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[notquitethere]

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[Beirus]

Spend a few minutes to scrounge around for jump boot fuel. Whether we find any or not, get on the road again to Cromer!

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, Jump boots
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

[auzewasright]

Go look for the Keep’s forward general out in the field. On the way there, look out for any useful junk... or tortles. Spend 5 tallies on increasing wits.

Spoiler: Auze (click to show/hide)

Name: Auze
Appearance: Slightly on the tall side, brown hair, male.
Profession: Engineer, aspiring 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: 9

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:

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

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.

* - 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: Tortles (click to show/hide)

Jorge
Diego
George

[notquitethere]

Laxfield Labyrinth

Darrin stands his ground right up until the projectiles are inches from his feet, and then-
"Alright, we'll go in! But first, I have some questions!"
Let's see about asking about why the hell it seems like any and all Uploxed entertainment seems to resolve around killing humans - especially considering that they're (supposedly) human, too.

[Darrin rolled 3+1+1empathy+0terra=5]
Darrin shouts his question at the drone but if they can hear him over their barrage of pellets, they don't reply. The mutant scouting party are driven through the arch by the projectiles. As the last of them pass the threshold, a lack iron gate slams down in the arch, locking the six of them in the labyrinth.

They look around and see metal sheet walls tower up around them, perhaps twenty feet high, open to the sky and looming inwards, the top ringed with razorwire. There are cameras embedded high in the corners of the room. They're on the north edge of the labyrinth, and three passages twist off: south, east, and west. Towards the south there's the sound of slicing blades; to the east, it sounds like a bubbling broth; to the west it smells distinctly of rabbit flesh.

"We could just melt our way to the centre," says Doc Stone.

Chloe Fontaine throws up her hands, "Woah, no way. You have no control over it at short range. Doctor Amoretto nearly died last time."

Gavel beams a holographic hammer from his eyes at the walls. His lips move wordless as he does some sums. At last he says, "We're in the dead centre of north side," he croaks. "From what I saw of the walls from the hill top, each passage section is about the same size. We're in a 9-9 grid. The tower will be in the centre."

"We should head south straight to the tower then," says Balthazar.

Big Ben looks over at the scientist. "What do you think Darrin?"

Spoiler: Labyrinth (click to show/hide)

Watton

”Now I need to find this damn Murdock, he better be willing if he cares for the rest of the years in his life”

Ask around town for this Murdok is and where he is located at with Jager’s efficient negotiation and streetwise skills as well as going to talk to the individual, for [Part 1 - Quantum Interpretation]

[Jager rolled 6+2+3empathy=11]
Tartazine vapor condenses on Jager's shell as he climbs into Murdok's second-storey hovel. A few pointed questions to the residents led him to this chrome hole. Murdok, a hunched over man with a wispy moustache wearing a shabby brown suit, is tinkering at some impossibly complicated array of electronics on a scratched metal desk, while puffing steam from a squat glowing pipe. All around him are piles of bizarre mechanisms, wires dangle from the tin roof, fans and chipboards clutter shelves. Everything is lit by three intense white lamps that cast everything in the hovel in sharp relief.

Murdok barely looks up, mumbling, "Whaddayawant?"

”Thanks for the drop off, now I’m going to go off in my way. Good luck with you.”

Karen sees the environment of the Watton, clearly a main hub where both Uploxed, human, and possibly mutants have a equal chance of opportunity for trading and talking with each other, a town of peace and sees this as a interesting place to gather stories for the Legends
Utilizing my profession as a journalist for experience try to collect stories, gossip, and contemporary news from Watton, preferably the yellow dinosaur and the squat television drone, as well as other passersby in the town

[Karen rolled 6+3+1empathy+1journalist=11]

Karen takes some time to walk around the town and get a feel for the place and its residents. There is a lot of industry involved in keeping morphs operational as they explore this important frontier land. She approaches the assassin dinobot and the tourist drone whose voxelated face appears on its mobile television body.

"My name is Killazilla, I ain't never vanilla... for just three kudos I'll be your guerrilla!" the dinobot raps at her while jerking in a vague semblance of human dance.

"Don't mind KZ here," says the avatar on the television, "He's just an assassin for hire. I can see you've been asking questions about town. You wonder why its so busy here? Why Terraterror are buying up every bit of weapon and weird scrap and tinpot warbot going."

"I'll be signing up myself after my Eyes of Gaia mark comes back with some kudos for me," says Killazilla.

"Don't ask us what for, nobody knows and nobody has reported back yet whose gone with them."


Karen gains +1 tally for learning Watton Gossip

Norfolk Broads -> Keep -> Spooner Row

Go look for the Keep’s forward general out in the field.

[Auze rolled 1+1+2wits=4]
Auze travels with his brother and father back to the keep. As they get acquainted with the locals, Auze finds out where the Forward General, Dell, has headed to. Somewhere called Spooner Row. "Watch out for the land pirates," says Carol before he leaves.

Just along the main road southwest, you can't miss it. So Auze starts walking out that way. He walks until its dark and eventually he sees in the moonlight a faded sign: SPOONER ROW. He walks into a dark encampment: a circle of vehicles around a bright fire.

He hears a number of shouts about him and soon armed men and women run near him in the dark about a huge multi-trailer truck. Auze suddenly realises with dread that these people aren't from the Keep. They're the pirates he was warned about and any second now they're going to realise he's not one of them.

Inside the big truck he hears a single gun shot ring out...

Spooner Row

The moment the gun barrel breached his mouth his jaw clamped down on it in a firm grip and he pushed into the Slavic woman, trying to rip the gun from her hands with a swift flick of his head. He prayed that it wouldn’t be loaded or that if it was, the motion of his pull didn’t cause her finger to depress the trigger.

Meanwhile, his speakers blared out two words during what might be the last two seconds of his morph’s life:”OHSASAFRAS”

[P4 rolled 5+6+2body-1guninmouth=12]
P4 wrenches the gun into Marie. It goes off, blasting away his right cheek, exposing the steel-reinforced jaw. The dead skin hang in tatters about his face, and the bullet goes straight through the wall of the trailer. Marie stumbles backwards, dropping the gun to clang on the ground.

"Help!" she shouts. Her goons were undoubtedly already on the way, but P4 has time to act. From here he can see through the living compartment and out to the cab of the truck and the glass beyond. Each section of the long truck is separated by a door, currently open. There's a glowing low fire in the forge next to him.

Look for a nearby hill I can climb on to watch the Cloud Seder and Spooner Row from above

[Sandra rolled 6+1+2wits=9]
Sandra climbs over to the next hill along and watches the Cloud Seeder and the encampment below. The clouds begin to close around. She hears shouts from below and the bang of gun going off. From down the hill, she sees four people, all armed, moving through the woods in her direction...


Bungay

Hop on up to get a better view of the convoy,   then invite Alison to sign on as a partner in the merchant industry.  It's so rare to find someone  who knows the value of an economy. If she accepts, give her directions to the Esso shop, and have the offshoot work on the welcome mat. After that, head on down to Sudbury to [Restart the Business].

[Ed rolled 4+6+2empathy+1trader=13]
"Nah yeah, you what mate, I think I might take you up on that," Alison says. "If I stick around they're just going to rope me into getting meself killed. If I can earn a bit of cash or bottle caps or whatever shit you trade now, maybe I can pay someone to get me off this bloody island."

She goes off to pack her things to make the trip to the Esso shop, where Ed's other body is making things look a lot more welcoming. With her under his wing, he can really begin to show these popsicles what it means to be weird.

With that achieved, Ed avoids the recently arrived convoy and travels on towards Sudbury. The first part of the journey is in the same direction as his base, so he walks along with Alison.

"Am I gonna end up all twisted like all of you? I don't even know if I was mutated. I don't feel any different. I was talking to Ben the mechanic and all his mutations are non-physical... so maybe it's like that," she chats away, slowly opening up to Ed. The pair of them split ways some way past Scole.

The rest of the journey takes a good while, but after sleeping upside down from an elder tree in a new growth forest in the middle of nowhere, Ed begins a new morning walking the rest of the way to Sudbury. By this time, he sees with his other body that Alison has arrived at the garage and is resting up after her long trek.

Finally, Ed sees the abandoned town of Sudbury sinking into the overflowing river valley. He mentally splits up the town into different segments for exploration. There won't be time enough to loot all of it, and there may be any number of dangers below, so he considers where to search for tradable goods first:

Spoiler: Grid Map of Sudbury (click to show/hide)

Educate the popsicles is complete. Ed gains +2 tallies.


Ipswich

Get the five minute summary as to what the kid is from her.  Search her baggage to see what she's carrying and confiscate (temporarily) any weapons.

Try to ferret out if she's a hostile or being used as one.  If so, keep any weapons and leave the area, looking out for more unfriendlies.  If not, return any weapons and let her roll Empathy to see if she convinces me to take her along.  Give her a +1 bonus if she has any skills or equipment relevant to my goals or surviving independently.

In either course, lets get heading back home.

[Sandeep rolled 6+6+2wits=14]
[Sandeep rolled 5+4+1empathy=10]
[Tas rolled 1+3+0empathy+1foraging=4]
[Sandeep rolled 3+3+2wits=8]
Sandeep quickly rifles through the child's belongings but doesn't find any weapons on her other than a simple carving knife and a small trowel. He gives them back to her as he grills her as to her purpose and whether she has any survival skills.

"I- I can forage, I know what berries and mushrooms can be et," says the girl.

Up close he can see the child is scrawny and could slow him down. Worse, he hears the shouts of voices calling. "Tas! Come back here Tas!" There's a whole manhunt after her. That's the last kind of attention he needs. So Sandeep turns his back and heads to his boat. Seeing he's not going to help her, the child reluctantly heads back towards the centre.

Sandeep carefully navigates his boat back down the river Orwell and out along the sea. It's hard going, sailing in the dark and Sandeep is forced to take things very slowly and carefully to avoid being caught adrift on the mudflats again. Eventually, he arrives at a stretch of river near his den in the broads. It's still night time and his boat has run out power... it'll have to wait until morning to recharge the solar panels. Still, when that happens, he has his radio ready to start broadcasting!

Radio Free Wasteland is complete. Sandeep gains +1 tally.


Watton -> Somewhere outside Kings Lynn

Leave Watton and start heading for Castle Rising.

Burt drives north towards Castle Rising. Somewhere outside the abandoned town of Kings Lynn, the road is suddenly covered in thick black smoke that obscures all passage. The roads are difficult enough to drive on with so many fallen logs and overgrown segments.

"This a trap or someone's bonfire get out of hand?" says Rovin.


Dedham Vale

Ben's all-too-brief grin of triumph quickly twists into a grimace as his compatriot topples into the truck's path.

"Hang on!", he shouts to them, adjusting his grip on the lash before throwing his weight back from the road in a desperate attempt to yank them out of the danger zone.

Quickly shout at the other pirate to hold on tight!

Tighten my grip on the lash, possibly wrapping it around a forearm or something, then lunge backwards, using all my strength - as well as my bodyweight, gravity and momentum - to pull them to safety before the truck can reach them.

[Ben rolled 5+6+2body+1lash+1fighter=15!]
The other pirate grabs on tight as Ben ably hefts him out of the way of the oncoming truck. The truck blares past and, followed by the motorbike. From the woods the pirate's own ambush convoy starts up, raring out of the woods on a flatbed trucks and two motorbikes. The pickup swings by and Ben's pirate companion climbs up and leans over to give Ben a hand up.

"Let's get 'em matey!"

Ben is hauled up on to the back of the pickup and it speeds off after the truck at high speed. As the big truck slows in the twisty forest roads, the flatbed pulls alongside its cab. They can see two men inside, one levels a shotgun out of the window in their direction. He's only a few away from where Ben clings in the back of the truck.


Airport

Spend a few minutes to scrounge around for jump boot fuel. Whether we find any or not, get on the road again to Cromer!

There's no fuel around so they head on their way to Cromer. The long straight road is quiet and only partly waterlogged. Eventually Timmy and Theodore arrive in another overgrown town. They follow a battered path towards the zoo where Walt Labs have their base. They pull up their warp-engine vehicle in the weed-strewn carpack of the zoo. The compound beyond is double-fenced, barb-wired and has a moat where crocodiles and hippos lull. There's a guardhouse on the edge. A woman with elephantine ears watches them from the booth as they start walking towards her.

"So what's the plan here?" Timmy whispers to his old friend.

[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

“Damnit... ok.
I think mechanical dangers will likely be some of the easiest stuff for us to deal with, so yes, we go south. I don’t know about all of your powers, but I can probably at least somewhat disable moving parts with sonic booms and keratin spikes, and if I can get close, I can dismantle them, and I have the experience with these types of things to have a good idea of how to do that all properly. Let’s do this carefully.
Now, we’re all in this together, so I want openness. What can each of you contribute? Because right now, we live together, or we die together.”

[Naturegirl1999]

Roll into a ball towards the 4 humans aiming to crush them or scare them away

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

[Devastator]

Maybe I should have taken the kid.  I don't like the church any better, and they probably would have done their freaky robot brain thing on her.

..yeah, but she wouldn't have been any safer with me.

..I could have just let her go somewhere up the coast.

..Where she could have been attacked by the killer robots.

..I could have dropped her off at the keep or something.  They might have sent her to be mutated or drafted her into their war, but..

...sigh.  I need to fix things enough so that these choices don't have to be made.

Not much to do except wait for morning, then.  Although priority would be on mission #1, investigating that laptop first.  I can broadcast after I have a power source I own, so I can do so reliably.  If nothing occurs, investigate that hard drive tomorrow.

Fill slot #2 with whatever the next goal will be for the broadcast one, so probably 'acquire some kind of power source.'  I'd be happy getting it from the churce or the eye of gaia, as I haven't stolen from either of them in a while.

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

Luck 2
Kudos was 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
Laptop cable
HAM radio
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: Ok
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 & 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
3 - Only Borrowed
Only Borrowed
Return Mitchel's boat to him or to where you found it.
Location: Norwich riverside
Reward: +1 tally.

[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, ripped open Bird Cage (Empty), 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

”Now Murdok I need a human engineer to improve my teleportation technology that is built into my morph, I learned from the Nexus that your the man that can do that. If you value the rest of your life spent on tinkering, I recommend helping me.

Coerce Murdok into helping Jager by improving his shadow-step technology and figuring out how you would do that

[Beirus]

"Well, Timmy, I reckon they ought to be at least somewhat civilized. Maybe one of them will be a fan, if you did happen to find my books in their Norwich facility." Theodore said with a smile.

"Hello there! My name is Theodore Ansen, and this is my friend Timmy. This is the Walt Labs base, yes? I was hoping to have a word with some of your scientists, or someone in charge if it isn't any trouble. Or whoever I need to talk to to get to talk to one of those people." He offered an introduction as he approached the gate person.

I refuse to give up hope that I can't get through a social encounter without lying. But if that fails, lie my way in to where I need to be. This is just like the myriad scenes in
my Bosley Starshift anthology, which featured an interstellar spy who routinely lied his way into various high-stakes poker games, restricted access bases, and that bar with the galaxy's best Nebula Martini from which he had been banned in previous novels.

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, Jump boots
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

[auzewasright]

Clarification: have they noticed me or are they still distracted away? Should probably know, for my plan on what to do.

[notquitethere]

Clarification: have they noticed me or are they still distracted away? Should probably know, for my plan on what to do.

Still distracted for now, though that won't last long.

[WyrdByrd]

Start on C4, keeping two eyes open.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Mister Ed
Appearance:  A bat-like man, or a man-like bat, dressed in the tattered remains of navy-blue formal wear. Around his chest and back is an olive drab harness.
Profession:  Wandering Trader
Faction: Unaligned Monster
Type: Mutant
Big Dream: Get a suit.
Personal Goals:
1: Find out about the people I was traveling with, once upon a time
2: Restart the  merchant business I was once a part of. I was the boss, right? Yeah, that sounds right.
3: Educate the popsicles on what it means to be weird.
Stats:
Body: -1
Wits: -1
Empathy: 2
Weird:  3

Health:
Conditions: None
Luck: 2
Hunger: 4

Rep:
+0walt +0london +0mob +0keep +0church -1gml -1legends +0terra -1eyes -2pirates
Kudos: 0
Mutations:
Bat wings
You have large leathery wings that you wrap around you at night to keep warm. You can flap them hard to leap to high heights, and you can glide short distances with them.

Mimic Voice
With effort, your voice can mimic any kind of sound or voice with perfect fidelity.

Evil Eye
You can open a third eye on your forehead. People who gaze at it may be cursed with terrible luck for some time after.

Multiplication
You can split your body apart into smaller versions of yourself who share a single mind and experience what each other experience, but may act independently. These bodies can merge again. The more bodies, the harder it is to co-ordinate them.

Experience tally: 0

Stuff:
Den: An old garage, located under a highway south of Gaia territory
Signature Gear: The Rig, an armored harness designed for use with wings, made out of bicycle parts. Is able to support a decent amount of cargo while flying and gliding.

[King Zultan]

"Ether way we're probably better off avoiding it."
Turn the RV around and drive out of the smoke, then find a different route to Castle Rising.

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]

”Now Mr. Killazilla and television morph, may I request some information about any passing or staying Tourist Uploxeds?, it’s of the interest to the Legends and your help would be greatly appreciated”.

Ask the yellow dinosaur and squat television Uploxed about any news for residing Tourist Morphs that reside within Watton, and ask around people around town for information about if any live here.

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: 1

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

[auzewasright]

Back away from this mess while they are still distracted. While attempting that: Jorge, walk into the  outer areas away form me, give out a Tortle call, and climb up a tree. The sound should shatter their psyche just long enough to get away.

Spoiler: Auze (click to show/hide)

Name: Auze
Appearance: Slightly on the tall side, brown hair, male.
Profession: Engineer, aspiring 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: 9

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:

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

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.

* - 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: Tortles (click to show/hide)

Jorge
Diego
George