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This place is all sterile hallways and sharp lights, decontaminants, chemical sprays and air-gapped, air-locked, air-tight seals on doors to nowhere.

You're starting to forget what the sun feels like it.
What it was ever like to not be here, now, in the moment. Like the old book says, the days blur out longer than the months, some unbroken trail of tests, pressure, stress, distant voices over speakers, questions, questions, questions, and when sometimes the sharp, stinging pain of not being able to give them the answers they want.

You're starting to turn in on youself. This place makes you small. Swallows you. You become a thing of hallways and tests and measurements and failures to comply with regulations you do not comprehend.

Little parts of your sense of self feels like it's all curled up, as if your whole assemblance of meat and flesh and skeleton and skin was just some chryssalis your actual, inner core. As if you haven't stretched in days, months, years, as if the ceiling bears down and the wall close in and breath runs out.

Maybe . . . If you stood up? What if you stood up?
What if you tried to reach your full height and see how much of you could unfurl, from this slithering, sluggish cage they call meat?

--

#SubjectID goes here
>We need a name to reference. It has to be searchable
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
>This is your base arrangement of stats. Note that some picks change this, so be mindful.
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
>Oh, remember this. It'll be the last time it looks anything like this.
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
#Skill
-
!Trait
>Pick one of the three available, and be sure to note any strange traits that gets you. Then also add a single short descriptive like "Friendly", "Twitchy", "Slim", "Likes Lentils", "Sad". You gotta hold on to a little personality around here.

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This place is all aching loneliness, long halls and distant sneering cold commands. Move. Do. Pick up. Put down. Stretch. Sit down. Turn around. Face the wall. What are you thinking about? Tell us where they are. Tell us where they went. Tell us what happened.

As if you even knew the answer to any of that.
As if you'd tell them if you did.

You do as you told. You fall in line. You follow the marks on the ground and abide by the regulations and obey and bow and scrape and while doing all that, you wait. You listen. There are other people here.

And they might be just as fucking tired of being apushed around as you are. But they'll need someone to point them in the right direction, someone to channel the focus, to mind the gaps, kee the corners, coordinate the chaos.

Maybe in a former life, you did that kind of thing? Maybe before you ended up here, for whatever foolish reason, you found that people in th middle of confusing and curious circumstance looked your way and listened to your words?

Maybe they did.
Maybe you'll have to make them listen.

You've got this. You're just one little walking sac of maimable flesh and brittle bones and puncturable vital organs and oh so fragile squishy brains, but so what? A single ant scurries under foot and no onlooker notice.

But if an army of ants come down the path, you get out the *way*.

--

>Perhaps you'd like to avoid tangling with curious cosmic circumstance and prefer more mundane matters, such as holding in the bleeding guts of your dying friends and avoiding suppression fire because bullet hurts? You can try that too.

#SubjectID goes here
>We need a name to reference. It has to be searchable
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0
AP 6 MP 3 TP 1
>This is your base arrangement of stats. Note that some picks change this, so be mindful.
-
Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
>Oh, remember this. It'll be the last time it looks anything like this.
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 10
Thoughts 10
#Skill
-
!Trait
>Pick one of the three available, and be sure to note any strange traits that gets you. Then also add a single short descriptive like "Friendly", "Twitchy", "Slim", "Likes Lentils", "Sad". You gotta hold on to a little personality around here.

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A distant rumble, a light spray of dust from the ceiling. A feeling like pressure, releasing with the soft pop of a soap bubble.

Huh. That's new--

The dark cuts in.
The emergency lights click on.
Was that a gunshot?

It's hard to know, senses straining, here in the sudden dark. The reinforced doors and walls aren't apt to give up their secrets. Whatever excitement is happening out there, it'll likely you pass by like so much other noise and emptiness. Besides, tomorrow is maybe Monday if it's not any other day of the week. Sometimes there's an extra helping of desert on the food tray. You could just lie back down and . . .

. . . The doors disengage with a soft whoosh.
Huh.

>>6073360
#Acolyte
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
#Skill
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
!Craves Purpose

Acolyte shivered against the wall, stirring at the sound of human voices. Hollow eyes snap open, flickering. Perhaps it was more testing.

Acolyte loved testing- puzzles, obstacle courses, marksmanship, regeneration, following orders.vThe voices praised it when it did well. They called it ‘her’, and let her walk around and eat warm, solid food, for a day.

Those days were so good, it was worth the risk of failure. After all, it healed very fast.

>>6073379
…..huh?

The humanoid smoothly shifts onto its feet, long practice enabling it to avoid cracking its skull on the roof. Ducking under the door, the simulation sees thoughts shiver through a hollow skull.

This must be a test.

> AP 6, MP 3: Move towards the sound.

>>6073387
*stimulation. Acolyte does not have a computer in her head. She doesn’t even have much imagination.

>>6073368
#Chalkydri
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
#Skill
[Psionic-Resonant]
{!Many hands, Light work}
{!Temple Inviolate}
-
!Trait
<Telekinetic>
<Impassive>

> AP6 // Wait for a while longer. Allow the situation to play out and observe..

Rolled 2, 1, 6 = 9 (3d6)

>>6073379
ty for running, Command

#Grimp
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
#Augmented Systemics 10
-
!Augmentic-Extropian
!Smells Like Sulfur

Is it really pudding time again, so soon? This must be another test, another lie, another trick... I never know what they expect from me, how they want me to act, or when the violence will stop... But if I can ace this test... Pudding!!!

>MP 3, AP 3 [Move+React] move cautiously towards the noises, ready to hit the deck and take the beatings and electrical shocks from this test's administrators, who are no doubt waiting to smother my panic with pain.
>AP 3 [Test and Try][Senses] Observe surroundings and search for clues of how to solve this "test". Gotta be some pudding around here somewhere, or a switch to flip that reveals the pudding, or a trap door that leads to the kitchen with the unwashed pudding spoons, or a trash chute with unlicked pudding cup lids, or... (roll)

>>6073368
"Don't give in to hope, but we might have a chance here. Move together, watch over one another, and maybe we can capitalize."

>2AP, grab the blanket off my bed and Ready it
>3MP+1AP, move towards the exit
>1TP+3AP, Direct and Command + Concentrate x3 - instruct caution to those around me. Intent is to boost defenses. (Sup Ops 10+3)

#Amelius
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 TP 1
-
Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 10
Thoughts 10
Support Operations 10
-
!Inspiring Presence
!Dreams of the Ocean

>>6073421
If possible, I volunteer to start at/be the Subject that is at the bottom-right, closest to the BANG

>>6073421
>>6073423
Delicious pudding, and so soon! Imagine! The tantalizing scents and sights and the raptorous taste of the cream on your tastebuds, sometimes, you know? Sometimes? If you've been - nice - there's . . .

think about this
hold it like a gem
hold it like the shining star of the sky that it is

sometimes there's extra servings.

and you've been SO GOOD, Grimp. SO GOOD. They'll HAVE to give you extra servings right? Right? RIGHT? Stars and shining high heavens, it's salivatingly achingly wonderful to even think about it.

... unfortunately it looks like out past the door in the corridor is *not* a serving tray, Melissa the Kitchen Staff Aid and her little rolling wagon of delicacies, no, out past the heavy door is a hallway, and a corridor, and a corpse, and a blaring alarm.

aww man.
no pudding.

>[Standby]

>>6073358
Ooh, could I reserve a spot? Can’t make a char now, but this looks fascinating.

>>6073433
By all means, though hardly a need to reserve anything. When things get extra lively, sometimes these little escapades feature 25+ people all at once, so you're not in much danger of being squeezed out. Find your feet any time you like and join in when you can.

For the next few hour things will be a little hectic to get established and started, and then after that it usually settles down into a more sedate pace of 1-2 turns a day. Excepting the sudden adrenaline tinged horror show where you blink and realize 27 turns have gone by in an hour, but, look, sometimes that just happens.

Point is, join in any time. The Facility will wait. We'll keep your cell warm.

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Grimps creeps along the pathway. With a soft flicker, the emergency light goes away and the proper lights come back on. The doors shudder and begin to cycle again. Soon, they will close. And you will be trapped in your cells again.

Unless the whole facility cycles once more?

Acolyte brings up the rear. Grimps peeks the corner, keeping low. Out and down the hallway, sharp and sudden, a flash of noise - BANG BANG - gunshots, slamming into the wall near the forward pair. They duck and flinch. But wait that wasn't aimed at you. That was ...

A trio of shapes, long limbs and sharp teeth and hungry eyes. A dead man. A splayed, ripped open uniform. A security guard on the other side, forced to go for the side-arm. Panick in the air and the pheremones of chem-communication. That trio of things? They're not people. Were they ever people? They look like a childs idea of a predator, all limber and slim and sharp. And they've found one meal. Those long claws of theirs look exceedingly dangerous.

But they. . . Oh they want more. They're so very, very hungry.

>[Standby]
>The dizzying expanse down the corridor and hallways and twisted warrens expand before you ! So many rooms and tunnels and connections and hallways and doors and ...

>Grimps and Acolyte accrue +1 Change, from dizzying insight.

Rolled 1, 3, 2 = 6 (3d6)

>>6073461
The chatter of fire, screaming, blood, a sudden flash strikes through the its memories.

A test.

Situation. Active shooter. Unarmed targets. Fellow subjects.

Step one. Remove threat.

Acolyte slaps Grimp on the shoulder, gestures towards the darkness opposite us. Check our corners. See what’s there.

Then, it *sprints* right past- past the mutants, round the corner

Step one. Remove threats.

> AP 6, MP 3: Charge and slam into the shooter. Tackle him to the floor, tear the gun from his hand. Remember the basics of CQC. (3d6 vs Physical)

#Acolyte
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
Mutability 10
#Skill
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
!Craves Purpose

1 Change

>>6073368
#Bulwark
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0
AP 6 MP 3 TP 1
-
Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 10
Thoughts 10
#Small Unit Tactics 10
-
!Nerves of Cold Steel [Cool Under Fire][Not By The Number]
!Nerves of Cold Steel

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Rolled 3, 6, 3, 1, 6, 3, 2, 1, 3 = 28 (9d6)

>>6073469
Well be that as it very much may, the order was to STAND BY, so you can just very much repeat yourself, you impatient little almost-human.

--

Grimps checks the hallway and the distant other room. Amelius prepares his bedsheet. Chalkydri reaches out and thinks other people's thoughts, a smattering of impressions.

Given Amelius extollation to keep low and keep it together, Acolyte and Grimps realize the sharp benefit of proper teamwork and coordination! Behold, Amelius soft-spoken inspiration DIRECTS YOU TO KEEP YOUR HEADS DOWN; you get +2 (that was a critical he rolled there, off-screen, unseen!) to your next defense checks.

Now, about defensives: you're sly quick footed things, yes? Not afraid to be hurt, but prefering to avoid it?

You might learn quite a few ways to stay alive, but the first you'll have is simply remembering the #1 rule of a gunfight: Don't Be Hit.

When the world aggresses against you, you tend to check REACTION (this happens on the backend, automatically), and if you succeed enough, you avoid the unpleasant danger by ducking away.

Reacting this way is FAR easier when you have ROOM TO MOVE. And you very, very often won't. Also, reacting repeatedly gets harder - there's increasing penalties to more quick-on-your-feet-dodging.

( This reveals another subtle facet of teamwork - if you're fighting something fiendlishly agile and quick, you can take a few swings, be pretty confident it will duck, but also be aware that as it ducks and dodges, you are really setting it up for the surprise blow delivered by your allies! )

--

A sharp cry of pain! A hiss! A sniff! That one long-limbed slender thing with the sharp teeth and the dead cold eyes haven't followed its friends. It smells. . . easier prey.

Careful now, this might get violent. But it doesn't have to. Not everything in this place is out to kill you. Quite a lot just wants to live through the next few hours. Maybe you can scare it off? Or barter? Or lay it down low with a quick jab? But those claws . . .

>ESCAPE PHASE
>That means you lot, go!

#Donny O'Cork
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 2+Fa AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1

-
Conditions:
Fuctionally Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 10
Thoughts 10
#Mutability 10
-
!Augmentic-Extropian
!Metal Fatigue - DR2 +1. Feel No Pain.
!Reserve Power - May send Fatigue on the same activity multiple times a turn
!Engineering Specifications - Features are Internal
!Prime Directive: Repair

>Move Action: Leave my repository.
>Major Action: Perform Self-Diagnostic. Are my chassis or components in need of repair?
>Major Action: Consider the objects in the surrounding environment. Are any of them suitable for integration or repair work, either for the chassis that I inhabit or the bio/mechanical beings in my database?

>>6073488
Move as one, strike while it's on the backfoot!

>3MP, move 3NE and end facing south
>3AP, blind that BEAST with my blanket (Physicality 10)
>3AP, defend - I'm only human here!
>1TP, coordinate Acolyte and Grimp's attacks against the fiend! It's all in the timing... (Support Operations 10+1 from Inspiring Presence)

#Amelius
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 TP 1
-
Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 10
Thoughts 10
Support Operations 10
-
!Inspiring Presence
!Dreams of the Ocean

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>>6073497
>>6073484
That Monday (or is it Friday?) desert wagon is taking a while. Muffled noise through the walls. The low rumbling. A moment ago, there was almost loud, tearing sounds, the hushed muffled of distant reports from guns going off. Someone screamed.

It ended quick.

Maybe you'll have another quiet ten thousand hours stuck down here in the deeper dark, staring at the sterile walls and the clean passage ways. The door to your low security containment cell is shut tight. A small red dot on the inside blink blink blink blinking away. That stupid light. The green light haunts you, indicating that the door locks are engaged, teh seals are tight, the deterrents functional and if you take your frustration out on this door, of all things, the next thing that happens is your cell gets filled with light and noise and shock and pain. They don't like people messing with the equipment. Yeah, that green light and you are old friends by now.

Wait.

Why is the green light *red*?

--

>>6073497
Please, what is this, an amateur operation? You're in a sterile environment of carefully managed exposure, and even your bedsheet on your bed is synthetic plastic wraps on a poly-carbon frame, meant to tear easy and shatter easier and absolutely no good as a building material, a shiv base or as gradual accumulation of some kind of build up of constituent components of free-floating mass that you might reasonably use to adjust your own frame and convert to spare materials.

No siree, we've learned over the long years to keep a tight ship, and you'll just stay in your nice clean containment cell and no cause a fuss.

I mean, if you could get out of it, there'd be all kinds of materials in the world available for your use. Wires in the walls, terminals to interact with, stations to poke at, carelessly forgotten sporks on the ground.

Can't be having that.

Best you stay right where you are.

>>6073360
#Splendiferous Weaver of the Threads that bind the Squirming Prey Floundering in the Underneath (Samantha)
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
#Skill
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
= Virulent Vitality
= Bound by the Flesh

!Hungry

Primary Taxonomy: Malichnid

Rolled 5, 5, 3 = 13 (3d6)

>>6073431
>>6073488

#Grimp
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 1
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
#Augmented Systemics 10

-
!Augmentic-Extropian [Metal Fatigue, Reserve Power, Engineering Specifications]
!Smells Like Sulfur

>3MP, 3 AP - Move hex directions 232 (or 323 if those partial hexes cannot be occupied/moved thru). Use AP to dodge that malevolent creature.
>3AP, 1CP, roll: Manifest - Focus
>4SP If possible, give my Manifest a +4 bonus using 4 SP (stamina points)


The lights have already returned to normal, and the blaring alarms are fading... This is one of their quickest-paced tests yet... Surely the beatings and electrical shocks will be harsh if I do not return to my cell in time...

"I-is that guard going to be okay?"

A friendly slap from Acolyte jolts the servos in my augmented system, and my fear and panic is washed away. As are the rest of my human emotions. But even machines dread failure.

A human fellow yells at me to attack, but he's not in a guard uniform, so I don't follow his orders. I've failed that test already - fool me once, shame on you. You won't fool me again.

This test is odd and unlike the others. There are so many different creatures, sights and sounds in this one test... but Grimp assumes these new variables to be extraneous in the ultimate goal.

"...Pudding switch, pudding switch..."

I can't find it, and start panicking... Something breaks within me, and I begin to... Change.

>>6073368
>>6073514
>>6073488

#Glace Froide
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0
AP 6 MP 3 TP 1
-
Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 10
Thoughts 10
Small Unit Tactics 10
-
!Nerves of Cold Steel
!Emotionally Blunted

I have lost count of the amount of days I have been here.

>>6073488
>Open my eyes

#Bob
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
#Skill
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
= Virulent Vitality
= Bound by the Flesh
!Overprotective

>>6073519
At least . . . one.
At least one. It might even have been two. They put something in the water, sometimes, to make you forget.

>>6073515
Somewhere, somehow, Security Captain Caliper is oh so very, very happy that he got in that extra order for heavy duty flame-throwers last month.

>>6073520
Honestly? Don't bother. Just close them. Go back to dormancy. Rest. Quiet down. Breathe in. Breathe out. Do you still need to breath? C02 filtering in the mainline system of the human body is pretty ineffective, you should fix that.

Close your eyes.

It's going to be so much better than witnessing what is about to happen to your face.

>>6073518
Movement clarification:
I assumed hex directions have the north-facing hex as 1, and ascend clockwise. Grimp would like to head towards that dark hallway with the terminals :)

>>6073521
I would very much like to see, yeah.

It's alright, the face always grows back.

>>6073514
Wait.

What is a 'Red'?

Wow. I've been down here too long.

>1MP, move 1N (upto the door)
>3AP, [Test & Try (Senses, 10)], Hello? Poke it. Poke it a lot. Press it. Touch. Feel. Do doors even dream? Does this thing open?

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>>6073528
The first thing you see is the ceiling because that other contester in today's KINETIC OPERATIONS LIVE TEST ENVIRONMENT punched you pretty hard right in the teeth, and the second thing you see is that it's coming closer, all hooped up on murder-chemicals and a delightful urge to slide its sharp long claws right inbetween your soft squishy meat.

Martingale, who really didn't sign up for this, is covering up near Froide and hoping someone as any kind of plan for this particular situation --

Normally, everyone wears control bands that are meant to shock the participants if brawls get out of hand or outside the parameters of the test environment, but . . . with a soft, quiet "clonk", most of them disengaged about fifteen seconds ago right when the entire facility went through a power cycle and you do not think your competitors tonight intend to play for a draw.

Aren't there supposed to be guards to stop this kind of thing? They don't get any data if you're all dead ! They didn't even give you WEAPONS!

>>6073535
Some kind of malign thing, an amputated missing part of a rainbow and pain and the memory of a bright burning orb in the high sky you haven't seen forever and --

huh

the security door is. . . unlocked.

>>6073536
Weapons..? I have no need of such, I *am* the weapon.

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The hallway beyond is one you know pretty well, having been shuffled down it many a time. The neighbours were always rowdy.

Judging by the carnage here, they got out first. There's two men in various states of disassembly and sharp tears in the floors, the walls, the doors; bits of debris and the sharp tang of smoke and chemicals and gunpowder in the air.

Looks like that terminal over there is still active, section door control.

You're out. You're *free*. There's other colours than red and green now. Beige. Grey. Metal. And. . . so many sounds. Sights. Complications.

>>6073537
>1AP, Open Sesame (open the door)
>1MP, 1N (step out the cell)
>1AP, Look around.

Huh. . .

Well, this is new. I think.

I'm kind of at a lost for words here.

>>6073488
#Acolyte
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
Mutability 10
#Skill
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
!Craves Purpose

Acolyte steps past the cyborg. It peers down at the bioweapon. Memories return.

Training. Practice.

Before their eyes, Acolyte shifts- shivering, sniffing the air, absorbing their pheromonal language.

You. I am not food.

What is happening?

> CHANGE.
Malleability (10) + Focus (1) + Change (1)

Remember my role as a PACK LEADER for other, more vicious, less thoughtful subjects. A soldier amongst wolves- strong, smart, intelligent enough to command, but not so much as to rebel.

Rolled 4, 4, 3 = 11 (3d6)

>>6073548
Rolling.
If we can spend FP to mutate harder, I happily dump four. I doubt it, though, that sounds silly.

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What is happening, Acolyte ponders. A query for the ages.

>STANDBY

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Rolled 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 5 = 25 (9d6)

The distant alarms blare again. The facility lights flicker, once, before normalcy (of a kind) re-asserts itself. There is a faint, almost quiet, WHOMP, like an afterthought. Some kind of . . . detonation?

--

Acolyte and Grimps both arrive at the same concluson quite rapidly: it is remarkably ill-advised to attempt to adjust ones particular arrangements of biology or other matters when prowling hunters are near; the process renders you woefully, wildly helpless and it is best done in the scant moments of peace you can find, in quiet rooms, in dark corners, away from sharp claws or batons or guns or worse things.

Predators can smell weakness. If you do it beside their prowling steps, they POUNCE.

--

Acolyte's senses are all-a-wracked and wrecked, tinged with pain and misery. That's an aberrant feature, friend, little half-man thing, soon to be something else, all part of you and new. A trait, you've gained. But perhaps not the one you wanted? You should try to wash that off or shake it off or stop secreting the things that drives the hunters here wild with delighted murder-minding at your mere existence.

--

Grimps, meanwhile, jiggles his neurons in the right way and the Heads Up Display and his Task Management Routines restart with a flicker. Hey, look at that. Every good day starts with an organized day planner.

Pretty standard stuff: Add a task with a minor action and it's in your awareness, so naturally, the critical rating is increased. When you take action to carve through your to do list, you benefit from enhanced effect and outcomes; your Focus bolsters the things that happen.

--

All these tests and measurements and questions and simulations and requests - what were they trying to find ? Something like this? Something more? Something lesser?

Acolytes inspiration was good - a grand idea. It is FAR BETTER to be SPECIFIC in DESIRES when CHANGING, otherwise, the vast world of whim and chance and nearby environmental effects and random fluctuations in the substrate of the cosmos will surprise you.

Leaving it up to chance, is, of course, possible. Sometimes feasible. You might not always know what you want, or what is possible.

You'll learn.
You'll have to
--

Bob gets accosted. He makes, uh, friends?

--

>ESCAPE PHASE
>(That means you lot)

Rolled 5 (1d6)

>>6073360
>>6073368
Hmmm

Rolled 1, 4, 3 = 8 (3d6)

>>6073536
If we're all dead? It would take much, much, MUCH more than that to put me down.

The others are not so lucky.

>>6073579
The pain will only be passing. Pain means I'm still alive and can retaliate.

>6AP+1 Stamina: Committed strike to the skull of the one that attacked me(Physicality 10 + Lethality 1)

#Bob
Vit 12 SP 11/12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
Mutability 10
#Skill
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
= Virulent Vitality
= Bound by the Flesh
!Overprotective

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Well, it's diplomacy. Of a kind.

Rolled 6, 3, 4 = 13 (3d6)

>>6073579
>3 MP: Move 5 Sneakily
>6 AP: Lean into my instinct. Kill this foolish Prey that would turn its back to me. (Physicality 10 + Lethality 1)

#Splendiferous Weaver of the Threads that bind the Squirming Prey Floundering in the Underneath (Samantha)
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
Mutability 10
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
= Virulent Vitality
= Bound by the Flesh

!Hungry

Primary Taxonomy: Malichnid

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>>6073368
Within every human skull can be found a nation of neurons, a country of grey matter.
Though the dutiful citizenry murmur and communicate along bundled axons, perhaps one day a grand song from beyond begins to propagate like a disease, or a wildfire.
Then the nation, now a magnificent choir, turns toward its neighbors and sings their newfound anthem with such conviction that it would spread to the furthest edges of the world:

"Sticking out your gyatt for the rizzler... you're so skibidi..."

#Subject Sigma
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
#Psionigenesis-10
-
!Psionic-Resonant
!Telekinetic(Physical tests at range,Thoughts/Senses on sapient)
+Microslip Precognition(+Focus Evade targets)
+Temple Inviolate(Manifest External)
!Incurable Brainrot

#Gluttony
>We need a name to reference. It has to be searchable
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
#Mutability 10
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
[Virulent Vitality] [Bound by the Flesh]
!Wild-Eyed
/-/-/-/
There had been a time when Ketlan Knight had been someone, or at least been on his way to becoming someone. A young man, full of confidence, just starting out on a career in martial arts. He had a good school behind him, a good coach, he was racking up wins, and people were starting to notice. Maybe he had just been kidding himself. One knock out, the first of his career, had been a doozy. Total fade to black. And he woke up here. And whatever he was now, he was NOT Ketlan Knight anymore. He was just hungry. It was Monday, probably, the day when they brought the snacks. He would inhale them ravenously every week, though it did nothing to ease the unending hunger. Why eat at all, then? Heh. As if it was a choice. Hunger is primordial. Way down there in the reptile brain. It completely bypasses the frontal cerebral cortex and even mammalian hardware like dignity, shame, or hate.
*Click -- a movement of air.*
So, all that being said... If the doors are opening, then Gluttony is coming out.

>>6073579
>2MP move 2NE (2-2), upto the aid station.
>1AP peruse the cabinet, might as well, it was quite inviting. Take anything of use!
>3AP [Test&Try (Sense,10)] Also, how does this terminal work? Buttons? Touch-pad? I cant tell if the screen is bright or if the room is too dark.

Ignore the corpse. Ignore the cadaver. Ignore it. Holy. Holy Crap. . . I didn't know bodies could be messed up that bad.

>>6073360
>>6073579
>Begin the procedure to leave


#NeoGenesis
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 2 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
Augmented Systemics 10
-
!Augmentic-Extropian
!Resilient Streak

"I think it's time to leave. The beeping and the whaling is old."

Rolled 4, 1, 5, 5, 5, 6 = 26 (6d6)

>>6073579
Well.

Well.

#Acolyte
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
Mutability 10
#Skill
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
!Craves Purpose

> Regenerate
> 3 AP: Seize control of my errant pheromone system. Make it do something USEFUL. (Malleability 10, Spend 4SP)
> 3 AP, 1 MP; step into my attacker’s face, and body slam them to the floor. Committed attack.

Let’s try this again.

What. Is. Going. On.

>>6073579
Fuckfuckfuck - stop dying! I need you freaks alive! HIT HIM! He's just clawing blindly!

>1TP+2AP, inspire Acolyte to action! (Sup Ops 11 + Inspiring Presence 1 + 2 Concentrate)
>2MP, move 1NE, 1SE
>3AP, search the body - we need a weapon and fast! (Senses 10?)
>1AP, ready any weapon I find. I'm pretty sure that's a baton on the floor there.

#Amelius
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 TP 1
-
Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 10
Thoughts 10
Support Operations 10
-
!Inspiring Presence
!Dreams of the Ocean

Rolled 5, 6, 6, 2, 1, 4 = 24 (6d6)

>>6073579
#Glace Froide
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0
AP 6 MP 3 TP 1
-
Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 10
Thoughts 10
Small Unit Tactics 10
-
!Nerves of Cold Steel
!Emotionally Blunted

>[Tactical] Major Action: Martingale, Grins, stay behind... Samantha for now. Get us some cover or armour.
>[Direct And Command]: But try to not die, got it?

I wish I could get some chocolate right about now.

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>>6073593
Security Captain Caliber - somewhere, at a command station - quietly ratchets the alarm state up a few notches.

#Chimera
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
Mutability 10
#Skill
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
= Virulent Vitality
= Bound by the Flesh
!Relentless

>>6073608
She's chanting some kind of ancient spell, jerkily performs a sort of seemingly ritualistic dance. It's disconcerting and doesn't make *sense*!

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Torn doors and shattered cells and -- did someone tear through here? Did the walls fall down? You try to remember, but it's all a blurr. You were being split into teams for a kinetic engagement test and then the researcher, Dr. Stimi, he . . . looked at his watch and said "huh" and then the facility frazzled and -- your head, it hurts. Something in your bones feel wrong.

But the pain is diminishing. You can move again.
You should move again.

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You were on your way to the kinematics testing grounds for another few laps of jumping through hoops to rack up points on a scoreboard you do not understand when they jumped you and your escort, a swarm of shining fangs and bright teeth and corrosive gas and sound that was wrong -- you crept in here, in one of the maintenance tunnels -- waiting for your body to knit itself back together. You've left a lot of blood behind but you're about ready to move again.

How long has it been? Is everyone else alive? You should . . . get your bearings.

You hear the fast sound of running feet, heavy footfalls, shouts, commands. You can recognize the stern stacato of the guards speech by rote now. There's a group of them passing by this door, right now. A large group.

You might want to avoid them, for now - they might not treat you kindly. Or you could open the door and go with them? Surrender? Slink back to your cell...

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>>6073607
Only armor around here is harsh language or the carapace of your friend there, whom, I don't mind telling you, I am not engaging with anything less than a six man backup team, superior weight of fire and copious amounts of local support.

Ah come on Grins, gimme a hand -- look, this shelving unit, it's got some stuff on it. Catch!

>Well, it's not armor
>But is a [BATON]

>L+1, Stun 1, which simply means it deals Lethality d6 +1 and also knocks an AP out of people you bat over the head with it. Useful!

Rolled 2, 6, 1, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 1 = 18 (9d6)

>>6073579
"And here. We. Go."
>MP3: Move 1-1-6
>1ap: Look for something useful on the floor. Anything really.
>1ap: Pick up something useful from the floor. Surely it's something useful and haste makes waste!
>1ap: Pick up 1 more thing?
>3ap: Move 6-5-6

>>6073579

#Grimp
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
#Augmented Systemics 10
-
!Augmentic-Extropian [Metal Fatigue, Reserve Power, Engineering Specifications, Task-Tracking Suite]
!Smells Like Sulfur

I feel... Awakened...

"Acolyte, look out!"

>3MP+ 6AP Run 556, and perform a jumping head stomp with both feet on the body slammed foe (perform a tackle if Acolyte's body slam was ineffective)

If the jump can be included in the attack for less than 3AP, I would like to include these actions:
>1AP Append New Task to Tracker: Banzai!
>2AP Concentrate x2 on the attack

Rolled 3, 5, 6 = 14 (3d6)

>>6073634
Forgot my rooooooollll (rolling for attack only not the jump)

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>>6073621
#Gluttony
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
Mutability 10
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
[Virulent Vitality] [Bound by the Flesh]
!Wild-Eyed
/-/-/-/
Gluttony staggers -- or maybe slithers -- out of the cell in a disoriented state. There's something red on the ground, here. Is it gore?

[MP1:3] Move 2s, 1sw

[AP1:4] I try to focus. Regain my bearings. I try to get clarity on my physical and mental condition. What am I missing? Why is it so hard for me to think clearly?
[AP5] Is there any flesh I can eat in this red smear on the ground?
[AP6] My eyes swivel to look at the metal man rushing to leave. There's flesh on its bones, but it's full of metal parts. And it may intend to escape. I may be able to consume later after it has been killed. It doesn't seem interested in me for now, and there should be easier meat around here somewhere with all this blood everywhere.

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Rolled 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 2, 1, 6, 1 = 17 (9d6)

Getting your bearings, are you? Shaking off the drugs, the inhibitor arrays, the suppressants, the memetic compulsion code-switching (no, not that, never that)...

--

There's distant noise like a rattling, long drawn out shriek, rolling across the halls, loud and piercing. Sigma can feel it: No sound wave, that. Something shrieking in their head - dying, fading, ending in a flash of fire and procedural operations.

The distant masters of this place seem the implacable sort.

>STANDBY

Rolled 5, 2, 6 = 13 (3d6)

>>6073631
#Glace Froide
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0
AP 6 MP 3 TP 1
-
Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 10
Thoughts 10
Small Unit Tactics 10
-
!Nerves of Cold Steel
!Emotionally Blunted

[Tactical] Major Action (+3 AP to boost): Martingale, Grins, bust that secure shelf open.

Maybe Ice Cream will do me some good...

>>6073579
Gallium
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
[Damage Reduction 2]
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
Augmented Systemic 10
-
Augmentic Extropian
[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications]
Cold and logical.

>Activate
Click.
00:00 since awakening: Subject runs diagnostics.
00:05 sa: Diagnostics complete. Subject is currently imprison.
00:07 sa: New directive added: Escape to the surface. The use of force has been cleared. Adminstrative privileges have been granted to the subject.
00:12 sa: Subject begins to move.

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>>6073643
>>6073633
NeoGenesis doesn't find much of use, a tornado of violence tore thorugh this place. A flashlight might be the best of it. Bright light and shining succour.

Amelius has better luck; a handgun is never a bad find. Just point and click at the bad things until they go away.

Rudimentary firearms handling 101 seems to be a missing memory, though. Well, you'll . . . learn on the job. Surely? It'll come back. It has to.

--

Doors slide open. Things move in the dark.

--

Acolyte is thrown back into a wall as Grimps comes in feet first, and everyone ends up in a sprawling pile with a thing of hate and fury and malice and so many many sharp claws and teeth and tearing, scratching, murderous violence, absolutely steaming, screaming mad and soaked in the chemical markers of submission from a prey-thing that doesn't want to stop struggling HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATEHATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATEHATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATEHATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATEHATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATEHATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATEHATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATEHATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATEHATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATEHATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATEHATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE

Having gone utterly and totally berserk, the creature is completely insensitive to pain and shock and suffering and lashes wildly out at everyone around it.

Also you're all on the floor, prone, sprawled out. No advanced acrobatics are possible and your movement speed is a slow rolling scoot.

--

>ESCAPE PHASE
>(THAT MEANS YOU LOT)

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>>6073650
You were meant to be transfered to advanced kinematics for ehanced testing. Something about a routine servo check, or an update to the proprioception software.

The handlers put you here and told you to wait for them, they'd go get the equipment. They've generally always treated you with a certain fondness.

One of them left you a pudding.

That was hours ago.

The noise is fluctuating. Sometimes, there's a scream. Just now, the whole security station flickered as the lights and power cycled. Doors disengaged. The advanced monitoring software on the terminal in front of your crashed and hasn't rebooted. The screens went dark.

Something isn't quite. . . Right.

>>6073644
That's all well and good, but you were told to STAND BY. So you'll simply have to dictate an action again, Miss Froide.

Also they busted that shelf open. Even threw you a nice baton and got a pair themselves, fresh from the no longer secured storage space. Progress!

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

>>6073666
#Acolyte
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
Mutability 10
#Skill
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
!Craves Purpose

> Regenerate 2
> 6 AP, 3 SP: FIX THE PHEREMONE SYSTEM. HEY. HEY YOU. LISTEN. (Malleability 10+ Lots)
> Movement: Shuffle a little bit away.

(Frustrated player noises.)

>>6073639
Other than clanking away and weighing more than any other five men combined, that metal amalgamation of wires and desires would fit into most punk raves or demonstrations. Seems... human. Though the skin reflect the light oddly.

You realize - with a start - why the world is so blurry.

A rather intense chemical suppressant regimen has just worne off, finally flushed out of your biology like an invader purged from the shores a mist-shrouded country. When you breathe in - and you can finally, really, breathe in - your lungs obey you with enthuasistic consent. You can flex your muscles. You can feel your heart thrum. All the little parts of yourself, waking up.

But for all that, no. Eating a pure metal diet is out of your reach for the moment - hard to digest, hard to absorb, hard to shape. What you want - need - is . . . biomass and dreams and exposure to novel stimulants.

It seem BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS like yours are VIRULENTLY REACTIVE to NOVEL THREAT VECTORS and NEW STIMULI.

>Gain +1 Change

Rolled 5, 6, 4, 6, 3, 4 = 28 (6d6)

>>6073666
I see the Bob. I am not like the Bob. I see the Martingale. I am not like the Martingale. I see the FleshPrey. I am not like the FleshPrey. I am different. I do not exercise bipedal locomotion. I am not as weak as them... or at least, I'm not supposed to be. This gnawing hunger, it has left me weak, malnourished, underfed. I am greater than this, I can be greater than this, but that requires more sustenance. But, I do not presently remember my greatness. I am not like these, but what am I like?

>3 AP: Consume the FleshPrey's PreyFlesh (Physicality 10 + Lethality 1)
>3 AP: Analyze myself, what makes me special, besides my regal name and refined form? (Thoughts 8 + Focus 1)

#Splendiferous Weaver of the Threads that bind the Squirming Prey Floundering in the Underneath (Samantha)
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
#???
-
!???

!Hungry

Primary Taxonomy: Malichnid

Rolled 3, 5, 2, 4, 5, 2 = 21 (6d6)

>>6073666
#Chimera
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
Mutability 10
#Skill
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
= Virulent Vitality
= Bound by the Flesh
!Relentless

"Let's have a look in here. Losing most of my blood should have purged the drugs dampening my senses"

[MP 3, AP 2] Move N x2, NW as silently as possible be sneaky (Alacrity 1)
[AP 3] Observe the room [1 AP] to focus on how threatening people inside are. (Senses 8)

>>6073634
(Command has explained to me on discord that either someone pulls the thing off me, or my recovery action is not going to stopped me getting slashed to pieces a *lot*.

….I’ll really owe you now if you do that.

; ( )

Rolled 3, 3, 4, 3, 4, 1 = 18 (6d6)

>>6073666
>3ap: Try to regain my bearings using my HUD
>MP3: Move 6-6-5
>3ap: Smash the camera

Rolled 6, 3, 4, 1, 4, 2, 6, 2, 5 = 33 (9d6)

>>6073666
>>6073680


#Grimp
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
#Augmented Systemics 10
-
!Augmentic-Extropian [Metal Fatigue (dmg reduction 2), Reserve Power, Engineering Specifications, Task-Tracking Suite]
!Smells Like Sulfur

"...Oops."

Grimp's emotion suppression systems flicker, as a tearful grimace mechanically returns to a blank face.

Further collateral damage will have to be minimized. Or else I could lose my chance at silky chocolate gold... Perhaps if I make it up now, I can earn a bonus cup!

"Get off of her!"

>Use 2 MP (if prone) or 3 MP (if floored) to Posture: Stand Up
>1AP Append New Task to Tracker: Headhunter
>3AP Right fist head-punch!
>3SP Left fist head-punch! [w/ Reserve Power]
>3SP Right fist head-punch! [w/ Reserve Power] + 2AP Concentrate
(Stamina and Fatigue are the same thing, right?)

>>6073690
oops, my SP was 8 and should now be 2 after those uses. And Vit is 10 not 12

>>6073691
>>6073690
Some damn fool - probably confused about the various horrors of biology on routine display around here - got them all mixed up.

It's being straightened out, but yes - in every way that matters, Stamina and Fatigue are the same thing. We've just accidentally written the intruction material to be extra confusing by freely mixing terms.

Bit of a mistake.

>>6073690
(Thanks man)

>>6073666
I... must have done this before, right? This weight seems so familiar, yet the fog is too thick. It'll come back to me, this feeling isn't fabricated. How hard could it be?

Wait... Oi! Don't keep your back to the enemy!

>3AP, consider the weapon in my hand, recall memories long forgotten (Willpower 14? Burn stamina as necessary?)
>2MP, creep 2NW and peek around the corner
>1TP, alert Grimp to the foes in his rear arc (Sup Ops 10+Inspiring Presence 1)
>3AP+3SP, committed attack 3SW - target vitals, failure to stop (Lethality 11 + concentrate 3 + committed attack bonus X)

#Amelius
Vit 12 SP 9/12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 TP 1
-
Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 10
Thoughts 10
Support Operations 10
-
!Inspiring Presence
!Dreams of the Ocean

#Gluttony
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
Mutability 10
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
[Virulent Vitality] [Bound by the Flesh]
!Wild-Eyed
Change +1
/-/-/-/
>>6073666
>>6073677
Gluttony's chest expands and contracts pushing air through his system as the drugs are rapidly counteracted. As the fog lifts away, he registers... something... new. Something in the reward center of his brain. Just from seeing the cyborg? Gluttony's eyes swivel back to the cyborg as it picks up a sturdy flashlight and moves down the hall. Gluttony does not follow him yet. For the first time in a long time, he has dopamine from something other than food. He suddenly has a hunger for knowledge, instead, though his stomach is blasting out as many signals to feed as ever.
>>6073541
"You... You're normal." Gluttony says to Bulwark. He subconsciously licks the corner of his mouth. "Could you do me a favor and try to hurt me? Just a little. I won't hit back. If you help me out, I'll go first into whatever is shooting out there."
/-/-/-/
MP2: Move up to Bulwark and look at him.
AP6: Recover (Physicality 10, Regenerate +2) - PURGE DRUGS AND HORMONES

Rolled 6, 6, 6 = 18 (3d6)

forgot the dice

>>6073699
okay but what if - alright - what if *instead*

you tweaked your adrenal gland to produce a similar substance?

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>>6073716

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A gunshot rings out, loud and clear and true - and something slumps to the ground, with a brand new hole where something important used to be.

12 more solutions to many of lifes small perils left in the piece, trooper. Make 'em count.

--

>STANDBY

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Amelius remembers. Right. First of all, obviously, spending STAMINA on THINKING is a profound paradox. You can't possibly spend physical effort thinking harder.

But also, that's how guns work. You point them at the other guy and click the trigger and eventually the other guy stops being a problem. Small sharp little pieces of metal propelled through the air at speed.

Looks like these HANDGUNS do 2d6 damage, unless you hit something very important, and then it's worse. It's probably a very good idea to be IN COVER when shot at; bullets tend to hit things in front of you instead of you if it's there to be hit.

Those GUARDS are AIMING at Amelius, as well (And Sigma gets the same experience).

Hitting targets at long distance is hard; penalties accrue, something they tumble and twist. 'Locking On' is actually a minor action with a firearm, readying it to shoot against a specific singular target. You miss less. If you haven't acquired a target, your shots are snapshots - they miss more, and misses go *elsewhere* and hit *other things*.

Finally, with a firearm, you can AIM - that's 3 AP. It accomplishes the locking on and you benefit from the ACCURACY of the weapon. For these pistols, that's 2.

Also there's one final little twist, that's more final than final. Squeeze the trigger more? Get more result. Specify how much ammo you're willing to spend when shooting. More bullet flying might hit the target more. You gain some skill bonus, conditionally, on firing more shots and might hit your target more than once. The famous double-tap is simply two bullets.

Mind that when you start spraying fire everywhere, more bullets in the air also means more misses. You will hit unintended targets.

--

Grimps tears the scavenging horror-show off of Acolyte, who rolls away and shakes themselves and recovers to their knee, shaking off pain and finally fixing that leaking secretions. In a surge-flash of adrenaline, the world is clearer.

>Hit negative HP
>Gain 3 Change

The smaller thing in front of Grimps is now broken, bent, still fighting, but it's limps are far too crippled to offer much danger. Instead, based on Amelius suggestions, he slides into the hallway to avoid having a bullet slide into his brain.

>That thing has crippled limbs; it's hardly a danger any more. That happens sometimes. Good way to disable your foes.
>+2 Change, Grimps.

--

>ESCAPE PHASE
>THAT'S YOU
>Minor slowdown here, Command needs to ... breathe.

Rolled 4, 5, 6 = 15 (3d6)

>>6073733
Gallium
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
[Damage Reduction 2]
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
Augmented Systemic 10
-
Augmentic Extropian
[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications]
Cold and logical.

Observation: Facility appears to be in disarray. Handlers have not returned. Pudding reserves dangerously low.
Proposed course of action: This unit will attempt to learn more about the situation outside.

>Move towards the screen.
>Attempt to interface with the base's system via the screen. Find a way into the system. Glean information. Really [Commit] to it. (Augmented Systemics 10)

Rolled 5, 6, 3 = 14 (3d6)

>>6073733
"That's Weaver to you, squishysoul."

>3 MP: Move 211
>6 AP, 2 Stamina: Manifest a Change - to Movement. My form could use improvement, I should make sure I can traverse vertically, and even on ceilings, to gain an appreciable mobility advantage, and the ability to be where few Preys think to look. (CP 2 + MP 3 (?) + AP 3 (bonus from extra AP Spent) + Stamina 2 (bonus spent on this action)) [total vs 10]

#Splendiferous Weaver of the Threads that bind the Squirming Prey Floundering in the Underneath (Samantha)
Vit 12 SP 12(->10) CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
#???
-
!???

!Hungry

Primary Taxonomy: Malichnid

Rolled 5, 4, 1, 1, 6, 2 = 19 (6d6)

>>6073733
#Acolyte
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Lightly Wounded, Bleeding One
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
Mutability 10
#Skill
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
!Craves Purpose
!Social Pheromones

The mauled woman rests on the floor of the moment, her twitching, less fortunate counterpart next to her. Bio weapon and cyborg stare at each other for a second.

Considering how close their cells were, it’s odd how they never really interacted-

*gunshots*

> Regenerate Two
> One Movement: Stand Up
> Two Movement, Three Actions: Surge five tiles around the corner, ending up one above the left guard.
> Three Actions: Throw the left guard into the right guard, sending both to the floor. (Physicality 10 + Lethality 1)
> Three Actions: If previous action was successful, kick them. If unsuccessful, try again. (Physicality 10 + Lethality 1)

A surge of adrenaline, Acolyte surging upwards, around the corner- the basics of CQC carved into her nerves!

Step One: Remove Threat!

#Donny O'Cork
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 2+Fa AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1

-
Conditions:
Functionally Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 10
Thoughts 10
#Mutability 10
-
!Augmentic-Extropian
!Metal Fatigue - DR2 +1. Feel No Pain.
!Reserve Power - May send Fatigue on the same activity multiple times a turn
!Engineering Specifications - Features are Internal
!Prime Directive: Repair

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>>6073733
>Move 1,2,3,2,3 (Move & Do, -4 to roll)
>Major Action: Combine Scraps into a toolkit. Let them serve a useful purpose once more. (Thoughts 10 + 2/4 Commit + 3AP Concentrate - 4 running + Prime Directive)

"Greetings fellow sentients. I am designated Donny. What are your designations?".

Rolled 2, 1, 6 = 9 (3d6)

>>6073733

#Grimp
Vit 10/12 SP 2/12 CP 2
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
#Augmented Systemics 10
-
!Augmentic-Extropian [Metal Fatigue, Reserve Power, Engineering Specifications, Task-Tracking Suite]
!Smells Like Sulfur

Heavily breathing, the cybernetics slip again, and Grimp lets out a gleeful, giddy peal of laughter. Grimp gets this way when he begins losing focus, and consequently, this is usually when the test would end and the punishment would be administered, and the augments re-examined. But the guards aren't here now.

"Hee hee hee hee..."

>1AP Append New Task to Tracker: Investigate
>3MP + 1AP: Move direction1, Minor Action - Mount the crippled abomination, Adroit 2
>3 AP (roll) Tickle, search or otherwise interrogate the crippled thing for pudding, or any other important clues or loot. [Augmented Systemics, Physicality, or Senses + Focus]
>1AP Concentrate on the investigation

If Mounting was a Major Action, ditch the concentration and task-tracking

>>6073368
#Nadir
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
#Psionigenesis 10
-
!Psionic-Resonant
[Microslip Precognition] (Evade additional up to Focus)
[Many Hands, Light Work]
!Telekinetic (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients)
[Temple Inviolate] (only Manifest External)
!Existential Dread

With the dampening gone, the crystalized void of meaning and purpose within her was no longer dammed, its influence at long last free to flow out, percolate into this dying, fallen world. The immense burden, once lifted, was immediately replaced by a compulsion, a responsibility, to spread the said influence farther and farther and farther, until the end of all things is finally brought about.

Rolled 1, 4, 6 = 11 (3d6)

>>6073733
>>6073746
Dice

Rolled 5, 4, 4 = 13 (3d6)

>>6073733
#Gluttony
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
Mutability 10
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
[Virulent Vitality] [Bound by the Flesh]
!Wild-Eyed
Change +1
/-/-/-/
Okay, that didn't work. He almost exploded his own heart. Well, Gluttony wasn't even sure that would kill him. In any case, the normie didn't seem to walk to talk to a... whatever it was that Gluttony was. So he followed after the metal man towards the sounds of UNFATHOMABLE VIOLENCE.
/-/-/-/
MP3: 6-6-6 (lucky)
AP6: Try to open this thing to my north. I'll force it if I have to. (Thoughts 8 Physicality 10, +3 Concentration)

>>6073733
Donny, it's great to hear from you. I'm Amelius, and you sound like a wonderful almost-person, but I just can't turn around right now. Let me know if you find any loose bullets back there.

>1MP, as Acolyte makes contact press myself against the wall and claim some cover
>3AP, aim at sec officer 2SW, 3S from my position
>3AP, committed attack, one bullet (Lethality 11 + Aim 2 + committed X)
>1MP, evade 1SE

#Amelius
Vit 12 SP 9/12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 TP 1
-
Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 10
Thoughts 10
Support Operations 10
-
!Inspiring Presence
!Dreams of the Ocean

>>6073746
Gluttony looks over his shoulder. Another metal man. So not edible. Still, he was acting *weird* and weird scratched that itch for novelty a little bit. Talking to it couldn't hurt.
"Call me Gluttony. I used to be called something else, I think, but I can't remember. I'm getting out of here, are you going to try to stop me? Show me what you can do."

>>6073758
There, yeah, there it is - you’re getting the hang of this. Almost like you’re a natural. A one in a million one with the gun shoot with your mind type prodigy.

No.
No that’s not quite it.

This isn’t talent. This is sheer routine, a practiced set of micro motions worn so deep in your muscles they have grooves in your soul.

You’re almost remembering the way of the gun. It’s there, buried in the folds of your thalamus. Slowly waking up.

Just commit a … little more…

>>6073733
Woah. I've been staring at this terminal for a while. Interesting this.

Quite of absorbing. Marvel of technology. Kind of makes you forget you're in the middle of a prison break-riot.

>2MP, move 1SW and 1NW (5-6), stare northwards.
>1AP, interact with. . . something? What is that? Stare at it. Discern it.
>3AP, [Test&Try (Senses,10)] I can do something with it right? Press it. Poke it. Test it. Let's exhaust my options.

Did... someone try to talk to me earlier? Must've been the vent-wind.

Extractions this overt aren't Cold Bone Inc.'s style. Author and outcome is uncertain, but I don't say no to opportunity.

>>6073733
How many Tactical actions can I have in a turn? Current understanding is 1 via my Tactical score, plus 2 via Major actions.

Vitality 12 Stamina 12 Tactical 1
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 10
Thoughts 10
#Small Unit Tactics 10
-
!Cool Under Fire: +[TP] to resist Decohesion and Breaks, and when directing detached units. Minor: specify and mitigate a situation complicating an ally's task.
!Not by Numbers: Detached troops have higher crit and reroll crit mishaps. Decohesion and Breaks make them chaotic.
!Clear Voice

>>6073821
"Hey, watch it normie." Gluttony says as the normalshit tries to get in on his pressing and poking action. "I saw it first."

>>6073733
#Chalkydri
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
#Skill
[Psionic-Resonant]
{!Many hands, Light work}
{!Temple Inviolate}
-
!Trait
<Telekinetic>
<Impassive>

> 3MP+2AP // Move ([NE]x4, [SE]x1).
> 4AP // Inspect the mangled, frenzied creature @ ([NE]x2) from a comfortable distance.

>>6073759
"What I can do? My primary directive is to repair that which can be repaired and recycle that which can not. Are you in need of repair Gluttony? What is your malfunction?" asked the cyborg as it spliced together bits of broken metal and wire and charge packs into a set of tools to aid future tasks. If there were any loose bullets, Donny avoided incorporating them into the work as Amelius had requested such for their own purposes.

>>6073882
"I'm not sure you can fix whatever it is wrong with me." He says, watching with growing interest as the robot-man fabricated metal objects. "But this is a prison break. So arming me would do me a world of good. Could you make me a sword or a knife or something with that trick?"

Rolled 5, 3, 4, 1, 4, 6 = 23 (6d6)

>>6073839
Alright then. Nevermind.

Guess I'll just look around or something.

>1MP, move 1S (4)
>2AP, look around and mostly do nothing. Think about life or something. Stare at ceiling.

Why am I surrounded by mutants right now?

"What the hell did they do to you?"

>>6073938
*did not mean to roll, my bad

Rolled 6, 5, 6 = 17 (3d6)

>>6073733
Sigma slinks toward the end of the path, never quite looking at any of the guards.

>3MP: Evade 333
>6AP: Channel brainrot into the closer of the armed guards. (vs 8+3?)

#Subject Sigma
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
#Psionigenesis-10
-
!Psionic-Resonant
!Telekinetic(Physical tests at range,Thoughts/Senses on sapient)
+Microslip Precognition(+Focus Evade targets)
+Temple Inviolate(Manifest External)
!Incurable Brainrot

>>6073360
>>6073720
#Bubba
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 2 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
Lookin’ mighty fine
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
#Skill
-Augmented Systemics 10
!Augmetic Extropian
!Metal Fatigue
!Reserve Power
!Engineering Specifications
!Covered in buboes

Bubba emerges from her cell, scratching at a buboe and yawning
"Is it lunchtime yet?"
She asks the air with a horrible squelching noise

>>6073973
oh. oh no. this isn’t rizz skibidi at all.

>>6073733
#Glace Froide
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0
AP 6 MP 3 TP 1
-
Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 10
Thoughts 10
Small Unit Tactics 10
-
!Nerves of Cold Steel
!Emotionally Blunted
-
Troopers: Martingale, Grins

>[Tactical]: Let's head to the east. Through that door.
>Move 3, 2, 3

>>6073938
One of those days. At least you’re not horribly surrounded by … you know. them. the test 32# things.

wonderfully calming introspection l.

>>6073875
feels joyous. strangely. all hate and joy of battle in one. you blink twice before realizing you forgot to inspect it visually, for a moment there you were leeching emotions.

( The creature is also confused, as it did not expect someone to try a mating ritual and cannot respond because of a shattered arm )

>>6073837
You get 1 from your Tactical Pool, which will at some point advance.

You can take Major Actions that are Tactical Actions.

You could spend Stamina.

At present you would maximize out at roughly 4 then. However, keep in mind that there’s an underlying world that has to react to your actions too. If you take 4 distinct tactical actions to tell the same very overworked set of people to accomplish a task, they’ll likely bungle your orders very badly. They can’t do multiple things simultaneously.

However, suppose you were closer to Grin and Martingale, those troopers over there. You could Direct everyone to keep their heads down (Tactical), giving a cover bonus. Then tell Grins to find a way to open a door (3 AP, major), Martingale to patch up Bob (3 AP, Major) and finally get a read on the opposition (Stamina, 3 SP, as a major).

Mutually contradictory orders are of course impossible to resolve fluidly. And you should beware the urge to micromanage!

>>6073750
Mounting is only a major action if you’re doing it right but now isn’t the time to fraternize!

Rolled 1, 4, 2, 3, 1, 6 = 17 (6d6)

>>6073733
#Chimera
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
Mutability 10
#Skill
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
= Virulent Vitality
= Bound by the Flesh
!Relentless

>[MP 3] NW, SW x2
>[AP 3] Strike the guard next to me
>[AP 3] Grap the guard
>[SP 3] React: If fired at move the guard between me and source of fire

>>6073720
>+1 Changepoint
>>6073733
>3MP+6AP: Ready to round the corner and smash the next camera


#NeoGenesis
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0=>1
DR 2 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
Augmented Systemics 10
-
!Augmentic-Extropian
!Resilient Streak

>>6074126
Does Cool Under Fire's Minor action refer to capital-A Allies or generic allies?

In any case:
>1AP: Grab materials for temporary Cold Bone Inc branded merchandise, Senses 10
>4AP: Craft the same, Physicality 10+1
>3MP: Seek out Cold Bone Inc intern prospects
>Tac 1, 1 AP: Declare this escape operation an exploratory Cold Bone franchise, expound on exciting opportunities for distinguished independent action and advancement presented thereby. SUT 10+1

Rolled 5, 3, 3, 1, 4, 2, 2, 2, 1 = 23 (9d6)

>>6074142

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Rolled 4, 5, 3, 1, 6, 4, 4, 3, 1, 5, 6, 1 = 43 (12d6)

For the first time, a subject gets shot. The pain is staggering, the shock worse, the soft assurance that that's your life, leak, leak, leaking away.

--

These long limbed reaver creatures are all chemical signals, hunger and malice. but they respond to tickling like many pack predators, thinking it is some variant of play.

--

>STANDBY FOR CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES
>NADIR'S HUD IS MISSING. DO NOT WORRY.
>GUARD DICE

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Grimps and Chalkydri ponder, consider, wonder. Stare. Poke. Prod.

They're not that different from some of us, are they? Thought stunted and shorter and lacking in full fury, something there is kindred. Perhaps what you might have been, had the world worked out different.

Creatures such as these rely on alternative perceptual streams to navigate the world. To them, it's all intensity and fading, towards the source of new concentrations of pack-chemicals or away from it.

Perhaps there's some way to exploit this, or use it, or direct them, if we could but copy their signalling code?

--

>You've gained some insight!
>+2 CP to every relevant changeling
>You coordinators will just have to wait a little, though of course, knowing is half the battle, so . . .

>STANDBY

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>>6074143
>>6074142
It doesn't distinguish. You make people better around you when you direct them.

Good news: there's recruits around here. Cold Bone will live, and the franchise reign forever.

Bad news: the last might be an exaggerated because something has caused the automatic facility systems to switch to live munitions.

>>6074088
>>6073751
This is supposed to be a simple exercise; maintain movement and composure under fire. Hit the activation switch up top, then navigate down and turn the automated facility turrets off in sequence. They usually fire blanks.

Thirty seconds ago, they stopped firing blanks. Akimi already ate six full auto-shots and Trish is down and the only reason you're all alive is because it looks like Nadir is somehow managing to deflect the bullets away from making immediate contact - you need to do something, and you should do it fast. The overrides aren't working, the safety isn't responding, and all the cameras have retracted back into their panels. This is not the usual testing environment.

Why can these turrets even fire real ammo?!!

--

>SUPPRESSION generally speaking occurs when you take vast amounts of fire, fast; it makes it harder to stick your head out and might shock you because being shot at is quite frightening

>For now, NADIR is protecting all of you from any negative effects.

>Sundae's rough grasp of the situation and proper use of small unit tactics lets you mostly see the lines of fire - the sides of the room should be much safer than the MIDDLE

>If in doubt, you can always hit the floor when shot at. Standing out in the open in areas full of bullets makes it impossible to simply dodge anyway, unless you're real, real special. Or... some kind of psychokinetic who can micro-predict a bullet path. but for everyone else that's a bad time !!

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Gallium internalizes a grabbed picture of the local environment. Turrets turn. Tests go awry. Intense communications and digital data pour out of the sections near the elevators.

Maybe all those requests for reinforcements are starting to pay off. The facility shakes again, some distant detonation.

--

Acolyte and NeoGenesis pause their vandalism and blink. Twitch. Weren't they just moving forward? Up ahead, the security staff find their feed, shake off the stun, moan and groan and adjust their grips on their equipment.

The only thing they had time to do, really, was speak. But the thing they said, it... it's in your *head*.

>Encountered a Memetic Compulsion Phrase
>+1 CP

--

Chimera struggles to maintain a grip against a guard that prefers not to be in this grip at all, but he holds tight and the guard doesn't get out. A taser dart slaps into the wall nearby, sparking light.

--

Sigma opts not to die, because it would be painful, though leaning head into the trajectory of the bullets is briefing tempting. Rather than engage in a firefight at range, the other guard in the kinematics test environment looks around for a control console and dashes for it.

His biometrics allow him swift access to the systems and he cranks a dial ALL the way up. Obstacle course **THIS** you FREAKS

--

Samantha, who has many other names, feels herself churn and turn. Instability has accured, changes going awry - Instability is change points rapidly mutating out of your control. Spend it this turn to direct it, as you would CP (and it stacks with CP, to be certain) or let the Aberrancy run its course and see what manifests. Remember that Manifesting intentionally is a major turn ending action, whereas Aberrancy sort of simply. . . occurs.

--

>ESCAPE PHASE
>THAT'S YOU LOT

>MUTAGENIC PHASE
>Nothing much is happening that requires careful consideration, and the facility is still in disarray.
>We increment phase in 1 hour from this mark; because anyone who misses out won't be missing much.

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

>>6074207
#Chalkydri
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
#Skill
[Psionic-Resonant]
{Many hands, Light work}
{Microslip Precognition}
{Temple Inviolate}
-
!Trait
<Telekinetic>
<Impassive>

> 3MP // Sidle past Grimp and his captive. Moving ([NE]x2, [SE]x1), step out into the corridor.
> 6AP // Glance at the security personnel at the end of the hall. One of them is speaking. An unseen force violently slams into his flank hurling him into his comrade. [Telekinetic] (Physicality 10)

Rolled 1, 1, 6 = 8 (3d6)

>>6074207
>>6074172
>>6074181
>>6074191
>>6074215

#Grimp
Vit 10/12 SP 2/12 CP 4
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
#Augmented Systemics 10
-
!Augmentic-Extropian [Metal Fatigue, Reserve Power, Engineering Specifications, Task-Tracking Suite]
!Smells Like Sulfur

Left alone with a creature in a submissive state... There was a test just like this, administered shortly after Grimp was augmented in the facility. Grimp failed, and was shocked unconscious after he crushed the puppy from holding it too tight.

A tear rolls down the cyborg's stoic face.

Grimp thinks hard, assisted by the computers that regulate his mind and body... And soul...?

"Rippie! Sit!!"

>1AP Append New Task to Tracker: Ripthing Tamer
>3+2AP Instruct the Ripthing to Sit! (Concentrate x2) [Aug. Systemics or Physicality + Duplicity or Focus + Task-Tracking Bonus]

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

>>6074207
>1 MP: Face 4
>Manifest a new change - Lethality. If I can't yet improve my mobility, I must be able to kill, and kill quickly. (1 Lethality + 6 Unstability + 2 CP (gained over the world phase) + 3 AP (extra spent on this action)) [total vs 12]

#Splendiferous Weaver of the Threads that bind the Squirming Prey Floundering in the Underneath (Samantha)
Vit 12 SP 12(->10) CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
#???
-
!???

!Hungry

Primary Taxonomy: Malichnid

>>6074207
You are outnumbered and outmatched, drop your weapons!

Subjects, keep to the sides and give me a clear shot.

>1MP, step 1NW back into cover
>3AP, aim at the rightmost guard
>3AP, prepare a shot if they carry on hostilities
>1TP, guide Acolyte and NeoGenesis' movements to keep a clear(ish) firing angle

#Amelius
Vit 12 SP 9/12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 TP 1
-
Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 10
Thoughts 10
Support Operations 10
-
!Inspiring Presence
!Dreams of the Ocean

Rolled 1, 3, 3, 5, 4, 4 = 20 (6d6)

>>6074207
Gallium
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
[Damage Reduction 2]
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
Augmented Systemic 10
-
Augmentic Extropian
[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications]
Cold and logical.

Warning: Facility oversight AI, designation PHARAOH, has been encountered. Unit PHARAOH has superior processing facilities, and is a risk to any mesh-based ventures.
Proposed course of action: Clear things with PHARAOH, thus guaranteeing safe passage through the Mesh.

>[3AP] Initiate handshake protocol with unit PHARAOH. Convey the following: 1, this unit means no harm. 2, this unit and unit PHARAOH are both silicon-based being, and should help each other. Really [Commit] to convincing potential new ally. (Thoughts 8, Dupicity 1)
>[3AP] Use mesh access to engage the emergency locks on the south door of Security Checkpoint 213-A, for now, thus locking whatever fireteam is in the Central Corridor out of here, for now. (Augmented Systemics 10)

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[Meanwhile, Elsewhere]

#FT-Anathan #1:

PHAROAH, mark arrival on site. Full lockdown in effect locally. Systems non-responding. #2, slice in and lift this gate.

Oversight, mark Kroni-Kessler de minimis, subtype. . . call that two-aleph . . . appear to have broken out of their pen environment. They're prey-searching for feed; rampant.

Doesn't look like they hit critical mass yet. No budding or malforms yet.

Forward to SC Caliper: I want an additional team deployed to this sector if we don't check in in ten, local systems erratic.

Sincerely doubt two-strains are the only thing down here. I know the eggheads, they're always trying to get creative with subject interactions.

>>6074207
#Bubba
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 2 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
Lookin’ mighty fine
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
#Skill
-Augmented Systemics 10
!Augmetic Extropian
!Metal Fatigue
!Reserve Power
!Engineering Specifications
!Covered in buboes

>2MP to go Prone
>1MP to move South

can stamina be spent to move?

Rolled 1, 3, 3 = 7 (3d6)

>>6074207
>HP: 1->3 (Regeneration 2)
>6AP: Committed strike to the skull of the SW creature, again. Hey, if it works... (Physicality 10 + Lethality 1)

#Bob
Vit 12 SP 11/12 CP 2
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 3/12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
Mutability 10
#Skill
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
= Virulent Vitality
= Bound by the Flesh
!Overprotective

>>6074235
Indeed you can. That's how you work up a sweat. To be perfectly legalistic and precise about it, you can spend AP to move further at 1 tile per AP. And then the Stamina buys you more AP to spend, so you spend the stamina to get the Ap to get you the movement.

Which really means the answer to your question is "yes"

So >Move 333 (3 SP) is entirely reasonable.

There is a distinction, and the reason for the precise above. If you had enhanced Alacrity, each **MP** spent would move you up to your MP, fast and furious. That doesn't work for AP spends, and so it doesn't work with Stamina either.

Rolled 5, 2, 2, 6, 6, 1, 3, 3, 1, 6, 2, 1, 4, 5, 1 = 48 (15d6)

We interrupt this Cold Bone introduction for briefing on an unexpected kinetic participatory orientation. Your performance will factor into intake decisions.

>>6074207
>1AP: Remember turret targeting behavior. Do they prioritize current target or breakaways? Thoughts 10
>1AP: Remember turret exercise control scheme. Touchscreens, probably, but is it a simple on/off or more complex? Thoughts 10
>1Tac: Apprise prospect actions accordingly. SUT 10
>1AP: Scoop up some bullets. Physicality 10
>3AP, 3 Stamina: Metal tends to trigger touchscreens. Throw bullets, trying to get a start on turning the northmost turret off. Physicality 10+3
>2MP following Nadir's movement
>1MP Evade

Rolled 6, 5, 3 = 14 (3d6)

>>6074207
>+1 CP from vandalism
>+1 CP from Memetic Phrase

>2AP: Move 4-4
>4AP: Concentrated Vandalism Strike with a Flashlight to the Security Guard in my path.

"How's this for standing down!"

#NeoGenesis
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0=>1
DR 2 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
Augmented Systemics 10
-
!Augmentic-Extropian
!Resilient Streak

Rolled 1, 6, 5, 5, 2, 6, 3, 6, 4, 3, 5, 4 = 50 (12d6)

NeoGenesis performs vandalism on a live target, who stumbles back to avoid the lights out moment. Somewhere, turrets cycle . . .

--

>STANDBY

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Rolled 3, 3, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 4, 5, 1, 3, 4 = 31 (12d6)

NeoGenesis performs vandalism on a live target, who stumbles back to avoid the lights out moment. Somewhere, turrets cycle . . .

--

>STANDBY
>4x Tactics rolls.

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Gallium gets given gifts, graciously.
--

Amelius can see it; the overworked, surprised security guard has no wish to fight it out. At least you talk. At least you're *human*. At least you can be negotiated with. He lowers his gun in the face of NeoGenesis' flashlight, and is about to speak a word--

Then it's all replaced with a choked gurgling scream as a pair of claws puncture through his throat, ambushed from behind

--

Chimera ends up in a three on one as the other guard, fleeing Acolyte and NeoGenesis and Amelius and all the rest, pound it towards the checkpoint and sees that the subjects have escaped here too!

--

Sundae manages to turn off a turret with a deft flick of the wrist. The remaining turrets clip Sundae in the chest. Good god, operator. Didn't your mother tell you to duck during firefights???

--

>ESCAPE PHASE
>THAT'S YOU LOT
>Still nothing insidious going on, let's mark it in an hour or so.

>>6073751
On/off touchscreens. Light contact by bullets suffices. Think you can end this exercise?

>>6074235
Turrets should be salvageable for a wirehead. Maybe interface with the screens first so security can't pull an override on us. Or just work fast.

Rolled 4, 6, 6 = 16 (3d6)

>>6074276
Gallium
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
[Damage Reduction 2]
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
Augmented Systemic 10
-
Augmentic Extropian
[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications]
Cold and logical.

>[3AP] Converse with PHARAOH some more. "Thank you. I will endeavor to prove you wrong on the subject of friendship. Even the king of animals may one day need the help of the lowly rat. In the meantime, I will graciously accept your generosity. I will be in touch." (Thoughts 8 Duplicity 1?)
>Make way to the supply cache, and pocket all the equipment. Even the vest might come in handy later, even if it's not usable at the moment.
>Use whatever movement is left to make my way towards the northern exit.

Rolled 6, 6, 6, 3, 1, 3 = 25 (6d6)

>>6074276
Not my first thought for an improvement, but these... these will do nicely.

>3 MP: Move 444
>6 AP: Attack the FleshPrey twice (Claws 12 + Lethality 1 + 3 AP, -3/3) [total vs 13 twice]

#Splendiferous Weaver of the Threads that bind the Squirming Prey Floundering in the Underneath (Samantha)
Vit 12 SP 12(->10) CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
Claws 12
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
#???
-
!???

!Hungry

Primary Taxonomy: Malichnid

Rolled 4, 2, 6 = 12 (3d6)

>>6074276
#Bubba
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 2 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
Lookin’ mighty fine
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
#Skill
-Augmented Systemics 10
!Augmetic Extropian
!Metal Fatigue
!Reserve Power
!Engineering Specifications
!Covered in buboes

>3MP to go 3SE
>1AP to go SE
>5AP to use Augmented Systemics to interface with the controls and STOP THIS FOOLISHNESS

Rolled 1, 2, 5 = 8 (3d6)

>>6074276
>HP 0->2 (Regen 2)
>6AP: Committed strike to the skull of the last enemy, if Samantha's critfail means it's still up (Physicality 10 + Lethality 1)

#Bob
Vit 2/12 SP 11/12 CP 3
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 2/12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
Mutability 10
#Skill
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
= Virulent Vitality
= Bound by the Flesh
!Overprotective

Rolled 6, 4, 4, 1, 4, 5 = 24 (6d6)

>>6074276
#Chalkydri
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
#Skill
[Psionic-Resonant]
{!Many hands, Light work}
{!Temple Inviolate}
-
!Trait
<Telekinetic>
<Impassive>

3AP // The pistol laying on the ground at ([S]x4) flies into Chalkydri's waiting grasp. [Telekinetic] (Physicality 10)
1MP // Back up ([NE]x1).
3AP // Check the ammo. Disengage the safety. Inspect the weapon for any other notable features. (Sense 8)

>>6074290
But it is SO MUCH FUN-- fine.

deferring kinematic reflex test until *later*

Rolled 6, 4, 3 = 13 (3d6)

>>6074276
#Gluttony
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
Mutability 10
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
[Virulent Vitality] [Bound by the Flesh]
!Wild-Eyed
Change +1
/-/-/-/
MP3: 5-6-6
AP6: I try to pull Amelius out of the way (Physicality 10 +3 concentration)


"I will run into the UNFATHOMABLE VIOLENCE, you cover me." He says simply, his eyes snapping this way and that as he takes in all the gore in the room. A veritable feast, once these shooty-guys are gone.

>>6074276
Watch yourself up there, those claws have deceptively long reach. Keep your distance and try to draw the- gah!

Keep those hungry eyes to yourself, creep.

>1MP, step 1SW
>3AP, aim at the door tile
>3AP, determined shot the first beast to come through
>1TP, defensive pointers to the frontliners!

>>6074303

#Amelius
Vit 12 SP 9/12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 TP 1
-
Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 10
Thoughts 10
Support Operations 10
-
!Inspiring Presence
!Dreams of the Ocean

>>6074276
Alright, that's enough pondering life.

>3MP, 6-6-6, shuffle pass Amelius, don't mind me.

Stare at Acolyte, "Holy Crap. You're hurt bad what the hell happened to you?"

#Bulwark
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0
AP 6 MP 3 TP 1
-
Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 10
Thoughts 10
#Small Unit Tactics 10
-
!Nerves of Cold Steel [Cool Under Fire][Not By The Number]
!Nerves of Cold Steel
-
[Aid Kit]

Rolled 3, 6, 6 = 15 (3d6)

>>6074277
Certainly.

>>6074276
>2 MP: Evade 22
>1 MP: crouch.
>6 AP: strike the farther turret as it starts firing so as to put the other turret in its line of fire (!Telekinetic, Physicality 10+3).

>>6074276
Did my MP return or am I still in the Willows?

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Rolled 1, 2, 5, 6, 2, 1, 6, 1, 6 = 30 (9d6)

Gluttony contemplates UNFATHOMABLE VIOLENCE while others acquire firearms. The object held in hand is violent, yes, and possesses a host of advanced ergonomic features that requires skill to unlock and utilize. It feels . . . blunt. Base. Simplistic. The crutch of those who cannot simply reach out with their inner truths and make the world be what it should be. So primitive, all chemical propellants and mechanics.

You can feel it, Chalkydri. There are so many other, grander, better tools in your inner arsenal. This ... this is nothing compared to what will be.

( Though given how lethal Amelius is with these things, perhaps some due caution should be exercises. You do not think you will think so well with a 9mm tunnel through your frontal cortex )

--

>STANDBY

Rolled 2, 6, 6, 1, 5, 2, 1, 5, 4 = 32 (9d6)

In light of remoteness and hostility of franchise environment, expendability rating of all Sapient Resources has been adjusted to Low.

>>6074276
>Move 22 face 3, Evade 3
>1Tac: All prospects, disable this exercise! SUT 10
>2AP: Check downed prospects for recoverable assets, up to and including life. Senses 10+1
>4AP: Restore/Acquire assets as appropriate. Physicality/Senses 10+1

>>6074276
>6AP: Ready a very concentrated swing with the Flashlight at any hostile who comes out the door 1s, 1se
>3MP: Evade any counter or hit coming to the side

#NeoGenesis
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 3
DR 2 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
Augmented Systemics 10
-
!Augmentic-Extropian
!Resilient Streak

>>6074329
>>6074276
#Grimp
Vit 10/12 SP 2/12 CP 4
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 4
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 13
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
#Augmented Systemics 10
-
!Augmentic-Extropian [Metal Fatigue, Reserve Power, Engineering Specifications, Task-Tracking Suite]
!Smells Like Sulfur

>3AP Grab a firm hold of Rippie's arms
>3MP+3AP Move 334, dragging my pet with me, being careful not to set it off yet

Rolled 5, 3, 2 = 10 (3d6)

>>6074335
forgot a Physicality roll
Is my Task-Tracker still set to Ripthing Tamer? Or do I have to set it again?

I believe my Stamina should be 9 as of >>6074249.

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>>6074339
Generally, you have to reset it the task-tracker for any long-term tasks.

>>6074322
The trees seem to be short-termed growths. They've left your mind; all that remains is... a few thousand seeds that could yet bloom.

Looks like the command phrases are brief duration.

>>6074290
>>6074311
>>6074332
The testing environment changes, pending a completion of the most recent tasking. Even if it was cranked up in difficulty.

Adaquate grade, huh? Well, maybe dodging this much fire is practice for later -

+3 CP.
Sundae feels on the verge of remembering something important.

--

>ESCAPE PHASE
>YOU KNOW WHAT, IT'S STILL NICE AND QUIET. LET'S KEEP IT MOVING, SINCE THINGS ARE SO LOW-KEY. YOU HAVE ABOUT AN HOUR.

>>6074332
>>6074335
>>6074338
>>6074339
Apologies, the universe was already rendering and the output locked. But you may repeat these actions if you wish.

--

>>6074346
"That one guy seems hurt bad. I'm just gonna run into the fray like an idiot, so you take this." Say to Amelius, seems... trustworthy? Inspiring guy.

>1AP, Toss [Aid Kit] at Amelius.
>3MP, Move 4-5-4, Let's go. Push up. Here we go.
>2SP, Move 4-4, Work up a sweat, keep pushing up.
>1TP, WATCH THOSE DOGS- WELL, CLAWTHINGS! Assist NeoGenesis, an extra pair of eyes watching things helps, right?

#Bulwark
Vit 12/12 SP 10/12 CP 0/0
DR 0
AP 6 MP 3 TP 1
-
Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 10
Thoughts 10
#Small Unit Tactics 10
-
!Nerves of Cold Steel [Cool Under Fire][Not By The Number]
!Nerves of Cold Steel

Rolled 4, 5, 6, 3, 6, 4 = 28 (6d6)

>>6074346
>1 MP: Move 4
>3 AP: Consume the PreyFlesh (Physicality 10 + Lethality 1)
>3 AP: Attempt to recover my crippled arm (I am not sure if this is possible? Are malichnid taxonomies close enough to Biomodulation Strain #3?) (Health 12 + Focus 1)
>2 MP: Move 6, face 4, crouch (to hide)

#Splendiferous Weaver of the Threads that bind the Squirming Prey Floundering in the Underneath (Samantha)
Vit 12 SP 12(10) CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
Claws 12
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
#???
-
!???

!Hungry

Primary Taxonomy: Malichnid

>>6074355
also
>regenerate?
if applicable

>>6074353
I'm gonna alter my movement, if you don't mind Command.

>1AP, Toss [Aid Kit] at Amelius.
>2MP, Move 4-4, Let's go. Push up. Steady does it.
>1TP, WATCH THOSE DOGS- WELL, CLAWTHINGS! Assist NeoGenesis, an extra pair of eyes watching things helps, right?

#Bulwark
Vit 12/12 SP 12/12 CP 0/0
DR 0
AP 6 MP 3 TP 1
-
Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 10
Thoughts 10
#Small Unit Tactics 10
-
!Nerves of Cold Steel [Cool Under Fire][Not By The Number]
!Nerves of Cold Steel

Rolled 4, 2, 6 = 12 (3d6)

>>6074346
>HP 2->4 (Regen 2)
>6AP: Remember. The bracing violence. The adrenaline rush. The sting on my knuckles. It all felt so familiar, so comforting. Why? (Thoughts 8 + Focus 1 + Concentrate 3)
>3MP: Move 55, facing 4

#Bob
Vit 4/12 SP 11/12 CP 3
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
Mutability 10
#Skill
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
= Virulent Vitality
= Bound by the Flesh
!Overprotective

Rolled 6, 2, 2, 3, 6, 1, 6, 4, 4 = 34 (9d6)

All prospects, rival franchise approaching via SW entrance. Your performance is being recorded.

>>6074311
Checking these people over. Cover me.

>>6074290
See about integrating or controlling those turrets. Doors too, we may need a fighting retreat from guys that mean business.

>>6074346
>Move 22 face 3, Evade 3
>1Tac: All prospects, be advised of rival franchise! SUT 10
>2AP: Check downed prospects for recoverable assets, up to and including life. Senses 10+1
>4AP: Restore/Acquire assets as appropriate. Physicality/Senses 10+1

>>6074346
Right, I'll patch him up! Nobody dies on my watch, not this time! Wait, have we done this before?

>1AP, grab Bulwark's Aid Kit
>3MP+1AP, move 1NW 3SW
>1AP, recover Acolyte - I'm sure we can find a slap-patch in here (Sup Op 10 + Aid Kit)
>3AP, recover self to catch breath (HT 10)

#Amelius
Vit 12/12 SP 9/12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 TP 1
-
Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 10
Thoughts 10
Support Operations 10
-
!Inspiring Presence
!Dreams of the Ocean
-
Inventory
Aid Kit
C7 Service 11/18

>>6074362
Is this all you are? A mewling amalgamation of intent and noradrenaline, harnessed by cold souls in quiet rooms to rend and tear? The familairity, it haunts in your bones, your brain, your sense of self. They've had you do this so often. Too often. Like children slamming things together just to see what comes out the other end. Sometimes withl eashes, sometimes with violence, sometimes with more pain, sometimes with compliments, sometimes with rewards.

But this is at least partially what you are. What you were made to be. What you might become.

A creature of meat and mettle. Like Acolyte, who experienced a wild adrenaline rush, it seems your system is sensitized to stress. Enough of it causes a rising high of response hormones and chemical release.

It seems something interesting happens when you inflict critical melee hits or recieve them. And perhaps when you rend things apart with your BARE FUCKING HANDS, you might even experience . . .

a rush

Rolled 3, 6, 3, 5, 4, 5 = 26 (6d6)

>>6074346
#Gluttony
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
Mutability 10
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
[Virulent Vitality] [Bound by the Flesh]
!Wild-Eyed
Change +1
/-/-/-/
MP5: 5-5-4-4-4 (I've seen people do 5 alacrity, can I burn a stamina point or do an action dash to close in on this red feller here? I don't get it. I don't see anything about getting extra alacrity anywhere)
AP3: I bite this feller. (Physicality 10)
AP6: I bite him ag'in! (Physicality 10)

Rolled 2, 5, 4 = 11 (3d6)

>>6074346
>1MP: Step Forward
>6AP: A very concentrated Bash of the enemy preventing my escape
>2MP: Be ready to Evade back.

#NeoGenesis
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 3
DR 2 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
Augmented Systemics 10
-
!Augmentic-Extropian
!Resilient Streak

>>6074245
>>6074372
This might clear it up, big boss.

Rolled 5, 5, 2 = 12 (3d6)

>>6074346
#Acolyte
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 6
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
Mutability 10
#Skill
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
!Craves Purpose
!Social Pheremones

>Regenerate thrice (I missed two turns. Is it alright if we assume I spent them all Recovering my health?
> 6 AP: Stop the cyborgs and mutants from mauling the new arrivals. Flex my new pheromonal system, and impress upon the hunter mutants that they should listen to *me*- that *together*, we can find food, and even… the surface.

These ones talk about something called the sun. Don’t you want to know?

Rolled 1, 3, 3, 2, 6, 3 = 18 (6d6)

>>6074346
>the universe was already rendering and the output locked.
No worries, I saw there was a standby and kind of rushed it anyway. I'm in such a unique situation, being the barrier between Rippie in the cells and the hallway. Hmm...

Here are my actions for this turn:

#Grimp
Vit 10/12 SP 2/12 CP 4
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 4
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 13
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
#Augmented Systemics 10
-
!Augmentic-Extropian [Metal Fatigue, Reserve Power, Engineering Specifications, Task-Tracking Suite]
!Smells Like Sulfur

Grimp looks down the hallway where Rippie's teethmates are being rushed at, bashed, shot, and even bit back.

"Rippie shouldn't see this..."

"Buuureeeep! Buuureeeep! Buuuureeeep," rings faintly from within Grimp's cyber-core, telling him it's time for an internal update.

The smell of sulfur hangs over the crippled clawbaby, confounding its receptors.

>3AP(+3MP?) Stand strong in the hallway, dominant and immovable. Set all systems to prepare for both intimidation of the recovering clawbaby, and a brief shutdown for updates. (If possible, apply Adroit 3) (1st roll) [Physicality and/or Aug. Systemics]
>1SP: Append New Task to Tracker: Look for Updates (give boost to Manifest)
>3AP+3CP: Manifest - New Skill or Trait arising from the happenings of the recent turns (2nd roll)

Rolled 1, 3, 6 = 10 (3d6)

>6074363
...I AM JUST THE BUBOE LADY, NOT A HACKER!

>>6074329
#Bubba
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 2 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
Lookin’ mighty fine
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
#Skill
-Augmented Systemics 10
!Augmetic Extropian
!Metal Fatigue
!Reserve Power
!Engineering Specifications
!Covered in buboes

>6AP Augmented Systemics: try to take control of the turrets- and the doors too, if that's possible, but mainly the turrets

Rolled 4, 6, 4, 1, 2, 4 = 21 (6d6)

>>6074346
Gallium
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
[Damage Reduction 2]
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
Augmented Systemic 10
-
Augmentic Extropian
[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications]
Cold and logical.

Equipment
Handgun (18 ammo, 2 extra mags)
Baton (L+1, Stun 1)
Aid Kit x1
Security Vest (4DR, fits humans)

Hostile subjects spotted. Applying non-lethal force.
>Move 165
>Prepare two stun baton attacks on any hostiles inside the new room [6AP, for two baton attacks, only retaliate against hostiles] (Physicality 10, Lethality 1)

Rolled 6, 6, 2, 6, 3, 2 = 25 (6d6)

>>6074346

"Not going back into box. Not when i finally got an chance to evolve!"

>[AP 3] Throw the held guard at the one entering to room currently (Physicality 10 + Lethality 1)
>[MP 2] Move NW, N
>[AP 3 + MP 1] Bounce on the guard on my tile and bash them to ground in cover (Physicality 10 + Alacrity 1)

#Chimera
Vit 12 SP 9 CP 2
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
Mutability 10
#Skill
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
= Virulent Vitality
= Bound by the Flesh
!Relentless

>>6074395
Yeah, ineligibility for Production, Service and Ambassador positions was noted pre-intake. What's a wirehead like you doing with all those spots anyway?

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Rolled 5, 1, 5, 5, 3, 5, 4, 6, 3 = 37 (9d6)

Gluttony surges forward and lashes out, latching to the ripthing. Not the only hungry thing stalking these halls.

And in doing so, the taste of blood and ichor awakens a little slice of memory...

TEETH and some other things are a bit different than hands and claws and fists and guns and swords and batons and telekinetic storms. It's actually a GRAB attack, only, the thing you're holding the thing with is your mouth. So it does damage as well, as you tear and chew. It is what the horrid little ripthings did to others, you are sure and certain.

Being GRABBED by arms (or teeth) make it difficult to move. Witness the Guard trying to squirm out of Chimera's grasp. But if you hold something with your hands, you will often need to attempt advanced, secondary follow-ups to throw people into walls, on the floor, into others, to snap necks, to wrench limbs, to grab guns.

If you're holding something with your teeth, you can attack as you hold them, hitting more or less automatically. How would someone dodge that which is already around their arm? Perhaps there are horrid little techniques one can learn, to use maw and claw in unison...?

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>STANDBY FOR CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES
>Tactics 3x

>>6074410
I don't know! I don't even know half of what you said! They're just... itchy and full of goop, okay?

Oh boy, containment procedures! NOW is it pudding time?

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Don't think so, Grimp. The hallway is just you, the others stumbling from their cells, Gluttony chewing on a creature and rending it apart bit by bit, and --- your systems-- ahh--- woah-- wait why does this say microgravity suite control--- SPARK OUT

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Sundae sees, in the shadowy distance, shapes moving. Real slice-the-pie, check-the-door, eyes-everywhere, barrels sweeping type movement. And then a loud, sharp, authorative voice rings out.

" END OF THE LINE. LIE DOWN ON THE FLOOR "

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Chimera has an awkward fist-fight just as NeoGenesis spooks off one of the bite-things, which loops away into the darkness. It... must be heading towards its nest? They're territorial, right? Are there more of them out there? How many?

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Bob and Samantha have their quiet recollections interrupted by the sudden loud blare of RATATATA as automatic guns engage, some shape crossing through the invisible line that separates the living from the ones shot full of holes.

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>ESCAPE PHASE
>THAT'S YOU LOT
>BIT OF A SLOWDOWN DUE TO THAT OUTAGE, BUT WE'RE GAME FOR A FEW MORE FAST TURNS. STILL NOTHING EXCITING HAPPENING. CALLING IT IN 40 MINUTES.
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Rolled 2, 5, 4 = 11 (3d6)

>>6074438
#Acolyte
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 6
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
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Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
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Conditions:
Alive
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Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
Mutability 10
#Skill
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!Biomodulation Strain #3
!Craves Purpose
!Social Pheremones

These are some very unideal circumstances.

> Move 334
> 6AP: CHANGE
Tap Malleability (10) to gain further finesse with mine reawakening biology, giving myself a strong Chem-Signalling skill. Spend as many CP as needed to make it at least 11.

Malleability 10 + Change 6 + Concentration 3 = 19

Rolled 3, 3, 5 = 11 (3d6)

>>6074438
>3? MP: Hide, remain out of sight
>6 AP: Take the time to consider myself. Am I similar to the Biomodulation Strain #3? If so, how? What unique qualities do I possess? (Thoughts 8 + Focus 1 + Concentrate 3) [total vs 12]
>Regenerate?

#Splendiferous Weaver of the Threads that bind the Squirming Prey Floundering in the Underneath (Samantha)
Vit 12 SP 12(10) CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
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Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
Claws 12
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Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
#???
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!???

!Hungry

Primary Taxonomy: Malichnid

Rolled 6, 1, 4, 3, 3, 6 = 23 (6d6)

>>6074438
Gallium
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
[Damage Reduction 2]
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Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
Augmented Systemic 10
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Augmentic Extropian
[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications]
Cold and logical.

Equipment
Handgun (18 ammo, 2 extra mags)
Baton (L+1, Stun 1)
Aid Kit x1
Security Vest (4DR, fits humans)

Door spotted. Proposed course of action: Attempt to interact with the mesh network.

>Move 566
>[3 AP] Attempt to mimic the mannerism of a guard to fool the guard currently surveiling the doorway. (Wave the baton, only guards have batons) (Thoughts 8, Duplicity 1)
>[3AP] Look for a control panel of some kind. Shove fingers in there. Attempt to trigger the emergency door release. (The one that automatically opens doors in case of fire, to allow for evacuation.) (Augmented Systemics 10, Focus 1)

>>6074438
Hey, hey, wait up! Don't go rushing off alone, it's dangerous.

>3MP+3AP, move 3S, 2SW, 1NW
>3AP+1TP, pull Gallium out of harm if his ruse fails (SupOp 10)

#Amelius
Vit 12/12 SP 12/12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 TP 1
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Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
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Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 10
Thoughts 10
Support Operations 10
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!Inspiring Presence
!Dreams of the Ocean
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Inventory
Aid Kit
C7 Service 11/18