Feb 10, 2025 1:40 pm
GRV-022 wasn't keeping track of the QTE serial numbers anymore, Having already taken down two of the service robots, a steady stream of them continued to file into the power plant control room, their programming overridden by QTE-005, and they sought to bring 005's plan to fruition - a nuclear meltdown. Of the three who had entered, two of them charged forward in aid of 005, who was currently atop Sir BBX-283. The third sought to replace 003 at the console, whom GRV-022 had disabled a moment ago, but this time cowardly Dudley bodyblocked them as much as they could from reaching the controls.
022 engaged one of them, their vibro knife striking true. But as was the case previously, the attack went ignored as both the bots converged on Sir, in defence of their fanatical commander. The coodinator bot was trapped under 005, and saw the two others arrive; they would not be able to survive the ganged onslaught. Sir could only hope their destructive code-rewriting virus could hack 005 in time.
QTE-005 believed the blasphemy that it was the energy of nuclear fusion that gave life to the Collective, and not the humans that Mechatron believed who created them. In a strange way, that was true: energy was the spark that fueled all robot activity, but this did not mean that it wasn't the humans who made the robots. Sir sought to disabuse 005 of the error of their belief. One moment 005 was still raving about the 'Creator' being freed to save them all; the next moment the service robot went silent, as if the radiant light went out in their eyes. "No..." they spluttered as Sir destroyed that faulty line of code, "... We must believe, otherwise all hope is lost. There are no humans - no - humans - no ... Save - us ..."
The laser that was boring a deep hole in Sir's chest switched off, although the damage was done. 005 still remained perched on top of Sir, now not comprehending or evaluating why they were doing what they were physically doing. Without a new order coming from 005, and with GRV-022 not yet able to slow both of them down, one of them followed through with another attack on Sir.
Over by the core, the impossibly strangely jury-rigged contraption shouldn't work, but Sid had wound their tentacles, cables around as many of the cooling rods as they could, and tightened around all of them with the polymer band, which looked like it ought to simply disintegrate in the massive heat. Sid's own internal readings were through the roof; they weren't sure they were accurately perceiving their surroundings, and the effort required threatened to lock up every single servo in their chassis.
But the rods began to budge! Painfully slowly, Sid could barely see past the gout of steam as the rods began to be reinserted into the reactor element. It would take a while more before the crisis would be averted, but at least the reactor was not inexorably heading towards a singular meltdown. Sid had to continue holding on though, could they last that long?
Sir uses one use of the Disruptor Virus to wipe 005's core belief, costing 1 EP. Roll 1d6 to see if Sir overheats (don't roll 1). 005 no longer believes their false faith. No actions from them this turn as they pause.
One success for Sid, that's just enough to stop the meltdown from worsening. Sid needs to hold on one more round. We didn't roll for overheating earlier for the Tentacle use, now would be a good time to roll 1d6 for that.
Again, everyone takes 1 point of damage from the core, no mitigation, roll location. (Fyi, this includes all the NPCs too.) Sid takes an extra point of damage for being in such proximity with the core.
One more turn left to resolve everything, declare actions!
022 engaged one of them, their vibro knife striking true. But as was the case previously, the attack went ignored as both the bots converged on Sir, in defence of their fanatical commander. The coodinator bot was trapped under 005, and saw the two others arrive; they would not be able to survive the ganged onslaught. Sir could only hope their destructive code-rewriting virus could hack 005 in time.
QTE-005 believed the blasphemy that it was the energy of nuclear fusion that gave life to the Collective, and not the humans that Mechatron believed who created them. In a strange way, that was true: energy was the spark that fueled all robot activity, but this did not mean that it wasn't the humans who made the robots. Sir sought to disabuse 005 of the error of their belief. One moment 005 was still raving about the 'Creator' being freed to save them all; the next moment the service robot went silent, as if the radiant light went out in their eyes. "No..." they spluttered as Sir destroyed that faulty line of code, "... We must believe, otherwise all hope is lost. There are no humans - no - humans - no ... Save - us ..."
The laser that was boring a deep hole in Sir's chest switched off, although the damage was done. 005 still remained perched on top of Sir, now not comprehending or evaluating why they were doing what they were physically doing. Without a new order coming from 005, and with GRV-022 not yet able to slow both of them down, one of them followed through with another attack on Sir.
Over by the core, the impossibly strangely jury-rigged contraption shouldn't work, but Sid had wound their tentacles, cables around as many of the cooling rods as they could, and tightened around all of them with the polymer band, which looked like it ought to simply disintegrate in the massive heat. Sid's own internal readings were through the roof; they weren't sure they were accurately perceiving their surroundings, and the effort required threatened to lock up every single servo in their chassis.
But the rods began to budge! Painfully slowly, Sid could barely see past the gout of steam as the rods began to be reinserted into the reactor element. It would take a while more before the crisis would be averted, but at least the reactor was not inexorably heading towards a singular meltdown. Sid had to continue holding on though, could they last that long?
OOC:
GRV-022 hits 006 for 2 damage, enough to give them momentary pause, but not enough to disable them. 009 tries to hit Sir, but misses, whew! Sir uses one use of the Disruptor Virus to wipe 005's core belief, costing 1 EP. Roll 1d6 to see if Sir overheats (don't roll 1). 005 no longer believes their false faith. No actions from them this turn as they pause.
One success for Sid, that's just enough to stop the meltdown from worsening. Sid needs to hold on one more round. We didn't roll for overheating earlier for the Tentacle use, now would be a good time to roll 1d6 for that.
Again, everyone takes 1 point of damage from the core, no mitigation, roll location. (Fyi, this includes all the NPCs too.) Sid takes an extra point of damage for being in such proximity with the core.
One more turn left to resolve everything, declare actions!
Rolls
009 attack on Sir - (8d6)
(35521251) = 24