Rolled 30

>>31648825
As requested in >>31644595 auto training as shifted towards joint infantry and vehicle support.


>>>Turn 17
>>>>>>>>A. Scavenge for food.
>>>>>>>>B. Try to improve the base
>>>>>>>>C. Try to improve weapons.
>>>>>>>>D. Research technology.
>>>>>>>>E. Pursue new mutations.
>>>>>>>>F. Explore in a direction/something.
>>>>>>>>G. Scavenge for raw materials.
>>>>>>>>H. Your choice
>>>Resource Points: 10
>>>Pop 1700
>>>Military 1200
>>>>>>>>Fuel: Good
>>>>>>>>Food: Low
>>>>>>>>Water: Low
>>>>>>>>Morale: Average
>>>>>>>>Armaments level: Excellent
>>>>>>>>Reputation: Who?
>>>>>>>>Infrastructure: Officer Quarters. Barracks. Pod Room. Medical/Vehicle Bay. Armory. Storage Units Complex. Sensor Suit Milspec. MP Prison. Ammo Dump. Supply Depot. Reinforced Structures.
>>>>>>>>Defenses: Bunker Door. Defense Net. Turrets. Braced. Fortified(milspec). Countermeasure System. Incursion Reverser.
>>>>>>>>vehicles: 50 paramilitary Hover Tanks. 5 paramilitary Birds. 4 paramilitary Shades. 12 Paramilitary Choppers 12 paramilitary APCs(hover).
>>>>>>>>Power: Fast breeder reactor, emergency biofuel generators. Geothermal Spike(unused)
>>>>>>>>Weapons: Pistols, Assault/Sniper Rifles (+Silencers), Grenades, SMGs, Shotguns, Throwers, Mono-Knives, Spewers, Heavy Weapons (assorted).
>>>>>>>>armor: Gearz Body Armor, Power Armor Hazard Series V1.5, Pilot Suit.
>>>>>>>>communications: Radio(encrypted). Net(limited), Comm Suite Milspec.
>>>>>>>>Materials: Supplies, Ammo Dump. Armaments parts. Vehicle Parts. Spare Parts.

>>31648854
I believe we wanted to do:

>Basic 1
Check out the battle, identify the major players and how it's going.

>Basic 2
Have the Azar Band head out to salvage more hydroponics parts, and parts to improve our water systems too if they can find them. (avoid the battle, naturally.)

>Basic 3
Set the Meka Combine to doing what it does. Begin the harvest. (Gunny+fireworks)

But I say Basic 2 scavenge For food/water/parts and basic 3 the fire works to keep them away from us. Other wise use beep.

Rolled 61

>>31648924
Do we have 3 actions?
Well, if we do, then voting.

>>31649449
Yeah we got them last time. Unless genie wanted to change that.

Rolled 86

Oh, threads up then?

>>31648924
Yes, just like we discussed. Seconding.

Rolled 27

>>31648924
Rolling.

Rolled 76

>>31648924
The battle has largely winded down. Many forces are attempting a withdrawal as the super heavies keep pounding the living daylights out of each other(in this case brood, plants, monsters and a few assorted others).

The Azar band has successfully acquired materials for the hydroponics, but were unable to find anything more considering how hot things are getting.

Meka Combine has begun to harvest while using fireworks to highlight areas of special note as to make things easier.

Adjusted training commences.

>>>Turn 17
>>>>>>>>A. Scavenge for food.
>>>>>>>>B. Try to improve the base
>>>>>>>>C. Try to improve weapons.
>>>>>>>>D. Research technology.
>>>>>>>>E. Pursue new mutations.
>>>>>>>>F. Explore in a direction/something.
>>>>>>>>G. Scavenge for raw materials.
>>>>>>>>H. Your choice
>>>Resource Points: 10
>>>Pop 1700
>>>Military 1200
>>>>>>>>Fuel: Good
>>>>>>>>Food: Low
>>>>>>>>Water: Low
>>>>>>>>Morale: Average
>>>>>>>>Armaments level: Excellent
>>>>>>>>Reputation: Who?
>>>>>>>>Infrastructure: Officer Quarters. Barracks. Pod Room. Medical/Vehicle Bay. Armory. Storage Units Complex. Sensor Suit Milspec. MP Prison. Ammo Dump. Supply Depot. Reinforced Structures.
>>>>>>>>Defenses: Bunker Door. Defense Net. Turrets. Braced. Fortified(milspec). Countermeasure System. Incursion Reverser.
>>>>>>>>vehicles: 50 paramilitary Hover Tanks. 5 paramilitary Birds. 4 paramilitary Shades. 12 Paramilitary Choppers 12 paramilitary APCs(hover).
>>>>>>>>Power: Fast breeder reactor, emergency biofuel generators. Geothermal Spike(unused)
>>>>>>>>Weapons: Pistols, Assault/Sniper Rifles (+Silencers), Grenades, SMGs, Shotguns, Throwers, Mono-Knives, Spewers, Heavy Weapons (assorted).
>>>>>>>>armor: Gearz Body Armor, Power Armor Hazard Series V1.5, Pilot Suit.
>>>>>>>>communications: Radio(encrypted). Net(limited), Comm Suite Milspec.
>>>>>>>>Materials: Supplies, Ammo Dump. Armaments parts. Vehicle Parts. Spare Parts.

>>31649607
Hmm, how about
Basic 1
Integrate the new parts to improve the hydroponics capabilities

Any ideas on the other two?

>>31649607
I guess we should pick off any bandits withdrawing.

Work on hydroponics

Come up with plan with hero group and reps from the others for ideas for the next plan of action. Should we fight or get ready to move out. Maybe try skeller's plan if that is no the table still.

>>31649705
Actively open hostilities on the bandits? I thought we were going for the neutral observer route.

Also, I wouldn't mind consulting our heroes for their advise. A general they are not, but still they always have an insight on things we aren't missing.

>>31649607
Ask our heroes if they have any views on the forces battilng it out, and the current situation in general.

>>31649739
True. But I think we have some people good at gorilla warfare. Thinking of making use of it and picking people off.

There is a general in the SS.

>>31649797
No he is the local Commander of their forces. Granted he is SS but you don't know the specifics of him or much others come to think of its.

>>31649844
What are the SS again?

>>31649856
Short term for Super Soldiers as I am too lazy to spell it out all the time.

>>31649797
True. But we are all in this together. I think it would still be nice to ask every one for what they would like to do.

But We could instead of attacking use one action for food and water pick up.

Work on the hydroponics

Team plan for next action.

So is that:
Basic 1
Integrate the new parts into the Hydroponics

Basic 2
Scout around for sources of water away from the current battle.

Basic 3
Group meeting and consultation on how we should go about
A. Staying in this area to imbibe on more resources
vs
B. leaving while the risks are relateively low

>>31650113
Maybe add or C: skeller's plan if it's on the table. Basic 2 should make us of our azar scouts if they are up to it. and Basic 1 have gunny aid in dealing with parts using Repairer's Grace.

Rolled 36

>>31649607

>Basic 1
Upgrade our Hydroponics (Gunny)

>Basic 2
Have the Azar Band scout around for immediately available sources of water/food, and parts for upgrading our water systems give them an armed escort.

>Basic 3
Continue on, sweet Meka. Do we need to specify anything about what it's harvesting/looking for? How does using this thing work, in general?

Rolled 43

>>31650230
Actually, I kind of like this better.
Voting

Rolled 84

>>31650230
Yup. But i was thinking the meka would be automatic after we started it.

Rolled 100

>>31649607

Now when you say "the super heavies" keep pounding the living dayights out of each other, do you mean that there are superheavy/mobile base tier units doing this...or just that those are the superheavy factions?

>>31650230
O yeah and use Repairer's Grace. It's a active ability.
>When performed object is repaired no matter its original condition.
I think that will help.

>>31650315
Oh darn, coulda used that.

Rolled 3

>>31650334

I'm torn between repairer's grace, and Rigged.

>>31650347
Yeah, feels bad man.

>>31650379
I say get it fully working then upgrade it with rigged.

Rolled 3

>>31650230
>>31649607

Can we call a meeting of high-ranking members of each faction to order, so they can all express their opinions on whether we should stay here or move on.

The opinion of the players is that we should stock up here, and grab hydroponics and other stuff while we're in an area where they're available. That way we won't have to stop (much) from here on out.

Rolled 75

>>31650315
the remaining heavy duty factions are the only ones still swinging at each other.

>>31650230
Hydroponics have been upgraded into basic thanks to our salvaged materials.

According to the Azar scouts there are plenty of sources for food and water. Parts meanwhile to upgrade our water systems is a quite a bit harder but they claim to have a lead in the matter.

Harvesting continues for the mecha.

>>>Turn 18
>>>>>>>>A. Scavenge for food.
>>>>>>>>B. Try to improve the base
>>>>>>>>C. Try to improve weapons.
>>>>>>>>D. Research technology.
>>>>>>>>E. Pursue new mutations.
>>>>>>>>F. Explore in a direction/something.
>>>>>>>>G. Scavenge for raw materials.
>>>>>>>>H. Your choice
>>>Resource Points: 10
>>>Pop 1700
>>>Military 1200
>>>>>>>>Fuel: Good
>>>>>>>>Food: Very Low
>>>>>>>>Water: Very low
>>>>>>>>Morale: Strained
>>>>>>>>Armaments level: Excellent
>>>>>>>>Reputation: Who?
>>>>>>>>Infrastructure: Officer Quarters. Barracks. Pod Room. Medical/Vehicle Bay. Armory. Storage Units Complex. Sensor Suit Milspec. MP Prison. Ammo Dump. Supply Depot. Reinforced Structures. Hydroponics Bay(Basic)
>>>>>>>>Defenses: Bunker Door. Defense Net. Turrets. Braced. Fortified(milspec). Countermeasure System. Incursion Reverser.
>>>>>>>>vehicles: 50 paramilitary Hover Tanks. 5 paramilitary Birds. 4 paramilitary Shades. 12 Paramilitary Choppers 12 paramilitary APCs(hover).
>>>>>>>>Power: Fast breeder reactor, emergency biofuel generators. Geothermal Spike(unused)
>>>>>>>>Weapons: Pistols, Assault/Sniper Rifles (+Silencers), Grenades, SMGs, Shotguns, Throwers, Mono-Knives, Spewers, Heavy Weapons (assorted).
>>>>>>>>armor: Gearz Body Armor, Power Armor Hazard Series V1.5, Pilot Suit.
>>>>>>>>communications: Radio(encrypted). Net(limited), Comm Suite Milspec.
>>>>>>>>Materials: Supplies, Ammo Dump. Armaments parts. Vehicle Parts. Spare Parts.

Rolled 9

>>31650484

How about that meeting though?

>>31650484
>>>>>>>>Food: Very Low
>>>>>>>>Water: Very low


Are we seriously going to starve to death? We have 10 resources, we can afford to order a pizza or something jeez... I'm suggesting we trade a resource for water

>>31650484
So i guess next action.

>Basic 1 Salvaging Food and water.
We running dam low.

>Scout the battle field one more time.

>Call meeting of heroes and reps. To get a idea of what they think and if we should keep gathering, move on, Skellers plan or other.

Rolled 86

>>31650484

>Basic 1
Have the Azar go out and grab food and water for us (with an armed escort, or just have the Meka go over there so it can slurp the shit up).

>Basic 2
Throw a fucking party, okay! Things are looking up, goddammit! Do you guys have any idea what sort of dire straits we're usually in by this many threads in? Gunny+Fireworks here, to spice shit up!

>Basic 3
Meka continues harvesting.

Genie obviously wants us to get the Gunny's wife as a hero, but he doesn't realize we have no idea how we 'discover' heroes.

Rolled 50

>>31650565
still waiting for you to realize you can scavenge for food/water...

>>31650538
Things are just a WEE bit strained at the moment do not advise.

Rolled 54

>>31650604
>>31650565

Our morale is also strained. That needs to be remedied.

>>31650616
How about those Natko Remnants we picked up? They gonna show up anytime soon?I can direct you to the acceptance post in the archive if you want.

>>31650612
Party no. Hover tank Grand Prix yes. Winner gets bragging rights and first choice of tank when we go into combat.

Rolled 61

>>31650646
THEY ARE ALREADY WITH YOU(just keep forgetting to add the extra bonus plus trying to figure out the fuck up bonus...)

Rolled 91

>>31650612
Yeah party sounds good and food/water.
>>31650646
Dam missed the morale thing. Guessing lack of food and battle could be doing it. We will need to move or attack soon. Most of them are here for loot and other things.

Rolled 60

>>31650612
Voting.
Hopefully it's a literal fucking party, so we can get more pop.

In the post apocalypse, the catholics were right, and condoms are a bad thing.

>>31650728
At least make it in form of a contest. I like the idea of hover tank racing, but I'm sure there are others we can think of.

Rolled 45

>>31650684

That's biased towards us (the Gearheads), and will only encourage animosity towards us.

If we abstain, then I can go for it though, I suppose.

>>31650728
Yeah, it's the food/water situation as well as being in an unfamiliar home with a shitton of unfamiliar people who's beliefs are all kinda weird and grating...

I agree, we'll need to go into combat to let off steam soon. Who/what with though.

Rolled 81

>>31650612
...poor guy wife isn't even with you anymore. As for heroes...how do you plan to shake up the tree to see what falls out? How about going undercover as a particular unit or creating fluff hm?

>>31650728
>>31650646
>>31650742
If everybody is voting that way, I rescind my objection.

>>31650767
Help with fighting the brood? or maybe plants if we can't talk to them.
>>31650781
I can do some fluff had a idea for a hacker and a diplomat.

Rolled 72

>>31650612

The GRAND WELCOMING PARTY. Fireworks! Racing! Contests of skill and smarts galore!

Marksmanship, jeopardy-style quizzes on the personalities of the elder gods or the signs that the Morning will come! Who can make the best camouflage? Who can race through that track we carved through the machinery of the BSU best?

All these questions/things and more await you in the GRAND WELCOMING PARTY!!!

Rolled 28

>>31650781
Or are you seriously gonna make me throw people at you and see if you can figure it out? There is a limit to how much I can do that though.

Rolled 11

>>31650815

I wonder if the plants are sentient/united-ish (and/or that we can contact them). If so, I'd like to help them so they might hand over that automated hydroponics facility.

Go for it on the fluff idea. In our fluff our training programs have been modded...maybe your guy is the one who did that.

>>31650832
I say we call it "skellerfest" but otherwise I love the idea.

>>31650484
>Basic 1: Scavenge food and water

>Basic 2: Keep an eye on the heavy factions duking it out, if the advanced hydroponics we baited are essentially undefended by the time they're finished we should move in and take the remainder.

>Basic 3: ??? train/harvest/upgrade?

I'm interested to hear about this lead the Azr bring up. Also, Hypothetical question Gunny might know the answer to: what would happen if we 'merged' 50 hovertanks with the heavy base?

Rolled 17

>>31650897

Haha, I can get behind that actually.

>>31650881
Ooh, if they are sentient we could see whether they will ally with us in return for our getting rid of the kerfuffle we've inadvertantly caused?

Rolled 46

>>31651000

I'd forgotten that we were the cause of the kerfluffle. They'll probably be irreversibly pissed at us for that.

>>31650923
Elton starts the hippy jam band "the grateful undead" and we follow him around in our mobile bases picking up fellow wastelanders that want to "tune in and drop out" maybe not Elton but I am going to write some fluff for a faction of not-deadheads

Rolled 19

Oh shit, guys. Genie's taking a loooong time.

Prepare to enter "we dun fucked up" mode.

Rolled 40

>>31650832

Oh, and scavenger hunts! Spin the bottle! Hide and Seek! huehue Skeller. Poor guy. All sorts of good things!

Rolled 8

>>31650910
whole lotta firepower, armor, and possibley other stuff depend on how it compares to everything as a whole.

>>31650612
the Azar succeed in bringing in quite the chunk of supplies despite their lack of numbers in comparison the the mouths that needed to be fed. Earned them some real points among the others as well as coming in right on time.

Party commences...so much for the food/drink we had just managed to save, but on the other hand it really did help with the mood by quite a bit. Though afterwards we find ourselves back where we started again. Well done with that.

Mild morale bonus
faction ease bonus

Meanwhile we continue to harvest as planned.


In other news the battle has now broken up finally and there seems to be no victor amongst the conflict.

ALERT

Mobile Base detected
Origins Unknown.

I think It needs a bit of work. But here is the draft i came up with.

Mack: A man with few friends, But a love for tech. From a young age his parents where not sure what to do with him. He seemed to not really care for the out side world. But then he got his first computer and it was like magic. It was scary how fast he picked out on it, All most unnatural . But hey kids what are you going to do. After some time his friends want to join the military, he saw no point in this. Until he found out he could get to the best tech out there threw it. He didn't do so good in boot camp. But made up for in in his tech skills. At first he had some trouble getting use to the people and military life style. But once he got going they saw his skill shine. He could program with the best of them and come up with a few upgrade here and there. But he real skill came to AIs. For some reason he had a way with them. Like man with honeyed words, But in this case oiled(?).

Which turned out for the best. For when the fall happened he was able to talk and crack his way into a personal vault and held up there. Frozen, But alive. After some time he was freed not sure how. But he was out in this new world. Pick up what was left in the personal vault and head out to find his friends. Life was hard from him. Not use to people, let alone fighting. But he joined up with a group( Name). They need a hacker and he need a job, as well as food. They got in a mess with a big group of people of the likes he never seen. Robots, things called brood and hell even a talking skeleton. But he made it barley. Then a random group going around in these big flying towns. Ask if people wanted to join them. At first he was scared but the idea of getting lost in one of those things pushed him on words.

Rolled 25

>>31651294

WARNING
Brood Forces detected burrowing in from below. Just as the ground erupted below/around our forces unleashing tendrils, worms, and other creatures flinging themselves at our base.

SHELL ACTIVATED

Unfortunately our shell as successfully held off their boarding attempt...for now.

However that does not stop their attempted assault of our forces. Worst yet the plants seem to be reacting badly to both our presences.

ALERT
Plant BLOOMING in progress. Expected to hit our forces in...unknown time.

>>>Turn 18
>>>>>>>>A. Scavenge for food.
>>>>>>>>B. Try to improve the base
>>>>>>>>C. Try to improve weapons.
>>>>>>>>D. Research technology.
>>>>>>>>E. Pursue new mutations.
>>>>>>>>F. Explore in a direction/something.
>>>>>>>>G. Scavenge for raw materials.
>>>>>>>>H. Your choice
>>>Resource Points: 10
>>>Pop 1700
>>>Military 1200
>>>>>>>>Fuel: Good
>>>>>>>>Food: Very Low
>>>>>>>>Water: Very low
>>>>>>>>Morale: Strained
>>>>>>>>Armaments level: Excellent
>>>>>>>>Reputation: Who?
>>>>>>>>Infrastructure: Officer Quarters. Barracks. Pod Room. Medical/Vehicle Bay. Armory. Storage Units Complex. Sensor Suit Milspec. MP Prison. Ammo Dump. Supply Depot. Reinforced Structures. Hydroponics Bay(Basic)
>>>>>>>>Defenses: Bunker Door. Defense Net. Turrets. Braced. Fortified(milspec). Countermeasure System. Incursion Reverser.
>>>>>>>>vehicles: 50 paramilitary Hover Tanks. 5 paramilitary Birds. 4 paramilitary Shades. 12 Paramilitary Choppers 12 paramilitary APCs(hover).
>>>>>>>>Power: Fast breeder reactor, emergency biofuel generators. Geothermal Spike(unused)
>>>>>>>>Weapons: Pistols, Assault/Sniper Rifles (+Silencers), Grenades, SMGs, Shotguns, Throwers, Mono-Knives, Spewers, Heavy Weapons (assorted).
>>>>>>>>armor: Gearz Body Armor, Power Armor Hazard Series V1.5, Pilot Suit.
>>>>>>>>communications: Radio(encrypted). Net(limited), Comm Suite Milspec.
>>>>>>>>Materials: Supplies, Ammo Dump. Armaments parts. Vehicle Parts. Spare Parts.

Rolled 20

>>31651294
>>31651453

Jesus Christ, what happened?

Rolled 82

>>31651453

Can the factions, now that they've had their tensions eased and been with us for a while, give us better details on their strengths.

Like what are their preferred tactics/methods of attack and such.

>>31651453
Well It's time to move around and attack a few things. To keep them off us.

So what did the base harvest so far? Can we use it to harvest plant life?

Rolled 64

>>31651570

Yeah, I have no idea what the Mecha's harvesting has even done. I've seen no change in any stats.

Rolled 31

>>31651453

See guys? Hope you enjoyed the party, because this is what shit is normally like for the Gearheads. We fucking CAUSED the Great Clusterfuck of our time through our magic of unluck.

>>31651096
"Santino and the gratefully undead" had an extreme cult following back before the fall. They were very vocal in the pre fall days about the government and the Megacorps misdeeds. Santino Garciaparra was considered by some to be an anti-government terrorist, and his group of followers "the dead skulls" were hooligan youth who were being manipulated by Santino. The dead skuls did often carry out wanton acts of destruction and mayhem, but Little did the world know that Santino was just a pawn in a much larger game. a certain doctor [redacted] had secretly began human trials for a pill that is supposed to boost receptivity to psionic activity. It worked. Very well. Too well.The members of the dead skulls became so psionicly active that they were able to develop a "pseudo hivemind council" that acts as Their means governing themselves and assigning orders to those within the loop. Fortunately when the fall hit, everybody was able to hunker down in "Santino's bitchin' Partybus" that happened to be fortified for just such an occurrence. Now they do what they can, bringing tasty 5 hour long jam sessions and funny pills to your home town. Best believe when Santino is in town it's time to have fun!

Rolled 18

>>31651453
>>31651294

>Thoughts
If Brood could cooperate with more technologically minded factions, I would almost think that they're slowing us down so the unknown Mobile Base could get to us.

>>31651666
But we got a high roll of 91. Dam parties. Now for another one.
>>31651738
Crap maybe it's the mother of rizal.

Rolled 98

>>31651453
>Fighting retreat,seeking to manoever the brood to be between us and the plants.

>>31651768
Full action fighting i could see this working. But we will need to get food and water right after. As well as heroes blowing shit up with bombs. Maybe work the angle of skeller lead a group to get water and food for tea later.

Rolled 94

>>31651768
Agreed and rolling!

>>31651765

Doubtful, she's preoccupied with Warlord Slag and co.

>>31651731
I like this. Though hivemind doesn't really fit with my idea of merry pranksters after the fall, maybe the experiment made them extremely sensitive to psychic effects so they have to spend much of their time in isolation, but are always at the top of their game when there's a show or a bit of mischief to pull off?

>>31651846

Blatant supporting of a good roll.

Come on, if you'd came up with an actual plan we'd have the roll and an awesome plan.

Time to put on the headphones and try to brainstorm up a plan.

>>31651879
Partial reaction to a good roll. Also a bit of a knee jerk reaction after seeing all those >>31651453
Besides, a full retreat is a good choice, why muck it up by getting all wordy.

>>31651453
I guess no answer on what we harvested?

>basic 1:Team of flamers and mid range weapon uses clear any brood near or in side. Fall back when bombing starts. Then back in for clean up

>basic 2: Gunny and gang hover tank bomb run.

>basic3: Skeller and gang with aid of Azar and who ever left. Get food and water for tea time.

Rolled 27

>>31651984
Any one got a different plan?

Well, if the shell has held, can't we move away from where they are burrowing in from under us?

And pray tell, how have we found out it's bandits?

Rolled 77

>>31651984

I like your military-oriented plans, but they only need one action.

>Basic 1
Teams of Flamer/Spewer-teams and Mid-Range hard hitters (like Grenade Launchers) initiate a holding action to establish a line of defense as our BSU begins a fighting retreat. Anchor the line in various points using squads of tanks and be sure to mix in APCs as hardpoints too, be sure to give the troops power armor. Mix in forces from all our combat-oriented factions.

Mecha charges in at first, to give the forces time to establish a defensive line, but then it starts to retreat too after the line has been established.

Meanwhile, Gunny Jury Rigs/Rigged some bombs up onto (some of) our choppers and birds. They're going to be used to bomb the fuck out of the brood when the defensive line starts to get pressed. While the bombers do their thing to keep the brood occupied, line-troops load up in the APCs and the choppers that weren't modded to carry bombs and are withdrawn.

APCs withdraw with tanks in groups together, covered by the Choppers' guns.

>Basic 2
Skeller and his cohort provide guard for the Azar and non-combat factions to go out and scavenge food and water.

Apply the bonus from no Basic 3 to the combat action.

>>31651868
Yeah the psionic part need some work, what is the opposite of psionic energy? Entropy? That would be a neat rout to look at, maybe the drugs burnt their brains out and they are completely immune to the psionic sound wave weapons that they fight with..

Rolled 48

>>31652201

Alternately, use Basic 3 for the rigging and deploying of the Choppers.

Rolled 67

>>31652201
Ah i see. I was thinking each full action would get the power behind it.

Rolled 59

>>31652257

Yeah, fair enough.

I realized that rigging the choppers might require that and so included: >>31652226

Rolled 79

>>31652201
Agreed and fluffing
>"Oh bringer of the dawn, who watches over us from that one sunspot we can't ever truly perceive, grant our brave soldiers victory on this sunny day..."
>"Are those guys praying? Guys, we have to prove our prayers work the best! 'Oh lady of battle whose face is three million and three scars inflicted by the orphans of our foes, let our deaths please you this day and our losses be replenished on our soldier's return..."
And so the various noncombatant cultists in our group chanted a cacophony of different intonations to various questionable characters, the latent psionic vibrations seriously distracting the brood forces...

Rolled 94

>>31652432
>>31652201
>>31652226

I forgot, retreat such that the brood is between the plants and us. Preferably so the Mobile Base is located such too.

>>31652432

Damn son, I dig it.

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>>31652215
hehe. Just a thought. It must be harder to hold a hive mind together than to disrupt it. Followers of discordia anyone?

>>31652201

Also forgot to mention that the rigging of bombs and deployment of choppers and such is to be done out of the BSU. The retreating is going to there too, because the vehicles will need to be refitted.

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Rolled 52

>>31652201
mfw you forgot they can burrow...I had just told you that too with my last post goddamn dumbasses. Its kinda impressive....now I have to figure out your casualties. Goddamn i wasn't even planning to make the enemy very smart even...which would of been to your advantage as they would of thought you were trying to fool them. Instead...heh.

Image related out of how I feel about your stupidity.

>>31652518
and so it turns out >>31651768 wasn't messing with me after all.

...you DO realize the plants are EVERYWHERE right? I mean COME ON THIS ISN'T A BLOODY DESERT YOU KNOW.

...goddamn even had to change my image thanks to that wut wouldn't have been enough.

>>31652769

>forgot they could burrow
More like presumed our highly trained military forces would set up far enough away from the ring of collapse and call in air support soon enough that they wouldn't allow themselves to get caught by burrowers.

Oh well though, forgot we have to specify every goddamn little detail in plans or our troops will do the most retarded things possible.

>>31652769

Eh, and so another civ ends.

I don't even have fucks to give anymore.

>>31652833

>Shit guys, the ground's rumbling!
>Let's just stand here instead of hopping onto our HOVER vehicles and calling in the airstrike.

Rolled 37

>>31652769
Time for da reckoning.


Meanwhile at a certain meeting.

...are they sending out their forces despite knowing they can burrow and all the surrounding flora is pissed, asked a confused SS Commmander.

...yeah lets not talk about it commander," stated Skellton

So...why do we even have to follow these guys?

You wanna walk?

Point taken.

I thought so, now Commander is there ANYTHING you can do?

...I only got infantry at my command.

Are you not Super Soldiers?

That we are but its from teh grou-oh wait. HEY LEEROY WE GOT ANY OF DAT JUMBA JUMBO STILL?

AYE SAH YES WE DO SAH.

ALRIGHT IN THAT CASE GIVE IT TO THE YOU KNOW WHAT.

uhhh...but theres Brood down there.

Exactly.
>>31652833
yeah its not their fault that plan just so happened to forget about that fact.

>>31652876
nah its just gonna hurt...

>>31652902
The brood forces blasted out of the ground and tried to penetrate through the mobile base so they could spew forces directly inside, basically boarding but then your shell sorta screwed them over weren't expecting something that tough.

>>31652973

>Not their fault that plan just so happened to forget about that fact.
That's because it was so obvious I didn't think it needed to be stated. It's back to them doing the most retarded thing possible unless we tell them not to.

>nah its just gonna hurt
Remember how we give up when we lose assets because if this is what writing up a plan with 100% assets and benefits gets us, why even bother trying to survive when we've lost something?

>>31652769
>plants are EVERYWHERE
I thought the dangerous ones were one specific species near the old facility. You're saying we had a goddam party right in the middle of what's essentially a bunch of sleeping hostiles while a battle raged nearby?

That's... actually kinda impressive come to think about it.

>>31653119

Sheeiiit, the Mecha was even ordered to enter the fray to buy them time to get whatever distance was necessary and set up. I guess next time I'll specify "And set up your line 2 kilometers from the edge of the collapsed ring the brood tried to take out the Mecha from.

>>31652769

Also the plants were *starting* to bloom "expected to hit our forces in unknown time" and we hadn't been informed that all of them were goddamn hostile. We knew that the ones in the automated hydroponics were hostile, but we hadn't heard a lick about any plants bothering us before we bait+switched there so why would we think that any of the others were?

Rolled 92

>>31652432
>"Oh bringer of the dawn, who watches over us from that one sunspot we can't ever truly perceive, grant our brave soldiers victory on this sunny day..."
>"Are those guys praying? Guys, we have to prove our prayers work the best! 'Oh lady of battle whose face is three million and three scars inflicted by the orphans of our foes, let our deaths please you this day and our losses be replenished on our soldier's return..."

Prayers commenced acquired morale bonus.
Best Beliefs Bring Backing; cultist/zealot troops combat effectiveness has increased.

Forbidden Lore
Penalties engaged.

>>31652973
>>31652769

Teams of Flamer/Spewer-teams and Mid-Range hard hitters have imitated a holding action to establish a line of defense as our BSU begins a fighting retreat. The line has been anchored in various points using squads of tanks and a mix of the APCs well. Troops have been given power armor and we have focused on using the more combat happy forces.

Mecha has charged in temporarily battering brood forces back before withdrawing once our forces have established themselves.

Bombing runs have commenced but had to end as brood forces finally reacted also dickish plants. Luckily they managed to use up a most if not all their payloads before hand.

Forces are withdrawing while helped being covered by the choppers we do however lose some of them.

That did not seem to be enough however as brood forces kept pushing erupting from below, dragging our forces and even vehicles down(or so they tried) then finally the Plant BLOOM hit all our forces.

>>31653119
the entire plan relied upon the fact that they wouldn't burrow. Granted hover and training does help but still. Your lucky as hell that your forces are what they are otherwise it would of been game over even with those rolls.

>>31653393

Bomb-concussions ought to have collapsed tunnels-in-progress, but I hadn't accounted for them being able to burrow extremely rapidly to get under our forces.

Rant over, sorry.

Well, we knew hanging around was a risk. The question now is do we cut our losses and get out of here with what we've gotten (10 resources and hydroponics isn't bad after all) or do we stay and try to be the last ones standing?

The scientist in me wants to see what a bloom like this does, and the survivalist wants the ungodly amount of weapons and tech that must have been left here by the massive amounts of shit that went down. The realist thinks this is only going to get worse.

>>31653393
Does getting in our hovertanks and closing the hatches/atmosphere seals if we have them do anything useful against the bloom?

>>31653655
I say fail back. Pick up every one and work with the resources we have. Get our food and water up. Heal, repair, and see what happens next.

>>31653703

Our power armor suits are hazard mk1.5s, they ought to provide protection by themselves.

Paramilitary grade equipment includes biological/chemical neutralizers/filters by default though, so yes.

>>31653721

Indeed. Now that we know that we're fucking surrounded by hostiles all the fucking time we'll get the fuck out of here.

Poor Azar Band, they got murdered because they forgot to tell us that while they were out gathering resources the plants were trying to eat them.

Rolled 82

Brood tunnels collapsed underneath the affect of BLOOM just as their flyers were pluck from the skies by angry plants, while explosions of plant growth encumbered their ground forces including our own vehicles/troops, not even the mighty bastions of our mobile bases were not spared the effects of this Plant BLOOM. As explosions wracked the grounds, sprouts shot up impaling all that laid above them, tendrils swept the battlefield grabbing whatever it could find before pulling them into gaping maws.

Despite the sudden change in pace this did nothing to stop the brood eagerness to overtake our forces. Our lines crumbled, shish kebabs formed made of both our own forces and brood yet came they still. It seemed the end even cultists and shamefully our own troops seem to be about to break.

FANATICAL BONUS ACTIVATED

Despite that though despite everyone else preparing to flee, misfiring, and general breaking down. Two forces the Bringers of Morning and Sulcha Kelbe stood united before the onslaught and refused to take a single step back despite getting hit by a literal tide of plants and brood. Directly into the waiting woody maws, and gnashing claw they stood firm. That action of theirs bought the rest of the forces time to reaffirm themselves.

Yet it seemed to not be enough until for some reason the brood and plant forces halted without reason quivering...and there was a strange taste/spark to the air. That was suddenly as if the very air itself was prepped for a massive explosion and when craters appeared arising figures amongst both friend or foe arose that triggered it.

PSIBORGS ENGAGING HOSTILE FORCES.

Warning
PSIONIC STORM DETECTED

Warning
Psionic Storm has become overcharged.

Alert
Brood forces are sluggish and confused.

Alert
Plants are withering and movement has vastly decreased.

That was the rest of the forces rose up and began engaging. Plasma explosions, lasers, and peculiar bams breaching the sound barrier were all announced upon the field of battle.

>>31653779
Damn, I hope Azar was far enough away from the blast radius. They were just what we needed. We did say we were sending them escorts though, hopefully some survived.

Booking it sounds like a good plan but let's try and make it an orderly-ish evacuation that doesn't leave too many people behind.

>>31653883

I'm also frustrated that the plant bloom happened instantly. "will hit in an unknown time" means there's nothing to argue with there, but christ you'd think it'd take at least a second to charge up.

>>31653721

Heal and repair provided our fucking population doesn't get in uproar over our 'retarded' plan.

>>31653939
What I think is bad as well is we just lost a lot of respect form the other people.
>>31653978
.. yeah. Dam us, We tied to play smart and over shoot. I guess next time kill every thing while falling back.

>>31654025

Next time we'll stick to two or three word plans I guess.

Rolled 10

>>31653859
We have seemingly lost contact with forces dispatched to acquire food/water and our forces have successfully withdrew from the battlefield. We seemed to have sustained no small amount of losses and it took awhile before our scavengers returned few in number and in bad condition despite escorts.

autotrain commences.

Losses
15 paramilitary tanks
1 paramilitary bird
4 choppers
5 APCs

500 lives lost(mostly zealots

>>>Turn 18
>>>>>>>>A. Scavenge for food.
>>>>>>>>B. Try to improve the base
>>>>>>>>C. Try to improve weapons.
>>>>>>>>D. Research technology.
>>>>>>>>E. Pursue new mutations.
>>>>>>>>F. Explore in a direction/something.
>>>>>>>>G. Scavenge for raw materials.
>>>>>>>>H. Your choice
>>>Resource Points: 8
>>>Pop 1200
>>>Military 800
>>>>>>>>Fuel: Good
>>>>>>>>Food: Very Low
>>>>>>>>Water: Very low
>>>>>>>>Morale: Strained
>>>>>>>>Armaments level: Excellent
>>>>>>>>Reputation: Who?
>>>>>>>>Infrastructure: Officer Quarters. Barracks. Pod Room. Medical/Vehicle Bay. Armory. Storage Units Complex. Sensor Suit Milspec. MP Prison. Ammo Dump. Supply Depot. Reinforced Structures. Hydroponics Bay(Basic)
>>>>>>>>Defenses: Bunker Door. Defense Net. Turrets. Braced. Fortified(milspec). Countermeasure System. Incursion Reverser.
>>>>>>>>vehicles: 50 paramilitary Hover Tanks. 5 paramilitary Birds. 4 paramilitary Shades. 12 Paramilitary Choppers 12 paramilitary APCs(hover).
>>>>>>>>Power: Fast breeder reactor, emergency biofuel generators. Geothermal Spike(unused)
>>>>>>>>Weapons: Pistols, Assault/Sniper Rifles (+Silencers), Grenades, SMGs, Shotguns, Throwers, Mono-Knives, Spewers, Heavy Weapons (assorted).
>>>>>>>>armor: Gearz Body Armor, Power Armor Hazard Series V1.5, Pilot Suit.
>>>>>>>>communications: Radio(encrypted). Net(limited), Comm Suite Milspec.
>>>>>>>>Materials: Supplies, Ammo Dump. Armaments parts. Vehicle Parts. Spare Parts.
>>31653939
Unknown times means MYSTERY and it was about damn time said amount of time was most brief.

>>31654079

Aight, I'm out. We still have a fucking Mobile Base to deal with.

Rolled 87

>>31654038
Maybe mix it up once in awhile.
>>31654079
I think we all agree.

>basic 1 leave pick up every one we still can get to. (double action.) use fire works to throw enemies off while pick people up.

>basic 2 Fire and attack any enemies following us.

Rolled 50

>>31654079
tfw all dem outside bonuses and crap really helped nullify how bad it was gonna be...so disappointed. Like damn that was suppose to hurt a good bit more.

Players are catching on...wait till they crack heroes. oh dear.

>>31654079
ah crap before I forgets

Harvest has been processed.

Acquired
Fertlizer high grade
Super Soil
construction materials
Food and water
5 resources

Acquired additional 4 resources, food, and water from what the other teams brought in, also brought in a salvaged Buro Minelayer.


You have also lost your third action due to pop loss.

Also the other mobile base has commenced bombardment pummeling while withdrawing.

>>31654237

What's a Buro Minelayer?

>>31654237
Dam. But good we got food and water.

How does Combination work. Can we fuse every thing together and then undo it or no?

Rolled 94

>>31654283
It lays mines obviously. At the moment our forces don't really have a very good idea what it is exactly only it lays mines and can burrow.

Rolled 18

>>31654302
You can indeed. Perma fusions take a bit of work but are noted to being improved.

>>31654332
Cool. Renewed action.

>basic 1: Fall back while picking up any remaining ground troops.

>Basic 2: Combination the two bases. Ready tanks and air craft to defend over retreat

Any one got a better idea?

>>31654434

Don't combination the two bases while we're still right next to civ-wiping enemies. That's a really bad decision.

>>31654473

And that aside, it's already got an entire based combinationed onto it. Don't push our luck.

Rolled 18

>>31654237
I suggest the following:

>Basic 1:
GTFO
>Basic 2:
repair and upgrade what vehicles we have left while on the run
>Basic 3:
Medals and field promotions (anyone stand out?) all around for the survivors. "You are truly the heroes your commanders need, but not the heroes we deserve. The Bringers of Morning and the Sulcha Kelbe fought especially bravely. Some of us would like to sit in on your ceremony when you honor the dead, if that's permitted".

>>31654473
Well we have a slow base and enemies to kill. Hoping we can improve our fire power threw it.

I guess we do.
>full retreat while firing back at the enemies and picking up any ground troops still out.

>>31654595
only got two actions now.

Rolled 30

>>31654612

>Basic 1
Upgrade the Hydroponics further (Gunny, Repairer's Grace)

>Basic 2
Fighting Retreat out of here.

>>31654642
Dammit, you're right. Can't say I'm sorry to have to drop my suggestion after that roll -_-. Might have been cool though if I'd been responding to >>31654332.

Rolled 79

>>31654718
Agreed. But lets make sure we picked every one up as well. Don't want to leave any one behind this time.

>>31654718
I'd say the hydroponics can wait, we have food and water for now and can upgrade them during travel. I'd say instead we try to raise Elton on the radio and see whether he's ready to get out of here.

Also, I asked this earlier but didn't get an answer - any ideas what would happen if we merged all our hovertanks with the base? Would it increase our movement rate and offset the move penalty from the shell?

>>31654724
Maybe, But with the luck we been having not so much.

We need to get better with heroes. We know so little. We know fluff with people in it helps. We threw two random fluff heroes out. No clue if that helped. Rolls and actions do it some times. Even seen replies about captcha some times. Think that helps in some way.

officers rhothru (who the hell it this CAPTCHA)

>>31654332
Hey Elton Skeller you ready to go? Unless you have a plan I think it's time to leave.

Rolled 83

>>31654922
hm and consensus has yet to be achieved.

>>31655289
"I have no qualms with leaving this area.

>>31655319
Then I suggest
>Basic 1
Get out of here with all reasonable haste, slowing down only to pick up stragglers. Encrypted radio communications only, we don't want to broadcast our position
>Basic 2
Keep using the 'harvest' ability on this base as we shake dust, but only if it doesn't slow us down to do so. Otherwise, improve hydroponics on the go, looks like we've got some decent supplies now.

C

>>31654922
Think a medals and field promotions ceremony would help? It would probably build a spirited corpse anyway.

>>31655468
yeah, There is the chance. I think the more "human" we act to the people. The better we seem to get at times.

Rolled 59

>>31654815

It was answered, actually. Look closer.

>>31654922
It seems when we mention a hero while responding to Genie and roll the same as him when we do so, that hero shows up. That happened in the first thread of this civ. Of course, we have the same odds of rolling a 1, but when fluffing that might not be so bad...

>>31655582
Crap I think your right. Soon we will get it down.

>>31655319
How bad is it to use the harvest function while moving?

Rolled 67

>>31655414

Sure, sounds good.

>>31655578
Oh, so it was. That sounds promising to me, anyone else think that might be a good idea?

Rolled 35

>>31655582

It's much more complicated than that. It has more to do with in-universe things than rolling dice.

>>31655702
I feel like having separate units to deploy is more advantageous at this time. Don't want to put all our eggs in one basket.

Rolled 48

>>31655414
rolling

Rolled 79

>>31655649
Considering how slow you already are it doesn't carry that much of a penalty in comparison.

>>31655756
Cool
>>31655414
Lets do it then. Get our people and get the hell out. We leave one behind.

Rolled 92

>>31655796
... rolling.

Rolled 71

>>31655829

Supported.

Rolled 46

>>31655414
We are on the way out of this area already we can notice the taint of darkness. harvesting continues only mildly slowing us down by little. Meanwhile auto training continues.

You once again may have 3 actions once more.

>>>Turn 19
>>>>>>>>A. Scavenge for food.
>>>>>>>>B. Try to improve the base
>>>>>>>>C. Try to improve weapons.
>>>>>>>>D. Research technology.
>>>>>>>>E. Pursue new mutations.
>>>>>>>>F. Explore in a direction/something.
>>>>>>>>G. Scavenge for raw materials.
>>>>>>>>H. Your choice
>>>Resource Points: 17
>>>Pop 1300
>>>Military 1000
>>>>>>>>Fuel: above Average
>>>>>>>>Food: Good
>>>>>>>>Water: Good
>>>>>>>>Morale: Strained
>>>>>>>>Armaments level: Good
>>>>>>>>Reputation: Who?
>>>>>>>>Infrastructure: Officer Quarters. Barracks. Pod Room. Medical/Vehicle Bay. Armory. Storage Units Complex. Sensor Suit Milspec. MP Prison. Ammo Dump. Supply Depot. Reinforced Structures. Hydroponics Bay(Basic)
>>>>>>>>Defenses: Bunker Door. Defense Net. Turrets. Braced. Fortified(milspec). Countermeasure System. Incursion Reverser.
>>>>>>>>vehicles: 35 paramilitary Hover Tanks. 4 paramilitary Birds. 4 paramilitary Shades. 8 Paramilitary Choppers 7 paramilitary APCs(hover).
>>>>>>>>Power: Fast breeder reactor, emergency biofuel generators. Geothermal Spike(unused)
>>>>>>>>Weapons: Pistols, Assault/Sniper Rifles (+Silencers), Grenades, SMGs, Shotguns, Throwers, Mono-Knives, Spewers, Heavy Weapons (assorted).
>>>>>>>>armor: Gearz Body Armor, Power Armor Hazard Series V1.5, Pilot Suit.
>>>>>>>>communications: Radio(encrypted). Net(limited), Comm Suite Milspec.
>>>>>>>>Materials: Supplies, Ammo Dump. Armaments parts. Vehicle Parts. Spare Parts.

Rolled 43

>>31655996
>Basic 1: Day of rest and to pay respects to the ones that have fall in battle.

>basic 2: Have a promotions ceremony award medals to all that fight well in the line of duty.

>Basic 3 explore the base. Look for damaged and anything new we missed.

This is what I'm thinking

Rolled 82

>>31655996

The auto-training is still in support of a combined arms approach, right?

>>31656151

>Basic 1:
Day of rest and to pay respects to the ones that have fall in battle.

>basic 2:
Have a promotions ceremony award medals to all that fight well in the line of duty.

>Basic 3
Explore the bases. Look for damaged and anything new we missed, repair damaged components.

Rolled 18

>>31656188
Yup...

>>31655996
17 resources? Shit son we need to find somewhere to cash these in. We kinda owe Viczar a favor, see if he needs and cash or has any recommendations on where we can safely spend.

Rolled 84

>>31656188
Yeah, That would have been bad.

Do we have damage ?
Guy: yeah.
Did you repair it?
Guy: No.
...

I guess add gunny in there for repairs,

Rolled 7

>>31656234

He's way far away by now. We don't have any contact with him.

Also, we'll cash'm in by manufacturing new vehicles and doing R&D.

>>31656295
Do we have the manufacturing? Our hermit crab could probably use them in forming a bigger shell..

Rolled 56

>>31656344

We have Gerz Ind personnel and a BSU full of vehicle-related equipment, as well as our own base's vehicle-related equipment and asston of spare vehicle parts.

>>31656370
>super/mega/ultra tanks?

Rolled 85

>>31656405

Possibly. The our base's stored archives certainly should have all the schematics for servicing those things, and that's just a step away from building them.

Rolled 62

>>31656274


Thirding.

>>31656188
>>31656151

>Day of rest.
>Oh, repair the base too.

Kinda contradictory there guys.

>>31656767
People can take shifts.

But your welcome to change it. That is just what came to mind.

>>31656812

Nah, I'm fine with it.

Rolled 59

>>31656188
>>31656274
vote

Rolled 14

>>31655733
Well, on that note, fluffing
>"Oh bringer of the dawn, who dwells in a place that does not see the dawn but probably knows it exists..."
>"Those fucking guys are at it again! and in front of unbelievers at that! Oh this will NOT stand. We are gonna out pray them SO hard, c'mon guys. 'Oh keeper of the secrets, your punch line has been revealed to many today. And whether it be a joke as clean as the purest newfallen snow or as black as the darkest pit of... Excuse me DID YOU WANT SOMETHING?"
>"oh sorry, we didn't mean to interrupt..."
>"Well you should have thought of that before you started staring at a guy when he's in mid prayer. Do you not understand the concept of forbidden lore or something!?"
>"Sorry, we didn't know. We just wanted to see if one of your guys made it back.
>"If he's one of our guys probably not. Who is he and why do you want to talk to him?
>"Well, we've been calling him the Bollywood physics guy. We were hoping to give him a medal on account of what he did in the battle...".
>"Bollywood physics guy? That's not much of a descriptor, what's his face like?"
>"Well, he was wearing power armor, so-"
>"OH, well if he was wearing POWER ARMOR then you must mean OH WAIT WE WERE ALL WEARING POWER ARMOR!"
>"Well yeah, obviously we don't know what he looks like. But he's the guy that punched that giant flower right in the stamen and used his jumpjets to make it chase him all over the brood swarm like a demented mouse toying with a cat. You must have seen him, he was pretty hard to miss."
>"Well I was busy praying to something with too many arms and too few weapons at the time, so I didn't see anyone do anything like that. Anyone here punch a flower in the stamen today?"
>...
>Yeah, looks like he didn't make it back. Sorry for your loss. Now if you don't mind, we're kind of in the middle of something..."
>"Ok, well if he decides to step forward-"
>"OUT!"
>...
>"The fuck am I supposed to do with their stupid medals anyway..."

>>31657045

The Cuzthian Cultists are actually the ones with Forbidden Lore.

>>31657087

Oh wait, you were fluffing the Cuzthians (I think).

Rolled 85

>>31656188
While the mobile bases rumbles on finally entering the outskirts of the previous region. We can tell we are getting closer to the dark lands and so our forces rest and pay their respects to the ones who fell in battle. Its worth noting the especially dour ones were the Morning crowd who had suffered one of the heaviest losses yet their counterpart was not nearly so harshly effected.

Promotions ceremony has commenced along with rewards being handed out.

Those who were especially noteworthy.

>Officer Borha
kept his troops in order despite the chaos coming from underfoot, behind, and plants themselves.
>Crusader Rhothru
from the Bringers of Morning one of their most legends Rhothru a poet, devout, architect, and a widow. Distinguished himself with sheer valor.
>Soldier Jeniece
Managed to take down the brood forces who were hunting our tanks.
>Ulmesu
a cultist who distinguished herself vey wielding the forbidden lores and more of her kind wreaking havoc amongst the enemy.
>Checho the 'Big'
an ironic name for a surprisingly short pilot...was noteworthy in battle for not retreating along with other flyers despite the hazards managed to stay in the sky and offer support till the very end...the condition of the said chopper on the other hand alone deserves a reward for the sheer fact that upon glimpsing it Gunny Gineer actually feinted.

Exploration of the base reveals that that we some plants that need dealing with...not to mention some surprising amount of damage especially more then one would think even among the upper levels.

Rolled 64, 39, 42, 61, 91 = 297

>>31657045
...tasty fluffs. I loves tasty fluffs from the sounds of it was most likely either dead or sounds like Crusader Rhothru.

News
There seems to be no threats and we are on the fringes of the darklands already colors quickly fade and the sun grows weaker. Deeper in its almost as if there is no sun at all.

>>31657169
Sounds like them and the zealot faction the Bringers of Morning.

>>>Turn 20
>>>>>>>>A. Scavenge for food.
>>>>>>>>B. Try to improve the base
>>>>>>>>C. Try to improve weapons.
>>>>>>>>D. Research technology.
>>>>>>>>E. Pursue new mutations.
>>>>>>>>F. Explore in a direction/something.
>>>>>>>>G. Scavenge for raw materials.
>>>>>>>>H. Your choice
>>>Resource Points: 17
>>>Pop 1300
>>>Military 1000
>>>>>>>>Fuel: above Average
>>>>>>>>Food: Good
>>>>>>>>Water: Good
>>>>>>>>Morale: Strained
>>>>>>>>Armaments level: Good
>>>>>>>>Reputation: Who?
>>>>>>>>Infrastructure: Officer Quarters. Barracks. Pod Room. Medical/Vehicle Bay. Armory. Storage Units Complex. Sensor Suit Milspec. MP Prison. Ammo Dump. Supply Depot. Reinforced Structures. Hydroponics Bay(Basic)
>>>>>>>>Defenses: Bunker Door. Defense Net. Turrets. Braced. Fortified(milspec). Countermeasure System. Incursion Reverser.
>>>>>>>>vehicles: 35 paramilitary Hover Tanks. 4 paramilitary Birds. 4 paramilitary Shades. 8 Paramilitary Choppers 7 paramilitary APCs(hover).
>>>>>>>>Power: Fast breeder reactor, emergency biofuel generators. Geothermal Spike(unused)
>>>>>>>>Weapons: Pistols, Assault/Sniper Rifles (+Silencers), Grenades, SMGs, Shotguns, Throwers, Mono-Knives, Spewers, Heavy Weapons (assorted).
>>>>>>>>armor: Gearz Body Armor, Power Armor Hazard Series V1.5, Pilot Suit.
>>>>>>>>communications: Radio(encrypted). Net(limited), Comm Suite Milspec.
>>>>>>>>Materials: Supplies, Ammo Dump. Armaments parts. Vehicle Parts. Spare Parts.

>>31657205

Hmm. Good idea for hero/officer discovery, Delim.

>>31657359

No, look:
"Oh Bring of the Dawn, who dwells in a place that does not see the dawn but probably knows it exists..."
"Those fucking guys are at it again! And in front of unbelievers at that! ...We are gonna out pray them SO hard, c'mon guys."

Rolled 100

>>31657169
>>31657205
Sounds like I was fluffing Ulmesu. I'm guessing she won't be too happy with whoever ratted her out, now people will expect it every time...

>>31657402

Huh. I wonder if that counts for anything.

>>31657364
It was a anon that said something about the medals. I just made use of it.
>>31657402
Dam. That's two now.

Rolled 66

>>31657359

>Basic 1
Have the Gerz guys and the Gunny check to see if any of our equipment is suitable for vehicle production (if we mod it and such).

>Basic 2
Deal with the plants that need dealing with and repair our base.

>Basic 3
Have the Bringers of the Morning, the Cuzthians, and the Sulcha Kelbe lead a service as we enter this land of darkness.

>>31657359
All right. Get plants to deal with and damage to repair.

>Basic 1: Gunny With heavy lifters and techs. Start to repair damage (Repairer's Grace). Have a armed guard keep a look out just in case.

>Basic 2: Send scouts out. Have any remaining Azar band lead the scouts. Main goal food, water, luxury goods.

>Basic 3: Ask rizal and gang to plan the best path travel and actions for the area.

Is what i'm thinking.

>>31657205
Oh yeah, we got officers.
It's about damn time.

Rolled 47, 37, 79, 100, 63 = 326

>>31657695
Yeah I am not even go gonna into how blind you are at finding officers of all things...

Rolled 10

>>31657731

It'd help if we had a hint. You sorta changed the system on us.

>>31657695
>>31657731
I think we just needed to get back in touch with our humility and 'humanity". But I could wrong. I know we had people stand out before. I believe their names were Jensen, Jonson, Vic, Henry, Steel, Nick, and Hula.

Rolled 2

>>31657886

That was with the Splicers. And they just threw an Elsh into the water one time.

>>31657929
It's a start. People can grow and get better. But it's up to us to let it happen.

>>31657886
>>31657929
Well with the splicers, we wanted an officer who was good at finding things so we tried to promote whoever managed to corner the invisible teleporting thing.

Nobody wanted to take up the credit for that for some reason, even when they won.

In this case, we promoted the survivors because they had to be badass to have survived no?

Which means Umbra had it right when they tossed V101 into the frying pan

>tfw that entire place was basically their officer contest

Rolled 40

>>31657987

Hey guys, we've got this nearly 1-of-a-kind Think Tank!

Fuck, that makes how many of those? Let's see how well these fuckers do against asstons of awfulness.

>>31657359
I was actually intending it as the cultist speaker being the bollywood physics guy but either not remembering it or just decided to mess with the guys trying to give the medal.

>>31657987
O god.

Rolled 58

>>31658011
I meant for it being the crazy bastard on a jetback fits the crusader's deal quite nicely. Not sure about the other one though we shall see and depends on fluff/what ends up happening.

>>31658009
>>31657987
>>31658027
I admit nothing.

Rolled 34

>>31657359

>Basic 1
Have the Gerz Ind guys look at our vehicles and all of our supplies/equipment and see if there's anything they can upgrade, or any nifty ideas they get from looking.

>Basic 2
Tend to the bases (Gunny, Repairer's Grace) take care of the bases. Make sure we get all those damn plants out too.

>Basic 3
Upgrade the Hydroponics Facilities.

Rolled 82

>>31657587

Include something about clearing out the dangerous plants and I'll support it.

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>>31658182

Otherwise I support this: >>31658074

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>>31658056
Hey miss rizal, Sorry to intrude. But do you or your people have a good idea of what to expect from this place?

>>31658074
... Not sure. But yeah lets do it. Have some flamers just in case for the plants.
>>31658182
I guess we can switch scouting to explore the base for more plants and damage.

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>>31658074

Supporting.

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>>31657359
>>31657205

Anyone else wondering what happened to that other Mobile Base?

Might be we have a stalker.

Get out of here, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.!

>>31658327
Yeah. But maybe the plants got to them.

>>31658056
To give a bit of background on my logic, I was imagining the speaker as a cultist who can enter a fugue state by inviting one of their many gods to run their body for a while. They gain competence but it's obviously risky. Something-with-too-many-arms-and-not-enouph-weapons seems to be a war god who likes making The-slightly-boring-but-still-important-god-of-physical-laws shake his head in disgust

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>>31658342

Either way, let's make scouting for it with aircraft a priority soon.

>>31658450
Yeah. Use the 4 paramilitary Shades with
>Checho the 'Big'
Leading the scouting mission.

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>>31658221
"I know little besides this place being one of the heaviest hit despite no turning into wasteland...the reasons for such exception well who knows. I just know we are entering the area known as the Heart of Darkness the fallout of one of the very hardest hit of the Fall created this this effect."

>>31658074
"Naw man this shit is paramilitary grade we can't find shit to upgrade them with much less have the ideas too. In other words we ain't the ideas or the materials to do something like dat."

Repairs commenced...but plants got in the way and we have yet to get rid of them all. Blighters are damn good at what they do. Bastards.

thanks to the Growing menace and lack of more advanced materials we failed to upgrade the hydroponics facility. Perhaps we will have better luck next time.

We have now officially entered the Dark lands the regions that border the Heart of Darkness and are noted to have nothing in color as well as constant darkness. In this region the sun literally never shines and at best its overcast. A cursed region most desolate and reeking of others.

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>>31658596

Eh, tooo much discouragement. How did the Memor ever get their biofuel equipment? How do we ever make forward progress without pulling something fucking brilliant out of our asses?

>>31658643
>How did the Memor ever get their biofuel equipment?
About a dozen or two turns of "Upgrade pls"

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>>31658596
Its noted to be especially gloomy today.

Regional scans indicate the following.

Bandits Above Average
Faction Density Low
Monsters Below Average
Zombies Above Average
REDACTED Extremely High


This region is noted to be nothing but desolate rocky plains with nothing but scattered ruins. More akin to a desert...if it the sun actually shined that is. Right now we are in the borderlands beyond it who knows what lays ahead. There are precious few sources of food or water this place is certainly of harshest living with basics in mind.

>>>Turn 21
>>>>>>>>A. Scavenge for food.
>>>>>>>>B. Try to improve the base
>>>>>>>>C. Try to improve weapons.
>>>>>>>>D. Research technology.
>>>>>>>>E. Pursue new mutations.
>>>>>>>>F. Explore in a direction/something.
>>>>>>>>G. Scavenge for raw materials.
>>>>>>>>H. Your choice
>>>Resource Points: 14
>>>Pop 1300
>>>Military 1000
>>>>>>>>Fuel: above Average
>>>>>>>>Food: Good
>>>>>>>>Water: Good
>>>>>>>>Morale: Strained
>>>>>>>>Armaments level: Good
>>>>>>>>Reputation: Who?
>>>>>>>>Infrastructure: Officer Quarters. Barracks. Pod Room. Medical/Vehicle Bay. Armory. Storage Units Complex. Sensor Suit Milspec. MP Prison. Ammo Dump. Supply Depot. Reinforced Structures. Hydroponics Bay(Basic)
>>>>>>>>Defenses: Bunker Door. Defense Net. Turrets. Braced. Fortified(milspec). Countermeasure System. Incursion Reverser.
>>>>>>>>vehicles: 35 paramilitary Hover Tanks. 4 paramilitary Birds. 4 paramilitary Shades. 8 Paramilitary Choppers 7 paramilitary APCs(hover).
>>>>>>>>Power: Fast breeder reactor, emergency biofuel generators. Geothermal Spike(unused)
>>>>>>>>Weapons: Pistols, Assault/Sniper Rifles (+Silencers), Grenades, SMGs, Shotguns, Throwers, Mono-Knives, Spewers, Heavy Weapons (assorted).
>>>>>>>>armor: Gearz Body Armor, Power Armor Hazard Series V1.5, Pilot Suit.
>>>>>>>>communications: Radio(encrypted). Net(limited), Comm Suite Milspec.
>>>>>>>>Materials: Supplies, Ammo Dump. Armaments parts. Vehicle Parts. Spare Parts.

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>>31658676

Now we can't even get rid of plants on a 98.

>>31658596
Thank you for you time.

Seems to be a easy turn then.

>Basic 1 Scouting team using the shades with Checho the 'Big' leading

>Basic 2 explore and purge. Find and clean out all infestation. Have gunny firework the areas to aid in find them. (Two actions)

Maybe we can make a game of it. Who ever finds the most plant mass. Wins a day off.

>>31658596
"Rothru, something tells me you'd know about light behaving strangely. Do you have anything to add to Rizal's warnings?"

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>>31658714
>>31658718

Clever. Who are you, Bob's Nephew?

Are you the one who's been begging for cultists?

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>>31658596
Hmm.
I hope we're still able to function without color. Like, what if we need to rewire the systems or we have flashing emergency lights that's color coded.
Worse comes to worse we label shit.
>Red Button
>Blue Button
>Pink Button

>>31658744
I did at one time.

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>>31658753

Quickly, press the red button!

>>31658753
Turns out half of us were color bind this whole time.

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>>31658714

Support.

>>31658700
Alright, so our heroes needed to take a detour to this place, so it's up to them where our next course of direction will be.

Do they have any specific places they request us to bring them to?

>>31658857
I believe it was a castle.

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>>31658857

Modolvania, or somewhere around there.

I'm guessing they're directing our general movement.

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>>31658877
>>31658891
Very well, then the helmsman is at their command.

In the meantime >>31658714
voting

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>>31658718

I support asking this, btw.

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>>31658714
Unless any one has changes. Other than make sure we have flamers for the plants. Rolling.

"You heard it people. We got a problem, a plant problem. The top 10 people who can find and take out the most plant mass. Wins a day off from all work as well as three extra meals."

>>31658983
... maybe make that 130 10% of our people.

>>31658744

Me? Just a gambler and scholar, bit of a jack of all trades. I've tried to read some of the religious texts in my travels. It's good for morale you know?

hehe, mayyybe...

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>>31658857
"Trying to find someone who is located somewhere in the Heart of Darkness beloved to be last seen somewhere Moldolvania.

>>31658781
Which button is that the color red again?

>>31658718
>>31658718
"This place is a place of darkness here Paladins have an HQ located somewhere for the Heart of Darkness. Despite having a fullblown HQ they still can't get rid of whatever it is. Its best to not go into foul sorcery and forbidden technologies. This place all of such can be found and more. Reason why this place is so such? A lot of places its very hard to get such potency in an area one can easily reach. All thanks to the concentration of Fallout near one of the very hardest hit by the Fall. Its said that place no longer quite exists...at least in the ways we are used to. Best beware though there is a full blown of zone of madness that lurks somewhere within the heart of darkness and there is no telling when one may stumble upon it. Some even whisper that zone of madness was actually the epicenter in other words the source of the Fallout that caused the formation of the Heart of Darkness. Truth betold the Heart of Darkness is a poor name as its not all Darkness as much as people wish it was. I used to be one of them."

>>31659039
>Truth betold the Heart of Darkness is a poor name as its not all Darkness as much as people wish it was
Yes but the "Heart of Colorlessness" just doesn't roll of the tongue as well.

>>31659039
crap ... CRAP. We still have the markings. Any one a paladin? Any one? Maybe in another life, ex paladin or in training? Crap going to need to work on this some how ...

>>31658983
If gunny can "BEEP" the plant masses we should do that.

Unless... The plants are psychic aren't they?

>Elton... Hate to interrupt whatever you're doing... but we've heard rumors that you can force psychic creatures to obey you. Think that would work on our plant problem?

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>>31659108

I'm sure that they can be obscured thoroughly given the expenditure of a few resources.

>>31658596

What ever happened to paramilitary shit being good for upgrading?

>>31659096
Heart of Monochromity?
Heart of Greyscale?

>>31659139
Let's just hope we don't do what the Memor did and paint the whole base orange with purple flowers.
Which surprisingly, wouldn't be that bad here.

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>>31659163

Heh. "You paint the whole base pink! At least you think it's pink, you're not quite sure."

>>31659183
>tfw when we leave the darklands we look like a unicorn vomited a rainbow on us.

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>>31659222

As it turns out, all the inhabitants of the darklands dress in obnoxiously garish outfits, you just can't tell.

... Why am I thinking about this area turning into rocky horror picture show now.

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>>31659299

It's all the jokes about it being colorless.

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>>31659116
"hm perhaps. Not sure if that would work though."

>>31659163
But that was because there was a pranking match going on between EDE and EVE.

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>>31658714
voting

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>>31658714
Don't know how i missed this...


We noticed a number of encampments, hives, dens, and more with our pass on the shades. Not sure exactly who they belong to but we do now know where their at. Though our guys did encounter some flyers they were easily evaded and didn't seem to notice our presence.

Our forces have successfully tracked down and utterly purged the plants that we missed...we even noticed some brood forces who snuck aboard and promptly purged those things too. Luckily there were not many of them by any means and we got them before they could do whatever it was they were after. Despite them having found a good spot it didn't do them any good.

The victor of whoever finds the most plant stuff was a pyromaniac by the way known as Flabu the Earnest. Apparently has always taken to flames and burning things especially seeking out more stuff to burn.

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>>31659737
>>>Turn 22
>>>>>>>>A. Scavenge for food.
>>>>>>>>B. Try to improve the base
>>>>>>>>C. Try to improve weapons.
>>>>>>>>D. Research technology.
>>>>>>>>E. Pursue new mutations.
>>>>>>>>F. Explore in a direction/something.
>>>>>>>>G. Scavenge for raw materials.
>>>>>>>>H. Your choice
>>>Resource Points: 13
>>>Pop 1300
>>>Military 1000
>>>>>>>>Fuel: above Average
>>>>>>>>Food: Good
>>>>>>>>Water: Good
>>>>>>>>Morale: Strained
>>>>>>>>Armaments level: Good
>>>>>>>>Reputation: Who?
>>>>>>>>Infrastructure: Officer Quarters. Barracks. Pod Room. Medical/Vehicle Bay. Armory. Storage Units Complex. Sensor Suit Milspec. MP Prison. Ammo Dump. Supply Depot. Reinforced Structures. Hydroponics Bay(Basic)
>>>>>>>>Defenses: Bunker Door. Defense Net. Turrets. Braced. Fortified(milspec). Countermeasure System. Incursion Reverser.
>>>>>>>>vehicles: 35 paramilitary Hover Tanks. 4 paramilitary Birds. 4 paramilitary Shades. 8 Paramilitary Choppers 7 paramilitary APCs(hover).
>>>>>>>>Power: Fast breeder reactor, emergency biofuel generators. Geothermal Spike(unused)
>>>>>>>>Weapons: Pistols, Assault/Sniper Rifles (+Silencers), Grenades, SMGs, Shotguns, Throwers, Mono-Knives, Spewers, Heavy Weapons (assorted).
>>>>>>>>armor: Gearz Body Armor, Power Armor Hazard Series V1.5, Pilot Suit.
>>>>>>>>communications: Radio(encrypted). Net(limited), Comm Suite Milspec.
>>>>>>>>Materials: Supplies, Ammo Dump. Armaments parts. Vehicle Parts. Spare Parts.

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>>31659737

Does Flabu the Earnest talk much?

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Anyone else feeling uninspired since we can't upgrade anything, and kind of suck at R&D?

>>31659757

>Basic 1
Have the Gerz guys check out our equipment and see if any of it can be used or repurposed for vehicle production.

>Basic 2
Obscure the things that mark our BSU out as a paladin base.

>Basic 3
Upgrade the hydroponics. (Gunny, Jury Rig, Rigged)

>>31659757
Is there a reason not to have the 'harvest' function on all the time? do we have to spend a declared action on it to use it?

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>>31659831
We are a paramilitary after all. Still, given time and stubborness weaknesess can become strengths.

I would like to put at least one action every turn to deal with the local terrain instead of completely isolating ourselves to base matters.

Although, basic action 2 does suit that purpose. I'll give it a vote.

>>31659831
Our moral is low. Maybe we can plant some tea leafs.

>>31659887
Or cooking contest for best cookies.

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>>31659774
>Earnest. Lol.

>>31659916
Prefect.

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>>31659887

Our morale has stayed Strained, it's because our various factions haven't spent enough time together to integrate, or are unwilling to integrate.

>>31659928
Maybe tea time would help with that. They could sit down, chill and maybe even open up.

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>>31659967

We do have standard hydroponics facilities.

Does our Gunny think we can build another one, now that we know how to make them? Or does it just require specialized equipment he can't jury rig or use fabrication equipment for?

>>31659928
Wish we had a fleshroom/pleasureroom. They always made for the best social gatherings and occasions for the Memor, and were good for underpopulation.

Rizal would be the most knowledgable on that matter, since she spent a lot of her early life with her mom being surrounded by Memor in the act.
Technically by now she's mature enough to speak on that subject, at least, considering age. Youthful disguise regardless.

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>>31659992

She was an ITTY BITTY babby when she was with the Memor. That's why we're on this quest, she can't remember any of it.

>>31659992
In fact I wonder how much longer before Rizal can become her own broodmother.
Could be anywhere from a few months to a couple centuries.

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>>31659998

I agree that'd it'd be awesome for morale and good for general usage though.

>>31659999
She's so much more than just a broodmother, Anon.

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>>31659879
You do.

>>31659774
He never shuts up even when he sleeps.

>>31659998
Ah, right.

Hrmm, it doesn't help that Tabula Rasa's records on that particular subject would be next to null too thanks to Volk.

I bet many of the souls of the Memor in the crystals are still irked about that.

>>31660025
"Souls" being a stretch, and more along the lines of a group of memories of an individual.

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>>31660025

Actually, supposedly Tabula Rasa is the only one who not only retains that (he never fully joined the Hivemind remember?) information, but also knows exactly what happened when Torg exploded those magic bombs.

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>>31660023
Don't worry genie, we will play him exactly as you intend.