As Spike entered Jay's Bar along with a cloaked Auror and began to pump the inhabitants for information, your X-COM team succeeded in making use of their knowledge of X-COM emergency protocols to find and listen in on X-COM NOVA's secret transmissions, allowing you to gain valuable intelligence on them.

When we last left off, the Command Crew was mulling over the information they had received and Spike was still happily eating and drinking while talking on the company dime.

Aaaand I forgot to post these.

The Summary: http://pastebin.com/3ATuVKRQ
Inventory: http://pastebin.com/HGsJUZZb

By any chance, is there an armory on any of our star destroyers with a cache of Ion weaponry? It may be effective against these robots.

>>18061782
>ninja gaiden
>Barbarian is in the bar

I hope this doesn't mean what I think it does.

and so we start anew

>>18061992
Only if we piss him off. Ridley's in the bar too.

I think support and participation in this quest has waned dramatically and is near 0. Perhaps it would be best to put it on hold for a while, while the other 40 quest threads per day move forward.

Oh, I've also gotten a decent writefaggotry for Wayrf, which is a combination of a Dwarf Fortress Mermaid Factory, and the Gravemind from Halo.
Is it an antagonist? No, it's one of the guard's allies. And perhaps should give you an idea why an intelligent being that can talk its way out of any situation is one of the scariest motherfuckers you'll ever encounter.

Anyway, dropping trip to watch/participate/do nothing/sleep. Gogo

>>18062015
Oh, right. MetaOP, where/when would you like me to argue with the bootleggers about mission loadout and writefag various things for the setting?

Can't do it here. Should I just make a new thread after you go to sleep later today?

>>18062015
Yeah, I was thinking the same, but I DID say I'd run it today, and I don't like going back on what I say. I might take a week hiatus after this thread's done.

You only have a few ion weapons on board the SDs.

>>18062034
Yeah, that should work.

Did we drain a MetPharmer for information? If not, do that.

See if the Storm's sensors can find a bar in the Robotnik area of the city with scientists or worker-types in it. We might head there next.
Ask Light what he'd need from us to set up 2 Spybots that could infiltrate Wily, AND a Spybot that could infiltrate Robotnik. Tell him we trust whoever he's got in Metpharm.
Also ask him if it would be possible to somehow disguise a biological unit as one of MetPharm's various creatures. I know he's not a biologist, but -we- have biologists, so if he provides some creative insight or pointers or intuition on how to get started, we can probably handle much of the gruntwork.

>>18061891
http://archive.foolz.us/tg/thread/12152616/#q12187603
That's a dump of writing for the 8bit dystopia setting. Might be handy for people.

http://1d4chan.org/wiki/8-Bit_Dystopia
Setting in brief.

>>18062015
>I think support and participation in this quest has waned dramatically and is near 0
Hey, fuck you. Part of the problem seemed to be you and your fucking tripfagging, with people hanging on your every word. It was fucking disgusting, because your plans were shit at the time. Better ideas were rejected in favor of yours because some anons were too enamored with your running of another quest and your supposed brilliance.

>>18062060
>I might take a week hiatus after this thread's done.
Fucking dammit.

Anyway, have the X-COM team go over the X-COM ZWEI cover story, and make sure that it fits in with the emergency protocols used by X-COM, so that it's believable.

If we have ion weapons, have the Delta Green squad and VP-99 prepare to beam down again, but this time targeting a Robodyne badnik for its IFF transponder. Use the strategy we used last time, including the use of a restraining bolt, and exographic scanners and microtransporter equipped sniper rifles to take down the robots from a distance.

>>18062128
Odd. Whenever I didn't post, we seemed to have less people playing than when I did.
It seems that me playing the quest increased the number of people playing! How strange.

Your delusions and hatred are admirable, and I'm kind of envious of your ability to fly in the face of the obvious and come up with all kinds of ridiculous conclusions. It'd certainly help me deal with things I don't like.

Such as the fact that, due to the board having about 50 active quests, it's difficult to get new players for this one, so people who leave aren't replaced and participation goes down over time. It's a problem to which there's no answer, and we'll just have to wait to deal with it.

Finally: Quit bein' mad on the internet.

rolled 49 = 49

>>18062167
>>18062067
The X-COM troops begin going over the story, while the Auror attempts to read the mind of one of the MetPharm employees in the booth.

>>18061782

Let's get further information on this Galaxy Defense Force.

>>18062180
50 active quests? Where did you get that number? Straight from your ass?
There's, at most, 8 right now.

Meta Quest, Mahou Shonen Quest, Farming It Quest, Zerg Quest, Elf Slave Quest, Kobold Sorceror Quest, Necro Quest.
Another might have started up, but those are the only ones within the first 5 pages.

>>18062261
I'm tied up in Mahou Shonen and Zerg quests.

Why has there been such an upswing in quest threads of late anyway?

seems like you can't go two threads without tripping over a new one. I mean, I'm all for that sort of thing, but most seem to lack staying power. How many make it past thread one? How many more get archived?

And MetaOP, we still support this quest! I've even screwed up my sleep patterns for it. We're still here.

>>18062261
It's amazing how a person can refresh the front page twice and think he knows the sum total of every thread that's going on in /tg/.

You are angry, irrational, oblivious to the obvious, and too confident in your own (lack of) information. I'm happy that you're upset, because you deserve it based on how much of a toolbag you're being. Kindly sit down and shut up. Thank you.

>>18062298
No, why don't you shut up, you fucking douchebag.
Your assertion concerning the number of active quests at this time was woefully wrong.
Are you saying that your number of 50 was right, and that my number of 8 is wrong?
Just shut up and leave.

rolled 54 = 54

>>18062220
The Auror finds the mind of the MetPharm worker, like Ridley, strangely slippery, a touch inhuman. However, he is able to grab a few passcodes, protocols, and the location of the worker's lab before he cannot stand it any longer and breaks the connection. This worker is employed at a bioimplant complex, probably not connected to the Time research, but the Auror was able to glean a few general use codes that might come in handy.

>>18062276
You aren't the only one. For a week straight I was falling unconscious at like... 6 AM due to this.

>>18062242
"Sometimes I think this life doesn't agree with me..." Spike murmurs to the bartender. "Some days I want to go into space, like the astronauts of old. Join the Galaxy Defense Force or somethin'."

>>18062337
From now on, I'm calling you EvoQuest.

>>18062298
On the other hand, I'm pretty sure you starting up Bootleg Quest did contribute to the end of planning threads.
Which means that we don't have as many plans.
And we NEED plans if we don't want to choke on our own stupidity.

>>18062338
Can we comb any networks for any snippets of info on the Galaxy Defense Force as well?

>>18062338
Can we get the Delta Green squad ready for another robot extraction? Have our scientists been able to identify the control nodes on the badniks that would allow the restraining bolts to work, as well as the weak spots that the DG snipers would need to target?

And have the Auror try his luck on the Robodyne employees.

>>18062276
I think it's BECAUSE there's so many good quests going on lately.
This one, Heretical Love, Kobold Quest, that one with the Black knight and rule of cool, and I bet there's at least 2 weeaboo quests that are pretty good.
If you get 2, or even 3 good quest threads on the front page, you think "It's a pretty neat idea" and make your own. Lots of good comes of it, and I like it. But it means that MetaOP's creative ideas, and my own, need to take a back seat to those of people who are better and more engaging writers than we are.

>>18062261
Civ Thread
Mahou Shounen Quest
Zerg Quest
Kobold Sorcerer
NecroQuest
Planeswalker Quest
Maverick Hunter Quest
Deity Quest
Chlaon-quest
Farming it quest
Iron Hearts

Out of every thread currently on this board, there are currently 11 quests, there are also about 3 or 4 threads talking about quests. That's not including the shit load of other quest threads you can see with half a brain if you look at http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Collective%20Game

>>18062355
People have been planning in the bootleg threads while he's sleeping.

>>18062338
Between you and bootleg, I haven't gotten a decent nights sleep in over a week.

>>18062380
But the other quests aren't operating right now. So why would they count towards quests pulling players away?

>>18062338
"Pfah," the bartender spits. "Galaxy Defense Force... fine job those boys did defending the homeworld. They can't even figure out why this planet got teleported much less defend against another Space Invasion. The corps just keep the funding stable to them because no one wants to deal with angry people in guns in SPACE. They know it too. Their standing forces are a goddamn joke compared to what you'd need to put up meaningful resistance to an invasion force. They just keep a token force in orbit and spend the rest on barracks that would make some of the hotels down here jealous. Hell, if you count Lylat, they let TWO planets get destroyed on their watch. Fuckin' leeches."

>No, why don't you shut up, you fucking douchebag.
Because I'm calm, rational, and correct.

>Are you saying that your number of 50 was right, and that my number of 8 is wrong?
Yep! Lots of one-page threads starting up over the course of a week. There were probably even more than 50! With THAT many people making threads, it's no wonder that there's going to be "The top 10%" of pure concentrated awesome that pushes MetaOP and I off the board.

It's good! It means that quests even BETTER than this one are here to participate in, and there's no reason to be upset at all. If this quest lacks players, it's because they're in a better game.
If my quest lacks players, it means someone's better at running quests than I am, and I could learn from them how to better!

There are many bad things that happen in this world, but the great amount of creative energy pouring out of /tg/ at the moment is not one of them. It is, in fact, completely frickin' awesome, and you should calm down and smile, rather than be upset. :)

>>18062397
. . . Sleep.

You only have so many hours in a day. Do you really want to follow 15 different quests?

Only ones I'm currently following are Zerg, Meta, and Bootleg's. Don't have time for the other ones. Although, when I get some time, I'm going to check out Diety Quest. It's getting a massive amount of votes on the archives.

Reading through the writefaggotry.

1. The crew of the Great Fox is in cryogenic sleep.

2. Inspector Gadget is in this canon.

3. Some bits of Chrono Trigger are in this canon.

4. Contra is in this canon.

5. Fire Emblem is in this canon.

6. Vectorman is in this canon.

>>18062415
Well I guess we don't need to worry about them.
...What's this about the planet being teleported?
I don't remember that in the material.
Like my understanding was that humanity had to flee Earth from the might of the Space Invaders, and colonized the planet Hyrule?

>>18062355
If that is true then I am sorry.

>>18062451
Earth was destroyed, for some reason, Hyrule is in it's place.

>>18062430
Any info on the Foot, or the other factions we could scrounge up?

>>18062430
I am only upset at you. Because you contribute little, and your very continued existence is a cankerous sore upon the world.

As for pushing Meta Quest out, that would only be true if all of the other quests were running at the same time.
They are not, and the number of currently active quest threads is far lower than the number 50, and has no bearing on the current player base.

>I am only upset at you. Because you contribute little, and your very continued existence is a cankerous sore upon the world.
Then I thank you for your opinion. Please continue to provide constructive feedback so that I may learn to be a better player and better quest runner.

Or, alternatively, continue being an angry idiot, for it amuses me.

If Gradius fighters were wrecked by Space Invader stuff...

...I'm hoping there's still tech for the Falchion Beta (from Gradius).

>>18062451
That is correct, according to your logs, the planet Hyrule was NOT teleported, they colonized it, then retreated to it after Earth was destroyed.

Captcha: Jimmy Yetimess

Sounds like the name of the dude from Skifree...

>>18062415
Have the Oncoming Storm, RVF-25, and the Indefatigable do another sensor scan of the system, see if we can pick up the Defense Force ships, and have our task force stay out of their sensor range.

>>18062473
Ah.
Well that explains why the Solar System is the same I guess.

>>18062514
Could we check with ANON to see if leaving it in it's current location after completing the mission would cause damage?

>>18062514
>>18062473
...I spoke too soon?
Because in theory Hyrule would have a different solar system than Earth would, and yet I'm pretty sure we mentioned stuff like Pluto and Jupiter.
...So somehow Hyrule is now where Earth was?

>>18062544
Interesting to note:

Travis Touchdown (from No More Heroes) is here. Also, Robotnik is competing with Draclua (Castlevania) over control of the Chaos Emeralds.

What do we do? We've been looking to get those emeralds for a while now....

I forget, does this Canon have some kind of internet?
Can we just... 'google' the whole 'teleporting planet' thing? Because that seems like a pretty big discrepancy.
Or maybe even ask the Goddesses?

>>18062611
*Dracula*

my bad.

>>18062611
No interfering with the Canon. Although both Tails and Dr. Eggman have been able to make artificial Chaos Emeralds of some kind...
So maybe just studying one?
Still not even close to a priority.

>>18062633
Well it depends on how many there are. If there's only 7 chaos emeralds like in most the games, we'll have to leave them. If there are a significantly higher amount, like in the comics, we can snag a few without causing damage.

>>18062613
No Internet was specifically mentioned, though there is some kind of computer network.

We could attempt to make a connection, by splicing into the network with a physical unit.
I'd say we would need to fabricate a remote network tap that Mouse and Data could use.

MetaOP, can we build a network tap that will give us remote access to the City's computer network?

>>18062668
Although, if you plug in a computer and it starts humming the Tetris theme, that network port is junk and we'll need to find another.

>>18062521
You're able to pick up the GDF ships easily enough. Despite their reputation, they do have regular patrols it seems, but with the Storm's and RVF's sensors, you should be able to evade them.

>>18062544
Probably.

>>18062613
There is a planetary datanet that's heavily corporate controlled. Currently they are maintaining that the shift in solar system is part of some project to revitalize Earth and the Corporations are ever-working to bring the bright future back to humanity and blah, blah, blah.

It's fairly obvious no one is buying this story from the comments sections alone.

>>18062664
The writefag entries never specified anything about the Chaos Emeralds.

At any case, it seems the Galaxy Defense Force is a pushover? I wonder what canons they are derived from.

>>18062668
I sort of figured Mouse could do it from the Indefatigable.

>>18062684
What kind of ships and fighter craft are the GDF carrying with them?

>>18062684
Okay, any luck with making a network tap as described in >>18062668
A Federation transmitter and computer tap, with a small thermite self-destruct charge in case we can beam it out when it gets traced.
We can have the Delta Green squad place it when we have them go down to get a Robodyne robot's IFF transponder.

So here's a bit of a Hylian prophecy regarding the current circumstances
>And from a Tower he shall fall. This maker of men. And from the depths will she raise this warrior of the dead. And amongst the people he will stand this master of light and the link shall bind the past and future....

>After this sadly it seems to have been scratched out... The only that I can make from it is the mention of a great city and its slow death...

I'm not really sure who it's referring to besides Dr. Light and Link.

>>18062704
I suppose Mouse could, but I think that a physical ground-side tap might be better able to hide our presence in orbit.

>>18062684
So essentially no one has any idea how Hyrule is now in Earth's place but it's also something we're going to have to fix?
...Great.

Ah. So this world has an internet, and is an 8-bit dystopia?
That's helpfully anachronistic.

>>18062705
Mostly FIRE LEO-02 Exceliza fighter craft, but the fleet contains some Gradius, Galaga, and even a handful of R-Types and Arwings among its number. All told there are about 250 fighters split into 25 10-plane squadrons, and about 6 capital ships. Considering they have an entire solar system to patrol, that isn't very much.

>>18062696

>And now, another battle was joined, as animated bone and decayed flesh began to fan out, while the more powerful and stealthy of his servants were sent after the Chaos Emeralds. Win or lose, it did not matter. The Lord of Castlevania could only be delayed, never stopped.

Hopefully it's more like http://sonic.wikia.com/wiki/Chaos_Emeralds#Sonic_the_Hedgehog_.28Archie_Comics.29 than "There are only 7 emeralds and one Master."

>>18062704
I'd say do it on Hyrule, but if he's absolutely sure he won't be traced, let him.

>>18062749
Not many things that can magically move a planet. It might have been Grimm who moved it, somehow

>>18062768
It's a datanet. It's more like the old usenet set up than what we have today.

>>18062770
When we kill Dr. Grimm and reforge Gurthang, we could go and seize their hardware.

The only real threat are the R-Types and Gradius-type ships.

>>18062795
What type of person would have access to it?
Only researchers and military personnel?
Civilians, but only the hobbyist and basement-dwelling type?
The common man?

>>18062795
Alright, does Mouse believe that he can successfully hack into the datanet without getting the signal traced to orbit?
If yes, have him do it.
If there's a chance he could get traced, make the network tap and have the Delta Green's place it while they're on the ground trying to capture an intact badnik.

>>18062770
Codeki, we better bookmark this canon to loot ourselves some fighter craft if we can't do it in this mission.

Agreed?

>>18062831
>>18062824
There are datanet for public and corporate use. Mouse is positive he can sneak by on the public net. You'll probably have to set a tap up if you want him to try hacking into the corporate one.

>>18062724
>this master of light
>robot master of Light
>Megaman

That's fairly obvious. So Megaman, Link, and some other hero.

We can reasonably argue that this 8-bit dystopia has been driven too far into grimdarkness by dr. grimm. Bringing these heroes together and improving the situation could foce Grimm to show himself personally, giving us the chance to kill him.

>>18062849
Neat.
So we can make spybots, read minds, and tap the datanet?
This is awesome! Maybe we won't be horribly slaughtered after all. We'll be so well prepared that we might actually be able to do our jobs without everything turning immediately to shit the first time we roll under 30.

>>18062849
Have Mouse begin searching through the public datanet for rumors.
Then replicate the network tap, and prep the Delta Green squad for another mission ground-side.

>>18062849
Op, based on the ships that we broke down for materials and schematics, are there any in the Defence force that we couldn't build on our own?

Also, would a spybot be able to do the needed corporate tap?

>>18062875
We don't have data for R-Types, Fire Leos and Arwings, I think.

The earlier Fire Leos aren't worth it. The objective is FIRE LEO-04 Rynex or the Rynex-R. As for later Thunder Force fighters, the RVR series fighters aren't in this canon, it seems.

rolled 35 = 35

>>18062915
That is correct.

Spike is still eating and drinking, but even he is reaching his limit. Do you want him to tool around for anymore information?

So what's our long term plan here?
Like people were mentioning kidnapping people and programming them to be sleeper agents, but... that's not something we can do?
Our Aurors can erase memories with Obliviate and read minds with Legimancy, but they don't seem to really be able to create new ones?
Which is why Voldemort didn't have an army of people brainwashed into being loyal to him?

>>18062962
No, Spike's gotten all of the information we can get out of these people without triggering suspicions.
Tell him to finish up, and have him and the Auror go to the extraction point to be beamed up.

In the meantime, prep the Delta Green's and VP-99 for a repeat of our ambush of the Wily patrol, but this time target a Robodyne patrol.
Have them beam down in a clear area near the Pipes, and use their exographic scanners to find a patrol while avoiding mutants, and take the robots down, attach restraining bolts or hit them with ion blasters, then beam them up before reinforcements can arrive.

Guys, I think we've found everything we could have wanted out of the bar.

Our next objective should be to track down Travis and Inspector Gadget for information?

>>18062990
>that's not something we can do
Uh, yes it is.
http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/False_Memory_Charm

We can easily make people we kidnap believe they're sleeper agents working for Light.
Voldemort wasn't exactly the pinnacle of outside context problems, you know.

>>18062990
Read people's minds so we know how an infiltrator could enter the company.
Make spybots.
Hack the internet for spying.
Ensure observers and Storm sensors can see into the Corp HQs.
Possibly recruit magical support, such as Ghosts or Gods or Spirits or Fate or something to act as guiding forces and spotters.

We're going to put together an infiltration team for each major area. It might be comprised of only drones, only spec ops units, only heroes, or some combination of the three.

The Infiltration team is to learn whatever it can about the four locations, possibly sabotage the Teleportation-blocker, electricity generator, base defenses, or such, then get the hell out.
They will have the full support of all the intel pertinent and updated as often as possible, and hopefully all of our legwork will be enough to let them finish their mission.

That's our plan for now.

After that, with our intel, we can sabotage the anti-teleport field directly (or just smash the fucking roofs in until we reach our target), drop in our attack teams, and bumrush our way to stealing Wily's Dataslate, Robotnik's bomb, the MetPharm time crystals, the Temple of Time's UFOPaedia, and get out.

At least, I think that's the plan. Is that the plan?

>>18062962

No More Heroes swords huh?

Is Spike experienced in using swords?

We could attempt to also buy a sword or two.

http://suda51.wikia.com/wiki/Orange_II

>>18062962
Ask the bartender where to buy a beam katana.

>>18063056
Travis is being monitored by the Foot, and his AI is in constant contact with them. I wouldn't want to make contact unless it's absolutely necessary.

What are we going to talk with Gadget about? We should have a plan before we contact him.

As it is right now, we still need to get a Robodyne IFF transponder, and begin the brainwashing of corporate employees into sleeper agents.

MetaOP, do the Aurors have any moral qualms about what we're asking them to do? Memory erasure is one thing, but outright memory manipulation and brainwashing seems to be another, within their ethical framework.

>>18063089
Oh, well then.
...Why even bother with the normal memory charm then?

What's Gadget like in this canon? Is he competent? Is he violent? Are Penny and Brain alive?

>>18063154
Obliviate is fast and easy. It just wipes the memory.

The False Memory Charm you actually have to make up the false memories, and if you want them to be really good and stand up to legilimency, then you have to put effort into it.

>>18063164
>>They fled into the City. He had no name, had no I.D. and no way to make a living in any legit way. So, he cut himself a niche. Built himself a name and gave Penny a good life. He was the Inspector now. The man you called when you needed something found, lost or made scarce. An urban merc. He never told Penny about the jobs only that he helped people. It would break her heart to know what he had done to get so far.
>>When people asked about her. Well he would explain he was her uncle and that if they so much as touched her they would find out that the rotor blades in his head could do more than fly...

>>18063015
>>18062962
One die roll too late...

Spike puts a final handful of credit chips down on the bar with a grin. "Thanks for the conversation and dinner. It was-"

A howl of pain suddenly cuts through the haze of chatter filling the air. Barbarian stumbles back from his seat, sparks flying from his chest and arms as a trio of shuriken bury themselves almost completely in the cyborg's enhanced body. A dark blue blur Spike can recognize as a man in ninja garb dashes for Barbarian as he draws his massive sword. The attacker draws a shining ninja-to from a sheath at his belt and drives it into the cyborg enforcer. Barbarian roars in pain again and attempts to lop off the ninja's head. The ninja nimbly jumps back, slashing with his sword again to cause another cascade of sparks to erupt.

As this happens the remaining bar patrons scramble for the door or take cover in their booths or under their tables, pure chaos erupting as no one wants to get in between Barbarian and someone stupid enough, or skilled enough to challenge him.

>>18063201
It's Ryu. Is it possible to legilimens info out of him with the auror?

Jesus christ this Canon is scary.
And that's even WITHOUT Mr. Abomination in the center of the planet.

>>18063201
Ugh, I don't want to get involved, but I really don't want to see Hayabusa die. Light needs him. Maybe have Spike and the Auror get involved if shit goes really bad for Hayabusa?

>>18063185
I'd imagine you would also have to put a lot of effort in to make sure the target of the spell doesn't find any inconsistencies in their memories?
Also what are we going to make the sleeper agents do, that couldn't be achieved by simple bribery? Considering the men they work for and the world they live in, I kind of doubt there's much loyalty to worry about.
Fear, yes, but no loyalty.
Which is another thing, I doubt even with the False-Memory-Charm that we can completely alter someone's personality.

>>18063201
Spike, you and the Auror find some cover!

If it looks like Ryu, the ninja, needs a hand, take the Barbarian down. Ryu needs to survive this encounter.

>>Fio

>Peregrine Falcons

METAL SLUG IS IN THIS CANON.

>>18063257
>>18063277
Is this necessary?
If it's Canon that Ryu wins
and the Barbarian hasn't been modified,
then Ryu wins.
Just let the Canon happen and don't bother stepping in.

>>18063201
Spike, respond by acting nonchalant, maybe offering some commentary.
Actually, just respond how you normally would in a situation like this.
Auror-whose-name-I-don't-know, be ready to intervene if the ninja can't handle this.

>>18063201

>>18063277
The auror is hidden in the kitchen or back rooms. He's 100% safe.

I want the auror to perform a legilimens on Ryu while he can.

>>18063293
Good point.
You guys should just sit back and watch the show, and try not to get caught in the crossfire.

>>18063293
Which is why I'm saying if shit goes bad for him. We still don't know all how Grimm effected the canon, his being here may have sent ripples that changed things. We need to be proactive enough to interact if need be.

Here's a plan.

PETRIFICUS TOTALUS -> Barbarian

or use Jelly-Legs curse on him.

This should allow Ryu to finish him off in the next hit or so.

Then Spike and the Auror talk to Ryu.

>>18063258
The plan was to have them provide details such as guard patrol routes and schedules, the location of the Interdiction Field Generators that are protecting the Corp HQ's, security passwords and ID's.
During the actual strike, they'll help out by bringing certain security systems down for "maintenance", providing distractions, and doing things like keeping certain doors unlocked, keycards in certain places, and other little things.

Sure we could bribe our way through, but I think the memory charms are a more sure bet.
We can fall back on bribes if we can't brainwash the people we need for some reason.

>>18063201
OP, see >>18063315

The Barbarian has been augmented, so Ryu will need help.

>>18063315
The jelly-legs jinx might be a good one.
It could always be chalked up to faulty implants to explain why Barbarian suddenly lost control of his legs.

>>18063318
Aye. Never underestimate the effectiveness of mundane, practical things.
We may have magicians that can rewrite a person's mind, nanites to take over their bodies, Sensors that can pierce 100 meters of rock, stealth bots that can slip past anything, and an iron hold on the Datanet.

But nothing beats 100 credits in someone's pocket to get where you need to go.

>>18063294
>>18063293
>>18063277
As the barkeep throws up the bottle he had in his hand and dives behind cover, Spike catches it in mid-air and takes a drink.

"Wow. Even got a show," he says, leaning back on the counter.

"Picked the wrong thug to fuck with, bitch!" Barbarian roars as he executes a vicious overhand chop at Ryu. The ninja dodges out of the way, allowing the Barbarian to cleave a table in two. As this happens, Ryu slashes at the Barbarian again, tearing open the plating on his right arm, exposing machinery and sending a spray of lubricant and sparks into the air. Barbarian howls and sweeps around him with his sword, but Ryu leans back to avoid this blow, spinning with the momentum to cut open Barbarian's gut.

"Stand.. still... so I can... chop you..." Barbarian wheezes, blood and oil soaking his clothes.

>>18063201

Okay, so Petrificus Totalus or Jelly-Legs on Barbarian. Help Ryu finish him off, talk to Ryu for info. Then ask where to buy a beam katana from Orange Computer, and ask about Inspector Gadget.

>>18063391
Have the auror cast jelly legs on the Barbarian.

>>18063318
>>18063377
The main problem with bribes is that we have to contend with the surveillance systems of the corps. We need someone to make the contact. Spike and Star-Lord are both good at inter-personal relations and have good charisma. I mean, we could use the Inde's medbay to keep changing their features for each person we approach, but that many people being approached might register on the corps' surveillance.

>>18063315
The Auror whispers the curse as Barbarian, already slow, collapses to his knees.

"What?!" he roars. "That's not..."

Ryu takes advantage of this opportunity, slicing off his head with a single slash. Blood jets into the air for a moment before the Barbarian drops to the ground with a thud, his head rolling off into the shadows. Ryu doesn't say anything. He simply begins to search the cyborg's body for something.

>>18063391
Ryu seems to be doing okay.
But let's give him a little push.

Auror, if you've got line-of-sight, hit the Barbarian with a Jelly-Legs jinx, please.

>>18063429
Have Spike talk to Ryu. Imply that we're the good guys and we're here to help. Also imply that we want to talk in a quieter, safer place.

>>18063429
Guess all of his implants were what they were cracked up to be.

Spike, see if you can strike up a conversation with Ryu. Don't want to make him suspicious by dropping his name, though. Ask him if he's heard about an Inspector Gadget.

>>18063429
Mindread Mr. Ryu, please.

>>18063429
We've got a cloaked vessel with teleporters and nannybags in orbit or in atmosphere, right?
Let's grab the barbarians head and maybe body when noone is looking, we can shove it into a nannybag, and maybe use it for additional intel and a possible extra crewmember for future missions.
The requisitions department is giving us a lot less, so we need to do some looting ourselves.

>>18063483
Remember, they don't call him "Inspector Gadget" here, he's just "the Inspector".
May want to ask the Bartender about him as you walk out the door.

>>18063488
You get a Bulb.
Yes I know you're not even in the right quest. You get a bulb anyway.

maybe give Ryu a nudge to finding Light, if we can. That'll help us get in with the old man.

>>18063488
Okay, if we're going to loot the body, do it this way:
1. wait for Ryu to finish searching the body.
2. beam down the SCP squad in their power armor
3. have them take the body and head, stuff them into a nanny-bag, get to a safe extraction point, beam up and back to the Storm.

rolled 45 = 45

>>18063477
>>18063483
"That was pretty impress-" Spike says, striding forward. He is cut off as Ryu holds up a hand and glares at him.

"I don't have the time or the patience," he states, continuing to search the Barbarian's body. Spike frowns.

"Hey buddy, I just wanted to congratulate you on cleaning up some of the scum arou-" Spike begins to say. He is cut off again.

"I don't want your congratulations and I'm not cleaning up this city. This doesn't concern you, and you want it that way," Ryu coldly states. "This was more than a street thug."

"He was?" Spike asks.

"The less you know, the better off you'll be for now," Ryu states.

The Auror attempts to mindread Ryu...

>>18063508
Read the material. It's inspector gadget, just that the latter is removed. He's got all the same abilities as the original but more ruthless.

>>18063553
. . . I said that. They don't REFER to him by Inspector Gadget. Same guy, but they don't call him Inspector Gadget.

>>18063541
That would attract too much attention, when we could just have the auror grab it while invisible if they dump it outside, or we could have the auror go visible and pretend to be a crazy person who drags off the body.
Either way, since the head is out of sight, let's have the auror grab that while cloaked first, and send it up quickly to be nannybagged, going into somewhere more private to do the telporting, of course. We can grab the body at anytime in the next few hours, it's the brain that is most time-sensitive.

rolled 59 = 59

>>18063547
Ryu growls as he puts a hand to his head, looking up with sudden ferocity. He turns and hurls a far-larger-than normal shuriken towards the invisible Auror...

>>18063577
Transfigure it into a thing
Take the thing
Transfigure it back into a corpse.
y?
n?

>>18063586
Wait no fuck it, just piss off now.

Hope that asshole has a Reflect charm up on himself.

>>18063586
The Windmill Star sails through the air, cutting into the Auror's side and causing him to shout in pain before wheeling around and returning to Ryu's hand of its own volition. Ryu brings his sword up and tenses himself...

>>18063604
Time to teleport out.
Looks like that NOD Armor saved us an Auror.
Piss off now lads.

>>18063604
Have the Auror hide behind cover and then teleport him back out.

Evac the auror. We're not here for a fight.

Let the situation calm down, then recover the head.

>>18063604

Whoa man, thats not a good way to treat someone who just helped you out in battle.

Have the Auror obliviate and put to sleep the bartender.

>>18063604
Apearate or teleport him out of the building. If he's not in there, Ryu can't kill him.

>>18063604
Well shit, that was a bad idea.

Alright, Auror, cast a bedazzling hex to fade out of sight, run to the bathrooms or the kitchen, whichever is closer.
Indefatigable transporter room, get a lock on the Auror and beam him out as soon as line-of-sight with Ryu is broken.

Spike, time to make yourself scarce, I think.

>>18063604
Auror should get the hell out of there, we can send someone else to grab that head if need be, but we can't rez someone with a severe head injury at the moment.

We should still grab the head and maybe body of that barbarian if we can do it safely.

>>18063653
We can have the Inde's secondary transporter room try to get a lock on the head and beam it up.
The primary needs to the Auror out of there.

Still invisible, the Auror is teleported out, Ryu abruptly ceasing, looking puzzled.

"Odd... There's no technique that can... Was it a device? But I felt..." the ninja shakes his head and glares at Spike for a moment before returning to the body, finally locating a slim plastic card of some sort and pocketing it before standing. The other denizens of the bar still remaining look at him fearfully as he wipes his sword on the Barbarian's clothes and sheathes it.

Can we just teleport the body out, rather than sending a team to it? We don't have to explain anything. Everyone will be too afraid to ask questions.

>>18063676
Say nothing, loot the corpse, get out, go chat up some Robodyne former employees (Henceforth referred to as Robo Hobos).

>>18063648
Spike has used the chaos with the Auror to leave, bottle of now free booze still in hand.

When Ryu leaves, you are able to beam up the body without difficultly.

You receive Looted Barbarian Corpse.

>>18063648
If spike runs off immediately after the auror is detected, the people there maight think he's somehow associated with the auror, since they both ran at the same time.
Spike should be rady to run, but should pay and leave quietly in a manner that won't arouse suspicion
We need to requisition someone who can use magical resurrection if we don't already have that capability.

Did we read the mind of any of the Metpharmers? If not, might as well do so, after putting the Healing in the Auror.

>>18063700
Have the Inde track down Ryu.

Meanwhile, Spike chugs the bottle and leaves behind extra tip for the barkeep. Try to look unsuspecting.

Codeki, when do we get Spike to ask about beam katanas and The Inspector?

>>18063676
Okay, get the Auror to Medbay to get him stabilized, then he can beam over to the Storm's medbay to either get hit with a Cure 2 spell, or see Dr. Todd. With Federation medical tech, medical nanites, and magical healing, I don't think there's really much difference between any of them at this point.

Have the Inde's secondary transporter room get a lock on the Barbarian's head, and beam it up to the Storm's medbay for Dr. Todd to attempt to preserve it.

As for the body, we'll need to wait for an opportune time.

>>18063703
>who can use magical resurrection if we don't already have that capability.
White Mages, Lyla, and Elaine can all use magical resurrection spells. But there's a time limit, just like with the nanny-bags, that if the body goes too long without resurrection, that the person can't be revived.

>>18063700
Would putting the body and head in different Rejuv tube harm them in any way? If not, keep them separate for now, don't want him to wake up and trash the ship.

We can read his mind, if all that left is a living head.

>>18063700

If we can, get a lock on Ryu. I want to track him if possible and see what he is up to. We might be able to talk to him later and see if we can't align our goals. He was looking for a key card off the Barbarian, so there is a good chance he was trying to break in as well. I am all for ninjas doing ninja things while we get to work.

>>18063763

Also, to set up the meeting, I would teleport a note down right in front of his face saying that we are very interested in his skills and hope he appreciated the minor gift we gave him back at the bar while fighting the barbarian. The fact he can't tell how the note got there should get his attention and we might be able to set up a mutually beneficial agreement for the time being.

>>18063700
Get the Barbarian's corpse to the medbay on the Storm, so that Doc Lazarus can get to work on it. Keep the head and body separate; we don't want the Barbarian waking up and damaging our equipment.
While he's down, have Lazarus check the body for any kind of remote control, just so that the head can't remote control the body even though the two are separated.

>>18063756
I'm not sure, but I don't think it would.

The Indefatigable manages to track Ryu for a little bit, but the ninja eventually eludes its sensors. He seemed to be heading for the WilyCorp building.

>>18063763
>>18063799
I don't think that's a good idea.
This version of Ryu is very hostile, and WILL be an obstruction if we're too in-his-face like that.
It's one thing if he meets our team while they're both breaking in; it's another when we show him that we're able to track him at any time. He would see the latter as a threat.

>>18063804

DAMMIT. Well, there is a lost opportunity. We should start looking into what connection Ryu has with Wiley Corp. It looks like he is a on a revenge mission or trying to steal something. Either way, this could be very beneficial to us if we can figure out WHAT he is after in particular.

I still think we should try to squeeze in a little time to buy several beam katanas off Orange Computer for a bunch of our crew.

Beam katanas with guide bars would be good for non-Jedi users. Orange II would be good too.

Namely Spike, Agrias, Alicia, Lavian, the Demoman.

Even though we have a bunch of unused lightsabers lying around, they don't have guide bars or any idiot-friendly addons unlike the NMH canon's beam katanas. It would take more time to R&D the lightsabers to have guide bars and stuff than it is to buy a couple off Orange Computer or something.

>>18063831
I have not played NMH, please explain guide bars.

>>18063819

I don't know that he is necessarily hostile to us, but you are right about approaching him cautiously. He is a ninja, and their job, by definition, is killing people and stealing stuff sneakily for money. If we can, we should look into "hiring" him through more traditional channels.

>>18063804
Good, we'd probably have messed up when trying to talk to Ryu anyway.

Now, we need to get that Delta Green squad and VP-99 ready to do another robo-napping and get some Robotnik IFF transponders.
Have the team do the same thing they did when they ambushed the Wiley Corp patrol.

>>18063853
This is an image of a Beam Katana.
You see it has steel parts behind the blade/beam.
These are guide bars. They are what hold the end parts together.
They are also why beam katanas are the most impractical melee weapons since Swordchucks.

rolled 50 = 50

>>18063866
Your Delta Green squad prepares itself as the Indefatigable searches for a small badnik patrol...

>>18063853
Think "Idiot-proof lightsaber." That's what the guidebar is for.
http://suda51.wikia.com/wiki/Beam_katana has more info.

rolled 65, 20, 22, 83, 38, 82, 27, 61, 77, 10 = 485

Dice seem kind of crap today.

>>18063853
Guide bars are those metal rods on the other sides of beam katanas.

It's like the metal side on the anti-ship swords in the Gundam SEED canons.

Guide bars usually stop the beam from bending in a swing, but in a practical sense, they're a safety measure to avoid self-injury with the energy blade.

>>18063884
Your team comes extremely close to being discovered by several other patrols, but they manage to locate and ionize a single caterpillar badnik trawling out near a junkyard.

>>18063906
Hooray!
... What was the next phase of the plan, guys? Is this where we Hax the internet, talk to Light, mindread some Robotnik employees, or do something else?

>>18063906
Slap a restraining bolt on the thing, disable it's network card, and beam up to the Storm's labs, and do what we did to the Sniper JOE to this little badnik.
Tear it's tactical control module out, get its IFF transponder, extract its most recent orders, get its encryption cyphers, and metaphorically sodomize it and break it down for parts.

The X-COM scientists should be old hands at this sort of thing.

>>18063755
Can they resurrect someone with no head? Because the need for an undamaged brain is the main drawback of the nannybags and tanks.

Low Prioroty goals:
We shoud grab some lemmings while we're here, extra construction assets are always useful.
The lylat system might have some stuff worth looting, so maybe we should send a ship or two there to look around and grab what they can?
From the wiki it looks like earth was in another solar system, maybe we can loot that too with our other idle ships?

The reason why I am suggesting to buy the Orange II beam katanas from this canon while we can, is because it's already the most idiot-proof of the whole bunch.

See pic.

That, and the entire guide bar is already shaped like a proper sword.

>>18063948
>The lylat system might have some stuff worth looting, so maybe we should send a ship or two there to look around and grab what they can?
FUCK NO!
We stay the fuck away from Lylat; that's where Sinistar is being completed.
We do NOT want to have to fight Sinistar.

>>18063963
Don't worry. All we have to do is get our ship destroyed simultaneously as Sinistar eats it, then our lives counter will go to 0 as we blow up, then to -1 as we get eaten, which will lead to us having 255 lives.
This plan is completely foolproof.

(Note: This post was a joke. Stay the fuck away from Sinistar)

>>18063963
>>We do NOT want to have to fight Sinistar.

We don't have R-Types to fight it with, to begin with.

>>18063963
Thanks for pointing that out, i didn't notice that, we don't want to get into a fight. I thought it was just a dead system, but if it has dangerous natives, let's leave it alone

>>18063948
I know of a couple of ways to kill Sinistar, but we don't have the right gear. Also, Sinistar is important to this canon.

>>18063926
While our scientists work on decrypting the Robotnik IFF transponder, we have Mouse look through the public datanet for any mention of the Inspector, and check out the rumor-mills and conspiracy theory sites.

We were going to put down a network tap to get into the corp datanets, so we should get to work on that.

Then, we contact Light, tell him we got a Robodyne IFF, and want his help in decrypting it. He may be able to do it faster than our team.

Finally, we need to decide if we're magicing sleeper agents, or if we're simply going to bribe them.

Any news on hitting up a Robo-bar to mindread some Robodyne employees?

>>18064006
Also, more nasty shit in deep space.

>>Deep in space, beyond the orbits of the planets, something stirred. Years ago, the Robotnik Corporation had sent out automated probes into space, probes made in gruesome parody of marine life. One of these probes had encountered something alive. It was augmented and replicated, transformed into a titanic fleet of warships each thinking, each conscious of a greater purpose. They were no mere machines now. They were Belser.
>>A message is received by the communications department of Robotnik Corp: Warning! A huge battleship King Fossil is approaching fast!

Taking a dinner break. Be back in 20. Plan amongst yourselves.

>>18064065
I opt to ignore the setting, disregard all plans, and suggest something extremely retarded.
Like, let's travel through time or something.

If we magic-up our sleeper agents, they'll be more reliable.

Also, let's assign someone to look up and purchase some beam katanas for some of our folks.

>>18064079
You're forgetting the fact that we have less than a week to wrap everything up here, right? If we take too long, we'll be _forced_ to use time travel.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/17889624/#17889858
We have between 1 day and 1 week. We don't have time to fuck around.

>>18064088
We still need to talk with the Aurors to see if they have any ethical qualms with using magic for brainwashing.
We'll still need them when we bribe people, though, to read their minds and make sure that they're not thinking about double-crossing us.

As for the beam katanas, we just have Mouse look through the public datanet and see who's selling them. Then we have Spike or someone go down with some cash, buy some up, and leave. No need to mess around with questioning important Canon Natives.

>>18064088
If we're buying stuff, we should buy as much as we can, so we have spares for researching so we can make our own copies.
Maybe we can have our sensors scan warehouses for tech, and steal anything that won't damage canon or be noticed while we're here, so we need less local currency.

Next Plan:

Have Mouse and Spike do the beam katana errand, and then look for Inspector Gadget.

>>18064151
We have other troops capable of mind shennanigans, not just the aurors.
Xcom psychics, psions, farseers, and cheryl might all be able to help.

>>18064163
What are we going to do with Gadget, though?
I don't see him adding any useful intel to us that we couldn't get ourselves either by bribery or by legilimency.

>>18064205
Yeah you're right. Let's do the beam katana errand for now.

As for underground stuff...

Blaster Master is in this canon.

Final Boss of contra + Plutonium boss = mutant Dr. Grimm?

>>18064233
>Final Boss of contra + Plutonium boss = mutant Dr. Grimm?
Given Grimm's location, and his current form, it's a distinct possibility that he's absorbed them.

I just hope he hasn't done anything with the Zora and the Wind Fish. We have enough to worry about without getting into Lovecraftian-influenced Hylian creatures.

OK, back. You want to buy beam katanas. How will you go about doing so?

>>18064273
Look for an ad for one of the stores that sells them on the BBS.
Buy them with counterfeit money.

>>18064273
Mouse is to see if Beam Katanas are publically sold.
If they are, Spike is given a suitcase of cash (or at least, enough to stuff his pockets, and beams down and simply buys them.
If they're harder to purchase, we'll come up with a plan when we know the situation.

Here's something interesting:
>What is a Tank? A motherfucking engine of destruction. >More specifically though, a Tank - capitalized it to separate it from those piddling armored vehicles - was the primary weapon that we used against the Invaders during the Crash.

>It's not really a tank - they were just called tanks because of the secrecy of the weapons program. A Tank is a sort of advanced VTOL craft; probably the most maneuverable fighting vehicle in the history of mankind. Each Tank was fitted with then state-of-the-art weapons systems, energy blasters that still put most of today's heavy weapons to shame.

>Most were lost during the Crash, and we don't make any nowadays. Why bother? It's all civil protection and suppression nowadays. A few Tanks remain, locked up in warehouses, forgotten. The mothballed remains of old world governments and decency, a lost legacy of heroes. Nobody knows exactly where the Tanks are now, maybe that's for the best. Mankind doesn't deserve them. We sold our souls for a little safety, killed our pride for security and spat in the face of liberty and justice. There are no heroes left in man.

>A few Tanks remain, locked up in warehouses, forgotten.

It's like they're begging to be stolen.

>>18064309
Yeah, but, with a bit of research we can build them ourselves.

>>18064273
>>18064291
Are the beam swords made in bulk? We may be able to steal them from a warehouse without anyone noticing.

Let's scan all the old millitary storage facillities, and any warehouses we can, looking for anything that we can steal without it being noticed.

Those "Tanks" look interesting, let's try to get some.

>>18064320
True enough.
Actually, what Canon are they originally from?

>>18064340
No More Heroes.
There are versions that are mass produced and versions that are custom. We'll likely find a few mass produced ones and spend some time to build our own.

>>18064340
Tanks are from Space Invaders.
Beam Katanas are from No More Heroes.

>>18064309
You found plenty of salvageable Tanks, you just opted to nanite them into scrap for blueprints and raw material.

>>18064295
They are available through public channels... somehow. You 'need' a license, but ha ha ha, yeah.

Will you attempt to counterfeit (more) money then?

>>18064320
it'd help if we had originals to analyse, though.

>>18064335
We salvaged some of the TANKS on the moon.

But a fully-intact one will bypass the research requirement.

>>18064360
Counterfeit some more money, and look around River City for some pawn shops and jewelry stores.
Replicate some gemstones, some nice jewelry, nothing major but nice stuff that could be passed off as family heirlooms and such.
And have Spike sell it all to get more cash.

That way we get a mix of legit and counterfeit, harder to tell that our money is replicated.

>>18064360
What would it take to get a license? If it's easy enough, just have Spike try to get one.

But yeah, make a large amount of fake money. Also, have our replicator change the numbers on the replicated bills to non-sequential numbers so it isn't as obvious.

>>18064351
Thought number went to the beam katana one, not tank one.

>>18064399
>Thought number went to the beam katana one, not tank one.
Nope. Follow the reply trail, and it leads to TANKS.

>>18064412
I saw that. My brain went >>18064340 >>18064320 >>18064295 instead of the correct path.

pretty sure beam katanas require being part of the Assassins' association or whatever. That might be a bit too high-profile for our tastes.

Let's get more info about licenses then.

>>18064476
We can use a fake identity.
It only needs to last a week, anyway.

>>18064476
Well, in their original canon, anyone with 400,000 dollars could buy one. You may have needed something like a Gun License.

Here? We'll have to look.

rolled 71 = 71

OK, sounds like you have a workable plan. Let's made the MetaQuest equivalent of a Battletech supply check to see how many you manage to nab with this method.

>>18064535
You manage to buy three without arousing suspicion. You suspect that more might be pushing it.

Luckily they are a bit cheaper here than in NMH, probably due to the proliferation of advanced technology.

Sugoi dice roll.

>>18064551
Good, we'll have them look at the tech in the lab, and see if we can replicate it or use it to enhance anything we currently have.

>>18064571
Do we give one to have Agrias to practice with? Does Spike have sword experience?

>>18064551
Alright, so, hand two off to Agrias, Alicia, and Lavian so they can get some practice with them, and the third one we have Engineering scan it and see if we can simply chuck it into the Inde's replicators, or if we need some actual fabrication.

>>18064595
It'll be a research project to be able to replicate your own, but it probably wouldn't take that long.

The three swordswomen are assigned the weapons and begin practicing.

Spike has no sword experience. He once threw an opponent back his katana so he could grab back his gun.

>>18064595
We need to be careful; it appears we might have gotten three Blood Berries (since it's a standard model) instead of three Orange II's.

>>18064670
Alright, I'll add the project to our list.

We're going to need some downtime in order to get through all of this.
Or use a Temporal Distortion Device to speed up time in our labs.

>>18064673
No, they are Orange IIs, though they are indeed rather rare and pricey.

>>18064701
ヽ(´ー`)人(´∇｀)

Awesomesauce.

>>18064673
If we need to be that careful, we can have the White Mages cast ReRaise on each of the three ladies before they practice.

>>18064717
Nah, the Orange II are idiot proof. If you know how to work a sword, you can work this model.

It's like how an Apple computer is idiot proof. The Oranges are designed by an Apple parody from that universe.

Anyways, our people probably take precautions like that automatically because we'd be annoyed if we lost a hero to training.

So we have our swords.

>>18064029

Seems reasonable. We should move onto the next seedy bar and repeat what we did with before. Less the bar fights and nearly getting an Auror killed. We are on a tight time frame, so we need to consider what we are doing while we are trolling for info. I think we need to set a time table for how we are going to coordinate the "everything at once" infiltration/attack. If we only have between 1 week and 1 day, we need to be multitasking like bosses.

>>18064535

Finished this (?). I think it sums up Holtz nicely. Balding, grey hair and a bottle of Hobo juice primed and ready for the news we come bearing.

>>18064749

Dur hur. I am retarded. See attached pic.

>>18064701
MetaOP, we still need a determination on how comfortable our Aurors would be with magically mass-producing sleeper agents.

>>18064773
Not very comfortable at all.

>>18064762
Sweet. Though his hair is black not gray (though that's going to change fast enough depending on the news you give him.) You nailed the eternally frumpled suit and the look of utter exasperation perpetually on his face.

So you want to head to the RoboDiner and try the same thing there?

>>18064762
You need to add someone floating outside the window clutching his throat trying to breath.

>>18064815
Sure.

>>18064762
We don't even need the aurors to be involved, we have several other kinds of mind control available to us.

>>18064196
Nice picture, i assume that's Holtz on one of his better days?

>>18064823

I thought about adding some ships on fire in the window and having an Ortz waving in, but I like the way you think. I don't have time to change it tonight, but I will consider adding that in the future.

>>18064826

Better is a relative term. What you can't see is that it is pantless-o-clock. Thank god for desks.

>>18064826
Yes, but we would need to check which of the Psions are Telepath discipline, and which ones are Nomad discipline, if we're going to use them to rewrite memories.

I don't believe that the Farseers can rewrite memories, nor the X-COM veterans, and Cheryl would just pop peoples' heads by accident.

MetaOP, other than the Aurors, who amongst our task force has both the ability and the ethical latitude needed for brainwashing?

If none, then we'll just replicate up suitcases full of credits and cash, and go the bribery route.

Lucky bastards with dem rolls.

" 'ere ya go folks, this 'ere's a beam katana. What's that? What's a beam katana? It's like a sword, only it cuts more! Oh yeah, don't touch the blade! I've got two here. I've been told you guys are supposed to practice with them, have fun!"

>>18064864
Possibly Tosh if Nova is to be believed.

>>18064823
Same set up? Spike and an Auror?

>>18064888
Isn't Spike full, and slightly intoxicated by now?

Well, if he feels up to it, then yes.
Otherwise swap him out and put Star-Lord in.

And ask Tosh if he feels that he can punch out 20 or so memory-altered sleeper agents within a day or so. If he can't, we do this the old-fashioned way.

>>18064888
Nova's under the control of Mengsk. She'll say anything to get you to kill him.

Sure, same setup if Spike's up to it. Otherwise, we could replace him with someone else, like Star-lord or even Tosh.

>>18064900
Tosh starts laughing uproariously when you ask him.

Spike is close to being buzzed and fairly full, so you hand off some replicated clothes to Star-Lord, who beams down along with an Auror a short distance from the RoboDiner, a sullen looking metal and glass building with plenty of windows, all dark with grime and soot. You can barely make out a mass of depressed-looking workers within, mumbling quietly to each other and drinking heavily. Occasionally, one of them will shoot a fearful glance around the area.

Did we grab info from the minds of those Robodyne workers yet or not? If we didn't just find a fucking bar with Robo workers and mindread some!
And yes, find Gadget. Another inspector wouldn't hurt.
Send the Wilybots and Robotnik Bots to wily so he can rig up a spybot - 1 for Robotnik, 2 for Wily (main base, digsite).
What options do we have for MetPharm? We don't have any tech that can make fakes of something biological, sadly.
Are there any other canon characters known for being freelance, working in infiltration or investigation? Like, is Solid Snake from the MSX games here? If so, find that fucker and buy him.

>>18064957
Also yes, continue replicating cash, continue bribing people, continue talking to people.
Just act on all the suggestions that seem good.
MetaOP, do everything.

>>18064866
"...so big!"

"You could chop a horse with it!"

>>18064944
>Tosh
Okay, taking that as a 'no'. Let's get to replicating the cash we need. Different denominations, make sure to randomize the serial numbers, and make sure we make plenty of corp scrip as well as old world cash.

>Star-Lord
Okay, this place is probably bugged.
The bounty hunter story seemed to work out well, before, so that's an option for you to use, Star-Lord.
We're looking for information regarding why Robodyne and MetPharm are so quiet when Wily's making an obvious push into upgrading his weapons.
Auror, try to tease out things like who's running security at Robodyne, security staff and anything we can get on how to get inside.

>>18064944
Let's teleport out the food and booze out of his digestive system. Then give him a hangover pill.

They could do that shit with internal organs in ST:VOY, so....

>>18064866
>>18064972
The drawings amuse me, but I can't place the character. Who is that?

>>18064971
WARNING: YOU ARE REACHING TEAMSTER LEVELS OF LAZY.

>>18064957
>Robodyne workers
We already got basic stuff from the other bar, this is for more in-depth Robodyne info.

>Gadget
What exactly are we going to say to him, or get him to do? Until this is clearly planned out, this is a stupid idea and should be ignored.

>Send the Wilybots and Robotnik Bots to wily so he can rig up a spybot
First, it's Light, not Wily. Second, we're still working on the Sniper JOE and caterpillar badnik we captured.

>Solid Snake
Solid Snake is already working for Light, and is infiltrating MetPharm. Read the background information.

>>18064972
*thud*

>>18062770
>Mostly FIRE LEO-02 Exceliza fighter craft, but the fleet contains some Gradius, Galaga, and even a handful of R-Types and Arwings among its number. All told there are about 250 fighters split into 25 10-plane squadrons, and about 6 capital ships. Considering they have an entire solar system to patrol, that isn't very much.
Lots of devastating firepower. I hope that when we're done dealing with this world's bullshit, we'll have a chance to recruit, buy, or steal some.

>>18065019
Go with the general outline from >>18064988
for dealing with the Robodiner and getting the bribe money ready.

Go to >>18064029 for doing other actions simultaneously.
We need to multi-task where we can.

Do you think this world would have any ghosts or spirits from the past, that might be willing to aid us?
If so, we should have Tosh talk to them.

I assume the girl in the drawing is someone from the Command Crew, in a TG uniform.

The arm that fell off... it must be from a VF-25.

>>18065051
I have an insane plan.

Bookmark this canon. Come back to it later to loot us some R-Types and Arwings. If we're lucky we might stumble on some later-model Gradius fighters, later on.

The Excelizas aren't too good. Let's wait for an RVR-01 Gauntlet at least, since it's mass-produced and vastly outguns the Exceliza.

rolled 76 = 76

>>18064988
"Hey," Star-Lord says, grabbing a chair at the bar. "A mug of whatever you recommend. I have some memories that need to die."

"Don't we all," the barkeep says, filling a mug of some frothy black liquid and pushing it towards Star-Lord, who pushes forward a small amount of credit chips in return.

"Is it just me or are things even grimmer than usual around here, lately?" Star-Lord asks, taking a sip of the stuff and not making a face with a heroic effort of will. "I mean the rumors have been flying..."

>>18065104
Make network tap to read more sensitive Datanet.
Get Infiltration bots built, one way or another.
Bribe/brainwash/talk corp employees into act as sleeper agents.
Find Gadget, hire him.
What do we say when we find Gadget? "Here is money, find us a thing". It's standard fare for him. What thing should he find? "Tell us wtf's up with the Digsite" is a good bet.

At RoboDiner:
Bullshit with barkeep, Bullshit with employees. Auror gets Extrasensory charms up on Star-Lord for extra hearing, and hopefully extrasensory 21st-centory hearing technology + our computers can pick up more info than normal.
Star-Lord is to look for a 'mark', a Robodyne employee who seems to know a lot, and we proceed with the ready-ready. Do this for 2, possibly 3 employees.

Get a time estimate from good ol' Thomas Light on how long it'd take to put together an infiltration bot on his end, ask our engineers how long it'd take on their end, and in the remaining time, sleeper agents.

We WILL get this shit sorted, one way or another.

>>18065083
Aaaah, I thought it was a canon character I didn't know. Heheheh... those poor VF pilots. Sweet sketches!

>>18065104
"Well, when WilyCorp rolls out whatever they're working on, who do you think is going to get caught between him and Eggman?" the barkeep asks.

"I thought Robodyne had its own new program?" StarLord asks.

"Supposedly. But Robotnik won't field it until he has to or until he's certain he will win..." the barkeep frowns. "He'll probably let swarms of us meat workers die to analyze the WilyCorp stuff before he does anything."

Star-Lord nods. "Well I'm sure your security forces..."

"Ha!" the barkeep spits. "Ned over there is part of the security forces. The 3% that aren't robots anyway. Go ask him what they'd do. The answer? Man the cameras recording our deaths so Eggman gets more combat data to analyze."

Hint: raidah likes to represent himself as any 2000's-era kamen riders

>>18065104
Also, do any of the other players with higher LORE modifiers than I, know of any place where we'd likely find ghosts of the past in this setting?

>>18065163
>Ned over there is part of the security forces.
MINDREAD-A-GOGO

"What jobs do the other people here have? Are we all the ranks of the pissed-upon dirt eaters? Speaking of which, what's for eats at this diner? Hopefully something more than 'company bullshit'."

>>18065163
Alright, Auror, you have your target.
Information to get is: other security personnel, security codes and passwords, where the control rooms are located.

Star-Lord, ask, "But wouldn't that just open the way for MetPharm to bite Robotnik when he's not looking? Heard they were working on something, too."

>>18065170
Well, odds are (depending on which Hyrule this is) we should be able to find ghosts anywhere a graveyard was in that game. Also, they generally hang out around places where many people have been slaughtered.

>>18065206
>>18065170
What are you going to have the ghost do? Provide information? They're ghosts, they generally only have information from when they died.

Help us?
Did you forget that we already have a ghost on our payroll?

rolled 7 = 7

>>18065189
>>18065192
"So they'll let more of us die for MetPharm too. Meat is temporary. Steel is forever. That's his personal motto," the barkeep grumbles. "Yeah, you won't find anyone above middle management here. But we're from all lots."

The Auror attempts to read the mind of the security agent...

>>18065228
And his head explodes from Robotnik's booby trap.
Ooops.

>>18065228
>7
Goddammit.
Have the Inde get a transporter lock and get ready to beam him out.

Can Gondegal become incorporeal and invisible, as a ghost? He's not a standard one so I don't know what his capabilities are.

>>18065228
The Auror begins to cast the spell just as someone to his side gets up with a half-empty mug. The RoboDiner being considerably less spacious than Jay's Bar, and the Auror being invisible... leads to less than ideal results.

The patron runs right into the Auror, sending the mug spilling all over him, the black liquor coating parts of the magician and making him visible while the collision sends him sprawling to the floor. The security agent whose mind was being read blinks hard and pulls a walkie-talkie from his belt while grabbing for a gun with the other.

NOD armor has many benefits, but looking nonthreatening is not one of them.

>>18065250
Yes.

>>18065104

>>18065273
Oh GODDAMMIT, Fumbles!

Get up and cast a bedazzling hex and get out of there! Go to the kitchen, just break line-of-sight.
Inde, beam him up!

>>18065297
Poor Ned. He's gonna die sooner or later.

Can't the Auror hide on the roof of the robo-diner instead of being indoors?

Or shrink himself to fit inside Star-Lord's pocket?

>>18065273
Auror should stun the guard and run, star lord should keep his head down, act like everyone else is, maybe run out with the other people in the bar as they flee the man in power armour.
Auror seems like a real threat, everyone concentrates on him while star lord is seen as just another guy trying to survive.

>>18065329
>>18065322
>>18065308
The Auror stuns hapless Ned with a wave of his wand, then dashes into the kitchen, startling the cooks working there. He doesn't pause, running straight into the walk-in freezer and slamming the door. The Indefatigable beams him out before he gets TOO cold.

Star-Lord keeps his head down and looks around, feigning confusion.

"The hell was THAT about?"

>>18065322
Auror, now would be a GOOD time to bedazzle everyone in the area and teleport out. Perhaps Stupefy people. We CAN teleport him out, right?
Anyway, teleport in another Auror and go again.

Read Ned.

Star-Lord acts non-suspicious.

>What are you going to have the ghost do?
Act as infiltrators, d'uh! Nothing beats having a Ghost check places out for you. What are they gonna do, kill him?
So, we might as well hit up any War graves, especially graves of those who died in Corp v. Corp combat, with Tosh - and recruit some Ghosts to act as infiltrators.
Same thing we'd do with Gadget. Act as an infiltrator!

Or, is there something wrong with getting more infiltrators for the infiltration mission? If so, I'd like to hear why, rather than you yelling loudly like a moron and providing no constructive ideas :)

>>18065356
While Star-Lord continues talking, have Gondegal prepare to beam down.
We'll first have him check out Robodyne HQ; less likely to be spotted in a place with mostly machines.

Have him go invisible and incorporeal, and see if he can find Robotnik, as well as the Interdiction Field Generator.

>>18065388
That's a pretty cool idea, using a ghost to check out an area with nothing but machines. Think I'll give you guys a bulb for that. (You now have 3 again.)

But unfortunately, it's near 4 AM. Calling it for tonight. Next session Monday, but I might pop in for something quick on Friday.

>>18065406
I guess that means that it's time to start arguing over requisitions, looting, and who's to blame for what.

Do all our ships have teleporters? If not, we should fit them all with them.
Can we make teleporters? If not, we should ask for the plans to make them sometime.

I think we should gat as much contruction and manufacturing gear as we can, along with the plans to whatever we can get, because requisitions is going dry.

>>18065359
What are you going to offer to get the spirits to work with us? What are we going to use to anchor them so that they can leave the graveyards?

And that's assuming that any of the Human graveyards will work. If it's only the Hylian ones, then that's just asking for more trouble.

We already have a ghost on the payroll, who is working with us, and is in full possession of his faculties.

As for sending Gadget to the Dig Site: the Site is still patrolled by an upgraded Metal Man.
You are sending a Canon Character into a potential fight with an Antagonist with Meta-Contaminant upgrades.
This sounds like a recipe for more Canon-damage.

As for me providing no constructive ideas:
I've already provided the plan for the capture of the Robotnik IFF transponder, the idea of using Gondegal to infiltrate Robodyne, and of how we can use bribed corp personnel to facilitate our strike teams.

Which is more than I can say for your ideas.

>>18065462
The only ships with transporters are the Indefatigable and the two Al'Kesh.

We might be able to construct transporters for all of our ships, but that will require time. It's somewhere on our To-Do List, I think.

>>18065406
Right, might be a good time to take a break from the Bootleggin'.
You guys think of the canons you'd like to hit up for your Booze, Drugs and Girls run. Post them here. I'll attempt to learn them.

>>18065516
Thank you, finally someone does something constructive for a change. We could use more of that.

>>18065525
>Thank you, finally someone does something constructive for a change. We could use more of that.
That we could.
Simply "getting more infiltrators for an infiltration mission" is the kind of lazy and shallow thinking that gets our resources wasted, because it doesn't take into consideration any of the HOW'S to properly execute the idea.

>>18065561
Understood. I guess I have been getting too lazy, I'll work on that.

>>18065525
No suggestions?
Right, 1 week vacation. Cya later.

>>18065643
Go to planescape and visit the Elemental Plane of hookers and beer?
There's an elemental plane of everything in that universe.

In preparation for next session:

Gondegal goes on a spying mission into Robodyne.
It would be fantastic if we could a tricorder in recording mode that could phase-shift with Gondegal so that he could carry it and it could phase through matter with him. We should test to see if he can make objects that he holds immaterial as well. This would help immensely in identifying the Interdiction Field Generator, and we could tag the Meta-Contaminant with a transporter beacon so that we could beam it out as soon as the Interdiction Field goes down.

Before he goes, however, we should show him pictures of Robotnik and various different types of Interdiction Field Generators so he knows what to look for.

Wait, we were able to make it so Gondegal doesn't need a focus anymore?
Also, while we have a solid plan for infiltrating Robodyne, and I have faith in plan 'forgery and bribery', what are we going to do to handle Metpharm?
And is Metpharm technically a problem? Like while them obtaining the Spiritual Stones and opening the Door of Time is certainly a very very bad thing, it doesn't really seem to be invalidating the Canon the way Wily having Men of Iron technology and Robotnik having subspace bombs.

>>18065525
>booze run ideas

a good place might be New Hong Kong from Buck Godot-the only law there is there is no law, so you could probably get pretty much anything there. Not to mention Max wouldn't stand out that much with all the myriad different lifeforms around the place.

Getting Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters are an obvious must.

Perhaps some of Bugman's finest from Warhammer, too.

>>18068803
Yes, Gondegal no longer requires an anchor.
The Gurus are still anchored, though.

As for MetPharm, yes, they're much less of a Meta-threat than Wily or Robotnik, but that doesn't mean we can allow them to keep the Meta-Contaminants.

Infiltrating them will be much harder, I admit. Their bio-implants are much more difficult to fool, and they seem to have headware brain implants.
But they can still be bribed, and we still need to get in there.

Fortunately, the Ghostbusters and their technology aren't here, so not even MetPharm will have weapons that can faze Gondegal.
We will likely need him as part of the strike team for MetPharm.

Here's a plan.
We Take Back The City.
Literally.
We have a very skilled hacker, a bunch of scientists, and two very sophisticated AIs (Data and ANON).
Why not find one of those old terminals, and temporarily usurp SIM himself?
It's not like he would even care if we took away his Admin status.

>>18069115
My question was whether or not the Spiritual Stones are Meta-Contaminants.
Like seeing all the elements of old Hyrule, couldn't the Stones be Canon-native?

>>18069115
I think that's where the native XCOM forces will come in handy, since they seem to hate MetPharm too.

>>18069133
The Three Jewels that MetPharm has were confirmed to be Meta-Contaminants.
We're not sure how, since there's a Native Hyrule, but that's what they show up as. So we can't let MetPharm keep them.

>>18069150
How about the Temple of Time that Metal Man's guarding?
I vaguely recall Reality Distortions from there as well.

...What I'm curious about is where the Ocarina of Time is, and who knows the Song of Time.
Like even with the stones, the Door will stay closed until the Song is played on the Ocarina.

>>18069171
Yes, the Temple of Time Dig Site is one of the major reality distortions on the planet.

We don't know where the Ocarina of Time is currently located, but it may be with Link.

>>18069138
The strike on MetPharm could go like this:

We use our Federation equipment, Engineering Bay, and scientists to pass a tricorder and a trio of transporter beacons through a phase-variance field to phase-shift their quantum frequency to match that of Gondegal, allowing him to go incorporeal with the tricorder and beacons.

Gondegal finds the Three Jewels and tags them with transporter beacons.

X-COM NOVA, operating with some clandestine support from X-COM VALKYRIE (our task force), mount an assault on the MetPharm HQ.

We use the attack to slip a shadowrunner team into the building. They use the floor plan we have and Gondegal's support to hit the Interdiction Field Generator. As soon as the field is down, we beam the Jewels, the runner team, and Gondegal out.

This is, of course, just a rough outline, not yet including loadouts or other preparations.

Do we have any meltaguns or something? We need shields and heavy weapons to protect the team when they infiltrate Wily's or Robotnik's.

>>18061782
MASTER NINJA THEEEEEEME SONG!

>>18071201
We have baneblades, but we don't know which models.
We have plenty of heavy weapons, but personal shields are something we don't have.

What we could do, is buff our strike teams immediately before they beam down. Cast Shell and ReRaise, maybe even Haste.

>>18068806
H2G2 should be fine. But, how the balls do I learn about Buck Godot? Also, I can't find very much info on Bugman's Brewery, so that one's out unless someone has a better information source than google.

>>18069120
I think this will cause Canon contamination.

>>18075796
Really? Why? We can give the city back to SIM when we're done with him.
It's not like he'll give a shit.

>>18072752
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIHTA6LM7LM

>>18075686
They're the ones from DoW. Whichever pattern those are.

>>18077549
Mars Pattern, I think.

>>18078966
>Mars Pattern
Looking at the pictures of the Baneblades from DoW, that does appear to be correct.

I will update the pastebin appropriately.

>>18070375
Alright, any comments on this plan for the MetPharm strike?

>>18075686
>>18071201
Actually, we have Mass Effect kinetic barriers for everyone.

Kinetic weapons we should be protected against, but no protection against lasers, plasma, or other energy weapons.

>>18082374
Remember the Auror's spell pattern for the Stone Soup Crawl.

Get a list of good spells.

Avis, Deprimo, Diffindo, Reducto, Expeliarmus, and transfiguration would be good.

Use avis spells to distract enemies and incoming fire.

Creative use of transfiguration spells against enemies. Turn them into harmless objects.

Use deprimo to collapse the floor under the enemies' feet.

>>18083504
Avis - May be useful against undisciplined human targets and simple automated turrets to overwhelm their targeting heuristics.
I wouldn't depend on it working too well against Robot Masters, more advanced bioroids, MetPharm bio-enhanced soldiers, and disciplined security troops that use automatic weapons or grenade launchers.

Deprimo - May work, may not. These are corporate HQ's, the floor structure is likely to be reinforced.

Reducto - Could be useful. Basically gives the Aurors the magical equivalent of a Disruptor Rifle.

Expeliarmus - Useful against human guards, but not so much against the robots of Wily and Robotnik, or the bio-weapons of MetPharm.

Transfiguration - Most effective, next to Reducto.
However, it all depends on the spell hitting a target that's faster than human.

>>18083840
I suggest that the Auror prepare several charmed objects in advance and probably potions to set up traps.

Stuff that alters the terrain drastically to fuck up with any pursuing enemies is good.

As for transfiguration, I would say, to use it with the element of surprise. What I mean by that is with a patrol that is unaware, or isn't on their guard yet, or if the enemy is occupied with someone else or something else.

>>18083998
What charmed objects?
Which potions?
What kinds of traps?
Be specific!

Considering that we'll be fighting inside of corporate buildings, being able to create instant walls is about the extent of usefulness, and they have to be steel at minimum to be of any use against the security robots and their weapons.

We still need to get more specific information from corp security personnel regarding the security systems inside of the Wily, Robodyne, and MetPharm buildings.
They've most likely got multiple security feeds that go to a central security controller, that then updates all security robots. Depending on the sensors they use, invisibility may not be enough to get a drop on the enemy (if they use air pressure sensors or sensor plates on the floor, or millimeter-wave scanners.

>>18083998
Can Aurors make potions?
Like from their Canon, specific ingredients are needed as well as a lot of time and effort. And due to the magical nature of the ingredients, I'm not sure if our replicators can handle them.

...Also isn't Transfiguration one of the more difficult spells? I'm pretty sure it requires large amounts of concentration.

I think are Abjurers can come in handy considering the vast reservoir of spells they have available.
Also are we going to be raiding Metpharm... nowish?
Are we still doing the infinite bribe works at the same time?

>>18085336
>Also are we going to be raiding Metpharm... nowish?
Oh hell, no.
This is just the plan, which is specific enough to be useful as an outline, but loose enough to accommodate changes due to new intel.

We're still going to try bribing anyone and everyone we can at the three corps before we send in the strike teams.

>>18085336
Well, the Abjurers have a large selection of spells due to their access to our Spell Database.
But remember that they use the Vancian magic system, so we need to plan out their spell loadouts appropriately beforehand.

If we could modify their spells to work in another magic system that was less restricted, that would make them much more powerful.