>>14903175
Aaand I forget the subject. Bodysnatcher Quest 2, for anyone interested.

Your known abilities are:- reinforcing your muscle and bone tissue, making you stronger,faster and tougher
- growing weapons from your arms, limited to one on each arm in any combination:a hooked, double edged blade on your forearm, claws or a spike that springs out from your wrist underneath your palm
- absorbing ingested organic material, that you can use to increase muscle and bone density(animal tissue is the most effective)
- the ability to call forth your host's memories, skills and knowledge
You can also bond to another host, but this requires you to undo the bonding which takes 2 days and leaves you with minimal motor skills and intelligence. You also need to overpower your new host.
Your host has:-aprroximately 40,000$
-a handgun
-2 ounces of good quality marijuana
-15 grams of heroin and cocaine
-a suburban two-story house
-a disposable cellphone
-Merces-Benz 750i

Was RE: your pic

I'd hit it

signed /tg/

Sent 10:51 am local time

Last we left off, you have managed to convince your host's girlfriend that the reason you've been missing for the last 3 days is that you had a horrible trip, and that you have now renounced drugs. Overjoyed by this news, she left to organize a party for you.You are starving, as using your strengthend muscles and morphing uses a lot of energy.It's 12.40 right now, and the party starts at 10 PM. Wat do?

>>14903208
Eat your host's girlfriend's face off.

>>14903175
Forgot to mention the part that when you encountered the cyborg, your order to scout was accomplished and no other surfaced, so you are currently confused as to what you should do.
>>14903238
She already left, and there's no real reason to do that besides the "for the evulz" mentality.

Bumping for players.

Check the fridge.

>>14903353
You already ate everything remotely edible in the kitchen and pantry when you woke up yesterday.

In that case we need to go and get food from...somewhere. Do we know any places nearby?

>>14903393
You dig up some addresses for diners and reastaurants in the vicinity. Be warned though, the amount of food you'd need to properly replenish your reserves is rather large, quarter of your body weight or so.

>>14903430
There are a couple of supermarkets in close driving distance as well.

Off to the super market we go

Time to buy a bunch of whole chickens I think, maybe at a Costco?

rolled 78 = 78

SO what is our overall goal?
Do we have something to aspire to, some kind of mission? Or are we just herping around trying to get better hosts?
[haven't read previous threads yet]

>>14903175
sauce plz

>>14903567
You hop into the car and drive to the nearest supermarket, Jack's driving skills easily accesible to you. You get a cart, and start piling in various frozen meat products, mostly whole chickens. Anything else you want to buy?

Flowers for the GF, gotta make sure our "reformation" seems sincere so there aren't questions alter.

>>14903623
Some lovecraft inspired animu apparently, I don't know specifically, picked it up here on /tg/.
>>14903602
The damage you suffered while bonding to this host has blocked or erased any knowledge of your mission, partially because of the way your orders are structured(you recieve the next when you complete the current one). You know it has something to do to the cyborg you killed.

>>14903688
>herp I forgot something else
You also saw a report on an object entering the atmospere and dissapearing above the city the day before you awakened. The sight of the object filled you with a gnawing sense of unease.

We should see if the store has any rope, or maybe duct tape. Something we can use to tie a person up.

Flowers and check how much time we have until the party

>>14903659
>>14903770
>>14903763
You pick up some flowers, rope, and duct tape as well. You check your watch, and see that you have more than 8 hours left until the party. You head to the checkout counter, and pay for your things, but notice the cashier giving you a bit of a strange look. You pack in the 60 or so pounds of meat, the flowers, the rope and the duct tape into your cars trunk and head home.

>>14903175
where is this from?

>>14903865
See >>14903688

>>14903842
You arrive back home, carry your purchases inside, and start unfreezing the meat. Cooked or raw, /tg/?
>sorry for the slow reaction speed, waiting for new players to join

>>14904001

If no one else is around to see us eat, then down them raw.

Will we be eating all of it in one sitting, and how long will it take? If someone walks in on us gnoshing a pile of raw chicken, there will be toruble.

>>14903708
>object entering the atmospere and dissapearing above the city the day before you awakened

I bet anything it's that mechanical monstrosity we kicked the shit out of yesterday.

>>14904017
>>14904020
You live alone, and the door is locked. It should take you an hour or so at the most if you only eat the non-frosted ones (about two thirds of what you bought)

>>14904069
Assuming you eat it raw, of course.

>>14904069

Raw it is then. OM NOM NOM NOM

>>14904074

(Oh yeah, and just eat the ones that are thawed out. And if anyone knocks on the door or whatever while we're eating, stop immediately and clean up what we were doing.)

We might have BS'd the bitch about the drugs, but we need some heightened problem solving skills.

I say we find a good place to do a line of coke and smoke a few bowls.
Coco-puffin' is an awesome way to zip straight into abstract thinking mode.

In humans anyway, but since we're working with Homo Sapiens wetware at the moment it'll probably do the same for us.

>>14904089

The brain damage we got from our host doing highballs is what got us into this mess in the first place. I don't think it would be a good idea to fry our neural circuitry even farther.

And I think it was mentioned in the last thread that we now metabolize the stuff way faster and more efficently now, so we probably wouldn't even get the desired effect from it if we tried.

>>14904121
You can neutralize poisons, hallucinogens and the like, but it's not necessary, altough the effects of drugs on you might not be the same, or could be downright harmful.

>>14904150
Also, any addictions Jack might have had are now gone.

>>14904150

Yeah, I don't want to risk damaging our host body and brain even further.

Just go with eating the chicken for now. We'll be able to do more on a full stomach then.

>>14904170
Agreed.

But once we have a full stomach, we need to do SOMETHING to get our brain going.

>>14904220
Sudokus?

You pack the frozen meats into the freezer and wolf down the rest. You are sitting on a sofa, crunching with statisfaction on the last bone, feeling the most relaxed since you woke up four days ago. You are still concerned about your lack of orders though, so you try to think of a way to jog your memory. Any ideas?

Do some computer research on the strange object, it might have something to do with our mission or our cyborg encounter.

>>14904286
I agree with Mr. Coco-puff there. Let's take some cocaine and smoke a little marijuana.

Let's see some rolls then. Highest decides.

>>14904375
Fo anyone who doesn't know how, put dice 1d100 into the e-mail field.

rolled 99 = 99

dice 1d100

For computer surfing

I'm voting for not taking drugs, it's too risky. I say we just continue with our hosts life for a short while, trying to make connections. Learn a bit more before trying to make the next proper move.

rolled 9 = 9

>>14904571
forgot dice roll

>>14904576
well fuck.

>>14904565
You don't have a computer. Will you try to surf on your phone, or buy a laptop or something?

rolled 21 = 21

>>14904641

If our phone can access the internet, use that.

>>14904673
You try to find as much infromation as you can. It would seem like there were numerous objects entering the atmosphere in the last few days. You are sure that it has something to do wiht your purpose, but have no idea if these things happened because you are here, or if you are here because of these objects. You try to force yourself to remeber, but as you push, you feel a sharp stab of pain that makes you trash around, followed by a dull but insistent headache. When it passes, you find that something came loose so to speak, and you now remeber that you can shift your host's appearance, including skin/hair/eye colour, fingerprint and facial features.

rolled 28 = 28

>>14904823

Fuck yeah. Is there a limit to how much we can shift our appearance? Like copying another person identically? Is it something we can do multiple times without penalty?

>>14904823
first thing to do is to change our fingerprint. if we were on record for doing some shit in the past, this may help us a little in the future.

rolled 9 = 9

>>14904863

Ooh, that is a good idea. We probably have a criminal record.

I'd suggest changing our facial features too, but we still have a girlfriend to deal with, and she'd definitely notice that something was amiss if we did that...

Come to think of it, what does our host look like? Can we find a mirror to take a look?

>>14904855
It's untaxing for minor changes(no change in height/build/gender), but takes some time, and unless you have a reflective surfaces, there's a chance that you move into the uncanny valley, looking slightly wrong. If you can see yourself, you can use your host's brain to see if your new look seems normal. You can mimic a specific person, but you need either a picture to study, or to spend some time with them to memorize their features. The time required to change varies on the level of alteration, as you need to gently shift bones, soft tissue and melanin.

>>14904913
190 cm, caucasian, short black hair, bright blue eyes, short stubble, somewhat handsome face.
>>14904886
Jack was never caught selling or using drugs, but he was sentenced to four and a half years of juvie when he was 13 for killing the neighbour when he beat the neighbour to death with a shovel when he beat his wife unconscious and broke his daughters arms(childhood friend, still lives next door, tried to date the host when he came home but it didn't work out, relationship soured)

>>14905007
>>14905007
>mfw when I didn't notice that I already typed in half the sentence

rolled 30 = 30

>>14905007

They'll probably still have our fingerprints from that, so altering them first would be a good idea.

>>14905023
>mfw when captcha ate my face

rolled 48 = 48

>>14905064

Didn't we just have this argument? We don't know what kind of effects we'd get from the drugs, and I don't think we want to risk burning out our body even more.

You also notice that it's already 20:50, it looks like the daze you were in lasted a lot longer than you thought.

>>14905098
when was the party we were meant to go to? i think it's probably a good idea to go, as nothing else appears to have sprung up and this should provide us with some opportunities to gather information.

rolled 48 = 48

>>14905098

Well we've still got time to get ready for that party. It was at 10, right? Do we know where it's being held? Attending it will make us look more normal, and give us some better information on how humans interact in social settings.

See if we can get ahold of our girlfriend about where the party is, and clean ourselves up for it.

>>14905121
>>14905144
You give her a call, and she tells you that it's at Jacks usual haunt, a popular bar downtown. It's supposed to start at 10, and it takes a good half hour by car.

Should we set off about now then? it's not like there's much to do here, we might as well get there early

rolled 61 = 61

>>14905168

Let's see, it's 8:20 pm now. That gives us plenty of time to clean up a bit, maybe shave.

We can afford to be fashionably late to the party, after all.

>>14905234
>>14905235
You shower and shave, and decide to change. Stumped, you let whatever remains of Jack decide. You put on black jeans adn a simple white Hilfiger t-shirt and balck Puma sneaker. It's rather warm outside, a balmy summer night, so the choice seems adequate. Do you hurry and arrive on time, or do you drive at a more relaxed pace?

>>14905353
>wow, that's a lot of typos

rolled 20 = 20

>>14905353

Relaxed pace. At the worst, we show up fashionably late.

>>14905380
I'm going to take a cigarette break, be back in 5.

>>14905479

Bumping then.

Get dressed up for the party. We need to blend in until we figure out what to do.

Don't change appearance just yet - having an identity is a useful thing. We should be sure to remember Jack Winter's looks so we can shift back to his looks.

We might also think about bringing Jack's girlfriend into the loop - tell her what happened, but make it sound like we're still her boyfriend, just trying to help some alien out in fighting those cyborg xenos.

It'd be good to have an accomplice.

Drive at a relaxed pace. No one's going to mind if we arrive a few minutes late, and getting picked up by cops would really suck right about now.

>>14905380
You drive to the club/bar, taking care to obey speed limits. You spend some time trying to fing find a parking space, in the end, you decide to use a parking garage. Making your way on foot, you can see the huge sign from far off, some strange combination of letters, numbers and images. The place is chock full with people, blue and red lighting giving the place a -to you- strange look. You see the girlfriend waving at you from a table in one of the corners of the main room, surroended by half a dozen twentysomethings you identify as Jack's friends.

rolled 28 = 28

>>14905623

Observe the socialization around us, we can pick up some good information on human behavior here to fill in the gaps of our own knowledge.

Ask the girlfriend if she's seen anything strange around the area or heard of mysterious disappearances, things like that. Be casual about it, mention hearing something about it on the TV.

>>14905623

Join the girlfriend and your friends.

Play it up. We've just quit drugs, we're celebrating our new life, and we're most definitely not an alien parasite. Try to crack a joke or something, scour Jack's memory for one of the ones he knows pretty well.

rolled 96 = 96

>>14905662

ffff

>>14905662
You walk to them with an easy smile, and one of them shouts to the laughter of the rest"Here's the man himself! A drink to you buddy, round's on me!" and shoves a shot of vodka into your hands. You tell a joke about the quality of the drink he could afford, something the group often mocks him about, to the amusement of the others.


>We've just quit drugs, we're celebrating our new life, and we're most definitely not an alien parasite.
>This line cracked me up.

rolled 41 = 41

>>14905750

everythingwentbetterthanexpected.jpg

Okay. We can kind of fade into the background of the party now, we made our big appearance.

Let's work on singling out our girlfriend person and talking with her. After talking with her about how she's been and whatnot, segue into telling her about how we've got a weird feeling about all of that UFO crap that's been in the news. Ask her if she's seen any of that or has heard anything weird lately, and tell her you're worried about her.

I think we can dupe her into helping us out if she thinks her boyfriend is still her boyfriend.

How many of you guys are there? Just kind of confused and would like to know.

>>14905913
Ugh, going to get some coffee, seems like my english is getting pretty bad.

dig deeper into jacks memory who of his friends has believes ( religion or spiritual ) or is an conspiracy freak.
If we end up making an accomplice those might be got leverage points as in "an angle choose me", "I'm the reincarnation of someone important") stay away from the conspiracy ones
also try finding more details on the relationship to our girlfriend how strong is her loyalty to the host?

I'm having a good time.

>>14905947
There really isn't anyone in the group who has strong religious beliefs or pays much attention to conspiracy theories, they are mostly college slackers and party animals.The girlfriend is somewhat loyal, she's been with Jack for a bit more than month. She's also a bit of an airhead and kind of ditzy.
>>14905807
Luckily, it seems like they are used to giving Jack his space, as otherwise you would get lost rather quickly, their conversations switch at a speed that would be hard for you to follow.When you ask her, she says that she hasn't really noticed anything. Overhearing your question, one of the girls starts poking the guy who greeted you, grinning and saying "Come on, tell them what you saw. Come oooon." "Fine, fine, goddamit woman, you'll be the death of me. See, I was walking back home from this new place down on 2nd Street, the Gem or whatever, when I heard this whirring sound. I look up, and I swear to God, I saw something huge moving in the air, but you could barely see, just outlines, like in the Predator movies when they're cloaked, you know?" The girl laughs, and punches him in the arm."You've been hitting the good stuff without me, huh?" They start mock-arguing, which ends in them sneaking away, "for a quickie", as he tells you with a huge grin.

>>14905960
Jus asking because the last quest had a pretty heavily fluctuating amount of participants.

Buuuuuuuuump for missing players.

Bump

'ello
I have to go eat rather quickly, but I just finished reading through the last thread and this is very relevant to my interests. So.... reporting in.

>Go for coffee
>Come back, post wall of text
>Players have dissapeared
>Finally getting to the point where the pace would pick up
>mfw

>>14906478
Oh, hey, didn't see you there.

>>14906114
Damn humans and their mating interrupting what could be extremely useful intel.

Anything you want to do, or are you going to sit back for the rest of the evening?

>>14906548
I'll try to observe for now, and see if I can manage to work in some casual-sounding queries about what he saw if he gets back. We want to avoid drawing attention to abnormalities, so remain we'll quiet if we can't make it seem like Winters is talking the way he should.

>>14906114
We need to get to 2nd street but...without anyone noticing. Look for a back door or a bathroom with a window maybe?

Rollan time then.

Rollan to try and weasel out some intel from the rest of them before trying to sneak out.

Apparently I do not know how dice work.

rolled 87 = 87

>>14906658
E-mail field:
dice+1d100

>>14906658
noko dice 1d100 goes in the e-mail field.

Well?

>>14906627

>>14906850
Gah.

>>14906862
I have no idea how you can mess this up. Type it in the E-mail field:
noko dice 1d100
Just crtl+c ctrl+v it

rolled 58 = 58

Testing.

rolled 41 = 41

>>14906910
>noko dice 1d100

Wrong
It should be:
noko+dice+1d100

>>14906939
It doesn't matter, it gets filled in automaticalyy

Anyone still here? Things are pretty quiet...

Welp, my players seem to be of the phantom variety.

Sooo, gonna bump a few more times, then call it a day.

So I'm wondering, what happens when nobody posts for half an hour? Do peope just loose interest or what?

rolled 36 = 36

>>14907482

Maybe. I just got home from work. You could call it a day and try again sometime tomorrow or later this week.

>>14907519
Yeah, might be a good idea. I'll study for some time, if none posts then I'll hit the sack and try again Friday evening.

>>14907482

I was out and about for a few hours, but I'm back and I'm pumped for your game. I'll continue if you feel like running it, Brain.

>>14907551

Welp, see you then I suppose.

rolled 26 = 26

We should try and stay at the party for now leaving early might cause suspicion or hurt the girlfriends feelings and we don't want to have to deal with drama issues while we try to figure out our primary directive.

>>14907565
Well, it's prety much the same situation for me as with the first quest. It's already late as fuck for me, and I have to get some stuff done in the early morning, so I might as well stay up. I'd like to continue as well.

You're having troubles with player retention because your posts are short and fairly bland. Expand your posts out with more sensory details and engage us more in the fluff and interactions of the setting.

what would happen if we detached from the host. Not to us, but to him would he be mentally handicapped or something.

>>14907617
Had a feeling that that was the problem, I'll try to get my shit together.
>>14907621
He'd be brain dead at best, most likely he'd just up and die.

>>14907621

It's implied that he'd be a brain dead vegetable, if not outright dead.

I'm not sure we want to detatch from out host anyway. We can change our appearance, and if we go into a more living subject, we'd have to contend with their mind.

Unless we want to know what's in someone's head, switching hosts isn't necessary.

So, what do WE actually look like? Anything that can pass as terrestrial or are some freakish eldritch horror?

Anyway, I say we look around a bit more and try to get a feel for who our host is. We might be sticking with him for a while and there is probably no better time to gather intel. The other aliens can wait, I get a feeling they'll come looking for us and not vice versa.

>>14904823
Cool, lets start impersonating rich people.

>>14907578
You lounge around in your leather armchair, paying attention to Jacks friends, trying to figure out the patterns in their facial expressions and their body language as more and more people flood the dancefloor. It would seem that the main DJ has arrived, the music switching from slower monotone rythms to the fast paced,slightly distorted tunes taken from a song that's been popular lately. The already stifling heat only gets worse by the minute, the air getting filled with smoke by dozens of cigarettes glowing in the blue lights of the hall. Trying to distract yourself, you try to join the conversation, noticing something strange. You didn't see it before, but most of Jack's friends seem to be somewhat afraid of him, one girl flinching back when you lean forward for your drink.
(cont.)

>>14907640

Hey Brain in a Jar, would you let us know one way or the other if you're going to continue now or leave and come back later? I'm thinking later, but you also did post after you said it.

>>14907777
The real you doesn't have an actual form so to speak, at the moment you are tissue inside Jacks brain.

Search Jack's memory for a reason as to this. Has he been abusive to them in the past?

rolled 22 = 22

>>14907870

I'm guessing Jack Winters wasn't exactly a nice person. I don't know whether or not we want to change that image - we don't know what we're up against right now.

Whatever it is, I think it's for the best if our 'friends' are willing to go out on a limb for us. We might need their help later if we need something.

In other words, let's use the remainder of this party to be a generally swell guy. We're the new Jack - brain dead host Jack. Let's leave whenever the other people start leaving.

>>14907973

To be a bit more subtle, go up to your girlfriend and tell her that you feel you've been kind a dick to people lately. Depending on her responses, you should either go around apologizing or just try to shift toward not being a douche.

BTW, is there any potential trolling value we can do with the shapeshifting or is our alien strictly humorless?

rolled 22 = 22

>>14908016

Since we are the alien, it has whatever sense of humor we have. Plus it knows much of what Jack knows, so I'm sure it appreciates humor on some level.

Diving into your host's memories, it soon becomes clear that the tendency to get violent with strangers when high and the fact that he almost always carried his gun with him made his friends rather jumpy. He never physicaly hurt them, but he often got verbaly abusive, so they learned to keep some distance from him. The reason they sticked around seems to be that they depended on him to supply them with drugs, often at a discount. Deep in thought, you are startled when the girlfriend touches your arm. "You wanna get some air? It's getting pretty suffocating in here."

rolled 4 = 4

>>14908078

Do as she says. Try to be casual and such.

Try apologizing when you go outside with her. Ladies love it when you apologize.

>>14908132
"I,uh,well,yes?I guess?" She smiles and picks up her bag, leaving for the front door, worming her way through the crowd. You have a harder time following, the press of the bodies slowing you down, until someone spills most of their drink on your shirt. Some part of Jack resurfaces, and you give the guy a murderous look, apparently a very convincing one as he shirks away, muttering an apology. Having had enough, you force your way through the rest of the crowd pushing people out of the way. Stepping out on the street, you can feel a cool breeze in the air, drying your sweat and making you long for a warm coat. She's waiting for you, sitting on a bench with her legs crossed, lighting a cigarette."What took you so long?"

>>14908420
>sorry for the speed, I managed to destroy a half written post by refreshing

>>14908420

What took us so long? How'd she get out so fast? Whatever. Sit next to her on the bench or some such and chat with her. Find out what she's been thinking about - I bet having your jerk ass boyfriend doing a 180 degree turn is kind of surprising and she'd like to talk about it.

I'm getting an ominous feeling. I think we should tell her that all the news coverage about meteors has us spooked, and that we want her to be careful.

>>14908530
You sit down beside her, leaning back, enjoying the crisp, clear night air, and dig up some topics from Jack. You ask her how's work going("Terrible, that bitch Samantha won't get off my back, what's her problem?") how's the family, can she believe that those two went at it in the bathroom, throwing out any topic you find and listening to her intently. After a short silence, she looks at you. "You know, something's different about you today.You're, well, don't take it wrong, not a jerk today. You ask about me, and actually listen as well. What's really happened to you?"

rolled 83 = 83

>>14908628

Grin. "I don't know baby, I just feel like a brand new man. Better than ever. "

(Delicious, delicious dramatic irony)

rolled 76 = 76

>>14908628

Chalk it up to that near death experience. Say that when you were on the verge of death, you realized that you regretted who you'd become the last few years, and that you wanted to change who you were.

waitwaitwait alien bodysnatcher with shapeshifter weapon arms, selective amnesia, and somehow is a BETTER PERSON than the original human was?

Fuck, we really ARE Alex Mercer, aren't we?

"I don't know, maybe something from one of those UFOs hit me in the head."

Play it up as a joke, and gauge her reaction.

>>14908702
>>14908656
She gives you a sweet smile and says "Well, I for one like this new you.", puts her left hand around your shoulder and nestles her head on your neck.You stay like this for a while, content to let her have this moment, and look up at the cloudless sky, turned into a black void by the street lamps. You just start to relax, when you feel a jolt of pain in your head, followed by what feels like a host of voices, unintelligible but somehow familiar. You can only hear it for a split second, but after a moment, you hear it again, and again, and again, with the pause between it shortening.

>>14908767
Left out the obligatory Wat do?

rolled 66 = 66

>>14908767

Oh shit did she see that? If she asks, just play it up as a headache.

Actually, claim we have a headache anyways, drive ourselves home. I think whatever faction sent us is coming our way...

>>14908628

I feel... different after that last high. Better. I'm sorry if it bothers you...

Seconding the headache idea. Whatever's happening we don't want to be near a crowd while it runs its course.

rolled 49 = 49

>>14908767

Fuck.

My bet's on xenos. If the voices seem benign, just blend in. If we're getting any bad vibes, we've got to get moving now.

We need an excuse to get out of here. Tell the girl that you're feeling like heading off with her to her place - I'm not sure we want her stumbling on all those frozen chickens at ours - but we need to get moving, now. Get to the car. We barely took the first alien. This next guy could kill us or our pseudo friends.

rolled 42 = 42

Girl's name?

>>14908842
>>14908787
She looks at you with concern as you gasp from the pain."Are you okay?" "Yeah, just, this headache keeps coming back, I think I'll turn in for the night"With obvious worry, she says"Wel, if you say so. I kind of promised Tiff I'd go home with her, you don't mind right?Okay, make sure you rest, and call me when you wake up." She gives you a kiss, and heads back inside the club. Meanhile, you can feel the voices growing stronger, homing in on you. You hurry through the dark street, cursing yourself that you parked two streets down. Whatever it is, it's almost on you as you breakinto a run, only to see a girl, no older than fifteen, dressed in a punk rocker outfit, standing in your way. As you look at her, you feel a connection, somehow knowing that she is like you, your kin. For a second, you are relieved that finally found someone who can help you understand what's going on. Untill she looks at you with dead eyes, and says in a flat voice" You are deaf to the voices. You refuse your orders. You need to die." You can see the morphing on her arms, spikes being readied.
Wat do?
>I just remebered that I forgot to add in the abilities section that you can harden your skin into a thin bone armor

>>14909027
Catherine. Should've mentioned that.

>>14909030
FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUU
Typos, typos errywhere

rolled 29 = 29

>>14909030

We have a gun, right? Drill the bitch in the head. Use the distraction to armor up and take evasive action.

>>14909030

Oh god damnit. Wait, would it be possible to disable her? Pump her for info maybe?

Fight her (it), capture it, restrain it at home witht he rope from earlier, and question it about the mission. Failing that, terminate with extrime self-preservationy prejudice.

rolled 92 = 92

>>14909030

Fucking hell, so now we have cyborg aliens AND our own kind out to kill us?

The Hook-Sword arm and Spike combo worked pretty well for us last time, go for that again. Stay on the defensive, block with our sword-arm and punish her attacks with our spike.

And bust out the bone armor. Might as well throw in all our chips for this one.

pic related yet again.

rolled 22 = 22

>>14909111

Actually, looking at the other suggestions now, it would be a good idea to see if we can incapacitate her first and interrogate her.

rolled 24 = 24

Using powers takes up a lot of energy. All we've got to do is screw around with her until she runs out of juice, and beat her into submission and take her back to our place for interrogation.

So. Armor up and let's start dodging like mad.

Do we know if there's a way we could temporarily disrupt the other bodysnatcher's link to the host? We're not exactly at the top of our game, so any little advantage might help.

How secluded is this area?

Can we pump a bullet into a less-lethal location without causing too much of a scene?

Also, change appearance (don't want our host copping a murder charge)

rolled 34 = 34

>>14909148

This sounds like a good idea.

>>14909111
>>14909121
>>14909148
You feel an itching sensation as your skin turns into segmented bone plate, readying yourself for her charge. She rushes a you, and you barely have enough time to pull your head away fromher left palm, the spike shooting out from underneath it, missin you by an inch. At the same time, her right hand hits home, the spike burying itself into your stomach, shattering the bone on your stomach with a wet crunch. Yelling out in pain, you grab the right arm and push your spike through it, her forearm turning into leaking pulp from the impact. The hook-blade sprouts from your right, leaping downward in a blur, latching itself into her shoulder joint. She screams, the sound more like that of an animal than a person, as she kicks you in the cheast, pulling herself away from you, ripping the tendons in her shoulder in the process.
(cont.)

>>14909291
She crouches in front of you, her arms useless, her dress stained dark and her face painted a feverish yellow in the dim light of the street. You feel the voices again, but this time preceded by a wail, sounding like a small child crying for help. As you watch her, something get's knocked loose in you, a piece of information you never knew you had. You can absorb the creature inside the girl, killing both in the process, but there is a chance that you could gain what it knows this way.
Wat do?

>>14909347
Devour the creature! What was our mission! Who are we?

rolled 60 = 60

>>14909347

Drain her for knowledge.

>>14909347

We don't want to completely alienate our species, do we?

...

Fuck it, eat the bitch

If we're trying to figure out how *not* to be hunted by both sides of the apparent conflict, absorptionis probably the wrong answer here.

>>14909377
Our team is already out for us. We've gone off the reservation pal.

rolled 74 = 74

Let us feast

If our own kind rejects us, then it seems we have little choice in the matter. They will become our prey as well and we will show neither side mercy.

Devour it. If we cannot be rejoined with the whole, we shall strip the whole apart, piece by piece.

rolled 34 = 34

>>14909347

I'm still for capturing her alive. We might be able to get new information out of her as it comes in.

Continue fighting with the intent to disable.

rolled 87 = 87

C'mon people, let's be the bigger person and show some mercy.

>>14909433

Her directive is to kill us. We would have to have a way to keep her restrained AND effectively get information out of her constantly (without attracting attention due to having a bound, gagged, and badly injured TEENAGE GIRL in our house), and that seems like too much risk for an uncertain reward.

Devour her.

rolled 64 = 64

We can always absorb her after we interrogate her. My vote's for capture.

>>14909470

We are fighting for survival here against a faction that is much larger and with access to more resources than we have, both in terms of man(alien)power and information.

We have no room for mercy in this fight.

>>14909394
>>14909370
You let out a hungry snarl, pouncing towards her. She turns and tries to run, letting out a weak whimper as you land on her back, pinning her to the ground. You reabsorb the spike and blade, your thumbs turning into needle-like extensions. Grasping her head with both hands, you plunge your thumbs into her skull, the bone giving away with a pop. You reach out from them, extending yourself in small tentacles, searching for the creature inside. It puts up a fierce resistance, denying you anything it can, ripping itself apart in it's struggle. You absorb what you can, and stand up, dizzy from the mass of information, too much to sort at once. You realize a number of things. First, this was an Infriltrator, the same thing you were supposed to be. Second, Infiltrators aren't supposed to posess te ability to sprout claws or blades, or grow armor. Third, the wail you heard was a distress signal of some sort, calling out to anyone nearby. It was answered by more than a dzen Infiltrators, and two creatures that she called Warriors.

>>14909533
TIME TO LEAVE.

Our species is everywhere, Fuck!

Running!

>>14909533

SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT

GTFO. NOW.

Get in our car, drive away. Alter our appearance somewhat too, so that way if the girl sent out a broadcast showing what we looked like, they'll have a harder time finding us.

But that bit of information was interesting, we're an Infiltrator but have access to combat abilities we're not supposed to have? I wonder what else we can do...

We need to spend more time discovering our abilities. We'll need to have as many tools and weapons available to us as possible to weather the coming storm.

rolled 28 = 28

>>14909533

JESUS CHRIST GET IN THE CAR AND DRIVE

rolled 54 = 54

get somewhere busy and in public(hey,they've been quiet so far) away from camera's just in case. a bar would be ideal. dig out whatever bits of her knowledge we can. focus on how they track. and what warriors are.

>>14909533
You feel sick, the untainted genetic information raging through you, burning you, changing you. It opens something, a part that is not supposed to be there.
Choose two enhancements:

Improved muscle and bone reinfrocement
Harder Bone Armor
Increased weapon strength
Launchable bone spikes

>>14909639

Harder Bone Armor
Launchable Bone Spikes

rolled 21 = 21

>>14909639

Improved Muscle and Bone Reinforcement.

It's something that can protect us when we're trying to be stealthy AND in combat, and will probably give a boost to our normal strength and resistance. A lot more utility than the other options, something that won't immediately give us away if we make use of it.

Harder Bone Armor: The Infiltrator forms can crunch through our current set, that's not very useful.

Increased Weapon Strength: The "Warriors" probably have armor, which our current weapon evolutions might be ineffective against.

rolled 55 = 55

>>14909667

Oh, we can pick two? In that case, go with Improved muscle and bone strength and harder bone armor.

rolled 23 = 23

>>14909639

*Improved muscle and bone reinforcement
*Harder Bone Armor

That way we can tank damage and move faster, important when we're outnumbered. Agility is critical in combat.

We can augment our combat prowess with human weapons, something I don't think our filthy xeno coutnerparts will think to do.

>>14909695
Will guns work on them though?

rolled 67 = 67

>>14909699

Fuck if I know, but it's worth a shot. Taking a bullet to the eye or kneecap has got to do something to the human body, even if it's being biologically reinforced by some alien monster.

>>14909675

Changing my Improved Weapons to Muscle and Bone Reinforcement. It may be less effective in combat, but I agree it has more general utility.

>>14909686
You drop to all fours, pain coursing through you, as your body becomes stronger, your muscles becoming more efficient, the skeleton denser and harder and the bone plate doubling in thickness. The change complete, you stand up, shaking, feeling the power coursing trough you. As you orient yourself, trying to decide what to do, you hear a car speeding up. Turning towards it, your are momentarily blinded by it's headlights as it turns the corner, figures leaning outside the windows. You spot rifles in their hands.
Roll for reaction! First three counts.

rolled 44 = 44

Dive into the nearest alley, get your gun ready, grow your new bone armor. Maybe try to get onto the rooftops?

rolled 55 = 55

>>14909773
I hope we do well.

I say we turn and run for the hills. Like, right now.

rolled 74 = 74

>>14909791
Dive into an alley and look for a fire escape to clamber up.

rolled 14 = 14

>>14909773

Dodge at 'em and vault over the car - they won't expect it and they won't be able to change direction that quickly. Run like hell in the opposite direction.

That should give us enough time to break line of sight and get back to the car and DRIVE

rolled 18 = 18

>>14909773

Man. They do use guns.

probably a bad time to ask. but what kind of physical capability do we have?

>>14909810
>>14909798
>>14909791
You leap, the concrete cracking under your feet, and soar towards the alley to your left. You hear the sharp stacatto bark of an automatic weapon,followed by the roar of several hunting rifles. Bullets bound of your side, their bite painful but bearable. The bone of your fingers extending, you grow out your claws, pushing them into the side of the alley, propelling yourself upwards in great bounds, scurrying to the rooftop of the building.
Wat do?

>>14909918
KEEP.
RUNNING.

>>14909893
Due to your newfound enhancements, currently unknown. Before, you were about twice as strong/fast/though as a fit human of your size and build.

rolled 75 = 75

Improved muscle and bone strength and
Launchable bone spikes.

The improved muscle and bone strength helps both defense and offense, it makes all our attacks hit harder and makes us able to take more damage. It is also very subtle because there wouldn't be any visible changes so we could use it with normals around us.

The launchable bone spikes open up an entire new form of attack. They're silent and not visible when not in use so they make a perfect assassin weapon. THey also let us keep out of reach of the warriors

rolled 37 = 37

>>14909918

Glad we got better armor.

I say we go across the rooftops away from the road systems for a few buildings, drop down back to street level, and then find a crowd to blend into for a while. We could look through our hosts memories for a good street to end up on in terms of crowd density.

rolled 94 = 94

>>14909918
. . .that answers my capability question.

run. run. run. then double back and try to observe what they do. if we loose them.

rolled 90 = 90

>>14909918

Run. Roof hopping. They can't follow in that car, and we've got the lead if they get out and try to pursue on foot.

We should get off the roofs after we've ditched them - maybe get on a bus or lay low in a club or something.

lets retreat to that body we hid and try the nero thing on it see if we get anything usefull

>>14909965

I think the parasite will have decayed. We won't get any use out of it.

rolled 38 = 38

Flee along the roof-tops to get a bit of a lead, change our appearance and then return to ground level (being careful not to be scene returning to the gorund by anyone).

Find a public phone and call the cops on the car if we saw the car's number plate.

FInd somewhere to lay low for a while, I'm thinking either a club (because we'd be hard to find) or an internet cafe (because we could do some research at the same time)

>>14909959
add on if possible:new face if we loose them. hope they cant track us through other means.

>>14910038

We've got the same clothes.

>>14909962

This is me. Add the phone the cops thing, report the license plate. The xenos are trying to be sneaky. Make it hard for them.

>>14909959
i admit. was hoping that all sapients and their trappings kind of look the same to them. but thats very true. and they may be more socially. . aware then we are. we just might be broken.

>>14910095

Our guy got brain dead before we were able to mind rape him. We're working off of nothing.

>>14910024
>>14909959
>>14909962
You run across the dirty roof of the building, putting everything you have into speed. You leap through the street, landing on a tiled roof on the other side, everything under your feet exploding into shrapnel from the impact. You move as fast as you can, barely sliding to a halt as a massive figure lands ahead of you, towering above you, it's spiked armor glistening sinisterly. It raises it's head towards the sky, a howl rippling forth from a fanged maw, the call answered from a the top of a building nearby. You turn to escape,as a faint whirring sound becomes noticable, and infront of your eyes a blurry outline clears out to reveal a vehicle of some sort( a VTOL, whispers Jack) in the sky for a brief moment, before spotlights blind you.

>>14910143
*pouts* shoot holes with logic in all my knee-jerk ideas. and its my first post in one of these too! mea culpa. that makes sence.

>>14910162
Aaaand this is where we stop for now. I hoped you enjoyed it after I got my narrative skills running at a half decent level, and I'll be coming back with the next part tonight. What would be best for you guys time-wise? It would seem that there are more interested players/fewer other quests running after 20:00 boardtime.

>>14910162

Welp. I don't think we're going to be able to get away. Let's act afraid and signal the VTOL for help. Whoever's in there is probably wise to what's going on, and we could use their assistance.

>>14910162
oh shit.

>14910208

20:00 boardtime is great with me. About 5:00PM my time. I've been posting a lot, and I'll keep at it next time you're on.

20:00 board time it is. Thread archived, I'll see you guys later.