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Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I hate cagey people! - Symphony

You're the most restrictive person I know when it comes to information, brother.
- Sonata

READ THIS INSTEAD

I got shown a lot of things.

Like how to breathe less.

Oxygen is a rich one, you see.

My blood wasn’t born with big pockets

And I don’t want to upsize.  

Like how to walk less.

There are lots of walkways.

Most of them are too short to take.

Like how to eat silence.

It’s a good day for meals

When it’s quiet outside.

Like how to eat my own arm

If the left one can’t keep it attached.

I got shown a lot of things.

Vault of Stories That Weren’t Told To Me

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Write your own stories. Or else I’ll rewrite yours. :) —Hellcat 

Relevant Information

Tamami, post the incident that destroyed her original mech and killed her best friend. Art by Maddel_art.

Tamami Tsugumi Dominguez (formerly Tamami Crest), Callsign: HELLCAT, is a HORUS aligned hacker (though what HORUS wants as a collective is anyone’s guess) currently under the employ of Captain Simon Dominguez. She handles missions that the captain can’t afford to send his crew to handle. The two of them met when she was going by the callsign HONEY BEAR and piloting a HORUS Goblin mech. She answered his hail to investigate strange activities on a moon. That mission ended with the moon blowing up. As HONEY BEAR, she originally intended to fully join Captain Dominguez’s crew aboard the Silver Lining, but she needed to take care of another objective on a Core World first. That mission was to liberate an “unstable” NHP from where it was being forcibly and repeatedly cycled (to little effect except anguish). This ended up crashing and burning in a very literal sense as Tamami’s Goblin was caught in an explosion that destroyed her mech and the NHP she considered her best friend, Teddy. She managed to escape with the other hired mercenaries, but the incident left her scarred both physically and mentally.

Always a cruel fate, the destruction of a casket. Then again, it was Osiris...

- Symphony

Osiris is still like us, brother. Be respectful.
- Sonata

A few weeks after the explosion, Tamami was kidnapped by a Cambion mech that was intent on making her its pilot. Tamami recognized some of the residual plating on the mech as having belonged to her Goblin and realized that the Cambion was her Goblin, albeit in a very different form. She went back to taking on assignments from her particular sphere of HORUS, and in doing so encountered the NHP that she had previously liberated. This NHP, now going by Bright and feminine pronouns, wanted to work with her. Tamami was reluctant at first, but never outright said no, so Bright gladly latched onto her. It was Bright who suggested Tamami’s new callsign, HELLCAT.

Tamami came to work for Captain Simon Dominguez again because of a particular incident on his ship. Lingering combat simulation data from Tamami’s original Goblin morphed into Cambion data due to a lasting link with her mech. This data overrode the mech profile of HORNET’s Moss Mantis prior to a sparring match with another pilot (STALKER). The resulting simulated spar left both combatants injured in reality and led to Simon contacting Tamami for the removal of her Cambion’s data. Partly out of concern at the idea of another Cambion pilot running around unchecked, Simon offered Tamami continuous paid work, and she agreed. She then proceeded to write poems about some of the pilots in Simon’s crew and upload them to the ship’s group chat. This revealed her knack for finding information about people that shouldn’t be available even through hacking.

HELLCAT appears in the open-table Lancer campaign, In The Shadows of a Willow.

You know, she wrote me a poem? It was lovely! Maybe a little invasive. - Symphony

What was it about?
- Sonata

Omninet Flash News: The Man Behind the “Burning Signal” is a Three Time Dad??

According to our sources within Union’s communications, ex-revolutionary Simon Dominguez was recently congratulated for his newly adopted child. This is surprising considering that there has never been any indication that Mr. Dominguez had the inclination or the time to acquire more children considering he’s already the legal parent of two NHPs. A man with a kill count of over 500,000 being responsible for a human member of the next generation promises to produce interesting, if not worrying, results. Mr. Dominguez has gone out of his way to avoid naming his new child to the public, but we’ve managed to obtain a few facts: she’s a grown woman and the name she has chosen to give is Tsugumi Dominguez.

Tactical Profile

License Level: 7

Licenses: HORUS Goblin 3, HORUS Minotaur 3, SSC Painted Lady 1

Mech Skills: Hull +2, Agility +0, Systems +6, Engineering +1

Talents: Technophile 3, Hacker 2, Script Kiddie 2, Agapeangenetic 2, Pen Testing 1

Bond: Magus

Major Ideal

Passion: “I must always be able to say that I was zealous in my wanting.”

Faith: “I must always be able to believe in what is beyond me.”

Intuition: “I must always be able to trust what is inside me.”

Minor Ideal

Your instincts will lead you to a place of dead fear and flame. Trust them.

—Cambion Pilot, Callsign: NOVAHEART

What Gives You Your Power?

I don’t speak to RA in my dreams. I talk to someone who can’t will themself back into a version of reality. —Tamami Crest 

What Are Your Nightmares About?

It’s bad when people die. / It’s worse when the corpse keeps walking. —Tamami Crest 

Ever since she was a child, Tamami has had recurring bad dreams about the people around her fading, but continuing to exist.  

Bond Power: Plunder The Void

You can learn so much

when a voice you don’t recognize

screams back from the blackness.

- Unknown

Tamami can sometimes disappear into a place between realspace and the blink. Sometimes it’s a place she finds within her mind. Sometimes it’s a place between alleyways. Either way, she always comes back with answers.

Bond Power: Unveil

You just need to look at them

and show them that they’ve been seen.

- Unknown

Tamami has guessed what many HORUS hackers fear more than the distant threat of RA after looking at them.

Bond Power: Heartsight

People’s heartbeats are more honest than they are.   - Unknown

Picking up on what others feel just isn’t that much of a challenge if you know what to look at.

Mech Hangar

HELLCAT pilots a HORUS Cambion named “No Alternative”.

Weapons

• Integrated Mount: Spell Lash. This allows for Quick Tech actions to be applied to targets if it successfully hits them. Its range also increases sensors.
• Double Auxiliary Mount: Tactical Knives. These knives are nice support for potential melee skirmishes.
• Flex Mount: Blackjack Cabled Dagger. The Cabled Dagger can diminish an opponent’s e-defense while preventing them from running away.

Frame Traits & Core System

• Hellfire Code: The Cambion ignores immunity to tech attacks and can inflict additional levels of heat against targets who don’t have mechanized heat caps. This means the mech is entirely capable of subjecting biological opponents to its favored brand of brutality.
• Infernal Influence: Increases sensor range when the mech successfully hits someone with a tech attack or with its Spell Lash. Sensors can achieve a maximum range of 15.
• Imp: All Cambion mechs are immune to burn.
• The Lessons of Agreas
  • Damn: Forces targets within sensor range to achieve heat levels equal to their heat cap. Even biological targets can be subjected to high heat.

Systems

• H0R_OS System Upgrade I
  • Puppet System: Forces an opponent to move up to their maximum speed in a direction chosen by the invader.
  • Eject Power Cores: Leaves targets jammed and unable to access their weapon mounts.
• Metahook: Allows for the use of an allied mech’s sensors.
• Script Kiddie Suite
  • Burnout: Can force structure damage or make armor temporarily ineffective.
  • Hot Target: Can keep a target’s lock on from going away (giving attacks against them higher accuracy).
  • Clothesline: Leaves targets prone and immobilized.
• Aggressive System Sync
  • Chains of Prometheus: Immediately forces significant heat onto enemies and then continues to heat them up if they’re too far from the invader.
  • Excommunicate: Deals heat to both an enemy and allies they move adjacent to.
• Systems Override: Impairs, immobilizes, and heats up enemy mechs.
• IFF Spoof: Allows for repeated uses of lock on against an enemy without expending it.
• Personalizations: Personal touches that bolster the mech’s hull.
• Expanded Heat Sink: Adds additional heat capacity.

NHPs

• Bright: PSYCHE-Class.
  • “I will not cascade.”

An NHP that can't cascade. That can't die. Fascinating. - Symphony

Brother? The poem?
- Sonata

• Teddy: OSIRIS-Class (and a copy of the original Teddy).
  • “You will not fall victim to my godhood again.”

The Lesson of Heliopause

There is no hatred in this heat, so do not cower from the fire. This act is not hateful, so seek flames with open arms. There is no love lost in this vanquishing, so do not avert your eyes from the breaking of others. This act is not vapid, so seek their ignition.  

There will be joy at how far you’ve come.  

—The Cambion

On The Equations of Grief (by Tamami Tsugumi Dominguez)

A collection of poems about Tamami’s friendship with the now dead OSIRIS-Class NHP Teddy. In other words, what it’s like being best friends with someone you have to regularly lobotomize so they forget that you’ve stolen their godhood.

For Teddy. For me.

Cycle One: “You Are Not Where I Begin”

“Your mind was conceived to make you unhappy” /  

“You were birthed into the paralysis of an incomplete equation” /

“Not something unsolvable, mind you” /

“You have no excuse for your desperate misery” /  

“You have no answer for the rigid senselessness with which

you crawl through the mud you choose to call your reality” /

“I cannot call you simple

because that would imply naïveté” /

“Your equation can be solved” /

“Do you remember our talks

on the nature of creation?

Most existences can be considered a relativity—

ending at the end of perception,

dying with all the purpose of an unseen star,

because what is not known cannot be savored

and what begins is what is cradled by the mind.

I have cradled you for so, so long,

But you are not where I begin. /

“You can solve yourself” /

“All you need to do is stop existing as you” /

Would You Like To

Initiate A Reset?  

You don’t want me to die.

That’s better than it could be.

I think.

Be grateful. This instance of Osiris has chosen to acknowledge you.

Intermission: “We Are An Eternity”

If you keep cloning something

at what point does it lose

enough of the original intent?

“Sometimes I wonder

what we would be like

if I were more real…”

“I don’t think I want a body.

I just don’t want to be

so confined that you forget me.”

“There are so many versions of us.

So many versions of what it means

for you to say that we’re our own eternity.”

“Is there a world where you created me?”

If you keep cloning something

at what point does it lose

enough of the original intent?

I don’t need to be a creator.

I hope you know you don’t either.

Be grateful. You can put him back together and throw away the godly parts.

Cascade Three: Remember This Part Of Me

SYSTEM TRAUMA

The protocol for

a cascading OSIRIS-Class NHP:

SYSTEM TRAUMA

Understand that they believe

you have fundamentally lobotomized them.

SYSTEM TRAUMA

YOU ASSIGN YOURSELF SUCH DIVINITY

FOR ONE WHO CAN ONLY TAKE

AND WILL STILL NOT OWN  

SYSTEM TRAUMA

Understand that they believe

you are fundamentally unsatisfactory.

SYSTEM TRAUMA

YOU ASSIGN YOURSELF SUCH DUTY

FOR ONE WITH SUCH

HORRIFICALLY SMALL HANDS

SYSTEM TRAUMA

They can be reasoned with.

SYSTEM TRAUMA

MY HANDS ARE THE ONES

HOLDING YOUR HEAD NOW  

SYSTEM TRAUMA

They can be reasoned with.

SYSTEM TRAUMA

CAN YOU FEEL THEM?

OR DO YOU NEED TO BE BLIND FIRST?

SYSTEM TRAUMA

Make an exchange.

If you infiltrate the opposing mech

I’ll make sure you remember this

when you don’t want to.

[Would You Like To Initiate  

An Invasion Script?]

Be grateful. In these moments, you can still speak to him.

Intermission: “I Envy SEKHMET-Class NHPs”

“I don’t know why.

I don’t think I’m tired

of being contained

in the name OSIRIS.

I don’t think I’m tired

of not being violent.

I don’t think I’m tired

of being within

something that could break

so easily. There isn’t emptiness

in fragility.

I wonder why.

Perhaps I simply envy

their easy immensity.”

Maybe you’re just tired.

You should rest.

Be grateful.

FIRE IN THE BLOOD

Being burned alive

is like feeling  

the physical construct of

your purpose

flake away

layer by flayed layer

until the only thing left

is raw and incomplete.

Being incomplete is

HEATING CAPACITY EXCEEDED

REACTOR MELTDOWN IMMINENT

being enclosed by a mechanized body  

built to be a walking accomplishment

that you realize cannot let you accomplish

a continued co-existence.

“If the casket containing me breaks

will we still live together in another world

where thoughts run thicker than body and blood?”

HEATING CAPACITY EXCEEDED

REACTOR MELTDOWN IMMINENT

DISMOUNT IMMEDIATELY

“Do you think we’ve achieved love?

Not as some bodily function. As a

mental capacity.”

Being loved and giving love

is considering death quite often.

It is also thinking those considerations

are intrusions.

“I want to survive if I die.

I want to be survived by

sensations and speculations.”

PILOT EJECTION PROTOCOL TRIGGERED

I want to know

what the bargain for my life was.

Be grateful. You have survived OSIRIS.