Look behind you

Cyllene 2015/12/27(Sun)09:59 No. 690591 ID: 265534
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"At least the weather is cooperating."

Cyllene 2015/12/27(Sun)10:03 No. 690595 ID: 265534
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>Look behind you.

Nothing of note, but there is an underground access nearby. Maybe I can find something valuable down here. I have some expenses to cover.

Cyllene 2015/12/27(Sun)10:11 No. 690597 ID: 265534
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Cyllene retrieves a light. The wind resonates down the tunnels, creating a low roar.

cartwheel into red room

So who are you, what expenses do you have to cover, and why do you make your living scavenging / treasure hunting?

>>690597
Something is sticking out of the dust near that doorway you're shining the light at. It doesn't look rusted to shit so maybe its useful?

You may need to find some batteries or a portable generator.

Tell us more about your world.

>>690598
The red room is actually the outside, I reckon. I base it on the fact that outside is quite red as well.

Go into the room the red glowing light's emanating from.

Cyllene 2015/12/27(Sun)18:21 No. 690655 ID: 265534
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>>690600
In the short term, I have some big ticket items I'd like to pick up. Overall, it's lucrative and mentally engaging. Boredom is rarely an issue.

>>690598
Not until some issues are dealt with. That stairway does also lead outside.

Cyllene 2015/12/27(Sun)18:22 No. 690656 ID: 265534
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>>690601
There is something sticking out of the dust pile, it's not rusted at all.

Equip arm!

>>690655
So you'd pay an arm and a leg. Well, for one of them, anyways.

>>690656
I'm gonna assume bones aren't exactly rare and valuable in this wasteland. Move on to the next room, though the door on the right.

Is that arm skeletal or mechanical? It's a bit hard to see.

take dead robot parts.

Place flashlight on the ground and aim at the robot. Flank the robot and attempt to disarm if necessary.

Cyllene 2015/12/28(Mon)13:39 No. 690737 ID: 265534
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>Equip Arm

It's not as though I can just push the parts together, but this is a left anyway. The right must be buried.

"He- Hello..."

>Has it been conscious this whole time?
Maybe? If so, that might be enough to drive anyone crazy.

Keep your distance, try talking to it to see if it responds like a sane person to stimulus.

Do you have some kind of weapon if we've got an isolation crazy AI that needs putting down?

Dis-arm it, then slap some sense into it.

>>690740
Do this and then sit on them.

AHHHHHHHHHH, 3SPOOPY5ME

It's a left arm, but the roboskeleton is missing its right arm. So there's another robot somewhere under there? And, another arm?

Tell it that it's gonna be okay. Calm down and you'll help.
Can you reboot it? Clear its memory banks so that it isn't so disturbed by the tedium of being trapped here?
Is it even trapped here? If it was conscious why didn't it leave? Maybe it's got no legs under that dirt.

Cyllene 2015/12/28(Mon)14:29 No. 690748 ID: 265534
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"Hello... Helllooo... Helllllp... Helllp... Hellll... Helll... I'm in Hell! I'm in Hell! Eaarrrgh!"

It's active? It seems to be completely deranged. Has it been conscious this whole time?

>It's a left arm, but the roboskeleton is missing its right arm.
(Nuh uh. It's not and you can't prove it was ever otherwise.)

>>690748
Uh... did you just delete the post and then repost a horizontally-flipped version? If so

YANK THAT SUCKER AND PUT IT ON! Then intimately console the skeleton as compensation.

quickly, we need to help mr. skeltal! try to calm him down, reassure him that this isn't hell, maybe give him his arm back.

tell him to calm down, if they calm down you will help them.

clearly there's only room for one cyber-amputee in this bunker. What options do you have for robo-euthanasia?

It looks like years of isolation have driven it to insanity. Better put it out of it's misery.

Are you an android like it too? On the inside.

>>690656

IT's metal. But if you say it's... conscious? Or online?

Ask skeleton if he wants to go adventuring with you.

Cyllene 2016/09/02(Fri)05:50 No. 745666 ID: 265534
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>try to calm him down

Cyllene forcibly removes the skeleton's head, rendering it inert.

I can take them back and with some rehabilitation, they might be able to function as a person again. The body can go on the scrap manifest.

>Are you an android like it too?

I am not bare bones and I'd like to think I'm not completely out of my mind, so no, I'm not like it.

As for the android part, that's more of a philosophical issue. I'm not going to dwell on it, because I'm having an existential crisis in a dark tunnel is not my primary goal, at the moment.

wasn't asking existentially, just noticed it has a right arm and you don't, so wondering if you are compatible parts wise so you can replace your stump.

Dig deeper, with your new pal Yorick to keep you company.

So if you bring it back for therapy, who pays for the new body when it's better? I assume parts are pricey, or you wouldn't be out scavenging an arm down.

>>745666
Can you steal the arm off the deranged bot's body? You're short one.

>>745780
Wrong side. It was always the wrong side and you can't prove otherwise.

>>745787
No it isn't. It was always the right side and you can't prove otherwise.

Cyllene 2016/09/03(Sat)10:23 No. 745853 ID: 265534
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This site seems to be undisturbed. Plenty of copper and iron, random scrap. Unless I find something worth carrying back, I'll have to settle for finder's fees and sell the information to salvage companies. These old transit tunnels can go for miles. Who knows what could be down here?


>wasn't asking existentially, just noticed it has a right arm and you don't, so wondering if you are compatible parts wise so you can replace your stump.

If it was compatible, I don't have the tools or free hands to replace my own arm out in the field. It's more complex than plugging into the socket.

>So if you bring it back for therapy, who pays for the new body when it's better?

It's not really my concern, but maybe working off a huge debt will give them something to focus on after years of isolation.

>It's more complex than plugging into the socket.
Yes but isn't paying professional later to install and/or adapt an existing part cheaper than buying an entire new part?

oooo a tarp. remove tarp, receive prize.

It's a tarp!
Grip flashlight in teeth and pull it.

Cyllene 2016/09/03(Sat)16:11 No. 745913 ID: 265534
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> remove tarp

Rail segments. Several tons of high-grade steel, although a bit rusted.

Fairly mundane, but not without value.

nice, need to call a forklift or something though.

>>745913
Is it worth dragging out of the ruins though? I doubt it. Keep going.

What was that white shit on the ground and the tarp?

remember where this is maybe you can sell the location

Look around more for some tools or more valuable materials/metals.

Mark it for recovery and push your luck further down the tunnel.

Cyllene 2016/09/04(Sun)14:35 No. 746059 ID: 265534
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Farther in, the ambient light quickly fades to nothing. The amount of random debris also tapers off.

Nothing but darkness.

well you've found something of value but it seems there's nothing else down here, turn around and head home

>>746059
Are those grooves on the ground? Like something was dragged? Or are those rails? In the latter case I'd say this is a mine, and it's unlikely we'll find anything more valuable than the rail segments, and we should leave to explore other nearby ruins. In the former case you should follow the trail.

Cyllene 2016/12/23(Fri)06:04 No. 767765 ID: ca6f74
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>are those rails?
They are. This appears to be an old transit line.

Farther down the track is a metal access door. No handle. There are actual bones scattered outside, calcified reminders that humanity used to be very different, hundreds or thousands of years in the past.
Before getting too philosophical about the nature of the human species, Cyllene wonders about why all these people died piled up at this door.

Maybe they died trying to get in. That doesn't bode well for your chances of getting in either. Maybe you can break through the wall instead.

check closer, do they appear to have been leaning in or out? leaning in would imply pushing, out would imply pulling. if it is an outward swinging door with them leaning in that means they were holding it shut, or vis-versa. regardless,you should be able to open the door with machine power.

>Cyllene wonders about why all these people died piled up at this door
Maybe they were fleeing from something, reached this door, and then died before they could get it open. Maybe something came out of the door and killed them.

Be cautious. It's unlikely whatever killed them is still a threat after all this time, but better safe than sorry.

Cyllene 2016/12/23(Fri)11:21 No. 767793 ID: ca6f74
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The door opens inward after a bit of persuasion, too corroded to resist much impact.

A storage or maintenance room. The people who took shelter inside fared a little better than the rest. Their desiccated remains still mostly intact.
Broken shelves and debris litter the floor and dirt from a hole in the crumbling concrete is all that is inside.

There could be something that was on the shelves, or buried in the dirt (again). Is the hole plugged?

Dead children. Cheery.

Check that there's nothing of any value in those collapsed piles of junk, then let's move on.

it's odd that these people have nothing, one would expect some manner of clothe or trinkets unless this place has been looted before

be wary of zombies.

>>767793
Search the rubble and the bodies too.

Cyllene 2016/12/24(Sat)07:17 No. 767948 ID: ca6f74
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The bodies have nothing of note on or around them. Just decaying cloth, dry, papery skin and bones.
The more Cyllene looks at the withered remains, the more uneasy she feels.

>be wary of zombies.
That would be completely irrational, dead things can't move around on their own. They do seem like they could start moving at any time, though.

Check the rubble.

Then check the rubble so you can get out of here and stop being unsettled by the corpses.

this place is the pits go home

Cyllene 2016/12/27(Tue)13:40 No. 768490 ID: ca6f74
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One of the corpses has a ring. It hasn't tarnished or corroded. It must be gold.
Something like this would be worth more as an artifact than for scrap value, but what really matters is that for its weight, it is fairly valuable.

Could a luxurious future of having two working arms lie ahead?

>>768490
Sweet. Was there another route back at the entrance or is our only option just to keep walking down the tunnel?

I guess we can just keep going. How far can you walk without needing to resupply?

>Could a luxurious future of having two working arms lie ahead?
One could hope.

So let's leave the zombies behind and continue exploring, then.

close the door behind you.

make sure none of the other corpses have jewelry then move on

Cyllene 2016/12/28(Wed)07:47 No. 768627 ID: ca6f74
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Further along the tunnel, the line splits.
The sound of something scratching can be heard from the left-hand tunnel.
Cyllene has a splitter knife, a reinforced blade for breaking apart joints, but is otherwise lightly armed.
Whoever it is doesn't seem to have noticed her, since there are no interruptions in the scratching sounds.

We're here for loot, not to pick a fight with every squatter or competing looter we can find.

Take the right-hand path.

>>768627
Go right. It's probably another deranged robot, but more functional so more dangerous. Let's avoid it for now.

Whatever it is, it's probably made of more valuable salvage than the entirety of the tunnel we've explored so far. Don't worry, you could probably take it down with one arm tied behind your back.

walk up to scratchy person and say hello, make friends

>>768627
LEFT, COWARD
KNIFE OUT
RIP AND TEAR
R I P A N D T E A R

Cyllene 2016/12/31(Sat)17:58 No. 769424 ID: ca6f74
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Cyllene approaches the source of the sound, but remains cautious. It has almost no defined features, just a black mass with rudimentary limb, digging at a pile of rubble with a flipper-like appendage. It doesn't respond to her approach or the light of her flashlight.
It might just be a scavenger. Some people have odd tastes in body customization.

make a noise, be ready to fight. if still nothing then try to get a better look at it.

>>769424
"Hey."

The fact that it's studiously ignoring you even when you shine a light on it doesn't suggest a cheery or stable mental disposition. If that is a fellow scavenger, it's not one I really want to engage.

Let's back off.

pet fuzzy new friend

Disengage. It might not have the senses it needs to register you, and as it's not clear where you'd stab to kill it, that's fine by me. Continue walkin'.

>>769541
"Yo, sick mask. Respect."

Knife out, defensive posture.
"What up?"

>>769541
Yes, hello.

>>769541
Sup, six eyes.

Cyllene 2017/01/01(Sun)17:37 No. 769665 ID: ca6f74
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The entity rears up and says something indecipherable, in a garbled, reverberating voice.

Even without verbal communication, body language is fairly easy to read. It seems aggressive.

I'm guessing it's telling you to back off
back away but stay on guard

It's got more limbs than you, and it's bigger than you.

It does appear to be speaking instead of instantly attacking, which is something.

Attempt to back away. See if it will allow it. It it's making a threat or warning you off, it might allow you to disengage.

>>769665
Hand on your weapon, back away slowly. Tell it you don't understand it.

>>769665
Our weapon is a lot better against exposed joints which... this fellow doesn't have. I say skedaddle!

Cyllene 2017/01/03(Tue)17:32 No. 770316 ID: ca6f74
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The thing shifts its appearance to mimic Cyllene and uses its new mouth to hiss some of her words back at her.

It's hard to say if this is an attempt to communicate, mock or threaten, but the vicious-looking claws don't inspire a lot of confidence in the former.

back away slowly. the fact it didn't attack instantly is usually a sign that a thing doesn't want to fight but will if it has to.

keep talking, it may learn your language from voice sampling. repeat how you do not wish to fight and it can have the pile it was digging at.

>>770316
Do you have any idea what this thing could be? An alien perhaps?

that first bit sounds a fair bit like "back off" so maybe back away and see how it responds

Your words? But you didn't say anything... Spooky.

Try not to be jealous of her second arm.

Cyllene 2017/01/04(Wed)13:48 No. 770502 ID: ca6f74
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It lashes out and reverts to gibbering. Fortunately, Cyllene is prepared for it and is barely able to parry the blow.

It's fast.

>could it be an alien?
It could be a lot of things. Is it likely? Probably not.

>try not to be jealous of her second arm
Or its second through sixth eye. This is unfair all around.

Faster than you and hostile. Retreating won't do much, then. How strong is it? Might be worth trying to hit its neck.

With a familiar shape comes familiar weak points. Go for the jugular!

Well, it created joints when it mimicked you. Start aiming for them.

focus on defense and keeping backing away. unless you see an opening then strike.

Cyllene 2017/01/06(Fri)04:23 No. 770858 ID: ca6f74
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A swift strike with the knife carves through the arm, leveling the playing field, at least partially. Cyllene then staggers it with a kick to the head.
Level of effectiveness: unknown.

assume none, try to fling the arm down the hall while getting back.

Kick arm down the tunnel, attack legs next.

>>770858
Don't bother wasting time kicking the arm anywhere.

Take out a leg if you think you can dodge retaliation.

>>771026
Yeah.

Cyllene 2017/03/11(Sat)20:17 No. 786750 ID: 669253
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Cyllene kicks out the figure's leg and plunges her knife into its chest for good measure.

Cyllene 2017/03/11(Sat)20:42 No. 786777 ID: 669253
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The blackness slips around the blade and down the tunnel into a drain pipe, slithering away in a strangely unnatural way. Not that much left in this world could be considered natural.

>>786777
Things which you can't stab are bad things to fight.

>>786779
Thus, leave the area.

Check out what it was rummaging through.

>>786777
Also is the severed arm still there and do you have a container to put it in if it is?

>>786777
On the plus side, I guess you don't have to feel bad about killing it.

On the downside, you have no idea why it attacked you or why it broke off after what should have been an ineffectual attack, nor can you be confident in your defense if it comes back.

So... let's not linger long, shall we?

>>786777
might as well see what it was scratching at.

And never go near another pipe again ever.

Cyllene 2017/03/14(Tue)08:51 No. 787297 ID: 669253
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Buried in the pile of rubble is an energy cell, fairly valuable, but not particularly rare. It could be from some machine, but given the state of the rest of this area, it would not be surprising if it was from a person.
Did it know this was there or was is digging at random?

Cyllene 2017/03/14(Tue)08:53 No. 787298 ID: 669253
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As for the arm, it is laying on the ground, seemingly inert.
Whether it's safe to touch is highly questionable.

>>787298
Are you a curious enough person to plug power cells into unknown bits of potentially hostile tech?
I say yes!

take battery, forget arm continue searching for more loot

>>787298
Since it didn't melt down and follow the rest of its mass into the pipe, the arm may be brainless tech awaiting the right input.

Even if you can't reprogram it yourself, that thing could be worth a fortune to some nerd.

Do you have some sort of containment protocol for gathering hazardous scrap, like maybe a sealed wrapper with integral Faraday cage to render the arm transportable?

Cyllene 2017/03/19(Sun)12:13 No. 788807 ID: 669253
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>>787301
Cyllene is only curious enough to pick the arm up. Plugging it into anything seems reckless, if for no other reason that it lacks a proper connector.

>>787380
The configuration is definitely unique.
>>787443
Cyllene doesn't even have all her limbs, let alone highly advanced plastic bags.

seems inert enough take it with you and move on

Potentially dangerous and potentially valuable seems pretty much like what you're here for.

Take the arm with you and continue on.

take it, and check the spot it was scraping at.

How does this compare to your usual haul? You may have enough now to turn back.

Cyllene 2017/03/21(Tue)11:43 No. 789333 ID: 669253
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>>788908
Given the higher than usual amount of strange or valuable artifacts, Cyllene heads back toward the city. Rondo rises on the horizon like a row of broken teeth, a bustling metropolis that protects its citizens against the hardships of the outside world, but not so much from each other.

Now to decide what to do.

A: Deliver the severed head of the stranded skeleton to the authorities
B: Sell the power cell
C: Have the black arm examined
D: Contact scrappers to claim the material found in the tunnel

>>789333
A first. You don't want to be holding onto someone's head longer than you have to.

handle the most volatile things first, the arm.

A: deliver severed head

All of the above, in the order of A, D, C and B.

>>789333
D, A, C, B

>>789333
skull first. somebody probably cares. Also carrying a skull around is going to attract the attention of the authorities anyway.

After that, get paid.

A, D, C, B... well, that depends on what else can be done with the power cell.

Cyllene 2017/03/23(Thu)07:49 No. 789694 ID: 669253
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Cyllene drops off the head first, and after confirming that it does not belong to some random person off the street, she receives a finder's fee for her humanitarian efforts.

Then on to this black arm. She takes it to an associate; a physician well-versed in limb removal and reattachment and all the stages in between.

"Look who drags herself through my door. Every time you come back here you look more and more like a broken china doll. I still say a reinforced alloy plate chassis would better suit your lifestyle."

"Sounds bulkier than I would like, Doc. Anyway, I have something I want your opinion on."

Cyllene hands over the black arm and the Doc examines it carefully.

"It's an undifferentiated mass of a material I don't recognize. You've got me, what is it supposed to be?"

After an explanation of the events leading up to acquiring the arm, Doc places the mass gently on the counter top and shuffles away from it.

"I would need to do more through testing to even begin to understand what this is. Did you have your eye on anything else? A new arm? A new eye that you could then have on a new arm? Tank tread legs?"

"Hm..."


Tank treads might be more trouble than they're worth, but having at least two arms is generally beneficial.

Hmm... You'll come back after you make a sale, then consider rearming.

got anything weapon's grade? left arm for when you need to handle with care, right arm for when you want to break shit.

New arm is good yeah.

having at least 2 arms seems practical

Bimanual manipulation seems like it would give more of an immediate return than binocular vision.

It's kinda important to get that scrap claim squared away quickly, in case someone else tries to cash it in. Unless Doc has any limited time specials, we should take care of that first so that we're more likely to get paid, and paid more, for the claim.

Say that you have your eye on that arm but there are some things you'd like to do first. Come back when you have sold the information and ideally the stuff you picked up.

Cyllene 2017/04/02(Sun)22:04 No. 793009 ID: 669253
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"I could definitely use a new arm, but I'll need to free up some assets first."

"You came straight here for this then? You know, I try not to ask too many questions of my patients, but you have me wanting to break that rule."

"I would have to know what the hell I saw to tell you what happened. That used to be an arm, but I'm not about to ask you to attach it to me."

"That's good, because I wouldn't have the slightest clue as to how to go about it."

Cyllene produces the power cell.
"Any idea on the value of something like this? Knowing what it's worth in the first place might help and you'd be the one to ask."

Doc examines the cell and places it on the counter.
"I would say it's worth enough to replace your arm and maybe your eye if you don't want anything too extravagant. I'd be willing to do it in barter too, cut out the middleman, if you'd like."

Deal. What are our options on arms & eyes?

>>793009
What's the handjobbiest arm you've got, Doc?

Sell me on your arm options.

We're wasting time on the claim we might get jumped on if we dawdle. If we get it in time we might be able to get a nice arm AND KEEP this power cell.

Tell doc we're interested, but we gotta run to another appointment first.

Cyllene 2017/04/07(Fri)00:28 No. 794052 ID: 669253
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Cyllene agrees to trade the cell for replacement body parts and Doc goes to work removing the damaged stump.

"What were you thinking for a replacement?

>>793033 "I just need a hand that lets me do my job."

"Come now. You must have something in mind. I doubt you could imagine a limb I couldn't build, as long as it's within your power system and structural tolerances, of course."

>>794052

"Can I have one with a retractable blade? Blades are cool."

how about a wrist mounted railgun? for when you really need something dead.

A spring-loaded arm for punching.
An eye with toggleable IR vision should be fancy enough for now.

>>794052
Something sensor-dense. Pads that can taste, or maybe a sense of touch that can read printed microdots? Something like that.

>>794052
A heavy duty arm so you have one arm for delicate work and one arm for not being torn off.

Not like you aren't lopsided already

>>794052
We already have a knife, so we don't need a knife arm, but a taze arm could be useful.

Have it so we can temporarily power up old doors and junk while exploring, but also shock beasts and bandits if it comes to it.

I don't expect a whole lotta juice since it'll be running off us, but it's nice to have options.

>>794053
A retractile blade would be cool. Better than a gun, since we wouldn't have to worry about reloading, and money appears to be a perennial issue.

Some kind of mismatched eye so you had more than one vision mode would be useful.

I like the idea of a heavy duty arm.

And for built in stuff, how about a grappling hook?

>>794052
just go for durability. one that won't break or come off short of the rest of you being at risk. (with emergency detach options of course )

Cyllene 2018/12/30(Sun)12:38 No. 915625 ID: 9c522c
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"Anatomical symmetry is an overrated concept, I've found. I try to keep my personal preferences to myself, however.
You expressed interest in a heavy arm, retractable blade arm and a... spring-loaded punching arm? I can do better than that. Charged pneumatics."

Heavy Arm I think. Think of all the jars and stuck doors that thing could open!

I like the pneumatic limb. It looks strong enough to do double duty.

The yellow is gaudy tho. Can we get it paint stripped to be gunmetal like our other limb? I think gray suits us.

>>915625
Get the blade arm! Cut other people with your wrist.

>>915625

Pneumatic limb. Big O arms are the way to go.

Cyllene 2018/12/30(Sun)16:43 No. 915638 ID: 9c522c
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Cyllene opts for the punching arm.

"You might want to install some counterbalances in your left arm to offset the weight difference and please keep in mind that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Try not to launch yourself through a wall or shear your arm off at the shoulder, which is a very real possibility."

"I'll keep that in mind."

Cyllene has been restored to the minimum number of body parts required to be considered not horribly maimed.

Power Cell (1) removed from inventory.

Practice rocketpunch-jumping using the recoil, bracing against your shoulder.

ask if there is somewhere you could test out your new arm so you can get use to it.

Cyllene 2018/12/30(Sun)18:24 No. 915653 ID: 9c522c
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Cyllene leaves the clinic and finds something to test her new arm on. She primes the piston and slams her fist into a broken pipe. The sudden jolt of stored kinetic energy violently bends the pipe at the point of impact and launches Cyllene a few meters backwards.

Hopefully no one saw that.

hmm, so it has some knock back when you hit something. Could be useful for gaining some distance from someone you don't want to be near that's rushing you.

>>915653
Alright next time you'll be prepared for the knockback. How about we talk to some scrappers now?

>>915653
How high can you fly if you strike the earth?

>>915653
The knockback will be less of a problem the more mass you carry around. Or you could get a counter-balance system like the doctor suggested.

Cyllene 2018/12/30(Sun)20:14 No. 915670 ID: 9c522c
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>talk to scrappers

Cyllene heads for the scrappers or "material recovery institution" that she routinely deals with.

"Oh hoho! Do my optics deceive me or Cyl, struttin' in here with all her bits intact. Got something good for me, considering how you're all alive and sportin' Doc's shiny new parts?"

"Untouched transit system, refined copper and steel as far as the eye can see."

"Easy pickings. That's what I like to hear. I'll throw you 10,000cr and give you your usual percentage after the recovery, yeah?"

>>915670

Let's fuckin' do it.

Push for a higher percentage. As far as the eye can see, remember!

>>915670
Make the obligatory comments about the scrapper trying to starve your non-existent children with how badly they're cheating you, and attempt to haggle higher.

Don't push too hard, you've done this dance before.

15,000 upfront for hazard pay.

Cyllene 2018/12/31(Mon)20:28 No. 915807 ID: 9c522c
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>>915672
>>915681
>>915682
"Now, now. Being greedy's all well and good, but I need to be greedy too.
Besides, you know I'm already giving you the best rate you're gonna find from here to Osto."

>>915807

Alright fine, we'll take it.

Yeah fine whatever.

See you next week, or whenever I have more scrap to sell.

Cyllene 2019/01/01(Tue)15:16 No. 915882 ID: 9c522c
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Cyllene leaves the scrapper office and meets on of the material recovery workers, Arche on the way out.
"Aren't you looking good. All your arms and things where they ought to be," Arche says, "Be careful though, that arm looks a lot heavier than your old one. You start putting on weight, it can get out of control before you know it. Just look at me. My girlish figure is long gone," she laughs. Cyllene shakes her head.
"I don't think that's going to be a problem."
Arche shifts her weight and the asphalt groans under her feet.
"Right, I don't think you'd do well at skulking around, looking in all the nooks and crannies for the good stuff if you were four meters tall and a few thousand kilos. Speaking of the good stuff, you must have found a new haul if you're here. Find anything interesting?"

Well there was that weird shadowy shapeshifter thing. That was pretty interesting.

A crazie in need of rehab, a power back, some mineral scrap, some kind of hostile freaky shadow monster.

Little above average, I don't usually find all of those in one haul.

Cyllene 2019/01/01(Tue)17:19 No. 915889 ID: 9c522c
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Cyllene tells Arche about the things she found, including the amorphous black creature.

"No way. You're just trying to scare me." Arche replies defensively. "There's no way something like that is out there. I gotta go out there."

Cyllene explains she had to fight it off and that the piece she cut from it is made of something no one has ever seen before.
Arche squeals in terror and recoils backwards.

"It's really real and not a piece of a tire or something? What could it be? There's no such thing as monsters... It's an alien, isn't it?"

>>915889
*Shrug* Could be anything. We've forgotten a lot since the world went to pieces.

>>915889
Why would an alien be in an abandoned railway rooting through trash? It's probably some kind of weird science experiment that got loose.
But I mean yeah let's go back and look around some more.

>>915889
could be some new tech. Just because most people no-a-days scavenge for gear doesn't mean their might be some out their who are making new stuff.

Probably nanomachines, son. Never trust anything you can't see with less than a 500x optic, I say!

Would it be possible to put together a mech suit out of parts like what your friend here has that would fit a more natural body? Would it be financially feasible for you to do so in the future?