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[Naturegirl1999]

They’re in so much pain. The gate might be trapping their spirits inside. The ones at the outposts didn’t have bodies, they couldn’t feel pain. I hope they eventually find a place of rest. These ones are in pain, I hope I can help them

"Who cares if they're in pain, they aren't any of us so why mess with them, and who knows what kind of STDs you could get from touching that thing and we don't need you bringing that kind of thing into the EDPC."

STDs are transmitted via sex, which I am not doing. Unless you think the gate can get infected with a virus/bacteria that can go between species and also that said pathogen would know how to get to sex organs from skin instead of getting destroyed by the immune system long before figuring out that they’re in a new species or where they are in relation to whatever cell type they need to infect. Yagyu, Pathos, what did you learn about the gate?

[Radio Controlled]

"The whole thing is alive and producing pollen from exotic plants. Highly anomalous and full of occult bullshit. I wouldn't mess with it unless you know exactly what you're doing."

[Naturegirl1999]

"The whole thing is alive and producing pollen from exotic plants. Highly anomalous and full of occult bullshit. I wouldn't mess with it unless you know exactly what you're doing."

Pollen tends not to be poisonous, and animals and robots which is what the team consists of do not have plant parts. Unless the occult properties make animals the pollen touches turn part plant, I shouldn’t have to worry about being an incubator, plus I’m not sure whether plants are growing in the zombies or not, trying to free them from the spikes impaling them will also allow me to see whether the “spikes” are actually stems. I didn’t know plants can gain occult magic, i thoughts only demons, souls and animals could get it, inanimate objects too assuming the “gate” itself isn’t a completely new species of plant that the occult made…hmm, I guess taking one of the corpses away would not only help the spirit inside, but also check how the gate responds, if the spikes start growing like vines toward the corpse or me, this is an indication that it somehow draws energy from consciousnesses and/or souls in lieu of the sun, based on its color, ai’m thinking the occult either killed the chloroplasts, denatured the chlorophyll, spread out chloroplasts so thoroughly that the green is no longer seen, or a combination of these. Maybe the gate teleports plants from wherever the magic giving it life is from? Maybe it gets energy from plants and uses souls to power teleportation magic? I gues it’s time to do some experiments assuming I don’t get killed or trapped trying to help a spirit, can they be trapped in corpses if they inhabit them for too long?

Hey Wilfred, you’ve been to the afterlife at some point somehow, did you ever see souls get trapped in places or were they allowed to move freely?

[syvarris]

"Well this sucks. Do you think you can summon another ghost kaiju if whatever is sealed here decides to eat us, Wilfred?"

"...Maybe.  Last time was pretty special, there were a lot of upset corpses that I really only prodded into waking up.  Trying here might just make the gate get up and eat us, rather than summon another skelezor to smash it."

"Also, if we can avoid this by driving around it, we'll be doing that. Wil, what do you think, does this thing or its effects stretch out beyond?"

Wilfred awkwardly slams a heavy metal fist into the metal plating below his main camera, letting out a considering "Hmmm..."

"...Probably not?  I'd wager this is containment, not corruption.  Someone prolly wanted to probe HELL for funsies, so they put this here to keep it in check.  And make sure that when the gate blows up it's safely away from their base.  I doubt anything will happen if we leave, or at least it'll hopefully happen long after we're out of Detroit.  We could send in Tara and the dude who got trapped by grass though!  Maybe they'll come out with sweet HELL powers, and if not, hey?  No biggie."

Hey Wilfred, you’ve been to the afterlife at some point somehow, did you ever see souls get trapped in places or were they allowed to move freely?

"Eh?  Oh, uh, the alien god was trapping all the souls in the universe when I visited, I think.  But I ran him off, so we don't have to worry about that anymore."

Provide Yagyu with occultist exposition about the perimeter, if he needs any.

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)

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

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.

[Pancaek]

"So uh, what's the play here, boss man? We just gonna ignore this whole shebang and drive around it?"

Spoiler: Edward (click to show/hide)

Name: Edward Paganini Scrum
Description: Edward has the look of a grumpy boulder, an impassive craggy face with lumpy, half swollen features. Once he made deal with a dog-sized flea in the cargo hold of a helium trawler near Jupiter. That trawler never made it back to port, but Edward did. He's been itchy ever since. Sometimes he sees things in the machines he fixes, sometimes he knows things he shouldn't. He won't talk about how he got here, what he intends to do, or what the deal he made was. He is quiet, fatalistic, distant, but prone to occasionally ramble with a distant look in his eyes. He's 36, but he looks 60.

Life: d2
Attack: d4 sidearm (d4 use die)

Stats (tanktrain stats TBA)
Strength:
Dexterity:
Speed:
Endurance:
Will:
Knowledge:
Fate:

Skills
Melee: d4
Guns:d6
Explosives:d4
Implants:d4
Mechanics:d12
Technology:d12
Medical:d4
Occult:d4
Speech: d4

OMNITECH White Jumpsuit (currently worn by pushbot)
OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack) x3 Magazines (d4 use die) (currently equipped by pushbot)
OMNITECH Override Fob (Allows activation of most vehicles)
OMNITECH Personal Computing Cube and Universal adapter
OMNITECH cognition copier
Hacked Brobot (pushbot)

Traded OMNITECH Organosculpting system to Sam for 700 omnibux and 2 medical procedures, + preferential medic treatment in future missions
570 OMNIBUX, SAM has 200 debt left


Pushbot stats:
Skills:
Guns: d8
Melee: d8
all others: d6

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

Spoiler: EdPC (click to show/hide)

Strength: d12
Dexterity: d4
Speed: Depends. d4 from dead stop, d12 at full speed
Endurance: d12
Will: d4
Knowledge: d4
Fate: d8

Life d8, 100 HP
60MPH top speed

OMNITECH Mounted Turret (2d8. D6 use die.) X 2
OMNITECH Electrical Interdiction system (d12. D4 use. Effects entire outer surface)
OMNITECH “Genesis” Multi-function launcher (d6 Flares, d6 Camera pods, d6 Nets, d6 Shriekers, d4 +1 spare d6 box Shell (3d10 damage), d6 high explosive. Must be reloaded after every shot. Tank gun sorta deal)
OMNITECH SPOT! Light. Remote controlled, mounted on top. Complements the normal rack of lights.

Radio, loud speakers, satellite uplink to OMNITECH.

[piecewise]

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

  Then I Rejoin the team

((I doubt that I'm standing close enough to the artifact for a mere push to actually take me in, but if you're going to try to kill me, then I'm going to pay you back in kind. Especially after I just rescued you.

EDIT: Of course you edit out your murder attempt. Had a feeling that was going to happen, but I’m surprised it didn’t happen sooner. My action is conditional thankfully so I don’t need to change it. It looks like we’ll both be leaving peacefully together, but who knows when you’ll strike again))

Retaliate against any attacks made against me with my occult knife. Then leave the building and return to the team, taking my cable harness and the only means of escaping with me.

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.

I see what you're doing there baldwin, but since that would likely only slow things down for a turn or two, I'm going to say you two are now both back in the EdPC. We'll assume this whole argument happened before the EdPC drove off and you got in with everyone else.

Keep being ready to shoot the corpses if they decide to be unfriendly.

Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)

Name: Ji Fuchikoma
Rank: Senior Security Expert
Physical Description:

A Short, Athletic, and Absolutely Stacked Girl, who has an uncanny resemblance to an anime character. She has pale freckled skin and, fiery red hair, and large emerald green eyes. She as a pair of fox ears and a fox tail.
She is a Waifu-Bot based on a player avatar from the Waifu Assassins Guild series.

Background:

Once known as Woldo, a gamer who replaced his physical body with an android based on his famous video game avatar.

Life: d10 Robobody
Attack: d6 rifle x3mags

d6 Generic Security Rifle
Anti-bio razor (2d6 against living/ 1d6 vs others)
2d6 Piledriver Carbine
d6+d8 Amplified Wand

Ammo:
Rifle (use d6)(3 magazines)
Piledriver Carbine (use d4)(6 magazines)
2 pistol mags (use d4)

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

Skills:
Melee: d12
Guns: d12
Explosives: d4
Implants: d10
Mechanics: d4
Technology: d4
Medical: d4
Occult: d4
Speech: d4

Inventory:
Amplified Wand (Bat)
Piledriver Carbine
OMNITECH electrical behavior modification implant
OMNITECH Omni-light
Anti-Bio Razor
OMNITECH Generic Security Baton (in LaF box with the claw)
Brain Backup
Experimental Gun
Lizard Claw (in LaF box with the baton)
Box of antique electronics
Box of antique mechanic bits
Box of airplane pins

Money:
502

There is some question as to how effective bullets will be against livng corpses. Or parts of living corpses. But Ji keeps the gun trained on the horrorshow just in case.

"Well this sucks. Do you think you can summon another ghost kaiju if whatever is sealed here decides to eat us, Wilfred?"

SAM climbs on top of the EdPC for safety, she won't get swarmed by undead she tells you that much

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 scrambles up on top of the EdPC and lays flat against its roof.

"I'm not liking this thing and want nothing to do with it."
Be ready to man a turret in case the weird wall decides to eat us or something.

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

Also ready to shoot walls if they should become hostile. An odd phrase.

"Well this sucks. Do you think you can summon another ghost kaiju if whatever is sealed here decides to eat us, Wilfred?"

"...Maybe.  Last time was pretty special, there were a lot of upset corpses that I really only prodded into waking up.  Trying here might just make the gate get up and eat us, rather than summon another skelezor to smash it."

"Also, if we can avoid this by driving around it, we'll be doing that. Wil, what do you think, does this thing or its effects stretch out beyond?"

Wilfred awkwardly slams a heavy metal fist into the metal plating below his main camera, letting out a considering "Hmmm..."

"...Probably not?  I'd wager this is containment, not corruption.  Someone prolly wanted to probe HELL for funsies, so they put this here to keep it in check.  And make sure that when the gate blows up it's safely away from their base.  I doubt anything will happen if we leave, or at least it'll hopefully happen long after we're out of Detroit.  We could send in Tara and the dude who got trapped by grass though!  Maybe they'll come out with sweet HELL powers, and if not, hey?  No biggie."

Hey Wilfred, you’ve been to the afterlife at some point somehow, did you ever see souls get trapped in places or were they allowed to move freely?

"Eh?  Oh, uh, the alien god was trapping all the souls in the universe when I visited, I think.  But I ran him off, so we don't have to worry about that anymore."

Provide Yagyu with occultist exposition about the perimeter, if he needs any.

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)

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

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.

We shall see if your exposition powers are required. Seems like no, for the  moment,  but we'll have a long monologe and a maniacal laugh primed.

The aerial scans of this place reveal two things. First, the gate is pretty new as the latest scans show it mid construction.

Who made this then? And was it already in the process of being filled with gore then, or did that come later?

In fact, look at those latest scans again into the area beyond it. Any other similar gates being constructed elsewhere? Any other occult shenanigans I can spot?

Second, the gate seems to be a singular thing. No walls to go with it.  Seems like you could just go around, if you wanted.

Does it seem likely that there is a sort of invisible perimeter that has some sort of effect, with the gate being the only 'physical' manifestation of the barrier? Or more likely that this is indeed just a single thing on its own? Ask Wil for some feedback here, he's a smart haunted cookie.

Oh, and can I find anything about those pollen? What kind of plants for example?


"Careful there Tara, don't get pulled into... whatever all that is.

Also, if we can avoid this by driving around it, we'll be doing that. Wil, what do you think, does this thing or its effects stretch out beyond?"

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

The people constructing the gate, from what you can see of them, are wearing hazmat suits. Bright orange rubbery things. No gang branding as it were, just generic suits. There are trucks parked near the half completed gate: Trucks carrying large cages filled with what appear to be living people.

As per things beyond this...yes there are other shenanigans around but none that seem connected to this and none that will likely be in the same place now. Wandering gang of animate statues and the like.

As per invisible barriers...kind of hard to tell since they're invisible and all. But, judging from scans, readings, and WIlfred's gut feelings,  no. This gate seems to be stand alone. In fact, Wilfred is fairly certain the gate isn't even designed to keep people out so much as it is made to allow entry into somewhere.

The pollen- or rather pollens- isn't exactly like anything known, but has great similiarities to other plants. Specifically, wheat and several fruit trees along with wildflowers and some kinds of grass. THey're all very similar, but slightly different. Whats even more interesting is that analysis shows no sign of genetic manipulation or engineering. These are "natural" variants.

Bob follows tar out of the Chevrolet Movie Theater and is ready to bite zombie gate corpse and death roll if it attacks Tara.

Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)

Name: Bob the Biter
Physical Description: Your basic primal swamp dinosaur. With a yellow hard hat.
Background: Who knows? The Company discovered that he has a knack for fixing ... things, and he hasn't eaten anyone important enough to care about yet. Somehow, some joker from the sanitation department got him on the payroll. He was there for quite a while before the bureaucrats found out and moved him to the engineering payroll.

Life: d4 (or whatever the riot suit gives. D6?)
Attack: d4 (Bite)/d8 (tentacle: occult)

Stats:
Strength: d10
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d4
Endurance: d4
Will: d8
Knowledge: d4
Fate: d4

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


Status: Bitey
Inventory:OMNITECH Red Jumpsuit. Shredded bits of this are found in various points around Bob's body.
Omnitech Modified Riot Suit. Fit for an evolutionary relic.
OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack) x3 Magazines (d4 use die) strapped to the end of his tail 
OMNITECH Tool kit (3 charges).
Box of 5 high visibility flares.

spiderbot (nuclear? cat ears attached)
Life d4
Attack: Needle gun [d4 ranged]
Strength: d4
Dexterity: d8
Speed: d8
Endurance: d4
Will: d4
Knowledge: d6
Fate: d6

decorative hat
dwarf bobblehead
mini cape
tentacle
Money: 600

Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)

addressed human rights violations by attempting to dispose of substandard foodstock from contaminating the food supply.
flushed the toilet
depressurized butadiene and styrene-butadiene pressurized rotational ground contact devices
acquired sustenance
Established a beachhead in the yelllowzone along with Anya
fixed broken plane computer
Bob
Haiku
Ghost mystery solved, small snacks only
Mounted Upsetting Frog Logo^TM to EdPC
Stealthily reconnoitered scientist's office for sna ... secrets. And also snacks.
Drove (well, rode along in) a Chevrolet to a movie theater.
Built Chevrolet Movie Theater

We didn’t do this to you, are you one consciousness now or many? If you are still individuals, maybe I can cut you loose, hopefully ending your suffering
Tara drives to the nearest screaming corpse in one piece and tries cutting it away from the impaling, hopefully dodging any flailing
I’m trying to help you, please don’t hurt me, I might be able to free you from the gate. If you are the gate’s consciousness, think of this like mitosis or budding

(Thar ain't no sheet on that...)
[2]
Tara drives near to the gate, over to a corpse impaled on a chunk of concrete. Its been jammed onto three sharpened rebar rods jutting out of the concrete block. Tara attempts to get the thing off but between its flailing and the anchoring power of three metal rods through its spine, the body stays where it is. The corpse seems only vaguely, if at all, aware of her.

[ANGRY_DEMON_NOISES]

"Well we tried, Rest in Pepperoni to them but we really should scram before Shakaxhs the World Molester decides to come out of that gate and diddle our very souls."

[syvarris]

"I've gotta agree with the erotic horrorshow, we oughtta screw off and only leave the mookiest among us to poke at the unholy screaming corpses."

[Naturegirl1999]

((Sorry))

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

Use Plasma Cutter to cut the rods away

[heydude6]

"Frankly, even I'm disturbed by this." Baldwin says while grimacing at the writhing mass, until his gaze drifts towards the corpse Will shot.

"At least you put one of them out of their misery. We came here for information, and the ghost might have known something. What did he tell you Will?"

Upon not receiving an answer for a while, Baldwin then asks:

"You did talk to the ghost, right?"

[The Lupanian]

”My main concern is this. This thing isn’t linked to the incident. Our job is to try to solve said incident, and if we do, I assume that many of these occult weirdnesses would fade, but this would remain. Perhaps we can track down the individuals who built this thing and ask them some questions.”

[Ozarck]

"I've gotta agree with the erotic horrorshow, we oughtta screw off and only leave the mookiest among us to poke at the unholy screaming corpses."

The MOOKiest, you say? Bob's in.

Stay with Tara and the Chevrolet Movie Theater. Examine the corpse with all d4 of my occult ability and walnut-sized brain (heck, examine it again with all d4 of my medical ability ... and walnut-sized brain). Let my brain and stomach decide what to do with this situation. If my brain and stomahc can't decide, let my d4 Fate decide.

Spoiler: Team Mascot (click to show/hide)

Name: Bob the Biter
Physical Description: Your basic primal swamp dinosaur. With a yellow hard hat.
Background: Who knows? The Company discovered that he has a knack for fixing ... things, and he hasn't eaten anyone important enough to care about yet. Somehow, some joker from the sanitation department got him on the payroll. He was there for quite a while before the bureaucrats found out and moved him to the engineering payroll.

Life: d4 (or whatever the riot suit gives. D6?)
Attack: d4 (Bite)/d8 (tentacle: occult)

Stats:
Strength: d10
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d4
Endurance: d4
Will: d8
Knowledge: d4
Fate: d4

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


Status: Bitey
Inventory:OMNITECH Red Jumpsuit. Shredded bits of this are found in various points around Bob's body.
Omnitech Modified Riot Suit. Fit for an evolutionary relic.
OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack) x3 Magazines (d4 use die) strapped to the end of his tail 
OMNITECH Tool kit (3 charges).
Box of 5 high visibility flares.

spiderbot (nuclear? cat ears attached)
Life d4
Attack: Needle gun [d4 ranged]
Strength: d4
Dexterity: d8
Speed: d8
Endurance: d4
Will: d4
Knowledge: d6
Fate: d6

decorative hat
dwarf bobblehead
mini cape
tentacle
Money: 600

Spoiler: things Bob did this mission (click to show/hide)

addressed human rights violations by attempting to dispose of substandard foodstock from contaminating the food supply.
flushed the toilet
depressurized butadiene and styrene-butadiene pressurized rotational ground contact devices
acquired sustenance
Established a beachhead in the yelllowzone along with Anya
fixed broken plane computer
Bob
Haiku
Ghost mystery solved, small snacks only
Mounted Upsetting Frog Logo^TM to EdPC
Stealthily reconnoitered scientist's office for sna ... secrets. And also snacks.
Drove (well, rode along in) a Chevrolet to a movie theater.
Built Chevrolet Movie Theater
The MOOKiest

[Radio Controlled]

"So uh, what's the play here, boss man? We just gonna ignore this whole shebang and drive around it?"

"Yeah, ain't nobody got time for this. At least not right now. We still have a job to do, and if we can figure out how to unfuck this whole city then the gov types can send in actual specialists to deal with all of this.

If anyone wants to stay, feel free, we can stay in contact over the radio. Just be careful and don't bite off more than you can chew."

Let's go! Preferably before anyone screws with the gate and things start crawling in or out. Same destination as before, and yes, still try to avoid shenanigans on the way.

The people constructing the gate, from what you can see of them, are wearing hazmat suits. Bright orange rubbery things. No gang branding as it were, just generic suits. There are trucks parked near the half completed gate: Trucks carrying large cages filled with what appear to be living people.

On the way there, going back through these old scans, try to determine where the trucks came from, maybe that'll help determine who did this.

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

[The Lupanian]

Stick with the EPC for now. Respond to hostilities in kind as usual.

Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)

Name: Ji Fuchikoma
Rank: Senior Security Expert
Physical Description:

A Short, Athletic, and Absolutely Stacked Girl, who has an uncanny resemblance to an anime character. She has pale freckled skin and, fiery red hair, and large emerald green eyes. She as a pair of fox ears and a fox tail.
She is a Waifu-Bot based on a player avatar from the Waifu Assassins Guild series.

Background:

Once known as Woldo, a gamer who replaced his physical body with an android based on his famous video game avatar.

Life: d10 Robobody
Attack: d6 rifle x3mags

d6 Generic Security Rifle
Anti-bio razor (2d6 against living/ 1d6 vs others)
2d6 Piledriver Carbine
d6+d8 Amplified Wand

Ammo:
Rifle (use d6)(3 magazines)
Piledriver Carbine (use d4)(6 magazines)
2 pistol mags (use d4)

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

Skills:
Melee: d12
Guns: d12
Explosives: d4
Implants: d10
Mechanics: d4
Technology: d4
Medical: d4
Occult: d4
Speech: d4

Inventory:
Amplified Wand (Bat)
Piledriver Carbine
OMNITECH electrical behavior modification implant
OMNITECH Omni-light
Anti-Bio Razor
OMNITECH Generic Security Baton (in LaF box with the claw)
Brain Backup
Experimental Gun
Lizard Claw (in LaF box with the baton)
Box of antique electronics
Box of antique mechanic bits
Box of airplane pins

Money:
502

[King Zultan]

"Let us leave this place, and ignore the wiggling corpses!"
Keep sitting in the EDPC and use the turret to kill any hostile things that get to close.

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