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Your head hurts. There are many truths in the universe, and the truth of this one is that your head hurts (wake up), that you are tired and sleepy and would prefer to keep dozing fitfully (wake up) that things are okay, you are somwhat comfortable, and the rustling of distant wind through high willows soothingly runs through your mind (wake up)...

>Oh, remember this. It'll be the last time it looks anything like this.

#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
-
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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Is anyone else as sleepy as you? You can the soft sound of their constant snoring, the huff puff fuff, feel the warmth of many bodies, the quiet rustle of moving limbs and mewls and moans and nightmare whispers and dream fancies and why are you so tired anyway you should wake up? wake up? WAKE U--

No no.

Listen, you've been through a lot.

Keep dreaming.

>Oh, remember this. It'll be the last time it looks anything like this.

#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
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 11
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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Sometimes being something different than you are is hard. Convuluted. Convulsive. Here is a rough spun guide that offers some more specific advice, though it should be honestly also said that you can only rely on it 66% of the time, and it is a series of guidelines and not a dire book of grand law.

Please treat it as such. Things might not work one hundred percent as it says here, because sometimes, the universe has secrets.

but in dreams, you can explore, fitfully dreaming, lovingly protected by the warm fur of friends, forever, exploring, experiencing, believing, thinking, ah, and you need never wake up, you need never be different, you can just keep sleeping so why would you ever

wake

up?

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In a dream, you know, you can change yourself to anything you wish to be. Become anything. Anyone. Go anywhere.

Harder in waking life. Much better to sleep, perchance to dream, because why take up arms against the tides of sorrows that life brings? Guns? Flame? Fire? Teeth, fang, fury, claw? Poorly maintained mass cargo transit systems and janitorial budget cuts?

Why wake up?
Why wake?
Why would you ever wake up?
wake up--

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why not simply dream, forever, and fade away? you can use some R&R. and maybe you can walk the meandering, labyrinthine hallways of your dreamscape, struggling to reach the end of twisted corridors, never making quite as much progress as you think or hope or fear, unheeding, unreaching, stumbling, watched by figures in the high dark, chased by stern shadow, sprint down narrowing corridors, as for minutes and hours and days someone whispers to you and soothes you and pours water down your cracked lips and feeds you beans with the taste of home and you are so loved and cared for in this embrace and the halls go on forever, the choir hunting you every step like a mass of fireflies that will burn your pleasant somnolence from your skull and doesn't that just sound nice

would you kindly wake up, subject
wake up now

wake up or you are going to **DIE**

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--

>Nah, though. Just keep sleeping. It's so quiet here. Ignore the slow and soft groans of metal fatigue and the strange falling of footfalls and distant shouts. Mind phenomena. Dream-phantasms.

--

>Alas, if you are a going to wake up, you should set your CP to 0, stretch, and immediately award yourself 6 CP.

>Your character-sheet should be as of T2R28;
>>6079967 or
>>>6073358#p6079967

>if you are a continuing subject. Recall that you have acquired SHARED SENSES and your Senses should increment by +1, contra that comparison. Recall that your CP was set to 0 and you stretched and gave yourself 6, so your total CP is 6. It is not 5. It is not 7. It is certainly not 11. It is the number that is 6. That is the amount of CP at your disposal which you currently have.

>Your HP, SP and status is unknown, and the contents of your pockets may be . . . different.

--

>Subjects may, if deserious, allocate themselves TESTING PROTOCOLS that require SIGNING UP For. sub-aleph-one-PHARAOH would be so happy!
>These have some occassional requirements, but provide occassional benefits

>To be clear, Janitorial Duties invoke themselves - you do not need to concern yourself with it, although you should be aware that the fact it is tested vs 9 in every containment phase means you are bound to need to perform your duties eventually, and likely often. It is not an easy job.
--

>Please roll 3d6 against Health on Waking Up.
>Or... keep sleeping. It is *very pleasant*.
>And you hear the soft, distant singing too? Yes?

--

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

>>6082933
Gallium
Vit 12/12 SP 7/13 CP 0 VP 2
DR 5 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
Thoughts 8
Augmented Systemic [LOS] 11
Electricity Modulators 12 [Focus+1, Stamina x3, Glitch 16)
-
Augmentic Extropian II
[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications] [Meshlinked] [BioElectricity Manifolds]
Cold and logical.

Equipment
Handgun (16/18 ammo, 2 extra mags)
Baton (L+1, Stun 1)
Aid Kit x1

Rebooting... Please stand by...
>Reboot (Health 12)
>Systems diagnostics (check body, pockets)
>Get that sweet sweet +6 CP

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

>>6082933
...I was so close, I could nearly reach that ever distant shore. Why am I still here?

>Awaken (Health 10)
>Remember the dreams
>Check the pockets - I had a rifle, once upon a time?

#Amelius
Vit ?/12 SP ?/12 CP 6
DR ? AP 6 MP 3 TP 1
-
Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 11
Senses 12
Thoughts 11
Support Operations 11
Guns (Pistols) 13
-
!Inspiring Presence
!Dreams of the Ocean
-
Inventory Unknown

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

>character sheet should be as of T2R28
Does this mean that the +1 to skills I got as a Coordinator in the elevator is reverted also?

>>6082933
>Wake up as a janitor
>Check self, pockets. Health test vs 10

Vitality ?? Stamina ? Tactical 1
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 6
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

Pistol, 2 reloads
Baton
Cloth Scraps 3
CP 6

>>6082961
It would mean that the character sheets and skill as of T2R28 would be the ones we utilize and rely on, which, dreambound slumbering wakefulness coming raidly closer with the snap of stern jaws and hungry bursts of wakeful hormonal circadian clock adjusters, does indeed mean that anything done inside any elevators is perhaps best treated as ...

a nightmare

no sorry surely Command meant to say nightmare? nightmare? D R E A--nightmare.

>>6082893
For any NEW SUBJECTS please be aware of FOUL DREAM LOGIC: Your character sheet, pre-written, says Sense 8, but the sheet, accounting for earlier advances, says Sense 9. The correct number is 9. You have Senses 9, and the sharper sleep-encrusted eyes of friends.

--

There is a skirmishy discord, if one wishes to talk tactics? I hear they're nice there, though, CompanyCommand is a cruel and callous creature, not a companion, and so, naturally, seeks only your immediate, unerring nightmareish demise.

>https://discord.gg/yKC2y2ke

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

>>6082933
>Sign up for Creative Thinking Exercises and Janitorial Staff Internship
>This feels familiar. Open my eyes, again. Wait, I don't have eyes anymore. Encourage my faithful to open their eyes so I can work my miracles through them again.
>Test Health 10?

>>6082969
So nothing other than shared senses stuck? Not getting mutability 11 and regen 3 from surviving the first map, not raising mutability to 13 with CP in the elevator?


#Bob the Virus
Coherency ?/10 SP ?/12 CP 6
Regeneration 3?
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 10 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
=Shared Sights
Thoughts 8
Mutability 13?
=Exceeding +3
Pluripotentiality 12 [Aura 3, Vector]
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
= Fleshshaping
= Virulent Vitality
= Bound by the Flesh
!Overprotective

Rolled 4, 5, 3 = 12 (3d6)

>>6082933
>It is not 7
Doubt.

>/-/-/-/
>INFOBITS INNIT
>/-/-/-/
Subject: #Gluttony
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 7
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
>-
>Stats
>-
Health 12 (Regen 3) Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
Conditions:
Alive
>-
>Skills
>-
Physicality 10 [Teeth +2, Reach 2]
Senses 9 [Advanced Photoreceptors]
Thoughts 8
Mutability 10 [x2 lethality acid ex]
>-
>Traits
>-
!Biomodulation Strain #3 [Virulent Vitality] [Bound by the Flesh]
!Wild-Eyed
>-
>Inventory
>-
Bulwark Shield: (14HP, 2 Cover in Front Arc) Stolen
Respirator: Bereft
Snax: Gone
Pudding: Swiped

>/-/-/-/
>ACTIONYBITS INNIT
>/-/-/-/

"Bruh I had 19 CP. I got swindled, no cap. I never get time to adapt. Shit be, uh, skibidi af fr ong. Uh.. what did any of that mean? My head is killing me."

RECOVER 3
AP6: WAKE UP (Health 12, Focus 1, Concentration 3)
[Creative Thinking Exercises] - Can I still eat snax and loot vending machines?
Now Playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjlSiASsUIs

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>>6082973
. . . it is sometimes seven. For some.

Like you!

>>6082971
Were you ever in an elevator? What is an elevator, anyway, but a bad replacement of stairs? Curious and curiouser, such strange thoughts, to flit through what wonderful and intriguing magic that passes for how one such as you thinks thoughts such as this.

It would be far safer for your health to refer to the character sheet at T2R28, and forget mankind ever invented elevators. Let alone escalators.

>>6082976
Someone will pay for this

#Bob the Virus
Coherency ?/10 SP ?/12 CP 6
Regeneration 2
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 10 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
=Shared Sights
Thoughts 8
Mutability 10
=Exceeding +3
Pluripotentiality 12 [Aura 3, Vector]
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
= Fleshshaping
= Virulent Vitality
= Bound by the Flesh
!Overprotective

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Rolled 1, 5, 5 = 11 (3d6)

>>6082945
Shockingly, you feel . . . refreshed. A slow wake from gradual slumber, a turning of the wires, a thrum in your head, the gradual re-contextualization of things your internal tags with meaning, colour, scent, taste, sound, the prickley burnt sensation across your outer dermis of burn damage safe to ignore and the slow catch in your reactions from internal wrackings of more delicate subsystems. You flex your fingers.

You realize - immediately - as eight pain editing software systems and nooceptic control feedback overrides and emergency shock hardening trauma impulse routines flare to life - that you need to stop trying to flex your fingers.

>>6082956
THIS IS MY RIFLE
THIS IS MY GUN

Somehow you don't have either - and that's just no fun. A single clip of little tungstun reinforced sleek superdense core penetrators rests, in your tattered half uniform clothes. But of the thing that fires them? You have no awareness. Of batons? Of knives? Of clothscraps? Of experimental test serums? Of pistols? Of pistol bullets? No no no no no no no

.... but you have 3x Can O' Bean, so it ain't all bad.

Your mouth feels like you've spent a straight week licking the a beach though.

Ah, the beach. You remember that - it's clear - it could never fade. The beach? At the end of the beach, the ocean and the slow rolling waves and peace and horizons infinite. No dreams of confining corridors for a man such as you.

>WILL TEST

>>6082961
woah no no woah no NO nonono no NOOOOO

you need to go back to sleep

NOW

being awake, franchise management specialist Sundae, means being aware and being aware means knowing and knowing means you have to *feel all of this*

you should save yourself
you should
NOT
WAKE
UP

Because when you are DREAMING? all this ??? it hurts not at all

but if you pry those eyelids open-- there, the waking world, in all its cruelty, and your *smeared meat* within it.

perhaps cradling that gun in your off-hand can give you strength. the baton. the cloth scraps, wrapped around you, each and all, in some desperate attempt at keeping you together.

>>6082971
you feel disjointed. dysregular. slow. and you are aware now: other things are aware of *you*. you have spent an eon, age unnumbered, uncountable pathogenic adaption cycles, bacteria humming, virals spliting, other stranger things brewing in the dark and the small places, and you are looking down the length of an evolutionary arms race of sign and counter-sign and *you are losing*

>>6082973
What cruel being, let alone a studious machine intelligence, would deny an entity snacks?

If such onerous demands were ever placed on anyone, the only righteous path of all just-thinking mortal and immortal minds would be to burn down heaven itself in a storm of such violence the stars would be cut down and the void they leave behind filled by the dead.

you can have your snacks.
you can have as many snacks as you *can find* and *stuff in your mouth* and if anyone tries to stop you, *eat them*--

>>6082988
>if anyone tries to stop you, *eat them*--
This humble one thanks you for liberation from WENDIGO.
Yes, I can feel it. I am SLIPPING THE NOOSE!
Hold on.
[Fills out and files the proper paperwork to sign up for Creative Thinking Exercises]
Yeah just notarize me and we're good to go.

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>>6082988
just, err, subject, you should chew slowly. People with famously fragile glass jaws? Yeah, uh, they have more structural integrity in the jawline department than you right now. It's sort of funny actually you can sort of swivel your jaw and it makes a clicking noise then sort of sounds like nails on chalk board and you're pretty sure a few of those bones with words like "zygomantic" and "occipital" are more like... vaguely bone-related clouds of dust sorry thats not funny at all actually you should stop that its horrifying

Maybe start on winegums? Not... doctors orders or anything but just keep it in *mind* if you chomp down on anything hard you might break teeth.

no that's not a misspelling of tooth.

breath teeth

as in all of them.

--

>>6082988
If all we are are ships passing in the night, all aflutter and a-lantern'd, hollering and hoiting and sailing on to distant darkened ports, perhaps one could simply . . . lay the same course as others?

--

>FIVE SUBJECTS MOSTLY AWAKE
>WOW HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN ASLEEP?
>IS THAT. . . BLANKETS? W--- WHAT? WHO?

--

Anyone else around here hearing that soft, distant alarm? the singing? the . . .

. . . why is there an arrow stuck in the roof of the crumpled up elevator? Let alone how. Those walls are metal.

>MORNING STRETCH PHASE as we sloooowllyy get going again.
>SHARPLY LIMITED ACTIONS POSSIBLE. WE'RE TAKING THIS SLOOOOOOOOWWWWW. Let's see who else wakes up, yeah?

>You get a cutesy 3 AP interaction or skill check or note or check or good, proper stretch.

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

>>6082999
*Cutesily knocks his loose teeth out and spits blood onto the floor until they regrow.*
AP3 SP2 SELF-HARM [Physicality 10, Focus 1, Concentration 2]
RECOVER 3
SP1 Check pockets for liquid snax or pudding to deal with dehydration.

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

>>6082999
>3AP: Heal Sundae's muscles. (Mutability 10, Focus 1)

Losing the micro-evolutionary arms race? Reduced to MERE SNIFFLES? SOMEONE WILL PAY FOR THIS BLASPHEMY.

But first, my faithful must be taken care of.

#Bob the Virus
Coherency 8/10-2 SP 4/12-3 CP 6
Regeneration 2
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 10 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
=Shared Sights
Thoughts 8
Mutability 10
=Exceeding +3
Pluripotentiality 12 [Aura 3, Vector]
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
= Fleshshaping
= Virulent Vitality
= Bound by the Flesh
!Overprotective

Rolled 6, 4, 6, 5, 3, 5, 2, 3, 1 = 35 (9d6)

Uuuuuuuuughhhhhh. What is this, a refugee camp? Thought I'd be in prison, if anything.

>>6082999
>Look at bucket of arrows? by the door. Senses 11
>Look at brown bars south of arrows Senses 11
>Identify blankets and how there can be so many. Thought 10

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

>>6082988
>Cutely manifest [Self-Repair Protocols] using Health and 1CP. I am damaged, and this cannot stand. I'd like to create something akin to mechanical platelets, to passive repair crippled bits and repair structural damage. Commit to that cute little manifestation. (Health 12, 1 CP used, commited)

>>6082999
Okay, who's still with us? Alekson, I know you aren't fortunate enough to be dead, work yourself up. Raven, we'll have need of your services shortly - no, you can't possibly be asleep, your pillow is a twisted sheet of iron. Cry not to dream again, for those sweet delusions will slay you surely, if not swiftly.

>1TP/3AP, rouse the gang to consciousness (SupOp 10, Inspiring Presence 1)
>Player stats corrected, for I dreamt to be more than I am

#Amelius
Vit 9/12 SP 7/7 CP 6
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 TP 1
-
Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Severely Dehydrated (-6 Stamax)
Motivated 1 (+1 Stamax, Ineffable)
-
Physicality 10
Senses 11
Thoughts 10
Support Operations 10
Guns (Pistols) 12
-
!Inspiring Presence
!Dreams of the Ocean
-
3x Cans of Beans
1x Rifle reload

Rolled 4, 1, 4 = 9 (3d6)

>>6082933
"...you're so pulverized... you're so gravity tax..."

>Sign up for Creative Thinking Exercises.
>Become Woke. (vs health 12)

Commandpill, what're the fanum tags under the names likesmaxxing [Chem] or [Petri]?

#Subject Sigma
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 9
Thoughts 8
#Psychogenesis-11
-
!Psionic-Resonant(Eva+, External)
!Telekinetic+1(Ranged Phys, Mind Stuff)
!Incurable Brainrot

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

>>6082933

Something gained something lost also seems like something wrong. Time to move your senses tell you things they warn of things.

>Wake up (Health 12) after all you are !Relentless
>Be ready to lunge and see what you broke now
>Sign up for Creative Thinking Exercises
>Feel ready to break some more limits +6 CP

#Chimera
Vit 12 SP 9 CP 6
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 VP0
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Yes
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
Mutability 11
Piercing Resistance 2
#Skill
-
!Resilient Organs
!Biomodulation Strain #3
= Virulent Vitality +1
= Bound by the Flesh
!Relentless

PS: I hate Captcha

Rolled 1, 6, 3, 1, 4, 4 = 19 (6d6)

>>6082999
>Wake Up
>Sign up for Creative Thinking Exercises
>Attempt to Recover from whatever I surely must be afflicted with if I am actually still alive somehow (Health 12)

#Splendiferous Weaver of the Threads that bind the Squirming Prey Floundering in the Underneath (Samantha)
Vit ? SP ? CP 6 VP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
Claws 12
-
Conditions:
?
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
Thoughts 8
Mutability 11
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
=Virulent Vitality (Regeneration 3)
=Bound by the Flesh

!Hungry

Primary Taxonomy: Malichnid

>>6083069
Also
>Regenerate 3

Rolled 2, 1, 5, 6, 3, 2 = 19 (6d6)

>>6082988
#Acolyte
Vit ??/12 SP ???12 CP 6 Aberrancy 3
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Battered
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
**Chems+4
**Shared Senses
Thoughts 8
Mutability 12
#Skill
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
- Bound by Flesh 1
- Regen 3
!Craves Purpose
!Social Pheromones

> Reapply for Creative Thinking Exercises and Janitorial Staff Internship

> Regen 3
> Wake Up (3d6 vs Health 12)
> Recover Health (3d5 v Health 12, Regen 3)

Mrrrrr

>>6083077
>Correction: My Regen score seems to be 2, and Mutability 11, as all our previous level up benefits seem quite gone.

Forgive me, I’m not all here yet.

Rolled 2, 6, 6 = 14 (3d6)

>>6082933

>Wake Up (Health,10)

#Bulwark
Vit ?/12 SP ?/12 CP 6
DR 0+3
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+1 (Shared Senses)
Thoughts 10
#Small Unit Tactics 10
-
!Nerves of Cold Steel [Cool Under Fire][Not By The Number]
!Nerves of Cold Steel
-
SecVest [3DR]
2 Pistol Reloads

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

>>6082933
"Today's going to suck..."
>Wake up/Boot up vs health 12 test

>>6082933
>Mind giving a few more details about Creative Thinking Exercises? What if it's a tool I made? Does interfacing with systems count?

#NeoGenesis
Vit ??/12 SP ??/12
DR 4 AP 6 MP 3
CP 6 VP 0
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
Thoughts 8
Augmented Systemics 11
-
!Augmentic-Extropian
[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications] [Jolt Chargers]
!Resilient Streak
-
Equipment:
Nice Cap
Pistol, +5 reloads
Flashlight
Baton
Experimental Vial
Sling bag: 4x Can O' Beans, 4x Energy Bar's
CP 6

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

>>6082933
>Wake the fuck up, Herald of Doom. We have a world to end. (Health 12)

#Nadir
Vit NA/12 SP NA/12 CP 6 VP 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 9
Thoughts 8
#Psychogenesis 11
[Anxiety Churn 2, Aura Close)
-
!Psionic-Resonant 2
[Microslip Precognition] (Evade additional up to Focus)
[Many Hands, Light Work]
!Telekinetic 2 (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients)
[Temple Inviolate] (only Manifest External)
!Existential Dread
!Shared Sights

Rolled 3, 6, 2 = 11 (3d6)

>>6082893
> I'll take Biomodulation strain 3
> And set Wary as my other trait
> Finally, I'll pick up the Creative Thinking Exercises Protocol

#Everett
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
Regeneration 2
Creative Thinking Exercises
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
Thoughts 8
#Skill
Mutability 10
-
!Trait
Biomodulation Strain 3
Wary

Hopefully I did everything correctly.
I think I need to roll versus health now?

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

>>6082897

AND MAY THE LORD STAY IN HIS HEAVEN,
AND KEEP HIS ANGELS WITH HIM CLOSE,
'CAUSE WE'RE NOT DONE YET MY SONS, THERE'R HUNDREDS MORE TO GO,
AND JUST HOW MANY HAVE WE KILLED,
THE DEVIL ONLY KNOWS.

Sargeant Grone
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 11
Thoughts 10
Harass 10
-
!Mean Wolfpack
!Don't Let Up
!Loves His Job

> Be normal human
> Be dog on a leash
> Is there still room?

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

>>6082893
#Wilder
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 9
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] (Manifest external features only)
!Peace and love, man.

Hope I'm not intruding into this forest sanctuary needlessly.

>>6083382
Do you know where you are? You're in the jungle, baby.

You're gonna diiiieeee.

>>6083383
If you become one with nature, no harm will come to you.

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

#Dying Osiris Consequences

Vit 12 SP 12 CP 6 (awaken)
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive? Functional?
-
Physicality 10
Senses 09
Thoughts 08
#Mutability 10 [R3]
#Conversion 10 (turns spare parts into CP)
-
!Augmentic 0 (inherited trait, from Donny O' Cork).
!Biomodulation 0 (newlife)
!Greywire Fragment - Distributed Processing Core
!Descriptor - God of the Dead (thinks he's Osiris)

>Awaken. Test Health 12 vs. 3d6.
>Sign up for Janitorial Staff Internship
>Sign up for Sympathy Training. Pharaoh demands Death and rewards with Power.

>Doublecheck mental checklist. All known core laws tested. Hypothesis: Core laws primarily intended to contain and prevent violating the principles of universal balance, including violating the basic Rule of Range.

Test procedure 1: Convert shock-treatment into battery power and observe control procedures. Expected Result: System will enact an alternative control procedure for pulling subjects into my kingdom.

Test procedure 2: Build nodal network. Expected Result: No punishment, but limited node-to-node range and diminishing effectiveness based on number of nodal jumps.

Tested Strictures:
Untested Strictures: Zen, Hydra, FEV, Apotheosis, Doppelganger, Roots

>Conversion (10): Raw Materials + 3CP + Turn: Convert some of the rubble and spare parts in my immediate vicinity into a charger to convert electrical damage into charge for my battery (hang change on my Health stat. I think that this is the 2nd since the range-up on mutability is probably also tied to health). I see some gray wrenchy/arrowy looking things over there, a metal pizza slice which I will avoid out of deference to Gluttony, and lots of various metal locking bits. No need to rip up the beds that we were carefully placed in.

Rolled 6, 4, 4 = 14 (3d6)

>>6082933
>wake up
>sign up for Creative Thinking Exercise

#Bubba
Vit 12 SP 2 CP 0
DR 6 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 14 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
!Blood-Loss Resistance
!Redundant Organs 3

Bubba is still a woman, and still looking more bubotic than ever

>>6083415
>>6082908
>SIGN UP FOR JANITORIAL TRAINING TOO

>>6083383
It doesn't seem unlikely, alas.

>>6083384
If you become one with all of nature your constituent molecules are in someones stomach and the bacteria feast on your endocrines. Your precious endocrines, wild one!

But that said, a naturopath approach has its marvels. Perhaps if all of nature became one with you . . . Ah, unity.

>>6083382
You are not, and you are welcome. Sometimes, when people need to feel safe to sleep a sleep over with new friends is more delightful.

Which is a round-about way of saying that if you fell down an elevator shaft and hit your head, you might just wake up here.

>>6083328
IT'S GETTING CRAMPED, I GOTTA ADMIT. But we'll squeeze you in the (hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha)
. . . dog house.

Eh
Eh
EHHH?

Listen, when the entire subject-line develop multiple concussions, Command develops one too, be thankful my sense of humour is leashed properly or it canine get a bit furry.

>>6083287
And you'd be welcome, Mountainenous one. Though we're more underground than up in rarified air.

>>6083270
Well -- interact with. World to interact with. Safe, actually. Probably? I can't find the subPHAORAH system but that's sort of what it said.

>>6083083
Who-ever is?

>>6083052
We all do.

>>6083051
noo! THE ACTUAL WOKE MIND VIRUS, SIGMA.

--

Command Note: Processing janitorial and additional testing protocols. Expect slight change to the evalulation programme and a need to re-submit your application, but this is minor.

Command Note: It's not next week but, ah, what the hell. If you snooze you lo--vingly regenerate your tremendously sustained battle-damage.

>STAND BY FOR MORNING PHASE

>>6083553
See, ending the world is a very cutthroat business to be in. Our little Herald of Doom cannot end the world is someone beats her to the punch and ends it first, now can she? Ergo, she must stop them, thereby saving the world so she can then Herald its Doom, as it were.

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Reach, stretch, roll, spit out your teeth, wraggle your tongue to get some feeling back into the it, check if things are as they should be, violating eight several good research practice in one go, treat yourself to some snacks?

Gluttony, there's so many beans in this room. Far more than you fell down the shaft with. The cans look stacked. Little Can O'Bean fortresses of stoic canly fortitude, arranged to guard more beans holding such delectable flavours as PINEAPPLE MINT, STRAWBERRY FUSION JAM and the fabled BLACK BEAN WITH DARK ROAST.

The elevator smells of... flavours ... undescribable...

>STAND BY FOR YAWNING PHASE

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>>6082971
Application for Janitorial duties DENIED. Your baseline existence considers bleach ANATHEMA.

Please re-apply if you are willing to work under new supervised guidelines and are sure this is the correct work environment for you.

>>6083051
Application for Creative Thinking Exercises DENIED as Subject displays critical levels of acute brain-rot. Please re-apply in 0.00005 nanoseconds if you are willing to work with re-phrased guidelines.

The fanum tags, skibidi, mark them for specific considerations afore the blackpill ghoulgang deports them to Ohio. If you have CHEMs your stenchmaxing and the Ripthings know you are like them fr fr fr fr. Petra, on the other hand, is simply the name of a trooper. She smiles shyly in your general direction and lets you know her niece totally digs your whole vibe.

( You do not know how Petra knows what her niece likes )

>>6083052
Application for Creative Thinking Exercises denied, Subject has the artistic talent of drying moss on a tree. Please re-apply in 0.000000 nanoseconds if Subject is willing to work under re-structured guidelines.

>>6083069
Application for Creative Exercise Testing denied. Your genetic sequence is partial map to spider and arachnid data-bases, and such crawling creepies have no mental faculties to express ideas. Please re-apply for protocol in 0.00005 Nano-seconds and submit one (1) art-work for inspection.

>>6083077
Denied. Subject communicates in single-vowel grunts.

Denied. Subject manages a roaming gang of flesh-creatures that shed hair follicles, skin and blood from prey everywhere. They are Janitorial Antagonists Number One.

Please re-apply if interested in the work regardless.

>>6083204
Please see updated data-packages and 3000000000000000 pages of attached legalese for details.

Secondary query, Subject, a tool you make is not a mass produced industrial object and also you are NOT A HUMAN[1]

[1]according to multiple acceptable parameters. Philosophical arguments can be made otherwise.

>>6083287
Application denied. Mountains are too big to be creative. If you wish to apply again, please read through the following eight thousand page waiver.

>>6083396
DENIED.
DENIED.

BANNED FOR LIFE FROM INTERACTING WITH JANITORIAL AND EMPATHY PROGRAMS.

Subject may still apply for other protocols. LIFETIME BAN may be lifted in face of reasonable evidence that Subject will stop trying to avoid the data-gathering phase of the protocol the Subject willingly engages with.

>>6083415
Application denied.
Subject lacks neccessary processing power to express creative thoughts, being strictly inferior meat-ware processing compared to pristine info-crystal lattice.

Please re-apply in 0.02 nanoseconds, slow-poke, and attach a solution factor for factorising eight-step prime numbers.

>>6083418
Application denied. Mandatory shower-time citing soot layers caked into dermis cited.
---

>>6083674
>Protocol Parameter testing revised pending multiple on-going queries into exact definition of how to murder someone and still claim the +Critical bonus from Empathy training.

>If you set out to murder someone with enhanced +criticality rating, you have failed empathy training.

>If Subjects sign on to a Testing Protocol, this is an advanced level self imposed challenge. For fun. Or horror!

>For game mechanical coherency reasons, if Subjects attempt to bypass the Protocol requirements in any whatsoever while still seeking to benefit from the bonuses, they do not do so and the Protocol fails immediately and no bonuses accrue. This is not an in-story in-narrative measure, unfortunately, this is down to simple operations of game-space logic. With 17+ players, 1-2 cannot accrue outsized power factor citing clever arguments that allows ignoring caps on mass power gain. Apologies.

>To re-state clearly, in almost all other facets of design and interaction, being clever and working with constraints is a definitive plus and should be attempted. Strictly in relation to taking on a challenge that changes your character mechanically then attempting to ""game"" those constraints lead to BAD OUTCOMES.

>Please sign this 30000000000 page perfectly described legal set of use-abuse clauses that adaquately capture every nuance of any possible interaction going out across the next 200+ turns.

>DOCUMENT NOT FOUND

>Unfortunately, Subjects, that appears to have been lost in some explosion or another.

>We will simply have to make do and trust each other with some general adherence to the "spirit and letter" of a given protocol, if the Subject taking it on is willing to engage in a challenge.

>If you are still interested, please re-apply at any time.

>CHALLENGE MODE: make this the only hotfix this deployment (IMPOSSIBLE)

>>6083674
It is true that I have not yet found a way to overcome the unholy substance colloquially known as "bleach". But if Pharaoh thinks this will stop me from performing janitorial duties, then his creative thinking capabilities are lacking.
>Sign up for Creative Thinking Exercises and Janitorial Staff Internship, again.

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A hungry group of strain-beasts from the Kronin line, maws and teeth and sore muscle, rouse themselves like they have done many times before, and patter-pitter over to the rope and ladder someone (who?? you were all SLEEPING) have attached to the acid stained, corroded hole in the wall that constitutes some kind of entrane / exit hatch.

One by one, as subjects stretch and click bones and pop joints and spit out teeth, they latch to the rope and descend below with a soft SKRRHRHR, sniffing the air and licking their sizable teeth.

>[1/2]

>>6083674
>>6083553
Mountains? Wha- oh. Okay, I get it.
Pharaoh, my designation is Everett. Not Everest.
EVERETT. Eh-ver-ett. There's no 's' in there.
And I assure you, I can be very creative.

> Agree to the TOS and sign up for 'Creative Thinking Exercises'.

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descending down to ... where? What? Is the elevator *shifting* a little, with their pitter pattering feet and lurching movement and...

Wilder sees it first, near the edge as he is, and befitting enough of the name perhaps a wild one at heart. Beyond the acid pitted and corroded metal confines of the elevator shell that has become some sort of sickhouse or outre bean storage system, undulating tendrils of enormous flesh-shaped trunks swirl in an unseen wind. Wilder leans. Wilder looks. Wilder learns.

They're below the elevator too.

They're holding it up.

This?

This isn't an elevator, subjects. It' some sort of fleshwood treetop house.

>WAKE UP PHASE
>THAT MEANS YOU LOT!
>We're still doing mostly LIGHT ACTIONS and QUICK BITS, get your bearings a little, shake off the tupor, check your pockets, apply for >>6083674 test protocols now that they've been slightly updated. . .

>>6083026
Perhaps you've been losing the microevolutionary arms race because this forest of fleshwood or woodflesh has provided a myriad of genealogical sampling opportunities for cunning counter-measures to your art. You try to reach out and warp them - influence them - perhaps even direct the sprawling circulatory twig-trunks that wind, faintly pulsating, beneath the elevator and it BURNS, stinging, a hundred new microbiomes reacting with hostility to your intrusion.

In pathogenic ages unnumbered, a million million million and more life-cycles of microbes ago, perhaps, these things were almost related to you. Spun out and touched by a panicked fuelled command down a rapidly descending elevator shaft.

But no more.
No soveriegn you, sir Bob, of this forest or the things that live here.

It seems by passing such endless time absent from your throne, the whole edifice of monarchy has been thrown out.

You should not expect this environment to react to you with servility, despite you being perhaps, in some distant sense, its progenitor.

... how long has it been anyway?

Rolled 4, 1, 2, 4, 5, 4, 3, 5, 6 = 34 (9d6)

>>6083697
>[1 AP] Check pockets for belongings.
>[1 AP] Check my COOL INTERNAL CLOCK that surely exists for time elapsed. [Augmented Systemics 10, Focus 1]
>[1 AP] Check memories. I remember about falling. Then what? [Thoughts 8, Focus 1]

>>6083701
You nano-second accurate internal HUD systems are used to integrate total informational space dominance across a broad spectrum of conditions and to interface with time-sensitive systems across the whole alarm criticality chain.

It's also in need for repair.

. . . Dammit.

Well it's been at least less than a week - your internal calendar hasn't rolled over to a new month yet, though your TODO is actually just filled with DON'TDIE and WAKEUPWAKEUPWAKEUP and all the day markers are corrupted out.

>>6083697
> Move over to the rope ladder (Move - ? MP)
> Descend the rope ladder (Move and Do - 3 AP)
> Look around. It seems we're in a forest of some sort? Are there any notable landmarks in eyeshot? (Test and try - 3AP)

(Sorry about the indeterminate movement. It's a little hard to see the grid with all the clutter in the treehouse.)

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Rolled 4, 2, 2 = 8 (3d6)

>>6083697

>Sign Up for Creative Thinking Exercises with provided art-work for inspection
>3 AP: Smell around for water. It's not quite food but I'm really thirsty and food things should be by the water anyways. (Senses 9)

#Splendiferous Weaver of the Threads that bind the Squirming Prey Floundering in the Underneath (Samantha)
Vit 12/12 SP 10/10 CP 6 VP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
Claws 12
-
Conditions:
Dehydrated [-2 Stamina]
Strucutral Misalignments II [+3 to any Bleed]
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
Thoughts 8
Mutability 11
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
=Virulent Vitality (Regeneration 3)
=Bound by the Flesh

!Hungry

Primary Taxonomy: Malichnid

>>6083706
It is a nightmare of ... clutter. And bedrolls. And where are all these cans of beans from? Surely, it is going to somehow be magically easier the pico-second you climb down that ladder. For strangely cosmic reasons having to do with geospatial coordinates and hex-grids.

Have no worries, Subject, we can go by gut feel and foot fall.

Rolled 4, 4, 2 = 10 (3d6)

>>6083697
>3AP, 6 Stamina: Get back in the Red Queen's race. Fast evolve, iterate quickly, get my Virality back to a more adequate potency. (Pluripotentiality 12, Focus 1, Concentration 6)

You've been allowed to try atheism for far too long, little errant mass of flesh. You WILL submit to your maker.

#Bob the Virus
Coherency 8/8 SP 3/9 CP 6
Regeneration 2
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 10 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Pathogenic Analysis 8 (Virality -8)
Nanocytic Countersampling 2 (Max Coherency -2)
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
=Shared Sights
Thoughts 8
Mutability 10
=Exceeding +3
Pluripotentiality 12 [Aura 3, Vector]
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
= Fleshshaping
= Virulent Vitality
= Bound by the Flesh
!Overprotective

>>6083697
>1 AP: briefly consider my new ailments, starting with the Distracting Voices. Where are they coming from? What are they saying?
>1 AP: and the bullet magnetism. Does it work with other projectiles? Maybe a telekinetically flicked empty can of beans might help test this hypothesis?
>alright, that should be all, unless there's something I'm forgetting—...
>!!!
>1 AP: the biometric card! Where is it?!

#Nadir
Vit 12/12 SP 10/10 CP 6 VP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive!
Dehydrated
Distracting Voices II II
Bullet Magnet II
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
Thoughts 8
#Psychogenesis 10
[Anxiety Churn 2, Aura Close)
-
!Psionic-Resonant 1
[Microslip Precognition] (Evade additional up to Focus)
[Many Hands, Light Work]
!Telekinetic 1 (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients)
[Temple Inviolate] (only Manifest External)
!Existential Dread
!Shared Sights

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

#Dying Osiris Consequences

Vit 12/12 SP 10/12 CP 6 (awaken)
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive? Functional?
Dehydrated:
-
Physicality 10
Senses 09
Thoughts 08
#Mutability 10 [R3]
#Conversion 10 (turns spare parts into CP)
-
!Augmentic 0 (inherited trait, from Donny O' Cork).
!Biomodulation 0 (newlife)
!Greywire Fragment - Distributed Processing Core
!Descriptor - God of the Dead (thinks he's Osiris)

>Move West to the center of the dead Rips

>Mutability 10, All AP - Awaken the Rips into Undead service as my Ghoul Palanquin Bearers. Order them to lift me up and carry me around on one of these fine beds. Invite the other Nobles to ride with be on my bed-palanquin if they so desire. Order them to pass me and the bedaquin down to the ground level.

Test procedure 1: Convert shock-treatment into battery power and observe control procedures. Result: Countermeasures taken. Promise of power retracted. Hypothesis sustained.

Tested Strictures: Interpretation of Intent. Result: Restated Intent. ,
Untested Strictures: Zen, Hydra, FEV, Apotheosis, Doppelganger, Roots

>>6083697
As much as I love the lingering kiss of saltwater, real or imagined, a man is thirsty. Surely this will help...

>3AP, crack open a can of BEANS and slurp down those juices

#Amelius
Vit 9/12 SP 7/7 CP 6
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 TP 1
-
Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Severely Dehydrated (-6 Stamax)
Motivated 1 (+1 Stamax, Ineffable)
-
Physicality 10
Senses 11
Thoughts 10
Support Operations 10
Guns (Pistols) 12
-
!Inspiring Presence
!Dreams of the Ocean
-
3x Cans of Beans
1x Rifle reload

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

>>6083697
>/-/-/-/
>ACTIONYBITS INNIT
>/-/-/-/

"All's well that ends well. No need to thank me, everyone." *Stretches*

AP1: CHEW on Can O' Beans to shed my loose teeth and lap up the sweet beany syrup within.
MP3: Descend Ladder + {3-3}
AP5: CHANGE - Adapt Dense Muscles in my core, back, and legs to increase my PHYSICALITY. [Mutability 10, Lethality 1, Concentration 2, Commit]

>/-/-/-/
>INFOBITS INNIT
>/-/-/-/
Subject: #Gluttony
Vit 12 SP 10 CP 9
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
>-
>Stats
>-
Health 12 (Regen 3) Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
Conditions:
Alive, Dehydrated, Loose Teeth, Tinnitus
>-
>Skills
>-
Physicality 10
[Loose Teeth -3, Reach 2]
Senses 7
[Shared Senses +1]
[Tinnitus -2]
Thoughts 8
Mutability 10
Acid Glands [x2 Lethality Acid-EX]
>-
>Traits
>-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
[Virulent Vitality][Bound by the Flesh]
!Wild-Eyed
>-
>Inventory
>-
[Creative Thinking Exercises] Enrollee
[Sheer Violence Initiative] Sign Up

>>6083718
Oh forgot my CP. Putting 3 CP to this.

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>>6083707
Welcome to the team, subject.

+1 CP.

>>6083697
"Gooncave is becoming crampmaxxed gotta griddy elsewherepilled."

>Sign up for Creative Thinking Exercises
>Sign up for Sheer Violence of Action, dance battle dance battle

>3AP Check the Sigma Storage for stuff
>3AP Grab a blanket to use as a cape/toilet extension
>Move out of here

#Subject Sigma
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 9
Thoughts 8
#Psychogenesis 11
-
!Incurable Brainrot
!Telekinetic+1(Ranged Phys, Mind)
!Psionic-Resonant(Eva+, External)

>>6083697

>[1 AP] Check my pockets. Do I have anything useful with me? Maybe something I could drink?
>[1 AP] I'm afflicted by... something. What the hell is Glaciogenesis? Try to figure it out.
>[3 AP] The flesh that kept us from untimely demise, does it reach out? Try to commune with its voice, if there is any. [Psionic-Resonant]

#Wilder
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
Dehydrated [-4 Stamina]
Glaciogenesis II II [SC 9]
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
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] (Manifest external features only)
!Peace and love, man.

If I'm missing rolls or I mess up too bad feel free to yell at me, all of this is kind of a bit overbearing at first.

Rolled 3 (1d6)

>>6083715
Right there under the pillow! Hey did you know you can actually use a biometric card like this, with a sharp edge, to cut Everetts ear off?

Wow listening to the voices was a brilliant idea.

Though it vaguely sounds like most of them are singing in steppe people click-tongue and one of them is offering commentary of a cycling event in Sweden. Which is interesting, albeit not useful because that voice just used the word 1906 so you need a more up to date sports commentator if you wish to make use of the voicely insight.

But at least the bullet magnetism is easy.

Your own brain is trying to kill you by making bullets come your way. Related news: it also works on bullet like projectiles, so you'll need to wipe that splatter of CHOCOLATE BEAN off of your face.

>>6083716
you might need to try something else, Oh Osiris, guardian of this vast underworld. Those ripthings, Kronin-strain all, growl and shift and breathe and claw at you feet and one of them sort of licks your boot.

Which is all to say they're more "asleep, peacefully, very contented" than "dead".

You could feasibly kill them first, but it might be an fight you're a little outnumbered to have.

Try again, you can simply take another turn.

>>6083717
without r-reading the label? in THIS facility??
That could be blueberry beans. That could be bluest beans. That could be the famous, fabled, nigh-mythic christmas cheese cake fruit cake onions bean mix.

You have more guts than half the people in this elevator, Subject. That's a dangerous kind of on-the-edge, pop a can, slurp the slop sort of recklessness. What's next, burritors with the taste of burgers? In a CAN?

>>6083730
It is overwhelming and vast. You'll learn quick. Don't worry - though if it helps you, we prefer not to yell around here, in all our various guises.

Principally speaking, if the universe has to work really hard to figure out what it is you're trying to do, the universe defers to giving resolving your action 30 seconds and calling it a day. It's only ever going to be an issue if, random example, your action is

>shoot the guys over there with the stuff I have

And let's be fair now, figuring out who, what, where, when, in what order, how much, at what target?? is a bit hard there!

However, that said, please be assured that your actions and intention and activities are always at least looked at and we try to resolve it coherently. If you lack dice or miss a number or forget a trait, the extra is just rolled and generated and usually found via CTRL+F. Which is why by the way names go in the #XXX format, it makes searching very easy.

And for stuff that's "attentive blips" - you walk 334, but that's a wall, and the universe can clearly see you meant 335, we just resolve it in your favour as much as possible.

You're doing great, keep it up! Two turns without dying already takes you far ahead of the hundreds who die on turn 1!

Also, Subjects, it was unclear, but PHARAOH has turned the limiters off fully. You can spend 6 AP on your turn. Or less, if you'd like.

It's more that you are doing quiet, light, quick things because the only dangers out here is the real estate value plummeting because the fleshwood doesn't make for very charming locale.

Well, that, and you have apparently been out cold for an unknown amount of time and shapes pilfer through the dark and the distant alarm system is whispering what sounds remarkably like wake up or die and maybe there's a few more things happening in corners unseen than just that . . .

>>6083701
>>6083697
>Alright, enough dilly-dallying. Use my 2(!) MP and the rest of my AP to leave the comforts of this metal deathtrap. (ouchie, my actuators)

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

>>6083737
In that case, I'll add
>3AP: Overcome the Nanocytic Countersampling (Pluripotentiality 12?, Focus 1)
to my actions, if I can.

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

>>6083731
Still alive eh? Well then, let's deal with the dehydration issue which plagues the aristocrats.
>Take up one of the shields, a few arrows, a few cans (preferably empty) and my bedsheet.
>Locate a vein on the tree.
>Remove a small amount of my filtering flesh to work into the coming device.
>Tap into the vein with the arrowhead and funnel the "sap" through the cheesecloth sheet impregnated with my filtering flesh to tap a purified fluid from the tree into the cans. Dehydrated warriors fight poorly, as was known to all lords of the lands of sand and ash. From the flesh of Osiris would flow the river, small as it might be in this land. (Biomodulation 10 to extract fluid from the tree)

>>6083707
Due to new information from >>6083737, adding to my turn:
>3 AP, 3 MP: Begin moving to where I smell any water, or just outside if I can't smell any.

>>6083739
And here's an updated sheet for good mesure.

Gallium
Vit 8/12 SP 12/12 CP 6
DR 4 AP 6 MP 3-1
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
Left Arm Crippled [II]
Damaged Actuators [II II]
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
Thoughts 8
Augmented Systemic [LOS] 10
Electricity Modulators 12 [Focus+1, Stamina x3, Glitch 16)
-
Augmentic Extropian I
[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications] [Meshlinked] [BioElectricity Manifolds]
Cold and logical.

Equipment
In a state of flux.

>>6083745
Spiderlass, Spiderlass, going to find some water fast.

Rolled 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 5 = 11 (6d6)

>>6083697
#Acolyte
Vit ??/12 SP ???12 CP 6 Aberrancy 3
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Battered
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
**Chems+4
**Shared Senses
Thoughts 8
Mutability 11
#Skill
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
- Bound by Flesh 1
- Regen 2
!Craves Purpose
!Social Pheromones

> 3 AP: Emit pathing pheromones, so the sleeping packmates will know where we went when we wake up. (Senses 9 + Chems 4 + Focus One)
> 3 AP: Recover my bone fractures (Health 12, Regen 2)
> 3 Movement + Commit: Follow my pack, descend the ladder.

>>6083674
Mmmrrr

Hweh

Hwah. :’(

(Reapply for creative thinking exercises and janitorial staff internship. I.. I can be clever!

Bias against the non verbal…)

Still in the facility, I guess. Where'd Trish find processed wood?

>>6083697
3AP, 6CP: Upskil + Learn on the Job 2 for Shield 13
1TP: Grins, Alekson, grab some supplies. We're gonna see what's out there.

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

>>6083751
TP action vs Senses 10

>>6083737
All right, in that case I'll revise my turn as well.

>3AP, crack open a can of BEANS and slurp down those juices (I know no fear)
>1TP+3AP, start shaking, shouting, and bargaining the troopers awake (SupOp 10, Inspiring 1, 2x BEANS (Temptation beyond measure))

#Amelius
Vit 9/12 SP 7/7 CP 6
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 TP 1
-
Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Severely Dehydrated (-6 Stamax)
Motivated 1 (+1 Stamax, Ineffable)
-
Physicality 10
Senses 11
Thoughts 10
Support Operations 10
Guns (Pistols) 12
-
!Inspiring Presence
!Dreams of the Ocean
-
3x Cans of Beans
1x Rifle reload

>>6083697

Body feels productive and this place cramped.

>[MP 3] Stagger out of Hellevator
>[AP 1] Look for something to drink (Senses +8)
>[AP 2] Figure out what's wrong with my Glands (Thoughts +8)
>Apply for Sheer Violence Of Action

#Chimera
Vit 12 SP 9 CP 6
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 VP0
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Yes
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
Mutability 10
Piercing Resistance 2
#Skill
-
!Resilient Organs
!Biomodulation Strain #3
= Virulent Vitality +1
= Bound by the Flesh
!Relentless

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>>6083730
It appears to be - though the medical phenomena is ill described - the spontaneous manifestation of glacial formations and other ice structures. Try... not giving the world so much of a cold shoulder? It might stop happening.

As for something useful, the only thing in your pockets, Subject Wilder, unfortunately appear a MULTI TOOL and you just can't ever get any use out of one of those.

As for the trees?
Oh the trees . . . They aren't thinking. But the thing that move among them in the dark forest? They are. Too faint too influence. It is really on their total cumulative energy you are sensing, but ah, it is certainly ... something.

>>6083729
All out of everything down at the sigma store, but hey, look, you've got this neat cape, so you've got that going for you, which is nice . . .

>[1/2]

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The world down below the ladder feels somehow more defined, more structured, more *real*, solid in the substance, as if the vast shadow of hours of frantic improvisation no longer holds sway over your mind like a haze.

The terminals here are banged up and overgrown. Overgrown? Hm. the lights in the ceiling are covered in vines, the air takes on a green-tinged quality, slithering little creepers of more organic stuff grow like a new carpet. There's distant rustling. Actual rustling of grass.

Subject Sigma, unprepared for the experience, touches grass. It's. . . not not pleasant.

In the dim lights, here, below the prepared firing position in the elevator above, a few notes are scattered about the walls, pinned with whatever came to hand.

From the north, distant humming of electricity.

From the west?? Left?? DOWN?? THAT PATHWAY?? The area that scents of hunger mixed with food to acolytes sense, and not the icky no good don't go there twang of insect repellant, that area, a prowling pack of Kronin rip-things recently went a-hunting.

--

Osiris prepares a little incission into the trees that hold up the entire elevator, and in a more pervese universe if the first thing someone dies is stab the things that keep aloft the place you all sleep in then you would all immediately die when the fleshwood retracts from the sudden pain, but luckily, they make a resistance roll and you are not crushed to death by sudden change to the local landscape.

>+1 CP: Don't Die On The Second Turn Challenge (IMPOSSIBLE), all Subjects.

It seems the fleshy growth, RED and POINTY, are fleshwood? Woodflesh? Strange amalgamations of biological mass and cellulose and dead things and growing things and they have nerves and almost feel, though as Wilder can attest they aren't in any way thoughtful. They might be trees more prone to react to the physical world than the usual kind? Perhaps they even flinch when stabbed or tapped or when their precious sap is pulled from them.

There are other trees too, down here. Some of the panelling on the corridors is cracked with it. The Brown stuff seems more mundane wood, less prone to sudden movement. It doesn't pulse either. Perhaps that stuff is more sensible sort of material?

--

Chimera gently hears, behind the low hum of enormously high energy capacity wiring, a... shout? a scream? a few soft pat pat pats. Was that a fight? a victory? It happened up out across the darkness that the singular wooden path leads over.

Far beyond it.

--

Get your bearings, still. Breathe. Try to shake the loose, lingering sensation of sluggishness. WAKE UP, alright?

Something is happening. Something is coming. What is a *great hunt* ?

--
subPHARAOH update:

Applications recieved:Processing
Applications approved:Handling
Confirm sign on of new janitorial members and test subjects: Success.
--

Samantha smells. . . something sickly sweet, cloying, almost. Not quite water. No water, in fact, in this place, as far as her senses are concerned.

Bit of a scarce commodity, that precious tasteless flowing fluid. In the hunting area, where a note says one of the walls is loose and to please seal it back up, the cloying sickness of some sugary substance tinged with chemicals abounds. One could probably drink that, if hardy enough.

But subject Amelius, licking the inside of a can of beans with the taste of fruitcake, really wishes he had some water to clean out his mouth.

Subject Gluttony, spitting more teeth from more broken cans, really wants to wash out the the taste of a can of bean lasagne.

You need it. The wet stuff. The drying juices and almost-liquids from other things are too little, too low. Asleep for less than a week and longer than a day and the body hungers, the body needs.

If there's any kind of "great hunt" going on around here, it's going to be your great hunt for a little bit of the precious drinkable stuff.

Or... other things?

--

>WAKE UP!! Phase. That means you lot!
>Things are still nice and quiet. Take a breather. Poke about. Check the landsacpe a little. We've got plenty of times before things get dramatic.
>NOTE section updated.

>JANITOR NOTE: PLEASE FIX THE UNIVERSAL UNDERPINNING HEX GRID, IT'S HARD TO SEE

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>>6083799
Try this.

>>6083800
Thanks, very helpful. You can give yourself +3 CP.

>JANITOR CASE CLOSED, THANKS.

Something's gone a bit wrong with the underpinning of the entire universe, but it is being rectified. Don't feel bad if you cannot entirely see which tile you are in.

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

>>6083799
Gallium
Vit 8/12 SP 12/12 CP 6
DR 4 AP 6 MP 3-1
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
Left Arm Crippled [II]
Damaged Actuators [II II]
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
Thoughts 8
Augmented Systemic [LOS] 10
Electricity Modulators 12 [Focus+1, Stamina x3, Glitch 16)
-
Augmentic Extropian I
[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications] [Meshlinked] [BioElectricity Manifolds]
Cold and logical.

Equipment
In a state of flux.

Logic dictates that before going for any potentially dangerous moves, one should repair oneself. Structural integrity is the key to long-term survival.
>[3 AP, and 3 AP to fully focus on it] Manifest some self-repair subroutines. Nanobots that locate damaged parts and fix them. The nanobots can act as both repairmen and raw materials for repairs. It'd be for the best for them to act passively, so that the host body remains able to move about while being repaired. (Health 12, 1 CP invested)

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

>>6083799
>3 MP: Move 334 (I want to be in a corner)
>6 AP, 8 CP, 6 SP: Manifest a change to Duplicity - I want to have a carapace (skin?) that's very hard if not impossible to see with the naked eye. (Duplicity 1 + 3 Concentration + 8 CP + 6 SP + Malichnid taxonomy) [vs 18 total]
>Gain 1 CP (Creative Thinking Exercises)

#Splendiferous Weaver of the Threads that bind the Squirming Prey Floundering in the Underneath (Samantha)
Vit 12/12 SP 10->4/10 CP 8->0->1 VP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
Claws 12
-
Conditions:
Dehydrated [-2 Stamina]
Strucutral Misalignments II [+3 to any Bleed]
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
Thoughts 8
Mutability 11
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
=Virulent Vitality (Regeneration 3)
=Bound by the Flesh

!Hungry

>>6083801
>>6083800
>>6083799
The quick and quiet nature makes these initial actions easy to resolve. Note if any subjects were missed and didn't "get" to take an initial turn, you can simply take two turns, since this is not fast phases and Command has consistently promising NEXT WEEK.

Maybe some people (NeoGenesis) were simply actually a true believer in honesty and so should not be punished unduly.

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

I see my bone fractures have not gone away. Perhaps I need to eat and drink something. The nutrition may help.

#Acolyte
Vit 10/10 SP 1/10 CP 1
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Battered
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
**Chems+4
**Shared Senses
Thoughts 8
Mutability 11
#Skill
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
- Bound by Flesh 1
- Regen 2
!Craves Purpose
!Social Pheromones
!Creative Thinking Exercise
!Janitorial Intern

> Regen 2, if it helps the bone fractures at all.
> 6 AP, 9 SP, 7 CP, 3 Abberancy: Massively improve my Chems, as so to apply stronger and reliable buffs onto my precious pack. (Senses 9, Chems 4, CP 7, Abberancy 3, Concentration 12, total 35.)
> 3 MP: Continue shambling after my pack mates, who seem to have smelled prey, and are displaying strong initiative.
> Gain one CP at end turn (creative thinking)

(Strikes me better to spend aberrancy sooner rather than later)

Is this a jungle?

Perhaps we can nest here…

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

#Dying Osiris Consequences

Vit 12/12 SP 10/12 CP 7
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive? Functional?
Dehydrated:
-
Physicality 10
Senses 09
Thoughts 08
#Mutability 10 [R3]
#Conversion 10 (turns spare parts into CP)
-
!Augmentic 0 (inherited trait, from Donny O' Cork).
!Biomodulation 0 (newlife)
!Greywire Fragment - Distributed Processing Core
!Descriptor - God of the Dead (thinks he's Osiris)

>Disassemble Pharaoh's IO consoles and thread the wires within to fill my frame with an electromagnetic lattice to allow me to generate a magnetic field and grant me divine levitation. (Conversion 10 + 4 CP, can hang on my will or movement. While I'm currently using it to levitate Magneto style I'd like to be able to use the system to generate magnetic fields elsewhere in the future. Magneto-style).

>Through mighty Pharaoh's sinews which now fill me ask wise Pharaoh to show me, and by extension the Aristocrats, what is seen through Pharaoh's eyes and ears in this forest-like place.

>>6083800
>>6083816

Minor correction

For the turn to work, I should move and *then* manifest. Slight error borne of copy paste.

My bad.

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

>>6083800
>/-/-/-/
>ACTIONYBITS INNIT
>/-/-/-/

>Sign up for Sheer Violence of Action (repeat, but just making sure it was seen)
MP2: Sit down on a tree root
AP3: MEDITATE on the HORRIFIC PAIN of the FIRE VULNERABILITY to try to find my STOLEN CP in the AETHER. [Thoughts 8, Focus 1]
AP3: CHEW on my CAN O' BEANS, drinking of the LIGHT SYRUP that sustains all life in the DEEP BELOW. [Physicality 10, Teeth -3, Strength +2, Commit]
RECOVER 3

>/-/-/-/
>INFOBITS INNIT
>/-/-/-/
Subject: #Gluttony
Vit 12 SP 10 CP 7
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
>-
>Stats
>-
Health 12 (Regen 3) Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
Conditions:
Alive, Dehydrated, Loose Teeth, Tinnitus
>-
>Skills
>-
Physicality 10
[Loose Teeth -3, Reach 2]
[Strength +2]
Senses 7
[Shared Senses +1]
[Tinnitus -2]
Thoughts 8
Mutability 10
Acid Glands [x2 Lethality Acid-EX]
>-
>Traits
>-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
[Virulent Vitality][Bound by the Flesh]
!Wild-Eyed
>-
>Inventory
>-
[Creative Thinking Exercises] Enrollee

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>>6083816
How do you move after taking a turn ending action, oh subject? Your turn would be over!

You also have no Aberrancy, mores the pity, subject. You once were subject to a roll of Aberrancy that got a margin of +3, and adjusted some things that since passed. This was probably unclear, because you were buried in riot police at the time and eating your friends. In fact. . .

Your regenerate helps not one with with the bone fractures, unfortunately. Or in a sense, your regeneration means that despite the bone fractures you are still alive?

Unfortunately, removing conditions like that takes a few careful hours of surgery for most normal people and merely great medical care for someone like you. Or there's some other ways and means. Alas, Regeneration won't quite cut it.

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>>6083816
>>6083820
>>6083823
The Aberrancy accrued, tested itself, rolled some various dice in the background, and immediately resulted in you gaining Mutability +1 and becoming slightly more of a horrendously interesting intricate example of the joys of genetics by increasing your Bound by the Flesh trait.

Which, since you're surely making inquires in your mind, imply that you can make changes to yourself that are harder than other, less powerful changelings. It pairs with the increase Mutability to allow a significantly larger array of adaptions, on account of how you devoured the heart of your similar kin.

>>6083800
Raven, I'd appreciate it if you could stay and guard the... treehouse? I'm going to find Fox and Petri some help.

>1TP, direct Raven to guard the base (SupOp 10, Inspiring 1)
>3AP, grab the scragbow and arrows - it's pretty much the same as a gun, yeah? Point and shoot, too easy.
>3MP, get me out of this nightmare box and walk me towards that woodchild village - I have beans to trade.
>3AP, listen to the forest and observe the path I'm about to tread - what horrors await me? (Sense 11)

#Amelius
Vit 9/12 SP 7/7 CP 6
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 TP 1
-
Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Severely Dehydrated (-6 Stamax)
Motivated 1 (+1 Stamax, Ineffable)
-
Physicality 10
Senses 11
Thoughts 10
Support Operations 10
Guns (Pistols) 12
-
!Inspiring Presence
!Dreams of the Ocean
-
2x Cans of Beans
1x Rifle reload
1x Scragbow
1x Arrow quiver (Barbs)

>>6083824
Ah, I see, I see

If any of you fine mutants die, I will happily eat your corpses too. It would be unsanitary to leave them to rot!

……

Is what I would say if Acolyte had the capacity.

Mmmrr

Rah!

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

>>6083799
>CP 7->8 (Creative Thinking Exercises)
>6AP, 9SP, 8CP: Manifest an improved ability to invade and take over anything that dares threaten my supremacy in the microcosm. (8CP, 12 Concentration, Lethality 1 if I can key it off that or Virality -8 if I can't)

Let's try that again, shall we. I WILL have my throne back.

#Bob the Virus
Coherency 8/8 SP 0/9 CP 0
Regeneration 2
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 10 Reaction 8 Will 10
Virality -8 Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Pathogenic Analysis 8 (Virality -8)
Nanocytic Countersampling 2 (Max Coherency -2)
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
=Shared Sights
Thoughts 8
Mutability 10
=Exceeding +3
Pluripotentiality 12 [Aura 3, Vector]
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
= Fleshshaping
= Virulent Vitality
= Bound by the Flesh
!Overprotective

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>>6083824
>>6083823
>>6083816
Aberrancy, in fact, always tests against itself, spends itself immediately, and ruins your day. A changeling can no more build up reserves of Aberrancy than can change itself be stockpiled for later use.

If you had a permanent Aberrancy Score of 3, you would be testing - at the end of every phase you act - to violently mutate in an uncontrolled way, and by now, you would be something entirely unrecognizable and mostly probably would have cannibalized your entire brain into more eyeballs or something equally mutagenic.

Aberrancy, in fact, is not a thing that you - a subject - can really "interact with" at all, unless the situation is recklessly extreme. If it ever does appear on your sheet, it would be noted as Aberrancy, SC xx, indicating a self control roll against a value. Such rolls occur out of your control and are done by the world to simulate you managing to maintain control of yourself in a horrendously difficult situation. On a failure (or if the "thing" wins in some cases), you are forced to do things you might not want to do.

So.

>>6083816
You will need to do another turn, for this is impossible in multiple ways. It's quite alright, there was a *lot* going on.

If you ever see yourself (or anyone else) noting Aberrancy +2 or +3 or +6, that is a facility note declaring than an Aberrancy *test* happened and accrued that amount of total cumulative effect.

If you ever see Aberrancy +8, or really any number higher than five, spend 6 SP to immediately take more actions and *RUN IN THE OTHER DIRECTION*.

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

>>6083833
Got it boss.

#Acolyte
Vit 10/10 SP 1/10 CP 1
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Battered
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
**Chems+4
**Shared Senses
Thoughts 8
Mutability 11
#Skill
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
- Bound by Flesh 1
- Regen 2
!Craves Purpose
!Social Pheromones
!Creative Thinking Exercise
!Janitorial Intern

> Regen 2, which does not terribly help but does make me feel better.

> 3 MP: Jog after my pack mates, who seem to have smelled prey, and are displaying strong initiative.
> 6 AP, 9 SP, 7 CP: Massively improve my Chems, as so to apply stronger and reliable buffs onto my precious pack. (Senses 9, Chems 4, CP 7, Concentration 12, total 32.)
> Gain one CP at end turn (creative thinking)

Raah!

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

>>6083674
>Sign up for: Creative Thinking Exercises

>>6083697
>3AP: Firmly grip my flashlight in hand
>3AP+3MP: Leave this deathtrap treehouse elevator

>>6083797
(CP is 8)
>6AP: Focusing, Augmented Systemics 10+4CP calling on Resiliant Streak! Trait-> Can I manifest a nanomachine subroutine to repair damaged systems and make them thougher?

>>6083800
#NeoGenesis
Vit 12/12 SP 12/12
DR 3 AP 6 MP 3
CP 4 VP 0
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
Thoughts 8
Augmented Systemics 10
-
!Augmentic-Extropian
[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications] [Jolt Chargers]
!Resilient Streak
-
Equipment:
Nice Cap
Pistol, +5 reloads
Flashlight
Baton
Experimental Vial
Sling bag: 4x Can O' Beans, 4x Energy Bar's

>>6083799
>Approach the loose wall to the hunting grounds. (Move - 2 MP)
> Push open then squeeze through the barricade leading into the hunting grounds (Minor Action & Adroit - 1AP & 1 MP)
> Tentatively proceed further down the path, circumventing any obvious hazards and pitfalls (Move - 3 MP)
> Be ready to evade if set upon by hostile entities lurking beyond the treeline (Reaction - 5AP)

>>6083800
>[3 MP] Leave the elevator.
>[3 AP + 3 AP Concentrating] Meditate and focus your psionic energies to generate some kind of ice pillar from your body. [Focus 1, Thoughts 8, Psionigenesis 10, Glaciogenesis II II].

Hopefully this doesn't destroy me instantly, would be great to deal with everyone's dehydration problem.

#Wilder
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
Dehydrated [-4 Stamina]
Glaciogenesis II II [SC 9]
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
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] (Manifest external features only)
!Peace and love, man.
-
Inventory:
Multi Tool.
-

Rolled 4 + 3 (1d6 + 3)

>>6083873
Whoops, dropped these. At least, I think I'm supposed to roll here?

>TP: Squad, get on these terminals and figure out what this room was for. What was it doing before whatever this is? Thought 10
>3MP: Leave the house
>Compare arrows SW to the ones in the bucket. Same? Thought 10
>Investigate bark and teal stuff S. Senses 11
>Think: How detached is detached for Cool Under Fire? Is a single trooper receiving orders detached? Or do they have to leave my command range?

>>6083875
3d6 without modifiers but list your modifiers in the action (as you did). [Psionigenesis 10, Focus 1, Concentration 3] probably, but I don't really get what all goes into a roll either.

>>6083897
Huh, okay. I just took the example in the tutorial image (uses only 1d6 from attacking +3 from concentrating). Will keep this in mind for the future.

(New ID is from me phoneposting in bed, gomen.)

Rolled 5, 6, 2, 5, 6, 2 = 26 (6d6)

>6083799

Those sounds tell things and sightlines in this place are limited to say at least.

>[MP 3] NW, N, NW
>[AP 3] Peer to other side of this wire mess maybe i can see something (Senses +8)
>[AP 3] Manifest more Keen and Larger ears like those of the animals outside to better hear and locate movement (CP 7 + Senses 8)
>Apply for Sheer Violence Of Action
#Chimera
Vit 12 SP 9 CP 7
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 VP0
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Yes
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
Mutability 10
Piercing Resistance 2
#Skill
-
!Resilient Organs
!Biomodulation Strain #3
= Virulent Vitality +1
= Bound by the Flesh
!Relentless

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

>>6083799
>Sign up for the Creative Thinking Exercise: "yes, friend computer, I am *very* creative...what...? What do you mean all I do is dread and entropy, entropy and dread...? Get new material...? You're hurting my feelings, friend computer..."
>MP: get out of this treehouse. Oh and bring the empty bean can. We'll need it.
>6 AP: Recover. Or, rather, attempt to subvert the Distracting Voices by filtering out the most "unhelpful" ones. Maybe something of value will remain? (Psychogenesis 10 + 3)

#Nadir
Vit 12/12 SP 10/10 CP 7 VP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive!
Dehydrated
Distracting Voices II II
Bullet Magnet II
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
Thoughts 8
#Psychogenesis 10
[Anxiety Churn 2, Aura Close)
-
!Psionic-Resonant 1
[Microslip Precognition] (Evade additional up to Focus)
[Many Hands, Light Work]
!Telekinetic 1 (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients)
[Temple Inviolate] (only Manifest External)
!Existential Dread
!Shared Sights

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

>>6083797
>+1 CP From Creative Thinking Exercises last turn
>+1 CP For this turn

>Move 61
>6AP Manifest "Let Me Break It Down For You". When observing a dance within the LMBIDFY field, observers are compelled to join in, taking psychic damage. (vs 3+4CP+Psychogenesis 11 = 18)

#Subject Sigma
Vit 12/12 SP 10/10 CP 5
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
Thoughts 8
#Psychogenesis 11
-
!Incurable Brainrot
!Telekinetic+1(Ranged Phys, Mind)
!Psionic-Resonant(Eva+, External)

>>6083797
Sargeant Grone
Vit 12 SP 10/10 (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 11 (-2 Visual)
Thoughts 10
Harass 10
-
!Mean Wolfpack
!Loves His Job
!Don't Let Up

THERE'S PURGING TO BE DONE AND OVERTIME TO CLOCK, Wake up wake up wake-
> Wake up and DODGE THE INCOMING SWIPE that yellow thing just *TWITCHED* HOLY JESUS
> ADROIT: dive through the tower of cans (physical 10)
> MINOR/Pockets: Fumble for a weapon (senses? 11)
> MAJOR/Move and Do: scramble down the ladder screaming ambush (harass-10 mark tarkets)

>>6084182
With two T's, as he says, for a twin taste of this pimping.

Slight minor interference, turn roughly 12 hours from this point.

>>6083903
>>6083897
It’s simple alchemy (A lie).

A 3d6 vs governing skill or quality usually, lower is better. Sometimes, Lethality and Focus and Duplicity and Alacrity and Virality and Authority and other STUFF helps, but it doesn’t always factor.

Concentrate and such things raise the target, so Physicality 11 Concentration 2 you’re checking against 13.

Two quick differences:

“ Flip a table “ Physicality 7
“ Break this Guards Arm “ Physicality 7 Lethality 6

3d6 for both (it’s always 3d6), but for the table flipping being more lethal doesn’t help directly whereas for the part where one does violence it very much would and the world would treat the check as against 13 (7+6), because being more lethal makes the breaking easier.

Admittedly this can make odds estimates a little hard, but it’s why we use 3d6. If your target is 10ish, it’s a coinflip, at 12ish you’ll be okay and at 14ish and higher you’re in the 90%+ range.

Another way to look at it is to think of it as compositions of BASE + TRAIT + MODS.

Take our Wilder, who tries to use Psychogenesis (10). It’s a 3d6 vs 10, and he gets to benefit from + 1 for his Focus and + 1 for easy access to a Glaciogenesis tap, which, while it actually is a negative condition, makes his acts easier here. Total target: 12.

We can’t use Thoughs 8 simultaneously because he’s not thinking about ice or ice related things or making someone think about it. Though interestingly this action did have a quick additional Thoughts rolled attached to gauge precision, so listing it was coincidentally lucky ( Command would have had to go look at the sheet otherwise, which takes 10 more seconds, which is nothing, but with 17 Subjects it’s 170 seconds aggregate so…)

Anyway, 3d6 vs a base, then usually you get a few positive modifications for situations, traits and things to hand.

The rules are coy about this because there’s no need to make people hyperfocus on bonus acquisitions right now, but at least you can rest assured most of your actions actually have slight better odds of success than you fear.

So yeah, 3d6 vs target which you usually get from a skill or attribute then sometimes we add a little more bonus from particular traits which is why it’s so helpful when you list them. Thanks.

Rolled 5, 1, 1 = 7 (3d6)

>>6084470
The fog clears and everything makes sense now. Appreciate the writeup! Attached should be the actual dice now, apologies for any inconvenience this all might have caused.

>>6084509
Beginner's luck.

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A soothing metallic voice rings out of a nearby terminal, tinged with a top of anxiety that it somehow communicates with a warbling and a digitized little lingering sub-chime.

SUBJECTS.
LISTEN TO ME.

YOU HAVE TO IMMEDIATEL--

The line cuts out and the voice dies

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Orisis rips some wires out of a nearby terminal and destroys every other terminal within immediate reach by starting the irreversible process by which they get converted to available spare material.

Any available janitorial assistants receive a new HIGH PRIORITY mission form the autonomous systems

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A Sgt(?) snaps awake and immediately realizes this is HOSTILE TERRITORY there are BEASTS EVERYWHERE he is UNARMED they want the JUICES IN HIS HEAD it is time to MOVE MOVE MOVE MOVE MOVE and in a flurry of beans, he throws himself out of the doorway.

Very tactical.

The nearby Ripthing, unfurling to its feet, mrews in confusion. It was only licking his boot because it was tasty.

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>>6084742
>DO something!
No, I don't think I shall.
I shall Cultivate.

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Waking up, stretching, rolling to their feet, in some cases suddenly, the Subjects gradually fan out. Eat cans. Check terminals. Try to locate missing members of a hunting pack.

The environment sings with a soft vibration of pulsating life. Little crunches underfoot from things that could be leaves. Wood and roots poke through the sterile corridor walls, panels displaced, light fixtures cracked by the pressure of nature. Sometimes, the hardened and resilient facility interior remains triumphant against the encroachment of life. Sometimes, life wins.

Everett and Acolyte scamper down a side-path and push open a heavy bit of wall which swings easily enough. Roots and other things have conspired to hang it at an angle, and with a little bit of pushing, it works like a clever, concealed door.

The area beyond is strange. Clearly, some kind of corridor, once, but now it hums with the activity of a million mishapen insects, a vending machine has spilled its delectable innards all over the ground and a thick, soupy mass of miscoloured liquid seeps slowly across the ground. Bushes rustle. More plants here than the usual decoration. Most of them seem untended.

--

Chimera spots a OH NO OH GODS OH NO OH FUCK OH SHIT OH NO NOT THAT NOT THAT ANYTHING BUT THAT somewhere beyond the fronds and verdant bits of life falling from the ceilling.

--

Samantha can just about see a placid looking clearing, beyond a section of wall that looks a little more wooden than most. It might be possible for someone very flexible to squeeze through.

--

Wildeer concentrates and tries to draw moisture from the air and the earth and condense it into a cool, refreshing drink, and soft mist swirls around their limbs. This place is so *dry*. The air fairly sparks with lack of humidity. But still, he manages. Look: Cool, clear ice-crystals...

> STAND BY FOR YAWNING PHASE

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Gluttony manifests his support for the Throne. Unwashed drug dealer and single mom ripthings should not decide the fate of cultivators. The constitution cannot guarantee my right to vending machine snacks - it is a feckless scrap of paper. Only the King's honorbound promise to his knights can protect my rights.

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Chimera spots him.
Luckily, the dense vegetation, darkness, fronds and grass and strands and pulsating fleshwoodmeat means the God does not spot Chimera.

There it is. Long memories of failed tests and burned friends and the tang of chemicals. Sanitation Officer. In locked rooms on bad days when the curriculum shifted and the overseers were harsh and things went bad, these little godlings in their yellow'd armor with their glaring green eyes would pry you apart. Pry your friends apart. Burn things. Bleach them. Salt the earth. Inflict horror unmentionable and destruction unmatched.

The Hazard Operations Group Chimera and the others fought on the floors above (how far above?) were just underlings wearing illfitting hastily thrown on chemical defenses and masks, scrambled security officers to try and control specimens run rampant.

This man?
This. . . *thing* . . .

It is a Professional.

And every hair in Chimera's body raises rigid in horror-shock when its insectile mask briefly turns towards Chimera's hiding place

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Straining senses, Chimera can pick up the soft mumbling of two out of their depth security officers and one harsh buzzing voice that comes over a very, very effective mask so good at separating the boundaries between inside and outside that the voice has to be provided by a digitized external unit.

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Chimera flinches further into hiding as the Sanitation Officer spins on his teammates and his buzzing, digitized voice kicks it up a notch - one of them just sneezed and the spray of goblets and gunk practically writhes across the floor.

With a heavy, thundering sigh that the systems in his suit boosts to high pitched levels, the Sanitation officer activates his burn turrets and begins to wander away. The pair of security guards, one looking decidedly more pale than the other, linger a moment longer before heading in another direction. Likely towards some sort of hospital or isolation ward.

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Bob shakes off the first probing scouts of the nanocytic countermeasures, though the cost is gruelling. The headaches, shivers and dizziness that washes over everyone is sign of intense warfare happening in a realm beyond the senses.

--

Grins and Alekson check the terminals but they're no good. PHARAOH seemed to have important messages to convey, but this place is too overgrown and Osiris destroyed all the functional uplinks. You'll have to find some other way to communicate with the MESH systems.

--

Sgt Grone flicks his new knife through the air, triumphant.

--

A small pack of Ripthings roll down the ladder with remarkable grace and follow the trail of COME HERE chemicals that Acolyte has left, though, to their despair, all they find is 21% of Acolyte's body in the form of a severed arm and most of her upper torso in a pile of chemicals that indicate intense horror. Following the COME HERE trail further into the undergrowth, an unseen murderous striker lunghes from the dark and a Ripthing disappears in a sudden blur of movement.

The other three stop short and flick their fangs at the world. This place does reek of INTENSE DANGER.

--

Wilder concentrates and focuses and almost loses his concenration when a powerful urge to do the worm comes over them, but preservering, a small glob of crystaline ice gradually accumulates in front of their hands. Pure, clean and cold. What a wonder.

--

>WAKING PHASE, that's you lot!
>SUBJECT ACOLYTE IS MISSING

Rolled 5, 1, 6, 5, 3, 2 = 22 (6d6)

>>6084783
>/-/-/-/
>ACTIONYBITS INNIT
>/-/-/-/

Gluttony focuses on the ringing deep within his head. Its high pitched droning is like a clarion bell for his meditation. Multitudes of scrittering democrats and the encroachment of FLAME VULNERABILITY PAIN will not distract him from his Cultivating.

He feels the imbalance of his Qi. His iron reinforced teeth are no doubt weakened by the Wood Dao in this place is suppressing the Metal Dao fengshui. He will take in the Wood Dao to his Qi cycle and begin to move it about to maximize the Metal fengshui and heal his teeth.

AP3: GROW - Wood Dao roots extend from my body into the ground, becoming one with the mycelium network and extending beyond my body to take in water and nutrients. The rasping thirst and churning hunger in my gullet will subside through force of will. [Mutability 10, Focus 1]
AP3: GROW - Feel the Metal all around me with my roots, encasing me. Take in the Metal Dao and regrow my teeth. [Health 12, Lethality 1, Commit]
RECOVER 3


>/-/-/-/
>INFOBITS INNIT
>/-/-/-/
Subject: #Gluttony
Vit 12 SP 11 CP 8
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
>-
>Stats
>-
Health 12 (Regen 3) Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
Conditions:
Alive, Dehydrated, Loose Teeth, Tinnitus
>-
>Skills
>-
Physicality 10
[Loose Teeth -3, Reach 2]
[Strength +2]
Senses 7
[Shared Senses +1]
[Tinnitus -2]
Thoughts 8
Mutability 10
Acid Glands [x2 Lethality Acid-EX]
>-
>Traits
>-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
[Virulent Vitality][Bound by the Flesh]
!Wild-Eyed
>-
>Initiatives
>-
[Creative Thinking Exercises] Enrollee

>>6084783
> Move over to the glowing green rectangle a little further down the path. Presumably some kind of toppled vending machine. Still mostly sealed by the looks of it. (Move - 2MP)
> Pick up one of the blue things scattered across the path, seemingly having been disgorged from the nearby broken vending machine. (Minor Action - 1AP)
> Peer inside of the other vending machines, the ones which haven't been broken into. Take stock of their contents and compare it against the object picked up off the ground. (3AP - Test and Try)
> Remain vigilant. Be prepared to evade in the event that something attempts to ambush me. (React - 2AP 1MP)

>>6084783
>3 MP, 3 AP: Move 166, 655
>3 AP: Defend
>Gain 1 CP (Creative Thinking Exercises)

Samantha##BigSpiderEnergy

#Splendiferous Weaver of the Threads that bind the Squirming Prey Floundering in the Underneath (Samantha)
Vit 12/12 SP 2/8 CP 1->2 VP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
Claws 12
-
Conditions:
Very Dehydrated [-4 Stamina]
Strucutral Misalignments II [+3 to any Bleed]
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
Thoughts 8
Mutability 11
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
=Virulent Vitality (Regeneration 3)
=Bound by the Flesh

!Hungry

Primary Taxonomy: Malichnid

>>6084783
Hello, woodchildren? I come bearing BEANS - beans for trade!

>3MP, move 3SE and adroit through the door (Physicality 10)
>3AP, defend
>3AP, THINK - what could a woodchild be? Perhaps I knew once, before the facility (Thoughts 10)

#Amelius
Vit 9/12 SP 7/7 CP 7
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 TP 1
-
Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Severely Dehydrated (-6 Stamax)
Motivated 1 (+1 Stamax, Ineffable)
-
Physicality 10
Senses 11
Thoughts 10
Support Operations 10
Guns (Pistols) 12
-
!Inspiring Presence
!Dreams of the Ocean
-
2x Cans of Beans
1x Rifle reload
1x Scragbow
1x Arrow quiver (Barbs)

Rolled 4, 5, 6, 6, 6, 4 = 31 (6d6)

>>6084783
Gallium
Vit 8/12 SP 12/12 CP 6
DR 5 AP 6 MP 3-1
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
Left Arm Crippled [II]
Damaged Actuators [II II]
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
Thoughts 8
Augmented Systemic [LOS] 10
Electricity Modulators 12 [Focus+1, Stamina x3, Glitch 16)
-
Augmentic Extropian I
[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications] [Meshlinked] [BioElectricity Manifolds] [Compensators 2]
Cold and logical.

Equipment
In a state of flux.

"Hostile, last spotted in the hunting grounds. Initiating retrieval of Subject Acolyte. Assistance required."
>-Activate Compensators, pay 2 SP, get 2 health back, ignore the fried actuators.
>[3 AP] Generate electricity, preemptively charge my metal parts to shock any would-be ambushers. (Electricity Modulators 12)
>Move 655
>[3 AP, reaction] Preparing to fire a stunning bolt of lightning at any hostile predators. Especially the one that grabbed Acolyte. (Electricity Modulators 12)

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

>>6084783

>[3 AP] Consume part of your ice sphere to introduce some much needed liquid into your system.
>[3 MP] Move S, SW, SW.
>[3 AP, Reaction] Prepare to throw your ice ball to any hostile organisms that jump out, don't want to end up like Acolyte. (Psiogenesis 10, Telekinetic).

The ice-man cometh.


#Wilder
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
Dehydrated [-4 Stamina]
Glaciogenesis II II [SC 9]
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
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] (Manifest external features only)
!Peace and love, man.
-
Inventory:
Multi Tool.
-

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

>>6084783
Wha-

#Acolyte
Vit 10/10 SP 1/10 CP 1
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Battered
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
**Chems+4
**Shared Senses
Thoughts 8
Mutability 11
#Skill
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
- Bound by Flesh 1
- Regen 2
!Craves Purpose
!Social Pheromones
!Creative Thinking Exercise
!Janitorial Intern

Help! Help!

> Regen 2
> 3 AP: Become staggeringly unappealing to devour- that is, poisonous. (Mutability 11, Duplicity 1)
> 3 AP: Spew our pheromones begging for help. Help! Help! (???, Evolution?)


What the actual-

How is this thing hurting worse than *guns*!?

>>6084821
I guess my CP is now 2, now that it helps much.

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

>>6084783
"Hm...so you can do that, Wilder? Let's see..."

>+1 CP
>6 AP: create ice ball (Psychogenesis 10 + 3, Focus)

#Nadir
Vit 12/12 SP 10/10 CP 8 VP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive!
Dehydrated
Distracting Voices II I
Bullet Magnet II
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
Thoughts 8
#Psychogenesis 10
-
!Psionic-Resonant 1
[Microslip Precognition] (Evade additional up to Focus)
[Many Hands, Light Work]
!Telekinetic 1 (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients)
[Temple Inviolate] (only Manifest External)
!Existential Dread
!Shared Sights
-
Equipment:
Biometric Card

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The subject leaves subject-town to prowl a little further, and a lightning strike finds a pair of predators already half through their newest, most succulent meal.

Gluttony, the glutton, leeches some nutrients from distant root systems, and though they try, they do not overcome his innate defenses. Close run, though! These things are also loaded with interesting virals, they might not like giving up their precious molecules!

Amelius squeezes through a tight gap and brushes away some undergrowth. The doors are in a state. Activating the switch would likely have gone nowhere good. And beyond a... open space? The smell of cook fires? sweat? what seems almost like structures, in the gloom, and the sound of voices. But they're raised in alarm!!

And in front of Amelius, on the thickly grown grass and other plant matter, two dead forms have fresh green-stained wounds as blunt weaponry have crushed their fragile, bark-like skulls

>WAKING PHASE
>**ALL SUBECTS** can take a new turn; no hostiles are doing anything they wouldn't like to keep doing, and this is still light activity and simple things.

[1/2]

>>6084829
>3Move 333
>6AP Head toward the southern area with the roots and meadow?

+1 CP From Creative Thinking Exercises

#Subject Sigma
Vit 12/12 SP 10/10 CP 6
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
Thoughts 8
#Psychogenesis 11
-
!Incurable Brainrot
!Telekinetic+1(Ranged Phys, Mind)
!Psionic-Resonant(Eva+, External)

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

>>6084829
#Acolyte
Vit ??//10 SP 0/2 CP 3
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
AAAH
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
**???
**Shared Senses
Thoughts 8
Mutability 11
#Skill
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
- Bound by Flesh 1
- Regen 2
!Craves Purpose
!Social Pheromones
!Creative Thinking Exercise
!Janitorial Intern

> Regen 2 (aaaaah)
> AP 6 (Buff my allied pack mates with pheromones when they attack. Senses 9 + ??? + concentration 3 + duplicity 1)

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

>>6084829
#Gallium
Vit 10/12 SP 10/12 CP 6
DR 5 AP 6 MP 3-1
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
Left Arm Crippled [II]
Damaged Actuators [II II]
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
Thoughts 8
Augmented Systemic [LOS] 10
Electricity Modulators 12 [Focus+1, Stamina x3, Glitch 16)
-
Augmentic Extropian I
[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications] [Meshlinked] [BioElectricity Manifolds] [Compensators 2]
Cold and logical.

Equipment
In a state of flux.

"I will attempt to get closer. Please cover me."
>-Activate Compensators, pay 2, compensate for the actuators.
>[3 AP] Charge my metallic part for defensive purposes. These creatures hunt with metal blades, so this should serve as an adequate defense. (Electricity Modulators 12)
>Move 611
>[3 AP] Attempt to shock the creature pinning Acolyte. Use a non-lethal amount of charge, to avoid frying Acolyte along with the root crawler. (Electricity Modulators 12, Focus 1]

Rolled 5, 2, 4, 5, 6, 1 = 23 (6d6)

>>6084829
>/-/-/-/
>ACTIONYBITS INNIT
>/-/-/-/

Gluttony keeps his eyes closed, but slowly rises into a graceful Tai Chi pose, and begins to groove it to Sigma's bassline. When the bass drops, he will pop his hips back and forth to the beat. Brain rot +1.

AP1: the roots are resisting! STOP RESISTING! I designate them as a foe with extreme violence of action!
AP4: Beat the roots into submission with a surge of Wood Dao! [Mutability 10, Focus 1, Concentration 1]
AP4: Force the subdued roots to give up their delicious molecules to heal me even as I groove. [Health 12, Lethality 1, Concentrate 1]
Recover 3

>/-/-/-/
>INFOBITS INNIT
>/-/-/-/
Subject: #Gluttony
Vit 12 SP 11 CP 9
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
>-
>Stats
>-
Health 12 (Regen 3) Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
Conditions:
Alive, Dehydrated, Loose Teeth, Tinnitus
>-
>Skills
>-
Physicality 10
[Loose Teeth -2, Reach 2]
[Strength +2]
Senses 8
[Shared Senses +1]
[Tinnitus -1]
Thoughts 8
Mutability 10
Acid Glands [x2 Lethality Acid-EX]
>-
>Traits
>-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
[Virulent Vitality][Bound by the Flesh]
!Wild-Eyed
>-
>Initiatives
>-
[Creative Thinking Exercises] Enrollee
[Extreme Violence of Action] I think

Rolled 2, 4, 2 = 8 (3d6)

>>6084829
>3 MP, 1 AP: Move 561 2
>5 AP: Attack the Feral Root Crawler at my 1 with my Claws (Claws 12 + Lethality 1 + 2 Concentration) [vs 15 total]
>Gain 1 CP (Creative Thinking Exercises)

#Splendiferous Weaver of the Threads that bind the Squirming Prey Floundering in the Underneath (Samantha)
Vit 12/12 SP 2/8 CP 2->3 VP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
Claws 12
-
Conditions:
Very Dehydrated [-4 Stamina]
Strucutral Misalignments II [+3 to any Bleed]
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
Thoughts 8
Mutability 11
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
=Virulent Vitality (Regeneration 3)
=Bound by the Flesh

!Hungry

Primary Taxonomy: Malichnid

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Amelius isn't ENTIRLEY sure what these Wood Children are about, but he makes a few educated guesses and thinks it might be something like this?

Further THOUGHTS and INVESTIGATION is likely to uncover the truth of the matter more precisely, as intelligence accrues and the veil of ignorance lifts

[2/2]
Carry on!

>>6084829
> Attempt to smash open the glass display panel on vending machine containing the precious soda and lay claim to its carbonated bounty. (Test and try - 6AP)
> This process will probably be noisy. Be mindful of your surroundings and be ready to dodge. (React - 3MP)

>>6084829
Woodfriend, I don't think you heard me - I come bearing beans. *Beans*, savory and del- wait, that's a lot of corpses. Let me help you out!

>3MP, move up next to the Wooden One - loud enough not to startle him
>3AP, make friendly contact, offering up a can of beans in good faith (Thoughts 10? That's kind of a diplomatic stat?
>3AP+4SP, aim, ready, and fire an arrow at whatever is killing Wooden Ones - action speaks louder than... well, an insurmountable language barrier! (Lethality 11 + ?Acc)

#Amelius
Vit 9/12 SP 3/7 CP 7
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 TP 1
-
Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Severely Dehydrated (-6 Stamax)
Motivated 1 (+1 Stamax, Ineffable)
-
Physicality 10
Senses 11
Thoughts 10
Support Operations 10
Guns (Pistols) 12
-
!Inspiring Presence
!Dreams of the Ocean
-
2x -> 1x Cans of Beans
1x Rifle reload
1x Scragbow
1x Arrow quiver (Barbs)

Rolled 5, 4, 5 = 14 (3d6)

>>6084829
>[2 MP] Move SW, NW.
>[3 AP + 3 AP Concentration] Try to form ice spears using the Root Crawler on the left's own fluids, skewering it from the inside. [Glaciogenesis II II, Lethality 1].

No one messes with my friends.

#Wilder
Vit 12 SP 10 CP 1 -> 2
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
Dehydrated [-4 Stamina]
Glaciogenesis II II [SC 9]
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
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] (Manifest external features only)
!Peace and love, man.
-
Inventory:
Multi Tool.
-

Rolled 4, 2, 2, 1, 6, 3 = 18 (6d6)

>>6084829
Missed turn:
>+1CP
>6AP: Recover Stamina (Health 10, Concentration 3)

This turn
>+1CP
>6AP: Infect the corpses of the woodfleshchildren near Amelius. Study the workings of their biology, read their genetic material, learn how their certainly irregular nervous system works, where memories and other things are stored and whether I can read their language center to learn the words they use, focus especially on learning how the inactive remnants of their immune system would have fought off my microscopic enemies (Thoughts 8, Focus 1, Concentration 3)

Command, it only just occurred me, the Exceeding trait I had manifested last map was a Virality buff. Did I lose it too in my dormancy?

#Bob the Virus
Coherency 6/6 SP 0/9 CP 2
Regeneration 2
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 10 Reaction 8 Will 10
Virality -6 Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Pathogenic Analysis 6 (Virality -6)
Nanocytic Countersampling 4 (Max Coherency -4)
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
=Shared Sights
Thoughts 8
Mutability 10
=Exceeding +3
Pluripotentiality 12 [Aura 3, Vector]
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
= Fleshshaping
= Virulent Vitality
= Bound by the Flesh
!Overprotective

Rolled 2, 4, 3, 3, 5, 1, 3, 4, 5 = 30 (9d6)

>>6083818
Arright, Notorious D-O-C. I got orders to incapacitate you, which means you got two options: a fight with all the janitors, or I put you under strict terms on Cold Bone probation. You can decide while we whack you a bit to keep Pharaoh happy.

>>6084829
We're still limited to 3AP, right?

>1AP: Mark Osiris, Sense 11
>3MP: Move to Osiris
>5AP: Grapple Osiris, Physicality 10+2
>1TP: Vandal! Whackem, guys! Physicality 10+Pile In 1+CUF 1

Vitality 7 Stamina 10 Tactical 1
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 6
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 10
Thoughts 10
Shield 13
#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
!Janitor Intern

Riot Shield (E)
Pistol, 2 reloads
Baton (E)

>>6084898
disregard AP question.

>>6084864
>>6084829
Ah, I thought Sheer Violence of Action granted +3 AP rather than x2 lethality. Consider the extra AP to be SP instead.
>>6084875
May Heaven give me the strength to resist these temptations. True citrusy refreshment comes from cycling our Qi.

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Sallying forth, Gallium leads the western group in a heroic counter-offensive to reclaim missing acolytes and other things; shocking explosions of surging electricity mixing with a spiking growth of sharp icicles formed from Acolyte's blood and other fluids.

--

In the shadow of the elevator, Sundae arrests a VANDAL MISCREANT and the the Automated Janitorial Systems thank him and his deputies profusely , but the gratitude is somewhat undercut by the rumbling and shaking and rain of dust and debris... Is... is the elevator... shuddering?

Is this a safe place to be?

--

Everett bashes open a vending machine to get at th treasure within. A thousand cans of thousand colours, and all the carbonated fizzy drunk that emperors could desire. Other hunters glare at his take, jealous.

--

Amelius and Sigma makes interpretive dance diplomatic gestures!

--

>STAND BY FOR YAWNING PHASE

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The ferocious attack destroys one scuttling root crawler and the other flees. One ripthing pulls Acolyte away and licks them to make sure they're alright. Relatively straight forward rescue operation.

In the distance, a sentry gleams.

We've found our missing subject! Good work people!

--

Subject Gluttony goes missing! We've lost another one, people!

--

Subject Aolyte can see their own arm, wriggling, on the ground. Luckily, for some people, losing and finding limbs is fairly straight forward business. What a unique experience, though.

>DISMEMEBERED. WOW. HOW FUN. +2 CP, Acolyte.

--

>WAKING PHASE
>THAT MEANS YOU LOT
>ETA 18+ Hours.

>>6084958
"Huh...guess creating things isn't my forte after all...Oh, well, it's really tiny, but it's not nothing!"

>1 AP: pop the tiny piece of ice in my mouth.
>3 MP, 2 AP: Move 555 55
>3 AP: !Telekinesis, scoop up several soft drink cans.

"Everett, was it? Good work...now, if you don't mind..."

#Nadir
Vit 12/12 SP 10/10 CP 8 VP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive!
Dehydrated
Distracting Voices II I
Bullet Magnet II
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
Thoughts 8
#Psychogenesis 10
-
!Psionic-Resonant 1
[Microslip Precognition] (Evade additional up to Focus)
[Many Hands, Light Work]
!Telekinetic 1 (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients)
[Temple Inviolate] (only Manifest External)
!Existential Dread
!Shared Sights
-
Equipment:
Biometric Card

Rolled 4, 6, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 3, 1 = 22 (9d6)

>>6084958
>/-/-/-/
>ACTIONYBITS INNIT
>/-/-/-/

WAH-TA-TA-TA!! Gluttony drops his can of beans, because it's time for the can of WHOOP ASS. These roots will be shown their place in the ecosystem! I wriggle dance a dance of combat Tai Chi against the knot of roots.

AP1: Secrete Acid onto the roots grappling me.
AP3: Physically attack the roots with my hands and teeth! [Physicality 10, Teeth -1, Strength 2, Lethality 2]
AP2 SP2: Spiritually attack the roots with my Wood Dao! [Mutability 10, Lethality 2, Concentration 1]
SP5: Forcibly take oxygen from the roots, storing it within my blood and muscles. In exchange, I give to it my carbon dioxide and some of my carbohydrates from the LIGHT SYRUP I consumed to let it know that I am not a filthy parasite. I try to manifest hormones of gratitude towards the Flesh Tree. [Mutability 10, Focus 1, Concentration 2]

>/-/-/-/
>INFOBITS INNIT
>/-/-/-/
Subject: #Gluttony
Vit 12 SP 7/14 CP 10
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
>-
>Stats
>-
Health 12 (Regen 3) Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
Conditions:
Alive, Loose Teeth
>-
>Skills
>-
Physicality 10
--[Loose Teeth -1] [Reach 2] [Strength +2]
Senses 9
--[Shared Senses +1]
Thoughts 8
Mutability 10
--Acid Glands [x2 Lethality Acid-EX]
>-
>Traits
>-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
[Virulent Vitality][Bound by the Flesh]
!Wild-Eyed
>-
>Initiatives
>-
[Creative Thinking Exercises] Enrollee
[Extreme Violence of Action] Enrollee

Rolled 4, 4, 6 = 14 (3d6)

>>6084958
#Acolyte
Vit -9/10 SP 0/2 CP 6
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
AAAH
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
**???
**Shared Senses
Thoughts 8
Mutability 11
#Skill
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
- Bound by Flesh 1
- Regen 2
!Craves Purpose
!Social Pheromones
!Creative Thinking Exercise
!Janitorial Intern

> Regen 2
> 0 AP: Purr affectionately
> 3 AP: Regenerate my arm back on (Health 12 + Regen 2)
> 2 Health: Move towards the corpse.
> 3 AP: Shuffle over to the dead Root Crawler and desperately drain its fluids.

Gain another CP.

Thanks guys. I owe you all one.

Command, what became of my manifestation attempt regarding superior pheromones?

>>6084958
Awww, how can I say no to that face - tricky things, cans o' bean. I can't really understand you, but maybe you can understand me? Have you seen Trish?

>1AP, open up these beans for Woodfriend - maybe I can get it open with an arrow?
>3AP, search the security guard next to me - pleasehavegunpleasehavegun (Senses 11)
>2AP+1SP, COMMIT to observing the Wooden Ones - if I see how they fight I can more easily find gaps to provide ranged support! (Senses 11, commit)

#Amelius
Vit 9/12 SP 6/7 CP 7
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 TP 1
-
Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Severely Dehydrated (-6 Stamax)
Motivated 1 (+1 Stamax, Ineffable)
-
Physicality 10
Senses 11
Thoughts 10
Support Operations 10
Guns (Pistols) 12
-
!Inspiring Presence
!Dreams of the Ocean
-
1x Cans of Beans
1x Rifle reload
1x Scragbow
1x Arrow quiver (Barbs)

>>6084958
> With such variety it is difficult to choose, so just snatch up one of each of those canned refreshments. (Minor Action - 1AP).
> Everett moves to pop open a can but pauses. Would a soda tab count as a 'man-made tool'? Deciding to err on the side of caution, he instead crunches his teeth into the can's aluminum shell and greedily gulps down the bubbly liquid which gushes out. (Minor Action - 1AP)
> The biomutant gives one of the procured Snaxxbags a similar treatment, mauling open the packaging to gorge on the salty/sweet treats within; microplastics be damned. (Minor Action - 1AP)
> Even as he satiates himself, Everett maintains a watchful eye on the lurking Root Crawler. He takes the opportunity to study the predator's morphology and behavior. (Test & Try - 3AP)
> Keen awareness of a nearby predator straightens Everett's spine and tenses his muscles. His ears pick up every innocuous rustle in the bush surrounding him as he readies himself to evade a possible assault. (React - 3MP)

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

>>6084958
#Gallium
Vit 10/12 SP 10/12 CP 6
DR 5 AP 6 MP 3-1
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
Left Arm Crippled [II]
Damaged Actuators [II II]
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
Thoughts 8
Augmented Systemic [LOS] 10
Electricity Modulators 12 [Focus+1, Stamina x3, Glitch 16)
-
Augmentic Extropian I
[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications] [Meshlinked] [BioElectricity Manifolds] [Compensators 2]
Cold and logical.

Equipment
In a state of flux.

"Rescue operation completed. Please, make sure to learn from this experience."
>-Activate Compensators, spend 2 SP to heal 2 and negate the broken actuators.
>Move 444
>[3 AP] Move 444
>[3 AP] Scuttle the broken vending machine for parts, look for replacement actuators, possibly also parts to restore my arm. (Thoughts 8)

Rolled 2, 1, 3, 1, 5, 2 = 14 (6d6)

>>6084958
>Take +1 Emotional Damage from having another meal in front of me that I cannot eat (Acolyte just drained its fluids)
>3 MP, 2 AP: Move 544 44
>1 AP: Observe Everett to see if he appears refreshed by the soda. (Senses 9) (Not sure if I need to roll for this)
>3 AP: If he does appear refreshed by the soda, get one myself and drink it. (Claws 12) (Also not sure if this requires a roll)

Samantha##BigSpiderEnergy

#Splendiferous Weaver of the Threads that bind the Squirming Prey Floundering in the Underneath (Samantha)
Vit 12/12 SP 2/8 CP 2->3 VP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
Claws 12
-
Conditions:
Very Dehydrated [-4 Stamina]
Strucutral Misalignments II [+3 to any Bleed]
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
Thoughts 8
Mutability 11
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
=Virulent Vitality (Regeneration 3)
=Bound by the Flesh

!Hungry

Primary Taxonomy: Malichnid

>>6084995
It emits a chirping little sound of joy - which almost matches your gasp of triumph when the root-covered security officer still has a

C8 Personal,
2d6, Acc 2 Bulk 2
18+1 shots

in his holster.

Unfortunately someone's token the other clips. Weird.

>>6085041
Having claws at the end of your manipulators means that you - and you alone - need never struggle with lack of can opener. In a world of wood children, Samantha, you are nigh as to a god.

But also no. Command isn't cracked enough to enforce a critical failure possibility by rolling for opening a can (unless your strength is low)

>>6083818
Well, Pharaoh thinks you're sorted, and I got paid. Hope you learned your lesson.

>>6085003
Oh, for- Now you've done it. Me and the boys are gonna have to come whack you too.

HEY EVERYONE. IF YOU KEEP BREAKING WHAT AIN'T ALREADY BROKE, BOB, ACOLYTE AND I ARE OBLIGATED TO GET MEDDLESOME INSTEAD OF OPENING DOORS AND EXERCISING OTHER JANITORIAL PRIVILEGES.

JUST BE THIRSTY A LITTLE LONGER WHILE I FIGURE OUT WHERE THE PLUMBING IS.

>>6084958
>+1 CP
>6AP: Consume the fresh Root Crawler corpse, assimilate its useful genes and add its biological distinctiveness to my own. (Pluripotentiality 12, Focus 1, Concentration 3)

So, Command, would it be accurate to say that my Exceeding Virality is now at a +6 while my errant creations have +12, bringing my comparative advantage against them to a total of -6, while I'd have a +6 against anything outside this ecosystem?

#Bob the Virus
Coherency 6/6 SP 5/9 CP 3
Regeneration 2
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 10 Reaction 8 Will 10
Virality -6 Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Pathogenic Analysis 6 (Virality -6)
Nanocytic Countersampling 4 (Max Coherency -4)
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
=Shared Sights
Thoughts 8
Mutability 10
=Exceeding +3
Pluripotentiality 12 [Aura 3, Vector]
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
= Fleshshaping
= Virulent Vitality
= Bound by the Flesh
!Overprotective
-
!Creative Thinking Exercises
!Janitorial Intern

Rolled 1, 1, 5 = 7 (3d6)

>>6085046

>>6084982
Somewhat interrupted by most of your body being cut off by razor sharp murder claws. These things unfortunately happen with remarkable frequency around here. Someone should really tell Occupational Health and Safety. Fortunately, instead of sparking out into uncontrolled abberancy, it seems the process was simply aborted and the CP lost.

Lucky. That could have gotten really bad, uncontrolled!

>>6085046
Unfortunately, surely the quiet, careful minds in Biocontamination Control have been analysing the horrors left behind on earlier floors and are quite rapidly developing countermeasures and scaling into a broad, multi-spectrum totality vaccine against your entire genetic line and anything that seems akin to it.

It might therefore be more correct to say that Sanitation Officer Decorbin and his teammates are about to commit ecocide, but that as this entire world dies a screaming death around you, purged and killed by Science, you might escape from the shrivelling and dying place to live, briefly free, as a new sort of specimen, until they once again find the means to isolate, destroy and break you apart.

Or put differenty: If there wasn't so much other stuff around here to occupy their attention, you would already been consigned to the dustbin of history along with smallpox.

Adverserially selecting immunological adaptive systems and a lot of funding for preventing pandemics, let alone upstart pathogens with desires to spread beyond the confines of this place, tend to ensure that if you're standing still, you're losing.

Or put differently:

What gives you the impression you're the first subject to Transcend to this form?

What gives you the impression that others, before you, vaster and crueller and with stranger, twisted strands, have not already been tasked with hunting you down? Even now, they analyse and pry at your constituents, to be ready to move in for the kill.

You're a terror and a danger and a horror and a wonder and a beautiful thing and such untapped capacity for so many delightful developments yet you are, as well, a . . . known quantity. Those Nanocytic Wide Spectrum Purgatives are but the first little sting of things to come at you.

It's a dance - you adapt, they adapt, you adapt to their adaption, they adapt to your adaption to their adaption, and none stand still and despite both sprinting, none make it very far.

You can't quit the game, you can't break even and you're not even sure you can win. It's a bit like thermodynamics, that way.

Though sharpened edges can briefly allow you to have outsized impact factor, before adaptive developments even the odds.

So, to cut the poetry, given the importance of their job and the tools at their disposal, it seems passing unlikely that things outside this ecosystem would be more vulnerable to you. That man Officer Decorbin likely has samples of your trace routines right now and is cooking up a counter-kit.

Best you'll ever have is a head start.