>>31877269
In the sky you can see the three white spheres descending on the camp. The humans referred to them as Unity drones. They are close. Two of them stop with a loud burst of their thrusters and begin to circle the camp while the other arcs outward and moves down towards the far side of the camp. Your speaker is in no condition to run, although you are still not entirely sure if the drones would even recognize your drone as a threat.

>Attempt to hide
>Request help from the humans
>Attempt to flee
>other

>>31877424
>Attempt to hide

>>31877424
>Stay still and observe

>>31877424
>>Attempt to hide

>>31877424
>other
Play dead

>>31877472
this

>>31877424
>other
commit sudoku. dissolve the drone

...maybe after watching a little bit to see how bad they kill the humans.

>>31877424
>>Attempt to hide
Send some warriors for ambush, but do not engage immediately

We gotta get that Net Income positive.

>>31877424
We could use this chance to gather some tech to reverse engineer.

>>31877424
>Attempt to hide and observe

>>31877550
>Send some warriors for ambush,
bitch it's a whole day's walk if it needs protection from warriors that drone's a goner.

>>31877612
I was fishing for weapons to steal without casualties, actually.

>>31877424
You decide to take advantage of your drone's pitiful appearance. The speaker flops to the ground and remains still as the first Unity drone moves in. As it enters the camp an arc of lighting strikes it, sending it careening through the air and into the dirt. You expect it to have been destroyed, but after landing with a thud in the ground it begins to make a deep growling noise, and floats back into the air.

>send warriors as backup
>keep warriors at hive

>>31877643
Neither, send workers to retrieve tech after the battle.

It'll take like 12 hours to get there anyway right?

>>31877643
>keep warriors at hive

>>31877681
seconded

>>31877681
Yeah, I suppose we don't have enough warriors to risk engagement.

but do we have a plan for not starving, guys?

>>31877681
A group of healthy workers would make much better time. It took your speaker a day to walk the distance while helping a human with a broken leg. You guess it would take roughly six hours to travel the distance and six back, maybe more if they are carrying anything exceptionally heavy.

>>31877727
keep bringing in food? Starving isn't really a concern right now

>>31877727
Send 10 workers foraging in the jungle every day to support the hive?

>>31877736
Send in workers to retrieve tech if humans don't come back, obviously. Don't send warriors. No need to take risks ourselves, not our problem.

>>31877748
This. Starving is really not going to be an issue. Us having more upkeep than we have income just means we need to forage more. Thats not a big deal.

>>31877741
>>31877748
oh wait, I read the stats wrong.

Our reserves will drop under 200, and our Net income will be -50 or more

>>31877736
Send... 6 workers?

Dunno how much will be needed to carry interesting things.

>>31877736
Send 10 workers to collect tech.
Send 5 workers to collect food

What are the humans doing? Still fleeing? They wouldn't happen to be heading in our direction would they?

>>31877881
If they are we need to make sure to get rid of that body and gun.

>>31877881
no send 10 workers to collect food.

we need more and more of a buffer as we laid more eggs.

>>31877643
You contemplate sending your warriors to see if they could help in some way, but think better of it. The distance is too far, and you need them at your hive.

The unity drone spins around and lets out a loud and deep beeping sound as the long weapons on its sides focus in on the area the shot came from. A series of blinding bolts of light tear apart one of the large tree shelters, reducing it to ash and smoldering slag. The sphere emanates a series of wide beams of light and seems to scan the area with them before swiveling again to another shelter. The few humans that are still in the camp are swiftly vaporized before you, and the sphere begins to drift through the camp systematically destroying whatever was left of their supplies.

The supplies! Such a potential treasure trove of research and technology, and these things are reducing them to heaps of molten metal and plastic!

>attempt to pocket anything useful
>let the drone finish and remain still
>other

>>31877949
>>let the drone finish and remain still
it doesn't know we're smart.

>>31877949
Drone is disposable, supplies aren't. I'd say pocket.

>>31877949
>let the drone finish and remain still

>>31877949
>attempt to pocket anything useful

>>31877949
>>other
Distract the drone long enough for the workers to arrive?

>>31877949
>attempt to pocket anything useful

>>31877949
>let the drone finish and remain still
The drone has advanced scanning technology. I doubt it would miss any movement or missing equipment. Especially while it is focusing on destroying it.

>>31877881
most of them have fled to the jungle for cover, a few have remained either while trying to gather one too many crates, or because they were too wounded to run. The sphere does not seem to make a distinction, and with each human found it makes the same loud beep and opens fire.

>>31877949
>attempt to pocket anything useful
We need that shit

>>31877949
drone is likely to be recycled anyway. Might as well take the chance.
>attempt to pocket anything useful

>>31877949
>pocket
uh. we have pockets?

well time to fail the DC for stealth then

>>31877949
>attempt to pocket anything useful
roll 1 d100, best of three

Rolled 42

>>31878063

Rolled 54

>>31878063

Rolled 79

>>31878063

Rolled 65

>>31878063

>>31878091
pretty good

>>31878091
Good enough

>>31878109
>>31878113
I don't know, crazy alien robots hover drones...

>>31878220
my thought exactly.

>>31878063
Your speaker crawls slowly over to one of the smaller crates, attempting to only move as the sphere is looking away. Eventually you manage to reach in and pick out the first thing you think can be hidden from the sphere's scanning. A small disk shaped object that fits in the speaker's claw. You stuff it in the ground and lay back down just as the crate explodes. The sphere floats to you and stairs you down as it attempt to understand what your drone is. Its face, if you could call it that, holds a single red eye positioned in a swivel on the right side of its front panel, while on the other side a blank disk flairs with the scanning beam. Eventually it lets out a high pitched beep and with several hisses of its maneuvering jets it returns to the air with the others.
The three spheres turn in opposite directions and move off into the distance. You are unsure if it thought your drone was dead, or if it simple didn't care.
Regardless, you managed to take a sample of...whatever this thing is.

>Move to the jungle and find the humans
>Send workers to carry the speaker to the hive
>Send workers to take the salvage to the hive, and carry the worker to find the humans
>other

>>31878273
>Send workers to take the salvage to the hive, and carry the worker to find the humans
>Send workers to carry the speaker to the hive

>>31878273
>>Send workers to take the salvage to the hive, and carry the worker to find the humans
We can bury the disc in a place the workers can find it.

Uh, wait. how long will it take the Speaker to heal damage to its legs? should we hatch a new one now?

>>31878273
>Send workers to take the salvage to the hive, and carry the worker to find the humans

>>31878273
Send the speaker to find the humans,
Send workers to salvage the site

>>31878273
Oh, wait.

I guess have the workers come, retrieve technology, and some workers move onward to at least track the humans so we can send a fully healed Speaker to them later.

>>31878340
Several days naturally, much sooner with medical attention.

>>31878273
>>Send workers to carry the speaker to the hive
>>Send workers to take the salvage to the hive, and carry the worker to find the humans
>>other
tell Lee to offer the survivors help if they need it

>>31878273
>Send workers to take the salvage to the hive, and carry the worker to find the humans.

You mean the speaker? Also voting on this

>>31878273
>>Send workers to carry the speaker to the hive
Don't send the speaker after the humans. just watch them silently with two workers so we know where they're running to.

The life ships?

>>31878427
uh anon.

Lee is one of the survivors, what are you on

>>31878465
>tell Lee
meant have speaker tell Lee (since he likes us) that we can offer aid if they need it
im tired anon

>>31878427
If you mean have Lee ask if they need help I would not mind this.

Can we get a thinker working on ways to convert our food stuffs into something that the humans can eat.

Focus on searching the crash site for some way to figure out how humans work better?

How badly vaporized? Lightning Gun burned or piles of ash?

>>31878273
>Send workers to take the salvage to the hive, and carry the speaker to find the humans

>>31878273
You dispatch a team of workers to see if the Unity missed anything of value and tend to the speaker. A small team will suffice, and five workers halt their duties and move out of the hive.
Your speaker can still see a few of the humans in the jungle. They appear to be tending to wounded and accounting for supplies. There are far fewer of them now...

Your speaker quickly buries the small disk for the workers to collect later, and as you do so a small pile of rubble shifts and a singed hand thrusts forth. It appears Lee was slow but lucky. What do you wish to say?

>>31878630
"What is your status?"

>>31878630
"I trust you are as unkillable as ever?"

>>31878630
'lucky'

>>31878630
"Are you functioning?"

>>31878630
>Query. Have you sustained fatal injuries?
>Intrigued. What were those things?
>Mournfully. Many have fallen, will you move on? >Shelter can be offered by the Hive.

>>31878752
>>Shelter can be offered by the Hive.
No it can't.

Do not make enemies with the drones by giving succor to their enemy.

>>31878776
but pet humans

>>31878797
The humans are going to a farm with lots of space to run around in, son.

>>31878752
>>31878711
>>31878668
Sounds good to me.

>>31878630
Your speaker slowly crawls to Lee, who struggles to free himself from the rubble.
"You seem to be unkillable. What is your condition." You think you are starting to get used to speech. It's a quaint thing. Inefficient, but entertaining.
Lee looks at you and begins to laugh. "For a giant bug you have a hell of a sense of humor. Damn tree fell on me when that thing opened fire. I was lucky most of it was ash or I would have been crushed instead of buried." Lee looks down at your speakers legs. "You look like how I feel..."

>>31878752
I am only willing to offer them shelter if they help the hive.

>>31878880
obviously

>>31878840
We'll probably have the speaker return to heal or be recycled, but I guess it can hang out with Lee for now?

>>31878880
Which they can't.

We can study their tech they won't need after they're dead though.

>>31878840
"Those were Unity? Explain."
"Ugh! and here I thought I had taught you small talk." Lee forces himself up on his side and begins waiving frantically to the treeline. A small number of humans sprint towards you and Lee in response.
"They refer to themselves as the Unity Networked System. Those things were just drones. They don't think on their own, but there's bound to be a ship in the system to control them. If you can blow the ship the drones deactivate. It's easier said than done though." He points to the sky. "Those things will be back to look for looters. In the meantime they will be setting up a search pattern."

>Offer shelter
>Do not mention it

>>31878973
>offer shelter

>>31878943
>>31878880
Can't we lead to someplace safe other than the hive?

>>31878973
>>Do not mention it

they'll look for it in the life pods anyway.

>>31878973
>>Do not mention it
Let's let the workers do their job

>>31878973
We can offer shelter but only if they offer something in return.

>>31878973
>Offer shelter

Of course they are going to work to earn their keep.

>>31879054
what in the world could weak bipeds who can't even breathe local spore infested air well do we can't?

>Do not mention it

ask if they're returning to the life ships.

>>31878973
Offer shelter

>>31878973
>Do not mention it

>>31878973
>>Offer shelter
"Lee, if you would work with us then the Hive can offer shelter, if your new commander can bring himself to live with stone throwers"

>>31878973
>>Do not mention it
"Where will you go now?"

Getting a human shaped target painted on our backs is so not a good secrecy and survival strategy.

>>31878973
>>Offer shelter

>>31878973
>Offer shelter

>>31878973
"Do you require assistance?"
"Probably, yea. A Union patrol will be here to look for us, and if the Unity are focusing on this planet it should give them a good idea of where to look. We just need to keep playing cat and mouse till the cavalry arrives."
"Cavalry?" You ask.
"Uh, in old military terms it was like, troops on horses that would come to save the day."
"What is a horse."
"That isn't important right now." Lee waves off one of the humans "Help...ah...my buddie over there too." He turns back to your drone. "By the way what's your name? You have a name, right?"

>>31879070
They have their own strengths while we have ours.

They are more on the Machinery Tech while we are more of the Bio side.

They are also the only semi-friendly people we have met as of yet.

They don't have to stay in the hive forever i'm just saying for the moment we offer shelter.

>>31878973
Third option, ask How they would require assistance.

We can build them their own shelter away from the hive if they need it. We don't need to take them into the hive to help them.

>>31879201
"Call me.... [unintelligible bug noises]"

>>31879213
>They are more on the Machinery Tech
Yeah so we just take their tech.

Nothing about their biological bodies and what they actually do is useful though.

>>31879244
You mean [unintelligible crustacean noises]

>>31879201
"This one is merely a speaker."

>>31879201
voting for Admiral Bug

>>31879244
seconding this or crustacean

>>31879244
>>31879254
Lee:"......I'll just call you Steve"

>>31879271
>>31879254
Sounds good enough for me.

>>31879244
>>31879254
Let's do it

>>31878973
>Unity Networked System

Wait, the Unity are a hive also. Their hive has a thinker or a queen somewhere, the thinker must be transmitting to it's drones constantly if they shutdown as soon as the Queen dies.

So we need to figure out how to confuse the drones, or plug into them ourselves. EM modifications can pick up radio waves, so we just need a thinker and a few ways to scan for the Unity Drones until we can figure them out.

>>31879393
that's why we're laying a radio antennae specialty sensor.

We are, right? We never got told the nutrient cost of laying that.

>>31879393
>>31879422
We need to tech up and get hacker drones, as well.

>>31879213
You ponder that question for a moment. A name... A moniker that signifies ones self as individual from others. You feel it would be appropriate to give yourself one, but what could possibly identify yourself in your entirety using only verbal speech?

You decide to take attempt to translate your thoughts and sense of self into sound. It would be the closest thing to a name you would have.

"I am ..." Lees smile disappears as your speaker utters a string of clicks and chirps.
"Ah... I think I'll just call you Junior...."

The human Lee waved to you kneels in the mossy grass and hesitates to touch you. She has a look of confusion on her face.
"Ok, c-can you walk?"
You stair back at her as one of the snapped legs twitches. "We require a brace."

Under your vague direction you manage to tie several sticks to your legs. It isn't much, but it should help them heal more quickly.

>Join the humans
>Return the speaker to the hive

>>31879461
>>Join the humans
adventures

>>31879461

>Join the humans

>>31879461
I guess, if that...counts as medical attention for faster healing?

>>31879461
>Join the humans

>>31879461
>Join the humans

>>31879461
>Join the humans

Speaker's purpose is to interface with humans.

>>31879461
>>Join the humans
But hand the disc to a worker first.

>>31879590
covered already.
>Your speaker quickly buries the small disk for the workers to collect later,

>>31879590
Workers are about 6 hours out.

Bury the disk for the workers if we haven't already.

>>31879461
Your speaker is carried off with Lee to the edge of the jungle where the others are tending to much more severely wounded. Several of them have had limbs torn off while most seem to be broken bones. They move further into the jungle before too long and soon after you hear the loud blast of sound from the camp site. A loud horn like the cry of a dying animal. Sure enough, they had returned to search the camp once more. As your workers arrive the drones are gone, but the small disk is still buried in the dirt. They retrieve it along with anything left that could be of worth, which isn't much.

Roll 1d100 for salvage, highest of 3

>>31879508
about as effective as a cast for one of the humans at any rate. Primitive but effective

Rolled 36

>>31879605
>>31879608
I am making so many mistakes today. Fuck it, I'll come back later and read through the archives.


>>31879636

Rolled 76

>>31879636

Rolled 78

>>31879636
speaking of salvage...

the rest of the workers should be combing the forest for food today or something, right? we rolling for them later?

>>31879636
Your workers manage to find several piles of metal slag within the rubble.
+ 78 metals

>>31879673
Most of your workers have been busy installing the infrastructure in your hive, which includes doors, air filters, and ventilation ducts

>>31879673
yes

>>31879751
>+78 metal
we should arm our warriors when we can

>>31879787
agreed

>>31879787
I would be up for getting some more thorn launchers for the one warrior we have and for the others that will be hatching.

>>31879900
We need to diversify. With fire.

>>31879914
I like fire, but the chief alien threats here don't seem very burnable.

>>31879926
Acid is the way to go.

>>31879751
>current metals 88

The workers begin their trek back to the hive with their haul. Several large slabs of melted slag that was no doubt once a collection of technology. You wish you could have taken them in their prime, but at the very least they can feed your growing hive.

The humans are in poor shape. There are hardly a dozen remaining, including the ones you spoke to before, Trevor and Seiner. The doctor seems preoccupied with wounded while Trevor is looking rather intently at a small map he has crudely carved into the dirt.

"If we can get to high ground here, we would at least be able to get a signal when the fleet gets here." He says.
Another human is stooped over the map with him ."Or we could set off the drones' sensors. We should stay around the jungle area, they will have a much harder time finding us." She circles a plot of the map with her finger.
"The jungle is how we lost the first few men. This place is just as deadly as the drones."

They continue the argument until night. Your workers return their metals and the humans begin to sleep. The first few sleep in their suits while most remain awake, lighting guns at the ready. They take shifts through the night.

>>31879900
What about we make another thorn launcher, two sting casters, and a fire spray.

>>31879965
The Speaker should ask how their lightning guns work. Maybe it will make it easier for the thinkers to figure out what they need to do.

Plus we'd be sociable, plus it'll distract them from impending doom.

Too bad we can't figure out what humans can eat on the planet.

>>31879965
Your metal reserve is over flowing, the idea of arming your other warrior seems rather promising.

>Thorn launcher
>Sting caster
>Fire spray

Each will cost 15 metals

>>31880050
>>2x Sting caster

Let's save the rest of the metal for lightning guns when get to researching it.

>>31880050
Fire Spray, I imagine it will be rather effective against the fungal environment.

>>31880066
Lets do that

>>31880050
>thorn launcheru and fire spray
>one on each arm

>>31880066
Sounds good to me.

>>31880050
>>Thorn launcher
One per warrior. Don't want to lose accuracy or whatever.

>>31880033
"Your lighting weapons are powerful, how does it function?"
The leader of their group, Trevor, looks at you, then back to his pistol.
"It's called a CIP pistol. In our language that stands for Concentrated Ionized Plasma. It's rather complicated but the gist is that it makes a bunch of this stuff called plasma, then throws it at the bad guy. You should get some sleep... I think."

>2 sting casters

>2 thorn launchers

>>31880173

"This unit does not require sleep. We require more nutrients."

I'm fine with arming our warriors with those weapons. Can we give them stronger carapaces too?

>>31880173
'We would like to know more.'

>>31880287
>>31880173

"This unit does not require sleep, only more nutrients."

I agree with armoring our warriors if we can.

>>31880173
Are we making 2 of each, or is this a vote?

>>31880287
All I know is I read that and my mind changed that to "We require more minerals"

>>31880173
Little do they know that are just giving us more information for our crack team of super brains that will figure out how their weapons work.

>>31880173
No double-arming warriors though.

That had a downside, didn't it?

>>31880173
Okay, so we need to research biological plasma.

>>31880339
I'm reminded of Starship Troopers.

>>31880342
And this too
On a sidenote, does equipping two ewapon systems on a warrior passively reduce their accuracy or only if they fire them at the same time?

>>31880385
i assume it's passive, because they use both arms for steadying and aiming.

>>31880383
The thorn launcher gets an accuracy penalty.

>>31880173
-60 metals.
Your new weapons can be grafted to your warriors, and removed and re-equipped however you see fit.

>>31880383
Using two weapons will decrease accuracy by a small margin.

The next day dawns.
>252 nutrients 28 metals

Should you wish, you may feed your warriors 10 metals each to increase their durability in combat.

>Y/N

>>31880441
N

We still need some metal for the lightning gun.

Also why did we make four guns? There were no votes for that.

>>31880441
would the metals be recyclable upon their death by consuming them?

>>31880441

Yes.

Graft 1 of each onto each warrior. The slight accuracy penalty will be made up for by additional versatility and firepower.

They still keep their CQC prowess yes?

>>31880466
Matters not in the long run.
>>31880441
Feed the close-range one 10 metals.
>>31880482
As is everything, glory to the hive.

>>31880441
Y
Equip each warrior with 1 of each weapon.

>>31880466
People seemed to be in favor of it. You also have several more warriors that will hatch soon, and they would be able to use those weapons.

>>31880482
for the most part, yes. It is also a permanent boost.

>>31880488
yes

>>31880488
We should graft two sting casters on one of the warriors and leave the other with one thorn launcher.

>>31880441
Y

>>31880488
Wouldn't both weapons severely hurt their mobility?

>>31880441
>Y

Equip the other warrior with Thorn Launcher while the rest can be given to the others when they hatch.

>>31880441

Yes.

One of each weapon onto each warrior.

>>31880441
No, wait for the mining caste to find metal. We don't know that their current armor is insufficient for common predators

>>31880441
>Leave the first warrior alone.
>Graft two sting casters onto the second warrior

>>31880551
I am all kinds of okay with this.

>>31880441

Yes, up-armor them.

1 weapon of each type for each warrior.

Also have the Speaker relay a message to the humans: it may be possible for us to assist you in taking refuge in the 'jungle'.

We could send some workers there to carve them out an underground complex, which ought to be hard to detect, and then have a warrior or 3 patrol around its area to deter local predators from picking on them.

>>31880507
>Y
-20 metals
You equip one warrior with two sting casters, and have the other keep its thorn launcher before letting them feast on some of the remaining slag. They are the ferocious warriors befit a queen such as yourself, and they rejoice in your pride of them.
8 metals remain.

>>31880518
Not their mobility, but it will make them slightly less accurate (essentially no iron sights)

>>31880636

I missed a thread somewhere, what're the basic lowdowns on the Sting Casters/Thorn Launchers?

>>31880682
new pastebins:

http://pastebin.com/z4yZdEbK

>>31880682
I believe sting casters are smgs and thorn launchers are rifles.

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>>31880636
As you organize your warriors you detect one of the drones flying closer. It quickly reaches the river before shinning a bright light across the water and along the riverbank. It swivels back to the jungle several times before returning to the water, slowly gliding over the stream. You are not sure if your hive entrance is visible from its position, but the worker standing watch can see it in plain view. Your worker ducks behind cover to stay out of sight and quickly looks around. None of the other drones can be seen in the fog, perhaps this one is alone?

How will the hive respond to this strange creature?

>>31880700
essentially, yes.

>>31880754
>Try and stay hidden

>>31880754
I want its weapons.

>>31880754
I would be surprised if it didn't have infrared vision, so I guess keep working and pretend to be dumb animals.

>>31880754
ignore and observe.

so long as no humans are nearby, we should be uninteresting to them.

(can't get that radio sensor up fast enough)

>>31880754
>ignore and observe

writing.

>>31880834
you would need to kill it first

>>31880834
ha, if only. one of them survived a lightning gun blast.

we can't take it down with kinetic energy thorns.

>>31880983
What about acid?

>>31880999
We would have to know what its hull is made out of so we could make an acid that dissolves it.

>>31880999
lightning gun. blast.

not sure, but i suspect corrosion isn't going to be better than raw plasma.

>>31880895
Your warriors detect a large amount of radio emissions coming from the sphere and it lets out another loud beep as the scanning light drifts over one of the small, dried up strips of land that mark where the water used to flow from your hive. You had diverted the water to a reservoir several days ago, but the marks of erosion remain quite evident.

The two other drones shoot past and follow the river up stream. One banks off into the canyon past your hive, while the other flies off back toward the remains of the human camp as it follows the rain runoff. The third slowly floats up the mountain, following the dried stream.


>>31880983
while I won't say if that's true or not, I will say that different damage types have different effects on different kinds of defenses

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>>31881032
Your worker dives back into the hive and you realize that the dried stream it is following leads directly to your throne room!

>have the worker run in and seal the doors
>seal the doors and attempt to distract the drone
>send out your two warriors to attack
>other

>>31881121
>>seal the doors and attempt to distract the drone

>>31881121
>Seal the doors

>>31881121
>Send out warriors to attack
I want dat weapon

>>31881121
>>seal the doors and attempt to distract the drone

fuck it looking for any kind of artificial changes...

>>31881121
Oh, and if we attack it, aim for the bright red eye. Might be weak.

I am >>31881156

>>31881121
>seal the doors and attempt to distract the drone
Fuck it knows how to detect intelligent life

>>31881180
>beavers

>>31881121
>seal the doors and attempt to distract the drone

>>31881121
>>seal the doors and attempt to distract the drone

>>31881121
>send out your two warriors to attack

>>31881121
>>other
Okay, we just need to make it look like the water was diverted by a random boulder instead?

But fuck no the water got diverted way the hell inside our hive, we'd have to.... re activate flow, and then put a boulder further downstream to re divert the flow down there, somehow?

Not enough time.

>>31881121
If only we had a drone that could fly.

>>31881121
Your worker seals the door to the hive and moves out to attempt to distract it, hopefully luring away from your hive.

roll 1 d100, best of 3

describe how for potential bonus.

Rolled 77

>>31881256

Rolled 7

>>31881256

>>31881256
>Wave tiny head around
>Chitter
>Skitter into bushes

Rolled 55

>>31881256
Have it, uh.... tear up a bunch of the dried stream bed and surrounding dirt and sever the trail?

Rolled 9

>>31881256
Act unusually!

If we act naturally then it'll ignore us. If it thinks we're interesting then it'll follow us.

Once we distract it THEN act natural so it doesn't come back later!

>>31881256
Have the drone shake branches wildly above its head.

>>31881256
Writing

>>31881256
Have a drone jump onto the drone if its low enough to the ground, then attempt to flee, with the drone following it

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>>31881256
Your worker does its best to obscure the trail of erosion as the drone grows ever closer. It continues to let out a series of beeps as it moves closer.

Once you finish kicking up the mud along the dried stream you send your worker skittering down the side of the mountain, kicking up rocks and small plants. The drone swivels toward you and emits a loud roar in your direction as its weapons zero in.
The drone opens fire, pulverizing the rock around your drone in a hail of blind fire. Your worker drops to the ground and attempts to dodge the attack, ducking into a small alcove in the mountain as the drone's weapons pound the stone to dust.

At least it seems distracted.

>ambush it with your warriors
>attempt to rush it with your worker
>jump to the river below
>other

>>31881491
>ambush it with your warriors

>>31881491
>>jump to the river below

>>31881491
>>jump to the river below

>>31881491
WARRIORS GO

>>31881512
How do you want to bring down a flying drone capable of pulverizing rock and melting metal into slag with a flamethrower and two inaccurate SMGs.

>>31881491
>>31881491
lead it into the forest, hopefully we can hide and lead it to something hungry

>>31881550
With our rifles?
We got that other weapon, too.

Besides, we toughed up our warriors already. I want to see them in action.
Also, tech pls

>>31881491
>jump to the river below

>>31881550
Hit and run. We have two warriors so just keep smacking it form different angles till it dies.

The biggest problem will be if it tries to haul ass. I don't have a solution for that.

>>31881550
Thorn launcher its eyes out then take out its propulsion.

>>31881575
Which isn't mounted on warriors.
Are you going to throw those rifles at it?

Rolled 54

>>31881491

>jump into the river

>>31881605
It's not? I swear we had the bolt thing on, not the pea shooter..

>>31881624
Right, my mistake. Double checked.

>>31881491
This looks like a split vote

>[A] Attack with warriors
>[B] Don't

please quote this and respond with just A or B

>>31881605
one has two sting casters, the other a single thorn launcher.

>>31881491
>jump to the river below

>>31881628
Ah, well thats okay. I wouldn't want to fight it with the pea shooters either. But I figure the bolts have penetration, ya know?

>>31881640
A

>>31881640
A

>>31881640
A

>>31881640
A

>>31881640
A

>>31881640
Well... I guess it wasn't a split vote.

Roll 1 d100, best of 3 please

>>31881640

B

Rolled 10

>>31881713

Rolled 45

>>31881713

Rolled 70

>>31881713

Rolled 34

>>31881713

I missed the vote.

Rolled 14

>>31881740

Welp, hope 70's enough again a super-powerful drone

>>31881740
that was too close

>>31881741
heh, same.

>>31881713
I changed my mind at the end. We might as well start attracting attention to ourselves and having some fun

>>31881776
Plus now we know we can pick up their communication, now we need to examine their corpses to figure out how to build a Unity Speaker Drone.

>>31881848
Yep. I'm expecting a rather rapid expansion shortly.

>>31881848
unfortunately, if their mission is not merely elimination of humans, but the elimination of all rival sentience in the form of organic life, all that speaker will be saying is "oh god they're killing me help"

>>31881713

You decide it is time you test your warriors in battle and send them forth. They emerge from the hive and see the drone firing into the mountain side. It must have a weakness, everything does.
You split up your warriors. The first takes position above with the thorn launcher while the other moves down behind it. The back of the drone is covered in small ports, thrusters and exhaust valves. They seem to be the only feature of the drone's otherwise blank armor.
Your warrior opens fire, peppering the floating sphere with chittinous slugs. They bounce off the armored shell and the drone's weapon arm swivels completely around and returns fire. Before you can react the warrior is thrown back, the carapace across its thorax melted into a twisted heap. Your other drone has better luck. The first shot of heavy chitin creates a dent in the side of its armor and knocks it off balance, causing it to hold its fire as it wavers back and forth. It doesn't last, however, and with a loud buzz of anger it turns to face the warrior, weapons at the ready. Your warrior drops behind the cliff face as the bolts of light tear apart the stone from below, its focus now entirely on the one warrior.

Your other warrior is alive, although damaged. The carapace along its front is too badly damaged to deflect another hit like that, and your worker managed to avoid being hit.

>tackle the drone with the worker
>tackle the drone with the warrior
>open fire with the Sting launcher
>other

>>31882007
>>tackle the drone with the worker
>>open fire with the Sting launcher

>>31882007
>>tackle the drone with the worker
>>open fire with the Sting launcher

>>31881989
That just means it's a competing hive?

We kill the queen and take control of it's drones, to upgrade our technology. In addition being able to understand their transmissions gives us an additional advantage over humans.

>>31882007
>>tackle the drone with the warrior
those ports are dead.

point blank range firing in addition to rip and tear

>>31882007
>open fire with the Sting launcher
>tackle the drone with the worker

>>31882007
>tackle the drone with the worker
At the very least that might throw off its balance

>>31882007
>tackle the drone with the worker
>tackle the drone with the warrior
>open fire with the Sting launcher

>>31882007
>tackle the drone with the worker
>hold on to it to slow its mobility, maybe cover its sight or hold down its engines etc.
>open fire with the Sting launcher

>>31882007
looks like
>tackle with worker
>open fire with sting caster

please roll 2d100s each, best of three posts. First roll applies to the worker, the second to the warrior.

Rolled 87, 83 = 170

>>31882129
COME ON DICE GODS!

Rolled 25, 86 = 111

>>31882129

Rolled 8, 85 = 93

>>31882129
GOOOOO

Rolled 20, 58 = 78

>>31882129

Rolled 63, 87 = 150

>>31882129
Am I doing this right?

Rolled 5, 51 = 56

>>31882129
achilles heel pls

>>31882152
>>31882153
>>31882159
>>31882162
80s everywhere.

Rolled 57, 16 = 73

>>31882152
>>31882153
>>31882159
Glorious

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>>31882129
>87, 86
Welp.
Writing.

>>31882216
Sweet sweet tech loot, eh?
I am prepared. Are our Thinker's bodies ready?

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>>31882216
>pictured, all ours.

>>31882246
We need more thinkers.

>>31882216
shit the appledrones won't see what's coming

>>31882287
found the sauce btw.
http://torfrick.com/info/Drone.htm

Badass looking Drone

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>>31882216
Your worker emerges from the small alcove and climbs over the smoldering rocks as your warrior takes aim. The worker lunges into the air, its claws outstretched towards it. It is surprisingly difficult to grip the surface, and even the vulnerable looking eye seems to be impervious to your workers jabs. It does, however, knock it off balance. The drone reels to the side as it dips downward from the lopsided weight of the worker, and soon the drone enters a wild spin. The worker starts to loose its grip, and despite it jabbing and slashing at the sphere it soon flies off and slams into the rock. The drone impacts the ground and rolls into the cliff wall before returning to the air, albeit slightly more shaky that before, and fires at the worker.

The worker dives out of the way, its leg catching enough heat to sear the flesh beneath the carapace as the drone turns to follow. As it does so your warriors line up their shots, and a hail of chittin peppers the drones back, denting and scraping at the small ports.
Either through luck or skill a pellet enters one of the maneuvering thrusters, causing a small explosion as it backfires into the delicately balanced mechanisms within, and the drone lets out a high pitched scream as it spins back into the dirt. The best it can manage is to spin in circles as it lets out a hail of weapons fire in all directions before bouncing off the mountain and rolling down to the riverbank, where it grows silent and still.

A moment later your warriors detect a faint radio pulse flickering rhythmically from the corpse...

How shall the hive respond?

>>31882511
Break whatever part is emitting the pulse.

>>31882511
Aw man, it has a recovery beacon on it.

I say we take it to an isolated part of the hive, and think the FUCK out of it, figure out what's making the signal, and either destroy it, or throw it in the mind control slime.

Weapons, though. We can use those. Maybe hover engines too.

>>31882511
Immediately destroy the part causing the radio pulse and further disguise the river bed. Attempt to make it look like something natural stopped up the river and seal ourselves into the mountain after disabling and retrieving the drone

>>31882511
Cut that shit open. Deactivate

>>31882511
It's not dead enough, make it deader.

>>31882511
You attempt to deactivate whatever is causing the pulse.

Please roll 1d100, best of 3

Rolled 23

>>31882618

Rolled 76

>>31882618

Rolled 2

>>31882618

Well hopefully 76 is enough to do this.

>>31882641
I would have punched myself if I rolled 1.

But at least we can bring the remains back to the hive.

>>31882618
Your drones rush the drone and begin to mercilessly stab at it with their claws in search of a way to silence the beacon. It seems nearly invincible against your attempts, but eventually your worker manages to pry open a small panel, revealing an intricate layer of circuitry and mechanical devices. Your worker stabs it repeatedly, and after a short amount of time you seem to find the right spot and the signal ceases.

"What the hell was that?" One of the humans says. They rouse those who had been sleeping and Trevor raises his head to try to hear the sound again.
"It sounded like drone fire. Zoe, Aldin, with me."
The three begin to move out in the direction of the sound of combat.

In the distance you can make out the wailing cry of the other two drones. The same echoing sound like a dying animal.

>pull the drone into the hive
>leave it there and ready an ambush for the other drones
>leave it there and hide
>other

>>31882818
>>leave it there and ready an ambush for the other drones

Lets do this shit

>>31882818
>>leave it there and hide

>>31882818
>Pull drone into the hive
Gogogo hide get out of there.

>>31882818
>pull the drone into the hive

>>31882818
I seriously doubt we can pull off another ambush.
>pull the drone into the hive

>>31882818
>>pull the drone into the hive

>>31882818
How many workers can we haul out there right now? If we can get a dozen of them out there then move it inside.

Otherwise, keep rolling it downhill! If the radio signal is cut then they can only look at the last location. Just keep it moving and cover our tracks so the other drones can't find it!

>>31882833
3 to one barely got us out alive. and you want to take on TWO?

>>31882818
>direction of the sound of combat.
That means the combat we just had, right.

I didn't think we were in audible range of the humans.

>>31882868
Humans'd be there to assist us, I'd assume.

>>31882868
...maybe

>>31882878
>Humans who did nothing against the drones themselves

>>31882869
Gunshots are quite loud.

>>31882864
you have 19 other workers available.

>>31882868
well, maybe if we had like 6 workers leap onto each of them, swarming them and weighing them down and stabbing at the ports willy nilly...

uh.

maybe?

>>31882818
Seems to be
>pull drone into hive

roll 1d100, best of three for nabbing the drone and getting out of dodge.

Rolled 14

>>31882936
We be sly

Rolled 9

>>31882936
I cast GTFO

Rolled 25

>>31882936
aww shite. you'd think something that simple would be easy.

Rolled 42

>>31882936

>>31882936
Well then...
writing.

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>>31882942
>>31882950
>>31882954

Oh dear.

>>31882964
it had to happen i guess

>>31882974
Look at it this way. We still broke the transmitter, and even if our faithful children are slain, the hive itself is safe and camouflaged.

Still, I don't know if they'll actually salvage the remains or just eliminate whatever broke it.