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>>1354518

The job in question is to infiltrate the corporate offices of a security firm downtown, and to attach a transmitting device to an executive's computer. With this, your villain boss hopes to be able to steal some important information. So with the boss in open communication with you via an intercom and having provided information about the building, you've set yourself to the task. Currently, you found a little street restaurant that's still open and got yourself a table, across the road from the office building.

Sitting by and trying to look inconspicuous, you watch the street as the cars and people go by, and you can hear the sounds of the city like horns and sirens in the distance. A chance just to take it all in, before you shift focus to the office building and the job. A little chilly out because of the wind, but you're dressed for it. Maybe a little embarrassing though since you're just in your normal clothes, you haven't gotten an actual outfit yet, either from your boss or making one yourself. At least like this though you can fit in with a crowd of people.

>How do you proceed?

>>1354521

Try to keep an eye out for any sort of Service personnel coming out of the building. With any luck one of them should have a key card or security pass that we can use after we mug them for it.

What sort of powers do we have? Or is that something we'll find out along the way?

>>1354529

You can maintain a watch on the building, but for one thing it's closed this late and for another you're facing the street side so it's doubtful that any service personnel are going to be entering or leaving through the main entrance. If at all, that is. You can of course move, this was just a convenient spot you noticed on the way over.

As for your powers, they are rather strange and cosmic in nature. After getting blasted by dark energy during an internship with a research lab in the city, you actually fell out of realspace for a time. It was your villain boss whom managed to retrieve you with the use of dark matter, and constructed a safety device which keeps you rooted in realspace for as long as you have it with you.

In practice, your powers stem from the accident though you are only just barely starting to get used to them. By using a number of gadgets provided by your boss, in unison with the dark matter properties of your body now, some interesting effects can be used. A basic one for example which you've already had some practice with is a Wormhole, a small thrown beacon of sorts which drags you through space to its location when triggered.

You have a few others but your boss encourages you to try and see how far you can get without using any powers. Not that his approval matters, but that's that.

>>1354564

Oh gotcha, well in that case do we have any sort of lockpicking tools on us? We should use a side entrance if so

>>1354583

In your backpack along with the super powered gadgets you can use, you did bring some basics. Sort of nervous overpreparedness for your first villainous job, you included a simple toolkit but that may not suffice for the purpose of lockpicking. You can certainly try though, however your boss let you know earlier that the by nature of their business, the security firm likely has the building alarmed in places. Probably a safe bet, the doors at least.

Still, it can't hurt to try anything. Would you like to relocate then, get closer to the building and get a better look of things if you can?

>>1354600

Let's try to case the whole building for anything that might be a useful entry point

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>>1354648

So after gathering up what's left of your food and giving it to a homeless guy and then waiting for the crosswalk rather than jaywalking, because you're not *that* villainous yet, you cross the road towards the office building.

Without trying to make yourself too obvious, from the outside you can see that there's some security guards stationed in the lobby area, though to be fair you're aiming for the top floor. Something your boss picks up on though while you make a round of the building, is that the place has exterior cameras in some places. Because of this you figure it may be for the best not to linger or circle around too much. At any rate, from your round of the place, it seems to you that the best point of access from the ground level would be via a back alley which has a delivery bay. Maybe the doors are alarmed, but you question if the metal sliding delivery door is.

That's at least what you notice from the ground level. You could attempt other methods of searching, or if you like you can roll a d100 to do a really thorough search.

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>>1354564
Essentially?

>>1354710

Maybe eventually. For now though you're only recently returned from being lost in subspace, and your powers are mostly reliant on the gadgets your boss supplies you with. You could try to experiment with what you have, but it might not be the best idea to try that while on a job, your first job.

>>1354727
That's fine, im just trying to get an idea of what our power actually is

>>1354668
>Try the metal door

>>1354731
That might be something to discuss with your boss later since he's the one who understood it enough to bring you back. You can do a quick rundown of the powers you know you have though, to gauge what you're capable of.

>>1354735
So having located yourself to one of the backs of the building, you wait till you have a chance when it seems like no one is walking by and you try the metal door. While you can get a handle on it though, it seems like it may be locked from the inside. The good news is, that to your ears it doesn't sound like any sort of alarms went off when you messed with it.

It may be best not to linger though as there are cameras back here, so you can only pose as a crazy homeless girl banging at the back door for so long, before you're taken seriously.

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Rolled 22 (1d100)

>>1354668
Also
>if you like you can roll a d100 to do a really thorough search.

>>1354753
Rip to late

>>1354753
>>1354758
>22

Unfortunately no, your more thorough search around the premises does not turn up anything new on the ground level. You've also seemed to have drawn the attention at least of the security guards in the main lobby who have now noticed you going past the front three times. They haven't acted yet, but it's bordering on suspicion now.

>>1354771
I fugged us, sorry guys

>>1354771
Well that didn't help.
>see if we can somehow get to the second (first?) Floor from outside

>>1354805
It would seem to be so, but getting a little paranoid you decide to back off from the building for a bit. Hiding in a side alley, just for reassurance you go over the powers you know you can use. They are separated into two categories, your safety harness which recharges every hour, and gadgets which have limited uses;

>Harness (1 use per hour)
- Redshift, decelerates you and lessens external effects
- Blueshift, accelerates you and heightens external effects
- Gravity Reject, for a short time negates the effect of gravity upon you
- Subspace Trespass, by turning off your safety harness for a moment, you can slip through realspace
- Quantum Fluctuation, by maintaining physical contact with something you can cause an energy leak, to the point of suspending the target in stasis
- Troubleshoot, a hard reset which returns you to the state of the previous hour

>Gadgets
- 3 Superfluid canisters (small), when applied to something it renders it cold and frictionless
- 3 Wormhole grenades, when thrown and activated, will drag you through space to the location
- 1 Cosmic Shunt grenade, similar to the Wormhole, it will force freestanding objects to an external location
- 3 Micrometeors, a tiny thrown meteor which with subspace propulsion, increases in speed and force over distance
- 1 Inertial Reverb canister (small), when applied to something it renders it inert to kinetic loss

>>1354822
Attempting to reach the second floor specifically may be difficult since the office building lacks any sort of balconies or clear ledges. There is however a residential apartment building neighboring the office building, and actually reaches a height higher than it. From there, if you could gain access, you might be able to find a good point where you could attempt access across the back street to the office building.

Otherwise you could attempt a d100 roll to do a proper search of potential second floor access points.

>>1354842
Should clarify, every power under the Harness category can all be used once per hour (or once per recharge), not just one power from that list per hour, as may have been confusing.

>>1354842
>Harness (1 use per hour)

>Blueshift
Go fast enough to not be seen, place device, and get out in one go

>>1354864
If only, you haven't tried it before but you're almost certain you wouldn't be able to move that fast. It can increase your speed, among other things, but not to the point of super speed.

>>1354842
>head in residential building and see where you can get from there

>>1354926
The residential building is closed this time of night, but by buzzing down the list of tenants, eventually one of them lets you in expecting you to be someone else probably. You get some angry complaints once inside and on the way up from people you woke up, but otherwise you don't face any trouble.

So on the way up after several floors, you would assume that you're at a height at least equivalent to the top floor of the office building across the way. Your boss on the intercom also informs you as much, having the specs of the office on hand. You notice though that there's still a couple more flights of stairs upwards, maybe to the roof even? It's your choice if you want to go higher, or try and get into someone who lives here's room, so you can see directly to the top floor of the office via a window.

>>1354870
Damit

>>1354953
>Go higher

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>>1354962
Continuing up the remaining flights of stairs you come to a service door leading to the roof. It looks like it's supposed to be alarmed, but for whatever reason even when you try to open it, it happens without any trouble. Maybe the tenants requested it to be disabled due to constant use? That's your boss's guess.

At any rate you're up on the roof of the residential high rise, the wind stronger and the lights of the city skyline brighter. Moving over to the streetside edge you look down to see the little restaurant where you were, along with the cars and people moving on by far below. Taking it all in, you move over to the other roof edge to see the office building and its roof a few stories below, with the back street at the ground level between it and the residential building.

Just a cursory glance of the office roof, and you don't notice anything out of the ordinary. You could roll a d100 to take a closer look, but there's certainly no security guards around up there.

>How do you proceed?

Rolled 41 (1d100)

>>1354980
>take closer look

>>1354994
>41

From your vantage point on this roof, you can make out at least one roof access point, similar to the one for this building. As well you can see some ventilation outflow ducts. You can also tell that there only looks to be only one camera up here though it looks to be focused on the roof access door.

Beyond that you can't tell anything else. Hopefully there aren't any external defensive measures, and your boss doesn't seem to think there are.

>>1355029
Well if noone else has ideas I'd rather get inside than waste more time outside.

>thrown worm hole grenade on the office roof to teleport there

>>1355125
Sure that's easy enough for you. Reaching into your backpack and rummaging around, you pull out a Wormhole grenade and attune it to your harness. Then moving back away from the edge, you get a running start and hurl it as far as you can, watching it soar through the air and hit the roof of the office with a small bounce before rolling to a stop. Seeing that as your chance, you take a deep breath and signal the grenade with your harness.

There's a short delay as you see the grenade burst open in a starry smear on the ground about the size of a manhole. A similar opening tears open in the air before your harness, looking like a window into outer space. You're rather forcefully pulled through by the vacuum, a short trip through space whereafter you're ejected out of the other spatial tear on the office roof made by the grenade. Though since it's on the ground, you kind of get spat out upwards, landing a small distance away and hitting the ground with an "Ooof!"

Pushing yourself to sit up, you look over to see the wormhole exit quickly close, leaving no sign of it or the grenade behind. That's one less gadget of that type now left, but you're on top of the office building roof so it's a pretty good trade off. Definitely you're feeling good about things, now just face with the challenge of how to get inside the building, either via an access point or some other way inside.

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>>1355172
Signing off for now here, but look forward/plan next for infiltrating the office building.

>Thanks for playing

Seems like we're like a mix of Tracer and Corvo. See you next time!

Interesting start, well keep an eye out for next part.

>>1355181
Looks promising, hopefully I can catch the next run. Being OP isn't that fun, hoping we don't become >>1354710

>>1355209
>>1355280
>>1357053
Will be continuing here shortly, start figuring out how you want to proceed when play resumes!

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>>1355172
So, you've managed to warp your way over to the roof of the office building. The computer you seek is supposed to be on the top floor so you still have a ways to go, but you're much closer now than when you began.

From your basic look of the rooftop, from back over on the residential highrise, you were able to notice one roof access door here (currently about 50 feet away from you), and two ventilation outflow ducts.

>How do you proceed?

>>1357099
Stealthily we shall move.
>>1357125
Look around, but stay out of the camera's line of sight.

>>1357197
You shouldn't have any trouble evading the rooftop camera as long as you don't just walk right up to the roof access door. It's a static camera focused on the door and area in front of it.

Still though you can practice your stealthiness, as you sneak around on the roof. Roll a d100 to see how sneaky you are.

One thing your boss does remind you of over the intercom though, is to deploy the distracting device he gave to you. Since some of the super powered people in the city have super senses, it's a common tactic to employ some method of blocking their senses out in areas, that way they won't just detect a crime going on halfway across the city. Different villains (and even heroes) use different methods of this, but in your case it's a dampening gadget that you'd just set up somewhere in the vicinity, ideally where it wouldn't be tampered with.

Rolled 91 (1d100)

>>1357208
Does the dampening gadget have a self destruct or do we need to retrieve it?

>>1357223
>91

You're about as sneaky as is physically possible for someone in casual clothes. You'd be able to stalk someone as close as within ten feet and not be noticed. At least that's the impression you get, up here alone on the roof.

It doesn't have a self destruct mechanism, which you suggest and your boss thinks is a great idea from here onwards. For now though he's not that worried though and thinks it's fine if you just leave it, it was pretty simple for him to make, and there's not many supers who would be able to trace it back to either of you. If you want to can come back for it but he thinks the chances are very low of it coming back to bite you.

>>1357236

Well that seems like a useful object to cram beside one of the ventilation ducts up here. While we're there we can check the size of the ducts and see if we can shimmy our way inside

>>1357236
Place in the rooftop ventilator >>1357125
How powerful is Gravity Reject?
If we jump down the ventilator, would it slow us down enough to not injure ourself?
>>1357251
If we place it inside, it might not get noticed for days, maby even weeks.

>>1357251
>>1357255
The dampener itself is too big to fit in the small available openings of the ventilation duct, though if you wanted to try damaging it to make a bigger opening to fit the thing, you can try.

Same with trying to get inside yourself, you're too big to fit without damaging the unit. Your normal gadgets would fit though, like you could drop a Wormhole grenade down easily, and warp to wherever it comes to rest.

And Gravity Reject is a complete void of gravity upon yourself. If you activated it while falling, you'd still have that downward inertia so it wouldn't help much. If you activated first though and then drove yourself downwards, you'd descend at that constant rate until interacting with something.

>>1357274
Got it.
Do we want to waste another grenade? Or do we want to use Subspace Trespass, which just has a cool off?

>>1357281
That's your choice to make. For using Subspace Trespass, it's basically turning off your harness which causes you to fall out of realspace again. You'll end up passing through matter without trouble, if you give yourself enough inertia before hand. Like a running jump at a wall, turning the harness off, you'll fly right through the wall then quickly turn it back on and you'll land back on the floor on the other side.

It's use is very dangerous though, so you can only do it for up to ten seconds, maybe, before you risk losing sync with realspace. And that would be bad, you'd basically be lost in subspace again, till you performed a Troubleshoot, or waited twelve hours till a Hard Reset.

>>1357310
Well then lets not use Subspace. Throw a grenade.
>>1357281
Sorry op, was trying to engage any lurkers with the questions.

Do the grenades have timers on them? Like set one for 3 hours, and if anything happens we get teleported out? Incase of capture?

>>1357324
The grenades right now are pretty basic, later of course you can improve them. Right now they are just activated on command, no timer or distance traveled, or anything like that. If you're worried about capture though, a Hard Reset would get you out of that since it can forcibly return you to the relative position in realspace you were twelve hours prior. So say you got captured, as long as they didn't take your harness off and didn't have some sort of blocking effect, the next time the clock strikes 12 am/pm, you'd be ripped out of there anyway.

If you want to chuck a Wormhole grenade down the ventilation duct though you can, just make a roll to see how lucky you are with it.

Rolled 31 (1d100)

>>1357333
o.O Luck.
WORMHOLE AHEAD!
Sorry captain, I actually meant the hole in the end of a worm.

>>1357337
31
meh
Hopefully it doesn't land in a toilet, or worse, someone picks it up.

>>1357337
>31

The grenade can't be activated until it stops moving, and if there is enough space for you to safely warp to it, that way you don't end up warping inside a pipe or something and dying instantly. So attuning another grenade to your harness, you time the spin of the duct and chuck it down, hearing it bang and bounce around against the metal of the ventilation interior on the way down. After a little bit you can't hear it anymore, and get the notification that it came to a rest and that there is enough space for you.

Other than that though, you can't know anything else about where it ended up. The final decision, if you want to warp to it or not? Also before you go, just to be clear, did you set up the dampener device or do you want to save it to set up later?

>>1357354
Lets place the dampener on the other side of the ventilator, the side away from the door. Then lets get infiltratery.

>>1357358
So after setting up the dampener in a spot hidden from the roof access door, you move to an open space and take a deep breath for the little trip through space. Triggering the grenade then, the same process follows, as a hole through space tears open and the vacuum sucks you through. Not a moment too soon, as you heard a helicopter approaching overhead, probably for something unrelated but why worry yourself any more? A cold feeling and a view of the cosmos, before you're spat out rather painfully in the small space of the bottom of a ventilation duct with a very loud, resounding metal bang. A yelp of pain too.

Once the wormhole exit fades though you try to look around. It's very dark and cramped in here, so yes, you'd guess you're in the ventilation. You can't move back and looking up you can see where the grenade fell from. A ways ahead you can see some light though, coming in through a grate. Otherwise though, yes you're stuck inside the ventilation, able only to crawl to move around. No sound of alarms though.

Rolled 1 (1d100)

>>1357374
Lets crawl around, stealthfully.

>>1357378
Shit
There goes our stealth.
Parachutes aren't kites.

Rolled 63 (1d100)

>>1357378
SAVING THROW

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>>1357378
>1

You decide to crawl around, feeling confident in your stealth powers from earlier. To you at least, it seems that way, as you crawl along on your belly. If someone were standing outside though they'd hear a bunch of banging around. As if that weren't enough to give you away though, when you reach the grate in the duct, you can see through to a service room below, where a security guard and a night janitor are discussing something. Interesting if you cared about the details of the building's plumbing, but you're here for something else!

So attempting to crawl past, you misjudged the strength of the grate beneath you, and as you crawl across it, the whole thing busts open and clatters to the ground below. Screaming in panic, you were able to catch yourself from a nasty fall, but you're basically just scrambling to hold on with your arms and the weight of your torso, while your bottom half hangs out of the opening, your legs flailing and kicking in the air.

You can't tell who it is, but from below you hear one of the guys in the room asking you something

"...what the hell are you doing? Who are you?!"

It seems you've been noticed!

>>1357382
Sorry man, forced fail. 1 is auto-fail, 100 is auto-success.

>>1357388
Use gravity reject, bluff that you are a ghost of a cat burglar, here to haunt the guards that killed you.

>>1357404
Just to be clear, that won't make you look like a ghost. If you think not being subject to gravity though is a good enough attempt, you can go ahead. Either way make a roll to see if you can be a convincing ghost.

Rolled 5 (1d100)

>>1357407
Ghost of personal regrets!

Rolled 70 (1d100)

>>1357413
Geez
Why are you people rolling so low?
I wanna lurk dammit

>>1357417
>>1357413
>70

In a panic, you try to pretend that you're a ghost and convince the guys down below in the room. It's not the worst excuse in the world, there are people with necromancy powers so undead, ghosts and such are a provable thing these days. Your struggle to keep from falling though, certainly doesn't help.

At any rate you hear some mumbled conversation between them, and it seems they sort of buy it? One asks what you want, o vengeful spirit? The other though is asking if he should call this in, and seems pretty sure that he should.

>>1357420
Lets phase out for a second, using Subspace Trespass.
And for you to pass on, you must not be caught or called in. Inspite of your clumsiness.

>>1357423
Make a roll for further convincing of the two!

As for the Trespass, is there a direction you want to try to aim for? Like if you let go and fall, then activate it, you'll continue to fall down and just pass straight through the floor. If you swing your body weight forward though and activate it, you'll fly in that direction passing through any matter.

Basically which way, if any, do you want to try and end up phasing through?

Rolled 15 (1d100)

>>1357425

Rolled 65 (1d100)

>>1357425
O.o ROLLING o.O
Flick

>>1357428
>>1357427
>65

Eh, combined with the Trespass display it might work. Again though, which direction are you trying to aim for?

>>1357425
O.o ROLLING o.O
Flickering in and out of existence should help.
>>1357428
Stupid posting before I was through typing. At least it was an ok roll.

>>1357430
Not a direction, just flicker in place. Then crawl back into the air ducts.

>>1357430
And ghostly noise.
OOOoooooOOOooooo
If they question us, say we're new to haunting shit.

>>1357434
It's not something you can keep turning on and off so rapidly. Or well, you can try but that could break the thing. It's like turning a computer on and off again, the time it takes to start back up is the time that you'd be out of realspace.

So if you don't want to move, you'd appear to sort of dissolve out of reality, and then reappear up to ten seconds later.

>>1357438
That. Its perfect for a noob ghost.
Our boss is probably gonna kill us, if he can stop laughing.

>>1357438
Lets do that BUT be careful we don't want to break our masters gifts

>>1357442
>>1357446
So, telling the two that the only way they can be safe from haunting or ghostly harm is to keep this a secret that they will take to their graves. By deactivating your harness, you also begin to fall out of realspace while making ghostly noises, and fade into nothingness before their very eyes. From your perspective as well, the rest of the world fades to where you're back in subspace again, though after a period of about ten seconds the harness fires up again to normal capacity, and the world fades back into view as you slowly return to realspace. You tried to remain as still as you could so you're roughly in the same position as you were when you left.

The guys below though sound thoroughly spooked, and it would seem that they genuinely believe you're a vengeful ghost now, affirming aloud that they'll keep this a secret and asking you show them mercy. Continuing to sound ghostly, you struggle and clamor back up into the ventilation duct, whereupon you continue crawling on and making a banging racket as you go.

For now at least, it would appear that you averted being caught or raising any alarms.

>How do you proceed?

>>1357452
Less recklessly. Did our boss say anything?
Awesome quest btw.

>>1357454
Make a roll to continue more carefully/stealthily. How far do you want to go? Because you could just spend all night in here, if you don't decide on an exit point.

As for your boss, you're not sure if maybe it's all the metal of the ventilation ducts, but you haven't heard communication from him since you warped down here. Probably just a temporary error, nothing to worry about.

>You tell yourself, as your heart races in worry.

Rolled 31 (1d100)

>>1357457
Lets look through the vents for an unoccupied office.
Good night yall, I'm tired.

Rolled 78 (1d100)

>>1357461
Sigh

>>1357462
Thank you, and now actually good night.

>>1357461
>>1357462
>78

After that last unlucky fall through the grate, you try and take it more carefully. Slower you go and try to keep to yourself, as you crawl along. It's still not great, if someone was in the same room they would notice, but you're not rattling through the whole building.

So you continue along, and after awhile and seeing through more grates, you get the impression that these ducts don't lead to any proper rooms of the building. More of a central portion of the system to which many others all join up to, but which those branching paths are too small to fit through. You do though, after getting pretty sore and cold from all the crawling against the rough metal, find another service room which appears to be empty. If this grate is anything like the last, you can just lean your body on it and push it through, and if not you have your little toolkit to open it more carefully.

Just because there is no one in here though, doesn't mean you'd feel ok with being loud and noisy.

>>1357473
Use the toolkit

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>>1357781
Struggling with your backpack in the tight crawlspace, after some grunting and frustration you finally pull out the toolkit you brought with you. Now it's not the best help since in the low light it's hard to see, and the screws for the grate go inwards, but after many attempts you are able to loosen or otherwise break them.

Carefully, you press down on the grade while holding it, causing it to pop off the frame. A couple times you nearly drop it but with some effort manage to turn it a bit and then fit it up here in the duct with you. After that it's a simple matter to crawl over the opening and lower yourself down to where you can drop into the room. Unfortunately it's a bit high up so you stumble over after landing and fall on your side with an "Ooof!"

Not a lot of noise though since you're just in casual clothes, sneakers and all that. Rubbing your arm, you sit up and look around finding yourself now in some maintenance room of the building, a number of industrial units buzzing nearby and all of it overlit by some really artificial-feeling fluorescent light. As far as you can tell you're the only one in here, and looking around you see the door which doesn't appear to have any lock on it.

You can roll to search more thoroughly, but it seems like a pretty standard-fare service room.

Rolled 41 (1d100)

>>1358056
Why not

Rolled 49 (1d100)

>>1358056
rolling

>>1358060
>>1358079
>49

You're not at the top of your game, nervous with everything going on naturally, so you don't pick up on everything. You manage to find some maintenance equipment around, things like a ladder, an actual toolbox, some insulated gloves, items of that nature. You also manage to check the door as well, and as far as you can tell it isn't alarmed.

Just a peek outside and you can see a corridor within the building, properly furnished and all. It branches off to a larger open area you can't see that well from here, but just outside of this room you don't notice any security guards.

>>1358088
Exit the room and look around
Stealthily

>>1358088
Take the items, masquerade as maintenance.

>>1358092
Sneaking your way out of the room and leaving it propped open a little in case it were to lock, you enter into the carpeted corridor. Creeping along, you locate the fire stairs on the way, but move to the end of the corridor and peer around the corner. It appears to be an upper landing area, with a balcony overlooking the lobby several floors down. There are a few rooms off this big landing, as well as another corridor across the way. Interestingly you also notice several elevators which stop at this floor.

It's around this time that you start to hear chatter on your intercom, and your boss sounds back in, asking what's going on since he lost track of you for a bit there. Describing your situation, he suspects you're on the third floor of the building, confirming what you know about the balcony here, looking down over the lobby a ways below. While you observe and talk with your boss though, across the way you notice a security guard coming around, and in a panic run back to the maintenance room door.

>>1358095
You could take the items but you don't have the uniform to match a maintenance worker. You could maybe try looking around for something like that, a locker room maybe, but your boss tells you that would be in one of the sublevels farther below.

>>1358105
Do we know the layout of the floor?

>>1358105
Can we knock him out?

>>1358108
Your boss knows the layout of the building already, but he only gave you a floorplan (in your backpack) of the top floor that you're trying to get to.

>>1358110
Maybe with the use of any powers. On your own though probably not, at least not without some clever planning. You're just an average 20-year-old girl, so getting into a physical fight with a security guard guy, especially without any conventional weapons, wouldn't go well for you.

>>1358133
Easy
Enough to work with.
>Put everything we have into our backpack
>Add in what we found in the maintenance room
>Sneak behind him.
>Smack at the back of his head hard enough to knock him out
One or two rolls?

>>1358144
Ambush with Quantum Fluctuation?

>>1358144
That would take two rolls, one for sneaking up on him and then one for the hit.

>>1358152
That could work, and might not even have to be an ambush. As long as you can maintain contact with him for a short duration, that power will do the trick.

Rolled 43, 80 = 123 (2d100)

>>1358157
Old school best school

>>1358157
As he walks by the door, grab and pull him into the room while Quantum Fluctuating him.

>>1358159
Eyyy
Hes out

>>1358157
Should add, the greater the contact the shorter the duration. Just something like putting a hand on him, will take a lot longer than if say, you hugged him or something.

>>1358159
Also an added detail, that if the sneak fails, naturally the sneak attack won't work. Though the second roll can still go for fighting.

>>1358164
Grapple him into the room. Wait, how old are we?

>>1358164
We could wack him across the head when/as he notices us, that should be enough

>>1358172
20, average fitness/build. So yeah, grappling or physically pulling him into the room by force might not work. You could do it by surprise though maybe, if you happened to just jump out and catch him off guard.

>>1358174
That might work. Where do you want to try this then? Waiting to get the jump on him that is, I assume.

>>1358184
When he's closest to the maintenance room, then we slowly sneak into failure then swing the backpack into his head as we get noticed

>>1358174
Lets whack him in the head, we might need the Quantum Fluctuation to stop spinning blades later.

>>1358189
>>1358190
So you wait in the maintenance room for a time, listening by the door and occasionally peeking out. You let maybe fifteen minutes pass, and impatiently exit the room, sneaking along again towards the main landing of the floor, where the balcony is.

And sure enough there you see the guard again, still doing his rounds. It would appear then, if you had to guess, that his patrol doesn't take him down the side corridor you were, at least not as far as the maintenance room. Maybe you were a little too assured of him finding you, though of course you can still try to attack him if you want to.

Probably a decision you have to make now, if not for this guy then at least in general, but are you ok with killing people? You're a villain for sure (or at least working towards that) but are you the sort to shed blood? While considering what to do about this guard, it seems as good a time as any to make that decision, if you're willing to go as far as things like murder.

>>1358205
Only if b0ss asks us to, don't want to turn into shadow the edgegrill
For now just knock the guy out with the backpack

>>1358205
Don't really want to kill, but if it's a them or us, go for it.

>>1358205

Nah no killing, did we notice if the fire stairs were alarmed?

>>1358213
>>1358215
Right then, unless you need to, you'll refrain from killing. You don't really have it in you to be that sort of villain, and it also attracts negative attention much quicker. When you rob a bank, you'll have the police after you. If you kill everyone in the bank as well though, that'll get a superhero after you.

So,

>43, 80

It isn't necessary but you decide to try and subdue the guard anyway. So gathering up some heavier items from the maintenance room, and fitting what you can into your backpack, you struggle to lug it along after you as you sneak after the guard.

Well, try to sneak. You get decently close, but eventually he hears the clunking of things in your backpack and wheels around to see you. Taking the chance, you heft the bag and run at him with a yell, swinging it at him with all the force you can muster. It's a good shot to be sure, but unfortunately since he noticed you he had a chance to prepare and brings his arms up. The hit knocks him off balance and he stumbles a bit to the side, but pushing off the wall he rights himself again.

"Hey, drop the bag!"

Reaching for his belt, he moves into a readier stance in case you try something again. He doesn't pull out a weapon yet though, or radio it in anything. Chances are he thinks you're just some punk who broke in, since you definitely look the part in casual clothes, and of course trying to hit him with your bag.

>>1358237
Well, fire stairs in the broad sense, just general stairs as an alternative to the elevators. And no, they didn't appear alarmed.

Rolled 70, 47 = 117 (2d100)

>>1358255
Bait him into attacking and the counter attack with the bag,

>>1358255
After we bonk him in the head, can we place him down a flight of stairs? Like he fell or something.
Then we ascend the stairs.

Rolled 28, 34 = 62 (2d100)

>>1358255
>>1358272

Backing this plan

>>1358269
>>1358294

>70, 47

By intentionally throwing yourself off-balance you're able to lure him into trying to grab you. This is just the chance you want though, as you swing again with the bag. The hit this time though isn't that impactful, and though he didn't expect it, you weren't able to build up as much force while trying to evade him, as you were with that earlier running attack.

"That's enough, don't make this ugly!"

After that, he's now annoyed with you rather than just surprised, and actually draws out a nightstick in preparation for another hit from your bag, while his other hand rests on a stun gun on his belt.

>>1358272
Yeah you could do something like that, if you can subdue him in the first place.

Rolled 92 (1d100)

>>1358299

Try to sweep his feet

>>1358299
Excellent
Sink to our knees, start fake sobbing
"Please Mister don't hurt me! I was only looking for a nice place to stay, please! I'm sorry!"
Then crawl towards his leg and firmly hug it
If he buys it initiate Quantum Fluctuation

>>1358308
>>1358311

Any preference towards these actions?

The second one, if it's chosen, can get a roll to convince him.

Rolled 51 (1d100)

>>1358319
Hmm
>>1358311
This one would knock him out quicker but
>>1358308
That 92 assures we knock him down to the floor and only that
I'll stick with mine and roll

>>1358331
>>1358308

If there's no preference then will go with the higher roll. So,

>92

Normally you wouldn't have enough strength to knock the guy over. Tempting him to another lunge though, you dive to the side and then kick him in the back of the knees as hard as you can. This is enough to send him to the floor, giving you the chance to act. He does act to defend himself though, expecting you to wail on him with the bag more.

>>1358370
Do
>>1358311
But just throw ourselves into him and hug him
We don't need to convince him, that will just stop him from struggling and give us enough time to Quantum him

>>1358383
Well if you're just going to do that you don't really need to put on the whole act, at least not when you're on the offensive.

So with the guard on the ground, you jump forward on your knees and fall on him, hugging him as best you can. He's confused and thinks you're poorly trying to grapple him, and tries to force you off him. And he would have done, if you hadn't activated a Quantum Fluctuation on him and closed your eyes, just trying as best you can to hold on. Your harness starts to whirr with activity, to accommodate the energy leak between you and the guard. Only too late does he notice something is wrong and redoubles his efforts, but with a fading scream you feel him slow in movement to a stop, and opening your eyes you see him suspended in stasis. A dark hue to him, with an occasional faint shimmer across his person, you ease your body off him and struggle to your feet feeling a little woozy from the power use.

But there he lays, frozen in terror on the ground. He'll remain like that till the hour ticks over and your harness recharges.

>How do you proceed?

>>1358421
Drag him to the maintenance room before taking the stairs

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>>1358427
You huff and you puff but with a lot of effort you are able to drag him stiffly across the floor, around behind the elevators to avoid the cameras, all the way back to the maintenance room where you leave him. Taking a moment to catch your breath and wipe the sweat from your face, you make your way to the stairwell and begin your ascent. Your boss informs you how many flights you have to go up, till you reach the top floor, and he recommends checking over the map now before exiting onto the floor. He suspects guards will be around up here, so best to figure out a plan on how to reach your objective, before just barging in.

Checking the map, and with help from your boss, you understand yourself to be in the stairwell (represented by the navy star) and the room you're trying to reach is the CEO's office (represented by the green star). Beyond that though, you only know the floorplan, not the path or presence of any guards, or security measures.

>How do you proceed?

>>1358449
Go straight until we get to the corridor and poke our head in to see what's what

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>>1358465
Moving ahead out of the stairwell, and being as quiet as you can with the doors, you peek out to look both ways into the adjoining corridor. Over the course of a couple minutes, you see a guard either way. The one farther to the top (of the map) passed by in some corridor, while the one farther to the bottom seems to be on a rounds of the elevator lobbies, going back and forth between them.

That's all you find from a stealthy glance, out of the stairwell.

Rolled 63 (1d100)

>>1358485
Use dat transparency thingy and sneak to the lowest corridor past the guards

>>1358490
What transparency thingy?

>>1358505
Subspace Tresspass

>>1358510
You already used that within the last hour, you've still got awhile to go till your harness recharges its use.

>>1358516
Do we have a time limit to do this? Or can we wait for it to recharge

>>1358522
You could wait for it to recharge, but not long after and the guard you just subdued will come out of stasis, and who knows what he'll do then.

So there isn't an actual time limit, but obviously you wouldn't want to be here all night either.

Rolled 60 (1d100)

>>1358538
Fuck it
Sneak out and go to the lowest corridor

Rolled 51 (1d100)

>>1358485

Slip behind the one in front of the elevators when he starts pacing the other way

Rolled 13 (1d100)

>>1358659
Supporting

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>>1358561
>>1358659
I'm back now.

>60

So carefully you time it when the guard in the elevator lobby goes past, and you sneak behind him. Along the way you also notice one guard just standing at the far end of the elevator lobby.

At any rate you make it to the next little nook, but peeking around you see one guard on patrol in your direction, and another at the far end of this next corridor, leaving it on his own route.

>>1358793
Sneak into the room in front of us and wait for the guard on our left to pass.

>>1358793
How many of the doors in general are open? The hallway doors, the office doors? Also try to slip into the room to our right (on the map to our left).

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>>1358831
The room directly in front of you turns out to be locked, but in a panic you're able to get into the adjoining room before the guard makes it through the door in the corridor. It looks to be just a typical office room so you keep your attention on the guard, listening to the door.

You can try and sneak past him when he passes, but make a stealth roll for opening and closing both this office door, and the corridor door you'll have to pass through.

>>1358845
Most all of them are automatically closing doors, so almost all are going to be closed unless they're actively being held, or propped open.

>>1358845
Or that
That sounds good too

Rolled 13 (1d100)

>>1358849
Two then?

Rolled 94, 88 = 182 (2d100)

>>1358856
Aw fuck
Force of habit

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>>1358845
One thing to note though, is that some of the doors are glass, so even though they're closed, can be seen through.

>>1358860
>94, 88

Again, you continue to show your aptitude for stealth and sneakiness, as you creep out of the office and slide the door shut before heading through the next door and similarly closing it quietly. You continue down the corridor, around the corners peeking as you go along, but see at least one more guard just standing by the office you're aiming for. There could be others out of sight thought.

Also I added in brown guards you know to be around, and where you last saw them, but having lost track of them.

>>1358875
Sneak into the second room to our left and observe if the guard moves, if he does we can sneak into the office ezpz

Rolled 76 (1d100)

>>1358902

>>1358902
What do you think is "our" left? I probably should represent you with an arrow rather than a star from here on.

>>1358875
Sneak into room 5954 and watch the guard.

>>1358907
The side going towards the green star
So room 5953

Rolled 2 (1d100)

>>1358902

Seconding this, any idea how long is left on our timer?

>>1358914

Whew lad, close

Rolled 33 (1d100)

>>1358914
Holy Fuck
Calm down man I rolled a 76

Rolled 60 (1d100)

>>1358875
Rolling for best plan

>>1358928
>>1358922
>>1358914
Wait so which plan is being followed? Also for rolls what I'll do when there are multiple, is do the average of all of them.

As for time left till the harness recharges, you've still got about half an hour left.

>>1358942
This I believe
>>1358914
>>1358902
With the 76

>>1358942

This one >>1358902

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>>1358949
>>1358950

>46 average

So you attempt to sneak across the hall to one of the rooms on the other side. It's so close to the guard though that he could see you out of the corner of his eye, that you have to go quick, and end up not being as stealthy as you like. You do manage to get inside the room, but it shuts just a little too quickly, and it seems the guard noticed.

He's not suspicious to the point of knowing someone is there, but you can hear him walking towards this room, and he will probably check inside here to see what the cause of the noise might have been.

>How do you proceed?

>>1358958
Panic and hide behind anything that covers our whole body

>>1358958

Can we push out some of the superfluid under the door so the floor in front of it is super slippery?

>>1358965
If you want to hide, make a roll to see how well you can.

>>1358970
You could try that, but you would have to use all the amount you have with you, in order to create a patch big enough to soak under the door. Normally the use of the canisters is to apply to something to make it slippery, so if you want you could try to quickly search around here for something you could apply just one canister to and hope he slips on that thing instead.

Your call, one way is probably quicker and safer but uses all the canisters. The other would just be one use, but would have a chance it could go wrong.

>>1358983

Shit, I really don't want to use all of them, we still need to get out after all.

Are the windows up here openable?

>>1359000
This is the top floor of an office building, so no the windows probably cannot be opened. In fact, it's unlikely you could even smash them normally.

Rolled 40 (1d100)

>>1358983
Forgot to post lol

>>1359010
>40

Well panicking over what to do, you try to hide wherever you can, and end up under the desk in the room, about the only place able to conceal you.

In your hurry though it doesn't seem that the guard's suspicion is put to rest, as he now begins to check around the room. At this rate, he's going to find you if you just remain under the desk, you believe.

Rolled 27 (1d100)

>>1359029
Shoot a micrometeor out from under the desk into the hallway to lure him out.
Also how much rolling should we be doing?

>>1359036
As much rolling as you like. You don't have to roll if you don't want, but that will leave it to my discretion then, which could go well or poorly for you, depending.

Also the office door is closed, do you still want to try with the Micrometeor?

>>1359040
Yes.

Rolled 99 (1d100)

>>1359036

>>1359045
Welp
There goes that part of the building

>>1359045
>>1359036

>63 average

In the awkward position you're in under the desk, you don't really have a good means of throwing anything well, but quickly rummaging through your bag you draw out a Micrometeor beacon. Attuning it to your harness, you underhand throw it out from underneath the desk, the moment it leaves your hand warping an actual micrometeor into place. Whizzing through the air, it continues to pick up speed and force, where it blasts right through the door with a small *bang* and smashes something on the other side that you can't see.

You hear an audible "What the hell?!" as the guard jumps from the sudden loud noise, and immediately he runs over to inspect the door, getting down on a knee to look through the decently-sized hole left by it. And to be honest you're also curious about how much an effect it had outside the room as well, but will have to wait to see.

A rather good distraction you think, enough that you'd have the jump on him if you wanted it.

How much damage would we cause if we coat a micrometeor in the frictionless stuff, then throw it in an arc going toward another continent? Constant acceleration, with a frictionless body.

>>1359058
Nah
Just sneak to the door we need to go to

Rolled 39 (1d100)

>>1359065

>>1359058
And can we coat the outside of our clothing in the frictionless stuff?
Like a greased pig, we will never be caught.
>>1359065
And seconding

>>1359058
Active blueshift and bum rush him. Try a sick nasty jump double kick.

Rolled 4 (1d100)

>>1359058

Sneakie Beakie

>>1359084

Fuck, I'll stop now

Rolled 48 (1d100)

>>1359084
>>1359065

>>1359060
Right now, there is a point where the subspace propulsion would wear off. But if your powers grew? Who knows, maybe you could accidentally level a city.

>>1359070
You could do that but you'd end up freezing yourself eventually, from how cold it is. If you or your boss came up with someone to deal with that though, then yes you'd probably be quite difficult to catch.

>>1359065
The problem with that is, there is only one door in and out of this room, and the guard is standing at it.

>>1359060
Shut up Nondescript/Bait

Rolled 32 (1d100)

>>1359105
Dropkick his ass, send his head through the door in front of him

Rolled 32 (1d100)

>>1359058
Let's jump on him and put him in a choke hold.

Rolled 100 (1d100)

>>1359105

Ambush this dude

I lied, I am not stopping

>>1359121
>>1359115
Two 32s
Dayum

>>1359123
>100

and

>>1359115
>>1359121
>Double 32s

Ok so yeah, you've got the jump on this guy, and you can get away with basically, literally whatever you want to do.

>>1359123
Holy Fuck
A 100
And
>>1359121
>>1359115
Two 32s
He's dead
So dead
Also supporting
>>1359123

>>1359123
>>1359128
Lets not kill him, jusk ko him.

>>1359133
Okay
Bitch slap him into unconsciousness or butt slam him

>>1359128
>>1359133
>>1359140
So final decision on what you're doing? Anything is possible / viable since you super double crit rolled, even if it isn't a violent action.

>>1359127

KO him as silently as possible

Unfortunately our route now has a trail leading all the way to this office so they'll know that something was going on here, hopefully the goal doesn't require the virus to stay permanently on the computer

>>1359149
Persuade him were a super looking for something, have him escort us to our objective.
Something that causes small explosion things.

>>1359149

Oh oh oh

Nevermind knocking him out then, if anything is possible let's just slip past him and get into the office we need to be in while leaving behind something that will make him think that's what caused the noise

>>1359156
A super hero.

>>1359158
Sorry if that was confusing, I meant any action, violent or not towards the guard, will go successfully. The roll was towards him, so whatever you do to him will work.

>>1359156
That could return to bite us in the butt
>>1359158
Supporting

>>1359165
Welp
Changing my vote to
>>1359156
>>1359164
Then

>>1359165

Gotcha, well in that case let's try a variation of >>1359156

Basically tell him that we're a very new assistant to the boss and forgot something vital, we're looking for a specific file and didn't want to bother anybody but while he's here could he let us into the office and keep watch. We really don't want to get fired we need this job so that we can take care of our little siblings ever since our parents died in the horrible car crash (spin a sob story so that this guy can rationalize why we might be sneaking and scared and can sympathize)

>>1359172
>>1359153
>>1359156
Ok so is the agreement trying to pretend to be a superhero and gain his help?

That got majority choice but since black TB9 rolled the 100 he gets the final say.

>>1359177
I'm ok with that

>>1359177

I didn't know we were going to throw in being a superhero, though that turns out to be a much better excuse and also explains the knocked out guard on the lower level.

Alright so, superhero, performing an investigation, we had to regrettably KO one of the guards on the lower level and restrain them but they're safe. For the good of the company, all that jazz

>>1359184
>>1359183
Just a heads up that this convincing will only work on this guy, though he will believe it till the cows come home.

So yeah, you reveal yourself and as expected he reacts hostile at first. You spin such a sudden and convincing story about you being a superhero though, here to do good, that he actually believes you and after some simple questions about you and your presence here, he's even willing to help out however he can.

So you have one convinced, loyal follower. How do you want to proceed?

>>1359184
Or the enemy thing we're chasing koed him.

>>1359200
Head to the CEO's office

>>1359200
Oh and one other thing worth figuring out, but by what means are you maintaining the guard's loyalty? Are you hoping to rely on his good nature as an upstanding citizen helping a hero, are you promising him something in reward, or maybe your logic is so sound that you've convinced him he believes it?

Basically, if called out on his helping you, what is keeping him loyal to you in the face of his guard duties and job responsibility?

>>1359209
Only of the tools you got from the maintenance room, you have a screwdriver, and a boxcutter.

>>1359200
Ask him if he can sneak us past the other guards

>>1359226
Are we not wearing a mask?

>>1359226
Let's convince him that our actions will benefit the city's economy, especially for the working class.

>>1359228
>>1359232
Support him

>>1359232
Alright, you present a case where your actions are driven to help people economically, even if maaaybe it's at the detriment of this company.

>>1359229
You've got a hoodie on, and a bandana for the lower half of your face. So not a mask, because you don't have a proper costume, but your identity is hidden.

>>1359228
He thinks he could probably escort you past any, but for your interest in the CEO's office, he says there is both some sort of bodyguard and an executive in there right now, the latter doing some late night work. So maybe he could safely escort you through or out of the building, but he doubts the executive will listen to him.

Though, in your convincing him, he genuinely believes that you can also convince the executive. Because why wouldn't he listen to a superhero?

>>1359226

Tell him that we are a hero-in-training and have been assigned to perform an investigation, we need good marks here to pull of graduating and if he helps us out then soon he'll have a superhero that owes him a favor

>>1359246
Poor mentally handicapped guard.
See if the guard can lure both together, then hit them with the cosmic shunt grenade.

>>1359246
"Well sir, not everyone trusts Superheroes, sometimes people are cynical, selfish, and greedy. Especially corporate executives"

>>1359246

Let's try to convince this executive as well with >>1359255 promising that a soon to be hero will owe them and the company a favor (that's got to be worth a lot to these guys)

>>1359255
>>1359261
That's possible but you'll have to roll for it, and roll well. Really well.

Otherwise,

>>1359257
This could also work, just force all of them out of the building.

>>1359257
Seconding, also warn helper guard in advance so he doesn't resent us.

>>1359278

We would be sending them outside the building from the 54th floor, I think he'll resent us either way but only for approximately 17 seconds

>>1359287
The building isn't that high, only about 8 stories. The Shunt grenades though, your boss made them so that they're safe to use on people, if you so wish. It will push them out of the area, but to some safe location nearby, be it another rooftop nearby, the street-level below, or even just some other floor below or the rooftop of this same building.

>>1359278
How are you going to spin that to him? That you're going to be forcing them all out? He'll go for it, but a reason would help.

>>1359287
54th floor? Shit I thought the building was maby 4 stories.
Has it been an hour since we used the Gravity resist?

>>1359297

Huh, not sure where the skyscraper image came from then

Then yeah lets use a shunt grenade on the exec and their bodyguard

Don't bring the helper guard in with us, have him stay here and pretend to have been taken out. That way shit doesn't come down on him either, explain that part of the investigation might come back on the exec so he wouldn't just step aside for us

>>1359297
There was a ghost, we need to evacuate the one the ghost is after. The ghost shouldn't be able to leave the building, but is very dangerous and clumsy.

>>1359313

Hell this is better, we might be able to tie up all our lose ends with this

>>1359297
Tell him we'll use our superpowers to nonlethally relocate the bodyguard and executive where they will be unable to hinder our mission.
But, he'll have to draw their attention as bait, and will probably be a secondary target of the power's effect.
So, yeah, we'll tell him that we'll force them out of the room, except with big words to confuse him and make him think we're smart.

>>1359330
Forget this
>>1359313
Going with this one

>>1359301
I don't think you ever used that power yet?

>>1359320
>>1359313
>>1359308
So you want to keep the guard out of this, and just shove the executive and the bodyguard? That can work but you need a way to get them out of the office, since the grenade pushes out anything that is freestanding. That includes things like furniture, or computers resting on furniture.

In any case the guard listens to everything you have to say, optimistically accepting it word for word and believing all of it. He's just a young guy, maybe a year or two older than you, and bright eyed at your actions. He's probably still got faith in people and the world, and probably grew up idolizing heroes, so seeing one in person, and that she's involving him as help, is like the highlight of his life.

>>1359338
To float like a ghost. Gravity Reject.
Have the guard lure them out. You now have the office to your self. Have the guard escort you out.

>>1359352
No, we used subspace trespass to pretend to be a ghost

>>1359338
That poor guard, we gonna cost him his job.
Maby he turns into a hero and becomes our nemisis.

>>1359352
So just to make sure, are you catching the guard in the Cosmic Shunt? If not it will be hard for him to pull off luring them outside, and then quickly running away to a safe distance while you prime and throw the grenade.

It's possible, but will require a roll.

>>1359362
Tell the guard he needs to go with the exec, to keep him safe.

>>1359362

Yeah to keep the exec safe and to push some suspicion off of him, we don't want him to lose his job after all, poor dear

>>1359370
Right then, so you tell the guard what you want him to hear, and cheerfully with confidence, he says he won't let you down!

At that he exits the room and heads into the CEO's office. You hear some talking going on, and what sounds like anger or annoyance, whereafter the guard exits the room talking about how the executive *needs* to come and see something!

Just what you were hoping for, as you've already got the grenade primed, and simply toss it down the corridor to roll along the carpet towards them. Before they have much a chance to react, there's a burst through that short area which slightly distorts the appearance of everything inside, like putting it all through a color filter. Moments later and they're promptly ripped towards whichever surface they are closest too (the guard the floor, the exec a wall) and when they hit they just pass right through like a little tear in space. With that they're gone, and though you didn't see the bodyguard as far out of the office as the exec, he probably got shunted out as well, seeing as he's nowhere in the office.

So, you have the room to yourself now, no guard, no exec and no bodyguard.

>>1359404

Awesome, let's get this program loaded up and work on getting the hell out of here

>>1359404
Lets get in there and do what we need to do

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>>1359414
So you've made it to the CEO's office, quite a nice place, well furnished and all with awards and stuff around and some interesting trinkets and displays of art and whatnot. You also can locate the computer without trouble. It seems the exec locked it when he got up to leave the room after the guard, but it's not shut down. Which is what matters, your boss informs you, as he explains just what to do.

As instructed, you rummage through your backpack and find the carrying case for the device, open it, and plug it into one of the computer ports. He informs you that the process shouldn't take more than maybe fifteen minutes, and while he doesn't actually need the device back, it does need to remain connected and uninterrupted so you can't just up and leave in case someone comes in and unplugs it or something.

So you'll have a bit of time in here, any preparations you want to make, or anything you want to do?

>>1359438

How much time is left on our Harness? And can we use the harness to phase through the wall and float our way down to street level?

>>1359438
Talk to our boss
Get to know him

>>1359438
Whip out our trusty chocolate snacks, rest our feet on the desk, eat, whip out our dastardly phone and ear buds, plug in and chill until the device is done

>>1359438
Do
>>1359450
After
>>1359451
If we have no cool phone to listen to music with

>>1359438
Lock the door and blockade it, they might be able to return in 15 minutes. Spray the device with the All-Slip™ so they can't remove it.

>>1359444
By the time this process with the computer is complete, your harness will have recharged. As for what you want to do, yes you could probably do something like that, basically a Subspace Trespass as you attempt a downwards jump, causing you to keep going down at that speed, and returning to realspace around the street level. Maybe a Gravity Reject just in case you undershoot. You would definitely want to have your boss do a number crunch though for the downward speed you want. Undershooting might be bad, you'll end up in the air above the street, but you can fix that with some other power.

Overshooting though, and you could end up underground or worse.

>>1359450
Ah that's right, your boss. The villain who found out what happened to you from the accident, and knew how to bring you back. A technical and engineering background, he got into villainy to test his skills and maybe earn some extra money. In general though he's a decent guy, you refer to him as your boss because you feel that sort of debt to him, but he doesn't act superior to you or treat you badly in anyway. If anything you're more like coworkers and he's just been at the job longer than you, but still both the same job position. More than just saving you from being lost in space forever as well, he's helping you to adjust to life again, and is even putting you up for the time being since you lost things like the place you were living, due to being missing and thought dead for several months.

Ah, but what's his name again? His villain name? He does use gadgets and little robots for his dastardly plans...

>Come up with a villain identity for your boss!


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>>1359474
Like our boss lets us know his name, or see his face.

>>1359459
So the first thing you do is lock the office door and barricade it as best you can, which means huffing and puffing, a struggle to push a couch over against the door. That's about all you can manage though, you didn't get super strength from your accident.

As for the device, you can apply the Superfluid to it, but the temperature change might mess it up, you're not sure. Also, someone could still just smash or unplug the computer even if they can't get the device.

>>1359451
In the meantime, you rummage through your backpack and find some chocolate you'd brought along just in case. Maybe you shouldn't, you want to watch your weight, but you think a reward is in order for your job well done so far.

So you kick back and relax, feeling like the CEO, and listening to some chillaxing music and podcasts while you wait. A dastardly phone... you should ask your boss to make something like that for you.

>>1359482
But you like to call him The Grand Industrialist, behind his back of course.

>>1359488
His workshop, being filled with large robots and vast machines, reminds you of an old factory.

>>1359488
>>1359493
That might be a bit too lofty for him, he's barely more a villain than you are, doesn't even have his name in the papers yet.

And the biggest robot of his you've seen is about the size of a vending machine. Well, he has one robot the size of a vending machine, because it's made out of one. He's more a tinkerer and gadgeteer with a little workshop than a vast robotics mastermind engineer with a foundry, but if you still want to use that name to spite him you totally can.

>>1359488
I have no idea how to name him but this sounds too cheesy
>>1359474

Illustrious Industrialist?
And
Alistair Green!

>>1359487
How long do the effects of the super fluid last?
>>1359498
If he is around our age, call him Tiny Tim Tinkerer, if we feel a bit annoyed or amused, otherwise call him boss.

>>1359498
>>1359503

I have the perfect name
Straight out of fallout

The Machinist!

>>1359505
>Straight out of fallout

You mean The Mechanist?

But yeah, Machinist works well actually!

>>1359503
He's a little older than you, like mid-20s. You're the youngest of the trio though, with his Jessica in the middle.

>>1359503
The Superfluid lasts depending on how much you use, but one dose is probably good for say, 15 minutes.

Anyway, with your headphones in it takes you a bit to notice, but finally you notice the bashing sound at the office door. It's been maybe ten minutes since you plugged the device in, but leaning forward in alarm and taking the headphones out, it sounds like some people are gathered outside now and are trying to bust their way in. Maybe the exec called security? Or maybe they just managed to get back here in ten minutes or so.

Either way, yeah you hear the bashing at the door now and shouting outside. No alarms yet though, no warning sirens or anything.

>>1359517
Use the fluid on the floor infront of the door. Then watch as they struggle to stay standing, like those old cartoons.

>>1359527
Ah well, small problem in that the couch is in the way of the door on your side. And same as with the other office, if you want it to soak through to the other side, you'll have to use all your canisters of the stuff.

>>1359517
Turn off the computer screen. Use one of the pointy awards to knock out a window. Use the superfluid on the floor from the couch to the wall/window. When they break through they'll slide till they hit the wall, in the ensuing chaos we jump out the window, using Gravity reject. That should be long enough for the device to finish.

>>1359549
Try as you might, by your own physical ability you aren't able to knock out any of the windows. They're intentionally made like that, even with a sledgehammer you'd have a hard time. That's nothing to say about any powers, but just grabbing something in here and smacking the glass, won't do anything.

>>1359530
Pop a micrometeor through the wall next to the door, lube up a the last wormhole grenade and pop it through.

>>1359559
Lets do
>>1359549
And use subspace tresspass to remain unseen during their search, only break the cloak if they try anything with the device

>>1359517
>The Mechanist
Damn
I was close

And who is this Jessica you speak of? Is she between us and our beloved Mechanist-kun?

>>1359570
I meant only the computer bit

>>1359517
Jessica? Who?

>>1359564
Destroy the floor behind the door, so the guards have to get something to cross the hole. Use the last meteor to pot a hole in the wall to the outside. Throw wormhole grenade outside,
>Tell them they will remember this as the day they almost caught Ca-...
Teleport
Flee
By the time they get over the hole, the device should be through.

>>1359585
I don't think the meteor is strong enough to make a foot large hole.

>>1359570
Trespass has a hard limit of ten seconds. Any longer and you risk your body phasing out of the harness and getting lost in subspace again.

>>1359573
Jessica is... well, Jessica, that's the name they use. She and several thousand others just like her roam the city, and have been for approaching a year now. No one knows the true origin, but they started showing up and now there's a ton of them around. The only thing you know is that when a Jessica gets enough food, she undergoes a division process over several hours, almost like a cell or bacteria or something, and splits into two.

Many have been helped and taken in by various groups or charity organizations, and many have been helped by just common people. Some though from what you have heard, suffer under criminal enterprise, human trafficking and whatnot, and most are just homeless in the city.

The Machinist took in one, and while you're like his villainous sidekick, she's like your guys' maid, who handles more normal things like cooking and cleaning.

>>1359591
>>1359585
It would be able to smash out the windows with a good throw, but yeah not enough to put a big hole in the floor. Not that it couldn't get through the floor, but it would just punch through like a bullet, leaving a small hole.

>>1359564
The wall next to the door... like the wall between this room and the next office over?

Rolled 62 (1d100)

Rolly Roo
>>1359564

>>1359591
Is Jessica a slime?
Hmm, Hold the grenade and tell them that you will blow up the building, when they break through. Stall for about 5 minutes. Throw the grenade past them, when they tackle you you'll just teleport away. Run like your ass was on fire.

>>1359597
I sense plot
But she's not a threat to us so she can live
Are they drone like? Or do they behave just like a real human bean?

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>>1359603
This one

>>1359603
Can we throw a meteor fast enough to tear through anything and hopefully kill the people on the other side?
We shouldn't kill but we're in deep right now so we have to

>>1359610
The idea with the grenade was just to buy time until the program was finished, and hard reset out of the building, but bluffing is prolly a better idea.

>>1359603
Would an internal reverb keep the door from opening.

>>1359610
>Is Jessica a slime?

No, completely normal human woman of about 23 from what people understand. The hunt for the original persists though.

>>1359612
She's a completely normal human being, apart from the fact that getting enough nutrients causes the division process, which they don't seem to have control over, it's just like a biological process for them.

Their intelligence depends on how long they take to divide from one another. A short division and it's like a completely uneducated, new mind. Not stunted in her capacity to learn and develop, just lacking the experience and knowledge. A long division, and both copies share the same knowledge, memories, etc...

From what you understand, the Machinist got a pretty inexperienced one, but helped her out, educated her to a decent enough level that she is about your average person's level of intelligence, minus the education of going through school. She talks and behaves fine, can do stuff like cook and drive, but she doesn't know the capital of the country for example, or how to do long multiplication.

>>1359613
OH, you mean through the wall, to land outside the office next to all the people? That makes sense, I thought you were trying to get away by just going into the next room over.

>>1359621
He sounds more like an anti-hero than a villain now, but I guess that's better than having an actual asshole b0ss

>>1359619
No, it just makes something not lose the inertia it has. So like if you coated a ball with it, it would not only not stop bouncing, but only continue to increase in inertia/velocity, building up until either the application wore off, or the object destroyed itself.

>>1359615
A good throw, yes would probably be able to blast through the door and injured anyone on the other side. But that the same time you could use it to scare them just as well.

>>1359619
>>1359616
So I think the consensus is drawn either between bluffing about the destructiveness of the grenades to stall for time, or trying to sabotage the people outside till the time is up and you can escape?

>>1359631
Why not both? Cause some damage, then claim to cause more damage.

>>1359627
If you're just judging him based on his treatment of Jessica, then yeah he's an alright guy. Certainly plenty of people treat them worse, or even horrifically. Even public perception is pretty divided, between the Jessica's being a danger, to being women in need, to being annoying pests.

Some people like the Machinist help them, others take advantage of or even abuse them.

>>1359637
Sure you can do some combination of the choices. Just specify what you are doing and in what order, and then I'll clarify any rolls you'll need to make.

Also just to be clear, it's not like the guys outside are at this moment, hacking the door down and almost inside. They're trying to get in and sound angry, but you've got probably a good few minutes before they resort to getting a cabinet or something and smashing the door down.

>>1359642
Use the meteor to scare the guards, once they do come in, claim you have a more destructive device, motion towards the grenade in your hand. Make some outlandish requests, and when they cant meet them throw the grenade past them into the hall. They will tackle/ go past you to escape the blast radius. You teleport past them. Then you flee. FLEEE!

>>1359642
I think the best plan is to bust a hole in the wall and threaten them with our awesome destructive power.

>>1359652
That might work but one small problem, is that if someone has a good hold of you, like they're clinging on, the Wormhole grenade will drag them with you to the other end.

>>1359653
Just checking, but which grenade would you be putting through the wall? Because if you do it with the Wormhole grenade, it's the only one you have left, and probably no longer useful after that as an escape method because it would be right next to them.

>>1359661
Can we throw more than one meteor at a time?