Expert

>>871933
Psychic.

>>871933
Expert

Fighter
The hell did we up our strength for, otherwise.

>>872000
Carrying heavier loads as an Expert, perhaps?

Three votes for Expert, three votes for Psychic.

Next vote breaks the tie and wins.

If this is SWN: Revised, then Psychic because psionic effort rules.

Expert!

Psychic sounds fun, learn that machine empathy.

Kyle was born a meta-psion, the rarest of the rare. Normally the OPS corporation detects and raises psions themselves, but due to Kyle's exceptionally rare abilities, he was able to mask his powers from birth.

Kyle now has the ability to

: Mask his psionic aptitude from other psions. He keeps this power active constantly.

: Detect the usage of psionic abilities and partially resist their effects.

One last thing before we begin our journey: Kyle has developed a certain aptitude over time. What aptitude is that?

: Assassination
: Awareness
: Close Combatant
: Diplomatic
: Ferocious Melee Attacker
: Gunslinger
: Hacker
: Hard to Kill
: Healer
: Henchmen-Keeper
: Leader of Men
: Natural Armor
: Outnumbered Melee Combat Proficiency
: Psychic Training (Specify from Biopsionics, Precognition, Telekinesis, Telepathy, or Teleportation)
: Sniper
: Specialist (Specify skill)
: Thown/Melee weapon proficiency
: Tinker
: Unarmed Specialist
: Well Connected

Biopsionic Training
Mind over matter.

Psionic Resistance
Hard to Kill

Hard to kill

What are the skills? What do any of these mean?

Kyle now has the "Hard to Kill" trait. This grants him additional health and the ability to stabilize automatically after receiving most serious wounds.

Kyle also had one free skill which I will helpfully auto-set as "Shoot" so he has at least some offensive ability.

Kyle is wearing an Armored Undersuit, and carrying the following:

: Laser Pistol (Unregistered/illegal) (Readied)

: Monoblade Knife (Readied)

: Wrist-mounted multi-tool (Readied)

: Backpack

: Datapad (Readied)

: 4 small batteries

: Toolkit

: 6 units of spare parts

Nooblet 2018/03/06(Tue)20:41 No. 872118 ID: 543d5f
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Kyle is sitting in a bar that secretly functions as a rebel meeting area. He has received a drink, and is contemplating what meal to order.

You are voices in his head, and may speak to him directly.

Greetings, returning OPS employee! Your locator beacon has re-activated and OPS Security Associates are on their way to retrieve you. Please assume the OPS Associate Submission Position and wait for our friendly staff to assist you! Have a nice day.

Psst. I heard their chicken salad ice cream with a side of sweetened banana and dulce de leche is pretty delicious.

Do you have a history of hearing voices by any chance? Maybe you should take your meds.

Spicy ramen with tofu. It's a classic.

Nooblet 2018/03/07(Wed)00:55 No. 872164 ID: 543d5f
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>Oh shit. They told me psionics could manifest mental issues if they weren't properly trained, but I thought that was just a scare tactic! Is that what you voices are? Ohhh god, I don't need this right now.

Cassandra, owner of the bar and well respected rebel walks over. She puts on a tough front, but she's somewhat of a den mother to the rebels.

Cassandra: "Hey Kyle, ready to order yet?"

Kyle: "Umm, chicken salad! I mean, uh, spicy ramen. Er, n-no, I'll just have a burger, thanks."

Cassandra: "Whoah, you sound really tense. Is everything okay? You aren't... detecting anything strange are you?"

I mean, probably not. It's going to be uncomfortable but it probably isn't a sign of deteriorating mental health.

Doubt you want to talk to her about us, though, so at least tell her you aren't detecting anything dangerous.

Do you WANT us to tell you that we're headvoices from other dimensions, you're a cartoon character, and you're about five minutes away from a gauntlet of death, drama, and planetary destruction solely for our amusement?

And are you going to order fries yet?

Ha. I wish. If you're paranoid with this development, then your issues is just going to grow. Relax, and your problems will float away.

If you're not going for their chicken salad ice cream, at least try their banana iced tea.

We are a self defense mechanism your mind has conjured up to deal with the stress of [insert crisis here] and as such can be utilized as a suggestion engine in order for you to achieve the best possible outcome relatively unscathed.
( warning best possible outcomes not guaranteed)

>Well you guys aren't a psionic projection, otherwise I would have detected you. Unless someone else can mask their powers like I can? In any case, you don't seem hostile so I'll humour you for now.

Kyle: "I'm fine, I probably just looked up too fast or something, messed with my blood pressure. And no, I didn't detect anything."

Cassandra looks at you curiously.

Cassandra: "If you say so. Well as long as you're feeling okay, there's a job we really need-"

???: This is a raid, everybody down!

Ahh! No! We haven't taken a bite of lunch yet. Can we like finish our burger first before you raid this place?

Nothing strange at all, ma'am! Please have your identification papers ready for the guards. They are here for your safety.

Get down.

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Kyle drops to the floor and Cassandra kicks over the table.

Cassandra: "I have a way out behind the bar, but we need a diversion so they'll think we're still behind this table. Any ideas?"

"Hey. Do you guys what food? We have lots of it."

Would have been nice to get a psionic skill but what we do have is a gun, a multitool?, and the table. We're pretty strong, we could use the table as a battering ram.

That table won't last against high-grade laser rounds. Throw the table at them and shoot through it while they're stunned!

Suppressing fire! And by that I mean shoot the fire sprinklers.

>>872422

The table weighs around 100lbs and would be extremely cumbersome to throw. You would also need a spinning motion, meaning you would be completely visible for 3-5 seconds.

>>872398

You have everything listed in >>872117 , although note that anything not "readied" will take a few seconds to pull out of your backpack.

>>872450

As a former Technician, you know that fire suppression is a lot more advanced than detecting heat and spraying water. It uses a basic AI to detect fires, and then suppresses them with a compound good for suppressing all types of fires.

>>872503
Oh, sorry, I meant I don't exactly know what they do. Is it a multitool like, it has a pair of scissors and also a screwdriver and a file? Or futurey.

>>872450
While shooting at them won't work, is there any way to have that AI? like with the datapad or something. That would give us the time to combine it with the table throw and have a pretty good distraction.

>>872503
Okay, annnnd a catastrophic breach of the fire suppressant pipes above the soldiers' position would be an excellent distraction.

>>872506
I think he's saying that won't work with a basic laser pistol.

>>872505
Hack* I mean, of course.

>>872505

It's a futuristic multi-tool. Basically it can do anything related to personal-scale fixing/creating. If you wanted to work on a hovercraft, building, etc. you would need a full size toolkit (which Kyle has)

People are very cautious about wireless security in the future, so most things are on an internal network and only hackable with direct access to the data line (LAN cable basically) On top of that, the Program skill used for hacking is separate from the Fix skill, so Kyle kinda sucks at it.

There may be a local wireless network for the bar with non-vital functions that Cassandra could access with your datapad though.

>>872506

Kyle thinks about this for a moment. It could work, but he would need a good roll to guess where the suppression pipes are, and would also elevate any current charges against him to attempted murder charges, as he would be firing an unlicensed pistol in the direction of OPS Security.

>>872519
Then, Cassandra could access the lighting and maybe the sound system to either disorient the guards or direct their attention to a different part of the bar. I liked the fire suppression idea but avoiding attempted murder sounds better.

rolled 9 = 9

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Rolling.

Nooblet 2018/03/09(Fri)05:14 No. 872529 ID: 543d5f
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Kyle hands Cassandra the datapad.

Kyle: "Blast some audio and flicker the lights as quickly as possible, their nightvision has a quarter second transition delay."

Cassandra types in her credentials as quickly as she can. The footsteps of the security officers are growing uncomfortably close when Kyle hears an ear shattering song start playing and sees the lights go black. Cassandra grabs his hand.

Cassandra: "To the bar! Go go go!"

She bolts off toward the bar Kyle does his best not to trip over anything as he follows. Right before he makes it to the bar, he trips over another patron and sprawls onto the floor.

Nooblet 2018/03/09(Fri)05:17 No. 872530 ID: 543d5f
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Kyle lifts his head up from the ground and sees a laser incinerate the floor between his legs.

Cassandra grabs Kyle and pulls him over the bar. She types a few digits into a data pad disguised as an old menu, and a hatch opens in the floor.

Cassandra: "Come on, let's go!"

They jump down the hatch and seal it behind themselves. Cassandra presses a button on the underside of the hatch and the edges glow white hot, sealing the hatch shut.

They're now standing in a tunnel, large enough to walk in if you crouch. Cassandra motions toward the long path ahead and starts walking.

Cassandra: "I don't know if they saw you, but I'm fucked for sure. I'm going to have to live outside the city in our Koros safehouse."

Kyle: "I'm sorry."

Cassandra: "Eh, it was bound to happen eventually. Anyway, speaking of the safehouse, that job I was trying to tell you about earlier is actually that the air filtration system in the Koros safehouse is going bad, and we were hoping you could fix it. If you need to pick up or drop off anything first, there are exits from this tunnel into the city. So are you coming with me, or do you need to do something first?"

Yes. I need to kill Mr. OPS himself for crimes against my precious machines.

I mean you have what it takes to make that sort of repair, unless it needs spare parts. Even if the safehouse has those spare parts it couldn't hurt to get more before you go there. Except financially.

Do they serve breakfast in bed? Or free breakfast? Or free meals? Because if they do, I'm in.

As a meta note before I continue, this is not a comedic quest.

I'm glad people are interested regardless of the reason (even if it's just to laugh at my awful art) but I would appreciate it if people stopped with the joke replies.

Replies don't have to be deathly serious all the time. "Flirt with her!" is a perfectly valid suggestion, but if you're telling Kyle to do or say something funny that I would never have him do, you are derailing the atmosphere I'm attempting to set.