>>9904907
>street, the street, the street

Make our way out of the city ASAP. Lure as much of the brood out as possible.

Part 7- http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/9781242/
Part 8- http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/9802302/
Part 9- http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/9841752/
Part 10- http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/9846191/
Part 11- http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/9861922/
Part 12- http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/9883636/

"Ma'am, I think we're losing them," Brody shouts, leaning out the passenger window. On the hood of the car, your halluginogenic spirit guide, Spider Lebron, skitters about; he's fading somewhat, so hopefully that means the drugs are wearing off.

>>9905040
Check how much gas we have left and circle around for another pass through the city if possible. Concentrate on spreading the flames to non-burning sections of the area if we can. Then take a seat and watch how the horde reacts.

>>9904929
You're making your way gradually out of the city, but it's slow work. Some streets are completely webbed over, and you don't dare try to plow through for fear of becoming stuck; you wouldn't want to try this on foot.

The grenade launcher is out of fragmentation grenades, but you've set a small and rapidly growing portion of the city ablaze.

>>9904907
>my face after reading this post.
Link to the last thread? Need to catch up

>>9905109
see
>>9904937

Welcome back.

What would happen if we drained the spiders for blood?

>>9905141
Your blood has been concentrating on killing many spiders rather than devouring a single target, but it is "feeding" on whatever spiders it's been killing

>>9905097
Alright then, in that case lets concentrate on getting out of the city alive. Find a strategic position of some sort to overlook the town and wait to see how the spiders react to their burning home.

We should attempt to alert the border patrol surrounding the town to shoot any monsters on sight. We need extra hands here.

New Archive Section

Locations of Interest

Miami Arkham Facility- Where most Subjects were held. Four Subjects escaped initially, 13, 54, 82, and 88, most of the rest escaped afterwards.

Who is 88?

>>9905309
For some reason, the rest of the locations can't be posted.

>>9905335
4chan thinks we're plotting some kind of terrorist activity posting all these cities, lol.

>>9905335
Hah! Now its a picture!

It died. :(

>>9905205
"You have slain our brood, and fogged our minds. Truly, you can call yourself victorious this day. But we will snap the spines of your hives, and drink the fleshy nectar of your steel fruit."

You circle around the city, looking for a highway ramp to make your escape. The fire is spreading outwards from the central area you set ablaze; you wish you had been at the very outskirts when the fighting had started.

You dial Fieldson on your phone; he answers after about six rings.
"Yeah?"
"I'm in Louisville; it's a bit more than I expected. You might want to tell the local perimeter to get ready for what's coming."
"What is coming?"
"Babies. Relatively speaking."

BLOODQUEST FUCK YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>9905606
And they're tripping balls.

>>9905606
You find an exit ramp, swerving onto it, slashing another spider apart as you go. A crowd of them is escaping using the highway, and they scuttle after you up the ramp.

>Roll a d100

>>9905606
Try to get lots of military force to Louisville as fast as is possible cuz LOTS of spiders are coming up out of it.

rolled 23 = 23

>>9905782
Here goes nothing.

rolled 8 = 8

>>9905782

rolled 69 = 69

>>9905782

>>9905822
Wow...........already?

>>9905833
Didn't you get the memo?
That's how we do.

rolled 4 = 4

Rollan

>>9905822
>>9905823
>>9905858
Impressive

*facepalm*

>>9905822
>Lawl
Precog: FAILURE
>>>9905823
>LAWL

You are concentrating on the spiders swarming the road behind you, ad listening to Fieldson on the line.
"we're trying to get in touch with the military, get some eyes in the sky to see how you're looking down there."

You turn back to face the highway, only to see a spider the size of a house plodding onto the highway with deceptively nimble telephone pole-like legs. It lifts one as you approach, deftly slamming into the side of the Corvette.
You don't go sailing through the air, but you skid sideways into the concrete median, sparks flying and paint scraping off the side of the car. Your phone goes flying out of your hand, skittering out the window and into the concrete.

>What do?

>>9905943
Hit it with the blood!

>>9905943
Blood the engine?

>>9905943
Kill it with guns, kill it with blood. ANY WAY YOU DO IT JUST KILL THE DAMN THING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>9905823
You guys are gonna hate me for this, I don't even read the quest i just saw roll d100 and did.

I'm sorry

>>9906017
Don't worry bro, I rolled the 8. You rolled the 69.

>>9906017
Par for the course. That being said, you *should* read bloodquest, it is a cavalcade of awesome.

>>9906046
Unfortunately so.

And once again were trapped beneath hateful dice, bad timing and the AWESOME just out of reach..... :(

>>9905943
Blood Armor Up!
>No! 54's car!
>How did he drive in his condition, anyway? Technomancy?

>>9906123
It's really the answer for everything.

>>9905960
>>9905996
You slam on the accelerator, pulling away from the concrete wall. Brody fires a round at its massive undersection as you drive past, but it plinks off harmlessly. You also lean out your window, steering jerkily as you fire off round after round from your handgun, but the creature's hide seems more than capable of ignoring gunfire.

"Yes, yes, spit your iron raindrops," 96's deep voice booms with laughter. His thundering legs keep pace with the car easily even as you accelerate.
The spider's face radiates with a cascading spiral of dark, wet-looking eyes. Its three enormous fangs jut out at chaotic angles, thrashing viciously like toxic scythes.

>what do?

>>9906145
Oh shit! I think this is actually 96
Blood Whip a leg as you go by.

If there are no additional spiders near we might as well stop the car and fight it on foot.
Try to ram the car into it and disembark while it's getting up.

>>9906268
Ramming means we might ruin the car. Psychic spider means there could be a lot more of the little ones coming, we need to be able to make a quick getaway.

>>9906145
KILL THIS SONNABITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>9906268
>A sizable chunk of the brood is right behind you
>>9906187
>Whip it good

You swerve around the dancing legs, slinging out a left arm as one lands beside you. The blood catches fast, and your arm is nearly pulled from its socket as 96 wrenches its leg free of the lash. There is a slight black singe on the leg, but the ancient spider's hide is remarkably tough.

>>9906145
I know the blood armor has spikes, do the whips? If so, maybe we can wrap one around a leg and then sort of saw it in there.

rolled 23 = 23

>>9906367
Bloodspear. Bloodarmour. Pic related.

>>9906367
>Starspider (un)surprisingly resilient
Gentlemen, we may need more firepower for this one.
That, or go for the eyes.
We'll need the high ground though.

>>9906367
Go for the eyes Boo... I mean Helen!

>>9906415
This or the Fangs.

If we manage to climb up the spider it'll be totally fucked, though I don't know if getting the upper ground is a possibility at this point. Hopefully if 96 dies the brood dies too.

>>9906438
Seconded, the eyes or the maw seem to be the only two vulnerable spots. Attack one of them for massive damage!

>>9906450
Most likely they wont die, they'll just be completely leaderless without their Hive Mind, just like all Nids.

>>9906480
And clean up is for Arkham, we're here to kill the big nasties.

>>9906450
If we clibm on it, it'd only have to roll around a bit to crush us into a fine paste.

>>9906465
If these dont work try to sever the leg joints/hit the underbelly.

>>9906465
How about we get eaten by it, then tear it's guts out?

I happen to know spiders have organs free floating in blood, so this could be a major power up.

Go for the eyes. Tell Brody to do the same.

>>9906573
Doubt we'd be so lucky as to be just swallowed whole.

Gas Grenades to the Face!

>>9906438
>>9906415
>>9906410
>>9906394
>>9906465
>Go for the eyes!

You continue to swerve around the stampeding legs as they punch dents in the roadway itself. You look up at the creature's body as it blots out the sun. Desperate, you flail a whip straight upwards, snapping your hand back violently. The strand of your blood snaps and the spearlike projection sails upwards, splashing onto several of the creature's eyes. It howls, a thundering earthquake-rumble that rattles your mind. Writhing slightly, it barrels downwards, one of its angular fangs shearing off the top of the corvette and Brody's head, which explodes in a mist of gore.

<YOUR BOND WITH YOUR BLOOD HAS INCREASED>
<YOU CAN NOW DISLODGE BLOOD-SPEARS>

>>9906579
Well, he is supposed to be quite the marksman. I support this.

>>9906610
It's also probably highly venomous.

>>9906631
Good thing he can heal.

>>9906573
Given that 96 is a huge ham, it wouldn't surprise me if it toys with its food and wouldn't simply just swallow 82 whole. So that's probably a poor choice.

There's always learning how to do the Blood Geyser from Metal Slug and just aim for the eyes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkkrcD2tg3c#t=00m32s

>>9906631
>Finally, a ranged attack!
Keep doing what we're doing.

MOAR BLOODSPEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>9906631
>Projectile Blood
>>9906649
Oh man, I totally called it. Just wish I posted faster.

>>9906682
>>9906688

The right idea, right here.

>>9906631
>BLOOD-SPEARS
Hell yeah!
>shearing off the top of the corvette and Brody's head, which explodes in a mist of gore.
Explaining what's going on when he respawns in the middle of this is going to be a bitch.

>>9906631
Stare in excitement at our wrist for a split-second, then start a barrage of spears at it's eyes.

>>9906631
Is the card around Brody's neck still there? This might be a bit weird for him to wake up to.

>>9906695
Hopefully the note isn't covered with blood.
Actually, let's just hope he finds the spider slightly scarier than the bloody chick.
Keep an eye on him, with a cry of "Shoot the spider, soldier!" at the ready.

>>9906745
This, but address him by name?

>>9906631
Try to aim for the same spot we already hit in hope of some nasty internal damage.

Keep hitting the bastard.

>>9906831
>>9906793
>>9906761
>>9906745
>>9906728
>>9906695
>>9906688
>>9906682
"Fuck YES!" you cry, snapping off several more spears. 96 rears back, swatting at you with its front four legs. It's children swarm around its back legs, still advancing. One spear splashes against the side of its "face" while the others splash against its underside. It stabs at you, and though you swerve around the blows, the highway shudders.

>Roll a d100

rolled 55 = 55

>>9906892
With a name like mine, I'm asking for it.

>>9906919
Better than usual, at least.

rolled 30 = 30

>>9906919
Got lucky mate.

rolled 38 = 38

>>9906892
Rawlin

>>9906957
>>9906974
FUCK SHIT

BLOODQUEST FUCK YEAR.

BLOODSPEARS FUCK YEAR.

GIANT KILLING FUCK YEAR.

Best.
Thread.
Evar.

>>9906999
Official roll is a 55 unmoded, i think we'll make it bro, at least i HOPE we do. Otherwise were in for a world of hurt.

rolled 88 = 88

>>9907021
We were a car thief, assuming this roll is for driving, we should get a decent bonus.

>>9906919
>55
The section of highway around you starts to collapse. It tilts backwards, and you ramp off the collapsing piece, chunks of Devon's flesh reforming like glittering specks of sand as you seem to hang in space for what feels like far more than a split second.
Your front wheels hit the stable section of highway, but your backwheels spin in space, the undercarriage of the car scraping noisily against the pavement.A thick leg misses your car by a few feet as your back wheels catch on the jagged road-edge, popping you upwards onto the road. 96 has plunged onto the perpendicular highway below this one, out of sight. It's brood are trapped on the other side, though you can see them descending the broken highway.

Sorry I'm late. Let me catch up...

>>9907049
Oh my god

>>9907049
FUCK WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!! FUCK YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

rolled 23 = 23

>>9907049
MOAR SPEARS.
Specifically, at the spiders.
And ask Brody if he's OK.

>>9907106
Can we project the spears from our blood? Why don't we lay a thin coating of blood upon the ground and project spears from it? It'll exhaust us, but for every enemy we impale, we'll resupply.

>>9907106
>ga-hyuck!

You fling several projectiles back, at least one colliding with a smaller purple spider and the others cascading down, hopefully on 96's head.

You can see several planes passing overhead; hopefully the military brought more than scouts.

>>9907186
Moar speed. Could be bad times if we're around when those planes start doing whatever they're going to be doing.

>>9907186
K now get bearing/check equipment/check Brody/reload on all remaining gunz.

>>9907186
>Air strike
We need to floor it. No one sends several planes for scouting.

rolled 16 = 16

>>9907209
This.

And shit, artillery fire was what I was going for. At least they went in that general direction.

>>9907223
GAH. FUCK. NO MOAR ROLLS.
Why does it replace my 'noko' with 'noko+dice+1d100' ;_;

>Stonerbro, quick question for the archive so I don't have to go through all the archived threads, is the length of the bloodwhips 12 feet or 12 meters?

>>9907186
Time to GTFO.

It may be time.
>Time for what?
The Water Bottle.
>The wa- Are you mad?!

>>9907333
Brody drinks first.

>>9907333
You could say I'm just "hot-blooded."

>>9907357
(Had to finish that.)

>>9907357
Our first alias was Mary.
Guess that makes us...
Bloody Mary

>>9907304
It was 12 ft. You're probably up to 15 with this last advancement.

You step on the gas, putting more distance between you and the growing Louisville inferno.
"Wasps and beetles, come to protect your worms?," 96 booms. "Come and have your wriggling lice plucked."

Brody seems to be physically reformed. He blinks slowly, looking over at the woman covered in a slick skin of blood, in a half-destroyed car.
"what the...christ?"

>>9907387

>>9907417
"I'm in command! Read the card around your neck! Shoot the spiders!"

>>9907417
"Private, keep that gun on the bridge behind us. If anything more than a guinea pig comes over that edge, I want you to remind it why that's a Bad Idea."

>>9907479
This.

"If you are so far above us, why do you speak in our tongue? Perhaps you are not so great after all."

>>9907538
>>9907489
>>9907479

"If you are so far above us, why do you speak in our tongue? Perhaps you are not so great after all."
"We speak tongues we do now know, into your very thoughts, among the knotted wreckage of your attempted sentience, without the frail meat-flaps you must vibrate, and this is some form of descent? How droll."

"Read your card, private. Take out anything that clears that bridge."

Somewhere in the city, there is a large explosion.

>>9907586
WE ARE NOT RUNNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FIND THE BASTARD AND KILL HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>9907586
And now we outrun what may be a nulclear explosion...
(Also, I saw another thread spell "Like a Boss" as "Like a Baus". I'm probably reading too much into that.)

>>9907602
82 vs Carpet bombing
I don't think I need to tell you who'll win that.
We need to cut our loses, Maybe duing the re-match we'll have a better position.

That sounds like an air raid to me

Let's book it

Important thing here: Don't look back. Being blind would suck.

>>9907602
Maybe the military will bomb him. We should put ourselves in gear and clear the area for a moment since we are not in a stable area for driving.

>>9907635
>>9907645
>>9907634
>>9907627
Brody clips the first small spider to clear the edge of the highway, hundreds of feet away. It disappears back down the collapsed road.

You hear more explosions behind you; you step on it.
"what the hell were those things ma'am?" Brody asks.

"All in all, I'd said a good meal," Garfield purrs.

>>9907646
We've gotten to a BBEG separation event dude, i dont think the military is gonna get him if we dont so we NEED TO KILL HIM NAOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Blood armor up.
Gas pedal at maximum.
RUN LIKE HELL.

>>9907721
They were brunch.

>>9907721
"Bombs and possibly artillery coming in, soldier! Keep your head down and shoot anything that has eight legs and is purple!"

Continue getting the hell out of there until things stop exploding. Explosions are NEVER good when you don't cause them.

>>9907721
I wonder if we might be able to seek out the spiders now that Garfield's has a taste for them. He can be our bloodhound.
...er, bloodcat. You know what I mean.

>>9907797
Bloodblood?

>>9907733
It's inevitable we'll have a second showdown with 96. Going back is just suicidal with the airstike. We'll just have to get out, regroup, and plan for round 2.

>>9907797
Blood-bloodhound.

>>9907832
why dont we wait for the airstrike to finish, then go investigate the wreckage?

>>9907878
Hmm, this is a solid idea.

>>9907878
I like this

>>9907878
THIS A BILLION TIMES THIS!!!

>>9907797
If we can figure out how to do this, we might be able to track 18 (did we get him a little?)... or 27.

There is a flash behind you. Your car swerves as a rush of wind blows past you, along with a thundering explosion.
"Keep your head down, private, bombs are dropping!"
"What??" Brody winces as another explosion is heard. "Artillery fire...I understand ma'am."

54's car rattles as it makes its way, still mostly-intact, away from Louisville.

>>9907977
Just out of curiosity, what year is the 'vette?

Also, keep moving until we get a vantage point at an assumed safe distance, then survey the wreckage.

>>9908005
Agreed

>>9908005
>>9908033
Now we just need to find Subject #Unknown, The Mechanic!

Are we going back the way we came or further south?

>>9908105
Divert around city, head south.

>>9908093
Or hope we're riding in a car that can self-repair.
Hello, Subject #66!

>>9908105
The plan was to keep heading south but who knows which way we were headed when we put on the boogie shoes and got the fuck out.

>>9908131
So we need to get our bearings.

According to the signs, you're heading east on 64. You leave Louisville to the military, pressing onwards and south.

>Headed to Atlanta? Doing anything along the way?

>>9908232
Find out as much as we can from Fieldson about:
A) The Atlanta subjects
B) The equipment we were given

>>9908264
Lost our cell, remember?

Onwards to #33

Perhaps we can radio him?
Maybe a quick shower would be a good idea...

>>9908232
I think we want to see what's left of Louisville before we go anywhere. A look back from a good distance is enough.

>>9908232
wait, i thought we were doing
>>9907949
>>9907909
>>9907901
?
>>9907878

>>9908232
A night's sleep in a hotel? Long day.
>>9908264
Atlanta Subjects!
19- Emits Gamma Radiation Constantly
62- Old Man, Bends time near him
88- Phillip Walker, intensely strong, hyper-aggressive bone growth, rather unintelligent
Giant Praying Mantis- Bulletproof, rips tops off cars, eats those inside.

>>9908338
Old Man first, for definite.

>>9908338
Thanks for the reminder Archivist. First priority?
Walker is a possible, if unlikely ally, the others seem to be too dangerous or are a praying mantis

>>9908338
19 - Stop by a hospital! Acquire a full-out radiation blocking suit! Should be like wearing 3-4 inches of lead! Its going to be hot and heavy and really suck, but gamma radiation kills living tissue - does MAJOR damage to people. - Maybe we should invest in a sniper rifle and take him out from range.

62 - Fight him with Brody? Since Brody is a time-anomaly...

88 - Break out the blood whips and armor piercing shells

Preying Mantis - blast music at it to screw up its senses while it flies - blood whip some more.

>>9908402
Yeah, Brody is supposed to be static. At the very least, should be interesting.

>>9908402
We don't have to kill them all, do we?

>>9908309
At the next rise in the highway, you slow down, chancing a look back.
The smoke from Louisville is forming a thick black cloud in the sky. You can see a helicopter circling overhead. A mighty cloud of dust and debris was kicked up by the explosions; there are no signs if 96, and it;s too far to see how many broodlings survived.

the beast. it needs a killin'.

Though really, you'd think the 30mm cannon fire from the helicopters would be more than a match for anything we can chuck a spear through.

they just need to GO FOR THE OPTICS, CHIKTIKKA!

>>9908402
>Fight him with Brody? Since Brody is a time-anomaly
What if exactly because of that he can disable Brodys regeneration / respawning?

>>9908498
I dunno. But its better than hitting him and suddenly watching ourselves turn to dust because we age incredibly fast. He at least we should talk to before we engage in any sort of combat.

Gamma man, no. Kill him on sight.

>>9908498
Or we have some unstoppable force vs immovable object action and create a quantum singularity or something. It's probably best to deal with the old guy at a distance.

>>9908436
This!
While 19s mere presence is harmful to living things he may not be actively hostile.
And perhaps we could reason with 62.

WAAAGGG BLOODQUEST!!!!!!

>>9908534
He could rewind or stop time around himself, don't you think? So technically speaking he could be untouchable.

>>9908549
Not against Chaos Gods like 13.

>>9908536
By his very existence he is a threat to everything around him. We can control ourselves to an extent - his power only kills, and we don't know if he can control it. Thankfully, gamma radiation doesn't have that much of a range - but it penetrates organic material with a lot of power.

>>9908549
I'm cba to look up the original description but if all we know is that he bends time near him, he may not have voluntary or fine control over his ability to the point where he can just fuck with the flow of time how ever he pleases.

>>9908584
Would killing him even stop the gamma radiation? Or are we going to have to kill him and then send out a radiation team to seal his corpse in a lead coffin and store it somewhere far out of the reach of anyone/anything.

>>9908584
I think 62 is the one we should definitely try not to kill. 19 may have to be killed, but if he's willing to relocate he doesn't have to be. The bone-growth dude likewise may not need to be killed.

The mantis dies, though.

>>9908584

infinite range, but the intensity drops off with the distance cubed.

It's really a matter of *HOW* radioactive this guy is. a piddly few inches of lead aren't going to reduce the gamma flux much at close range.

You stop at a hotel in Nashville, and take a long shower. You hair is back to its original fiery red.
"Quite the day," Garfield murmurs.
"You're not kidding." you reply.
"Thank you...for always carting me around inside your body." Garfield says, somewhat awkwardly thankful..

"Hello? Is anybody in here?" Brody shouts from the main room.
"Oh, crap, I thought we'd finish before this happened," you say.

>>9908646
"Don't worry about it, Garfield. We are stuck together no matter what. And its nice to have you inside me as well. Without you, well... I probably would be dead."

"READ THE CARD ON YOUR NECK!"

>>9908646
Thank Garfield for being there cuz we are batfuck insane on GOOD days.
Lets head for Atlanta, and we'll just hjave to kill 96 next time........ :( dammit

>>9908646

Equip pants, shirt, instruct Brody before he wanders off like a heavily armed Alzheimer's patient.

>>9908646
"Hey, as far as I see it, you ARE part of my body, so, yeah."
"Private Brody, this is your commanding officer! Bunk down and get some shuteye, we have a long day tomorrow!"

>>9908684

Also thank Garfield. Even if we're together without any choice, there's probably some way things could be worse. He's at least pretty cool about it.

>>9908646
Thank you for fighting alongside of me, inside of me, and moving oxygen.

Tell Brody to read his card or find it and then read it he had managed to misplace it.

Agreed.
"Thanks for saving my ass more times than I can count."

"Brody, there's a card around your neck. Didn't anybody ever teach you situational awareness?"

>>9908676
>>9908679
>>9908684
>>9908709
>>9908710
>>9908712
"Don't worry about it Garfield. I'm glad to have to hear; you've pulled us through some crazy shit, so id probably be dead without you."

"Brody!" you shout. "Read the damn card!"
"The what? the- oh." Brody is silent for a few seconds.
"yes ma'am!"
"Get some shuteye, private."
"Yes ma'am!"

>>9908761
>here

>>9908761
Unless there anything else for the evening, NEXT DAY!

>>9908773
To Atlanta!

>>9908761
Use the hotel phone to call Walters, if we have a cell number.

Wake up, kick ass, chew bubblegum, check radios for news.

Brody's soft snoring is like the ticking of a clock in the warm darkness.
You lie awake, gripping at the cheap hotel sheets. Outside, the moon is onstructed by the branch of a tree dancing in the breeze, sending a field of shadowy fragments dancing across the room.
Those fucking shadows.

One fitful night later, you're driving south, bleary eyed. Brody woke up screaming in the middle of the night and you had to explain what was going on. Then you had to do it again in the morning.
Now you're doing it a third time as you cross into Georgia. You'd regret taking him, but he's sort of handy to have in a fight.

>>9908867
Maybe we should invest in some oxygen+chloroform breather for him to wear to stay asleep... Cruel but necessary. Its like dealing with an Alzheimer's patient...

rolled 36 = 36

>>9908867
I'm out for the night, but awesome.
I feel like we should keep some syringes of heroin on hand, or something. Good way to get a night's sleep.
That might be the cyberpunk I'm reading though. <_<

GOOD LUCK FELLOW BLOODQUESTERS.
HERE IS A ROLL.

>>9908849
>>9908845
>MEANWHILE, BACK IN TIME.
According to the morning paper, San Francisco has been completely abandoned, and is now being bombed by the military. Chicago has also suffered more attacks from 18's demons. Martial law is now in effect across the entire country, a military power structure completely eclipsing any local government at will.

You dial the number for Walters. It rings and rings and rings. You call again.
"Hello? Hello?" You can hear shouting and the revving of engines in the background.

>>9908962
"Miss me? I'm on my way to help you guys out! Run like hell, babe!"

>>9908962
"Bad time to call?"

>>9908962
"Jacob, its Helen. A friend and I are coming to help out in Atlanta, you still there?"

"Jacob, it's Helen. I'm on my way to Atlanta. What's going on down there?"

>>9908962

Heard you guys had a bug problem. Good news, I just took up a new career as an exterminator. So far, business is good.

>>9908991
>>9908983
"Is this a bad time? On our way down to help you out. what's the situation?"
"Bad, all bad. WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO UP THERE?! I sent you in there, I assisted you. Tell me you had nothing to do with Blind Falls, so i can try to believe it."

I just lost track of this thread and went through the entire 15 pages, certain it had ended while I was away and been pushed aside by that stupid new trap meme, while unsaved on sup/tg/.

Then I see it here again, and all is well. Fuck, I haven't even read more than the first one and a bit of the 12th one, and I want to read through them all pretty badly because it's clear that StonerDM is fricking fantastic at what he does. I just need the time...

>>9909031
"I had something to do with blind falls in that I was just about the only one to rescue a higher up from that hell hole yea"

>>9909031
I had nothing to do with the indecent Jacob, a giant Kraken monster pull the island down and killed a lot of the higher ups. I was barely able to escape the place myself.

"That was... I have no idea what the hell that was. I saved one of the scientists, s_______, and barely made it out alive myself."

>>9909031
"Since when am I an octopus bigger than an island?"

>>9909073
except for the part what with the rescuing people and getting hired and paid in artifacts.

>>9909080
Okuniewicz.

>>9909031
"Blind Falls got attacked by a friggin' Kraken! I'm working with Arkham right now - they are backing me up as I help them clean up this mess. I'm coming in as extra support. See you there! Stay alive!"

>>9909031
More importantly whats going on down there? Im on my way to help out and i need a heads up.

"Oh yeah, they hired me, too. I'm Arkham now."

>>9909128
>>9909105
>>9909097
>>9909086
>>9909084
>>9909080
>>9909073
>>9909056
>>9909046
"Since when am I an octopus the size of an island? I was invovled if you mean i saved probably one of the only surviving brass."
"...Coming down to help are you?"
"Right. What's going on down there?"
"We're getting pounded. There's a whole section of town you can't go in because you'll age to dust in an hour, and 19's wandering around screaming and giving people cancer. I never thought a man-rhino would be the best-case scenario here."

>>9909213
"You're speaking of 88 I take it?"

>>9909213
"Do you have full radiation suits there? Lead armor? Anything of the sort? I brought someone to handle the aging issue, but we'll need to suit up and deal with the screaming radiation man. As for the rhino... he can be dealt with normally."

>There's a whole section of town you can't go in because you'll age to dust in an hour
Makes me wonder how the hell did they keep 62 locked up in the first place.

>>As for the rhino... he can be dealt with normally.

By which we mean, "Vaporized/Devoured by our magma-hot sentient eldritch blood."

This is an awesome normal.

Hm, if we could just get brody to focus, he'd be the answer to both problems. He can't die from radiation or age. We just need to give him good simple instructions he'd naturally follow just from reading them.

>>9909320

His own handwriting would be a good start.

>>9909285
This.
88s case seems to be the most straightforward, I say we head there first.

>>9909320
I think it would be very unwise to assume 62's power wouldn't effect Brody.

Would be nice to know the safe distance from 19.

>>9909239
>>9909250
>>9909262
>>9909285
>>9909320
"88?"
"The same."
"What have you got to deal with 19?"
"We have some rad-suits, but he'll punch through them if you're up close."

You take an exit directing you towards Atlanta.
"What about this age-zone?"
"You'll know it when you see it."

>>9909380

Anomalies.

Time to stock up on some 12mm bolts.

>>9909380
And the bug problem? Not that I'm exactly in the mood to to fight another giant insect.

>>9909380
"Do you have an armor piercing sniper rifle we can borrow?"

Does Garfield age?

If we ever meet Mr. Arkham I'd really love to hear the reason why most of these walking WMDs haven't been shot the moment they were discovered.

>>9909516
>>walking WMDs
I think you answered your own question.

>>9909446
>>9909405
"Do you have a large caliber rifle I could borrow?"
"A couple. We're basically under siege in the facility, the god damn mantis has made this area its hunting ground."
"Ugh, another bug..."
"What?"
"Had a tussle with 96 in Louisville. You guys were a little conservative with that number."
"I wouldn't know."

>>9909516
You can't even shoot the time guy.

I can only assume Arkham possesses the technology to neutralise him or has an operative immune to his powers. Possibly freezing to absolute zero would do it.

>>9909542
"Alright, we will be heading to you first then. That Mantis will be livin' on a wing and a prayer when we come for it."

I say we burninate the mantis, send Brody and his trusty springfield at Cap'n gamma, and then brainstorm our way to victory against the walking time anomaly, in that order.

Gamma rays are EM, not particle radiation, so they won't make either Brody or any of his equipment permanently radioactive. That's the one small consolation about this guy putting out gamma rays. They're nasty shit.

>>9909609
And the small fact that if Brody dies, his memory will reset and he will need to be reminded to kill the screaming guy.

>>9909627
Give him another card.......

>>9909627
That is what handwriting is for. Engrave it in metal if worst comes to worst

>>9909642
We have the technology. We can laminate it!

>>9909642
>>9909627
With a suit and a rifle, the gamma guy isn't all that. The time guy very much is.

>>9909642

THIS SCREAMING MADMAN IS A THREAT TO AMERICA AND IT'S PEOPLE.

Hey, i just had an awesome thought.

Dump nuclear waste onto time guy. All of it. If it works, we irradiate him to death. If it doesn't work, we've solved nuclear waste.

>>9909693
Hmm, maybe that's why they kept him around.

>>9909693
What if neither of them work and we create a scenario wherein there is a giant field of gamma radiation where your suit rots away?

>>9909663

Even with those things, he's still a big threat to *US*, we'd be dead or completely out of action for weeks if we got too close, suit or no. But Brody doesn't have to worry about the effects of radiation poisoning down the road or anything. Give him an hour and he's healthy as a horse. A horse that hasn't ever been exposed to lethal doses of gamma radiation.

>>9909711
That's not really possible. If time is accelerating, then we'll cut out a huge portion of the half-life.

Should there be yet another fuckery of physics, then... well, we can go around it. Everyone else can, too. It's not like anyone's going to live in Atlanta for a while.

>>9909733
I'm not objecting to letting Brody do it, I'm just saying the time guy is clearly the bigger threat.

>>9909749
The question is... how are they not dead yet? A man that constantly emits gamma radiation and appears to be suffering from releasing it should have died from pain or the side effects of being that radioactive. A man who speeds up time should have starved to death if all the stuff around him turns to dust..

>>9909786
The mantis is attacking our bestest friend though. So we go after that first.

>>9909733
>we'd be dead or completely out of action for weeks if we got too close
You forget the 3 heal-all-pills we were given.

>>9909542
A: Arrive at Atlanta Base.
B: Kill giant bug thing.
C: Try to get 88, and maybe 62 on board, 16 has clearly been driven insane by the radiation, so its best if we put him outta his misery.
D: If 62 wont listen to reason/has been driven mad by his power find a way to kill him too.

"We're heading to you first then. Keep an eye out for the half-a-corvette."
"Will do."
You hang up, working your way into the city. The streets seem fairly deserted, though there is the occasional stubborn vehicle. At some point you find a street containing a very clean-cut line of faded paint, beyond which the street lies littered with powdering bones. You turn back, skirting that area carefully.

Eventually you reach a fenced-in building with barbed wire surrounding. It reads "ATLANTA BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB." Two men in suits are standing at the gate. One of them in Coolbro Broglassesbro.

>>9909786
>>9909799
Although... I can see the advantages to eliminating Mr. Atomic and then maneuvering the time guy into his area.

>>9909791
Gamma guy is immune and 62's powers are voluntary, I believe. Granted our DM bro hasn't said gamma guy is immune, but it makes sense considering our pyromaniac couldn't be burned by his own flames.

>>9909853
HOLY FUCK!!!!!!!!!! ITS COOLBRO MCGLASSESBRO!!!!!!!
Awesome XD

>>9909853
"Hey bro! Remember me, and how I totally lied about who I was? Helen Tanner, 82, pleased to meetcha. Now, would you point me in the direction of the giant bug so I can kill it?"

>>9909791

We have infinite blood. Our timelocked friend never ages, and resets his physical state every hour, so he probably hasn't needed to eat since 1918. I'm a stickler for the hard sciences myself, but this is pretty clearly the *wrong* place for it.

>>9909791
I got 2 explanations for you buddy.

A: ITS MAGIC. I AINT GOTTA EXPLAIN SHIT!!!!!!
B: CHAOS/CTHULU! I CANT EXPLAIN SHIT.

>>9909851
This man has the right idea.

>>9909879
SECONDED.

>>9909851
This. A BILLION times this.

"Hey bro! Remember me, and how I totally lied about who I was? Helen Tanner, 82, pleased to meetcha. Now, would you point me in the direction of the giant bug so I can kill it?"
Coolbro raises an eyebrow; his face otherwise remains stoically unmoved.
"Big fucker's laying low at the moment," the other agent says. "You all the backup Arkham sent? Where's the transport out of here? Where's the damn air support?"

>>9909959

"they're busy being idiots, I'm all you get"

>>9909959
"There's no transport out of here until we clean up this mess. Once its taken care of, ya'll are being relocated westward I believe. I'd rather not deal with 13 right now if I can help it, so lets work together and try to clean up the eastern seaboard first, mmk? I mean, you guys don't want to be caught in another Miami, right?"

>>9909959
They are still trying to get their shit together in Chicago, dealing with both 18's demons and the fact that half the leadership is gone after Blind Falls.

>>9909959
"If most of the top brass weren't dead, you might get some support, as it is, they've decided to pull out of the entire southwest region. So either you bail yourselves out, or we take care of things on our own."

>>9909959
They are busy killing a giant, psychic, space traveling spider and its brood. Sorry, but we are it.

Are we crushing on Coolbro here?

Are there any other unique agents or 'special' equipment here? We need all the help we can get.

>>9909959
"About half your brass was eaten by a Kraken. The people that are left are busy practicing finding their asses with both hands, so i decided i'd lend a hand. Your bosses gave me some shiny crap and Captain Amnesia, and... well we're it."

>>9909991
>>9909988
>>9909984
>>9909981
"Everyone's running around like chickens with their heads cut off ever since Blind Falls figuratively cut all your heads off. I'm all you get."
"Well, it'll have to do I guess. Glad you're here. We've got two more men inside and two more patrolling, and that's it, sister."
A loud crash sounds to one side.
"Shit! He's coming back around!"

A car veers into view, followed by the stampeding limbs of the giant praying mantis. Whipping a scythelike arm through the air, it opens the car like a can, the top halves of two suited agents spilling out onto the ground.

>What do?

>>9909994
NO! WALTERS IS THE ONLY ONE FOR US! HE ONLY NEEDS TO TRUST US!

>>9909994
I don't think so.

>>9910039
Spears.

If one of them was Walter, that bug is going to suffer a slow and burning death.

>>9909994
>I would say he's one of the only crushable dudes in this quest, even if he is a one-dimensional pompous bro.
Bloodquest's characters are not flush with romantic viability, and those that are usually die pretty quick.

>>9910039
Blood Armor on, start chuckin blood spears at its eyes/mouth/claw joints.

>>9910039
RIP AND TEAR THAT BEAST. They are down to 4 guys, dammit! Blood-suitup and get out of the car - lets whip this thing to pieces.

"I hope you're hungry Garfield - cause I'm friggin' STARVED!"

>>9910070
This, we should try to keep range for...obvious reasons.

>>9910061
>This does not bode well for Walters. We will die alone and unloved...

Go mantis on the mantis. Can we layer the blood to our feat as an accelerant? Like... blood speed skates?

>>9910059

Fuck spears, let's blood whip ourselves onto it's back like Indiana Jones, and RIDE THIS BUG LIKE A RENTED MULE.

Also melt it's head off with a fiery blood lasso.

>>9910039
"Brody, Open fire on the freaky looking bug"
Time to test out the Bloodspears on something a little smaller.

>>9910090
I'm sure Garfield can take care of our needs.

Blood surges up your skin, wrapping you tight. You let the blood flood out of your tortured wrists, whipping your arms up and snapping them down, watching your blood crack like a whip after it surges forward several feet. A pair of projectiles shoot off towards the mantis, which is currently biting large pieces off of one of the screaming agents. You don't THINK it's Walters.

>Roll dice, wheeeeee!

>>9910111
FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I DIDNOT WANT TO SEE THAT IMAGE IN MY BRAIN!

rolled 9 = 9

Rollan.

rolled 86 = 86

>>9910117
I pray to the dice gods to show me mercy

rolled 70 = 70

>>9910117

rolled 10 = 10

>>9910117
Please let this work. Please.

>>9910131
God Dammit.
>>9905849

rolled 2 = 2

>>9910131

oh for...

>>9910126
Only reason I posted it, bro.

>>9910131
I've been wondering why some of these posts have no mouse-over mailto

>>9910133
and some do

gee I wonder why

>>9910131
THIS DOES NOT COUNT! DICE WAS NOT SHOWN IN FIELD!

rolled 76 = 76

>>9910117
Everyone, chill the fuck out. I may or may not have this.

Unless i forgot how to dice.

>>9910131
You. Stop Rolling. Now.

rolled 39 = 39

>>9910148
they have no dice rollover because they used noko+dice+1d100.

Or, noko+dice+1d10.

>>9910150
No kidding, noko'd dice could be d10s or d1000s for all we know.

I remember someone was rolling d1s instead of d100s Terminator Quest by mistake and if they hadn't spotted it things were going to go HORRIBLY.

>>9910213
really? I never knew that

that's pretty retarded that it does that.

rolled 4 = 4

test

In the future, we should probably only accept dice rolls where we know what's rolled. but for now, HEAVEN OR HELL, LET'S ROCK.

>>9910131
>9
>But wait, no email field, how i know this isn't 1d9 or something
>>9910133
>86
Your blood splashes onto the creature's spindly body. It steams, hissing as it backs away, scraping the blood off itself. It observes you with empty, compound eyes, its mouth twitching as blood and skin drip from its jaws. Then it charges forward.
>>9910135
>70
...and is driven to the side by the gunfire from the other agents. It hisses and clicks wildly, though it is, as promised, bulletproof.
>>9910136
It surges away from you towards the agents, slapping one to the side and grabbing Coolbro in its jaws. He finally breaks his cool silence, muffled screaming coming from inside the mantis' mouth before the sickening crunch of bone and shower of gibs.

BLOOD JAVELIN TO THE FUCKING EYES

>>9910291
>You dick. And it was someone you yourself liked too.
"Time to burn, bitch!"

>>9910291
And again its MY ROLL that fucks the quest up...... :(

>>9910291
Shit, there goes Coolbro.
Go for the optics!

>>9910291
Oh, what.

Sigh.

You're like that DM that kills every NPC so the players don't bother to make friends anymore.

rolled 79 = 79

>>9910291
Blood goes in Mantis Jaw.
Heat up blood, or Cool down blood, or Make blood explode, or Solidify blood or something.
Grin like a motherfucker.

Have a roll.

>>9910291

NOOO, COOLBRO BROGLASSESBRO. He was a true brofessional. Someone write that man a brobituary.

rolled 91 = 91

Autosage in 10, btw.
Rolling save vs. Autosage

rolled 33 = 33

>>9910291
blood lasso! melt it's head off!

rolled 52 = 52

>>9910319
>>9910333
Am I allowed in this quest even if I can roll numbers above 20? :)

>>9910338
NO.

rolled 61 = 61

>>9910319
>>9910333
>>9910338
Goddamnit let me roll. Have a 95 or something.

>>9910319
>>9910333

Finally, the dice are on our side!

>>9910312
>>9910061
>Lol, foreshadowing

>>9910315
>Go for the eyes
You crack off another whip-spear. The mantis turns in time for the blood to sizzle all over one of its eyes. It squeals, dropping the bottom 2/3 of the bro'est of Arkham employees, and waving its arms frantically.
>>9910319
>79
A whip of blood curls three times around its slender neck, snapping taut. Your right arm strains as you struggle to keep the beast leashed, straining against your burning lash.
"Hold....still..." you grunt.
The next blood-spear is a direct hit to the face. The creature thrashes about furiously, kicking a car across the street and stampeding over the uneaten agent. Then finally the whip around its deck gives through and it's upper body snaps apart in three burnt pieces.

rolled 37 = 37

>>9910319
>>9910333
>>9910338
>>9910350
Cool story bro but check out my samefagging.

rolled 29 = 29

Swing a pseudopod whip around it's neck and swing from it while burninating.

>>9910357
>Down for the count
"Garfield, chow down!"

>>9910357
Mourn Coolbro. HE WAS A TRUE FUCKING BRO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then lets go deal with 88. Then we can figure out how the hell to take out the Daemons.

Fuck yes! now check on survivors.

>>9910357
"Gasp... please tell me. this thing. gasp... didn't have babies."

>>9910357
Sweet.
Collect all bloods. Every bloods. Mantis bloods, dead person bloods.
Next target better be Sniper weapons vs. Gamma Ray Guy.

>>9910381
You realize that we don't need blood, right?

Autosage

>>9910357
Stonerbro Archive thread ploxes.

"Gasp... please tell me. this thing. gasp... didn't have babies."
"Not that we know of," the surviving agent pants. "Gatsby by the way."
"Yeah, hold on a second Gatsby"
You walk over to the twitching mantis corpse, letting your blood wash over it and consume it, burning even the outer chitin to ashes.
Coolbro and the two agents that were cleaved in half are very much dead.

>>9910387
Level up how, then? :S

rolled 43 = 43

By my count that's half of arkham's employees here dead. Let's find Jacob. Hopefully he's not one of them.

>>9910401
By using our blood for awesome abilities and doing other cool shit with it, while KICKING ASS OFFA BAD ROLLS!

>>9910403
"I'll keep watch out here," Gadsby says. "You head inside and brief the others."
You enter the Boys and Girls Club.
It's not a Boys and Girls Club.
Banks of computers, some broken, others humming quietly, line the walls. Two men are talking in low tones a few rooms into the structure. One of them is Walters. His face perks up as you enter.

>>9910462
HI!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>9910462
"Hey"
"Three men, one mantis down. I really attract the crazies, don't I?"

>>9910462
Walters...

I think we're bad luck. You're a third... No, wait, a quarter... a fifth... You're now a distressingly large percentage of Arkham's manpower in Atlanta. I'm going to go talk down and/or face melt a croc-man.

>>9910462

"Hey there, Miss me? The mantis is dead, but you probably know more about the others than I do."

>>9910491
BONE-MAN. We already killed the croc-man.

>>9910520
i blame this lapse of memory on the traumatic loss of Coolbro Broglassesbro.

>>9910468
>>9910475
>>9910491
>>9910492
>>9910520
"Hey...miss me?"
"Too busy, not gonna lie." He responds. "What's going on out there?"
"You're down three agents, and one giant mantis. I'm thinking we punch a hole in 88 next."
"Shit....yeah, I guess we'd better, though we need to get the hell out of this city is what we really need to do, and sooner rather than later.
Gadsby enters.
"All quiet out there; we haven't seen 19 for a few days, so it's about time he came clawing at the doors. Anything from the geiger counters?"
"Just the standard background stuff. He's around here somewhere, just not very close."

>>9910556
"Point me in his direction.", you say.

Also we need a new thread, Stonerbro. This one autosaging HARD.

>>9910556
We may as well tell these guys to leave. What help will they be? Ask about the resources at the station.

>>9910556
What is happening with Brody, just following awkwardly?

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>>9910690