>>25501500
B.

>>25501500
>B. Suggest she check with the archivist for a more comprehensive and time consuming study of the data.

>>25501500
B.

>>25501500
Might suggest archiving this one early so we don't have another unfortunate incident like last night happen OP.

>>25501589
>>B. Suggest she check with the archivist for a more comprehensive and time consuming study of the data.

"We should check with the archivist," you tell your mother. "Get some experts to look through the encryption."

"Agreed," she tell you. "It's a bit unfortunate that we didn't find out much from the data, but at least we're certain there's data on there worth looking into. Now, how else can I help?"

A. Ask her about her opinions on clan Night-Prowler and the conspiracy.
B. Ask her about the newly appointed ruling council.
C. Ask her about Quick-Shadow and his trial, and how to best help him.

>>25501694
A. We've learned a lot about Quick-Shadow but lack knowledge of the big picture.

>>25501682
>25501500
Good plan.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/25501500/

>>25501694
A.

>>25501694
A)

>>25501722
I'll be trying to get in contact with the people on suptg IRC to see what can be done about getting the archival of last thread fixed. I've fired off an email myself too.

>>25501694

A.

You should update the Twitter, there's no post for this session.

>>25501712
A.

You ask her about her opinions on clan Night-Prowler and the conspiracy. She thinks for a moment.

"Smoke and mirrors, I think. The conspiracy Night-Star was involved in extends far above one Night-Prowler clan. To do what they do would require complicity across the empire. The Night-Prowlers, with this sudden change in rule, is attempting to mask the involvement of other clans. If you ask me, I think this is a deliberate move to distract the Empress's agents while other conspirators take the opportunity to hide their tracks.

"Which is why," she adds, "the current Night-Prowler ruling class MUST contain at least one conspirator."

The door slides open, and an aide walks in. "Executrix, the technicians are here."

Your mother acknowledges, and turns to you.

"One more question."

Do you:

A. Ask her about the Empress's interest in the conspiracy, and what she's doing about it.
B. Ask her about the newly appointed ruling council.
C. Ask her about Quick-Shadow and his trial, and how to best help him.

>>25501886

A again.

>>25501886
A
considering we drew the attention of Imperial agents.

>>25501886
>C. Ask her about Quick-Shadow and his trial, and how to best help him.

>>25501886
A.

>>25501930
>>A.

"What's the Empress's interest in this? What's she doing about it?" You ask.

"The Empress likes to hold a tidy court. She likes things to be regimented, and honor-bound. She has her agents to make sure of that, and while the official line is that this conspiracy doesn't exist and never had, Night-Prowler's reaction is a sure sign that she has been keeping a keen eye on the situation.

"I'm not privy to the mind of the Empress nor her agents, but I can tell you this much: her agents have a bit of reputation of being everywhere at once. Once you leave our clan city, remember, anyone can be an agent, each with their own methods and their own plans. If you get in their way, they won't hesitate to remove you. They're not your enemies, but be careful in counting them as allies."

You thank her. She exits the office hurriedly, off to consult with the technicians.

You exit the building and find the day to be very late. You head home to get some rest.

It is the next day.

You check your wrist computer to find a message from Burning-Scythe. He has acquired the signal analyzers.

Seeking-Eye informs you he will be at the training grounds today, giving Sharp-Strike a few lessons.

Your mother informs you the technicians have finished their analysis on the hacking incident.

Where do you go?

A. The Archives.
B. The training ground.
C. To see your mother
D. The armory.
E. The shipyard

>>25502074
Is the info at A or C? Go where the info is.

>>25502074
A) Info is most important

>>25502096
Would be at the archives.

>>25501722

Careful OP, VMQ people stalking around. I'll keep watch in case the downvotes come in again.

>>25501823
Might actually be better if you go into the actual chatroom he's in.

irc.thisisnotatrueending.com server, #suptg. Goes by LordLicorice, you can ask the OPs there when he gets on.

>>25502074
A.

>>25502163
VMQ?

>>25502074
>A. The Archives

>>25502192
>>A. The Archives.

You make your way to the Archives.

You find the Archivist in her lab, rapidly tapping away at a nearby console. The synthetic head you bought back is mounted neatly on a dissection bench.

She turns and greets you.

"Ah, Three-Claw. Apologies, I'm quite busy at the moment. The Executrix just handed me a slew of data and asked me to attempt to decrypt them, and naturally, it's highly secured, and very difficult to crack."

You tell her this must be the data you were digging through yesterday. You give her the account of how a hidden switch within the encrypted block hijacked your mother's console and sent out a message.

She thinks for a moment. "Interesting," she says. "This encryption is... challenging. It may take me days to crack it, even if working full-time. When do you think you'll need the data inside? Is it time sensitive?"

Do you:

A. Tell her to take her time, and try her best to get it decrypted.
B. Tell her to prioritize study on the synthetic head.
C. Ask her whether she needs someone else to help her, since it seems she has quite a lot of things on her hands.

>>25502335
A.

>>25502335
C

>>25502335
>C. Ask her whether she needs someone else to help her, since it seems she has quite a lot of things on her hands.

>>25502335
C is insulting guys. I should have expected you spaghetti neckbeards to lack tact.

A.

>>25502403
No, it's not insulting in the least. it's a legitimate question of 'do you need more help' because we have helped her before.

>>25502403
>Hey, you look like you have a lot to do. Can I help you!
>HOW DARE YOU! (1d20 to not die, DC Very Hard)

Looks like tie between A and C.

Rolled 2

>>25502456
1. A
2. C

>>25502456
C)

>>25502463
Death by snoo snoo incoming.

>>25502474
We nat 20'd our way out of that twice, we'll do it again.

>>25502335
>C. Ask her whether she needs someone else to help her, since it seems she has quite a lot of things on her hands.
Lets see if we can get her to throw us out the window again!

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>>25502335

C

>Giving her the third claw
>Nat 1

a>>25502468
>>C.

"Would it help if there was someone else to assist you? Surely there must be someone here qualified to lend a hand."

"There are - quite a few - but they're all engaged with studying the Queen specimen. Besides, the executrix has mandated that this data is for my eyes only. No one else is to look at it."

She pauses. "Unless you can find the decryption key to this data, I'm afraid the only way to crack is to keep on plugging away at it."

"The key?" You ask.

"Yes. The decryption key. In this case, it seems to be a certain signal. Most likely, whoever locked this data also has a transmitter counterpart, which sends a signal that forms the algorithm to decrypt the data."

"I don't have this key, but now that I know it exists, I'll keep an eye out for it," you tell her.

She thanks you.

You bid her farewell and leave her to her work.

Where do you go next?

A. The training ground.
B. To see your mother
C. The armory.
D. The shipyard

>>25502617
B. To see yo momma

>>25502617
Everything went better than expected. My fears were unfounded.

C. We've talked with our mother already. It's time to get ready for the mission. Let's get our gear and pick up sharp-strike afterwards.

>>25502617
C.

>>25502617
Did we recover all our gear except for mines and ammunition after that fis incident?

>>25502617
Let's just run through them quickly. Start with C since that has most votes already.

Make sure to go to training ground last so that Sharp-Strike has more time to practice.

>>C. The armory.

You head for the armory.

The quarter master greets you as you enter.

"Ah, Three-Claw. Welcome back." She takes a look at your plasma-caster. "Still working, I see. Good. As it stands, I have a few new prototypes I'd like to test, if you're interested."

Do you:

A. Tell her you'd like to take a look at the prototypes.
B. Tell her you'd like to take a look at the normal gear.

>>25502873
A
Gimme gimme gimme gimme

>>25502873
A. Dem special ops.

>>25502873
A

Why would you even offer that choice.

>>25502890
Because it flows more naturally.

Also A. For Three-Claw prototypes are like cake to a fat kid.

>>25502873

A, let's go TACTICOOL.

>>25502890
>>A.

"Always happy to help," you tell her.

"Good. Follow me." She stands up and leads you down the hall and into her private armory. She depresses a button, and lowers a nearby weapon rack.

The rack is filled with several devices. Some you recognize, others you can only guess at their intended function.

She picks them up one by one.

The first is what seems to be a small and compact plasma pistol. "Rapid fire. Small. You can carry it on your arm, or on a leg hoster. One charge pack..." she depresses a button on the side and a small, round pelle ejects from the side. "...is good for 100 shots. Not very powerful, but good in a pinch."

The second looks like a small, coiled whip. She takes the handle and shakes it. The device uncoils like a serpent, and the strands suddenly unravel to for a wide mono-filament net. "Good for capturing specimens or subduring things you don't want to kill, and far lighter and deploys a larger net than a netgun." She depresses a second button, and the net retracts back into a strand, which coils itself back into a loop. "Also functions as a melee weapon."

She takes up a third device, which looks very much like your mine dispensor. She flicks a switch, and out drops a familiar looking mine. She depresses a second switch on the dispensor, and a small holoscreen is projected outwards. Suddenly, you notice four mechanical legs extend from the mine. It begins to crawl up a nearby wall. "Remote control, with camera and audio feedback. When you're done..." the mine suddenly buries its legs into the wall and stops. "...it's a mine again."

"Take your pick," she tells you, "but only one, for now. Can't let you have all the toys now."

Do you ask for:

A. The compact plasma pistol.
B. The whip-net.
C. The drone-mine dispenser.

C. We drone opredator now.

>>25503094
C. Drone mine
Sneaky as all hell, and boomy if we need it to.

>>25503094
>C. The drone-mine dispenser.
Best for recon, most tacticool weapon here.

>>25503094
This is a difficult decision.

C. It has a variety of uses. We can't fit through a vent? Drone.

>>25503094

Ngggghhhhhhhh

C)

>>25503172
>>25503161
>>25503158
>>25503150
>>25503146
Dat Consensus.

It already has so much potential for upgrades. Heli-drone, anyone?

>>25503094
B. Can we get a quick explanation OP?

>>25503172
>>C

You pick up the mine dispenser and examines it. "I'll take this. Looks helpful."

"Wise choice. I'll have someone swap your current stock of mines aboard your ship for these new ones."

"Anything I need to know about this?" You ask.

"Just what I showed you. The controls are easy, and you can overlay the drone's camera view to your vision mask. Each mine has a remote control range of 1 kilometer, and enough power reserves for a good hour of movement and tracking."

"We're working on an improved version with longer legs that allows it to jump outwards from any surface."

You thank her. She depresses a switch on the wall and retracts the weapon rack. "Well, that's it. Good hunting, and let me know how it works out for you."

You bid her farewell.

You exit the armory.

Where to next?

A. The training grounds.
B. To see your mother.
C. The shipyard.

>>25503266
C.

>>2550322
It's a whip that unravels into a large net when you press a button.

So, you fling this thing outwards, press the button, and enshroud whatever is in front of you with a large net.

>>25503266
>C
Eh, why not

>>25503266
C

Lets get loaded up, just in case we need to do shit on short notice.

>>25503266
>A. The training grounds.

Get a feel for those new toys, especially how well they work with one another.
It's OK to just jump right in even if I'm only up to thread 14 in the archives, r-right?

>>C. The shipyard.

You make your way to the shipyard.

As you enter, you immediately notice a flurry of activity within the main hanger.

You take a few paces forward to see what they're working on. As you enter the main hangar, you notice a massive ship section suspended upon a series of scaffolding. You recognize it to be a cutout of the human battlecruiser you captured earlier.

Hundreds of technicians, from many different clans, are performing various work on the section.

The shipmaster approaches you, and greets you.

"Ah, Three-Claw. Good to see you around."

She follows your gaze and looks at the massive battle cruiser bridge. "I hear we have you to thank for that. The plan is to take it apart and put it together to mimic every signal, every signature a fully crewed human ship will emit. By the time we're done, from outside, it'll be indistinguishable as a human vessel, even when it's crewed by a few Yautja."

Do you:

A. Ask her where the rest of the ship is.
B. Ask her if she knows what the plan is for the ship.
C. Ask her if she's had a chance to look at the experimental weaponry.

>>25503429
>C. Ask her if she's had a chance to look at the experimental weaponry.

>>25503429
C

>>25503429
c

>>25503429
C.

>>25503429
>C. Ask her if she's had a chance to look at the experimental weaponry.

The techboner, it must be appeased.

>C
If only we could have that as a trophy...

>>C.

"And the human's prototype weapon? What are your plans for that?"

"You mean that massive abomonation the humans tried to put together using a piece of our technology? I had it cut out and scrapped. The Matriarch didn't want it to be public knowledge, so I had to do it somewhat discretely. It was close to being operational, though, which is worrying in its own right. We've replaced the extra room with some additional cargo space and munitions storage. Which reminds me, Three-Claw, you remember the first ship I loaned you, which in turn you almost destroyed?"

"Yes. The Wind-Adder."

"She's fixed up. I asked the Matriarch who I should assign it to, she said she'll leave it to your discretion, since it was meant to be a permanent fixture for your mission. So? Any ideas?"

Do you answer:

A. "I may have a use for it for specialized occations which demand high stealth and high speed."
B. "I'm hoping to bring a few young hunters on my next mission. Perhaps I'll loan it to them."
C. "I'm not sure at the moment; I'll let you know.

>>25503603
>A
Which doesn't rule out >B, which would be unwise to say
>Yeah, I may just loan it to a few student drivers I might pick up

>>25503603
>A. "I may have a use for it for specialized occations which demand high stealth and high speed."
>B. "I'm hoping to bring a few young hunters on my next mission. Perhaps I'll loan it to them."

I'll make sure they never return it in the conditions i did

>>25503603
A

We might ALSO loan it to the noobies if we can't reasonably stuff all the ones we want in our current ship, but I'd prefer not to if we could avoid it.

>>25503603
A

>>25503603
A

>>25503603
A

>>25503603
A

Was the Wind-Adder a 1 or 2 seater?

A. We may need it again for pure recon missions.

I wonder if it would be possible to configure our two ships so that we could dock and foldspace them together. That would give us options while out on a mission.

>>25503693
oooh, maybe we can turn the Wind-Adder into a large drone and have it dock with our bigger ship which i forget the name of

>>A.

"I may have a use for it for specialized occations which demand high stealth and high speed," you tell her. "May as well."

"Sure." You hear a sharp whine as a nearby plasma cutter begins its work. The shipmaster leads you away from the hangar towards her office.

"Speaking of which," she tells you, "the Matriarch has allocated a good sum of resources to my team, and I can only have so many hands working on the human ship without overcrowding. Since the Matriarch informed me you might be ground-side for a longer period this time, I figured she's hinting on asking me to give you a hand with doing some work on that ship. I've reviewed the schematics, and there are a few areas I suggest we try to improve."

She brings up a holo-screen, and displays a model of your ship.

"First up is the cargo space. You don't need that much cargo space. I'm afraid it's a design relic from ages ago. We can work on modernizing that space and put it to better use, be it turning parts of it into a munitions bay to store extra missiles, or even modifying it into a hangar for smaller craft.

"Or, we can make use of these empty spaces, along the outer shell. I can easily fit four more plasma turrets there."

"Then, there are the main cannons. I don't want to remove it, but some optimzation may be useful. I did some quick calculations. We can double the cannon's firing rate for the same power consumption if we update the cooling systems, here. What do you think?"

Do you:

A. Ask about renovating the cargo space.
B. Ask about installing extra turrets.
C. Ask about improving the main cannons.

>>25503790

D. Can we make drone bays for launching plasma gun drones and scouting drones?

>>25503790
C
Sounds like the least invasive and most easily done.

>>25503790
A. We can make it into a hangar for our STEALTH VULTURE

>>25503790
>C. Ask about improving the main cannons.

Never pass on More Dakka and Loudest Boom.

>>25503790
A

Did someone say DRONES?

>>25503790
If we manage to down another queen, will we have to turn it into a hood ornament again to bring it home?

>>25503790
A if we can fit the Wind-Adder in there

C otherwise

>>25503859
Seconding this.

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>>25503790
A

A hangar bay? Hell yes. Maybe we'll have better luck with small craft than we do trying to use a spaceship like a goddamn fighter plane.

>>25503859
I don't think our current ship is THAT much bigger than the Wind Adder.

>>A. Ask about renovating the cargo space.

"Let's talk about the cargo space," you tell her.

"Right. So take a look here." She zooms the holo-screen in on the first level of your ship.

"A few things. If we stack these storage bins here, and move this there... and now you have all this extra room to work with."

She taps a few areas to get your attention. "I can mount landing clamps here, and a mag rail here, and now, it's a hangar for one smaller craft, like the Wind-Adder for example."

"Or, I can mount a secondary missile bay here, and turn this into a munitions rack, you can almost triple your current missile capacity."

"And here, take a look, I can install a compartment towards the rear, cut out these two pieces here, and install a pair of secondary thrusters, to make your ship far more maneuverable."

Do you:

A. Ask to have the cargo space converted into a hangar.
B. Ask to expand the cargo space into a munitions bay and a secondary missile launcher.
C. Ask to have a secondary set of thrusters installed.

>>25503898
Wind Adder is pretty tiny though. If we remove some unnecessary walls and consolidate all the cargo together we should be able to fit it in. If not we could at the very least install a docking hatch of some sort that lets us attach the ships together.

So A. if we can fit it in. If not B. We can always use more point defence when the shtf. Plus our main guns already smite things like the fist of god, so dakka is nice but we already have a lot of it.

>>25503926
A

>>25503926
I like the idea of A if we hunt as a team, but B gives us an advantage if we go on a solo hunt. Are we likely to ever go anywhere alone or are we going to be taken unblooded with us all the time.

>>25503926
Missile launcher don't mean squat if they jam every time we try to take a shot. >A with the ability to repair the missile launcher we have now without landing the ship would be the most idea.

>A

>>25503960
you forgetting that the Wind-Adder has a missile bay of its own, and if we turn it into a drone, we can launch it, and have it launch torps stealthily the nreturn to the bigger ship

>>25503926
A.

>>25503926
>A. Ask to have the cargo space converted into a hangar.

Leave teammates on the mothership as back-up, while Three-Claw does his solo stealth recon thing.

>>25503926
A

>>25503960
I don't see us going solo that often, at least not in the foreseeable future. We've assembled a pretty hot team and we'll probably have at least some of them at any given time until this whole thing with Wey-Yu is finished.

>>25503950
>>A

"I would prefer to turn it into a hangar," you tell her.

"Good. I'll have work started on it immediately. I'll let you know once it's done."

You thank her, and bid her farewell.

Where do you go next?

A. To the training ground
B. To meet your mother.

I like A. When you think about it A. gives us B and C. Because the Wind Adder can carry more missiles, mounts it's own point defence, and we can use it in situations where we need stealth and speed which the big ship isn't as good at.

>>25504009
Wind adder can carry 2 nukes, converting the cargo bay into missile bays would have given us an extra 12 nukes.

>>25504005
A.

>>25504005
B.

Give Sharp Strike more time to train.

>>25504005
A

We were supposed to take a look at the newbies today right?

>>25504005
Mother was last seen during the failed data decryption, right?

>A. To the training ground.
Play with them new toys.

It might be a little late to organise now, but should we have offered Burning-Scythe the chance to pick the next unblooded from his clan.

>>25504016
Yeah but we don't use missiles all that often anyhow. Having two separate launchers is better in some ways than just having tons of missiles.

>>25504074
Yeah, for when we inevitably jam our main tubes again.

>>25504074
>B. Ask to expand the cargo space into a munitions bay and a secondary missile launcher.

We would have gotten a second launcher.

>>25504085
Which we would have promptly jammed and/or broken.

We need the back-up ship for when we ruin the main one. Which we pretty much always do.

>>25504027
>>A. Training Ground

You make your way to the training ground, and enter the dojo.

You see Sharp-Strike in the middle of an unarmed sparring session with Seeking-Eye. You watch as they trade blows, and you recognize Sharp-Strike employ several new techniques you've not seen before. They notice your entrance, and stop.

"How is he coming along?" you ask Seeking-Eye.

"Good. Better than I expected. One more day of training and he should be more than ready."

Your mentor approaches you, and greets you. "Ah, Three-Claw. Good to see you. Come, let me introduce you to a few students."

He bids you to follow.

_________________________________________________________

END Episode 34

Thanks for playing, guys. See you next session!>>25504027

>>25504095
>for when we ruin the main one. Which we pretty much always do.

The shipmaster probably only keeps us around because the Matriarch keeps a steady stream of credits flowing to pay for our repairs.

>>25504085
Yeah but this way it's a second launcher on a second ship with better cloaking. Lots of tricks we can pull with that.

Also I dread to think what would happen if we tried to fire both launchers at once and rolled a one...

>>25504113
Me every time this quest ends.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s

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