DerehamTry to get out from under the scaffolding
[Sandra rolled 5+5+1body=11]
Sandra rolls ably aside as the scaffolding collapses in the great storeroom. Sandra finds herself near a back entrance beside a huge pile of fallen planks and poles. The cloud seeding machine is standing thankfully untouched by the fall.Request a duel of the strongest pit fighter in Dereham for a cloud seeder, store the box somewhere where I’ll retrieve it later
[Jager rolled 4+2+2body=8]
An hour later Jager is standing on the ground surrounded by the 20 foot high walls of a pit. The air is buzzing with drones covering every angle. Blood is soaked into the straw floor covering. Bones and machine parts litter the ground. Persephone's living corpse leans over the barrier at the top and looks down blankly. Sandra's huge millipede morph is curled up next to her, sensors projected down on the pit.
There's a metal gate in the smooth earth wall of the pit. It rumbles open and out walks a mutated monstrosity. Something which could once have been human. It has a body covered in vast bulging growths. These growths even cover the top of its head, leaving it earless, warped and misshapen. The only clothes it has are tattered rags now, but once they were bright orange. It has an immense lower jaw that stretches almost to its distended stomach. A tongue with a razor sharp point flicks out. As it walks out of the gate there is the unearthly sound of bells ringing all around.
Jager leaps aside instinctively as the thing barrels towards him with immense speed. As he leaps aside, one of the boils bursts on the mutant, covering half the pit in yellow-green bubbling pus.
Bungay -> Camel ClearingLook around for people who might be willing to go on an expedition to the Tower with me. Mention that I’m from Walt Labs, my ideas for setting up the Tower to jam, etc.
[Darrin rolled 6+3+1empathy+1labcoat+1london=12]
Darrin starts making enquiries in the canteen. It turns out Balthazar was intending to head over too so the pair of them team up and wrangle together four others: Gavel with his hammer eyes, Doc Stone of the obsidian walls, Chloe Fontaine with her killer voice, and Big Ben. The lot of them set off into the wild yonder south through the vastly overgrown fields and thickets.
Three hours later the party break through a thick clump of woods and emerge in a clearing. Across the clearing, they see two camels. Doc Stone is jumpy and takes them to be GML agents. The ground shakes and cracks and lava bubbles up and obsidian shards burst out of the ground in pillars all around. The camels scarper, quite understandable. The party are left surrounded by cracked earth, cooling lava pools and unstable lopsided pillars.
"What have I told you about acting prematurely?" Balthazar berates his colleague.
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, it's not usually like this!" says Doc Stone. The others exchange a knowing look to the contrary.
Postwick Boat GraveyardAccept the offer. Lets go find a boat.
"It's not so much that I want to kill the nexus, but that I feel we'll never be treated like people if we are incapable of defending ourselves, even in a small way..."
En-route, try to establish a sympathetic ear for later. Not to make peace, but someone who I could communicate through later, if I want to make peace or something. I'll also need people like this if I start broadcasting.
[Sandeep rolled 4+2+1empathy-1mob=6]
The guy listens sympathetically as they chug downstream. He introduces himself as Mitchel. They go past the old stadium and the railway sidings and head east out of the city towards the broads. At a fork in the river, they turn left. Nearby is a sprawling boatyard with many boats. Here and there there are men and women in sharp suits walking across the decks. Mitchel calls out as the boat comes near. He starts signing his hands rapidly to one woman. She replies in sign and calls over a group of mobsters to her deck where they converse together out of earshot. Mitchel manoeuvres the boat they're on alongside the others and pulls it to a stop. He grabs a barge pole from the deck.
Sandeep is about to step off the narrowboat when he realises something is amiss. The group of mobsters are walking briskly towards him. He suddenly realises that one of the signs that Mitchel made looked a lot like a gun...
Spooner Row”I JUST WANTED TO SEE WHAT YOU WERE DOING, I DON’T CARE ABOUT THE MOB. IT’S OBVIOUS YOU DON’T LIKE THEM THOUGH, WHY IS THAT?”
As the saying goes: curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
[P4 rolled 5+3+0empathy+1scarf-1keep=8]
The one called Dell says, "It's complicated. I didn't think you ghosts went in for human politics but here's how it stands: down there in the valley there are some Really Bad people called the Land Pirates. Any moment now, we're expecting some Slightly Less Bad people called the Postwick Mob to roll up. We think they're working together on something. Now we don't want them to know that we know that they might be doing that. Make sense?"
"Uh Dell," says one of the others. "I think that's them."
A woman on a motorbike drives along the road in the valley below towards the area where the Pirates have their encampment. She disappears behind some trees out of sight.
"Time we move in for a closer look," says Dell. "Deadman, if you're sticking around to watch, keep quiet or we'll shoot you some more."
Empire Forge"How long am I supposed to watch this thing?"
Throw a blanket or something similar over the ferret, then put it in the RV's stove so it can't get away, then put the RV in neutral and see if Rovin will help me push the it out of the barn so the solar panels can do their thing.
[Burt rolled 1+2+2body+1curtain=6]
[Burt rolled 6+6+2body+1rovin=15]
Burt unhooks a ratty old net curtain from one of the windows and throws it over the ferret. The ferret is distracted for about 0.5 seconds before it scrambles onto the top of one of the kitchen shelves and stares down at Burt with malice. The army doctor takes a few steps towards the creature and it hisses at him.
"Well it's not going anywhere," says Rovin, as the pair leave the motorhome to try to push it out into the sun. With the pair of them working at it, the vehicle is easily pushed out into the open.
A few hours later, a green light on the dashboard pops on: it has enough juice to drive.
"I gotta swing by Buried Saint with this ferret at some point," says Rovin. "But there's no hurry."
The KeepI guess go to Frog to introduce myself. Talk to a few other people while I’m at it.
[Auze rolled 6+1+2empathy+0keep=9]
Auze gets to work meeting the people of the Keep. Frog is a bit of an arsehole. A short man standing on the car walls, looking out at the cityscape. He views the tortles with intense suspicion but otherwise keeps his hellos brief. "Don't make any trouble," he grumbles.
Next Auze meets a slim man arriving on a bicycle cart. “Ar yer orrite bor? Yer from up the city?" he says in passing, incomprehensibly.
Then Auze heads into the castle itself. The central hall is taken up with a museum with cases of old armour, maps, cannons. There's Carol's half-completed model of Norwich made entirely with wooden freezepop sticks. An empty glue pot gathers dust on the table. There's a soup kitchen and he meets and young woman named Francine who is scouring down a verdigris green pauldron, a rusty iron sword on a bench.
"Nice to meet you Auze," she says. She looks at the gun on his hip and the gaggle of tortles about him. "You a fighter then?"
Reminder of New Tally Spend OptionsYou 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!New terraterror quest.
HumanCarol'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
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
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.
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
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, +2 tallies
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, +2 tallies
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
Reward: +1 kudos, +1GML rep, +2 tallies
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
A Little Less Conversation
Requirement: +0terra
TERRATERROR are always 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
Camera Crew Wanted
Requirement: +0terra, biological
Report Location: Dereham
Frustrated by not being able to film into dead zone territories, TERRATERROR will pay continual kudos to anyone willing to swap out one of their eyes for a camera to film. The film will automatically upload when the person next returns to an area with signal.
Reward: +1 tallies, +1 kudos/month, +1terra, bodymod: camera eye
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
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
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
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
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