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>>33029380

Stats and map.

Red is the Spire Bandit Base/Sanctuary
Purple is our in-progress Settlement
Blueiesh is our main abse
The line between them is the proposed route of a flooded tunnel or canal.

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>>33029432

Oops, forgot the stats. And the map.

>>>>>Turn 113
>>>>>>>>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: 5
>>>>>>Pop 580
>>>>>>Military 520
>>>>>>>>Food: Above Average
>>>>>>>>Water: Average
>>>>>>>>Morale: Good
>>>>>>>>Medicine: Below Average
>>>>>>>>Health: Good
>>>>>>>>Armaments: Scarce
>>>>>>>>Fuel: Below Average
>>>>>>>>Tech level: Crude
>>>>>>>>Reputation: Mutant
>>>>>>>>Infrastructure:(damaged all) Labs. Housing Units. Armory. Labs. Warehouse. Storage Cells. Mess Hall. Farm.
>>>>>>>>Defenses: Gatehouse, Razor Wire Fence.
>>>>>>>>vehicles: 2 technicals. 1 tank(wrecked)
>>>>>>>>Power: Nuclear Reactor, Emergency Generators.
>>>>>>>>Weapons: Pistols(limited), SMG(limited), shotgun(crude), Primitive(crude)
>>>>>>>>armor: Hides, Scrap Plating
>>>>>>>>communications: Radio(limited/crude). Ramshackle Salvaged Backup Comms.
>>>>>>>>Materials: Supply 2.
>>>>>>>>Mutations: Base,, Psi Eyes(beam), Sense Diabolical Digestion(includes gutz), M Brain POWAH, Toxic Mutative Immune System. Armored Hide. Gills. Iron Lung. Psi Being
>>>>>>>>Psionics: Psi eye Beam. Psi sense. Telepathy. Foul Fear Aura.

>>33029380
Don't forget Eden is back. But she is in pain still, I think. >>33028245

Rolled 89

>>33029512

I suspect that's either because she's pregnant, or met that soldier dude again who persuaded her to come back the last time.

>>33029575
I thought he just gave her a hand with something. Dam what did we do to make her leave. I know she went to go help mama, get plants and things like that.

Rolled 58

>>33029631

I think our Psy aura just pissed her off, and we said that thing that pissed off all our heroes for a minute there so she decided to head out.

>>33029739
I thought that was when I was trying to talk to our family and friends [Heroes]. But end up with the outcast.

Rolled 55

btw

Official bounty on fitting pics for my civs.

General offer is a slight bonus light a location reveal, special unit spawn, elite unit spawn, resource stash reveal, material stash reveal, ect.

So long as its small its okay.


Exception is when I make an official request for a pic you do that you get a general bonus like seen before.

SPECIAL OFFER
If actual art is provided that is 'good' (aka not scribbles though I will admit it warms my heart). WELL...that bonus is a secret.

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>>33029812
First of the good ones I found.

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>>33029380
Voting that action

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>>33029812
I think this one could help fit our ruins we found.

>>33029380
I guess we will need to re vote. Remember salt and good spices from Eden can help keep or food safe.

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>>33030132
If we need to revote I suppose we can. Feels bad though because there was plenty of time for that action to occur last thread.
Also, Genie forgot our thread-survival bonus I think. Heh heh heh.
>>33029380
Vote.

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>>33030196

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>>33030237

This one might be good as our main base.

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>>33029812
I'm like this one for the bandits.

But now to try and draw something again.

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>>33030275

>>33030275
Yeah, Liking that one for base.

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>>33030312

Last one I've got for now.

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>>33030050
Don't forget to name your bonus and do try to include something else as well unless your doing it as a bump.

>>33030196
...you son of a bitch.

Fuckers should bring that up. Goddamn it its even worst now because its an entirely new thread.

Fuck.

>>33030286
Alright you get credit for that one its so bandit it hurts. Though the lack of rough armor and the uniformity does kinda get me.

>>33030312
oh that is also nice.

Rolled 35

>>33030351
My players fucking gamed me...ooh gonna get you for that, but you also have my respect for getting me.

Gonna offer you this choose carefully.

1 story time plus buffed hero
1 story time plus revealed hero
2 story times plus hero spawn
2 story times plus elite or special spawn
3 story times OR a buffed hero spawn and reveal.

Rolled 92

>>33029380
Mushrooms got eaten apparently as it turns out.

Barbecue preparation has commenced, smokehouses are built, meat is marinated, lumber is collected, and grills are built. All in preparation for the event.

>>>>>Turn 114
>>>>>>>>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: 4
>>>>>>Pop 580
>>>>>>Military 520
>>>>>>>>Food: Above Average
>>>>>>>>Water: Average
>>>>>>>>Morale: Good
>>>>>>>>Medicine: Below Average
>>>>>>>>Health: Good
>>>>>>>>Armaments: Scarce
>>>>>>>>Fuel: Below Average
>>>>>>>>Tech level: Crude
>>>>>>>>Reputation: Mutant
>>>>>>>>Infrastructure:(damaged all) Labs. Housing Units. Armory. Labs. Warehouse. Storage Cells. Mess Hall. Farm.
>>>>>>>>Defenses: Gatehouse, Razor Wire Fence.
>>>>>>>>vehicles: 2 technicals. 1 tank(wrecked)
>>>>>>>>Power: Nuclear Reactor, Emergency Generators.
>>>>>>>>Weapons: Pistols(limited), SMG(limited), shotgun(crude), Primitive(crude)
>>>>>>>>armor: Hides, Scrap Plating
>>>>>>>>communications: Radio(limited/crude). Ramshackle Salvaged Backup Comms.
>>>>>>>>Materials: Supply 2.
>>>>>>>>Mutations: Base,, Psi Eyes(beam), Sense Diabolical Digestion(includes gutz), M Brain POWAH, Toxic Mutative Immune System. Armored Hide. Gills. Iron Lung. Psi Being
>>>>>>>>Psionics: Psi eye Beam. Psi sense. Telepathy. Foul Fear Aura.

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>>33030492

So if we choose "1 story time plus buffed hero" does that mean that a hero we are currently unaware of gets buffed...and we continue to be unaware of them?

>>33030351
Sorry, Was doing a rapid throw of them.

Light Rep boost. I want our party to be good and people to know we are okay people under all this monster. If not rep special unit spawn a master cook and/or gardener.

>>33030492
... hm. Buffed Roja or new person ...

>1 story time plus buffed hero
I trust our heroes and like them. I hope do the same for us.

>>33030587
Nice now who and how do we want to invite people. Still liking cards, But I guess it would be better to radio them.

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>>33030643

I would prefer the bonus to learning psy techniques that was suggested a few threads back.

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>>33030492
You may choose only one.

>>33030587
WARNING

A STRUCTURE OF SOME KIND IS BEING WARPED.

WARNING

GIGANTIC PSIONIC PHENOMENON DETECTED.

WARNING
MASSIVE OF PSIONIC ENERGY BEING DIVERTED FROM OUR FORCES TO CREATE....A SMOKE SCREEN OF SOME KIND.

WARNING
PSI EXPLOSION OCCURS as the warped structure finishes being warped in blasting the surrounding area...into crystals.

Meanwhile a whirling vortex of our diverted psionic energy having formed a whirling psionic storm above it comes charging back at us. It charges forth thrashing the surrounding area blasting into our base creating a tunnel downward...a dark deep tunnel it creates.

"Uh...oops that wasn't suppose to happen."

"Fuck I THOUGHT WE HAD THIS SHIT CLEARED!"

"We did must of been an unexpected development sir."

"Aw shit hopefully we didn't wake anything up down there. Any traces at that aborted mutant psi?"

"None sir once it went down there it utterly dissipated."

"Utterly huh?"

"Yup."

"Shit."

"Uh sir turns out there is anti psi countermeasures down there."

"Oh thank god i thought we had a problem there for a second...Anyway we heard you mutants had a psi problem?"

>>33030662
I'm thinking it would be best to know what changes after the paladins are done first. But I really what our party to go well. Plus having gardener or cook will keep our food better. which in turn I'm sure will improve morale and trade later.

>>33030351
>name your bonus

>Book Reveal
The Idiots Guide to Starting up your base.

A simple book the great Vault builders realized that way down in the future, the denizens of the Vaults and Bunkers may completely and utterly forget how to even remotely run the base or fix it. This book they detailed EVERYTHING on how to fix and run a base and the equipment from even the most smashed equipment and caveman like tools.

The stuff we previously thought "broken beyond repair"? Not so, if you simply check the guideline on how to put it back together again with these simple parts.

Forgot how to turn on your AI or can't tell if he wants to destroy al life? Refer to page 5 for programming tips.

Can't tell what's behind the scary lab doors because all the camera's are down? Why, just check the handy hidden safey hatches with a light source and air filter to find out.

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>>33030739
Alright I will admit that entire thing amuses me fine you have it now thanks to a some a clever mutant finding a mail package that apparently got sent to the wrong installation.

Rolled 95

>>33030712

Did a group of helpful people just teleport in and inadvertently turn a patch of our base into crystals?

"Hey, you guys know there's a Fall Relic and its guardians sitting down there right? And yeah, our psi got tainted/corrupted and we're also a fuckhuge psi beacon in case you haven't noticed already."

>>33030712
Shit, I thinking someone really wants that thing awakened. This turn thinking.

>Basic 1
Roja, Paladins and any one else with good eyes and tech/psi skill check the damaged. See if anything needs to be fix and repair it.

>Basic 2
Send party invites to the paladins, Cook that sweet barbecue and make sure every one has a good time.

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>>33030640
Unless it says they get revealed their identity wont outright be revealed.

>>33030643
Light rep boost accepted.

>>33030872
They didn't directly into your base they had a place already set out for them.

"Uh wait fuck really?"

"CODE BLACK CODE FUCKING BLACK GET THOSE FUCKING PALADINS DOWN THERE."

"Hence why we used your psi to disguise our arrival...alas no one said ANYTHING about there being a fucking Fall Relic down there. Goddamn mutants proving to not nearly be worth the effort...uh sorry Jerry."

"None taken Mike."

>>33030712
"We do in fact, if you haven't noticed, we sorta fumbled up a serum here or there now we're ugly and scary and we CAN'T turn it off. We've got guys working on it, namely paladins, but help would be appreciated.

Who are you by the way, we are the Proto-Guanyin, and boy is it glad to meet some decent company who doesn't spit in our face."

>>33030492
>>33030643
>>33030662
How about 1 storytime + Buffed Mama?

>>33030932
"Hey you fine people never asked. If we knew that you would be doing this we would of said something."

I guess we will need to hold off on the invite ... [Sad Face]

>>33030990
... hm. Sure I will back boosting mama. Maybe something to help her keep mutations from almost killing her.

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>>33030951
"Lets just say were psi researchers who owe the paladins. Shouldn't be too long before we fix that problem of yours. Just for the love of mercy don't use abomination shit anymore or anything else that is befouled for that matter. Paladins wont be so forgiving next time and we sure as hell ain't gonna bother with this a second time."

>>33030990
Hm if you want to name the hero that will cost you one of the bonuses. In other words you would have to give up on storytime in that case.

Of course if delicious enough fluff is offered you may be even able to CHOOSE your new hero.

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>>33030932

"Hey now, that's pretty rude of you guys. We hand you a Fall Relic while it's still down there nice and quiet and you're going to say we're not worth the effort? Jeeze, and we were going to invite you to the barbecue too.

Do you want some help with handling it, by the way? We're pretty good in a scrap and you've noticed our psi-strength."

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>>33031218
"Uhuh and that is exactly what the Fall wants you to think especially in the wasteland. Maybe outside the wastelands they sleep...nice and quiet like. But inside the rules don't apply."

"If the paladins can't handle it there are gonna be problems. Best pray they can handle it not to mention it IS sorta underneath you. Either way your gonna get involved whether you like it or not."

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>>33030990

I can get behind that, better be one helluva a buff if we're giving up spawning+revealing an entirely new buffed hero or 3 story times for it though.

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>>33031264

"Well you guys would know better than we do, but it hadn't bothered us yet and seemed to be locked down tight so we figured it was slumbering. Do you have any questions for us about it?"

>>33031169
>Of course if delicious enough fluff is offered you may be even able to CHOOSE your new hero.

Even Dr. Bill Siegfreud?

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Alert Paladin forces are mobilizing.

Forces detected emerging from the warped in structure joining the paladins while they are headed this way.

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>>33031400

May we contact the Paladins and ask them how we may best assist?

>>33031400
"So should we just sit here or is there anyway we can help?"

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>>33031454
>>33031482
"Depends on what you plan to do."

WARNING
PSI PULSE DETECTED ERUPTING FROM THE TUNNEL.

"Uh guys we have a problem whatever is down there may be starting to wake up."

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>>33031388

>tfw only discussion

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>>33031517

>Basic 1
Send Roja down the Stairwell with an assault force to scout out the locked down floor. Activate her eyes, Shara and Bast go with for extra protection.

>Basic 2
Everyone else prepare themselves for battle.

>>33031517
"We're not planners, we're farmers and children. You guys are the planners, and you know our abilities.

If us getting in the way would make it worse, say so and we won't lift a finger. But if there's anyway our Psi Beams and Toxic Immune system and Armored Hides can be of service, you say the word and we will be ready to fight.

What we want to do is help you."

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>>33031594
Vote this then

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>>33031607

"You guys also might want to consider that whatever is down there hasn't bothered or seemed to reacted to us, but as soon as you went marching down it's stirred up quite the hullabaloo. We were considering sending one of our scouts with an assault team and hero escorts to try and check out the locked down level while you guys draw its attention to the newly formed tunnel.

Does that sound like a good idea to you?"

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>>33031522
Don't rub it in anon.

>>33031808
"We haven't even sent anyone down yet."

"As for your plan...fair enough."

>>33031607
"Do as you will just don't get in our way."

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>>33031594
I believe this will be best. I was thinking sending ABOMINATION in. But I believe his psi powers will draw IT to us.

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>>33032386

To be honest I'm wondering if our corruption might not be a reason why whatever is down there hasn't bothered us yet.

Anyhow, while the wisdom of sending the Psy Abomination in at any point is debatable...we should at least wait until we actually send a proper battle force.

>>33031808
>>33031594
Supportan'

>>33032475
... hm. That is a thought, Maybe it thinks we are like it.

Rolled 70

>>33031594
Roja along with the assault force scout down to the locked down floor. They report nothing is unusual.

Forces are prepared for battle.

Paladins are information and waiting for us to take action.

>>>>>Turn 115
>>>>>>>>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: 4
>>>>>>Pop 600
>>>>>>Military 550
>>>>>>>>Food: Above Average
>>>>>>>>Water: Average
>>>>>>>>Morale: Good
>>>>>>>>Medicine: Below Average
>>>>>>>>Health: Good
>>>>>>>>Armaments: Scarce
>>>>>>>>Fuel: Below Average
>>>>>>>>Tech level: Crude
>>>>>>>>Reputation: Mutant
>>>>>>>>Infrastructure:(damaged all) Labs. Housing Units. Armory. Labs. Warehouse. Storage Cells. Mess Hall. Farm.
>>>>>>>>Defenses: Gatehouse, Razor Wire Fence.
>>>>>>>>vehicles: 2 technicals. 1 tank(wrecked)
>>>>>>>>Power: Nuclear Reactor, Emergency Generators.
>>>>>>>>Weapons: Pistols(limited), SMG(limited), shotgun(crude), Primitive(crude)
>>>>>>>>armor: Hides, Scrap Plating
>>>>>>>>communications: Radio(limited/crude). Ramshackle Salvaged Backup Comms.
>>>>>>>>Materials: Supply 2.
>>>>>>>>Mutations: Base,, Psi Eyes(beam), Sense Diabolical Digestion(includes gutz), M Brain POWAH, Toxic Mutative Immune System. Armored Hide. Gills. Iron Lung. Psi Being
>>>>>>>>Psionics: Psi eye Beam. Psi sense. Telepathy. Foul Fear Aura.

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>>33032615
*in formation.

I strongly suggest coming up with a battle plan while I get something to eat.

Paladins have their own which basically translates into kill everything, advance quickly, and stay in formation.

Rolled 18

>>33032648

>Come up with a battleplan with no information about the battlefield or foe.

Did Roja notice any doors that go further in?

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>>33032648
hm and it seems the dice gods are on your side...

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>>33032701
Information revealed is that its close quarters vault like, also seems to be overgrown with crystal growth and barricades/shielding.

Roja only noted the bulkhead that your gonna have to punch through.

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>>33032750
Exact condition its all in is unknown.

So have fun coming up with a strategy.

>>33032750

Are the barricades with psy blockers in them something we could carry with us?

>>33032615
"All right now signs yet."

Lets see if the "The Idiots Guide to Starting up your base" has anything on this.

Other wise thinking keep the light scouts to the sides and scouting. The heavy hitters middle. Roja with Bast will lead while looking for traps with his eyes. ABOMINATION and Wilson ( Also translate. ) will follow with heavy hitters.

If thinks get messy I'm hoping we can try and tame IT. Other wise we swarm it with our guys and monsters. But if it's Explosive we fall back and use beams on it.

>>33032830
O If we can using a shield wall formation could be good.

>>33032648
>I strongly suggest coming up with a battle plan
Oh, NOW you want the battleplans.

Alright, let's not make the mistakes of the past.

"Everyone who has any knowledge of our foe and how to fight, we request your opinion on this matter"

>>33032851
>>33032615
Also Consult the book, see:

"Unknown Incursion - Psionics"

>>33032919

You turn to the appropriate page and are greeted by the following text in bold, large print:

"GET THE FUCK OUT, WHAT ARE YOU EVEN DOING SOMEWHERE THAT CAN GET UNKNOWN PSI INCURSIONS??"

>>33032648

Be sure to inform the Researchers and Paladins of what we found.

>>33032851
>>33032883
>>33032919

>>33032750
Dialogue Requests

>>33032851

Your suggestions would normally be good, but keep in mind the environment we're fighting in and what we're fighting against.

it's a vault, confines are too close for any sort of maneuvers. Moreover its overgrown with psy crystals. Also (not saying it'll happen but it deserves to be considered) the foe is psionic and so things with primitive minds might could be dominated or frenzied fairly easily (it would come down to whether Shara or the Relic were better at controlling tgem...but Shara has no experience with psi)

>>33033474
We have the Wranglers that are train from us. So lets ask her about having them mixed in, shall we.

>>33032750
Shara Al'Kara Monster Master, How do you fare ageist psi? Do you think you and the Wranglers you train can hold control if something happens?

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>>33033171

We should also see if it has any advice on defending one's vault or attacking another vault for supplies.

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>>33032830
If you can deconstruct them quickly enough possibly.

>>33032851
The guide has nothing on Fall Relic tier stuff besides run like hell.

>>33032883
"...we don't know what were getting into. What we do know when it comes to the Fall best thing you can do is kill it before it finishes waking up. Otherwise your job just got insanely more difficult."

>>33033070
Pretty much.

>>33033636
"I can handle psi. Possibly as long as they were trained for it, are suited for it, and depending on the strength."

>>33033645
For defending it suggests creating kill zones and only retreat as neccessary basiclly bleed them dry.

Attacking another vault has no suggestions beyond stating how wrong that is and why would you do that when you already have everything you could ever need?

>>33033790
>Attacking another vault has no suggestions beyond stating how wrong that is and why would you do that when you already have everything you could ever need?
Turn to page 68 for "Encountering Communist Vaults"

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>>33033790

"Do we have any suitable monsters for you and the Wranglers to control against a psi-enabled enemy?"

"Alright, we found nothing but a bulkhead overgrown with crystals on the level that we thought this thing inhabited. Current plan is to try to break through once you guys initiate your assault and attempt to assist however we can while feeding you information."

Have the Researchers been informed of the overgrowth of crystals?

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>>33033790

"The strength is Fall Relic. Think we should just leave the monsters where they are?"

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>>33033945
Lol.

Hm ... battle planing. It's unlikely we can use monsters, But maybe our raw power can make up for it.

ABOMINATION { Jackson } I'm thinking well be a key player. But that will depend on the Relic it self.

Hey Wilson, Do you or ... Jackson have anything on what is down there?

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>>33034115

Should we, perhaps, still only send a small force initially and then send us all when we identify a key target?

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>>33034115
...Jackson says security system is online down there but..wrong somehow. Has in has a psionic presence. Also says there are horrorible creatures lurking down there too in particular one nasty monstrosity of a mofo.

>>33033993
"No. I don't deal in psi contollers or more precisely I don't have any with me thanks to you."

They have been informed and haven't said anything saying that doesn't exactly mean a whole lot.

>>33034176
Hm, Sound like a good plan. We send a small group to get as much info as we can. Then send the rest when it's right to attack. Maybe we can talk to the guards of this place and keep it down to gather.

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>>33034204

There must be a secondary security hub, or the psionic presence is controlling it.

We should make locating that a priority.

Or we could try to unplug the power feeds from the reactor topside.

we still need a battle plan don't we?

Well, we aren't fighting nurses or exterminators or lurklassholes, so there is still hope.

Do we have anything so far?

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>>33034333

Oh damn, we could've used that.

>Basic 1
Send Roja, Bast, and Shara to break through the encrusted bulkhead with a small force and scout out the area. Try to locate a security hub or anything else that could help ease the Paladins' assault.

>Basic 2
Consult our guide (probably under the section "Defense System goes rogue" or "Power needs to be shut off") and get prepared to unplug the feeds to the lower labs if we determine that the psionic presence in the security system is hostile.

>>33034435
I believe going with >>33034176 First will be best. Once we get the info we need. The rest of the troops move in adjusting formation to fit the new info. Passing it on to the paladins as well. Shara stays back and has the monsters in wait, If we need them. Roja [With Sight] and Bast with smell find the >>33034333 Power source, Security hub and Guardians.

Then have Jackson and gang get a few shields made to help with the charge. Keep the ones with the strongest psi mix in the group. In hopes their psi can protect every one.

... I'm sure there is more to add to this.

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>>33034515
Vote

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>>33034515
"When defense system has gone rogue please consult your nearest security officer. If that fails then use the overseer keycard or AI override.


When power needs to shut down then simply go the other power hub and turn the feeds off otherwise in an emergency direct override near either power conduits or power sources will be required.

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>>33034613

We're not using any monsters aside from Bast. Shara says we don't have the appropriate sort of monsters to deal with psi-enabled enemies, so we're going to avoid them.

This would actually probably be better.

>Basic 1
Send Roja, Bast, and Shara to break through the encrusted bulkhead with a small force and scout out the area. Try to locate a security hub or anything else that could help ease the Paladins' assault.

>Basic 2
Attempt to get some of the psy-blockers out of the barriers so we can carry them down into the lower levels when we assault.

>>33034204
We should really ask what she means by that later.

>>33034683
Fair and backing.

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>>33034753
Wow threes now I forgot the dice.

>>33034679
Skip to page 97
"The crazy killer robots have kidnapped the Overseer and killed the security team. Manual override tips."

It should be right after the "Women: that growing kicking belly ~ how to distinguish a fetus from a parasitic alien." cahpter

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>>33034819
Suggest AI override located in near AI Core there will be a manuel output for security system override if AI is unavaible otherwise please use security chief security card if or if said security chief is dead then next highest ranking member.

If all members are dead and AI core is unavalaible please use keycard on vault door or nearest switch to engage evacuation protocol. If outside is too hostile then Vault Security Self Destruct will be engaged. Warning if engaged vault security will be permanently fried until maintenance can repair everything. If maintenance is unavailable please read manual of Vault Repair and YOU.

Rolled 68

>>33034683
Vote

Rolled 35

>>33034683
Everything went well when our forces broke through the bulkhead...only to reveal the desolation of a old battlefield. Bots were seen impaled on spikes, corpses overgrowth with crystals dotted around...they seemed to have been trying to keep something contained and the machines fought to last...On the corner of the bulkhead one could see a special suited human impaled wielding a blowtorch to his last dying breath to seal it.

When our forces stepped in one could hear the crispness in the air and those bright clear crystals?

They suddenly began to darken and become misty as a wave spreading deeper and deeper.

That was when we started to hear sounds where previously...it was still. So very still.

*Click Clack Click Clack* over and over again.

Snapping noises...shattering and what sounded like a limping man walking with a cane.

That was when suddenly one of the supposedly dead bots suddenly blinked red raised its arm to seemingly fire at us...and fired a shot. zipping right past and hitting the enemy that was sneaking up behind blowing its brains out.


The enemy was a...corpse animated no fueled by psionic energy.

With that single shot the bots arm abruptly broke in half from the weight of bearing the weapons weight. With a single blinking cracked eye and suddenly a strange metal rod raising itself up we heard a message.

"Contamination detected...quarantine breached...mission...failure..." with those last seemingly ragged words the bot's sole red light went off and its head slouched downward.

music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc70lsFOYsU

Rolled 13

>>33035202
That was when all hell broke lose on the comms.

"oh shit HEAR THEY COME."

"BLAST THROUGH DAMN IT GET THROUGH THAT FUCKING TUNNEL."

Battle has been joined for the paladins.

For our forces meanwhile finally realized what those sounds were...when suddenly the seemingly dead began to arise. Down the passageways we could see figures heading right towards us.

That was when we heard a psionic screech.

"NNOOO"

That was when we felt the psi pulses...almost like a heartbeat and slowly it was quickening.


Luckily our forces had time to pull out some of the psi barricades to serve as crude shielding right on time too. As that was when the enemy hit our ranks.

Dead fueled by psi energy...both of flesh and metal. Security systems began to spark up and activate firing at both.

That was when suddenly the walls themselves began to warp and breaking out of them revealed tendrils of cables tearing out the psi barriers and hauling them deeper in...

What do?

Rolled 61

>>33035345
News

Security Systems seem to be attacking anything and everything.

Paladins assault isn't going so well in the tunnel. While they did catch the enemy off guard they had some seriously fucked up shit up their sleeves so the tunnel fight is most brutal.

Interestingly we have heard peculiar firefights deeper in...problem is it can't be either of our forces.

Enemies seem to be of the following psi zombies, psi bots, and strange psionic spectras of some kind.

Who knows what else may be lurking deeper within.

>>33035345
>What do
shit, let me think.

>>33035447
>Paladins assault isn't going so well in the tunnel. While they did catch the enemy off guard they had some seriously fucked up shit up their sleeves so the tunnel fight is most brutal.
OH NO WE DON'T

WE"RE NOT FALLING FOR THAT TRICK AGAIN

No pushing into the tunnel, no matter fucking what.

>>33035345
All right, I think that is the system trying to fix it self. Get more barriers and bring them in. Scout team hold back a bit and let the heavy hitters clear some room. Jackson vanguard the troops. Roja learn all we can from enemy. Any one good with tech use our brain power and get the robots weapons and/or them back online.

"Paladins we have a chance of tech helping us we need a engineer to help fix it if you have anyone to send, Please do."

>>33035471
We have a tank cannon use that to clear the tunnel.

>>33035447
Can Jackson move items with him when he warps?

Rolled 37

>>33035535
According to the Engineer that was sent to keep things working...somehow the tech was modified to feed of psi. In other words he has no idea what he is doing thanks to the psi contaminants floating around. Though he does admit that at one time the tech didn't include the psi modifications...that came later to keep things working.

The tank is rather wrecked btw.

Jackson can only take himself.

plans plans plans, let's see.

>>33035615
"Engineer, Jackson, I take either of these things would likely feed or overpower our Psi.

I wonder though, about the legends. The supposed Guardian of the Minds of the Dead, this. . .woman who is hungry? That it has not taken noticed her children being taken from her."

Rolled 4

>>33035615
Anyway time to use that special event...

WARNING
Heroes detected. Vece, Cloaker, and a certain soldier have arrived. The soldier notably quite forcefully drags Vece of somewhere...

That is until they got interupted by our own forces...who seem to have a bone to pick with Vece.

"Well well Vece time for you to get whats coming for you. No longer are the oh so special one when it comes to psionics."

"Hah you think you stand a chance against ME you worthless piece of shits?"

"HELL YEAH."

Battle has been joined on the surface

The heroes did not arrive alone as they had a odd mix of mutants and ghouls with them.

Meanwhile far above a certain entity looks closely and begins to adjust itself.

btw what was your chosen bonus with >>33030492
Anyway?

>>33035726
can it wait until the morning when we have a good idea? Then again, we could use it now. . .

Rolled 39

>>33035535

So what you're proposing is

>Basic 1
Grab all the psy-barriers we can and bring them into the area where the tendrils took them. Also, hold that corridor for the moment.

Meanwhile, Jackson, Wilson, and a large assault squad should situate themselves in the stair well to prepare to tear open that sealed bulkhead and proceed to try to push through if the enemy dedicates significant forces to trying to take our corridor and the Paladins.

>>33035726
How about a Buffed Hero Spawn and Reveal?

What do you mean our forces started fighting Vece? WHY?

>>33035726
>That is until they got interupted by our own forces...who seem to have a bone to pick with Vece.
"Traitors! The great enemy below threatens to swallow us up, and THIS is what you resort to? A petty act of hubris and stupidity.

You have betrayed yourselves, you have betrayed us, you have betrayed MAMA."

I'm thinking we help Vece teach these fuckers a lesson and quickly, we have a worse enemy to fight.

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>>33035738
That is why I brought it up. No joke your in a very tough spot. Its funny but i had thought you were gonna do one of those magical avoidances you tend to do. Not this time though...and thanks to you choosing to not mess with the potential issue on your own time may very well end up biting you on the ass.

HEHEH.

Pity anons got bored and left this civ. Though I know their pain...

>>33035759
That is acceptable.

If you haven't noticed Vece and your faction don't exactly get along very well. Comes from him being a strong little shit and your people being a bunch of dicks.

Rolled 88

>>33035793

We're a bunch of dicks? We really ought to be informed of these things as players. That way we can get in character.

Rolled 4

>>33035835

Because as I recall, he was the dick.

>>33035793
>and thanks to you choosing to not mess with the potential issue on your own time may very well end up biting you on the ass.
I swear to god genie one day your saying "you meddled with it too early time to die" the next it's "you held it off too late, your fucked"

MAKE UP YOUR DAMN MIND

>>33035793
>and your people being a bunch of dicks.
What, but we're childlike at heart. . .

>>33035615
Yeah, I think we can work with that.

The body yeah, But if the cannon can fire we can move it in place and shell them enemy down the tunnel.

>>33035759
You could say that. Main thing will be getting the robots fix to the point we can ask info of them. Hold the line and pushing where we can till we learn more.

>>33035759
Yeah why not. I wanted to improve mama. But a new hero could be of aid if we can earn their trust.

>>33035793
When were we dicks other than going to get him because is mama was sick? We even ask if we could call him bro.

Rolled 40

>>33035870

You think we can learn how to repair the robots and repair them fast enough that it'll make a difference in this battle?

Rolled 34

>>33035860

Well children ARE dicks, but I would like to know why/how we were dicks to him.
It's very strange how sometimes the civ is exactly as the players wish to express them...but other times our rank-and-file are dicks to people we really like.

>>33035903
They just need to work to the point we can ask them info and use their weapons.

Rolled 85

>>33035957

Robots are a bit complicated...and it sounds like these are possibly psi-bots so they're even more complicated.

Rolled 100

>>33035726
The battle surprisingly enough...didn't not go so well the Vece who was continually blasted by powerful psi...and surprisingly often it could match or even beat his own.

Suffice to say he was getting torn up quite badly with psionic energy lashing everywhere.

"HAHAH is this ALL you got Vece huh? To think you used to be SO proud to be SO much stronger then the rest of us. Now look at you bleeding, panting, torn to shit and so...humbled. So how about this thanks to what your Mama did for us all if you bow down and kiss my feet I will let you live!"

*hack hack* spits out a glob of blood and a broken tooth. "Heh should of known it was you...pity your survived all those accidents hah. As for your so called mercy..." Vece forces himself up knees barely holding his weight swaying back and forth "Go shove it up your goddamn ass before i do it for you. Should of killed you myself for what you did Joyce but you were a lucky piece of shit. No more this time...I am gonna do it personally."

"Halt Vek," ordered Cloaker as he stood up from watching the fight. "Let me handle this as you still have much to learn."

"HAH you gonna let this weak ass shit of an old geezer fight your battles for you" challenged Joyce. Truth be told he had a point Cloaker would of been considered weak even back during his day.


>>33035848
Vece had issues growing up major issues didn't exactly help he wasn't exactly a nice guy either.

>>33035835
Well not to everyone...just to someone like Vece. Your people despised the little fuck and only put up with him however barely thanks to his mother's influence. She did what she could...but it wasn't really all that effective and he thought she was taking their side. Poor kid was treated by everyone else differently while his own mother treated him the same as she did everyone else.

Dude has major deep seated issues.

>>33035793
I see no major problem here, the best way to deal with psy is psy.

We have spent a lot of time on our bodies and minds. Let's show the paladins we know how to use them.

We can fucking eat these psy bots.

We can probably telepathically comunicate with the fall thingy

Seeing as we are now flush with crystals we can probably make psy beam eye goggles

So many options guys...

>>33036009
>Your people despised the little fuck and only put up with him however barely thanks to his mother's influence
Sounds like we have a major purge to do. Guess the Paladins could be useful here for once.

Now is as good a time as any to kill traitors.

>Poor kid was treated by everyone else differently while his own mother treated him the same as she did everyone else.
And he was right to be treated equally.

>>33036065
see, that's the kind of thinking that got us into tangles with ultrapowerful psionic demigods like SHW.

>>33036009
Also, we need to go support vece and cloaker.. They are family...the rest is just material goods...

>>33036009
Yep Doc Bill is the hero we need. Get these people to sit down and talk out their problems. We are a family dam it. Yes some of us are different. But we shouldn't hate each other for it. Hell Vece could have been the best guy to show us what we can do. But no we had to hate him for what? Nothing because we became like him.

I'm pissed at our family, I truly believe we had good hearts till now and I still want to. But this ... Just this crap. We are people farming in the waste. We need to stay together, not push our family members apart.

Dam IIIITTTT ! I'm going to grab a juice box and be back.

>>33036126
>>33036009
Yeah, could we choose Dr. Bill Siegfried as a hero to come and at least treat our underlying conflicts?

Granted, in the middle of a great Psionic war. . .but hey that'd make a terribly great story for him to pass on.

>>33036199
So vece could have been a better bro...

And cloaker could have shown up for christmas once or twice...

But as dysfunctional as our family is, it is all we have.

It sucks that vece left us in our twilight years with no instruction on how to be a good psion...while mama was sick..and broke Eden's heart... But he needs our help and if we don't come to his aid he could get hurt..

Rolled 27

Basic 1
Proceed to help Vece and beat the shit out of our traitorous brethren and teach them some goddamn manners. We must end this fight quickly, there is a BIGGER enemy at hand.

Basic 2
>Grab all the psy-barriers we can and bring them into the area where the tendrils took them. Also, hold that corridor for the moment.
>Meanwhile, Jackson, Wilson, and a large assault squad should situate themselves in the stair well to prepare to tear open that sealed bulkhead and proceed to try to push through if the enemy dedicates significant forces to trying to take our corridor and the Paladins.

Can I roll for a sandwhich?

Rolled 32

>>33036395
Voted it so hard I broke it.

>>33036009
"Hey you with the face shut it. I can tell the you and Vece have problems to work out. But we got a Relic to deal with. This is no time to add more problems. Cloaker, You my not know us well. But I ask that you hold this off for now. We have a bigger problem to deal with down below us. Then we can sit down and talk this out. We do need blood to spill on this day more that is has to."

>>33036458
... shit don't need. don't need!

>>33036009
Dialogue requests

>>33035860
>>33036458
>>33036498

Rolled 17

>>33036395

>Basic 1
Everyone that's loyal to Mama, do their best to subdue these traitorous bastards (nonlethally) that are beating up Vece. Look, he's an annoying self-righteous cunt (like the paladins) but he's family and you don't kill family when you're as small as we are.

>Basic 2
Grab all the psy-barriers we can and bring them into the area where the tendrils took them. Also, hold that corridor for the moment.

Meanwhile, Jackson, Wilson, and a large assault squad should situate themselves in the stair well to prepare to tear open that sealed bulkhead and proceed to try to push through to whatever is trying to wake up if the enemy dedicates significant forces to trying to take our corridor and stall the Paladins.

Rolled 33

>>33036606
>>33036395
Supporting these and modification

Rolled 21

>>33036606

Supporting...I think we should hold off after this though until morning.

Rolled 50

>>33036613
>>33036606
>>33036395
I support. And roll again a guess

Rolled 96

>>33036009
Compared to now though it was at best comparing a torch to a bonfire.

"Problem with power as i said before Vek is not how much you have...but rather how you use it," explained Cloaker even has he became surrounded. As one the enemy charged up their psi forming crude bombs before lobbing their powers...only for them all abruptly backfire on their users. Wiping out more then a few in the process and Cloaker barely used any psi at all.

"See now? Another interesting trick that a little bit can do a whole lot. For you see psi isn't about using more power unlike magic. No psi is about finesse." With that lecture a mutant who got done charging up his body with psi made a lunge at cloaker who deftly moved out of the way while lightly and briefly tapping the mutant. Who continued flying past hitting a wall before collapsing and shaking while the life drained out of him.

"I know you may have a hard time using such finesse Vek but I do hope you get the point hm?"

*cough hack* yeah i get the point."

"What the hell you all standing there slack jawed for get him now fucker is a weakling even BEFORE we got this strong," ordered Joyce. His men for their part quickly went after him.

"Ah I remember you look an awful like your parents...you were the Chieftain's son yes," commented Cloaker a he deftly moved like a cloak in the wind, tapped, psi prick and thus slaughtered them all.

"What do you know of my parents?"

"Why I killed them of course."

"Wait...how could you do that YOU were the one who led that bandit attack," asked a hurt Mama Clarisa.

"Ah well yes obviously."

"you...you why so cruelly? Why take away many of our sisters and daughters?"

"Why you ask? Because of what they did to me. That is why? What you think they would just let me go unharmed?"

"Oh no they punished me, tortured me, took me out in the middle of the woods to have their way then leave me for dead just because i broke 'tradition' and the 'rights' of my so called 'superiors'."

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>>33036606
For family, Hope and a chance to redeem our sins.

>>33036742
O yeah and linking >>33036606 to Genie >>33036685

>>33036685
>For you see psi isn't about using more power unlike magic. No psi is about finesse
Except if you're the living embodiment of the hunger of the most ravenous plague ever to strike the planet, or a Prophet of Destiny, or a god of Rape and Locomotives.

Then you can brute force your way into anything.

Rolled 9

>>33035860
Well consideing how it was sitting right under you...granted i can understand not going in when your not prepared for it.

>>33035860
Now you are yes thanks to Mamas influence but before that is the problem...and the vestiges that yet remain.

>>33036458
"Some like him deserves to pay."

"I am no longer of your 'people' so do not DARE to order me around as if I was you lost that right once i was cast out."

>>33036685
"i wasn't even given damn chance So There i thought I was going to die...but then something worst happened to me. Zombies found me...thought they were gonna eat me...but no oh no that would be too kind of a death. Instead they started to drag me off. That was when I realized i had a fate worst then death awaiting me. Problem is I didn't exactly die. oh free tip if you happen to meet a lovely lithe gal hanging out with the zombies give her a romance novel she is the biggest sucker for the damned things."

"So yes Mama I DID do all of that and I LOVED EVERY GODDAMN SECOND OF IT. Even better it turned out you weren't even present so that way we could have some REAL fucking fun with me not having to worry a single damned bit," taunted Cloaker as he finished up his surprisingly not so gruesome slaughter.

"My sister...and Mother what did you DO to them huh," demanded Joyce.

"What I did to them huh? How about I show you?" With that Cloaker appeared right next to him and placed his hand on his shoulder then whispered something to him.

That was when Joyce screamed bawling he fell to the floor only to look up at at Cloaker before puking and then coughing up a sentence "you...what the fuck even ARE you?"

"Why I am what you made me," replied Cloaker before placing his hand on Joyce's head where then began so seizure. That was when he began to snicker "Fuck you would not BELIEVE how much i wanted so say something like that."

>>33036933
>"I am no longer of your 'people' so do not DARE to order me around as if I was you lost that right once i was cast out."
Those people, who tortured you, threw you out, and cast you out for "tradition" or "authority" are dead.

Or if they are not dead, they soon will be.

We are not the same people who cast you out before, but we are willing to work with you for the greater good of us all. We may not be able to redeem the actions of those who have wronged you, but we can do what is right to you, right now."

Rolled 13

>>33036606
...well on the plus side those traitorous bastards who ganged up on Vece are dead. Problem is they weren't the only sympathizers who didn't take to kindly to what the loyalists were up to and decided to resist. So...civil war here we go.

The traitors bring up on how everything got fucked thanks to Vece him being a spawned from broken traditions and rights thus cursed. Where Cloaker even ADMITTED to what he has done and god knows what else he hasn't. Then there is Mama who they point out is far to nice and kind to be a suitable leader especially now.

So...we Civil War now.

Meanwhile those down below who have much better things to worry about grabbed their psi barriers and are working on taking them to the area the Tendrils dragged the vast majority off to. Alas its seems to be proving to be a brutal fight which isn't going so well for our forces.


What do?

Rolled 55

>>33037038
"Hate to tell you but those who did those things are already dead I took care of that myself a LONG time ago before even my kid was born apparently...and they didn't go very nicely heh. Though I will admit next time I ain't gonna spare the kiddies because just LOOK at what happened."

"Ah well guess that goes to show that if one is a reviled mutant why not act like one of everyone believes you are one huh? Ah but back then I was young and naive."

"As for what is right for me now...uh what do you mean by that?"

>>33036933
I am a like mixed on who's talking but I will do my best to guess.

After what Cloaker did I can see that. But Vece is acting out of the hate we as a family did to him. We must not let hate consume us or we could end up killing other peoples loved ones to.

I'm not ordering I wouldn't dare do that to a person of your skill. I'm asking you a true master of psi to help deal with a problem before it could end up killing us all. [ Cloaker ]

>>33037049
Well this is great.

Rolled 23

>>33037049
Basic 1+2
PURGE THE HERETICS Traitors.

We have heroes. We have Vece, we have the Cloaker, we have MAMA on our side. Or in the least, against them. They have nothing.

All their arguemnts rguments they have is naught but folly until every single traitor who would keep us from fighting the true enemy is dead.

"There is an enemy greater than both of us combined. If you are not with us against the foe, then you are with our enemy.

>>33037112
>Hate to tell you but those who did those things are already dead I took care of that myself a LONG time ago before even my kid was born apparently...and they didn't go very nicely heh. Though I will admit next time I ain't gonna spare the kiddies because just LOOK at what happened.
Good, that's one problem out of the way. Now to kill the rest of their hate, and move onto bigger fish.

>Ah well guess that goes to show that if one is a reviled mutant why not act like one of everyone believes you are one huh?
You think YOU are not the only one like this? We have been shunned, reviled, and loathed by those we tried to reach out in peace. We have been sentenced to death

And what did we do?

We did not confirm their derisions. Instead we endured, we held fast, we still try to prove to them that despite what we look like or what they think of us we can be reasonable people, a good people

But we cannot be good people, when evil lurks among us and under us threatens to destroy us

>"As for what is right for me now...uh what do you mean by that?"
As i said, we cannot make up for the WRONG commited against you, the dead cannot be brought to justice. But we can do what is RIGHT, what should have been done to you and Vece long ago. Acceptance, understanding, tolerance.

Everything these bigots would want to take away from all of us and replace with anarchy and destruction. The very same things those whom you killed stood for, they stand for and we stand against them. If not together, then against a common foe

>>33037112
... Getting late for a good plan.

"Look the traditions didn't do this we did. Look how at how we are acting now and how Vece is in pain. We use the same psi has he does. We had a chance to accept him as a kid to treat him like family and learn from him. But we messed that up. He then comes back and mama tries to get us to give him another chance. But we blew it back in his face. NOW look at us. Beating him up and mocking him. We are doing it again, NOT traditions us. I'm sure mama doesn't want this and we don't want to hurt family. ... Pleas I ask of you lets no let this hate take us."

Rolled 11

Fuck I am gonna have to call it a night as i ain't thinking straight enough to write well.

Anyway watcha think?

Also suggest figuring out what your gonna do. Thread will expand into tomorrow because she I have had saved up for WEEKS is finally coming to fruition. Also may end up being civ death so we'll have to see.

>>33037217
Oh you sound like myself when i was young problem is bigotry runs deep even among mutant kind. Hell especially among mutant kind unlike humans we don't always look mostly alike."

"As for anarchy and destruction...well they weren't like that no they were the opposite. Truth be told that is what I LIKE. EVERYONE IS EQUAL IN ANARCHY AND BEFORE DESTRUCTION ITSELF ONES DIFFERENCES DON'T MATTER FOR SHIT."

"Thing is I revel in that sorta thing nay i flourish in it. While I hate the taboo and the bigotry. It seems we no longer see eye to eye.

Rolled 65

>>33037362
"Hm fessing up I see?"

"But hate is an awfully powerful emotion...and thus like a drug it can be addictive."

>>33037371
Luckily this will also give you time to figure out what you can say as well. So lucky you.

Night people. I hope we can win this one for that it's worth.

Just seems like Vece is trying to going down the path of his dad. That is no good for it seems his dad loves battle. For he wants equality and battle is a good way to do that. While the path we walk is a harder one. For we wish to make a world that is better. Not take the people out but to give life.


... or something ... man we are close I think.

Rolled 31

"Oi! If you boys need to measure your dicks, see who can dissolve the most crystal!"

The paladins are better at long distance fighting than we are, but we're tougher. I vote we set up a choke point at the entrance, make a hard target and start evacuating wounded. If the Paladins need to fall back to the areas we control they can, if they capture an area that we can hold we move up and fortify it.

I say we give joyce and his supporters safe passage to the outcasts. Some will take it.

Oh hey, this is up. Well, time to have more fun adventures in the world of the Guanyi-

Oh shit.

bump

>>33037371
"They were not the opposite. They were an anarchy of their own right. That they tortured you and shunned vece based on arbitary "tradition" and "taboo", which are a load of horsecock by the way, is a disorder and wrongdoing of the highest degree.

You became a bandit lord and lead your forces, you did not let anarchy and destruction destroy them, but made it as a tool for them to grow stronger. You visited the meetings for the Spire Sanctuary, and look where they are? A true paradigm of tolerance, what WE strive to be.

Your forces survived and thrive under your aid it is true, now we ask the same of you.

Outcasts don't reject anyone based on past history, and now we ask that same thing of you. Do not reject us based on the history of those who are dead and those who will soon be dead, we ask your acceptance and in return all we can offer is our acceptance of you.

We accept Vece for what he is, we accept you for what you had to do, but we did not want to make you that way.

But those who do reject you, reject Vece, reject Mama, reject all that we stand for and care for are NOT one of us. They are the heirs in spirit of those you so rightfully ended.

>>33037371
To the traitors:
"Your so called "traditions" and "taboo" are lies. I spit on them. They died long ago, or never should have been.

And now with the greatest enemy we have faced yet at our gates, you would turn at each others throats? You call yourselves Guanyin?

The true guanyin's only traditions are those of acceptance and tolerance.

The true guanyin's only taboo's are bigotry and to harm your brothers and those who have did you no wrong.

The true guanyin would not use what precious time to save the lives of his people we have, to fight his own kind for petty disputes and let the enemies jaws close all around us.

So tell us. Are you going to fight for your destruction or against it? In this time, there is only room for true guanyin so ask yourselves again, are you a TRUE guanyin?

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>>33037401

Quick question.....can we smoke psy crystal?

>>33041033
If we only could've asked Tabula Rasa.

Also that shit grows CRAZY slow, without any wacky intervention like today

So here's my thoughts...

Yse the buff on Jackson (he is our best fighter), compose a team of him, Wilson, Shara, Bast, and Roja to punch through with their Assault team and strike what's holding up the Paladins from behind. (we should ask Shara if she thinks she'll get in the Abominations' way woth Bast alongside her first. Roja is there to make sure security forces dont pop out of concealed doors and stuff). After they break the gridlock there their primary objective is finding wjatever is waking up and killing it.

Meanwhile we try to talk down the rebels and Vece/Cloaker. I feel we can ar least talk them two down. (demonstrate to Vece that we are real family because, shit we were willing to turn on our own and spark a civil war to protect him)

Talking down the rebels is harder, but we may be able to postpone the civil war until after this by demonstrating to them (and rolling high enough) that we were only moving on,that group because what the fuck did they think they were doing pickong a fight as a Fall Relic awakes?

>>33042029
> but we may be able to postpone the civil war until after this by demonstrating to them (and rolling high enough) that we were only moving on,that group because what the fuck did they think they were doing pickong a fight as a Fall Relic awakes?
Seriously what the flying fuck man. Now is not the time for this bullshit

>>33042121
We can always promise them a fair and lawful forum for them to voice their complaints in AFTER the crisis (the only reason we were responding with force, nonlethal force, was because the crisis mandated thay sort of speed. If they want assurance that we won't slaughter them with heroes once this is over: their insirance is Mama. She would never stand for her children to slaughyer each other, and we cant afford to lose Mama...so.

>>33042343
They were slaughtering Vece though. Her one and only true son.

>>33042343

But at any rate, as long as we keep level heads (lookin at you, silver tongue), consider all our assets, and utilize them skillfully we'll make it out of this alive. And maybe even with allies and assets as well.

>>33042405
>(lookin at you, silver tongue)
Hey, I mad. These fucking assholes decide at the worst possible time to this when we need every bit of help we can get.

I'll try tone it down though.

>>33042389

Yes, yes, I know. We were actually wholly justified in our actions because they were murdering family (no matter how dickish the relative) without sanction but that's something to be emphasized in the forum afterwards. No need to spark more tensions and arguments right now.

>>33042433

Don't take me wrong, i'm mad as all fuck at them too, but im in the middle of travelling so I dont have the opportunity to vent. Also, if we value the survival of our precious Guanyin then we have to remain calm. This is thread 11 and our equivalent crisis to the Memor's bandit or brood invasions. If we can make it past this then greatness will come.

>>33042647
We made it through on luck back in the day with the Memor, but we dont have beginner's luck anymore. To replace.it, we have veterans' experience.

Now let's survive this point in the civ for the first time since the Bloodsnows, and tben rub it in Genie's face when we finally actually pull off operation market garden

>>33042772
>we finally actually pull off operation market garden
I presume we'll be doing this by hanging on the coattails and supporting the Spire Sanctuary.

>>33042772
Also 10 threads in and our Science is still utterly crap and we don't have the labs yet. We're a research facility even. . .I know we need that hero to help us right now, but if we could only spend it on a scientist. . .

>>33042647
>This is thread 11 and our equivalent crisis to the Memor's bandit or brood invasions.
Oh, and one more thing.

All of this was triggered by none other than our local Paladins and their Psi-Forces.

In completely, typical, and wholly expected fashion.

And this time it's entirely their fault. I'll only be slightly disappointed if they get slaughtered down there, because not even we are immune for our fuckups.

They messed with the bull, now it's time to tangle with the horns.

>>33042902
Part of me wants to bail on this base.

We could flood it and hit the road and I wouldn't feel like anything valuable was lost.

>>33043093
How dare you give up the farm.

(But I can see your point. But nay I say we keep kicking ass.)

>>33043093
The farms though, man.

Also, we'll be losing a lot, its just not stuff we were aware of until now. Security syatems that are powered by Psy, and made that way by the security forces that are still alive down there.

The possibilities.

Rolled 68

>>33042389
Alas Vece was never treated that way.

>>33040079
"Huh you wish to go bandit? You ARE aware other mutants wont like that you know or the paladins for that matter."


Traitors reply that you are not proper mutants where taboos exist to protect and traditions to keep us from forgetting.

And yet we still became like Vece. After following the ways of our fathers. ( I hate being at work while this is going on. )

Also how is accepting them for them means we are going bandits or did I miss something?

Rolled 30

>>33043802
If it makes you feel any better i had this shit cooked up weeks ago I just hadn't expected it to go off with the event downstairs.

>>33043864

You might've been defeated by the dice on this one though, because any marginally sane inhabitant of the post-apoc is going to recognize that they either need to lay the beatdown on the Fall Relic before it wakes up, or gtfo of dodge before it wakes up.

Rolled 36

>>33044909
Hm perhaps but anon i have plenty more tricks up moi sleeves then just this. I am after all the twisted Genie.

Now just waiting for a battle plan.

>>33044947
What battle plan? We can't so much as help the Paladins while we're in a state of civil war. That needs to be solved first.

Alas, I'm at work myself so helping with that is going to be an issue.

Also we are GODAWFUL at battle plans Genie isn't evident by now? Our heroes are so much better in fact our plans are often detrimental to them, they can accomplish a lot more with some badass abilities and some badass attitude than we could in a wekk

For that matter, activating the fall relic was the Paladins fault. It's time for them to pay the piper.

>>33044947
>>33045085
The Paladins also said we should stay out of their way, and they are far better at warfare than we are. If that's their battle wisdom we should stick to it.

>>33044947
Fuck a battle plan, we should just move into base 2 while the paladins deal with our basement drama

>>33043864

You might've been defeated by the dice on this one though, because any marginally sane inhabitant of the post-apoc is going to recognize that they either need to lay the beatdown on the Fall Relic before it wakes up, or gtfo of dodge before it wakes up.

>>33043678
"We don't wish to go bandit, but we ARE calling on your outcast code. Your outcast code states that you must forget the past misdeeds of any who come seeking your aid, and we ask you, in name of Vece, Mama, and we who consider ourselves their family, to the point that we would fight our own KIN to protect Vece and Mama.

we ask for your aid. Help us"

>>33043678
"Forgetting what? The days when we scrapped out scum for a living.

Look at us now. We are at our strongest, our smartest. We have done in but a few months what your traditions have not done in years. What have your traditions done but cause pain?

And what have your taboos protected you from? Your taboos have caused naught but pain and suffering to our family, splintering and fragmentation and sectarianism. Cause us to be on the brink of a war among OURSELVES while a greater enemy is BELOW us. A fall relic.

I tell you this, you may ignore EVERYTHING else I have said, and we might argue about taboos and traditions till doomsday, which will be soon if we don' at least put aside our differences and fight the REAL enemy.

The Fall Relic.

If there is any amonut of intelligence among let us do it AFTER we save ourselves from the threat that now seeks to swallow us whole."

>>33045661
"That would mean your insisting on the aids of a bandit...you DO realize how bad of an idea that is right?"

"ain't unknown for settlements to let themselves fall before that ever happens."

"What you seem to want is so called 'damnation' in exchange for 'salvation'. Question is are you sure about that?"

>>33045661
Rebels seem to be planning to retreat. Apparently they would rather flee then fight.

Rolled 43

>>33045935
ah name fell off.

Rolled 2

So...what is da plan?

Rolled 72

>>33046329
Seriously though I need some fucking consensus already. Can't do shit without it.

Rolled 99

>>33046885
Votes been cast there just ain't enough...

Rolled 29

>>33047337
I don't exactly know what I'm voting for, but I vote for whatever gets the show on the road!

Rolled 26

>>33047530
waitan for what do?

to be decided. There have been a number of propositions problem is none have acquired enough backing.

>>33046329
>>33046885
We're not giving a battle plan until we solve the rebel crisis. At any opportunty, we must avoid a conflict with them or Vece and his father.

>>33045935
"We're not asking for the aids of a bandit.

We're asking for the aid of our Brother Vece and his father Merdo.

We're asking for the aid of family.

And THAT is not damnation."

>>33047337
Sorry life got in the way. That and was waiting for talks to end. We got one side done. Now for the other ...

"I believe you said it best about these kind of moments. "BEFORE DESTRUCTION ITSELF ONES DIFFERENCES DON'T MATTER FOR SHIT." And I like to think a Fall relic would count for this. True some will not be happy after words. But they will be alive. "

>>33047727
>>33047834
>>33047888
Dialogue

The Rebel crisis is abated at least, they're going to run instead of fight.

Now to just get Vece and his Father with us, and then we can begin a true battle strategy.

Rolled 83

>>33047804
The rebels are attempting to retreat apparently they don't wanna deal with the fall relic.

>>33047834
It is when one is a bandit...


>>33047888
"Oh using my own words against me...eh fair enough. Not sure what i can do though last time I went head to head against a relic..."

Rolled 38

Basic 1+2
Roja, go down into the Tunnels and use yuor
>Good Sight: Able to count as a detector can also notice hidden things.
To find a separate path that Bast and Shara can attack from, to crush our enemy in between two forces, us and the Paladins.

Then find anything that could both aid or hamper the paladins. Hidden paths they might have missed from where to attack from, or where they might be attacked by. Ambushes lying in wait for them. Even some remaining defensive measures left over from the battle.

Eden and Majin, it is time. If you have any secret plant special or weapon, use it against our enemies. Otherwise, use
>Overgrowth: Has an aura that causes significant growth among plants
And have roots seal of sections of the tunnel that are hard to defend, or places we can be flanked. Try to bottle the enemy into a narrow chokepoints in between our two planned forces, the Paladins and ourselves and work with the Paladins as such.

Eden will use her plant command to control the roots to where we want them to be.

As well as boosting our overall Morale.

Monster 1
Shara and Bast. Once Roja has found a second path to hit the enemy from the otherside, and Maijin has bottled them down with his plants:

Our enemy compost of Psi-Zombies. Use Howl of Hunger to rouse the Ghouls to feast upon the zombies, as well as to rouse the monsters and beasts on OUR side to feast upon the rest of our enemy. Shara will use her wrangling abilities to control and coordinate them.

--

As for the rebels. . .give them food and water for their journey and tell them when they need shelter and are willing to live in peace with us. Even Vece and his father

they are not outcasts and are welcome to return, if we can live peacefully.

We don't see eye to eye, but that doesn't mean we aren't family. And if we die here, they'll live on the Guanyin.

>>33048092
Does anyone among our heroes have objections, suggestions, or outright says "this is a bad idea, let's do something else"

Rolled 88

>>33048092
>>33048092
what is with you fuckers and diplomancing when it relates to bandits...

>>33048182
None have anything to say against it claiming its a pretty good plan I agree with them whether it will be enough may turn out to be a different story.

>>33048092
"Not today you're not. Today, you're not the Shrouded Cloaker, you're not the outcast or the bandit lord.

Today, you are Merdo Anskof, Vece's father and Mama's friend. And you are helping Vece's family. Your family. Our family.

But that is entirely up to you."

Rolled 18

>>33048182
Not like I could come up with a better plan on this phone.

Vote

Rolled 93

>>33048182
Supporting
for MAMA! Attack!

Rolled 51

>>33048182
We ought to also send Jackson, Wilson, Vece, and Cloaker in with the assault team gathered around the stairwell bulkhead as purely a kill team. While the Paladins and Shara and Eden assault and seal off enemy forces in one section of the base, our forces that've been feeding the security system psy-blockers also need to apply pressure.

Then, in the middle of a two-pronged attack the killteam of our very strongest heroes attacks, with their only objective being killing whatever is sleeping. Their extraction will likely come when the Paladins get to them.

Rolled 38

>>33048182
Make it so.

>>33048764
So you want our best to go on a suicide mission?

No.

Rolled 95

That was when Eden showed up with a certain soldier.

"Can't believe you actually did what I sai-oh crap that really is him."

"Oh this presence...I see why you didn't stand much a chance Vek." That as when Mama managed to get close and attempted to grab him only to be repelled by something. "Ah shouldn't have done that."

"What...what has happened to you?"

"Much and more Mama...but you." began Cloaker has he got behind Mama embracing her though doing so caused her to shiver quite visibly. "Oh...she was right. Your on your last legs aren't you? What have I said before huh? Act selfish every once in awhile don't burn yourself out solely for the sake of others. I always loathed the pressures the MAMA had to undergo with such measures."

"Hah you haven't changed much after all I see. Still a big softie at heart after all. Had me worried there for a second. Still big boy" began Mama has she looked up at cloaker. "I have a request." with that she whispered something to him.

"I...I um. That is a bit much to ask."

"I know you will do it well...I will admit i failed at it hopefully you'll have better luck."

"OH JUST FUCK ALREADY", shouted the other Mama." If you had any IDEA the trouble i had to go through to satisfy your picky ass..."

"Friend of yours?"

"Yeah...."

"She was quite the pain in the ass btw especially when the soldier showed up after Vek."

"Its Vece."

"That is a terrible name and you know it. that is why I always said you shouldn't name things."

"well...you weren't exactly there you know."

"You should of known better even back then."

"FINALLY someone agrees," muttered Vece. "You wouldn't believe how hard it was for people to admit."

"Shut up and best beg for forgiveness from Eden," stated Shrouded Cloaker.

"Wut?"

..."Ah guess were gonna need that talk no surprising consider your mother. For see boy when a man sticks his-"

"OH LALALALA I DON'T HEAR YOU."

"ah how did you know," asked Mama.

"She had that look in her eye."

Rolled 54

>>33048182
...so close damn.

Roja was able to successfully identify a separate path as requested. Which our forces have exploited to get to the heart of the mess...right on time too as the paladins have fought through the tunnel into the area where the Fall Relic lies...that was when we saw IT.

Meanwhile our forces have tried to use roots to our benefit...problem is the plant life doesn't have the same root systems of old and this facility was easily built enough to shrug it off.

That was when our forces striked along side with the paladins...problem is during the fighting Shara seems to have melted away upon viewing it.

Howl of hunger engaged...

WARNING
ZOMBIE HIVE HAS BECOME SPAWNED A ZOMBIE HORDE.

They are heading this way.

WARNING
Ghoulish forces are descending upon our location. They are already upon us.

"Well that is one way to get their asses over here and here I thought i was gonna have to threaten their silver ware."


WARNING
Monster dens have spawned their forces and are headed this way...except these ones came from below. Monsters somehow broke in from below and are flooding the area while swarming inside.


Rebels seem to be trying to run away very fast indeed.
>>33048267
Because i was thrown out I am a bandit it first and foremost that means family ties DO tend to be broken you know? As for 'Merdo Anskof' that was indeed my name before I became a bandit."

Rolled 31

>>33049300
What we saw that was IT...was a mountain of flesh with crudely attached psi plating hanging between two objects by using large carpets of flesh and impaled tendrils. There we could see pulsating tendrils work their way downward impaling...and pumping something into a punctured battered AI Core that flickered occasionally or spat out sparks. Somehow despite being utterly compromised it was not allowed to die.

Above both of which there stood a giant rotating crystal surrounded by an odd matrix made up of psi energy, crystal dust, and psi reactive materials. There it hung up as the fleshy tide below tried to rise up and embrace it...to drag it back into itself by its gnashing maw.

Luckily our forces arrived quickly enough and in tandem hit the defenders who arose hard enough to shock the crystal causing it to temporarily shudder out of whack as it slowly tries to right itself.

The hovering crystal. We could feel its odd cloying presence as it interacted with us...almost as if it recognized us.

What do?

the hulk of flesh has apparently started to take action. Defenders will end up pouring in soon. Right now we have an opening.

Zombies will arrive next turn.

Monsters are already here.

Ghouls are already here.

Defenders will receive reinforcements next turn.

>>33049300
>Because i was thrown out I am a bandit it first and foremost that means family ties DO tend to be broken you know?
And yet, here you are helping Vece.

If that isn't out of some sense of patriarchal ties, what then? Does he owe you a favor, or you him, or do you plan to make him one of yours.

Not that we have any choice on what our brother does.

>Because i was thrown out I am a bandit it first and foremost that means family ties DO tend to be broken you know?
Only because "tradition" dictates it so. His genes are is still your genese, and you can't change that.

And here I thought you were against biased tradition and inequality.

>>33049300
>problem is during the fighting Shara seems to have melted away upon viewing it.
At the WORST fucking time too, she better not be dead or we're 10 levels of fucked

>>33049383
>Above both of which there stood a giant rotating crystal surrounded by an odd matrix made up of psi energy, crystal dust, and psi reactive materials. There it hung up as the fleshy tide below tried to rise up and embrace it...to drag it back into itself by its gnashing maw.
"Vece. . .SC. . .what the hell is that thing?"

>>33048227
Because they are people too. To say other wise would be the reason some probably became bandits. That and these ones are family.

I'm thinking one day we accept all people into the farm. But they must

1. Help the farm.

2. Tell one person that is trusted by every one what they did. I'd they are view to be good people at heart we take them in.

3. If you have a problem with someone talk it out. We do not kill family unless it is necessary.

>>33049982
We trained tamers for this reason.

>>33050063
Truth, I pray they can match up.

This is a tricky situation, we have our enemies and our enemies enemies right where we want them. Once we find out how to react to the crystal and flesh thing . . .we'll know better how to act.

>>33049383
Also
Try to communicate with the Crystal.
"Hello"

>>33049383
Also Consult the Guide
"AI Infection - How to reboot and fix your AI after you've cured a nasty parasite."

As well as the next chapter

"Self Destruct - How to not press it when fixing up your AI."

Rolled 70

>>33049383
BTW this turn is do or die.

>>33049846
"Its because he didn't give me much of a choice."

>>33049846
"I am but i acknowledge the effect that is banditry."

>>33050025
"Fall Relic...and what I think is a Fallen of some kind most likely abomination."

>>33050104
When we tried to communicate with it crackled with psionic energy and lashed out.

>>33050193
If your AI is infected please contact your nearest AI Expert otherwise destroy it asap.

Don't press the big red with the skull on it near the AI core.

>>33050274
Well shit and here I have to be away for an hour fuuuuu

Guys, think on something. Now is the best time to have slow calculated thoughts.

>>33050274
> basic 1: press the big red button with the skull on it near the AI core.

We can end this right now...

>>33050319
If we do that just have every one leave and let Jackson warp in to push it.

>>33050369
Yep. We already have a secondary base ready to go. Fuck the farm, fuck our psi labs, fuck it all, let's burn this bitch to the ground.

>>33050428
We will use that a back up plan. For all we know that will not kill IT.

One ideas is to psi bomb the crystals and hope the explosion will not kill us.

>>33050274
Any one at all have some idea what these crystals can do and/or a plan we should use for killing this?

Rolled 43

>>33050561
No one does.

Come up with da plan unless you plan to follow the Paladins lead.

>>33050561
If that's not enough to kill it, then we need to retreat even harder.
This is a no win senario, we have to do what we have to do to survive.

Out of no where I keep thinking give Jackson psi armor and telling him to warp inside IT. Then just eat his way out. His got Unstoppable and Diabolical Devourer I'm sure he will be fine.

Awakened Abomination change his form to match the Fall Relic and just go full on monster show down.

Vece and Cloaker just Psi Pulse the shit out of IT and make IT lose control of it's powers.

Roja Find openings to attack and/or Weak points with his eyes. Find the Endless Path to IT's heart.

Majin Awaken the hope in our hearts and bring us forth from the depths.

Bast can make things hunger for the Fall Relic.

But in truth I'm unsure with out truly seeing this fight. The book knows nothing, the Paladins have to have something and no clue on the full powers cloaker or the new hero we picked to spawn buff.

There are a lot of unknowns.

Guys, I know this is risky but... we have monstrous digestion and psi ability, and just walked into a chamber full of psi crystals.

>Basic 1: eat the crystal.

>>33050990
That's actually kind of an awesome plan. Frontal assault with all of our heroes activating their abilities at once. Fucking epic way to die at least.

>>33051033
I'm down to smoke some crystal!
Get all jacked up before we go into battle!

>>33050621
... wait, Does Awaken revive people?

>>33050990
I like a lot of this, it's risky but so is a lot of other stuff. A few modifications I'd make

Genie said IT has an opening in its defenses. I say some brave souls leap into the breach and start surpressing/smashing/eating the crystal.

Shara's gone, but those she trained live on. I would say the monster wranglers should try to guide the enemy factions into focusing on each other instead of us.

>>33050865
I agree on the retreating, but let's focus on keeping it orderly and not turning into a route. We should definitely get the noncombatants out ASAP, with some of the less agressive troops as escorts.

Also... maybe have a few loyal mutants leave with the traitors, just to keep an eye on them. They can tell us by telepathy if they're planning something.

Thoughts?

Rolled 43

>>33051191
...no well maybe if they aren't dead or something.

>>33051334
Did Shara really melt or just get knocked out from ... I assume Psi overload?

Rolled 70

>>33051361
Who knows.

Rolled 41

>>33050990
>>33051273
You know this sorta thing does require rolls right?

>>33051273
So

Mama, Eden and 100 of our biggest cowards...er volunteers...go to base 2 while we attempt a full frontal assault on the fall fucker. Ready? Break!

Alright I'm back, let me have a look at this

>>33051479
These actions are all so risky that I at least want to give people a chance to say "what a terrible plan" before I actually roll

>>33051489
I'd agree, but let's not just keep it to cowards. I'd keep the first wave of evacuees noncombatants, fertile females, and males with hard to replace skills in that order. And anyone who doesn't want to fight obviously, but I don't think we have many of those

We if we can see a body let use awaken on her and any others that KOed or are still here.


It would be funny if we are all dreaming right now and by using the power we awake to see everything is all right.


Out of no where I keep thinking give Jackson psi armor and telling him to warp inside IT. Then just eat his way out. His got Unstoppable and Diabolical Devourer I'm sure he will be fine.

Awakened Abomination change his form to match the Fall Relic and just go full on monster show down.

Vece and Cloaker just Psi Pulse the shit out of IT and make IT lose control of it's powers.

Roja Find openings to attack and/or Weak points with his sight. Find the Endless Path to IT's heart.

Majin Awaken the hope in our hearts. Bring us and the fallen forth from the depths.

Bast can make things hunger for the Fall Relic.

IT has an opening in its defenses. I say some brave souls leap into the breach and start surpressing/smashing/eating the crystal.

Shara's gone, but those she trained live on. I would say the monster wranglers should try to guide the enemy factions into focusing on each other instead of us.

Get the noncombatants out ASAP, with some of the less agressive troops as escorts. >>33051552

>>33051479
We are still planing, Well I'm any ways.

>>33051504
Agree, We did this as a team lets keep working as such.

Lets Use our Brain POWAH!

>>33051575
Guys, what about the factions around us? You know, the Paladins, the Ghouls, the zombies, the monsters etc.

We need to balance them out.

>>33051605
Well once we got a plan down I was going to say ask the heroes again. Then let the other factions know.

Unless they are really bad at planing. But the Ghouls, the zombies, the monsters etc. Fall under Bast making them hunger for the relic. Less we have some other way of control them. Plus the wranglers are dealing with the swarm of defense "wranglers should try to guide the enemy factions into focusing on each other instead of us."

>>33051575
>>33051701
Jackson or the forces we send to combat IT in directly contact might become corrupted. Is there anyway we can burn it out or something?

>>33051746
That was the point to

>Vece and Cloaker just Psi Pulse the shit out of IT and make IT lose control of it's powers.

Unless the Psi Pulse skill doesn't do what I think it does.

>>33051605
my best idea is to have the monster wranglers use what they've learned from Shara to keep the ghouls, zombies and monsters more focused on each other than on us.

>>33051575
One more thing to add - we may have unidentified heroes. Some fluff might come in handy here.

"This is it everyone. Mama's going to a safer place. The thing we were afraid of is waking up.

It's time to show what we're made of. We have our battle plans. But if you feel like you can go beyond.. like you can give more than the average guanyin's prodigious amount...
Now's the time. Civilizations fall and heroes arise in times like these. Let's show the world what we're made of... or die defending it from something terrible".

Still thinking on some plans, these are good ones you guys are proposing but there's something missing. . .

Rolled 61

>>33051827
There's a silence after this somber address, then a thin, slightly nasal (if telepathy could sound nasal) voice pipes up

"And if we do all die down there, you know who will take care of the farm? Nobody, that's who! And I've spent too much time coaxing these damn turnips out of the ground to let them be orphaned by some damn fall relic that didn't know when to press the snooze button! So I'm going to go down there, stomp on its defenders and eat the everloving FUCK out of that crystal, and in a few days I'm gonna fertilize Eden's garden with whatever's left of it! LET'S KICK SOME ASS!!!"

>>33051982
All ways is lurking on the tip of our thoughts. But do not let IT into you mind. Fight it and find the missing piece to wins this.

I do admit I was hoping to talk this Fall being down and join us working on the farm. But it didn't like hello.

Maybe Wilson can turn into a plant type and give Eden something to do.

Rolled 49

Guys please wait for like an hour until I get ahold of a computer and can read all of this.

>>33052136
Shit yeah man, we need you fucking now.

Rolled 56

>>33052136
NNOOO damn it what to see if you live or die already.

>>33052102
Or maybe Wilson can turn into an orbital bombardment satellite....

I think the plan is solid, and we are not likely to improve it all that much.

It's time to turn it into an action and vote.

>>33052136
Oh shit smart anon wants an hour, it's the least we can do for our cause.

>>33052173
Paladins, what do we know about Fall Relics? How have they been dealt with before?

>Meanwhile, some other people elsewhere
Vece Shrouded Cloaker, what do you know or have heard about dealing with Fall Relics?

Rolled 58

>>33052510
"Fall relics are just that surviving relics of the Fall. As for how they are dealt with...we destroy them."

>>33052510
Vek knows nothing besides a few near run ins he avoids them.

Cloaker actually butted heads against one once it ended with him and his then gang being wiped out to the last man.

Alright, so what do we know about what's going on here?

We know that IT is jacked into the AI, and therefore controlling the defenses. We know the defenses were modified to run on psi power at one point. We know that we heard firefighting from forces that could not be ours or the paladins when we first entered this area.

...The Crystal thing recognizes us, it presence is described as cloying. Zarx's presence was also described that way (but so was Cloras in the Gearheads so that may just be associated with really strong psi).

>>33052836
Well there is guardians here. I assume we haven't meet them or they died. So that is probably who is fighting.

>>33052836
IT is trying to reach the fall relic and take it into itself or absorb it I think, but why it hasn't already I don't know.

The question is did the Abomination come from elsewhere to take the Crystal, or did the Crystal create the Abomination?

Furthermore, do we destroy both, one or the other, or what?

>>33052836
The firefighting may have been the robots and destroyed defenses we previously found earlier before encountering IT itself.

>>33052985
Well we tried to say hello and it lashed back at us. >>33050274 So not sure how friendly it is.

>>33052554
Hey Wilson any chance IT can talk or are you getting nothing from it?

>>33052836

The defenses were grabbing psy-blockers from us...we don't know if that was to open up an avenue of attack or for it to use them or what.

I don't think we have any ability to apply 'psi armor' to Jackson. God knows what eating the crystal would do (still maybe an option I guess?).

Let's see...the Crystal seems to recognize us. We weren't bothered by the shit down here but the Paladins sure set it off. Something has caused creatures in the surrounding area including us to have psi affinity.

We weren't bothered by this shit...the crystal recognizes us...IT is jacked into the security system, which was immediately hostile to the psi-zombies (and has been modified to use psi as an energy source)...there are forces that aren't ours down here that mayve been responsible for the modification...IT is reaching for the psi crystal. Maybe IT siphons psi power off the crystal to power the defenses? And also to animate the psi zombies? The robot that shot a psi zombie when we arrived didn't seem to be psi Bot or plugged into the defense matrix so that correlates...

Shit, Genie. Fuck your puzzles. I think we need to focus on taking out the Fallen (IT)? But...maybe not? Goddammit.

>>33053098

Then again, why would people willingly assist the Fallen if it wasn't containing the crystal relic?

>>33053098
We're in that same situation all over again.
>Play mutants
>Suddenly monsters attacking from underground
>3 choices of attack, AI, Fallen, and Crystal

>It's all the damn Paladin's fault again

At least there weren't any lurklassholes this time.

>>33053098
Okay, so before we make the hard decision of which target to strike, how about an easier one?

How do we balance out the Ghouls, the Monsters, ourselves, and the Paladins and buy us time to make a strike to our choosing?

We have a second zombie Hive coming in, dunno how big. I'd like for it to be a snack for the Ghouls, but it's never that lucky.

Also monsters are coming from underground who aren't ours or our beasts, and dammit that's exactly the type of thing we didn't need right now, but hopefully we can control them with our minders even without Shara. If only for a moment.

>>33053211

Oh, right.

I'd suggest using our Wranglers to try to set up a perimeter around this room we're in/our forces. Sure we have tenuous control but that's better than we have over other factions. If we can et up that perimeter with the monsters and then the wranglers can keep them from attacking us then they'll act as a buffer between us and the incoming reinforcements and the ghouls.

So basically the monsters end up keeping us safe while the zombies, ghouls, and reinforcements all tear each other to shreds.

I'm advising attacking the Fallen, but there will be consequences. I'm worried about what the AI will do once its no longer being kept forcefully alive...and also I may be wrong.

>>33053211

I'm thinking awaken will help in some way to maybe get Shara back up.

The ghouls and monsters should leave us alone for the most part. We still have the fear aura and Wranglers.

>>33053367
Well there is always kill it all with a button and psi bomb.

Guys wait. . .what if it's the abomination who is the good guy in this situation? And it's the relic that's the true perpetrator

Instead of trying to to absorb the Crystal, it's trying to destroy it with it's maw.

It's keeping the AI alive, and it's the one who's sending the forces and defenses against the psi-forces of the Relic.

And it'd be a sense of Irony to strike at him and destroy him just because he was an abomination and looked ugly. The kind of thing we were trying to avoid for ourselves.

all of this is probably completely wrong and you should ignore it

>>33052554
Attempt to communicate with IT
>Dialogue Request

>>33053367

We could try using Vece to attack the Fallen...but it looks like it might absorb psi power. So he might be best used on the perimeter holding off reinforcements and reinforcing the monsters.

Cloaked could try disrupting the Fallen's influence on the AI...no idea what that would do, but it might allow the AI to regain control of the security system and initiate purge measures (course those might include just blowing the base up). Alternately he could try to disrupt the crystal's flow of psionic energy or something...I dunno.

Everyone else I would suggest ripping and tearing at the Fallen first...though if it seems invulnerable then its likely drawing power from the crystal and so that'll need to be killed first.

>>33053459
We don't know if the monsters summoned below are our monsters and certainly aren't sure if we can control them without shara. We'll likely have to manipulate them into eating more of our enemies.

>>33053446

I've thought about it, I can't definitively say "No." IT would be odd for IT to have helpers in converting the security system to run on spy and shit if IT was pure evil....

Shit man, I dunno. Crystal or Fallen. Could be either, could be neither. Do a d2 and let Genie's Goddess decide whether we love or die.

I know this is out of the blue. But has anyone here played dungeon keeper? I was thinking about IT and now I'm thinking IT is a dungeon heart.

>>33053446
I'm hoping Wilson and Jackson can point out the guardians and translate.

I say we smash the Crystal.

It the fallen is evil, we have denied it it's power source.

If the fallen is good, we have helped it defeat the crystal.

We have proven the Crystal has a "cloying" presence (sickening), when we attacked our enemies it shook and fell slightly, and it lashed out at us.

The fallen would be easier to defeat without it.

>>33053631

This logic is sound.

Basic 1+2
Mama, 200 of our most fertile members with at least a few fighters proceed to fully evacuate to Secondary Base. Roja will scout out the path for them, with Eden and Maijin using the forest to their advantage.

The rest 300 of us so stay here to finish this.

Monster 1
Bast and our Monster Minderz, use the hunger of the Monsters and Ghouls we have summoned to feast upon our enemies here, and make an opening for us to strike at the Crystal.

Vece, try to do anything to weaken the Crystal or the Fallen's attempts at it. Try nullifying the fallen's Psi-leech, or any sort of shielding the Crysal has.

You have the aid of the loyalists Telepathy and Psionics at your command.

Tell the Paladins it's time to destroy the Crystal now, let the monsters and ghouls eat the rest.

Anyone have anything to add?

this is a proposal btw, I'm not rolling for it until certain dialogue reqests are finished.

>>33052554
Attempt to communicate with IT
>Dialogue Request

>>33053831

Oh, I forgot.

Retreat is not an option. We have a zombie horde on the way, and ghoulish and monster hordes already on us.

The only Guanyin getting out of here alive if we fail are the rebels. We can't afford to split any manpower off. All or nothing, right now.

>>33053631
... I think the crystal is system to keep the Maw in place. If the crystal recognized us, It would be from the Jackson came here or it had some contact with us.

>>33052554
"Jackson do you know who are the guardians or just that there is guardians?"

>>33053896
Really? Hrmm, well, okay then. We'll go for broke!

>>33053831
>>33053896
Also, if we are phenoimally luck that the monsters and ghouls eat everything we want them to, send them out to the zombie horde.