Omninet Search Results: Tamami Crest
[CLEARANCE OUTDATED. ACCESS DENIED.]
Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I hate cagey people! - Symphony
You're the most restrictive person I know when it comes to information, brother. - Sonata
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 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
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: NOVAHEARTWhat 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
Bond Power: Unveil
You just need to look at them
and show them that they’ve been seen.
- Unknown
Bond Power: Heartsight
People’s heartbeats are more honest than they are. - Unknown
Mech Hangar
HELLCAT pilots a HORUS Cambion named “No Alternative”.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
The Lesson of Heliopause
There will be joy at how far you’ve come.
—The CambionOn The Equations of Grief (by Tamami Crest)
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.
“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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.