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[heydude6]

“But don’t you want To destroy it?”

”No. If I was younger maybe I’d find it funny at least, but now that I’m older, I’m more interested in money and glory. Do you know how much these things are worth at the bizarre if you can bring them back intact? I saw one there worth a million megabucks. Sure, I’d have to split it with everyone here, collecting this was a team effort after all, but that’s still a fortune.”

He says that last line while giving akanorth a wink.

[BlackPaladin99]

“But don’t you want To destroy it?”

”No. If I was younger maybe I’d find it funny at least, but now that I’m older, I’m more interested in money and glory. Do you know how much these things are worth at the bizarre if you can bring them back intact? I saw one there worth a million megabucks. Sure, I’d have to split it with everyone here, collecting this was a team effort after all, but that’s still a fortune.”

He says that last line while giving akanorth a wink.

“ but if you’re interested in money we could make more total by breaking it and pretending we got it from a bunch of different missions and make people pay more!!!”

[heydude6]

“but if you’re interested in money we could make more total by breaking it and pretending we got it from a bunch of different missions and make people pay more!!!”

”Only artifacts that work are worth any money. If we break this thing, then it’ll only be worth as much as broken glass which isn’t a lot.

“I’m not interested in selling broken glass, so it’s best we do it my way. If you want to break something, there’s bound to be some giant monster to show up that will be begging for some bullets to get shoved up it’s ass.”

[BlackPaladin99]

“but if you’re interested in money we could make more total by breaking it and pretending we got it from a bunch of different missions and make people pay more!!!”

”Only artifacts that work are worth any money. If we break this thing, then it’ll only be worth as much as broken glass which isn’t a lot.

“I’m not interested in selling broken glass, so it’s best we do it my way. If you want to break something, there’s bound to be some giant monster to show up that will be begging for some bullets to get shoved up it’s ass.”

Fine

[piecewise]

The Prophecy has been fulfilled!

((well, I didn’t know this was a thing and thought you were being completely random, thanks for introducing me to that))

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name:Tara
Physical Description: A 4 foot 6 in tall female human with pale skin, brunette hair, and blue eyes who weighs 110 pounds. She is 15 years old.
Background: She was Lucy's younger sister. She would watch Lyra perform her experiments until she went to OMNITECH. When she learned of the deaths of her sisters, she joined here hoping to make the place safer
Life: d4
Attack: OMNITECH Foam Gun d3 doesn't do damage. When successful it immobilizes the target.multiple guns stack. Foam tank: d8
OMNITECH “Porcelain” Ceramic knife(d6, breaks on 1) Hammer (Lended, return to owner after door melt attempt)
Stats:
Strength: d6
Dexterity: d8
Speed: d6
Endurance: d6
Will: d8
Knowledge: d10
Fate: d6
Skills:
Melee: d6
Guns: d6
Explosives: d6
Implants: d4
Mechanics: d6
Technology: d6
Medical: d6
Occult: d6
Speech: d8
Status: Consious, grazed by bullet shot by EXC1
Inventory: OMNITECH isolation suit (has bullet hole in it), OMNITECH Foam Gun, OMNITECH sealing kit, OMNITECH environmental hazard detector, OMNITECH “Porcelain” Ceramic knife(d6, breaks on 1), Earplugs, Cognition Copier, empty plate, Tranquilizer syringe, Sensory Deprivation Suit, Weaponized Plasma Cutter(d4 use die, rolls dex for damage), hypodermic spear(1d6 damage+injection effect), Cognition Copier(Will give to teammate who doesn’t have one),Negotiation Enhancer
Money: 47 OMNI

Drive the Chevrolet theater somewhere, hopefully towards whatever the mission entails, or towards some sort of clue as to what we’re supposed to be doing here

We're gonna assume you drive back to meet  up with the rest of the team. Because why not.

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: no injuries
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

“Ok guys, I think I found the/one of the sources of the thing that’s keeping us from leaving.  I’m assuming that it’s destruction will: (a) permit us to leave (b) kill us all.  But what’s life without taking a few risks?  So does anyone have ideas for how to destroy it?”
Say the above and then attempt to hit it with my stick again.  If that fails, shoot it.

“Ok guys, I think I found the/one of the sources of the thing that’s keeping us from leaving.  I’m assuming that it’s destruction will: (a) permit us to leave (b) kill us all.  But what’s life without taking a few risks?  So does anyone have ideas for how to destroy it?”
Say the above and then attempt to hit it with my stick again.  If that fails, shoot it.

"If you want to leave, just grab onto this cable wrapped around my waist and pull yourself out as if you were climbing a rope at the gym, it'll take you to the EDPC. That works for some reason. The rest of us have already done it, so we're just waiting for you.

"As for the artifact, it's no longer a threat so don't destroy it, I'll be collecting it myself."

He gives akanorth a mean look.

"I'm serious though, don't destroy it"

Baldwin walks close enough to Akanorth so he can grab onto his cable and pull himself out. Once Akanorth is out, Baldwin will perform the procedure outlined in this spoiler:

Spoiler: Containment Procedure (click to show/hide)

Baldwin heads out to look for an empty shipping crate, preferably a metal one. An abandoned factory should be full of these, how else are they to send their stuff? He then turns the crate upside down and looks for some rod to prop it up with. Basically he creates a giant box trap like in this image minus the rope.



*A key difference that must be mentioned though is that the lid of the box will be on the bottom of the trap. This is so that when the box falls, it falls on the lid allowing for easier sealing.


Baldwin will look at the orb's trajectory and try to predict where it will go. He will set up the trap in such a way that the orb will go inside the box and collide with one of its walls. This should cause enough force to disturb the rod and make the crate fall down, trapping the orb inside. If the ball bounces off the box without making it fall, throw a big rock at the box instead. That should create enough force to trigger the trap and nab us the orb.

Once the orb has been boxed, Baldwin will walk a complete circle around the box and return to his starting position. This will make the cable around his waist wrap around the box, which should allow us to transport the box by manipulating the cable. Friction should drag the unsealed lid along as well.

The next step after this will be to seal the box, but I will do that in the next turn. I want to see how this first part turns out. Maybe it will be faster if I do this over discord or PM?

Don't start until after he leaves

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.

Akanorth would love to try and hit the thing again...or shoot it...but he is currently stuck in an infinite action of swinging his rod at the thing. Ever heard of a Shepard tone? Xeno's paradox? He's trapped in something like that. He is always approaching, never reaching. Always acting, never completing. The artifact is infinitely far, yet infinitely close.

Baldwin gets up closer to Akanorth but, considering Akanorth is completely unresponsive, unmoving, and infinitely approaching an action...he decides that going any closer might be a good way to get trapped in some sort of paradoxical event horizon.

"Yo!  Yags!  We're back.  Where are we heading next?  Also, I brought guns, anyone need one?"

Stow the silverfish in the APC.  Then... I guess board and wait for orders.  Run diagnostics on the APC's AI while waiting.

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.

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)

Autonomous corporate observation drone (rolls on d6 to interpret confusing orders) (with SAM)

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

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)
3x Smiles Rifles (d6 ranged attack) and 8 magazines (all d6)
3x Smiles Grenades (d12 explosive)
1x Rocket Launcher (d12+3 ranged explosive)

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.
--Interrogated the ghost of the former institute scientist, gaining presumably valuable intel.
--Destroyed an evacuating Smiles van.

Fish atop the APC.

And considering the APC has no AI, the closest Will gets to doing diagnostics is tapping on the hood ornament and asking Ed if he's still in there.

"Just remember to avoid the city Yags, we kinda unleashed the spirit of 10,000 dead natives and I believe it's currently eating the populace and terrorizing the wasteside as we speak."

SAM will sit by the window, before realizing she's probably too big to fit her head through it by now.

1 FLS > STR

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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

She currently looks like a swiss guy's greatest wetmare.

Senior Medical Officer (+100 Omni)

Flesh: 4 (10 MAX)
Attack: d8 bite

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

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

Status: All good
Sight: Pepeers
Smell: I smell  yee
Hearing: I hear yee
Taste: poggers
Touch: Salad Fingers

OMNITECH Medical Kit (4 charges. Expend one to gain advantage on a Medical roll)
OMNITECH Organosculpting system
Hover Dolly
Cognition copier
One of each nootropic type Anya had
Wil's Autonomous corporate observation drone (rolls on d6 to interpret confusing orders)

Credits 20 (-200 debt)

Things done:
-Returned to primordial goo
-Ate fish flakes
-Threw up a fishball
-Sneaked into the sewers
-Pounced onto a mook
-Scared the information about cables out of a goon
-Connected the drone to the cable
-Ate someone's head
-Found some nerds
-Partially vored a dude
-Vored a dude
-Ate the head of some RPG maniac in self-defence
-Carjacked a car and ate the crew. In self-defence

Sam sit. Sam get head stuck in window. Sam do sam thing.

"Aw shit I forgot to get those robot brains I was looking for, but fuck this place I'm not going back in there, anyway my body is ready for that battery."
Get into the EdPC and allow the new battery to be installed in me.

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)
 2 Fire extinguishers (d6 use each)
 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)
 2 Pack of gum
 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.
 laptop
 flashlight
 phone
 cable
Money:
 245 Omni
 12,300 Megabucks

"Yo!  Yags!  We're back.  Where are we heading next?  Also, I brought guns, anyone need one?"

"Ah, excellent, impeccable timing, we were just about to wrap up here. Still got a lead from that airport to wrap up."
Then, looking at the pile of guns and Sam looking unusually fed and content, he adds
And I see you guys had some proactive R&R as well, very nice.

Finally, he turns to the building, and over both comms and just by shouting, he yells that "We are getting the hell outta here at [end of turn], we've spent too much time on this shithole already."


Assuming Burt allows it, install that battery! Use a toolkit charge.

Then, at the end of the turn, once everybody who wants to get in is in, EdPC rides out toward that shipping center! Oh, and using the bio tracker, maybe pass by Tara and Bob to pick them up if it’s not too far out of the way.

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

mook map
Interactive map, courtesy of Paris

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

Life: 3d8 (auditor)
Attack: depends on weapon. Currently equipped: goop thrower, d8 overdrive

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

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


Status: 'kay

Inventory:
Modified goop thrower. Has 2 firing modes. Does no damage: if successful, target is immobilized. Multiple guns used in concert stack. Some targets immune. d8 use die. OVERDRIVE: higher attack at the cost of increased use die usage. For every more powerful use, use die is rolled at disadvantage.
   Standard [not in use]: d4 attack, regular use die usage.
   OVERDRIVE [currently selected]: d8
   current goop tank: d8/d8 use die
d8 use box of metal scrap for ammo (does either d8 or d10 damage)
3 spare carbine mags
3 spare shotgun mags
'a few' mining explosives (1 used for killing the psychic, 1 used for blowing up a door)

Cutting/welding torch
Toolkit (3/3 charges)
computing cube
a large spool of synthetic cable
environment scanner
bodyparts, enough for full body (in cold storage)
113,562354 liters of tap water
2 anomaly detection watches (1 given to Wilfred)

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

-auditor-
1. Biorhythm tracker: Allows the tracking of a single target. Their outline will appear on the user's vision from any distance, through any material. Tracking can be initiated with line of sight OR DNA sampling.
Samples: Sam, Bob
2. Autonomous targeting system: Allows for a second weapon to be fired as a secondary attack even after firing the standard single attack. Weapon must be held in the other hand and uses suit parameters instead of user skill. Light weapons use dex, heavy use strength.
3. Ammunition Transmutation forge: Shoebox sized device that allows ammunition of one kind to be transmuted into a different kind of ammo. Not one to one, requires equal or greater monetary value of the input to get the output. Ie a 20 omni bullet would require the sacrifice of at least 20 omni worth of other ammo to make.
4. Weakness Analysis protocols: Automatically detects and displays the structural or biological weaknesses of any targeted enemy.
5. Pulse Laser: Infinite use military grade laser fired from the point of the "Beak". Deals d12 but requires d6 turns to recharge after every use. Can use it on low-power setting to cut things open without having to recharge.
6. Micromissile Pack: Built into the hunched back, fires salvos of micromissiles that deal d6xd6 damage. Has a d4 use die. Guided via laser targeting using Gun skill.
7. OMNITECH ferromagnetic accelerator: Standard version of the system but built into the hands. Pick up metal objects and fire them. Damage dependent on object.
8. Wrist Mounted Shotguns: Same damage as "PUNCH!" shotgun (2d10 close, 2d6 medium, 2d4 long). current use die: d6/d6
9. Palm mounted Carbines: Same as Pinpoint Carbine. current use die: d6/d6

[8,5] -1 charge

Battery Installed!

Now then...what the hell was that shipping center...Ah right.

The EdPC, presumably with the Chevrolet Movie Theater trailing along behind it, heads south towards the shipping center. And they very nearly get there too. However, as the approach Palmer road they notice something rather...disconcerting ahead. It appears to be a huge metal gate that has been constructed between two multistory buildings. Looks to be made of scrap metal crudely welded together. The EdPC might be able to just barrel straight through. But thats not the disconcerting part. The disconcerting part is the fact that the entire thing is absolutely fucking coated in gore. There are nude bodies impaled on rods above and around the door, on spikes on the door, on metal barricades in front of the door, wrapped in barbed wire covering the door, stacked in piles in the road, and just strewn about in greater and lesser degrees of completeness. In total there are probably several hundred corpses. And not a single sign of a living person. It is entirely and distressingly still and silent.

[Naturegirl1999]

Is…did the door eat them? Can someone tell me what the mission is? I missed how I got here and Bob seemed adamant about the car, do we give it something? See how it reacts? If at all?the theater we found was empty too, I bought a cognition copier for anyone who doesn’t have one. I’m gonna see if the gate’s a mimic, by thr9wing something at it,  e ready to reverse soon in case my guess is correct

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name:Tara
Physical Description: A 4 foot 6 in tall female human with pale skin, brunette hair, and blue eyes who weighs 110 pounds. She is 15 years old.
Background: She was Lucy's younger sister. She would watch Lyra perform her experiments until she went to OMNITECH. When she learned of the deaths of her sisters, she joined here hoping to make the place safer
Life: d4
Attack: OMNITECH Foam Gun d3 doesn't do damage. When successful it immobilizes the target.multiple guns stack. Foam tank: d8
OMNITECH “Porcelain” Ceramic knife(d6, breaks on 1) Hammer (Lended, return to owner after door melt attempt)
Stats:
Strength: d6
Dexterity: d8
Speed: d6
Endurance: d6
Will: d8
Knowledge: d10
Fate: d6
Skills:
Melee: d6
Guns: d6
Explosives: d6
Implants: d4
Mechanics: d6
Technology: d6
Medical: d6
Occult: d6
Speech: d8
Status: Consious, grazed by bullet shot by EXC1
Inventory: OMNITECH isolation suit (has bullet hole in it), OMNITECH Foam Gun, OMNITECH sealing kit, OMNITECH environmental hazard detector, OMNITECH “Porcelain” Ceramic knife(d6, breaks on 1), Earplugs, Cognition Copier, empty plate, Tranquilizer syringe, Sensory Deprivation Suit, Weaponized Plasma Cutter(d4 use die, rolls dex for damage), hypodermic spear(1d6 damage+injection effect), Negotiation Enhancer, Smiles Rifle (d6 ranged attack) and 3 magazines (d6,d6,d6)
Money: 47 OMNI

Throw empty plate at possible gate mimic, if it is a mimic, the plate will shatter, doing damage to it, Reverse quickly and get away from it, if it’s not a mimic, the plate will shatter, and I have space for something more useful, and I won’t have to run from a giant mimic, also try giving the hammer to whoever owned it
which one of you lent me a hammer? I still have it

Spoiler: Some thoughts going through Tara’s head (click to show/hide)

Metal, death, the death of all things, that first mission she went on. The beams, the thing she tried to break, maybe it is just a gate, maybe we’re being watched, but why would people use one gate to kill people? Surely this would grab attention? We’re these people in rituals? Is there a deity of blood and/or death beyond the gate? Why did I immediately think the gate is killing people? If it is a mimic, surely it wouldn’t leave so many bodies around, what’s gotten into me? I don’t know why I do some of the things I do, the thought I had behind the action seems to vanish shortly after I think to do one, I think determining whether it’s living or a normal gate is needed, maybe my mind’s just confused by senses again after seemingly ages without them..,the controller guy had his followers do things disregarding their safety, but he wouldn’t send his followers to die without accomplishing something, I’m not even sure if they heard me from the car, it feels wrong to simply leave it after we put so much work into it

Bob, did you understand my reasoning I mentioned at all?

[Ozarck]

((you said to drive to wherever, preferably toward the mission, and Radio has a habit of collecting stragglers when it's time to move from one objective to the next, so we got swept up alongside the EdPC and Silverfish and whoever else is running alongside in a caravan. That's how we got here.))

[Naturegirl1999]

((Yes, but the first she remembers of this place is helping Bob find a car, yes the gate is part of the mission, but she’s still unaware of the ultimate goal, does that make sense?))

[Ozarck]

((Sure, I think. Oh, because she's been suffering space dementia for a while, since the end of the previous mission, right?))

[ANGRY_DEMON_NOISES]

"...This looks to good to be true, hey Occult Nerd, check the gate's chakras for bad juju! I wanna see if those bodies are edible, chop-chop!"

If the gate isn't haunted, SAM will start to suction the bits and pieces off it like a vacuum. If it is haunted, SAM will make a mental note to ask Wil to send whoever built this blueball doorway to the ghost zone, and then eat bodies of the pilles that are far away from it./b]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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

She currently looks like a swiss guy's greatest wetmare.

Senior Medical Officer (+100 Omni)

Flesh: 4 (10 MAX)
Attack: d8 bite

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

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

Status: All good
Sight: Pepeers
Smell: I smell  yee
Hearing: I hear yee
Taste: poggers
Touch: Salad Fingers

OMNITECH Medical Kit (4 charges. Expend one to gain advantage on a Medical roll)
OMNITECH Organosculpting system
Hover Dolly
Cognition copier
One of each nootropic type Anya had
Wil's Autonomous corporate observation drone (rolls on d6 to interpret confusing orders)

Credits 20 (-200 debt)

Things done:
-Returned to primordial goo
-Ate fish flakes
-Threw up a fishball
-Sneaked into the sewers
-Pounced onto a mook
-Scared the information about cables out of a goon
-Connected the drone to the cable
-Ate someone's head
-Found some nerds
-Partially vored a dude
-Vored a dude
-Ate the head of some RPG maniac in self-defence
-Carjacked a car and ate the crew. In self-defence

[Naturegirl1999]

((Sure, I think. Oh, because she's been suffering space dementia for a while, since the end of the previous mission, right?))

((She’s possible suffering from sensory overload from the deprivation from before when she dealt with the controller aka Mr. Derp, the metal gate and the bodies are reminding her of her very first mission she remembers, when they went to the haunted outpost and she saw the death of a universe and traveled on metal beams to break the source of madness))

[BlackPaladin99]

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: no injuries
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

pull out of the loop.  Then attempt to put it in my containment pod.

[syvarris]

Look at the gorewall.  How occult-y does it seem, on a scale of "nah" to "let's get the fuck away right now"?  Any useful informational tidbits that can be yanked out of Wil's brain here?

Do not touch it.  But if it doesn't seem like a bad idea for occult reasons, and nothing happens to Tara after tossing a dish, try headshotting a couple of the bodies with a Smiles rifle.  Maybe shoot the wall too.  For science.

EDIT: Also, receive and equip cognition copier from Tara.  Give her one of the looted rifles in trade. (Already edited)

"H-hey, Tara, wait!  Before you go doing anything, can you give me that cognition copier?  I lost mine last mission, I'd love to have a replacement."

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.

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)

Autonomous corporate observation drone (rolls on d6 to interpret confusing orders) (with SAM)

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
OMNITECH Cognition Copier (equipped)

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)

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.
--Interrogated the ghost of the former institute scientist, gaining presumably valuable intel.
--Destroyed an evacuating Smiles van.

[Radio Controlled]

Is…did the door eat them? Can someone tell me what the mission is? I missed how I got here and Bob seemed adamant about the car, do we give it something? See how it reacts? If at all?the theater we found was empty too, I bought a cognition copier for anyone who doesn’t have one. I’m gonna see if the gate’s a mimic, by thr9wing something at it,  e ready to reverse soon in case my guess is correct

"I dunno who or what did this, though if I had to guess this is the 'welcome home' sign of some local gang. We did spot those guys in military fatigues and some sort of skins in this neighborhood a while back with the drone. Either way, let's try to avoid all this if we can."

Take a look at this area and the general area beyond through satellite/drone cams. Nothing out there either? And does this 'fence' stretch out all the way around where we want to go? If not, could we just plot a course around whatever this is to our destination?

Either way, have a scan of the area. Bio tracker, enviro scanner, anomaly watch, the works. 

Finally, ask our guide if he knows anything about this place.

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

mook map
Interactive map, courtesy of Paris

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

Life: 3d8 (auditor)
Attack: depends on weapon. Currently equipped: goop thrower, d8 overdrive

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

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


Status: 'kay

Inventory:
Modified goop thrower. Has 2 firing modes. Does no damage: if successful, target is immobilized. Multiple guns used in concert stack. Some targets immune. d8 use die. OVERDRIVE: higher attack at the cost of increased use die usage. For every more powerful use, use die is rolled at disadvantage.
   Standard [not in use]: d4 attack, regular use die usage.
   OVERDRIVE [currently selected]: d8
   current goop tank: d8/d8 use die
d8 use box of metal scrap for ammo (does either d8 or d10 damage)
3 spare carbine mags
3 spare shotgun mags
'a few' mining explosives (1 used for killing the psychic, 1 used for blowing up a door)

Cutting/welding torch
Toolkit (2/3 charges)
computing cube
a large spool of synthetic cable
environment scanner
bodyparts, enough for full body (in cold storage)
113,562354 liters of tap water
2 anomaly detection watches (1 given to Wilfred)

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

-auditor-
1. Biorhythm tracker: Allows the tracking of a single target. Their outline will appear on the user's vision from any distance, through any material. Tracking can be initiated with line of sight OR DNA sampling.
Samples: Sam, Bob
2. Autonomous targeting system: Allows for a second weapon to be fired as a secondary attack even after firing the standard single attack. Weapon must be held in the other hand and uses suit parameters instead of user skill. Light weapons use dex, heavy use strength.
3. Ammunition Transmutation forge: Shoebox sized device that allows ammunition of one kind to be transmuted into a different kind of ammo. Not one to one, requires equal or greater monetary value of the input to get the output. Ie a 20 omni bullet would require the sacrifice of at least 20 omni worth of other ammo to make.
4. Weakness Analysis protocols: Automatically detects and displays the structural or biological weaknesses of any targeted enemy.
5. Pulse Laser: Infinite use military grade laser fired from the point of the "Beak". Deals d12 but requires d6 turns to recharge after every use. Can use it on low-power setting to cut things open without having to recharge.
6. Micromissile Pack: Built into the hunched back, fires salvos of micromissiles that deal d6xd6 damage. Has a d4 use die. Guided via laser targeting using Gun skill.
7. OMNITECH ferromagnetic accelerator: Standard version of the system but built into the hands. Pick up metal objects and fire them. Damage dependent on object.
8. Wrist Mounted Shotguns: Same damage as "PUNCH!" shotgun (2d10 close, 2d6 medium, 2d4 long). current use die: d6/d6
9. Palm mounted Carbines: Same as Pinpoint Carbine. current use die: d6/d6

[King Zultan]

"I'm not sure we need to be messing with a door like that, it's probably covered in AIDS and other diseases, and ain't nobody got time for that."
Stay in the car far from the weird door, and look at my new battery and find out how long it'll last.

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)
 2 Fire extinguishers (d6 use each)
 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)
 2 Pack of gum
 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.
 laptop
 flashlight
 phone
 cable
Money:
 245 Omni
 12,300 Megabucks