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[WyrdByrd]

Ed splits off a smaller part of himself to watch over the station. His distended stomach disappears as the mass is lost to form this new body, but his initial body remains looking almost the same size (though any further splitting is bound to have a marked effect). With that out the way, he sets off towards Bungay. He keeps a sharp eye on his surroundings but he doesn't see anyone on his way over, though in the distance, several times, he could swear he heard vehicles on the move.

Bungay is surrounded by an unnatural vast obsidian wall, surrounded by a rerouted river that makes up the moat. There are a series of gates inside. Ed walks across the drawbridge and someone on high at the wall shouts down, "Brother, welcome to Bungay. Are you known to us?"

"Probably not! Been a mite since I've been in the towns. Come to think of it, though, you may know some  of the folk I've traveled with. I'm sure one of them joined up with you. Big lad like that would fit in right at home with you lot, even if he was a bit of a tippler."

[Pokeboss44]

Spoiler: Karen Kablukov (click to show/hide)

Name: Karen Kablukov
Appearance: A feminine human figure with long blonde hair and face full of makeup in a business suit, hiding the secret of the interior flesh suit
Profession: Journalist
Faction: Legends (Bodysnatcher)
Type: Neozombie (Bodysnatcher)
Personal goals: Transform my personality routine into full-fledged self-learning AI, find interesting news stories for the Legends, infiltrate the Postwick Mob and become a faction agent of theirs

Stats:
Stats start at -1. Distribute 7 points across them, ranging -1 to 2
Body (using your physicality): 4
Wits (using your mind): -1
Empathy (dealing with people): 1

Health:
Conditions: (none; these add -1 to relevant rolls)
Luck: 2

Rep: Legends: -1walt +0london +0mob -1keep -1church -2gml +1legends +0terra -1eyes -2pirates
“Human Survivor”: +0walt +0london +0mob +0keep -1church -1gml -1legends +0terra -1eyes +0pirates

Kudos: 0

Experience Tallys: 0

Stuff:
Den: Buried Saints Tower
Signature Gear: Weaponized Umbrella, it’s a purple umbrella that has a knife blade at the end that can be utilized for stabbing as well as protection from weather
Inventory:

Quests: Transcendence - Part 1 - Antediluvian Research
You want transform your personality routine into full-fledged self-learning AI. AI research stalled on the advent of uploxing... but it's not completely dead. There's an old researcher called Meredith Wazashi who retired to Great Yarmouth. Great Yarmouth sank into the ocean years ago, but perhaps she left some research notes? You've got an image of her three storey townhouse downloaded in your memory banks. It's not a lot to go on, but it's a lead.
Location: Nelson Road Central, Great Yarmouth
Reward: 2 tallies
News for Legends
East Anglia is bound to be filled with breaking news and intriguing gossip to share with the Legends.
Location: There's got to be stuff happening in all the settlements in the area: Kings Lynn, Watton, Cromer, Fakenham, Dereham, Thetford Forest, Spooner Row, Scole, Norwich, Bungay, Lowestoft, Great Yarmouth, Dunwich, Iswich, Sudbury, Postwick.
Report location: Buried Saint
Reward: +1 tally for each story reported.
Infiltrate the Postwick Mob and become a faction agent of theirs - Part 1 - Getting a rep
Legends want someone on the inside of the Mob. You're that person. You'll need to get in their good books first.
Location: [See Mob 0+ quests]
Report location: Postwick
Reward: +1 tally

”Hey, Rovin, I’m another member of the Legends faction and going to do my rounds. But hello sir in the cabinet armour, do you have any interest of going to Watton?, I have to catch the latest scoop of news and commuting there with your vehicle could be helpful and handy, no worries if you can’t spare me.”

[Yoink]

"Awright, well... thanks then," says Ben, somewhat unsure of how to address this strange creature.
"Watch out fer that gel on the bike, ah guess."   
He watches the bear leave, then shrugs and turns his attention to the rest of the hall. Some grub sure would be nice...

Say my farewells to the Wiki-Bear, then take a look around the village hall for any food that might be about.
Surely they had snacks on hand for folks that gathered here? Keep an eye out for any other useful items too, I guess.     

If I find anything that seems safe to eat, do so before bunking down to sleep. If not, just get some sleep.
Either way, wake up early and continue my trek to the site of the ambush. Oh, and I guess I should probably close the door I came through and pile some chairs against it, to make noise and wake me if anyone or anything tries to gain entry in the night.    

[notquitethere]

Camel Pasture

After his rather abject failure - something he hasn’t really had to deal with previously - Darrin largely stays quiet, thinking about what just happened.

[Darrin rolled 6+6+1wits+1scientist=14]
Darrin stops and reflects on what he's feeling. He's spoken with those senior in the Labs who know more about the mutation process, though many of the details are still as yet occluded from him. This must be the Hunger that he has heard of. He didn't know if he would ever experience this madness but he wasn't expecting it to feel quite like this. An admixture of wanting something as yet ineffable and luxuriating in sensation. Fortunately he has no desire yet to feast on anyone's heart, but a tiny drip of terror falls inside his gut- will this grow now? Will there be a cure?

His thoughts are interrupted by a shout from Balthazar. While he's been lost in his mind, the others have clambered over the fallen pillar and got to safety. "You coming Amoretto?"


Thetford

After scaring off the humans, head towards [Thetford Forest] to finish this Cloud Seeder quest.

”After we are done with what we are doing, maybe we could help you carry whatever it is you are carrying”
Continue to [Thetford Forest]

The family continue to run off east into the wilderness beyond, glad that they aren't being pursued by the killer robots. The assassin and giant millipede bots continue on to Thetford Forest.

In the centre of the forest on a hill surrounded by ancient woodlands, there's a tall radio tower. The partially deflated blimp is here. It's all guarded by a handful of insectoid morphs.

Natrix, in form of a giant razor-tipped cranefly, greets them. "Well well," he whispers, "I didn't expect to see you two walking up together. And is that a cloud seeder?"

The cloud seeder is handed over and the pair are suitable rewarded.

Shortly after, the convivial atmosphere sours. "What is that bird doing trapped on your leg, Jager?" Natrix hisses,

Cloud Seeding is complete. Jager and Sandra both gain +3 tallies, +1 kudos, +1eyes rep.


Bungay

"Probably not! Been a mite since I've been in the towns. Come to think of it, though, you may know some  of the folk I've traveled with. I'm sure one of them joined up with you. Big lad like that would fit in right at home with you lot, even if he was a bit of a tippler."

[Ed rolled 3+3+2empathy+0london=8]
They open the gates for Ed but they don't seem to recognise the description of the mutant that Ed attempts to describe. Inside the walls, there is small bustling settlement. Almost everyone is clearly a mutant. Ed is given directions to the recruitment office if he wants to sign up.


Buried Saint

”Hey, Rovin, I’m another member of the Legends faction and going to do my rounds. But hello sir in the cabinet armour, do you have any interest of going to Watton?, I have to catch the latest scoop of news and commuting there with your vehicle could be helpful and handy, no worries if you can’t spare me.”

[Karen rolled 1+2+1empathy+1legends=5]
Rovin is impassive. "Sorry lady, I'm about done with running favours. What do you think, Burt? You weren't planning on going to Watton were you?"

Burt knows Watton is almost enroute to Kings Lynn, but he doesn't have a particular reason for going there yet unless he wanted to assist in whatever Karen was doing.


Scole -> Dedham Vale

Say my farewells to the Wiki-Bear, then take a look around the village hall for any food that might be about.
Surely they had snacks on hand for folks that gathered here? Keep an eye out for any other useful items too, I guess.     

If I find anything that seems safe to eat, do so before bunking down to sleep. If not, just get some sleep.
Either way, wake up early and continue my trek to the site of the ambush. Oh, and I guess I should probably close the door I came through and pile some chairs against it, to make noise and wake me if anyone or anything tries to gain entry in the night.

[Ben rolled 2+1+2wits-1hungry=4]
Ben, against all odds, finds an untouched loaf of what looks like bread in a back cupboard. Its fully sealed and looks fine to eat (in the dim light). It tastes a bit funky, but he's so hungry he doesn't mind too much. When the walls start wiggling and floor starts singing to him, he figures something might have been wrong with it. Undaunted, he falls asleep.

When he wakes up, he's no longer hungry and his knee is feeling fine. The sky is a jazzy purple. He steps his improbably long legs straight onto a cloud and rides it loop-de-loop south for the rest of the day.

When he comes to his sense, he's chucking his guts up besides a tree on the edge of Dedham Vale. With his stomach still grumbling again, Ben continues on to the ambush point. His head is much clearer and he has honestly no idea how he managed to travel for a whole day without any memory of anything in between.

"You alright kid, you don't look too well?" is the first thing the pirate says to Ben when he arrives at the ambush point. It's a handful of tents hidden in the woods near the road. A few motorbikes with sidecars are parked in case a chase is needed. Six pirates have been hanging out here for days waiting for the arrival of the bigwigs. Someone is up a tree on lookout at all times.

Ben doesn't have much time to get settled when the lookout guy shouts down, "They're coming! They're coming!" In the near distance, Ben hears the sound of car engines...

Ben loses conditions: bruised knee, hungry
Ben gains condition: tripping
Ben loses condition: tripping
Ben gains condition: hungry.


Spooner Row

This is interesting. Marie is the target, and the mob are directly making a deal with her. this is relevant to StaggerLee and potentially the deal for turning the tower on, so it may be best to ping him about it. Continue spying and recording, and see if I can get close enough to climb up the truck to the chimney.

[P4 rolled 3+4+2body+1cat=10]
P4 slinks into the camp and leaps soundlessly onto the roof of the battle truck. There he slinks to the edge of the chimney where he hears two women's voices drift up from below.

"Tea?"

"Let's keep it to business."

"My offer still stands, Dulcamara, with you by our side we would be unstoppable. We could crush all the enemies. Destroy the killbots."

"The uploxed aren't our enemies. They're insane, yes, but they hold the key to a better world."

"If they're so wonderful why aren't you working for them now?"

"I have done and will again, but the Mob pay food and I need to eat."

"We have food here too you know..."

"Marie. About the offer?"

"Yes, it was as I said: on truckload of cans for her head. A very reasonable price."

"Weren't you friends?"

"Amy is a liability, she's too wasteful with the men's lives. Good people are hard to come by. Now, here's where she'll be. You'll want to inspect the cargo, I take?"

"That's right."

"Then talk to Fatal Pete by the Stobart truck."

With that the biker leaves the truck, leaving Marie alone inside. P4 can see off in the bushes, the group from the Keep watching him closely.


The Quest Log Has Been Updated!

New quests for Keep, Londoners, Mob, Terraterror, Eyes of Gaia, and Legends.

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

Caravan for Apprentices
Requirement: +0keep
Guards are sought for a caravan leading north, protecting one of the children who is to be apprenticed at Walt Labs.
Quest Location: The Keep
Reward +2 tallies, +1 random junk, +1keep rep (if rep <1)

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

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

A Discrete Job
Requirement: +1 mob
The mob is looking to put a hit on Amy, one of the Pirate's warlords. Maybe you could be the one to do it? Dulcamara will have the full brief. She'll be in the ruins of Tuckswood.
Quest Location: Tuckswood
Reward: +4 tallies, +1mob, +4 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, +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

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

Dead Drop Guard
Requirement: +1Legend
There's to be an trade with the Londoners. Neither side fully trusts one another so the drop off is bound to be fraught. The Legends will need trusted hands to act as guards.
Location: Scole roundabout
Reward +3 tallies, +1 legend, +1 kudos

Spoiler: TERRATERROR (click to show/hide)

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

Guns for Kudos
Requirement: +0 terra
Location: Dereham
Terraterror are offering a straight swap: high quality guns for kudos. Can't say fairer than that.
Reward: +1 tally per gun, +1 kudos per gun.

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

Eyes Blimp Maintenance
Requirement: +0eyes
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

Let it Rain
Requirement: +1eyes
Sable is preparing to flood out the humans at Spooner Row, at the edge of the Eye's territory. They need a group to guard the cloud seeder for 24 hours while it creates the necessary deluge.
Quest Location: Spooner Row
Reward: +4 tallies, +1 kudos, +1eyes rep

Bargaining
Requirement: +2 eyes
The human,  Dulcamara, has enough kudos to be uploxed. The inner team think she would make a good candidate for the Eyes, but she might need quite some persuading to sign up. At, to complicate matters, right now she spends most of her time in Postwick, which is a deadzone for the Uploxed. But if that ever changes, this would be a great opportunity.
Quest location: Postwick
Reward: +4 tallies, +3 kudos, +1 eyes 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)

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

Parts Caravan Guard
Requirement: London 0+
Caravan Guard sought for caravan of car parts leading north to the Keep in exchange for food.
Location: Bungay
Reward +2 tallies, +1 random junk, +1london rep (if rep <1)

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: +3 tallies, +1londoner, +3 random junk

Dead Drop Liason
Requirement: +2londoner
A very trusted member is required as extra muscle for a sensitive drop off mission as something is to be traded with the Legends.
Location: Scole Outskirts
Reward: +1 londoner, +4 random junk, +4 tallies

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, Skirmisher
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: 1
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, spray-on flesh (?)

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 +1london +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

"Yeah, on my way. Sorry." Let's get going.

[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: 3
Wits: 0
Empathy: 3
Connexion: -2

Health:
Luck: 2
Distance: 0

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

Experience Tally: 3

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 (Out of ammo), 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). Two human fingers, Bird Cage (in which is a Magpie), box of gold leaf, semtex

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

”Hold up Natrix don’t get triggered that easily makes you seem ill-tempered and ill-mannered, I’m just hear to escort the cloud seeder and drop off this bird. Sad that you don’t have any mission for a raid against the Londoners that your at war at, I so enjoy removing the fragile life of homosapiens and eliminating threats that challenge the Uploxed.

As for you Sandra, I’ll be by Watton for your Dromasaur Assassin and I’ll get you your two kudos in exchange for the satellite information.”

Rip open the cage bars and yeet gently let the magpie out of cage, than head to Watton
(Also convert 5 XP into +1 Empathy)

[Beirus]

"I don't see why not. Maybe there'll be something good left around here. Like a jetpack! They probably managed to make those while we were frozen, right?" Theodore replies with a smile.

Airport exploration time! To the hangars to see if one of those planes is there for Timmy to check out. And maybe a jetpack, the old sci-fi staple.

Spoiler: Theodore Ansen (click to show/hide)

Name: Theodore Ansen
Appearance: A fairly average looking man, with very little remarkable about him. He isn't overly muscular or scrawny, having an average build. Even his facial features are nondescript, apart from his emerald eyes and silver tongue.
Profession: Science Fiction Writer
Faction: Unaligned
Type: Mutant


Stats:
Body: 0
Wits: 0
Empathy: 0
Weird: 3

Health
Conditions:
Luck: 2
Hunger: 0

Mutations: Silver Tongue
Your tongue is silver plated though it moves as it did before- only now others find your lies more believable.

Whiskers
Hundreds of fine bristles burst from Theodore's face, allowing him to sense objects in the dark, measure air currents and feel for upcoming threats.

Inventory: Bottle of vodka, Warp-powered bus
Den: Allotment near the University in Norwich.

Signature Gear: An engraved pen given to him as a gift from his parents after the publication of his first book.
Big dream: Become a hero
Wounds: Slightly Singed Clothing
Relationship: Timmy Jenkins, his best friend since childhood; Viktor, a rogue mutant; a Legendary Gorilla.

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

Personal Quests:
1 - Establish a sustainable source of food and water
The water supply in Norwich is highly undependable, as the river thick with toxins. From reading old maps, Theodore has made a list of places which have a natural spring which would be much more reliable for water, and therefore food.
Locations: Kings Lynn, Sudbury, Dunwich
Reward: x1 tally per location surveyed (quest can be completed after just one location if desired)
2 - Mutation Evolved
The problem with the mutations is that they're so random. Theodore wonders if it would be possible to improve existing mutations along a planned route. The scientists who did this to him must know something.
Quest location: Amazona Base, Cromer
Quest reward: x2 tallies

[notquitethere]

Camel Paddock -> Laxfield

"Yeah, on my way. Sorry." Let's get going.

[Darrin rolled 4+3-1body=6]
Darrin climbs up over the fallen pillar. When he reaches the other side he slips and plunges head first into a crack in the earth on the other side. He stretches out his arm and, by luck, it's his fire-impervious arm that hits the lava. Balthazar grabs Darrin and pulls him to safety. The scientist is shaken, but otherwise unharmed.

The group continue in silence through the overgrown fields to Laxfield. Eventually they see the great radio tower spindling up in the distance. The ground around it has been scorched bare and in its place, spiralling around the tower, a vast scrap labyrinth has been assembled. Everywhere above it there are dozens of terraterror drones filming and moving metal walls and deadly traps into place.

On one end of the labyrinth there is an imposing black archway leading into the twisty passages beyond.

"What the actual..." says Chloe Fontaine.

Darrin has lost 1 luck.


Thetford -> Watton Outskirts

”Hold up Natrix don’t get triggered that easily makes you seem ill-tempered and ill-mannered, I’m just hear to escort the cloud seeder and drop off this bird. Sad that you don’t have any mission for a raid against the Londoners that your at war at, I so enjoy removing the fragile life of homosapiens and eliminating threats that challenge the Uploxed.

As for you Sandra, I’ll be by Watton for your Dromasaur Assassin and I’ll get you your two kudos in exchange for the satellite information.”

Rip open the cage bars and yeet gently let the magpie out of cage, than head to Watton

[Jager rolled 6+1+3body=10]
Jager rips open the cage and the long-suffering bird flies off. Natrix is pleased by the release of the bird. He says quietly, "Oh the time for acting against the mutants will be soon, and when we do we will need all the hands we can get, don't you worry..."

The assassin zips through the shadows over to Watton. On the edge of town he spots something unusual. Phasing back into realspace, he sees a jeep crashed against an oak tree. The windscreen is completely smashed. There's a dead man dressed in a sharp suit lying half out the window. Behind him, inside the jeep, there's an usual sickly yellow light glowing.


Airport

"I don't see why not. Maybe there'll be something good left around here. Like a jetpack! They probably managed to make those while we were frozen, right?" Theodore replies with a smile.

Airport exploration time! To the hangars to see if one of those planes is there for Timmy to check out. And maybe a jetpack, the old sci-fi staple.

[Theodore rolled 5+6+0wits=11]
Timmy and Theodore have a whale of a time playing in the abandoned aeroplane hangars. They break into the Boeing of Timmy's dreams and he spends ages in the cockpit pretending to fly it, flipping all the levers and pulling at the joystick.

Theodore ransacks the cabins for anything of interest. He's all but given up and both are on their way back to the bus, when he sees a dilapidated refueling cart and inside, protected from the elements, is a box of jump-boots. The staff at the airport must have used them for accessing the outer parts of the planes while strapped into a safety harness (now, ropes rotten, part dangling from the roof of the hangar).

Timmy insists on reading the instruction manual. Apparently, when fuelled, they boost the wearer into the air. They can be used for hovering or for rocket assisted jumping. They're currently empty, but any kind of fuel would probably do, even booze.

"This doesn't seem very safe," says Timmy. "But I love it anyway."

[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: 3
Wits: 0
Empathy: 3
Connexion: -2

Health:
Luck: 2
Distance: 0

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

Experience Tally: 3

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 (Out of ammo), 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). Two human fingers, Bird Cage (in which is a Magpie), box of gold leaf, semtex

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

”Let’s see what we got here.”

Investigate the crash site, see if Jäger can find anything interesting in the wreckage. It’s looting time.

[notquitethere]

Watton Outskirts

Investigate the crash site, see if Jäger can find anything interesting in the wreckage. It’s looting time.

[Jager rolled 5+2+0wits=7]
Jager opens the driver seat door and the corpse collapses to the ground. He seems to have died from an acute case of having his heart pulled out through his back. As the body drops, a fancy pair of sunglasses spill to the ground.

Inside, the cab light is on, bathing the scene in a soft glow. There's blood everywhere, but other than the corpse, his shades, and the vehicle itself, there doesn't seem to be much here. Jager rifles through the jacket of the deadman and finds a list of names ticked off but he doesn't recognised any of the people listed. As he's looking he hears a woman's scream from the nearby thicket of trees.

[Naturegirl1999]

Head to [Spooner Row] for [Let It Rain]

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 +2eyes -2pirates
Kudos: 1

[Mutants only]Mutation:
Experience Tallies: 6

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

Let it Rain
Requirement: +1eyes
Sable is preparing to flood out the humans at Spooner Row, at the edge of the Eye's territory. They need a group to guard the cloud seeder for 24 hours while it creates the necessary deluge.
Quest Location: Spooner Row
Reward: +4 tallies, +1 kudos, +1eyes rep

[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: 3
Wits: 0
Empathy: 3
Connexion: -2

Health:
Luck: 2
Distance: 0

Rep:
 -1walt -1london +0mob -1keep -1church +0gml +0legends +0terra +2eyes -2pirates
Kudos: 3

Experience Tally: 0

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 (Out of ammo), 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). Two human fingers, Bird Cage (in which is a Magpie), box of gold leaf, semtex

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

”Hmm, now why would someone be screaming at this moment?”

Take the sunglasses and name list. Stalk and locate the position of the woman’s screaming, assessing why she is screaming or even better what she is.

[Pokeboss44]

Spoiler: Karen Kablukov (click to show/hide)

Name: Karen Kablukov
Appearance: A feminine human figure with long blonde hair and face full of makeup in a business suit, hiding the secret of the interior flesh suit
Profession: Journalist
Faction: Legends (Bodysnatcher)
Type: Neozombie (Bodysnatcher)
Personal goals: Transform my personality routine into full-fledged self-learning AI, find interesting news stories for the Legends, infiltrate the Postwick Mob and become a faction agent of theirs

Stats:
Stats start at -1. Distribute 7 points across them, ranging -1 to 2
Body (using your physicality): 4
Wits (using your mind): -1
Empathy (dealing with people): 1

Health:
Conditions: (none; these add -1 to relevant rolls)
Luck: 2

Rep: Legends: -1walt +0london +0mob -1keep -1church -2gml +1legends +0terra -1eyes -2pirates
“Human Survivor”: +0walt +0london +0mob +0keep -1church -1gml -1legends +0terra -1eyes +0pirates

Kudos: 0

Experience Tallys: 0

Stuff:
Den: Buried Saints Tower
Signature Gear: Weaponized Umbrella, it’s a purple umbrella that has a knife blade at the end that can be utilized for stabbing as well as protection from weather
Inventory:

Quests: Transcendence - Part 1 - Antediluvian Research
You want transform your personality routine into full-fledged self-learning AI. AI research stalled on the advent of uploxing... but it's not completely dead. There's an old researcher called Meredith Wazashi who retired to Great Yarmouth. Great Yarmouth sank into the ocean years ago, but perhaps she left some research notes? You've got an image of her three storey townhouse downloaded in your memory banks. It's not a lot to go on, but it's a lead.
Location: Nelson Road Central, Great Yarmouth
Reward: 2 tallies
News for Legends
East Anglia is bound to be filled with breaking news and intriguing gossip to share with the Legends.
Location: There's got to be stuff happening in all the settlements in the area: Kings Lynn, Watton, Cromer, Fakenham, Dereham, Thetford Forest, Spooner Row, Scole, Norwich, Bungay, Lowestoft, Great Yarmouth, Dunwich, Iswich, Sudbury, Postwick.
Report location: Buried Saint
Reward: +1 tally for each story reported.
Infiltrate the Postwick Mob and become a faction agent of theirs - Part 1 - Getting a rep
Legends want someone on the inside of the Mob. You're that person. You'll need to get in their good books first.
Location: [See Mob 0+ quests]
Report location: Postwick
Reward: +1 tally

”That’s okay Rovin, I’m just trying to find the latest scoop on what’s happening in all the cities and reporting it back to the Legends, anyways I shall take my leave.

Travel from Buried Saints Tower to [Watton]

[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, Skirmisher
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: 1
Luck: 1
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, spray-on flesh (?)

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 +1london +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

As a direct result of recent events, Darrin is rather less patient than he typically is.
"Excuse me?" he shouts up toward the drones. But he's unheard, or maybe just ignored, or perhaps simply not responded to quickly enough.
So he uses Sonic Boom.
"EXCUSE ME, WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?"

[auzewasright]

Head back to the den to report that there are people to adopt, as well as multiple friendly mujeres y hombres. Also, before that, grab a few batteries from the bucket before the kid destroys them all.

Spoiler: Auze (click to show/hide)

Name: Auze
Appearance: Slightly on the tall side, brown hair, male.
Profession: Engineer, seeks to become a Tortle trainer
Faction: Unaligned Saviour
Type: Human

Stats
Body: 0
Wits: 2
Empathy: 2

Den: In the area South-west of the broads, a shack with gathered equipment and books salvaged from the plane.
Conditions:
Luck: 3
Kudos: 0
Rep: +0walt +0london +0mob +0keep -1church -1gml -1legends +0terra -1eyes +0pirates
Tallies: 7

Signature Gear: Tortleing gun, combining old weaponry with new electronics, it is capable of shooting someone, bashing someone's head in, and receiving and decryption radio signals... so long as the encryption is Morse code. It is not very good at bashing someone's head in unless you get the add-on whip... which Auze didn't.

• Torteling gun with whip: Perhaps the closest thing to the ideal weapon for a Tortler, this weapon is effective at both ranged and melee, allowing one to shoot someone and then bash his head in if he is still breathing. Not bad for a gun that is often homemade out of scavenged parts.

Other items:
Diamond Dust

Saviour: Auze is the guide and leader of the once-prestigious-but-now-banned-from-Ecuador-for-life Carolinian-Galapagosian Hallockes de Pinta family. His fellow relatives are:
Father, Auze Sr: An experienced tortle trainer who was fairly powerful in the Galapagos, and has fought off some monsters in his day. Preferred weapon: scourge followed with a dagger
Brother, Josh: Much more into weaponry than the Engineering-minded Auze. Is stronger, and likes the idea of revenge against the non-humans. A good tortle trainer himself.
Sister, Layla: Good with people, she likes to convince others to do something with charisma. The reason the family got banned from the Galapagos for life.
Cousin, Carol: The less said 'bout 'im, the better. There are only 3 extra members in the family.



Family Quest
* - Electric Blues
Layla is getting fed up of the rather limited entertainment available to the family. She's found a couple of boomboxes, all she needs are some batteries or a power source.
Quest Location: Someplace civilised might have batteries to trade.
Report Location: Den in the broads
Reward: +2 tallies, radio broadcast capability.

Spoiler: personal quests (click to show/hide)

Personal Quests:

2 - Restore humanity to its former glory and kick out mutants and uploxed - Part 1 - Alliance
It'll be tough to fight against killer robots and rampaging mutants just as a family. Perhaps human allies in the fight could be found? The Land Pirates are most militant about getting rid of the mutants, while the Keep fight a good fight against the uploxed. The Postwick Mob are a bit more ambivalent, but their base is closest to your home.
Location: Norwich outskirts, or Norwich Castle, or Postwick
Reward: +2 tallies, possibility of +1 faction rep
3 - Secure the future of the Hallocks de Piñta dynasty - Part 2 - Getting on with it (needs new description)
You could be cut down at any moment: you need to create a new generation of tortlers. That means meeting other humans... either a nice Señorita, or a lost child that could be adopted. There are plenty of humans at the Keep...
Location: Norwich Castle

Done (sort of)
1 - Establish a population of trained attack tortles - Part 1 - Tortle capture
The bad news is, tortles aren't normally native to the Broads; the good news is your family stuffed half the plane full of them; the worse news is that this is mostly why the plane crashed here and all the surviving tortles escaped into this interminable marshland. Time to catch some!
Reward: 1 tally per tortle caught
Part 2 - Tortle training

Done:
* - O Brother!
Josh claims that a harpy flew off with his favorite sword. He says he thinks its hiding out in a boathouse on the river. If you help him get his sword back, he says he'll finally get around to adding the whip attachment to your Tortling gun.
Location: The broads
Reward: +2 tallies, a whip.

Spoiler: Tortles (click to show/hide)

Jorge
Diego
George