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Recruit/OOC thread PHASE TWO Returning Cast PCs Icon Icon was a different sort of experiment to the others. His purpose was to create an easily controllable puppet with which to be the focus point of their propaganda machine. Through Lodestone’s foresight Icon was rescued before the mental conditioning could be complete, right at a point where he could appreciate exactly what Exegenex had in mind for him. Although he still values American ideals, and has a strong sense of justice, Hunter seems to have some problem with him that he just hasn’t explained yet. Impulse Born Michael Grant, Impulse was a participant in an experimental program tinkering with alien technology. The results were a success but then he met Ras Gibbs. The entity in his mind shielded him from the worst of the psychic influence and then he got busted out be the resistance to Exegenex. The fact he is now working with what is legally a terrorist organisation makes him a target for those who knew before, especially since some of them will likely also have been experimented on. Glitch is afraid of him, but she never gives Michael any indication of why this is. Odin Of the team, Odin has the least heroic morals and virtues. However in teams of need the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Now blessed with an incredible intellect and the ability to tap into electronics with only his mind, Odin plans to use information and his pet cyborg as his weapons against Exegenex. Although his plan is riches, fame and power he understands that Exegenex needs to be taken down first, before the age of Odin can begin. His only potential stumbling block is Lazarus, the leader of the rebellion who seems to know exactly what he is up to...at least for now. Phantom Sean was a normal guy with a normal life, until he was murdered. Normally your story would end there, but Exegenex's research into immortality resulted in Sean becoming a spectre with the ability to somehow construct his own body when he wanted to be real. Being the only member of the unliving is difficult and Phantom wants to ensure that non-one else ever has to suffer his fate again. Currently his wife knows he still lives, but they cannot be together for danger of placing her in risk. Mimic, the shapeshifting robot that always accompanies Lodestone seems to have a fascination with Sean. NPCs and Allies Thor Once a security guard for Exegenex, who was captured and held hostage by Odin in his escape from Exegenex. When you came to the rebel hideout he was still with you, so you offered him the chance to serve you and become something greater in the process. For whatever reason the guard seemed excited by this and agreed, undergoing an extensive cyborg transformation process by Thor. Artificial muscles and bone extensions, sensory enhancements and other improvements make him augmented beyond human norms...along with a brainwashing regime 'just in case'. His projection module allows him to currently look like his codename's archetypical appearance. Hunter A strange man of a similar size to the augmented Thor, but of lesser raw strength. His bushy black beard and hair eerily match the living tattoo-like shadows that move along his body. He comes from some time in the future when Exegenex and its allies had seized control of the world and enacted a brutal and terrifying regime. Despite being one of the privileged meta-humans in this time, he fought a losing battle to protect normal people. He has an intense dislike of Icon, although he has told no-one except for maybe Lazarus as to why. His powers involve creating shadowy objects, regeneration and travelling and transporting people through shadows. Lodestone The stern woman codenamed Lodestone has the incredible ability to travel through time, although doing so is dangerous and strenuous. Short jumps back and forth are easy for her, but she needs to charge up energy going forwards and backwards through time. Her team, made of Glitch, Hunter, herself and Mimic are all stranded from various points in time. Glitch calls her Janeway, because of her stern nature but willingness to bend any rules to suit her needs in any situation. Lodestone largely keeps to herself and is tight lipped on what she's seen in the future, because predestination paradoxes give her a headache. Glitch Glitch is a teenage girl whose technical insight and ability to learn rival that of Odin. Her talents are more spontaneous and are not reliable, making her seem childish and out of place to those who haven't seen her work before. She has an intense loyalty and gratitude to Lodestone for saving her from some terrible future, such that she was willing to leave everyone she knew behind and work to prevent it coming to pass. It would be a mistake to think her jokes and banter indicate a lack of dedication and seriousness, for instead they are a coping mechanism to deal with the stress and loneliness she experiences. Aside from Lodestone, Glitch has also bonded closely to Mimic, the team's robotic shapeshifter. Mimic A mysterious shapeshifting robot from the future, even beyond where Lodestone found Hunter. Although Mimic takes the male pronoun, it is not particularly bothered with the concept of a gender or consistent identity. Mimic has a mission to stop a great disaster from coming to pass, to which end he lends his aid to the rebellion in the present seeing it as the point of greatest weakness. Eerily for Odin, his mind is blank and unable to be scanned by his machine-telepathy. Beyond this he is truly a mystery, although not enough that Lazarus still sees him as an asset. Lazarus Once Agent Edwards of one of a number of clandestine government security bureaus, a forced experiment accidentally unlocked an incredible sequence of genes in his body. Lazarus is immortal, and impervious to any known form of damage or injury. He does not need to eat, drink or sleep, although he still does so out of a sense of habit and to keep from boredom. In all the futures that Lodestone has visited, Lazarus has remained there. Although she gave him the name in the present, the first time they met he said that she gave him the name. Lazarus is not an amoral person, but he understands that there may come certain sacrifices he has to make to defeat enemies as insidious as Exegenex and its rivals and future subordinates. Enemies Will be expanded on as the game progresses. Exegenex A great company that has fingers in many areas of the economy and overseas. It is on the surface just another pharmaceutical and medical equipment manufacturer, but deeper it conducts unethical and incredible experiments into various transhuman avenues. Nemesis Publicly known as Ras Gibs, Nemesis as he styles himself in the future is a mentalist of prodigious strength. He has an incredible telepathic presence that can scan, rewrite and erase thoughts and personalities, his current weakness being a lack of finesse due to his overwhelming power. On top of this he is also a powerful telekinetic and easily capable of defending himself with ease. He styles himself as ruler of the world, with everyone being his puppet. A sociopath who views the right of the strong to rule and dominate the weak, he is somehow related to the great disaster that Mimic works to prevent from coming to pass. The Shanghai Syndicate Part Triad, part secret service, the Shanghai Syndicate is a known metahuman faction that works to advance the agenda of the Asian region with a specific focus on China. They act in direct opposition to Exegenex currently, although Lazarus says that even the enemy of our enemy is no friend when the Syndicate is involved. Due to their shadow war with Exegenex keeping a low profile, not a lot about them is known at this time. However they are currently successfully preventing the entrance of Exegenex into China and neighbouring countries, indicating that their political and metahuman power is not to be underestimated. The Paris Initiative A European based think tank that specialises in robotics and engineering. Mimic was found near to one of their current public labs, although in his time it was in ruins and he denies being created by them. Whereas as many other transhuman groups explore genetic and chemical sources for human advancement, the Paris Initiative uses technology, computers and hardware to keep their edge. They have recently reported successfully starting and maintaining a fusion reaction, claiming that it may be an available source of power by the end of the decade. If this is how far they claim to have come publicly, they assuredly have progressed further in secret. Their motives are currently mysterious, and Hunter says they still operated independently of the Nemesis regime in his time somehow. Black Jungle A terrorist organisation from South America, who currently are aggressively recruiting any metahuman they can discover and murdering those that refuse to join. Their goals are immediately to seize control of north and south Americas, bringing them into direct conflict with Exegenex.
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March 22nd, 2015 Atlantic Ocean, East American coastal region You had been travelling by boat for almost a day now. Glitch had made some sort of device to keep you from optical cameras. The icebreaker Cocytus had been out of radio contact with the authorities for a week and the official story was that it had sunk. However Glitch and Odin had hacked into some key networks and found clear satellite images of the boat, indicating that it had not been sunk. Lazarus knew that situations like this inevitably meant a cover up, and so you had been sent out to investigate. Now you had arrived, but you did not know who or what might be hear and wait you... What do you do? HiKaizer fucked around with this message at 12:17 on Apr 13, 2014 |
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Cocytus Deck The rest of the team followed Impulse on to the deck, with the exceptions of Odin and Thor. Thor waited until Odin completed his scan before bringing up the rear. No one could spot any signs of life on the deck, it was cold, windy and even the sun shining through the patchwork of greyish clouds offered no great warmth. Odin reached out and found two wireless access points. Firstly was the what seemed to be a touch the navigations system, which would probably be connecting out as a communications point as well. The second node he found was...strange. All of the wireless access points he had encountered thus far were for lack of a better explanation, in a language he could understand, despite the operating systems all being the same. This point was different. Odin could connect in but he would also potentially have no idea what he was actually doing inside of the system once he accessed it. All of this was also before security considerations were dealt with. What was on the ship? You felt like you might have an idea why the Cocytus was 'off the charts' now so to speak.
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Odin You find that currently the ship is not receiving navigation data, it seems like it has either been cut off from the GPS network by some kind of network lockout, or something has damaged the receiving equipment. The ship does not have any kind of diagnostic equipment for it, like some sort of sci-fi or futuristic vessel might. They do not seem to have any security systems in them however, probably because this sort of system needs to be usable by anyone in case of an emergency.
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Odin You stumble your way around the system, then suddenly you are locked out. Before you are locked out you did manage to do...something, although you are unsure what it was. Additionally you triggered some sort of internal security, so it seems likely that the system and whoever is operating it will now be aware they have had an intrusion. Whether this means they know you are on board or not, or if they think that you have connected remotely you cannot say. Everyone A few moments later there is a strange sort of shuddering vibration that runs through the Cocytus' hull for a second. Then it stops. No other sounds besides the waves and yourselves can be heard. Odin and Thor, not being on the ship instead feel the vibration pass through the cable attached to the ice breaker that those (who could not fly) used to get on board.
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Ice Breakers It takes a bit of searching and some digital breaking and entering to acquire the plans, which were stored on a private network. The top level of the ship had the communications and navigation area as well as the bridge. There was also a space for helicopters to land and a sick bay area to take care of any people affected by injuries or exposure from rescued vessels. Below this the ship was dived in half, at the fore was a large storage area divided into two levels and to the aft was crew quarters and other areas for living such as a mess hall, kitchen, lounge and small gym.
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Inside the Cocytus Searching around quickly, Phantom notices three things. Firstly, the ship seems like it is deserted. No one is around in any of the areas you expect, but the some of the living areas show signs of use. Some beds are unmade, clothes are drying and the kitchen has been used recently. But searching through the rest of the rear half you cannot find anyone. Moving towards the front you check one of the cargo holds... ...and find the crew. There is a strange device that is arcing with electricity and there are seven figures all milling around the room. They don't notice your incorporeal self and after deciding no alarms or anything were going to go off, you look around closer. All the figures have burn holes in their clothing, and under those holes their skin seems to have changed into looking like some kind of circuitry. None of the figures speak, instead moving around and performing strange tasks you don't know anything about. Below in the bottom hold is a different scene. There is a strange kind of pod, with struts that keep it stable. The air around it is thick and shimmers with a heat haze, but a sort of pressure and force prevent you from approaching further. You notice around the base of the device that the metal floor looks rusted and fatigued. As you move away from the device, the floor becomes less rusted until it looks mostly normal.
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Just to clarify, the pod is in the room below the zombies. They are in the spire room. Some of the zombies appeared to be making various things, they had tools and were using them on things from elsewhere in the ship they appeared to have gathered up. Two were interacting with the arcing spire, which burned more of their clothes and you could see their skin slowly change into circuitry while that happened. After a few moments the electrical arcs around the spire appeared to die down for a bit, which was followed up by another one of the zombies bring along one of the devices they had been making which caused the spire to begin arcing again.
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Sorry about the delay. Phantom The zombies paused, then began scanning the area trying to locate you. After a couple of seconds, all but two returned to their previous tasks while those two began to search the surrounding area for you. One picked up some kind of device that had been made from cannibalised radio parts, as well as foil, batteries and what appeared to be a Geiger counter.
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Phantom One of them ended up walking through Phantom without even realising it, so it seemed for the time being that he was still hidden from them. Who knew how long this would last for however.
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Odin What you decide upon, is that the only logical conclusion is that flesh is being converted into some kind of metallic substance. Thor mentions he saw a television series where aliens used tiny robots to cause people to grow mechanical appendages and that makes you think that there is at least a decent chance that nano-robots are being involved. You are unsure of how dangerous they are, or of their origin. Nano-robotics are decades away from advanced practical applications such as this, and even you and others of comparable intellect would be challenged to create them as sufficiently advanced to do what is being described. The alternative, however, is some kind of further unexplained physical phenomena which given your companions undead state, abilities to fly and break the laws of thermodynamics is not impossible, but the explanation is less satisfying and elegant. Impulse, Icon, Thor and Odin then notice a shimmering in a field around the boat and waves lapping up against an invisible wall. Suddenly without warning, there is a loud noise of tearing metal and three robots break out from under the deck of the boat. Odin tries to see if he can access them wirelessly, and finds that they have no wireless access points. Roll initiative.
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Guh sorry about the delay. Mechanical Constructs Odin's observation: These constructs are designed in such a way that unless you totally trash them, they may split into separate and probably weaker robots. It looks like both can only split into two. They are cobbled together from parts of various machines on the ship, so they do not possess any weapons beyond pneumatic powered limbs. Initiative Order: Odin Construct 1 Icon Construct 2 Impulse Thor The plans for this model of icebreaker:  The fore section has been remodelled and two cargo storage areas have replaced a number of other rooms and living quarters instead. The crew complement is also much, much lower than is normal for this type of vessel.
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Round results: Construct 1 -1 toughness from Impulse, resists Thor's damage, misses Thor Construct 2 -1 toughness from Icon, is immune to stagger due to being a construct, misses Icon Initiative Order: Odin Construct 1 Icon Construct 2 Impulse Thor As Odin takes cover the first robot lumbers over to Thor and tries to club him with one of its arms. But the pneumatic servos powering it take a second too long to kick in, and the cyborg easily ducks the swing. Icon flies over to the second construct and punches it, with a terrible blow that would have wounded any superhuman easily. Unfortunately machines do not breath, not can they be staggered, and so the robot is pushed back but is able to take a clumsy swing at Icon who also easily dodges it. Impulse teleports up onto an upper deck area where he blasts a small hole into the first construct's armour, while Thor shoots a blast of radiation that does little except burn the surface of the same construct.
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Sorry for the late update. Round Results: Construct 1: Attacks Thor, hits Thor who fails by 2 degree; Thor now has 1 stack of Bruised (-1 Toughness) and is Dazed for the next round, able only to take single actions, is hit by Impulse, 4 degrees of failure, construct destroyed by Impulse's blast. Construct 2: Is hit by Icon, fully resists the hit, attacks Icon and hits, who fully resists the damage, Thor only has one target left after Icon destroys the construct attacking him and uses his round to attack the Construct. Construct 2: Is hit by Thor, fully resists Thor's damage. Initiative Order: Odin Icon Construct 2 Impulse Thor Sean There were a number of heavy objects that could be used as improvised bludgeoning tools. There was also a welder which could potentially burn them quite badly, but beyond this there were no weapons you could see in the room. If nothing else the people down here did not look immediately ready for combat, perhaps their number who could fight were currently attacking the others instead? Impulse had not mentioned what exactly or who was attacking them, instead suggesting you stay put. Of course he didn't have any authority to order you to do anything...it was up to you whether to trust his military experience or to show him you could work on your own as well.
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Initiative Order: Odin - Gives party +2 to hit contructs Icon - Hit construct 2 which fails by 6. Construct 2 - Hits Icon, Icon fails his save by 7. Impulse - Hits construct 2 which fails by 15, Construct 2 is destroyed. Okay so I misread some rules slightly, in 2E at least the way I always played it the toughness penalty was just a set 1 every attack. This one is cumulative based on degrees of failure. That means that last turn the Construct actually got to -2 Toughness instead of -1, So this round Impulse's attack finishes it. Icon and Thor both have a -2 penalty to toughness, and Icon is currently dazed. It will take 1 minute for Icon to recover from dazed, a further minute for Thor to recover all of his toughness and then a third minute for Icon to do the same. Icon and construct trade ear-ringing blows, forceful enough to daze the caped superman and daze the robot if it could be dazed. But Impulse's blast was enough to fry the circuits of the robot and melt through the core of its chasis. With its controlling electronics and its key motors fried and melted it collapses motionless on the deck floor. Arashi: When you 'attack' an immobile object you do not need to roll an attack. Basically how combat works is this: Roll your attack, which for touch of the grave is 1d20+6/7 depending which form you are in. I compare this result to the enemy's dodge or parry depending on what's relevant. If you equal or beat that, then they make a resistance check. Then we compare their results to the DC and see what effect it has. In this case because it is an inanimate object that's not needed. You just do damage to the object because it cannot dodge in any way and because it's not alive, it can't heal unless repaired. Sean You begin by destroying the wiring you could see in the area. Because you were still incorporeal the strange people could not see you, but they watched the effects of your actions as you moved around the room. Then as you were nearing the end of the room, the lights went out. After a few moments you heard movement from the floor above. When you approached the room below you could approach the device from above, but not from below. You had the same resistance. In fact you could tell that the corrosion was affecting all the metal through the floor in a sphere. And the sphere appeared to be growing larger. If the sphere grew too large it would be getting very close to the hull...
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There will be a few seconds of delay between Sean receiving any messages from Impulse, and also from Impulse receiving messages from Sean at the moment while Sean is in and near the field.
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Impulse, Sean, just a quick explanation: You can still do communication in your posts, I just wanted to point out that while Sean is in the corroded area it's not instantaneous. The difference is not enough you need to wait for posts to answer each other though. Please try to remember to respond to direct messages to each other directly btw! On Deck All of the damage on Thor was mostly superficial damage to the external protective armour and bruises here and there. The biological side of the cyborg did not hold up quite as well as the mechanical, but the reinforcements did a lot to help with that. The wreckage of the robot yielded more interesting insights. Firstly, it was mostly mechanical and not electronic. The electronics running it, although trashed on one, looked fairly simple and you got the impression the robots were fairly simple automatons. That meant no real self awareness and that they responded in preprogrammed ways to preprogrammed stimuli. Apparently they were programmed to split apart into simpler and smaller robots when they got more damaged but your fast and powerful attacks circumvented that particular logic process. In layman's terms, the robots were essentially like storage moving equipment that had been given legs and basic programming. The programming itself was interesting, and extremely competently done. No wireless access points made them more secure and they had been made out of parts that would logically be on the ship. They were improvised and it showed a very good knowledge of robotics, engineering and computers. More than any icebreaker crew member should ever have. Impulse notices something from his vantage point. The radio and wireless transmission equipment has been trashed. You're confident no one is going to radio from the boat any time soon. Then you receive a message from Sean, describing that the rust he saw permeated out in a sphere through the hull and could potentially cause a hull breach if it continued to spread which it appeared to be doing. Icon recovers from his own injuries and is able to look around. But at this point, it seems the group won't find much more on the deck. To find out more they will need to go into the ship. Sean Make a relevant science check of dc 15 if you want to know how power cables work. If you pass you learn 2 things: 1. The lights went out because you destroyed the cables powering them. 2. The power cables aren't connected to the strange pod. (This is separate to the obelisk which zaps people)
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The Back of the Ship I'll try to provide an image of this soon, as I understand it can be confusing in text The front of the ship contains two cargo holds, that have been renovated in from the original design. The one closest to the deck contains the strange device that Odin has called the Dragon's Tooth. The one below it, closer to the bottom of the ship contains the strange pod with the rust field that prevents you approaching. The rust field is currently expanding, and will eventually hit the main hull at this rate. Before that happens it will reach the cargo hold above though. You do not know exactly how long this will take, but at the current rate of expansion, Phantom guesses that you guys should have plenty of time to investigate the ship. There is a ticking timer it seems, but not one that is immediately perilous. Despite your fight on the deck, Phantom has also noted that the weird zombie like people with circuit etched skins are not moving towards you as of yet. The back of the ship can be divided into two areas, that above the deck, and that below it. Above the deck has most of the operations area of the ship including the navigation room, the bridge/controls room, the captain's room, a general computer room, a room of records and an infirmary. Below the deck has numerous personal rooms, some quarters for the officers, a kitchen, mess room, lounge, gym, storeroom, engine room, as well as several access areas to various parts of the ship's wiring, machinery and electronics. Pick rooms to look at and roll me an Investigation check. Feel free to split up or stick together. You cannot use Hero points for these by the way, you cannot really 'heroically' search a room after all.
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Results: Impulse You find logs and diaries of the captain that continue on for about 3 years. It seems like a normal icebreaker at that point. The last entry and log mention a refit and a change of crew, from a private investor. The diaries end at that point and the logging becomes done in some sort of code or encryption. Someone has gone to a lot of effort to make this ship very difficult to trace to a particular group after a certain point, and the strange artefacts in the holds are a very clear reason as to why. The real question is who, and you only really know of one group who might be messing around with this sort of technology. The Paris Initiative. When it comes to tech and design they're unrivalled, but your military experience helps you see things they've missed and mistakes they made in remote ops. Icon Icon finds that the lounge has magazines and newspapers that are a month out of date, as well as some movies and Playstation games around the same time. There are a few board games as well, as well as some books that look kind of similar to Dungeons and Dragons. The impression you get, is of nerds and geeks isolated from civilisation for at least a month. There are names here as well, on character sheets, as well as on the few books in the lounge. There are two ebook readers lying around as well, but when you pick up one and look at it, it's been gutted of its chipboard and some other components. The Playstation and other electronics in the room have been gutted, as well as any kind of cables or wiring. Even from the walls, there are lines up and down the walls where cabling has been torn out, leaving only what might be bare essentials in the room. Odin The computer systems are much easier to access than you anticipate. This immediately tells you something, that they won't contain something valuable or important enough to warrant a relationship to what is in the cargo-holds. The systems contain encrypted and encoded logs and transmissions made by some kind of short range radio installed. It seems like a ship came out to the boat to resupply and update periodically, given their main uplink to the world has been physically destroyed. The concerning part of this is that if the icebreaker ran into trouble they would not be able to radio or call for help. An oversight? Or deliberate distancing? Thor finds some very obvious disks and data drives that contain nothing of value. Phantom The engine room was still running smoothly, but you could see spare parts and other various bits and pieces had been cannibalised, presumably by those weird techno-zombie things you saw earlier. The bare essentials are still here so it seems someone or something still has enough thought or oversight to realise that they need the electricity the engine provides for whatever it is they do. The engine itself is also remarkable, extremely different to other engines you've seen and with more electrical cabling and computers than you expected in an icebreaker. It sticks it obviously and you can tell it has been retrofitted in; there is no way this was in the original designs. Maybe Odin could tell you more about it. The two rooms which have been gutted of things are below the deck level as an aside.
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Impulse If you spend a Victory/Hero Point on Inspiration then you'll get more directly helpful and useful advice. Otherwise I'll give you more cryptic or less helpful hints based on your connection. The Flow Of Time In This Place Is Disturbed. This is what Ct’aruk chose to share with you, although you were left to discern what it meant fully. Ct’aruk liked for his avatars to be able to think and act on their own initiative; a stupid and or lame servant was not helpful after all. The officers rooms showed signs of being gutted of electronics and wiring, a two laptops being left with mostly a plastic case only. There were personal effects, that led to you confirming Icon's profiling of people that were mostly nerdy or geeky, intellectuals and not some kind of covert operations. There was less damage to the walls because the rooms had less cabling into them, but there was still a bit of it. A lot of beds were unmade and some showed signs of rapid evacuation, but there wasn't any indications they had been like this for a while. Whatever happened seemed reasonably recent. Odin & Thor Like Impulse's investigations to the captain's room, you find that records stop at a certain point a few months back after the ship had stopped off on the American east coast. There are not secret encrypted or encoded versions of anything here, the records simply stop after that date. Icon You notice that the food is cold, but has no mould and hasn't obviously gone bad yet. Looking at the sorts of food being prepared, you would guess that they were in the middle of making breakfast and got interrupted that morning. The toaster and other appliances are similarly gutted of electronics and wiring, as is the kitchen itself save for a single essential cable.
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Note: As long as no one goes into the field around the pod, there is no delays in communication.
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As mentioned in IRC, Odin realises that the hull of the ship is undergoing effects similar to that of aging over long timespans. This suggest the field compresses time, which is why the affected area inside looks really rusted. Phantom, the only person to get close so far, is unable to get close to the pod at the centre of the compressed time field as it becomes harder to move through the field the closer you get.
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Thor "Do I get a say in this boss?" Thor asks slightly apprehensively and enough that a little bit of his old attitude had slipped through a bit.
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Thor Thor's face sort of eases and he says in a calm and slightly dull voice. "No sir. You have my best interests in my mind. There is no need for me to be concerned."
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Thor "Understood sir. I will make my way to the device now." He says, his voice more emotive this time that his will was not being so directly overridden. He looked at Phantom and said; "If you're coming then let's go." When he reached the cargo bay he reported that he had heard movement of the cyberised men upstairs, but none of them had come down to his level so he had continued on. As Thor entered the room his connection to Odin started to get static-ey. He reported feeling slightly queasy and starting to get a slight pain in his head, but his diagnostics indicated no abnormalities or causes for this. As he walked into the field the connection started breaking up, giving stuttered and slower frames and updates. These symptoms got worse as Thor went deeper into the field, and his diagnostics started throwing up errors and warnings. Eventually he broke back out of the field and collapsed gasping. Internal diagnostics indicated he had aged by a whole year even though relatively he was only in the field for less than two minutes and he had not experienced even a week of subjective time.
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Thor's systems were still working, a testament to the careful work done in creating them. They could use a tune up, but beyond the rapid ageing effect there was no other signs of damage to anything. Strange as well was the fact that despite being subjected to an ageing effect Thor had not required a year's worth of nutrition and hydration.
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Icon, Phantom, do either of you want to put in some input or shall I wrap up this scene and have you guys head back home?
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I'm sorry about this, but you guys have been really great players and I feel awful about saying this; but I need to end the game. My work situation has changed, and it is now a lot busier and more stressful than it was before. After a two week vacation the first day back I've already had a stress headache. I thought about running this in a different format maybe, but the simple fact is I am burning out on a lot of stuff IRL and I need to cut back on my games. I wish I had devoted more time and effort to this, because I feel like I've let you guys down with it. I am not ending all of my games, but this is one of the harder ones for me to write and run so it is one of the ones I am ending. If any of you are interested in a future game I run, especially you Stallion as you're the one who won't be in a continuing game, you'll definitely get priority consideration.
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Oct 6, 2014 10:59
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