>>20457019
OK THANK YOU FOR YELLING AT ME

And apparently also somewhat crazy and with a death wish. We're still on Benning, yes?

The MSV I<3 Ponies is now a fierce fighting machine, with the addition of the Javelin launchers, heavy military grade frigate armor and huge new engines you feel you could slug it out with a ship of the line and have a decent chance of coming out smiling.

Rin worked around the clock but you should be ready to launch.

The crew knows what's on the table but you didn't include them in the backstabbing plot, you were afraid Cereberus would find out if you told too soon.

You are standing in the cockpit with Switch and Oolot.

The ships systems read all green and the improved interface begins launch proceedures.

"Where to Captain?" Switch asks

>To Erebus
>Other (Default on the cereberus OP)

jump into dark space and have some thorough discussion with the crew. They know the magnitude of the task from their paychecks, but we need them to be completely dependable. And hear their opinions would be nice.

you know, somewhere away from cerberus spy devices, in case such are planted at the spaceport.

>>20457048

Indeed for the moment

>>20457091
Hey tim I think I got the a rough draft of the personality mechanics done. Want me to dump it?

TIM I love you

>>20457085

You plot of a course that will leave you on the far edge of Benning's system. You give Switch the order and he begins pre-flight procedures, Rin joins him in the cockpit at Navigation.

You should lift off shortly.

>Oolot supervised the loading of several containers, that were left for you on the dock. They passed his scrutiny, looks like your care package from Volkov has arrived.

>>20457107

Absolutely, I think we may be needing a personality roll shortly at any rate.

>>20457161

Whoops forgot to ask

>Inspect crates (D100)
>Leave them on Benning
>Other

>>20457161

how thorough was the scrutiny and who performed it?

rolled 47 = 47

>>20457241

the way you ask it reeks of trap.

but we're not afraid of traps, right?

inspect.

>>20457242

Oolot did, he checked his Omni-tool scanner, reads like a weapons crate, no bugs as far as he can tell. He kicked them each a few times for good measure.

>>20457261
Tell the crates that you fucked Volkov's sister.

>>20457107
Hey, remember that the chick from Cerberus referred to us as Ryan? I propose that we add Ryan Hastings, the suavest motherfucker this side of the Veil to the list of personalities.

>>20457297
Gotta talk to the personalities guy, he had quite the list from the sounds of our crunch session.

>>20457278
"Hey Volkov, I fucked your sister and she moaned like a whore." You say kicking the crate.

Nothing.

>>20457241
Right then going dump what personalities I have
If it sucks please tell me so I can rewrite it.
http://pastebin.com/2kpsKbHG

>>20457380
Also sorry for the shitty grammar and sentence structure.

>>20457380

Barnacle bob didn't strike me as neutral evil when we invaded the pirate ship. More like neutral crazy.

>>20457405
Eh, yea I should probably fix that.

Kinda was tired as all hell right now.

>>20457405

oh by the way, did we get that harpoon gun installed? Something like that is BOUND to come in handy!

>YOU ARE MICHAEL CLAIRMONT, SENTINEL, EX-ALLIANCE OFFICER, AND ONE OF THE BUTCHERS OF TORFAN

No. I'm not.

Scare someone by pretending to shoot yourself. Have the gun's thermal clip overload so it looks like it actually fired.

>>20457380
>>20457405
>>20457424
>>20457429

They do have some towing cables based on heavy magnetics, you could alter it into a ballistic spear gun but it would be less effective that way. (Arguably, piercing the ship is seen as a bad thing for their intended purpose, for yours, not so much.

>>20457467

too bad we're not going to that water moon to test it out. But we'll see what good comes out of it.

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>Check the crates
>Leave them on the dock
>Ignore them for now and take off.

>>20457506

well we *could* just unwrap them, take what we deem worthy and leave the boxes behind.

>>20457380
Bob Drake doesn't seem to be Chaotic Good, seeing as we made the deal to kill Geronimo in his persona.

Also, some of these personalities seem to be extremely close to each other and unnecessary.

My proposal:

1- The Butcher of Torfan- Berserker, amazing in combat but ONLY combat
2- Barnacle Bob- Space pirate
3- Robbie the Mobster
4- Berto the Biotic God
5-16 Michael Clairmont- Default
17- Ryan Hastings- Suave mutherfucker
18- Bertie the Tech- Wimpy but a nice guy
19- Robert the Palabro
20 Bob Drake- Cold, calculating, and very, very, dangerous

>>20457550

we didn't take this deal without reserve. There was argument about refusing the job altogether.

I suggest finding out what sort of person Geronimo is before we decide to follow through or double-cross the Cerberus.

>>20457550
>seeing as we made the deal to kill Geronimo in his persona.
Didn't we agree to help geronimo and backstab Cerberus at a later date?

>>20457550
>17- Ryan Hastings- Suave mutherfucker
>ryan
Do you even get the joke?

>>20457550
I think Robbie should go since Bob Drake takes care of most of that stuff.

Instead:

1- The Butcher of Torfan- Berserker, amazing in combat but ONLY combat
2- Barnacle Bob- Space pirate
3- Robbie the Biotic God
4-16 Michael Clairmont
17- Ryan Hastings
18- Bert the Tech
19- Robert the Palabro
20- Bob Drake

Also changed the names up a bit

>>20457618
>RYAN

>>20457603
I don't get it either.

>>20457437
So we never became Michael Weston? Phooey

>>20457550

Absolutely a viable option

>>20457547
1- Barnacle Bob- Space pirate
2-4 Robbie the Mobster
5-7 Berto the Biotic God
8-14 Michael Clairmont- Default
15-17 Ryan Hastings- Suave mutherfucker
18- Bertie the Tech- Wimpy but a nice guy
19- Robert the Palabro
20 Bob Drake- Cold, calculating, and very, very, dangerous

The Butcher is more the beserk button. In times of great need and stress he comes out but only if you fail to resolve the situation. He will hurt anyone that gets in his way though, friend or foe will not matter.

At least this is my alternate proposal. As one personality see's more play he may become more dominate.

>Captcha follegi macsycophant
>Fucking really?

rolled 16 = 16

>>20457676
>RYA-

Ah fuck it.
That works.

Rolling for personality.

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>>20457657

I proposed your first identity
after being released from the Alliance's care was Sam Weston as a nod to this idea. but he's long since been lost to your memory.

>>20457594
I think Bob Drake is more on the pragmatic side rather than thinking of it as good or evil. What will benefit him the most at the moment is his concern

>>20457695

well, any volunteers on pickup lines on the Quarian?

Wait. We wanted a medic. Did Switch find a medic?

rolled 19 = 19

>>20457744
This whole time there was a batarian medic just hanging out in the background

>>20457695

>You somehow feel...cooler. Like suddenly your hair is right for the first time in your life.

>Is anyone gonna open the crates?

did we ding anything interesting in them?

>>20457249

>>20457676
If that's the case then we should start off with a fairly low chance of any single personality coming forth, then as they become more frequent the chances increase.

Also, vetoing Robbie the Mobster. He seems kind of ,,, unneccessary.

Also, I vote in Michael Weston as the super accurate agent. Basically comabt version of Bob Drake.

>>20457744

Negative, this planet seems tapped on interested personnel, maybe on your next stop.

rolled 7 = 7

>>20457783
Ask someone to open the crates.

Receive robot dog

>>20457811

Fair enough. Load up and tell the crew the plan! (unless what we told them in last thread doesn't already contain these details... but they should know them)

>>20457800
>Give me a D100 and we'll find out

>>20457807
Sure, if it gets enough votes

>>20457783
Don't forget to add all females within 30 ft of Ryan are suddenly inexplicably attracted to us.

rolled 86 = 86

>>20457837
Roll for crates. Is high good or bad?

Maybe we ought to move the personality roll to a larger die.

rolled 8 = 8

>>20457837

is it Christmas time?

>>20457854


thank you for beating me to it

>>20457834
So far they know we're going to Erebus and you want to kill an N-Level Operative.

>>20457838
Rin looks at you strangely for a moment and then turns back to the monitor.

>>20457891
She wants us.

So, what's in the crate?

>>20457891

So our disorder comes packaged with supernatural powers? Perhaps subconsciously operated biotic aura?

sounds handy.

I suggest we tell the crew the plan as we told it to Volkov - we're going to try and bro it up with our "target" and take off the "disposable" cerberus squad that will conveniently attack.

I also suggest to include the point where we try to learn the other version of Volkov's story before deciding whether or not to carry out the deed.

>>20457854

It is indeed Christmas come early.

>Loot tables in just a moment, have to step downstairs.
>In the meantime I'm sure this has enough viral advertising on /tg/ already but holy shit.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1513061270/reaper-miniatures-bones-an-evolution-of-gaming-min

>>20457983
Y'know, I don't think it needs any more money, considering the fact that it met its goal a while ago.

I'm also with there being a lower chance of activating personalities but they become easier to activate with time. It goes along with our gradual downward spiral into total insanity.

It's nice to see that my Barnacle Bob thing took off. It's a good feeling.

>>20457983
Hoping for M-2 Minigun.

>>20457983

>loot tables
I want to see your DM setup after we're done with this. I'm kind of curious what sort of personnel we would have ended up with a crappy roll if we didn't win our hanar chef and quarian tech goddess.

>>20458235
I don't think we would have found anyone if that was the case.

>>20458048

>I just keep getting free stuff, I practically jizzed my pants last night with the free storm giants.
>That and I don't have to keep that stupid ass Sophie figure. $25 for a succubus? Who do you think you are? GW?

>>20458090
Indeed it did.

>Now for the loot

The clasps release and you hear air flood into the container.

"Wow, he really does want him dead..." you mutter pulling out what you can only surmise is a a low-yield thermonuclear weapon in a case.

L4 implants, anti-material rifles with superior grade AP rounds, high level armor for pretty much the entire crew with the exception of Sushoo, the latest from Logic Arrest in Omni-tools and what you can only surmise are enough timed explosives to level a backwater colony or two.

>>20457983
Gimme dat loot, nigga.

>>20458284
No armor for Sushoo? THIS IS AN OUTRAGE.

>>20458262

Bad enough and it would have been sleeper agent's from Aria. Trust me, it's best not to know.

>>20458284
Don't we need an operating suite in order to put the L4 in?

Other than that, let's armor up and distribute our weaponry.

>>20458284
I say we get on implanting ourselves with that L4 post haste...

>>20458320
It's a pretty complex procedure, Switch thinks with the ship's upgraded system and new medical VI he may stand a good chance of being able to perform the operation on you successfully if you're willing to give it a go. I mean what's the worse that could happen.

>Medical mishaps table here we come!

>>20458313
Hanar don't traditionally wear much in the way of armor, it severely hampers their movement without expensive biotic field generators to lighten the load.

>>20458369

I'd rather not trust a VI to do that. We can do it once we find a medic.

Divvy up the loot, watch crew's reactions.

>>20458320

Everyone gets their armor donned with the exception of Sushoo and Rin who looks at you and asks "Where can I change?"

Quarian...right...

>>20458414
Crank the suave up to 11

"Wherever you want, baby." or something along those lines.

I'm not good at flirting.

>>20458382

Everyone is suitably impressed

right, once we're done test-driving our charm, any room in our ship we can decontaminate for that purpose? Or just airlock?

>>20458414
"Do you think the decontamination chamber could be suitably sterilized?"

>>20458470

"Possibly, I'll have to add a few things for my biology." she moves to the panel besides the door and adds a small container to the mix.

She steps inside with the suit and the door closes.

"Activate the chamber." She tells you over the com, you move to the cockpit.

>D20 Swag check

rolled 17 = 17

>>20458569
>Nat 1
>Y-you too
>Accidentally kill her.

rolled 10 = 10

>>20458569
Rollan.

Do we get a bonus since we're in Ryan's persona right now?

>>20458581
Success! I think.

I think there should be a bonus since we're in super swag mode right now.

>>20458590
>>20458581

You do but you don't get to know the bonus for that.

You activate the decontamination, and two screens pop up. One reads the contamination levels in the chamber as before, the other is security footage from inside the airlock.

"Well hello..."

>>20458621
We FINALLY get to see what a Quarian looks like under those suits!
Assuming she doesn't deactivate the cameras.

>>20458621


how convenient. Admire engineer's elegant design, praise her new outfit.

And then let's get down to business.

Meaning take off and brief our squad, share the plan.

Start playing this over the intercom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5EmnQp3V48

>>20458621
Make a recording for later!

>>20458657

She doesn't seem to notice the new security.

You have to admit they have beautiful physiology.
You've never had Quarian before, you set that goal in mind.

As she starts closing the final parts of the suit you decide the show is over.
Back to work.

>To Erebus
>To parts unknown

>>20458782

from meta perspective, given the roll, I'm sure she's putting up a show for us. But we can't know that and, anyway, whatever the case, make sure not to reveal what we've learned.

Waid, was Switch (or anyone) looking as well?

>>20458766

Aye captain

>>20458782

Also, I refer to >>20457085 and I will keep naggin' with it!

(sorry if I'm being unnecessarily annoying. Crew needs to know the entire plan before we get to the destination... we're going to make our decision whether to turn on Geronimo or Volkov until we get to hear the other story, no?)

>>20458801

You were alone, and still idling the engines, have you seen fuel prices lately? I mean this is costing you a fortune.

>>20458813

welp I sure hope we'll have swag-persona active when she invariably finds out.

>>20458871
>we're not going to make up our mind until we hear other version
fixed

Well unless we get overtaken by warp gods or something like that.

>>20458871

"Time to go. Get us to these coordinates, double time." You tell Switch and Rin.

They head to the cockpit and you can feel the ship climbing as the mass effect generators re-orient gravity on the ship to match the ships deck.

You clear the atmosphere and jump out into dark space.

"Captain?" Switch looks to you

>What do you tell them Captain?

>>20458945
"Now, you'll forgive me for my previous discrepancy but I wanted to make sure no one could overhear. Our employers, Cerberus as they're called, did not come across as entirely trust worthy. They had a lot of money, but I don't think they expect us to come back. I don't want to kill this commando without hearing both sides of the story first."

>>20458945

Tell them who Volkov is and that he works for Cerberus, whatever that is. Tell them we owe him one and what he told us of the job.

Tell them our plan we made with Volkov - with helping the Geronimo out of some trouble (which we don't know nature of yet).

and tell them

"However, I'd like to hear the whole story from the other perspective before I start executing people. The amount of money Volkov seems ready to expend is too staggering not to be worried about what we are getting into, as you've no doubt noticed by what came into our loading bay."

>>20458945
Tell him we are now a Modern Major-General.

>mfw we're on the bridge

suppose we should take them for round two in mess for this one

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>>20458980
>>20459027

"Now, you'll forgive me for my previous brevity but I wanted to make sure no one could overhear. Our employers, Cerberus as they're called, did not come across as entirely trust worthy. But I owe this guy one from a long time ago and they offered us a lot of money, but I don't think they expect us to come back. I don't want to kill this commando without hearing both sides of the story first."

Everyone nods and Luke still looks conflicted.
Maybe you should talk to him.

Switch spins the drives back up and you're on the your way to Erebus now.

>>20459113

do it. Inquire whether he knows something more of this "cerberus" group. Or perhaps he heard of this commando type? He's former alliance, this might not be easy on him.

>>20459134

"You alright Luke?" you ask him as he heads towards the Mess.

"No, no I'm not, this is some heavy shit, from what I understand Cerberus is some sort of former Alliance black ops organization that went rogue. What benefit is there to them killing one of our best? Nothing about this sits just right. I'm not good with killing Alliance soldiers no matter the pay, we both were once. Don't you feel this is wrong?" he inquires storming into the hall towards Sushoo who seems taken back by his pace.

>How do you respond

>>20459182
"A man is a man, a Batarian is a Batarian. A Turian is a Turian. Whether they're in one organization or another I don't care, organizations and corporations don't exist in anything but our own perceptions of them. To answer your question though, it bothers me more that I'm looking at killing my fellow human for money than the fact I'm killing an alliance soldier. I'll still do it though, if it turns out he deserves it. If not I won't."

>>20459182

Tell him that's precisely why we're gonna hear out Geronimo's version before we decide how to handle this matter.

And tell him how nicely they set us up in that restaurant. We were involved ever since we landed and Kelly ((oops meta)) approached us.

And so we figured that if we're gonna have either Alliance or Cerberus at our throats, might as well do it with equipped ship.

>>20459182
Subdue him. Don't let him startle Sushoo. Convince him, with your cold hard stare, that you are right. Make sure he doesn't question you again.

>>20459232
>>20459233

"A man is a man, a Batarian is a Batarian. A Turian is a Turian. Whether they're in one organization or another I don't care, organizations and corporations don't exist in anything but our own perceptions of them. To answer your question though, it bothers me more that I'm looking at killing my fellow human for money than the fact I'm killing an alliance soldier. I'll still do it though, if it turns out he deserves it. If not I won't. That's why it's so important for us to hear him out before we take action. I don't know the story behind what's going on, only that it stands to make us very very rich or very very dead." you tell him.

He seems to accept that answer.

"He'd better be puppy kicking evil if you decide to kill him..." he mumbles as he sits down with Sushoo who places a plate in front of him almost immediately. He smiles to him and says "Thanks Sushoo..." and the Hanar dips slightly into what you can only surmise is a bow.

You decide you'd best rest up before you arrive, there may not be time to later.

You awake as Switch pings you you're 5 minutes out.

You drop into normal space. You can see Nepmos in the distance like a little slice of hell. Rabidly volcanic and has recently moved from a Travel Advisory to outright ban on anyone setting foot within 100,000 miles of the planet. There are several Alliance survellience satillites in orbit. Tagged by the 5th Fleet it seems.

"So where's our boy at?" Oolot asks looking over your shoulder

"Damn good question...Switch?" you look to him in the pilot's chair.

"Nothing on the scanners, this system is damn quiet. Wait, we're receiving something on tight band." he taps a few keys on the holo-display

"Ah, you've made it, I'll be your Operator for this mission, you may call me Morpheus..."

The crew looks to you.

>How do you respond

>>20459238

I'm already looking forward to meeting this commando guy.

anyway, are we hungry? We might want to comfort our Hanar friend as well, he seemed troubled last time. As was Switch.

>>20459403

So what's the situation, Morpheus?

>>20459403
"A pleasure to make your acquaintance, Morpheus. What method of distraction have you devised?"

rolled 14 = 14

>>20459403
Rolling for personality.

>>20459474
Default persona so default answer.

This one:
>>20459424

>>20459408

Sushoo prepared a pretty high carb breakfast meal that you only half finished, not good to over eat.

>>20459421
>>20459424

"Well Volkov had planned for some automated drones but honestly since your plan is to win over the mark and then eliminate him I thought it would be best if we acted on his Messiah complex. He's here but we're not sure where, his ship also seems to have advanced stealth capabilities but we're sure he's watching wondering why you're here. I advise your cover being you're a mining crew scouting Nepmos for it's vast deposits since the previous mining company is no longer claiming stake, but you'll have to keep him off your ship as you obviously don't have the equipment for that. Otherwise any cover you please." he clears his throat.

"Now then as for the lure, we'll have to get him to come out of hiding otherwise you can't get close to him. If you'd be so kind head towards Nepmos and I'll get his attention. I recommend having your aft shields at full power by the way." Morpheus says as the tight band is cut.

Shit, what the hell does that mean

>>20459556
So, he has a god complex. Maybe we're flipping this so Geronimo is going to rush in to be the hero? Regardless, aft shields at full power and lets fly on down towards Nepmos. Get the crew to battle stations and make sure they know where the vacc suits are.

>>20459556

>Head towards Nepmos
>Head towards another planet in the system.
http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Erebus
>Other

>Also if you have another cover in mind here is the time to pitch it.

>>20459556

it means we're taking something up our aft.

Switch overheard the convo, didn't he?

Perhaps we could pose as a scout ship for the mining corp rather than miners themselves. Our weaponry might not be easily apparent, but those turrets are hard to miss. Torpedo tube, hm...

>>20459614
"Messiah" not "God". Messiah means that he likes saving people.

>>20459627

Switch, Rin and Oolot were present to hear the conversation.

Oolot grunts in disgust, he doesn't care much for this subterfuge, Switch furrows his brow, Rin, doesn't say anything.

>>20459670
>>20459641

sounds like alright kind of guy for a commando.

although I suppose our jaded PC might find this a foolish sentiment unless in paladin mode.

In any case, we'll need to be on our toes. Anything we could look for to detect the shuttle morpheus is in? Yes yes it's supposed to be stealthy... how long range do automated combat drones usually have?

>>20459670
"Hey rin, you like taking it in the aft shields?"

>>20459699
We're in normal mode right now not super suaveness.

>>20459698
>>20459699

The automated drones are more of the battlefield variety, miles but that doesn't count for anything in space.

You don't have Swag powers right now

>>20459733
Damn, it was a good line too. Ah well, another time.

We're too heavily armed for a regular freighter. Nobody would fall for miner plot. Maybe adventurous scavengers, or freelance mercs. Or explorers. Hmm... and named I<3ponies... do we have that voice modulator installed? If not, we could let Rin do the talking...

>>20459751
>Rin
>Hasn't said more than ten words since we met her.
Yes, lets let her do the talking.

>>20459751

was thinking of "spoiled rich man's / admiral's daughter gets her way and travels galaxy on quest of exploration accompanied by band of mercenaries paid for by her father"...

in fact, since we're going to face the commando, scratch the modulator idea.

>>20459751
>>20459764

I lol'd.

Well whatever you guys decide on it better be fast.
You're quickly approaching Nepmos.

>>20459764

yeah, I guess it would take some time to prepare her for this sort of ploy. Nevermind. We're sticking to Morpheus' suggestion then? Or got a better plan?

>>20459799
Personally my vote is that we are a mercenary ship hired by a mining corporation to A.) Investigate Nepmos, and B.) Confirm or deny pirate activity in the Erebus system.

>>20459841

sounds good

>>20459799
>>20459841
>>20459867

You tell the crew the best option is to be a private mercenary band hired by a mining corporation to investigate Nepmos. Need to hammer out details too in case they get too inquisitive.

"Captain, have a look at this." Switch waves you over

"What am I looking at here?" you ask

"Looks like...incoming mass effect fields and there are a lot of them!" Switch informs you.

Several ships appear from the ether.
Blue Suns colors emblazoned the sides.

Oh...so that's the plan...

>3 Frigates and a larger Destroyer class vessel.

>Try and out run em
>Stand and fight
>Run and Gun
>Other

>>20459937
Do a barrel roll!

>>20459937

What are they doing? Are they approaching us in an intimidating way?

If so, hail them and ask what they want. Look nervous.

>>20459937
Blue suns? They hire batarians. We don't like batarians. Good thing we got some new toys.

>>20459953
>>20459960
>>20459974

You begin evasive maneuvers and ping the destroyer.
A Batarian captain stands at the helm of the ship.
>Roll a d100

rolled 69 = 69

>>20459986
We have to kill them all now.

rolled 13 = 13

>>20459986
If he is a cheeky bastard immediately FIRE ALL GUNS!

rolled 10 = 10

>>20459986
>>20459974

we're supposed to play the part of a civilian in distress though. Opening fire right away does not sound ....


weelll snap.

is that a will save?

>>20459995
>>20460002
>>20460003

31...

Your hands ball into fists, you can't speak. Images swirl in your mind, it takes Batarian's forever to bleed out. Don't just down the bastard, obliterate him.
Don't give him a chance to make a last stand.

It passes.

"I believe you have something of ours." the captain says waving his pistol around on the screen.

>What do you wanna say?

rolled 9 = 9

>>20460095
Fire the weapons, before we say anything. Every gun at the flagship, every single one.
"Consider this a gift from me to you, to make up for what I've stolen."
Oh, and rolling for personality.

>>20460095

well that was close.

"I believe you have the wrong freighter. I've never had any dealings with... your kind."

>>20460127
Awww, no Barnacle Bob or Palabro or anything else, normal ol' Clairmont.

>>20460127

let's rather have OP call for personality rolls, we've just made a narrow will save... and if we start by shooting people up, the commando might turn up to help the batarians instead!

>mfw we'd have to take him along with the mercs and finish the job

>>20460127
>>20460141

You laugh

There nev'r had ta deal wid the terror tha is Barn'ucle Bob...

You shake your head.

"I'm sorry I believe you have the wrong freighter, I've never had any dealings with your kind."

"I've heard a different story, this is said to the ship we lost on Omega that had a weapons shipment meant for our troops on Zorya. Troops we lost in droves because they didn't have those weapons. When you see them tell my boys we're sorry but we sent them this idiot to torture for an eternity." he says cutting the com.
The destroyer noses toward you and the Frigates begin pursuit.

>Give me a D100 plus 25

rolled 94 + 25 = 119

>>20460252

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rolled 55 + 25 = 80

>>20460252

well shit. Cerberus apparently decided to make the show very convincing.

"Alright then... LOOK BEHIND YOU, IS THAT A VORCHA?"

Fire.

Engines and the guns.

>>20460274
>>20460291

They fire a full volley of mass driver slugs at you, which all catch nothing but void.
Those new engines are coming in incredibly handy and with the ship being able to track their targeting this is going to be child's play.

You easily pull ahead of the pack.

There is a frigate you're pulling away from on your right and left. The Destroyer is trailing and you're gaining distance, there is another frigate that is keeping pace with the destroyer as an escort.

>Select targets

>Volley of Javelin missiles.
>AA Guns
>Salvo
>Continue evasive maneuvers

>>20460333
Take out that destroyer. Without their leader, they'll be unorganized and a little easier to kill.

>>20460333
Volley of missiles to the frigate on our right, and AA guns to the frigate on our left. Meanwhile, keep burning those engines.

What do we need to roll? 100s or 20s?

rolled 12 = 12

>>20460346
>>20460352

Split decision

>Rolling event die.

>>20460383

Nothing yet

>>20460333

Take out closest vessel with a missile, if one is in range, and take potshots at the rest.

Disabling their engines would be a boon

>>20460383

>>20460408 here

between the two, I'd go for >>20460352

rolled 52 = 52

>>20460408
>>20460421

Javelin launchers online.
>6 Missiles remaining

Give me a firing solution
>1d100+5

rolled 78 + 5 = 83

>>20460446

for great justice!

rolled 80 + 5 = 85

>>20460446
Firing solution online

rolled 90 + 5 = 95

>>20460446
AVAST LANDLUBBERS! FIRE THE MAIN GUNS TO STARBOARD! THE REST OF YE DOGS FIRE THE PLINKERS TO PORT!

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>>20460460
>>20460461
>>20460480

rolled 32 + 5 = 37

>>20460460
>>20460461
>>20460480

Their own AA guns spin up in response but it's no good, the Javelin is the best you can buy in ship to ship warfare, the ship is gutted by the blast and a chain of explosions rip along the hull until the ship fragments like a grenade.

The guns spin up on the opposite side of your vessel.
>Give me a D100

rolled 81 + 5 = 86

>>20460585

rolled 22 = 22

>>20460585

here goes

rolled 84 = 84

>>20460585
Laugh like barnacle bob

rolled 80 = 80

>>20460624
>>20460625

The left frigate's shields are shredded by your guns and they break off pursuit to allow time for their shields to come back up.

The other frigate accelerates to try and catch you but you're redlining the engines, they have no chance.

"Incoming fire!" Switch yells

>Give me a D100+20 for evasion

rolled 49 + 20 = 69

>>20460719

rolled 49 + 20 = 69

>>20460719

Let's Show Them Our Moves!

I'm sure Switch and Rin made our girl a dancer.

rolled 19 + 20 = 39

>>20460719
Ooooh, dream weaver, I believe you can get me through the niiiiight

rolled 3 + 5 = 8

>>20460708

You cackle like a madman.

"Evade em, Switch, show them they messed with the wrong ship." you tell him leaning over the pilot's chair.

rolled 56 + 20 = 76

>>20460762
>>20460766
Woah, weird.

>>20460762
>>20460766
>>20460768

The blows connect but at Morpheus' recommendation the shields hold.

"Shield's down to 30%, we can't take another hit like that." Switch reports.

>Run down the Frigate without shields
>Try and hit the other frigate long range.
>Crazy Ivan the Destroyer.
>Other

rolled 45 = 45

>>20460849
>Crazy Ivan

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rolled 61 = 61

>>20460849
Crazy Ivan sounds like fun

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rolled 16 = 16

>>20460849

Crazy ivan. AND a barrel roll. They're not gonna expect this in the least.

hopefully.

Energy to frontal shields!

(note that this is a d20)

rolled 49 = 49

>>20460871
>>20460926
>>20460929

>D100 plus 25 please, first 3 average

rolled 72 + 25 = 97

>>20460982

rolled 77 + 25 = 102

>>20460982

rolled 47 + 25 = 72

>>20460982

rolling for madness and awesome

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>>20461022
>>20461018
>>20461003


aw yeah!

rolled 12 + 10 = 22

>>20461003
>>20461018
>>20461022

"Let me drive!" you yell pushing Switch out of the seat, you correct course 180 degrees and are now facing the destroyer and remaining frigate. You move the aft shields to full forward and Switch barely gets out a "What..." before you ignite thrusters to full burn.

The computer crunches numbers and you see green lights all the way around.

"See you in hell you Batarian bastard..." you mutter as your chain guns cripple the engines of the frigate as you speed by.

3 Javelin missiles launch at the destroyer, it fires all it's forward guns and tries to turn but it's not quick enough. All 3 impact broadside and the ship's running lights go dead. The engines flicker out and she's sitting dead in space. The final frigate is trying to run, shields still aren't up.

"It's spinning up it's FTL drives, it's trying to run." Rin reports.

>Run it down
>Other

>>20461127
Run it down and see if they'll surrender.

>>20461127
RUN'EM DOWN!

rolled 57 + 20 = 77

>>20461127
COWARD SCUM! IVAN SPARE NO SYMPATHY FOR COWARD!

>>20461127

They know our ship's identity. If there is a faint chance that they didn't share the knowledge with rest of the band, they need to be taken out.

>>20461167

although, on second thought, cerberus was the one who told them, and if we're turning on them, which seems likely, they will not hold on to that particular information

>>20461155
oh fuck, Crazy Ivan personality can come out when we pull shit off that no sane mortal can do


>PERSONALITY UNLOCKED?

>>20461190

We already have Barnacle Bob for that. But this seemed to be more of a Torfan moment.

Batarians are our Spinach.

>>20461212
i don't know why but i always thought of Barnacle Bob as a more "innocent personality"

rolled 68 + 20 = 88

>>20461212
>>20461241
I tend to consider Barnacle Bob our battiest of bat shit insane personalities. He genuinely thinks he is a pirate in the fashion of a 17th/18th century pirate, who just so happens to be in space all of a sudden. Except, his perceptions of what constitutes a 17th/18th century pirate is based on heavily romanticized fiction.

>>20461264
huh, guess there's that too

rolled 12 + 15 = 27

>>20461140
>>20461147
>>20461155
>>20461167
>>20461186
>>20461190
>>20461212

"Well...I'm glad to see you survived but the problem is our boy didn't come out of hiding." Morpheus comes over the com, "Good to know Volkov didn't exaggerate your abilities. I will never understand how he finds his talent but damn he is effective. By the way if you're concerned about us ratting you out these are the only guys that know, they tried to send it out but we intercepted it, they think backup is on the way. Sorry again for that, we'll recoop the ammo expenses by the way."

You give chase to the ship. "Surrender, there's no where to run." you communicate to the ship as you gain on them.
It turns it's broad to you. Guns spinning up.

These bastards just won't take a hint...

rolled 35 = 35

>>20461295

Finish them.

>>20461264

That's pretty much what I was going for, he just so happens to be fairly competent if a bit straightforward. He has to watch for traps, he's likely to charge headlong into danger

>>20461313

also, can we figure out where is this morpheus transmitting from? We need to be able to spot his vessel in case we needed to take him out.

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>>20461295
"hey guys do you ever get the feeling that you're the only smart person in this galaxy when you see shit heads do stuff like this?"

{x} Finish them

>>20461349

well they probably realize they know too much for us to leave them alive anyway.

>>20461328
Only a general direction, he's towards Wermani but you see nothing on visual or electronic scanners that direction.

>>20461313
You fire one last Javelin at the ship and it breaks in half from the impact. No one could have survived that.

good, what's up with the destroyer? It sounded like it's only disabled. Is it in stable orbit? Should we make a boarding party?

>>20461382

You hear a slow clap over the com.
"Well even if this operation is a wash if you'd be interested in working for us more long term I think we could definitely work something out. If he hasn't shown by now I doubt he's going to. Peculiar our intel usually isn't wrong... At any rate we appreciate the effort. Please keep what we gave you as compensation for your time, we still would like to see this job completed but it doesn't look like today will be the day. If you're interested in more work for us come see us at these coordinates. Morpheus out."

He sends you coordinates for some backwater system in the Horse Head Nebula. It doesn't even have an official name.

"Well, that was...uneventful." Oolot mutters moving back towards the cargo area.

>Salvage
>Scan
>Head out (Select a destination)
>Other

>>20461499

Scan, *then* salvage.

We don't want any unnecessary surprises.

>>20461399
>>20461508

The scan reveals life signs on the destroyer, a lot of them.
The other ships are scrapped, there isn't too much left.

A boarding party may be possible if you're careful.

>>20461520
Fuck that open fire with the AA guns and kill everyone on the destroyer.

>>20461529

They are harmless now. Could we just purge their memory banks from distance?

Although this seems like quite some trouble for sparing lives of people who wants us dead anyway. I guess we can settle for finishing them off.

Plus, there might be batarians on board.

rolled 4 = 4

>>20461529
>>20461597

>Batarians

You move over to the gun station.

"Switch, bring us along side if you would." you ask the Salarian as he slips into the pilot's chair.

A new com window opens, the Batarian commander stands with his arm at an off angle, clearly broken.

"Please, let us go, we promise not to pursue you anymore, take the guns, take the ship, just let us go..." he mumbles, one of his eyes bulges slightly as he breathes in heavily.

>Give me a d20

rolled 7 = 7

>>20461624

rolled 11 = 11

>>20461624
Blast the command center out of existence, but seriously, I want to salvage the ship.

rolled 12 = 12

>>20461624

"I want full access to your computer system so we can check your logs are clean."

"And you should find a new job. For your own good."

>>20461624
A destroyer class ship? Sounds good. Let them jettison life pods and then blow up the lifepods.

we don't necessarily have to murder everyone we meet.

plus, the commando type we're looking for might be watching. And if he's the goody-two-shoes type, he might not approve.

>>20461659

if we do this, better scan extra for explosives and self-destruct mechanism, or they'll pull a Kirk on us.

rolled 17 = 17

>>20461644
>>20461645
>>20461658

"I want to believe you, after all, you were only doing your job." you tell him

Switch looks over to you puzzled.

"I believe there are good Batarians, quite many of them are here today. Oolot?" you call back into the cargo area and he comes towards you.

"Do you remember the conversation we had had a while back about how even despite my experiences in the Alliance I believe there are good Batarians?" you ask and he cracks a wide smile.

"I do captain." he replies almost giddy with joy.

"Do you remember what quality I said was absolutely necessary for any Batarian to be truly good?" you ask again.

>...

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>>20461712

eh, need to sleep. Good luck with whatever you opt to do with the vessel.

polite sage for non-contribution

rolled 18 = 18

>>20461740
Iiiii see where you're going with this.
"A lack of life signs." Would be the most appropriate but for the sake of being funny my vote is for
"A mind for money, in fact good business sense in general."

rolled 85 = 85

>Give me a D100, goal is to beat my roll. You may lock a single roll if you wish but you can only do this 3 times until I next say so. You don't get an ETA on when that will be. You want over my roll

rolled 85 = 85

>>20461775
uhh okay.
Take all their shit and let them live?

rolled 85 = 85

>>20461775
RHY YOU WOLL RELL

>>20461793
>>20461791
>>20461775
What the fuck is going on?

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rolled 2 = 2

>>20461775
>>20461791
>>20461793

Holy fuck dice gods
I think Michael just broke the universe

rolled 86 = 86

>>20461810

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>Flashbacks incoming

You eye twitches slightly.

>Let them go
>Expound upon them the single quality

rolled 38 = 38

>>20461874
>Expound upon them the single quality
wat

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>>20461810
>I think Michael just broke the universe


just the way i like it

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>>20461825
Oh god my sides!

>>20461874
Expound upon them the single quality...whatever that means.

>>20461888
>>20461900

"You told me the only good Batarian..." Oolot says

>Butcher of Torfan activated

"...is a dead Batarian"

The AA gun spins up shredding into the side of the ship. Life signs wink out one at a time.

"NO PLEASE NO!" the Batarian captain says as you see the fire coming in through the bridge of their ship. He's torn to pieces by the large caliber armor piercing ammo. You cross every deck till the life signs all fade.

You didn't realize you'd been laughing till you finally let off the triggers. You shake slightly, a smile stretched across your face. Oolot chuckles a bit and Rin has pressed herself against the far wall and Switch just stares at you.

They don't know what they're like, really the galaxy is better off without them.

>Salvage
>Leave system

>>20461991
Salvage. Our crew must be terrified of us, except for Oolot.
Oolot is a bro.

>>20461991
"well gents that was fun, but now it's time to go salvaging!"

>>20461991
Oh gawd mah sides

>>20461991
Damn it we scared off Rin.

>>20461991
The insane make pretty good company.

When they aren't trying to kill you.

>>20461991
Salvage some shit.

Take up making art out of scrap metal.

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>>20462005
>>20462008

You send a team on board consisting of Luke/Oolot/Rin to salvage.
We'll see what they found next time.

>In the meantime

"They destroyed them all." the pilot says to the man standing over her shoulder.

"Damn, pretty good for a band of mercs right? Glad we were stealthing when they came in. No need to get involved in petty squabbles. Beer?" He offers one to the pilot.

"Flying this can remember?" she says brushing her black hair over her shoulder.

"Yeah but it's more fun drunk, you should let me drive." he saids downing the rest of his beer.

"I'm sure there is at least two dozen regs saying that's a horrible idea." she replies bringing up the MSV I<3 Ponies on their screen.

"Damn impressive technical readout, they took that Kowloon and made her something special, damn shame about the name though. What do you think? Ironic?" he asks

"No clue, anyway, I have no idea what Cerberus was doing here. Do you think they were trying to lure us away from something important?" she asks

>>20462227
>Leave scrap metal hearts in Rin's living quarters. Deny all responsibility.

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Another man walks into the cockpit.

"Possibly but we'll find them, they can't hide forever. Let's get out of here and head back to Arcturus, we need to resupply and I'm sure Hackett has something else for us to look into." he comes into view Tomahawk full of notches and N7 logo emblazoned across his left breast.

"Aye James. I'll move to the system edge, hopefully they'll jump out before us, but if not they should only catch a glimpse. Hopefully they'll just think it's more pirates running away." she reports dropping the nav menu and metrics from the Tantalus Core.

"Nice and quiet Karri, we don't need to fight anyone today. Come have a look at these new reports coming in from the Traverse, I need your opinion Chief." the captain says moving back towards the CIC.

"Hey sure thing, just let me grab another beer." he says smoothing his hand over his mohawk.

>End Thread

>Discussion

>>20462255
>mohawk

Is that BEEF CHESTHIGHWALL?

>>20462255
So they knew the whole time we were working for Cerberus?

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>>20462255
oh God yes! all of my yes!

>>20462378

>Sorry unclear implication, Cerberus lured them to the system initially under some false pretense. They haven't connected the dots, that was my poor writing, my bad.

>>20462314

I suggest reading the archives, if you're not being ironic. Meta-gaming is your friend.

Also to Mick, it didn't have as happy an ending as we would have liked but since everyone was getting bored with it I decided to take some time off and get my shit together. I think this one is more liked at any rate.

>>20462438
I think people in general were in the mood to play more of a chaotic neutral/some kind of evil character.

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>>20462438
that's alright, the wait was worth it though

>>20462465
i think it was for the best to have a change of pace in characters

>>20462465

Yeah we got a waifu pretty quickly so that may have killed it for a lot of people. I remember there being an argument over that. Honestly I think it's ironic we went with Bob, I've been reading a lot of Ego stuff and pulling from things I think he did right.

The only problem is you know, you can't please everyone. I would love it if other people did MEQ as well. I honestly think it has some great potential storywise and I don't know that I'm necessarily the best person to portray it. I like Edinboro's writing style as well.

English and Grammar is by far my weakest area so I feel like one those twits over at fanfiction everytime I do one of these. I honestly hoped the people that mocked the earlier threads would start their own, hell if it encourages them more power to them. I'm a player at heart, not a DM.

>>20462560

Also as usual looking for around noon sunday for the next session. I usually never know till a few hours before if I won't have shit going on. If I haven't posted by 2 you can safely assume there probably won't be an MEQ that day.

>>20462560
Don't cell yourself short, this quest has been great. The last one was fun too, but yeah we did waifu up a bit early. Honestly, I don't know why every quest needs a waifu.

>>20462607
>cell
>Not sell.
Damn it, TV was talking about cell phones.

>>20462607

To be fair Bioware social essentially has a sticky for waifu wars.

Will we ever get in Rin's pants?

>>20462647

Only if you can turn biotics into swagger. But as always I'm sure you'll find a way if the spirit is willing. Speaking of which I'll have to make some dossiers on your crew and what you know about them so far.