Robo COPilot

## Loot/Exp

* Red // 4 games (December) // 450eb // 40ip
* 1ND1G0 // 9 games (December) // 450eb // 40ip
* Sentinel // 11 games (December) // 450eb // 40ip
* Cross // 13 games (December) // 450eb // 40ip
* Drake // 8 games (December) // 275eb // 25ip

## Summary

Following a highly strict and methodical means of entering a large industrial facility that is unbranded, and crawling with security personnel, vehicles, drones, gates, turrets, and other high-tech devices, the Edgerunners enter the heart of this location and conduct a few tests.
From a biological blood test and purging of any 'chemical enhancements', to physical endurance test, to a mental well-being test.

After this process, they are asked to suit-up with what appears to be a humanoid mechanical 8ft (2.4m) spider-like mech. With the ability to fully control this suit by simply moving their body, despite being limited by its speed, the crew were able to maneuver and use all available options to them, from the Very Heavy Melee weapon of its bladed arms, to the Heavy-Weapon Grenade Launcher and Sternmeyer M-02 Heavy Rifle. They are also given visors that show them a video feed of their surroundings outside the fully enclosed suit, which also have a pre-programmed Radio Communicator that links with H.Q, so they could speak to one another.

Once suited up and ready, the crew load into a cargo container that is air-lifted and flown to an undisclosed location where they stepped into another large container which had dock-like stations. Stepping into that, they are suddenly taken into a visual braindance-like 'deep-dive' where they were told that they're in virtual space controlling a braindance recording of other mechs to get a feel for them. Being in a mech-suit themselves, they're able to control this digital version easily by moving their own limbs and walking/running in-spot while docked. They're taken 'digitally' to a large construction site where they've been told that is full of drones of this company's competitors who stole their designs; these drones need to be cleared out inside this simulation.

Upon arriving, the crew are again air-dropped into the middle of a construction site with an overly large amount of security drones. Ten of them were taken out by the very first blast, while another line of eight were slightly blown up and a few stragglers remained. One after the other, the Edgerunners blasted and destroyed these drones, and in some rare cases, seeing what appeared like people falling out of each destroyed drone and dying.

Each Edgerunner who lost their own mech, found their vision go dark and restored controlling yet another suit, with each member having two suits that they were able to use before getting zapped back out of the digital simulation upon failure. All Edgerunners returned to the meat-space in their original suits after destroying many, and leaving a few drones in the simulation.

They are then flown yet again to a very close-by location, and upon being physically dropped in, they see that this location is the same location they were just at in the digital space. Combat persists against the remaining drones in this location, and a couple more truly powerful ones appear. A large 8-legged spider with a rotating-machinegun barrel hanging out of the middle, and a few rocket pods on-top, and a cheetah-like drone with impossibly fast reflexes and the ability to shoot grenades.

To his detriment, Drake was the first one out of the cargo container being the fastest to react, and the first targeted by the cheetah-like drone. He became its target the whole time he was in-view, as he wasn’t able to take a moment and properly hide from its observation camera vision. This caused him to become greatly injured, and needing to run away from the center of the location, causing another enemy to begin attacking Drake’s assistant Cheryb as a result. This caused Cheryb to lose loyalty for Drake (-8 to current loyalty). Despite his attempt at running, the cheetah-like drone was able to run after him even though it took a moment to stand in-place and reload its grenade launcher, which caused Drake to get mortally wounded and at death's door before his teammate stabilized him.

Red being who she is, careless for her own wellbeing and placing the job above all else, stepped out of her spider-like mech-suit and began fighting on-foot. She, too, left the scenario beaten and bloodied with tattered armor, but alive. Not before being lifted by Cross in his suit and moved closer towards the fighting, where they put down the cheetah-like drone.

Cross kept his strategy of ranged combat using the Sternmeyer to his best ability, and putting the hurt down on the large 8-legged spider drone, enough to completely destroy it before it was able to do any real damage.

All the while Indigo took a leap of faith, ran up to and jumped on top of this large 8-legged spider drone in order to be close to it and attempt to Netrun it. Despite doing a decent job in the net and slightly getting zapped to her brain, once the large spider-drone was destroyed, Indigo took even more damage to her brain as a result of the forced jack-out.

Sentinel having been through a similar combat scenario as this, understood the best course of action here was to use the skills he was best at, Martial Arts and Stealth, attacking from a hidden location, then leaving his mech-suit for another teammate to use while stepping out on the field on foot to take out the cheetah-drone swiftly.

In the end, the crew understood that most of these drones had people in them, but weren’t able to figure out who these people were and whether or not they were from a corporation, a nomadic clan, or otherwise. All they could see were smeared silhouettes and faceless people, and even though a couple of the members were on-foot, they only saw the remains of dying and burning strangers falling out of the drones that were blown-up and burnt.