"Interesting..." mutters Kyle as he sends the feed to Attero's HUD. A window shows Kara and William making their way and another one shows Dr. Santori Profile.
"Attero, that's the doctor in charge of our target." Gigabyte stops for a moment to also broadcast to Kara "**Fun part: either she can be in two places at the same time or someone is using her ID and possibly appearance. Doctor Santori has logged in the wing twice within six hours of difference, no log out recorded and last one only a couple minutes ago. You may want to check on her... hers... her and it? I'll let you two judge it, Gigabyte over.**"
Almost an afterthought, Kyle adds "**Oh, and in the remote case that the first Santori to have appeared is the imposter, check her tablet because she definitely logged into it. If you activate the wifi I may be able to access it from here.**"
Clarification: Kyle means Will would be a powergamer when translated to Shadetrekker.
Actual Clarification: I'm assuming between his Radio Senses and Data-Link 3, Kyle can wirelessly access the Hospital net from where he is. If that's not the case he will simply change into comfortable clothing and take a stroll to sit by ghe Hospital as he does his part.
Kyle looks around for a comfy spot to sit. "While does two infiltrate, I'll access the Hospital's intranet and security channel." he says as he leans under a shadow "I've spent a rather long time in those and know for a fact they like to install cameras, not forgetting I can get Connor's medical records and visit logs... And let's simply forget how much of a federal crime that is, pretty please."
Computers:1d20 + 26 ⇒ (16) + 26 = 42
"Heh... You know, this reminds me of a game I made a couple years ago: Shadetrekker. Some cyberpunk and fantasy urban RPG. Greats one, I tell you, totally should buy it." the cyborg stops to look at the datafiles his augmented memory has on the game. "I'm the hacker, Kara's the face and Will is... Well, a powergamer judging by his powers. Should have nerfed metahuman adepts."
I want to access live feed to monitor both Kara&Will advance as well as Connor's status at. I figure Attero and his men have screens or HUDs I can broadcast the vid to, failing that you'll enjoy Gigabyte's play-by-play comments. Oh, and while I'm at it let's extract medical records, visits and let's see who has acces or modified Connor's info outside of the Hospital's staff
First, as it is related to what I am about to say, if you enjoy reading other people's gaming stories I recommend The All Guardsmen Party.
Second, and this is the reason I mentioned it, Batman might as well be a powerful psychic of sorts... but a passive one. You see, in Warhammer 40k, psykers sometimes don't know they are psykers and their powers manifest as auras and permanent abilities.
One of these auras is a Luck Aura, which in the RPG translates to an increase on every roll the Lucky Luke does... as well as a decrease in anyone else rolls, because the extra luck comes from vampiring others' luck.
So a wacky, conspiranoic way to look at Batman is that he has a constant psymagical aura that makes him more likely to succeed and more awesome while making others less awesome. That could explain Deadshot missing the Bat.
On the other hand, that same power might as well be called Plot Armor, and Batman tends to have a lot of that. But I, for one, prefer to think of Batman as a psychic luck vampire instead of blaming authors for not being able to come up with ways for him to beat more powerful villains without b$&@&+%@.
Hey guys! I'm on a sudden camping trip, but posting will resume later today.
That said, if the GM wants to move us forward, Kyle's Crib is open under the condition that Kara limits the amount of masseus/strippers/plain old' whores to one per capita (Attero and co included)
"Eazy peazy" Gigabyte simply comments, obviously joking, as he copies the info from the mainframe.
"Now, how the hell are we going to get o-" he is about to say when Fate teleports them outside.
-ut of here... I need to reverse engineer that. I really need."
Kyle removes his helmet and swipes the sweat off, sitting in the ground as the others fend words with Nabu. "Now, unless totally-not-Fate is going to turn into an angry Martian or something, I need some time to recover and clean myself of nanobots. Unless you guys have any objection, my crib has space to house us all. And a swimming pool. Okay, I don't have a swimming pool there, but I do have a minibar and the best entertainment system you can build with a MIT doctorate."
Praise be the GM!
Gigabyte's sight finally returns and the augmented nerd rushes to the terminal. "Hack The Bat... Hack The Bat... Hack The Bat..." he repeats to himself, a hacking mantra.
Funny thing, Gygabyte's unaugmented and Imagine boosted Intelligence is 2 points higher than usual Computers:1d20 + 28 ⇒ (17) + 28 = 45
Do I see?:1d20 + 2 + 3 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 2 + 3 + 3 = 11 No, I don't "I wish I was the one watching through cameras right the hell now!" yells the cyboeg, still blind as a bat due to The Bat.
"Dammit, I haven't used a computer manually for years and when I need my wireless enhancer goes the g@$%$%m Batman and decides to go all nanobot on me he keeps complaining, trying to crawl closer inch by inch to the mainframe as he ceaselessly rubs his eyes to make the stars and lights go away.
Man, I wish this was Azrael's Batman. He would beat us to a pulp plain and simple. Mostly like the RNG is doing already
Anyway, I'll be posting today, as I have just recently catch the update. Not like I can do anything for now, gotta think what my options are without Batman being located... unless... SuperTumbler, if the Bat can be controlled remotely would it be feasible for me to try and hack it through the BatPC? Even if difficult, if it's feasible I'll try once I regain my vision.
If it eases your mind, I don't give a damn about Imagine's power or Attero's for what is worth.
On one hand, I've played with you long enough to envy your roleplaying. As you make the game much more immersive and enjoyable for me, a bit of unbalance goes unnoticed.
On the other hand, your strength has never deterred me from having time to shine, nor have you hog the spotlight... so once again, different power levels go unnoticed.
Aaaand to boot, if I were to blame someone for the disparity between Imagine and Gigabyte, that would be me. I built him 'wrong' and he is lackluster in many departments, partly because I didn't know better, partly because that was half of the fun: a cyborg that needs improvement.
Call it Gigabyte 1.0.
Reflex VS Flashbang:1d20 + 2 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 2 + 3 + 1 = 19
Still blind, Gigabyte starts to run for cover... or where he thought cover was. Deaf as he also was, he couldn't hear Batman's words, but a youth as a criminal of sorts in Gotham instilled the fear of the Bat in his heart...
Will:1d20 + 3 + 3 ⇒ (20) + 3 + 3 = 26
... yet his logical mind prevailed and Gigabyte kept his cool. All the cool a man can keep when breaking and entering into Batman's home and getting gimped shortly afterwards.
"Oh s**&! Where is he?"
"Have any of you heard that teleporter soun-" starts asking Gigabyte, who was too oblivious due to all the hacking and lamenting his non-functioning augmetics. "S~*!, it's Batman!"
Reflex:1d20 + 2 + 3 ⇒ (17) + 2 + 3 = 22
Kara's mojo improving... well, mojo, did make Kyle more agile that he has ever felt since he played basketball in highschool. Not agile enough when facing the Bat, though, and Gigabyte -for the second time this day- regreted having entered the Batcave.
Gigabyte raises his gaze from the screen. "Shieet... lemme try to stop this. Failing that, I suggest simply letting the scan pass through and hope Batsy recognise us as non-threats."
Is there any possible way for Gigabyte to hack the terminal and stop the sscan? I figure Batman removed the Debug Mode, but you can't never go wrong with trying.
"Well, thank you Kara. Strange, but hey, thank you." says Gigabyte as he gets used to being a normie "Wouldn't you happen to carry a portable radio, don't you? I'm used to tune my radio sensors to Hip Hop Greatest Hits FM while I work, and that beauty will last me at least the whole Wu Tang discography."
With care, the not so impervious cyborg makes hia way to the Batcomputer and tries to start it and hack hia way into the Batfiles.
Notice for traps:1d20 + 15 ⇒ (9) + 15 = 24 Disable Device Take 10:10 + 16 = 26 Computers Take 10:10 + 24 = 34
Gigabyte suddenly starts muttering "No, no, no, no, no... c'mon darling, don't do this to me!" in an increasingly freaked out voice "F%$$, no!"
Batsy had shut down everything. From his air and environment filtering systems to his gravity field generators. Hell, his internal database went kaput and it had been years since his muscle enhancements had been offline.
Only the faint glow coming from his right arm betrayed that his Tesla Cannon(patent pending) was still operational... but who could pay attention to that when Kyle's face was freeze in panic.
"I'm... I'm out... he hacked me or something... I'm almost a civilian... a freaking normie. I told you Batman was bad news..."
Now it's the time when I come to you, system masters, for help... the hell I can do?
Kyle facepalms as his plan fails before even starting "Howdy, Director. I was trying to avoid breaking in the brute way, but Vic's rarely wrong... Any chance we could ask Batsy politely to invite us in for a tea and some information gathering?"
"Wonderful Mojito, Kara, I mean it. Wouldn't you have anything to snack?" says the cyborg, having removed his helmet, with a smile "I'm not so sure with the hole 'Breaking into one of the most intelligent, cunning and paranoid men 's house', not that I can add anything useful... what I've heard of him were legends when I was young. You see, I grew up here in Gotham and everyone on the other side of the Law learned to fear Batsy..."
Kyle scratches his chin as he thinks about their conundrum "I have some connections in Wayne Tech, they paid my scholarship and I've teamed with them for a couple projects since. Perhaps I can try to incognito my way there, try to get info or contact Mister Wayne. I think he'll understand, given the whole V aliens but this time they have godlike powers."
Almost forgot, I will be camping till Wednesday. I'll try to check things but truth is I don't think I'll be able -what with being in the middle of the mountain-.
Please do bot me if needed!
"Containment here is superb, guys... but it isn't "Overpowered flaming evil masterminds can't escape" levels of superb." comments Gigabyte "Perhaps we could stick him into the Phantom Zone or something while we look for a more definitive solution... but anything sort of that will fail in the end."
After Fate has spoken Gigabyte says "Well, I think I know what went wrong: he got the fire he needed." Kyle turns to Unhuman "How can I say this... can we be sure you... you know... won't go "Praise the fire!" and turn on us?"
"Vic, did you copy that?" said Gigabyte to his technospiritual liege through the comm before throwing his right hand back, glowing with electricity... "We'll need as much info as you can dig up!"
With a grin, the almost mint condition cyborg said "Hey B.M., tell J'onn I'm sorry for this." as he threw his punch forward as hard as he could.
Attack:1d20 + 10 ⇒ (20) + 10 = 30 Can I get a Halleluyah? If actually a Crit, Toughness DC 34
"Now that's a glitch I can get advantage from" says the augmented ironm...cyborg, I mean cyborg as he unleashes a new barrage of punches and karate chops.
Attack:1d20 + 10 ⇒ (19) + 10 = 29 Toughness DC 29... man, I should have picked Improved Critical
"Dammit, Luthor, stop trying to steal the spotlight away from my stupid noble sacrifice!" yells Gigabyte as he darts inside the room and beelines the Superhero Formerly Known as Martian Manhunter.
As he is about to reach the Burning, Gigabyte turns up to 11 his voice and says "Smile for the photo, Cinderboy!"
Punch hard and never look back:1d20 + 10 ⇒ (8) + 10 = 18 I figure that won't hit, but if it does Toughness DC 29
Asuming the original plan of him staying at the Hall
"Wait Imagine!" shouts Gigabyte as Kara and the Lexmarines prepare to break in "Take Unhuman outta there, you and your guys fly faster than I do. I'll... ugh... draw his attention with some tasty live bait... Godammit, I hate fire... Why did it have to be fire?"
The cyborg readies himself to enter first and quite literally throw himself to The Burning.
With a last moment thought, the cyborg quickly sends a message back to the Hall "If things go ploint shaped in there.... delete my browsing history, V.I.C."
Ready to rumble, fellas. I might end activating a complication, what with the enemy using my least favourite element as name and weapon.
His job done, with only monitoring and being prepared to reinforce as his new tasks, Gigabyte took a rock and sit on it.
As he kept an eye on the room, Kyle turned to Kara and grinnee "So, Imagine, what's in this for you?"
The cyborg let the question sink a bit before continuing "If there's a name asociated with having anything you desire in the world, it's Luthor... so why risk your cute face? Why not stay back and enjoy a life full of riches and luxury?"
Running the coding in the background for a moment, Gigabyte opens one eye and answers Unhuman "Don't worry fella, I'm preparing some harmless distraction. Trust me. Or even better, wait a moment and keep an eye on the screens."
"Well... yeah, I could... but do you really want me to suckerpunch him?" answers Gygabite to Luthor's suggestion "Not that I am against it, if he hits half as hard here as he does in his hocus pocus mind we'll be toast... but I can try something else..."
The cyborg removes his helmet and shows a big smile as he turns to the mainframe "V.I.C., I'll send you something, see if you can help me" he says as his connection kickstarts and his hands start drumming an imaginary keyboard.
L33t H4ck1ng:
Okay, here's what Gigabyte ia trying to do:
•Check what assets does the Combat Training Room
•Override the control of said room without desactivating it
•Send some holoenemies, Brainiac's bots would suffice.
•Program a routine that would send the original Justice League's team sans MM to our target and help him fight said holoenemies before start asking for help. If he is hostile towards them they would start disengage tactics and go into hiding before waiting ten minutes and restaring the routine. If not hostile they will try to talk with him before retreating to fight an 'unknown foe' and restart the routine after ten minutes.
The last part is where V.I.C.T.O.R. comes into action as I bet he has folders and folders on the original team and their manners, style et al.
My main aim is to keep him distracted but also to overload his brain with memories of his time with them in an attempt to force his mind to stop being nuttier than squirrel crap.
Gigabyte rubs his masked chin at Unhuman's idea "Well, if the connection is stable and Double M hadn't bursted everything on arrival... yeah, I can access them." he says as he 'extends' his senses towards the Hall's mainframe to establish a connecyion "That said I don't know what's the current ping standards on Earth-To-Superhero-Moonbase connections so we may get some lag."
The cyborg pauses a moment before considering the term he used and adds "Lag mean delays, for those of you wondering. And now, I need some ambient music for this..."
The background music player he so wisely decided to add months ago during a boring afternoon starts playing this song as his digital self works his way to the Moonbase's CCTV.
"I'm a computer geek, not a wizard so this may sound stupid... But can't any of uou hocus pocus his kind into resetting itself to a more stable state?" says Gigabyte, from his position sitting on the floor, as he scratches the back of his head.
Gigabyte smiled as their effortss proved successful, and a such was caught by surprise with his mouth open and ready for a sassy remark.
As the flames erupted Kyle was glad because of his helmet, as the others couldn't see the absolute terror that covered his face. He only managed to shout "You told me these were imaginary flames! Oh for fu-!" as the flames engulfed him.
"What is goi-" says the augmented engineer as his point of view swaps from the mainframe's digital landscape to the red planet "Well, this is interesting... and scary, gotta admit. I don't like fire." he adds as he notices the distant fire and a shiver runs through his spine.
"Any of you eldritch buffs can please asure me this is only some sort of magical dream and I won't get burnt in Manhunter's memories of Mars?"
Well, I am a firm defender of having multiple backups of multiple sorts.
Bad part is I am also really stupid... waited too long to hit submit and lost the 'sheet' I was putting in the profile. Again, as yesterday night it happened exactly the same. Duh.
Never ever work directly on Paizo Forums, heed my advice.
P.s.-I will go for a jog to clean ny stupidity away and redo the format, but this time I shall work on a text filw first.
Okay guys, you can thank the six years I spent studying Computers Engineering because it taught me to utterly and absolutely distrust any digital data storage and to keep multiple backups: I have Kyle's "sheet" on paper, in a doc file and I made some photos of the paper version just in case.
Kyle should have his sheet again during the next couple hours, as I do know I juggled with the PP after I finished those ersions and gotta adjust some parts.
I will start to work on putting together his sheet again posthaste. This time directly on the Paizo's profile.
It will take me some time, as Kyle's points were all over the place.
That said, he had every tech skill maxed out and with +9 int, so those rolls can be done. But once again, f%%! me.
I may not know what ARGUS is -know I do, the SHIELD comparison cleared it- but I DO know who Dick Grayson is. That said I prefer Red Hood, even if only because of badass points and costume.
Gigabyte nods and shruggs as Richard thank them [b]"Always ab pleasure to help around. But now I should help Victor run a thorough analysis... I don't like the part about that robot linking with the Hall's mainframe, and I do want to know what it looked for or wanted.[/ooc]
Having said that, Gigabyte cleans the dust on a decent sized piece of concrete and moves it to use it as improptu chair and starts working on it.
I pretty much guess Victor can totally handle it, but hey, Cyborg's Gigabyte spiritual liege. Gotta help 'granpa'
Gigabyte uses the opening made by Fate's attack to double down on Red Volcano.
"Keep it up, Blind Bling Wizard! This robot is about to get hacked the hard way!" he says to the other hero as he charges the thrusters on his cyborg arm.
1d20 + 10 ⇒ (18) + 10 = 28
The punch connects hard, with all the strength that you can assume a high tech garage project made by a nerd genius can gather. Which in truth is a damn lot of strength.
On retrospective, as I was at the Hall's entrance, I may be unable to reach Red Volcano, in which case everything still applies but I'll be attacking a Gorilloid, or as I like to call them: Harambots.
Gigabyte hasn't fully recovered from his previous stunned self and freed himself from the nets when all things go ka-boom.
As the soundwave wears off and his head stops spinning, the augmented man turns to see Red Volcano as off as he was, and with a grin dashes to attack him.
"Things like you are what happen when you forget to update the firmware!" says our hero as he throws a combination of jabs, corkscrew punches and crosses.
Slam Attack:1d20 + 10 ⇒ (8) + 10 = 18 Damage 14, so Fortitude DC 29. Man, I was hoping for a crit... Next time, Giga, next time.
