>>22513983

What was "supposed" to happen, plot and ending wise? Were you expecting the Katamari? How utterly broken did we end up?

Were we expected to pick a fight with the Grand Crusade?

How did you expect us to play the quest? As in be sneaky and shit instead of a katamari of doom?

>>22513983
When we used the device, would the Avatar have been a better choice? Also, what would have happened if we had used different wording?

How did you expect us to use Cybuster and the Arbalest? Why is Rahxephon in the Super-STOB -- what happemed?

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The passenger bunks of the All Under Heaven were, like the ship itself, much, much larger than any normal military ship could boast. This was nominally due to the sheer amount of passengers the ship could carry, but given that Task Force 38 lacked a full planetary assault force, the space was commandeered for other purposes. Namely, putting about half the bunks in any given room in storage and using the extra space for creature comforts for the crews it housed. So it wasn't that out of place that in this particular bunk-room there were holo-TVs set up, poker tables pushed against the walls, a few bookcases... the room was large as a good-sized house after all. Currently it was playing host to only about a fourth of its occupants, members of the vehicle crews that were currently off duty.

"So, that's, what, most of us that remember all that stuff?" the tank commander asks, rubbing his eyes with a sigh. "Or all of us?"

"All of us," a Baneblade gunner nodded. "Everyone in the Task Force anyway. Just everyone else seems to have an altered memory."

"Well it's not too much, though," a Messiah pilot said, his feet propped up on his bunk. "Changed, I mean. Pretty much everything in our sector stayed the same as far as I can tell, just a few things got shifted around."

"Yeah, but that's US!" an artilleryman said. "I heard from some of the guys on base that every other sector got hit with a whirlwind of crazy. Portals opening up everywhere, time and space going nuts... One group said they'd been fighting for twenty years before things went back to normal. Another said it'd only been a day since this all started."

"Crazy," the Baneblader said, shaking his head. "So what are you all gonna do now that it's over."

"Thinking of signing on for a second tour," one of the Messiah pilots said. "Pay's decent. Exciting job, see shit you'd never see otherwise. I'd just be doing merc-work back home anyway. You?"

>>22513983
Were we expected to continue with our original mission of putting bullets into the backs of SUE's? How would our normal procedure have worked in the AMG! Canon?

See this guys?

http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Category:The_Editors_Setting

Time to fill up the pages!

>>22514406

So does this mean the Crossover War is different from what happened in the Codex? What happened on Meta-Earth from the Black Ops takeover up to the finale?

>>22513983
How would the Chozo had responded if we attempted to take them off Zebes?

Did we miss any sort of Super Secret Characters?

What happened to Akuma after the world got Retconned? Will we run into him again one day?

>>22514425
Speaking of: Why are we so much more awesome then the original method of sneaking around that was ripped straight from PPC?

Command crew member who had that crush on Lyla here, work have me miss about the last ten-twelve threads.

Reading up now.

>>22513983
Where'd you get a picture of Cheryl in a hardsuit, and can you get one of the Aurors face palming at Fumbles?

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>>22514406

"Not a contractor," the Baneblader said, shrugging. "Everyone they put in a Baneblade was hand-picked and trained from some of the best the Transpace Guard's piloting academy on Mars could produce. I've got another three years before I have the option to quit."

"Ouch," the Messiah said, wincing. He turned his head. "What about you, Gurnz? What do our elite TIE-Defenders have to say about all of this?"

"Where Pellaeon goes, we go," the puggish face of Captain Gurnz said. The leader of the first TIE-Defender squadron on the All Under Heaven, Gurnz was ex-Galactic Empire, recruited in its dying days of degeneration into factions and warlords. "I've served on a lot of boats, and Pellaeon is the finest officer I've ever seen. The finest Imperial mind I've ever served. If he wants to continue with the Guard, then I remain with him."

"How..." a Mammoth gunner paused. "...devoted?"

Gurnz snorted and went back to shuffling cards. The Mammoth gunner shrugged.

"Well, I'm in the same boat as the Banebladers, they don't give a supertank to just anyone in this outfit. As an elite gunner, I've got to-"

The gunner was interrupted by an outbreak of laughter from one of the Destroid pilots.

"Elite? Please. I saw you and Gunderson over there arguing the other day about whose tank could destroy whose. You were like little kids," the pilot rolled his eyes. The gunner's nostrils flared.

"The Mammoth mk.3 has dual railguns on it capable of piercing any armor! One, maybe two shots and those skull-decorated metal boxes go up in flames."

"As if! The Baneblade is capable of withstanding fire from a Titan! Your railguns would just nick the paint."

"You are FULL of yourself!"

"You don't understand how armor works!"

As a minor brawl broke out, the artilleryman rubbed his eyes.
"I take it back," he said. "Nothing's changed."

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>>22514039
Originally the Grand Crusade and Void Engineers were going to reach Kane's base while you and New Chaos were still fighting to get there. It was going to turn into a race of who turned it on first. That sort of happened anyway, but not in the way I'd planned at all. If it became obvious you'd get there before they did, each faction leader was going to try and convince you to let them activate it or at least, keep their interests in mind when activating it. Tzinitchi was going to say that only his complex and deific mind could properly use the Device to its fullest extent and for the best, that even if you hate his methods, you KNOW what he wants isn't so different from you, blah blah. Kreuz was going to defend the idea of changing 'what was meant to be' and cite several examples of why the idea of fate is bullshit. The Void Engineers would've countered with examples of trying to change things with unforeseen consequences and plead for you to destroy, not activate the device. Etc, etc.

I did not expect the Katamari. I did not expect it at all. It really sort of sucked a lot of drama away when pretty much every character is more or less guaranteed to come back to life no matter what they do.

>>22514316
Yes, I was. You seemed to be sticking pretty heavily to the "Canon at all costs!" line at first. When you softened it, I was surprised.

I expected you to vary your responses as the situation dictated, and this more or less happened. More or less. Often the responses I expected were not the one I received.

>>22514711

Any particularly ridiuclous examples of "Not what I expected" that you can remember?

what uh... exactly is this quest about?

>>22514711
Were you expecting the...
>>22514764
Oh! OH! I have an answer to that one!

The Army of the Dead.

3.5 *BILLION* ghosts up in Chaosbringer's shit. Oh, that shit was glorious.

What did Grimm have to do in all this mess and with the nature of canons?

>>22514805
How about my Miracle of pulling a Protoss fleet out of my ass?

>>22514764

Smashing Relentless into Temple Prime.

God, that was GLORIOUS.
(Espeically sine I suggested it. Kinda proud)

>>22514711
In all fairness, I blame the /tg/ dice for the Katamari. If they hadn't given us shit rolls 80% of the time, we wouldn't have gone into looking for ways to counter that. Requisitions getting closed didn't help either.

Unless you had a way for us to replenish troops and heroes without Requisitions? Would more random troops and heroes have joined up?

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>>22514345
If you'd have gotten to "Kaneworld" sooner, you'd have seen a good deal of the SRW MX crew being tossed around due to dimensional rifts, and had the opportunity to save RahXephon before Kane could trap it and incorporate it into the Device. Due to that world being the last one, however, by the time you got there, the SRW J crew/Void Engineers had dealt with most of those events independently, and Kane's scheme succeeded.

I expected more use of the Cybuster as a combat unit, honestly. I expected Cyflash spam. Arbalest I had no specific plans for, though there was subplot in which Kane kidnaps Chidori to learn more about Black Technology that never manifested due to the above.

>>22514425
Yes, you were expected to deal with all SUEs. I'm not sure I get your question?

>>22514443
Not exactly. The reality reset should've essentially made the two more or less match up, though specifics are different. Remember, that I stated at the beginning of the quest this was my own take on the Editors setting. As for the second part of that question, a grand and epic struggle... offscreen.

>>22514464
They would've done various nasty things to anyone messing with them or even trying to contact them.

Yes. You missed Rom Stohl, Shu Shirakawa, Cody from Final Fight, and the "Grand Crusade" agent. Among others I'm forgetting.

As for Akuma, I guess you'll have to wait and see.

>>22514500
I tried to design TG Quest so that there would be missions for people who liked covert operations as well as missions for people who liked more direct combat or people who liked trying to pierce together plots. The idea was to keep it open for as much variety as possible.

>>22514514
Player by the name of Rynex drew it for me. (And thank you again, Rynex.) He's reading this thread, so if the whim strikes him, he might just do that.

>>22514880
By dealing with the SUE's in AMG!, I mean capture instead of kill.
Now that we know that the whole thing about karma and stuff is bullshit because of the mindcontrol that Keiichi was put under by order of the Almighty, how would Heaven have reacted to our usual wetwork approach to assassinating our targets?

>>22514880

What about Artifacts that we missed?

Did the Blue Crystals have a use we missed by trading them away?

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No real question, just felt like popping in to congratulate you on finishing your quest.

>>22514977
Is there a projected date for Street Fighter Quest 2?

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>>22514798
It was about fixing interdimensional shenanigans, but it's over now. This is a wrap up.

>>22514764
What the people responding to you have said, and the Mikasa drill ship bypassing the death labyrinth I made to get straight to Grimm. I don't know if it counts, but I certainly wasn't expecting TrekTech to essentially give you unlimited resources.

Oh, the ArmorFleet. You guys pulled a goddamned fleet out of your ass.

And you did it AGAIN with Vitun's Protoss Miracle.

>>22514811
He was a researcher that looked into the forbidden area of reality research, found out the Guard was lying to him and everyone else, and went a little crazy. Then Nurgle got in his brain and made him REALLY crazy. He was going to do exactly what he said, turn that Dystopia clone into a garden of despair to suit his fucked up worldview.

Unless you meant "what was he talking about?" In which case, he found out what Cheryl told you, and beyond that, learned after being taught for years that 'Fictionals' were inferior, that he and everyone he knew were Fictional.

Oh, he also learned the deepest secret of reality which you guys almost got then missed.

>>22514845
Requistions' closing was a planned event so you wouldn't just amass a death ball and would have to plan out your actions carefully and make alliances to get support.

Yeah that worked.

Yes, for example, as originally planned Shin-Ra and their motley heroes were to support you more heavily, as were many of the other factions you befriended. In addition, I was expected you to work closer with native heroes like the SRW J team, which happened anyway. It's just that they became a bonus rather than a vital alliance you had to secure for success.

>>22514711
>t really sort of sucked a lot of drama away when pretty much every character is more or less guaranteed to come back to life no matter what they do.
I have to disagree. Novels with transhuman technology to take backups of people, and the Eclipse Phase setting, seem to be able to handle drama just fine even with the technology to resleave and raise the dead readily available.

Though I will grant that if you were unprepared for it, then it could lead to a lot of trouble in trying to create drama the traditional way.

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>>22514977
Thanks! Yours looked pretty awesome, and I tried to quietly partake, but time constraints kept me away for most of it.

>>22514939
Nope. I actually didn't anticipate a use for them, but when trading them came up, I couldn't see why not. As for missed Artifacts, I know there was one or two, but I can't remember. You got all the major ones.

>>22514938
Probably a verbal confrontation you could've talked your way out of fairly easily. They weren't natives, but intruders warping reality around them. Heaven isn't going to take extreme steps to defend them, though if you'd have done this, you wouldn't have gotten Lind as a reinforcement possibility.

>>22515023
So what is the "Deepest Secret of Reality?"

Is it that we're all Fictional? Is it Ninjas?

>>22515023

Given that the first time I suggested it was before the 8BD canon, would getting a supercap blob or a proper Capital fleet of EVE ships have skewed anything even further than having a brand-new fleet right before the end boss?

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I just want to congratulate you for finish the quest.

To bad that I don't catch up the quest... but I will try to read up in the archive when I have time.

By the way, are you planned to make new quest?

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Well thats one horrendously bloated and drawn out quest out of the way, now for all these magical girl quests to go the fuck away.

>>22515081
Was the "Law of Inverse Ninjitsu" actually applicable in the Meta? Or was that just something we decided to toe around, but really had no basis.

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>>22515075
Point taken. I suppose I should've been thinking more out of the box.

Now for a question of my own. I was planning at some point to start up Yellowman Quest, a spinoff/sequel to this quest. Currently I'm planning to make the mechanics of the game more transparent by introducing a stat system with clearly defined bonuses. IE, "Yellowman has 5 Strength and 2 Melee, so he gets +7 to this roll and has to beat X difficulty."

Would that be a good idea or do you all think it'd just bog things down? The system I have in mind is designed for simplicity, but even so...

>>22515023

>Resurrection = -Drama
I think that we freaked out more over the fact that our heroes, with all of their personality quirks and interactions, were actually capable of dying off permanently. We got a taste of this when bad rolls killed off Gaunt, and Mouse got turned into a Sandman. I think that all of us tried to prevent that from happening again by getting Vitun (and countering bad rolls).

They're just quest characters, but we got pretty attached to them. Even Fumbles.

>>22515194
Depends on how you do it. It might work out, but it also might draw out combat pretty damn long. I'd be willing to try it and see if it works.

>>22515203
Fumbles proved himself in the end. He got a Medal for it too. He also got an award for "Most Friendly Fire in the Entire History of the Guard."

>>22515194
Since we're /tg/, I think some stats will be appreciated.
Something simple that you propose should be fine.

The "Magical" Girl Quest and Cyberpunk Magical Girl Quest use mechanics that are simple yet allow for customization of characters to make the players feel that they have more control over the characters' fates.
Keep in mind, though, that as /tg/, we will try to take every little bonus and advantage where we can.

You can throw horrors and abominations at us, just be prepared for us to respond in kind.

>>22515194
I'm cool with it.

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>>22515118
Not really? Since most of 8BD was ground-fighting. It would've made the space fight a cakewalk, though.

>>22515084
The part of reality that the Transpace Guard monitors is linked to humanity's communal unconscious which may or may not be a being in of itself. But not all reality is linked to it, and indeed, the Grand Crusade was actually created in "realspace", though it swiftly began cutting into TG territory. Also, the "real people" of the Transpace Guard's Earth as just another tier of fictionals.

I ended up dropping the revelation that the Transpace Guard itself isn't canon, being an interpretation of the Editors setting. Essentially making everyone in the Guard a hypocrite twice over.

>>22515124
Thank you! I'm not sure, but I want to wait until A.) it's ready, and B.) there isn't a glut of quest threads on /tg/.

>>22515153
Yeah... Yeah, it did get drawn out. Would you believe my original estimate was to be done in 50 threads? Ironic that the Editors quest itself could use an editor.

>>22515169
That sort of thing isn't applicable in most worlds.

>>22515194

While the whimsical /tg/ dice that decide whether something goes according to plan or not, it would add a bit more predictability and control to the end result.

>>22515288
Fumbles is proof that the /tg/ dice are pseudo-sapient and understand the direction of plot and tropes.

A character that has always failed in the past, suddenly getting a nat100 in the final battle when his roll matters the most?
So unlikely, and yet, perfectly within plot.

>>22515345

It wasn't purposely drawn out though. None of the ride was just 'filler'.

Would get on MetaQuest OP's Ride again.... even the /tg/ dice segment.

Dammit /tg/ dice.

>>22515345
There'll always be a glut of quest threads on /tg/, the difference is there are only a few good ones. We could use more good ones.

Also, please don't excite the anti-quest trolls.

>>22515345

I would have loved to see the other faction's faces when SUDDENLY 250 SUPERCAPITALS ON FIELD DD'ING EVERYTHING AND BOBMING WHAT'S LEFT.

>>22515345
You could have probably done it in 50 threads if you had railroaded hard, made no allowance for independent thought, tightly controlled what the players could do and where they could go.

But if you had, then you'd have been derided as a terrible railroading GM.

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>>22515203
Hmmm. Good point.

>>22515288
I might try to make each combat 'roll' count for several 'rounds' of combat to speed that up. Mostly it's for things like, "Hack into that network and find out where the plans are, Yellowman!"

>>22515310
If nothing else, that is a lesson I learned well here.

I can give you guys a look at the preliminary stat sheet I have worked up for Yellowman. It's not very original, but the system is supposed to be functional, not creative.

>>22515457
Sure. Also: Life that Meta-Bail, Yellowman. Tote that Meta-Barge, Yellowman.

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>>22515455
I suppose you're right.

Here's the preliminary sheet.

Yellowman Stats:

Strength: 2
Health: 2
Dexterity: 2
Intelligence: 3
Willpower: 2
Perception: 4
Charisma: 2
Leadership: 1 (Number of Sidekicks active at one time. Should be very rare to get the choice to increase. Cap at 6.)

Wounds/HP: 2(4) Number of injuries Yellowman can sustain without being incapacitated.
Survivor Points: 4 (Spendable points that allow a reroll with a bonus equal to Willpower on failed rolls that endanger Yellowman or an ally.)
Dumb Luck Points: 1(Spendable points that allow a reroll on anything.)

(Cont.)

>>22515568
Starship Pilot: 2
Computers/Hacking: 2
Stealth: 5
Investigation: 5
Pistols/Sidearms: 5
Rifles/Longarms: 2
Heavy Weapons: 1
Throw: 3
Hand to Hand: 2
Melee: 2
Bluff: 2
Repair/Engineering: 2
Comm/Scan: 2
Lore: 3


Traits:
Unnatural Survivor: Allows accumulation and spending of Survivor Points.
Stubborn: Grants +10 bonus to rolls made to resist mental influence of any kind.
Tactical Redeployment: Grants a +20 bonus to rolls made to escape or flee from combat. Grants +10 bonus to rolls made to move around in combat.

>>22515457

What was in the Yellowman files again?

If we actually got 100% before we finally did, what could we have done with it?

>>22515581
Gear:
'Statler': A gauss pistol modified to accept enchanted rounds. Good at penetrating armor, with magic bullets offering additional effects. Twelve round magazine. “It's an old gun that likes to tear into things. Seemed appropriate.”

'Waldorf': A light plasma pistol modified to work with a power-recharger. Deals heavy damage to soft targets and things vulnerable to fire. Forty-shot battery. “Sick burn.”

Scout Combat Suit: An armored jumpsuit that can accept add-ons and modifications. Currently has reactive force-shields installed. Grants extra Wounds.

Power Recharger: A conversion device capable of hooking into any power outlet with sufficient energy to provide recharging to shields or certain energy weapons.

Gummer-Brand Survival Kit: A top of the line survival kit with most of the supplies you'd need to survive for a period of time in the wilderness. Comes with a supply of MREs. “It tastes like toilet paper.” “That IS the toilet paper.”

Ammunition:
2 Magazines of normal Gauss Ammunition.
1 Magazine of Shocking Gauss Ammunition.

And I was thinking off adding one additional item based on what you suggest in this thread.

>>22515593

Uhh... given that we're technically in charge of Yellowman, now, wouldn't he have our newest mark of power armor and all the ridiculous tech we have? Or is Yellowman quest set BEFORE the end of Meta-Quest?

>>22515583
The Yellowman Files had proof of SHODAN's meddling and Black Op's treachery, which would've allowed you to have gotten at least a temporary alliance/cease fire with the GC with no roll required. They also had the stuff about the Device, which could've been shown to the Void Engineers to make them less paranoid about it, and more likely to accept an alliance offer. Alternatively, showing it to the TSAB would've made them more aware of the depth of the threat and may have gotten you some reinforcements.

So it's basically a huge bargaining chip.

>>22515019

Not at the moment, though I'm probably going to do an interim short-run quest (two or three threads) sometime in the next couple weeks. Depends on how my new class and work schedule work out. If I do it'll be at the old run time of 2pm 4chan time.

Sage for not being about TG Quest and not wanting to threadjack.

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>>22515624
Excuse me while I laugh maniacally.

Oh, add the Orz for decisions I didn't expect earlier.

>>22515593
Considering that Yellowman would be doing scout missions, either a Reality Emitter of some kind, or maybe an Advanced Bio-Stabilization Mask.
Protection from mind-effects and any and all poisons is not to be sneezed at.

>>22515636
Who all remembers the fight for the Retcon Device as it actually happened?

>>22515457
>>22515081

What effect would Azalin's wish have wrought? Also, what would have been the negative effects of failing to save a world, but not suffering a TPK (i.e. failing to save Cheryl from Horrorworld)?

Also, were there any sorts of plans to involve some spillover from TG Quest into MSQ?

>>22515673

Was there ever a plan for actual Zerg Quest spillover into the meta?

>>22515691
Everyone on your team and everyone present at the final battle. That includes the leader of the Grand Crusade, Johan Kreuz.

>>22515722
There were early plans to crossover into MSQ and SRWQ, but they both sort of fell flat.

Azalin's wish would've effectively locked each world into a tyranny of some sort. It wouldn't be ruled by Azalin, he just thinks that's the optimal system of government. Negative effects would've depended heavily on the failure in question. Failing to save Cheryl would've probably been a game over in Horrorworld since you needed her for the Pillar, but if you had thought up a sufficiently ingenious workaround it may have worked.

>>22515673
Did you have, or will now have, plans to involve other inter-dimensional capable and Meta-Aware Factions?
Groups such as the ATN, the Closers, the Kro-Magg Dynasty, The Multiversal Authority, the United Parallel Worlds, the Laundry, the Q Continuum?

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>>22515798
No, though I gave heavy thought to having them appear in the final battle. In fact, maybe they did and I just never mentioned it...

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>>22515806
I involved the ones I was most familiar with, save the Q, who I decided to drop on the grounds of the Quest getting complicated enough as it was. I don't know enough about most of those factions to comfortably portray them.

>>22515824

I would have thought the Cerebrate Anon would be amendable to fighting on our side.

>>22515824
There was that Zerg force that appeared in the final space battle.

Speaking of space battles, I'm disappointed we never got to see the Tria in action.

>>22515802
Oh god, so that means not only us and Kreuz know of it, but Akuma, Azalin, Chaos, SRW J Crew, Crowe/Setsuko/Rand, Shin-Ra, and Su all remember it?

>>22515921

Su is dead, and I'm pretty sure that if she was resurrected Cheryl took away her memories of it AND being under Chaosbringer

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>>22515921
Yes.

>>22515866
Sorry, the space battles got really confusing with the sheer number of ships I was trying to keep track of by the end.

Oh, Adam Jensen and JC Denton were supposed to show up and be recruitable during one of the segments, but I dropped it due to length.

>>22515853
If we hadn't taken the Orz with us, would they have stayed in the CnC Canon, or would they have spread on their own?

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>>22515990
Ah, good point. Cheryl would, at that.

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>>22515996
Left to their own devices, the Orz would've spread at a far slower rate. Barring small groups of scouts, they wouldn't have made it to the next world before you ended the quest. All the Orz problems were essentially, consequences of your own making.

>>22516029
What happened to the TG personnel that Black Ops took during the Sector HQ Battle?

>>22516009

So did she get brought back?

>>22516068
Taken for torture/experimentation/terribadness.

It's a blessing that Eva remembers none of it due to the Device.

>>22516069
Yes.

What do all the different colors of canons on the sector maps represent?

>>22516194

/r/ vignettes about the rest of the crew.

Now that the Love Hina canon has been restored, I wonder if we released Kanako and Mitsune to go home.

>>22516029

Hey MetaOP, how much did us knowing the stash locations in the STALKER-verse throw off your plans, since we were able to get a lot more hardware faster? (Although that doesn't mean much because lolsilentzone)

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>>22516392
Working on one now.

Concerning Yellowman Quest, do people want a lighter tone, a darker tone, or a balance between the two? I have several possible options open for how the quest goes.

Which of the following seems more appealing?

A.) A quest that takes place in a (mostly) more traditional fantasy world with Yellowman being a clear outsider.

B.) A quest that takes place in a world more akin to Rifts?

C.) A quest that operates similar to Quantum Leap or Sliders, which Yellowman visiting multiple worlds but spending little time on each?

D.) Yellowman gets caught up in a multiversal race for a prize that might be his ticket home.

>>22516979

Considering that we're his ticket home since we already worked up a plan, I'm for A) provided it's a proper mix of light and dark.

>>22516979
D, D all the way. And as light of a tone as you can go. I see hilarity down this path, and it is promising.

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>>22516371
They were mostly readings that had no bearing on the quest, but there were a few colors that did have meaning. If I recall correctly, black indicated heavy WH40K intervention or grimdarkness.

>>22516947
It made things annoying. The quest was post CoP, but I had to judge whether or not the Major would've picked up and found the stash.

>>22516392
Tosh overlooked the bar as he always used to. The Hyperion's cantina was full of familiar faces, familiar thoughts. Familiar drinks, too, though Tosh did not always indulge himself.

It had been a while since he left, but Jim didn't complain when the Spectre had presented him with a cut of the Minerals he'd been paid in. Those crystals would fuel this little crusade for a while, to say nothing of the greater portion Tosh had stashed away for his own purposes. The Spectre was not sure how long he'd stay on the ship, but he did make a promise.

"I don't quit," Tosh murmured, narrowing his eyes at Mengsk's arrogant face on the cantina TV. "...until the job's done."

Tosh smiled. "And when dat day comes... I've got a whole new world opened up for me an' mine."

>>22516979
After TG Quest's Tone, I could go for Lighter. Or at least a lighter leaning balance.

And all of them sound cool. If you do C or D though, we can still visit A and B right?

>>22516979

I'll love it either way.

You have no idea how disappointed I was in myself that I missed the last thread of this quest. But then again, that's what I get for putting it off fo so long.

Just want to say that this was an absolute blast to read. I was on the edge of my seat for the final few threads and just had to keep reading.

Another thing I liked is just how well you put everything together. having various series and canons mixing together so well was simply mind-blowing.

>>22517083

What of our Pet Black Ops prisoner?

>>22517096
I suppose you could. The main downside of C and D is that it doesn't allow for as much of an in depth world since you're hopping around all the time. It does allow more variety and opportunities for crossovers, though.

>>22513983
>Dat perfect replica ME1 era medium armor
Oh what could have been....

So how were we meant to investigate the secret origins of our organization/the Grand Crusade?
Like what exactly did we miss out on?

>>22517137
Dmitri Jurgovich sat in a cold, dark cell.

"This sucks," he muttered.

It did indeed suck.

THE END.

Naw, just kidding. I'll whip something up.

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>>22516979
D. It'll all be about watching the clock, avoiding hazards, and Blue Shelling right before the finish line.

So what happened to the Void Engineers?
The STOB didn't send them back to the pre-Ragnarok OWoD did it?

>>22517179

We put a helmet on him.

We'll call him the STIG

>>22516979

I'm almost tempted to say all of the options. But whichever way, an overall lighter tone might be in order after the high-stakes reality-shaking stuff that went on in TG quest.

I have a few question, How do Holtz and Masaki know each other? Really, I just want to know more about Holtz adventures back in his day.

Also was curious as to who was possible to show up as reinforcements during the final battle.

>>22516979
Voting D, since that would give us a very clear goal, and keep us more focused.

Also more crossover shenanigans, which is why I fell in love with this quest in the first place.

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>>22517131
Thanks! I tried to match things up as best I could. It's nice to know the effort was well spent!

>>22517167
Well there were a number of ways, but if nothing else you could've asked Ravel or gotten a big piece of the puzzle from any GC member if you'd asked them about their origins.

>>22517179
"Lieutenant Jurgovich," the officer said. "...does that conclude your report?"

"Corporal, sir. I've told you everything I know about the betrayal and everything I can remember about what I saw," the former Black Ops operative said. He was standing at ease, but ease was the furthest thing from his mind. "I'm willing to submit to lie detection or even a brain scan if you feel the need."

"That will not be necessary," the officer said, flipping over a few papers on his desk. He paused. "Most of this was confirmed true by other sources. What hasn't been confirmed should prove very useful... if accurate. Do you have anything final to say, Lieutenant?"

"Corporal, sir. I just want to say that more than a few good men who just thought they were defending Earth died fighting for a madman because of this," Dmitri said. "I want to say that in the future, we should strengthen the checks on any one branch's power to prevent this happening again. I want to say that the level of secrecy in Black Ops bordered on the insane. I want to say that agreeing to serve your homeworld shouldn't equate to slavery."

"So noted in your report, Lieutenant," the officer said.

"Corporal, sir."

"In any case, there is the matter of deciding what to do with you," the officer said, tenting his fingers. "You don't know too much, but you know a lot. You were involved in the most important operation of the last century. You have a certain set of skills that many find... dangerous. The way I see it, you have two choices."

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>>22517397

"Sir?"

"You can retire on some backwater world and live peaceably..." the officer said, rising from his chair. "...or you can return to work at the Guard. Black Ops needs people of the non-traitor sort."

"Sir? I can..." Dmitri paused for a moment. "The latter, sir."

"Very good. Dismissed, Lieutenant."

"It's Corporal, sir."

"Not anymore."

>>22517208
Nope. They're still out there.

>>22517392
Holtz had a few misadventures due to Masaki getting lost a few times before.

Reinforcements you didn't get included Shuu Shirakawa, Void Engineers, good-aligned celestials (Desna minions), and allied TG soldiers. The VE were actually quasi-reinforcements. It would be possible but very difficult to ally with this given how determined they are to NOT let anyone use the Device, but possible.

By the way, those undead you fought after the Combine were minions of Azalin.

>>22517535

>Shuu

Dammit. What I would have given for the Granzon.

>>22517159
>>Dat perfect replica ME1 era medium armor
>Oh what could have been....

What's going on? I just used an example of one of the hardsuits at random and went at it. Though I did remember Cheryl was in a _white_ hardsuit.

>>22517535

I wonder if Gaioh could've shown up as reinforcements.

>>22517535
I was speaking more along the lines of Lind and the P4 crew. I'm just curious as to if there was a possibility of Guts popping out if we managed to get a high enough reinforcement roll, having him look at the advancing Undead hordes, and just sort of shrug and get to doing what he does best.

>>22517865
Gaioh popping up would have been BAD FUCKING NEWS! Asakim or Aim as well, now that I think about it.

OP probably has enough on his writing plate, but I hope we get something more for the Redemption Platoon other than a comment from Elaine. Maybe the rest of them interacting in the other grunt units' ending vignettes.

>>22518009
At least we could convince Asakim to help us. He's not TOTALLY unreasonable.

>>22518050
Redemption Platoon Vignette:
>I DATED A BOY!
FIN!

>>22518050

I want to hear if Seifer is still sleeping on the floor.

Teasing those two is fun.

>>22518091

Hope they finally get together though.

Was there ever a risk of having any of our units or heroes quit/rebel?

>>22518181
I remember that the Avatar had the potential to quit.

>>22518181

Well about half our troops were indigenous canon locals who agreed to join up with us.

Those could have rebelled, I believe. Those who came through Human Resources... Probably not.

>>22518181
Very much so. If you acted without concern for civilian casualties or your troops' welfare, the Avatar would not only have left, but depending on how bad you acted, would've actively opposed you. Similarly, many troops had "limits" you had the potential to push them past. If you had kept Gaunt, you'd probably have had to do some fast talking to keep him on board, and if you had picked any OTHER Space Marine Chapter than the Reasonable Marines, you'd have been treated to a minor mutiny when your levels of xenos tolerance and tech heresy reached the right level. And that level wasn't high.

But you guys were pretty consistent in treating your troops very well and never made them do anything too shady.

>>22518065
>>22518091
I'll try and whip something up.

>>22518359
Hopefully with us kicking the Firemen out, Human Resources is getting a nice ground up restructuring to take out all the Grimderp.

Otherwise, we're doing a TG Quest Gaiden and sending in the Katamari to clean up that shit.

>>22518371
How well would the Angry Marines have fit in with our crew?

>>22518371

?

What would Gaunt have done? Why would be be against what we were doing? Wouldn't he have actively resisted chaos as well?

>>22518371
Except Ryu. He frequently got Ninja Missions, which are by nature Shady.

But yeah, I'm glad we ended up a pretty good crew. Anyone who can gain the friendship of the Avatar is a good group of people to work with.

>>22518371

EXACTLY why we chose the Knights Inductor.

>>22518448

Xenos, Eldar, etc.

I mean, he barely trusted the Elfdar in Ghostmaker. Then you get into all the tech we're working on, the Prawns, Starfox, etc.

>>22518371
Wasn't Gaunt beginning to figure out what the deal was by the time of the Mulder Building Incident?

Were you expecting us to end up as, for lack of a better term, "Good" as we wound up being?

>>22518371

>anything too shady.

Except our looter team.

The amount of shit they made off with and we never asked any questions as to how.

>>22518409
Not very.

>>22518472
This.

>>22518477
Yes.

>>22518570
Nope. From some of the early talk I was expecting neutral at best.

Should we just have killed Ahriman back in the Tolkein canon?

>>22518634
maybe, but then we wouldn't have been able to completely humiliate him on the A!MG world.

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>>22518091
"Well... that was a hell of a ride," Seifer whistled, cracking his knuckles as he and Fujin walked out of the room they'd been debriefed in. "Crusade says that takes care of our 'community service'. Now what?"

"HOME," Fujin stated. Seifer sighed.

"Home..." Seifer said, shaking his head. "Won't be the same without that bunch... annoying as they were. But there's no choice. They'll need people like us to rebuild. With that idiot Squall gone, and SeeD near annihilated... well, it's up to us then."

"HOPE," Fujin stated.

"Yeah, you're right. With the Grand Crusade helping, we should be able to pull everyone together quick enough. Maybe they can even find a way to get Raijin and the others back. We've seen the Task Force do it, after all," Seifer nodded. "Anyway, we've got time. The ship doesn't leave for a day or two."

"REST," Fujin stated. Seifer nodded his agreement.

"That'll be nice. Speaking of which, I think this is our room," Seifer said, stopping and sliding a keycard through a reader beside a metal door marked '34552'. The door slid open with a pneumatic hiss, revealing a spacious one-bedroom chamber with a holo-vision built into the wall and a door to a bathroom. Seifer blinked.

"Dammit, those idiots..." he growled. "I told them, two beds! Now I get to spend my two days off sleeping on the floor... No, I'm gonna march back there and demand a-"

"NO," Fujin said, pushing Seifer inside.

"What? But wh-" he started to protest. Fujin pointed to the bed.

"REST," she boomed.

"What? So it's your turn to sleep on the floor, now?" Seifer asked, arching an eyebrow.

"NO," Fujin said, walking inside the room and hitting the button to close the door. Seifer saw the look in Fujin's eyes and suddenly understood as the door hissed shut.

>>22519082
MetaOp. Is the Crusade's "Community Service" usually as extreme as "Go save the Meta, and we'll call it square." or did rack up some sort of "Community Service Points" that they can spend next time they get picked up by the Crusade?

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>>22518711
>>22518634
Pretty much.

Looks like light tone D is what I'm doing for YMQ.

I'll post some more vigs later, but I'm taking a break for now.

>>22519204
No, it's not normally that extreme.

>>22519082


Hnnngh.

I have the goofiest grin on my face

I can picture Spike sitting in that bar fiddling with a small item trying to get it work and cursing under his breath.

"Vitun gave me this thing to bring back Julia but he forgot to tell me how to work it. Damn casters take magic for granted."

The instruction manual is in one of his pockets. He just misplaced it.

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Last vignette for the night.

The sisters were winding down after yet another day where their trainers tried and failed to give them a challenge with a full day of combat exercises, drills, and simulations. Of course, when you're a genetically engineered super-soldier, it's somewhat hard to figure out a sufficiently tough training regimen. The sisters for the moment were chalking it up as 'light training so we can rest.' Currently they were lounging around the 'living room' their barracks shared.

"So Flare," Bolt said, sitting upside down in a chair and lazily looking at the ceiling. "I hear talk that you've been requesting leave time find a new hobby or something?"

"I heard she's been trying to sneak out late at night," Spark said, wagging her eyebrows suggestively. Ballistas gasped.

"Does our brave little sister have a suitor?" she asked with mock shock. "How wonderful!"

"One less competitor, you mean!" Heat said with a laugh. Flare flushed.

"It's... I still like Elaine, it's just... I kinda..." she sputtered.

"Like someone else too, now?" Bolt said, rolling to the side before standing up. She grinned impishly. "I didn't think you were the type... One not enough for Flare, huh?"

"I... I never said," Flare muttered, the red across her face growing. Ballistas clapped her hands.

"All right, enough teasing," she declared. "Flare's obviously dealing with an emotional situation she's never had to deal with before and she needs our support."

"THANK you, Ballistas," Flare sighed with relief.

"...as long as she tells us all about the lucky lady," Ballistas finished.

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>>22520761
"Yeah, Flare, what's she like?" Heat asked, jumping up and grabbing onto a low-set beam in the ceiling and just hanging there. "Who could've seduced you from our Elaine?"

"Was she another White Mage? Another pure innocent?" Spark asked, inching closer. "Or... maybe not so pure? Oooh! Was it Lyla?! I've had a few thoughts myself about her and El-"

"It wasn't Lyla!" Flare quickly said. "...but it was a White Mage."

"So what's her name?" Bolt asked.

"Sebastian," Flare quietly said. The other sisters frowned in confusion.

"But... that's not a..." Heat began to say. Comprehension dawned on her. "...oh."

"You've got a crush on a MAN?" Bolt asked in disbelief. "...Flare?"

"I can't help it!" Flare said, covering her face. "I saw him without his armor on after an operation once and he... He just looked so cute... He couldn't even lift a single car over his head or survive a rocket to the gut, but he had this look on his face that he was going to fight anyway... I just... I felt I had to protect him, you know?"

"But he's a man!" Spark exclaimed. "They're all hairy in the wrong places and all bulky in the wrong places, and don't have the right curves! Gross!"

"Wait, what's he look like?" Bolt asked. Flare produced a small picture and the sisters leaned over.

"...are you sure that's a man?" Spark asked.

"He's so... pretty," Heat commented. "Those features... so delicate..."

"Oh, Flare..." Ballistas sighed. "That's... Well... if it's what makes you happy, we'll support you. Right, girls?"

"Right!"

"Wait!" Heat said, confused. "I... I have to ask one thing, Flare."

"What?"

"Are you still going after Elaine or not?"

>>22521024

That one techno-wizard is going to be crushed when she finds out that her husbando is seeing another gal.

>>22520761
>>22521024

I was sniggering already.

>>22521122

Now I am laughing like a loon.

>>22514503
Oh. She, got to go home. Thats, good for her then, what she wanted then.

We never got to have that chat after the mission.

>>22521024
And you five are still shitcanned because of that little stunt you pulled with She who Thirsts! Bed time, Lights Out!
The rest of you, there's pancakes in the conference room.

>>22521244
"Pancakes!!!"

>>22521244

Eh, you can still phone her or write.

Still can't get a date with Ms Slyphie. orz

>>22521406
>And in each of the five girl's rooms, on their night stands, sat a cupcake
A note sits under the small treats, "Growth, from Failure."

>>22521482
I might, dont know how well it'd be received though.

And clean out your pension, you might have enough then. That, or tulips.

>>22521530

It's Lyla, if she couldn't stand you she would have decked you. Then set you on fire.

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>>22521482

>>22521751

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh

>>22522051
**silly cow**. It is not time for **dancing**.

Aw man, I never did get around to catching up on the... shit, 60 threads I missed. Damn thats a lot.

>>22521751
IF I SEE THAT FUCKING ALIEN ONE MORE TIME

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>>22522485

I greatly enjoyed the quest. Though I had to stop reading at about thread 30 or so because of the sheer pileup of Canons, most of which I knew nothing about and didn't have the time to research. I'll go back and continue sometime.

I'm still a little disappointed you never went with the Hammer's Slammers hovertanks for sheer powergaming potential, but a Mammoth Tank is fine too.

>>22522509
orz orz orz orz orz orz orz orz orz orz orz

>>22515310

...HOW many characters were in this game exactly? I didn't follow, but it seemed like there were at least 50. I pity the poor bastard who has to make all those.

Granted it'd be easy in the beginning, not not like midway through the game.

>>22524829
>>22524739
>>22515664
>>22518181

Street Fighting Man/Alpharius/Starshadow/Sandact6

We also have a Steam group for updates and announcements. Look under Metaquest.

>>22524829
A shit load.

Thankfully NoGods kept an inventory for us all.
http://pastebin.com/HGsJUZZb - Inventory
http://pastebin.com/UpKiRZnh - Discriptions

>>22524829
Well, if you take into account ALL characters, then well more than 50. Maybe 70 to 80 if you include NPC's.

As for characters which were in our employ, the number over the course of the campaign was 62, though it might be 64 if you include Blasta and Gurthang.

>>22526508
Well the five redemption squad that turned on us are back alive again, part of the reset button.

They're grounded.

>>22525399
Will do.

I'm curious about Ebon Night.

Tzeentch said he'd been a competitor and we'd done him a favor by taking him out before he could recover even a tenth of his power.

Would Ebon Night have been more powerful if we'd gone after him later? And how would he stack up against True Chaos?

I admit, I kinda wanted to see Malfeas go 1 on 1 with Khorne.

As for us becoming Neutral Good instead of Lawful Neutral, I think that's because we didn't have the misfortune of going to a real Horror/Slasher Movie Canon or having to roll back the good deeds done by a Fixer.

If we had been forced to ensure the deaths of the characters in Friday the 13th, or making sure that the Texas Chainsaw Massacre goes off without a hitch, then there may have been a lot more drama and arguing.
Especially if we saved people and reality distortions started popping up left and right.

>>22529655
I think a major part of that was all the LG and NG heroes we recruited. Paladins, Clerics, Reasonable Marines, Avatar and Desna's luck rerolls all depended on us being decent people.

>>22531283

We also didn't really have to deal with any Fixers making the canons a better place. The closest we came to that was probably that one SUE named Trevor, and he was just a less obtrusive SUE than the rest of his ilk.

>>22526508
Still not as bad as the Adventuring Platoon. 80 fully developed PCs making it to levels 17-20... Oh that game nearly drove me to madness.

>>22528066
Yes, he would've. Matching him up against Chaos, I'd say Ebon Night comes out on top in terms of how tough a boss fight he'd be. If you mean who'd win in a fight, I'd have to give it more thought.

>>22531601

>Adventuring Platoon

I can't imagine how anyone can juggle that many players at once. Is that another epic-scale campaign?

>>22531601
Did you expect our hijacking of the Executor?
Would you have allowed us to steal the Death Star?

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>>22533696
It was a campaign I ran for 8 years. It involved at its height, 12 players who went through 80 or so character, involved an equal number of NPCs, and went from level 1 to level 20. I intend to storytime some of it at some point. It was definitely memorable if nothing else.

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>>22533873
Double no. The Death Star would've have fit in your transit envelope, and I never expected such a bold move, though I was impressed you pulled it off.

>>22534035
what do you think is the biggest "cheat" we ended up pulling by magic or tech?

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>>22534514
Either essentially figuring out how to get free diamonds forever or grabbing those Industrial Replicators.

OK, I've got energy for a vignette or two. Preferences?

>>22534656
Probably Techno-Wizards, Cossack, or Lazarus's new experiments.

>>22534656

BLU TEAM going home

>>22534656

Fumbles and Troll

(Dammit, this is gonna turn into one of Mouses' anime projects)

>>22534656
Cossack, and Lazarus.

Still so many left, like Mitsune, Kanako, and the Mobile Infantry.

>>22534656
seconding Cossack.

>>22534656

>>22521530
Me sending a letter to Lyla, and aftermath of which?

Mordin, after some of the other scientists who stuck around, learn about Salarian life expectancy and how old he is. Ideas thrown around, 'Implant you into a computer! Lichdom? Rejuv treatments! Polymorph you into a sexy girl! (why a 'sexy girl prof-SCIENCE THATS WHY!)

>Capcha ldistsn asari
Listen to the asari meta op.

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Dear MetaOP,

You rock in ways I can't even explain. Work kept me from doing much more than just keeping up the last few months, but I was around for many great moments and spent a lot of time keeping threads alive and bumped during the week. Remember when threads would linger for a week or more at a time if they didn't hit autosage? You can blame be and my injury recovery time on that.
I would have lost my damn mind sitting around on the far side of the country with family while convalescing for a few month without this quest to occupy my nerdier interests with.
I have got to say, you are some kind of wizard to not only put up with the random and intense plotting the Command Crew got up to while simultaneously plotting your own crazy stuff from sources scattered far and wide, bringing them all together AND properly characterizing the disparate factions and personalities. You sir, are some sort of Game Mastering Wizard-King,, and I salute you and your works.

Now that I'm on my proper side of the country again, should you ever wander into the Leigh Valley region: I officially owe you a drink of your choice, from any establishment you care to name. Good show, good sir.

And, once again and always- Thanks for running!

>>22535074
Oh, and whatever happens to Cheryl's stalker. Did he somehow follow her? Is his in her closet?

>>22535165
Personally I'd prefer to forget that the whole stalker thing never happened.

>>22535165
Well the Cheryl fan club was proposed as multiple members of the command crew.
They tend to admire from affair/want to get back in her head. They'd kisnapped Mouse and threw him in a burlap sack, dragged off to an unknown location because he wanted to see if his tackle worked. (It Still Doesnt)

Isel should bring him around the Shadowrun canon (After Mouse switches out to a copy of his pre-sandman body), and pick up some orc chicks. Isel knows where they're going, Mouse doesnt.

>>22535317
Maybe it never did because she erased it?


Duh, duh Duuuuuuuuh. . .

>>22534656
Just how did one certain player cause one-third of the boss fights in the quest?

>>22534656
Did you expect our "distract Sauron by pretending to be a group of Noldor holdouts with First Age weapons come to fuck up his shit" plan, or the archaeological expedition we sent to Gondolin in order to get ourselves some real First Age weapons?

>>22535729

I know what he didn't expect.

Us to be so blockheaded at the puzzle at that we had a ghost facepalm at our antics.

>>22535799
We suck at riddles.

And he used that against us again with that damned hag.

If he really wanted to make this harder, he could have made us solve a riddle for each requisition.

>>22535842
We would have faced the final boss armed with nothing but slingshots and happy thoughts.

>>22535842
Goddamned fucking Raidah coming in at the last minute and using that argument of "Story" as an answer to the riddle.
And not to mention the person who tried to be funny by asking Ravel the riddle in the first place which triggered her to go straight into the riddle fight with no warning.

>>22535863

Nah.

We would be pumping Azalin's brain with goatsees and much fisting of horses.

"To pass this section to the end, you must answer the Spinx's riddle."

We could answer the riddle or. . .

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/magical-beasts/sphinx

VITUN, KICK IT'S ASS!

>>22535943

Then Vitun rolls 2 Nat 1s.

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>>22534870
3 votes for Cossack then. Sorry it took so long to get back to this, I got called away unexpectedly.

>>22535123
Thanks! I'm just glad you enjoyed it so much! Sorry to hear about your injury, but glad it's gotten better!

>>22535729
I can safely say I expected neither of those.

>>22535799
If you think solving the riddles was bad, trying sitting down and trying to think them up!

>>22536128
Once during a climatic battle of the Adventuring Platoon, I saw an archer with an insane to hit score roll snake eyes on 2d20 to shoot down a major villain as he was escaping. It was the last attack that could be made, I had stated he was down to 4 HP, and all he needed to do was roll 2 or more one ONE of those rolls. The stream of cursing that followed makes me chortle to this day.

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>>22536500
"Doctor Cossack?" the nurse asked, knocking on the door. "You have a visitor."

"Papa!" the girl shouted, squirming past the nurse to throw an embrace around her bed-ridden father. "Papa, what happened? They hardly told me anything over the phone and I've been so worried..."

"It's OK, my little treasure," Cossack said, returning the embrace with a smile. "Your papa just had a run in with... well let's just call him a villain in every sense of the word."

"Papa, you're a research scientist, not a fighter!" Kalinka scolded. "What were you doing fighting? Why didn't Pharoah or Skull protect you?"

"They... were shut down by the villain's henchman. A superb hacker," Cossack said, his face darkening. "I did my best to get out of the way, but..."

"I see that look. You don't have to tell me more if you're still troubled over it. My papa is safe and that's what matters," Kalinka said, leaning over to plant a kiss on the old man's forehead. "Still... he must've been a true genius to get past your coding!"

"Er... yes, well," Cossack mumbled, looking around. "I do have some good news."

"What's that, papa?" Kalinka asked.

"Contract is over. Until I decide to renew it, I'm retired... a very long vacation, da?" Cossack says, smiling. "When I get out of here, show me all those scrapbots you've had running the house."

"I'll make them dance and sing for you, papa!" Kalinka laughed, kissing her father on the cheek once more.

>>22536874
Aww, my heart.

>>22536874

Hnnngh.

I'll never see all the characters interacting with each other like this again. ;_;

>>22536874
With the hyper-dimensional data transmission technologies and Microbit Compression algorithms acquired from X-COM: Interceptor, Cossack could be contracted to oversee a research facility at the colony which does supplemental research for the Task Force, downloading research data from the labs in Elysium and uploading completed projects via Hyper-Com Downlinks.
Then he gets the best of both worlds; a high-paying research position, and he gets to stay with his daughter.
And we get a secondary research facility for all of the extra research projects we never got a chance to do.

>>22537037

The ultimate Robot.

/TG/ Man

>>22536874

Just out of curiosity, OP, what would have come from the plans to cross over TG quest with MSQ? Was it anything relatively minor like the crossover with Zerg Quest, or would have there been some revelations regarding the nature of the meta and the collective consciousness?

>>22537037

A mecha made from the best of Starfleet, Battletech, WH40k, generally other bits that were cherry-picked from anything else we would have thought of.

It would be monstrous, but probably hilariously expensive and time-consuming to research and build. Even when you have infinite diamonds.

>>22537229
But the problem is that such a machine would be vulnerable to Paradox Cannons and Paradox Blasters. Mixing and matching too much technology only makes you more vulnerable to insta-kill weapons like that.

Better to use the existing technology in ways that are unfettered by genre-blindness, like the Borg Assimilation hacking tool, ART specs, and creative use of teleportation mechanics.

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>>22537169
It probably would've been relatively minor. I tried to avoid making the crossover integral to the plot in case they fell through.

>>22537169

We would probably have to kill the monstrosity that was Susan. /shudder

>>22537169
We loot MSQ's meta organization for some of their agents.
Some witchy bitches?
loot their scientists?

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>>22536874
Sometime we're going to have to interrogate you about how to get on your level with the writing and characterization, and running all this madness.
I must learn your secrets and become a better GM.

Now I must sleep though. Darn employment for requiring me to wake up at ungodly hours (ie: any time in the morning. Seriously, I hate mornings. With a passion.) I shall trust in my fellows to archive anything else that befalls this thread.
Good night, one and all.

>>22537324
TG Looter Squad darts around campus, smash and grabs from the lab (and only getting away with some little girl in a labcoat) being chased by the Doctor, and Shiro at one point (a looter hucked a glock at him and he dove for cover)

>>22537326
For one, the TG has a treaty with the IDPKB.
Two, we only eliminate those that create a distortion field.
Three, even if Susan were to generate a reality distortion, that does not necessarily warrant termination, especially if, as an agent of a Meta-Aware Faction, said agent were to enter a Canon, complete their objective, and get out.

Are you already completely forgetting the fact that Cheryl herself generated a Reality Distortion when we first found her? And without her abilities, we would have had a Game Over and TPK with everyone excluding the AUH, Valiance, Guardian, and Pellaeon.

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>>22537372
>being chased by the Doctor
>getting on the Doctor's shit list for messing with his pet project
There are so many ways this would have gone badly.

>>22537229
You mean TGbein. But there was a cryptic epilogue in the end of the last thread stating we got a Huckebein mk.3 as a prize.

>>22537324
OP, do you mind swinging by the IRC? Greyheart and someone needs some.. coaching.

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>>22537372
>>22537336
>>22537326
Let me get this straight.
You want to attack and raid an organization that has a treaty with the Transpace Guard, kill one of their promising operatives, and kidnap some of their personnel and recruits.
An organization that is partly run by the Doctor.

That's worse than our decision to take the Orz on a joyride of the best places for them to attack in the sector.

>>22537543
It's less kidnapping and more borrowing...

>>22537326

If there was going to be a major yet indirect crossover, I thought that the TG might have something to do with Susan's iteration of the IDPKB disappearing, along with one of the IDPKB's trainees being able to directly manipulate the existence of fictionals.

Or SHODAN dispatching a forces of Black Ops to plunder secrets from the more remote IDPKB research stations.

>>22537543

What were the G-Man's real intentions with The Device? Why go all the way to compel Shepard and try to kill Cheryl?

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>>22538015
Cheryl could've interfered with the G-Man's activation of the Device. The G-Man's intent was to activate it with a mind to his own interests. No need to go around hawking specialists to the highest bidder with that kind of power, after all.

Was the G-Man difficult to write for, with his canon goals and true nature remaining pretty unfathomable?

>>22538387
At times, yes.

>>22538464
Which NPC did you most enjoy writing for, be they villain, sue, hero, or grunts.
I especially loved the comments BLU snider would make.

Can we get a scene with our little turtle hacker, or do we not get her? I picture Sniper eventually apologizing to her for shooting her mind controlled/zombie self, plopping his hat on her head and walking off.
'But, your hat!'
It's salright, i've got a tower of em.

What was the thing you wanted to include most, but didn't?

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MetaQuest OP, did you actually have a plan for Finalon, or was he just picked up to have a Middle-Earth hero?

In addition to that, did you have plans to expand upon his character, or was he merely a trophy from our adventures in the Third Age?

Do you want Finalon to come back in the sequel? If does come back, we simply must spring him out of a Noldor Nuthouse.

Also, do you even have the faintest idea of what Finalon looks like? If so, please tell us.

>>22538609
Polite sage for off-topic, but those are some womanly hips on that Elf. Are you sure that's a male archer or female?

>>22538609
When we break him out of the nuthouse, I'm voting for Fumbles to lead the away team.

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>>22538609
It would be interesting to see Finalon get the same depth as say, Yellowman. Merely because it seems he was a relatively unknown Elf born in the Third Age. After the golden years of his people had passed. When the battles between gods and mortals had ended. When heroes who had battled Balrog and hundreds of orcs alike were long passed. When there would never be something so grand or spectacular, and when the Elves could not withstand against even the shadow of evil. When those who had seen the world before the Sun and Moon long passed into less than a dozen people.

Then he got to see Gods fight. He was able to clash in battles with the greatest of heroics, with the most stakes on the line. He got be a hero in conflicts far beyond what was even imaginable to the Elves of the Third Age.

>>22538681
I would name my first born child 'MetaQuest OP' if the rescue of Finalon was in the Undying Lands, long after the Elves left Middle-Earth and sailed back West.

We would be able to outmaneuvered the Valar. It'd be a true challenge. Or, get to talk to them.

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I'd just like to say MetaOp, That although I was not there for all the threads, those I was were always fun. It was an enjoyable run, and I hope to see more from you in the future.
>Pic related you classy Son of a bitch.

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>>22538509
That's a neat scene.

Hmmm. I don't know if I could choose, but Spike, Mouse, Cheryl, the Avatar, and Lyla/Elaine were probably my favorites. Writing for them just came easier than the rest. Honorable mention to BLU team as well.

>>22538609
I had no plans for Finalon whatsoever. His becoming a hero was entirely your doing. I wouldn't be adverse to seeing him pop up again.

I sort of figured he looked a bit like a longer-faced Legolas.

>>22538849
That sounds like an awesome idea, but I don't know if my knowledge of Tolkien is up to par for such a tale. Tempting, though.

>>22538870
Thanks!

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>>22538849
>He got be a hero in conflicts far beyond what was even imaginable to the Elves of the Third Age.
And if Alicia and Lavian are to be believed, he even got to date a space elf.

Somewhere near Petropavlosk-Kamchatsky, Siberia.

You walk towards the wreckage.

A fat American-looking lady and her companions lie dead in the frozen soil of the tundra, their AvtoVAZ Priora sedan flipped on its back. The two tried to escape but their deaths showed it was all in vain. Yet another story of Russian offensive driving, as people in these parts would say.
Your breaths in the frigid air form into small smoky puffs, but a fragrant scent with notes of decay follows the trail of frozen breath. You heave over the bodies with the pair of lithe arms that you have. For a moment, you hesitate at the curiosity before you. It puzzles you while looking at their garish hair colors and adornments.

As you rifle through their effects, you uncover several devices on their persons. Many have their lights flashing, seemingly indicating these still function.

You pause for a moment. What are these? What do some of these things do?

Shortly after collecting their wares for you to play with for later, you, in your curiosity, follow a marked point on a device.

Beyond the trees, you stumble upon a tucked-away vehicle. From how you make of it, it's roughly the size truck, but with an odd shape to it....

[1/3]

>>22539400

You are the Eversor known as Miki Sayaka, and you're deep underground, but definitely in Mitakihara.

You are surrounded by tunnels steeped in darkness, where lights flicker and most refuse to glow once more, just barely ahead is your partner. She is another Eversor in the same officio as you are, and Kyouko is monitoring you from afar. Very afar. You are a pair assembled for this task, with other mixed pairs of Eversors and Vindicares prowling deep in the city tunnels. Layers upon layers of abandoned subway tunnels, train tracks, and old passageways were visited by you and the other girls as you all descend further and further into the depths of the former city.

You pretty much stop counting how many feet, how many levels underground you've descended. It is a picture of the underlying urban madness under this planned city your boss had crafted.

You, the blue-haired, sword-swinging Eversor recall, just a few moments ago, that your partner complained, "I can't believe this. None of this stuff appears on the map, or anything in the city records!" All this scenery kept on repeating itself, and those words kept ringing in her head.

[2/3]

>>22539427

"Sempai, check this out!" a fellow Eversor calls out. As Sayaka's white cloak fluttered in the darkness, she passed by several rows of electrical boxes, a sea of wires, and industrial-grade levers and console boxes. In this labyrinthine and strange underground cityscape, any girl from the officio might easily call this yet another Witch Barrier, but all these before you lay in the real world.

A strange memory hits you. A vague recall of venturing into the depths of Mitakihara and the feeling that time stopped making sense.

You can't explain it.

You don't recall any real experience going so deep into the subway system before...

You shake your head at this nonesense.

The two of you shortly find yourselves in a huge chamber, with strange mechanical spires, burnt and ruined, arranged in a circle. In the distance are other two-man teams of magical girls, surveying the chamber. You kind of remember a similar picture from school lessons before. Stonehenge, was it, you think?

You speak up on the line, "Kyouko, are you getting this?" as you bring the camera into view of the chamber and its odd contents. Across the line, you can hear the crackle of static, as you struggle at times to make out what your dearest was trying to say on the other side.

You finally hear the crackle of Kyouko's reply.

"This position on the city, sort of, was the last known location of the Third Incubator, but on the streets, it doesn't make any sense..."

>>22539119
I must have missed this.

Could someone fill me in on the details?

>>22539466
Those two are vicious gossips, always poking around and making guesses.

>>22539465
Did Task Force 38 loot the third incubator?

>>22539466

Supposedly he and one of the farseers went for dinner during our downtime before the battle.

Nothing happened apparently due to 'long-term view' and all that. I wonder if they kept in touch, though.

>>22539072
Hey MetaOP, if you still feel up to it, I'd like a Fumbles Vignette and an Akuma Vignette.

Kinda curious as to what Akuma is doing after that fight.

>>22535165
I AM IN HER CLOSET, YES. I WHISPER INTO HER EAR AT NIGHT "CHEYRL, YOU LOVE ME AND ONLY ME. ALL THE OTHER MANS DISGUST YOU."

SOON SHE WILL BE MINE.

>>22539710
Now Blasta, Heat, Flare, girls, this is one of occasions where the command crew has to shuffle the deck. Typically claims like this garner swift judgement and punishment in accordance to Transpace Guard law.

Grab him, we're throwing him out an airlock.

You are Colonel Katherine Kent of the 101st Panzerhexe Lehr division, and you've gotten yourself, and your team, into a world of pain all over again. The last assault on a Martian dreadnought found your and your team crashing into an unknown forest somewhere, and for a brief moment, it seemed as if a ripple washed over everyone, with your sense of place being...wibbly-wobbly.

A quick turn-around and you see Lt. Iita Ilomaki, who looks like hell, but after that huge shake, who wasn't? Thankfully, Lt. Ema Tarczay is in one piece as well. While you struggle with a headache, your witches prowl the site on their strikers. The other witches from your division manage to rendevous with your trio shortly. From the looks of things, you might be somewhere in Europe, but you don't quite know.

Not too long after this meeting is everyone's composure startled once more with a large, unknown machine and a couple, strange, giant creatures breaking up your positions as they rumble straight through, ignoring your presence and focused on some distant objective.

You give the command to trail those that passed you by, since upon your encounter did you sight a strange insignia on the sides that belongs to no organization you recognize, and yet, strangely Nazi in colors.

In the wake of this, a voice rings out that puts the confusion into silence. "Halt! This is the Sparrows squad. Identify yourselves!"

Why are bleeding through to multiple canons?

>>22539710
>>22539801
This is the kind of self-insertion that got so many killed during the battle with Ebon Night.
It should have stayed dead along with that monster when Cheryl detonated a Second Impact in its face.

>>22539072
So, whens the next session? You know you can't get away. Your one of us. Theres no escape.

>>22539801
HA! I'VE ALREADY SURVIVED BEING THROWN OUT THE AIRLOCK! I'LL SOON BE BACK!

>>22539801
We haven't done that since the Firemen defected and took all their hardass grimderp bullshit with them.

WHICH MEANS YOU'RE A DIRTY FIREMEN SPY!

>>22540026
Alright, enough about this. Roleplaying just gets shitty when it gets to the point of somebody calling someone else a spy, and then they accuse somebody else, and from then on it's nothing but who is or isn't a spy until something happens to change the subject.

So I'm amazed people remembered the crazy guy I occasionally played. I only used him twice, if I recall, once when we were talking to the council, and once in Cheryl's head.

I didn't catch much of this quest, and I barely posted as the stalker guy when I did, so I'm amazed somebody actually remembered him and asked what had happened to him in the last thread.

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>>22539400
>>22539427
>>22539465

>>22539817

So this is what happened to other sectors when Taskforce 38 just accidentally all of Meta?

Proceed.

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>>22539959
Yellowman Quest won't be up for a while. I'm going on a trip soon, and I've got quite a lot of work to do. I think you'll like the cast of characters I'm cooking up for this, though.

>>22539666
No Akuma vignette. There might be spoilers. As for Fumbles...


"I just don't know what to make of this report Pennysworth brought back," the bearded man said, leaning back in his chair with a sigh and leafing through the folder in front of him. "Technology and magic side by side? Demons and gods dueling for all creation? Muggles possessing the secrets of all magic? I'm not sure what those Guard chaps did with him, but clearly he just couldn't take the strain."

"Of course, sir," the robed man beside him said. "It's a shame, but it happens to the best of us. Being an Auror is a strenuous job at best, and for someone like Pennysworth..."

"Quit," the bearded one said, handing back the folder. "Well, now we need to figure out what to DO with the man. Clearly he's no longer suited to be an Auror."

The robed man seemed to exhale relief from every pore in his body at that sentence.

"Of course not, sir. The boys will be... sorry to see him go, but what must be done..."

"Wait a moment," the bearded man said, tugging at his beard. "There was a part in all that about finding out he was naturally suited to counterspelling? Some hogwash about being imbued with anti-magic?"

"Yes..." the robed one said, drawing out the word in dread.

"Well then. With that talent, and given the immense experience he's had..."the bearded man tented his fingers. "...doesn't Hogwarts need a new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor?"

>>22540360
These were meant to shortly follow after Ori's part of the epilogue.

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>>22540710

>my fucking face when

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>>22540798
>These were meant to shortly follow after Ori's part of the epilogue.

Oh. OH!

Oh.

This implies that leftover bits of Transpace Guard technology got left behind after Cheryl un-fucked the Meta, and are now leaking into other Quests. Meaning that someone is going to go back to those worlds and... Edit... the mistakes.

The Ride never ends.

>TG Quest over

ASadBatman.jpg

>This thread's still around

Time to poke my nose where it doesn't belong, as usual!

>>22515798
>Zerg Quest spillover into the meta?

Nope, but it was always possible.

>>22515856
You offer us entire universes to infest?

The Overmind swells with anticipation.

>>22541355
Yeah, naw. Pretty sure there are more regulations against making Zerg/Tyranid/all consuming hiveminds Meta-aware than I can shake a stick at.

And twice as many after the Orz incident.

>>22541413
Technically, we're already meta-aware...we just only know how to interact with other universes by tearing our own in half and making the breach spill into another universe.

Which, you know, would hurt.

>>22541239
It's a big, wide Meta out there.

>>22541523
Give Labebrate time, he figured out how to patch up the damage, he can figure out how to open a hole with the meta using it when we crash two of them together.

>>22540213
You know, we weren't supposed to roleplay individual, but as a collective Command Crew.
Trying to act as individuals made things worse in most cases.
This was supposed to stop after Ebon Night, but apparently some people forget, or new players didn't realize that they aren't individuals.

>>22545121
Eh, we frequently messed around as individuals after Ebon Night. I mean we had that huge discussion inside Cheryl's head, and certain things were always thought of as pet projects or favored methods of certain members of the command crew.

Bumping with a query.

Were there any heroes that we didn't recruit, but you kind of wanted us to? Who among the 'could-have-beens' would you have wanted to write for the most?

>>22545827
I was generally the one giving orders to Vitun, Aeshma and the Abjurers for example.

Not that other people didn't as well, but I had their character sheets out at all times keeping track of all their resources and such.

I do have to thank MetaOp for allowing us to control them like Spontaneous Casters. It would have been a pain in the ass to figure out what spells to prepare ahead of time.

>>22539817

so does this mean that all the SWQ spinoffs are going to crossover?

>>22546921
The d20 Shit was Codeki, the EVE shit was Washington, the Godzilla shit was mine (SNES). They had some favorites branching out, but I know those were the signature units of those three. I personally also loved using Ryu, Seifer and Fujin and am sad that we never used Pandemonia or Zantetsuken Reverse.

>>22545121
I have no idea what Ebon Night is. Like I said, I only participated in a couple threads by chance. Hell, even this thread I popped in on on a whim.

Actually, come to think of it, I think the only threads I actually read live were the ones where black ops was attacking or about to attack or had just attacked, and when we had ended up in Cheryl's head in the STALKER universe.

I was also the one making the posts full of puns, by the way. That was pretty fun, and I wish I'd dropped in on other threads to do it now and then.

>>22548729
Ebon Night is a primordial being of sorts in Exalted. I think he's supposed to be the Ebon Dragon?

>>22548787
>>22548729
No, he's the Dark Power who escaped from Ravenloft when the STOB stripped the dimensional defenses that the plane had and exposed them to reprisals from the entirety of the Upper Planes.
We fought him, and he pulled the Command Crew down from orbit and placed them on the battlefield. And because some people wanted to be individuals, they messed up the coordination of our troops and led to needless casualties.

>>22548894
I think I remember that fight. There was teamkilling that happened.

>>22548787
This is correct.
>>22548894
He's both. Ebon Night is the Ebon Dragon after he escaped from the exalted canon. He is the Yozi who was tasked with finding a way to escape their imprisonment and he did. He became a Dark Power in Ravenloft and after one of the other Dark Powers broke the truce between them and the gods, he ran and tried to make a new Ravenloft to play with.

>>22548894
We didn't get a "choice to be individuals." We were ripped off the ship and weren't given a choice to discuss orders. We didn't have the IRC at the time, so any order that was given was followed.

>>22548787
>>22548894
Both these things, actually.

>>22548979
Where was the IRC by the away, I heard it mentioned a bunch but no one ever linked it.

>>22549021
Rizon.net /join #tgquest

On average, you'll see SNES, Nogods, Washington, Greyheart, Rynex, Metaman, and I in there, but usually not all at once.

>>22548160
I can take credit for some handcrafted treknobabble, like reviving Douglas and the first attempt at firing a reality beem that got feedbacked into the ship and crashed it (damnit tg dice).

>>22548894
BAWW! People have opinions other then mine!

>>22549045
cool, I'll be over there for Yellowman quest. Whenever that happens.

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This thread is still up? Wow.

>>22546919
There were, but I can't remember most off the top of my head. This was back when Requisitions was still up and running. I remember I was a little disappointed no one asked for more Starcraft units. I remember hoping you'd try for Gordon Freeman and planning up all sorts of possible shenanigans that might occur when the liberated Freeman met the still 'employed' Shephard. But you guys shot that down.

Hmmm... I know there were more, but I can't remember them.

>>22549330
We did want more Starcraft units. We were trying for Spectres, but sadly Zergquest got in the way and we wrote it off as too dangerous.

Now that TF38 has a planet of allied Protoss in a Zergless copy of the Starcraft universe though, we can get all the Jhorium and Terrazine we want.

>>22549330
We actually expected more of "G-man is pissed someone stole his employee" shenanigans than that.