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Re: MOOK: Spooky
« Reply #3840 on: June 26, 2021, 10:29:19 pm »

Make sure all the EPC guns are fully loaded.
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Re: MOOK: Spooky
« Reply #3841 on: June 26, 2021, 11:04:48 pm »

"Hey, we're trying to have a conversation here! The Nerve on some people, can you be a pal and shut him up Walfredo? I need to bulk up a little before I can really help out."

Saying that SAM will unhinge her mouth and eat whatever remains of the nerds and guards, making sure to eat the parts with the least acid, that's a sauce too spicy even for her.


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SAM scoops a big pile of flesh into her mouth. She finds out that the flesh is much like a jelly donut, except the filling in this case is a big glob of acid and partially molten organs.  She finds this out when she takes a bite  and her lower jaw falls off a few seconds later.
[-1 flesh]

Wilfred's free hand comes up and slaps into the top of his heavily armored hardsuit as he turns to face the machine gun, clearly frustrated.

"What the hell, man?  Are you braindead?!  I am basically wearing a TANK!  And I just killed a fucking hospital with my mind!  WE ARE STILL STANDING UNDER THE HORRIFYING MUSHROOM CLOUD OF THE SCREAMING DEAD!  What possible fucking result are you expecting?!  At least use a rocket launcher or something, you idiots must have them!  God!"

I'd shoot him but that doesn't seem like the most fun option.  Instead, scream at the attacker, and summon up the restless dead inside the vehicles in the motor pool.  Tell the ghosts to cause chaos and murder everything that isn't Wilfred.  Or SAM.  Or already dead.

And if that fails just shoot the machine gun.


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Wilfred shouts at the man shooting him, ranting about the absolute idiocy of attempting to machinegun a tank to death. The man continues firing.

"You know what? FINE. If this is how you want to play things, lets play!"

[1] Wilfred points at the motor pool and shouts "Welcome to the monster mash!"

A bit of background information before we continue. Behind the main hospital building is a tall mound of earth. This is a mass grave.  Its first layer were the patients who died when power was lost immediately after the disaster began. The second were those who succumbed to disease or injury here in the days and weeks after. The third was hospital staff who tried to defend the grounds against the first in a string of warlords who took it over. Several more layers of would be conquerors lay atop that.  The end point is a burial mound containing the bodies of likely over 1000 people.  And they're angry.

So when, after making his gesture and battle cry, Wilfred received no immediate response he believed he had made some kind of mistake. But when the enormous hand catches the top of the roof and lifts the 15 story skeleton up out of the ground, he's pretty sure he got what he asked for. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be able to distinguish friend from foe, because the first thing it does is rip the entire upper floor off the building and throw it in the rough direction of the motorpool.

Wilfred and SAM happen to also be in that direction.





It took awhile but he sobered up, but now where the fuck was he? Alec tries to find the where everyone went.

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Since you're coming back in like this you have two options.
1. Be in the EdPC.
2. Be with Yagyu.

EdPC is out on the street, Yagyu is in the hospital talking to a scientist. See the following turns for more info.

Stay at the truck and look around and see if there isn't somewhere that I might get robot brains from.
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I'm going to assume "Look around" means "Check the internet".

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Hmm. There's an old robotic's factory south of here. They'd have a man in the body of a fox would need to breathe life into other animatronics.

"Ooh... Culty stuff.

Perform an autopsy of the Tree Titan. Ask the hospital men if I can borrow some tools (mostly electric saws), otherwise use my occult knife that will eventually give me a good roll if I hit something with it enough times. Try to obtain analogues for the following parts and put them in a containment jar:

1. An eye.

2. A heart (or some "blood")

3. A sample of "brain" tissue.

4. A sample of "muscle" (or some sort of actuator)

The goal of this autopsy is to determine whether or not this creature has anything that can be loosely considered an "anatomy". Does it have any parts that allow it to function as a living creature or is it a golem that is exclusively powered by magic (eg. Woody from Toy Story). Such a creature would have to shapeshift every time it wanted to move. Rigor mortis would set in immediately since it doesn't actually have any joints.


Once that's done, walk around and interview people about their religious beliefs. Ask them if they knew the original man who transformed into the tree.


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The hospital men are long gone but Baldwin goes about the autopsy anyways...and finds things don't add up. The tree has no eyes. It has no heart and the closest it has for blood is sap. It has no brain. It has no muscle or even wood analog of it. Cutting into this thing is like cutting into an ordinary if very large and oddly withered tree. It couldn't move, it couldn't be alive like it was...but it was. This thing wasn't some kind of mutant or odd animal, it was something purely impossible forced into being.

There's no one here to ask about religious beliefs sadly. Aside from teammates.

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"Come to kill me?" He asks, setting is pen down  and placing his hands flat on the desk. He doesn't seem to be joking, but he doesn't seem fearful either.

"Don't worry doc, we're just here to talk. Please don't be taken aback by our appearance, it comes with our line of work.

If I may reintroduce ourselves: my name is Yagyu and we are here to investigate Neo Detroit to see if we can figure out what is going on here and how to stop it. My associate here is Bob. Don't... don't ask me why or how, I don't know either. Good mechanic though.

Now, I was led to believe you used to be associated with the institute that seems to be at the center off all this. In that case, if you could spare us a moment,"
he says, while taking out the last bottle of good booze that he saved and setting it down in front of the old timer, "we would love to hear all about it."

So yeah, offer the booze to the doc and ask him to tell us about who he is, the institute and his role there, what he knows about the events that lead up to this, etc.

Also, ask the guy who led us here if they have any better batteries we could trade for for Burt, if yes ask him to go talk to said Burt about it.



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"Sorry, we need what we have. Hell, we'd buy any off you." the Orderly responds to your request for batteries.


"It was the institute, you're right about that." the doctor says, leaning back in his chair a bit. "Though you must understand I wasn't in the inner circle; I'm not entirely certain what they were doing in there, all I know is by inference. I'm a neurologist and they hired me to look after their subjects. They were implanting some manner of electrodes in the brains of their patients or volunteers or whatever you want to call it. They had me on hand to assist in the implantation and monitor their condition afterwards. The patients were all consenting adults, all seemed to know what they were doing, but they were also an odd bunch.  Prone to...not sure what you'd call it. Daydreaming maybe?

Whatever they were doing, it was focused on the brain. They employed a lot of neurologists and surgeons and psychologists and the like. A couple for each patient, really. They were cagey  with letting any of us know what the others were doing, what the idea behind it all was. They said it would potentially color the responses of the subjects and render their work void. There was a lot of power being used as well...and they always ran their experiments  at night. They had me on hand once or twice afterwards, to escort patients back to their rooms and sit in with them. Make sure they didn't stroke or seize in their sleep."

Make sure all the EPC guns are fully loaded.
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Re: MOOK: Spooky
« Reply #3842 on: June 26, 2021, 11:22:32 pm »

Well at least that should have helped digest the other guy, meaning SAM now has gained one flesh right...right?

Oh and yeah, gtfo dodge from the roof coming her way


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Re: MOOK: Spooky
« Reply #3843 on: June 27, 2021, 03:33:20 am »

"...Awww, fuck Derp.  GHOSTY BOYS, ANY OF YOU WHO WERE EVER SCIENTISTS BETTER FUCKIN' FOLLOW ME RIGHT NOW!"

OKAY YELL AT THE GHOSTS TO FOLLOW IF THEY WERE SCIENTISTS.  THEN GRAB SAM AND IMMEDIATELY DE-ASS THE AREA WITH JUMP ROCKETS.  Ideally, back towards the silverfish, but getting away from the skeleton kaiju is the real priority.

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Re: MOOK: Spooky
« Reply #3844 on: June 27, 2021, 04:17:17 am »

"Hey guys I found out where a robotics factory is, we can probably find me a better battery and we can get the stuff to fix the other animatronics from there."
Sit patiently in the truck and see what kind of robots the factory made while I wait to get taken there.
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Re: MOOK: Spooky
« Reply #3845 on: June 27, 2021, 07:30:14 am »

((... Soooo, anyone up for letting the Wil&SAM comedy duo just stay in Neo-Detroit afterwards? They certainly seem to fit in.  :p  ))

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"Hey guys I found out where a robotics factory is, we can probably find me a better battery and we can get the stuff to fix the other animatronics from there."

"If you guys want you can go check it out while I talk with the doc here, saves us some time. I'll just need to take the samples we found earlier from EdPC for a sec."

Grab those samples we got from the airport. Pour the doc a glass of the booze and show him the samples while telling him about what we saw during the ghostplane sequence. Maybe he can make some connections. Hell, he was there on that plane, wasn't he? Maybe he can tell us who this 'George' guy was?

Also ask if he knows who was in that "inner circle" then, and where we could find said people. Or at least if he has any other leads, or people/places of interest to us.

Finally, can you remind us where that Institute shipping center that Ji found out about is exactly?



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Re: MOOK: Clouds like raw meat
« Reply #3846 on: June 28, 2021, 08:29:54 pm »

Bob's still with Yaggles, sulking about how no one ever offers him a snack.
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Re: MOOK: Spooky
« Reply #3847 on: June 29, 2021, 09:39:03 am »

Use my occult powers to determine if the tree has a soul that could be summoned. Begin construction of a summoning circle in order to bind it. Do not summon yet.

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Re: MOOK: Clouds like raw meat
« Reply #3848 on: June 29, 2021, 10:13:33 am »

"Ahoy there ya' bastard," Al meandered for awhile deciding to head over to the hospital, eventually finding Yagyu "Now what are we dealing with?" he asks Yagyu.

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Re: MOOK: Spooky
« Reply #3849 on: June 29, 2021, 02:49:28 pm »

Well at least that should have helped digest the other guy, meaning SAM now has gained one flesh right...right?

Oh and yeah, gtfo dodge from the roof coming her way


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Pretty sure you already got one flesh back when you first swallowed him. Check.

"...Awww, fuck Derp.  GHOSTY BOYS, ANY OF YOU WHO WERE EVER SCIENTISTS BETTER FUCKIN' FOLLOW ME RIGHT NOW!"

OKAY YELL AT THE GHOSTS TO FOLLOW IF THEY WERE SCIENTISTS.  THEN GRAB SAM AND IMMEDIATELY DE-ASS THE AREA WITH JUMP ROCKETS.  Ideally, back towards the silverfish, but getting away from the skeleton kaiju is the real priority.

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[8][12][1][Jumpjets to d6 use]
"Any ghost that knows the quadratic formula, follow me! Anyone who doesn't...go cause trouble!" Wilfred shouts before scooping up SAM and firing his jump jets at full power.  The two of them, followed by a half dozen ghosts, streak up into the air like an oversized bottle rocket. Within about a second and a half they're at least three times higher than the skeleton and already arcing towards the north like a mortar round. The jump jets- their power expended- sputter and Wil and SAM begin the downward side of their long ballistic arc. The sputtering of the Jump Jets does slow them down a bit, but what really saves them is the fact that they land smack dab in the center of the river about a mile and a half away.  Of course Wilfred sinks like a cannon ball while SAM spazzes out like a wet cat under his arm. The ghosts arrive a moment later and watch silently as Will sinks to the bottom and settles into the silt.

"Hey guys I found out where a robotics factory is, we can probably find me a better battery and we can get the stuff to fix the other animatronics from there."
Sit patiently in the truck and see what kind of robots the factory made while I wait to get taken there.
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Seems like they made general purpose house keeping and "Domestic work" robots. Just the sort of thing for all those rich tech moguls who used to live here.

Bob's still with Yaggles, sulking about how no one ever offers him a snack.
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Bob begins to think that maybe...maybe if he got himself a sign that said "Please feed me" that people might feed him more. Perhaps he simply needs to be more upfront about his desires. Perhaps humans are just stupid and need to be told.

Use my occult powers to determine if the tree has a soul that could be summoned. Begin construction of a summoning circle in order to bind it. Do not summon yet.

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Baldwin places a hand on the tree's rough head area and attempts to sense if it had a soul. He closes his eyes and concentrates. He feels something...a sensation moving up his arm. He opens his eyes to see twisting young branches snaking their way up his arm, tightly binding him in place.

"Oh the irony!" He proclaims, with a flourish.

((... Soooo, anyone up for letting the Wil&SAM comedy duo just stay in Neo-Detroit afterwards? They certainly seem to fit in.  :p  ))

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"Hey guys I found out where a robotics factory is, we can probably find me a better battery and we can get the stuff to fix the other animatronics from there."

"If you guys want you can go check it out while I talk with the doc here, saves us some time. I'll just need to take the samples we found earlier from EdPC for a sec."

Grab those samples we got from the airport. Pour the doc a glass of the booze and show him the samples while telling him about what we saw during the ghostplane sequence. Maybe he can make some connections. Hell, he was there on that plane, wasn't he? Maybe he can tell us who this 'George' guy was?

Also ask if he knows who was in that "inner circle" then, and where we could find said people. Or at least if he has any other leads, or people/places of interest to us.

Finally, can you remind us where that Institute shipping center that Ji found out about is exactly?



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The Doctor listens to your description of the event, his face slowly becoming cloudier.

"That...sounds like the last flight we made into Ann Arbor before the disaster. I was never sure why they used that airport but in hindsight it was probably to avoid detection or any kind of legal oversight. Hmm. In any case, George was one of the subjects. I never knew his last name but I know they picked him up from a university hospital...their sleep labs specifically. He apparently had some kind of odd condition related to dreaming; I never heard the specifics. It caused him a lot of fear and unease but apparently it was just what the institute wanted in a subject.  I oversaw the implantation of the electrodes into him like all the others...and if I remember right he was included in the experiments the night of the disaster.

I can't even tell you all the members of the inner circle, let alone where to find them. If I had to guess they're all dead: Likely they were there whenever this thing happened. I don't know if George was though, I know they sometimes run experiments without the subjects. Utilize old biometric recordings I think.  Its possible, though very unlikely, that some of those subjects might still be alive. But if you really want to know more...I have a hunch.  What you saw in that airport sounds to me like some sort of...memory. George's memory specifically. It explains why only bits and pieces of the it were really detailed; it was only what george saw or heard that you could see or hear.  If this is true, there might be other places like that out there, places connected to his..or maybe other subject's memories. Places they were. Maybe you'll be able to hear more from those places."

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Re: MOOK: Spooky
« Reply #3850 on: June 29, 2021, 03:33:28 pm »

((Checked and nope, nada.))

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAH I'M DROWNING I'M DROWNING-Wait a minute, oh Silly SAM, you don't have lungs! Boy, do I look like a fool. Hey Kaiser Wonkfrederick of the Holy Roman Empire, you need a hand or you okay with playing the role of Costa Concordia down here while I swim back to the relative safety of dry land?

Depending on the answer SAM will help Castaway movie star Wilson walk like the Hippo he is to dry land or just swim there herself.


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Re: MOOK: Clouds like raw meat
« Reply #3851 on: June 29, 2021, 03:43:48 pm »

Use spiderbot. Climb on desk, begin rummaging through drawers, cabinets, refrigerators, and pockets for snacks and scientific secrets, but only as a bonus).
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Re: MOOK: Spooky
« Reply #3852 on: June 29, 2021, 05:24:17 pm »

((Twelve and a one in the last turn.  Yeah.  Xan's ghost is here, probably attracted by SAM's fleshorror nature meeting with Wilfred's ghost powers.))

"I think... I think I'm good.  Unless they've got fucking rebar sharks or some shit in this river.  Fuck Derp...  You get out, I'll be right after you in a minute..."

Call up Yagyu and report mission success.  Technically.

"Hey.  Hey, Yagyu, is this fucking thing on?  Uhh.  Well, stealth mission was a succcess, I think.  We deleted their intranet, blew up the hospital, and then I summoned a fifteen-story skeleton in the wreckage.  I think it's still fucking up the survivors?  Hard to tell, I'm at the bottom of a river right now.  But, uh, yeah.  I don't think we have to worry about the Smiles any time soon, and I bet the ratings just exploded for whatever shows recorded that.  Uhh.  That's the good news.  I know we were kinda supposed to do a kidnapping, but uh, no plan survives contact with the enemy, right?  Hehe...  Well, I captured the scientist too, I think.  Technically.  I kinda killed him first, actually, but it's okay!  It's okay, I have his ghost right here.  I think.  There's six of 'em, one of them should be the right guy?  It'll be fine, this way he can't lie, I don't think.  Anyway, uh, where should we meet up?  And is it okay if we go hunting a few Smiles stragglers just as a little side trip?  Sammy could use some more meat, and I'd like a new gun."

...Then start heading back towards the shore.  Hopefully we can find where the hell we left the silverfish.

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Re: MOOK: Spooky
« Reply #3853 on: June 30, 2021, 03:10:22 am »

"Apparently the factory makes maid robots and shit, are parts from those things still helpful for what we want to do?"
See what other kind of interesting things I can find on the internet about the area.
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« Reply #3854 on: June 30, 2021, 05:46:03 am »

"Ahoy there ya' bastard," Al meandered for awhile deciding to head over to the hospital, eventually finding Yagyu "Now what are we dealing with?" he asks Yagyu.

"Oh, are you that guy who got drunk and was napping in the EdPC? Hope you slept it off then. You're lucky we're on vacation.

We're following our leads, right now we're interviewing the good doctor here to see what he knows about what happened to create this place. You did read you missio- ah, vacation leaflet, didn't you?"

((In case not: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=173094.msg8253875#msg8253875))

Then he turns back to the scientist and says: "Ok, so what we should do now is to-"

[BEEP BEEP]

"Excuse me for a moment doc, I gotta take this."

He steps into the hallway for a moment away from the old man.

"Wilfred darling, long time no see, what's up?"
snippety

"Oh good so you managed to... Wait, what do you mean you deleted their... How many stories? OH GOD THEY'RE ALL DEAD?!?

...Ok, ok, so are you positive we can still talk to him then? How long do these 'ghosts' stay, ah, 'fresh' exactly? If you're not sure, you can interrogate them right now perhaps, I'll upload the transcripts of what we found so far to the network as well. Or I can talk to them through you I guess. Do ghosts have wireless? Is that what the 'G' in 5G stands for?

And sure, if you guys want you can gallivant around a bit before you head back since you got what we need, but honestly if it's food you want we can just trade for it back at the bazaar as well.

We are quite a bit away from where you guys are at, after we're done here we're quickly stopping by an old factory to get a new battery for Burt, then we're heading to a shipping center the institute used to use. We can meet at one of these once you guys are fully done with your stuff.

Oh, and uh, good work you two. I guess. Sort of. Technically."


"Apparently the factory makes maid robots and shit, are parts from those things still helpful for what we want to do?"
See what other kind of interesting things I can find on the internet about the area. 

"Honestly, for me the main thing I want is to find that better battery for you. We've already lost too many people to space dementia so I need all lucid hands to be up and about rather than shackled to the EdPC. If you want to play around with your robot friends and make them new maracas or whatever that's fine, go wild, but I'd like you to be back to full mobility asap."
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