Chapter 142
After giving Jun some affection, making sure he was okay and happy, and comfy and back to feeling like he was home and everything was okay. I finished cleaning up. Grabbing my gear I ran it all through a thorough cleaning. Holsters, belts, guns, and equipment. Just everything needed a cleaning.
So much dust.
Bleh! I hate the Badlands!
After that everything was settled I took a nice sleep, something I hadnt really enjoyed during the gig and woke up feeling refreshed and ready to get to work!
First thing first.
My stat page.
Level 17
Body 8(16) Due to Cyberization, Maximum value has increased by 8.
-Athletics 7
-Street Brawler 8
-Annihilation 5
Reflex 8
-Blades 7
-Handguns 7
-Assault 7
-Driving 7
Intelligence 10 (14) Due to Cyberization, Maximum value has increased by 4.
-Breach Protocol 9
-Quick Hacks 8
-Programming 10
Cool 9
-Ninjutsu 9
-Cold Blood 8
-Rockerboy 8
Technical Ability 5 (9) Due to Cyberization, Maximum value has increased by 4.
-Crafting 4This chapter made its debut appearance via N0v3lB1n.
-Engineering 4
3 Stat point.
7 Skill point.
Perks.
Ambidextrous Blades 2
Quickdraw Handguns 2
Gun Nut Assault 2
Parkour Athletics 2
Grappling Street Brawler 2
Drive By Driving 2
Cat-like Athletics 5
Cool Nerves Cold Blood 2
Danger Sense Ninjutsu 2
Wall Breaking Breach Protocol 2
Cyber Security Quick Hack 2
Recoil Reduction. Annihilation 2
Cyber Ninja Ninjutsu 5
Fearless Chill Cold Blood 5
Improvised Weapons Street Brawler 5
Parry Blades 5
Robotics wizard Crafting 2
Drifting Driving 5
Rapid Reload Handguns 5
Design Wizard Engineering 2
Rifle Ace Assault 5
Ghost touch Breach 5
Perfect Musical Memory Rockerboy 2
Debug Programming 2
Siren Song Rockerboy 5
Hacking Wizard Quick Hacks 5
Inspired Programmer Programming 5
A.I. Whisperer: Programming 10
Annihilation 5 *Unused*
Cyberware:
Seacho Electronics Mk.2 *Adaptation Seacho Mk.2 0/0*
Kiroshi Mk1 *Adaptation Kiroshi Mk1 1/2*
I had opened up the unit and was pulling out the tactical gear for the team. I had left it here yesterday because after unloading everything from the big truck, I was a bit too tired to want to haul it around again to home.
Now I felt much better and was gathering up the Arasaka tactical armor and piling it into the Quadra. Along with a bunch of the extra guns and equipment we had found.
I wanted to clean up a bit of everything for my chooms to use. The Arasaka equipment was certainly better quality than some of the stuff we used up until now.
I might not be a fan of the Masamune for example, but it was a very accurate and dangerous rifle, although I was thinking something specific for my chooms.
Piling on another stack of equipment into the Quadras passenger seat I once more spotted the TC grunts watching me out of the corner of my eye.
They were keeping an eye on me, but hadnt tried to talk to me, or bother me. So I was mostly ignoring them, but the attention still made me aware, made me consider ways to defend myself.
Thankfully it wasnt needed. I was done with what I needed today. Hiromi would be handling the rest over the next while.
I took one last look at the Minotaur the desire to play with it almost irresistible, but I had work to do before I could take it out and play with it.
I closed up the garage, and climbed back into the Quadra and drove home.
Time for some real tech work.
I had so many supplies, literally piles of guns. I was going to rip anything we didnt sell apart, and start working on the grind.
A few trips between apartment and car later, I was all set up.
First I pulled out the helmet of the armor. I did a scan, and started basically tearing it apart.
Frankly I was planning on redesigning most of it, but I first wanted to look it over for something I suspected to find.
Trackers. Listening devices. Anything for Arasaka to just keep one more finger on the pulse of their troopers.
It couldnt be anywhere not easy to find, I really tore this one apart. Every piece of tech was taken apart, examined, and explored.
I was even getting Crafting and Tech alerts for it!
The helmets were pretty simple. Actual armored hard case. Internal electronics, and external electronics.
That was it.
The internal electronics were simple enough. A sound baffling to keep their ears from being blown out by gunfire, or flashbangs, and an internal booster, and squad radio.
I really wanted both pieces, and so carefully examined the whole thing. Even going through the chips that ran everything to check what everything did.
It was all Normal.
Maybe it wasnt in the helmets?
Well, I had a fully taken apart the helmet with all its electronics, scans of the whole thing which I was already storing in my laptop in case I ever needed to repair or replace the parts
But what do I do with the Helmet? Couldnt just leave them as is. Getting thought of as being Arasaka forces would not be a good idea. I had to alter the form of the helmet. Plus, I had to decide on paint as well. Did we pick a solid color, a camo?
Oh Wait I could probably get some of the ECM emitters that the TC used in their tats. ECM equipped armor could be pretty neat. It would probably be super expensive, but like
I had a lot of eddies right now.
I shook that off. Stop feature creeping. I havent even gotten the helmet figured out yet. Staring at the disassembled helmet I wondered what I could do other than just change up the paint. How could I give Section 9 a look
I did consider going Sentai Rangers, but no. That was just silly.
Hmm Well I did have my directional mic, something these helmets didnt have integrated
I pulled up the CAD program, and tossed the helmets dimension into it, thank you Kiroshi scan tech!
Then I went to work, adding and adjusting, it wouldnt be expensive, at least not for the directional mic. I already had the design done and it was cheap to begin with.
The housing for it would be cheap as well, a bit of extra armor, I could even potentially use some of the spare armor from the extra sets to make it, but I would probably just go buy something feasible. It didnt need to be perfectly bullet proof since it was just a directional mic.
The program came together and I nodded at the look, the triangle horns sticking out of the top. Yeah that could work. Of course the problem would be hooking it up to the squad radio already integrated into the helmet.
Luckily I was a programmer!
I pulled it apart, and started hooking it up to check the programming when Jun knocked.
Motoko?
Im here! Whats up Jun? I called out barely tearing my eyes away from the code I was dissecting, before realizing I didnt need to do that. I slipped my personal link into the laptop and was suddenly accessing the code on a visual spectrum in my agent, and then I could just Start modifying.
Programming 11! Stronk!
Hey, want to get lunch? I blinked as I whirled to Jun who was in more casual clothing than his usual TC gang outfit.
Yeah! I agreed instantly. Putting my coding to the side, but not shutting it down as I hurried after. Slipping my boots on I followed after casual clothes wearing Jun as he grabbed his big Cyberpunk jacket and slipped it on. I quickly reached out as we left the apartment to grab his hand, swinging it back and forth happily.
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Jun and I spent a nice lunch together and then split up. He was heading out to hang out with some of his chooms, while I went home to continue my work.
I had done a little more programming work on the walk to the Ramen place we ended up using, which meant by the time I walked back into the apartment and settled at my workbench, I was ready.
The in built helmet radio was actually wired to the antennae in the back to increase its ability to punch through any ECM interference. But it meant I could splice a new wire in with the new coding and now instead of having multiple private channels on different frequencies. It had one, that I made sure wasnt the normal Arasaka frequencies anyways, and the radio could now toggle to connect to the directional mic.
It was a neat bit of coding and I was super proud of how it came out! All the work on the helmet was already paying dividends as I was getting Crafting, Engineering and Tech alerts as I solved each of the problems.
I rolled around the workbench grabbing supplies to start work on the actual directional mic housing. I would need them for each of us, but I figured a prototype first to show off what I was working with would be the best.
As I let my 3D printer form the metal I had into the right shape, I sent a text to my chooms in our group chat.
*Motoko: Fixing up the armor now, doing some prototype work still, but I need suggestions for color, or camo? Anyone have a preference? Also might want to integrate an ECM unit into the chest rig, like the ECM tats the TC use. Sound cool?*
*Malcolm: Oooh! I want mine in yellow!*
*Motoko: Im not designing your armor in the same color as a Caliburn Malcolm. This is our combat equipment. Be serious.*
*Ichi: Yeah Malcolm be serious. Camo would be good. City colors? Greys and concrete colored?*
*Malcolm: I am serious! Fine both of you pick on me. I dont know. Camo sounds so corp. Id rather we do something Kitsch!*
*Ichi: Motoko, can you give us any visuals of what different versions would look like before we decide?*
*Motoko: Oh yeah. I can do that. I dont have a complete set yet, but once I do, Ill give us a 3D rendering, and we can mess around with the colors. That sound good?*
*Malcolm: Sounds perfect to me!*
*Hiromi: Cant talk in class. Sounds preem Motoko! Thanks!*
*Motoko: Thats fine Hiromi no rush. Talk to me when you are done. I might need help sourcing the ECM stuff. Have fun in class Badass corpo bitch!*
*Malcolm: Yeah! Bad corpo bitch Hiromi! Kick all those arrogant shits ass!*
*Ichi: I dont think you should beat up the other corpos you go to class with, but Im not saying dont do it.*
I giggled at the messages we all sent at Hiromi which she undoubtedly couldnt read right now. I shook it off and went back to work. I could finish most of the stuff and do color schemes and other things later.
Back to work.
