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Aquila visibly perks up as he drops the weapons. A big glowing armored thing?  Right in an enclosed space like this? Ooh yes. Aquila starts running parallel to the thingy, looking to see if there's anywhere where the lights stop showing up and thus means that he's in cover from it for now. From his hiding place (hopefully) he yells over to Lazarus.

"If I'm not able to relay this to the commander, tell her I said thanks for letting me do this!"

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"What's a sectopod?" Rachel sends to the group over her vox-caster, the hardy Imperium technology cutting through the jamming easily at close range. "Do you need backup?  I've secured the perimeter with tripwires and an explosive, so it should be safe for me to come support you.  I have an anti-armor weapon."  Usually, screaming in that tone of voice was reserved for genestealers or traitor Astartes in close quarters.  Hopefully, these 'sectopods' wouldn't be quite so formidable.

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Harry kicked at the pile that the spectre had fallen into, then released the effort he was putting into maintaining the psionic block. He stepped back over to Contagion, and offered a hand. "You alright?" It was then that he heard the slightly garbled transmissions from the comms. "Reaper, come on over, I'll patch you and Contagion up real quick, we're probably gonna be needed with the others."

 

Harry will patch them up.

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Alan decided to take a handful of alien alloys with him before he heard a loud crashing sound in the distance, and he decided to ignore the entire concept of common sense for a moment as he headed towards its direction and asked "What the hell is a Sectopod and is it as mechanical as an ADVENT MEC?" into his comms systems.

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Frigus takes a half step back from the walking tank thing before lifting up his Keyblade and casting Cure.

 

Frigus uses Cure on himself and the ally with the lowest HP, restoring 1d4+9 HP each.

 

 

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Nader saw that his instincts were even more right than he had feared, as the source of the sound of metal on metal turned out not to be a space alien of a similar kind to those they had fought so far, but instead revealed itself to be a giant walking tank thing! Nader's reaction, accordingly, was far more of a natural one than Aquila's.

"OHHHHH FUCK!"

The words echoed off of the walls of the hangar, and were promptly punctuated by the detonations of smokeless powder, conveying his state perhaps better than even the panicked edge of his shout could, even if they likely set the others' ears ringing a bit.

 

And it was detonations, plural: Nader's immediate choice of action had been to, almost without thinking, rip the Mark 3 Osprey and the Personal Assault Weapon from his back, jam their butts against indentations near the armpits of his armor, and to yank down the triggers with terrified, reflexive strength. The sharp crack of the Osprey and the rapid, high-pitched patter of the Personal Assault Weapon rang out through the hangar, as his smaller weapons were sent firing at the Sectopod, but it was not long before they were followed up: Nader desperately twisted his wrists to get his thumbs on the handles of the firing mechanisms on his armor, and with a yank, his right arm was sent shaking as the thirty-round thundering of the M3 Sorraia filled the hangar... and then the godlike BOOM of the Horsekiller 1935R, which not only sent a .60 cal bullet whipping at the tank, but also provided the final piece of momentum that sent Nader falling onto his ass with a clatter.

 

Nader uses Barrage, his once per world Trump, firing ALL of his guns at the Sectopod! This means he does:

6d6+3+DEX (3)+STR (6) damage from his Horsekiller, with a 10% chance to miss!
2d6+DEX (3)+STR (6) damage from the M3 Sorraia, 3 times!
4d6+DEX (3) damage from the Mk. 3 Osprey, and if the Sectopod wants to dodge the Osprey it must perform a DEX check vs the damage rolled!

2d4+DEX (3) damage (lol) from the Personal Assault Weapon!

 

Active Cooldowns: M3 Sorraia (3 turns)

 

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Rachel & Alan (with Harry and Contagion)

 

Not long after either of them asked their question, the Reaper of the party spoke up, “A Sectopod is one of ADVENT’s mechanical units, and their worst. Anti-Armor weaponry will be appreciated” he explained as he entered the room Harry and Contagion were in, the coat on his shoulder being scorched black, “I will go there once I am patched up” he added to the coms, before heading to where Harry was.

 

Harry and Sandman are back at full health!

 

 

Sectopod Encounter!

Battle Song:

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The Sectopod itself, now having spotted its enemies, begins its advance, its two large feet smashing against the metal flooring as more red lights appear on top of it… Before spinning rapidly. Suddenly, a hail of magnetically propelled, alloyed bullets flies at the party, dealing 20 damage to Lazarus and 15 to Aquila. Once the hailfire of bullets ends, the gun retracts back into the Sectopod’s frame as it continues forward…

 

Frigus initiates emergency healing, healing himself and Aquila for 13 hp each!

 

(14 vs 7) Aquila dashes to cover, hiding himself from the Sectopod… Surprisingly.


Lazarus raises his rifle, firing rapidly at the Sectopod as he makes his way to cover, his rifle dealing 17 damage… And barely causing the Sectopod to flinch as it continues moving.

 

Nader, on the other hand, stays right where he is, unleashing absolute hell on the Sectopod, dealing 15, 18, and 14 damage with his M3 Sorraia, 17 with his Osprey, 5 damage with his PAW, and finally, his Horsekiller gets a wonderful 23 damage on the Sectopod!

 

The mechanized tank itself, when met with Nader’s onslaught of bullets, once again, barely even reacted to his Sorraia, Osprey, or PAW, merely letting the bullets clang against its armor as it advanced. However, when the Horsekiller was fired, the Sectopod was actually stopped, its body being forced to the side as the bullet collided, causing it to take a step back as well from the hit.

 

… Unfortunately, judging by the fact that its lights merely glowed once more as it turned back to the party, it was going to take a bit more than that to take it down.
 

Alan arrives! And is probably in awe of the mechanized death robot coming his way. Or something.

 

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Aquila leans against his piece of cover... huh, this thing goes up quite a bit... Feeling around he notes a metal bar attached to the wall. Further exploring he notes that it seems to be a ladder. Hm...

Aquila starts up the ladder he's found. And also marks the Sectopod.

 

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Frigus charges forward striking twice at the tank with the intention to leave several long gouges in the thing's armor.

Frigus makes a Basic Keyblade Attack dealing 3d8+9 damage to the Sectopod,  Combo+ triggers allowing him to follow up with a Combo Keyblade Attack for another 3d8+9 damage.
 

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"Alright, let's get going then. Sounds like we'll be needed, hopefully not for autopsies."

 

Head over to the battle with Contagion and Reaper. Don't enter the area immediately, try to find a location to either flank, or at least have decent cover when entering combat.

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Alan decided that it would be best much more preferable to admire the giant killing machine from cover or whenever it is UNDER HIS DIRECT CONTROL, and he promptly yelled out the words "I'VE GOT THIS!" with the excessive amounts of smug arrogance that you can only have when you truly believe that there is no way that this can go horribly wrong.

Alan takes cover before he uses Combat Hacking to try and disable the Sectopod's magnetic weaponry, his Intelligence is treated as being 10% higher than it actually is as he is using his Sony CTY.

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Seeing that only his Horsekiller had had any appreciable effect on the armored thing, Nader swore up another loud blue streak, and then forced himself back to his feet, going from on his rear to on one knee with a surge of motion, and then returning to a standing position with another. On his feet, then, Nader chose to repeat the only thing that had seemed to work for him: hitting the tank with a really goddamn big bullet.

 

"Fuckin' space alien tank, fuck you, you aren't shit compared to Forenian engineering!" Nader was distinctly aware that this bit of vitriol was completely untrue, but nonetheless it was helping him stay in the mood for violence, and he promptly appeased that mood by straightening his left arm again, swinging it towards the Sectopod, and then pulling at the handle that fired the Horsekiller, the .60 caliber rifle reporting with another one of its distinctive BOOMs.

 

Nader fires his Horsekiller at the Sectopod again, for 6d6+3+DEX (3)+STR (6) damage, with a 10% chance to miss!

Active Cooldowns: M3 Sorraia (2 turns)

 

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Sister Rachel draws her dual inferno pistols and charges the Sectopod.  As she passes Nader, she uses Feel No Pain through her Triage passive, deftly avoiding his reflexive attempt to shoot her for drugging him with the reflexes of an experienced Guard field medic, and continues her dash forward.  "These men shall not fall this day, Xenos scum!"  She screams at the walking tank, "You defile Holy Terra with your mere presence!  Die, and go to whatever alien hell awaits you!"  Then she jams the barrels of both melta pistols against the Sectopod's side and pulls the triggers, targeting it with both shots from her Inferno Pistols.

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Harry, Contagion, and the Reaper

 

Once he was patched up, the Reaper stood, quickly reloading his rifle with more ammunition, “Follow me. There is a side entrance to that room I noticed before I found that patrol” he stated, turning and quickly running off, thought making himself visible enough for the rest of the group to follow him.

 

Soon enough, the Reaper led the three to another door, and when opened, led to an area behind the battlefield… Right in the Sectopod’s blind spot.

 

This is still happening!
 

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Once more, the heavy stomping of the Sectopod began again as it continued forward as its main body began to rise, mechanical shifting emanating from the tank as its legs were straightened out to let the main body rest well over six meters off the ground. Then, once more, a turret extended from the top of the Sectopod’s body, the aiming down at the ground before opening fire on both Frigus and Nader, dealing 16 damage to Frigus, and 14 damage to Nader.

 

While Frigus wasn’t able to get his slashes against the Sectopod’s main body, he was able to strike twice at the machine’s legs, dealing 23 & 27 (50) damage to it! Too bad it’s still standing.

Aquila marks the Sectopod! And he’s now about “eye” level with the Sectopod’s main body, to its side and on a rather clear walkway with railing on the sides.

 

Lazarus pops out of cover again, opening fire on the Sectopod and dealing 11 damage. Most of the bullets merely bounce off it's still intact armor.

 

Alan begins to use his hacking, taking his pervious knowledge he extracted from ADVENT’s Mecs… Only to find his tool’s lights suddenly flashing red as the Sectopod pauses, then somehow manages to straighten more, turning straight for Alan. The Sectopod gains a +2 to Synergy and Dex as Murder.exe is activated!

 

(68) Just as the Sectopod begins focusing on Alan, another gigantic bang fills the ship as another round of the Horsekiller is fired at the alien tank, dealing 33 damage… And managing to punch an entire hole through the tank, exposing a bit of inner workings before it turned back towards the group.

 

While Rachel unfortunately couldn’t jam her pistols onto the Sectopod’s main body, she managed to get close enough to rapidly fire at it with both of them, burning the Sectopod’s armor with 16 damage! (25) Unfortunately, while the pistols began to melt the armor of the Xeno tank, it still held strong.

 

With one of the hostiles registered as near, the Sectopod lowered itself towards the ground for a second, multiple panels shifting open on its legs. Then, a large burst of electricity exploded from its legs, creating a wave that blew Rachel away, dealing 27 damage as she’s thrown back.

 

Then, it stomped both of its legs into the ground, panels shifting on its lower front as a swirling red light began to activate inside of it… Aimed right at the ground.

 

“Oh shit…” Lazarus immediately muttered, before jumping away from his cover, “PULL BACK! NOW!” he yelled before turning and booking it.

 

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Did he say to get away from it? That sounds like I should get on it!

Aquila rushes to get on the sectopod and, if possible, bash it in that new glowy thing with his flail. If he can't reach that glowy thing he goes for the "eyes".

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((Alan's current theme!))

Alan immediately signalled his apparent catastrophic failure by shouting out, "I DON'T GOT THIS!" as he frantically tried to do a full take over of the Sectopod's systems while he ran towards an even bigger and thicker piece of cover.

 

 

Alan attempts to run towards an objectively better piece of cover and use the following action on the Sectopod at the same time. 

(Perk backed) Assuming Direct Control!:  Alan makes a 1d20+Int v 1d20+Int check against a mechanical and hackable enemy, allowing him to try and assume direct control over up to two enemies per world on a permanent basis. Although the action can also be used to disable a mechanical and hackable enemy without controlling it which prevents it from using its moves to do anything other than making an opposed 1d20+Int v Alan's initial roll check that takes an entire move to perform. This action has no cooldown.
Level 2: Alan can now choose to not keep a Drone he is controlling on a permanent basis at the end of the encounter where he took control over it.

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"Seems I'm needed." Activating his mental block on the enemy, who knew whether it would work, Harr dashed out to start draggin Rachel back to cover. So long as he makes it, he'll start working on her wounds, reconnecting tissue in punctured organs, preventing blood loss, all the works.

 

Use Now You See Me. . . to go in and grab Rachel and bring her back. Then use Slap a Bandaid on to heal for 1d4+13 (with priority)

 

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Frigus raises his Keyblade again and shouts "Heal" summoning small green leaves and golden particles over himself and Nader as he dove for cover.

 

 

Frigus uses Cure on himself and Nader restoring 1d4+9 HP to each of them, then he jumps for cover.

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Nader didn't need telling twice -- though he couldn't feel the pain of having been hit with a penetrating shot by the alien vehicle (the result of Rachel getting him right between the shoulderplates with a syringe? He'd twitched in her direction at the time, but he'd also had a tank to shoot), he could feel that there was blood running down his stomach, and the amount that he could feel was... not promising. Nader didn't know that he could take another shot, and frankly he didn't particularly want to find out.

 

It was time to back off. Nader immediately began to haul ass as quickly as he could towards cover, whirling to have his back to the cover as he dropped down behind it -- he wanted to drop down flush to the wall at first, and his guns wouldn't let him fit. Only then did he begin to turn around, though not yet peeking over the edge -- he didn't want whatever was getting prepared to take his head off. What he did do, though, was stick his PAW over the cover and wildly spray the entire damned magazine out in the vague direction of the Sectopod in the hopes of suppressing it.

Nader goes for cover, and then uses the PAW’s stun on the Sectopod!

Active Cooldowns: M3 Sorraia (1 Turn)

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Contagion takes cover, and pulls out a canister of a brown thick liquid, he had a plan for this damn giant robot. He first focused his gas, to help out his allies out on the field, then proceeded with his plan.

 

1.) Cast Hideaway on Nader and Frigus (cannot be targeted until they attack, grants 10% base dodge chance while in the cloud, extra 5% from Mad Scientist)

 

2.) Burst Fire the mofo (3d6 + (10) + 4 weapon damage on each successful attack)

 

3.) Fire with the AK (3d6 + (10) + 4 damage)  ((if it applies this turn.))

 

(Active Passives: +4 DEX for 3 turns, +10% dodge chance.)

 

Loadout:

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"Hhk.  Emperor, preserve me," Sister Rachel gasps, ignoring that little voice in the back of her head about how self-medicating is a terrible idea as she selects a new set of syringes and uses Feel No Pain on herself to apply two stacks of Guts.  "God-Emperor, give us the strength to strike this abomination down!"

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The Sectopod continues to menacingly charge its Wrath Cannon!

 

Contagion does his best to hide Nader and Frigus from the Sectopod’s gaze!

 

Frigus dives behind a wall for cover, all while healing Nader and himself for 11 hp!

 

Aquila takes a running leap towards the Sectopod, landing atop the giant alien machine and beginning to bash at its armor for… 8 damage as its armor barely budges from his attacks. In fact, the Sectopod barely even seemed to notice he was there, focusing its attention on the targets in front of its cannon.

 

Lazarus continues to run like hell, firing another round of bullets at the Sectopod as he does so, only to watch them once again bounce off its armor.

 

The Reaper, on the other hand, runs off to the side, practically vanishing from Harry and Contagion’s sight, only for a loud crack of a high caliber rifle to pierce the air as the Sectopod’s armor gains a tiny new hole in its hull, with 16 damage as well. (57) The Reaper’s position is still a mystery at this point.

 

(NATURAL 20 vs 4(+15)!) Just as the Sectopod’s cannon began to glow bright and brighter, the air in front of the alien tank beginning to heat up as the firing charge was near completion… Suddenly it stopped, its eyes blinking out of power and dying as the cannon lost its charge, closing itself up as the Sectopod lowered itself back to the ground. Then, not a few seconds later, it began to come to life again, still as a statue as it awaited its new orders from…

 

Alan, who had successfully fixed his fuck up and hacked right into its AI and take control of it away from most of ADVENT's mainframe.

 

ENCOUNTER IS FUCKING DONE WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME

 

Everyone who was on the initiative list gains 4 merit.

Alan gains 1 extra merit for hacking into a god dang Sectopod and winning, even with him failing hard previously.

Nader gains an extra merit due to weakening the Sectopod considerably with the Horsekiller


Not long after the Sectopod miraculously changed sides, the comms began to clear up again, “Menace 1-5, our contacts in the Resistance can’t keep ADVENT preoccupied now. You have multiple aircraft on your way, return to the Firebrand immediately!” Bradford said urgently.

 

For the most part, the party could see that the XCOM operatives were doing exactly that. Lazarus was still sprinting towards the ship, after taking a second to see the Sectopod’s change of command, Database was bringing back the last of supplies from the ship, and the Reaper was… Somewhere. The Sectopod itself still stands, awaiting its new orders.

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"Huh... Well isn't that interesting... Say, do you think we should try to take this thing in for research, or leave it to potentially shoot down some ADVENT aircraft?"

Contagion doesn't exactly wait for an answer, and runs to Firebrand.

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