Yours Truly

Jun kept mostly silent on the way out, the strain of attempting high speed parkour while carrying a not entirely helpful child not exactly doing wonders for her ability to snark at people when prompted. It was only when she found herself unable to recognize her surroundings much, that she felt that it was safe enough to lower the child gently, and explain her reasoning. "Look, expecting someone who literally said that the only option for forgiveness is us dying at spear point to fuel their experiments to not try to kill us is probably not a great idea, and I'm not exactly keen on letting a kid fight them either..."

"Ah, that sounds like quite a noble cause," Lucian said in response, immediately wracking his brain in search of something else to say, "I can't claim to have such noble intentions for travelling around the multiverse myself, but if the last world was any indication, there's quite a lot of worlds in need of a bit of meddling, economically speaking." He turned his gaze at the various shops around him, trying to find a conveniently located convenience store, restaurant, or pub around here, "But you know, something tells me that it would probably be a good idea for us to start exploring this one for now, maybe find a shop that can sell something to get that bad taste out of your mouth...."

Sensing a lull of sorts in the fight despite the wave of life sapping crystals blasting in his direction, Atton shouted out yet another rallying cry at the party, hoping to inspire 6D and Mira to maintain a stiff upper lip through the fires and the flame. That, is naught but a flesh wound on Mira and 6D, healing them for 1d4+Int (15) HP, and curing one ailment.

Navin, Heidrun, Venus The sound of distant screaming echoes in Navin's ears as he fights back his urge to stand and fight, rightfully so it seemed, as his quick reflexes and strong will worked together to save him from being impaled by the various hooks the corpse vomitted in his general direction. Venus patiently waited in place, it was almost time for a grand finale after all. A pulse of green life giving energy energizes the party, healing them for 11 HP, and causing the corpse to jerk and twitch in Heidrun's direction. The corpse grows in defiance at the party, as it begins to glow with the same violent red light, and prepares to make another attack!. Solomon's ring briefly glows with a magenta light, before a rapid fire burst of heavy hardcopy tomes smashes into the corpse's frame, very neatly exposing its myriad weaknesses. Solomon uses Slalom on the corpse, burning 4 story tokens to apply a total of 16 Slalom stacks. The corpse's milky gaze drifts back to the hero clad in white, that a slight hint of fear returning to Navin's mind once more....maybe this time he should just try to shut it up for good?. (Stun or take boosted damage). Status Initiative Solomon's Loadout

Jun lets out a loud sigh after hearing the armored person's response, as she slowly starts to back away from them, "We're honestly here to help, but if violence is the only thing you understand then," her hand casually brushing at the fake controls of her suit, her muscles tensing in anticipation as she prepared to...."I guess we'll just have to leave and find someone else to speak to!," make her escape, apparently, trying to dart closer to the small child with stubby legs that are probably not great at running. Loadout

Lucian shook Vitor's hand firmly for a moment, his steely blue eyes staring directly into theirs as he said, "I am not surprised, I don't expect every world to have its own Kugelschiemede, not yet at the least." An awkward silence filled the air for a couple of moments, as Lucian wracked his brain in search of anything he knew about an 'overwatch', only to give up after he found nothing more pertinent than the definitions of the word, "I must confess to have never heard of a military organization called 'Overwatch' as well, but I guess that's just the multiverse for you."

Jun's eyes quickly darted back and forth from the terrified looking lizard and the very pissed off sounding person in full plate, her mind scrambling in search of something, anything to say or do next to try and buy the others enough time to escape, eventually settling on an honestly not that great sounding, "Look, can't we just talk this out? We're really sorry for just barging in like this, and I'm sure that there's something we could do to make this up to the two of you.." >Reason.

Skittering around the perimeter, Friedhold spots a solid metal garage door on the squat building furthest from the tower, which neatly explains why he couldn't see any vehicles parked out in the open, and what that building was for in the first place. Although really, it's still kind of strange that they didn't put a rear entrance in there, maybe having a convenient fire escape ranked lower than having marginally more security on their list of priorities? Whatever, it's obviously linked to the other building anyway. Speaking of the other building, Friedhold could see a pair of security cameras hanging from each of it's four corners now, along with an additional camera pointing directly at the cell tower's machinery, and one just above what seems to be a metal sliding door. A pair of small windows is placed on the left and right of the door, mounted high enough to make it difficult for the sister to crawl to, but not too high for him to lift her up if he wanted to, he guesses that they're a form of emergency ventilation, meant to pop open if the audible whirr of the fans pumping air into and out of the building suddenly stops. No one's coming out of the building yet it seems, which is a shame, he can't quite spot any other security systems from here, but it's kind of obvious that opening the door would raise some alarm, especially since the front door seemed heavy enough to take a fair bit of force to pop open, and the markings on the rear door seemed to indicate it as a fire exit, with all the warnings opening it would entail...

"Oooh, those are going to be fun to work on after this~," Dr. Ishi said in a slightly offputting tone, as she hung back behind her petro-bot to wind herself, and her hyperion transmurdera up. Dr. Ishi spins her Transmurdera's rubberband motor to reduce it's miss chance by 40% and increase it's damage by +8. Loadout

Slowly shifting her gaze to the foot currently stuck in the wall, Jun carefully considered her options going forward, and simply settled on the technically true, if honestly ridiculous sounding, "We mean you no harm, the door was just unlocked and one of our friends thought it would be cool to see what 'foul experiments' this place was up to." >We mean you no harm Keep using Ace Ambassador, and try to trigger Theorywork and Diplomatic experience.

Junior slowly shook his head in response, a slight smile forming on his lips for a moment as he obviously found some amusement in Alexandria's response, "They used it to spray bugs Alexandria. Giant man eating magic bugs. It's the only thing that works apparently."

Mot cast a sideway glance at Tanabe as his motorcycle slowly puttered down the hall, half hoping that the group didn't have to search around for the yokai thing they were after, "Well, Miss Ako's the yaokai expert round here, I bet she's got a talisman or spell that'll be a real big help for that."

"Ah yes, I am 'part of the crew' now, it seems," the businessman said as he glanced at the handkerchief he would probably have to throw away soon. "I tagged along with a group apprehending super powered criminals in 'Brockton Bay' was it? It was quite an adventure." He slowly extended a hand towards Vitor once the man finished cleaning himself up, quite obviously offering him a handshake, "Let me introduce myself, my name is Lucian Stahl, CBO of Kugelschmiede, I don't expect you to have heard of us before, we're still working on expanding into other...localities shall we say."

Quickly realizing that the party had effectively broken into someone's house, even if it was for a very good reason, Jun slowly walks over to the front door and essentialy, broadcasts her position to nearby people using walkie thinkie, sending an otherwise discreet series of mental messagse to Ignia that said, "Wait no! I think they're the guy who owns the lab we broke into, it might be better to talk this out, we're technically be in the wrong here," while wracking her own brain to try and puzzle out a way to resolve this situation as peacefully as she could manage. Jun basically activates Ace Ambassador again and uses Walkie Thinkie to talk to Ignia

Turning her brand new scrap kludge phone on, Jun will attempt to transfer the jetpack app over to it and finally see what it does.

A respectable looking businessman slowly picks himself up from the ground, having arrived far later than everyone else it seemed, he took a look at his surroundings as he smoothed out his black three piece suit, and adjusts his red tie a little. He let out a sigh at the sorry state of his surroundings, and raises an eyebrow at the man puking his guts out in a nearby can, briefly wondering if he had found himself at some medieval slum tonight. He pondered his options for a moment, glancing at the straightforward, if unimaginatively named stores nearby, before he settled on performing a bit of social outreach for now, pulling out a handkerchief with his right hand to offer it to the vomiting man, "Rough night?."

Letting out an exasperated sigh as he waits and waits and waits for the heroes to show up to help his allies directly without any of them actually showing up yet, Alan shrugs and ties his Doombot's video and audio feed to his commlink, and orders it to stand in a non menacing manner and ping him if it sees anyone approaching the vehicle, leaving a commlink behind for him to talk through if his Doombot doesn't have voice synthetizers or a speaker for some reason. As for the man himself? Well, Alan's going off to the nearest electronics supply store with whatever cash he manages to scrounge up to see if he can't just buy and make a non Doombot powered computer to access the internet with, or you know, plug his deck into a library computer, literally copy the entire OS and run it on a virtual machine isolated from the rest of his systems, and tries to into 2010s era Internet.

Jun begins to gather parts from around the lab to assemble a makeshift phone of sorts with, there didn't seem to be all that much to do here by this point anyway, other than wait for whoever was running this lab to return.

The steady rumble of Mot's steed slowly died away as he pulled to a stop beside the Shinto (?) priestess, one of his hands swiftly flipping a visor up, revealing kind green eyes lying behind it, with the barest hint of crow's feet trailing beside, "Seems we've sent all the little ones packing...."

The knight lets out a sigh, closing his eyes for a moment, and leaning against his hand. "Well that's wonderful...I guess we can't get a clear answer out of you until all of this blows over is there?." He waves his hand at Rein, indicating that he wasn't actually expecting an answer, before he moves in to pick up one of the bowls, and shovel some piping hot stew inside of it. "Fine, I Davor Ionna D'ambrosio, swear to accompany you on your quest....si-la-Rein, as a proper knight would never refuse to aid of such a noble cause, and I came dressed as one," he took a spoonful of the stew up to his mouth, blowing gently on it before he took a sip, and ran the hot liquid on his tongue, letting out an approving sigh as it settled into his empty stomach. "Aah, best stew I've had in recent memory."

Walking right behind someone's tent house, Friedhold activates his Houdini plasmid, and confidently walks up to the fenced off gate before him to casually snip a Friedhold sized hole through the fence, and went right on through. There would likely be someone heading off to investigate the damage sooner or later, but well, he was invisible, so that should help a fair bit. He stopped to consider his actions as he waited for the little sister to follow him through the hole he made. For one thing, he could skirt around the perimeter first, and get a better idea of what defenses he'd have to look forward to, and there was that building he couldn't make out the purpose of from this side. There's also the option to make a beeline directly towards the tower itself, sure there were probably controls for this thing if he wanted to safely switch it off, but he knew for a fact that most electronics generally ceased to function when some dick comes along to snip off cables and melt gaping holes in the circuitry. He could also go for the building placed right beside the tower, go through the rear entrance he can spy from here, and see if he can't just....find an off button to jam in place. No matter what he chooses, there's always the chance that he'd bump into a security guard or two, but again, even if they could see him, anything that can cut through metal can cut through a person well enough, and people tend to find it hard to scream without a throat...

Navin, Venus, and Heidrun Holding back his almost all consuming hatred at the existence of giant hookers in this dark and depraved world, Navin takes a moment to drink his Cherry flavored bottle of red potion, filling him with the renewed strength and vigor that he'd need to tear that hooker's ass up!. Navin is healed for 14 points of health. Mini Meathooks 1 to 4 seek out their targets, slashing away at the entire party it seems! Dealing 6, 8, 7, and 11 slashing damage to Navin, Venus, Solomon, and Heidrun!. Brandishing his weapon once more, Venus flourishes his gun at the large corpse spirit, and opens fire, his well placed shot detonating the explosive he had mounted on the beast earlier, causing it to burst open in a purple shower of surprisingly painful petals, dealing 105 points of damage to the beast, and shattering the remaining hooks with 52 points of damage each!. Life sharing contract ended with Solomon, Venus and Navin are my new meatshields now. Heidrun applies Binda on herself, Venus, and Navin. The Giant Hooker suffuses itself with the pain and hatred of uncountable innocents, glowing red from the exertion. As if his actions were guided by a lazy writer wishing to end a not particularly thrilling combat scene before it overstays it's welcome, Solomon targets the Giant Hooker with a token backed Violent Recompense, hoping that the rest of the party will focus fire on the shiny pinata. The Giant hooker retches for a bit, causing black bile to run down its mouth as its milky eyes settle on Navin, as he suddenly feels that it might be a great idea to cut and run now, unless he really wants to get hurt. (Stun or take boosted damage) Status Initiative Solomon's Loadout

"Fleeing would mean spending more time in this frozen wasteland, I don't know about you but I'd like to go back to the ship soon," Dr. Ishi said, tucking her geiger counter away, while she fell back to a more tactically advantageous position with her diesel punk freeze ray bot.

"In truth Alexandria, the revolution isn't doing so well, the corporate dogs are growing restless once more, and we fear that once that crisis in Boston blows over, the corporate courts will simply march hand in hand with the Allied German scum once more to end our glorious Flux State once and for all," Junior said with a weary tone, his hands fumbling a little with his jacket to put the flask back where it belonged. "I believe they will say that they brought peace and justice to the people of Berlin once it is over, as a nice little joke to tell at our eulogy." He sighs, briefly remembering why he went to the bar in the first place, "Our revolution needs allies if we are to survive until the end of the year, and I have found one who has promised to back us in exchange for dealing with the occasional thorn in their side, and the bioweapon just so happens to be the right tool for extracting this particular thorn." He takes a deep breath, his impassive face twitching a little before he asks, "Tell me, did your handlers ever say what the bioweapon was used for?."

Loadout More loud shouting could be heard coming from the halftrack as it drove evasively throughout the battlefield, as Atton worked himself into a religious fervor. Atton uses Battle Plans to buff Perlita and Myra's stat of choice by his [LVL] for two rounds, also reducing a cooldown of the target's choice by 1 round.