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Author Topic: MOOK: Such sights to see  (Read 491597 times)

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Re: MOOK: Is it a war crime if you do it accidently?
« Reply #3675 on: May 05, 2021, 07:32:46 am »

"Alright, I have bad news.  The Smiles are not your run of the mill gang, we're more of a gang than them.  This place looks like a fucking military base, and they have an entire power grid fuelled by the local dam.  It's a helluva thing, fuck Derp.  Long story short, I don't see us fighting our way in and out without a lot more firepower.  We'd have a helluva time finding our guy, even then.  Infiltration might work, I do have a horrifying sexflesh abomination here with me, but even that would be a long shot.  Our best chance would be attacking their dam, shutting down power somehow, then trying to find our scientist in the confusion.  And that'd require precision, teamwork, and competence--great weaknesses of ours."

Wilfred sighs heavily over the radio.  "We might have to resort to diplomacy."

Start scanning for wireless signals.  Do these people have anything like a local net?  Something that could be hacked into and searched for information on our target?

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Re: MOOK: Fixer upper
« Reply #3676 on: May 05, 2021, 08:13:39 am »

"Hey Burt, if you can't find out what that logo means maybe you can ask command to look into it? Run a background check and all that."

"Alright gang, let's look around for clues and see what's up. Try not to break anything before we know what it might mean, and I suggest you stay on your guard and be ready to leave the airport grounds when the next ghostplane event triggers. I dunno what would happen if we interact with the temporal echo, but I for one am not yet ready to find out first hand before we know more."


By putting together this recent event and past observations of ghostplane, try to figure out when the next occurrence will be, or what conditions trigger an event. Or at least if there is some sort of warning we can look out for before it really starts.

Leave EdPC at the edge of the anomalous zone and go in. Try to use the hole Bob made (or go through where the fence is down) and for now try not to touch or disturb too many things, just take a closer look at the areas of interest. Give flares to teammates if they want some, and use some myself to light the way. Also use scanner to gather extra info.

Note, if you want me to choose a thing to investigate first, then start with the hangar (Bob has the plane covered for now I guess, lol). 


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((Damn, I laughed at this one, nice.  :D ))

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Re: MOOK: Fixer upper
« Reply #3677 on: May 05, 2021, 10:32:27 am »

"Did you see any mechs? Supposedly our guy is their mech specialist so there should be a few walking around. Don't forget part two of the plan (ie. hack random shit). With an army like this, it seems like subterfuge is mandatory. Maybe we can transfer Burt's consciousness into some key piece of infrastructure and sabotage it? Someone is going to have to repair it. If we're really lucky, we can upload Burt into one of their own mechs and attempt the first plan."



Assist Yagyu on his anomaly ponderings. Accompany him to the hangar. Keep a decent distance from anything that my watch may detect.

"So what exactly are we trying to do here? Find an artifact?"

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Re: MOOK: Fixer upper
« Reply #3678 on: May 05, 2021, 11:29:38 am »

"We are here to see if this anomalous phenomenon can be linked to the origin or mechanism of the Neo Detroit reality constraint failure. It seems rather out of place for being in the yellow zone, and our guide thought it'd be of interest to us. It's just a hunch of course, but if this specific scene of some point in the past keeps repeating over and over, maybe whatever happened to make this place the way it is started here. Like maybe some rich asshole imported an alien thingamabob and flew it in here, as an example.

If it turns out this place is just generally weird without much of interest to learn, we'll move on to our next lead."
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Re: MOOK: Fixer upper
« Reply #3679 on: May 05, 2021, 11:39:48 am »

"Yeaaaaaaaah...that's not a gang, I'm pretty sure they count as their own small nation at this point. I'm with Wilfreed on this one, we're gonna need to be stealthy unless we want to take on an entire army, maybe we could have Pathos use one of his cyber daemons or whatever to hack into their mainframe and blow up their anti-virus? That's how it works, right?"
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Re: MOOK: Fixer upper
« Reply #3680 on: May 06, 2021, 05:02:29 am »

"I'll ask command if the internet fails to have any info, also can we not shove me into random computers in hopes that I can do something."
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Re: MOOK: Fixer upper
« Reply #3681 on: May 06, 2021, 04:08:24 pm »

Contemplate the logo and see if I can't figure out what it means, if that fails use the internet.
[5] Burt remembers the logo from the briefing, though it only appeared for a moment. Its the logo of The Neo-Detroit Institute of Human Advancement.




"Did you see any mechs? Supposedly our guy is their mech specialist so there should be a few walking around. Don't forget part two of the plan (ie. hack random shit). With an army like this, it seems like subterfuge is mandatory. Maybe we can transfer Burt's consciousness into some key piece of infrastructure and sabotage it? Someone is going to have to repair it. If we're really lucky, we can upload Burt into one of their own mechs and attempt the first plan."



Assist Yagyu on his anomaly ponderings. Accompany him to the hangar. Keep a decent distance from anything that my watch may detect.

"So what exactly are we trying to do here? Find an artifact?"

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"Hey Burt, if you can't find out what that logo means maybe you can ask command to look into it? Run a background check and all that."

"Alright gang, let's look around for clues and see what's up. Try not to break anything before we know what it might mean, and I suggest you stay on your guard and be ready to leave the airport grounds when the next ghostplane event triggers. I dunno what would happen if we interact with the temporal echo, but I for one am not yet ready to find out first hand before we know more."


By putting together this recent event and past observations of ghostplane, try to figure out when the next occurrence will be, or what conditions trigger an event. Or at least if there is some sort of warning we can look out for before it really starts.

Leave EdPC at the edge of the anomalous zone and go in. Try to use the hole Bob made (or go through where the fence is down) and for now try not to touch or disturb too many things, just take a closer look at the areas of interest. Give flares to teammates if they want some, and use some myself to light the way. Also use scanner to gather extra info.

Note, if you want me to choose a thing to investigate first, then start with the hangar (Bob has the plane covered for now I guess, lol). 


snippety

((Damn, I laughed at this one, nice.  :D ))

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[9] Its more of a guess or gut feeling, but Yagyu feels like these events will likely recur on a semi-regular basis. However, the stories about this place only seem to state that this happens during the night, so chances are it will have a "window" somewhere between sunset and sunrise where it occurs. How many times it occurs he's not sure. Again, another guess, but maybe every 90 minutes or something similar? Signs of starting would likely be transient or weak double exposure phenomena which then strengthens into the full event.

Yagyu, Baldwin, and assumedly a small group of other people, follow Bob's path of destruction into the airfield and begin searching around. They search the hanger first. There are two other planes in there, both in better condition than the one outside but still badly degraded. One has the same logo as the other plane, while the third is a logo of a globe with an arrow shooting around its circumference: a mail service no doubt. Beyond the planes are several metal crates with that same logo stamped on them, all tightly sealed.  The group searches through the main building, through the rotten departure lounges, through the employees only rooms, through the tower, and finds little of interest. About the best they find is what seems like an electronic record of flights that came through, though its encoded.

Examination of the area with an eye for the impossible yields...surprisingly little. There's transient residue of the strange events but nothing about this place seems, at least right now, any different than anywhere else in the disaster zone. That is to say, a little weird, but nothing worth writing home about.



Plan Atomic Man Airplane Renovation go! First, waddle around and find as many cinder blocks as I can to prop the plane on, New Detroit style. Then, if i have time this turn, waddle into the hangars and find any and all spare landing gear and supplies i can get my teeth and tentacles on and haul them out to the wreckage. Then locate the damaged parts of the plane's landing gear and remove them, whether via tentacle or spiderbot (well, if the spiderbot is needed, I guess it will be next turn since I can only use one body per turn). It's okay if I only get through part of this action this turn. Can't rush a good renovation.

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[5]
Bob begins the completely hopeless mission of repairing the plane.  He definitely can't get it up on cinderblocks, nor does the hanger have anywhere near the spare parts needed to repair it. After some examination he does, however, think there are enough supplies for him to get the plane's electronic systems back online. Which is honestly about the best he can do without a full shop and supply lines. 

After a good 30 or 45 minutes he slams  a panel closed with his tail and nods. The computers inside this hunk of junk are now operable at least. Though they'll probably need a new battery and someone to actually turn them on...








"Alright, I have bad news.  The Smiles are not your run of the mill gang, we're more of a gang than them.  This place looks like a fucking military base, and they have an entire power grid fuelled by the local dam.  It's a helluva thing, fuck Derp.  Long story short, I don't see us fighting our way in and out without a lot more firepower.  We'd have a helluva time finding our guy, even then.  Infiltration might work, I do have a horrifying sexflesh abomination here with me, but even that would be a long shot.  Our best chance would be attacking their dam, shutting down power somehow, then trying to find our scientist in the confusion.  And that'd require precision, teamwork, and competence--great weaknesses of ours."

Wilfred sighs heavily over the radio.  "We might have to resort to diplomacy."

Start scanning for wireless signals.  Do these people have anything like a local net?  Something that could be hacked into and searched for information on our target?

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Wilfred has Sam take the Silverfish back a bit and down into the trees on the other side of the river, just so no one catches sight of their fat chrome plated ass as they hang around attempting to hack into the hospital's systems.
[8]
A scan of the area's signals reveals a few things.

1. There are a lot of signals around here; enough to rival a densely packed city block. Hundreds of  them really.  Most appear to belong to individuals or small groups inside the compound; their personal devices connecting to wireless signals of the wider world instead of any sort of official system. 

2. Searching through the available personal systems reveals something important: The hospital has an intranet. Its entirely wired, no broadcasted signals, just cables running between important computers and servers all around the complex. Apparently its not a creation of the Smiles, but actually the old Hospital's intranet system they're just using. Its cables are built into the walls and underground sections of the buildings themselves, not hanging overhead.

3. This intranet is the core of the entire complex's organization. Motor pool, communications, logistics, maps, Armory, everything is organized and contacted using this intranet as its core. Taking that down will, at least for a time, cripple their organizational capacities.

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Re: MOOK: Fixer upper
« Reply #3682 on: May 06, 2021, 04:18:54 pm »

"That does it, someone tell Pathos to get his Daemons in there. Once everything goes to shit we get in, grab the nerd and get out."
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« Reply #3683 on: May 07, 2021, 03:56:12 am »

"It turns out the logo on the plane is for that institute of human advancement thing, not sure if that helps or anything but we should at least search the plane."
See if I can find anything else on the internet that'll help the situation.
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Re: MOOK: Fixer upper
« Reply #3684 on: May 07, 2021, 07:57:26 am »

Set a timer, make sure to be aware of when another event is getting closer to occurring (have plenty of leeway in case Yagyu's estimate if off). Warn peeps when it gets near.

Send the flight record to EdPC so he can try to decode it (unless he objects or there's a chance for ghostly contamination). Again though try to minimally disturb the environment for now.

For the plane computers, could we maybe hook it up to Burt's shield generator to provide power? It'd only need to power it for a little bit, we'd just want to download whatever flight data of black box info there is in there. Either way, also look around to see if there isn't some sort of battery lying around we could use (I think we'd rather not hook up our suits or EdPC in case of ghostly contamination).

(actually, I don't think we'd even need power to get to the black box data? Just hook it up and download it, supposing we can locate it?)

Can Yagyu intuit anything about what would happen if we eg. move crates around, would this interfere with the echo in some dangerous way? What about being in the airport when it triggers?



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« Reply #3685 on: May 07, 2021, 08:06:17 pm »

locate a functional battery of sufficient size to power the computer in the plane. Drag said battery to the plane. Attach battery to plane. Ignore battery's protests.

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Re: MOOK: Fixer upper
« Reply #3686 on: May 08, 2021, 04:18:23 am »

(If you guys want to use my shield generator to power the plane's computers go a head, but please be careful with it as it was expensive.)
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Re: MOOK: Fixer upper
« Reply #3687 on: May 08, 2021, 04:07:58 pm »

”If you guys are planning to knock out the Smiles’s power, do you think it might be smart to let the military know, incase they want to take advantage of the situation? It could earn us some brownie points with them.”
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« Reply #3688 on: May 08, 2021, 04:44:05 pm »

"If I'm going to be honest with you guys, taking the intranet down seems unnecessary. To me, it makes more sense to jack someone in there and have them access their system.

"Who knows what kind of stuff we'll find in the there. Could be blueprints, could be accounting reports, could be employee dossiers, info I'm sure some rival gang would be interested in purchasing. Besides paydata though, I imagine that jacking in will give us access to the security system which should at the very least allow us to pinpoint the exact location of our guy, though I'm sure you'll be able to do much more with it if you're creative enough. Especially if they have security robots.

"If we had access, we'd be probably be able to shut it down as well."




Assist Yagyu on his anomaly ponderings again.

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« Reply #3689 on: May 09, 2021, 06:53:52 am »

"That does it, someone tell Pathos to get his Daemons in there. Once everything goes to shit we get in, grab the nerd and get out."

"It, uhh, seems that our dear machine friend is taking 5 right now."

"It turns out the logo on the plane is for that institute of human advancement thing, not sure if that helps or anything but we should at least search the plane."
See if I can find anything else on the internet that'll help the situation.

"Good find! This whole place definitely seems linked to the origin of the anomaly now. I agree, let's search some more, just stay careful."

(If you guys want to use my shield generator to power the plane's computers go a head, but please be careful with it as it was expensive.)

((Yeah, just exploring our options for now. Well, except Bob, he just forges ahead it seems. :v ))

”If you guys are planning to knock out the Smiles’s power, do you think it might be smart to let the military know, incase they want to take advantage of the situation? It could earn us some brownie points with them.”

"Hmm, maybe, though they might also get annoyed at us if we create a power vacuum and the gang warfare picks up in response to that?"
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