Excellent

I might participate for an hour or two.

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.

The Fools, who you had an easy alliance with, are not who they pretended to be, Megan having some kind of connection to Agent Jacobs and the Doctor knowing more than he should have on the Origin virus that infected Catherine. When you went to their hideout to get some answers, you were attacked by a modified cyborg unit, reprogrammed to kill you. You escaped thanks to the Cannes Belli arriving on the scene.

Ready.

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

>>15310365
Crap, that was supposed to be uneasy.

Archive here:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Bodysnatcher+Quest

You jog across the street, nervously looking for any who might be following you. Even miles away, you can hear the emergency services rushing to the scene of the battle, the pires of smoke visible for everywhere in the city. The house you broke into seems strangely serene, unaware to the destruction.

The door opens before you get there, Daisy looking out with a bored expression. The Professor is standing behind her, distraught. "I heard what happened from Daisy. What are we going to do?"

Anyone who was here on monday, but didn't read the continuation on tuesday should read through the archive of Quest 10.

Looks like megan, doc and whoever they were working for have an entire block of city worth of death and destruction on their hands.

I wonder what group they are from.

What do?
Honestly, I do not know.
And actually, I don't care that much for what happened. I could imagine Jack being pissed off, but the bodysnatcher? .. Meh

>>15310399
"I have no idea. Everybody wants to either kill or use me and we just got betrayed by our only allies. For now, we must keep a low profile and wait till Cath gets better. Then... I don't know. Try to infiltrate the Wise further? Search for the Fools? Hunt bodysnatchers for samples to absorb? Contact the Wise and hope that they will cooperate instead of dissecting us outright? What about you, professor? Any ideas?"

>>15310437
>And actually, I don't care that much for what happened
I feel the same. Normally if something like this happened I'd say we had to track them down for revenge, but for some reason I'm just not feeling it here.

>>15310466
"I believe the Wise might be intersted in a truce of sorts. The Fools, though, I don't think we'll be able to find out who they were quite so easily. I, uh, I don't really feel all that well, to be honest. My head keeps getting fuzzy." she sasys, holding her temple. "I think I should lie down for a bit."

>>15310534
>if there are no responses or witty remarks to this, I'll continue.

OK, let her rest... but keep an eye on her. We can't trust her.

>>15310534

Uh-oh, I think we should've examined the prof a little better to make sure the Wise didn't hook her up with any sort of failsafe in case she defected. Either way. I don't like the sound of this.

I kind of figured the Fools would backstab us sooner or later, so the incident last night didn't piss me off too much.

But for now we need to really sit down and determine long-term plans. I'm all for just using the people connected to us still to get our hands on as many genetic samples as possible and get some sweet, sweet new powers before we do anything like revenge.

Uh oh. Professor might be infected with NANITES.

Let's check her out.

>>15310534

Use our supersenses, see if we can detect anything off about Kellery. This doesn't sound like an ordinary headache.

... Do we know her first name?

>>15310466
"But, you promised we'd get icecream!" Daisy pouts. Kellery winces in pain, then smiles at her. "Okay, dear, we'll go right now. Can you hold the fort for a little while, Jack?"

Not even waiting for your answer, she hurries back in the house, and comes out with her purse. Daisy starts to sing some kind of song, the words complete nonsense so thay rhyme. It is frequently interspersed with the word yay.

>>15310627
Aleksandra.

>First nonme
Jesus Christ, this thing feels like it's clairvoyant some times.

>>15310627
Roll for senses if you want to check her out.

>>15310630

"It's not really safe for you two to be out in the town without any kind of backup. Daisy, we can get ice cream another night, it's not going to work right now."

I REALLY do not trust how eager Kellery was to take Daisy alone, after she just complained about not feeling well.

I don't want to leave Cath alone here either though, so we all stay where we can keep an eye on them.

rolled 41 = 41

>>15310685
Okay.

rolled 46 = 46

>>15310685

Rolling for Kellery scan.

Eh...

Lets tell Daisy that we are concerned that something might have happened to Professor and we should better be safe than sorry.
We can always get icecream later.

>>15310466
>unt bodysnatchers for samples to absorb
This is the most sensible plan I ever heard.

>>15310714

And with our improved Mind Link (and the help of Daisy), tracking them down should be fairly simple.

>>15310714
>>15310728
Sure, why not. They'll be hunting us anyway, and not only can we gain more abilities, but we'll gain some more information on this situation from the bodysnatchers' perspective.

>No one else wants to roll?

>>15310771

How did they describe the other cases like us? They basically just went off the deep end and regarded everyone else as a enemy?

Well, that's kind of the situation we're in, but the difference is we're not so mindlessly destructive as to kill off any way of making usable connections with other people.

rolled 57 = 57

>>15310781

Sure, why not?

rolled 77 = 77

>>15310781
I'll try.

>>15310810

FFFFFFFFFFUCK

That's what I get for being so eager to help.

>>15310798
The only actual cases of botched bondings that didn't kill/maim/horrbily mutate the host you know of are you, Daisy, and Grey. Grey's story is very vague, Daisy seems to be human in thought.

>>15310823
That's actually a good roll, higher is better.

>>15310810
>>15310806
>>15310699

You scan her with every sense you have, trying to find some suspicious activity. Her body seems normal, bloodflow, breathing, heartbeat, body temperature etc. showing no irregularity.

You almost give up, but there's something that just doesn't seem right, though you can't quite put your finger on it. Then, it hits you.

Kellery has a mind-link.

Not a complete bodysnatcher one, just some kind of malformed, unnatural version of it. A steady stream of information seems to be coming through it towards her.

>>15310857
"Wait a minute. There's something you're not telling me. I can sense it. There's something wrong with you."
If she doesn't understand what we're talking about (genuinely or not) we tell her bluntly that we can sense mindlink in her.
Maybe Daisy has something to do with that?

>>15310857
Unnatural mind link receiving information just when she's starting to feel weird after betraying the Wise? Sounds like they installed a kill-switch or something. We should do the tentacle thing for more information.

So, who supports confronting her, who supports rendril scan? One for each, at the moment.

>>15310936

Get her inside and confront her about it.

Maybe ask Daisy if she can see anything more that we can't.

rolled 8 = 8

>>15310936
How about both? Confront her about it and then do the tendril scan?

Maybe she's betraying us. Maybe the Wise installed some kill switch. Maybe Daisy did something to her. In either case, there's no need be sneaky.
Confront her, then tendrill scan if needed. Daisy may help if she can.

>>15310982

Yeah, that sounds good.

Do the tendril scan if she doesn't fess up or starts resisting.

Either way, get inside and out of sight for what might happen next.

>>15310936
Well talking to her first is probably sensible. I just said the tentacle thing because I like the tentacle thing. We can do the tentacle thing after we confront her if she says she doesn't know what we're talking about or makes some shitty excuse.

>>15310996
>>15310995
>>15310982
>>15310971
>>15310998

"Prof, can I talk to you for a minute? Inside? Daisy, you can get your ice cream after that, okay?"

She looks uncertain, and keeps glancing at Daisy."Well, if it's important, it should be okay. Keep it short, then."

The two of you walk in, Daisy starting to follow, but getting side tracked when she spots a butterfly.
>>15310882

"I, uh, what do you mean? I keep getting these headaches. Do you know something? Did I catch something, a, a nanite or virus?" She seems honestly confused, and keeps wincing, her head obviously paining her.

>>15311058

"Daisy, sweetie, get inside please, we need to talk with you."

Tendril scan Kellery, but first make sure Daisy is inside where we don't have to worry about her wandering off somewhere or getting kidnapped while our back is turned.

>>15310234

did you find the sauce for the pictures?

>>15311089
Demonbane.

>>15311098

thanks

>>15311058
"I sense a mindlink in you. This alone is alarming enough, but that one is unnatural, weird. Not a bodysnatcher one. There's a steady stream of information coming trough it towards you. Maybe the Wise or the Fools messed with your body... or maybe that's Daisy's fault."
Pause for a moment, letting it sink in.
"From how long you're getting these headaches?

>>15311131
>"From how long you're getting these headaches?"

I think you meant to say, "For how long have you been having these headaches?"

>>15311213
Yeah, that's what I wanted to say. Thanks for correcting me, English isn't my native language.

>>15311232

It's ok. It's kind of a weird tense to write in, grammatically speaking, and I've seen native English speakers fuck it up.

>Sorry about the wait, my roommate got hysterical because she lost her whatsit, the thing they measure blood sugar with, she's type 2 diabetic, and is stupidly afraid that if she misses taking her meds even once her leg'll rot off or something. You can try to explain that it doesn't work like that, but it's useless. Aaaanyway.
>>15311131
She seems disturbed by this. "Today. After we got to your home, in fact." She looks outside the window. "You don't think... it's her, do you?" "have I been acting strangely? I can't tell, things just seem... great when I'm with her."

>>15311254

Hmmm. Daisy may have gotten a little too attached to her, possibly opened some kind of mindlink, even if Kellery isn't a bodysnatcher herself?

Call Daisy in and ask her about it. See if it was something she did conciously or if it was just a side-effect of being around her for this amoung of time.

>>15311254
>have I been acting strangely?
How are we supposed to know? We've only known her for a couple of hours and most of that time she's been with Daisy.

>>15311254
"You bought her clothes, prepared her food and now you're buying her icecreams. And she was friendly towards you. I was surprised that you're getting along so good even though not long time ago you were imprisoning her. Well, she IS an Overseer. She probably has some ways to influence people."
So do we. Pheromones, remember? But we didn't tell anyone and I don't think we should now.
"Of course, I may be wrong and that's not her fault. I will talk with her."

>>15311301
You have noticed that she has become a little slower, so to speak, it took her more and more time to shift through possibilites as the day went on.

>>15311336

Sooo, I think it's time to sit Daisy down and have a talk with her.

If she's doing this intentionally, I think we should tell her to tone it down a bit. It's good to have a devoted ally to use, but not if that subversion limits their mental abilities.

If she's doing it without realizing it though, well then we just need to watch Kellery and make sure she doesn't degrade further. And maybe limit her exposure to other people.

>>15311371
>limit her exposure to other people.

Limit Daisy's exposure to other people, I mean.

Thinking a little bit more though, with Kellery now designated as Daisy's caretaker somewhat, I think that might help us in giving us some more freedom to explore around and hunt without worrying about leaving her on her own.

The other problem is that Daisy is still a kid and might demand Kellery to do something that would risk exposing us or just wouldn't be very healthy in the first place (ice cream every night? I know if I was a twelve-year old girl, I'd try to get away with it).

Either way, talk with Daisy, see if we can figure out the cause of this for sure, and then determine next course of action from there.

>>15311288
>>15311315
>>15311371
You call Daisy to come back inside, and send the Prof to antoher room. The girl can feel your mood, and walks slowly, her gaze on the floor. "Is there something wrong?"

You sit down, and gesture for her to take a seat in the chair in front of you."Daisy, are you doing something to Professor Kellery? I'm not going to be angry, kiddo, I just want to know."

She look up, looking suspicious. "You sure you won't get angry? You promise?" You stand up to step closer to her, and she flinches, a thought unwillingly hitting you through the link.

"pleasedon'thitme"

>>15311410
>>15311371
We need to see if she can be trained to not broadcast so much. Easier said than done, I know. She's trying to stream a 4G connection into an overclocked abacus right now. Human brains aren't set up to handle direct, unfiltered input, something's going to break.

Should Daisy be doing this intentionally and it starts to get out of control, we might have to take her out and absorb her abilities.

Can't let her Overseer abilities develop to the point she can influence us...

>>15311449
While we think this, don't let it get through the mindlink to Daisy.

>>15311430
wrap our arms around her in a big, gentle hug. "It'd okay, i'm not going to hurt you. And i'm not going to get mad. But I think you might be hurting Doctor Kellery by accident, and I need you to tell me what you're doing, so we can stop hurting her."

>>15311430
>"pleasedon'thitme"
She's still a kid and her parents weren't good people. No wonder that she's afraid of us. We could kill her without breaking a sweat.
I don't think she meant any harm. Her life sucked, so she used her powers to make it better. She's not mature enough to comprehend full consequences of messing with human minds. Promise that we won't be angry (and keep that promise). Listen what she has to say.

>>15311463

This.

"Honey, you're special, and you can do special things, but what you're doing right now isn't helping Professor Kellery. We need you to try and cut back on it or something worse might happen."

We might be playing on Cath's affections somewhat in order to get an obediant ally out of the relationship, but Daisy is triggering some outright "DAAWWWWWWWW"-ness from whatever residual instincts we're running on.

>>15311502
Something worse like us preventing her powers from developing further by taking them.

>>15311528

Well there goes my theory about us actually caring about her.

I think she's adorable....but yeah, if this ends up threatening our ability to get our genetic-material-grub on, then we may need to take more drastic actions.

>>15311527
Instincts we shouldn't allow to affect our alien mind too much. I'm guessing one of our priorities (other than survival) is freedom. Daisy turning into some sort of Hunter-Overseer thingy could endanger that, so we need to keep an eye on her and not get blinded by "Dawwwww".

I think we actually care about Daisy. Just a little, bit still. The fact that she's still mostly human triggers d'aaaaw from Jack. At the same time, she has a mind link, so she can understand us better. She's similiar to us, we can symphatise with her.
Same deal with Cath. She's not an useless load anymore. She's not human. She's our equal. Alien, but familiar. She has potential. With some work, we can make her into a force to be reckoned with. Easier said then done, though.

Of course, we're still looking mostly after ourselves, so if shit hits the fan, we may take drastic actions.

>It's like there's some malicious intelligence just waiting for me to start a quest. My connection's been fine for the last two days, then BAM! it goes on the fritz today. Fuck.
>>15311496
>>15311502
>>15311463
"O-okay, I just wanted to help her. She's a nice person, she had a baby once, but she was sick like me, and she died, and she's been mean to people ever since. And I wanted her to be nice again and to be happy and I pushed her a little and she started to like me and that made me happy." She talks very fast, words starting to slur by the end.

She stops, and hugs you back, and starts to cry."butIdidn'tmeantohurtherandIjustwantcouldn'tstopcauseitmademefeelbetteraboutmomandad"

She blows her nose in her cuff, and looks up at you, her snotty and tears running down her cheek. "Can you teach me how not hurt her? Pleaaaase?"

>>15311657

Well then. I don't think we can teach her how to control this stuff, since we're not an overseer ourselves. It may just be something she has to figure out on her own, she won't be able to gain full control of her abilities if we hold her hand the entire time.

The main concern with this connection she's created with Kellery is that it seems to be interfering with the Professor's mental state in a negative way. If we can fix the "slowness" part of it, without breaking the mother-daughter connection that seems to have sprung up, that'd be perfect.

I have no clue as to how we'd go about doing that though.

>>15311657
>her nose snotty
Fix'd

>>15311682
Why do we want her to gain full control of her abilities? When we first heard her voice in our mind, it was in such a way that she was TRYING to compel us, only our broken state allowed us to remain unaffected.

Should she gain full control, how do we know we could continue to resist and not become a pawn? Maybe we already are slipping under her influence?

>>15311657
"I don't know. You see, we're different. I can't read and influence minds the same way you do. But I will try. I think we can learn from each other. But first, let's go to Kellery. Say you're sorry and we will try heal her."

Now we know a bit more about Kellery and Daisy. That's good.

>>15311743

That is a good point, but Daisy could potentially make a powerful ally if we play this correctly.

She's a young, frightened girl and instinctively looks to us as a sort of father-figure, since we rescued her from the research lab and we're probably the first person to treat her nicely in her whole life.

I doubt she will CONCIOUSLY try to make us her slave, but we do need to be cautious of her doing it accidentally. She's probably terrified of losing the only sort of semblance of family she's ever had, and her "push" with Kellery may have been her trying to prevent that.

>>15311657
>It's like there's some malicious intelligence just waiting for me to start a quest. My connection's been fine for the last two days, then BAM! it goes on the fritz today
Obviously the cyborgs have found out that you got taken over by a bodysnatcher

>>15311743
True, she may be a danger to us. But that's not the reason to stunt her grow. She will be very valuable. If we could be reintegrated to the unity, aliens would simply use some overseer to do that already.
Isntead, let's improve ourselves further. We already upgraded our mind link, maybe we can do it again.

>>15311747
Seconding this.

Also, would we be capable of 'building' a telepathic 'receiver' in her brain so Kellery could parse incoming mindlinks like we do? If so, we can fix her and not deprive Daisy of her newly-acquired replacement mother.

>>15311815
It might be possible, if you were to modify her brain, or perhaps add bodysnatcher tissue/organs to her. Tricky business, though, since brain chemistry isn't exactly your forté.

>>15311851

Yeah, I vote we hold off on messing around with her brain. Save it as a last resort, for now just reassure Daisy and see if she can do it on her own.

>>15311897
Agreed. Once Kellery is thinking clearly, have her help us design one (so we do it right), and we could offer that to the Wise. Influence-free telepathy, instantaneous data transmission between operatives, and the ability to sense bodysnatchers immediately. Think that carrot is juicy enough for them to come to the table?

>>15311851
Indeed. We modificated human body with alien tissue only once - to heal Cath. We were in hurry and it was the whole body, so we didn't have to be very precise. Meanwhile, brain is very delicate organ. Smallest screwup and Kellery turns into drooling retard, which is what we're trying to prevent. Let's just heal her, we will try brain surgery later, in better circumstances.

>>15311929
That's nice idea. Hovewer, remember that we don't have any medical instruments (hell, not even a clean table) so even if she agrees, we're not in state to pull it off right now.

>>15311747
You take Daisy's hand, and go upstairs. Kellery is laying on a bed in the couples badroom, a large, robust piece of furniture out of some kind of dark wood. She turns towards the two of you, her face pale and drawn, obviosly feeling sick. Her lips part, and she frowns in concentration, only managing to utter a raspy "what".

You push the girl a little, so she stands in front of you. "Go on, kiddo, tell her." She stares at you, reassured by your expression.

"I pushed you to be happy. Jack said that it's hurting you, I'm sorry, I didn't want to hurt you." Her lips tremble, the mind-link flaring up with fear of rejection.

" 'S okay, dear, I just need some rest. You couldn't help it." She reaches out, and pats Daisy's head. "We'll talk more about it tomorrow." She turns around, and is asleep again in a second.

>>15311968

Well, this seems to be dependent on Daisy's abilities, so I don't think we can push her to do better if she honestly has no idea what to do either.

Let Kellery sleep for now. We can monitor her later to make sure her mental state isn't deteriorating further.

How's Cath doing?

>>15311935
I just realized: The Wise are Transhumanists. Cath upstairs, and us to a lesser extent, is their holy grail, the one thing they've been striving for. A stable, free-willed merger of machine and flesh that (theoretically) is immune to all diseases and can improve itself on the fly to meet challenges. A single sample of her technorganic flesh would be enough for the to forgive a hell of a lot more than the relatively minor damage we inflicted. I think we've got more bargaining ships than we realize.

>>15311992

Except there's really nothing human left of us. We have Jack's memories, but I think we've established here that everything we do we do with the intention of looking out for number 1. The lone hero that fights for humanity using the enemies' weapons and his sheer force of willpower is really just a cliche that others would like to believe.

Of course, they don't know that.

>>15312017
Nor do they need to. That's a con we can work with.

>>15311992
Except the part where a Hunter has fucked their shit up before and they wouldn't trust us. They'd just experiment on us.

What we need right now is to find more bodysnatchers. More info on our species, info that the Wise or Fools wouldn't have. That and the abilities we could gain.

Kellery and Cath are both sleeping, how about we take Daisy out for that ice cream while she searches for bodysnatchers?

>>15311992
True. But we're still not sure if we want to contact he Wise. And even if we do, having Kellery alive and well should help us.

So, what do we do? Let her sleep and hope for the best, or try to do something? If the latter, then what exactly? Operate by ourselves? Tell Daisy to try to sever the link? That's important.

Get Daisy to sniff out bodysnatchers for us.

>>15312055

Let her sleep and hope for the best, is what I vote for. Her brain may just be trying to restructure itself to get used to the connection with Daisy, and she'll be better after she wakes up.

Hopefully.

>>15312055
Tell Daisy to severe the link. Let her mind heal naturally. Then we take her out for ice cream.

>>15312049
Yeah, they won't get the chance. we maintain autonomy. Daisy isn't going back in a box and neither are we. We maintain our home outside their control, and they provide us with a method of contacting them. we do everything on our terms. We've proved we can take them apart with little difficulty. We made their fireteams look like kids playing counterstrike. We evaded them multiple times and infiltrated them twice, technically. We've proved we could take them apart if we wanted to. We can plow through their tinker-toy security and there's little in their arsenal that can stand up to us. And now we're bargaining from a position of strength. we have a source of viable technorganic flesh. We have the ideal weapon for hunter bodysnatchers (us). We've had access to their files, so they don't know how much we do or don't have. And we have info on the Fools that they don't. Just because we don't have a plethora of energy lances doesn't mean we're not in the position of strength.

>>15311988
>>15312049
>>15312088
Daisy looks rather relieved that the Prof doesn't hate her, and happily skips down the stairs. You follow her, and head to Cath, who is sleeping on the sofa.

She seems to be fine, her vital signs stable. Her body does seem to be more active, the hybrid infection working hard on the transformation process.

Wat do, then? Head out with Daisy to catch some bodysnatchers? Something else?
>Short break, getting some coffee and smoking a cigarette, 15 minutes or so at the most.

Okay, so we leave. But first, make sure that no new informations are flowing trough the link. If they do, ask Daisy if she can cut it off.
If they don't, then i guess we can go hunting. Homever, I don't feel comfortably with leaving them both alone, sleeping and helpless. Remember, we can feel mind link of bodysnatchers for ourselves. Daisy could probably help us anyway by screwing with their minds, but I'm not sure if she's capable of that. Then again, she needs practice.

>use leasso
I don't think using lasso will help us, captcha.

>>15312085
Can't bodysnatchers sniff us out just fine?

I don't see why we need to put her at risk.


Oh, and if we are going to hunt we need to buy new clothes and then in an alley or somewhere change our appearance (get a magazine for a face)

>Ah yes, I knew I forgot to say something
>>15312118
She severed it after your talk, before the two of you went to see Kellery.

>>15312132
she was promised ice cream, ice cream she will have. We take her to the nearest Coldstone Creamery or Baskin Robbins, or whatever the local equivalent is. Keep our link quiet as much as we can. No sense advertising our presence to the other snatchers.

It seems we have a consensus. We're going out.
Keep our mind link hidden. At the same time, try to detect bodysnatchers. If we meet some single one, Daisy can try to temporarily sever his link with others, allowing us to kill him without bringing small army on our heads, like it was before. Even if she can't do that, she needs some practice. Anyway, be very careful.

Also, I have a question. Can we "trade" upgrades? For example, can we teach Daisy how to make pheromones?

>>15312173
But keep our eyes and link open for potential targets.

INFO AND ABILITIES!

>>15312230
Also, keep our trip short. Our ladies aren't exactly able to defend themselves right now. Well, maybe Catherine is.

>>15312239
See if Daisy can control them. If she can sever their links and replace it with hers, we could frog-march them somewhere safe and she can make the tell us what we need.

>>15312230
Very good question.

Short answer:

No.


Long answer:

The process of absorption isn't simply taking the information of certain abilities. You take the undamaged bodysnatcher material, and use it to build yourself up, growing more complex, patching up the missing parts with the new, and different, ones. This is the reason why the the bodysnatchers as a race are so deadset on killing you.

What you do is not regulated by any of the ususal limiters the Queens install. Where you progress is something entirely dependent on you, and the material you absorb.

Let's see some rolls if you would like to spend a minute pondering this in character.

rolled 42 = 42

>>15312334
rolls are d100, right?
We keep these thoughts to ourselves, don't let daisy know them.
And Daisy is incapable of absorbing the way we are, correct?

rolled 86 = 86

>>15312347
>We keep these thoughts to ourselves, don't let daisy know them
How do we know she can't read our mind? I doubt Kellery just randomly told her about her child dying. Also rolling.

rolled 81 = 81

>>15312334
Okay. Let's ponder the meaning of our existence and our place in this whole clusterfuck.
I wonder what would happen if we absorbed a queen?

>And Daisy is incapable of absorbing the way we are, correct?
Good question.

>>15312390
How do we know Daisy is really the little girl, and not really a bodysnatcher like us trying to play us and everyone else?!?

okay, so you guys rolled good, and I wanted to simply hint at things, so instead of simply telling you outright, I1ll give you two, unrelated hints.
But first, questions!
>>15312428
Either she's really the little girl, or she is very, very good at acting and using the mind-link to lie to you.
>>15312415
>>15312347
She can absorb bodysnatchers. The question is, does she get the same results, and is it possible to absorb another hybrid?

>>15312428
Well I presume the Wise would have checked that by cutting her head open or something. Although if she's been controlling Kellery all this time I guess she could have made Kellery say that she's a girl when Kellery knows otherwise. Does it actually matter what she is though? We rescued her so if she's like us she won't just randomly betray us.

Hints, first, the unrelated one.

Kellery told you that the Wise have existed since at least after the turn of the 20th century.

and

Have you wondered why you immediately recieved the option of fibre-optic neural pathways after Kellery told you about them?

>She can absorb bodysnatchers. The question is, does she get the same results, and is it possible to absorb another hybrid?
There's only one way to check.

> Have you wondered why you immediately recieved the option of fibre-optic neural pathways after Kellery told you about them?
...because we absorbed overseer sample? No, there's more to it. You said that upgrade isn't taking the information itself. And yet... What does it mean?

Ugh, I'm too tired to think. I'm going to sleep. Good luck, guys.

>>15312497
But it DOES matter. If she's actually an Overseer, she's hooked up with the rest of the bodysnatchers and will eventually turn us in OR she is far more likely to try and take control over us if she is a "free" agent like we are.

She could be a very good actor, possible the bodysnatcher read her memories and knows how to act like a kid. That and if she can look at our mind through the mind link, that would make it that much easier for her...

>>15312524
Sooooooo...

No one cares?

Cause then I'll move things along.

>>15312574
... It's because we knew what we were absorbing and what traits to look for in the DNA. so, if we knew more about the abilities of individual snatchers, we'd have a wider selection of powers.

And the Wise have been around for a while, that makes them conspiracy-theory territory. We don't have enough data on them to make an informed decision.

>>15312488
We need to find a way for her to feed, expand her powers so we don't have to protect her.

And let's face it, if Daisy wanted to eat us, she'd have done it while we were unconscious and helpless days ago. Likewise, if she was connected to the other snatchers, we'd have been swamped with Warrior or hunter units in our sleep. If she's a free agent like us, then she needs us for protection. If she's a scared little girl with mind powers, then she needs us for protection. Either way, she needs us, and we can exploit her powers while giving Cath and Kellery a binding anchor to help keep them connected to us favorably.

You search through Jack's things that you packed, trying to find some clothes he never wore. You decide on a red hawaiian shirt with white flower patterns, white shorts, and flippy-floppy sandals.

"Daisy, we're going for that ice cream. You ready to go?"

The enthusiastic yes is followed by a hug, and she quickly scrambles for her shoes. You make sure the doors and windows are locked, and head out, holding the girls hand.
>What appearance do you take?

>>15312808
Hawaiian shirt? Fat guy. Older, balding, slouched posture. Just a retired grandfather taking his granddaughter out for a treat.

>>15312524
>Have you wondered why you immediately recieved the option of fibre-optic neural pathways after Kellery told you about them?

Because the overseer they were holding had fiber-optic neural pathways and we absorbed that overseer? And Kellery told us because she had been studying them?

Unless you are trying to imply that Daisy pushed Kellery to tell us about the fiber optic overseer for some reason. Perhaps because it would make a mindlink easier for her to establish, or so that she could absorb it later on?

So you are saying that our paranoia is dead on and Daisy is not to be trusted?
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TIME TO PUT DAISY DOWN AND TAKE HER POWERS, SHE IS THREAT. The Wise didn't want us coming into contact because they didn't want Daisy controlling us!

Daisy will sense that we had just realised it, we must act fast!

>>15312821
You shift, bones melding, muscles repositioning and loosing some tension to gain the appearance of fat. You have gotten quite good at this, and the complete transformation only takes a few seconds.

Daisy looks at you with amazement. "Can I do that too?" She is very excited at the possibility.

>>15312874
Actually, if you would recall, Kellery said that a base in Southeast-Asia found that Overseer. The one you absorbed did not, in fact, have the upgrade.

>>15310234
dat nya.

>>15312889
"Not right now, it might upset your stomach. But when we get back, i'll try to teach you how to do it. But don't tell anyone, it's our little secret, okay?"

>>15312889
"I don't know, can you?"

>>15312902
Didn't we acquire it while eating the other bodysnatchers?

>sorry, connection, me having to punch it repeatedly for it to work, yadda, yadda
>>15312942
>>15312969
"I don't know, I never tried. You'll show me how to after ice cream, right?" Your affirmative reply is met by a rather loud yay.

You dig up a memory from Jack, and navigate to a little place called Henderson's, a cake shop that also sells italian gelato. Daisy is brought to the point of being incapable which to try first, and finally decides on some strange chocolate-raspberry-currant mix.

You try to figure out if you yourself want some, when the sensation of a mind-link hits you. There is a bodysnatcher, a mere sixty meters from you, likely on foot, from what you can guess from the speed.
Wat do?

>>15313114
Nope, samples from the storage room in the base.

>>15313122
Daisy has her ice cream. Now we leave. If they follow, tell daisy "Daisy, there's a bad person following us. If they start getting close, I want you to use your mind to yell at them to leave us alone and forget they saw us, ok?"

>salriant mdcclxvi
Wow, that's what you think our kill count is so far, captcha? We're not there yet, give us time.

>>15313122
Eat some ice cream. Stupid aliens, trying to ruin our ice cream time. Unless it's another hunter (highly unlikely if there are only 8 of them in the world) it's not really a threat on it's own, we'll just have to eat before it's backup arrives. Or this might be a good time to see if Daisy can control it with her overseer powers.

>>15313127
>Have you wondered why you immediately recieved the option of fibre-optic neural pathways after Kellery told you about them?

>Actually, if you would recall, Kellery said that a base in Southeast-Asia found that Overseer. The one you absorbed did not, in fact, have the upgrade.

>>15313127
>Nope, samples from the storage room in the base.

I am confuse

>>15313181
>>15313212
You randomly point at one of the flavours, and step out the shop, licking the gelato. It's pistachio, surprisingly good. You haven't really eaten anything else besides raw meat and an omlette you cooked, which wasn't very well made. The heat outside is opressive in contrast to the cool of the cake shop, the ice cream getting runny fast.

You can sense some activity in your direction from the link, and Daisy pulls on your shirt. "It wants to know who we are, and what to tell the big one in the yellow house. What should I say?"

>>15313231
The Wise operatives caught an Overseer in Southeast-Asia, who supposedly had changed it's nervous system to be fiber-optic. Kellery told you about it. You then had all the active samples transferred to Dirar Falil's office, where you muched on them. They were of no realtion to the one with fiber-optic nerves in any way, besides being of the same species.

>>15310234
>Bodysnatcher Quest
Oh my god I completely forgot.

>>15313253
"tell it that we're friendly, that we're just passing through, and that it should pretend we're not here."
Make a note of the address of the house. If we want to give the Wise a nudge about us not being 100% dedicated to wiping them out, a location of undetected infiltrators wouldn't be a bad bit of info to drop to them.

>>15313356
No worries, man, me completely changing the schedule every fucking time isn't helping.

I might make this a regular saturday night thing. Seems like it would have little difficulties, since any partying/working I do is during the week.

Hey wow, they're not immediately trying to kill us. That's nice. Also the big one in the yellow house sounds interesting.

>>15313357
Daisy tells you the adress, remarking "The big one feels like me. I try to hide from it, it feels scary when it tries to find me."

She takes your hand, and you walk back home, listening to her prattle about which is the best ice cream flavour, why it should be mandatory to serve it everywhere, and how sad it is for people who live in very cold places that they never get to try it.

>>15313459
when we get home, teach her how to change her face if she teaches us to how to hide from them.

>>15313658
Lets teach her regardless and ask afterwards if she'd show us that. It'd be good to see if she would follow up on a request like that. Just as a test.


>15312488
>She can absorb bodysnatchers. The question is, does she get the same results, and is it possible to absorb another hybrid?

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!

>>15313716
Aw, screw you man, now I'm going to spend the rest of the day with the guiatar riff playing in my head.

>>15313716
Agreed

>>15313776
If it makes you feel any better, I can't think of us in combat form without having Guyver episodes play in my head.

>>15313716
>>15313658
Daisy is giddy with excitement at the tought of being able to shift, and it takes you a while to calm her down enough to properly teach her. You explain the ability as best as you can, and she picks up on it fairly fast, laughing while she experiments with colours and shapes in ways you never really thought of.

She is hopping around the room, her eyes red and two fuzzy, white bunny ears flopping around her head, when you ask her if she would show you how to hide. "Sure! It's really easy, you just need to make a net!"

Seeing your polite incomprehension, she grabs your hands."Just watch how I do it." You can feel the mind-link about her change, the skin contact amplifying your senses. She folds it together, in a manner of speaking, turning it from an open signal into a closed web, encompassing the surrounding area, but blocking signals from outside it."See? Easy!"

>>15313901
"So, I make a net, and others can't sense me? COOL!"

Check in on Cath. Her transformation was progressing nicely last time we checked. Want to make sure we're there when she wakes up. Also, look in on Prof., make sure she's ok.

>>15313933
also: test out our new tricks by playing hide-and-seek with Daisy.

>>15313933
You walk to the living room, to check in on Cath to see if she's fine. You find the sofa empty, and the window beside it open.

In a panic, you run upstairs, rushing into the bedroom the Prof was in. She's still there, sleeping peacefully.

Searching around the house, you see no sign of forced entry, or any struggle.

Wat do?
>Wrapping this up soon, I'm feeling sleepy

>>15314085
Considering that her body hasn't been cleaned in a few days, Cath should have a unique scent to her. Our heightened senses should be able to follow it. Tell Daisy to stay with Kellery and Mindlink us if there's any trouble at all. We go bloodhound and track Cath down.

>>15314085
Let's see, Cath wakes up in strange house that is not her's or her boyfriend's, wanders off.

I'd say check Jack's house, then her house. Maybe try to smell to track her?

>>15314085
If there was no struggle then obviously she just woke up, felt left out and went to get some ice cream. Despite there being no other reasonable explanation, I guess we could get Daisy to try and find Cath with the mind link just to make sure she's ok.

rolled 100 = 100

Dammit, knew we should have left a note before going out for ice cream. Oh well, showed up too late to voice that.
>>15314151
Leaning towards this.

>>15314331
Did I say leaning? I meant lets go be totally awesome at this.

>>15314167
>>15314151
"Daisy, honey, could you stay here and play alone for a little while? I need to find Catherine." She smiles at you, one bunny ear upright, the other stretched out horizontally. "I'm used to playing alone. If the pretty lady is in trouble, you should hurry."

You nod, an head out, trying to follow the trail Cath left. She has a distinct smell since she got infected, so your job is fairly easy. You pass by a car, with it's bumper missing a large piece, shreds of it scattered all over. You start to hurry when you find a dead dog, half of the poor thing chewed off. The trail leads to the industrial area you met your first cyborg in, to a small warehouse, the plaster on it's walls fallen long ago, the bare bricks showing. making your way through the broken glass and shattered junk, you start hearing loud, metallic screeches, like steel being crushed or torn.

You peek inside the building, glimpsing Catherine kneeling on the floor, a dead homeless man lying beside her, his face mostly eaten, alongside his arms up to the elbows. She has something in her hands, but you can't quite see it, her back towards you.

>>15314413
She knows us, knows we're non-hostile. She probably woke up ravenous like we did. So she's eating everything she can. She's probably having a hard time controlling herself. Broadcast telepathically while we approach, speaking out loud. "Catherine, cal down. Nobody is going to hurt you, but you need to calm down. Come back with me so we can get you some food. I know you're hungry, confused, and probably a little scared. It's ok, just stand up, and come with me."

This seems really weird, but for some reason this scene reminds me that Jack used to have a dog. Wonder what ever happened to it.

>>15314413
Meh, I was close. It seems she prefers homeless guys to ice cream. Crazy girl. We should probably try and dissuade her from behaviour like this, it brings unwanted attention. There's plenty of poultry at home.

>>15314459
>>15314477
As you start to talk, her head snaps around, revealing that she's been chewing a large piece of scrap metal. Her mouth is bloody, partially from her victim, but also from the large wounds caused from her trying to eat steel and iron. Her eyes shine with animal hunger, metallic and blue, just like the when she had her episode.

She snarls, flinging the piece of junk away, jumping to her feet from a kneeling position. You can see her hands shift, becoming mechanical claws, and she leaps at you with a fierce cry!

Here's where we stop for today. Someone please archive this, because I'm about to hit my bed with enough speed to cause the sheets to combust.

I'll see you guys on saturday again, 16+ PM board time.

>>15314616
great thread, as always, Brain. Thanks.

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