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[Naturegirl1999]

Head back to the den to report that both adoption and reproduction opportunities are at the Keep (don’t word it like that)

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

(Might want to say how you want to word it)

[WyrdByrd]

Start scanning the streets for Popsicles. Keep an eye on the ones that look more attached to pre-apocalypse ways then others.  They'll probably be the ones to respect commerce.

[auzewasright]

Head back to the den to report that both adoption and reproduction opportunities are at the Keep (don’t word it like that)

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

(Might want to say how you want to word it)

Literally any other way would probably be better. I'll come up with a different one.

[Devastator]

Well, that ended up working out okay.  I think I'll surprise Mitchell by returning his boat.

Add a personal mission to return Mitchell's boat.  Activate mission 1.

Start sailing down the river, and eventually south towards Ipswitch, hugging the coastline.  Check if the houseboat has enough electricity from the solar panels to run the laptop.  It probably does if it has a working electric heating element, although batteries and voltage issues might make it not suitable.

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  1
Weird  2
Mutation 2

Den: house deep in the Norfolk Broads
Inventory:
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.
Canal Boat

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: 1

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

[Dustan Hache]

Paw at the chimney suggestively to the watchers of the keep, silently asking if they want me to try and sneak inside the truck. If they do, attempt to infiltrate the vehicle so I can get at Marie myself. Otherwise, ID the cargo being picked up and escape without being detected by the pirates. being quiet is HARD!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: P4-Nth-err
Appearance: Avatar is a nondescript person wearing a “Big cats” T-shirt, his drone of preference is a leopard.
Profession: Counter-hunter (basically the faction equivalent of a stream sniper)
Faction:G.M.L
Type: Uploxed
Personal goals: Find a human who actually cares about me, living a semi-normal life with said human.
Stats
Body (using your physicality): 2
Wits (using your mind): 1
Empathy (dealing with people): 0
Connexion (interfacing with the digital realm): 0
Health
Conditions: Minor knee injury (arrow to the knee : removed)
Luck: 2?
Distance: 0

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

Experience Tallys: 1
Signature Gear: Mascot’s handkerchief: a dirty, tattered red rag from another time. it reminds some people of far more peaceful times. +1 empathy while interacting with non-hostile humans.
Inventory: mostly empty.

Den: Thuxton

Personal Quests
1 - Find a human who actually cares about me - Part 1 - Meeting People
It's difficult for an uploxed to find a real human when you're Uploxed. However, in the neutral town of Watton, there are humans there who work with Uploxed. Perhaps one of them could come to care for P4?
Location: Watton
Reward: x2 tallies
2 - living a semi-normal life with said human - Part 1 - Requirements for Normality
Humans need all kinds of complicated stuff to survive well. At the very least, they need food and fresh water. Based on promising satellite data, P4 could survey potential habital areas where food and water are still available.
Locations: Kings Lynn, Sudbury, Dunwich
Reward: x1 tally per location

[Yoink]

"Bloody hell," Ben mutters to himself, rubbing his head as he stumbles towards the camp, "Ah've gotta get maself some more ay that shit..."   

This train of thought is abruptly interrupted as he is addressed. He straightens up, squinting at the other pirate.
"Aw aye, 'm fine. So what's the plan then?"


If I have time, ask what our plan of attack is before the ambush begins.
Otherwise, just follow some more-experienced pirate and be ready to make myself useful.

Gauge if my lash would be long enough to stretch across the road; if it is, maybe whisper to someone asking if they want to grab the other end so we can possibly clothesline any forward scouts. Of course, that plan would be moot if the frontrunners aren't on bikes...   

Spoiler: Ben Lash (click to show/hide)

Name: Ben Lash
Appearance: A swaggering, rangy young pirate in his late teens, with unkempt, short-ish dark hair, light eyes of some indeterminate blue colour and a complexion like a soggy crust of bread. Wears fairly standard pirate gear, with a few belts and pouches strapped to his person as well as the occasional mis-matched piece of armour such as sports pads or dented baking trays.
Keeps his trusty metal whip on his person at all times, usually coiled about his shoulder or wrapped tight around a gloved fist. 
Profession: Second-generation Land Pirate fighter       
Faction: Land Pirates 
Type: Human 

Stats
Body: +2
Wits: +2
Empathy: 0


Health
Conditions: Hungry   
Luck: 3

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

Experience Tallys: (none)

Stuff
Den: (somewhere in Land Pirate territory I guess?)   
Signature Gear: his lash, a length of strange, flexible metal (actually a near-indestructable bungee cord from the distant past) inherited from his father that has proven quite effective as a weapon. His father, a wandering scavenger whose fortunes improved greatly when he found this unusual metal rope in some ruins, added various attachments to it, blades, spikes, hooks and other such gadgets, gradually forming it into a potent, multi-purpose weapon and tool. He became so attached to his trusty lash that when he eventually joined the Land Pirates and (in a manner of speaking) settled down, he named his firstborn after it: Ben Lash.
When some years later Ben's father failed to return from a raid, none of the others who made it back would say exactly what had befallen him - but they did return his weapon of choice to his young son. Severely damaged from acid, to the point that there was nothing left but the cord itself, but still intact.
Inventory:

Spoiler: Quests (click to show/hide)

Personal Quests
1 - Upgrade my lash to improve its combat effectiveness
Spikes and barbs are what Ben needs, but most of the metal one finds is rusted or weak or hard to reshape. The pirates have learned of a razorwire factory in Lowestoft. Their first raid there managed to kit out one of the trucks with gnarly spikes, but apparently there's loads more back at the factory they didn't have the space to take.
Location: Lowestoft
Reward: x1 tally
2- Craft a useful and stylish piece of equipment from a slain mutant - Part 1 - Finding a target
Finding a mutant isn't that hard, there's loads of them crawling around the wastes nowadays, but finding one with a useful feature is a bit trickier. Pirates speak of a mutant with rubber-like skin, bullets and blows and vehicles just bounce off of him. A rubber suit made from this mutant would grant protection from all manner of harms.
Location: He's been seen near the University of Norwich
Reward: x2 tallies
3 - Vengeance Paternal - Part 1 - Someone's gotta talk
Your father disappeared that day and though you don't know what, acid has got something to do with it. Time to confront one of the raiders that went with him that day, Fatal Pete.
Location: Spooner Row
Reward: x2 tallies

Faction quest: Church Ambush (Land Pirates)   

[King Zultan]

"Hey legends lady I'll take you to Watton, I'm gonna be passing through there anyway so I can drop you off."
See if Karen still wants the ride, then take her to Watton and drop her off.

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: 2
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: sorrowful
Den: farmhouse near Scole
Vehicle: Solar RV
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: 6
Reputation: +0walt +0london +0mob +0keep +0church -1gml 1legends +0terra -1eyes -2pirates

[Pokeboss44]

"Hey legends lady I'll take you to Watton, I'm gonna be passing through there anyway so I can drop you off."
See if Karen still wants the ride, then take her to Watton and drop her off.

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: 2
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: sorrowful
Den: farmhouse near Scole
Vehicle: Solar RV
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: 6
Reputation: +0walt +0london +0mob +0keep +0church -1gml 1legends +0terra -1eyes -2pirates

“Thanks Mr. Burt for the convenient carpooling, I’d welcome a quick ride to there.”

Take a ride in Burt’s vehicle and be dropped off in Watton

[notquitethere]

Thetford -> River Thet -> Spooner Row

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

Sandra rolls up along the main road towards Spooner Row. She has to slow down to a stop half way there, where the river Thet has flooded its banks and the road is part submerged. There's a purplish chemical slick that clings to the surface of the river.

"That's... disconcerting," says Sable's avatar in Nexus, as she watches Sandra's feed. As there's nothing that can be done about it now, Sandra continues on to Spooner Row.

She arrives on a hill overlooking a tangle of roads where there's an encampment of Land Pirates. Sandra considers where to set up the cloud seeder. The best place for the cloud seeder would be right in the open overlooking the settlement, but it would also be the most exposed spot. There's a small copse of trees on the hill, but they could interfere with the seeder.

Paw at the chimney suggestively to the watchers of the keep, silently asking if they want me to try and sneak inside the truck. If they do, attempt to infiltrate the vehicle so I can get at Marie myself.

[P4 rolled 1+1+1wits+1cat=4]
In the middle of the camp in Spooner Row, P4 pads at the chimney. He gets a nod from Dell. Sneaking as best as he can, he gets to near the door when all hell breaks out.

"What's that!"

"Killbot on the roof of Marie's truck!"

About half a dozen guns turn on P4 as the whole camp realises there's a GML cyberbeast sneaking among them!

This is a morph-threatening situation.


Outskirts Watton

”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.

[Jager rolled 1+1+0wits=2]
Jager picks up the loot and stalks through the woods, but the scream has ended and he can't see anything. Eventually, mud besplattered, he clambers back onto the roadway. Right in time to almost be hit by an oncoming RV.

This is a morph-threatening situation.

"Hey legends lady I'll take you to Watton, I'm gonna be passing through there anyway so I can drop you off."
See if Karen still wants the ride, then take her to Watton and drop her off.

“Thanks Mr. Burt for the convenient carpooling, I’d welcome a quick ride to there.”
Take a ride in Burt’s vehicle and be dropped off in Watton

Dr Burt Goldstine drives north to Watton. Karen Kablukov sits up front. Rovin stays in the back and polishes his mask while the others can't see his face underneath. The drive doesn't take long and Burt is enjoying the scenery whizz by when suddenly a humanoid shaped robot with a gun arm stumbles out of a thicket right into his path. It's not too late to slam on the brakes, or accelerate.


Laxfield Labyrinth

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?"

[Darrin rolled 4+1+3weird=8]
Darrin's voice booms out over the valley. A gaggle of drones buzz towards the party.

"WELCOME TO THE FATAL LABYRINTH!" one booms.

"IN THE CENTRE SITS A TOWER THAT BROADCASTS ROBOTIC DOOM!" cries another. "THE ONLY WAY TO STOP IT IS TO TRAVEL AND BRAVE THE DANGERS WITHIN!"

"TRAPS, TREASURE AND MONSTROSITIES MOST INTRACTABLE LIE WITHIN!" follows up a third.

"Well this is a good way to die," says Big Ben.

"Yeah, let's report back, and come back with a real plan," says Chloe Fontaine.

Balthazar looks at the labyrinth with a gleam in his eye. You did all come all this way and it would be a shame to go back empty handed...


The Keep -> Arena -> Deep in the Broads

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.

[Auze rolled 3+3+2wits=8]
Auze grabs some batteries from the bucket. Pandrick says, completely deadpan, "Sparkstones are life. You owe me a life now."

With the batteries, he travels back to his den deep in the broads. He's thinking about what to say to the others when he walks past an old stadium. There's the head of a great monstrous beast driven into a stake near the entranceway. Lying near it, discarded on the side, is a great fibrous wing, as if it were from a giant insect. It terminates in a metal socket. It's a nice souvenir, the way it shimmers in the light, so Auze grabs it and carries on his way.

Back at the house, Auze lays out the possibilities inherent at the Keep. His brother Josh and his father Auze senior are both keen on making a trip to make friends at the Keep. Layla is currently more interested in her radios.

"You find me any batteries?" she says.


Auze gains batteries. Auze gains a giant insectoid wing.

(Unless any intervention is made his family will make ties with the Keep and the dynasty will be on a more secure footing.)


Bungay

Start scanning the streets for Popsicles. Keep an eye on the ones that look more attached to pre-apocalypse ways then others.  They'll probably be the ones to respect commerce.

[Ed rolled 4+4-1wits=7]
Ed spots a young woman dressed in a faded jumper with grumpy cat knitted on it. This is definitely someone from the old days. He approaches her and she stares at his wings. She says "I told you freaks three times already I ain't joining your weird-ass fight. I just wanna go home."

(Please post your sheet when you make a move, it makes it easier for me to do your rolls.)


Postwick Boatyard -> Alde Mudflats

Well, that ended up working out okay.  I think I'll surprise Mitchell by returning his boat.

Start sailing down the river, and eventually south towards Ipswitch, hugging the coastline.  Check if the houseboat has enough electricity from the solar panels to run the laptop.  It probably does if it has a working electric heating element, although batteries and voltage issues might make it not suitable.

[Sandeep rolled 3+1+2wits=6]
[Sandeep rolled 3+1+3body=7]
Sandeep plugs in the laptop into the boat as it slowly makes its way down stream. There's a burning stench from the power adaptor and Sandeep pulls it out before it does any damage to the laptop. Now he'll need a new cable and adaptor. There must be one in Ipswich...

He travels through the swamps of the Broads and out of the estuary of the Yare which has flooded the whole town of Great Yarmouth. There he chugs alongside the coast, hugging the shoreline as close as he can. The rudder is hard to handle, but Sandeep is stong and steady. He's lucky and the waves are gentle enough, though the boat rocks back and forth most disconcertingly. It's going well and he's making good progress when a sudden push from the water sends him careening into a swampy headland. He travels on a while but as the tides recede over the course of a few hours, the boat becomes stuck in the mud near the mouth of the river Deben.

Ispwich is about four hours walk from here, or he could wait for the tide to return, whenever that might be.


Sandeep gained condition: grounded.

New personal quest:

Only Borrowed
Return Mitchel's boat where you found it.
Location: Norwich riverside
Reward: +1 tally.
Quest updated:

Updated quest:

1 - Attacking the Nexus - Part 2 - Power & Cables
Sandeep has found a hard drive of research on Nexus... but he needs electricity to run a computer and a new laptop cable. That would mean approaching one of the hubs of civilisation...
Location: Postwick, the Keep, Bungay, Ipswich or Cromer
Reward: x3 tallies


Dedham Vale

Otherwise, just follow some more-experienced pirate and be ready to make myself useful.

Gauge if my lash would be long enough to stretch across the road; if it is, maybe whisper to someone asking if they want to grab the other end so we can possibly clothesline any forward scouts. Of course, that plan would be moot if the frontrunners aren't on bikes...   

[Ben rolled 2+2+2wits+1lash=7]
"Are there bikes?" Ben calls up to the lookout and he shouts back affirmative so Ben races down with another pirate and he runs across the road, the lash outstretched, held by the other.

The first bike comes and the rider drives full bodied into the lash. He's knocked off and his bike careens into the woods. The force pulls the other pirate stumbling into the road. Ben glances down the road and sees a huge truck driving this way, clearly going to hit his companion. A second bike is following up behind it.

There are revs from the woods as the other pirates ready their vehicles for a chase.

Spoiler: Map (click to show/hide)

[Naturegirl1999]

(Used 5 tallies to improve Connexion)
Place the Cloud Seeder in the Copse of trees to limit exposure

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: 2

Health
Conditions:
Luck: 2
Distance: 2

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

[Mutants only]Mutation:
Experience Tallies: 1

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

[Dustan Hache]

Mission compromised! Take cover, and try to get down the chimney! Marie must still be inside, and we need to catch her before she either arms herself or escapes from the truck!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: P4-Nth-err
Appearance: Avatar is a nondescript person wearing a “Big cats” T-shirt, his drone of preference is a leopard.
Profession: Counter-hunter (basically the faction equivalent of a stream sniper)
Faction:G.M.L
Type: Uploxed
Personal goals: Find a human who actually cares about me, living a semi-normal life with said human.
Stats
Body (using your physicality): 2
Wits (using your mind): 1
Empathy (dealing with people): 0
Connexion (interfacing with the digital realm): 0
Health
Conditions: Minor knee injury (arrow to the knee : removed) Detected by land pirates (morph threatening situation)
Luck: 2?
Distance: 0

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

Experience Tallys: 1
Signature Gear: Mascot’s handkerchief: a dirty, tattered red rag from another time. it reminds some people of far more peaceful times. +1 empathy while interacting with non-hostile humans.
Inventory: mostly empty.

[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

Darrin facepalms.
“Of all the stupid reasons to start up a tower...”
Then, he looks over the tower and Labyrinth with a critical eye, trying to figure out:
“So, guys, maybe going through the Labyrinth is a bad idea - but do you think we could go over it?”

[auzewasright]

”Here ya go”, Auze hands her the batteries, “You know, now that you've got the radios working on this end, let’s see if you can broadcast to the Tortler gun radio and back”. After testing this out, go and read some books on electrical generation and/or related subjects.

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 +1keep -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 decrypting 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
Giant Insectoid wing
Quest items:
Batteries

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

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:
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
* - 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

The dynasty endures. Also, is this the titular keep that the faction is based in?

[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

”Damn drivers lacking their license, I’m about to get hit”

Dodge-roll out of the way of the truck, Jager’s start booting up his shadowjump to travel to Watton

[notquitethere]

Also, is this the titular keep that the faction is based in?

Yep! That's why there's a museum in it. I included some pictures of it in Part I of this game.