We convinced the uncorrupted AI node to kit us out with some new armour and let us run some training programs. B and S learned about heavy weapons and worked on their energy weapons knowledge and I did an advanced armour course. It said I should use this Hazardous Environment Suit it had as I had the most experience using sewer armour, and that was the closest anyone had got to actual experience. Apparently it can allow you to survive in atmospheres that would dissolve, crush or boil you without it. I tried to get it to give me a jetpack to go with it, but it gave me a 6-pack of some energy drink called Jet instead.
Everyone else got some fresh flak or SWAT armour and we found a few vac-suits, some med-packs, fresh swat armour, under-barrell grenade launchers, cutting and welding tools, fresh power-packs and ammo. I'm glad we've got some more power for the plasma rifles now. I stopped using them to save ammo but the high penetration laser just isn't the same! Boomeron found a pair of fancy gun-scopes and stuck one on his advanced assault rifle. Gav took the other one for his 'collection'.
The computer told us we had to get enough cash to get in to the Captain's Table so we could carry on up the tower and investigate the highest AI node we could find at the top of the tower, where the captain lives. We asked it about the other houses on this floor and if they had computer nodes in too. It didn't seem to care much, but eventually told us they started acting irrationally so it severed contact. It had tried to find out what was going on on the level above, but didn't say how or what happened. It said that its occupants had been at a function in the military sector, so had probably been turned into biological weapons for the enemy, just like most of the rest of the population. The only way up to the next level would be to climb the lift shaft, but it gave us some climbing gear that should help us get up there. It also gave us some kind of nano-lockpick device with 5 charges.
Gav made up some story about finding some credits that some of the Sanctus Sanguine had been trying to steal to cover up the fact that it was us and asked if the Captain's Table would take the credits covered in dye. It said they had been security tagged so would be useless and we might as well throw them away. The only way in aside from credits is to blow our way in, and it said we didn't have the firepower for it and that the Captain's Table's defences were formidable. It wouldn't tell us exactly what the defences were though, damn military jerks.
STD-01 started talking some kind of scientific stuff about nanotech and zombification. It took me a while to figure out he was talking about me! Calling me a test subject again just reminded me of that time I nearly turned into a zombie and he wanted to kill me. I told him to call me by my damn name and gave him a shove. Stupid half-robot bastard, thinks he's better than the rest of us. He wanted the computer to help him make some more of the nanobots they used to cure me, and make me smell weird, but it couldn't help.
We went to the lift shaft that seemed to be on and STD-01 managed to get us in with the nano-lockpick. We got in the lift and made it up two floors, figuring the other high ranked officials' houses. I wanted to go to the head of Brown Sector's place, see how the boss-man lives, but nobody else was up for it. Weird since most of them are from Brown Sector. Chaz did say it was next to the place the security droid was quarantining infected, which I guess could've been interesting. When we got to the next floor it was all dark, and we were in the central of the spire. We had a look for a lightswitch, when we suddenly realised we were looking at blood writing! Most of us managed to look away in time, but Gav started acting a bit funny. Chaz and I body checked him, but we hadn't noticed that STD-01 was acting a bit funny too. We sat on Gav to hold him down and Chaz got a face-pack on him to stop him reading the writing, though she had to get off him to get it on. Boomeron noticed STD-01 and tried to knock him out with his microphone boom. It didn't work, but it seemed to distract him from the blood writing. Gav tried to get up one more time but Chaz and I held him down pretty easily. Then he stopped struggling and seemed to come back to his senses.
We had to stop looking for a light switch so STD-01 got the hand scanner out. We seemed to be in the middle of some kind of fancy palatial level for the Captain's immediate subordinates. There were 4 mansions each with their own fenced off grounds. There was an entrance to the head of finance's mansion ahead and to our right. I couldn't see much 'cause I was trying not to read the blood writing, but suddenly Boomeron shouted something about fast moving targets. I couldn't figure out what he meant, but then STD-01 said one high energy weapon, one neutralised and both cyborgs. I just spotted them before they got to us and they were two guys in really fancy dress uniforms that looked utterly impractical. One of them was rolling around on the floor, but the other one charged straight for me. He was right next to me in a second! I just managed to roll out of the way and track him with my weapon, but he smashed through the steel wall next to me and then cut through the floor with some beam he shot out of his fingers. Gav fired some assault rifle rounds at his head but he twisted out of the way. I hit him in the face with my plasma gun but it didn't do anywhere near as much damage as I'd hoped, just seemed to burn off a load of his fancy clothes. Boomeron managed to hit it with his assault rifle but again it didn't do much damage. Chaz was much more bold and grabber the guy's nuts with her hair straighteners! It was pretty easy since the guy was wearing some kind of ceremonial skirt. He tried to turn around to hit Chaz so I grabbed my scraper to head in there to help her out. Fortunately she dodged and he cut through the floor next to her.
STD-01 said the other one was neutralised and the guy rolling around on the floor stopped struggling. I tried to take the guy's head off and if he'd been a zombie or blood cultist it would've come clean off! Instead, he tried to dodge out of the way and I knocked him back against the wall. Gav shot him in the face shortly after that and his head burst everywhere. Chaz didn't want to let go of her tongs so she ripped half his junk off, though it took her about 10 seconds tugging. Gav did not look impressed as she dropped the charred remains to the floor. Quold was horrified, as apparently this guy was some incredibly high-ranking bureaucrat. The other cyborg bureaucrat was lying there swearing vigorously so we went over to check on him. He wouldn't respond to any questions, and when we tried to help him he kept telling us to fuck off and leave him alone. Chaz said she would bandage his eyes to stop him getting reinfected but he told her to fuck off and raised up his glowing laser hand. Everyone else wanted to sedate him, but I was more concerned with nicking his mates laser beam hand and power blast hand. Be great if I could get them on this EVA suit somehow!
Chaz tried to sedate the bureaucrat but he he twisted round really fast and stuck the needle into her instead. She passed out straight away and we later found out she'd used a triple dose. Boomeron wanted to use some other drugs to revive her but we didn't think that would be a good idea. STD-01 started talking a load of technobabble with the guy, but I got that the blood writing had somehow infected his cyber-ware and STD-01 had apparently gotten rid of it. Just as I got back to the dead guy, he got up again! I tried to hold him down but it was pretty hard. He got most of the way back up so I tried to hit him with my scraper, but I was too slow. Gav hit him with his plasma gun and knocked him away from me a bit but he twisted out of the way. Then it hit me in the chest with its power fist. Fucking hurt, and made a massive dent in my armour, but this thing was really starting to piss me off. Gav shot it with the plasma gun again and we saw some weird web of energy lines that flashed up from the heat of it, like some kind of heat sink. Then I smashed it in the chest with my sewer scraper. It didn't cut through like flesh, but it did rupture his chest and a load of weird fluids and tubes spilled out. Boomeron hit him with his assault rifle again and the guy dropped to the floor again.
STD-01 said he was going to self destruct so I started running away, but then he said he had persuaded the guy's daemon not to regenerate. Bastard made me look like an idiot again. The biological parts of the dead cyborg melted away and there were just a bunch of random implants left lying around. I wanted to steal his power fists but apparently those things are custom built to fit into a bioframe or something, and that was one of the parts that melted. This didn't stop STD-01 from picking up anything that looked vaguely salvageable. Boomeron woke Chaz up with a space coke injection and she used one of the med-kits on me, which made me feel a fair bit better.
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