The Force you are leading into the city is as follows.

15 Rifles
6 Grenadiers
10 Mercs

And two Gatling trucks at the entrance of the city for fall back and a couple of natives more guidance.
ORDERS?

Winston was sent into the city with 10 mercs a week prior to explore and report back. As he was not scheduled to return for another week a link up is not out of the question.

Exterminate the population.

So, how's that stone wall coming?

>>7431059
Wall is at 45% completion. Any final project/management decisions you want to make before leaving the colony to Godfried for the day?

And I get yanked out of my first quest for this. Two tabs FTW!

Also, in appology for interrupting H.A.N.A. Quest (which is AWESOME), here's a link to it. Go and get involved in it; you can handle two threads at once.

>>7424814

>>7431076
Looks good.

>>7431077
Personal congrats supernova, seems like you have a great thing going. Your thread comes first for you, but feel free to jump in.

>>7431092
Just trying to keep life exciting. Thanks for the congrats - this place needed more space quests anyway.

>>7431076
Why would we leave it with Godfried? I'm pretty sure we agreed last thread that we weren't going with Tesla's drone due to our injury and our wanting to try to help Riker not be quite so regimented.

>>7431107
Last time the vote was to go with the drone. We don't need to stick to that, but I'd like some good In character arguments for why a brave British officer shouldnt. Also this gives you a chance to link up with Winston. (now that Riker went sorta crazy he might be needed).

>>7431126
Fair enough; I just don't want Riker to off himself or turn back and return to his former self. I trust Godfried; he's quite the capable manservant, but some things just nag at me if I leave them to others. If we can go to the Lost City without worry of our injury, then I suppose we'd best do so.

>>7431160
If you want you can ORDER more guards for Riker, he definately won't try to escape from Grenadiers, and they saw him shoot you, so they should be good. The French are quite occupied at the moment with teh natives, therefore the camp is fairly safe.

(OOC: New players have trouble jumping into colony management, anyone can say RANKFIRE AND BAYONETS but not everyone can run a dorf/British Colony)

I read through this and I'm a bit confused as to whats going on. then I noticed this is part 9 so I guess I missed a bit. Anyone give me the cliff notes so I can catch up.

>>7431206
Two more Grenadiers on guard of Riker should be good. Keep up work on the immigrant housing and wall, and then we leave for the lost city.

>>7431221
Alright. You are a British officer, who went into the jungle with 100 men and established a colony. You built it up through colony shipments and it now is bustling. However you are near a city that although full of loot is also full of danger. You are currently escorting a scientist into this city to study the various magicks. You will pick up the rest. PROTIP: BE BRITISH

>>7431221
Right, we are Roarke and we are in charge of this colony on the Dark Continent (Africa). We have settled around a silver mine, and are attempting to make ourselves self-sufficient. We have a mandate from the Industrial Union, which is why we get supply convoys from them, and are from the Glorious British Empire, and so get Royal Convoys every so often.

We face Death Tribe Natives, the devious French, the greedy Americans and in the Lost city, the mystical Snake Tribe who are known to use powerful voodoo magic.

ADVISORY:

Advertising more than once in other quests will lead to *bad* things.
Use a tripcode to avoid accidental misunderstandings.

>>7431259
thank you that helps a lot, what is the time period?
and the french, are we working against them to loot the city? And riker shot me? why?

>>7431327
sorry if I'm slowing the pace of the quest, its this sounds good and I want to join in.

>>7431305
Tripcode? pls educate me the newfag. I deleted the ads so they wont contribute to the post count.

>>7431344

A tripcode can be inserted like a password into your name by placing one or two '#' symbols followed by an alphanumeric code.
It will generate a unique alphanumeric code next to your name to preserve your identity.

>>7431327
Riker is a hyperzealous British officer. This is the Victorian Steampunk period. He shot us because the scientist we are helping has illegal body modifications and he follows the king's laws to the letter.

The French mining company is currently split by infighting as it searches for rare metals in the jungle. They have a shady partnership with the Americans that has not been explored.

>>7431356 Thanks

>>7431369
ok cool. lets do it. Thanks.

Okay. So- You are proceeding into the lost city escorting the automaton like assistant of Tesla.

You have
15 Rifles
6 Grenadiers
10 Mercs
And two gatling trucks with you.
The trucks cannot go inside the city but provide good fallback positions. At 9:00 the scientist/drone starts walking down the path to the city. Time to move out. ORDERS?

>>7431474
Shit, is it too late to divert one of the Gliders to act as a forward scout for us? If it's not, do it.

>>7431487
You order one of the gliders up into the air with a wave of your hand. He will strafe anything he sees that moves that is not wearing red/khaki.

Side note OOC: OMGSOMANY QUESTS TONIGHT DROWNING AAHHHH. I think supernova is riding the autosage. Good for him.

\bump

>>7431546
Shit, where is everyone? Oh well, let's begin our trek. I guess the drone will set the pace.

>>7431474
I order the men to fan out in some sort of defensive formation as we travel down the road toward the city.

>>7431606
I'm still here its just I'm not sure how to proceed having just been brought up to speed on this quest. but I think ordering the men into a formation to cover us as we travel is a good move.

>>7431615
Your men fan out around the drone and the trucks. It is an uneventful trip to the city, as you have cover from your glider as well as the road bunker and the watchtower you built to watch the city. You get to the main entrance, with the steps still stained by blood. The drone waddlesteps as though in a trance and somehow moves faster than a normal jog. Many men are forced into a run. The main hall is dark as the magical torches have run out like the life of the shaman. When you get to the section of the hall in which the shaman appeared the drone suddenly stops moving and starts throwing handfuls of dust into its backpack. ORDERS?

looks like Hana quest got saved, supernove prolly incoming>>7431606

As the drone collects dust, some of the carvings on the wall start to glow and all the torches relight. the native guides are quivering. ORDERS?

Oh God, that ran for 10 hours! TEN! I am never doing that again. I'll run it on peak time or something. Archived.

Totally rode the autosage wave. Awesome. But I'm so burnt tonight man, I'll let you guys have fun without my Iron Rod commands.

>>7431732
Oh goddamnit, how many shamans do they have? Get the men to form up and be ready to defend the drone.

>>7431732
well it seems more like we are following the drone then leading this quest, so I ask him what his plans are and tell me men to secure the local area while I talk to the drone.

>>7431745
Noooo! Get back here!

>>7431756
Sorry, another time, though I love Steamquest.

>>7431745
CAPTAIN COME BACK!!!!!!!!! Your quest was great.

>>7431751
This is not railroad tracks, you guys could just have let the drone die.

You try to talk to the drone. He turns his head. Clicks a few times in rapid fire binary, then goes back to his work. The native guides are tugging on your shoulders.

>>7431769
Just promise not to overwork yourself. If you feel like you can't handle Hana Quest tomorrow, don't do it. Give yourself time to recuperate. Quests like Zeonquest and Steamquest work and last many weeks and threads because they don't go non-stop and have a schedule. Don't burn yourself out.

>>7431780
Annoyed at not being able to understand the drone I turn to the native guides and ask them what troubles them.

>>7431821
(backstory, in one of the earlier threads you killed a shaman twice) Native guide says: he distrubin da voodo spirits man, we gotta move, in city or outta city, but nono stay, dat would be bad for da white men.

>>7431821
This.

>>7431837
As I listen to the guides warning I quickly check to see what weapons I myself am caring.

>>7431837
We have no choice. We were asked by Nikola Tesla himself to ensure the safety of his assistant, and by the Crown we will do so! Stand you ground men.

>>7431837

>killed shaman twice

That doesn't really begin to describe it. First, we tossed a lit bundle of dynamite in the motherfuckers lap. Then he walks out of the city the next day looking cheerfully intact, and Godfried SHOT the motherfucker in the FACE with a 13mm anti-tank rifle.

And you know what? I'm not sure he's still dead. So let's get our shit and hump it the fuck out of here.

>>7431853
You have a revolver and 3 speed loaders, and a officer's cutlass.

>>7431858
The walls begin to crack and fracture. One of the mercs turns and runs. The drone slowly closes his bag and begins to slowly walk further into the city. ORDERS?

>>7431873
Indeed. This fellow seems quite resilient.

>>7431894
Follow. The guides said we were in danger if we stayed there. Going further in should be okay.

>>7431894
I draw my revolver and order the fleeing merc back to formation or I will shoot him then I order two more mercs to grab the drone and for the rest of the men to run into the city. no point in staying here.

>>7431894

>PROTIP: BE BRITISH

Comment on the merc's lineage, his personal recreational habits, his hygiene, and his general worth as a human being.

>>7431918
You have two men grab the drone which electrically shocks them heavily but not enough for them for them to stop running with the drone. The merc who ran is crushed by a piece of falling ceiling, which then glows green and floats right back up into its place. The shaking stops, and the fractures in the wall have disappeared. The torches are still lit. ORDERS? FORMATION?

>>7431926
Oh no you didn't!

>>7431934
Oh good, it's stopped. Let the man down now gentlemen, it seems we are out of danger. We can continue at his leisure.

>>7431934

Affix bayonets. (Those are lug-style bayonets which don't prevent us from firing, right?) Drone has point. Establish a rearguard.

Call a stop every now and then to L2- look and listen.

>>7431934
>>7431951

Do we have some sort of medic with us? if so those two mercs who grabbed the drone should be seen to.

>>7431934

If you could describe the armaments of our men in brief, that would be useful. Do we have Grenades? What are we using, .45 Martini-Henry breechloading single-shots?

>>7431964
Stop or not the drone just keeps walking. you pass the 1/2 empty vault of the first level and reach the steps for the second level. It is utter darkness. You have a flaregun with one flare and 1 torch for each man. ORDERS?

The two men who grabbed the drone shook it off, if it had been one person forming the circuit it would have killed them.

>>7431994
nice guess. The op said in previous threads that we have martini-henri single shots and i guess we have grenades, but i think only the grenadiers have them.

>>7431997
Follow the man. Be on guard. Rouse the men with tales of glory from past campaigns. But not too much glory; we don't need anyone taking a golden statue as a souvenir and triggering a trap.

>>7431997

Give the drone a torch and let him take point.

>>7432047
When you attempt to give the drone a torch the torch goes out and he starts glowing blue with visible bursts of static electricity. He is a goddamn light bulb. As soon as the drone steps onto the second level all of the torches light up.

>>7432066
I like this guy. Eh, walks into unexplored levels of Lost Cities, acts as a light source and doesn't afraid of anything.

>>7432013

Perhaps. Grenadiers were specialized troops meant specifically to employ grenades back in the day when grenades were basically heavy miniature blackpowder bombs. Over the years this "special" status evolved into the Grenadiers becoming elite forces, long after grenades fell out of favor (and stayed that way for decades.)

Given the time period, grenades aren't very popular as an infantry weapon, and won't come back into their own until closer to WWI. On the other hand, we do have early steamtanks, so who knows.

My suspicion is that if we want grenades, we're going to have to make them and devote resources to said task.

>>7432097
We know the French have grenades. And we can make improvised explosives with dynamite; shame we didn't bring any.

>>7432097
160 workers, 40 rifles, 30 mercenaries, 50 experts. 10 natives, 16 ROYAL grenadiers, 1 at rifle, 3 gatling guns on trucks, 1 mortar, 1 maxim, 2 gliders functional, 2 horses, 20 GRENADES,

The drone stops moving at a large pile of loot in this second main hall. He pulls out a brush and moves to inspect the pile of gold. ORDERS?

>>7432095

Quote of the week.

>>7432066

Rearguard!

>>7432125
I ordered the men into another defensive formation to cover the drone as he works and I let them know that this is a standing order when ever the drone stops.

>>7432125
waitwaitwaitwait one bloody second, what happened the last time we examined loot in the middle of a main hall unguarded?

>>7432125

hooray for nagging the poor OP! Now we'll wait for the inevitable evil GM riposte. >_>

>orders?

Inform the Drone that empirical data (i.e. prior field observations) are available to indicate that piles of gold like this usually are booby trapped to hell and gone.

Deliver this information in a crisp, academic tone.

>>7432164
This. Prepare to be ignored and get the men to keep their distance. Be ready with a couple of Grenadiers to pull the guy away if it's a bomb.

>>7432201
You pull the men back as the drone ignores you. Three french flintlocks fire and hit it in the center of its chest. Sand and a few cogs pour out of the wound for a few seconds before stopping. The drone puts a piece of the treasure in its pack and you hear a distinct click in the distance. It starts moving forward.

ORDERS? SAM?

>>7432225
>Eh, walks into unexplored levels of Lost Cities, acts as a light source and doesn't afraid of anything.

And takes bullets to the chest like it was nothing. But still, be on guard about what that click could mean.

>>7432273

I order the men back into formation and pursue the drone. hoping all the while that the monotony of this trip will soo come to an end.

>>7432225
FFFFFFFFFFFFF-

Bad click! Get ready for Indiana Jones-style rolling boulder trap.

>>7432225

... HARDCORE. I like this guy. Onward, in search of information on magics!

>>7432273

Stay with our Drone, keeping a sharp lookout. Affix bayonets if we don't have them out already, in these close quarters we might need them.

>>7432299
Now you have insulted me. Prepare to die....jk.

>>7432303
You move forward. you hear gunshots in the distance and you see the flash of flintlocks. You hear garbled english. The drone stops on the floor to get another sample. Investigate or not?

>>7432337
I order 5 or so men, three mercs and 2 riflemen to go investigate the sounds as the rest of us stand guard over the drone. not that he seems to need it, lol.

>>7432337
Sure. Us and 2 Grens, 3 Rifles, 3 mercs.

>>7432337
>>7432370

I also join these 5 men to investigate.

>>7432337

Send our quietest man forward to scout- carefully. Lend him your shaving mirror to look around corners.

If our most experienced man happens to be GLORIOUS LEADER personally, go himself, and take a grenadier for company.

>>7432401

Uuuh disregard my faggotry, more then two men is better. But no more then 4 total, I'd think. Smaller party is quieter.

>>7432388
>>7432385
>>7432370
Winston is standing on top of a pile of native corpses. He is wearing a french helmet, breastplate, and two flintlock pistols. Two wounded mercs are next to him surrounded by martini casings. 3 dead mercs are next to them. His breastplate has at least 30 arrows in it, and he is surrounded by 10 natives armed with hatchets. ORDERS?

>>7432385
Those numbers sounds good lets go with that over my 5.

>>7432401
I think strength in numbers might be a better way to go about this.

>>7432401
>>7432416
Wait, this man speaks words of wisdom. Heed him!

>>7432422
Oh Winston, you card. Loosing all but two of your men? Well, how has the scouting gone so far? You seem to have done well for yourself old bean.

>>7432422
I order my men to affix bayonets, if they haven't already and charge the natives. as shooting is risky as we might hit winston. I draw my sword and my revolver and lead the charge myself.

>>7432463
Just realized the 10 natives surrounding him are alive. I thought they were dead. Silly me. Kill them to aid our comrade.

>>7432477
You take the natives by total surprise and kill them all but 2 of them who climb into what you thought were not-hollow eyes in states mounted along the wall. Winston has an arrowhead in his right shoulder and has no ammo. He reports that...there is apparently a smaller native population down here, but that might be wrong as they seem sneakier. They never even come out when there is noise from the first level like out treasure excavators. Strange. ORDERS?

>>7432422

>winston, LIKE A BOSS

>ORDERS?

HRRRRRRAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHAAAARRRRARARRRHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

KILL

>>7432505
Let's get the man bandaged up. Any more survivors other than the two wounded ones?

>>7432505
I order one of my men to see to winston's wounds and tell one the grenadiers to close the holes in the wall to make sure we arn't followed when we leave this area.

>>7432530
right the two mercs, they need seeing to as well.

>>7432505

>ORDERS?

Inform Winston that he is an agent of Death Incarnate, and produce a cigar to celebrate his amazing badassery.

Attend to our wounded, and re-join our main party. We're too deep in the city and our numbers too few to risk evacuating the wounded, so if they're walking, let's keep them.

Pass Winston our pistol- he certainly knows how to use the goddamn thing- because he won't be good with a rifle with a shoulder wounded. We'll take a Martini-Henry from one of the dead mercs, and their ammo/nades.

>>7432533
>>7432530
We got ambushed by a group of French running towards the surface. They GAVE us this stuff (he points at his gear) in order to run faster. The natives have accounted for all 8 of the mia/casualties, and anyone I put on watch disappeared, but we were never actually attacked until today. ORDERS? THERORIES?

>>7432553
wait GM wat about the drone?

>>7432553
As you say

>>7432557
Could be some other tribe. They might fear the Snake Tribe above, which could explain their hiding when there is noise above. Let's see what the native guides have to say about this. Though hearing their butcher of our glorious language does burden my ears so.

>>7432557
I order the men to grab what gear/supplies they can from the dead and order everyone to regroup with the men guarding the drone.

>>7432557

First idea- perhaps making noise and walking around like we hain't afeered o'nuthin is a good strategy, all things considered.

Make pithy comment about Frenchmen running.

>>7432588
Da voodoo is weak here mon, dos statues are of da dead gods, da good gods. Dese people you call "Franch" wassa running from sumtin, you know wat it was bossman?

>>7432618
>Make pithy comment about Frenchmen running.

lol

>>7432631
>>7432618
THIS
10THISs

>>7432627
can I assume we have rejoined the rest of the men guarding the drone?

>>7432627

>weak voodoo

Pass this information onto the Drone, this might interest him, vis a vis his mission to study said voodoo.

So not even the native guides know wtf is going on down here. Ask them about the other tribe who's asses Winston just rocked.

>>7432677

Yes, OP confirmed my orders here:

>>7432553

>>7432677
Thank you, I was waiting for more serious responses. Yes, the drone is now slowly walking forward, running its hands along the walls which are decorated with carvings and statues. Electricity pulses across its arms.

>>7432627
Hmm, no idea. Perhaps they managed to summon one of their heathen gods into the flesh?

>>7432707

This is called "giving the GM ideas."

Please don't do that.

>Orders

Query Winston's opinion on recent developments.

>>7432700
ok as I made it a standing order the men be in a defensive formation when the drone is working I don't need to repeat myself. I ask the drone if he can tell me anything about the carvings in the wall.

Sorry guys, I know this is a bad time to stop but imma tired and I have to get some shut eye. Im archiving this very soon. Please vote high on steam quest part nine one suptg.

>>7432764
You. Jerk.

Well, I'll be looking forwards to part 10 soon!

>>7432764

>plz vote high

>Winston is standing on top of a pile of native corpses. He is wearing a french helmet, breastplate, and two flintlock pistols. Two wounded mercs are next to him surrounded by martini casings. 3 dead mercs are next to them. His breastplate has at least 30 arrows in it, and he is surrounded by 10 natives armed with hatchets. ORDERS?

Bet your ass I'm voting it high. Astronomical win- ACHIEVED.

>>7432780
agreed, when can we look forward to that?

>>7432785

Winston has become enraged!

Winston had entered a martial trance!

>>7432786
also where is this voting you speak of?

>>7432786
Not sure, maybe wendsday if all goes well with my coursework. If not then Friday/the weekend.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/7430980/

VOTE HIGH Please thanks for playing you guys were great.

>>7432797
Go here, scroll to the bottom of the list, click on the vote button near Steam Quest Part 10.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html

well guess I'll go look for something else to do now, thanks again.

>>7432900
Vampire Bride quest here: >>7430848
You might like it.