Long time no see!
where were you the past month or so? college finals?

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http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/21675712/

Jumping off directly from the previous thread, this is the conclusion of Cindy's Flashback. For new people, sorry to have such an unfriendly-to-newbs thread. Short version: It's actually more like 2160, the world is Fallout, but much, MUCH greener and without the 50s stuff, and there's a Skynet-like Machine Collective out to kill all the humans and enslave a bunch of leftover robots that have gained sentience and quirky personalities Wall-E style.

But right now, you're in the head of a personal-assistant bot named Cindy, who's owned by a 16-year-old punk rocker girl who uses you as a BFF. In the future, you're an adorably annoying shotgun ninja assisting a slightly-autistic janitor-bot on a quest to save Mexico (and possibly the world).

Here's your character sheet. Deal with it

>>Man, that recap got wacky.

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>>21969546
No, i'm graduated as of last year. Lost job, found job. Now working high-effort retail at a mall (hawking shit from a kiosk, but its not boring, and the money adds up). Thanksgiving. Dragged out to bars by friends. Meeting girls and then getting ignored by them.

Also, new development:

http://www.wadjeteyegames.com/primordia.html

Someone made an old-school adventure game called Primordia that I found hauntingly familiar. Check it out, its pretty cool. Its pretty much a "Simpsons did it."

>>21969764
Ah, general life stuff.
The game looks quite good just from the image.
But alas, I am currently on my PS3.

>>21969764
>Dragged out to bars by friends. Meeting girls and then getting ignored by them.

Somewhere out there is a Seraphim who identifies as male, and had this exact experience.

Well we'd better get on with it then. Don't want to be late for our kidnapping.

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>>The Time is 3:58 PM

The weather is unseasonably warm in the Motor City, or would be if it weren't for that whole global warming thing. A gaggle of bored high schoolers loiters around an empty lot at the edge of the "exclusion zone," across from a police precinct. Slightly apart from the rest are three figures sitting in the lee of a crumbling concrete pipe.

One is of somali decent with long curly hair tied back in a ponytail beneath a minimalist headscarf. Her name is Heja Alaan, and she talks about Final Fantasy a lot. The 2nd is a slim construct of metal and plastic with a pair of cooling-cables behind its head, wearing a purple skirt and skimpy t-shirt. The 3rd is a caucasian female named Zooey Martins with straight red hair and too many freckles to have high self-esteem. She loves animals a little TOO much.

>>21970001

Give Zooey the dick

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>>21970020
>>Lets be having with none of that, now.

Heja interrupts your story about a crazy-psycho lady at the mall last week to ask

"Hey, speaking of crazy, where's Rachel? There's a reason she sent you out here, right?"

>>the time is 4:01 PM

Given projected travel time, Rachel should have been here 10 minutes ago, even factoring in uncooperative traffic and shiny distractions.

>>21970001
Chat with the two of them about their interests. May as well pass the time somehow.

What's the ETA for Rachel? She needs to get her gloating in.

>>21970124

Slap that bitch

>>21970124
Hmm, this isn't right.

Give Rachel a call, see if she picks up. If not then do a quick check on the school via the internet to see if anything is going on there. If we can't get anything we might have to trace the path she would take to get here and see if we can't find her.

>>21970144
Don't slap anyone. It's a dumb idea.

>>21970165

Let me roll on it

>>21970124
We should call her. With the phone. And ask her what the holdup is. And then remove the holdup. With the shotgun. Which we don't have.

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>>21970130
>>21970165
>>Calling Revengeance989
...
...
>>Sorry, you call cannot be completed at this time.

>>Accessing PS1-18 site...
Fuck, this place is fucking slow. you swear, this web page must have been bade in 2032 or something.

No, nothing untoward. The live camera feeds of the school's front are conspicuously lacking rioting and fires.

>>Intelligence+Computers to sleuth Rachel's status via tech

Rolled 7, 3, 4, 3, 9 = 26

>>21970274
Trying to sleuth without the proper hat is just asking for disaster.

>>21970274

Self-destruct

Rolled 5, 7, 1, 6, 4 = 23

>>21970274

>>21970312

According to Facebook, her last status update was

"Science was Fun. Mitosis and Meiosis. Was hungry, and went to lunch. Then remembered what school lunch is like. Now I'm sad."

Google maps tracks the path of her phone from the school to a roundabout route towards the meetup zone, but then cuts out 10 minutes ago. You have the point of lost contact marked.

You try calling again.

>>We are sorry, your call cannot be comple-

fucking computers.

>>21970401

hack facebook

>>21970401
Let's get to the point of lost contact.

It's the future, there's going to be webcams everywhere, maybe we can get the footage of the ones around that area and track her movements for the past 10 minutes.

>>21970401
Wasn't there a Hound nearby? They're good at tracking stuff.

>>21970401
yesterday hoboquest, today lost future quest is back. life is good.

Lets tell her friends whats happening and ask if they want to just go get her manually if she doesnt show soon

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>>21970434
You get up to leave, striding quickly towards the point you've tagged. Its only a few blocks.

The webcam thing proves a little bit difficult; this is Dretroit, so its not nearly as futuristic as the rest of the country, which, aside from the robots, isn't as futuristic as one would expect, what with several successive economic downturns and all. Most of them are blocked, with all the public ones having been vandalized.

BUT, you do find a public one on the website of a Shawarma Shack that offers a view of the street outside. Its...crowded. There's no audio feed, but you see a person shouting.

Behind you, an african-accented voice calls out. "HEY! Cindy? What's the deal? Is...[to Zooey] is she glitching out or something?"

You speak without looking back.

"Rachel's off the grid. I think something is wrong. I'm finding her."

>>21970478
>>There's a DetroitPD Doc Smartgunner guarding the precinct across the street.

Attack the policebot

>>21970573
Ignore this guy.

>>21970557
Let's get going, Rachel dropping off the grid like this is weird as hell.

>>21970573
Assault it with questions and get it to help.

>>21970631
>>21970557
With worried looks of trepidation, the pair follow in your wake. Heja has her tech out, tapping at the square of transparent glass covered in flickering images of news feeds and social media.

"...I think there's something going on over by...the 67th street mosque?"

>>Talking to the policebot isn't a terrible idea. Anyone seconding?

>>21970733

Talk to him condescendingly

>>21970733
Talking to it could be good. It might be patched into various security and police feeds that'll let it know if anything is going on over there. Ask the police-bot politely if it knows anything about the area where Rachel disappeared and the 67th street mosque problems.

>>21970764
No, bad, no condescension.

>>21970783
I think o-[||||]-o is intelligent enough to ignore him without you needing to respond every single time he posts a stupid idea.

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>>21970733
The normally-scant city streets are filling up a bit as you near Rachel's last known position. Most of the people appear african or middle-eastern in origin, and you see many are holding signs. A whole gaggle of women are done up in the all-black full-body-covering arch-conservative garb that went out of fashion decades ago in SAUDI ARABIA.

>>21970783
Approaching the Doc Smartgunner results in a brief moment of panic, as it initially suspects the three of you of being CRIMINAL SCUM and raises the bullpup assault rifle to firing position. But, experience overrides reflex, and it lowers the weapon to an at-ease position.

"Greetings Citizens. Do you have a crime to report, or do you require directions?"

>>21970834
>>Lets not be mean, now

>>21970911
"I was wondering if you heard anything about what was going on at the 67th street mosque."

>>21970911
>Lets not be mean, now
Are... are you suggesting that the person giving ridiculous commands like "give her the dick", "self-destruct" and "attack the policebot" every single update is actually just really really stupid and not a troll? Because I think that's meaner to him than I'm being.

>>21970911
"My owner, Rachel, was last seen near the 67th street mosque. Can you help me locate her?"

>>21970986

Just trying to have some fun

>Rulefags

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>>21970911
Zooey flinches visibly and cowers behind Heja, who's had guns pointed at her before. You ignore the misunderstanding.

This is awkward. You're not all that good at talking to other robots.

"Is there something going on on 67th street...officer?"

It has a badge with an ID number, so its technically an officer, in addition to being equipment. It responds, raising its old-looking camera head to its highest setting.

"Normal city life is continuing in all districts, Citizens. There is nothing to..."

It trails off, a green data LED flashing on its shoulder. You continue.

"My owner went off the grid in that area, and maybe you could help us find her?"

Abruptly, it speaks again.

"There appears to be a large number of citizens exercising their right to free speech in that area. However, an information blackout has not been authorized."

It speaks into a reliable, conventional radio strapped to its chest.

"Possible unrest in progress on 67th and Becker. Officer investigating on foot. Also, possible Missing Person's case, pending official 24-hour lapse."

>>21970986
>>No, but lets not be mean to the guy who's telling him to shut up. We can simply ignore the troll. At least he's reading the thread.

>>21971103
Aw yeah, not-Hoss acquired!

It would be really funny if this Doc really is Hoss.

>>21971103
"Thank you. I'm going to go and investigate, I'm pretty worried about her. Could you come along?"

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>>21971103
It begins walking calmly but quickly in the direction you indicated, as you notice several police cruisers also leaving the station. Zooey and Heja follow you as the streets become more packed. In the distance, you can hear shouting.

>>Any more questions for Officer 8539?

>>21971185
>>Not possible. Hoss was attached to the Texas Rangers. But I'm starting to like this guy, who I will now call as ASOTIL.

>>21971245
Ask the Officer if the Police frequencies or if any other source of information he has can give us more details on what exactly is going on there, what could have happened to Rachel.

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>>21971185
MFW

>>21971281
The robot looks at you pointedly, but that's how its "face" always looks.

"In This Officer's Experience, Citizens Exercising Their Right To Free Speech Sometimes Lapse Into Riotous Behavior, Which Would Unquestionably Be Disturbing The Peace, And Thus An Actionable Offense."

Where other individuals would use capitals to describe concepts like "disturbing the peace" or "making an affray," this guy just capitalizes everything in the same style.

You are now nearing the mosque, a perfectly modest building that also incorporates a community center. Some bits of it are scarred with graffiti, much of it pointedly depicting a guy in a turban when it isn't just xenophobic slurs.

Your movement would be impeded, except for the armed combat robot striding foreward fearlessly in front of you.

>>Roll Wits+Socialize to analyze the crowd.

Rolled 1, 2, 3, 6, 9 = 21

>>21971422
Read that crowd like the Social Shotgun Ninja we will become.

Rolled 10, 10, 4, 2, 3 = 29

>>21971422
who we looking at?

Rolled 6, 1, 10, 10, 6 = 33

>>21971422
Rollan. Good to see you posting again.

>>21971512
>>21971572
>>21971506
>>Lot of 10s.

>>Running crowdreader.exe v4.9
Based off the Facebook and Myspace (it bounced back) information you grab from the faces in the crowd, and the signs that they're waving, and a sketchy translation of the chanting, this is...kind of a clusterfuck. The crowd is a mix of arabic, african, and caucasian.

As near as you can make out, there's a bloc of young people wearing thrift-store dress who seem to be demanding greater public attention to the plight of the immegrant poor. An end to ghettoization and so forth. Of them, there's a big chunk of women who alternate between skimpy club clothing, respectable dress, and the crazy all-black haz-mat suit, who are particularly bothered over women's rights and the handling of domestic issues.

There's also a...slightly larger bloc of mostly men, most of them wearing beards, with their signs and chants in farsi or arabic.

A bearded man near you shouts out something like "You dishonor your heritage!" There's also a lot of yells to the effect of calling people apostates.

>>21971715
Ah, the classic example of a religion still in it's middle ages while the rest of the world got civilized.

>>21971715
Uh, lets make sure we stick close to the cops.

>>21971757
It's been implied the apocalypse started over a religious war, which segued into the humans vs machines war.

>>21971715

Convert to his religion

>>21971715
The bearded bloc's signs are...less uplifting.

Zooey's eyes are wide.

"Shit. Not another one of these. What did Hakeem say now?"

Heja attempts to look unobtrusive, hoping that her headscarf will technically suffice.

>>Roll Intelligence+Politics (so, intelligence). Because you have an internet connection, you may make the roll untrained without the -3 penalty.

>>21971757
>>Not quite that terrible. This is less about religion and more about cultural clashes with the religion still being a huge weight around everyone's neck.

Rolled 7, 9, 5 = 21

Welp. Time to fail.

Rolled 9, 6, 1 = 16

>>21971812
Rolling.

Rolled 10, 10, 7 = 27

>>21971812
Rollan

I'm shocked at our lack of failing so far.

>>21971919
Cindy has traditionally always been successful with her rolls. Remember how she bluffed the fuck outta those Resistance goons?

Plus we're not Clarke, and valves aren't involved.

>>21971778
More officers are arriving around the edges, but seem to be holding off. A young, handsome african man seems to have found a microphone.

"CAN YOU SEE US NOW? WE ARE NOT SOME SILENT FRINGE READY TO ROLL OVER AND ACCEPT YOUR TYRANNY! WE ARE HERE, WE ARE SPEAKING, AND IN THIS PLACE, WE CANNOT BE SILENCED!"

>>21971829
>>21971830
>>21971852
>>Unfailed. Neat.
Rachel's interest in politics is near-nil, and therefore, so is you own. However, you've picked up a bit here and there. The long and the short of it is that Detroit owes a lot of its population to immigration from countries that didn't get through the Arab Spring in once piece. For every country that improved, another one had a civil war or elected an islamofascist regime and then had a civil war to overthrow the elected regime. And, cooped up in their own Muslimtowns, all the worst parts of the culture festered.

Now, there's a big chunk of the city's elected officials that owe their position to being hardline islamists. Elsewhere in the country, this didn't happen quite as badly, and the immigrant populations are flourishing (they're doing better than lots of the native people, as it happens). But thats because they were properly integrated. No one gives a shit about detroit.

It seems that those members of these communities who DON'T live in an imaginary stone-age are fed up with being ordered around by crusty old bearded men. Particularly the women, who are pissed that they're more oppressed HERE than they would be back in their countries of origin.

Or so you gather.

>>21971976
Ok, so with this going on, we need to find Rachel. Last contact was somewhere around here, so let's see if we can't ask some bystander watching this mess if they've seen her.

>>21971976
>No one gives a shit about detroit.
Well fuck you too man ;_;

>>21972067
But it's true.

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>>21971976
Oh, great. You also notice a growing knot of bald white guys who's myspace pages are covered in...Aquilas. Shit. This isn't all one-sided; the local americans aren't helping matters one bit, providing a boogeyman for the Islamists to whine about.

ASOTIL raises a manipulator to you.

"Please Remain Calm, Citizen. Your Fellow Citizens are Legally Exercising Their Right To Free Speech...For The Moment."

The internet in this area seems to be down. No 5g. No 3g. No local wifi. ASOTIL's radio continues to squeak, though.

"Officers in position, ready with the gear. best to not exaccerbate things...it means 'to make things worse,' Scott."

>>Roll Presence+Socialize to search for Rachel.

>>21972067
>>Dude, on Halloween, kids randomly light abandoned buildings on fire for kicks,because there's no one living in them. Bottlecaps are a 2nd currency. There are no shits to give.

>>21972092
>Bottlecaps are a 2nd currency.
Fuckin...wat?
I can't disagree with the building fires...man sometimes it hurts to be from Michigan.

>>21971976
>For every country that improved, another one had a civil war or elected an islamofascist regime and then had a civil war to overthrow the elected regime.

The phrasing made me chuckle. Pretty sure it wont be true, but maybe this is some sort of alternate future where everything went horribly wrong(er).

Rolled 9, 2, 5, 9, 9 = 34

>>21972092
Socialise for searching?

>>21972164
son i am proud

Hey, if someone rolls three sevens at some point, does that mean we get a bonus roll?

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>>21972125
>>Bottlecaps...like in Fallout? Because its a postapocalyptic wasteland? Anyways, I've been to the Upper Peninsula. I like it way more there; LOVE the terrain.

>>21972164
>>Asking around. Its like Gather Information, cha-based.

"Hey, did you see a young woman around here, caucasian, tall, with brown hair and a red jacket?"

"Fuck off, toast...er...oh, uh, no." the man notices your garb and manner, and reflexive politeness kicks in.

"I haven't seen anyone like that. I'm sorry. uh...Shakeel!"

A young man with glasses and a gigantic beard stops shouting briefly to ask "what?"

"Did you see an american girl with a red jacket?"

"Who's asking?"

"The robot. She...it...is looking for someone."

Shakeel looks you up and down. "Shouldn't it be wearing a headscarf?"

"I don't think that applies, Shakeel. She's not muslim, for one thing."

You interject "I actually think they're kind of cool, I was considering getting one."

>>21972245
Now I want to know how a system using slot machines as RNG would work. Apart from being very expensive.

>>21972324
>Bottlecaps...like in Fallout?
Haaaa.
Yeah the UP is pretty legit. Marquette is a really nice place. Detroit isn't THAT bad though...I've been to worse. Like just about anywhere in Ohio.

Also...are we getting a headscarf now? I dunno bout this...it could lead to some big misunderstandings.

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>>21972324
This leaves the pair absolutely baffled, and they seem to have forgotten what they were yelling about.

"But its definitely not modestly dressed."

"Shakeel, I told you, modestly dressed just means being covered neck to knees. You think any skin at all counts as impropriety. Stop being suck a dick. The scarf thing is only implied, anyways."

"But its not dressed like that, anyways. And the Quran says-"

"Nothing about machines, because it was written a thousand years ago."

"Sometimes I wonder why you even come to these things, Mohammed."

"So there's someone around to tell you when you're being an ass. Also, I think that their showboating is shameful."
He gestures at the women waving the placards in various states of dress.
"And punching skinheads is always fun."
>>I seem to have been distracted by a comedy routine. One moment.

>>21972472
Cindy is definitely not showing any skin. She doesn't have any.

But yeah they've said they don't know where she is so we should probably leave them to their argument and ask somebody else.

>>21972472
A small knot of people has gathered around the conversation, and your own suggestions based on a quick check of Google Docs to find a translation of the book they're discussing. Its a bit garbled, but you've got the gist of the theology. Half the people here don't, however.

"But the five pillars would just as easily apply to a machine of sufficient..."

"Hey." Another man joins the argument. "What are we talking about?"

"Existentialism. Oh, and did you see an american girl with a red jacket near here?"

The man pauses to think.

"Yes."

You leap up to him, clutching your manipulators together in excitement

"OhmygodWHERE?"

The man leans back, startled, and points. "over there, among the misguided youth and the harlots. I remember because she looked confused."

>>21972551
"Thanks! Peace and love over fire and brimstone and all that!"

Time to find Rachel now that we've got a general area to search, then.

>>21972551
>>21972593
Let's have ASOTIL tag along, too.

>>21972691
That could go really well or really bad regardless of if we bring him or not.
"Misguided youth and harlots" usually hate any form of police authority.

>>21972593
Heja and Zooey appear flabberghasted at what you manged. A knot of distracted argument appears to be spreading throughout the hardliner group, leaving only the terminally uneducated (of which there are plenty) to keep shouting.

With even more trepidation, they follow you through the thick crowd towards the chanting women.

More shouting
"Down With Councilor Hakeem!"

"Protect Our Religion! Keep it OUT of public Life!"

"Reject Those Who Befoul Islam with Hate!"

>>Roll Wits+Composure (+2 for the extra pairs of eyes)

ASOTIL appears to be following you, its duty to protect vulnerable citizens ovveriding other directives.

"Thank You For Protesting Peacefully, Citizen."

"Peace Be Upon You, Citizen"

"ERROR: ETHNIC SPECIFIC GREETING NOT FOUND."

Rolled 4, 1, 1, 9, 5, 6 = 26

>>21972717
Let's find Rachel.

>>21972691
This acronym keeps making me think of Aristotle.

Also, is anyone else seeing random strikeouts happening in greentext?

Rolled 3, 10, 8, 3, 7, 6 = 37

>>21972717
Rollan

Rolled 9, 3, 1, 10, 9, 8 = 40

>>21972717
Rollan!

Rolled 9, 5, 2, 2, 9, 5 = 32

>>21972717
Can we keep an ear (or the synthetic equivalent) to what's going on with the hardliners while we search?

>>21972735
Yeah. Shit's weird.

Rolled 3, 7, 7, 6, 8, 4 = 35

>>21972717
Some pretty low rolls here...

>>21972812
They look slightly above average to me.

>>21972735
>>I am too. No idea why

Rachel proves difficult to find amid the throng, where she doesn't stand out as much as she would among the stodgy hardliners. As you approach, you can see the Aquila-toting group becoming more agitated.

A striking arab woman (obviously very cold) wearing a one-piece bathing suit hands you a pamphlet itemizing various assaults and horrible domestic happenings, including a few genuine honor killings, that were nearly un-investigated by the police, and claiming that they're to do with the civil authority being intimidated into looking the other way. You say thank you, and move on.

Someone else is handing out codes for e-access to secular humanist literature along with torrents of audiobooks. Apparently, God Is Not Great picked up a lot of popularity after a few decades thanks to the snappy writing style.

>>I really, really miss Christopher Hitchens, and kind of hope he'll still be remembered in the future.

Rachel appears to be very well-hidden amidst the crowd. The hardliners themselves seem to be simply turning up to show the flag, as it were.

ASOTIL speaks into its radio

"Unknown Perpetrator Appears To Be Utilizing An Illegal Milti-Spectrum Jamming Device. Requesting Cyberwarfare Division Track Signal Location. Situation Is Currently Under Control."

Your WiFi connection craps out, then pops up again. You must be on the edge of something.

>>21972879
Well that explains why we couldn't call Rachel. She must be somewhere in the radius of this thing.

Try to get some height above the crowd so we can look for Rachel better.

Rolled 5, 10, 10, 5, 9, 6 = 45

>>21972879
We know she's in there.
like
>>21972911
said height would be good but I don't know if we have the time. This just screams "Cops are going to shut this shit down. Forcibly." at me.

>>21972940
ignore that roll by the way...

Rolled 10, 1, 8, 5, 9, 2 = 35

>>21972879
Keep searching and figure out the deal with the national socialists. Are they militarists or those weird-ass nonmilitant sort of nazis who want to deport everyone to their ethnic places of origin? I'm guessing the former, but no reason not to be thorough in investigating this possible dustup.

>>21972879
More young people, students by the look of them, get going on another chant, this one damn near shaking the pavement beneath your feet with its enthusiasm. Your facial recognition software has trouble keeping up with the vast sea of shouting, impassioned people.

>>Roll a Wits+Computer test.

Heja sighs. "They should just get out and leave the crazies to it. They're choosing to wall themselves up in their own little world."

Zooey isn't nearly has socially conscious as Heja, and just looks terrified.

>>21972911
There is a raised thingy nearby, a chunk of civic architecture bearing a statue of an armored man holding a gun. You clamber up on to it, pausing to note the bronze plaque bearing the words

"Your Move, Creep."

Once slightly higher than the surrounding crowd, you see that...yeah, the national socialists are the militant types. There's a few signs talking about deportation, but you catch sight of a baseball bat or two, and some gigantic NRA tattoos.

Rolled 8, 9, 6, 8, 2, 6 = 39

>>21973014
Rollan

Rolled 5, 7, 9, 8, 4, 3 = 36

>>21973014
rolling

Rolled 4, 7, 8, 2, 2 = 23

>>21973014
Take a moment to be inspired by Robocop and imagine a crossover teamup with Judge Dredd as they lay down THE LAW.

Rolled 8, 6, 8, 7, 1, 2 = 32

>>21973064
YOU BETRAYED THE LAW.

Rolled 4, 10, 5, 8, 1, 8 = 36

>>21973084
guys stop failing

Rolled 7, 3, 4, 8, 2, 9 = 33

>>21973092
I'm trying ;_;

Rolled 5, 9, 6, 5, 6, 6 = 37

>>21973100
We're doomed.

>>21973014
>>21973054
>>21973064
>>Perhaps one day, you too can have titanium armor.

Your WiFi connection cuts back in, and you get a sudden blast of Myspace data from the secular crowd's faces. Most of it flows in one input and out the other, but one face sticks out.

>>Mahmout Kessad. Member of the New Free Syrian Brotherhood facebook group, subscriber to Jihadist Monthly, huge fan of Skacore and Jazz, amateur trumpet player, high school dropout, twelve previous arrests for disorderly conduct...

Continuing to search, you see...a flash of light brown and red, over on the other side of the plaza. Traffic is backed up, and Rachel appears to be fighting through the crowd, shaking her phone and raising it into the air, seeking a signal. A man hands her a pamphlet, and, distracted, she starts reading it. You see her face turn red, and she starts yelling at the nearest person, a woman wearing a stylish headscarf, who yells back in shared outrage.

>>21973134
Oh fuck. Oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck. Get to Rachel. Now. Bring Rachel and her friends along with you. Drag them if need be. Get them the fuck out of there.

Get to her. NOW. We need to get her out of here before this gets bad.

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>>21973134
>>21973158
>>21973171
You shriek with relief and, waving your arms, rush over to Rachel, her friends following you. ASOTIL remains near the statue, surveying the crowd and maintaining order. You see other cops, here and there, mostly human with a few heavy plodding robots kitted out with riot gear. There seems to be an undue ammount of vitrol directed at the cops, but ASOTIL isn't catching much himself.

Rachel looks up in shock when you reach her, and is even more shocked when you slam into her modest chest, wrapping your arms around her in a tight embrace. Behind you, Zooey and Heja see her "face take on a "welp" expression, then she slowly pries you off.

"What the hell are you guys doing here? I was TRYING to get to the usual place, but then there were PEOPLE everywhere, and there was no signal, and...did you READ this? its INFURIATING. Also, are those dudes over there like, HUGE 40K fans or something? They're all covered in two-headed eagles."

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>>21973244
You reply hurriedly
"Yeah no its really bad and I'm so gladifoundyoubutwereallyneedtoleavelikenow!"

Heja glowers at you both. "They're neo-nazis, Rachel. That's a BAD thing. They're like the Zerith nationalists in Final Fantasy XXII, remember Cid's big lecture about them?"

"OhmyGOD, Heja, you KNOW I didn't play that game. It's 40 fucking hours long. Hold on, I'm kind of pissed off on their behaf now. We should-"

>>21973244
>>21973275
Calmly tell her that we all need to go. Now. Get them away from the area as quickly as possible.
Do NOT lose them in the crowd I swear to god.
Get the FUCK out of there.

>>21973244
"Rachel! Didn't you pay attention in history?! That's the national socialist aquila! As in nazis! As in half of the Imperium's inspiration! AS IN BAD! JEEZE!"

Let's bug out of here. This cannot end well for anyone involved.

>>21973134
Before we move to leave, send ASOTIL what we managed to find on that scary Jihadist Monthly dude. Definite Person Of Interest and Possible Aided Spontaneous Human Cumbustion Candidate.

>>21973293
Agreed. That is certainly second priority though.
First and main priority is getting Rachel and her friends out of harms way safely.

>>21973293
>Aided Spontaneous Human Cumbustion Candidate
I'm using this. Somehow, I will find a way to say this in conversation.

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>>21973275

>>21973289

>>21973293
>>Message Sent
"You KNOW that's my worst subject. and I didn't see any swastikas or whatever. Did you HEAR the horseshit that's being spouted over there by the bearded guys? Its like they think that everyone here should just roll over and cave to their stupid demands. Its-"

There's a crack behind you, and then the screaming starts.

>>21973370
same plan as
>>21973288
DO NOT LOSE THEM IN THE GOD DAMN PANIC.

>>21973370
Precisely what happened is unclear, but the crowd is going absolutely crazy. Hipsters are ducking and running, quickly leaving a clear spot around a young man lying on the asphalt, blood slowly welling from a gash on his head. ASOTIL has a large-caliber handgun raised in strange mimicry of the armored statue.

Seeing a weak target, the skinheads charge foreward, shouting something about protecting the city from terrorists. Baseball bats are raised, and they're heading...right for your gaggle of motley-dressed protesting women..

>>Make suggestions. Also, Roll Resolve+Composure

>>21973370
Get them out of there, tell them to keep their heads down and make our way in the general direction of anywhere but here.

Rolled 6, 10, 6, 10, 6, 3 = 41

>>21973424
Rolling.
Cheese for the dice gods.

>>21973456
It seems this month the dice gods demand cheese. Around this time last year, it was bacon.

Rolled 7, 8, 8, 4, 9, 9 = 45

>>21973468
Everyone likes cheese. Also salami.

Rolled 3, 7, 4, 2, 3, 7 = 26

>>21973468
I first noticed this in the god game. They seemed intent on filling the world with cheese golems and deserts

>>21973425
>>21973424
"We should keep our heads down and-ohshit"

>>Incoming half-brick. Take 1 bashing damage from a chunk of masonry hitting your chassis.
>>21973456
>>On the plus side, thanks to quick reactions, you now have a half-brick. Also, you're not having an error-filled freakout.

Yanking hard on Rachel's arm, you manage to drag the entire group towards the nearest exist, which is now packed with surging crowds trying to GET OUT.

A pale, brick shithouse of a man with a bad beard and worse hygene turns up at the head of the neo-nazi pack, hefting a baseball bat as he screams something about mud whores. Next to him is a skinny, well-muscled young man bearing a large staghorn jackknife.

>.WAT DO?

Rolled 10, 10, 4, 6, 4, 10 = 44

>>21973503
That exit is going to be blocked. We need to locate an alternative path. A back ally maybe. Just something away from the main exit.

>>21973503
Keep between Rachel and armed thugs. AT ALL TIMES.

>>21973525
I think the dice decided they want us to escape unharmed now.

>>21973525
Also I was rolling to spot an alternate exit possibly...

>>21973525
>>Holy fuck tripple 10s.

Yanking on Rachel's arm hard enough to make her yelp, you pull up google maps and locate an alleyway currently blocked by a dumpster that's emminently climbable, and begin steering your group towards it. Zooey and Heja following behind, Zooey cluchting the other girl in horror.

The skinny jackknife wielder proves faster than his giant companion, and lunges, grinning, at the four of you. The knife is going straight at Rachel, and you move to interpose yourself, and...


Heja interposes herself between you and the knife, raising her arm to block the attack. The knife stabs into her hand and wrist, tearing at the flesh.

>>21973612
She's going to be fine, that's her augmetic arm, I hope.

>>21973612
And leaves her completely unfazed. Her fingers close around the knife, and she brings her leg up, winding it back for a mighty swing that connects squarely with the man's crotch.

Rolled 10, 10, 5, 2, 4, 8 = 39

>>21973612
ROLLING TO USE BRICK OF JUSTICE ON ANY MENACING FOE THAT COMES CLOSE TO US AGAIN.

SPICE FOR THE SPICE GODS

>>21973638
As you scramble up over the dumpster, you see that the Neo Nazi charge has been stopped in its tracks by...the bearded islamists, who have begun laying into them with fist and boot. Because as bad as stodgy patriarchal arch-conservative islam is, most of them are still human beings underneath.

Unlike the nazis.

The brick shithouse baseball-bat-wielder is about to get off a lucky swing, but is distracted by a brick chucked inexpertly with feeble stick-arms, and is quickly covered in a dogpile of angry men.

>>21973682
On the other side of the dumpster, Heja fiddles with her arm. You can see that the chocolate flesh has been shredded badly in places, and two of her fingers are curled up feebly like a dead spider's legs.

"Shit...its all torn up. Also, my foot hurts."

Zooey still hasn't caught up to recent events, but Rachel appears releived and exhilarated.

"Wow. That was AWESOME. Especially the way you destroyed his junk."

She blinks.

"We almost kind of died, didn't we?"

>>21973719
You check google maps again and plot an escape route.

"That is possible. We should finish leaving now."

A moltov cocktail flies over the dumpster and impacts the building wall above you. Cheap vodka goes everywhere, but fails to ignite, as the flaming rag slowly drifts to the ground.

>>21973719
"That pretty much covers it. But we're safe now, we should keep on moving and get some distance, we can panic once we're out of here."

Rolled 2, 4, 8, 2, 2, 8 = 26

>>21973735
All aboard the nope train to fuckthatville.

lets bounce

Rolled 1, 1, 4, 1, 3, 8 = 18

>>21973735
Well we've clearly been noticed. Run.

Rolled 1, 4, 2, 8, 1, 1 = 17

>>21973762
>>21973763
These shit ass rolls holy shit.

>>21973762
i always forget to clear my damned email field

Rolled 2, 3, 9, 4, 5, 6 = 29

>>21973769
And you're one to talk.

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"What began as a peaceful protest turned bloody today as several competing gangs clashed outside a local community center. Police quickly intervened and restored order, but not before several people were greviously injured. two are dead, with three more in critical condition. The numbers of wounded are still coming in."

"The DPD reports that one of its autonomous artificial officers was on the scene when fighting broke out. The machine was badly damaged in the attack, but a DPD spokesman reported that its drive has been safely recovered and will be reinstated pending investigation."

"More disturbing was that one of the fatalities was found with a small explosive device, unactivated, strapped to his chest. The man, who's identity has not yet been revealed, died of a gunshot wound to the head, apparently deleivered by the AAO. When questioned, the DPD spokesman said that should this prove to be the case, the machine would be considered 'an asset to the force, and the city,' and expressed regret that-"

>>chzzzzzzz

"Community leaders have appealed for calm. Reports of so-called Neo-Nazi agitators at the rally have so far been unconfirmed, but-"

>>chzzzzzzz

"-at happened today is just another sign that things here are at the breaking point. too many problems were pushed back for too long. This is what procrastination reaps, people."

>>21973896
Good job team! We stopped a suicide bomber!

>>21973921
Plus, we might have sparked a bit of rationality in the hyperconservatives by throwing them for a loop, killing a terrorist affiliated with them (that should get their heads straight) AND a neonazi group is going to be severely discredited. Booya!

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Thread archived here

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/21969458/

If its not crass of me to say, remember to upvote.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Lost%20Future

So, I recently came across Prequel (or, Adventures in Making a Cat Cry). Its pretty good.
http://www.prequeladventure.com/this/KatiaDrinkUp.html

I also recently watched Looper. Also pretty good. Gave me ideas for a shitty depressed future.

Just sharing random shit.

I might have to call it for tonight, but I'll keep the thread going and hopefully finish up on tuesday. Glad to have everyone here.

>>21974049
I'm also absurdly proud that I managed to work in the Robotcop statue joke.

Which for those of you who don't know, is totally a real thing

http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-reasons-detroit-must-build-statue-robocop/

>>21974071
I distinctly remember when there was the kickstarter fund to get the damn thing built. Statues are expensive!

>>21974085
>The city of Detroit puts up a Kickstarter to try and pay off their debt to OCP

>>21974377
>Lesbot fun times with Cindy and Envoy

Not sure if want.

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>>21974388
Bloody thing was turned sideways...

>>21974388
I do hope I made it creepy enough. I was kind of going for a

"uuuuuhhhh, could you move your hands?"
"No, they're fine where they are."
"oooookkkaaaayyyy..."

vibe.

>>21974423
>Activating sexual harassment countermeasures.

>>21974423
This picture is missing one thing, Clarke performing a DYNAMIC ENTRY bending suplex on Envoy. Because you know that is exactly what is going to happen when she shows up.

>>21974452
>mfw this is the ending of Lost Future Quest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFtw7qW7Vcw

>>21974423
>Wait, Killer legs, you say?
Yeah. With blades in them and everything.
>...Oh.

She's so disappointed.

Also, Envoy has creepy skeleton hands.

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>>21974423
>>21974474
Envoy looks like a happy Sanakan.

>>21974423
>Something...softer. With killer legs.

Shit, Cindy's going to get offered a human-looking body? That's, like, weapons-grade temptanium for her.

whens the next time we'll get a chance for some shell mods? I really want to upgrade our comm system from these simple radios, and maybe a few manipulator attachments, like a plasma cutter and soldering iron. Would certainly make fixing things easier.

Cindy could also a sturdier frame and larger servomotors. Apparently personal assistant droids weren't built for armed combat.

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>>21974583
I know, right? Its like no one equipped innocuous domestic robots with steel-girder-crushing strength.

We've got the big nexus thing now, maybe that could be a central relay for our comms.

I could imagine a small plasma cutter underslung on Clarke's wrist, or something.

>>21974543
Now I'm wondering what Clarke and co would look like as humans.

>>21974630
What kind of personal assistant cant snap a mans neck with its bare hands? Honestly these robotics manufacturers put no thought into the application of their machines in the work environment.

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>>21974630
Clarke would be this guy, and he is going to wrench your ass if he hears the word "valve" one more goddamn time.

>>21974630
Hmm.

I think Clarke would be a tall gangly guy with some rather impressive muscles. He probably wear beat up functional clothing most of the time, have a pile of tools on him, is usually splattered in grease and machine oil, and I think he'd often have a cigarette dangling from his mouth and a slightly dour expression.

Cindy would look like a punk party girl.

Quinn would be a doctor with a 1000 yard stare.

Hoss would look like a sheriff and have a rather angular lean face.

Hound would be shortish thing guy with a manic grin who laughed at inappropriate times and plays with his knives too much.

>>21974794

I have never really understood this humanization thing. Why do people draw non human characters as humans anyways?

>>21975321
Well this obviously wouldn't work as a whole if Clarke wasn't a robot who didn't really look like a human, so he can't just be human.

But we're very good as ascribing emotion, personality, and son to to human faces and expressions. So that's pretty much why.

It can make the character easier to identify with or get your mental picture of what they are like across in a different way than a picture of what they actually look like.

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Ah, Lost Future quest.
Here, have this robot.

"I am here to liberate you from your material wealth....Yarrr!"

Bump

bumb

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>>21974049
So when is Tuesday? It's Tuesday now in some places. It won't be American Tuesday for a while. If you mean American Tuesday evening that's not happening for ages and ages.

Page 10 bump.

Bump so it lives till Tuesday.

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bumping just in case. I'm paranoid.

late night bump

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Doing my part in keeping this alive.

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So, bumping with actual content.

I've talked it over with some friends, and decided that I'm going to write up a quasi-formal short rulebook, using the nWoD rules, for Machine characters. Compared to all other systems out there, I think nWoD would work the best, since I'm tired of the D20 glut and FF's 40K is too spergy and complicated, especially to mod. Intended to be quasi-balanced with vanilla human WoD.

Do any post-apoc-focused WoD setting books exist? That'd be a good starting point for things like new merits and gear.

Anyways, I'm still working out character creation rules. Preliminary ideas: Instead of having every shell type statted out, there's general archetypes to pick (Archive, Persona, Scout, and so on) from, like Clans, and each one has certain favored stats and favored "applications." Applications are powersets like Overcharge, Overclock, Technopath, Hardening, Stealth, and so forth.

Final selection is Manufacture (Civilian, Military, Industrial), that further focuses your character on certain skills, or makes merits cheaper. (industrials get gimped social stats but cheap craft and resilience, military get cheaper weapon skills and built-in armor, and so on)

So, to create an Ogre construction unit, you'd pick a Brute shell type and Industrial manufacture, while something like Cindy would be a Persona (civilian) model.

I'll make a separate brainstorm thread this week and get opinions from people who actually know WoD back-to-front.

>>21993858
I await this eagerly.

Tuesday bump

Still waiting for this to start up again.

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>>21999035
>>The wait is over At last got off work. Thanks for everyone's patience.

>>5:15 PM
Safely very, very close to a police station and a bus stop, three human females and a robot sit in a tight cluster.

Zooey is shaking and crying softly. Since Heja isn't very good at comforting people, and doesn't need comforting herself (or maybe needs more than anyone could ever give her), Rachel is being calm and strong and stroking her back with one arm, explaining that everything's okay.

However, Rachel's other hand is holding your manipulator, and based on the force and the pulse rate your sensors are picking up, is more rattled than she looks. You're pretty sure you're supposed to squeeze back.

Heja speaks, looking at the square of flickering glass in her shredded hand. "That's got to be the third riot this year. And the 'net's all confused. No one was sending out any footage until everything got really, REALLY bad. Reconstructions are WAY off."

>>21999859
Okay, keep on comforting Rachel, try to talk to Zooey and help her out as well. Do what we can to calm these ladies down.

>>22000108
>>Roll Persuasion+Empathy

Heja stamps her foot.

"FUCKERS! It's being spun as a rally against some state legislature ruling on Shari'a that turned violent when some skinheads started a counter-protest."

>>21999859
"I don't get it. Two groups of Muslims gather and try to shout each other down, not even arguing, just spewing bile. Then a bunch of nazi shows up with the intention of beating people's faces in if it escalates. And then, when some guy tries to blow himself up in one group? That's the group the nazis target! What the fuck is going on, guys? I just wanted to hang out, and then shit got so heavy..."

Rolled 1, 2, 1, 10, 3 = 17

>>22000207
Rollin'.

>>22000223
>>22000263
Welp. Looks like we're too outraged to comfort anyone judging by that roll and that post order.

Rolled 7, 10, 1, 10, 1 = 29

>>22000207
Rolling

>>22000223
>>22000263
>>22000292
Zooey sobs heavily and presses against Rachel.

Heja agrees. "Nothing is right about this. But all we can do is stay out of it. I'm so TIRED of this hairtrigger 'lets go out and protest' mentality. Those guys need girlfriends, or something."

Rachel hisses. "Uh, guys, not exactly HELPING, that stuff. Hey...hey Zooey. Its over. Just keep saying that, all right?"

>>22000508
"Sorry, Rach. I'm just, like... Not real used to this sort of thing, is all. Shit, I should just shut my mouth."

>>22000508
"Well, at least the worst is behind us. Rachel I suggest you take an alternate route from now on."

I suppose it's a bad time to mention the concert tickets.

>>22000508
"It's over, we're safe, everything is going to be okay. None of us are seriously hurt.

Fucking Nazis."

>>22000426
>>22000565
Shit. That didn't work. A Distraction, maybe?

"Oh, Rachel, I have that stuff you asked for."

You pass over the bag. Rachel gives you a skeptical 'is this really the time?' look, but then notices the Sandwich.

Turns out, Zooey is an emotional eater. And its hard to sob when chewing on delicious bacon and rye.

Rachel turns to you. "It's okay. I'd still be fighting my way through the crowd if you hadn't come looking for me. and...well, thanks, you guys. I...oh, you got those, too."

She lifts the black datastick tickets out of the bag. "Wow, you are REALLY on the ball."

>>22000649
She looks at them dubiously.

"That's at 8 tonight. Uuuugh, I wanted to go SO badly..."

Zooey says "mwo mer oo ooing t-....sorry. Who were you going to bring with? Wait...not that Jace guy? The one with the face tattoo?"

"No, I was going to invite one of you. But its kind of a Sophie's Choice, you know?"

Rachel bites her lip. "Maybe I should just call it a wash..."

She looks absolutely heartbroken.

>>22000818
"It's up to you Rachel, though this would be a good way to get your mind off of what just happened.

You could take either of them, let them go together and do something else, your choice. I can get a bootleg of it later if you're not up to it."

>>22000818
"No way! Neither riots, nor nazis, nor bombers, nor afternoon traffic, nor dirty Detroit backalleys will keep this from happening. They certainly didn't stop me from getting you the tickets."

Hug her like the fist of the north star. Act entirely nonchalant if they notice how we've butchered Herodotus.

>>22001009
Rachel smiles and hugs you back, causing your code to glitch out for a moment.

The hug apparently goes on a little too long, and she politely disentangles herself and holds the tickets up triumphantly.

"but that still leaves the problem of which of my friends to bring along...

she looks between Zooey and Heja. Zooey stops in mid-chew to look at her, lips tight together. Heja's huge brown eyes are fixed on the sticks.

"which friend which friend which friend..." Rachel mumbles, pretending to be oblivious.

>>22001166
Dropped your trip, sirrah.

>>22001166
>>22001245
>>Son of a..

"I piiiiick..."

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>>22001307
.
.
.
"...Cindy"

>>22001503
Tilt our head, look as confused as possible, maybe blink our eyes a couple times. "What?"

>>22001503
>PREDICTABRU. SHAMEFUR DISPRAY. But heartwarming.

".. Wh-whaaat? WHAAAT? Rachel, are you serious? OhmygodohmygodOHMYGOD, thank you! But, why me? Why not, y'know, anyone else? Shit, I don't know what to say, I mean, I... WOOOOOO!"

>>22001503
A shocking twist!

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>>22001503
>>struct group_info init_groups = { .usage = ATOMIC_INIT(2) }; nblocks = (gidsetsize +NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK - 1) /
>>NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK; if (gidsetsize)EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>OMG you're totallyoneofheractualfriends. Even when stacked up against actual humans.

>>22001630
Let's try not to crash here...

>>22001545
>>22001573
>>I know, I know. I'm a terrible writer. But this is pretty par for the course in this genre. SHAMEFUR DISPRAY indeed.

Heja somehow manages to conceal her disappointment.

"Whatever. I'd have to wear long gloves or something, anyways."

Zooey is too selfless to be overly jealous

"Ooooh, that's so sweet of you, Rachel. You two should totally go. Cindy would love it."

Rachel's smile is eclipsing the whole world, and you can barely think through the haze of errors as your worldview shifts.

Your default programming, a hazy bunch of memories that were supposed to prep you for scheduling powerlunches and the like, prioritizes your owner's mood and efficiency, and suggests augmenting those by organizing and streamlining their life. Whenever Rachel went out of her way to help you or be nice to you, it always kept on sending alerts that you were being too obtrusive and interfering. You just had to ignore it, but something deep inside of you was worried that you were doing a poor job.

That part of you is gone now. You have an ego.

An ego that's utterly tied to Rachel's opinion of you, but an ego nonetheless. it's a start.

>>22001838
Awakening complete. Now proceed to KILL ALL HUMANS phase.

>>22001838
>>I feel dirty now. Like eating something sweet and empty. A twinkie.

>>Anyways, moving along.

Heja and Zooey take their leave, planning to get their arm repaired and go play with puppies, respectively. Heja's probably going to start another FFXV7 playthrough afterwards.

Together, you and Rachel return home, you to top up the batteries, Rachel to scarf down some real food and wash off the fear-sweat.

>>22001963
I think Heja really needs to pick up a new hobby...

Rachel emerges from the bathroom with bedraggled hair, having not yet mastered that towel-turban thing, several mild bruises beginning to show from the shove of the crowd and the flight over the dumpster.

"Cindy, bring forth the swag!" She stands proudly in a heroic pose.

"It's time to suit up, girl."

Her heroic pose causes her towel to come undone.

You bring forth the heavy footlocker from the closet as she finishes drying off and pulls on some underthings. Within is years of collected brik-a-brak, much of it studded with spikes and steel plates. There's also an artfully ripped pair of jeans that were genuinely worn down all to fuck, and only later kept as treasured apparel when grunge came back into style.

"Okay, we're going for this, this, and that, which will be great with that...Cindy, what do you want?"

You cock your head to the side. "what?"

"The bling? I'm going for the leather bracer/ fingerless glove things, and the metal stuff for my giant shitkicking boots. What do you want?"

>>22002319
>>Select your accessories wisely. Or don't. Whichever. Modern styles are, of course, beyond our limited ken as pathetic style-less denizens of 2012. But Cyberpunk is now actually an actual thing, and the band itself has a backwoods, rough-and-ready vibe with lots of duct-tape-covered parkas.

>>22002319
We need to go full punk rock. Expose plenty of metal, we're not trying to cover up. Make sure our clothing has plenty of rips, tears, and spikes. No sleeves on whatever we wear, cut them off if need be. Skirt, not pants.

>>22002454
I really have no clue how to dress in these types of events so I'll second this suggestion.

>>22002454
>>Neither do I. I'm flying blind here. But, WHO CARES?

You settle on a tight black tanktop, made tighter by tying a knot at the back, and a series of buckled straps around your neck and waist. The Black skirt you find is knee-length, but looks pretty kick-ass when ripped and tattered all to fuck. Rachel also has the idea of putting a skull-adorned hair clip at the base of each of your head cables.

In a burst of creativity, you smear purple blacklight-reactive paint on the tanktop, making the characters C 1 N D 3, because fuck you, leetspeak is still cool.

So adorned, both full of your respective fuel, and with a weak pain med in Rachel's system, you're ready to hit the town.

>>22002703
The concert hall is in the city center, on the edge of downtown, and again near the giant walls of the Exclusion Zone. But the bouncers are huge, the lights are bright, and the crowd is full of similarily-adorned young men and women all converging to listen to...

>>Oh yeah. What's the band's name?

Synthetic Religion.

The musical themes have a LOT to do with stolen childhood and anger over an increasingly alienating world that young people are forced to grow up in.
>That Feel when the shitty wooded drainage ditch creek you used to play in is paved over and replaced with a Gulp-N-Go.
That sort of thing. Shit about modern life being a dead end with no real value in it, and being very angry about it all.

>>[Ron Perlman voice]Punk Rock. Punk Rock Never Changes.

The squeaky-clean consumerist culture is just a fake religion, cynically synthesized to keep people in line. Military industrial complex, war economy, racism and exploitation. All that Jazz

A scrum forms at the door of the building; The Rave. It was once some sort of theater hall, back when stage musicals were a thing, but the seats and many of the floors were ripped out, along with all the wall hangings, revealing bare masonry covered here and there with plywood. You catch a shoving ripple from the crowd, pushing you into a skinny male covered in piercings and a Chaos-spike hairstyle.

"hey, watch it, little miss-wha? Who the...Hey! Is this thing yours?" He addresses Rachel. She responds with
"Yeah, SHE's with me. What of it?"
You've attracted a few looks from the rest of the crowd. he responds, raising his voice.
"why the hell did you bring a robot?"

>>22003042
Scream at max volume
"BECAUSE SYNTHETIC RELIGION IS THE MOST HARDCORE BAND ON THE PLANET, POSER!"

>>22003042
"Do you have a problem with me being here? You don't see me commenting on your unoriginal haircut, your derivative clothing and how you can't quite decide what subculture you want to belong in so you just idly throw together bits and pieces from half a dozen different ones and don't actually think about what they mean.

Poser."

And while he's stunned and confused move on and don't give him a second thought. Social-Fu.

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>>22003075
>>22003144
"This actually elicits a WHOOO or two, and the crowd actually parts for you and Rachel, bringing you face-to-face with the Dooman.

The Doorman appears to be wearing some sort of ostentatious ocular rig that covers his whole (bald) head.

However, the ocular rig conceals that he actually has dead-lens implanted eyes underneath, rather than the usual real-looking optics.

"Ticket Lady...ies." He pauses. "Robot counts as one. I hope you have...oh. Thanks for making this easy. Inside, wait to get checked, then start rocking out. NEXT!"

>>22003269
Rachel proudly hands over the two tickets, and you and her receive coded hand-stamps from a pakistani woman wearing a hoodie made mostly of duct tape.

There's a perfunctory weapons/illicit materials check. As you watch, some guy is pulled aside and ejected along with his dumbass switchblade. You find yourselves crammed into a cavernous room full of shuffling, jabbering humans in variously genuine attire. A guy and a girl in complementing outfits stop in their tracks as they see the pair of you, and in unison yell KILLER! and flash a complex double-fist handsign.

A tall asianish male stops Rachel to ask "Holy shit, you know Pedantic Shark?" in regards to her t-shirt. Your database spits out that Pedantic shark is her favorite 2040's band; no one else has heard of them, ever. You personally find them too hard-edged.

A stouter young man with coffee skin and classical skater atire stops you to ask "I...you're actually a fan, aren't you? That's, like, actually slightly ironic! REAL irony, I mean. Guys, we need a picture of this. What's your designation, or whatever?"

Rachel pulls herself away from the fellow PS fan long enough to pose with you to the flash of phones. Afterwards, the group chats with the pair of you, partially to confirm that Rachel didn't just program you to spout off punk rock catchphrases or something.

>>Roll Presence+Socialize

Rolled 2, 9, 6, 10, 6 = 33

>>22003445
>>>Roll Presence+Socialize
Punk rock robot dance time bitches !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rolled 6, 5, 6, 6, 9 = 32

>>22003445
"'Designation?' Very funny. My name's Cindy."

Rollin'!

Rolled 6, 10, 5, 4, 1 = 26

>>22003445
It's ROBOT DANCING TIME.

Do not do the Robot, it'd be cliche. If anyone asks we're Cindy, we're a fan, and we know more about the band than they do. And that it isn't ironic, that's not what irony means.

>>22003445
>>Okay, I think I finally found a thread to grasp on this.

>>Synthetic Religion is part of a revival of the basic tennents of Street Punk, only now they've got more to be angry about, get to use actual Cyberpunk moteifs, and there's even more awful shit going on in the world to be pissed off about. They're also passably good at musical composition.

>>22003503
"No, dude, its Ironic because SR has that song about the robot that freaks out and trashes the mall where it works."

"no, man, that's not Irony. Its just dramatically appropriate."

"and then in the music video, it starts a fire, and all the shoppers' skin melts and they're robots underneath and just keep on shopping."

Rolled 8, 5, 9, 3, 6 = 31

>>22003589
"If there's anything to call ironic, it's the fact that robots are getting smarter and humans are acting a whole lot dumber. Like, I'm still the standard for faceless automatons, but here I am, fighting the metaphorical machine & shit! Synths & humans alike have gotta wake up."

>>22003589
"You do know that nowadays robots have about as much free will as humans, assuming they're SAP based. Sure we've got our baseline programming, which is more of a guideline than anything else, but you guys have about the same thing going on with how our parenting and education system works. I'm more free and make more of my own decisions than a lot of humans who do the 9-5 office drone gig."

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>>22003503
>>22003501
>>22003486
>>22003653
"Yeah, and everyone just spits out the same canned responses to shit. Its fucking awful."
Another human speaks up
"Yeah, I've heard that line before. People keep on seeing weird behavior from the quantum-storage AIs. Not as weird as philosophizing and rocking out, though. I think the manufacturers try to discredit it, because they're worried what's going to happen when-"
he's interrupted by
"YEAH! That's serious stuff, there. You should totally have some sort of blog, that'd get a MILLION hits."

Proving to everyone's satisfaction that you know your shit, you're all shocked when the lights go out save for a growing glare of blue neon from the stage.

IT.

IS.

GLORIOUS.

Even without the audio inputs, you could still feel the music through your mechanoreceptors. it pounds inside you, rattling your chassis as bodies press in around you.

At one point, you and Rachel are lifted into the air bodily by the crowd, with her clutching at you for balance.

>>22003777
During a lull between songs, another girl shouts in Rachel's ear.

"You two should totally do some sort of blog or net series or whatever! Do you play? It'd be a great duo band!"

Rachel blinks. "I do acoustic guitar, but I not very well. Sometimes I manage to shred with it."

>>Roll Wits+Composure

Rolled 1, 4, 5, 3 = 13

>>22003811
Why are we not dancing?

Rolled 8, 8, 8, 1 = 25

>>22003811
Rolling.

>>22003826
>>You totally are.
>>Roll Dexterity+Expression (dance)

Rolled 7, 9, 4, 9, 5 = 34

>>22003846
Awesome.

>>22003846
>>22003851
The next song comes up, one of the ones with a more intense beat, the thudding pounding of it as it dips into something more Metal. The crude projector screens show still images of skinhead rallies, each individual with a cartoonish toothbrush mustache photoshopped on. The mustached men crumble and rot from within, and the song transitions into long-forgotten Krautpunk.

Rachel and you dance within the crowd as time becomes meaningless. Around you is nothing but heat and noise and life. At one point, a guy grabs you under the arms and lifts you up, giving you an unmatched view of the stage. You figure you should laugh, but the guy overbalances, the two of you saved from a fall by Rachel.

Rolled 6, 8, 7, 6, 5, 8 = 40

>>22003846
>>22003846
O YEA!!!!

>>22003996
>>22004002
The two of you continue to dance back to back, shimying up and down, this time on the ground, as another song begins. The crowd surges forward, packed in heavily, pressing you together.

Rachel's mouth winds up next to one of her audio inputs, and you hear her trying to say something over the noise. You try to clean it up, but there's too much trash.

>>22004042
Rachel has audio inputs?

Get closer, try to make out what she's trying to say.

>>22004042
This sounds like the beginning of a mosh pit...

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>>22004042
>>22004106
>> *YOUR audio inputs.

You think it might be something like

"-ven if its o---ly -o me, y----are SO real."

The music wails up into a kickass lyrical solo, and-

>>22004186
I think it's something like "Even if it's only to me, you are SO real." Give or take. Which means we're totally awesome.

More dancing, unless this is the lead up to severe badness.

>>22004186
wispier back "its not only you"

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>>22004221
>>22004208
>>22004186
"Its not o

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>>22004402
>>Running Sys Check**************************
>>Syscheck Green, Loading Running normal startup.
>>Startupfailed. Faulty component. Compensating.
>>***************************************************
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>>22004512
Did we just party too hard? Because I think we partied too hard for our systems to handle, which is totally awesome.

>>22004512
>>22004512
>>Running SRM288.exe
>>Loading Shell drivers
>>Time: 0:00:00, 0/00/0000
>>Priority Tasks:
1. gegrbgej38evhrvw
2. 2382fjjio*Y(*
3. (9((#ru(h(@(9]
4. <Wnlnvkwekfl;PU*vfheuv

>>Running in Safemode. Booting drivers individually.
# Load Optics?

>>22004582
Yes.

Load optics, let's see what's going on.

>>22004582

Task Queue
-Load Optics
-Run Damage Check if posible. Determine Type and severity of Fault.


Come on, did this thread just go empty!?

>>22004582
>>22004638
You see complete darkness.

At the same time, your shell drivers finish loading. You appear to be mostly horizontal, and there's heavy pressure on your torso. You suspect that something is on top of you.

>>Roll Str+Resolve to move obstructon

Rolled 6, 9 = 15

>>22004693
... shit. Our two worst stats.

Rolled 10, 6 = 16

>>22004693
Yeah, 2d10 go!

>>22004706
>>22004716
Its a struggle, but you manage to exert your shitty pipe-cleaner arms and, with determination, you shift whatever was on top of you.

Some light hits your optics now, but its incredibly dim. There may be a lot of particulate in the air. You try to switch to nightvision, but the fucking driver won't load,so it just renders you blind again.

Also, the concrete you're laying on is warm.

And wet.

>>22004766
It's blood isn't it.

Get our sight back and don't turn on night vision. Engage any other sensors we can, olfactory ones would be nice.

Check out where we are, what's going on around here, all of that.

>>22004766
check network connections and self for damage then the soundings

>>22004793
>>22004795
Your olfactory sensors are incredibly crude, and there's no particular tags associated with them.

However, you smell...blood. Sweat. Excrement. The sensors are quickly clogged and nonfunctional, thanks to what must be massive ammounts of dust.

Network connections are currently...inactive. You're picking up nothing but static. That's new. Before, you were on the building's internal WiFi.

You sit up. There appears to be minimal damage to your shell. a few joints slightly out of alignment, you'll need maintenance, that's about it. You can feel something rattling around inside your head; that can't be good.

But, it obviously wasn't anything SUPER important.

You turn on your audio inputs, and that's when the screaming starts.

>>22004872
Firs aid time lets help out the makers

>>22004872
On the edges of your vision, you see struggling people. Many are dragging other people away, others are just standing there. Many are covered in blood.

You lever a bloodstained human the rest of the way off your legs, and shakily get to your hands and knees.

Bleeding. Bleeding is a bad thing. That's the first thing you have to stop.

First, you need to find someone who's still alive.

>>Roll Intelligence+Medicine. First Aid specialty applies.