Recollection:
On an artifact raid mission you and 3 mates were assigned to infiltrate an secure and abandoned base. After reaching ground floor you attempted to activate power but the Synomium device AI is damaged and now treats you as hostile invaders. You have to drill yourself through doors from room to room to reach the base control and deactivate it yourselves. Number 08 is working on hacking into opening the blast doors when suddenly a Calcinite, a liquid life form, attempted to crawl around you but you stabbed it and scared ot away.

Your data
ID Hxu-2891
Software: Level 1 Leader, Level 1 Technician, Level 1 Medic
Implants: Lateral Sense, Targeting computer, Cyber Sync, Eye coating, Land breathing
Current Inventory: Tech-box, Advanced-key, Medi-kit, Sonic Rifle +2 clips, 2 grenades, Thermic Lance Drill, a local Data Canister (you did not check the contents)

The team

Technician 0882
Software: Level 3 Tech, Level 1 Leader
Equipment: Sonic Rifle 2 clips, Expert Tech-box, Advanced Key, Thermic Lance
Implants: Adv Cyber-sync, Land Breathing, Adv Targeting computer, Lateral Sense, 2 Artificial Organs

After receiving the technician’s data you realize his number is really old, this technician must be from the first generation of deployed Lobsterman, meaning he has been in action for more than a year now and yet he is still alive. He is in command for now.

Soldier 6861
Software: Basic soldier
Equipment: Sonic Cannon, 3 clips, Thermic Lance
Implants: Adv. targeting computer, Air Breathing, Eye coating, Adv Cyber Sync

You recognize 68 a bro from your second mission he also remembers you.

Soldier 3261
Software: Basic soldier
Equipment: Sonic Rifle 2 clips, 2 grenades, Heavy Thermic Lance
Implants: Eye coating, Land breathing, Bio monitor

Drill the doors to east

Oh wait, we are not in command are we?

Wait for orders

We could help we our technical expertise maybe?

>>9108473
>>9108483
You are not in comand right now but 08 seems to be quite flexible. You cannot drill through the east door because it is a blast door that is fortified to resist convetional weapons 08 is currently working on opening it at the panel (see map)
he should have it open soon.

Step away from the door, face it and be ready if something jumps out of it.

>>9108540
You mean flexible as in the we can take independent actions?

>>9108597
yes

08: “Breach successful! Door opening!!”

The blast doors open up and you see into the dimness of next room, you see there is an elevator that is leading up to the upper level. There is also another blast door at the opposite end of the room his rooms seems rather clean and undamaged, probably because the blast doors. 08 and 32 are coming to join you.

I also forgot to mention the the lights are out on the whole base only an emergency lighting provide some limited visibility.

Proceed to the room.

Search for light switch.

Go, up the elevator. That must be the command room. We can turn on the lights and open all doors there

You proceed into the room with 68 on your side looking around you see no movement the sticky and slippery foliage that covered the floor of the previous room is completely absent from here.

There are no light switches in this base the lights normally turn on automatically once someone enters a room however right now the emergency base shutdown by the damaged Synomium device AI disabled this function. Only the emergency lights are active everywhere during shutdown.

08 and 32 arrive to join you

Upon closer inspection the elevator is powered down as well you cannot reach the upper floor with it unless you somehow manage to reactivate it or find some other means to do so.

Be on the look out for that liquid life form

>>9108826

Can't we stand on each other?
How high is the upper floor anyway?

Try to redirect emergency power to elevator

>>9108826

This smacks of trap but can the technician get the power to the elevator somehow? If not, leave request that our glorious sqad leader leave a member by this room and explore the rest of the ground level to find power or the control room.

>>9108874
You suggest trying and standing on each other to reach the upper floors, the leader 08 likes the idea and asks the squad to help out. 68 suggest that it may be helpful if you could collect some pieces of debris from the previous rooms to help with that.

32 goes into the elevator shaft and check the height it seems to be to be just good enough if 3 of you can stand up on each other the third could theoretically reach the upper floor the only problem would be to get the lowest members up. Since you were not prepared for this you have no rope or proper climbing equipment with you.

>>9108911
To redirect emergency power you will need to find the master console of this level and hack into it, provided it is still operational.

>>9108832
The liquid lifeform doens tseem to be interested in you anymore it disspaered in the previous room and you didn t see it anymore.

Is the door to the east also locked ?

>>9109056
You did not examine the East door.

>>9109073

To the east DM!

Collect enough big debris so that at least two members can get inside

While we collect debris have us or ask the leader to search for master control to redirect power

Number 68 stays true to his word and goes back to collect useful trash, 32 decides to help him out. Leader 08 says that he did not receive blueprints for the base and the data is locked down like everything else so he has no clue where the master panel is. He only knows as much as everyone else here, you suggest that you should look for it and he agrees. The only door you did not check is towards the east from here the other corridors in the previous rooms all collapsed.

Roll D100 to see what 68 and 32 find in the junk

rolled 71 = 71

>>9109368

rolled 37 = 37

Examine the door to the east

>>9109399
>>9109413
Number 68 proves himself once again, he managed to find a large discarded plastic plate in the foliage this can be great if you weld it to the walk it could practically reduce the height by a quarter. 32 had good luck he found some cables which are not particularly thick but seems okay to help pull up one of you.

You decide to check the door on the east this is a fortified blast door much like the one through which you came into the elevator room.

To your utmost surprise the door unlocks once you step close and slowly opens up. The next room is totally dark not even the emergency lighting is operational. After a few seconds of waiting you notice a pair of glowing orbs appears in the next room, the another and another and more.

Roll D20 for initiative!

rolled 12 = 12

>>9109596

>>9109624
Uh oh...

What are those orbs?

Success! You barely manage to withdraw from the door and call out for help, 08 reaches for his rifle 68 and 32 is in the other room but they throw away everything they had and draw their weapons and rush to help you out.

Then room is filled with snarling and roaring noise as a group of frenzied Tasoths rush into the elevator room with the clear intent for violence.

What are those things?

Anyway Have everyone shoot them.

Throw grenade in the eastern room.

After throwing the grenade.

Take the drill and go for close combat action

The Tasoths charge in a group with vicious force to overtake your team by surprise.

Since you are closest two jump at you to push your off your feet. Unfortunately you have no time to activate a grenade right now.

Please Roll D20 and specify your reaction on their attack.

The rest go straight against leader 08 who has rifle ready to shoot.

Please Roll D20 for leader’s shot, you get +2 on his roll because he has Advanced Targetting inplant.

rolled 2 = 2

Use our claws to rip & tear

rolled 11 + 2 = 13

Leader shoots

Have the other two help us out

Leader shots down the first that comes at him but you are not so lucky you missed the two that jumped at you and they managed to knock you off your feet and pin you to the wall. You are now restrained.

Roll D20 to free yourself and specify how.

rolled 19 = 19

>>9110338

FREE MYSELF BY CRUSHING THEM WITH MY PINCERS!

>>9110378
Great success!
Enraged by their attack you draw your strength and fiercely claw into their belly with your smaller pincers they scream in pain for a moment their grip loosens on you. Using the opportunity swipe one off you but not let go with the small pincers, then you grab the other one‘s neck with your large pincers and rip his head off. The other unable to get free while your small pincers dug themselves deep you swipe at it and smash it into the wall while you two small pincers pull out its insides. It turns into a lifeless ragdoll and moves no more.

While this happened 32 and 68 join the fight from the other room and opes fire into the crowd.

Roll D20 for 32 and 68 each, 68 gets +2

rolled 4 = 4

>>9110518
YES

rolled 10 = 10

68 Attack!

Have us take the rifle and also shoot.

rolled 9 + 2 = 11

68

>>9110620
>>9110563
>>9110556
The darkness seems to make shooting difficult 32 misses his mark even tough there are many targets they are fast moving, 68 however always a bro he hits one that is about to go after you but it was not a direct hit and it just stumbled to the wall beside you. Your mighty victory over two of them and appearance of 68 and 32 startle the attackers for a moment but they do not stop their assault.

While they shoot leader is attacked by another one before he could fire once again,
Roll D20 for glorious leader!

You reach for your rifle and pull it out.

rolled 8 + 2 = 10

>>9110687

GO LEADER!!!

Use snap shots so that we can shoot twice

Leader stands his ground as the Tasoth snarls and leaps at him, he has no time to shoot so he instead he swipes with his right arm slams his opponent aside with his gun. Tasoths are tough and agile lizards however and it instinctively jumps on his feet and leaps on leader again.

Roll D20 again for leader!

You have your gun out now but the one that 68 hit and fell beside you is on its feet again and attacks you.

rolled 9 + 2 = 11

>>9110818
Leader.

Shoot the one jumping on us, since he's so close we should have high chance to hit him

>>9110857
Having the clear advantage leader raises his rifle and puts his attacker out of his misery. Then turns towards the rest of the attackers only 4 attackers are alive now.

You aim at the one close to yourself and shoot at it.
Please roll D20 you get +3 for this one.

rolled 16 + 3 = 19

>>9110932

If we miss, we go directly into unarmed offensive

DM, you've outdone yourself. Lobsterman quest's flag is super awesome.

Also, it warms my heart to see Lobsterman quest continue without me there to drive it

>>9111079

Ah, Lupin, I was wondering where you were :)

>>9111079
I apologize for my failure to give you notice about tonight's session bro.

>>9110976
The tides have turned to your favor now as 68 and 32 are here, you have your rifle out and are on your feet luckily unharmed and leader seems to be on the top things. Only 3 Tasoths left but they do not seem to be bothered about this they madly charge, one against you and two against leader.

Have 68 and 32 defend leader.

Have us shoot the one charging at us. If he gets too close rip him with pincers.

68 and 32 fire away
Please Roll D 20 for each again, 68 gets +1

You raise your rifle and shoot he one that comes after you.
Please Roll D 20+1 for yourself.

rolled 10 = 10

32

rolled 9 = 9

68

rolled 3 + 1 = 4

Us

rolled 5 + 1 = 6

>>9111279
>>9111285
>>9111312

Aww

rolled 12 + 1 = 13

>>9111156
It's fine. I personally forgot entirely before seeing the awesome picture you drew. it's the entire reason I'm here tonight to participate.

The two attackers move to fast for 32 and 68 to hit them the two jump at leader and push him off his feet as well. One of them tries to take of leader’s rifle while the other just holds him down.

Roll D20 for leader!

You shoot the one that comes after you but it is too fast and dodges it then slams itself into you and grabs your rifle and forces it away from itself to prevent you from shooting again. It snarls at you and you can see it s razor like teeth flashing from his mouth.

Roll D20 for slashing it with your pincers!

rolled 7 = 7

RIP&TEAR

rolled 20 = 20

Leader ATTACK

While you are wrestling with the Tasoth for the rifle you are unable to grab him with your pincers but he is also unable to gain the upper hand.
Roll D20 again!

Critical Success!
Leader lives up for his veteran status as he lets his rifle away and but then skillfully grabs both opponents each with one of his greater pincers and snatches the rifle away with his lower ones. Then he slams the two together and throws one to the floor and steps on it then shows you some admirable RIP&TEAR action as he snaps the Tasoth into two by the belly then pins the last one to the ground with his great pincer around its neck. He could have killed it but it seems he has other plans.

rolled 5 = 5

>>9111577

Take a millisecond to admire leader's RIP&TEAR

i think we're about to get shot

>>9111644

No, those things have razor sharp teeth .... which is actually worse

>>9111661
teeth strong enough to cut through our genengineered carapace that lets us take a rocket to the face and only suffer minor wounds to the eyes? i don't think so

You admire leader’s RIP&TEAR action for just a millisecond but sadly this millisecond gives enough window of opportunity for the Tasoth to twist the rifle out of your pincers. You are forced a step back and the Tasoth now has your rifle you have a moment to react before it could fire at you.

Roll D20 to react and specify!

>>9111689

Dunno, let's see what DM says

rolled 9 = 9

charge the enemy, rip his arms off with our claws!

Have the rest of the squad shoot too

>>9111722
You jump at the Tasoth and grab the rifle’s barrel again, the rifle fires but luckily does not hit you. You are now back wrestling for the rifle again.
Continue to Roll D20 please!

While this is happening leader 08 has the last Tasoth firmly secured, 68 and 32 do not wish to risk friendly fire so they hold their fire while you are fighting close combat although they are ready.

rolled 6 = 6

die

can we use our implant to communicate with the squad, inform them we're going to jump out of the way so they can shoot this guy?

>>9111864
>>9111835
The Tasoth gains the upper hand and uses it s tail to sweep your legs out you fall back and the Tasoth has your rifle and attempts to shoot you but at the very last moment it is interrupted as both 68 and 32 shoots it down and dropping it finally.

that was intense

let's see what leader has to say

You get up and take your rifle back from the Tasoth that bested you twice in close combat. Then all of you gather with Leader who still holds the last Tasoth down. He attempts to question it about its actions but it does not answer, moreover it seems that it doesn’t even understand your communication at all, this creature is only acting on its predatory instincts as most of the others did. They showed little signs of the intelligence their kind usually should, they had no weapons with themselves either.

Leader: “What should we do with it? Any inputs?”

Tell him that there's probably nothing we can get from it, maybe it's for the best to finish it

>>9112007
68 and 32 has no better ideas either so leader finishes it off. The takes his rifle back and gives orders.

Leader: Secure the east room we need to make sure no more attackers are lurking about!

>>9112184

Let's go to eastern room then, let us be cautious.

68 and you take up position at the two corners of the door with 08 and 32 backing you up. You and 68 move inside ready to shoot but you see no movement, the room is pretty dark you can make out some limited things. This room is full of machinery.

The 68 touches one of them and they come to life and each start to glow a bit you see two rows of cloning and incubation chambers in arranged in a line along the wall. They all have Tasoths in them in different stages of development the majority are still in embryonic stage some that are barely grown and some that are fully grown just like the one you fought. You also see that 7 chambers are empty meaning these are the ones your attackers came from. These are all dormant and asleep.

On the opposite end of the room you can notice 3 panels in the dim light that is provided by the chambers.

Other than the sleeping Tasoths this room is empty.

investigate the panels

Let's see if we can access the computers and base's internal network. Maybe we can power up the elevator from here and turn the lights on. Redirect power from cloning chambers of necessary

forgot to add the map dammit

Leader follows suit with you and connects into the middle panel from the three. After a few minutes of silence he has good news, the energy that keeps this room active can be used to bring the elevator online. However there is a cost, if he does this that will shut down all the chambers in here effectively killing most if not all the developing Tasoths that are slumbering in here.

>>9112497

Let's do it, what use do we have from intelligent less murderous lizards?

>>9112497

Tasoth are replacable, and thus irrelevant. The Synomium device AI and the base itself is more valuable from a resource point of view.

let's decant the ones that can survive outside the vats

>>9112643
You do not know how to tell this, and those who are removed from their vats would probably be mindless predators who would turn on you.

Leader start to work on the panels and in a few minutes the tanks around start cease oxygen circulation and lights go out. Soon all of them go offline and dark. The emergency lights turn on in this room after this. The Tasoth bodies do not move at all somehow you expected them to wake up and fight for their life or suffocate. But the sight is much more peaceful nothing happens as life fades away from the dozens of bodies with the youngest ones first, the older ones following.

It makes you wonder that this could happen even with you one day, you go back to your chamber for a rest you just never wake up anymore and you do not even know that you died. A frightening fate of those who live their lives tied closely to these machines, if these machines fail there is not salvation left.

The elevator’s lights soon come online and access to the upper level is finally open.

>>9112819

Let's go to upper level now

>>9112896

But carefully. Elevators are known deathtraps for ambushes.

Your squad leaves the room and gathers at the four person elevator. Before leaving you turn back and take a last look at these unfortunate creatures. They died before they were even born just so that you could complete your orders.

You go to the elevator and go up one by one. The lighting and base’s condition is no different on the upper level than it was at the lower levels. It turns out that this is not the control room at all you arrived to a similar room that was below and towards the south is another larger room and its doors has fallen out or broken by force. You can see inside the floor is littered with pieces of rocks and plastics.

Your squad sees nothing unusal right now, no movement no enemies.

And as much as I hate to say it we have to cut it here because my strength is failing, I must go to bed now.

Thanks to everyone who participated in Lobsterman Quest part7!

FEEDBACK TIME!
Did you enjoy today’s session? Do you have any suggestions? What would you like to see in the future?

>>9113146

Go south, carefully.

we really need to fabricate some remote viewing robots.

>>9113224
Aww

I like how it's going.

Put a faster pace would be quite nice

>>9113224
i likely sound like a broken record, but lobstermanquest_flag_color.jpg is one of the most beautiful things i've ever seen come out of a quest thread.

good session like always

Yeah, thank you too dm )

also, archived

>>9113229
I have mentioned it before that if you get Tech level 2 you are allowed to go to the workshop and build shit.

>>9113256
I wish I could go and do it faster but my RL is preventing me from doing so. I know there are quests that have several sessions during the week almost daily but alas I cannot be one of them.

>>9113397
Oh it's ok, just something that would be nice and all

>>9113325
Thanks for that

>>9113397
>>you are allowed to go to the workshop and build shit.
I will add "within reasonable limits" to that line

Well then I shall return to the dephs of the ocean for slumber. Next time will probably be at Friday or/and Saturday depending on my time.

Goodnight /tg/!

>>9113397
what i'm thinking of is about the size of a soda can, it's a remote controlled pair of wheels with a camera in the front and is durable enough to be thrown some 30 feet and still do it's job of remote recon. there's a pipe/tube that sticks out the side opposite to the camera and ensure the camera always points in the right direction. They're in use in iraq/afganistan now and cost like 200$ to build including the remote.

they're really awesome