rolled 79 = 79

Here goes!

rolled 9 = 9

Mr.Moone Snickers as he watched from afar, unseen.
"Just another lost soul..."

>>13627290
Oh goddamnit!
Already? Seriously?

rolled 52 = 52

>>13627322
So it would seem..
Mr. Moone?

rolled 45 = 45

I'm in here now! My body is ready for some drawfaggotry!

Rollan!

>>13627290
Too late, you realize that the ductwork around you has become distressed with age and neglect, an ear-splitting shriek of shorn metal your only warning as the floor drops off behind you. The heavy conduit plunges three or four meters as you scrabble desperately for purchase before the front end of the segment snaps free as well, the entire assembly crashing through the facility's structure into the corridor below.

You're only dazed for as moment before the scarab at your back succeeds in rebalancing the chemical cocktail in your bloodstream, issuing a series of electrical pulses to your nervous system and prompting you to your hooves. Despite the fall, you seem to be well within your nominal operating parameters - uninjured.

As you scramble out of the collapsed duct, the red color-coding on the walls indicates that you're getting close to the secure laboratories at the bottom of the facility. Given their isolation, it's possible that the alien infestation hasn't reached the hot labs - you may find survivors there, other tau who could help you to escape.

If you double back, you should be able to find your way back to the maintenance access for this level and resume your course to the facility's air shaft, bypassing the labs completely in favor of a more expeditious route below.

The first consensus of three responses determines your action.

rolled 7 = 7

>>13627367
Isn't there two draw threads active that you can use?
Pluse Ian Moone meeting Xeno.... Hmm...

>>13627381
Look for survivors.

rolled 85 = 85

>>13627381
Mh, dunno, let's go for the lab, it sounds less hazardous.

>>13627381
Head to the labs to look for survivors.

rolled 36 = 36

>>13627381
-Through the labs.-

Silently watching from Afar, Mr. Moone smiles to himself. "So much potential here for a good time... I wonder if I should Get involved. Cause a bit of Chaos..."

>>13627381

Do we have a weapon? If not we should look for a Fire Warrior, he may have a pulse pistol.

(Sorry, first time in Drone Quest)

>>13627390
Ian Moone and Xeno? If I have enough time. I'm just trying to illustrate everything epic that might happen ITT, so now, I'm going to post my drawings here.

>>13627428
Well Anything is possible.

>>13627426
>>13627426
We've go a pulse carbine, according to the OP.

>>13627443

*facepalm*

I'm an idiot.

Labs. We may find survivors.

>>13627448
Yeah, but keep in mind that some taus have been infected by genestealers, so beware!

Consensus: LABS

Shit, I forgot to post this. Obligatory.

>>13627462

Then we will make our own Tau Pariahs to fight them!

...that may be a bad plan, especially this soon in.

>>13627484
Or Maybe Find Mr. Moone?
He seems to be by character an ally at the moment

Has OP disappeared?

>>13627493
But he's fucking drifting into outer space!

>>13627512
Man, it takes time writing up such good stuff, are you telling us you want some half-assed writefaggotry?

>>13627513
Was drifting. Who knows where he could be?
For all we know he was caught by these people here and is being used to better understand why the fuck he is so different.

-Shifty eyes-
Yes to truthful I (The guy who originally requested Ian Moone) did write abit of an epilogue to his story later. He was not drifting for long. He did get captured by someone....

The clatter of your hooves against the deck plate seems to reverberate against the bulkheads, forcing you to strain against the noise if you want to detect any impending threats. Fortunately, the resounding, rapid-fire thud of gue'la weapon fire cuts through the din, met with the higher-pitched whine of heavy pulse cannons. You must be getting close. Up ahead, blue-white bursts of energy fly past an intersecting hall.

You press your back to the bulkhead, leaning cautiously around the corner to survey at the firefight. A formation of three enormous humans clad in blue armor are crouched behind cover, trading shots with an equally enormous defense drone. Unlike its smaller, antigravity-equipped counterparts, this construct towers over its assailants on three heavily plated, archnid-like legs, a pair of underslug energy weapons laying down a suppressing fire as the humans attempt to breach its shields. So far, neither party appears to have gained the upper hand, although it's only a matter of time before the humans - Astartes, the disembodied voice had called them - succeed in bringing it down.

>>13627561
Continue sneaking, there might be Taus somewhere. Avoid Tyranids and Astartes.

>>13627561

Avoid them. We are an unarmoured Tau, not even a firewarrior. We stand no chance. Not unless we have some EMP grenades to stun them with. And even then I'd still say avoid them.

>>13627561
Is there a way to get past this intersection without being seen by the space marines?

rolled 52 = 52

>>13627561
Stinks as hell. They're Ultramehreens, the Taus stand no chance against them. GTFO.

dunno if I have to roll.

>>13627561

We need to get out of the way. Not much we can do to help here...

rolled 14 = 14

"Hmm... To help or hinder or ignore." Ian Moone muttered to himself. The rogue Necron chuckled to himself.
"I would say Help those drones but they would likely attack you too..." He Muttered to himself from where he was. He Knew The Tau couldn't hear him but it mattered little. He was having fun once more.
"But the Best way to go is still to the lab. I say leave them."

Although the defense drone will eventually fall to the space marines' assault, you decide against coming to its aid. Roll 1d100 to evade the combat.

rolled 71 = 71

Rawllan to get our shiny scarab-butt outta here.

>>13627624

Here we go

rolled 83 = 83

"Hmm Lets see what you can do Little one..." Ian said as he rolled a die.

Are we aiming high or low for this, actually?

>>13627637

In other news I can't roll for shit.

>>13627644
Aiming low.

rolled 83 = 83

>>13627624
Let's get out of here.

rolled 81 = 81

>>13627651
The wording is dice+1d100

rolled 85 = 85

*looks at previous results*

Well fuck.

rolled 21 = 21

>>13627651
Check our email fields, it's "dice+1d100"

Here come the failrolls of doom, we're gonna have fun!

>>13627635
Your attempt at stealth is somewhat less than effective as one of the Astartes returns to cover as you begin to cross the corridor. The human raises its weapon and opens fire, the baritone thud of bolter shells flying free presaging your imminent death. Roll 1d100.

rolled 31 = 31

>>13627672

Dodge!

rolled 83 = 83

"Lower...."

rolled 96 = 96

>>13627672
Goddamnit all!
Don't you die on us!

>>13627679

Please stop rolling for the love of the deities...

rolled 2 = 2

>>13627672
Shishitshitshithitshit!

Drone! save us! do something!

rolled 62 = 62

>>13627672
"Hmm... Don't Fail so fast... We have yet to meet face to face."

>>13627694
Mr Moone is a smooth pimpy-ass motherfucker!

>>13627704
So it would seem

>>13627678
You duck back behind the corridor as the ordnance flashes by, leaving a bloody furrow along one cheek as your head just barely clears its trajectory. Around the bend, you hear the space marine dispense a salvo of suppressing fire against the drone before withdrawing from the exchange, heavy footfalls signalling his approach.

The first consensus of three determines your next action.

>>13627716
But he's got Horse Power Hateart's face.

He doesn't care!

>could taisted
Silly captcha! Crons can't taste anything!

>>13627724

Shoot him right in the Space Balls

rolled 67 = 67

>>13627724

We can't outrun him...turn and ready to blow him to hell? But he outguns us and out armours us...

I'm going for ambush because we don't have many other options.

>>13627724
A single pulse carbine is no match for space marine armor. Let's get out of here.

>>13627724
Crawl away!

"Since fighting them at the moment is suicide. I say Push on. and fast." Ian Moone muttered as he studied what he could.

Prostrate ourselves and accept Marneus Calgar as our spiritual liege.
The space marine will be moved by our imperial worship and might spare our life for an additional ten seconds.

>>13627724

Strip, and lure him with your Space-boobs. Turn him into a heretic

>>13627724
But he's an Ultramehreen! Last time they united with the taus against a greater menace, why not this time?!

Anyway, his armour must be full of sensors, so hiding doesn't sound liek a good option. Running away doesn't either, since he can run faster than us.

let's try to get back to that maintenance conduit, maybe all the power lines and shit will conceal us.

Consensus: RUN FOR IT!

>>13627751

seconded

>>13627761

thirded, its bewbs time

rolled 96 = 96

>>13627758

Rollin'

The detached part of your mind which you've come to regard as the scarab's influence sorts the probabilities; from a purely analytical standpoint, a flight response corresponds to a significantly higher probability of survival than a fight response. Roll 1d100.

rolled 52 = 52

>>13627767

You STUPID BASTARD!

rolled 1 = 1

>>13627770

>>13627767
STOP ROLLING WHEN SHAS HASN'T ASKED FOR A ROLL!

Also, you suck!

rolled 86 = 86

>>13627770
"The Little drone is right. Get out of there. For its sake if not your own." Ian muttered to himself as he tossed the die again.

rolled 42 = 42

>>13627776
congratulations!

>>13627751
Then into a double-heretic with her ass.

>>13627790
Triple. The drone is there tooo

>>13627790

This is the fourth or 5th vote for space sex now OP, deliver

>>13627793
That's the joke. Oh god I suddenly feel like drawing double-heresy.

>>13627776

The space marine is ready for you, snapping off a three-round burst as you break from cover - but you're a step ahead of each shot, a trio of burning contrails scoring your back as you narrowly evade his fire. Blood seeps across the fabric of your jumpsuit as you make it to the other side of the corridor, only superficially wounded.

As you dive for safety, an errant shot from the defense drone impacts the back of the Astartes' head, the superheated plasma splitting his helmet like an overripe melon. The messily decapitated corpse topples to the ground, no longer a threat.

>>13627797

DO EET

>>13627805
Now that we're down here in the labs, 2 priorities should be finding survivors, and finding a medkit for the wound on our face.

>>13627805
Run Xeno, run! Keep on running! There are still marines left, and the dice won't be so merciful this time

>yelver apparatus-

>>13627805
Woooohoooo!

Now let's get to the deeper areas, as we were suggested earlier.

>>13627806
well, I'm ready.

What the fuck is wrong with you guys? We can't just leave our drone brother to its death!

>>13627819

If you are Ready then Draw me Some Double heresy

keep running now that there is only two focused on the drone. It might even win with our distraction.

>>13627805
"That was not what I was expecting..." Ian Moone said with a laugh. "But not something I was not hoping for. She may just be the one who could...."
Mr.Moone stopped midsentence to laugh.
"I am getting ahead of myself.'
"I Vote to get a move on." He muttered as he recalled his die.

>>13627810
three wounds on her body as well.

You take off at a sprint, circumventing the firefight as you make your way to the security checkpoint. As you clear the final corridor, you enter a long hall at the end of which are a number of collapsible barricades, mobile field projectors intended to provide hard cover for garrison forces. a clatter of rifles greets you as you step into the kill zone.

"Hold your fire!" the lead Fire Warrior declares. "Earth Caste, lay down your weapon an lie on the floor, hands over your head.

"Fail to comply and my men will open fire."

>>13627864
Well, we might as well obey, then perhaps kick his ass when we have an opportunity, like we did with the nid.

Since I know a certain artist/questguy (pic related) will be reading this thread eventually, WE WANT MORE OW.

>>13627864

How accurate is OP image? Because that Necron drone looks kinda obvious.

Suddenly Necrons everywhere!

So we should tell them that an alien device has attached itself to our spine and we need medical attention.

>>13627864
Can we demand that they prove they're not infected?
Otherwise, I see no choice but to comply.

>>13627885
No, not an alien device but an experimental prototype from one of the labs upstairs.

>>13627864
Obey, and look as paniced and helpless as possible. They're fire warriors, they expect earth caste to look helpless. Also, we pretty much are, with only one arm.

Unless of course they've got that stupid red eyes thing the other infected fire warriors had going on - then, run.

>>13627878
The drone's 40 centimeters long, so it actually covers her ass, or at least makes a hueg abdomen-like bulge. The suit is now torn, also.

>>13627886
It's not like we can demand anything.

Wait... handS? Crap, we only have one hand - we can't do what he's asking anyways, we're gonna get shot by our rescue!

>>13627885
Dude, we're a total mess, the drone isn't the only reason we need medical attention. How many times have we either been shot, or injured by near misses?

>>13627885
Didn't the last thread explicitly state that it couldn't be detached without killing her?

Heresy in progress.

Your heart thunders in your chest, a palpable sense of fear enveloping you. You've been so long without it that it seems almost unfamiliar. The scarab is manipulating your physiology again to produce a sufficiently believable emotional response - or, rather, it's stopped doing so. "I'm n-not infected," you stammer, throwing your carbine aside and sinking to your knees. "we were testing a new cybernetic device when containment was breached. I came here for safety!"

The Shas'ui gestures one of his men forward to take you into custody, the Fire Warrior seizing you roughly by the arm and hauling you to your hooves. As you're presented to the fire team leader, he draws his blade slits the belly of your jumpsuit open. Without the mitigating influence of the scarab, you instinctively recoil, but the Fire Warrior holds you fast.

Pulling the fabric of your clothes aside, the Shas'ui inspects you for the telltale puncture wound of implantation. The expressionless faceplate of his helmet doesn't give any sign but he seems to be satisfied, sheathing his blade and returns his attention to your escort.

"Take her to decontamination," he instructs, no longer really concerned with you. "Let Mu'roh decide what to do with her, then get back here on the double."

"For the Greater Good, Shas'ui," the Fire Warrior replies, bowing his head before hauling you past the barricades.

Mu'roh? Moreau? 'Nid parts, here we come!

>>13627940
Hopefully we'll be able to get some medical attention.

If anyone asks about the drone, it's an experimental prototype.

rolled 58 = 58

>>13627940
IT BEGINS!
tauborg, plox.
just in case, rollan.

rolled 53 = 53

>>13627969
ah, right, so is it supposed to look a bit like a cron scarab, or like those disc-shaped ones? It has legs, so i assume it's modelled after the first one.

It's important, men.

The Fire Warrior is rough with you, keeping you off-balance with a brisk pace and the vice-like grip he's holding on your remaining arm. Although you're once again able to experience fear, the calculations in the back of your mind remain - you could kill him in .08 seconds, although your long-term chances of survival are significantly reduced. For some reason, the callousness of the math doesn't signify in the same way as you would expect. They're simply probabilities, not lives.

An airlock ahead cycles to admit you and your escort roughly heaves you in, causing you to stumble a few feet as he trains his rifle on you. The blast door closes between you and a soothing, feminine voice announces, "decontamination in progress. Please remain still and wait for this lock to clear."

rolled 74 = 74

>>13628011
You gonna get decontaminated!

So, again, Am I supposed to make the drone look cron, or tau?

>>13628011

Quickly analyse if the drone will survive decontamination and if it can avoid triggering sensors.

>>13628021
seconded.

>>13628017
It's a Necron scarab, but if any NPC's ask the PC about it, we're supposed to respond that it's an experimental prototype to keep them from shooting us or otherwise removing the drone.

>>13628026
ah, fine then. It fits better. Back to heresy, now.

Make Drone look like this!

>>13628031
You just want Sar'a to have a buggy abdomen, don't you?

>>13628038
If he wants to, that's none of my concern, I'll shape it like another pair of buttocks.

"Well That could have gone worse.. Stay alive. Focus. Do not let your guard down." Ian stated coldly as he Looked at a screen, showing where the little drone and its Tau were.
"Drone... Try your best to keep this one alive. She might be of greater use to Them..."
Mr. Moone restrained himself from interfering

The decontamination field sweeps over you, followed by a flood of antiseptic vapor to eradicate any lingering microorganisms. The artificial voice returns, serenely announcing, "thank you for your patience. Inner lock disengaged."

As the mechanism cycles clear to allow you entrance to the hot labs, a diminutive figure stands to greet you. Like you, he's clad in a white medical jumpsuit - albeit much cleaner - but he is much older, hobbled with age and holding himself upright with a cane.

"Shas'ui Ra'moz said we had a visitor. I am Mu'roh, chief of this division." He imperceptibly bows his head by way of greeting.

>>13628078
I thought Moone tried to rebel against the C'tan.

Anyway, my tablet is going derpy again. I'll reboot.

>>13628085
suck his tau penis

>>13628085
"Sar'a, Cybernetics and Logic Systems Technician. I escaped down here; the guel'va had overrun the upper levels and some of the Fire Warriors were infected by something."

Baby's got back.

>>13628100

Seconded.

>>13628100
Seconded

"Cybernetics, eh?" the elder Earth Caste rhetorics, turning from you to proceed deeper into the laboratory. "Is that what you call that thing clinging to your backside?

"I may not get out much, Sar'a, but there is little that goes on in this facility of which I am unaware."

You can practically feel your brain chemistry altering as the scarab realizes its charade has been revealed, priming you to fight or flee - although where to, within this isolated ward, you don't know.

"Don't worry, I'm not concerned with your little friend there," Mu'roh continues. "It's the gue'la that want it; I'd just as soon toss it in an incinerator for all the trouble it's caused. This facility was perfectly secure until that fool Na'dir brought it in here."

>>13628148
That fucker wants the scarab removed? Our precious scarab? Can he at least do it without killing us? What can we do? Kick his ass? Anyway, if we cooperate with him, the drone will certainly take control of our body to do it.

Can we propose him to help him out against Na'dir?

also, WE NEED AN ARM!

>>13628087
They is Not C'tan. He tried to Rebel was Shot down. remember he is not all there.

>>13628176
>also, WE NEED AN ARM!
My amputee fetish doesn't allow you to do that.

BUT THE SCARAB MUST REMAIN.

>>13628182
Amputee fetishist here as well, but how will we help him without a new arm? Also, we must keep the ability-enhancing scarab, otherwise we're not useful either. Tell him about how it saved your ass, Sar'a.

have this, fellow anon: http://grognard.booru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=19888

>>13628148

We ask if there is somewhere we can obtain some medical attention, we are rather badly hurt.

"Only if I could interfere.... Oh maybe I could them... Them? why did I say them. I am not With the C'tan anymore... Oh yes... That them. the ones who... "saved" me from peacefully floating in the void...." Mr Moone muttered to himself as he waited to see what would happen next.

>>13628182
Artificial arms are often detachable - your fetish can still be satisfied, but it'd be nice if we could hold things while opening doors again.

We need to do something about that arm. Or at least the rest of the bleeding.

If the humans are after the scarab, and he wants the humans to go, Sar'a could escape down in the lower tunnels. That could draw off the humans; it would give him what he wants (have the Imperium leave) and what we want (escape with the scarab).

>>13628208
seconded.

Mu'roh seems disinterested in your needs and for a moment his ire rises. "Do you realize that in less than a century," he declares, "this sector of space will be overrun? The entire Tau Empire, one world after another, consumed to feed an ever-expanding hive mind. That is why we are here."

"The gue'la are old and tired," he continues, rapping his cane on the floor to summon a holographic projection from the lens at its apex, a sprawling map of this spiral arm of the galaxy. The Empire, a twinkling constellation of amber against the angry red of gue'la space - and the encroaching tendrils of a beast from beyond the galaxy. "But they serve a purpose; an ignorant bulwark against these intergalactic predators, buying us the time we need to better understand them.

"Cellular regeneration, biotic engineering, transgenic grafting, psychic phenomenon... we have learned quite a bit from these locusts the gue'la call tyranids."

Banishing the projection, Mu'roh raises his cane to the scan plate of an inner laboratory, releasing the seals and allowing you to enter. Inside you find a gruesome scene, stasis tanks full of dissected specimens, tyranid and tau alike, as well as abominable fusions of the two.

rolled 26 = 26

Tyranid arm, tyranid arm, it's awww-right.

>>13628221
>ignore cybernetics
> acquire tyranid crushing claw

>>13628221
Oh shit.

No.

Not tauranid. Just a new arm, not tauranid.

Scream like the little girl you are and tell him you'll help him.

Shas, you magnificent bastard!

>>13628221
> well as abominable fusions of the two.
Don't tyranid infected things get taken over by the hive mind? Has he been working on a way to keep that from happening?
Also, are there any bandages or first aid kits lying around? We are still bleeding.

>>13628221
"SO this is where they put that one..." Mutter Ian as he took a look through the lens of what he take control of from where he was.
"Lets see and proceed. I might spot what.... I am doing it again... talking to the ones who can't hear me..."

>>13628221
Judging by the results, Tau-Tyranid hybrid cloning hasn't bee too successful yet.

I'd like to go with a traditional, good old-fashioned cybernetic arm, please.

>>13628247
IT'S A TRAP! He works for the cultists!

>>13628254
Yeah, seconded as fuck. don't want to end up like a carnifex with tits.

Sure, it starts with just an arm, or an implanted healing reflex, and then suddenly you're sprouting claws, spines and scales, and drooling acid blood from your gaping fanged maw.

Tyranid bits are not good for you.

I vote for taurinidization, because Dat Abdomen.

Sar'a needs Dat Abdomen.

>>13628274
she can have a cron abdomen. I'll draw it for you, if you want.

Again, we ask for medical supplies, so that we may heal ourselves.

>>13628255
Agreeing!
Calling Mr.Moone For some interference!

>>13628282
Sar'a crossed with Heavy-chan?

>>13628287
fine. Right after the current double-heresy. Full chassis or just the abdomen?

>>13628290

Go ahead and full chassis it, why not?

>>13628221
Tyranid arm!

We'll actually be able to defend (or command) from other tyranids and other such encounters

>>13628293
Heavy-chan is one smooth chassis....

For anyone who is not aware, we are technically playing from the perspective of Drone. Hence the name Drone Quest.

>>13628299
Also works with a bionic arm and the enhancement provided by the scarab.

And no, an arm does not make you a synapse creature.

"Sit," the wizened scientist instructs, retrieving medical supplies from a cabinet, "and don't give me that look, I'm not going to turn you into some sort of experiment.

Using a pair of surgical shears, he strips off the remainder of your top and begins dressing the wounds on your back. "Fascinating," he opines. "Were you aware of how extensively this construct has integrated with your spine? I'd have to perform a more thorough scan to be sure, but it looks like its fused up to your seventh thoracic vertebra."

He trails off as he continues his treatment, applying a salve to the ragged edges of your bolter grazes. "This will hurt," Mu'roh declares. "It's one of the practical applications of our research here, a regenerative agent capable of restoring damaged tissue. We haven't quite solved the problem of neural inflammation, however."

As he says so, you feel a heat building where Mu'roh applied the regenerative and your scarab companion enters a panic mode. Foreign organism detected, possible genetic contamination! Roll 1d100.

>>13628195
I fucking love that.

rolled 3 = 3

>>13628319
rollin.

rolled 52 = 52

>>13628319

Look, there's already a Taucron. Tauranid is the next logical choice!

rolled 10 = 10

>>13628308
So no scarabutt?

ROLLING

>>13628327

Oh hell yes.

If we are getting contaminated it's a good one.

>>13628334
I'd say TauCronNid is next logical step since we're pretty sure Drone is one of Xeno's

rolled 24 = 24

"Hmm So fast? I can see why they want it... Te..." Moone Mutters as he rolls a die.

>>13628327
I'm so glad that I remembered to remove noko...

rolled 38 = 38

>>13628327
Roll to resist, right?
>>13628334
Taucron is always the best choice.

>>13628342
Agreed.

>>13628347
No one likes your mary sue bullshit

You manage to bite back a cry of pain as your flesh knits back together, the livid purple of scar tissue quickly fading back to your normal blue complexion as the regenerative is completely metabolized by your system. The scarab's warnings fade as the threat of genetic subversion rapidly returns to zero.

"Better than a bandage, isn't it?" Mu'roh chuckles, fetching a fresh jumpsuit for you from a cabinet. "You may go freshen up."

>>13628364
Now we'll hopefully just look like we have a big butt instead of having a drone on our backside

rolled 34 = 34

>>13628362
I do.

>>13628364
I love you, Shas'O.

>Unclain cessations
See, Even Captcha agrees.

I'm sure we still have a scarabutt, it's just that the scarabutt is just the tip of the scarab iceberg. Pic related?
http://img.booru.org/Grognard//images/19/3e5cebd986411e744975f79fe897e900d93b3b6c.jpg

>>13628364
Let's get that new jumpsuit on, and ask what he wants us to do now.

>>13628362
TO Be frank I have done Nothing. Just put my commentary out there. Anyway I am not a mary sue by any means. I am not prefect. I suck at many things... I only excel at one thing. that is running. I am surprised that I have not been spotted by security yet with all I am doing here...

>>13628391
Your shitty charcter is not a part of Drone Quest and no amount of namefagging will change that

>>13628384
Pic related as fuck.

Wrong arm, btw.

We can totally go tauranid now if we want to, though, but Drone got kind of agitated by it.

>>13628400
So? Let the guy do as he wishes. He is having fun. Let the poor fuck do as he wants. I think it is kind of fun. It is like MST

heresay!

>>13628364

Right, let's dress up and ask him what he wants.

>>13628418
Precisely, so no. Imagine it kills us trying to protect our organism;

>>13628404

Nope, it was the left arm that got ruptured by bolterfire, I think.

>>13628445
Agreeing

>>13628473
It was never really specified, but I'm a righty, so I'm imagining it as the left arm that got bown off

As you lock the restroom door behind you and begin to disrobe, you're left to ponder your current predicament. The knowledge that the alien scarab is continuing to subvert your body, combined with the fact that it has clearly been influencing your behavior since the beginning sets you on edge and although it has saved your life, you may now have a chance to be rid of it thanks to Mu'roh's research.

Incapable of an emotional appeal, the scarab simply crunches the numbers, presenting you with a series of probabilities - not the least of which is your violent death during removal, adverse reaction to the regenerative and/or possible contamination by tyranid genetic material.

Whatever your decision, it cannot be made rashly and the consequences will be unavoidable. Drone Quest will continue.

>>13628473
right, then have this:

>>13628494
Your ending it here? When's the next one?

>>13628494
Fine, now we know we don't really have the choice. Of course, it could be lying, but It's really encrusted, and even that arrogant Mu'ro dude clearly doubted he could do something about it.

Sar'a is the protagonist. Terrible rolls notwithstanding, she does improbable things and lives all the time.

>>13628508
well, I guess the rolls will determine whether it's taucron or tauranid.

When will the next thread pop up?

>>13628545
Why not Taucronid

Because Necrons and Tyranids are like vinegar and oyster sauce.

>>13628579
meh. Sounds more like eldritch abomination.

>>13628568

When the stars are right and the planets are in alignment.

>>13628606
Gruh.

Also, working on Heavy-Sar'a.

...in which Drone turns into a destroyer chassis?

>>13628644
Yep. Just for you anon. Also, i'll upload both pics at tg booru.

So. I get the feeling that we can do taucron or we can do tauranid but not both

Taucron is better than tauranid, because taucrons drool acid blood less frequently, and aren't all covered in spikes and fangs and crap. Seriously, if we wanted spikes and fangs and claws, we could have gone with chaos.

But at least as a tauranid, our spikes and fangs and claws will be symmetrical.

>>13628717
Yeah, Shas seems to be trying to tell us something along those lines.

I just hope it will run smoothly and that it wont degenerate into a shitstorm between thri-kreen fetishists and robosexuals. I'll try to restrain myself from making appeal-driven decisions and comments, but it sometimes looks like Shas is encouraging it.

>>13628750
And what about symmetrical, but without claws and shit? We can also get a new arm with cybernetics.

>>13628759
Didn't you say you were working on an image of Xeno or Shas'o(This character in this thead) and Someone else....
Umm... Ian Moone I think?

>>13628801
I said it might be cool, but I dunno if it's 34 or regular stuff. And I don't know what I can do with this.

>>13628842
Maybe he is inspecting her, in a totaly nonsexual manner. She doesn't think so.
Or he is doing repairs on her limbs?

>>13628801
Also, the character ITT is called Sar'a Ker'gan and she's from the earth caste. Shas'O Tau'quest is OP.

If we could NOT turn this into fetish quest, that'd be great.

>>13628877
Sar'a Ker'gan... Wow... Blizzard reference... haha

Night time /tg/ > Mourning /tg/

So many ero rp faggots

>>13628888
>Tau Quest

Too late.

>>13628917
Hmm... Can't tell which is which somedays.

>>13628888

What I'll try to do, but the purpose of this quest now seems to be less about survival than about choosing the way she transforms.

>>13628943
No, people expressed the desire to integrate nid parts

It doesn't HAVE to be anything

>>13628877
and remember that the earth cast are shorter and more stocky than the fire cast

think of dwarfs of the tau society

not an appealing build in my head (a water caste sounds the most attractive followed by ethereal and then fire castes) but people here might like a drawing.

and I'm sure you could fudge up tau physiology to make the character more attractive

>>13628943
Making fap pics to it isn't helping make this NOT fap quest

>>13628888
>Technomancers fetishes
>Amputee - Done
>Robot girls - Done

Too late, mang, too late. And Techno, by the way, we need more skullfucking shittscribbles.

sketchy, a bit meh.

>>13628980
Then all we need on /tg/ is a few bibliophiles and ALL OF /tg/ IS FETISH SHIT, nay ALL OF 4chan

Fapping to something doesn't make it a fetish. Projecting also does not a fetish make.

>>13629008
Dat Chassis.

>>13628971
Well, Xeno was never depicted as stunty. Do You want Schlicktau to look buff?
>>13628980
I'm trying to make it not interfere on the quest itself. I mean on the decisions we make. If from a proper quest I can make fapfics, then all for the best.

>>13629043
On the other hand, Projecting can _be_ a fetish.

>>13629008
she belongs to the earth caste

her build shouldn't be nearly that slender

that tau would most likely be of the water caste (fire caste possibly but not likely.) remember that fire caste is just a little over five feet on average and they are more well muscled. The earth caste is even shorter than that and more stocky...

were not even going to be close to anatomically correct are we? were just looking to satisfy the fetishists... kind of disappointing

>>13629050
If you really want to help the quest be good, stop namefagging. Seriously, it's harmful to the quest to have everything you say be taken as fetishistic.

>>13629050
I always assumed that the picture belonged to an earlier quest. But in most sources describing the tau you will hear that the earth caste is shorter and stockier than the fire caste. The water caste is the most elegant in appearance.

the character has been said to of the earth caste by op

>>13627864
>"Hold your fire!" the lead Fire Warrior declares. "Earth Caste, lay down your weapon an lie on the floor, hands over your head.

we should support the story before the fetishists shouldn't we?

>>13629083
Awright, only when drawfagging, then.
>>13629056
When this quest will spawn a truly epic situation, I'll go serious and draw it accordingly to the fluff.

>>13629051
As for myself, becoming the taucron little girl scare the living shit outta me.

>>13629056
Only this pictures of her (the ones not made by Shas i.e. all of them) are anatomically incorrect. Feel free to make her more realistic to the fluff or get other drawfags to do it. I'd kinda like to see how it looks.

>>13629086
Xeno can make herself look anyway she wants, so originally being earth caste is pretty meaningless, but Sar'a should look more earth caste especially since she is instantly recognizable as such.

>>13629133
Xeno was never depicted accurately. Not only did everyone draw her quite slender, but they also put fire caste emblems all about her. Speaking of which, was the earth caste emblem I use correct? If I'm starting to get fluffy in fapfics, I might as well draw her stuntier. I'll try to make it still look attractive, with dem hips and such, how about this?

>>13629164
sorry, I mean fap pics.

>>13629107
The problem is that I'm a horrible artist

the thing that bugs me most is that none of these images are anatomically correct for the castes they represent

people drawing fire caste women always draw them very slender instead of well muscled. The fire caste is a warrior class in the tau society, their members would be well defined but you rarely see any discernible muscles (because that isn't attractive.)

Now that it has come to earth caste tau people are drawing them as tall and slender which is the opposite of what they really are.

Honestly I wouldn't care if they were supposed to be water caste but they aren't. This is just fetish fuel which i guess you can expect from the internet.

>>13629183
Is that you, scientist?

>>13629215
>I'm a horrible artist

lolno, I thought it was you.

>>13629237
Ah, fine then. But the problem there is not about accuracy according to the castes, but according to anatomy in general. Drawing deliberately un-fluffy stuff is not what matters about lolart.

What is all this Ian Moone bullshit?

>>13629263

Never heard of this guy?

Many people want you to draw him. Necron lord. Grafted face (looks like Lovecraft's) and human clothing. Half-mad. Tried to rebel against the C'tan and failed. Tried to ally with humans and failed.

>>13629263
I made the request earlier as just an idea... and in character post.
Someone ran with it and wanted something more...

>>13629215
no just anon

but don't worry about using fire caste symbols. Typically the tau use the fire caste symbol to represent their empire (I would expect it to be even more so considering this likely takes place in a military/science outpost) so using a generic fire caste symbol isn't going to make anybody think that there are fluff inconsistencies.

something like the pic should be fine

>>13629283
> Many people want you to draw him

Bullshit mary sue is bullshit

>>13629283
but he sounds like such a mary sue

this character is just stupid

>>13629302
>Mary Sue
>failed hard, never used his powers, got kicked out into outer space, everyone thought he was retarded or such.

>>13629319
Stop trying to project your super kawaii fail sue on Drone Quest

>>13629302
If I remember well Even in the origin request, the guy said the character failed at almost everything except charming one Tech priestess But she like him because she wanted to see what made him tick... Or something to that effect.

>>13629310
That's it, he sounds like it, but he's not. Pretty much like Xeno for someone who hasn't read the tauquest threads yet (me three months ago)

>>13629319
This meer fact that you fluff a sue with some failurs doesn't make it not a sue

>>13629331
Read people's names. The guy who tried to roleplay him is not me. Also, i just find him quite interesting, but I don't support making him par of the quest.

>>13629344
Actually He literal did fail at every thing. accept running...

>>13629342
>That's it, he sounds like it, but he's not.

Walks like a duck, looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a fucking mary sue. You trying to finagle your way around it makes it all the more obvious.

>>13629360
man, you had me for too much time, but now it's getting obvious.

6/10 because you had me running but I never raged.

>>13629360
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MartyStu
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MaryStu
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CommonMarySueTraits
Looking and not seeing your point

>>13629356
Scratch that, I just switched my name so I could fag up the thread without losing my hallucinated fanbase

also I suck cocks

>>13629409
Dat ass!

>>13629389
"Personality
What personality? In these cases, it's fairly blatant the author is just writing the character for amazing stuff to happen to instead of a character that actually exists as a person. Obviously, this is only a Mary Sue trait if what happens gives the character special powers, fantastic romances, or somehow lets her be a big damned heroine; otherwise it's just another faceless first-person perspective."

>necron lord
>everyone wants to kill him
>everyone wants to draw him
>no obvious personality and only serves as the author putting him in death defying scenarios

WOW I DIDN'T EVEN HAVE TO GO TO THE SECOND TRAIT!

>>13629409
Well, this is a lovely start to the evening~.

>>13629409
>It's time to end this faggotry!

So... you're leaving then? you are literally the only faggot here with your shitty fap pics

>>13629460
shitty AND inaccurate. You can't forget shitty and inaccurate!

>>13629429
No what. I am not going to defend my own character any more.
Lets see... Necrons... Have no inherent personalities. The fact he is a conniving bastard who hides his schemes to rule the world by controlling the humans and convincing them to go fight the Necrons head on, which I will note FAILED.
He is in the end of the campaign thrown into space when people realize what he was trying to do.....
Yeah.
Also if he is a sue then I wonder what quest heroes/heroines are called...

>>13629481
>I'm not going to defend my character
>defends his character
>implies that if his character is a sue, every character is a sue

>>13629481
Do not feed the samefagging troll, comrade.

>>13629512
Sorry. what was I thinking?

>>13629512
>implying I'm samefagging
>implying you know what samefagging is

>>13629527
That one is pure gold, can I take you home and show you to my friends?

>>13629544
Go for it

>>13629481
>>13629481
>The fact he is a conniving bastard who hides his schemes to rule the world by controlling the humans and convincing them to go fight the Necrons head on, which I will note FAILED.

but the thing is that necron lords were the most fanatical when it came to worship of the c'tan that is the reason why they were given the greatest and most durable bodies of the necrons.... One of the turning from the c'tan is like the pope denying the existence of god.

it wont happen

the fact that he tries to lead the imperium to battle the necrons just makes him even more of a mary sue whether it succeeded or not.

deal with it he is a mary sue whether you like the idea or not.

>>13629569
I think The sap meant That the Necron was insane to the point where his ideals were changed.

ALSO sounds like a Homebrew verison of either rogue trader or dark heresy gone bad. With a bad DM/GM

I don't mind that Xeno and Sar'a don't look like dwarfs. They don't have to be the laborer-looking Earth Caste, they're clearly scientist and engineer-types. It makes sense that their physiques would be less heavily developed.

It's also pretty well established that Xeno was short, I don't know if it ever came up in connection with Sar'a though.

>>13629623
Xeno was pretty short in all the pics with anima

>mary sues in Tau Quest

Colour me suprised. A slight African tan.

>>13629667
=_=

So now, what's the plan? Are we hoping to escape with the rest of the Tau?
What about Anima- she said she could help us.....

>>13630449
>>13630449
I guess that Anima might pop-up again when shit's getting real for the scarab. Perhaps we could this time try communicating with the scarab to ask it about its origins.

>>13630449
And escaping with the other tau is not a good idea if we don't want our little secret discovered and other mad scientists to ruin us. I don't remember about Anima's behaviour, but wasn't she somewhat friendly with Xeno?

I think she just wanted Drone. Sar'a is just a Drone delivery vehicle.