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Recap:

Last night went great but you were interrogated by GEC Inspectors as soon as you arrived at work this morning.

Your jubilant boss, Mr. Devlinson, pulled you out of the fire but gave you what seemed like a difficult job; clearing the Sha Tin Water Treatment Plant of a salamander infestation. Armed with only the bare minimum of knowledge, you had to solo the job and succeeded spectacularly.

Having finished the task in record time, you have two tranquilized juvenile salamanders in the back of your van and an even happier boss than before.

The only downside is that you’ve triggered a water crisis for half the city.

“So basically what you’re telling me is, I done real good today?”

“Hell yes Vinn. All you’ve got to do is come back and debrief… maybe pick up some water on the way, it’s going to take them a little while to get Sha Tin back online.”

“I’ll see if I can find any in the area. I’ve got…” you think of Jeremy back home with nothing but tap water to sustain him, “…a powerful thirst.”

“I know you do, son. Hey, hold for just one second, I’ve got a call coming in.”

The holding music comes on, some old 2000’s era garbage.

>https://youtu.be/x46GaoCodAQ

You do a quick assessment of yourself and your inventory.

The events of the last hour or so have left you a little rattled but you feel composed overall. And for once you’ve actually managed to go without being grievously injured, even if your hand hurts a little from punching that last salamander in the jaw. That was pretty stupid, considering the poisonous spines on its neck but your vest seems to have been too hard for the spines to penetrate. Thankfully.

>Health [11/11]
>Nerves [11/13]
>SRT/STA [10/12]

You’ve still got 18 of your powerful taser grids left, and you spent a truly negligible amount of ammunition on that one giant salamander in the sublevel. You spent 8 of your trank darts but your resupply before you left on this assignment means you still have 15 left.

[1/3]

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haha time to sell water at 10x markup in a drought Vince himself caused

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>>42909620
>Inventory Overview:
>18 Taser Grids
>communication device
>Unidentified Jewelry
>Bottle of homemade hotsauce
>wrangling stick
>15 trank darts
>pepper spray
>vodka
>large bag of cocaine (you've started to put a dent in this, about 3/4ths remain of the original amount)
>condoms
>trank gun
>motion sensors
>2 pounds of plastic explosive with motion sensor compatible detonators
>poison sprayer
>screecher box
>lighter
>laser pointer
>thermal vision goggles
>"mindreader" glasses
>Gauss sniper rifle (16 bullets left)
>2 silenced pistols, chinese design (boxes of bullets left, unlikely to run out unless OK Corral occurs)
>Military issue body armor- Heavy but a good fit and not obvious beneath hazmat suit. May wear away at your STR/STA if you have to run with it on for an extended period of time.
>Military Helmet- Has central air and fits neatly with your thermal goggles. Doesn't fit under hazmat suit.
>3 frag grenades- USE WITH CAUTION
>1 smoke bomb- Military issue smoke screen generator
>1 bag of tranquilizing bait
>Hazmat suit

>>42909652
[3/3]

The hold music cuts out and is replaced by Devlinson’s gruff voice.

“Vince? You still there?”
“I’m here boss.”
“Listen, it’s still early in the day so how would you feel about taking a second assignment?”

>Sure
>Do I get anything for taking a second assignment in one day?
>What’s the assignment?
>Do I have to go right away?
>Nah

>>42909666
>Do I get anything for taking a second assignment in one day?
>>What’s the assignment?
So many extracurriculars to do though.

>>42909652
>>18 Taser Grids
Should have 19. Vince still had one before buying 20.

>>42909666
>>Do I have to go right away?
them 6s

>>42909666
>Do I get anything for taking a second assignment in one day?
>What’s the assignment?
Cash money mang, gotta get it

>>42909666
>Do I get anything for taking a second assignment in one day?
>What’s the assignment?
>Mind if I get these salamanders back to base? Depending on the mission you're giving, I might need to visit the armory. Poor Pete's been looking rather bummed today.

>>42909666
Is payment in souls?

>>42909696
>>42909755
>>42909784
>>42909793

>combined

"A second assignment? What would I get from that?"

"Well I'm only giving you the choice because I can. Normally it would be a mandated affair but in light of your actions this morning I can probably weasel a pass out of corporate for you. No pop-pop, ya know?"

"In terms of why you might actually do it... well, I know you love to cash in specks and I have a feeling about this place. And it'll put you on my good side. Maybe I'll even think about nominating you for a raise soon."

"Well, what's the job? You might as well tell me so I can decide if it's worth it or not. Oh, and would it be okay if I did some stuff first?"

"I told you, you can and should grab some water after what you did. I won't start the clock on this job until you tell me, it's not like it's an emergency or anything."

"Alright, I might have to come back to the armory anyway after what you tell me what's actually going on. So.. what is?"

"I just got a call about a disturbance in an abandoned apartment building not far from where you are now. I’ll send over the address to your van.”

“It could just be vagrants but the neighbors called us and not the Scyths so I want you to take care of whatever you find there for them, one way or another.”

>Did the neighbors say anything else?
>”One way or another”? Do you want me to kill people?
>Why didn’t they call the Scyths if it could be vagrants?
>What about any smaller infestations I find? You know, the non-people kind.
>I’ll take it
>I’m not doing it
>Write-in

>>42909836
>>Did the neighbors say anything else?

>Why didn’t they call the Scyths if it could be vagrants?

Haha time for Clickers

>>42909836

Also, try and pick just one dialogue option. I'll only be looking at the first suggestion of combined posts from now on so that I don't have to weld together different options.

You'll still be able to work your way around the dialogue tree but it'll be one branch at a time.

>>42909879
“What else did the neighbors say?”

“Well, the complaints were primarily noise based. Lots of clattering around in the middle of the night, some reports of “groaning/screaming”, that kind of thing. Probably mostly in their heads. One guy claims the area smells of rotting flesh on hot days though, so it’s possible something has been hunting in the area even though no one has seen anything suspicious.”

“Personally, I’d be on guard and bring the hazmat suit. You never know what could be hanging around in a place thats been empty so long.”

>…Sounds icky. Why aren’t we just burning the place down?
>Why didn’t they call the Scyths?
>So do I have authorization to kill anything I find inside? Or would you prefer I bring it back alive?
>What about any secondary infestations I find?
>Write In

>>42909954
>>…Sounds icky. Why aren’t we just burning the place down?

>>42909988
“This place sounds kind of grimy boss. Why bother cleaning it out?”
“Listen, about two years ago GEC pushed through a law that said we could invoice the owners of properties we’re contacted about clearing out if they don’t actively refuse our services. We can charge the absentee owner whatever we want if you clean this place out, so be as thorough as possible and don’t forget to itemize whatever you use for me. I’ll tack that shit on to the bill.”
“But I can’t burn it down?”
“…I doubt the neighbors would appreciate that. Besides, we can’t charge someone for burning down their buildings. Not that we wouldn’t if we could.”

>Why didn’t they call the Scyths?
>So do I have authorization to kill anything I find inside? Or would you prefer I bring it back alive?
>What about any secondary infestations I find?
>I’ll take it
>I’m not doing it
>Write In

http://simmonsqm.tumblr.com/post/129732832324/fungible-assets-during-ww3-while-america
>Tannerism

>>42910013
>>Why didn’t they call the Scyths?

>>42910029
“So why didn’t they call the Scyths? Sounds like vagrants and noise complaints would be their job. Hell, why aren’t we calling the Scyths?”

“Fucking hell, Vinn. You know how the Scyths work, they’ll show up with a small army and a pack of horny journos to document the whole thing. You know what that does to property values?”

“Fucks ‘em?”

“Damn right. So the neighbors want discretion. That’s why they called us.”

>So what does discretion entail in this case? You said you wanted the place cleaned out one way or another…
>I don’t know boss, horny journos don’t sound too bad…
>What about any secondary infestations I find?
>I’ll take it
>I’m not doing it
>Write-in

>>42909652

Are some things missing?

>>42653148

>5 gas grenades
>5 cages

We'll need to buy more tranquilizing bait bags later to replenish.

>>42910061
>>What about any secondary infestations I find?

>>42910061
>>What about any secondary infestations I find?
I mean there was a rat infestation at the water plant. Non mutated.

>>42910110

I meant to make a note, I'm pretty sure those (or at least the cages) went fishing with you and then got sent back separately. So a quick trip back to GEC will put them back into your inventory.

Sorry for the discrepancy.

>>42910136
>>42910176

>What about any secondary infestations

“So if I find stuff that’s not people, you want me to kill it or bring it back?”
“Bring it back if it’s a speck worth a damn, otherwise wipe it out. The more secondary infestations you can clear in the building, the more I can tack on to the invoice to the owner. And the happier I’ll be.”

"Actually, I was going to tell you in the debrief but I wiped a small rat colony in the water plant."

"You did? I'll have to make a note of that here..."

>I'll take the job, just let me take care of some stuff first.
>I'm not sure this is worth it.
>And what if “it” happens to be people?
>Write-in

>>42909568
>Character Sheet:
>>http://pastebin.com/2gx5bYkw
Still missing Pool Shark 1/3.
>>41940549


>>42910265
>>And what if “it” happens to be people?

>>42910265
>>And what if “it” happens to be people?
Would I still get money for a spec?

>>42910061
>>What about any secondary infestations I find?

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>>42910061
>>I don’t know boss, horny journos don’t sound too bad…
>What about any secondary infestations I find?
>I’ll take it
Tamron Hall, call me, please...

>>42910265
>>42657121
One of the five cages anyway. Still got four plus the grenades.

>>42910328
>implying the journos aren't male


And yeah, won't GEC abducting people eventually itself become fodder for the Scyths.

>>42910265
>I'll take the job, just let me take care of some stuff first.

>>42910304

>What if there are people?

>>42910315
>>42910328

Catch up, anons. You already asked about secondary infestations.

>>42910328

Horny journo dialogue opportunity is gone, don't fret about it though. It was only going to drop a hint on you.

>>42910381

Take the job.

Going to write for "what if they're people" real quick.

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>>42910440
>It was only going to drop a hint on you.

>>42910300
>>42910440

>What if "it" happens to be people?

“What if the speck involved is humanoid?"

“Vince, I’m not going to lecture you on ethics. You know the company stance. In this case, we don’t care how you evict whatever’s in there but try and keep property damage to a minimum. Nuking a Catholic school is one thing but there’ll be nosy neighbors with the Scyths on speed dial if things go wrong this time. The last thing you want to do is be a part of their latest show trial so don’t get too flashy.”

You almost tell him that you’re going to be part of their next show trial anyway but you keep your mouth shut.

"If you find a humanoid spec, try and take it alive... or kill it. I'd lean towards killing it myself, GEC hasn't put out any bounty other than the normal one for specs. Still, bringing one back would pretty much clear you in the eyes of the inspectors."

>Shit, the inspectors are still there? Are they gonna harass me if I come back to HQ?
>That sounds like a chance to clear my name. I'll take the job.
>This all sounds pretty uncertain. I'm going to take you up on having the rest of the day off. I'll return for debrief in a little bit. (give up on job)
>This all sounds pretty uncertain. I'm going to take you up on having the rest of the day off. I'll return for debrief in a little bit. (hang up, call Zheng or Crusty)
>Write-in

>>42910564
>>Shit, the inspectors are still there? Are they gonna harass me if I come back to HQ?

>>42910564
>>That sounds like a chance to clear my name. I'll take the job.
But let's lunch before we start working.

>>42910564
>>That sounds like a chance to clear my name. I'll take the job.

At least thermal vision will be useful again.

Gas grenade them and roll out.

>>42910564
>>That sounds like a chance to clear my name. I'll take the job.
Let's calm down the guys controlling the bomb in our neck.

>>42910564
>>Shit, the inspectors are still there? Are they gonna harass me if I come back to HQ?

>>42910564
>>That sounds like a chance to clear my name. I'll take the job.
Moral Points? We've done some rather questionable shit lately.

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>>42910612
>>42910594
>>42910739
>>42910725

"You're making it sound like this job is going to get me off the hook."

"If you play your cards right, it probably will. Just be careful out there Vinn. Take an old sages advice: your known unknowns are safer than your unknown unknowns."

"...I'll keep that in mind. Anyway, I'll give you a call when I'm ready to start."

"Sounds good."

The call terminates.

>head back to GEC and get your stuff in order for this
>Search the surrounding area for someplace to buy water
>Run home quick, check on Jeremy and see if Amanda is still around.
>Give Zheng or Crusty a call, tell them you’ve got something on your hands that might be worth looking into.
>Get lunch in a local restaurant
>Write-in

>>42910739
>Moral
Don't be stupid.

Getting in megacorp's good graces will involve the opposite of moral.

>>42910779
>>Search the surrounding area for someplace to buy water
Why doesn't Vince just fill one of the two corpse-containing reserves with water and take that?

He just needs to buy containers.

>>42910779
>>Write-in
See about turning 20% of the water back on.

...Zheng and Crusty's organization probably tapped into the same GPS network that GEC uses to track Vince's implant.

They probably subcontract it out to a company or something.

>>42910779
>>Search the surrounding area for someplace to buy water
>>Get lunch in a local restaurant
Do we have something worth looking into?

>>42910824
>>42910897
>water

You briefly contemplate heading back into the plant to try and get water from it but you really have no idea how you would figure out what water in the facility is safe to drink, let along access it.
Instead, you use your van’s console to search for nearby stores that might have water or water containers. It thinks for a millisecond and then displays a map. Seems like there’s three in nearby Sha Tin but you have a feeling they might be getting swamped pretty soon. You could always call in a favor with Zheng or Crusty…

>just try the nearest store, people probably haven’t started to panic yet right?
>call your underworld contacts
>Head into the plant anyway… you can probably just slam some buttons and pull some levers to make crisp pure water, right?
>Forget it, head back to GEC asap
>Forget it, acquire lunch

>>42910959
>>just try the nearest store, people probably haven’t started to panic yet right?

>>42910959
>>just try the nearest store, people probably haven’t started to panic yet right?

>>42910959
>>just try the nearest store, people probably haven’t started to panic yet right?
News can't travel that fast

>>42910944
The job you literally just accepted, dumbass.

But unlike most jobs there will be potentially intelligent witnesses that you'd be handing over to GEC, in the best case scenario. So you can't sell a spare specimen to Zheng for $1000 without one of those GEC specs knowing that one of their number is unaccounted for, and GEC possibly learning that.

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>42911028
>News can't travel that fast
>social media faster than actual earthquakes
>stock trades made in milliseconds
>trolls in /WQT/ as soon as it's posted

Still, a big chunk of the population is stuck at work. Lets find out.

>>42911028
>>42910999
>>42910987

>water

Rolling for bedlam levels.

>>42911119
>Minimal bedlam

You have the van drive you to the nearest store but you watch the traffic map along the way. Already, congestion is starting to heat up as people try and leave work to pick up emergency water supplies.

The store itself is only mildly busy however and their stock of bottled water is nearly full.

>How much water would you like to purchase?

(You have room for about 30 cases of bottled water and one case currently costs $5)

>>42911209
20 cases.

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>>42911209
30, then.

We can always sell the extra.

>>42911236
Second

>>42911252
I like you. +1

>>42911209
I do believe that
>>42911252
Has the right idea just not grand enough. 50 cases and stay in hazmat suit.

>>42911209
30.

>>42911293
Does the hazmat suit take up 20 cases' worth of space?

If we dumped the juveniles into the empty water tanks instead of hauling them around in the van all day it would make more room.

>>42911209
20

>>42911293

You don't have room for 50 but I'm going to mark you down as a vote for the full 30.

>>42911319

Dumping both juvenile specimens would free up about 15 cases worth of room.

>>42911299
>>42911252
>>42911260
>>42911293

>30

>>42911236
>>42911256
>>42911355

>20

Going to allow a brief window for you guys to decide if you want to try >>42911319 's plan.

>>42911378
Yes, 45 baby.

>>42911378
Okay sure, make more room and fill it up.

The two tanks keep them separated even if they do wake up anyway.

>>42911438
>>42911476

>make more room

I hear no voices in opposition so I'm gonna roll with this for now.

Writing real quick.

>>42911506

Seeing the low price of the water and the relatively full state of your van, you turn back around and head to the Plant.

Hauling both of your juvenile salamanders back out of the van, you painstakingly drop them down into the pits. It's an awkward process though and the drop is long; you're pretty sure one of the specs dies on impact with the fried corpse at the bottom of the empty reserve pool.

Hopefully you can make that profit back up on the water.

>STR/STA [9/12]- Getting a little weary

You drive back to the market and find that the parking lot is starting to fill up so you better hurry... but you opt not to run in. Instead you fish out your military vest and helmet and put it back on over your uniform. Then you head inside.

Seeing a foreigner in military garb, many of the shoppers give you a wide berth and it's much easier to flag down one of the store clerks.

"Son, I'm with Scyth Emergency Relief. We're here to commandeer 45 cases of water from you and we expect you to give them up freely."

The nervous looking employee informs that he needs to put you in touch with his manager first.

"Make it snappy" you tell him and watch as he scurries toward some secluded back office.

A minute later the employee returns with a middle-aged woman in tow.

"Sir, you can't just expect us to give you our product without compensation..."

>Roll 3d6+4 (con man bonus applies and your tattered ear looks normal on a military man)

Rolled 1, 1, 4 + 4 = 10 (3d6 + 4)

>>42911790
Hot damn.

>captcha asks for signs
>literally no signs

Rolled 2, 1, 6 + 4 = 13 (3d6 + 4)

>>42911790
Dice gods, no.

Rolled 6, 2, 4 + 4 = 16 (3d6 + 4)

>>42911790
I feel this will work

>>42911863
Nice save

>>42911863
>>42911860
>>42911827

>Narrow success

"Ma'am, do I look like I'm here on a shopping trip?"

You lean in to give her the best look at your "serious face" and tuck your helmet under your arm to reveal your wounded ear.

"There's a crisis going on out there right now and I have the right as a Scythian Corporation representative to take your emergency supplies by force if necessary. Do you understand?"

She shrinks from you.

"Yes, I understand. I'll... I'll have the workers pack up the water onto a dolly for you and they'll bring it out. How much do you need?"

"I already told the boy, 45 cases. No more, no less. I'll be waiting outside. Be prompt."

"V-v-very well. They'll be there as soon as possible."

You exit the store, chuckling to yourself as you walk back to your van and open the trunk. It's been a while since you got to stretch the old con skills in an impostor act, you think as you reload the tranquilizer gun.

Can't believe you used 8 shots already today...

You set the tranquilizer gun back down just inside the trunk and close it. Then you head back to the store entrance, where three employees are just wheeling out all your water on three dollys.

"Alright, come with me!"

They follow without question and you keep about 20 feet ahead of them, signaling them through the lot traffic. Poor bastards can barely see over the stacked water cases.

As they get close you open up your trunk for them to load the water in. They finish pushing everything up and finally get a look at the giant dead bug logo on the side of your van.

"Hey, isn't that-"

You hit the most perceptive of the store employees directly in the chest with a tranquilizer dart. His closest companion, a little less quick-witted, goes down before he can even react.

The last one tries to run for it and you take aim...

>roll 3d6+3 to knock this last sucker out. Boost with Nerves up to two times.

Rolled 2, 1, 1 + 3 = 7 (3d6 + 3)

>>42912205
Heh.

Rolled 3, 3, 4 + 3 = 13 (3d6 + 3)

>>42912205

Rolled 2, 4, 3 + 3 = 12 (3d6 + 3)

>>42912205
Get rekt minimum wage worker

Rolled 4, 3, 3 + 3 = 13 (3d6 + 3)

>>42912205
Get rekt minimum wage worker

>>42912205
Down to 12 then.

>>42912296
>>42912295
>>42912294
>Good enuff

You shoot a little low but the dart catches him in the back of his calf and he falls over before growing still.

Hands must be shaky after this morning's action.

You retrieve each of the employees and stuff them into some nearby shopping carts before anyone can see what you've done.

Loading up the van by yourself is a bitch but you have to hurry before anyone realizes these guys are missing. You take off the vest and helmet to make the job easier but you still have to push yourself to finish.

>STR/STA [8/12]- You should definitely eat something bro.

With the van packed, you pull out of there and take off. At the rate things are going, you estimate you have about an hour before the "market" heats up. Not quite enough time to make it home but...

>get lunch
>call up Zheng or Crusty, ask them if they'll take all of these off your hands at once
>scope out the best places to sell this shit off
>write-in

>>42912514
>>scope out the best places to sell this shit off

>>42912514
>get lunch

>>42912514
>>get lunch

>>42912205
So we just repeatedly call some woman boy to throw her off?

>>42912601
...No. That literally did not happen. The Atlantic Ocean didn't move, either.

Haha, let's see what a restaurant can actually make with the water vanishing before they have to close once they're out of clean dishes.

>>42912633
I can see now thank you

>>42912574
>>42912571
>lunch

>>42912567
>best place to sell

You figure it would be best to get something into your stomach before you take advantage of your ill-gotten goods.

You manage to track down an "American-style" restaurant and you review the menu to make your selections.

>eat hearty (larger strength restoration bonus)
>eat healthy (at least, as healthy as possible in an "American-style" restaurant (preserves healthy eating progress))

>>42912702
>>eat healthy (at least, as healthy as possible in an "American-style" restaurant (preserves healthy eating progress))

>>42912702
>>eat healthy (at least, as healthy as possible in an "American-style" restaurant (preserves healthy eating progress))
We worked hard for that long term bonus.

>>42912702
>>eat healthy (at least, as healthy as possible in an "American-style" restaurant (preserves healthy eating progress))

>>42912702
>>eat healthy (at least, as healthy as possible in an "American-style" restaurant (preserves healthy eating progress))

>>42912719
>>42912727
>Healthy eats

You order a BLT with turkey and, though it breaks your heart a little, give the waitress orders to go easy on the bacon and skip the fries.

She nods and informs you that the restaurant is out of water (<No way, really?>) and that only soda is available. You have a second of panic before you realize you can just get diet.

Crisis averted.

>Strength [10/12]
>Nerves (calmed by comfort food) [12/13]
>Awareness +1

Lunch finished, you get back in the van and cruise to a different store where a mob seems to be forming outside. You park yourself on the fringe perimeter of the mob and open the trunk with your pistol openly tucked into your waistband.

<Come get your water here, only __ per case!>

The mob is willing to buy your water at extravagant prices but pricing too high will make you less likely to sell everything.

>$20!
>$30!
>$50!
>$80!

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>>42912942

Forgot highly important pic

>>42912942
>>$50!

>>42912942
>>$20!

>>42912942
>.
>>
50

>>42912942
>>$80!
I'm fine with not selling everything. We need some for ourselves after all.

>>42912942
>>$30!

>>42912942
>$50!

Rolled 15 (1d45)

>>42913043
>>42913007
>>42912997

The little exclamation points make me feel like you're very excited about this vote.

The window remains open, this post serves no purpose. Nope, none at all.

>>42912942
>>$80!
A 1500% markup huh.

We roll for sales numbers?

>>42913101
>>42912997
>>42913043

>$50

>>42913007
>$20

>>42913080
>>42913123

>$80

Looks like $50 takes it. Writing.

>>42913117
The drought is to last, what, two days? One day?

How many cases does it take a day to sustain Vince and Jeremy?

>>42913166

The mob turns and crowds around your van but becomes unexpectedly orderly once it gets close. Maybe it's the visible pistol or maybe they're just used to buying water from the back of vans during water shortages. Maybe it's both.

Over the course of thirty minutes, you offload about 40 of your cases of water before you run out of people willing to pay your price.

Counting your money, you've made two grand. Hot damn, you've made about 4k within two days.

>5 cases remain

Your options are now:

>head back to GEC, supply yourself
>check in at home, drop off your extra water with Jeremy
>start your second assignment of the day
>Let Crusty and Zheng know about your second assignment
>write-in

>>42913341
>>check in at home, drop off your extra water with Jeremy
>>start your second assignment of the day

>>42913247

It will probably take the rest of today and then a little of tomorrow to get everything cleaned out and running again.

The two of you together consume 1 case per day.

>>42913341
>>start your second assignment of the day

>>42913341
>check in at home, drop off your extra water with Jeremy

>>42913341
>>check in at home, drop off your extra water with Jeremy

>>42913418
>>42913378
>>42913460

>check on sonfu

>>42913392
>start already

Calling it for sonfu, then you guys can get start the assignment after if you want.

Writing.

>>42913497
Vince still never did price-comparison for Silver Pete's equipment on the Internet.

Or bought himself a cell phone or holo phone or whatever the kids have in the futuer. That'd be a good idea now.

Rolled 136 (1d180)

>>42913497

You decide to go see Jeremy and get him some water before potentially getting yourself into an hours long ordeal.

You have your van route around the major traffic stop ups, not willing to deal personally with the rapidly congealing traffic that's snarling in and around Kowloon.

You arrive after an hour and a half of driving and jostle your way into the apartment elevator with a bunch of other middle-aged men holding cases of water.

Opening your apartment door, you find Jeremy sprawled out on your couch with your boxfan blowing on him. He puts down the Nintendo Holo to acknowledge your presence.

"Vince! You bought water!"

"Yup."

You set down the case on your table and pop it open, fishing out a pair of bottles. Jeremy catches his and quickly begins drinking.

"What happened with Amanda?"

"Oh, she woke up only an hour or two ago. She was very unhappy about no water and even unhappier when she looked in your fridge. Said she was going to go out and get the two of us some real food and left about... 30 minutes before you got here?"

"She went to get you food? Did she say where?"

"Nope."

>I guess I can wait for her here. She can't be gone that long...
>Tell her I stopped by and to leave her information somewhere so we can get back and touch. And uh... give her this for the cab home and your lunch ($50)
>Jeremy, I've gotta get us something to stay in touch with. Write Amanda a note real quick and we'll go buy some stuff.

>>42913815
>>Tell her I stopped by and to leave her information somewhere so we can get back and touch. And uh... give her this for the cab home and your lunch ($50)

>>42913815
>>Tell her I stopped by and to leave her information somewhere so we can get back and touch. And uh... give her this for the cab home and your lunch ($50)

>>42913815
>>Tell her I stopped by and to leave her information somewhere so we can get back and touch. And uh... give her this for the cab home and your lunch ($50)

>>42913815
>Tell her I stopped by and to leave her information somewhere so we can get back and touch. And uh... give her this for the cab home and your lunch ($50)

>>42913815
>>Tell her I stopped by and to leave her information somewhere so we can get back and touch. And uh... give her this for the cab home and your lunch ($50)

>>42913855
>>42913866
>>42913867

"Well that was... really nice of her actually."

You pull out your stack of fifties and peel off the top one.

"Jeremy, I want you to give this to her for your lunch and her cab home. And tell her to leave her information so we can get back and touch."

"Don't you mean 'back in touch'?"

"Yeah, obviously. But you're going to do all that for me, right?"

"I'm 14, of course I can. What time are you going to be back tonight?"

"I... don't know. I'll try to be early but there's a chance I could be working late."

"Oh, okay. Well there's racing on tonight and..."

The kid blabs on and on, seemingly unhindered by his mask.

"Alright. Well, I've got to go now, Jerry. Stay frosty and keep that door locked for anyone who isn't Amanda!"

>Head back to GEC HQ
>Start your second assignment and travel to it directly
>Check into an electronics store
>Write-in

>>42914046
>>Start your second assignment and travel to it directly

>>42914046
>>Start your second assignment and travel to it directly

>>42914046
>Start your second assignment and travel to it directly

>>42914046
>>Start your second assignment and travel to it directly

>>42914046
>>Check into an electronics store

Fuck, lost my update. Hold on for a rewrite.

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>>42914067
>>42914075
>>42914084
>>42914109
>Get moving

>>42914145
>electronics store

You plug the coordinates into your van and arrive at about half past 1.

The building is there all right, but it's in even worse shape than you imagined. The facade is crumbling and stained with rust. Many of the windows all the way up to the 7th floor are broken.

And you can definitely smell something foul.

>Pick your load out time!

>Heavily Armed:
>Sniper Rifle (Silenced, 16 shots remaining)
>Dual Chinese Specs (Silenced, cartons of ammo)
>Bag of Taser Grids (20)
>Nano-mesh net (incredibly strong and capable of cutting flesh)

>The Mixer:
>Tranquilizer gun (12 shots)
>Dual Chinese Specs (Silenced, cartons of ammo)
>Bag of Taser Grids (18)
>1 Frag Grenade, 1 smoke grenade
>Bag of Bait

>Exterminator Classic:
>Wrangling Stick
>Tranquilizer Gun (12 shots)
>Plastic Explosive and motion sensors
>Mesh Net
>Bag of Bait

>The "Clear The Room"
>Wrangling Stick
>Chinese Silenced Pistols
>Poison Sprayer
>Lighter
>3 frag grenades, 1 smoke

>The "Make A Hole"
>gauss sniper rifle (16 shots)
>tranquilizer gun
>2lb plastic explosive+detonators
>Thermal Goggles
>3 Frag grenades, 1 Smoke


>Write-in loadout: Take two medium size items and two “small” items. Small items can be stacked to differing degrees- the two pistols count as small but are one medium item when stacked. Try to use common sense based on what you could fit into a medium size duffel bag.

Other options:

These will tax STR/STA if you exert yourself for too long while wearing them:
>Wear HazMat
>Wear Military Vest
>Wear Helmet (Not compatible with HazMat)
>Wear Thermal Goggles (Not compatible with HazMat)

>>42914455
>>Exterminator Classic:
Except!

Replace mesh net with the knockout gas grenades.


Wear Hazmat.

We'll have to sweep the building with thermal first though.

>>42914455
>>Exterminator Classic:
>>Wrangling Stick
>>Tranquilizer Gun (12 shots)
>>Mesh Net
>>Bag of Bait
>knockout grenades
We don't want explosives here.
>Wear HazMat
>Wear Military Vest
I like the other anon's idea of sweeping with thermal first.

>>42914455
>>Exterminator Classic:
>>Wrangling Stick
>>Tranquilizer Gun (12 shots)
>>Plastic Explosive and motion sensors
>>Mesh Net
>>Bag of Bait
With hazmat

>>42914455
>>42914455
Exterminator classic and the hazmat as suggested by our fearless leader

>>42914499
>>42914524
>>42914527
>>42914569

Going to officially retcon the tranq grenades into your inventory based on these comments (you now have 5). However, your cages remain back at GEC HQ.

Consensus seems to be sweep building and then don hazmat. I'm going to leave the voting window open for a few more suggestions while I get something to eat.

>>42914594
It was a retcon that they ever left inventory.

And only one cage was ever brought onto the boat, the other four stayed put.

>>42914641

I'll check it later and allow the 4 cages as well then. Just remember that gaslighting a braindead QM is a mortal sin.

>>42914594

Grabbing your thermal goggles, you do a quick sweep of the building. It seems to be much more densely inhabited than your initial impressions would suggest, though you can't see all the way up into the top three floors and the fourth is a little vague.

>Floor 1 - Some humanoid heat sigs, variously laying over, crouched, or slumped against the wall. Three small heat signatures wandering through what you assume is a hallway. Either cats or muta-rats. Several heat clusters in the floor and walls might be rat or insect colonies.

>Floor 2 - A few more small animal signatures, two humanoid heat sigs.

>Floor 3 - Definitely inhabited by a large colony of insects or rats.

>Floor 4 - What looks like multiple humanoids, you're not sure how many. They keep moving in and out of range.

Everything above is an enigma to you.

You remove the termal goggles and don your hazmat suit, equipping yourself with your wrangling stick and tranquilizer gun as your primary armament and taking with you your nanomesh net, 5 knockout gas grenades, and a bag of bait.

The front door resists a little so you kick it open. The impact startles a cat that had been hunting a small lizard in the vestibule and both of them bolt, the lizard travelling directly up the wall and into a hole in the ceiling.

Moving forward, you enter into a hallway that looks like rings around the building, with a bisecting hallway in the middle.

Ahead of you in the bisecting hallway are probably some non-functional elevator shafts and a stairwell. Traveling to your left and right will send you around the outer ring of apartments.

The cat ran left.

You can hear groaning on your right.

>Go forward
>Go left
>Go right

>>42915016
>>Go right
Prepare our stick.

>>42915016
>>Go right
Time for zombies.

>>42915062
>>42915074

>Go right

You ready your wrangling stick and go right, following the noise. You're able to narrow down the source of the noise to a single apartment with a locked but battered looking door.

>knock on the door
>break it down

>>42915103
>>break it down

>>42915103
>>break it down

>>42915103
>>break it down

Oh man what horribleness will the cats be infected with this time.

>>42915103
Break down

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>>42915122
>Break it down

You waste no time on good manners and kick down the door. The hinges rip free from the frame so easily you're amazed it hadn't fallen on its own long before you arrived.

Brandishing your wrangling stick you confront... a homeless man. He's laying in the corner next to an old wire bed frame, a bottle of some swill or another held loosely in his gnarled hands. The only acknowledgement he gives of your existence is a half-hearted grunt.

He is probably the ugliest homeless man you have ever seen.

>tell him he's being evicted and needs to leave
>grab him around the foot with the loop of your wrangling stick, drag him out of the building
>hit him with a tranquilizer dart
>let him lay there
>write-in

>>42915209
>>tell him he's being evicted and needs to leave
>keep our stick pointed at him.

>>42915209
>>grab him around the foot with the loop of your wrangling stick, drag him out of the building
Stone cold

>>42915209
>>tell him he's being evicted and needs to leave
reeee

>>42915209
>>grab him around the foot with the loop of your wrangling stick, drag him out of the building
FOUL ABOMINATION

>>42915209
>>grab him around the foot with the loop of your wrangling stick, drag him out of the building
He is not one to take words, I sense.

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>>42915237
>>42915240
>>42915247
>>42915287
>>42915344

"Hey buddy, you need to get the fuck out of there. This is the end of your stay."

He grunts again but doesn't move. You try again in Chinese.

<Wonderful sir, you need to remove yourself or be removed.>

He makes eye contact with you, finally and actually says something. Or spits it.

<I refuse.>

<Not here with welfare, old man. It's time to go.>

He doesn't move.

"Alright, you made your choice..."

You step forward, loop your wrangling stick around his foot and begin to drag him out of the room and through the hallway as he wails.

<Help! Help, I'm being oppressed!>

A few other slovenly heads peak out from down the hall to watch.

>tell them they're all being evicted and they can leave on their own or like this
>tell them to stick their eyes back in their heads and go away, this is none of their business (at least not yet)
>Just stare at them as you drag the homeless man out
>Write-in

>>42915444
>>tell them to stick their eyes back in their heads and go away, this is none of their business (at least not yet)

>>42915444
>>tell them to stick their eyes back in their heads and go away, this is none of their business (at least not yet)

>>42915444
>>Just stare at them as you drag the homeless man out
Kill Bill stare music theme.

On the other hand. Witnesses to interview about the infections upstairs, and cannon fodder.

On the other other hand. Last time we got local help he backstabbed Vince and stole that hard drive.

If they're gonna squat here they need to evacuate for a few days at least until the heat dies down and the place is cleared.

>>42915478
>>42915454
>>42915486

You bark in your most threatening Chinese:

<Hey, this proceeding is no duty of yours! Retract your balls into your heads!>

The observers blink with confusion and then vanish into their rooms. You drag the homeless man out through the vestibule and past the sidewalk, depositing him on the curb.

He remains there, cursing vainly at you but not moving.

You look at him pitifully, ignoring the mostly unintelligible curses. Is this man the beginning of a pile?

Surely there is an easier way to chase out vagrants...

>See if you can convince him to help you somehow
>Get something (write-in suggestion) from your van, test it on him
>Go back in, start slogging through the rest of the apartments.
>write-in

>>42915568
Well we don't have much to test on him besides pepper spray, or daring him to eat bait.

Maybe we can just bribe the homeless to tell us what's upstairs and to clear out of this place for a few days. And what is the source of the rotting meat smell and screaming?

>>42915568
>>See if you can convince him to help you somehow
You can be evicted+20bux richer or you can be evicted + pepper-sprayed in the eyes, hobgoblin.

>>42915647
Cocaine and vodka, but we don't want to have Vince get a glimpse of the white devil right now.

>>42915568
>>See if you can convince him to help you somehow
How would you like to be the oppressor for the day.

>>42915647
>>42915691
>>42915747
>>42915836

You consider your options. The old drunk and his ilk can probably be bribed and you have some alcohol, if only a single bottle. You could buy more but that would be expensive and take time... It might make more sense to just hand out cash.

You could try and pepper spray the homeless remaining in the building but your container of pepper spray is very small and you'd probably only be able to spray three homeless people, tops.

If you went and bought some food from a store, you could lace it with your tranquilizing bait. But then you'd have to drag homeless people out of the building and that would be tiring.

You look back at the curmudgeon on the ground flailing up at you with his bony pencil arms. You could convince him to help you but... nah.

You struggle to make up your mind.

>Use your pepper spray to evict the remaining homeless
>Bribe them to leave with alcohol
>Bribe them to leave with cash (write-in amount)
>Buy some food and lace it
>Brainstorm some more solutions (intelligence check)
>Write-in

Rolled 6, 4, 6 = 16 (3d6)

>>42915918
>>Brainstorm some more solutions (intelligence check)
Vince never uses his INT.

You could scare them, bluffing that it's about to get dangerous in here?

Or interrogate about what's on the fourth floor and up.

>>42915918

You guys must really be in character to not come up with a solution to this.

Rolled 2, 2, 2 = 6 (3d6)

>>42915918
>>Bribe them to leave with cash (write-in amount)
I'll pay one person 50 bucks to scout out all the upper floors and report back.

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>>42915955
>Vince never uses his INT.

It shows too.

I think in the future I might use INT this way more often, to illuminate options that might otherwise occur as write-ins and to drop hints in general.

Rolled 5, 3, 5 = 13 (3d6)

>>42915918
>>Brainstorm some more solutions (intelligence check)
Pay them 5 bucks for every small specimen they capture alive?

>>42915918
Or we could disregard the first floor for now and gas the third floor instead. Get a sackful of specimens.

>>42915955
>>42916042
>brainstorm

>>42916021
>Bribe them to leave
>give one $50 to scout the upper floors

Give me one more roll and vote for brainstorming and I'll call it. Not gonna use >>42916021 for that purpose.

Rolled 4, 1, 2 = 7 (3d6)

>>42916081
Oh.

>>42916081
Con them somehow?

>>42916081
Could just walk them out at gunpoint. It depends how much they give no fucks like this guy.

>>42916110
>16, 7, 13
>You have some ideas

You rub your chin, deep in thought. The goddamn homeless guy is distracting and you lose your temper just a little.

Reaching into the trunk you pull out one of your Chinese Specials and point it at him.

"Get the FUCK out of here or-"

You don't even have to finish your threat for him to take off running down the block.

No bullets spent and he removed himself from the premises for you. You rub the gun barrel affectionately. What an elegant solution.

Now, taking a more thorough look through your inventory, you suppose there are a few other things you could use.

The screecher, if turned up and tuned a bit, might be more than enough to drive out some of these permanently hung over bastards.

Setting off your smoke grenade and running around the first floor with it might also be enough to convince them there's a fire on and get them all out at once.

If you're really set on bribing one, you should probably head back in and try to locate the brightest looking one before offering him either cash or some of your vodka (though you'll be sad to part with it).

>start evicting individuals at gunpoint
>simulate a fire
>go in and find someone to bribe before evicting the rest
>Use your pepper spray to evict the remaining homeless
>Bribe them to leave with alcohol (go to liquor store)
>Bribe them to leave with cash (write-in amount)
>Buy some food and lace it
>Write-in

>>42916198
>>start evicting individuals at gunpoint

>>42916198
>>go in and find someone to bribe before evicting the rest

>start evicting individuals at gunpoint

>>42916198
>>start evicting individuals at gunpoint

>>42916198
>>go in and find someone to bribe before evicting the rest

>>42916198
>>start evicting individuals at gunpoint

>>42916216
>>42916217

You leave behind your bag of bait for the moment, set your pistol back into your waistband and the bottle of vodka into your equipment bag.

The room where you saw the chickenheads watching you earlier is empty but you locate a room a little further down the hallway from where they were with the door ajar.

You boot it open and sweep the room with your gun while shouting "FREEZE" just like in the cop shows you grew up with.

The four homeless man and single homeless woman (you think, it's hard to determine gender in this case) all cooperate, pressing themselves up against the walls with terror.

You try and see if any of them still have the light of intelligence in their eyes but... none of them do.

"Alright, everybody out."

You gesture to an open window and the vagrants simply dive out of it, as though you had made an exceedingly reasonable suggestion.

These poor people really are like animals.

You continue down the hall to the next obviously inhabited room and a similar scenario plays out. And again, and again. Pretty soon you're coming up on where you started.

A cat slips out of an apartment door in front of you and darts past.

You kick open the door and are caught by surprise as something hurtles towards your hazmat clad skull...

>roll 3d6+3 awareness! Nerves to boost!

Rolled 3, 3, 3 + 3 = 12 (3d6 + 3)

>>42916329

Rolled 2, 4, 5 + 3 = 14 (3d6 + 3)

>>42916329

Rolled 5, 1, 2 + 3 = 11 (3d6 + 3)

>>42916329

Rolled 4, 1, 5 + 3 = 13 (3d6 + 3)

>>42916329
Oh a feisty one. Nobody damages GEC property except me!

>>42916339
Boost once.

>>42916354
Yeah.

That was a weak showing for a +3.

>>42916330
>>42916339
>>42916340
>>42916354
>>42916380

>Boosted Success

>Nerves [9/13]- Not the easiest day but you'll deal

You dodge the makeshift weapon, sidestepping it. The wielder stumbles forward, having over invested his weight into the blow. It's a simple matter to bring down the pistol on his back in a savage blow, which sends him straight to the floor and cracks... bone?

You step on the woman's back and tuck the pistol back into your waistband, lassoing the hand she's using to wield the steel pipe with your wrangling stick.

"The hell is this? Do you normally wear your skeleton on the outside?"

She hisses something indescribable at you in Chinese and tries to shake herself free, rattling the human bones that she's hung from ragged threads of her clothes.

>Try and reason with her, see if she can be bribed
>She's obviously rabid, put a bullet in her head
>Trank her, she might be a specimen
>Write-in

>>42916426
>>Trank her, she might be a specimen

>>42916426
>which sends him straight to the floor

Should be "her straight to the floor", sorry.

>>42916426
>>Trank her, she might be a specimen
Onward, we got two humans on second floor.

>>42916426
>>Trank her, she might be a specimen

>>42916443
>>42916469
>>42916511

Probably infected with something, you think, compressing the telescopic joints of your wrangling stick and returning it to your bag in favor of the trank gun.

You fire it into her back, just once.

>Darts - 11 remaining

Now what?

>investigate her "room"
>head towards the middle hallway, where you can access the other floors
>take a swig of vodka

>>42916329
Since we are evicting people at gunpoint we definitely should purchase a black cowboy hat at some point

>>42916559
>>investigate her "room"

>>42916559
What ever we do trank her again

>>42916559
>>investigate her "room"

>>42916601
Darts are precious and finite.

>>42916559
>>investigate her "room"

>>42916559
Take a swig then proceed with investigashuns

>>42916590
>investigate her room

You step off the woman's now still form and note that she's remarkably young, probably in her mid-teens. Still, it's hard to tell under the muscles and filth.

She should be out for a good long time.

You opt to investigate the room she attacked you from and are unsurprised to find it littered with bones of every type. Just a cursory glimpse reveals several species; rat, snake, bird and... giant bat? All piled up together by type.

There's a bloodstained futon in one corner and carboard box filled with sand in another. The latter reeks of cat feces.

Against the wall is a scratched up writing desk with a drawer yanked open and furiously scrawled inside. There's also some kind of emblem made from glued together feathers.

There's an attached bathroom with a non-functioning toilet, which doesn't seem to have been used. A terrifying face has been drawn in the mirror with blood and there are carefully hung intestines dangling from the shower rod. It seems like she was drying them.

All in all, you're not sure what to make of it as you step back out of the abandoned apartment and over her still body once more.

>head directly to the center hallway, check out dem stairs
>take the feather emblem from the apartment
>drag her to the van, you'd rather not have something start eating her as she lays there...
>write-in

>>42916731
>>head directly to the center hallway, check out dem stairs

>>42916731
>>drag her to the van, you'd rather not have something start eating her as she lays there...

>>42916731
>>take the feather emblem from the apartment
>>drag her to the van, you'd rather not have something start eating her as she lays there...

>>42916731
>head directly to the center hallway, check out dem stairs
>>take the feather emblem from the apartment

>>42916760
>check dem stairs

>>42916763
>>42916770
>drag her to the van

You decide to take the feather emblem, figuring it might be evidence of... something.

You drag her form along the floor and are generally shocked by how incredibly heavy she is for her size.

You take it slow, so as not to strain yourself, but getting her into the van is still a challenge.

Once she's loaded up, you head straight for the middle hallway, where the stairs and elevators are.

As expected, the elevators are non-functional but you note that there are stairs that lead both up *and* down.

Really, you should have considered that there might be a basement.

>go up
>go down

>>42916840
>>go up

>>42916840
>>go up

>>42916840
>>go down

>>42916840
>>go up

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>>42916860
>>42916877
>>42916895
>>42916897

>go up

You make your way up to the second floor, where another fucking cat is waiting for you.

This one has no goddamn hair. It darts off while you fumble for your trank gun.

If you remember correctly from your thermal scan of this floor, there were two humanoids at one of the far corners of the building and a number of small animal signatures throughout the rest of the floor.

>try and find the room where those two "humanoids" are staying
>just go from room to room, exterminate whatever shows up

>>42916994
>>just go from room to room, exterminate whatever shows up
KILL ALL CATS

>>42916994
>>try and find the room where those two "humanoids" are staying
noise complaint first.

Let's not use our limited tranq darts until we know what's on every floor.

>>42917005
We get 25 dollars for every cat we don't kill. Bait the cats.

>>42917035

Bait is back in the van. You swapped it so you could carry your pistol and vodka bottle.

You have tranquilizing gas grenades though.

>>42916994
>>try and find the room where those two "humanoids" are staying

>>42917052
Which we need for the third floor for that big colony.

>>42917084

Just remember that you have 5 and that they release a large quantity of gas.

>>42917014
>>42917064

You creep down the central hallway and make a right. Their apartment should be around here somewhere.

"Raaa..REEEEOW"

The sound of a yowling cat nearly startles you off your feet.

Nerves [8/13] - Still able to compose yourself

Jesus. They must be having sex... or murdering each other. How anyone could keep such an animal as a pet is beyond you.

Other rooms make noise as you pass too. One skitters, another chirps. You'll have to check them out on the way back.

You finally locate the room the humanoids must be in because, well, there's light coming from beneath the door. As you creep closer, you hear a kettle whistling.

Are people really living here?

>knock on the door
>bust it down, wield your wrangling stick
>bust it down, wield your trank gun
>bust it down, draw your gun
>bust it down, throw a gas grenade in
>simulate a fire with your smoke grenade

>>42917191
>>bust it down, wield your trank gun

>>42917191
>bust it down, draw your gun
Yo you know what the hell lives on the upper floors

>>42917191
>>bust it down, draw your gun

>>42917191
>>bust it down, draw your gun
Damn, i missed most of the thread. Good run so far simmons

>>42917211
>bust it down, draw your trank gun

>>42917221
>>42917237
>>42917256
>bust it down, draw your gun

You draw your gun and, counting to three under your breath, kick down the door.

You enter into a small intersection between the entrance, the apartment's bathroom, and what looks to be a living room with a large and ornate carpet hanging from the wall.

The bathroom, you note, is explicitly clean and there's a large plastic bucket with holes in it hanging above the shower.

There are wires snaking into the "living room" through the window, tucked neatly under a second carpet on the floor.

You approach cautiously and the kettle, obviously electric, clicks.

You barely have time to react as its contents are splashed towards your face.

>Roll 3d6+3 to dodge the incoming red hot contents of a tea kettle!

Rolled 5, 4, 1 = 10 (3d6)

>>42917380
Isn't our face covered by the suit? I doubt it would do much.

Rolled 6, 4, 6 + 3 = 19 (3d6 + 3)

>>42917380
I got worried when I saw the wires.

Rolled 2, 3, 3 + 3 = 11 (3d6 + 3)

>>42917380

Rolled 4, 3, 6 + 3 = 16 (3d6 + 3)

>>42917380

>>42917416
>>42917424
>>42917450
>Narrow failure

The hot water hits you directly in the visor of your hazmat suit, obscuring your vision as a lightning quick figure moves forward to bury its fist in your gut while knocking your pistol away.

>Health: [9/11]

"yбийцa!" he shouts, the voice revealing him as a man. He reaches out and grabs you behind the neck and throws you on your stomach.

"Pyccкий или American hillbilly scum?!"

"American, you douche!"

"чтo пpoиcхoдит?" A woman's voice.

"Bepнитecь в cтpyчкaх , Илья. У мeня ecть этo," he answers, "Don't I, American?"

"Why did you come here? Who sent you, truly?"

>Uh, Global Exterminators Corporation sent me. I'm here to clear the building... you have to leave.
>I was sent by the Russians!
>I was sent by the Chinese!
>I was sent by the Americans!
>write-in

>>42917659
>>Uh, Global Exterminators Corporation sent me. I'm here to clear the building... you have to leave.
>19
>narrow failure
Wow

>>42917659
>>Uh, Global Exterminators Corporation sent me. I'm here to clear the building... you have to leave

>>42917659
Ahahaa.

>Uh, Global Exterminators Corporation sent me. I'm here to clear the building... you have to leave.

>>42917699
Learn the dice system.

>>42917699
we have to pass 2/3 rolls i believe

Was the DC 14?

>>42917699

The 19 was fine, the 11 and 10 were too low. It's not a best of three system, it's a two out of three passing system.

>>42917706
>>42917700
>>42917699

>GEC sent me

"I was sent by... Global...Exterminators...Corporation. We... kill...domestic...pests..."

"You don't have to talk so slow! My English is excellent!"

"...like ants... roaches... rodents... and more." you finish.

"Чepтoв пpидypoк... okay, you are an exterminator. Why do you come to this building? Is it being sold?"

>...We...get paid... if there's... a complaint... from the neighbors.
>...We...get paid... if there's... a complaint... from the neighbors. (try and reach slowly for a tranquilizing grenade from your bag)
>Yes, the building is being sold.
>We got a call about the feral cats in the building.
>The company heard there was a Sprouter colony here. They sent me.
>Write-in

>>42917803
>the 11 and 10
UHHHHH

>>42917416 forgot his modifier. that "10" was a 13.

>>42917803
>>42917803
>>The company heard there was a Sprouter colony here. They sent me.

>>42917803
>>...We...get paid... if there's... a complaint... from the neighbors.

>>42917754
Good guess but no. 14 would be a very difficult DC and all you had to do was duck quickly. Very quickly but the average person would have had a small chance.

>>42917826

Oh fuck. I shitted it all the fuck up.

We're all going to have to live with the consequences I guess.

>>42917803
>>...We...get paid... if there's... a complaint... from the neighbors.

>>42917870
Apparently.

I'm sure fortune will smile on Vince eventually.

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>>42917870
>yfw shitted it all the fuck up

>>42917852
>>The company heard there was a Sprouter colony here. They sent me.

>>42917889
>>42917853
>>42917889


"Global Exterminators... Corporation...gets paid... if there's... a complaint... from the neighbors... which we are able... to address... and then... invoice... the owner."

"Cyкин cын, what did I just say?"

"He cepдитecь , любoвь." The woman's voice again. Coming from a connected bedroom.

"Ho глyпo Aмepикaнcкий дeлaют этo нapoчнo!"

The annoyance in his voice is deliciously palpable, even across the language barrier. He turns his attention back to you.

"The neighbors complained, hm? What did they say?"

"...they said... moaning-"

He jams his foot down on your hand, hard, and you scream involuntarily. There's a clattering of feet as the woman enters the room and the two of them begin arguing viciously in Russian.

With the two of them distracted, you're able to get to your feet, though your vision is still too fogged to make the world much more than a blur of angry Russians.

>reach into your bag, offer vodka
>reach into your bag, pull pin on a tranquilizing grenade
>try and find your way to a couch or chair or something where you can sit down
>try and wipe your visor down
>interject into the conversation
>write-in

>>42918075
>>try and wipe your visor down

>>42918075
>>reach into your bag, offer vodka

>>42918075
>>reach into your bag, pull pin on a tranquilizing grenade
Tried to be nice

>>42918109
Well for a given value of nice that involves a gun.

>>42918075
>try and wipe your visor down
>reach into your bag, pull pin on a tranquilizing grenade

>>42918137
Hey they are in this infested ass house. it's not our fault we have to be extra cautious.

>>42918075
>>try and wipe your visor down

>>42918109
>>42918147

>pull pin on tranquilizing grenade

>>42918108

>pull pin on vodka

>>42918107
>>42918147
>>42918179

>wipe down visor

I thought /tg/ was full of diplomancers but no.

You're all seers.

Calling it and writing.

>>42918214

You do your best to wipe your visor off as the Russians argue.

*Sqwk, sqwk*

The arguing stops abruptly as both of them turn to look at you, the source of that damned rubbery squeaky noise.

Your vision clear, you can finally get a good look at them too. The woman catches your eye first, naturally. Her tall figure is a sight to behold and her silky black hair is braided into a tight ponytail.

The man is just a hair shorter than her and would be above average alongside anyone else. His brown hair has been buzzed short and he is clean shaven. The form of his body is wiry and lean. You'd call it cat-like if you felt that was a compliment.

"Don't move, American." he tells you, pointing an accusatory finger at you. The hand is black and shiny, obviously cybernetic.

"...I won't."

"Stop that. We can have a civilized conversation if you just talk properly."

"I will."

He turns to the woman.

"Cмoтpитe, я cкaзaл вaм, чтo oн cдeлaл этo нapoчнo!"

You reach for your bag, half expecting the argument to resume. Instead the woman just shakes her head and looks at you plaintively.

"She says I have anger issues. глyпaя жeнщинa."

"Глyпый чeлoвeк нe хoчeт ceкca" she shoots back.

"Take a seat, exterminator. We will work this out between us men."

He waves his hand towards a nearby chair. It looks pretty comfortable.

>sit
>apologize, insist you must be going
>ask about his relationship with the woman
>ask who they are and why they live here
>write-in

>>42918421
>sit

>>42918421
>>ask who they are and why they live here

>>42918421
>>ask who they are and why they live here

>>42918421
>>sit
>ask who they are and why they live here

>>42918421
>ask who they are and why they live here

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>>42918421
>>write-in
Find where he knocked that damn gun.

>there are seven floors to this
>still on floor 2

They'd better help with the top floors.

Well we can put back the vodka that never had any use. And retrieve the bait and the thermal visor instead.

>>42918450
>>42918512

>sit

>>42918478
>>42918489
>>42918512
>>42918516

>>ask who they are and why they live here

"I'll stand if it's all the same to you."

"As a matter of fact, it is," he says and turns to the woman, "Meд , пoмoчь eмy cecть"

She easily pushes you down into the chair.

"I apologize," he continues, sitting down on a nearby sofa and reaching beneath it.

"I just feel more comfortable this way."

He inspects your gun. Damn Ruskie.

"I'd feel more comfortable if you told me who you were and why you're living in this cat-infested hellhouse."

"I'm not sure I trust you enough to tell you who we are but I can tell you we are here because nowhere else is safe."

"So you're deserters."

"If you can desert what you never had a choice in joining, yes."

Damn *treasonous* Ruskies.

"So what then," you ask, "You gonna kill me to keep your tracks covered?"

"Normally I would but today I think my wife would yell at me. Now, the building is not being sold, correct?"

"Correct."

"You are here just because of complaints? Of moaning?"

"And screaming... and thumping."

"Don't do that." he says, sighting the pistol on you, "I warned you."

"That one was sincere. Do you know anything about the noises?"

"The screaming might be the cats and the moaning might be Ilya. But the thumping comes from somewhere upstairs in the night. It is loud, repeating."

"Unnatural?"

"Very. I assume if you clear it and the cats away the complaints will stop and we can all go back to living as we were, right?"

"Right. Are you going to help me or what?"

"I think so," he says, emptying your gun and tossing it back to you.

"Just wait here while I get my toys."

He vanishes into the bedroom while Ilya remains, watching you closely as she refills the kettle from a water tank.

>try and strike up a conversation with her
>try and pull the pin on your tranquilizing grenade now
>silently offer up vodka to make sure she's on your side here
>write-in

>>42918766
>silently offer up vodka to make sure she's on your side here
havent been doing anything much with it anyway, and i think this could be funny

BTW Simmons, is our Sonfu addicted to alcohol, or does he just enjoy it? i don't think he was obsessed, but i wanna make sure.

>>42918766
>silently offer up vodka to make sure she's on your side here

He has toys. But does he have thermal sight.

He might want to borrow that from downstairs. And help lay out bait for the cats.

>>42918766
>>silently offer up vodka to make sure she's on your side here
Conspicuously doesn't speak English.

Really should knockout-gas this guy and rob him blind once this is over. Take the interesting toys he has. As deserters they shouldn't exactly have friends that can get pissed off for them.

But. They must purchase food and water somehow. Maybe they do have connections.

>>42918984
agreed

>>42918835

Jeremy is an at-risk youth who equivocates alcohol with fatherly affection approval.

He does not have an actual addiction though.

>>42918838
>>42918835

>silently offer up vodka

You hold up your equipment bag to try and show Ilya what you intend to do. You unzip it and reach in slowly but she catches your hand in a firm and unyielding grip.

"нeт"

She takes the bag from you and begins to parcel out the individual components on the kitchen counter, regarding each one with suspicion. Until she reaches the vodka.

She points to her delightfully ample chest.

"Для нac?"

"For you," you confirm, nodding vigorously.

She calls out excitedly to her husband.

"мeд, oн кyпил вoдкy!"

"Hy, зaлить eгo!" he shouts back and she quickly begins gathering glasses. Pretty soon there are three generous portions of vodka poured out.

The man returns to the room, clad in grey and black body armor and wielding an enormous machine gun. You're pretty sure it would remove your arms if you tried to fire it.

He rests it gently against the kitchen counter.

"Okay exterminator, out of your suit. You need to drink with us to seal the deal."

>Nerves- [11/13]

When you're all done drinking, the man covers his face with a mask that covers the lower half of his face and stretches up over his nose to connect with his armor somewhere in the back. Two glass bulbs the remaining hemispheres of his face and the impression of it all reminds you vaguely of a mantis. They shimmer for an instant and turn an opaque black.

"From now on, American, you can all me Maxim. Now lead on and we will purge this place of wretched cats!"

>LEAD ON
>Whoa buddy, that gun is way too big and noisy. You got anything stealthier than that?

>>42919057
>>Whoa buddy, that gun is way too big and noisy. You got anything stealthier than that?

>>42919057
>>Whoa buddy, that gun is way too big and noisy. You got anything stealthier than that?
Devlinson was clear.

Also cats count as specs if alive right. They're all vectors.

>>42919057
>>LEAD ON

>>42919090

There would need to be something worthwhile for GEC to find by inspecting the cat. They are very often vectors so there is a good chance of this being the case even if there is nothing externally "wrong" with the cat.

Still, you might want to hedge your bets and save your darts by waiting for a particularly unusual cat spec. Up to you.

>>42919057
>Whoa buddy, that gun is way too big and noisy. You got anything stealthier than that?
anything for us to murder you for later

>>42919167
I like these crazy russians I don't want to kill them.

>>42919196
More than you covet Maxim's helmet?

Rolled 5 (1d20)

>>42919196
chen must never know.... she seems to hater russians for fucking her country

>>42919196
maybe knock out and loot them, but im not opposed to murderhobo

>>42919222
That's... a tough decision.

>>42919125
>LEAD ON

>>42919076
>>42919090
>>42919167
>Have you got anything, you know, a bit more girly?

"Maxim your gun is too big."

"What, penis envy already?"

"No, I mean you need to use something quieter than that."

You can't see his face but the slightly tighter grip he adopts on his weapon tells you that your objection peeves him.

"Fine." he says, and stalks back into the bedroom.

He is equally dejected when you turn down his flamethrower and his shotgun. You finally have to allow him a pistol and a large knife.

"But don't shoot too much."

"Fine, I will gut the animals so as not to disturb the neighbors daytime television. Typical American."

Conundrum resolved, the two of you step out into the hallway and spot two cats tormenting a bright green creature that's a little bigger than your fist.

Maxim immediately opens fire, killing both cats.

"Goddamn it! What did I just tell you!"

"Look, their prey survives."

The green creature crawls forward weakly. It seems to be some kind of locust.

>get closer, examine it
>send Maxim to get a large bowl from his apartment, try and capture it
>see if you can hit it from here with a tranquilizer dart