>>44907721
hai

THERE IT IS

>>44907721
>[] Hide the puppet: Safety in shadows: Time heals
Can't let it be seen with it's skin hanging off and fungus growing out of it.

Rolled 1 (1d20)

>>44907721
>[] Contact the Animals: Request Assistance: Lie
Thinning the herd is useful anyway.

>[Barracks]- 7 prey (infected)
That leaves about 3 in the barracks bedrooms uninfected?

>>44907946
Yes. You chose to not overly secrete infectious spores and kept the level below what the NBC sensors could detect. However it is close quarters and the Song spreads easily among the herd.

Also glad I didn't call a roll.

>>44907721
>[] Hide the puppet: Safety in shadows: Time heals

>>44907721
>also set off some sort of alarm.
Whoops, see we should have logged into the Terminal first thing after all...

Might've allowed more knowledge of such pitfalls in the electronic song.

>>44907721
Wait, are all the robots inside the puppet now?

Will the animals come back and find a pool empty of robots?

>>44908096
>Wait, are all the robots inside the puppet now?
>Will the animals come back and find a pool empty of robots?

The pool is empty. There is a small little canister made of organic material containing the irradiated and nuclear material. The little bots are almost processed by the puppet who is leaving a pile of metal as it is ejected from it's mass.

>>44908192
>There is a small little canister made of organic material containing the irradiated and nuclear material.

So the puppet will want to hide that little nest egg.

>>44908192
>leaving a pile of metal

This alarm is probably reacting more to the radiation being detected outside of the boundaries of the pool. Is the puppet or the metal still radioactive?

If the animals come they'll probably be in rad-safe protective suits, so leaving infectious spores around won't do any good.

>>44908389
Puppet has shed it's radiation and it is contained in the canister.

Hide. Fungi are slow and patient. Use that.

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>[] Hide the puppet: Safety in shadows: Time heals


The puppet is still healing. Tubules shift into human flesh and exposed metal is covered under something resembling human, but it is not an immediate process. Shifting the Song into such limited mass is complicated. The puppet grabs the little canister, hides it away in a small pack on it's waist and then hides behind some processing pipes, away from the light. The little box speaks.

"Randall, what the fuck? We're getting multiple flashing reds across the board in Processing. The drones are down, radiation is leaking all over and your vitals went critical for a moment. Security is sending a Decon unit down asap. What's the reading on your Radpip?! God, tell me it's just a sensor malfunction. I'm not getting ping-backs on the Trouts."

The puppet hacks up some dead tissue as it's voice box finishes healing.

[] Lie to the Animals: A sensor malfunction: Broken false animals
[] Plead for help: Trickery and feigned weakness: The sick are taken to the core of the herd
[] Stay Silent: Await the brave animal: Strike from darkness
[] Write in

>>44908644
[] Lie to the Animals: A sensor malfunction: Broken false animals
Must be a malfunction, I'm just here looking at the drones swimming around.

>>44908644
>[] Stay Silent: Await the brave animal: Strike from darkness

Only way to cover it up is to puppeteer security.

>>44908578
Apparently not so much or the fungus would not have dived into the radioactive pool to play with robots.

There's pretty much no way to make the scrap alloys remains of the Trouts and their removal from the pool a malfunction.

>>44908644
>[] Lie to the Animals: A sensor malfunction: Broken false animals
> Write in
Prepare to ambush the Decon unit. ...Is a unit one person or multiple people.

Puppet has a wireless vitals implant inside it?

>>44908970
You check the Puppet. No, there is nothing inside the puppet that is singing the animal's song. It is something external.

>>44908644
>[] Plead for help: Trickery and feigned weakness: The sick are taken to the core of the herd

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>[] Lie to the Animals: A sensor malfunction: Broken false animals


Your puppet coughs into the little box. Putting on it's best rendition of an annoyed voice.

"Randall to Base. It's a mess down here, but my pip is clean. I think one of the Trout got banged up and its IFF malfunctioned. It took out the other trouts, touched something nasty and then they all got pretty mangled. I fished out most of the fragments. I think that set off the senors. Didn't want them jamming any inlets. I wore protection. Could use some help from Decon. Don't want any nastiness on me."

"Base copies. We'll shut off the alarm. Don't move any more material."

"Randall out."

Your puppet is finished restoring its covering. The airlocks begin cycling a moment later allowing the Decon unit to enter. Information trickles into the song. Decon units are automated platforms that are semi-biological. Mostly cultured brain and muscle tissue to make motion easier. They are also based on military prototypes and have been known to be less than gentle. Platforms are enhanced with strong, multi-band scanning units and NBC scrubbing nanites. They also seem to have civilian interaction programming as the lithe, black robot waves hello as it steps into the room. Immediately it begins scanning the area in broad, sweeping green bars.

[] Avoid the beams: Leave the room: Feign fear
[] Attack the platform: Overwhelm its false flesh: Take the form for the Mass
[] Let the false animal scan: Attempt to fool it's mind: Subtle evolution.

Also Roll 1d20 for luck. Highest of three linked.

Rolled 8 (1d20)

>>44909603
Niiiice.

[] Let the false animal scan: Attempt to fool it's mind: Subtle evolution.

Rolled 8 (1d20)

>>44909603
>[] Avoid the beams: Leave the room: Feign fear
Holy shit this will be awesome when we have time to take it over

Rolled 5 (1d20)

>>44909603
>[] Avoid the beams: Leave the room: Feign fear
Maybe later.

>>44909665
>>44909690
>>44909718
what the fuck

>>44909725
The Mass learns to sing a new song today.

>>44909738
is it an interesting song? Are the words "Oh God, Oh God, we're all going to die"?

>>44909828
Depends on what action the puppet takes next.

>>44909603
>[] Avoid the beams: Leave the room: Feign fear

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>[] Avoid the beams: Leave the room: Feign fear
>8

Your puppet floods with strange chemicals and electrical signals. Images of cleansed civilians, robot malfunctions and other gristly deaths plague it's thoughts. It is terrified of the false-animal and it's sweeping lights. Dodging around and over pipes, the puppet deftly avoids getting scanned, knowing that to touch the beams means discovery and death. Janitors, the puppet names them. Obsolete cleaning units that were built cheaply from discarded military platforms with even less safety programming. They were retired after a unit mistook cheap craft paint for a chemical agent and atomized a classroom. It seems whoever staffed this station saw the value in some fix-er-up cleaning staff.

Almost to the door, the puppet is screaming into the radio.

"GODDAMMIT BASE, A JANITOR-BOT. YOU WANT ME DEAD?! FUCK!"

The last expletive is not out of fear but pain as plastic fingers lock around the puppet's arm and crack the bone underneath. It's cold voice sings out in a mockery of care.

"Please do not exit the contaminated area until decontamination is complete. Your DNA is not registered as cleared to leave. Please stand still as the scan completes. Thank you and have a nice day."

The puppet thrashes around trying to free it's arm from the terrifying glowing eye, but it is nearly too late. The skin tingles as the scanner warms up and begins to drift across false flesh. Animal fear leaks into the song, changing into a discordant scream as death of the puppet is reflected within the mass. Too small, too valuable, death. Losing the puppet loses what was gained in waste processing. The two puppets in the reactor would have to be activated and that would increase suspicion, as would activating the spores in the barracks.

[] Assimilate into the false animal:Trade the puppet:shift the strings
[] Shift the flesh: fool the scanner: avoid detection
[] Attack the false animal:drop the disguise: rend and split

>>44910424
>[] Shift the flesh: fool the scanner: avoid detection
If we can then this is probably the best bet, Others lead to detection. This gives us time that we can use to do this properly

>>44910424
>] Shift the flesh: fool the scanner: avoid detection
Mastering this helps us out in the long run.

>>44910424
>[] Shift the flesh: fool the scanner: avoid detection

>>44910424
>[] Shift the flesh: fool the scanner: avoid detection

Roll 1d20+2. Best of three, linked

(+2 from Fungal tissue, +2 from integrated metal and electronics, +2 from small scan radius)
(-2 from Proximity, -2 from rushed evolution)

Assimilate

Rolled 7 + 2 (1d20 + 2)

>>44910647

Rolled 14 + 2 (1d20 + 2)

>>44910647

Rolled 2, 10, 5 + 2 = 19 (3d10 + 2)

>>44910647

Rolled 4 + 2 (1d20 + 2)

>>44910647
Guess fooling it form a distance was better.

>>44910668
Sooo...we look like we have a minor cold? Yes?

>>44910647
>>44910734
Wait, was this the quest with the weird rolling system?

Rolled 6, 10, 10 + 2 = 28 (3d10 + 2)

>>44910647

>>44910695
>>44910764
1d20+2 anons. Not 3d10+2.

>>44910746
just d20. "Weirdes" I've seen is the 3d10 and you need 2 or more them over a certain DC. I actually really like that one

>>44910791
I meant the lower the better, except for 1 which is critfail and vice versa.

>>44910746
Shhh.

We do not speak of the dark ages.

>>44910786
My bad. Reroll.

Yeah, I tried to make some infection mechanics and it was just a mess. Now I'm just calling a 1d20+mods when a situation isn't an "easy win". Want to have some complications and setbacks, but not this update.

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>[] Shift the flesh: fool the scanner: avoid detection
>16

The puppet immediately shifts it's skin. Tissue warps and mixes with metallic elements. Scanning beams are intercepted, modified and reflected back. The robot makes strange stuttering and clicking noises and something deep inside it begins to spin up to a high pitched whine. Your puppet's skin seethes as the Mass sings new flesh into being, chasing along the edge of the scanning line. The Janitor stops scanning as it reaches the feet of the Puppet and simply releases it's grip.

"Scan complete. You are showing signs of a simple case of ring-worm on 1.004% of your body and a slight feature of the upper arm. Please report to medical for a topical cream and skeletal repair. Thank you for your compliance."

The robot turns away and begins scanning the pile of Trout debris, and promptly starts evaporating the materials away. Pain continues to radiate up the arm of your puppet, but the flesh quickly knits back together and the Puppet flees waste processing and collapses in exhaustion outside in the hall. A loud siren rings, making the puppet jump, but it only signifies a shift change. The Mass continues to sing its song in secret...for now.

[Scrap Alloys Lost]

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That's it for today. Questions, comments, suggestions always welcome. I will set clear DCs for 1d20 rolls in the future. Wednesday night seems to work for my schedule. Check the twitter for updates. Thanks for playing tonight!

>>44911410
>--------Game Paused-----------
WOT

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>>44911490
i feel as though we didnt do much of anything

>>44911410
That was a short thread.

Can we shorten voting to ten minutes.

>>44911410
Thanks for running, loving the story!

>>44911531
I know, short thread tonight. I'm sorry. I will make sure future threads run longer, but 3 hours is all I have tonight. Started work today at 5am.

>>44911614
Thanks for running! You really have a great premise for this quest, I'm really happy you managed to come back.

>>44911578
>>44911650
Thank you. I'm very glad to be back and I'm happy you're enjoying things.

>>44911410
>Game Paused
The hell? That was so damn short.

Can we look up pictures of sam, or 3d scans and recreate the puppets body?