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Re: DEEP SPACE
« Reply #195 on: April 03, 2022, 12:29:25 am »

Climb up, trying to get out of reach above the robot.

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« Reply #196 on: April 03, 2022, 02:11:08 am »

"Oh damn!"
Run and take cover in one of the damaged cargo containers, have my therma-ray ready in case the robot makes a run at me.
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The Lawyer opens a briefcase. It's full of lemons, the justice fruit only lawyers may touch.
Make sure not to step on any errant blood stains before we find our LIFE EXTINGUSHER.
but anyway, if you'll excuse me, I need to commit sebbaku.
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Re: DEEP SPACE
« Reply #197 on: April 03, 2022, 07:00:10 am »

Go buy a Galactic Slugger, then look for a metalworker who could make armor.
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« Reply #198 on: April 04, 2022, 01:43:14 am »

"Whoa there elk-thing, don't force us to do something you'll regret."
Jim will move 10-15 paces sideways of Anton, and keep his pistol ready to merc the robo-elk
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« Reply #199 on: April 04, 2022, 07:47:41 pm »

"Electricity and a thumpin'. Best not get on his bad side... but might be too late for that, gwahahaha! Cover or rough ground'll be the next best bet, but make sure to have at it once it charges!"

Put myself between the elkbot and the other members of the group, ideally behind an obstruction of some kind. If it charges, lay into it with my SPACE BAT.

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The kitchenette mold free, you move on to the pantry. it's nasty in there. The bacon is grazing on the lettuce. The ham is having an illicit affair with the prime rib, The potatoes see all, know all. A rat in boxer shorts smoking a foul smelling cigar is banging on a cabinet shouting about rent money.

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Re: DEEP SPACE
« Reply #200 on: April 04, 2022, 08:18:02 pm »

Another PER levelup, damn this girl has eyes on the back of her head.

Since I'm full up on slots already and Kander is buying the armor, I'll have to give my Industrial Tunic to him.

srry, less than nine questions follow:

* Since Perception is now my tied-for-best stat, wonder if there's anything in particular I could use to harness that. None of the default items or weapons seem to use it directly, would any of the powers from 'enhancements' be likely to be Perception based? If Xeriay doesn't know, she asks Kander for his knowledge.
* Is armor modification possible? Like using parts of the Industrial Tunic to improve the Apprentice Suit without making it heavier? If a vender can do it, do I know where to find them, and if players can do it what stats would it be based on?
* Is the generic Helmet I bought at the start the same as the Guild Helmet the suit is designed to work with? I'd guess not, but it would be convenient if those along with the air tank act as a full spacesuit.

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Re: DEEP SPACE
« Reply #201 on: April 06, 2022, 12:31:42 am »

Another PER levelup, damn this girl has eyes on the back of her head.

Since I'm full up on slots already and Kander is buying the armor, I'll have to give my Industrial Tunic to him.

srry, less than nine questions follow:

* Since Perception is now my tied-for-best stat, wonder if there's anything in particular I could use to harness that. None of the default items or weapons seem to use it directly, would any of the powers from 'enhancements' be likely to be Perception based? If Xeriay doesn't know, she asks Kander for his knowledge.
* Is armor modification possible? Like using parts of the Industrial Tunic to improve the Apprentice Suit without making it heavier? If a vender can do it, do I know where to find them, and if players can do it what stats would it be based on?
* Is the generic Helmet I bought at the start the same as the Guild Helmet the suit is designed to work with? I'd guess not, but it would be convenient if those along with the air tank act as a full spacesuit.

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-380 cash subtracted for the gun and armor.

Head to the pilot light bar, and look for work.  Pay must be at least 280 for me to accept a job.  Faster jobs which pay that much would be better than slower jobs with higher pay.

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Xeriay and Kander both head off to the Pilot Light after Kander hands the junk dealer a handful of plastic bills.

"Ah," The dealer says as they start to walk away, "Careful about showing yourself in that round the Guild. They have awful bad humor about their gear getting into layman's hands."

With this warning in mind, they head off towards the Pilot Light. The bar is easy enough to find; posters and signs displaying a blue flame with the words "PILOT LIGHT" and an arrow are scattered all around town. The bar itself is aptly named as its built almost dead center of the vernier, directly next to a smoldering pit of fused glass and bubbling plasma. The engine, apparently inoperable but not without power, is leaking a slow geyser of intense energy up through the sands. This plasma and molten silica hotspring is almost entirely ringed by buildings. Most appear to be rough and ready power generators or industrial manufacturing structures which leech energy from the engine to provide basic amenities to the town  The Bar is one of a handful of non-industrial buildings, likely some of the first structures constructed here. One, across the way, has a long metal walkway leading out and partially over the plasma spring. Men in glittering silver heat suits can be seen walking along the that path. 

The bar itself is very clearly a repurposed spaceship and very little has been done to hide this fact. Scrape away some of the sand and the power cables and hanging flags and signs and it could probably be in orbit within the hour.  Its a huge blocky thing, an old freighter or cargo vessel that seems like it was bought and retrofitted into what it is now. Its been painted quite garishly  and all kinds of colored prayer flags and grinning effigies hang from its otherwise barren steel walls.  Directly above the door is a metal sign shaped like a giant fireball that declares "PILOT LIGHT: TAVERN AND HOTEL". Directly below the sign is a large airlock door -painted to look like a burst of flame- where two men are having an awkward drunken fist fight.  They swing a few times before stumbling into a grapple and tumbling off the hastily erected metal stairs and into the sand below.  Kander and Xeriay carefully step around these two and into the bar.

The bar, they quickly find out, is actually just the first floor of this ship, the remaining half dozen floors which stretch upwards like stacked sardine cans are all "hotel" rooms. The bar and its dedicated tables takes up only about 20% of the room. The rest is occupied by a stage, another counter off to the  opposite side of the room, and a sprawling lounge of chairs, sofas, tables, cushions, hookah pipes, gambling tables, synesthesia booths and hammocks. Nothing matches anything else. A man is playing a guitar on the stage and singing wistfully about a sweetheart from his mother's ship while other prospectors laze about in various states of inebriation.  The bar is manned by a robot of some kind which glides about dispensing drinks with a dozen arms like an alcoholic vision of an ancient god. Smoke hangs heavy, the light is dim, and it smells of burning herbs, alcohol, sugar, and sweat.

Kander finds a small table for Xeriay to wait at and heads off in search of work.  The counter on the opposite side from the bar turns out to be exactly what he was looking for. A bored looking teenage girl wearing a chaos of colored fabric and gold bangles informs him that this is the "Precipice of Good Works". She speaks in a monotone which directly undermines the rather mythic name. Kander asks for work that pays at least 280 credits, with an emphasis on quick but cheap jobs instead of slow but lucrative ones. The girl flips through a heavy folder of papers, pulling out bundles and setting them in front of Kander.

The first, which pays an even 500, is a request from the "Solar Brotherhood" for testing a new heat suit.

The second is looking for a particular kind of plant from the Engine Jungle to the south. It pays 100 per complete specimen.

The third is looking for a mechanic to help repair a damaged turbine in town.

As Kander reads through the offers Xeriay sits and ponders things in her silent way.

*Xeriay thinks she remembers something about a parasite that might give powers related to that?

*No. I don't have mechanics for this and I feel like its a road to gross abuse due to my lack of planning for it and my well known terrible balancing.

*It isn't. The guild helmet is a fishbowl style space helmet; though made of sturdy plastic not glass. It provides d6 armor for the head and works like an air tank. You can't find them in normal circulation though; you'd have to scav one, get one from someone else who has scav'd it, or kill a guild apprentice and take theirs.

Go buy a Galactic Slugger, then look for a metalworker who could make armor.
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With newfound cash in hand Terra heads off in search of a Galactic Slugger. [2] She finds one and buys it for 150 from a local arms dealer. She rests it on her shoulder and heads of in search of someone who can make her some metal armor. [4] Perception leveled up.  Near the center of town, directly next to the plasma spring, is a foundry. Most of the building is owned by a single company, Sunfire Metal, but there are also dozens of independent shops and individuals scattered among the crucibles and and lathes. You ask around specifically about metal armor pieces and get directed to a little shop with a sign that simply reads "METAL WORK. REPAIRS AND FABRICATION", no name as such.  The owner is a grimy and muscular woman of not insignificant age with a mane of gray-white curly hair barely held out of her face by a bandana. You ask her about armor and she asks if you have materials. She explains that she can make armor out of any scrap metal you want, but most of it will be pretty inferior compared to the high tech composites and synthetics. She says the tunic you have on is probably better protection than the old "Plate" of knights and the like.  If you want good armor, you'll need to bring good metal. Or pay her the cost to get some.

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"stay back.  we are not here to harm you."

if the thing reacts to my words, continue trying to assuage it.  if it charges or attacks, shoot it.  if it comes within melee range, punch it. 

"Hmm like a bull..."

Silently sidestep back and left to relative safety away from where the machine bull thing could potentially charge (aka the main group)
Climb up, trying to get out of reach above the robot.

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"Oh damn!"
Run and take cover in one of the damaged cargo containers, have my therma-ray ready in case the robot makes a run at me.
"Whoa there elk-thing, don't force us to do something you'll regret."
Jim will move 10-15 paces sideways of Anton, and keep his pistol ready to merc the robo-elk
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"Electricity and a thumpin'. Best not get on his bad side... but might be too late for that, gwahahaha! Cover or rough ground'll be the next best bet, but make sure to have at it once it charges!"

Put myself between the elkbot and the other members of the group, ideally behind an obstruction of some kind. If it charges, lay into it with my SPACE BAT.

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The group immediately scatters. Anton attempts to use soothing words and gestures while [NO SHEET] and Max scramble away from the group. Max attempts to leap up onto a nearby container to get some height and avoid the charge but can't jump high enough to grab the edge. He settles, after a few exasperated jumps, with running around the corner of a box and peeping out. Bob sprints to the closest open container and squirms through the cracked wall into the interior, disappearing into the darkness within. Jim steps to the side of Anton while Gambatta steps directly in front of Anton and holds his slugger up in a defensive posture.

The mechanical elk stamps a few more times but seems to reconsider its rage as most of its opponents scatter in apparent fear.  It clops a few more times, electric horns humming as its head rocks back and forth, and then turns from the group. It coils up and then leaps straight into the air, landing on a box 30 feet away and at least as high up. It turns slightly to look back at the group and then gathers itself up again and bounds out and into the darkness, its red camera eye like a shooting star disappearing into the hazy darkness.

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Re: DEEP SPACE
« Reply #202 on: April 06, 2022, 01:53:00 am »

Gambatta scratches his chin in thought. "So was that a real animal or what? Figured it was security, but it's actin' awfully authentic..."

He then grins. "Oh well. Time to loot!"

Start searching through the crates for stuff.

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The kitchenette mold free, you move on to the pantry. it's nasty in there. The bacon is grazing on the lettuce. The ham is having an illicit affair with the prime rib, The potatoes see all, know all. A rat in boxer shorts smoking a foul smelling cigar is banging on a cabinet shouting about rent money.

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« Reply #203 on: April 06, 2022, 02:27:44 am »

"Guess I took cover for nothing."
Search the contents of the container I find myself in.
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but anyway, if you'll excuse me, I need to commit sebbaku.
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Re: DEEP SPACE
« Reply #204 on: April 06, 2022, 01:33:08 pm »

"Well that solved itself swimmingly."

Take some time to observe my surroundings before getting back with the main group

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« Reply #205 on: April 07, 2022, 05:57:09 am »

Let's go with the suit job for now.  Kander will volunteer his daughter, because she has much better physical stats.  Definitely not because he's an abusive dad.  Take note of the plant job, that sounds like good pay.
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« Reply #206 on: April 07, 2022, 06:04:32 am »

Heat suit testing? Yeah I'm game to get shot with a flamethrower or something for money.

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« Reply #207 on: April 07, 2022, 11:27:30 am »

"Try not to wander off too far guys."
Jim will write about the journey east and the Elk in his log book. Then he'll commence looting.
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« Reply #208 on: April 07, 2022, 11:29:53 am »

Cover the others who are searching crates with my Death Ray.

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« Reply #209 on: April 09, 2022, 01:41:53 pm »

Let's go with the suit job for now.  Kander will volunteer his daughter, because she has much better physical stats.  Definitely not because he's an abusive dad.  Take note of the plant job, that sounds like good pay.
Heal by 1 each turn.
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Heat suit testing? Yeah I'm game to get shot with a flamethrower or something for money.

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Kander selects the heat suit file  and the girl at the counter takes the rest back.  He thanks her and she responds "Keep the faith" in the same disinterested monotone.  Kander carries the file back to the table and sets it in front of Xeriay. Xeriay flips through the pages for a few moments before silently pointing at the location. Kander, who hadn't bothered to check where the job was, leans over and squints in the dim light.  Its not an address, just a description of where the place is. And apparently its very near here. Kander considers it for a moment and realizes the location they're indicating is the building with the long platform out over the plasma spring. The need for heatsuits suddenly makes sense.



Cover the others who are searching crates with my Death Ray.

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"Try not to wander off too far guys."
Jim will write about the journey east and the Elk in his log book. Then he'll commence looting.
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"Well that solved itself swimmingly."

Take some time to observe my surroundings before getting back with the main group

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"Guess I took cover for nothing."
Search the contents of the container I find myself in.
Gambatta scratches his chin in thought. "So was that a real animal or what? Figured it was security, but it's actin' awfully authentic..."

He then grins. "Oh well. Time to loot!"

Start searching through the crates for stuff.

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Max posts up near the shore where he can watch everyone at once, ready to give covering fire if something goes wrong. Steve, in mean time, wanders about a bit. He doesn't go far from the rest of the group, just pokes his nose around corners. He finds more boxes mostly, but also droplets of crystalized fuel and sees what looks like a small swarm of mouse sized robots dart off as he peeks around a corner. 

Bob and Gambatta immediately begin looting for all their worth.  Gambatta comes up with some sort of clear glass container the size and shape of a soda. The container has metal end caps and is filled with a faintly glowing green liquid. There's no obvious method to open the container, as the endcaps and glass are smooth and unyielding.  As Gambatta stares at the container, he begins feeling strange. He suddenly doubles over in pain and curls into a ball as his teeth fall out. He screams and coughs blood, writhing on the ground. Max jogs over and crouches near him, asking whats happening but getting no response. After a few minutes of this Gambatta sits up, the pain slowly dulling.  He's extremely pale, his eyes are solid black, and his normal human teeth have been replaced by long, thin fangs. His finger nails have fallen out and the bone has grown out through the finger tip, forming hooked claws.

GAMBATTA HAS ACQUIRED THE MUTATION: LEECH!

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Leech: You no longer heal naturally and healing items are only 50% effective. Unarmed damage has increased to d8.
SP Move gained: Suction: (d4 SP) d10 Damage. Leap onto your target, sink your teeth into their flesh, and drain their blood. Recover HP equal to damage dealt. Only effective on living, organic targets. 

As Gambatta mutates Bob continues searching. Maybe he doesn't hear the screaming inside his container, maybe he simply doesn't care. From the depths of his container he drags out an entire intact robot arm. Its a bit large for a human, but not unusable. The bright chrome skeletal limb ends in a boxy lump of metal with 6 small embedded glass lenses on the end. It look like its probably a weapon, though how it functions isn't very clear. Perhaps a laser of some sort?

Jim finishes writing a log entry about the elk and the various events he's observed and decides to join Gambatta and Bob in looting. Only one of them is screaming in a pool of their own blood, so the odds look good! He shifts some rubble to check a cracked open box and suddenly the entire storage container as well as the two atop it are shifting as well. [4] Jim scrambles backwards as several containers shift and fall, slamming into the metal floor in a series of deafening crashes and toppling over like colossal dominos. He manages to avoid the main containers but smaller boxes fall as well and a solid metal cube about a foot on each side clips his head. [11 damage-5 from helmet, -6HP. ] He goes sprawling, barely remaining conscious, but manages to roll and crawl the rest of the way. Jim finally stops awkwardly scrambling away after the boxes settle and he looks back at them in disbelief. Then he touches his helmet and feels the very meaningful dent in the metal that could very easily have been his skull.
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