Your known abilities are:
- reinforcing your muscle and bone tissue, making you several times 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
- hardening your skin into thick,segmented bone plate armor, and growing a membrane under your skin, that contains fluid that hardens on impact
- 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
-altering your appearance, includin skin\hair\eye colour, facial features, height, build, and gender, though the more elaborate the change is, the more time and effort it takes.
-producing almost any kind of drug or poison in liquid form, including sedatives, that you can deliver either at high pressure from an opening that can be created anywhere on your body, or through the wristspike.

rolled 95 = 95

FUCK YES
If you remember the last roll made, we were gonna take 15m on mimicking the fatass's facial features, then head up to the roof to get to that VTOL

rolled 3 = 3

Hey, OP

I should apologize. I ignored your quest before even when I ran into it during thread 1 but after reading the archives this seems to be interesting.

Though, I will voice the complaint that one anon left you in thread 1:
your posts lack a bit of flavour. The updates are sometimes very short, like a single line or two. It is always nice when the Quests are more descriptive (see some of the popular ones like Dragon Quest, Harlem Quest, etc... or not as popular but certainly amazing: Binder Quest)
Not saying to start writing walls of text, but would be good if you tried to write a bit more.

Also
>reading the previous thread
>after the dangerous fight, people go for the VTOL, ignorir 3 bodies of Bodysnatchers, which would have been easy snack and free upgrades.
>why.jpg

---

Anyway, what was the plan now? We changed into the FBI agent....
Now what?

This whole idea seemed dumb to me when I was reading the archive.

You are currently impersonating Greg, a federal agent, who is unconscious in a bathroom stall next to you. You have taken his clothes and matched his appearance.

>>14948951
What was in Greg's inventory? Are there pockets to reasonably conceal our 3 guns?

>>14948946
I'm consumed by curiousity on the machine contained in the VTOL, and I want answers. Failing that, there are at least 3 government officials with clearance we can kidnap. As for the bodysnatcher corpses, I had no idea, I just knew we killed one, and the others were in the middle of the street.

>>14948946
Yeah, still working on it, trying to get back in my DM groove, but I haven't GM-d or writefag-d anything in more than two years. Going to try to expand upon posts, though, seraching for synonims is hard work.
>>14948951
You are in the club Jack's girlfriend dragged you to, in a second floor bathroom. There are two guards outside, guarding the stairs to the third floor. The building is 5 storeys high, and Agent Jacobs is on the roof alongside the downed VTOL.

>Also, sorry everyone who was here yesterday, I was tired as shit and slept through the whole night after DH.

>>14948965
He has his badge and ID, a cellphone, some chewing gum, in a few keyes. Not much in terms of pocket space, definitely not enough for a gun.

>>14949039
>in supposed to be and. Derp.

>>14949007
>>14948946
Bodysnatchers are only good for absorption if they are alive.
>>14949016
>I'm herping the derp curiously hard today, this isn't a good sign.
His badge peggs him as an FBI agent.

>>14949039
Put 2 pistols in the front waistband (concealed) and one in the back. Chew gum. Walk out pretending to talk loudly on the cell phone, and head for the stairs.

> picardfacepalm.gif
I forgot to ad the subject. Again.
Also, opinions\votes on Altair's plan.>>14949086

BODYSNATCHERS up in hurr

rolled 34 = 34

yeah go with altairs plan

have a quick pace

guards might check out the stall though so be quick in whatever you do

Was the fire escape on the alley side of the building, or the rear side? I imagined the alley opening up into a rectangular dumpsterspace before contracting again into the exit to the next street.

>>14949276
In the alley, and it's pretty much as you imagined.

>>14949305
Alright. That'll make for a quick exit like last time. For now, we keep it cool, head straight to the top, counting guards and cops as we go.

>>14949236
>>14949086
You stiff the pistols into Greg's pants, and fold your clothes neatly, placing them in a stall adjacent to the one Greg's in. You check yourself in the mirror, seeing the face of a thirtysomething Caucasian man, with watery green eyes, blotchy skin, and a sligh mustache. His -your- hair is a dirty blonde, already receding at the top. Everything seemingly checking out, you step outside, and start walking to the stairs in the grimy, dimly lighted corridor, pretending to talk on your phone about something pseudo-significant. You wave to the guards, and they salute, standing aside to let you pass. The building's main stairs are beyond the door, leading to a number of apartments and small offices. The place is in disrepair, the plaster cracking on the walls, the steps smoothed by years of use, and only one in two lightbulbs are working. There are soldiers standing guard at every floor, but they don't seem to expect any trouble, saluting you with bored looks on their faces. The trip to the roof should have exhausted you, if you were truly Greg that is. Your enhanced muscles carry the weight without exertion, and soon you are greeted by the sight of the VTOL, swarmed by soldeirs and technicians, with helicopters botting the night sky.

>>14949483
Hmmm...VTOL is swarmed. I get the feeling we're kinda fucked.

>>14949483
>trip fell off
You see Agent Jacobs, shouting at one of the technicians."Goddamnit, what's taking so long? Will you give me a status report already?" The man gives the agent an annoyed look. "These things take time, sir. Any minute now." Another techie climbs out of the craft, an hurries over to him, handing a PDA over. "Everything checks out, the cloacking device is at 98%, and the tracker is completely undamaged. Shouldn't take us more than 3 hours to fit both onto another KP-21." "Okay, people, we've got to get them back to Central, I want an airlift prepared in 3 minutes!"Jacobs shouts, and seems to only notic you now, turns, growling "What took you so long? The kid signed the goddamned papers I hope?"

>>14949483
>>14949556
D'oh!

Is the pilot still in the VTOL? Where's Jacobs?

>>14949556
"Sorry about that. Kid was more interested in street talk than learning to read and write. You know how it is. What have we got here, Jacobs? Any survivors?"

>>14949594
"One. He was dosed with something, was completely unresponsive. He got airlifted back to base for a quarantine. Got to make sure, the higher-ups don't want to repeat Amsterdam. Other one is dead, freak luck or so the tech-heads say. I don't know about you, but I smell foul play here." He frowns, looking distressed, one might even say frightened.

rolled 27 = 27

So what is the report then?
What can you tell me about what happened here? Have any ideas?

rolled 8 = 8

Is something wrong, Jacobs?

>>14949650
"You think they might be carrying viruses, too. Fucking terrifying. What do you think they were after?"

>>14949671
>>14949657
"Well, things just don't make sense. Just when we thought we had them figured out, a bunch of category two's, hell, even two Combat-forms, try to kill one of their own, who seemed to be fighting back, even helping Hunter-threeone. I only hope that R&D back at base can figure this one out."

>>14949752
> before any confusion sets in, category two seems to be a term that includes "Combat-forms", sorry if it wasn't clear

Hmmm. We could try to bluff Jacobs into driving us back to our Jeep, but we don't know how Jacobs got here, or how Greg got here. We could also tell him we left the papers in the next building over, where Greg took us. I'm thinking the latter is more viable.

rolled 56 = 56

>>14949752
"So what's next? I've got those forms waiting downstairs if you need 'em, otherwise, do we have a plan?"

>>14949905
>>14949838
"Get the forms, we'll be packed up and ready to go soon. Nothing else here for us." He looks on as the techies cut away the hull of the VTOL, exposing the machines underneath, a large helicopter hovering above, hook dangling underneath.
>what's the plan? Go home, muck about in the vicinity, or what?

rolled 24 = 24

Yes
that is weird.
do you think they have internal struggles?
Nothing like this had happened before, right?

rolled 94 = 94

Spy around if you can see any dossiers, notebooks or any other material which can give you sensitive onformation.
We should steal it and later examine at our own leisure

>>14949993
Where?Nothing up here or in the building, you're sure of that.

rolled 11 = 11

>>14950039
Oh
I thought technicians and such would have equipment and documents with them.
Forget this then.
Ask Jacobs where they will take the VTOL

>>14950070
"Back to the base, of course. Too many valuable tech inside, so it'll be stripped for parts. Going to be a bitch of haul, though. And why are you still here? Come on, hop to it, we won't be here all day."

>>14949752
Jacobs, what if I told you that I knew where the hunted one was?

>>14950070
>equipment, yes. Documents, no.

>>14950113
>>14950102
Forgot mah trip

>>14950039
"One of them helped our guys? Did we get him? What are we gonna do with him?"

It might be worth knowing how they'd treat us as an ally.

>>14950121
"Yeah, bastard got away. We guess it bolted the moment the Combat-forms were down. What we'd do with it? Take it apart, I guess. Standard procedure, and I'm fairly sure that command would like to know why they turned against each other. Maybe an interrogation."

>>14950174
Wouldn't it be more useful to try to get a man on the inside? See if we can make an ally out of it.

>>14950181
"What the hell, Greg? Did you go nuts while I wasn't looking? After fucking Grey, you still think we should trust them?" His rage is written plainly across his face, accompanied by... pain? Grief? "If you say one more word about this, I swear to God, I WILL knock you out, you understand me? Now GET.GOING."

>>14950235
Did I say ally? I meant manipulate. Then kill slowly.

Yeah.

Anyways, lets go get the forums, or whatever the hell we're doing.

rolled 20 = 20

Okay okay
I am sorry Jacobs.


Then get going. If we feel lucky we could go to bathroom and return Gregs shit.

!!!
Shit we left our clothing there? It might have identification and they could trace our host. We cant lose our haven!

Grab our clothing and then go with them.

>>14950319
"Okay, okay, I, I'm sorry." You head back, and descend the stairs as quickly as you dare, giving a nod to the guards as you pass them. Entering the bathroom, you dress Greg in his clothes and put on your own. you leave the dirty bathroom and go downstairs. "Yo, Greg told me to go home, so let me pass, aright." They give you a nod, and finally, you are out on the streets again. It's starting to turn a bit cold, already well past 3 AM.
Wat do?

>>14950503
Uhm, okay, any votes for this?
>>14950553
Why do it constantly forget my trip?

>>14950568
Uh, never mind about that.
>>14950503 here

I confused myself there.

rolled 45 = 45

Go home and eat the rest of our food for denser muscles.

then, if we dont need sleep, go scouting the area.

Dont forget to change into the original host when at home.
When scouting, change into something else and wear cheap plain clothing and a hoodie

>>14950599
So do you walk home, get your car looking like someone else, or turn back before getting it?

>>14950553
I disagree. I say we change back into the black kid, make ourselves scarce, and then change back into our prime form.

>>14950553
>The derp has struck again.
Yeah, I really mucked up here, forgot to mention that you turned back into the black kid. It kinda was the most obvius way to leave.

Bumpan for decisions, also getting coffee to reactivate higher brain functions.

rolled 86 = 86

>>14950618
Yes
get into the car after changing the look into something else

drive home

take a detour from the club if need be

>>14950865
You find an alley, and after making sure that noone sees you, you shift back to Jack's appearance. Strolling towards the garage, you hear a voice behind you. "Jack?" You turn around, ready for a fight, when you see Catherine, Jack's girlfriend running toward you, almost tackling you as she gives a tight embrace. "Ohmygod, you're okay, right? Just when you left, there was all this shooting outside, and then the cops wouldn't tell us anything, and I was so worried!" She looks at you, and steps back, embaressed."I'm sorry, you told me not to be clingy. I'll give you your space."

>>14951206
Sorry for the horrible speed, guys, had to take care of some stuff.

rolled 7 = 7

tell her that you are alright
say that after she left we went for a long walk and just were coming back. We didnt even hear the shooting or ran into cops.


Keep an eye on her, my paranoia is ticking, I dont trust her sudden appearance. Who knows, maybe a bodysnacher got her and wants to strike us unawares.

Go home. If she asks to join, refuse, tell her that you need time alone... to find yourself or something equally retarded

>>14951309
"I'm fine, really. Didn't even hear anything. I took a walk, there's a lot of things I need to think about, so if you don't mind I'l head home." you say with a small smile. She is relieved, seemingly more about the fact that you didn't flip out over the hug. " Okay then, I'll catch a bus home. Call me when you're" She's interrupted when you feel something piercing your back, pain flooding your senses. You turn your head, and see something like a spear or javelin lodged into the small of your back, with a cable attached to it. You can hear Catherine scream, and only have enough time to register three masked men with spearguns in their hands before two more hit you. Your muscles contract and you topple, an electric current running through, and you lose consciousness before you hit the ground.

>>14951504
Bet this happened because you guys decided to knock Greg out. TOLD YOU IT WAS TOO RISKY.

rolled 83 = 83

well shit

Could we force to overcome this?
It was the host which went down, but the bodysnatcher could be alright and restore it back to function

>>14951504
You wake up, your arms tired and sore. You are restrained, chained to a wall in a way that doesn't allow you to move, held upright by the manacles on your wrists. The room around you is odd, piles of equipment lying around, tables with scientific instruments by the bare concrete walls. The three men stand around you, outside arm's reach, taser-spearguns in hand. You can see Catherine cuffed to a pipe on the other side of the room, and a grey-haired man in a flanel shirt and jeans sitting before one of the monitors."Doc, he's awake."

rolled 62 = 62

>>14951566
Well, for justice sake, I did suggest to be extra careful and attentive after Catherine caught up to us.
Seems that bit was not taken into consideration, maybe we would have noticed those dudes otherwise

rolled 40 = 40

What parts of us besides our wrists are bound?

Can we lauch several projectiles at once?

>>14951597

Oh fucking hell.

"What's going on here? If you all are after money, I swear I can get you money, guns, drugs, whatever you want. I'm sure we can work this out..."

I doubt playing dumb is going to work, but it never hurts to try.

>>14951574
The current nocked out everything in the brain, that includes you.
>>14951609
You did take extra care and watched her, the guys came from behind you.

>>14951643
Wrists and ankles.

Sorry guys, some drama here be back in 10.

rolled 20 = 20

>>14951667
Can we adapt ourself or the host to be resistant or immune to the electricity mow that we have tasted it once?

>>14951741

Take your time. We'll be waiting.

>>14951754
Might be easier to just armor up, preferably underneath the skin so it's not obvious. Trying to become immune to electricity is like trying to become immune to fire.

>>14951754

Organic version of the Borg? Ooooh, I hope so. That would be awesome.

>>14951754
You could insulate your brain and nerve endings somewhat, making you less prone to just passing out.

"Shut it, freak, we know what you are." says one of the men with guns."Well then, we should ask him some questions, yes?" the man in the shirt says, swiveling around in his chair. He seems to be a fit fifty year old man, with a wrinkled, joly face, brown eyes and wireframe glasses. He stands up, and walk up to you, staying a good two meters away. "Hmmm, let's see. Who sent you and your kind? What is your goal here? What is your relationship with the other aliens?"

>>14951932
Catherine screams at him. "WE DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. HE'S HURT, HE NEEDS HELP." She breaks down into a sob.
>crap, I never gave a description of her.
She's 22 years old, 187 cm, with a slender build, shoulder length blonde hair and green eyes. She's considered rather attractive. She wears contacts, though currently her eyes are red and puffy, presumably from crying.

>>14951932

"Hostile at best. They don't seem to want me around, and I don't much care for them either.

My goal? My goal is to survive. I have no grudge against you humans anymore, unless you decide to cross me like you seem to have made the mistake of here.

BUT... if you let me go, I have a feeling this could be a very profitable partnership. I'll help you turn back the invasion if you just let me take down as many of the fickle-minded bastards as I can."

We don't have to be the bad guy here.

rolled 64 = 64

Insulate your brain as much as you can.
start making a dart which will fly to one of the guards.
talk to him while preparing.

They probably see you as normal bodysnacher, as in we take over the body but it stays mostly the same. They dont know we can grow blades from our body which we can use to cut the restraints.
Make your body ready by stalling the conversation ti you get to perfect state to release yourself and take out everyone in the room

>>14952006
Uh, yeah. Slight mistake on my part. The other aliens means the cyborgs.

>>14952006

Oh, and as for Catherine, direct this to her.

"I'm... I'm sorry you have to go through with this too. This host...Jack... would've died anyways from an overdose. There's nothing left of him."

rolled 42 = 42

>>14951932
The CNS works by sending electrical impulses though, you can't prevent getting electrocuted and still maintain control over your body.

Try to convince them to let her go safely first, since she's not involved in this. It also helps make us seem a bit more human if we care about the well-being of others.

rolled 43 = 43

Ask them to let go of Catherine or at least bring her to otjer room

say that she has nothing to do with this

>>14952027

Oh, in that case,

"Fuck if I know. Everybody's trying to kill me around here."

>>14952038

We're a body-snatching shape-shifting alien and now you're concerned about biological plausibility? Just roll with it, man.

Also seconding asking them to take Catherine away. If we can show empathy for other humans, it'll make us look better.

rolled 98 = 98

>>14952006
Nah

I dont want to strike deals and friemdships.
We should have enough power to escape and overwhelm them.

I dont want to deal with kidnappers, if we arw to ever make an allience with a human organization or other, it should be done on more friendly turns.

Lets focus on geeting them release Catherine

>>14952075

I suppose it is a little early to become indebted to anyone. We need to find out more about what's going on before we throw in with any other side besides our own.

>>14952075
>>14952057
>>14952042
>>14952038
>>14952044
>>14952026

"Fuck if I know. Everyone who seems to have the foggiest idea has been trying to kill me. But the girl has nothing to do with any of this. Let her go."

He looks at you with a bemused face. "Curious, curious. From what we know, you should come with a set of instructions from the get go.Hmmm." He walks back to the computer, and almost as an afterthought, says, "Oh, the girl. My associates took her as a safety precaution. We wouldn't want her to alert the authorities, yes?" The door opens, and in comes a figure you know. Your next door neighbour, Jack's old flame, Megan."Got you the stuff you wanted, Doc." She puts a cardboard box on the table beside the man in the shirt, and comes closer to you. "Huh, they really are sneaky fuckers, aren't they. Wouldn't have guessed that they took him." She doesn't seem particularly upset by any of this.

>>14952198

"Yeah, well, my instructions must've gotten lost in translation because I have no clue what's going on here other than two different kinds of aliens and the goddamned Men in Black are out to kill me. I'm just trying to survive."

Uhm, anyone else?

rolled 27 = 27

>>14952198
Are you putting the body into preparations?

seriously, I cant tell from your response

>>14952198

Megan? What are you doing here? Are you working for these guys? Spying on me? How...why?

And seriously guys, take Catherine out of here. I swear she has nothing to do with any of this.

>>14952362

I don't think we're in much of a position to do anything that could possibly be percieved as threatening. We should probably play nice for now.

rolled 24 = 24

Ask them who they are

doesnt really look like governmental organisation

>>14952362
>Oh sweet mother of God. Okay, gonna get my shit together.

You reinforce your body, grow the shock-absorbant layer, and make the basic preparations for the weapon morphs, trying to be as subtle as possible about it. They don't seem to notice anything.

rolled 27 = 27

>>14952198

Let's play it for drama. Maybe we can distract them from what they want to know.

"Fucking Meagan," you say. "I know we were never on the best terms, but you don't even bat an eyelash when I might've been eaten by some who the fuck knows what?"

Then feign being really, really mad - that is if all the poison darts are ready and we can bust out and wipe the floor with these people. Then say this. "I swear to God, you lay a fucking finger on Catherine and I'll - I'll kill you! Let her go!"

See, this way they think we care about pathetic human lives, and might make the mistake of judging us based on human standards.

Don't break out yet as we could still use some answers, but be ready to deploy armor, shoot darts, and break our restraints and shred everyone in the room, maybe knocking out one of these people that knows some answers and taking them with us when we escape with Catherine.

rolled 76 = 76

>>14952432

We could inject someone with a sleeper chemical, couldn't we? That makes someone pass out for a while. We could interrogate them later after feeding some bullshit story to our host's girlfriend Catherine.

I agree with the thing about making them think we care about things as long as possible. We might even be able to fool one or two of them into thinking we're really human. I doubt we can get to anyone in charge, but if we can make even one of these suits doubt what's going on, we might be able to exploit them.

>>14952376
>>14952393

"Didn't expect to see you here. What, you've been spying on me? And who the hell are you people anyway?"
"Spying? Oh no, it wasn't even me who spotted you. And the good doctor here likes to call us the Fools. As in, the ones who oppose the Wise." She seems dissapointed, when she sees that you don't react. "Seriously? Nothing?" She turns around, and raises her voice. "Doc, I think this one is broken or something." He barely seem to register her, as he opens the box. His face lights up like a child's when recieving Christmas presents, as a mechanical centipede drops into his hands! "Oh dear, how thrilling! Never had the opportunity to see one that wasn't broken."

>>14952432
You don't have darts. Just the wristspike, and the high-pressure tube.

rolled 40 = 40

>>14952409
See?
Now the situation is compmetely different.
Insulate our brain to best of our abilities and prepare our muscles especially leg muscles which are crazy powerful.
Aslo the dart, grow it in position so that it can launch at one of the guards.

Stall time talking.
Tell them to remove catherine from the room at lwast. That means one of the guards will have to take her, meaning less resistance for us

rolled 83 = 83

>>14952487
I reiterate.

"Fucking Meagan," you say. "I know we were never on the best terms, but you don't even bat an eyelash when I might've been eaten by some who the fuck knows what? Let Catherine go or I'll... I'll kill you!"

Make it sound convincing, like we're really angry and genuinely upset at our powerlessness. If they try to do anything weird to us and it seems to be doing something bad, enact the escape plan.

Well, with the high pressure tube, we could spray it all over right?

Question...How does taking over somebody completely for their memories and abilities work? Like, could we maybe decapitate somebody and then attach that head to us and keep it alive until we assimilate everything?

rolled 90 = 90

>>14952409
See?
Now the situation is compmetely different.
Insulate our brain to best of our abilities and prepare our muscles especially leg muscles which are crazy powerful.
Aslo the dart, grow it in position so that it can launch at one of the guards.

Stall time talking.
Tell them to remove catherine from the room at lwast. That means one of the guards will have to take her, meaning less resistance for us

>>14952542
You can gain the memories/skills of humans through bonding only, so it would mean releasing most of your control over Jack's body. There might be an upgrade that allows for another way though...

>>14952487

"Drug overdose...before I got control of myself. I was out of it for a few days and don't remember much.

Listen, I don't want to see Catherine get hurt. Can you at least take her away someplace else? Someplace safer?"

rolled 100 = 100

>>14952585

Could we make some kind of poison and spray it in a mist into the air? It would be nice if we could take these people out or at least stun them with a burst of poison gas.

>>14952619
Liquid only, but you are accurate with it up to ten meters, so yeah, beside the Doctor, you could spray everyone else.

Also, no one got freaked out by the robo-centipede? I thought the general response would be "KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE!" or something along those lines. If anyone doesn't remeber/wasn't here, those are the things that make the cyborgs.

>>14952656

That's what they do? I don't remember us learning about those things. We just got randomly attacked by one and I don't remember anything about a centipede in it.

>>14952619
Not yet. I want to try fishing for more information first. For example, how the fuck did they discover and track us down?

>>14952667
First quest. It was coiled around the cyborg-drone's spine, most likely controlling it. And I think it was mentioned in the second's opening post.

>>14952707

Ah, in that case then, we should definitely keep an eye on it. Judging from the man's reaction to it, it seems they've dealt with such things before, although a live one may pose a larger threat than they realize.

>>14952656

It's just a centipede at this point. We can crush/kill/avoid it with ease should they try to force it on us.

I'm all for us feigning that we're Jack with alien powers while these guys have us under the knife. If anything happens, we just bust out and kill everyone.

rolled 94 = 94

Ask him about the "Wise" whoever they are. Are we dealing with alien cyborgs and alien parasites, or are we dealing with alien parasites and human cyborg things?

If we switch hosts, what happens to Jack? I assume he dies since he was already beyond repair, but would happen if he were healthy? Does he regain control?

rolled 1 = 1

>>14952734

Well, for all intents and purposes, being cut off from the hive mind means "Jack with alien superpowers" is pretty close to the truth. We have no directive other than that which we choose ourselves.

>>14952726
>>14952734
" Look, soem thing, attacked me a few days ago when I was, uh, fuck, let's just say it, shooting myself up. I passed out, and when I wake up, I have these weird powers, and everyone tries to kill me. Could you at least get Catherine somewhere else, you know, safer? Throw me a bone here, I'm telling you peole everything I know."
>this okay with you people?

>>14952782

I am well pleased, as the person who forwarded the idea.

rolled 4 = 4

>>14952782

Sure, let's go with that.

I doubt they'll believe us, but like I said, being separated from the rest of the alien force means it's closer to the truth than what these guys believe we are currently.

>>14952768
Braindead in both cases. Essentially, a large portion of the brain tissue is rewired or replaced, so they wouldn't be functioning on any level without the bodysnatcher, except maybe on a vegetable level.

>>14952782
Looks good.

>>14952806
Well, fuck. Looks like it's not something we can easily do without garnering ill-will.

rolled 79 = 79

That centipede is a power-up for us.

we will need to take it away

>>14952038
We could dampen the effect be re-arranging our outer and inner skin layers, interlacing them with conductive elements so that incoming electricity is dissipated along more-conductive-than-nerves surfaces. Electricity always take the path of least resistance, so we make our skin more conductive. Not pleasant, but protective.

>>14952782
"Really. You want to pull that on us. It doesn't even-" She gets cut off, as the doctor jumps out of his chair and storms over."Powers? What kind of powers?" Megan looks at him with disbelief."You aren't seriously believing his story, are you?" He impatiently waves at her, saying "Oh, a drug overdose during the bonding process should be able to disrupt the bodysnatcher. It's been documented. Miss Grey, in fact, so it is well documented.So what kind of powers? Would you show me?" He has a look in his eyes that could be best described as hungry.

>>14952884
Aha. Now we have something he wants. Tell him we'll tell him in exchange for them releasing Catherine. We should hold some back though, wouldn't do to reveal everything.

>>14952884

I do not like this. Not one bit. He's going to tie us to a table and cut us up like a frog in a junior high biology class if we let him.

I'm not telling you shit until you get Catherine out of here and take these cuffs off me. I'm not in much of a position to agree to much of anything right now."

I'm all for getting out of here as fast as fucking possible if he actually does unchain us.

>>14952884
>forgot mah emphasis
it is VERY well documented

rolled 73 = 73

Umm
lets show him some claws. Most of our powers are physical, theu can't be really shown.


Also
>Miss Grey
Jacobs had mentioned someone called Grey

rolled 40 = 40

>>14952884

Yeah right. If we show him what he wants, he'll just cut us up for his fucking science experiments.

Tell him we'll cooperate if he let's us out of the chair. Make it a promise. Not that we plan to keep it, but if they're willing to lower their guard, we could take them down if they're still being all threatening and crap (non-lethally, if they want to be helpful) grab Catherine, and scadattle.

>>14952942
He's never going to believe that shit, he'd be a fool to let us out. I think we've got enough to brute-force our way out, so that's not a danger either.

rolled 19 = 19

>>14952986

He asked us to show our powers. Let's oblige him.

BUST OUT NOW AND FLIP OUT AND BREAK SHIT YEAAAHHH

Some moar rolls would be nice for decisions, we got one for immidiate cooperation, one for varyness.

>>14952884
>>14952198
"You know I can spit poison, right? I could have gassed you all with powdered LSD, or just ripped the manacles apart by modifying my muscle structure to mimic that of local insect. I'm trying to be as polite as possible, here. Cut me down and let's be civilized about this."

rolled 97 = 97

>>14953013

This.

rolled 15 = 15

>>14953013
What? Fuck no, that's our trump card and now you're giving it away?

Reiterating: >>14952914
Show him something minor, like the bone plate armor.

>>14953053

Seconding.

rolled 7 = 7

>>14953050

I'm this guy. Disregard my stupidly high dice roll. I don't think this choice is actually that good.

>>14953053
>Going with this then.
You harden your skin, watching as the gunmen and Megan step back adn go pale."Amazing. The creature that attacked you, was it accompanied by any bodysnatchers?And did it look something like this?" the doctor asks, going back to the computer, calling up an image that looks like the infection form you woke up in.

>mostly wondering if you are going to lie, and if you do, then what

rolled 27 = 27

Now tell then to let go of Cath.

dont cooperate till they do.

"It looked like a random insect to me, I didnt pay attention that much... now that I look at it... yes they do look alike"

rolled 62 = 62

>>14953187

Say you're not sure. You were doped up on drugs, but it looks familiar.

Tell them to let Catherine go, and that you won't say anything more until she's safe. If you can talk to her, shout you'll meet up with her later and to stay safe at her house or at the police station or something, I don't know.

rolled 18 = 18

I hope we can get out of here soon. Being Jack is helpful, but limiting. Pump them for answers - let's ask questions of our own. How many alien species are we dealing with here? Two, or one? Are we in some kind of war or what?

>>14953268
"Well, yeah, it kinda did. It ran off so I didn't get a good luck, and well, I was high. So, will you let Cath go now? We had a deal." He looks incredible happy as he says "Oh, sure, sure, we'll release her in a moment. But I have fantastic news for you!" An idea seems to come to him, and his mood dampens. "The good news is, you seem to have been attacked by an Infiltrator. Well, that's not exactly the good news, the thing is, you have abilities that you should not posess. A human form, and some combat abilities that you can summon!" The other men raise their guns at this, looking cautious, but the Doctor doesn't seem to notice."This makes you something called a Hunter, the best of both wordls really, superior in physical capabilities to any other bodysnatcher variant! The bad news is, that you shouldn't be one, and the bodysnatchers will try to kill you at virtually any cost." Megan is clearly non-plussed about this idea, raising her voice above the Doctor's. " I don't buy it.We stumble upon a Hunter, of which only two were ever ecorded, by complete accident? I don't fucking think so." She goes to one of the tables, and pulls out a chair to sit on. As she moves away, the line of sight she blocked reveals to you that the centipede isn't on the table anymore. It's behind Cath. It puonces on her neck, starting to bury itself inside her, and she screams in pain and surprise.
Wat do /tg/?
WAT DOOOOO?

rolled 51 = 51

fuck it
no more mister nice guy
actibate the bone armor and shock absorber fully
get your wristblades ready and your powrful leg muscles.
Usd the blades to cut the wrists and your powerful legs to cut the ankles.
Make beeline for the centipide, remove it.
Use tranquilizers to put down the guards.
Go over to doctor and Megan "now I am asking the questions"

rolled 86 = 86

>>14953510
Oh man. We could break out and try and save her, but that would give us away... We could let them handle it, but they might not be quick enough. This really comes down to how fond of Catherine we are...

I vote we move immediately to save her. Makes our story more believable. Even if we're playing an evil character, the evil character would conceal his ill intent as much as possible. In the shock following what just happened, try to badger questions out of them with righteous fury.

>>14953510
Be calm.

Explain that, sorry, we lied. We are actually the infection for, and have no fucking idea what is going on after our host spazzed out on drugs. We really really just wanna survive at this point, and will do many things to continue such a state of matters.

morph out of the cuffs fuck shit up

Oh yeah, roll for greater justice and all that.

rolled 92 = 92

>>14953510

Save Catherine. Break out if necessary. We can armor up and take a few shots if they decide to shoot at us.

If they flip out, let's run with the girl. If they're willing to keep talking without us tied up to a chair, let's give Catherine whatever medical aid we know.

>>14953621
>>14953584
>>14953569
>>14953554
You push yourself to your limits, instantly morphing into your battle form, ripping away the manacles like they were made from paper mache. Rushing through the room, you are there before anyone else can even react, pulling the centipede away from Cath, smashing it against that wall. It squirms free with a mettalic shriek, trying to scurry away on the floor, almost dissapearing beneath some of the equipment before you stomp on it with enough force to crack the concrete underneath, bits and pieces of the creature rspraying around. The gunmen raise their weapons. "STOP. DON'T SHOOT" The Doctor looks at them with ovious derision. "Don't you see? He could have done this minutes ago. Lower your weapons. DO IT." They grudgingly comply.
Wat do/say?

>>14953727
>that wall
Why do I keep doing this? It's supposed to be the wall. I'm seriously off my game today.

"Fffff- Fuck. Where'd ever you get that creepy crawly thing alive? One of them in tried to get me right the day after I got- I got this powers. You remember that day' didn't you, Megan? Told me to change my shirt and all..."

"T'was in some punk chick, and she sprouted all kind of spikes and shit... You'd have looked rather similar to her if that thing had got you, Megan."

>>14953727
"You guys REALLY need to increase your security and be a bit more paranoid. This place is pretty low-tech. I'm guessing your Amateur Hour show isn't being supported by those military goons."

rolled 10 = 10

>>14953727

"Smart choice," you say. "Now listen. I'm a patient guy but... well actually I'm not. So unless you want to explain what the fuck is going on, I think we'll be leaving now. That sound good to you, Catherine? Cause I think it's more than fair for what you fuckers put us through."

>>14953787
Actually, that was a bodysnatcher, like you. The centipede was in the obviously cyborg dude, in the first quest.

Check Catherine's condition
"WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT? Catherine almost died because of you! What was that thing? I want answers! I swear to God if anything has happened to her I'll have your heads!"

>>14953805
Oh, sorry. Had my wires crossed.

"There was some cyborg-ed shithead. Kinda like that Star Wars' Borg thing."

Intended mistake, since I guess Jack isn't really the geek/nerd type to know the difference. Of course, if Jack knows the difference, Star Trek it is, since Megan would spot the difference.

Also, check on Catherine, once guns are away from us.
"Are you telling me this happened to someone else too? What'shername? Grey?"

>>14953727

"I was trying to be polite. Sorry for frightening you all, but I didn't think you'd be fast enough. Now, Doctor, you're the most reasonable person I've met all night. Let's sit down and pow wow."

>>14953793
>>14953796
>>14953837
>>14953850

"You people clearly don't know what the fuck you are doing, so Amateur Hour stops right the fuck now, and you start answering some questions, about what is really going on, and who the hell is this Grey woman people keep talking about. If you don't I'm going to walk with Catherine here. You okay?" you say, looking down at her. She's whimpering, but looks up at you as you say her name, and emits a muffled scream, as instead of her boyfriend, she sees a freakish thing covered in segmented bone, with hokked blades on it's arms. She crawls backwards, until she finds a corner, hugs her knees, and starts crying again. "DON'T! He's a Hunter, nothing short of an armored platoon can slow him down." You look back, and see the Doctor pushing the speargun down in one of the gunmens hands. "Very well, we'll tell you what we know, but we should take care of her first, no?"

>>14953965

"Yes, she's an innocent. It was just bad luck her boyfriend got bitten. I wish you'd just waited for her to go, and snatched me at home."

rolled 20 = 20

>>14953965

Okay. This is what we wanted - to make a scene.

Turn back to normal, while keeping up as many imperceptible defenses as possible, and comfort Catherine. Reassure her that we're still the Jack she knows - pick out a memory from Jack's mind, maybe the one of how he met her or some other sentimental BS, and describe it to her so that she knows we're really not who we are. Give her a hug or something if she's calmed down enough. That usually turns out pretty well in the movies.

>>14954016
We're pretending to still BE Jack at the moment.

>>14954019
I agree with this, but pick the memory of how we defended her from her abusive father. She knows Jack would do anything to keep her safe. If I remember the first thread correctly, he did time and ruined his life to protect her.

>>14954076
That's Megan, interestingly enough.

>>14954080

What? Man. I had something better to say to Meagan that played off of how we knew her previously, and gave her hell for being so stone cold toward us when we could have died. I want to provoke an emotional reaction from that damn woman.

>>14954016
> 'bitten'
Oh, my. Delicious jokes about Edward-Bella...

"It's- It's still me, Kat." Change back, glare at Megan.
"You promise that she'll be alright? I don't wanna hear things about 'getting taken care of', "won't hurt her' or all those twisted bullshits."

>>14954080
damn. So close. Damn my fuzzy memory.

>>14954019
>>14954108
"Woah, let's just slow down there for a second." you say, bone receding all over your body, concerned features becoming visible."No one "takes care of" anyone here, got that?" The Doctor looks at you with amusement, while Megan makes a How-can-someone-be-so-stupid face. "I only mean that we should tend to her wounds, I trust that is quite allright with you?" "I, uh, yeah. Of course." He gives you a bright smile, and snatches a first-aid kit from one of the piles lying around. "And gentlemen, if you wuold please put those guns down? The most you can do with them right now is get us all killed. Thank you." You go over to Catherine, crouch down beside her and say "Cath? Catherine, it's me, Jack. No one's going to hurt you, everything is fine now." She looks up at you with doubt and fear, but calms down when you recite for her the first time you met. "Wh-What's going on with you? Is, is there something going to happen to me too? I got bit, didn't I? That's how it works, you said so, yourself, you got bit too."She looks like she's going to break down again.

>>14954184

"No, you almost got bit. You're safe."

>>14954202
I don't think she'd buy it considering she has a large -if shallow- wound on the base of her neck.

>>14954216

"No, it needed to get to your brain. You'll be fine, I stopped it in time."

>>14954184
Damn it! It was Catherine that got bit? Somehow I thought it was Megan that got bit!

MY TRAIN OF THOUGHTS: Blown off the rails.


Ugh....
Ask the Doctor if she'd be alright and all. Try to pump for information all the same. Start speaking about the cyborg dude and Infiltrator punk chick.

Also, do we care about 'murderizing' the whole of this room (Catherine and Megan included), if it ever come to it?
I'm White Knight, so my stance would be rather clear. Just that I have a Wizard and a Berzerker in the head too.

>>14954184
"Different bite. Different critter. And I pulled it off before it could dig into your brain. I wasn't so lucky. You're going to be fine. Just a flesh wound."

>>14954304
Well, from what I can see, you are either
a) extremely good at pretending to be the new-and-improved Jack
or
b) genuinely develeoping geelings/attachements
Your call, really.And it's not like it can't be a mix of the two.

>>14954374
>developing feelings/attachements
Going to have to properly set my spellchecker for the next game

>>14954304
Clarissa and the other people in the room I still consider 'useful resources'. Megan just recently got downgraded to 'expendable carbon unit.'

>>14954374
Was asking the other Anons actually, not the Bodysnatcher character. :)

>>14954392
Mixing up the quests, Magus. I guess bitchy Megan got switched with zappy Megan, yes?

>>14954396
I know, I was just thinking this was a good time to clarify where the character is going.

>>14954408
Nope. She appears to have sold us out to these guys, or at least is unwilling to aid us after all we've done for her. She's thrown us under the bus. When we dig ourselves out, I say we break all contact with her.

>>14954455
Meant the Clarissa/Catherine part, actually.

rolled 81 = 81

I vote for a.

>>14954455
On the devil's advocate side (or moralfag's), there might be reasons for these: She's seen effects of an Infiltrator and remains skeptical of 'Jack' or she has washed her hands off him and mentally thrown him under the bus from a long time ago (since break-up with addict Jack).

For now, I vote for trying to get her to trust the new and better 'Jack', the saviour Jack of her past, not the Jack that came out of the juvie.

I am unsure if this organization is connected with the Feds. We need more information.

>>14954367
"Really? Am I really going to be fine?" The Doctor nods, and she blinks away the rears and smiles, hugging you."Well, if you are quite finished there, then might I tell you about the things you were so vocal about?" Megan asks mockingly. You break the hug, and stand up as the Doctor kneels beside her, opening up the first-aid kit. With the three gunmen failing miserably at being non-threatening in the background, Megan sits down in the chair in front of the computer and starts swirling around on it lazily. "So, I guess you could say it all started when a young FBI agent, named Gabriel Jacobs met a woman named Anne Grey in 1993, in a small town in the middle of Buttfuck Nowhere, Arkansas. She claimed to have been attacked by aliens masquareding as humans, and showed remarkable powers. Sounds similar yet? So when he took it to his bosses, and they took it to their bosses, and so on and so on, the order, strangely enough was to provide a comfortable living for her, while trying to attain as much information from her. Now, this was rather strange, as no attempt was made to study her powers, I mean, none at all, while you'd think they'd get all slice happy, yeah? So, while all this is happening, they a prepping a military base with an insane amount of quarantine measures, and... Shit.Shitshitshitshitshit." On her last turn, she notices something on the monitor, and turns back towards you, her face bloodless and pale, her hands visibly shaking. Your delight doesn't last long, as she calls out in a thin voice "Doc? It looks like the critter managed to put out a distress call, or beacon before it got smashed. It summoned every available strike time of theirs in a 100 mile radius." The Doctor looks up from treating Catherine, visibly shaken, managing only to say "Oh dear.".

>>14954614
Ouch. Going to need more coffee. Typos, typos and half-finished sentences everywhere.
Anyway, this is the end of this part, I'll be back wednesdy with the next. Any criticism/input is welcome.

I solemnly swear that I will reread my every post twice before submitting it.

>>14948879
Get OUT of here you bitch!

THIS IS PSEUDO-MAN COUNTRY!

>>14954633
Paragraphs spacing for one would be nice. It'd be easier to read than a wall of text.

Story/plot-wise, it worked out okay. There seems to be a plot, and we are rather quickly introduced to it, rather being left to sandbox and then suddenly shoved/rail-roaded into the main plot while we are interested in doing something else.

Just have to be careful about power-ups and the rate we can gain it from eating the Bodysnatchers. And also let us gain non-morph power-ups, like improved bluffing skill, etc.

Till next time.

rolled 65 = 65

FINALLY
A FIGHT!!!

I am still pissed we didn't consume the centipide for its powers.

Ask her how many of them will come

>>14954690
Last time, we were unable to eat the metal guys, centipede included. We eat the organic ones, the Bodysnatchers, instead.

Now, though, if we get some kind of power up, to EAT all of them, including non-invaders (human)...

>>14954688
Thanks for the advice. I'll try to start the quest up a bit earlier on wednesday, about 16:00 board time.

Anyone up for the task of archiving this quest? I think I'm going to fall down on a flat surface and pass out now. Turns out, studying for 12 hours and running errands and a quest afterwards rested man does not make.

>>14954664
Might want to type it up in OpenOffice.org Writer, or Microsoft word to proofread then CTRL-c/CTRL-v to post it.

rolled 89 = 89

Dont forget to archive

I was just thinking of some non-combat uses of our abilities.

The high-powered wrist spike could serve as a quick way of opening locked doors. Place the spike against the lock and then shoot it forward, would be much quieter and more subtle than kicking it down.

The arm hook-blades should be very helpful for climbing and hooking on to things. The finger blades should help with climbing as well.

The napalm spray makes disposing of evidence fairly easy (if not exactly subtle), just spray the crime scene with napalm and leave the incriminating evidence to burn away.

I'm also curious as to what sort of drugs we can sythesise. We know a napalm substance, a sedative and a lethal toxin but it'd be very cool if we could synthesise something to make people more suggestible. It'd be much less suspicious if we could drug our victims in a way that they are still able to walk around but don't have the capacity to attempt escape (saves us being caught carrying drugged bodies through the streets). Similarly, a truth serum like sodium amytal or pentothol would make interrogation much easier (and yes, I know they're unreliable but it does make them more talkative which would be better than nothing). Sodium amytal's ability to induce 'false memories' would be excellent as a subtle way of covering our tracks (possibly convincing Catherine that she didn't see what she thinks she did). These sort of uses shouln't be that hard since they're basically just variations of a sedative.

>>14955493

Why not make very tiny spikes that we can use a lock picks? A strong flat spike that's like a tension wrench and some very thin long spikes and we'd be able to enter most doors.

Why not use a cocktail of powerful enzymes to break down biological evidence into goop? DNases, lipase, ect.

Why not improve our vision into the UV and IR ranges?

>>14955569

Very nice. I was thinking of things that we can do now though, not sure whether we'd need to spend an upgrade to see in a wider spectrum or morph lockpicks.