TftF Out of Character

Double-checked the map and the marshes are entirely not where I thought they were 😅 But we'll go with them being up north now. As long as none of us are actually from the Mälaren, we can survive with some geographical inaccuracies

So the way I’ve gathered is, is that:

We found the body of Mark in the field. We don’t know who or what killed him. It looked like maybe a suicide, or at least set up to seem that way.

At school the next day, we encounter Mark’s aunt, grieving. This sets us on the trail of heading to his house, where we get some interesting pictures and some correspondence that leads us to the robots and the doctor.

At the doctor’s office, we find her missing, and some terrible robot-biological hybrids in the basement. All signs point to the marsh and the robots.

We go to the marsh and speak with the elder shaman. He tells us that some of his crew want to procreate, and live. Perhaps they abducted the doctor to continue her, thus far failed, experiments on making biological robots.

Maybe Mark witnessed this abduction and was killed by the splinter faction. Or perhaps he was working together with the doctor and disagreed with her. She, or the robots, killed him and fled to continue their work?

How does any of that sound?

The two parts you're still missing in the puzzle are this
and this
Liv seems to have had other plans than the robots

I nentioned the first of the above in an OOC in the IC thread, as Yumin was the one who found and determined the radio's function. Since it wasn't shared in-character as far as I can tell, I didn't want to have Sabine mention it.

The second thing above, along with the weird and escalating phantom pains and visions, is partially why Sabine knows that this machine fetus exists and not conjecture. The machine parts and organic matter in the basement are proof of this. It also ties Mark's notes about the Totem Clan and the kidnapping. The Totem Clan and Dr. Liv were at odds over this fetus.

The bunker mentioned in Dr. Liv's computer file has also now been identified by the stencil on the crates in the basement and Shaman's confirmation of KAB III.

We know that Shaman and his people decorated Mark's body and has hung black cloth in the swamp as a sign of mourning for him. Shaman also has told us the Totem Clan killed Mark and their leader is Jane.

I would assume Yumin shared that info with the others. I'm also mostly thinking about getting all the players on the same page at the moment.

Jane

Yes. Jane. Where did Alice come from? ;P

I'll add some more thoughts on this in a few, i think i get it

EDIT:: Okay - so here goes.
Dr. Liv is building a device, and as Rage said above, the purpose of the machine is not what the robots expected when Dr. Liv came to them promising the ability to procreate. The words above are proposed names for this device she is building. The names speak volumes about what her ultimate goal for the device is - it is a device to impose empathic signals onto the human brain with the goal of pacifying the people.

The device depends on the robots, otherwise why would she have needed to approach them to make her plan work. She has found a way to combine organic matter with robotic parts in order to create some sort of hybrid creature. The creature is implanted with an empathic resonator that is pushing its own fetal thoughts on the town. It's a prototype and it functions, but now that she knows it works, she wanted to pull the plug and use the technology in the manner that supports her actual goals.

The robots, not so keen on being duped, kidnap her to attempt to force her to complete her original promise to them after they found out about her alternative motives. Mark sees this take place and they kill him.

...close-ish?

Yes, that's pretty much it.

Liv wants to create a machine to create world peace by being able to trransmit emotionsand experiences between people. To experiment and test out her device, she promised the Vagabonds to help them procreate but only the Totem Clan accepted the offer and joined her. They started out in Liv's basement but then moved the experiment to a remote bunker in the northeast of the island.
Liv's experiment is successful and the whole town is getting hit by the emotions and feelings of this "Machine Fetus" as it's slowly and painfully being "born". Liv wants to end the experiment but the robots discover it and kidnap her to force her to keep working on it.
Mark sees the abduction and is then killed by the Totem Clan so he can't tell anyone of what they're doing. They moved his body and it was found by the rest of the Vagabonds who decorated it to honor their dead friend.

Ah hey, sorry! My Internet has been all kinds of terrible the past couple of days and I've not been able to check in. Will catch up now, seems I missed a bit!

Edit - okay! All caught up! So, we're off to see the bunker and turn this thing off.

How big are the remains of the robot? Can it fit in my backpack?

It's the size of a an adult human torso, but much heavier since it's made from metal. It wouldn't fit in your backpack but you could somehow find a way to attach it to your back and carry it. It would hinder you, though

It would hinder cinder

Lol!

Hah! good to know ;) ty

BTW, Sabine also has a packpack she can shrug off in her run and use to swat off robots if she needs to, but I am hoping Eric can handle that with his hockey stick. How extra dice would Sabine get for using the item (backpack) to keep the robots off so she can accomplish her task?

Well... I rolled a lot of 1's...

Edit - Okay, two sixes that time, and a shamed extra for three total.

See IC thread. Reroll as a Push (all 10 dice) and take a condition.

Looking good so far! Now we just need three successes from Mikael and this will go off without a hitch

It's going to take me a moment to figure out what Mikael's doing here. His best skills are social (not sure how charm would work against these robots lol) I'll think of something.