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[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: 1

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 2 - Gh0st Busting
The Legends uplox known as Gh0st has more advanced shadow-jumping technology. All you need is its quonbox component or the schematics for it. Who knows where Gh0st is hiding though. Someone in Nexus, Watton, or the Legends base might know.
Location: Nexus, Watton or Buried Saint
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

”We need to hit them fast and hard to distract them from the rest of the incoming squads, you are clear to engage any targets that come your way. The scrap bots will place the explosives with speed while I, the teddy bear, and you Megastonks will provide ranged covering fire while you do this. Once we breach, I will give the command for the signal, and than we go into the LZ and take down all targets, remember any unassuming mutant can still have deadly powers and destroy your body, use any tactics to cause mayhem but we ain’t here to take hostages, so be precise and swift.”

Jäger will command the scrap piles to place the explosives on the west gate, using the cover of the trees to get as close as possible, while him and the teddy bear will provide covering fire from the trees, and Megastonks can draw fire as well. Jäger will take down any sentry humans on the west side of the wall to let the scrap piles set their explosives up, and give the signal to Sable once the western gate explodes.

[King Zultan]

"Looks like there are humans in the castle, I'm gonna need you to stay with the RV while I go inside and see about getting some armour."
Drive the RV closer and leave Rovin inside it while I go knock on the door to the castle and see if I can get inside.

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 12 .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

[auzewasright]

Auze considers his options. Being not suicidal, he goes for one that doesn't involve pissing off death robots first
Go towards Steele's Smithery

Spoiler: Auze (click to show/hide)

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

Stats
Body: 0
Wits: 2
Empathy: 3

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: 6

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.

Items:
Diamond Dust
Giant Insectoid wing
Tortling Manual

Saviour: Auze is the guide and leader of the once-prestigious-but-now-banned-from-Ecuador-for-life Carolinian-Galapagosian Hullockes 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 other members of the family.

Family Quest:
Dungeoncrawling
Josh has heard rumours and wants to find treasure in a maze to the south. It seems implausible, but Auze could go with him to check it out.
Start Location: the Keep
Reward: +3 random treasure, +2 tallies

Spoiler: Personal Quests (click to show/hide)

Personal Quests:
2 - Restore humanity to its former glory and kick out mutants and uploxed

4 - Renovate and improve our base
The base in the Broads is barely more advanced than an airplane crash site. The following improvements could be made:
- River access (a canal could be dug to give fresh water access to the river)
- Razorwire fencing (location: factory in Lowestoft)
- Signal tower for Layla's radio. (take antenna from one of the towers at Postwick, Fakenham, Thetford, Buried Saint, Laxfield or Ipswich)
- Weapon workshop (take tools from Steele's Smithery (Norwich), Metal Designs (near Buried Saint), Empire Forge (near Laxfield).)
Reward: +1 tally for each improvement made.

5 - Help train tortle attack squads - Part 1 - Mass Tortle Capture, Part A: the Bait Beans
In order to help train tortles for the Keep, Auze needs more Tortles. In order to get more Tortles, he'll need bait. And the bait that Tortles find irresistible? Freshly brewed coffee! The smell will draw them with their fine noses for miles around. Unfortunately, no one in the Keep has any coffee beans left and it doesn't grow natively. But there are a couple of options for finding some.
Possible locations: Bungay (the Londoner's come from afar, so they might have some), Ipswich (they grow their own food there, so perhaps coffee too?), Scole (there's a Pirate Market starting soon, perhaps someone could be trading an old bag?)
Report location: The Broads

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 Pinta 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.

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

Spoiler: Tortles (click to show/hide)

• Jorge
• Diego
• George

[Beirus]

"My name is Theodore Ansen, and this is my best friend Timmy Jenkins. Thank you for the hospitality you have shown us." Theodore replies.

Introductions.

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.
Profession: Science Fiction Writer
Faction: Unaligned
Type: Mutant


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

Health
Conditions:
Luck: 2
Hunger: 1

Mutations: Doppelganger Flesh
With a bit of concentration, you can turn your appearance into anyone you can see before you. You can also change your skin colour at will in any combination. This can be used to match your surroundings.

Lizard Grip
Your hands are formed of intensely strong, curling fingers, allowing you to climb and hold on to things with your weird prowess instead of your normal bodily strength.

Hypervision
You can see in 360 degrees, and with effort may focus in detail on things very small or very far away.


Inventory: Bottle of vodka, Warp-powered bus, Jump boots, Warp Isolate Nutrient Mix, Warp Isolate Phone
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: 2
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)

[Yoink]

Ben Lash grins and nods as he's given his share of the loot, exchanging whatever gruff pleasantries the occasion might call for.   
Then he strolls off, pushing his newly-acquired bike, to chat to various pirates before the encampment can disperse.   

First order of business is to find that mad bastard who jumped onto the other truck, get his name (assuming I don't know the guy already) and attempt to shake his hand or offer a fist-bump, friendly headbutt or whatever other piratical form of greeting might be appropriate.   

However that goes, at the same time try and find out any news of the world or general gossip and see if I can maybe arrange a ride northwards, in the general direction of Land Pirate turf - preferably sticking my bike in the back of a truck or van to save on precious fuel, if I can talk my way into it.   

Edit: Ideally to either Scole or Spooner Row for the respective quests at those locations, but beggars can't be choosers.   
Or if there are any pirate war-parties heading out, I suppose I wouldn't be against the idea of joining up on such a venture. Oh, also, try and get some more bullets for the single-shot rifle I nabbed, unless its rightful owner would like to reclaim it - it is somewhat useful but it'd hardly be worth fighting over.
Some grub wouldn't go astray, either, if I can find any around the campsite.       

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 +2pirates
Kudos: 0

Experience Tallys: 3

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: single shot pneumatic rifle (empty)

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) ✓   

[Pokeboss44]

”I am just a simple woman trying to make my way in this desecrated world, I mainly am a off sourcer and freelancer news reporter hoping to bring just a bit of stability back to the human civilization against killer robots and mutants by making every remaining unaugmented person having news to make sure they can reach safe havens and refugee camps, as such. I use to have a housing in Watton where I helped the last pockets of humans there until I used my remaining earnings to gather a box of gold leaf and bring it back to you. It seems you have a hit against Amy, may I provide my loyalty to you by removing her life force?, I am a skilled freelancer.”

Introduce myself to Irma and provide a sob yet a bit inspiring story to help me get on her good side and than ask questions on why they want to kill Amy.

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 +1mob +0keep -1church -1gml -1legends +0terra -1eyes +0pirates

Kudos: 0

Experience Tallys: 3

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: half-cybergorilla signaling system and spiked mantle

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

[Dustan Hache]

P-4 Remembered that before the stealth mission went awry, he had met some folks from the keep, one of which was named Dell. They had asked him to record the meeting, and he had. Now he needed to find them again and transfer the information, either verbally or via transfer of the recording. Maybe he would be able to get the GML a more trustworthy ally than the mob!

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), Destroyed jaw flesh/exposed steel jaw(Right cheek:Gunshot)
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: ThuxtonQuests:
Record the Meeting,Ad-Hoc
Description: Record the meeting between Marie and the Mob.
Location: Spooner Row
Reward: +1 keep rep, +2 tallies
Ready to turn in.

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
Ready to turn in.

Personal questline
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

[notquitethere]

Laxfield Labyrinth

Sonic boom. "BACK OFF!"
Shoot him with the old rifle; if he gets too close, spray the Spray-On Flesh in his eyes. Shoot keratin spikes at him, prioritizing his face and the tentacles that hold legitimate weapons.
I will not die today. I will not let my companions die today.
Every hit counts; don't get hit yourself. This is how skirmishers fight.

[Darrin rolled 4+1+3weird+1skirmisher=9]
[Darrin rolled 2+1-1body+1skirmisher+1gun=4]
[Darrin rolled 6+3+3weird+1skirmisher=13]

Darrin booms at the tentacled man. The blast sends him scattering back.

"DON'T THINK I CAN'T CATCH YOU! THE CATMAN WITH THE MERCURY MOUTH CALLED ME VIKTOR, FOR I AM ALWAYS THE VICTOR!"

Viktor plants his feet firmly on the gantry and shoots half a dozen tentacles out towards the party. Darrin fumbles with his gun. It's wrenched from his hand and smashed against the metalwork by Viktor's sledgehammer, the barrel cracked. Chloe and Ben jab uncertainly at the tentacles as they stand behind Darrin. The scientist holds out his hands and punches out volley after spines. The skewer the tentacles to the walls and ceiling, the hockey stick clatters to the ground.

"We've got him pinned, let's murder him!!" Big Ben shouts. Slather is forming around his mouth and his own new tentacles are growing larger.

"No, no, let's make our escape while we can!" says Chloe Fontaine, eyeing up the exits.

Darrin's new quest:

Find the Party
Darrin has lost half the others in the labyrinth. Balthazar, Doc Stone and Gavel are in here somewhere!
Location: Laxfield Labyrinth
Reward: +1 tally per party member found alive.


Bingo Hall, Norwich

Get Harjinder's input on the new discovery I've made with that laptop, and see if she has any suggestions on how that might be used to change things, and if she thinks there will be any downsides or other issues, such as it might free up all the bodiless minds up there, or anger them or such.

"So if I can get this straight... the uploxed we deal with, they're the minority? Most of them are up there living in paradise, they've forgotten we even exist. Waking them all up will kill the excess processing power that allows a minority of them to hunt us here on Earth?

"If that's true, then we should get it to one of the towers! I'm sure the Church or the Mob would let you use their tower if it means taking out the Uploxed for good!"


South Edge of the Broads

P-4 Remembered that before the stealth mission went awry, he had met some folks from the keep, one of which was named Dell. They had asked him to record the meeting, and he had. Now he needed to find them again and transfer the information, either verbally or via transfer of the recording. Maybe he would be able to get the GML a more trustworthy ally than the mob!

[P4 rolled 5+2+1wits=8]
P4 spends the next day walking east from Spooner Row. During that time he manages to fix his voice box, but his jaw is still partly ruined. On a south road, at the top of a hill, he sees Dell sitting on a motortrike, scouring the horizon with his telescope.

"You again!" he says when he sees P4 approach. "Did... did you get the recording?"

P4 plays back what he had overheard. That the pirate warlord Marie had hired on the mob to try to get her rival killed, and where Dulcamara, the mob's agent in this, was likely to be found in the ruins of Tuckswood. And that there's a Pirate base close by in an old tank museum.

"You have done an invaluable service, deadman," says Dell. "I know now that not all of you are so mindlessly bloodthirsty. I'll give your description to my people and tell them not to shoot you on sight."

Before P4 can talk for longer, Dell spots a series of zeppelins roll along the countryside to the south, heading in the direction of Bungay.

"I need to go warn my friends... I'll see you again Big Cat!"

And with that he rides back into the radio-deadzone of Norwich.

Record the Meeting is complete. P4 gains +2 tallies, and +1 keep rep.


Postwick

[Karen rolled 5+1+1empathy+1mob=8]
Introduce myself to Irma and provide a sob yet a bit inspiring story to help me get on her good side and than ask questions on why they want to kill Amy.

Irma seems to buy the story, or at least, she doesn't question it too deeply, and she's clearly enthusiastic about the newcomer offering to perform the hit on Amy. But still, she's a bit cagey about the reasons.

"Amy is a pirate," she says. "We do a bit of business with them, but in the long run they have to go. They're too chaotic for the long-term stability here. We're trying to build something and all they can do is tear down. A freelancer whose done good work for us, Dulcamara, has the full details. You can find her over in Tuckswood, a little south of Norwich central."


Forest -> Scole

First order of business is to find that mad bastard who jumped onto the other truck, get his name (assuming I don't know the guy already) and attempt to shake his hand or offer a fist-bump, friendly headbutt or whatever other piratical form of greeting might be appropriate.   

However that goes, at the same time try and find out any news of the world or general gossip and see if I can maybe arrange a ride northwards, in the general direction of Land Pirate turf - preferably sticking my bike in the back of a truck or van to save on precious fuel, if I can talk my way into it.   

Edit: Ideally to either Scole or Spooner Row for the respective quests at those locations, but beggars can't be choosers.   
Or if there are any pirate war-parties heading out, I suppose I wouldn't be against the idea of joining up on such a venture. Oh, also, try and get some more bullets for the single-shot rifle I nabbed, unless its rightful owner would like to reclaim it - it is somewhat useful but it'd hardly be worth fighting over.
Some grub wouldn't go astray, either, if I can find any around the campsite.   

[Ben rolled 4+3+0empathy+2pirates=9]
[Ben rolled 3+1+0empathy+2pirates=6]
[Ben rolled 2+4+0empathy+2pirates=8]
The pirates camp up as they divvy out the spoils of the raid and eat some beans on the fire. Ben eats his fill and introduces himself to the mad pirate that had jumped onto the other truck.

"The name's Magnus," he says taking Ben's hand in firm embrace. "I was impressed by your fighting kid, and your stunt with the wheel might have saved my life... but their truck's axle is completely buggered from the wheel blowing out so there's no recovering it. Next time try not to sink a ship that could be captured."

He sticks around and tries to find out the gossip of what's been happening, but these guys have been hanging around for a week in the woods waiting in ambush and don't have any fresh news.

They do allow him to throw his bike onto the back of the truck for the ride north, but during the discussions the pneumatic rifle is spotted and its owner takes it back. The drive takes a few hours, the vehicles laden down with goods recovered. Whole trailers are piled up with incomprehensible electronics.

The ambush party arrive at Scole where there's a huge convocation of vehicles spread out in the ruins of the small town. The warlord Amy has crushed some of the buildings with her tank, and in the cleared rubble a huge market has sprung up. Magnus and the others disperse to try to trade their various takings, and Ben is left in the middle of the market with his bike. He soon learns that the Spooner Row camp has been completely dismantled after some Uploxed attacks and heavy flooding forced them away, and that anyone he had hoped to see in Spooner Row would be here in Scole instead.

The market is filled with all that a pirate could hope for in weapons, vehicle parts, food, drugs, booze, and various weird tech from the old days. The discussion about the town is all about the fall of Spooner Row, and recent sightings of zeppelins heading past Scole from west to east.

Ben has lost a rifle.


Castle Rising

Drive the RV closer and leave Rovin inside it while I go knock on the door to the castle and see if I can get inside.

"My name is Theodore Ansen, and this is my best friend Timmy Jenkins. Thank you for the hospitality you have shown us." Theodore replies.

Dr Goldstine takes the vehicle in closer and has Rovin wait there. He approaches the castle and knocks upon it, like he saw the others do. Soon, a hunched figure opens and slot and sees it is just a man. Goldstine introduces himself and the butler says, "More guests! What a pleasant surprise for the Earl... come in..." As they ascend the stairs, Goldstine realises the man before him is a robot. He is brought into a chamber where he sees two nondescript but vaguely familiar looking men in conversation with an old man in a red smoking jacket and fez.

Timmy and Theodore are introducing themselves to the Earl in his chamber when the robot butler ushers in another guest. He's a middle aged man with thinning hair who is heavily armed and seems to be wearing the doors of a kitchen cabinet for armour.

"This is Dr Burt Goldstine," whirrs the Robo-butler. They all look at each other, and the guests recognise each other as fellow mutants, who awoke in Walt Labs in Norwich all those months ago.

"Excellent, excellent, sit down," says the old man. "I am the Duke of Earl. Welcome to my humble abode! It's not often I have guests. Not often at all. Now... how can I help you fine men? Come to seek safety for the night? It is quite dangerous out there!"


Norwich - Steele's Smithery

Auze considers his options. Being not suicidal, he goes for one that doesn't involve pissing off death robots first
Go towards Steele's Smithery

Auze heads through Norwich town in search of the Smithy. He sees the sign off a unit in an industrial estate in the northeast of town. An anvil shingle dangling down "Steele's Smithy". As he's walking through the estate he hears from an overgrown car garage the sound of voices.

"The car'll sell like a bomb down in Scole, but we need something..."

"...more unique!"

"Yeah, something weird that no one else has got."

"Hey! How about those!"

Auze sees two men emerge from the garage, one wielding a heavy pipe and carrying a huge net. The other with a slingshot loaded with a metal ball-bearing. He looks at one of the Tortle's accompanying Auze.

"Give us your freaky lizard or have your head caved in!" shouts the man with the slingshot, aiming it at Auze. These are Land Pirates!



Bungay

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: 3

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

Experience Tallies: 5

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

Get the Geezers
Requirement: +1eyes
Now that their base is covered by radio cover, it's time to act against the Londoners. The Eyes have received intelligence that some of the most powerful Londoners are out of the town, so they are planning a full assault on Bungay while it's safer to do so. Fighters are to assemble in Thetford before they march out.
Quest Location: Thetford Forest
Reward: +3 tallies, +2 kudos, +1eyes rep, +2 random spoils of war

Wait for the signal
“When Squad C sends the signal, we will go in, while there, we will look for records to take them, killing any mutants in our way. Would anyone like to add to this?”

”We need to hit them fast and hard to distract them from the rest of the incoming squads, you are clear to engage any targets that come your way. The scrap bots will place the explosives with speed while I, the teddy bear, and you Megastonks will provide ranged covering fire while you do this. Once we breach, I will give the command for the signal, and than we go into the LZ and take down all targets, remember any unassuming mutant can still have deadly powers and destroy your body, use any tactics to cause mayhem but we ain’t here to take hostages, so be precise and swift.”
Jäger will command the scrap piles to place the explosives on the west gate, using the cover of the trees to get as close as possible, while him and the teddy bear will provide covering fire from the trees, and Megastonks can draw fire as well. Jäger will take down any sentry humans on the west side of the wall to let the scrap piles set their explosives up, and give the signal to Sable once the western gate explodes.

[Jager rolled 6+4+3empathy+1warlord=14!]
[Sandra rolled 4+6+2wits=12]
There are shouts from the gate as the scrap piles approach. They lay down their explosives as Jager and Wufus suppress the guards from firing on them. Jager kills one of them, a woman with a crossbow and a black eyepatch who is caught by Jager's bullet as she peers over the parapet.

As the scrap piles shuffle back, there's a huge explosion that twists the gates half off their hinges. Megastonks charges forward, smashing the gates in. In the gates beyond, Jager can see a street and many mutants begin to rush on their position. Megastonks feeds back what he can see to the Nexus channel: the street is blocked by a few cars with half a dozen mutants, armed, behind it. Another group of mutants are on their way, further down the street. A few mutants have appeared in the window of a nearby window. And then there's the mutants suppressed on the wall. They'll have a fight on their hands for sure!

Jager gives the signal and it ripples through the Nexus channel. On the far side, the main Eyes robots burst out of the river well and make a line towards the sewer works. Squad B, led by Sandra, are dropped into position.

Sandra lands with her squad in the centre of the town. The HQ building is in front of them. She can hear the chaos at the main gates as the bulk of the mutants rush there to combat Jager's squad. Sandra leads her team in the HQ. It's several houses joined together. Outside a tattered banner says 'HQ'. Inside, walls have been knocked down through several corridors and living rooms to create a large atrium. Four irregular obsidian pillars prop up the ceiling above.

Sandra is quick-witted, and leads her squad into the cover of the nearest pillar as they enter through the double doors of the HQ. She sees five soldiers in the room, all armed with pistols and whatever unknown mutations. She sees two corridors leading off to the east and west, and stairs leading up on the other side of the Atrium.

"Their bullets can't hurt us!" says Rak.

Spoiler: At the Gate (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: The Atrium of the HQ (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Squad A (click to show/hide)

Sable (robo-scorpion)
Natrix (robo-cranefly)
Helen (robo-squid)
Marcus (robo-ant)
Lola (robo-ladybird)

Spoiler: Squad B (click to show/hide)

Sandra (robo-millipede)
Molets (robo-moth)
Rak (robo-crab)
Araneus (robo-spider)

Spoiler: Squad C (click to show/hide)

Jägermörder (assassin-bot)
Clank (scrap pile)
Microwave (scrap pile)
Refurb (scrap pile)
Megastonks (giant killbot)
Wufus the Bear (teddybear)

[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: 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 - Find the Party
Darrin has lost half the others in the labyrinth. Balthazar, Doc Stone and Gavel are in here somewhere!
Location: Laxfield Labyrinth
Reward: +1 tally per party member found alive.

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

"We don't murder him. We give him the mercy he needs."
Kill him quickly. Best option is probably to fill up his head with spikes.

[Naturegirl1999]

Attack the mutants

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: 2
Wits: 2
Empathy: 1
Connexion: 2

Health
Conditions:
Luck: 2
Distance: 3

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

Experience Tallies: 0

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

Get the Geezers
Requirement: +1eyes
Now that their base is covered by radio cover, it's time to act against the Londoners. The Eyes have received intelligence that some of the most powerful Londoners are out of the town, so they are planning a full assault on Bungay while it's safer to do so. Fighters are to assemble in Thetford before they march out.
Quest Location: Thetford Forest
Reward: +3 tallies, +2 kudos, +1eyes rep, +2 random spoils of war

((used 5 tallies to increase Body to 2))

[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
Kudos: 2
Distance: 0
Experience Tallies: 1

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.

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

Stuff:
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), semtex, sunglasses, name list

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 2 - Gh0st Busting
The Legends uplox known as Gh0st has more advanced shadow-jumping technology. All you need is its quonbox component or the schematics for it. Who knows where Gh0st is hiding though. Someone in Nexus, Watton, or the Legends base might know.
Location: Nexus, Watton or Buried Saint
Reward: x1 tallies
3 - Terminate members of the Church of Milennium - Part 1 - Bash the Bishop
Hacked communications show that a church delegate is coming from London way to Ipswich. This would be a great opportunity to hit the Church without needing to get into their jamming zone.
Location: Dedham Vale
Reward: x2 tallies

”Okay we need to make this quick so that we can get ourselves to the power positions, you three scrapbots push through the gate and take a right to the bunk house and eliminate mutants tangos #17 and #18 if that mutant attempts to flank you.
Megastonks, you have the most important role of drawing fire away from us, focus on seeing if you could damage the car’s gasoline tank to see if the cover the mutants are using will explode, otherwise be stationary and provide suppressing fire down that Main Street.
Finally, Wufus I need you to flank to other side of the tree line and take down tango mutant #16. Myself, will focus on the rest of the wall targets.

Jäger will give the instruction to his squad (Scrapbots push to cover in the bunk building, Megastonks will direct attention and suppress the main road mutants/attempt to blow up their cover cars, and Wufus will flank to other tree line and take the other mutant out), and Jager will try to utilize his marksmanship to pop the heads off mutant tangos #1 and #2

[Pokeboss44]

”Thank you Irma, I am just an idealist in these rough times for humanity I just think we and the robots and mutants should work together to allow human civilization to become stable after the apocalypse we experienced. Anyways, I am journalist so I’d like gather the most interesting gossip from the people here before I set off, maybe one of your members could even help me with dealing with this Amy.

Gather breaking news and gossip from the Postwick base. As well ask if anyone in the tower area is adventurous and interested in finding helium in Norwich to sell to the Uploxed for a exchange of a cut of the rewards if they help Karen, or helping her with the pirate Amy.

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 +1mob +0keep -1church -1gml -1legends +0terra -1eyes +0pirates

Kudos: 0

Experience Tallys: 4

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: half-cybergorilla signaling system and spiked mantle
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 Mob - Part 2 - Trusted Associate
Get +2 rep in the Mob (see mob quests).
+2 tallies

[notquitethere]

Laxfield Labyrinth

"We don't murder him. We give him the mercy he needs."
Kill him quickly. Best option is probably to fill up his head with spikes.

[2+3+3weird+1skirmisher=9]
Darrin takes a few steps forward and unloads a barrage of spikes. Over and over, the keratin spurs shoot out into Viktor's head. At last the tentacled man slumps down, dead. It'll be a while before Darrin can use his spikes like that.

Big Ben clutches his own head. "It's weird," he says, sanity returning to him. "I know he's gone but I can still feel something of him, still with me." Indeed, Ben's own tentacles had not receded.

Chloe Fontaine picks up the big knife. "I'm glad that's over. Which way now?"

Darrin gains condition: temporarily out of spikes.

Spoiler: Map and Party (click to show/hide)

Chloe Fontaine: Can kill people with her voice and shatter glass - carrying big knife - Exhauted
Big Ben: can psychically connect to people called Ben and use their knowledge and powers - Haunted by Viktor

Lost
Balthazar: looks like a devil, invulnerable to pain, cannot be cut, bruised or burnt
Gavel: send holographic projections of hammers from his eyes which can measure and assess
Doc Stone: can burst obsidian pillars out of the ground, haphazardly, with lava

Bungay - HQ

Attack the mutants

[Sandra rolled 3+2+1=6]
Sandra rolls out from the pillar and heads straight towards the big desk. There's a crackle of white lightning from her left and everything goes black. When she comes to, several mutants are offloading guns into her robotic face and everything feels murkier, as the housing of her camera is cracked. She looks around and sees her robot allies similarly effected by the lightning.

Sandra gains condition: cracked lens.
Sandra gains +1 distance.

Spoiler: Atrium (click to show/hide)

Bungay - Gate

”Okay we need to make this quick so that we can get ourselves to the power positions, you three scrapbots push through the gate and take a right to the bunk house and eliminate mutants tangos #17 and #18 if that mutant attempts to flank you.
Megastonks, you have the most important role of drawing fire away from us, focus on seeing if you could damage the car’s gasoline tank to see if the cover the mutants are using will explode, otherwise be stationary and provide suppressing fire down that Main Street.
Finally, Wufus I need you to flank to other side of the tree line and take down tango mutant #16. Myself, will focus on the rest of the wall targets.

Jäger will give the instruction to his squad (Scrapbots push to cover in the bunk building, Megastonks will direct attention and suppress the main road mutants/attempt to blow up their cover cars, and Wufus will flank to other tree line and take the other mutant out), and Jager will try to utilize his marksmanship to pop the heads off mutant tangos #1 and #2

[Jager rolled 3+2+3empathy+1warlord=9]
[Jager rolled 3+4+3empathy+1warlord=11]
[Jager rolled 4+1+3empathy+1warlord=9]
[Jager rolled 1+5+3body+1sniperrifle=10]
Jager barks the order to the scrap piles. They head off to the south, and Jager soon hears the sound of battle. "WAAAAA!" cries Microwave as he charges the mutants there and launches a pyrex disk out of its centre, taking out a mutant in a bloody splat. The other mutant there hears the explosion and runs into the garage. Clank, coming up the rear is pinged severely by the mutants at the roadblock firing, but it trundles along regardless.

Megastonks charges the cars in the centre, drawing most of the fire on him. In one case, literal fire as one of the mutants [6] breathes bouts of flames on him. The cars don't explode but he does use his immense size and strength to hurl them out of the way,  destroying the cover.

Wufus goes to the other treeline and shoots up at the guard there [16], who ducks down out of sight: completely suppressed for now, but undefeated, with no clear line on them.

Finally, with consummate ease, Jager kills the two guards on the wall with a neat succession of headshots.

Spoiler: Gate (click to show/hide)

Postwick

Gather breaking news and gossip from the Postwick base. As well ask if anyone in the tower area is adventurous and interested in finding helium in Norwich to sell to the Uploxed for a exchange of a cut of the rewards if they help Karen, or helping her with the pirate Amy.

[Karen rolled 2+2+1empathy+1journalist=6]
[Karen rolled 2+3+1empathy=6]
Karen tries to size up the Mob on whether anything interesting had been happening lately. They're remarkably close-lipped: no one wants to tell her anything and she begins to suspect they don't trust her enough yet with any news. Perhaps that will change after this next job. When she floats the idea of going to get helium together, they're doubly wary. The only thing she gets out of them is that they seem to be afraid of a madman who roams the riverways of Norwich, stealing boats and psychically stalking them. It's not much, but she doesn't seem to have any luck getting anything juicier out of them.

Karen gains +1 tally for uncovering a rumour.

[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: Temporarily out of spikes
Den: Rooms at Amazona Zoo in Cromer

Signature Gear: A fireproofed lab coat, with the Walt Labs logo printed on the shoulder.
Other equipment: 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 - Find the Party
Darrin has lost half the others in the labyrinth. Balthazar, Doc Stone and Gavel are in here somewhere!
Location: Laxfield Labyrinth
Reward: +1 tally per party member found alive.

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

Take the equipment... Vikter? had, and go... north, I think.
Specifically, if Ben takes the sledgehammer - which he'll likely be able to put to better use than me - then I'll take the hockey stick, mainly for use in defending myself and for poking stuff that needs poking.
Also take the vodka. For later.

(Request: please put my current location on the map.)

[auzewasright]

Ok, time for Auze to think fast, to get a plan to make his life last.
"Well, I'd be happy to do so my friend
To give these tortles rather than meet my end
But there's something you might want to hear
This topic on which my expertise has no peer
If you shoot me like you say
My tortles won't merely run away
For they are clever, and pretty smart
and they know how to sabotage a kart
They'll take revenge, you see
Y'all's fate won't be very pretty
I'd give them to you, but it would take weeks, no faster
Most animals don't like to change a master
But I have something else in store
Info on where you can get more
This info on tortles, which I will lend
Will help you reach your goals to the end
Money, prestige, treasure, power,
Even shutting off the uploxed's tower!
Now that's a great deal, you can agree
But wait, there's more! Just listen to me..."
While I'm distracting them with the benefits of using tortles as tools
Gesture them to go 'round, and then disarm these fools.

Spoiler: Auze (click to show/hide)

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

Stats
Body: 0
Wits: 2
Empathy: 3

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: 6

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.

Items:
Diamond Dust
Giant Insectoid wing
Tortling Manual

Saviour: Auze is the guide and leader of the once-prestigious-but-now-banned-from-Ecuador-for-life Carolinian-Galapagosian Halles 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 other members of the family.

Family Quest:
Dungeoncrawling
Josh has heard rumours and wants to find treasure in a maze to the south. It seems implausible, but Auze could go with him to check it out.
Start Location: the Keep
Reward: +3 random treasure, +2 tallies

Spoiler: Personal Quests (click to show/hide)

Personal Quests:
2 - Restore humanity to its former glory and kick out mutants and uploxed

4 - Renovate and improve our base
The base in the Broads is barely more advanced than an airplane crash site. The following improvements could be made:
- River access (a canal could be dug to give fresh water access to the river)
- Razorwire fencing (location: factory in Lowestoft)
- Signal tower for Layla's radio. (take antenna from one of the towers at Postwick, Fakenham, Thetford, Buried Saint, Laxfield or Ipswich)
- Weapon workshop (take tools from Steele's Smithery (Norwich), Metal Designs (near Buried Saint), Empire Forge (near Laxfield).)
Reward: +1 tally for each improvement made.

5 - Help train tortle attack squads - Part 1 - Mass Tortle Capture, Part A: the Bait Beans
In order to help train tortles for the Keep, Auze needs more Tortles. In order to get more Tortles, he'll need bait. And the bait that Tortles find irresistible? Freshly brewed coffee! The smell will draw them with their fine noses for miles around. Unfortunately, no one in the Keep has any coffee beans left and it doesn't grow natively. But there are a couple of options for finding some.
Possible locations: Bungay (the Londoner's come from afar, so they might have some), Ipswich (they grow their own food there, so perhaps coffee too?), Scole (there's a Pirate Market starting soon, perhaps someone could be trading an old bag?)
Report location: The Broads

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 Pinta 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.

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

Spoiler: Tortles (click to show/hide)

• Jorge
• Diego
• George