ctrlsaltdel

Scum and Villainy - Plentiful Bounty

Sorry for the delay, all!

For the hunt, a rolled a four, a six, a two, and a one.

And for the shopping, I rolled a three, a one, and a five.

@rush99999

Alright! Let's start a couple of clocks--I'm going to say 12 for the hunt, and 6 for the silencer. With those rolls, that would put you at 3/12 on the hunt, and 3/6 on the silencer.

I have two questions for you:

1) It sounds like Ijin goes between the two groups with some regularity--how does working with other Gweldite compare to working with the crew of the Cerberus?

2) I understand the line might be blurry, but is the Gweldite adherence to purpose closer to a social conditioning or a physical compulsion?

5, 4, 5,

Enlisting Alexius to help Molly is able to merge the AI cores, replacing Cho's ur-bots functions with non AI programing to mimic it long enough for the ur-bot to be wiped.

@Penny

Yep, that's a success. Assuming you still want to play this out, I'll put something up IC to start that.

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Rash action! He and the crew will have to live with his gambling

@POOHEAD189

I respect the confidence. How does Quintus blow his savings? What's his game of choice?

Blood Under Moonlight

@Birdboy, assaulting the enemy in melee is going to be a POW, so you get:

The Star - Positive - A new path reveals itself
Death - Neutral - Something ends, and something else begins

@Digmata, give me another ELE:

The Hanged Man - Negative - You must make an impossible choice
The Magician - Positive - You achieve the impossible

@RickyG85, that sounds like POW as well to take out the fuel depot; you get:

Strength - Positive - You triumph through force
The High Priestess - Neutral - Intuition guides your actions
The Tower - Negative - Something terrible happens

Endless Autumn (A Savage Worlds Adventure Edition Horror RP)

@RickyG85 sure, go ahead!

Endless Autumn (A Savage Worlds Adventure Edition Horror RP)

Ah, heard that. No hard feelings, was fun while it lasted!

Endless Autumn (A Savage Worlds Adventure Edition Horror RP)

His eyes were wide. Allyn wanted nothing more than to shut them, to look away, but to his horror he found that he couldn't. The revulsion that was making his gorge rise--a deep, literal gut feeling--couldn't override the terror response that told him not to look away from the threat.

(He did manage to tear his eyes away for a split second, to look over at the phone he's still holding up--a corner of his brain remembering that turning the camera on would require him to turn the flashlight off, at least temporarily. Not an option, at the moment.)

Blood Under Moonlight

Lieutenant Commander Leofric Hroderich, Lord Crystalfield, heir apparent to the County of Crystalfield, was having a bad day. Really, it would be more accurate to say he was having a bad month. And if you wanted to be most accurate, you might say that he was having a bad five weeks and three days, because that was how long it had been since he had landed on this godforsaken planet. It wasn't as if he had never been "outside"--large natural spaces had been incorporated into the colonies as they were built, and thanks to his birth he'd had more access to them than most--but certainly no planner had ever created a habitat with weather this extreme. Or, he mused, if they have, it could only be as a method of torture.

Presently he was doing his best to avoid the heat by parking himself in the little airbase's command hub. It wasn't where he was supposed to be, strictly speaking, but rank had its privileges, and Lord Crystalfield had never been shy about exercising them. Even if he wasn't actually in the cockpit, his Myrmidon was close enough, and the other soldiers assigned to his squad were more than capable of maintaining a patrol in this little slice of nowhere.

After all, if the dirtsiders haven't found us yet, it's because they can't. Just another couple or three weeks of this hell before we break through at the front, and then I'll see about getting reassigned somewhere less... moist.

---

The com crackled to life in the cockpit of Marcus's Bumble Sting. "Bumble Sting, permission granted. Repeat, weapons free!"

---

Leofric dropped the book he'd been reading as shouted reports came through on his earbud.

"We're under attack! Enemy fire from unknown position! I've sustained significant damage!"

He scrambled to his feet and rushed over to the door. Leaning out of the climate-controlled building felt like sticking his head in a sauna, but for the first time since he arrived, the climate was distant second in the young man's thoughts. The guard Myrmidon was too far away to see clearly, but even at this distance, he could tell it had taken some kind of damage.

A different voice--but with the same level of urgency--came through his comm. "Ground radar is picking up inbound!"

Leofric turned and ran in the opposite direction, slamming the door of the command center closed behind him.

---

Marcus became who he needed to be in that moment: a man shooting a target. The Myrmidon that was in his sights was no longer an enemy, but a bullseye.

As he pulled the trigger, though, the Sparos in his sights did something very inconsiderate for a bullseye to do and shifted slightly to the side. Not much--just enough to keep its foot from sinking too far into the wet ground, and to keep Bumble Sting's shot from being a kill. Instead of taking out the cockpit, the shot severed the machine's left forearm, which bounced off of the compacted dirt as the mech's head-mounted sensors swept around wildly.

Albert was the first thing it saw as Daedalus charged into the base's perimeter. Men screamed, falling out of the vehicle as the walker hoist it into the air, and his improvised projectile crunched into the base's communications array. Antennas were broken--sparks flew--and the transport finally stopped, hanging off one side of the bent dish. Albert had broken off the enemy's main line of communications--but in the process he had also broken ranks with his wingmate.

The scattered small arms fire he'd experienced so far was more a panic reaction from soldiers taken by surprise than any sort of real attempt at defense, but that reprieve was now over. An armored vehicle whirred around a temporary barracks, its turret already tracking the huge Myrmidon as it hove into view. The range was too short, and Daedalus was a large, slow target to begin with--the armor held, but there was no doubt that one had hit. The vehicle's autoloader slotted in another explosive shell as the tank zipped off, hoping to avoid retaliation.

Rally found herself farther behind her squadmate than she would probably prefer--but that vantagepoint and the remove from the action gave her the opportunity to notice two things.

First--the one-armed Sparos was raising its sidearm to aim at Daedalus. Her ally was turned fully away from the threat--but by the same token, the enemy wasn't looking at her, either.

Second--through her audio pickups, she could hear a faint rumbling sound, coming from just behind a nearby hill...

Profile - AWK-02-1 Sparos

The AWK-02-1 Sparos is the workhorse of the Athenian Army. It has a reputation for reliability and ease of use, and its Chroma reactor exceeds its normal power draw by a significant margin, enhancing its of speed and maneuverability and allowing it to mount energy-intensive beam weaponry and supplemental thrusters. Its default armament is, however, on the anemic side, and as Myrmidons go, it's comparatively lightly armored.

Image credit: GN-00902 SEM, Mobile Suit Gundam 00V

Blood Under Moonlight

@Birdboy, no, it's me, I'm about to get a reply out tonight

Scum and Villainy [Firefly/Cowboy Bebop/Star Wars Inspired, Forged in the Dark]

Alexis

Alexis, The Mechanic

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Name: Alexis Ghaller
Alias: Tecker
Look: Tall and lanky, as most who grow up in low g environments are. Neck length dark brown hair kept pulled back in a tight ponytail or braid. Brown eyes. Wears a stained jumpsuit that has numerous pockets and sturdy boots.

Heritage: Spacer
Background: Labor
Vice: Pleasure/Stupor

Class XP Trigger: You address a tough challenge with technical skill or ingenuity.

Starting Ability: Tinker - When you work on a clock with rig or hack, or when you study a schematic, fill +1 segment

Special Abilities:

• Bailing wire and Mech-tape - You get an extra downtime activity to repair, and the repair activity costs you 0 cred

Insight [3]

Doctor
Hack >>
Rig >>
Study >

Prowess [1]

Helm
Scramble
Scrap
Skulk >

Resolve [2]

Attune >
Command
Consort >
Sway

Trauma: 0/4
- N/A

Contacts:
Slice - [Friend] - Junkyard owner -Lets her scrounge for parts and sometimes cuts her a deal.
Nisa - [Rival] - Previous employer- Captain of the last ship she worked on. Blames her for a job gone bad and wants repayment and will do anything to get it.
Stev - Gambler of ill repute - Sore loser, liar, cheat, and ex-lover.
Len - Black market dealer - Sells just about anything, for a price.
Greg Ghaller - Father - Retired mechanic from the Hegemony Fleet. Worries about his daughter who pursued work outside of the Hegemony.

Bio:
Alexis grew up as the only child of a single father, who served several years and a mechanic in the Hegemony Fleet. He managed to get a posting on a fleet space station doing repairs on ships and the space station itself. Much of her childhood was spent on the space station with few other children and little supervision outside of what passed for a school on a military instalation. It was not long before she started getting into areas she was not supposed to be in, and taking things that she was clearly not supposed to have.

By the time she was 18, Alexis had learned how to fix some small odds and ends, as well as procuring items or information, trying to earn extra money to help out her father. Around this time her father had started to ask when she might plan to join the Hegemony Fleet. Alexis told him she was not interested in joining and that she was considering joining a ship crew that frequently stopped at the space station to deliver supplies. Initially he was reluctant to the ideals of her joining up with a private crew, and only relented when he realized how set she was on pursuing her own way in life.

Alexis stayed with that ship for four years, honing her abilities in rigging quick fixes for the ship, full on repairs, and hacking into networks to find, and sometimes alter, information. During this time she met Stev in-between jobs the crew was running. He introduced Alexis to various gambling games as well as a few substances that help take the edge off from traveling space for months at a time. Their relationship was on and off for many months, with the final straw being when Stev was trying to get some money from her to cover a recently accrued debt while also cheating on her. Having decided that she wanted to get as far away from him as possible, she signed on with a new crew led by Nissa.

The work was much the same as before, though some jobs were riskier than before. During one such job a silent alarm had tripped and locked Alexis out of the computer system and kept the crew from completing the job. She wasn't sure how it had happened and had her suspicions that someone was trying to set them up. Nissa blamed her for tripping the alarm while trying to hack one of the terminals and refused to listen to any explanation. She also demanded that Alexis pay for the expenses incurred from the failed job. Alexis refused stating the job was a most likely a set up. Nissa cut Alexis from the crew leaving her behind to figure out her own way.

Now she is looking for work with whatever crew or job that will pay.

Status Block

Stress: [---------]
Harm:

Level 3:

Level 2:

Level 1:

Cred: 0/4
Stash: 0/40
Armor:
- Normal [X]
- Special [X]
Load: Normal 5/5

• Fine hacking right (1)
  Fine ship repair tools (2)
  Spare parts (1)
  Blaster pistol (1)
  Communicator (0)
  Illicit drugs (0)

@ctrlsaltdel Apologies for this taking so long to get done. Was probably overthinking the back story.

@Lurking Krog

Looks good, and I think she'll fit right in with this crew! Go ahead and post it in the character section, and if you want to pick out two downtime activities to do before the next job, go ahead.

Endless Autumn (A Savage Worlds Adventure Edition Horror RP)

I think Allyn's watching, but the only thing stopping him from averting his eyes is that the thought of not being able to see what's going on is even worse.

EDIT: I re-read the letter and I see what you're getting at--and I'll edit if you like--but given that I, the player, didn't remember the rule about not looking at the gargoyles, I don't think that Allyn would either, given the circumstances.

Blood Under Moonlight

@RickyG85, that little shotput maneuver is going to be a POW draw. Your cards are:

The Emperor - Neutral - You break something
Temperance - Neutral - You are met with an equal and opposite reaction
Judgment - Negative - Your past mistakes catch up to you

I feel like one of these is probably most appropriate at the moment, but the choice is yours.