Release them and head up top
[6-1=5] You deactivate the PRB and the trio begins slowly getting up. They don't seem keen on attacking you, despite what you did. [5] You exit the engine room and hurry up the hallway, brushing past Nirur and the helpful crewman. The other end of the hallway turns into a spiral staircase, which you follow up to the actual ship deck. Everybody's running around and shouting orders, and nobody pays any attention to you. While this one is still staying in place, the second black airship is already moving. A few rope ladders hang from the sides of the ship, and men are climbing up them from the roof of the League hall. It seems the Council is in a hurry to leave.
I nod hesitantly, and explain that I blacked out. The last thing I remember was testing a chemical that I thought would temporarily boost my strength and agility tenfold. Side-affects appear to include limited amnesia, confusion, blackouts, dizziness, nausea, and an annoyingly loud noise in my ear that sounds like a siren -- Oh, that's not in my head.
I request that he take me to the broadside guns. I think that's my emergency station.
[4] He listens to your explanation patiently, even though obviously worried about the alarm. When you ask him to take you to the broadside guns, he seems confused for a moment, but then says ' I think that chemical of yours is still affecting you, sir. Are you sure you don't want to return to your quarters? No? Fine, just follow me. I recharge the broadside guns, as a matter of fact. Uhh... when we get there, please don't... make any upgrades to the guns, sir. It took us six weeks to fix them after the last time that happened.'
You nod, and follow him first into the room he came from (crew quarters, apparently) and to the edge of the ship. A few multilasers have been planted in place of windows to the side. This ship is most likely a transport, so it makes sense it's armed so lightly.
I create a hologram bot. Flies around and projects a hologram of myself, with higher functionality I really would like the ability to speak through the hologram.
[4] You gather components and sheets of metal from the piles and get to work. A flying construct begins to take shape on the floor of the room. [Power: 5] It whirrs into action, immediately scanning the area and blasting at the darkness with half a dozen flashlights and torches of different kinds. A life-like copy of you appears, looking incredibly real. You can speak through it, as well. [Size: 5] It ends up surprisingly large. [Functionality:2] However, it seems to malfunction quite often. [Fuel:6] The bot uses the very air around it to function, somehow; an almost endless source of power. You have no idea how you managed to do that.
Some Mechanical Parts increased to Mechanical Parts in Inventory! Head up on deck of the airship I'm in, and organize a strike party to attack and board the enemy ships, find a spot to power up my arm on the way.
[5] Airship? What airship? No matter, you won't let the tiny fact you are inside a lab on a normal street get in way of your plans! To battle!
[4] You activate the bot and charge together with it across the bridge, right across Ochita's bloody remains, and inside the League hall, [2] failing to recharge your arm along the way. It seems everyone is being herded up the stairs to the roof, and most likely into the two airships waiting above. The soldiers overseeing the evacuation spot you and warn you not to come any closer or they will open fire. [4] They are soon distracted by the engine of their transport waking up, and they hurry up the stairs as well. You follow them onto the ladders and have to hang on for your life as the ship begins to move before everyone is inside.
"Sounds great. If you need a hand, ask me." Then proceed to see if I can steal something from a nearby 'victim'.
[3] You give a thumbs-up to the guy and proceed to check the pockets of the nearest captives. [3] You fail to find anything important, but steal a few small cylinders full of some transparent liquid from someone's pocket anyhow. Almost immediately afterwards, you are dragged up and led to the roof, and onto the airship above.
A Few Cylinders of Liquid added to Inventory! Appear.
You have just been rather rudely pushed up a ladder to the deck of a Council airship, just for being there when the League was recruiting. Oh well. The ship seems to be in chaos, and you are quickly pushed into the mass of people. Atleast the soldiers lost sight of you.
StatusesDoctor Cognate
Health: Left Leg: Slightly Wounded
Right Leg: Minor Cut
Inventory: Simple Tools, The Monocle, Moderate Amount of Copper, Copper Thing
Creations: The Monocle (Power [5], Size [3], Functionality [3], Fuel [3])
Charge Left: 70%
SHADOWdump
Health: Torso: Slightly Wounded
Inventory: Simple Tools, 5 Canisters of Cheap Oil (100/100), Radical Rocketboard, A Lot of Computer Parts, Mechanical Parts, A Lot of Scrap Metal, Mechanical Replacement Head, Communicator, Autopistol (Ammunition Left: 6/6), 2 Pistol Clips [12/12]
Creations: Radical Rocketboard - Unavailable (Power [4], Size [3], Functionality [3], Fuel [4]
Fuel Left: 90/100
Ultimate Nacho Dispenser - Unavailable (Power [2], Size [1], Functionality [2], Fuel [3]
Fuel Left: 90%
Hologram Bot - In Use (Power [5], Size [5], Functionality [2], Fuel [6]
Charge Left: ∞
Mechanical Replacement Head In Use (Power [5], Size [1], Functionality [4], Fuel [5])
Charge Left: 92%
Khan
Health: Fine
Inventory: Simple Tools, Some Scrap Metal, A Few Computer Parts
Creations: Robotic Left Arm (Power [4], Size [4], Functionality [3], Fuel [3]
Charge Left: 30%
Spider Bot In Use(Power [3], Size [6], Functionality [3], Fuel [3], Intelligence [5])
Fuel Left: 90/100
Converter (Power [3], Size [6], Functionality [1], Fuel [2])
Charge Left: 100%
Professor Nirur
Health: Torso: Slightly Wounded
Inventory: Simple Tools, Box of Immortality Pills, Muscle Tissue, Fresh Brain, Some Internal Organs
Creations: Immortality Pills (Power [5], Size [2], Functionality [4], Fuel [3]
Derek
Health: Head: Slightly Wounded
Inventory: Simple Tools, Prototype Reality Bender
Creations: Prototype Reality Bender (Power [4], Size [3], Functionality [2], Fuel [5])
Charge Left: 94%
Dragnar
Health: Fine
Inventory: Simple Tools, Nanite Factory
Creations: Nanite Factory (Power [4], Size [4], Functionality [3], Fuel [3])
Fuel Left: 100/100
NPC's
Close in on target, prepare full broadside.
[6+1=6]vs[2]
Erebos comes in fast, ready to unleash the full might of it's guns on the transport. [4+1=5] The guns are loaded, and [2+1=3][2+1=3][3+1=4][3+1=4] it fires a full broadside. [Dodge: 2] The second transport isn't designed for manouverability, and unsurprisingly fails to pull away from the attack. [BP:4][BP:5][BP:4][BP:5] All guns score hits along the lower 'floors'. [Damage:6-1=5][Damage:5-1=4][Damage:2-1=1][Damage:3+2=5] The entire lower part of the ship disappears in a single, blinding flash and destructive flames run up the rest of the ship, devouring the wooden deck and the flammable envelope incredibly quickly. It begins falling fast, [4] and crashes against the side of the skyscrapers rising up from the lower levels of the city. You doubt anyone survived.
Blast them to oblivion!
[2+1=3]vs[4] The twin of the
Erebos attempts to close in on the single remaining airship, but the big ship cannot move well in midst of the buildings of the area. The transport manages to avoid her wrath.
Get the fuck out of here.
[6] Despite the still-climbing League personnel and their captives, the captain of the transport, ignoring the soldier captain's complaints, takes control of the ship and begins to descend towards the depths of the city below, under the bridge. It will soon pass straight past the apartment where SHADOWdump is imprisoned.
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I kinda railroaded some of you onboard the ship, sorry. SHADOWdump, if you escape next turn, you can easily jump onboard the transport. (Well, unless you epically fail some rolls, naturally.) The rest of you can pretty much do anything you want onboard of the ship, but do note it's full of soldiers and other Council personnel.
And holy shit, the
Erebos utterly annihillated that other transport. I atleast expected it last long enough to fire back once.
Poll
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