Latte nods appreciatively at SED, before turning back and piercing the Assembly1, although struggling to do so with the coils. Out of frustration, she opens her mouth, which shifts to resemble a maw, exposing her rather large fangs. She snarls, before sinking her teeth through the plating and into the machinery.

(Basic attack, special.)

Contritum - Round 23

I probably should have put out an official pause statement this time. But nonetheless, here we go.

...Introducing new player character, Frappe. Is good. Hopefully her player hasn't lost interest in my absence... Er, there's three character sheets. I'm not sure which one to go with. Since the battle action mentioned up there says Zero Suit form, I'll just load that one in first and see where to go from there... then get onto the battle.

In terms of the fight so far, things have gone great, you're almost done... There's an Elite standing in your way as well as a large cluster of leftover mooks, though, so now is hardly the time to dawdle. (Ironic, coming from me...)

Battle has been processed.

Round over.

'Splodimus looks at IRIS Core dead in the eye. From behind the helmet, a maniacal grin can be seen on his face.

'SPLODIMUS: Don' need t' move. Dumbarse.

He points his weapon at the remaining Assembly, and fires.

Chinook waits for Mocha to act, then moves to N13 and shoots the turret with Gust.

S.E.D. will also shoot the turret.

Strix's piloted avatar jolts from its standing-up sleep, moves to H13, then basic attacks Assem3.

Ristretto pulls her axe out of the ground at H7. Then, with a glint in her eye, she casts Vampiric Venom on Planner.
"Gurah!"
A wave seems to rush out of the ground, coating her weapon with an ethereal substance. The sharkgirl then directs Planner to move to H9. Another wave vaguely in the shape of a hand appears from the ground, pushing Planner to I13, where she can attack the elite turret.

Latte moves down to G9. She holds her claws behind her before dashing towards the Elite Turret, slashing at the Mechs as she does. She then takes a swipe at the Turret before side-stepping to H14. (Use Rush and move on the path G10>G11>G12>G13>H14.) Latte plants her feet firmly into the ground, before stabbing it twice. (Lycan Blitz Basic Attack.)

Mocha hops down to N11, making a small "hup" each time she takes a jump. She smiles faintly at Chinook, before casting-

"Vampiric Venom!~"

...casting Vampiric Venom on Chinook. Apparently, being an anime girl, she needs to call out her spells as she casts them. Don't question it.

Contritum - Round 24

I was perhaps a bit slow on starting this, but oh well. Speedrun round!

...It's all battle actions anyway, so that conveniently makes it shorter than a full dop complete with RP stuff would be.

Battle has been processed.

Round over.

Chinook goes to grab the candy cane sword.

Strix +2s his INT, and yeets himself through the road east of IRIS.

[Sheet]
rustyish dropship rockets down from the sky, and proceeds to slam down near the landing pad, pieces of it falling off as it lands.
The second it comes to a stop, a humanoid robot kicks down the door and takes a step out.
"So this is Contritum-1, right? The place with those things? The code things that need to be killed?"
"Because I think it's pretty obvious why I'm here if I'm correct."
"Murderhobing aforementioned code thing, if it wasn't clear.
He proceeds to take a stroll around, getting a feel for the zone, then immediately gets to engaging in the one of the timeworn arts of Murderhoboing: Looting everything.
He enters the building with a collapsed wall and takes a peek around, snatching anything remotely useful. Then, he moves on to the lodgings in the Old Road and opens up any containers or drawers, looking for something useful. After this, he moves east to the Molten Pile of Scrap, and proceeds to put most of the salvageable scrap and some of the non scavangeable stuff into the inventory. Finally, he enters the building area and grabs the Toolbox, and the Crossbow, which he slings over his shoulder.
With the stealing of everything not nailed down done, the robot heads over to the area where everyone else seems to hanging out.
"So, hi? I'm R1fler, a combat robot who fell victim to the trope of giving your robots names with letters replaced with numbers."
"So, are we just taking a break before the next battle?"

-2 STR
-1 AGI
+4 SPC
This unlocks Black Mark on her special (full damage to all enemies), reduces its cost by 12, and increases the damage by 1. Her trait also gains +1 healing proc per round, and +1 healing.

'Splodimus spits on the floor next to IRIS, cuts himself loose, and walks off. He +1s his HP.

He walks to just outside the camping ground, and grins. He takes out a classic-looking bomb, looks at the fire, and tosses it into the fire. Before the explosive lands, he fires his weapon at the Alerter, seemingly to shock everyone into not paying attention to the explosive.

The explosive lands in the fire and immediately detonates. 'Splodimus lowers into a combat stance.

'SPLODIMUS: C'm at me, ye bloody sods!

Morningstar +2's his SPC and replaces his Shinebright with Mirror Image, then notices the new member of the DK crew.

Morningstar: Another robot detected. Whoever is in charge of recruitment here has good taste. Welcome aboard.

Morningstar then hears an explosion in the distance, and heads into battle in the Campground.

Contritum - Round 25

Looks like it's majority a statdop, but also some interactions and a new character...

Chinook grabs the sword handle. It looks incomplete on its own, although it probably has another component somewhere that could make it more complete. It's just a sword hilt right now... The viability of smacking things with a sword's hilt seems questionable at best.

Strix applies +2 to INT and heads East. The location he discovers appears to be overgrown heavily with primarily grass, but some of it seems rather off, to put it simply. It's all the wrong colour... there's also a wrecked Abandoned drone in there, and a still-alive Carrier stuck in there. Whatever could this area mean?

A dropship arrives to deliver a new character to the game. Welcome to the party, R1fler.

Ristretto sacrifices -2 STR and -1 AGI, but gains +4 SPC. This applies some cool mod stuff to special things.

Splodimus decides to engage the campfire battle with a bang, also picking off the Alerter before the battle has even properly begun. Doing so earns him an advantageous start in the battle, as one of the Infesters is floored by the blast - not dead, but certainly inconvenienced. That one Elemental Sniper with the skull head is staring him down...

Morningstar trades Shinebright for Mirror Image, notes the new member, and follows Splodimus into the soon-to-be-battle at the campground.

All situations have been processed.

Round over.

Chinook puts a point into STR, then joins the battle at C4, moves to E5, and shoots Infester1.

Ristretto (now seriously bummed out that none of the enemies so far have been fleshy) bounds away to the campsite, where she can practically smell a fight breaking loose. She spawns in somewhere, then moves to G4. Then, she goes ham on the already downed Alerter, ripping it to shreds. This gives her a Divine Shield and some SP, and probably not much else.

'Splodimus shoots the Reaper.

Latte puts her two Skillpoints into STR, before stepping onto the battlefield at C5, sneaking past Splodimus as she makes her way to G7, getting right up in the Sniper's face. She then pierces the Sniper's chest twice, aiming for the centre of its ribs.