Jump 128: The Terminator

Jump #128: The Terminator
>Age: 22
>Location: Los Angeles, 2011 (Genisys)
I'll be moving to an earlier era in short order. Thank you based dice. Though it was agreed that, due to the nature of what I'm using, I can only move through the timeline relative to when others are time travelling with native tech.
>Identity: Drop-In, Human
>Drawbacks: I'm Old, Not Obsolete (0), Targeted For Termination (+600)
>Well of course I'm targeted for termination. I'm jumping through time in a machine that, by all rights, shouldn't even exist in this universe. And I can bring anything and anyone with me that I damn well please. It's a game changer. Any time Skynet can pin down my location in a timeline it's going to send anything after me that it can muster.
>Smash Those Metal Möthërfückërs (Free, Human)
>Judgment Day (1500)
I have every intention of keeping one eye on the counter with every action I take. Butterflies are easier to keep track of when you have some idea of where they're going.
>Most Paranoid Delusions Are Intricate (Free, Drop-In)
Huh. Being able to tell the truth is a handy thing, though.
>Thank You, Jumper, For Your Courage Through The Dark Years (1400, Drop-In)
Definitely going to be using this to its best.
>Hey, Wait! You Swore! (1200, Drop-In)
Promises are not made for breaking. Hey, I wonder if I could get Skynet to promise to not lash out at humanity? ... wait, that would make Skynet go insane with guilt and make things even WORSE. Forget it.
>Easy Money (900, Drop-In)
...well, to be fair, most 'modern' computer systems are hilariously easy. This just expands my ability to deal with any system. Immensely.
>No Fate But What We Make (500, Drop-In)
Another prophecy-breaker perk. I love 'em. But not just that - stop the unstoppable, kill the unkillable, row, row, fight the power! Pre-destination paradoxes? Grandfather paradoxes? Screw that, I'll pull a Fry if I have to. Come at me, bro.
>One Possible Future, From Your Point Of View (300)
If I'm going to use that time machine at all, then it's absolutely critical that I am able to keep track of multiple timelines. Of course, being a fan of the Terminator series doesn't do any harm either.
>Of Course; I'm A Terminator (100)
Why does this remind me of a Fear Factory song...
>Atari Personal Computer (0)
A universal interface... well, another universal interface. Still, very handy.

I really, really, really wanted to get my hands on the damaged microchip. But honestly... there's no point. There's nothing in there that I can't replicate independently, short of Skynet itself, and frankly I can already create an advanced Soong-type android if I'm determined. I'd rather not, though.

So... the first thing to do? Use clairvoyance/postcognition to see where I need to go to save Sarah Connor. Pull the Wings of Time out of the warehouse. Get flying and hope I arrive in time.

Which is fine excpet the dice say I do not arrive in time. Both parents are dead. That's okay; I'll be happy to take her in. Even her guardian. I'll be happy to do what I can to help him be more human, and to give Sarah a more sane upbringing. Also a blood transfusion. And a wand. Yer a wizard, Sarah. Let's see Skynet deal with THAT.

Actually, screw Skynet. We're crashing this timeline. With no survivors. Anyone up for a trip to the eighties instead of waiting ten years? I've got a time machine - if you want to have John go for it, I can always send him back in time for Judgment Day. Which, now that we are in 1984, is 33 years away. Because the timeline is rëtärdëd. That's okay though, you really aren't missing as much in the seventies as you think. You're going to grow up in a more interesting time this way, take it from me, and this way you have a quasi-normal childhood. Aside from being raised by a cyborg and a planeswalker-in-training.

Dealing with the first four years of Terminators coming after me will not exactly be a challenge, and I've got a leg up because... well, let's be honest, my build is clairvoyance-based and I've got ridiculous amounts of plot armor before even taking that into account. I'm not so much applying that to the fights, as I am to seeking them out to take them on. I think when Skynet gets the data back, it's going to be extremely perplexed by the T-1, T-70, T-600 and T-700 being chopped into pieces by a glass sword. Because glassteel is wicked fun to chop with.

The T-800 and T-850... trickier. Sufficiently large caliber weaponry would do, but why bother with that when you can use a grenade launcher? As long as you're ready for the possible larger detonation of the power cells, anyway. This also works well to temporarily immobilize a T-1000, after which point you can apply liquid nitrogen (or better, liquid helium) for longer-term immobilization, and sufficient heat or acid to break it down. The T-X is slightly more complex as its offensive abilities are much greater, but in the end, it's the same effect - strike it in the torso with a shaped charge, expose it to sufficient heat or smash its skull apart.

The T-3000 is another matter altogether. It's a bunch of nanites held together by a magnetic field; it's a wonder John Connor didn't erase the contents of every computer he was in fifty feet of. Except, you know, I have the ability to screw with nanites like you wouldn't believe, so it is quite possibly the worst thing you could choose to send after me.

Then the T-JC arrives! Immune to nanite manipulation. Immune to acid, and extreme heat and cold. Even high caliber firearms don't do anything, nor explosives. It would seem our hero has his work cut out for him at last - it would take a nuke to put this thing out of commission, wouldn't it?!

In any case, the standard counter-charm to the T-JC is, of course, Fiendfyre. I've made sure to keep an ace up my sleeve.

I'd perhaps have podded Sarah if I had only stayed for ten years, but by the time we get to 2024 taking the long way, she's already got a husband and a daughter, Jane. (I grabbed Kyle and put him on ice for sanity's sake, as far as he and Sarah are concerned he dropped in ten years off-target; Sarah never knew and I simply Obliviated him.) No Skynet; no Cyberdyne. The worst they've got are manned drones. A word dropped in the right ears means humanity wants to keep their fingers on the triggers. But Jane has magic too, as it turns out, and she's a deft hand at wandless casting. It'll make life interesting for them.

Also, when John showed up in 2014 I abused the HELL out of certain perks to reformat him back to baseline human after stealing his nanites. As far as they're concerned he never showed. He's off living his own life in New York, happy that Skynet never happened.