>Bodysnatcher Quest
>I'm sick as hell
>caught some bug
>bug

D:

(anyway)

shitsux, man

I hope you get better soon

>>15231137

OH GOD THEY'VE COME FOR HIM.

..Nah, but seriously dude, hope you feel better.

Good luck, man.

looks like they've found OP

then, op start trying to enter restricted area.

>>15231964
They're here already! You're next! You're next, You're next...!

But yeah, get well soon and all that jazz, OP.

wut

Found this on page 11. That's unnaceptable.

>>15232154
Seconded.

Bump from pg 15

Every time I see this thread I wonder where the OP pic is from...

Bump.

>>15238828
Demonbane.

It sucks, don't investigate any further.

Bump.

Bumpz

I'm here, going to take a shower, grab something to eat and type things up.

Feeling fine, my nose is a bit runny and I cough every now and then. Haven't been replaced by alien creature. Scout's honor.

>>15244192
happy to know that you're fine.

Also; link to archive:
>http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Bodysnatcher%20Quest

>>15244192
>Haven't been replaced by alien creature. Scout's honor.

THAT'S WHAT A BODYSNATCHER WOULD SAY!

You are a strange creature, capable of taking over other lifeforms to serve as your vessel. Your current host, Jack Winters, was unbeknownst to you a drug addict, and overdosed on speedball. To survive, you bonded with him, but this damaged you, leaving you without any idea of what you are.

Your kin, the bodysnatchers, seem intent on murdering you, and have sent combat specialised variants, called Warriors, after you. The reason seems to be that you are a Hunter through accident, a form that is the greatest weapon of the race.

Joining up with a small team, calling themselves the Fools, you, along with the man called the Doctor infiltrated a research base of the Wise concealed as an office building with the purpose of healing Jack's girlfriend, Catherine, who was infected by both alien strains.

You "disarmed" the infections, stole the documentation of a mass-driver project, several weapons based on alien tech, "kidnapped" Professor Aleksandra Kellery, a researcher, and freed Daisy, or Number 7, another bodysnatcher hybrid.

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,poison or acid 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.
- emitting pheromones that influence humans
- sensing the mind-link of bodysnatchers
- enhanced senses, capable of switching to different spectrums (infravision, ultrasound, noise filterin, etc.)
- fiber-optic nervous system, allowing you to ignore pain to some extent, and speeding up your reflexes by orders of magnitude

You wake with a start, someone gently shaking your shoulder. Cath is leaning above you, smiling. The van is parked in front of Jack's house, empty beside the two of you, it's passengers nowhere to be seen. You try to get up, only to cringe from the jolt of pain coming from your back and side, the wounds you suffered still not completely healed.

"You okay? Should I call someone to help carry you inside?" Her happy smile is blown away, replaced by a look of worry and guilt.

>>15244553
is there anything left to eat here ? I don't remember if we ate all we had at home.

>>15244575
Nope, you ate pretty much everything.

>>15244553
"No, I'll be alright. How long was I sleeping? Where are the others? And how do you feel?"
By the way, are we still in disguise, or do we changed back to Jack?

>>15244593
answer that we're okay and ask where is everyone.

>>15244643
>>15244661
"You sure? You were hurt pretty bad. Well, if you say so..." She doesn't seem convinced.

"Oh, Meg and her friends got off at their hideout, Daisy and the scientist lady is inside your house. Me?" she says, with a strange expression. Confused maybe?

"I, uh, I'll be fine. I just need to rest. I think."

>>15244643
Forgot to answer the question, you look like Jack.

>>15244747
"That's good."
Get up and enter your house. Also, I repeat my question - How do we look? Still in military uniform?

>>15244840
In torn uniform. It's about 11 AM, you slept for two hours.
>mfw I left that out too

Well we should probably go in and clean up, change out of the tattered bloodstained clothes etc. Then I guess get food somehow, us and Daisy are probably both pretty hungry.

>>15244840
Focusing, you alter the nerves a little in the wounded areas, dampening the pain to managable levels. You climb out, with a strange sense of unease. As the two of you start walking to the front door you realize what's bothering you. Catherine's movements are somehow wrong, uncoordinated, beyond a level that could be attributed to exhaustion.
(cont., going to need some coffee)

>>15244935
>Catherine's movements are somehow wrong, uncoordinated, beyond a level that could be attributed to exhaustion.
Well, she's infected by two types of mutually hostile alien tissue. Made docile, but still. That's not supposed to happen. Ever. We must ask Doc about it later. Till then, let's just keep an eye on her.

>>15244935
She doesn't notice the way you look at her, barely looking at anything. She opens the door, and heads for the bedroom upstairs, only turning back at the foot of the stairway.

She reaches out and grasps your hand, opening her mouth to speak a few times, looking for words. She settles on a simple "Thank you." and a smile, then turns back and starts going upstairs.

You hear the clattering of plates and cuttlery from the kitchen accompanied by the voice of Kellery, only now realizing that you turned you senses back to normal while you were asleep.

>>15245012
Yeah, I'd say she got off amazingly lightly considering she's acting completely fine apart from that.

>>15245031
Well, boost your senses to hear what they are talking about

>>15245087
Seconded. Let's eavesdrop a bit.

>>15245087
>>15245120
You sharpen your senses, taking care to filter out the screech of cuttlery, and hear the Professor saying "Now, I know you can eat fast, but that's no reason to forget about your manners, all right?" followed by a muffled answer from Daisy.

"No talking with your mouth full, young lady." A loud gulp. "Yes ma'am." You can smell chicken, turkey, pork and beef, and your stomach makes noises uncomfortable loud to your enhanced hearing.

>>15245202
Go to the kitchen. We used a lot of energy last night. We must eat something and maybe ask some questions. We still don't know anything about Daisy. Who was she before getting infected? When and how she got captured? Does she have any family?

We need to order a truckload of chickens

>>15245202
>"Yes ma'am."
She seems awfully submissive and polite to the scientist who kept her boxed up for all that time and who she could probably kill easily due to being a weird alien thing.

>>15245258
Walking into the kitchen, you are greeted by the sight of Daisy busily stuffing herself with the mountains of meat stacked on the kitchen table, while Kellery looks on with amusement. Daisy sends you a greeting through the mind-link, not deigning to actually stop eating for a second.

Kellery looks up at you as you take a seat. "Hello, Jack. It's Jack, isn't it?"

>sorry for the faltering speed/quality, my head is still a bit fuzzy

"Hi. And yes."

And then join in to eating with abandon.

Fuck, I'm sorry guys, I can't do it like this. I can't think straight. I'll try to be back tomorrow, but I can't make any promises.

>>15245567
Okay,

don't push yourself too hard, man


don't let the bugs win

offtopic: sauce on op's pic?

What is this "bodysnatcher" thing? Is this an RPG system I should know about? Info appreciated!

>>15246456

>>15241389

>>15248370
cheers!

I'd like to apologise to the people who were here yesterday, I was worse off than I thought. It was just impossible to form porper sentences, it took me several times as much time to write posts that were a lot shorter than usual. I'm going to try to get my shit together, and run the quest tonight because otherwise I won't have the time to do so until saturday.

>>15248119
It's just the nickname for an alien species I thought of in the quest, if you are interested check out the archives, it might be good for an RPG setting.

>>15246456
Nyarlathotep from Demonbane
alternate form

Damn, sorry to report that I wouldn't be around to check the threads. I'll be going to the boondocks for a project.

Have fun, tg-Hivemind Bodysnatchers.
I'll be reading and voting the archived threads when I can.

>>15251166
Cthultu time?

>>15251166
Has this been MegaMilk'd yet?

bump from page 15

I'm here, ready and willing. Report in, interested friend anons.

>>15255891
Present and ready.

>>15255891
Present, but currently braindead. Will mainly lurk but if something occurs to me I will participate/share ideas.

>>15245441
Snatching a plate for yourself, you sit down and start packing a mound of meat in front of you. Satisfied when the pile grows large enough to almost topple, you start wolfing it down without preference. You could possibly eat your own weight or more, your body requiring more than usual energy and raw materials to recuperate.

"Jack, then. Would you mind telling me your story? I'll share some information of your choice in return." The professor leans against the kitchen counter so she can see your face, eyebrow raised in question.

>>15256042
i think we can tell him our story, for informations; maybe ask him if he knows about other place like the one we went to, we'd be better off if we knew what is around us,

>>15256110
>him
Kellery is a woman. But anyway, which story? The "official" one (we're a human bitten by some alien and given powers) or the true one (we're the alien, and Jack is more or less gone)?

>>15256110
remember to leave out some information, like the full extent of our abilities, and perhaps our first memories of the things we were before jack. Only tell him the things after we 'acquired' jack. Might make us seem a bit more human.

>>15256205
the official one. as long as we seem more human to them, communication with them and getting them to trust us will be easier.

>mfw my internet connection keeps turning off
What'll it be, full disclosure or the official 'reformed, morphin' hybrid Jack' version?

>>15256246
>>15256205
>bodysnatcher-man is a go

She looks at the two of you with a ponderous expression.
"Hmmm, that's interesting. Seems like you have more in common with Daisy than we thought. You see, her parents were living a... how to say this tactfully, less than clean life. They were substance abusers, hooked on several types of chemicals, and she had some health issues. She was diagnosed with ASL at age 5. The bodysnatcher infection seemd to have trouble connecting properly to her nervous system, and left her consciousness intact."

She holds her chin, deep in thought, snapping out of it in a few seconds. "Before you ask, think of this tidbit as a freebie. Now, what would you like to know?"

rolled 17 = 17

>>15256258
Tough question. I say we should go for full disclosure. Lying will bite us in the ass sooner or later. We don't have to tell everyone right now, but I'm afraid that's inevitable. For now, let's just tell Kellery.
Tell her the whole story. Emphasise that we don't really know who or what we are anymore. Line between the parasite and host blurred, orders got cut off, we have no idea what to do in the long run. We lied because it was easier that way, but it can't drag on forever. We will tell the others in their own time.

>>15256419
Still possible to retroactively go this route if, say, 2/3 of the people here vote for it.

rolled 34 = 34

>>15256419
Oh well, too late. I guess we're going with "official" story then. No problem, I can understand.
Anyway, let's ask her if there are others like us beside Daisy.

>>15256387

Who you guys are, what you do, and what you know about these aliens.

>>15256466
We already asked these questions, save for the last one. But yeah, mor informations about aliens will be useful. Maybe she knows something Doc doesn't.

>>15256447

We really do need to sit down and reevaluate our priorities here.

Do we honestly give a damn what happens to Cath and every other human here? Or are we just concerned with tracking down more genetic material in order to improve ourselves?

We can certainly still use the resources and connections we've aquired to do the latter, but trying to act human by maintaining these emotional connections may prove to be... inefficient sooner or later. But if we drop the pretense of caring about these guys, then I doubt that they'll be as willing to help us out as well.

Given how angry she seemed at the doc's betrayal of her father, I highly doubt she'd turn around and betray him as well ten minutes later. She's just here because she thinks we're interesting and wants to spy on us. We're telling her lies and in return she's probably lying to us. I don't really see the point of this,

>>15256501
You see, the problem is in that we don't actually have any priorities. We're just kind of going with the flow, absorbing something along the way. Currently our only long term objective is gathering information about overall situation. We still have rather vague idea about what's going on.
Do we care about the Fools and Catherine? Yes. They're useful. Do we actually see them as something more than tools or resources? Damn if I know. We (the alien) are pretty much blank table, we're not supposed to have personality or act on our own. Our only source of knowledge about morality is Jack, who wasn't wery nice person, but also wasn't complete dick (maybe).

>I'm so changing internet providers
Sooo, lots of diferent opinions, I support >>15256501 that you need to decide where your allegiances lie, and what your goals are for the near future.

I say we should just consider ourselves neutral, for the time being, and keep our options open. If they think we care about them that may open up options later. If we need to betray their trust later, then so be it. But for now, it will help us gather information, which should be our priority.

If you don't want to decide now, we will continue in 10-15 minutes(gonna make some delicious tea). The view most questers took in the previous installments was that you are mostly alien, maybe with some of Jack's personality rubbing off on you. Though I must admit, I like >>15256596's take as well.

>>15256596
Pretty much. We don't know why the bodysnatchers or the robot things are here, where they came from or what the want. We don't know for sure what the wise or the fools want. How are we meant to decide what side we're on? We need more info before we can make long-term objectives, and until then we're just trying to survive.

Generally, I'm okay with anything as long as we don't go "lol, we so evil" route. I can accept choosing to dump all our connections with humanity (no matter how flimsy they may be) and becoming completly alien, ruthless predator when given proper motivation, but to be honest, I think of that as an easy way out. That's boring. We can do better than that. For now, let's stay neutral.

Neutral (for now) it is.
What do you ask from Kellery?

>>15256786
For the beginning, this >>15256482 and this >>15256463. Unless someone has better idea, of course.

>Going with >>15256463 instead of >>15256482, because the latter is too large a topic/ vague a question, she is a scientist studying these things, she could probably keep talking about it for days, and I'd have to resort to meaningless technobabble after a few minutes.

"Well, the Wise keep a tight handle on all knowledge of the aliens and related things above a certain level of clearance, we -the research personel- are mostly given information on a need to know basis. But yes, several in fact. The most famous one is Anne Grey, there were others, though not quite as successful as you and Daisy."

(cont.)

>>15256947
"The bonding process is tricky, to say the least. We have had trouble unraveling the exact mechanics of it, the amount of variations a single bodysnatcher form - an Infiltrator, a Warrior, and so on- has is staggering, thousands of minute modifications to tailor them to the exact situation. Because of this, an unsuccessful bonding will most likely lead to a mad, confused, or completely disfunctional creature. There even was one which could not stop changing it's body, eventually dying from organ failiure."

She leans forward, and points at you and the girl. "That is why the two of you are so valuable. You present the best, perhaps even only leads we have to finally understanding the workings of the Category-Twos."

>I'm also surprised at the reaction -or lack of it, to be precise- you had to some of the info about the Wise. Maybe it was the late hour, but you guys usually don't skip over details.

>>15256596
>Do we actually see them as something more than tools or resources? Damn if I know. We (the alien) are pretty much blank table, we're not supposed to have personality or act on our own. Our only source of knowledge about morality is Jack, who wasn't wery nice person, but also wasn't complete dick (maybe).

Agreed for the most part. From what we've seen Jack was likely a somewhat selfish person. Currently? We're not a lot better really but we are trying to be helpful. If it results in them helping us along the way so much the better.
>>15256734
Seconded.

>>15256387
>She was diagnosed with ASL at age 5
Do you mean ALS? Or this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenylosuccinate_lyase_deficiency

>>15257024
"And what about category one, you know, the cyborgs? Can they screw up bonding too? And were there attempts at combining them?
Honestly, I doubt that there was similiar case to the Catherine in the past. But we can still try.

>>15257105
ALS, it's a damn typo.

>>15257130
"Category-Ones do not bond as such. While the bodysnatchers fuse themselves with the brain and the neural pathways, the cyborgs completely replace them. Why do you ask?"

Something clearly occurs to her, and her face goes blank, intent on not revealing any information about her thoughts. She doesn't seem to realize that it shows, maybe she isn't used to keeping secrets from others? She does seem rather blunt at times.

>>15257280
Think she's figuring out why we busted in there in the first place if we havent already told her.
Should we tell her? What all does Cath actually know?

>>15257332
You don't really know the extent Cath knows about what happened to her. Not much, you'd say, unless the Doc managed to find an opportune moment to tell her about it. Seems unlikely, though.

Uhm, well? Reaction, answer, question,speculation? Something?

I guess we could tell Kellery about Cath. We don't really know what side effects she could have and Kellery will probably be able to make a better guess of the consequences of being made of a mixture of two different kinds of weird alien shit than we can.

I'll wait for a bit more, this is a pretty big decision.
>I wonder where the others dissapeared to, though.

>>15257570
Seconded that we tell her something but say that we still want to talk to Cath about it more and to try not to freak her out with questions.
We'll take care of that since we'd be less likely to die from her freaking out.

>>15257703
>>15257570
She seems oddly concerned. "I see, the cyborg must have realized your nature, resorting to the desperate measure of infecting the girl with the nanite virus - it's called the Origin virus, by the way-. Fascinating as that is, we have a more immediate problem. Doctor Smith isn't even supposed to know about the Origin virus' existence, let alone how to manipulate it." She start pacing around the kitchen, lighting up a cigarette.

"You see, the virus is a last resort for the cyborgs. It is resistant to them, eventually -after it reaches a critical mass- creating more and more units, random in their exact nature, but all equivalent in power to an HK. Their only goal is to destroy everything in their vicinity."

(cont., but if you want to interject, feel free to do so)

>>15257876
Well that sounds dangerous as fuck.

>>15257973
Good thing we neutralised it! We think...

>>15257876
She looks at you, snapping out of her tirade. "The point is, it's extremely powerful, and not something he should have known anything but rumours about. It's an accepted theory that it is the original form of the cyborgs, and that given time, it may very well evolve to be functionaly like them. I only know this much by having worked on a project concerning it, and I doubt we could have done anything about it beyond recommending that the area be nuked."

"A single man "disarming" it using only a laptop and a Kalsdorf-Mannheim diagnostic machine while several teams of the best the Level C facilities could offer found it impossible to even understand is patently ridiculous."

>>15258013
I think we should get upstairs. Like right now.

>>15258013
>using only a laptop and a Kalsdorf-Mannheim diagnostic machine
And a drug-damaged bodysnatcher. We helped too.

>>15258125
You were dealing with the rogue bodysnatcher infection, not a lot of attention was left to help the Doc.
>>15258042
You kick back your chair, already on the stairs when it smashes to splinters on the wall. The bedroom door is open, and you barely skid to halt before the bed, Cath laying on it.

She jumps up at the sound, abnormaly fast, spinning around to face you. Her eyes are strange, black and metallic with a shining deep blue iris and zig-zagging circuitry patterns of the same colour all over them.

She looks at you with alarm."Jack, what's wrong?"

Wooo! One day before departure and there's a thread!

Summon Doc. Attempt psychic communications with Cath, and try to get Daisy to help too, as she is an Overseer-type.

Regarding Wise, how do they get these alien techs, and who are the cyborgs?
What relations do the free-ranging Origin cyborgs and Hunter-Killers, the invading Bodysnatchers, with the Wise? And for that matter, who was Doctor Smith, before he got away from the Wise to found the Fools?

>>15258265
>Attempt psychic communications with Cath
What? We disabled the bodysnatcher strain and now she's turning into a death robot. I don't thing death robots are psychic. Psychopathic, maybe.

>>15258182
I was hoping to have this conversation later, say after we'd all had a chance to rest up. May not have time for that.
1)What all you you remember about being infected?

After she's answered move on to 2) do you currently have any control over it and/or are you able to feel the machine presence?

Depending on response we might have to ask her permission to go mucking about inside her again. Not that we'd be able to save her now if it was still active.

>>15258265
You only have Megan's number.
>>15258350
"What? I, I remember being bitt-" She topples over, legs stiff, and starts to fall. You rush over to her, catching her in your arms. "Can't... move, can't... breathe..." she manages to rasp out, panicing, eyes darting all over, but her body not even twitching.
Wat do?

>>15258318
Which is exactly what I want to confirm.

Diagnose the shit out of Cath, whether through indirect means (psychic or supah-senses), or direct nerve connections.

>>15258406
>Am I cheesing it up too much? Because it feels like I am.

>>15258544
>Diagnose the shit out of Cath, whether through indirect means (psychic or supah-senses), or direct nerve connections.
Seconded. Also yell for Kellery to get up here.

>>15257280
So... Meghan is literally a steel-cold bitch now?

>after it reaches a critical mass... equivalent in power to an HK
Not sure we have time to try diagnosing her. We can't beat an HK and I'd rather she died than us. Problem is you can't really stab a virus - how do we kill it?

>>15258693
How, you say?
On this board?
Why, the oldest, most reliable method, of course.

>>15258693
Acid would be most the effective in our arsenal. There is still a possability that something else is happening. We'd need to talk to Smith again to be sure.

>>15258554

MOre description is a good thing, you're fine.

Shit, I'm thinking of just putting Cath down like Old Yeller right now. She's too much of a danger to keep like this.

See if we can diagnose her in some way, but be ready to put a spike through her head if it starts getting even further out of our control.

>>15258610
Pretty much.

>>15258584
You shout for Kellery, who's already on the stairs, trying to catch up to you. Focusing on establishing a mind-link with Cath, you feel a faint presence emanating from her, very different from the signal of the normal bodysnatchers or Daisy's.

It feels alien, the message distorted and nonsensical, the only thing you can decipher from it is a desperation and fear.

"What's happening?" The Professor is standing in the doorway.

>sorry, connection died again

>>15258693
So, connect immediate through nerve endings, the same way we usually eat Bodysnatchers. This time though, we're killing infections... Probably.

Still, did we really kill the Bodysnatcher infection we give to her personally the first time we attempt to heal her?
Why did we do so, if we had been told that the battle between the two foreign elements is what actually keeps either from taking over?

Use supah-senses anyway, track down those infection by X-RAY VISION or some similar stuff.

>>15258804

Nothing hostile? Hmm.

To Kellery: "I don't know, she just collapsed like this..."

Try to reassure Cath, ask her if she's all right, in pain, anything like that. Just keep her calm while we figure out what's going on.

>Why did we do so, if we had been told that the battle between the two foreign elements is what actually keeps either from taking over?
The battle was also killing her. In order to save her, we disabled the bodysnatcher virus while the doc disabled the robot virus. Except he didn't because he's a cyborg or working for them or stupid or just wanted to see what would happen. Hence current problem.

>>15258804
"Call Daisy here. I need her to calm Catherine."
Get Daisy to speak with her as we root out the infection or whatever we decide to do.

Better to keep her mind from fighting us, as we... Do whatever.

>>15258884

Or he thought he was succesful and we're now being proved otherwise.

My previous suggestion stands: if she looks like she's going to start going all T-1000 on us, spike to the brain.

>I thought I was fairly clear about it. D'oh well, copypasting rom Quest 8.

"We will need to access both at the same time, disarm them if you will. But, we need to preserve them, Miss Abbey's body has been 80% taken over. If either of the infections is purged, she will, without a doubt, die."

>and


Finally, you succeed, letting out a triumphant laugh as both strains become docile, complacent with keeping her body running.

>>15258926
>spike to the brain
Kellery says the robots don't even use the human brain, and this isn't a normal robot but some super mass-destruction virus thing. We don't stab it, we use copious amounts of that machine-killing acid. And then some more acid. And then burn the corpse to be safe.

>>15258884
>Except he didn't because he's a cyborg or working for them or stupid or just wanted to see what would happen. Hence current problem.
I'm thinking he's suffered the cyborg version of what happened with us.
There is a slight chance that what he did to Cath wont actually kill her right now. But I accept that it's probably denial talking and we should get ready to kill her.

Hmm, I misunderstood what we did to her in the last thread too. The symptoms she's displaying seem to be the cyborg virus, but since we made both strains dormant, I don't get why she's displaying symptoms like this still.

But the fact that we're not recieving any "RIP AND TEAR" impulses from her suggests that the cyborg virus isn't really taking over her mind. I think we just need to figure out some way to help her get over the physical.. changes that the infection seems to have brought on. (Maybe we can get a cool superpowered minion-er I mean PARTNER to help us out.)

>>15258953

>>15257280
"While the bodysnatchers fuse themselves with the brain and the neural pathways, the cyborgs completely replace them."

This was meant to imply that they rebuilt the nervous system+brain, replacing the human tissue with artifical cyborg systems.

>FFFFUUUUUUUU I managed to delete the typed out post
Kellery runs back to the stairs, and shouts down for Daisy, then comes back and kneels beside you. She fishes out a light from her pockets, shining it in Cath's eyes. "She's responsive, but doesn't seem to be breathing. Paralysed, I'd say. We'll need to perform CPR."
(cont.)

Okay... That doesn't sound too bad...

If both strains are stable, then it is probably the physical changes to her nerves and all that is weirding her out. Kind of like getting up after a coma, you need to readjust.

I hope.

>>15258988

So would a similar thing that happened to us be able to happen with the cyborg virus? If I remember correctly, we had to replace a lot of Jack's neural tissue with our own in order to fix the damage that the overdose caused, even though it also damaged us.

Oh man, the last 3 days I could have participated but not today.

I GUESS IT WAS NOT MEANT TO BE OP

>>15259024
Daisy is already there, crouching beside Catherine. You feel the mind-link open, even though it isn't directed towards you. A sense of security hits you, simple, primal even, plowing through your other toughts with ease. You shake it off with some difficulty, seeing Cath in some kind of fugue state, eyes half-closed, gazing into nothing.

Kellery is performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, struggling to keep her alive.
Wat do? (rolling will be necessary to determine effectiveness)

>>15259063
There's always next time! It should be on friday, if everything goes well(HAH!).

>>15259045
I was under the impression that this cyborg virus was not an assimilation thing but a last-ditch weapon of mass destruction. The only way I can see her ending up as a cyborg version of us is if the doc actually knows his shit and is friendly and altered it to save her.

rolled 3 = 3

>>15259095

So can we communicate with Cath through Daisy?

I think whatever is going on with her is some kind of mental reaction to everything she's gone through. I think our best bet would be to talk her through it, give her reassurance to regain control of herself, having a more direct connection through Daisy should help us reach out to her.

Rolling for PEP TALK!

>>15259125

Well SHIT.

Someone else jump in here and bail us out please?

>>15259132

Her brain has been replaced, at least partially, and she's had her programming suborned by the doctor. The smart thing to do is call for him.

Why aren't we calling him? Call him! Get him on the line and get his advice, he knows what he did, he may have some ideas on how to fix this.

rolled 53 = 53

>>15259169

Oh, and let's get ourselves hooked up to Cath to act as life support for her.

rolled 14 = 14

>>15259095
>Wat do?
That's a good question. Play operation, but dont touch the (cyborg) sides! I dont think her nose would light up.
Try to take control of the bodysnatcher infection inside her and see what we can see. It might be necessary to try and gain control over the lungs or replace the command that would normally be sent through the neverous system telling the body to breath. If a larger percentage of her brain is under cyborg control those signals might not be getting out. Depending on what we find we might have to place localised control nodes to keep the organic parts of her body working.

>>15259169
You dig into your pockets, fumbling around for you cellphone, almost dropping it in your hurry to take it out. You search out Megan's number, pressing the phone against your ears, expecting it to ring.

"The number you have dialed is not in service. Please check the number and try again."

You look at the phone with numb disbelief, the number clearly the one she called you from.

Well we've got to deal with this on our own then. The Fools are probably playing it safe and using hacked numbers for outgoing calls.

rolled 33 = 33

Hmm, supah-senses to see which of her life support systems is failing her right now, nerve or lungs, etc.

>>15259114
You've got the gist of it, the 'virus' pretty much breaks everything down around it, be it organic or inorganic, on the molecular level, than uses that as building blocks to make more of it that rearranges into cybernetic creatures with weaponry and such that procede to tear everything up in the vicinity, shedding of more of the Origin virus in the process, that creates more and so on and so on until nothing remains.

rolled 79 = 79

>>15259256
Wait, gray goo? That's seriously last-ditch. Why would a single robot destroy the whole planet just because it felt slightly threatened? If that's what we're dealing with we're warming up the acid right now.

>>15259279
Limited area, so the whole planet wouldn't die. And yeah, you don't exactly get the reason behind it.

Also, who votes for destroying her then?

rolled 3 = 3

Since we can't reach the doc and we have to deal with this on our own, our #1 priority is to determine if Cath is shedding virus or not. If she is we need to pull the Professor off of her and decontaminate the Professor. If that means doing something gross like manually removing the shed virus from her, so be it. She's just a normal human, she doesn't stand a chance against a nanovirus.

If Cath isn't shedding, we have room to play.

Rolling to sniff out that nano.

rolled 15 = 15

>>15259341

Fucking TG dice.

>>15259334

Only if she's shedding nanovirus. If she isn't, we'll try to save her.

>>15259341
>>15259358
Rolling for nanosniffing.

rolled 92 = 92

>>15259400
Captcha ate my roll.

rolled 12 = 12

>>15259341
>>15259358
Agreed. If she isnt harmful to the surroundings do what we can to help her.
If she is, relocate her to the basement so that we arent burning a hole through multiple floors with the acid.

>>15259358
>>15259404
>>15259421
You throw away the phone, and put your left palm on her chest. The tendrils snake out, trying to analyze the cyborg strain inside her, looking for any nanites that might have not been shut down. The process feels agonizingly slow, your extensions failing to properly calibrate themselves for the task. Finally, you manage to find the right search-pattern, sighing in relief when you make certain that they haven't reverted back to their original function.

Strangely enough, it would seem that the reason you had difficulties is that the two strains have begun to merge, several variations having arision from their fusion. This seems to be the problem, as Catherine unwittingly called upon the enhanced cells in her surprise, causing the nervous system already unstable to hopelessly jumble it's signals.

>>15259541
This is me.

rolled 23 = 23

>>15259541
>Us worrying about the problem caused the problem
Neat. Well she sounds savable at least. I guess we should try and fix her again. Third time lucky and all that.

rolled 11 = 11

>>15259541
Return acid storage to safe mode. We need to keep her alive long enough for her new body to sort itself out. Oxygenate her blood if we can without unbalancing things in there.
Mouth to mouth is better than nothing but isnt ideal.

>>15259541

Ah, so it is a mental problem like I suggested.

Don't try to fiddle around with her any more, this is something she's going to have to figure out how to control on her own. Just try to keep her calm for now.

Okay, we've got one for fiddle, oxigenate, and leave alone, anyone else?

>>15259673
Fiddle as in fiddle around with her cells, to make it clear.

OP JUST TELL ME
PLEASE TELL ME

DID THIS ALL HAPPEN BECAUSE WE DID NOT USE "REPROGRAM" BACK IN THE FACILITY AND DECIDED TO GO FOR "DISARMING"???

>>15259712
Good question! The answer is definitely maybe.
...
Yeah, no, I'm not telling.

>>15259673
Maintain a low-oxygenation supply --to augment, not to replace-- and tell Daisy to call Cath to consciousness.

Oxygenating seems sensible whether we want to fiddle or leave her to try and sort it out herself. Can't do either if she's dead. Try and keep the heart pumping etc. as well.

>>15259741

This sounds like a good plan. Just keep her alive, and leave the rest to her own self.

She's not going to get control of this herself if we keep doing everything for her.

>>15259762
>>15259755
>>15259741
You spread the tendrils evenly throughout her body, and increase the blood flow and oxigen up to normal levels. You send a short message to Daisy to wake her up, and tell Kellery that she can stop now. She backs off, while not entirely convinced that you have the situation in hand, she sees little else she can do right now.

As the pressure of the mind-link eases Cath's eyes clear out, some of the Overseer influence still lingering, keeping her calm. You feel a weak thought intruding, barely intelligibly asking about what's going on.

>>15259817
>God dammit I am sleepy beyond words.
I'm kind of waiting for instructions for the poor girl(seriously, she's been through hell and back since quest number 4)

>>15259817

"Cath... you need to concentrate. Whatever is going on here, you can control it. I've done all I can to help you, you need to figure out the rest yourself.

Just know that I'm always here for you... I love you Cath."

Hoping the sappy declaration of love motivates her to get back up on her feet again (seriously do we have to do EVERYTHING for this chick?)

>>15259940
Tell her what's going on, and not to panic. We're keeping her stable. Maybe she'll get super powers like ours out of this fiasco, too.

>>15259817
"Sorry, Cath. It's all okay. I was just- Sorry, I was just worried."
"Between that bite, and when we were curing you, your body just don't work quite the same. You have to get used to it all over again. Kinda like after getting an accident and learning to walk again."
"There's nothing really wrong with your body, really. I know you can do it, babe."

Then continue with this, I guess: >>15259961

rolled 5 = 5

>>15259940
>God dammit I am sleepy beyond words.
me too.
Tell her everything is fine, we overreacted. Just relax and try not to think about it too hard.

>Anyway, don't stress yourself thinking about it. I'm serious, visualising the scenario while under stress actually triggers the reaction.

>>15259984
I second this

>>15259961
>>15259979
>>15259984
Recieving a message that she understood you, you feel the nervous system slowly rearranging itself, the differently fused parts combining together into a functional whole.After a few seconds, her breathing and circualtion stabilises, and she falls asleep. You let Kellery take her out of your arms, and lay down on the floor, resting for a short while, exhausted.

You wake up some time later, the clock on the wall showing 5 PM. Catherine is still sound asleep.

>>15260000
>That's... surprisingly relevant to the situation.

>>15260038
Left out the whole wat do? part, I'll wrap this up in a few posts.

>>15260038
Super sense activate. Heat/thermal sense should give us a good idea of the blood flow in her skin. Hearing should tell us how she's breathing and how regular her heartbeat is. See if we can get any signal from her in the mindlink. If she's deeply asleep enough, I want to do a visual inspection, deep into her eyes, see if we can see any alterations made to them, if they've still got that circuit pattern.

rolled 16 = 16

>>15260089
Because she totally wont wake up if we hold her eye open right? The rest of it sounds good though.

>>15260057
Eventually go looking for everyone else. Kellery hasnt turned us in or there'd be teams here by now.

>>15260089
Your senses expanding, you find that she is in a very deep sleep, her body restructuring itself on a fundamental level.

You pick yourself off the floor, and walk over to her, gently peeling her eyelid open. The eyes seem mostly normal, the circuitry pattern faint, only revealed to be completely artificail to your enhanced sight. The tissue has been replaced wholesale by the amalgamation of the two strains, her skin showing signs of undergoing the same process.

>>15260178
Everything else stable? It took us a few days to finish retrofitting this body when we took over, and what she's going through is much more complex. We may just have to keep her calm and sedated for a few days.

>>15260178
>Sweet jumpin' Jehosafet, I left out another part
As you get closer she almost starts to wake, a mind-link establishing itself for a split second. Reassured that it's only you, she slips back into her dreamless slumber.

>>15260241
ok, she's semi-conscious. Possibly the strains setting up a defense mechanism. Like I said, we keep her calm. Don't let her get too excited, don't leave her alone so we can calm her if she has a panic attack..

>>15260239
Her vital organs seem to be working properly. You felt a certain sense of well-being from the link, coupled with a shard of a message, unconscious from her part most likely, that helps you identify her state as something akin to the days you spent asleep, healing Jack's body and yourself.

>>15260308
To calrify, she will not wake up unless outside stimuli indicates immediate danger.

Good, she's secure. Now, how are we doing? Body still need more intake to fix any remaining damage, or are we in fighting trim again?

Go check on Daisy, see if she's ok. Then check on Kellery. Explain the hibernation.

>>15260368

We need to go shopping for clothes for Daisy. Might as well get Kellery a couple of changes too, since I'm sure the Wise will be staking out her old residence.

>>15260368
You are ravenous, much hungrier than before, and you never really got to finish your meal. You head out to the kitchen, keeping an eye out for Kellery and Daisy. You find the two of them cooking, the girl looking like a completely different child after cleaning up.

Her hair is actually red, and there were freckles under the encrusted grime. She seems to have found clothes that fit her from somewhere, a simple t-shirt and jeans arrangement.
(cont.)

>>15260441
She turns towards you as you step in, her voice echoing through the mind-link. "How is the she? She's going to be fine, right?" She seems anxious at the prospect that something might have happened to Cath.

"Yes, how is Miss Abbey?" The Professor chimes in as well. You quickly explain to her what you know,the specifics pretty much going over Daisy's head, though she's content with the knowledge that Catherine will be fine and returns to stirring what is apparently chicken soup.

>>15260441
>>15260491
Eat, then. We need more biomass to finish fixing and recharging us. Start asking Daisy about her life before all this, see if we can get a read on where she's from, exactly, and who her parents are.

>>15260523
You start asking Daisy some questions, only getting answers to a few before you are shanghaied into setting the table for a late lunch. Apparently, she's from a slum in Los Angeles, her parents etching out a living from petty theft and the occasional burglary. The only thing she remebers of her getting infected was waking up one morning, apparently after having slept for days, cured from her disease, able to move properly again.

You don't have much time to discuss this though, as after politely eating the soup, the two of you are occupied by scarfing down whatever meat remains, to the obvious derision of the Professor.

"Ah, yes, I didn't dare leave with you two upstairs, so I never managed to contact Doctor Smith. He would probably very much like to see Miss Abbey, and I do believe he has some questions to answer about how he knew about the Origin Virus."

>>15260557
After eating, check next door. Doubt Meghan would be around, but do it anyway.

"So, Professor, can I trust you not to contact the Wise-guys while I visit the neighbor? I gotta borrow some sugar."

Or ask these?
> Regarding Wise, how do they get these alien techs, and who are the cyborgs?
What relations do the free-ranging Origin cyborgs and Hunter-Killers, the invading Bodysnatchers, with the Wise? And for that matter, who was Doctor Smith, before he got away from the Wise to found the Fools?

>Connection fucking around again
>>15260728
"The weaponry? That's a simple question. It is much easier to salvage reverse-engineerable technology form a destroyed cyborg than collect samples from a bodysnatcher, since their special properties only remain while they are alive."

"The Wise are at war with the aliens, if you haven't noticed yet. This includes both Categroies. You and the Origin Virus are wildcards in this respect, no allegiance to any of the major players." She smiles apologetically. "Of course, you are far less mindlessly destructive than the Origin creatures. Their only distinction is them and us, anything that isn't created by the specific virus that spawned them they consider their enemies, this includes the cyborgs as well."
(cont.)

>>15260885
"Doctor Smith? He was an esteemed scientist working on battlefield applications of the technology of the Category-Ones. He worked on many successful projects, but deserted one day, made away with a half-done prototype. The exact reasons are beyond me, sadly."

"Oh, you don't need to worry about me betraying you Jack, if I wanted to, I would've had plenty of opportunities. At the moment, I'm far more content with observing how things play out for you, Daisy, and Miss Abbey."

>>15260728
You leave the cleaning up to Kellery, heading over to Megan's house instead. You ring the doorbell and knock for some time, then decide to look around. From the windows you can see that it hasn't been lived in for some time, only the largest pieces of furniture still inside, wardrobes hanging open, revealing their empty bowels.
Where to now/Wat do?
>likely finishing up with next post for today, will continue on friday

>>15261044
We don't really have a true goal right now.

Regarding Kellery, admittedly she had had a few chances, when we are conked out, to send in a team of Canes Belli to scoop all of us. On the other hand, there are no reasons not to believe that she is not reporting our every moves and developments to the Wise. A field research/experiment/guinea pigs, so to speak.

For sure, we want to contact the Fools.

Hmm, for now, let's get a moving base of sorts?
A minivan?

The Wise are techno-fetishists, interested in 1) Killing Aliens and 2) Initiating the Singularity.

Catherine represents something entirely new. A "tame" cyborg-type alien.

The Wise will want her, very, very, very badly when they realize what she is.

The Wise have worked in the past with bodysnatchers who failed to transition properly into their Overseer/Hunter form, and it apparently bit them badly. We need to find out the specifics of the Grey incident, since she was the first one they cooperated with, and the one that blew up in their faces.

We could be a walking time-bomb.

rolled 21 = 21

>>15261491
Hah. No, we are a walking bomb, with the detonating trigger in our own hands. We decide when to blow up.
On the other hand, getting overpowered mentally by an Overseer or a Queen probably spell disaster to our independence from the hivemind.

To the Wise, though, we probably are no different to Grey.

>>15261593

As long as we're sure we're in control, yeah, but we don't know what happened to Grey. Knowing might tip us off to potential pitfalls.

We're over-reliant on the Fools, we should start making our own escape plans. Survival for us, Catherine, and Daisy comes first. Being able to help friendlies comes second.

Can Daisy shapeshift at all or is that a Hunter-exclusive power? It'd be handy for her to be able to change her appearance too.

Could we hide someone else's identity with like, living tissue masks or something?

>>15261652

There's a difference between us and Grey though.

Grey was a human that managed to keep bodysnatcher powers after the snatching attempt messed up.

We, on the other hand, are the actual alien.

For all we know, Grey only went berserk because the bodysnatcher managed to resurface after quite a bit of time. With Jack though, he's gone and brain-dead.


Anyway, with the Doc possibly knowing too much about this Origin virus (and the fact he casually let the robocentipede out of the container and crawl around when they first caught us), we should probably not leave him or the Fools alone with Cathy for any length of time in case there is something up with them.

>>15261652
Agreed. There might be something wrong with the Fools. I can't really bring myself to trust Doc Smith. I kind of get a similar feel from him to your typical genius mad scientist.
"Let's see what happens if we do this- Oops. Oh, well, that's fine too. I think."

He's good. That's proven with Cath being actually stable. But he himself doesn't sound really stable...
Nor does Megan.

>>15261754
Agreed too.
Poor Megan though, I think Doc rewired her somehow through Stockholm syndrome and those neural grafts (modified Origin virus?).

Seems OP fell asleep.

>>15261754
You know that we've been posing as Jack, and to outside observers it looks like we are still him too, right? We're going on second-hand information about what happened to Grey. She could have been exactly like us.

>Seems OP fell asleep.
Indeed. He deserves some rest though, so I don't mind.
>There might be something wrong with the Fools. I can't really bring myself to trust Doc Smith.
Me too. At first I liked him, but now I'm suspicious. What if releasing the robo-centipede wasn't an accident? What if Megan isn't working for him willingly? What were his real reasons for defecting from the Wise? He's valuable, that's true. But we shouldn't trust him unquestioningly.
>Survival for us, Catherine, and Daisy comes first.
I agree.

>>15263541
I hate to say it, but it looks like we just formed an impromptu family unit. I'm not sure if we have any significant feelings at all, if jack's emotions or tendencies still echo in us or if some damaged half-command of protecting our own might still linger in our damaged neural network. I think Cath has severe feelings for us, though, and Daisy seems attached to us out of more than just gratitude. Possibly an echo of Stockholm syndrome, possibly more, I'm not sure. We have to be very careful to monitor their emotional status' so they don't become unstable.

I think we need to be careful around Smith, yes. But he's proven VERY valuable to us. He gave us overseer DNA, and allowed us to infiltrate that base where we got our smorgasbord, rescued Daisy and Cath. He's profitted from the venture as well. A half dozen alien-tech energy lances, specs on the new rail pistol, and plenty of inside information on the base, their breakthroughs (you can't tell me he didn't nick something from the medical files in the infirmary), and a great deal of biological data on both us and Cath. We have a mutually beneficial relationship at the moment profiting us both. I don't want to see it end prematurely. And while I don't think we should throw in with the Fools 100%, we should consider them a useful resource, if nothing else. we need to talk to them again, see if they can develop a speedball-derived drug that can incapacitate an organic alien without severely damaging it. We could use them to sedate and contain any that we take out, moving them to safety so we can feast on them later, when we have time, rather than have to do it mid-combat or in an unsafe setting.

>>15265525
Hey there everyone, I did fall asleep, completely unprofessional of me. If anyone wants to continue, I'm game.

>>15265616
>I left in the link

>>15265621
Need some more sleep?

>>15265663
Nah, just forgot to delete it after I accidentaly clicked on Magus' post. I had more than 8 hours, I'm as rested as I'll ever be.

>>15265616
I've got a few hours. I'm game.

>>15265706
Okay then.

As said before, you can see that Megan's house hasn't been lived in for some time, dust layered everywhere, only disturbed in one small path leading from the door to a couch.

What's the plan?

Well we can't contact the fools I guess we have to wait for them to contact us.
The simple explanation for Megan's house is that she moved somewhere closer to the doc, but since there's nothing else to do I guess we may as well go in and investigate in case it's something more sinister.

>>15265786
The couch has been visited recently?!??


Investigate couch!

>>15265815
If I may point it out, you do know where they were last time, the basement workshop at the tenement near the edge of town. They supposedly got off there on the way back.

>>15265821
You'd need to break in, care to try out the proposed use of spikes as lockpicks? If you do, roll for it.

>>15265815
The whole thing with the Doc is too suspicious. Megan happened to check in on us right after we snatched Jack, despite maybe not living at the house. The next door neighbor to the person we snatched just HAPPENED to have also been picked up by the Doc and given cyborg implants that allows her to control alien tech (not to mention a childhood friend begins acting like megabitch to us?)

Maybe Megan is under his control?

rolled 4 = 4

>>15265833
Spick picks GO!

>>15265861
Typo aside, fuck the lockpicking. Use spikes or claws to cut a hole through a wall of the house in the backyard where no one can overlook it. Avoid breaking in through doors or windows.

>>15265878
Megan probably wouldn't appreciate us ripping holes in her house if it turns out there's actually nothing wrong. Could we climb down the chimney or something? It shouldn't be too hard to get up to the roof and we're not going to get stuck when we can just morph ourselves thinner. Only problem is if the house actually has a chimney.

>>15265878
Tose would set off alarms, so yeah. Is the house raised or elevated on pilings? If so, crawl underneath and come up through the floor.

>>15265912
No chimney, but Jack remembers her bitching about a window fitting badly, popping open from a small push even when it was properly closed , when they were together. You circle around, spotting the window on a balcony upstairs. Doesn't seem like she had it replaced.

rolled 24 = 24

>>15265940
Well that seems like the easiest way in then. Best get climbing.

up we go.

>>15265979
You walk under the balcony, looking around to make sure that no one is watching you, then jump up, pulling yourself on by the railing. There are some potted plants lining it, all withered and dry. You push the window, lightly at first, then with a little more force, almost falling in when it suddenly pops open.

Climbing in you sharpen your senses,the air of the bedroom you ended up in filling with the dust your feet kick up.

>>15266021
the only disturbed area downstairs is the pathway leading to the couch. Check there first.

>>15266021
Not sure if you are looking for input here. Go down the stairs and check that couch?

>>15266021
>Heading downstairs I presume?

You leave the mostly empty room, and descend the creaking stairs. Your nose picks up a scent, something familiar, but too vague at the moment to properly identify.

The kitchen is empty, and you can't hear anything beyond the house settling, likely meaning that gas, water, and electricity has been shut off. Seeing little else of interest, you head for the sofa at the end of the trail of distubed dust. The scent intensifies, and you speed up from your careful walk, stopping a step short of the couch.

You know now what that smell was. It's the aftershave of Agent Jacobs.

>>15266093
Yeah, sorry about that, had to get the kettle of the cooking plate.

>Oh, and if anyone's interested, I've been listening to some Two Steps from Hell and found that some songs were quite good for themes

Main Theme: Shed My Skin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlCdx5t2mOQ
Bodysnatcher Theme: Pathogen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1BNddf0NcE
Cannes Belli Theme: Deathslinger (I like to think of this as We're Oscar Mike
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_mqd5C7Z2Q&feature=related

>>15266096
curiouser and curiouser.
Expand senses, look for anything that might indicate a listening device. Electromagnetic field, slight warm spot (I know of no battery that doesn't give off heat when in use), etc. Let's see if they've got this place bugged.

>>15266216
Searching the room, you quickly spot a hidden camera and a few bugs. The camera is still recording, but the bugs seem to be switched off. They all seem to be the type that transmits to a data-storage device nearby.

>>15266319
Well, if it's transmitting, then the receiver must be nearby. See if we can follow the scent trail anywhere else, or sense any other anomalies that would be a storage device.

>>15266338
You walk around, pinpointing the smell of the aftershave. He clearly didn't go anywhere else but the couch, and likely left after an hour or so. Megan's scent seems to be concentrated around the same area, and from what you can tell, about the same time...

Recalibrating your senses, you take some time to track down the signal. Your sensory organs aren't made to intercept radio waves, but you eventually manage to find a way to feel it as a buzzing in the air, following it out to the garden. The trail leds to a tree, and you easily spot the reciever hidden under one of the branches.

>>15266430
take it. Maybe we can get some data from it, find out what those two were doing together.

>>15266463
Where to/wat do after that? Just so I have a little more than two sentences to post.

>>15266495
Show it to kellery, see if she can ID it as Wise tech or regular human tech. Then.... Shopping, I guess. Daisy is going to need clothes, and we've gotta be running low on food.

>>15266602
Daisy's got a set of clothes from somewhere. We should try and look at the footage from the camera and then head down to the Fool's hideout to get some answers. We can go to the supermarket on the way back (we really need to find a better source of food because buying a whole trolley-load of poultry every day is going to get suspicious and tedious)

>>15266666
well, then we go to a professional butcher. Tell him we're looking into starting our own restaurant, but we're having a block party to test our recipes first, and we'll need a side of beef and x pounds of poultry for it.

>>15266602
The reciever does seem rather advanced, so you decide to go back in show it to Kellery. She and Daisy are still washing the dishes, chatting with surprising amicability.

You show the device to Kellery, and she seems to recognize it immediately.
"Ah, yes, that is equipment that our cover operatives recieve. Rather sophisticated technology, nearly impossible to decypher the information stored on it without the proper codes. I might be able to do so, however, my father helped design the encoding protocols."

The Professor hands you a list she quickly scribbles down, specifications for a laptop she'll need for the encoding. Rather expensive, you notice. You mention the clothes Daisy is wearing, wondering where it came from. "Oh, we ordered some clothes for her online. Don't worry, I payed in cash."

>>15266768
This is me, also, fuuuuuuck you modem, fuck you.

>>15266666
>>15266713
Which first then, a butcher/slaughterhouse or the Fools?

Shit, seems like we reached the bump limit.

>>15266947
And I am obviuosly wrong.

Well, anyone?

I think we should go to the Fools hideout first. We need answers. Food can wait.

>>15267081
Before anyone asks, yes, it is very important wait for proper player input on this. This decision will decide a large number of things to come.

>>15267140

Let's snack strong, and heal up. We've spent a lot of resources. If we're being played we're going to need to be ready to fight.

Stay in range of Daisy, have her call if the situation changes.

What's this, Megan was in contact with Agent Jacobs in the house next to hours?

PARANOIA TIME

Get everyone out of your house and relocate to some place that isn't being monitored, the house is probably watched. After that, go (alone) to the Fools, and be ready to fight if needed. Doc and Megan got some 'splainin' to do.

>>15267149
You are as healed as you are going to get, and well fed, there was more than enough food to go around at lunch.
>>15267170
Relocate where, exactly?

>>15267149
Daisy wrinkles her brow. "I think I can make a stronger connection." You can feel the mind-link locking in place, creating a strong, semi-permanent channel. "There, we can talk like this from when you're away!" She is delighted that this is within her abilities.

>>15267170
I considered that.
We were captured by the Fools shortly after attacking and impersonating agent Jacobs. Coincidence? Maybe Megan knows Jacobs? Maybe both their scents were concentrated on the couch because they were, uhh... intimate?
Relocating may be wise move, but what about Cath? She's still sleeping, and if she was awake, she couldn't defend herself anyway.

>>15267205
>from
Yeah, that's not supposed to be there.

>>15267187

You're going to hate this, but since we don't know what the fuck is going on, the safest thing to do is to random-walk. If we don't follow a pattern they won't be able to deduce where we went from our personality.

We're going to have to check for trackers or bugs or whatever, and we should leave the cell phone at home.

Once we have Catherine and Daisy safe we can go back to the hideout and figure out what's going on. We should probably relocate the Professor with Catherine and Daisy, since Daisy seems to have taken to her, and she seems benign in her intent as long as we keep her dosed regularly with pheromones.

>>15267224

Same dude here replying to himself.

What I mean is we random-walk to find a new hidey-hole (there should be abandoned houses around right?) and then relocate everyone there. It's sort of stupid to walk around randomly with a sick woman.

>>15266820
let's go talk to the butcher, we need to be ready incase we encounter some shit.

>>15267237
Hmm, the closest area that might have abandoned buildings is the industrial sector, lot's of decomissioned buildings there. Or do you simply want to walk around the neighbourhood and find a house that looks empty?

Fill me in, Brain. Who is Daisy? I know she was behind the stronghold door in the lab, but what are her powers, her alignment, and her faction? Also, I vote we flick on the tv and look for more news of alien sightings, shit's been going off recently.

>>15267293
Daisy was supposed to be an Overseer, according to Kellery, and she has appropriate abilities, the ones you witnessed involved the use of the mind-link. She seems to be human in mind, if a bit weird. Faction? You, as far as you can tell.

>>15267237
>>15267224
>>15267207
>>15267130
>Going with these, then.
You stalk around the house, making sure that there are no bugs installed. Thankfully, you don't find any, and go back to talk with Kellery.

"Professor, I really think we should relocate. Megan might be involved with a Wise agent." "I see, it might be prudent then." She looks at Daisy with a fond smile. "Come along now dear, it's time to pack."

You go to the bedroom, and try to tell Cath that she needs to come with you. She gets up, though barely conscious. You'll need to support her on the way.

By the time you help her navigate down the stairs, the other two are packed, some food and clothes thrown into a duffel bag. You head out, on the lookout for anything suspicious.
(cont.)

>>15267413
You walk around the neighbourhood, trying to randomize your path. It doesn't take long to find a small house, with mail piling up in the mail box in front. It's relatively sheltered, at the end of a cul-de-sac, large trees hiding the garden out back from view.

Roll for lock-picking if you find this a good choice, otherwise waiting for further ideas.

rolled 88 = 88

>>15267437
Fuck lockpicking! Put the wrist-spike aperture to the keyhole and shear the whole lock casing out. Problem solved.

rolled 29 = 29

>>15267498
I would rather try something more subtle.

rolled 60 = 60

>>15267510
The way I see it, I'm an alien. I don't understand the delicate mechanical intricacies of even a simple bolt lock, much less the reason humans would have them on their house. The host was a junkie rough, but I doubt he knows anything about lockpicking.
There are alternatives, though. Let's check the basement and main floor windows.

>>15267569
Actually, he does know some lockpicking, juvie teaches a young man some interesting things.

rolled 11 = 11

>>15267569

House locks are stupidly simple to pick. I learned how to defeat most common deadbolt locks during a lazy summer afternoon as a preteen.

It's a matter of keeping the pressure on the torsion bar even and getting a feel for what the picks are touching. If we made the little spikes we're using to pick locks more sensitive this would be more like brushing teeth than defeating security.

rolled 86 = 86

>>15267591
Alright, lockpicking roll.

also, the second we get in, check out for security systems.
We don't want to have the cops on us.

>>15267623
You get Kellery to hold Cath up, and restructure the spikes to be smaller and more sensitive. The lock is open in a second or two, your new tools more effective than you thought. Beyond the door is hall with some tesful tapestry, leading to a small living room with a coffee table ladden with doilies in front of an old, large CRT TV. Thick persian rugs litter the floor, and between those and the tapestries all around, the house sucks in noise, feeling oddly isolated.

You wave for the others to get inside, and lead Cath to the sofa to lie down. "I'll keep in touch through Daisy, Prof. I'm going to pay Megan and the good Doctor a visit."

How do you want to get there?

>>15267672
After a quick inspection, the house seems to have nothing more complicated than normal locks, bolts and chains. There is a curious lack of modern technology as well, pictures of a couple placed everywhere where there is a flat surface. The photos seem to be of the same couple throughout the years, from the fifites to the present day, the handsome young man and pretty girl becoming wrinkled and white of hair. They still seem rather happy on every single picture, though.

>I had to bitchslap my connection into line, sorry for the delay

>>15267724
Well, the van is still parked outside our house. Alternatively, we can simply call taxi. Or just run. Homever, the last option could bring unwanted attention and use some energy.

>>15267761
How far is it? Walking would be the method least likely to give them warning of our approach. I'm thinking we should go in sneaky first and see what they get up to while we're not around.

>>15267881
>Van then.

You get back to your house, taking care to be as stealthy as possible. You quickly find the keys,get in the van, and head for the hideout, keepign well under the speed limit. Time goes by slowly, the drive taking more than half and hour, and you can't help but see phantoms everywhere, cars that might or might not be following you, men in suits seeming more suspicious than before.

You are relieved when you finally get there, hurriedly jumping out of the vehicle, impatient to find out if you have been lied to. Their van is gone, the door to the workshop open.

Cautiously opening the door, you hear a click, and dodge, fearing a bomb or boobytrap, but instead hear a laptop switching on. Calming yourself, you enter.
(cont.)

>>15267881
i think if we have some money on us, yeah, get the taxi to drop us in the general area of where the professor hides, but not just near him (in a 500 metter radius is good i think). We are never too paranoid.

>>15268010
>the door to the workshop open
meant to be unlocked


Inside, the moldy smell of wet concrete walls assault you, the room empty beside a table with the laptop booting up on it, and a large steel container, similar to the one Megan's suit was in, but somewhat larger. You can hear it emit a low buzzing sound, whatever systems it has being online.

You step closer as the laptop starts to display a recorded message, the Doctor appearing on the screen.

"Mister Winters, it seems like our joint venture has reached an end. But do not fret, there is one more thing you can do for us." The steel coffin begins to loudly open, revealing a large cybernetic creature, plugged into the machine by obviously tacked on ports. It's eyes come to life with a sinister blue light. "The thing you see before you is a little something I cooked up, a modified Category-One unit. You will be it's first opponent. We are eagerly waiting the results of this field test." He smiles, the usual kindness he displayed replaced by a cold, malicious curiosity. "Do have fun, Mister Winters." megan leans into the view of the camera, her face twisted into a gleeful grin. "Good luck, Jack! You're going to need it." The screen switches off, and a loud series of metallic screeches fill the air as the creature tears of it's restraints

>>15268126
erm ... fuck
i wonder if we have a chance to run away from this... Because, this thing make me think of catherine; which is infested with something about as strong as a HK or whatever it is. And if it's that, i don't think we stand a chance.

>>15268126
>We are eagerly waiting the results of this field test
It's so tempting to just run and deny him his results. But then it'd probably kill everyone in the area before the Wise got there to stop it.

rolled 33 = 33

>>15268126
Oh crap.

"THIS is how you spent your tenure? Doctor, how EMBARRASSING!!"

Size the thing up, stat it for me Brain. It's got ports running to the machine, and cybernetic parts. That's all I know right now.

rolled 13 = 13

>>15268126
Smash the fuck out of it before it finishes activating. Also regardless of if you can do that or not, go ahead and smash the Doc's kneecaps so that he can't run away.

>>15268177

Let it. We have no obligation to them, and the Doctor is expecting us to fight it to protect innocent people.

Well, we don't care as much about innocent people as we do about Daisy and Catherine. Sorry, but that's just the way shit goes down. We need to warn Daisy right now to be wary for the Doctor, and return to them.

I would not put it past the Doctor to put a tracking device on the van, so we're ditching it here. We're going to change our face, and then take a cab back or steal a car or something.

>>15268203
No, just destroy it before it finishes activating. That

>>15268203
^ combined with that quote would be hilarious

>>15268219
>>15268203

It's a recording, he's not here. He'll probably retrieve combat telemetry remotely.

There's nothing to gain by fighting this thing, and a lot to lose.

rolled 73 = 73

>>15268126
I feared that we're getting too paranoid but it seems we were right. Well, shit.
Firstly, be careful not to destroy the laptop during the fight. I doubt that there's anything useful in it, maybe it's even tracked, but hell, we could use a laptop. After all, we still need to decode that receiver.
Secondly, attack this thing while it's still in bounds. Spikes and acid, as usual.

>>15268203
Yeah, my bad.

The creature is a cyborg, the ports were added on later by humans from the looks of it. The cables and such that connected it to the machine are torn off now.

It is about 3 meters tall, it's armour sleek, with reinforced joints. It's humanoid, with some tentacles on it's back, ending in a wide variety of devices, repeating energy weapons, lances, and many whose function you can't even guess at. The hands end in large talons, the legs digitrade and clawed.

>>15268286

If we can't just finish it off quickly before it fully activates, I put my vote with running away and letting the Wise deal with it.

rolled 44 = 44

>>15268310
No way. Thing almost certainly has video capture, we can't afford our data in the hands of the Fools or the Wise. Gotta stand our ground, pull out armblades, and use the full extent of our reflexes.

>>15231119
Gah, I feel like a retard. I can't place what game that image is from.

>Fucking connection
Okay, who votes for running away, and who for fighting it?
Counting from now, we have one for each.

>>15268377

Here. >>15241389

Well he's seen us fight, and he thinks it can beat us. I know we have a few tricks we didn't show him, but it's too much of a risk for no real gain if we win. Therefore I vote run.

>>15268405
second, run and leave it for the Wise

>>15268388
Danke.

>>15268383
Fight. If we can't finish it off quickly, run and let the Wise deal with it. Also, we may consider grabbing a laptop with us. It will come in handy, but it's probably tracked. Not sure if it's worth the risk.

>>15268405
just run and let them having to cover a mass murder by some robot.
We don't have anything to gain from fighting this thing.
Also i think we might help a new hideout if we happend to have driven the car near our actual 'home' incase it was traced.

Voting is closed, running it is.
Typing it up.

>>15268457
the real danger is, if it have even 1% to activate totally before we can finish it, we are dead (one of those weapon almost killed us, so a robot having many of them, and for sure a better accuracy than a human would be bad).
Also, we don't absorb robot or anything; so i don't think there is much to win in this fight; hell, even if we win we will give those guys data.

As you turn around to flee, you can hear it speak in it's twisted, compressed language.
T̶̸̶͍̭͙̥̗̬̘̠͒͊͗ͣ̉a̴͙̝ͭͫ̑͢r̺̼̹̭̠̝ͯ̏̂̀͛ͮ͛͊g̟͈ͪͫ͆̓͗̆̿̀eͭ
̞̪̬̆̈́͊̑ͦt̸͍̲͕̜̺ͬ́͞͡:͕̜̲͎̹̼̋͗ ̘̝͎̠͔̱͓͙̲̈ͣͭ̑ͨ̎̈́Ṇ̟̽̀̌̈́̀͛̔ǔ̹̟̟̓͡m̸̢͍͙̫̟̳͈ͧͪͅb̑̌̄͛ͨ̔
̡̛̺͖̯̩̖̈e̷̯̠̓͂̓̊͢ŗ͇̰̘̖̜̜̲̥͇ͫͦ ̪̺͖͕͎̳͇̻͍ͨ̏ͤ̄ͮ́8̧̜͍̹͓̫̙̂ͭ̑͑͗ ̵̢̩̯͎͓̙̪̬ͩ̒̾ͨ̒ͩ̐L̤̞͍͑ö̬̹̘̰̲͙̔ͪ̀̆̎̄͆̌c̴̯ͮ͆̽̇̀ȃ̴̞̯̝͝
͇̖̱̤ͅͅt̥̝̦̞̰̼̥̬ͨ͆̕͟ĕ̡̼̩̏ͭ̉̀d̷͖͚̤̫͚̺͖̋̒͆̍͠͠ͅ
̣̟͇̻̇̍L̶̫̳͍̙̬ͭ̊̾͑ͮ͂̃̋ͅo̗͍͔̬̟͎̯͓̘͑̆̋̆ͬͩ͌ç̸̠̠̘̺̲̱͆͊̀ͅ
̝̹k̵̛̠̝͙͙̦̩̎̐̒i̮̺̮̍ͭ͢n̥͉̙̄ͤ͟ģ̥͓̟̦̱̭̜̘͔̅̾̔͞ ̺̩̝̖̩̮̔ͥ͊̃̓ŏ̿̓̃̔̓̂͏҉̼̜̪̼̦̖n̡̝̤̝̎̔͆͒͐̏̽ͯ͘͜ͅ
̢̞͔̱͚̱̜͋̔̾ͧͮ̽̚͢͠Ċ̖̳͕͕̫͖̦͉ͪ̆͊̿o̡̩͕͑ͥ͋͝m̷͇͎͕̀̍̕b̆̾͌̽̃
͈͈̦̳a̩̱̠̟͍̜̔̊ͣ̕ţ͓̗̫̘̲̺ͩͪ̽ͧ̕ ̵̡̺̞̲͓͕̓ͬ͆̇ͭͥP̡͉̘̽͊̋̅̋̅͘r̓̏̄͗̈́ͩ҉̱͙̤ó̭̹̟͇̫̜͔ͦͧͣ̎̍ͤt͑
̟̯̯͎̿͝o̯͔̳͑̀͢ç̵͇̱̭̩̗͙͕͓̟̀͆͗ơ̷̰͕̝͔̻ͧͦ̀̂̏̄͑̏ͨ͝l̴̋ͩ̐ͯ
̢͙͉̯̖̣̣̞͟s̴̬̜̍̐ͬ̿ͦͧͦ̌͘ ̸̮̮̀͋̂͘I̸̤̯̼̯̪̘̺̓ͩͥ̽̒̕͢n̶͍͇͕̳͓ͣ͐ͥ̑̏̒ͣ̃͜į̸̰͒͆̈́̊̓ͣ͊̑͝
̲̲͚͍̮̪t͐̈͑ͪ̏͐ͣ̒̈́͏̢̧̰̙̠͕͈̺̘î͍̫͈̈́̆̅͂̕͠a̍̋ͣ͏͕̱t̡̛̠̱̬̆͞
ẻ̡̥͔̝͚̦͉͎̓̈͗̓̓́ͯ͟dͮ͐͏̤͖̬͔͓͓̗͞


It's steps thunder behind you as you run with all your might, the concrete shattering from the impact of your feet.
(cont.)

>>15268585
You reach half-way through the enclosed square between tenements before the first shots are fired. You dodge, the ground exploding where you stood a split second ago.

You dive behind an outcropping as the air starts to crackle from the discharge of several energy weapons. The creature is close behind, only slightly slower than you.

Wat do?

rolled 79 = 79

>>15268623
>slightly slower than you
>Wat do?
Keep running, obviously.

rolled 31 = 31

>>15268684
Seriously? You don't see the problem with only *slightly* slower, with tons of ranged weapons?

Anyway, I say we acid-spike the bugger, was plenty good against the ones before.

rolled 69 = 69

>>15268719
Well, guys, if his RATE of speed is slower than ours, we will continue to gain ground and outpace him. We need to take this fight out somewhere open, where we can blend and a 12-foot tentacled Borg cannot. Keep running.

>>15268719
>was plenty good against the ones before
You mean the ones the doc watched us take out? He said he'd modified this one to fight us to he's probably done something to protect against that.
We just have to keep dodging, try and keep stuff between us and it and eventually we'll lose it.

>>15268684
>>15268794
You dart into a small alley leading to the street, gainin momentum, then leaping over to the other side above the early-evening traffic. While you are mid-air, a lance of energy scythes horizontaly across the area, annihilating everything in it's path. Buildings shudder and start to collapse, explosions marking severed gaslines.

You roll as you hit the ground, shoving away a large chunk of debirs as you stand up. Jumping on an intact roof, you try to gain as much ground as possible. You can hear people screaming, the cyborg cutting down everyhting in it's path.
(cont.)

>>15268918
The cacophony of the destruction bellow is deafening, the cyborgs voice cutting through it with strange calm.


T͈̞̱̹͙ͮ̏ͪa̱̯ͥ͊ͧ͐̏r̥̦͚̐ͬ̋͒͐͛̽g̷̬̈́ͬ͒̽̅é͔͉͎̻̺͚̟͕̋͞͝͞tͤ̂
̷̶͍̮̲͔̻͈̔̓̀͊̚ ̭͕ͧ͟͝L̰̲̰̞̄̚͝ȏ̬̰͔̪̱̪̭̮̫ͦ̾ͧ́ͮ̌͠ṣ̓̋͑͛͠t̷̸̙̤͖̜̱̮̒ͤ̈́͟ͅ
̮,̵̹̲̼̰ͨͧ̕͝ ̧̻͓̦̳̣͕̺̘͆ͧ̀̉̀D̡̳͖ͣͦ̉ͯ̍̂e̫̬̤̥̟͊͐ͭͫ̄͛̐̆p̶̠̝̤̲͍̘͚̝̌ͮl̎
̸̘̪̠ͭͮ̾͠ơ̗͙͓͙͎̜ͥͭ̾́͠y̨̬͔̞͖̲̭ͧ̀ͣ̂ͅì̴̤̲̗̝̞̩̯͕̄̀ͣ̚͡n͆
͓͇̣͚͙̜͍̍͋̂ͦ́̌ͣg̻̘͍͈̭͙̞̤͂̊ͤͮͨ̐͆̀ ̴̣͈̪̗̖͉ͤ̽̾ͫ̋̓̇͊Ạ̰̬̭̫̭͖͕͎̍ͩ͐ͩ̋͞e̶͚̱̞̅͗̇́̅͂ŕ̸̷͊ͬͯ͂̅ͫ
͓̘i̭̜̖̠͖̪̼͓̿ͯͨ̈́͑͢a̸̶̭̼͓͓͛̋̽͐͑̈̾̚l̶̮̗̀͛̃̈́ͮ͒ ̣̮̩̮̬̞̋ͧ̎̌S̗̻̼͖̪̥̣̝̐ͣ͂͜ͅu̮̲̹͑͊̈̽̂ͦͮ͡r̛̤͙̎̎̉̓ͤͩ̂̚͝v͒͛
̩͚͉̯͙̲̓̽ͪe̷̡̬͈̱̟͐̂͛̍͌ͯͤi̗̤̻̠͇̱͚̇ͦ̉͋̋ͣ̓́̕͜l̒́͑̽͊̓ͤ͛̃̀
̹̮̕̕a̡̻̹̭ͪ͋̓͛̕ͅn̜̟̖̘̳͙̊c̷̣̮̄̐e̓̏̐͋͏̴̷̫̭̳̳̝̖̫̠̹ ͓͎͓ͨͫ̔ͧ̃́͞D̶͈͔̪̻̟ͨ͗͒́̈́͟r̹̭̾ͩ̒̓͗ͤo̵ͫ҉̙̺̩n̗̞̓̈̍ͩ́ͮ͐͜e̚
̥̻͔̥̑ͤ̆̀̄̔̕͜͜
A strange thump can be heard over the screaming and explosions, followed by a deep, barely audible buzz, reminiscent of the sound of the HK's movement.

rolled 9 = 9

>>15268994
A thump, eh? What's the cyborg up to now? I'll look over my shoulder

>>15269055
Roll for dodge, please.

rolled 90 = 90

>>15269118
With great trepidation!

rolled 38 = 38

>>15269121
blessedbythegods.avi

rolled 8 = 8

>>15269118
Ugh.

>>15269140
>>15269121
Well, good thing you rolled first.

First three count, rerolls like >>15269136 don't (unless those are the only three we are getting, of course.)

rolled 52 = 52

>>15269176
for the emprah

>>15269140
>>15269136
>>15269121
>Moving along.
You slow down enough to glance behind you, and see an orb, about the size of your fist, floating above the area. It has a dozen eyes, and is looking at you.

Getting a bad feeling, you jump to the side, a lance piercing through the buildings at an angle suggesting it was fired from ground level.

You land on the next roof, tiles flying off from underneath your feet, causing you to fall, your hand tearing off a parapet you tried to grasp.

The alley bellow seems to rush up to meet you, the shock absorbers forming up in time to soften the bone-jarring impact. The orb floats above, 50 meters high.

Wat do?

>>15269342
We should probably tell Daisy what's going on if we haven't already. Regarding our immediate situation with the orb, I don't know. We can't fly and we have no ranged weapons so it's pretty much out of reach. Er, keep running?

rolled 76 = 76

Land on something soft looking? Not much I can do, given the situation.

rolled 61 = 61

>>15269505
We're strong, we'll throw something at the fucker. Didn't we nail that warrior guy from half a block awayL

>>15269553
We distracted it enough for the Wise's alien tech plane to rip it apart, yeah. We don't have one of those around yet this time. I doubt we're strong enough to throw a rock through metal armor,

rolled 4 = 4

>>15269505
Running it is. Also rollan.

Picking yourself off the ground, you change your tactics, moving in disjointed jumps and dashes, the lance slicing and piercing through the area around you. You send a quick message to Daisy, telling her your situation, and warning her about the Doctor. He hasn't tried anything elseyet, or so it seems.

rolled 90 = 90

Wrong dice.

rolled 60 = 60

>>15269665
During a long, high bound, you spot several Wise aircraft heading your way, visible even through their cloaking to your enhanced-spectrum sight. They swoop over you, several VTOLs firing their weaponry at the creature.

>>15269715
The creature returns fire, taking down two of it's assailants, only to be overwhelmed by the rain of bullets, forced to take cover.

Several of the crafts seem to be troop transports, descending on the ruined landscape, disgorging fire teams of Canes Belli.

rolled 31 = 31

>>15269768
Define 2 terms.

Creature (cyborg or orb?)
Cane's Bell

>>15269794
Meant the cyborg, the orb is gone, out of sight.
The Canes Belli or hounds of war, are the trusted troops of the Wise, armed with potent alien-human hybrid tech weapons, like mini-energy-lances.
>Sorry for the hurried style, I'm feeling the same fuzzy sleepiness come over me, so I'd like to reach a satifactory endpoint.

rolled 19 = 19

>>15269837
Find that damn orb and smack it with a Surface to Air Cinderblock!

>>15269887
You pick up a piece of debris, keeping an eye out for the orb. You spot it, sneaking from cover to cover, and chuck the stone at it. The flying machine swiftly dodges it, and lets out something that could be best described as an attempt at laughing, and zooms away.

You quickly leave before any of the troopers notice you, close to a square mile of city reduced to flaming rubble behind you. This is going to be hard to explain away for them...

rolled 69 = 69

>>15270039
Any sign that it's still fighting the troopsers?

Why the fuck would he help Cath if he intended to turn around and backstab us? Did he need someone to test creating a snatcher/Cyborg hybrid on?

>>15270151
You can hear the cyborgs guns firing from time to time, even some enrgy lances ripping through the surrounding area.

Well that was fun. Super-senses on full alert, make sure we're not followed back to our new base.

Okay, I'll hopefuly see you guys on friday, I am off to bed.