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>>859251
After that you went back to your current Employer the Shrouded One's base to some much needed rest. Including old world food held in stasis, fresh hot water in a luxurious bathhouse, and an extremely comfortable bed. Now if you had company that weren't a bunch of bots it would of been paradise...

After that you took up a new mission something you haven't done before that involved salvaging. As a scavenger you figured you would be in your element...and you were. It was just an agonizing process due to the bots refusal to acknowledge resources outside their own direct interest.

So much loot they passed by as if it were trash...almost intact areas they dug out through the wreckage but mostly ignored. Out of sheer frustration you visited a nearby survivor compound so as it to make sure its not completely wasted. That was how you became famous and a de facto hero.

Especially once you successfully talked down some raiders avoiding bloodshed in exchange for a bribe(which wasn't actually you but the bandit diplomat Mister Neutral). That was how after you completed your newest assignment and leaving Mister Neutral's payment on a corner. You were invited to a impromptu celebration by the survivors as thanks to the massive windfall you gave them.

Little did they know this was a part of a plot you had devised much to the satisfaction of your Employer the Arms Dealer and Shady Hardware seller known simply as the mysterious Shrouded One.

What do?
>Wait for the Neutral Bandits to show up for their payment
>Go celebrate with the other survivors
>Go back with the dumb bots
>Other?

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>>859288
>>Wait for the Neutral Bandits to show up for their payment
Best we fulfill our end for the deal.

Then we can hang with the people.

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>Wait for the Neutral Bandits to show up for their payment

and then
>Go celebrate with the other survivors

>>859318
So support basically.

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>>859324
Hmm, forgot to update the on-hand inventory with the new explosives and Bone Rod.

Also when are we going to get our deathly psi crystal made into a necklace?

It's highly inadvisable to do so, but also would be rad as fuck.

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>>859324
I'll support this male sure we don't look too suspicious

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>>859318
You decide to wait till the bandits show up to pick their stuff up before going to party with the other survivors. It took a little while but eventually you heard the roaring of a large truck that...was surprisingly nondescript. You only knew it be a bandit ride when bandits came out back and front to load up the goods before driving off.

After that you went to celebrate with the survivors. Who turned out to know how to party in moderation unlike the bandits. You were swimming in chicks a surprising number of which were even hot! Ah so this kinda treatment must be like to be a hero. Get all the hottest chicks, best food, drink, and everything really. Fuck you get used to this and unlike your place of employment while the quality is a bit lacking. At least if feels...alive you know?

Actual people not cold machines for company...not inhumanly clean despite being well 'meant for people' who frankly weren't ever there. So you immensely enjoyed yourself as you partied laid into the night.

What do?
>Time to get laid(a lot)!
>Party moar
>Now would be an excellent time to enjoy a bandit party...
>Go back
>Other?

>>859324
If you ever get around to selling all the shit you don't need you could afford some very nice things from the arms dealer. Including some nice as fuck rides(Shrouded One is quite picky when it comes to wheels).

Seriously though your inventory could really use a could cleanse. You don't really need nearly that much crap.

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>>859575
>Time to get laid(a lot)!
Traps are good too.
>Party moar
If it would not strain things, invite the witch to the party...time to start a cult... While partying get to know important people in these communities. Start a murmur about needing more guns if only there were an arms dealer a out???

>Go back
>Other?
Once done we can cleanse our gear buy selling to survivors and both our bosses for the appropriate stuff. Just need an inventory list first.

>>859575
>Go back
We should be able to get those upgrades now. AMY all the into tools and us some special ammo types for undead. O and shields.

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Remember lads eyes on the prize.

We want an electronic warfare suite for Amy in there and a stealth field.

This design gives us plenty of room and a single big gun to fuck up targets we electro warfare.

Think of it as a rapid deployment stealth artillery piece. We just made sure there was more space on the inside.

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Or this one. It'd be our own mobile base/home

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>>859674
>>859680
Dunno, they seem like blockhouses on wheels, lumbering, graceless and worst of all, SLOW.
SLOW IS DEATH.

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>>859673
>>859674
Vote, don't forget we need top of the line sensors for AMY.

>>859857
I'll go ahead and back going for SPEEDY
I want it to still have sufficient comforts to be a mobile home though (just avoid keeping unsecured objects laying around in it)

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>>859885
Aye, we'd rather be in an air-conditioned cabin than metal bucket. Yet another reason why military crap built by lowest bidder won't do.

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>>859954
Actually an interesting development occurred in setting resulting in quality being demanded for military goods.

Also clones are the ones who get the cheapest shit.

Don't use clone gear...just don't.

Literally the nicest thing you can say about it is there are LOTS of spare parts!

...No really I am being serious. That really is it.

What happened was they got tired of their tech getting stolen all the time, tech advancements, and the clone took care of cheapness. So they actually had cash to REALLY invest in their non clone forces.

Its how you ended up with the walking nightmares that are Combat Cyborgs.

Combat Cyborgs are not cheap but they are utterly devastating.

Another reason is corps shadow war. You see they never fought directly so they were slush to invest heavily in higher quality paramilitary and 'security' forces.

The governments and faiths naturally responded.

Interestingly enough if the Faiths weren't those that demanded quality they actually have the cheapest gear. It didn't help they were not big fans of clone usage either which is not by any means cheap.

In terms of average highest quality they belong to the Governments followed by Corps and finally the Faiths.

But tis more like this

Governments relied upon cheap clones and invested heavily in their non clone forces.

Corps invested heavily in their Elite Security forces and poorly in others due to distrust. Their paramilitary forces meanwhile were all over the place.

Faiths on average were not fans of Clone usage and only a few demanded quality goods. This resulted in the lowest overall quality thus cheapness(when not including clones).

People still know this Post Fall because the Paramilitary, Government, Corps, and Think Tanks got all the best shit.

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>>859988
So while its true military crap is paid by the lowest bidder this is only so with Clones.

For the better gear they demanded higher security and quality while being willing to pay more. For their forces who ain't clones. Basically they skimped on clones for their other forces who are much more important.

Its how paramilitary forces have so many fun toys and top of the line gear. Much of which had survived the Fall even with heavy use. Its in the post apoc that they now struggle to find supplies that can meet their high standards.

Corp based paramilitaries meanwhile were able to afford higher quality due to corp profit saving due to shadow war instead of direct warfare. So they invested more heavily not to mention they are mercs they are greedy.

Faith based paramilitaries meanwhile relied upon ancient stores of still effective gear as cost saving measures in addition to the stuff they did end up coughing up for. In other words Faith based paramilitaries are covered in old relics combined with new tech to equip their forces.

Yes this means faith based paramilitaries are oddly old school mixed in with sci fi tech giving a rather unique look. They are very easy to tell apart for that reason.

Meanwhile the only way you can readily tell which is corp and which is government paramilitary forces you gotta check to see who is the greediest. Those guys are Corps.

Anyway what is your actions?

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>>859635
This. I just e ought space in the back to do rituals in and space to store all the tomes, gear and Shit we're gonna gather due to us being an A Grade looter. Just give it lots of nitrous

I'm that guy but for some reason got banned

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>>860021
>Anyway what is your actions?
We have had an odd lack of voting. One for going back, one for getting laid, partying more, then going back, and I was supporting going back.

>Party Moar
I'll compromise by simply voting this. Just enjoy being around normal people who are friendly to us for the first time we can remember.

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>>860021
>Party more, after reporting to the boss

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>>860021
I want to sell some crap and upgrade our gear. Get us a ride, AMY more tools to work with and anything else we can improve on. Like our armor, shielding and power supply for it all.

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>>860021
>>859988
It is actually a bit more complicated then that but that is the short version...

Basically its clones and corp shadow war.

The longer story is much more complex but you can still blame the clones.

and votes are still all over the place...

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>>860110
The gist of the votes are briefly party some more and have some fun but then head to boss to get a ride and purge our inventory.

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>>860120
We all want some thing best to do it all.

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>>860120
Another reason for partying with survivors is to make contacts.
We may ask around for a car to buy right now as well

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>>860230
If we find anything, it'll still be crap compared to what we could buy from our boss.

>>860110
>>860120
>>860168
I propose going to a bandit party on our way back to base to sell shit we don't need and buy a ride and I propose rolling a called 1

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>>860120
Fine. Surprised you chose not to get laid given all the chicks hanging on you. Clearly you are not proper bandit material knowing how to keep it in your pants and all.

So you made sure to party a bit more before heading out...front the sounds of it when you left(while having to beat away the chicks good lord heroes must get a truly insane amount of ass). From the sounds of it they don't intend to stop anytime soon...and you begin the long walk in the dark back to base.

Which now that you are walking down the desolate ruins and hearing the sounds of nightmarish activity. You began to find yourself deeply regretting this course of action.

Thankfully you know how to move very fast. Which turned out to be very important as you dodged monsters, undead, bandit gangs, and who knows what else. You almost cried when you saw the familiar bots on their patrol and tagged along with them until you got back. After that you headed talked to a bot stating you want to trade and to send some guys to your place. He plan to unload quite a bit.

The bot informed you after a brief moment of bots being dispatched and what you would be interested in.

You told him you wanted wheels. Some very VERY fast wheels and your willing to pay out the ass for it so it BETTER have some luxurius comforts included.

After another moment it told you would have some models to choose from at your place. A bot will come with a hologram and selection.

So you headed back and found a team of bots and one carrying a holo projector which revealed several different types of rides.

What items do you wish to keep in your inventory?

Be aware the Shrouded One pays premium for bot/AI goodies. Pays extra for armaments, munitions, hardware, and software.

You have been rewarded for your mission completion and scavenging is one large bag of Highest Quality Scraps. Worth a small fortune wherever you go.

The reward for the job apparently a Electrified Molten Turbo Nailgun very nasty piece of former tool turned weapon full of angry murder. It can use all kinds of nails and its been heavily modified.

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>>860230
How many times has Genie gotta tell you civie models and the like suck.

Otherwise speed ain't that good either, you can't out race a bullet or rocket, it takes to mu h fuel and finally you gotta stay light which means duck all armour and storage.

Go the other way, not slow but just be an unappetising target be not worth the effort, that and,stealth fields

Rolled 92 (1d100)

>>860258
Vehicle options are as follows
>Hotwheels
Civilian Vehicle and former street racing car. Hence why it was picked up. It has since been upgraded with a turret, armor, scanners, emergency shield generator, and luxuries. Wont draw much attention to boot do not use the shield generator unless you have to. The fuel requirements for it are not well suited for a civilian model but the shields been modified to work. Emergency use only.
>Paramilitary Recon Vehicle
Heavily armored, advanced weapon bearing, comes with a shield, advanced scanners, and somehow still manages to be very fast.
>Think Tank Bike
Extremely Fast and utterly silent but poorly armored outside the shield and no weapons. comes with stealth field, Smart Mines, Smoke Grenades, Imitator Matrix to provide a fake copy, and shield generator. Basically whatever a sneaky smart ass from a think tank needs to stay mobile and stealthy with the best scanners they could cram on it.
>Scout Rider Drone Modified
A design from bots but has been modified for living needs. Is the only outright intelligent vehicle and comes with weapons, stealth mods, bot scanners, and light armoring. Extremely fast. They actually had to tune it down so it wouldn't kill any riders onboard.
>Pimped Out Speedy Freaky Jeepy
Built by bandit speed freak Teks for maximum SPEED. Not exactly safe but its PIMPED OUT AS FUCK. So says the Bandits. According to our scans it carries weapons, speed boosters, some armoring, shielding, a stealth field generator jury rigged together with sound dampener, big ass music player, and other various luxuries that only a bandit could consider PIMP.

>Now once you have chosen what to keep in your inventory...and chosen your ride

What do?
>New mission
>Sleepy time
>Its late night lets see what the bandits are up to
>Try to find a naughty witch
>Other?

>>860262
Thing is they are plentiful and once heavily modified they aren't half bad.

Its just they don't hold up very well when going up against dangerous foes or numbers. Pretty good at keeping a low profile given how insanely common they are.

Bandits prefer other vehicles but they gotta make due with turning them into technicals. Bandits love their looted Tanks, APCs, and other more advanced rides.

Civilian vehicles don't do so well when you run into heavy resistance but at least they have more protection then a Bike but have less mobility.

>>860286
>Paramilitary Recon Vehicle
Heavily armored, advanced weapon bearing, comes with a shield, advanced scanners, and somehow still manages to be very fast.

Working on inventory now

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>>860286
I wonder if AMY could just move around on their own in the Think tank bike.

That would be cool if we ride around in the military and have the bike detach when working.

>>860352
How about instead we just buy her a body hmm?

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>>860317
I'll support that, with only a longing look at the Pimped Out Speed Freak Jeep. It'd be a little too...showy.

I suppose I'll simply look over your list when you're done. It may seem lazy of me, but it's a lot less messy to have one list we all discuss the details of than to have like 5 different lists from different anons.

>>860357
A powerful body? Maybe even a giant gladiator mech?

>>860357
I assume the bike should have the better tools and power to keep them going with out the high cost a body would probably have.

I guess we could ask AMY to be sure.

>>860286
Hey AMY, would a body do you any good? Can you even usw one? How about using a bike as a host to drive around?

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>>860377
I cool the post got thru. Dam power going out.

>>860385
Now I know why.

Come on dice.

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>>860357
I have a bad feeling about this...but yeah. They got android and other bot models available. Most will have to be modified to hold an Advanced AI however.

>>860368
Mechs do exist and are available.

>>860377
"While I was not purposefully designed for body usage I do know how to do so."

"It can indeed be helpful at times."

"The bike option I can indeed pilot and be stored within. It is teeming with very advanced technology."

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>>860286
2 paramilitary
1 bike

still no inventory sale suggestions OR action suggestions.

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>>860414
Since I'm not 100% sure on what we got to sell. I will trust we can sell gear that isn't magical or high grade. Different ammo type we will want to keep.

After picking the ride or rides we should move to gear that we can buy.

Rolled 47 (1d100)

>>860414
Ask AMY if she could be stored within the paramilitary. Does she have a preference as to that or the bike?

Short answer for what I want us to keep:
>Our variety of high-quality weapons and armor (shotgun, plaz pistol, smart rifle, sniper rifle, shooty smg, laser minigun (maybe), power armor, Umbra stealth armor, the Utari set)
>Books and anything relating to psi and/or magic
>Various useful sundries (Including fireproof survival equipment, food/water, mono knife, combat drugs, some of the batteries/fuel cores/power cells, medical/repair/survivalist kits)
>The other stuf from the strange satchel (black box, nanite vial)
>Our clothes
>Grenades and special ammo (in addition to the normal ammo we can be assumed to have as long as we're working for Shrouded One)

We can sell any and all bot parts we have, and the non-awesome weapons and armor I think we have, including a heavy flamer.

We need to keep AMY of course.

Action:
>Try to find a naughty witch
See what she's up to
>New mission
Can we go on a trip to check out one of the sites we found info on? (If not do some other mission)

>>860459
She can but she would prefer the bike.

>>860457
inventory pastebin is further up.

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>>860482
Somehow my name fell off.

>>860482
I mean more for what we should keep vs sell. I assume we could trust AMY to know what is worth the most and what we should hold.

Rolled 25 (1d100)

>>860482
That settles it, changing from >>860368
I now vote for the Think Tank Bike.
May not have the cargo capacity we want, but I'm fine with reserving that for when we get a second personal transport.
It's damn sneaky, and that counts for a lot in the post apoc.

>>860459
Problem is you don't NEED all of that stuff. If it something you wont be using then sell it.

Having lots of guns, armor, or bullets wont help without trading it for something that will.

Plus depending on what you may choose may not be enough without selling lots of stuff.

Rolled 15 (1d100)

>>860517
Don't forget the other actions!

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>>860521
>>860523
Alright.

>Get Think Tank Bike

Keep
>Shotgun
>Plaz Pistol
>Sniper Rifle
>Power Armor
>Special Shotgun Ammo (we may actually want to get more of this)
>psi/magic fusion dagger
>Bone Rod
>Psi Crystals
>Psi Salts
>Tome of the psi magi
>Blessed Blaster Utari
>Blessed Ammo.
>Sacred Explosive Bandoleer.
And finally the nailgun we just got, I want to try it out.

Actions
>Try to find a naughty witch
See what she's up to, then:
>New mission

>>860414
>think tank bike
seems like a good idea, given how sneaky it is.

>try to find a naughty witch
see what she's up to

>sell
all parts
all Utari stuff but one of each (in case one day we go in-deep necromancing)
5 stashed but damaged Pistols.
20 Knives.
5 Mono Knives.
10 Combat Knives.
5 hatchets.
5 hammers.
Inferno Flamethrower 9.

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>>860557
forgot to roll

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>>860286
So buy bike and at least a personal shield. Sell the gear we don't use and resources.

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>>860286
>>Sleepy time
after buying we sleep the night away.

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>>860552
>>860286

I agree with everything except I suggest the APC because it can carry all our stuff, provide a literal roof over our heads and has room for upgrades.

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>>860613
Supporting the bike is cool but a mobile home is better, we can buy a stealth field

I'd also like to add that the APC can actually carry all our stuff so we don't have to keep it on us 24/7 and we are generally traveling in a convoy with the Shrouded one so the bikes steath is mostly worthless. Maybe get it later when we have a way to store it in a trailer or something for scouting work but for now we need a mobile base of sorts, somewhere to put our stuff, to rest, to be able to live privately!

Rolled 8 (1d100)

>>860632
We really don't need to carry all our stuff. We can just keep it at one or both of are houses. The bike would give AMY a way to help us autonomously with loads of better tools to work with. We could probably just get both the military and the bike. If we need a mobile base while on the job.

Rolled 19 (1d100)

So we're divided as to whether to get the bike or recon vehicle.

>>860632
Are we generally travelling in a convoy? It seems more like we've only done that because we don't have our own transportation. Granted we've only done one mission aside from travelling when we first met and being sent to the crypts, but we have struck out solo a couple times. And it's a recon vehicle, not an APC. I don't think it qualifies as a mobile base either.

Even when we are in a convoy, we would basically be an outrider/scout on the bike, so it wouldn't be mostly worthless. In fact it's the big vehicle that would be less valuable because we can keep our shit in one of the other vehicles.

But alright, I'll switch back to the recon vehicle. Much safer and can carry passengers and some cargo.

>>860651
I feel ya but I don't think we should leave stuff laying around in places while we are away, they could be stolen, raided or simply destroyed, the place they are in could be captured, the locals could become foes, there are too many variables, have it with us and we know its safe and ours. secondly it means if we want X we have to come all the way back for it, finally AMY may get some better gear but for us personally its far worse. we can just upgrade the APC's power and put that stuff in the APC. Bike offers very, very limited protection.

Rolled 100 (1d100)

>>860659
If our boss lost their base I think we would have bigger problems. The other people I can understand.

While the protection is weak we get a lot more info and data to better act viva AMY. We can probably get the base and the bike. Giving AMY the upgrade they will need to help us greatly. Then us the base to have a mobile heavy armored target for any bandit you wants to fight us for the loot inside.

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I have to remind you that Recon Vehicle =/= Armored Personnel Carrier.

Also, there is a lot of similarity between Hotwheels and Paramilitary Recon Vehicle concerning payload capacity, fuel consumption and armoring.

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>>860557
>Supporting this sell list
BUT
We may keep some flamers for the anti-theft system?

>>860712
My plan for the anti theft system involves stasis fields

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>>860727
Are you gonna try to rig up a stasis trap?

>>860765
Something like that yes.

Rolled 69 (1d100)

>>860557
Where did you find the inventory?
Supporting this but I'd rather find our thick headed witch

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>>860823
See
>>859324

>>860286
I vote think tank bike.

In the civ games we've played over the years, Think Tank stuff has always proven technologically superior. We had better combat ability switching from Paramilitary designed vehicles to Think Tank designed vehices.

They are typically superior, even as we play as paramilitary.

Hi Genie!

Oldfag from your civ quests here, love to see that you've got another Hero Quest up.

I wanted to join this one from the start but life's been awful. Gonna try to read the summaries you've posted, anyone care to give a brief on the story thus far?

I'm making a new picture list for combat purposes.

Can anyone clarify what:
>Yes it can transform. Oddly enough the armor in its heavy form is actually its stealthiest with lower and its second form stronger but faster. In exchange for stealth and armoring.
Means in regards to our armor?

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>>860863
Oops, wrong one

>>860839
Basically we woke up with some great gear and no memmories, found some psycho surgeons and they say we chose to lose our memmories for a favor, our sister or something, deciding it's best to leave the past behind us we jumped on board with a shady (shrouded one) trader who normally wouldn't work with people but he was desperate. Worked for him, used some of our fancy amnesia gear to learn psy/magic stuff and have at this point gathered a fine cashe of training resources and tools. Got shot and sniped a bunch and survived a few times. Mr nuetral is a dope dude we are friendly with new class called "bandit diplomat" non hero but he is a psymage like us so he helped us learn about "nothingness" which makes these things work, in short we can clap psy and magic into explosions, also we pwnt a mission forcing the shrouded one's necromancer girlfriend to take us on as a student, we are trying to become a psymage/necromancer as of now, which exists and is awesome but can lead to madness, fortunately our resources, library, and cohorts should be able help us to get around all that mess.
Also I guess we just bought a motorcycle?

Any one else free to add

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>>860878
There's also AI AMY, who I think we aren't using to her full potential. She knows lots of things. Her core was one of the items we woke up with.

>>860878
>>860882
Thanks!

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>>860882
Guess I should mention other characters.
>Andy, the Shrouded One's assassin droid (saved our life after we were shot to shit)
>A Witch who is our necromancer master's senior apprentice (very helpful on our mission to the undead-filled crypts)
>An outcast doctor Mr. Neutral mentioned to us, we haven't met him but apparently he's awesome.
>This one Think Tank Guy who knew us before we got our memories erased, he has a bandit gf.

Rolled 11 (1d100)

>>860853
Its bulky and heavily shrouded. Oddly this actually makes it stealthier and better armoring.

It looks like very common shrouded clothing/armor that you see all the time among those who wish to cover up who they really are. The shrouded one disguised the power armor to look like one of them and is its passive mode. Its active mode causes it to shed the additional armoring losing stealth and armor but vastly increased speed. the Mark 2 series compensates the loss of armor through additional shielding. Supposedly it also includes a working stealth field generator and sound dampener but you never tried out the second mode.

The armor is specially designed by the Shrouded One to suit his/her own purposes.

>>860839
A lot has happened but interestingly enough you only nearly died the one time where you did something very stupid(had to burn a fate point to survive player stupidity) and when you drew the attention of a smart zombie while you were wandering around solo.

Also a stupid move given by that time you were an awakened psion. That time you had to get saved by the strange bandit Mister Neutral and his surprisingly skilled gang.

I don't know why but dice keeps on making you run into that guy with only a single time of it being due to actual coincidence and not luck.(which was the catacombs I just rolled poorly enough for him that he ended up near the door you took and had a vampire spawn on the poor bastard due to yet another bad roll). So technically only partially coincidence.

If these rolls keeps up he is gonna end up a random encounter like Glowy Joe but remarkably less awesome(mostly due to bad rolls). He is like the unlucky version of Glowy Joe.

I swear if he wasn't a diplomat he would of died long ago. Guy really knows how to talk as if his life depends on it.

>>860836
This is because Think Tanks were literally on the cutting edge of technology. Hence very expensive and experimental. While military no longer use cheap shit for their non clones its still not enough to warrant equipping them with that kinda gear.

It also means they are the only ones who were able to actually develop technology that was superior to its Old World counterparts so long as it was in their specialty.

There is always an in depth reason in game and setting for WHY things are like they are. Sure there is probably some mistakes but I honestly did do my homework and thought very carefully/hard on it.

>>860707
The Paramilitary Recon Vehicle is a lot heavier and uses different fueling. Due to expensive technology being shoved in it. Its still able to stay quite fast and it packs quite the punch on its one big gun.

Its designed so that what it cannot take down should it be detected it can outrun. Its built to be able to handle itself. Of the choices all listed its the one which packs the biggest punch.

No this doesn't mean you should use it as an attack craft. Its not explicitly designed for that. Its just made so it protect its own expensive ass.

Rolled 87 (1d100)

>>860678
It would take a lot to make your boss lose the base. That person is tad paranoid and went through a lot of trouble to build up a lot of defenses in the one place they couldn't afford to lose.

Remember how everywhere else they did their best to keep a low profile? The base has investments in it that are neither stealthy and cannot be afford to be lost. So the shrouded one invested in its defenses the most heavily.

Its patrolled by tireless bots. Its perimeter is bristling with turrets and sensors. The Shrouded One has eyes and ears out the ass according to Amy when she devised that remarkably current map. The patrols are in fact according to Amy bullshit.

The Shrouded One doesn't ACTUALLY need to do it with their detectors flying around everywhere. Its strictly for show and helps keep the smaller auto vendors supplied.

Amy doesn't know the full defenses the Shrouded One has in place but has been able to put together they include quite the force of military bots and giant war machines that are purposefully kept hidden. She knows they exist because they 'seem' to be rare but given how long the Shrouded One has been in business and the items they manage to procure Amy is 99.99999% positive that the Shrouded One is keeping the majority of the best combat bots concealed.

Amy is also 99% positive that the Shrouded One has combat ready Big Bots who are kept stored ready and believes that a good number of them are in fact ready for combat. But she doesn't know how many exactly.

Amy also knows the Complex the Shrouded One selected as their base was chosen for very purposefully by Shrouded One for reasons that she is still trying to piece together.

>>860659
You wont be able to afford anything but a basic APC.

>>860655
I do believe bike wins. Mostly because Amy can better utilize its functions.

Nor does it. The Recon vehicle honestly isn't made to carry very many guys. Its for scouting after all. The thing is though its expected to be able to carry a team and supplies for long trips.

>>860651
The recon vehicle isn't nearly that big.

While its oddly large for a speedy scout vehicle its made for lengthy dangerous trips. So its larger for a reason. Its made to carry a scout team, help them with their mission, and keep them supplied for possible lengthy scouting trips.

Has a recon vehicle it has some very nice scanners for obvious reasons and thanks to the development of cheap clones non clone stuff is of much higher quality.

>>860632
>>860613
Calling it an APC is really pushing it and the Shrouded One prefers stealth for their convoys. Its designed to hold a scout team at BEST.

>>860497
She actually doesn't. A lot has changed since the Pre Fall Old World and she doesn't nearly have enough data to see whats the most valuable in the Post Fall New World.

She even admits to it.

Rolled 68 (1d100)

>>860557
Good to know anons like the thick headed witch. Odd to know they are oddly possessive of her but its kinda mutual given your her junior apprentice brother.

Clearly everyone agrees on finding a naughty thick headed witch.

Items have been sold with the Shrouded One paying extra. Odd that an arms dealer is willing to pay extra on things like that but your not gonna complain. Doubtful you'll find a safe place that offers the same kind of deal.

Or someone who is actually interested in robotic parts much less paying a premium for it.

So after you make the sell you purchased the Think Tank bike. Which was almost good as new. How the Shrouded One got it you try not to think about it, but the bots delivered it and Amy stated in surprise that its specialized tech is in fact intact.

According to its from Tari Technical Institute they were very skilled engineers. Sure enough the Think Tank is equipped with exceptionally high grade components and most importantly an advanced software input in all the components. Hard lined so no hacking without directly tapping in. This makes it so its easy to customize and control in great detail. Hard for a living person to take full advantage but Amy having taking a look. Swears its based off on some special AI tech...and most likely of a possible Black Listed Think Type AI or at the very least researcher AI was deeply embedded in its development.

After that you decided to try and track down a very thick but naughty witch. It took awhile and at first you couldn't believe your eyes...you saw those thick headed dumb machines were attending to a garden. They somehow...look very confused while they were attending to it. Meanwhile a witch was ordering them around like it was nothing. As she had things planted...and plants transplanted. Entire massive trees were transported over.

"how the hell...did you get those retarded industrial bots to listen to you?"

"Well I just reasoned with them is all."

"They are bunch of single minded idiots though..."

"That they are but that doesn't mean they are useful! You any idea how long this would of taken with some undead instead? Much less keeping their foul magics from ruining the plants...bots while not the best are a hell of a lot better. So what did you come here for?"

"Just to check on a naughty witch...and I was right about the naughty part. Did you even get permission for this project?"

"Nope. But have you seen the massive amount of empty space in the protected zone? If I tried to create this elsewhere it would be a nightmare to keep it safe."

"...You didn't get permission did you?"

"How long you wanna bet it takes for the Shrouded One to notice?"

"Given how your using the construction bots. Not very long...they seemed very confused at what they are doing."

"Technically its still according to their orders and yes they are."

What do?
>Examine the plants
>New Mission
>Sleepy time its fucking late
>Wonder what the bandits are up to...
>Other?

Rolled 50 (1d100)

Dam shopping is hard for one character when everyone has different taste.

>>861121
O so we already have shielding from the armor.

>>861155
Dam so we need to explore other civs then for info on items and their worth. Unless we get lucky with our boss having the info we need.

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>>861180
>Examine the plants
I'm guessing some of these are those healing items.

>Sleepy time its fucking late
After a quick chat on the plants we should get some rest.

Rolled 31 (1d100)

>>861180
>Sleepy time its fucking late
Make a comment like she can bunk with us if she wants company. Time to rest up, in the morning we can set our home up proper. Weapons room/armoury and an occult area..

Rolled 82 (1d100)

>>861200
This

>>861180
>Plants, then sleep

Rolled 31 (1d100)

>>861200
>>861279
>>861330
"So what kind of plants are you planting anyway?"

"Stuff I can't grow with the undead nearby. I've grown tired of having to scrounge for necessary plant matter all the fucking time. Leaving my tribe really sucked in terms of components. You survivors while good with the ruin scavenging unnatural things you really lack when it comes to the natural front."

"What grows with the undead nearby?"

"Haunted plants and rarer things that can withstand their necrotic foul energies. Tends to kill everything else into a rotting festering mess though if its strong enough. What survives though...now that stuff has value even those who aren't necromancers."

"So...your planting a farm?"

"And garden. Not like the Shrouded One will notice anytime soon...oh and when they do tell them it was me behind it. Even that one will think twice before earning the ire of a witch!"

"...So witches have a bad rep huh?" That caused her to stumble. "How do you...you know what nevermind."

"Amnesia I don't recall shit."

"Witches...lets say we have a reputation alright? The likes of which even bandits think twice before raping a witch."

"...Damn that has gotta be one mean reputation then."

"Oh it is."

"So then your planting crops here and what other kind of plants?"

"Stuff that a witch needs, stuff that is valuable for trade, and stuff I could use with my other magics. You too might be able to find some use especially should you acquire plants that would be useful to a psi. I am afraid I don't really deal in those things outside a few fringe things that non psions can also enjoy."

"Plants that have psi benefits?"

"They exist. Can't say to know a whole lot about them but I do know more then most. One thing you should consider little apprentice brother is there are natural items that can be as valuable if not more so then those artificial things you are so fond of. You ever seen how even the mighty paramilitaries are afraid of the monsters? Imagine using their hides to craft armor that can resist even a cannon...their claws that can easily peel open power armor as if it were paper making those things into weapons you can use. That is just a barest taste of what the tribal can do."

"...Can you make those things too?"

"I am admittedly much more familiar with the arts relating to brewing, salves, potions, and magics. Not exactly my forte as the crafters would be much more familiar with it then I."

After that you went back to your place and crashed. Dreaming of strangest things that dimly seemed to be memories you could not grasp. Of things that are out there...terrible things. Things of this reality and not. Eventually you awoke finding out you slept in a bit more then expected. After getting something to eat you are ready to face a new day.

What do?
>Explore the area for goodies
>New missions
>Go visit someone(who?)
>Time to Train
>Other?

>>861121
>had to burn a fate point to survive player stupidity
Oh, you mean rolling a 1 and standing near the trading booth of our boss in a survivor hub that was never supposed to be hostile? I'd hardly call that 'due to player stupidity'

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>>861409
We could of pulled out and not gone in the middle of the fire fight.

>>861377
>Time to Train
Alright AMY we got a new ride. Lets test it out and get to know it better.

Rolled 66 (1d100)

>>861423
Yeah, we'd better get used to riding an AI-piloted motorcycle

Rolled 40 (1d100)

>>861423
Bicycle.mp3

>>861409
Or rolling a 1 when trying to seduce the witch
I rolled that 1

Rolled 34 (1d100)

>>861409
I meant stepping in the middle of a firefight anon. That was pretty fucking stupid.

The other thing that was pretty fucking stupid was the wandering alone as a freshly awakened psion.

The third was interrupting the coitus which somehow didn't manage to blowup in your face like was expecting in the catacombs.

Rolled 94 (1d100)

>>861423
You decide to take it for a spin and a bot came to return Amy back to you. After inserting into as it turned out was an Advanced AI port she was now in direct control of the vehicle. As in could override your own controls. After that she helped teach you how to ride a motorcycle without crashing.

Good thing too you would hate to have broken anything and everything you screwed up she overrode you to get it back on track. Once you could drive it properly is when you set out outside the base. The mobility was nice and the vehicle...was utterly silent. When you passed next to a broken mirror display you were shocked to find there being nothing but a slight blurriness that was you on the motorcycle before you zipped by.

You were also intrigued by the screen and many...many options displayed on it. Apparently it could do an awful lot and even included a holomap. That was constantly updated by the scanners providing it intel. You could see areas that were marked for having high concentrations of 'infected', 'mutants', monsters, and even areas of dangerous background count. It even had areas with rampant machines marked out. Taking a closer look if the targets were close enough it would even have an active 'video' of them. Including what they were doing and where they were facing.

According to Amy it was due to the multiple scanning methods allowed it to develop a more realistic real time appearances the closer it was to your location. It even including tracking function for comms. Which would occasionally light up on the scanners pin pointing where it came from.

Even encrypted military comms were highlighted however the motorcycle even with Amy's help were unable to crack it. Only their locations sadly were able to be displayed...

You realized after a nice ride that the bike was an excellent purchase and it would take you some time to figure out all the neat inbuilt functions it contained.

What do?
>Zoom over to some survivors you partied with
>Zoom over to some bandits
>Investigate comm locations
>Go back
>Other?

Rolled 29 (1d100)

>>861520
>investigate comm locations
A part of me really wants to show off our bike to the witch, does it have enough room for her to squeeze on?
Not now of course but later

Rolled 66 (1d100)

>>861527
Yes

Rolled 79 (1d100)

>>861520
>>Investigate comm locations
Why not. Maybe we can find people the boss can sell to.

Rolled 45 (1d100)

>>861527
Yes but more then 2 and your pushing it.

Only problem with it is the lack of weaponry and the fact it only runs on energy cells(which ain't cheap). Fortunately an energy cell can power it for a long time...problem is all its gadgets trains its power. Amy is able to manage it by turning some functions off and others on when you need it but it still drains it rather steadily.

>>861540
You decide to investigate Comm locations. You found no less then 7 different groups. 2 of which were survivors and 2 were bandits. The other three were however different. 1 is a paramilitary patrol who were getting swarmed by some zombies. 1 was a zealot patrol purging some unfortunate undead. While the last were clearly some corp security forces out scouting.

What do?
>Introduce yourself to one of them
>Keep your distance
>Go back to base
>See what else Amy can find on the scanners
>Other?

>>861520
>Investigate the comm signals

Rolled 68 (1d100)

>>861583
>>Introduce yourself to one of them
Survivors, lets talk to our bothers and sisters.

>>861583
Go back to base and discuss the possibility of talking with the Corp sec with Andy and TSO.

Rolled 57 (1d100)

>>861583
>Keep your distance

Rolled 4 (1d100)

>>861608
This but do surveillance, and taught us to know our possible enemy.

Genie, are there any old world motorcycles? I'm talking internal combustion road warrior sort of thing. If we take her out for a ride we need it to be a proper ride.

Rolled 37 (1d100)

>>861583
>Go back to base
Inform the boss, maybe earn some good will by saving the military? Also the Corp folk.

Rolled 94 (1d100)

>>861605
You can communicate over comms(especially given how strong the motorcycle is at boosting said comm signal).

Though Andy isn't very easy to get a hold of given he is an Assassin Android they like maintaining a low profile.

Amy states that much of the operations done by the Base is actually done by a scavenged collection of Advanced AI who basically oversee everything. So even if the boss is asleep its hard to not contact one of the AI's.

>>861616
There are.

The one your currently using is a very fancy hover model. Hence why its so damned quiet.

Fuels and machinery meanwhile have advanced enough that their 'classic' engines can handle an awful lot. Fuel of such a level as that isn't hard to devise and those type of vehicles still in circulation can take one hell of a beating(admittedly a good part of it can be blamed on the Fall but not entirely).

Those type of engines remained very popular for both that 'classic' feel and because of how cheap they are even before the Fall.

They only run into problems if you try to hook up the power intensive more advanced tech to them. Otherwise they are very reliable and sturdy even with shit quality fuel that is a given in the Post Fall world.

For fucks sake Bandit fuel is literally drinkable because they combined their stills and fuel refinery together. Admittedly not the greatest idea but we are talking bandits here.

Quiet motorcycles are much more popular/expensive because they draw less attention. Which is very useful when you consider the lack of armor.

Two things Anons
1) what personality do you see this character developing
2) why do anons keep trying to solo everything? We're gonna get killed

>>861645
1 cool headed not cool headed asshat who has the worst ideas and the best of interests albeit some self oriented
2 see previous statement

In other news I think we need to procure one of these old world bikes for bike purposes.

Rolled 5 (1d100)

>>861645
I see him becoming a proud but paranoid sorcerer.

Well, now we have a bike designed for avoiding detection and escaping in the event that we are detected. We aren't planning to get off the bike nor engage hostiles, so we should be alright. Although I suppose it would be cool to have a bunch of comparably sneaky bot vehicles shadowing us.

>>861686
I see us as a treasure hunter, seeing as we gave up on our memories we should try to get rich And enjoy what the fall has to offer.

Rolled 73 (1d100)

>>861638
1 introduce yourself to survivors
2 back to base
2 keep your distance

Need a tiebreaker.

Rolled 94 (1d100)

>>861702
Does my vote count for two if I go over my previous roll?

Rolled 2 (1d3)

>>861702
The random choice

Rolled 28 (1d100)

>>861702
Distance. Lets get info on them all.

Rolled 58 (1d100)

>>861724
Back to base it is then.

You had to take some detours when you tried to return due to the movements of zombies and monsters. Fortunately you remained undetected and after awhile got back. There you informed the AI of your findings and they told you go to a small nondescript building. You weren't sure why until you got there. Having to go past multiple re-purposed military battle bots and several bulk head doors. Deep within you discovered a hidden layer to the above base and there you found rows upon rows of bots...all hanging up there. Along with piles of scraps and parts that were being carefully cataloged and then organized.

Down across a suspended rusted platform you entered a side room. Where you saw the Shrouded One was fiddling with some gear and Andy was nearby experimenting with some pieces of it. There you were told to sit down. After waiting a bit the Shrouded One finally waved you over.

To a table covered in gear some you knew the purpose of some you didn't. Nearby on a dummy was placed an unknown suit of armor with a weapon's rack nearby. Hanging on chains you saw various bots. The Shrouded One was busy adjusting some electronics from a gutted piece of unknown tech before putting it back together again.

"...Since we seemed to be entering a long term business relationship I figured it was time to make sure you were properly kitted out...and taken care of. I have repaired some sex bots to suit your needs...they come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Should that not be enough I can also arrange more...living versions to attend to your needs and i have granted you access to the library."

"Now to go over your equipment...rather a pain given how your a psi magi but I finally was able to piece it together," continues the Shrouded One. "The armor is a made up of relic heavy magical armor combined with refurbished Eibo Industries Investigator Power Armor. With some of my own...adjustments. Eibo was very well known for their excellent use of psitech and I paid off a psitek to further adjust it for New World purpose. The Heavy Armor meanwhile was augmented by some undead contacts."

"Then there is this beauty," that was when another armor stand suddenly appeared without even so much as a crackle or blink. "This here is stealth armor. Made up of Umbra Megacorporation Psi Program 'Shade' Spectre Power Armor and magiweave Dead Woven cloths of the Ilkor Institute of Wretched Magics. Yet again with my very own adjustments. For some reason Andy insisted on getting you a suit of stealth armor."

>>861722
no.

>>861813
Oh Andy we didn't think you cared <3

Rolled 12 (1d100)

>>861813
"Both of which are much better then my old suit of power armor your using."

"Finally after that on the weapon rack," now the Shrouded One grabbed a rifle. "Magitech Psi Relic Rifle that feeds upon the magics and psi you channel to provide itself with ammo. Be careful where you aim as it will pursue whatever target you have in mind. Comes with rechargable psy crystal and magic absorbing Feed system. Doesn't need to be reloaded and it will adapt itself to the power your using." Next the Shrouded One picked up an SMG. "Crystpsytekko Sub Machine Gun. Devised by underworld weapon makers for psions and its ammo supply is regrown by channeling psi into it. It has a built in targeting smart system that shoots darts made of crystal that explode and grow before exploding once until it runs out of energy. Very painful...very damaging. Non psions must reload crystals by hand while psions can hijack the targeting system through touch of the SMG and further manipulate the crystals for additional effects. So effective it was even used off the books by militaries and corps alike..."

"Now after that is this shotgun," says the Shrouded One grabbing yet another gun. "This baby here is a double barreled shotgun that I sort of...combined from a psytech shotgun and magitech shotgun. Inspired by some crazy bandit designs but I figure it will suit your needs nicely. I even went through the trouble to make sure its properly aligned and fused together. Usage is simple in psi shotgun half it needs not be reloaded due to a rechargeable ammo crystal and psi amplifying barrel. The magitech meanwhile uses a similar design...and is made up of of orichalcum instead of crystal. It too can be reloaded through magical channeling and its barrel will boost magical effects. Both barrels also induce a strange 'shotgun' effect to its ammo. Naturally it has a classic wood stock and finishing."

"Now these two rifles...one is an assault and the other is a sniper. The assault rifle is a pure magitech design that peculiarly can use ordinary ammo...that it enchants. Magi have the option to control what kind of enchantment is placed upon the ammo used for it otherwise you'll need to prime it by inserting a scroll, wand, or other appropriate items such as magic stones or gems, underneath the barrel of the gun. Yes it can also double as a grenade launcher. I would suggest keep a distance when you do so as the resulting detonation is...devastating as it forcefully makes discharges improperly and will require a reload if you want a magic effect again on the bullets."

"The psytech sniper rifle meanwhile...is a common one in certain circles where psions are trained for...different shadowy operations. To best assist their psi operatives they had these lines of psytech sniper rifles developed for them. So wildly popular were they other shadowy groups acquired their own and eventually thanks to the megacorps knock off versions became available in the market. However...this is no knock off.

Wow...we just became TSO's secondary operative. Guess we'll be working with Andy alot.

Cone to think of it a spec ops PSION and an assassin bot working together could be some scary Shit, rising stuff from minds, learning patrol routes etc, Andy doing his thing.

Rolled 65 (1d100)

>>861843
"This is an original customized Paler Sniper Rifle. No one knows how many exactly were manufactured exactly as they were carefully made piece by piece handmade for psi agent usage until they became standardized enough for easier production. In other words this is a First Generation Paler Sniper Rifle. Carefully cultivated for a single agent's hands...I have adjusted to be used by you. You see unlike the Second Generation they can still be adjusted to serve different users. The Second Gens had the annoying lock of a single user only and is useless to any other. This is before that annoying failsafe...and hence why its so valuable. Its an utterly legit Paler. Even in the old world a knock off was worth a fortune...and a original such as this utterly and truly priceless."

"It took all my talents to ready this weapon for service once more...it was used by an old colleague of mine and is a family heirloom. If you lose it or get it destroyed I WILL track you down to torture to death. I can live with it being damaged as it can still be fixed but lost or destroyed on the other hand...well Andy would suggest committing suicide."

"That I would," agrees Andy.

"Now for sidearms," continues the Shrouded One. "I have three. A magitech relic magic revolver old sturdy reliable. Can use bullets or good old fashion direct magi infusion. Infusion can hold six shots or bullets. You can customize it however you want. Either way the barrel will enchant the bullet as it passes through. As for what enchantment exactly...this is a very old gun. From what i understand it connects and absorbs the ambient magics into the bullet. Meaning get hit by it is like getting shot by reality itself. Even the most sturdiest or impossible to injure of things will feel its bite...hence its rarity and value. I am afraid the means of creating such a magical effect has been long lost."

"The next pistol is a Psycho Pistol yes I got it from a bandit crazy but its the best psytek machine pistol I ever seen. As for what it does...I really don't know but it can do things I never saw any other psytech do. Supposedly it was made by an actual Bandit Psycho Heroes and i got a hold of one."

Game stat wise induces the MAD effect and psi amplifier to its attacks while also having some...mysterious additional effects.

"The last pistol meanwhile is a psi magi pistol...which I got from Mister Neutral. How the hell he had a tech pistol that was a fusion of psi and magic I will never know. Its a semi auto with some of the strangest effects I ever seen on a gun. The bullets act with either incredible force, nothing, or something else entirely. I really don't get it. but I seen it blow a hole through a tank and somehow miss a dummy point blank. Mister Neutral insists that only the Psi Magi can truly understand and appreciate its wonders."

"Personally I think that is a bunch of bullshit and he got it from a crazy...thing is though its not of MADNESS so...yeah weird gun."

>>861843
Can we just fanboy out at this? Like, this is some seriously amazing equipment we just got.

Rolled 68 (1d100)

>>861909
"Sadly I have only a two heavy weapons that would be of interest to you."

"One is a duel missile launcher coming with a psitech half...and a magitech half. Bandit design and I think it might be made by or for crazies. Either way you gotta either use a buttload of psi or magic to make it fire. That or load with a big chunk of psi crystal or magic stuff watch the fireworks."

"...I once test fired it once and only once before purchasing. Yes it was that awesome. Its just so INSANELY expensive to shoot but damn if it wont make a dent in something no matter what."

"I am an arms Dealer so that is saying something."

"Its called...uh oh right Boom Cannon Deluxe is poorly stenciled on both handle so guess that is its name. Bandits and their terrible naming I swear... The pistol Mister Neutral had sold me meanwhile he claimed its name was the 'Hostile Peacemaker'. Sorry I forgot to mention that. Sold it to me for very cheaply claiming it reminded him of times he wanted to forget...claimed it was a legendary weapon back in the day. No doubt a bunch of bullshit but it really is an amazing weapon. Now he uses a plain revolver he calls the Neutral Negotiator. The first time I ever met him was when he sold me that strange semi automatic pistol...if you take it to him he might be willing to share some of its secrets. He seemed to never want to see it again though so it might be hard to make him talk."

"Now the last heavy weapon is...a relic magitech machine gun. It is actually a rotary gun enchanted for cooling and spinning. The ammo meanwhile is from an enchanted magitech box that holds a truly unholy amount of bullets. What is unique about however is some of the most unique and advanced enchantments I have ever seen on a magitech machine gun including the miniguns. Entire gun is crammed with magical formations and glyphs. Whoever made it spent an awful lot of love on it...I sadly only have two of the original ammo boxes it used. One is called Hell and the other Death. I...would think carefully before using those original ammo boxes. The newer magitech while not as good still benefits from the inborn effects with the gun itself...I feel like this old gun had one hell of a story behind it and i would love to see what the other original ammo boxes that came with it would say."

"How do you know there is more then those two," you ask.

"...I found it when I just started out. An old crate that was half rotten...buried in an unmarked grave guarded by a ghost gunner who swore such a weapon should never be unleashed back onto the world. Once I beat I opened the crate...there it was laying in mildew covered straw with several indents for ammo boxes. Sadly there were only two left still in there."

"This old machine gun...was my originally my weapon."

"Why did you stop using it?"

"Its Cursed. Once i stepped foot in a church and the gun was smite by the gods...but withstood the punishment without a scratch."

Rolled 46 (1d100)

>>861975
"Another time I was about to get torn to shreds by a huge undead horde that I was unlucky enough to get in the way of...but once they saw it. The undead horde ran away screaming terror...mind you this included the mindless and intelligent undead alike. Yet another time I ran into some demons who upon seeing me draw the weapon turned pale and let me pass unmolested. I tried to ask them why they feared this gun...how did they know it? They along the smart undead refused to speak and shied away...begged me to keep it away from them.

"That was the last time I ever used it."

"Even when I used it to slay monsters...it always left behind a vile feeling and I could feel a deep terrible thirst emanating from it."

"I never heard of a such a weapon so accursed...yet so unknown. Hell even among known curse weapons I NEVER heard one of like it and mind you I AM an Arms Dealer."

"Strangest thing is though...it was perfectly helpful and never caused me trouble. I don't even know why I kept it all this time..."

"...I remember waking up in the middle of the night attempting to destroy it in my sleep. I even tried to do so while awake yet nothing worked on it. And all I felt was a strange sadness in the attempts radiate from it."

"The name of the weapon by the way on the crate it said its name was the 'The Accursed Battle Cannon of Damnation.' I personally called it the Murder Machine. Funny part is on the gun itself is carved a name saying it was called 'Deadly Peaceful' that was crossed out and replacing it beneath crudely was 'Carnage Incarnate'. Andy liked to call it 'the Spirit of Slaughter' and got the closest i ever seen to crying robot tears of happiness."

Besides that...is all for weapons. The bot hanging out on there is a scout drone. You can control it with a controller it and it comes with a ion blaster for a weapon. The box over there...well is two bags of equipment I am still piecing together. If you got some recommendation do make sure and tell me."

"Also you can only use the equipment here when your on one of my missions. In which case you can use whatever you want."

What do?
>NEW MISSIONS
>Find a naughtiest witch
>Go out exploring
>Time to train
>Other?

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>>862076
>Find a naughtiest witch

Rolled 64 (1d100)

>>862076
>>NEW MISSIONS
Why would we not want to use the new gear.

Rolled 22 (1d100)

>>862076
>NEW MISSIONS
Can double as training with ANDY

Rolled 83 (1d100)

>>862283
>>862137
Yep

Rolled 3 (1d100)

>>862850
You decided to take on a new mission quite excited to try out all that fancy new gear...so you talked to some AI to find out what needs doing for. Honestly your not entirely sure what the hell the end game is for the Shrouded One.

CHOOSE:
>Gun Running
>Targeted Acquisitions
>Salvaging Efforts
>Greed Creed
>War Wage
>Assassinating Assholes

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>>862901

>Salvaging Efforts
Allow our boss to get this robot civ up and running with resources.

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>>862901
>Greed Creed
Assassinating Assholes sounds fun, but I want to see what this one is like.

>>862949
But we just did that!

As a side note, we really need to crack open that psi necromancy tome.

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>>862901
Balls I forgot

>Hostile Negotiations

My bad.

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>>862970
We need more resources. We will never stop needing more. We may even find a hidden depot they will not.

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>>862981
And the other missions don't give us anything we need? Shrouded One wouldn't want them done if they weren't profitable.

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>>862995
Do the other ones use our talents to the fullest?

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>>862901
>Targeted Acquisitions
We can go places alot of TSO's forces can't, we're a simple human. We can blend and scout, we can chill and drink in bars, he'll a few survivors even like us.

Let's see how we do at this? It's good infiltration practice

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>>863012
We're good at salvaging, but it doesn't have much to do with being a psi mage, which is our actual talent. We are merely skilled at salvaging. Any survivor or bandit can salvage and some are experienced enough to be at least as good as us , but psi magi are extremely rare.

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>>863062
Lies our salvaging skills come from the 1 thing that stuck with us from the mind wipe. That is a talent.

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>>863094
>1 thing that stuck with us from the mind wipe
You mean basic Survivor skills? Whatever you say.
So it's a talent. Salvaging still makes little use of our other talents. Furthermore we don't actually know if the other missions use our talents to the fullest, because we've never done them before unlike salvaging.

Also I apologize for nothing.

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>>863140
I was just talking to see if the dice would roll that or not since ether of us are unlikely to change.

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>>863062
You decide to take the Greed Creed mission. Which as it turned out was to help expand the business of the Shrouded One so after getting a shipment you set out. Alas you were interrupted when you saw a very angry Shrouded One give the boot to a certain naughty witch was sent flying...and landed right next to on a nice fluffy cloud as she bounced back up. Boobies jiggling wildly as she gave you a hug.

"Well junior apprentice brother...looks like I finally got caught."

"What the hell did you do," you asked the witch after the embrace while trying to desperately look at her eyes...and not the chest. Not the chest...no sirree damn how does it jiggle so much...unsurprisingly she was completely oblivious to your wanton gaze desperately trying to figure out the secrets behind her amazing boobies.

"Well...I sorta got bored from the garden right...so I was like the shrouded one has all those bots that don't work right? So I was like how about I helped?"

"Helped?" you asked as you desperately fought down the gulp as you got into the truck with the witch who was extra naughty. Those long legs...and dat ass. Truly a booty that can only belong to a witch. Wait a second...why is she only in her panties? How the HELL did you miss that until now?

"Yeah," says the witch."So you see I had these ideas from when I was witch that could help right?" she continues oblivious the fact she is only in her panties, what you really hope is suppose to be some kind of bra, and shoes. "Plus there was ALL the stuff I learned with our teacher." She continues bouncing around getting dangerously close to you who was driving...and doing very poorly at it. "So..." she hesitates pushing back which causes her rack to jut out with a truly dangerous amount of force...and ignoring gravity upward. Yet somehow she has a innocent yet mischievous look on her face that you swore would belong to a naughty little girl if she wasn't a spanking hot witch.

"...So?"

"I...HELPED! By possessing a bunch of her bots with spirits to UPGRADE them AND I fixed a bunch broken bots by turning them into NECROBOTS by using necromancy!" At this point you were gobsmacked whether by the sheer stupidity, balls, or naughtiness you honestly weren't sure. Partly that may be due to her excitement she had grabbed a hold of your head before firmly stuffing them into her boobs as she called out "OOH I LOVE THAT ADORABLE SURPRISED LOOK ON YOUR LITTLE FACE ITS THE CUTEST AND BESTEST!"

"MFFHFM," you futilely tried to complain but goddamn those things are beyond amazing. Then again this is your first time enjoying real human boobies that weren't attached to a horrible demonic monster.

"Oh how bothersome," says Amy as she takes over. "Your lucky I am here"

"YOUR THE BEST AMY!" yells out the naughtiest witch as she does her best to squeeze the life out of you. "LOOK HOW CHERRY RED YOUR FACE IS," she says finally giving you a breath of fresh air. "ITS ADORABLE."

Oh no not again...not the hugs of booby death.

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>>863190
YOU ARE NOT READY.

"...Isn't that wildly inappropriate," asks Amy?

"What no of course not its HUGGING! As a senior apprentice sister of COURSE I gotta whenever the junior apprentice is acting adorable or cute...otherwise what will you do when they grow up? What happens WHEN THEY STOP ACTING CUTE AND ADORABLE!"

"...I think your squeezing him to hard. He is suffocating."

"Suffocating? I AM NOT FAT."

"No," says Amy thinking quickly. "How is a grown man with a face like that cute?"

"Wha-," says the witch checking thereby allowing you to gulp down a precious breath of fresh air.

Wait a second did Amy just di-"PFHWM"

"OF COURSE HE IS THE CUTEST! Even if he isn't the cutest...I COULD TOTALLY FIX THAT! I COULD MAKE HIM A CUTE LITTLE BOY AGAIN AND EVERYTHING!"

"...I tried master."

Damn it Amy LISTEN TO ME...oh right she is an AI so your powers don't work. QUICK TIME TO TALK THE WITCH DOWN.

"PUWAH FRESH AIR!"

"Why didn't you say so," comments the witch. "That you were so embarrassed...that you couldn't ask me for help...its alright."

"Wait what?"

Don't worry I will help you with your mission. SO MORE HUGS."

"NNO THATS NOT I-MFFMH"

"YOUR THE CUTEST~"

DAMN IT YOU SHOULD OF PRACTICED YOUR TELEPATHY MORE. LACK OF AIR TO YOUR BRAIN MUST OF CAUSED YOU TO MESS IT UP-

An unknown time later before a very...very angry Shrouded One.

"So let me get this straight...you gave away ALL the the guns, armor, AND ammo...for FREE? Because and I quote 'hugs'."

"YUP," agrees the witch looking mighty proud.

"Well...yes bu-," you tried to explain.

"NO BUTS YOU FUCKING IDIOT HOW THE FLYING FUCK DID YOU MISS THE GODDAMN TRADING MANUEL I LEFT!"

"Oh but i noticed it and I tried to read it...as a bed time story," explains the witch as she pat you on the head.

"AGH THAT JUST MAKES IT WORSE! HOW DID YOU MISS THE SELLING PART?"

"Why...because being cute and future friendships," says the witch spreading her arms wide and smiling happily as if she just explained the meaning of life.

"GAHH."

And that was how you both got choked out by your boss and discovered the terrors that is a naughtiest witch as a senior apprentice sister.

Sometime later when you awoke to a massive migraine, parched throat, and aching lungs.

"Junior apprentice brother I GOT AN IDEA!"

"NNOOO," you yell desperately running away.

"OH COME ON ITS GOING TO BE AWESOME!"

"NO NO WAY YOUR NOTHING BUT TROUBLE!"

"BUT THAT'S WHY ITS FUN!"

"...Oh I hate those two so much...SO very much," says the Shrouded One rubbing its head. "Damn you idea for that terrible idea."

"Oh come on now...they make quite the tea-you know you didn't actually have to and quite literally tear my head off. That is just overkill."

"IF HE WASN'T A GODDAMNED PSI MAGE AND SHE A FUCKING-I SWEAR RAHH," rages the Shrouded One while tearing apart possessed bots and necrotech bots with his/her bare hands.

What do?
>New missions
>Run far far away from a naughtiest witch
>Hideout somewhere outside
>Time to train
>Other?

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>>863304
>New missions
Salvage, we are good at that, go get better stuff than the stuff we just lost, we'll work double shifts we're sorry darn it.

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>>863325
Sure, sounds good.

I want to do more training soon though.

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>>863325
Time for some B&E.

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>>863325
"Hey uh Andy...what happened to your head?"

"Got ripped off by you know you."

"...And yet your still able to see where your going?"

"Do you really think an assassin android is so stupidly designed as to contain sensors all in their head? Or speakers for that hah. So what job you taking?"

"Salvaging...I gotta lot of scavenging to do to uh...make up for it."

"Actually it ain't that bad boss was smart enough to not give you a valuable cargo load just in case. Personally I would suggest taking a mission that kept you gone for awhile. Let her cool down. Maybe bring some living enemies or slaves for sadistic fun time that ISN'T you. Very important that last part."

"...Wait your a bot so how can you feel pain?"

"We can be programmed to feel pain and that one is VERY good at making one experience agony."

"So wait why ARE you here then?"

"I am gonna go with."

"...I thought you don't know how to scavenge?"

"I don't."

"Then why come?"

"RAAHHH."

"...That is why."

"Very good reason."

"So what is the job?"

"Help the constructor bots salvage and send the shipments back. We basically can scavenge and help provide security as per usual. Meantime I will also recruit some scavengers to help out."

"Hm...I see. Well good luck with that."

"What are going to do?"

"Kill. What else do you think I am good for?"

"Being sneaky."

"...Touche."

With that you once more began to go on a lengthy salvaging operation that will go on throughout the day. Large and small constructor bots all moved in. All guided by one smart(dumb) Construction AI of advanced nature. Security detail is mostly security model androids and a few battle models mingled into them.

What do?
>Scavenge
>Hit up the survivor settlements
>Bandit holds to visit
>See what Andy is up to
>Other?

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>>863503
>Hit up the survivor settlements
Well I'm back. Do y'all want in?

We have the do the heavy lifting and they clean house. Now if only we have a think tank for the high tech scavenger bonuses. That could help with bots and other tech.

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>>863503
>other: have AMY take control from the dumb constructor AI and make this worth while.

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>>863503
>See what Andy is up to
I'm genuinely curious, does he want a hand looking for a specific item? Is he feeling sad? Would you like to know dome Paramilitary patrol routes.

>Other?
Have AMY control some of the bigger bots, she knows how we work. Send us info from time to time so we can play manager.

Rolled 98 (1d100)

>>863700
Support, give the murder bot something to do.

>>863700
Support, we need to stay away from Naughty Witch for a while.

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>>863700
I don't know man, what if we need AMY's help for ourselves?

>>863503
>Scavenge
See if we can get more than we lost. Focus on stuff the Shrouded One likes.
>Other?
Keep an eye out for anything interesting our bike can detect

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>>863503
>See what Andy is up to
Andy we need to hunt down a turkey and something pork like. We must bring a feast upon all that live in the area.

Witchy Witch, you know any tribals that I could ask for hunters.

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>>863700
Andy isn't actually looking for specific items...more things he can kill. He really REALLY likes killing things. Your not sure if its part of his personality, glitch, or actual programming.

Current salvage objectives is to collect, break down, or repair scrap heaps. Including barriers that help force hordes to break up or detours. Usually cutting through the detours which are typically bandit made. According to Amy according to the plans they are to help develop certain trade routes, sabotage horde activity, and create easier means to move bandit forces. Apparently belonging to the Alliance of bandit gangs.

Scrap is collected melted down or reused. Particularly after testing the quality of metal. Andy for his part while you were scavenging open areas wandered around seemingly aimless and killing everything he came across...everything.

Even the cute little animals were not spared his wrath.

According to Andy he states things may get bumpy...as he has noticed increased bandit activity in our area and monsters are apparently 'acting up'. Which you thought was fine until you noticed said monsters had a taste for metal.

No wonder Andy noticed after seeing some attack a few of the bots.

What do?
>Keep going
>Time for a detour
>Call Mister Neutral
>Find a survivor settlement
>Other?

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>>864991
Keep going

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>>864991
>Keep going

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>>864991
>Other?
Get tribals to help with metal eatting monster problem.

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>>864991
>Call Mister Neutral
Seems things are going down. If he knows, he'll already be making a plan, and if he doesn't he'll want to be informed.
>>865121
I would like to do this, but make it a more general search for special forms of help

Rolled 99 (1d100)

>>865404
For some reason you are unable to contact Mister Neutral through your comms you have a very bad feeling about this...

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>>865431
OH Shit...

>>864991
Ok change of plan message boss say bandits are acting up and Mr N is MIA.

Second using our bike scan their comms. Set up some areas to collapse on our foes should they come for us.

ANDY we may be about to have company, time to earn our pay check, get valuables away while we can...

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>>865466
Vote

>>861909
>>861975
>>862076
I meant to talk about this, but got distracted.
We never mentioned what we want to take with us on this mission, but I propose that the Hostile Peacemaker be taken with us by default whenever we're doing work for the Shrouded One. I have a feeling it may help us learn more about being a psi mage.
The machine gun sounds almost too awesome to use so what does that say about its unique ammunition?

Rolled 97 (1d100)

>>865404
Tribels I feel will be the best for metal monsters.

The bandits we can probably rally the survivors and get our boss to sell them stuff.

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>>865431
Meanwhile in banditville.

"FEAST FEAST FEAST FEAST FEAST," bellows a bunch of bandits as one.

"...So why did you invite us here Mister Neutral," asks a bandit boss.

"Haven't you noticed? It has been one solar cycle since our alliance. Of course we must celebrate..."

"Ah is that so? Gotta say I didn't think there would be so many bosses here."

"Well each gang has a boss."

"Our numbers are great...so what is the REAL reason you all have us here?"

"...Expansion."

"Expansion?"

"We are in one city..so why not expand? We got wilderness, ruins, and more."

"Fuck wilderness. Ain't worth messing with the damned tribals. Like fighting paramilitaries but with shitty loot."

"Not as bad mutants..."

"NOTHING is as bad as mutants. At least the paramilitaries and tribals both got the decency to stay human."

"There are ruins in the wilderness...and people. Things to loot."

"In that case your welcome to first cut and first expansion...but we an't going. Not to the wilderness that is."

"I would but that would require me expanding...and you ever thought how good the wilderness would be for a place to hideout? To live?"

"...We are listening."

"Think about it...all there is tribals no? Who like to leave people alone...and who the fuck is going to go to the trouble to penetrate into the deep wilds to mess with some shitty bandits?"

"..."

"See...now your showing your bossy proper minds are thinkikn."

"...So you MIGHT have a point. Problem is transportation. It wont be cheap or easy to get there and back outside for easy prey."

"I never said it would cheap or easy but in exchange we get secrecy and security. Two very valuable things for even us bandits."

"How about this if somebody figures out our transport problem we all go in? Anyone against?"

"..."

"Good. So how is everybody doin?"

"The usual Mr N raiding and dying."

"Sure the alliance has helped matters no?"

"Sure the reinforcements, agreements, and trading is nice but we got no good bases. No damned heroes and lots of enemies."

"So the usual then. Ain't least we ain't starving AND we got good guns no? We are sharing ideas and trading tech."

"We have gone far."

"Yet still no heroes Mister N."

"Maybe if we could get along things would go more easily."

"ITS A DAMNED MIRACLE WE AIN'T TRYING TO KILL EACH OTHER! Think about it we all bosses...we can't stand the thought of a boss above ourselves no? Its a miracle we can still get along N. Yet you keep pushing for more and more..."

"Yet look at us now. We are allies...we got good raiding with plentiful reinforcements always on call. We got nice guns and the prey is fattening up. The best of us with their experts are helping to supply everyone else...we are strong."

"Strong for someone small fry standards sure Mister N. We got no elites...no heroes and we can barely scrounge together a crew of bad asses. And well got a bunch of chiefs all want to be the number 1 Chief. Its a damned miracle we haven't turned on each other..."

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>>865700
Yes, but if we can find any we can reason with non-humans (and non-robot) such as undead could be good too. Or cultists who summon things that don't rely on metal.

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>>865720
Lack of exotic mats. to trade with would be a big problem for getting all of those. Plus more time to find and get them to help. Witch knows of tribals. So we got that to work off of. She just can't ask them for help since there was some kinda of falling out.

Yet I could be wrong.

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>>865712
"That is what you keep ME around for," reminds Mister Neutral. "Look at the bandits here...are they your typical gangster slop? FUCK NO as you said those types would NEVER get along like we can...and that is why we are winning. That is why we are strong. We know how to work together, to put our differences aside, to forgive, and stand each other's company despite great dislike. Sure we are bandits notorious for backstabbing, evil fuckery, vile scum and traitorous bastards. We are among the lowliest filth bandits can offer...the gangs. Only thing worse then us is the REAVERS. Yet here we are...sitting together, eating, drinking, and even fucking. Hell we can get along SO well we are ALLIES. So are we your typical gangs? Sure our own forces probably are...but what of us? What of the bandit chiefs? The Bosses? We may be gangsters...but none of us stupid. We know the value of allies...of being dare I say partners?"

"...You and your way with words Neut. So what is your big idea now?"

"I told you already expansionism. If we work together...we can expand beyond this city, but that will require us pooling together our resources and troops."

"Oh not that shit again only reason this works is we da boss in our own turf and gangs."

"I am not saying here...I am saying out there. While facing the unknown we know this city but out there not so much and i am not saying we wont be seperate all I am saying this. Safety in numbers and we ALL stay our own bosses."

"...So we share a base but work on our own? Can call each other as backup as per usual really except...closer together? Easier to respond?"

"Exactly."

"Well so long as it ain't the fucking wilderness I am in. Too many damned monsters and tribals that way. Much less fueling difficulties."

"I can do it."

"...Huh?"

"As I said. I can do it...but I will obviously need more guys if you wont help me."

"...So you willing to take the risks AND you got the fuel?"

"I got something even better...some leads."

"Well fine then Mistah N if you can figure out the transport problem we'll be more then happy to help."

"So i can expand then?"

"Well so long as we are allowed to keep a few guys in your bases...sure after all we can spare a few guys to help and a few add up as you always said."

"That they do," says Mister Neutral smiling. "I DO so look forward to our new supply of tribal bandits..."

"Ah...Headhunters? Oh they are some great fucking fighters!"

"True...we don't have too many of them in our alliance. They would certainly be welcome allies and reinforcements."

"My idea exactly..."

"Wait iz this the real reason you wanted to reach out? Fucking tribal bandit gangs and outcasts?"

"Well of course. Only other place I can find hard to acquire allies is the wastelands."

"OH HELL NO. Under no condition are we stinking our heads in there...and I can say that on for everyone here!"

"Shame...mutant bandits are something else."

"Sometimes Mister Neutral I think you might be a madman."

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>>865744
Is the Witch even with us? Are we even anywhere near tribals, much less the ones she knows?

Trying to trade with Tribals is its own problem, since there's so little they want.

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>>865770
Monsters that eat metal could make good tools, I'm sure.

>>865749
Hey big sis witch, do you know anyone that can and is willing to take on metal eating monsters?

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>>865749
"Well of course I am!"

"huh...re-really?"

"You ever heard of someone insane enough to rally a bunch of gangs together? Only person crazier is expecting to get reavers to work together! Puwahah."

""AHAHAHAH...fuck that is so true...your really ARE a madman ahahahah."

"Hey boss...we might have a problem," whispers a bandit to Mister Neutral.

"Problem...what problem? I made sure to scout everything out so we are in the clear."

"Someone tried to get a hold of us...but were blocked."

"Blocked?"

"Yeah boss blocked."

"Someone managed to block our comms? You fucking kidding me? We got the BEST comms in the entire goddamned alliance."

"Exactly boss hence why I considered it important enough to interrupt your feast with the other bosses."

"...Shit. Do we at least know where it came from?"

"Blockers no, but the attempt communication we do know its coordinates."

"Those who can block us...I can count them on a single hand. Get a hold of BB. If they wanna play dirty with tech then we play dirty with tech."

"Uh...sir is that...a bit overkill?"

"Do you any idea how deep in shit we'll be if the others here find out about that 'problem'. Send them out no survivors. Nobody is going to get word on this NO ONE!"

"Okay sir...wait why did I come here again? Feel like...I am forgetting something."

"You were about to send BB out on a job at these coordinates."

"Oh...right is that really such a good idea?"

"Its just a normal mission sometimes they too need some action."

"Alright boss."

>>865466
You are currently getting jammed. You are unable to contact anyone using your comms.

>>865521
You can thank rarity for all that gear. Trying to get a buyer is an absolute nightmare and Shrouded One is a bit of a collector.

>>865700
I can't believe you actually managed to make that check...you lucky bastards.

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>>865804
You quickly realize you need reinforcements...and you need them sooner rather then later. So while you desperately tried to get your comms working you kept your eyes open for possible reinforcements.

Of all things you noticed the tell tale signs of a tribals on the hunt for monsters...according to naughty necromancer witch anyway. After performing a signal you are shocked when down the street in a window you get a reply. After performing another sign you suddenly felt something dangerous poking you on the back.

"...How do you know our signals survivor," asks the tribal with a dangerously pointy stick. You much to your shock could feel it through your armor.

"Well...bout that a witch taught me."

"Witch is it? Well...that certainly explain would explain it. Bunch of crazy bitches."

"...Oh you have no idea my friend no idea."

"We know better then most...only bandits know as much if not more then us at least in terms of bad witchery anyway. They are unlucky though always getting stuck with the evilest of witches."

"So...I hope you do like your bait."

"Bait?"

"Notice how those monsters like the bots?"

"Hm...so you want monster parts?"

"No...I need intact bots and tech salvage."

"Oh...then why you need us?"

"Boss is already angry I can't fail again and screw up. I know you guys are amazing monster hunters."

"Why is boss so mad?"

"...Witch and my fault."

"That would certainly explain it. I too know the horrors of bewitchment."

"Yeah...those boobies man."

"Dat ass."

"That too and them legs..."

"Yeah...that too."

"Worst part is not even when they are a old hag are you safe...because they make up for it with experience."

"Yeah no fucking winning with witches man."

"Indeed."

You gotta say the tribals are actually some pretty cool guys. You didn't think you would so easily run into someone who knew your pain...and it only now occurred to you that technically you don't need tech to have long range communications...damn it. You only now just realized it and you don't even have amnesia to blame too.

After making a deal with the tribals you asked them about what else they noticed and they tell of you things you realize could in fact help you. They noticed a Shrouded One Spy Drone. Some bandit activity of differing allegiances. Survivors. Paramilitary outpost. And most amazing of all a Think Tank guys who are normally like ghosts. They tell of you mutants too. A smart zombie lurking around...come to think of it ain't it that bastard who tried to ambushed you with that horde? FUCK That thing is STILL on you? They told you of their traps and good places to defend are. As well as quirks of the terrain that even Amy and the bots under the Shrouded One have missed.

You gained a temporary +20 to combat against foes while in this area only.

>>865770
You have no idea where the witch is.

That is unfortunately true.

>>865781
You cannot contact anyone through comms right now.

Rolled 59 (1d100)

>>864991
>Other?
ANDY we have Bandits incoming and comms are jammed.

Get the construction bots to set up some defences and get someone to manually go tell the boss we got incoming.

ANDY me and you are on Recon let's keep an eye out and see who this is...then bugger out if needs be. Maybe bait those metal eating mobsters to these new foes..

.. Genie you just dropped our sister on us didn't you

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>>865781
You have successfully made contact with the Witch through magic. You weren't entirely sure what you were doing but somehow it was easier then you expected.


"Tribals, mutants, undead, and a few outsiders. About time you called! I personally would suggest mutants and tribals. Undead only work because of how relentless they are and the outsiders are unreliable."

Well good thing you have one and know where to find the other. Convincing them to help is however another matter entirely...

After that you contacted Mister Neutral though psi.

"Oh didn't realize you were far enough advanced to use long range ps-ah desperation and intense fear. Figures guess that explains the shakiness."

"Well...I DO hope it ain't monster masters."

"Monster Masters?"

"You know bandits who use monsters? Like Zeds but worse."

"How can they POSSIBLY be worse then Zeds?"

"Trust me kid they are. Otherwise they are unrelated in which case they are Crazies besides them anyone else would be running far away unless they were Zeds."

"That...or they are trying to get away from something worse."

"Worse? WHAT CAN BE WORSE THEN METALLIC MONSTERS?"

"That is a good question. I am afraid kid you can't afford by very expensive services for aid."

"BUT I AM GETTING JAMMED! I CAN'T CONTACT BOSS HOW ABOUT I OWE YOU ONE?"

"Wait Jammed? You aren't valuable enough for a favor kid at least not yet anyway as for your boss don't worry that one knows when the comms aren't working. Like a sick sixth sense that is like with money, parts, or weaponry."

What do?
>RUN AWAY
>Make your stand
>Sneaky sneaky hopefully they wont find you...
>Try to gain more reinforcements
>Other?

>>865858
Wah no of course not tch...you think I am that easy to predict? Psht common...okay maybe a little.

I thought about it...but its REALLY hard to run into her if you don't make the right mistakes.

Rolled 19 (1d100)

>>865868
>Sneaky sneaky hopefully they wont find you...
AND
>RUN AWAY
Just be sneaky get a peak at them through scopes then get the fuck outta there.

Rolled 53 (1d100)

>>865868
>>Sneaky sneaky hopefully they wont find you...
>>Try to gain more reinforcements
Let's try to get the muties on our side. We might be able to get in touch with the other guys the tribals pointed out for us afterwards.

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>>865868
>>Make your stand
We can't just run away and hope to make it. We gotta make the monsters fight for it to let the majority of the group get away. Andy and us can take on some of the stronger thanks to psi and magic ammo.

The bots can fall back using the tribal traps and defense point. AMY can hopefully move the bots better than the Construction AI. The bots can also drop buildings on the monsters when possible. We got bait to work with for our own traps.

Since the boss has the drone they know where we are. We can assume they will send something to check it out their missions if being blocked to get info.

That leaves using psi to contact others in the area. Mr. N may not be willing to send help. But if they are free or sis witch we can ask them to get the mutants on our behave. Metal monster mutations could be worth something.

I feel like we should end up with some sort of DIE HARD perk, I mean we survived memory wipe and the immediate events following, we got riddled with bullets and did the trial.

I just think it'd be good but also a source of fun if we were just comically hard to kill,like missing an arm full of bullet holes, throat cut and a knife in our eye socket but still not dead hard to kill (not a killing machine, we just won't fucking die)

>>865910
We will survive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYkACVDFmeg

Not the most fitting, but it's hard for me to think of better.

Rolled 83 (1d100)

>>865889
I really don't think a direct fight is our best option. They won't ignore the bots like normal monsters, but we still want to avoid drawing their attention to us. Trying to make sure the bots get away is well and good, but our primary goal should be our personal survival.

>>865910
Thing is we can't even credit luck for those things. The memory wipe wasn't even dangerous, they wanted us to survive as an example to others who might do business with them, and the other time was from burning a fate point.

Rolled 62 (1d100)

>>865868
Meanwhile at base...

"Gah...ha...ha FINALLY got the last ones. Damn witch somehow possessing AND bringing bots to undead life.

"Boss we have a problem."

"Oh what now..."

"We lost contact and encountered rampant bots...at the location of where the psi magi AND Andy is no less."

"...FUCK what a terrible day. Gotta deal with damned possessed bots, undead bots, and NOW FUCKING RAMPANT BOTS.

"GAHH THAT IS FUCKING IT!"

"THREE TIMES?"

"THREE FUCKING TIMES IN ONE FUCKING DAY?"

"AND I LOST MY FUCKING INVESTMENTS!"

"THAT IS FUCKING IT, call up Alpha Squad...and I am gonna go out."

"We cannot reccommend that course of act-"

"I DON'T FUCKING CARE I SWEAR TO THE GODS WHOEVER GETS IN MY WAY IS SO FUCKING DEAD, BUT ONLY AFTER TORTURING THEIR SOULS SO FUCKING HARD EVEN THE DEVIL HIMSELF GIVES ME A GODDAMN MEDAL. IF THEY DON'T HAPPEN TO HAVE A SOUL I AM SOOOO STUFFING ONE IN THEM JUST SO I CAN DO THE ABOVE."

"SO...YOU WILL NOT STOP ME UNLESS YOU WANT ME TO WORK OUT MY PISSED OFF ASS BY BEATING YOU ALL DOWN SO HARD YOU'LL MAKE SCRAP LOOK WHOLE, GIVING YOU SOULS JUST SO I CAN TORTURE IT, AND STUFFING YOU WITH PAIN FEELING PROGRAMMING JUST SO YOU CAN FEEL IT WHILE I 'ENJOY' MYSELF!"

"NOW WHO WANTS TO STOP ME?"

"..."

"YEAH I THOUGHT SO. NOW I AM GONNA GET MY GEAR AND WE ARE MOVING OUT~"

...w-when was the last time the Shrouded One was this pissed?

Shrouded One can feel angry...but that level of pissed off? Very rarely...Shrouded One can make the fearless feel fear when angry but outright pissed off? Well I sure as shit ain't getting the way.

Guess the Boss finally snapped been awhile since that happened...and boss is actually going to fight. How rare an occasion.

Boss knows how to fight?

Just watch the feeds upon their return.

>>865910
That is kinda what Bad Ass is and Refusing to Die totally is. Also Stubborn Beyond Death which results in quite a few extremely hard to kill undead. Kinda hard to kill something that literally refused to just die yo.

Heroes are also comically hard to kill along with mutants with their insane toughness. Bots are also pretty tough plus with the right mods its not hard to also become hard to kill.

Technically you already possess two of that type.

So its literally possible to upgrade yourself to that point.

Also fate point usage(which is how you survived getting turned into swiss cheese...twice in a row, AND getting sniped all almost at the same time!)

The Trial was due to clever choices and lot of luck. The flesh lord for instance was friendly only to psions(who are insanely rare and who the fuck would go mess with undead who mind tricks don't work well on?) The insanely good luck in the temple that allowed you immunity to the Doorkeeper(literally only ONE way that could happen and you bastards found it)

Also the bad luck of Mister Neutral. I swear I am gonna have to give in and give him some related traits because damn that guy is legitimately unlucky but somehow manages to keep surviving it.

Rolled 53 (1d100)

>>865934
How would AMY or Andy feel about that. We can't be all about number one. Gotta take chances and live free or die hard. Plus all this metal armor makes it real hard to avoid anything.

We gotta make the most of the people/bots we have. Baiting traps and hoping the tribals will be a big boon. Make falling back easier with monsters slowed by those fighting.

Maybe covering the metal in dirt will help with some of the smell.

Rolled 77 (1d100)

>>865947
AMY is plugged into our bike (I think, haven't heard she got plugged into anything else)) and Andy can take care of himself. If we make a stand we risk getting pinned down.

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Rolled 90 (1d100)

>>865959
That still leave there co worker the Constitution AI. Robot lives matter.

Also my post isn't just staying in one place. We are to pull back viva defense points the tribals told us about and use their traps to slow the monsters. Possibly dropping buildings on the monsters baiting them with robots.

We can't just run or hide all this metal. We gotta fight and pull back at the same time. Buying time where we can or risk more lost. Having those that leave prep for us coming in and so on.

Rolled 61 (1d100)

>>865963
Then why not use the haul as bait instead of robots?

I still think we should follow up on the info about other nearby groups. We might be able to get some of them involved on our side, one way or another.
The mutants I think might be willing to talk with a psion, so I believe we should try to contact them. And not merely as an afterthought while we're fighting.

We could be one more body fighting on the bots side, or we can try to gain reinforcements that they couldn't.

Rolled 81 (1d100)

>>865976
Time and the robots will do better if these are smart monsters.

Getting help could take resources we lack do to some things only being worth while to civs. Plus the time it takes to get to them and make the deal. Also diplomacy over text is a weak point for me and I believe our guy will do a lot of damage with Andy tag teaming.

Rolled 84 (1d100)

>>865991
Alright, since we at least have a bonus to combat right now I'll support your proposal.

I would like to advocate using our powers however. Spring Mental Treachery on one or more monsters-they could be smart, but they could also be weak-minded beasts; even if we fail to dominate them we could find out what's in their heads.
If we find we're close to one or more corpses, we could use our bone rod to animate skeletons.

Rolled 71 (1d100)

>>865868
>Sneaky sneaky hopefully they wont find you...
Not us but the robots, we get all our guys out of there. Meanwhile us, AMY and ANDY go full gorilla, fuck with their comms, keep scanning around to make sure we don't get ambushed. Trick them into attacking one another and so on. We cause chaos and do damage to buy our side time to escape the coming cluster fuck. When we are able PSI them to learn why they are here and who sent them etc. Maybe try some mind control and have someone shoot their own side... Preferably their leader TPKed.

Eyes on the prize gents let's make boss proud.

Nat 1 incoming

Rolled 19 (1d100)

>>866022
>>865991
To be clear it's supporting this and more details to keep things moving

Rolled 37 (1d100)

>>866022
>>865880
>>865874
Apparently being sneaky sneaky is the only thing that wins...very well then.

You decide to sneak away figuring your own worth is more valuable then the bots. The bots for their part with surprising amount of speed build fortifications around themselves as they buckle down. Turtling up.

You meanwhile took the chance to sneak away...right in time as the monsters came charging at the defenses from down one street. Which is when you started to hear gunfire. As bandits upon realizing the monsters intended to eat their loot started to shoot at them from the buildings. While the rest of them rushed down a street. Meanwhile down another street you could see a wave of rampant machines come charging down it attacking everything they could find.

Thinking it couldn't possibly get anymore fucked...you were wrong.

For down the last available street. Came pouring undead who both stumbled and ran towards the action. Even bullets could not stop their advance as they charged. Some howling, some moaning, and the rest muttering in dead tongues.

That was when you realized you were trapped as you did your best to duck in a doorway. As the forces slammed into each other and the only seemingly safe spot in the storm was the bulwark constructed by the bots as they desperately fought to stay afloat in the chaos. You almost felt bad as the combat started to grow as their ranks intermingled more, as tactics were implemented, and most importantly because the fighting spilled into the buildings. Much to horror as you desperately climbed up stairs trying to stay ahead of the fighting. It doesn't take a genius to figure out things are going to hell and you last a minute in the chaos. Unless that is you chose to stick with the constructor bots who are doing well for themselves all things considered.

Alas you didn't and so you climbed for. Desperately hoping the fighting will stop before you reach the last one. Sadly things did not go according to plan as you discovered around what you think is halfway...that enemies are also coming from above. Thus you find yourself sandwiched between all sides, below, AND above. Fuck there is literally no direction you could go that wasn't crawling with baddies.

Damn it you should of dived into the fucking sewers that this rate...would no doubt be notably against all odds safer. Fortunately that is when you realized a funny thing...only the undead and monsters noticed you. Thus they came at you which meant you headed towards the rampant bots and bandits who seemingly hadn't noticed you.

Which was it turned out was true and thus saved your life.

You honestly thought things couldn't get worse without a hero or something getting involved. Alas you were also wrong about that too...

Monsters(Street 1)
Bandits(street 2/rooftops)
Rampant Bots(Street 3)
Undead(Street 4)

Rolled 15 (1d100)

>>866091
For you heard fighting but this time coming from the rear of all four hostile forces...thing is though there shouldn't have been fighting there yet. Somehow now there was.

Peaking out a window you could see that four new forces have joined in the clusterfuck of a free for all battle.

There were now MORE rampant bots except this ones looking notably more uniform were behind the other rampant bots turning into a metal melee in the rear. Zombies which really didn't surprise you bloody mindless morons that they are were behind the monsters. Outsiders who were charging in behind the undead. While in the last direction...that were the bandits came from were thank fucking god reinforcements!

...who now you were looking at it from a near birds eye view seemed vastly numbered. Like we are talking at least 7/1 odds and that is if you were massively stacking the odds in your favor. As many of these foes specialize in horde tactics you see...and honestly there weren't that many reinforcements.

Fuck they must not realize the seriousness of this situation. If only boss didn't block her mind...you could of sent a message.

That was when you felt you getting lifted up in the air as a you felt a sharp stabbing pain...when you turned around. You saw a different looking rampant bot stare at you with its blinking red sensors as it began to use you quite painfully I may add as a meat a meatshield against the bandits, while its melee weapon. Which looked a drill and blender had a baby which was busy trying to tear its way into your guts. While some claws were busy trying to tear your limbs off.

That was when you noticed the zombies coming in your direction. Now if you weren't screaming before you absolutely were screaming now. Getting eaten alive by zombies, while getting shot by bandits, AND getting butchered by an insane robot was not by any means a good way to go. At this point you were cursing at the bandits for not having better bullets and guns so as to put you out of your fucking misery.

Funny how things worked out...when the zombies instead of attacking you body slammed themselves into the bot. Which it was absolutely not expecting given the slowed reaction of it as it stumbled and...you both fell out the broken window. Heading charging down to the grand free for all melee before...now if you were somehow even more astonished when said zombies had attempted to grab you. Which when that failed you saw a zombie tower had grabbed itself along the building side and forced its way beneath you.

"FUUUUCK." You were about to be saved by zombies...not once but twice. Goddamn it what did you do? Did a smart zombie fall in love with you? Did you maybe fuck the goddamn goddess of zombies before you lost your memory? Or maybe you really did the zombies in massive failure. In whatever the case the zombies caught you...and let the bot fall right through them in a neat little hole they formed just for it.

Rolled 75 (1d100)

Pppfffffttt ok when I draw our guy he's gonna have soooo many scars and Shit along with a nice bit of ink. Hard to kill across his chest

Rolled 77 (1d100)

>>866107
*Bah meant massive failure in a previous life for that last part.

Unfortunately it turned out that hole was not made on purpose...as you noticed zombies were tumbling down and the hole was made actually due to collapse. Which didn't surprise you thought about how big a target a zombie tower must of made. Sadly this meant you too were now falling to your death down below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04F4xlWSFh0&ab_channel=emimusic

Yet somehow those mindlessly relentless zombies did not stop their attempts to save you. As even as they zombies began to grab you...and throw you up. Thereby slowing your descent. Honestly if it wasn't for the likely reason they were saving you for. You would of almost felt sorry or even thankful. As is you still felt quite flattered. Especially given the surprising lack of biting.

So you did what came natural scream your head off while jumping and running across zombie corpses as the tower came tumbling down. Let it never be said your not one mobile motherfucker. Jumping between falling zombies as well as debris, dodging bullets, and running across a mixture of zombie as well as other debris tumbling down from above. You ran and hopped across that falling tower. Occasionally getting saved by surprisingly helpful zombies.

As much as the smart zombie wants to bite and eat your brains you really owe it one. Not enough to turn into a zombie or die of course but still. Really flattering with how hard its trying, also really fucking horrifying that same reason. Seriously your going to be so fucked having an frenenemy like this and paranoid around zombies for the rest of your life. The irony of said enemy saving your ass is not lost to you.

Sadly as the tower kept on collapsing more and more you had a harder and harder time hauling ass. This time it did not surprise you when another zombie formation rose up to give you a zombified hand.

Meanwhile across the street in a building a very confused Andy was watching the show in amazement before realizing what it meant. After that...you jumped out a window and shot a grappling hook across that once hooked rapidly began to shoot him across.

Thus how you noticed a certain frenzied Andy coming charging at you through midair while riding a line and you realized you were in for a collision course. Fortunately you dodged by instinct. Which turned out to not be a such a good idea as Andy quite literally crashed into enemies in the building. Sadly you didn't get to see much action before the zombies forcefully pulled you down.

That did not stop Andy as he jumped back out the window.

>>866110
Your life got saved by your armor/zombies.

hahahah. I can't BEGIN to tell you how fucking hilarious I thought upon the realization the zombies are gonna try to save you. Godamnn that was fucking funny. Kinda sad it showed the smart zombie show its hand but at the same time...its honestly kinda fitting also much MUCH better this way(because of the sheer hilarity hahahahah).

>>866116
I can't help but smile as I imagine our poor guy just running and screaming, like one long aaahhhh as all this happens around him.

I hope it's a yandere smart zombie
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw32WZJSMU4

Rolled 36 (1d100)

>>866116
Who proceeded to run across the zombie structure charging at you while shouting at you and with amazing agility dodge all the zombie's attempts to stop him.

"YOU IDIOT DON'T WORK WITH FUCKING ZOMBIES! Now JUMP!"

Which as it turned you didn't have to as Andy grabbed you and pushed you over with himself. He however with inhuman reflexes shot yet another line that started to shooting you both across. All without a Head no less.

Alas you would never make it as the line was tugged throwing you both off by the zombies. Not to mention the zombies were literally flinging themselves at the two of you. Dodging zombies midair as it turns out is truly an artform. Also while trying to dodge bullets and you know not crash to your death. You amazed yourself with your ability to dodge and move midair no less like a goddamn crazy gymnast while on some kind of adrenaline and flexibility drug.

That was how you somehow found yourself diving towards the bastion in the middle of the chaos when Andy decided to fling you there and throw himself off...crashing into the chaos below. You meanwhile were 'caught' by some construction bots. Much to your pain but thankfulness. Mostly because you imagined hitting pavement or a metal wall would of been a lot more painful possibly lethal too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHBtpqbOKXk&ab_channel=RobZombieVEVO

So you were utterly shocked...when you saw the trail of utter devastation that was a straight line heading towards you by your 'reinforcements'. Which as you watched and shoot turned out to be all thanks to a particular metalic beast flying on a jetpack, cursing over built in sonic cannons, and wielding a storm of appendages some of which used weapons. Possibly built in otherwise gripped that kept on firing until they turned too hot they failed to function.

It took you a little bit to realize who it was...mostly due to the screaming over loudspeakers like.

"YOU FUCKERS THINK YOU CAN GET IN MY WAY? YOU THINK MY DAY CAN POSSIBLY GET ANY WORSE WITH BOTS AND LOST INVESTMENTS? TRY ME YOU WORTHLESS SONS OF BITCHES TRY ME!"

While endlessly mowing down enemies, various screams of frustration, and yelling lots of extremely pissed off yelling. Your absolutely positive your boss had finally managed to snap. Which is impressive given how angry to the pointing of 'snapping' you had previously encountered. Which made it all look like nothing at all...even when combined all together.

Rolled 33 (1d100)

>>866118
He is pretty much screaming this entire time. Admittedly he ended up running out of air but he still didn't stop screaming(He only finally got a breath when he crashed into the constructor bots).

>>866122
"GODS AS MY FUCKING WITNESS I WILL KILL," Que series of missiles that come out of a seemingly endless missile rack and turned into one man bomb run. "EVERY." Que yet another one man bombing run. "LAST." And another. "ONE." Yet another." OF." Even more..."YOU." The biggest yet.

By this time you found yourself screaming again. As you realized the boss was heading in your direction and you were in fact responsible for some of those problems. By this time even under focused fire the boss kept on attacking utterly fearless and no doubt berserk. Even as the bots finally responded by a blasting a swarm of incredibly evil looking metallic locust things that consumed the boss in the a cloud of scraping yet buzzing metal. Did the boss retreat?

no.

Did the boss attempt to dodge?

Nope.

Charge through?

No. Instead the boss kept on attacking until s/he was no longer able to attack...then proceeding to dive bomb into the waiting enemies below without hesitation. You thought the boss died.

You were wrong.

"AHAHAHAHAH THINK THAT COULD KILL ME?" Bellows forth from a suddenly blasting mound of foes as the sonic cannon ripped through and sent them all flying.

THINK YOU COULD STOP ME!" Now the boss was entering melee combat tearing enemies to shreds with the horrifying variety of built in weapons. Seriously how can that one control all those weapons while dodging at the same time...even as some weapons kept on shooting or blasting and yet another tossed foes or, used them as meat shields, or as improvised weapons. It was like the boss had turned into a utterly berserk ball of murder machinery of such awesome GLORY even the most coldhearted arms dealer wouldn't help but leak a tear at the beautiful sight. Alas you weren't a arms dealer.

Instead like any non Arms Dealer would you screamed.

Like seriously man nothing is gonna stop it something like that. Even mounds of foes climbing over each in eagerness, surrounding, swarming, or focused fire could even all together.

WARNING
HEROIC AWAKENING DETECTED
WARNING

"AHAHAHAHAHAH DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE," continues bellowing out the your boss crushing foes skulls, and dancing on their mountains of corpses.

"I HAVE MORE BULLETS THEN YOU GOT BODIES IN A SINGLE GUN," screams the boss while endlessly firing into the enemy.

"I HAVE MORE GUNS THEN CAN BE AS EASILY REPLACED AS BULLETS," shouts the boss throwing away broken weaponry either due to overheat or damage. Honestly hard to tell.

"I HAVE MORE EXPLOSIVES THAT COULD LEVEL ENTIRE CITIES WITHOUT PROBLEM." Que a massive chain of explosions right when the boss seemed to be finally overwhelmed.

"YOU THINK GETTING CLOSE YOU CAN STOP ME?" With a massive flurry of melee attacks the murder ball became a shredder that destroyed everything that dare get close.

>>866138
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Rolled 5 (1d100)

>>866138
"EVEN WORKING TOGETHER YOU CANNOT STOP ME," indeed they couldn't.

"CONSIDER THESE DEATHS A RESPITE," continues taunting your 'boss'. "FOR WHAT I HAVE IN STORE FOR YOU AFTER THIS WILL MAKE IT NOTHING BUT A TEMPORARY BLISS!"

At this point even the zombies are running away.

"YOU THINK YOU CAN ESCAPE ME? NOT EVEN IN DEATH SHALL YOU SUCCEED!" That was when the berserking ball of murder machinery...somehow vastly enlarged itself becoming a laughably insane pile of weaponry that all fired at once...and then a strange silence befell the battlefield. As...every foe no matter their location began to tumble down into corpses all together.

What followed were collapsing buildings which too collapsed shortly after the dead did. Leaving nothing but the smell of carnage, battle, gore, nonfunctional machinery, and old ruins that finally fell. The sudden silence was only halted by a singular clapping sound.

"Well done," says Andy. "WELL DONE! Congratulations on your long awaited breakthrough," with that last part Andy bowed at a figure that slowly came to appear within the whirling dust.

"I-I can't believe...I finally did it," pants a tired boss. "WOOOHOOO FUCKING FINALLY!" Says the boss hopping in excite. "FUCK ALL YOU BASTARDS WHO TURNED ON ME!" taunts the boss to the dust shrouded sky. "I AM COMING FOR ALL YOU NOW YOU MOTHERFUCKERS! YOU HEAR ME!" Finally the boss finally started to calm down.

"HA...ha...hah oh wow that even felt better then letting out all my anger and frustration through murder did."

"Gotta say though boss, I didn't think you would breakthrough this way."

"Yeah...I didn't either. I can't believe my no fighting policy backfired on me."

"Actually I think that was more sheer rage then anything else."

"Rage...so the rage let me breakthrough..."

"Hm more like it provided that one last straw. You have been trying unsuccessfully for a little while now."

"Indeed Andy...Indeed. ha...now I can finally stand a chance."

"You did before."

"...Not much of one Andy. It was all I could do to just survive...and prepare. Guess its finally time to get into action."

"What is the precise plan then?"

"..." that was when the boss looked in your direction. "...First I must change a few things."

"Oh...right he certainly WOULD change things."

"Yes it would...finally at long last...you know the drill Andy. I do hope there were no witnesses."

"None outside our own forces. I did a marvelous job."

"...Good very good. Nobody is suppose to know about my ability to fight. Feel free to share with the man by the way. He has shown potential in understanding the plan."

"Oh really now..."

"Indeed. Now I trust you know your tasks."

"That I do...but you did say there would be some adjustments to the plans?"

"Yes so alert me to which plan you are following. I will tell you of any modifications."

"Understood."

Rolled 14 (1d100)

>>866146
"Now I am going to go home and sleep...a lot. All that fighting and venting my frustrations combined with the breakthrough has really taken a lot out of me. And I would hate to make it effect my work on all of those who got in my way," says the boss rubbing a strange looking gem.

"Go ahead...we know what to grab on the way back."

"Very well," says the boss waving lazily while walking away towards an airship. After that flying away back to base. While the construction bots broke down the bastion and started to move through the bodies. Grabbing all kinds of strange things and piling them up to the side before getting loaded and taken away.

"Remember move quickly and only grab the important stuff," orders Andy.

What do?
>I am gonna go back too...
>What plan?
>toime to loot
>Best avoid base for now...
>Other?

Rolled 43 (1d100)

.. We're about to get "upgraded" ain't we... Oh no... PSIborg

Rolled 94 (1d100)

>>866149
>time to loot
Will do. Best of the best coming right up boss. Maybe loot some niceties that the boss may not want but we will. But mostly bosses stuff.

>Inb4 fumble

Rolled 51 (1d100)

>>866149
>time to loot
Welp I guess that just happened. Are the construction bots still alive? Even they would be helpful in sorting out all the loot.

Rolled 55 (1d100)

>>866149
>what plan....?
first i want to know wha't going on,
then
>time to loot

That whole sequence was fucking awesome, top tier writing Genie that was sick

>>866155
Shhh secure location first

Rolled 1 (1d100)

>>866160
Welcome to the post apocalypse and enjoy your not so pleasant stay.

Now I am gonna crash...

>>866110
Its things like that tempt fate and will likely backfire on you. Your practically begging for the dice to turn on you and player stupidity to happen(keep in mind you still don't got the Bad Ass Trait so fate points are your only protection).

Your DOES have a large collection of scars(being turned into swis cheese...twice will do that to you).

>>866176
Atleast if we make it too badass or hero we'll look the part

Rolled 17 (1d100)

>>866176
Enjoy trying to guess what the Boss's heroic stats are, what the plan is, what to do with your guy, how awesome the post apocalypse is, and whatever else really.

Until I return and update.

Remember sharing lore and notes can help get anons the same page. Its possible to earn in game bonuses, and have your fluff become canon(with possible gains too boot).

I did enjoy the guesswork on the boss and what you should upgrade your character into.

>>865910
Your best bet is finding ways to upgrade your toughness in game. I already gave a few examples. its possible to make yourself a very tough son of a bitch even without plot armor, special perks, or even being a filthy mutant.

As is your armor alone as saved your life twice now. So good equipment is VERY important and other upgrades can really pay off. So chase after them they are the only reliable way to become stronger without struggling for experience and praying for specials to go down.

As an Arms Dealer employee while your armaments is covered everything else is lacking especially given you decided to work with a bot heavy group.

Rolled 100 (1d100)

>>866149
>Other?
Can we try to animate skeletons on the fly? We could use the bone rod to animate any intact ones we see and use them to carry more loot.

>>866152
Yes, time to loot.

>>866181
Well, there's also our nanomachines.
Boss is clearly multitalented, but their forte appears to be engineering.
By what to do with our guy, do you mean what we want to do or what the Boss is going to do? Either way, I say there's a LOT of training in the very near future. We've got to learn to use our damn powers.

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>>866316

Rolled 65 (1d100)

>>866316
Ya know I got to thinking, we've got those industrial nanites we should probably do something with those. Maybe we could inject nanites into smart zombies just to see what if?
Maybe psi nanites to turn it into more of a monster or maybe it'll bring the zombie up to speed more and give us a powerful ally with the ability to control more zombies.

Rolled 49 (1d100)

>>866423
That is absolutely not how our nanites work. The industrial nanites are for a nanite pool (which I think has something to do with manufacturing or processing raw materials) and can only be used by remnants of the megacorp that made it.
We have some nanite augmentation, but we can't make nanites. We don't even have additional vials of nanites, and if we did they would be extremely valuable.
Smart zombies are not our test subjects. They want to turn us into one of them.
I have no idea if "psi nanites" are in any way a thing, but what gives you the idea that we have them? Or that it would be a good idea to use them on a smart zombie?

If we want a smart zombie ally, we need to become powerful enough (in our magic and psi) to negotiate with it on equal terms.

Rolled 37 (1d100)

>>866445
Well yeah I sorta just went to another thought after mentioning the industrial nanites. But we ought to do something with those bad boys

Rolled 36 (1d100)

>>866461
Unless we get really lucky, it's more likely the Boss will figure out what we should do with them. Now that you mention it, we should revisit that item, ask AMY if she can tell what mega they came from.
But we're just a guy who found some nanites, stuff like what you're talking about would be more appropriate to a full-blown Think Tank specializing in nanites.

Rolled 66 (1d100)

>>866316
You recalled that your bone rod is a magical item that supposedly is able to animate skeletons. Which would mean you could carry more loot...so you took out the rod trying to get it work.

Which it didn't...well come to think of it its not like you ever used it before. So you kept on trying and channeling your powers. Eventually it worked! And you got the idea to throw in your psi energy to see what would happen...

Which is how you animated smart skeletons. You could...sense their intelligence even as the flesh sloughed off them and they picked up some gear to garb themselves in before awaiting your command. So you used them as pack carriers while animating more skeletons. Unfortunately as it turned out you could only control a few. Even with the bone rod's help there were only so many you could control.

Gained 1 Dozen Skeletal Soldiers(Green).

After that you moved around grabbing the choicest bits of loot you could in excellent time before heading off before worse things would show up. So you left with the construction bots and the vehicles full of loot. Returning to a base...that was now crawling with bots. Like someone just kicked a hornet's nest of them they were everywhere. So you turned in the mission and got the items taken from you. Before being handed a new gun.

Mission Complete
Gained Bolt Rifle using bolts as ammo and has surprisingly powerful armor penetrating capability. Has been modified to heat the metal or electricity it. Upgraded for improved performance.

What do?
>Train
>Explore
>Go to sleep
>New Missions
>Other?

Rolled 75 (1d100)

>>866488
>show off new skeledans to naughty witch
>sleep

Rolled 68 (1d100)

>>866886
>Train
We need to practice using our powers moar

Rolled 58 (1d100)

>>866886
>>866904
Also
>Other?
Crack open the psi magi book on necromancy.

Maybe we'll find some tips on managing our skeletal soldiers.

Rolled 47 (1d100)

So what about this one, we get naughty witch to help us with a necro-bike? She can use her powers on bots so why not an old bike?

Rolled 89 (1d100)

>>866886
meanwhile at banditville.

"So...all of them got wiped out?"

"Afraid so Sir. We will have to rebuild the BBs from scratch."

"...Well good thing this could not be traced back to me. Make sure we update the looks yes?"

"Understood Sir."

"Has the scouts been arranged?"

"Affirmative Sir. This time we will be taking a much closer look beyond the cityscape."

"Good...very good. Damn shame I lost the BBs. Well time to perform some diplomacy on the female bandit bosses...man why can't they be as easy to handle as the male ones."

"I do believe that is up to you sir to find out."

"Oh I know the reason I just hate it because of the annoying amount of complexity and work that is required."

"...Only someone like you boss would complain about getting laid."

"Oh fuck off. I am a Boss I can get an unbelievable amount of ass. I don't need to take the damned risk of fucking other bosses for the sake of sex. Hell that is the sorta thing even ordinary bandits think twice about. Bandit Bosses are a mean breed male or female. You gotta be to be a Boss among bandits. Those who don't end up dead sooner rather then later."

"So which ones are you going to fuck?"

"Which ones have the best scouts again? Give me that list along with the tribal ones. Gods do I hate my job..."

Meanwhile somewhere beyond city limits. There was a group of bandits carefully moving through the terrain. "So this is...a paramilitary base," mentions one bandit looking at a military base that was still functional.

"Looks like it...if I recall exactly that place has got a super soldier still operational. Now the next big places to check out...is a bit of a list," mentions a bandit bitch.

"Don't forget we gotta keep an eye of the big players but most important as looking at the terrain and small fry," states a bandit scout.

"Yeah yeah Fridge, hopefully we can find enough prey to sustain ourselves and some new homes."

"Oh we can the land here is good and green...lots of prey to make a living on the land. Hard part is gonna be to find ourselves a proper base."

"Aye in lands like these that is indeed the hardest part if we don't stay a mobile bunch of raiders."

Rolled 88 (1d100)

>>866886

>No looting improvement
I am disappoint

>Train
Well we've got ourselves some undead of our own, we've got a Bone Rod, a Ghostly Tome of Undead Knowledge, and a book+crystal on Deahtly Psionics.

Let's see how nasty [see: Elite] we can make these skeletons. Show them off to the Witch to see if she has any pointers. It's her job to teach us, after all.

>>866976
>Why not an old bike?
Because we've got a new, better bike.