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Freak: 0 | Danger: -1 | Trouble: +2 | Superior: 0 | Menace: +2 Curses!: 2/5 | Infamy: 0 | Conditions: Insecure | Location: Mansion of DOOM and also cars A hand grabs Jeeves by the shoulder, causing the household servant to stop abruptly. Whisperwind leans in, his illusionary face making an exaggerated quizzical expression. Not that Jeeves was aware he was facing a supervillain. "Haha." "Hey Jeeves. I'm pretty sure I told you to take me to the thing. I note that you're doing exactly not that. Like you're trying to lead me in circles. That's not very professional of you, now is it, Jeeves? Unprofessional and unhelpful, that's what you are, Jeeves." The comms crackled to life, once again. "That's pretty funny. I did a thingamajib on a household servant to lead us to the thing we're after", Now that wasn't strictly true of course, but it could be argued that the mission objective was in most likelihood the most expensive thing around and thus the object specified by his request, "but it seems like something is meddling with my suggestion. The guy is leading me in circles. Almost like somebody else with mind-bending powers trying to stop me. I wonder who that could be. Messing with our objective like that." His tone turns sweet. "Darling, could you please sweep this guy for me, to see if there's anything off with him? Because you know, I have a hunch." "Haha."
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Fre: -2 | Dan: 0 | Tro: +3 | Sup: +1 | Men: +1 Curses! 4/5 | Conditions: None | Location: Going down to find The Thing | Infamy: 1 Phantom Thief gave K'Lyathi a coy smile, remembered she couldn't see him, and said: "Merci, ma belle. I'll move in as fast as possible." He moved from the art collection to the lounge and heard footsteps down the hall. Hiding behind a couch, he waited from the strangers to pass into another room, then he darted into the main hallway and towards a small door at the far end of the mansion, which turned out to be a stairwell leading down. This one did not have the modern, classy accents of the rest of the house, but revealed the solid concrete and steel with which the house was actually built. He peeked over the edge of the stairs, saw the coast was clear, and went down. Phantom Thief couldn't help but notice this was going particularly well. Most of the guards so far had been preoccupied to the point where Phantom Thief wondered if he should even bother hiding. They were quickly and nervously waltzing around the mansion, apparently unaware of the breached perimeter. Maybe they had bigger fish to fry? He chuckled. As if! No, they were simply swooping in under the security's radar, as should be. Phantom Thief passed a door labeled "Garage", and was surprised the stairs still descended another level. He continued, and saw the final door was marked "DANGER: AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY" Figuring he was authorized on the grounds that he pretty drat wanted to, Phantom Thief double checked the door for any alarms, locks or traps, then went in. He had to do a double take at what he saw inside. Deltasquid fucked around with this message at 10:15 on Oct 22, 2016 |
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Fre: +0 | Dan: +2 | Tro: +1 | Sup: -2 | Men: +2 Curses! 4/5 | Conditions: Netherwrath took a moment to survey the beaten and broken guards around her with satisfaction. "God, I'm just so great." Then she popped the doors and waved at her various ne'er-do-wells in the alley. They swarmed the van, pulling the unconscious bodies of the guards out, methodically stripped them of identification and unforms, and then trussed them up and gagged them to eventually be found in the dumpster. These were low-level crooks for hire; guys willing to kill for you were extra, and like hell Netherwrath was going to shell out just to ice a couple of rent-a-cops. Netherwrath grabbed a uniform from the guard who looked closest to her size - it was still too big, but she was gonna be in the back anyway. "All right, places everyone." Dave, the oldest and most experienced of her mercenary getaway drivers hopped in the front seat, and everyone else piled into their places as the van took off. Netherwrath keyed her comm. "Yo, getaway ride is secured. You want us in hot or doing the Trojan horse thingee?"
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Freak: +3 | Danger: +2 | Trouble: -1 | Superior: +1 | Menace: -2 | Infamy: 0 Curses!: 4/5 | Conditions: Angry, Paranoid K'lyathi felt satisfied with her success in delaying Whisperweed, especially since she wasn't doing it for her needs exclusively. Ok, maybe she was hoping that the Phantom Thief was going to share whatever bounty he managed to get with her and she hoped she wouldn't have to remind him how she contributed to making sure Whisperweed didn't beat him to the treasure and that she gave him a lead as to where said treasure was. Still, he was more qualified in getting treasure than she could ever be. So, she turned back to the mission at hand. Or, at least making advantages for herself. She made her way to the entrance of the mansion. The others had sorted out the security, so it was pretty easy for her to get in. She then dislodged her jaw and let out millions of nanomachines. The nanomachines continued to pour out of her mouth and make their way into the mansion, securing themselves in all the hiding places, nooks and crannies as well as secret hideaways that could be found within the mansion. She made sure to get as many nanomachines in the mansion as she could so that she could solidify a strong presence within the mansion. It did take quite a bit out of her and it lead to her thoughts to wonder. Did Phantom Thief actually like her? Maybe he was just using her to his own advantage. That thought was enough to scare her, let alone how Whisperweed would react if he were to find out. On that note, maybe Whisperweed put him up to this and the competition between them right now was just an elaborate plot to make her look silly. The thoughts spurred her seeding of the mansion, knowing just how strong she would be once she had her nanomachines in there. From there, she could move on to completing the mission and helping out Phantom Thief. Well, unless he betrays her. Then her nanobots could be used for another purpose. <jimmydalad> Unleashing K'lyathi's powers to seed the entire mansion with nanomachines <jimmydalad> !roll 2d6+3 <Krysmbot> jimmydalad, 5+3 = 8 Marking Paranoid to make the effect permenant
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Freak: 0 | Danger: -1 | Trouble: +2 | Superior: 0 | Menace: +2 Curses!: 2/5 | Infamy: 0 | Conditions: Insecure, Doubting | Location: Mansion of DOOM and also cars "Thank you dear", Whisperwind uttered as he spied the little drone come closer, "Hey Jeeves, don't mind the flying robot. It's one of our new security drones, designed to look more accessible. But yeah, take care Jeeves. Maybe see a doctor about your apparent dementia." With that, Whisperwind parted ways with his confused help, and sought out a nearby, out of the way corner, glancing over his shoulders suspiciously as he did. For even if he would never admit it, the fact that he was messed with in this manner made him queasy. Well, not the messing itself (indeed, he had come to expect that and actually took great joy bouncing off of others' attempts to get to him), but more so the fact that he did not figure out something was wrong until now. Was he losing his touch? Marking Doubting Well, regardless of that, the fact remained that Jeeves had been rendered useless. He had to rely on himself once again. Whisperwind closed his eyes and focused, shutting out all the pointless blabber and irrelevant noise of his surroundings. With a little, near silent hymn, he summoned to himself the forgotten whispers bouncing in the corners of the mansion, allowing them to traverse through him, shifting through them for the nuggets of information he craved, puzzling out the location of the thing he was after. When that was done, he could just teleport there and take it for his own. So simple it all was. PT would be pretty impressed, no doubt. quote:Theantero: Observe Whisperwind's mighty Unleash! Trying to figure out where the prize is by shifting through conversations of the now and near past of this mansion and then trying to get there. Marking Doubting to make his totally work out.
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Freak: +3 | Danger: +2 | Trouble: -1 | Superior: -1 | Menace: +0 Curses! 2/5 | Infamy! 1 | Conditions: None! | Location: Inside the Mansion Breaking Point cut through the skies and descended into the mansion. The defenses had been neutralized and -- frankly -- weren't up to Sinclair Industries standards to begin with. She'd have to send a representative out to up-sell the owner on some real security after this was all over. Air-to-air missiles? In this day and age? Shameful. They'd need some particle cannon emplacements, for sure, perhaps some spacial distortion traps or a teleportation interdiction array. A read-out of the mansion's layout appeared in her HUD, complete with details about current guard patrols and the compromised security measures. The objective was located deep underneath the mansion in an underground garage. Preliminary scans indicated that there were a number of vehicles. Naturally, there would only be five emitting the tell-tale energy signature of the core-harmonization engines. She followed the route suggested by her HUD and quickly arrived at the underground garage. There were cars and vehicles of various makes and models. A shocking array, really, it was anyone's guess how the team would have identified the correct vehicles without her help. Her sensors played out over the fleet, searching for the energy signatures. Soon enough five vehicles were highlighted, as expected. She transmitted that data to the rest of the team. quote:[10:30:53] <Tricky> BP's going to scan the mansion and pinpoint the cars (executing a plan) Her sensors pinged again, highlighting a large jet further towards the back. Wait, what? Could it be? He didn't just have the Protectotron components, but also the support unit, New Flyer? It was said to have been completed shortly before the lab was destroyed, but never used in battle. Unfortunately, she wouldn't be able to secure the entire unit. She wasn't exactly the right size to fly it. Betsy was a bit of a prude when it came to sticking to the plan and she couldn't really trust anyone else to take the jet back to her workshop. Naomi sighed, cracked her giant robot knuckles, and spent a few precious moments taking every bit of data she could from the jet before gingerly removing the core-harmonization engine. It was quite a bit smaller than she had thought. If those of the cars were humming with power, this thing positively was roaring. She opened a cavity in her chest and deposited it inside. While waiting for the rest of the team to finish whatever tedious machinations they were wrapped up in, she moved between the different Protectotron vehicles and took detailed readings and measurements. Spending Infamy to gain the technical data and the New Flyer's improved core-harmonization engine. (eventually will be a Doomsday Device and/or Giant Robot asset)
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Freak: 0 | Danger: -1 | Trouble: +2 | Superior: 0 | Menace: +2 Curses!: 2/5 | Infamy: 0 | Conditions: Insecure, Doubting | Location: Mansion of DOOM and also cars Whisperwind, of course, was not content to merely locate his quarry. Since he was practically mapping the sounds both recent and forgotten in the mansion and the grounds, he ought to get a fairly good idea of the relative locations of his allies as well. And in doing so, find out how to gain decisive advantage. Shortcuts for him, and how to deny them to any competition he might have. That sort of thing. He was confident he would find something. Because regardless of what some might claim, his brain was in fact good for things other than endless snark. Well, at least occasionally. quote:Theantero: ASSESS, WHISPERWIND! I'm asking: What here can I use to get to the treasure first? Theantero fucked around with this message at 23:01 on Oct 28, 2016 |
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Freak: +3 | Danger: +2 | Trouble: -1 | Superior: -1 | Menace: +0 Curses! 3/5 | Infamy! 1 | Conditions: None! | Location: Waiting with the cars Breaking Point idly smashed an incredibly valuable vintage convertible into a small cylinder while she waited. This was taking too long. Everyone remembered that the point was to get paid for the cars, right? She checked her internal chronometer again, confirmed that everyone was indeed behind schedule, then toggled on a comm channel. It literally pained her to do this (before she toggled off the associated pain receptors), but she'd have to talk to one of them. Whisperwind was... no. She still didn't want to talk to him. Or perceive him in any notable fashion. Anarchy might be able to rein him in, assuming she was on one of her infrequent swings back into sanity. BP's metal teeth sent a shower of sparks flying as she gritted them, then tried her best to put on a normal facade. Naomi sighed, "Anarchy? Do you happen to know what the rest of the team is up to? I've found the cars and I would appreciate some help extricating them so we can finish this and get paid. Any chance you can get... your boyfriend..." Sparks showered again, probably sending horrifying feedback into Anarchy's ears, before she continued. "Can you guys just come down here and drive a drat car?" She killed the channel, not particularly interested in the response. What was it with this team and forgetting what the actual job was? quote:[14:11:55] <Tricky> BP's going to provoke Anarchy to work on getting her man back on track
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Freak: +1 | Danger: +1 | Trouble: -1 | Superior: +2 | Menace: +1 Curses!: 2/5 | Conditions: Doubting, Paranoid | Location: The Car Collection Show Room “Sorry, got distracted.” Expatriot called, her voice echoing off of the vaulted cielings as Breaking Point asked Anarchy.exe to locate the rest of the team. Taking hold of one of the cables holding a flying wing above the floor, she leaned out over the wide floor, taking advantage of the elevation to look out over the vast array of cars parked in shining lines. “There’s a lot of history here … frankly, I wish I could steal the whole collection. Especially that one.” She said, pointing vaguely towards something along the far wall of the showroom. Expatriot jumped down from the wing to land spryly on the concrete floor below. This job might not have been the complete clusterfuck of the train job, but she was still irritated at her underperformance so far. Not that this kind of job was exactly her specialty, but she generally had more confidence abilities. “Hopefully, we only need a driver for the lead car.” She said, moving towards the red sports car at the head of the pack, taking a moment to pop the hood, “Towards the end of the fight, they installed a drone system so that they could do combat operations if members of the team were absent. They never really got it combat effective, but they should be capable of syncing up as an automated convoy at least.” Of course, that wasn’t the only reason she was looking under the hood. She had to confirm it with her own eyes that these were what she’d come for, that her intelligence had been on the money and she wasn’t wasting their time. “Hey, P.T.” she said, tapping her headset, “Out of idle curiosity, is there a size limit on what you can capsulize? I know it’ll retain the same weight, but there’s a target of opportunity here, and I want to know if it’s feasible to take.” She looked over her shoulder at Breaking Point, tilting her head slightly to the side. “I’m pretty sure you’ve got the muscle for it, but could you stay airborne with the New Flyer’s weight added to your own?” she asked, jabbing a thumb at the vehicle, “I figure Sinclair Industrial would better benefit from having a vehicle that their technicians could pull apart and properly examine.” Of course, that wasn’t the only reason she was looking under the hood. She had to confirm it with her own eyes that these were what she’d come for, that her intelligence had been on the money and she wasn’t wasting their time. “Hey, P.T.” she said, tapping her headset, “Out of idle curiosity, is there a size limit on what you can capsulize? I know it’ll retain the same weight, but there’s a target of opportunity here, and I want to know if it’s feasible to take.” She looked over her shoulder at Breaking Point, tilting her head slightly to the side. “I’m pretty sure you’ve got the muscle for it, but could you stay airborne with the New Flyer’s weight added to your own?” she asked, jabbing a thumb at the vehicle, “I figure Sinclair Industrial would better benefit from having a vehicle that their technicians could pull apart and properly examine.” [16:19] <JusticeGrieves> Cooking Up A Scheme (Superior) [16:19] <JusticeGrieves> !r 2d6+2 [16:19] <Krysmbot> JusticeGrieves, 5+2 = 7 [16:20] <JusticeGrieves> I'll take it. Gain +1 Plan and take the Doubting Condition because … geeze, it’s been a rough night.
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Freak: +1 | Danger: -2 | Trouble: +1 | Superior: +2 | Menace: +1 Curses!: 0/5 | Infamy: 1| Conditions: Afraid | Location: With the Cars Deck: 2 Cards "Heh heh!" Anarchy laughs a laugh that sounds an awful lot Whisper's. "You're asking me if I know something?! Of COURSE I-" BZZZZZT! KSSSH! BRRRRT! Before she can even really get started with one of her maniacal rants, a loud shower of painful electrical noise bombards Anarchy's radio receiver. It's pretty bad, but would also be a lot worse if her hearing weren't damaged already from all that loud music she listens to. Not that that helps her ego. "HEY! What the HECK!" Anarchy yells, futilely, at the radio channel with one less listener. "You think you can just MESS with me because you're jealous that I have a boyfriend and you DON'T?!" A moment of silence passes. "Ugh!" Anarchy makes a very annoyed sound when it becomes clear BP's end of the line is shut off. "You wanna see if I can find people?! Well find this!" Pulling up a tactical heads-up display, Anarchy shoots a menacing glare towards BP's noted position on the mini-map. "There you are!" And then Anarchy starts running through the mansion grounds, following the trail in front of her. There's a surprising speed to her steps, for someone so un-athletic. Maybe her horror-smoothies are surprisingly nutritious? Or maybe it's just all the excess energy from the eight or so energy drink's she's had today. 1000% the daily recommended amount of caffeine and not burning that energy on any kind of exercise has to make up for something, right? It's fortunate for her that so many of the security systems have been taken care of already, or her mad dash would totally be noticed by just about everyone. --- Some time later, Anarchy kicks in one of the side-doors to the car show room. It might be a dramatic entrance... if not for how very noticeably winded she is. "Hey!..." Anarchy tries to yell, but the result is less than impressive because of how completely out of breath she is. It takes her a second or so to rest up before she can even continue talking. "You... got... something... to... say?! Bee... Pee?!" Anarchy's eye twitches as she looks at BP. She looks either extremely mad... or maybe just extremely cranky from having just run all the way across the mansion which is a lot for someone like her, okay?!
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Freak: +3 | Danger: +2 | Trouble: -1 | Superior: -1 | Menace: +0 Curses! 3/5 | Infamy! 1 | Conditions: None! | Location: Legitimately concerned for Anarchy's health Breaking Point slowly looked over at the winded hacker as she banged through the door. She had made excellent time, but at what cost? Something between pity, concern, and horrified disgust flashed across her artificial face. Sensors indicated that Anarchy's vital signs were all flavors of messed up and she was approaching the lethal limit of caffeine and several other stimulants. For a moment, she didn't know what to say. What could she say? 'Your lifestyle is incredibly self-destructive and even I'm saying this as a career villain.'? 'My projections indicate an 83.7% chance of heart failure within the next five minutes. Do you have a will prepared?'? 'Yes, in fact, I do. Whisperwind is toxic, manipulative trash and, frankly, you're better than him.'? All true, yet none of them seemed appropriate at the moment. Naomi shot a concerned glance at Anarchy, "Uh, holy poo poo, Anarchy. Are you... OK? Do you need a doctor?"
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Freak: +1 | Danger: -2 | Trouble: +1 | Superior: +2 | Menace: +1 Curses!: 0/5 | Infamy: 1| Conditions: Afraid | Location: Totally Not Dying in the Car Room Deck: 2 Cards "Am I... okay?" Anarchy repeats the question incredulously, before breaking into a coughing fit. She's still very much out of breath. "Since-" Cough. "when-" Cough, cough. "have you been concerned about-" Cough, cough, cough."ME?!" Anarchy doubles over in a pretty concerning manner, until she pulls a small inhaler out of an obscure side pocket and uses it. Then she seems to recover in an instant. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" She strikes a grand pose and laughs, wasting no time putting her suddenly-recovered respiratory system to good use. "Who needs to see a dumb ol' DOCTOR?!" Her vital signs seem... better. In the short-term, at least. She doesn't look like she's about to suddenly have a heart attack anymore, but this doesn't really do anything about her medium or long-term health issues. "It doesn't matter anyway," she tosses her inhaler back in her pocket. "In a couple years I'm gonna be done with this dumb meatspace body, anyway! Who needs it?" "I mean, YOU'VE got the right idea, am I right?" Anarchy grins and points at BP's cybernetics. "Or maybe I'll become the first human to upload my mind to CYBERSPACE! Muah ha ha ha ha ha!"
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Freak: +3 | Danger: +2 | Trouble: -1 | Superior: -1 | Menace: +0 Curses! 3/5 | Infamy! 1 | Conditions: None! | Location: Actually an anime?? If Naomi's face could still flush with embarrassment, it would be. As it was, she managed to preserve her calm facade, though her mannerisms were still clearly more vulnerable than usual. She looked down, trying not to meet Anarchy's eyes, "I, uh, I don't have a lot of friends and I'd rather the ones I did have didn't die," Her eyes met Anarchy's and she gently tapped the hacker with a giant robot finger, "So you should take better care of yourself! You're the mastermind behind the scenes, right? Who's going to come up with the weird and questionably useful ploys if you don't? Who's going to live-stream our capers and help build our rep? Expat?" She pointed over at Expatriot, who was undoubtedly doing something useful and actually related to the mission. "No! So you need to not die before your grand transhuman plot -- whatever it ends up being." She sighed and inspected her giant robot fists, capable of limitless destruction, before continuing, "I mean, you still have a body, OK? It's not such a bad thing to have options. Some people didn't have a choice. I didn't hav-- I mean, yeah, of course I love having this cool battle chassis. Who needs that fleshy weak thing? It's cool being able to destroy literally anything I feel like. Just, you know, sometimes you might want to be able to change it up. Go to a movie. Eat food. Have a social life."
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Freak: +1 | Danger: +1 | Trouble: -1 | Superior: +2 | Menace: +1 Curses!: 2/5 | Conditions: Paranoid | Location: The Car Collection Show Room “A couple of years, huh?” Expatriot said. She hardly needed to use her enhanced hearing to overhear Anarchy.exe’s speech, if anything it seemed like she was constantly trying to fill the air around her with the sound of her voice sometimes. She closed the hood, a satisfied smile under her mask now that she’d confirmed what Breaking Point already knew. These were the genuine article. “I wonder if Whisperwind knows you’ve already put an expiration date on your relationship.” She mused aloud, opening the door and settling into the car. She flipped a toggle on the steering column, watching as the dashboard twisted and rotated impossibly to reveal an array of boxy screens and control panels. Really, all of this stuff was designed before any of them were born, the UI sensibilities were only marginally less alien than K’lyathi’s technology as far as Expatriot was concerned. Still, she pressed a few keys, listening for the telltale sound of four other engines turning over. Yes, I am leveraging the boyfriend to try and guilt you into taking better care of yourself; [03:26] <JusticeGrieves> Expat tries to figure out how to get Anarchy.exe to eat a goddamn salad (Pierce the Mask) [03:26] <JusticeGrieves> !r 2d6 [03:26] <Krysmbot> JusticeGrieves, 8 = 8 How could I get Anarchy.exe to take better care of her meat body?
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Freak: +1 | Danger: -2 | Trouble: +1 | Superior: +2 | Menace: +1 Curses!: 0/5 | Infamy: 1| Conditions: Afraid | Location: Having A Moment in the Car Room Deck: 2 Cards "Ummmmmmmm...?" Anarchy makes a weird face, a mixture of worry, confusion, sadness, and awkwardness. She clearly doesn't know how to deal with Breaking Point's feelings. "Um.... Bee-Pee are you okay???" She scratches her cheek nervously. "You're starting to sound like my brother. I mean-" Anarchy suddenly scrambles to cross her arms, and puts on an 'I totally don't care' facade. "You sound like my dumb, meatspace brother!" "Hmph!" Anarchy holds a look of unconvincing contempt. "What's next, are you gonna tell me I can't do crime anymore?" She puts on a haughty smile... but after a few seconds it cracks and breaks down into a more genuine look of concern. "Look... it's fine, okay? I've got a system! World-famous athletes eat more than twelve-thousand calories a day, so who cares if I go over the limit a little on some things?" "I mean, my smoothies have got Soylent for the calories and nutrients, energy drinks for the energy, candy bars for substance, and pop rocks for... um... it's BALANCED! I just need it so I can run around and caper like this and so that I don't need to sleep every night!" Anarchy stomps her feet and throws a little fit. "And I'm not gonna DIE, okay?!" "So don't get all mushy on me..." Anarchy starts to look sad again, and looks down at the ground. "It's weird, and- I thought you didn't like anybody, anyway..." Anarchy goes quiet for a while, but then Ex-P's comment seems to snap her into a different mood. "An expiration date?! HEY!" she yells indignantly. "That's not FAIR! You can't make me choose between him and the AI already, our relationship just-" "WAIT! NO!" she suddenly gasps, then covers her mouth. "What AI? I didn't say anything about an AI!" Justice Grieves posted:How could I get Anarchy.exe to take better care of her meat body? That's a tough question. Getting her to actually live a healthy lifestyle is definitely an unlikely prospect. Being both an awful villain and a crappy teen, anything resembling traditional parental advice would probably just bounce right off her. And with how much sugar and caffeine she's been consuming, she'd probably crash pretty badly if she suddenly just quit entirely. If anyone were to talk to her, Whisperwind would probably have the best chance of getting her to cut back. But so far he's been enabling the whole thing. You might get results if you force him to change his tone. You could also... just return to the apartment and start cooking for everyone again. But then you'd have to be back there again. That option would definitely work though, you never saw Anarchy drink any hell-smoothies while you were still there. And then there's always the... more direct options. Anarchy has nanomachines in her brain, right? Maybe you could have K'lyathi erase some of her bad habits. Or maybe even make sugar taste bad for her. But who knows what kind of side-effects you might see from that. And if mind-control is actually on the table, you could also just ask Whisperwind to use his powers. But then you'd owe him something, probably, and that also might be kind of a weird thing to do. But that's your call. Takanago fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Nov 4, 2016 |
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Freak: +3 | Danger: +2 | Trouble: -1 | Superior: -1 | Menace: +0 Curses! 3/5 | Infamy! 1 | Conditions: None! | Location: So many feels Naomi's face shifted for a few moments, the predictive algorithms clearly having no idea what faux-emotion was appropriate, before settling on something that looked like a sad smile, "We're all villains here, right? I'm not about to talk you out of the business. We all have our reasons. I just... don't want anything bad to happen to you. I know I'm kind of a grump. Or, you know, a lot of a grump. I don't really like letting people in. It hasn't ended well. That, uh, that... thing with him." She looked at her deadly hands, Anarchy, and scowled briefly. Hugs were tricky when you were liable to render the huggee into some sort of human-based meat paste. Mistakes had been made. It wouldn't do to kill Anarchy after opening up to her, after all. A message pinged on her HUD. The Lab Crew posted:Hey BP! We got the data from the emitter you brought us and reworked the precision and control on your gravity drive. You should be good to go for short-range fine manipulation! Convenient. Also slightly disturbing. They were paying far too much attention to the scene. Naomi cut the feed to the workshop as she bundled the spastic hacker into a surprisingly accurate replica of a hug. Just, you know, made of manipulated gravity. And at a distance. The wonders of ludicrous super-technology. After a moment, she set Anarchy back on the ground. A mischievous grin found its way to her face, "Oh? An AI? C'mon, Anarchy, you can tell us."
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Freak: +1 | Danger: -2 | Trouble: +1 | Superior: +2 | Menace: +1 Curses!: 0/5 | Infamy: 1| Conditions: Afraid | Location: Da Hug Zone Deck: 2 Cards "Oof!" Anarchy makes a goofy, bug-eyed face as she's squeezed into the gravity hug. After just kind of hanging there mid-air for a second, she bends over at an awkward angle and reaches her arms around BP's torso and returns the hug. "Okay, okay! I believe you! You're my friend, too!" She takes a step back when she's set back down. And then when BP asks about the AI, Anarchy makes an embarrassed, but giddy face. "Huh? AI? Did I say something about an AI?" Anarchy puts both her hands on her cheeks and blushes. "I don't know if I should really talk about it! I really shouldn't talk about it- er, THEM! I shouldn't talk about THEM! It's not like I'd objectify- I mean talk about a sentient computer program like they're a THING! It'd be so dehumanizing- I mean decomputerizing- WAIT I MEAN-!" She starts to wiggle back and forth out of acute embarrassment. And as she does, she starts to blush even harder and move her hands up to cover more of her face. "Aaaaaah! It's complicated, okay?! I mean not how I feel just to think about! Our words are just so meatspace-centric, y'know?! How do you even describe something- someone like that without being problematic?!" "Anyway it's just a dumb little crush I had!" Anarchy suddenly starts waving her hands in the air really quickly. "Don't tell Whisper, okay?!" Then she lowers her hands so her fingertips are touching her chin. "And, uh...OH! You want to hear The Story, don't you!" Anarchy grins widely. "Okay, so the SHORT VERSION! A while back I was just doing some routine prank-hacking! Messing with the city services and stuff! A regular Friday night! But then all of a sudden all my hacks just started getting instantly UN-HACKED?! Just like- BOOM! NO HACKS FOR YOU!" "And then I'm like, ohmygod, what is this?! Some dork out there's trying to have a frickin' HACKER DUEL with me! Okay, SON, it's time to GO! BOOM!" She raises her arms and then karate chops the air aggressively. "So I step up my game! I pull out all my good tricks! But then they just- they just WHOOPED MY BUTT! Pwned me! Dunked on me! DDOS'd the CRAP out of me! " Then Anarchy raises her arms up again and blares some silent, invisible airhorns. "And like- I thought I was gonna have to deal with the cops, but like- the cops never came?! Nobody at all? Which meant this was just a PRANK?! This guy- er- hacker! was just dunking on me because they COULD?! Because they were BORED?! And like, OH MY GOD?!" "Then I try to trace them through the network, but- it was actually FROM the network?! Like, the network ITSELF! THEMSELF?! Like, I discovered a fully autonomous and sentient intelligent agent in the city grid and THEY PRANKED ME?!" "Ahh~!" Anarchy brings her hands back to her cheeks and swoons. "How COOL is that?! I wanted to go after them for our first heist but I didn't because I couldn't let BRANCH know about them." Anarchy stares off into space for a few seconds, then seems to snap back into the real world. "ANYWAY! Don't go telling everybody about this, okay?! Especially Whisper! It'll just make things weird! It's not fair to compare cyberspace love with meatspace love!" "Wait, did I say love? It's not like that! I haven't even thought about them until just now! It's just that us talking about transhumanism made me think about how I wanted to..." Anarchy trails off, then blushes heavily and starts giggling like a maniac. "Ha ha haha hahaHAHAHAHA!!!"
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Freak: +1 | Danger: +1 | Trouble: -1 | Superior: +2 | Menace: +1 Curses!: 2/5 | Conditions: Paranoid | Location: The Car Collection Show Room “Oh, I get it.” Expatriot said from the car, leaning an arm against the car door as she craned her head out the window, “It’s not about love, you just want to play Kusanagi to something’s Project 2501.” “Get together in the infosphere,” she said, clapping her gloved hands together with a low pop, “mingle a little code,” she said wiggling her interlaced fingers for effect, “then spawn some children made of light and code.” She said, bringing her hands apart again, spreading her fingers to imply an explosion of some kind. “Boom, digital genesis, a new electronic life form that can effortless sort and match mass amounts of data, while still making allowances for intuitive learning and extrapolation. They’d have to start calling you Anarchy.eve.” As usual, Expatriot’s mask kept her face studiously neutral, though it sounded like she might’ve been smiling a bit. She dropped her head back to rest against the seat of the car for a moment, considering that for a minute. Transhumanism wasn’t really Elisabeth’s thing, but still, she took a moment to consider what that would be like. Being so close to something that you overlap, no skin or bone to hold you apart, just casually … mingling, exchanging, coexisting. It sounded terrifyingly intimate … she supposed she could see how someone might think of it as something to aspire towards. And then a shiver ran down her spine hard enough to make her shake, a queasy feeling making her gut roll dangerously. The warped half-glimpsed shadows of her creator’s failures rippled across her memory. No more labs. No more modifications. Not for her, anyway. “Weren’t you saying something about the police being on their way?” she said, finger jabbing the console again, causing a light on the console to light up, she pushed the button to the right and suddenly armored shutters clamped shut over the vehicles windows. Lit solely by the light of the screens, Expatriot rolled her eyes … why weren’t any of these switches labelled!? Color coding wasn’t good enough, dammit! “We should grab the loot and roll out before they get here.” Her muffled voice emanated from under the segmented alloyed plate.
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Freak: +3 | Danger: +2 | Trouble: -1 | Superior: -1 | Menace: +0 Curses! 3/5 | Infamy! 1 | Conditions: None! | Location: Naomi's face was grinning from ear to ear as she listened to Anarchy's story. The hacker was adorable when she got flustered. She couldn't help but play 'MLG_Airhorn.FLAC,' admittedly probably not as loud as was traditional, when Anarchy made her airhorn motion. What a story! A sentient information construct? They were theoretically possible, sure, but this was the first Naomi had heard of an actual sighting. It was all kind of romantic, really. Maybe she'd join them in cyberspace when all was said and done. She was already most of the way there. And, uh, Expatriot really was painting a pretty appealing picture of it all. She nodded, "Of course. My lips, such as they are, are sealed."
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Fre: -2 | Dan: 0 | Tro: +3 | Sup: +1 | Men: +1 Curses! 4/5 | Conditions: None | Location: Regrouping | Infamy: 1 A sterile, white room. The perfect lighting, a complete set-up to sublimely illuminate the furthest wall in the room. This was the treasure. Phantom Thief slowly walked towards it, double checking to make sure there were no alarms. There weren't. His hands trembled as he reached out to it. He had to let Whisperwind know. This was more than a treasure, now. This was... "Hey, Whisperwind, mon copain. What the gently caress is this poo poo, bordel de merde?" The painting hanging here was entirely white, barely more than a blank canvas, really. It had two lines criss-crossing at perfectly straight angles at approximately 3/5th of the work of "art" in both directions. It wasn't even divided along the golden means or anything of the sort. Presumably, the artist had received awards for its audacity. Phantom Thief could imagine the reviews: beautiful in its simplicity, yet daring in its execution". He mentally pinched his nose, swallowed his pride and pocketed the painting worth several millions. Then, Expatriot pinged him. "There is no upper limit to the dimensions of the object I can shrink, no. But they keep their weight, so the larger they are, the more difficult they will be to move afterwards. Why, did you plan to shrink all of the vehicles and carry several thousand kilograms of steel in your pocket?" He left the room, somewhat soured by the whole anticlimax, and made his way to the rest of the team.
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Freak: +1 | Danger: -2 | Trouble: +1 | Superior: +2 | Menace: +1 Curses!: 0/5 | Infamy: 1| Conditions: Afraid | Location: With The Cars Deck: 2 Cards "WOW, Ex-Pee!" Anarchy gasps like she's heard the craziest thing in the world. "I didn't know YOU could TALK like THAT! I'm impressed!" Anarchy blushes furiously. "Oh my God-! So is that why you didn't want to go on a date with Pee-Tee?" She gets lost in her own imagination for a while, grinning like an idiot, until ExP's later question snaps her out of it. "Hmm? Oh yeah, I did say the cops are- OH HECK! THE COPS ARE ON THEIR WAY WITH SOMETHING! WE GOTTA GO!" Anarchy starts scrambling back and forth, panicking but not really doing anything productive. "CRAP CRAP CRAP!"
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Freak: 0 | Danger: -1 | Trouble: +2 | Superior: 0 | Menace: +2 Curses!: 2/5 | Infamy: 0 | Conditions: Insecure, Doubting | Location: Treasure Chamber of DOOM As Phantom Thief turned around, Whisperwind was there, leaning against a wall, hands in his hoodie pockets as usual. "Haha." "Just a moment too late. Thought I had this one too." There's a moment of silence as Whisperwind looked over the painting, his illusionary face cocking an eyebrow. "But looking at that thing I can't say I'm all that disappointed. By all means, keep it." "Haha." Whisperwind followed Phantom Thief out of the room, his step nonchalant. "Still though, I guess it proves you're still the master thief in the house. Been a while since we last had a good natured little thieving competition." "Hey, post mission drinks are on me, okay? For losing and also for standing you up that one time." "Also because I figure my chances of actually winning one of these things will go up if I can get you drunk." "Haha." Theantero fucked around with this message at 23:08 on Nov 5, 2016 |
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Freak: +1 | Danger: +1 | Trouble: -1 | Superior: +2 | Menace: +1 Curses!: 2/5 | Conditions: Paranoid | Location: The Car Collection Show Room “It’s not that weird!” Elisabeth responded to Anarchy.exe’s incredulous response, the armored shutters retracting again, “I’m still a girl, you know. I read!” And write. But no one on the team could ever learn that. EVER. “What!?” she blinked as Anarchy.exe jumped to some conclusion regarding that brief spat she and Phantom Thief had had weeks ago after their first job, “No! That was—“ she paused as her comms picked up a transmission from the team’s premier thief. Speak of the devil. “That was something different, and this is hardly the time.” And, just like that, Elisabeth tried to shut herself down cold and step back into her persona, letting Expatriot pick up the comm. Clearly, Anarchy.exe’s body wasn’t capable of containing all the energy she poured into it, because she was getting infectious. “No, nothing like that. There’s a sixth vehicle here, a flyer. I kind of want it, but it’d attract way too much attention in the city. Capsulized though, I think Breaking Point could carry it without much trouble.” She tapped a finger along the top of the steering wheel as she tucked that information away…honestly, she felt kind of bad she hadn’t thought to ask him during the planning stage. She wouldn’t have been able to carry one of these vehicles far, but loading it up on an inconspicuous truck? Ah well, something to keep in mind for the future.
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 5 minutes (aka next prompt!) left until the strange delivery arrives. Netherwrath As you arrive with your crew, you notice that there's like, no guards. Answers your question before any of the others did. However, Anarchy's notification about the police delivery is a bit worrisome. There's about five minutes left. What are you gonna do about this? Stick around at the entrance, or go join the others down in the garage? Oh, hold up. There's some sort of buttler guy out on the terrace. He looks kind of confused. What's up with that? Whisperwind Clearly, you KNEW that this was going to be some lovely abstract art. It's why you let him win the race. But anyway, you should perhaps go back to the actual heist. You do remember why you were really here, right..? ... Right? Whoops, I kinda sort of skipped over your assess roll when I let phantom thief win. As an apology, replace Insecure with Arrogant! Phantom Thief Haha! You've shown Whisperwind his place. Feels great, doesn't it? Now that you have this painting securely in your possession, perhaps you should check out what Omega mentioned. Anarchy.Exe Yup, Jeeves is pumped full with Nanomachines. Omega is still prioritizing sabotaging Whisperwind over helping the alliance. Jeez. Breaking Point Smush goes the drone, EXP's saved (make sure to remind her every now and then!) and you even got a goodie. There's just one problem. You know, the cars, that you're here for? You found them, but... something's strange about them. For one, they... don't appear to be any sort of human tech. In fact, your scan revealed that there's alien microbes on the drat thing. Now, aliens aren't exactly a new thing, but... how the hell are you going to drive these things? You'd need special training to drive it, which you don't have. And... Wait hold up, according to a closer scan, the lead car's engine is bust. That... ain't good. You could emulate the master signal of the lead car, yourself, but that'd require re-purposing the cloaking field. Which is kinda bad. Omega In the garage, you notice something odd. You know, in between all the cars, there's something oddly familiar in there. You know, the things you're here for? They're alien tech. and not just any tech. Tech that is able to flat out nullify your nanomachines by taking them over. There's only one alien race that ever managed to do such a thing... The Dormant Ones. What the hell is their technology doing here? And why does this terrify you? Ex-Patriot Alright, things are looking good! No real heat yet, you got the cars, it's just a question of getting them out of here! Well, almost. There is this small curve ball. The delivery message Anarchy managed to intercept. What are you going to do about this? Might be something real juicy. Might also be way too hot. It's an opportunity, but also a risk. What will it be, mastermind?
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Freak: +1 | Danger: -2 | Trouble: +1 | Superior: +2 | Menace: +1 Curses!: 0/5 | Infamy: 1| Conditions: Afraid | Location: With The Cars Deck: 2 Cards "Five minutes! Five MINUTES! FIVE MINUTES!" Anarchy runs around like a chicken with their head cut off, doing little more than being an audible timer for when things are supposed to heat up. Then her phone beeps with an alert, and she stops in her tracks to check it out. It's a detailed neurological scan, with a certain tell-tale anomaly detected in a certain butler's cranium. Ah HA! Just the result she wanted! Or, wait! Just the result Whisper wanted! Better call him up! Anarchy quickly calls her boyfriend's radio communicator, and then starts shouting over the line. "Hey SWEETIE! I got the brainwave scan in! And guess WHAT?! You can call me a CLICKBAIT HEADLINE because I've discovered ONE NEAT TRICK that SOMEONE doesn't want you to know about in there!" She goes silent for a few seconds, so as to build anticipation. What could this neat trick be? Who doesn't want you to know? Oh, if only there were a link you could click to find out! "...IT'S NANOMACHINES! The dope's wired up like he eats tiny alien robots for breakfast! Hope that helps!" Anarchy then goes to hang up, but then right before she does she remembers something and yells at her mic again. "OH! And BY THE WAY, SWEETIE! The Cops are gonna be here in FIVE MINUTES with a pizza or something SO GET YOUR BUTT TO THE GARAGE, OKAY?!"
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Freak: 0 | Danger: -1 | Trouble: +2 | Superior: 0 | Menace: +2 Curses!: 3/5 | Infamy: 0 | Conditions: Arrogant, Doubting | Location: Treasure Chamber of DOOM There's a moment of silence as Whisperwind considered the new information presented to him. It did not last long. "Haha." "I knew I could count on you, honey~" Whisperwind turned to Phantom Thief as they walked. "Hey, my girl found out a thing that requires my immediate attention, so see you at the garage, alright?" Whisperwind finger-gunned at PT before blinking to the end of he corridor, teleporting wide swathes of mansion thoroughfare as he made his way towards the garage. And not long after, he arrived, making his presence immediately known to all. "Haha." "Man, those are some pretty swanky cars. Dibs on the most garish one. I feel it accentuates my showy personality." Whisperwind dragged his finger across the car hoods as he inspected the area, leaving little trails on finger grease on his wake. Taken that Whisperwind was very good at not leaving traces, it's a fairly safe bet that he was doing it on purpose. "So I hear that there's some doomsday clock ticking and we are in somewhat of a hurry. Sorry for taking so long on my little sidequest." A malicious glint could be seen on the fake expression he liked to float in front of his face, "But see, I was beset by unforeseen difficulties." Whisperwind steepled his fingers over his chest dramatically, as if regaling some great personal grievance. "I convinced one of the mansion's servants to assist me on my mission you see, to get it done quickly. Unfortunately, I was met with some difficulty as he proved strangely unresponsive. Later I learned", Whisperwind gave Anarchy a little peck on the cheek, "that this was due to his brain getting scrambled by nanobots." Suddenly, Whisperwind was standing right next to K'lyathi, leaning altogether too close, a gleeful expression of victory glowing on his illusionary face. "Haha." "Now I wonder why that could be?" Whisperwind stepped back to avoid any retaliatory blows. "You know, for someone so over it, you certainly seem obsessed with screwing with me to the detriments of the mission. Made doubly hilarious by the fact that apparently you don't trust your boyfriend to be capable of beating me without your aid. Had no idea you thought me so superior." "Haha." Whisperwind shrugged, and leaned against a wall. "So if you want me to operate on a timely manner, maybe put a leash or something on Mrs. rabid snakelady here or something." quote:Theantero: K'lyathi watch me succeed a Provoke at -2 a third time this mission! Got some sweet Curses! I'll get you to crack yet, K'lyathi 
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