Wilfred stands there for a moment, his hand jammed into the shard. And then he seems to go limp and tumbles over backwards, slowly falling in the low g. His body lands with a soft thud in the utter silence of the cavern and as it does, the shard begins to change. The slow flowing waves of blue shift into rapid pulses of green that race down the length of the shard. The axe goes spinning off and embeds itself in the stone wall and the entire asteroid begins to shake. A pulse seems to sweep outward from the shard, like a blast wave, passing intangibly yet noticeably through the world. And for an instant everyone can see. See the great flood of bodies, the surging tide of ghostly flesh exploding out from the core of the asteroid. As though every corpse of every thing that had ever existed came shotgun spewing up from those depths in apparition form. They feel the rotten flesh and gestalt souls pass through them, slam against them, bowl them over and then...nothing. Everything is quiet again. For a moment at least.
The shaking redoubles an instant later and a horrible grinding of stone on stone echos through the entire station. There is a feeling of sideways acceleration and, if anyone were sane or awake in the depths of the asteroid to see it, they would see that the shard is beginning to move, tearing itself from the asteroid.
[2]
Wilfred remains unconscious where he landed, at the bottom of the cavern.
[5]
Tara suddenly regains control of herself. Her mind is still blank; she has no memory of the last several hours. When she tries to think about how she got here, on one of the lower platforms of this cavern, she feels viscerally ill. She decides that maybe thinking about that is a bad idea.
[3]
Fred Williams, a few feet away from Tara, awakens with much the same symptoms.
Stay knocked out till rescue comes.
Name: Toby Jackson
Physical Description:a normal looking guy with short black hair. 5 foot 5, has no muscles.
Background: need money. No skills. Omnitech good.
Life: d2
Attack: d4 Generic pistol
Stats:
strength:d4
Dexterity:d4
Speed:d4
Endurance:d4
Will:d4
Knowledge:d4
Fate:d12
Skills:
Melee:d4
Guns:d4
Explosives:d4
Implants:d4
Mechanics:d4
Occult: d10
Status: probably maybe a little insane. Also knocked out.
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: 80
[3]
Toby remains unconscious.
Very well then! Me and Hamilton shall begin the snackquest! Go forth in search of snacks!
Unless things start getting freaky, in which case I'll prep the shuttle and the bay doors for immediate take-off and send the following message to command (the rules said it should rhyme and be less than 250 words, so I think this should be enough):
There once was an anime ape,
and a team that their shuttle did break,
two got resurrected,
and the new team selected
was sent in to the asteroid base
The Crystal they'd scraped
Had most people's mind raped,
So I'm telling you straight,
It's not up for debate,
The survivors want outta that place.
To let them know we want outta there and bring Hamilton with us.
Name: Pathos
Physical Description: A literal crash test dummy.
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.
Class: Senior Emergency Technician (+100 OMNI per mission)
Life: d4: crash test dummy
Attack: d2: unarmed
Stats:
Strength: d4
Dexterity: d4
Speed: d4
Endurance: d8
Will: d4
Knowledge: d4
Fate: d4
Skills:
Melee: d4
Guns: d4
Explosives: d8
Implants: d4
Mechanics: d4
Technology: d12
Medical: d4
Occult: d4
Status: Blank stare
Inventory:
2 demo charges
Money: -270
Pathos begins singing the snack song. Then the previously described ghost wave hits him. He stops singing the snack song and sits down in the pilot seat.
"To everyone listening this is evacuation shuttle "123-GTFO" and we are preparing for immediate departure. Please find your seats or I will be taking them with me when I leave."
He then sends his limerick to command. Of course, he doesn't have to wait for their response, he can just set the gate for earth or near it and travel regardless. They might get mad at him but whatever, better than ghosts. Space ghosts. From coast to coast.
Just a heads up, depending on what happens with Sy, posts might get ignored next turn. Keep that in mind, since whats gonna happen is gonna happen quick and might preempt things.
Thank you for letting us know.
Read some more in the journal, any more hints it can divulge?
Name: Yagyu d'Aubigny
Physical Description: Slightly smaller than average, tanned, sideburns.
Background: Yagyu hates OMNITECH. But Yagyu likes money.
Class: Hazardous Materials Reclamation Crew
Life: d4
Attack: [ERROR: DATA NOT FOUND]
Stats:
Strength: d4
Dexterity: d4
Speed: d6
Endurance: d8
Will: d6
Knowledge: d6
Fate: d6
Skills:
Melee: d4
Guns: d8
Explosives: d4
Implants: d4
Mechanics: d8
Technology: d4
Medical: d4
Occult: d4
Status: okie dokie
Inventory:
cognition copier
Cutting/welding torch
1 unit of useful metal bits
computing cube
red and green key
a few mining explosives
a large spool of synthetic cable
Money: 235
[2]
Yagyu attempts to glean more information from the journal but he gets nothing new from flipping through it quickly.
"Why are you off to go looting when we have the rest of the team to rescue? They're certainly still alive and we can't just abandon them."
Take the elevator down to mining.
Name: Elen Farley
Physical Description: Short with long brown hair and green eyes, she seems unnaturally cheerful.
Background: Elen showed up shortly after an incident in one of the OMNITECH labs, she decided to work for OMNITECH mostly out of convenience of already being there.
Life: d2
Attack: d4 Generic Personal Sidearm
Stats:
Strength: d4
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d6
Endurance: d4
Will: d6
Knowledge: d4
Fate: d4
Skills:
Melee: d4
Guns: d4
Explosives: d4
Implants: d4
Mechanics: d4
Technology: d4
Medical: d12
Occult: d4
Speech: d4
Status: Bandaged head
Inventory:
OMNITECH Green Jumpsuit
OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 attack) x2 Magazines (d4 use die)
OMNITECH Medical Kit (3 charges)
OMNITECH Stimulant (3 charges)
5 gallon container of extremely flammable fuel
4 gallon container of water
Money: 0
"Wait your going to the housing level, that's probably where the best loot is, I have to go loot it."
Follow Woldo to the NEXT LEVEL! (The housing level.)
Name: Harold Goldstine
Physical Description: A short balding man with a mustache.
Background: He was tired of a boring life so he decided to join OMNITECH as a security guard.
Class: Security
Life: d6 OMNITECH Riot suit
Attack: d6 Security Rifle, mag d6/ d4 Security Baton
Stats:
Strength: d6
Dexterity: d4
Speed: d6
Endurance: d4
Will: d4
Knowledge: d4
Fate: d8
Skills:
Melee: d6
Guns: d6
Explosives: d6
Implants: d4
Mechanics: d4
Technology: d4
Medical: d4
Occult: d4
Speech: d4
Status: Fine
Inventory:
OMNITECH Riot suit (d6 Life)
OMNITECH Generic Security Rifle (d6 ranged Attack) and 3 magazines (d6 use die)
OMNITECH Generic Security Baton (d4 melee attack)
OMNITECH electrical behavior modification implant
OMNITECH Omni-light
OMNITECH Handcuffs
Cutting/welding torch
Demolition charge
3 oxygen pellets
Music drive
Movie drive
TV drive
Book drive
Magazine drive
Manual drive
Audiobook drive
Wrench (d4 melee attack)
Antique revolver (d4 ranged) 4 bullets remaining.
Money: 40
”We should clear the level, elsewise we might as well be doing nothing, and will miss out on the XP and the good loot.”
Since this level seems clear, I’ll go and check the next level (which should be housing). However, don’t go if nobody goes with me.
Name: Woldo Stuart
Physical Description: Tall, Skinny, Pale, Gaunt. Almost bald even though he can’t be older than 30. Patchy and scruffy stubble that goes all the way down his neck. His eyes aren’t soulless per se, but they have unnaturally white irises, and are filled with a certain, determination.
Background: He was always an odd child. He wanted to be skilled at killing people even as a small child. His parents were very wealthy, and very overprotective of him. Instead of getting him karate lessons or into sports, they got him the most state-of-the-art simulation entertainment system money could buy. He got good at what he did. By the time he was 10, he was the number one Waifu Assassins Guild IX player in the world. However, once he got old enough, it was time to get a job. And since he’s literally good for nothing else, and he fancies himself a killer, he decided to join the Omni-tech security crew.
Life: d6 OMNITECH Riot suit
Attack: d6 Generic Security Rifle/Baton
Ammo:
Rifle (use d6)(3 magazines)
Stats:
Strength: d4
Dexterity: d4
Speed: d4
Endurance: d4
Will: d4
Knowledge: d4
Fate: d4
Skills:
Melee: d10
Guns: d12
Explosives: d4
Implants: d4
Mechanics: d4
Technology: d4
Medical: d4
Occult: d4
Speech: d4
Status: normal
Inventory:
OMNITECH electrical behavior modification implant
OMNITECH Omni-light
OMNITECH Generic Security Baton
Money: zilch
Hey, intrepid explorers! According to the script here, the shard is currently starting to pull itself free of the asteroid. When it does its gonna plunge the entire mine area (and all the areas attached to it by elevator) into hard vacuum! Assuming it doesn't just tear the asteroid apart first.
Just something to keep in mind before you run off.
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