpful ladder to the roof hatch, pop it open, and then haul your rocket launcher out. You balance the RPG on your shoulder, sight it in on the nearest car in the way of the EdPC and [1] fire. The rocket slings out of the tube, twists hard right, and slams into the base of a building about half a block ahead. The building, a two story shop by the look of it, lists heavily forward before collapsing like a felled tree...right onto the road.

"HA! If I still had flesh to get melted I might be panicking right about now."

akanorth hunkers down and utters a silent prayer to whatever gods are out there.  He then helps with drawing runes. 

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 Name: akanorth requtist
Physical Description: he is tall and wiry with light brown hair and eyes.
Background: amnesia patient.  Works as a cultist because when he woke up in the hospital they told him he worked at omnitech.
Class: cultist
Life: d4
Attack: d2 punches, OMINITECH Generic Personal Sidearm d4 ranged attack
Stats: d8 fate, d6 dexterity, d6 speed, d4 strength, d4 endurance, d4 will, d4 knowledge
Skills: d6 occult, d6 melee, d6 guns, d4 explosives, d4 implants, d4 mechanics, d4 technology, d4 medical, d4 speech
Status: normal
Inventory: OMNITECH Black Jumpsuit, OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack) x3 Magazines (d4 use die), OMNITECH Universal Containment Pod x5, OMNITECH Null-Rod
Money: 0

[6]
You offer a prayer to any god that will answer. And one does. Or maybe something like a god. Its down there, sucking on your knee. It is a flea. A flea the size of a fist and glowing with anti-light.  It does not speak, but you know it is offering you salvation.

At a cost.

"Oh, sorry.  I'm a little bit too busy discussing selfishly sacrificing myself to save everyone's lives.  I don't have time to assist with your attempt to heroically abandon everyone here in a blind attempt to save yourself.  Don't worry though; if you steal the flier, I'll make sure to kill you after I get back to base.  Yags, think we should go with ghosty plan, or do you figure the nuke's good enough?"

"At this point, I think we will stand the best chance if we focus all our efforts on getting out of here faster. EdPC is having trouble getting through, and even if we outrun the fleshmelt field we have a blastwave incoming.

Speaking on the latter, Wil, from the way command worded it it seemed like they expect us to take control of the drone carrying the package to direct it. You are the best techie we have right now that's still lucid, maybe you can ensure that the nuke wil go off the second we are out of the danger zone?"

"Baldwin, I understand that you're scared and your idea of getting the fleshies away from here faster definitely isn't without merit. But there are quite a few of you and trying to find a way to somehow carry all of you with a light flier not made for transporting much weight would take time and effort we could instead spend on getting everyone else out of the incoming blast wave. Not to mention you'd need to find a pilot. And yes, I realize we could just wait with the bombing run until we're far enough away, but with every second we wait that thing out there might incubate some fresh horror that makes it immune to our strike. We need to kill it now, while perhaps it may still be killed.

For example, maybe you could use your occult methods to create a barrier of some sort that can interfere with the fleshmelt field and buy us some time that way."


Would it help if I used the EdPC's main gun to blast away obstacles/roadblocks so he doesn't need to go around them as much? Or would that just create more debris and/or slow us down due to recoil? If it seems like it'd help, do so.

If not, then instead ruminate on the nature of that fleshmelt field, maybe that'll give us an idea of how we can shield our fleshling teammates from it.

((EDIT: just checked, and the silverfish can carry around 226 kg according to the manual we found earlier. Assuming around 70 kg per person on average, and assuming we're taking Akanorth, Baldwin, Tara (other braindeads not included), you definitely couldn't also take Bob, it'd be way over the weight limit. Maybe stuffing the fleshy peeps into the car and driving ahead would work better at this point, though it'd be a crapshoot to get them in there.))

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

mook map
Interactive map, courtesy of Paris

Name: Yagyu d'Aubigny
Physical Description: a ghost with no shell
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: d6
Attack: I WISH

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

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


Status: EXPLOOOSION

Inventory:
ERROR 401: INVENTORY NOT FOUND

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

Seeing as the resident robo-furry just dropped a building into the road, you decide that blasting it out of the way would probably be pretty useful. You climb into the main gun turret and take aim.
[1]
The high explosive round you fire misses the downed building entirely and succeeds only on dropping an even larger building into the road directly behind the first one.

Tarnation.

"ALRIIIGHT!  Piloting a nuke is way better than becoming a nuke!  I'll get right on that.  Baldy, I won't stop you from trying to fly, but this is gonna be danger close.  You'll probably be safer inside the EdPC's armored shell than you would be riding the blastwave."

Do we have authorization/capability to take control of the nuke?  If we do, Wilfred will take advantage of that, and guide in the bomb.  Try to maximize damage to SAM, rather than prioritizing keeping us clear of the blast; the nearest intersection with Liberty Street isn't quite two miles away from the Bizarre, and an update ago you said we were a mile or two away already, so we should be outside the blast zone by then regardless.  Plus we've got heavy armor.

If we don't have authorization/capability to control the nuke, or it seems entirely unnecessary, instead retrieve Bob and Tara from the Chevrolet and help them get inside the EdPC.  Get inside with them.  If Baldwin tries to climb out, assist him without harming him; Wilfred won't exactly mind if he gets baked in nuclear radiation, and it's not his fault if Omnicorp dropped a nuke right next to us.

((If you're curious: 10 kilotons is almost tactical.))

Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Wilfred Seven
Physical Description: An exaggerated eight-foot tall linebacker-shaped machine constructed out of slabs of white metallo-ceramic armor, laid atop a barely visible metallic undercarriage.  Its legs are stumpy compared to its arms, with a bulbous body due to the double rocket jump pack embedded between its shoulders.
--The hardsuit's right arm has been torn off, and its right leg has been badly crushed... but both were repaired extremely skillfully by Burt.  Good Burt!

Inside, he's a plain robotic body.
Background: He was batch manufactured along with nine other Wil Wheaton clones, for use in some film that he's never heard of and was never involved with; only the three "best" clones were actually selected for use in the film, while the other seven--really, the other six, Wil Three survived less than a week--were sold to OMNITECH as cheap labor.  Somehow, OMNITECH decided to hire Seven, rather than just enslave him, although he's not really sure what the difference is.  Notably, Wilfred's flaw that disqualified him from being selected is that his mind is nothing like the famous actor, and he actually hates being compared to the man.
Class: Senior Xeno-Ambassador (+150 omni per mission)
Life: 2d8 (Hardsuit)
Attack: 4d4 Acidthrower

Stats:
Str d10 (Hardsuit buff from d4)
Dex d4
Spd d4
End d4
Wil d4
Kno d4
Fte d4

Skills:

Mel d4
Gun d8
Exp d4
Imp d4
Mec d4
Tec d12
Med d4
Occ d12
Spc d4

Status: Pristine Robot Body inside a Hardsuit

Inventory:
Cat-sized woodlouse named "Rolly-Polly" (Left at home)

OMNITECH Neuron reconfiguration helmet (Allows the level of two skills to be switched. Overuse causes reduction of levels.)
---Used three times
OMNITECH Hardsuit (2d8 life, [sub=d8 max]d6[/sub] jumpjets)
---Can skim on smaller rockets
---Built in binocular view
Anomaly detection watch
OMNITECH Cognition Copier (equipped)
Hacked observation drone from Detroit

OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack) (Three d4 magazines)
"Cold Comfort" - OMNITECH Generic Security Rifle (d6 ranged attack) (Two d8 magazines, one empty magazine)
Advanced Cleaning Apparatus (4d4 ranged attack) and 3 magazines (d6,d6,d6)
2x Smiles Rifles (d6 ranged attack) and 5 magazines (all d6)
3x Smiles Grenades (d12 explosive)
1x Rocket Launcher (d12+3 ranged explosive)
Fragile Darkness artifact gun ()

Money: -853.  Owed to loan shark.

Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)

--Scouted Smiles territory from the air
--Summoned a ghost rat which led him to an entrance into the tunnels under Smiles territory.
--Accidentally knocked out the Smiles' hospital intranet without getting any useful information... but, like, technically the Smiles are our enemy, so...
--...Accidentally knocked out the Smiles' entire hospital base with a ghost nuke.  Accidentally.  But, like, again.  Technically our enemy.
--......Aaaaaand then accidentally melted the guards guarding the scientist target, the other scientists, and the scientist we wanted to kidnap.  VERY TECHNICALLY THESE WERE ALL OUR ENEMIES.
--At least Wil grabbed the scientist's soul right after killing him?
--Accidentally summoned a fifteen-story skeleton kaiju in the middle of the Smiles base, probably fucking over everyone there who wasn't already fucked over.  Which... honestly, at this point, Wil should try to negotiate contracts with the corporations recording all this.
----Said skeleton kaiju then left to attack the military perimeter around Detroit.  Who really weren't our enemy, but I guess they are now.
------But he destroyed the skeleton kaiju!  So it's all good!
--Interrogated the ghost of the former institute scientist, gaining presumably valuable intel.
--Destroyed an evacuating Smiles van.
--Accidentally destroyed all the computers in an institute building we wanted to investigate.  Technically some of these were hostile computers controlling turrets, so it wasn't counterproductive in the end.  No, not counterproductive at all...
--Hacked into the flash storage drive that SAM found after Yagyu detonated, containing a ton of information about the central institute building.  Also figured out what said institute building was designed to do.
--Stole an artifact gun worth millions of megabucks from the Bizarre... I guess?  SAM provided the distraction.

You do and can! Its almost like someone gave you the callsign and password for exactly that reason! Weird!
[6]
You use your built in computer and transmitter to find the drone command was talking about and hack it. Well...hack it in that you use the password they gave you to log in. Good news, it already appears to be heading straight for the trouble maker. Bad news...its still a little while out. Maybe a minute. You crank it to full speed. Now maybe 30 seconds. You're not sure its fast enough.

((It looks like we're going with Plan G then. I hope we're a safe enough distance. We can get some extra speed if we ditch the chevrolet (after bringing Tara and Bob inside of course) ))

Upon hearing Wilfred's declaration, Baldwin looks mournfully at the silverfish before abandoning it and crawling back inside the EDPC. Not before leaving one last message though

"Wilfred! If you're going to drop the nuke now, you should know something important! In addition to the blast wave and the flash, nukes also emit an EMP when they detonate. Make sure you're inside the EDPC when it explodes, otherwise all of your circuitry will be fried! Hardening armored military vehicles like the EDPC is a natural part of their construction process since they're mostly faraday cages anyway. You'll be safe inside."

Baldwin then turns his head towards Akanorth who has also started climbing out of the hatch

"I doubt the Silverfish has such protections though. You're free to do as you like akanorth, but there's a chance that you'll probably end up in freefall. It might be better if you helped me out downstairs."

And just like that Baldwin was back inside the vehicle, preparing to wait out the upcoming nuclear apocalypse.

Spoiler: The Architect's Design (Pretentious monologue) (click to show/hide)

Baldwin opens his third eye and imagines the non-euclidean space around the EDPC. If he is to protect himself from the intrusion of SAM's foul magics, he must convert this place into a fortress. Anyone can tell you that the first step is to make walls, floors, and ceilings, which Baldwin does by drawing anti-magic runes on the respective surfaces, but as an architect, he also knows that he can make a building more durable by adding arches and beams. The triangle is the strongest shape so obviously he'll add several of those and buttresses will help redistribute pressure from the walls to the floor and vice versa.

Baldwin creates invisible pillars by drawing an array of summoning circles on both the floor and ceiling, making sure they are aligned precisely. Near the corners where the building will receive the most stress, Baldwin carves the symbols with his own knife and fills the grooves with his own blood to strengthen these weakspots.

One wonders if any of this will actually work though. Architecture and warding are only loosely correlated after all. It's unlikely that this will withstand Sam's onslaught forever, but if it's done properly, it should at least hold for a bit

Baldwin retrieves the charcoal pencils stored in his idea tube, and begins handing them out to the AFKs, barking oblique instructions to draw summoning circles and esoteric runes. Between hanging DIY paper charms, Baldwin checks on his colleagues and corrects any errors they may have made. All of this is in hopes of creating a ward that could protect the EDPCs occupants against SAM's flesh absorbing aura. The inside of the vehicle begins to resemble an insane asylum, but hopefully the design is sound. Once finished, Baldwin gathers the AFKs and corrals them into the necessary spots. Then he begins to lead a chant.

Even if there is some flaw, it should at least hold for a little bit. Hopefully we'll never need it

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 4
    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 Universal Containment Pod with Golden Mushroom and Aluminum
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)

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

Some guy's wallet

Some guy's crumpled piece of paper.

A prospector's watch
It's got sensors and shit that detects anomalies. Allegedly ceases to function deeper into the zone

Military grade Electronic Binoculars. Is there still any movement?
Useful for scouting

Money: -500 OMNI bucks, 147 Megabucks.

[2]
You scribble all manner of runes and sigils and circles and incantations throughout the interior of the EdPC. Does it do anything? Well it uses up some time you'd otherwise have used to anxiously wait.

((I just want to throw in that Edward does have a cognition copier. I just left it in the Edward sheet and didn't put it in the EdPC sheet, but I specifically went over this with Piecewise before the mission since I fully expect(ed) the EdPC to get blown up or otherwise destroyed during the mission))


Keep on trucking for now, full speed away from SAM. Make sure my teammates have access to the computers and guns on the EdPC, in case they want to use the shrieker rounds and/or take control of that nuke drone.

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, d4 +1 spare d6 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.

[2]
The EdPC, out of options as MULTIPLE GODDAMN BUILDINGS get dropped into its way, attempts to bulldoze through. And they do make it through...the first few feet. The EdPC slams into the rubble and grinds to a halt almost immediately, half embedded in smashed brickwork and drywall.



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The red sky tears through the clouds above the EdPC, boiling them off with a scream. Akanorth, Baldwin, and Bob instantaneously liquify into a mass of disjointed cells and begin flowing towards the growing THING where the bizarre used to be.  Though none of them make it far as they are confined within their vehicles. Instead they bump and slosh, crawling up walls and pressing against windows.  Tara, somehow, seems unaffected.


Everyone in the EdPC has about 10 seconds to be grossed out by this before the nuke impacts the growing flesh thing and it vanishes in a literally blinding flash. They can all see the shockwave coming.