Hans Greuber Interludes

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Hans Greuber Interludes

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Second Quarter
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[dice]0[/dice] - Victory
Hans had been planning this for weeks now. This was the perfect time… and he couldn’t take it anymore.
The Hammers were a mechanized mercenary group; known for their robot vehicles. They were very skilled and knowledgeable. Over his time with them, however, he had discovered that their… lets call it customer relations and community outreach… was less than stellar. In fact, it was deplorable. They stole from towns that they encountered along the way, they betrayed their employers if offered enough credits, and they found entertainment with unwilling participants. Hans himself had never participated in any of it. He never spent time with the others in the company; instead choosing to surround himself with the machines, but now, he could no longer turn a blind eye to their activities. He had found an impressionable DB. Alecto, their newest recruit. A blank slate. She needed to be taken away from this place before they corrupted her. Castle Refuge was only a short distance away. They may not accept him due to his connections with the Hammers, but Alecto needed to be taken away from them.

Knowing which machines would be put on watch tonight, he had scheduled some maintenance on their sensor suite. The others, well, he introduced some technical difficulties into their control systems. If they tried to get the robots to walk tonight, they would just sit down and would take hours to get moving again. The Hammers had gotten used to Hans’s meticulous work, and had gotten into the habit of depending on their robots for everything. They no longer used unembarked watchmen to assist the robot pilots in guard duty.

Hans grabbed Alecto on the way. They had discussed the possibility of this escape over the last couple days. Her questions revealed that she was not happy with the Hammers, but Hans knew that they wouldn’t let her just quit. For that matter, he knew that he would never be allowed to quit. They would hunt down any “Deserters”. Disabling the robots was the only way to escape. Hopefully a couple others who were not happy with the Hammers would take the opportunity to leave too. Activating his Quantum Resonance Translocator, they were able to get past a good distance away before they were even discovered to be missing.

Quickly, they discovered the work he did on the sensors of the robots on guard duty. They fired up the TR-001’s. Their BIG guns. They were out for blood. The floodlights came on as it stood up. When the pilots tried to get it to walk in order to get in range to blow them out of existence, the robots just sat down and froze in position. Their loudspeakers then kicked in at full volume with Hans’s final message to them.

“You are an armored company. You have just pissed off your BEST technician and repairman. Now you just tried to send out the same robots that he has been maintaining for you after him. It would take a special type of STUPID for him to not make sure that those same robots could not be sent after him. It should take Gregory most of the night to get the first of the robots working again, and by then we should be long gone. If I see you again, I will get creative with what I will do to your precious robots and leave them so that there is no way that Gregory will every get them working again. You don’t know all of my tricks. You don’t want to.”

Off in the distance, Hans smirking at Alecto indicated a direction. “In that way is Castle Refuge. They will take us in and help us. The Hammers won’t be bothering us for a while, but when they do find us again, I want to have some friends at our backs. Lets go.”

Victory.
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[dice]1[/dice]

Revelations - Your hero finds all the information
available when doing research, or
realizes critical information when
confronting some obstacle such as
a monster’s weakness, the answer
to a riddle or cipher, etc.
Last edited by Hans Greuber on Fri May 05, 2017 3:24 pm, edited 3 times in total.
Hans Greuber

PPE: 15 / 30 (11 - 13 Invested into Gargamel, 1 Invested into Humble's Bracelet)
Silver Ring 1: 5 / 10
Silver Ring 2: 5 / 10
Active Powers:
None
Combat Edges/Hindrances:
Hesitant
Arcane Machinist Gadgets Left: 1 /6
Created Gadgets:
Arcane Protection (6 PPE left)
Remote Viewing (6 PPE left)
Teleport (4 PPE left)
Dispel (9 PPE left)

Bennies: 1 (+1 Z) / 3
Base Amount
+1 Zombie Bennie
-1 to Reroll Fear against Vithen Wraiths
-1 to Reroll Arcana to Find Geist among Mirror Selves

Toughness: 16 (8); Parry: 4; Pace: 5 (d4)
Golems:
Gargamel (Invested PPE, Flying Pace 12, Mind Rider)
Huey (Mind Rider), Dewey, Louis
Alvin (Mind Rider), Simon, Theodore
https://savagerifts.com/sr/viewtopic.php?p=76048#p76048

Hans:
  • Fatigue: 0
    Wounds: 0
Golems (*=Mind Link, #=Winged)
  • Gargamel*#
    • Fatigue: 0
      Wounds: 0
    Huey*
    • Fatigue: 0
      Wounds: 0
    Dewey
    • Fatigue: 0
      Wounds: 0
    Louis
    • Fatigue: 0
      Wounds: 0
    Alvin*
    • Fatigue: 0
      Wounds: 0
    Simon
    • Fatigue: 0
      Wounds: 0
    Theodore
    • Fatigue: 0
      Wounds: 0
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Re: Hans Greuber Interludes

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Third Quarter

Interlude: 1d4 (2) - Another Victory

Since I had no inspiration for another Victory interlude yet, I was told I could do one on another topic...


Hans thought of how much things have changed in the last couple years...

He had been with the Hammers for a few months now, and he was now starting to see holes in their stories and sales pitch to get him to join them. “Join us for a life of excitement, good pay, and a chance to see more of the world than just your little village.”

Sure he got to see more of the world than his village, and there were periods of excitement even in the maintenance department. The pay was good too, but it seemed that they had just recently sold out their most recent employer to the people they were supposed to be protecting them from. Also, while they were “protecting” the town, he had heard stories of some of the mercenaries taking advantage of women in the town, with the officers just laughing about it.
This was not what he wanted to be associated with. There was a problem; nobody was allowed to leave the Hammers, except as a corpse. Even those who were too injured to help were put into a cyborg body with a kill switch and thrown back into combat. They had even done this to a couple psychics and a mage. They also aggressively hunted down any deserters and killed them.

It would take planning, the right time, and luck on his side to leave the Hammers and survive. If he could find another like-minded member of the company, it would help things, but if he tried to recruit the wrong person, he could find himself beaten as an example, turned into a cyborg, or even put in front of a firing squad as an example. Maybe it would be best to just watch, wait, and plan for when a good opportunity came to him to go and escape by himself.
Time to back to repairing the TR-001’s from the damage they received from the last coalition patrol they had encountered.

...Now back in the present, Hans realized the irony. He stood accused of doing the very sort of activities that he left the Hammers for doing. Now wasn't that a kick in the pants!
Hans Greuber

PPE: 15 / 30 (11 - 13 Invested into Gargamel, 1 Invested into Humble's Bracelet)
Silver Ring 1: 5 / 10
Silver Ring 2: 5 / 10
Active Powers:
None
Combat Edges/Hindrances:
Hesitant
Arcane Machinist Gadgets Left: 1 /6
Created Gadgets:
Arcane Protection (6 PPE left)
Remote Viewing (6 PPE left)
Teleport (4 PPE left)
Dispel (9 PPE left)

Bennies: 1 (+1 Z) / 3
Base Amount
+1 Zombie Bennie
-1 to Reroll Fear against Vithen Wraiths
-1 to Reroll Arcana to Find Geist among Mirror Selves

Toughness: 16 (8); Parry: 4; Pace: 5 (d4)
Golems:
Gargamel (Invested PPE, Flying Pace 12, Mind Rider)
Huey (Mind Rider), Dewey, Louis
Alvin (Mind Rider), Simon, Theodore
https://savagerifts.com/sr/viewtopic.php?p=76048#p76048

Hans:
  • Fatigue: 0
    Wounds: 0
Golems (*=Mind Link, #=Winged)
  • Gargamel*#
    • Fatigue: 0
      Wounds: 0
    Huey*
    • Fatigue: 0
      Wounds: 0
    Dewey
    • Fatigue: 0
      Wounds: 0
    Louis
    • Fatigue: 0
      Wounds: 0
    Alvin*
    • Fatigue: 0
      Wounds: 0
    Simon
    • Fatigue: 0
      Wounds: 0
    Theodore
    • Fatigue: 0
      Wounds: 0
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