>Several months to translate psychic to meta coordinates

So if the stranded away team doesn't manage to get their hands on the book, they could be stuck in the KH canon for some time, and if we can't rip the coordinates directly from the book.

I think it would be a good idea for them to take another shot at getting the journal. What do you guys think?


Also, there's something I'm not clear on with the SUE. Does she and her cohort merely assume a non-powered form to blend in when they're in the real world? Or do they revert to a mundane human once they get to the real world no matter what?

>>17664704
What's the status on the Lance of Longinus research?

>>17664743
It's going to be a while.

You should have gotten a snack.

>>17664737
i think its the unassuming form because S.U.E.dom i believe stays with the user, not with an area as for what we have run into so far.

>>17664769
can borrow to deal with the SUE without overly disrupting their work? Just for a few days.

Ok, so here is our plan tiering:

1) Hope the away team can sneak to the book before the SUEs leave.
2) Hope they can get to the book after the SUEs leave, but before we kill them.
3) Find them a couple weeks later.

That's the hand we've been dealt. We'll just have to deal with it.

Combat plans amount to:
1) Move deeper into space where the fighting won't disturb the Earth.
2) If the team is out, place the book in a cargo container in space. If the team is not out, we have the book secured in containment, ready to flush the SUEs into space, and repressurize in case the team can make it before the fighting is finished.
3) Emitters on full and HRD rifles mounted to space firing platforms. I'd suggest mixing them in with the turbo-laser batteries so the Reality effect might help the volleys have more effect.
4) Fight. Win.

Now, if the deadline passes without the SUEs leaving that world.. then we are going to have to lure them out somehow. Fighting in the Magical Kingdom risks too much contamination.

Well, what if we wait for the SUE to leave the KH worlds and get busy in school before we evacuate Tosh and the rest of our troops. Both sides of the book shouldn't be guarded at that time and we can ambush Saph when she comes back.

>>17664832
this.
i'm ok with this.

in the meanwhile we really should go start iron engineer like we said we would.

>>17664803
We may need to consider switching over to the SUE-cure research if they don't leave that world on their own.
I don't see a full scale fight in there as feasible, but slipping them the cure covertly could do the trick.

>>17664834
You mean return the book to its original location, wait for the SUE's to cross over, then our team to come back, and then set up an ambush at the book for when the SUE's are going to go back to KH?

It could work, but our team was stopped by the regular palace guards, not the SUE, and so there wouldn't be any real change in security level once the SUE leaves.

This plan is unnecessary and doesn't address any new problems.

>>17664864
actually it means we can send an actual squad in to get our guys since we don't need to worry about S.U.E. god wrath.

>>17664847
I, for one, want to see what Data's plans for that new android were.

>>17664889
I suppose you could send the Aurors in with their Reality Emitters off in order to breach the castle from the inside and help Tosh, Spike, and the Sandmen get past security easier.

But I think we should have them attempt infiltration after a day of preparation and recon so that we have a better shot at killing this SUE.

Someone in the last thread mentioned using the Mirror of True Sight on Sapphirus, given her only listed weakness is 'herself'?
...I feel it might have potential, like it might forcibly make her gain self-awareness?
...Would still prefer shooting though.

>>17664937
so what if we started by putting the book back where it was until they leave then hijack the book while they are gone.
thus we could set up a trap for them to come chasing after us once they figure it out AND by that point we probably have the time to send in a squad to save our folk.

>>17664961
and then the S.U.E. turns into that dragon beastie who wields that ultra bullshit keyblade...
yeah this fight is gonna suck hard.

>>17664967
No, that makes things worse because then we would be drawing the S.U.E. into a direct confrontation instead of sniping her in surprise.

And Spike and Tosh don't need rescuing as they are competent enough, with preparation, to infiltrate the Magic Kingdom's palace.

Every minute you waste by spewing forth a terrible idea is one minute towards the terrible rolls we get because the random number generator is time-based.

Another quest already got 3 rolls below 10 in a row.

>>17665048
Please, someone, anyone, get raidah/Coobie to shut up.

Also, old quest thread is still around to talk about Bootleg OP's upcoming substitute quest.

>>17664961

I was more suggesting it as a way of bypassing her invulnerability (or damage resistance, if our reality emitters work well).

We probably don't actually want to show her true self. But we might be able to use it as a target substitute for spells and such.

>>17665048
to be fair, do you WANT spike and tosh lost in god knows where for about a year or so?

>>17665083
If they infiltrate successfully, then there's no problem.
If they fail a second time, THEN we can consider sending in another magical strike team to get in and assist them.

>>17665083
closer to a fortnight, actually, if the new research pans out.

>>17665160
thats fair, but they should probably try next time at night then.

still think we should do iron engineer in the meanwhile.

>>17665225
only if we have ourselves prepared for them coming through the portal.

also, inform the team that they might be in for the long haul.

And make sure Data shows up on time! I want to see MOAR ANDROIDS!

What would the secret ingredient be this time? Element Zero, Bassnium? Crystals?

OK, so you're going with the plan of the group trying to get at the book again using the Sandmen hypnosis and Spike's fasttalking? That right?

Alright, so, majority support appears to be for Spike, Tosh, and the Sandmen to take a day to prepare and then attempt a second infiltration.
If it fails, then we will consider either sending in an Auror strike team or waiting a week for Egon and the Gurus to get that Psi-Meta Coordinate Device ready.

Any major opposition?

>>17665268
i think protoss pylons should be the ingredients TBH, because then the jokes soar.

>>17665274
What's happened to the Lance of Longinus research?

>>17665274

Um...maybe? May I suggest letting Tosh go on ahead, though, in case the SUEs are on the route. If yes, ABORT ABORT.

>>17665274
yes, but read:
>>17665290
and:
>>17665225

>>17665274
Sandman hypnosis, Spike fast-talking, Tosh staying cloaked and checking out guard patrol patterns (this is a videogame Canon, their patterns should be predictable), and trying to get ahold of Palace Guard uniforms as disguises.

>>17665300
still being researched, gonna take a while.

>>17665300
it's not something that's going to happen overnight, you know.

have a little patience.

>>17665290
>>17665274
Right, and the Sandmen can shapeshift and Tosh can borrow uniforms for the team.

rolled 4 = 4

>>17665316
You issue these orders and your troops hasten to carry them out.

>>17665356
FUCK.

I TOLD YOU ABOUT INFILTRATION BRO

I TOLD YOU DOG

>>17665356
Well fuck everything.

>>17665356
...all you needed was a 20+... this wasn't supposed to be hard...

Er, ahem.

Time passes, and given that Tosh and the others do not appear from the book, you can assume they were not successful.

>>17665356
FUCK.

>>17665356
I told you, you fucks delayed too long with stupid ideas and now the diceroller is seeded to result in low rolls on average!

>>17665356

Let's hope that these palace guards are of the new disney movie variety (I.E. ineffectual and largely there for show).

>>17665411
Blame raidah for always wanting to do everything by unloading ammunition.

>>17665397
Ask Cheryl if she's able to contact Tosh, and to get a sitrep from him.

Depending on his answer, we'll need to either get Egon working, or get the Aurors prepared to go through.

rolled 62 = 62

>>17665433
Cheryl nods and closes her eyes...

>>17665397
Well, I hope the leeroy jenkinses among you are happy.

We've just lost contact with two of our longest-serving heroes, with FSM-knows what happening to them, and SUEs are probably aware something is up.

I hate to say it...but I told you so.

Now what?

>>17665411
WHY WOULD IT DO THAT

seriously, that's the stupidest thing I ever heard.

>>17665450
No, you stupid fuck, it's because you delayed too long and now the dice-roller is seeded with times that result in an average of low rolls.
This was a plan we were planning on executing since we discovered the book and the first attempt failed.

>>17665450

Prep the Auror team, and hope that liberal use of magic and obliviate can help us salvage this situation.

rolled 96, 35 = 131

>>17665447
"They're in a dungeon..." Cheryl murmurs. "They've been captured, Sapph stumbled in on them... It's hard to contact them, the SUEs are near... Hang on..."

>>17665500
FUCK.
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
*shoots self*

>>17665500

>96

Tosh managed to mind crush her into a vegetative state.

>35

Spike is out of cigarettes.

>>17665500
"OK. Good news. They took away everyone's weapons, but they didn't think to take the emitters," Cheryl reports, her eyes opening. "Sapph tried to brainwash them or something, but they resisted. Now they're sitting in the dungeon until Sapph decides what more to do with them. She doesn't seem to quite get who they are, though she thought Spike was familiar. The bad news? Both SUEs are now on their guard. And the obvious fact they're in a dungeon."

>>17665500
So you're saying that people with psychic powers and hypnotic voices, combined with a master escape artist, can't get out of a measly quasi-medieval prison cell?
Rectify that bullshit immediately.

>>17665500
well, the 96 is good, the 35 might be good or bad, dependign on what it represents.

I want the research teams, all of them, working on the device to extrapolate coordinates, NOW. they were able to get stuff done in 2 hours for Iron Engineer, so get to it.

Prep an extraction team.

>>17665486
>>17665478
>>17665450
>>17665300

tl;dr, it's raidah's fault.

>>17665557
Cheryl, can you tell if the SUE's are staying near the book? If not, then we can have the Auror team arrive inside the castle.

>>17665557
>both SUEs on guard
Right, they're liable to turtle up, or come through in force.

Either way, we need to end this. Quickly.

Wait... I've got it.
Lets have one of the prisoners to confess to an ambush in the real world, while at the same time placing the diary back in her room.
Then we just station a bunch of Securitrons to ostensibly attack, but in reality be destroyed by her power.
That way, Sapphirus will foolishly believe to have 'foiled' her assassination attempt and let her guard down.
And be right where we want her.
I'm probably missing something here, but is it a good start?
Maybe infect/poison them as well?

Who the fuck is raidah?

>>17665571

Who should we include in the extraction team?

The Aurors were suggested before since they're wizards and are used to infiltrating things. If we're lucky, obliviate might even make the SUEs forget we were there (but we should make rescuing our team priority #1).

>>17665486

FOR FUCK'S SAKE

Someone, please, put raidah on ignore.

>>17665478
Because that's one of the most common fundamental components in random number generator scripts these days. You think it just gets a number? No. It's built to have other things influence the random number being drawn.

>>17665644
the terrible in us, hes the guy whos always gung ho bullets blazing, and stuff thats spoken is often from him.

>>17665644

raidah is the Leeroy, simply put. He always wants to do things with guns,guns and more guns.

>>17665640

If Sapph has half a brain, she'd then go back to the KH canon and do horrible things to the prisoners out of retribution after dealing with the token securitron force, or attempt to scry our location afterwards.

>>17665618
I'm not sure if just the Aurors are going to be enough, now they've been captured.

>>17665645
The Aurors have the best concentration of stealth (spells) and versatility (teleport spells).
We need to go in fast, not be seen, and get down to the dungeon quickly, knock out any guards, and release the prisoners.

They could also set up a portkey to the return-book's location, so that as soon as they get to where everyone is being kept, they can teleport back to the room and go through the book.

>>17665618
"Tosh says they're keeping the book on them now."

>>17665667
But that's the beauty of it, she -doesn't- have half a brain. She can't even fucking spell 'goddess' consistently.

Sweet, I've been hoping to actually start contributing to this. I think asking if the SUEs are near is a good bet, but we may want to prepare a more sure fire exit strategy. Have we been able to determine whether or not termination of Sapph might result in a collapse of the book world?

>>17665693
...Farseers?

>>17665647
>Because that's one of the most common fundamental components in random number generator scripts these days. You think it just gets a number? No. It's built to have other things influence the random number being drawn.

Not sure if trolling or just crazy. next you'll be telling the phases of the moon plays a part.

>>17665693
>>17665706
"No, just the portal to it."

>>17665693
yeah thats probably good question because of the SUE's die and the place collapses, we can't actually kill them until our guys are out or we are hyperfucked because we royally fucked up the cowboy bebop canon then and partially fucked up the Starcraft canon

>>17665693

Termination of Sapph would NOT destroy the world that it links to. It would only remove the link to the KH canon that we have via the books.

>>17665557

Speculation:
the rolls represent our enemy's ability to recognize our team and to monitor our team, respectively, with high numbers being good for us.

The fact that a weeaboo SUE didn't recognize Spike, the protagonist of an anime series with a fuckhuge following, is a stroke of incredible luck.

Getting past the guards might be possible without sending a retrieval squad, but I suggest sending Aurors anyway to maximize our chances of getting our boys out in one piece.

Also, let's hope the RNG doesn't fuck over our extraction team.

>>17665752
Alright good.
Also at what period in time in the Kingdom Hearts canon does this appear to take place?
Like post-KH2?

>>17665686
Then we won't be able to use the return-book as a means of getting back.

We may need to have have Egon and the Gurus, and the entire science and engineering team work on the Psi-Meta Coordinates Device. That'll be the only way I can think of that we can assure that we get our people out.

>>17665686
Right. That complicates things.

OK, we cannot go in without reality emitters on, because they'll be in Sapph's area of influence.

Even if we do go in via the book, with emitters on, they might be able to figure it out.

I think we're going to have to take out Sapph and El on that side, now. At least if we want to save our people. Who knows what the SUEs might do to them before they come back?

>>17665801
this.

>>17665807
yeah, this is going to royally suck.

OR we could do the thing where we still kill the S.U.E.s out of their book but go get them later?

>>17665801

Either that or the extraction team will have their work cut out for them. Freeing the prisoners and then taking the book from the SUEs then using the book to return to where we are.

We still have a portal to there, and a psychic link. Do we have any ships or tech or artifacts that can create portals or wormholes? If so, we might be able to improvise our own portal to that world with liberal application of science.

>>17665758
We wouldn't fuck up Bebop. We picked Spike up right at the end of line, as it were.
>>17665801
seconding this.

>>17665788
We can have the Aurors look for information regarding the current place in the canon timeline, but that should be secondary to getting our troops home alive.

>>17665706
Oh, sorry, I wasn't aware we'd already done that. Anyways, Aurors sound good, we should probably have them put up some protection spells in the dungeon if we make that portkey. Maybe a more potent version of the anti-muggle area spell, but specified for SUEs? Huh...would that even be possible? Maybe somehow manipulate it into one of the emitters?

>>17665822
We already asked, and kitbashing together a device that could do that would take 1 to 2 weeks, is what Egon said.

>>17665819
Giving them, what? A day to torture and attempt to mindrape our personnel again? If just one of our guys breaks down, the game changes significantly, as they'll have somebody who's competent and knows how we think advising them.

>>17665856
probably best plan is let time go as is, kill SUEs when they leave, spend next week or 2 to get portal to go to KH universe, save our guys, and hope to god they don't catch the stupid.

>>17665874
the alternative is probably go in there guns blazing and hope to god we can beat back the SUEs on their home turf, in addition steal the book and get the hell out of there?

GTFO Raidah.

>>17665845
Why don't you like, pick out specific spells for the Aurors to use? You aren't ashamed of looking up in the Harry Potter wiki, are you?

Alright, so we're agreed that we're going to have all of our scientists put their current assignments on hold and concentrate on this Psi-Meta Coordinate Device (except the engineers making the Reality Disruptor Rifles).

Let's talk about what else we do.
I think it's dangerous, too dangerous, to allow our team to stay locked up in the dungeon.
I think that we should have an Auror strike team go through the book, using their reality emitters to appear away from the castle, and then mount a rescue.
They have a port-key prepared so that as soon as they arrive at the cell where everyone is being kept at, they unchain the prisoners and then teleport out.
They then stay on the run and lie low, avoiding the SUE, until we can bring our taskforce into that Canon and beam our people to safety.

>>17665845
holy shit, I forgot about the anti-Muggle spells! Those could be usable as an anti-guard measure, as I'm pretty sure that the guards are nonmagical. Just in case, if this spell is intended for use in the mission, have the aurors double-check its efficiency on the inhabitants of this canon. This shouldn't cause too much disruption, as it's essentially a mind-affecting spell.

>>17665884

The SUEs are on guard now. That may mean that they're going to stay there as long as it takes for them to resolve this situation.

Unless Spike can provide some epic bullshit about alternate universes and needing their help or something. This IS the KH canon, after all. It would not be too far-fetched to imagine that the crossovers would involve canons other than Disney or Final Fantasy canons.

>>17665907
We don't go in guns blazing, and avoid the SUE's at all cost.
This is an infiltration mission.

Couldn't the techno-wizards create some cloaks of invisibility to assist our team from being detected?

>>17665954
theres still the fact the SUEs carry the return book on their person right now.
so the fighting thing is inevitable if we go that route.

>>17665936
I just had a horrible vision of a small army of mind-controlled characters led by the two SUEs on a quest to defeat the evil Terrible Guys who have locked up the universe.

>>17665968
WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
actually that would be slightly hilarious TBH.

So, on Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday, the Metaquest OP won't be here.
I'll run a oneshot. I'll just pick two or three random video game worlds, throw in some S.U.E.s and have at it.

>>17665758
The place isn't going to collapse, the other world is real, the book is just a portal.
We have a Plan C in place for getting the coordinates from Cheryl's link, but it'll take a week or two.

Right now we're in Plan B. Wait for the SUEs and hope the team can break out and get to the book before we finish killing them.

Otherwise it is Plan C.

>>17665965
>theres still the fact the SUEs carry the return book on their person right now.
No, you misunderstand me.
The strike team is ONLY to rescue Spike and the others, and to help them hide while we get a way to Meta-Transit to their location with our task force.

Also, it was shown by the team initially landing away from the return-book's location, and backed up by Belthasar's hypothesis, that the reality emitter will cause the traveler to exit before reaching the book's location.
So the Aurors should be shunted away and appear in the Magic Kingdom away from the SUE's.

How about we do >>17665640 but also like... add some C4 to the diary to be detonated while Saph is demolishing the Securitrons?
Like Spike, Tosh, and the Sandmen can just chill where they are until we research that method to track them down?
I'm really not a fan of taking the fight to them.

>>17666015
>>17666025
These are very informative, thank you.

Alright folks, stick with the plan: >>17664832

Between Spike, Tosh, and shapeshifting lockpicks, I mean Sandmen, they can get out of their cells. Now they have to wait for the SUEs to leave to make for the book.

>>17665915

If we do send in the Aurors to extract, here are some spells we may be able to use for distracting for long periods of time:

Entrancing enchantment - if used correctly, Aurors could use it to make a distraction that would fascinate the SUEs/Guards to the point of not noticing our work.

Cheering Charm - Like the above, but with hysterical laughter. Basically the magical version of the Ultimate Joke from the Quest for Glory series.

Confundus Charm - confuses stuff. Pretty self-explanatory.

>>17665907
I'm not saying go in guns blazing, but we need to pull out our people, and quickly. The longer they're in there, the longer the SUEs have to wear them down.

>>17665968
This right here? This is what I'm afraid of. We don't want to create a meta-aware SUE faction.

>>17665986
sounds good to me. What's our starting forces?

>>17666015
>>17666053
If we're going with Plan B, rather than attempting a rescue now, then we need to get that book returned to the reading room down below Toykyo College. So let's do that now.

I still think it's dangerous to leave Spike and Tosh, the SUE's might begin killing them rather than coming back to this side.

>>17666027
I don't like the idea of not being able to have a direct means of getting to that world in case something goes really wrong. A lot can happen in a small amount of time, especially if something like a SUE is involved.

I do like the idea of a fake assassination attempt to get Sapph to let her guard down. We would probably have to make it a little more...dramatic, however, to make her really believe it.

I'm here, but waiting for a definite plan to emerge.

>>17666094
Returning the book has never been part of the plan. We're fighting in space.

>>17666015
>Right now we're in Plan B. Wait for the SUEs and hope the team can break out and get to the book before we finish killing them.

Well, the SUEs are currently carrying the book with them right now. Not to mention, they're probably very curious about these outsiders that actually resist their power.

>>17666119
But, if we wait for the SUE's to come back over to the Baseline World for Tosh and Spike to make their move and attempt to use the return-book, consider that we would be engaged with the SUE's at the time, and would need to make sure that we don't kill them before the entire team is back through. Also, since we're fighting in space, the SUE's might have breached the hull (if we're keeping the book in the containment bay) and Tosh and Spike would be teleported into a place open to vacuum.

>>17666112
No time for fancier plots. They are supposed to emerge for school tomorrow. Stick with the plan we have.
The team is more than capable of breaking out of a cell without SUEs in the way, and the SUEs have to leave before they can reach the book.

I say we're still on for
>>17664832

Plus, if they don't leave, we now have an outlet to feed them a story to get them to head back if we need to.

>>17666166
We accounted for that.
See:
>>17664832

>>17666112
I think we're either waiting the SUEs to come out and frag them that way, or sending Aurors plus other stealth experts to pull out our team, at least out of SUE custody. I'm voting option 2.

>>17666193
How long do you honestly expect the fight to last? How much damage are we willing to accept to our ships?
And we assume that the reality fields won't cancel out the SUE's ability to survive in vacuum.

>>17666166

This is what I'm interpreting is the current plan. PLEASE CORRECT IF WRONG!


Possibly super-hypothetical tentative plan:

I *think* that the plan now is to have the Aurors break Tosh/Spike/Sandmen out of their prisons and hide out in the Magical Kingdom.

Then we lure the SUEs out of the KH kingdom into the baseline world, or we wait until they get tired of searching (may not be a feasible option)/realize that they have school tomorrow and go back to the baseline world.

When they go back to the baseline world from the book we have in our possession, they will be subjected to capital-class reality emitters while floating in hard vacuum and anything else we can throw at them. Once the SUEs are destroyed, we will have to wait some time to extract the Aurors and the away team from the KH canon.

>>17664832
>>17666176
>>17666193

This seems like a pretty good plan. I'm putting my vote in for this plan. However, do we have a definite backup plan for necessary extraction in case our troops are seriously endangered?

So, we wait for the SUEs to come out on their own.
The away team loosens their lock and waits until Tosh sense the SUEs departing then make their break for it.
We fight SUEs.
If we defeat the SUEs before the Team makes it back, we pick them up in a couple weeks. As a crossover place they can blend in without disruption until then, particularly with the SUE influence out of the way.

Alright, I'm switching my vote to operation: sit on our hands and hope for the best.

I suggest we put an infiltration team on standby, in case the SUEs don't leave within our expected timeframe.

I know we've been trying desperately to avoid it, but we have to consider the possibility of fighting in the Magic Kingdom.

>>17666237
That's the altered Plan B I'm suggesting.

Other people believe that we can continue with the original Plan B from >>17664832 which is to wait for the SUE's to come back to the Baseline World, eject them into space, have Tosh and Spike break out and get to the book while we repressurive the containment bay where the portal-book is contained, and keep the SUE's busy until our team is safely returned.

>>17666237
Yeah, this sounds good.

>>17666237
We might consider this if they don't emerge on their own tomorrow, but that isn't our current plan.

>>17666071
>We don't want to create a meta-aware SUE faction.
I thought they already existed?
Anyone who hops to different canons seducing all the women (or all the men) would count as one of these.
Not sure what the name for people who have waifu collections are, but they're out there.

whatever we decide on, try and keep in touch with Tosh.

>>17666237
>>17666285
>>17666237
That sounds like the Plan D for if they don't come out as expected.

>>17666240
If the SUE's don't return within the expected time, or it appears that there is an imminent danger to our team, we can implement the Altered Plan B and go in with an Auror strike team.

>>17666285

Ah, I see.

Sending in an Auror team right now would further inflame them into retribution and/or searching for our hidden guys, now that I think about it.

While I don't like sitting around hoping things will turn out OK, we might not have a lot of options right now. Let us proceed with Plan B from post >>17664832

>>17666308
What if the SUE starts killing the team?

goddamnit, can we pick a plan already?

>>17666240
Ok, so we stick with that one and have >>17666237 as the backup plan.

>>17666324
We're going with the original Plan B.
We will send in a strike team if it looks like the SUE is going to kill our team, but not before.

We have Cheryl keep up a constant psychic link so we know the moment something changes, and we have the Aurors on standby.

>>17666324
We already picked >>17664832
by a large margin.
And like >>17666237
as the backup plan.

fine, original plan B it is.

I reserve the right to saw I told you so if anything happens to the prisoners in the intervening period.

Have cheryl keep tabs on them. Possibly tell them to feed bullshit info/play along, especially if they can send the SUEs back through the book.

Did we decide in the the ed whether or not to use the magic mirror on Sapph?

So you're ordering Tosh and the others to try and escape for now?

>>17666367
>using the mirror
That's unlikely to work at all, and would just put an artifact in danger of being destroyed.

>>17666317
>>17666367
They ain't the killing type so much as the LOOK HOW AWESOMELY COMPLEX WE ARE AND LOVE US type.

>>17666367

If we're prepped to deal with the SUEs in the baseline world AND they demand more information from our prisoners, we could expedite things by having our captured team explain that they were seeking her help to deal with an immediate threat to the (baseline world).

Just a thought. Not sure if it's a good idea or not.

>>17666379
No. We're ordering them to play along for now, wait for the SUE's to leave back through the book.
We then space the SUE's and catch them in overlapping reality fields, and keep them busy while Tosh and the team break out and get to the return-book. If they can get to the book before we kill the SUE and they make it back alright, then we kill the SUE.
If we kill the SUE before they get to the book, they escape and lay low for a week while we arrange their pickup.

>>17666379
Have the cell unlocked, and have Tosh keep track of where the SUEs are for when they leave so they can go for the book. Possibly leaving their cells ahead of time if the SUEs are a safe distance away.
Meanwhile we're prep'd for the fight off in space somewhere.

>>17666379
Hmmm... In my opinion, leave it up to their own judgement. That, or just try not to aggravate the SUEs too much. If they can feed a bullshit story to the sUEs that makes them go back through the book, so much the better. They aren't that smart, and Spike's a pretty good bullshit merchant. But our team have a much better idea of the situation, so they should really make the call.

>>17666414
>>17666416
More or less these. Get ready to escape, but don't draw attention to themselves since that will just delay the SUEs leaving.
If they don't leave as expected we make some shit up to encourage them to do so. >>17666413

>>17664832
I will note that you don't HAVE any HRDs. You have 2 Reality Disruptor rifles.

>>17666446
Well...that screws up a pretty important part of our plans. Although, I doubt that they'll be able to handle multiple Reality Emitter fields and all the firepower we can hit them with.

Shall we have Char in his MS with the Lance of Longinus?

That might help out nicely.

Do we have any other space-capable forces we want to deploy, other than the capships?

>>17666484
Crowe in the Brasta.
The problem is that this will become a very hot area of space, and so we shouldn't put fighters into it. We don't want any friendly fire going on.

right, so jst those 2 mechs, with Char packing the LoL.

Have cheryl check up on Tosh and the others regularly.

Alright, OP, are you writing? Are you using the Plan B as noted in >>17666416
>>17666414
>>17664832

Two days pass, with your away team cooling its heels in the palace dungeons of an anthropomorphic mouse and his cohorts.

Your containment bay has the book locked within it, a constant SCP watch keeping tabs on it.

Finally, late Sunday night, the manga begins to shine with sapphire light, and the energy readings spike...

>>17666540
Fingers crossed!

>>17666540
Red alert! All hands to battlestations!
Get those SCP troopers equipped with reality disruptor rifles in case the SUE's refuse to get sucked out the airlock!

Wake up Cheryl, get her to contact Tosh and tell him it's showtime. As soon as he detects the SUE's disappear, he, Spike, and the Sandmen make their escape, collect their gear, and double-time it to the book.

Launch Char and Crowe in their mechs, have Char equipped with the Lance of Longinus in case it's needed.

>>17666564

Have every reality-emitter equipped ship be ready to generate interlocking fields of reality (that still sounds weird even after all this time).

Should we have anything in the loading bay ready to grab any personnel in case the SUEs try to use them as shields?

>>17666540
We kept it in the containment bay? In our ship? Where the S.U.E. has an obvious thing to attack head-on whilst applying directly to the forehead?

Wasn't the plan to put the book back and leave some hint that Axel snuck in and tampered with it? And then have Spike and co find the book left in Disneyworld after the S.U.E.s left? And then start mind-controlling people into flirting with the couple to get the S.U.E.s to start fighting eachother while we try and poison them?

>>17666564
Cheryl makes the contact as two humanoid figures begin to emerge from the manga, their features obscured by blinding rainbow light...

No time is wasted as the crew gives the order and the bay is vented into space, hurtling the two figures into the void...

And I find I'm far too tired to continue. We'll end on this cliffhanger. See everyone in February!

>>17666595
We still have the 2 Al'Kesh and the Indefatigable.
We can have them get transporter locks on everyone in the area and beam them out if there's a problem.
Between those three ships, we should have enough transporter capacity to beam away anyone at risk.

This is going to end really bad, because we let raidah fuck up the ground operation, and now we're following raidah's plan for !SPACE BATTLES! .

>>17666623
First of all, the plan that we went with would have worked on a 20 or above. It was an effective that was supposed to work.
Second, space battle plan was gone over by multiple posters who agreed to it.
Third, simply because an action resulted in unfavorable consequences doesn't mean that it was raidah or coobie behind the plan.

>>17666623

Don't forget the TG dice gods reveling in our suffering and trolling us with highly variable roll ranges. We just need to roll with the punches.

>>17666446
We asked for Heavy Reality Disruptor Rifles.

>>17666597
Have you paid any attention?

>>17666623
I think you just label plans and actions you don't like as coming from raidah, regardless of the actual plan.

>>17666750
Only you did, and there were no confirmations to change the engineering order.
Besides, the Heavy Reality Disruptor Rifle is an infantry weapon, no different from the regular Reality Disruptor Rifle except being a little bigger.
The ship-mounted version is the Reality Disruptor Array.

>>17666623
What? Space battle was the smart plan, raidah wanted idiotic battling on the planet with a 1000 securitron and contamination and idiocy everywhere.

>>Good plan, prepare a turbolaser barrage on Antarctica!

>>17666774
The heavy was the version we agreed on.
And yes, that is different from a proper Reality Disruptor Cannon, but that's all we made, so they get strapped to our space guns and just hope they help.

>>17666597
Only in your own mind, I'm afraid.

Discussing things with Metaquest OP now in email.
Biggest issue I'm having is setting up scenarios with a clear win condition and a clear lose condition (I'm much more used to sandboxing). If anyone has any ideas for shit that the Editors of the Transpace Guard would need to edit, send 'em to my email address.

Of particular note: Which fictional entity do you think would cause the biggest "Oh shit!" moment, if they were to become meta-aware?

The most annoying part about the failure to archive the planning thread would be not being able to point at things an go 'See, THIS is what planning looks like', and not that it would actually stop people from going off the rails, but at least I'd have something to point at while yelling.

>>17666799
That's just in your own mind.
12 Reality Disruptor Rifles was the original engineering order.
You asked if there was anything heavier.
I responded that the Heavy Reality Disruptor Rifles exist and anything bigger isn't man-portable.

You assumed that MetaOP changed the engineering order to Heavy Reality Disruptors when no such change was made.
Read back through Session 53 and 54 if you don't believe me.

>>17666824
Breakers. See: Continuum

>>17666847
Look again for yourself. We had three people suggest heavy disruptors and only one against.

>>17666879
No, I only see one post asking for something heavier than rifles, a post responding that Heavy Reality Disruptors are the only thing bigger that don't have to be mounted on a tank, a post saying that they liked the acronym H.R.D. for the Heavy Reality Disruptor Rifles, and another one asking how long it would take to get 1 Heavy Reality Disruptor Rifle.

So really, only 1 post specifically asked for Heavy Reality Disruptors in Session 53.
In 54, there was 1 post that asked how long it would take to get a single Heavy Reality Disruptor ready.

So, there were no changes to the original order.

>>17666879
>>17666969
Look again.

Initial suggestion of rifles:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/17612369/#17614840

Suggestions about making them Heavy Rifles:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/17612369/#17614883
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/17612369/#17615013
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/17612369/#17615050 (me)
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/17612369/#17615016

One guy suggesting they might cause somehow cause contamination:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/17612369/#17614928
I think the 'for big hardware' was thinking we were talking about mecha ones.

>>17666983
>>17666879
So make that 4 to 1 in favor of Heavy Rifles then.

>>17666983
>>mecha ones

Size S, size M, or size L?

>>17666990
>>17666983
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/17612369/#17614883
This is the only actual suggestion to make them heavier.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/17612369/#17615013
This was only to answer what heavier weapons we had, not a suggestion to change the order.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/17612369/#17615050 (me)
You should have specified that you wanted the order changed.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/17612369/#17615016
Reality Disruptor Cannons are different weapon, and are specified as such when the Reality Disruptor technology was first introduced.

No one else wanted to change the order because it would have resulted in a much longer fabrication period, and MetaOP never acknowledged your posts.

>>17666852
Also referred to as Narcissists and Crashers.
Thinking about it, I'm not sure they were really called breakers much, but you get the idea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_(role-playing_game)#Terms

>>17666824
Right now I'm just brainstorming ideas for crossovers, S.U.E. bullshit, hostile/disruptive entities in the Meta, and things which by their presence make reality go wonky.
That tends to get interesting scenarios, though Scan reality distortion -> Orbital fire on reality distortion -> repeat solves far too many of them, and there are also many where there isn't a clear answer to "What should we do here?", even with full information.
It's challenging to make decent antagonists. They're magnets for orbital fire, they need realistic goals and flaws, and they also need to have worked on their goals (within the bounds of their flaws) to the point where they are both powerful enough to be threatening, but weak enough to be defeated. The players also need a reason to go up against them, rather than ignore them or ally with them.

Such is the problem when you make a game. There is always the "Fastest path straight into bullshit" and players are DAMN good at finding it.

>>17667023
Well at 4 to 1, he'll just have to adjust. Or ignore the rifles entirely since only one person asked for plain rifles to hunt a god.

You can't claim that a cannon or heavy rifle are distinct things when they were only being made up right then and there.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/17612369/#17614883
Reporting in.

Particularly since I called the man portable ones 'cannons'.

>>17667032
So, if anyone has any ideas how to mitigate these problems with interactive storywriting, you can email me.

That's enough samefaggin' from me for now. I'll see if I can get shit working tomorrow (Wednesday) at 18:00 to 22:00 board time.

>>17667060
Hey, I was
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/17612369/#17615013
and I didn't want the heavies because we wouldn't have any in time.

Fuck you, we're keeping the rifles.
And the distinctions were confirmed by MetaOP back in Session 51.

>>17667071
You should also figure out how to handle shit like >>17667023
>>17666983
Where because somebody thought they were getting something, and they were ignored rather than specifically told no, they assumed that it was something they were going to get.

>>17667079
We weren't having ANY of them in time. It was pretty much a pointless endeavor since we only had two days and we were taking the fight to space.

>>17667094
With 3 Reality Disruptor Rifles a day, and assuming that we would have had 2 days, we have 4 to 6 Reality Disruptor Rifles ready.
And they were originally for equipping the SCP troops in case the SUE's came back while we were still studying the book while it was in the containment bay.

>>17667027
>Narcissists
> The members of the society that opposes the Continuum, believing that the timeline can and should be changed. In the Nªrcissist 0.7 playtest document, they are shown to also believe in a continuous multiverse, and their efforts to escape into it via time travel lead to their being called Crashers; their poor reputation is shown to be the result of the Continuum perceiving this as only attempts to undermine the stability of reality.

>>17666832
If need be, you can always go to one of the other auto-archivers.

http://fuuka.warosu.org/tg/thread/17608712#p17608712

May as well keep posting until this autosages.
So, who wants to bet that the two people that we ejected into space actually weren't our two targets? Fortunately we have a few seconds for ANON to verify their identities and, if not our targets, beam them onto the Inde.

>>17668323
Failing that, we can stick them in nannybags, and get the magic cryokit to fix them up. make it clear that they just need to be resucitated, not upgraded.

God forbid it's some of our people.

>>17668925
Well, that's what I'm afraid of.
That the SUE's got smart (for a given amount of smart) and forced Tosh, Spike, or some of the Sandmen to go through the book first and get us to accidentally team-kill, and they'd come in right afterwards to catch us with our attention focused on our recently deceased.

That's why I think it essential that we turn the reality emitters on, but hold fire until we can get confirmation of our targets.

>>17668948
Well, we told cheryl to contact Tosh as soon as the portal activated, so we'll hopefully get some confirmation.

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970603.html

According to actual science and tests, as long as they don't try to hold their breath, whoever we just spaced should be fine for 14 seconds before they lose consciousness, and should survive for 30 seconds with no major damage.
But they will be dying, and damaging their brain, at 1 minute.

So all in all, we actually have much more time that I originally thought to confirm our targets before they're dead.

>>17669275
well, if it's Spike, his brain is backed up thanks to the RED. I don't remember if Tosh had the same treatment.

Sandmen are hopefully more resistant.

And god help us if its canon people.

>>17669538
We have 30 seconds to identify them and beam them out if they're not our targets. 1 minute if we're willing to cut things close.
That's plenty of time, actually, taking into consideration how quickly A.N.O.N. can scan them and the Indefatigable can get a transporter lock.

>>17669538
Tosh was given an injection of RED-2, and it's still active.

Waiting for bootleg OP.

Bootleg op will start the game at 20:00 board time.
The first mission has been pre-planned, but in future, the players will be able to choose it.
And I think you might like what your role in the transpace guard is going to be.

>>17674219

Rampant speculation is gooooo
>Requisitions
>Green Legion
>Mecha Division

let the anticipation begin!

>>17674262
Feel free to speculate.

I realised that I honestly can't make objective-based "go in and kill the bad guy" missions very easily. But what I CAN do is sandboxing.
So, rather than one hard goal for each mission, you'll be given a set of priorities to fulfill before jumping out, and it's up to the players how much of each they pursue.

Most of these worlds will be tame - relatively speaking, but I'll be making a roll at the start of each one for ... complications.
And of course, if the players specifically request a non-tame world I can probably make one.
I found a very neat solution that means "Target reality distortion, bombard from orbit" means the players completely fail at their job, thus solving that issue.

>>17674317
oh man, I can't wait.

Do we get to choose our team?

>>17674377
You do get to choose your team and equipment, and you will have knowledge beforehand about what you're going into, so you can choose wisely.

In the first mission I've lined up, there's more ways to win than there are to fail, so it should be easy unless your picks are horribly retarded (e.g. nothing but nuclear missiles and liberty primes).

>>17674402
Or, of course, you get a 1-4 on the 1d100 roll for "what complicates this scenario".
In fact, if you get a 1, I'd suggest warping out immediately.

I'm not sure how many players we'll get today. Hopefully enough for a decent offshoot.
I'll make a new thread when it's time to begin. 10 minutes remaining.

>>17674481
so is this offshoot going to actually be connected to the main plot or is this a 1 shot off in an alternate universe somewhere?

>>17674491
That is for Metaquest OP to decide.
It takes place in the same universe, but NOT the same sector.

New thread up in only a few minutes. Be ready, brave operatives.

>>17674594
>>17674594
>>17674594

It's up.

Go now.

>>17674594
>>17674594
>>17674594

Why is it.

That we plan for no end in planning threads...

Then people come into the actual thread and start rattling off their mouths without any regard to what we've planned?

>>17677499
Maybe because they didn't read the planning thread. Or because they didn't want put anything down in the planning thread for fear that the flaws in their plan would be found, and instead they post directly into the active quest thread so that their plan receives less scrutiny and is more likely to be accepted.

of course, there's always the possibility that theyre stupid.

>>17680519
And people who believe screaming and spamming in the main thread will mean that OP will let them have their way.

Seriously they just delay us from getting our shit done.

So, our current plan of action is:
1. Activate all reality emitters and catch the 2 humanoids we spaced in interlocking reality fields.
2. Have A.N.O.N. scan them to make sure that they're our targets.
3a. If targets, fire available weapons to ensure a kill.
3b. If not targets, beam them to the Indefatigable and contain them in a Level 10 forcefield.
4. Have Cheryl make contact with Tosh, check his escape attempt's progress.

That acceptable?