>>25342411
Divide the load, let's take part of it.

>>25342411
"Ssh. Let me help."

Telepathically link ourselves with her.

>>25342411
give her the boost she needs. it should be slightly easier now that we know how to mimic Jilly.

>>25342411

carefully make our way to Sara.

we can't transfer energy like Theta can not without harming us both.

take some of the flak off of her with our mind.

>>25342502
Devourer can.

He can also teleport.

>>25342511
>Actually, Devourer hasn't shown to be able to transfer energy like Theta can.

"Shhh." You say, quietly. "Let me help."

You take off your own glove, and touch her hand, closing your eyes, and reaching inward.

Her mind was spread throughout the entire galaxy, yottabytes of information ricocheting across her thought, nexus feeding into nexus feeding into nexus...
You could... lose yourself here, if you weren't careful.
So, instead, carefully, you held Sara with your mind.
Softly, softly, you did your best to ease her pain, to reinforce her consciousness...

>Roll telepathy!

Rolled 25

>>25342521

Rolled 17

>>25342521

oh please!

Rolled 16

>>25342521
ffffuck

Rolled 92

>>25342521
welp we're dead

great the dice are taunting us.

Rolled 81

>>25342521

>>25342530
>>25342535
>>25342543

why?!

>>25342550

God why?!

>>25342521
fuck it trying for a 100 with our sixth roll

Rolled 92

>>25342521
It's gonna be one of those days.

The days where the dice are bad.

oh thats hilarious first three, noting above 30, last three, nothing below 80

>>25342605
Hopefully it won't be too bad, I think that 100 jacked up our telepathy skill a bit.

Your head pounds, and you stumble.Your mind pounds, hard, and your mind... recoils from the storm writhing within Sara's mind.
Refuses to see it, or sense it, or feel it...

"It hurts." She said, quietly. "It hurts so much."

The nexii's screen blanked itself, and started throwing up graphical glitches.
"Ow ow ow ow ow" She said.
<Ow-ow-ow-ow-ow> She continued, pinging into your mind.

And then... Something in her mind burst.

You heard, audibly, a loud pop within her helmet, and she collapsed.

The Nexus had only two words on it, as she fell back.
<CLOUD CITY>
"Shit!" Anna called. She slammed something onto her hostage's shoulder, and pushed him into the group of soldiers. Then she skidded over to you, and grabbed you and Sara. <Sarvesh! Now!>
The hostage's shoulder exploded into light, smoke, and sound, just as the three of you landed in Surya again.
"She's hurt!" Anna said, and pulled off Sara's helmet.

Her eye had *exploded* out of her skull.

>>25342637
.... welp. Time to get an extraction. We know where to go and Sara needs Theta NOW.

>>25342637
...Fuck

>>25342637

rip some clothing, doesn't matter which, stop her eyes from bleeding!

>>25342637
Was that Telepathy or Comms?

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>>25342637

>Heather's face when

Yeah, uh... Theta? Shit.

>>25342637
"Oh shit. Um, um. Devourer? Theta?"

>>25342637
Close the door, have Sarvesh extract us, Devourer's on medic duty.

>>25342637
Theta is tired.

<Devvy! Help her!>

>>25342637

if we can get Devi here, he might be able to produce something to sedate her and treat her wounds.

Didn't devourer state most of his abilities don't work on others? He has to manipulate them directly.

"Fuck!" You say, and recoil from the sight, but Devourer- currently shaped like a snake- sprung out.
"Oh *god*." Anna said, and carefully ran a hand through Sara's hair. The girl didn't seem to notice.
<Devvy! Help her!>
<I'll make sure she'll live.> Devourer said, slithering over to Sigma. He worked his way into her eyesocket, and you felt... tendrils sprouting out of the shapeless sphere. He eased his tendrils around her brain, and started his messy work. <This... will take some time. Days, even. She burst almost everything. Dozens of simultaneous aneurysms.>
"Shit, okay, what do we do now?!" Ellie asked.
"Get us the fuck out of here." Anna responded. "They're at cloud city."

>>25342663
Most important question of the thread

>>25342663
>What do you mean by comms?

>>25342718
<Robin, Sarvesh, we need an extraction now. We have a destination and Sara is hurt.>

>>25342718

get in the pilot seat, have Sarvesh take Anna back to Wyvern and then leg it!

after wards contact Blackreach to get the hell out of dodge before reinforcements get here.

>>25342731
Personacom, radio, telegraph, anything not Psionic

>>25342718
"Omni, let's get out of here."

>>25342760
>You got the name of Cloud City through the screen, and Sara was saying <ow-ow-ow> through your own technopathy, due to the strange way her mind seems to work all machine-like.
>Well... What's left of her mind.

You jump into the cockpit, strapping yourself down.
"Sarvesh, take Anna back to the Wyvern."
"Yes." He said. There was a flash of light, and Anna was replaced by Omnissiah.
You flip on your intercom.
"Blackreach forces, get the hell out of dodge before reinforcements get here."
"Right!" Someone responds.
"Alrighty, let's do this." Someone else said.
"Be ... careful, Drake." The third person said.

"That was Kale!" Ellie said, as Devourer strapped Sara down in one of the beds, closing the hatch most of the way. A tendril snaked out, slithering across the floor, and gently coiled around Helios, draining energy.

You whirl around the ship, and slam it into bubble drive.

"Where do we go now?" Anna asked, the Wyvern following in your wake. "Straight to cloud city?"
"I'm not sure." Max responded. "I want to go there and tear out his throat, but they may have defenses we don't know about."

>>25342815
lets try clairvoyance to see what we're up against.

>>25342815
I'm just going to assume that Psionics were used then, and they know we're coming.

>>25342815

Let's get Sara back to the station, and then we can jump into an Iso chamber to assess Cloud City.

>>25342815

"we can't just blindly jump in and Sara is seriously hurt, we need to get her to safety"

we can try to clairvoyance the location.

>>25342815
"Is there anything else in the system? We could...black hole bomb it."

>>25342862
its an entire city, full of innocents. So no. We can't bomb it..

>>25342862

no to the black hole bomb part.

>>25342862
>Is there anything else in the system
>cloud city
>city

>>25342873
But it isn't. I would have thought an ArmaTek base wouldn't be that inhabited by anyone that doesn't know what's going on. Black hole bomb is the best way.

>>25342862
Let's really not ask that.

"Is there anything else in the system? We could... black hole bomb it."
"There are no people in the system except for the workers there, and any guests." Anna said. "... Two or three dozen people, tops."

Then she went quiet.
"And Lin would be killed." Ellie said. "I will, if we have to, but... if there's any alternatives..."

>>25342886
....
....
....
We've BEEN to Cloud City nimrod. We took Anna there for a date remember?

>>25342893
"Nah let's just kill him."

>>25342893
I'm against blowing up the entire base just to kill one person. And I mean Davidson, not Lin.

>>25342893
"This shit happens too often. Lets get Sara to safety first then get to planning an assault."

>>25342893

We're not bombing cloud city.

"we'll drop off Sara and Devi somewhere safe, preferably with Robin in case someone finds them."

"We'll drop Sara and Devi somewhere safe." You say. "Preferably with Robin in case someone finds them."
"Hold!" Max said. "Another sniffing." He said.
A few long, tense moments passed.
"They're gone."

"Alright." You say, and whirl your ship around, blasting off into bubble drive. You make sure to turn on your transponder some time later, during flight, and relax. Once or twice, Max called out that there was another 'sniffing', which seemed to be some sort of.. psionic scan, judging by how he treated it. Devourer sprouted a mouth, so that he could speak during those times.
"Once we get Sara to safety, we'll get to planning an assault. I'm against blowing up an entire base just to kill one person. And I mean Davidson, not Lin."
"... Kill Omega if you have to." Ellie said. "I will, if I have to."

You note that she poured extra weight on the word 'Omega', as you look at the nav computer. Just another ten minutes and you'd be in Gaia's Tread's System.

>>25343032
"Do we know where he'll be in Cloud city? I'd imagine there's some space defenses as well."

>>25343032
time for clairvoyance maybe?

>>25343032

"Are you really okay with that Ellie?"

>>25343032
Yay we get to meet the enthusiastic turrets again :D

"... Are you really okay with that, Ellie?"
"I never said I'd be okay with it." She responded, almost heatedly. "Just that... If there's no other option, we'll... have to."
There was a strange sound in the back of your mind as Ellie's bat started berating her for even taking that as an option, instead of fighting for her love. She just dropped the bat, and it stopped talking.

"Do we know where he'll be in Cloud City? I'd imagine there's some space defenses as well."
"There weren't when we were there." Anna said, over the intercom. "Just small defense tasers in the hangars, and those won't be able to punch through exosuits."
"Yeah, when I went there with Wes, there were no platforms or anything." Ellie said, quietly.

>>25343166
"I'm willing to bet that's changed."

Where are we heading now by the way? Station? Asteroid base?

>>25343216
>Just another ten minutes and you'd be in Gaia's Tread's System.

>>25343216
>Currently, you're heading toward Gaia's Tread, to Robin, because it was suggested to take Sara to safety in >>25343032

>>25343166

using clairvoyance now might tip them off on our location, I suggest not using it until we're there.

Davidson might be hiding there because it isn't a place that is well known to the general public?
he might not even suspect that we know about the place.

"Let's hope we won't have to Ellie."
"with how the VQ suddenly invaded, i wouldn't be surprised if they installed some weapon platforms. we'll have to see if we can verify that."

>>25343252
So the asteroid base, then.

Cool.

>>25343272
Gaia's Tread is grandpa's house, not the asteroid base.

>>25343300
I'm sorry.

I keep forgetting this shit.

>>25343272
>Oh, wait, shit, you're right. I'd forgotten you'd voted to take Robin to Newt instead of the asteroid base. CORRECTION. You're heading to the asteroid base.

"Let's hope we won't have to, Ellie." You say, quietly. "And I'm willing to bet that's changed."
"Yeah, probably." Anna said. "But they don't have Delta any more, which is probably a good thing. I don't want to know what'd happen if they had Delta."
"... So, uh, when we get there, Jilly's gonna be there, isn't she?" Alex asked, awkwardly.
Only fifteen minutes away from Newt's asteroid, you continue on for some time, sitting there, until you pull out of bubble drive. And there it was, a large, bulky asteroid base.

"Hello?" Newt asked, over the intercom. "Who's there?"
"Surya and Wyvern." Anna responded. "Mind if we dock?"
"Go ahead." She said. "Seems we got a lot of visitors today."

>>25343339
"Things are heating up, unfortunately. We need to kill a guy later."

>>25343339

"sorry about that, something very important is going on right now. We have a seriously injured person on board, may we put her to bed here for the time being?"

>>25343374
I don't think we ought to tell people that bit.

"Things are heating up, unfortunately."
"I gathered." Newt said. "You don't happen to have a crystal with you, do you...?"
You check your cargo bay- and it was there, in your workshop, contained.
"We have a seriously injured person on board. May we put her to bed here for the time being?"
"Who's seriously injured?!" Robin suddenly called into the intercom.
"Sigma." Ellie said.
"... Noooo." She said, miserably.

Soon enough, you and Wyvern docked, and you climbed out, your feet strange on this 1G generated asteroid. You walk in, Sarvesh carrying the sleeping Sigma, and you meet up with Anna on the way to Newt's large living quarters.

In there, someone was cooking - Jilly, it looked- and Robin and Rose rushed over to Sigma to look her over, while Theta slept on the floor.

Newt was there, looking Anna's suit over.
"How's it working~?" She asked.
"It's working okay." Anna responded.
"Oh! And there's someone here you might want to meet!~" She said. "He's in the workshop right now, working on his suit. Trying to get the climate control working again. Something busted that really badly."
"... Who?" Anna asked.
Newt just giggled and grinned.

>>25343339
"I'm sorry. If it's any consolation, I'm sure I have one of those heat crystals onboard."

>>25343457

damn it...

"Lemme guess... is it Hound?"

>>25343457
Glare at Newt. Glaaarreee.

>>25343457
"No, please. No."

>>25343457
"Oh good, I still need to kick him in the dick."

>>25343457
"Do you mind if I ask what you're going to do with the crystal? Because I've got two spare, and I was thinking of mounting one as a ship to ship weapon."

>>25343457
Empathyfied Glare.

>>25343525
Oh yes.

>>25343535
glaaaare

You glare at her. You pour all of your fury, all of your glare into it... and Newt giggled, grinning at you.
"Oh good." You say. "I still need to kick him in the dick."
"Who are you talking about?" Anna asked.
"Lemme guess... Is it Hound?"
"He's called Kiernan, here." Newt said, suddenly determined. She shifted her hubcap glasses. "He's not part of blackreach anymore."

Behind you, Jilly and Alex got into a fight, as everyone else started taking a look at the sleeping Sigma.
"But I can lead you two to him! Have you met him, Heather?" She asked, and waggled her eyebrows. "Or should I say, Drake?"

>>25343583
"Do you want a crystal or not?"

>>25343597
2nded

I have no idea how to react to this development exa. Guess I'm gonna have to lurk for a bit.

>>25343583
"Still going to kick him. If you hold him down, you can get your crystal."

>>25343583
With thinly veiled contempt: "In passing, yes."

>>25343583
"Yeah. I'm the reason his climate control isn't working. And that was BEFORE he got my emotionally compromised girlfriend drunk and then slept with her."

>>25343583

"I have talked to him, maybe not as much as I should have but that doesn't matter right now."

I'm really not sure how to react right now, if Anna is going, then we'll have to go as well.

>>25343644
>BEFORE he got my *Queen* drunk and slept with her."
ftfy

>>25343583
"Do you...want me here for this, Anna?"

>>25343644
Whoa there. Bring it down to a simmer. There are bigger fish for our anger right now.

>>25343677
This

"In passing, yes." You say. "Do you want a crystal or not?"
"Oh, I do!" She said, and giggled. "What do you want for it?"

You look at Anna. She was quiet, and shrugged.
"Do you... want me here for this, Anna?"
"I kind of just want to avoid him." She said. "But it would be best if I talked with him..."
"Still going to kick him." You say, loudly enough for Newt to hear. "If you hold him down, you can get your crystal."
"Ooooh, alright! Sneak past me." Newt said, eager to get her crystal.

Anna was very quiet, and paler than she normally was, creeping behind you, as you made your way through the tunnels to a rather large workshop, and a man working on a suit.

"Hey, Jill, any chance you could help me with this?"
"Sure, watch carefully." Newt said, and started to distract him.

This was your chance.

>[] MAKE THE KICK? If so, roll 1d100.
>[] Have ANNA make the kick?
>[] Or not? Other?

>>25343717
Kick him then go grab the crystal before he gets around to talking to us. This is Anna's convo not ours.

Rolled 49

>>25343717
[x] DOUBLE HEATHER/ANNA RIDER KICK!

>>25343717
[x] Nothing

Come one, please. This is pretty juvenile.

Rolled 77

>>25343733
forgot my roll

>>25343740
It's justifiably juvenile.

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>>25343717
<Do you want to do the kick?> Ask Anna.
If Y, let her.
if N, here we go (pic related, Heather's Face When)

>>25343717
Go for the Muay Thai kick straight in the ass.

Rolled 97

>>25343717
kicking with the power of a thousand fuck yous.

Rolled 70

>>25343717
Since we're dead set on it, might as well roll.

>>25343755
Huh?

>>25343717

>[] Or not? Other?

we need to make him understand how we feel about what he did, after that we can kick him.

"Hello Kiernan."

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Rolled 77

>>25343717

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>>25343758

We agree on the kick but we need to also agree on the post kick behavior. I put my feeling down here >>25343733
At least one dude wants to unload our feelings on the dude first.
Any other votes?

>>25343749
>>25343758
>>25343769
>/tg/ dice
So we can't help Sara, but we kick a guy in the nuts REALLY well.

You creep forward...

And with the power of your own righteous juvinility, you kick him in the sack, from behind. He *coughs*, and slumped, in pain.
"Biiitch." He grumbled.

"Hey, Keirnan." Anna said.
"Whyyy Anna whyyy"
"See, I've told you to stay away from me. A lot. And then the first thing you do after we meet again is you get me *drunk* and fuck me." She said. "I just want to give you some warning. If you try to talk to me at *all*, even if you happen to run into me by coincidence, I will shoot you. Not *at* you, because I'm going to hit." She said.
He just squirmed on the ground.
"Now, I don't know if Heather has anything to say to you, but that's all I'm going to say, now. Goodbye, Keirnan." She said, and crossed her arms.
"But-"
"Verboten!" Newt called. "I don't want to get blood over my nice workshop."
"... Kay, sis." He grumbled, and lay there for a time. Finally, he turned back, and met your eyes. "... So you're Heather."

>>25343863
I have a feeling we accidentally did a TK assisted kick hah.

>>25343883
Anna means it. I think I'm going to level the same threat she did. COme near me or her and I'll shoot you. And you don't want to be hit by my gun.

Ask Newt about it some time. Hope to never see you again asshole.

>>25343883
Ice cold Pirate King mode: "Hello."

>>25343883
Kick him in the kidneys and leave. We got more important things to do right now.

Rolled 59

>>25343883
"I ain't got time for no chump change."

>>25343883

"You're a scumbag douche-canoe." And then leave. We've got an interplanetary threat to end.

>>25343883
"And you're a dick! I can make every electronic device you use hate you! I can make any house you live in hate you! I WILL MOVE GALAXIES TO RUIN YOUR DAY! FUCK YOU! I never want you to come near me ever. You jerkface."

>>25343883

"Hello, Kiernan... Last time we met, I kept myself in line, I told myself it would be best to not dig around in Anna's past, unless she willingly told me but then while she was vulnerable, you slept with her. You slept with my girlfriend."

>>25343975
>girlfriend. My Queen."
ftfy

>>25343883
This is kind of pathetic.

Let's just move on and talk to Newt about tech stuff. See what she thinks of our ship now that it's built.

>>25343883
"Whelp, got my revenge, I'll tell your suit to listen to you again."

"Anna means it." You say. "And I think I'm going to level the same threat she did. Come near me or her, and I'll shoot you. And you don't want to be hit by my gun. Ask Newt about it sometime."
You cross your arms, and with Anna by your side, you turn to leave.
"Hope to never see you again, asshole."

On your way out, you swore you heard Hound mumbling about never screwing with lesbians again.

Once back in the common room, Anna started laughing, and stretched her arms.
"That felt really good." She said, and giggled.
"Anyway." Newt said, and appeared next to you. "Time for tech talk! You got that crystal?"

>>25344013
"Yes'm!" toss it to her.

>>25344013

"Yes, I have it here, a deal is a deal."

"what are you going to use it for?"

>>25344013
"Hell yes! It's in my ship workshop! Wait, you haven't seen my ship yet have you?"

We had two spare, didn't we? Delta made one and we made a spare as well, I think. Should probably use our third one to build a ship-size beam.

"Yes'm!" You say. "It's in my ship workshop! Wait, you haven't seen my ship yet, have you?"
"Not at all!" She said.

After showing her around the ship, while she oohed and awwed, you tossedher the container. She jiggered it open, and her eyes grew wide. "Ooooouuuh."
"What are you going to use it for?"
"Weapons!" She said. "I'm going to use a heavy duty laser system to heat it up, and slam ion thrusters into it so it'll make a really hot blast. It'll be ship-scale, and really, really nasty!"
She giggled again, almost cackling.

>>25344117
I want it.

>>25344117

"Yaknow, I had a similar idea the other day, and Surya is lacking in ship-based armaments. Just how quickly do you think you could fabricate such a thing?"

>>25344117

let's not get side tracked to much, if she made such a laser she probably wouldn't sell it.

"would you be willing to share the blueprints with me?"

>>25344117
SCIENCE!

>>25344117
"Oooh, Ion Pulse. Interesting idea. Have you seen the forcefields as well? Maybe you could integrate them into something."

>>25344167
this sounds best. We can manfiest our own parts.

>>25344117
"Let's make two! One for Surya as well! And with bubble drive shields!"

>>25344117
"Do you want to see...a recabulator?"

"Ya know, I had a similar idea the other day, and Surya is lacking in ship-based armaments." You say. "Just how quickly do you think you could fabricate such a thing?"
"A week." She said, and grinned. "I have most of it done, but I need to do a lot of isolated testing. When things get that hot, meltdowns are catastrophic."
"That's pretty slow, for you." Anna said.
"Gotta be careful." She said.
"Would you be willing to share the blueprints with me?"
"Sure!" She said. "Once it's done, at least."
"Do you want to see... a recabulator?"
"Nah, I'm fine." She said. "Recabulators are cool for computers and power transfers, but not much else. I'm into weapons."

In the common room, Robin and Rose seemed a bit better about the thing, and Jilly was steadfastly looking away from Alex, cooking.
"We're having dinner." Jilly said. "Might as well, while you're all here."

Still, Theta slept, eyes closed.
"Shh, nobody do anything." Max said, and you very, very slightly felt a prescence sweep you past. Very, very slightly. After a moment, it passed, and Max nodded again.

>>25344210
"I guess powers are off-limits for whilst we hide out here and get some rest."

>>25344210
Hmm, if its weaker here maybe we can triangulate it. We're pretty sure Lin is with Davidson... but not positive.

>>25344210

Sneak up behind Alex. "What did you dooooo?"

>>25344278
he had her sent away to protect her.

>>25344210

"alright, let's recuperate a little."

"the scanning strength is much less."

can we triangulate where it might be coming from? Maybe Lin is not with Davidson.

let's try some of Jilly's cooking.

>>25344297

Are we sure that's what she's ticked about?

>>25344210
Man, things are pretty awkward, huh. His fault for being a moron but still.

>>25344246
>It's that you couldn't sense it before, and now you can hardly, hardly sense it.


"I guess powers are off limits whilst we hide out here and get some rest." You say, and take a seat. "Alright, let's recuperate a little." You say.
"Seems so." Summer pouted, through her personacom, and for a long moment in silence, people started to eat.
"What did you dooo, Alex?" You ask.
"I made Jilly upset with me. I'm good at making girls upset. It's my true psionic power."
"psst." Anna said, whispering in your other ear. "You should say something encouraging to everyone. Right now they're all worried, but if you can think of something to say..."

>>25344308
Going after it seems like it'd be a terrible idea, to be honest.

>>25344337
"I have waited my whole life for the chance to give inspiring speeches before charging off to defeat great evils."

>>25344337
I can't think of anything at the moment, to be honest.

>>25344337
*ahem*
"Everyone? Just a few words, if I may. Davidson is a cunt. Perhaps one of the largest ones in history. UPA won't be able to do jackshit about him, as they've got their hands restricted by bureaucracy and whatnot political bullshit. We're just students, so we don't have to jump through the hoops. Not now. Because I'm the Drake, the Pirate King. And we? We're going to save this fucking galaxy."

>>25344391
Swearing that much seems out of character for Heather, but I approve of the overall speech.

>>25344337
"Everyone, no matter how bad things get, just remember... at least you're not Alex."
Seems encouraging to me. Might not work on Alex though.

>>25344337
bleh I am not a crafter of speeches but hardly anyone seems to be here.

Its almost over. Ever since we learned of Sigma Armatek has proved be no less a monster then the Void Queen. And we defeated her even with two races putting their collective might behind her. One man and a single psion is not going to stop us where she couldn't. We gotta do this. For every clone he authorized killed. For kidnapping Damien's sister. For brainwashing Lin. We owe him. He will not escape.

>>25344407
Pirate King Mode Active, bitch

>>25344419
correct that bit to Sara and Isaac

>>25344337

"You're right, morale is at an all time low."

"Alright people, we did NOT beat an ancient all consuming evil just to be beat back by ONE guy with a fancy hat, we need to stop this maniac before he has a chance to screw up the UPA, This time however, there won't be an entire planetary population standing in our way."

>>25344337
"You wanna live forever, you apes?"

>>25344415
>you're not Alex
NEO/Pariah, instead.

>>25344415
>Gotta admit, this made me laugh.

"Alright, people, we did *not* beat an ancient, all-consuming evil just to be beat back by one single guy with a fancy hat! Davidson is a cunt. Perhaps one of the largest ones in history. The UPA won't be able to do *anything* about him, as they've got their hands restricted by beaurocracy and whatnot political bullshit." You say. "Ever since we learned of Sara, ArmaTek has proved to be no less a monster than void queen. And we defeated her, even with two races putting their collective might behind her. One man and a single psion is not going to stop us where she couldn't. We gotta do this. For every clone he authorized killed. For kidnapping Damien's sister. For brainwashing Lin."

You clear your throat. "We owe him. He will not escape."

"Hell yeah." Isaac said, and took a bite of food- and started coughing. "Wow, Jilly."
"What? I put spices in it!"
"... You put way, way too much." Sarvesh said, and chuckled. "I'll be able to teach you."
"Will you?!" Jilly asked, her eyes widening. "Okay!"
And then the rest of you continued eating. It was a bit salty, a bit strong, but you were able to pack most of it away before food was over.
"...So, I'm coming with you all when you go off again." Jilly said.
"No, you're not." Alex responded.
The two glared at one another.

>>25344542
"I don't mean to take sides, but we'll probably need telepathy defence again, and I can't manage that if I'm busy converting people to energy."

>>25344542
"Alex, there's a chance Jilly here is the only one who can reverse Lin's brainwashing. We need her for this (for once)."

>>25344542
>>25344565
"Not to be a butt Alex, but we need telepathy defense, I just don't cut it."
"It's my fault Sara got hurt so bad, I failed."

>>25344542
Hey Exabyte, have you noticed anything missing?

>>25344616

Seconding this motion.

>>25344542
>THIS IS ME

"Alex." You say. "There's a chance Jilly here is the only one who can reverse Lin's brainwashing." You say. "We need her for this."

Alex paused. Then sighed, and nodded.
"Good point." He said.
"We also need telepathy defense. I just don't cut it." You say, and sigh, looking over to where Sara was sleeping in the bed next to Theta. "It's my fault Sara got hurt so bad. I failed."
"Well, I'll be there next time." Jilly said. "We can do this."

>>25344648
Lets move, we don't want him moving on us after Sara nearly died getting us this bastards location, news that a nexus point got attacked will get out.

>>25344648

>where did Delta go?

"Yes we can. Everyone get as much rest as possible."

>>25344648
"Team high five!"

>>25344648
"Yeah! We're awesome after all!"

>>25344675
Delta went off on his 'Defense Ship' on his own to do... something.

>>25344741
Probably to get his nape violated.

"Yes, we can." You say. "Everyone, get as much rest as possible, but we should move quickly. We don't want him moving on us after Sara nearly died getting us the bastard's location. News that a nexus point got attacked will get out."
"Then we should hurry up and get going." Isaac said, getting to his feet.
"Yeah, let's." Anna said.

Everybody moved quickly as they got things ready. Anna gave Newt a kiss on the cheek and a hug, and then made her way into Wyvern.
"We probably need to figure out some kind of plan on the way." She said over the radio as she climbed into her cockpit. "Any ideas? If we had damien, we could have him use clairvoyance... But we don't."

>>25344802

"Oh right, I was going to try and scout out any kind of defenses or emplacements the place may have."

Do some Clairvoyance.

>>25344802
I could try, last time without an Iso chamber didn't turn out... but who knows my luck could change.

>>25344802

"Max, is there a fixed time frame between the 'scans'? i could pull off a clairvoyance in between."

>>25344823
Remember the sweeps.

>>25344802
Well they can alter gravity and air-pressure at will, so everyone except Isaac will need exosuits. Also there's a crocodile.

Omega seems to be a mimic so in addition to everything he has shown us expect him to be able to use telepathy, TK, manifestation and awakening. He might even have access to my pout if he's figured its psionic.

"Max, is there a fixed timeframe between the scans? I could pull off a clairvoyance inbetween. Try to scout out any kind of defenses or emplacements the place may have."
"Not quite." Max said. "They're seemingly random, but speeding up. I think I've gotten good at sensing them enough that I can knock you awake if one is coming."

"Well, I could try, but without an iso chamber, it didn't turn out..." You say, and tap your chin. "But who knows? My luck could change."
"We could always just rush in as fast as possible." Summer said. "Surprise attack."

>>25344900
"I know what will surprise them."

"Summer, you know how you confused Damien all the time? Well, we can safely say he's doing that, so, do to him what you'd do to Damien."

>>25344900

it won't be much of a surprise if we get swarmed by weapons fire as soon as we deactivate the drive.

let's try clairvoyance.

>>25344917

that only works on clairvoyance, not on Max's detection.

>>25344917
Omega is a mimic. He might have figured out how to copy Damien's clairvoyance. So thats an excellent idea.

Summer you make the plans... then when the time comes you order us through
Jilly to do something different. While your doing that I'll get us some information hopefully

Clairvoyance time!

>>25344802
Can't we just scan the place for Davidson with telepathy and send in Sarvesh with a Jilly mindshield to teleport him into space?
Sounds like a Plan A to me.

>>25344900
"Surprise is no good if we're going in blind. We must have the perfect ratio of speed to prep time."

>>25344980
Omega can also teleport, gotta get him un brain washed and destroy the command hat or else he'll just get teleported to a safe location.

Best to just smash his head with TK and be done with it.

"Summer, you know how you confused Damien all the time?" You ask. "Well, we can safely say he's doing that, so do to him what you'd do to Damien."
"Alright!" She said, and started focusing.

You take a deep breath, and close your eyes, leaning back, and blocking the light from the bubble drive with your hands.

Then wait, carefully, while another strange pulse passes you by.
Carefully, you put everyone's talking out of your mind, putting the hum of the engine out of your mind, the smell of too-spicy food out of your mind...

And you focus on Cloud city.
>Roll clairvoyance!

Rolled 22

>>25345007

Rolled 5

>>25345007

Cloudy skies, full of weaponry?

Rolled 31

>>25345007
GOGO

>>25345015
>>25345016
>>25345020
Some things never change.

Rolled 52

>>25345007
trying for a hundred, its our only chance!

Rolled 4

>>25345007
COME ON
CLAY OMNI
WHAT ARE YOU EVEN DOING

>>25345015
>>25345016
>>25345020
We SHIT now! Looks like Hound is the only one we can deal with tonight.

Rolled 71

>>25345007
Fuck off dice.

>>25345007

Lin should still have the clay Isaac shared with him right?

if we find more than one Omega, we can identify him with it.

maybe something else is possible with it?

>>25345015
>>25345016
>>25345020
>>25345030
>>25345031
>>25345038
Wow.

Eyes closed, you reach outward, ever outward...

You felt someone nudging you. You put it out of mind, and continued on thinking, puzzling things through... Cloud City wasn't far from here. It looked perfectly normal from the outsid-

You heard someone call your name, and you open your eyes.
Everyone was silent.
"Heather." Max said. "They swept us. And found you."

You felt that presence, all around you, feeling you out.

And then Jilly went pure, utter black, and her tail whipped out. Sarvesh pounced on it, holding it down, and Alex held out a hand, pressing it against her forehead. Slowly, she started returning to normal, but her expression was still cold, empty...


Summer twitched, and you felt the largest, most powerful tendril you'd ever seen slam into Summer's mind. "It's hurting me! Stop it! Stop it!"

Then she twitched again, and her eyes open.
She seemed to grin, and her claws unsheathed.

Alex pressed his other hand against Summer, and she seemed to go dim as well.
"Omega's doing something!" He said.

And then... That tendril slammed against your own mind.

>Roll telepathic defense!

Rolled 71

>>25345084
Go away Lin

we all knew it was you.

Rolled 32

>>25345084
Third time's the charm!

Rolled 58

>>25345084

shit!

Rolled 69

>>25345084
follow it back to the source.... and use TK to knock it out.

Rolled 70

>>25345084
We shall defend ourselves!

>>25345094
Looks to be about the same result.

Rolled 18

>>25345084
Clay Omni what is your f ucking deal

>>25345084
>You felt someone nudging you. You put it out of mind, and continued
What the hell, Heather. He said he was going to nudge you if there was a sweep. That means fucking stop. Does rolling low suddenly make you stupid?

Slam.
Slam.
Slam.

It's been almost an eternity that the tendril crashed down into your mind, again and again, and you bit your lip, tightly, using the pain to help you recover. You well up your defenses, catching the blow again and again.
"Keep at it!" Ellie called, you realized, dimly. "Focus! We're almost there!"

Slam.
Slam.
Slam.

Your mind withered, crumpling under the raw force clashing against you...
And you felt someone squeeze your shoulder, tightly. An eternity later, the tendril eased.
"Looks like.." Alex said. "He gave up."
You look back, and find Sarvesh's hand on your shoulder. "Are you okay?" He asked.

You didn't have time to respond- as Alex made the wrong choice to let go of Summer. She roared, angrily, and pounced toward Sarvesh. With a single punch with an upper arm, Sarvesh caught the leaping tiger in the throat, and Summer collapsed.
"Oh god, I didn't mean..." Sarvesh said, looking down.

Summer was unconscious, it looked.

Rolled 58

>>25345156
Evidently.

>>25345162
"Mother fucker."

Rolled 51

>>25345162
Well, there goes our surprise.

>>25345162

"check Summer for injury, how is Jilly?"

>>25345162
"Seems centaurs are made for combat. It's better to knock her out than let her doing damage."

>>25345162
"Sarvesh, I'm just glad they didn't get you. That would have been very bad."

>>25345162
"Get Robin to move everyone to the farm. We're compromised here.

>>25345162
Check on Summer. If she's okay, then: "Don't worry Sarvesh, you did what you had to."

>>25345162
Roll call everyone.

Also get ready to leave.

>>25345202
Farm/Grandfather's house.

>>25345202
Don't mention the location until we confirm no-one's been stealthily compromised.

"Check Summer for injury." You tell Sarvesh, massaging the headache that was starting to form. "How is Jilly?"
"She's regaining control of herself." Alex said, hand on Jilly's shoulder. Jilly was still, cold... but her tail was starting to writhe a bit livlier. "It'll take some time."
"Roll call, everyone." You say, and everyone all claimed they were okay- save for Jilly and Summer.
"I'm fine." Anna said, through the intercom. She was following Surya at the slow (In FTL terms) pace you were going through space. "I think I'm too far away from you guys to be sensed."
"Summer looks fine." Sarvesh said.
He sounded... *mortified*. Scared.
You've never quite heard Sarvesh's voice so feeble.

>>25345254
Wait, are we still on the asteroid or were we flying through space already?

>>25345254
Don't feel bad Sarvesh. She'll be alright and she needed to be stopped before she hurt someone. Besides its my fault this happened. I don't know why I didn't snap out of it when Max nudged me.

damn our dice today, we needed Summer.

>>25345254
"Sarvesh stay focused okay? Summer is fine, she was controlled by Omega. You can kick his ass when we get to him."

I'm just wondering how come Omega is much more powerful then us. He has all those abilities and seems to be able use them all so much better then us.

>>25345254

"Calm down Sarvesh, is she still breathing normally?"

>>25345254
"Sarvesh, it's okay. You did what you had to do, and you didn't hurt her permanently. She'll thank you when she wakes up, I'm sure of it."

>>25345315
Because dice.

>>25345315
Because he's the last boss, duh.

>>25345254
Without Devourer or Theta there isn't much we can do to make sure she's okay.

Check out Summer to make sure her neck didn't get snapped, make sure she's breathing.

>>25345315
You know how much more powerful the Armatek psions are than the natural psions in their own specialisation? The downside is they can't use other powers. Only they managed to fix that with Omega. Or his specialisation is copying other people's powers. Or something.

>>25345254
"Alex, get back into contact with Summer, we don't want Omega doing something horrifying to her mind or using her as a tracking beacon for us."

"Sarvesh, stay focused, okay?" You say. "Summer is fine. She was controlled by Omega. You can kick his ass when we get to him."
"... Alright." He said, and got back up.
Carefully, he picked her up, and put her into the bed. "She looks okay. Nothing broken."

You met his eyes for a sliver of a moment, and upon piles and piles of guilt, you felt a hot, simmering fury.
And then you turned up the speed to maximum, and shot through space at almost three thousand times the speed of light.
And you hurried toward Cloud City. You may have alerted Omega to your presence, but he didn't know where you were going yet...
And, well, you saw what you could see.
Cloud city had no new defenses.
None. At all.

"Alex, get back into contact with Summer. We don't want Omega doing something horrifying to her mind or using her as a tracking beacon."
"I'm trying to save my power, but I can mask all of us from being attacked again." Alex said, and touched Summer with his other hand.

>>25345407
"I have a bad feeling about this."

>>25345407
"If it gets bad, then mask us. So, that'll be if he starts crushing us with TK and stuff."

>>25345407
"Well if we end here. There will be no later to save your power for."

>>25345407
I'm still scared of that alligator.

>>25345407
This smells like a trap. I just don't like it.

But I suppose with Omega they don't really need external defences.

Will the exosuits even be necessary?

>>25345407
Lets try to find the big man. Get close enough to ping security cameras.

>>25345460
well we should tell the exosuits to only follow our command if omega wants to mess with them

>>25345407

"for now, focus on keeping Jilly and Summer free from control. hopefully he hasn't noticed where we're going and won't be able to track either of them."

it would be bad if they had a fuck ton of weapon platforms orbiting Cloud City...
>paranoid!

Rolled 9

>>25345407
convert station to energy

>>25345460
Best to keep it stealthy until we actually find the dude, don't want to spook him.

>>25345460
>Will the exosuits even be necessary?
Yes. They have atmospheric and gravity control, so we'll need them to breathe.

>>25345407
So, what happened to Max?

"If it gets bad, then mask us." You say, and sigh. "For now, focus on keeping Jilly and Summer free from control."
"I can do that." He said, and focused.
"I have a bad feeling about this."
"A psionic bad feeling, or something else?"
"This just smells like a trap. I don't like it." You say.
"Yeah, it is." Sarvesh said, and got to his feet. "But we can go right through."
"... You're not thinking of trying to use your power on our ship, are you?"
"Yes, I am." Sarvesh said. "Reminds me of the time I had to teleport this entire ship."

>>25345551
>"Or Something else?" Max asked
>"On our ship, are you?" Max asked.

>>25345551
"We don't have Theta with us Sarvesh."
"If we spook him he might just take Omega and run, if he hasn't already.

>>25345551

"you were leaking badly, and we have a lot more people on board now."

"I'd like to avoid that if possible."

>>25345551
"That should be our last desperate chance. Don't try it before it's really needed."

>>25345551
>>25345563
It's too much. Especially after we took risks like that with Sigma. Unless you're really really 100% sure that you will still be up and running and able to teleport afterwards, I'd rather have you around.

Also, check him with telepathy, did he get attacked by Omega?

>>25345551
"I'm pretty sure that's a terrible idea."

Hey, random idea: Omega uses Alex's 'anti-sentience' power to knock people out, right? It might be worth trying our Awakening, or ClairSentiance power to counter it and wake them back up again.

"We don't have Theta with us, Sarvesh." You say, and sigh. "That's a terrible idea." You stretch, and crack your neck here and there. Then you reach out, and avoiding Jilly and Summer, you gently nudged everyone's minds, making sure they seemed okay- and despite your growing headache, they did.
"I know." Sarvesh said, and chuckled. "It was a joke. I am a very hilarious person."
"Everyone into your suits." Max said. "Let's put Jilly and Summer in theirs as well."

After rushing here and there, everyone was eventually in their spacesuits, Isaac in Anna's older exosuit, Anna in her new exosuit, Ellie in hers, and you in yours..

And Ellie finally sat up, banging her bat against her knee. It roared with only the fury a demon sealed within a bat could, and she slipped on her helmet.
"Are we ready?" She asked, looking forward to the projected screen, all green with the light of a bubble drive.

>>25345651

"as we'll ever be, no turning back now."

>>25345651
So, do we leave them here so jilly can set up a defense network with Sarvesh and Summer as guards or are we all going in?

>>25345651
"Let's go break some kneecaps."

How about using the Ion Laser to make a hole somewhere unexpected on the station?

>>25345651
Nutrient shake, try to get rid of this headache.

I wish we could just find where Davidson is already. It's like we're Ishelda trying to scry again.

Anyway ping the cameras, look for anything interesting.

>>25345651
"What we do now matters. Some of us are already knocked out so we better make it count. We will pay those bastards back. They can mess with our brains but they will never take away our souls! We will hit them so hard, they will remember this pain in millenia to come!"

You grab a nutrient shake, slip open your visor, and take a long, long drink. It emptied itself soon enough.
"As we'll ever be." You say, and bat your suit's visor down again. "No turning back now."

That's when you flipped the switch, and after springing up faster, you pulled out of bubble drive, the green light melting away to reveal an enormous gas giant, alone in the system, other than the gas giant's one manmade satellite...
Cloud City.
"Let's break some kneecaps." You say, and quickly approach the station.

It was quiet, exceedingly so, as you drifted closer to the station. It was eerie. Quiet. You'd half expected to be attacked by a thousand lasers instantly, but instead...
"Wyvern, welcome back to Cloud City." The intercom said. "Welcome, Surya. Docking is five hundred credits, please. You're the second and third visitors today!"

>>25345776
"You do know that a galactically wanted fugitive and his brainwashed weapon of mass destruction are there, right?"

>>25345776
transfer the credits. be prepared to be ambushed. Ask if we could know who else came here.

>>25345803
nope.

>>25345776
"Request information on the other two visitors."
<If you have anything that would be greatly appreciated, Mr Control Computer.>

>>25345776

"Thank you, we'll do that. are you allowed to tell me who the first one is?"

if they answer yes and it is in fact Davidson > "would you tell me where on the station he is right now?"

>>25345803
Nope.
>>25345776
Dock, as soon as someone greets us, steal the location of their other guest, and make him go to sleep.

>>25345829
Sorry, forgot, Steal the information from their mind.

>>25345829
Last time we were here nobody greeted us. The only person we saw at all was the uplifted crocodile. He was nice enough, we should contact him and ask where the other visitors are.

>>25345822
>>25345816
Can we not alert that there are people on the station looking for him, the informations going to be unavailable anyways, this place is too expensive to not have a confidentiality policy.

you know what? Lets use that one ability that we never investigated before. The one that lets us know where people are.

Where is Davidson and Lin Heather?

>>25345860
If they have confidentiality to not tell us, they that same confidentiality will prevent them from telling the other guys we were looking for them.

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>>25345891

wut?

>>25345891
Are you just coming up with powers as you feel like?

Because I'm pretty sure we've never had a people-finder power.

>>25345917
its been hinted a few times that Heather knows where people are at. We just never bothered following up on it.

>>25345930
We had a power of kinda knowing where people were without asking. I don't think it was a listed power so much as passive CV. Will still be useful, once we get to the station.

>>25345776
"And who was the first?"

"Thank you, we'll do that." You say. "And who was the first?"
"Splendid!" The operator said. "And I'm afraid we can't tell you. They asked that we keep their presence quiet." You transferred the money for both your own and Wyvern's docking, and pull your way into the dock. Soon enough, the clamps had you, and with more nervousness, you felt the artificial gravity take you. "Bays three and seven, please."

Soon enough, you pulled open the hatch, and looked out, at the bay itself.

Nobody was there with weapons.
No psionic force waiting for you.
"... This is creepy." Sarvesh said through his mask. Other than that and a guard for his lower arms, his suit was simply a big tank on his back.

"... I'll find them." You say.

You take a big, deep breath...
And recall all the times you found Anna in the halls. Damien in the rooms. When you set out to simply find someone and walked there before you realized it...
And you went to find Davidson.
>Roll Locuvoyance!

Rolled 47

>>25345975

I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.

Rolled 17

>>25345975
Now, Dice.
Now, I ask of you.

Rolled 12

>>25345975
inb4 he's not actually here.

Rolled 62

>>25345975
My 1's are rolling on their own.

Rolled 80

>>25345975
>tg dice

Rolled 61

>>25345975
dice failure again

>>25345990
>>25345994
>>25346000
It's going to be one of those days, isn't it.

Rolled 63

>>25345990
>>25345994
>>25346000
fucking come on.

what is this.

>>25346011

We spent all our good dice luck kicking Hound in the family jewels, it looks like

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>>25345990
>>25345994
>>25346000
IT
KEEPS
HAPPENING

>>25346000
>>25345994
>>25345990
Not fair. We've never even had to roll for this before.

I suppose it's just one of those days where nothing ever works.

Okay, let's avoid anything that requires rolling.

>>25345990
>>25345994
>>25346000
Sigh, Exa, maybe just one reroll? Just one?

"Heather, are you-"
"Shh." You say, and raise a hand.
You focus more, but you can't...
You have used this power... Every day of your life. Always subconsciously, always there. It was pretty lame for a natural talent, but... There's no way you aren't good at it.

>Reroll!

Rolled 45

>>25345975
I really hate the dice.

Using the timestamp as a seed is the worst possible way to do it.

Rolled 98

>>25346049
There's no fucking way we're bad at this

Rolled 89

>>25346049

Rolled 44

>>25346049

Rolled 89

>>25346049

fucking finally.

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>>25346064
>>25346066

Rolled 95

>>25346049
COME ON

>>25346064
>>25346066
>>25346069
Anyone got that creepy actor nodding gif?

And you find them.

All three of them.

Davidson... Omega...
And Lin.
Three.

With your entourage following you, you made your way down the halls, into a theatre, and walk in, as your personacom drained your account for the movie..
And there were two figures. Davidson, sitting there, and laughing at something on the screen, almost wheezing. He was an older, portly man, with grey hair and eyeglasses.
Standing next to him, not quite staring at the screen, was Lin- or Omega- standing still, almost prepared for something.
"Oh, Hello!" Davidson suddenly said, and paused the screen with a wave of his hand. He took a deep breath and got to his feet, holding out a hand. "My name is Davidson. I'm the CEO of ArmaTek. This is my friend Omega. I'm sure you've met Omega, right? You're the, uh, institute kids, aren't you?"

Max charged- and vanished into blue light.

Teleported away, to places unknown. Omega didn't even shake from the drain.

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>>25346064
>>25346066

>>25346127
"Hi. I believe we're here to break your kneecaps because of crimes against humanity."

"Hope you weren't needing them."

Rolled 41

>>25346127
TURN HIM TO ENERGy

>>25346127
TK, put them out by pinching the bloodflow to their brains. All of them.

>>25346127
>Succeed on roll to locate them
>Stroll right in with no plan like a dumbass

Super.

>>25346127
Awaken Lin.

Rolled 33

>>25346127
Crush him with TK as slow as possible.