Transpace Guard Requisitions is in charge of handling the ins and outs of weapons, troops, and equipment to the brave operatives who seek to maintain stability and wrest the Canon from the cold, dead hands of those who would harm it.

Oddly enough, not ALL equipment comes directly from requisitions. "Meta" technology, including reality emitters, transit drives, and rewriter bombs, are produced by Black OPs and Black OPs alone. But for everything else, Requisitions can handle it.

There are 6 main branches of the Transpace Guard Requisitions. In no particular order, they are:

Manufacturing.

Featuring a world packed to the brim with as many production and research facilities as a world can handle, if it can be made, Manufacturing can make it.
They handle the guns, ships, mechanised forces and armor. They handle reverse engineering, and rebuilding.

Unfortunately, some things cannot be made. Magic, Phlebotinum, and various rare elements.

Farming.

Hazardous, tedious, but necessary. They're the guys who pick up the Elerium, mine the Eezo, kill the money spiders every nanosecond for their coins, and satisfy Requisitions' needs for rare materials.
By going to a canon where items will not be missed, they pick up whatever raw materials they can find and send them back, often killing millions of respawning monsters in the process.

But of course, you need soldiers to fight monsters.

(FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN CONTRIBUTING:
IN EVERY THREAD, I POST ENOUGH OF A RECAP TO GET YOU STARTED)

Human Resources.

This is not a nice place to be.
The goal of requisitions is to take what won't be missed from a Canon, and send it to forces that need it.
Sometimes, People won't be missed.
Heroes, Troops, Specialists, Mooks ... all brought here for recruitment. But recruitment isn't always nice.
By speech, drugs, surgery, magic, brainwashing, false memory implanting, or even outright torture, people here are "Convinced" to work for the Transpace Guard.

What's more, Human Resources keeps on hand a stack of two useful things:
Reconstruction units, and Soul gems.
So when a person dies, so long as their body structure is backed up and their Soul is stored, they can be rebuilt.
It's standard policy for all people working in Human Resources to wear Soul gems on their bodies,
and every day, a steady stream of people attempt Suicide, are rebuilt, and are moved immediately into re-education.

Human Resources is not a nice place.

Storage.

A fractal near the edge of reality, with warehouses upon warehouses and boxes upon boxes, built for storing an infinite amount of the most hazardous and volatile substances, and also the most mundane.

Casualties here rank highest amongst the branches. Monsters roam the infinite halls - monsters carelessly looted and improperly stored break free, and in these infinite halls, nobody can say everything is secure.

But, they are a minor concern, and as long as Human Resources can keep restoring the box stackers to life, Storage keeps on trucking, having a place for everything, and almost everything in its place. Almost.

-

Logistics.

A tower of glass and steel on Meta-Earth serves as home to Requisitions' Logistics divisions.
It is their job to know exact counts of every item Requisitions has, where all of them are, what the staff are working on, and how to get items from the other branches to where they are most needed.

The tower itself creates reality distortions - the weight of the paper alone inside the tower exceeds the total weight of the tower itself, to prevent it from collapsing under the weight of its own forms.

It may be one of the most boring jobs in the Multiverse. In fact, after 10 years of working here, Soul gems can no longer be used to restore workers, because you can't restore to life a man that lost his soul.

This brings us to the 6th faction, and the players' faction

Looting.

Looting has two jobs.
#1: Don't fuck up the canon.
#2: Grab everything you can without violating #1.

The Transpace Guard keeps a list of worlds. Sometimes, you can't get what you need by farming or manufacturing.
It's the Looters' jobs to get Staff, unique Items, interesting Technology, Blueprints, and anything that looks like it'd be tricky to make, but easy to grab.

Looters' casualty rates are second only to Storage, because they go into worlds knowing well what they do will break the Law. but as long as it does not break the Canon, then all is well.

Looters are also paid extremely well*. Well, if they're good at their jobs.
Looters have a budget with which to Rent items, troops, and heroes.
Looters then receive Dosh as a reward for turning in their loot.
Get a lot of loot, then you get a lot of Dosh, you pay the Rent, and keep the rest for yourselves.

You, the players, are a small crew of Looters.
You have a small ship, a small amount of funds, and a very small amount of trust from HQ.
But, since small ships are cheap and SOMETIMES Looters distinguish themselves, there are thousands of new looter teams every month sent out. And of the 20 or so that come back, over 4.99% of them become rich and famous.

Things have been going ... less than well.

M I S S I O N _ B R I E F I N G:
Scouts have located a mansion showing reality distortions. Surveillance confirmed that there canon characters there, kidnapped and charmed out of their own worlds, to serve as a harem for an obese, hairy, smelly person.
Scouts maintained position for a week, waiting to catch the Shipper vessel that is selling these women.

But, no vessel ever came.
THAT means that, there's something in this mansion that allows the owner to pull women from other worlds.
Whatever it is, it's useful technology, and we want it.
Go in there and steal it.

-

But that was 3 threads ago.
After disasterously alerting the entire mansion to your presence, you retreated to regroup, collect more supplies, go over your intel, and re-evaluate your strategies.

MAIN GOAL:
#1. Find out what's allowing those characters to come in from other worlds, and swipe it.

SIDE GOALS:
#1: Investigate secret rooms.
#2: There's bound to be lots of loot in this place. Collect all the interesting loot you can. Note that we have no use for jewellery, but particularily unique items, magic items, tech, and powerups are all good.

SHIT TO AVOID:
#1: Don't kill any of the girls. You do this, you're fired.
#2: Injuries to the girls' health and sanity may cause problems in returning them to their canons. Try not to do this.
#3: Troops and Heroes are expensive to replace. Lose as few as you can.

Your equipment thus far:
1 Light Scout ship (it's a Skyranger with a Meta transit drive), contains:
>1 container of Bounce seeds
>1 stack of Mario mushrooms
>1 set of Piranha plants
>1 scrying basin

1 Nightcrawler (X-men)
>1 Omni-Tool (Mass Effect)
>5 Flashbang
>5 Marble handful
>10 String
>1 Anti-magic ring (1/20 until explosion)
>1 Felt Pads (equipped)

1 Auror
>5 Marble handfuls
>10 String

1 Bag of Holding
Top:
>5 Chlorine bottle
>5 Duct Tape
>10 Oil bottle (slip)
>8 Petrol bomb
>10 Spraypaint
Middle:
>5 Bucket
>5 Bug spray
>200 Dosh (local)
>10 Glue
>5 Herbicide
>40 Paper
>4 Radio
>10 Rags
>5 Rope
>10 Tack handful
Lost in the depths:
>1 chocolate (drugged)
>10 Candy bar (not drugged)
>1 Mirror on a stick
>20 Plastic container

INTEL YOU HAVE RECEIVED ON THE ENEMY MANSION THUS FAR:
It is a mansion.
All the rooms, save the grey areas on the map, are well lit. You cannot scry into the grey areas.
Cameras overlook 4 of the 5 toilets, the Master bedroom's ajoining toilet is clear.
Cameras overlook all the Bedrooms.
Cameras overlook the hallways in the Basement.
Charmed versions of Canon characters are present here as a security force ... and harem. All have been given shoddy anti-magic rings as protection.
There is an Anti-magic field covering the entire mansion. It is shoddy, and only guaranteed to be effective against Teleports, but nonetheless it does inhibit spellcasting somewhat.
There's shit to loot here.
There may be traps here.
The enemy knows we're here.

Enemies:
1 Princess Peach
1 Renamon
1 Chun-Li
1 Sailor Mercury
1 Eredar Warlock
>Buffed with: Fel Armor, Demonic Circle, Detect Invis, 100 stacks of "Charmed" (icon is chocolate cake)
1 Felhunter (pet to Warlock)
1 Amalia
1 Roxanne (Pokemon)
1 Geodude (pet to Roxanne)
1 Nosepass (pet to Roxanne)
1 Miku with large rifle
1 Fatass

You have 2/3 COMMON SENSE remaining.
COMMON SENSE may be spent:
1. Automatically, if ignoring or overlooking a piece of knowledge that you have access to, would be hazardous to your forces.
2. Automatically, if you would enact a plan that would severely cripple you, and which is OBVIOUSLY a retarded plan, that you just haven't noticed.
3. Optionally, you may spend COMMON SENSE to get a hint from the DM.

COMMON SENSE may be earnt by:
Being particularily ingenious, wise, cluey, smart, aware, insightful, prepared, forward-thinking, thinking outside the box, and basically "Not your average player character".

>>17701455
Your knowledge of enemy positions:
Miku, Roxanne, the Warlock are patrolling the mansion, looking into rooms, but not entering them.
Renamon is acting as a sentry from the rooftop, acting as a spotter for your approaching forces.
You have not seen the other enemies recently.

And, finally, the map key for:
>>17701341
Grey: Areas you are having difficulty scrying into.
Pink: Hallways. The left-right ones are the main hallways.
Red: Stairs live here.

Roof:
There are air conditioning units and a chimney. The chimney seems to be decorative.

Top floor:
Pink 'B' belongs to Peach. Gaudy, and very pink.
Blue 'B' contained Mercury. Seems neat and tidy.
White 'B' is oddly empty and plain.
Cyan 'B' is chinese-themed
Yellow 'B' seems hardly used at all. It's plain, but the presence of a training dummy and yellow carpet give hints as to its occupant.
E is Empty. If you were to step into this area, Gravity would escort you to the floor below.
T is a Television room.
Below that is an unmarked Toilet
W is a Washroom. Bath, Shower, Toilet, etc.
Below that is a random closet of random supplies.

Ground:
Green B seems to be more of a greenhouse than a bedroom, though you DO spot a bed in there somewhere.
Orange B seems very dark and evil-themed.
Purple B is neat and tidy, save for some rocks strewn about a makeshift training mat.
W is still a shower/bath/toilet
Below that is a food storage area.
K is a kitchen. Food lives here.
C is a computer room.
Below that is a toilet.
The large open area is an entrance hall. High ceiling, chandelier, dining table.
G is a Garage, cluttered from disuse. There is no car here.
R is a gymnasium or training room of some sort.

Basement:
L is a Laundry
H controls central heating.
Empty white rooms are "Op can't think of what to put in a basement".

>>17701364
Nightcrawler has a HEARTBEAT MONITOR attached to his HUD.
What's a HUD? Buggered if I know, but he can see enemy heartbeats. Miku does not show up on this, and neither does the Felhunter or the Geodude.

When last we left off, the players were enacting a plan to get into the basement. Let's see how well they did...

rolled 51, 93, 53, 88, 58 = 343

It takes 5 minutes of concentrated effort, but Nightcrawler is FINALLY able to direct Benny Hill to enter the mansion. He has lost most of his Pursuers in the process, but nonetheless, he is on the move.
The Auror sends a rush of Rats and Birds at the mansion to act as a distraction.
The Birds fly away, and completely ignore the mansion.
The Rats approach the mansion, warily. They may now serve as a distraction.
You were not able to find any vents from the basement to the outside world.

Let's see how Benny did...

*checks enemy list*

The VIP-do-not-kill list exceeds six. One or two are the odd one out, and it's likely Miku and the warlock..

>>17701535

Have the Auror cast Oppugno on the rats to get them into attack mode.

>>17701535
Lore check result on Miku?

>>17701535
Benny enters the mansion at top speed.
His first encounter is with the Warlock.
Death Coil flies forward and into Benny, leeching some of his HP, and causing him to run in a random direction for 2 seconds.
This changed surprisingly little.

Miku is Benny's next encounter. Miku takes aim with her chaingun and fires a harrowing stream of bullets with near-perfect accuracy...
...each of which barely grazes Benny's skin.
Benny is frightened considerably, but unharmed, as his clothes are shot to shreds, and his body becomes blurry, pixellated, and naked!

Benny's third encounter is with Sailor Mercury.
Mercury charges one attack in the brief window of opportunity she has:
Mercury bubbles...
...FREEZE!
Benny is now pixellated, blurry, and incredibly cold.

Benny's 4th encounter is with Amalia. Benny trips over a vine and tumbles down the hallway, skidding to a stop on his face.

He looks up to see none other than Renamon, eyes closed in anger.
"You. I'm tired of you getting away. I'm tired of being rendered helpless. I'm tired of WATCHING you try to kidnap people for your own sick amusement. And most of all, I am tired ... of you."
"DIAMOND STORM."
Benny is penetrated by a massive storm of diamonds.

Reality Stability in the area increases greatly, as the cold, naked body of Benny is mutilated by sharp shards of glass.
Rest in peace, Benny.

>>17701588
>Lore check result on Miku?
Miku is a robot, and does not have a heart.

>>17701596

'Ol Benny's doing his runnin' in heaven now....

See you next week, Benny.

>>17701596
Well fuck, that was the real Benny now, huh? Whose stupid idea was to add to canon contamination?

>>17701596
>>Miku is a robot, and does not have a heart.

Will destroying the robot increase the distortions?

>>17701596
Nightcrawler and the Auror teleport into the lower levels of the mansion...
... and straight into a wall. However, Nightcrawler's anti-magic ring glows. A DEEP Crimson, and Nightcrawler feels a shuddering sensation as he's shunted into the nearest open space.

The Auror reports the charge remaining on the ring:
It is at 3/4 charge before possible overload
It is at 3/12 charge before guaranteed overload
The ring may provide protection against mal teleports, but it does not provide it for long.

Listed on the map are:
Pink dots - you.
Purple dots - Heartbeats.
Black dot - There was a heartbeat here. It's gone now.

>>17701596
goddamnit, not another fucking trooper KIA.

May I suggest that we fry the security system using electromagnets? If yes, and if Nightcrawler does the job, ditch the heartbeat sensor so it doesn't get zapped as well.

>>17701668

Benny Hill ran into this canon from a freak reality distortion portal thing. He was captured by the mansion's guards and given to the police, but managed to outrun them.

A lower roll would have resulted in Chuck Norris probably roundhouse kicking everything in sight.

>>17701668
>Whose stupid idea was to add to canon contamination?
Killing Benny has DECREASED the contamination, as he was a crossover event.

>Will destroying the robot increase the distortions?
Wis checks are not given for the obvious.

You've successfully entered the mansion.
The enemy is still distracted for the moment.
Do you wish to:
A. Sabotage Cameras
B. Sabotage Stairwells
C. Hide and wait
D. Something else?

>>17701668
It was our version of the Perils of the War warp we rolled before we got here.
>>17701674
Should we slowly begin inspecting the black-shaded rooms we couldn't get with scrying? Couldn't hurt to get that done while they clean up Benny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDSniNZxwv4

>>17701674
Right. The auror should cast disillusionment charms on the two of them before rummaging in the basements. We need to avoid cameras.

I need a concensus on caving in the stairwell that leads into the basement from the ground floor -- to prevent anyone from going in after the team.

>>17701679
>May I suggest that we fry the security system using electromagnets?
You do not appear to have Electromagnets!
>>17701364
is loadout.

>>17701714
Yes, but cast disillusionment first to avoid camera attention.

>>17701709
Let's knock out the cameras with Disillusionment, use Glisseo on the stairs to make them into a ramp, and possibly throw Arresto Momentum on the ramp as well so that it takes the intruders way too long to get down there, giving us time to prepare. We can collapse the entire stairwell if we need to later, but we should try to not draw attention to the fact that we're here the basement until later.

>>17701738
Your magic effects active:
Invisibility charm
Disillusionment charm
Bubble head (breathing) charm
Extra sensory charm
Silence charm

So, your immediate plan of action is:
Disable the basement Cameras using the Auror's magic.
Stop the basement stairs using slippery oil, turning them into a ramp, and (possibly) collapsing them.
Is this correct?

>>17701782
Sounds legit to me. We can use Arresto as an anti-personnel spell against Renamon later, since she's all about speed and taking that away means we can neutralize her or get out as necessary.

>>17701782
COMMON SENSE used.

Do you think it's a smart idea to try disabling a staircase that currently has a heartbeat on top of it?
Perhaps you had best WAIT FOR THE ENEMY TO PASS before enacting your plan.

>>17701782

Someone suggested to cast "Arresto Momentum" on the ramp so that they spend an absurd amount of time sliding down a frictionless ramp.

>>17701801

Alright then, let's wait for them to pass before doing those things.

>>17701794
We could cast Epoximise on the stairs too.

>>17701801
COMMON SENSE used already.

Do you think that perhaps using Auror magic to disable cameras might fail in an anti-magic field, and it would be wiser to use the Spraypaint and Duck tape you obtained specifically for this purpose?

COMMON SENSE remains at 1/3.

>>17701801
Aw, crap. Got the up-down sort of messed up there, boss. YEAH, uh, let's wait for them to pass until they head out-
>>17701819
Oh, for God's sake, I'm not trained for this! I'm a S.U.E.-killer, not a house-breaker! ALRIGHTY, let's tape up / spray up the cameras, Epoximise/Glisseo/Arresto Momentum the stairs once they are not being watched, and proceed with investigating the unknown rooms.

So, your plan:
Wait for the enemy to pass.
Disable the stairs using a combination of Tacks, Oil, Sliding, Slowing, Stickiness, and other such craziness
Disable the cameras by having Nightcrawler teleport beneath one and spraypaint it, or rip it out of the wall with his omni-tool, after first checking that no heartbeats are nearby.

Is this acceptable?

>>17701853
>not this time, OP!
Not rip, 'remove'. Cut it away with a Holoblade, don't just pull it out. Again, make sure there are no heart-beats nearby. If we had a techie, we might have tried to do some Technobabble Hacking to get them to stream the same 'all-clear' image while we're down here, but that's wishful thinking.

Damnit, it's hard to track all those variables at the same time. And new ones keep appearing.

rolled 46 = 46

>>17701853
>>17701867
Dice.

>>17701819
If you black out the cameras, then someone watching the cameras will know that someone is there.

>>17701709
Yes, with a preference towards ripping things out, as that complicates any repair attempts. Save the spraypaint/tape for when time is a relatively limited resource.

>>17701867

Hmm. Maybe we should requisition a Hack-Dart gun from Bioshock 2 next time. An Auto-hack dart would've worked wonders for these types of situations (and also Miku).

>>17701873
Nightcrawler disables all the Cameras in the basement that you know of, without incident.
The Auror has disabled the stairs down. He was not spotted, but the stairs were spotted in their trapped state before they could trap anyone.
Nightcrawler loots the TM that contains Rock Tomb, and adds it to the bag of holding. It might be of some saleable use.

1 Bag of Holding
Top:
>5 Chlorine bottle
>5 Duct Tape
>10 Oil bottle (slip)
>8 Petrol bomb
>10 Spraypaint
Middle:
>5 Bucket
>5 Bug spray
>200 Dosh (local)
>10 Glue
>5 Herbicide
>40 Paper
>4 Radio
>10 Rags
>5 Rope
>10 Tack handful
Lost in the depths:
>1 chocolate (drugged)
>10 Candy bar (not drugged)
>1 Mirror on a stick
>20 Plastic container
>1 TM (Rock Tomb)

Other loot items that you know of:
>A Sailor Moon transformation wand was left in the washroom on the upper floor.
>>There is a flower in the green 'P' room more beautiful than any Nightcrawler has seen, and which rivals the beauty of even magically enchanted flowers of Hogwarts.

There may be others if you search rooms thoroughly.

the EREDAR WARLOCK is patrolling the basement.
one HEARTBEAT is patrolling the top floor, currently.
All other HEARTBEATs have retreated to a spot in the middle of the mansion. You were able to watch them on the monitor as they did so.

>>17701869
For a quest this hard, a training thread would have been neat. When I step up and do a MetaQuest (Field Agents, woot woot), definitely throwing in a training thread so that people know how to avoid screwing up and calibrate their attention spans accordingly.
>>17701896
Those are a thing?!? Awesome! Sounds miraculous.
>>17701874
Well, the Grognard is possibly incapacitated / distracted with a girl / nerd things / Benny Motherfucking Hill.

>>17701896
Save requisitions for later. For all we know, Bootleg OP's next mission takes place in the world of MGS4.

>>17701905
You have currently explored:
1/14 basement rooms,
0/4 basement secrets,
4/4 basement hallways,
0/11 ground floor rooms,
0/? ground floor secrets,
0/4 ground floor hallways,
1/11 top floor rooms,
1/4 top floor hallways,
0/1 top floor secrets.

What do you want to do now?

>>the EREDAR WARLOCK is patrolling the basement.

Assume that her pet already has picked up the scent of the team.

>>17701905

Assuming that the Warlock follows the player-logic used in the WoW games, she's likely an expert in fighting all a manner of people (judging from the armor set she's wearing). She may be an altered player-warlock that the Grognard somehow brought into reality or a *very* low-ranking Eredar. I doubt he would have the sort of pull to subdue a full-fledged one.

rolled 34 = 34

>>17701945
>Assume that her pet already has picked up the scent of the team
Lore check.

>>17701945
>>17701953
Felhounds can be set to Aggressive, which causes them to attack enemies nearby. However, they have to first SEE the enemy, and also be CLOSE to the enemy. On all other settings, the Felhound will only attack an enemy mob if it is ordered directly to do so.

>>17701939
I vote to finish the main objective and head to the lower basement.

1. Determine patrol pattern of warlock

2. Sneak past warlock while using disillusionment charm.

3. Head to lower basement. Sabotage the stairs to the lower basement when the warlock is out of range.

>>17701975
You do not yet know the path to the lower basement!
How do you intend to find it?

>>17701975
Seems like a solid plan. Have Nightcrawler keep lookout during Step 3 if he's in the area. If not, carry on as planned.

>>17701948

More 'spergin.

Although since she fired off a deathcoil at Benny instead of fearing him and then loading him up with all a manner of afflictions, she might not be THAT experienced.

Other things to look out for:
-Felhunter pet = affliction 'lock. Avoid being spotted at all costs, she can kill us by just sticking fire-and-forget instacast DoT spells on our guys. She may also choose to cast fear on our troopers and then do so. If she gets surrounded, she'll do an aura of fear.

-PvPer = VERY BEEFY. She will also no doubt have a way to break any initial incapacitating spells we put on her. Her felhunter will also eat magical effects, and can likely sniff out magic.

-Pets and you: any damage received or knockouts on the felhunter will be known by the warlock almost immediately. The reverse is also true.

>>17701997
Wait until anything in / over the basement is across the building (across the farther-south Heating room), and slip across into the grey/black/unknown room across the hall from the team's location based on the last map update at
>>17701674
If we end up flubbing a roll and fighting, use Aresto Momentum, Protego, Stupefy, Expelliarmus, and Alarte Ascendere to neutralize the threats as quickly as we can.

>>17701997
So the purple arrows + staircase means "leads to upper floor" ?

>>17701966
>>17701975

The warlock has Detect Invisiblity up. She may see right away through any chameleon/invis spells.

>>17702036
How many minutes do you wish to search for the patrol pattern of the warlock?
How do you intend to find the way to the lower floor?
>and slip across into the grey/black/unknown room across the hall from the team's location
You do not know how to access this room yet
, as it has no obvious door!

>>17702046
Map legend here:
>>17701489
All stairs lead from basement to ground, and from ground to top.
If it is relevant, the "Bottom" side of the stair is at the south end, and the "Top" side of the stair is at the north end. There is a landing at the north end. To walk up 2 flights of stairs, one must walk through hallways for a short distance.

>>17702091
Waiting for player input.

>>17701975
>>17701975

A Bedazzling Hex might be a better idea for the warlock. That spell acts like a perception filter instead of an invisibility spell.

We could use chlorine gas on the warlock.

Still waiting on player input for a course of action.
At this point, I'll be taking the first one and not waiting for consensus.

>>17702091
1. Until we find it out (about 15 - 40 minutes). Can't risk screwing that up.
2. Then wait until it is expedient to head to the mysterious grey room to the East on the same side of the hall. If that fails, slip into a different room and search it.

>>17702213
Release the chlorine gas, wait for it to spread a bit, then bedazzle the warlock.

>>17702245

Don't forget that the warlock likely has one of those antimagic rings as well.

>>17702238
You abandon your search for the path to the lower basement for now.
You abandon your attempt to enter the grey room for now.
You spend a few minutes analysing patrol paths, and see...
After 6 minutes, the Warlock loses her Demonic Circle buff.
She patrols the basement in a clockwise direction, entering each room once, looking around, then returning.
The heartbeat upstairs patrols the top floor clockwise, then the ground floor clockwise, alternating between the two at the left stairwell.

>>17702340
Your forces are easily able to avoid detection by sheltering behind boxes in a second room.

You have currently explored:
2/14 basement rooms,
0/4 basement secrets,
4/4 basement hallways,
0/11 ground floor rooms,
0/? ground floor secrets,
0/4 ground floor hallways,
1/11 top floor rooms,
1/4 top floor hallways,
0/1 top floor secrets.

What do you wish to do now?
Waiting for player input.

>>17702361

If we have the time to rummage the mirror out of the bag o' holding, we could very carefully slide it under the door to spy inside the room where the two heartbeats are. Although we probably won't like what we see.

Also keep in mind that rummaging through the bag takes "two" rounds for items that are at the very bottom.

>>17702361
Would pointing out that warlocks no longer have Detect Invisiblity force her to follow the latest patch notes?

>>17702406
You rummage through the bag, and look at your own forces in the mirror.
Nightcrawler is slightly injured.
The Auror is not injured.

>>17702406
>>2 heartbeats
That's OUR TEAM.

>>17702406
If we have time, I second this, but if we don't, we might as well inspect the grey room directly to the right / East of us, to see what we can find. Mirror-check it, of course, and then Omnitool breach if necessary.

>>17702419
Doppelgangers. Damn that grognard is mentally disturbed.

>>17702416
Perhaps this is a warlock from another time.
>>17702434
The Omnitool has great difficulty cutting through brick. There is no obvious entrance.
Do you wish to break through the wall with the Omni-tool? This will take 30 minutes. There may be a faster way.

>>17702424
>>17702434

D'oh.

Might as well use it to peek inside the grey room to the next of us.

Also, do you wish to release chlorine, or keep chlorine sealed for now?

>>17702452
Break through the wall? Cast Defodio.

Do we release the chlorine gas in the hallway while the warlock isn't in sight range?

>>17702452
>Java time
IF we can simply mirror-peek under a door, then use that to check it before door-breaking.
ELSE inspect other, more easily accessible rooms and search for anything of interest. Want to cover ground quickly so we don't have to double-step over ourselves when we're in a pinch.
>>17702461
I say keep it sealed for now, save it for more troubled times.
>>17702472
Oh, good call. Silent, effective against brick and stone, and it'll let us dig quickly to the other room. If there's no obvious entrance, OP, let's go with this.

rolled 1 = 1

>>17702460
Mirrors on sticks have a very difficult time going through solid walls.

>>17702472
Defodio will indeed break through the wall.
You break through the wall and see...

>>17702486
We could also cast deprimo to instantly get to the lower basement while we're in a room. I'm thinking we make a wall of boxes to cover that we're in a second room, making holes to the grey room and to the lower basement?

>>17702499
Room full of shoggoths. . .

>>17702461

Releasing a burning, stinging gas might rouse suspicions that there's something wrong. This may cause the warlock to immediately try to find out what's causing that burning smell.

I say that we keep it in the can for now. We can use it to cover our escape or to disable combatants.

>>17702499
Ponies.
Ponies everywhere.

>>17702499
... The badly beaten, and slightly decomposed, corpse of this man.
Oh dear.
Requisitions may be able to raise him from death, but you would also need his soul, in addition to a piece of his body.

>>17702503
The Lower basement is beneath the MIDDLE of the basement, not the outer edges.

You have currently explored:
2/14 basement rooms,
1/4 basement secrets,
4/4 basement hallways,
0/11 ground floor rooms,
0/? ground floor secrets,
0/4 ground floor hallways,
1/11 top floor rooms,
1/4 top floor hallways,
0/1 top floor secrets.

You can use Defodio to break through walls, but this leaves an obvious gap.
You have the option of viewing the rest of the open basement rooms. Do you wish to do this? If so, how many minutes do you spend searching each room?
The Secret room containing the murdered corpse contains a Switch. Do you wish to press the switch?

>>17702538
1. Look for the normal entrance to the grey room.

2. Cover the line-of-sight of the broken down wall with boxes. Also set it up that we can hide behind it too.

>>17702538
>pic related
Well...
Well then.
Okay. We can, uh... recover the body later. Keep on the look-out for save-state storage or soul-containment devices.
>>17702560
Search each room for 10-15 minutes. Considering this size, this should be good for now. Let's hit the switch later, in case it does anything that alerts those above to our misbehavior.

>>17702538

This will be icky. But loot Flea's body.

A reparo spell might be in order to repair that wall before we abscond into the hallway. We don't want the warlock to see the massive gap we've created.

rolled 43 = 43

>>17702563
You look for the normal entrance to the grey room, and also cover the hole with boxes...

>>17702560
We can cast Reparo to repair the broken-down wall.

Yes! Press the switch, press the switch!

>>17702577
1. Definitely cast Reparo to cover our tracks whenever possible.
2. Switching my vote (ha ha) to activating the switch.

rolled 92, 93, 53, 85, 82, 10, 25, 35, 98, 42, 8, 63 = 686

>>17702573
By pressing a switch, a secret door to the room to the East opens!
How novel. A secret door.
With Reparo and Boxes, you are able to fix the hole into the room!
Nightcrawler reports that this room should be safe.

You loot the body. Murder and Kidnapping. Someone's going to die for their actions here.
>Search each room for 10-15 minutes.
There are 12 rooms remaining!
You opt to search each one for 10-15 minutes...

>>17702602

Ah, the grey room's been unlocked. Did we see the normal entrance to the grey room the team is in?

>>17702602
>All those 90+
Alrigty-
>8
>mfw

rolled 47, 62, 47, 48, 30, 38, 21, 4, 73 = 370

>>17702602
You have confirmed:
The first room you search has no loot, within the first minute. You move on.
The second room you search has no loot, within the first minute. You move on.
You found a SECRET SWITCH!
3rd: No loot, but not fully searched.
4th: No loot, almost entirely searched.
5th: No loot, almost entirely searched.
6th: You didn't find anything.
7th: You didnt' find anything
8th: You didn't find anything.
9th: You are absolutely certain that there is nothing here.
10th: You spot a heater. It is working.
11th: You spot a ladder to the basement 2nd floor! Upon using the ladder, it turns out to be simply a ladder leaning against a wall, and you have poor enough eyesight to mistake it for leading somewhere.
>lol 8
12th: You spot a heater. It is working.

You continue searching...

rolled 5, 86, 74, 97, 78, 1, 22 = 363

>>17702660
3rd: No loot. It is 75% searched.
4th: No loot. Fully searched.
5th: No loot. fully searched.
6th: No loot. Didn't find anything.
7th: No loot. Didn't find anything.
8th: No loot, didn't find anything.
10th: You spot a heater. You do not know if it is still working.
11th: You are overjoyed to find the ladder to the basement 2nd!
Upon using the ladder, it turns out to be the same ladder leaning against the wall. You really need your eyesight checked.
>lol 4
12th: This room is 75% searched. You have not yet found anything besides the heater.

You continue searching...

>>17702692
>8, 4, 1 for the same room
Pardon the cliche, but...
What is this?
I don't even-

>>17702692
Get to the grey room in the east. The door might be from the laundry room next too it.

rolled 89, 100, 95, 74, 14, 53 = 425

>>17702692
3rd: Nope.
6th: You found a SECRET SWITCH! This room is almost fully searched.
7th: Nothing. 75%
8th: You find ... MISSING SOCKS. ALL OF THEM. Surely, if the owner of this mansion were going to survive the events here, he would be overjoyed.
10th: 75%
11th: HOLY SHIT IT'S THE LADDER DO- wait no.
Fuck. There's gotta be SOMETHING unusual about this latter.
>Loot acquired: Ladder of Blindness
12th: 75%

You continue searching...

rolled 50 = 50

>>17702746
You have FULLY EXPLORED the entire basement, except for secret rooms, and the ladder room.
You have found:
3 SECRET SWITCHES.
1 Ladder of Blindness
>This was an ordinary ladder, but after rolling under 10 3 times in a row, then rolling a 14, it has acquired the mystic capability of hiding anything near it.

Do you wish to use the switches?

>>17702768
FLIP ALL THE SWITCHES!

>>17702768
...Yes, use the switches.
I might be bad at Nethack for this very reason, but it warrants exploration.

>>17702783
It has taken you 20 minutes to search the entire basement.
Not bad work!
(Each roll was for 30 seconds of Spot)

Inside the secret rooms, you find...
>Nothing
>Nothing
>It's that fucking ladder agai... wait.
>HOLY SHIT, IT'S ACTUALLY THE LADDER DOWN
>FOR REAL THIS TME

You go down the ladder.

rolled 81 = 81

>>17702803
You find paintings.
Giant paintings.
Paintings that seem alive.
Paintings that seem as though you could walk ... right ... through them.
In fact, this is what the Auror reports.
The paintings have been haphazardly slashed with a sharp object, and there is blood on the floor here.

In here, you have found:
1 Painting of Peach's Castle
1 Painting of a Chinese street
1 Painting of Rustboro Gym
1 Painting of a Forest
1 Painting of an ordinary City
1 Painting of a Japanese bedroom
1 Painting of a Medieval inn in a bustling trade district
1 Painting of the Digital world.
...
and 1 Half-finished painting of the final level of Bayonetta.
The paint is still wet.

>>17702865
The Auror reports a strong sense of Evil here, but none of these paintings are evil.

Do you wish to attempt to find the source of the Evil? If so, how long do you search for, and do you take any precautions?

>>17702865
Clearly, the Warlock is expendable. We can loot that painting and then... and then we ship it off to Holtz' sector base :D :D :D

Also, destroy the Bayonetta painting.

>>17702865

>1 Painting of a Chinese street
The Chunster's residence?

>1 Painting of Rustboro Gym
That one pokemanns girl trainer person. Roxanne.

>1 Painting of a Forest
Amalia

>1 Painting of an ordinary City
Sailor Mercury

>1 Painting of a Japanese bedroom
Miku.

>1 Painting of a Medieval inn in a bustling trade district
The Eredar warlock. She may have been acting as an infiltrator for the Burning Legion. We might get a hefty reward if we report her to the king, after all this is done.

>1 Painting of the Digital world.
Renamon

>>17702865
Awesome shit. Pinpoint canon travel that doesn't involve reverse-engineering or months of Farseer work!

We must loot some of this stuff, and get it to Holtz.

>>17702912
The warlock is non-essential. We must survive this mission and ship one of the paintings directly to Holtz.

rolled 75 = 75

>>17702897
The paintings have already been destroyed by someone else before you got here.
Let's get a Wisdom check as to why...
Of course, you loot the FUCK out of the paintings.

You have looted so far, on this floor:
>Moon stone
>Flea (body)
>Ladder of Blindness
>Paintings

>>17702914
You do not work for Holtz.
In fact, this quest is taking place considerably BEFORE /tg/ Metaquest.

>>17702939
>Let's get a Wisdom check as to why...
Rika, the Sailor Scouts, the Wakfu team, and some Pokemon trainers would be very concerned if they were to find someone missing ... and a painting appear around the site where they were last seen.
In fact, let's assume you could go THROUGH such a painting.
That would cause trouble. In fact, there might even be a fight as a result, in which someone's blood is spilled.
As such, keeping a portal open any longer than it needs to be ... is unwise.

>>17702865
>>17702874

Protego Horriblis on both Auror and Nightcrawler. It'll help if we get attacked by any evil creatures. A bedazzling hex would also help them escape the notice (quite literally) of any defenders.

You have found:
>BASEMENT CLEAR!
Sub-basement contains an evil presence, but you have not seen exactly where. Do you wish to search for it?
>>17702980
The Auror protects himself and Nightcrawler.

0/11 ground floor rooms,
0/? ground floor secrets,
0/4 ground floor hallways,
1/11 top floor rooms,
1/4 top floor hallways,
0/1 top floor secrets.

A look on the heartbeat monitor reveals something...
... You no longer have to deal with any patrols.

>>17702874

Searching for the source of the EBIL may be unwise IF the paintings are not the way in which the Grognard kidnapped the girls without relying on Shipper aid.

OP, can we get confirmation on this?

>>17703030

Oh shit.

They're either all descending down a platform of some sort to where we are, or they're all gathering to pool their power for something.

>>17703037
It's pretty obvious that the paintings are the means used to kidnap the girls.

You used COMMON SENSE!
You gain 1 unit of COMMON SENSE!

In any case, you must now decide what actions you will take.
You are in the sub-basement.
You are near an unknown source of EVIL. It may be in a secret room, but you do not know where.
There are unexplored rooms upstairs.

>>17703065

Can we get a formal confirmation that the primary objective is complete? It would give peace of mind.

Also, to the other questers: do we bug the fuck out now?

>>17703091
Your primary objective is NOT complete.
It is 50% complete.

MAIN GOAL:
#1. Find out what's allowing those characters to come in from other worlds, and swipe it.

SIDE GOALS:
#1: Investigate secret rooms.
#2: There's bound to be lots of loot in this place. Collect all the interesting loot you can. Note that we have no use for jewellery, but particularily unique items, magic items, tech, and powerups are all good.

SHIT TO AVOID:
#1: Don't kill any of the girls. You do this, you're fired.
#2: Injuries to the girls' health and sanity may cause problems in returning them to their canons. Try not to do this.
#3: Troops and Heroes are expensive to replace. Lose as few as you can.

After dealing with this evil, don't forget to look for painting equipment (brushes, palette, paint, anything else...) as a possible magic tool to make these canon-spanning paintings.

Have we spotted any larger chunk of the anti-magic crystal yet? That could offer excellent protection against evil magics.

We could potentially throw an almost-overloaded ring at a target (or evil thing we want to blow up) and intentionally overload it as a magic-bomb.

And how did this grognard make the enslaving chocolates? Anything that looks like a source of those might be worth DOSH / objective completion.

>>17702939
>In fact, this quest is taking place considerably BEFORE /tg/ Metaquest.
Awesome. Back when it was still the BPI and MetaTech was still a frontier science.
>>17702980
This, along with preparation of quick-cast Stupefy / Immobilis.
After that, let's prepare to head out, get this shit stowed on the transport, and try to head back one last time. Primary Objective is accomplished, so we can be a little faster-and-looser about other objectives.
...
Stupid Captcha delaying posts.
>>17703083
Let's begin a slow and meticulous search of the upstairs, so if we get chased out one last time, we can be done with this place.
>>17703091
No, no, let's gather intel and see if we can get one or two more secondary objectives out of the way before we go.

Speaking of which, OP, can you update the objectives chart so we know just what we're-
>>17703103
OH.
Well, let's search for the EBIL on the main floor. Restore the stairs to normal and begin a slow-and-stealthy exploration, using 15-20 minute inspections just like last time.

>>17702939
I see. Couldn't we save it, using a time capsule, and order some young chap to hold onto it until a certain date... Hey you, what-his-face! Hold onto this, and don't open it until 20XX. Make sure to give this to Commander Holtz at that time. Just trust me.

Stupid kid. He'll probably get himself killed sooner or later.

>>17703091
bugging out is only for when we're about to be faceraped. until then let's see if we can get some more loot.

If all the heartbeats are in that one place, then we ought to be able to bamf up to the unoccupied second floor and raid the shit out of it. Anti-muggle ward the stairs if you can, and silencio if it'll help.

>>17703115
>don't forget to look for painting equipment (brushes, palette, paint, anything else...)
And that, people, is why your goal is not yet complete.
>Have we spotted any larger chunk of the anti-magic crystal yet? That could offer excellent protection against evil magics.
Not yet.
>And how did this grognard make the enslaving chocolates?
They are an incredibly common item for the Shipper faction to have around. While this is not the only way one might acquire them, they are the single most requested item in the Shippers' inventory.

>Well, let's search for the EBIL on the main floor. Restore the stairs to normal and begin a slow-and-stealthy exploration, using 15-20 minute inspections just like last time.
Does anyone wish to confirm this?

If we can't pinpoint the source of the evil right away, I vote to move towards any painting equipment, and investigate for magic.

It could even be in the painting frames, or a magic easel they are painted upon. Start near the half finished painting; if the source of the paintings' power is an item, it should be near at hand.

Look, scan, but don't approach without caution, as that item could be the source of the evil as well.

>>17703146
yes.

>>17703083
>>17703122

That evil thing may be a nasty guardian beast... or a residual Horror that may have gotten locked in a containment room for whatever reason. It may also be an extremely powerful artifact oozing evil.

rolled 30 = 30

>>17703152
You look once.

>>17703152
and THAT is common sense.

>>17703132
This isn't Meta...
This is, ADVANCED META...
I'm going to say NO on our side before OP does the same, as that's equal parts uncalled-for-IC and useless-cheating.
BESIDES, as Codexfag, I can safely say that by the time Legit TG Quest rolls around, MetaTech is at a point where this'll be a needless hold-over of a primitive age.

Cheeky, but uncalled for.

>>17703132
We could do this during downtime between missions.

>>17703162
You know that evil is nearby, but do not know exactly where.
But it is close. Closer than any staircase.

Continue searching y/n?

Do we need the paintings to send the girls back to their respective canons? Just asking.

>>17703172
yes.

>>17703152
This poster.

We should locate the item / power source for these paintings FIRST, as it is our Primary Objective. I only put in the notes about looking for the source of Evil as it could prove dangerous to us.

Once we have the (possible) item secured, we can begin looking for more loot. With our primary objective complete, we can leave any time and the mission will not be an abject failure.

rolled 22, 34 = 56

>>17703188
>Do we need the paintings to send the girls back to their respective canons? Just asking.
Lore check! Very high modifier, you are likely to succeed.
>>17703194
Spot check.

>>17703202
Repairing the paintings will re-establish the portal. Requisitions will find this useful.

You haven't spotted anything yet.
... Perhaps if you tried using the Ladder of Blindness? Sometimes what you DON'T see...

If the auror has any detect magic in his arsenal, now's the time to use it. if it's the source of evil, dump it in the bottom of the BoH. Then we loot this fucker like it's a dwarven gold mine.

Something else occured to me - shouldn't the heart monitor be able to distinguish the speed of heartbeats as well as location? If they're all going fast then...well, you know. we ought to be able to go about with impunity if that's the case.

>>17703213
Good thinking.
Sweeping the Ladder of Blindndess around as we search and do double-passes might reveal things we were blind to before. I think. Hypotheses are tricky like that.
Regardless, let's continue our searches, using the Ladder as a secondary sweeping device (I guess).

rolled 74, 70 = 144

>>17703227
Almost all of them are slow, as if someone were asleep.
Two of them are active, but not stressed.
One is stressed.
>>17703228
You spot, once with the ladder, and once without...

I vote to have Nightcrawler pay careful attention to the surrounding area & the heartbeat sensor, while the Auror investigates the painting equipment very carefully, using spells to identify / sense magic.
This lets us investigate those items, while still having someone keep watch in case of evil attacking or other such nonsense.

If this doesn't pay off, we can try other things (perhaps even the Ladder).

>>17703172

Looking at the map, all of the people are concentrated into one dot. This could mean several things:

1.) Wish-fulfillment to the max (ew)

2.) Brainstorming session about how best to kick our asses after discovering trapped stairs (oh shit)

3.) All available warriors have been called to repel an invader that is distinct from our forces, and is enough of a threat to have the Grognard not care about us going inside and looting the place.

4.) Summoning ritual conducted by Grognard that requires guardians to protect him/subdue the beastie while he binds whatever he's summoning to his will.

#5.) An invader who is much more powerful than all the defenders combined has already been in the ground floor, and has already subdued all the defenders and the Grognard and has tied them up/knocked them out and is now patrolling the mansion for whatever reason. Perhaps he/she is after the same thing we are.

The picture also said HARD MODE ACTIVATED in the text next to the thumbnail. #1 and #3 would possibly be a break, unless we need to co-operate with the mansion defenders to help them to NOT DIE; since they're all bunched up together, though, #2, 4, and 5 are more likely.

>>17703267
They could also be gathered around the corpse of Benny Hill, figuring out what to do about it.

>>17703267

Also, said invader is either undead or mechanical or a magical construct or a supernatural outsider of some sort. None of these things seem to give off heartbeats on our motion sensor.

>>17703246
With the ladder, you notice:
...A ladder to the EVIL! You take it immediately, and ... run straight into a wall.

(When using the ladder to spot things, you take a -90 penalty to spot checks.)

But putting it away, you immediately notice a stone out of place...

(Had you have used the ladder and rolled a 40 or below, you would have found the way to Princess Peach's castle ... and accidentally walked into the Evil)

...pushing the stone reveals...
No, not the icon of sin. Just an ordinary evil altar. But all the pictures I could find of altars were all casual shit.
This evil altar is straight out of fucking doom. It has like ALL THE PENTAGRAMS and there's bloodstains everywhere.

A gem hovers in midair, turning steadily...

>>17703267

Since all the heartbeats are there, it's likely that the Eredar has already discovered the trapped stairs and/or fell down them a shitton of times. They may be empowering the anti-magic crystal to become more potent, thus cutting off a teleportation method of escape.

This would coincide nicely with HARD MODE ACTIVATED, and wouldn't require a deus ex machina.

>>17703319
The Auror requests your permission to disable this altar.

>>17703319

Sounds Warcrafty. I remember at least one altar setup like that in WoW. Could be typical Eredar magic using sacrifices to gain power. Or much worse.

LOOK at the crystal, but not directly into it. Has it been chipped or damaged or cut in any way?

>>17703350
filename

>>17703327
Use protection first (whatever anti-evil spells you've got). Then disable at will.

>>17703360
There's a soul in there! Grab it (through a healthy Protega 'magical hazmat' barrier)!
>>17703375
Only after we recover the Soul Jem.

>>17703327
>>17703360

Ah.

In that case, I vote that the Auror should proceed with the disabling.

But be ready for a fight. Could be helpful-feeling Flea in there, or it could be vengeful demon-spirit.

rolled 34, 14 = 48

>>17703375
The Auror attempts to disable the altar...
"MALUM INDUCO!"
(Aurors are trained to hunt down and destroy Dark Magic.)

>>17703393
fuck....

>>17703393
TG Dice! Why have you forsaken us?!

>>17703409
because its that time of night where the dice gods laugh at mortals.

>>17703393
And in a brilliant flash of light, you catch a glimpse of something...
"For the price of one soul ... all the women you could ask for, completely loyal to you, and only you..."
... the vision fades, and the evil fades.

The Altar is wrecked. In it, there was a book.
Do anything with the book?

>>17703416
Loot that for tech-secured analysis later. MetaCapable magic is always of importance. After that, let's head to the stairs leading to the Main Floor and double-check the heartbeat sensor. However, don't fix the stairs yet, as this shenanigan with the gem might have drawn attention to us...

>>17703416
aw shit.
cue music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6RUg-NkjY4

>>17703416

Forbidden spellbooks heavily involved with evil things. Dangerous stuff to handle.

Have the Auror take the proper precautions that Aurors use when prepping dangerous magical material for transport. Loot it, then take another look at the motion sensor.

>>17703393
>>17703406
>>17703409
Actually, you only got the Plot information BECAUSE you flubbed the roll so hard.

Upon the destruction of the altar, a thin blue line forms between the soul gem and your bag of holding.
You put the soul gem in your bag of holding for now.
>HIDDEN OBJECTIVE COMPLETE!

>>17703432
You loot the book.

Heartbeat monitor still shows everyone clustered in one room. Nobody's doing anything interesting.

Do you wish to go to the house, which is now undefended, and LOOT EVERYTHING y/n?

>>17703452
yes!

we just hijacked the SUE's powers.

>>17703467
You did not.
However, you did learn exactly WHO brought those magic paintings to James.
And what those paintings cost him...

>>17703473
yeah...
well i'm ot sure he can get more....

hopefully.

>>17703452
Take everything that isn't bolted down, then steal the bolts! Leave no container unlooted, for we are the Looters, we are the successors to the Kender, and we know no looting mercy!

>>17703452

All of them already know we're inside the house due to our blacking out the cameras and trapping the stairs. We still have to find the tools that the Grognard used to paint the pictures, so yes, we should. But proceed cautiously. Use the mirror to take glimpses around hallways and underneath doors. If the warlock's smart, she has probably set her pet to keep an eye on the basement while she's preoccupied.

>>17703452
Y
start with the second floor. take 5-10 minutes with each room, then if the monitor is still all clear, move to the ground floor. check diaries if there's time to do so.

The sailor moon transformation wand and the rare plant are for sure worth dosh, though the former will probably get sold/pawned to the TSAB. such is life.

>>17703481
>for we are the Looters, we are the successors to the Kender, and we know no looting mercy
a winrar is you, +5 internets sir.

Loot things carefully. Start in basement 2, and work our way up through basement one. Keep watch for heartbeats as we go.
Anything we think requisitions will want we grab. Otherwise ignore.

Double check the rooms with secret switches for possible loot.
Hell, double check the painting equipment just in case some magic / evil rubbed off on it. Not sure if we ever really checked it out, or if we went straight for figuring out the evil's source.

>>17703481
On your way to LOOT. DOWN. EVERYTHING. You spot something of interest.

Miku is kneeling next to the corpse of Benny, near the top of a staircase.
Her rifle is not within arms' reach
She looks upset.

>>17703515
Do your plans change as a result of this encounter?

>>17703515
ACCIO THE GUN!

>>17703527
take rifle from her?
then proceed to return to look fucking everything.

however this requires some folk to support because i understand this is risky.

>>17703527
not if we have invisibility and silencio up. it ought not to be hard to sneak around her, and worse comes to worse we can snatch her ring and sleep charm her.

If invis/silence has been compromised, avoid.

>>17703515

Miku feeling killer's remorse? After attempting to riddle him full of bullets as he was just doing his rather innocent (but grating) comedy routine?

The command staff part of me is telling me that this might be a prime opportunity to try to recruit her to our side. On the other hand, we don't have any space marines who are immune to 20th century munitions to do the talking for us.

>>17703452
If we search the house, we should black out any cameras we go near, so our foes cant track us as well.

we should have the auror use his wallcutting spell again on the other voids, from an adjacent room with the door closed, AFTER we black out that levels cameras.

i think we should black out the cameras before we search for any loot.

Maybe we should use that spell we used on the walls on the staircases, so we can teleport between levels, but they cant get up or down easily?

>>17703544

Miku is a robot. She may not be affected by any mental charms of any sort.

OP, is she directly in our path? Do we have to deal with her before we proceed to loot the rest of the house?

>>17703532
>>17703536
You Accio the gun.
Miku watches it slide away from her, and makes no attempt to grab it.
She looks at your general direction and says, "I'm Sorry."

>>17703416
Okay, looks like Grognard killed Flea himself in exchange for Meta-Capable magic. The question is, what powers are both willing and able to make such a bargain? And of those powers, how many have pacts and bargains as a major part of their schtick?

Regardless, we now know how the grognard is carrying out abductions.

Ordinarily, I'd recommend setting a lethal trap down here, but we don't know if the guards might wander down here, so it's really too risky ulness we can definitively rule out the chance of anyone except grognard coming down here.

>>17703567
now we should probably feel bad and get her the fuck out of here, because it counts when we can save someone folks.

>>17703567
It's a trap, you fools. Disable her while you still can.

>>17703565
She is not directly in your path.

>>17703572
You will disable cameras.

>>17703572
Strange. Lucifer mentioned the price of the girls being "1 soul", but you clearly have Flea's soul with you.

>>17703577
You may either avoid her, disable her, or talk to her.
Which will you do?

>>17703590
Use Diffindo on Miku.

>>17703572

The powers that do such a thing are many and numerous. From the OPs picture, it may have been the Lucifer from the Marvel Comics universe. He's more or less the biblical devil, but given the Marvel Comics treatment.

>>17703590
AVOID!

we have no reason to make contact, she's going to be reformatted before her return to her native canon and she isn't aggroing us. Just go around and loot everything else.

>>17703590
talk to her, she seems no longer hostile.

>>17703616
>>17703590

AVOID! It's an AMBUSH. Miku may be a lifelike robot with complex emotions and such, she was still subverted in a way so that she was totally loyal to the Grognard.

She'll receive all the help she'll need when she's rescued by the Transpace Guard military arm. Let us move on.

>>17703626
this.
she feels bad.
but be careful while doing so.

>>17703630
Well, she didn't go for the gun when we pulled it away. Maybe stealing the gem released them.

>>17703590
Duh. Groggy used his own soul, then resurrected himself as a lich. Have we even seen the fatso?

4 for avoid.
2 for disable.
3 for talk.
Seems this situation wasn't as clear cut as I assumed the players would make it!

If you wish, you may spend 1 COMMON SENSE to receive some hints on how you should act.

>>17703590
>>17703616
It's just a copy of Miku. Use Reducto on her to eliminate a possible thread.

>>17703590
Hmm. Perhaps Fatass killed some random (read: not canon-essential) person instead.

As for Miku, I'd say talk is plan A, disable is plan B. I'm assuming that "disable" causes moderate harm here. If disable causes no permanent damage, just Disable.

>>17703646
talk, and a common sense.

>>17703646
i think she should be talked to because of the fact that she isn't armed AND she seems to genuinely feel bad. ALSO we can always GTFO is something happens.

>>17703633
It's a trap. Destroy the robot.

>>17703646
Fine, we'll spend a point of COMMON SENSE.

>>17703630
Agreed. Move on.

>>17703665
Seconding this. If she had any intention of fighting, she'd have tried to keep her rifle. Even if she does get rowdy, we can hex her, disable her, and lob her through the portal to her own canon.

>>17703590
Maybe the guy used his own soul to start off, and now is trying to trade the one in the gem to get his own one back?

Maybe each soul is only good for so many girls?

If we talk to the robogirl, we should use our radios to communicate, so she cant track us by sound.

i suggest we place a radio nearby and have one of our team go further away so they cant be heard by the robot and talk to her, with the auror ready to disable her if she tries anything. nightcrawler should take the gun, teleport to another room, quickly hide it, then get the radios (ONLY if he has line of sight, we dont want accidents) if the auror needs to disable the robot, he should ACCIO RING then disable her, or if he cant get the ring, use enviromental spells to avoid the antimagic properties of the ring. (cutting away the floor, ice floor, slow feild, or whatever you guys suggestg)

Real Miku is a program, not a robot.

This one may be recruitable. Talk to her.

>>17703648
>>17703650
>>17703661

are you all stupid? you're forgetting that, like everyone else here, she's been charmed to fall in love with grognard.

Talking to her might raise an alarm.

disabling her will almost DEFINITELY raise an alarm.

It's not going to take much to just sneak around her and loot everything else.

>>17703641
>Have we even seen the fatso?
Fat, Smelly, Ugly, Scrawny. Alive.

>>17703661
COMMON SENSE is worth it. However, this involves OP telling you some things, rather than you figuring it out for yourself.
Since you have not yet used this, I'll give you this one.

COMMON SENSE:
Miku is a civilian robot built primarily for entertainment. She has interest in friendship, and no interest in killing.
Robots cannot eat Chocolate. She is not affected by its charm effect.
Going through walls is a good way to escape a magic field. Trying to do this could result in backlash upon your Auror.
Going through windows, by walking through them instead of using magic, cannot trigger anti-magic.
Talking to people who have surrendered and are friendly is a good way to find useful information.
If the enemy has given up on patrols, it has likely also given up on security monitoring.

>>17703698
>implying she wouldn't have already pulled the alarm just by seeing us.
she would have done so already if she was hostile, its only common sense, god damn.

>>17703701
Talk to her, she seems sorry.

so talking because it makes no sense she would flip out now.

>>17703701
And, finally:
Notice how your mission objective is "Don't kill the girls, dumbass"
The person suggesting she be Diffindo'd is either trolling or incredibly, incredibly stupid.

>>17703701
Seems Miku has good intent. Let's share our condolences for Benny, and see if we can talk her into helping us out in regards to finding out where her room is to see if she has anything that can help us get her back home with her friends. That might not be our end intent, but it would help to get on her side.

>>17703701
>>17703665

Alright. Let's talk to her.

Nightcrawler was a monk or priest once. He can likely help out Miku if anyone can right now.

But be ready to BAMF out if any funny business occcurs.

>>17703730
that makes sense, now we are starting to finally get back in the swing of things ever so damn slowly.

You opt to talk to Miku via a radio in case this is a trap, and the Auror has his spells ready.

"I'm sorry. I never wanted to kill anyone."
"When the Master came through that painting, I ... I thought I could meet new friends. Sing songs for them. Enjoy their company."
"And I did. We enjoyed each-others' company ... a lot. Master seemed genuinely ... Happy. And so was I."
"But I never wanted this to happen."
"I know why you're here. Us girls, we ... we have other places to be, right? And you've come to take us back there?"
"I know. Peach told me. She gets kidnapped all the time. She and Bowser, they ... exactly like this. Even with the ropes and all!"
"And then Mario comes and saves her."
"So, I'm guessing, that's what you're here for, right?"
"Well, I surrender."
"And I'm sorry about your friend. He didn't - he shouldn't - have had to die."

>>17703758
"Master's in the generator room now, he thinks you're going to kill him."
"Please. Please promise me you won't kill him? Or any of the other girls?"

>>17703758
>>17703769
Player now has the option to respond.
Do you have any comments on the situation, Player?

>>17703769
Don't worry Miku, our job isn't to kill, our job surveylance and infiltration.

>>17703769
HOLY SHIT WE CAN GET OUT OF THIS BY JUST TIEING UP THE GROGNARD AND BRING HIM AND HIS ENTIRE HORDE OF WOMEN TO BASE, AND IN ADDITION LOOT EVERYTHING!
WE ARE BEST LOOTER!

>>17703769
"We won't. We promise, and we keep our promises."
Actually, can we ask Miku to go to the generator room so we can quite possibly talk to this guy himself and ask for a peaceful surrender? It'd be better than dragging him out by force, for sure. Might also be able to negotiate the surrender of the girls for safe return, and the possible mitigation of sentences later on for his cooperation.

>>17703800
Hmm. Worst case scenario is a fight we'd have to get into anyway. Go for it, but re ready to retreat in case things get too hot to handle.

>>17703783
>Don't worry Miku, our job isn't to kill, our job surveylance and infiltration.
... "Surveilance and ... oh!"
"Master likes to watch us. In our bedrooms. In our showers. He has cameras set up, they feed into his bedroom."
>Trollface.jpg nobody was watching the cameras to begin with lolo, they were for voyeuring, not security

>"We won't. We promise, and we keep our promises."
"Thank you."
Miku attempts to hug ... nothing.
>Actually, can we ask Miku to go to the generator room so we can quite possibly talk to this guy himself and ask for a peaceful surrender?
"I can try. I'll bring the radio so you can talk to him, if it's okay."

Do you want to try this?

We won't kill him. As long as he doesn't resist...
You should gather up the rest of the girls, so we can transfer you off to your respective... homeworlds, once we're done here. Thank you for cooperating.
Benny... had a good run. If it makes you feel any better, we forgive you.

>>17703758
We should have her go wait somewhere safe away from the mansion, where she cant backstab us.

Can the auror use magic to make her appear normal to the public?

We could rent a room at a nearby hotel or leave her somewhere else safe and out of the way?

We should be gentle, but cautious, because this might be a trick so we cant have her nearby while looting, but we need her safe.

What do you guys think of this?

Also, could we steal an internet or wireless security camera to keep tabs on her, or would that be too hard?

>>17703769

There's no need to worry about that. The other girls will be returned to their homes. Your master will suffer no harm from us, either. If he comes along with no further trouble from him or the other girls, we promise to do everything in our power to ensure his well-being.

But if we're to do this, we need to know what your master used to get the other girls. We know about the paintings, but we weren't able to find what he used to construct them. Do you know of any place where we could find such a device?

>>17703812
"Yes, please. Can you take the radio with and ask if we can talk to him? We won't hurt him if he cooperates, and we only want the best ending for everybody that we can get."

Yes, send Miku with the radio so we can try to negotiate with the Grognard.

>>17703823
We still need the corpse as evidence of murder.

>>17703823
You send Miku in to talk to the Grognard while you search for more loot.
You notice that Miku opens a refrigerator in the kitchen and ... walks straight through.
Secret doors these days.

>>17703812

>trololol

I keep forgetting that we're dealing with a nervous wreck of a pervy neckbeard. He could have had us easily if he were more aggressive.

As for having Miku talk to the Grognard... it might be worth considering. If Groggy panics, he could send all of his harem on a rampage. That would be very bad for us. On the other hand, we need to find the other stuff that the Grognard used to paint those pictures ASAP. We should have Miku help out with that regardless of our actions.

>>17703831
>be awesome enough we get ALL the objectives done, and nobody even getgs injured except for 3rd party folk.

>>17703831
"FUCK you."
"FUCK you, And your friend, and the pommy faggot. I'm glad I killed him."
"You ASSHOLES break into MY house. To steal MY women. And you think you're so good just because you can teleport and go invisible?"
"Well guess what, FUCKHEADS. I've got a secret weapon here and you're all going to be DEAD. And then I'll laugh at your corpses."
"I've got all of my best guards right here, and YOU CAN'T TOUCH ME. You don't even know where I am."
"So nice try, fuckers. Eat shit and die."

You can FEEL the inferiority complex.
FEEL it.

>>17703865

Well.

Time to get to looting even faster.

What should we do about Miku, now?

>>17703865
i feel like this fuck is from /b/
god damn it.

i wish we could kill it with fire TBH.
but we can't yet.

>>17703865

If the Grognard had a secret weapon, he would've have used it already, I say. Turtling is a very bad strategy.

rolled 7 = 7

>>17703885
>What should we do about Miku, now?
For now, she is in the center room.

>Time to get to looting even faster.
Right you are.
Do you wish to LOOT EVERYTHING?
Because I bet you wish to LOOT EVERYTHING.
Also, how are you finding secret rooms? Are you searching for their switches, going through walls, or doing something else?

Rolling 1d100 for Miku...

>>17703906
yes, yes it is.

>>17703914
WHY IS IT OUR ROLLS ALWAYS SUCK?
GOD DAMN IT.

>>17703865
We have your crystal. Come out and surrender or we'll destroy it and free the women.

I'm pretty sure they can figure out things far worse than we can.

(We also want copies of the surveilance footage)

>>17703865
Hey prick, a few birds told me (extend middle fingers) to go fuck yourself.
Fire everything we have at this fatass.

>>17703914
... The radios in your bag of holding emit a tuning in/seeking frequency, but no sound comes out of them.
"What the fuck are you doing, you stupid robot?"
"... Um ... telling them to leave nicely?"
"That won't fucking work you useless piece of metal shit. You have to tell them to FUCK OFF."

>>17703929
>[X] Throw raidah out of the airdock.

>>17703865
I suggest we say the following:
"You're right, we can't come in there. But we don't need to. Tell me, do you have water in that hidey-hole of yours? Food for you and your guards? A working bathroom? We can stay here indefinitely. You can't. Take your time answering, we're in no hurry."

>>17703914

If we find the other 50% of our objectives, it might be worth bugging out. But I be the other 50% of our objectives is probably hidden, so we should look for hidden switches and such. As always, keep an eye on the heartbeat monitor. We may need to bug out at any moment.

Should we have Nightcrawler ready to BAMF down and rescue Miku if the situation calls for it?

>>17703914
Search for switches and the like. Failing that, blow out the wall, search the interior, repair on the way out.
>>17703929
Bad raidah! Bad!
Keep him talking, keep him pressured, and keep him and his girls holed up while we continue playing CSI Hardcore.
>>17703935
Oh, you just stepped over a thin moral line that I usually don't see crossed.
Loot with impunity, with a smile on our faces as we tear open dressers and flip over cabinets.
>>17703941
If the anti-magic is gone, then certainly. Saving Miku is always an admirable goal.

>>17703937

DON'T PROVOKE THE NECKBEARD.

He is human scum. BUT HE ALSO HAS VERY DANGEROUS BODYGUARDS. AS LONG AS HE IS TURTLING, HE WILL POSE NO THREAT TO US.

If we anger him and he sends out the warlock to deal with us, that would be VERY BAD.

>>17703929
Fuck off, raidah. We can't bring out the artillery with all these canon-centric characters in the blast zone.

>>17703949
this.

>>17703926
>We have your crystal. Come out and surrender or we'll destroy it and free the women.

The Neckbeard's reply is unnerved.
"So. ... ... I ... I didn't know he was a guy, okay."
"What the fuck are you meant to do when you find a hot girl, and it turns out it's not a girl at all?"
"And it's not like he was USING his soul, right?"
... "Anyway, why the fuck do YOU care? It's just some dude. He won't be missed. And neither will you. So piss off now, shitheads."

>"You're right, we can't come in there. But we don't need to. Tell me, do you have water in that hidey-hole of yours? Food for you and your guards? A working bathroom? We can stay here indefinitely. You can't. Take your time answering, we're in no hurry."
Again, there is no reply.
"I've got ... something even better. Yeah."
"So fuck off now or you'll be REALLY sorry."

The radio goes dead.

>>17703949
Flip over cabinets? If we have the infinite space bag of holding, just shove them in to look through later.

rolled 32 = 32

Rolling for loot speed.
If you wish to taunt the neckbeard beardneck, you may taunt the neckbeard beardneck. He does not have anything useful to say.

>>17703963
Scry for the location of the Walkie Talkie using the bowl. I want to see if that room's still protected.

>>17703985
this.

>>17703984
>Neckbeard, Last Son of Beardneck
This guy right here needs some drawfagging, pronto.
>17703963
Seconding this, as we want to see exactly what his situation is at the moment.

We need to pacify him. Pretend to work out a deal with him to satisfy his ego. He needs to feel like he's winning, otherwise he'll just keep bitching and moaning.

>>17703985
All you get is an image of an anti-magic crystal.
A ...
... It's not MEANT to be glowing like that. Is it?

It is glowing a light green.

>>17703985

Maybe we could use the scrying bowl to scry inside the room that the Grognard is hiding in? It would be worth seeing what he's cooking up in there, if anything.

Also, let's rev up the scout craft and be ready to pick up our troops.

>>17703955
Oh, fine. In that case, we can simply wait him out.
Auror, set up some nonlethal traps, if possible. We don't want to kill any guards, but sedative or restraint-based subdual seems viable.

>>17703963
You're such a grognard that your penis probably plugs into a flash drive.

Oh wait, lets ask Miku if it's true. . .

>>17704001
fuck hes gonna start using the crystal to attempt to fry our ass.

>>17704001

Oh hell.

He's trying to overload the anti-magic crystal, isn't he?

As much as I want to turn around and sleep, I have to stay awake to make sure you guys don't flub your next mission's preparation.

>>17704014
AND kill everyone in the mansion.

We have the gun. He doesn't know we have the gun.

>>17704001
Oh shit Shazbot, what is he doing?
He's going to blow it up, isn't he?
Stupid man. If it shows signs of actual destabilization, we might have to do hit-and-run evacuation of the Grognard with teleportation so he doesn't kill his ass (and the girls, and the evidence) dead.

If we can, tell him that he doesn't want to end this badly for himself, and that if he calms down, we can work through this.

>>17703984
Why don't you come out and fight man to man. . . and not in a pokemon battle.

You're not important - you're just an NPC!

>>17704001
tell him how overloading an anti magic crystal is only going to succeed to get himself killed.

ask if he really wants to be the one to have blood on his hands for murdering himself, and his precious women.

they are of no consequence to us, let him know that.

>>17704003
This. Definitely this. If we're going to get into a standoff situation here, let's at least see if he has a method of sustaining himself.

So... we probably need to take care of whatever he's doing, otherwise all of the girls go boom.

We could try talking over the radio and attempting to reason with the girls to turn on the Grognard since he is attempting to kill them all. This is probably not going to work.

We could attempt to throw flashbangs into the room, probably incapacitating the neckbeard and disorienting his guards. Nightcrawler could try some BAMF-fu (like in the x-men movie!) to knock out people. Auror could provide support.

>>17704038
no.
just let us say:
>>17704040

>>17704040

I'm not sure if lying and saying that the girls are of no value to us will help us in any way.

That will probably piss off Miku and any other girls who are having second thoughts.

The Grognard would likely blow it up anyway out of sheer spite.

>>17704000
>Pretend to work out a deal with him to satisfy his ego.
You get the impression that his ego is a bottomless void to which reality falls into and dies.
>You're such a grognard that your penis probably plugs into a flash drive.
You hear a robotic giggle on the other end of the radio.
"Well, YOURS doesn't plug into anything!"
"Actually, zere are many interesting girls at Xavier's mansion. Zey know sings like du would not even beleive."
"And excuse me, sir, believe me when I say that magic has its uses. In particular, I believe there is a spell called 'Erectum Penetratio Infinitus'."
The radio is silent again, before a scream of rage is heard.

>tell him how overloading an anti magic crystal is only going to succeed to get himself killed.
"Overloading the wha? ... Yeah, that's a good idea. Hey, Blueberry, cast some spells on this thing."
"Excuse me, sir, but on our home planet, we do not blow ourselves up in a futile attempt to thwart our enemies. ... Usually. Of course, they say 'Exodar' is eredun for 'Defective Elekk Turd', so sometimes, it happens by accident."
"Fuck YOU. I said DO IT."
"And I would say: You are far too beautiful to lose in an explosion, darling."
"Fine, whatever."

>ask if he really wants to be the one to have blood on his hands for murdering himself, and his precious women
"I've got blood on my hands Riiiiiiiiight Nooooow."
"It's red paint."
"SHUT UP."

You loot the mansion.

>>17704075
note looting is first on our list.

technically the only thing about killing them is:
>#1: Don't kill any of the girls. You do this, you're fired.

we arn't killing him, his stupid ass is.
we are completely moral free on this and /tg/ req can't blame us if they become suicide bombers.

>>17704077
>>17704077

Go over our loot. Have we accomplished primary objectives?

>>17704075
I agree here. Fatass seems like the sort to blow it up anyway, and he's already proven his willingness to kill.
Remind him that we can teleport away, and he can't.

...

Wait, can we combine our scrying with the heartbeat sensor to see which blip is him? If so, we can try to snipe him through a floor/ceiling/wall with Miku's rifle. It's dangerous, but we can't let him overload that crystal.

>"It's red paint."
welp, magic paint and stuff is in there.

we NEED to go in to finish this.

fuck.

rolled 100 = 100

>>17704077
You have received loot:

>Mario mushrooms
>Bounce plant seed
>Piranha plant
>Sailor moon Transformation wand
>Flower. It is pretty.
>Empty Soul crystals
>Soul crystal (Flea)
>Corpse (Flea)
>Magic ore of some kind
>A rod of disguise. Transforms you into a furbolg
>A Moon stone
>TM: Rock Tomb
>Details that say that the Fatass is just a normal human.

Your Scout craft approaches for immediate pickup. But there is one thing left to do...

>>17704077
Check mother-fucking Mate.
Let's look over the loot from the mansion and see if we can identify the magical painting materials that were used for the portal-portraits.

>>17704077
Is he in his bedroom, or a control center?

If he's not in his room, taunt him with the threat of running a magnet over his harddrives and destroying his WoW authenticator.

>>17704111

We could flashbang the room that he's in, then have Nightcrawler BAMF in and out with him.

Then as we're making our getaway, we activate the rats to slow down intruders.

>>17704077
Red paint?
...check for paintings in his location RIGHT NOW, what if he is attempting an escape through a painting?

>>17704121
>nat 100
I don't have enough reaction images for this thread.

We could use deprimo to collapse the floor he's on and incapacitate him. Also, we could simply cast Defodio, because we already know where he is.

We could transfigure a flashbang into a tiny insect and then revert it back and make it detonate right under the neckbeard.

rolled 12, 93, 43 = 148

>>17704121
MARIO FUCKING 64 FUCKING STAR HIDDEN IN THE FUCKING CHIMNEY OUT OF LINE OF FUCKING SIGHT.
Your scout craft just rammed the chimney and found it by accident.
Also, the magic barrier on the house is ... entirely stable.

You also looted:
>Ladder of Blindness

You have discovered:
>The secret room on the top floor is where he keeps his porn stash. It seems ... both as though he goes here alone, and that the room is regularily used.
The assassin team will want this.

Miku attempts thrice more to send a covert message to your team...

>>17704130
i'm ok with this.

>>17704077

He's not planning to overload the crystal.

>>17704132
>>17704132

What this guy said. He's either trying to escape or trying to paint a picture that'll let him summon up something huge what will kick our asses.

We could like, ratzerg him right now and then flashbang. Or use transfiguration to sneak in the flashbang.

We should try to avoid seeing any of them killed, as requisitions may not care if we didn't specifically pull the trigger.

Loot, maybe idly taunt the guy, but we aren't trying to provoke a strong reaction or anything, just keep him preoccupied.

If we can get them out safely awesome, but if we can't then it's not on our list of things to do.

>>17704150
>93
Halfway through looting, Miku sends you a message.

"We're here. We're safe. He's not trying anything. He's sitting on a defense turret; I've hacked it to shut it down. I can't stop the girls from fighting you, though."
"He's making a painting, but he's only just now finished the undercoat. I think you have enough time."
"Still, I think you should get those paints away from him..."

>>17704173
yeah but they have our other half of the primary objective by having the magic paint and stuff.

>>17704160
>red paint
>summon something powerful instead of escaping
SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT, PREPARE FOR DEMONS

>>17704177
Can we go to the floor above him and cast a spell popping a hole in the floor (and water pipes) to soak the room and ruin the paints?

One final objective remains:

#1:
Break through the floor, Flashbang and Rat and Chloro and LADDER your way to victory, loot the paint, and get the fuck out.

I want one neckbeard in this thread to roll a single 1d100.

>>17704177
>>17704166

Motion to commence operation: FLASHBANG SPAM + RATZERG + BAMF IN TAKE PAINT + BAMF OUT AND GTFO.

rolled 1 = 1

>>17704193
here's the attempt

rolled 78 = 78

>>17704193
>>17704193

Rollin'

we should:
>flashbang into the room
>nightcrawler BAMF's in
>goes to incapacitate the grognard
>hold him as captive
>drag him and the girls out through captive.
>bring to /tg/ req.
throw fucking party afterwards.

>>17704203
YOU FOOL

>>17704193
>>17704194

"Accio paint."

>>17704203
I never authorized this.
I NEVER ASKED FOR THIS.

>>17704203
and i'm off to kill myslef since we fucked up so badly.

>>17704203
FUCKING DICE!

>>17704215
Well, duh. We should have thought of that ahead of time.
God damn. We keep missing the little things.

rolled 65 = 65

>>17704203
FUUUUUUUUUCK

>>17704203

>>17704191
Yes there is a HPverse spell for that but you need to apply it creatively to get the effect.

>>17704203
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U43Ate3Itjs
Watch it.

just wondering guys are we cut off from reinforcements /supplies?

>>17704241
Let us burn our last bulb for a reroll?

>>17704241
Fuck. Mission over, total failure?

>>17704261
At the very least, "accio paint", even when flubbed, should at least spill all his paints, right?

>>17704241
welp, we are literally dead.
like murdered in our sleep dead.

>>17704241
Let me guess: he summoned a nuke, everyone dies.

>>17704261
Seconding this. Using COMMON SENSE to avoid a certain execution pattern or moment of timing should warrarnt it, correct?
(Also, I don't want the fucking quest to end before the first mission is over, and neither do you.)

>>17704279
Seconding this.

A shuddering crack is heard as your Auror and Nightcrawler break through the floor.
Their invisibility is dispelled instantly, but they have initiative!
As they drop through the floor, Miku bashes the Anti-magic crystal. It shudders for a moment!
"I've got the paint, Get me out!"
Miku clings tightly to Nightcrawler.

A flare of rats and flashbangs and traps and everything catches the defenders completely off guard.

Save for the Neckbeard.

Who utters one final phrase...
"Great Kālī. Mistress of Death. Come unto me now. I offer you my Chocolate, my House, and my Soul. Accept my offerings and join with me."
The painting isn't even 10% done. There's no way in fuck you can summon a god through that.
>1
A heaven-rending roar is heard.
"Your Soul is absent."
"Your House is wanting."
"Your Chocolate ... is tasty."
"I understand you have a problem with some intruders. Shall I help you with them, master?"

>>17704284
Above the house, the Transit craft reads a HUGE spike in reality emissions. As though this world had opened itself up unto Death herself.
It spools its transit drives.

You have one action.
What do you do?

>>17704284
welp, fuck me in the ass, we have ourselves walked into the den of fire and i do not believe we are walking out of this one folks.

>>17704284
Reducto the painting.

>>17704297
Teleport to the ship

>>17704284
There are no words.
Grab Grognard and teleport out as far away as possible, assuming we haven't been TPK'ed already.

>>17704302
seconding this, hoping to god it works.

>>17704284
A fucking Hindu goddess of slaughter?
...shit

Well, I have a plan that might work, as in, one in a million chance.

Use the crystal with the soul of Flea on Neckbeard Beardneck

TPK, fun times to be had.

Also, seconding ESCAPE.

>>17704284
>Kali
>KALI
>THAT KALI
>mfw
>>17704297
Reducto / Sectumsempra that painting and cut the connection through destruction.
OR
Grab the 'Nard, GTFO.

Votes?

>>17704303
>Teleport to the ship immediately
This is the only option COMMON SENSE will allow.

Need a 1d100 from you folk.
Just one.
>one

>>17704318
voteing fuck that painting up.

Quickly! dispell the chocolates magic!

FINITE INCANTIUM!

rolled 95 = 95

>>17704326
here we GO

>>17704326
>>17704332
FUCK YOUR RAILROADING, WE ARE KILLING THAT DAMN PAINTING, FUCKING UP HIS SUMMON AND KILLING A GOD IN THE PROCESS.
FUCK THAT AND FUCK YOU!

>>17704326
Teleporting to the ship-
>>17704332
ANON, YOU ARE COOL, AND YOU SHOULD FEEL COOL BECAUSE OF IT.
HOLY SHIT, THIS IS GOING TO BE A WEIRD AFTER-ACTION REPORT TO WRITE UP, ISN'T IT?

>>17704332
>95
We might not be dead after all.
Given Kali's power, I'm hoping that the chocolate's effects will wear off quickly.

>>17704284
>>17704326

Let's hope that this is the DC canon and the Spectre decides that he has had enough of this summoning gods shit for one day.

>FUCK YOUR RAILROADING, WE ARE KILLING THAT DAMN PAINTING, FUCKING UP HIS SUMMON AND KILLING A GOD IN THE PROCESS.
FUCK THAT AND FUCK YOU!

*laugh*

Okay.
Who wants to attack the painting?
Who wants to get out immediately?

>>17704360
Leave. Destroying the painting will likely just leave us trapped here with a pissed off Grognard and his pet god.

>>17704360
sorry just annoyed because last DM i had massively railroaded like that.

i still vote for killing it, because damn we suck otherwise.

>>17704360
I vote we teleport out and ride that 95 to relative mission victory. If we can grab the Grognard and/or Miku, let's do that, in that order if we can't carry both.

>>17704360

LET'S GET THE HELL OUT. PREFERABLY NOW TIME STAT.

To the rest of you nimrods who want to take on this person: this may be feasible if we were the TG metaquest crew. But right now we don't even have so much as a single man-sized reality emitter to help us out.

Again: LET'S GTFO.

>>17704379
On the bright side, even if we lose our two heroes, we still technically won. . .

We're just getting our asses fired.

>>17704378
also an addendum on this:
we don't kill the painting, the goddess will kill everyone else there, which means the girls die which means we still lose guys.

>>17704378

The point of these quests is to carefully think out what the consequences of our actions or suggestions may be.

Please, PLEASE PLEASE WORK ON THAT IN THE FUTURE.

>>17704407
Well, DM, can we use the 95 to destroy the painting and possibly win, or do we have to use it to bug out? I'd really rather the first, as I can imagine many others would as well.

>>17704426
i vote this, being able to do good damage>running and letting the girls die.

i vote we fight.

The Grognard adjacent to the painting has an anti-magic ring, good for at least one (1) blocked hostile spell.
There is an anti-magic orb right goddamn there.
The Warlock has activated her PvP trinket and is right now about to cast Instant Death Coil on Nightcrawler.
Her Felhunter has the Auror targetted and is ready to spell lock.
And Kali would not appreciate your attempts to destroy her.

You would, in fact, easily be able to attack the painting.
In fact, with a 95, it would have stopped the summoning.
You would then INSTANTLY be met with Howl of terror, bashed to shit by everyone.

Common sense tells you this.
You went against common sense.
You really want not to railroad? Fine.

You.
Suffer.
An.
Inglorious.
Death.

Kali is above our DOSH grade.
We should just bug the fuck out.

We can't guarantee rolling another 95 to kill her.
Can't even guarantee the women would help us, even after their master sacrificed them to Kali.

>>17704446
Would you like your possessions identified?

fuck it were gone.

>>17704434
>>17704430
>>17704378
>>17704344
>>17704166

raidah, why do you even try?

>>17704446
Damnit, I posted a minute too late?!
Man, you guys...

>>17704460
It was a good run, guys.
Also, raidah?
A thousand dicks in your religion.

In b4 Rynex superplay demo to show up everyone.

>>17704446
>>17704460
This has been the worst way I ever had to misuse a near perfect roll.

Really? Fight against a god of death?

You guys are idiots.

>>17704460
[Y]es

At least we weren't fired.
Death is better than that, right?
Right?

...wait
We had one common sense bulb left.

>>17704460
Might as well, at least the guys on the ship managed to bring it home.

>>17704497
Common Sense bulb said leave or die.

People ignored it.

>>17704498
You know that the "ship" is a dinky civilian prop plane, right? The something-something ranger model?

Guys.... why.... would you even consider fighting A GOD?

In the main quest, we only were able to take on the WEAKENED SHADOW of a deity because we had extensive equipment, an alpha-level psyker being supported by powerful telepaths, and HUGE AMOUNTS OF FUCKHUEG POWERFUL GRUNTS! And a fair amount of PLOT helping us out too!

What made you guys even THINK that taking on a FULL-FLEDGED DEITY WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA AT ANY POINT?

>>17704506
Because we were knocking out a hastily made summon support. Lesson learned: Just go with whatever the fuck OP wants us to do, because he is a cruel and unforgiving Questmaster.

>>17704506
1. People crutching on dakka

2. People thinking the common sense of the characters will do it for them.

3. raidah

4. raidah

5. raidah

6. People walking in and just posting without knowing anything beforehand.

7. raidah

8. raidah

9. raidah

10. RAIDAH

>>17704506
I personally think it was a samefag who kept voting attack.

>>17704506
It's Raidah. He's a fucking cockmongling retard.

>>17704517

He's been harsh for the last three threads. The whole Benny Hill dying thing should've at least tipped you off that he isn't pulling punches. And Nightcrawler. Maybe this one we recruited was essential to a canon too? Hmm?

Seriously guys...

I voted for 'flee' but I was late getting my vote in anyhow.

>>17704524
Agreed. Raidah was samefagging.

>>17704527
It's already the final battle in Magia Rebuild and more or less things are already hurtling to an inevitability. He needs to derail and TPK another RPG to satiate his need for rambo, ahueahueahue.

I vote that everything Raidah proposed is nullified and retroactively removed, who's with me?