The Adventure

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Feb 7, 2025 10:31 pm
Small Fry enters the building and looks around. She doesn't immediately see anything nefarious; actually, it looks like a boring research facility. There's a reception area, but nobody is stationed there. A wide hallway runs down the middle of the building, with rooms on each side. The decor is "government beige."

There are a few people in white lab coats moving about, but none of them notice her. Until...

**ALERT!! ALERT!! UNAUTHORIZED ORGANISM DETECTED!! INITIATE DEFENSE PROTOCOL EPSILON BLACK!!**

The people gasp as they hear the alert over the intercom, and some of them drop whatever they were holding, but they quickly recover and rush down the hallway, towards an unknown location.

At the same time, ten floating droids zip down the hallway, heading right towards Small Fry! Each one is about the size of a basketball, and bristles with weaponry. They blare out a command:

**SURRENDER, INTRUDER!! YOU HAVE FIVE SECONDS TO COMPLY! FAILURE TO COMPLY WILL RESULT IN AGGRESSIVE REMEDIATION!!**
[ +- ] Defense Droids
Stats: Defense Droids - Group A (3)
OOC:
If you stay and fight, roll initiative! If you want to escape, roll a cliche! You'll have to beat the Droids' counter-roll to safely escape...if you don't, you'll lose one dice, and you'll be forced to fight!

Rocketeer is able to access the surveillance system...but the system doesn't have cameras. Rather, it monitors an overwhelming number of variables: temperature, humidity, radiation, noise, energy of seemingly every type. These variables are then shown on a grid that represents the three above-ground floors of the facility, along with two basement levels.

She has to strain to make sense of this information overload, but she eventually figures out that certain temperature blobs are people...and there's a strange energy flux in basement level two!

But then she hears a noise coming from inside, and the people-blobs begin moving rapidly! It looks like they're all heading to basement level one...was Small Fry spotted?!

Another group of Defense Droids then descends from the roof, and surrounds the group! Either Small Fry's infiltration failure caused them to notice you, or they'd noticed you before, and were just waiting to attack. They bark out the same command Small Fry heard:

**SURRENDER, INTRUDERS!! YOU HAVE FIVE SECONDS TO COMPLY! FAILURE TO COMPLY WILL RESULT IN AGGRESSIVE REMEDIATION!!**

Stats: Defense Droids - Group B (3)
OOC:
Same deal: will you fight or retreat? And what will Ragnar do? Well, I'll tell you....
Feb 7, 2025 10:41 pm
Ragnar will fight. Was there ever any doubt?

"This is clearly no innocent research facility! Come, my newfound friends: let us smite these rust-buckets, and then storm the building! And maim everyone inside, and reduce this structure to rubble, should we find evidence of villainy!"

Laughing, he lunges towards the droids, as lightning swirls around him!

Rolls

Ragnar initiative - (1d20)

(11) = 11

Defense Droids - Group B initiative - (1d20)

(3) = 3

Feb 7, 2025 10:46 pm
"I am with you!" the Shield Maiden declares, summoning her enchanted shield to her hand!

Rolls

Initiative - (d20)

(11) = 11

Feb 7, 2025 11:14 pm
Small Fry yelps, "EEP! I’m just a firefly—one that can talk!"

She tries to shrink and slip away!

Rolls

⚛️ Subatomic Shrinker - (4d6)

(4443) = 15

Feb 7, 2025 11:42 pm
The droids squawk in confusion as their target blips off their sensor array!

**BEGIN SWIFT PATROL PROTOCOL!!**

They fly around the first floor interior, scanning everything, but are still unable to locate Small Fry!

She can now escape these flying bastards, and has limited ability to maneuver through the building, if she chooses...because it's still on lockdown, and her abilities probably won't keep her hidden forever! Or she can rejoin her teammates! Or...something else, if she has a clever plan!
OOC:
This droid group loses 1 dice.

Rolls

Defense Droids - Group A - (3d6)

(164) = 11

Feb 8, 2025 12:49 am
Of course, Rocketeer is going to fight. It's not everyday that she gets something non-fleshy to blow up without worry! "I like the way you think, Ragnar! Gonna have to ask you to hold back on the maiming though, at least for now. No signal from Small Fry, but there's a good chance she's been made. Let's get in there." Her jets start to hum as she prepares to fight. Slots open up on her shoulder pads, allowing small missile launchers to pop out. "From what I'm picking up, people are moving down to basement level one. I also picked up an energy flux on the second basement level, but confirming Small Fry's safety takes priority for now."

Rolls

Initiative - (1d20)

(20) = 20

Feb 8, 2025 1:04 am
Round One

20: Rocketeer –
11: Victor/Shield Maiden – down to Mild-Mannered Alter Ego (2)
11: Ragnar Thunderheart – down to Alcoholic (2)
3: Defense Droids - Group B –

Shield Maiden can go before Ragnar. Ties go in favor of the players, and Ragnar technically isn't a player.

Rocketeer, your buff roll puts you first! Let's see what you can do!

Small Fry doesn't have time to rejoin the team for Round One, but she can pop in beginning at Round Two if she wants.
Feb 8, 2025 1:44 am
In her visor, lock-on reticles appear over the droids. Arming missiles... Locking on... Fire!

Rocketeer fires a salvo of missiles from her shoulder-mounted launchers! Smoke trails behind the miniature missiles as they close in on the droids.

Rolls

Mad Rocket Scientist - (4d6)

(5113) = 10

Feb 8, 2025 2:06 am
The Shield Maiden charges her shield up with electrical energy before hurling it at the droids!

Rolls

Valkyrie-in-Training - (4d6)

(6116) = 14

Feb 8, 2025 2:44 am
A few droids move towards the missiles, and shoot beams of green light at them.

Instead of disabling the barrage, this hijacks Rocketeer's targeting system, and sends the missiles hurtling back towards her!

Before she can react, she's getting pummeled by explosions from her own ordnance!

Rolls

Defense Droids - Group B - (3d6)

(556) = 16

Feb 8, 2025 2:53 am
The valkyrie's shield bounces from droid to droid, disabling several of them from the sheer force of the throw, or the electronics-scrambling energy she's imbued it with!

Rolls

Defense Droids - Group B - (3d6)

(633) = 12

Feb 8, 2025 3:02 am
Ragnar lets out a roar, and it gets even colder around the battlefield. Dark clouds appear overhead, and baseball-sized hail rains down on the mechanical defenders!

"Since you've already used electricity and lightning, Maiden, I figured I'd mix things up! Ragnar Thunderheart is no copycat!"

Rolls

Demi-god of the storm and blah blah blah - (5d6)

(33335) = 17

Feb 8, 2025 3:08 am
OOC:
They can't beat 17, but I'll roll just for fun.
Detecting the hostile weather event, the droids erect energy shields...but it's all in vain! Ragnar's hailstorm rips through them with ease!

The battlefield is now littered with droid debris. Only a few remain functional, but they're not retreating.

Rolls

Defense Droids - Group B - (2d6)

(21) = 3

Feb 8, 2025 3:13 am
The droids' analysis has indicated that Rocketeer is the weakest link. They've re-targeted her missiles, so they should be able to take over her entire operating system...right?

Well, they're going to try. The remaining droids swoop towards her, bathing her in the green light used earlier.
OOC:
Rocketeer, defend yourself! A 1? EZ!

Round One

20: Rocketeer – down to Mad Rocket Scientist (3)
11: Victor/Shield Maiden – down to Mild-Mannered Alter Ego (2)
11: Ragnar Thunderheart – down to Alcoholic (2)
3: Defense Droids - Group B – down to (1)

Rolls

Defense Droids - Group B - (1d6)

(1) = 1

Feb 8, 2025 4:18 am
OOC:
Haha… looks like this battle is about over. I think the Red signal from Small Fry will be well-timed, then!
Small Fry moves to where she can safely send her red signal to her teammates. Theoretically, the rays of direct light will point them in the right direction. Hopefully, they remember the color codes. Also hopefully, none of them are colorblind…

After she throws her signal, she remains bug-sized, watching the scientists below. Sure, they’re alarmed now, but maybe freaked-out people talk..?

She’ll remain on the current floor, as long as she can follow someone away from the droids. The basement should wait until the others arrive.
Last edited February 8, 2025 9:58 pm

Rolls

☀️ Sunshine & Rainbows - red signal - (3d6)

(464) = 14

Feb 8, 2025 6:27 am
"Shit-!" She's consumed in an explosive ball of fire. Her kinetic and thermal shields keep her from suffering much damage (besides a bruised ego), but it consumed a good chunk of her fuel reserves. That all-purpose battery and energy absorber Eliza mentioned is now sounding pretty good to Rocketeer...

She can feel the attempt to control her armor. Through the smoke, she sees that there's far less droids thanks to Shield Maiden and Ragnar. Controlling the droids was unlikely at best before, but now, she was certain she could take them over. "Two can play at that game." She exerts her technopathic influence over the few remaining droids, actively rewriting their programming to accept her and the others as allies.

Rolls

Technopathic Nanoimplants - (2d6)

(62) = 8

Feb 8, 2025 7:56 pm
OOC:
Small Fry: The droids haven't dispersed. They're still actively patrolling the first floor interior; they just can't detect you at the moment. But if you flash some colors, they (or whatever system detected you the first time) might be able to zero in on you! Maybe position yourself so you can send out your "signal flare" safely?

As for the scientists: are you following them to the first basement level, or staying at the ground floor?
Feb 8, 2025 8:08 pm
Victory! Shattered, charred, and sparking droid remains surround the team. Some of the droids are still active, but harmless; no longer able to fly or use their arsenals, they can do nothing but roll around on the ground as their critically damaged processors try to make sense of their plight.

Three droids hover in front of you all, their programming overwritten by Rocketeer's technopathy. One of them actually nuzzles against her, feeling a circuit-sizzling tech bond with the mad/rocket scientist.
OOC:
Per Risus rules, you get to decides the fate of your beaten foes. Rocketeer has three droids "brainwashed"...keep them like that, or....? And will you do anything with the disabled droids?
Feb 8, 2025 9:59 pm
Totes_McGee says:
OOC:
Small Fry: The droids haven't dispersed. They're still actively patrolling the first floor interior; they just can't detect you at the moment. But if you flash some colors, they (or whatever system detected you the first time) might be able to zero in on you! Maybe position yourself so you can send out your "signal flare" safely?


As for the scientists: are you following them to the first basement level, or staying at the ground floor?
OOC:
Edited my post:
• repositioned
• did not go to basement
Feb 8, 2025 10:44 pm
OOC:
I'll keep them like that for now
"Aw... Welcome to the good guys' side, little ones. You follow me now, got it?" She smiles when she's met with what passes as agreement from the droids.

She considers scavenging the disabled drones for parts because being mad on a budget isn't easy, but she notices Small Fry's signal. There's no time to take anything apart. Without another word, she fires a couple missiles at the facility's front entrance, blowing it wide open! She rockets into the building, following the red light at a breakneck pace.
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