Well, I'm afraid that, if this campaign gets on its feet again, I'll have to bow out. Valegrim, I'll yield my spot to you.
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Hmmm. Batman must think I have some sort of computer programming skills. I pull my way over to the system's computers and start trying to hack my way into remote systems. We'll start with something simple. Mechimera creates a new IP address and sends the police an email message: "Batman received an anonymous note threatening to blow up the new station-house. We're investigating, but we recommend you be on alert." Let's try tapping into the security cameras. Mechimera needs to make a Red Reasoning FEAT. (because he doesn't have a password; he needs a 98 or better to start with). After a half hour, Mechimera has had no success. A second half-hour later, still nothing. (With +11 CS, Mechimera can now hack into the surveilance cameras on a roll of 76 or better. He's just not having any luck! So he disobeys Batman, and creates a handful of tiny Somnifactor robots to skitter off to the station-house and sniff out any explosives. (Roll for duration: Two of the fall apart immediately, one lasts for 1000 turns, and the other two last for 10,000 turns.) They'll have Good speed, Good Environmental Awareness, and Poor Penetrating Vision. This little mechanical team costs Mechimera 50 Health, which will return the next morning. Rather than continue to bang his "head" against the security cameras any more, he attempts to hack into the Police Department personnel files. It takes a full hour, but he manages to break in. He spends the next half-hour reviewing personnal files. Mechimera guesses that there wouldn't be any explosives sent via mail. The packages would have had to have been delivered yesterday, and this threat came from somebody too clever to take the chance that the explosives might be opened and detonated prematurely. It's now 8:30. Have the Somnifactors found anything? Have the police responded to the anonymous email?
Mechimera's faceplate swivels around. <Ex-cel-lent, John-ny! E-ven if the threat is a ruse, it pays to be pru-dent.> <Will your sha-dows be a-ble to move a-bout un-seen by all the po-lice who are a-bout their new head-quar-ters?>
<If we be-lieve the threat is cred-i-ble, I vote with Pong: we must no-ti-fy the po-lice. If we keep this se-cret, and dis-as-ter strikes, we would be com-pli-cent in count-less deaths.> <I re-main sus-pi-cious, how-ev-er. Do we have a-ny rea-son to sus-pect the threat is le-gi-ti-mate?>
"Moreover it is not so difficult to find my batmobile by chance if you walk in a dangerous area at a dangerous hour". <Per-haps not,> replies a tinny voice through Mechimera's speakers, <but this was no chance en-coun-ter. Our man came pre-pared.> <I am puz-zled. Why send the note? Why tell us? Per-haps this is a feint. Per-haps we set-tle in and pro-tect this tar-get, while the ac-tu-al crime takes place on the o-ther side of the ci-ty, with us safe-ly out of the way.>
Mechimera eventually arrives. ()
Mechimera might be able to work around encryption. (He has Incredible Communication with machines like that. He could simply ask the alarm system what its password is.) In case that fails, he has Matter Control (Molding) with a Monstrous amount of reality. He could turn the alarm system, perhaps most of the complex, into a solid block of graphite. Please tell me: what are somnifactor drones? Mechamera can rework reality into the stuff of people's dreams. Every night, he moves through the dreams of people in New Proverbia. If a teen-ager has played a video game and has a nightmare of little mechanical robots crawling around, or of a Terminator-type android -- and if Mechimera has stumbled upon those dream images, he can Create and Animate the world around him into those robots, which he calls somnifactors.
I presume I'm the exception, having neither eyes nor voice. (And since I can just communicate with the machines anyways...) If Bruce Wayne has allowed me into his dreams, I could have seen the security system he'd imagine, and I could have contructed it for the team. -- All the members of the team are required to make at least one night patrol per week (that is from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.) so they have all the necesary arrangements so that this does not interfere with their families and jobs. I presume it's all right if I just send somnifactor drones out to patrol. With Feeble Endurance and no movement powers, it would take me a very long time to patrol New Proverbial. -- By the way, how did New Proverbial get its name? Most "New X" places are named after established cities or areas. (New London, Connecticut is named after London, England, etc.)
Falling in for roll call. (from the character's profile]
Spoiler: Physical Form (Cyborg: Mechanical Body) Chimera's "body" is a Very Flexible Array (VFA) of monitor panels and servos. When it's at rest, it looks like a collection of fire extinguisher cannisters with a round "head" featuring cameras, microphones, and a screen showing a hologram of Armando's face. When it's in motion, the VFA expands into a mobile network of cables along which the other portions of his body zip around at blinding speed. While Chimera's body is almost impossible to hit, the structure of cables is slow to change position. If he wants to grab something more than a few feet away, Chimera typically builds a little "somnifactor" to retrieve or manipulate it. Origin (Energy Exposure -- The Dream Dimension) Armando Valente was a college student on a scientific team that sent a remote actor (a "waldo" through a mysterious rift in spacetime. Valente was guiding the waldo when an enormous energy surge fed back through the virtual-reality relays. The energies fried Valente's body below the neck, and fused his neural patterns in with the waldo. As the patterns started degrading, the team's surgeon transplanted his brain and upper spnal column into the waldo, keeping the mental patterns from degrading. Armando can longer dream, himself. He has to enter and explore other people's dreams, now. All the mechanical powers -- creating little machine servants, reshaping reality with the molding power -- are "somnifactors", strange mechanical golems that reflect the images he sees while visiting people's dreams. Primary Abilities
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So your character is not just a member of the team, but rather the leader? How did he recruit us?
What else do I need to do?
(And, frustratingly, someone already possesses the name "Chimera") on the boards, so, I'm trying "Mechimera".) |