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[Horizon]

((Someone's still salty about make believe item theft.))

[syvarris]

((The issue I have with giving out the gun is actually much more practical.  I don't think it will help at all with killing the pain elementals, and will likely instead result in negative consequences for the shooter, and possibly everyone else around.  Testing it here is mostly all downside, with the one upside of learning about the gun... and since Wilfred has a psychometric reconstructor, there's a very safe way to do that.  It's just a bad idea, I have no reason to support it.  That said, you make a good point--Wilfred already agreed to a test before, because he doesn't really care about all that.  He's not very good at weighing consequences, and for him the biggest downside of Baldwin testing it is that Wilfred won't be there to witness the carnage.  But he can review the security footage, thinking about it.

Also, Dev is a good friend of mine, and calling him scummy doesn't really help your case.    I'm not worried about theft, that's... pretty obviously an awful idea.))

Baldwin catches Wilfred just as he's leaving the dorms.  And by 'catches', I mean he finds Wilfred and starts following him while describing why he wants the occult gun.  There's no response for a solid minute, and then Wilfred sighs heavily, and stops.

"Alright, alright, whatever.  Just make sure to fire it in mew of some cameras, I want to see the carnage."

The cockpit of Wilfred's hardsuit opens, and the catgirl leans out, offering the strange gun to Baldwin.

[Egan_BW]

Go with Wil and probably grab a blindfold and TTS headphones because that would be a good idea. Regardless of how bad the rest of the ideas here may be.

Spoiler: explosives "engineer" Kora (click to show/hide)

Name: "Kora"
Physical Description: A generally unimpressive woman in her thirties, a bit fat and her curly red hair is unwashed. Can generally be seen to be smiling faintly, with unfocused eyes. Wears a silvery cape and hood over the red "ENGINEERING" jumpsuit, with a big camera attached to her shoulder, a belt of grenades, and a rocket launcher slung on her back.
Background: To hear her neighbors speak of it, she was some kind of mad chemist who inhaled too many fumes and went mad. The truth is that she's no chemist at all, but just likes to blow things up and knows how to follow directions from the internet. She never did anything illegal, technically, but after some conversations with the cops she decided it'd be better to go find a job which actually involves intentional explosions.

Life: d6 Reactive Fabric Cape
Attack: d2 fists

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

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

Status: drunk
Inventory:
Red Jumpsuit
Reactive Fabric Cape
RnD Shoulder Camera
Toolkit, 3 charges
Flare x5
frag grenade d12 x1
rocket launcher d12+3, uses explosives
Money: 0

Spoiler: notes (click to show/hide)

left an omnitech generic sidearm and three magazines in the lost and found box.
got a loan of 250 omni from the shark.
agreed with RnD to carry a "large shoulder-mounted camera", for a reward.

Filmed Wil buying "MONKEY PUMP".
Drank on the job.
Exploded some gimps. Expended 75 omni.
Did it again.
Went into a coma.
Camera was left in gimp room.
Helped Wil convince the authorities to allow the ill-advised security breach of giving Derp a cube.

[Pancaek]

"I swear, this thing must be some refurbished shit. Or are the batteries running low or something?"

Once more, see if I can't find what subsequent "ritual fo sensations" demanded, both through the omniscient network and the regular company intranet. Or at least what the last known one was, to see how close these pain elementals might be to the "something terrible" they're working up to. Send an e-mail to the analysts who worked on this back in the day if need be.

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.

After spending a mission as the EdPC, he now has a cyborg octopus body. Matte black and stands (slithers?) at about chest height

Life: d8
Attack: d4 sidearm (d4 use die current mag)

Stats: Octobody
Strength: d6
Dexterity: d8
Speed: d6
Endurance: d8
Will: d6
Knowledge: d12
Fate: d6

Skills ((1 levelup unspent from last mission))
Melee: d4
Guns:d6
Explosives:d4
Implants:d4
Mechanics:d12
Technology:d12
Medical:d4
Occult:d4
Speech: d4

Inventory:
OMNITECH White Jumpsuit
OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack) x2 spare Magazines (d4 use die)
OMNITECH Override Fob (Allows activation of most vehicles)
OMNITECH Personal Computing Cube and Universal adapter
OMNITECH cognition copier

Toolbox (3 charges)
Fancy multitool: at least screwdrivers and a welding tool
3 Small camera drones that can fly and stick to walls

OCTOBODY: About chest height, matte black. Has suckers on the 8 tentacles that allow sticking to surfaces, along with optical camouflage.
- OMNITECH Reactive Personal Shield generator (d8 protection but has d4 use die. Recharges between missions)
- OMNITECH Negotiation enhancer (A built in lie detector that will alert the user when someone is being untruthful around them.)
- OMNITECH Voice manipulator (Allows the user to modulate and adjust their voice manually or to copy a voice they have a sample of)
- OMNI-scient Network observer (A police scanner like device for the OMNI-scient network)
- Sensor suite: Stuff like infrared, heat, zoom, etc. Basically very fancy eyes.

870 OMNIBUX

[piecewise]

Blubber something about "Damn fat cat bluecoats" or whatever and give the two-hundred omni but also see if I can convince the med staff to improve my arm as well, maybe for a bit more omni.

Spoiler: Scottish Medic (click to show/hide)

Name: Alec "Al" Mackay
Physical Description: Al is barrel chested with thick arms covered in tattoos that only the saltiest of sailors sport. Has an impressive moustache and comb over, his hair is auburn and eyes are blue.
Background: Al fancied the tales of his forefather's forefathers, whom were salty sea dogs and has acted like a surly son-of-a-bitch since he first grew facial hair, he took schooling as a medic cause the pay sounded good and it gives him a chance to do good while not drunkenly staggering around.

Life: d2
Attack: d2
Stats:
    - Strength: d8
    - Dexterity: d4
    - Speed: d4
    - Endurance: d6
    - Will: d6
    - Knowledge: d4
    - Fate: d4

Skills:
    - Melee: d8
    - Guns: d4
    - Explosives: d4
    - Implants: d4
    - Mechanics: d4
    - Technology: d4
    - Medical: d6
    - Occult: d4
    - Speech: d4
Status: MOMKEY PUNK DRUNK, fucked arm

Inventory:
   - OMNITECH Green Jumpsuit
   - OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack) x3 Magazines (d4 use die)
   - OMNITECH Medical Kit (x3 Charges, Advantage on Medical Roll) I
   - OMNITECH Stimulant (Raises life by one until next injury)

Money: 300 OMNI

[3]
They replace your arm with a robot one. Robot arms are definitely better than flesh.

Having encountered a literal dead end with the closet after leaving the room to avoid the obvious bomb, Baldwin remembers the darkness gun and decides the pain elementals would be the perfect test subject. Perhaps it annihilates souls and if that were the case, everything can be wrapped up with a neat bow.

Baldwin attempts to track down Wilfred so he can ask him if he can borrow the gun. For Science. He reasons the Pain elementals would be quite helpful at describing the sensation of being shot by it.

EDIT: Run back to the group once Wilfred gives the gun to me if there's time

Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)

Name: Robert Baldwin
Physical Description: A tall, pale, 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.

Also has blood wings and a blood halo now...

Background:  In a past life, Robert was a nature-loving hippy who abandoned his passion for cold-hard cash. Now a shameless capitalist, he thought up many money-making schemes as an occultist at OMMNI, but he encountered failure after failure before meeting his end within the SAM hivemind. Somehow he managed to make it back, but it's hard to gauge how much of his old personality is still intact.

Before even this, 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...

And you know the rest.

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: d6
Knowledge: d6
Fate: d6

Skills:
Melee: d4
Guns: d4
Explosives: d8
Implants: d4
Mechanics: d4
Technology: d4
Medical: d4
Occult: d10
Speech: d6

Status: Pain Receptors: off

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 5
    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 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 Placed charge (Demo pack, with remote, 3d10 damage, single use)

OMNITECH EMP grenade (d20 damage, only effects electronics. Single use)

OMNITECH Cognition Copier

OMNITECH Reactive fabric cape (1d6 life)

OMNITECH Passive Personal Shield Generator (d12 life, d4 use die.  Use die is rolled every turn it remains active, activation takes five seconds before the shield becomes active.)


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.
Useful for scouting

Money: 42 OMNI, plus -400 OMNI worth of debt, 147 Megabucks.

We'll assume you got it and made it back.

That's a start.. just need some better weapons, then.

Lets see what Bill Pelican can turn up.  Either some mind drugs that cause sensory deprivation, or some kind of agent that actively destroys nerve endings.  Or both, in a fun injectable cocktail.  There must be some nice antagonists or overly-firm receptor binding agents around..

Hopefully it'll be free, but if not, well, I can borrow the money for them and submit it as expenses.

Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)

Name: Summer
Physical Description: Young woman with a striking appearance and large.. assets.  Long black hair.
Background: Fomer sales pool worker who decided to throw away a promising career of forty years of utter drudgery for a much more exciting opportunity.

Life: d7 (Stimmed)
Attack: d2 unarmed, d4 generic pistol

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

Skills:
Melee: d4
Guns: d4
Explosives: d6
Implants: d4
Mechanics: d4
Technology: d4
Medical: d6
Occult: d4
Speech: d8

Status:
Fine

Inventory:
OMNITECH Green Jumpsuit
OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack) x3 Magazines (d4 use die)
OMNITECH Medical Kit (2 charges. Expend one to gain advantage on a Medical roll)
Painkillers. d6 use die.
OMNITECH Passive Personal Shield Generator.
Foam Grenade
EMP Grenade
Toolkit (2 charges)

OMNITECH “Omni-fun” VR system
VR Robot Control program. (Can control a single ordinary robot through the VR headset without tech rolls, as if it was Summer's body.  Skills may only be used if robot has appropriate appendages.  Can be use to control different kinds of robots, but only one at a time.)

Mini-robot.  Basically a robot squirrel.
d6 dex, d6 speed.

550 OMNI debt to Yagyu.

Money: 0

Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)

Invented the multi-use painkiller.
Applied painkillers to organic friendlies.
Distracted gimps for a turn, after several allies were badly wounded and walked away almost unharmed.
Discovered the effects of multiple-use stimms
Survived the effects of multiple-use stimms.
Hindered gimps with a gas bomb.

[4]
Mr. Pelican, who you find a few cubicle blocks away digging through someone's desk, just hands you a syringe of some sort of bright red liquid and tells you not to "Get any on yourself" before shooing you away.

Turn off the gas, then politely ask if a PE wants to volunteer to help me test out my Tesla gauntlet.

Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)

Name: Ji “the Gardener” Fuchikoma
Rank: Senior Security Expert and Gardener
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: 2d10 mechsuit + d10 Robobody
Attack: 2d8 Auto-cannon

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

Ammo:
Rifle (use d6)(3 magazines)
Piledriver Carbine (use d4)(6 magazines)
2 pistol mags (use d6)
1 auto-cannon magazine (d6)

Stats:
Strength: d12 (up from d10)
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d4
Endurance: d12
Will: d6
Knowledge: d6
Fate: d6

Skills:
Melee: d12
Guns: d12
Explosives: d6
Implants: d10
Mechanics: d4
Technology: d4
Medical: d4
Occult: d4
Speech: d4

Inventory:
Amplified Wand (Bat)
OMNITECH electrical behavior modification implant
OMNITECH Omni-light
Brain Backup
Experimental Gun
Turret auto-cannon
Bottle with Lizard eye (from L&F box)
Tesla gauntlet (from L&F box)

Money:
-5

Items in Lost & Found:
Box of Aka-goo
airplane pin
Containment pod with tortoise ghost

Items on/up for loan:
Armored Space Suit
Chainsaw (d10)
Piledriver Carbine (6 mags)
2 pistol mags (keep)

Debt -5 omni

You turn off the gas and ask one of the pain elementals that hasn't been trapped in the goop -new ones are wandering out of the door all the time at this point- to help test your gauntlet. He agrees happily.

"You guys sure do like to talk in riddles, I don't even know where I'd get a hollow log guess I could use a pipe instead."
I guess I should act on this advice so I shall go find a turkey and a section of pipe big enough the turkey will fit in then shove the turkey into the pipe, then take it over to where the gimps are and see if I can convince them that the mystery pipe is something incredible and the only way I'll give it to them is if they leave and shut the door, and if they do accept this deal let them leave then give them the pipe.

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: Advanced Combat Technician: (Gets an extra 100 Omni per mission)
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: d10
 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 (3 / 3)
 OMNITECH Tool kit (3 / 3)
 High visibility flares x4
 Cognition copier
 Mysterious remote control
 Box of protein bars
 First Aid kit (1)
 Fire extinguisher (d6 use)
 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)
 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.
 A gun effectively identical to the containment turrets, d8 ammo and not reloadable
 Rocket Launcher (d12+3 ranged explosive)
 Flashlight
 Laptop
 Smartphone
 A small ball that has complex etched designs on the surface and smolders with yellow flames
 Knife
 Machete
 Rifle (d8 ranged attack) would have d6 mags if I had any.
 5 Handguns (d6 ranged attack) would have d6 mags if I had any.
 Ghost fox
 Mr. Frog: The big frog in suspenders, now with big brain
 Miss Godiva Goose: The female goose with...a large chest...dressed in purple, furs and boa, now with big brain
 Prickly Dan: The porcupine in overalls and floppy cap, now with big brain
Money:
 145 Omni
 6,000 Megabucks

Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)

Fixed some animatronic guys and made friends with them.
Got lost looking for gimps found shrieking skill.
Accidentally activates said skull.
Thew the skull into the pain dimension where it had no effect.

[1]
You get your head stuck in a 3 foot length of pipe.

I don't even know how.

Where did you even get that?

[3]
"We are always looking for new explorers in the realm of sensation! New lands to conquer, as it were."
They listen to your explanation about HELL
"Ah, interesting. They seem rather uncivilized, but they do also seem to have their hearts in the right place."
"Yes! Removing the entire skeleton from someone all in one instant! What wonderful skill".
"Rowdy is just another word for enthusiastic."
They seem to approve of the idea of spreading their ideas and practices in HELL.

So, it seems we have come to an agreement then? We provide them with an interesting denizen of HELL, and in return they pack up and leave us alone. Do I have that correctly? Or do they want us to take them to HELL?

Either way, check with our superiors to see if they're on board with our plan.

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

Name: Yagyu d'Aubigny
Physical Description: pushbot
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: d6
Attack: d4 (goop)

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

Skills:
Melee: d4
Guns: d12
Explosives: d4
Implants: d4
Mechanics: d8
Technology: d8
Medical: d4
Occult: d4
Speech: d4


Status: Comme ci comme ça

Inventory:
OMNITECH Isolation Suit (Protection from many environmental dangers)
Cognition copier
bodyparts, enough for full body (in cold storage)       
goop thrower (d4 attack. Does no damage. If successful, target is immobilized.)
   -current goop tank d8/d8
   -spare goop tank d8/d8
Sealing Tool (D4 use die)
environmental scanner

Money: 1639
500 loaned to Summer

They seem to want a portal into HELL rather than just a single citizen of it.
[2]
You attempt to convince command that HELL is the perfect place to send pain obsessed immortals. It honestly does make sense. Command is very non-committal though: they seem to worry that giving the Pain elementals access to hell might come back to bite humanity in the future.

Wilfred doesn't have aaaany problem delivering the cube.  He just needs to be pointed in the right direction.  Also, told, like, who's in charge of Derp's containment.  Go pick up some audio-blocking text to speech earphones from the dorms, first, then head down there.

Baldwin isn't getting Wilfred's toy gun unless he successfully makes a convincing offer beyond "heeeey can I have it for a bit pretty please?"  I haven't forgotten about it, it's just not a priority right now.  It's still not his.  Okay fine he can have the Fragile Darkness.

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 is an upsettingly poorly clothed buff catgirl.  Who still sounds identical to Wil Wheaton.
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: Class 02 weapon of mass destruction. (Always starts missions with a cognition copier)
Senior Xeno-Ambassador (+150 omni per mission)
Life: 2d8 Hardsuit
Attack: 4d4 Acidthrower

Stats:
Str 1d6 1d10 hardsuit
Dex 1d8
Spd 1d8
End 1d10
Wil 1d12
Kno 1d6 1d12 Subspace Library
Fte 1d10

Skills:

Mel d4
Gun d10
Exp d4
Imp d4
Mec d4
Tec d12
Med d4
Occ d12
Spc d4

Status: Drunk!

Inventory:
OMNITECH Cognition Copier (equipped)

Cat-sized woodlouse named "Rolly-Polly"

OMNITECH Hardsuit (2d8 life, d8 jumpjets)
---Can skim on smaller rockets
---Built in binocular view
Anomaly detection watch
Hacked observation drone from Detroit
Psychometric Reconstructor (Occult tool)
Subspace Library Search Engine (Replaces know with tech)
Spiderbot
Glowsticks
Glow spraypaint
Earplugs
2x Nutrient paste
Jerry can of monkey pump alcohol
A small black and gold cube. When manipulated correctly, it produces a temporary portal to the pain dimension.


OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack) (Three d4 magazines)
"Cold Comfort" - OMNITECH Generic Security Rifle (d6 ranged attack) (Five 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)
Fragile Darkness artifact gun ()

Money: 100

Spoiler: Mission achievements (click to show/hide)

-Got drunk with Kora
-Protected Ji from being hit by a frag grenade, for some reason, despite that not being my action and Ji being inside a minimech
-Successfully attempted to close the door to the pain dimension, and failed.
-Provided alcohol to dull the pain of one of the medics, after said medic was severely injured.
-Had an amicable chat with the pain elementals, maybe making some new friends.  Was given Lemarchand's Box.  ^v^
-Somehow, with minimum charisma, while drunk, convinced command to grant Wilfred authorization to give an artifact of doom to a person of doom.

They provide you with instructions that point towards an elevator, followed by a long monorail ride, another elevator, and then a several mile walk. Finally, you reach the giant doorway that they claim leads to Mr. Friend. He's apparently suspended in a sensory deprivation chamber held in place by magnetic restraints above a deep shaft. If he starts to escape the cell will be dropped straight into the pit. Thats what they told you at least, but you haven't seen what lies beyond that door yet.

"..I mean, okay.  You going to arrest Baldwin for doing random occult experiments?  Or Kora for throwing actually-lethal grenades?

If you work with me we might find a weapon that works on them."

"Agh fine ill let you off with a warning this time but next time please think about what your doing before you do it, I mean come on who knows how long its gonna take for that gas to dissipate! Not even mentioning you gassed poor Bob... Also if I see you try to throw anything else in that room without explaining what it is to me first again im tackling you down to the ground."
Sit back down in my chair slightly more alert thanks to Summer's shenigans.

Spoiler:  Jack Blackwater (click to show/hide)

Name: Jack Blackwater
Physical Description: A average built jittery man with curled up short black hair and blue eyes who looks like he drinks way too much coffee.
Background: Jack was a security guard who by one day stumbling upon access to hidden cameras over the past couple weeks (but it feels like years) have been secretly watching the "MOOK Squad" through almost each and every one of their missions to date from unfortunate warp travel accidents to attempted ape murder Jack has seen it all with popcorn in hand. Of course nothing good last forever and the guys above eventually caught onto Jacks snooping but rather than "Firing" him it was decided that he would be transferred to work for the "MOOK Squad"... indefinitely.
Class: Security
Life: OMNITECH Riot suit (d6 Life)
Attack: OMNITECH Generic Security Rifle (d6 ranged Attack) / OMNITECH Generic Security Baton (d4 melee attack)

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

Skills:
 Melee: d6
 Guns: d8
 Explosives: d4
 Implants: d4
 Mechanics: d4
 Technology: d4
 Medical: d4
 Occult: d4
 Speech: d4

Status: Fine
Inventory:
OMNITECH Riot suit (d6 Life)
    A set of all gray body armor notable for its heavy chest and back plates, spherical pauldrons, articulated gauntlets and face obscuring helmet. Has “SECURITY” stenciled across the front and a big OMNITECH eye logo stamped on the helmet.
OMNITECH Generic Security Rifle (d6 ranged Attack) and 3 magazines (d6 use die)
    One of the “Generic” brand of OMNITECH weapons which are ubiquitous in OMNITECH installations. It is an unassuming gray brick of a gun that most resembles a P90 as designed by someone with an intense passion for straight lines and 90 degree angles. It is a bullpup design with a large magazine slotted into a spot on the top of the weapon. Uses standard UEC 7.5mmx50mm steel-carbide rounds.   The word “RIFLE” has been stenciled along one side of the weapon.
OMNITECH Generic Security Baton (d4 melee attack)
    One of the “Generic” brand of OMNITECH weapons which are ubiquitous in OMNITECH installations. A non-collapsible metal tonfa with a square shaped striking surface to allow for both flat and edged blows. The solid metal construction is further enhanced with embedded weights to make the weapon both balanced and capable of more powerful strikes.  Has the word “BATON” stenciled on one side and “SECURITY” on the other.
OMNITECH electrical behavior modification implant
    A standard “contractual obligation enforcing” implant given to all Security personnel. Allows supervisors to inflict “Electrical Guidance” to the security agent if they are, in the supervisor’s opinion, acting incorrectly.
OMNITECH Omni-light
    A consumer brand flashlight produced by OMNITECH. Painted gray and labeled “FLASHLIGHT” to fit in with the generic brand of everything else.
A Cognition Copier
Money:
100 Omni

Waiting intensifies.

Go with Wil and probably grab a blindfold and TTS headphones because that would be a good idea. Regardless of how bad the rest of the ideas here may be.

Spoiler: explosives "engineer" Kora (click to show/hide)

Name: "Kora"
Physical Description: A generally unimpressive woman in her thirties, a bit fat and her curly red hair is unwashed. Can generally be seen to be smiling faintly, with unfocused eyes. Wears a silvery cape and hood over the red "ENGINEERING" jumpsuit, with a big camera attached to her shoulder, a belt of grenades, and a rocket launcher slung on her back.
Background: To hear her neighbors speak of it, she was some kind of mad chemist who inhaled too many fumes and went mad. The truth is that she's no chemist at all, but just likes to blow things up and knows how to follow directions from the internet. She never did anything illegal, technically, but after some conversations with the cops she decided it'd be better to go find a job which actually involves intentional explosions.

Life: d6 Reactive Fabric Cape
Attack: d2 fists

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

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

Status: drunk
Inventory:
Red Jumpsuit
Reactive Fabric Cape
RnD Shoulder Camera
Toolkit, 3 charges
Flare x5
frag grenade d12 x1
rocket launcher d12+3, uses explosives
Money: 0

Spoiler: notes (click to show/hide)

left an omnitech generic sidearm and three magazines in the lost and found box.
got a loan of 250 omni from the shark.
agreed with RnD to carry a "large shoulder-mounted camera", for a reward.

Filmed Wil buying "MONKEY PUMP".
Drank on the job.
Exploded some gimps. Expended 75 omni.
Did it again.
Went into a coma.
Camera was left in gimp room.
Helped Wil convince the authorities to allow the ill-advised security breach of giving Derp a cube.

We'll assume you get those things and that he...probably...takes you with.
[4]
Its not entirely clear what all of them were, but the most recent one apparently involves something called the "Torture Core". Which, from info you can come by, it seems to be some sort of continous torture program running in the deep bowels of the OMNI moon base.  You can't find any specifics....

[Horizon]

((Does the arm change anything about my stats or is it purely ascetic?))

[The Lupanian]

Take the PE into a side corridor. Fully charge my Tesla gauntlet (if possible) and punch the PE with it

Spoiler: Ji (click to show/hide)

Name: Ji “the Gardener” Fuchikoma
Rank: Senior Security Expert and Gardener
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: 2d10 mechsuit + d10 Robobody
Attack: 2d8 Auto-cannon

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

Ammo:
Rifle (use d6)(3 magazines)
Piledriver Carbine (use d4)(6 magazines)
2 pistol mags (use d6)
1 auto-cannon magazine (d6)

Stats:
Strength: d12 (up from d10)
Dexterity: d6
Speed: d4
Endurance: d12
Will: d6
Knowledge: d6
Fate: d6

Skills:
Melee: d12
Guns: d12
Explosives: d6
Implants: d10
Mechanics: d4
Technology: d4
Medical: d4
Occult: d4
Speech: d4

Inventory:
Amplified Wand (Bat)
OMNITECH electrical behavior modification implant
OMNITECH Omni-light
Brain Backup
Experimental Gun
Turret auto-cannon
Bottle with Lizard eye (from L&F box)
Tesla gauntlet (from L&F box)

Money:
-5

Items in Lost & Found:
Box of Aka-goo
airplane pin
Containment pod with tortoise ghost

Items on/up for loan:
Armored Space Suit
Chainsaw (d10)
Piledriver Carbine (6 mags)
2 pistol mags (keep)

Debt -5 omni

Spoiler: gauntlet (click to show/hide)

 The gauntlet is a melee weapon. The amount of damage it does depends on the amount of charge it has. It builds one charge per turn. It starts at 1d4 and reaches full charge at 5d4. The damage is almost entirely from electrical discharge from the coils. Don't use it in water.

[Pancaek]

Ed sends another e-mail to his team members

E-mail, subject "torture core?":
Hey guys, Ed the supporctopus here again. Did some more digging on the pain elementals, but details are vague. Remember how I mentioned in my last mail that OMNITECH started out their little Pain Elemental Non Agression Pact with something called the "annual stubbing of the toe"? And how those things have gotten progressively worse, and how the analyst team thinks the elementals are working towards something truly big?

Well, as far as I have found, we've gone from the annual stubbing of the toe to currently something that's called the "Torture Core". Which seems to be some sort of continous torture program running in the deep bowels of the OMNI moon base. Worse, that's not even the latest one, it's just the most recent one I could find.

So, uh, seeing how much these things have escalated already, we may not want to give too much more to the elementals. They might be getting close to their ultimate plan thing already.

[Devastator]

"I've got a syringe of stuff that Mr. Pelican thinks can hurt them.  It might help give a better deal."

[King Zultan]

"Oh god this is embarrassing."
Go try and pull the pipe off my head, if that fails have my robot friends help.

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: Advanced Combat Technician: (Gets an extra 100 Omni per mission)
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: d10
 Technology: d6
 Medical: d4
 Occult: d4
 Speech: d4

Status: No longer dead, now with pipe stuck on head.
Inventory:
 OMNITECH Red Jumpsuit
 OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack) x5 Magazines (d4 use die)
 OMNITECH Tool kit (3 / 3)
 OMNITECH Tool kit (3 / 3)
 High visibility flares x4
 Cognition copier
 Mysterious remote control
 Box of protein bars
 First Aid kit (1)
 Fire extinguisher (d6 use)
 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)
 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.
 A gun effectively identical to the containment turrets, d8 ammo and not reloadable
 Rocket Launcher (d12+3 ranged explosive)
 Flashlight
 Laptop
 Smartphone
 A small ball that has complex etched designs on the surface and smolders with yellow flames
 Knife
 Machete
 Rifle (d8 ranged attack) would have d6 mags if I had any.
 5 Handguns (d6 ranged attack) would have d6 mags if I had any.
 Ghost fox
 Mr. Frog: The big frog in suspenders, now with big brain
 Miss Godiva Goose: The female goose with...a large chest...dressed in purple, furs and boa, now with big brain
 Prickly Dan: The porcupine in overalls and floppy cap, now with big brain
Money:
 145 Omni
 6,000 Megabucks

Spoiler: Things I've done. (click to show/hide)

Fixed some animatronic guys and made friends with them.
Got lost looking for gimps found shrieking skill.
Accidentally activates said skull.
Thew the skull into the pain dimension where it had no effect.
Got my head stuck in a piece of pipe.

[syvarris]

"Heeey, guys, Wilfred here.  Just want to warn you, in a few minutes I'll be handing over a portal to the pain dimewnsion over to that old bastard Derp.  It's probably not gonna have any negative consequences for any of us, but just in case, you might want to be somewhere the pain elementals aren't.  And mute me and Kora too.  Just in case.  Don't worry, I've already accepted all the consequences this might result in!  Fuck Derp."

In local speech, he says the following: "Kora.  Ride's over, the fun part starts now.  Give me all your explosives, put on the blindfold, and wear those earplugs.  Or maybe just start running, though I want one of those frags first.  I'll buy you two replacements if I have to use it.  Oh, and stand behind me, unless you want me to shoot you.  Should probably stay still, too."

I didn't specify to leave inventory behind when fetching the TTS gear, but I'm gonna say almost all of Wil's inventory was left behind at his apartment.  Kora has been brought along.  Wait for, oh, three or four minutes before opening the door, and get some stuff ready during that time:

First, I recall Wil programing his robot body in the Derp mission to fire on anything that moved, without his input.  Hilariously, it resulted in him shooting allies as well.  Anyway, dig that program up, and have it run on the hardsuit.  If that's impossible, oh well, nevermind.

Second, prepare a speech-to-text message which states in a robotic voice: "Movement will be fired upon.  Remain still."  Make sure this begins to play on repeat as soon as the door is told to open.

Third, ensure the TTS earplugs are functioning, and set all cameras to 0.2 FPS, updating at the same time.  Ensure the hardsuit is locked.  Ensure the atmosphere is self-contained.  All senses should be accounted for.  In the hardsuit's right hand, hold the generic pistol.  In its left hand, the pain portal box, and a frag grenade.  If the hardsuit's hand isn't large enough to hold both, sit down first and make sure both are in easy reach.


Once the wait is over, trigger the door to open, while the pistol is held at the ready.  Further action depends on what is seen.

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 is an upsettingly poorly clothed buff catgirl.  Who still sounds identical to Wil Wheaton.
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: Class 02 weapon of mass destruction. (Always starts missions with a cognition copier)
Senior Xeno-Ambassador (+150 omni per mission)
Life: 2d8 Hardsuit
Attack: 4d4 Acidthrower

Stats:
Str 1d6 1d10 hardsuit
Dex 1d8
Spd 1d8
End 1d10
Wil 1d12
Kno 1d6 1d12 Subspace Library
Fte 1d10

Skills:

Mel d4
Gun d10
Exp d4
Imp d4
Mec d4
Tec d12
Med d4
Occ d12
Spc d4

Status: Drunk!

Inventory:
OMNITECH Cognition Copier (equipped)

TTS Earplugs
OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack) (Three d4 magazines)
A small black and gold cube. When manipulated correctly, it produces a temporary portal to the pain dimension.

OMNITECH Hardsuit (2d8 life, d8 jumpjets)
---Can skim on smaller rockets
---Built in binocular view

EVERYTHING BELOW LEFT IN PERSONAL ROOM:
Cat-sized woodlouse named "Rolly-Polly"
Anomaly detection watch
Hacked observation drone from Detroit
Psychometric Reconstructor (Occult tool)
Subspace Library Search Engine (Replaces know with tech)
Spiderbot
Glowsticks
Glow spraypaint
2x Nutrient paste
Jerry can of monkey pump alcohol


"Cold Comfort" - OMNITECH Generic Security Rifle (d6 ranged attack) (Five 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)

Fragile Darkness artifact gun () (Given to Baldwin)

Money: 100

Spoiler: Mission achievements (click to show/hide)

-Got drunk with Kora
-Protected Ji from being hit by a frag grenade, for some reason, despite that not being my action and Ji being inside a minimech
-Successfully attempted to close the door to the pain dimension, and failed.
-Provided alcohol to dull the pain of one of the medics, after said medic was severely injured.
-Had an amicable chat with the pain elementals, maybe making some new friends.  Was given Lemarchand's Box.  ^v^
-Somehow, with minimum charisma, and while drunk, convinced command to grant Wilfred authorization to give the above mentioned artifact of doom to a person of doom.

[Devastator]

Get to the door next to the room full of gimps, and arm my squirrel-bot with the syringe from Pelican.  Then put the VR headset on.

"Here's the new weapon Jack.  Can you get the door for my squirrel-bot?"

Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)

Name: Summer
Physical Description: Young woman with a striking appearance and large.. assets.  Long black hair.
Background: Fomer sales pool worker who decided to throw away a promising career of forty years of utter drudgery for a much more exciting opportunity.

Life: d6 (Stimmed)
Attack: d2 unarmed, d4 generic pistol

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

Skills:
Melee: d4
Guns: d4
Explosives: d6
Implants: d4
Mechanics: d4
Technology: d4
Medical: d6
Occult: d4
Speech: d8

Status:
Fine

Inventory:
OMNITECH Green Jumpsuit
OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack) x3 Magazines (d4 use die)
OMNITECH Medical Kit (2 charges. Expend one to gain advantage on a Medical roll)
Painkillers. d6 use die.
OMNITECH Passive Personal Shield Generator.
Foam Grenade
EMP Grenade
Syringe of Pelican Special
Toolkit (2 charges)

OMNITECH “Omni-fun” VR system
VR Robot Control program. (Can control a single ordinary robot through the VR headset without tech rolls, as if it was Summer's body.  Skills may only be used if robot has appropriate appendages.  Can be used to control different kinds of robots, but only one at a time.)

Mini-robot.  Basically a robot squirrel.
d6 dex, d6 speed.

550 OMNI debt to Yagyu.

Money: 0

Spoiler: Accomplishments (click to show/hide)

Invented the multi-use painkiller.
Applied painkillers to organic friendlies.
Distracted gimps for a turn, after several allies were badly wounded and walked away almost unharmed.
Discovered the effects of multiple-use stimms
Survived the effects of multiple-use stimms.
Hindered gimps with a gas bomb.

[Egan_BW]

Give Wil a frag and an rpg.
"Be sure to use it then, I want more of 'em."

Suppress my senses using the provided equipment and prepare for the show. Or the audiobook version of the show, at least.

Spoiler: explosives "engineer" Kora (click to show/hide)

Name: "Kora"
Physical Description: A generally unimpressive woman in her thirties, a bit fat and her curly red hair is unwashed. Can generally be seen to be smiling faintly, with unfocused eyes. Wears a silvery cape and hood over the red "ENGINEERING" jumpsuit, with a big camera attached to her shoulder, a belt of grenades, and a rocket launcher slung on her back.
Background: To hear her neighbors speak of it, she was some kind of mad chemist who inhaled too many fumes and went mad. The truth is that she's no chemist at all, but just likes to blow things up and knows how to follow directions from the internet. She never did anything illegal, technically, but after some conversations with the cops she decided it'd be better to go find a job which actually involves intentional explosions.

Life: d6 Reactive Fabric Cape
Attack: d2 fists

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

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

Status: drunk
Inventory:
Red Jumpsuit
Reactive Fabric Cape
RnD Shoulder Camera
Toolkit, 3 charges
Flare x5
frag grenade d12 x1
rocket launcher d12+3, uses explosives
Money: 0

Spoiler: notes (click to show/hide)

left an omnitech generic sidearm and three magazines in the lost and found box.
got a loan of 250 omni from the shark.
agreed with RnD to carry a "large shoulder-mounted camera", for a reward.

Filmed Wil buying "MONKEY PUMP".
Drank on the job.
Exploded some gimps. Expended 75 omni.
Did it again.
Went into a coma.
Camera was left in gimp room.
Helped Wil convince the authorities to allow the ill-advised security breach of giving Derp a cube.

[heydude6]

Some time passes, when Baldwin kicks open the door before nonchalantly strolling in, dressed in a suit and carrying the gun. Hopefully the gas had dispersed by then.

He takes a puff from his pipe and clears his throat.

"Err-hm. Gentlemen. I come with an opportunity and a request."

He presents the weapon.


"What you see here, is no ordinary firearm but an artifact from a mythical place called the Neo-Detroit exclusion zone. Notice the fleshy bits growing out of it. As you can tell, Neo-detroit is not your typical run-of-the-mill city, but unlike H.E.L.L, Neo-Detroit has no rules, at least none that are set in stone. It is a dream-like realm powered by the imagination of a god-like maniac and as a result, anything can happen."

Baldwin Saunter's over to a computer in the office and then boots up a Powerpoint presentation he made before-hand.

"You can be walking down the road, and then suddenly be transformed into a creature that by no means should be able to walk."

Baldwin presses a button and an image of a 12 foot tall metal abomination that seems to be made of braided lamp posts and stop lights appears on a projector (this is an office room, of course it's got a projector). Baldwin presses unpause and the clip plays, showing the giant in motion, fighting against people.

Spoiler: From Here actually (click to show/hide)

[6]
Rob watches the streams for a while, clicking around between the drones looking at the various events occurring.

"Looks like the orange zone has a pretty wide variety of manifestations. Impossible diseases, mutations, transmutation of materials, strange weather, nightmare beings, prolonged physics anomalies, shifting of physical “parameters” like size, age, speed, etc. I mean see this guy?"

Rob points to a 12 foot tall metal abomination that seems to be made of braided lamp posts and stop lights that is currently swatting blood coated cannibals down the road.

"I don't think that's normal."

"You can be admiring a beautiful sunset, up until the sky erupts into a hellscape before before personally coming down to attack you"

Baldwin plays footage he finds online of a "leak". Ideally something dramatic that aligns with what he is describing above.

Spoiler: source (click to show/hide)

[9]
The EdPC idly wirelessly hacks into the base's communications and begins listening to the chatter and scrutinizing the wireless data transfers. He downloads as much local info as he can get his electronic fingers on for later perusal and begins to get an idea of whats going on outside. The soldiers are calling it various things, "Eruption", "Venting", "Leak", etc.  But the general idea seems to be that whatever is causing the disaster downtown occasionally builds up and then rolls out over a larger area in a sort of storm that amplifies and exacerbates the effects.

...

Now, in response to that first question, the eggheads got some long name for it but most here call it a 'Leak'. Because its the disaster taking a piss on you. Every so often that thing gets extra angry and the effective boundaries of the zones start shifting outwards temporarily while phenomena become more prevalent. That means that right now we are probably sitting somewhere in the  effective Yellow Zone, with all that entails.   Down here in the bunkers you'll likely be fine but if you get caught in one up topside I suggest finding the best cover you can and waiting it out.  They usually only last about an hour or two at full strength and then die out."

"And sometimes, you have no idea wtf is happening to you at all. I mean look at this my friend, do have any idea what's going on? Imagine how it must FEEL!"

Baldwin plays appropriate footage from the red zone, certainly there must be something he found.

...

"If you're looking for new avenues of pursuing sensation, then you'll be hard-pressed to find a place that can beat Neo-detroit. You've got plenty of variety. From minor disturbances (Yellow zones) to realms of utter madness (the red zone). The red zones may push even your tolerances to the limits."

Baldiwn smirks as if to challenge them

"Does that sound interesting to you guys? If so, you can have it, and if you act now, I'll even throw in a massive civilian population you can experiment on entirely free of charge."

"Such a valuable offer does not come easily though. Since command is a bit uppity about creating portals, we'll have to move an existing one to the proper location instead. The portal you created here is the most convenient one for our purposes. We just need you guys to decouple it from the wall and allow us to shuttle it to Detroit where we can then install it in a nearby building."

"If you have any doubts about neo-Detroit's power, then I want to show you a little taste of what this city has to offer."

Baldwin points the occult gun "Fragile Darkness" at the massive mound of gimp flesh.

"Neo-Detroit changes those who visit it. It changed this gun, it changed myself" he says as he gestures to his bloody wings. "And it will most certainly change you. This weapon comes from a realm of dreams and has never been fired, so we will both get to see something new."

*dramatic gun cock*

"Are you ready to change your life?"


Before Baldwin enters the room, he finds a suit to change into and gathers footage to create a PowerPoint presentation that is as close to the above ideal scenario as possible (using internet, my cable subscription, or company files). He may need to wheel in a projector as well. He's gonna pitch Neo-Detroit BABY!!!

As for the gun, aim it at the mass of Gimpflesh, but position it in such a way that it will head towards the Pain portal if the shots over-penetrate. Only shoot it if the Gimps actually request me to or they seem unenthusiastic.

Spoiler: Baldwin Reborn (click to show/hide)

Name: Robert Baldwin
Physical Description: A tall, pale, 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.

Also has blood wings and a blood halo now...

Background:  In a past life, Robert was a nature-loving hippy who abandoned his passion for cold-hard cash. Now a shameless capitalist, he thought up many money-making schemes as an occultist at OMMNI, but he encountered failure after failure before meeting his end within the SAM hivemind. Somehow he managed to make it back, but it's hard to gauge how much of his old personality is still intact.

Before even this, 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...

And you know the rest.

Life: d6 (reactive fabric cape)
Attack: d? ranged (Mysterious occult gun)
d4 melee exploding occult (Ceremonial Dagger)

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

Skills:
Melee: d4
Guns: d4
Explosives: d8
Implants: d4
Mechanics: d4
Technology: d4
Medical: d4
Occult: d10
Speech: d6

Status: Pain Receptors: off

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 5
    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 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 Placed charge (Demo pack, with remote, 3d10 damage, single use)

OMNITECH EMP grenade (d20 damage, only effects electronics. Single use)

OMNITECH Cognition Copier

OMNITECH Reactive fabric cape (1d6 life)

OMNITECH Passive Personal Shield Generator (d12 life, d4 use die.  Use die is rolled every turn it remains active, activation takes five seconds before the shield becomes active.)


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.
Useful for scouting

The Artifact Occult gun "Fragile Darkness"
An enigmatic artifact recovered from the Detroit anomaly zone

Money: 42 OMNI, plus -400 OMNI worth of debt, 147 Megabucks.

[Horizon]

Get some painkillers or opiates while at Med HQ then go test my arm out.

Spoiler: Scottish Medic (click to show/hide)

Name: Alec "Al" Mackay
Physical Description: Al is barrel chested with one thick arm covered in tattoos that only the saltiest of sailors sport while the other arm has been replaced with a robotic arm. Has an impressive moustache and comb over, his hair is auburn and eyes are blue.
Background: Al fancied the tales of his forefather's forefathers, whom were salty sea dogs and has acted like a surly son-of-a-bitch since he first grew facial hair, he took schooling as a medic cause the pay sounded good and it gives him a chance to do good while not drunkenly staggering around.

Life: d2
Attack: d2
Stats:
    - Strength: d8
    - Dexterity: d4
    - Speed: d4
    - Endurance: d6
    - Will: d6
    - Knowledge: d4
    - Fate: d4

Skills:
    - Melee: d8
    - Guns: d4
    - Explosives: d4
    - Implants: d4
    - Mechanics: d4
    - Technology: d4
    - Medical: d6
    - Occult: d4
    - Speech: d4
Status: MOMKEY PUNK DRUNK, fucked arm

Inventory:
   - OMNITECH Green Jumpsuit
   - OMNITECH Generic Personal Sidearm (d4 ranged attack) x3 Magazines (d4 use die)
   - OMNITECH Medical Kit (x3 Charges, Advantage on Medical Roll) I
   - OMNITECH Stimulant (Raises life by one until next injury)

Money: 300 OMNI