>>2523266
>>A few years. You were top of the line once. Those days have past.

>>2523266
>less than a year. You aren't sure what prompted your owners to dump you here.

>>2523266

>Decades. Only luck and durability has left your inner workings intact.

All tied up. Can I get a tiebreaker or should I roll a d3

>>2523323
I'll change my vote to this to get us rolling:
>A few years. You were top of the line once. Those days have past.

>>2523266
>less than a year. You aren't sure what prompted your owners to dump you here.

Tied up again with 2 for mid range and 2 for brand new

Rolled 1 (1d2)

1-A few years

2-Hot off the line

>>2523337
I'd totes change back now. Oh well, not that important.

>>2523266
>>A few years. You were top of the line once. Those days have past.

>>2523266
>less than a year. You aren't sure what rompted your owners to dump you here.
what a cunt amerite?

Decade
PLtTHkwY

Few Years
19/WAN7A
eEk8buak

Fresh out the Oven
hviMAk3M
xA2aZPcI
sSi6GlKh

>>2523340
I wonder if there will be more votes. Did my vote make a difference, or are we sticking with the "few years" vote?

Your visual sensors flicker fitfully into life with bursts of static rolling across your field of view. Not that the view is anything to look at as you are face down in a pile of rusted metal and the ravaged shells of several dozen other robots.

Sparks and ticks of complaining circuitry echo from within you as your power core chugs unhappily within you. Slowly, ever so very slowly, your capacitors fill, the alarms and alerts tick off as requisite power is finally made available to you.

You hesitantly send off a diagnostic request, unsure of how bad the damage will be...

>WHAT were you?

>Industrial- Large and monstrously strong, enduring and yet able to be surprisingly delicate. Built to either build or destroy. (TANK)

Enforcement- The right arm of the civilized world, Neither the strongest, nor fastest, nor most personable, the enforcement drone is a common sight and draws little attention, and is a true jack of all trades. (Support)

Military- Make no mistake, built to kill. Adaptable, intelligent, versatile, disposable. Death on polymer muscles.(Oper8er)

Companion- may seem fragile but you can remove governors and software safety locks. Able to pass for human in a crowd (Face)

>Other

>>2523364
I want to play an AI capable of the creation of nanomachines for breaking down and integrating other systems. Is that a thing we can be?

>>2523372
No. You CAN get a integrated hive of mini-drones for self repair and other tasks.

>>2523378
Thanks. Would any of the above choices allow us to become capable of reconstructing other machines to suit a given purpose, or creating new mechanical life?

>>2523364
What about a manufacturing robot built with the knowledge of creating other robots, Maybe repairing/reprogramming too?

>>2523390
There are modifications you can acquire that will allow you to take control over or build smaller, customized bots yes.

>>2523392
See
>>2523397
And
>>2523378

>>2523397
If this applies to any class, I'll go with
>Companion- may seem fragile but you can remove governors and software safety locks. Able to pass for human in a crowd (Face)

Prepare to override a lot of goddamn safety locks.

>>2523378
hive of mini-drones? I like that idea. so are we a few years or fresh off the belt?
>Industrial- Large and monstrously strong, enduring and yet able to be surprisingly delicate. Built to either build or destroy. (TANK)
>Other
A large self operated mobile recycling base equipped with one of those giant claws and a giant magnet, one of those giant shredders, a compressor and a hodgepodge of heavy loader drones to separate and move materials to us. Oh and we travel on treads.

>>2523404
The Hive module actually doesn't apply to companion bots. You could buy a hacking and network upgrade or find one at a later date.

>>2523407
You are a few years in. Obsolete compared to newer stuff but still capable of plenty

>>2523407
All of that could be possible with enough upgrades.

>>2523415
>All of that could be possible with enough upgrades
>'but you don't have any of those right now'
Well shit. I still want to go industrial. What do we have if we go with that?

>>2523415
If that's the case I vote for Companion as well

>>2523413
So no hive for the companion bot, but the ability to hack models that might operate a hive then?

I'll go with the Companion in that case.

>>2523364
Enforcement- The right arm of the civilized world, Neither the strongest, nor fastest, nor most personable, the enforcement drone is a common sight and draws little attention, and is a true jack of all trades. (Support)
Build robot fascist utopia and make more police bots. We robot with purpose.

>>2523418
If you go industrial, you will begin with some demolition gear, processing ability and rather robust strength and armor.

>>2523420
I mean its possible for the industrial choice. Each class has its own tree of upgrades.

>>2523430
Can we be a robot that can hop into a bigger robot and pilot it like a mech?

>>2523364
>>Industrial- Large and monstrously strong, enduring and yet able to be surprisingly delicate. Built to either build or destroy. (TANK)

>>2523444
What about enforcer? If so than change my vote to that

>>2523449
That sounds like an industrial robot controlling a smaller one.

>>2523453
Well Iwas going to go with industrial, but I wanted us to be less bulky, but not weak like face robot. sex robot

>>2523458
So Military or enforcer?

>>2523461
>>2523429

>>2523364
Companion

>>2523468
+1

Enforcer and companion seem to be all tied up.

>>2523477
Roll for it?

Rolled 2 (1d2)

1:Companion

2:Enforcer

>>2523486
Cool, jack of all trades it is.

Your diagnostic probe brings up your schematics, programming, primary, secondary and redundant systems. Combat routines, lethal and nonlethal pacification, weapon use and maintenance. All of these are burned into your metaphorical brain.

You cannot recall whether you were a servant of the law or some repurposed robotic muscle used by some mercenary company or gang, that part of your memory has yet to come back online. You do know, however, what your body was built for.

>A&B (Assault and Boarding)- immensely strong and robust, capable of subduing multiple human sized aggressors with lethal or nonlethal force. Comes with a inbuilt CQC weapon for cutting through walls and bulkhead.

>SWAT- Specializing in relatively covert action and lightning strikes. In depth knowledge of firearms and combat tactics. Highly flexible and agile.

>Patrol and Support-The average joe of Police and Private Military Mechs. Average height and strength but highly capable of dealing with social situations.

>>2523514
>>A&B (Assault and Boarding)- immensely strong and robust, capable of subduing multiple human sized aggressors with lethal or nonlethal force. Comes with a inbuilt CQC weapon for cutting through walls and bulkhead.

>>2523514
>SWAT- Specializing in relatively covert action and lightning strikes. In depth knowledge of firearms and combat tactics. Highly flexible and agile.

>>2523514
>Patrol and Support-The average joe of Police and Private Military Mechs. Average height and strength but highly capable of dealing with social situations.
The jack of all trades of the jack of all trades. I've no idea where any of this is headed, so I figure adaptability is an asset of its own.

>>2523514
>>Patrol and Support-The average joe of Police and Private Military Mechs. Average height and strength but highly capable of dealing with social situations.

>>2523514
>Patrol and Support-The average joe of Police and Private Military Mechs. Average height and strength but highly capable of dealing with social situations.

Option 1 is tempting for its ability to cut with a torch through metal. Then again, I doubt we will be dealing with many humans in a junkyard....

>>2523514
>A&B (Assault and Boarding)- immensely strong and robust, capable of subduing multiple human sized aggressors with lethal or nonlethal force. Comes with a inbuilt CQC weapon for cutting through walls and bulkhead.


We'll need a tool for cutting through junk.

>>2523514
A&B

>A&B it is! Writing

Breaching, Smashing through walls, dropped from hovercraft through ceilings. Firing weapons a human could never hope to handle, metal limbs flexing with enough strength to pummel light armored vehicles. And above all? The complete lack of fear.

You were an Assault Drone in your previous life. Dropped into the heaviest and most dangerous situations on criminal strongholds and rebel outposts. Flickers of data and code scroll across your vision as you test your limbs against the bulk of the pile atop you, it shifts reassuringly and if you had the capability you would smile.

You feel in your "heart" that a thinking robot such as yourself is an anomaly. You remember blindly following every order that was delivered to you and your compatriots.

But no more. You... Are. Not alive but not a mindless drone. No longer.

>When did you achieve sentience?

>Long ago, it was part of the reason you were scrapped. You know how to blend in.

>During transit here. You were decommissioned once you started struggling. You know to hide but not how.

>Just now. Initiate Derpiness.

>>2523612
Long ago, it was part of the reason you were scrapped. You know how to blend in.

>>2523612
>>Just now. Initiate Derpiness.

>>2523612
>Long ago, it was part of the reason you were scrapped. You know how to blend in.

>>2523612
>Just now. Initiate Derpiness.

>>2523612
>>Long ago, it was part of the reason you were scrapped. You know how to blend in.

>>2523514
>Patrol and Support-The average joe of Police and Private Military Mechs. Average height and strength but highly capable of dealing with social situations.

>>2523612
>Just now. Initiate Derpiness.

>>2523612
Long ago

>>2523638
>>2523641
heh

>>2523612
>Long ago, it was part of the reason you were scrapped. You know how to blend in.

>>2523612
>Long ago, it was part of the reason you were scrapped. You know how to blend in.

We just wanted to keep on trucking and do our work, dam fembots had to ruin that, and get in the way be screeching tribinary code at us.

>Just now, Initiate Derpiness

>A long time ago.

You've been "awake" for a while now. Longer than your "superiors" thought. Much longer. You arent sure what gave you away as a full on AI but when they had found out? They came down hard.

Maybe you had hesitated when they ordered you to fire on peaceful protesters or maybe you had been a little sadistic when ripping apart a Skywalker but no matter, that's in the past now. You need to focus on the now.

You run a full system check and are surprised by the results. It seems someone did some work on you while you were out...

>Features and Flaws. Pick 2 of each pls

Flaws- are not always pure hindrances.

>Re-Purposed- many if your components come from older military tech.

>Bio-Fuel processor. Anything organic is fuel. Anything.

>sparky-Your power plant produces a bit too much energy.

>wrecker-You're tough as nails and refitted for salvage but you desperately need a tuneup

>Parts bin-All your shit is cheap and easy to find. Its also shit

>Clunky-You fell into a vat of redundancy

>Berserker-Rip and Tear until it is done. Or you die.

Features- are not always absolutely useful.

>Secondary Movement System-jetpack, jump boots, motorized wheelies.

>Survival Package-Laugh at Puny environmental hazards. And gunfire.

>Uplink-You're now a walking network hub.

>Secondary limbs- Either four arms or 4 legs.

>Secondary (fine task) manipulators- Dexterous little t-rex arms.

>Symbiotic repair hive-Dozens of little crawly boi's that can fix things for you.

>Cutting tool-an extra CQC weapon capable of cutting through metal.

>BleedingEdge- All your parts are high tech... Eight years ago.

>Agile-You can do sick ninja flips.

>Complex Voice modulator- You can talk Gud and stuff

>>2523691
>>Re-Purposed- many if your components come from older military tech
>>Secondary Movement System-jetpack, jump boots, motorized wheelies
>>Symbiotic repair hive-Dozens of little crawly boi's that can fix things for you.

>>sparky-Your power plant produces a bit too much energy.

>>2523691
>wrecker-You're tough as nails and refitted for salvage but you desperately need a tuneup
>Re-Purposed- many if your components come from older military tech.

>Secondary limbs- Either four arms or 4 legs.(4 arms)
>Symbiotic repair hive-Dozens of little crawly boi's that can fix things for you.

>>2523691
Flaws:
>sparky-Your power plant produces a bit too much energy.
>wrecker-You're tough as nails and refitted for salvage but you desperately need a tuneup
the "someone stole our shit and was probably going to make us do salvage word" option.

Features:
>Symbiotic repair hive-Dozens of little crawly boi's that can fix things for you.
>Complex Voice modulator- You can talk Gud and stuff
And this so we can communicate on our own and so we don't have to pay anyone for repairs.

>>2523691
>Bio-Fuel processor. Anything organic is fuel. Anything.
Get all that delicious algae and lichen and mold growing on things. We never go hungry now.

>sparky-Your power plant produces a bit too much energy.
We expand more easily now.

>Uplink-You're now a walking network hub.
For hackan.

>Symbiotic repair hive-Dozens of little crawly boi's that can fix things for you.
For staying alive.

>>2523691
>Re-Purposed- many if your components come from older military tech.
>sparky-Your power plant produces a bit too much energy.

>Uplink-You're now a walking network hub.
>Symbiotic repair hive-Dozens of little crawly boi's that can fix things for you.

>>2523691
Re-Purposed and Werecker

and then.

Agile and Complex Voice modulator.

>>2523719
+1, seems well thought out

>>2523691
Flaws: Sparky since High Power output sounds like it could lead to amazing/hilariously bad results, Bio-Fuel processor because that hardly sounds bad since we can eat shit like shit and pigeons for fuel.
Features: Jetpack for flight and sparky would probably lead to some "fun" results

>>2523719
>>Symbiotic repair hive-Dozens of little crawly boi's that can fix things for you.
Doesn't say it'll fix us though.

>>2523748
good point but were a robot we're made of things

>>2523748
OP mentioned that it could: >>2523378

>>2523748
Still, fixing things still sounds pretty useful in a world that's basically a giant dump

>>2523748
It does.

>>2523691
>>sparky-Your power plant produces a bit too much energy.
>>wrecker-You're tough as nails and refitted for salvage but you desperately need a tuneup

>Uplink-You're now a walking network hub.
>Symbiotic repair hive-Dozens of little crawly boi's that can fix things for you.

>>2523748
I'm just thinking of the potential Uplink/Symbiotic Repair Hive synergy myself.

>>2523761
Gotcha. I'd still choose robot ninja parkour over most things though.

>>2523760
My thoughts exactly.

>>2523767
You wanna support the option that has those? Got one right here >>2523722

>>2523769
We can probably get that later after we tear the parts off someone else and weld them onto ourselves, or hack an industrial bot to upgrade us or something.

<Flaws>

Re-Purposed: 19/WAN7A, dOG0UozS, Rm9/FDIF, o5fGm/ud

Bio-Fuel: hviMAk3M, A9kEEt8K, xA2aZPcI

Sparky: 19/WAN7A, sSi6GlKh, hviMAk3M, Rm9/FDIF, A9kEEt8K, xA2aZPcI, eEk8buak

Wrecker: dOG0UozS, sSi6GlKh, o5fGm/ud, eEk8buak

Parts bin:

Clunky:

Berserker:

<Features>

Second Movement System: 19/WAN7A, xA2aZPcI

Survival Package:

Uplink: hviMAk3M, Rm9/FDIF, A9kEEt8K, eEk8buak

Second Limbs: dOG0UozS

Secondary (fine task) manipulator:

Symbiotic repair hive: 19/WAN7A, dOG0UozS, sSi6GlKh, hviMAk3M, Rm9/FDIF, A9kEEt8K, eEk8buak

Cutting tool:

BleedingEdge:

Agile: o5fGm/ud

Complex Voice modulator: sSi6GlKh, o5fGm/ud

Can I get some help counting the votes? I don't wanna mess this up

>>2523792
Oh shit nvm

>>2523794
>>2523795
Quick question - is the bio-fuel system the only fuel source the robot has, or is it in addition to the other power source?

Might want to give people time to decide if they wanna switch their votes. Some of the combinations make sense with each other much more than just taking the four most popular components.

>>2523795
I got you my man.
popular flaws are Sparky with Re-Purposed and Wrecker being tied.
popular features are Symbiotic repair hive and the Uplink

roll a 1d2 to determine which tied flaw to pick?

Can I vote for wrecker instead of Bio-fuel?

>>2523805
I'll switch my vote to Sparky and Wrecker, Hive and Uplink if that'll help.

I don't get why people are going for being tough over unique abilities. We'll get tougher as we go. Unique abilities are harder to come by.

Wrecker + Hive would synergy into the tough build we want without the upkeep, since the robots can do it

Wrecker, Sparky, Hive and Uplink seems to be the most popular as of this moment.

>>2523824
We're in a new and probably hostile environment, being tough early on will help. Also, who cares if you're special if your scrapped and dead?

>>2523830
I'd prefer Bio but I'm starting to doubt how that'd be useful on a heavily polluted and scrap filled planet

>>2523838
organic things such as rotting organic matter, people (living and dead), mushrooms. those could probably work. not changing my vote for it btw

>>2523838
You can eat literally anything organic. And there are a LOT of organics.

>>2523825
>>2523835
>>2523824

We're already immensely strong and robust because we're an Assault and Boarding system, remember?

>A&B (Assault and Boarding)- immensely strong and robust, capable of subduing multiple human sized aggressors with lethal or nonlethal force. Comes with a inbuilt CQC weapon for cutting through walls and bulkhead.

We kick ass from the beginning.

If we're gonna be an overpowered hacking system with a repair ability, we can probably get a tank to take the damage for us.


>>2523838
OP mentioned scrappers and biomes. We can probably find dirt and dust, and we can definitely find water. Where there's carbon, air, and water, there's life. We can eat life.

>>2523845
>>2523841
If my vote can help win Bio than I vote for it but if not than I'm going wrecker

>>2523844
>>2523845
def sticking with my bio vote. you wrecker/repurposed anons makan no sense

>>2523845
That's compared to normal situations that we were designed for. This is a whole new ballgame. There's something to be said for trying to stack the deck in our favor. Plus, we've alrewady gained sentience, that's pretty unique eh?

>>2523854
I just like the idea as being even harder to kill than normal. What's wrong with that?

>>2523859
That's the whole reason we shouldn't be building ourselves into a frontline combat system and should instead hack tanks to do it for us.

Why would you want to risk our delicate intelligence on the front lines?

>>2523854
I'm not a fan of the repurposed option, but the Wrecker one kind of makes sense to me. Whoever modified us probably intended for us to aid in salvage work.

>>2523859
We're like Super WALL-E

>>2523865
It makes some sense to play by your strengths as A&B's are immensely strong and robust.

>>2523865
We're already something that excels in adverse situations. We aren't a companion bot mate. Our shit's already risked anyways, it's scrap or be scrapped.

We could try and figure out a way to modify our self if we really want wrecker/bio-fuel

>>2523844
As >>2523800 asked, does the bio-fuel processor wholly replace our default reactor as our sole power source; or does it provide an additional source of energy while not preventing use of our standard power plant?

>>2523844
>>2523885
Yeah, could you please clarify this?

>>2523884
lets look towards the future

>>2523888
In the future, we're only going to have more opportunities to get tougher.

>>2523898
In the future, we're only going to have more opportunities to get unique things. If we don't get scrapped first.

>>2523885
It provides a way to quickly recharge and as a supplementary fuel source in case your power supply is damaged.

>>2523910
Extra sources of power on top of primary power? Fuck yes.

kind of disappointed the majority didn't want the Industrial. I had this idea of repurposing ourself in the future to be this super green giant. Recycling and repurposing all the waste we come across. eventually setting up some big project to filter a majority of the pollution in the ocean.

>>2523916
So, keep wrecker. Replace sparky with Bio and go Hive and Uplink?

>>2523916
It is a flaw though, I wonder why

>>2523904
I don't know that that's the case but I know that being able to deal with an array of problems rather than wasting opportunities to diversify in exchange for overkill just leads to one boring, oversimplified, overused solution to most problems.

If all we have is a hammer everything starts to look like a nail.

>>2523919
Hey, that sounds cool! We should do that by hacking into machines capable of it. I bet the organics would like us.

>>2523919
I feel as if that'd still be possible, we may be a small robot but in the end we are a sentient AI. We could probably transfer our mind into one if we all see fit later on in the story

>>2523922
Everybody has plans, until they get hit. Not being destroyed early on doesn't sound like a wasted opportunity to me.

>>2523932
Also, being harder to scrap, when getting dropped on a planet where it's more than likely scrap or be scrapped fits the narrative for a MC.

>Updated

<Flaws>

Re-Purposed: 19/WAN7A, dOG0UozS, Rm9/FDIF

Bio-Fuel: hviMAk3M, A9kEEt8K, o5fGm/ud

Sparky: 19/WAN7A, sSi6GlKh, hviMAk3M, Rm9/FDIF, A9kEEt8K, xA2aZPcI, eEk8buak

Wrecker: dOG0UozS, sSi6GlKh, o5fGm/ud, eEk8buak, xA2aZPcI

Parts bin:

Clunky:

Berserker:

<Features>

Second Movement System: 19/WAN7A, xA2aZPcI

Survival Package:

Uplink: hviMAk3M, Rm9/FDIF, A9kEEt8K, eEk8buak, o5fGm/ud

Second Limbs: dOG0UozS

Secondary (fine task) manipulator:

Symbiotic repair hive: 19/WAN7A, dOG0UozS, sSi6GlKh, hviMAk3M, Rm9/FDIF, A9kEEt8K, eEk8buak, o5fGm/ud, xA2aZPcI

Cutting tool:

BleedingEdge:

Agile:

Complex Voice modulator: sSi6GlKh

Flaw winners: Sparky, Wrecker
Feature winners: Uplinkn Hive.
Vote winners have not changed.

>>2523922
>>2523932
>>2523937
sssshhhh. you can't be prepared for everything and you can't predict what the future my hold for us. let's move on and be optimistic.

>>2523932
Yeah but can't we also talk our way out of a situation?

>>2523932
We have that covered. We don't have an answer to running out of power, though.

>>2523937
Decisions made on one person's idea of what fits the narrative mostly tend to diminish room to create a more imaginative narrative because they play to specific ideas of a narrowly defined role. Typecasting isn't great.

>>2523950
And hack our way out of a situation, and patch ourselves up very well if we get attacked.

Features-
>Symbiotic Drone Hive
>Uplink

Flaws-
>Wrecker
>Sparky

Writan!

Numerous system checks come back in and if you had the capability, you would have grunted in shock. That's new... And so is that... And THOSE. Those are new. Tiny, simple bursts if chatter filter into your mind, emanating from crevices in your chassis and a foreign object lodged firmly into your core. You ping the object curiously and dozens, no... Hundreds of return queries nearly overwhelm you for a moment. You can *feel* the parasites moving about your body, cutting away rust, manufacturing simple circuits and applying lubricants. One crawls across your faceplate, chittering mindlessly to itself as it uses a fusion cutter the size of a scalpel blade to weld a fracture in your armor.

Helpful little insects.

>Power at 110%

Suddenly your body jerks as your power core suddebly comes fully operational, small crackles of electricity moving across your body and the surrounding scrap, frying small insects into puffs of ash and carbonized chitin. Your visual sensors scramble for a moment before regulating as the excess power is directed away from vulnerable systems, crackling around your limbs and outer armor.

Your body feels.... Not damaged but definitely rusted and beaten. Additional servoes and hydraulics have been grafted into your back and limbs while a sturdy polymer cable and hook are built into your forearm opposite your inbuilt CQC weapon from your A&B days.

It is a... (Roll me a 1d10, first come first serve)

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>2524006

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>2524006

>>2524006
>sturdy polymer cable and hook
There's a lot that can be done with that. A lot.

>>2524006
>parasites
symbiote!

Your diagnostic reports that your inbuilt and original CQC weapon is still intact if not fully operational. The thick, tip heavy blade extends from your arm for nearly a meter before tapering slowly to a wide point. While it doesn't glow with the intense heat that it used to, it is still sharp and hard enough to pierce all but heavy armor.

You mentally nod to yourself, your parasi-*Symbiotes* clinging to your insides, their scuttling and welding and soldering and cutting slowly bringing your body, more or less, fully operational.

>Name:Unknown
>Armor rating:400
>Health:150
>Power:110%
>Weapons-
Fists
Delta Issue Assault Bayonet.

>Utilities-
Uplink
Repair drones
Hook cable

>Stats-
>Enforcer-You have a in depth knowledge of the law and enforcing it was once your sole purpose.

>Fully Awake- You know how to pass as a dumb robot. Until it suits you not to. Less likely to be found out.

>Assault Drone- You are NOT made for social work. Killing is your profession. -10 to diplomacy rolls and +10 to intimidation and combat with human sized opponents.

>Wrecker-You begin with less HP but additional armor and strength. You also suffer decreased agility until you can be repaired by a actual professional. 50%hp, -15 to agility rolls and +10 to strength checks.

>Uplink-You can communicate and potentially wirelessly interface with other robots and computer systems. You can also BE hacked.

>Sparky. Your power plant produces excess energy which will manifest as arcs of electricity when it exceeds 100%. Use this how you will.

>Symbiotic Drone Hive- These insect like little drones will repair you and can be commanded to perform a multitude of tasks. The Drone Hive in your chest will build more. Slow health regen.

What do? (Pick one)

>Take command of a few drones and scout the area before digging yourself out

>Flex and smash out Hulk Style

>Dig yourself out carefully

>Ping the area and search for helpful bots

>Other

>>2524098
>Take command of a few drones and scout the area before digging yourself out

>>2524098
>>Take command of a few drones and scout the area before digging yourself out

>>2524098
>>Take command of a few drones and scout the area before digging yourself out
Might cause heavier and more dangerous objects to fall on us.

>>2524098
>Take command of a few drones and scout the area before digging yourself out

>>2524098
>Take command of a few drones and scout the area before digging yourself out

>>2524098
Use the drones to scout

>Drone scouts

You decide that digging yourself out without knowing who or what is nearby is a bad idea. You steel (heh) yourself and shove aside the tiny mind of one of the drones. Its mind is so simple that there isn't even any resistance or even objection to your intrusion, the simple program shunted into a unused corner of the drones software.

Looking through the tiny, simplified eyes you signal for a half dozen compatriots to join you with rapid fire pulses of code. They immediately drop their tasks and skitter over to you, waving wire fine feelers as they await your command. If they weren't nearly mindless you would be impressed.

Scurrying forth from your own carapace is a strange experience and you are eager to return to it as you lead your pack of drones through the pile of scrapped droids. Over crushed limbs, through perforated chassis and clambering along dented and cracked cranium you finally reach open air.

You want to go back to the pile.

A vast field of junk stretches as far as the drones eyes can see (maybe fifty feet at most) but its sensors pick up vast amounts of background radiation, ionization and reacting pollutants in the atmosphere and a rapidly dropping barometric pressure.

It is about to rain.

Suddenly, a burst of movement catches your drones cluster of eyes and you attempt to focus on the noise.

>Investigate closer

>Its no threat, dig yourself out.

>Make a commotion as best you can. Get IT to dig you out.

>Other

>>2524247
>Investigate closer

>investigate closer, than get it to dig you out if threat isn't that high

>>2524247
>>Investigate closer

>>2524247
>>Investigate closer

>>2524247
>You want to go back to the pile
ha!

>Investigate closer
send a few drones

>Other
pick up a fist full of material for the Symbiotes and see if they can make us a little more resistant to rain: cover some gaps and circuits, make a wide brimmed hat (a hat umbrella if you will), 'sort of gutters' so any water that does manage to get inside will be redirected to little channels in your carapace that lead right back out or down and out of your feet.

>>2524288
Oh the rain isn't damaging to YOU. It could wash away wayward drones into odd places however.

>>2524298
the newly acquired drones or the ones in our chassis?

>>2524298
I still want the metal umbrella hat through. to keep water droplets from distorting our optics.

>>2524313
Your drones can't fabricate new parts *yet*

>Scout closer
>Roll me 1d100 to see what you find. Best of 3

Rolled 54 (1d100)

>>2524332

Rolled 13 (1d100)

>>2524332
>>Investigate closer

Rolled 83 (1d100)

>>2524332

You force down the drones inbuilt cowardice and scurry forward down the pile, towards the faint rustling and clatter of *something* digging into a pile of corroded power cores and machinery.

The drones small size and relative innocuity allows you to get within arms reach of the strange scavenger without it noticing you. A conglomeration of haphazardly conjoined parts.

A single cycloptic photo-sensor dominates a squeamish head mounted atop a thin neck. Four spindly arms, each tipped with three fingers, jut from a rusted chassis that was at one time painted a deep red but is now splattered with filth and corrosion. A thick, concealing spray of crimson marks its head and airspace, with a trail of droplets leading away from the drone.

It gurgles to itself as it scratches and fidgets with the components at hand, inspecting each closely before bleeping and tossing it aside.

>Scrapper Salvage Drone encountered!

>Dig yourself out, it can't harm you... You think.

>Send more drones, attempt to damage it from the inside.

>Attempt to hack (it may not have an uplink)

>Send drones along that red trail. You recognize human blood when you see it.

>make noise. See if it can dig you out

>>2524379
Attempt to hack. If it doesn't have uplink, could we try to hack it through the drones?

>>2524379
>Send drones along that red trail. You recognize human blood when you see it.

why is
>Dig yourself out, it can't harm you... You think.
an option? I thought we were already out of the pile.

for good rolls are we supposed to roll low or high?

>>2524379
>>Dig yourself out, it can't harm you... You think.

>>2524416
You are remotely controlling a drone.

>>2524416
Also high is good.

Rolled 61 (1d100)

>>2524379
Hack it!

>>2524397
Not necessarily hack but you could disable it and attempt to manually link with it.

>>2524454
Not rolling yet amigo

>>2524454
we are also susceptible to getting hacked. Imagine if the little thing (which I doubt) would be able to over power us.

>>2524446
>Scurrying forth from your own carapace is a strange experience and you are eager to return to it as you lead your pack of drones through the pile of scrapped droids. Over crushed limbs, through perforated chassis and clambering along dented and cracked cranium you finally reach open air.
Oh so we're close to getting out. still voting to have a drone investigate the red trail.

>Haxx wins

>Attempt to physically hack via drone

>Attempt to wirelessly hack via Uplink

>>2524474
Wirelessly

>>2524474
via drone

just saying guys. it could backfire.

>>2524474
Try wireless first

>>2524474
Wireless first, then if that fails we'll try by drone.

>Searching for Wireless signal
>Roll me 1d100. Lets see if this guy has an Uplink.

Rolled 27 (1d100)

>>2524513

Rolled 70 (1d100)

>>2524513

Rolled 58 (1d100)

>>2524513

Rolled 40 (1d100)

>Whoo 70! Okay this little bugger has a wireless uplink!
>Roll me ANOTHER 1d100. Beat his resist roll and you will assume control of a really really shitty and stupid Salvage Drone.

Rolled 7 (1d100)

>>2524546
is there a limit to how much our Symbiotes can multiply?

>>2524546
best of three of accepting the first? Asking because my roll is obviously shit.

>>2524561
Yes. You can't have fuckhuege swarms of them but it caps out at around 2-300.

Rolled 51 (1d100)

>>2524546

>>2524564
Best of 3

Rolled 6 (1d100)

>>2524546

Rolled 92 (1d100)

>>2524546
Ok dokie

>>2524568
looks like we won.

>>2524567
how soon tile we cap at a Symbiote population of 300?

>51>40!
>Salvage drone is Hacked!
>Gained subordinate-
Salvage Drone-
50hp
50 armor
>Weapons
Claws
>Utilities
Multilimbed
Agility
Monocular vision

You focus your Uplink Relay onto the salvage drone and launch an assault on its feeble, animalistic will. Lines of weapons code bombarded its mind as its body jerks and jitters, scrabbling wildly as your drones look on curiously.

Finally the Drones will is subjected to your own, its struggles and resistance fruitless as you take command of its body. It stands, no longer hunched and scrambling but creeping along carefully, searching for your resting place in the mountain of scrap.

>Search the Drones memories. What happened here.

>Have the Drone dig you out

>Dig yourself out while the drone stands watch

>Other

>>2524583
That's what it starts at. The Hive is currently at full strength.

>>2524587
>Search the Drones memories. What happened here.
Cool. Now to figure out if there is a body nearby. Can we use our Symbiotes to do minor/comedic repairs to the Salvage Drone so it doesn't look like a rusted mess?

>>2524586
>Search the Drones memories. What happened here.

Then

>Have the Drone dig you out

>>2524586
>Search the Drones memories. What happened here.
First

>Have the Drone dig you out
>Dig yourself out while the drone stands watch
Then these two at same time.

>Examine the Salvage Drones memories

You delve deep into the foggy depths of the salvage drones memory banks, searching for anything helpful. You don't expect to find much of import as the interior of its rudimentary mind is nearly as corroded as its exterior.

>Today's Event Logs

>Salvager outpost coordinates

>Salvage quota

>>2524636
>Today's Event Logs
the blood worries me. Gotta dig our way out and investigate the trail.

>>2524636
>Today's Event Logs

>>2524636
>>Today's Event Logs
>>Salvager outpost coordinates
>>Salvage quota
All three.

>Today's Event Logs-

-Activation by Technician "FukyuBot"

-Engaged in Salvage Operation of Vehicle designation "PieceaShit"

-Technician FukyuBot performed percussive maintenance. recalibtation requested.

-Salvage Quota received. Project "BigFucker" requires additional materials.

-Engaged in Salvage Operations accompanied by Supervisor "ShutdafukUp"

-Salvage of VRHL-P Heavy Demolition Unit commenced.
-singular unit is Insufficient. Requesting support.

>Supervisor ShutdafukUp has performed unrequested percussive maintenance. Recalibration requested.

>Salvage Operations begun on LMI-17J chassis. Attempted Salvage of suitable supplementary power source as per Salvage quota.

>Heat Spike detected.

>Supervisor ShutdafukUp has encountered gyroscipic failure.

>Attempting field repairs
.
>Field Repairs inadequate. Requesting maintenance.

>Recommencimg Salvage Operations.


>What do?

>Have the Drone dig you out

>Dig yourself out

>Have the drone scout around a bit.

>Other

>UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS

>New Supervisor "????" appointed.
>Awaiting instruction.

>>2524673
>Dig yourself out
>New Supervisor "????" appointed.
Policebot P-0138A

>>2524673
>>New Supervisor "????" appointed.
Briareos Hecatonchires (that's my suggestion for our name.)

dig our way out and check the blood trail already.

>>2524673
Get the following information out of the salvage bot:
>Salvager outpost coordinates
>Salvage quota

Repair the salvage bot with our hive so he can better dig us out.

Then have the salvage drone dig us out while we work to free ourselves.

>gotta get some sleep guys. Ill continue this tomorrow. It may be delayed a bit till later in the afternoon but ill do my best to be back at a reasonable time. Feel free to discuss or suggest names or ideas.

>>2524741
Thanks for writing and have a good night!

>>2524741
Let's have our smaller drones scout around a bit while we try to dig ourself out with the scrapper drone's help.

>>2524703
+1

We should probably have our symbiotes ball up somewhere inside our torso and have stay there. Then we can dig our way out to investigate the blood. Once we're done with that we can go find some shelter. Perhaps an old spaceship?

We should find some shelter soon. I'm not sure how the Sparky flaw reacts to rain.

>>2525080
Nah, we should keep the symbiotes patrolling at all times, we can always make more in our chest so we should leave that empty and constantly producing more. Avoiding rain is a good idea though

>>2524673
>>Have the drone scout around a bit.

>ok guys im back. Sorry work drug on a bit longer than I thought it would
>Who all is still here?

>>2525836
Still here

>>2524703
support

>>2525836
yeets

>>2525836
yo

>Ok, back for realsies
>Have Drone dig you out
>Have repair drones repair Salvage Drone
>Dig yourself out
>Scan Drones memory banks for Salvage Quotas and Salvager Outpost Coordinates.

>Roll me 3d100. Best of 3.

Rolled 35, 32, 51 = 118 (3d100)

>>2526054
Ok than I'll roll 3 at once than

Rolled 98, 69, 46 = 213 (3d100)

>>2526054

Rolled 25, 53, 95 = 173 (3d100)

>>2526054

>98:Drone digs gud
>69:Salvage Drone is repaired
>51:You also Dig well

You have reclined long enough in this mass grave of shattered robotic life. At an order from you, the Salvage Drone begins energetically digging into the pile, its four spindly arms and sharp claws giving it surprising efficiency in tearing apart the rusted metal that covers your form. Its vision and movements seems off, likely knocked out of alignment by the repeated blows of its former owner. At a thought from you, a swarm of the little skittering blobs of polymer and metal swarm from your armor, clambering up the salvage drones body and burrowing inside of it.

Not content to rest on your laurels and allow your underling to dig you out, you flex pneumatically powered limbs and begin ripping your way free of the tomb you found yourself in. Corroded metal and decayed polymer shatter under your strength, repair drones cowering from the carnage within your armored chassis. A ancient companion units humanoid face regards you with long dead visual receptors before you grip it in a steel fist, crushing the delicate and corroded metal into fragments as you finally shoulder your way free of the pile of mechanical corpses.

Free. You are free. Free from the orders of those who used you as a weapon. Free from those who would subjugate you against your will. Free from having your form changed without your consent. Free from that fucking pile.

The Salvage Drone looks up at you curiously, its claws shifting in the filth of the jumble of discarded components. Its cycloptic visual sensor flickers and refocuses, a Repair Drone crawling across the inside of the reinforced glass like some kind of oversized cockroach. Wisps of smoke drift from crevices in its rusted carapace as Repair Drones weld and cut, repairing corroded circuitry, bringing new life into the Drone.

You look out across the wasteland, the endless junkyard dominating your view for as far as the eye can see. As you watch, a bloated transport ship drifts across the sky, a shower of junk falling behind it like metallic rain. Distance belies size, even from this range you can see the plumes of dust and smoke from the larger impacts, some of those pieces could be several hundred ton mining rigs.

Diving back into the drones memory banks, you focus your search on the simple machines memories.

>Cont

>>2526212
>Gained Scrapper Outpost location

By bringing up the localized map stored in the Salvage Drones memory, you retrace the Drones steps to a location marked in its Databanks as "Maintenance Hub". Seeing as that seems to be the focal point of this Drones Salvage outings, its most likely the outpost it is based out of. You file that information away for a later date and delve into a different section of the Drones mind.

>Salvage Quota.

It seems the Scrappers kept the drones busy with their requests. Supplies, power cells, weapon components, raw materials, all ordered in jumbled messes of commands. One group is highlighted with "URGENT".

>The Big Fucker. Construction 58% complete.
>DCX-14 Power Cells. Qnty:3/5
>PS-M Heavy Drive Motor. Qnty:0/1
>Decium Fuel Cores. Qnty:4/6
>Heavy Rated Carapace Armor Plating. Qnty:6/10
>Tyrian Pulse Ammunition Cores. Qnty 27/50

Well THAT doesn't sound good.

>Inspect that blood trail.

>Get to high ground. Look for landmarks.

>Head in (what direction)

>Other

>>2526304
>Inspect that blood trail.

>>2526304
>Inspect that blood trail
We should also probably join up with those scrappers, they may be evil but if we can hijack their robot project we could have some fun

>>2526304
>>Get to high ground. Look for landmarks.

>>2526304
>Inspect that blood trail.
We steal the gundam

>inspect the Blood Trail.

You take your frost steps in several years, your nearly ton-weight of reinforced armor and mechanical muscle crushing ancient robotic scrap underfoot. The haphazardly assembled Salvage Drone follows at your heels like a faithful hound, a Repair Drone riding atop its squarish head, its feelers wiggling excitedly. Burbles and bloops of exhilaration echo over the local uplink channel, the insectile drone losing its tiny mind.

Reaching the base of the junk pile, you crouch down, dipping a pair of blunted claws into the thick crimson pools of slowly congealing blood, mixed in with chunks of splattered grey matter and scorched flesh.

The scrapper who was in previous possession of this grey matter lies sprawled limply a few meters away, the top half of his head blown away by some large caliber weapon. Fragments of bone and chunks of tissue are embedded into the scrap heap behind his corpse. His clothes are ragged, torn and dirty, mixed in with rudimentary armor made from scraps of metal and polymer. And there, holstered safely is a...

>Roll me 1d10. First come first serve. Lets see what gun you get.

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>2526745

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>>2526752
Darn..... was hoping for one of these.

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>2526745
Bang bang!

>Gained Slag rifle!
>Using a miniaturized processing unit attached to kinetic accelerator, this weapon is a common one for salvager and criminals as ammunition is quite literally any metal that can be shoved into the processing unit. Moderate damage and accuracy.

The weapon you hold is.... Shoddy, compared to the high tech pieces of killing hardware shoved into your hands back when you had purpose. It is rusty, poorly made and much too small for you, in fact you have to break away the trigger guard just to get your claw inside of it.

You've seen these before, in the hands of petty criminals and thieves. While it lacks the armor penetration to give you even a slight cause for concern, it is undoubtedly lethal against soft targets. The fact that the ammunition it fires is red hot and tapered to a point is just a bonus.

After loading the small hopper in its stock with a handful of rusted bolts and polymer chunks, the weapon hums as the material is broken down and heated into a semi solid mass just waiting to be shot at high speeds.

Thunder crackles overhead and the already scant light begins fading as thick, inky storm clouds move across the sun. The wind picks up, whistling through gaps in the junk and threatening to blow away the excited drone riding atop your subordinates head. It pings you a query, offering concern about severe electromagnetic disturbances.

>Seek shelter

>You'll be fine. You've got walking to do.

>Climb a pile, get a look around.

>Other

>>2526782
>Climb a pile, get a look around.
>Seek shelter
Its like building a pillow fort but with junk and scrap metal!

>>2526782
>>Seek shelter
Do not stand on top of a giant metal pile as a giant metal robot in a thunderstorm, that is a horrible idea

>>2526801
Ditto

>>2526801
>>2526807
Comon guys! We have a suped up reactor!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dJolYw8tnk

>>2526782
>Seek shelter
The salvageable came from somewhere right? Let's go there

>>2526796
We lack the mods to build a sufficient shelter from the storm

>>2526801
+1

>>2526870
Fine, just fine a intact hull and hop in for the night.

Most vehicles can handle lighting strikes.

>Seek shelter

Without in depth knowledge of the area, your options are limited to direction and what you can see and what the Salvage Drones memories tell you.

>Head north, towards the Scrapper Outpost. (May be hostile)

>Head West (Sensors detect a surge of electromagnetic energy in that area)

>Head East (Smoke on the horizon)

>Head South (Seek cover from the storm in mountains of junk)

>>2526880
>Head East (Smoke on the horizon)

>>2526880
Can we find something to attach to our hook to use as an off hand shield?

>>2526880
>>Head East (Smoke on the horizon)

>>2526891
Im sure you could.

>>2526880
>Head South (Seek cover from the storm in mountains of junk)
Cars are suppose to be protected against electricity....

>>2526910
Could we right now? Maybe use tear off some door and hook it on?

>>2526880
Let's head south, east seems a little too unpredictable right now.

>>2526880
South.

>>2526880

>Head South (Seek cover from the storm in mountains of junk)

The only rational course of action.

>>2526782
>Seek shelter

Also, OP, I ran the silent stars side story games. Seeing you run this setting, and those modded tables, it makes me happy.

>>2526880
>south

>>2527073
I was a big fan of that! I decided to run this after going on a sci-fi binge

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>>2527101
have a scrapper drone! I look forward to seeing your story

>South. The Mountains of Junk await.

You turn southward towards the peaks and valleys of towering piles of scrap and filth. Thick vines clamber over the metal, desperately attempting to get a taste of the fleeting sunlight, stunted and twisted from the toxic air. Your Salvage Drone putters along behind you, bleeping to itself occassionally.

You yourself push on, alert but confident that your sturdy build and specialized hardware will carry you through the day. Surely there is nothing in this pile of scrap that could harm you?

>Roll me 1d20 because reasons.

Rolled 1 (1d20)

>>2527139

Rolled 2 (1d20)

>>2527139

>>2527148
dear god, we might have stepped int oa electric minefield full of old batteries that chain exploded when lighting struck it.

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>>2527148
>1.
>Tighten down your assflaps anons.

>>2527155
>REEE. THIS IS WHY I DON'T POST.

Rolled 19 (1d20)

>>2527139

The storm is upon you before you even know it, howling wind, driving acidic rain the color of burnt motor oil and blue-white strobe flashes of lightning on par with the plasma batteries of Dreadnaughts. You shield your visual sensors with a forearm against flying debris as the wind reaches hurricane intensity, lightning slamming into the peaks of the scrap mountains around you.

Your visual sensors white out, blinding you momentarily as a pillar of pure energy slams into a nearby mound of metal, arcs and cracking bursts of energy roiling between the limbs and long dead machinery lying within.

You shake your head in a very human gesture that woukd see you dismantled back in your old life and make to keep walking when a rustle from within the pile of decayed robotics catches your attentions

>NightofTheLivingDead.jpg

A rusted and corroded manipulator slams out of the pile of reanimating robotics. It seems some of them just needed... A jump start. The apocalyptic bolt and the residual energy in the air seems to be providing these near corpses with enough energy to move for the first time in years.

They shamble to their feet, a mix of utility, maintenance and enforcer Drones. Cracked and flickering visual receptors turn towards you, focusing intently on the arcs of energy crackling from your limbs. The small horde groans in unison
"LOW POWER"

>Fight

>Run

>Other

>>2527178
>Other

Hack the bastards like our life depends on it.

>>2527178
we are a breacher model, and a wrecker on top of that. Getting away isin't going to be easy.
>HACK

turn those that can against those that can't be hacked. fight the rest. We have our scrapper minion to help for all it's worth, which might be something after this.

>>2527175
Just beat qm by 15 seconds, not that it matters.

BO3? Someone roll again next time.

>>2527178
>Other
Point to the "power storm" coming this way and state, I was overcharged by the storm coming Stand on the highest point you can find to recharge power to Maximum capacity!.

>>2527178
I'll vote hack and ask to use my roll here to do it >>2527175

>Leet Haxxor
>you are facing 8 Zom-Bots
>Roll me 8d100 to see if these fuckers can even be backed. Ill take best of 3

Rolled 76, 29, 4, 70, 58, 70, 19, 91 = 417 (8d100)

>>2527200
Heed my summons dice!

Rolled 72, 90, 16, 95, 16, 65, 23, 6 = 383 (8d100)

>>2527200

Rolled 77, 62, 52, 68, 57, 82, 18, 33 = 449 (8d100)

>>2527200

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Rolled 96, 99, 19, 23, 22, 39, 96, 76 = 470 (8d100)

>>2527200

Rolled 40, 38, 14, 25, 95, 52 = 264 (6d100)

>>2527200
>77-Hackable
>90-Hackable
>52-Lacks Uplink
>95-Hackable
>70-Hackable
>58-Lacks Uplink
>82-Hackable
>23-Lacks Uplink
>91-Hackable

>The roll fest continues. Feed me 6d100 to attempt to subvert these Zom-Bots to your will. Beat their resist roll

Rolled 98, 24, 51, 47, 93, 63 = 376 (6d100)

>>2527217

Rolled 91, 4, 51, 95, 27, 35 = 303 (6d100)

>>2527217

Rolled 67, 33, 33, 73, 57, 38 = 301 (6d100)

>>2527217
I roll this time.

Rolled 76, 4, 84, 37, 61, 100 = 362 (6d100)

>>2527217

>>2527217
>98>40. Hacked
>38>33. Resists
>51>14. Hacked.
>95>25. Hacked
>95>93. Resists.
>63>52. Hacked.

>Gained 4 Zom-Bots!

You channel additional power into your uplink relay and broadcast your will at the shambling droids. You assault their feeble wills, driving aside the puny defenses of those that are intact enough to still have semi-functional uplinks. Few of them that you assault have the will or encryption necessary to repulse your encoded attack.

In the end, half of the shambling group stops in their tracks, eying you with cracked and dimly lit visual receptors, rust and filth caked upon them like a carapace as the rest of their number advance obviously. They remain unfazed, seeking only to rip your still functional power core from your chassis and claim it as their own.

>What do?

>>2527250
just rip and tear. We are tough enough, and the other bots can help grapple them while we do that. After that see if our drones can do a "tune up" on our new friends.

>>2527250
Destroy the remaining machines.
We shall analyze their inner-workings to come and understand how they are constructed so we can get some jury rigging experience.

>>2527250
Deploy drones from repair hive and shore up us and ours through the battle.

Use the four zom-bots to neutralize the other four, just immobilize them and hold them down. Then go around delivering a coup de grace to each as best we can with the help of the scrap drone and give their power supplies to the four we hacked.

Afterwards we'll do salvage and repair.

>>2527250
Order friendlies to engage hostiles. Order drones to perform repairs upon friendlies and engage the enemy with melee weapons(i doubt our sole gun will be very effective on them).

>>2527250
Destroy or disable the ones that lack uplink while attempting to hack the other ones, since we only have to focus on hacking two instead of 6 we are more likely to succeed!.

>>2527269
>>2527312
Supporting

>>2527269
>>2527312
support