>>24597930

Knowledge is power, C. Nice that we have remote tram controls.

But while we thumb through that... what exactly is our plan here guys? Specifically, are we going to help WY get here, or are we doing this solo?

>>24597930
>C. Scan through archived security footage
This was nominally a fact-finding mission, so the more information the better.

Awww fuck yeah, time for FIS.

>>24597930
>C. Scan through archived security footage

>>24597974
Back up tram car, then ram tram car forward at full speed. Detonate explosives and ammunition. Finish queen off with plasma caster or perhaps reflex disk.

>>24598063
All of my this. Just what I was thinking.

>Sent out for a recon mission
>Come back with the head of a queen AND the intel they wanted.
Opredator.

>>24597930
>C. Scan through archived security footage

This looks interesting.

>>24598063
Oh thats the plan eventually, but we want to make sure that queenie knows it was us that just torched all her eggs and her throne-room so we can hopefully lure her into a fight with wey-yu as well

>>24597930
C

Are you faggots forgetting this isn't a Typical Queen?

This is a fucking Mega-PANDORAN-Queen, as in the biggest baddest motherfucking thing on a planet that actively hates everyone not native to it, and this Queen has giant god damn wings on it, and TUSKS, TUSKS make EVERYTHING more badass.

Not to mention the Pandoran-PRAETORIANS have Tongue's the length and size of a Drone's skull, and a Praetorian isn't even typically half the size and raw power of a Queen.

At least it isn't a fucking Pandoran-EMPRESS Though.

>>24598127
I figure we'll enrage the queen to such a point that we can just pop our head out of the control room, flip her off, and make a run for it.

>>24597974
You play back the archived security footage and scan through it for points of interest with your mask and wrist computer. On a hunch, you begin searching through records dated around the time of your father's last transmission to his ship.

You find a segment of interest.

You see, from the lens of several security cameras, a Yautja figure fighting a running battle through the ringed corridors around the silo. He is being chased by a large number of Weyland synthetics. Suddenly, he is cut off by several large drones. He maintains a sharp and accurate rate of fire at his pursuers with his plasma pistol while loosing bursts of sustained fire with his plasma caster at the drones in front of him.

He kills the drones, and blasts a set of doors off their hinges with his plasma caster. He enters the silo, and begins to shoot at several targets off screen. He makes his way around the ringed platforms midway along the vertical cylinder, and as he runs, he begins to attach remote mines to the walls. He makes a full circle, leaps up vertically, and disappears from your view. A massive number of drones swarm from beneath to pursue him.

You save the footage. Perhaps the mines your father planted are still there. He may have not had a chance to detonate them. There is nothing else of interest in the footage.

Do you:

A. Open the metal shutter
B. Fiddle with the tram controls
C. Fiddle with the silo door controls
D Fiddle with the remote dropship controls

>>24598155
D.

It'd be a good idea to prep a quick ride out of here if this goes tits-up.

>>24598155


A, let's take a peek. She won't notice.

>>24598155
>B. Fiddle with the tram controls
We want to get the tram rolling before we open the shutters.

Although... opening the silo doors would give the WY forces a direct line to attack the queen.

We also might be able to fuck her up by flying the dropship into her.

>>24598155
D

Seems the infestation was already pretty bad even back then.

>>24598151

Yeah, I kinda get the impression that her crest is probably half the size of our ship, if not larger.

>>24598182
This.

>>24598155
>What is the remote dropship? I dont recall hearing mention of it before.

E) go back to tram and back it up (standing in a room a few meters away from queen is a bad idea when our plan is to ram a big improvised bomb into the room), we want to jump off the tram about 25-30 meters away. although if there's 2 tracks we could set up an escape tram.

>>24598182

Opening the Silo Doors also gives her an easy time of putting those wings of hers to use, instead of having to rip her way out of the silo.

>>24598155
D.

...How the hell could this area go undiscovered for six years?

>>24598222

It's on Pandora, that's how.

>>24598207
Human dropships all have the ability to be remotely piloted.

The silo is used as a landing platform for load/unload cargo. There's a series of hangers beneath the silos to store dropships.

This is one of them - the only one that still seems to be operational.

>>24598182
bad idea for >>24598207 reason, we dont want to be standing 'right inside blast radius' of our bomb. We'll want to physically ride it towards queen.

>>24598222
There were no obvious infestation signs topside for years. The explosion of the honor device buried everything. There were no survivors to report exactly what happened. Wey U assumed everything was destroyed.

>>24598232
Right, so it seems like we'll want to get the remote dropship prepped for us to skedaddle, Open the silo doors to give wey-yu a direct path to ensuing chaos, and either head back to our tram (cause sitting here when the ammo goes off kinda seems like a bad idea - with only a metal shutter really keeping us seperated from the queen), or set our tram to ramming and scoot our butt over to close to where it's going to breach the wall.

>>24598222
A. this is pandora a place chalk full of such nasty critters not even Aliens could get but a foot hold.
B Wey U is doing its usual retinue.

>>24598271
routine - a retinue is something different.

>>24598222
Count 3 for D.
>>D Fiddle with the remote dropship controls

You examine the dropship controls. There were six hangars beneath the silo. Only this one seems to be more or less intact.

Regardless, the dropship does not seem to have enough fuel for sustained flight, nor does it seem to be armed. You estimate it's capable of lasting no more than 8 minutes in full flight.

You'll have to raise it to the launch platform and open one of the launch doors on the lower side of the silo to prep the bird for flight.

Do you:

A. Prep the dropship for launch.
B. Open the metal shutter
C. Fiddle with the tram controls
D. Fiddle with the silo door controls

>>24598275
Spell check is being a bitch so my bad.

>>24598277
C queen can fly best not mess the silo doors quite yet.

>>24598277
C Let's check our abiliy to use this thing at all before trying to hit the queen with it.

>>24598277
If we prep it for flight in the egg chamber we're just asking to be jumped by a face hugger when we try to use it to escape.

>>24598277
C) Back up tram for ram, then A) Prep dropship and once that is done we send the tram forward for ram while D). And then we climb back the way we came so we can be there when the tram breaches the wall

>>24598294
Tram bomb should destroy prettymuch all the eggs and huggers, satisfactorily angering the queen.

>>24598298
Would like to get consensus on this plan because it seems like the correct order of operations (and saves us from deliberating multiple choices).

>>24598298
D) would be opening doors.

Basically we want the dropship ready, then doors to open right as soon as tram bomb hits and detonates, with us coming in just a few seconds afterwards

>>24598292
>C. Fiddle with the tram controls
You examine the tram controls and find the controls to allow control of the throttle in both directions.

There is also an emergency brake safety feature built into the controls, but you've already deactivated its counterpart on the tram.

Do you:

A. Back up the tram
B. Accelerate the tram forward.
C. Prep the dropship for launch.
D. Open the metal shutter
E. Fiddle with the silo door controls

>>24598359
A) backup tram

>>24598359
>A. Back up the tram

>>24598359

B

>>24598407

And by B I mean A.

>>24598390

>>A. Back up the tram

You remotely back the tram to the second station - approximately 300 meters from the silo wall.

You attempt to find a way to link the controls to your vision mask so you may perform these operations outside of the control room, but the technology is too primitive. To control the tram, you'll either have to be on it or in this room.

A. Accelerate the tram forward.
B. Prep the dropship for launch.
C. Open the metal shutter
D. Fiddle with the silo door controls

>>24598441
>A. Accelerate the tram forward.
We should have a little bit of time to start prepping the dropship for launch.

>>24598471
Anyone want to second this?

>>24598441
Prep for launch first then accelerate tram.

>>24598441
Prep ship

>>24598441
B

>>24598471
Prepping the ship isn't the only thing we have to do though - we also need to get out of the small booth in the room right next to the one we're driving a bomb into.

>>24598530
Escape routes first, driving a bomb into our area second

>>24598509
>>B. Prep the dropship for launch.

You remotely raise the dropship to the bottom of the silo and open the doors.

As you wait for the ramp to move up the lift, you hear a sudden commotion behind you.

There is abundant gunfire in the hallways and followed by the screeching of hard-meat. Further down below, you hear the thumping of an exo-suit and the loud chatter of autocannons. The Weyland forces have managed to fight their way here.

You see a brilliant flare light up sharply on the doors behind you. They are trying to gain entrance to the control room. You have less than a minute to react.

Do you:

A. Hit the switch to accelerate the tram
B. Open the metal shutter
C. Open the massive silo door

>>24598552
Yep, which is why I'm all for the plan detailed by >>24598298

>>24598563
A)

>>24598563
>A. Hit the switch to accelerate the tram

>>24598563
Or two more choices:

D - do nothing and enter the crawlspace to slip away.
E - do nothing and climb the vent to backtrack to where you came from.

Pandora as in the world from Avatar? Whether thats what you meant or not, that would actually be a pretty fucking sweet crossover

>>24598563
Hit all the buttons

>>24598584
That IS what he meant.

>>24598584
WE HUNT THE DESCENDANTS OF THE JAKE SULLY!

>>24598563

Shit, there goes our original plan.

Let's open the doors for them, sneak past them once they open the control room, then head back up to the tram and accelerate it manually after a few minutes of fighting.

C

>>24598584
Yes - We've already beat the shit out of (and almost had our shit kicked in at the same time) by a na'vi who got his grubby paws on our combi-stick.

>>24598563
A

>>24598584

Yeah.

With all the horrors that the crossover comes with.

>>24598617
Counting 3 A's.

A it is. write-up incoming.

>>24598629
>A. Hit the switch to accelerate the tram
You flip the switch and order the tram to accelerate full throttle, and jam your wrist blade into the panel to ensure your action cannot be reversed.

The tram should be on its way.

The Weyland forces have almost finished their breach. You detect at least 8 or more synthetics with and a dozen na'vi behind the door, and judging by the ferocious sound of gunfire, countless hard-meat.

Do you:

A: Slip into the crawl space and enter the silo.
B. Climb through the vent and head back toward the tram station.
C. Stand your ground and fight the intruders.

>>24598650
B.

We want to be standing there ready to scream "OH YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH" as we kool-aid man our way into the throne-room.

>>24598650
Might as well get in the silo

>>24598650
B

>>24598658
B....cannot unsee.

>>24598658
And if for some reason they notice tram and decide to stop it, we can start it back up again manually.

>>24598665
>B. Climb through the vent and head back toward the tram station.

You quickly leap up and into the vent. You see no more signs of face-huggers. Perhaps the gunfire drove them off.

You quickly crawl through the way you came and drop down to the tram station.

You glance left, just in time to see the tram approaching at near full speed towards the silo wall.

Do you:

A. Jump and attempt to board the tram as it speeds past you (DC: Medium)
B. Wait until it passes you and sprint after it.
C. Wait for the inevitable impact.

>>24598658
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-t6AIMSCdw

>>24598698
B)

>>24598698
C

>>24598698

Can we disembark at the speed it's going?

B otherwise.

>>24598698
B

But give it a healthy lead time. We don't want to be right on it when it hits. That would be silly.

>>24598715
Not likely. You'll be on the tram when it goes through the wall.

>>24598729

Why would we do that, I thought our plan was to use it as a bomb?

>>24598698
As awesome as riding it in all the way would be, it's also really, really stupid.

C.

>>24598726
>>B. Wait until it passes you and sprint after it.

You wait for the tram to roar past you. Moments later, you leap down to the tracks and begin to race after it.

You hear a loud crash as the tram smashes through the wall and flies straight into the silo chamber right at the Queen's face.

The Queen screeches, and quickly retracts her visage into her tentacled crown. The 10 ton plus tram smashes into her hard exoskeletal armor and knocks her sharply backwards. She tumbles out of her cradle.

The tram and its cargo bounce off her dome and begins to fall deeper into the silo. Upon impact, the ammunition cooks off with a massive explosion and the entire silo becomes a raging inferno of burning fuel and ricocheting bullets. The queen screams in pain.

You quickly approach the opening and turn your vision to highlight pred-tech. You immediately spot the ring of undetonated remote mines planted so along ago, hidden behind thick ichor but still functional, and link them to your wrist computer.

You hear a second loud crash below, as the Weyland forces make their own entrance into the silo. They hesitate for a moment, and begin to open fire at the drones and Praetorians screeching and running while on fire.

Do you:

A. Jump down to the silo onto one of the ring-side platforms.
B. Detonate the remote mines immediately.
C. Climb down the vertical walls to the base of the silo, where the dropship lies.
D. Open fire on the Queen with your plasma-caster
E. Stay and observe the actions of the Weyland forces.

>>24598812
>B. Detonate the remote mines immediately.

>>24598812
E We must also verify the effects on the queen. Knowledge is Power...this comes up for Three-Claw a lot. Maybe the Blood Ravens will come and steal him.

>>24598812
>E.
Stay and observe. Let both side commit their forces before we blow them all to hell and make a grand entrance for the 1vs1 against the queen.

>>24598832
>>24598847
No real time to simply observe.

I fail to see what benefit immediately detonating the mines would give us (can we get some sort of explanation on that?) so I vote for D) open fire on the queen - we *KNOW* this didnt take her down.

>>24598868
>>24598812
Sorry, meant to quote OP for D as well.

>>24598812

D

Kill. Destroy. Exterminate. Exterminate.

>>24598812
D

Would it be considered honorable to kill the Queen with the Plasma Caster? On one hand, PLASMA CASTER, on the other, MEGA PANDORAN QUEEN THAT COULD PROBABLY SUCCESSFULLY TAKE ON A DEFAULT XENOMORPH EMPRESS IN IT'S PRIME AND COULD PROBABLY TEAR OUR SHIP APART WITH IT'S HANDS WITH RELATIVE EASE.

I mean, I'm not going to argue, we simply HAVE to kill this bitch any means necessary, but at the same time, her tongue would be bigger than we are, or, if we are pressed for time, her finger would be at least the length of our arm or leg, if not our whole body, or her tail, probably thicker than our waist.

There is no way in the nine rings of hell we would ever get her skull, or even most of her crest, on our ship, disappointing as it is.

>>24598906
At this point it's prettymuch anything goes, and in regards to taking trophies from her - we wouldn't be able to take her head, but we could certainly take her tail.

>>24598906
We just need two Pandoran sparrows and some string.

>>24598920

Any trophy we take from this would be fucking amazing and god-tier for our Clan.

Imagine, we could rip off one of her fine-manipulator arms, and people will think it's a praetorian's limb.

>>24598920

The at least ten meter long tail?

>>24598906

Yeah, I'm willing to bet anything except for our fucking spaceship could be considered honorable in a hunt like this one.

>>24598847
>E. Stay and observe the actions of the Weyland forces.
You quickly duck behind the fragmented edge of the makeshift hole, and observe.

The queen stumbles back to her feet, and releases a massive roar. You notice a deep dent on her crown where the tram impacted, and several cracks extending from that spot.

The queen stands up to her full height, which you estimate to be at least 10 meters. You notice she is bleeding acid from one of her secondary arms, where a rogue rocket from the ammunition cargo touched off.

Aside from that, she seems to be unwounded, and very angry.

Below, the Weyland forces begin to surround her. You notice the shutters on the control room opening as several synthetics look over the controls.

Above you, the gargantuan silo door begins to slide open.

The three APCs take up position and begin to spew forth some sort of inorganic webbing, which seems to be sticking to the queen and restricting her movement.

She fights fiercely, however, and with a swipe of her tail, slices an APC in half. With another sweep of her powerful leg, she buries three synthetics under her claws.

Do you:

A. Detonate the remote mines.
B. Launch your disc to cut down the webbing.
C. Fire your plasma-caster at the control room.
D. Fire your plasma-caster at the queen.
E. Climb down the vertical walls to the base of the silo, where the dropship lies.

>>24598933

Ever moved a firehose?

And we need only take a small portion of it, like the tip and some of the length, maybe half if we want to stretch.

>>24598937
A and D.

Aim for the crack on her head. Hose the whole area if need be.

>>24598937
I'm fine with queen being webbed for the moment.

>What does detonating the mines do? I think the only reason we're not choosing it is we have no clear idea what it's supposed to do.

D) plasma caster

>>24598868
I fail to see what benefit immediately detonating the mines would give us (can we get some sort of explanation on that?)

The mines are arrayed in a ring around the mid-section of the silo.

There are 15 mines in total. This is an INCREDIBLE amount of explosives which will likely destabilize the entire silo structure when detonated.

>>24598937
B, we got that reflex disc for a reason. Keep that queen hitting the humans and synthetic's while we wait for our moment. Possible to set up with our spear gun?

>>24598937
We could get out using the dropship then get to our ship to shoot our last fission bomb into the silo
E

>>24598962
Change D) to A then

>>24598937
>A. Detonate the remote mines.
We have no time.

>>24598964
>>24598971
Yeah change to A as well.

>>24598962
>>24598964
>>24598975
bah, forgot quote-chain

>>24598937
>Aside from that, she seems to be unwounded, and very angry.

...Dear god.

I think C maybe?

Can't let this battle reach the skies just yet.

Looks like we have a mutli-way tie.

Need to start seconding/thirding options.

>>24598937

>The queen stands up to her full height, which you estimate to be at least 10 meters. You notice she is bleeding acid from one of her secondary arms

If it bleeds we can kill it.

A->D

>>24598999
I count 3 A's.

A wins. Write-up incoming.

>>24598999

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlicWUDf5MM

>>24598999
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37A3v2b7gyQ

This is what we play when we fight this thing.

>>24599011
>A. Detonate the remote mines.
You flip open your wrist computer and quickly detonate the mines. A massive series of explosions violently shakes the silo. The control room cracks and explodes as the entire structure is crushed by multiple shockwaves. The Queen screams as she is cooked alive by the series of explosions. Above you, the massive silo doors, still open half way, groan and crumble. The two 50 ton plus metal slabs loosen and drop straight upon the Queen, smashing hard into her crown and bringing her to her knees. Both her secondary arms are broken, and she is bleeding from several spots on her torso.

The entire silo is crumbling and falling apart around you. You should make your escape now or become buried by the rubble.

Do you:

A. Half leap-half climb down and make for the dropship. (DC: Easy)
B. Use your climbing gloves to scale the vertical wall. (DC: Medium)

Rolled 16

>>24599061
B

Rolled 8

>>24599061

B, we'll escape after we nab a trophy.

Rolled 5

>>24599061
>B
I suppose. We can still pilot the dropship remotely, right?

Rolled 20

>>24599061
>B. Use your climbing gloves to scale the vertical wall. (DC: Medium)
I'm feelin' lucky.

>>24599089
Yes you are

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>>24599089

>>24599087
Ah, no, the control room was destroyed, and you are unable to fly it with your mask.

You'll have to physically be IN the dropship to fly out.

On the other hand, you are only 100 or so meters from the surface, and can make the distance by climbing.

>>24599089
Wasn't in the top 3 rolls, but redulously close to the post above, so we'll count it. CRITICAL SUCCESS.

B wins. Writeup inc.

>>24599089

Damn it, not in the first three rolls. Ah well, save our crit successes for more stylish endeavors.

>>24599087

I think only from the control room, right?

>>24599089
Apparently we're the BEST climber.

>>24599113

2nice3us

>>24599061
Well I'm pretty sure that's no trophy for us since there's definitely no way it can survive the whole silo falling on it.

Definitely.

>>24599113
Best Predator Quest :3

>>24599113
B. Use your climbing gloves to scale the vertical wall. (Critical success)

You quickly leap up and attach yourself to the wall. As quickly as you can, you begin to climb upward.

You make excellent progress, as the walls are pockmarked with ingresses from the explosions and give your climbing gloves an easy time to find purchase.

Light beams down into the silo as the silo covers crumble and fall away.

You are 100 meters from the surface.

You hear a loud roar beneath you. You glance down to find the Queen back on her feet.

She looks, and suddenly notices you.

She rams her crown against the silo wall, sending massive shockwaves along the surface. You tighten your grip and hang on.

Below, you hear sporadic gunfire from what remains of the Weyland forces. You make another leap and grab on to a hanging ledge. From this angle, you're able to bring your plasma caster to bear.

Do you:

A. Continue climbing
B. Fire at the queen with your plasma caster (DC:Medium-Easy)
C. Drop the remainder of your mines into the silo and detonate them.
D. Fire your plasma casters at the remnants of the Weyland forces.

I wonder if the Matriarch and Clan Elders will be pissed or happy that we, sent on an intel and scouting mission, would attempt to cleanse a seriously dangerous and stupidly large hive ruled by a fucking monstrous queen.

>>24599177
>B. Fire at the queen with your plasma caster (DC:Medium-Easy)
Our main goal is to deny Weyland Yutani a queen specimen.

>>24599177
C

>>24599177
>C
Kill 'em all, Johnny!

>>24599177

Is WY shooting at us or the queen?

D if us, B if the queen.

>>24599198

Well I dunno, what would YOU shoot at, some speck on the side of a wall trying to get away, or a fucking tyrannical creature capable of chopping APC's in half as if they were butter and is fucking PISSED at everything?

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Rolled 5

>>24599177
C

Rolled 7

>>24599177
B) I'd like at least some sort of personal involvement with this other than "use explosives - they seem to work"

>>24599198
The Weyland forces are shooting at the Queen/remaining drones; none seem to be shooting at you.

Rolled 16

>>24599191
(you forgot your roll)

D, that way enraged queen will climb out after us and we can kill her topside which will
1. make sure she is dead
2. get a trophy

>>24599242
Voting is now closed - assuming

>>24599242

Is a roll for B.

B wins, we pass vs. DC of 12, and the writeup is inc.

Rolled 6

>>24599177

B.

>>24599283

Didn't mean to have Dice on.

Rolled 5

>>24599266
I'm iffy about fighting it top-side. That's just asking for W-Y to shit all over us from the air.

>>24599301

Are you forgetting that it HAS WINGS.

>>24599268
>>24599268
B. Fire at the queen with your plasma caster (Pass!)
The Queen ignores the Weyland forces and looks up straight at you. She screeches, sinks her massive claws into the silo walls, and begins to climb at an incredible speed.

You lock on and loose several plasma-caster shots.

The first shot slams into her crown detonate, forcing her to stop her climb and retract her face into her crown.

The second shot smashes into the dent where the tram impacted, and a large portion of her crown splinters and crumbles. Her face suddenly emerges, she screams, and leaps vertically into the air straight towards you.

She slams her claus into the wall and begins to climb again. She is now 30 meters from you. You are 100 meters from the surface.

Do you:

A. Turn and continue to climb.
B. Shoot at her claws to slow her down (DC: Medium)
C. Throw your mines to try to slow her down (DC: Easy)
D. Throw your reflex disc to try to distract her. (DC: Medium-hard)

Rolled 17

>>24599323
Uhm... Uh... uh... FUCK.

C

Rolled 11

>>24599323
C

Rolled 18

>>24599323

D. Aim for her wrists.

Rolled 2

>>24599323
>B
The mines are a last resort, and so long as we have the high ground we have an advantage.

>>24599332
>>24599338
why are /tg/ dice being so good to us

>>24599323
damn, that is one tough bitch

>>24599341

Because, when we get back to the clan, we are going to get our shit slapped for endangering the mission to hunt this illegal infestation.

>>24599338

As good as this roll is, being honest...

>>24599323

B

Rolled 3

>>24599350

Forgetting my rolls.

>>24599348
No time to request aid and couldnt risk WY capturing queenie

>>24599350
Looks like we have a 3 way tie between C D and B.

Tiebreaker with roll please.

Rolled 2

>>24599348
>>24599370
C

>>24599370
C

Rolled 19

>>24599370

D again, please.

>>24599370
D

>>24599381
>>24599338

The dice apparently really like my idea for her wrists with the disc, not only for probably a great deal of blood loss, but for fucking those tendons and hands up.

>>24599370
At this point I think it comes down to narrator choice - both c and d rolled well.

>>24599348
mission: Collect data, about wildlife and WY. Officially this is a hunt too.

have we not recorded a bunch of useful info? About pandora life, about WY, about the pandoran xenomorphs?
(PS. we should aim to steal some of the net they used to try and capture the queen).

Rolled 4

>>24599370

1-10 C, 11-20 D.

>>24599394

No, not the hunt itself, but the fact that this was a fucking MASSIVE Hive filled with deadly breeds of Xenomorphs like never before encountered, the likes of which would have probably royally fucked up a group of veteran hunters, let alone one freshly blooded hunter, the Elders and Matriarch would probably think us mad with pride or a glory-seeker.

>>24599410
We can say there was no glory in our deeds, as it was a matter of honor: we had to avenge our dead father.

>>24599395
Thanks for the breaker.
>C. Throw your mines to try to slow her down (Pass)

You activate and throw your remaining mines straight down at the queen and detonate them as they fly past her.

The explosion rocks the silo and tears out massive chunks of the wall. The queen loses her grip and falls tumbling down to the bottom.

You continue your climb.

As you approach the surface, you notice a large shadow passing over the silo opening. It's the silhouette of a Weyland destroyer.

You increase your pace to cover the remaining distance and pull yourself over the edge. You are now on the surface.

Do you:

A: Run for your ship.
B. Stay around the outer rim and keep an eye on the queen.
C. Stay around the outer rim and attempt to intercept the Destroyer's comms. (DC: Medium-hard)

>>24599432
A) We need to pop the destroyer.

>>24599432
A

>>24599432
>D. Leap off the edge all the way down to drive combistick into Queen's head.

>>24599451
Get impaled by 10m tail.

Rolled 12

>>24599432
C
We need something from that Queen.

>>24599451
Acidic blood.

>>24599432
>C. Stay around the outer rim and attempt to intercept the Destroyer's comms. (DC: Medium-hard)

>>24599410
If you were them and we came back with just stories of this stuff; would you believe us? Nope. We're being proactive with this whole thing. We might be chastised for being reckless, but our successes will far outweigh any bad things that could happen.

Gather data as ordered? Check. Deny mutant hard-meat to Weyland? Check. Gather bitchin' trophies thanks in large part to information our father acquired with his life, thus honoring him AND our mother AND ourselves? Check.

>>24599432
B.

>>24599463
Will need a roll.

Rolled 18

>>24599463
Forgot my dice, shit.

>>24599410
Except, we didn't take on the hive ourselves. We sicced WY on it and proceeded to record the fight. We even let WY have first crack on the queen to observe their capture methods.

>>24599477
Count so far:
2A, 2C, 1B

Rolled 5

>>24599432
>C. Stay around the outer rim and attempt to intercept the Destroyer's comms. (DC: Medium-hard)

Rolled 20

>>24599432

C,)

Rolled 7

>>24599432

C

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>>24599495

>my first roll in Predator Quest

>>24599495
Seems like C wins with critical success

>>24599493
C wins, and we pass vs. DC of 13

>>24599495
By the stars.

We intercept that Destroyer's comm shit so hard we start giving orders to it?

Since this is a lone destroyer...
What if we get in our ship, clock, get right near it... use plasma fire to make holes in it and fly our ship INTO the destroyer, shooting our way to the enemy reactors and blowing them up then flying back out as it crashes down?

>>24599495
Ah...

Make that C with critical success.

>>24599477
...Well.

Let's do some listening.

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>>24599495

If we have the option to take a trophy from the queen, how about one of her fangs? They have to be an impressive size.

>>24599520

How about the tongue most likely larger than us, or the tusks jutting out of her face.

>>24599520
>>24599523
Let's not get ahead of ourselves here; not only do we have a Pandorian queen to contend with, we also have a W-Y destroyer flying above us. Also, I don't think we're cloaked.

>>24599513
>>C. Stay around the outer rim and attempt to intercept the Destroyer's comms. (Critical Success.)

You shimmy up the edge quickly activate your vision mask. You identify the comm beam going straight down into the silo and intercept it easily.

You spoof the comms and identify yourself as the leader of the Synthetic task force.

Before you attempt to send a message, you hear a high priority call from the destroyer:

"Team lead. Team lead. What the hell is going on down there? Sounds like a goddamn clusterfuck. We're standing by for fire support. What's the situation down there? What do you need?"

You spoof the response:

A. Requesting precision rocket barrage. Straight into the silo.
B. Requesting immediate backup. Deploy additional forces.
C. Requesting railgun barrage. Capture failed. Eliminate target.

>>24599567
>Pandoran Queen
Heavily wounded

>W-Y destroyer
We just passed a check to intercept its comms.

>>24599580
C
Exterminatus

>>24599580
>A. Requesting precision rocket barrage. Straight into the silo.
I WANT THAT TROPHY DAMN IT!

>>24599580
A

>>24599580
None of those options seem rather good for us... and I'd rather like the glory of queen kill to go to us.

Can we tell them to move off? or to deploy troops at a somewhat safe distance?

>>24599580

Hey OP, would A allow us to still be honorable?

I know C would kill the damn thing, but wouldn't be honorable for damn sure.

If A isn't, then B.

>>24599580
C.
let's ram super fast heated fury down that bitches throat

>>24599607
Yes. Make a suggestion and someone second it.

>>24599607
>>24599580
I guess it would be B) "Requesting containment protocol 15km perimiter, capture still possible".

>>24599580
A

>>24599580

I don't think we're getting near the corpse in any scenario.

C, wipe this shit.

>>24599607
Having to choose between honor and dedly kunnin is suffering.

Still, I second it

>>24599580
A

Then we can head down and finish it off with a pointy stick poke to the brain. Assuming it's not already flying it's way up to meet us.

We can vaporize the corpse on our own time.

>>24599619
>>24599632
This is a rocket barrage from a *destroyer* there will be nothing left except *FIRE*.

>>24599618
Seconding this

The bitch may be big, but she's taken a shit-ton of firepower straight to her goddamn face. Lets see if we can finish this.

>>24599580
>B. Requesting immediate backup. Deploy additional forces.
Yep, give us another shot at a good trophy while ensuring containment of the unsanctioned hard meat.

>>24599640
This is a Pandoran Queen. She is TOUGH.

Rolled 13

>>24599618

This.

Do we need to roll because of that nat 20?

>>24599580
C FORMALLY REQUESTING INQUISITIONAL EXERMINATUS UPON THE DEATH WORLD OF PANDORA

>>24599646
Okay. 3 confimations for.
B) "Requesting containment protocol 15km perimiter, capture still possible".

Writeup inc

>>24599640

A PRECISION Rocket barrage.

Predator mines are probably more powerful than the rockets it would probably use individually.

>>24599672
Yeah, but we've only dropped ~20 mines and a massive ammo dump on her... this isn't going to be 5 rockets - it's going to be fucking macross missile spam into that pit.

>>24599618
That won't give them a reason to fly off... And we are pretending to be disposable troops without command authority.
However you could convince them it had a previously unnoticed tunnel and is rapidly moving .. oh, 5 degrees north of east it might move to intercept.

Of course, that is only if this is what we actually decide to try and do.

>>24599646
B) "Requesting containment protocol 15km perimiter, capture still possible".

You send the spoofed message to the Destryoer.

"Roger that. Locking down this fucking hellhole. Deploying remaining dropships. All assets on 15 klick radius overwatch. Nothin's gonna get outta this place."

Shortly after, you hear the hum of engines as more dropships disembark from the destroyers overhead to land on the ground below.

You hear rumblings as the queen stirs within the silo. She has resumed her climb.

You look around you. A large number of Weyland forces, including synthetics, APCs, and two more exo-suits, are closing in on your position.

You activate your cloak.

Do you:

A. Find a place to secure and hide yourself near the rim.
B. Attempt to sneak back to your ship. (DC: Medium)
C. Climb down the silo walls towards the queen.

Rolled 17

>>24599729
B

Oh if only we had the ability to remotely command our ship.

C) There's nothing but queen and us still alive in pit right? time to HONOR.

>>24599729
C BRING UP OUR THEME MUSIC WE'RE GOING IN.

>>24599729
C

How are we going to get back to our ship with a ten meter bright blue appendage we can't cloak?

Rolled 19

>>24599729
I have a feeling that if we want the glory of the kill, we are going to have to get on top of this bitch.
>A.
Dream plan: Wait near rim, leap onto queen, place mines on head, leap off, extend stick, slice at tail, detonate mine, land, run for cover and escape through tunnels.

Rolled 18

>>24599729

Again, much as I hate to admit, the trophy potential here is low

B

>>24599729
>C. Climb down the silo walls towards the queen.
LETS END THIS!

>>24599755
Well, you, the queen, left over Weyland forces, massive amounts of her drones, and a collapsing silo.

>>24599791
New plan - toss honor device into pit set to explode, wait for queen to climb out and kill the shit out of her (it's safer up here than it is down there)

>>24599771
Yeah I'm not sure why we didn't try to tell WY to open fire.

Would it be because they'd know it was falsified information because no employee or android of Weyland Yutani would be smart enough to say "how about we obliterate the giant alien monster who seeks to destroy all"

Tie between B and C.

Can we get a breaker?

Rolled 12

>>24599832
B

>>24599805
I really don't think we're supposed to use the Honor Device for anything other than suicide.

I mean I'm pretty sure we still need to stick around on this awful planet a bit longer to determine what WY was up to before they found this windfall, and how lame would we look if we're captured?

>>24599839
>Hive with 6 years of barely checked growth.

>>24599832
C

Crank up the iPred and bring on our song; we're going in.

>>24599832
C

>>24599813

N-no need to be so mean.

(Though that is something to consider for future spoofing, WY being team rocket levels of obsessiveness with Alien)

>>24599838
>>B. Attempt to sneak back to your ship. (Pass)

write-up incoming

>>24599852
>>24599851

Dammit! okay, make that C.

Write-up incoming

>>24599847
Yes.
To Weyland-Yutani, that is considered "a windfall".

Really, destroying them is doing sapient life a favor.

>>24599859
Goddamnit now we're really going to be seen as obsessed with glory.

Didn't the matriarch choose us specifically so we wouldn't do shit like this?

>>24599859
>C. Climb down the silo walls towards the queen.

You grip the walls and lower yourself back down the silo. The walls again groan and shift under the crumbling infrastructure. You glance below and note the gargantuan mass of the Queen rising up to meet you. With each twist of her claws, she pulls her self up further. She is ascending at a rapid pace.

The silo crumbles further as she violently tears out sections of the wall. She wails and hisses in anger.


Do you:

A. Extend your combi-stick and jump to grapple onto her back. (DC: Medium-hard)
B. Fire your plasma-caster, but at the rate she's ascending, you'll get one shot off before she is upon you. (DC: Hard)
C. Stay where you are and try to fend her off (DC: Medium-hard)

Rolled 10

>>24599893
A

Dice dont fail us now

>>24599886
Yes she did somewhat
But i guess more than half of the people in the thread don't remember that

>>24599886
It's not about glory; it's about honor, and avenging our Father. I'm sure they'll understand, so long as we don't swagger around showing off our new Queen-talon codpiece trophy.

Rolled 7

>>24599893
B

Rolled 4

>>24599893
>A. Extend your combi-stick and jump to grapple onto her back. (DC: Medium-hard)
So we meet again for the last time...

>>24599886

This is the sort of prey that comes around once in a generation. We can make an exception for it

(I voted B)

Rolled 6

>>24599893
A we'll be legendary

>>24599916
More like once in a hundred generations

Rolled 20

>>24599886
We HAVE to make sure the humans don't get a hold of the queen not to mention this is an unsanctioned infestation. The Matriarch will understand however I do agree with about the option c part being a bit much.

>>24599893
B on back in range for tail of murder staying put mean less damage inducing.

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>>24599925

Jesus Christ.

OP pls.

>>24599925
Apparently the dice gods completely agree with me what do know.

Rolled 16

>>24599893
A

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>>24599925

>>24599925
That plasma caster. We've had like 7 critical successes with it and the disc.

Rolled 15

>>24599893

If it bleeds...

B

>>24599925
Wait.. what is this roll for? B?

>>24599941
Yes b was merely stating why I chose it over the other options.

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>>24599925
>>24599941
It was a roll for b.

That plasma caster is our 'fuck everything' button

>>24599951

Plasma Caster and Disc are apparently Three-Claw's bonded weapons.

He doesn't suck with the combistick, but jesus fuck.

>three critical successes in one thread
Get us back to the FIS. The dice are on our side now, we'll show them who's boss.

>>24599928
3 As and 3Bs, actually, and under the old rules, we'd have chosen A and failed (1st 3 votes). But since we adopted the x minutes until vote close and count up method, B seems to have come out ahead.

With a critical success.

Write-up incoming.

>>24599886
Its only a bad thing if we fuck up.

Rolled 4

>>24599923

In 3000 years? This is impressive sure, but 3000 years is a LOT of prey. I'm sure this is up there, but hardly that unique.

>>24599972
Predators live a lot longer than humans. Some are 1000+ years old.

Your number is missing a few zeroes, bro.

>>24599972
Its probably pretty up there. There aren't many planets with the sort of fuck-you megafauna that Pandora has, and Xeno populations are usually fairly well controlled in Pred-approved hunting grounds, since even if a Pred fucks up a hunt his honor device ensures that the overall situations doesn't get out of hand.

I'm pretty sure xenomorphs weren't a galactic-scale problem until humans showed up and started sticking their faces next to xeno-eggs without a care in the world.

>>24599989
A generation is based on how long it takes them to reproduce not long they live.
He is assuming the average pred reproduces at age 30.

>>24600005

If that's the case then the two aren't that different after all.

>>24599962
>B. Fire your plasma-caster, but at the rate she's ascending, you'll get one shot off before she is upon you. (DC: Hard)

You lock on and fire. The shot strikes her square in the face, causing her to violently thrash her head in pain. In her spasms, she slams her crown against the side of the silo, causing that section of the wall to completely collapse and fall upon her.

She loses her grip and falls, once more, into the pit. The entire silo begins to shake. Pieces of the wall are crumbling liberally now.

You hear a massive dull thump as the queen hits bottom. The impact starts a chain reaction, as sections of the silo wall begin collapsing.

You quickly climb up as the entire silo cannibalizes itself around you. You pull yourself up at the last moment, in time to see nothing but rubble.

The Queen, and whatever is left of her hive and the Weyland forces, are buried below. The ground continues to shake as the compound below is devoured in the collapse.

The Weyland surface forces halt for a moment at the unexpected development, but continue forward cautiously.

Do you:

A. Stealthily sneak for your ship.
B. Find a spot to hide from Weyland forces

Rolled 13

>>24600045

A

>>24600045
>A. Stealthily sneak for your ship.

Its sensors are a lot stronger than ours, we need to see if she's well and truly dead

>>24600045
>B. Find a spot to hide from Weyland forces

I somehow doubt that killed her. We aren't leaving until we confirm the corpse.

99% sure isn't good enough with something this dangerous.

Rolled 8

>>24600045
A

>>24600045
A need ship scanners/nuke as I really doubt we killed her.

>>24600045
>A. Stealthily sneak for your ship.
We can do a fly over to confirm the kill.

>>24600082
There is a net of AA sam sites with good sensors covering this area.

>>24600099
We might be able to hack them and get them all to fire upon destroyer.

>>24600099
I thought that was by where we parked our ship, not the silo doors we just opened?

>>24600112
that is a GLORIOUS idea!
Although we probably should get direct hardware access for that.

>>24600082
A. Stealthily sneak for your ship.

With the Weyland forces affixed on the spectacle, you quickly make your way to the crater where you hid your ship.

You quickly enter and stash your trophies into storage.
The storage now holds:

1. Whole chestburster
2. Drone tail
3. Synthetic head
4. 3 large fish teeth
5. 1 Na'vi head + spine
6. 1 flying drone head
7. 1 inner-mouth of Pandoran praetorian

You quickly power up your ship and prepare your sensors.

Do you:

A. Engage engines and immediately lift off.
B. Take some time to scan the silo rubble.

>>24600166
B)

>>24600166
>B. Take some time to scan the silo rubble.

>>24600166
B
We fought for that piece of Queen, and BY THE STARS WE'RE GOING TO GET THAT PIECE OF QUEEN!

>>24600166
B.

Also, scan the surrounding ground and such to see if there's a way to get back down there. We've earned Pandoran Queen trophy if we can get to it.

>>24600166
B: make sure shes dead before anything else, as well as WY will soon be sending backup

>>24600166
B

Rolled 19

>>24600189
Does our ship have a grappling hook/winch or something? Maybe we can just pull the dead Queen's head off from above and fly off, traumatizing some poor WY grunts in the process?

>>24600166
>>B. Take some time to scan the silo rubble.

You focus your sensors toward the remainders of the silo.

The massive E/M signature is still strong. The Queen is certainly not dead.

You hear a muted thump followed by a strong quake. A plume of dust emerges from the silo. You hear a second thump - louder this time. The entire ground shakes even at this distance.

A third thump, strong than the last, causes one of the Weyland APCs to leap into the air.

Do you:

A. Re-open the spoofed channel to the Destoryer and order it to open fire into the rubble.
B. Take off in your ship and try to avoid the SAM sensor nets around the area, though you suspect they'll be too focused on the silo to sweep for you. (DC: Easy)
C. Remain where you are and wait.

>>24600235
>C. Remain where you are and wait.
Oh fuck she flies doesn't she.

>>24600235
>C. Remain where you are and wait.

Wait and see.

We need to bring her down, but I'll be damned if we're going to order the Destroyer to killsteal us after all that damn work.

>>24600235
Goddamn, what does it take to kill this bitch, I mean I expected that she wasn't dead.

Can we somehow spoof a signal to the sam sites to attack the destroyer, thus cutting off the (intimidating) head of the WEY-YU forces and dropping a burning destroyer hulk on the queen.

After that we go back down to hunt.

>>24600235
C

Please don't fly please don't fly please don't fly...

>>24600260
That won't be possible.

You can spoof and intercept communications, but not interface directly with the systems. You can try spoofing an order to the SAM launchers to fire on their own destroyer, but it's not likely to be obeyed.

Besides which, there's more than 1 destroyer.

>>24600235
C
now let us pray that she can't actually fly as many anons suspect.

>>24600280
What about a direct hardware hack done by infiltrating a sam site and physically messing with their computers?

Rolled 8

>>24600235
Remain and wait.

Rolled 16

>>24600318

Impractical, there's more than one Sam site

>>24600235
A

>>24600278
>>C. Remain where you are and wait.

You remain cloak and still while powering your sensors to full.

The thumps continue, and get louder each time. The Weyland ground forces ready their guns and slowly retreat from the mouth of the silo.

Suddenly, after a short and silent pause, a loud boom emites from the mouth of the silo. A large pile of rubble fountains into the air and pieces of concrete and metal shower down upon the Weyland forces. A blue-black figure erupts from the hole. The Queen crawls out of the rubble and stands to her full height. She rears her head and screeches into the air. She has lost a significant portion of her crown, and both her secondary arms hang limp. She has suffered multiple flesh woulds to her torso, but these do not seem to slow her at all.

The Weyland forces pause in surprise for a second, then, in unison, begin to open fire. A barrage of rockets and autocannon shells slam into her from all directions. She screeches in pain, but shrugs them off.

She whips her tail and slices a nearby exosuit in half, and simultaneously shred an APC with a grip of her talons. With her other arm, she lifts a second APC and flattens a dozen synthetics with its mass.

The Destroyer opens fire with its massive autocannons. The massive slugs slam into the Queen and manage to tear out chunks of her flesh. You detect two additional destroyers closing in, but they won't be here just yet.

Do you:

A. Remain still and continue to obvserve the battle.
B. Lift off and take to the skies.

>>24600403
B

>>24600403
C) Fire our remaining missile into destroyer.

Then we pop down and HONOR TIME.

>>24600403
A