Stuck In The Middle With You

Setting: AIF

Referee: Dave

Player: RooK

Introduction

Having recently acquired a stage of Defender and thus less likely to be randomly killed by stray weapon’s fire, Mïrka Mentkabar decided it was time to leave the backwater armpit of a world he was on and explore the galaxy. Having no credits to speak of, Mïrka decided to hitchhike in the cargo hold of a freighter leaving the system. Hungry for adventure, he eagerly awaited visiting various city planets on the freighter’s route.

Too bad it crashed before getting to one.

Game Night 001 - September 7, 2016 - Hailbots

• Crashes on planet Archaeognatha after briefly discussing the feasibility of surviving such a crash with God.
• Regains consciousness with a broken ankle and a Human looming over him.
• Human's name is George and was first on the scene of the crash.
• George applied a couple of patches and helped fix the ankle.
  • One of the patches looks homemade.
  • George explains it's a type of stim patch, though eventually revealing it's more of a nanoscopic symbiont.
    • Gives extra five stam every stage earned. Will eventually become sentient.
    • Mirka has the ability to kill it via his own nanoscopic fauna.
• George checks cockpit while Mirka checks cargo.
  • Cargo turns out to be vegetables. Many many vegetables.
  • Doesn't find the hidden compartment of gear and gemstones (kidding).
  • George returns with some items from the suicidal pilot and gives them to Mirka.
• After providing a crude map, George buggers off.
• Mirka heads toward a village on the way to a major city.
• Attacked by 'Hailbot'!
  • Beachball sized thing with numerous force beams / manipulated shields as limbs.
  • Hailbot is unarmed and just attacking hand to hand. Fast.
  • Mirka uses trees and gliding to his advantage.
  • After a few hits, Hailbot hides behind tree. Two other hailbots inbound.
  • Bravely run away and hide!
  • Hailbots give up.
• Continue to village.
• Attracts attention of other hailbot. This one armed and has a combatant stage.
  • Fight fight fight.
  • Hailbot defeated.
    • Force beams go off, hailbot falls and employs camouflage. Dormant.
    • Camouflage less effective on beings that employ sonar - perfect roundness very noticeable.
• Avoids more hailbots.
• Encounters Trollian villagers.
  • Villagers threatening. Extort weapon.
• Changes route to bypass village and head directly to the city. Another 20km away.

Plot Infliction 001 - Travel Montage

The forest is starting to thin out a bit and you see grasslands up ahead. You also spot what seem like ruins.

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Mentkabar regards the reduction in gliding supports with a grim annoyance and a renewed attention to passive sonar imagery. Hopefully the native grass is tall enough to be sufficient cover for a being as small as a Mavvice. Which, of course, works both ways.

What do the ruins appear like? Rotting skyscrapers? Pyramids? A diner?

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Game Night 002 - September 20, 2019 - To The City

• Initially ignore ruins.
• Loud <CRACK> from ruins attracts attention.
• Groten using Hailbots as baseballs. Three young people going and searching for them in the jungle after they land.
  • Warned that getting into city may be difficult without citizenship id.
• Back through the grassland towards the city.
• Hailbot Attack!
  • Long fight.
  • Hailbot attempts to disengage. No such luck.
• Petroch from the villiage watches, applauds, then flies away.
• Finds a stand of trees to hide in.
  • Kills alien bear.
• To the city.
• Ambushed by random jerk. Mortal wound causes him to panic and bleed out.
• Intercepted by guard.
  • Can't pay extortion.
  • Used as training practice for pet hail-bot.
  • Hail-bot disabled (barely).
• Nearby homesteader offers shelter.

Game Night 003 - September 27, 2019 - Wage Slave

• Heals with homesteaders. Eats soup.
• Chats with symbiot.
  • Names it Marcus.
  • Marcus has instinctual unease about the hailbots.
• Walks around the city looking for a way in.
  • Twenty meter walls. Nothing obviously preventing someone from climbing.
  • Main entrances guarded. People scanned as they go in.
  • Other smaller entrances sealed.
• Small settlement outside the walls on the other side.
• Hailed from someone in a shack.
  • Not a radio in site.
  • Guy in the shack says he can get someone in the city for a fee.
  • 50 credits. Or 200 for dealing with someone trustworthy.
  • Can get jobs escorting non-combatants from the city.
• Back to the settlement outside the city. Finds a job posting board.
• Hired by an Anurian named Gilford.
  • Wants to capture two hailbots for study.
• Walking towards the jungle.
  • Blasts an attacking wolf like creature in the face.
  • Finds and defeats a zero-stage hailbot.
• Closer to the jungle, encounters random dude.
  • Feeling threatened, Mirka attacks.
  • Dude defeated, disarmed, and let go.
  • Gilford claims blast rifle.
• Into the jungle, the mighty jungle.
  • Find hailbot.
  • Make that two hailbots.
  • One has a stage of striker. Makes for a tough fight.
  • Gilford injures himself with the blast rifle.
• After disabling both hailbots, a third hailbot with a rifle makes itself known.
  • Third hailbot actually speaks. Takes one of the downed hailbots and leaves.