“Ah, I meant how it could fly,” Lyla said, scratching the back of her head with a wince. She quickly turned her gaze to the ship as well. “It can move between stars like an airship is said to have moved through the sky.”

The swordswoman put a gloved hand to her chin. Her other hand rested on her sword-pommel out of habit. “I see.” The swordswoman turned, then hand on her chin lifting to brush a honey-blond lock of hair from her face. “And an army that wields vessels such as this has need of warriors such as I?”

“Er... well... yes,” Lyla winced, scrambling for words. “You... well, you're kind of a hero, you know?”

The swordswoman's eyebrows lifted a little in quiet inquiry.

“Well... it's true, Lady Agrias,” Elaine broke in. “Ivalice may not know of your courage and skill, but you'll find it a familiar tale to most of our crew. You've gone toe to toe with horrible demons, taken on terrible odds and won, and there are few people that have your skill with a blade even among our comrades.”

A light hearted laugh burst from another of the group, this one a young man with blond hair pulled back into a short ponytail. Whereas two of the others were garbed in white robes and the other three wore the half-plate armor of Knights, this one merely had on a simple shirt and work-pants.

“Your fame precedes you, Lady Agrias,” the engineer said with a grin. He smiled at Elaine. “Be careful, you might unseat even her admirable humility with praise like that.”

The two female knights behind Agrias giggled softly. The former bodyguard of Ovelia shot them a deadly glare.

“Alicia... Lavian...” she began. The two immediately clammed up, reflexively standing straight, as if called to attention. “Perhaps you'd be best served loading our things onto this... star-vessel. As for my fame, I but merely did my part. I was only one of a host of capable warriors under a very capable leader.”

Alicia whispered something to Lavian as Agrias finished and the two knights snickered softly. The engineer spoke before Agrias could rebuke them.

“Agrias, that's true, but that doesn't make you any less of a hero. It's just that we're ALL heroes now,” the young man chuckled. “You don't have to make a fuss about it.”

“Mustadio, I'm not making a fuss. I just want to make sure credit is given where due. We were a team back then. I am no more deserving of praise than any other,” Agrias stated, turning her gaze to her two companion-knights. “Except for you two. You'd think a campaign like that would've cured you of your habit for gossip. Perhaps some extra training will work where that failed.”

“Actually, before you do that, we'd like to show you around the ship,” Elaine offered, quietly. “Make sure you have your bearings.”

“Yeah, you can meet everyone! We've got a swell buncha guys on this boat!” Lyla said with a grin. “Not to mention a swell bar! Ah, which is of course, to be visited only in moderation. Lady Agrias. Ma'am.”

Agrias raised an eyebrow at the reaction, but let it pass, shooting another glare at Alicia and Lavian as they suppressed giggles at Agrias being called “Ma'am”.

“Sounds like fun. I know I'd love to see what kind of machines make a vessel like that run,” Mustadio said, cracking his knuckles. “Maybe they'll even let me have a crack at examining them...”

“Ah... Maybe...” Elaine murmured, turning towards the elevator. “But come along! There's a lot to see and not that much time! The ship is due to leave tomorrow.”

“They don't waste time,” Agrias nodded. “Either that, or our new benefactors must truly be hard-pressed by the legion of evils you described.”

Elaine offered the holy knight a solemn nod. “My lady, I've seen things that make the monsters me and Lyla used to fight look like chocobos. Don't ever doubt this. We NEED people like you fighting with us. There are enemies that cannot be fought with mere weapons, but only with iron will. There are enemies against which the soul determines more than the sword. Those things... they must never reach the innocent they crave.”

Agrias' face tightens, as does the rest of her small band. “Then as long as we stand with you, they shall not.”


Boarding the ship through one of the passenger umbilicals was a new experience for the Ivalicians, unaccustomed to being in space much less walking from a massive space-station to a massive ship on what amounted to a catwalk in a sealed-atmosphere tube. Mustadio gave a short whistle as they left the space station, the entirety of its gigantic form coming into view now that they were outside of it. Alicia commented it was almost like walking among the stars. Lyla just smiled and said they were just getting started.

“This is the main loading bay,” Lyla said, turning around and spreading her arms wide at the cavernous space around the group. “It's empty now, but in a few hours the workers will start loading it up with all sorts of supplies and gear. I bet half this chamber is going to be stacked high with metal crates as big as you are!”

“You might appreciate this, a lot of the cargo-loaders will be robots,” Elaine said to Mustadio with a smile. He grinned in response.

“Like Worker 8?” he asked. Elaine nodded and Mustadio laughed. “I might want to come down and see that.”

“What's that big area with all the burn marks and dents?” Alicia asked, pointing to a section of the bay.

“That's where Marv...” Lyla began to say. She stopped and frowned. “You know what? I'll tell you later. It's a long story.”

“This is the Engineering Bay,” Elaine said as the group entered the large chamber filled with all sorts of complex machines, workbenches, manufacturing tables, and crates of parts. Rack upon rack of tools lined the walls, and the air was filled with both the smell of oil and ozone as well as the sound of fusion torches hissing and molecular cutters whirring. Mustadio's jaw lowered open as his eyes seemed almost to shine with delight.

“It's... it's beautiful...” the engineer murmured, slowly reaching out to touch a massive robotic assembly array. His hand was promptly slapped by an incorporeal hand as the luminous form of Belthasar loomed from behind the device.

“Oh no you don't! No touchy the big machines until you've been trained!” the spirit scolded. “Bad enough Melchoir just assumed he could get the hang of it and... ugh, that was annoying to clean up.”

“Ghost!” Mustadio sputtered, backing away as his hand went to his magic pistol. Lyla and Elaine hastily put hands on his arms.

“Wait! He's a good ghost!” Lyla got out. “He's on our side!”

“You have a haunted machine bay?” Agrias asked, tilting her head. “Curious.”

“Good ghost... Pfah. I AM... well, WAS, a Guru, you know,” Belthasar said with a sigh. “Master of sciences and... Oh, fiddlesticks, you don't have a clue who I am. That's the bothersome thing about this boat. Fame is so unpredictable here. Pass by the bridge and get mobbed by people who claim I was 'their favorite sage', pass by the barracks and get quizzical looks from the soldiers.”

“I see,” Agrias nods. “Interesting... So you were some sort of famed sage?”

The ghost nodded. “I was. There are a lot of living legends on this boat. Well, legends in their homes. Not so much elsewhere it seems. Puts things in perspective I guess. Like the fable of the runner who was the fastest in his village, but was just another racer when he traveled to the big city.”

“Hey, I know that story,” Mustadio said, perking up. “They used to use it to teach humility to the unruly kids. Or try to, anyway.”

“Huh. I guess there are some stories that pop up no matter where you are. Interesting...” Belthasar murmured. “But yes, please be careful with the machines here until someone passes you a manual or shows you how they work. Some of these are complex enough that mere intuition and even genius won't be enough.”

“Could you show me how they work?” Mustadio asked. Belthasar paused, tugging at his mustache.

“I suppose I could. You an engineer then?” the echo asked. Mustadio puffed out his chest a little bit.

“One of Clockwork City Goug's finest! Mustadio Bunanza at your service,” the young man said, executing a short bow.

“And I Belthasar, Guru of Reason,” the ghost said, extending a surprisingly solid hand to Mustadio, who shook it. “Come back down to the bay when you're settled in. I'll give you the run down.”

“Can't wait!” Mustadio said with a grin. The smile only grew as he looked over the vast array of machines waiting to be guided by skillful hands.

“If you like, Mustadio, we can leave you here with Belthasar while we continue,” Agrias offered. Mustadio's face fell.

“What? No, no! I'll come along with you!” Mustadio hastily said. Agrias frowned.

“Are you sure? You looked so happy to be here...” Agrias began, a little confused. Mustadio shook his head.

“No, better I accompany you and see everything else. Besides, we Ivalicians should stick together. Who knows the sort of people we'll run into?” Mustadio asked.


“That's a bear,” Mustadio said, deadpan.

“It's a bear-GOD,” Elaine corrected. “Okku can be a little prideful, so be careful of your words around him.”

“Fine,” Mustadio said, looking at the huge, sleeping form of the bear-god Okku. The potent spirit had curled up in front of the roaring artificial fire present in the Oncoming Storm's refurbished lounge while Douglas sat nursing a drink at the bar proper. Mustadio continued. “It's a bear-god with rainbow fur sleeping in front of a fake fireplace in a bar in the stars.

Alicia giggled, leaning over to the engineer. “What's the matter? Can't you just grin and BEAR it?”

Agrias heaved a sigh. “Mustadio...”

“I'm sorry, I'm sorry,” Mustadio said, holding up his hands. “I just thought I'd seen most of it all and imagined the rest. Obviously I was wrong. I'm just a little taken aback by that, that's all.”

“A bear-god you say?” Agrias asked, turning to Elaine. The white mage nodded.

“Okku is more a powerful spirit than god, actually, but where he hails from the differences blur between the two. Regardless, he is a potent ally, bonded with our resident detective, Mr. Douglas Cartland over there,” Elaine explains. “Despite his bestial exterior, he is quite intelligent.”

“And don't offer to rub his belly,” Lyla interjects. “He won't like it. And don't try to pet him either.”

“That was...” Elaine begins to say, a pained look on her face. Lyla looks down.

“Look, I said I was sorry, OK?” Lyla murmurs. She looks up. “Anyway, the bar is stocked with all sorts of drinks from all over the place. It even has a small selection of snacks and dishes if you get sick of the cafeteria stuff. Good place to kick back and relax for a bit if you need to unwind.” Lyla suddenly looks nervous. “Ah, uh, assuming you like drinking and can't, you know, train instead. Which is what I usually do. Train.”

“I'm not some sort of uptight school-marm,” Agrias protests. “I have the occasional glass of wine. You don't need to pretend that you do nothing but work and train all day.”

“Oh thank God!” Lyla bursts out. “I don't know how long I could've kept that up.”

“Well... you really didn't,” Elaine quietly says.

“Yeah, you kinda suck at the whole deception thing,” Mustadio nods.

“That's... well... shut up,” Lyla mumbles.

“Why don't we show you the cafeteria next?” Elaine suggests.

The cafeteria of the ship was, like most of the main rooms of the Storm, very very large. Numerous long-tables with built in benches dominated the room, with a lone counter separating the eating area from the kitchen. The clank of pots and pans, whirring of appliances, and smell of cooking food all wafted from therein, while the eating area held a scattering of crew-members talking softly while taking a late dinner.

“Usually it's more crowded than this, but a lot of people are eating at the station tonight. It has more variety, Elaine explains, pointing to the kitchen. “But we do OK. You'll find we have far better than trail rations here, Lady Oaks! We have a number of complex machines that...”

“Machines?” Mustadio asked, perking up.

“Er, yes. Machines that can create a wide variety of foods from base materials very very fast! But for when those machines can't be used or if you want something hand-made, we have a small staff to take care of the rest,” Elaine finishes. She smiles. “They can even make Ivalician delicacies and dishes if you feel a little homesick.”

“And you have enough food for so many?” Agrias wondered aloud. “It never needs to be rationed?”

“Nope!” Lyla stated, smiling. “This hunka metal has enough grub on board to feed twice its crew for a year before restocking! Don't ask me how it works though. More weirdo machines, I guess.”

“I like this place more and more,” Mustadio chuckles.

Lavian tilts her head and points. “Is that a machine too? Because I have trouble believing a man could eat that huge pile of food in front of him.”

“No...” Lyla says, her eyebrows slightly twitching. “That's just Spike.”

“Spike?” Alicia asked, turning to Lyla. The white mage shook her head.

“Spike Spiegal. He's a bounty hunter that works for us. He's also a jerk, a glutton, a buffoon, and infuriating to be around!” Lyla almost shouted. Elaine laid a hand on her friend's shoulder.

“I thought your singing was fine...” she soothed.

“It's not about that!” Lyla swore. “...OK it is about that!”

“Er, ladies?” Mustadio raised a hand, slowly. “The tour?”

“Yes, the tour!” Elaine quickly said, grabbing Lyla by the hand. “Come along, now!”

“THOSE are ships too?” Mustadio got out. “But they're so... small!”

“They're called fighter-craft,” Elaine said. “Specifically, those are called 'Messiahs'. They are ships, but they're only good for short-range fighting. Think of them like rowboats with a single cannon on each to the Storm's massive galleon. They can be hard to hit, and provide welcome additional fighting power.”

“Messiah...” Agrias murmured. “I like the name.”

“This place is just full of strange and powerful machines. It seems everywhere we go there's something for Mustadio to drool over,” Alicia says. Lavian grins and leans in close.

“Of course that's true anytime Mustadio follows Agrias around,” the knight whispered. The two giggled mischievously as Agrias' head turned, slightly.

“What was that?” the holy knight inquired.

“Oh! I said that may be true, but Mustadio never lets it distract him if there's work to be done,”Lavian stated.

“Ah. Yes, diligence is a trait he possesses in abundance. You could learn something,” Agrias nods. The two knight-companions nodded back with straight faces that strained not to collapse into a fit of giggles once their superior's back was turned.

Mustadio for his part, was completely ignorant of this as he stood in awe of the massive golden form of the Hyaku-Shiki.

“Wha... what's this? Don't tell me!” Mustadio said, racing around the mobile suit to take it all in. “Obviously a gun there, there's a... that's got to be a hatch there, so that must be a gangplank or the like... It's... Oh my god, is this a sort of pilot-able robot?”

huh. Havent caught one of these threads in forever. all I see are these planning threads everywhere.

“You have a good eye,” a strong voice stated as a man in a light red spacesuit and helmet approached the group. The figure reached up to take off the helmet, revealing a handsome face framed with short blond hair. “You must be part of the group of new recruits. My name is Quattro. Lt. Quattro Bajeena. You would be?”

“Mustadio Bunanza, engineer of Goug city,” Mustadio stated, shaking the pilot's hand firmly.

“Agrias Oaks, holy knight of Ivalice,” Agrias said, also shaking the hand. “These are my apprentices, Alicia and Lavian.”

“A pleasure, ladies,” 'Quattro' said, smiling. “I fence in my spare time, you know. I'd love for a chance to spar with people that specialize in the art, if at some point you find yourselves free during your tour here...”

“Agrias will probably be pretty busy,” Mustadio said, looking from the mecha pilot to the swordswoman and barely concealing a frown. “She's still training Alicia and Lavian after all...”

“Nonsense, Mustadio,” Agrias says, shaking her head. “I can easily incorporate a few matches with Mr. Bajeena into Alicia and Lavian's training, after all. If he doesn't mind.”

“Not at all, I'd relish the chance,” Quattro said, bowing from the hip. “We'll have to set that up later. For now though, I have to be off. Cheryl wanted some more information about newtypes.”

“Cheryl?” Agrias asked.

“Our resident wondergirl,” Lyla chuckled. “You'll meet her at some point.”

“We look forward to sparring with you, Lieutenant,” Alicia said. A predatory grin tugged at her face. “...but don't think you'll have it easy with mere 'apprentices.”

“My dears, I would hope not,” Quattro said, winking at the young knight before heading out.

>mfw
Mere images are insufficient to convey just how I feel right now.

This is why we like MetaQuest. It leads to such wonderful things!

Mustadio's gonna be drooling once he starts learning what all toys we've got to play with...


Remember the part with the KI!

I have no idea how to say how I feel about this.

So here's a picture of a swordy AI.

Elaine frowned at the lieutenant's passing.

“You might... want to be a bit careful around Lt. Bajeena there,” Elaine carefully says. “He... can be a bit of a charmer.”

“You don't need to warn me,” Agrias states, looking at the pilot's retreating form with stoicism. “If you look hard enough, you can tell... That one wears more than one mask. He might bear watching.” The holy knight looked to her subordinates. “Keep that in mind.”

Alicia and Lavian nodded, the playful attitude gone.

“Anyway...” Lyla spoke up, pointing. “There are more vehicles here than the Hyaku. This is also where we keep the tanks and missile-trucks, store the Marauder suits and-”

“What on earth are those?” Alicia asked, pointing to a trio of tall, spindly humanoids with carapaces and antennae. The creatures were lounging around a series of deactivated exosuits, chittering amongst themselves, laughing, and gulping down cans of something fishy-smelling and gooey. Elaine waved. The creatures waved back.

“I honestly don't know the actual name for their species, but everyone calls them 'prawns',” Elaine stated. “They're nice enough. They pilot those strange suits in battle, very powerful things! They love cat-food for some reason, that and fish. Tend to keep to themselves, though.”

“Huh. Here I thought having monsters in Ramza's army was a bit odd,” Mustadio commented.

“We've also got these people called 'Eldar',” Lyla said. “They look like humans, but pointy ears and they live for centuries. Uh, other than that, I think everyone's a human on board. Well, if you consider the space marines human.”

“Space marine?” Lavian asked. Lyla just grinned in response.

>>18181343
>waiting for "YOU'RE HUGE!"

>>18181343
Catfood eh?
Isn't that kind of unethical on our part?

>>18181375
Not really, it's not that different from a can of beer, so long as they don't overindulge.

>>18181375
Eh, we probably give them the Federation syntha-cat food. All the taste but none of the hangover.

>>18181388
>Federation syntha-cat food
Oh shit we got Data! We got ALL of the Federation's cat food recipes! ALL OF THEM!

This thread is off to a good start.

“You're huge!!!” Alicia gasped as she stared at the armored bulk of Darius Fortes as the Knights Inductor performed a basic combat maneuver exercise regime within the confines of the Oncoming Storm's training chambers. Darius smiled.

“The augmentations we space marines received dramatically increase our size and musculature so that we may be better soldiers of the Emperor,” Darius stated. “We also receive numerous implants, and the most severe training to ensure that our skill in war is unsurpassed. To fight the innumerable foes of Mankind, we must be no less than juggernauts on the battlefield, warriors unparalleled.”

“You look like you could crush someone's head with your hands...” Lavian murmurs, walking around the Knight. Her gaze turned to the space marines in training. “...but the way you move, it's like you have hardly any bulk at all!”

“Huge hands? Makes sense...” Mustadio pointed to a rack of currently unused wargear. “You'd need them to hold and fire guns as big as that. Or wield those blades.”

“That sword seems a little different than the rest of your gear,” Agrias noted, pointing to Ringil. Darius nodded.

“You noticed. This is a legendary blade of the elves, a sword named Ringil,” Darius said, drawing the weapon and holding it aloft in front of him. The shimmering metal of the blade seemed almost to glow with an inner azure light as the space marine presented it. “I won the honor of wielding it for the duration of our mission during a trial within an elf-lord's tomb.”

“A tomb? Don't tell me you guys robbed it...” Alicia said, wincing. Darius shook his head.

“No, of course not! We are not looters. We requested a boon of the deceased and it was granted to us after a trial of valor. We will return what was lent to us when our mission is complete.”

“Honorable of you,” Agrias nodded. “As befits a knight.”

“As a representative of humanity, I can do naught else,” Darius states, with pride.

“I might want to test your reputation as warriors 'unparalleled' with a friendly spar later, Captain Fortes,” Agrias stated, with a slight smile. The space marine raised an eyebrow.

“Very well, Lady Oaks... but I warn you, we space marines are not your everyday combatants. I do not mean to be prideful when I say you might get injured, even in a friendly spar,” Darius states. “Members of the Clans aboard this vessel learned that the hard way.”

“We could give you the same warning,” Alicia says, grinning.

“We've seen her in action!” Lavian laughs. “You don't know what you're getting into!”

Agrias holds up a hand towards her subordinates and they fall silent. “If I face defeat, I will learn something from it. A battered body is a small price to pay for a lesson that might save my life or someone else's later.”

“A sentiment worthy of a space marine. Very well. We will see to it when you are settled in,” Darius nods, a smile tugging at his face. “But I must attend to my brother's training for now. Farewell, lady knight.”

“Farewell, noble knight,” Agrias states.

“Shall we see the rest of the training areas?” Elaine asked. “You haven't met everyone yet. And I know that- huh? Lyla, what are you doing?”

“Counting my money. If Agrias and Darius are going to spar, someone's going to start a betting pool. Might as well be me.”

Alicia turned to Elaine. “Are you SURE she's a White Mage?”

Elaine just shrugged in reply, a helpless expression on her face.

>>18181665
>“You're huge!!!” Alicia gasped as she stared at the armored bulk of Darius Fortes
YES!

>>18181665
>No, of course not! We are not looters.

...Well I wouldn't go that far.

>>18181684
SHHHH!
Ix-nay on the ooter-lay!
Technical loopholes!

>>18181691
True.
Actually have we looted anything?
We borrowed Gurthang and Ringil, and all those other swords are ours by right of salvage, which is clearly something completely different, and even that Super Star Destroyer is spoils of war.

And despite 'going to meet others', that's the end of that. There might be a part two done sometime. Hope you guys enjoyed it.

Here's Scout Commander Yellowman, waiting patiently to come back into the story. Everyone wave to Yellowman! Thanks again to Mr. Culexus for the drawing.

>>18181720
Oh wait, forgot about all the nukes.

>>18181726
Thanks, MetaOP!
This is the kind of stuff that makes this quest great.

Oh, did we ever learn which Clan those Clanners are from? I'm assuming they're Trueborn, and quite probably post-Battle of Tukayyid. Are they Clan Wolf?

>>18181720
Smaug's corpse and his.. 6 billion?... worth of diamonds.

Platinum Mail from Castlevania.

Strahd's wine collection.

The Lance of Longinus.

The Blackbird and the Gurus.

Those suits of Fallout power armor that we didn't get from the supply drop from Fallout-verse...

Just... Don't mention them too loudly; m'kay?

>>18181743
Trueborn, yes. I'm fairly certain they are Clan Wolf given what I know about them.

Your OP is going to take a breather and then will return for the actual questing.

>>18181797
Okay.
I'll repost our plan from the planning thread.

Also, VP-98 is currently has these votes for Special Abilities:
Seeker Protocols x 3 votes
User-Friendly Interface x 2 votes
Pure Pazaak x 1 vote

>>Lyla likes gambling

She'll get along well with Crowe and Spike.

Now how do we exploit this to our advantag?

>>18181822
Apparently she's got some friction with Spike, something about him criticizing her singing voice.

1. Set up the identified building as a replica of the Wily Corp HQ using the floor plans we have.
2. Advanced scans of the Dig Site to identify adjoining tunnels we can snipe from and to determine what buildings are there.
3. Get doses of the virus prepared for deployment.
4. Contact Light, ask him what his operative was able to get from MetPharm.
5. Get Data and our X-COM Engineers working on an Incursion upgrade for VP-99, 98, and HK-50.
6. Have Mouse begin snooping around the Wily Corp network.

We also need to set up the MetPharm strike with X-COM NOVA, so we need to start dropping our X-COM VALKYRIE messages.

The only place that it might be useful to sent Gondegal now would be the Dig Site. He is still a medieval character, in a high-tech world. He wouldn't be able to identify the interdiction generator or the power generators at the Corp HQ's.

>>18181904
a. Get Mustadio a TR-116 with Exographic Targeting Scanner and Micro-Transporter Module. He's an Engineer whose weapon focus was guns; see if he can still pull off some of his skills with this weapon.
b. the Gavs can work with Data to do the Incursion upgrades, which will free up the X-COM Engineers for renovating the mock-up building.
c. Get the Aurors, Farseers, and Psions to scry on the MetPharm, Wily, and Robodyne high security areas, see what kinds of defenses are in place and have the shadowrunners watch so that they can see the kinds of defenses they'll be up against.
d. Test Explosive Runes to see if a robot reading them is enough to trigger them. Use the captured Sniper JOE and Robodyne caterpillar. If so, have the Abjurers begin preparing stickers of Explosive Runes.

Prepare remote network uplinks to allow Mouse and Data to hack the Corps' computer networks once the strikes begin.
Prepare contingencies: 1. polymorphic virus, 2. EMP grenades, 3. Thermite charges.

We also may wait until Light and his Resistance are about to launch their own attacks on the Corps, and use their attack as a cover for ours.

>>18181343
>Prawns eating catfood
>they find the food replicators
>Data uploaded all of his cat food supplement data

Prawn 1: *What the Hell is Cat Food Supplement 133?*
Prawn 3: *That android, Commander Data, was messing around with the replicators. Something about picking up another cat for this trip or something.*
Prawn 2: *Oh man, 133 is the SHIT. You HAVE got to try that stuff.*

>>18181772
>Smaug's corpse and his.. 6 billion?... worth of diamonds.
8 billion, and that was fair salvage. No one else was going to pick it up, even after years of sitting at the bottom of the lake.

>Platinum Mail from Castlevania.
Once again, battlefield salvage!

>Strahd's wine collection.
Rights of conquest! We won the rights to that wine fair and square!

>The Lance of Longinus.
The Elder Things would have wanted us to put it to use!

>The Blackbird and the Gurus.
We got Belthasar's permission for the Blackbird, and the Guru's signed on to our staff. They were scouted, not looted!

>Those suits of Fallout power armor that we didn't get from the supply drop from Fallout-verse
Well...they...umm...Chang! Yeah, Chang's Chinese, those Stealth Suits were totally his by right of him being a citizen of China! And Perkins! He's from the Midwest. That totally still counts.

Are we still in contact with Doctor Light? If so then ask him this,
"After amassing a fair amount of historical and anecdotal data, several interesting details caught our attention. The first of which would be that this planet... isn't where it should be? Records seem to indicate that your homeworld, Earth, was menaced by Invaders, forcing you to flee to this planet, Hyrule. But Hyrule is now where Earth should be? About how long ago did this occur, and do you or your ex-colleague Wily have any theories on why?"

...I mean what does Dr. Grimm gain from moving an entire planet?

>>18182315
>I mean what does Dr. Grimm gain from moving an entire planet?
Uh oh. I just had an idea.
What if Earth's galactic coordinates are next in line for Sinistar. That's why Grimm brought Hyrule to where Earth was located.

>>18182315
Oh and also
"In addition, there was another nugget that aroused my interest. This City was once under the command of a vast and advanced AI known as SIM, who mysteriously went off line a decent amount of time ago? Do you have any more information you could give us? One question I have at least, is why neither Robotnik nor Wily, who are both skilled programmers, haven't taken advantage of the at least the vast infrastructure such an AI would require for their own devices."

...Because it seems like our actions stand a good chance of crippling all three megacorps, and why not seize every possible advantage?

>>18182405
That's... an unpleasant thought.
But Grimm has fused with Earth's core hasn't he?
Unless he can somehow possess Sinistar by having Sinistar consume Earth, I don't see how it benefits him.

Hi.
Strike Witches is on tomorrow, which means no Bootleg.
I must samefag "let Trude die, kill the freighter" as hard as I possibly can, to taste the delicious tears of frustrated weeaboo waifufags. Thus, I will not be able to run the looter team.

>>18182411
SIM is supposed to be forgotten, even by Light and members of Light's Resistance.
I'm not sure if we should let Light get ahold of something that powerful.

rolled 30, 73, 73 = 176

Tonight's quest brought to you by cheap whiskey.

Whiskey. When there's no rum left in the house.

>>18181904
>>18181940
1.) Your engineers get to work on your replica.
2.) Scanning in progress.
3.) Doc Laz begins replicating the virus. He estimates a few hours before enough are concocted.
4.) He's STILL not back yet. Light just knows he's on the way.
5.)The Engineering Bay cannot be used until it is repaired. This cannot be done with your current facilities.
6.)What do you want him to look for? Or just anything of general interest?

c.) Scrying in progress.
d.) It is. VP-99 is not happy with you now.

>>18182431
Goddammit we CAN'T kill the freighter, only Chuck can. We have quad 20mm autocannons, which are great against steamsleds but were useless against a dreadnaught, and so will be useless against the freighter.

MC attacking the freighter directly is a plain stupid idea, regardless of other factors, because the A-20 doesn't have weapons that can damage it enough to make a difference.

>>18182445
Eh, true. But I'm pretty sure our actions will allow Light and his forces to take down Wily and Robotnik and XCOM NOVA to take down Mother Brain unless you think we can convince them not to take advantage of all the normal megacorp forces falling ill for a while and their security systems and such being crippled courtesy us?

>>18182475
My opinion wasn't made with a tactical mind. It was made with a trollin' mind.

That said, proceed with Metaquestening.

>>18182492
I mean Wily in particular we're going to be fucking over hard, since we're going to force a recall of most of of his machines to be destroyed or stolen.
...Bit of a shame, because this Wily actually seems a bit less villainous than his normal incarnation.

>>18182447
>6.
Have Mouse look for the disaster recovery protocols, find out where the backup tapes are stored. Also, the model number and deployment of the newest Wily robots, specifically those that include "new technology", indicating the Meta-Contaminant. Find out what they look like, and where they're being deployed.
Also see if the Robot Masters have been all upgraded, and where they've been deployed.

>>18182431
At this rate, all the beer will be warm, all wine vinegar and other types of booze will be less pleasant.

>>18182447
We should keep at least one auror near the guy we're hiring to "do security" at the fake base, so we can obliviate him if we screw up so we can try doing whatever we screwed up in a way that might not screw up.
Why did we test it on VP and not on a generic drone?

Are any intelegent robots available for sale in this canon?
Maybe we should have someone we're not using at the moment scout warehouses for any such robots that we could steal.

>>18182315
"The shift happened only a few weeks ago, and no one seems to know why. Not even Wily. We're not even sure how it was done."

>>18182447
Your scanners fail to penetrate down to the dig site. In addition to the expected interference from depth, some sort of anomaly prevents the sensors from an accurate read.

Your scrying team yields fruit and you manage to learn the observable defenses of the corporate HQs. Mainly there are automated turrets hidden in walls, offensive laser grids, plenty of guards or robots, and lock after lock, usually voice or eye-imprinted.

>>18182508
>My opinion wasn't made with a tactical mind. It was made with a trollin' mind.
Oh, well fuck you, troll. Fuck you long, hard, and with a dildo with embedded razors.
Fucking trolls.

Now getting back to Meta Quest.

rolled 67 = 67

>>18182529
"I'm on it, boss."

>>18182588
Mouse manages to break into the Wily Corp system and learn that Dr. Wily hasn't fully backed up the new technology yet. If the data-slate and its copies in the HQ are destroyed along with the upgraded bots, he won't be able to replicate the technology. The technology has so far been implemented in Metal Man, Heat Man, and Air Man, along with a few prototype robots that they are using as minions.

>>18182557
>Your scanners fail to penetrate down to the dig site.
Ask Dr. Light if he can get a spybot down to the Dig Site. If he asks why, tell him we noticed Wily spending a lot of resources down there, and that our initial recon team met Metal Man. Something being guarded by a Robot Master MUST be valuable to Wily, and therefore, something we should target.

We want to know what kinds of defenses the Site has, and where Metal Man normally patrols.

>>18182621
"Certainly. I'll share my findings with you when it reports back."

>>18182620
Weird.
Didn't we detect a lot more Reality Distortions than that?
Ah well, less work for us I suppose.

>>18182620
>The technology has so far been implemented in Metal Man, Heat Man, and Air Man, along with a few prototype robots that they are using as minions.
We know that Metal Man is doing security at the Dig Site. Is Mouse able to determine where the other upgraded Robot Masters have been deployed to? or are they doing security at Wily Towers?

>>18182662
Mouse was unable to break into that layer of security on this attempt. He can try again, but will have increased risk of detection if he does.

>>18182742
Lets not risk that at the moment. We need more info about the corps's cybernetic security.

>>18182742
Alright, then no.
Have Doug continue making the rounds at the bars, looking for people that may be bribed.
We're looking at Robodyne and MetPharm, see if we can get any info on their security systems, and power and interdiction generators.

So regarding the three enhanced robot masters.
I think we might be able to defeat Metal Man through use of the Pyro's Compression Blast (and Metal Man being critically weak to his own weapon)
Air Man... I'm not sure about.
But Heat Man?
There is clearly only one solution.
>Jarate will extinguish any fire effects.

>>18180976
>It's a bear-god with rainbow fur sleeping in front of a fake fireplace in a bar in the stars.
>“What's the matter? Can't you just grin and BEAR it?”
u guise srsly
srsly u guise

>>18182815
Okay, besides this, I believe we still have the X-COM VALKYRIE plan to implement. MetaOP, do you require a refresher on what this plan entails?

>>18182878
Sometimes Alicia can be unbearable.

>>18182973
It would save me the trouble of rechecking old threads, yes. I remember the gist, but always best to be sure of the details.

If Trude dies in SW Quest, I'm calling dibs on her for the next TG Quest campaign.

>>18182993
X-COM VALKYRIE:
The gist is that when Earth fell, some members of X-COM made a blind Jump. They arrived at Proxima VIII, and allied with the beings there because of their mutual enemy, the Ethereal Empire and their Sectoid and Muton client races.

When the Space Pirates came and laid waste to Proxima VIII and her colonies, X-COM VALKYRIE came with their Advance Task Force to find the Space Pirates and MetPharm, and take their revenge.

X-COM VALKYRIE is requesting to coordinate an attack on MetPharm Branch HQ in the City with any forces X-COM NOVA can spare.

X-COM NOVA was already going to attack MetPharm; we simply help them out a little bit so that our strike team has an easier time of getting in and grabbing our objectives.

>>18183047
I remember that, I was asking for a refresher on how you were going to go about this. I remember there was talk of sending them a message on the old X-COM channels. Is that what you will do?

>>18183111
Yes.
The idea was to transmit the right passphrases and codes on the old X-COM frequencies, things that only a member of X-COM would know.

We had our X-COM veterans, X-COM Scientists, and X-COM Engineers all go over the cover story, the right challenges and passwords, the encryption keys and ciphers, to make sure that the story holds water.
As I recall, you said that they vetted it and said the story would work for our purposes.

>>18182557
> and lock after lock, usually voice or eye-imprinted.
Sandmen? Time to spend a long time listening to Robotnik, Wily, Ridley, and Mother Brain.
Their polymorphic voices will let us override voice locks.

As for Eye locks, we don't have an option for that. Not unless someone knows how to construct an Eye from a bunch of photographs with no physical samples.

>>18183162
Indeed I did, and they believe it will. Do you want them to start transmitting now? And if so, where from?

>>18183261
Pretty sure Mother Brain is a secret, even to most of Metpharm.
Plus I'm pretty sure she's not even on Earth, but on that one cloaked world we found?

>>18183263
I think they should start transmitting now; we're going to need some time to prepare, and so will X-COM NOVA, better to get started now. As for where, transmit from a Probe Droid (debating if it should be VP-98, should get some more people to vote) that's been plastered with X-COM insignia and made to look "X-COM-ish". Drop it off in one of the slum areas of the City and have it hole up in a building.

>>18182857
Heat man is weak to water-based weaponry, and can also be damaged by shooting him with bullets. Do not attack him with fire, as it heals him.

Air man can be hurt by bullets, but is critically weak to having his fan system jammed or clogged. Throwing some fine steel wires or fine nylon strands (i.e. fishing wire) into him should do the trick.

Metal Man is SO incredibly weak to his own goddamn blades that it's not funny, but he can also be hurt by shooting him with bullets if need be.

I sorta wanna hire Ramza as a hero just to see what Agrias' and her apprentices' reactions will be.

>>18183111
I think we've already covered most of everything and I can't think of a single other thing we can do.

We're looking for people to bribe/brainwash.

We're scrying.

We've got Spybots being made.

We've got a network tap (Maybe get a network tap on Robodyne and Metpharm, too?).

So all that's left to do is wait for Light's informant to come back, yes?

>>18183387
Oh dur I forgot.
Spirits.

Where would people who attempted to attack/infiltrate the Corp HQs, failed, and who got killed in the process, have their corpses stored?

We could send Tosh around for a chat, just to ask "What did you do?", "What were your backup plans?", "How did it fail?", to get some insider info on what not to do.

Good idea? Bad idea?

>>18183426
Bad idea.
Such ghosts, especially with Grimm's influence, will be hostile if they manifest at all.
We only have the one proton pack and a single trap, if we send Egon along with Tosh to do the talking.

>>18183446
Maybe. Just coverin' all the angles.

>>18183343
>>Air Man

Use the net ammo from the Brasta, or the birdlime launcher from the Hyaku Shiki. Use it to clog his system really hard.

Make a jerryrigged launcher for the ammo, and have a KI carry it.

>>18183380
Well if reading fanfiction has taught me anything, it's that a disastrous love triangle will emerge.

>>18183387
You've bribed one person and unwittingly duped a second.

>>18183339
Which one, VP-98 or 99? As it stands, one is being prepped for spywork, meaning the other will have to act as your "X-COM liasion".

You've scryed your eyes out.

Any comments on the "clog Air Man" plan?

>>18183516
>Well if reading fanfiction has taught me anything
UN-LEARN THESE THINGS IMMEDIATELY.

>>18183569
I have no doubt the results... will be amusing.

>>18183516
I think we should go with VP-98.
It's Seeker Protocols and User-Friendly Interface will be handy, especially if the X-COM NOVA operatives get a little trigger-happy.

>>18183608
Hahahahaha, I forced myself to read all the terrible fanfics featured in this quest. You won't escape so easy.

>>18183611
We should ask him what it's like to only have the power to push people away.

Either he'll become upset, or he'll Turn Around to use his fan as a vaccuum, giving us an opening to clog him

>>18183647
WARNING.
WARNING.
CRITICAL CORRUPTION DETECTED IN SECTOR.
HOLTZ NOTIFIED.
BLACK OPS TEAM DISPATCHED.

>>18183648
I read that as Turn-A for a moment. Interesting idea.

>>18183638
>>18183339
VP-98 it is. Where are you dropping him off to begin transmission?

>>18183692
Let's do it in the suburbs. Less Corp activity, and not as dangerous as the Pipes.

>>18183688
No, I'm not the final boss fight, or even A boss fight. Remember? I don't do self inserts. WHAT SORT OF QUESTMASTER WOULD DO THAT?
(Just kidding, Bootleg, put the knife down.)

>>18183708
That's a terrible idea. That area will be monitored by Wily and Robotnik, we'll have Robot Masters and badniks converging on the spot in minutes.

>>18183716
>(Just kidding, Bootleg, put the knife down.)
You have insulted my honor. I challenge you to a game of connect 4.

Also, so everyone knows: Chibiusa is totally the self-insert.

>>18183739

So this implies bootleg enjoys nasty things being done to him as the little girl...?

Trivia:

Q: What is a birdlime launcher?

A: Originally the term was used as a glue to trap birds when they land on branches. This one instead refers to a device used in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam. When a beam weapon pierces the hull of a space colony, that hole will be a source of decompression. In one episode, the Hyaku Shiki patched up a hole in a colony during a battle. The birdlime launcher was stored inside the _hand_ of the mobile suit, and a projectile of goo was fired, sealing the hole.


.......take it as you will with regards to how strong that glue is for patching holes in space colonies.

Alright, we have 3 locations for VP-98 to send the X-COM transmission from.

1. Slums of the City
2. Suburbs of the City
3. Rich area of the City

Still saying 3 is a bad idea, and we should go with 2.

>>18183928
Guy who posted 3. here.
Was a joke.
Surprised anyone took it seriously.
Deleting it now.

>>18183739
Fun fact. The first prize I ever won was a Connect Four set from the school lottery in the first grade.

Things seemed to have died down, I might be off for a bit. But before I go...

Peek into the future?

"This isn't a good time! It's pure fucking chaos!!!" Holtz shouts over the ringing of the nine comm-lines arranged on his desk. He picks one up and answers only to have to stop and pick up another mere seconds later.

"What? We already sent you the supplies you asked for, how did you- Hang on, got another call. Holtz here. What? What do you mean DESTROYED? How the fuck do you lose a battlefleet that big so fa... Damn it! Hang on! Holtz, make it quick. What the fuck is an Interdimensional Peacekeeping Bureau? I thought the TSAB was handling all that shit. No, I don't know what to tell them, why isn't someone from Main there? Well call them and tell- FUCKING A! Hang on. Holtz here, ma- Yellowman? Calm down! Slow down, man, just give me the report. What? I said slow down! That can't... There's no way that- no, I heard you, but who..." Holtz lowers the commlink, puzzled. "Who the hell is Shadow Mirror Katina?"

I have a frankenstein-patchwork idea to upgrade the Prawn suits and Space Marine armor.

You see the Ex-gears on the VF-25 cockpits? Take the flight systems on the Ex-gears... and adapt them to the exo-suits and power armors.

Since the Prawn suits are the closest we have to Terminator suits (but squishier), we might as well armor them up. I'm thinking we should implement the energy conversion armor from the VF-25's and adapt them to the Prawn suits.

For any problems regarding power supply, let's adapt the design of the battery packs from the VF-25 Armor Packs and mount them.

From there we can start deciding what kind of heavy weapons from the Baneblades, Von Luckners, and Brasta that we can adapt to the Prawn suits as back-mounted, support fire/sniping weapons.

Whatcha think?

>>18183954
Alright, the choice is down to Slums or Suburbs.

Anyone else going to vote for it?

>>18183954
We need a device that can turn Stress into Time Magic. Holtz will then be unstoppable.

kk, you make the first move.

>>18183954

>>What do you mean DESTROYED? How the fuck do you lose a battlefleet that big so fa...

The Unknown Object. I've discussed with Codeki the two most probable, relevant "things" that it might be.

>>What the fuck is an Interdimensional Peacekeeping Bureau?

Negotiations/officer transfers and liasons must be underway by then....

>>"Who the hell is Shadow Mirror Katina?"

A quest thread on /m/, which isn't as documented very well compared to the convenience of suptg.

>>18184019
Far left.

>>18184038
>http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuperRobotWarsQuest
CAUTION: CONTAINS TVTROPES

>>18184000
Unnecessarily clunky and, quite frankly, not that good compared to what else we have.

We have deflector shields from the Creation Engine Database, that would be better to use for protecting the Space Marines and the Prawn Suits. An alternative would be Federation personal force fields, and not the ones that Starfleet uses in 2409 but actually adapting their ship shield technology.
Flight systems are better taken from the X-COM Flying Armor, since we need the synthetic Elerium research done anyway.
The E-115 would also provide us with an extremely dense and powerful power source, enough to power the defense systems.
Of which should include replicators and self-replicating ablative armor.

As for better weapons, being able to replicate the Dark Matter Canon mass rifles would be better than anything else, as it would let us fire mini-blackholes. Only thing better would be Singularity Lasers, and those are likely more difficult to make.

>>18184060
>>18184047
Don't make me download those Waiting for OP pictures again. I'll do it.

>>18184060
Far left.

I believe Holtz needs a waifu to take out stress on. Even if it's a 6-inch tall waifu.


Data can make her life-sized if you ask him nicely.

>>18184129
Your choice of move puzzles me.

>>18184143
What is even, I don't this.

>>18184143
Holy shit. I can see some poor well-meaning Command Crewman getting him one, and Holtz's expression transcends even the usual "What-the-fuck-am-I-seeing" he has plastered on his face.

Then it begins to talk.

>>18184144
Good. Far right.

>>18184186
I assume you are tired and wish to sleep.

This has to be the least honorable way to reclaim honor that you can perform while having your pants on.

>>18184186

Then I put out a bounty for a Looter team to loot one as a gift for Holtz.

>WANTED:
>One 6-inch living Doll
>Must act like a wife
>Berates owner for excessive smoking and drinking

>>18184213
Don't make me send your entire team to Felarya.
I swear to god I'll do it.

>>18183954
>Shadow Mirror Katina

....Ohhhhhhh, lord. I was on /m/ around the time that started up.

Good thing I decided to poke my head back in before going to bed.

Relevant link, folks: http://teamphantomtiger.blogspot.com/2010/02/srw-quest-sciencegar-sciencebolt-joint.html

Good parts about this:
~ We may have a way of filling out our Pilot needs.
~ Access to actual giant robot designers and completed designs to scan into the Creation Engine for the /tg/bien Project.
~ Access to delicious Cybertronian mass-shift technology (ARCHIE!).
~ Sentient, non-evil nanomachines (Hey, /m/quest leaked into it at a couple of points, so we might have access to Lydia which /m/ had been slowly trying to convert into a tokatsu-style Hero named Cutie Bunny. Three guesses as to the costume style, and the first two don't count.)
~ Shadow Mirror-version Katina Tarask. She's shown a marked ability to go "lol NOPE" to a bunch of crazy forced evolutionary shit. She's taken at least two direct detonations of Getter Ray-based reactors without dying/mutating horribly. She's an adaptable pilot with a range of skill; centering on "MOAR BULLETS. IT ISN'T WORKING? GET CRAZIER AND USE MORE BULLETS!".

>>18184226

Do it

You know you want to

>>18184205
Half asleep already or I would've typed out "second from far right" like I meant to instead of "far right."

Moot point now, you've won either way.

>>18184205
That was quicker than than the Mastermind fiasco.

>>18184278
Only that first guy lost though. I won my game, and so did the second guy.

>>18184241
The worst part about fetish horror death worlds?
Knowing that they are someone's fetish.
*shudder*

Why can't there be a fetish world where the people keep to themselves most of the time, never sexually harass or rape anyone, and where all persons involved in all acts are happy, smiling and having fun?
That is my fetish, and it seems I am unique with it.

>>18184261
I have obtained my Honor back.
Hm. That honor was almost as much of an easymode donor gimme than honor in WoW.

>>18184288
Indeed! I just wanted to demonstrate that said person didn't have very much of the brain.

>>18184226
>>Felarya
>>Karbo

*scribbles notes furiously*

Oh shit. Before I head out, is someone going to archive this or should I do it?

>>18184307
I'll do it.

>>18184288
Well, you and the second weren't precisely fiascos.

>that feel when talking about irrelevant things because I have no idea of mecha related topics

>>18184315
Thanks.
>>18184300
Oh right. I forgot to get you to go kill ten boars.

Anyway, with everything accounted for, sweet oblivion will take me now. I might pop on sometime tomorrow to bring more chaos and madness into your lives if this thread is still around, but it'll have to be a half session if it happens. I'm fairly busy tomorrow.

>>18184300
So, is this a good time to mention that if we have to steal "that world" instead, I'm going to use all my vacation time I have built up?

>>18184236
Bad parts about this:
~ Shadow Mirror Katina Tarask. She's also completely batshit insane at times, making the worst possible decisions at the time. Her brain's been poked, stabbed, rewired, drugged, re-drugged, wiped, scrubbed, and put together with some connections missing. When she goes off on the deep end, she's a raging berserker in a frilly dress with FAR too many pockets for anyone's health.
~ All the crazy shit in the Patchwork. Not to mention the *existence* of the Patchwork in and of itself. This is perhaps one of the Guard/Institute's worst nightmares. Basically a hundred shattered /m/-based worlds fused back into a single "coherent" world by nothing short of an act of Super Robot Wars-grade Deus Ex Machina (LITERALLY.).
~ This opens up the possibility of getting involved in a Giant Robot-grade version of the Grail Wars. Shinji with Asuka turning into Unit 01 for Berserker, Duo Maxwell from Gundam Wing with Hilde turning into Deathscythe for Assassin.. I think Dann of Tuesday is either Saber or Archer. I forget at the moment. Oh, and there's an Exalted character with one of that setting's godesses turning into like.. a nerfed version of Demonbane or something. This may be Archer, again I can't immediately recall.
~ The *second* this gets out, Black Ops is gonna be all over our sector. These are the groups of people that can *create* STOBs. Remember those? The things that started this clusterfuck? Yeah. SM!Katina has some of the people that can MAKE THEM.

You know, I find it frustrating that we didn't get enough done because, despite there being enough people in the thread to keep it going, no one actually voted on the next course of action, which was a simple location choice for VP-98.

>>18184300
Well then, you get your very own fetish asteroid.

>>18184213
>>Type Panzer Murmeltier
>>Type Nurse Bright Feather
>>Type Sister Harmony Grace
>>Type Dog Howling

I'm sure there's a shinki that's just right for Holtz.

>>18184354
>Patchwork
Basically, one of those things one want to completely erase out of the multiverse.
And to think this current cannon probably got made in a similar situation, except more "fanmade".

>>18184300
The world of Monster Girl Encyclopedia fits Bootleg OP's specifications.

A world at peace, a world of monster girls.

>>18184303
There is plenty of extremely fucked-up shit on the internet. Things that have made even 4chan blush.

E.g. you could combine Guro with /vp/ with that "Girl turns into a dragon's heart" thing with Unbirthing, to get:
A person who keeps a large amount of pet female cats, that he dresses up as various pokemon. He/she abducts people, shrinks said people down to a miniature size, and forcibly inserts them into his pet cats' uteri. There, he uses magic to transform them into statues of catboys/catgirls with adorable faces, souls of his victims trapped inside them and unable to scream.
He then covers said statues in cat food and watches his cats tear them apart.

This person obviously has to be a cat-furry, and He/she will refer to him/herself as the Catmaster/Catmistress, speaking only in various ear-grating forms of "NYA".

This has to be SOMEONE's fetish.
This is one of the many reasons why the Hedonists aren't the goldfish poop gang of the setting, but are instead scary motherfuckers, because they're an entire faction that get joy from things just as fucked up as this.

And as a protip to everyone:
Never.
Go.
To.
Goldshire.
Ever.
It doesn't matter how strong you believe your sanity to be. You are wrong. Be comfortable in your ignorance, and do not test it.

>>18184408
I wouldn't call a world where every woman is a monster and almost all of them are out to rape you for your semen "peaceful".

>>18184427
By personal experience, /vp/ as a canon would be NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPE.png, except for some very small pockets of sanity.

While people are still here:
Where are we sending VP-98, disguised as an X-COM drone?

1. Slums and hide in a building.

2. Suburbs, hide out in a canal.

>>18184354

I don't want to wait till we're there to get the /tg/beins underway. That might be too little too late.

I was plotting that we give /tg/bein MP plans to other sectors. Like, the generic version has similarities to the Exblau from ACE 3, but better. Char/Zolomon/Lister/Elaine's versions would be souped up and customized.

That, or /tg/quarion, which can take advantage of psyker powers, or similar. Also, gattai shenanigans.

>>18184392
Well, I will grant that it was kinda done better than most fanfic hand waving shit goes... Fit more with the fact that Dark Brain basically killed each of those worlds and trapped their shattered corpses in time stasis. What they ended up doing to 'make' it was take those world fragments and with a liberal and 4th Wall-licking sense of PLOT AHOY forged them into the Patchwork; for a specific reason.

You see, in that 'canon' Dark Brain cannot exist in a world or worlds where it's already killed everything; that includes that incarnation of itself. By weaving them together, SM!Katina and co. basically made an anti-Dark Brain fortress out of an entire bin of world shards. As I recall, the threads trailed off right about when they started getting the last few areas stabilized so the whole thing wouldn't tear itself apart. There's still strife and such, but people are adjusting surprisingly well once they get over the whole "We were dead, but we're alive again! Yay!" bit.

It's not exactly the most stable of worlds; but given time to develop might actually turn into a viable place; especially for Giant Robots/Mecha pilot recruitment. Depending on how MetaQuest OP goes with it, we may actually be able to gain some horrifically powerful support. But we're gonna have to tread VERY lightly. They've got the kind of firepower in that world to actually pose a serious threat to our sector fleet.

>>18184518
Sorry for the macro, but it reflects well what's happening.

>>18184427
I mean, shit. H.R. Giger and H.P. Lovecraft ain't got nothing on Goldshire. The sanity loss isn't from watching or seeing wacky bullshit - any man can see the horrors of war. The sanity loss comes from knowing that people ENJOY these things. In fact, a very large amount of people ENJOY these things, and that, compared to the huge amount of people who enjoy {x}, you are, relatively speaking, Alone.
The truth isn't that the universe does not care for you. The truth is that the universe wishes to dress you up in girls' clothes and sodomise you, then giggle at your distress, all the while screaming "IT'S STRAIGHT AND NOT GAY LOL 'CUZ HE'S WEARING A DRESS XD"
A trip to /v/ or /d/ will inform you that there are far, far too many so-called "straight" males with a massive lust for dicks. Even outside of there, in pornography for the so-called "normal" people, nobody gives two shits about whether women are happy; people only wish to see dicks being used on someone.

I feel incredibly queasy just thinking about the sheer NUMBER of adult males in the world who are into that type of thing. If that stuff counts as Heterosexual then I don't know what the word MEANS anymore.

... I probably shouldn't be posting this on 4chan. Grabbin' sanity peelz.

>>18184562
/v/ and /d/? That shit happens in almost al popular 4chan boards, and has been going on for more than what you think. Do you remember "lets pretend"?

>>18184530
Yeah. But hey, this is actually a better explanation for a world with so many crossovers that doesn't immediately burst into flames than the actual SRW games give.

Most of the time it's "Portal opens, bad guys appear, SHENANIGANS AND MISSIONS". At least they tried to explain it this go around.

We can give it a chance, but dear LORD are we keeping our weapons and shields charged and raised. I'm simply praying that the Patchwork isn't the moving distortion. I have a pretty sneaky and simple plan for dealing with the Stiletto if that's what it is, so I'm less than worried.

Depending on how it goes; like I said, we could gain some SERIOUS awesomeness if we play it right. If it's JUST SM!Katina, then I'm not worried unless she's piloting the Compatible Kaiser or something. That whole world? Ehhhhhh.. We'll have to see. But first; 8-bit Dystopia!

>>18184586
I remember. My brain cannot fully process what it is I saw that day, and I am thankful of that.

>>18184586
>>18184595

I'm afraid to ask but the cat needs to die

>Lets pretend

Whats that?

>>18184595
And for how goddamn much has "dragon dildos" going on? That alone outfurries /vp/ and their "popsicles".
Sorry if it looks like I'm ranting about the current 4chan situation.

>>18184427
I still have nightmares about that cat.

>>18184609
>>18184609
The most traditional of games

Dont ban me mods this is for science

>>18184609
"Let's Pretend" is where two men on the internet engage in cybersex with each-other, while pretending to be various things. A popular thing to pretend to be is transsexuals, for some reason.

>>18184610
God damn /vp/ and their Eevee evolution spam.

>>18184616
..I don't know what's worse.

That this exists outside the porn sections of the board...

Or that you had it so readily accessible.
My god, man. My GOD.

>>18184634
What's worse is knowing that over 50% of males are interested in at least some form of this.

>>18184634
I have several variations on this theme in a folder called "pretend"

How does this make you feel

>>18184634
Or that someone colored it.

>>18184616
. . .
/vomits

>>18184427
I played on Farstriders. We thought we were safe until server transfers opened.

Moonguard got free transfers to Farstriders. My server was never the same again.

>>18184655
RPers ruin everything.

>>18184660
Errata: Internet ERPers

>>18184650
Cold. Cold and alone. I mean; I browse through /d/. (I'veSeenSomeShit.jpg) But seriously.

I'm cold.

I.. I have work later. I'm going to bed, and let sweet oblivion erase this from my mind. Thank the Canon I don't dream.


Good night. If you can have such a thing.

>>18184664
Errata 2: ERPers in all variations

>>18184669
I knew /d/ was going to end as total shit when futaspamming was considered acceptable. And then /y/ invaded,

Are we still waiting for Dr. Light? Because OP needs to roll that shit faster. Or are we already done for the night?
>Remember when we could complete a mission in just 2-3 threads? Me nether.

>>18184650
Fun fact: Once you've lost sanity by learning something, you can't lose sanity by being informed of it again later. I am not pleased, but also not upset.

>>18184664
>>18184660
You can think of them as being like Chryssalids, turning everything they touch into more Chryssalids.
Only, instead of Chryssalids, it's dickgirls.
...
I just had the most disturbing mental image. I do not think I will sleep well tonight at all.

Does anyone know of the Warhammer 50k fanfic?

Goliath Engine - Perturabo

Planet Killer - Abaddon

It might be that Unknown Object.

>>18184660
Farstriders was an RPserver. We just didn't have the issues our fellow RP servers had due to "special" circumstances.
The first month of the server's existence, free transfers were allowed to the server giving us a large number of actual PVPers and PVEers. They kept the server from being horrible. The tranfer from Moonguard was almost entirely ERPers. My god, I wish we could have nuked Goldshire. We got hit expecially hard because that was the same time Blizzard stationed GMs in Goldshire on Moonguard to ban ERPers. They decided to take the free transfer to keep doing their horrible fetishes.

>>18184694
Truly a plague inflicted on the metaverse.

>>18184698
I never played WoW and I feel sorry for what you had to endure.

>>18184688
Yeah, we're done for the night.

We probably could have gotten in some contact with X-COM NOVA, but no one voted for locations for VP-98.

We're waiting on a lot of things, actually.
We've got a lot of stuff going on, and we need a day or two at least before we see results.

>>18184726
I didn't vote because both suburbs and slums seem like viable locations. Is there a way to transmit from both?

>>18184723
>>18184698
>>18184562
Behold! Sanity loss for everyone.

>>18184729
Well, yes, if we move VP-98 around, or we dress up another Probe Droid in X-COM accessories.

>>18184730
If I'm a /d/ and gurochan regular, how much SAN loss did I incur just now?

>>18184733
GAH FFS DON'T TALK ABOUT DRESSING UP

>>18184738
Man up, you big sissy.

>>18184735
Well, then you've already lost sanity for learning those horrible truths, and cannot lose it twice. Hooray!
Feel free to go to /vp/ and check for yourself whether you're truly immune, though.

>>18184733
I vote to move VP-98 to the slums, try to contact and move if there's no answer after 30 minutes.

>>18184735
Depends on your tolerance to dicks plastering your face.

>>18184748
Truth to be told, /vp/ got better after it got some really zealous janitors.

>>18184770
I'm not tolerant of it as in "the novelty wore off".

>>18184778
>Zealous janitors
I am imagining a Diablo 2 paladin hitting his foes with a broom at over +300% increased attack speed.

I'd like to bring up some stuff with Bootleg for consultation, but he's never on Steam.

>>18184785
E-mail me.

>>18184783
Nothing closer to the truth.
"Old" /vp/ was still the closest thing in 4chan to a Hedonist enclave, yeah.

>>18184795
What is /d/?

Is it just me, or is everyone trying to test me for fear/terror immunity? Like, using me as a frontline tank for SAN-attacks or something....

>>18184802
The second closest.

>>18184805
Nah, just checking if you're on par to us.

>>18184805
I'm being an /r9k/ tier tripfaggot by whining about things that have upset me, and you're in the area of effect of said whining.

bump

Bumping with a query: I read in one of the earlier threads (Bootleg or main, can't recall which) that PWP fics were prime recruitment fodder for the guard, being pocket universes that collapse quickly.

Would it thus be possible to recruit characters from one of these alternate dimensions, regardless of canon status?

Also, a possible update for hero recruitment: Giles from the buffyverse may be getting resurrected in the Angel and Faith series in the near future. Too bad for the guys who want to recruit him. I suppose you could try and nab him from the alternate timeline seen in 'The Wish', but he's somewhat superfluous now.

>>18186807
He's pretty much worthless now that we have the sages. Anything he could do, they can do better.

Also, people have been talking about recruiting from some of those of those alternate universes, but we have a minor problem.

Requisitions is going to pretty much shut down. Depending on how many more we can get, we're best off spending all we have on a Looter team, and upgrades for our ship. If anything, we still need a Meta-communications suite (if we can't build our own out of the scanned mini-meta ship) and probably better scanners. Excluding that, most everything else will probably end up going to our /tg/bein plans.

>>18186921
right. But we shouldn't *just* prioritise the giant robots for recruitment (granted, with recent developments, we should accelerate our plans for /tg/bein).

What are our non-robot related heroes, other than the Looters and Giles? Other than Skorzeny, we can get hundreds of superior commando-types from the various canons. Not to mention, Nazis and the meta don't mix.

For MetaOP:
Hey, if you're going to continue the "Lyla and Elaine's Variety Hour" (which I hope you will), please also include a meeting with Finalon. We don't use him much, and I think he deserves some screen time. Either making impossible shots with his bow, or being dragged into playing hairstylist for a group of White Mages.

>>18187303
That reminds me, should we see if we can get the equipment of either Green Arrow or Hawkeye?
Sure most of their arrows are pretty gimmicky, but occasionally they're pretty helpful.

why do you guys steal stuff from videogames written better than anything you could ever shit out?

>>18187692
possibly also RA3 uprising archer maiden gear. That stuff can shoot down light aircraft.

Agrais, Mustadio ... FFT?

Oh god...

I might have to catch up from Ep 1..

>>18188167
Not to rain on your parade, but we only got them recently. Still a decent idea to read from the beginning.

>>18187735
We didn't steal those from a videogame. . .
We stole them from a setting that stole them from a videogame.
While thieves, we weren't the ones who stole them originally.

And if you don't like us having those, blame Rynex.

>>18186921
The Storm already has the best sensors the Guard can field. If it can't detect it, no sensor can.

>>18187735
Because you touch yourself at night.

>>18189258
Do you have enough info to continue with VP-98's deployment?

rolled 39 = 39

>>18191275
Indeed I do.

>>18193196
That's not a pleasant number.
And does this mean Metaquest awakens?

>>18193196
You drop VP-98 somewhere in the slums and he begins transmitting the codes and passphrases along with an encrypted prerecorded message on the frequencies you detected. After about an hour, it receives an encoded burst transmission that translates to the following.

"Message received. Wary, but suggestion acceptable. Time of attack/details?"

They're listening.

>>18193269
BEHOLD.

I LIVE.

>>18193354
Crap...
I know it's like at least a day away for planning, and we also want to leave time for that virus to infect everyone... And I'm pretty sure we want to take them all down simultaneously?
...How much time have we spent here already?

>>18193354
Before we give the answer, we need confirmation on a few things.

Doc Lazarus: how much longer to get the viruses ready, and assuming they're immediately deployed, what's the optimum time to attack?

>>18193432
"Just give me a few more hours and it should be ready. If you have a way to deploy it, I'd say a day or two from contact for maximum effectiveness."

>>18193464
Okay, this is day 2 if I'm remembering correctly (please confirm, MetaOP).
We can deploy the viruses today, and need 2 days for it to do its work.
So, I'm voting to inform X-COM NOVA that the attack will commence in 2 days, at midnight of Day 4. That should give the viruses enough time to work.

Details:
X-COM VALKYRIE to start the attack with multiple large explosions around the perimeter of the MetPharm HQ. X-COM NOVA to attack the rear of the building, keep security forces occupied.
VALKYRIE will send in strike teams to take down the building power systems, then begin destruction of labs and computer systems.

Will X-COM NOVA agree to this plan?

>>18193552
They will agree, but inform you they will be sending in a small strike team of their own. They will assume any non-MetPharm forces are allies unless fired upon.

>>18193578
Understood.

Alright, let's ring up Doc Light. Tell him that hey, we're on a schedule now for hitting MetPharm.

>>18193619
"MetPharm? I was thinking... No... No, this can work. I can arrange for the WilyCorp attacks while you tie up MetPharm from exploiting the chaos!"

>>18193914
"Very good, Doctor. Oh, and just to let you know. We will have strike teams hitting Wily Towers ourselves, and Robodyne HQ as well.
"Our time table has been...accelerated."

>>18193914
>>18193966
Okay, can we geta status update from the Gurus on getting those ghost-touch tricorder and transporter beacons?

Also, can we replicate a couple extra exographic targeting scanners and give them to our shadowrunner teams?
Being able to see through walls should help them immensely in our assaults.

>>18193966
"I see. At the same time, then? Hm. I was hoping to have more time to prepare. What made you decide to strike so soon?"

>>18194113
Your Engineering Bay is still defunct.

The ghost touch equipment will be ready tomorrow. (Day 3.)

>>18194164
The exographic scanners can be replicated by the Indefatigable.
We shouldn't need an Engineering Bay to replicate them.


>>18194132
"We were able to sneak a remote network tap into Wily Corp's network. They've already upgraded several Robot Masters, and are about to upgrade the others. Robodyne is apparently nearing a breakthrough in a new weapon. MetPharm has, according to our sources, dropped many of their projects to concentrate on a secret research project. We believe that we should strike before any one of these three scenarios plays out."

>>18194272
I seem to recall someone pointing out the Indefatigable's replicator is small and primarily for food.

"Ah, I see. I had heard rumors, but to have it confirmed... I will try to ready whom I can gather with haste then."

...Should we try and take down the upgraded Robot Masters before we mount the assault?

>>18194527
See this plan for Airman >>18183508

AFAIK, the Aurors have a spell to OHKO Heatman.

Also for Abjurers, you need to set up a spell loadout for them.

>>18194434
Regarding the Abjurers, is it okay for each one to have different forbidden schools?
Also how far does the statting go?
Like all the way to feats?

>>18194434
Well, that's the Defiant class' food replicator in the mess hall. And the concern was a matter of size; the replicators can't replicate anything too big.

However, the exographic targeting scanner is small, about the size of a set of earphones, and so should be able to fit within the replicator bins.

>>18194628
OK then.

>>18194597
That's fine, and as far as you want to take it.

Guys, are we getting to the frankensteining upgrades for the Prawn suits + KI armor?

Also, the jerryrigged net/birdlime launchers for troop use?

Also OP, what again did we assign Dr. Han and the zombie hunter squad to do?

>>18194665
And correct me if I'm wrong, but we only have access to all the spells found in the d20 srd or whatever?
How about feats?
Because I have pretty much all the 3.5 dnd rulebooks (and dragon magazine) gaining digital dust, and I'm itching to put them to use.

>>18194860
Aren't our engineering facilities offline due to catastrophic failure?
And aren't we sending that ghost paladin to infiltrate Robodyne?

Should we have our abjurers start making Explosive Runes on like posters or whatever?
Like just as many times as we can, if we're not going to be using them today?

>>18194860
>>18194923
>>18194943
Engineering Bay is still offline, yes.

Gondegal is waiting for the Gurus to use the technomagic lab to modify some gear for him.

You can use your 3.5 stuff to a degree... If you make it too broken/nonsensical (peasant railgun/etc) it might create a reality distortion.

The Zombie Hunters do not have an assignment currently, and thus are training.

Yes, the Abjurers can prepare Explosive Rune posters if not doing anything else.

>>18194860
The Advanced Engineering Bay is offline for a week, so we can't upgrade anything.

Han and the Zombie Hunter's should be going through military training with UNIT or SCP, maybe even the Knights and Mobile Infantry.
But we aren't going to deploy them because there's no undead for us to hunt, and we don't have the resources right now to give them better armor to increase their survival chances.

>>18195081
Have the Abjurers prepare as many posters of Explosive Runes for the next 2 days. Make sure they get their 8 hours to replenish spells for the attack.

I believe everything has been set into motion for now, and we are currently waiting on the report from our engineers saying that the building (we took to make look like Wily Towers so that engineer can show us how security should be done) has been readied.

Also, confirmation that a pair of exographic scanners were replicated for the shadowrunners, and that they are practicing with them.
If they try to use to look in on Lyla, Elaine, the White Mages, and other female task force members, the Command Crew will not be held responsible for what happens to them.
And they should keep in mind that our medical facilities ensure that they can be beaten within an inch of their lives and still be back to health for another round very quickly.

>>18195106
We could test if the zombie hunters or TG soldiers/recruits have any magic potential.

At the same time, the Medic could teach them (Dr. Han included) the basics of using the Medigun/Quick-Fix, right?

Did we assign the Techno-Mages to get anything done, or do they need the engineering bay for it?

>>18195081
Excellent.
So what is there to do right now?
Should we contact Star Fox as long as we're seizing every possible advantage?
There's a chance that they'll know who moved the planet, or why?

>>18195193
What canon are the Techno-Mages from?

rolled 81 = 81

>>18195170
Dr. Han can be trained in Medigun use, yes. You can assign Medic to teach him if you wish. It will take 1d4 days. As for the recruits, let's see if any have magic or psi potential.

>>18195193
The TechnoWizards can use the technomagic lab for anything you want them to work on.

>>18195271
Forgot my name.

Well, whaddya know. Two of the TG Soldiers are latent psychics.

>>18195226
Whoops. They're Techno-wizards from RIFTS.

>>18195271
Can the other zombie hunters and recruits be taught on the medigun?

>>18195193
The Techno-Wizards are currently armoring up the Abjurers, Psions, and White Mages by reinforcing their robes and light armor with magical protection.
Considering we'll be throwing them into the strike teams, I don't think we should assign the TW's anything else.

>>18195271
May as well get Han checked out on the Medigun. Have Medic teach him how to use it.

>>18195282
Have the TG Soldiers report to Cheryl and the X-COM Psi Labs for evaluation and training.

>>latent psychics

Hmm, I'm guessing we could train them for any of the following:

FFT magic
Mech pilot (newtype)
Psion
Abjurer
Techno-Wizard
HP magic

It would have been nice to train those two TG recruits as Psychodriver mech pilots, but we don't have any leads at the moment to do that.

What's a psychodriver?

>>18195334
Psionics isn't Magic.

Regarding the Abjurers, who's in favor of giving them this Unearthed Arcana variant?

Spontaneous Dispelling (Ex): At 5th level, an abjurer using this variant gains the ability to spontaneously cast the spell dispel magic. This ability is similar to the cleric’s ability to spontaneously cast cure spells, with a few exceptions. The abjurer can “lose” four or more levels of prepared spells to cast dispel magic. The prepared spells can be of any level or combination of levels as long as the total spell levels add up to four or more (0-level spells don’t count). For example, an abjurer using this variant could lose two 2nd-level spells or one 1st-level spell and one 3rd-level spell to cast dispel magic.
At 11th level, an abjurer can “lose” seven or more levels of prepared spells to spontaneously cast greater dispel magic.
An abjurer using this variant can use it in conjunction with a readied action to use dispel magic or greater dispel magic as a counterspell.
An abjurer using this variant does not gain additional spells per day for being a specialist wizard.

Could be useful in worlds with lots of magic.

>>18195298
It will take considerably longer to train someone without a medical or scientific background to use the Medigun, but it's not impossible.

>>18195437
We're going to want the Abjurers to load up on Knock and Protection from Energy and Protection from Arrows spells. That should protect them from Wily and Robotnik energy weapons, and bullets.

>>18195484
The rest of the Zombie Hunters can wait; it'll take too long and we may need Medic when we deploy BLU Team.

Any word on
>>18195329

>>18195484
Well, isn't the leader of the zombie hunters, a doctor or something. Let him practice with a kritzkrieg or quick-fix so he can get Medigun mastery

>>18195689
Yes. Dr. Han. The man we were just discussing to have Medic train in the use of Mediguns.

rolled 3 = 3

>>18195651
>>18195689
1d4 days. I guess you want him to start training then. It takes...

>>18195728
Or rather, it -will- take three days.
Like we're not timeskipping or anything here, seeing as we have a deadline.

>>18195728
3 days.

I don't think there's anything else to be done until some time passes. Move ahead one day?

>>18195754
Status update from the Techno-Wizards about putting armor enchantments on the light titanium-ceramic armor that the magic-users are equipped with?

>>18195754
Could we scan for the Defence Force's main base? There's got to be an area where they live when they aren't flying around.

We're still deciding on how to train the 2 latent psychics.

I'm passing around Simchamber 1st and 2nd ed. class sheets regarding psychic piltos...

>>18195812
They still need to go through X-COM Psi Lab evaluations to see what type of psionics they would be best at, or if due to their MetaEarth origins, they can do them all.

>>18195841
On that idea, can we see if anyone on the rest of the crew has any latent powers? We might find a couple on the command crew that has psionics as well.

>>18195869
Nah, the command crew should stay as nebulous and out of the action as possible.

>>18195841
Yep. So next month, you'll know.

>>18195809
They appear to be based in a large space station in geosynchronous orbit with Hyrule.

>>18195791
I need to check my notes, which I can't do just yet. Remind me next session. (Monday)

I will start next session with the passing of a day and the beginning of Gondegal's Excellent Adventure.

>>18195947
Oh, by the way, that concludes today's half session. See you all Monday!

We have yet to test if robots can activate Exploding Runes, then we can start Operation Mailbomb.

>>18195993
Thanks, MetaOP. See you at 20:00 on Monday.

1 month under X-Com? Let's have the Eldar and Cheryl take a look at them instead.

>>18196006
Yes we did. VP-99 was happy.
>>18182447

>>18196006
No, we already did test that, and it was a success.
Though VP-99 will be needing a new paint job, and is quite upset at us.

>>18195993
Well then.

>>18196021
Guess searching the thread for posts containing "runes" didn't quite work.

So regarding feats, we agree that all the abjurers should have Craft Wondrous Item at least?

>>18196236
It seems a little redundant with the Techno-Wizards on-staff. Brew Potion might be better, since we need some alchemists.
Their meta-magic feats might be useful, like Maximized.

>>18196327
We could have one of them get most the crafting feats. Then we could have that one join our "crafting" department.

So our considered Abjurer feats are brew potion, alchemist's fire, craft wonderous item, protection from evil, explosive runes and maximised?

>>18196504
Sounds good.
There are some pretty good magical items out there that could be useful.
And agreed that we do need more alchemy type stuff.

>>18196516
Protection from Evil and Explosive Runes are spells that every abjurer has.
Every abjurer has all the non-splatbook wizard spells.
Although each abjurer has two schools they can't cast from.

All our Abjurers have familiars right?

>>18197494
Yes, they all have familiars. The Psions also have their psicrystals, too.

Who's working on what? I might have enough time to roll up character sheets if some troops need more statting up.

>>18201382
That would be helpful, since I'm not the best at character creation.
Like I think it would be good if each Abjurer is capable of standing alone as a support mage, but when together, there should be as little redundancy as possible? Like they should all be good at different things to a certain extent?
I don't know, is that clear at all?

>>18201883
Yeah, it makes sense.
I think someone is already working on the Abjurers.

As said before, we do have the Techno-Wizards, so some of the crafting feats, like Craft Wondrous Item, Craft Magical Arms/Armor, Craft Ring are probably not necessary. But the Potions, I don't think we have any other alchemists aboard right now, and having Potions of Haste and Protection from Energy for frontline troops would give us an edge in any conflict.

When you cast Haste in FFT, can the spell effects stack similar to using Yell?

Um, hi, writer of Super Robot Wars Quest, from over on /m/, here.

You guys were talking about crossing over with us or something? I'll admit, I haven't been following your thread, so I'm not sure how you do things here. Could someone explain how thats supposed to work?

Normally I'd be all gung ho for inter-quest cameos, I already had /m/quest appear. But I'm currently in the middle of a major climax of this part of the Quest, so I'm wondering how this is supposed to go down.

Can anyone enlighten me? General hints about this quest would be appreciated.

>>18202678
Let me get someone who knows better to explain it to you.

I'm kind of confused. There seem to be two quests on /m/ that have Katina in it, and run by the same Sciencegar. Can anyone clarify?

>>18202678
As someone who's tried and sometimes failed to follow the thread thanks to /m/-ness that I am grossly unfamiliar with, I'm all for helping out another Quest. I've heard you might be running 2 quests, so we'll need to know: 1) Which quest, 2) Major characters, 3) Nature of this climactic battle, 4) How much trolling you think your quest could tolerate before it fell apart, on a scale of 1-10. This last one is important, trust me, helps determine how badly the Distributors will be trying to loot the setting for robots and phat tech.

>>18202678
Hey Sciencegar. I looked at the blog and found Haken's contact info but not yours. I'll give you the full explanation if you let me know how to get ahold of you.

>>18203074

Those should be the same quest, SRW Q2 is just a continuation of Q set after they jumped into that combined universe mentioned before. The current thread is >>>/m/7435303 , any other threads currently one are trolls.

>>18203283

The simplest way? Would be to come onto irc.rizon,net and look for me in the #musouquest channel. If you can.

>Strike witches today?
>N
>Metaquest today?
>N
>Checking for that weeaboo butler thingy
>No weeaboo butler thingy

Ha Ha time for game.jpg

>>18203099

1) SRW Q2 FINAL is the current title, but its the same quest as SRWQ from 2 years ago.
2) the cast list is pretty fucking huge at this point, mainly because I don't kill a lot of side characters, but the main ones are Shadow Mirror Katina Tarask, Shadow Mirror Arado Balanga (who is now Casshan), Duminass 7, Shadow Mirror Seolla Schweizer, Shadow Mirror Did-not-go-to-OGVerse Axel Almer, and we just had Alternate Universe Shadow Mirror Katina Tarask show up as a final villain.
Don't judge me.
3) The main team of heroes recruited from the Patchwork teamed up with some Getter Robos to fight a 40k Hive City taken over by Sharon Apple from Macross Plus (hypnotising AI), and there was a big fight with the citys PDF and Titans, then Katina tricked one of Sharons minions into selfdestruction by over-evolving. Then an alternate Katina Tarask showed up to fight, and the entire cast gathered for round 2 with her. There more to it than that obviously, but details might be too much right now.
4) I'm not sure I can answer that since we're not in the usual format. I've been trying to finish off a kudzu of unfinished plot threads in time to wrap up this '2' part of the quest and move on to a planned '3' part. Ordinarily I'd be more open to shenanigans, especially wierd stuff like this, but you've caught me at the wrong time.
Then again, if all you want is to steal some robots, and not involve my characters at all, the Patchworks a big place. Or you could visit some kind of alternate alternate....thing. I dunno.

>>18203788
1) Understood
>2a) that was what I was afraid of
2b) As long as we come up with snappy nicknames, we'll manage.
3) 40K+SRW = Holy Lynchpin, Batman! Sounds like a bonus 'black world' that'll be another primmary objective from my side of the game.
4) A'ight, so it's a Lynchpin (primary objective world), but instead of sheer difficulty of enemy(s), we have to deal with way too many people at once (Distributors, possible Firemen trying to bring it all down, potential SUE activations, whatever other MetaFactions decide to take advantage of the chaos that is the Transpace Guard right now, etc.)

However bad for us you think this could get, know that MetaOP will make it worse. It'll be fun, trust me.

>>18203954
Roger that. I'll try to keep the Shippers and the Hedonists off your ass while you do it.
Protip: Put at least 1 crate of really rare booze in the canon somewhere.

>>18203788
If you've not yet read The Editors setting, it may prove helpful.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?searchall=The+Editors

>>18204037
It may also confuse the hell out of you. Please ensure your SAN is at least 30 before reading.

>>18204011
>implying you can get a Hedonist off you when he's got you bent over
Shippers are just heist-kiddies, to be honest. Hedonists range from perverts-with-plasma-guns to Plasmid-shooting corporate goons to out-and-out Slaaneshi cock-mongers with MetaBarges to boot. If they show up and start trying to loot characters for slaving purposes, we're going to have a definite fight on our hands that Reality weapons can't help with.

>>18204083
Also, CodexFag's gonna Codex for our new friend: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vkjkNCmjryYBoCSW89Ui30moJS-wKgsAknZVZJbMKH4/edit

>>18204083
But you've got Warships and Gods and Essence of Power and exponential weakness to magicka stacking!

>>18204037
I completely forgot we have a Codex for the setting.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vkjkNCmjryYBoCSW89Ui30moJS-wKgsAknZVZJbMKH4/edit?hl=en_US

>>18204109
Thankfully nobody's yelled at me for fucking up the canon yet.
Hopefully all my BS about Creativity Drainers and Requisitions and Logistics hasn't hurt anything.

>>18204127
If you send me Codex-ified versions of what you've made, I can get it stuck into the big Doc and immortalize it. It's open for editing and everything.
>I backed it up as well, so that's that

>>18204175
I'll grab all my shit, make it legible, rewrite it, summarise it, make that shit legible, put an index on it, add a cover sheet, then send it.
Bitches love cover sheets.
It'll take a while. I'll need to read over the setting, my own stuff, and cut out the parts of my own stuff that are complete crap (likely 50% of it or more). It'll be at least a few days.

>>18204207
Excellent. Remember, it's all bullet-point lists so far. Once we get this main quest done, I'll get it fluffed up and find some people with PDF editors so we can make something presentable with lots of pictures and funny IC quotes and shit.

>>18204242
Please include a bunch of Prawns talking about Feline Food Supplement #133 being the shit that you have GOT to try, because man, it will make you higher than a fucking weather balloon.

>>18204272
"Feline Supplement #74. Not even once."
>PSA for D9 Crewmen, after 'unhealthy culinary interactions' with Federation catfood replicators

>>18202678
Trying to load, it's slow as fuck for me right now for some reason.

>>18203954
Remember when I said I was going to use escort missions last?

...I lied.

>>18204439
Sciencegar Sciencebolt requests your presence in #musouquest on irc.rizon.net

>>18204439
Timed UnderMeta Escort Bot Mission.
>mfw
I definitely got my hypothetical money's worth coming into this.

>came shipsvi
CALLED IT
Shippers /and/ Hedonists.

>>18204439
The musouquest channel doesn't have a password does it?

>>18204500
Nope

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Bootleg quest is up.

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