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[notquitethere]

Scole

Go to the town hall, briefly survey the situation, and if it seems safe take a seat inside the door and begin making myself comfortable.

If the creature I rescued is within view, demand to know why the woman I saw is after it. Actually, even if I can't see it I'll ask this anyway - but keep alert for the bike approaching again and be sure to shut up if it is.

[Ben rolled 4+2+2wits=8]
Inside the town hall is a long rectangular room, with high windows and thick wooden beams. A small stage sits at one end and there's a scattering of chairs. Some faded leaflets on the chairs, under a layer of dust, say:

UPLOX TODAY
ZEROK NEC
TOWNHALL 11-5
_{Terms and conditions apply. Paradise Solutions accept no liability for loss of life or livelihood. Absolute parity not guaranteed. Mindfee applicable. See Paradise Solution Uploxing Handbook 2041 for full details.}

Ben waits in silence until the sound of engines disappear. It's dark here, but dry enough. He gets himself comfortable when the teddy bear drops down from the rafters.

"I bwing you wealth beyond measure," says the bear, "I have access to the entire collected knowledge of humankind, lost to your people. Your pawents or gwandpawents would have called it... wikipedia. I can answer thwee questions on any topic you wish to know."


Bungay

Theodore and Timmy head for the HQ to ask around and figure out who to talk to in order to learn about the Hunger and to share information about Viktor.

[Theodore rolled 1+4+0empathy+0londoners+1usefulinfo=6]
Theodore and Timmy go in to the headquarters and are rebuffed: they're sent from office to office, people aren't around to speak to them or are busy ad shunt them onwards. In theory their hot info on Viktor should be useful, but they can't seem to find the right person to speak to. Despairing, the pair reconvene outside the recruitment office.

"I'm thinking of signing up," says Timmy. "They give you a bunch of free stuff and have your back in a fight. Where's the downside?"

“Hey, I’m here to help with the engine experiment?
I can’t help but notice that you don’t have any visible mutations. Whatdo you have?”
Darrin pauses for a moment, thinking.
"I think I saw you while you were still in cryo, actually. So I guess have a belated welcome to the land of the living, though you've been here for a while. The name's Dr. Darrin Amoretto."

"The name's Sriracha," says the mechanic, shaking Darrin's hand. "My main mutation is teleportation, but it's more trouble than it's worth. I also get weird memories about stuff that isn't real, so there's that too. Always nice to meet another Norcom original.

"Actually, since you're here, you can help me with a little something. You know how a combustion engine works, right? There's a spark which ignite fuel and air, and the resulting gas explosion drives the pistons which turn the crankshaft which turn the wheels, via some gears. Back in our day that was the main kind of engine. When we were froze though, electric engines became the norm and I've had to learn how to use them.

"I'm getting ahead of myself. In one of my wrong memories, I knew how piezoelectric skinwraps worked, and so I got the guys in R&D to throw together this prototype. I wanted to harness the energy of moving around the workshop and use that energy to power a headlamp. Pretty low-tier stuff. But then when I tried it, I was outputting metric shit-tons of electrical energy. Nearly fried my skin off."

Sriracha shows his arm, red raw from a recent burn.

"I think I was able to tap into something I like to call Warp energy. I think it's the thing that gives us our mutant powers. Anyway, I can't calibrate the engine and test it at the same time. So I need a guinea pig. That's where you could come in."

The mechanic shows Darrin the inside of a car. There are arm and leg straps with wires coming off of them, to harness the Warp.

"Don't worry, I think it should be safe now. If you want to strap yourself in there, I can work out the voltage we're dealing with here..."


Watton

Issac responds with something that is technically true, though his idea of a resolution may be somewhat different from that of his peers. "As it turns out, I had a job to do before I was so rudely interrupted. But as luck would have it, there's only one more place that I need to go after this before we can get this resolved. Assuming of course that there aren't any problems..."

Barring any unforeseen issues, Issac would start by looking for various shops to see what is available and look for some subtle clues before considering doing something so brazen as actually asking about an illegal operation.

[Isaac rolled 4+1+3wits=8]
Isaac takes a look around Watton. In the centre of the ramshackled workshops there's a square. In the centre of the square is a human man slumped unconscious in a cage. He's got a dishevelled beard, his eyebrows are singed off and several of his fingers are missing. Nailed to the cage is the sign:

CREEKAL SMITH 5 DAYS TIMEOUT FOR FIGHTING AGAIN


Dereham Outskirts

Reload the sniper rifle and store the empty magazine in an ammo compartment, grab the two human fingers and store them, and Jäger sees if he can just put/attach the birdcage on the robotic leg

“Yes, I will assist you. May I ask what you need assistance with?”
Help Jager get the cage on his leg

[Jäger rolled 5+2+2body+1assistance=10]
Jäger attached the bird cage to his leg, twisting the cage wires around his own metalwork. Sandra clamps it in place. The pair consider their next move.

Jäger gains: Bird Cage (in which is a Magpie), human finger x2
 

Empire Forge

Go to the front door and see if I can't get to the things inside, if I can't start moving bits of the sides, and be on the look out for any movement.

[Burt rolled 1+6+1body-1tired=7]
[Burt rolled 2+6+1wits-1tired+1sorrowful=7]
Dragging bits of rotten wood out of the way is exhausting work, but eventually Burt recovers the hammer. All the clamour attracts attention. He notices something flying towards him, but by the time he's seen it it's already above him: one of the flying drones of Terraterror.

"INTREPID EXPLORER, DO YOU WISH TO SEEK YOUR FORTUNE IN A DREADED MAZE?" it crackles out at him.

Burt gains Blacksmith Hammer.

Make a warhammer is complete. Burt gains +1 tally.


Fakenham

He goes silent after StaggerLee enters, and listens closely.

In the circus tent various of the GML announce their news. Land Pirates roaming even wider. A new blimp spotted. Some grousing about Watton's independence. Eventually it passes and StaggerLee brings the forum to attention.

"Sport! Good sport is all we ask," he bellows. "But we're being trashed in the local leagues. Our rivals the Legends have made an unfair alliance with the southern mutants. We are alone and the odds are against us. So I have come to reveal a new ally!"

There's a long moment of tense anticipation as dozens of animal machine hybrids lean in, eagerly. "The Postwick Mob have offered us a unique deal. They will turn on their tower for a short period in exchange for the things they desire. And what they most desire right now is sassafras oil. As soon as they uphold their end of the bargain we will storm and destroy Cromer, eradicating the mutants who pose the greatest threat to us."

The chat is ablaze with competing suggestions on how to get sassafras oil, and what that even could be and what they could want with it. The main announcement has been made and so the meeting turns into a social, accepting everyone present as being a loyal member of the GML. StaggerLee shoots everyone a bit of kudos for turning up in person. DATABOI grumbled in the chat endlessly when he doesn't get his kudos.


Rollcall is completed. P4 gains +1 tally, +1 kudos.


Deep in the Broads

Go out to the Broads again to search for that Harpy
Name the tortles Jorge, Diego, and George

Try to use my telepathy to make contact with the drone mind. Simultaneously, try to sneak around to find a way out of here.

If it fails, try to sneak out.  If caught, be ready to fight back, but maybe the drone will let me leave anyway instead of taking another hit.  Fire if necessary, but only in self-defense or if the drone mind refuses to stop filming me.

Head back to the base to drop off the razorwire and finish the mission after all this.

[Sandeep rolled 3+2+2wits=7]
As with previous attempts, it's not possible to connect to the uploxed through telepathy. Their minds aren't really located in their bodies. So Sandeep ducks down and tries to escape without being seen. With a roll of razorwire over his shoulder, he sneaks through the thick bushes and away into the countryside. Soon he's out of the range of the uploxed and on his way into the broads to his home. Beating his way through the thick brush he spies through the trees a young man surrounded by three grotesque brightly-coloured bipedal tortoise-like creatures.

Auze is making his way to see his brother when he spies through the swamplands a middle-aged Sikh man with a short greying beard and a turban. He has a long bundle over one shoulder.

[Shadowclaw777]

Spoiler: ForHire (click to show/hide)

Name: Jägermörder
Appearance: A metallic humanoid figure made out of a titanium-gold alloy that contains a metallic hood, in the digital realm the avatar is a living wraith that travels from place to place.
Profession: Warlord
Faction: Unaligned (Assassin)
Type: Uploxed

Stats:
Body: 2
Wits: 0
Empathy: 2
Connexion: -1

Health:
Luck: 2
Distance: 0

Rep:
 -1walt -1london +0mob -1keep -1church +0gml +0legends +0terra +1eyes -2pirates
Kudos: 1

Experience Tally: 2

Stuff:
Den: In the middle of Great Marmite League,, Thetford Forest, and the Keep’s Radio Towers where no connection can connect. It’s an antique nuclear shelter.
Signature Gear: Scythe, an arm on the robotic chassis that can transform into an autoloading rotary minigun from the ammo reserve in the torso region.
Equipment: Bipedal Armored Chassis, Scythe, PSG1 (Sniper Rifle), Shadozer Teleportation Device (Temporarily turn the robotic body into a shadow and then travels hundreds of miles, appearing as a shadow temporarily then morphing back into robotic form. Highly experimental: prone to flickering back into physical form mid-journey). (All Integrated, Assassin’s Gear)

Personal Quests
1 - Harden physical form against radio jamming - Part 1  - Catching the Oystercatcher Watcher
The kind of broad-spectrum radio jamming that the Church use has thus far eluded the Uploxed of East Anglia. Jägermörder has learned through nexus that an uploxed signal engineer who specialised in this kind of technology is birdwatching in the Alde Mudflats right now. She might be persuaded to help develop hardening against jamming.
Location: Alde mudflats
Reward: x2 tallies
2 - Make shadow tech more reliable - Part 1 - Quantum Interpretation
Some people say the uploxing was a botched singularity, and that the people of Earth put their minds into machines before they could develop real runaway AI. But it's indisputable that in the final years of Earth civilisation, there were immense leaps in technical capability, and experimental applications of new dimensional technology began to proliferate before being abandoned as their creators uploxed into a digital paradise. Jager has heard a rumour that the Postwick Mob are now dealing in dangerous prototypes- perhaps they have something that could improve the shadow step? They have an agent called Murdok in the neutral town of Watton.
Location: Watton
Reward: x1 tallies
3 - Terminate members of the Church of Milennium - Part 1 - Bash the Bishop
Hacked communications show that a church delegate is coming from London way to Ipswich. This would be a great opportunity to hit the Church without needing to get into their jamming zone.
Location: Dedham Vale
Reward: x2 tallies

”Okay now that’s that’s done let’s head to Dereham”

Travel to [Dereham]

[notquitethere]

New Tally Spend Options
You may spend 2 tallies to do any of the following:
- Change a profession for another profession (you can't have used the profession you want to swap in the last two scenes).
- Lower one stat and raise another (to the normal maximum and minimum amounts).
- Learn about a new eligible quest (the faction is chosen by me, but you'll always be eligible).

The Quest Log Has Been Updated!

Please see below for new GML quests.

Human

Spoiler: The Keep (click to show/hide)

Carol's Crafts
Requirement: +0keep
Carol is trying to make a popstick masterpiece and needs some crafting glue.
Quest Location: Abandoned stationers in north Norwich
Report Location: Norwich Castle
Reward +1 tally, +1 random junk

Census
Requirement: +1keep
Refugees have settled in the old stadium across the river. Someone should go and do a census of who is there and what they need.
Quest Location: Stadium, Norwich
Report Location: Norwich Castle
Reward: +3 tallies, +1 random junk, +1keep rep

Sweep the Road
Requirement: +2keep
Land Pirates have set up an ambush point along Spooner Row. The Keep needs reliable soldiers to help clear it out.
Quest Location: Meet General Dell at Norwich Castle where their attack convoy will start out.
Reward: +4 tallies, pick of the loot (vehicles and weapons likely), +1keep rep

Spoiler: Land Pirates (click to show/hide)

Swap Shop
Requirement: +0pirate
Pirates from all over the area are meeting up in Scole to swap weapons and car parts. A good way to take part in Pirate culture is to bring something impressive to trade.
Quest Location: Scole
Reward: +2 tallies, +1pirate and +1 random weapon if brought a weapon or vehicle part to swap, if

Church Ambush
Requirement: +1pirate
Rumour is, some bigwigs are going to be arriving soon on the road. Only one south road to Ipswich and it's surrounded by dense woods: a perfect ambush point. Meet up with the camp that have been waiting on the church convoy in Dedham Vale.
Quest Location: Dedham Vale
Reward: +3 tallies, +1pirate, +2 random loot if ambush is successful.

Tower Defense
Requirement: +1pirate
Laxfield Tower just switched on and now killer robots and cyberbeasts are swarming around the south of the Postwick dead signal zone . The Pirates need to find out who's taken Laxfield (with an extra bonus if that someone manages to do something about it).
Quest Location: Laxfield Tower
Report Location: Norwich outskirts
Reward: +3 tallies (+6 if tower is disabled), +1 random junk, +1pirate if tower is disabled.

Spoiler: Postwick Mob (click to show/hide)

Ecstasy of Gold
Requirement: +0 mob
Irma of the Mob wants to plate her throne with gold. You've learned of a gold leaf catering place which must have a load of gold leaf. Might make a good impression...
Quest Location: Caterers near Dereham
Report Location: Postwick
Reward: +2 tallies, +1mob

He Feels Like A Tourist
Requirement: +0 mob
There's a rumour that the Mob are looking for unaligned uploxed known as 'Tourists'. For what purpose nobody knows for sure, but there's said to be a rich reward for bringing one back to Postwick.
Quest Location: Watton might be a good place to find a Tourist, but you may know of other places.
Report Location: Postwick
Reward: +3 tallies, +1mob, +3 random junk

Uploxed

Spoiler: Great Marmite League (click to show/hide)

Naming DATABOI's Assassin
Requirement: GML 0+
DATABOI got ganked in Thetford forest but he didn't get a clear view of who did it, only that they looked human shaped. Someone needs to go to Thetford and find out. Maybe the Eyes of Gaia know? It's their turf.
Location: Thetford Forest
Report location: Nexus
Reward: +1 GML rep, +1 kudos

Suffering For Sassafras
Requirement: GML 1+
The GML are looking for Sassafras Oil. There's a savage Land Pirate named Marie who apparently is in to aromatherapy. One plan is to kidnap her and extract from her the location of her essential oil supply. Unfortunately, she'll be surrounded by loads of heavily armed goons.
Location: Spooner Row
Report location: Fakenham
Reward: +1 GML rep, +2 kudos


Plan B
Requirement: GML 2+
In case the Mob don't come through on their end of the deal, the plan is still to go ahead with the assault. The GML have been working on portable signal relay towers. One is nearly ready to install on the edge of the GML's zone, but it'll take a while to install and until then they're very vulnerable to attack. They need a trusted and competent guard there to protect against Walt Labs.
Location: a mile west of Cromer

Spoiler: Legends (click to show/hide)

Bounty: Sandeep Singh Bodypart
Requirement: -1Legend
Jesterly has been saving up for months for a new morph. He's seen who destroyed his last morph on Terraterror's telecast feed and now he's determined to include a bit of his old killer in his next body! Jesterly is offering a huge reward for any confirmed body part of Mr Singh, and rarely- he doesn't much mind who it is who does the job, but the Sandeep is a seasoned killer and is armed with one of the only devices that is know to do permanent damage to an uploxed's mind...
Location: Sandeep was last seen in the countryside west of Lowestoft. Anyone with Connexion can currently track his whereabouts so long as Terraterror keep filming him.
Report Location: Buried Saint Tower
Reward: +3 tallies, +1legend, +3kudos

Legend Blimp Maintenance
Requirement: +0Legend
The blimp sprang a leak and lost a load of helium. It's a rare commodity, and it's not clear if there are any in the area. There could be some supply at a chemical plant in Norwich... but no morphs can get in there at the moment.
Location: Briar Road Chemical Plant, Norwich
Report Location: Buried Saint Tower
Reward: +3 tallies, +1legend, +1kudos

Switch on the Tower
Requirement: +0Legend
Big bounty offered by the Legends for switching the Postwick tower back on and guarding it long enough for the Legends to get in and secure control.
Location: Postwick
Reward: +4 tallies, +1legend, +3kudos

Switch off the Tower
Requirement: +0Legend
Another big bounty offered by the Legends to almost anyone they don't actively hate: destroy the Ispwich Tower.
Location: Ispwich
Report Location: Buried Saint Tower
Reward: +4 tallies, +1legend, +3kudos

Peeking the Party
Requirement: +1legend
The GML are gathering and the Legends want to know what they're up to. A loyal Legend agent needs to film their meeting. A camera is available from Buried Saint if not currently owned. Filming in Nexus requries no device, but you need to have Connexion first.)
Location: Nexus or Fakenham - Buried Tower first if no camera
Report Location: Buried Saint Tower
Reward: +4 tallies, +1legend, +2kudos

Spoiler: TERRATERROR (click to show/hide)

A Little Less Conversation
Requirement: +0terra
TERRATERROR are looking for pit fighters... yourself or someone you've captured for the purpose. If the latter, there are apparently lots of Hungry mutants and wild Tortles roaming the Broads right now... but you'd need to have the capacity to capture them.
Location: Dereham OR the Broads
Report Location: Dereham
Reward: +2 tallies, +1 random weapon, +1kudos

Spoiler: Eyes of Gaia (click to show/hide)

Eyes Blimp Maintenance
Requirement: +0Legend
The Eye's blimp sprang a leak and lost a load of helium. It's a rare commodity, and it's not clear if there are any in the area. There could be some supply at a chemical plant in Norwich... but no morphs can get in there at the moment.
Location: Briar Road Chemical Plant, Norwich
Report Location: Thetford Forest
Reward: +3 tallies, +1eyes, +1kudos

Cloud Seeding
Requirement: +1eyes
Sable of the Eyes wants to get hold of a cloud seeder. She knows that TERRATERROR have the technology: when the Postwick tower went down, they lost some of it near the Chemical Plant in Norwich. Unfortunately, most of the Eyes are incapable of getting there to retrieve the lost equipment themselves. It might be possible to buy some directly off of Terraterror in Dereham, but who knows what they might ask in exchange...
Quest Location: Chemical Plant, Norwich OR Dereham
Report Location: Thetford Forest
Reward: +3 tallies, +1 kudos, +1eyes rep

Mutant

Spoiler: Walt Labs (click to show/hide)

Heads for Food
Requirement: +0walt
Walt Labs has a standing offer of 1 uploxed head = 1 month's nutrient mix supply. There are usually plenty of GML cyberbeasts on the road to Cromer...
Quest Location: Cromer Road
Report Location: Amazona Base, Cromer
Reward: +2 tallies, +1walt rep if rep <1, x1 nutrient mix flask

Felixstowe Raid
Requirement: +1walt
Walt Labs want the data held on a server farm in Felixstowe. Get there, get the computers, and get them back for a fat reward.
Quest Location: Felixstowe
Report Location: Amazona Base, Cromer
Reward: +3 tallies, +1walt rep, x2 random junk

Scouting Fakenham
Requirement: +2walt
The range on GML's Fakenham tower keeps growing steadily. Walt need a competent spy to survey the tower's defenses and find out what's happening there.
Quest Location: Fakenham tower

Report Location: Amazona Base, Cromer
Reward: +4 tallies, +1walt rep, x3 random junk

Spoiler: Londoners (click to show/hide)

Warped Engine
Requirement: +0londoners
Benjamin Sriracha, the mechanic for Bungay, is looking for an assistant to test a highly experimental way of powering engines. Safety not guaranteed.
Quest Location: Garage, Bungay
Reward: +2 tallies, +1london rep, +1 random junk

Tour of Duty
Requirement: +0londoners, mutants only
The Londoners are always looking for new mutants to join up with them. Every new soldier is tested and given a bit of starter gear that fits their skills, a place to stay and food in Bungay (so long as they assist in watch duty while they're there). It's a good deal, but anyone that joins up is obliged to head back with them to London when the campaign starts up again.
Quest Location: Recruitment Office, Bungay
Reward: +1 tallies, +1london rep, +1 armour or weapon or tool or vehicle

Eye on the Eye
Requirement: +0londoners
The Londoners are fighting all out war against the Eye in London. They'd like to know more about their enemies, but they have the tendency to explode or melt after being defeated. You've heard rumour of an Eye morph that got stuck when the Postwick tower went dark. It should be safe to just pick the thing up and bring it to the Londoner's.
Quest Location:
By the County Council building, Norwich
Report Location: Bungay

Reward: +2 tallies, +1london rep, +2 random junk

Laxfield Mystery
Requirement: +1londoner
Laxfield Tower just switched on and now killer robots and cyberbeasts are swarming around Bungay. The Londoners don't really want to move their base, so they want to find out who's taken Laxfield (with an extra bonus if that someone manages to do something about it).
Quest Location: Laxfield Tower
Report Location: Bungay
Reward: +3 tallies (+6 if tower is disabled), +1 random junk, +1londoner if tower is disabled.

Capture Viktor
Requirement: +1londoner
A dangerous mutant with dozens of tentacles and an addiction to vodka was last seen in The Broads. He would be invaluable in the fight against the Eyes in London.
Quest Location: The Broads
Report Location: Bungay
Reward: +1londoner, +3 random junk

Neozombie

Spoiler: Church of the New Millenium (click to show/hide)

Attend Service
Requirement: +0church
Spend a morning attending a sermon at the Church of the New Millenium and get to know the people there.
Quest Location: Ipswich

Reward: +2 tallies, +1church if <1

He May Be Coming Soon - Part 1 - Hit Like an Atom Bomb
Requirement: +1church
The church is awash with a rumour that the Lord himself will be visiting Ipswich. They need to clear a large space for all the air-vehicles to land, and the most straightforward way of doing this is explosives. The Church has learned of a shady independent operator working out of Watton, by the name Creekal who apparently can get them set up. Someone brave needs to travel to Watton and find out if this guy has the goods and what his terms are.
Location: Watton
Report Location: Ipswich
Reward: +3 tallies, +1church

Spoiler: Map (click to show/hide)

[Glass]

Spoiler: Dr. Amoretto (click to show/hide)

Name: Dr. Darrin Amoretto
Appearance: Taller than average and skinny, though kind of awkward-seeming. Gets antsy when around a lot of people, though becomes much smoother when expounding on a topic he's interested in. Hair is short and brown, skin is pale and moderately sunburnt. His left hand is redder than the rest of him, and looks slightly burnt; it also seems to perpetually have ashes on it.
Profession: Scientist, Engineer, Scout
Faction: Walt Labs
Type: Mutant

Stats:
Body: -1
Wits: 1
Empathy: 1
Weird: 3

Mutation:
Sonic Boom - You can create an intense blast of sound, enough to knock someone off their feet or more.
Blow Torch Thumb - Your thumb burns with an intense heat, glowing hotter the more you concentrate on it. It sheds light as a candle.
Keratin Spikes - You can launch sharpened keratin spikes out of the back of your hands.

Hunger: 0
Luck: 2
Kudos: 0
Condition:
Den: Rooms at Amazona Zoo in Cromer

Signature Gear: A fireproofed lab coat, with the Walt Labs logo printed on the shoulder.
Other equipment: old rifle (loaded), 14mm spanner, wristwatch, steel meterstick, damaged destruction matrix, thermometer, ski mask

Wounds: None
Relationship: Dr. Jackson "Frost" Davis, one of Darrin's friends and a member of Walt Labs. Currently has a leadership position among the Walt Lab mutants.
Experience Tallies: 1
Rep: +2walt +0london +0mob +2keep +0church -3gml -1legends +0terra -1eyes -2pirates

Spoiler: Personal Quests (click to show/hide)

1 - Curing the Hunger - Part 1 - Test Subject Required
The researchers at Walt Labs know that the Hunger is driving mutants insane... but why and how it works is yet unknown. If they could study someone who has definitely been suffering from the hunger then they'd be able to make serious progress. It just so happens that Alex 'the Freak' Johnson went AWOL in Norwich after flipping out and attacking a member of the Keep. If he could be subdued then he would be invaluable to the research.
Location: The contact at the Keep said he disappeared in the warehouse district north of the river in Norwich.
report location: Amazona in Cromer
Reward: 3 tallies
2 - Why Are the Uploxed so homicidal?
Scouts have spotted a TERRATERROR drone nearby to the west. They're normally non-violent and will often answer questions. Maybe one could be induced to explain about Uploxed culture?
Location: Blakeny Nature Reserve
Reward: 1 tally
3 - Set up our own tower to jam signals - Part 1 - How to Jam?
Darrin knows the theory behind multi-spectrum radio jamming and had set up some prototypes, but they don't seem to have any sustained effect on the Uploxed. The clearest way forward seems to be to travel to Ipswich and ask the Church of the New Millenium how they do it. Surely they'll want more radio jamming in the world?
Location: Ipswich
Reward: 2 tallies

...*sigh*
Whelp, let’s try this. I guess give it a quick look over to make sure there’s no glaring flaws that will lead to grievous bodily injury in me, and then let’s give it a go.

[Naturegirl1999]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 Bio
Name: Sandra
Appearance:  Millipede with antennae, mandibles and the ability to roll into a ball
Profession: Teacher
Faction: Eyes of Gaia
Type: Robo-bug uploxed

Stats

Body: 1
Wits: 2
Empathy: 1
Connexion: 1

Health
Conditions:
Luck: 2
Distance: 2

Rep
-1walt -2london -1mob -1keep -1church -1gml -1legends +0terra +1eyes -2pirates
Kudos: 0

[Mutants only]Mutation:
Experience Tallies: 3

Stuff
Den:
 Spalding's Chair Hill
Signature Gear: (choose a single notable handheld or wearable item that says something about your character & gives +1 to relevant rolls)
Inventory:x3 Wd40 cans

Relationships:
Tas, a rebellious child in the Church.
Helen, a determined robo-squid in the Eyes of Gaia, usually lives in London.
Natrix, a grumpy robo-cranefly in the Eyes of Gaia.
Sable, a kind robo-scorpion in the Eyes of Gaia.


Personal Quests
- Help Tas escape the Church - Part 1 - Kudos for a Killer
Killazilla wants 3 kudos, but Sandra is pretty clueless about how the uploxed economy works. Still if she can get the Kudos, she can learn how to get into the Dead Zone...
Location: Watton
Reward: 5 tallies.
Destroy the Church of the New Millenium - Part 1
research on Nexus brings up that before the end days a mycologist at the West Suffolk College had been breeding on a fungus that rapidly eats away at dead flesh. If this was released among the population of the Church, it would destroy all of the walking corpses and leave the non-uploxed women and children alive. Perhaps a sample could still exist at the college?
Location: West Suffolk College, in Bury St Edmunds, near the Buried Saint Tower.
Reward: 1 tally
Protect the forests - Part 1 - Anti-Road Clearance
The Keep and the Londoners have been working to clear a series of roundabouts in Scole which are completely overgrown, this would allow their convoys to drive through the area much more easily. If someone were to destroy the road and plant some new trees there, that would hinder their destruction...
Location: Scole
Reward: 3 tallies

Non-Personal Quests
Cloud Seeding
Requirement: +1eyes
Sable of the Eyes wants to get hold of a cloud seeder. She knows that TERRATERROR have the technology: when the Postwick tower went down, they lost some of it near the Chemical Plant in Norwich. Unfortunately, most of the Eyes are incapable of getting there to retrieve the lost equipment themselves. It might be possible to buy some directly off of Terraterror in Dereham, but who knows what they might ask in exchange...
Quest Location: Chemical Plant, Norwich OR Dereham
Report Location: Thetford Forest
Reward: +3 tallies, +1 kudos, +1eyes rep

“Yes, let’s”
Head to [Dereham]

[Dustan Hache]

Back to my den to do maintenance before i head out to end the Suffering For Sassafras.

[Supernerd]

Issac noted that he should try to refrain from combat in this place. This Creekal guy was evidently willing to break a few rules due to his current predicament. Issac figured it wouldn't take much time to try asking a couple of questions. Stuff along the lines of "What did that guy do to deserve it". It might be possible to get some at least noteworthy information without the need to directly ask for it.

Spoiler: Issac Revero - Supernerd (click to show/hide)

Name: Issac Revero
Appearance: Issac's appearance may change from day to day due to his abilities. His "default" appearance is as a tall thin man with pale skin and short black hair. His pointer finger on his right hand is made of gold.
Faction: Church of the New Millenium (as a human identity)|the Londoners (as a mutant identity)
Type: Mutant
Profession: Lawyer, Spy

Stats:
Body: 1
Wits: 3
Empathy: -2
Weird: 2

Mutation:
Goldfinger
One of your fingers is made of gold. It is much harder than the rest of your body and cannot feel pain.

Faceshift
With some effort, you can completely change your physical appearance, from your hair, to face, to body size. Your goldfinger never changes though.

Signature Gear: Three piece suit
Den: House in Bungay, House in Ipswich, still has the key for 24 Maid Marian Way.
Conditions:
Reputations:
Identity 1 'Isaac' of the Church of the New Millenium: +0walt +0london +0mob +0keep +1church -1gml -1legends +0terra -1eyes -2pirates
Identity 2: 'Revero' of the Londoners: +0walt +1london +0mob +0keep +0church -1gml +0legends +0terra -2eyes -2pirates

Relationship: Senator Chandler Brevil. Former client. Sort of a big deal back in the day. Not known for being a nice person to say the least.
Items in Den: x1 Mysterious Syringes (labelled Aquamarine), Bit of Sharp Metal, Stun Rod, Jan 4th 2027 Newspaper.
Inventory: Key to 24 Maid Marian Road, bent makeshift flamethrower
Experience Tallys: 4

Personal Quests
1- Dead Zone in Laxfield - Part 1 - Transponders
Since the Laxfield tower switched on, life has got a lot harder for the Londoners in Bungay. If Isaac could use the Church technology to subvert the Laxfield tower into a jamming tower, that would benefit everyone he currently cares about. Unfortunately, the Church are cagey about how the tech works. They're keen to have new ones built, but they don't want to share exactly how it's done in case the Uploxed learn their secrets and develop a countermeasure. Jethro in the church has promised to build a jamming device for Isaac if he brings him a new transponder. Unfortunately, the only known location of a suitable transponder is at a working signal tower...
Location: Laxfield, Buried Saint, Thetford, Postwick, or Fakenham
Report location: Ipswich
Reward: x3 tallies, signal jammer component
2- Improve the relationship between the "Civilized" factions - Part 1 - Calling The Moot
If all the decent factions could just sit down and talk to each other, everyone could start co-ordinating properly against the robot apocalypse threat and the roving bandits. If he could just get a representative from each faction to agree to a meeting, that would be a great start. The Pirates are probably not worth approaching, but the Keep and the Mob, the two mutant factions, and the Church all make sense. Perhaps TERRATERROR could be brought on board: they're non-violent and surely have no interest in humanity actually being wiped out, after all.
Locations: Bungay, Norwich, Cromer, Ipswich, Postwick, Dereham
Reward: x1 tally for each faction met with; 3 factions minimum to unlock next part

[auzewasright]

Here's my rough timeline I came up with for the de Pinta family:                                                       
 2021: Auze Sr.'s father moves from South Carolina to the Galapagos Islands.                                 
 2021, 2 months later: Auze Sr. is born.
 2025: Tortle training first attempted.
 2030: Ecuadorian government largely collapses, loses control of Galapagos.                                               
 2031: Hybrid warlords have hegemony over archipelago, uplox connection tower destroyed in fighting.
 2033: Tortle training for war is widespread.                   
 2034: First Tortler's rebellion, Hallocks take over Pinta Island and become the Hallocks de Pinta family. (later expanded into the de Pinta dynasty).
 2037: Galapagos islands lose contact with the rest of the world outside of South America.   
 2042: Auze is born.
 2047: Second Tortler's war, several islands seized by the Tortler's alliance, as well as northern Isabela. Española Island seized by Ecuadorian Gov't remnants.
 June, 2061: Mainline Hallocks de Pinta (Auze Sr. and children) banned from Ecuador for life.
 2080?: Third Tortler's War?

[Devastator]

(so, auze, initiating any interaction?)

[notquitethere]

Good timeline.

[Devastator]

(Can I undo the +1 to Empathy if the communication was impossible?)

Sandeep's just going to avoid the person, then, and head back to base to install the razorwire.  Too much bounty on him to involve someone unattached, and if he's a faction member, he'll be hostile.

After that, set up a third personal quest for finding a boat to get to Ipswich for the next two missions.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Sandeep Singh
Appearance: middle-aged turbaned Sikh with the characteristic thick mustache and short beard.  Beginning to gray.
Profession: Architect.
Faction: Unaligned
Type: Mutant Pariah

Body  3
Wits  2
Empathy  0
Weird  2
Mutation 2

Den: house deep in the Norfolk Broads
Inventory:
Razor-tipped Cyberwolf tail.
Lighter.  (just sparks)
Scissors
Plastic Funnel
Rubber hammer
Screwdriver
Thin Wires
pack of water filters
Knife
Laptop
Razorwire
Overclocking Laser: powerful device that can cause a feedback loop that permanently corrupts the uploxed data.

Telepathy:
You can communicate with anyone within a few miles. You need to focus to pick out their mind, but once you've connected with someone, you can communicate with them mentally whenever you like so long as they're within range. And, until you break the connection, they are able to speak with you mentally at any time.

Powerful Jaw:
You have an immensely powerful bite. You can chew through anything as strong as bone without effort, and bite through much harder materials with focus.

Signature Gear: Narrow, wire-rimmed glasses.
Conditions:
Hunger: 0
Relationship: Harjinder.  Spouse, had terminal disease before being frozen, now works for Walt Labs. Tim Tam, wild mutant child he abadoned in Norwich.
Rep: -1walt -1london -1mob -1keep -1church -2gml -2legends -2terra -1eyes -1pirates
Experience Tallies: 5

Personal Quests:

1 - Attacking the Nexus - Part 2 - Power
Sandeep has found a hard drive of research on Nexus... but he needs electricity to run a computer. That would mean approaching one of the hubs of civilisation...
Location: Postwick, the Keep, Bungay, Ipswich or Cromer
Reward: x2 tallies
2 - Establish mass communication method - Part 1 - Radio Free Wasteland
All the existing radio towers are corrupted, allowing Uploxed to piggyback on them. But if a short-wave radio network were set up, anyone with a HAM radio could communicate with each other, and anyone with any kind of radio could receive messages. First step is to get one.
Location: Arctech Radio Supplies, Norwich OR wander the backstreets in Ipswich on the off-chance there's an appropriate shop.
Reward: x1 tallies

[notquitethere]

(Sure, I'll allow you to undo.)

[Devastator]

Thanks.

[auzewasright]

Auze decides that he is most likely not the friendliest, or would probably end up fighting if he tried to interact, considering that that guy is most likely a mutant. May the feral tortles deal with that guy if he's unfriendly.Besides, Auze speaks a mix of Southern American English and Spanish (both in a weird accent), so they might not even understand each other before it's too late.

Auze continues walking away on his path, keeping an eye on the man to make sure if he does or doesn't approach.

[King Zultan]

(I'm gonna spend 5 Tallys increasing body to 2.)

"What kind of fortune and creatures dwell with in the maze?"
See what the drone says.

Spoiler: Dr. Burt Goldstine - King Zultan (click to show/hide)

Name: Dr. Burt Goldstine
Appearance: He looks like middle aged man with thinning hair.
Profession: Medical Doctor, Veteran
Faction: Unaligned
Type: Mutant Popsicle

Stats:
Body: 1
Wits: 2
Empathy: 0
Weird: 0

Personal Quests:
1 - Find some armour.
You found a faded brochure which showed a number of full suits of armour on display in Castle Rising, a 12th century castle deep in GML territory.
Location: Castle Rising, Kings Lynn
Reward: x2 tallies, armour
2 -  Get rid of the Eyes of Gaia - Part 1:  Catching the Oystercatcher Watcher
Rovin tells you that if the other Uploxed could stop the Eyes using their signal towers, they would do. The trouble is, there are no signals mechanics left alive and the ones in Nexus are enjoying paradise too much to be of any help... until now. One, Elsbeth Perotti in life was a signals engineer with a love of bird watching. Rovin has learned that she's currently piloting a drone looking at rare Oystercatchers in the Alde mudflats.
 If she could be found she might be pursuaded to work on the signal towers to prevent the Eyes from using them.
Location: Alde mudflats
Reward: x3 tallies
3 -

Mutation:
Prodigious Growth: You are much taller than you used to be, and with concentration you can grow even bigger still.
Lightning Touch: You can arc electricity from your fingertips.

Hunger: 0
Luck: 2
Kudos: 0
Condition: Tired, sorrowful
Den: farmhouse near Scole
Signature Gear: An torn old white lab coat
Inventory:
 Blacksmith Hammer
 Whistle
 Rebar club
 Cyberdog head hat
 Unstable Cabinet Armour
 scoped Lee Enfield No. 4 Mk 1 (5/5)
 box of 15 .303 British
 candle
 12 matches
 bread knife
 yo-yo

Stuff Back at the Den:
 Raincoat
 Small rock
 Bag containing 3 zip ties
 Flyer
 Printed news story
 Powdered caffeine pack
 8 sugar sachet

Relationships:
Benny the crazy homeless guy that lived behind an office building, Burt's only real friend.
Rovin the Red Cap, a cunning and violent pike wielding uploxed in the Legend faction.
Experience Tallys: 10
Reputation: +0walt +0london +0mob +0keep +0church -1gml 1legends +0terra -1eyes -2pirates