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>>21677377
I think some thoughts about pie is in order. Just some food for thought.

>>21677377
Fine fine, a more serious suggestion. Do the only thing we can do, THINK LOUDER.

>>21677464
You're incorrigible.

>>21677528
Yeah, not much else we can do here.

>>21677614
>>21677528
8d100!

>>21677534
Thank you thank you, I'll be here all night.
>>21677614
The other option is to breathe deep.

Rolled 68, 14, 2, 97, 48, 22, 17, 7 = 275

>>21677650

>>21677651
>>21677614
Lie back and think of Zerus?

Rolled 81, 50, 98, 93, 93, 43, 41, 23 = 522

>>21677650

Rolled 69, 87, 70, 48, 100, 97, 8, 7 = 486

>>21677650

>>21677672
We are NOT taking this lying down. One, do we even have a back to lie on? Two, LOUD THINKING!

>>21677672

Mmmm, yess... Zerruuuuss

fapfapfapfapfap

>>21677670
>>21677709
The battle of wills continues, a relentless grapple of minds. There is pain, but it lessens as we push.

The resistance also dims, at two separate intervals. The psionic boost we felt earlier returns, as well. It seems like our cerebrates are fighting for us!

>>21677992
Your powers combined, I am Captain Swarm! Quick, call out to Artisanlord! We need to have him craft a jumpsuit for us!

>>21678078
We can't reach. Brain trauma, you know.

>>21678099

We can still... HEART.

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>>21678146
>>21678078

>>21678158

Srsly though.

the only thing we can do at this point is think harder until we can get control of some shit to wreck the stuff in orbit.

>>21678192
Yeah, but I always leave time in case you come up with something nutty. It's happened more often than I can ignore.

That's a 9d100.

Rolled 50, 41, 66, 64, 35, 30, 93, 68, 75 = 522

>>21678253

>>21678281
Please, sir, may I have another?

Rolled 100, 53, 62, 55, 63, 20, 56, 24, 15 = 448

>>21678253

dice gonna dice

Rolled 18, 90, 31, 14, 25, 51, 90, 57, 23 = 399

>>21678253

Rolled 91, 17, 16, 30, 44, 19, 45, 96, 80 = 438

>>21678253
rolling

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>>21678310

>>21678353
Oooooh, yeah.

>>21678281
>>21678316
(Coin flip comes up in your favor. Dice do not)

THE PAIN! It crashes into us. We don't know how--it's clear from our psionic perception that some of the Xel'Naga just died. We can't figure out what killed them, but we aren't complaining.

Still, the pain pierces further into our mind than it has for this entire struggle.

>>21678774
It was our pet Morians? Kerri? The power of LOUD THOUGHTS?

>>21678918
We can't be sure. It could be infighting, for all we know.

>>21679017

Mind bullets.

Keep up the pressure as they are distracted.

>>21679017
I reject that thought, I prefer thinking that we've had some affect on this turn of events.

>>21679017
Continue fighting back.
There is hope yet for the Swarm.

>>21679125
>>21679136
That's another 9d100. And I get to flip my coin again! Yay!

Rolled 67, 90, 62, 88, 6, 91, 32, 38, 22 = 496

>>21679246
hunggggggggggd

Rolled 94, 40, 12, 77, 78, 83, 63, 100, 69 = 616

>>21679246

Rolled 2

>>21679246

1) Flip CA
2) Do not Flip CA

>>21679265
>>21679295
(There are fuckin' hundreds everywhere, tonight!)

It becomes worse. The pain. The agony.

The Xel'Naga become less, again. We get the feeling that they made be disappearing faster than our strength is leaving us. As long as they don't destroy our mind before they lose their strength, perhaps we can get out of this alive.

ROLL 3d100 FOR OH NOES!

Rolled 96, 35, 83 = 214

>>21679510

I dunno what is going on

Rolled 77, 78, 82, 20, 42, 40, 69, 17, 69 = 494

>>21679246

Rolled 30, 40, 11 = 81

>>21679510
No Ohs, the new paper cut treatment.

Rolled 89, 46, 48 = 183

>>21679510
Rage rage !! agents the man and his mind control

>>21679510
FUCK YOU IM A HORSE

Rolled 28, 19, 58, 90, 39, 12, 39, 53, 35 = 373

>>21679246
Why won't this go through?

>>21679566

Rolled 26, 76, 67 = 169

>>21679572

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>>21679568
>>21679572
>>21679544
/tg/ dice have judged you unworthy.

>>21679528
>>21679551
Something is breaking through the pain! A message rings through our thoughts:

"Greetings, crawling one. I don't believe we've ever spoken in person, but I've met your...siblings. Feneschal destroyed your Overmind, but I must finish her exalted work."

Things just got a whole lot more serious.

(Bonus: it's animooted!)

>>21679758
Well, shit just got real.

>>21679775
(I've been sitting on this plot twist for months. I'm so happy it's finally here! I'd just like you guys to know: if Zeratul cuts your shit up, it's over. Them's the rules)

>>21679758
Of course. I think we should remind him that the Protoss Empire is poised to collapse due to it's fleet being destroyed in a battle with the Xel'Naga. And if we die, then the swarm will go berserk, and undoubtedly destroy what's left of the Protoss. The Morians should survive due to their orbital platforms, which we also helped expand. So, kill a friend of the Protoss in the middle of a battle with the Xel'Naga, thus most likely ending two species. Or, acknowledge that your an idiot, Zeratul. Khas will not be pleased with you.

>>21679856
Seconding this. Send this thought, even as we concentrate to resist the Xel'Naga's onslaught.

Wait, is Zeratul already on the planet?
Where's our robot butler?

>>21679856
"Khas' philosophy and governance are what drove my people to exile to begin with. I only regret that circumstances prevented me from meeting him with a blade in hand upon his resurrection. Perhaps I shall pay him a visit after I have finished with you. You, who are directly responsible for the destruction of everything I held dear. All of my colleagues. All of my students. All but the last of the Dark Templar."

"Our collective rage is concentrated and purified in me. It demands your blood, and it will not be denied."

>>21679978
Well, that didn't work. Use the power we used on Bernie, and CRUSH ZERATUL WITH OUT MIND!

>>21679978

Wheres our eye. I want to see this POS

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Rolled 25, 68, 10 = 103

>>21680022
fuck yea !

>>21679978

So zeratul can speak with us.

Can we call out to Khas?

BROOOTHER or would that be cousin?

>>21680022
Can't reach. Brain trauma, you know.

>>21680042
We strain to open our eye through the pain.

Every movement is agony. We see our forces in disarray. We can make out three Xel'Naga worldships in orbit. It looks like there's sporadic fighting, and nuclear debris settling into the atmosphere.

>>21680131

Oh god, what now.

Whatever panic button we have, we need to hit it.

>>21680131
Use that pain, Cerebrate! Pain means we are alive! We still live! The Swarm still lives!
Force our mind together and fight back!

>>21680169
>>21680203
We can roll...uh...It's up to 10d100, now.

Rolled 76, 39, 60, 33, 5, 13, 31, 100, 92, 88 = 537

>>21680245

I don't even know what i'm rolling for but ok.

>>21680203
Mary had a little lamb,
Little lamb little lamb,
Mary had a little lamb,
whose fleece was white as snow.

-- Assassins' Redoubt,
Final Transmission

Rolled 9, 33, 55, 63, 17, 89, 86, 40, 29, 47 = 468

Holy shit this is still a thing. Rollan!

Rolled 56, 84, 13, 46, 78, 25, 98, 11, 63, 72 = 546

>>21680245

Rolled 26, 83, 78, 80, 42, 69, 97, 74, 81, 40 = 670

>>21680245
Redeem me, dice!

>>21680252
>>21680259
Rolling waves of pain crash over us. We feel them cracking our resolve, tearing at our identity.

Our eye witnesses an explosion in high orbit. The nuclear blast cracks a worldship down the middle. Toaster appears to be fighting for us. We finally make out heighliners up there, as well, sporadically firing their Psi Cannons at us to ease the burden on us.

Through the debris, sometimes-active defenses, and the screaming pain, we spot a Protoss ship of unknown configuration barreling through the atmosphere, directly at us. It has broken through the line; nothing stands between it and us.

(The dice are certainly angling for a dramatic fight, that's for sure. You'd better hope they switch sides)

>>21680368

Toasterrrrrr


KILL IT.

Nothing for it but to go on as we have. I don't suppose we can contact one of the 'brates to pepper that ship with nukes or something?

>>21680403
(Yeah, while I'm talking about horrible side effects of tonight, I might as well mention that one of the rolls you've been making has been for the life-threatening wounds your cerebrates are suffering without a leader. There's maximum potential for Swarm death in this fight)

>>21680368

Channel Bernie

FUCK IT UP

>>21680368
DEFENCEBRATE! We must grab ahold of something, anything, and stop Zeratul!

>>21680368
Telekinetically throw the Kingstontron Butler at it.

>>21680495
>>21680453
Currently, you're between a third and halfway dead from Xel'Naga mind bullets, your cerebrates are all hemorrhaging to death, and a vengeance-crazed Dark Templar is bearing down on you with righteous fury.

Things are looking dark.

Roll 2d20 to see if something awesome happens.

Rolled 17, 11 = 28

>>21680552
SISTER!

Rolled 17, 5 = 22

>>21680552

KHASSS

>family nessmsth

Yes Captcha

>>21680552
We have legs, don't we?

GET UP AND FUCKING MOVE. WHY AREN'T WE IN A CAVE?

"Oh, let's invest our entire command structure in a single being! Then let's make it immobile and squishy! Now let's leave in in the fucking open! Nothing can go wrong!"

NOTHING

CAN

GO

WRONG!

Rolled 14, 17 = 31

>>21680552
our little sister saves the day?

no no no we will never here the end of this.

>>21680590
"I didn't save you because I like you or anything, Cerebrate. I j-just did it because you're n-nice to me.

Geez, don't look at me with that eye!"

Rolled 7, 9 = 16

>>21680552
Save us Kerri! Kill Zeratul!

>>21680600
>>21680552

Actually, that's a thought. Supposing we were could contact Kerrigan somehow, do we have the option of putting our control of the swarm into her? Basically making Kerrigan the overmind in a gambit to prevent the death of the species?

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>>21680590
That's a pretty awesome ro--waaaaaaaait a second.

>>21680627
Well, we did fiddle with her brain, so I'd say shes probably stronger than SC2 Kerri, saner too. Not sure how'd she feel about Nargil, Toaster, Gorn, and the other old guard... or even out "indiscretions" she'd probably save Artisanlord.

>>21680577
>>21680591
"It seems like you've got your hands full, Cerebrate. Mind if I lend a hand?"

We have never, in all of our less than half a decade of life, been so happy to hear our sister's voice.

"Not that it matters if you say no, of course. I'll handle things up here. Jimmy's en route to the surface."

Father could not have arranged this better Himself!

Rolled 11, 12 = 23

>>21680638
sorry rolled a d120 instead of 20

>>21680685
If Father arrange this it would have more tentacles, he was a bit of a perv. Don't think at me like that Nargil, you know it's true.

>>21680694
It happens. Still funny.

>>21680703
If this were SC2...

>>21680685
"I love you, sis!"
Let our love for our little sister be as our shield!

>>21680725
>>21680703
>>21680694
So...can we do 14d100? I think /tg/ can handle 14.

>>21680685
There is hope again. We must focus on freeing out mind, even if in the end it is only to transfer the sum of the overmind to Kerrigan before dying a dried out husk.

With luck, we will instead join the fight proper.

Rolled 22, 94, 23, 99, 45, 53, 7, 87, 96, 89, 28, 4, 20, 17 = 684

>>21680777
14? Eh... let's try

Rolled 65, 33, 99, 89, 78, 33, 80, 30, 57, 85, 23, 81, 24, 37 = 814

>>21680777

Rolling dice till the heat death of the universe

Rolled 25, 42, 62, 45, 82, 7, 91, 23, 49, 18, 84, 4, 12, 49 = 593

>>21680783

God damn.

Rolled 59, 95, 4, 9, 88, 25, 87, 37, 95, 73, 12, 1, 34, 24 = 643

>>21680777
It can handle 1.

Rolled 32, 28, 53, 88, 49, 67, 32, 94, 61, 93, 64, 73, 71, 73 = 878

>>21680777
Let's see.

>>21680811
21. My keyboard is acting funny.

I have a feeling that we've already lost 'brates out there and just don't know it yet.

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>>21680783
>>21680785
We are inspired by our sister and our Broods, fighting together for our survival. We press back, driving the Xel'Naga half of the way out of our mind.

Outside, our eye burns as the Xel'Naga ships turn toward Xenta, and a blinding light pierces out from it. The light burns across the surface of the planet, sweeping up Hive Clusters across the planet. Even in our quiescent state, we can feel the planet shudder as its crust is stripped away. We hope none of our cerebrates are in the paths of these beams. Kerrigan keeps us informed of what's going on, her voice betraying fear as she informs us that even if they are stopped immediately, more than half the surface of Xenta will be heated into plasma. In less than a day, it will not be a safe place for us to house ourselves and our Brood.

Thankfully, Warbrate seems to have been inspired by Kerrigan's arrival, as well. Its forces rally, and manage (with many casualties) to destroy one of the remaining worldships. Its flaming wreckage adds to the dark clouds forming over our beleaguered home. Moments later, the other craft is engulfed in a brilliant nuclear explosion, compliments of Toaster.

Our mind aches terribly, but the oppressive torment is gone. The Xel'Naga are extinct once more! We have done it!

(CONTINUE!)

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>>21680989
As our Eye turns from the skies, we witness the battle unfolding just before us.

Raynor, his body covered in a menacing carapace and his eyes glowing green with the light of the Swarm, is locked in combat with the last of the Dark Templar, Zeratul. Raynor's red-and-gold blood leaks down his face, a gift from the Protoss, as his every attack is countered flawlessly by the First Born, who is simultaneously dodging the blocky strikes of our Kingstontron butler.

If our life and the life of an irreplaceable friend were not at stake, we would admire the unbelievable skills of this warrior.

(On the one hand, I wish I'd made Kerri wait a turn so there'd be more crunch-time. On the other hand, I'm glad I made her get here this early, so you guys weren't dead before she got here)

Now that our mind is free of the Xel'Naga, massively overpower Zeratul's own mind and give Jimmy an opening to finish him.

Failing that, there's no other enemies, right? I WANT EVERY ZERG TO GET HERE.

>>21681036

Our mind is FREEE

MIND BULLETS ON ZERATUL

Help that disgusting non-person-that-is-probably-buggering-little-sis...

No second thought, lets not.

>>21681097
Are you saying use the super-charged psionic high-five we made for situations like this? If so yes. How long would it take us to warp ourselves to another planet?

>>21681036
Whatever happens here, we cannot allow the Swarm to die. Do whatever needs to be done to allow Kerrigan to take control should we be killed.
Then we can focus on hating Zeratul to death.

>>21681108
Buy Jimmy has his personality back, and PTSD. And we know he does things with Kerri that we don't want to know about, but we pulled him aside and game his a very uncomfortable talk about responsibility, with sever treats of violence against him if he broke Kerri's heart.

>>21681129
Interpreting psychic attacks as a telekinetic push is just childish.

Dig into his memories, destroy the memory of the moment he separated from the khala and led his people away. Then plant the suggestion that he just lost something very important. He'll check, realize that he DID lose something important, and while he's freaking over that we take out the bit that makes his lungs work.

Psychic warfare should be so much nastier than a push.

>>21681169
You seem new.

>>21681097
>>21681108
>>21681129
>>21681130
Our first attempt to psi-five him does nothing. We wonder if he is shielding his mind, and are immediately told yes:

"You cannot distract me with your tricks, Cerebrate. I have shielded my mind from you, after watching your fortuitous distraction of Kerrigan during our last battle."

It seems that a simple attack won't do. We will have to concentrate our psionic energies more intensely to influence this fight.

4d100!

>>21681168
>gave him a very uncomfortable talk about responsibility

We then handed him a bunch of Creep condoms, specially evolved for her pleasure. We didn't tell him about the whole evolving-teeth-on-the-inside thing. So we're petty; sue us.

>>21681199
Well, I understand that the tone of this quest is more humorous than serious, but still.

Limiting ourselves to "psychic high-five" just seems underwhelming.

Rolled 95, 55, 17, 12 = 179

>>21681227
Blast ourselves with a psicannon to give a temporary boost?

>>21681242
the psionic high-five is something we came up with a long time ago, thread 13, and all it really is is a sudden massive burst of psionic energy. We surprised Kerri with it, then used it on Zeratul or Tassarar a lot.

Rolled 80, 1, 40, 69 = 190

>>21681227

>>21681281
>>21681242
It's mostly because the Cerebrates aren't made to use psionic attacks. Their entire psionic potential is driven toward coordinating billions of living bodies across hundreds of worlds. It's like trying to use your optic nerves to think about calculus; It's clearly made of neurons, but they kind of don't work like that.

>>21681350
Good point.

Well, can we do anything besides a psionic shove?

>>21681381
Throw things, send out our ridge scratcher to fight, summon everything that's nearby.

>>21681381
We once compressed an enemy into a bullion cube. That was due to an awesome roll, though.

>>21681259
>>21681291
(Oh. Oh, fuck.)

Compressing our thoughts into a malicious sledgehammer, we swing mercilessly at Zeratul. It knocks the warrior physically off balance, toppling into the Kingstontron.

Unfortunately, the Protoss springs back to its feet and back into its fight with Raynor. Raynor attempts to strike at his head, and leaves himself completely open. Zeratul takes the opportunity and performs a sweeping slash, taking off Raynor's right arm and leg.

Raynor falls to the ground, incapacitated.

>>21681541
Alright, another psionic battering ram, with psiocannon support, and our ridge scratcher. The other option is see if we can quickly transfer ourselves into one of our igegs.

>>21681541

Drop an overlord on him.

Just tell it to stop flying.

While we mind bullets to distract him

>>21681591
>>21681619
Ooo, variety plans.

>>21681591

Part of why the blade kills cerebrates is the psychic shit in it right?

What if we blanket the area with Psicannon fire?Think it'll short him out?

>>21681635
Well, you know what they say about sticky walls and throwing. Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name.

>>21681619
Must admit, this idea has some elegance to it. Drop several on him.

>>21681661
I'm gonna slip out of my enigmatic DM pose and say "not really."

Local cerebrates' thoughts slide into our own; They are all suffering from crippling pain.

>>21681724
>>21681619
So, is this the plan?

>>21681724
Throw in a dive bombing scourge or two.

>>21681741
Yes, if we can also include having the Kingstontron getting Raynor to safety.

>>21681741

While summoning reinforcements of all kind while he evades shit dropping from the sky.

>>21681741
Sure, why not.

>>21681741
Sure, why not.

>>21681760
>>21681759
Freaky.

>>21681764
Yes, you are.

>>21681751
>>21681757
>>21681759
>>21681760
4d100GO!

>>21681796
And other adjectives.

Where's the overlord bombing?

Rolled 75, 62, 7, 94 = 238

>>21681805

RAWRRR

Rolled 54, 23, 61, 93 = 231

>>21681805
There it is.

Rolled 52, 80, 62, 84 = 278

>>21681805

>>21681816
>>21681818
As we shout from an oddly articulate drone, the Kingstontron leaps around Zeratul, swings the infested man over its shoulder, and jogs quickly away, toward Accountantbrate's compound, or what's left of it. Accountantbrate is sort of tantruming right now, after the loss of massive stores of minerals and gas across the surface of Xenta.

Zeratul watches this with some measure of amusement. This distraction is good for us. The overlord is unexpected and unnoticed as it flops out of the sky directly on top of the confused Protoss.

A moment later, he explodes upward, spewing the overlord's body across the Creep. As he lands, we strike him again with our thoughts, knocking him off his feet and simply spoiling the badass look of the whole scene.

He's clearly still battle-ready, but sometimes it's the little things that matter, you know?

>>21682012

Totally worth it.

And hes now covered in Overlord gunk so he can't cloak.

PILE ON ALL ZERG

>>21682043
zerglings, zerglings everywhere!

>>21682012
shooooot hiiiiim

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>>21682043
>>21682069
>>21682080
Zeratul stands just feet away from our form, his eyes aglow with the rage of a dead tribe. His blade shimmers with fatal intensity, its energies holding the potential to destroy us forever.

WILL THE CEREBRATE DEFEAT THIS FOE, OR WILL THE SWARM BE FINALLY DESTROYED, ONCE AND FOR ALL? WILL RAYNOR RECOVER FROM HIS WOUNDS, OR WILL THE DARK TEMPLAR'S BLADE PERMANENTLY CRIPPLE KERRIGAN'S GROOM? WILL CEREBRATE ANON -EVER- LET GO OF THE SHIFT KEY?!

Find out next week on Zerg Quest!

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/21677377/

It's 2 in the morning. I've got to get some sleep.

Honestly, though, congrats on not being dead. There was a minute there where it looked like the Xel'Naga would actually kill you before Zeratul could even start hacking and whacking and smacking. You came from behind.

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>>21682162

>cliffhanger

>>21682222
Yeah. Right before the holiday, too. It's going to wriggle in the back of your mind the whole time. Your Uncle Steve will be telling you about his fantasy football team, and you'll be a million miles away, trying to think of what options the Swarm has to fight off this horrible death.

It'll destroy your family outing.

It'll ruin the holiday.

It'll eat you away inside.

...

Dude, maybe I -am- evil.

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>>21682301