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Steelshape Aegis
STR - 4d6
SPD - 5d8
DEX - 5d8
CTR - 4d6
STA - 3d4 (6 HP)
NRG - 4d6 (4 EP)
Abilities
ACTIVE:
PASSIVE:
Defensive Posture I: Attacks with a Width of 2 have their damage reduced to 1.

In Cyber Demon Quest, smaller dice numbers are better. The numbers of your dice don't matter - what you want is more matched numbers than the other person.

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Steelshape Saurian
STR - 3d4 How physically strong your Steelshape is.
SPD - 4d6 How fast your Steelshape is - determines initiative.
DEX - 4d6 How dextrous your Steelshape is. Used for dodging and other fine manipulations.
CTR - 5d8 How in control your Steelshape is. Worse stats in this make it easier for you to Berserk, and hungrier.
STA - 4d6 (4 HP) How much punishment your Steelshape can take.
NRG - 5d8 (3 EP) Your Steelshape's energy reserves for special abilities.
Abilities
ACTIVE:
PASSIVE:
Tyrant King I: When you Berserk due to hunger, the first turn of your Berserk, the Width of any sets made is increased by 1.

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Steelshape Octopod
STR - 5d8
SPD - 5d8
DEX - 4d6
CTR - 4d6
STA - 4d6 (4 HP)
NRG - 3d4 (6 EP)
Abilities
ACTIVE:
Active Camo I: Costs 3 EP. Become cloaked, disappearing from visual and auditory detection for 2 rounds or 5 minutes (when not in combat).
PASSIVE:


Combat is derived from the One-Roll Engine system. Each person rolls, and any sets made are used for both 'Damage' and 'Defense', and whoever has the better Speed dice generally goes first. d4 > d6 > d8.

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Steelshape Hare
STR - 4d6
SPD - 3d4
DEX - 4d6
CTR - 4d6
STA - 5d8 (3 HP)
NRG - 5d8 (3 EP)
Abilities
ACTIVE:
PASSIVE:
Kick Through I: As long as you are going first, you may increase the Width of any 1 set made by you in that turn by 1.

The kicker, ha ha, is that there are indeed critical hits in this system - sets of 1. A Set of 1s can 'break' other sets, and is treated as if it is 1 Width higher (so a 2x1 is treated as a 3x1 instead) for damage and defensive purposes.

{Options exhausted. You may vote for your Steelshape now.}

>>2422924
Lets go Saurian again.

>>2422917
Did you take any elements from NWOD's Demon, by any chance? How much can we customise our physical avatar?

>>2422985
Not particularly, and I'll have to ask on clarification on what you mean for "customizing our physical avatar". Will there be level ups, ability trees, and autism? Absolutely. Can you spray paint yourself red? I mean, if you want.

>>2422991
By that, I meant hardware and software we can install onto our Steelshape to optimise us further. Your answer sounds like a 'yes'.

Furthermore, can we own and use multiple Steelshapes, like Eclipse Phase?

>>2423039
In that case, yes. You are capable of integrating both typical technology (by eating it) and abilities of your enemies (by eating them) into your systems.

Also, maybe. I haven't thought about it yet.

>>2423050
Great! In that case, I'll cast my vote for Hare.

>>2422924
oshit, we back. Going with this once more.

>>2422940
Steelshape Aegis

Are you waiting for first to three, or just more players in general?

>>2422940
Hey, this looks cool
>Hare

>>2422940
Lets go Saurian

>>2422940
> Saurian
Return of the King!

>>2423505
Was waiting for a couple more, will likely get the first update out tomorrow ish

>>2422940
>Steelshape Hare
kick through sounds good

>>2422924
This sounds like fun.

>>2422924
Bring our boy back.

I wonder if Liv will show up again. She was super cute.

>>2424315
Saurian that is. Even though Hare and Aegis look really cool.

>>2422936
>Hare
This one seems rather amusing.

>>2422940
Oh hey it's this quest again!
>Hare

>>2422940
Voting Dinosaur

you better not die. damn you for being interesting.

>>2422924
>>2422940
>Saurian

>>2424806
what do you mean?

>>2422940
>Dinosaur
It returns...

Oh hell yeah, it's back!
>Let's do Hare this time

{Steelshape Saurian selected. Prepare for control}

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As your head spins, the lights go out inside the data center, every single computer and server slowly blipping out into blackness, and then you are cloaked in the dark.

You feel yourself, if barely - your skin is numb, and even in this pitch black, you can see yourself. The only parts of your body that feel remotely the same are your torso, upper legs, and upper arms, and even then, you can tell that they are constructed out of something wholly different than skin - a thick, leathery material that gently heaves up and down even as you fail to breathe. Sections of white, bone-like plate surround you, embossed on your shoulders, your hips, forming a cranial plate with a single jutting horn, forming a dizzying array of ribs to protect your vulnerable insides.

Until a realization strikes you. Your insides are no longer there - you are not so numb as to fail to notice that detail. As you move, you feel viscous liquid gently pumping around inside of veins far too large to be veins, and you feel hollow. Empty, in a literal, rather than an emotional, sense. Your point of view extends out several feet further than before, both from added height of your new legs, and your extensive neck that juts out, lined with black-metal spines and terminating in a hungry maw, two battery-like canisters serving as sensory organs. Your body whirrs and hisses softly while your tail, a whip-like string of cable several meters long, drags loosely behind you, and your fingers end now in razor-sharp claws, rather than the blunted nails of a nervous hacker. Your feet gently exhale steam, piston-like zygodactyl actuators pressing into the soft tile of the server farm.

You are, definitively and utterly, something other than human. For the first time in hours, you hear voices - from far away, despite your lack of ears. 4 of them, to be specific, over a radio frequency that comes to you as easily as listening to a normal conversation through a loudspeaker.

Two armed men from the east. Two from the west. PMCs of an unknown origin, with callsigns unrecognizable.

Zeroing in on your location.

>Hide in the pitch black of the server farm.
>Climb on top of one of the server racks to get out of sight.
>Rush out of the room at top speed to catch them by surprise.
>WRITE-IN

>>2425005
>Hide in the pitch black of the server farm.

>>2425005
>>Climb on top of one of the server racks to get out of sight.

>>2425005
>>Climb on top of one of the server racks to get out of sight.
Then we attack from stealth

>>2425005
>>Rush out of the room at top speed to catch them by surprise.

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>>2425060
>>2425018
Even with the lights out, and even with no eyes, climbing up the server farm and hauling yourself up to the ceiling is a child's task. You seem especially suited to climbing, with clamp-like toes that adjust themselves to the angles of whatever you're grabbing hold of before driving in like stakes, and pointed claws that let you dig into even the hardest concrete.

You watch from on high, as the four PMC members, no insignia, enter the room and begin sweeping through it with gun-mounted flashlights. Their radios have died off - instead, they seem to all be using hand signals at this point, going two-by-two down the rows, one aiming back, the other aiming forward, sweeping side to side.

Thankfully, nobody looks up.

Execution Count: 0
>Use your tail to necksnap someone and drag them upwards.
>Grab someone's skull with your foot and clamp through it.
>Yank someone's gun out of their hands and beat them to death with it.
>Leave them be - escape is the more prudent option.
>WRITE-IN

>>2425095
>>Use your tail to necksnap someone and drag them upwards.
Slow and steady wins the race.

>>2425095
>>Use your tail to necksnap someone and drag them upwards.

>>2425095
>>2425098
>>Use your tail to necksnap someone and drag them upwards.
This.
Take the first one out as quietly as possible.

>>2425095
>going two-by-two down the rows, one aiming back, the other aiming forward, sweeping side to side.
>WRITE-IN
How close is each pair? I want to know if it's possible to get a stealth nonlethal knockout.

>>2425111
So my reasoning is I was afraid that killing them would lead to more trouble down the road, but probably doesn't matter now since John Smith is now a monster. I wonder if guns fit in his clawed hands still.

>>2425111
They're back-to-back with very little-to-no space between them.

>>2425111
>I want to know if it's possible to get a stealth nonlethal knockout.
This was my first thought.
Then, I realised that l never play a character that would kill at the first sign of danger, so I'm giving it a try.
But that's me.

>>2425095
>Use your tail to necksnap someone and drag them upwards.
We're going full horror movie monster on them.

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>>2425118
>>2425105
>>2425099
>>2425098
The effort required to snap someone's neck with your inches-thick tail is laughable at best, comparable to lifting up a half-gallon of milk. You simply coil your tail around the neck of the outermost PMC soldier, and yank him up three meters in the blink of an eye, snapping his neck vertically as you separate vertebrae from vertebrae.

There is, of course, a noise to deal with. A loud craaaCK as bone is moved in ways bone is unused to moving in. Immediately, the other three soldiers whip around, and one of them lets out a panicked whine through his transmitter, sweeping his gun in circles while the other two come to get his back. All three of them are aiming at the spot where the noise was heard, guns at the ready, shining light at an empty gap.

Execution Count: 1
>Drop the corpse to distract them and then skewer someone in the back with the tip of your tail.
>Rip the head off and peg them with it while dropping the rest of the body.
>Drop the corpse as a warning and flee.
>WRITE-IN.

>>2425128
>Drop the corpse to distract them and then skewer someone in the back with the tip of your tail.
We horror movie now.

>>2425128
>Move directly over them and try to decapitate as you drop on them.

>>2425128
>Drop the corpse to distract them and then skewer someone in the back with the tip of your tail.
>WRITE-IN
instead of just dropping it, why not toss the body at three of them and temporarily pin them to the ground? A dead body in full gear isn't light you know.

Ok. I guess we are now more noticeable aggressive or lack empathy to some degree. This is fine.

>>2425128
>Drop the corpse to distract them and then skewer someone in the back with the tip of your tail.

>>2425138
I liked the original character we had, so no real reason to change it up.

>>2425142
What orinigal character?

>>2425143
The original mc of the quest when dm ran it like a year ago. http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=cyber+demon

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>>2425140
>>2425138
>>2425129
Your tail adds several meters of length to your overall body plan - several prehensile, powerful meters, dropping a corpse down on top of the front soldier to pin him to the ground for several essential seconds as your spine rams through the pelvis of one of the backmost soldiers from behind. Then, you yank upwards and slightly to the left, ripping a large gash as you tear skin and break ribs, and then slap sideways to throw the soon-to-be-dead soldier against a rack of computers. He coughs and hacks up into his radio just as the first soldier manages to get the body off of him.

At the same time, you skewer the fourth soldier through the throat, punching through his spinal column and trachea, in the reverse order, in one swift motion, and then retracting your tail. In the 10 seconds it took to move a heavily armored soldier off of him, the first soldier has been left completely alone, two soon-to-be corpses gurgling for air and blood to his sides.

Execution Count: 3
>Drop down in front of him and scare him to death.
>Quick and painless, kick through his skull to kill him instantly.
>Let him live and run, and then take your time to CONSUME the corpses.
>WRITE-IN.

>>2425179
>Rip him in half and then consume the corpses.

>>2425179
>>Quick and painless, kick through his skull to kill him instantly.

>saurian again
you guys are lame as shit

>>2425179
>WRITE-IN
"Gently" wrap a claw around his neck. What have they DONE to us? And where's my fucking money?

What items did these soldier guys have on them?besides the guns? Any armor? Tactical vests? Etc.?

>>2425185
We're way to big for the armor to actually fit us.

>>2425179
>Quick and painless, kick through his skull to kill him instantly.

>>2425191
Not even for the upper torso? Can't even be modified dang.

Seriously am I the only one that wants to wuestion the poor guy? He could lnow something we don't.

>>2425179
>>2425180
Seconding

Really, no one? No one has questions?

>>2425179
>>2425185
>"Gently" wrap a claw around his neck. What have they DONE to us? And where's my fucking money?


>>2425223
>No one has questions?
I have questions.

Lie to him about letting him go.
But yeah, this guard ain't getting away.

Going to need some kind of tiebreaker to move forward between ripping in half, kicking the head, and questioning.

>>2425203
Most body armor would cause more harm than good due to an inferior weight-to-armoring ratio compared to a Steelshape. Additionally, most Steelshapes have impractically shaped bodies for additional non-grown armoring - Saurian, for example, has a large bony crest growing from the middle of his rib plating, if you look closely at the photo.

>>2425360
For the sake of moving in voting for ripping them in half and eating them

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>>2425371
>>2425180
>>2425220
Ripping someone in half was once the power fantasy of your VR Murdersims, a max level barbarian capable of rending flesh from bone with naught but his hands.

Instead, you ram your straightened fingers into the soldier's stomach and dig around for his spine. He lets out a wordless gasp of pain as your neck curls down to come face to face with him. His armor was meaningless - your claws ripped through it like wet tissue paper, and his meat, something even more fragile than that. You punch your other hand in, an inch above, and grab somewhere around the lower torso.

There is the sound of something wet going rip, and the legs are removed from the body, spasmodically twitching as the last ebbs of life begin to seep out of them. You realize now that the man is making a noise recognizable as crying, and before you follow through with your plan to eat the corpses of his allies, you place him gingerly against the walls of the server farm.

He still decides to point a gun at you. You slap it out of his hands and then slap him across the face with your tail with a little more force than you hoped, twisting his neck around almost 180 degrees and killing him.

Execution Count: 4
>Spend some time EATING.
>If there's four guards patrolling that suddenly go missing, there's likely more following up. Get out of there.
>Leave, but break the server farm out of spite first.
>WRITE-IN.

>>2425411
>Spend some time EATING.
Never know when the next chance we get will be.

>>2425411
>WRITE-IN
Loot the corpses for stuff to be pawned off, eat the bodies, see if there is anything worth stealing in this building.

>>2425411
Do we have any illegal contacts? Any fences that would be interesting in surplus arms and armor?

>>2425411
>Spend some time EATING

>>2425411
>Spend some time EATING

>>2425478
As a hacker, anonymity is paramount. Most of our money was gained through anonymous bounties posted on unmonitored online bulletins. The people that specifically hire us to crack things disavow us once we're finished to avoid legal and extralegal culpability.

Unrelated note but I will be pinging between devices as I do IRL stuff - the next update may take a bit to write but will be coming today, no worries.

>>2425411
>Spend some time eating

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>>2425411
>>Spend some time EATING.
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day!

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>>2425524
Well this is kind of a distopian futuristic setting, so it shouldn't be harder than going to the shittiest part of the city and dealing to some gang.

Speaking of anonymity. We should get a big cloak or oversized coat or something.

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Rolled 4, 3, 8, 6, 5 = 26 (5d8)

>>2425586
>>2425529
>>2425523
>>2425486
>>2425434
You think about eating - a good feeling, that fills you with joy, as your torso splits vertically, right below your neck. There's a loud hissing sound, and several hundred wires, each one tipped with a loud and angry point, begin to emerge. They crawl along the floor like a cleaning crew, scooping up the corpses into their embrace and beginning to pick them apart - ripping clothing into manageable pieces, tenderizing the skin by lacerating it bloody, and dragging the bits and pieces over to you, where it all gets shoved into your chest cavity.

You sit there for what feels like several days, luxuriating in the emotions it brings you. Your internal clock, though, lets you know that you've only been digesting for an hour, meat compressed and churned in your now-closed torso into a thick, black biofuel, any material simply added to the combustion process or digested for metal. It took almost exactly an hour, and felt like both seconds and days, a strange and unique feeling.

But still, you are satiated, for the time being. The building is empty still, silent of radio waves and missives, at least, on any frequencies you can detect. Your visual sensors see nothing in the server farm, and the power in the building is still out, cloaking everything in the darkness of the Dome.

>It's time to go. Let's start climbing down the elevator shaft.
>Break the server farm before you leave down the stairs.
>WRITE-IN.

>>2426020
>Break the server farm before you leave down the stairs.
>WRITE-IN.
Wait did that mean we ate the guns too?

>>2426020
>>Break the server farm before you leave down the stairs.

>>2426026
Yes. We ate the guns.

>>2426020
Actually would it be possible to jack into the server farm for any info?

>>2426030
Well. Thats fair I suppose. Can we eat the server farms?

>>2426020
>>It's time to go. Let's start climbing down the elevator shaft.
I can take or leave the server farms.
But stairs are for plebs.

>>2426035
>Can we eat the server farms?
Now you're just being gluttonous.

>>2426031
For materials and mass, yes, information, not at the moment, no.

>>2426020
>Break the server farm before you leave down the stairs.

>>2426097
Materials and mass sounds good. Sticking to my vote of eating it. Maybe we'll grow big and strong as we continue to feast.

>>2426020
>>2426130
I'll back eating the servers.

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>>2426026
>>2426028
>>2426128
3 hours until next meal necessary

You decide that for right now, leaving would be a good thing to do - but first, you stomp your way to the furthest server rack. You put your servo-actuated foot upon it, and with a loud hiss, you kick the furthest rack of servers off its side and send it careening into the next two rows, explosively sending bits of computer and wire everywhere. The westmost two racks of servers are ripped apart, like a cannonball struck them through the middle, while the rest of them begin falling like dominos, and you're satisfied with that damage.

Making your way to the stairwell, you decide that walking all that way is for chumps. Luckily, despite how much you must weigh, jumping from floor to floor is easy, even down two or three floors at a time, and suddenly, the 120-floor elevator ride doesn't seem that bad, especially when you don't get tired and can make it all in about 6 minutes.

You don't decide to be particularly bombastic when you open the doors to the lobby of the tower-like Goetia Enterprises, but you are greeted all the same. A circular arrangement of guns, all at the ready, immediately trained at you, and an imposing figure standing at the ready, kneeling complacently in the center of the lobby.

[CONT.]

I guess we're not eating them I guess.

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>>2426425
A top-heavy Steelshape with a peeled face - Steelshape Gorilla

As you enter the ring of guns, the bowing figure gets up, stretching outward, his mechanical arms going down to slightly past his knees. With your neck arched down, he's taller than you, but if you looked up, you'd be taller - it's a close fight in that regard.

And somehow, you know his name. "Gorilla". The thought of it resonates in your sensory organs.

"Steelshape Saurian! It's a pleasure to see you. Here we were, prepared to have you bust out the elevator shaft, but you decided to play us all for fools and come down the old-fashioned way. Now, come quietly and I won't have to Integrate you, yet." Gorilla says, holding a hand up to the circle of troops. "None of these soldiers are armed with appropriate weaponry to take you on, and they know that. But I'm ready to rip you to pieces if you feel like causing a fuss. What'll it be?"

>Fight
>Freeze
>Flee
>WRITE-IN.

>>2426465
>WRITE-IN.
what the fuck is going on. I can't even.

>>2426465
>>Flee

>>2426431
That's quitter talk.
>>2426465
Let's fight him. Wonder what his heart will taste like.

>>2426465
>Fight
We'll eat everyone and everything in our way.

>>2426465
>>Fight
No one makes a monkey out of me

>>2426475
was the 'eating the severs' outvoted or something?

why does everyone want to go straight to fighting?

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>>2426479

>>2426465
>Fight
"Oh good, I was still feeling a little peckish. Always nice when my meal comes to me."

>>2426487
Outvoted 3-2
>>2426486
>>2426479
>>2426475
>>2426516
"I was feeling a little peckish. I like it when my food comes to me." You say, your mouth opening up as your motors and servos begin to twitch and hiss. Steam escapes your legs as you clamp on tightly to the tiled floor.

Gorilla grins maniacally. "I was hoping you'd say that. Stand down, this is our fight now. Report back to base, and I'll be there with a full stomach in half an hour."

You hear a choir of "Yes sir's!" as the PMC soldiers begin to flee the building in an orderly fashion.

>Empty your stomach in preparation for a big meal/to intimidate. [NO ROLL]
>Dash forward full speed, attempt to gore [Roll STR (3d4)]
>Goad him back up the stairs where you have a height advantage. [NO ROLL]
>WRITE-IN [Ask for roll]

>>2426592
>WRITE-IN [Ask for roll]
Can we rush him like we're going to try for the gore, then feint to the side and try to trip him up with our tail?

>>2426592
>>Goad him back up the stairs where you have a height advantage. [NO ROLL]

>>2426600
Roll DEX - 4d6, for that tactical option.

>>2426592
>Hold up, I didn't say you could leave
>Take out the soldiers and maybe throw their vehicle at gorilla

>>2426606
We're inside currently. Somehow I doubt they parked inside the lobby.

Rolled 2, 2, 4 = 8 (3d4)

>>2426606
we can't really do that with the gorilla in the way you know.

>Dash forward full speed, attempt to gore [Roll STR (3d4)]

>>2426611
this is a good roll right?

>>2426612
Correct.

During combat, we will move forward when any one option or person's roll gets two additional "seconded"'s. Only the first roll for any given action will be accepted for that action. First-past-the-post.

>>2426611
Eh, I'll switch my vote to this. Consider it seconded.

>>2426611
I'll second it as well.

Rolled 3, 1, 5, 1 = 10 (4d6)

>>2426602
Oh well, may as well roll for it anyways

Rolled 1, 2, 6, 5, 2 = 16 (5d6)

Rolling for Steelshape Gorilla - STR

>>2426660
Welp, guess we're going for the gore. Tactics are clearly not our style.

>>2426661
damn. he got a pair as well.

>>2426660
Well, that's not good. He's got a big edge in strength, so we may need to avoid brute forcing it.

>>2426592
>>Goad him back up the sta-
Nevermind.

>>2426668
Whoops, linked to the wring one. Meant to link to
>>2426661

>>2426611
>>2426661
Steelshape Saurian attacks first for 2 damage!
Steelshape Gorilla attacks back for 2 damage!

Steelshape Saurian HP: 2/4
Steelshape Gorilla HP: 2/4

There's a whining pulse of steam as you burst forward, kicking yourself off the ground. You're much faster than Gorilla, that much you can tell innately, although anything else is indeterminate from now. You think of nothing but your horn as you impale Gorilla through the face with it, and he grabs your hands while they attempt to claw.

And then he bends them. And continues bending them. And pushes them backwards. You feel your shoulder joints beginning to buckle, the armoring and pylons surrounding them cracking and flaking off. You feel your arms bending and breaking under the immense pressure of Gorilla's strength.

>Attempt to rip and tear upwards. [STR - 3d4]
>Bite, bite, bite, bite, bite [STR - 3d4]
>Back away and rework your strategy. [DEX - 4d6]
>WRITE IN [Ask for Roll]

>>2426683
>Bite, bite, bite, bite, bite [STR - 3d4]

>>2426683
>>Attempt to rip and tear upwards. [STR - 3d4]

Rolled 1, 4, 1 = 6 (3d4)

>>2426691
Oh shit. Add this.

>>2426683
>>Bite, bite, bite, bite, bite [STR - 3d4]

Rolled 1, 2, 1 = 4 (3d4)

>>2426683
>Attempt to rip and tear upwards. [STR - 3d4]
RIP AND TEAR
UNTIL IT IS DONE

Rolled 3, 4, 3 = 10 (3d4)

>>2426683
>>2426683
>>Bite, bite, bite, bite, bite [STR - 3d4]

>>2426695
>>2426698
>>2426700
YYYEEEEAAAAHHH!!!

Rolled 2, 4, 4 = 10 (3d4)

>>2426683
>>Bite, bite, bite, bite, bite [STR - 3d4]

Rolled 3, 4, 3 = 10 (3d4)

>>2426683
>>Bite, bite, bite, bite, bite [STR - 3d4]

Rolled 6, 6, 1, 5, 2 = 20 (5d6)

>>2426698
>>2426695
>>2426706
Rolling for Steelshape Gorilla - STR

>>2426757
fuck

Steelshape Saurian attacks first for 3 damage, killing Steelshape Gorilla.
Steelshape Gorilla's Dying Throes deal 1 damage to Steelshape Saurian.

You drive your horn further into Gorilla's face, until you are eye-to-sensory-organ.

"You're strong, for a greenhorn. But the years I've fought and combat experience will decide who's the victor here!" Gorilla taunts.

You respond with a snort. "

>Beginner's luck.
>Everyone has their day to die.
>Guess you just lost your head, then.
>WRITE-IN

"

You rip your horn upwards and slam your knee into Gorilla's stomach as you deliberately let him rip your arms off.

You don't need arms. Your tail grabs him by the neck and pulls him into your horn again, as you impale him through the neck and rip sideways, like a knife through someone's jugular. Your arms uselessly fall to the ground, removed from their sockets, while your horn rams through the other side of his neck and you decapitate him.

That isn't enough to end him, of course, so you put your foot on his chest while his arms uselessly grope to attack you without sensory information telling them where to aim. There's a wild blast of superheated steam, and you promptly kick a crater into his torso, causing it to crumple inwards as he falls back.

Execution Count: 4
>WRITE-IN EXECUTION.

>>2426812
>WRITE-IN
GIVE MOMMA A KISS!

>>2426812
>>WRITE-IN
"You'll make a fine morsel for an Ape."

>WRITE-IN EXECUTION.
Rip his rib cage open and feast on his internal organs.

>>2426812
>"But the years I've fought and combat experience will decide who's the victor here!"
"Tell your years and experience that *I* decided who's the victor here!"

>>WRITE-IN EXECUTION
Gotta go with
>>2426475
>Wonder what his heart will taste like.
Rip his heart out with our foot/tail and eat it over him.

>>2426812
>How's that experience helping you out?

>Lop off each finger and use them as darts with his body as the dart board

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>>2426834
Seconding this anon here.

>>2426812
>You don't need arms.
We can, uh, fix those, right? Because even if we don't need them, not having them is going to be rather inconvenient. And I'll support
>>2426834

>>2426883
We'll grow a new pair.

>>2426883
>>2426890
or just reattach them.

Hey. Do you guys think it's possible to tear off the limbs of a Steelshape and attach them to our body?

>>2426907
I was thinking that too, but I don't actually want gorilla hands. I mean, they'd be better for working computers again, but gorilla arms on a saurian sounds fucking weird.

>>2426916
I mean having Multiple arms. Azura's Wrath Style. Or that one time in Evangelion where the MC's mech grew two more arms and nearly killed his friend.

>>2426923
Oh. Well I suppose gorilla arms would be more appropriate for that.

We could take a speed hit from that though, and our ramming attacks would be a lot more impractical without some fuckhuge lance to quadhand.

>>2426927
On the bright side we could quad-weild, or dual-two handed weapons, or have improved grappling.

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>>2426834
"Tell your years and experience that I decided who's the victor here."

>>2426834
You stand on top of him, trying to look for a heart to dramatically rip out. If he's anything similar to you, there's nothing inside his cavernous torso except for an empty cavity to compress material into biofuel and assimilate new metal.

But still, with your foot's piston toes, you ram a fresh hole into the crater, continuing to deepen it until it punctures open at the other side and cracks the tile something fierce. He bounces up and down with each hydraulic "kick", never far enough to escape, but far enough that his jackhammering weight has turned the tile directly below him into a fine white powder.

You wrap your tail around his head, since it's the closest heart shape object, making sure to hold it like a bowling ball by ramming your tail's plug through the eye sockets and mouth. You bring it to your face, and feel your neck begin to split.

It begins at your smile line and extends downward. Baleen-like striations of graphene strands separate and sharpen into spikes as the several feet of neck material splits open down, turning your elephant trunk neck into a disgustingly long maw befitting a deep-sea eel.

Down the hatch.

You spend the rest of the time re-attaching your arms to the point of functionality, albeit not to the point of usefulness, and with strategic kicking and tail use, you manage to pry apart Gorilla limb by limb and send him down into the abyss of your gullet to be absorbed and compressed.

Steelshape Saurian has gained a level! A 1 hour Cocoon must be built before this level is cashed in.

>This building holds nothing else for you here. It's time to go.
>WRITE-IN.

And that's all I have time for tonight. We'll likely finish off this session tomorrow or the day after. It's always a great time playing with you all, and have a good night! I'll field any questions that are 'setting common knowledge' that John should know, or that I feel aren't too spoilery.

>>2426942
Damn, we are horrifying. I love it.

>>2426942
>you manage to pry apart Gorilla limb by limb and send him down into the abyss of your gullet to be absorbed and compressed.
Oh. Well there goes the multi-limb idea.

>>2426945
wait are you doing questions now or tomorrow? Because I want to know if the additional arms thing would have been possible.

>>2426942
>Go to the outskirts to rest

>>2426942
>WRITE-IN.
Eat all the server farms.

>>2426956
You can ask today and I'll answer tomorrow, or in a couple of hours if my prozac nightmares wake me up.

You cannot directly stick on anything onto your Steelshape's body that did not originate there, but you are capable of growing enhancements from consumed Steelshapes and using them to alter yourself over time.
>>2426965
You're full!

>>2426971
Are we? Are we really full? Maybe we should take some for a meal to go?

If we buy, find or steal a huge coat or cloak, would we be able to hide amongst people?

pic in post related >>2425632

>>2426942
>Sneak out. Like, actually sneak.

>>2426942
>This building holds nothing else for you here. It's time to go
The PMC went back to base, just leave

>>2426942
>>2427078
>>Sneak out

Find a secluded, safe place to hole up for a bit, "coccon", and maybe get iur arms functional again.
Opposable thumbs are useful.
Also, we're at 1hp.

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>>2427414
>>2427078
You slip out the best and sneakiest way you can think of - through the front door. This area of town was particularly abandoned, to begin with, and neither your approach nor your transformation has changed that.

That being said, you'd really like to have your arms back. For some reason, the knowledge of regaining them is sort of innate to you, like how babies know how to suck on teats and grab things put in their hands. Just rest and spin a cocoon, and you'll be fine.

The particularly run-down section of this neighborhood of Neo York is your ally in this instance. Half the buildings look abandoned, the other half have been ripped down, and the alleyways are dark, dank, and squalid. You find a nice dumpster that's emptier than your torso crevasse, climb inside, and begin to drift off into a meditative trance.

[CONT.]

LEVEL UP
Choose one stat to increase by +1d
STR - 3d4
SPD - 4d6
DEX - 4d6
CTR - 5d8 (Whenever you eat, CTR is rolled. On a set, you are satiated for 24 hours, and on no set, you will become hungry again in a number of hours equal to the lowest dice rolled. If you do not eat before then, you will Berserk.)
STA - 4d6 (4 HP - HP for d6 is equal to # of STA dice)
NRG - 5d8 (3 EP - EP for d8 is equal to 1/2# of NRG dice)

Choose one Ability Pool and one Ability from it - When you pick an Ability Pool, you are locked into it for the next two levels (3, 4), and there is no guarantee that more advanced versions of that pool will have the same abilities to pick from.

Tyrannosaur Pool - Increase your efficacy while Berserking at the cost of CTR
ACTIVE:
Bite I: Costs 1 EP. Roll CTR. On a failure, take a bite out of the enemy, dealing 1 damage and restoring 1 EP.
Empty Stomach I: Costs 1 EP. Roll CTR and empty the contents of your stomach. Any human enemies become nauseous and are stunned for 1 turn, and you will Berserk 3 turns later.
PASSIVE:
Tyrant King II: When you Berserk due to hunger, the first turn of your Berserk, the Width of any sets made is increased by 2.
CTR-NRG Exchange: Lose 1d in CTR and gain 1d in NRG.
CTR-STA Exchange: Lose 1d in CTR and gain 1d in STA.

Raptor Pool - Increase your stealth capabilities and speed.
ACTIVE:
Stalk I: Costs 3 EP to activate. As long as you are unseen by an enemy Steelshape, you become invisible to detection by human eyes.
PASSIVE:
Stealth Attack I: If you attack an enemy while unseen, up to 1 rolled set gains +1 Width.
Heightened Initiative I: For the 1st turn of combat, your Speed is treated as one category higher (d2>d4>d6>d8).
STA-SPD Exchange: Lose 1d in STA and gain 1d in SPD.
DEX-SPD Exchange: Lose 1d in DEX and gain 1d in SPD.

Triceratops Pool - Increase your defensive capabilities and grow more horns.
ACTIVE:
Gore I: Costs 1 EP. Roll STR + 1d to make an attack with your horn as you lengthen it dramatically.
PASSIVE:
Intimidate I: Your visage intimidates humans, stunning them for 1 turn before combat encounters.
Bulletproof I: You do not take damage from conventional human small-arms. Gun attacks from other Steelshapes have their damage reduced to 1 if their Width is 2.
SPD-STA Exchange: Lose 1d in SPD and gain 1d in STA.
DEX-STA Exchange: Lose 1d in DEX and gain 1d in STA.

>>2427575
And for clarification - lower dice numbers (d4s) are better than larger ones (d8s) because you have a higher chance of rolling matching numbers.

>>2427575
>Let's level up STR
>Tyrannosaur Pool
>Empty Stomach I

>>2427575
>+STR
It's d4s and our god stat in that last fight.

>Triceratops Pool
>Bulletproof I
I love immunity passives. No fuss, always on goodness.

>>2427592
Supporting

>>2427575
>Level up STR
>Raptor Pool
>Stealth Attack I

Quick question Casual, is Heightened Initiative I been laid out wrong or am I retarded? Why would we want to make it less likely to make a set? Does the increased dice faces mean we deal more damage if we roll a set?

Also stealth run best run.

>>2427575
>STR
May as well round ourselves out
>Triceratops pool
Beefing up our health pool at least once is advisable

>>2427664
Oh yeah, and
>Bulletproof I

>>2427575
>>2427575
>+1 DEX

>Raptor Pool

We Alien now.

>>2427663
It's formatted weird - it makes the dice smaller. I used > as greater than rather than an arrow.

>>2427667
oh right
>Stealth Attack 1

So, STR +1d - now we have to decide between Triceratops and Bulletproof or Raptor and Stealth Attack. Vote in response to this, first to three will decide our level-up.

>>2427811
>Triceratops, Bullet proof

>>2427811
>Raptor
>Stealth

>>2427811
Fuck it I'll go with
>Raptor and Stealth Attack

>>2427811
>Raptor and Stealth
We're the horror movie monster.

>>2427811
>Raptor and Stealth, please.

>>2427829
>>2427821
>>2427817
LEVEL UP

Steelshape Saurian
Level - 2
STR - 4d4
SPD - 4d6
DEX - 4d6
CTR - 5d8
STA - 4d6 (4 HP)
NRG - 5d8 (3 EP)
CURRENT POOL: Raptor Pool
ACTIVE:
N/A
PASSIVE:
Tyrant King I: When you Berserk due to hunger, the first turn of your Berserk, the Width of any sets made is increased by 1.
Stealth Attack I: If you attack an enemy while unseen, up to 1 rolled set gains +1 Width.

We will continue likely later tonight

>>2427839
For the record, DM, could you clarify what Width means again? I'm not sure I got it.

>>2427849
Width is how many dice you rolled have matched - if you roll a 3, a 4, and a 4, for example, you have a set of 2x4 - a Width of 2, and a height (which doesn't really matter for this) of 4

>>2427839
I can dig it.

>>2427867
I see, thank you.

>>2427839
Not bad. Would have preferred Triceratops, but a stealth build is still pretty decent.

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