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Rani Kaur One target left. Rifle on floor. Too far away for unarmed combat. Rani's pistols snap out of their arm slides, right as her cyberclaws snap back into her wrists. As she slides out to catch the Sophie in the open, both give a quick three round burst, the gyromounts compensating for her movement. pistol 1 & 2 attacks, burst fire vs 65: 2#1d100 35 34 Pistol 1 & 2 damage, -2AP: 2#4d10+7 35 38 There's not a whole lot left of the Sopia by the time the biter rounds are finished shredding through her body. pre:Phys.Damage: 14 WT: 10 DUR: 50 Wounds: 1 Ment.Damage: 10 TT: 6 LUC: 30 Traumas: 1 Indecisiveness Current Weapon: Cyberclaws Biter Pistol: 11/18x2, 72 left AP Rifle: 45/45, 140 left Zap Pistol: 72 left Flamer: 18/20, 1 canister left Freezer: 20/20, 1 cannister left 2 Overload Grenades 1 HEAP Missile Armor: 22/23 +10 vs Fire/Heat, +30 vs Liquid Based Attacks ProfessorCirno fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Apr 25, 2012 |
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The last Sophia jerks as the biters pound into her, then goes still. That's it! Now the room is filled with corpses, and they are not yours. You have the run of the place now.
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Thibault Jaurès Thibault kicks down from the ceiling and flops down onto the deck, languishing in the nanomachines and drugs blocking his pain receptors. He takes a look around the blood-slick room. "Foutu bordel," he says under his breath. [Can anyone tell if Mlle Suzume is alright? And Rani, are you okay to continue on?]
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Stan The crickets buzz around the room, collecting samples of the mutants for later inspection at Logos. They then attempt to access the active fronds and shut them down before anyone gets hurt. [@comrades: Where to now?]
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The actual Suzume gasps for air and her arms twitch slightly. Being grafted to a mutant's back while it is shot and roasted with plasma doesn't look fun. She focuses and does her best at speaking with her face glued to a corpse. "it'a nano'lague. 'oesn't 'ork on syn'e'ics. my 'yberbrain's 'ine." Meanwhile, Stan can head through the hatch "Suzume" climbed out of and get to the control room with no problem! Inside is a little white room lined with screens, switches and keyboards - the controls for all the fabbers. It's simple for Stan to take control and shut everything down, or do most other things if he has ideas!
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Rani Kaur "I'm fine. Will be fine. Make the medichines earn their stay, unless we have a medic on hand. gently caress, who decided the horrible mutants should have guns?! That's cheating. And I don't loving know where to go next!" Despite her claims of being totally fine Rani's conversation descends into her cursing in Hindi while wrapping up her wounds to keep her blood in one place - namely, inside. "poo poo. Ok. These nanohives. They're specced for guardians, I'm assuming? So we keep a few of these on-hand to keep the nanovirus from turning us into those freaks?" Rani slowly turns towards EYE. "You got it together?"
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Sashimi Joe "Cyberbrain? Excellent! Very resilient, considered on myself." Joe climbs arm over arm to the conjoined Suzumes, pulling out a series of tools and some nanites. "Suggest you hold still, have you free momentarily." The octo clearly intends to cut Suzume loose. He'll start with a gross extraction, chopping most of the big mutant off but not getting too close to the normal Suzume. Then he will attempt the more delicate work so she doesn't have a giant chunk of monster stuck to the side of her face. He continues to chatter around the pipe that an arm plants firmly in his beak. "Spoke with Rich. Well done with the fail safe. Retrieved the data. Hoping you might fill in some of the blank spots." Need me to roll anything for this? pre:Phys.Damage: 10 WT: 6 DUR: 30 Wounds: 1
Ment.Damage: 0 TT: 6 LUC: 30 Traumas: 0
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Current Weapon: Rational Arms Allegrissimo Machine Pistols x2 [12/30x2; Biter SMG 120; Zap SMG 60]
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Well you have Art: Knitting... 
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Yes I do! Also wrist mounted tools = not committing atrocities of science. Art: Knitting; vs 70: 1d100 66
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Alice Troid Now that the adrenaline is dying down and her emotional dampeners are not being overclocked from the stress of combat Alice looks around and takes in the seen on a conscious level for the first time. She goes wide eyed and screams. "Contamination!" She drops her gun and starts ripping at her blouse, "Remove and destroy compromised materials! Burn the contaminated corpses! Quarantine the infected! Must halt the spread of the virus! Salvage the project!"
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Stan Hearing Alice's shriek, the crickets dispatch their Injector drone to orbit around her head. [@comrades: Oh, dear. Can anyone talk her down? We can give her a shot of Grin or Oxytocin to take the edge off, if not ...]
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Thibault Jaurès Thibault is more confused than disturbed by Alice's outburst. "Alice, if you are so worried about environmental hazards, why are you removing your protective garment?"
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Crit success! Joe does his best! When Suzume is finally freed, that side of her face is still a bloody mess where Joe had to leave some of her skin behind, but there aren't any major chunks missing and she can talk and move just fine. A bit of nano will fix her right up, though she doesn't intend to stick with this body for long. "Uuuugh." Suzume touches her cheek, then decides to just hold her hand near it instead because that really loving hurts. "I'm still lousy with nanoswarms. Gonna have to torch this body and get a new one. loving Synapse! "So what the gently caress's going on?"
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Thibault Jaurès Thibault subvocalizes a command to Roselle, ordering the muse to present Suzume with the troubleshooters' public profiles, since the habitat's backups are likely trashed. "We were rather hoping you could tell us," he says. "We were dispatched when your habitat went silent. So far we've encountered yourself, M. Kawn as you saw, and Mlle. Chevalier, who I have riding in one of my cortical jacks. She's sleeping now, but intact - I cannot say the same for M. Kwan. "We recovered your log in the Comms module. It was...illustrative of the problems." Thibault shudders a little inside his suit. "Can you tell us what exactly has caused Dr. Synapse to resort to such measures?"
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Alice Troid Alice mutters to herself as she undresses, "Shed outer layers. Virus progresses in stages. Purge corrupted date before it reconfigures. Be vigilant against signs of wrongess. Titan influence will be purged from the project. The pure will prevail."
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Suzume stares at Alice, then decides not to say anything. "I'm not sure, but I think I can guess... "He has some exhuman friends out in the Kuiper Belt he swaps notes with sometimes. Like a week before all this bullshit he got a message from them with some research they'd been doing, or something. He wouldn't shut up about it. Kept saying it was pretty deep and we wouldn't understand it." Suzume kicks one of the fabrication tubes that was making stacks of hives. "Then he made a bunch of these loving things."
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Thibault Jaurès Thibault considers his life and how it's led him to this moment in space and time, then decides Alice freaking out is about the least weird thing he's seen all day and promptly ignores her. Turning his attention back to Suzume, the neo-avian poses yet another question. "The laboratory as a whole has detached from the colony, and by now we're likely to be at minimum safe distance. Can you think of any reason we should not evacuate and nuke this complex?"
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"Depends who's still alive and who cares, I guess. Sophia being safe is enough for me. Cool Water shot at me so she can get hosed." "I gotta ditch this body before we go, though. Ugh, I can feel the nanoswarms under my skin. I could have just used a Guardian to get them off a few days ago but no, Synapse had to glue me to that loving freak's rear end..."
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Sashimi Joe Joe climbs over to Alice and attempts to at least collect her clothes as she discards then. Extra limbs certainly helps with that. "No need to shed. In fact better to cover up. Perhaps if you had a nice sweater?" As he worries over her, he tasks a fork to continue the conversation with Suzume and the others. [Still need to ascertain status of Professor Wark. Admit personal bias in this case, know his spouses. Additionally need to ascertain Synapse's purpose, motivation. We need to build a case to prevent similar events from occurring. Could claim was a victim himself, of plot or Basilisk hack by Kuiper Belt exhumans. Need an airtight case if we wish to recommend exile or other severe sanctions.] The fork pauses to check back with the alpha, then adds, [Also acquiring copy of Kuiper Belt data would be beneficial. However if majority opinion is to sterilize and evacuate I have no significant objections other than those stated.]
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[quote="ProfessorCirno"] Rani Kaur Rani turns to stare at the Lost girl ripping of her clothing. Then she turns to stare at the rescuee who was just "knitted" out of being grown into another body that was also a horrible monster. Then she turns to stare at Joe who is offering the crazy Lost a sweater. "gently caress it. I dunno. Joe's in charge."
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Thibault Jaurès Thibault doesn't sound terribly happy. "Very well, Joe. I am not happy about our continued exposure to this environment and any potential mind hacks, but I suppose it is too late to do anything about it now." The Titanian turns to Suzume. "As I mentioned, I have Mlle. Chevalier's cortical stack. I would not suggest you approach our vehicle alone, and at this point I do not think it would be wise to separate our forces to escort you back. Would you prefer to remain in your current morph or would you rather we remove your stack as well? I'm certain we have another ghost riding module somewhere." Hey, y'know, we could cut off your head and rip your tiny digital brain out of your neck and stick it in a pouch. If, like, you'd be more comfortable with that. grassy gnoll fucked around with this message at 01:29 on May 2, 2012 |
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Alice Troid Alice stares at Joe completely bewildered, "What?" She sits on the floor with her back to the wall hugging her knees. Her augmented reality illusions software begins to create the image of grass over the floor under her. SHY NUDIST GRRL fucked around with this message at 09:46 on May 2, 2012 |
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Stan The crickets buzz in a worried halo around Alice's head. [@comrades: Concur with Joe! No point leaving the job half-done. Now, um. about comrade Alice ... ]
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Suzume opens and closes her mouth a few times. "Well, er, my arms feel hosed up, but I can probably hold a gun if you need me to. Otherwise..." She bangs a hand on a fabrication tube idly. "Wouldn't mind just programming one of these to extract my cyberbrain. You can just carry that out of here. It's got handles and poo poo."
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Rani Kaur "Ok. Ok. I think I'm getting back around to getting the hang of things. We tag the big brain, set the place on fire, light up if you've got one, then get the hell out of here. Sounds good. I can do that." Rani turns towards the Stanley Collective "Stans, it sounds like we're going to hit a nano-threat. Can you run interference? I'm afraid I didn't pack any Guardians, unless someone here can reprogram the fabbers for it, and they'll probably be unhappy to see you anyways. You and Eye should make first entrance if the threat is targeted towards biological units. And speaking of which, someone shut those loving things off if they're manufacturing plague. Don't touch any of the hives either." "And someone get Alice out of la-la land. Don't we have a psychologist with us? Leave it to a Lost..."
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Alice Troid Alice shuffles to put her back to a wall and hugs her knees. The AR illusions spread across the room; replacing the floor with grass and flowers, the fabbers with trees, and the dead bodies with rotting logs.
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Sashimi Joe "If you're comfortable with M. Jaurès' suggestion, that is probably the safest and simplest course. Let us arrange it." Joe offers to help Suzume out with that. Joe considers Alice's situation, and attempts to encourage her by alternate methods. "Alice! We're running very late, very late indeed. There's a jabberwocky about, and he's brought some quite frumious bandersnatchs and jubjub birds with him. We must see them off before it ruins tea-time, and you're the only one with a vorpal cannon!" He indicates the plasma rifle with a few limbs. "Not to mention my friend the Octopus Physician has gotten himself lost again, and the Porpoise Woman has gone mad as the Hatter! I'm sure that jabberwocky is responsible for that too. Could you help us find them? We're simply lost without you."
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Alice Troid She suddenly stands up and the AR illusions become more vivid. Melting clocks and bizarre flora sprout out around everything. "A jabberwocky?! This must be the doing of the Ivory Empress. Always trying to ruin my fun, how dare she make me late for tea time with Top Hat." She hefts the dufflebag over her shoulder and takes out the plasma rifle.
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Stan [@comrades: Right, that does it. Apologies, comrade Alice, but the Collective have voted to bestow emergency powers on the Injector Sub-Committee, and are now declaring temporary hostilities. Sorry!] Stan's Injector hive whirs into life and puffs a cloud of Oxytocin in Alice's face. [There, she should be easier to talk down now.] Meanwhile, the Guardian Sub-committee gets to work on programming its nanoswarm to provide a first line of defence against nano-hostiles as the Troubleshooters advance into the habitat. Sorry TheTatteredKing, I gave peace a chance. Programming (Nanoswarm) for the Injectors, vs 90: 56. Programming (Nanoswarm) for the Guardians, vs 90: 77, doubles are good, right?
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Alice Troid Her eyes become half closed instead of her usual wide eyed stare after inhaling the drug. The illusions become less sharp and more busy. Butterflies flutter out of her head as she coughs. "Madam Butterfly, mind where you're exhaling."
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Suzume opens an inert tube and climbs in. "Cool beans. Just let me turn off my pain response and parts of my parietal cortex, maybe my..." Suzume's attention drifts as her cyberbrain modifications relax her enough to not care when Joe tells the fronds to get to work. They surround her and pull her in, disassembling her body out of sight. After a while it finishes up and sends everything off to the recycling vats, leaving behind a sleek, brain-shaped metallic object with a built-in grip and identifying logos and a pile of cyberware she might want to put in her next morph. Winstanley Doubles are a crit! Winstanley produces a swarm that is ready and eager to protect them - with a command it shoots off and scrubs Suzume's cyberbrain and everyone else of traces of nanobots left behind by this encounter. It's ready to protect you later, too! Everyone Speaking of: You're free to move on! You could explore Manufacturing more, though there's not much unless you're hungry or want to tell the fabricators to take the time they need to make some new things or repair old. There's also the floatways to Habitation, the Medical Bay and the Laboratory to check out. Quarko's right there if you want to repair him.
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Thibault Jaurès "Investigation of the laboratory module seems wise, if we are to learn more about the doctor's experimentation." Thibault does not move to aid the stricken Quarko. Not even a little bit.
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Sashimi Joe "Should get the fronds to make some ammunition for us, replenish back to our normal levels. Else wise, I agree with M. Jaurès suggestion, unless we would prefer Medical." As he mentions this, Joe floats over to the Quarko and proceeds to tear off its outer shell and scavenge thoroughly for parts. Scrounging vs 60: 1d100 46 I'm looking to extract the bits from Quarko that let it think and talk, maybe to belt mount. Also I realize I've been using Scrounging wrong before, it's basically the search skill, so seeing if there's anything unexpected and interesting inside there.
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Rani Kaur "I'm good on ammo. Alright, lab hub it is. I'll again take point." Rani moves over to enter the laboratory hub (after picking up her rifle), gun at the ready! If nobody else has anything they're doing, she flicks open the door and peeks through!
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Thibault Jaurès Thibault swaps out the power cells in his rifle and follows behind Rani.
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Stan [Onward, then.] The swarm of crickets follow Rani out the door, with the occasional backwards glance at Alice to make sure she's not going to annihilate them with a plasma bolt. The drones orbit the group of Troubleshooters, Guardian hive clicking as clouds of nanobots pour out and sweep the area ahead of them.
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Alice Troid She coughs up AR butterflies again as she meanders behind the others, "Did someone need a psychologist? I thought I heard that in the confusion."
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Rani finds something interesting in the floatway! The airlock is unable to close due to extra lengths of piping and cables being run into it from Manufacturing; looks like a lot of resources are being diverted into the Lab for some reason. She doesn't have to go there to guess why. At the floatway's far end, a mass of strange, pinkish-white material is pouring out of the far airlock in big wrinkly coils. As you approach it your nanodetectors pick up clouds of the things flitting over the glistening tendrils; it's a lot of work, but Winstanley's guardian swarms could probably clear a path through them. There's still enough room in the airlock to float through, too, though doing it without grabbing a handful of the stuff would require some very careful movement. You have been on Logos long enough to recognise brain tissue.
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Thibault Jaurès "I think we have found the doctor," Thibault murmurs. He glances from his plasma rifle to the nanofactory feeds leading into the laboratory. "Can someone tell me if I am by chance looking at the doctor's life support machinery?"
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Rani Kaur Rani approaches the horrible goop and stares at it. "We either wait for this to be slowly cleared away, or we jump through and maneuver best we can around it. How good are all of you at zero g movement?"
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