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[isyourmechrunning]

>> AH! Oh, hi Brigand!!

>> Sorry I've been so quiet lately, I've had a bit going on and I've been having some trouble with my new arm. Some strange inputs, I'm not really sure where they're coming from. >> REGARDLESS!! Working on your ship is gonna be a really welcome distraction and I've had all my tools and hazmat ready for a while. I'm sure you're almost here by now, so I'll see you very soon!

[Brigand}- Good Morning (or whatever time you receive this) @isyourmechrunning Vissily, I finally got that drive, thought I'd let you know I'm en route for the install, also the basilisk. Let me know if there's any preparations I can do for you while I'm in transit. As we finally got all the holes patched up, and shes fully airtight. The basilisk is printing in pieces, IPS-N printer doesn't like it. I'm very much looking forwards to being able to put my feet up for a bit while repairs are in progress.

<PERSEPHONE> I DREAD THIS COMING IDLE MOMENT. THIS PAUSE OF SLAUGHTER OWED. THIS BROKEN HOURGLASS OF ORPHANS BLOOD AND MOTHERS TEARS. HOW DARE WE REST.

[Brigand}- Just ignore here, I'm sure she could also use the break. Or I suppose we could try retrofitting your sub-alterns with that combat overhaul Pidgeon passed on. Either way, see you soon Vissily,

Brigand, Out~

[isyourmechrunning]

>> You're... not supposed to do this?

HORUS nerds be heating their house with cat /dev/urandom > /dev/null

[isyourmechrunning]

>> Hello Omninet! I'm Lark, they/he. I'm a nurse with USB, looking after Vissily. After his recent incident with the prosthetic arm, I've been assigned to monitor his public account in case of future emergencies :)

>> Don't worry, I'm not here to censor anything or keep Vissily from having fun. I just want to make sure we know when he needs help. She's shown me a lot of the stuff he gets up to with you guys during our sessions, and it all seems very, interesting!

>> Not sure how much I'll post on here, but I'm available to chat! You can ask questions about Vissily's situation, but there's not much I can say publicly yet- for the sake of her privacy, and because- honestly, we don't know a lot yet.

GOOD MORNING OMNINET!!!

>> Hello!!! It's been a long time since I've been planetside, but I figured I might as well have some fun while I'm on a core world and have access to the omninet!

>> Your friendly local mechanic specializing in legacy technology and near light freighters! I typically work on long-haul ships intended to be out in deep space for a WHILE but I work on anything I can get my hands on. I've even been branching out into prosthetics recently, I made a prosthetic eye for myself!!

>> My name is Vissily, callsign GAMBIT, and I pilot a technicolor goblin called BUGHOUSE BRAWL. It runs on some legacy OS that I dug out of some deep dark corner of a HORUS forum, I think it's called "Hannah Montana Linux."

>> Feel free to come to me for all of your old-ass technology needs, or just to say hi!

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>> Oh it is ON!!!! I worked on deep space freighters I've had INFINITE time to master every sport in Wii sports (only in zero-G though). THE BLOOD FEUD IS RENEWED!!!!

>> Shoutout to @whohasfourthumbsand for helping me out!! We’re playing Wii Sports later :]

[File attachment /// A selfie of Vissily sitting at a crowded workbench. Most of the “blood” seems to have been cleaned up and the arm is fully attached now, skin has already begun healing over the point where the metal of the prosthetic meets his shoulder. Gray is in the background hunched over an open panel in Vissily’s prosthetic, he looks to be on the verge of tears.]

[isyourmechrunning]

>> Shoutout to @whohasfourthumbsand for helping me out!! We’re playing Wii Sports later :]

[File attachment /// A selfie of Vissily sitting at a crowded workbench. Most of the “blood” seems to have been cleaned up and the arm is fully attached now, skin has already begun healing over the point where the metal of the prosthetic meets his shoulder. Gray is in the background hunched over an open panel in Vissily’s prosthetic, he looks to be on the verge of tears.]

[isyourmechrunning]

>> Oh, ok, hey Gray? I promise it's not as bad as it looks. Wow, I didn't even think about how this looks.

>> Yeah, that's my blood, don't worry because I don't seem to be able to run out of it. I had a thing happen to me, it's weird, USB is kinda studying me like a bug about it right now because they don't know exactly what happened or what I am now.

>> But! This works to our advantage, kinda. It doesn't hurt, and I heal cuts and stuff really, really fast. This is taking a bit longer because it's a larger wound, but that's actually good because I think I gotta connect this directly into the muscle and then let my skin heal around it. Or, well, I feel like that's the right thing to do. The only other prosthetic I've done is my eye and that didn't bleed nearly as much when I took it out.

>> I'd appreciate a bit of help from an expert, but don't panic, I'm fine.

>> Hey guys! I know everyone's super busy right now, but if anyone's nearby and free to help I could use an extra set of hands! Don't really want to bother any of the USB guys supposed to be watching me (especially because they don't know where I am right now and I am NOT trying to get in trouble).

>> I've been working on a new prosthetic for a bit - a prosthetic arm! - and I was so excited that I may or may not have underestimated how difficult it would be to get this on one handed. An extra set of hands would be appreciated!

(OOC: tw for descriptions of gore below the cut)

[File attachment /// A blurry picture of a half-attached cybernetic arm taken at an awkward angle. Vissily's arm has been freshly severed just below the shoulder, the cut is not very clean and the edges of the flesh have been left ragged by, presumably, the hand saw sitting on the workbench half out of frame. Where there should be blood, a cloudy, pale substance covers the saw, the cybernetic arm, and has begun to stain Vissily's colorfully painted vest. Unshielded wires run between the exposed muscle and bone of Vissily's wound and the prosthetic, placed quite precisely. Vissily does not appear to be in any distress.]

[isyourmechrunning]

+ Your Omnihook melted, huh? So, you're defenseless? I've won the blood feud!

-- Gray

>> Oh, Gray! Ah, hah...

>> Um, sorry I kinda forgot about the bapping contest I-- well, my omnihook melted so I couldn't use my autoclicker and then I was clicking all day! I bapped you specifically like five hundred times and then I got this brain blast and powered through finishing the prosthetic arm I've been working on and got a little too excited and, well--

>> Sorry, sorry! I'm dictating this post and I don't have the best voice to text program and I'm rambling, um... yeah, sorry, I don't really have hands right now. Well, I have one, and I'm trying to attach the other one. I might need help? Happy Halloween, though!!!

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>> Hey guys! I know everyone's super busy right now, but if anyone's nearby and free to help I could use an extra set of hands! Don't really want to bother any of the USB guys supposed to be watching me (especially because they don't know where I am right now and I am NOT trying to get in trouble).

>> I've been working on a new prosthetic for a bit - a prosthetic arm! - and I was so excited that I may or may not have underestimated how difficult it would be to get this on one handed. An extra set of hands would be appreciated!

(OOC: tw for descriptions of gore below the cut)

[File attachment /// A blurry picture of a half-attached cybernetic arm taken at an awkward angle. Vissily's arm has been freshly severed just below the shoulder, the cut is not very clean and the edges of the flesh have been left ragged by, presumably, the hand saw sitting on the workbench half out of frame. Where there should be blood, a cloudy, pale substance covers the saw, the cybernetic arm, and has begun to stain Vissily's colorfully painted vest. Unshielded wires run between the exposed muscle and bone of Vissily's wound and the prosthetic, placed quite precisely. Vissily does not appear to be in any distress.]

[isyourmechrunning]

[Brigand}- Trick or treat. y'know kid, I respect your drive for the truth and everything, you may have fucked me just a little. But no hard feelings, I'd still love to have you take a look at my ship once everything is all done and calm.

[A picture of Gannascus sitting in a decrepit cockpit, sweating slightly, the small glimpse of the window reveals he's travelling at nearlight.]

>> HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

>> Yeah… Honestly I didn’t expect this to get as big as it did! I just saw a trend and I really like putting together puzzles so I jumped at the chance, didn’t really think about the fact that I was implicating you, yknow?

>> Well, I can’t say good luck because, well, y’know, but I can still give you treats!

>> We got, uhhh, three bolts and a bag of something called “nanite food?” I scavenged it out of the cockpit of a Balor some pirate had brought onto the Apeiron, and I think it’s just some kind of metal shavings inside? The shavings hurt my head when I look at them, though, so maybe they actually do something.

[isyourmechrunning]

Trick or treat, and happy Halloween from all of us at MSMC-796!

(Also - thanks for tipping us off to the threat to the Intercompany Brawl; we'll be dealing with that shortly.)

-- Angel

>> HAPPY HALLOWEEN! I’m glad I was able to tip people off before anything super big could catch you off guard. Rooting for you guys!

>> Hm, let me see if I’ve got anything helpful in my treat bowl…

>> Ooh! Here we go. I got three screws, a particularly shiny rivet, and a flash drive. I tried to look at whatever was on here but it gave me a headache and then the memory slipped through my fingers like sand, so I’m sure whatever’s on here would probably be useful in some capacity.

[isyourmechrunning]

+ TRICK OR TREAT, VISSILY!! I LOVE YOUR BAT COSTUME BY THE WAY!

-- GRAY

[[ Attached is an image of Gray, taken at an awkwardly elevated height, with fake stitches painted across his body and a comically large screw "through" his head. His suit is only vaguely reminiscent of 'Frankenstein'. ]]

>> THANK YOU!!!! Ohhh your costume is so cool! Hold on hold on hold on, I’ve got something good for you!

[Sounds of metallic rummaging, Vissily is muttering under her breath]

>> HERE WE GO! Three lug nuts, a screw, a loose bolt, and a four pack of these little stick-on pads for prosthetics. I got ‘em off a HORUS girl I was working with for a bit, they’re supposed to look like cat toe beans!

[isyourmechrunning]

Trick or Treat!

[File Attachment /// Rem's Genghis. One arm has been raised to hold a comically large jack o lantern]

-Rem

>> TRICK OR TREAT!!! Ohhh the ghengis is looking so good!!!

>> Here here here, let me grab something good. I got, uhhhhh

>> A screw, two bolts, and an old graphite shell I pulled out of some old construction mech's core. Not much, but I drew on it with marker and my markers glow in the dark so!!! It's pretty!!!

[isyourmechrunning]

Trick

Or

Treat

My little detective

The one who's poking their nose in matters that are not theirs to look into.

//Backtalker\\

>> AH! Well hi there!

>> What can I say, I like puzzles and sticking my nose where it doesn't belong. It was all publicly available information and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know when something's a bit fishy, just takes someone looking a bit closer.

>> But that doesn't mean you don't get a treat! Here, three screws, a busted rivet, and a male-to-male Edison cable

[isyourmechrunning]

trrio k or tre af :3

>> Oh! Trick or treaters!!! Let me go get my fucking-

[Sounds of crashing, comical metal pipe noises]

>> AHA! Here! Six loose bolts and a random pneumatic actuator I found in a scrap pile BUT it's in good shape and painted blue.

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>> Hi guys!!! I know I'm super new here so I don't know if I'm out of the loop, but I think there might be something happening over at @corsair-mc-official?

>> We all know about the Intercompany Brawl between Corsair Mercenary Company and @msmc-796-official! It's super fun, I'm super excited to see the outcome since I have some manna on it, but I think we've all been a bit distracted by it? Because Corsair has been making some weird contracts lately.

>> The most obvious one is Corsair hiring @designation-ward for a covert job out of the system while everyone is distracted with the big fight, specifically extracting one of Commodore's contacts while no one is looking. I will say, given the lack of information that they seem to have on the topic, Postage doesn't seem to be actively involved in whatever's going on.

>> Now, the weird stuff. You guys are gonna have to stay with me here. @ras-favourite-balor has been getting some suspicious messages from someone called Backtalker.

>> The name rings a bell, but I'm new enough to know nothing about this Backtalker person. But how do I know that they're affiliated with Corsair Mercenary Company? Well, the people over at Corsair all have a pretty distinct way that they sign off their messages! Here's a non-exhaustive sample:

>> SO! Given that, I believe that we can comfortably assume that Backtalker, who uses the same sign off, is at least somewhat affiliated with CMC.

>> But why is Backtalker important? Cryptic messages are cryptic messages. They only show up in messages to other people, but an alias is an alias, there's no problem with going by a different name. A mercenary company hiring someone for a covert mission in "dark gray space" while everyone is distracted is almost expected.

>> So why is Backtalker trying to sabotage the Intercompany Brawl?

>> I don't have answers, but please be safe out there, I feel like there's something really big happening and it's gonna start with a mole in Corsair Mercenary Company.

[isyourmechrunning]

>> YES I CA—

>> Wait—

>> …

>> MY PARACAUSAL AUTOCLICKER MELTED MY FUCKING OMNIHOOK

>> IT’S BOOP TIIIIIME!!!!!

>> Whoever has booped me 77 times (looking at you @whohasfourthumbsand…….) we have a BLOOD FEUD!!!!!!!! >:D

[isyourmechrunning]

>> IVE GOT THE POWER OF RA AND HORUS TECH ON MY SIDE, BRING IT ON!!!!

>> IT’S BOOP TIIIIIME!!!!!

>> Whoever has booped me 77 times (looking at you @whohasfourthumbsand…….) we have a BLOOD FEUD!!!!!!!! >:D