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[Imp]

Spoiler: directly saying what I meant to Imp just now (click to show/hide)

What I meant was the voice that's talking to you, anything you can learn about it, directly or indirectly, would tell us about the world and task structure we're in. Might be able to find out some useful stuff about how the world works.

Spoiler: directly answering Lenglon (click to show/hide)

aww, man!  This musta been like it was for you with your gadget.

... I must follow your fine example.  Nudges appreciated, far better than rotting in piece.  Now what?  Oh.  Duh!

Duh! sings to this miracle worker,

"You have healed me up!
You somehow fixed a head back on me
And got me here not underground!

Y'know, that's a thought
Was a head I claimed - I did exclaim
I sundered it before I fell...

'Fore I fell...

I went down so fast
I barely marked where that head had rolled
Then mine was off and now, consoled

So, yeah - I wear it now?
That other head, it was swankin' rad
If I wear it now I won't be sad

I won't be sad."


((Parody of this parody:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COtvEKBKpkA))


A struggle to sit up, then, succeed or fail and prolly still all jelled up, Duh! asks,

"So, who are you, lady?  And, Duh!, like, what's goin' on?  Whatcha want and what do I owe for your services and please tell me I do got a swank robot head now?  And other stuff.  Tell me whatever the stuff, maybe so I can be less, dunno, Duh! ?"

[BlackPaladin99]

Before I attempt anything classy, can I ask if first aid's even possible?  I have an awesome sticky rope that could probably bind a wound closed, and I've got a hand I can clap to a wound and attempt to staunch bleeding.  There's pressure points for arteries as well, can perhaps stop the bleeding that way.

Is any of that potentially an option?

Also, dang.  Heavy armor for the win!  I must remember to place all my major arteries inside it if there is a future, Duh!

it is possible, but will be really hard.  I guess you could possibly use your rope, but keep in mind not all wounds will result in blood flow, and might not be able to be patched that way.  Your armor will also attempt to use nanites and stimms to slow the bleeding and knit the flesh back together.  It's great that way.  ((That's what the Damage Save represents, and why you get one every round.))

Duh Damage Save: (Autofail)
completely ignoring the danger

I'm clueless, thought I was specifically instructed that 'first aid' was auto and my armor would handle for me.

Off I go, if I'm supposed to do more anyone do whatever I'm supposed to do.

HP is a measure of your ability to remain standing after a series of light flesh wounds.  The armor’s first aid is, for example, why bleeding and stuff only lasts one round.  It’s also what helps you get up after you finally take a serious wound (reach 0HP), you can get up if you make a damage save.  However, it can’t do much if you get your head knocked off.  (Or, if you want a rules explanation, you took 8 damage after applying armor, had 4HP left, reducing you to zero and having the excess roll over to SP.  The standard 1SP action cost brought your SP down to 0, and, since your HP was also zero, you died.  The head-knocked-off stuff was really just for fluff.)

@Lenglon

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Yeah, you can take multiple turns.  You’ve missed the time-based objective anyways, your teammate is dead, and I’m kinda waiting for the preliminary fights to finish so we can move on to the main event!   

[Egan_BW]

"BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD!"

BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD
Use 2 stamina! Slash it open! Drink its oil!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Unity At-Null
Description: Cute kitsune. Likes organ meat.
Team: BLU

HP: 4/8
SP: 4/10

Strength/Speed: 4
Traits: Deadly, Unrelenting
Flaws: Overconfident

Armor: Light
Weapon: Ivory Murakumo
Gadget: Soccer Ball
Other: nada

Permanent Status:

• 5 overshots
• Enemies have -1d to resist effects of attack
• +1d to avoid or postpone death
• 1d2 resistance, +1 evasion
• 1d10+1 damage, two hands
• on miss (with sword), +1 to the next attack

Temporary Status:

[BlackPaladin99]

I will PM the Canadian Kitten and a1s if their actions aren’t in by Tuesday.

[The Canadian kitten]

Sorry, is currently on a vacation trip with no wifi. Just gotten back internet and will post sometimes later when I can

[a1s]

Spoiler: Aywen Ayes (click to show/hide)

Name: Aywen Ayes
Description: Middle aged weapons designer
Team: Green

HP: 10
SP: 8

Strength/Speed: 5
Traits: Competent
Flaws: Honorable

Armor: Medium
Weapon: AI M27 SMG
A standard-looking smg with a folding stock.  1d4d4 damage, -1 to hit at long ranges.  Four turn's worth of shooting in one magazine, one turn to reload.  three extra mags
Gadget: A set of tools for designing improvised weapons
A box full of mechanical odds and ends.  You may use this to create an improvised weapon, which can only be used three times.  The weapon's quality and damage are based off of the quality of the materials used to create the weapon.  You may only use this item once every three turns.
Other: none

Permanent Status: none
Temporary Status: none

Spoiler: action (click to show/hide)

Shoot the robot in the eye with my gun.
Also mock it for bringing a crossbow to a gun fight.

[The Canadian kitten]

Strike Robot Head with Pike and expend 1 SP

Spoiler: Joinkers (click to show/hide)

Name: Joinkers
Description: A moving suit of plate armour with seemingly nothing inside
Team: Blue team.
HP: 7/12
SP: 3/6
Strength/Speed: 10
Traits and Flaws:

• Tough: +1d to resisting pain or injury penalties
• Unrelenting: +1d to rolls to avoid/postpone death
• Slow: You always act after anyone else.  If someone else also has this trait, roll initiative against them as normal

Armor: Heavy

• 1d6 resistance
• -1 evasion

Weapon: Pike

• This long, composite hafted weapon has a large, spiked, axe like head.
• 1d12 damage, -1 to hit, requires two hands
• one-in-three chance of knocking people over when they are hit.

Gadget: Floating book

• This leather-bound book has strange runes inscribed in the surface, and a handful of pens tied to the back.
• Floating: This book can levitate straight up or down according to the owner’s wishes.  It cannot float higher than 300 feet above ground level, cannot lift more than 500 pounds, and cannot move horizontally
• Pages: The book has 4d6 pages, replenished at the start of every mission.
  • You can tear out as many pages as you wish.
  • When you write on one of the torn out pages, that writing appears on all other torn out pages, in addition to appearing inside the front cover.
  • You may give these pages to other people.
  • you may destroy up to six pages.
    • When you do so, lightning leaps out and attacks a number of people equal to the number of pages you crushed, dealing 1d8 damage.
    • When you use this function, you suffer -1d to your next action and you cannot use this ability for one turn.

Other:

Permanent Status:

Temporary Status:

[BlackPaladin99]

Strike Robot Head with Pike and expend 1 SP

Spoiler: Joinkers (click to show/hide)

Name: Joinkers
Description: A moving suit of plate armour with seemingly nothing inside
Team: Blue team.
HP: 7/12
SP: 3/6
Strength/Speed: 10
Traits and Flaws:

• Tough: +1d to resisting pain or injury penalties
• Unrelenting: +1d to rolls to avoid/postpone death
• Slow: You always act after anyone else.  If someone else also has this trait, roll initiative against them as normal

Armor: Heavy

• 1d6 resistance
• -1 evasion

Weapon: Pike

• This long, composite hafted weapon has a large, spiked, axe like head.
• 1d12 damage, -1 to hit, requires two hands
• one-in-three chance of knocking people over when they are hit.

Gadget: Floating book

• This leather-bound book has strange runes inscribed in the surface, and a handful of pens tied to the back.
• Floating: This book can levitate straight up or down according to the owner’s wishes.  It cannot float higher than 300 feet above ground level, cannot lift more than 500 pounds, and cannot move horizontally
• Pages: The book has 4d6 pages, replenished at the start of every mission.
  • You can tear out as many pages as you wish.
  • When you write on one of the torn out pages, that writing appears on all other torn out pages, in addition to appearing inside the front cover.
  • You may give these pages to other people.
  • you may destroy up to six pages.
    • When you do so, lightning leaps out and attacks a number of people equal to the number of pages you crushed, dealing 1d8 damage.
    • When you use this function, you suffer -1d to your next action and you cannot use this ability for one turn.

Other:

Permanent Status:

Temporary Status:

Just to clarify, does that mean you are expending 1 SP in addition to the usual 1-SP-per-turn expenditure, or are you only expending 1 SP total?

[The Canadian kitten]

Strike Robot Head with Pike and expend 1 SP

Spoiler: Joinkers (click to show/hide)

Name: Joinkers
Description: A moving suit of plate armour with seemingly nothing inside
Team: Blue team.
HP: 7/12
SP: 3/6
Strength/Speed: 10
Traits and Flaws:

• Tough: +1d to resisting pain or injury penalties
• Unrelenting: +1d to rolls to avoid/postpone death
• Slow: You always act after anyone else.  If someone else also has this trait, roll initiative against them as normal

Armor: Heavy

• 1d6 resistance
• -1 evasion

Weapon: Pike

• This long, composite hafted weapon has a large, spiked, axe like head.
• 1d12 damage, -1 to hit, requires two hands
• one-in-three chance of knocking people over when they are hit.

Gadget: Floating book

• This leather-bound book has strange runes inscribed in the surface, and a handful of pens tied to the back.
• Floating: This book can levitate straight up or down according to the owner’s wishes.  It cannot float higher than 300 feet above ground level, cannot lift more than 500 pounds, and cannot move horizontally
• Pages: The book has 4d6 pages, replenished at the start of every mission.
  • You can tear out as many pages as you wish.
  • When you write on one of the torn out pages, that writing appears on all other torn out pages, in addition to appearing inside the front cover.
  • You may give these pages to other people.
  • you may destroy up to six pages.
    • When you do so, lightning leaps out and attacks a number of people equal to the number of pages you crushed, dealing 1d8 damage.
    • When you use this function, you suffer -1d to your next action and you cannot use this ability for one turn.

Other:

Permanent Status:

Temporary Status:

Just to clarify, does that mean you are expending 1 SP in addition to the usual 1-SP-per-turn expenditure, or are you only expending 1 SP total?

1 additional sp to the expenditure, sorry for confusion

[BlackPaladin99]

Turn 5

Spoiler: Red Team Only (click to show/hide)

Init:
Leila
Robot
Duh! (Slow)

Reload and Reposition now that my meatshield is gone

You creep roughly twenty feet to your right, repositioning and hiding behind a new pile of trash.  You reload as you go.

-1 SP 

Kick off the sticky thing

Roll: Autosucceed

After a twenty-ish seconds of uninterrupted effort, the robot eventually manages to scrape off enough of the sticky rope to stand up again. 

Aim

Leila centers her aim on the robot's torso, aiming for some of the gashes her late teammate caused.

-1 SP

find the shooter!

Roll: 6,3(Robot)(Blind) vs 4(Leila)

The robot starts madly searching, bashing through the trash with it's club arm.  It manages to advance, mostly by chance, a few feet in the direction you used to be, but does not make much progress otherwise. 

Shoot and move!

Roll:6(Leila) vs 2(Robot)
(6+8)(Damage Roll)(No Crit)+4(Accuracy Bonus)-8(Resistance)(Club)=10 damage

The round strikes true, but the large, cumbersome wooden club-arm acts as an impromptu shield, decreasing the bullet's velocity.  The strike is still devastating, though, as the bullet completely penetrates the robot, hitting something vital and sending a cloud of smoke, sparks, and plasma into the air.  You quickly move another two dozen feet, trying to throw its aim off.  It's almost like you're in a sadistic game of marco polo or something. 

-1 SP

CHARGE!!!

Roll: 5,4(Blind)

The robot charges through the trash, toward Leila's previous location smashing everything in its path.  It gets within ten feet of her, overshooting by only a few yards.  It's close.  Too close. 

Say Stuff

"Okay... So you... So you... So you... sing?" the voice says, increasingly becoming more metallic, garish, and high-pitched.  "BWAHAHAHAHA, Oh, this'll be great for getting views! A singing swordsman who can't keep from getting his head RIPPED OFF!  HAHAHAHAHA!  Do you wanna see some slow motion replays of...YOUR DEATH?? No? TOO BAD!"  At this, you are seized by a cold, metallic pincer grasp and yanked from the fluid substance.  The hand deposits you in a chair, in front of which a TV screen is situated, gracing your newly opened, biological eyes with several slow motion replays of exactly what happens when you hit somebody in the head with a trash can at eighty-odd miles per hour.  After twenty seconds of watching the left part of your face suddenly be merged with the right, you manage to collect enough of your wits to ask a few questions.  "Lady? HA! I'm a robot, stupid.  You can call me D.A.V.E., which stands for Dave dAve daVe davE.  What’s going on?  YOU’RE going on! PRIMETIME TV!  That’s right!  I want YOU to entertain people with displays of horrible violence.  And YOU owe ME that entertainment!  Also, no robot heads for you.
Objectives:
-Kill The Robot

Bonus Objectives:
-Kill The Robot By Turn 4

Spoiler: Blue Team Only (click to show/hide)

Init:
Robot
Unity-At-Null
Joinkers (Slow)

KILL

Roll:2(Robot) vs 4(Unity)
Roll:1(Robot) vs 5-1(Joinkers)
12(Damage Roll)*2(Critical Hit)+3(Accuracy Bonus)-3(Resistance)=24 damage
Damage Save:(Autofail)

The Robot slashes at Unity, missing, and then it slashes at Joinkers, but Joinkers sidesteps and deals a devastating blow to the robot's midsection, cleaving it in two!  The robot's halves smoke, spark, and sputter, and the lights in its eyes slowly fade away. 

“Well I’ll be!  I didn’t expect you guys to finish first!"

[MISSION_OVER]
[ALL_OBJECTIVES_COMPLETED]
[SECRET_OBJECTIVE_COMPLETED]

Objectives:
-Kill The Robot

Bonus Objectives:
-Kill The Robot By Turn 5

Secret Objectives:
-Finish First

Spoiler: Green Team Only (click to show/hide)

Init:
Roc
Robot
Aywen

Observe

Roll=2

Umm... You guess that the claws look pretty sharp?  The crossbow is turning independently but you can't really sense much of the other stuff. 

-1 SP

Search

Roll=1

The robot busily examines the playset, walking towards it and getting a couple of feet further from you guys. 

Shoot the eye

Roll=3(Aywen) vs 1-1(Robot)
4(2+2+3+1)(Damage Roll)*2(Critical Hit)+3(Accuracy Bonus)-1(Resistance)=18 damage
Damage Save: 3(Success)

As the chicken swivels around, you see your chance and take it, releasing a short burst into its eye.  The bullets overpenetrate and damage the torso too.  Despite the wound, it would seem the eye is still functional, as it's robotic glare fixes on your hiding place. 

-1 SP

What Do You Do?

Objectives:
-Kill The Robot

Bonus Objectives:
-Kill The Robot By Turn 8

Spoiler: Differences (click to show/hide)

In case anyone was wondering, the difference between the aware and wise traits is that the aware trait lets you find out stuff exists, like weapons or armor, and the wise trait, if you already know that stuff exists, tells you about the qualities of that stuff. 

[Lenglon]

Spoiler: Red Team Action (click to show/hide)

that's a bit closer than I'd like.
slip away, quietly getting a bit more distance from the bot.
then:
rest for a moment, just watching the bot, letting myself recover my stamina
then:
Aim for the bot's torso again
then:
fire upon the bot's torso
potential triggered action: If the bot gets close to me
abort my planned action and instead slip away again.
the demented game of Marco Polo shall continue
((And if Lelia knew this was for television, she'd present herself as a yandere, and play into the horror of the situation as the bot is stalked, tormented, and slowly, meticulously, ripped apart piece. by. piece.))

Spoiler: Lelia (click to show/hide)

Name: Lelia
Description: This small-framed, pale-skinned female has white hair and eyes, and wears a pink dress and white shirt with a dark blue hooded cape, the hood generally left down
Team: Red team.
HP: 6/6
SP: 5/12
Strength/Speed: 2
Traits and Flaws:

• Agile: +1d to rolls that involve movement or staying on your feet
• Aware: +1d to observation rolls
• Weak: -1d to rolls that involve exerting physical force or power

Armor: Light

• 1d2 resistance
• +1 evasion

Weapon: Designated Marksman's Rifle

• This plain, boxy weapon has a really short clip, cone-shaped muzzle, and is coated with a thoroughly drab blue paint.  The scope fixed on the top seems more like an afterthought, as does the stock.  and the barrel.  and really any part of the weapon for that matter.
• 2d6 damage, upgraded to 2d10 if you spend a round aiming beforehand.
• -1 to shooting it in melee/close range, no penalty due to long ranges.
• It has three shots, and three extra clips magazines of ammo, which take a round to reload.

Gadget: Autoinjector array of concentrated magic

• This bulky device looks like a glorified wristwatch with two glowing aerosol cans strapped to it.
• Upon activation, you may treat your Strength/Speed as up to four points higher/lower as you choose for three rounds, changing the bonus each round if you want to.
• When the duration is up, or when you choose, the effect ends and you get -1d to all actions during the next round.
• Three turn cooldown, which starts when the effect ends.
• It is possible for Strength/Speed to go above 10/below 0

Other:

• Three two spare clips of ammo

Permanent Status:

Temporary Status:

• two rounds remaining in magazine

[Imp]

"Duh!

So, robot stuff, D.A.V.E. - wanna drop me off back by my partner then?  Or... gimme a target right there?  If you want me ripping robots up, seems we got some nice robot stuff here.  Wanna give me some gear back, so I can provide some better entertainment again?"

No Duh! but he tenses a bit as he says that.  He's remembering his mortality, immortality... ripping robot parts up sounds good, makes sense at least.

If Duh! does see something that seems 'robot' which he thinks he can actually attack in his befuddled, mechanically controlled, gummed up, and no-equipment state, he attacks it.  Otherwise, he waits for some clue what he's supposed, or allowed, to do next.

Spoiler: Duh! (click to show/hide)

What's my character sheet look like now?  I have no idea what my health, SP, appearance, armor or equipment is like, or even if I have the same or any traits and flaws

[BlackPaladin99]

"Duh!

So, robot stuff, D.A.V.E. - wanna drop me off back by my partner then?  Or... gimme a target right there?  If you want me ripping robots up, seems we got some nice robot stuff here.  Wanna give me some gear back, so I can provide some better entertainment again?"

No Duh! but he tenses a bit as he says that.  He's remembering his mortality, immortality... ripping robot parts up sounds good, makes sense at least.

If Duh! does see something that seems 'robot' which he thinks he can actually attack in his befuddled, mechanically controlled, gummed up, and no-equipment state, he attacks it.  Otherwise, he waits for some clue what he's supposed, or allowed, to do next.

Spoiler: Duh! (click to show/hide)

What's my character sheet look like now?  I have no idea what my health, SP, appearance, armor or equipment is like, or even if I have the same or any traits and flaws

It's the same as at the start of your first mission. 

[Imp]

It's the same as at the start of your first mission.

... Equipment and all?  Duh!

Target acquired.  My mission doesn't say which robot to kill, and this is a self-identified robot.

I spend a moment going Duh! after realizing I have gear, then draw sword and hack at what is around and appears robotic!  Which is surely many things in sight and in likely sword reach!   I'll see if I can stand up as I draw my blade, since I was just deposited in a chair.

Maybe if I mess stuff up here enough, the robot my partner faces may go inactive!

Spoiler: Duh! (click to show/hide)

Name: Duh!
Description: I am Duh!  Red team member, rawr! I wear a shirt proudly emblazoned with 'Duh!' across the front and 'Run to the Tank' across the back.  My jeans have knee patches, also embroidered with 'Duh' and 'Hud' (my right knee, the one I took an arrow to, once).
Team: Red team.
HP: 11/11
SP: 7/7
Strength/Speed: 10
Traits and Flaws:

• Competent: Natural sixes count as critical successes instead of overshoots
• Slow: You always act after anyone else. If someone else also has this trait, roll initiative against them as normal

Armor: Heavy

• 1d6 resistance
• -1 evasion

Weapon:  An odd-seeming Hand and a Half sword

• When you look at this hand and a half sword, it seems to be always wiggling.
• 1d8 damage
• -1 to hit and +2 to damage when wielded with two hands
• 1-in-4 chance to deal 1d6 extra bleed damage as it rips the wound open when it leaves.

Gadget:  A highly unusual lariat  This highly unusual, fifteen-foot lariat excretes a white, sticky paste and will occasionally move on it's own

• Sticky: sticks to things like glue.  -1d when trying to remove it unless your Strength/Speed is above seven
• Animate: you can verbally command it, and it does not require a hand to use
• Stretchy: Can be stretched to forty five feet, but it can't be used for combat in this form and is only sticky on the ends

Other:

Permanent Status:

Temporary Status: