Jebediah 2012/02/22(Wed)17:35 No. 388370 ID: 382193
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>>388345
>Jeb stumbles quickly to his feet and spins to upholster his weapon, the PunchGun sails gently in the air. The person rears back to throw another bomb!

[Jeb]-Never pull back to throw a bomb!

>Jebediah Grabs the gun mid flight The enemy hurls his weapon towards you Jeb pulls the trigger with catlike speed!

[Jeb]-Just push it away...

>The smoke clears and the body lies motionless on the ground... His visor is shattered, his skull is worked open by the bullet... Jeb leans against the wall...

[Jeb]-I'm getting dizzy Support...

>>388370
You're getting low on blood. You need to stop the bleeding! Maybe tie something around your shoulder to slow the blood flow.

Man, maybe we can get you a bitchin' robot arm to replace that limb... Hey, can the delivery system send YOU?

tackle them down and disble them.

>>388370
Reload weapon.
Bandage and apply pressure to your arm.
Retrieve the rest of your arm.
Loot corpse.

>>388388
This, except for, uh, stop the bleeding first.

We don't expect you to become best friends with it, but we really need the intel. Ask it what it possibly did to get exiled by Seri, and also what the monitors, the 'inky things', have been doing around here. That one will help with the mission, and the first one may be invaluable to us in further missions.

It appears to have been exiled from the zone you are investigating.
Meaning that at some point it was in said zone.
And while it is likely somewhat delusional, it seems quite willing to divulge whatever it knows.

At all costs do not come in contact with it. Go ahead and answer its question though. This quivering lump of biohazard is quivering here inside monitor territory, talking and thinking about removing or otherwise destroying the monitors (inkies) yet not being annihilated by them on the spot. You don't want to fuck relations with a creature with power like that.

Subsystem TG-CN 2012/02/22(Wed)19:59 No. 388423 ID: 82e5f4
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>get intel
>get intel
>get intel

Rito112a misses the silence she had when her previous advisory subsystem was reassigned. "My name is not important. Exiled?" She looks to Seto96n, who appears to be staring into space while the newbies linger uneasily in the other room.

The thing nods eagerly. "Hi, not important! Yes! Exiled forever and ever! Seriqueen said I should go if I don't like inkies. Inkies don't let me go. I've been here five times before! Six. Seven? Maybe five. Four! No, five. Really five. Do you know how to get out?"

Seto96n clears his throat. "I'll handle this, Rito. What's your name, little thing?"
"Cita! Who're you? Are you an inky?"
"No, I'm not an inky. Can you lead us to this 'seriqueen'?"
"Exiled foreverrrr!"
"Were you actually exiled? You said you just were told to leave, correct?"
"But- but exiled forever!"

Rito112a cannot hold back any longer. "Look. Fleshbeast. Best of luck to you. Seto. Mission. We've got a couple of rookies scared to enter the room because of this Prime-damned walking talking lump of virulent disease and we're not making the best time."
"Said lump might get us to the mission objective. Unusual monitor activity? Probably related to this fleshbeast being in this area. Maybe this 'seriqueen' is the source of the activity spike. It's worth investigating."

In addition to the choices of proceeding into the next corridor and moving into the "Presentation Room", it looks like Rito112a now also has a choice of following the directions given by a gibbering simpleton with delusions of grandeur.

Look, Rito, our drone hasn't survived her crazy adventures so far by ignoring things that could potentially help us. Cita seems to know what's going on around here, more than anybody else, at least, and if she's being friendly and offering to help and being adorable, then we should at least try to use what we can. I understand your cold disdain for everything alive, but can you at least try to let diplomacy take its course? Tell the two drones outside that it's safe to come in, if Cita had meant any harm she would have attacked before everyone else was around her.

CRAMP 2012/02/22(Wed)19:46 No. 388419 ID: e19cdf
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[[CUTSCENE OVER - you can enter commands as normal now!]]

>>388419
Okay! Let's go see what's goin' on.

Also, who's this spooky chick?

Join them, this is your chance to show off all your best moves...in an unspecified event.

CRAMP 2012/02/22(Wed)20:05 No. 388425 ID: e19cdf
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>Okay! Let's go see what's goin' on.
>Also, who's this spooky chick?

You head outside through the door at the back of the Town Hall lobby with THIS SPOOKY CHICK, also known as MIRIAM, your best friend since preschool. Small towns tend to be tight-knit and cliquey, and not many people take too kindly to her. Lots of talk about "heebie jeebies," which is weird, because she's never made YOU feel creeped out!

Well, not SUPER creeped out.

There are a couple more people out here, talking quietly among themselves. It looks like they've been waiting for you to get here.

>>388425
Say hello in your usual super upbeat way!

"at least she only slept with living things, your mom fucked anything that was phallic shaped, explains why you turned out so ugly."

Atticus G. (art-maker) / Stupid Footloose Rabbit (word-time) 2012/02/22(Wed)19:16 No. 388412 ID: e0815a
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The biting comment has damaged your over-inflated ego slightly. You can't even stand the look of him at the moment and you're forced to turn your back.

>>386453
You decide that now is time to introduce to this trash can robot to someone. Two someones.

[b]"I would like you to meet my two buds; Monday and Friday. You better clear your schedule, rubbish bot, cuz you got a full week ahead of ya!"

You let out a mighty yell and begin charging at the machine in a blistering belligerent rage!

Atticus G. (art-m'n) / Stupid Footloose Rabbit (word-kid) 2012/02/22(Wed)19:30 No. 388415 ID: e0815a
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And then... this shit happens.

Intense, pulsating energy asterisks, flying out of the circular holes along the wall. Your Jaguar-like reflexes keep the asterisk from taking your head.

It would scare the Bejesus out of you, if you had such bejesus to be expelled. Instead, you just grow more volatile.

>>388408
"At least she only slept with living things, your mom fucked anything that was phallic shaped, explains why you turned out so ugly!" you spit back.

The robot seems unphased. Perhaps, even smug. The bastard's got death asterisks and all you you could do is lob organic insults at a decisively synthetic machine.

This next move better be a good'n, bub.

crawl along the ground.

>>388415
Throw an explosive?

Lamias going ahead of us in the tunnels is as good as a guide. So follow them at some distance.

Easy, Clamp. Your gnoll blight is rattlin' its chains by now. So take a calming breath, get your head together, and walk up to the lamias.

Ask the them if they're going to join up or get out of the way. Tell 'em that as long as they follow you, they'll be protected by you and your clan. That's a promise, backed by the Goddess Pi. And if they don't, that's no problem. Your clan won't hurt them as long as they don't hurt us.

>>388229
Seeing if your healing power works even a little on physical fatigue would be worth checking; Try it on Blue. Probably won't effect the mental fatigue from lack of sleep though, but if it heals worn out legs, that's good enough.

>>388221
Grasswind could be a problem if she starts sowing dissent in the ranks; She's thick-headed and stubborn enough to try it, and there may be one or two gnolls that're tired enough to listen. One fist to the face and a dressing down isn't enough to stop a grudge she's been nursing for eight years. If she can't figure out why you punched her, you're going to have to carefully explain your reasons.

Heal grasswind before you continue. Destroying bonds is against your new patron's ideals, and it would be a good idea to make amends quickly if you want to keep your patron's favor.

Yeah we should heal her. The pain of the punch was what we were getting at, not the wound.

Grasswind's actions were out of line, but it's not unexpected, given the situation. It's been a fortnight of death and misery. The clan's lost more in two weeks than the last two years. Hardly anyone's gotten even half-decent rest for two days. They're all physically and mentally exhausted; Tempers are frayed, and bad ideas end up looking like good ones until it's too late. So take all that into consideration, and remember that you're feeling the fatigue too.

>>388387
Razgriz is a fitting name, but I think Raz would work better since that's also short for Rasputin - another person who was incredibly hard to kill.

>>388377
Yeah, we wanted to finish that aborted conversation with Nix, which utterly failed to accomplish our objectives. See >>388184. Nix is visibly unhappy or nervous or something, and we need to find out why and either deal with whatever worries her or just comfort her. Leaving things as in >>387991 was failure as both a leader and a friend.

>>388390
oh yeah, totes need to finish that.

Raz
Because Psychonaughts

>>388390

Thisthisthisthisthis.

Boo! Boo! That was the worst chapter yet!

First end of Part ever for me. I LOVE IT> :UUUU

Well at least we know the cosmic horror isn't targeting us because we're here, it's got a personal vendetta. Yay?

IT'S JAY

Loved every bit of this. Keep up the great work.

Morning practice with Gianni. On type, consider our long-term goal. What style do we need to fleshcraft someone a new form? Potentially all four, or would muscle help the most? While there, maybe bring up we may be able to get him a fresh Doonongaes poison sac in return for cleansing the flesh of the beast of poison, and - one day - teaching us how to re-create it ourselves? Doony poison would be amazing with his new and improved golems.

>Pop-up book
Walk around the house muttering, 'Thunder farts... brilliant! Now how...' and have whiteboard with bulletpoints like 'worship thunder goddess (subheading: build altar: jade?)', 'whistling + chakra = ? (subheading: check 7777 Uses of Chakra, 7 Gates, Peruvian Whistling Vessel)'

Okay, so what was Owner trying to tell us? Doony's lair, Zosimus stronghold, a job of his own? We need to find out, today. Do we (by which I mean Einrik) still have the Valkonen jet?

For further setup on the Doony fight, we have the heartbeat fakes, right? We also need something like ATVs to allow the russians to retreat quickly from their encampments if the Doony turns towards them. Also, it would be nice to punch some holes in the walls of the office and warehouse buildings. Put latches on them so they open like a pirate ship's broadsides, and at the right height for our M134s. Add a running stripe at eye level, like for a medieval murderhole, but with wider field of vision.

Will the Amazon cache (minus nectar) be enough for some more Doony antivenin from SM? Who does SM know that would pay for Doony's death within 36 hours? Paying him a 20-40% finders' fee, I bet he'd be motivated to turn up some people.

>Satai orders
-Arrange meeting with Old Ironhead for Armas when requested.
-As it is now apparent that Armas wants to move the entire company+lots of heavy hardware on short notice whenever he pleases, acquire three more largely nondescript vans. Estimate cost at $24,000.
-When Igor's quality backing plates are completed, break into our C4 stash and spend some time turning them into actual, usable shaped charges.
-Ask Hillevi if she does any kind of long-range combat or would like to practice it, and if so, mention that she can feel free to come to sniping practice whenever if she wants; it's every day. Blasting things at long range with magic can't be that different from blasting them with a rifle, although Satai would issue her a rifle if she wanted one. Or goggles with magnification, if they'd help. Actually if she wants pretty much anything as far as military supplies go she can ask him for it.
-Double-check outfitting before the Doonongaes mission; make sure that everyone has the equipment they'll need and nothing is likely to malfunction. Persuade/dragoon a couple other people into helping with this (Titus, Dmitrii, Iosef, Vlad, and Zhenya are likely prospects due to personality and/or past relations).


>>387816
>What's my plan for the day?
Do the following, in order or as simultaneously as is feasible:

0. Hold our soul guise all day.
>1. Eat a large breakfast
2. Call Gianni, tell him 6 AM it is

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we need to try and contact the Mongolian wizard before we kill doony. we might be able to swing at leas a minor favor for killing one of his foes, and even a minor favor from a wizard is nothing to scoff at.

also an idea for an alternate use of the speakers. doony probably has a much broader hearing range than we do, what if we rigged a few speakers to put out a huge amount of noise in frequencies we can't hear? if its too late to buy a few more speakers we could use this as a back up plan if doony manages to identify and ignore the false sounds of heart beats.

I'd also like to take this time to nominate something to actually learn charms from the goblins: battery charms. Specifically, charms that can hold a charge of our energy to be taken out later.

Then we branch out from there; charms able to hold, move and redirect energy seem like a fascinatingly useful field.

We need hats. For our guns.
Order amen to make hats for our guns, make sure to tell him to hang them at a jaunty angle.

>>388300
Tell him you can't tell him why. If he won't help you, you'll just go do it yourself.

>>388300
"Something horrible happened to Gretonis that has shattered her pride and character, as well as crushing her spirit, its her private matter I'm not allowed to share. She's hungry but her willpower's been drained. If I find something good, maybe she can get it back."

>>388305

Ah yes, this sounds good
And if he still won't help, then I guess you'll just have to do it yourself

>>388305
We shouldn't say so much about her condition, even if we don't say why. That isn't fair to her.

"She asked for my help because she needed it and I was there to ask. Beyond that I am obliged not to say. If that is not enough for you then I will go without your assistance."

>>388351
yes

>>387939
The locker room is the most likely place to find a first aid kit, I'm thinking.

>>387939

Don't lose hope Rina. Nothing is permanent after all. You can still do this.

Fidchell 2012/02/22(Wed)12:53 No. 388288 ID: 09a2fd
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> Ask the cop where the armory is. If it's on this floor, raid it.

> The locker room is the most likely place to find a first aid kit, I'm thinking.

"Rasha, could you go with my brother and ask the officer where the armory is? I'll stay with Glade and check some rooms out," Rina says. Rasha raises an eyebrow, obviously reluctant to do so, but he eventually submits and nods his head. He pats Leon's back saying, "Hey, bud, let's go." Leon looks worriedly back at Rina as he walks away with Rasha.

Rina and Glade go into the locker room. It's trashed. There are three rows of lockers, most of which look caved in. A body lies beneath a large pile of large crumbled stone and broken wood, a large blood pool formed under it.

>>388288
Bleck. Let's not disturb the body. See if any lockers are openable, or if there's a first aid kit attached to a wall.

>>388288

You guys do have a weapon right? Right???

Open the door Partially so we can see whats going on in there. if it turns too risky hit her with the wrench, in worst case scenario stab her with the screwdriver. Watch out for her nasty tricks... shes a sneaky one alright.

Isabel 2012/02/22(Wed)06:41 No. 388244 ID: d3e5dd
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For a moment, Isabel is tempted to try repairing Herbert immediately, but ultimately decides to deal with Nicola first.

She grabs the wrench and the screwdriver and activates the electrical door and slips into the next room as soon as she's sure, that her arrival hasn't been noticed.

get a cleaning product and a syringe, fill syringe with product, inject it into her.

>>388244
Too slow! She used the antidote and destroyed the rest!
If you had a knife I'd say cut her achilles tendon, but since you don't just skewer her in the kidneys with your screwdriver.

How about we inject her with something nasty? Wait. She's probably got that planned for US. She opened the supply cabinet... and there are syringes... she might have one full of bleach or something, waiting for us to come in there and attack her.

How about we see if we can scrounge up a little of the antidote into a syringe? Failing that, check the supply cabinet a little closer.

- Player 2012/02/22(Wed)07:37 No. 388247 ID: 939692
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>sketch
... you want an insane man to sketch out something that he only knows by smell?

I see whats going on -- you're losing focus again. Let me reiterate. He wants to use it for bread, so it must be something nontrivial and edible. That's a demon-infested dungeon, not the Elemental Plane of Pantry. I admit he seems unwilling or unable to describe whatever he wants.

And you forget we're on a time limit here. Even if he mellowed out, he's liable to cause trouble, if not just walk into the dungeon on his own. There's two questions to be answered here;
What the heck are we doing with him now?
Are we taking him tomorrow?

>>388247
OK, why don't you explain to the guy how quests work. He can then hire you to get the item he wants. That's one problem down.
The other problem, he wants you to find something he can only describe through smell. That's going to be difficult. Why don't you ask him to make something that smells similar to the thing he wants found. Then, at least, you have a reference point.

>>388247

Alright, alright. Let's have a quick vote-thing so you can focus on the matter at hand.

>What to do with him now.

First of all, continue reasoning with him the way you've done already... that seemed to do the trick, somewhat. Tell him if he tries to take the main entrance, the guards there will stop and imprison him ("Isn't that right, Niece? They closed the dungeon, cuz' it was too dangerous."), and that you're the only one who can get by the guards now, so if he wants to do this, he'll have to listen to you.

Option 1: Tell him you need to rest and resupply, but that you can take and guide him early tomorrow morning, if he still wants to go then. Ask Niece for permission. Try to impress on her that just keeping him locked in and penned in isn't going to fix his issue. If this keeps up, he might go truly mad, and the only solution you can see is finding and giving him the thing he wants.

Hopefully this will calm him down for the night, at least. If it doesn't:

Option 2: Once his guard is sufficiently down and if he keeps insisting on going to the dungeon, say you've got a map of where you can enter the dungeon without having to face guards. Reach into your pocket for some paper, and once he leans in to look at it, you can grab his knife-arm, pin and put him in a hold. Then ask Niece to look in your bag for the rope. You can then tie him up. It's not gonna please him, and it'll probably make him even more crazy mad, but at least he'll be securely bound, then.

I favor option 1, going over to option 2 if he can't be reasoned into waiting 'till the morning. If anyone wants to add options or modify 'em, feel free. I j

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>>388259
uhhh, wow, that's pretty good.

I would suggest that you just try to convince him that you can get whatever he wants for him if he just has a little patience.

Way easier then trying to protect him while messing around in the death-dungeon.

hmhm high entrance is go

Fhan 2012/02/22(Wed)08:09 No. 388251 ID: c3ec0a
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>>388241

We land at the high entrance facing the observatory. A purple figure watches me as I lower myself from Sarixu's back.

The purple figure has oval appearance and he speaks nervously a foreign language.

I telepathically grasp its meaning. "This! This cannot happen! Who are these people with dragons!"

Sarixu shapeshifts into human form and answers the figure: "Gatekeeper, we wish to use the portal in this fortress. I am Sarixu, this is Fhan, my companion."

"No foreigners have been welcome here in a long while. You are in trouble if you try to enter."

Should we try to bribe him or attack?

>>388251

seduce him.

Fhan 2012/02/22(Wed)11:11 No. 388277 ID: c3ec0a
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>>388262

We seduce the gatekeeper which has two lines as a nose. Maybe our non-human features attracted him because it's working. He's taking us inside the castle for a short portal tour. "guests" he mutters along with sentences of submission.

Fhan 2012/02/22(Wed)11:42 No. 388279 ID: c3ec0a
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The fortress is dark inside. We walk through countless corridors that seem to be mined into rock. Sarixu explains that this is a place where a small host of Gnomids lodges.

After a while we meet with a steel platemail wearing Gnomid that points at us in the torch light.

"Who are these outsiders? How did they get in?"

"Guests to see the portal, yes they are. Guests they are." The Gnomid in robe explains.

"Guests?" The warrior inquires. How should we act?

Cheren 2012/02/21(Tue)15:17 No. 388155 ID: d84d24
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Well there's another room through the crack with the same thing in it but with more rocks on the floor. The windmills did look broken when I drove up. Cranking this thing by hand looks like it will be a serious bitch. I'll make the goblins do it or something.

>>388155
How about we go back and switch the green levers, then check the other green door in here.

>>388179
the crack makes that moot. if these pumps do pump out this floor they would be a good idea to use. can then maybe check out a floor down.

>>388181
Does it? The door doesn't open directly into the other room. Besides, there's rocks blocking the exit. There's a space beyond the closed green door that we can't see. I'd like to reveal it.

>>388155

Put the goblins on the task and take a patrol on foot.

>>388085
go northwest towards the smell of brownie factory. if we're lucky the king of the sewer people will wreck doc for us.

since girls are the ones who start the kissing game with sewer people you don't have to worry about THEM raping you.

you might want to stay the fuck away from sewer people territory. you know, because one of them tried to murder you recently. go northeast, where the chances of running into her are the lowest.

I would head towards the smell of the fruit
Didn't you say that the females of your species smell like fruit?
If you head that way you're at least going towards your own people, and I'm not certain how favorable the sewer people would be feeling towards you right now since one tried to kill you earlier

Goddamn, that was dark.

Fruity smells.