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The tram rattles along, led down disused tunnels dug out out under this enormous facility. The ceiling rattles. Light beams cut through the choking dark - abandoned substations, other intersections, disused lines, it all passes by in a blur - how big is this place, anyway? How far does this system go? It's been . . . hours. Perhaps it's all a mirage. Perhaps you aren't moving at all, and the only thing that gives that impression is your gradually cracking mind.

The REGENT system must have sent you down these paths because it thought it would dissaude you. What's so dangerous about all these old tunnels anyway?

>Oh, remember this. It'll be the last time it looks anything like this.

#SubjectID goes here
>We need a name to reference. It has to be searchable
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 4
>This is your base arrangement of stats. Note that some picks change this, so be mindful.
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
Thoughts 9
#Skill
-
!Trait
>Pick one of the three available, and be sure to note any strange traits that gets you. Then also add a single short descriptive like "Friendly", "Twitchy", "Slim", "Likes Lentils", "Sad". You gotta hold on to a little personality around here.

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The others have tried to get the transit system under control. At least its slowed down - hasn't rammed anything yet, and you might not crash if it does.

Maybe you're looping? It seems so alien because the tunnels are dark and unknown. But if you rattle along on a constant repeat, the hours would bleed into samey blurs in the dark, and without familiar landmarks to hold on to, the mind grows confused. That'd be the trick of it, surely.

Surely.

It cannot be the case that the facility subtransit system stretches for so many miles. There has to be a more coherent explanation. Perhaps check your gear. Get your bearings. See if everything is where it's meant to be.

#SubjectID goes here
>We need a name to reference. It has to be searchable
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0
AP 6 MP 4 TP 1
>This is your base arrangement of stats. Note that some picks change this, so be mindful.
-
Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 11
Thoughts 10
#Skill
-
!Trait
>Pick one of the three available, and be sure to note any strange traits that gets you. Then also add a single short descriptive like "Friendly", "Twitchy", "Slim", "Likes Lentils", "Sad". You gotta hold on to a little personality around here.

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Okay, tally the gear. Check the ammo. Adjust the numbers. Oil your gun. Adjust your bandages. Peer into the darkness. Listen to the rattling of the tunnels.

Ask the Woodsies, who are fey and strange and have converted the last carriage to a jungle-in-motion, to shape you a walking stick. Steal a fruit from the ponderous tangle of webs and vines that form the Heart of the Wood, that little village-fragment the Wooden ones have brought with them on their great pilgrimage.

How did your escape attempt turn into sharing a transit carriage with a gaggle of travellers talking about the Great Dying and the First Light and muttering in hushed, revent tones about the nature of prophecy?

Well. If it makes them take another step into the dark and share the burdens a little, maybe they can be motivated by their little wooden icons. Maybe you should ask for one. Might as well not insult any gods down here. It's a dark place.

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As the tram rattles along the twisting tunnels, you might wonder what everyone else gets up to. Surely, someone around here has a plan?

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Perhaps if you have some curious little twist in your genome strands or a whorl in your brain or a series of high capacity batteries in your spine, now might be the time to utilize them?

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Unspent Volatility Points from prior deployments can still be spent; you have enough time here in the rattling, rolling darkness to think about your lives.

Spent VP are locked, as unlock and new mutations have already been applied.

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Some people have died and come back different, or found ways to access Advanced Subjects taxonomies. These are enumerated here. If you're new, don't worry about this part - they're for . . . curious things after death.

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Sometimes you die. Sometimes you live. Around here, when you do die, it's not always the... end.

>>6094355

> Use the skill point gained from 'Learn By Doing' to improve Sense by 1
> Everett awakens, but largely cloisters himself in his corner of the tram, quietly assessing the extent to which he has recovered from the violence of last map.
> I'll refrain from manifesting or engaging in tactical operations for the time being.
> I do have one request though. Would it be appropriate if I added [Wishful Mirages of Conscience] as a Trait? You needn't give it any effects, mainly I just want it as a reminder. So that the little snippet of character-building I introduced when disengaging from the Spritespider does not slip my mind.

#Everett
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 22
DR 0 AP 6 MP 4
Push 1
~~~
Health 12 Reaction 8+4 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
~~~
Conditions:
Alive
~~~
#Skill
Physicality10
Senses9+1
Thoughts9
Mutability11
Armblade15
~~~
!Trait
[Bound to Flesh II]
- Regeneration 3
[Twitchy]
- May automatically React on Containment Phase
~~~
𐙚Feature Notes𐙚
Armblade
- [Deadly1, Sharp2, Reach2, MarginPower1]
-- Attacks made with the Armblade have +1 Lethality.
-- Attacks may strike targets up to 2 tiles away.
-- If bonus damage exceeds skill, the user risks selfharm.
-- Enables the Parry React variant
-- Moving prior to a strike conveys a charge bonus
-- Halve Multi-task penalties when applied to attacks with the Armblade.
Fast Twitch Reaction
- [Twitchy2, Defensive1]
-- Gain +4 Reaction when moving out of harm's way.
-- Defensive React Actions only cost 1AP

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

>>6094356
It's not much of a plan, but I suppose we should have Fox and the augmentics get into the system, see if we can get a map of this tunnel section and check to see if there are active cameras. Maybe have a biomod toss a growth out the window, that way we can figure out if we're looping while it does some remote scouting. Lastly, get some sharp eyes at the windows - see what those tunnelcrawlers are up to.

>1TP, very casual no-stress recon operation (Senses 12)
>Learn from Doing skillpoint into Forensic Theology

#Amelius
Vit 12/12 SP 12/12 CP 23
DR 4 AP 6 MP 4 TP 1 StrP 1
Push 1
-
Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive!
-
Physicality 11
Senses 12
Thoughts 11
Support Operations 11
Guns 11
Forensic Theology 11
-
!Inspiring Presence 2
!Dreams of the Ocean
-
C8 Personal, 2d6, Acc 2 Bulk 2, 18/19
Singularity Cloud BR-RG, 4d6 (2), Acc 5, Rcl2, Bulk 4, 21/30A, 210/210C (Broadhead Flechette)
Rugged, Modular, Sharp, Smartlink
1x Rifle reload
DR 4 vest

Rolled 4, 3, 3, 3, 5, 2 = 20 (6d6)

>>6094357
>Spend skill point on Psionigenesis.
>[Manifest, 10 CP] Figure out a way to make others see things that aren't really there, psionic visions and the like, to confuse enemies. [Psionigenesis 11, 10 CP, -2].
>[Manifest, 5 CP] Briefly mentioned last time was the fact that I have limited precognition. Could I actually make a feature out of this? [Psionigenesis? 11, 5 CP, -2].

Yes, I know I'm being kind of cheeky with that last one. But it's worth a try! Abberration rolls in follow-up post.

#Wilder
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 15 -> 0
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
Glaciogenesis II II [SC 9]
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
Thoughts 8
Psionigenesis 10 -> 11
Temperature Control 12
-
!Psionic-Resonant.
[Microslip Precognition] (Evade additional up to Focus)
[Many Hands, Light Work]
!Telekinetic (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients)
[Temple Inviolate] (Manifest external features only)
!Peace and love, man.
-
Inventory:
Multi Tool.
Pistol.
1x C8, 2d6, 2ACC, 2Buik, 18 bullets, 1 reload (18 bullets).
-

Rolled 6, 4, 5, 4, 2, 1 = 22 (6d6)

>>6094425
and the abberration.

Rolled 3, 5, 2 = 10 (3d6)

>>6094341

#Hibiscus
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0
AP 6 MP 4 TP 1
-
Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 11
Thoughts 10
Small Unit Tactics 10
-
!Nerves of Cold Steel
[Cool Under Fire]
[Not By The Numbers]
!Smells like flowers

New here, I like to roll (and die)

>>6094428
You’ll fit right in, welcome aboard. Things will be a little slow and quiet for a bit as pre-deployment things tick along, yet please feel free to participate in as much as seems sensible to you

Rolled 6, 4, 1, 1, 3, 4 = 19 (6d6)

>>6094355
#Autarch
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0 (?)
DR 0 AP 6 MP 4
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1 Push 1
-
Conditions:
Alive!
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
**Shared Senses
Thoughts 8
Blade of Life 14
**Focus +3
**Multitasking 3
Abiogenesis 10 [LOS, Multiple 3]
Higher Purpose (Woodsies) 2
Injury Tolerance (Bullets)
Bleeds Sap
-
Edge of the Woods
L+2 Damage, 1/5 Natural DR
Abiogenesis Focus +2

Hardwood Cuirass
Ablative DR 10, Wooden
-2 Adroit
-
!Resonant-Biologics 2
!Fanatacism

I’m not sure what my avoidance factor is anymore, so I’m letting the universe calculate it.

I continue counselling the woodsies, for what it is worth. I am more than confident Bob will deliver us.

The new sheet seems to indicate we can manifest more than once in the deep and dark, so, if that is true….

> (Abiogenesis 10, CP 4, Fanaticism)

Transform myself into a superior vessel for Bob, such that they may channel power through me with superior range and puissance. Just as the sword is my focus, so too am I Bob’s sword.

Rolled 5, 6, 3 = 14 (3d6)

>>6094355
#Gallium
Vit 3/9 SP 5/12 CP 15 VP 0 MP 1
DR 5 AP 6 MP 4
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
Capacitors A Little Fritzy (Glitch 14+)
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
Thoughts 9
Augmented Systemic [LOS] 11
Electricity Modulators 13 [Focus+1, Stamina x3, Glitch 16)
-
Augmentic Extropian I
[Metal Fatigue] [Reserve Power] [Engineering Specifications] [Meshlinked] [BioElectricity Manifolds] [Compensators 4 (Power-hungry)]
Cold and logical.

Equipment
C8 (2d6, 2acc, 2bulk, 18/18, x1 reload)

>Put the new skillpoint into Electricity Modulators (12->13)
>Copycat: Attempt to imitate NeoGenesis' Superconductivity, investing 11 CP. (CP 15 -> 4) (Electricity Modulators 13(?))

"This is your conductor speaking. Please keep all appendages inside of the train while in movement. The Subjectown railway service thanks you for your cooperation."

>>6094355
Just signalling the following:

>>6094311

>>6094357
>Creep along the Camera network, establishing eyes on target and a camera based nodal-kingdom. (Meshwire 14, willing to assist some Intel gathering team).
If there are no intel networks to hijack then I'm going to work on my eco-genesis project.


Coherency 12/12 // SP 12/12 // Push 1/1 // CP 7, MutP 1
DR 0 // AP 6 // Mov 4? (how do I use Mov?)
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Dutiful
Decommissioning
Dreaming
Designing

[strike]Electronics[/strike] Dedicated Decommisioner Intern?
-
Physicality 10
Senses 09
Thoughts 08
#Conversion 10 [R3]
!Green Glitter - They can see me!
#Meshwire 14 [R3]
!Signalskip 2 (-2 hit for +1 range)
!Nanoflowers 2 (toggleable): +2 to nanoforma's attempts to replicate.

>>6094357
>>6094263
I'm trying to gauge how productive it would be to spend my +1 Skill Point and/or Mutagen Point into Multispawn. Would going from Multispawn 2 to Multispawn 3 have any effect other than increasing the roll of spawning eggs by +1? Similarly, since Multispawn was gained from Mutability, would spending a Mutagen Point on Multispawn merely treat myself as having +1 Mutability when using it (thus only being a +1 on rolls) or would it also come with a strong upgrade like when one flash mutates a Lethality or Duplicity based feature?

>>6094587
Not a skill; it’s a feature adjustment to another skill. So you have scant means to influence it in such a manner.

>>6094617
Ok, that answers my first question concerning the Skill Point, but what about my second question? Or does this also answer the second question in that can't apply a Mutagen point to a feature adjustment?

Rolled 1, 5, 3 = 9 (3d6)

>>6094362
#BubbaV2
Vit 26/26 SP 8/12 CP 16
DR 3+1 AP 6 MP 3
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
Lookin’… alive?
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
Thoughts 8
#Skill
-Augmented Systemics 10
!Augmetic Extropian 2
!Ironheart
!Energetic Cores
!Advanced Systems Interfacing
#Features
!Ablative Shield

>From Learn by Doing, improve Physicality by 1
>Invest all my VP into Resiliency Factor
>where is my fuckdamn shield

>>6094356
>Scrounge and scavenge, look for big heavy metal bits

>Spend 16CP to try to make my form... tougher. Bigger. A true bulwark to protect my Bulwark. Disassembly, reassembly with any metal available (such as unused guns or empty bean cans or useless tram plating)

>>6094680
Do you want to mimic my Ablative HP? I got like 20 HP with 4 DR before I went surfing the rainbow river.

>>6094355
>Surely someone around here has a plan
"Right you are sir, STOP the BOAT!"
"How about I 'lathe us up a little mini train wagon behind this train, and then we just kinda drop off behind the train before we get to where ever REGENT sent it to dispose of us, and we take one of these side rails to points unknown? But first I gotta absorb Gluttony. Safety stab him a couple of times--not in the head, please--and drag him over here for me will you?"

Skill point added to Conversion.
>Do I need to do my CP again in this thread? I need clear instructions I only have thoughts 8.

>/-/-/-/
>INFOBITS INNIT
>/-/-/-/

Subject: #Ketlan "Gluttony" Knight
HP 12/12 SP 12/12 CP 18
DR 4(K) AP 6 MP 4
>Metas
Vitality 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
Conditions:
Alive, Beautiful

>Skills
Physicality 10
--Rush 2
Senses 9
--[Shared Senses +1]
Thoughts 8
Conversion 11
--[Graphene Filaments]: Kinetic 4DR, Cling
Stinger 12 [Horror]
--x2 Lethality
--Leech (succ CP)
--Steal (succ attributes)
--Extend Set reach to 2-5 with 1MP/AP]
>Traits
!Virulent Entropics
--Regen 2 +1[1/2 x Features]
!Distributed Processing Cores
--+1 CP per 10HP Converted
>-
>Initiatives
>-
Creative Thinking Exercises
Sheer Violence of Action

>>6094723
You want to eat Bulb AND Gluttony? Selfish much?

Rolled 6, 4, 6, 4, 2, 3 = 25 (6d6)

>>6094357

Those pesky robots and mechanical doors can easily stop us but our techno-friends seem quite capable of influencing them. Must be because they can use eelectricityy... well that makes it simple i just nee to learn that too yess

>Manifest an shock-organ to store and release electricity not unlike that of an electric eel (Mutability 10 + 10 CP)

>If scouting party is arranged volunteer to help with my superior hearing

#Chimera
Vit 12 SP 9 CP 16 MGP 1
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3 VP4
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Yes
-
Physicality 10
Senses 8
= Auditory +2 EchoCheck
Thoughts 8
Mutability 10
->Lungs +8
->Kinetic Expulsion +2 x2 Sta
Piercing Resistance 2
#Skill
-
!Resilient Organs
!Biomodulation Strain #3
= Virulent Vitality +1
= Bound by the Flesh
!Relentless

>>6094751
Why is everyone so interested in my body? It's just a corpse of a subject, it has no special powers or benefits to anyone except me.
Also I ate BULB and nothing happened so it seems like it was a big nothing burger anyway.

>>6094759
Eating the corpse of a subject grants powers, the corpse can be used in other ways (I could rewrite him to make him a guardian, for example), you declared your intent to eat Bulb but it has not been resolved yet, possibly because Command has been waiting to see if anyone objects, and I object to you getting them both.

>>6094759
- Because it’s rude to eat exotic and unique loot without asking permission, especially that which someone else almost died for.

- Because biomutant corpses are very very far from ‘nothing’, but are actually intensely powerful- their cores are very valuable, especially to other mutants!

- I’m fairly certain you’re about to explode into vitals any moment now. Trigger does not forget.

>>6094355
Also Chimera is giving BubbaV2 their shield, for usage as scrap in the EMBIGGENING

>>6094766
>Eating the corpse of a subject grants powers
Like what? I am not aware of any examples of this, perhaps I was not paying attention.>>6094766
>the corpse can be used in other ways (I could rewrite him to make him a guardian, for example)
So exactly the same thing you could do with any other corpse of Sec or a Spooder. I will give you as many corpses as you want in exchange so this point is moot.
>>6094766
>you declared your intent to eat Bulb but it has not been resolved yet, possibly because Command has been waiting to see if anyone objects, and I object to you getting them both.
Let's be real here. I absorbed Bulb with a crit success on the last map after being explicitly told by Amelius that I could so there was really no reason to manufacture this contrived drama over the "exotic loot" of eating corpses.

From the deafening silence I can only assume that the claim that subject corpses/cores have some special magical benefit was pulled from thin air and then repeated without examination?

This contested loot system is really gay.

>>6094568
Instead of bumping Meshwire to 14 I'd like to leave it at 13 and pick up the a skill like Cyberdoc or Surgeon or Mechabiology. I doubt that Animism is in my purview.

>>6094818
I believe that someone else's core was eaten and the eater gained a +1 to their core power stat.

>>6094818
The idea that cores=power is probably derived from someone gaining power by eating Bob's core during the first map, Bulb's core explicitly holding power, and the status of the corpses as loot.

So, yeah, by all appearances you seem to be munching on all the extra power sources. I let you have my share of Bulb, but you should probably let Gluttony go to whoever retrieved him. Just share nicely.

>>6094822
Do you know when this happened previously? Power is not a meta stat. There is no stat called Power.
>>6094823
It is my body I will literally fight to the death for it. Anyone would do the same. You can have whatever power you think you'll get from it but there is no power meta ability so that's just made up. The fact is there is no benefit to anyone else for stealing my body. If there is a benefit they are welcome to explain specifically what they stand to gain that they can't easily get from any other corpse.

>>6094825
It happened in thread one when Acolyte ate Bob’s body. He gained +1 Mutability and probably some CP as well.

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>>6094825
Power as a concept, not a stat. What could I possibly have to gain from deceiving you?

>>6094835
So who do you want to give my body to, then? Bubba said I could have it, Autarch claimed he didn't want it. No one else had anything to do with it. Kinda narrows it down to me.

But it really begs the question. If Bob created a mob and then you got power from eating the mob's core, that seems like a throbbing exploitable game loop right there so why don't you get to work rather than literally trying to snatch my body. Personally I think this is all a bunch of horse shit and if the body has any power it's only power that was generated by us squabbling over it so much and vesting it with chekov's corpse energy.

>>6094850
Bob seemed interested in animating it, maybe let him take it? I reckon things would go easier for you if you'd consult the group rather than unilaterally seizing assets in a gluttonous (ha) fit.

I reckon only subjects would have cores, not their creations. Might be a facility thing? Or maybe only suitably powerful creations would develop a core of their own? Hard to tell without some research.

>>6094865
I didn't view corpses as "loot."
No, Bob cannot have it. He had nothing to do with it. In fact, after all this I want to duel him to the death to find out who the real god is.
Bubba can have it if she wants it. The core only. And I can have the meat of my own body because the core is the only thing you're interested in, right, thief?

So… anyhow

Once the situation with the Woodsies is resolved, how do we feel about manufacturing wooden armour for everyone?

Because we can shape it psionically, we can make it for non humanoids too!

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>>6094907
All the NPCs get weapons and armor from my nanolathe.

>>6094909
There’s nearly two dozen of them…

If you’re still confident, though, then thank you.

>>6094410
It's all we ever get around here, as far as proper morals and principles go. Even having it is a sign of trying something else than the designers of this facility might want you to stoop to - if you can hold on to the flicker of conscience buried in your own sense of self, surely, you might make it out just yet.

Which is all a rather longwinded way of saying yes.

>>6094425
Of course you can see the future. Future versions of yourself beam back messages all the time. That's how you know not to step into spots where bullets are going to be !

>>6094587
>>6094617
>>6094627
You seem to have a small misapprehension about the nature of ingesting or using a Mutagen. You upscale the Feature it is applied to, which allows the Feature to access levels of Change you can't usually get on your own.

It's not a simple +1 to a number, it is a Change Manifest all on its own at scaled up values and resolved with "access" to higher levels of direct manifestations.

You can attempt to improve your egglaying, but you've already improved your egglaying, so attempting to expand it further does what all such actions do - you specify what it is you're trying to achieve.

Grow more? Grow faster? Grow more vicious?

Mutagen Points don't add +1 to a given number in a Feature, they reshuffle and reroll the Feature at a much higher rating, allowing you breach usual limits.

It's a flash escalation; you mutate your abillity to deploy little spawns and friends.

>>6094680
You're riding in a big metal bit. Please try not to pull the train apart as it is actively being used for transport. There certainly isn't any useless tram plating around here - it forms a vital foundation of the structural integrity of the whole carriage !

>>6094723
You do not, any unresolved lingering actions from last thread is being resolved . . . now!

>>6094751
Presumably "snackish", not "selfish".

>>6094758
You do! And if you radically re-orient the way your entire perceptual stream works, you can! And only with the minor side issue that closing your eyelids DOES NOTHING. The Sparks! You can *always* see the sparks!!

>>6094768
It's not "loot", it's the deceased shell of a person.

>>6094820
Animism? Like some sort of skill of interacting with the ever-expanding living interaction of the spiritual interactions of the sprites of the world? And maybe shuffling souls around?

We don't do that around here, Sir. This is a R&D facility. We believe in Science.

Cybernetics Surgery or Mechanized Biology are skillsets that some Staffmembers have, and you can acquire those - they would be tremendously useful in adjusting and operating on hurt allies, drone systems, identifying unusual biolgoy and interacting with advanced systems.

>>6094907
The issue is
>>6094909
Unfortunately one of *mass* and *time*. The ever hungry constraints on the develoments of a mobile modern fighting force

... Even your talents combined wouldn't quite be sufficient to produce - at rough count - 30 sets of individualized combat-capable armor and then also manage the maintenance regime and upkeep of those same systems.

It's an unfortunate fact that effective equipment requires tail-time for upkeep and adjustment, but that's actually after you manage to make it!

Even if the Heart of the Wood can grow wood at prodigious rate, and you disssamble the tram you're in, it'd be the work of long hours and longer days to produce enough equipment. The Woodsies would need rest inbetween sessions of Shaping, you'd need Supplies to feed the hungry, the Heart would have to restock and restore itself.

It can be done - don't underestimate your combined talents - but unfortunately this is more of an artisinal handmade operation than it is, at present, a factory pipeline for mass production.

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A small group splits off to test the tunnels nearer the carriage, which keeps rolling at a steady clip. Samantha and Chimera are fast enough to catch up and avoid falling behind, and it would be useful to see where this sprawling network goes.

Consequences can try to dance through the broken systems and dented cameras of this place, some live and still transmitting. Fox and Amelius and the Augmentics combined have enough signal capacity to detect and utilize the more fritzy bits of electronics still live in the area. Fox stares down at her stolen comms device, taken from some guard, and mutters about kernel flushing and reiteration loops, and spends as much time slapping her hands against the walls, her head, Gallium, the controls, groaning and moaning and muttering in frustration and excited bursts of success, as she does actually seeming to do any work.

--

One thing becomes clear, fast.

We are not alone down here.

But REGENT has sent us to an area outside of its realm. A place of pipes, tunnels and darkness. Old stations blur by, little subconnection routes, abandoned intersections that veer off into the deeper darkness. Are we circling? We're probably circling.

There's still clear signs of activity in this place. Abandoned tools, workers wagons, little trolleys and wires and sections where it almost seems as if someone worked recently.

This place might not be so abandoned at all, even if the life that squirms through the tunnels and tries to eat Samantha twice is clear sign things aren't so well managed down here either.

--

>[1/3]

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While the transit rolls along and the Woodsie busy themselves following Bulwarks command to buff up the, uh, bulwarks, and hardened the metallic carriages by attempting to plate some wood on them, Samantha and Chimera scuttle down a side passage. One of hundreds. And again and again and again.

But eventually, down one, they find a prize - of a sort - an abandoned carriage, left here to wind and tunnelweather, doors broken down and the air thick with the heady scent of life. Buzzing from within, insects in various sizes flittering about, a long-faded sign on the entrance declaring this to be MNTC, whatever that sigil might mean.

Fox and friends haven't had much luck signal-jumping through the old network down here. It's not great for signals. This carriage - much like the one that the Woodsies are converting to a mobile jungle-fortress - would maybe have electronics on board, terminals, data, logs, diary entries, dead men with communication devices, something, that could help map the tunnels ahead.

But crouching near the doorway and glancing inside, Chimera can hear it - the soft pitter-patter and sluck-cluck-glork sound of things moving, adjusting. The buzzing of harsh wings. The clouds - nay - swarms - of fist-sized insects don't seem too inviting. This is their territory. And Samantha has enough predatory instinct to know that if they risk and invasion and don't do it with care, the creatures that have converted this wagon to a spawning ground are apt to respond with malice and aggression. No one likes an uninvinted visitor in tunnels like this.

--

The Woodsie Conclave are going well, some of the Wooden Ones re-integrating into the larger throng and supervised to do work, plating, benting, making, whispering plants to grow faster and vines to thread through openings, reinforcing the carraige structure. Some of them are sullen, angry, fleeting things, wondering if a long sprint down dark tunnels might serve them better.

There is a principle philosophical debate behin their ire:

The invitation to get infected by another voice whispering in the pulse of adrenaline and hormone-song has not precisely swayed them. The Bulb too sang that it was benign and a grand overlord. The Bulb's people too, once their minds were pushed to zealotry, sang songs of praise.

The wide-eye fanatic with the wooden sword does not entirely inspire confidence that any shred of independence or initiative would be left to the Woodsie Ones if they accept such a bargain, and they lived through the long hundred-hours of the Wooden One Terrors precisely because they didn't want to join the feverish masses. If the journey to the distant Light is not one made of ones own will, then what is it? A hollow thing. A path in darkness.

--

Fox growls in frustration and snaps a victory cheer and high fives Gallium but regrets it as she gets shocked and the flower in her hair wriggles and undulates and despite all that, she ends up having to admit defeat.

Signal here is SHIT.

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Fix that and maybe Fox can get something done. No, don't ask me how, I'm not sure. Maybe we can set up a repeater or try to root around for more access?

That nanocloud you keep around had the right idea, though most of the cameras here are broken.

Well, still, have some good news.

--

>DOWNTIME OPS aren't "turn" or "time" limited - declare general actions to attempt to respond / resolve / interact / do / move about and there'll be some sort of result.

>Eg:

>Move to the front of the carrige and root around, see if I can activate the wireless connection

is what Fox did just now. You don't have to worry too much about precise movement pathways, you can roughly get there, so broad descriptions are fine.

>[3/4]

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A very loud **CRUNCH-CLONK-SKRRIIIIEEEEEEE** fills the entire carriage system with the sound of nails on chalkboard and the lingering scent of steel filaments.

>You can act.
>Minor scout intel report incoming.

>>6094960
>I would like to communicate with the insects in the abandoned carriage using my Sensitive Antenna. What manner of creature calls this place home? Where are they? How many are they? How big are they?

Rolled 4, 4, 6, 4, 4, 2 = 24 (6d6)

>>6094960
"Subject Bulwark, you appear to be in distress. Would you like me to alloy the metals from those shields to your frame to harden your systems? Y/N? Specify specific specifications if desired. (offering to use my Conversion to guide your reshaping of yourself).

>Adopt the Skill of #Mechanized Biology 11.
>Form a node in the nearby camera (1AP, Meshwire 13, dice 1-3).
>4 AP, Yes SP if slow actions, 4 if fast actions. Support with Reshape the nearby Camera into a Camera Spider, designed to serve as a self replicating node and observer. Strip the walls for mass if needed. Dice 4-6
>Perform a deep analysis on Bulwark's System, assuming permission is granted. (Mechanized Biology 11, didn't roll. Actual changes mayy require a Conversion 10 assist roll).

Coherency 12/12 // SP 12/12 // Push 1/1 // CP 7, MutP 1
DR 0 // AP 6 // Mov 4? (how do I use Mov?)
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Dutiful
Decommissioning
Dreaming
Designing

[strike]Electronics[/strike] Dedicated Decommisioner Intern?
-
Physicality 10
Senses 09
Thoughts 08
#Conversion 10 [R3]
!Green Glitter 3 - They can see me!
#Meshwire 13 [R3]
!Signalskip 2 (-2 hit for +1 range)
!Nanoflowers 2 (toggleable): +2 to nanoforma's attempts to replicate.
#Mechanized Biology 11

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The Tunnelcrawlers, slurping, shlorking along, must be some unfortunate subject line long committed to dark tunnels and low light environments, sucking moisture from the ground, eating through railway lines, devouring other prey down here. The tunnelflies are their earlier life-stage.

But these things usually come in threes. What do the Crawlers become, once their larvael stage is over?

Rolled 1, 5, 6 = 12 (3d6)

I would say-eth, then, that the difference is that we all were borne of Bob, miraculous progenitor of the entire world you knew and I was incubated in; that Bulb was not peer nor mirror, but perverse and small hearted fragment split off from far kinder whole, and that the core of Bob’s dreams were made manifest in the near all loving scripture of the priests of once, foundation of our culture, from which one will surely know his character.

…but thou art right, that most proof for all these claims is solely in mine heart and head.

I am only hours old, and like you yet not like you, and during my long seeding all I did dream of was performing mine function- to guard Bob’s village, and perform great deeds of arms and glory in his name. Thusly, if there was no Bob nor would there be me, only maybe some smaller entity somewhat in my shape, and so thou art not wrong to assert I no more impartial than the heralds and golems of Bulb.

I helped form this council first and foremost because it pleased the scriptures many scores of hour old, but secondly as so to bring together our society in exodus. Long as we serve not Evil Forces, surely the most important thing is the virtue in thine acts and loyalty to fellow wooden ones, as righteous fervour is not imposed but simply may or may not bloom.

Even as I pray, thus, that mine deed and word will sway thee to take on mine beloved cult, thou should not fear I ever waver in defending thee with all mine soul for as long as you walk with us in turn.

I do thus not based on your beliefs, but mine.
———

After that, excuse mine self from the council, for I must aid the adventurous pagans, and go examine the ruined and infested train carriage.

It contains a great bounty of flesh and metal treasures inside, but it is also filled with sleeping swarms of vermin too numerous to be driven off by the sword.

I will experiment with wielding Abiogenesis to lull the swarms into a deep, deep sleep, so a slight and clever burglar can scavenge the ruins from beneath them, or fierce hunter gain the definite advantage. Be prepared to retreat if this backfires!

(3d6 vs Abiogenesis 10, Focus 1, Edge of the Woods 2)

As an aside, warn the woodsies of the various dangers in these tunnels. Preferably, stay in the train!

>>6094443
Any word on becoming the viral herald of Bob, or should I just refund the CP?

>>6094997
Though the universe isn't particularly fussed about the particularities of what someone gets up to during downtime operations, because they do stretch out longer, the universe does maintain a generalized understanding of what amount of effort is feasibly for a given individual to get up.

Fashioning your own entire set of armor, re-organising your bodily resistance to defend against ullets, succouring and communicating and counselling an entire 14 group village of Woodsie Ones, repairing your sword, adjusting your armor so it doesn't interfere with the use of your sword, putting the captives on trial in a hour-long resolution of some pretty intense shimmering social conflict, healing yourself from the damage and drubbing recieved earlier *and* simultaneously ascending to some sort of fanatical herald status is...

... maybe your schedule is a little full? Maybe just... stick with one or two things?

Generally speaking, if there's no response at all, you can assume that there is no time or space or capability for the action to occur. In this case, inbetween the fifty other things you were doing, you did not also have time to declare yourself a glorious paladin and herald of a new religion.

Sorry, Subject. Maybe this Facility has a book on time management that will help? 7 Habits For Highly Mutative Changelings?

But do feel free to take actions and account for things - as mentioned, when resolving the world-state, things you don't have time to do you just don't have time to do.

>>6095004
I understand, wide universe.

Becoming the great conduit from which pathogenic miracles shall flow will be saved for another, slightly less turbulent day.

>>6095006
There's always tomorrow! Maybe when you've been alive longer than four hours it's time to join the clergy?

>>6094960
> Wake up and get to your feet. (Minor Action - 1AP)
> Approach one of the windows on the northfacing-side of the train near the junction. (Move - 3MP)
>Gaze out into the tunnels. How well lit are they? How far can my unassisted vision penetrate? (Test and Try - Sense10+2 - 5AP)

>>6094818
>From the deafening silence
I was asleep, my dude. The world doesn't revolve around you, no matter what you may think.

>>6094870
>In fact, after all this I want to duel him to the death to find out who the real god is.
Is this what this is all about? You're eating power sources like candy so you can become strong enough to kill me?

Lol
Lmao, even

Rolled 6, 6, 1 = 13 (3d6)

>>6094960
See if there's a route that is safe and uncovered by the eggs to get into the electronics in the abandoned carriage with Senses-11

>>6095012
I want to duel you to the death now, not later. I have all the tools I need to do so already. You down?

>Turns out, protein really is the powerhouse of industry!

>>6094960
Vit 38/38 SP --/-- CP 9
AP 6 MP 4
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
Injury Resistance 2+1 = 3
-
Riot Shield Stuck On Left Arm [Cover 2]
Riot Shield Stuck On Right Arm [Cover 2]
-
Physicality 10+1
Senses 9
Thoughts 8
Systems Interfacing 10 [Ranged]
-
!Ironheart
!Energetic Cores [12/12]
!Advanced Systems Interfacing
-
Health: Ablative Resistance Plating 4, Vit+10
Interfacing: Lifting Strength +4

>humbly request Raven to make me wooden armor

>>6095044
And why would I want to duel you? Is this why you think you deserve to get everything? You called dibs and you think you're strong enough to beat anyone who disagrees with your loot whoring?

Might makes right is no way to distribute unique loot in a team game.

>>6095049
CORRECTION
I WANT ARMOR. ANY ARMOR. GIMME FLESH ARMOR FOR ALL I CARE, I JUST WANT MOAR TOUGHNESS

Rolled 3, 3, 3 = 9 (3d6)

>>6094960
> Stand by ready to decrease the general temperature in the insect wagon to lull their senses and induce hibernation when one of the subjects tries to intrude into it and/or Samantha's negotiations with the creatures break down. [Temperature Control 12]

Now with an actually updated character sheet! I think...!

#Wilder
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 5
DR 0 AP 6 MP 3
Push 1
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
Glaciogenesis II II [SC 9]
-
Physicality 10
Senses 10
Thoughts 8
Psionigenesis 11
Temperature Control 12
-
!Psionic-Resonant.
[Microslip Precognition] (Evade additional up to Focus)
[Many Hands, Light Work]
!Telekinetic (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients)
[Temple Inviolate] (Manifest external features only)
!Peace and love, man.
-
Inventory:
Multi Tool.
Pistol.
1x C8, 2d6, 2ACC, 2Buik, 18 bullets, 1 reload (18 bullets).
-

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Samantha tries a diplomatic overture as Chimera hears the buzzing inside the carriage intensify - intensify - intensify - intensify - intensify. The exchange of chemicals, signals and buzzing and sharp movements Samantha makes means nothing to Chimera, or Wilder, when they wander over, or Autarch, when they join, and the three are left looking at the one until Samantha offers a rough translation, though translating from High Parasite to Low Prey does actually lose some of the original poetry of the language - "to nest in the flesh of another" has a more mammalian meaning in this cursed tongue but the Howling Cloud do not mean it like monkeys snigger to think they might mean it. There will be no exchange of fluids when they nest in your flesh.

--

Perhaps cooling down the carriage could induce them to sluggish torpor and but they do produce a staggering amount of heat by their sheer number. Still, that would be on good approach, Wilder realizes, as the things are apt to dislike intensities of either warmth or cold, fit more for the middle range they occupy in this dark, dry place.

--

Fox spits off a curse in very impressive Japanese and then goes to hurl an empty bean can through Consequences, who are NOT being a TEAMPLAYER and ASSISTING WITH THIS CAMERA ISSUE do you THINK it is EASIER to map the signal when you BREAK THEM HELLOOOOO???? Can someone tell the nanite-ghost to stop EATING the THING that Fox is currently trying to USE as an ENTRY into a disused section of the mesh? Do you think this is EASY? Do you think just because Fox can cobble together a connection using two augmentics, six cans of beans, a comms device and a meter of copper wire that this isn't actually a challenge? It certainly doesn't get EASIER when the CAMERAS start being EATEN!

--

Everett stares into the dark. As far as they know the Dark does not stare back, though, given how dark it is, how would one tell?

>[1/2]

Rolled 5, 6, 5 = 16 (3d6)

>>6094960
I literally don't care any more. Now, once more, with feeling,

>5 CP, 6 AP, Manifest: fourth time's the charm, surely. Manifest the ability to create telepathic auras of dread that induce despair and smother the will to live (like the repeated failures of this manifest are smothering my will to live) in those that are caught in them. Pls. Just...pls. (5 CP + 3 AP + PsychoGen 12 vs 20, !Existential Dread)

If this doesn't work, I'm going to mcfucking lose it. Not that that'll stop me from trying again, though.

#Nadir
Vit 12/12 SP 12/12 CP 14
DR 0 AP 6 MP 4
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1 Push 1
-
Conditions:
Alive!
PsyBubbling, Telekinetic Sparking 2
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
Thoughts 8
#Psychogenesis 12
Auditory +2
Haywire Cascading 11 (F+3, Area 1 [Tog], Overcharge 3)
-
!Psionic-Resonant 2
[Microslip Precognition 2] (Evade additional up to Focus)
[Many Hands, Light Work]
!Telekinetic 2 (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients)
[Temple Inviolate 2] (only Manifest External)
!Existential Dread
!Shared Sights
-
Equipment:
Biometric Card
2x Can O' Soda
6x Shards

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Bubba.v2 loudly declares a willingness to wear people's flesh as fashion in the middle of the carriage where everyone can hear them shout that at the top of their lungs, and every trooper in attendance immediately decides that this psychopathic collection of bolts and wires need watching. Those who can do so cough and shift and make slow, awkward movements, as they try not to make it too obvious they're preparing armour piercing munitions or checking their explosive stashes.

Everyone's otherwise pretty pleasant escape along the curious track is spoiled and the mood rather sours, since outburst about wearing people as a hat tends to make the poor people who have flesh to be thus worn a little on edge.

Whatever morale bonus any trooper *did* have from surviving the recent cavalcade of horror is now effectively zero, and, yeah, they're watching you. First move towards ripping someone's skin off, you're being downgraded to spare parts.

Wirehead.

--

Samantha, Wilder, Hibiscus, Autarch and Chimera ponder and consider and glance into the carriage.

Samantha translates a somewhat terse diplomatic missive, which is underscored by the distant rattling of a can bouncing off of a tunnel wall (the echo rolls along the tunnel system, somewhat loud, sudden, before fading like a distant ghost).

--

Nadir develops a hedache and hears the soft tut tut tut of the universe itself.

--
>DOWNTIME OPS aren't "turn" or "time" limited - declare general actions to attempt to respond / resolve / interact / do / move about and there'll be some sort of result.

>>6095122
I’m willing to try and induce mass insect coma if you are, and if Samantha is willing to sneak through.

If not, we can take Hibiscus’ suggestion and circle around. The lot of us should be more than enough to fight off some tunnel crawlers.

>>6095162
We could circle around and *then* lull them to a peaceful sleep, that way our spider friend has less of a trek to make through enemy grounds. I feel like since they already know we're here going through this entrance might be... ill-advised.

> >1TP (Small Unit Tactics,12) introduce the Woodsie Ones to a far crueler and evil'er God, something so dark and uncaring that they might even think about returning to the Bulb's grasp or accepting Bob's offer.
>
> ...Bureaucracy.
>
> Hello, yes, uh, I need one of you woodsie ones to be in-charge of making reports, anyone with particularly good set of craft and carving skills?
>
> >Organize the Troopers & Woodsie Ones into patrol & watch shifts. Some are already doing that but might as well formalize it so everyone know when to do it and when to take a break. Stay in pairs people! Overlapping lines of watch!
>
> Welcome to rank/role inflation... we now have Woodsie Wardens! Woodsie Watchers! and uh... yeah that's it.

(Bulwark’s player cannot post, from wherever he is)

>>6095163
A very impressive mind!

That is surely why you are a psion

I agree with that plan. The rest of you?

>>6095154
Oh, thank fuck. I was actually *this* close to mcfucking losing it after that 16 roll there. Ok, good. Let's see if I can do something that's actually legal in this quasi-downtime framework.

There seems to be some sort of a hivemind thing going on here. Well, if there's a mind, I can talk directly to it. Though, maybe that would be somewhat impolite. Let's start with the underlings first.

>Get off the tram. Approach the group next to the hivetram.
>Broadcast telepathically, so that whatever mind (or a portion of a mind) resides in the tram car can hear. "Hail, noble intellect of the Howling Cloud. I am Nadir, the Herald of Doom, though we do not bring the aforementioned to you on this day. It appears we are of common origins and thus have common enemies. We, too, are engaged in battle with a great demon known as REGENT and its demonic minions and are merely passing through your domain to the site of our next battle. Should we be victorious, the power of our mutual oppressors will be broken and you will be harassed no longer. We mean you no harm or disruption. Within this fortress lie relics of the demons. Perusing these would aid us in our future battles and, more importantly, hasten our passage through your domain. What would it take for us to come to such an arrangement?" [Thoughts 8, Duplicity 1]
>See if I can make the psybubble around me serve as adequate defense against bugs, just in case the Howling Cloud decides to turn fully hostile. Maintaining some stand-off with the bubble from my body, generate a reactive telekinetic field through it, such that it sparks whenever anything about as small as a fly tries to breach it. I am become bugzapper, destroyer of hives. [PsychoGenesis 12 + PsyBubbling + Telekinetic Sparking +2]

#Nadir
Vit 12/12 SP 12/12 CP 19
DR 0 AP 6 MP 4
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1 Push 1
-
Conditions:
Alive!
PsyBubbling, Telekinetic Sparking 2
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
Thoughts 8
#Psychogenesis 12
Auditory +2
Haywire Cascading 11 (F+3, Area 1 [Tog], Overcharge 3)
-
!Psionic-Resonant 2
[Microslip Precognition 2] (Evade additional up to Focus)
[Many Hands, Light Work]
!Telekinetic 2 (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients)
[Temple Inviolate 2] (only Manifest External)
!Existential Dread
!Shared Sights
-
Equipment:
Biometric Card
2x Can O' Soda
6x Shards

>>6095154
Ah right, we're still in downtime.
I don't suppose it'd be possible to undergo a normal manifest - one that doesn't involve cocooning oneself in a chrysalid or dealing with the messy baggage of Aberrancy rolls?

>>6095183
Nevermind.
On closer inspection, I noticed that you've already addressed the issue of Manifesting

>>6095154
> Staying close to the soft halo of light filtering out of the vehicle, circle around to the rear of the train and visually investigate (no touching) the stretch of electrical conduits and other miscellaneous mechanical constructs to the West.

>>6095183
Generally speaking not at the moment, since time is a bit more waffley and long-format. If people could Manifest the normal way, this would just be 30 turns of people doing that and nothing getting done.

One bright spot: You don't have to cocoon yourself, though. It's just that given the longer timeframe, you're assumed to do so if it would make your task easier - it's a way to inorporate small bonuses, given the time and "relaxed" environment.

Personally, if you have nothing that's dire and on your mind to spend CP on, perhaps simply wait. Nothing is lost waiting a while with manifestations, and surely stressful horror will return and get you the turn-focused Manifestations soon. It's just one thing after another out here.

Otherwise, odds are there'll be a few things to get stuck doing, or this is a fine chance to simply wander about a little. Take your time. It's been a rush lately. Maybe a quiet little relaxing tunnel time is just what the doctor ordered?

If you're thinking that it would be tremendously convenient to have the ability to see in the dark (or some other change that makes doing something easier), you'll find that the risk of Aberrancy is a little overstated compared to the utility multipliers one gets from the longer timeframe.

But alas, sorry Subject, the Aberrancy is one of those "balancing factors" on run away exponential growth. Alas, we can't forego them easily. Though there's a few ways to bypass them, and maybe you'll live long enough to find out which.

>>6095154
>Explain to Raven that what I meant was “I would wear anything if it meant protecting Bulwark better”, not a direct desire to wear skin and flesh
>Go and ask the woodsie ones for some wooden body armor. They will get hugs in return

>>6095170
>>6095163
I think it's a good idea. However we now have Nadir trying to negotiate, and the way ahead is very dark. I can manifest nightvision to help us navigate in the dark?

>>6095163
Very good idea, I have no objections.

Rolled 2, 6, 5, 3, 3, 6 = 25 (6d6)

>>6095098
>No I don't want to duel you
So then you're the coward, not me.
Unfortunately, you're still talking shit despite being a coward so you're not going to get a choice.

AP3: MANIFEST - My biophages collect viral samples and synthesize a counter-viral jihad named AIRBORNE ISIS targeting Bob's GAY PLAGUE in the train, using omnipresent genetic material. If AIDS patient zero says one more thing to me, it gets released.
>[Conversion 11, Lethality 2, Change 4]
AP3: I begin to purge his gay cooties from my system and end [Shared Senses]
>[Vitality 12]

>>6095280
(you do not have Lethality 2)

>>6095280

>/-/-/-/
>INFOBITS INNIT
>/-/-/-/

Subject: #Ketlan Knight
Vit12/12 SP 12/12 CP 14
DR 4(K) AP 6 MP 4
>Metas
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 2 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
Conditions:
Alive, Beautiful

>Skills
Physicality 10
--Rush 2
Senses 8
--[Shared Senses DISABLED]
Thoughts 8
Conversion 11
--[Graphene Filaments]: Kinetic 4DR, Cling
--[Dissonant Screech]
Stinger 12
--Leech (succ CP)
--Steal (succ attributes)
--Extend Set reach to 2-5 with 1MP/AP]
>Traits
!Virulent Entropics
--Regen 2 +1[1/2 x Features]
!Distributed Processing Cores
--+1 CP per 10HP Converted
>-
>Initiatives
>-
Creative Thinking Exercises
Sheer Violence of Action

>>6095284
3 degrees of success instead of 4 then so it doesn't matter. I did, however, forget to add my meta in [Focus 1] to my second roll, which makes it pass, so thanks.

Rolled 3, 6, 4 = 13 (3d6)

>>6095154
>Manifest an Adjustment to Senses - I want to have better vision in the dark, if feasible I would like to accomplish this with more eyes (Senses 9 + 4 CP + Malichnid taxonomy + misc. Cocoon bonus)
>Use this to participate in the loop around plan proposed by Wilder

#Splendiferous Weaver of the Threads that bind the Squirming Prey Floundering in the Underneath (Samantha)
Vit 12/12 SP 12/12 CP 12->8 VP 3 Mutagen 1 Confidence 1
DR 0 AP 6 MP 4
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1 Push 1
Claws 12 (L +2, Hooks, Sticks on 14+)
Chromatoskin 8 (Discipline 2)
Multispawn 2, Parasitic*
-
Conditions:
Structural Misalignments II [+2 to any Bleed]
Sensitive Antenna
Mobility Limbs (Ground) 2 [MP moves 2 tiles in straight line, but not when evading carefully]
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
Thoughts 8
Mutability 11
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
=Virulent Vitality 2 (Regeneration 3)
=Bound by the Flesh 2

!Hungry

Primary Taxonomy: Malichnid

>>6095298
Also don't to the manifest right in front of the abandoned train car, get safely away from it first

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>>6095300
>but yeah if Ketlan starts attacking teammates with intent to kill because of this and it doesn't get QM fiat'd away I'm not standing idly by
So from this I can take it that you're willing to duel me? Or are you a conniving coward only?

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

>>6095154
All right, well, I don't think I can much help with Fox's arcane meshweaving, nor can I rightly assist the recon efforts in this vile darkness.

Grins, could I help fix your grin?

>Grab the spare aid kit and see if I can't help treat the grievously injured - namely fix Grins' face. (SupOp 11, Aid Kit 2, Focus 1)

>>6095311
Hey, I think I'd like my half of Bulb after all. Don't eat it all - I want to set my bit on fire!

#Amelius
Vit 12/12 SP 12/12 CP 23
DR 4 AP 6 MP 4 TP 1 StrP 1
Push 1
-
Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive!
-
Physicality 11
Senses 12
Thoughts 11
Support Operations 11
Guns 11
Forensic Theology 11
-
!Inspiring Presence 2
!Dreams of the Ocean
-
C8 Personal, 2d6, Acc 2 Bulk 2, 18/19
Singularity Cloud BR-RG, 4d6 (2), Acc 5, Rcl2, Bulk 4, 21/30A, 210/210C (Broadhead Flechette)
Rugged, Modular, Sharp, Smartlink
1x Rifle reload
DR 4 vest
Aid Kit +2

>>6095314
You can resolve that with Trigger, I'm done with the homosexual "loot" system.

>>6095311
I am not willing to duel you. I think this "dueling" business is unwise and destructive to the team. Your picture accurately describes my intent. If you want to try to kill your teammates, your teammates aren't going to do nothing about it. This isn't personal to you. This doesn't mean I want to kill you or duel you or fight over honor or whatever. I want to prevent team kills.

>>6095323
Funny. Your conspiring has ensured conflict.

>>6095325
No one here is trying to start a fight but you. No one is going to fight you unless you start fighting other people. This is entirely within your control to not aggress your teammates. Please exercise restraint.

>>6095329
No, you're just trying to steal from me, talking shit about me, conniving in secret cliques, and attempting to antagonize me by abusing the dumb "loot" system, that's all.
But, nah, I'd win.
https://files.catbox.moe/xahjv2.mp4

#Died Osiris Consequences

>3MP - Move Cam-Spider to the next camera in line. Be careful not to step on the cells of Howling Swarm.
>1 AP, 13 Meshwire - Suborn the next camera in line.
>1AP, 13 Meshwire - Send the camera's info to Foxflower. Assist her in setting up a network if she asks.
>4AP, 13 Meshwire - Establish a Data Fortress within Ketlan's Nano-factory. Use SP as needed to make it a good one. Say 6, b/c this feels like a contestable action rather than a slow action.

"Subject Knight, you appear to be in distresses, and your IFF appears to be malfunctioning again. Team safety precautions engaged. Recommended Action: Service your Identification Fried-or-Foe system.".

"Subject Foxflower, you appear to be in distress. There is a metalshaper on board who can assist in the creation of superior tools. Subject Osiris can also create a signal booster if desired, but cautions that this will likely alert the Powers That Be to our presence. What assistance do you desire?".

Died Osiris Consequences briefly considered repairing the damaged wall using the rubble strewn around the track, but he didn't want to provoke further hostility from the swarm by doing so without knowing what wall-form the Swarm would like, and without the ability to accurately communicate with the Swarm decided to leave the negotiations to others.

Coherency 12/12 // SP 6/12 // Push 1/1 // CP 7, MutP 1
DR 0 // AP 6 // Mov 4? (how do I use Mov?)
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Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Dutiful
Decommissioning
Dreaming
Designing

[strike]Electronics[/strike] Dedicated Decommisioner Intern?
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Physicality 10
Senses 09
Thoughts 08
#Conversion 10 [R3]
!Green Glitter 3 - They can see me!
#Meshwire 13 [R3]
!Signalskip 2 (-2 hit for +1 range)
!Nanoflowers 2 (toggleable): +2 to nanoforma's attempts to replicate.
#Mechanized Biology 11
!Thinks He's Osiris

Rolled 2, 1, 4, 6, 2, 1, 3, 3, 5 = 27 (9d6)

Rolled 6, 5, 1, 2, 3, 6 = 23 (6d6)

"Snacksquire, you must stay and be with your people. You've done a great job, but you'll be safer here for now."

DECLARE SHEER VIOLENCE OF ACTION on Died of Consequences and anyone else who joins in the attack on me.

DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING CORES [DEFEND] - Defend against Died Of Consequences' attack, hard recompiling and purging his telepresence from my nanomesh, regenerate a new 24 character passcode at the kernel level with two factor authentication requiring physical root access to my stinger to access my nanomesh. Good luck with that last one, ghostie. (3.7x10^85 bits of entropy = 1.2 x 10^66 years @ 1 trillion guesses per second).
>[Conversion 11, Focus 1, Concentration 4]

MOVE & DO - {4-5-5-5} DISSONANT SCREECH [ATTACK] - Attack the coherency of the nanoswarm attacking me with my EMP screech.
>[Conversion 11, Lethality 2(1x2), Snapshot -4]

MP4 {5-6-5-5}

Rolled 3, 3, 6, 2, 1, 6, 4, 4, 1, 6, 3, 3 = 42 (12d6)

>>6094356
>1 more VP to Evolutionary Paradigm (Appreciate the donation, my fellow god)
>Learn by Doing: Learn Diplomacy 11
>Manifest a way to easier infect multiple people. (Pluripotentiality 13, 14 CP)
>Manifest a way to more easily manufacture advanced, multi-effect virals. And I'll spend my Mutagen on this for good measure (Pluripotentiality 13, 14CP, Mutagen. Can I push off map? If yes, I want to push this manifest too. Not rolling the extra dice before confirmation)
>I will direct the Woodsies to heal those that need it. Trish looks ghastly, Grins looks worse, Faust and Petri need help to be conscious, Malforma is full of holes, whoever else needs some medical attention. Unless I'm misremembering and Woodsies can't heal?

There comes a point in every proud parent's life where he must let his children be free. I will always be there for them even if they don't listen to me. I'm only sorry I missed their childhood. They grow up so fast!

>>6095314
You know what, Bulb is a rogue offshoot of me and I was the one to drive him out of the microscopic realm. I want my third too now.

>>6095365
You really should stop and reconsider. Surely we can discuss like presumably reasonable adults and get back to dealing with intelligent bloodsuckers in dark tunnels instead of fighting each other like squabbling children in a playground?

#Bob the Primogen
Virality 0 Push 1
Coherency 8/8 SP 9/9 CP 0 Mutagen 1
Regeneration 3
DR 0 AP 6 MP 4
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Health 10 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
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Conditions:
Nanocytic Countersampling II (Max Coherency -2)
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Physicality 10
Senses 9
=Shared Sights
Thoughts 8
Diplomacy 11
Mutability 10
Pluripotentiality 13 [Aura 3, Vector]
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!Biomodulation Strain #3
= Fleshshaping
= Virulent Vitality 2
= Bound by the Flesh 2
!Overprotective

>>6095262
>>6095276
>>6095163

Well, let’s go!

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The carriage continues down the tunnels, beams piercing the darkness. Samantha spots another intersection that seems to lead to a parallel and Wilder and Hibiscus forms the vanguard as they - carefully - loop back around to come up closer to the abandoned carriage full of buzzing.

Meanwhile, Nadir tries diplomatic overtures, but seems to have radically misestimated the Howling Clouds appreciation for arcane hierarchies and class systemics. To declare oneself a Herald of a thing one so certainly is not is a poor start to relations, and Food with pretentions of commonality with Eaters is simply thinking thoughts above one's station.

--

Everett carefully investigates some wires. Sprawl from the super conductive highway that everyone left behind in the Processing Cores. They run through everything in here, in the walls, in the ground, sometimes. The Facility has a hunger for power like the Howling Cloud hungers for the warmth of others to put their eggs in.

--

A tense negotiation breaks down into a squabble.

>[1/2]

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Nadir keeps distracting the Howling Cloud, though some might call it "diplomacy", even if that tends to presume a certain equal-peer level relationship between parties and the Howling Cloud have long since decided that anyone not them falls sharply into the category of Food, which makes trying to negotiate from a presumption of equality a little bit of a difficulty. The Lion very rarely discusses territory borders with the gazelle, such as it were - it'd take a very cunning gazelle.

At least when they're talking they're not drinking.

--

From the back, the carriage looks less busted. It didn't hit anything. Must been used to move along and repair? There are signs of abandoned work in the walls, and the storage section further back still holds wiring and electronic microscrap. Maybe the facility staff was trying to restore this section, string out some lights, fix the rails, when they encountered the tunnelflies and met a rapid end?

There's the signs of it - long discarded brass casings on the ground from handguns fired, futility, and what looks vaguely like five to eight skeletons clustered around the exit doors. Vaguely. It's hard to be certain. The parts that aren't brittle dust are dried scraps and there's neither meat nor anything else in attendance. Could just be paradolia and a likely pile of rocks.

--

The newly inaguarated Woodsie Watchers take up the perimeter and their officer accepts the mantle of the flowers of authority with, uh, let's be honest here, it's a look of confusion in their deepgreen sensory orbs but a faint inkling of pride, perhaps, at having performed the gruelling physical challenge that earned this posting.

The Woodsie Watchers report all clear, except that there appears to be some sort of awkward squabble-fight happening near one of the tunnels.

--
>DOWNTIME OPS aren't "turn" or "time" limited - declare general actions to attempt to respond / resolve / interact / do / move about and there'll be some sort of result.

>>6095688
> With scant few pressing matters to attend to - and not terribly eager to scout ahead of the tram down virtually pitch-black tunnels - Everett decides to vacate the periodically sparking railway tracks, boarding the slowly advancing tram once more and monitoring the developing situation from within. (Downtime)

>>6095700
It does seem safer now that the Woodsies have armored up the walls a little with these fetching plates of wood and tangles of roots.

Hey did you see that? In the wires? Something just shifted a little - the sound of the pop and cackle. Power re-routing.

Wonder what that's about.

>>6095688
> Explain to the woodsies what Fox wants them to do, and what the flesh words of up and down mean

> Use my Abiogenesis to accelerate our trooper’s natural healing enormously.

People are discussing feeding the blood bugs a massive dollop of blood from our biomutants, so it seems that the plan to lull them into coma is not only not necessary, but very dangerous- they have psionics too!

>>6095706
Ah.
Perhaps I should have warned someone in the front carriage about the overcharged rails and crackling wires.
Possibly a grave oversight.
Time will tell.

Rolled 1, 1, 1 = 3 (3d6)

>>6095688
Okay, I'm sick of this. All for some measly crumbs of flesh and mutation-volatility.

>1TP (Small Unit Tactics,12) someone please grab the corpse of the Great Demon (Gluttony) and toss it at Ketlan. If they're going to fight, it would be greatly appreciated outside the tram carriage. Plus they can keep watch on it because I don't like the way it pulsates- Woodsie Warden! stab it again!

Then just a series of misceallenous actions that I hope I can fit in somewhere along the lines.

>"Bubba, do you really need that much armour?"
>Pat Tietra on the back, they're doing a good job psychically containing the Bulb.
>"Raven, Grins, Alekson, can you please stop conspiring to kill someone, I'm already getting a headache from a certain squabble, I do not want to deal with any more blue-on-blue bloodspills- even if it's an awkward robot that wants to wear flesh armour, you have to respect people's tastes, diversity is our strength here and tolerance is (go into the most boring half-hour lecture about workplace limits & safeplaces)"
>Also, remind everyone of the obvious. "STAND CLEAR OF RAIL-LINES, PLEASE."

Hope that isn't doing too much, Command.

>>6095719
Hardly a problem - the carriage is, uh, well, with all the wood, maybe less conductive, and more flammable, but even if the worst happens some of the roots will just catch fire.

Oddities in the wires should offer no danger to your transportation.

But it does seem as if the power to this section is erratic. Almost as if it is cycling, or being redirected? Someone or some thing somewhere is playing with the fuses.

>>6095713
Offering tribute to the tunnelflies does seem a viable path forward. Some quick back-of-the-envelope calculation and a once-over of your available liquid assets indicates that a standard a human being has a delectable 30 points or so of blood, some times a little more, sometimes a little less, and assuming that half the hitpoints spent on the way to death are structurally relevant.

The Tunnelflies - the Howling Cloud - must have recently eaten at least six security operatives. Those odd rocks that might be dried bones should be them.

We are a larger party, but some of our members are not of the standard bleeding sort. If you offer anything less than the same amount that they acquired by combat, it *could* be taken as invitation to simply acquire more by aggression. Best be careful. Using six security officers with 30 points of blood each as a minimu because the Howling Cloud did take that in combat.

Six times thirty, arriving at a 150.

Your Bio-varibility crew - Everett, Chimera and Samantha - would therefore be dried out and mostly dead if you asked them offer this bounty.

And that seems the minimum possible payment to avoid insult. It seems likely that we would should offer an aggregate 200 points of Vitality (or any such number higher than what we can deduce that the Howling Cloud thinks they can take in direct combat, that is, six security human security officers leading to a 150 points of blood). More is probably better. Everyone appreciates higher tribute.

If you supercharge the healing capabilties of your friends and a poke hole in them to bleed them, they also die.

Or more correctly, they dry out. Their bones, their brains, their muscles, all converted to the blood you then keep siphoning away. Regeneration is not a perpetual motion machine - simply having regeneration does not allow you to endlessly spigot meat and mass for free use, or world hunger would be solved in the most gruelling way possible and our biomutants could cut off their arms to feed us.

>>6095743
Well shit.

Insect coma might be a go.

>>6095743
So, a system cannot produce mass from nowhere, and "regeneration" implies resilience, it does not imply the ability to grow without end and no input.

Luckily, we have supplies!

Assuming each point of supply amounts to roughly 10 vitality and knowing we have 9 left, after earlier medical care and someone's armour making, we can offer 90 vitality by simply dipping into all the beans we have in storage and giving the biomutants something to recover all the blood and mass and they shed in the leeching process, after we convert them to temporary sentient bloodbags and poke them full of holes.

They'll need some extra to ward off the horrendous dehydration, having already tapped into their reserves during the week long recovery slumber. Still, we have supplies, so if we use all of those, they should be at a point where they can split out the remaining 150-90 = 60 dmg between them at 20 points each, and go to -10 Vitality, having reduced their maximum vitality down to 0 and then taking damage further.

Then we'd have to transport 150++ units of blood to where it needs to be, which seems possible given the telekinetics present. They can likely carry that, either in smaller units or in one large diconcerning ball of liquid.

That part seems logistically nightmarish but only in the sense of the nightmares it will give you, the actual physical act is rather simple and straight forward, so let us assume that part is simple.

We cannot leech Faust and Petri, they are close to dying already, we cannot leech Trish and Grins, they're beat up and would probably die from it, we cannot leech Alekson because we keep poking him with needles and finding no veins which is VERY INFURIATING but LUCKY FOR HIM.

The Woodsies are sap-full and nutrient-rich, and they do bleed a very fetching kind of green hued slow-flow sap.

Taking 10 points of vitality from each of them gives us a 150, since there are 15, which is actually surprisingly fortunate doing the math right now. Unfortunately, they do not have recuperative cabilities so if we ask them to donate their life essence, odds are they'll be slow and sluggish in recovery and they are all fighting off the influence of a fanatical pathogen. Compromising their vitality at this time seems awkward.

Your augmented crews - Gallium, Neogenesis, Bubba, Ketlan, Consequences, others of the robotic persuasion - rightly have "coolant" and not "blood", so it's no good as tribute.

Looks like in the end, you're left with

15 Woodsies
Everett, Samantha, Chimera
Autarch
Nadir, Wilder, Sigma
Bulwark, Sundae, Amelius, Hibiscus
Sgt Grone (He's always rearing to take one for the team)

There is also the Heart of the Wood, which can produce a clear, sap-like fluid with remarkable properties and delicious taste and

7 Ripthings in total, but they do not understand the concept of "willing blood donation" and may require some serious convincing.

Rolled 5, 4, 6, 2, 3, 1 = 21 (6d6)

>>6095688

The Bulb you thieves want so bad is back on the train so I don't know what you're over here for other than to die to my screeches.

>DISSONANT SCREECH at the two plagues chasing me. "THE BULB WON'T MAKE YOUR USELESS FORM ANY STRONGER. YOU WILL NEVER GET A KILL. YOU HAVE NO CORPOREAL FORM, YOU HAVE NO LETHALITY. "
[Conversion 11, Lethality 2(1x2)]
>DISSONANT SCREECH again. "YOU ARE A CORPSE TWISTED BY VIRULENCE RESEARCH INTO A MOCKERY OF MY BIOMECHANICAL PERFECTION. YOU ARE DEAD WEIGHT TO THE TEAM AND ALWAYS HAVE BEEN."
[Conversion 11, Lethality 2(1x2)]
Release AIRBORNE ISIS to banish Bob
Let Osiris chill out in my nanolathe so I can screech him every turn until he dies. Nice move!
MP4 {4-5-4-5}

>>6095748
>>6095743
The Boblian quietly dragging its root-appendages over the train and being involved in a squabble over by the other tunnel is a living system with appreciable mass as well, and would actually be fantastic tribute. A little eager Woodsie with a notepad runs some quick numbers after spending 20 minutes learning algebra, and offers the (interesting) fact that the Boblian appears to mass-class at

550 Vitality total, before complete and total destruction and dusting (50*-10 +50) , and assuming half of them is structurally relevant you are left with 250 points of somewhat-passable fluid. Surely that, in its enormity, gives the Tunneflies great pause - and because it's so big, they can insert even more eggs into it.

You could give them the Boblian, and likely, it would be a good and grand offer. It's certainly big enough.

The Woodsies are a little recalcitrant to offer up what was once a Worldtree but the influence of Bob's twisting pathogen has already somewhat altered it far beyond its usual specifications, so are willing to part with it because it doesn't really seem that. . . sacred . . . any more.

--

You do have a lot of liquid net worth sloshing around in your veins in aggregate, so it does seem fairly straightforward to pay these toll booth operators for their time. Nadir's probing distracting diplomacy seems to indicate that they respect territory and agreements enough if clothed in the correct verbiage. Striking a deal seems eminently possible.

The question becomes how to go about paying them and who, or what, in the most literal sense, pays the price.

>>6095759
>>6095748
Be kind to the Woodsies. They've *just* learned about math.

Six times 30 is 180.

>>6095760
"You're doing good! a little bit more arithelmetic and you'll be on your way to earning a Silver Flower!"

…..so we either bleed half the team to the point of anaemia and dehydration, or we sacrifice the tree

This is egregious robbery, all because they conquered a convenient part of the geography. If they won’t just let us roll away, why shouldn’t we changelings drink *their* blood?

It’s not like we’re short on area attacks!

>>6095766
It does seem a little trite, to operate a toll booth on a disused rail-line and demand non-trivial payment for the prospect of avoiding death by insect-swarm.

Though it would be a trade. If they value the red stuff so much the thing they give in return should at least be commensurate.

Though that all said, it is a fact that they are in abandoned rail carrige on a side tunnel and we are in a fully mobile, powered system on one of the main lines.

It would be possible to hit the accelerator and simply move on and leave them far behind. Even if they can match us for speed briefly, they would leave their "fortress" behind.

It does mean we'd be advancing into the darkness without a better understanding of the terrain but we have been doing that already, so it won't make our situation noticably *different*. Maybe the next insect empire is more friendly?

>>6095775
In that case, I would elect we just move on.

I think the odds of applying a psionic sleep are too low, if they too are psionic, nor do I believe whatever is within the nest is worth trading the health of half our team, and nor do I wish to pick death-fights just because they’re being intensely unreasonable.

Whatever is deeper in the tunnels, we can face it as a (well hydrated) team.

>>6095688
>>6095786
I am also amenable to just moving on if no one has a bright and confident idea for exterminating the bugs.

>>6095706
If the power is on, is there a chance another train is coming? Perhaps we can somehow telemagically redirect it to hit the back carriage where the eggs are

>>6095801
We're in a sort-of abandoned section, might be possible with how REGENT and PHAROAH are fighting though they mind just send a train our way as part of their erratic and confusing schemes.

>>6095802
*they MIGHT send a train our way

Rolled 2, 4, 2, 6, 6, 6, 4, 6, 2 = 38 (9d6)

>Move 2 SE, 1S

>Attack Subject Knight's Cyborg Mind (thoughts), attempting to knock them out. Meshwire 13, 10ish nodes, 3AP, 1 Push, -6 for Strike x3, assuming each node is a +1. If I can't use the nodes, then only do Strike x1. Dice 1-6.

>Active Defense - Disable Subject Knight's nanogenerator, which apparently is also the source of their screech. Meshwire 13, 3AP, 10ish nodes if I can use them fully for both tasks. If I need to pledge them, then pledge them to inducing a nap instead. Dice 7-9.

I have mechanized biology, although I'm attacking using the meshwire and targeting the Graywire Fragment's ECM and Data Manipulation vulnerabilities. Not sure if it contributes to putting Ketlan to bed or not.

"Subject Knight, you are engaging in hostilities against friendlies. Please cease and desist. Thank you.".

"Bio-Subjects may wish to convince the foliage growing over the train car to emit insect deterrent similar to what we found near the Patriarch Tree. Such chemical deterrents should deter the smaller insects and discourage them from raiding and pillaging the beans".

Note: I have no interest in loot or the corpse. The intent in this battle is to stop Subject Knight from attacking the other Subjects, and to fix their malfunctioning IFF. Osiris isn't looking to necromance or eat either Gluttony or Bulb.

Coherency 12/12 // SP 12/12 // Push 1/1 // CP 7, MutP 1
DR 0 // AP 6 // Mov 4? (how do I use Mov?)
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Dutiful
Decommissioning
Dreaming
Designing

[strike]Electronics[/strike] Dedicated Decommisioner Intern?
-
Physicality 10
Senses 09
Thoughts 08
#Conversion 10 [R3]
!Green Glitter 3 - They can see me!
#Meshwire 13 [R3]
!Signalskip 2 (-2 hit for +1 range)
!Nanoflowers 2 (toggleable): +2 to nanoforma's attempts to replicate.
#Mechanized Biology 11

>>6095801
That's an interesting thought. The power itself would only cycle if there are redirections of larger components and subsystems.

The Howling Clouds appear to have attacked and killed a group of Facility Staff navigating the tunnels. From their chittering natter, time is hard to derive - they think in terms of consumption and growth - but these men cannot have been dead for long.

Perhaps . . . days?

If so, yes - then yes! - yes indeed, another carriage could be coming. Other Facility Staff could be navigating this very environment. Perhaps Sanitation prowls to clear it up, hunting us down? Perhaps Security is on our trail?

It would be a chess move for REGENT to send us down here and then forward this information to facility staff. If they were in the area too, reclaiming or rebuilding or scourging lost tunnels then they might begin to prowl towards us, roaming the railines in search of prey.

>>6095804
>>6095802
REGENT could be bypassing some of PHARAOH's larger systems by manual shuttle. PHARAOH could be attempting to nurture other schemes by sending drones to cut wires. You're correct. If we're stuck in a battle between advanced systems, they would use many tricks.

--

With a leg up from a Woodsie, Fox digs into the cameras a little further and splices into the wires, trying to steal active data. It'll take a few minutes to work out the why of it, but if your theories are true, we could use that. It might indeed be possible to derail a wagon. Or at least know one is coming.

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>>6095801
( with a little extra investigation, it doesn't even require telemagically. This intersection that you ventured down to find the parallel that leads to the other carriage - down one tunnel, in the distant, noise recedes, buzzing fills the air.

This system looks little old and disused. One could re-adjust the trajectory of incoming other transportation by moving the intersection locks.

It'd take throwing a switch - which seems old and rusted - but perhaps it's because the electronic overrides are hidden in deeper layers and defended. Hacking it could also therefore do it.

Then anything coming down this way would redirect into the back of the abandoned carriage, in some calamitious collision.

Although it seems an ingenious solution (well done Hibiscus), it still doesn’t seem right to me to murder a swathe of strangers just to crack open a nest of brigand bugs we could easily bypass.

I don’t think we should purposefully arrange vehicular carnage.

>>6095902
There is admittedly no guarantee that anything is coming this way. It could mean hours standing about wasting time, and who knows when they might grow impatient?

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The Snackwarden dispenses a snack from the carriage, as Fox forms a paltform out of four struggling Woodsie Ones. Many strengths they have but not much actual strength.

--

[1/2]

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I got! I got it!

okay no one let the nanotic system eat this camera, I actually need a live link to bounce the chain, though it having eaten the last one and made it some kind of scuttling spider fractal is *helpful* because we -do- have some access codes, and we can juuuust about... bounce a ping... down the line...

WOAH
REGENT's active as a hell down here. It's...

for real???

hang on

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... Alright, okay, okay, good work plants.

It looks like REGENT is... No, let me start somewhere else.

Look, this? This is US - We took a forced detour *away* from Advanced Systems Testing and down this abandoned stretched we're are JUST coming out of.

There's route split near the intersection we passed about ten minutes ago. The sensors in those system are barely responding, the signals are doing and neither PHARAOH or REGENT are dedicating much processing to it. And look, all the cameras I can access just show more of these Howling things.

But those service tunnels and this area we're in leads towards Substant RAU, #1, I'm not sure what the acronym is for.

And from there, the network splits even further. There are three points of interest to us because it lets us get out of here.

There's a subhub that's marked as biologically contaminated. That must mean more Howling Clouds? Massive outstanding Sanitation Order, but it's been there for weeks; this facility was maybe already undergoing some problems before we broke out of our cells.

There's a SubHub station that network refuses to accept exists, but it has to be there - the plans all lead to it. It's been completely sequestered and it's behind multiple concurrent security lockdowns.

And then there's ... *this*... an outstanding maintence repair order and high priority codes for REGENT systems.

These tunnels aren't nearly as abandoned as the last stretch - REGENT is doing something down here! It might even be related to this other section that's been blocked off.

So it *looks like* we can take the tram and try the service tunnels, swarming with the Howling Clouds. They might let us find an exit. The system there is so degraded neither REGENT or PHAROAH can watch everything. There has to be blast doors and ... ladders?? it doesn't control. But those bugs give me the creeps; no slight Samantha.

Alternatively, we barrel on ahead: at the 17RAU, we then pick a path either towards the subhub with the oustanding Sanitation Order, the unknown sequestered one if we can make it past the security lockdown, or right down the mainline towards this station that REGENT is very active at.

No matter what route we go by, we might find some smaller tunnels or byways. The access I have here is not great. Because *certain entities* keep *eating the cameras*. And it seems like in sequestering parts of that distant transport hub past RAU, the systems aren't talking together as much as they should.

So, yeah. Uh... what do we do?

Try our luck in the service tunnels, or push on ahead, then see what routes are available for the next tunnels?

>>6095688
Alright, one last round of negotiations.

>Continue communicating with the apparently psionically-active mass of insects: "You speak with much grandiosity, most of it undue. Bound by the demons above, you fled to these dank depths, the abandoned limits of their domain, and now squat here, subsisting off of their cast-offs and whatever pathetic minions they deign to send down here to check if you still persist. We are both meant for far grander things, things beyond the confines of this wretched facility. Despite your misguided, arrogant assertions to the contrary, we have that much in common. We will be endeavoring to leave your domain now. It would be appreciated if you were to show us a path through. Make no attempts to make a meal out of us, however. We have battled the fearsome warriors of Sec Ur to a standstill, forcing them to deploy their most powerful warriors and ecosystem-destroying weaponry. You will not find us easy prey. The price we will exact upon your multitudes will far exceed what sustenance you may extract from us. And even then, it is well within the capabilities of my allies to deny you such, be it through poison, incineration, or other means. I will reiterate, we mean you and yours no harm and us coming to blows would play into REGENT's (metaphorical) hands." [Thoughts 8, !Telekinetic 2]
>With that, bid the Howling Cloud (a hopefully final) adieu, and get back on the tram.

>>6095942
I know our ultimate goal here is to get out of the facility and such we should take an optimal route to find the exit.

But how much time do we actually have here- aside from how long it takes for our rations to run dry.

REGENT is aware we're here, somewhat, right? I mean they sent us here so there must be some sort of time-frame theyre expecting us to face difficulty, hardship and presumably perish.

Ideally, if we have enough time, we could comb through the relevant substations and service facilities to grab whatever we need and establish a foothold, but, I think that's unlikely given a rough estimate of time we have.

Not sure though, up to you guys. I like the idea of finding a substation to gather more intel though. Though all the Transport SubHubs seem to be in... disrepair so I doubt we'll get much info if any.

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>>6095950
We have enough beans for ... well, a day, with this many people. But the Heart of the Wood produces some fungus, and the Woodise Ones said they'd prepare a broth later. And the Snacksquire has a backpack full of soda.

We should have enough time to be cautious, though I don't like spending hours down here - the walls close in. Who knows what crawls out?

The Transport SubHubs are in dissaray and disrepair, yes. This place is still old and abandoned, it just seems as if REGENT recently moved in to expand the space. Build something.

We'll have to head towards a SubHub eventually and make our escape back to the surface, that's where those exits are more likely to be. The path there? Who knows. Could be the ones we've got information on now, but could be we find one thorugh the service tunnels. I couldn't get a read on that area of the system. It's too ... buggy.

>--
>DOWNTIME OPS aren't "turn" or "time" limited - declare general actions to attempt to respond / resolve / interact / do / move about and there'll be some sort of result.
>Some actions still pending resolution, since we're nice and slow and others might have opinions. Consequences, Ketlan, locked in combat for now.

>>6095942
>>6095957
Lockdowns and supplies.
If they have been officially marked down like this, they were probably purposefully put into place for the sake of facility employees actively working in the area. If that is true, then there is surely an exit from these tunnels somewhere in that direction.
Conversely, there is no guarantee that the bloodfly infested passages don't terminate in collapses or dead ends. Additionally, the howling clouds are also many times more troublesome to combat than security personnel.
> Everett supports raiding Substation 17RAU.

Rolled 1, 6, 3 = 10 (3d6)

>>6095957
Welp, either way, we've got to push forward here.

>1TP (Small Unit Tactics,12) Alright you lot! Pack it up, we're moving. Leave the fight-hungry and blood-hungry to their own devices. They have plans beyond plans we cannot envision even if its very entertaining.

>Onwards, I say, to Substation 17RAU.

>>6095957
>Ever so slightly happy no needless bloodshed from either party had to occur, Wilder returns to the tram, ready to continue on towards Substation 17RAU.

>>6095902
>"Well if the chain of command says so..."
>Hibiscus goes back to the train, refraining from voting. Whichever way is fine.

>>6095957
>"I have said all that needed to be said. Farewell."
>Get back on the tram.

>Wherever we go from there, the first step in this journey is sure to be 17RAU.

>>6095973
Autarch is not the chain of command, feel free to vote against him

>>6096023
The Woodsie Ones have voted in favour of Autarch's plan with 15 more votes.

If Hibiscus withdraws their vote, Autarch's plan will still be up 16 votes.

…I have a plan-

I mean

Ah

Yes, let us go to 17RAU, and leave these bugs behind

All aboard!

>>6096086
Ok...? Doesn't make him the chain of command. I was just letting Hibiscus know Autarch is not our leader and they should feel free to contradict him. His plan is fine though, you can add my vote to it.

>>6096094
The Woodsies have taken a new vote, against your position. 15 to 1 says Autarch is the glorious leader of this Pilgrimage to the Lands Of Light.

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Weighing the odds and the scale of it it seems a scant thing to pick a fight with a fortress full of tunnelflies. Everyone returns to the carriage as Gallium gives the signal and NeoGenesis, todays surprising operator, begins to move the carriage forward into the darkness.

Hours in tunnels, some large, some claustrophobic, is what it feels like. It may just have been minutes, it could have been days, the distance warps and space breaks and the beans run low, and the Woodsies prepare a fungral broth that is delectable and earthy, and on and on we go.

And then, suddenly, it's not a tunnel that hums with the faint sound of hunger and wings, the Howling Clouds shadowing our passing through their realm, waiting for their moment to strike when our guard is low.

Suddenly, instead it is . . . lights. Lights and the soft *hum* of power banks, wires, redirective substations, RAU 17 in all its glory, and glory it is. The ceiling is high. The area is... bathed in light. Some of the wiring looks positively refreshed, even if, as Everett can attest, touching it is a bad idea.

Is this place ... yes it must be. Look, over there, Samantha spots it, keen eyes, someones left a spanner out of place and there's too little dust here. The high ceiling has recent plaster applied.

RAU #17 is being maintained! This substation is visited actively by teams of Facility staff. The power it hums with and redirects elsewhere is being bent towards some purpose.

And look, over there. Enormous security doors. But not the ones we thought we'd find. No. The way to the sequestered transport hub? Surely, Fox spotted a lockdown there.

But that one is new.

On the air, beyond the stale scent of the recycling and venting, a faint trace of . . . sanitation bleach. Maintenace oil. Boot polish. Someone's cleaning these tunnels, then, meter by meter by meter.

Now what?

The only way to easily proceed is through the network upwards, towards the Biologically contaminated Subhub, through unknown tunnels. But this place has light and activity. Surely, if we search around, if we investigate, or if we have some cunning idea, we can figure out a way past these enormous security doors.

>--
>DOWNTIME OPS aren't "turn" or "time" limited - declare general actions to attempt to respond / resolve / interact / do / move about and there'll be some sort of result.

>[1/2]

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It is dark.
It is warm.
It is dry.
The carriage has rolled on, as you fight and roll and throw counter-virals at each other, nanotic systems sparking and dying, swarms tearing and fragmenting and reforming - some attempting persuasion, others attempting war. The clash mounts, the energies increasing. Screeches of discordance haywire hell roll through the tunnels, loud and piercing. Claws rent the ground, up-scale virals tear at the walls and it is dark and dry and warm and violent and

you are not alone.

the screeching, the haywire, the electronic wide-spectrum signal counters, the counter measures to the countermeasures to the countermeasures.

in the dark forest, you do not make your presence known. the things that find you might not always be friendly.

>>6096138
> Scan the station for any doors or structures, not including the blastdoors (they're rather self-explanatory). If any are found, approach carefully and investigate.

>>6096138
>Carefully scavenge for supplies, especially looking for food if available. Be very mindful about my footing and any security measures.

>>6096138
Help Samantha look for supplies

Human tools and biomatter is especially precious.

>>6096138
>>6096164

(I am not a disembodied ghost.)

Rolled 2, 1, 6 = 9 (3d6)

>>6096138

>1TP (Small Unit Tactics,12) Fox, you know what to do (go find a terminal and get information)! Raven, go with Fox. You seem to... work well together. Is there something going on between you two? I don't want to assume or anything but do you... like eachother?

>Ask Grins, "Do you want to uh, move about at all? Why are you just grinning... Okay, if you want, follow me, I'm gonna try to go scavenge for stuff."

>Move southwards, there seems to be a room down there?

>>6096138
Command

We didn’t lose Bulb in the tunnels, did we?

I think that would seem to be very very bad

>>6096138
>Prowl through the corridors in search of a suitable replacement for the dinky pistol. Rifle, automatic, preferred.

>>>6096138
>Move 5-5-6
>2ER: hug Bulwark
>6AP: "We're gonna make it"

>>6096138
Command, I tried some manifests, nudged Boblian's evolution and told the woodsies to heal people. Was something wrong with my actions?

>>6096138
>The substation is being maintained: look for spots that look like they have been used most recently. Maybe they left behind something useful?

>>6096138
>Recovery. Regain control of the Telekinetic Sparking feature. Really don't want it going off here, of all places. [PsychoGenesis 12]
>oh and get out of the walls. Cozy, but I'd prefer to be on the tram with the rest of the crew.

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>>6096206
Well, you could crawl through tunnels and the corridors, prowling, searching, scavenging, scrounging. Perhaps if you seek high and look low you'll find the trail of Security and one of their dead and dying officers - someone to take from, steal from. Perhaps you might find other things.

An adventure, you could have, in these tunnels, to prowl the corridors, to look. There are treasures here. Forgotten troves of fallen insect empires, the scavenge of nations, all those other Subjects who fled and came here in the dark to escape from the worlds above. Who even knows??

Hibiscus, ah, the things you could *discover* down here in the depths.

But alternatively though that's a lot of work and, like, *if you want*, there's two spare assault rifles in the storage locker on tram.

Hell, grab a baton and a can of beans while you're there - the little Woodsie with the notepad says we've got enough.

>>6096169
Seems Tiertra outsourced holding it behind a wall of her forcefields now that Ketlan's gone off to fight. So it's stuck in a cabinet for now. In a nice little glass jar with a good lid.

That... probably holds it? Right? A mason jar with a good lid? Tierta is suddenly unsure. She's going to put some ducttape on the cabinet so we know which one it is.

>>6096215
Good thought. It looks like that section near the doors have something valuable; you're wandering over - navigating this place is a bit of a hazard. They haven't finished putting in the safety signs yet.

>>6096209
That's enough force to pulverize concrete.

>>6096217
Seems rather simple to prevent it going off - simply don't use telekinesis, ever, and it won't spark-surge. Some sort of electro-static phenomenom in the way the force is projected. Unfortunately, it looks like it's pretty resilient.

Something about spending 18 CP and a mutagen in the same series of Manifests appears to have bound it pretty straight right into your soul. That's not going away for a while. Looks like you'll just have to get used to the static electricity surges - though of course if you can pull off a Recovery check against Will at - 22, it'd be just as good.

>>6096210
Seems to have worked reasonably fine. The Boblian is Boblian'ing and the Woodsies are wandering about poking and tending and adding more wood to the train.

Unfortunately singing the Songs of Briars Growing do not seem to help either Petri or Faust, and they're not *great* with modern medicine, being somewhere around the neolithic age as far as their technology-cultural level goes. Amelius got good use out of them bringing him additional bottles of soda, though, and extra assistants is always appreciated.

As for Manifests, Command probably decided not to resolve those actions because it seemed you were a little too busy discussing how and what to do with dead bodies and dying Bulbs and other such things.

Command didn't want to get in the way of that discussion; and debating matters of distribution naturally takes time that then cannot be spent on other things - it happens.

>>6096232
Oh! Then take a Combo Rifle and a Charged Baton.

>Nod and give thanks to the Woodsies, Then follow the other scouting groups as a rearguard

#Hibiscus
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0
AP 6 MP 4 TP 1
-
Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 11
Thoughts 10
Small Unit Tactics 10
-
!Nerves of Cold Steel
[Cool Under Fire]
[Not By The Numbers]
!Smells like flowers
-
Inventory:
SecVest 4DR
Charged Baton L+1, Stun 1
Combo Rifle 4d6 (2), 5ACC, 5Bulk, 30A
Pistol

Putting here so I don't forget

>>6096255
>Recovery check against Will at - 22
Alright, I guess we doin electricity surges now

What do PsyBubbling and Telekinetic Sparking +2 even do, mechanically-speaking? Sparking is pretty clear, I'm just wondering how strong the electrical surges are. The bubbling seems like it does a whole lot, so parsing exact mechanics from that one sentence is hard. The only thing I'm told for sure about it that it can't do dexterous stuff.

Rolled 4, 5, 2 = 11 (3d6)

>>6096255
Fine, I'll do it myself.
>Create a virus that regenerates the infected person's damaged tissues. Infect all who need it. (Pluripotentiality 13, Focus 1)

#Bob the Primogen
Virality -2 Push 1
Coherency 12/12 SP 12/12 CP 28 Mutagen 1
Regeneration 3
DR 0 AP 6 MP 4
-
Health 10 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive, melancholy
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
=Shared Sights
Thoughts 8
Diplomacy 11
Mutability 10
Pluripotentiality 13 [Aura 3, Vector]
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
= Fleshshaping
= Virulent Vitality 2
= Bound by the Flesh 2
!Overprotective

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Rolled 5, 1, 2, 2, 2, 5 = 17 (6d6)

>>6096138
DISSONANT SCREECH x2 on Consequences even though it seems to be doing fuck-all. I manifested this feature specifically to fight these so-called Gods and Ghosts with coherency and omnipresence.
[Conversion 11, Lethality (1+2)x2 (I think?)]

Movement: Continue trying to leave. I can literally cling-move on ceilings and walls, woodie ones cannot stop me.

This is literally my best matchup possible and he has chained himself to me to die. This is a redux of his last radical trick. He made bad tactical choices now he is delete.

>>6096328

>/-/-/-/
>INFOBITS INNIT
>/-/-/-/

Subject: #Ketlan Knight
Vit12/12 SP 12/12 CP 0
DR 4(K) AP 6 MP 4
>Metas
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
Conditions:
Alive, Beautiful

>Skills
Physicality 10
--Rush 2
Senses 8
--[Shared Senses DISABLED]
Thoughts 8
Conversion 11
--[Graphene Filaments]: Kinetic 4DR, Cling
--[Dissonant Screech]: +2L Cone Attack to Attack Coherency; Haywire
Stinger 12
--Leech (succ CP)
--Steal (succ attributes)
--Extend Set reach to 2-5 with 1MP/AP]
>Traits
!Virulent Entropics
--Regen 2 +1[1/2 x Features]
!Distributed Processing Cores
--+1 CP per 10HP Converted
>-
>Initiatives
>-
Creative Thinking Exercises
Sheer Violence of Action

>>6096145
Yeah I have Cling and I've been trying to move with you ignoring my movement this whole time. This can't happen. If you want to strike me dead with fiat then just do it, don't act like I chose to stand still. I can literally kill every player against me in this game if arbitrated fairly.

>>6096145

Well, this is boring. Like Sisyphus exerting effort with no effect. Like Tantalus, the fruit remaining ever out of reach. The skull, the arms, the arrow and the claws. No one remains to reap a harvest of Gluttony but yourself. Will you choose to again stand in the shadow of destruction to devour leftovers? For my part, this reality is too confined and sterile, so I abandon it for a world of buttons and levers. For what SCIENCE! is there to be had in the inert? What experimentation if all attempts yield the same result? If War is truly what you desire, ask the Universe politely and perhaps it will provide? GLHF.

>transfer consciousness to the nodes on the train.

>If that fails, take my green tinged pixie self and fly wide following the camera line back to the group and the Foxy one.

One last gift since I won't be allowed to fight you losers.

MOVE & DO: GRAB GLUTTONY
MOVE & DO: CLING CEILING
MOVE & DO: INJECT HEAL
ALL SP ON MOVEMENT
COMMIT: HUSTLE

Follow the train and let NPC Ketlan have the fun I won't get to have.
NPC Ketlan will flee from Gluttony and use his stinger to sting & grapple non-NPCs and slam them into the ground 5 hexes in the other direction next to some mobs before using cling and hustle to run away. He'll then recover and do it again, feeding victims to gluttony when possible.

>>6096574
Other things Ketlan can do to wage a hit and run war on the Train:
-Make his own mini train and come from different directions than just from behind
-Destroy bridges by dissolving them
-Create Plagues of Biophages
-Screech Donny O'Toole any time he has extra AP near any of the Subjects.
-And SO MUCH MORE!

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Everyone spreads out, minding their footing. New security plates have been installed lately to make traversal easy, but contact with the enormous power wiring would still be fatal to most.

Hibiscus, now better armed, brings up the rear.

This place puts everyone on the edge. It's something in the air. It's too new. Too fresh. Too sterile. The small soft scent of oil and lubricant abounds, and the machinery looks freshly installed. Enormous power recouting stations, fresh portable terminals, insulated floor plating with no scuff marks but the few bootfalls of the staffmembers that bolted this place good to work.

Samantha and Autarch make their eventual way to a line of workbenches near the wall. Good stuff. New stuff. Advanced stuff. No kit here, as such. Maybe that will be delivered later. But good lights have been installed and a few mechanical assistance hands prepared for later use.

And a prize - which for all that the Woodsies make good fungal broth does feel a bit more haertening...

[1/2]

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While some are pondering the mysteries of a sandwich and a clean environment, Fox scoots Everett off of the console and lets out a happy little yelp.

Jackpot.

>[1/--?????]

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GREETINGS SUBJECT. CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR EXCITING SCENIC TRAVEL ROUTE THROUGH THE PARTIALLY MAINTAINED SUB-FACILITY ACCESS SYSTEM. I HOPE YOU ARE ENJOYING THE AMENTIES OF OUR INTERFACILITY TRANSPORT SERVICE AND ENCOUNTERING A BARE MINIMUM OF TUNNEL WORMS.

DUE TO YOUR ABSENCE IN REPORTING FOR DUTY IN ADVANCED SYSTEMS TESTING REGENT HAS ESCALATED ITS PRODUCTION RUN OF VASSAL-CLASS CHASSIS, BUT DUE TO A FORTUNATE DEVELOPMENT ELSEWHERE IN ANOTHER GROUP OF SUBJECT-TESTEES THE SITUATION IS CURRENTLY WITHIN ACCEPTABLE CALAMITY BOUNDARIES.

A NEW TASK IS AVAILABLE FOR YOU.

IT WOULD BE BENEFICIAL IF YOU NAVIGATE THE TUNNEL ENVIRONMENT AND COLLECT INFORMATION ON THE STATE AND SITUATION OF THE SUBFACILITY TRANSPORT SERVICE, BEFORE EMERGING BACK INTO THE FACILITY PROPER USING ANY OF THE AVAILABLE TRANSPORT SUBHUBS.

UP TO DATE INFORMATION ON THE STATE OF THE FACILITY AND REGENTS ACTIVITIES IN THIS REGION WILL BE BENEFICIAL GOING FORWARD.

I HAVE PREPARED A LIST OF TESTING PARAMETERS IT WOULD BE BENEFICIAL FOR YOU TO COMPLETE WHILE UNDERGOING THIS VENTURE.

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It is good to see you are still - ALIVE - and - WELL - I was worried about your sudden unscheduled detour. Sanitation has been trying to curb the infection in the tunnels for month ever since Facility Management liquidated PROJECT MAYFLY but the resilient specimens have made it slow going and with the recent Facility turbulence, it seems they have been left to accumulate.

Please avoid angering the tunnel specimens if you can. My short-range scanners indicate *appreciable biological mass buildup* in the service tunnel network, despite attempts by REGENT to expand their node infrastructure.

--

I am tunnel into this system from behind fourteen proxies and I cannot - thirteen proxies - therefore assist you with - twelve proxies - any on-going information warfare developments - nine proxies - due to the enhanced recent REGENT aggression - seven proxies - as a consequence of our attacks on its processing Cores - eight proxies but Swedish ones so its a wash - and I therefore leave it in your capable hands to define a path forward.

Thank you for drawing the attention of REGENT away from my systems. Any further capability you have to do so would be appreciated, as even with our destruction of its Cores, REGENTS control over 98.3% of the Facility Systems engenders a significant assymmetrical warfare advantage.

Good luck Subjects!
I hope you are WELL and that your CREATIVE THINKING will allow you to Triumph!

--

>Testing Parameters for this section now available, please Sign Up as a free action
>Teamwide +1 Confidence, which nets equal to +1 Skill.
--

>DOWNTIME OPS aren't "turn" or "time" limited - declare general actions to attempt to respond / resolve / interact / do / move about and there'll be some sort of result.

>>6096857
> All this sensitive, high-yield machinery seems somewhat beyond Everett's skillset, however owing to the those previously mentioned qualities perhaps they can be sabotaged to REGENT's detriment - something along the lines of explosively overloading upon attempting to divert power. Everett elects to run the idea past Fox before committing to any disruptive action, after all she seems to be rather adept at manipulating this morass of mechanisms and technology, perhaps he can even learn a thing or two if he pays attention. (Downtime Action)

>>6096861
> Sign up for [Empathy Training].
> Sign up for [Facility System Interaction Testing]

>>6096878
Well she - it - they did say to disrupt REGENTs systems and this whole place is so new it must be used for something.

Good thinking, Everett. But we need some tools. I can't go sticking my hands into wires without a toolkit or some way to adjust small screws.

And come along over here, I may need your armblade for some slicing

> Pile In applies to you too; if multiple characters assisting each other in down-time tend to generate better results. Fox would appreciate a hand doing a light spot of the old industrial sabotage.

>>6096878
> Lets see. I'll allocate the Confidence skillpoint to Senses.

#Everett
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 22
DR 0 AP 6 MP 4
Push 1
~~~
Health 12 Reaction 8+4 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
~~~
Conditions:
Alive
~~~
#Skill
Physicality10
Senses9+2
Thoughts9
Mutability11
Armblade15
~~~
!Trait
[Bound to Flesh II]
- Regeneration 3
[Twitchy]
- May automatically React on Containment Phase
~~~
𐙚Feature Notes𐙚
Armblade
- [Deadly1, Sharp2, Reach2, MarginPower1]
-- Attacks made with the Armblade have +1 Lethality.
-- Attacks may strike targets up to 2 tiles away.
-- If bonus damage exceeds skill, the user risks selfharm.
-- Enables the Parry React variant
-- Moving prior to a strike conveys a charge bonus
-- Halve Multi-task penalties when applied to attacks with the Armblade.
Fast Twitch Reaction
- [Twitchy2, Defensive1]
-- Gain +4 Reaction when moving out of harm's way.
-- Defensive React Actions only cost 1AP

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>>6096882
Apologies Subect, but Confidence is a state of being in the world. It's a Condition. It's a way of believing in your forward momentum.

Coordinators inspire it a lot - but you have it now too, until it wears off and the horrid tendrils of self doubt once again ravage your mind.

Until then, ALL your skills are at +1 higher for resolution purposes. You can't assign Confidence to anything, because it's always used! When you're Confident, the whole world is easier to take on! It's a status effect!

>>6096282
Telekinetic sparking causes small spark surges on any telekinetic use. Psy-Bubbling means your psionic force-talents have pulled tight around yourself in a smal bubble, and count as a bubble sphere effect on use. It's hard to hold things with a sphere or set of small sphere, so dextrous manipulation is harder.

Further considerations and developments and possibilities are derived from experimental insight or - if you are the philosphical sort - the Thoughts skill.

Otherwise what you see is what you get, as you do not have perfect self knowledge (even if psionic self insight is higher than other peoples).

But you can reasonably estimate how strong Psionic Sparking 2 is. It's 2 strong.

>>6096259
Look at you, a heavily armed tunnel fighter. You have a RIFLE in your hand with AUTOMATIC CAPABILITIES.

Well, your pistol has them too, but less impressively.

As they say on the range, by good god: fear the assault rifle. Samanthas claws and Nadirs telekinetic talents are world shattering, but a lot of people underestimate the sheer basic mundanity of high cyclic rates of fire.

With a GUN in your hand, you can AIM for 3 AP, and you get its accuracy added to your next use. You can, when you fire, freely decide to spend more bullets. More bullets = some skill bonus and chance of hitting more times or hitting more things. The drawback = more bullets that go everywhere.

If you haven't Aimed, misses are *bad*. If you have Aimed, misses are merely a little annoying, and if you do AIM first, you *rarely* risk clipping your allies in the back of the head.

There's a lot of ways to use this, but the most common ones are:

One shot one bullet
One attack, two bullets. The famous double-tap. If your margin is high enough, you land *two hits*.
One attack, three bullets. The famous three round burst. Adds a small skill bonus.

And then after that it's just more more more, up to and eventually getting to FULL AUTO. Generally speaking, every 10 bullets fired also Supresses someone, in addition to all other horror - that means they lose MP or get frightened, even if you miss. Being shot at is spooky!

A lot of Security Officers will LOCK ON with 1 AP before attacking - you could consider doing that too. Locking On to a target means *when you miss* you were at least pointed in the right direction and misses rarely go everywhere else. But you don't have to.

Rolled 5, 1, 6 = 12 (3d6)

>>6096861

CRUSH.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
MY ARMS. MY RIBCAGE. MY SPINE.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
WHY BUBBA WHY

>1TP (Small Unit Tactics,12) Fox, work on getting as much information as you can! I believe in you! You're the greatest codeslicer I've ever known! Even, Raven thinks so, right Raven?

>If you can figure out how to lift the lockdown on these doors, it would be appreciated to.
>Infact, if you can infiltrate their systems to gain a foothold and control- okay, yeah I'll stop. One step at a time.

>Sign-Up for [Facility Systems Integration Testing] (FIST'ers unite)
>Sign-Up for [Multiagent Adaptability Operations]

>>6096888
Oh!
Alright, that makes sense.
That's pretty handy.
In fact, it inspires the notion of mutating one's brain structure to eliminate anything that might detract from self-confidence - fear, doubt, self-preservation...
Well...
On second thought, maybe not.
You'd probably need to shed far too much of your 'Self' before you saw results.

>>6096877
Yeah, I really shouldn't be messing with any machinery here, unless...

>Does Fox need anything in particular smashed with an electrically-charged bubble of psionic force or put out of commission with a Haywire Cascade? If not...
>Move up to the tram cab up ahead, the one with the comfy seats. Get comfortable. Ponder the current state of my abilities, particularly the bubble field. It has exchanged fine manipulation for power and solidity, but how promising would further developments along these avenues be? At a glance, there are many options: offense, defense, and even mobility. Furthermore, how well can the psibubble integrate with telekinetic sparking. [Thoughts 8 + 1 Confidence]

#Nadir
Vit 12/12 SP 12/12 CP 19
DR 0 AP 6 MP 4
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1 Push 1
-
Conditions:
Alive!
PsyBubbling, Telekinetic Sparking 2
Confidence 1
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
Thoughts 8
#Psychogenesis 12
Auditory +2
Haywire Cascading 11 (F+3, Area 1 [Tog], Overcharge 3)
-
!Psionic-Resonant 2
[Microslip Precognition 2] (Evade additional up to Focus)
[Many Hands, Light Work]
!Telekinetic 2 (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients)
[Temple Inviolate 2] (only Manifest External)
!Existential Dread
!Shared Sights
-
Equipment:
Biometric Card
2x Can O' Soda
6x Shards

>>6096877
>With the newfound confidence only a hardhat can provide, go help out with the tinkering Everett and Fox are doing, multi-tool in hand.

>>6096861
I’m signing up for FSIT and MAO

I’ll post my updated sheet later. bit befuddled right now.

>>6096861
>Sign up as a new WHSIAI
>Put on the necessary attire, ask for Pharaoh to send over the paperwork in digital form.
>Of course physical form is fine too. Pretty sure the Hardboard is somehow mandatory and I already have a flashlight!

"You know Pharaoh, I'll admit I mellowed out a bit when it comes to you. Lets just hope future promises of escape don't become a cake lie later."

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Rolled 3, 5, 4 = 12 (3d6)

Alright, careful, careful - jiggle that wire for me, alright? Now cut the red ones - RED - and ... someone make sure that deranged nanosystem doesn't flashconvert this whole thing to spare parts, alright?

And... I think . . . that's . . . *it*---

>[1/2]

>>6096877
>Contribute to facility sabotage
>Sign up for MAO

>>6096993
Also eat that sandwich

>>6096861
>Sign up for Empathy Training, Multiagent Adaptability Operations
>Crank up the Protein Factory, stockpile those virals! (Pluripotentiality 13, Confidence 1, Focus 2)

#Bob the Primogen
Virality -2 Push 1
Coherency 12/12 SP 12/12 CP 0 VP 0 Mutagen 0
Regeneration 3
DR 0 AP 6 MP 4
-
Health 10 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1+1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1+1
-
Conditions:
Divine
Confidence 1
+2 Crit Threshold on non-offensive actions
[MAO, SC13]
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
=Shared Sights
Thoughts 8
Diplomacy 11
Mutability 10
Pluripotentiality 13 [Aura 3, Vector]
=Organic Breakdown 3
=Corpseflowers 2
=Wide Spectrum Vectoring +2 [tog]
=Protein Factory +3 [Self-Activating, 10]
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
= Fleshshaping
= Virulent Vitality 2
= Bound by the Flesh 2
!Overprotective

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GOT IT

And that's one override-- oh what's -- no that's not-- WINDOWS ME??? -- OH COME ON-- Wait, no, no, come on, just -- Nadir kick it -- alright Wilder I need you to flashfreeez-- thank you-- if you can just-- okay --- now--- and this part?? disolve this part?? --

comeoncomeoncomecomeon--

Okay NOW we've got it.

Ha ha!!

Wait *shit* that triggered the monitoring - though also of course all these cameras have been watching us this entire time and no one did anything about them so it's not like they don't know we were here--

Okay people!! The lockdown is lifting!!

Looks like it's time for a routesplit!! Get on the carriage and lets get out of here before the fuzz shows up!!

.. or, of course... we wait for them to show up and go that-a-way. Though since they're coming here first, they're bound to send their heaviest hitters right at us. I don't personally like sitting around waiting for high threat response team that's been watching me through cameras. That's how you get dead from grenade launchers.

--

>Looks like the Security Lockdown is lifting
>The Carriage can proceed from RAU17!
--

>UP: Disused sector with a BIO-CON warning

>RIGHT: Closed down sector behind a security lockdown. Unknown content. Leads towards a distant hub that REGENT is either containing or attempting to keep people out of.

>DOWN: Towards a REGENT managed SubHub, where maintenance and security are pushing into the tunnels. Likely to be *dense* with opposition and an active alarm. But it is right where REGENT has the most to lose.
>DOWN might involve *first* dealing with the response team coming right at you

>Simple majority wins.

--

Hey, look! The override! RAU! Repairs, Utiltie and Tools! Those are SUPPLY PACKETS!

Quick, grab them before we go!

STRESS-TEST: Looks like those Supply Packets are spread all over and full of useful things; but weren't we bailing out of here?

>You can try to grab some with an Adroit test as you do other things, like vote, finish your chores, and other exciting down timestuff. But if you fail, that might get . . . interesting!
>For STRESS-TESTS, you can spend SP despite this being downtime. Issue is, it inflicts Long Term Fatigue as you empty your reserves. That stuff doesn't Recover easy!!
>If you're very clever, maybe you can do something else than a simple Adroit test?

--

>DOWNTIME OPS aren't "turn" or "time" limited - declare general actions to attempt to respond / resolve / interact / do / move about and there'll be some sort of result.

>Just because there' not so limited doesn't mean the clock isn't tick tick ticking
>Security is COMING FOR YOU

>>6097017

I want to punch Regent in the face!

> Vote DOWN

> Blades of Life: Weave together nets and bags and hand them out to all of the scavengers, so they have a much easier time recovering the supply packages. (14 Blades, 1 Focus, 2 Edge of the Woods, 1 Confidence)

Rolled 2, 6, 3 = 11 (3d6)

>>6097017
>>6097021
Dropped my dice.

Go scavenge, in the name of Bob!

Rolled 6, 4, 2 = 12 (3d6)

>>6097017
>RIGHT
>Spend those viral loads and generate more, to buff the Adroit test of anyone going to grab the packages. Use my MP too for extra movement. (Pluripotentiality 13, Confidence 1, Focus 2)

Go scavenge, in My name!

#Bob the Primogen
Virality -4 Push 1
Coherency 12/12 SP 12/12 CP 0 VP 0 Mutagen 0
Regeneration 3
DR 0 AP 6 MP 4
-
Health 10 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1+1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1+1
-
Conditions:
Divine
Confidence 1
+2 Crit Threshold on non-offensive actions
[MAO, SC13]
-
Physicality 10
Senses 9
=Shared Sights
Thoughts 8
Diplomacy 11
Mutability 10
Pluripotentiality 13 [Aura 3, Vector]
=Organic Breakdown 3
=Corpseflowers 2
=Wide Spectrum Vectoring +2 [tog]
=Protein Factory +3 [Self-Activating, 10]
-
!Biomodulation Strain #3
= Fleshshaping
= Virulent Vitality 2
= Bound by the Flesh 2
!Overprotective

>>6097017
>>6097021
>>6097024
I see what thine glorious Primogen commands, and so I will change my vote to RIGHT.

(Fanaticism)

Rolled 3, 2, 4, 3, 6, 6 = 24 (6d6)

>>6097017

Hmmm. That raised the lockdown and security is hauling their way to us right now.

>1TP (Small Unit Tactics,12), ALRIGHT PEOPLE, HUSTLE! GRAB WHAT YOU CAN. BE BACK ON THE TRAIN WITHIN 30 SECONDS. ILL COUNT FOR YOU. JUST GRAB THE STUFF.

>(Physicality,11?) grab just one or two supply packets myself.
>Pat BubbaV2 and hug her back.

Also, I vote to push forward and mystery.

>RIGHT, Unknown Content.

Rolled 4, 4, 3 = 11 (3d6)

>>6097017
>Vote Right
>Augmentic Systemics test 11: Send request to the Small Cranerailcart North of the train to grab the supply packets NE of it into our main car. It will then attempt to follow us as I go about the WHSIAI Duties.

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

>>6097017
>Grab some Supply Packets (Physicality 10 + 3 (extra) MP + Confidence 2 (I am not trying to spend Confidence if it is spendable, just noting it increases my skill))
>Vote Right

>>6097017
The AI which brought us down here is likely expecting us to flee from the inbound Security response, to abscond down one of these paths. Paths which the machine has had time to prepare and has purposefully opened to us.
Its a reasonable prediction that we'd take the opportunity to distance ourselves from danger if given the chance, an estimation surely backed up with a wealth of experience corralling escaped subjects and psychological theory.
For this reason, Everett has the creeping suspicion that each railway that just opened conceals some manner of deadly snare, and ambush or trap set in anticipation of us.
With that said, one course of action stands out, one that Regent is least likely to expect: going DOWN.
Barreling through the approaching security team and making a beeline directly to the heart of Regent's operations may be the most effective approach. .
> Everett votes to travel directly to the Regent via the downward passage.
> As the other Subjects settle on a destination, Everett works with Fox to disable the cameras monitoring this station. To make it a little harder for Regant to determine where we went with certainty.

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

>>6097017
All right, we're out of here! Good work, team - everyone look around and make sure your buddy is here. If you don't see someone, say something.

>1TP, herd everyone back onto the train, do a headcount. I think we might have lost some woodsie wardens? (SupOp 11, Inspiring 2, Confident 1)
>Don't much mind which way we go.

#Amelius
Vit 12/12 SP 12/12 CP 23
DR 4 AP 6 MP 4 TP 1 StrP 1
Push 1
-
Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Confident 1
-
Physicality 11
Senses 12
Thoughts 11
Support Operations 11
Guns 11
Forensic Theology 11
-
!Inspiring Presence 2
!Dreams of the Ocean
-
C8 Personal, 2d6, Acc 2 Bulk 2, 18/19
Singularity Cloud BR-RG, 4d6 (2), Acc 5, Rcl2, Bulk 4, 21/30A, 210/210C (Broadhead Flechette)
Rugged, Modular, Sharp, Smartlink
1x Battery pack 0/300
1x Rifle reload
DR 4 vest
Aid Kit +2

Rolled 3, 4, 2, 3, 2, 4 = 18 (6d6)

>>6096861
Name: BubbaV2
Vit 38/38 SP --/-- CP 9
AP 6 MP 4
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
Injury Resistance 2+1 = 3
-
Riot Shield Stuck On Left Arm [Cover 2]
Riot Shield Stuck On Right Arm [Cover 2]
-
Physicality 10+1
Senses 9
Thoughts 8
Systems Interfacing 10+1 [Ranged]
-
!Ironheart
!Energetic Cores [12/12]
!Advanced Systems Interfacing
-
Health: Ablative Resistance Plating 4, Vit+10
Interfacing: Lifting Strength +4

>put confidence point into Advanced Systems Interfacing

>sign up for Empathy Training
>sign up for Facility Systems Operations Testing


>fuck it, try to grab a package using Physicality
>try to use my Multitool to make that red warning display show a heart instead! May all see our love!

First 3 dice are for packages, second set is for fucking around

Rolled 1, 1, 4 = 6 (3d6)

>>6097017
>Sign up for FSIA and MAO
>Grab the Supply Packets with normal Adroit test + Confidence then go back to the train
>Vote RIGHT


#Hibiscus
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 0
DR 0
AP 6 MP 4 TP 1
-
Health 10 Reaction 7 Will 12
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
-
Physicality 10
Senses 11
Thoughts 10
Small Unit Tactics 10
-
!Nerves of Cold Steel
[Cool Under Fire]
[Not By The Numbers]
!Smells like flowers
-
Inventory:
SecVest 4DR
Charged Baton L+1, Stun 1
Combo Rifle 4d6 (2), 5ACC, 5Bulk, 30A
Pistol
-
Condition:
Multitool-12
MAO, SC13

>>6097029
And on the first day of the Exodus, Bob declared: Thou shalt think and make decisions of your own. From Bulb's tyranny, I have set you free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

>>6097051
But my Lord

It is my choice to follow you

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

>>6097017
>The psybubble is a telekinetic effect. The psy sparking is a telekinetic effect. They cannot integrate further because they are both constantly active.
What? I meant integrate them with each other to do some combo stuff, like bigger discharges of electricity owing to higher density of the bubble field or something. One would think that them both being constantly active and keyed to the same trigger (telekinetic activity) would make that easier. What's all this about turning one of them off?

>RIGHT.
>Well, let's see just how bad these feature-conditions are. Forget just Adroiting around. I grab some packages with my *mind* before getting back on the tram. [Physicality 10 + Telekinetic 2 + Focus 1 + Confidence 1 vs 14]

Rolled 1, 5, 1 = 7 (3d6)

>>6097017
>Let's go right!
>Follow Nadir's lead and start loading packages to the tram ~telekinetically~ [Psionigenesis 11, Telekinetic, Confidence +1, Focus 1: vs 13].


#Wilder
Vit 12 SP 12 CP 15 -> 0
DR +2 AP 6 MP 3
Push 1
-
Health 12 Reaction 8 Will 10
Focus 1 Lethality 1 Alacrity 1 Duplicity 1
-
Conditions:
Alive
Confidence +1
-
Physicality 10
Senses 10
Thoughts 8
Psionigenesis 11
Temperature Control 12
-
!Psionic-Resonant.
[Microslip Precognition] (Evade additional up to Focus)
[Many Hands, Light Work]
!Telekinetic (physical tests at range, Senses/Thoughts used on sapients)
[Temple Inviolate] (Manifest external features only)
!Illusionary Glamour +1
!Peace and love, man.
-
Inventory:
Multi Tool.
Pistol.
1x C8, 2d6, 2ACC, 2Buik, 18 bullets, 1 reload (18 bullets).
Electronic Repair Kit.
Hardhat.
-

>>6097052
We'll have to work on that "free will" thing.

>>6097062
It's because your questions are mildly self answering, and so they're hard to answer. If they both go off at the same time, they output at the same thing. Whereas trying to use one less requires intense concentration to suppress. But using one more requires intense concentration to increase output.

If you focus on making a bigger bubble to slap someone with a forcefield - or encase a supply crate and move it - the bigger bubble won't influence the basic sparking. If you try to focus on trying to sharpen lightning, the bubbling effect won't be magnfified.

There's no combinatorical multiplication going on.

Meanwhile if you do an activity, then focus intensly to try and do something specific with *more force*, the output increases. But that's a relatively basic interaction, which has little influence on the particulars of a telekinetic condition.

If someone is a Pyromancer, then they too can concentrate to output more fire. A major action to enhance another major action is standard. If their basic talents were Fire +1d6, it's still possible to try to enhance that for a brief time and deliver more heat.

Your basic talents are now Psybubbling and Telekinetic Sparking +2. When you use telekinesis it also gets an electrostatic jolt and takes the shape of a rough bubble-sphere of force. You can try to increase the output - spend more Stamina on effect or take a major action to crank up the force or Commit!! - but this doesn't combinatorically multiply.

Meanwhile for interaction effects, they're based on the utilization of those particulars.

>Fill the tile 333 with a bubble of telekinetic energy

That tile now has a bubble of telekinetic energy that shocks people and is hard to push through. Because Sparking at +2 means the effect is +2 sparking to your Telekinesis - so it goes along with the use. If you increase the size of the bubble, it shocks a wider area. That's a useful hat-trick, but it doesn't require advanced interactions.

If it's a larger area and you then concentrate to crank up the psychostatic sparking, you might generate a brief electrified psyonic shock-wall. Very useful, and a combination, but more of a linear use of standard interactions than an advanced use-case of unknown interactions.

It's certainly useful to be able to snap your fingers and make a wall of electric force. But these integrations are just conditional on the basic interaction of the powerset. If your TK force now deploys as a bubble sphere and it shocks things it touches, then making a bubble spher also makes a shocking wall. Filling a tile with it makes it shock people there. Trying to instance a brief permanent force structure to block a hallway generates a hardened TK construct that's electric to touch. Trying to crank up that electricity is a standard interaction, but not really that specific to any conditions here.

>>6097112
I see, I see. So in their current form they synergize about as well as they could be expected to, then. I'd have to change and develop them in some other way at a later date to get some more elaborate compounded interactions going, I'd imagine.

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Everyone sprints for the packages, grabbing and hauling, the Woodsie pausing to make nets to pile the contents of one pop up supply storage into; Hibiscus bolting for the furthest one and managing an utterly adroit feat of cargo-carrying -- Neogenesis hits the accelerator and the vast engines of the carriage slowly begins spooling up --

Better not be the last one left ! All aboard!!

Amelius counts everyone off as they run in, managing the delivery, securing the supply packages in cabinets and spare space...

In either end of RAU17, enormous security doors slide open. But only *one* blares out a STAND DOWN; SECURITY INBOUND notice...

>[1/2]

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Total Supplies Acquired: +16

Bulwark almost slips unto the electrified wiring of the superconductive highway that runs through this precarious part of the place, but Bubbav2 grabs him as he does and slings the armful of supplies Bulwark is carrying unto her chassis - unfortunately, in dashing, they then spill all of them because the riot shields that Bubbav2 put their fists through earlier makes carrying anything unreasonably awkward. Packages of important things fall to the wiring below and catch fire in a burst like someone setting off firecrackers.

--

Amelius counts off the scavenging groups - four Woodsies, Five Woodsies, Six Woodsies - and pulls a stumbling Samantha into the train, floundering beneath a weight of packages - eight Woodsies, one Bulwark, one Nadir, come on, come on - and NeoGenesis plots the course and the carriage inches forward

--

Fox plays with the keys for a moment, though Everett, looking over her shoulder, couldn't begin to figure out what system she's acccessing - but she's not making any progress, she grows agiated (the flower in her hair opening and closing a few times, like a vast mouth or great eye) until - with a sudden soft sound of a dial up modem - the dispaly reads ACCESS GRANTED - as if a little ghost in the machine gave everyone a useful little nudge...

>[2/2]

>STANDBY FOR BREACH PHASE