The year is 2025.
Your name is Dave, and you never asked for this.
Once a generic white-collar worker who lived alone save for your cat, you were hit by a car and spent three months in a coma.
You awoke to find that your unconscious body had been taken in by the corporation 'Emulsified Electronics', and implanted with an experimental augmentation. You soon found that it allowed you to control electronic devices with your mind. And if Jun's theory is right, your power is only going to grow...
At almost the same time, it came to light that the company called Cadmium Dynamics had hired a PMC, ArmaTek, and started to mobilize against EE. However, you and your companions have been almost too much for them, defeating them at nearly every turn.
Just after you thought you had a breath of fresh air, a new corp showed up, mostly utilizing some kind of stealth technology. After coincidentally finding one of their agents, they named themselves Kawasagi Infinite.
>You have 2450 credits.
>You have 1 fate reroll.

>Abel Rowling: Your coworker\drinking-buddy. Used to be your roommate years ago before you got him a job at the place you worked. He's currently hiding out in a safehouse, and apparently was trained to be an Agent.
>Jun Viridian: The 38 year old neuroscientist who implanted you with the prototype, and from what you can tell, was the one who designed it. With your help, she has her son again.
>John Grayson: A security specialist and agent who works for EE. He has implanted forearms and broad shoulders. He used to be military, and you currently owe him a favor.
>Verne Tolstoy: A quiet, overweight man who used to be a cop. Most of his internal organs are all augmented versions, and he has an augmented arm; Ever since a mishap with an EMP, he's been unable to do any kind of mercenary work.
>Amy Tolstoy: A teenage mercenary girl with neon hair, augmented legs, and a wrist computer full to the brim with random AI constructs. She has all sorts of strange friends. Now works for EE as a researcher, technician, and agent. Is somewhat keen on Dave, but he's just starting to realize that.
>Azure, Onyx, Cyan, Magenta: Your bullfrog's three onboard AIs; Cyan specializes in networking, Onyx operates your teleportation device, Magenta specializses in combat, and Azure bridges the gap between them. After an intense integration session between Azure and an enemy AI, Azure had changed.
>Mark: The mechanic who works for EE in B-4, building and maintaining the gear of all Agents. He's a capable pilot and has saved your skin multiple times. Shares your love of mechandrites.
>Lucas and Lucca: Two sibling agents from another corporation. Lucas is some kind of 'goddamn ninja', while Lucca is a high-strung agent with a Gen-3 implant.

"What *are* you?" Amy asked, all but sitting in your lap, her eyes boring into yours.
That's the moment you got a call from Abel.
"Dave." He says. "I'm fucked."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PUFE0kKZ1Q
Woo!

"Hang on, Abel. what's going on?"
"I'm fucked, Dave. My safehouse is compromised, and I'm being chased." Abel said.

>>19079750
>>19079724
To Abel "Fuck. Where are you?!"

To Amy. Clearly nervous "Umm... what do you mean, Amy?"

"Fuck." You respond, getting out of the booth. "Where are you?!"
"I'm. . I don't know. In some alleyway somewhere. I've been shot. Fucking invisibles." Abel said.
Amy raises her eyebrows, starting to get worried. She gets out of the booth herself and starts up the car. All business now. "Where do we go?" She asks.

>>19079824
Can we use our ability to trace the call?

>>19079824
"Can you transmit exact coordinates?"

"Invisibles?"
"Listen, I know how to circumvent their cloaking, put you'd need at least a PDA with an AI on it."


Call Lucas and ask him what it is about.

rolled 82 = 82

>>19079877
Won't know until we try.
Rolling for that.

>>19079824
Triangulate his call and ask Abel's current location. Give details to Amy, she'll drive.

Call up Lucas/Lucca, see if they have anything at all to do with this.

"Invisibles?" You ask, closing your eyes. You recall the last time you tried tracing his phone, so that you could know your *own* position. However, now, your ability is much stronger. You can see clearly where he is, and point it out to Amy.
"Yeah, invisibles. With guns. Fuck." He responds.
"Listen, I know how to circumvent their cloaking. Me and Amy are coming to pick you up."
"I'll be here. Bleeding. And trying not to die."

You hang up, and then call up Lucas.
"Hey, you get a mission to shoot anyone?"
"Uh. . what?"

>>19079956
Are you chasing a crazy man who lives in the sewers with my cat? Did you shoot someone who is currently in an alleyway, became someone invisible just did that.

>>19079956
"Are you on a mission to shoot someone? Or maybe some of your fellow agents?
Because some invisibles are shooting up my friend right now and I am fully outfitted and equipped and will not think twice to level entire city block to save my friend... and my cat."

"Are you chasing a crazy man who lives in the sewers with my cat?"
"I'm not sure you're even-"
"Did you shoot someone who is currently in an alleyway? Because someone invisible just did that."
"I don't know what you're even talking about! I'm still driving Lucca to her apartment." He claims, and then hangs up.
Amy pulls to a stop, and you see Abel, bleeding from a wound in his side; He clambers into the back of the car, and off you go again. <Null zone, behind you.> Cyan tells you.

>>19080002
How big?

>>19080002
Grab with drites, capture, subdue, break any arms that are holding a weapon. Someone dared to shoot our friend and they may have even scared Ishelda, that isn't allowed.

>>19080002
"Okay, Lucas, then I wont feel bad for killing invisible person behind me."

Open the back door and unleash hell at that Null zone.
Actually, if we can capture it, it will be better.

<What's the size of the zone? Drone or humanoid?>
<Drone.> Cyan says. There's a bang from behind you, and a railgun projectile smashes through the back window. Amy inadvertently swerves the car while Abel cusses.

You shrug, draw Mjolnir, and fire, holding tightly with both hands. You may not be wearing the powersuit right now, but this should work. .

Your hands spasm backward from the intense recoil, but the null zone explodes. You quickly start rummaging around the backseat, donning the power suit.
<More null zones incoming. I suspect it's another IDW.>

>>19080053
Son of a whore. Ok, try to trace the drones back to the IDW controlling them. There's enough of them that we should easily be able to triangulate the position. Then we'll track down the chair and have a nice talk with the driver if at all possible.

rolled 72 = 72

>>19080053
'drite chain-gauss go!

rolled 37 = 37

>>19080053
Continue talking to Lucas "Well, /someone/ is using IDW to attack my friend."

We should try to capture the droids and triangulate their position again. Actually lets just hack them and determine the position.

>>19080083
This!

"Son of a whore." You mumble, clambering out of the window, now fully suited. You climb onto the top of Verne's car, and bring your mechandrites to bear.
<Gatling gausses are go.> Magenta tells you. So you start firing.

The drones start collapsing and exploding like fireworks as you start gunning them down. It seems that small arms are best against them.
You pause for a moment and close your eyes to hack one. . but then a railgun blasts into your power shield and you reel back.

rolled 23 = 23

>>19080113
Please, small arms aren't the biggest deal when we're in the suit.

Continue to deal with them and try to get enough breathing room to hack one. Use the large drites to protect the car if any of them start going for the wheels or the people in it.

rolled 67 = 67

>>19080113
HACK AGAIN

rolled 82 = 82

>>19080113
Shockwave them to hell.

rolled 86 = 86

>>19080125
>Please, small arms aren't the biggest deal when we're in the suit.
Seriously. We were peppered by all sides by dozens of soldiers and it was like a cool breeze for us, now we are reeling back from a single shot?
Consistency, please.

rolled 56 = 56

>>19080113
Hi all. All I hoped after last ending was some waifu sim.
What I got?

>>Abel shot, bleeding.
>>No sign of our cat
>>No answer to what are you

I am not even angry

I am impressed.

Also, roll :P

>>19080143
>>Back then you weren't standing on top of a moving car, and back then you weren't trying to hack anything. It isn't 'reeling back', but more like getting distracted from your hacking efforts.
A cluster of null-zones start approaching you, so you slam a shockwave into them, throwing them all to the ground. You close your eyes again, and redouble your hacking efforts.

One of the drones suddenly enter your control. It's different than you're used to, and slightly disorienting.
<With only one, I can only play hot and cold instead of triangulating the source.> Cyan tells you.

<Larger null zone, incoming. At first it appears to be a drone, but it's too large.>

According to the shape of the null-zone descending toward you, you would, at a glance, swear it's a massively, oval-shaped drone or a gunship. It starts to whirr, and you suddenly have a bad feeling about this.

rolled 65 = 65

barrage of rockets!

rolled 52 = 52

>>19080215
FIRE MJOLNR!

rolled 60 = 60

>>19080215
Rocket Salvo.
Plasma cannon.
Nuclear gun.
Gatling guns.

All on the dropship. Have Megenta deal with it while we hack.

Hacking smaller droids again.

rolled 55 = 55

>>19080215
Oh shit indeed, I think we may have found the source. Fire Rockets at it, shoot Mjolnir and the plasma cannon at the whirring noise to try to fuck with it shooting at the van.

Then if it's not too high shockwave jump and commence tearing it apart with our powerclawed heavy super drites.

>>19080215
Fire everything. All rockets, plasma gun, gauss 'drites, Mjolnr, ect.

rolled 13 = 13

rollan to shoot

rolled 69 = 69

>>19080215
I hope that Mjolnir IS in shape of revolver?

It would be goddamn baddass.

rolled 88 = 88

>>19080255
FUUUUUUUUCK YOU!

You fire both shoulder-mounted weapons- the plasma cannon scrapes across the large drone's side, and the rocket salvo blasts into the front. Your heavy 'drites cling to the roof of the car, and your lesser drites start focusing on it, the gauss projectiles sparking away from it's heavy armor.

Finally, you draw Mjolnir off of your hip, and start firing.

You hit something on the bottom of the overlarge drone, and then the whole thing quivers, before suddenly ceasing to hover, smashing into the ground behind the car.

<We're getting closer.> Cyan says, as you do your best to find another drone to hack- but it seems that they've all left, save for the one you stole.

>>19080280
Yah mother fucker! We a badass! Anyway, get the rest of our armor on.

>>19080280
Call the Luccs again and tell them that if they are involved they can surrender now or risk a painful death.

rolled 67 = 67

>>19080280
Hmm, maybe we can steal that downed gunship if we're fast enough.
Contact EE.
"I took down an invisible gunship at [coordinates], if you guys are quick enough, you might be able to claim it. Do not forget to use null-zone scanners. Dave out."

Hacking again to find the source

>>19080301
no need

>>19080323
Sounds good.

>>19080279
Khorne approves.

I'd say let's take Abel to the EE. He should be safe there.

Next, you call Jun.
"I took down an invisible gunship." You say, transferring the location to their computers. "If you guys are quick enough, you might be able to claim it."
You're about to remind them to bring the null-zone scanners, but you see in the distance, the gunship fade into visibility- it's pure white, and very rounded; it reminds you of those old Apple products- albeit one with two chainguns on the front.
"Wait, what? We've been in business dealings with KI for some time now-"
"They shot first." You interrupt her. "They shot *Abel*."
She thought about that for a moment. "I'll get them to go pick it up." She says, and hangs up.

<We just passed it; now we're getting colder.> Cyan said. <Further away from the IDW.>
"Amy, stop the car!" You call, and she screeches to a stop.
"Abel needs medical attention." She says. "Go do what you have to do; I'll drive him to EE."

I'm late by a mere thirty posts, and Abel's attacked by Kawasagi agents and a swarm of drones. And then we're attacked by a swarm of drones. And now Kawasagi agents it's looking. Those doublecrossing twin gits and/or bastard corp those twin gits are working for!

In addition; first thing's first, after we get Abel safely to EE and make sure he isn't going to have his surgery botched by a double agent, we need to get Ishelda. She can't survive alone in that sewer apartment!

>>19080372

mechdrite man mech drite man running after a tottaly legit van

can hack it yes he can hes the fucking mechdrite man look out here comes the mechdrite man

rolled 22 = 22

>>19080372
"Okay, take care of him!"

Drop out of the van.

Pinging location again.

rolled 84 = 84

>>19080372
"Right"
'Drite jump to a vantage point and try to find the IDW with the bullfrog. Then rush there as fast as possible and capture them.

>>19080372
Take care of him.

I'm guessing this could be a frame job, or at the very least it probably isn't Lucca and Lucas, maybe a different part of KI. We'll worry about that once we find the IDW that's doing this and tear the ceiling of the van open.

"Right!" You say, putting on your helmet. She nods, and screeches off. You 'drite climb up the side of a building, clinging to the side of the wall, and then you close your eyes, seeking. .

You suddenly sense something. . familiar. Another fusion of machine and man.
It's not in a van, this time. It's on top of another roof, inside a storage container. You charge toward it.

<Two gunships!> Cyan calls, and marks them in your view- the two are drifting above the container, slowly turning about, watching everything. They don't seem to notice you yet, but it's a bit too far for you to hack. . normally.

>>19080470

fuck hacking its time to smash shit with the power claws!

rolled 52 = 52

>>19080470
>but it's a bit too far for you to hack. . normally.

10-20 miles range. I think we can deal with it.

HACKAN

rolled 95 = 95

>>19080470
Javellin time! We did bring it, right?

rolled 30 = 30

>>19080470
Can we get in communication with the storage container. If so we can tell him that we have in our sights and that we'd appreciate it if he put the gunships down. Get the Javelin out in order to prove our statement.

rolled 44 = 44

>>19080470
It's hackin' time!
>No Dave No!

"Fuck it." You say, and you run forward. Magenta seems to chuckle darkly as you do so. You slam yet another shockwave grenade into the ground, boosting yourself, and you collide with the side of one of the gunships, your power claws doing their best at tearing the armor off.

The second gunship quickly drifts above the storage container, and something drops from the bottom of it, connecting to the container. Then it starts ascending, pulling the container with it.

rolled 97 = 97

>>19080503
hack that one, make it slam the container back down.

rolled 91 = 91

>>19080503
LEAP TO THE CONTAINER!

>>19080508
YES

>>19080508
>>19080509

YES
YES

YOU ARE NOT GOING ANYWHERE YOU FUCKERS
SHOULDN'T HAVE THREATENED MY FRIEND AND MY CAT

>>19080508
Nice

Once he's stuck on the ground I think it'll be time for us to have a nice talk. Once the one we're attached to is disabled we'll rip the front of the storage container off and get some fucking answers.

"You're not going *anywhere*, you fuckers." You growl, and leap off of the gundrone you're currently hanging onto. You land on the container, and close your eyes. .

The gunships are hard to control, and harder to control when they're consciously being used by the IDW, but you're able to get in the gunship enough to make it drop the container.

It slams into the ground, the walls denting slightly.

<The IDW is just below you.> Cyan said.

>>19080529
Does the 'nice talk' involve slapping his shit and shoving two bloody great tentaclefulls of mechandrite up his ass until he squeals? Because I can get behind that one.

rolled 43 = 43

>>19080543
PUNCH THROUGH WITH HEAVY DRITE! RIP AND TEAR!

rolled 93 = 93

>>19080543
Turn the drones off, and rip the roof off the storage container. Grab whoever is in there with the 'drites and pull them out.

>>19080543
If the gunships are under our control or at least no more threat, knock on the container.
"You have 10 seconds to get out of there before I decide to come in. Or simply put a few holes in your box."

>>19080543
RIP THE TOP OF THE CONTAINER OFF

"SUPRISE!"

Have this face come up on our helmet.

>>19080543
Tear the top off the container and proceed to scare the living hell out of whoever is in the chair. It looks like we've got some questions to ask.

>>19080543
Citing a previous 95. >>19080486

Put the drone completely out of commission before it fucks us over somehow.

>>19080562
>>19080561
>>19080559

WAIT.
We took control over the gunships right?

SOOOO

Lets just take the Container to EE!!!

Make sure that the person leaves the chair though.

You growl, and pry the roof off of the container with your power claws and heavy mechandrites, leaping into the container.

A woman was sitting in the chair, wearing the full stealthsuit and goggles. She was perfectly still, and seemed to be bolted into the chair. The chair itself was connected to a large power core, bolted to the wall behind her.
"Hey, you." You growl. She doesn't respond.

>>19080573
Have a light 'drite rip the mask and goggles off...actually fuck it, pump her full of lead. No no, mask first.

rolled 71 = 71

>>19080573
pull the whole rig out with the heavy drites, and use the lighter drites to bind her.

>>19080573
Point with our drites menacingly, drawing out the monoknives.

"Get out of the chair!"

also do this >>19080570

>>19080590
that might kill her

>>19080590
Agreed. Just get the whole setup to EE.

rolled 36 = 36

>>19080598
We don't have to take her out of the chair. Our heavy drites can pick up cars. I think we can just take the whole chair.

>>19080598
>that might kill her
If that's the case, we should probably just call Grayson and have him collect the whole container.

>>19080573
Take her goggles and helmet off to identify who it was.

I don't want to rip her out, it might kill her and we have no clue how much we want her dead yet. See if we can disable her communications with the gunship drones and put them under our control so we can just fly this whole thing back. That might have been easier if we didn't rip the roof off. Given that we have heavy drites we can just unbolt the core and load her into a large vehicle that someone from EE brings around.

wasn't our control over the drone temporary?
jump in, pull her out of the chair and then control the drone and have us go to EE

>>19080619
But we have the control of the gunships.
We can take it there.

Just make sure the woman does not try to control it back. Like, threaten to kill her if she does.

rolled 22 = 22

>>19080625
WHY DON'T WE CONTROL HER ON HER CHAIR?

COULD WE DO THAT?

HACK INTO HER THROUGH CHAIR?

You tear her mask off, and suprisingly, it's nobody you've seen before. Her eyes are open, but rolled into the back of her head, somehow comatose.

"Get out of the chair!" You call, drawing out the monoknives. She doesn't respond.

You shrug, and then tear the entire chair out of the storage container with your heavier mechandrites. She screams loudly as the power core disconnects from the chair, and suddenly she's conscious. . but still strapped in the unpowered chair.
"You, who are you?" She asks, looking at you levelly.
Outside, you hear the two gunships slam into the ground, no longer being controlled, apparently.

rolled 53 = 53

>>19080646
Reroll for this.

>>19080648
Wave the knives in her face. "I was thinking the same thing."

rolled 55 = 55

>>19080657
Roll for no 'cause

>>19080648
Hey miss, do you see these large tentacles that can throw cars around? Because they signify that I'm the one who gets to ask questions first.

So, who are you, do you work for KI and were you the one who shot a man who lives in the sewers and chased him into an alleyway?

>>19080648
Take over the dropships and have them take us to EE

>>19080648
"Your knight in whi...., well, armour."
>Active helmet display :3

>>19080648
"Why'd you shoot my friend?" Slam her into the side of the container, chair and all.

>>19080677
Let's not escalate to violence quite yet, it might daze her and make it harder for her to answer our questions. That and I think our general appearance is frightening enough without having to slam her around.

"Hey, miss, see these?"
You put the knives up to her face, waving them around.
"These large robotic tentacles signify that I'm the one that gets to ask the questions. Who are you?" You say. You start to try to hack the chair. . but it's unpowered.
"I'm nobody." She said, straining against the straps that were holding her in. "I'm a ghost."
Then she grinned. "Sigma, activate."
<She got a signal off!> Cyan said.

>>19080672
What? No, we mad! >:(

>>19080690
Cut her up, just enough to permanently mutilate. "Where is my friend?"

>>19080677
Whoa, calm down nigga.

>>19080690
What do you mean signal off?
Just whack her and make her unconscious.

rolled 77 = 77

>>19080690
Hack all her implants, do things that are painful but non-lethal, like phantom pain.

rolled 52 = 52

>>19080690
... What's Sigma?

>>19080690
Well, my friend WILL be here first, suck to be you.

Also, for shits and giggles, why don't we put the whole container off the ledge, holded back by 'drittes only?

>>19080702
I would like to extend the "Whoa, calm down nigga." from >>19080709's post to you as well.

>>19080690
Why do people always have to do this the hard way. Ping her, check if she is trying to blow herself up with that stunt or if we can follow the signal she sent to Sigma.

Once we've confirm she isn't exploding grab her and the chair with a heavy drite and take it with us. Given that she just signaled someone we don't want to be in the area.

rolled 18 = 18

>>19080715
>:D

>>19080702
> "Where is my friend?"
Shit, did you even read the thread?

Abel is with Amy. They are on their way or have already arrived at EE

<Ping her!> You say.
<No notable implants save for the gen-3 and a small signalling device on her hip.> Cyan said.
<What did you mean by 'got a signal off'?>
<Her signalling device activated and sent some kind of encrypted message. Voice activated, I'd suppose.>

You hear a gunshot, and something sparks off of your power shield. And then another gunshot, and another spark.
In the distance is a goggled man, holding a large sniper rifle. He's firing rapidly, blasting into your shield each time.
<We're taking significant damage.> Magenta said. <The power shield will go down soon. Kill the fucker before it does.>

rolled 15 = 15

>>19080733
Hoep E does not see my roll ....

>>19080759
Well, move her in front of the bullets.

Is anyone here a drawfag? If so, why haven't you drawn Dave yet?

rolled 38 = 38

>>19080759
Kill him from here.
"Bad move."

>>19080773
no. She's probably considered disposable.

rolled 25 = 25

>>19080759
Ok, it is time to FUCK SUBTLETY. Protect most of ourself using the larger drites as shield pull out the Javelin and open fire on his location. Make sure he can't dodge the javelin by also launching rockets to either side at the same time.

>>19080759
Grab woman, use her as a shield.

>>19080797
Thet'll just shoot her. We want her alive.

rolled 7 = 7

>>19080759
Protect ourself with heavy drites, kill him with Mjolnir, blow his goggled head off.

rolled 67 = 67

another volley of rockets!

rolled 9 = 9

>>19080759
Shockwave him?

Also, why just not shoot him down?

rolled 57 = 57

>>19080759
JAVELIN TIME ALREADY?>>19080486

PLASMA HIM THE FUCK UP. Also, use that bitch nigga IDW-using spy as a human shield. He'll no doubt stop firing as soon as the first fat rifle bullet splatters some of her guts over our chassis and we'll be able to get out of there with the spy mostly intact but handily disabled.

>>19080807
>>19080805
You two. Put the dice down.

rolled 83 = 83

>>19080759
Hacking times again

You draw your javelin, fall to one knee, and fire.

The beam of green, roiling lightning claws it's way through the air toward him, directly toward him. You'd been training in accuracy lately, and it shows.

And then he moves sideways out of the way. He didn't leap sideways, or step sideways. . He moved directly sideways, as if he had thrusters attached to him or something. He starts running toward you, firing with his rifle even more. As he gets closer, you notice that he isn't wearing a black bodysuit like the rest of the KI agents you've seen; instead he's wearing some kind of thin set of power armor.

<Shields are at ten percent.> You're warned by Magenta.

rolled 70 = 70

>>19080840
RIP'N'TEAR

rolled 4 = 4

>>19080840
<Megenta, it's time to fuck shit up.>
USE EVERYTHING

rolled 40 = 40

>>19080840
Why would we not fire at the rooftop? It's an area of effect weapon.
Anyway, grab him with heavy drites, rip in half.

rolled 100 = 100

>>19080840
Wait. That fucker appeared as soon as the woman gave the signal, right?
It could be a ROBOT!

HACK IT

>>19080840
Magenta, Use the big drites to protect us and launch a storm of missles. I'll shoot him with Mjolnir.
>>19080872
Well, I'm not rolling.

>>19080872
Fate point get?

>>19080872
With that kind of roll, he'll become a robot just so we can hack him!

>>19080872
PARANOIA POWERS ACTIVATE!

>>19080872
Well, OP.
The dice don't give a fuck if he's got hackable shit or not.
Hack it.

>>19080850
That settles that, then. We're liable to take damage fighting this dickass sniper assassin droid, but we're going to TEAR OUT HIS HUGE METAL GUTS.

>>19080887
Maybe we gained the ability to hack brains?

<Magenta, it's time to fuck shit up.> You say, and bring all of your non-javelin weapons to bear. Is this idiot really trying to enter melee combat with you? You leap forward, your mono-blades slipping out of your 'drites. You swing at him, and he blurs out of the way. You try to slam the end of one of your heavy 'drites into him, but he slips around it, grabs it, and . . pulls, in some kind of move reminiscent of a judo throw.

You find yourself flailing, having been thrown, and slam into the ground, your armor scraping against the rooftop.
He fires another shot, at you, and your power shield sparks one last time.
<Shields are down!>

You close your eyes, and then focus. . .

The power suit he's wearing has no kind of core, you notice. In fact, it's a stretch to even call it a powersuit. In truth, it's more similar to a. . full body augmentation. It contains little circuitry, and instead of a power core, it's powered by the agent's own bioelectronic energy. As you focus, you find that it isn't very difficult to shut down- not for you, anyway, so you deactivate the entire suit. He freezes up and falls over, his entire body rigid.

The girl finally snaps one of the straps holding her in, and she quickly detaches the rest of the straps holding her there.

rolled 60 = 60

>>19080923
wrap a drite around her and hold her a few feet above the ground

rolled 47 = 47

>>19080923
GRAB THAT BITCH!

>>19080923
Miss, I'd advise you don't try and move. I'm having a rather bad day and I am extremely heavily armed. Grab her with our two faster drites and then transfer her to one of the heavy ones, then take the other guy in the other and head back to EE.

>>19080923
"ONE MOVE AND I KILL YOU ALL!!"

Grab the guy with our heavy mechandrites and wrap him up.

rolled 70 = 70

>>19080923
DRITES! DRITES! DRITES, DRITES, DRITES, DRITES!
EVERYBODY!

rolled 5 = 5

>>19080923
Stab her in the foot! Then grab her.

Your drite snatches her by the throat, holding her tightly as you lift her above the air, coiling your other drites around her.
"Sigma, get up!" She calls to the man on the ground. He mumbles something, but can't move a muscle. "Sigma! Damn it."

"One move." You say. "And I kill you."
She freezes.

rolled 6 = 6

grab them both and fly to EE!

>>19080963
call grayson and get a pickup team out here.

rolled 60 = 60

>>19080961
PUT THAT DICE DOWN.
>>19080967
YOU TOO.

>>19080963
Grab the guy and wrap him up tight with our heavy drites. Call Grayson or Jun and ask for a helicopter pick up.

>>19080963
Spare some drites for Sigma. Pick him up and make sure he can't do shit, just in case. And if he tries anything funny, end him.
In the meanwhile, grill the bitch.
"You don't know who I am? What are you, dense? Are you fucking retarded? I'm the goddamn Dave, man."

>>19080963
Wrap each one up completely in a heavy drite, that ought to keep them pretty tied up. Call up Grayson and get a vehicle.

Take of Sigma's mask.

Do we have a fucking understanding here the both of you? I was having a perfectly fucking nice day, then you decide to attack my friend and shoot at me. Who do you work for, why did you attack me, what are your names? I'd like some answers.

>>19080963
WRAP OUR HEAVY DRITE AROUND THE MAN

>>19080987
>"When your a Dave David Davison, you don't have time for this kind of bullshit."

You call Grayson, wrapping your heavy drites around Sigma, who's still locked in place.
"Hey, you guys get that gunship?" You ask. "I've got two more here. . And two agents."
"Fuck you!" The girl calls. Sigma doesn't move.
"Gemini, I need evac!" The girl says, and the signal device on her belt beeps again.
<I did my best on jamming it, but I had short notice.> Cyan tells you. <I'm not certain if it got through or not.>

>>19080997
Take control of the gunships and move the container to EE.

>>19080997
Take control of the gunships, have them run overwatch.

>>19080997
Squeeze a bit with the drite. Make it very uncomfortable to breath.

>>19081004
can we use both gunships?

>>19080997

we did promise to kill her...

time to show everyone we mean business.

rolled 64 = 64

>>19081009
Oh, and I guess I should roll for this. Fingers crossed....

>>19081019
that was a bluff. We can't interrogate a corpse.

>>19080997
Well, I guess we're going to use them both as meat shields/bargaining chips.
Once "Gemini" shows up, they can either answer our questions, or get a choice on how they want to die today.

rolled 93 = 93

>>19081021
CROSS THEM MORE!

>>19081021
We already hacked them once. Why would we need to roll for it again, especially when they aren't being controlled anymore?

>>19081019
whoa whoa whoa
lets not go overboard here.
all her shit seems to be voice activated, lets just keep a tight but passable clamp on her neck to have her focus on breathing only

>>19080997
You aren't going to get evac, do you understand that. Grab her in a drite, crush her communicator so she can't get anything else out. Get to a place with cover and with those two completely tied up.

>>19081028
but that was just enough to break it's grip on the container, no?
we can probably fully control them now that she is out of it

>>19081029
Lets just put our hand over her mouth.
We keep forgetting that we have hands.

>>19081009
>>Overwatch means, essentially, someone at a computer in a voice conference with other people, telling them about the mission parameters and assisting them, usually by hacking open doors, and warning about approaching combatants and such. Mindless gunships can't run overwatch.

"You aren't going to get an evac." You say, shooting her voice-activated device.
You leap on top of one of the gunships, carrying both agents with you, and with a certain force of will, you take control of it and lift it into the air. Setting the second one to pick up the storage container, both gunships, you, and the two agents are dragged back toward the EE building. "Grayson, make sure to tell Talos not to shoot me." You tell him.
"You got it, Dave."

Soon enough, the entire security team is on the roof, powersuited and armed, as the girl is screaming epithets at you.

>>19081072
Can we smash her head into the drone to shut her up?

>>19081072
If that guy has full-borg conversion then we can just remove his arms and legs at the shoulders/hips. If not then we should stick around until they can remove the armor.

"Shut up." You say, and ding her head into the drone. She shuts up.

The security team surrounds the two, cuff the girl, and then Amy comes up the elevator. She grabs out her tools, and starts trying to disassemble Sigma's armor.
"Shit." She says. "This stuff is basically welded onto him. I don't think it will be easy to get any of this off."
Suddenly, you get a call from Lucca.

>>19081097
>>19081091

Lets not start hacking limbs or bashing people yet. But I agree on sticking around to make sure that they do not escape or anything.

>>19081119
"Hello?"

"Hello?" You ask.
Lucca's panicking. "We got a call from one of our teammates. Apparently they need evac, but when we got to the roof, they were gone."
"Oh, uh. . ."

>>19081141
Tell your teammates to not shoot our friends.

>>19081119
"Mind telling me why your company's technology is being used to assault my people, Lucca?"
Sort-of-friends or not, we're pissed off at this, and we want some goddamn answers, now.

>>19081141
"Yeah, do me a favour. Have the guys from your corp call my corp. This just got mildly complicated."

>>19081141
"Your friends endangered my friend and my cat, they're at EE, with me."

>>19081141
Hello. Gemini. We got them, no need to worry, but they shot my friend. No cigar.

>>19081153
Abel doesn't belong to EE, so they probably considered him fair game. Dave's not a complete tool, so he'd probably know that as well.

>>19081150
>>19081153
>>19081156

Shut up!
Wait lets not tell anything. Have EE deal with politics, we can't let them know it was us.

"Oh, well. I'm a bit busy right now. A mission you see?" and log out

rolled 30 = 30

>>19081119
Long story Lucca, or should I call you Gemini. Your friends assaulted me and my team, no actual damage was done to them by the way. Would you and Lucas care to come over and have a cup of tea, there's a lot for you guys to explain.

When are people going to learn not to attack us, we're a power suited god of war.

rolled 96 = 96

>>19081167
Counterroll

>>19081150
>>19081153
>>19081156
>>19081160
>>19081161
>>19081167

FFS, know a little bit of subtlety.
Don't let her know anything!

Shit, we could ruin relationship between EE and their corp.

>>19081166
Ooooh the eloquence.

>>19081188
But it doesn't tell her anything. So it's good enough.

>>19081184
Right, and keeping it a secret and holding them against their will is the BEST idea.

>>19081196
AGAIN!

LET EE DEAL WITH IT!

WE ARE JUST AN AGENT!

It is like if a Russian special agent assaulted American agents because they threatened his friend who is a Chinese agent.
THIS IS A DELICATE SITUATION. Let the people who know how to handle politics deal with it.

>>19081195
What I tried to
>imply
is that you're an impolite fuck stain and if you actually want to convince people of your POV you should probably not phrase your posts in such a manner.

>>19081222
You're the one who is the impolite fuck stain. I don't have time to write an essay worth of text to convince them since the quest moves fast. I didn't insult them, so fuck you.

>Okay, I'm calling it to a vote.
>[] Inform Lucca of the situation
>[] Do not inform Lucca of the situation

>>19081247
Lets hold it off for now.

>>19081247
[X] Inform Lucca of the situation

>>19081247
Inform, but with a warning to leave it to the managment.
Also inform the ones we captured that they might be okay if things go right.

>>19081247
Inform.

rolled 51 = 51

>>19081247
[X] Inform Lucca of the situation

Tell her that we should both stay out of this and let the people who play politics do so.

>>19081247
Inform.

"Yeah, do me a favor." You say. "I have them. Have your corp call my corp." You keep an eye on everyone coming up to the rooftop; Jun, Grayson, A bandaged Abel, the security team, a few techs and Amy who are trying to remove Sigma's armor (and failing.)
"Wait, what's going on?"
"Sigma and. . the noisy girl shot my friend. I didn't take kindly to it. Everyone is intact, though."
"Uh. . "
"Also, when are people going to learn not to attack me? I'm a powersuited god of war."
". . Okay, I'll talk to my superiors." She said, and hung up.
Jun raised an eyebrow. "Who was that?"
"That was Lucca." You say. "KI should be contacting us soon."
Jun sighed. "This. . could be politically troublesome. What exactly happened?"

>>19081273
Tell her what happened then.

>>19081273
They attacked Abel for some reason, so I attacked them.

Guys.

Why are we fussing so much over the corporate politics? If KI really cared about diplomacy, then they wouldn't have shot one of our agents. We'll get our answers one way or another, but there's no reason to dance around this issue. They shot one of our agents. A massive shitstorm has been caused. The situation can hardly worsen.

We are not a twinkle-toed diplomancer motherfucker, though we don't shy away from diplomancy now and again. We're prone to brute force over finesse. Either there's a misunderstanding that lead to someone getting shot and the someone with the gun getting his ass beaten, which I'm sure KI would understand, Abel was being an espionagey fuck and digging too deep again and KI decided the best way to handle him was to shoot him with faggot drones, not realizing that EE's band of agents doesn't take kindly to its own coming under fire, or KI was just pulling a preemptive attack to be cunts, meaning we've taken away one of their weapons. We'll sort it out.

Explain the situation plainly. Abel was shot, we responded by neutralizing the threat, because they shot us, too, when we had only come to his rescue, and came at us with swarms of drones and three fucking stealth gunships. The threat happened to be KI agents, and we're still not certain what exactly ignited this shitstorm. So we're going to put this stink out.

>>19081281
Abel isn't an EE agent.
We should try to figure out why they were going after him.

>>19081281
>Why are we fussing so much over the corporate politics? If KI really cared about diplomacy, then they wouldn't have shot one of our agents.

That's the thing. Abel IS NOT EE AGENT.

"I think I can answer that." Abel said. "I was digging up what I could on KI, in their systems and all, when one of their hackers somehow traced me. I left immediately, but something invisible shot me on my way out. I called Dave, Dave and tie-dye picked me up."
"And then." You say. "The drones shot at me. So I left Amy and Abel to get to EE, went and found the IDW controlling the drones, and did what I normally do."

>>19081273
I was having a nice day, Abel called saying he got shot, me and Amy picked him up, there was a large swarm of drones after us that I dealt with. I traced them back to a shipping container where the chair was, unplugged the chair, got attacked by a sniper, took him down as well and took the both of them back to base. They have no damage aside from some bruises, though I did take down a few gunships and a pile of drones.

>>19081295
Good thing that we didn't kill anyone then. As it is now we can save this situation without too much trouble. Able might have to become an EE agent though.

>>19081318
Abel is already an agent. Of a different corp. The one we used to work for before we got hit by the van.

>>19081295
"Abel, what about Ishelda?"

>>19081331
They were training him to be an agent. He isn't actually one because reasons that I can't remember.

>>19081295

"all in all i think it went better than expected."

tell the chick that we contacted her teammates and KI is sending someone to pick them up. also get the techs to stop taking apart sigma. we know who they are and it was abel's fuck up one giant expensive misunderstanding

"You were in a car and got attacked by drones. They took the first hostile action; It's as simple as that. I believe we're in the right, here." Jun said. "Amy, you can stop with the armor- it's obviously an augment and won't come off easily unless he's dead. The two of you." she said, pointing to the KI agents. "Will need to sit in the holding cells until KI requisitions your release. Try to escape and we'll have to put you down."

"Hey, Abel." You ask.
He snorts. "Your cat's okay. She's still in the safehouse, and has enough food and litter to last for a month. She might as well have her own fallout shelter."

>>19081352
"That's great.
How are you feeling?"

Then go and have a beer with Abel or something and catch up with him.

>>19081352
Well that's good, how badly were you shot anyways? Catch up with Abel, have a beer with him if the doctors allow it.

Once we do that we can finish the conversation with Amy that was rudely interrupted by our friend being shot.

"That's great." You say. "How are you feeling?"
"I was shot." He said. "I feel like shit."
"Well, I was shot a lot too. So much my power shield died, actually."
". . .That doesn't even count." He says.
"One second, you two." Jun said, as the two KI agents were escorted to the basement. "I need to talk to Abel."
"Oh?" He asks, raising an eyebrow. "Go ahead."
"I've come to offer you a job."

>>19081387
Just listen.

>>19081387
Check the rifle that Sigma was using. it take a lot of juice to take down our shields so fast.

"Well, I did lose my last job when I had to leave my house. . " He said. "Why do you want to hire me?"
"Dave always ends up with some strange information that we don't know where he got it from. . " Jun said. "He always says it's one of his contacts. And I'm guessing that's you."
"Indeed. That's me." He said. "So, what, you're willing to pay me for that?"
"Certainly. Not to mention you would make a splendid overwatch."
"Hell, this might be fun. I'm in." He said.
You shrug, and go over to check out the rifle that Sigma had. From what you can tell, it's a rather standard anti-materiel rifle, but the firing mechanism seems a bit different. .
"It would probably be best not to take that." Jun said. "KI is going to want their gear back alongside their agents."

>>19081488
"But MOOOOOOM"

"Can we at least scan it and replicate the firing mechanism?"

>>19081488

lets go check on the agents, make sure they are somewhat comfy and such, also might want to apologize to sigma. I don't care what any of you say we almost shut down his entire body and that has got to be scary. the other chick though was just rude.

>>19081488
So just copy it, then.
They do not need to know.

>>19081488
Wasn't Verne to be our new overwatch guy?

>>19081488
I'm not taking it, I'm just looking. Ping it with our implant and see what we can glean. Show it to Amy, we'll give it back but she should be able to recognize what's different about it easier.

Then visit our new guests, make sure they're well taken care of, have a nice friendly chat.

>>19081526
Maybe we should unhack Sigma? Ask him to behave beforehand though.

>>19081530

Verne can be the head chief(head cop) and we can be the unruly agent(cop) with an attitude/ authority problems

instead of normal problems like collateral damage he'd be worried about us fucking our partner.

"But mooooom." You say.
She frowns. "Well, we can at least scan it." She said. "Why are you so interested, anyway?"
"They killed my shields with it pretty quickly."
"Well... it has an ammo clip." Amy said, looming closer. "So it's not energy based, and definitely not gauss or railgun based. ."

She pulls the ammo clip out, and extracts a bullet. "It looks like each bullet has it's own miniature power core. As it's fired, the core would probably generate energy, too much for the bullet to handle. . Looks like they weaponized power core meltdowns. Pretty clever, actually."

Grayson walked up to the roof, where the three of you are clustered around the rifle. "Sigma's asking for you, Dave. He wants you to 'unfuck his shit before he tears your spine out and makes you eat it'."

>>19081530
>>19081569

Abel is better suited to lead Intelligence Unit in my opinion.

>>19081576
>"Sigma's asking for you, Dave. He wants you to 'unfuck his shit before he tears your spine out and makes you eat it'."

"Well, that's not polite, is it?
I was thinking of doing that anyway but now I don't know."

>>19081576
I guess we should do that.

>>19081576
Oh yeah, I probably should do that. Get three cups of coffee and head on down to where Sigma and the girl are. We can have a nice talk.

>>19081576
If he asks nicely. 'Please and thank yous', y'know?

>>19081576
"I think I'm going to like this Sigma guy. He's straight, to the point, and knows how to speak RIP AND TEAR."

Go down, unfuck his shit, and apologize for the whole "temporarily turning you into a vegetable" thing.

>>19081576

apologize, although they attacked us, we hurt him pretty bad.

tell him he can wait till his company comes for him

"Well, that's not polite, is it?" You say, then shrug. "Might as well. I might end up liking this guy." You say, and take the elevator down, making a stop at the vending machine and grabbing three coffees.

"Sup." You say as the security officers let you into the cells. Sigma's still locked in place, his facemask gone, and he's simply glaring at you. The other girl, meanwhile, is doing situps.
"You dick." He says. "I can't move a fucking muscle. What the hell did you do?!"
"What, you aren't going to ask nicely?"
He growled. "Please, good sir, please allow me to move once again." He said, not sounding very sincere about it.

You shrug, and relinquish your control of his suit.

He rolls his shoulders. "That was as uncomfortable as hell, man." He says.

>>19081655
Here, have some coffee. As long as the suits don't screw up we might be on the same side.

>>19081576
Walk up to him and say,
*get your clenched fist backward*
"Well, I got the message from my shield."
*in fluid motion take your fist in front of his face in manner of flipping him off*
FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOU.


And then unfuck his shit back.

>>19081668
>clarification. By suits I mean of the business type, not the power variety.

>>19081655
"I'm sorry, but you were shooting me up pretty hard and going fast as hell.
Pretty impressive."
"So... you have full-body augmentations?"

>>19081655
I'll note in my defense that you were trying to kill me and had been shooting at me, that was getting incredibly fucking annoying.

Though what in hell convinced you to try and attack me, you were doing remarkably well but you eventually were going to screw up and I only needed one good hit.

Here have some coffee, no hard feelings about this? The higher ups screw everything up and it's us grunts who do the work. The name's Dave by the way.

>>19081655
I am Dave and I am pleased to meet you, kind gentleman.

>>19081655
"You know what else is uncomfortable? Taking miniature power core meltdowns to the face at the speed of sound. Repeatedly. While hounded by a legion of drones and gunships. At least I wasn't shooting to kill, man."

rolled 16 = 16

>>19081655

to Sigma
"Sorry I just really didn't want you to tear off my head so I shut off your arms and legs. No hard feelings. You're a great shot by the way."

To the chick
"so whats your name miss drone storm?"

>>19081714
whoops wrong email

>>19081710
Hey, lets not go in that direction

"Here, have some coffee." You say, handing it to him. "Sorry, but you were shooting me up pretty hard and going fast as hell."
"Thank god, coffee." he says, and drinks. "Yeah, well, Epsilon needed my help. How the hell did you not get your shit shot in by the flying drones?"
"Fucker overrode my control." The girl in the corner said.
"So, you have full-body augmentations?"
"Not. . entirely. It's pretty much an augmentation, but it doesn't replace anything. Instead it's built around my outside. A lot like your powersuit, but built in."

>>19081736
"That's pretty need.
You guys are gen-3 too?"

Did we bring coffee for Epsilon too? Give her a cup.

>>19081751
>That's pretty need.

what the fuck? I meant "neat"

>>19081736
Give Epsiolon a coffe and make a toast, to us, the Gen-3s and the managers who have no fucking idea what to do with us!

I like your suit by the way, you went really fucking fast like you were gliding on the ground and you managed to judo throw me, I'm impressed. I go for a much less subtle approach as you could tell.

>>19081736
"So you've gone all Pariah and shit? That's pretty hardcore to have armor plates grafted to your very skin. Suppose those power core bullets might as well be gauss flayer bolts, but the rifle doesn't quite fit the warscythe. Needs the scythe-y bit. Still, a pretty good impression anyways."

>>19081775
> I go for a much less subtle approach as you could tell.

We really need to integrate that GOING FAST FUCK THE MOMENTUM technology. That and cloak tech.

>>19081783
Oh yes, I definitely want some of that movement stuff he has. It'll make life more fun. We can do stealth, once we install a stealth thing, but we'll never really be as good at it as Lucas or something like that. We're a bit of a bulldozer, an effective and well controlled bulldozer but a bulldozer nonetheless.

"That's pretty neat. You guys are gen-3 too?" You ask.
Sigma raises his eyebrows. "I'm not, but Epsilon is. We normally do things in teams of two. One combat agent, and the other is an Gen-3 chair pilot."
You give a cup to Epsilon, and she takes it reluctantly.
"I think your suit's pretty cool." You tell him. "You went really fucking fast. How did you dodge out of the way like that?"
"Thrusters!" He said. "Each one of the plates in my suit run on the same tech as the hover drones, except they all aren't focused downward. It lets me move from side to side, forward or backward, even up and down."
"And how the hell did you throw me like that?"
"You really need to learn to fight better and not telegraph your moves so much." He said. "You sure can take a massive fucking beating, though."
"Yeah, I kind of go for the direct approach." You respond.

>>19081795
I guess just talk shop with Sigma. "Any idea what judo class would teach a heavily augmented six armed freak like me?"

>>19081795
"Hmm... learning how to fight eh? I'll take that advice to heart."
<Or should we write and AI for that?>

>>19081795
"I've been thinking about getting a thruster dealie myself. Problem is that I'm a bit short on hardware for that, all I've got is one repulsor... Thing. I can still do a wicked rocket jump with it, though. And as for the telegraphing, if you were a cyborg walktapus man-tank, you'd have trouble with quickness too."

>>19081795
Well, if our companies agree to get along maybe you can show me some stuff. It's not like I'm going to be able to go to a standard martial arts gym with six arms.

The Hover thing is pretty cool, though it would be difficult to integrate into my armor, what with it being way heavier than yours is.

>>19081795
"Yeah I'm kinda new to this. It's me second(?) week."

>>19081828
>The Hover thing is pretty cool, though it would be difficult to integrate into my armor, what with it being way heavier than yours is.

Maybe not? We should talk to Amy and Mark about that.

"Hmm. . Learning how to fight, eh? I'll take that advice to heart."
"You better." He says. "Or else you'll die next time you go up against me. Unless you do that cheap as hell 'aug lockdown' move again."
You shrug.
"Well, I am kinda new to this." you say. "It's only like, my second week. Or third week."
"No fucking way!" Espilon said, and threw her coffee at you. "You're a goddamn liar, Mr. tentacles!"

>>19081858
"I'm a quick learner, what can I say?"

>>19081858
"Whoa" dodge the coffee
"It's true, ask anyone."

>>19081858
Why in hell would I lie about that, as I said I'm new at this, just a quick learner. And I'm not getting you new coffee. You can check my records, I got out of a coma a few weeks ago with my new Aug.

Also I still would have had a good chance, just set off shockwaves and explosions right next to me when you're there, it would've hurt me than it would have hurt you.

You dodge the coffee. "It's totally true. Ask anyone."
"No way! I've been training in the IDW for months. There's no way you could wrest control from me like that if you've only been active for two weeks."
"I'm a quick learner. What can I say?"
She hits you in the chest with her bare hand, but it bounces off of your armor.

>>19081858

I'm serious, but I also have 4 AI's helping me so don't feel bad.

>>19081901
"Hey. No hitting. Hitting hurts. Although I think if anyone's been hurt here from that, it's your hand."

>>19081901
"If it makes you feel better, the augmentation could have easily killed me. It didn't do anything good to the previous guy and these people weren't even sure what they were doing. Oh and I was in coma, so it wasn't done with consent. Really, I should probably be angry at them but this job is way too fun."

>>19081901
I'm extremely good at what I do, and what I do best is hacking things, Sigma here can attest to that. Also having a pile of AI's bolted on to me helps.

You'll hurt your hand doing that, just saying.

>>19081901
"Well, my augment is a little different from yours. It's replaced significant portions of my brain and all of my spine. I should technically be dead."

>>19081978
Telling them that we're losing bits of the brain is a bit iffy at this point, telling them it's wired directly into our core nervous system seems fine.

"Hitting hurts." You say. "Hurts your hand, I mean."
She hits you again.
"If it makes you feel better, the aug in my nervous system should have killed me when they installed it. It sure didn't do anything good to the previous guy who had it." You said. "Oh and I was in a coma, so it wasn't done with consent. Really, I should probably be angry at them.. but this job is way too fun."
"But it didn't kill you, and now you can do things I've been working forever for!" She said.
"What I do best is hacking things. Sigma here can attest to that. . Though having a pile of AIs bolted to me helps."
"Wait. . you have a gen-3 with AIs connected? Are you batshit insane?!" Epsilon said, backing away. "Just wait until they fucking. . .I don't know, control your body or some shit like that!"

>>19082006
"Not only that, they can build other AIs. I have root control though, and could quash them if I desired."

>>19082006
"Nah, they wont do anything like that. They are cool."

>>19082024
Don;t tell they can write more AIs

>>19082006
Not a chance, I've got root control and they all seem to like me. Hey Azure want to say hi and meet some new folks.

That and I may be completely insane, considering that I occasionally have them build more AIs for specialized tasks I almost certainly am, but it's a sort of insane that works rather well.

>>19082006
"Pssst. I'll let you in on a little terrifying secret. One of 'em's sapient. And it's sharing my brainspace. Don't tell nobody, though."

>>19082037
They are all sapient. Azure is just smarter than most.

>>19082006

Oh please they wouldn't do that. I've been helping them way too much. Besides I helped azure overpower the CD AI when I first saw Lucas.

>>19082056
>They're all sentient, but only Azure is sapient.
"Don't worry, they can't override my control. It's set up that way." You say.
"Hey, Dave." Grayson calls from outside. "You done talking to those two?"

>>19082056
I don't think any other are sapient except Azure.

>>19082037
lets not tell them that.

>>19082089
"Hm? Is something the matter?"

>>19082089
I suppose I am, take care you two, hopefully the next time we meet will be less troublesome.

What do you need Grayson?

>>19082089

ahh I wanted to talk/scare them more!

(we need to let our enemies and random allies see us as unhinged, its more fun that way)

"Hm? Is something the matter?" You ask him, leaving the room to talk.
"No, not really; there's just things we should talk about. Like the whole apartment situation and stuff." Grayson responds.
"Wait, was that Dave?" You hear Sigma ask. "The one Gemini was talking about?"
"I think so." Epsilon responded. "He's just as insane as they said he was."

>>19082125
>"Wait, was that Dave?" You hear Sigma ask. "The one Gemini was talking about?"
>"I think so." Epsilon responded. "He's just as insane as they said he was."

FUCK YEAH, WE'RE GETTIN' A MINOR REPUTATION AMONGST THE AGENCIES.

>>19082125
"I heard that."
Then leave and talk with Grayson.

>>19082125

Sorry for imposing on you dude

(and this pleases me)

>>19082125
"Why do people keep saying that?" say this while standing up and shaking head slightly.

"Alright, nice talking to you guys. No hard feeling, okay?"

Lets see what Grayson has to say

>>19082116
Our brain is atrophying bits to make room to enhance other bits and transferring functions of it to our cybernetic spine. We have 4 AIs helping us with everyday tasks and are obsessed with 40k, which nobody other than us seems to think exists.

We're absolutely batshit, effective batshit but still loony.

>>19082125
I prefer the term eccentric, when you have extra tentacle arms you get to be called eccentric.

Go talk to Grayson about our housing situation.

"I heard that!" You call, and tack on a maniacal laugh at the end.
You and Grayson talk as you walk.
"Sorry for imposing on you." You say.
"No problem- the apartment was meant for two people anyway, and since Garrett's been gone. . I do expect you to pay half the rent, though."
"Yeah, I don't mind." You say, walking. Amy, Mark, and a third technician you don't know are all talking about plasma weaponry as you walk by.
"Oh, hey, Dave!" Amy called, waving.

>>19082184


"Hey Amy.
Apparently Sigma uses thrusters like drones have all over his suit to move fast and sideways. You think we could stick that into my suit too?"

>>19082205
In BOOTS!

>>19082184
Hello Amy, I'm sorry for not finishing our conversation earlier, I got distracted.

So Sigma's armor/aug it kinda is hard to define, each of the plates is like a thruster, any chance that idea'd work with my armor or would it not scale to that size and or screw over my durability?

"Hey, Amy." you say. "Sorry for not being able to finish the conversation earlier. I got distracted."
"Oh, that's fine." She said with a sly look. "I wasn't planning for the conversation to last much longer anyway. How were those two agents?"
"Well, apparently, Sigma's armor has some cool system." You say. "He said every plate in his armor is essentially a thruster, like what's on the hover drones."
"Let me guess; you want me to find out if it's feasible to put on you." She asked.
"Well. . . it IS pretty cool. . "
She sighed. "Oh, the turrets aren't enough, the power suits aren't enough, the shockwave gauntlet and four mechandrites aren't enough, and neither is the power shield, or your ability to *teleport*. Now you want to fly, too." Then she giggled. "Sure, I'll take a look at the thruster systems on the drones and see if I can emulate it."

>>19082216
Also, we did not make use of our tele.

Why wouldn't we play a lil' prank with it?
Like phasing thru doors?

>>19082259
"You know what they say. There is never enough DAKKA."

>>19082259
Thanks Amy. Well if I get a chance to bolt more cool stuff to myself I'm going to take it. And it was a damn good question you asked, I'm not really sure if I can give you a complete answer myself. When you get done with your current work we should talk about it.

>>19082282
"Or should I say, THRUSTAH. Make sure to paint the thrusters red, if you manage to reverse-engineer 'em."

"Well, you know what they say. there's never enough Dakka."
She rolled her eyes. "You're the only one who says that word. I've never heard it before in my life."
"Yo, Tie-dye. Dave. Grayson. Guy I don't know." Abel said.
"Mark."
"Mark, right." He says. "You guys having a meeting here?"
"Nope." Mark said. "We're just watching Dave try to talk his girlfriend here into making him more cool stuff to bolt to himself."

Go finish that conversation you twit, Amy's into you.

>>19082347
"What can I say? I'm a sucker for girls that can work my junk- I mean, my stuff-
You know what I mean."

"Hey Abel, learn anything interesting lately?"

>>19082347
"Try? I think I'm succeeding. Abel, you feelin' less shit yet?"

>>19082347
What can I say, I love bolting cool stuff onto me, and having it be made by my girlfriend only makes it better.

So you're working here now, still planning on living in your batcave most of the time and telecommuting?

After getting back up to speed with Abel finish our earlier conversation with Amy.

"Try? I think I'm succeeding."
"Yes, you are. Even though I'm busy. With the stealth module you asked for *last time*." Amy said.
"You feeling less shit, Abel?"
"Mostly. They gave me drugs." He said, giving you a thumbs up.
"So, you planning on living in the batcave still, and telecommuting?"
"Actually, I'm thinking I'll go back to my house. Get all the windows repaired. CD haven't been in the city since the explosion, so I don't have to worry about it." Abel said. "Plus, I'm getting a lot better at this kind of stuff."

>>19082413
"So, what do you think about Jun's proposal?
I think you're better suited to lead Intelligence Department than Overwatch imo. If they don't have that, they should think of starting up one now."

>>19082413
"You might wanna install some better security if you're going back to the old house. Even if CD's presence is pretty minimized by the fact that we blew a huge part of their paramilitary corps to so many atoms, they could be back any time."

>>19082413
"Heh, blew them up good, didn't I?"

"So, what do you think about Jun's proposal?"
"Well, I'm taking the job, of course. She's willing to pay me tons. I'm going to try my hand at Overwatch a bit for the next few missions. Although it's already a given that I'm going to work in intelligence."
"Yeah, I think you're better suited for that instead of overwatch." You say. "But you should install some better security if you're going back there."
"Well, duh." He says. "I'm spending most of my cash on that. And a panic room. And turrets. Hell, when I'm done, they could bomb the place and I'd still be fine."

>>19082489
"What if they sent another whacky zombie Eversor-thing? Not the regular ones, another like the horror that was Templar?"

>>19082489
"Turrets?
I had Azure write this neat security AI, you can get a copy if you wish. It was based on the one that CD had and improved."

"You would definitely benefit from light powersuit with cloaking technology."

"What if they sent another wacky zombie thing? Not the regular ones, but another one like the horror that was Templar?"
"Then I shoot them." He responds. "In the head."
"You know. . You would definitely benefit from a light powersuit. Especially if we reverse engineer the cloaking tech." You say.
Amy sighs. "Stop flirting you two." She says, grabbing your arm and dragging you away.
As you look back to the four of them, you see Abel giving you another thumbs up, and Grayson shrugging. Mark and the technician were both back to working on whatever they were working on before you arrived.
"So." She says, having dragged you away to somewhere abandoned. "Let's continue our conversation."

>>19082489
"Oh, I'm going to crash with Grayson, so you don't need to take care of Ishelda anymore."

>>19082630
"Where did we stop again?"

"Where did we stop, again?"
"Around the point I was almost sitting in your lap." She said. "Asking you exactly what the hell you are. Because I'm not sure. Sometimes you're goofy, sometimes you're an unstoppable bulldozer of a cybernetic warrior, sometimes you're. . suave as hell. I can't get a handle on you."

rolled 3 = 3

>>19082667
Well, I just want to fuck it up :D

"And now? Who am I in Your eyes?"

>>19082685
WELL DONE, FAG.

>>19082667
"I'm just a good old fashioned lover boy" Smile.

"I am what situation demands it. Isn't that good enough?"

>>19082630
>>19082667
Right, What am I. I don't completely know.

I know that my brain is killing bits of itself to make room for expansion of other parts, it's specializing and growing and changing.

My spine is taking over for the bits my brain no one wants to do, I'm pretty much meshing with the machine. It's kind of a scary thought honestly, I still feel completely human, still have all my emotions intact but it's still weird as hell.

I don't know all that much, but one of the things I'm sure of is that I am Dave, I'm your lovable goofball badass.

>>19082667
"Genuine multiple personality disorder, maybe? I mean, I do have four separate sentient and semi-sapient beings in my head. And one that really is sapient. Think of it like a grab bag; instead of just one of my charming personalities to love, you've got a little bit of everything to choose from. Like a sampler or a fried chicken combo bucket."

>>19082714
Man, don't turn it into something this grim. Saying how we're losing brains to our augmentation is kind of terrifying, you know?

"Oh, and now? Who am I in your eyes now?" You ask.
"I asked first." She says. "I'm curious. . Are you the same as you were before the accident? Before you got the implant?"
You think about it.
And you realize. . you aren't sure. You aren't sure who you were. You remember what happened to you before then, but you don't remember how you thought. Or how you acted.
You very suddenly feel like you're a stranger stuck inside your own body.
"I don't know." you say. "I don't know at all. I know my brain is killing bits of itself, specializing and growing and changing. My spine is taking over the bits my brain doesn't want to do. I'm changing and everything I am seems to be building up to. . something."
"Building up to what?" She asks.
You're not sure you have an answer to that.

>>19082748
Not a single clue, Homo Machina perhaps? It feels like my life started when I got a cybernetic spine implanted, like this is what I was born for and everything before that was just a prelude.

I don't know what is going to happen to me in the future, I can't know, but for now I'm your dorky badass, and I'm going to stay this way as long as I possibly can.

>>19082748

Some kind of robot jesus or something

>>19082748
Well, we had to go ahead and make this more uncomfortable.

"Hmm... maybe it's just adapting to the situation and how I act? I don't know, I wouldn't worry too much.
And about being different sometimes, I just adapt to the situation, you know? I can't act goofy when in combat zone where lives lives can be lost. That would be stupid. But outside of combat, man, I just can't act like a Hardass McFrownman, you know? I might be devastation machine on the outside, but inside I'm always your loveable goofball.
Isn't that alright?"

>>19082820
> I'm always your loveable goofball.
Loveable, NERDY goofball.

>>19082748
"I think... Something more than human, hopefully. But maybe less. Maybe my brain'll technically die, but I'll still be the Dave I am now in the Bullfrog. Maybe the Bullfrog will become its own living, thinking thing and shunt my personality out and attain its own. What's Dave and what's Bullfrog is.. In question, right now. It's a big existential question you've asked and I really have trouble thinking about it."

"I'm not sure." You say. "But. . it feels like my life started when I got the implant. Like everything before was just that- before. A prelude. I don't know what's going to happen. I can't."
You shake your head, then shrug. "I'm not very good at being introspective." You say.
"You can say that again." Amy said. "But that's fine, I don't need you to be."
She takes off your helmet, and then pulls you into a kiss.

>>19082877
This is the best reaction image I could find for this situation, clearly I need to expand my folder.

>>19082877

are there monitors around us right now.

If so :) goes in all monitors

>>19082877
Kiss her back, give her a proper hug with our arms, lets not bring the drites into this quite yet.

That's when something hits you in the back of the neck, and you see three darts hit Amy in the arm. Her eyes roll into the back of her head. Your turn back, your vision swaying. .

And you see the technician from before, who had been working with Mark. He's holding some kind of low-tech dart gun.
"Got them in a blind spot." You hear him say, as your vision blurs more strongly.

Everything goes dark.
>ROLL 1D100

rolled 66 = 66

>>19082963
FFFUUUUCCCKK YYYOOUUUUU DOOUBBLLEE AAGGEENNNTTT

rolled 99 = 99

>>19082963
NOOOOOO!

rolled 95 = 95

>>19082963

why god why.

>>19082963
NOOONE ROLLLS NOOOOOOOOOOOW!

>>19082981

>>19082963
Ok, tell the AI's to keep shit going, slave control of our drites and drones to them, try to keep vaguely awake enough that our AI's can keep on working through our spine, we don't need to control anything, just keep the bullfrog up and running.
>>19082981
I'm not rolling now.

>>19082963
<Magenta, take over the defense> if we pass out she can still direct our drites

>>19082978
>>19082981
>>19082992
I'll repeat myself, for posterity and because it's quite applicable to Dave's general sentiment here.

"FFFUUUUCCCKK YYYOOUUUUU DOOUBBLLEE AAGGEENNNTTT!"

Time to use our rage daily and Howling Strike on this motherfucker.

>66
>99
>Fuck it, you guys have like ALL THE BLESSINGS OF ALL THE CHAOS GODS.
Your head swims, and you feel something detach from your back- your mechandrites, some part of you says.
"Stay calm, Dave." Someone says. "We're with Resurgence. We're here to save the world."
"The drugs aren't keeping him out." Someone else says. You can't place the voice. "Not all the way."
"Give him more." A third voice says.
"If I give him more, his heart might stop." The second says.
"Dave, if you stay calm, we won't harm the girl." The first says.
"But if you struggle. . " The third adds.

>>19083031
Hack everything within range.
>use fate point.

rolled 6 = 6

>>19083031
FUCK YOU! I CALL THE POWER OF ALL DICEGODS! NOONE SHALL PASS ME OUT!

(little afraid of rolling)

did you just threaten her?

missile barrage!

>>19083031
Yah, let's use that fate roll to kill them all.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE ARE NOT PARANOID FOR ONE SECOND

>>19083031
Hell no, they are threatening Amy! Fuck them.
<Azure, guys, what's happening?>

>>19083043
Eh. No. No fate points yet.

rolled 25 = 25

>>19083047
It was a good pain.

>>19083047
Every time you roll you get less than a ten.
Stop rolling

rolled 70 = 70

>>19083031
You don't get to fucking touch her. We don't necessarily need contact with our suit and drites to manipulate them. Take them down. Try to keep at least one alive.

rolled 15 = 15

>>19083052
forgot roll

rolled 97 = 97

>>19083065
Third time is a charm. :D

>>19083031

you wont hurt her now but continue to use her as i destroy everything you tell me to huh? FUCK THAT! I have another offer you harm her and I promise I'll not just kill you but take a piece from each and everyone of you and process your bodies to make cat food for my cat!

>>19083074
Like I said. But if everything else fails, fate reroll.

>>19083067
>>19083052

No.
Stop. We don't even know where we are or who we could hit.

"Azure. Guys. What's happening?" You ask your bullfrog. But you're talking instead. That's strange.
<****...***.**..**..**> You hear someone's response, but it just sounds like squealing to you.

"He's talking in tongues." One of them say.

You close your eyes- didn't matter, you couldn't see anyway- and you will yourself to control one of your mechandrites.
"Fuck it, this thing is disconnected and still moving?!" Someone says.

"We can't risk it. Give him more before he kills us."

Something pierces into your neck, and then everything seems. . softer.

>>19083031
"Voices in my head. Multiple computer voices, in my head. 'Saving the world' nonsense. Oh fuck no. You're a bunch of filthy fucking Borg reject transhumanist extremists, aren't you? HA HA, NO, GET THE FUCK OUT, DO NOT PASS GO, DO NOT FUCK WITH ME, DO NOT FUCK WITH MY BRAIN, AND DEFINITELY DO NOT FUCK WITH MY FRIENDS! MY MECHANDRITE TENTACLES ARE THE TENTACLES THAT ARE GOING TO FUCK YOU IN THE ASS!"

Since we're, y'know, fully capable of controlling shit without being attached to it, and are quite attached to our mechandrites, I'd suggest we have them roll escape artist (+80 for being tentacles) and start violating orifices/making new ones to violate.

rolled 53 = 53

>>19083113
KILL

rolled 28 = 28

>>19083113
Rolling for Bullfrog to overpower the sedative

>>19083113
FATE REROLL! Kill them all.

rolled 52 = 52

>>19083116
SUPPORTING THIS.
FUCK THEM OVER.
ELSE I DEMAND A FATE REROLL.

rolled 58 = 58

With all these speeches being thrown around in a thousand angry voices, should we get a bonus to our will save?

rolled 25 = 25

>>19083134
REROLL!

rolled 49 = 49

>>19083146
Why do you keep rolling? You consistently roll below 30.

rolled 23 = 23

>>19083146
AND AGAIN. WE CAN'T DIE LIKE THIS.

rolled 37 = 37

Come on guise, this doesn't require Fate point..... yet

rolled 89 = 89

>>19083161
WE WILL NOT BE JUDGED BY OUR ACTS, MY BROTHER, BUT BY OUR FAITH.
AND BY FAITH, I STAY STRONG.

You dream, once again, of the beast
In your dream, however, you're not fighting with mechandrites and guns. You're no longer the whirling mechanical dervish of steel and monomolecular blades.

This time, you're all but naked- your back has a suspicious lack of the bullfrog, even. But you don't care. You collide with the beast, digging into it's flesh as it digs into you, rending claws tearing apart your skin. You bleed as you bite into the winged beast, digging your way into it. It almost starts to feel like. . clay. .

You dig yourself into the beast's skull, crawling through it's eye socket.

Inside of the beast's skull, instead of a brain, sat a chair. A chair very, very similar to the IDW.

>DO YOU SIT?
>[] YES
>[] NO

>>19083181
YES.

>>19083134
>>19083146
>>19083165
>stopposting.bmp.jpeg.gif.avi.type4bitmap

>>19083181
Taking control of the beast?
>[x] YES

rolled 25 = 25

>>19083181
IF EVEN, IT'S YES.
ELSE, NO!

>>19083181
Sit down, give it a shot.

>>19083181

all my yes

>>19083181
Fucking prophetic dreams. Either we're submitting to the force that is anthropomorphized as the dragon, or we're telling it to fuck off and taking control of its shit and riding the dragon. Do whatever will get us awake. We should know subconsciously how to fight the power.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-6ZiZ8d3Dc

Relevant.

>>19083200
Or maybe it will be the Beast that take control of us?

>>19083234
We are Dave. We are twisting metal, screeching gauss and controlled nuclear explosions. Our blood is plasma and our nerves are circuitry. Our mind is a quorum that we lead.

The Beast is not getting control of us.

>>19083181
IT'S A TRAP

>sorry for the delay
>pic is the post
>4chan thinks it's spam

>>19083280
<The fuck you mean my brain's burned out?!>

>>19083280
Azure, my brain isn't burned out until I say it is. Lets do this.

>>19083280
<What's the situation>

>>19083280
KILL THOSE FUCKERS.
I AM A MAN. I AM NOT A MACHINE.
AND I HAVE FREE WILL.
FUCK YOU RESURGENCY!

>>19083280
<Hell is calling! We cannot be denied; fly to the blackness of the storm!>

...

<WE MUST DIE TO BE REBORN.>

>>19083280

Is Amy safe? Where are we?

>>19083280
We can't die, we're a hero and heroes don't die when their maiden is in danger.

>>19083280
Hack everything in range. Maim everyone in range who isn't Amy. Make them wish they never even considered fucking with us.
>captcha: War chnxis
Hell yeah captcha it's war.

<The fuck you mean my brain's burned out?> You ask, pushing yourself off of the ground.
<Well. . most of it is> Azure responds. <It's still repathing itself like normal. . but there's absolutely zero activity right now. I'm. . fairly certain that as it is, you could be decapitated and nothing would change. A few hours ago, when they drugged you. . Everything burned out>
<What's the situation?> You ask.
<Those fuckers drugged you and that chick> Magenta said. <Then they dragged you away to a van. I'm suprised Talos didn't notice that you were unconscious. We were unable to signal anyone>

<You came to again in the van ride, and they had a discussion with you, calling themselves Resurgence. You asked me what was going on, but then fell asleep. A few moments after that, your brain went haywire and burned out. They dumped us in this room soon after> Azure said. <We're somewhere underground, but as for where, it's hard to tell.
<We're in the water treatment plant> Onyx said. <I have regained control of the gyroscope and it's artifact>
<Is Amy safe?> You ask.
<They left Amy where she was. I'd presume she's safe> Azure said.

rolled 25 = 25

>>19083384
Wait. They left her at EE?
That means she is probably dead.
KILLMAIMBURNKILLMAIMBURNKILLMAIMBURNKILLMAIMBURNKILLMAIMBURNKILLMAIMBURN

>>19083384
Prowl around the room, try to find a door. If we can find a door, we can kill them when they come to check on us. Old fashioned like, with our bare hands...

>>19083384
Try to speak. I am curious if we can still speak.
Our brain went haywire?
Great, now they can't kill us with anything else but a shot to the heart, and even then, they can't be sure.

FUCK THEIR SHIT.

>>19083384

status of weapons?
status of inventory?
status of connection to outside world and comms?

rolled 24 = 24

>>19083384
Well, who needs a brain, it always just got in the way.

Ok, we've got location, guys lets start hacking everything here and getting as much as we can about this Resurgence. Where is our armor?

Get our bearings about the room we're in.

>>19083384
<Do I have any ordinance on me?
Did they take my mechadrites?>

<Onyx, can you calculate where the took them and transport me there?>
We can ping for our drites and find them

<Hmm, does that mean I have transcended humanity? That's pretty cool. I guess my consciousness is in Bullfrog now and to kill me one would only achieve that by destroying it?>

>>19083384
<We're not dead yet. Oh, sure, some of my brain might be gone, but the Bullfrog is my brain as much as that pile of cerebral tissue is or was. So long as I have a brain, a body, and a will, there's a way. Now let's wreak havoc on these pigfuckers.>

<Status of weapons and inventory?>
<You're in your boxers.> Azure says.
<Connection to outside world and comms?>
<Both jammed.> Cyan said.

You look around the room- it's dark, very dark, and the walls are concrete. There's one iron door, but it's locked. . and doesn't have an electronic lock.

We must regain our equipment and then destroy resurgencey, no prisoners, no controlled response they're too dangerous to spare

rolled 98 = 98

>>19083466
do this >>19083431

Ping for our drites

>>19083466
Is there a window on the door?
If yes then teleport to the other side. If no then wait for someone to come in and teleport behind them.

>>19083466
Is there anyone on the hall?

>>19083466
<Either they're far more savvy than most of the assholes we've fought to design their security like this, or I may, in fact, have been wrong to call 'em transhumanist fuckheads, because they might be neoluddites. Either way these fuckheads are going to do awful things to the world if we don't stop them. So. We got a lockpick jammed up this fancy spine of ours?>

>>19083466
I'd rather not teleport just yet, get more info about our surroundings and what is around us. How much does the jamming do, it might block out long range stuff, but what about only trying to get the other side of a wall.

<Onyx, can you calculate where they took them and transport me there?>
<I'm working at it. . but I could be wrong. Ready any time.>
<Beam me up, scotty.>

You end up standing on top of a table, surrounded three men in leather jackets and wearing handkerchiefs on their faces. Your armor and equipment is locked in a nearby keypad chest, you can tell.
"What the fuck?!" One of them says. "He should be drugged up!"
The second one of them pulls up a glove, little more than cables and a power cell. He touches his fingers together, and sparks shoot from his hands. He tries to palmstrike you with it.

rolled 67 = 67

>>19083520
Hack it off, or even better make it zap himself if possible.

rolled 98 = 98

>>19083520
Dropkick-backflip his face. We might be bereft of our fancy toys, but we're still of an extremely enhanced mind and body, and have watched way too many kung fu exploitation films.

>>19083520

make the glove explode. why cause fuck him.

rolled 5 = 5

>>19083520
dodge it while yelling "not today motherfucker!"

>>19083520
>>19083536
>>19083535

don;t forget BULLET TIME

>>19083520
Dodge out of the way, make drites burst out of the chest and smash their fucking faces in.

rolled 91 = 91

>>19083545
Why you even roll?

You sidestep his palm and kicking him in the face, utilizing your enhanced reflexes. As you do so, you shove his palm at the second man, who takes the brunt of the electrical attack and goes down twitching.

The third draws his gun and starts to fire, but you kick his gun upwards and he just shoots at the ceiling instead.

So you headbutt him, and he goes down.