Fire Everything! Aim for the eye/jewel/sphere thing! Quickly, before he gets absorbed because it might interfere with respawn!

AIM FOR THE GEM THINGY!

rolled 65 = 65

>>17450181
Forgot the roll.

OPEN FIRE! ALL WEAPONS!

>>17450144
Just for anyone interested.
Our plan is to take Cheryl, a Canon character, make her a Persona user, then have her use her psychic powers (as well as the after-mentioned Persona) to kill Ebon Night, the personification of Pain and Torture.

Look how far we have fallen. Creating SUEs...
My god, what have we become?

>>17450144

Aim for the gem.

Have Soldier attempt classic TF2 shenanigans to escape from the Whatchamacalit!

finale?
Finale?
Yay! :D

>>17450144
Fire at Soldier's body! Make sure that it's destroyed before it can be absorbed!
Make sure that those containment force field emitters are online! The MI will be able to use their phaser rifles through them by modulating the phaser frequency to match that of the force fields.

>>17450212

I still think this is a very bad idea.

Having non-canon-native powers on a character who we may leave inside a canon will pose a strong contamination risk.

>>17450212
One, her canon is do with her.
Two, her home canon is pretty throughly fucked.
Three, every source we have tells us this is the path to winning.
Four.. we wanted to recruit her anyway.

>>17450212
No, we're not modifying Cheryl any further without consulting the Farseers to make sure that this doesn't blow up in our faces.

>>17450239
This. This!

>>17450181
This.

I lament that most of our combat situations recently have been "locate enemy, fire everything, repeat step two."

While we're shooting, we should have somebody on "effectiveness watch." Their job is to see what kind of attacks do the most harm to the enemy. Most creatures from Lovecraft's works get hurt by lightning.

>>17450256
Which is what we're doing.
>>17450206
Fire everything. Here's hoping the traps/defenses we set up let us destroy the thing.
Are Darius and the others down on the ground yet, or still in orbit?

rolled 77 = 77

You command your troops to aim for the gem, BLU scrambling to get into position while Prawn lightning guns dance over the creature's flesh and Mobile Infantry Assault Cannon batter the shining gem. The creature recoils at the assault as the crimson orb cracks a little, then utters a shrill cry and lunges forward, picking up two of the Prawns and holding them high...

>>17450271
Prawns! Teach it not to pick up the things with the Arc Cannons!

>>17450254
So we are going to make her into a potential SUE, and just hopes everything works out OK in the end?
Not with our rolls, son.

>>17450212
>Ebon Night, the personification of Pain and Torture.
I've seen this several times, but it's not correct.
Ebon Night is a hunter, he revels in fear and terror.

>>17450271
>>17450283
Even better: Use that thing-grabby gun widget field and pull out the orb!

rolled 85 = 85

>>17450271
The two Prawns think quick and fire their lightning guns at the tentacles holding them. The limbs drop the mechs and retract into the monster's quivering mass as the Prawns take minor damage from falling. As Mobile Infantry fire is joined by the combined force of BLU team, the monster's bony plates begin to assemble themselves to better deflect incoming fire. The gem cracks again, then begins to shine even brighter, and an orange, angular force field begins to emanate from it, deflecting all the bullets and causing a storm of ricochets that almost manages to take down Sniper and Scout. Medic manages to patch them in time, however.

>>17450286
Pfft, the way you are worrying you at like you've forgotten that she's the center of her own strange distortion.
Current theory puts her powers as making her a literal anti-SUE/reality-distortion, and they just need honing.

wait...
>End of Ebongelion
>red sphere
This is a goddamn angel, isn't it?

>>17450309
Ohshit. Scan the field, remodulate phasers. Kinetic weapons, target Soldier! Destroy the body! Have him respawn!

>>17450292

It's a pity we don't have one of these guys, then.

Ah well, hindsight 20/20 and all that.

>>17450309
Have the Mobile Infantry switch to phaser rifles, maximum setting.
Have Pyro hose down the thing with fire.
As for the Prawns, have them attempt to use their suit's telekinetic field to grab that gem away from the monster.

>>17450309
Demoman, bounce some boom around that protection!

>>17450309
Finish it!

Gun is an effective deterrent to this thing. Keep going!

>>17450309
>>17450330

I think we are witnessing a small-scale AT-field in action.

>>17450309
>The gem cracks again, then begins to shine even brighter, and an orange, angular force field begins to emanate from it,
Ai Tii Fierudo!
Bounce shots around its back.
Pyro and Medic ready for uber rush?

>.single glowing red sphere

S2 Organ

IT'S AN ANGEL! Dont' use physical attacks, start casting magic on it to get past the AT field!

>>17450330
Ohshit.

Do we have anti-AT capable weaponry?

If an S2 organ gets smashed, is there a catastrophic explosion?

Also, I think this Angel is supposed to be similar to Zeruel, I'm guessing.

>>17450382
>If an S2 organ gets smashed, is there a catastrophic explosion?
Not necessarily. Though self-destruct is something that the Angels are known to do when they've suffered fatal damage.

>>17450309

A strong positron rifle blast (some sorta charged particle weapon?) was able to break through an AT field.

However, we have phasers that we can modulate to fire at different frequencies. We may be able to bypass the field or disrupt it if we get the right frequency.

Alternatively, we can have medic supercharge the Heavy and have him punch through it if he punches hard enough.

Guys, once this angel is dead, we need to recover what's left of the S2 engine (the red sphere) and put it into a container for later research.

>>17450411
Indeed.

>>17450416
I smell Ubercharge + AT-field, anyone?

>>17450410
What if we used the Prawn suits' telekinetic fields in concert with each other to rip the S2 organ out of the Angel?
The fields did work like a super-charged gravity gun in the movie.

rolled 15 = 15

Energy beams and bullets bounce off the creature's force field as it flails around with its tentacles. These attacks are mostly ineffectual though, Medic healing up the damage from being swatted as fast as the creature can strike. Attack after attack fails against the creature until...

>>17450334

Two of the Prawn suits attempt to use their TK-fields to RIP the orb out from the creature. With a sickening shlorp of flesh, the gem begins to rip free from its slimy moorings as the monster thrashes around in agony.

>>17450431

The AT-fields are more or less an angel or an EVA creating a transparent (albeit glowy and stylized) physical barrier. Since telekinesis only requires line-of-sight to work, the Prawn suit TK abilities should work just fine.

Let us kill it. With our MINDS.

>>17450439
All Prawns, concentrate on ripping that sphere out, now!

Mobile Infantry, we don't have time to do a shield frequency analysis! Burn that thing! Switch to heavy flamers!

rolled 76 = 76

>>17450439
Unfortunately, one of the two Prawns that attempted this tactic is immediately vaporized as a cross of energy erupts from the ground underneath him. The cross lingers for a moment before fading as oily flesh begins to snake back around the orb, pulling it back within the monster's body.

Soldier's corpse has successfully been disintegrated and he is waiting to respawn.

Antarctica Enemy Checklist:

[✓] Angels
[✓] Shoggoths
[ ] Protodeviln
[ ] Ruina
[ ] Witches
[ ] Invaders

2 down, 4 to go!

>>17450439
>15
D'oh

Right, we've got AT Fields. Do we still have those teleport bullet rifles we made for our snipers in Japan? We'll need those to get past AT fields.
>>17450467
Telekinetic field can't stop High temperatures. Use your explosives and your fire weapons if you don't have Telekinesis.

Good job. Let's put that S2 Engine into a container and get it out safely?

>>17450467
All surviving Prawns, tear that S2 organ out. With your minds!

ANON, can the Observer we have in the area get a shield frequency analysis done, and modulate the phaser rifles of the Mobile Infantry to pass through the AT-Field?

>>17450467
Other Prawn! Pull harder!

rolled 65 = 65

>>17450499
ANON: "Working... possibly. Giving order now."

>>17450464
The remaining Prawns begin to focus on pulling the orb out. The monster cries out in agony as once more it has the equivalent of its heart begin to be slowly torn from its body. Meanwhile, the Mobile Infantry begin coating the creature with sheets of flame from their heavy flamers, prompting the monster to retaliate with a gigantic tentacle swipe that bowls the power armored soldiers over.

>>17450467
>>17450485

Burninating it and assaulting it with psychic powers sounds like a good idea.

As one other person mentioned, if we still have those teleporting bullets assigned to any of our troops, this would be a good time to use it.

Also, Demoman, see if you can find any angles to bounce your grenades off of and get past that AT-field!

>>17450519
ANON is working on finding the AT-Field's shield frequency.
The Prawns are pulling the S2 Organ out.
The MI are picking themselves up.
Medic is healing everybody.

The Delta Greens are supposed to be on the Overlord, and they should still have their exographic scanners and micro-transporter modules attached to their sniper rifles. Have them assist the current team.

>>17450519
With a sound like snapping wire, the last strands of the creature's flesh give way and the red orb rolls forth from the monster. Spy and Pyro are grabbed by tentacles and immediately smashed to a bloody pulp by the monster as it furious tries to break past BLU to reach its gem-like organ, but the massed firepower of the team keeps it back. Without the AT-field, all it has left is the bony plates, and those do not prove enough against phasers and ARC cannon. With a low moan and a sound like a deflating tire, the monster begins to dissolve into a wide, black puddle of acidic matter.

TG: We grab Angels by their orbs and yank!
Wait, um..
TG: We pull Angel orbs..
No..
TG: Fuck it. Grab 'em by the balls. Rip 'n Tear.

>>17450548
Prawns! Keep that S2 Organ contained within a telekinetic field until the SCP troopers can put it into a proper containment vessel.

ANON, were you able to get a positive BLUE pattern from the thing?

Do we have any magical troops deployed in Antarctica? It would help to use magic against any more Angels.

We lost one TK field. Do we have any infantry-carried versions of this?

>>17450557
Transpace Guard: We'll grab you by the balls and destroy you if you fuck with us.

>>17450548

Victory! And if we ever get a REALLY strong force-user, we now have a new option of dealing with super-robot sized EVA-universe angels.

Have the medic patch up any non-BLU team members. Once that's done, carefully do a sensor sweep of this chamber to see if there's anything else of interest in there.

Awesome. Store that in containment by the other Elder knicknacks.

Observer, proceed to opened chamber and scan for clues, etching, cravings, or other data.

>>17450571
>We lost one TK field. Do we have any infantry-carried versions of this?
No, it's only carried by the Prawn suits. We have 4 Prawns remaining.

>>17450609
You know, I'm finally softening on those things.
I might even take back the suggestion of trading them in at this rate. Give them the Fancy Feast catfood tonight, they deserve it.

The S-2 organ is rolled out and placed in containment until the SCP can secure it.

ANON: "Confirmed. That monster was some form of infant Angel. Possibly altered by Elder Thing experimentation."

>>17450634
You've got to take a look at the utility and weapons capabilities that these suits have.
What they lack in pure survivability compared to a Marauder suit, they make up for in exotic weaponry.

http://district9.wikia.com/wiki/Bio-suit

>>17450594
The Observer enters and scans the interior of the chamber, but finds just deep carvings in the walls from where the monstrous Angel attempted to escape. It appears little else is here, this was a containment cell.

Well, good thing we caught that quickly.

Observer, full scans. Wait for respawns, get set, and open the other door once the Observer's done. Scout opens this time, since Soldier can bring heavier firepower to bear than he can. Just in case.

Ok, that was door number two, let's get back into position and check out the other unknown..
..After the Observer tells about what else is in the chamber we just opened.

Also, get a sample of the goo it turned into and get that contained and put away as well.

Hey, thinking of unusual biologicals, we gave Mouse a pile of hard drives yanked from Umbrella HQ a while ago.
Turn up anything interesting yet?

>>17450635
Alright, we have one more door to open.
Give everyone an hour to set up.

Now that we know this next thing might also be an Angel, let's prepare appropriately.

Team of White Mages with Lyla on standby, a little distance back from the front line. They're there to provide healing and be far enough back that they're safe from attack.

See if the Delta Greens can see behind the other unopened non-shoggoth door with their exographic scanners.

Have the Observer check out the newly-vacated chamber, and be on standby in case we need to scan another shield frequency.

This time, get a Bolter turret set up.

>>17450635
You receive loot: S2 organ.
>>17450654
I'd like to send the Overlord's team down before we open the final non-shoggoth chamber; there might be TWO angels in that one.
Get the White mages, Darius, the KI, the Star Lord, and Lyla up the front with our MI and Prawns.
Open up that final chamber, let's see what we've got...

I wonder if that S2 organ was the missing piece of the pillar?

>>17450677
The real question is, what if it is Adam?

>>17450668
No time to look at them yet.

>>17450677
With preparations made, BLU team unseals the second vault...

Nothing yanks Soldier's head off in the first few seconds, always a good sign. Peering within the large dark chamber, your troops discover a large shard of blue crystal with what appears to be a malformed fetus within.

>>17450648
Do the preparations from here:
>>17450677

Get a sample of the goo that the Angel turned into and have it put into a secure containment vessel for analysis later.

As pointed out here:
>>17450651
Scout opens the door this time.

>>17450687
If it's an atropal...

>>17450686
Then we play Tower Defense, and guard the Adam against waves of Gendo Ikaris.
>>17450687
>Peering within the large dark chamber, your troops discover a large shard of blue crystal with what appears to be a malformed fetus within
TOWER DEFENSE AGAINST GENDO IKARIS it is.

>>17450687
ANON, compare visual of the fetus with a known visual records of the entity known as ADAM from the Neon Genesis Evangelion Canons.

Also, what's the Observer picking up on passive scans?

>>17450700
Oh god, I can only imagine.

We'll have to take a curved, non-euclidean path that loops back over itself multiple times, through other dimensions, while taking fire from all manner of Horrible Things That Should Not Be.

And we'll have unfitting music playing as well.

>>17450719
ANON: "Confirmed. It appears to be Adam, sealed within a crystalline lattice."

The Observer is able to detect that the crystal shard is siphoning energy from the dormant Angel, and transmitting it even through the Elder Thing seals back to the pillar.

>>17450700
Pick up the Crystal and have the SCPs keep it somewhere safe, in a different area from the S2 engine. Bringing the S2 engine to it might trigger second impact, so DO NOT DO THAT.

Behind the other doors are various mutated Shoggoths. Can we see what kind of mutations they have?
This may just be my curiousity, but I'd like to bore a tiny hole through each of the doors after we leave, and check what kind of shoggoth is in each one. They might have more loot such as S2 engines.

Interesting that it is the fetal state and in blue crystal.

>>17450765
>transmitting it even through the Elder Thing seals back to the pillar.
....okay, this thing is stronger than the Lovecraftian weird SUPERSCIENCE! of the Old Ones.
That means it is very unsafe to handle.

Ebon Night must have done this on purpose, knowing that we know what will happen if we make a wrong move with Adam.

Okay, I think we should keep this thing in containment for now. Who knows what will happen if we bring it back up to the World Pillar.

>>17450772
The Observer cannot get a full scan through the heavy sealed doors. Boring through would also take a while.

>>17450780
>Lance of Longinus
Maybe... Maybe we should look around for this.

>>17450795
If the Lance is around, the Old Ones would have dug it up.
Instead of scrabbling around the city encountering shoggoths, we should wait for the research data analysis to finish.

Also, now that we've discovered Adam and how apparently he is powering the World Pillar, we should confer with the Farseers again, see if this changes their projections.

>>17450765
Handle with care. Triggering Impact events in this canon is bad.

Egon, ANON, any ideas here?

I find myself wondering how to get a sample of the Elder sealing material and Adam without causing Bad Things.

>>17450788
Just open them, if it is like the open room, it might be passive, if not it's much smaller than the Great Shoggoth we already took down and we set that route back up again before we started futzing with doors.

>>17450812
What would you ask, specifically?

>>17450813
"Given that the shard is apparently part of the pillar, grafting it back on would certainly cause some form of reaction... probably akin to an Impact event. I'd normally say I need time to study it, but it might prove more fruitful just to concentrate on finding out what the Elder Things learned," Egon states.

>>17450840
>What would you ask, specifically?
Does finding Adam change our current plan of having Cheryl interact with the World Pillar?

Should we reseal Adam back into the Old One's containment room?

>S² Engine
>A. Publicly Released Information: Data unavailable.
>B. Generally Recognized Information: The "Super Solenoid Engine" is the Angels' source of limitless motive energy. It is thought that this gives the Angels abilities such as self-regeneration and metamorphosis that, for living creatures, exceed the bounds of common sense.
>C. Confidential Information: The S² Engine Theory was advocated by Dr. Katsuragi. As the world is formed with spirals, the engine acquires energy from its shape, which is the same as DNA. From here, the S² Engine was being envisioned as an energy source that would attempt to procure helical energy — in other words, an inexhaustible supply.
>D. In-Depth Information: The Fruit of Life. This is the one thing that an Eva requires in order to gain an existence equal to that of Adam.

Neat.

>>17450854
The room isn't containing it so much as the crystal.

>>17450840
Agree with Egon, let's see what the research says before doing anything rash.

>>17450868
>The room isn't containing it so much as the crystal.
There are specifically Elder Thing containment seals in place.
>transmitting it even through the Elder Thing seals back to the pillar.

While we wait for research to complete, I'd like to have the Aurors or the Psions (if the clairvoyant one survived) apply Scrying into the other chambers containing other Shoggoths.
We have magical Scrying. Might as well use it.

rolled 21 = 21

>>17450856
So the S2 engine produces spiral energy. Got it.

>>17450887
The chamber's wards are proof against the psion's efforts, but the Auror magic is radically different enough from what the Elder Things used that it pierces the wards and lets you see within. Each of the other chambers contains a different form of shoggoth. Several have spiny crystalline growths jutting from their bodies.

>>17450854
The Farseers peer into the future...

>>17450912
>12
Oh lord! Snap them out, quick someone! We don't need them mindraped!

We forgot to have them put on the filter mask things! Damn damn!

>>17450912
"All we can tell is that the shard is Instrumental to our escape somehow."

>>17450912
>Several have spiny crystalline growths jutting from their bodies.
Do they resemble the World Pillar's crystals?
We might need to murder them for their crystals if this is the case.
Are the crystals the same color, or different colors?

>>17450887
Well we volunteered our psychic type pokem- troops to sit in on whatever the Farseers are doing with Cheryl, so that leaves the Aurors.

Speaking of the Aurors, did we get a response to having the Aurors politely ask Gondegal's spirit if he wanted to join us in our noble quest?

>>17450923
Err, 21.. Goddamn, I herped while I derped. Still, we need those anti-mind shenanigans masks on the Farseers and Aurors. There's Angels about!

>>17450927
Well, keep the shard contained for now. When Egon's done reading all the readables, we can decide more on what to do with it.
Can the Observer see past the room-imitating shoggoth, to see if it's guarding or hiding anything?

>>17450928
>>17450912
Does the description of the crystals seem to match anything in our databanks?

>>17450956
Nope.

>>17450928
They are mostly shades of blue. One has red.

>>17450927
Alright, keep the shard and Adam locked up until we need them.

ANON, have you been able to translate the engravings surrounding the basalt hatch, from the shoggoth-room?

I think we need to kill the shoggoth pretending to be a room, to uncover anything necessary before we unseal any more.

>>17450969
ANON: "So far all I have been able to translate are what we know are the signs for 'danger', 'warning', and 'forbidden', along with 'harm'."

>>17450912
>So the S2 engine produces spiral energy. Got it.
I.. huh..
http://wiki.evageeks.org/S%C2%B2_Engine
http://gurrenlagann.wikia.com/wiki/Spiral_Energy
..Yeah that sounds about right. Whatdya know.

>>17451001
"Continue your translations efforts.
"ANON, can you hook into the main computers of the Relentless to increase your processing capabilities? And is the Indefatigable able to divert extra processing cycles to the translation effort?"

>>17451018
>computers
>Relentless
>laughingdroids.jpg

>>17451001
We can't get anymore info about what else is there, until we kill that dormant shoggoth.

We better keep the S2 engine and Adam safely far away before we do anything again, like apply firepower.

>>17451018
"Unfortunately, I cannot. The processing gain would be minimal compared to what would be needed to network with them."

>>17451031
There's at least a network backbone that has some routers in it.
But yes, there should be a main computer on the Relentless, which we will need to upgrade once we have some down-time.

>>17450962
>They are mostly shades of blue. One has red.
Hm. I'd like to open up the door to the Red one, and the Blue one with the largest crystals, to analyse their remains.
Is this a wise idea or retarded idea?

>>17451072
Not until we've cleared our dangerous loot.

>>17451072
They aren't dead. They're all very much alive, just in stasis.

>>17451072
Most likely a retarded idea. These were Old One experiments in creating shoggoths based upon Adam and the World Pillar.
They're likely to be proto-Angels in power.
And anything we learn from them, we could get from finishing the translation of the Elder Thing research.
And even if we did capture the crystals, none of our scientists are available for the research data, on top of us not being able to get the materials into orbit where our labs are located.

>>17451083
Hm? They are in stasis? Interesting..

>>17451111
Well, we can look into it later when we're done here.
For now, everyone waits for Egon and ANON to finish that translation.

>>17451096
But they could prove to be useful research data.
If we could somehow get a sample, that may prove must useful in combination with the Elder data.

>>17451054
Anyone have any objections to "Wait for Egon and team to finish researching, and have the Psi team keep training Cheryl, before killing or looting any more stuff"?

>>17451111
It's been said that these are stasis chambers since we began examining them 2 threads ago.
It's not exactly groundbreaking.

>>17451130
Well, the ultimate 'done here' means this place likely doesn't exist anymore. So if we're to gather data on them it needs to be before we do the final tango.

Where are we on days and translation? I'm starting to lose track, but we are running short on time.

>>17451130
The translation of the hatch is the first to finish.

"Warning: Restricted vault. Opening may result in extreme harm. Current contents: Artifact (unintelligible) from primary site."

>>17451171
>"Warning: Restricted vault. Opening may result in extreme harm. Current contents: Artifact (unintelligible) from primary site."
I sense MAXIMUM LOOT!
We should get our heroes down there, and crack that sucker open.

>>17451134
How would it be more useful than the research materials concerning how they were created and for what purpose?
On top of the fact that we only have a Probe Droid and an Observer, not even a Federation tricorder, to analyze the crystals.

>>17451179
I think that's the first one we opened, with the mini-angel.

>>17451188
Materials to apply the research _to_. If we leave with elder data and nothing to use it on or with, then it isn't worth much in the long run.
You gotta take the long view.

>>17451188

>>Federation tricorder

We should like, order for about 12-15 of these for our teams. We need to bump this up pretty high on the priority list. Remember the wine thing with Strahd? We wish we had a tricorder.

>Artifact (unintelligible)
Open it.

>>17451188
I could give you detailed instructions on how to build a nuclear device, but without availability of fissile material, that information doesn't do you much good, does it?

>>17451179
We still have to kill that dormant shoggoth pretending to be a room.

>>17451191
No, this is the translation of from the basalt hatch with the shoggoth disguised as a room.
The stasis chambers were not labeled.

>>17451237
I believe you are incorrect.

>>17451223
Who is this bad trying to get us killed?

>>17451285
Someone that doesn't know it's already been opened?

>>17451237
It was the basalt hatch.

>>17451163
Day 5 rolls around, and the scientists report that they've been able to piece together the course of the Elder Thing's research. The shoggoths in the sealed chambers were indeed attempts to harness the power of the World Pillar to created shoggoths capable of manipulating space and time at a fundamental level. Tests were conducted on the shard, a piece of the Pillar they had discovered buried in ice not too far from the main chamber. The Elder Things are not sure what caused the shard to be cut off, but deemed it a boon to their research to have something to run tests on. Mention is also made of another artifact removed from the pillar site, a twisted trident that screamed.

Several of the strange machines encountered by the team were in fact, data-storage devices. With careful experimentation, VP-99 is able to access them with science team guidance. They are working on digging through those, right now.

>>17451285
>>Mention is also made of another artifact removed from the pillar site, a twisted trident that screamed.

It's the Lance of Longinus crossovered with something else.

>>17451311
>It was the basalt hatch.

Suck it, >>17451293
>>17451250

>>17451311
Have the scientists keep an eye out for references in the records if the Lance was dangerous to the researchers that handled it in any way.

>>17451311
Do the records indicate the size of the Lance? Was it something that might be wielded by an Old One or smaller? Or something so massive that the Old Ones were stumped by what could possibly use it?
I don't want to lean on the Farseers as a crutch, but this is a very I don't want to make a preventable mistake:
Ask the Farseers: Should we have Cheryl take the Lance of Longinus?

Argh... CURSES! I can't stay awake anymore. We'll have to wrap up tomorrow. Sorry.

I hate to be a bother, but...isn't the glowing red orb the Angel's core, rather than an S2 organ? Consider that 01 had a core prior to grabbing Zeruel's S2 (it's what Zeruel was pounding on). Core has an S2 in it, but...

You didn't just take an unlimited power source.
You took the Angel's soul. And Angels can regenerate.

>>17450927
...Farseers, will the entity "Lilith" be a factor in this operation?

>>17451454
They're the same thing.

>>17451365
>>17451438
The science teams have been notified to look for these things in the ancient data vaults.

On the bright side, with all the translating, you now have a working knowledge of the Elder Thing written language.

The Farseers are too busy training Cheryl to attempt to divine that question today. Or it might be me being too sleepy.

>>17451311
The Lance of Longinus...
Scry beyond the Basalt Hatch. I want to confirm, or deny, that this is where the Lance is being kept.
I want that Lance. If it's behind the basalt hatch, or if we can't see what's behind the basalt hatch, I wish to open it and loot the Lance.
That Lance is bound to be useful in the future. I guarantee it.

>>17451475
Then if you are sleepy, we shall finish the Ebon Night tomorrow!
We'll get the Adam + Shard, the Lance, the S2 Engine, the Cheryl, the Aglaphotis, and the Elder Research. We'll put whichever's appropriate into the pillar, wake up the Ebon Night.
Then we put the Cheryl, the Knights Inductor, the White Mages, the Darius, the Lyla, the Gondegal and the Char in the Ebon night. Valor, Light, and Nobility to victory.

>>17451311
Ok, need to find that shard.
and the spear.

>>17451444
and have a good night.

I too shall crash.
G'night crew.

>>17451489
The Old One report that the spear screams indicates that it is unlikely to be a pure Lance of Longinus, and has been fused in some way with another Canon contaminant.
There are likely to be unforeseen consequences of using such a device.

>>17451489
Useful, like slay Greater Demons of Chaos.

>>17451460
What I was trying to get at is that the thing isn't dead at all and could likely regenerate itself a new body fairly easily, as long as it is kept alive. And killing it will likely fuck up the S2 organ inside

>>17451546
A screaming Lance of Longinus...

Guys, we have a cure for that screaming. Voiceless Spear. Also, sonic protection in case that's a banshee wail to it or something.

Perhaps this is what the charging up thing is for with Voiceless. Steal a couple of voices for a while, and use it to silence something like this so it can be used normally? Pure speculation, but yeah.

>>17451620
Look at it this way. Eva 01 ate the core of one of the Angels. Did you ever see the angel "regenerate" from the stolen core?
They can't regenerate from just the core, there still needs to be a body for that to happen.

>>17451475
OP is asleep.

>>17451689
No shit. He said he was going to sleep.

>>17451444

bumping to keep the thread alive for OP's return.

>>17454374
Let's make a new planning thread

So, our to do list is to clear the shoggoth vaults and search for the Shard and the Spear then.
Hrm, shoggoths that can manipulate space and time, ugh. On the other hand, gathering samples from them could prove super-valuable to our own research efforts.

>>17457104
The Spear is most likely to be behind the basalt hatch.
The Shard we already found; it's the one with Adam in it.

>>17457463
That was said to be embryonic Adam in an Elder seal.
It seemed that the Shard was something different.

>>17457549
No, Adam was specifically stated to be inside a large shard of crystal.

>>17450687
>your troops discover a large shard of blue crystal with what appears to be a malformed fetus within

>>17457584
>>17450765
>The Observer is able to detect that the crystal shard is siphoning energy from the dormant Angel, and transmitting it even through the Elder Thing seals back to the pillar.
On a second reading, your interpretation may be correct.

Hi guys, our new planning thread is at >>17456343

Wild mass guessing as to what the two other shoggoths are like?

Time and space manipulation with shards huh?

It's dawned on me.

The Elder things made an experiment and created Chaos Emeralds!

>>When someone harnesses the power of one or more of the Chaos Emeralds, they can perform different Chaos Powers, such as Chaos Control, and occasionally get their own abilities enhanced. When absorbing all seven Chaos Emeralds, they can initiate a super transformation, which usually gives a person the power to fly, invincibility, increased Chaos Powers and improved physical - and special abilities.

>>Chaos Control (カオスコントロール) is a phenomena/ability in which one can warp time and space with the mystical Chaos Emeralds, and first utilized by Shadow the Hedgehog during the events of Sonic Adventure 2.

>>17458144
You don't mean that, we need to have the Chaos Emeralds and the Lance of Longinus for what's going to happen down the road?

Ok, so Ebon Night stole the World Pillar from somewhere, stole the embryonic Adam from post-contact Evangelion, and fused Adam into a shard from the World Pillar to provide it with power so that Ebon Night could use it to manipulate the world.
Indicating some instability with his pulls, he managed to merge ancient timelines of the Elder Things with the World Pillar and embryonic Adam.
I've been noticing a trend where the bigger his actions are on the world, the more unintended carry-through seems to occur as well. In Tokyo he melded 'gods' of evil together and managed to drag protagonists through as well. I doubt Ebon Night planned on that, or on the Elder Things finding and studying his keystone. Also, bringing in the spear seems unlikely to have been planned as well. (Side note on the screaming, the Spear has been shown to roar at times, perhaps the screaming is not crossover contamination. Though if it is crossed over, I suspect it would be tied with the source of the Pillar, just as the Adam was spliced into a piece of it.

The Spear of Longinus appears elsewhere too.

>>The Spear of Longinus is a weapon rumored to possess great power. The wounds inflicted by the spear can never fully heal. In Persona 2: Innocent Sin, Nyarlathotep spreads the rumor about the spear's power and sends Maya Okamura to kill Maya Amano and fulfill the Mayan prophecy. The Knights of the Holy Lance each carry a "Longinus copy" spear, capable of temporarily sealing Personae. Adolf Hitler carries one of these spears, too.

>>17458431
Hm, that's in line with the Eva version too.

>>17458431
>>All members of Hitler's most-trusted robot knight battalion, who followed him to Antarctica after WWII use mass-produced copies of the Holy Spear to seal Persona selection in Persona 2: Innocent Sin.

We're supposed to use the Lance of Longinus on Ebon Night, I guess?

There's also a Lance of Longinus that talks. It originates from the Disgaea-verse, and it's a sentient weapon.

>>17458497
>who followed him to Antarctica
Does this mean we'll be fighting Hitler's Eva-Shoggoth-Knights?

>>17458529
It might help. What we'll really need it for is keeping an eye on Adam. Fortunately, no one would describe a Dark Power as a being of everlasting life for the spear to put into stasis.

As for shoggoth-talk,

Trivia: Chaos from Sonic Adventure fits the bill. His third form is a shoggoth with a Chaos Emerald inside him.

Apparently some ADD-addled tweens are still bent on recruiting Zero and getting rid of the Prawn suits.

I return, far later than intended. It's currently Day 5. Your researchers have found the Elder Thing data-cache and are digging through it now. What do?

>>17459790
Looks like we have a Spear to find and samples of time-space shoggoth mutants to get.
We aren't quite sure how to go about it.
Today's bits of translation give any hints?

>>17459790
It's possible that the shoggoth in the room with the basalt hatch is either a security system or still subservient. The same is likely of the shoggoths still in stasis, since they wouldn't have had a chance to develop the psi-resistance and rebellious nature before being put in stasis.
Wait for Cheryl and the other telepaths to arrive before messing with them.

Now that most of the world has been restored, we may want to return the astronauts and cosmonaut we rescued from the ISS. How have they been holding up? Have they been exposed to our technology and need to be memory-wiped?

>>17459790

Check Cheryl's status. How is her training coming along with the Eldar Farseers?

ANON, have there been any more reality distortions coming from Antarctica or from other parts of the world?

Has that Shoggoth in the room with the hatch moved any?

>>17459840
They got the recruitment offer with the rest, don't think we heard the answer. All the 'no's from our rescuees get memory edits and returned.

Here we go lads.

>>17459790
Loot the Lance of Longinus, keep making Cold Weather Gear for the everyone we're planning to deploy.
Keep having Psi Team train the Cheryl.
Decline Igor/Philemon's offer.
Get those KIs, White Mages, BLU Team, Darius, Lyla, and Star-Lord (At the very least) down helping the Antarctica team.

>>17459790
Do we now have enough Cold Weather Gear for everyone? Or do we still need to loot more LL Bean warehouses?

>>17459790
We should set up turrets in the room pointing at the doors incase the creatures inside are hostile. We will likely have to check out each of the rooms.

>>17459945
We need to find the Lance of Longinus before we can loot it.

Also, we voted Yes on the offer. You're too late there.

>>17459840
I had already assumed you memory modified
them and sent them back down.

>>17459959
You have enough.

>>17459855
No distortions, no movement, and Cheryl's training is coming along all right. The Farseers are making use of telepathy to boost the learning rate. It's unpleasant, but seems to be working.

>>17460076
Alright. Were the Psions and the X-COM psi-veterans briefed on what they'll have to do to help Cheryl like we had asked, or did the Farseers determine that Cheryl is going to have to do this by herself?

>>17460107
Beyond 'help Cheryl somehow', I don't remember anyone saying what they'd be doing?

>>17460191
The idea was to ask the Farseers if the Psions and the X-COM psi-veterans would be of help to either focusing Cheryl's power at the World Pillar, or acting as something to help distribute whatever psionic load she will be under.

>>17460211
>>17460191
Beyond this, I would rather wait until the research translations are done and we can send the psionicists down to Antarctica with Cheryl to attempt to take control of the shoggoths.
Live, subservient shoggoths are more valuable research materials than dead ones.

>>17460191
So, after this, we'll probably take a few hour timeskip to where something happens, more translations are done, Cheryl's trained, or something's found in those datastores.

>>17460211
The Farseers believe that it may be possible for the stronger of the team's psychics to aid Cheryl by acting as 'parallel processors' of a sort, linking their minds to hers. The gain would be small, but it would be present.

>>17460305
Have them identify the 3 strongest psions and have them prepared to aid Cheryl in this manner.
The actual help may be slight, but the boost to Cheryl's morale that she's not alone in this situation should help even more.

>>17460305
It would also provide something to blunt the damage should she somehow be attacked through a link.

>>17460333
>>17460305
Oh, and we had asked the Aurors if there was any way for them to further refine the spirit empowerment spell they had used on Gondegal before. Have they made any progress, or do they believe that such refinements would take too long to accomplish?

Guys, I think this poster might have a point about the remaining shoggoths >>17458144


With the clues presented in the previous thread, the clues all point to the shards in those shoggoths to have been modified into Chaos Emeralds.

>>17460382
If they are, we've got a fun toy.

>>17460402
I can see it now in the endgame: Super Darius, armed with the Lance of Longinus, shanking fake-Nyarlathotep something fierce.

>>17460191
There was a question of is today's take from the translations shed light on the capabilities of the modified shoggoths and spear (and location of said spear).

>>17460305
Indeed, we wish to do this. Have they been able to help or participate in Cheryl's training? We had asked the psi-types to sit in, not sure if they'll learn anything or help, but it was worth the shot.

>>17460354
The Aurors have not made progress and do not have the materials or facilities to research the patchwork spell further.

By the end of Day 5, your scientists report that they have managed to dig up a basic analysis of the way the World Pillar works. By siphoning the power of Adam, along with certain ley-lines and ambient energies, the World Pillar draws in threads of space-time, twists them and entangles its own energies within them, and then spools them back out again, altered. In this way it can effect almost any change imaginable on this world, limited only by the time it takes to 'charge' from the power emitted by Adam.

From the data here, it looks like the pillar would be able to accomplish changes much, much faster if Adam was re-fused with it, dramatically improving efficiency and speed.

This data suggests destroying the pillar would result in unraveling the fabric of this world. This is probably intentional as a way to make sure no one tampers with the device in an attempt to 'save the world'.

Work is ongoing.

>> Each of the other chambers contains a different form of shoggoth. Several have spiny crystalline growths jutting from their bodies.

>>The shoggoths in the sealed chambers were indeed attempts to harness the power of the World Pillar to created shoggoths capable of manipulating space and time at a fundamental level

All clues lead to: "Elder Things implanted Chaos Emeralds into the shoggoths"

>>17460487
>pillar would be able to accomplish changes much, much faster if Adam was re-fused with it
Egon has already postulated that doing so would result in an Impact-level event. This must be avoided.

It sounds as though we need Cheryl to wrest control of the Pillar from Ebon Night, and then use it to destroy him.

We know that the Elder Things had placed seals on the stasis chamber that Adam was placed within; if we remove Adam from within the chamber, would the amount of energy sent by the crystal shard increase? We will likely need more energy available when having Cheryl fight Ebon Night.

>>17460487
Estimated time to completion?

I believe we already set up to take on the other chambers, I say we take positions and prepare to move on them. See if the Spear in any of them, or other clues, or failing that defeat them and take crystals.
OP: Is there room for more forces than we have there currently to be an effective addition to covering the chambers we are opening?
If so, I say we bow to the suggestion to send down a few more men.

Over the last few days, have we managed to repair the other Leopard? That BT tech is pretty sturdy.

Do we have a way of comparing the energy signature of Chaos Emeralds? Do we have their signatures in our database?

Judging from how the situation is leading us, it seems we will need Persona-wielding Cheryl to do some CHAOS CONTROL.

>>17460549
ANON: "From what our scientists have discovered, the proximity does affect the power, but also the stability. Still, placing it within the chamber should be safe, given that is where it was for centuries before the Elder Things moved it."

>>17460578
The Leopard is unrepairable, but parts of it can be salvaged for spare parts. It's been hauled into orbit already.

So which chambers are you checking? The ones with the shoggoths in them or the basalt hatch one? How are you going about it?

>>17460589
Can we do a check as said in >>17460587

>>17460589
>the proximity does affect the power, but also the stability
So the power would increase as distance decreases. Would the power become more or less stable if we brought the shard and Adam closer to the World Pillar?

>>17460578
Why are you suggesting doing unnecessary combat when we can wait for the psionicists to come down and attempt to control the shoggoths?

>>17460619
>>17460615
Yes.

You could run a comparison with a sample. It's too much to scan through the seals for a clean reading.

>>17460674
The World Pillar is still under Ebon Night's control; we don't want to increase its power yet.
If they have one available, put the shard and Adam on a gurney so that it will be easier to transport to the World Pillar chamber when the time comes. Until then, keep it in the stasis chamber that we found it in.

>>17460674
Right. Let's run an energy signature test on those other shards.

Did we cart away the Angel core safely already?

>>17460619
I'm very wary of the idea of bringing Adam to the World Pillar. For all we know, we might trigger a planet-wide Anti-AT Field and everyone turns into tang.

>>17460674
We can't run a sample based off the one Adam is in. It probably wasn't modified.

Is there energy being transmitted through the other seals?

>>17460739
We don't have any of the other shards because they're still in the stasis chambers.
We don't have any of our psionic troops down in Antarctica because they're still undergoing training with the Farseers and Cheryl.
With a psionicist we can try to take control of the shoggoths; without, they are likely to attack us and result in casualties.

>>17460751
Adam was already in the World Pillar chamber when the Old Ones found him and the shard. Return him to the chamber has minimal risk; it will only be a problem if an idiot tries to fuse him back with the rest of the Pillar.

>>17460619
Because we are running out of time?
Also, if they were controllable, they wouldn't have been sealed away by the Elder Things.

>>17460608
We were setting up the turrets and taking positions again, probably let Demoman setup his prox grenades outside as well. The traps back in the tunnels have been set since opening the angel vault.

>>17460805
Don't forget the samples! Those could be most useful.

>>17460805
>they wouldn't have been sealed away by the Elder Things.
They were put in storage, not sealed away because they couldn't be controlled.
If that was the case then there would be warning labels on the stasis doors like on the basalt hatch.

Do we still intend to kill the dormant shoggoth near the basalt hatch? That thing might be hiding something vital.

>>17460783
We don't believe we can control any of the active ones.
They specifically developed a resistance to Elder psychic control.
The passive one being walls we suspect we can control, and it the others are just sitting around we will try as well, but if they are active, we fight them and take their guts.

>>17460852
I think if we try to open the hatch, that shoggoth might suddenly hostile.

>>17460852
Yes, I know that. I'm the one that pointed out their psionic resistance in the first place.

People are suggesting that we open up the stasis chambers without psionic troops available to attempt to control the modified shoggoths.
I'm saying that's wasteful of both our troops and of potential research materials, as the ones in stasis would have been put there before the shoggoths developed their psi-resistance and rebelled.

>>17460832
Who says there aren't? We only translated the one.

Hey, we have a working knowledge of the language now, what do those other chambers say?

>>17460739
Yes.

Day 4 arrives and the scientists report that they have pulled a large amount of scientific data from the data vaults concerning the pillar's workings. It doesn't make much sense to you, but apparently the X-COM scientists can work with it. By the end of the day, they hand off a report to the X-COM psions with data on how psionic emanations might be used to interface with the pillar.

>>17460940
Let's go check if there is an energy being transmitted from behind the seals?

>>17460940
Alright, have them share that data with rest of the psychic team and integrate that knowledge into their training/preparations.

>>17460940
>they hand off a report to the X-COM psions with data on how psionic emanations might be used to interface with the pillar.
Will the X-COM psi-veterans now all be useful in being parallel telepathic processors for Cheryl? Show the report to the Farseers and ask if this will assist Cheryl in what she has to do.

Finally, is Cheryl now ready?

>>17460940
Let's also run a check on the Adam shard and compared its energy signature to a Chaos Emerald's, just in case.

>>17461017
The readings do not appear to be very similar.

>>17460995
The data is copied and handed off to the farseers, who take some time to look over and meditate on the findings. They report it will be a great help, though it will take some time to inject this data into their teachings.

Cheryl will be ready on Day 3.

>>17461083

Welp, looks like we'll just check later on the other shoggoths when we kill them.

>>17461083
Since we have a bit of a debate, ask the Farseers if it seems the contents of those chambers would affect their training.
If so, we should go in them now.
If not, we wait.

>>17461083
Okay, we need 1 more day.

Ask the Farseers to look at the skeins, and see if the contents of the stasis chambers, and what's behind the basalt hatch, should be acquired now, or tomorrow.

>>17461138
>>17461107
These. We've been arguing on that too long, we need a tie breaker.

>>17461107
>>17461138
"It will not affect the training. If you must breach those chambers, do it when it suits you."

>>17461219
If that's so, we should send down the troops we got back from Japan as well as a Psion or two. Preferably one of the ones we aren't connecting to Cheryl. We'll leave the last dropship for Cheryl and anyone else we'll need at the end.

>>17461219
A non-committal answer. Just like an oracle.

Alright. Here's the pro's and con's of each:
1. We go in now. We won't be able to capture the shoggoths alive, and likely to suffer some casualties. However, we'll have an extra day to analyze what we find.
2. We wait. Safer, we may be able to acquire live shoggoth specimens. However, we won't have much time to analyze what we recover.

I'm voting with going with 2.

>>17461251
The Overlord is already in Antarctica. We also used the shuttlepods to get half of the BLU Team to Antarctica ahead of the Overlord.
The only dropship left is the Al'Kesh.
We might have a shuttlepod left.

>>17461252
It answered the question we asked.

>>17461270
No, Overlord is up with us. Our remaining Leopard and a shuttlepod are down right now.

>>17461296
The Overlord was already sent down during thread 45.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/17446362#17449300
>The cold-weather gear is distributed and the bulk of your forces descend to Antarctica in the Overlord.

>>17461252
Yeah, if it doesn't effect the training, we'll wait for the data from the translations and the psi-crew.
Give them a chance to warm up before the main event.

>>17461252

Go in NOW. We don't need the shoggoths alive. We just need to take the crystal shards that's on them.

Also, get the troops ready for any time space fuckery or Angel nonsense. Have magic ready to fly in case.

>>17461336
TEST SUBJECTS
Just like how we took the S.U.E. alive. We're better off doing a time skip till we bring everyone else down.

>>17461311
Huh, thought they were still on standby. Ah well, doesn't hurt anything. We'll have all the psi-crew come down tomorrow.

>>17461340
Suppose we realize too late that the dormant shoggoth in the basalt hatch room was hiding something that we didn't see before. What now?

We have yet to put a Persona with Cheryl.

>>17461340
Everyone but the psychic ARE down, apparently.

>>17461361
We can't contact Igor again until we're done. We can't put a Persona in her due to everyone's arguing. We can't contact him, we have to wait till he contacts us.

Anyhow, these shoggoths may be controllable. If we can control them, we've acquired something very very valuable.

>>17461361
We still need to ask the Farseers if that will interfere with what Cheryl is supposed to do, or with her training.

We have precious little time to get her acclimated to a new ability.

>>17461361
Cheryl, Douglas, Spike, and White Mages are being asked, we'll have to see who accepts.
We can terminate the Contracts after the this fight, but for now we could use every boost we can get and those are the best candidates without affecting operational security.

>>17461380
There was a vote taken, we accepted by a narrow margin, Igor will be contacting us before the fight.

>>17461399
Yes, I know getting it won. It's just that we can't contact him. We have to wait until he "calls" us again.

>>17461380
Arguing has been settled by vote tally accepted by OP.
We may still disagree on scope, but we've narrowed it down fairly well, and the Contracts can be canceled later, so we should be set until an argument breaks out over ending the contracts, but that won't be until after we've dealt with Ebon Night.

>>17461408
I imagine we'll hear from him tonight, since we'll be about to attack after that.

rolled 3 = 3

>>17461381
The Farseers are uncertain of the effects it would have, and peer into the future...

>>17461385
Of those options, only Lyla declines, stating that she likes the idea of some transdimensional observer poking around in her head and eternally watching her even less than the idea of acting as bait for a pair of undead stalkers.

>>17461450
Farseers: roll for SAN loss

>>17461450
>Lyla declines, stating that she likes the idea of some transdimensional observer poking around in her head and eternally watching her even less than the idea of acting as bait for a pair of undead stalkers.
Ah, Lyla. One of our more colorful characters.
She's not going to let us forget that, or that she and Elaine earned triple combat bonus during that entire escapade, is she.

>3
The Farseers are not going to see jack or shit through the skeins.

>>17461450
Understandable, surprised we got that many of them on board with that.

>>17461450
Looks like Cheryl's going nowhere near a Persona.

>>17461475
Fortunately, for once we weren't asking them to peer through the mists.

>>17461482
Nope.

>>17461450
One of the Farseers gasps, his head snapping back as his body floats into the air. He claws at his throat, then his eyes for a few minutes before a guttural voice issues from his mouth.

"I gave you permission to LEAVE. If you DON'T by TONIGHT, I will assume you wish to... take up residency of a more PERMANENT nature," the farseer utters. Then his body begins to shake violent as his flesh warps and twists, bony fingers ripping out of his hands and clawing at his face before you realize that the farseer's skeleton has been animated within his still living body, and is attempting to claw its way free. The other farseers attempt to use their mind-powers to save their comrade, but in vain. The skeleton begins tearing off strips of flesh while uttering a high pitched cackle. Finally, the farseers destroy the monster emerging from their friend, a volley of psychic energy obliterating the abomination before any further damage can be done.

The Farseers report they have seen much... too much. They will give you a report in a short while, but warn that they will not be able to far-see again until the Ebon Night is defeated, lest he visit the same fate upon them. They will be able to join in Cheryl's fight, though.

>>17461609
Is the Farseer's brain still intact? Even if we lost the entire skeletal structure, as long as the brain is mostly intact we can save him via the reconstruction tanks.

>>17461609
Damn.
..
Well, er.. the brain might still be intact, can we get it to medical on the same ship in time?

>>17461609
Alright, we have the rest of our forces down there. Let's move on the chambers now. We'll need to hit the Pillar and Ebon Night as soon as their training it done.
Lock and Load.

>>17461609
Welp, it seems we have to finish everything NOW.

Is anyone awake?

>>17461703
>>17461702
Well, we've got all the other forces down there, guess we get cracking on the chambers then.

>>17461745
obviously, people are still posting. We're just waiting.

We should prepare to open the chambers

>>17461631
>>17461647
The brain was destroyed when the skull of the skeleton was shattered with a mind bullet.

The Farseers report that Cheryl unlocking the powers of a Persona will not really help her in what she must do with the Ebon Night. Although her unlocked Personae will be the most powerful of the possibilities selected, she will already be gaining comparable powers. Essentially you would be giving her a weapon she already has, and she can only use one at a time.

The Farseers saw enough to know that for the best results, the powers of Persona must be unlocked in either an elite unit or hero unit. Grunt units will not provide as strong a Persona.

Of your current candidates, the Farseers managed to see a hint of what each would gain.

Let's hear what we get out of Spike or Darius.

>>17461800
Get the report. Also, will Cheryl's training be done tonight? The timetable has been accelerated.

>>17461800
An elite unit or a hero unit, eh?
Hm. If it isn't as viable in Cheryl, then I'd like to see what would happen in Spike.

As soon as Cheryl's training is done, get her down to Antarctica, bust open the doors, mind control the Shoggoths, loot everything we can loot (including the Lance), put Cheryl in the pillar and start the fight.

Let's roll.

>>17461889
We deemed Darius to important to Operations, sadly. That would have been kinda cool.

rolled 17, 6, 59, 58, 19, 63, 52, 94, 45, 34 = 447

>Let's roll.
First, I must consult the dice gods.
Nobylan. Mitenun. Give to us your blessing, and grant us strength and luck in these tire times. May your power elevate our rolls well above 50, and keep us clear from fumbles.

>>"I gave you permission to LEAVE. If you DON'T by TONIGHT, I will assume you wish to... take up residency of a more PERMANENT nature,"

Timeline has been accelerated by over half.

>>17461981
Elite? Hey, what about the VF-25 pilots?
Those things have a second seat, their Persona could their own co-pilot.

>>17462021
They haven't reached Elite status yet. Maybe knife-thrower dude.

>>17462021
Now I just imagine the VF pilots bragging about their co-pilots.

"you have a three-headed dog as a co-pilot? Well I have Vishnu. Suck it, dog-lover."

>>17462021
This amuses me.

So, Douglas, Spike, most White Mages, and the VF-Pilots (if the Farseers think it'll work, I'll take any reasonable bonuses we can get for this fight)

>>17462046
There's also Mouse and Tosh.

>>17462035
Ha.

>>17462033
Have you seen all those rolls? We're just settling on the Squadron name still.

>>17462061
Thought we picked "Itano Squadron" for them. We had 5 or six people saying it was a good name, and nobody else came up with anything decent.

>>17462078
Hydra Squadron was the other choice, and I only saw one person repeating Itano over and over.

>>17462061
Hell's Black Aces, obviously.
Hughes, Scotch, Judge, and Baron's adventures bombing hospitals, blowing up cities, and genociding Georgia shall not be forgotten.

>>17462049
I dunno, we have Mouse going into sensitive computer systems a lot.
Tosh.. I wonder about. Besides, he's on the Psi-team going with Cheryl.

>>17462078
Star Daggers squadron? Also fits the fact our main ships are Star Destroyers.

>>17461981
So you're going to try breaching the chambers before the pillar activation? Which one first and how?

>>17461900
It'll be cutting it close, but yes. When Cheryl is ready, the Farseers, X-COM troops, anyone combat-worthy that isn't down there already takes the Al'Kesh down. Except of course for Guts and the Persona kids, though Gondegal tags along.

>>17462084
>>17462078
Was at least more than one suggesting Itano, I was the first one to suggest it and it has come up since.

>>17462108
The Vault. Attempt to take control of it psionically, if that doesn't work, try to "kite" it out of the room to avoid damaging nearby stuff.

Same plan on crystal shoggoth things (chaos emeralds)

>>17462108
Can the people continue Cheryl's training planetside?
If so, do that.
If not, keep training her withOUT the X-com Psi troops, and have the X-com psi troops get down here to mind control some Shoggothim.

>>17462119
Nova Crows?

>>17462108
Ah, excellent, so Cheryl and the other psionic troops are now in Antarctica, yes?

Okay, let's go to the basalt hatch first. This will be a trial-run of their team telepathic cohesion to take control of the shoggoth.

Have the MI, Prawns, Pyro, and SCP troopers there on standby just in case the shoggoth goes hostile.
White Mages and Medic on standby for medical attention.

Behavior ireoptem

>>17462108
The one on the left?

Though that raises a thought I hadn't considered before, since we always thought we'd go after the chambers before Pillar.. But if we control the Pillar, and these were spliced with Pillar-ness.. then perhaps if we gain control of the Pillar, we gain control of the modified Shoggoths as well.

..With that thought, I guess we go for the one we think the Spear is in.

rolled 50, 56 = 106

>>17462127
>>17462160
The psychics of your group capable of mental manipulation attempt it...

>>17462160
MI, Prawns, BLU team, Darius, Star-Lord, and White mages are a good bet.
Anyway. If Cheryl can learn to Antarctica while on the planet, get her on the planet. If she needs to be IN SPAAACE!, keep her in space.
In either case, get her down as soon as she's done and gogogo

Pillar should be last to deal with.

rolled 73 = 73

>>17462179
The Shoggoth collapses intro a single blob, its flesh dropping from the ceiling and peeling from the walls at the psionic touch of your troops. It lets loose an unearthly wail and begins rolling towards your soldiers...

>>17462196
Keep combat positions, wait to see what it does.

>>17462196
Keep trying the psi-fu. Prepare to fire if it is hostile.

>>17462196
Psionics to continue to attempt Mind-Control.

Everyone who's got a phaser, set it to wide-beam, maximum setting, and get ready to fire if the telepaths fail.

>>17462196
Start running backwards!

>>17462196
Op, you only have 40 minutes to Fite the Ebon Nite! Or else we must kill it TOMORROW!

>>17462196
Despite their best efforts, the shoggoth shakes off the attempts at mind control and rolls straight into BLU team, the ever respawning meta-meatshields. Acid sprays melt Scout while huge tentacles begin to tear apart Heavy and Medic, all the while ARC guns, plasma bolts, flamers, phaser beams, and tiberium enhanced lasers slice, burn, melt, and electrocute the amorphous mass of the monster. Though BLU team suffers greatly, the thing dies after a few tense minutes of fighting, leaving the room behind him bare, save for the hatch.

>>17462269
Can we detect what's under there using sensors, or have we gotten anything from the datastores that would let us know what's under that hatch?

>>17462269
BLU Team shows their worth again. I'm glad that we were able to get them.

Now, just to be thorough, nothing new was uncovered by the shoggoth shaking loose, correct?
If not, then have VP-99 open the basalt hatch, and have the Observer scan the inside.

>>17462269
Inspect the room for ANYTHING.

>>17462290
We suspect a variation on the Spear of Longinus.

>>17462196
When we get back to base, grab the guys a Man Co. Catalog. They deserve some new toys.

>>17462292
>>17462293
Nothing seems to be in the room. When you open the basalt hatch, you find an obsidian vault containing what looks like a twisted two pronged trident on a pedestal. Its color seems to continually shift between crimson and black.

>>17462327
GET A READING ON THE TRIDENT.

It's not supposed to be shifting colors.

>>17462340
The lance appears to be radiating energy in all spectra, but does not appear volatile.

>>17462327
Have the Observer scan the Lance.
This definitely is a Meta-contaminated Lance of Longinus. We need to find out what it's contaminated with.

Also, how big is it? Human usable, size?

>>17462351
Have SCP contain it. We'll test to see how safe it is later.

>>17462351
Asking again on the size of the Lance.

Have the SCP put it into containment, along with the Angel S2 organ.

>>17462361
We don't have much 'later' to work with.

What does the Elder research say about the Spear?

>>17462327
SCPs contain the Lance.
We'll deal with it later.
Right, open the other hatches, have the Psi team try to mind control the SHoggoths with the crystals. Especially the Red one first.

Everyone ready to burn or melt them if the mind control fails.

>>17462374
As in, after we're done on the planet? We can contain it until then.
>>17462351
Any reality distortion?

>>17462366
>>17462351
Now, to open up the other stasis chambers.

Set up a bolter turret facing the Stasis Chamber 3.
Observer ready to get a reading in case they are able to produce an AT-Field.
Mobile Infantry, BLU Team, UNIT to be the front line.
Then have shield emitters in place, and from behind their cover, White Mages and Telepath team.
We'll open the door, try to mind-control, then disintegrate if it resists.

>>17462366
>>17462361
Let's see what the Elder data says, then decide what to do with it.

We're autosaging hard, Op is getting sleepy, and Ebon night is still not dead.

New thread tomorrow y/n?

>>17462366
>>17462387

The lance is only slightly larger than human scaled. Someone could wield it with only a little bit of difficulty.

The Elder Thing research indicated it held some strange resonance with the pillar and shard, but were not sure what the relationship was. It was theorized that maybe this weapon was used to cut the shard from the pillar. Its listed properties included a great ability to pierce energy fields, and the energy it resonated with made it disrupt creatures relying on psychic or etheric energies to survive, making it deadly against them. Psychic species feel uneasy, even sick around it, though non-psychics do not seem to be affected in this manner.

I might start up a new thread tonight. I'd like to at least get to the battle.

>>17462451
Considering its properties and size, it should be usable by a Knight, possibly a Silencer.

It should safe to have it near the World Pillar, and may be effective against the manifested form of Ebon Night, however it has to be kept away from Adam.

>>17462451
>and the energy it resonated with made it disrupt creatures relying on psychic or etheric energies to survive, making it deadly against them. Psychic species feel uneasy, even sick around it, though non-psychics do not seem to be affected in this manner.
Sounds like Silencer material to me.

I'm going to bed now.

Looks like the lance is an anti-psychic/magic weapon.

Perfect for fucking up Ebon's shit. Cheryl distracts him by attempting to seize the pillar, then someone gives him a very pointy enema.

>>17462451
Give it to a Silencer. We call call him Gendo, and together, we will drink Tang.

>>17462521
>>17462507
>>17462487
So we're agreed then?
Rescind the order to have the Lance put into containment, and instead have one of the KI Silencers equipped with it?

Then we open up the other stasis chambers, yes?

Looks like we better keep the spear for later research and mass-production (on varying scales, mech-size included).

>>17462451
Silencer lance.
Let's open up the other hatches, control the shoggoths, kill them, loot the crystals, and then get to the pillar with the Lance and the Adam.

gogo

>>17462399
Are you opening the stasis chambers, then?

Also, here is the report by the farseers on Personae.


>>17461800
>Douglas' initial Persona will be a god of bears, a fierce protector. He will focus more on brute strength, raw stamina, and techniques that shield others. Having passed the trials of Silent Hill, Douglas will be able to use this inner strength to power his Persona.

>Spike's initial Persona will be a crafty, but strong hunter... or perhaps warrior. He will excel in dealing damage and debilitating his enemies. Having passed the trials of Silent Hill, he will be able to power his Persona with this inner strength.

>Elaine's initial Persona will be a merciful angelic being focused on curative, restorative, and enhancing techniques.

>>17462570
Remember to compare the energy signature of these other crystals. The one that Adam is trapped in, didn't match at all, but we have to double check with the other crystals nonetheless.

>>17462578
I'd prefer Spike. While Elaine's might be useful, it could also end up like most Final Fantasy support spells, nice, but they never work.

Yes to the Crystal rooms, attempt to control them, if that fails, kill and loot.

>>17462578
Yes, open them!

Spike's persona can cast debuffs? I'd like that, if possible. We don't have a debuffer, so one might be handy.

>>17462578
I say we have Doug gain a Persona, since at the moment he's rather useless.

>>17462578
>Are you opening the stasis chambers, then?
Yes, as soon as BLU finishes respawning and the preparations are complete.
Do each one in order, after preparations are moved from one stasis chamber door to the next.
Just because we're on a timer doesn't mean we can be sloppy and amateurish. We're all professionals here.

>>17462604
The bum is pretty useless either way.

>>17462609
What he said. Same way we opened the big chamber.

Also, keep the lance away from Adam. Do not let it near it for any reason.

>>17462596
Well, they're all doing it for this fight upcoming, we can cancel our subscription to Persona Magazine afterward.

>>17462578
Did they have an glimpses regarding this suggestion:
>>17462021
>>17462035
?

>>17462604
He and Spike seem like good candidates for keeping it around. Though we seem to be casting a wider net for the upcoming fight.

rolled 90 = 90

The VF pilots would not make good Persona wielders due to the concentration it requires to fly a plane if nothing else.

BLU team begins to break the seal on one of the stasis chambers. The door rolls back with the sound of stone scraping on stone...

...and all contact with your troops on the ground is suddenly cut off.

>>17462621
We only get one persona. That's why we need to talk about who gets it. I also vote for Spike.

>>17462621
Igor already said that only 1 person can sign the Contract.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/17446362#17447185
>"Only one," Igor states. "And some are better suited than others."

>>17462636
I wonder what's happening?

>>17462636
>...and all contact with your troops on the ground is suddenly cut off.
We lost telemetry on both VP-99 and the Observer?
Can the Storm's sensors detect anything?

>>17462653
Hopefully something good?

>>17462636
Attempt to gain signal again.

>>17462638
>>17462646
If it is only one, then Douglas is probably a good choice.
Though we've been talking about a small group for awhile without being corrected.

>>17462684
>Though we've been talking about a small group for awhile without being corrected.
That's because MetaOP is willing to let people hang themselves with their own stupidity and misconceptions.

Just because you think we're getting more than one, and you discuss it as if we're getting more than one, doesn't mean we're actually going to get more than one.

At this point I recall we'd asked several times for more on these experiments in the chambers from the Elder data, but never got an answer.
We should have remembered to keep poking for that answer.

>>17462636
Did we cart away the lance to safety?

>>17462700
The majority of the posters agreed to instead give it to one of the KI Silencers instead at the last moment.

>>17462700
We gave it to a Silencer after looking at the Elder data on it.

rolled 47 = 47

>>17462699
Good idea, but they still haven't found the data on them.

A full ten minutes passes before the signal is restored, a haggard looking Tosh looking into the camera.

"Dat... wasn't such a good idea, mon," he wheezes.

Behind Tosh, the antechamber before the stasis vaults has been torn apart by what appears to be a massive struggle. Blast marks and craters, along with bodies, litter the area. Several SCP troopers repeatedly are firing into the still, flattened corpse of a blue-crystal shoggoth, apparently to make sure it's dead.

"We were lucky," Tosh states. "Only lost a Delta Green, two of da SCP boys, anna White Mage. Den we managed to bring it down. Dat ting was powerful, mon. Too powerful. It waved its pseudapods an' suddenly it was all around us. Time stood still, den sped up..." Tosh winces. "Do ya really want us ta open da other chambers?"

>>17462713
Have SCP secure the remains of the creature.
Get the remains of our people to the nannybags, I'm guessing they are beyond the help of the White Mages.

What color was that one?

>>17462713
Fuck no! Keep it sealed Tosh. Are the surviving mages able to rez any of the casualties?

>>17462713
No, let's not.

I was hoping that the Elder Thing experiments had not gotten this strong. We can't afford to lose more people and tire them out when we need to take care of Ebon Night tonight.

Get the bodies into nanny-bags and onto the Overlord for later resuscitation. Maybe our tech will succeed where the White Mages' Raise failed.

>>17462733
We may want to keep at it.
If they are _that_ dangerous, I wouldn't want to face them all at once if Ebon Night decided to crack them open to stop us.

>>17462713
>time stood still, den sped up..." Tosh winces. "Do ya really want us ta open da other chambers?"

Time stop? That really reeks of Chaos Emerald fuckery. It's usually Shadow who likes to spam time stop.

>>17462731
>What color was that one?
>SCP troopers repeatedly are firing into the still, flattened corpse of a blue-crystal shoggoth
>blue-crystal shoggoth
Your powers of reading comprehension are staggering.

There's still one more blue, and a red-crystal shoggoth. That would be another time-manipulator and probably some kind of hybrid Angel/shoggoth.

Make sure that the SCP troopers collect the blue crystals for later research.

>>17462750
Fuck. You have a point.
I hate to say this but we may have to kill it now simply to prevent the thing from attacking us while we're fighting Ebon Night.

>>17462713
Harvest the crystals off that dead shoggoth and match its signature to a Chaos Emerald, again.

>>17462713
Have the Observer scan the blue crystals. Is the energy signature a match for Chaos Emeralds? Or are we dealing with something else?

>>17462733
>>17462740
"Dere's nothing of the dead left ta gather, mon," Tosh says, solemnly. "Lyla, Elaine, and dere buddies already got up on dere feet who could be helped." Tosh points to the SCP troopers carefully plucking crystals from the corpse. "It ain't much, but we got somethin' ta study later, at least. Hope it be worth da blood."

>>17462750
There's a scary kind of point there.

We probably want the Spear up front from now on.

>>17462750
But if Ebon Night could directly manipulate objects, would it have opened the seal on Adam and moved it closer to the World Pillar, so that it would have access to more power?

Let's not be hasty here.

Because if it matches a Chaos emerald, then we need to use it with a psychic to fight the other shoggoths to cancel out the time-space effects, hopefully.

>>17462772
>>17462779
Those the gems bear some similarities, they are NOT chaos emeralds.

>>similarity

GOOD ENOUGH. We better use these crystals as a canceller of sorts.

>>17462713
>"Do ya really want us ta open da other chambers?"
Is everyone ready for the next fight? I'd like to open the next chambers so the Ebon Night can't suddenly send Shoggoths up our asses.

Do we have Voiceless spear, Darius with Ringil, Lance of Longinus with Silencer, Star Lord with Anguriel, and whoever has the Great Katana down there?
Buff them, have them go in first, and hit the Shoggoths with a massive wave of holy. Abjurers should get up protection wards and walls of ectoplasm to fire through.
MIs, Prawns, KIs ... everyone ready to fire.

And let's open the chamber of the one with the red crystals. =)

>>17462804
We better use the crystals' powers to cancel out the ones on the shoggoths.

>>17462790
I figured Ebon Night did the separating to keep Adam from going critical.

>>17462804
>Buff them, have them go in first
Do you even understand what a shoggoth is?
That will just get them killed.

>>17462804
To be morbid about it, we should keep the important people back from these fights, lead attack with the Spear though.

>>17462820
It can be Killed, can't it?

>>17462794
Have the X-COM scientists concentrate their search in the research materials on the blue crystals and red crystals. See what powers the Elder Things unlocked with them.

While everyone catches their breath, have one of the X-COM psi-veterans examine one of the blue crystals, try to manipulate it with their powers.

>>17462838
Good point. Not sure what the blue crystal can do; if it can Stop Time, then of course it was worth the blood.
And we need EVERY OTHER CRYSTALS!

I would rather we not risk it, otherwise we might roll bad and have the entire team wiped out.

remember, this happened on a 90.

>>17462820
Yeah, 'go in first' is not a healthy thing. They are more of a kite and run fight normally.

>>17462836
You are trying to cut through an amorphous blob of sentient protoplasm with melee weapons. There are no vital organs that can be cut or stabbed.
When we have phasers and other energy weapons that will disintegrate such materials in volumes measured in cubic feet.

>>17462772
>>17462779
How much time do you want to spend on this?

Can we have them all get as far away as possible, have the droid open the door, and blow the living fuck out of it from range?

>>17462855
How much time do we have left?

>>17462855
Ten minutes? Until we can finish healing up a bit? We need to cast protection spells against physical attacks.

Don't we have drones to send in the very front of a fight?

>>17462855
Didn't we just finish the scans?

Or are you referring to research and experimentation with the crystal shards?
2 hours, unless it's already late evening (9PM)

>>17462864
>Don't we have drones to send in the very front of a fight?
Not anymore we don't.
We're just down to VP-99 and the Observer.

>>17462859
>blow the living fuck out of it from range?
Explosions don't do much damage to a shoggoth; it'll just pull itself back together.

>>17462879

And everybody said I was retarded for considering SIR units for drones.

Are our reality emitters being overpowered by the crystals, by the way?

>>17462893
And OP overruled us on them. They won't work near reality emitters. We're best off making more "non-cartoonie" robots like HK-50s

>>17462893
>And everybody said I was retarded for considering SIR units for drones.
You are.
There are other battle droids we could purchase that are more reliable and have just as much capability for combat.

>>17462893
>>17462868
Your reality emitters do not appear to affect the crystals.

Two hours of experimentation reveals nothing useful save that you'd need to haul them to the Storm for extensive tests for any useful data.

Darkness is beginning to fall. Depending on how generous the Ebon Night's definition of 'night' is, you have anywhere from an hour to two and a half before he takes action.

>>17462912
Start working on the World Pillar. We want to possibly "fix" it before Ebon Night comes to screw things up.

Hopefully, we can cut him off before he has a chance to attack, weakening him.

>>17462868
Damn you for suggesting two hours. Ten minutes could've been good already!

We wasted 2 hours twiddling our thumbs on the crystal!

>>17462912
Technically, it probably depends on where he was using as a reference.
Night and day can last for months at the pole.

>>17462912
Right. Break open one last room (the one with the red crystal'd shoggoth), grab the crystals, and Hoof it to the pillar.

>>17462912
I think we should chance it and NOT open the other stasis chambers.

Get everybody up to the World Pillar room, and have the shield emitters and all of the bolter turrets set up covering the entrances to the chamber.
Get all non-psychics ready to repulse conventional attacks by shoggoths, and have the psychics do what needs to be done with the Pillar. Have the KI with the Lance on hand, and the spirit of Gondegal.

Have VP-99 ready to bring the shard with Adam up to the World Pillar room if Cheryl is able to get control of the Pillar and needs more power. It is not come close to the Lance, or be allowed to fuse with the Pillar.

>>17462936
>>17462912
Good point, what time of year was it, we can look that up.

>>17462946
It was October 30th when we arrive,d that makes it November 10th or so (and completely light at the South pole) now.

>>17462933
10 minutes wouldn't have done jack shit if we actually wanted some kind of concrete result.

>>17462912
Regardless, Op must sleep.
See you tomorrow op.

>>17462958
10 minutes would have been good at the minimum to see if they could feel for the crystal.

>>17462958
>>17462964
I'd prefer 10 minutes but it's too late now.

>>17462962
I'm not to bed yet, but soon... so soon...

I merely wait for a deciding tally on whether you're going to begin the Pillar encounter or unseal another chamber.

>>17462978
pillar.

>>17462978
Pillar, we have no time.

>>17462978
Should've begun a tally on whether we spent 10 minutes or 2 hours.

chamber

PILLAR

>>17462978
Chamber.
And in those 2 hours the scientists didn't find any reference to the crystal experiments or what they did?

>>17462978
Voting on pillar.

>>17463006
Just that the crystals were not implanted into the shoggoth, but rather the shoggoths were altered to be able to grow the crystals from their bodies and use them. The Elder Thing data vaults contain the accumulated data of the centuries, if not millenia this facility was operational. Throw in the language barrier, and looking for a specific item becomes rather difficult.

Anyway, looks like you're headed for the pillar. We'll open with that tomorrow. A plan may be in order. Good night all.

>>17462986
Indeed.

>>17462951
So, how long before night falls?

>>17463037
In one hour to one-and-a-half.

Now that OP's gone to bed, let's hash out a proper plan.

>>17463037
Sometime in the following month of March.

We don't know if Ebon Night is even going to become material for this fight.
The rest of the troops should probably just stay out of the way of the psi team.

>>17463069
Except that Ebon Night has something else in mind.

>>Darkness is beginning to fall. Depending on how generous the Ebon Night's definition of 'night' is, you have anywhere from an hour to two and a half before he takes action.

What's our plan now?