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quote:spacecrab spacecrab immediately scuttles off and around the deck nearby looking for any clues such as strange fluids, battle damage, or signs of bodies being dragged off. Roll I got a +1 on it adding my notice of +4 for a +5, I should handily find out something, and get a success with style. AtomikKrab fucked around with this message at 22:50 on Nov 18, 2014 |
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Jed Raspers It wasn't the cold and wet that bothered Jed. Being what amounted to a grouchy zombie meant most problems of the flesh didn't affect him. However, while he couldn't feel the cold, he could still slip and fall on the wet floor. Which he did. Getting back up (and trying to ignore any snickers from the others), he quickly scanned around. Empty ship, no crew, the rest of the team as wet as he was - leave it to the crab to also ignore the cold and do a better time navigating the wet floor than he did. "Okay," Jed shouted to be heard over the storm. "Let's get inside, dry off, and then head to the bridge. Crab! You see anything?" pre:Name: Jed Raspers Concept Aspect: Undead Wiseguy PI Good Mode (+3): Intrigue Athletics +4, Burglary, Contacts, Deceive, Notice +4 , Stealth Fair Mode(+2): Reanimated Combat +3, Physique +3 , Will, Catalyzing the Reagent Catalyzing the Reagent - Create Advantage: Use your status between the crossroads of life and death to call do creepy things to aid/hinder your friends/enemies Overcome: Boost yourself with your natural unnaturalness. Average Mode (+1): Action Provoke, Vehicles Intrigue Aspect: I'll Solve This, Even If It Kills Me (Again) Reanimated Aspect: Pros and Cons of Unlife Action Aspect: Cold Fists and Hot Lead Omega Aspect: Being Watched from the Darkness, For Good and Ill Stress: Physical O O O Mental O O O Stunts: Scary Bastard: +2 to Provoke When you threaten someone Still a Detective: +2 to Notice when trying to find clues to a case The Dead Don't Feel Pain (Megastunt): Armor Rating 2; Fearproof but with a Cost Back From the Grave: When taken out, spend a fate point to clear a consequence and X harm, and re-enter the action I Know People (and Things) Who Know Things (and People): +2 to Contacts when interacting with cops and crooks
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space crab is now "Expecting Large Targets" Zipping back up to the group space crab makes his report. "Well there is significant damage to the exterior of the hull coming from blows that started on the inside of the hull, the damage is significant, especially in the central area of the ship, but most worryingly is that the beings that did the damage must be somewhere over three of your meters tall.!" Says the crab in an excited voice.
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Lutwidge Aspen, Bachelor of Biology FP 5/5 Lutwidge might have been a bit annoyed when he got called away from the lab for the mission--Shoggoth cells are so interesting!--but he's spent the trip bouncing in his seat. Half of it is the piloting and turbulence, but the rest is him staring giddily at Spacecrab. And Jake. And Amaryllis. And Jed, come to think of it. They were all so interesting, really... ...oh, this is his stop! Time to-- "Wah!" Lutwidge promptly slips on the deck and falls on his rear. "Ah! Okay...okay, Aspen. Let's try that again. You might not have Spacecrab's cool legs, but that doesn't mean you have to fall over! It's all math, right?" Just wait for the boat to reach the trough of its motion and run in between the sections of the deck! That way he won't have to compensate for lateral motion. And the crane towers and stuff can provide some shelter, since it's so windy the rain comes down at an angle. Okay then, plan set! Wait for it...NOW! I'm going to SCIENCE a way to get to the bridge, if you don't mind. But this also works with Physique, so... [18:54:23] <Davin_Valkri> !r fudge+3 [18:54:24] <Krysmbot> Davin_Valkri, //-/+3 = 2 Yiiiikes! Davin Valkri posted:High Concept: Xenobiology Doctorate-in-Training Davin Valkri fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Nov 27, 2014 |
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Arthur Douglas, Sole Survivor of Factory 7Monathin posted:
Arthur may not be one being fawned over by some younger types, but that was just as good to him. There was something to be said for being considered one of the few normies in Miskatonic. His APPROACH desplayed a built in holopad on the chest - the one concession that he had to make with keeping his old jumpsuit was giving it a new set of modern day functions to allow him to read the mission statements. He reluctantly accepted, with the counter-claim that he put it on himself. He didnt trust anyone else with his suit. Of course that made his stomach drop into a pit when he heard how likely it was for cultists to be involved. Just his rotten luck. Arthur doesnt so much "touch" down on the creaking ship as slam down, though the roar of the storm keeps it more muffled than it should. His helmet flickers on, a blueish glow coming out from his visor as the heads-up-display comes to life, just in time for "spacecrab" to come back and deliver his report. 3 meters tall? Great. He's glad he brought the rivet gun. "Keep alert, then. Visibility is hell in this weather, so the chances of us missing something big like that are still pretty good." The armored jumpsuit holding off the bite of the worst of the weather, Arthur trudgingly makes his way across the deck, heavy boots echoing as he gives the sillouhette of a diver's suit as thunderclaps flash across the night sky. Rolling Physique: [03:29] (Mondroid) .roll 4dF+5 [03:29] (+skybot) Mondroid: 9 (4dF+5=+, +, +, +) Monathin fucked around with this message at 21:28 on Dec 30, 2014 |
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Amaryllis Armitage, Touching down on the deck with bare feet, Amaryllis tugs her veil around with one hand to help protect herself from the rain. "So, this is some real nasty weather to be havin' a mission in. Don't suppose we can wait for things to clear up, though, huh?" Taking her free hand, shadows peel around her in a spiral, swirling into three shadowy orbs. Then, the orbs open up to peer about as single eyes, taking up black, silent wings to start arcing over the surface of the ship. "Let's have a look-see." The creatures are a little hindered by the winds, but they travel on airs not of this Earth. Their sight is her sight, letting her start looking into the route ahead. Rolling her absolute Notice, with a total of +5. pre:Amaryllis Armitage,
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 Situation Aspects: Expecting Large Targets - 1 Free Invoke! Location Aspects: Dreadful Weather, Slippery, Handrails, Shipping Containers, Bigass Cranes Warning - map totally not to scale. Amaryllis' eyes manage to get a pretty clear view of what's up ahead. There's no immediate dangers - anything that wasn't securely held down already has already been swept away by the storm. You have a clear line of sight to the end, and you can see that the lights are on in the bridge, but nowhere else. It seems there might be somebody at the bridge - you can make out an indistinct figure, but your eyes will have to move in closer to see anything better in this weather. You can also see what Spacecrab was talking about - there's visible damage along the hull, particuarly near the middle section - Where Lutwidge has just taken his pratfall. He's unhurt, but he's near the hatch down into No 3 Hold, which appears to have been forced open and is letting the rain in. From within, he hears a growl - big, like no animal on earth, and lasting for a few seconds before it stops abruptly. Arthur, being much more professional and aided by a suit, makes it to the lower accomodation area. It's more sheletered, and he slips into...  Lower Accomodation Tower Location Aspects: Faulty Lighting, Lots of Makeshift Weapons, Something Smells Arthur stands in the Galley - not as big or as clean as this picture, but close enough. Through the nearby doorway, past the flickering lights, he can see a hallway with what appear to be ladders upwards and downwards, and a modestly furnished recreation room beyond. The sway of the ship is still here, but the weather is now blissfully at bay. It's warm, too. One of Amaryllis' seeing eyes has followed you in, relaying this to back to her. The lights are flickering. Odd. And there's a strange smell here - sticky sweet, like rotting fruit. It's not overly strong, but it's thick in the air. The television in the rec room - an old-world flat-screen bolted to the wall - hisses with static.
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space crab space crab scuttles across the deck with blissful ease and shines a crab sized flashlight down into the depths of the destroyed hatch #3. Spend 1 fate point to invoke my crab sized engineering tools Notice Roll Total +4 4 fate points remain (or 2?) AtomikKrab fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Nov 19, 2014 |
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Jed Raspers With the team starting to make it's way down the deck, Jed follows suit, keeping a watch if anyone has problems - or if problems find them. Rolling with Athletics +4 and I get 0 on my roll, so 4 total.
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 pre:Name: Jake Bass Concept Aspect: Sonic Warrior A-Go Go Sonic Mode +3 (Athletics, Combat, Notice, Physique, Sonic Manipulation, Will [9 points]) Aspect: Beats by Dre Action Mode +2 (Athletics, Combat, Notice, Physique, Provoke, Vehicles) Aspect: Let the Rhythm Flow Banter Mode +1 (Contacts, Deceive, Empathy, Provoke, Rapport, Will) Aspect: Sassier-Than-Thou Omega Aspect: Club Kid Kicking rear end Skills: +5: Athletics, Combat +4: Notice, Physique, Sonic Manipulation, Will +3: Provoke +2: Vehicles +1: Contacts, Deceive, Empathy, Rapport (Specialized Athletics and Combat; trained Sonic Manipulation) Stunts: Trance Mode Absolutely more Athletic than a normal human, but only when listening to music. Fight to the Rhythm +2 to Combat and Sonic Manipulation when listening to music. Learned it from an Old One Can use Sonic Manipulation instead of Empathy when dealing with alien or unnatural beings (manipulates sonic waves to understand language) Armored Synthskin Function: Light and flexible armor Flaw: Flakes off when in the presence of lots of sonic manipulation Benefit: Armor 2 when worn Sonic Katana Function: Blade formed from pure sound Flaw: Requires concentration to keep active Benefit: Weapon 2 when formed Stress: Physical: 4 Mental: 3 (Weird Skill: Sonic Manipulation (2 points) Jake can manipulate sonic waves, bending them to his will. Overcome: Manipulate waves to disrupt signals and batter down objects. Advantage: Amplify sonic waves, deafening opponents or scrambling their tracking systems. Attack: Hardens sonic waves into blades that can be thrown as projectiles. Defend: Solidify waves, creating a sonic shield.) Jake kept his headphones around his neck, his music a light drone rather than a thumping bass in his ears. He surveyed each of his new teammates in turn: a talking crab, an undead guy, some old dude, a twinky scientist, a creepy girl...you know, the usual assortment of normal people. The mission seemed simple enough; find any survivors and take out any baddies that had inevitably made their way on board one way or another. Jake hopped out of the helicopter, landing lightly. His new powers had made him incredibly agile, but not as much as if he had his headphones on. That wasn't necessary currently, though. All he had to do was cross the deck... At that, he sees the scientist take a nosedive. Repressing a snicker, Jake headed over. Athletics: 4dF+5 = 4 He stopped at the scientist, lending him a hand to help him up. "Careful. We're not even to the dangerous parts yet." Jake gave a cocky grin as he waited for the scientist to take his hand.
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Lutwidge Aspen FP 5-1/5 Twinky? Really? The expression on Aspen's face as he goes down is half surprise at his legs going out from under him and half...perfectly normal scientific curiosity as to the origin of the growling, really! He doesn't even bother to get up as he scrambles over on all fours to the broken hatch. "Waitwaitwaitwait, let's not move on yet, Jake!" he calls out as he reaches for his smartphone. "Somebody's down here! Somebody...tee-hee...not of this earth! I wanna figure out what it is!" He flips on the video mode and lowers it into a break in the hatch. Is this dangerous? Of course it is! But you can't tell if a frog is poisonous without handling it (ideally with gloves, but eh...), so what's the difference? "Hello? Helloooooo!" he chuckles as his voice echoes in the hold and he waves the smartphone around. "Come on over so we can get a good look at you...!" Let's use the smartphone video and the sound of the groan and see if we can't figure out at least one living thing still on board, eh? Hello? Hello down there! (Xenobiology, +5): 4dF+5 2 Oh that's not good at all! Rerolling with Xenobiology Doctorate-in-Training! Reroll Reroll!: 4dF+5 5
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Arthur Douglas He turns back to the eyeball real quick, giving it a quizzical look. "Look, I don't know if these eyeballs also have ears, but if something jumps out of the sink and goes for me with a knife, just let the others know. Crab said something about hull damage down below, figure we might wanna make sure this thing isnt going to go under with us on board." Looking around amidst the flickering lights, Arthur's eyes strained as his nose caught the whiff of the strange smell. Eugh. Between that and the flickering lights, this was starting to feel like Factory 7. "Don't know if you have a nose either, but something in here reeks. I'm gonna check it out before I head below deck. Might give you guys a chance to catch up." He belatedly realozed he was giving commands to a floating shadowy eyeball. Some days he wonders about the type of people Misk recruits. Flipping on the suit's sensors, Arthur takes a look around the Galley and the area beyond, trying to find amything notable - namely the source of the smell, despite his misgivings. Rolling Notice: [01:50] (Mondroid) .roll 4dF+5 [01:50] (+skybot) Mondroid: 6 (4dF+5=-, 0, +, +) Monathin fucked around with this message at 07:54 on Nov 20, 2014 |
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Amaryllis Armitage Jogging up towards Aspen, Amaryllis says, "Hey, be careful around there! You haven't even got on a fancy suit on or nothin', you oughta be more careful!" She squints after him. "And what's Arty rushin' on up for? Shouldn't we come up with some kind of plan first, like going up to the bridge and tryin' to find out what happened?" A pause. "Whatever you're lookin' for will be there when we get back, there ain't nowhere for it to go, you know." She frowns faintly, looking up at the bridge. "C'mon, we're supposed to be professionals! We can't go all runnin' off for no reason at all.", she says, and slowly starts in the direction of the bridge tower, looking back to the others to see if they're following.
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It’s pretty dark in the hold. A gust of sickly-sweet rotting odor blows from within as Spacecrab’s torch illuminates the gloom… Hold No 3 Location Aspects: Poor Lighting, ???, ??? It’s dark, gloomy, and it has nothing inside. No crates, no signs of life. Except the thing that blunders, shrieking, into the light of Spacecrab’s torch.  pre:Spider Tager Good (3): Tager Skills: +5 Agility, +4 Tooth and Claw, Will, Notice Aspects: Warrior Beast, Does Whatever A Spider Can Stress: 1 2 Arthur notices a smear of blood in the corridor, and follows it into, well…  Thankfully, whatever this is, it is dead. The body, slumped against the portside wall of the hallway, is riddled with bullets and leaking black stinking ichor all over the floor - the source of the nasty smell. Two other bodies - human, in warm clothing - lie nearby, one with his head smashed in and one with her torso pierced by one of the creature’s spines. Their sub-machine guns are discarded near where they fell. There’s no overt cult symbols or ritualistic components - a fight went bad here. Arthur Succeeded with Style and gets a Boost! What the hell happened on this ship? 
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Jed Raspers Jed finally gets inside the bridge, and tries to dry off while trying to find Arthur. He finds the man, along with one of Amaryllis' eye-thingys, two corpses and one dead...thing. "Well poo poo," Jed can only say upon seeing the thing. It's official, things are bad. And bound to get worse, with that unknown giant thing down in the holds. And the kids are apparently still outside. "I'll get the kids, they need to know about this," Jed doesn't bother to get a smoke before he heads outside and sees Amaryllis yelling at the others to come inside, who were all huddled over the hole. Why weren't they heading inside, where it was dry and warm? The kids were still alive, wouldn't their mothers worry about them getting cold? Why are they over the hole ...oh hell. "What do you see?" Jed yells as he makes his way over. Please don't tell me they woke up the big monster... * Heading towards the others at the hole on Deck #3, getting ready to get beat up by spider-monsters.
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Lutwidge Aspen FP 4/5 Triumphant and beaming despite the rain and wind, Lutwidge pulls out his smartphone and raises it high--then lowers it before he slips and sends it flying. "We saw a spider!" he chirps brightly, setting his phone to play back the video he caught. "Actually, I think it's a Tager! So it's, like, a human that's been bonded with an eldritch being...which is even cooler! It's kinda drunk or something though...maybe it's looking for the hair of the dog that bit it? Or just exposed to whatever venom it makes itself? Or themselves? Ah, but I'm babbling too much--" A gust of wind echoes as it blows through the cranes, as if to announce its agreement. "What did you find?"
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Amaryllis Armitage Pulling out a communicator, Amaryllis pauses, giving a call over to Arthur. "Hey, I can hear you just fine, but this ain't a marathon, you need help, you stay safe until somebody can haul their butt over to give you a hand." On the other hand, she's not thrilled with the others huddled over a hole. "Seriously, what is everybody draggin' their heels for-", Amaryllis says aloud, looking over to the group. As Jed makes his way over. "- I dunno, it's like they've never seen a extraterrestrial before.", she replies, before following after Jed. "Well, except our little pinchy." To Lutwidge, though, she asks, "Is it a talky sort of spider? Maybe it has some idea of what's going on here?" Jogging back over, she comes up back to the main group, hunching a little under the cold rain. "Might want to ask before pinchy down there gets any ideas." Well, in a world where the mi-go are on talk shows, you don't judge based on looks.
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space crab "Intriguing! also very loud, I bet the handbook has a section on communicating with mantispeople!" from somewhere spacecrab has produced a large illustrated handbook written in an alien tongue (PERSUMABLY spacecrab language) spacecrab begins flipping through his handbook looking for a section that deals with communicating with shrieking bug/alien/monster/people/things.
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Jed Raspers "Arthur found a dead spiky thing - and two dead humans," Jed fills Amaryllis in. "Looks like they killed each other." Looking over the others near the pit - with apparently one confirmed thing, and another unconfirmed bigger one still about, Jed points at the bridge. "Let's get inside and get all this sorted out!"
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Jake Bass Jake's hands went to his headphones when he spotted the creature, but they soon relaxed. The beast didn't seem to pose much of a threat at the moment, wobbling around like a drunk at closing time. Jake felt relieved, but also slightly annoyed. He did kind of want to punch it in the face. Maybe he'd get a chance to if and when it got better and decided to try to snack on the group. He turned to the bridge, where Jed was. "Yeah, probably best that we stick together in case there are more of these things and they aren't as...clumsy as this one. Also...rain. In my hair. Probably ruined at this point. Ah well, nothing to be done, I guess." Jake waited for the others to finish up, then planned on heading to the bridge.
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BOOST CREATED: Arthur Douglas has Seen This poo poo Before. Yeah, this was definitely not a good situation, Arthur knew as much from experience. Big, bulky, spindly sonuvabitch charges into range of a couple of bodies with decent firearms but not enough time to pump hot lead into the thing. He can remember a couple cases like that in Factory 7. Not the greatest moment. "Yeah, poo poo." He acknowledges Jed's reaction - much the same as his own - before watching him head out. Amaryllis comes in over the communicator, and he at least acknowledges the point, talking to the eyeball. "Well, if the rest of crew would hurry over instead of slacking on the deck, I suppose we'd be able to get going quicker. More to the point, did you see anything with these eyes of yours while surveying the deck? I'm not exactly betting on survivors, here." He kind of grabbed the grip of his custom riveting gun uneasily. Bullets were too small and quick for this sort of thing. No, to put a dent in these guys, you needed something with a lot more heft, that's what he'd had found. Might not get all the way through them, but it puts a hell of a lot more stopping power into them - and when you got who knows what charging to crush you, stopping power is what you really want. "Besides, if whatever is down in the holds is still tearing up the ship, we're gonna need to deal with him sooner, rather than later."
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Spacecrab's amazing handy book does have a section on Tagers! Unfortunately, before he can read any exciting details about how these super-cool abominations against nature work, the Spider Tager suddenly acts. It spits a line of webbing from its mouth with a disgusting "hblurgh" noise, like Spider-Man throwing up. The line splats onto Lutwidge's chest, and then the Tager heaves, trying to yank him into the hold! Pull Lutwidge into the hold with webs! (Physique): 4dF 0 Things then get worse. One of the windows of the accommodation block smashes to fragments, along with the rest of the wall, as something hurls itself out and lands on the deck with a thump.  pre:Raging Tager Good (+3) Mode - Beast Skills: (+5 Tooth and Claw, +4 Provoke, Physique, Notice) Aspects: Warrior Beast, It Will Not Stop Stress: 1 2 Chaaaaaaaarge! (Tooth and Claw, attacking the group near the hatch excluding Lutwidge): 4dF+4 5 
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Lutwidge Aspen FP 4/5 Phys OOO Ment OOOO "Well, I guess I can go ask, Amy," Lutwidge answers her without bothering to confirm if "Amy" is a good shortening for "Amaryllis". He slides his cell away and heads over to the breach in the hatch, leaning over more fully. "Helloooo again, spider Tager! If you can understand me, tap the--" And then the spider shoots a big glob of sticky white stuff right at his chest. "Eh? Oh boy..." He grabs a hold of the hatch sections on both sides of his head and hangs on for dear life! Is the Raging Tager attacking all of us, or is this a Create Advantage, or...? Anyway, I'm going to roll Physique to defend against the obvious attack from the spider tager. Don't pull me under (Physique): 4dF+3 4 And I think that's a boost for me! "Aw, what's the matter, spider tager? Your webbing just not strong enough today? So cute...I feel like calling you Spinarak for some reason..." And as he talks, he swears he can see the tager cock its head appendage to one side. Let's call it Ta'Ged and Confused or something.
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Jed Raspers FP 5/5 Phys OOO Ment OOO Things went to poo poo in relatively quick order. First the thing in the hold webbed Lutwidge, then a new bigger thing exploded out of the bridge and charged at them. Jed quickly figured things out - Lutwidge was laughing, so either he was insane, or had the spider web handled. Or both. The charging monster, on the other hand, needed to be dealt with. Seeing the SpaceCrab try to lure the beast into a crate, Jed snarled, then roared in defiance at the thing as he started to run at it. This thing wants to get to the kids? Bullshit, it gets me. Countercharging the Raging Tager, in a Monster vs. Monster Bash! Rolling with Physique +3 and I get 4. Spending a Fate Point (FP 4/5) to tap my Cold Fists and Hot Lead Action Aspect for a +2, bringing my total to 6, beating it's 5.
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The horrid whale-beast doesn't pay much attention to the tiny crab - after all, he's only tiny! Jed's Reagent-powered counterattack, however, is more impressive - he slams into the thing, despite it being twice as tall as he is, and the two come to a halt, locked in battle. The creature is cleary injured - there's a laceration from the impact, black tar running down its torso. Raging Tager Stress: The creature snarls. It's breath stinks of meat, and its muscles flex as it tries to force you down to the deck with the sheer weight of itself. Create an Advantage (Tooth and Claw) - Pin Jed to the deck: 4dF+5 5 Make a Defend action The Spider Tager does not know anything about Pokémon, and it is very displeased that it couldn't pull a skinny grad student into the hold. With a screech, it goes for the ladder, limbs contorting as it begins to make its way up to the deck. You only have a second or two before it gets there - what do you do?
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Jake Bass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvhX_XyPcVc Oh, now this is what I was looking for. Jake slapped on his headphones, feeling the beat pulsing into his ears, and then reverberating throughout his entire body. He winced as the cold rain hit his naked skin, his synthsuit already flaking away a little bit, pieces hovering in the air like clingy groupies. He looked from one situation to the other. Jed seemed like he was handling himself well. Lutwidge (Lut? Luty? Nickname later), on the other hand, could probably use some help. He sprung into action. Quite literally, actually, springing into the air like a bird. He positioned himself into the air above the tager climbing up the ladder, then drove himself downwards, foot first. As he fell, he made eye contact with the creature. He winked. Combat: 4dF+7 = 8 Not good enough. This is too cool to gently caress up! Jake intensified his powers, and a flare appeared around his descending foot, which, paired with the increasing number of synthsuit pieces trailing behind him, made him look like an iridescent, rainbow-colored comet entering orbit. Invoking Beats by Dre aspect for +2 = 10
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Jed Raspers FP 4/5 Phys OOO Ment OOO Jed had the thing's attention - for good and bad. While it was good his blows managed to drive it back and hurt it, now it was trying to crush him with it's bulk. Perhaps, if he wasn't in a strange chemical-induced rage-state, Jed could have thought about using it's bulk against it, and judo-throw it to the ground. But that was thinking for people who weren't currently undead rage machines. FIGHT BACK, FIGHT KILL * Unfortunately, the whale-monster's size and bulk allowed it to just pick Jed up and slam him down on the dock a few times. Going to Defend with my Physique +3, and out-muscle the monster. The Result: ONE Ain't no way I can counter that with a +2 Invoke. So yeah, down goes Frasier.
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Nov 25, 2014 22:26
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spacecrab Fate 3/5 Physical S: OOOO Mental S: OOO spacecrab realizes his clever ruse has failed, and as Jed is slammed into the floor leaps into action. Literally leaps, right onto the raging tagers shoulder where he lunges forward using an ancient spacecrab combat technique! That is to say he tries to pinch the tager in the eye, the very large and vulnerable eye. Combat roll, its a 3, but I activate my "expecting large targets" and pay a fate to use KRAB BATTLE, For a +7
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Amaryllis Armitage As the creature rushes her, Amaryllis leaps away, but pauses as Jed jumps into the way. Looking over its rampage, she declares with a sweep of her arm, "In the name of the Dark Pharaoh, and the ancient laws of-" The squints as the creature gets leaped on by a dangerous rainbow and an angry crab, relaxing her pose. "- on second thought, I'm feelin' kinda sorry for the big guy." Going to create a new stunt: Inviolate Dramatic Pose: +2 to Athletics when you have not performed an attack during this scene. Which gives her a 7 on Athletics for Defense! With another bound, she launches herself towards the hatch, and as she does so, the red eye on her veil starts to glow. "Hey, you! Get your sticky hands offa him!" Reaching up, she gathers crimson power from the eye, and then turns about in a bang, launching the energy from her hand in a discordant blast of sparkling red energy from a fingergun. "Bang!" Rolling to make an attack against the unfriendly neighborhood Spider Tager, with a 3, but I'll spend a Fate Point to invoke Elegance in Brutality and Violence to increase it to a 5. Her weapon is rated at 4 from Three-Lobed Burning Eye.
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Nov 25, 2014 23:12
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Arthur Douglas Vaguely hearing commotion on the outside, he moves to the entrance of the Accomodation Deck for a moment - as much as he rushed ahead, he was a little bit concerned that they hadn't made it inside yet - there was a storm after all. And then he got to catch a glimpse of monsters crawling all over the deck, especially the one pinning Jeb, he quickly reaches for his Rivet Gun, planning to place some well-placed bullets into the big guy's backside- Until he sees a flare of a comet come down on the spindly one and the crab shoot up off one of the crates and go for the big one's eyes. Arthur allows himself a small smile as he lowers the makeshift weapon. Well, good to know he wasn't the only person prepared for a brawl. He turned himself around, talking to the eyeball still following him. "This thing seems like it's one bad brawl from falling apart at the seams, so be careful. When you guys are wrapped up, head in here and dry off and figure out where you wanna go from there. I'm gonna try and see if I can't get some work done in the Engine Room - if I can't fix something down there, it can't -be- fixed, and I'm thinkin' that might spell problems if things get worse...which they will." He moves to the ladders, grabbing the one headed below deck. Engine Room should be just below, it's probably not a bad idea to find out what the damage is down there. He keeps his cobbled-together gun nearby, scanning as he heads his way down below. Moving to the Engine Room to search things out! Notice: Scanning the Ending-I mean Engine Room: 5, not good enough! I invoke Artie's Seen This poo poo Before Boost - Monsters and machines in disrepair are old hat to Artie, he knows what to look for. Monathin fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Nov 25, 2014 |
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Lutwidge Aspen FP 4/5 Phys OOO Ment OOOO Lutwidge is a bit distracted by scraping off a sample of the sticky white stuff for later analysis to even notice all the fighting that's broken out around him. By the time he's got it safely ensconced in his pocket, the big one has already been fought by half the team! He did notice Jake jumping down into the hatch after the spider tager though. "Hey, Jake!" he calls out as he prepares to follow down the ladder. "Wait up! I wanna see Spinarak up close too~" As he gets inside the hatch, he takes a moment to figure out how the devil he can seal up the hatch so that Spinarak can't pull the same trick it tried with him on any of his teammates. Ah, why couldn't everything be as easy as biology? Perhaps the same silk could be used...? I'm going to seal up this hatch to prevent Spider Tager from interfering with the fight on the deck. Rolling science! [21:30:32] <Davin_Valkri> !r fudge+3 [21:30:33] <Krysmbot> Davin_Valkri, +-+-+3 = 3
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The multicoloured comet of power that is Jake Bass slams the poor Spider Tager right into the hold with a sound like God slamming Satan’s head in a car door, causing the ship to rock violently upon impact. Something goes crack under your foot, and the creature shrieks just as Armitage’s bolt of power impacts and puts it down for good. Bless you, Tager. Blager. K.O. You take a moment to look around (Lutwidge joining you and handily sealing the hatch behind him with spider-gunk) and you see two things. First of all, there’s chalk circles on the floor, a few knocked-over candles, and what appears to be an altar. Doesn’t take a genius to figure out what this is. Someone was doing something down here - something culty. Is culty even a word? Whatever. Hold No 3 Revealed Location Aspects: Makeshift Ritual Site Secondly, there’s another pair of Tagers down here, watching in total disbelief.   There’s a pause, and then the two shift, their symbiote flesh merging back into their clothes.   “We give.” This is the man, looking as if he had just bore witness to a bomb landing on his car. quote:Bei Zehnhua “Yeah, totally. We surrender! No worries, right?” The girl giggles nervously. “Not gonna do a thing. You’re Jake Bass, right? Yeah? Big fan. Don’t hurt me.” Her gaze flicks over to Lutwidge for maybe a little too long, then back to Jake. quote:Longkai Tai The Tagers concede the fight! Situation aspect: Jake Bass Owns Da Place Back on the deck, the Raging Tager snarls as it overpowers Jed, slamming him about the deck like a rack doll before hurling him into a shipping crate. Thankfully for the revenant gumshoe, the beast doesn’t get to press the attack, as spacecrab unleashes a whole can of pinch-fu pain on his eye. The eye leaks black fluid, and the beast roars and swats at the crab, before falling to the deck. Looks like it’s too busy writhing in agony to - A limb snaps out iat Spacecrab! The Raging Tager is technically Taken Out, but it has the aspect “It Will Not Stop,” so it makes sense that, unfortunately, a flailing limb would send poor Spacecrab flying towards the edge of the boat! Feel free to negotiate in OOC - otherwise, take your Fate point. Arthur makes it to the Engine Room!  Engine Room Location Aspects: Heavy Machinery, Maintainance Overdue, ??? Your eagle eyes note that this is all pretty standard here. Engines seem to be intact, but they’ve not been maintained for a while. There’s a more pressing concern here than the run-down machines, though.  Location Aspect: Scrying Jammer There appears to be a funky machine of some kind down here. The Tagers - if it is them who caused this ruckus - trie dto tuck it behind a crossroads of coolant piping, but you’re just too good and spot it almost instantly. It’s possibly the source of the anti-scrying waves mentioned in the report, but you can’t confirm its origin or its precise function without a closer look. Arthur gets another Boost! Map here when I get the time.
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Arthur Douglas is (B) At Home Among Machines. He feels the ship rock as what he assumes Bass lands his hit. Jeez, no wonder the kid was so popular, that had to have been a hell of a hit. He was right to be worried about how much punch this team packed, this wasn't a ship made to deal with super-kicks and laser blasts. A quick scan reveals the Engine Room to be in a lot better shape than he thought. They hadn't been cycled for a while, and he's nearly ready to get them up and running before he catches something under the cooling. What kind of fool would block the airflow under a coolant pi- Oh. Oh. "You still listening, Amaryllis?" He talks back to that eyeball. "Found something interesting in the engine room. Might be why Misk couldn't get a bead on this place before sending us in - looks like someone didn't want us to find it. I'm gonna crack it open and see what I can do." He was starting to get used to the eyeball, at least it gave him a reason to talk to himself, as he procured some simple tools from the wristguard on his APPROACH and started to poke the thing open. Rolling Science - Electronic Engineering to tinker with the Scrying Jammer! 0+4=4, and I'm invoking At Home Among Machines for a Reroll! Oh poo poo, that wasn't the right wire. Monathin fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Nov 26, 2014 |
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Lutwidge Aspen FP 4-2/5 Phys OOO Ment OOOO Finally climbing from one area of the ship to the other without slipping and falling on his rear--thanks, spider silk sealant!--Lutwidge brushes himself off, waves a cheery acknowledgement at Jake's badass spider-kicking skills, and gives a short, brief bow to the now humanoid (aww...) Tagers. He's still smiling like a giggling schoolgirl, though. Who would have guessed that this trip would have resulted in so much direct experience with xeno-life?! "Hello, my friends!" He greets them amiably, as if their spider ally (maybe an ally, maybe not) hadn't tried to kill him and Jake hadn't floored them. "Sooo...you know Jake, I'm Bachelor Aspen, but you can call me Lutwidge! He and I and our friends topside are here because this ship was thought lost." He leans casually against one of the shipping containers. "And now we know you're here! And you've got some really funny interior decorating." He points at the impromptu altar, then shrugs and grins at the lady tager. "Sooo...would you like to explain what you're doing in the hold of a ship adrift?" He cocks his head, smiles a little wider, then points at Jake. "Or does he need to strip again?" Lutwidge is doing what he does best--buttering them up with Rapport for a good-cop bad-cop act! [23:10:28] <Davin_Valkri> !r fudge+3 [23:10:29] <Krysmbot> Davin_Valkri, +---+3 = 1 Invoke Too Sexy for my Labcoat for a reroll... [23:11:13] <Davin_Valkri> !r fudge+3 [23:11:14] <Krysmbot> Davin_Valkri, --/-+3 = 0 ...Invoke Bachelor for Life for another reroll...! [23:11:42] <Davin_Valkri> !r fudge+3 [23:11:43] <Krysmbot> Davin_Valkri, /+/-+3 = 3
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Jed Raspers FP 4/5 Phys OOO Ment OOO Jed staggered back to his feet after the beast beat the ever-loving poo poo out of him. He winced as he heard some meaty snaps and crackles as he got up. While his dead flesh didn't really register pain, the the pops and snaps meant quite a few of his bones were broken, and movement was going to be ...interesting until whatever chemicals in his system would let him heal. Jed scanned the scene, trying to locate the others. Arthur - not here. Probably still inside. Dead beast - good. Ha. gently caress you. Jed managed to work up enough bloody phlegm to spit at the downed foe. Amaryllis - around. Good. One of the team physically accounted for. Lutwidge - not here. Where is he? Jake - not here. Where is he? Spacecrab - almost falling off the boat. Not good! "Hang on!" Jed yelled as he ran as fast as a broken animated corpse could. After talking with The Deleter, Jed now has the temporary aspect Bent, Folded, Spindled, but not Mutilated, to represent his broken bones. And currently rolling Athletics +4 to try to save SpaceCrab from going overboard. The Roll Results: 5
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Amaryllis Armitage Amaryllis blinks as the door's shut on her, but is more struck by the trouble with the collapsing tager and an airborne crab. She springs after, quicking springing across the containers as she follows after Jed. Of course, this means they're split into three groups - but Jake looks like he can take care of himself after that recent show of power. The crab, on the other hand. "Hey, hang on there, pinchy, literally!"
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 Lutwidge's implied threat causes Tai's eyes to dart between the two, and she giggles crazily. "Yannow, I don't think that'd be such a bad idea -" "Seriously?" Bei shoots Tai an annoyed glance. "You're doing that now? Don't tell them anything. Just because we surrendered -" Tai Aspect revealed: Sucker for a Pretty Face. Bei Aspect revealed: Fite Da Powah "You wanna get dubstepped to death my Miskies because you don't wanna tell them what they'll probably figure out themselves?" Tai turns back to Lutwidge. "We're from the Fang, and we-" "Shut up!" Bei's hands are balled into fists, but your PDAs have already picked up the name and are whizzing to supply you with info. quote:
Looks like that Bei keeps shutting down Tai, and it'll be tricky to get answers with him in the way. This could be a good scene for a Brainstorm - hit me up on irc or OOC if you want to do one! --- Jed manages to catch the Spacecrab! Well, You've grabbed him at least. He's got quite a pull on him. (See OOC thread for what's going on here.) Looks like the Raging tager has stopped struggling, too! Who wants to be first to approach it? One of Amaryllis' eyes notices that the figure on the bridge has vanished. --- Speaking of teamwork, Arthur, all by his lonesome and displaying very little teamwork, is in trouble. He's worked with machines before, but he doesn't expect the jammer to give of a pulse of... something. Red lights flash in his suit as the energy runs through his systems - looks like it's some kind of self-defence mechanism. Nothing too serious, but worrying nonetheless. He'll have to get that looked at. Poor Arthur suffers a Mild Consequence of Suit's on the Fritz. The jammer makes a "byoooo" noise. Seems it was only a one-shot thing - now the only obstacle to figuring this thing out is time, which you have plenty of. The Deleter fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Nov 28, 2014 |
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spacecrab Fate pool: 3+1=4 Stress Phys: OOOO Ment: OOO Caught by surprise the intrepid spacecrab is hurled down the length of the ship to crash right into the undead clutches of Jed, but the tager put out a lot of force with that last blow and they are hurtled still. Surprisingly they crash through the open hatch of hold 1 and tumble down the ladder, spacecrab being unable to use his superior crabgility due to being tangled in Jed. AtomikKrab fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Nov 28, 2014 |
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