>>3474513

Surgical Servitor - various versions, dental/theatre/pathology - melee variants, good at hiding and cutting people up.
Labour Servitor - fetches, carries, is strong. Powerful arms.
Information Servitor - creepy fucker, originally an info dispensing system, now broadcasts information around the base. E.g. players find one, "How can I be of service?" "Where's the doctor?" "Who are you?" "Soldiers." "ALERT ALERT ARMED INTRUSION IN THIS SECTOR DISPATCH CLEANUP TEAM"
Guard Servitor - standard enemy, armed with batons/tasers/tear gas
Riot Servitor - "Boss" enemy, huge, largely resilient to small arms, capable of ripping through walls and obstacles. Will chase the players relentlessly. Currently exists in three variants, melee, LBX AC and twin flamers. There might be one with a minigun, as well.

tl;dr - What sort of enemies might you expect to see in a campaign mixing Bioshock, System Shock and Aliens?

BAABIEES NNNEEED MEEEAAAT

oh god the midwives save me

drop troops capable of running 114km/h and who won't hesitate to dive tackle you at those speeds.

>>3474612
I think I can go somewhere with this.

Some kind of "arrest-making" cyborg whose mission it is to subdue people.

There's cyberware in the CP2020 book for increasing your run MA to ridiculous levels, there's extendable arms with Grapple check bonuses and so combining the two equals "run up, disarm and subdue in seconds"

What I am going to do as a "set piece" is have one of the huge cyborgs use one of the soldiers as a human shield if the players start getting a bit trigger happy with their minigun and flamer... D10+20 on grapple attacks and 32SP of armour on the arms will make escaping a little difficult.

Something totally inhuman, nearly invincible, and armed with weapons that will instantly kill anyone they hit. And totally psychotic and xenophobic.

>>3474612
That book was stupid.

>>3474633
Take out the Inhuman part and you got a Fluff Marine

>>3474633
ETERMINATE!
ANNIHILATE!
DESTROY!

>>3474612
Great. Fucking. Book.
I haven't had my copy in almost a year - I've loaned it to one friend after another.

>>3474641

the jackass pirate guy was stupid.

the giant ant slaughtering was awesome.

>>3474633
EX-TER-MIN-ATE

These things. Everywhere. They watch the PC's intently whenever present but do not move or interfere with them.

Up to you what the story is behind them. Maybe they for whatever reason register the players as Friendlies, or maybe they all ran out of ammo.

sexbots

GODDAMN SPLOICAHS!

>>3474733
MOYRAAAAAAH!

>>3474660
This is a good idea.

Enemies that don't do anything.

What there will be is a setup where for the first four or five floors of the base, everything that moves will be hostile or a trap.

Then they get to the bottom level and there are civilians, and the same cyborgs who have previously been drilling at them or going all WHY SO SERIOUS, but doing their jobs properly - being orderlies. There's a whole group of the last few surviving patients in the sterile, sealed basement of the base, desperately waiting for the supplies that haven't come. They were the ones that wouldn't - or couldn't - leave, hidden away from the riots and war in a nuclear shelter. The only reason the doctors have been helping the PCs is they think they're a supply team, or someone come to help them.

The PCs have been sent under false pretences to silence them, because if their existence is revealed the nation's image is ruined.

>Information Servitor - creepy fucker, originally an info dispensing system, now broadcasts information around the base. E.g. players find one, "How can I be of service?" "Where's the doctor?" "Who are you?" "Soldiers." "ALERT ALERT ARMED INTRUSION IN THIS SECTOR DISPATCH CLEANUP TEAM"


I wrote this earlier today, hope it can be of some use to you OP. If you've already got a plot mapped out just ignore this as ramblings.

Information Servitor – Partially cyberised information terminals. Originally designed with a pure AI at its core, these terminals were upgraded when it was found that base staff refused to use them. The AI could dispense information quickly and efficiently, but it lacked subtlety, found it difficult to understand poorly worded queries and had too ‘robotic’ a personality.

The solution was to upgrade using a human brain. The human personality processed the information of the computer in an agreeable form but just as efficiently as before. Later models were even capable of holding limited conversations about non-work related topics. The only problem with the new cyborgs was the perennial one of biological components degrading over time. When times were good this wasn’t a problem, as healthy brains could be recovered relatively easily from patients whose injuries would be fatal but whose brains remained intact.

When things went wrong, and human medical personnel began to leave, the Information Servitors were repurposed as repositories of medical knowledge – doctors, rather than surgeons. They gave advice wherever they could to the other servitors, and as more human staff disappeared, began to take more direct control of the facility. This may have been the point at which the situation became irretrievable.

As the biological components of the I.S. began to decay, and without anyone to maintain them, their behaviour became more and more erratic. Once, all the servitors had acted as part of a ‘hive mind’, but soon individual personalities emerged. Perhaps they had begun to remember their old human lives. Perhaps the drugs that kept the biological components compliant and docile ran out. Perhaps cancers that went untreated began to warp their thought processes. Perhaps they simply went mad from the isolation.

Whatever the reason, the Info.Servs insanity soon affected the running of the base. Some ordered the creation of new cyborgs made from tainted and plague infested humans. Some began to order the other servitors to run increasingly violent defence protocols, or failed to distinguish between healthy survivors, patients and raw material for processing. Some had themselves built into a larger servitor chassis so that they could wander the facility by themselves, adding pieces from a variety of other servitor types so that they could do every job by themselves (Boss fight perhaps? Giant Frankenstein’s monster type robot with lots of different limbs and weapons and a video screen for a face)

The characters keep running into these servitors throughout the base. Almost all appear the same, with a video screen showing a friendly looking face and all have the same voice (I imagine Stephen Fry, but it can be anyone who seems friendly and non-threatening). If the characters go near one it will respond automatically. Some have lost all semblance of personality and may be catatonic or behave more like robots. Some are completely insane and will rant about things at the slightest provocation. However, even when they are saying nothing but how much they want to skin one of the party and wear his or her face as a mask, the servitors keep the same avuncular and kind tones (for maximum dissonance).

Others seem quite sane but seem to think that the party are cyborgs it can control, and when it discovers that they don’t respond to its orders labels them rogue agents and signals for a hunter servitor to come and disassemble them. Others see the party as attackers. Perhaps these ones respond to initial queries with paranoid ramblings and accusations that say something about what has happened here (Something like “Are you with the others? You are aren’t you. Are you with the others? They were killed you know. You are. You are with the others. You will not stop us from helping our patients. Engage lockdown procedure. Initiating crowd suppression procedure”). These paranoid ones might however be convinced by a particularly clever character that the party are on their side, but everyone else, including the other servitors, is not. It might be more willing to help then.

Sounds good.

One last one. One Info.Serv appears to be functioning perfectly (perhaps this one could be one of the first ones the party encounters?). It is polite and pleasantly answers what questions it can, even though for some reason its memory banks are not operating at peak efficiency. When it is done and the party turn to leave, the Servitor suddenly speaks again in the same cheerful tone.

“Please kill me. It hurts very much.”

If any of the party responds it either seems confused or repeats its request. If any of them attack it to put it out of its misery it says something like

“Damaging facility equipment is not allowed. Desist or security will be called… Please kill me. It hurts very much.”

If they continue to attack, a hulking great security bot will be summoned. However, if they do kill the Info Serv then they get a reward later – maybe it opens an otherwise locked door in thanks, or gives some useful advice before expiring.


God that’s a lot. I hope it’s of some use. Might even use it myself in a similar campaign!

Oh, and don't forget about servitors built for a peaceful objective but who aggresively pursue their goal.

Cleaners that see anything in the corridors as waste to be processed, ncluding party members. Imagine Wall-E covered in blood stains from where he put the fat people into his compactor.

Cargo lifters that used to carry heavy equipment but now try and pick up and crush anything they can see.

Servitors designed to act as orderlies in mental wards - they see anyone outside a cell, they view them as escapees to be subdued. if you attack they fight back and attempt to grapple you. Some kind of prison in chest or taser prong fist. if they get a party member they take them down to the psych wards, where lobotomy is the first and last cure.

>>3476756
This is exactly the sort of thing I'm looking for, thanks!

I'm thinking each of the four "levels" of the facility has a theme. The game will be more of a Tomb of Horrors, in that if the players reach the end, all well and good, but it will be more of a "how far can they get" affair.

On the first floor, the reception and cafe and all that, there's the Riot Servitors, still patrolling in case there's another uprising. They're straightforward. Huge and killy. Set pieces include them crashing through partitions, LB-X'ing things and burning people out.

The second floor is the long-stay wards, where there are orderlies and Labour Servitors - only a threat if provoked, but creepy. This is where exploration will be key, since the players will be able to find out what happened. However, they'll have to deal with the first few Information Terminals, who will be obstructive and menacing. For example "Patients or visitors are not allowed in this area. Please return, or I will call security." If ignored, it turns to "Intruders will be terminated with extreme prejudice. For your own safety, please wash your hands when leaving the ward." I'll be keeping a track of how many Terminals they annoyed, which will be relevant later.

The third floor is Surgery. This is where I fuck with the players with traps, stealthy surgeon cyborgs and some really Gygaxian insta-kills if they fuck up. The motto will be PAY ATTENTION AND DON'T PRESS ANYTHING.

On the fourth floor will be Security and Materials Storage. Plenty of environmental hazards and the ultimate fight with the Security Response Drone, which will have been made out of the wreckage of a light military mech sent to break up the riot, which was destroyed by the rioters. The Labour Servitors have since rebuilt it and it will be the boss fight - I'll be going for maximum creepy and dangerous, since the Information Terminals will be its core.

This scenario sounds pretty awesome... keep working on it.
Maybe give one of your players (preferrably one with no medical skills) a chance to acquire a Doctor's ID, the cyborgs will go peaceful, but unfortunately, there's a surgical procedure scheduled and they mistake one of the other party members for the patient. Play along with it and try not to kill the patient PC, or give up and continue with the dakka?

>>3476917
I've downloaded songs like The Borderline and some Conelrad, and want to get some elevator music as well. Nothing scarier, to my mind, than a fight with a robot in an underground chemical warehouse that's playing elevator music.

Should they survive, they've got the final test. They meet Dr. Avery and her patients in the bunker. Do they trust her, or do they hold her responsible for the hell they've been through? The choice is theirs.

And are the cyborgs who are treating the patients going to turn around and slice someone up?

>>3476843
>>3476782
>>3476770
These are great ideas.

I presume /tg/'s familiar with Silence in the Library (the Who episode)

DONNA NOBLE IS SAFE
DONNA NOBLE HAS LEFT THE BUILDING
DONNA NOBLE IS SAFE

When the servitors are lucid, they're going to be a nightmarish mix of the info-points from that episode, Sharon Apple, GLaDOS and a department store tannoy.

When they're mad? Nasty shit.

I'm thinking also of a couple of REALLY nasty surprises down on surgery.

MRIs. Sensory Deprivation. Decompression chambers (the base was originally used for research into space and so on, and so there will be some unusual stuff there) and aggressive fire suppression systems (try to use a flamer on the surgery level and enjoy the lack of atmosphere)

>>3476929
There is a party Medic, in fact.

What I will do is present the first threat as being probably robotic, and so when it's destroyed the party Engineer will probably want to loot/reprogram it.

Then they find the brain case.

Oh, and another thing I forgot to mention.

There will be SAN checks. Even though the system doesn't support them, I'm cribbing Call of Cthulhu.

SAN loss won't make you arbitrarily kill party members, though. It will just have effects like "lose D10 REF and COOL until you personally kill something" or "Always rapid-fire at max burst until target is dead."

>>3476955

Heavy psychoactive drugs. Without their knowledge. Gets 'em really twitchy.

why has no one posted anything from Virus?

Someone who LOOKS normal, simply a little pale, but is in actuality completely lacking in blood cells and natural body fluids. In their places are nanites, self-sufficient, self-replicating nanites that are capable of rebuilding/repairing his body T-1000 style.

>>3477582
reminds me of Deathlok

>>3477582

Underrated movie is underrated

>>3478129
Damn strait man.

Fucking loved that flick and no one even knows it exist

>>3478166

Because its terrible

>>3478171
Oh it wasn't that bad, the creatures were cool and unique though plot progression was....odd

it's not without its flaws but i wouldn't say it was bad, above average in my book

Still love it for the creatures

>>3478059
That's a bit too high-tech (as is the Frankenstein Cyborg of TV screens) but there definitely will be remotely operated units where the biological part has died.

>>3477582

That's the one with Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Sutherland on the big boat, isn't it?

>>3476955

These two could make Elevator music. Search for "Elevator music instrumental" or "soothing instrumental". "Easy Listening" or "Raymond Lefevre" might work too, depending on what you want.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bRIoO9NuAdg
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lkbiB0QfU3s&feature=related

Of course for sheer, undiluted, face melting horror...
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rPpGFssC4QQ

You could make the effect worse by having the cyberbeast comment on it in a concerned way while charging at them with razor sharp surgical implements
"You seem stressed. You heart rate is elevated to dangerously high levels and you seem to breathing heavily. Please allow me to help. I can help you. You will do yourself injury"
*smashes support column heroes are hiding behind with hydraulic hammer the size of a small car*
"Perhaps some music would help you to relax."

I CAN SMELL YOU

>>3478818
OH GODS NO

>>3478818
that is terrifying, what's it from?

>I'm thinking also of a couple of REALLY nasty surprises down on surgery.

MRIs. Sensory Deprivation. Decompression chambers (the base was originally used for research into space and so on, and so there will be some unusual stuff there) and aggressive fire suppression systems (try to use a flamer on the surgery level and enjoy the lack of atmosphere)

Of course if the servitors are designing the surgical enhancements then they may have gone with what seemed most "logical" to their slightly cracked minds. Bipedal locomotion? This is absurd! What happens if one breaks? How do you clamber over obstacles? Surely six to four would be better. Also, re: power supply. Digestion of food seems very inefficient. Perhaps some form of chemical battery / solar array would be better.
Initial test results: Failure.
Conjecture: Test subject uncooperative. More resiliant subject required.
Note: Factor in gravity into next design.
Note: Mk 1 solar panels tear from shoulder mounting in earth gravity.
Suggested Outcome: Harvest salvage from test subject. Terminate waste.

>>3478995

System Shock 2. Midwife.

Pray that you never learn more.

>>3478818

This gave me an idea ! Also the fact that it's based on Bioshock !

Let's say there are nurses that got cybernetized to care upon alien eggs. And they look like this, talk with creepy screeching synthetic voices, sing lullabies from time to time...

OP, you should look into System Shock 2, the game that came "before" Bioshock. It's, well.. Bioshock. In space. With cyborgs. And it's a better game.

Also Shodan.

>>3479033
This probably isn't what I want.

The idea is more that as the number of professionals dwindled, they first tried "upgrading" themselves and volunteers from those who were left, and then once things started going really wrong sealed themselves away with the last few supplies (enough food and water for years, but they underestimated their medical supplies.)

The cyborgs were supposed to be remote controlled, or ordered around by the more sentient ones.

Then they went a bit mad. But they wouldn't have had anyone to experiment on or anything, and they're not THE FLESH IS WEAK types.

We're getting a bit too much into Adeptus Mechanicus territory, and I'm thinking more the doctor from Bioshock.

>>3479059
I've played SS2, actually.

It's just the Medical Pavilion of Bioshock was my main influence here for the whole "scalpel happy doctor" image.

I'm in fact the guy from these two archived threads, so you can get a better idea of what I'm on about:

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/2764879
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/2993442

I've had the idea for months.

>>3478818
The fuck is that?

The best part of Bioshock is the SPLOICERS' dialogue.

"Jesus loves me, this I know
Because the Bible tells me so."

Creepy as fuck. Still, SHODAN is better than Fontaine could ever be.

>>3479104

Well I'm quite dumb anyhow, System Shock was mentioned in your second post. Sorry about that.

Well, let's see. What was pretty cool with the midwives, even more that with the other SS2 monsters, is that you really knew what they were. Nurses turned into hideous machinery. You even knew the name of the first one and all.

You should try to pull something like that. Let them not be just cyborgs, but identifiable modified people.

Use children, too. Modified children, half-machine, that cry and ask for mommy and try to understand what is happening, all while tring to chop the PCs in pieces.

yes, I think that would be cool. Make some cyborgs sentients, not fully assimilated. Just people with machine parts, able to communicate but not control their bodies. The PCs will have to kill terrified, crying people, that shout when they are hit and sob and everything.

>>3479050
i'm googleing it as i have no fear

>>3479274
That little cherub thing in Thief 2, that just appears behind you and points. There's no speech, it doesn't attack. Just points.

Shat bricks.

>>3479274

You are a terrible human being and I am frightened to be on the same board as you.

>>3479274
even worse, have the horridly mutated ones and the ones you cant tell are cyborgs at all

Horrible transformation sequences included

"Oh, im glad your safe, i was worried they caught you!"

"They did"

Saw blade erupts from stomach

better yet, if your PC's die seperated from the group have them secretly reroll a cyborg form and re join the group

lsot of secret rolls to be had

>>3479471

>>lots of secret rolls to be had

or not, if the PC is mature enough, just go with the flow. Make him roll normal rolls his human character would do.

No secret rolls = no chance of getting caught until he starts emitting noises of ripped flesh as his skull burst slowly open, revealing a skullgun.

>skullgun
...Reinstalling damn it.