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[Radio Controlled]

Ask.

"Intimidation tactics and theatrics like these are poor substitutes for proper accountability. Sure, in a hierarchical organization, screwups should be, ah, disciplined, when they mess up badly enough." he says, as he gestures toward the display above them, "But this flows both ways. After all, it is the boss' job to make sure they appointed the right people, trained them properly, that they appointed and trained those below them in turn, and so forth. In the end, the bucks stops at the top."

"If all that you, the board of auditors or whoever orders you around, do here is to mulch some middle managers and screw over some flunkies at the bottom, I can assure you, things will just get repeated down the line and we'll all be doing this song and dance again."

"So then, my question: what are you, personally, gonna do to take responsibility and avoid this in the future?"

Then, assuming I haven't gotten perforated for my insolence, ask:

"Secondly, what does 'NEIMBUCTOIE' mean to you?"

1) Talk above.

You can, but they've very stripped down versions of the gun, basically just a barrel and mechanism. You'd get like 50% the price of a new one.

2) Normally the resale value of a gun is 1/2. So does that mean each one sells for 1/4th the arsenal price, or 1/2 still?

Questions?

3) Does this mean that, once he focuses on a person, said target still needs to perceive him to be affected, like originally? If yes would our original sensory deprivation methods/suits still work?

4) On that topic, can we get provided with a way to deal with mindcontrolled teammates? Like installing shock-collars/robobody lockouts and a voting-based system of activation so no individual getting controlled will screw over everyone at once.

5) We know OMNI has access to some heavy stuff. Is there a reason you're not carpet-nuking the area he is in to oblivion?

6) is there a way to stop pain elementals from instantly respawning the moment we kill them? There didn't seem to be any delay to it last time so either we all get some of that stuff Summer successfully tested out against them, or we'll have to think of another way to keep them at bay. Maybe gooping them in place could work?

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

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: d12 (pulse laser) + d10 (scrap metal) (Autonomous targeting system)

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

Skills:
Melee: d4
Guns: d12
Explosives: d4
Implants: d4
Mechanics: d8
Technology: d8
Medical: d4
Occult: d4
Speech: d6 (pending)


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
   -3 spare goop tanks (all d8/d8)
3 spare carbine mags
3 spare shotgun mags
box of d10 scrap metal for ferromagnetic accelerator (d6/d6)
Sealing Tool (D4 use die)
environmental scanner
toolkit
hardsuit-style jetpack (integrated into auditor body)


Money: 2139 (sold carbines not yet added)
insurance: auditor-jetpack body (paid for: penal mission cycle)

-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

[King Zultan]

"Well I can't think of anything to ask, so I'll just be sitting here until everyone else is finished."

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: d6 Reactive fabric cape
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: d10
 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)
 reactive fabric cape
 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.
 2 Handguns (d6 ranged attack) would have d6 mag if I had any
 Three foot long section of pipe, my head fit inside of it.
 Ghost fox
 Mr. Frog: The big frog in suspenders, now with big brain and Handgun (d6 ranged attack) 3 d6 mags
 Miss Godiva Goose: The female goose with...a large chest...dressed in purple, furs and boa, now with big brain  and Handgun (d6 ranged attack) 3 d6 mags
 Prickly Dan: The porcupine in overalls and floppy cap, now with big brain and Handgun (d6 ranged attack) 3 d6 mags
Money:
 245 Omni
 6,000 Megabucks

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

Nothing yet.

[syvarris]

5) We know OMNI has access to some heavy stuff. Is there a reason you're not carpet-nuking the area he is in to oblivion?

((They're sending Wil.  He is classified as a weapon of mass destruction~))

[heydude6]

"I think I understand, but there's one thing I don't get. Who's Mr. friend and what are these abilities of his you speak of? I thought Will released a man named Derp?"

Baldwin felt out of the loop compared to his veteran colleagues.

After having it explained to him, Baldwin then asks the auditor if he can take any teeth they extracted from the tortured executives to reload his spooky gun with. Teeth-pulling is torture 101, any torturer worth his salt is bound to have a dozen of them lying around.

At the end of the briefing, Baldwin goes to harvest the cap of the golden mushroom and sells it, using the revenue gained to make a payment to the loan shark.

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: 2d6 (OMNITECH Jumpsuit)
Attack: d? ranged (Fragile Darkness)
d2 fists

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

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


OMNITECH Jumpsuit (2d6 life, rocket packs for jumping, flight,etc.)

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

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

OMNITECH Cognition Copier

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

"Cold Comfort" - OMNITECH Generic Security Rifle (d6 ranged attack) (Five d8 magazines, one empty magazine)
May spell the death of me....

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: 67 OMNI, plus -400 OMNI worth of debt (that will need to be recalculated), 147 Megabucks.

[Devastator]

"I don't have any weapons and I think I'll do everything possible through VR, so.."

"I don't see why I'd need a shock collar."

[Radio Controlled]

"I don't have any weapons and I think I'll do everything possible through VR, so.."

"I don't see why I'd need a shock collar."

"Well, the original Friendly was perfectly capable of controlling people if he perceived them remotely, be it video or audio. Even in his diminished state, it'd be unwise to assume that isn't the case anymore. And yes, there are ways to help counteract this issue, like speech-to-text or lowered framerates.

But even then there's a good reason why we need everyone to be a part of it: the idea only works if enough voters exist that Friendly would need to achieve control over most of the team to subvert the system, in which case our mission is most likely doomed anyway. If only like 3 people can vote we shouldn't even bother, it'd harm more than it'd help.

Of course, having some people not subject to the system while still being able to vote would chafe and be a hard sell to the rest of the team, especially those actually going in there. So we need to have enough buy-in for this to work, which needs everyone to put skin in the game, so to speak.

Well, it's speculative anyway unless command agrees to it."

5) We know OMNI has access to some heavy stuff. Is there a reason you're not carpet-nuking the area he is in to oblivion?

((They're sending Wil.  He is classified as a weapon of mass destruction~))

((More like a weapon of messy destruction, if you ask me~))

[Devastator]

"But you don't need to control most of the team.  Just take over one person, use that person to kill someone else, and then it doesn't matter if the first one is knocked out.  At least two down from one takeover.  Doesn't sound like the guy has to care if a mind controlled minion is killed or shocked later."

"I mean, you could kill what, three, four people at once?  No problem?"

"The safe way to do it would be to have the few people with the actual weapons attack seperately and alone, while everyone else monitors you from out of range.  Then there's enough to stop one of you guys should you get taken over.  If we had some way to free you from afar, then we'd be golden."

"Another possibility would be to have some kinda firing interlocks, so that half the team needs to be up for the more powerful weapons to be used.  Say the default is 'off', not on."

[Egan_BW]

"Really, he's in a weakened state. No reason why we can't just roll up and turn him into hamburger with all we got. Even if some of us die, it won't really matter."

[Radio Controlled]

"But you don't need to control most of the team.  Just take over one person, use that person to kill someone else, and then it doesn't matter if the first one is knocked out.  At least two down from one takeover.  Doesn't sound like the guy has to care if a mind controlled minion is killed or shocked later."

"I mean, you could kill what, three, four people at once?  No problem?"

"The safe way to do it would be to have the few people with the actual weapons attack seperately and alone, while everyone else monitors you from out of range.  Then there's enough to stop one of you guys should you get taken over.  If we had some way to free you from afar, then we'd be golden."

"Another possibility would be to have some kinda firing interlocks, so that half the team needs to be up for the more powerful weapons to be used.  Say the default is 'off', not on."

"Sure, there's other ways to handle it, I am open to suggestions. But the basic idea is that if someone like Wil or Ji or I get taken over, then the group has a way of shutting them down without having to blast through a ton of armor to achieve that, since that gives that thrall a lot of chances to do damage. Not to mention it gives us a chance to recover them and undo the mind control without having to demolish them.

Also, remember that Friendly doesn't automatically gain the knowledge of people he controls, so even if some of us get taken over he probably won't be able to actually turn the system against us, at least not before we have a chance to use it ourselves.

The idea of possibly locking out heavy weapons could work, but we'd have to be careful we don't limit our offensive power too much either since I suspect we'll need it. Then again, if the gimps still instantly respawn anyway, then giving everyone souped-up goop throwers might be our best bet.

Finally, having people control the system remotely is also an option, but that requires leaving a lot of us behind here, since right now I do not trust omni command not to fuck things up. And Friendly can still gain control through video or audio, so we'd need obfuscation to prevent that, possibly slowing down a response."

"Really, he's in a weakened state. No reason why we can't just roll up and turn him into hamburger with all we got. Even if some of us die, it won't really matter."

"Unfortunately, overconfidence here won't just kill you but your teammates as well, so I'd rather not be so blasé about it."

[Egan_BW]

"Have you noticed that us dying is the point, fake auditor? Come on, you don't have to be scared of it."

[King Zultan]

"I don't like the sound of anyone controlling me or my robots to use them to kill possessed people, also why are we arguing about this stuff let's just get the damn job done."

[Radio Controlled]

"I don't like the sound of anyone controlling me or my robots to use them to kill possessed people, also why are we arguing about this stuff let's just get the damn job done."

”The whole point of this is to have a way to deal with mindcontrolled teammates without having to kill them. Neither the shock, nor the lockout for robots, would kill the person. And you’d be the one who gets to vote remember? No individual would have the power to make use of this system alone.”

"Have you noticed that us dying is the point, fake auditor? Come on, you don't have to be scared of it."

”If friendo succeeds in taking over the entire pain dimension, a lot more people might die than just us smucks getting sent in. This isn’t just about our safety, we need to ensure we get this done or the consequences will be catastrophic.”

[King Zultan]

”The whole point of this is to have a way to deal with mindcontrolled teammates without having to kill them. Neither the shock, nor the lockout for robots, would kill the person. And you’d be the one who gets to vote remember? No individual would have the power to make use of this system alone.”

"Well that makes me feel better about the whole thing, probably should be paying more attention to these discussions in the future."

[syvarris]

"Demyacracy sounds like bullshit, have someone blind listen to chatter and shock anyone compromised.  It's easy to keep one person safe, and if they're a techie or something it hardly hampers them.  Where did Pathos go, anyway?  Little bugger would be perfect."

EDIT: ...Does Wilfred's current body have a shock implant?  And if not, could he get a shock collar rather than an implant?

[Devastator]

"This was caused by Wil.  Without any mind-control shenanigans.  Or OMNI command orders.  Sure, I can understand not trusting command, but they could not have caused this without Wil drunkenly screwing everything up."

"We should hand it over to people who won't be going in there.  So there's zero risk of mind control, not a slim risk of mind control.  Or automate it or something.  Then there's no delays over votes, no politics, no concentrating on pushing the right button while your face is stuck inside some wall.  It'll be run by people outside this fuckery."

"The pain dimension was incredibly confusing.  I don't even know if you can reliably push a button if you want to.  I had trouble even injecting a syringe into one random pain elemental.  Fumbling about for a button is dumb."