Thursday, April 16, 2015

Solar Echoes Games at JohnCon (part 4)


The team of Union Guard agents was sent to a shopping mall full of rampaging service robots to stop the malfunctioning drones and discover what exactly went wrong. There was a wide variety of robots at the mall, including maintenance bots, cleaning bots, and even delivery bots that had gone a little “postal.” The team had their hands full handling them, but thankfully, the Omul on the team had the “Robot ID” talent, which enabled her to discern weaknesses in the AI of each robot type. While battling the delivery bot, she communicated to her team that the robot had a high chance of being distracted if it was given a package with a mailing label. The downside was that the mailing labels were in a slot on the side of the robot, and this meant getting close to the malfunctioning machine. A Chiraktis character managed to get up close while the robot was busy spraying a fast-drying thermoplastic polymer on another character to prepare her for packaging. The Chiraktis snatched a delivery label and filled it out, then packaged an EMP grenade and handed it to the robot. The robot suddenly paused and resumed its usual programmed routine, scanning the delivery label and then storing the grenade in an internal compartment. This was just enough time for everyone to escape the blast radius!

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