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Trans-Dimensional Panic

Page history last edited by Capellan 5 years, 6 months ago

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We go to Miami to check in on Chiko

We go to Mars Compound - there has been an incident

Chiko appears to be dead

But actually he is a robot

Based on behaviour, the real Chiko never came to Miami

Mars was not aware "Chiko" was a robot

Red investigates the robot

It's an old model - made by Professor Panic, who smashed Canberra

We make plans to take it back to Australia

Random Conquistador-themed supervillain!

And his buddies, who are less culturally insensitive

We stomp them in short order

And go back to Pacific City, where Red requests Uber records on the night Shift left

I go speak to an Uber driver who was attacked that night

The driver saw metal tentacles.  He gives me the address of the attack

That doesn't help much, but Red's search for Prof Panic androids prompts a mysterious phone call

We go to meet an old guy with a cane at a deserted bar

 

 

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Xo arrives.  Yay, an adult!

Old Guy with a cane is a WW2 hero (Shock and Awesome met him)

Panic was into dimensional travel

He found a world without supers and planned to conquer it and use it as a base to conquer this world

He's imprisoned there, but may be up to no good across dimensions

Or someone else may be on his behalf

He has lots of old data.  On old hardware

Red gets the data off the drive and goes to do laboratory stuff

Xo goes to see Danny

She manages to communicate with him at last thanks to a device Red made

Meanwhile, Red finds 4 Prof Panic energy sites in Pacific City

One is very close, so I go check it out.  It's a Java Hut, of course

There's a female cop in the place who is giving off the signal

We tell Wright and ask her to keep an eye on this

The second signal is an older guy at the Demon's MC clubhouse

Third is the son of the local Liberal MP

Fourth is a young woman at Pacific City High

She goes to Mars tower ... at Superspeed

It's Jenny Rocket

We make arrangements with Babbage to meet her for "training"

Which for some reason is scheduled for 4am the next morning

This is more advanced than Robot Shift, but it is definitely a robot

Xo races Robot!Rocket and goes so fast the imposter shorts out

Red downloads all of Robot!Rocket's memories

 

 

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The Vanguard are confused by our willingness to cooperate

Red goes back to Mars Tower with them to try and discover leads

I head back home and try to discover sleep

Red traces the android's origin back to the Canberra crater

Red also blabs all kind of stuff to Mars that will never ever EVER come back to bite us

Xo goes to see Danny

I'm ashamed I haven't yet made a joke about 'puppy love'

Xo is grumpy with Red

I make plans to go to a rave with Steve

SMAX assemble!  At Mars tower

Mars has discovered that the robot was activated by the Damocles protocol

It has been active for about 3 months

We go to Canberra

Surprise surprise, someone has taken out the Vanguard

We go looking for them

"Give up your powers to the collective"

Star Trek wants their villains back, writer man

We ineffectually fight them

At least until Red gets involved and finishes the whole fight in one attack.  Nice one, Red!

We find a major computer network: which is new

And Chiko and Jenny and a bunch of other people

Xo calls Mars to fill him in.  He says he will call AEGIS

Red sets off the self-destruct.  Nice one, Red

 

 

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Red wakes up in the middle of a crater

In a different Canberra - one that looks like a warzone

I wake up in an apartment block

Surrounded by panicked, armed civilians

They insist I am an alien.  Cabramatta really isn't that bad, people.

I get no answer from Xo on my phone.  Then I try Red.

We meet up.

Aliens show up.  They are not friendly.

We steal their ship.  Not that we can fly it.

Red tries to figure stuff out.

I find a PC and google.  There may have been 3 supers in this world, about 40 years ago.

Linked to Professor Panic

Are the Earth forces using Panic to try and fight the aliens?

Red traces Xo's phone.

It's underground at some fortifications - human forces

Captain Boxleitner, on loan from the US military

They've found Xo but she is badly burned (from the fight back home) and unconscious

All the people from Panic's base back home are also here

Professor Panic is indeed their weapons expert

He's got a plan to make lots of robotic soldiers with powers

No doubt this is all completely above board

Meanwhile, I assist in the evacuation of some civilians

Red thinks Panic might be siphoning powers out of the people in the pods

It turns out this will kill them

So nope, I won't be having that.

 

 

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Oh look Panic has been building secret weapons for himself

We wreck the machine

It's going to blow!

We do just enough to prevent disaster

I hold off the army while Red turns off the pods

They don't much want to listen to the "don't murder people" logic

Red finds a way to power the robots without killing people

Panic is carted away and locked up

I google my birth name - I am missing, presumed dead in this reality

24 hours later Red thinks the machine is ready

He has also attempted to remove Panic's malicious code

The robots go out to fight the war

Later that night, Panic wants to see me

He claims to have a way back, if we agree to take him with us

I am not interested

(Though Red wants to take him back with us if we can, to stop him taking over this world)

They take us to a secret research base to look for a way home

Red finds a teleporter that can get us back

We just need a power source

Those big alien ships must have something that will suit, right?

 

 

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We have a terrible plan to get inside the spaceship

This is true pretty much regardless which of our plans we use

Shift's luck is out

We beat up some aliens and hack their systems

Jenny Rocket rockets around

I steal a big crystal

This is bad for the ship

We escape the crashing ship, but the boss bad guy turns up

Red and Jenny take the crystal so we can be sure our people get home

Shift and I stay to fight the guy

We win because no-one really knows the new Cortex rules

They want to keep Panic.  We're not going to fight them over it.

Somehow, Shift gets left behind

 

 

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