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Saurian

STR+ Strength is used to overpower enemies and destroy them with your bare hands, or whatever else is available.
SPD++ Speed informs your reaction time and ability to move fast, faster than other people, and just fast enough.
DEX= Dexterity involves your ability to be precise, specifically with the aiming of guns or other precision weapons, as well as aim for vital parts with melee strikes.
STA- Stamina is your overall bodily condition - how much it takes to kill you, more or less.
CTR-- Control is the ability to resist your hunger for flesh and metal. Lack of control makes it easier for you to, of course, lose control, which is only rarely a good thing. Having higher Control allows you to integrate new parts more easily.
NRG = Energy is your fuel. When you discover new abilities to use, energy fuels all but the most basic of them, and having higher Energy allows you to successfully utilize more exotic parts.

Abilities
Feast of Kings 1 - Your STR is increased by + for rolls involving biting enemies or consuming them entirely.

Rolled 26 (1d100)

>>579217
Roll to seduce

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Jacker

STR--
SPD=
DEX+
STA-
CTR+
NRG+

Abilities
Wiretap 1 - You can perform a CTR roll vs your target's NRG once per encounter. If you succeed, you can disable up to one of their abilities until the encounter is over.

Rolls in Cyber Demon Quest are based on a relatively simple system. You roll a stat vs either an appropriate opposing stat, or a DC check for environmental threats. A stat with a rating of = will grant you 1d10 to use, and each + provides an increase of two to the original dice, as well as an additional 1d3 (1d10 + 0 -> 1d12+1d3 -> 1d14+2d3, etc.). Having minuses isn't quite as complicated, simply decreasing the base dice by 2 (1d10 -> 1d8 -> 1d6, etc.)

Are we just choosing between these two?

>>579243
>>579217
Does it matter as long as we can seduce?

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Kabuto

STR+++
SPD--
DEX--
STA+
CTR=
NRG=

Abilities
No Sell 1 - Ignore the first attack made against you each combat.

Combat between Steelshapes is done by beating the shit out of each other until one of you dies. Steelshapes have an HP of 6 at STA=, and successful attacks, unless otherwise stated, deal 1 damage (+1 per 3 rolled on secondary dice).

>>579243
[To be honest I'm super impulsive and started the quest without pre-typing everything out. My apologies for the delay.]

Any more shapes? If not, Saurian

>>579244
He said Smt inspired not Persona inspired.
Phyrexiann waifus when

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Squid

STR-
SPD-
DEX=
STA-
CTR+
NRG++

Abilities
Camo 1 - You can become completely invisible for one turn of combat or 1 minute of real time.

The final thing you should know is that Steelshapes are very hungry, and like to eat people and other Steelshapes. When a Steelshape falls below half of their HP, the opposition can roll to attempt to literally eat them, which will kill them instantly, allow you to potentially steal abilities from the consumed enemy, and leave you very vulnerable to counter-attacks if you fail.

[That's all the Steelshapes, apology for the delay. Feel free to pick and choose now!]

Will we get bonuses for devouring, I assume, like DDS devouring?
Will we spend ungodly macca on mantras?
Also, >Saurian
RIP AND TEAR

>>579232
>>579217
>>579251
>Saurian
soon

>>579255
Saurian

>>579255
>Squid

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>>579255
Squid

>>579239
>Jacker

Seems good.

[Will close the vote in 9 minutes!]
>>579329
[Always a good gif.]

>Saurian

>>579232
>>579259
>>579267
>>579277
>>579372
Your form is rotten, metallic, and elongated - black spines emerge from your neck and roll down to your tailbone, with a thick black wire about the thickness of a forearm emerging from t hat point and lying, flicking gently against your will - you guesstimate it's probably six feet long or so before terminating in a cluster of copper wires folded into a small lump. Your ribcage and what remains of your human spine is most definitely on the outside of your torso, wrapping around the squishy, semi-flesh semi-silicon that you seem to be mostly composed of now.

Your head has been contorted in a similarly horrifying manner, with the top half of your skull having ripped out of you and formed into a bone and metal helmet with one large, protruding horn and two small batteries where your ears used to be. Your jawbone has melted out of your chin, with new, black metal teeth filling your jaw out like a shark. Your arms and legs have elongated into horrifying, bestial mockeries, fingers tipped with four razor sharp claws and an articulated claw-thumb where it should be, while your feet, heavily armored, have become great engines of speed and motion, as some sort of blood-like fluid pulses through them, hot and squishy inside you.

You're no longer human.

Currently, you're in the server farm of Goetia Enterprises, and you hear the sounds of several footsteps, marched neat and orderly but swift in motion, coming down the hall. Likely security forces. The thought makes you begin drooling a black ichor onto the ground, and you try to clamp your mouth shut to find that it's stuck hanging slightly open. The server room is dark outside of the blinking lights of the farm.

>Attempt to hide in the server farm to hope they pass over.
>Hide close to the entrance to ambush whoever comes through.
>Charge the hallway and attack.
>Just run as fast as you can, run away.
>PLAYER CHOICE

You have control.

>>579426
>>Hide close to the entrance to ambush whoever comes through.

>>579426
>>Hide close to the entrance to ambush whoever comes through.

>>579426
>Hide close to the entrance to ambush whoever comes through.
Especially if we can let most of them pass through and trap them in here.

>>579426
>Hide close to the entrance to ambush whoever comes through.
All in favor of going all Alien on these bastards?

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>>579451
>>579441
>>579430
To be fair, while your form is horrifying, mildly disgusting, and filled with unnatural pangs of hunger that cause you to salivate at the thought of consuming flesh, you appreciate the added mobility. Trying to remain as silent as possible, you dig your nails into the server farm and haul yourself up to the top rack, crawling forward in the darkness with your tail gently pulling itself to where it should be. It's cooperative when it wants to.

Watching the shut door, you see a group of silhouettes go by the window, and with a BANG, one of them kicks it open and the group flushes in, neatly ordered footsteps as they sweep the hallways with gun-mounted flashlights. You count the best you can - there's 6.

As a Steelshape, you are on an entirely different level than most humans, who have the lowest stats possible in most cases. For each - on STA, a Steelshape loses 1 max HP, and for each +, they instead gain 2 max HP from the base of 6, but humans are always at 1 HP - and are always devourable. In close range, any attack you make is guaranteed to hit a normal human and kill them, and most conventional arms can't harm a Steelshape. Consuming humans provides you with no EXP, but does restore 1 HP and sates a small amount of hunger.

>Snatch whichever one is furthest from the group and stealth kill.
>Jump down and blitz them.
>Rock the server rack until it falls onto some of them.
>PLAYER CHOICE
You have control.

>>579487
>>Snatch whichever one is furthest from the group and stealth kill.
test the waters

>>579487
>>Jump down and blitz them.
R-R-R-RIP AND TEAR

>>579487
>Jump down and blitz them.
ARMOR TEST

>>579487
>Snatch whichever one is furthest from the group and stealth kill.
Feast upon their flesh, one by one, from the shadows. Feast upon their fear, as their numbers dwindle, and their wills break.

>>579487
>Snatch whichever is furthest from the group and stealth kill.

Time to put that high Speed to work.

>>579520
>>579496
>>579490
You're fast - incredibly so, and strong enough that you could probably punch right through one of the servers if you felt the need. Instead, you lie in wait like a cat toying with prey. It feels... Right. Almost natural. You go for the one in the back, the only one in his row of servers, and reach down with your gangly arms.

How to kill, how to kill...

You stiffen your claws, four in a row, and ram them through the back of his neck, instantly severing his spinal column and nearly decapitating him. You grab him by the shoulders and pull his body up, bringing it on top of the server rack with you and watching as everyone else lurks with guns pointed and ready.

Blood drips down the servers as you lick your fingers clean with a black cable that's taken the place of your tongue, evidently. Tastes good.

There's four aisles in the room, with three racks of servers outside of the ones plugged directly into the walls. You're on the middle rack, with the outside aisles occupied by two security guards, and the aisle to your left occupied by a single one instead. They don't seem to have noticed the disappearance of their compatriot.

Easy prey.

>Stealth kill the other lone one.
>Try to operate the gun of the dead PMC.
>Jump down and attack the lone one.
>PLAYER CHOICE.

You have control.

>>579542
>Stealth kill the other lone one.

But we should take the gun for later anyways. If our "fingers" can even fit the trigger mechanism.

>>579542
>Stealth kill the other lone one.
Embrace the hunger.
We feel the need. The need to feed.

>>579542
>>Stealth kill the other lone one.
well, this is cool, though I hope we can do something to work on our control stat, cause that's gonna bite us in the ass I bet.

>>579550
>>579558
>>579577
You do more or less the same thing to the other one, waiting until his sweep brings him close enough to you, and then ramming your hand through his neck completely, severing his head. You immediately dig your other hand into the top of his skull to prevent it from falling and making noise, while the body teeters on the edge, about to fall with no brain or head to pilot it.

>Lean the head and body against the server rack as a garish warning totem.
>Drag them both up to hide as much evidence as you can.
>Bean one of the other PMCs with the head, you don't give a single fuck.
>PLAYER CHOICE

You have control.

>>579604
>Lean the head and body against the server rack as a garish warning totem.

>>579604
>Bean one of the other PMCs with the head, you don't give a single fuck.

I'm starting to feel bad for these guys. They're not even getting a chance to call for backup.

>>579604
>>Bean one of the other PMCs with the head, you don't give a single fuck.

Try me, faggots. See what happens.

>>579577
That's part of why I thought Jacker was a good move. I felt it would be important to have relatively high "unique" stats, and I was willing to take the Strength hit in case we jacked some cool abilities. You take what you get, though.

>>579604
>Lean the head and body against the server rack as a garish warning totem.

Maybe they'll bring more food.

>>579604
>>PLAYER CHOICE
keep hold of the corpse as a meat shield for your assault or retreat on the remaining two guards.
pretty sure they'd be wearing anti ballistic body armor, so it should provide decent defense, and we have a - in stamina so it doesn't hurt to be careful.

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>579613
>>579624
>>579611
>>579629
[1 for totem, 2 for throwing heads]

oh jeez

>>579698
>>579717
aww yeaah

Let's hope we maybe knock him out with the skull. If not, the raw intimidation should help at least.

>>579698
>>579624
>>579613
Considering you're evidently powerful and armed enough to decapitate someone with a jab to the neck, you don't really think that you're in a lot of danger at the moment. Flipping the head of the killed PMC upwards, so that all of the delightful blood doesn't leak out (and taking a sip first), you lob it like a grenade as hard as you can, jostling a server loose as it crunches onto the wall, misshapen by the impact, and falls towards the two PMCs on the left side of the room, who immediately whip towards it and begin to fire, shredding it to pieces with coordinated gunfire.

Their chatter is immediately audible as they begin sweeping the room much more frantically, speaking in military language that you don't understand and making furious hand motions at each other.

Unfortunately, they also begin pointing their gunlights upward, and when they converge in the middle of the room, they catch sight of you, the headless torso, and the nearly-headless compatriot.

Initiative in combat is usually determined by a match of Speed vs Speed, but since normal humans are so frail in comparison, their reflexes are like a small, helpless baby to even the slowest of Steelshapes, and you will always go first in a combat engagement. During combat vs a Steelshape, regardless of who starts the fight first, the faster one usually gets their hits in before the other one.

>Throw the nearly headless corpse at them as a distraction.
>Drag the headless corpse up and block yourself from their gunfire the best you can.
>Grab a server, yank it out, throw.
>Leap forward and just start stabbing things.
>PLAYER CHOICE

You have control.

>>579738
>Throw the nearly headless corpse at them as a distraction.
>Leap forward and start stabbing things.

>Leap forward and just start stabbing things.
RULES OF NATURE

>>579738
>Throw the nearly headless corpse at them as a distraction.
>Leap forward and just start stabbing things.

>>579738
Hmm, if humans have effectively -- Speed, we've got ++, we could probably just run in there and kill them before they pull their triggers. Don't know how much traditional weaponry would hurt though, and I don't really want to find out.

>Throw the nearly headless corpse at them as a distraction.

>>579738
>>Throw the nearly headless corpse at them as a distraction.
>>Leap forward and just start stabbing things.

>>579806
>>579774
>>579773
>>579763
>>579751
In one swift, smooth motion, your tail latches on to the corpse behind you and hurls it over your shoulder so that you can grab it by the arm and toss it much faster as a distraction. Thankfully, the PMCs seem to be wearing body armor of some kind, so the spray of bullets from four semi-automatic weapons doesn't completely shred it apart as you leap off of the shelf of servers, over the corpse, and towards one of the PMCs. You immediately cave in his ribcage by stomping on it, crushing his heart into a red paste, and then whip around, severing the one next to him's legs at the knee and then reaching up through his groin to grab something squishy and coiled up and rip it out through the newly made cavity. He still seems slightly alive after that, so you whip him in the head with your tail, hard enough to easily give him a concussion and prevent him from firing back as he bleeds out.

With that, there's only two left and a bullet ridden corpse that just softly lands on the ground. They turn to you, backing up and immediately beginning to fire while you raise your arm up and see flashes of phosphor as the bullets bounce completely off your armor painlessly, and only send a dull thudding pain through your 'flesh' as they fail to penetrate.

Their eyes are covered, but their body expressions read total fear. Time to contemplate some creative murder.

>PLAYER CHOICE

You have control

>>579832
See if you can penetrate skulls with that tail, and if so, if you can manipulate it enough to make it stab one from behind. Otherwise, just do that invulnerable person walk up to them and then smash their heads actually together.

>>579832
Lets see how well they can be mashed together like playdough.

>>579832
so... max sadism time or maybe we should just make it quick...
eh wonder if we can de-bone them without instantly killing them, remove the femurs and big easy bones like that through incisions. or maybe just skin them... or puncture a lung then make them try and run away...eh

>>579832
RIP AND TEAR. THEY HAVE NOURISHING GUTS.

>>579860
>>579864
these sound like good options
>>579832

>>579832
Okay, so bullets are shit, but marginally annoying in large doses. Good to know.

>Pierce them both through the chest with your tail, shishkebab style.
Let's just eat these guys, we're always hungry and I could go for some skewers right about now.

>>579832
>>579832
Whip one of their feet with your tail so you can walk over and gouge his eye with you're claws. The other could be occupied with your tail around his neck. Once your done gouging dude #1 you can claw at dude #2's rib cage till you can break them out.

Rolled 7 (1d7)

>>579860
1
>>579864
2
>>579867
3
>>579883
4
>>579884
5
>>579885
6
>>579887
7

>>579887
>>579907
You have enough control over your tail, it seems, when you're actively using it for purposes of murder - otherwise, it seems to gently drift from side to side. Despite seeming to be nothing but wiring, it's strong enough for you to sweep it at one of the PMC's feet, intending to just knock him over, but instead cleanly and visibly snapping his leg in two. You hear a screamed "Damnit, damnit, damnit!" by the other one, who you begin choking with your tail while the one who's leg you snapped just yells in pain.

You lift the one in your tail up by the neck, slowly closing it around his windpipe as he struggles to free himself and drops his gun to try in vain to pry you away. The other one, well, a finger poke to the eyes is much more dangerous when you're strong enough to punch through someone's pelvic bone, and have claws literally made of metal. Just a thrust to the eyes and he begins blindly firing towards you, so you grab his gun and rip it in half before plunging your hand into where his now-scrambled left eye is and caving his skull into his brain.

Then, you turn to the one currently being strangled to death. That's not fun. There's a thump to your right as the newly-constructed corpse falls, twitches maybe twice, and then expires completely. All you hear now is the squishing of blood and meat and labored, pained whimpers that grow much louder as you find the PMC's ribcage, dig your nails in slowly until you can wrap your claws around them, and rip his chest cavity completely open, shattering his clavicle in the process. Yeah, he'll bleed out in immense pain, but you're a man of more immediate satisfaction, so you pull your tail away, let him slump and take a breath, watch his lungs expand once, then deflate, and then stab him through the throat with your tail.

The room is silent, bullet-ridden, and covered with blood. You feel a vile hunger begin to overcome you at the sight of so many luscious corpses.

Your ability to resist your hunger is based on your CTR, and gets significantly more difficult the less you've eaten. Consuming an entire human takes 1 minute per corpse, and is very noisy, messy, and completely un-stealthy, but is essential to remain in control of yourself. With a CTR rating of =, you must eat at least 1 human per 6 hours, decreasing by a single hour per - (Saurian must eat once every 4 hours). Eating additional humans before you get ravenous will only delay the timer by 1 hour.
Once you fail to eat enough, the next time you have the opportunity to do so, you will have to roll CTR vs 1d10 to avoid not immediately killing and eating the closest human, once per hour, increasing by 1d10 each time period you avoid eating (8 hours = 2d10, 12 hours 3d10, etc).

>Get full and fat on all six.
>Just eat three to fill your needs.
>Only eat one, then get to escaping.
>Don't eat at all.
>PLAYER CHOICE

You have control.

>>579966
[Also, don't worry about memorizing the rules right now - I'll be compiling them into a pastebin at the end of the thread for later use, as well as your character sheet.]

>>579966
>Just eat three to fill your needs.

>>579966
>Just eat three to fill your needs

Don't wanna over indulge but don't wanna lose control

>>579975
>>Just eat three to fill your needs.
>>Only eat one, then get to escaping.

>>579966
>>Just eat three to fill your needs.

>>579966
>Get full and fat on all six.
The next batch might be much more problematic.

>>580002
>>580001
>>579994
>>579986
Your feeding is loud, sloppy, and messy. Your teeth jut outward as they seem to detect that it's time to eat, growing longer as they do so, while the black ichor that dripped from your mouth earlier begins to flow at an obnoxious rate, leaking between your fangs to pool on the ground. Your tongue helps pry the meat from the bones as you crunch your way through the weak and frail bodies of three of the disembowled and destroyed security guards, your teeth strong enough to crunch straight through even the hardest bones and your body hardy enough to withstand having sharp pointy hard parts in your throat. You feel all of them settle in your stomach, your body naturally compressing them like a trash compactor as it feeds them into whatever sort of excuse for a stomach that you have now.

You feel them burning up, converted and crushed into some kind of liquid paste that you can similarly feel begin to pulse itself through your body like blood. The sensation is incredible, almost addictively so, and by the time you're done eating, your stomach is empty again.

You take a minute to collect yourself, now, with the haze of hunger gone from your mind. Your name used to be considered by the world at large John Smith (you were never a fan of having names to begin with, to be fair), but for all intents and purposes, you might as well be as gone as your birth name. Something instinctual tells you that, not you, but your body is called Saurian, as a title, like warrior, or cracker. You're on the 30th floor of the Goetia Enterprises building, which is shaped like three concentric circles that slowly rotate around each other, with the inner ring part being elevators and people movers, the middle ring containing hallways, closets, and server farms, and the outer ring containing nothing but probably miles of corporate offices and dark, tinted windows.

You don't hear any noises in the distance. The coast SEEMS clear.

>Take to the elevators.
>Go to an office and just jump out the fucking window.
>PLAYER CHOICE

You have control.

>>580068
>>Go to an office and just jump out the fucking window.

>>580068
>>Take to the elevators.
maybe not the elevator car though but the elevator shaft.

>>580068
>Go to an office and just jump out the fucking window

Surprise twist by an hero?

>>580084
Seconding.

>>580068
>Take to the elevators.

Definitely try to ride down one of the cables in the elevator shaft. We could _probably_ survive jumping out of the 30th floor with only moderate injuries, but we don't want to draw attention. Not until we're hungry again, anyway. I kind of want to look around this place a little more, even though it'd probably end poorly.

also.. I just realized that we bear a strong resemblance to a Xenomorph in terms of combat style and general build... all we need is the pile driver mouth thing and acid blood. though i'd prefer other specilizations myself.

>>580068
>Take to the Elevators
Let see if there is anything other than people to eat here.

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>>580084
>>580103
>>580113
You make your way out of the room, still licking your claws clean of blood, and head towards the elevator shaft. Once more, the entire building, despite being massive enough to host thousands of workers, is eerily silent.

The inner circle with the elevators is quiet and desolate, made of polished marble and clear glass, with a view of elevators running up and down the inside of the building's hollow center.

>Call the elevator and take it down.
>Rip the doors open and climb down the shaft.
>PLAYER CHOICE

You have control.

[Sorry about the delay, real life stuff]

>>580187
>>Rip the doors open and climb down the shaft.
C'mon, is this even a question?

>>580187
>Call the elevator and take it down.
The image of trying to take an elevator to find a monster in it humors me.

>>580187
>Rip the doors open and climb down the shaft.
Deeper is better.

>>580187
>Call the elevator and take it down.
We may be a monster, but we're not barbarians. Hopefully our claws aren't too big and sharp for the buttons.

>>580187
>>Rip the doors open and climb down the shaft.

>>580187
>>Rip the doors open and climb down the shaft.

>>580232
>>580228
>>580202
>>580197
Really, honestly, when you think about it, there's only one real course of action here. You dig your fingers right into the doors and easily pry them open with a bit of effort, which is impressive for the doors to make you put that much into it. You ram your claws through one of the walls and then use your tail as a belay to hold you to the cable that pulls the elevator every which way (which is to say, up and down), and begin to climb your way down the wall of the elevator shaft.

It's 30 floors, so it's a long way down. For a bit, you reflect upon your life that brought you here. You were born, went to school, fiddled with computers until you were good enough to live off of it, and then lived off of it. You've never had any serious romantic prospects, you've never really done anything to stand out, and, in fact, you've preferred being in the shadows and running from serious problems. Personality wise, you were always the type to make a little bit of trouble on the down low, and then blame it on someone else - a growing sadist, before ennui stripped you of those feelings.

It's wonderful to note that you still act completely as you would if you were suddenly given a giant hulking robot monster body. So at least you still have your mind, or personality.

You climb down to the top of the elevator resting on the first floor, and then climb up a floor before letting go of the wall and cable and letting your weight slam you through the roof, creating a small crater when you land through it.

Then, you pry these doors open.

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"Baby has left the nest. I repeat, baby has left the nest." You hear through muffled, distorted voice, distinctly mechanical, echoes around an empty, clear lobby. You hear the click of dozens of guns readying to fire as you emerge into a semi-circle of PMCs, with an imposing figure standing in the middle, its own tail swishing back and forth.

"Stand down, Steelshape. Put your hands above your head and come quietly." The tall figure says. That's not to say you aren't tall - if you stretch yourself out and don't hunch over and point your head and neck straight up, you'd probably be about 7 and a half feet, and that's incredibly imposing, but even then, this guy is a clear yard taller than the tallest PMC you can see.

>Charge the tall man.
>Just try to run.
>Take someone hostage.
>PLAYER CHOICE

You have control.

>>580291
>Charge the tall man

take no prisoners

>>580291
>>Just try to run.

>>580291
>Charge the tall man.

>Hey look, an elevator shaft to climb back into to avoid bullets...

>and to make the other steelshape follow us so we can ambush it and eat it's head!

>>580313
I'll back this.

>>580291
Hostage negotiations won't fly in this scenario, I don't count on a PMC in a Cyberpunk/SMT setting to care much about their soldiers.

>Just try to run.
Time to bail out before things turn really bad, or at least find a better position to fight from than "In front of a shitload of enemies".

>>580291
I'd like to point out, that if we CAN eat his head, it might give us information about what they've done to us - being called Baby tells me this isn't accidental at all.

>>580313
actually, yeah that's good i'll support this instead of my old vote.

>>579763
>RULES OF NATURE
Red sun, a stranger I remain and it has to be this way are better

>>580313
I agree with this one

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>580327
>>580316
>>580313
>>580337
You decide that in this scenario, the best course of action would be to retreat, at the very least so you can escape. Thus, you bend down on your legs and leap backwards, grabbing the top of the elevator's opening and pulling yourself in while your tail assists. You're immediately greeted in a hail of gunfire as you pull the elevator door shut, watching as dents begin to rapidly form in the metal while you scuttle up the elevator shaft.

"Hold your fire! I'll deal with him myself."

It's deathly quiet - all you can hear is the heavy footsteps of the other Steelshape approaching the elevator, then the sounds of the door being completely peeled off and tossed away. You slink into the darkest part of the elevator shaft, watching for him to walk in.

And then he punches clean through the shaft like an axe-wielding maniac at a hotel busting down a door, surprising you while his other fist makes a second hole, and together they scoop out a chunk of metal for him to climb through.

>Roll SPD (1d14+2d3) with your action, highest of the first four responses wins.

>Climb as high as you can as fast as you can.
>Start kicking at him to get him to go away.
>Rip the cable off the elevator and try to use it as a whip.
>PLAYER CHOICE

You have control.

Rolled 5 (1d14)

>>580387
sadly you can't roll different types of dice together just multiples of the same type per post.
>Rip the cable off the elevator and try to use it as a whip.

Rolled 1, 3 = 4 (2d3)

>>580412
here's the d3's

Rolled 12 + 2 (1d14 + 2)

>>580387
>Drive your talons into the area around his head, specifically the neck, and try and get something important and tear it out.


Your hands seem busy with that opening, let me help you up.

Rolled 7 (1d14)

>>580387
>Rip the cable off the elevator and try to use it as a whip.

and her's my other roll

Rolled 3 + 2 (1d14 + 2)

>>580412
[Really? That's stupid and going to require some retooling. 1d14+2 then.]
[Trying it myself anyway]

Rolled 1, 1 = 2 (2d3)

>>580419
Well, I'll keep the twelve, and here's the 2d3

>>580421
[Welp.]

ahh fuck it

>>580421
maybe they changed it for qst but it was always that way back on tg and I heard nothing about that being fixed and saw nothing about that in the qst sticky.

[Doesn't change a lot in the long run. I'll just do the math myself - I've decided on a whim now instead of 2d3 it's +2 per + (4), in addition to the normal increase to the roll. Let me just do the math on your base rolls.]
>>580412
9
>>580419
16
>>580420
11

[Thus, we need one more action with a roll of 1d14+4]

Rolled 4 + 4 (1d14 + 4)

>>580450
well guess i'll roll again to keep things moving, kinda weird though we've had 23 ip's in this thread, guess they're lurking or something

Rolled 5 + 2 (1d12 + 2)

>>580419
He may be strong, but you're faster - much faster than he is. Shooting forward like a bullet, you kick him in the face, sending him reeling as metal buckles, and then dive your hands into the small space where his triangular head resides, digging into the rubbery flesh there, your nails sinking right in. "You seem a little busy, so let me help you up!" You growl, beginning to grab and yank. Black ichor sprays like from a broken hose as you attempt to rip his head off, while he scrambles to grab at something and make you stop.

STR+ vs STA+

Rolled 3 + 2 (1d10 + 2)

>>580541

Rolled 8 + 2 (1d12 + 2)

>>580541
[Bleh, sent that before a completed thought. Roll 1d12+2 for Saurian's STR roll, and if you want to include any other actions, put those in there two. Best of 3 wins.]

Rolled 8 + 2 (1d12 + 2)

>>580541

>>580549
[Also, ignore those dice in that post because I keep fucking up horrendously jesus christ.]
[I swear, next time we run things will be pounded out a lot better!]

Rolled 2 + 2 (1d12 + 2)

>>580549
Then I'll roll again.

Rolled 5 + 2 (1d12 + 2)

>>580541

>>580553
Unfortunately, he fails to act fast enough. You rip his head clean out of its socket, and he scrambles for a couple of seconds before slumping over, black blood pouring out of the open neck stump. The PMC's look like they're about to fire, but the majority of them begin to break rank and drop their weapons in the scramble to get away.

Nobody's left. You've intimidated them all off. All you have now is a corpse.

>Begin the feast.
>Drag it to a safer location outside, like an alleyway, before you eat.
>PLAYER CHOICE.

You have control.

>>580560
[There's a fair amount of people playing this, so for future reference, try not to roll twice unless it's very slow that particular day.]

>>580592
>Begin the feast.
Wew, easy first encounter.

>>580592
>PLAYER CHOICE

Hang the decapitated corpse by the foot with the elevator cable and feast on the head.

>>580592
>Begin the feast.
Let's get this done, then we can... go find a new place to live, maybe. Don't think we'll be welcome in our apartment, though we could raid it for important stuff in case people come after us.

>>580616
Backing this!

>>580616
backing this also

>>580616
We get special bonuses if we eat another steelshape. Potential new abilities and the like so.

>>580592
>Begin the feast

>>580616
>>580724
>>580766
You decide for now that the only proper course of action would to display the corpse like a grim totem while you feast on the flesh of your fallen enemy. You pull the cable upwards and simply wrap it around his ankle, leaving him flopping, his black blood oozing like a fountain out towards the lobby while you spend a couple of seconds crunching through his metal head with your razor-sharp teeth.

Kaiju - DECEASED

STR++
SPD=
STA+
DEX--
CTR=
NRG+

Abilities
Pugilist 1 - Your STR is increased by + for rolls involving punching or kicking.
Heat Vision 1 - Costs 4 EP to activate. You can temporarily see Steelshapes and living organisms through thin walls for either 1 round of combat or 1 minute real-time.

EP is short for Energy Points, one of two ways to use your energy. All Steelshapes start with 6, increasing by 2 for each + or decreasing for each - (Saurian has 6). You receive 1 EP whenever you kill and devour a human, or half your maximum EP by killing and devouring a Steelshape.

You must consume at least half of an enemy Steelshape's body mass, including their head, to add their abilities to your ability pool and gain EXP.

>Leave the building and travel into the city.
>Keep munching and munching.
>PLAYER CHOICE.

You have control.

>>580840
>>Keep munching and munching.

>>580840
[And by receive 1 EP I mean regain 1 expended EP. My bad.]

>>580852
Backing.

>>580840
You should always clean your plate.

>Keep munching and munching.

Now i must be off.

>>580840
>Keep munching and munching.
Nom

>>580840
>>Keep munching and munching.

>>580907
>>580868
>>580858
>>580852
>>580865
You eat.

And eat.

And eat and eat and eat.

You're not going to get in detail about the messy process, but the inside of a Steelshape's body is interesting indeed. It looks like great big balls of wire replacing muscle, with empty cables in place of veins and arteries, but there's also something distinctly biological about it, with meat between the wires and flesh right underneath the metal. Warped flesh that's completely fused with it, yes, but flesh nonetheless.

You eat and eat until you're full, and then you eat a little more, leaving the lower torso, legs, and spine of Kaiju hanging from the cable. You feel completely satiated for the time being, ready to go and take a nap or some shit.

After you consume enough Steelshapes, you will level up, which allows you to either a: upgrade an old ability, b: mutate a new ability, or c: add an ability from the consumed abilities pool for your abilities. In order to level up, you must consume Steelshapes until the total level of all Steelshapes you've consumed exceeds your own (two level 1 Steelshapes, or one level 2 one, will both level you up from 2 to 3).

As Kaiju is a level 2 Steelshape, you earned two experience points. However, in order to metamorphose your new abilities, you must find a safe location to do so, as it takes an hour or more and leaves you vulnerable.

Every third level (4, 7, 10, etc.), you may add a + to one of your statistics, up to a maximum of +++++.

You step out of the broken elevator shaft to find one of the PMCs having passed out on the floor and, evidently, pissed themselves. The lobby is completely empty, ground slowly rolling around underneath you as the building rotates around. The exit to the city is a massive series of curved windows, each one tinted dark, with the lights in the lobby dim enough that you can see outside, but you doubt that the neon-washed city can see in.

>Kill the PMC on your way out.
>Just leave and start going back to your apartment.
>Leave and begin to lurk. Can you even go back now?
>PLAYER CHOICE.

You have control.

>>580943
>Just leave and start going back to your apartment

>>580943
>>Leave and begin to lurk. Can you even go back now?
well then... with stat boosts being so few and far between... we may just have to focus on combat stats to make sure we can keep eating and leveling rather than control to minimize needs...

>>580943
>Leave and go back to your apartment

Can we even go out like this?

>>580943
>Player Choice
>Pick up the PMC and take him to your apartment.

I want answers about this group and why a Steelshape was working with them. He's not much of a threat unless he's got some tracker chip in him, and I don't think we'll be staying around our apartment for very long anyway. It could be a fun interrogation, too.

[Unfortunately, dear readers - I must depart for several hours to take care of some schoolwork that I've left unfinished because it's boring. We will either continue this later tonight if I'm lucky, or tomorrow if I'm not. Hope you enjoyed it so far!]

>>581051
thanks for the run so far DM, been a fun and interesting run so far, interested to see where this goes!

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>>581051
Badass dude. You got me hooked. I'll be waiting.

I think we should try to acquire a few abilities early on so we have more options. After that we can bulk up.

>>581606
That would be nice if we knew how many more steel shapes we will fight

>>581643
Many.

>>581606
I want pugilist cause we are bound to punch shit.
>>581672
Finish with that homework yet?

>>581719
yeah, maximizing the weapon potential of our whole body seems useful.

>>581719
Haha, no.
>>581719
>>581744
Just note that most abilities are specific - punching does not mean clawing or scratching, or grabbing and tugging, and especially not tail whipping, but it can help your stomp out since I can consider that a kick.

>>581759
And by "punching" i of course meant to say "pugilist"

>>581809
You got my imagination racing OP. I think you're doing well

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>>581834
Oh, and since you asked, here's all the Steelshape images I have. I may not use all of them, and I'll probably gather more over the course of the quest, but I think we're pretty set for variety ;P

>>581874
Oh boy. Alright well broadening our horizons then

>>581874
The real question is...
[spolier]When pixie?[/spoiler]

>>579217
Observation:
We should increase control to bettering impliment enemy abilities.

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>>582954
Or we could have average STA, as we don't know how useful going out of control could be.
>Pic related

>>583850
[strike] Let's not wait for a woman tht came out of an egg to calm us down [/strike]

>>583857
That isn't out of the realm of possibility

Damn, this was fun. Goetia really shit the bed with us.

Bump

Ded

Rolled 1 (1d100)

>>581874
Rolling for thread Necromancy and seduction ;^)

>>585554
god damn that's a shit roll anon

>>585554
you fool...

still I think Dm might be re-doing/balancing his system in light of how dice work here since you can't roll a d14 with d3's at the same time and all.

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>>585554
>tfw you will never seduce

>>585561
It's okay... It's okay...

Rolled 23 (1d100)

Rolling for Pixie.

>>585558
[This, plus I was out today - had to leave the city to go to therapy and come back, and I have a date in a half hour. We'll run this evening.]

Eagerly awair continuation
Loving the Dds vibes

>>585971
Get a twitter for announcements please

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I wonder when were going to have to fight pic related and get absolutely recked

>>586326
https://twitter.com/DMCasual

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>>586314
[Thank you]
>>585953
[Wrong game]
>>585558
[Correct - after this session I'll post my pastebin, but essentially now the system is, as mentioned before, +d2 on the normal dice, and then a flat +2 modifier (1d10 -> 1d12+2 -> 1d14+4, etc.)
>>583857
[What]
>>580965
>>580966
>>580967
>>581004
You leave, although not before picking up the PMC as gingerly as you can and hauling your way over to your old apartment. You see your ride, a small, refurbished motorcycle, that you easily cannot fit anymore, so you figure you might as well puncture the gas tank. If anyone follows you, they'll probably step in the puddle of gas and you'll be able to track them by scent (which, like most things about you, seems to have improved dramatically).

Fortunately, nobody follows. You keep to the shadows, occasionally leaping up fire escapes that struggle to hold your new weight of about 1 ton, compressed into just one body. You can't say for sure you have any idea where the extra mass came from, nor do you even care.

You arrive at your tiny, cramped apartment, which was small even when you were human. You were right - you can't stay here, not for long. Even if nobody's following you, you aren't tired and you doubt you'll get tired anytime soon.

The PMC is thoroughly conked out. You could probably splash him with some water to wake him up or just wait on its own. One person is not a threat at all.

>Wake up the PMC.
>Kill him in his sleep.
>Rummage around the apartment for whatever you can find that might be important.
>Metamorphose (Level Up)
>PLAYER CHOICE.

You have control.

>>587462
>>Metamorphose (Level Up)

>>587462
>>Wake up the PMC.
We can level up when were done with him

>>587462
>Metamorphose (Level Up)
Is there a possibility for us to for us to get a seducing ability :^)

>>587500
On that thought can we chance back into a human? And if not can we not sleep with people anymore?

>>587513
[Maybe and only if you're cool with brutal tailfucking that you can't climax from and will probably kill the other partner from internal trauma.]

>>587532
It's all worth the seduction. Thrill of the hunt amirite :^)

>>587532
>Lost the ability to waifu
>Gained crazy powers
I don't know how fair of a trade this was we can dominate some female steelskin and keep her as a pet I guess

>>587462
>Metamorphose (Level Up)

>>587532
eh, tail cuddles are still a thing then, which really would probably be better for our mental state in the long run.

>>587462
>Wake up the PMC.

Yo buddy, got some questions you might be able to answer.

>>587462
>Wake up PMC

Info sounds fun for being confused

>>587462
>Metamorphose (Level Up)
We can wake him up afterwards

>>587462
>PLAYER CHOICE.
Tie the PMC up, then
>Metamorphose (Level Up)

>>587469
>>587500
>>587552
Instead of waking up the PMC, you leave him on top of your bed, tucking him in as gently as your mechanical claws allow, and then crawl underneath the small space as best you can as you curl up into a ball, feeling a small black membrane envelope you, coming out of your mouth and 'skin' before forming like a cocoon.

Level up

Pick one:
Upgrade Ability
Feast of Kings 1 > 2 (STR increases by ++ for rolls involving biting enemies or initiating a Devour)

New Ability
Wide Jaw 1 - Enemies can be devoured whole at 1 hp higher than half.
Shadowlurk 1 - SPD increased by + for rolls involving moving while unseen by anyone.
Tonguepunch 1 - Perform a SPD roll vs your target's STA. If you succeed, deal 1 point of damage to them. Can be used once per encounter to an enemy at close range as a free action.

Integrate Ability
Pugilist 1 - STR increases by + for rolls involving punching or kicking.
Heat Vision 1 - Costs 4 EP to activate. You can temporarily see Steelshapes and living organisms through thin walls for either 1 round of combat or 1 minute real-time.

>>587709
>Heat Vision 1 - Costs 4 EP to activate. You can temporarily see Steelshapes and living organisms through thin walls for either 1 round of combat or 1 minute real-time.

>>587709
>Pugilist 1 - STR increases by + for rolls involving punching or kicking.

>>587709
>Tonguepunch 1
free damage, plus spd is our highest stat iirc, now once per encounter means one per battle right not like once per clash with a target? still I bet the upgraded version allows for more frequent use.

>>587709
Tonguepunch 1 - Perform a SPD roll vs your target's STA. If you succeed, deal 1 point of damage to them. Can be used once per encounter to an enemy at close range as a free action.

>>587753
[Once per fight with a Steelshape or fight with any number of humans without rest in between.]

>>587765
would an upgraded version be once per target? either way it's a nice ace in the hole if it comes to a close fight.

>>587709
>Pugilist 1 - STR increases by + for rolls involving punching or kicking.

I would have said Shadowlurk, but our SPD is already ++, so I think we'll get more mileage out of Pugilist at least right now. Tonguepunch is almost guaranteed damage, but it's just 1 at this level. Heat Vision could be useful, though.

>>587709
>Tonguepunch 1

Free sneak attacks with our speed should not be underestimated.

>>587709
>Toungepunch
Might as well complete the Zeno morph look

>>587779
[Upgrades tend to increase whatever numerical values there are - for example, Tonguepunch 2 can be used twice, and if it branches in evolution, you may be able to increase the damage or usage of it, or even the range. Most activated abilities branch out in some way once you begin to invest in upgrading them.]

[Closing poll in 8 minutes]

>>587709
>wide jaw

>>587786
>>587785
>>587757
>>587753
You awaken to the sound of snoring and lick your chops as the thought of a warm, fleshy human above you stirs your hunger, but the you realize that you want to question him, not eat him. While you slept, your jaws strengthened and grew, a small dual-wheel-like system like one would use to shoot toy cars around a track developing around your inner throat in order to launch your tongue out at high speeds and the reel it back just as fast.

Dangerous. Lethal. Kind of kinky. You slink out from underneath your bed, leaving a small curtain of black webbing where your cocoon was, and watch as the PMC slumbers.

>Wake them up. (Player Choice)
>PLAYER CHOICE

You have control.

>>587875
>>Wake them up
>Small cut on leg

>>587875
>Wake them up. (Player Choice)
hang them upside down with our tail via grabbing one of their feet.

>>587875
>PLAYER CHOICE
Just lay the tail on his face and lightly slap it every now and then until he awakes.

>>587875
>dangerous, lethal, and kind of kinky
I'm scaroused

>>587875
>Wake them up. (Player Choice)
Splash cold water on their face.

>>587875
Going with >>587901

Don't need to make them think they're literally seconds away from being killed, it'll likely end up that way regardless of what we do.

>>587875
Going with >>587901

>>587901
>>587907
>>587975
You pour yourself a cup of mildly grimy water from your sink, reach into your fridge, trying very hard to not rip the freezer door off, and plop two ice cubes into it. Gently swishing it in circles, you wait until it gets nice and cold and then toss the water onto the face of the PMC, plopping the ice cubes right against his forehead, where they bounce off and crack slightly before falling to the floor.

It takes a couple of seconds but he scrabbles to his feet, kicking and screaming, so you gently offer your tail to him and by that you mean you shove the black part into his mouth to muffle him, gently shoving him against the pillow until he calms down. Once he stops screaming, you pull your tail away and look down at him, towering over his cowering form. The apartment smells faintly of piss and shit now. Asshole.

>Ask questions. (Player Choice)
>PLAYER CHOICE

You have control.

>>588024
>PLAYER CHOICE
Drag him over and bend him over your leg. Spank him with your tail and demand everything he knows.

>>588024
"who is your employer and what do you know about things like me" seems a good starting point.

>>588024
>Ask questions.

>"Cooperate, and I'll let you survive. Be quick about your answers though, the longer I wait the tastier you look. Question one, was the building a setup? A corp like Goetia would have more security than just you goons."

[Unfortunately, that's all I have the physical stamina for tonight. Tomorrow we'll finish up with this thread most likely, and then I imagine I'll run session 2 next Friday or so. Good night, everyone!]

>>588122
Good night you casual.

>>588122
Night night [I am loving this quest]

Fuck, I missed the vote to get pugilist. Will we get another chance to get it?

>>588189
Next metamorphasis

>>588189
[As long as you don't integrate Heat Vision, you will get a chance to do so every level up until you decide to integrate one of Kaiju's abilities.]

How large can Steelshapes get?

>>588272
[The tallest one I have marked down for a specific height is 10 feet, which is around the upper bound. Also, for the curious, humans are considered 5- in every stat compared to an average Steelshape except for CTR, which they are = in. A STR= Steelshape can dent inch thick high-carbon steel with their striking implement of choice, while a STR5+ can casually toss around train cars and construction vehicles like you or I would flip a coin.]

>>588312
Tell me have you seen Genocyber, I feel you would really dig it

>>588324
[I have not, but I will look into it on your recommendation.]

>>588329
You can find the first episode (dub) here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ0fZnsbhUE

When we lose control, how much can we decide for our actions or do you just control us?

>>588521
[When you lose control, you automatically follow one directive - find the nearest human or Steelshape and attempt to devour them. Anything in your way gets ripped open or punched through. Obviously, this is bad in a fight against a Steelshape, although some abilities you develop may improve your berserk state to a significant degree.]
>>588390
[Good watch. My kind of violence. I don't think there'll be any Steelshapes quite as OP as Genocyber, since psionics are rare in this setting, but once we start getting higher in levels, buildings will definitely be getting knocked over.]

>>588678
Glad to see you liked it, the other four episodes are pretty good and the second is probably the goriest one by far

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Bump

>>588085
>>588117
"Cooperate, and I'll let you survive. Be quick about your answers, because the longer I wait, the tastier you look." You say, licking your lips and drooling a little on his face. Ugh. You didn't actually intend to do that but it gets the point across and you think he pisses his pants again. He just nods and whimpers.

"Who is your employer? And what do you know about things like me?" You ask, and he recoils in horror as he gazes down the inner workings of your gullet.

"C-C-Cathode Group, sir! And I know nothing, sir! I-I was hired last week, sir!" The jittery PMC responds.

"Good to know. Was the building a setup? A corp like Goetia would have more security than just you goons." You ask in response, snarling to keep him on edge.

"No, sir! We were simply told to go in and contain an experimental cyborg! The building was evacuated earlier today in preparation, sir!" He responds, trying his best to sound composed but really coming off as more pathetic. You've heard about the Cathode Group before - they're bottom of the barrel but cheap. Someone with unknown funds like Goetia could probably afford to hire something more expensive. Cathode Group's usual buyers are people who own small private companies like a mom-and-pop store or the local GamePalace.

>Ask questions. (Player Choice)
>Thank him for his time, then let him go.
>Kill and eat.
>PLAYER CHOICE

You have control.

>>590252
>Ask questions. (Player Choice)
What do you know about your buyer?

>Ask for a name.

Pardon my shadowrun, but maybe the buyer wants us to be stronger?

>>590341
Perhaps, we don't know how deep this goes.

>>590252
>Thank him for his time, then let him go.
>Don't forget to tease him on his way out!

>>590252
>>Kill and eat.
No loose ends

>>590252
[Fucking accursed formatting errors]

>>590252
>Ask questions. (Player Choice)
How many other "cyborgs" does you group contain?

>>590325
>>590329
>>590462
"What do you know about your buyer?" You say, continuing the interrogation shamelessly as you prod at his forehead with your tongue.

"N-Nothing, sir! Someone on my level isn't privy to that information, sir!" He says, whimpering.

"How may other "cyborgs" does your group contain besides the one?" You ask, sneering at him. You puff hot, acrid air, smelling of a factory and blood, at his face and he rolls up into a ball.

"Th-that's also not information I'm privy to, sir! My apologies, sir!" The man says, trying to press himself up against the wall to get as away from you as possible in the tiny, cramped apartment.

"And finally, what's your name, boy?" You ask, pulling away.

"D-Dan, sir! Sh-short for Daniel! Sir!" He says.

"Nice to meet you, Dan."

>Let him go.
>Kill and eat (Player Choice)
>PLAYER CHOICE

You have control.

>Let him go.

>>590581
>>Let him go.
We need someone who knows more to come after us since we don't know where their facilities are

>>590581
>Let him go.
We can always seduce him latter :^)

>>590581
>Let him go

[Just as an FYI - I'm going to be doing things most of the day so updates will be a little slow for a couple of hours]

>>590581
>Let him go.

He'll have nightmares for the rest of his life. That or a grudge. Either works.

>>590581
>>>Let him go.

>>590581
>PLAYER CHOICE
Why not do the Frank Castle? Keep him as a lackey. We have to find use of him some how.

>>590627
I like this idea, changing my vote to keeping him as a lacky.

>>590581
>Let him go.
>Tease him on the way out

>>590627
backing this

>>590851
Let's get ourselves a manservant
Seduce him to make him loyal

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>>590589
>>590596
>>590605
>>590620
>>590622
>>590626
You grab Dan by the back of his shirt and quickly inform him that it'd be best not to scream too loud before kicking your window out of its hinges, watching it clatter to the street below, cracking but not shattering, like most glass these days does. Climbing down, your claws on one hand dig into the metal, denting it just enough that you can slowly drag yourself downward against gravity. You drop him on the ground.

"You take care now, Dan." You say, gently patting him on the head with your tail, and then wind up, leaping up as high as you can and ramming your claws through the wall to make a hole you can scale back up on before scuttling back into your apartment.

It's still grimy and dimly lit with fluttering lights from a landlord that didn't quite pay enough for his electricity payments. You see a couple of your old jackets hanging up, not like you'd probably be able to wear them now.

Your computers blip and boom at you soundlessly. You doubt you have the dexterity to go do anything complicated on it anymore, but if you felt like it you could try and go through some of your old files.

>Withdraw some cash from the BankPrint (Player Choice, up to 1000 Credits (around 100 current USD in valuation))
>Go through your records and see what you can find about the job you just came back from.
>Take a shower and have a pot of coffee.
>PLAYER CHOICE

You have control.

>>590913
>>Go through your records and see what you can find about the job you just came back from.
How are we going to go anywhere and do anything now that were a monster?

>>590913
>>Go through your records and see what you can find about the job you just came back from.
Cash and personal hygiene are meaningless to us now. The worlds longest stealth mission begins.

>>590913
>Go through your records and see what you can find about the job you just came back from.

>>590913
>>Go through your records and see what you can find about the job you just came back from.

>>590913
>Take a shower and have a pot of coffee.
Rebel against the bandwagon!

>>590979
>>590961
>>590933
>>590927
Coffee can wait, and even then, you don't know if your new circulatory system is capable of processing caffeine in a way that would make it useful for you to drink. Instead, you start going through files, emails, et cetera, trying to see if you still have information on who gave you the Goetia job...

But it's blank. Your correspondence showed that you were skeptical of taking on a job from an anonymous benefactor until they gave you a 65% down payment rather than the typical 50%. The room feels cold as one of Neo York's typical Nightstorms begins to roll in, rain starting to splatter onto your bed. They promised you the job was easy enough, you said 'okay, I'll take it', went and did recon for two weeks, and then did the job, bringing you up to the present.

You notice in your BankPrint account that you've received the 7000 credits promised, about half an hour ago, and then following up with the account that made the deposit declares it promptly deleted, all dead ends severed and burnt.

Well, shit. At least you have money.

>PLAYER CHOICE

You have control.

>>591889
>Go hunting for other Steelskins to eat, if you eat enough your bound to get some answers

>>591889
Withdraw the money and float it on the market in return for leads on Goetia

>>591889
Take a shower, brew coffee. Then, well, bury what passed as our social life.

>>591889
>PLAYER CHOICE
Search through other contracts you were given before

Rolled 3 (1d4)

>>591915
1
>>591933
2
>>591940
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>>592119
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Won't Dan reveal our current home if he went back to his security company and get questioned on how he survived?

Just curious.

>>592591
Do you think he'll keep working there, or want to piss us off if he does?

>>592638
I doubt he'll keep working there. Guess I'm just afraid that letting Dan live will come back to bite us on our ass.

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>>591940
>>592345
You set some coffee to brew as rainwater trickles into the apartment through the hole the window once stood. Energy drinks are still the drug of choice amongst most of the population, but crackers and hackers prefer coffee because it's cheaper pound for pound and synthiene supplements have their taste masked by how bitter coffee tends to be. You've never met a single cracker who's not drank theirs black.

The shower water is the same as it always is - high pressure, low temperature. You don't feel it that much, and your skin feels less sensitive to the familiar sensation of nearly painful water. You wash the blood and grime off of you and watch as it swirls into a muddy brown death spiral down the drain, before getting out, drying yourself off, and returning to the computer. Coffee brewed darker than the storm clouds roiling up above, just the way you take it. You guzzle straight from the pot, unconcerned about the temperature now that your mouth can't really feel the burn. Just as you thought, it swishes down into your stomach, begins to circulate for one or two pumps, and then disperses into your system, sinking into your muscles and doing absolutely nothing. There's a thunderclap in the distance - either someone just got hit by a car, or you're about to have a flooded apartment. Either way, you'd rather move fast.

You weren't much one for socializing, to be honest. You indulged your credits on holovids and the latest models of VR headsets, and digital companionship. You can still see your favorite simu-pelvis underneath the desk, useless now to you, since even your tail is too big to fit in it without probably cracking it in two.

You had about two friends. One was another cracker named Jezebel. Or, titled, anyway. She preferred to spend her time messing with group simulations for fun rather than for profit. You've never met her in real life, so you can leave that one bridge unburned.

Crackers disappear all the time. You probably won't be missed.

The other was your pal, who called himself Buddy. A fragile little thing, the IQ of a quarter-dollar, one of the many homeless dotting Neo York's streets. But you always passed him on the corner from the way back from the GamePalace, and always tossed him a spare chit, and he'd always give you the time of day. Nice guy. To be honest, you don't think you'll need to burn bridges with him either. He'll just forget.

Well... That was solemn. You suppose it's time to get a move on.

>PLAYER CHOICE

You have control.

>>592712
>attempt to reach out to Jezebel. Won't freak em with our charming looks.

>>592759
Lets do it

>>592712
>Search through other contracts you were given before
How did Goetica find us?

(Also, if people want to go fight more Cybermonsters, they can likely be found at Goetica HQ.)

>>592816
I think it's safer for them to find us, we're probably low priority at the moment

>>592712
>Destroy the computer and leap into the darkness.

I don't think we have time to play around on the web at the moment. It sounds like the building is about to get very heated. Sure, they're probably just humans, but we don't want to end up on public news twice in a day. The stuff at Goetia happens all the time to megacorps, but an apartment raid gone wrong?

Rolled 4 (1d4)

>>592759
>>592793
1, 2
>>592816
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>>593324
4

[Apologies for the delay - I will be returning home from my daily duties soon and thus we will begin questing with higher frequency]

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>>594413
>>593324
You keep their names in mind for later. Buddy always sits on the same corner, and you have this little part of the city memorized, so you can return at any time although he'd probably scream and try to attack you. And Jezebel, well, all you know is that she lives in the Northern Octant of the roughly circular Neo York, while you live in the Southwestern Octant, close to the middle of the slice.

You don't want anyone following you. You go to your computer and punch a hole in it with your tail, and then eat all your paper documents before crushing your BankPrint. You escape out the window just as the storm begins to roll through, raining enough that visibility itself becomes moderately difficult.

You climb up onto the roof. Long ago, people talked about this thing called "The Sun" - a great big ball of superheated plasma that hung around the sky, but even on a day where the clouds have a couple of holes in them, and the four layers overlap at just right so you can see up, all there is is a dark purple night, always and forever. The term "day" used to be used for when "The Sun" was out, but now it's just a unit of measure - 24 hours.

Still, the view of the encroaching storm is pretty beautiful. Everything's drenched in water, and the water slides down the drainage pipes and into the sewers like a water park for hamsters, to be recycled and spat back up into the atmosphere by the Empire Spire, Neo York's largest apartment/office complex, situated dead center of the city.

You figure the storm is headed in the right direction to flood your apartment. In the distance, you see people sitting on rooftops, wide umbrellas getting them only half-soaked as they smoke through packs of smokes. You hear the sounds of cars roaring, as black-fit large-wheeled PMC vehicles drive through the streets, the only vehicles allowed on them outside of the busses. Several of them stop by your apartment complex, and you see people from the same company that Dan worked for begin to emerge. Under the cover of the storm, you're nearly invisible, but you can tell something's going down as they pull out the grappling hook cannon and launch it into the space where your apartment once was.

>Sit, wait, and watch.
>Flee for greener pastures.
>Wait until everyone's in there that'll be there, then start the slaughter.
>Go rip apart their transports and leave them stranded.
>PLAYER CHOICE

You have control.

>>594604
>>Sit, wait, and watch.

>>594604
>>Wait until everyone's in there that'll be there, then start the slaughter.
Time to eat