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HandlerQM !!k8ZbH4xhBG5 ID:McLKkos/ Mon 24 Jun 2024 13:53:56 No.6043828 View View Report

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It takes a solid thirty minutes for you to even consider doing anything. The only solace after the hours of looting, fighting, and exploring is the constant pitter-patter of rain outside of the warehouse. You look over at your GORILLA GRIP GLOVES on your hands-

Huh. You have these on? Must've subconsciously put them on while climbing that ladder. Probably the actual reason you didn't slip back then. You peel them off and throw them back into your inventory.

[UNNERVING] Your eyes glance over towards Quentin. You flinch a bit when you see the massive hole he sliced into his own body. With the practiced experience of an actual surgeon, he's replacing old organs with the new organs he acquired. Urgh.
[OPTIMISTIC SPIRIT] Casey immediately gets your attention by sliding right next to where you're laying her. Her off yellow hair, eyes, and beaming smile is a nice distraction from what you just saw.
>RESTRAINT DAMAGE NEGATED

"Hey!" She pats you on the shoulder. "You did a good job, you know! We all did a good job. It's...it was a lot but I'm glad we all did our part, right?"

A small smile forces itself onto your face. "Yeah. Thanks." You slowly sit back up, shaking away the gruesome image you saw mere moments ago. "Hey. You know that wand I gave you? We didn't use it since we did that really cool timestop shit but I think I can train you to use it. Kiara, dear?"

Kiara immediately perks up once you say her name. "Yeah, yeah, yeah?" Woah, she's really excited for some reason. "What's going on? Where we going to next? Maybe that cool Casino I think I heard you guys talking about?"

"We're going to train Casey for a bit while the others try to uncrumple their bones, souls, etc etc. Mind helping me out?"

Kiara promptly gets up, dusting off the actual dust clinging to her bomber jacket. "Sure. I think they deserve that. Might as well wait until the rain dies down as well: I don't feel like getting even MORE water in my internals."
"hehe robot girl getting wet." Wendy snorts.
"Shut it!" Kiara hisses towards Wendy with obvious embarrassment crackling from her voicebox. "I- Father Above, why did you hire her again?"

You shrug. "She's a good fighter, she's good at corporate negotiations, and she's literally me? C'mon." You gesture at Casey and Kiara to follow you to a secluded part of the warehouse. The two girls promptly trail behind you.
"wait what do you mean by that-" Wendy picks up on what you said but by the time she's asking, you're too far away for her to hear her.

Your small group of three is now tucked away in the corner of the warehouse, hiding behind a few of the empty shelves. Casey has the sugar and ribbon-covered SUGAR WAND X firmly grasped in her hands. You can already hear UNSTABLE trying to make a joke but you intentionally block her out this time.

"So!" Kiara claps her hands. "Here's the thing with PARADIGMs. They tend to have a will of their own and you sorta need to coerce them. Gently, of course, but the point stands."

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HandlerQM !!k8ZbH4xhBG5 ID:0WfCnD+i Fri 03 May 2024 17:21:38 No.5993221 View View Report

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You pull out your two inflatable barricade grenades. Both are two small plastic balls that will quickly expand into barricades once you pull their pins. You pull them with your mind and with your STEADY HANDS, you toss them down the WEST path and into the ELEVATOR behind you.

[STEADY HANDS] Your throwing skills were boosted HEAVILY by the PARADIGM underneath your uniform. Both grenades are sent flying and land right where you want them to, blocking the paths perfectly. Two bulky, thick barricades made out of a stab and bullet-resistant material flood both of those paths. You'll delay them a bit longer than normal.
>-BARRICADE GRENADES.

You kneel down in front of Casey. "You know what? You can mine. Go ahead." You nod in Max's direction. She gets the hint and hands her pickaxe over to Casey; Both you and Max suddenly realize this is a bad idea almost immediately, like giving a young kid an energy drink with 300 mg of caffeine.

She makes a beeline RIGHT towards the end of the eastmost catwalk and begins to rip into the wall with the pickaxe she was provided. The sheer blazing speed she's mining away at can only be comparable to a god damn strip mining machine. Everyone, even Valentina, takes a moment to marvel at the sheer efficiency she's mining with.

[PERSON OF INTEREST] She's absolutely going to break her body after this.
[ANOMALOUS ABILITIES] Why do you feel like that isn't an issue for her?

Your group decides to take this moment of distraction to approach Valentina. You glance over at Alexis. "So. What was that about not liking sentimental stuff, Ms. "I have three siblings"?"
Alexis cracks her shoulders almost instinctually before side eyeing you through her gas mask. "Ceмья – этo дpyгoe. Luther is a stranger. Still is. Hopefully we didn't make a mistake."
Luther doesn't respond to this. He's completely focused on Valentina.
Max seems to faintly understand what Alexis tried to say and sighs. "I get that family is different but I dunno, I just wanted to help. I didn't want someone to die down here for no good reason."

The five of you approach Valentina. She turns her attention back to you, still on her throne made out of android parts. She crosses her legs with shocking ease given the fact that, well, they're fucking crystalized. It's almost like the crystals are a part of her instead of an abhorrent mutation or growth. Maybe that's what the robot up there talked about?

A vision flashes. A puddle of blood, crushed dust, and smoldering metal lays at a heavy metal door. A man in a plastic bunny mask yells for his comrades. He begins to rush down the stairs with a violent, single minded obsession. His fists are crackling with dazzling white fire. A powerful augment way outside of your price range.

"Who are you people? Where am I?" Valentina is glancing around the giant abyss your group is standing over. She seems more confused than scared, since she doesn't do anything as your group surrounds her.

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HandlerQM !!k8ZbH4xhBG5 ID:xhx/z32i Sun 14 Apr 2024 04:11:58 No.5977257 View View Report

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"Frankly I thought you were dead." Alexis shrugs. "Glad to see my asset is still kicking."
"I only did it because this dork missed ya." Max elbows Benjamin in the shoulder.
Benjamin flashes his biggest puppy dog eyes at you. "I really did, you know."
Casey is staring into blank space, as if she didn't even hear your statement.

"Also, there's apparently a doppelganger of me? Have you ever seen someone like me? But without, uh, these things?" You gesture at your antlers.

Casey snaps her gaze over to you. "Oh! Yeah, I wonder how you got those. I saw you yesterday at the casino and I was like, waow, nice Nicole lady, you know, but apparently you got Antlers???"

"I was out with some other friends yesterday. In L-Corp's district. That couldn't have been me." You try your best to hide the fear oozing out of your voice.

"Oh! Really?" Casey's smile wavers a bit. "Huh. She was a really nice lady. Had three friends. Tall tan guy with a weird eye, a boy who looks like him-" She points at Benjamin. "A big girl with a really cool jacket and big abs and really long black hair and, uh..."

Her smile immediately changes into a snarling frown. "A horrible mess of implants and muscles. Icky! He looked horrible! Ruined the meat!"

"D-did they say their names or anything else?" You try to pry what little information you can out of Casey.

"Oh! They did say this weird number! 521 something? Weird! Oh well!" Casey immediately turns his attention back to her revolver. Yeah that's all you're going to get out of Casey. Your other allies are equal parts confused and worried at this information bomb dropped.

"W-well then!" You turn over to Benjamin. You hand him over a pile of RUSTED SILVER BERRIES. "U-uh, make some SOMTOIN ALPHA with this as an added ingredient, please?"

[DELUSIONAL] "Sure, totally! I, uh, probably forgot I visited the casino, right? Yeah!" Benjamin tries his best to comfort himself as he begins to work on producing some chems. "That makes sense."

Max lowers her shades, exposing her greyish-blue eyes, to cover her face with her hand. "So there's a doppelganger of you and Benjamin, huh." Max shakes her head before reequipping her shades. "Well! I guess you just gotta kill yourself! Simple answer, right?" She plants a hand your shoulder with a shaky smile. <"I am going to kill the son of a bitch who even THINKS he can look like MY Benjamin.">

"S-sure! B-but about more mission important stuff." You pull her hand off your shoulder. "We're dealing with corporate families, right? Vannis, Huxleys, and Krakatoas. What do you know about them?"

Max plops down on one of the many empty seats at the train station. You sit down alongside her and, shortly after, Alexis joins up with you with curiosity glimmering in her eyes. "So. Huxleys. They're cold blooded capitalists who only believe in one unifying principle."

"Violence. They do NOT care about anything else besides money and violence. A bug-like mindset. Pure survival instinct."

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HandlerQM !!k8ZbH4xhBG5 ID:G/3yqKRN Fri 26 Jan 2024 12:54:07 No.5904078 View View Report

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Fuck it, you have a knack for making things way harder for yourself than they need to be. You're not really sure why but a part of you feels a near endless amount of pity for this situation. A casino, in the City, trying to be fair and ultimately getting into hot water over low profits. It doesn't really help matters when there's a girl having a mild panic attack right across from you over the whole situation.

You sigh. Fuck, you really wish the voices in your head could offer a convincing argument to not do this. Alas, you're too sober for them to offer any assistance. You resolve yourself to try unfucking this situation by dealing with Kana AND Clover. At least you have the security cameras fiddled with if you desperately need to complete the mission. Realistically, you'd imagine it'll be harder to do that since the staff is getting more aware of your presence but it is your backup plan.

You kneel down to get to eye level with Casey. She was already pretty short so you have to kneel real low now that she's sitting down. "Hey, hey, it's going to be okay," Your voice takes on a softer quality than you expected. "Everything's going to work out, okay?" This gets Casey to look up at you but you get no other response. Well, outside of a few hiccups out of her.

Max lets go of Benjamin and kneels down next to you while the others (except for Ashley, who turns her gaze away) watch on, "We're here to help. If you can help us, we can try fixing everything going on here. Who knows, maybe it's an easy problem to solve with your assistance?"
You nod along. "Yeah. It's not all doom and gloom. I've done a lot of shit over the last week. Everyone except for Max can attest to that first hand."

You get a chorus of nods, hums, and platitudes. Max squints a bit but nods along, "Exactly. All it might take is a bit of initiative to see the change you want to see. Don't you want to be a part of improving this place? To be a productive worker?"

>22! PASS!

Casey instantly snaps out of her depressive slump the moment she hears those words. She quickly gathers her things with the same energy of a toddler being told they're going to an amusement park, "Shucks! You're right! Why was I wasting all of this time being a silly little goober worrying about nothing?"
"Haha that's totally not creepy, ha." Adam shivers upon seeing the sudden mood shift. Must hit a bit too close to home. "Glad you're happy?"

"Indeed! There's no point being sad when you can still do something about it! The crushing realization hits that your inaction has done nothing but harm the business you're working for? Now that's something to cry about for five point seven minutes!" Every word she says is laced with saccharine sweetness. "Does anyone have the time?"

"Well, from how it felt to me, it's been 26 hours." Benjamin rattles off. "But it's been ten minutes at most?"
"Golly! Well, no time to waste!" Casey quickly stands up. "Casey Smith at your service!"

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