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Swedish Thaumocracy
Jul 11, 2006

Strength of >800 Men
Honor of 0
Grimey Drawer
eStelle





(for dogs)








[eStelle / HP:3/3 | ARMOR: 0 / DIG: 2 / BURROW / IMMUNE TO RAD/ IMMUNE TO POISON | LUXE: 26 on hand | CYBER: YES | CYBERAUGMENTS: Jacklegz© +1 MOVE, RigSpike: Successful Ambush controls Rig | D-MUTATIONS: Molecular Displacement: When hit by an attack, subject may choose to gain a Warp Token and force the attacker to select a new target. | WEAPON MODS: Megascope (upscale 0) | TOKENS: AIR: 3, | Darkb34k needs reloading! | Medkit needs reloading | Slay has 5/5 HP and 0 mutations]

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Dashing through the dirt
On a mounted, star-nosed Slay'
O'er DARK we go
Laughing all the way (hoho)
The spores in my heart tinge
Making spirits blight
Oh What fun it is to ride and sing
Our slaying song tonight!

Oh!
DeStelle, DeStelle
eStelle all the way!
Oh what fun it is to be
A Horror in this way!

--

Movement: Digging my way from 13.11 -> 14.11 -> 14.10

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sheep-dodger
Feb 21, 2013


Apiary Anne: HP: 6/6 Move: 3 [Fly] Luxe: 2 DR: 6

Tokens: Burn: 1 Poison: 1

Augmentations: Limits: 1C 4M
C: Eye Gear: Upscale all attacks
M: Gossamer Wings: Fly and +1 Move, takes up no aug threshold
M: Chitinous Chiton: DR +1 when hit by a Penetrator attack.
M: Swollen Musculature: +1 damage + Newflesh Eidolon: Subject's max HP is increased by number of mutations possessed.
M: Unstable Anatomy: Can only be hit in combat on a 5+
M: Chitinous Carapace: DR +2 + Frangible Scutes: Backlash 1
Free slots: 0

SMRT SCOPE Mods:
Depleted Pandemonium Rounds (1 DoT) Neutronium-Tipped Rounds (Pen on multiple of 4) Debriding Brood Upscale vs. Mutants; +1 Infest vs Mutants

CS Armor:
Slots: 4
Cell Annexer: +2 DR, +2 Slots, -3 maxHP

Item reload status:
Squidpack: full Fabrikit: empty X Fabrikit 1: empty X Fabrikit 2: empty Cluster:empty

Retainers:
Dr One: 2/5 HP MBC: 4/5 HP, 1 Poison X MBC: 3/3 HP

"Alright, we have a game plan, so let's rock!"

Katy can look
Fly to 21.05


Supply request:
An X Mutagen that assimilates mutations into hiver mutations would be ace, also more MBCs in case this takes longer

AJ_Impy
Jun 17, 2007

SWORD OF SMATTAS. CAN YOU NOT HEAR A WORLD CRY OUT FOR JUSTICE? WHEN WILL YOU DELIVER IT?
Yam Slacker


[KATYDID / HP:3/3 (RIG: 5/6)/ MOVE: 2 (RIG: 2)/ LUXE: 4 / CYBER: EYEGEAR] WEAPON MODS: [DR.J: JUNKER PROTOCOL, LIGHTWEIGHT MATERIALS] TOKENS: AIR 3 (RIG: BURN 2)

Katya nodded to Anne and set Swatter-1 on its way,

Move to 20:05

Wishlist:I'm planning on spamming the sniper with falcons. 2 X-falcons, please, as a matter of urgency. Standing order for assist flares and x-flares.

AJ_Impy fucked around with this message at 18:52 on Sep 8, 2018

Lux Anima
Apr 17, 2016


Dinosaur Gum


==
Skipp Wiley Jr., Veteran Newtype / Headhunter Wrecker
HP: 5/5 DR3 Move: 5 Jump Luxe: 005
Von Trapp, Mined Biocover / Retainer
HP: 1/3 DR1 Move: 3 Jump Abilities: Passive Bodyguard Backlash Detonates Tokens: 1 Burn
Mutations (Inoculated): Compound Eyes (Cannot be Ambushed) // Batrachian Legs (+1 Move) >> Biological Levitation (Jump)
F-Mutations: Caustic Haemorrhexis (On Damage: Friendly-Fire 1d4/1 AoE, +damage upcales)
D-Mutations: Wormholer (At 0 HP, spawn spatial anomaly. 1/6 chance to be drawn into anomaly and survive with 1 HP.)
Weapons: FrakUL8R (1d8/2 +Penetrator +Scrap, ENC: Excavate adjacent hex)
Armor: Dark Hazmat Gear B (DR3 Therm, DR2 Chem, DR1 Rad, Air Supply) // Heliopause (+3 DR, 1 Slot, DR3 Therm, DR2 Warp) (ACT: Convert Therm <-> Warp)
Consumables: Squidpack (Full) // Fabrikit X (+Heal) (Full) // Medikit (Full) // Medikit X (+Heal) (Full) // Meta-Thumper // Purifier Retrovirus
Items: Scrambled Component // Volatile Compound // CS Armor (Yellow) (+2 DR, 2 Slots) >> Trauma Support Module (Full) >> Rad Module (+1 DR vs Rad)
Tokens: 3 Air // 1 Poison // 1 Burn


With a groan and a heave, Skipp Wiley Jr. pulled himself free from the smoking dirt and rubble that was left of his temporary shelter and helped the others on his team get out and onto to their feet. Dusting himself off, he looked over to his Mined Biocover, scorched heavily and still smoking from several small fires lit across its body. Skipp ran over and fell to his knees beside the large bioengineered arachnid.

"Dang it!" Skipp cursed. "Oh, Von Trapp, I should have known that was going to happen!"

Skipp patted down the flames off the eerily calm Mined Biocover and checked it over for extensive damage. Things were looking grim. At the rate of blood loss from the burns, the poor thing was bound to rupture its contents and explode violently at any moment. Skipp wanted to take Von Trapp somewhere dangerous then, so that the self-sacrificial creature could at least die for its master in glorious combat!

Skipp turned to his allies and conferred with them for the next stage in their overarching plans to outmaneuver and overtake the Hyperchurch's Metastatik Manhunter.

"Hievel, Aotzzzuo,... uh, Myriad Revenant, hi. We've come to point where we now know for certain that the Hyperchurch's elusive Manhunter is in the large domed complex ahead of us, to the north. In fact, based on an in-depth analysis of the recent Wrecker-feeds of Apiary Anne and Katydid, the Metastatik sniper without a doubt fired their last shot at Apiary Anne from the northern Hermes X-CAV Station, in 18.02."

"What that means is we need to tread carefully and to keep our eyes open. We need to choose our approach carefully."

"Hievel, we could use your Jar O' Beez to scout ahead for the Manhunter. We won't know where they will be hiding next exactly, but a wide-scan from your Jar O' Beez at 19.02 (the center of the dome) should help us narrow down the sniper's location. This isn't strictly necessary, however - I can be our set of eyes instead!"

"Here's the other problem: two other Wreckers are in the area, which wouldn't normally be an issue except they're also being pursued by two Myrmecoid Myrmidons and two Gamma Bounders..."

"Based upon on my estimates, if those two were to flee in our direction instead of going towards the Manhunter, those of us traveling by foot would run into them just ahead, at 19.04: 1 Enemy Contact (Beast Class), which could mean dealing with anything from a Myrmecoid Rover to a Troglodytic Horror in addition to those four hostiles - not to mention the Hyperchurch's sniper to the north!"

"By running, however, these two Wreckers would be leaving behind a lone, wounded Myrmecoid Queen and four destroyed Gamma Bounders..."

"Aotzzzuo, with all that in mind, do you think it might be wise to send the Myriad Revenant ahead with me and my Mined Biocover to 19.03, to slay the Myrmecoid Queen and to act as a Comms relay for me when I Squidpack further north to spot the Hyperchurch Sniper from 19.02? Again, it isn't strictly necessary. Either way, you should stick to Hievel and keep him safe."

"If both of you think it would be better for us all to stick together, feel free to refuse my advice! I'm willing to play it slow if you're both in agreement"

Skipp awaited their responses, and acted accordingly.

Aotzzzuo and Hievel can peek:
Movement: Skipp advises Hievel to send his Jar O' Beez ahead to 19.02, to scan for the Manhunter!
Skipp advises Aotzzzuo to send his Myriad Revenant and Meta-Spectre directly to 19.03 via Shift, to kill the Myrmecoid Queen and act as a Comms relay!
Skipp advises Aotzzzuo to keep pace with Hievel on foot so they don't get separated (20.05 -> 19.04 -> 19.03)!
Skipp orders his Mined Biocover to Jump two hexes ahead northwest! MBC: 20.05 --> 19.03 ("It is a good day to die, Von Trapp! Make it a glorious end!")
If Aotzzzuo sends their retainer out, Skipp Jumps two hexes ahead (20.05 --> 19.03), otherwise Skipp will keep pace with Hievel and moves northwest on foot! 20.05 -> 19.04 -> 19.03


Wishlist: Hello out there Sponsors! Here are two packages with swell items inside that'd really float my so-called boat! Available open-source account funds: 74 Luxe:
Package 1 - Seeing Double: One Experimental Autofalconoid (+Accuracy) (2 Luxe) and one Optiscope (3 Luxe). Delivery: 25+3+2 = 30 Luxe.
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Lux Anima fucked around with this message at 23:21 on Sep 8, 2018

Theantero
Nov 6, 2011

...We danced the Mamushka while Nero fiddled, we danced the Mamushka at Waterloo. We danced the Mamushka for Jack the Ripper, and now, Fester Addams, this Mamushka is for you....
x2

RETAINERS

[AOTƧƧƧUO / HP: 2/2 / MOVE: 2 (shift) / DR: 3 / LUXE: 035 / CYBER: - / MUTATION: Hypnotic Drone, Pulse Wave, Dimensional Lens, Hexatomic Snarl]
AUG CAP: 1 CYBER, 4 MUTATIONS (FREE SLOTS: 1 CYBER, 1 MUTATION)
B-Mutations : Hypnotic Drone (ENC: 1d4 attack to Control a target for the remainder of the round; ACT: A Controlled target gains 1 Infest Token. Does not count against Aug Threshold.)
D-Mutations: Pulse Wave (1d6/2, Push 1) // Dimensional Lens (May be used instead of the Cover action. Reverses the value of a single die OR every die in the hex this phase (i.e. 1-3 succeeds and 4-12 fails on a d12.)) // Hexatomic Snarl (May be used instead of the Suppress action. Suppressed targets that miss suffer damage equal to their die result.)

TOKENS: 5 Air
EXHAUSTED ITEMS: Medikit
RETAINER STATUS: Myriad Revenant (5/5 HP, Grave Echo), MBC (3/5 HP, 1 Burn Token)

[[f~RIEnD SKiPP~~ buT FriEND SKipp~]]

[[fRIEND~s don'T leavE FRIEn~ds BeHInd~!]]

HIEVEL and SKIPP can peek
we must stick togetherrr, moving on foot 20.05 -> 19.04 -> 19.03 with all my retainers

Dog Kisser
Mar 30, 2005

But People have fears that beasts do not. Questions, too.

[HIEVEL / HP: 3/3 / MOVE: 2 / LUXE: 016 (just counted it manually like a doofus) / TOKENS: 4 Air, 1 Charge, 2 Infest
Augmentations: Limits: 1/1C 5/4M :siren:[OVER THRESHOLD]:siren:
M: Exo-Propolis: Consume 10 Luxe to repair a synthetic or Hive structure, restore 1 HP to a rig or drone, or as a crafting catalyst. [INTEGRATED]
C: Beecycler Unit: Consume an item to template it. Spend Luxe equal to Supply Value plus rating (+20 common, +30 rare) to manufacture a copy. Upgraded items only produce the base version, and consumption of an item still bears any risk inherent to that act. An Infest Token may be spent during fabrication to create a Hive version of a normal item.
M: Gelatinous Epidermis: Immune to toxic environments
M: Warped Insight: Roll twice on Table rolls and choose one.
M: Compound Eyes: Cannot be Ambushed.
M: Exo-Mutualism: Anytime a Hiver or Infested completes a Challenge, gain +1 Bvo.
M: Grandmatron's Astral Seal: When subject or ally in same hex suffers Disable, Control, or Forced Movement, they regain 1 HP. Healing items and abilities (except this one) used by the subject restore 1 additional HP.

[[oOpzzz]]. Hievel didn't feel well - and worse, he'd stOlen from Aotzzzuo. He felt wretched. His bees droned a soothing threnody as he marched, eyes downcast, after his allies.

Hievel sends his Jar O' Beez ahead to 19.02, to scan for the Manhunter!
Moving 20.05 -> 19.04 -> 19.03


WISHLIST:Alright send me cool stuff! Weapon or armor upgrades OR a Fabrikit!

Dog Kisser fucked around with this message at 16:30 on Sep 8, 2018

Lux Anima
Apr 17, 2016


Dinosaur Gum


[Sponsor Luxe: 30]

"But Ms. Cynthia-Krueller-Hyacinth, I need to get going." Dr. Wiley sighed, "My home planet needs me." He flipped the toggle behind his ear to log off from his holo-vision escapade, and suddenly he was back in his office, sitting in his gyro-grav chair with his pants unzipped.

Dr. Wiley took a moment's reprieve from his busy holo-weekend to write up a new Cosmiq survival Challenge for those tough-as-nails Wreckers out there, and then he made the judicious decision to instate a familiar, repeatable Challenge to benefit those Wreckers who had the oracular knack, at least on a trial basis. He knew that setting up two Challenges at once would send a cautionary warning to his son, but the boy needed to be on alert anyways. Trouble was brewing, Dr. Wiley could feel it.

Dr. Wiley flicked on the switch to resume his holo-programmed journey to Venus, where he was in the middle of making political ingress with their leadership, a catty cabal comprised of vacuous vixens. Treaty negotiations were going well, and Dr. Wiley didn't want to miss the signing party. Just to be safe, however, Dr. Wiley set up a picture-in-picture subfeed of his son's active POV-cam and muted it. The last thing he wanted to do was hear or see his son's face while he was working on such a delicate social situation.

COSMIQ SURVIVAL CHALLENGES (1-7):
  • Dis Integrator - Make an appropriately-thematic pun when you kill something in Encounter phase (1 pun / kill). After Round 17's Encounter phase, the best pun wins!
  • Faith Shaker - Recover the Metastatik.
  • Hand Shaker - Meet with four other living Wreckers.
  • Trophy Hunter - Salvage and keep three novel items from three different foes you've killed.
  • Harm-onizer - Take damage from an enemy or hazard and survive with 1 HP remaining.
  • Stag Stabber - Deal 1+ damage to the Hyperchurch's Manhunter in Encounter phase. Ties are settled by highest damage dealt.
  • > Nail Biter - Take Aim in a hex with 4+ hostile targets.
  • > Shot Caller - Predict your main attack's numerical result before it happens (first roll per Encounter only). [Repeatable until Round 25]

Bee Bonk
Feb 19, 2011




2. Skipp / 3. Katydid / 5. Aotzzzuo / 8. Hievel
Movement halt at 19.04!
Mined Biocover moves to 19.03.
Jar O' Beez halted at 19.03!
2 Myrmecoid Myrmidons pursue Katydid!



6. eStelle
Movement to 14.10

Spore posted:


Spore Tokens reduce effective Hazard DR by 1 per Token.
Spore Tokens double at the end of each Hazard Phase.
When hit in combat, the bearer of Spore Tokens loses all Spore Tokens and makes an indiscriminate 1d6 AoE attack (including themselves), upscaled for each Spore Token beyond the first. On a hit, targets receive 1 Spore Token.
Spore Tokens may be removed by taking damage from Burn or Plasma.


7. Apiary Anne
Movement to 21.05.
2 Gamma Bounders pursue!
Warhulk Cry-3 enters the hex!
Bounder 1's Charge misses Apiary Anne!
Bounder 2's Charge hits Apiary Anne MBC!
Cry-3's Charge misses Apiary Anne! 1

Anne's Motile Biocover takes no damage!

Voidmind, Evade posted:

The Voidmind tag makes mental contact with the subject dangerous to the psychic initator. Units that Evade do so as a Wrecker Squidpack.

Challenge Complete posted:

Pertinax>O hay aren't you...uh... never mind: bump into the miniboss
Anne +10L
PAF +5L



:siren: Wreckers, resolve Encounters! :siren:




Sponsors-Only Map

Bee Bonk fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Sep 10, 2018

Dog Kisser
Mar 30, 2005

But People have fears that beasts do not. Questions, too.

[HIEVEL / HP: 3/3 / MOVE: 2 / LUXE: 016 (just counted it manually like a doofus) / TOKENS: 4 Air, 1 Charge, 2 Infest
Augmentations: Limits: 1/1C 5/4M :siren:[OVER THRESHOLD]:siren:
M: Exo-Propolis: Consume 10 Luxe to repair a synthetic or Hive structure, restore 1 HP to a rig or drone, or as a crafting catalyst. [INTEGRATED]
C: Beecycler Unit: Consume an item to template it. Spend Luxe equal to Supply Value plus rating (+20 common, +30 rare) to manufacture a copy. Upgraded items only produce the base version, and consumption of an item still bears any risk inherent to that act. An Infest Token may be spent during fabrication to create a Hive version of a normal item.
M: Gelatinous Epidermis: Immune to toxic environments
M: Warped Insight: Roll twice on Table rolls and choose one.
M: Compound Eyes: Cannot be Ambushed.
M: Exo-Mutualism: Anytime a Hiver or Infested completes a Challenge, gain +1 Bvo.
M: Grandmatron's Astral Seal: When subject or ally in same hex suffers Disable, Control, or Forced Movement, they regain 1 HP. Healing items and abilities (except this one) used by the subject restore 1 additional HP.

Hievel's bees rose in an angry swarm as they encountered yet more enemies... and a new ally? No time to worry about that now, his swarm busily examined the nooks and crannies of all those attending to see whether they would be a good home for future generations.
🐝 my friend... Meta-Spectre, Myrmidon1, Myrmidon2, Katydid, Skipp and Revenant!: 6#1d4 3 2 4 1 4 3
Two reported hosts, one of which was his good friend Skipp! Finally, now they could really bee friends! His swarm was exhausted now, and they flooded back into his various ports and orifices with combat data on his opponents. One of the Myrmidon was infested, so Hievel swung his trusty Warpoon towards the other. Sorry, creature, you had your chance. He fired without a hint of empathy.
Warpoon the other jerk who doesn't want to 🐝 my friend!: 1d12 7
Some of his tenants were growing alarmed at his increasing bloodlust, but ultimately all of this was for them! He would make them safe, then he would make them proud!

WISHLIST:Alright send me cool stuff! Weapon or armor upgrades OR a Fabrikit!

Swedish Thaumocracy
Jul 11, 2006

Strength of >800 Men
Honor of 0
Grimey Drawer
eStelle





(for dogs)








[eStelle / HP:3/3 | ARMOR: 0 / DIG: 2 / BURROW / IMMUNE TO RAD/ IMMUNE TO POISON | LUXE: 26 on hand | CYBER: YES | CYBERAUGMENTS: Jacklegz© +1 MOVE, RigSpike: Successful Ambush controls Rig | D-MUTATIONS: Molecular Displacement: When hit by an attack, subject may choose to gain a Warp Token and force the attacker to select a new target. | WEAPON MODS: Megascope (upscale 0) | TOKENS: AIR: 3, | Darkb34k needs reloading! | Medkit needs reloading | Slay has 5/5 HP and 0 mutations]

---

Oh, another Ant! This one looked like it was about to scamper off with her fairly gotten loot, and since she had lost her Queen Bile to a teleportation accident she couldn't even attempt to befriend it. Oh well. Sick em, Slay!

Slay eat the ant!: 1d10 = 6

Watching her horror chew into the rover was both viscerally satisfying and sort of sad at the same time. That could be her down there, eating the ant, experiencing new and exciting ways to evolve. Oh well!

Theantero
Nov 6, 2011

...We danced the Mamushka while Nero fiddled, we danced the Mamushka at Waterloo. We danced the Mamushka for Jack the Ripper, and now, Fester Addams, this Mamushka is for you....
x2

RETAINERS

[AOTƧƧƧUO / HP: 2/2 / MOVE: 2 (shift) / DR: 3 / LUXE: 035 / CYBER: - / MUTATION: Hypnotic Drone, Pulse Wave, Dimensional Lens, Hexatomic Snarl]
AUG CAP: 1 CYBER, 4 MUTATIONS (FREE SLOTS: 1 CYBER, 1 MUTATION)
B-Mutations : Hypnotic Drone (ENC: 1d4 attack to Control a target for the remainder of the round; ACT: A Controlled target gains 1 Infest Token. Does not count against Aug Threshold.)
D-Mutations: Pulse Wave (1d6/2, Push 1) // Dimensional Lens (May be used instead of the Cover action. Reverses the value of a single die OR every die in the hex this phase (i.e. 1-3 succeeds and 4-12 fails on a d12.)) // Hexatomic Snarl (May be used instead of the Suppress action. Suppressed targets that miss suffer damage equal to their die result.)

TOKENS: 5 Air
EXHAUSTED ITEMS: Medikit
RETAINER STATUS: Myriad Revenant (5/5 HP, Grave Echo), MBC (3/5 HP, 1 Burn Token)

Aotzzzuo leered at Katy's rig, as well as the bee infested Myrmidon, taking in their shapes from all angles, both real and imaginary.

[[aHA!]]

[[aHA!]]

[[NeW FRiENd~s!]]

A bolt of searing plasma opened up the shell of the Myrmidon, so that the infestation could better reach its innards.

[[hello]]

[[my NamE is Aotzzzz~~z~!]]

[[uo]]

[[WhAT is yOURs~!~?]]

[[friend]]

HIEVEL, SKIPP and KATY can peek
Inferno Pistoling that Myrmidon with the Infest Token (4 upscales from Megascope): 1d16= 16
Free Cover to just take cover like normal
Revenant + Spectre, please don't attack the Myrmidon who is infested, attack the one Hievel is attacking instead if you want. Or Boost! Or Cover! Or Suppress! Just don't kill our new pet.

Theantero fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Sep 10, 2018

AJ_Impy
Jun 17, 2007

SWORD OF SMATTAS. CAN YOU NOT HEAR A WORLD CRY OUT FOR JUSTICE? WHEN WILL YOU DELIVER IT?
Yam Slacker


[KATYDID / HP:3/3 (RIG: 5/6)/ MOVE: 2 (RIG: 2)/ LUXE: 4 / CYBER: EYEGEAR] WEAPON MODS: [DR.J: JUNKER PROTOCOL, LIGHTWEIGHT MATERIALS] TOKENS: AIR 3 (RIG: BURN 2)

Not quite where she wanted to be, but a crowd like this you did not simply walk a rig past. Besides which, She knew to look out for orange hair over teal skin.

"Skipp Skippovitch Wiley! Midge sends his regards. I am Katya Gureyevitch, call me that or Katydid. Glad to meet you all! Got a spare seat in the rig if it's needed. There's a sniper somewhere around here, it was going for Apiary Anne last I saw, she was headed for 21:05. So far it can't hit her, so it might wuss out and go for an easier target like a little wannabe snipelet."

She watched as the Myrmidons got bee'd, fried and harpooned, holding off once it was clear there was little more that could be done to them.

"Broof'n. Might actually get to loot or fix something."

Boost!

Wishlist:I'm planning on spamming the sniper with falcons. 2 X-falcons, please, as a matter of urgency. Standing order for assist flares and x-flares.

sheep-dodger
Feb 21, 2013


Apiary Anne: HP: 6/6 Move: 3 [Fly] Luxe: 2 DR: 6

Tokens: Burn: 1 Poison: 1

Augmentations: Limits: 1C 4M
C: Eye Gear: Upscale all attacks
M: Gossamer Wings: Fly and +1 Move, takes up no aug threshold
M: Chitinous Chiton: DR +1 when hit by a Penetrator attack.
M: Swollen Musculature: +1 damage + Newflesh Eidolon: Subject's max HP is increased by number of mutations possessed.
M: Unstable Anatomy: Can only be hit in combat on a 5+
M: Chitinous Carapace: DR +2 + Frangible Scutes: Backlash 1
Free slots: 0

SMRT SCOPE Mods:
Depleted Pandemonium Rounds (1 DoT) Neutronium-Tipped Rounds (Pen on multiple of 4) Debriding Brood Upscale vs. Mutants; +1 Infest vs Mutants

CS Armor:
Slots: 4
Cell Annexer: +2 DR, +2 Slots, -3 maxHP

Item reload status:
Squidpack: full Fabrikit: empty X Fabrikit 1: empty X Fabrikit 2: empty Cluster:empty

Retainers:
Dr One: 2/5 HP MBC: 4/5 HP, 1 Poison X MBC: 3/3 HP

After touching down at her destination, Anne checked her comms and found that Katy had left comm range. Checking up on her on the wreckerfeed, Anne found that Katy had run into the other group, consisting of Skipp, Hievel and Aotzzzuo, who were looking to take on the sniper directly. A few moments after she had put away her Wreckterminal, the Bounders that had been following her arrived to much clanking and cranking, but as expected failed to make much of an impact. More worrying was the faint otherworldly whistling noise that slowly grew louder, but was still nearly overshadowed by the noise the Bounders were making.
Peering out into the gloom, Anne managed to make out a rapidly à̢̙̜̞̫̟̯ͩ̾ͫ̂͌ͮp̺̖͎̮͙͗̒ͧ͑ͧ̚͘p̻͇̠͙͍͚ͣ̓̾͑ͮ̌̔͠r͔͔o̶͛͋͊͛ͭa̩͎͈͚̤̩͆̉ͦͯ̎͝c̭̳͍̭͇ͮ̉̃h̴̖̙̻̮ͬ̓̄́ͥị̴ͬͪ̐n͉̳̹̣͎̲̍̈́̀ͮ̾g̺̽̂̆̑̏̐ form, that consisted of way too many limbs to be anything but something grown in a vat. Anne watched it solidify further before side-stepping and no-selling its charge in the last moment.

Squid in place


Supply request:
I have enough cash for a delivery of a Drone bearing an X Mutagen (Hiver mutation assimilation) and an MBC for a total of [25+10+10]=45 luxe

Lux Anima
Apr 17, 2016


Dinosaur Gum


==
Skipp Wiley Jr., Veteran Newtype / Headhunter Wrecker
HP: 5/5 DR3 Move: 5 Jump Luxe: 005
Von Trapp, Mined Biocover / Retainer
HP: 1/3 DR1 Move: 3 Jump Abilities: Passive Bodyguard Backlash Detonates Tokens: 1 Burn
Mutations (Inoculated): Compound Eyes (Cannot be Ambushed) // Batrachian Legs (+1 Move) >> Biological Levitation (Jump)
F-Mutations: Caustic Haemorrhexis (On Damage: Friendly-Fire 1d4/1 AoE, +damage upcales)
D-Mutations: Wormholer (At 0 HP, spawn spatial anomaly. 1/6 chance to be drawn into anomaly and survive with 1 HP.)
Weapons: FrakUL8R (1d8/2 +Penetrator +Scrap, ENC: Excavate adjacent hex)
Armor: Dark Hazmat Gear B (DR3 Therm, DR2 Chem, DR1 Rad, Air Supply) // Heliopause (+3 DR, 1 Slot, DR3 Therm, DR2 Warp) (ACT: Convert Therm <-> Warp)
Consumables: Squidpack (Full) // Fabrikit X (+Heal) (Full) // Medikit (Full) // Medikit X (+Heal) (Full) // Meta-Thumper // Purifier Retrovirus // Puffiltrator (Full -> Empty) (on loan from Katydid)
Items: Scrambled Component // Volatile Compound // CS Armor (Yellow) (+2 DR, 2 Slots) >> Trauma Support Module (Full) >> Rad Module (+1 DR vs Rad)
Tokens: 3 Air // 1 Poison // 1 Burn


Once they'd made it safely out of the region choked with Volatile Gas, Skipp Wiley Jr. allowed Hievel to take the lead and set the pace for their weird and wild Wrecker company. It wasn't long before something whizzed past overhead - another insectoid human? - and then all Skipp could hear after that was the sound of two Gamma Bounders' stomping further down the cave, approaching in huge leaps and bounds.

"Bounders incoming!" Skipp called out, "Backs to the wall! Weapons out." He watched as Hievel, Aotzzzuo, and the Myriad Revenant reacted and got their weapons ready while pressing themselves up against the rock's sheer surfaces. They'd become such a well-trained team from all their time spent together!

The pounding, earth-shaking cacophony of Gamma rig feet reached a deafening crescendo as the Bounders crunched into the ground nearby, and - springing - leapt past Skipp and his allies' position. The shaking crash of metal feet on dirt and rock continued further on into the distance, deeper into the depths of the Volatile Gas clouds.

"Keep your weapons out, be on the lookout for anything!" Skipp barked, his hackles raised "Besides, I think we're getting nearer to that creature I'd spotted earlier... Wait- I see something! There in the distance - is that the Swatter-01?"

Sure enough, a reinforced Beta Crawler was clambering along the cavern's pathway. Through the fritz and static of local Comms service, a mildly-accented voice rang out: a female human's - a fellow Wrecker!

Katydid posted:

"Skipp Skippovitch Wiley! Midge sends his regards. I am Katya Gureyevitch, call me that or Katydid. Glad to meet you all! Got a spare seat in the rig if it's needed. There's a sniper somewhere around here, it was going for Apiary Anne last I saw, she was headed for 21:05. So far it can't hit her, so it might wuss out and go for an easier target like a little wannabe snipelet."

"Katya!" Skipp returned, "So good to see you here in the reaches of Dark - as you know I owe my life to Midge... and... well, it's so good to see you! This psychic masked Hiver is Aotzzzuo, and this stodgy Hiver fellow here is Hievel, and that floaty guy there's the Myriad Revenant (but I've been thinking of calling him "Myrv" for short), and that one's, um..." in his excitement to encounter another human face and voice, he almost forgot where he was and what he was here to do: A) to live, and B) to track down and kill the Hyperchurch's Metastatik-wielding Manhunter.

"Right- wait, the sniper's here? Snap!" Skipp yelped as he ducked behind the foot of the Swatter-01. "I mean, not here here but - somewhere within sniping range, no doubt. Hm..."

Skipp's thoughts were interrupted by the emergence of two Myrmecoid Myrmidons, who must've scented after Katydid's trail. Aotzzzuo and Hievel, their weapons already raised, seemed to have the situation under control. Skipp returned his attentions to Katydid.

"Look, Katya," Skipp extended his open palms towards the Swatter's cockpit, embarrassment plain in his voice, "I gotta run in circles for a bit. Pass me that Puffiltrator of yours and I'll set up a proper smokescreen for us. Better safe than sorry, after all!"

Sensing hesitation, Skipp continued. "Did you know that the Hyperchurch's sniper managed to take out a pristine Hermes Mag in one hit?! I was the pilot inside it. Brand new rig, too. Gone. Guy's crazy for me. I've been running and trying to track him down ever since."

If that didn't immediately convince her to pass over the Puffiltrator, the wink smiley he sent to Katydid over the Comms certainly did. "I'll reload it I promise ;)" it said.

Katydid, Aotzzzuo, and Hievel can peek:
Encounter: Skipp borrows Katydid's Puffiltrator!
Skipp retreats in place using Katya's Puffiltrator, becoming untargetable in the process!


Wishlist: Oh wise and powerful Sponsors! Surely you know what's best for us Wreckers. I seek your aid - in the form of divine sponsor intervention! (Online Luxe: 4 Luxe / Available open-source account funds: 79 Luxe):
Package 1 - Seeing Double: One Experimental Autofalconoid (+Accuracy) (2 Luxe) and one Optiscope (3 Luxe). Delivery: 25+3+2 = 30 Luxe.
Package 2 - Bait and Switch: One Experimental Wrecker Decoy (+Instant Deploy) (6 Luxe) and one Experimental Motile Biocover (+Backlash) (5 Luxe). Delivery: 25+6+5 = 36 Luxe.

Lux Anima fucked around with this message at 07:21 on Sep 11, 2018

Bee Bonk
Feb 19, 2011



Previously, on Wrecking Crew posted:

Cosmiq>Hand Shaker - Meet with four other living Wreckers.
Katydid+10L!
Cosmiq+5L!



2. Skipp / 3. Katydid / 5. Aotzzzuo / 8. Hievel
Skipp Puffiltrates!
Katydid Boosts ACT!
Aotzzzuo takes Cover!
Aotzzzuo hits Myrmidon 2!
Hievel hits Myrmidon 1!
Revenant Boosts ACT!
Meta-Spectre misses Myrmidon 1!

Lurking Horror emerges!

withdraw posted:

If a unit ACTs to Withdraw, that unit:
>Is affected by Cover.
>Is safe from hex hazards and AoE attacks.
>Does not appear in the hex's unit list (but can still be Scanned).
>Gains additional DR equal to Withdraw rating.
Withdraw is lost when attacking.

Lurking Horror hits Hievel! Backlash!
Myrmidon 1 is Disabled!
Myrmidon 2 critically hits Swatter-1!
Somthing hits Swatter-1 from the North!
Rampage! Something hits Aotzzzuo's MBC!

Lurking Horror takes no damage, and recieves 1 Spore Token!
Myrmidon 1 takes 3 damage and dies!
Myrmidon 2 receives 1 Infest Token and 2 damage (reduced from 3), and is Fully Infested!

Fervor posted:

Units with Fervor attack any unit not of the stated faction on sight.
Swatter-1 takes 8 damage (reduced from 10) and is destroyed! Katydid is hurt while ejecting!
Katydid receives no damage and 1 Burn Token!
Aotzzzuo's MBC takes 3 damage (reduced from 4) and is destroyed!
Hievel takes 1 damage (reduced from 3), but is immune to Poison!

Hievel +3L bounty!


6. eStelle
Slay hits Rover!
Rover hits Slay!

Rover takes 2 damage and dies!
Slay takes 1 damage, but is immune to Poison!

eStelle +1L bounty!


7. Apiary Anne
Apiary Anne Squids in place!

Bounder 1 loses targeting!
Bounder 2 loses targeting!
Cry-3 Evades Southwest!




:siren: Wreckers, take Action! :siren:




Sponsors-Only Map

AJ_Impy
Jun 17, 2007

SWORD OF SMATTAS. CAN YOU NOT HEAR A WORLD CRY OUT FOR JUSTICE? WHEN WILL YOU DELIVER IT?
Yam Slacker


[KATYDID / HP:3/3 / MOVE: 2 / LUXE: 4 / CYBER: EYEGEAR] WEAPON MODS: [DR.J: JUNKER PROTOCOL, LIGHTWEIGHT MATERIALS] TOKENS: AIR 3 BURN 1

"We aren't your enemy. Here, eat up, we're all friends here."

She chucked the biological sample to the horror.

Feed the Biosample to the horror.

:siren: Wishlist:Ship Swatter-2 back down here, preferably before I get one-shot by that damned sniper. :siren:

AJ_Impy fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Sep 11, 2018

Swedish Thaumocracy
Jul 11, 2006

Strength of >800 Men
Honor of 0
Grimey Drawer
eStelle





(for dogs)








[eStelle / HP:3/3 | ARMOR: 0 / MOVEMENT: DIG / BURROW | / IMMUNE TO RAD/ IMMUNE TO POISON | LUXE: 26 on hand | CYBER: YES | CYBERAUGMENTS: Jacklegz© +1 MOVE, RigSpike: Successful Ambush controls Rig | D-MUTATIONS: Molecular Displacement: When hit by an attack, subject may choose to gain a Warp Token and force the attacker to select a new target. | WEAPON MODS: Megascope (upscale 0) | TOKENS: AIR: 3, | Darkb34k needs reloading! | Medkit needs reloading | Slay has 4/5 HP and 0 mutations]

---

Go on Slay, eat the corpse, you deserve it! :3:
Meanwhile, ant-y eStelle has some gear to equip!

Action: Salvage: picking up the armour and puffiltrator and equipping them, picking up the Luminescent Biomass as per normal for my inventory, attempting to salvage the Luxe Crucible for interesting parts and telling Slay to cannibalize the rover!

Swedish Thaumocracy fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Sep 11, 2018

sheep-dodger
Feb 21, 2013


Apiary Anne: HP: 6/6 Move: 3 [Fly] Luxe: 2 DR: 6

Tokens: Burn: 1 Poison: 1

Augmentations: Limits: 1C 4M
C: Eye Gear: Upscale all attacks
M: Gossamer Wings: Fly and +1 Move, takes up no aug threshold
M: Chitinous Chiton: DR +1 when hit by a Penetrator attack.
M: Swollen Musculature: +1 damage + Newflesh Eidolon: Subject's max HP is increased by number of mutations possessed.
M: Unstable Anatomy: Can only be hit in combat on a 5+
M: Chitinous Carapace: DR +2 + Frangible Scutes: Backlash 1
Free slots: 0

SMRT SCOPE Mods:
Depleted Pandemonium Rounds (1 DoT) Neutronium-Tipped Rounds (Pen on multiple of 4) Debriding Brood Upscale vs. Mutants; +1 Infest vs Mutants

CS Armor:
Slots: 4
Cell Annexer: +2 DR, +2 Slots, -3 maxHP

Item reload status:
Squidpack: empty Fabrikit: empty X Fabrikit 1: empty X Fabrikit 2: empty Cluster:empty

Retainers:
Dr One: 2/5 HP MBC: 4/5 HP, 1 Poison X MBC: 3/3 HP

With the Warhulk proving as skittish as expected, Anne had a bit of a reprieve from trying to avoid its numerous limbs. Looking around, she found a Chrysalis she had seen before on DROP, and whose occupant had seriously vexed her for a long while. This time however, she was part of the Hive and her symbionts could make use of the Chrysalis and its occupant to add to their ranks and hopefully help out Anne in beating down Cry-3. So she bowed down and tasked a brood to begin work on assimilating the Chrysalis' occupant.

Apifactor the Horrific Chrysalis
Dr. One heals my MBC by one


Supply request:
I have enough cash for a delivery of a Drone bearing an X Mutagen (Hiver mutation assimilation) and an MBC for a total of [25+10+10]=45 luxe

Dog Kisser
Mar 30, 2005

But People have fears that beasts do not. Questions, too.

[HIEVEL / HP: 2/3 / MOVE: 2 / LUXE: 016 (just counted it manually like a doofus) / TOKENS: 4 Air, 1 Charge
Augmentations: Limits: 1/1C 5/4M :siren:[OVER THRESHOLD]:siren:
M: Exo-Propolis: Consume 10 Luxe to repair a synthetic or Hive structure, restore 1 HP to a rig or drone, or as a crafting catalyst. [INTEGRATED]
C: Beecycler Unit: Consume an item to template it. Spend Luxe equal to Supply Value plus rating (+20 common, +30 rare) to manufacture a copy. Upgraded items only produce the base version, and consumption of an item still bears any risk inherent to that act. An Infest Token may be spent during fabrication to create a Hive version of a normal item.
M: Gelatinous Epidermis: Immune to toxic environments
M: Warped Insight: Roll twice on Table rolls and choose one.
M: Compound Eyes: Cannot be Ambushed.
M: Exo-Mutualism: Anytime a Hiver or Infested completes a Challenge, gain +1 Bvo.
M: Grandmatron's Astral Seal: When subject or ally in same hex suffers Disable, Control, or Forced Movement, they regain 1 HP. Healing items and abilities (except this one) used by the subject restore 1 additional HP.

Hievel gurgled in delight as his Very Angry Bee Friend buzzed around him like a tiny helicopter. It kept tugging towards his new Wrecker friends, madness and hunger in its eyes. Hievel patted it soothingly and sent a half dozen messenger bees to infiltrate its neural gills and deliver a message. Its keyed up endocrine system churned like an engine, but it was calmed. For now. Mentally, he contacted his Jar friend who had reported a distraction and requested that it take a look around and report back. He had so many friends now. He'd sacrifice them if necessary, of course, but it was good to have friends! His tenants mumbled inside him, but they were alright with whatever was needed.

He spied Katydid and took in the - frankly - wretched state of her primary weapon. He sidled up to her and gestured towards it in a 'may I?' sort of apologetic grasp before just taking it outright and making a few changes. It was dangerous as it was right now. This would be MUCH better!

(Aotzzzuo, Skipp and Katydid can peek)
Jar O' Beez (if it's still doin' okay) is to scan 19.02. Hievel will combine Dr. Jankenstein and GTX Heat Exchanger with Exo-Propolis, Hiver Crafting and Honey Drop.

WISHLIST:Alright send me cool stuff! Weapon or armor upgrades OR a Fabrikit!

Dog Kisser fucked around with this message at 14:11 on Sep 13, 2018

Theantero
Nov 6, 2011

...We danced the Mamushka while Nero fiddled, we danced the Mamushka at Waterloo. We danced the Mamushka for Jack the Ripper, and now, Fester Addams, this Mamushka is for you....
x2

RETAINERS

[AOTƧƧƧUO / HP: 2/2 / MOVE: 2 (shift) / DR: 3 / LUXE: 035 / CYBER: - / MUTATION: Hypnotic Drone, Pulse Wave, Dimensional Lens, Hexatomic Snarl]
AUG CAP: 1 CYBER, 4 MUTATIONS (FREE SLOTS: 1 CYBER, 1 MUTATION)
B-Mutations : Hypnotic Drone (ENC: 1d4 attack to Control a target for the remainder of the round; ACT: A Controlled target gains 1 Infest Token. Does not count against Aug Threshold.)
D-Mutations: Pulse Wave (1d6/2, Push 1) // Dimensional Lens (May be used instead of the Cover action. Reverses the value of a single die OR every die in the hex this phase (i.e. 1-3 succeeds and 4-12 fails on a d12.)) // Hexatomic Snarl (May be used instead of the Suppress action. Suppressed targets that miss suffer damage equal to their die result.)

TOKENS: 5 Air
EXHAUSTED ITEMS: Medikit
RETAINER STATUS: Myriad Revenant (5/5 HP, Grave Echo),

Aotzzzuo watched in silence as launched debris from Swatter-1 penetrated and perforated his flaming biocover friend, shredding his body to bloody, smoking pieces. He marveled as they took a dizzying orbit around him. A psychic keening, akin a laugh.

[[aHA!]]

[[aHA!]]

[[SeE you LAtE~R!]]

[[friend]]

A twist in space. He was in front of Hievel, now.

[[buT yoU MuST STAY~ fo~r late~r~!]]

[[We'RE noT YEt DoNE~! ]]

HIEVEL, SKIPP and KATY can peek
Using my action to heal Hievel with a Medikit borrowed from Skipp for his continued good health and also some sweet Bvo points for me
Myrv can use his BOOST as he wishes. A scan would be useful, as would be raising that dead myrmidon's Meta-spectre, but hey he can do what he wants

Theantero fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Sep 12, 2018

Theantero
Nov 6, 2011

...We danced the Mamushka while Nero fiddled, we danced the Mamushka at Waterloo. We danced the Mamushka for Jack the Ripper, and now, Fester Addams, this Mamushka is for you....



"Hrrrm"

"Something the matter, Professor?"

"Well Margaret, I can't help but be a bit envious about the strides Pertinax is making on their Warhulk development. We really need to up our game with these wreckers."

"Not to worry, Professor."

"Oh?"

"The department of Biology has prepared yet another bit of study truly suited for these worst examples of the unwashed masses, Professor."

"Well, they're certainly prolific, if nothing else."

CHALLENGE
AoT Department of Biology
Fungus Factor: Gather 8 or more Spore tokens and have them be exploded for a 1d20 Fungal Bloom

Swedish Thaumocracy
Jul 11, 2006

Strength of >800 Men
Honor of 0
Grimey Drawer


:: In order to pre-empt the rapid deacceleration of GEN's trademark steadily upward momentum, it behooves us to dynamically engage with every market unilaterally with service-minded green-sky thought warding.
:: Therefor, we at GEN surmise that a flash-strategic, crowdsourced prodegenerate movement shall be incentivize via luxe-based endorsements.
:: Submit Challenge: Project SENTINEL - Cause a hostile entity to undergo rapid devolution
:: This is Trend.

Hexenritter
May 20, 2001





"Komrade Gureyevitch, it's been a while since our spectacular liaison on Drop and I thought it high time to reach out. Your sister is performing admirably. A shame about the rig though. If you're able to convince the rules lawyers over at WCHQ to allow custom experimental rig drops without first getting them airlifted out, Pertinax have been testing a variety of mounted weapons easily adaptable for heavy infantry use and we can bolt them onto GS rig frames. Do let me know if that's amenable, as our specialities dovetail beautifully."

Aethelred hit send and turned back to the feeds, accessing the wrecker accounts and the bulk purchase menu. It seemed Gee was too busy regailing a purple haired woman in a sequin body glove with his own take on several events she had missed while powdering her nose with a sachet of turbocrystale stimulants.


+++bulk purchase interface+++

For Apiary Anne: Delivery (25 luxe) of one Experimental Unstable Mutagen (+Hiver-izes a mutation) (10 luxe) and one Motile Biocover (10 luxe). Total: 25+10+10 = 45 Luxe (45 Apiary Anne)
For Skipp: Delivery (25 luxe) of one Experimental Autofalconoid (+Accuracy) (2 luxe) and one Optiscope (3 luxe). Total: 25+2+3 = 30 Luxe (4 Skipp, 10 Pertinax, 16 Gureyevitch Solutions)
For Katydid: Delivery (25 luxe) of one Experimental Autofalconoid (+Accuracy) (2 luxe) and one Experimental Fabrikit (+Rig Resurrect) (1? luxe). Total: 25+2+1? = 28 Luxe (18 Katydid, 10+ Cosmiq)
For Hievel: Delivery (25 luxe) of one CS Module Pack (17 luxe) and one Fabrikit (2 luxe). Total: 25+17+2 = 44 Luxe (44 Hievel)

Hexenritter fucked around with this message at 23:46 on Sep 11, 2018

AJ_Impy
Jun 17, 2007

SWORD OF SMATTAS. CAN YOU NOT HEAR A WORLD CRY OUT FOR JUSTICE? WHEN WILL YOU DELIVER IT?
Yam Slacker



"Director Von Schussman XIV, a pleasure as always. Alas, right now I have that conflict of interest, yes? I can put pressure on between seasons, maybe offer a range of GS experimentals. Right now, however, that selfsame squashed rig means that dropping the latest model scuttleframe could be seen as interference. Naturally, I'm always happy to collaborate, I'd like to see if your heavy mount weapons are suitable for Project Goliath, a rig with multiple attach points so everyone along for the ride can get their hands on a big gun. Let's rock the show once again, yes?"

AJ_Impy fucked around with this message at 08:42 on Sep 12, 2018

Lux Anima
Apr 17, 2016


Dinosaur Gum
=

=
Skipp Wiley Jr., Veteran Newtype / Headhunter Wrecker
HP: 5/5 DR3 Move: 5 Jump Luxe: 005 -> 000
Von Trapp, Mined Biocover / Retainer
HP: 1/3 DR1 Move: 3 Jump Abilities: Passive Bodyguard Backlash Detonates Tokens: 1 Burn
Mutations (Inoculated): Compound Eyes (Cannot be Ambushed) // Batrachian Legs (+1 Move) >> Biological Levitation (Jump)
F-Mutations: Caustic Haemorrhexis (On Damage: Friendly-Fire 1d4/1 AoE, +damage upcales)
D-Mutations: Wormholer (At 0 HP, spawn spatial anomaly. 1/6 chance to be drawn into anomaly and survive with 1 HP.)
Weapons: FrakUL8R (1d8/2 +Penetrator +Scrap, ENC: Excavate adjacent hex)
Armor: Dark Hazmat Gear B (DR3 Therm, DR2 Chem, DR1 Rad, Air Supply) // Heliopause (+3 DR, 1 Slot, DR3 Therm, DR2 Warp) (ACT: Convert Therm <-> Warp) >> Rad Module (+1 DR vs Rad)
Consumables: Squidpack (Full) // Fabrikit X (+Heal) (Full) (given to Katydid) // Medikit (Full -> Empty) (used by Aotzzzuo) // Medikit X (+Heal) (Full) // Meta-Thumper // Purifier Retrovirus // Puffiltrator (Empty) (returned to Katydid)
Items: Scrambled Component // Volatile Compound // CS Armor (Yellow) (+2 DR, 2 Slots) >> Trauma Support Module (Full) (given to Hievel)
Tokens: 3 Air // 1 Poison // 1 Burn


Sprinting and leaping about the walls, Skipp Wiley Jr. careened across the cavern to better spread the Puffiltrator's plumes of vision-blocking spores. The Hyperchurch's manhunter was going to have a hard time targeting Skipp in this cloud of fluffy, floating biomatter!

Despite his sixth sense for avoiding danger, Skipp was still shocked by a sudden movement from the ceiling. He watched in abject, helpless terror as the Lurking Horror he'd spotted from afar popped out from its hideaway in a rocky outcropping on the ceiling. The stony sneaky snake of a creature lashed its venomous tongue out at Hievel before Skipp could say anything in warning, stinging and wounding the Hiver in the process. It was around this point that everything seemed to go wrong for the newly-acquainted group of Wreckers.

While one Myrmecoid Myrmidon had been thoroughly stunned and killed by Hievel, the other one - the Myrmidon that the Hivers were attempting to infest - had gone into a full-on insectoid warrior rage mode. It charged and took a huge chunk out of Katydid's rig in the process, even as the menacing bug slowly gave in to its Hiver transformations. Skipp tried not to watch the gruesome process, but he couldn't fully take his Compound Eyes off it even if he tried.

Before Katydid could react to the Lurking Horror with the Swatter-01's main cannon, a heavy sniper rifle's shot taken from somewhere to the north rang out across the cavern, echoing off the walls. Skipp had heard that noise before, of course: it was the rig-rekking report from the Metastatik. Skipp checked himself for holes and found none. Since Skipp was fine, clearly that meant the sniper had missed-

A large shadow suddenly fell over Skipp, and he leapt aside as the Swatter-01 huge metal frame collapsed to the ground in a heap. That had been close! Katydid managed to eject from the rig in one piece, but she had burns all across her body.

"You okay there, Katya?" Skipp asked as he rushed to her side and patted out the flames as best he could. "I'm so sorry about the Swatter-01. I thought that darn sniper was after me!" He helped the other Wrecker find cover behind the Swatter-01's fallen hull.

Skipp paused to look over towards the Lurking Horror and the Brood Guardian, hissing and snapping and squaring off with each other. He pulled the Puffiltrator off his shoulders and passed it back to the other Wrecker.

"Anyway, here's this back, for now. With those two fiends about, this is no time to be salvaging this fallen rig of yours. Heck..." Skipp paused mid-sentence to read a new Sponsor alert which had splashed across his viewcreen. He brightened up considerably.

"Well well well, Pertinax to the rescue." he mused. "Hey, maybe you can get this rig of yours started back up again!"

Skipp started rummaging through his pack. He'd probably have to get moving soon, depending on the circumstances. If that Hyperchurch sniper's shot came from due north, then Skipp knew exactly where to find them, and that meant the manhunt for the man-hunter would be commencing, and soon! Until that was hunt was over, however, Skipp wouldn't have much time to get any weaponsmithing done.

"Here, Katya, you might actually need this synthetics repair gear more than me. Catch-" he said, as he tossed Katydid an Experimental Fabrikit. "-As payment for me borrowing your Puffiltrator."

Skipp dug out an old set of armor from his trappings bag and set to the process of uninstalling one of the Mods attached so that he could affix the potent thing to Heliopause.

"Ah, that's better," he crooned as the hissing CS Mod connector snapped and locked in place. "I wonder how Von Trapp's doing out there..." Skipp spoke, mostly to himself. "Be right back, Katya, gonna scout ahead and see what's going on further up ahead."

On his way out, Skipp passed by Hievel and Aotzzzuo and dropped off a charged Medikit in addition to his old set of Yellow Combat Support Armor. There was a functional CS Armor Mod still attached to the thing, and Skipp didn't want the protective suit going to waste. He also threw in a small bit of luxe for the Hiver, as a token of thanks.

"Katya's fine, but she could use Hievel's help fixing up her weapon! Here, Aotzzzuo - use this to patch up Hievel and give it back when you're done. Hievel, here - put this on: it's yours now. Feel free to do whatever you want with it and the CS Armor Mod attached! Be right back!"

With that, Skipp leapt out into the darkness of Dark, to see what trouble awaited them.

Katydid, Aotzzzuo, and Hievel can peek:
Action: Skipp returns Katydid's Puffiltrator (empty), along with an I.O.U. to recharge it at the first available opportunity!
Skipp gives Katydid an Experimental Fabrikit (full)!
Skipp attaches his CS Module - Rad to his Heliopause armor!
Skipp lets Aotzzzuo borrow his Medikit (full -> empty) so that Hievel can be healed!
Skipp gives Hievel 5 luxe and a CS Armor (Yellow) with a Trauma Support CS Module attached!
As a free action, Skipp tight-scans the region to his north (19.03) to watch his Mined Biocover's final moments with the Myrmecoid Queen! He shares this scan data with Katydid, Aotzzzuo, and Hievel!
Skipp orders his Mined Biocover (in 19.03) to hug close to the Myrmecoid Queen before it perishes from its burns!


Wishlist: Wow, how absolutely amazing! Pertinax's very own Director of Sponsorship affairs Aethelred Konstantin Von Schussmann XIV has checked in and graced us with his generosity! I feel so honored, sir. Thank you for listening to this Wrecker's humble request for quality survival goods - I shall put them to good use!

Lux Anima fucked around with this message at 04:59 on Sep 13, 2018

sheep-dodger
Feb 21, 2013

IPC

New Challenge:
Roadblock: Be stopped short of your movement target three times in a row

Bee Bonk
Feb 19, 2011




Sponsorship posted:

Pertinax AmmoFab spends 147 Luxe (10 PAF, 45 Anne, 4 Skipp, 16 GS, 18 Katydid, 10 Cosmiq, 44 Hievel)
...on behalf of Apiary Anne for Drone Delivery of Experimental Mutagen and Motile Biocover.
...on behalf of Skipp for Drone Delivery of Experimental Autofalconoid and Optiscope.
...On behalf of Katydid for Drone Delivery of Experimental Autofalconoid and Experimental Fabrikit.
...On beehalf of Hievel for Drone Delivery of CS Module Pack and Fabrikit.
They will arrive on Sponsor Phase.


2. Skipp
Skipp installs Heliopause with CS Module – Rad!
Scanning...
19.03: No contacts.
Scan complete.


3. Katydid
Katydid feeds Biological Sample to Lurking Horror!
Lurking Horror focuses hungrily on Katydid!
Lurking Horror Withdraws!


5. Aotzzzuo
Aotzzzuo uses Medikit to restore 1 HP to Hievel!

Challenge Complete posted:

Hiver Objectives>Heal a Hiver [+5 Bvo]
Myriad Revenant (Boosted) brings forth displaced dimensional echoes of Myrmecoid Myrmidon and Motile Biocover!



6. eStelle
eStelle Salvages for 5 Luxe, Ablative Bloom Armor, Experimental Puffiltrator, and Luminescent Biomass, and dismantles Luxe Crucible for Advanced Electronics!
Slay eats Myrmecoid Rover! Slay is peckish!



7. Apiary Anne
Apiary Anne apicultures Horrific Chrysalis!
Horrific Chrysalis is Infested! Something will emerge in 2 rounds!
Dr. One takes 1 damage to restore 1 HP to Anne's MBC and remove 1 Poison Token!


8. Hievel
Contact lost with Jar O' Beez!
Hievel consumes Honey Drop!
Hievel crafts Dr. Jankenstein/GTX Heat Exchanger/Exopropolis...
Sweet Success!
Hievel recovers extra parts!





Burn Notice!
Katydid is burning! She takes 1 damage!




Drone Delivery posted:

Drones light up the sky!
Apiary Anne receives Experimental Mutagen and Motile Biocover!

Apiary Anne Tinkers In God's Domain!
Contaminated mutagen introduces pathogens! Unstable Anatomy is replaced by...
Mercurial Foulbrood: Can only be hit in combat on a 5+, but all damage taken is Max HP!

Skipp's Drone misses Lurking Horror!
Skipp recives Experimental Autofalconoid and Optiscope!


Katydid's Drone misses Lurking Horror!
Katydid receives Experimental Autofalconoid and Overclocked Fabrikit!


Hievel's Drone hits Lurking Horror! Lurking Horror takes no damage!
Hievel receives CS Module Pack and Fabrikit!

Sponsors posted:

Stipends
Pertinax Ammofab +5
IPC +5
Cosmiq +5
Academy of Titan +5
Gureyevitch Solutions +5
Gen +5

Standings
Pertinax Ammofab 5
RookEngOrg 0
Hideous Dynamics 10
Hypertemple of Muscle Jesus 10
Necrotech PMVS 10
IPC 10
Cosmiq 30
Academy of Titan 10
Gureyevitch Solutions 12
Syzygy Network 5
Solar Hive 30
Gen 15
Wrecker Retirement Fund 1

Accounts posted:

2. Skipp 3
3. Katydid 0
5. Aotsuo 15
6. Estelle 1
7. Apiary Anne 7
8. Hievel 30

Pertinax AmmoFab presents Kill-o-Vision® posted:

Felix: 3 Kills
Skipp: 23 Kills
Katydid: 32 Kills
: 8 Kills
Aotsuo: 20 Kills
eStelle: 11 Kills
Apiary Anne: 32 Kills
Hievel: 19 Kills

Current Sponsor Challenges posted:

Cosmiq
> Faith Shaker - Recover the Metastatik.
> Trophy Hunter - Salvage and keep three novel items from three different foes you've killed.
> Harm-onizer - Take damage from an enemy or hazard and survive with 1 HP remaining.
> Stag Stabber - Deal 1+ damage to the Hyperchurch's Manhunter in Encounter phase. Ties are settled by highest damage dealt.
> Nail Biter - Take Aim in a hex with 4+ hostile targets.
> Shot Caller - Predict your main attack's numerical result before it happens (first roll per Encounter only). [Repeatable until Round 25]

Necrotech PMVS
>Screaming Intensifies: Craft pandemonium+Electronics+Auto-doc. Deploy result onto corpse.
>Let the bodies hit the floor: Stitch 2+ biological parts into a 'complete' corpse and transmat it to us.
>No bones about it: Craft a skull onto armour as an aesthetic modification.
>Some Like It Hoth: Avoid a cryo token for a round by ACTing on a freshly killed corpse
>RIPD - confiscate CRY and transmit to Necro-Tech
>Spirit measure > Find evidence of spoooooky mine ghosts in the walls.
>Mlem - Pull someone or something from range using horror abilities, then eat them.

Gureyevitch Solutions
>Go Faster Stripes: Upgrade a rig.
>My Other Rig is an Alpha: Control more than one rig simultaneously.
>Voiding the Warranty: Upload a rig or rig remains to Gureyevitch Solutions, then requisition it back as a GS-brand Experimental Rig
>All Night Rave: Let off a flare in MOV, ENC and ACT of the same turn.
>Mechaturducken: Ride a Rig, a Retainer and a Beast simultaneously.

Syzygy Network
>Extremophile Sampling- Transmat the remains of a crater denizen.
>The Circle of Life- Kill something that's killed something (since map start).
>Mined Over Matter- Transmat or modify a detpod. Mind your extremities!
>Quizzical Acquisition- Transmat curious items to Syzygy for research and crafting purposes. (repeatable).
>Cordial Reception- Initiate peaceful interaction with the queen, possibly via gifts.
>Cordy Inception- Slay the queen and use its glands to control the swarm.
>Fermented Science- Process an Advanced Electronics using a Sarcoforge Mass and a biological sample.


Pertinax AmmoFab
>Cry me a river: solo the miniboss
>Existential Crysis: survive a near death experience involving the miniboss
>De Tenebris, Terribilis: locate a crater cache and retrieve a unique weapon
>Bully for you: disable a Zodiac component (bonus rep for sending it to Pertinax)
>Oh Rail-ly?: Kill an enemy with a mine cart
>Ya Rail-ly: Get a multikill with a mine cart while riding in a mine cart
>Jewel Never Believe What I Just Made: modify a weapon with a rare gemstone or element.
>This Map Is Rigged, I Tell Ya: Find PAF-Hermes 004's Rig Maintenance Centre and customise a rig with at least one modification.
>Shock and Awe: Kill an enemy (or enemies) after applying at least one charge token.

Solar Hive
>Halictidae - Harvest the components of a GeoThermEx Heating Unit and Transmat them to the Hive
>Megachilidae - Reach the Zodiac Beacon without spending consecutive turns in the company of a friendly wrecker.
>Beekeeper: Find whatever's been shedding the Horrific Molts, and use the Luxe Crucible to transmat it to the Solar Hive--alive.
>Friends Reunited: Transmat a CRY-pattern Warhulk to the Solar Hive. Live preferred.
>P.U.S.H.E.S (repeatable): Hive-ify an item you've personally crafted.

Academy of Titan
>Deep Impact: Gather field data on kinetic-shift weaponry (Force-Move a creature into an obstacle)
>Gemocide: Craft a local gem or crystalline mineral into a weapon
>Extremophilia: Gather a sample of organisms native to ANY Hazard Hex and send them to the Academy.
>GOOD SMELL: Enter following Academy supplied code titled "CANARY" at a Geo ThermEx station (Just do it)
>fear the DarK: dig too deep and too greedily
>For OUr CHoIR: send us the minds of the psions.
>Major in Danger, Thesis on Death: Perform experimental actions or crafting that poses risk to your life or continued good health (Repeatable)
>I like turtles: Perform a Crafting action on any type of Body Armor
>Horrorform: Scan yourself with our horrorform gene-lens and send us the results (post a drawing of your character's horrsona)
>Fungus Factor: Gather 8 or more Spore tokens and have them be exploded for a 1d20 Fungal Bloom

RookEngOrg
>HUrt IT Wound another Wrecker!
>KIll IT Kill another Wrecker!
>EXOSKeLETAL RESeaRCH Destroy 5 Rigs
>UNWIlLING TEMplATE Disable and transmat a Rig
>HoW IT TIcKS Scan Hievel's corpse)
>REtuRN TO ThE FolD Transmat Hievel, alive or dead.

GEN
>Trend Sitter This One Out: Upgrade someone else with Experimental Cybernetics
>Shoot for the Stars: Locate a large, ground-based heavy weapons platform and attack the local Sun [Sol]
>Bloodbowler: Take something entirely new from the cold, dead hands of another wrecker - and upload it to GEN at the Luxe Crucible.
>Salvage and Upload a Ribbon Skate Corpse and a Crashed Drone Wreck to GEN.
>Are Explosions 'Fun?' - Scan the Critical Hermes Geotherm as it undergoes Exothermic Reactions.
>Feed the Beast- Through action or purposeful inaction, caus a Skate to evolve.
Uploading it to GEN is optional, but greatly appreciated.
>By your own actions or those of circumstance, get rid of at least two of your own mutations.
>Project SENTINEL - Cause a hostile entity to undergo rapid devolution

IPC
>Icarus Protocol: Surpass your aug limits enough that you count as a mutant or a rig
>The Ground Broke My Fall: And then suffer adverse effects due to it
>Dig In: Use a digging item or a burrowing movement to dig below the map. Then provide us with a scan.
>Play on the Traxit: Spend two consecutive turns on the Traxit tracks without using them. Watch out for the trains!
>Railroaded: Get hit by a train car (Survival optional, but encouraged!)
>Roadblock: Be stopped short of your movement target three times in a row

HIVER Special Objectives
Hievel:10/20 Bvo / Apiary Anne: 5/15 Bvo / Aotzzzuo: 5/15
>Apiculture a rare crafting component and install it. [+5 Bvo]
>Apiculture an unborn or pupating lifeform and hatch it. [+10 Bvo]
>Have a newly Infested Convert adapt to a hazardous environment. [+5 Bvo]
>Stabilize a damaged Map Feature with Exo-Propolis or apicultured components. [+10 Bvo]
>Roll an outcome of 10 on a Crafting roll. [+10 Bvo]


D-Breaker Special Objectives
Aotzzzuo: 15/25 Dvo
>Shift through a barrier [+5 Dvo; Repeatable]
>Transform a consumable with the Meta-Luxe and activate it. [+5 Dvo]
> Fire an HD Meta-Nail [+5 Dvo]
> Transform a Solar Array component with the Meta-Luxe and reinstall it. [+10 Dvo]
> Transform a GeoThermEx component with the Meta-Luxe and reinstall it. [+10 Dvo]
>Transform an item from a Supply Cache with the Meta-Luxe and use it.[+10 Dvo]




:siren: Wreckers, get Moving! :siren:




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Bee Bonk fucked around with this message at 19:22 on Sep 13, 2018

sheep-dodger
Feb 21, 2013


Apiary Anne: HP: 6/6 Move: 3 [Fly] Luxe: 2 DR: 6

Tokens: Burn: 1 Poison: 1

Augmentations: Limits: 1C 4M
C: Eye Gear: Upscale all attacks
M: Gossamer Wings: Fly and +1 Move, takes up no aug threshold
M: Chitinous Chiton: DR +1 when hit by a Penetrator attack
M: Swollen Musculature: +1 damage + Newflesh Eidolon: Subject's max HP is increased by number of mutations possessed
M: Mercurial Foulbrood: Can only be hit in combat on a 5+, but all damage taken is Max HP
M: Chitinous Carapace: DR +2 + Frangible Scutes: Backlash 1
Free slots: 0

SMRT SCOPE Mods:
Depleted Pandemonium Rounds (1 DoT) Neutronium-Tipped Rounds (Pen on multiple of 4) Debriding Brood Upscale vs. Mutants; +1 Infest vs Mutants

CS Armor:
Slots: 4
Cell Annexer: +2 DR, +2 Slots, -3 maxHP

Item reload status:
Squidpack: empty Fabrikit: empty X Fabrikit 1: empty X Fabrikit 2: empty Cluster:empty

Retainers:
Dr One: 1/5 HP MBC: 5/5 HP MBC2: 5/5 HP X MBC: 3/3 HP

A convulsion ran through Anne as the experimental mutagen reworked her cellular structure. She felt more brittle somehow, but it seemed that the basic idea behind the mutagen had worked out as intended, so hopefully the Hive's adaptibility would fix things soon enough. She made contact again with her brood that was busy reworking the chrysalis, they were projecting for the new hiver to join them soon, so it made sense to stick around. Anne took aim at the rigs, while preparing to meet the warhulk that was likely incoming head on.

Aim
set MBCs to not block the Cry-3 charge


Supply request:
Thanks Bullet Jesus!

Swedish Thaumocracy
Jul 11, 2006

Strength of >800 Men
Honor of 0
Grimey Drawer
eStelle





(for dogs)








[eStelle / HP:3/3 | ARMOR: 3 / MOVEMENT: DIG / BURROW | / IMMUNE TO RAD/ IMMUNE TO POISON | LUXE: 31 on hand | CYBER: YES | CYBERAUGMENTS: Jacklegz© +1 MOVE, RigSpike: Successful Ambush controls Rig | D-MUTATIONS: Molecular Displacement: When hit by an attack, subject may choose to gain a Warp Token and force the attacker to select a new target. | WEAPON MODS: Megascope (upscale 0) | TOKENS: AIR: 3, | Darkb34k needs reloading! | Medkit needs reloading | Slay has 4/5 HP and 0 mutations]

---

Mount fed, eStelle heads back underground to from whence she came!

Movement: DIG/BURROW 14.10 -> 14.11 -> 13.11

Dog Kisser
Mar 30, 2005

But People have fears that beasts do not. Questions, too.

[HIEVEL / HP: 3/3 / MOVE: 2 / LUXE: 011 (just counted it manually like a doofus) / TOKENS: 4 Air, 1 Charge
Augmentations: Limits: 1/1C 5/4M :siren:[OVER THRESHOLD]:siren:
M: Exo-Propolis: Consume 10 Luxe to repair a synthetic or Hive structure, restore 1 HP to a rig or drone, or as a crafting catalyst. [INTEGRATED]
C: Beecycler Unit: Consume an item to template it. Spend Luxe equal to Supply Value plus rating (+20 common, +30 rare) to manufacture a copy. Upgraded items only produce the base version, and consumption of an item still bears any risk inherent to that act. An Infest Token may be spent during fabrication to create a Hive version of a normal item.
M: Gelatinous Epidermis: Immune to toxic environments
M: Warped Insight: Roll twice on Table rolls and choose one.
M: Compound Eyes: Cannot be Ambushed.
M: Exo-Mutualism: Anytime a Hiver or Infested completes a Challenge, gain +1 Bvo.
M: Grandmatron's Astral Seal: When subject or ally in same hex suffers Disable, Control, or Forced Movement, they regain 1 HP. Healing items and abilities (except this one) used by the subject restore 1 additional HP.

Hievel felt his Jar break connection and frowned. That sniper was certainly a rascal. He sent a signal to his Brood Guardian to ready for fight with the Horror that was pestering them and took aim himself.

(Aotzzzuo, Skipp and Katydid can peek)
Aiming! Getting Brood Guardian to ALSO Aim!

WISHLIST:Alright send me cool stuff! Weapon or armor upgrades OR a Fabrikit!

Dog Kisser fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Sep 14, 2018

Lux Anima
Apr 17, 2016


Dinosaur Gum
=


Skipp Wiley Jr., Veteran Newtype / Headhunter Wrecker
HP: 5/5 DR3 Move: 5 Jump Luxe: 000
Mutations (Inoculated): Compound Eyes (Cannot be Ambushed) // Batrachian Legs (+1 Move) >> Biological Levitation (Jump)
F-Mutations: Caustic Haemorrhexis (On Damage: Friendly-Fire 1d4/1 AoE, +damage upcales)
D-Mutations: Wormholer (At 0 HP, spawn spatial anomaly. 1/6 chance to be drawn into anomaly and survive with 1 HP.)
Weapons: FrakUL8R (1d8/2 +Penetrator +Scrap, ENC: Excavate adjacent hex) (loaned to Hievel) // Hulking Warpoon (1d10/3 +Penetrator +Disable, Reach/Pull 1) (borrowed from Hievel) // Optiscope (+1upscale +0)
Armor: Dark Hazmat Gear B (DR3 Therm, DR2 Chem, DR1 Rad, Air Supply) // Heliopause (+3 DR, 1 Slot, DR3 Therm, DR2 Warp) (ACT: Convert Therm <-> Warp) >> Rad Module (+1 DR vs Rad)
Consumables: Squidpack (Full) // Medikit (Empty) // Medikit X (+Heal) (Full) // Meta-Thumper // Purifier Retrovirus // Optifalconoid (Full)
Items: Scrambled Component (loaned to Hievel) // Volatile Compound
Borrowed Consumables: Puffiltrator (Empty) (borrowed from Katya) // Blastophyte Cluster (Empty) (borrowed from Katya) // Blastmantle (Empty) (borrowed from Hievel)
Tokens: 3 Air // 1 Poison // 1 Burn


When Skipp Wiley Jr. returned from his scouting foray, he was full of bright ideas on how to proceed in the hunt for the Hyperchurch's manhunter.

"Guys, I didn't see anything dangerous out there, nothing left moving at least - a perfect time for someone to salvage all that Bounder scrap and reload some of those Syzygy products. The downside of course is that with Hievel's Jar O' Beez destroyed in Von Trapp's explosion, the Hyperchurch sniper is still at large..."

"Katya, you seem to be the Hyperchurch sniper's target, not me. Do you think it has something to do with your Syzygy Kill-O-Vision score? Anyways, if you're staying here to breathe some life back into your rekt rig then I won't stop you, just let me borrow your spent Puffiltrator and Blastophyte Clusters and I'll see what I can do to get them back up to their full mycelial growth."

"Hievel, same thing - lend me your Blastmantle and I'll get that fungal-fringed frock recharged in no time. After all, you and Aotzzzuo need to stay here to defend Katya from that Lurking Horror! Oh, and Aotzzzuo, Katya might want to borrow your Puffiltrator before that sniper can line up another shot on her..."

As the Wreckers made their item exchanges, the Pertinax delivery drones arrived and blasted several ineffective shotgun rounds at the Lurking Horror as they dropped off their polyplastic-wrapped packages.

"Drat, that means I need to be in position - and soon! Speaking of which, Hievel, I have a big favor to ask of you - I need to swap weapons with you. I have here for you a weapon-in-potentia, a weapon that only you can unlock. After all, you're the only Wrecker I know with the technical know-how to properly combine the FrakUL8R with the Scrambled Component to create something truly fearsome! Here-"

Skipp reverently passed the powerful drill and the Scrambled Scrambler Component to Hievel, and watched as the Hiver became giddily intent on inspecting the broken machinery. Without taking his eyes off his new project, he wordlessly offered Skipp the Warpoon in return. Skipp hefted the Hulking Warpoon and inspected the familiar and potent piece of kit.

"As for the Hulking Warpoon: well, let's just say that it's the only thing with the stopping power to truly take down the Hyperchurch's manhunter - and as for why I'm borrowing it: I'm the only one around here with the speed and the tracking skills to hunt them down."

"I'll stay in touch over the Comms for now. I shouldn't be too far away for too long!"

With that said, Skipp waved, saluted, bowed, and leapt off into the cavernous distance.

Katydid, Aotzzzuo, and Hievel can peek:
Movement: Skipp borrows Katydid's Puffiltrator and Blastophyte Cluster for reloading!
Skipp loans his FrakUL8R and Scrambled Component to Hievel, for fighting and for crafting with!
Skipp borrows Hievel's Hulking Warpoon and Blastmantle, with the promise to return both reloaded!
If the Brood Guardian pursues him, Skipp jumps north 3 hexes and doubles back south 2 hexes (19.04 ---> 19.01 --> 19.03) stopping only for the Hyperchurch Manhunter! If the Brood Guardian doesn't pursue, Skipp moves north one hex and stays within Comms range the whole time (19.04 -> 19.03)!


Wishlist: Well well well, Pertinax - your shipment arrived, on-time as usual! Why, Pertinax Director of Sponsorship Affairs Aethelred Konstantin Von Schussmann XIV, I hope you're prepared for an unforgettable Wreckoning in your name! This Hyperchurch sniper doesn't stand a chance, not once I catch sight of them - and it's all thanks to you and your special delivery!

Lux Anima fucked around with this message at 06:05 on Sep 14, 2018

Theantero
Nov 6, 2011

...We danced the Mamushka while Nero fiddled, we danced the Mamushka at Waterloo. We danced the Mamushka for Jack the Ripper, and now, Fester Addams, this Mamushka is for you....


RETAINERS

[AOTƧƧƧUO / HP: 2/2 / MOVE: 2 (shift) / DR: 3 / LUXE: 030 / CYBER: - / MUTATION: Hypnotic Drone, Pulse Wave, Dimensional Lens, Hexatomic Snarl]
AUG CAP: 1 CYBER, 4 MUTATIONS (FREE SLOTS: 1 CYBER, 1 MUTATION)
B-Mutations : Hypnotic Drone (ENC: 1d4 attack to Control a target for the remainder of the round; ACT: A Controlled target gains 1 Infest Token. Does not count against Aug Threshold.)
D-Mutations: Pulse Wave (1d6/2, Push 1) // Dimensional Lens (May be used instead of the Cover action. Reverses the value of a single die OR every die in the hex this phase (i.e. 1-3 succeeds and 4-12 fails on a d12.)) // Hexatomic Snarl (May be used instead of the Suppress action. Suppressed targets that miss suffer damage equal to their die result.)

TOKENS: 5 Air
EXHAUSTED ITEMS: Medikit
RETAINER STATUS: Myriad Revenant (5/5 HP, Grave Echo),

Aotzzzuo, for his part, was largely ignoring his team, instead doing a Strange Dance with the growing number of Meta-Spectres that had joined their ranks.

[[aHA!]]

[[aHA!]]

[[ThEY GRoW up sO FASt!~!]]

HIEVEL, SKIPP and KATY can peek
Taking AIM
Myrv and his ghost kids should probably AIM
Giving Hievel 5 Luxe
Katy can borrow Puffiltrator

Dog Kisser
Mar 30, 2005

But People have fears that beasts do not. Questions, too.

Deep in the bowels of one of Rook's numberless Vacuole-Factories, a chitin-shaper worked his art. Vast, ponderous beetles, bred for immobility and a lustrous, translucent carapace, sat in dumb rows thousands long. Using a grafted appendage bearing a number of utterly indescribable extremities, the shaper prodded and injected and scraped away at his canvas until his latest work was complete. The Wrecker Midge, slayer of Zodiac Scorpio, stood in proud relief against the alien flesh, lit from within by carefully guided bio-luminescence. The shaper wiped at his brow, pleased with his work. Soon, his clones would repeat his motions on the others, a symphony of perfect synchronicity that would generate several hundred copies for dispersal in Living Cathedrals across the Diaspora. Rook by its very nature subscribed to no religion, but they were more than aware of the cults that sprang up around the victors. Profit was profit, after all. The shaper examined it one last time, then closed his eyes and released himself from this clonal form to reawaken across the stars.

Dog Kisser fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Sep 14, 2018

AJ_Impy
Jun 17, 2007

SWORD OF SMATTAS. CAN YOU NOT HEAR A WORLD CRY OUT FOR JUSTICE? WHEN WILL YOU DELIVER IT?
Yam Slacker


[KATYDID / HP:2/3 / MOVE: 2 / LUXE: 4-4 / CYBER: EYEGEAR] WEAPON MODS: [DR.J: JUNKER PROTOCOL, LIGHTWEIGHT MATERIALS] TOKENS: AIR 3 BURN 1

Katya had gotten the Lurker's attention, but not in a good way. She handed her Luxe over to Hievel as thanks for the excellent work on Dr. J, played musical Puffiltrators with Skipp and Aotzzzuo, handed over her Blastophyte Cluster for good measure and took careful aim in the direction of run like hell. (Because, just like hell, she'd be doing it in circles.)

After giving Dr. Jankenstein a thorough going over, "Oh hey, that is top notch work on my gun, Hievel! Lethal damage, nominal heat. Thanks!"

She replied to Skipp, "Yeah, it was gunning for Anne and we were matched kill for kill, so probably her vet status as a tiebreak or something? Bad guy with a sniper rifle gotta do things their way. That plus the lurker, plus the annoyance of the fire, means I'm going to be zigging, zagging, dodging and weaving. Happy scrapping, yell if something comes up."

Team Serious Beesness is aware: Aim. 4 Luxe to Hievel. Empty puffiltrator and blastocytes to Skipp. Full puffiltrator from Aotzzzuo.

Wishlist:Thanks, Pertinax, let's hope this works.

Bee Bonk
Feb 19, 2011




2. Skipp
Movement to 19.03.
Ashstalkers enter the hex!



3. Katydid / 5. Aotzzzuo / 8. Hievel
Katydid takes Aim!
Aotzzzuo takes Aim!
Hievel takes Aim!
Myriad Revenant takes Aim!


6. eStelle
Movement to 13.11.


Rockfall misses eStelle and Slay!


7. Apiary Anne
Apiary Anne takes Aim!





:siren: Wreckers, resolve Encounters! :siren:




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sheep-dodger
Feb 21, 2013


Apiary Anne: HP: 6/6 Move: 3 [Fly] Luxe: 2 DR: 6

Tokens: Burn: 1 Poison: 1

Augmentations: Limits: 1C 4M
C: Eye Gear: Upscale all attacks
M: Gossamer Wings: Fly and +1 Move, takes up no aug threshold
M: Chitinous Chiton: DR +1 when hit by a Penetrator attack
M: Swollen Musculature: +1 damage + Newflesh Eidolon: Subject's max HP is increased by number of mutations possessed
M: Mercurial Foulbrood: Can only be hit in combat on a 5+, but all damage taken is Max HP
M: Chitinous Carapace: DR +2 + Frangible Scutes: Backlash 1
Free slots: 0

SMRT SCOPE Mods:
Depleted Pandemonium Rounds (1 DoT) Neutronium-Tipped Rounds (Pen on multiple of 4) Debriding Brood Upscale vs. Mutants; +1 Infest vs Mutants

CS Armor:
Slots: 4
Cell Annexer: +2 DR, +2 Slots, -3 maxHP

Item reload status:
Squidpack: empty Fabrikit: empty X Fabrikit 1: empty X Fabrikit 2: empty Cluster:empty

Retainers:
Dr One: 1/5 HP MBC: 5/5 HP MBC2: 5/5 HP X MBC: 3/3 HP

Huh, the Warhulk hadn't shown up, curious. Examining the map, Anne concluded that Cry-3 was probably busy setting up for another long range charge, so she'd have a bit more breathing room before the monstrosity came rushing in again. She chose one of the targets her AimAssistSoft had painted on the two bounders, lifted her pistol and pulled the trigger, sending a delivery of depleted pandemonium straight into the pilots cockpit. That one wouldn't be getting up anymore.


SMRT Scope Bounder 1 Called Shot: 7: 1d14 10
Prioritise X MBC to block a possible Cry-3 charge


Supply request:
More MBCs are always welcome, I'm probably going to lose mine some time soon

AJ_Impy
Jun 17, 2007

SWORD OF SMATTAS. CAN YOU NOT HEAR A WORLD CRY OUT FOR JUSTICE? WHEN WILL YOU DELIVER IT?
Yam Slacker


[KATYDID / HP:2/3 / MOVE: 2 / LUXE: 0 / CYBER: EYEGEAR] WEAPON MODS: [DR.J: JUNKER PROTOCOL, LIGHTWEIGHT MATERIALS] TOKENS: AIR 3 BURN 1

With an enemy sniper, a hungry lurker and a treacherous maladjusted hiver that didn't recognise the longstanding alliance, with Katya on fire and exposed, there was only one thing to do.

Team Serious Beesness is aware: Puffiltrate with Aotzzzuo's Puffiltrator. When in danger, or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.(Retreat in same hex.)

Wishlist:Maybe a fireproof hazmat.

Lux Anima
Apr 17, 2016


Dinosaur Gum
=


Skipp Wiley Jr., Veteran Newtype / Headhunter Wrecker
HP: 5/5 DR3 Move: 5 Jump Luxe: 000
Mutations (Inoculated): Compound Eyes (Cannot be Ambushed) // Batrachian Legs (+1 Move) >> Biological Levitation (Jump)
F-Mutations: Caustic Haemorrhexis (On Damage: Friendly-Fire 1d4/1 AoE, +damage upcales)
D-Mutations: Wormholer (At 0 HP, spawn spatial anomaly. 1/6 chance to be drawn into anomaly and survive with 1 HP.)
Weapons: Hulking Warpoon (1d10/3 +Penetrator +Disable, Reach/Pull 1) (borrowed from Hievel) // Optiscope (+1upscale +0)
Armor: Dark Hazmat Gear B (DR3 Therm, DR2 Chem, DR1 Rad, Air Supply) // Heliopause (+3 DR, 1 Slot, DR3 Therm, DR2 Warp) (ACT: Convert Therm <-> Warp) >> Rad Module (+1 DR vs Rad)
Consumables: Squidpack (Full -> Empty) // Medikit (Empty) // Medikit X (+Heal) (Full) // Meta-Thumper // Purifier Retrovirus // Optifalconoid (Full)
Items: Volatile Compound
Borrowed Consumables: Puffiltrator (Empty) (borrowed from Katya) // Blastophyte Cluster (Empty) (borrowed from Katya) // Blastmantle (Empty) (borrowed from Hievel) (items dropped in current hex)
Tokens: 3 Air // 1 Poison // 1 Burn


Skipp Wiley Jr. landed in the epicenter of a shallow, mushroom-lined crater where four rekt Gamma Bounders lay scattered in savaged heaps, prime scrap left behind from a devastating spore explosion. The scorched and blasted bodies of several Myrmecoids lay nearby as well, including but not limited to a dead Myrmecoid Queen, surrounded by her twisted and dismembered children. The Mined Biocover Von Trapp had spent its final moments quite admirably, then, in successfully committing Myrmecoid regicide. Thanks to Von Trapp's noble final sacrifice, the area seemed to be completely clear of hostiles: a total graveyard - just as planned!

Skipp was in the middle of rummaging through a Gamma Bounder's cockpit looking for prime mushroom-recharging fodder when his Compound Eyes caught sight of two faintly glowing humanoids slowly approaching from the cavern's distance, their fiery orange light unmistakable in the near-total darkness. Skipp focused his primary scanners on them and studied his unwanted visitors from afar, staying well behind cover all the while. They were Stalkers, surely, but of a kind that Skipp had never seen before.

With the squeak and fritz of ambient static, Skipp's chipper voice crackled onto the short-range Comms, in a message intended for Aotzzzuo, Katydid, and Hievel.

"Hey guys - Skipp here - thought this place was good and clear, now it seems I've got two unwelcome visitors. They appear to be fire-adapted Hivers, variants of the Mutant Darkstalker... that would make them, what, Hive Ashstalkers?! Their morphobiology is utterly fascinating, and yet... I can't stay here and fight them - not with that Hyperchurch sniper still about! What all this means is that I can't get your conshroomables back up to snuff right now - sorry to disappoint!"

"Tell you what, though - Hievel, Katya - I'm gonna leave your mushroomy things here (in 19.03) inside one of the Gamma Bounder hulls. You can pick them all up along with the rest of the rigs' luxe once I lure these fiery fellows away!"

"-And while you folks are busy picking up the spoils and restocking your Puffiltrators, I'll be going after the Metastatik-wielding Manhunter, so wish me luck!"

Skipp made as though to log off from their shared Comms on a high note, but he had an additional thought to add.

"-Oh and Hievel, when all this sniper business is over I'm going to try and find you to return the Hulking Warpoon to you. If you want to meet with me as soon as possible, just go to the northern Hermes X-Cav Station (in 18.02). If I see that you're there on the feeds I'll get there as fast as my Batrachian Legs can travel!"

"This is Skipp, signing out. Have a Wecktastic night on Dark - until we meet again."

Skipp pulled the zipcord on his Squidpack and dove headfirst in the inky darkness.

Katydid, Aotzzzuo, and Hievel can peek:
Encounter: Skipp places Katydid's Puffiltrator, Katydid's Blastophyte Cluster, and Hievel's Blastmantle in a safe place (in 19.03), ready to be salvaged and reloaded at the same time!
Skipp Squidpacks one hex north (19.03 -> 19.02), becoming untargetable in the process!


Wishlist: Hivers - Hivers everywhere! The last thing I need right now is to get stuck in the middle of some kind of bug-brained faction war, especially when things are finally heating up with this Hyperchurch sniper! Sponsors, if you want to help me out some, get me any of the following:
one Experimental Wrecker Decoy (+Instant Deploy) (6 luxe), one Experimental Motile Biocover (+DR) (5 luxe), one Experimental Autofalconoid (+Accuracy) (2 luxe), one Experimental Medikit (+Heal) (0 luxe), one Experimental Mutagenic Syrinx (+Integration) (10 luxe), and last (but not least), one Unlicensed Autodoc (19 luxe). Thanks again, Sponsors!

Swedish Thaumocracy
Jul 11, 2006

Strength of >800 Men
Honor of 0
Grimey Drawer
eStelle





(for dogs)








[eStelle / HP:3/3 | ARMOR: 3 / MOVEMENT: DIG / BURROW | / IMMUNE TO RAD/ IMMUNE TO POISON | LUXE: 31 on hand | CYBER: YES | CYBERAUGMENTS: Jacklegz© +1 MOVE, RigSpike: Successful Ambush controls Rig | D-MUTATIONS: Molecular Displacement: When hit by an attack, subject may choose to gain a Warp Token and force the attacker to select a new target. | WEAPON MODS: Megascope (upscale 0) | TOKENS: AIR: 3, | Darkb34k needs reloading! | Medkit needs reloading | Slay has 4/5 HP and 0 mutations]

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Whilst to any other wrecker, a cave-in might be caus for some concern, eStelle was now one with the soil and figured she could probably just dig through it if it came to that. Her mount, Slay, was likewise capable though still a tad unruly, so she fed it some live fireworks to sate its appetite and also just to see what would happen.

Encounter: Feed Slay 1x Experimental Assist Flare

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Dog Kisser
Mar 30, 2005

But People have fears that beasts do not. Questions, too.

[HIEVEL / HP: 3/3 / MOVE: 2 / LUXE: 011 (just counted it manually like a doofus) / TOKENS: 4 Air, 1 Charge
Augmentations: Limits: 1/1C 5/4M :siren:[OVER THRESHOLD]:siren:
M: Exo-Propolis: Consume 10 Luxe to repair a synthetic or Hive structure, restore 1 HP to a rig or drone, or as a crafting catalyst. [INTEGRATED]
C: Beecycler Unit: Consume an item to template it. Spend Luxe equal to Supply Value plus rating (+20 common, +30 rare) to manufacture a copy. Upgraded items only produce the base version, and consumption of an item still bears any risk inherent to that act. An Infest Token may be spent during fabrication to create a Hive version of a normal item.
M: Gelatinous Epidermis: Immune to toxic environments
M: Warped Insight: Roll twice on Table rolls and choose one.
M: Compound Eyes: Cannot be Ambushed.
M: Exo-Mutualism: Anytime a Hiver or Infested completes a Challenge, gain +1 Bvo.
M: Grandmatron's Astral Seal: When subject or ally in same hex suffers Disable, Control, or Forced Movement, they regain 1 HP. Healing items and abilities (except this one) used by the subject restore 1 additional HP.

Hievel swapped guns with his friend and waited for the Horror to peek its head out. He spun the drill up and let it rip!

(Aotzzzuo, Skipp and Katydid can peek)
FRAKUL8R, ALLIG8R: 1d8 6
Brood Guardian is to target Horror as well!
Brood Guardian do your thing, honey!: 1d8 6 Oops, apparently it can't be ordered to aim! In which case...
Brood Guardian do your thing, honey!: 1d6 2


WISHLIST:Alright send me cool stuff!

Dog Kisser fucked around with this message at 15:53 on Sep 20, 2018

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