The Silver Shroud

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Before leaving to face the Mechanist, Six purchased a dark trench coat featuring silvery-gray lapels and a light scarf, worn with a hat. Along with the matching fedora with a silver hatband for 500 MSP.

Bring this new house in six finally became the "Silver Shroud!" Superhero extraordinary. With the minor change that his carrying a nodachi.

"Wow, Bossman! You look like a total dork."

"Do you have another outfit that I can cosplay in."

Six purchased Garb of Mysteries, a black evening gown with a white collar of several styles, black heels and long black gloves, for 700 MSP. So, Rebeca can cosplay as The Mistress of Mystery. 

"Here you go Rebecca this is your costume The Mistress of Mystery."

"Awesome, I always wanted to cosplay as a heroin, but living in Night City that never going to happen. Unless you were suicidal."

She took off her clothing right next to Six and put out her costume not giving a damn if anybody saw her.

While Ada kept staring at Rebecca.

"People look so strange without their clothes. Running around without clothes doesn't seem to be the smartest thing to do in an environment like this. Sadly, I'll never know the exhilaration of being nude."

After Rebecca finishes putting on her costume, she cackles nonstop at Ada.

"Ada After all this is done, you are going to become my personal companion bot, just like Bloodhound."

Said robotic K9 rubs his head on Rebeccas thigh, making Rebecca start petting him. 

"Who's a good boy."

woof!

"It's always fascinating watching your actions miss Rebecca. You are other yelling at something or killing it, you rarely show care for anything."

Finally entering the Mechanist's secret lair, with an Eye bot next to him he speaks with high sounding words.

"The Silver Shroud and The Mistress of Mystery!"

"I cannot believe two so respected, so honorable heroes. Would come here and destroy my robots. Your reign of terror ends here, both of you."

Rebecca started giggling. At the very scene straight from a comic book. She then started her rehearsed lines.

"The Mistress of Mystery, as always, walks the path of justice. It is you who has fallen, Mechanist!"

She then points at the Mechanist, challenging his authority.

"Lies, Mistress of Mystery! Lies! The Commonwealth has suffered more than its fair share of injustices because of both of you. Now you'll face the full might of the Mechanist! My righteous robots will end your tyranny once and for all!"

The Mechanist then releases the hurdle of robots that surround the group.

Aidan speaks to Rebecca as she's shoulder to shoulder with her. "Ma'am, increasing your firepower should proportionally increase your chances of survival."

Rebecca pulls out a red glare from her inventory and begins to fire it off.

"I'm way ahead of you girl!" She then winks at Ada.

While they are having their personal moment six is hacking and slashing any robot that's closer to him with Caliburn. Using vats, He appears next to the robot, giving them a critical-hit, Caliburn cuts through them like they were butter. At the end Six meets a sentry bot, he stops into a stance, raising Caliburn in the air into a thrust position with both hands, and activates his special move.

"Tsubame Gaeshi (Swallow Reversal)"

Unleashing three sword slashes at the same time by bending reality, making it impossible to Dodge. Tearing the sentry bot apart by the three slashes.

Pilar is stunned, watching the madness happening around him. "It's like I'm watching Saturday morning cartoons! What in the world is happening?"

While Pilar is losing it, Rebecca is sitting on top pile of robots she destroyed, holding her Red glare petting bloodhound and moving her legs back and forth. 

"Well done Ma'am. Like watching an artist at work."

"Why thank you Ada."

Watching all his robots being destroyed, the Mechanist revealed his next plan. 

"Eye Bots. They're so... expendable, you know? Initiate Self-Destruct. Code 0-0-1. Of course, I don't mean you, Sparks."

All the Eye Bots except spark began to explode. Giving Six and his group, enough time to escape because of the mechanist warning.

"Impressive. But I think you fail to grasp the full reality of your situation. Look around you. This entire facility is at my command. For every robot you destroy, ten more will come. Struggle all you want. There is nothing you can do to stop me. Nothing!"

Mainframe: "Warning. Power generation capacity exceeded. Now drawing reserve power."

"Sparks!"

"Fine! I'll deal with you myself. Come, my robots! Destroy him!"

Two Modified Assaultron's jumped down from ceiling. Before anybody, the group could do anything Six fleshed in and tore them to pieces with Caliburn.

"Shit Bossman! I knew you were good with a gun, but I didn't know you were that good with the sword too."

Wait, sis. So, you're telling me your boyfriend, who can do some of the sickest gunslinger moves that I've seen is also a genuine samurai."

"Yeah duh. Dumbass! He's my man after all." Rebecca said in a cheerful smile.

"God Damn it! God does love some people, more than others. It's not fair!" Pilar fell down to his knees in despair, in the injustice of the world.

Mainframe: "Reserve power at 34%."

The Mechanics started grunting in panic, then you heard another warning.

Mainframe: "Warning. Critical power failure is imminent."

"Dammit, Sparks! Throw everything at them! Bring the coils back around!"

A bladed, Assaultron appeared bellow the floor and multiple other modified robots appeared all round. Not giving the Assaultron to fully come up Six cut its head off.

"Alright guys, the rest are up to you."

The group went ape-shit crazy. blasting and tearing apart all the robots. Soon all the lights went off in the building. 

"Grah! Sparks, get the power back on."

Sparks bleeped negative.

"Emergency power then!"

Sparks bleeped positive.

"This isn't over, Mistress of Mystery. I will not rest until I see the Commonwealth free of you."

Rebecca snarks back in her character persona. "Says the villain to the hero."

"Preposterous! I'm the hero of the story, you're the villain."

"Open your eyes. Those robots are killing innocent people."

 "That can't be right... Explain yourself."

Ada then spoke up. "They have taken innocent lives. My friends... they were simple traders. All dead at the hands of your robots."

Mechanist began to leave the safety of his command room to confront Rebecca. Once down, he started arguing with her.

"The robots are programmed to protect. Their subroutines are clean: observe, evaluate, and react accordingly. My bots have never violated their protocol. Their data dumps only show the elimination of hostile encounters. The testing was thorough. I ran every scenario. All passed."

"They're misinterpreting orders. Your own Robobrain said as much. They're saving people by killing them."

"It can't be true Mistress of Mystery. I would never program a robot to harm another living person, or creature for that matter. And the data. They were always reporting hostiles killed and lives... saved."

"Oh, Shit! It's... the logic. It's there... I can see it now."

"Shit indeed, tinman."

"Judging from the numbers in the data dump, if even a small percentage are innocents. I wanted to help the Commonwealth, and robots are all I know."

"The hero unknowingly became the villain."

Rebecca went back to full character mode. "Unmask yourself, Mechanist, and stand ready for judgment."

"You're right. I'm no match for The Mistress of Mystery."

The Mechanist began to pull off a helmet, while Rebecca was puffing up her chest in excitement in playing the role of a superhero heroine. Completely taken up his helmet, the Mechanist revealed that he was in fact a, she.

"There. Now, we both know who we're dealing with. I'm Isabel. Cruz."

RACE: Misterian

NAME: Six VI

LEVEL: 81

STRENGTH: 10

PERCEPTION: 10+2

ENDURANCE: 10+1

CHARISMA: 9

INTELLIGENCE: 10

AGILITY: 10+1

LUCK: 10+2

BARTER:100

ENERGY WEAPONS:100+4

EXPLOSIVES:100+4

GUNS:100+7

LOCKPICK:100+4

MEDICINE:100

MELEE WEAPONS:100

REPAIR:100

SCIENCE:100

SNEAK:100+27

SPEECH:100

SURVIVAL:100

UNARMED:100

Illusion: 15

Conjuration: 15

Destruction: 90

Restoration: 92

Alteration: 50

Enchanting: 100

Smithing: 15

Heavy Armor: 15

Block: 15

Two-Handed: 90

One-Handed: 15

Archery: 15

Light Armor: 15

Pickpocket: 15

Alchemy: 15

PERKS:

Craft-

Science!x4, Jury Rigging, Robotics Expertx3, Gun Nutx4, Armorer, Nuclear Physicistx3,

Combat-

Gunslingerx5, Riflemanx5, Better Criticalsx2, Ninja, Quick Handsx3, Moving Targetx3, Four Leaf Cloverx4, x3 Gun Fu, x3Action Boy, Ricochetx2, Critical Bankerx4,

Amplifier-

 Medicx3, Toughnessx3, Grim Reaper's Sprintx3, Stonewall, Specialx10, Implant GRXx2, Adamantium Skeletonx3, Ain't Like That Now, x3 Solar Powered,

Magic perk:

Adept Restoration, Recovery, Apprentice Destruction, Adept Alteration, x5 Enchanter, Extra Effect, Barbarianx4

Netrunner: Quickhacking and Breach Protocol

Cyberware: all tier 5

Militech "Apogee" Sandevistan, MECHATRONIC CORE, RAM UPGRADE, BIOCONDUCTOR, THERMAL MONOWIRE, ELECTRIFYING GORILLA ARMS, SMART LINK, SHOCK ABSORBER, IMMOVABLE FORCE, MICROROTORS, CLUTCH PADDING, HEAL-ON-KILL, BIOMONITOR, BLOOD PUMP, JENKIN'S TENDONS, LYNX PAWS, FORTIFIED ANKLES, REINFORCED TENDONS, LEEROY LIGAMENT SYSTEM, CHROME COMPRESSOR, KIROSHI SENTRY OPTICS, SPRING JOINTS, RAM RECOUP, BIONIC JOINTS, DENSE MARROW, TYROSINE INJECTOR, ADRENALINE CONVERTER, VISUAL CORTEX SUPPORT, OPTICAL CAMO

Enchantment:

-Lucky: +20% projectile damage, 2.5 critical multiplier, -40% Spread, -40% AP

-Pew Pew: 6X Damage, 5X energy, 2.5x critical

-Q-35: 15% less damage, 1/2 less energy Usage, 2.5x critical

-Elite Red- Critical Chance +5, Perception +2, Speech +5

Contract maker:

Contracts: [0] 

Capitalist: lv3

-Minions [40,960/40,960] [Respond 11 minuets]

-Stores []

-Interdimensional Store line

-Safe zone

-Notice me not

-Money conversion

Mad scientist: lv 4

-Minions [40,960/40,960] [Respond 11 minuets]

-Secret lair

[manufacturing, Fabrication, Experimentation, Incubation chamber] 

[1x floor every 5 lv of user] [can sacrifice one floor to increase the size of the floor and double production] 

-Space station

-Evolutionary force

-It's alive!

Warlord: lv 3

-Minions [40,960/40,960] [Respond 11 minuets]

-territories []

-settlement builder

-Arable land

-overlord

-Plunder

Gacha ticket: 0xViolet, 4x gold, 1x silver, 4x white

caps: 2,337,682

MSP: 956,935