RADlands - End of Lime.

Squall

Seven days ago, the world ended. Not with a bang, or with a whimper, but with a sound like three tons of fetid meat spontaneously appearing twelve feet above a PETA convention.

Grab your shotgun and don your re-purposed sporting equipment - Ragnarok's come and it's time to mess shit up.


(click for 2.0 rules)

Seasons now available in interpretive dance: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]


If you do not want to make a character, but would still like to bip in occasionally/fuck with the players, then do I have good news for you! Characters whose names are written in Lime may be controlled by anyone who wanders into the thread. Anyone. Just make sure to post the character's actions in Sandybrown so DE?AD notices them.

Update Schedule:

MF: One update per day
TWR: Persistent updates from 1200-1400 or 1800-2000 Pacific time
Weekends:

There are currently five missions happening simultaneously:

[Black as Light] [Viscount Islands, Speed Racer]
Estimated Location: Rome
Description: Things kind of went to shit back there, yeah? Times are alright now though. Time to keep spreading the good word for the BPs.

[Sydney's Quest for Fire] [Neotoma, Tommy2hands, Thor4242, Shock G]
Estimated Location: Chicago
Description:Sydney will not be at peace until she was the strongest there every was. She needs to fully explore and understand her pyrokinesis. Cassandra has found large amounts of heat radiating from the ruins of Chicago, along with some heavy psychic energy. She believes Sydney may find what she is looking for there.

[Jayce Needs to Get Over Himself] [Krosius, Raneados, Shabooty, Scarlet St., Cyense, VALVEjunkie, Lockout, Corom]
Estimated Location: London
Description:Jayce's internal conflict is wrecking his subneural security. He needs to find a way to deal with it, and Cassandra believes the leader of a particular mutant colony in the RADwrecked carcass of London may be able to help him gain some insight into his inner conflict.

[Robots are People Too] [Squall, Antimatter, Kueller, DontShootToasters, Marshmallow]
Estimated Location: Tokyo
Description:Sorta. The robots need to figure out who, and what they are exactly. Until they can truly understand what they are, they can't hope to stand up to a subneural intrusion. Cassandra has found a large robot colony in Tokyo that may be able to help them discover their true potential and seal up the gaps in their Subneural Signatures.

[RAD Enough Dudes][Fire Truck, Stilts, Cheeseliker, Dux, Dubh]
Estimated Location: Washington DC
Description: The Ocean King's heart and subneural network beat in the same rhythm as his nation, a nation currently being ruled by a hockey-mask wearing loony. This country's only big enough for one delusional, self-styled monarch. Are you a bad enough dude to depose the president?

[PENDING MISSIONS]

[Jimothy's Mom May or May Not Have it Going On] [MISSION PENDING]
Estimated Location: Miami
Description:Jimothy wants to find his mom. Cassandra hopes that doing so will sure up the security of his Subneural Signature, and Clams hopes that doing so will shut him up. Cassandra has discovered a lead on a possible genetic match in the ruins of Miami that she believes looks promising.

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[Warren's Crepes] [DLC] [Purchased by: Squall, Dubh, Marshmallow, DontShootToasters, Raneados, VALVEjunkie, Scarlet St., Tommy2hands]
Estimated Location: Western Nevada
Description: Leo Dryer, a new refugee to The Camp, tells of a family restaurant transported into the desert. An evil presence has taken over the restaurant, causing Leo to flee in search of help. This optional task must be undertaken by a group willing to delve into the very bowels of hell to save a place that serves really really really good hash browns.

[Bring Down This Guy] [DLC] [Purchased by: Tommy2hands, Dux, Lockout]
Estimated Location: Western Nevada
Description: Leo's sister has sent him word of a pro-human organization in Atlanta by the name of "Hellhound". Mutants have been going missing around the area, and Hellhound is believed to be the cause. She'd like someone to investigate the problem.

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[Hat Pack][A collection of stylish hats.][2000 RADLand Points]

[Glossolalia Platinum Account][A platinum card with magnetized strip. It has a picture of a starship on it. Just knowing you own the card fills you with pride and a sense of accomplishment. You gain +10% character points.][89000000 RADLand Points]

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Addendum C/O Raneados

Squall is the best around, ain't nothin' gonna keep him down.

Squall

IC posts from the end of the last thread:

DE?AD wrote: »

[London]COLOR="lime"]41%[/COLOR
[Broquest]
The little red child smiles as Jayce's friends take a stand for him, as their minds help set him on the path to a realization that only he could truly make - a decision that was his alone.

The decision to fight.

The decision to not let something as minor, as inconsequential as his current state as a Homo Sapien rob him of his humanity.

"You see now, that the physical form is nothing. It is a dream of the true self. Nothing more. It cannot change you. It cannot take from you anything you do not let it." The little red boy nods sagely, his eyes sliding shut.

[Jayce loses the Mutant Swift Meta-Trait.]
[Jayce gains the Mutant Shiftskin Meta-Trait!]

[Mutant Shiftskin]
Rage: You suffer no Stress penalty on physical actions.
Shiftskin: You may learn the Controlled Mutation Skill. You apply your Stress as a bonus to all physical actions.

[Jayce gains Controlled Mutation 15%]

The little red boy smiles, and, with a sound like rushing air, the world fades to blue.


Chet snaps awake, he head resting on the table in front of him, a bit of drool collecting on the polished wood. Goldman, the green new hire, is mopping the floors across the room. Jeff, who's hands are still in bandages from that incident with deep-fryer last month, is busy locking up, while Jess tallies out the cash register. She's wearing a Letterman jacket with the collar turned up. Must be cold today. Chet doesn't know where the jacket came from, probably her boyfriend or something.

Chet catches his reflection in the spoon lying on the table, making it look as if his head were huge. His eyes are all puffy from sleep, and his face is red where it had been pressed against the the table. Oh boy. Yeah, the coat was probably from her boyfriend.

[MI6]
Charles waves his hand dismissively. "I'm sure you'll do fine." It's unclear whether he understood R.B.'s question. "Shouldn't be a problem, I say."

Booth taps R.B. on the shoulder. "Before you leave, I'd like to show you a few itemsssh you may find ussheful."

He pulls out a slim metal suitcase from beneath the desk. "Now, of coursshe we can not shend you in with weapons. Thiss would trigger alarmsh with the islandssh ssssecurity. We do not, however, shend you in armed." He flips open the case, revealing several shiny items set into the protective gray foam that lines the interior of the case.

Booth extracts an authentic-looking Rolex from the case, apparently tailored to fit someone with R.B.'s... significant wrists. "Item firsht - in addition to being an accurate time-piece, this watch is packed with highly condensssed eshploshivesh - perfectly ssstable, but with enough force to blow a hole the shize of your fist, yoursh shpeshifically, in a three-foot shteel sssheet. You set the timer ushing the shtop-watch function. One click for shtop-watch, to clickssh to shet the trigger."

He withdraws a fancy-looking, yet tasteful, silver cigarette case. "Item the ssshecond, shigarette case." He flips it open to reveal a set of clear glass vials filled with a pale beige liquid. "Containsh five vialsh of a ssshpecifically tailored ssshcent that should confushes mutant shcent rescheptors. It can't masshk your cashte-shcent, but it can temporarily confushe a mutant - indusches a ssshort-term amneshia ash well ash a sssstate of complashcenshcy."

An expensive pen. "Item the third, a fountain pen. Incapable of writing, but filled with a shingle doshe of nerve-toxin capable of taking down even a brute in a shingle ssssshot. Providing you can penetrate the shkin - without penetration, toxin causes dishinessh and confushion, followed by weaknessh a fatigue.

"Theshe are your weaponsh, Mr. Bargle."

[Jack]
Jack chases after the figure, watching as it leaps from rooftop to rooftop. It isn't large - no taller than a man, but it moves with a speed that marks it as clearly inhuman. The spider-monster keeps pace with it easily, almost too easily, and, slowly, Jack knows that it is leading him.

It wants him to follow it.

The chase ends on a tall, half-ruined building over-looking Trafalgar Square, and the clump of monolith-studded dirt within. Jack can see his companions staring blankly at a little red squid-man within the ring of stones, but that's not what he's here for.

The figure stands at the edge of the building, two pointy, frilled ears sticking up from its head, mangy black fur covering its head and shoulders, giving way to mottled gray skin. Great curtains of leathery membrane drape down around it like a cape, falling from vastly overlong fingers it keeps clutched about its shoulders. Its head turns as Jack approaches, ears twitching, a faint chittering noise in the air almost masked by the scrape of its rat-like tail against the wet brick roof.

It lets a long moment of silence pass, before it speaks up.


"Hello, Jack," says the bat-man.

[The Vatican]COLOR="lime"]0%[/COLOR
The Pope shakes his head at Makali's question. "Enough tal-"

Cobalt interrupts that thought with a barrage of subneural commands, attempting to break in and access His Holliness' base, autonomic functions. [79%] The Pope clutches his chest and staggers backwards, his staff dropping to the ground as his hand reaches to the wall for support. He drops to his knees and keels back, red light crackling from his eyes. He lets out a scream, and in a puff of green mist and blood, nothing more than a stain on the rug.

[Chicago]COLOR="lime"]5%[/COLOR
[Salvation Army] The man stares at the floor as Kruppe tends to his wounds COLOR="Red"]-18% Stress[/COLOR. Finally, he shakes his head and climbs back to his feet. He turns his head toward Kruppe, but his eyes stare past the man. "He was right, though - he had found salvation there." He looks back to the altar behind him. "Not his, though." His eyes find the sword. "Mine."

The blade spins around in his hand. "I'm sorry."

In one swift motion, the man drops to the floor, the pummel of his sword hitting the ground as he crumples to his knees, driving the blade through his Heart.

[The Fire Station]
"It's our desire," Senor del Fuego echoes at full volume, his eyes flaring open. He spins around, grabbing Sydney's thigh as he does, pulling her leg up onto his, his other hand slides up her arm, his fingers wrapping about hers as he pushes them both skyward. She can feel his heat - not just that from his body, which is a bit more close than normally acceptable, but from his pyrokinesis. She can feel the fire inside of him, burning as hot as hers, but under wrapped control, focused, kept under pressure. His eye lock onto hers, and the fire spikes. "It is our passion that makes us what we are. That sets us apart from other psychers! It is our hunger that drives us! It is our desire that allows us to do what we do, and what moves us to do so much more."

Psychic energy crackles across the two of them, bonding neural networks for a fraction of a second, thoughts and wants blurring as synapses fire across the pair. She can feel his mind coursing through hers. Fire. Such fire. Her base, reptile brain screams at her to run - it screams the same base scream that coursed through the First Men's minds when they saw a blast of lightning spark a fire. It screams fear. It screams "danger".

Senor del Feugo tilts back his head, and Sydney finds herself doing the same, her eyes blazing blue as his do, the muscles of her arm tightening in time with his, her brain automatically following the precise patterns his does. She can feel their psionic energy coursing together, his leading, showing her the path. It feel like electricity in her mind. All the time her brainstem screams danger. Danger! But all Sydney can feel, coursing across her synapses, is high voltage.

Senor del Feugo lets out a shout, and a blue bolt of lightning fires from their fingertips, scorching the ceiling above.

[Sydney has gained Electrokinesis 10%]

"What... the... fuck..." Jen says flatly from the door, Burn lying unconscious on the floor beside her.

[Democracy Town]COLOR="lime"]17%[/COLOR
Apparently so out of it as to believe he and his companions were in some sort of office, The Ocean King staggers up and appears to lean against an imaginary doorway.

The Presidist looks him over thoughtfully. "The American people do not submit. We do not negotiate with terrorists, sir."

[Tokyo]COLOR="lime"]2%[/COLOR
[23%] The red lines flare green, and there is a sound like the sky coming apart as the strange new world begins to shift and spin. STYX is tossed against what was once a wall, its lines fading to an indistinct blur. CRABBY is flung down what might have been a hallway once, but is now little more than a swirl of light and static. Nolan is tossed into the ether, where he lands is... unknown [Is Kueller still around?].

Henry watches as the robots are torn apart, their strange, glowing bodies turned to flickering embers of sparking text. The world turns on him, then, and he is forced backwards, as if existence had spun on its end. Chuck goes with him, the boy's cardboard disguise ripping apart in the process. The last thing Henry sees is his HUD screaming - data flooding out over his eyes, error messages filling every inch of his perception. A garbled, worried message from Cassandra and then... nothing.


[???]

[FONT="Lucida Console"][B]Robonet Boot c.01 [Color="red"][Infected][/color][/B]
STYX is Awake.
CRABBY is Awake.

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[???]
Henry wakes up in a green, crackling haze. There are ceiling and walls around him, after a fashion - they seem more impressionist than is likely healthy. Hazy splotches of green in varying shades, the whole world shifting and twirling, moving like viruses under a microscope, projected on flowing cloth.

Chuck is beside him, and his brain is rooted into the world - green lines tracing out from his head and burying themselves in existence, ripples of light flowing out from each connecting point. The boy lies beside himself - a green, water-color version there of. Looking down at his hands, Henry finds that the connected Chuck seems the only thing int his place not rendered in cascading blotches of melted dollar bills.

Little Chuck wakes up. Henry is beside him! He's green, but so is Chuck! There's something beside Chuck that he can't see, but he knows it's important! It's also a secret, which is why he can't see it!

Squall wrote: »

[ROBOTRON][CRABBY] [Stress] 10% [RAD] 0/65%

Skills: Rapid Maneuverability 55% Diplomacy 45% Tinkering 9% Sculpting 5%
Traits: Chitinous Utility Droid 20% Quick Little Bugger 10% RAD Voice 10% Fireproof 5% Robonet Connection 5% RAD Dance Routine 0% Naieve -5%

[FONT="Lucida Console"]
You look about at your new surroundings. The only other person around is Sticks, where on earth did everyone else go? You begins to panic. What if you killed them trying to make this jump? No, no, that's probably not true, you just need to get a grip and look around. It's hard to see through all this green haze, try to clear it up.

Hey, an idea! If Chuck is still around nearby and he notices the haze clear up, he might figure you're still around too and do the same!

>CRABBY: Examine gate, and try to lower ambient RAD by 10%.

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Antimatter wrote: »

[ROBOTRON][STYX] [Stress] 0% [RAD] 0%

Skills: 100% Scouting 35% Diplomacy 30% Robonet Defense 35%
Traits: (+50/-5) Yellow-Bellied -5% Stealth Module 10% Robonet Connection 5% (Meta-Trait Feature)
Golden Blur 5% Soaring Mech 15% Kindly Soul 10% Calculating Intellect 10%

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"Don't you [I]dare[/I] leave me behind, CRABBY!" STYX runs over to follow the crab-bot's path.

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Shabooty wrote: »

[CHEERIO, MUTANTS][Chet] STRESS 0%RAD 0%
Skills: Telekinesis 60% Customer Service Training 43% Cooking 15% Hobby Model Construction 5%
Traits: TK Speedster 10% Seemingly Harmless 5% Diamond-Hard Head 5% Real Good Guy 10% Handless Ugly Mutant -10% Burn Scars -15%


Chet gets up and heads toward Jess, stifling a yawn along the way.

"Are we short again?" I don't need to ask. Even with tips they still take money from the register.

Chet yawns again.

Viscount Islands wrote: »

[Blacklight]{Makali F. Viadance} Stress 30% Rad 100% Tetsuo 0%
B]Skills:[/B] Salacious Manipulation 50%, Devious Intellectualism 45%, Telekinesis 50%][Meta-Traits: Psycher, [color=lime]Carbosilicate Implant (Host)[/color
B]Traits[/B]: Very Attractive Androgyny 15%, Perfect Health 5%, Addicted to Attention -5%, Slutty -5%, [COLOR="Black"]Black[/COLOR] Card, [color=lime]Carbosilicate Arm[/color

"...is he dead for reals this time?" Makali says, his eyes scanning the room waiting for the Pope to pop back out. Good job, Cobalt. I suppose that may have done it. He communicates to his mental roommate and stalks forward slowly to where the Pope...popped. He kneels and presses his hand against the blood stains.

"Tell Xiang to get down here. We're leaving." As he stands he picks up the Pope's staff and admires it. "Beautiful. I think I'll keep it."

Also Makali is taking a breather at this point in time.

Dubh wrote: »

[Democracy Town][Dusty Bhan]Stress 0% RAD 40%
[Skills: Wasteland Survival 45%, Materials Engineering 64%, Administration 25%]
[Traits: Compulsive Scavenger -5%, Deep Pockets 5%, Eidetic Memory 5%, Hard to Kill 10%, Mastermind 20%, Neo-Tokyo Drifter 5%, Eccentric -15%, RAD Dance Routine -%, Black Card]

"Not te-e-errorists. From foreign nation." Dusty shakes his head. "Mentioned it to your guards. Seemed too frightened to info-o-orm you. Must get annoying, if this is your re-e-egular re-e-elationship with the staff. Irrrrft wrrrre hrrrrvt trrrrk dshhhh aach shhhtd qrrrst trrrk grrrshn yrrrr trrrrst..."

Dux wrote: »

[Democracy Town]URL="http://glossolalia-rpg.pbworks.com/The-Man"][B]Kain[/URL][/B Stress 22% RAD 0%
[Skills: Swordsmanship 60%, Master Strategist 50%]
[Traits: Made of Iron 10%, Iron Will 20% Intellectual 10%, Carbosilicate Blades 10%, Carbosilicate Durability, RADrenaline]
Meta-trait:COLOR="Lime"]Carbosilicate Sword[/COLOR

"Was it you that threw that guard out of the window?"

Speed Racer wrote: »

"Well, that was anti-climactic."

[Cobalt --> Xiang]Hey idiot, we took care of that guy for you. Seriously why the heck couldn't you handle this yourself the guy was a total pushover.

Fire Truck wrote:

The Ocean King COLOR="Red"]Stress 25%[/COLORCOLOR="RoyalBlue"]Burning Spirit 5%[/COLORCOLOR="Lime"]RAD 0%[/COLOR
Skills [Unexpected Attacks 67%] [Khaganship 68%] ["Horse"manship 20%]
Traits [Ain't got time to read -5%] [A woman's place is in the yurt -5%] [John Wayne's The Conquerer -10%] [Leader of the charge +10%] [The Me that believes in You +10%]
Meta Trait [Human] Burning Spirit!!!!!

The Ocean King stumbled slightly as he tried to regain his composure. He was sure there was a doorway there.

"Yes...as my prime minister says, we are foreign dignitaries," he stood straight and dusted off his royal [tiny]bath[/tiny]robes, "And...I am the king of that land."

The Ocean King glanced around, "Though...I am curious...from what American People do you take your authority?"

Shock G wrote: »

[Chicago]
[Kruppe] Stress 0% RAD 0% Tetsuo 0%
Skills: [Cryokenisis] 63% [Telekenisis] 25% [History] 25%
Traits: [Battle Sorcerer] 15% [Smart as all hell] 15% [Has a way with the written word] 5%
[Kind Ol' Sage] 15%[Got a bit of a wizard obsession] -10% [Can't shut his head up] -5% [Afraid of Big Ol' Hairy Ass Spiders] -5%

"Wait! We can fix your brai-" A noise like a meaty jellyfish being thrown into a cornfield from a 747 reaches Kruppe's ears, and he knows it's too late. The wise man runs up to the skewered corpse and kicks it. "GOD DAMMIT! Kruppe wanted to do that!"

Shock G

ooooh new thread smell

Speed Racer

Posting my statline for the new thread:

Cobalt Steele (Integrated) Host Stress 30 RAD 40
[Carbosillicate Implant] [Freaker]
Skills: Lateral Thinking 50%; Trash-Talking 40%; Athleticism 15%; Video Game Trivia 20%; Subneural Network Use 35%
Traits: RADemon Trainer: 20% Smug Prick -15%
Cards: Speed Racer

Shabooty

I will try my best to lead the story along here

Viscount Islands

My butt is quivering in anticipation.

Fire Truck

HAHAHA

I don't have to feel guilty about making non game related posts!

We still have 99 pages to fill up!

Fire Truck

HAHAHA

I don't have to feel guilty about making non game related posts!

We still have 99 pages to fill up!

DE?AD

[Chicago]COLOR="Lime"]5%[/COLOR
[Salvation Army] The body slumps to the side, and the sword's pummel clangs against the floor.

[The Vatican]COLOR="Lime"]2%[/COLOR
Glancing around the room, Cobalt sees, amongst the wreckage of the table they appeared on top of, several pieces of what was clearly once a robot.

Apparently Xiang didn't make it out of the shattering prison.

[Democracy Town]COLOR="Lime"]17%[/COLOR
The President blows another puff of lime haze out through the air-holes in his mask as Dusty speaks. He nods to Kain briefly before addressing the clearly more important Ocean King.

"The American people. All of the American people." He straightens his posture again, and clasps his hands in front of him. "So tell me, Mr. King, what brings you to our fine nation?"

[Tokyo]COLOR="Lime"]??%[/COLOR
[???]

[FONT="Lucida Console"][B]Robonet Boot c.01 [Color="red"][Infected][/color][/B]
STYX is Awake.
CRABBY is Awake.
There is a IRON GATE. The IRON GATE is Locked.

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Squall

guys I just want you to know that I'm really proud of the new thread title

I am grinning so hard over here

DontShootToasters

[Tokyo Drifters]COLOR="Lime"]Lil' Chuck[/COLOR Stress 0% RAD 0%
[Skills, Creative Thinking 60%, Soccering 40%, Boyscout Training 20%, Pokemon Battling 5%]
[Traits, Legion's Disease 0%, Adorable Idealist 10%, Hugmeister 15%, Freak of Nature 10%, Naive -5%, Kid -10%]

Chuck looks around the strange green shifting room, and sees that the only friend that followed him was the man in the silly uniform. He sees that there's a secret hidden nearby, but there's no need to ruin any surprises!

"Mr. Postman, where did all of the robots go? Everything's so weird here, like we're in some kind of videogame..."

Chuck takes a cursory look for any powerups that might be laying around

Speed Racer

"...Oh."

[Cobalt --> Antony] Yeah uh, we took care of the Pope for you, well no let me rephrase that, I took care of the Pope for you while Makali stood around being useless and getting exploded at. But... um... yeah the robot didn't make it.

"Welp, let's get out of here before some other stupid thing happens and makes this day even worse."

Squall

[Tokyo][CRABBY] [Stress] 10% [RAD] 5/65%

Skills: Rapid Maneuverability 55% Diplomacy 45% Tinkering 9% Sculpting 5%
Traits: Chitinous Utility Droid 20% Quick Little Bugger 10% RAD Voice 10% Fireproof 5% Robonet Connection 5% RAD Dance Routine 0% Naieve -5%

[FONT="Lucida Console"][B]Robonet Boot c.01 [Color="red"][Infected][/color][/B]

You could try to break down the IRON GATE, but the craftsmanship is so lovely, you can't help but admire it. One day you will be able to sculpt things such as this. You decide to use your ENTRENCHING TOOL to dig under the gate.
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Viscount Islands

[Blacklight]{Makali F. Viadance} Stress 0% Rad 100% Tetsuo 0%
B]Skills:[/B] Salacious Manipulation 50%, Devious Intellectualism 45%, Telekinesis 50%][Meta-Traits: Psycher, [color=lime]Carbosilicate Implant (Host)[/color
B]Traits[/B]: Very Attractive Androgyny 15%, Perfect Health 5%, Addicted to Attention -5%, Slutty -5%, [COLOR="Black"]Black[/COLOR] Card, [color=lime]Carbosilicate Arm[/color

Taking the Pope's staff and slipping it into his jacket's back along with his sword, Makali turns and sees the body of the robot. He sighs and goes to pick it up, "I'm guessing Elizabeth will want a body at least." He looks around to see if the door the Pope disappeared reappear with his apparent demise.

DE?AD

[Tokyo]COLOR="Lime"]??%[/COLOR
[???]

[FONT="Lucida Console"][B]Robonet Boot c.01 [Color="red"][Infected][/color][/B]
STYX is Awake.
CRABBY is Awake.
There is a IRON GATE. The IRON GATE is Locked.
[COLOR="Sienna"]19%[/COLOR] CRABBY digs under the IRON GATE.
NOLAN is Awake?

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[???]
Chuck looks around, finding several green balls floating in the air beside him. Also a one-up! Sweet!

[The Vatican]
Gathering up the Staff and the bits of robot, Makali glances around for anyway out of this room.

Luckily, it seems the door has reappeared with the death of the Pope.

Viscount Islands

[Blacklight]{Makali F. Viadance} Stress 30% Rad 100% Tetsuo 0%
B]Skills:[/B] Salacious Manipulation 50%, Devious Intellectualism 45%, Telekinesis 50%][Meta-Traits: Psycher, [color=lime]Carbosilicate Implant (Host)[/color
B]Traits[/B]: Very Attractive Androgyny 15%, Perfect Health 5%, Addicted to Attention -5%, Slutty -5%, [COLOR="Black"]Black[/COLOR] Card, [color=lime]Carbosilicate Arm[/color

Makali smiles and with a bat of an eye pushes the door open. He walks out and heads in the direction that would take him down and out of the building, towards the road where he intends to look for the Pope Mobile.

Meanwhile he keeps a sharp lookout for traps.

[Makali --> Cobalt] So uh, what the hell did you do to him?

Fire Truck

The Ocean King COLOR="Red"]Stress 25%[/COLORCOLOR="RoyalBlue"]Burning Spirit 5%[/COLORCOLOR="Lime"]RAD 0%[/COLOR
Skills [Unexpected Attacks 67%] [Khaganship 68%] ["Horse"manship 20%]
Traits [Ain't got time to read -5%] [A woman's place is in the yurt -5%] [John Wayne's The Conquerer -10%] [Leader of the charge +10%] [The Me that believes in You +10%]
Meta Trait [Human] Burning Spirit!!!!!

"Well, Mr. King...I bring you news. We are at war...humanity is at war."

Shabooty

haha fire truck that was well timed

Speed Racer

Cobalt Steele (Integrated) Host Stress 30 RAD 45
[Carbosillicate Implant] [Freaker]
Skills: Lateral Thinking 50%; Trash-Talking 40%; Athleticism 15%; Video Game Trivia 20%; Subneural Network Use 35%
Traits: RADemon Trainer: 20% Smug Prick -15%
Cards: Speed Racer

"I made his heart stop. I'm... not really sure why he exploded? But hey whatever.

Why are you looking for a car when you can fly and I can make us a RADemon faster than a vehicle. What are you doing."

Squall

[Tokyo][CRABBY] [Stress] 10% [RAD] 10/65%

Skills: Rapid Maneuverability 55% Diplomacy 45% Tinkering 9% Sculpting 5%
Traits: Chitinous Utility Droid 20% Quick Little Bugger 10% RAD Voice 10% Fireproof 5% Robonet Connection 5% RAD Dance Routine 0% Naieve -5%

[FONT="Lucida Console"][B]Robonet Boot c.01 [Color="red"][Infected][/color][/B]
You're able to dig under the IRON GATE easily, hopefully Sticks will decide to follow your lead. Off in the distance you see Nolan. I guess that means Chuck and Henry are around here somewhere too, let's try to find them.

You take a bit of a breather as you examine the LIME OBJECT next to Nolan. That last RAD burst took a bit out of you.
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[Stress -10%]

Viscount Islands

I thought you wanted a car to make use of your Speed card. >_>

Shock G

[Chicago]
[Kruppe] Stress 0% RAD 0% Tetsuo 0%
Skills: [Cryokenisis] 63% [Telekenisis] 25% [History] 25%
Traits: [Battle Sorcerer] 15% [Smart as all hell] 15% [Has a way with the written word] 5%
[Kind Ol' Sage] 15%[Got a bit of a wizard obsession] -10% [Can't shut his head up] -5% [Afraid of Big Ol' Hairy Ass Spiders] -5%

"Gross." Kruppe grabs the hilt and wrenches it from its meat-prison, lifting it over his head like a bloodied, old, Wart. "Really gross."

Speed Racer

Oh yeah!

DontShootToasters

[Tokyo Drifters]COLOR="Lime"]Lil' Chuck[/COLOR Stress 0% RAD 0%
[Skills, Creative Thinking 60%, Soccering 40%, Boyscout Training 20%, Pokemon Battling 5%]
[Traits, Legion's Disease 0%, Adorable Idealist 10%, Hugmeister 15%, Freak of Nature 10%, Naive -5%, Kid -10%]

He reaches out and touches one of the orbs

Hopefully it doesn't kill him!

Speed Racer

In my defense Cobalt doesn't really know about the car I don't think?

Viscount Islands

"Flying is not as easy as it seems you know." Makali says to the air, with a twist of his mouth. "It's too bad you exploded him, I wanted to use his dead body for information."

Stilts

If I was smart, I would have saved my statline somewhere.

If I was smart.

[Democracy Town][Ash] Stress 7% RAD 0% BS 0%
[Skills: Marksmanship 40%, Athletics 60%, Empathic Reasoning 10%, Medicine 20%]
[Traits: Steady Hands 5%, Gun-Nut 5% , Everyone's Buddy 5%, RADphobic -5%, Nasty Scar -10%]

Ash blows out the match Dusty gave her, since the flame is getting a little too close to her fingers.

The American people? she thinks. That's absurd. There's no way an organized, national communication system still exists. He couldn't possibly hold a legitimate vote to get rid of Congress and the House. And he treats his guards terribly!

She was still very scared. After all, they had no idea what the limits of his powers were. But her fear was slowly being overcome by a desire to put a bullet between his eyes.

Viscount Islands

I have it saved on my desktop as Glosformat.

Squall

throw it on your wiki page, I just copy mine from there and remember what my stress and rad are at

Shabooty

[CHEERIO, MUTANTS][Chet] STRESS 0%RAD 0%
Skills: Telekinesis 60% Customer Service Training 43% Cooking 15% Hobby Model Construction 5%
Traits: TK Speedster 10% Seemingly Harmless 5% Diamond-Hard Head 5% Real Good Guy 10% Handless Ugly Mutant -10% Burn Scars -15%


"Actually, I'd rather not know." Chet hesitates. "Uh, nice jacket."

Chet surveys his surroundings, making sure everything is done so he can leave and get some sleep.

Speed Racer

I just always quote my last post where I posted my statline.

It's easy to find because I just search for Cobalt's full name.

DE?AD

[The Vatican]
Makali exits the office and steps out into a long, empty hallway. He follows it for roughly twenty minutes before it empties onto the street outside of the Basilica. There are several cars fused into the pavement, but no sign of the Pope-mobile itself, which is a shame.

[Antony->Cobalt: What on Earth happened?]

[Tokyo]

[FONT="Lucida Console"][B]Robonet Boot c.01 [Color="red"][Infected][/color][/B]
STYX is Awake.
CRABBY is Awake.
There is a IRON GATE. The IRON GATE is Locked.
[COLOR="Sienna"]19%[/COLOR] CRABBY digs under the IRON GATE.
NOLAN is Awake?
There is a GREEN VORTEX.
CRABBY Rests.

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[???]
The Orb bobs slightly in the air.

[Chicago]
[Salvation Army]
Kruppe retrieves the sword. [Kruppe gains Makeshift Scimiatar]

[Democracy Town]
"No it isn't. I have made peace." He spreads his arms wide. "PEACE!"

He wiggles his fingers a bit for good measure.

DontShootToasters

[Tokyo Drifters]COLOR="Lime"]Lil' Chuck[/COLOR Stress 0% RAD 0%
[Skills, Creative Thinking 60%, Soccering 40%, Boyscout Training 20%, Pokemon Battling 5%]
[Traits, Legion's Disease 0%, Adorable Idealist 10%, Hugmeister 15%, Freak of Nature 10%, Naive -5%, Kid -10%]

Maybe they work like mushrooms in mario...

Chuck tries to eat The Orb

Speed Racer

Cobalt Steele (Integrated) Host Stress 30 RAD 50
[Carbosillicate Implant] [Freaker]
Skills: Lateral Thinking 50%; Trash-Talking 40%; Athleticism 15%; Video Game Trivia 20%; Subneural Network Use 35%
Traits: RADemon Trainer: 20% Smug Prick -15%
Cards: Speed Racer

"After that big display he put on, I kinda thought that he would've done a better job defending himself against me? I mean he was just saying how he was like you, I figured he probably had someone like me working on defense for him. I guess not.

Wait hold on, Micheal told me I could, uh... teleport us back to, um, angel bases that we'd already been to. I think I can just warp us back to France. It'd make a lot more sense to do that than to drive it."


I think I can do that at least? Maybe I'm misremembering. I hope not 'cause I don't wanna go digging through old threads to try and find it, especially since that's when I was still doing all my dialogue in text form so it'll be hard to find.

EDIT: [Cobalt --> Antony] He had the three of us trapped in some kinda prison that was fueled by the RAD in the atmosphere. I drained out all the RAD and the thing exploded, and Xiang died in the blast.

I tried to hack the Pope's SNN and give him a heart attack, and then he kinda... exploded? We're not entirely clear on that part.

Viscount Islands

[Blacklight]{Makali F. Viadance} Stress 30% Rad 100% Tetsuo 0%
B]Skills:[/B] Salacious Manipulation 50%, Devious Intellectualism 45%, Telekinesis 50%][Meta-Traits: Psycher, [color=lime]Carbosilicate Implant (Host)[/color
B]Traits[/B]: Very Attractive Androgyny 15%, Perfect Health 5%, Addicted to Attention -5%, Slutty -5%, [COLOR="Black"]Black[/COLOR] Card, [color=lime]Carbosilicate Arm[/color

Sniffing disdainfully, the psycher looks around for a sexy and/or powerful looking vehicle.

"Yes, yes. I can also teleport to obelisks and other beacons. I just want a car, okay? Someone like me needs to travel in style."

Fire Truck

Oh shit! Prez is eeeevvillllllllll

how we gonna act?

Shock G

[Chicago]
[Kruppe] Stress 0% RAD 0% Tetsuo 0%
Skills: [Cryokenisis] 63% [Telekenisis] 25% [History] 25%
Traits: [Battle Sorcerer] 15% [Smart as all hell] 15% [Has a way with the written word] 5%
[Kind Ol' Sage] 15%[Got a bit of a wizard obsession] -10% [Can't shut his head up] -5% [Afraid of Big Ol' Hairy Ass Spiders] -5%

Kruppe slides his new sword into a makeshift baldric-loop in his robes. "Well at least Kruppe got a souvenir out of this whole thing. What say we drag this corpse outside and we'll continue our quest when the sun goes down?"

Speed Racer

"You're never gonna get any less obnoxious, are you."

Viscount Islands

Makali looks a little crestfallen.

DE?AD

[The Vatican]
There is a rather nice Ferrari half-fused into the courtyard around the Basilica, but it's sort of useless given that at least twenty percent of it is now melded into the stone.

Cobalt, does, inn fact, find a command that will warp them back to Paris.

[Antony->Cobalt: I... I see.]

[???2]
The orb tastes like Fruit Roll-Ups. COLOR="Lime"]+1[/COLOR

Fire Truck

The Ocean King COLOR="Red"]Stress 25%[/COLORCOLOR="RoyalBlue"]Burning Spirit 5%[/COLORCOLOR="Lime"]RAD 0%[/COLOR
Skills [Unexpected Attacks 67%] [Khaganship 68%] ["Horse"manship 20%]
Traits [Ain't got time to read -5%] [A woman's place is in the yurt -5%] [John Wayne's The Conquerer -10%] [Leader of the charge +10%] [The Me that believes in You +10%]
Meta Trait [Human] Burning Spirit!!!!!

Peace...

The Ocean King took a step back, his hand flying to his sword, but not yet drawing it. He gave Kain a look, glancing pointedly from him to the area behind the King of Democracy Town.

"Peace...with who? On what terms?"