Peeking out of the window, you see the cyborg, standing there, rifle in hand, as he scans across the motel lot.
At the edge of your sense of hearing, you hear a soft, unnatural whine; the everpresent sound of the gauss rifle's capacitors.
His eyes meet yours.
"Down!" You call, and you hear Amy, Grayson, and Verne hit the deck.
By virtue of the awesome powers of electromagnetism and momentum, the gauss projectiles tear through the air, shattering the window above your head; you can feel the hair on the back of your neck stand.

Two more projectiles tear their way through the air above your head, and you decide it's high time he stopped firing- With intense concentration, you close your eyes and home into the cyborg aggressor's arms, shutting them off with your raw willpower.
You hear the gauss rifle clatter to the ground, and you peek out of the window once more. The parking lot looked abandoned as you gave it a once-over, the gauss rifle looking forlorn, sitting between the parked cars.
"What was that?!" Amy called. At the same time, Grayson drew a small handgun from his coat.

>>18908822
"He is unarmed!"

Keep concentrating to keep his arms offline.

>> Previous threads:
>> Thread 1 can be found here: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/18870957/
>> Thread 2 can be found here: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/18886961/
>> Thread 3 can be found here: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/18897967/

rolled 36 = 36

>>18908822
Keep pinging his location and explain the situation to the others without mentioning your hacking powers.

"That was the guy who kidnapped me, only now it seems he's upgraded to murder. Anyone up for confiscating that gauss rifle?

"He's unarmed!" You call, blissfully unalerted of the pun you just made. You do your best to keep control of the arms, but you're starting to have some trouble against the augmentations, as his nervous system struggles to regain control of his arms.

"Where is he?" Grayson asked, peeking out of the window.
Not sure of the answer to that question, you mentally asked Cyan for his location.
<Behind the red car.>
"Behind the red car." You say, and Grayson fired several times, the handgun's projectiles clanging loudly against the car. "That was the third guy who kidnapped me, and it seems he's upgraded to murder."
"No good." He said, firing to keep the aggressor in place. "We need flankers." He added, with a glance to Amy and Verne.
Amy nodded and grabbed what looked like a submachinegun out of a bag, before leaping out of the second window, kicking the window out as she did so, before loping off on augmented legs.

rolled 50 = 50

>>18908934
We should keep struggling to have his arms immobilized while others flank him.

Wait, so what are the exact augments the guy we're fighting has. Does he have anything besides arms and legs?
What do you think Cyan?

Control grayson and amy, jump them out window.

rolled 59 = 59

>>18908934
Keep those arms blocked.

>>18908965
Nope

>>18908961
Also ask Cyan if he can do anything in this situation, like for example help hacking or something similar.

>>18909010
>Unless otherwise specified, Cyan is constantly helping you as you hack.

A few moments later, you hear the telltale rattle of an old, gunpowder-based gun- no doubt Amy's weapon, before it clicks dry.
Suddenly, you lose your edge against the cyborg's augmentations, his nervous system wresting control from you. "His arms are back!" You call, and lean out of the window.

Amy and the aggressor are doing some kind of strange, savage dance, Amy doing her best to kick the cyborg's lights out, and the cyborg doing his own best to protect himself, using his arms to their full strength. Despite that, you're able to wrest control back from the cyborg, killing his arms for the third and final time. Not able to bring up his arms to protect himself, Amy kicked him in the temple, a loud, conclusive clang signifying the end of the fight, as the cyborg hit the ground, knocked forcefully unconscious.

>>18909027
Cue light headache.

"Ah, I need to lie down"

rolled 73 = 73

>>18909027
Can we do a scan of this guy? Considering the cyborg-ness of him he may store data in his augments like we did in our spine. Might have some info of who he's working for or why he wanted to capture/kill us.

>>18909069
Steal some info/apps/upgrades? Sounds great.
We could try hacking into his pda too, retrieve some personal files and whatnot.

"Bring him in here." You called out to amy, and she nodded, dragging him as best she could. Once close enough to you, you closed your eyes, and focused on the cyborg, doing your best to scan him.

What you draw out is a big, fat, nothing. His arms and legs are the only true motorized augments he has, from what you can tell- he has some kind of subdermal armor, and possibly a combat stim injector, but it's all gen-1 stuff. You are suprised that a man can survive with this extensive of modification, though.

Amy hands you the Gauss rifle, having picked it up, and drew out of her bag. . a power drill, and a handful of different attachments. "Let's see what he has. . " She says menacingly, and gets to work.

-

Soon enough, you're left with the cyborg's unconscious torso, and a large pile of electronics- mostly the dissassembled augmentations. Throughout the entire 'surgery', Grayson kept backing away from the neon girl, obviously kept on edge by her delight at taking the cyborg apart.

Checking the cyborg's belongings, you see a small PDA, which had been deactivated. Flicking it on, you worked to find out what you could.
>1d100, for hacking skills.

rolled 78 = 78

>>18909107
Hi all.
I support this.

rolled 95 = 95

>>18909152
Hack it up with Cyan's help.

>>18909164
Awww yeah.

Easily enough, you tear into the PDA's data storage, finding almost nothing notable. . except for two things- One, you find a schedule. At noon, one should be at point A. At 2 PM, one should be at point B. . For a moment, you think it's some kind of paperboy route or something. And then you facepalm- that's exactly what it is. Verne said these guys were aug and weapon traffickers, so. . maybe they keep on the move?

The second thing you find is pretty simple- The location and code number of a storage bin.. Interesting.

>>Correction- By storage bin I mean shipping container.

>>18909222
Give those to the vigilantes. Not like we can do anything good with them.

>>18909222
Show our friends this information. Don't think we can take advantage of this on our own.

>>18909222

I think we can. Tell it to Grayson, instead.

It would be cool if we could hack through a connection with Amy's computer. So we could sit safely back at EE and help Amy and Verne from a distance.

>>18909260

slowpoke?

C'mon, we can show everyone and it will lead to the vigilantes and Grayson being the best of friends. Or exabyte can just roll for it.

"Hey, I found something on here." You tell them, showing the PDA to the three assorted cyborgs.

Grayson shrugged. "I wouldn't be able to make much use of that," He said, and rummaged through the cyborg's belongings some more, bringing out the goggles from last night. He put it on. "Hmm, both infrared -and- thermal. Probably not any use during the day, though."

Amy nodded, and copied over the data to her wrist computer. "Hey, Dave, if there's anything cool in these, then if you want something I'll sell it to you for a lower price." She said, grinning. "This is a real find- even my pocket AI wouldn't have been able to find that. You must be a real whiz with electronics, aint ya?"

Verne grunted, and marked the route out on a map, scribbling down the times and places. "Great," He said. "More stakeouts. Always fun."

"Anyway, we should get going." Grayson said, tossing the goggles back down onto the bed. "Otherwise, Jun is going to have a fit."

You nod, and start to follow.

"Wait, are you bringing that with you?" He asked, pointing to the gauss rifle Amy had handed you.

>>18909332
Slap Verne's shit for being a party pooper.

rolled 28 = 28

>>18909364
I just wanted you to make me more confident with it.
At least, next time they may succed, right?
We don't want that, hell, I don't want that.

>>18909364
Turn to Grayson with a questioning look. If he wants to take it, then lets take it.
Do we need the rifle? I assume it is a heavy-duty weapon and we don't have the strength needed to use it.... not like EE would let us keep it anyway.

>>18909332
Well we got a Gauss rifle, so that's pretty cool. Also, if we can only hold one 'active' AI at a time, can we store a different AI and activate it if Cyan is deactivated?

And I guess we can turn to Grayson and ask, "What happens now, we just going to leave this cyborg here, or what?"

rolled 81 = 81

>>18909394
Why wouldn't we store next AI in that gauss rifle, eh?

captcha: and smashr
We shall call it smashr, captcha?

>>18909394
My bad, missed that second post.

>>18909383
>The gauss rifle is roughly analogue to an assault rifle- as in, nothing *too* massive, but not as minor as a sidearm.
"Well, yeah. Next time they may succeed when they try to kidnap me." You say. "And we don't want that. I don't want that either. Better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it."
"You make a good point." He says, then nabs it out of your hand. "But I'm going to need to teach you to use it first."

He led you to his car, and tossed you your smartphoneheadset. "I added Jun's number to it, so you can call her and tell her you weren't, y'know, killed."

>>18909467
Sounds like a plan, lets call Jun and get ready for some berating. I'm still rather worried about what Amy and Verne are going to do to that cyborg.

>>18909467
Start pestering Jun down the headset.

>>18909467
Nice, add Amy's number to your list and start pestering Jun

rolled 77 = 77

>>18909467
Call Jun. Tell her goddamneverything. Even about that AI we stole, 'bout kidnapping, shutting arms and so on.

>>18909499
Oh yeah, good idea

>>18909507
Hold back on the AI stealing, we don't want give everything away.

>>18909542
Yeah, Jun doesn't need to know that we deleted her program.

"Yes, this is Dr. Viridian." Jun answered, almost immediately.
"So, uh, I was kidnapped." You say.
"Dave?!"
"Where should I start?"
"Well," she starts, arranging her thoughts."We have everything on the cameras until the point the van left the building. . but you can start at the time you left the elevator on B-1."
"Oh boy. Here we go." You say, and start relaying everything that had happened to you, with only one thing left unsaid- your experiments on having an onboard AI. To yourself, you tell Cyan not to send any debug data about itself to her terminal, just to make sure it stays a secret.
<Affirmative.> Comes Cyan's response.
"That's. . unprecedented." She said. "Not only can you manipulate other people's augmentations, but Gen-2 augmentations. . Hurry back," She said. "Because theoretically, that should be impossible. After I make sure it isn't damaged, we're going to need to test that."

rolled 20 = 20

>>18909573
She should, cause that was it's meaning.
To delete it and don't use it anymore.

>>18909595
Did we tell her one of the kidnappers was someone from the expo? Cause that might be important. Also, what kind of tests does she have in mind?

>>18909665
Cutting us open and dicing our brain to find ut what does what.

"What kind of tests do you have in mind?" You ask.
"Well, with Grayson's help, I want you to control his arms later. with the debug data, I'll be able to figure out how it's even possible. Because it shouldn't be."

"And you should know."
"What should I know?"
"The guy who kidnapped me- He was one of the men from the expo."
"Yeah, we know that. His face was on the cameras. I think their plan was to wipe the cameras after they grabbed you, but you started the alarm early."

Soon enough, you find yourself in the parking lot again, some men working on repairing the pillar that had been shattered by gauss projectiles the night before. After parking, you and Grayson went through the elevator back down to B-3, where Jun was waiting.

>>I'm going to have to step away for some lunch. I'll hurry back.

rolled 54 = 54

>>18909725
Let's go with Grayson to them, and after that, let's practice shooting with him.

>>18909725
S'all good.
Also, ask Grayson what he thought of Amy and Verne, are vigilantes like them common?

"What did you think about them?" You ask Grayson as you wait on the elevator.
"The two cyborgs?"
"Yeah. Are vigilantes like them common?"
"Well, I wouldn't say common. . ." He said, trailing off. "I'd heard of Verne some time ago. He's been trying to put a team together for a few years, now. It seems he couldn't find anyone but his niece."

Soon enough, you two reached B-3, and entered the room where Jun was waiting. She gave you a simple check-up, 'tut-tutted' over your ankle and nose, examined the Bullfrog for dents or damage, but eventually declared you fit to be tested.

"What we're going to need you to do, here," Jun said, sitting at the terminal. "Is to hack into Grayson's arms, here, and see if you can take control from him."

rolled 6 = 6

>>18909914
I guess we roll.

Well, do it. Make Grayson behave stupidly.

rolled 27 = 27

>>18909934
Dice gods....

>>18909942
No more. i do not roll.

rolled 87 = 87

>>18909934
>>18909942
Let's see if I have a bit more luck.

rolled 88 = 88

>>18909934
>>18909942
The dice gods hate us and you know it

rolled 18 = 18

>>18909914
Well... we are exhausted after all.

rolled 77 = 77

With intense focus, you hone endlessly into Grayson's arms. . .but nothing. His control over them seems too tight for you to take from him.

"Uh..." You say, looking between Jun and Grayson. "Let me try that again."

Jun nodded, and you redoubled your will, trying again.

rolled 7 = 7

make his hand give the peace sign

rolled 32 = 32

>>18909962
Khorne likes You, after all.

Reroll.

>>18909981
I stop rolling.

Give us third try.

rolled 72 = 72

>>18909972
lets try again, shall we?

rolled 93 = 93

>>18909975
>>18909981
Well fuck

>>18909997
Well, no. :D

>>18909975
Haha
"This control thing...really only works randomly" we admit to Jun

NOBODY ROLL, WE HAVE AN AVERAGE OF 51 NOW

rolled 89 = 89

>>18910006
and a roll

rolled 92 = 92

>>18910010
You are so quick of calculating average.
No irony.

Grayson suddenly twists to the side, his arms windmilling wildly.

Jun leaped back out of her seat, and after Grayson regained control of his arms, she hunched over the terminal, reading with a strange fervor in her eyes.

For a long minute, she read like a librarian possessed, murmuring to herself.

Slowly, she looked up to you, and then to Grayson. "This should not be possible." She said. "John's implants don't have any kind of- any kind of wireless receiver. How can someone hack into something without the functions or ability to make any kind of real connection? It's madness."

You aren't sure how to react.

>>18910020
>>18910015
Okay, now we should stop

>>18910022
"Well you told us to think things and they would happen...so we thought about hacking, and it happened. Mind over matter?"

>>18910022
"iunno"

rolled 67 = 67

>>18910022
I'd say to ask our AI, eh?

Tell them we could do this from very begging.
Like door pads, gauss weapons and so on.

rolled 6 = 6

>>18910047
*beggining.

>>18910047
nah, lets keep our AI secret

rolled 54 = 54

>>18910059
But don't let them know that we had asked.
>>18910058
That goddamn rolls

>>18910059
We are, we're just "mind" asking it or whatever. Not like Jun will find out. I'm still waiting for Cyan to evolve and become amazing.

rolled 4 = 4

>>18910022
Uh, It's cyberpunk. I aint gotta explain shit.

rolled 83 = 83

>>18910058
WHY DO YOU DO THIS

>>18910075
Yeah we can ask Cyan without mentioning him to Jun

rolled 9 = 9

>>18910088
One more roll for good average?

>>18910088
It's not me, it's that heavy metal dice I use.

>>18910039
"Speaking of which, all this mind is wearing out the batteries.
Got any Russian Glowcaps to hand?"

rolled 20 = 20

>>18910105
fuck fuck fuck fuck

". . . Iunno." you respond to her probing look, punctuating it with a shrug. "Mind over matter, maybe? You told me to think things and they'd happen. . so that's what I did."

She spluttered something, utterly bewildered and impossible to understand.

"Well, I could do this from the very beginning. Like the locks on the doors, the rifles from those baddies earlier..."

<Cyan, do you know anything about this?>
<Dr. Jun is right- there is no evidence that what you're doing should be remotely possible. I assist you in targeting, but I do not understand the mechanism in action.>

rolled 36 = 36

>>18910126
What can I do now?
Grayson, will you teach me?

>>18910126
Oh, this is pretty sweet.
Must be the reason why it is sometimes so hard and other times very easy to do.

>>18910126
"Jun...did you do ALL the work on the Bullfrog? Maybe there were some black boxes put in you didn't know about."

>>18910126
DON'T QUESTION IT!
THE LAST THING WE NEED NOW IS PHYSICS SLAPPING US WITH ITS DICK!

>>18910151
Teach what? Hacking?
He knows jack shit about hacking, especially our kind.

rolled 34 = 34

>>18910165
Nope, 'bout that Gauss gun, we got it, forgot?

>>18910172
Well, in the context it seemed as if you were asking to teach about ... dunno, the things we do.

Gauss rifle training is okay though.

rolled 52 = 52

>>18910200
Also, tell them 'bout the slomo, hm?

"Uh, Jun..." You say. "Did you make the entire bullfrog yourself? Maybe someone put in some. . I don't know, mysterious alien technology in it? Or something?"

She sighed, and shrugged. "There was no alien technology last time I checked." She said, angrily tapping keys on the terminal. "I. . need to figure this out." She said, suddenly logging out. "I'll be in my office if you need me."
She got up, and almost stormed out, angry, but not sure what or who to be angry *at*.

"So. . ." you say, turning to Grayson. "You ready to teach me how to use that rifle?"

-

You're on the rooftop, a line of old soda cans sitting on the edge of the building, and you're kneeling down on one knee, as Grayson makes sure your stance and such are correct. It's strange- he seems awfully familiar with it, as if he'd had extensive experience with a rifle like this before.
>Whee, roll for aiming I guess

rolled 6 = 6

>>18910247

rolled 96 = 96

>>18910247
Take a shot and ask Grayson, "Hey, you ever teach someone to shoot before?

rolled 98 = 98

if he's in security he probably does have experience with this kind of stuff

>>18910289
>>18910295

I'm... I'm sorry for fucking up the average

>>18910260
>>18910289
>>18910295
Hah, nice. Also when we need to show off activate bullet-time.

>>18910295
I won't break it with my dices.

>>18910315
Don't be, we only need 50+.

Your first shot goes wide, arcing into the sky as a blazing blue, brilliant projectile, before the light goes dark. There's much less kickback than you assumed there would be.

Grayson sighs. "Point the shooty end at the can, not at the sky."

Over the next few hours, you've improved your accuracy notably, and are getting used to the way the capacitors need to charge between each shot.

"Hey, you seem pretty used to this." You tell Grayson. "You ever teach someone how to shoot before?"

"Not really." He responded. "But I used to be military. Before I got picked up by EE, that is."

rolled 37 = 37

>>18910337
See what we can do with the rifle and the slomo?

>>18910356
...

rolled 4 = 4

>>18910356
this.

Lets try rolling again

rolled 81 = 81

>>18910368
FFFFFFFFFFfffffffff

>>18910356
but doesn't the guy have to... wait a bit before firing the gun?

>>18910337
Military huh, got any good stories to tell? And how'd EE pick you up?

rolled 93 = 93

>>18910356
>>18910368
>>18910375
Right, now we only need like 90 or 80 or something

>>18910395
Just like You wish.

>>18910395
HAHAHAHAHA I AM GOD
average 53.75

>>18910418
No Nurw, you are the dices

"I think that's all we can do for now." Grayson said, watching you blast the last can off of the building. "You're not extraordinarily good, but at least I can be sure that you won't hurt yourself or others... unless you intend to."

Standing up, you reload the rifle and turn the safety on, just as Grayson had taught you.

"Military, huh?" You ask, putting the rifle away in a duffel bag. "Got any good stories to tell?"

"No." He said, and that was that- you and him simply went down the elevator in silence. He got out at the lobby, an you realize, with a start, that you have exactly what you want- Jun doesn't need any more data right now; she's too busy being flabbergasted by you defeating the laws of physics by your mind alone. You can just. . walk out. At any time. Or you could go back down to B-3 and sleep, or maybe call someone.

rolled 38 = 38

>>18910463
I would like to train more, like train our muscles or mind. Any books? Also, why can't we go to club?

... stupid question.
Well, let's learn something.
OR!
Let's improve Cyan.

call your parents already!

they probably think your dead and worried

plus i wanna know what exactly your family problems are

>>18910463
Lets give Amy a call, see if they've managed to learn anything from the cyborg or the supplies we let them have.

>>18910463
Call Abel, fiddle with Cyan, go to sleep.

>>18910517
Oh, and call Amy.

>>18910463
It would be nice if we could create a permanent connection between our PDA and our spine.

And call our family.

rolled 67 = 67

>>18910535
No goddamn family.

>>18910514
Parents are good too I guess, still would like to hear from Amy. Also, messing with Cyan would also be fun.

rolled 86 = 86

>>18910463
Eh. We go back and what? Do our boring desk drone job again?
This shitck is pretty awesome if you ignore the kidnapped part. Even then, they saved your life so you owe them.

We could ask a better room though. The other one is more a prisoner cell than anything.

>>18910557
I agree, we moved across the country to get away from them, they're probably not worth talking to.

>>18910580
Well, before we actually know what the ISSUES were, we can never know.
Might have been something not so awful that you wouldn't let them know you're not dead.

Your first thought is to make a few calls. Your family, for one, Abel, for another, and then there's Amy.

But first, you want to make the entire headset hands-free.
<Cyan, I need your help.> You tell your AI, and you get to work.
Eventually, the smartphoneheadset is not even a headset anymore. You'd removed everything you didn't need- the microphone, the earbud, and even the miniature video screen, while Cyan created some software for you- ones that would connect the smartphone's screen to your vision, it's speaker to your sense of sound, and such. When all is said and done, the smartphone is no more than a small silver coin, which you connect to a cable and tie around your neck, making a simple necklace.

That done, you decide to call Amy first. In the corner of your eye, you see her face buzz into the corner of your view, slightly transparent. Truly, you and Cyan are geniuses.

"What's up?" She asked.
"Hey, it's Dave." You say. "Did you two find anything significant? From interrogating that one Borg, or maybe the storage container?"

"Well, the borg didn't know anything special; he was just chasing us because he wanted to hurt you. 'that dipshit made me punch the boss' he said.. Did you do something like that?" She asked, giggling. "But yeah, the storage container was full of all kinds of stuff; body armor, extra limbs, some kind of aug called a mechandrite, and more weapons."

>>18910685
"So...
What are you wearing?"

rolled 74 = 74

>>18910685
>>18910685
>>18910685
>>18910685
>>18910685
MECHANDRITE!!!

Make Jun buy it for us! Anything!

>>18910685
Is this mechadendrite jobby an extra arm, because I've been looking for an extra arm. Also given the way my life has been going some body armor would be pretty cool.

Mind if next chance I get I grab a few things from this stash, call it a finder fee or something like that.

Also, nice job kicking the goon in the face, it was pretty damn impressive looking.

>>18910685
Do you know what mechandrite can do? Also, did you make all those nice AI in your wrist computer?
>>18910699
No, she's far too young

>>18910699
ask about mechandrite

and maybe talk about the ai's

"So..." You say, trying to put a suave edge to your voice. "What are-"
Verne chimes in, very suddenly. "I will break you." He says, coldly.
"Uh, yeah, sorry. 'Bout that mechandrite." You say, trying to remember exactly what a mechandrite was. "It's. . a corded prehensile machine thing right? With a claw on the end? Like an extra arm thing, right?"
"Yeah, that's it alright! I think one of those things would need a lot of training to use, though, because it doesn't conform to any kind of human limb. It's pretty nasty looking, though." Amy responded brightly. "Why, d'ya want it?"
"I was thinking about it. Any chance of me getting it and maybe some of the body armor as like. . a finder's fee?"
"Not the body armor, the body armor is useful. But the mechandrite thing you can have. I can't customize it or anything, so I don't like it." She pouted. "But I'm not gonna do the surgery on you to install it. You'll need to get that yourself."
"I'll do that." You respond. "Nice job kicking that goon in the face, too. It was pretty damn impressive."
"Thanks! Ever since I got these things, I've been practicing. It was lucky his arms quit right then, or else that woulda' been it for me. Unless your friend was able to shoot him. Hey, thinking of you and your friend. . Would either you or him like to join our team?"

rolled 4 = 4

>>18908813
I need a little time to think about that. But surely I will ask him. At last, I owe them -just as you- saving my life.
Aside of that, when can you deliver mechandrite?

>>18910843
Grayson totally would.
But i'm busy.

>>18910895
No meaning of roll.

>>18910843
I can't answer that. I doubt that he could and I'm not entirely sure if I would... but we'll keep it touch.
What do you guys do anyway except chasing aug traffickers?

>>18910843
Haha, Verne.
"Well I'm not sure about Grayson, he doesn't seem to appreciate our current boss very much, guess I could give you his number. I bet if he was free he'd help you out. As for me, I don't think the company would appreciate me running off after criminals, the augment in my back is pretty expensive so they'd probably want to protect it."

>>18910843
Well, he's employed at EE but you should ask him. He'd probably be willing to moonlight with you guys but I have no clue what company policy is on this.

As for me, I'm still busy testing out the spine and so on, but when I have free time and am free to wander about I'd love to kick goons in the face with you.

>>18910843
I really shouldn't leave EE more than necessary. So unless you can set me up remotely i am probably out of the picture. Gray i don't really know about.

Here's a thought. We should modify the bullfrog to such an extent that they cannot remove it anymore without breaking it or making it useless so that they can't take it away and boot us out. It is pretty impressive thing, would be shame to lose it.

Uh do we really want to be vigilantes? As far as I know, we are just an average Joe who happens to have a prototype augment.

>>18910929
Now there's a thought. Could we hack shit through a relay? Having Amy or some device acting like one?
We might try. We could help them out while we're here.

rolled 27 = 27

>>18911016
That's a good thought.

"I'll probably need a little time to think about it- I can't leave the company very much, after all, because my implant is pretty expensive and a prototype and stuff." You say. "But I'll talk to Grayson about joining your team, and give him your number. What exactly do you guys do, anyway? Just fight aug traffickers and kick goons in the face?"

"Uh huh! for the most part, anyway. Verne sometimes takes jobs from corperations, sometimes, so rarely we do those instead. See, you know that time that big explosion that was on the news a few weeks ago?" She lowered her voice, excited. "See, that was me! I set the bombs up and everything."

You're not sure if this is a good thing to know.

>>18911038
"Well that's...good job I suppose. He, so I'll give Grayson your number, but I need to go for now, I've had a long day/night/whatever. I'll try to get that mechandrite later. Again, thanks for the rescue."

>>18911038
Respond positively, blowing up stuff is fun!

>>18911038
Vigilantes that sometimes take corporate work.
EE possibly involved in shady dealings and military contracts.

Do we want to work with them, or do they want to work with US.

>>18911038
Nicely done, professional work. Hell, if I find EE needs work from people with a skillset like yourselves I'll see if I can bump you up the list, it'll give us a chance to work together some more.

>>18911038

Let's trey to stay out of this, hopefully after the bullfrog is fully tested and is ready to be copied we will be allowed to return home.

>Implying something like that will happen in a quest thread

>>18911027
>>18911016

Should we try to do it?
Tell Amy of our plan and see if she can cook up something?

>>18911132
It would certainly be an interesting twist.

rolled 12 = 12

>>18911150
We should.

>>18911150
Yeah, this could be nice

"Well, uh, that's a good job, I suppose." You say. "So I'll give Grayson your number, but for now I need to go. I'll go pick up that mechandrite later, okay? Again, thanks for the rescue." "No problem, Dave! You did hack that PDA after all. Sometime I'll have to show you my AI collection." She said. "Bye-bye! Bye-bye!" Click.

Next, Abel, you decide. You start to call him, but then you're suddenly tempted; you could just walk there, couldn't you? Then you could meet your cat again. Jun won't mind, you tell yourself, she's probably trying to duplicate the 'aug control' with a computerized bullfrog or something. You could even leave a note. .

>>18911158
BUT I SHOUDN'T ROLL.

>>18911164

Just tell someone before you go, like a secretary or something.

>>18911164
Call them.

>>18911164
Before we leave to go off on our adventure to see our cat, inform Jun and Grayson of where we're going, our basic schedule and when we'll be back.

Last time we wandered off a bit we got kidnapped, a bit of paranoia is justified.

>>18911164
Yes! We must meet our one true love again!

>>18911164
Nah, lets stay here.
We'll probably become someone more important in the long run. At least, they haven't treated us bad yet.

Besides, scary people tried to kidnap us, we wont be safe at home.

rolled 91 = 91

>>18911166
There's no relay anyomre, genius.
>noko roll for not having anything to roll for.

>>18911164
Write a note if we find paper.
Leave junkdata EVERYWHERE.
Set sails for cuddle port.
Go see if they replaced out liver.
Full speed to sleep, we've had a bad(?) day.

>>18911203
Man, would have been great to try for that relay idea.

>>18911203
>herp derp how do i noko

can i has use roll for making junk data ASCII art of jun? :3

>>18911164
We leave a note and travel to Abel to bring Ishelda with us back.

>>18911188
Right, do this, to hell with sleep.

rolled 50 = 50

>>18911232
Thumbs up for this.

Also try to meet Amy on way back and recieve baco-...
I mean mechandrite.

You quickly enumerate your options.
First of all, you could stay here.
That choice is unacceptable. You *will* see your cat again, and no man nor machine can stop you.
Your second choice, you could leave a note, either here or with the secretary.
Your third choice is to call her specifically, and tell her where you're going. .
You quickly decide on the second choice; the first is non-applicable, and the third opens up the chance of Jun shooting you down.

You toss on a shirt, make sure to bring the bag with all of your belongings in it, sling it around your shoulder, and walk out of the front lobby.

On your way out, you talk to the lady at the front desk. "Oh, make sure to tell Dr. Viridian that I'm stepping out for a bit. Have her call me if she needs me." You say, and with a sly wink, you jaunt out of the front door.

-

It isn't long until you arrive at Abel's place, and you knock on his door.

"Hey, dave!" He calls, grabbing your shoulder. "Come on in. I know she's waiting for you." He says, and you enter. In there. . is your true love.

Ishelda was small, shorthaired, and had the purest, softest white fur. She trotted over to you, coughed hair and half-digested cat food onto your shoes, and then turned around and trotted away.

"That's my cat." You say, tears in your eyes.
"Now, down to business." Abel said. "How is it at EE?"

"Went out to feed my cat.
brb soon
xoxo
-Dave"

>>18911310
Well, they replaced my pulverized spine with this prototype aug and having me run tests and stuff. It's not bad

>>18911310
"Oh you know, same old, same old. They had me run a few tests, I can do things I'm not supposed to, and...IgotkidnappedbutnowI'mokay.
Anyone, you learn anything new about EE?"

>>18911331
Also i seem to have gotten some superpowers as a side effect. Nothing much really.

>>18911310
Well, they gave me a new spine which is nice, and I also seem to have inexplicable superpowers which let me control technology, which is nice. I trust the company itself as far as I can throw it, but the people who I've been working with seem nice enough.


How's Ishelda doing, I've missed her.

can we take the cat with us?

rolled 14 = 14

>>18911411
That would be awesome

rolled 82 = 82

>>18911411
Think of it this way: is EE less likely to be bombed than Abels' place? No. Cat stays.

Also jun is probably alergic.

But hey, OMIGODWENEEDTHATCATGETHERNOWOHPLEASECANIKEEPHERCLOSE.

>nat 1

>>18911439
Have Jun build our cat a cyber body.

>>18911446
But then our kitty might not be as fluffy. We can't have that. Though if she loses a limb through tragic accident we are going to force Jun to make her a replacement.

"Well, they replaced my pulverized spine with this prototype augmentation that gave me superpowers, they're having me run tests and stuff, and I'm do things that should be physically impossible daily! It's not bad except for the parts where I got kidnapped, beat up, and shot at."
"Wait, wh-"
"So what did you find out? Learn anything new?"
"Uh, well." He said, rubbing his eyes. You can tell he's trying to arrange his thoughts so that he can talk in a coherent manner. As he does so, you snag Ishelda, and hold her close as she struggles to get out of your arms. Eventually, she stops struggling, and simply sits there purring in defeat.
"So, the VP of Emulsified Electronics." He said. "His name is, uh, something something Harris, right. I was looking around, and it looks like the guy's got connections. Like, mafia, black market kind of thing. The more I look, it seems like almost everyone at the top of the place has those kinds of connections. Some of 'em paramilitary, some of them connected to .. I forget their name, some russian terrorist group, all kinds of stuff. I mean, I got no proof, but this stuff can't be good, ya know?"

>>18911459
"Well...maybe. Honestly the worst thing to happen to me has been because of people OUTSIDE the company. I think the safest place for me is at the company. Also, I managed to meet some people, vigilantes, and it looks like I could go to them for help is things go bad. One of them used to be a cop after all."

>>18911459
Well, that's annoying. I'm going to keep working for them for now, they're not going to do anything to me while they're still working out what in hell I'm actually able to do. Also running would just be a bad plan at this juncture. Either they'll go after me or some other company will if I do that. Also they might add more cool stuff to my new spine.

The people who I directly work with are nice and this gives me a chance to get more on the nastier types up top.

Give digging on this sort of thing and I'll see what I can get on my end.

I'll keep an escape plan ready and be prepared to bug out if things get too hot.

>>18911459
Oh.
Cool.
Maybe they can hook us up with our kidnappers again?
We're overdue for another playdate.

>>18911536
oh, you mean the people who DIED IN THE (van)CAR-CRASH?
Im sure lifeless corpses love to play catch with their limbs.

Hey guys, while we're out maybe we can pick up that thing that Amy promised us? We can work on the relay idea too when we're there

>>18911564
They do.
Which is tragic, really, given how notoriously bad their reflexes are.
...
Still, they try their best.
That's all we can ask for.

"Maybe. Honestly, the worst stuff to happen to me was because of people *outside* the company. But I did manage to meet some people I could go to for help if things get bad. I think it's best if you just keep digging." You say, hand on your chin. Ishelda meows loudly, and darts out of your hands, having finally found a chance to escape.
"Sure thing." Abel said. "I do have a few more leads."
"Hey, Abel." You say. "Thanks for this. I mean, your digging can't come without risk, right? Thanks for looking out for me."
"No problem." He said. "You gonna take your cat back with you?"
"Nah, I think she would like it here more. Animals don't mix with corporate buildings well." You say, and then stand up, brushing off the carpet of white cat hair that now covered every available surface of your clothing."But I better get going. There's a mechandrite waiting for me."
"Mechan-what?"
You chuckle and shrug, and then pat Ishelda's head a few times. She deigns to allow you to do so, and then scrabbles off. "Take care of my cat, Abel."

And then you're off, heading for the part of town where the Amy and the mechandrite were waiting for you, when you see her.

The molotov girl.

She doesn't seem to notice you, walking by staring at her smartphoneheadset. A quick check with Cyan informs you that she's completely human, she has no electronics you can sense, save for the headset itself, and . . something in her bag. Something he doesn't know.

>>18911646
Punch her in the face!

rolled 15 = 15

hack into her phone, learn everything you can and then go and say hi

rolled 50 = 50

>>18911646
Hide somewhere and then drive her into madness by making voice in her headphones " Why you did that?
Why throw that molotov?
I haven't done anything bad...
Why...."

Check that device in her bag. Deactivate it if it's dangerous. Tell her about it. Tell her it wasn't you.
And so on so on.

>>18911646
Get behind her and put your hand on her shoulder.
"Hey, any reason you tried to kill me the other day?"

rolled 56 = 56

>>18911646
Knock her out and in the same motion catch her.
Bring her back to EE, the mechandrite can wait- we never asked to be a dashing gentleman.

rolled 78 = 78

>>18911646
Keep on walking, see if we can get information on what in her bag.

Start hacking her smartphone and once we're a decent distance away have it say hello to her and ask about her brother. Reassure her that we're not after her, we're just curious.

rolled 73 = 73

>>18911694
Seconded because I don't have a better idea.

>>18911696
Oh, mind games are fun.

You dart around the corner, and watch her closely. <Cyan, target what's in her bag for me.> You say, and close your eyes, and focus.

Time slows, and what you sense is hard to describe. It's roughly circular, has an on-off switch, and a timer. Right now it's set to off, and the timer. . one second. The harder you focus on the object, trying to discern what it is, the more uncomfortable you feel.

Finally, you pull out, and then target her smartphone. What she's examining so closely is a video. . The video, roughly, was taken from a rooftop in the city. The camera zoomed into a black van with two people in the front, when suddenly, the passenger struck the driver with an obviously-augmented arm. With a start, you realize what this is- this is is from last night's kidnapping. How did she get this?

rolled 97 = 97

>>18911646
HACK EVERYTHING

>>18911768
Yes, see if you can set the device to perma off, not gonna roll because this one is fine.

>>18911767
Hack everything, if we can set the timer on the circular thing to as long as possible and try to lock it in the off position for now.

Then strike up a conversation with her through her smartphone.

>>18911767
HOLY SHIT ITS A BOMB!
EITHER SET IT TO PERMA OFF OR SET THAT TIMER WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY UP!
>>18911768
Not ruining that beatiful roll!

>>18911767

>It's roughly circular, has an on-off switch, and a timer. Right now it's set to off, and the timer. . one second

CLEARLY THIS IS A BOMB

>>18911811
>>18911814
/tg/ is paranoid hivemind

>>18911827
Or maybe a nade?

>>18911814
JC!
A BOMB!

You quickly set the timer as high as it can go- if it's a bomb, you don't want her to be able to set it off. Once that was done, you disabled the on-off function completely, keeping it from activating unless you repair it.

She suddenly stopped, and looked around. You darted around the corner again, out of view. She can tell something's not right. "Hello?" she asked, sounding vulnerable. "Is anyone there?"

>>18911852
Mess with her head a little as revenge for throwing that Molotov at you.

>>18911852
Talk on her phone, modulate our voice a bit, not in a creepy way but just to mask our identity.

Hello miss, it's lovely to meet you, I believe you've been looking for me. I understand that your brother was involved in some unscrupulous testing by EE, I've mixed up in the same thing. Could you please tell me what you know about this?

>>18911891
Hey, she wasn't throwing it at us. She was throwing it at EE.

rolled 40 = 40

>>18911852
Now we hack her PDA to see if we see anything suspicious in there. Check sms-logs or similar stuff.

>>18911903
info!

>>18911906
Close enough.

>>18911852
"This is FutureGod, you have sinned."

rolled 82 = 82

>>18911909
Re-roll?

>>18911852
Casually introduce ourselves. Might as well try to interact like a normal human being.

rolled 45 = 45

>>18911935
Over her phone, yes.
call yourself "Garry"

Just walk up to her guys. She is a sad confused teenager. Lets try talking.

rolled 71 = 71

>>18911956
votes+=1

rolled 43 = 43

>>18911956
My vote.

>>18911984
might as hell not vote.

>>18911956
Sad confused teenager, who has a video of us being kidnapped.

>>18911956
>>18911984
Yes, just a sad confused teenager.
...
WITH A VIDEO OF US BEING KIDNAPPED!

>>18912010
And who threw a bottle of molotov after breaking a bulletprrof glass.

Several different clashing ideas go through your mind. You could screw with her head, talking through the phone, you could introduce yourself in person, or you could hack her phone and find out what you can.
You suddenly feel guilty. She's just a sad confused teenager who lost her brother, and you're treating her like she's part of some conspiracy.

"Uh, I'm here." You say, coming out from the alleyway. She looks you in the eyes, and then freezes, before grabbing two objects from her bag. One is the knife from two nights ago- the one grayson said was probably monomolecular, and in her other hand was the strange device you think might be a bomb- the one you disabled.
"You." She said, pointing at you with the knife. "I know you."

rolled 98 = 98

>>18912041
Yeah. Me.

Punch her lights out.

>>18912041
"Put the knife down, I just want to talk."

rolled 41 = 41

>>18912054
So what, with that roll we punch so hard we kill her?

Let's not. Again, try to talk. And hack the phone to stop broadcasting.

If she takes a swing at us, try to avoid contact with the knife; instead going for her arms to get it out of her hand.

>>18912041
Hold up your hands for peace.
"Hey, I don't want any trouble...I think I know what happened to your brother. And would it help at all if I said that I didn't get my 'upgrade' by choice?

>>18912054
Such a good roll on such a horrible decision.

>>18912054
just do it hard enough to knock her out
maybe take her to your drinking buddys house till she comes to or take her with you to see the vigilantees

>>18912041
"Starters, your little thingy doesn't work, you probably broke it.
Maincourse, that's a knife, mono or no mono i still got man-hands.
dessert, i come in peace, so don't you go and shoot to kill."

>>18912041
You do know me, I was taken by EE while I was in a coma and had the fragments that used to be my spine replaced with a new one.

Whatever your little thingy is I turned it off and I'd appreciate if you didn't stab me. I'm just here to talk, really. I want to know more about the company I've been shanghaied into and what happened to your brother.

>>18912041
"...Yeah, why'd you try to burn me anyway?"

>>18912054
Yes!
Yes!
This is deliiicious!

"Yeah." You say. "Me."
She takes a step toward you, and presses the button on the device in her hand. Then she shakes it.
"Just put the knife down." You say, in what you hope is a soothing voice. "I just want to talk."
She shakes the device some more, almost frantically. Then she sighs. "Talk about what?" She asks, glaring daggers at you. She didn't put the knife down, but at least she's talking.
You have no idea how to handle this, and you're way out of your depth, but you might as well try.
"For starters, I found out what happened to your brother."
"Yeah." She said, waving the knife toward you. "That bitch killed him. The one *you* protected."

>>18912041
We try to talk to her.

Oh and btw, is the smartphone she has a video headset smartphone? Like is she wearing a semitransparent thing in front of her eye? In that case we could hack it and do an emergency flash of light from it to stun her if things get ugly. If not, forget i posted this

>>18912122
Yeah, well, she gave me a spine.
Man up.

>>18912122
"Listen, all I know is that I got hit by a car, put in a coma, then that woman woke me up and saved my life by putting this spine in me. I was inclined to help her out in that attack.
Also...how exactly did your brother die? Did something go wrong with the implant?"

>>18912138
But do we tell HER to man up or do WE man up?
cuz as far as i know dave 'dave' dave has a metal/fiberoptics-future-spine and doesn't afraid of anything.

rolled 25 = 25

>>18912182
Both?

"Listen. All I knew at the time was that I got hit by a car and put in a coma, then that woman saved my life. I was inclined to help her out."
She stopped waving the knife around and simply glared daggers at you again.
"How exactly did your brother die? Did something go wrong with the implant?"
"No shit, Sherlock." She said, her voice raising in wrath as she spoke. "His nose and eyes started fucking bleeding, and he turned to me, and said 'Ally, it's so loud'. and then he died screaming. That's what happened. Now what are you 'inclined to do', Dave, now that you know what's what?"

>>18912182
I'm fairly certain us manning up would involve punching out the teenager holding us at knife point.
So, either one, really.

>>18912242
Do we have the Gauss Rifle on our person currently?

>>18912242
"A better question would be, what you planning to do? It's quite a thing to upgrade from arson to murder, and I doubt that device you're carrying was meant for anything fun."

>>18912242
"Your brother was a volunteer. He knew the risks."

>>18912269
Yeah, let's try to psych her out

"that's horrible but it sounds like an accident. That woman may be single minded and overzealous about her job but she's no murderer "

>>18912242
Wait, how the crap does she know our name?
SHE KNOWS MORE THAN SHE LETS ON!

>>18912242
Let's slow down time and grab her by the wrist.
Lets speak on our terms.

>>18912269
So you think she murdered your brother. What are you going to do, murder her back? Her bosses will put someone else in her place; someone who's more willing and less ethical to take risks. So you kill that person too. And they'll just get another person to design parts and test. If you don't like someone, you need to change it; either from below or above; but just blindly attacking the problem just gets blood on your hands for minimal results. I can work the system, I can try to change things. But firebombing workplaces and murdering scientists who are just doing their jobs won't change things they way you want them to.

>>18912242
Ask her why she has that video of us.

Worst case scenario:
We can say that we will let her go if she promises not to danger EE anymore. If she refuses (she most likely will) we will utilize her PDA which we have already hacked and turn the light setting on full, effectively blinding her and hopefully stunning her enough for us to disarm her.

rolled 59 = 59

>>18912326
Yeah. She knows more or is more informed than we think. Careful with this one.

Get our AI to actively scan for more threats: she may have hit a panic button and the people she's working with are coming after us.

>>18912265
>Yes, it's in your bag along with your other belongings.
<Scan for threats, Cyan.> You say, eyeing the device in her hand.
<Affirmative.>
"That's horrible. . but it was an accident. That woman may be single minded and overzealous about her job, but she's no murderer." You say, keeping your voice calm and even, like those fellows in the movies do while they're trying to calm a hysterical girl with a knife.
"That doesn't matter." She said, shaking her head. Any kind of composure she had was quickly breaking. "She's the one who put events in motion. I'm just acting out the result! Cause and effect!"

>>18912353
Second the AI scan. We need to make sure that she doesn't have anymore tricks up her sleeve like that bomb (or whatever it is) that she tried to pull on us. She is definitely very angry and also pretty irrational. Bad combo.

>>18912388

and that way when your dead your brother will be happy about this right.

Cause all he wanted from you was to avenge his death or for you to die trying.

do something better then this and spread the information around so that this doesn't happen again.

and for god's sake stop swinging that knife around.

rolled 47 = 47

>>18912388
I do believe mono-knives can't parry gauss.
Should be a handy backup.
In the meantime, try to disarm (remove her access to the knife, not her arms, as humorous as that may be) her.
She's clearly stalling.

>>18912388
Cause and effect, huh? Because she killed someone, you have to kill someone else? Who forced you to firebomb the building? It was ultimately a decision you made; not forced into. It's easy to look back and decide one thing had to happen because something else happened; but in the present we have something called choice. Life isn't pretty, full of happy endings and smiling people; but there's no point making it miserable to deal with. You have a lot of emotions going on; but don't do something that a calmer you would regret.

>>18912388
"The 'effect' you're talking about will most likely end in several deaths, and you dead with them or arrested. Do you think your brother would be proud of that? That his sister 'avenged' him by ruining her own life?"

>>18912388
Wasn't her brother the volunteer?

"Didn't your brother volunteer? He knew the risks and he took them, if anything you should be angry at him."

Slow time and grab her arm which holds the knife.

>>18912434
This. I don't think his brother would like her to die young.
And i still like my plan at >>18912353

>>18912388
I understand why you are angry, but why take out this aggression on me? I never did anything to you! Put that knife down and talk to me rationally!

>>18912474
uhm my plan at >>18912341
i mean

>>18912388
I never knew your brother. I can't pretend to understand why he did what he did.

don't know you; but you're still alive. You can try to make me understand; to talk. Being alive has that privilege.

But you'll never know for sure once you've killed a person.

>>18912489
It might not be best to ask her about the video since she has no idea that we know about it. Especially since we have given her enough of a rise already. She might panic and do something drastic.

We could try to ask her about that if we get her to calm down maybe.

>>18912388
Whelp cult/mindwash meter just spiked!
Disarm her as soon as eye-contact is broken.

"Cause and effect? Who forced you to firebomb the building? It was a decision you made." You say, punctuating yourself by pointing at her. "It's easy to look back and decide one thing had to happen because something else happened, but we have something called choice." You say, really getting into the steam of things. "Life isn-"

"Oh yes." She interrupted, suddenly full of composure again. The end of her knife was still, very still. "Choice. If I have so much choice, then this is my choice. I will kill her, and I will kill you. That's my choice." She said, backing away from you. Her other hand was methodically twitching, rhythmically hitting the button on the device multiple times, to no avail. "Hell, I'll kill your little dog too." She said, continuing to back away at a measured pace.
Suddenly, she smiled. "See you around, Dave."

Before you can react, she darted around the corner, into one of the alleyways of the city. You follow, but the only thing you see is her dropped smartphone. It'd been stomped on and shattered beyond repair.

rolled 17 = 17

>>18912477
>calling a teenage girl with a knife and bombs irrational
>calling any emotionally unstable teenage girl irrational, period

OH SHIT NIGGER, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!

rolled 39 = 39

>>18912549
Pursue. We're not getting outrun by some girl.

>>18912549
So uh...let's call Jun and warn her.

rolled 13 = 13

>>18912549
FOLLOW HER WITH THE PING OF THE BOMB

rolled 29 = 29

>>18912549
Call Jun.

"I'm in pursuit of the firebomber"

rolled 47 = 47

>>18912562
no.
shoot the fucker.
no.
fuck you.
were doing it.
fuck the roll.
fuck you.
20000kN of HATE into her back.
fuck her.

>all my capthas end with "the" today. i feel specific.

>>18912549
SOUND LIKE IT'S TIME FER A GOOD OL' FASHIONED GAUSSIN'!

Run after her while fetching it from your duffelbag.

>>18912577

don't call jun call amy

rolled 94 = 94

>>18912586
lol, u mad?

>>18912577
Yes, lets go into action mode.

>>18912586
fuck yes. She threatened to kill Dave.. or was she refering to the cat. im not sure

>>18912604
jackn' this roll for gausan' the <plot device>.

>>18912615
She certainly showed intent to kill Dave and Jun.
I'm not sure on what her other bit meant.
It could either be our Cat or Scooby-Doo.

>>18912625
I doubt you'll get it.

>>18912549
Oh shit, call Amy and Verne, get some vigilante help, duh.

You aren't going to let her get away that easily.
<Track the unidentified device and connect me to Jun.> You order Cyan, grabbing the gauss rifle out of your bag. You flick the safety off, and twist the knob from 'low' power to 'high', and then persue.
"Dave? What is it?" Jun asked.
"I'm persuing the firebomber."
"What?! Where are you?"
Cyan suddenly beeped, and threw up a direction on your hud. You quickly started following.
"Uh, in the alleyways. She's fast." You say, skidding around the corner. "She said that she intends to kill you." You say, not mentioning that the bomber said she would kill *you* too. As you turn the corner again, You see her climbing a ladder to a fire escape, and you fire at her with the gauss rifle. You miss, but it sparks above her head, making her duck and lose her balance. You fire again, but she dives into the window, using her handy knife to break it open. You climb the ladder, following her, but when you get to the window, she's standing there, the device in her hand. The device had been torn open, cables strewn out everywhere. She twisted two of the cables together, and it's timer started. Then she threw it at you.

>>18912728
Well, what does the timer say?

rolled 97 = 97

>>18912728
Bullet-time shoot her, then swat the device into the alley below.

rolled 14 = 14

>>18912728
Rollin for Bullettime.

Let it fall into the alleyway. It may cause some property damage and maybe some injuries, but if we don't catch her; she'll kill more people.

>>18912757
I was going to roll, but then I saw this.

We're good, take her down and throw the explosive behind us into the alleyway.

bullettime - throw it back - duck the fuck down

rolled 100 = 100

>>18912728
Hopefully the timer is still what we set it to. Cath that thing and throw it back. If confusion arises disarm her. If she attacks, use gauss.

>>18912757
Or this i guess. But try not to make it fatal.

>>18912757
Idiotic course of action, but one can't really argue with that roll.

>>18912778
Oh shit.

>>18912757
Hack it back to be not working while we're at it.

[For fucks sake you people. Why didn't you first try to subdue her while we had the chance before talking stupid moral shit?]

should have fucking punched her!

toss the bomb on a roof?

>>18912775
There could be innocent people inside though. Swatting it into the alley would be better

>>18912780
Pssh.
Why not have our cake and eat it?

>>18912801
We did not only disarm it we set the timer to way high. we will be safe for at least a couple of minutes.

>>18912778
I like this guy, also, if we get a chance, get Amy and Verne for some help. Amy has shown to be very proficient in knocking people out.

>>18912778
>Or this i guess. But try not to make it fatal.
She tried to kill us once. She is trying to kill us again. She threatened to kill out pet.

WHY THE HELL ARE YOU PEOPLE SO NICE TO HER?

...Don't answer, it's a rhetorical question. I know why. Because she has a pair of boobs.
Seriously, that's the only reason. Don't try to argue against it, I've been in enough quests to know how people react to women in them.
If that was a guy, you can bet we wold not have been as nice.

>>18912828
NOPE.JPG
He has nat 100, he's right.

rolled 66 = 66

>>18912818
I don't think you understand; she saw that we messed with he bomb and physically tore it apart so she could hardwire it to start again.

>>18912828
Or the fact that she is still a teen, although dangerous she is not fully adult.

>>18912840
Aw jeez, shut up. As soon as /tg/ sees a young woman in quests they are ALWAYS all over her.

>>18912857
:DD
Nothing more is needed.

>>18912844
She started it yes, but the count-down should still be the same.

What happens next is all reflex. Bullet-time activates, and time slows. In a single movement, you fire at her, the projectile blasting into her, blood spraying the wall. You twist the weapon, smashing it's rear end into the device she'd thrown at you, launching it back at her. The device beeps loudly, but what comes next isn't an explosion.

What comes next is static, and then darkness. There's some kind of squealing- something loud. Cyan is gone, and you can't communicate with him.

When you come to, Grayson and Jun are there- Jun shaking your shoulders. She says something, but you can't hear.
"What?" you ask, and she shakes you again.
"Dave? Oh, thank god, you're alright." She said.
"We have to go." Grayson said, pulling you up. "The cops will be here soon, and it's best if we're not here when they are."
"What *was* that?" You ask, looking down to the device Jun was examining.
"Some kind of EMP device." She said, putting it in a bag. "When me and John showed up, you weren't responding- I'm surprised there wasn't a feedback incident when your bullfrog restarted."
"We need to GO." John said, and hustled you and Jun away, back to his car.

So was it a kill or not?

>>18912874
I take it the girl's still alive? With that nat 100, she better be.

>>18912874
WHAT HAPPENED TO CYAN!?
IS NE DEAD? NOOOOOO- oh well, we can copy another one.

What happened to the girl.

>>18912874
Oh no! Poor Cyan! If we lost him can we ask Amy to send a new copy back to us?

>>18912892
>hit with a high-powered gauss rifle
She's dead, Jim.

>>18912901
>nat 100
write awesome shit.
retcon it all.
write more awesome shit.

oh my god is that blood. what the fuck guys. is that girl alright?

rolled 14 = 14

>>18912874
Do a scan of systems, see if Cyan made it.

>>18912929
oh you mean the one that was gonna kill us by throwing a small neutron bomb equivelent at our face? yeah, she's toast... and possibly dinner.

Riding in the car, you decide on damage control. You have two questions; What happened to the girl, and what happened to Cyan? The latter was easier to determine.
<Cyan, are you there?> You ask. There's a bit of a delay, and then-
<Affirmative.>
"Okay, good, that's still working." You say aloud, making Jun look at you strangely. "Where was the girl?" You ask.
"What girl? There was just you and a whole lot of blood."
Fuck.

>>18912874
When we get to a safe place tell them about the girl and her threats. Maybe we can get some extra security up at the facilities, and Jun needs to know that she is in danger.

Also, see if they have anything useful on her. It is unlikely, but if we could figure something out, like a way to find her, then we could potentially get to her before she does any damage. Or dispatch a security force or something.

But taking her out ourselves would be more fun.

hmm I though I shot her in the head... guess I could be wrong.
ops did I say that out loud

>>18912951
Aw shit. I had hoped we could capture her.

>>18912951
Well joy, we have a crazy person after me who seems to have survived a gauss rifle.

She's annoyed about her brother dying, I'd like some more details on exactly what happened there Jun. Also I'd like some hardening for my spine, I'd rather not be taken out by EMPs again. It's just plain annoying.

>>18912892
>>18912901
>>18912929

SEE?
SEE?

THAT'S WHAT I TELL YOU.

She threw a bomb she specifically designed to kill us, we survived only because she didn't know our aug was so special.

But NOOOOOOOO
Poor fucking girl, we must not hurt her. She is sooooo special.

I'm am 100% sure that if it was a man, no one would give a fuck. Especially after he threatened our cat.

Man, you guys are a lostcause.

>>18912951

Fuck, wasted all this time for fucking nothing.
Now we can't go and get that thingamajig from Amy either. Should have ignored that girl altogether.

>>18912988
You should definitely either go to sleep or work on your orthography. You're posts are downright painful to read.

>>18913006
>You're posts

>>18913006
nothimbutdude,loosen.

>>18913006
Well, English is my 3rd language. What's wrong with my post? (Genuine question, I'd really like to know.)

>>18912988
Hey, that's kind of the point. We won't show any mercy next time.
<Good, glad to see you're alright Cyan, I'll try to stay away from any EMPs from now on>
"The girl who threw the Molotov, I found her and tried to engage her. Though I could appeal to her human kindness...not so much apparently."

>>18912988
Seriously? I did not mind hurting her, i mainly wanted her back alive. She had a video of us being kidnapped, we NEED to know where she got that.

>>18912988
It was more about getting information rather than she was a girl. We didn't kill that augmented guy in the parking lot of the hotel because we needed information. Technology and information go hand in hand in this setting; if you have more of both you are more empowered.

>>18913037
yeah It is generally the smarter choose not to go around killing peopel male OR female

>>18913037
>>18913055
Well. I was actually more concerned how we were treating her beforehand. I mean she had, what we though, a powerful bomb which she did not hesitate to use as soon as she saw us. And she had a powerful knife that can cut through anything. We shouldn't have talked nicely with her, giving her opportunity to flee. We should have used slowmo, overwhelm her, take away her knife and THEN have a nice chat.

That post was just affirming my suspicion that /tg/ has massive bias towards women, especially young women in quests.

>>18912951
FOLLOW THE BLOOD TRAIL!

We can't let her escape!

"So, about that girl." Jun looks at you as you speak. "We need to talk about her. But first."
"First?"
"Grayson, turn that way." You say. "I want my mechandrite."

"So, Allison Templar is completely unstable, She wants to kill us because of the. . feedback incident, and has a very sharp knife." Jun says, summarizing everything in such a way as to make it convenient for a (completely hypothetical) writer.

"*And* she has access to information she shouldn't, and high-tech devices." Grayson added, assisting with the summary in a way that's entertaining to any completely hypothetical readers, much like this fourth-wall-breaking description. "Is this the place?" He asked, pointing to the storage container. "Looks abandoned."

>>18913071
Oh, totally. Most in here (including me) thought that she was just a confused girl looking to lash out at someone for her brother's death. Someone we could convince.

Now we know she's firm in her beliefs and has the conviction to carry out those beliefs with little hesitance. Unless we catch her by surprise next time, we shoot to kill.

>>18913097
Let me check, ping the area see what pops up in the storage container. If it fits with Amy and Verne let them know that it seems safe.

>>18913097
We should call Amy.

"...that, and she had a powerful EMP bomb. I guess she made it to take me out."

>>18913108
Don't be audible about it; just ping with cyan. After which, say we have a good or bad feeling based on results. We've already shown too much by saying that we can remotely hack.

>>18913071
I had a PERFECTLY fine back-up plan (this one: >>18912341 ) which i recommended we set in place as SOON as she did something fishy. But nobody listened.

But yes i might be slightly biased. I try not to be though.

>>18912054
Maybe we should have just done this. Things would have been a lot simpler.

>>18913097
Get Cyan to scan the container and the place they were staying in. Stay alert though, they never expressed openly that they would be leaving...however, they may just not have told us.

Either way. Caution. Amy better not have run off with our mechandrite.

>>18913102
Well.... that's alright I guess. Still, it was clear that she was willing to do drastic things. That kind of people are always dangerous, and leaving them armed if taking a big risk.
Just because she's young and a girl does not mean you need to always go nicely on them.

>>18913142
>>18913150
>All of these were viable plans, but I counted out what everyone wanted and it seemed like 'try to calm her down' had the most votes.
"Let me check." You say, and you have Cyan ping the area.
<There is a single augment here.> Cyan mentions, and you nod. "This is probably it." You say, opening the container. Inside is a bunch of dust, and marks on the ground that show that something had been moved. The only thing left in there, with 'DAVE' written in dust on it's top, was a green case. You flip it open, and inside is a long, twisted, almost tentacular limb with a claw at the end.
>Mechandrite acquired! Wheee

Why the heck do we even want this attached to our body

>>18913174
Connect it! Connect it!
*squeeeeel*

>>18913174
We're not second guessing what you wrote; what you ended up going with did seem to have the majority of the votes. I'm just pointing out to the other readers that we should be a little less nice next time around.

>>18913174

Jun can you help me install this, you know for science.

>>18913197
>be on /tg/
>not be squee squee over mechanicus gear
>oh, you'r one of THOSE people...

>>18913174
Squee in joy.

Ask Jun to get us a red robe, a gas mask and other tech priest paraphenelia.

We techpriest now.

See if we can control it and find a good place to anchor it to us later, extra arms are good.

>>18913174
FUCK YEAH.

ATTACH IT WITH DELIGHT!

Oh man, we should attach that other arm too then we would have FOUR arms!!!

To be clear: this arm is something that looks like almost exactly like Doc Oc's arms, right?

>>18913218
everytime we hack:
>I will ease the machines' pain...

everytime some one asks us to do something:
>Ah, a challange worthy of my skill.

>>18913215
aww come on... you wanna be THAT guy >>18913218
We're an office clerk not some warhammer tech priest

>>18913174
Don't why have to get surgery to attach this? It would be nice to have something to replace our robotic arm.

Ask Jun to see if she would have the meds attach it for us.

>>18913260
Shit. *we*

>>18913260
I think our synthetic spine allows us to attach augs on the fly just like we did with that arm back at EE.

>>18913304
It would still need power i guess

>>18913240
>Yes, exactly.
>>18913260
>You don't need surgery to get it- most people would, but the prototype makes it so that you don't need to bind it to your nerves or anything.

You laugh maniacally and steeple your fingers. "Jun, I need a gasmask, a red robe, and a -"

She looks at you strangely.

You sigh. Philistines. "Just help me install this."

An hour later, the sun has completely set, but you have the mechandrite mounted on your back, to ther right. Most of the weight of the mechandrite was based on your shoulder, where a pauldron clung, holding the mechandrite there. As you connect the cable to your bullfrog, you find it's much harder to control than you thought. You'll need to practice with it if you want to do anything useful.

Grayson calms down your maddened giggling as the claw whipped around wildly, by simply grabbing your shoulder. "Dave."

"Oh, right. Okay."

>>18913333
Lets go back to EE. We want to test and practice this beauty.

>>18913333
Yeah, lets go test this and get some sleep.
Wait, before that,call up Amy and inform her about the girl who wants us dead.

>>18913333
Continue to practice with it, try to get more delicate manuevers down. Grabbing and spinning a pen, picking up a bottle of water and drinking from it. Once we get good at this we can do most everyday tasks with our real arms folded against our chest.

>>18913333
I second going back to EE. Seems like a safe enough space to practice with our new gadget. Plus, we probably don't have any choice about going back seeing as that is probably where we are heading right this minute.

Also....since the girl threatened our cat....this probably means she knows about Abel as well. He could very well be endangered right now.

Shit let's check on him. See if Jun would be willing to let him come to the facilities. Just to be safer.

After a bit of practice, you finally get the mechandrite coiled up and out of the way, as you, Jun, and Grayson take the car back to EE. "So, what do we do about that girl?" Grayson asked.
Jun put her fingers to her temple. "I think. . I think we ignore it. After she lost all that blood, she won't be in any shape to attack any time soon, so we can use that chance to beef up security. Which will mostly be your job, John." Grayson nodded.
"It's what they pay me for."
"I'm going to call Amy." You say. "I should tell her about the Templar girl."
Jun nods. <Cyan, patch me into Amy's phone.>

"Hey, Dave." She responds. "Did you like the gift I left you?"
"YES." You respond, wriggling the mechandrite around the backseat, as much as you can in the confined space. "But that isn't what I was calling to talk about. There's this girl."
"Ooooh." Amy says.
"No, not like that. She has a sharp knife and threw an EMP at me."
"Aw."
The call went quickly, and soon enough, you reached the building.

"Every time you leave, something bad happens." Jun scolds you on the elevator.
"In my defense, the first time, the bad things came *into* the building and pulled me *out*."

"Fine, fine. You can go practice with your new. . toy, while I design an upgrade to your prototype. Something to protect against EMPs. That was too close- when the system rebooted, it almost fried you too." She sighed. "It should have, anyway."

Grayson got up, and took off toward the security room; To beef up defenses, no doubt.

>>18913436

Nix on bringing him back. Right now Abel is our third party outside EE and (possibly crazy) vigilantes. He's the only one we can really trust.

Warn him, but we don't want to trap him under the umbrella of EE.

>>18913535

ask jun if its us that is preventing the feedback problem and all that other shit.

>>18913535
>it almost fried you too." She sighed. "It should have, anyway."

I think Cyan took the hit for us, right? Don't tell her that though, it's our little secret.

>>18913535
Practice/train with the device while she cooks up an upgrade. Hell, if we get good at tentacle arm, ask them to install the other one too, so that we have 4 arms to practice with. The 4th arm is so that we're more experienced and ready if we find another tentacle arm.

>>18913535
After we are finished training with the tentacle arm, can we look into the possibilities of relays for our hacking abilities, like discussed earlier?

I for one think it would be REALLY awesome.

Your mechandrite twisting wildly through the air in your bedroom, as you do your best to learn how to use it. You're actually getting quite skilled with it in a short time, when it suddenly occurs to you that you should call Abel. He doesn't know about that girl, and that girl knows things that she really shouldn't- you should warn him.

<Patch me into Abel's phone.> You tell Cyan, and he does so.

The voice that responds isn't Abel's. It's a voice that you heard just today, just before an EMP scrambled your shit.

"Hey, Dave." The firebomber said. "It's about time you called."

>END OF THREAD FOUR.
>NEXT TIME, ON NEARFUTURE CYBORG QUEST
>>Again, I'll stick around to answer questions about the setting.
>>And again, my twitter is @Futureexabyte for all of your exabyte needs. I tweet whenever I start a thread.

>>18913535
Make sure to call Abel too. He definitely needs to be warned. AND OUR CAT COULD BE IN DANGER.

>>18913648
Well, great.

When is the next session?

>>18913680
>I've been doing sessions daily, usually, at or around noon in the UTC-8 timezone.
>>18913636
> As Jun doesn't yet understand -how- you're hacking things, it's hard to figure out a way to relay it.

>>18913648
Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.

>>18913648
AHH
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS AND TRY TO BE NICE TO THEM
SHOULD HAVE KNOCKED HER THE FUCK OUT AS SOON AS YOU HAD THE CHANCE

(but seriously, OP, I'm glad that you didn't make her lovable person. This girl=innocent(ish) mentality should be punished once in a while. And I will admit that I also has it, it is hard to suppress.)

>>18913693
Great. Hope to catch you again.

How are you enjoying your quest so far?

>>18913751
>Actually, unless you rolled high, you weren't going to succeed. As it is, you probably injured her more than if consensus was on punching her in the face.

>>18913792
>Oh, I'm enjoying it tons. I was a bit anxious when I started up the first thread, but since then it's been a blast.

>>18913889
Thanks again for running this so often. It's nice to see a new quest that sticks around. I find that if a quest doesn't get past the first ten threads, it usually dies. And you're nearly half way there!

>>18914067
>Well, the more I run this quest, the more I seem to be picking up steam. So, barring a freak electrical storm or me being hit by a train, I'm sure this will continue for a long while.
>I just know that if I start to slow down, or do it weekly instead of daily, I'll eventually delay it more and more until it dies- but I don't want to do that, so I won't.

rolled 4 = 4

>>18914107
Good job.

>>18914107
Just don't push yourself too hard.

>>18914107
Hey man, this is some great stuff. Do you have an overall plot planned out right now?

>>18914415
I had the overall plot set up since I first started the quest, but as time goes on and as I get a handle on the characters, I find that Dave wasn't who I thought he was, and he won't end up the way I thought he would.
So basically, my answer is 'Yes, I had a plot in mind. and then you people fucked it up."
But I mean that in a good way.

>>18914457
As the saying goes, "no plan survives contact with the enemy".

>>18914457
Did you think we'd make Dave try to escape, or be more/less of an ass?

>>18914502
>Actually, I hadn't planned to bring her into the storyline yet. I decided to have dave meet her on the street on a *whim*, and then that spiraled out. . . Pretty much, my constructed plot was decimated soon after the start of the first thread.