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"Control? I'm stuck. There was-"

Darwin drags his memory backward, and remembers. The collapse. The silence of an interrupted signal is all he can hear in his headset.

"Goddammit," he mutter, and tries to turn again. The servos whine, and he glances at the heads-up readout of his power armor as a falling feeling takes over in his stomach.

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Preston's drill.

"Preston?" he shouts. If Preston's mic is still receiving he doesn't say anything, but Darwin can see the autobore just beyond his reach.

=====

Equipment check:
*One set power armor
*One rock within reach

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whatever you do, please! To roll, put dice+1d12 in the Options field!

Rolled 1 (1d12)

>>38078808
Use rock to bring drill closer... somehow.

Rolled 9 (1d12)

>>38078808
Seduce the rock into getting the drill for you

>>38078808
Eat rock

Rolled 10 (1d12)

>>38078908
Fuck forgot to roll.
>>38078808
Eat the rock.

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>>38078861

This better work, Darwin thinks, and pitches the rock at Preston's autobore. He tells himself it's just like pool, there's nothing to it-

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"Shit!" he cries over the mic as the autobore skitters farther out of reach and clips the cave wall, and when the rocks around him start rumbling he almost thinks his shout somehow triggered another collapse-

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-but then a huge jagged chunk of stone plummets from the high ceiling and he doesn't have time to think!

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whatever you do, please!

Rolled 8 (1d12)

>>38079153
Evasive maneuvers!

Rolled 4 (1d12)

>>38079153
Try to reach for our own drill in the rubble

Rolled 1 (1d12)

>>38079153
Die.

>>38079153

Emergency cycle the suit's oxygen supply. It'll put you on your backup supply and thus a time limit, but the force of it should eject you from the rubble.

>>38079236
So I guess we're immortal now?

Rolled 9 (1d12)

>>38079273
>>38079153

Fuck me, I haven't rolled dice in forever. This is why I just lurk in these threads.

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The vibration worsens and Darwin feels something shift, so he gambles on his power armor's reserve and shoves himself backward, and like that he's free!

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Before he can get to his feet the spike impacts against the cave floor and drives him back, showering him with jagged rocks that would kill him if it weren't for the power armor.

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"Wow," Darwin mutters to himself. "That's a big pancake factory."

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Preston might be paste, but his autobore still probably works if Darwin can get to it. There's a gap in the spike that might be big enough to squeeze into, but the thought of being buried again under a thousand tons of rock retrieving it doesn't do much to settle his stomach.

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He looks around the cavern and sees an open trench that his heads-up assures him is back the direction from which he came, although most of the other readouts are offline and Darwin wonders if this one is any better.

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whatever you do, please!

Rolled 7 (1d12)

>>38079532
Get that drill, dammit!

Rolled 7 (1d12)

>>38079532
And hit our helmet a few times to fix the computer. If that doesn't work, try to sweet-talk it into working.

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"There you are," Darwin mutters to the dead air of his mic as he crawls on his stomach into the gap. "Shit," he gasps, as his power armor wedges itself on the sides, but then he fits himself inside and Preston's autobore is within reach-

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- when the spike shifts and begins to crack apart!

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whatever you do, please!

Rolled 4 (1d12)

>>38079714
Destroy the rocks that comes down with the power of the drill!

Rolled 5 (1d12)

>>38079714
Grab the drill and destroy every rock that threatens us!

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>Space Miner Lego Quest
This is getting real good.

Rolled 7 (1d12)

>>38079714
Pray

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The spike depends in on itself and drops like a guillotine but Darwin shoves himself back through the gap clutching his prize and skids across the cave floor...

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... only to discover that Preston's autobore is dead or broken.

Rolled 6 (1d12)

>>38079891
I roll to disbelieve.

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The remains of the spike form a serviceable ramp to the foothill of the collapse, but the trench Darwin's helmet insists is the way home is still more or less open.

Preston isn't going anywhere for a few geologic eras.

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whatever you do, please!

Rolled 5 (1d12)

>>38079942

Rolled 10 (1d12)

>>38079942
Head towards the surface! Into the tunnel and then onwards and upwards.

Rolled 8 (1d12)

>>38079942
What >>38079971 said, but also mount the drill bit on the front of the power armor.

>>38079955
Oh, I didn't see the "whatever you do" part.

Disregard this roll please.

>>38080012
>mount the drill bit on the front of the power armor
Oh baby, I know just where to put it.

I'm just dropping in to say that using a blacklight for this thread is incredible. Just amazing.

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Darwin thinks about Preston one last time and about his dead autobore, then gets hiking toward what his heads-up promises is home.

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The light from his helmet is paltry, and the cavern around him has a ceiling so high he can't see it. The walls disappear from either side and he walks blind through the unknown, praying that the direction icons know where they're taking him. Every step Darwin takes makes him feel like he's about to topple into a bottomless pit, and the solid ground under his boot gives him vertigo.

"This must be what divers feel like," he says to himself over the nothing mic.

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For one short moment the heads-up goes dark, and Darwin immediately feels a rush of terror. "I'm not underwater," he declares, and ignores the pounding of his heart that goes on even after the light returns.

There are no stones around him now. No stalagmites to stand majestically and give him something to look at. Oh, no, there's nothing here but him. Nothing at all.

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And then he sees a glimmer of light, and he tells himself it's just his reflection, but then the light gets brighter as he heads toward it, and Darwin finds himself having to stop from running and tripping, and then he rounds a corner and the cave-in safety frame greets him.

"Where were you when I needed you?" he laughs, giddy with all the working service lights.

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Mounted to the side of the safety frame is a computer terminal, and even though there's a blinking error light it's still working.

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whatever you do, please!

Rolled 1 (1d12)

>>38080435
Hack the planet.

Rolled 1 (1d12)

>>38080435
Find out how to go deeper. We have to go deeper!

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Maybe it's static buildup in his power armor, or maybe there's just too much dust under the controls, but the instant he touches it everything goes off, and Darwin finds himself in the dark once again.

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"Shit," Darwin declares. "This whole thing is shit."

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"At least I know I'm on the right path," he says into the empty mic...

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... and stops, when the external pickup catches the faint noise of something that doesn't sound like collapsing rock.

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Darwin starts to trigger his external speaker, to call out that old standby, is somebody there, but then he finds himself hesitating. Maybe he doesn't want to be found. But that's crazy. That's crazy, he tells himself, but he still hesitates. "I should just follow the path," he says into his helmet, and it's louder than he expects.

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whatever you do, please!

Rolled 5 (1d12)

>>38080735

search console for salvageable material

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The console detaches with a puff of dust, and Darwin considers whether or not it's worth taking with. It worked a few minutes ago, after all. Maybe something else caused the blackout.

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Whatever that noise behind him wa, Darwin doesn't hear it anymore, and in the light from his visor he can see that the darkened cones agree with the heads-up.

What will you do now?

>>38080735
Yes. We should follow the path. It will lead to our salvation. Just keep following the path.

>>38080932

find a power source to recharge

Rolled 9 (1d12)

>>38080969
forgot to roll

Rolled 12 (1d12)

>>38080962

follow the path

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The system is down, but there's still power running to the console box, and so Darwin reels out a power cable from a compartment in his armor and fumbles around until his gloved hands can make the connection.

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>BATTERY LEVELS: 39%
>POWER ARMOR: 17% MAXIMUM STRENGTH
>BATTERY LEVELS: 61%
>POWER ARMOR: 22% MAXIMUM STRENGTH
>BATTERY LEVELS: 65%
>POWER ARMOR: 24% MAXIMUM STRENGTH
>BATTERY LEVELS: 65%
>POWER ARMOR: 24% MAXIMUM STRENGTH
>BATTERY LEVELS: 65%
>POWER ARMOR: 24% MAXIMUM STRENGTH


The heads-up tells him the battery is fully charged, despite the numbers it shows when it flatlines, and Darwin is once again reminded that his damaged computer might not have any idea what it's talking about, but the line must have been live or else his heads-up wouldn't have said anything.

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The power armor does more of the work now, and his boots feel lighter as Darwin obediently follows the heads-up back into the darkness.

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After a while he finds himself walking up a main cut, and even though the lights are off here as well the regularity of the walls around him is a comfort.

Ahead of him the helmet's light shines on something lying in the middle of the walkway, and he stops for a moment before shaking his head and willing himself to keep going.

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It's not until he's right on top of it that he can see exactly what it is, but even from thirty meters back he has a good idea.

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The pile of rubble spilling into the middle of the walkway tells him all he needs to know and Darwin can't help thinking about the way he woke up and how he might be the only one of his team left alive...

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... but then his heads-up pings and tells him that there's a living body and a working computer buried under it.

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whatever you do, please!

Rolled 1 (1d12)

>>38081355
Try to dig out the living body. The computer can wait.

>>38081386
We're gonna unearth a nullipede or whatever it was called aren't we...

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The autobore whirrs to life and cuts through the outer layer of rubble, when the short-range radio in Darwin's helmet clicks on.

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"Is someone there?"

Even over the tinny speaker Darwin knows the voice right away. Annalee. Not part of his crew. Her crew was working deeper. "Yeah, this is Darwin," he says, a moment later than he should.

"I'm trapped, I can't reach my auto," Annalee tells him. "You need to watch out, you're making too much noise!"

"Hold on, I'm cutting y-" Darwin says, and in the moment before Annalee's words register she interrupts with a frantic voice.

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"You don't understand..."

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"... there's something out there!"

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whatever you do, please!

Rolled 6 (1d12)

>>38081603
Drill through it!

Rolled 1 (1d12)

>>38081603

not die

>So many critical failures in this thread.
It's a small miracel Darwin is still alive.

Rolled 9 (1d12)

>>38081603
Turn Super Saiyan

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The thing is enormous, the size of an apartment, and as it bears down on Darwin its single eye rolls back like a shark's, and he thinks to himself that it looks ecstatic, but the teeth goad him to action and he clamps down on the autobore's trigger-

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- but he's too late, and the nightmare slams into him, heedless of the autobore's danger, and Darwin is driven to the ground and pinned under its weight!

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He strains to aim the autobore, but from this awkward angle he can barely hold it upright!

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whatever you do, please!

Rolled 2 (1d12)

>>38081887
TURN SUPER SAIYAN

Rolled 12 (1d12)

>>38081887

Drill through the roof of its mouth into its eye!

>>38081914

I hope this scene appears next.

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>>38081899
>>38081690

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Oh hey, posting is enabled again!

I have a few things I need to do, but we should be able to pick up where we left off in a couple of hours!

Lego Bump

>>38083178
I... don't really know what this picture makes me feel but it's kinda strange

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With the power armor pinned down Darwin can't get the leverage he needs, and an errant thrash of the beast's colossal skull sends the autobore whirring into the darkness!

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The monster seems to understand that this prey is suddenly defenseless, and Darwin can only watch as its eye pivots and catches the light of the heads-up, and the teeth descend...

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... when Darwin see a glimmer just beyond its foot!

Preston's autobore! It might be broken...

>>38086146

Okay, NOW is the time to emergency vent, right into the jerk's face.

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... but it still has bite!

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"What's going on?" Annalee asks, panic evident in her voice. "Is something out there with you?"

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Darwin checks his heads-up, but it's silent. "Not anymore."

What now?

Rolled 1 (1d12)

>>38086276
Try to escape!

Rolled 9 (1d12)

>>38086276

See if you can figure out where Annalee is. Two sets of eyes are better than one.

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The heads-up in Darwin's helmet pings Annalee's armor. Helpfully, the computer can still give him a vector so he doesn't skewer her. "There's a girder on top of you," he says into his mic. "Hang on, I'll get you out." What he doesn't say is, I hope my computer vector is accurate.

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"Hurry, before anything else shows up!"

Roll a d12 and link to this post, please! To roll, put dice+1d12 in the Options field!

Rolled 6 (1d12)

>>38086710
PIERCE THE HEAV- ROCKS WITH YOUR DRILL, YOUR WAIFU NEEDS YOU

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The autobore whirrs to life, digging through the rock like a hot knife through fat, and when part of it crumbles away Darwin can see through the dust the glow of a heads-up and then Annalee is talking in his ear.

"About time!"

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"Yeah, yeah," Darwin laughs. "I thought if you weren't doing anything I could take you out tonight."

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Annalee laughs, and the laughing turns to hyperventilating for a moment, before she waves one gloved hand at Darwin and says "I thought I was going to die in there. Just... give me a minute."

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"We might not have time," Darwin tells her, and he holds up Preston's drill. "This one's broken, I think. The one I found here still works, but there are also-"

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"Yeah, these things," Annalee says as she paces toward where the body of the enormous thing lies.

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"The one that attacked us was a lot bigger than this. You said one of those autos doesn't work?"

What now?

>>38087291
Follow the path on our computer and go deeper...

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>>38087291
Now.... we DIG! In an upwards direction

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"There's a supply shed about two thousand meters from here, maybe twelve hundred meters up. We can use a transfer junction to get there from here," Annalee says as she turns away from the creature. "There's also an elevator access underneath us that might be able to take us all the way to the surface, if it still works."

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"Let me take a look at that autobore, will you?"

Roll a d12 and link to this post, please!

Rolled 9 (1d12)

>>38087871
Annalee turns the autobore into a weapon that shoots drills!

>>38087777
checked

Rolled 6 (1d12)

>>38087871

Rolled 5 (1d12)

>>38087871
Annalee builds a Dual Drill ?

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"It looks like the rivet function is offline. There's nothing I can do about that here..."

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"...but I can get it running!"

A fine cloud of silt is ejected as the autobore spins to life again, when Annalee's eyes grow large and she quickly snaps it off again, casting a nervous glance around the cavern.

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"I'm keeping this," Annalee tells Darwin. "And since you're the guest, you get to pick where we eat dinner."

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Where ya headed?

>Supply shed
>Elevator
>Somewhere else

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whatever you do, please! To roll, put dice+1d12 in the Options field!

Rolled 2 (1d12)

SUPPLY SHED!!

Rolled 3 (1d12)

>>38088347
Supply shed, then elevator

Rolled 1 (1d12)

>>38088347
Supply shed, somewhere else.
Elevator is probably dead.

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They walk in silence through the blackness for ten minutes before Annalee's voice in Darwin's ear startles him. "I'm really glad you found me," she says into her mic. "To tell you the truth, I was starting to wish that one of those things had gotten me instead." She laughs, but it's a nervous stage laugh, and they fall silent again, until the air ahead of them begins to take on a shade less than pitch.

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The glow reaches them long before they reach the first safety lights, lit by internal power supplies not beholden to any fickle mine-wide systems. "See, I told you it wasn't too far," Annalee's voice resumes, calmer now.

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"And there's the indicator strip! The shed is right over..."

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"...there."

The artificial happiness is all gone from her voice now, and Darwin looks over the edge to the supply shed and sees that they're not the first ones to arrive.

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Roll a d12 and link to this post for whatever you do, please! To roll, put dice+1d12 in the Options field!

Rolled 1 (1d12)

>>38089246
Drive it off

Rolled 9 (1d12)

>>38089246
Don't do anything rash, this one could be peaceful.

>>38086367
>>38088374
>>38089261
How about you stop rolling for a while, you're gonna get us killed.

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"What are you doing?" Annalee hisses, as if the creature could hear them over the mics.

"Relax," Darwin tells her, brushing her off as he raises the autobore.

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"I'm just going to scare it off."

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"These things are probably more scared of us than we are of them" Darwin tells Annalee as he walks to the perimeter of the supply shed and squeezes the autobore a few times in rapid succession. "Loud noises probably spook them off."

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"There, see? Come on down, it's safe now."

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Rolled 1 (1d12)

"Whatever that thing was, it's long gone by now."

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whatever you do, please!

Rolled 7 (1d12)

>>38089778
Become genre savvy and duck

Rolled 2 (1d12)

>>38089778
Become inedible

Rolled 7 (1d12)

>>38089778
Sneak attack it by drilling its eye!

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"Look out!" Annalee shouts, and Darwin turns his head and shines a glow on the thing and it yawns its mouth open wider and wider, but Darwin is already throwing himself forward onto the safety lights-

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Rolled 12 (1d12)

- and the creature snaps its jaws shut hard enough to reverberate through Darwin's suit as he scrambles to turn himself over!

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whatever you do, please! And roll another d12 for whatever Annalee does as well!

Rolled 6, 3 = 9 (2d12)

>>38090157
Darwin: Live up to our name and apply natural selection to this thing. And by natural selection, I mean kill it.
Annette: Kill it too! Double the killing is better than one.

Rolled 8 (1d12)

>>38090157
Kill it softly.

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"All right, you son of a b-"

Rolled 810998 (1d1000000)

>>38078674
cool

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"-urgh!"

Darwin's skull jostles inside his helmet as the beast lashes out with one ropey tendril, sending him tumbling out of the way.

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The power armor takes most of the beating, but he's been exerting himself with minimal battery draw for hours. It isn't until he hears Annalee scream in his ear that he finds the energy to shove himself back to his feet, when her scream turns to a cry of pain!

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"Ahhhhhh!"

>>38090634
she seems pretty happy

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"Annalee! Hold on!"

>BATTERY LEVELS: 51%
>POWER ARMOR: 18% MAXIMUM STRENGTH

====

Equipment check:
*One suit of power armor
*One autobore
*One malfunctioning computer console

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whatever you do, please! To roll, put dice+1d12 in the Options field!

Rolled 6 (1d12)

>>38090683
>Teeth.
>Drill.

Give this fucker a root canal.

Rolled 1 (1d12)

>>38090683
Apply drill directly to the teeth of the monster.

Rolled 11 (1d12)

>>38090683
Stab it in the eye with the drill.

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Rolled 9 (1d12)

Darwin launches himself through the air, a feat only possible with the help of his suit's great strength, and the monster, finding Annalee's armored body a lackluster meal, opens its jaws wide to meet this new morsel!

Roll a d12 and link to this post, please!

Rolled 4 (1d12)

>>38090962

Rolled 10 (1d12)

>>38090962

Rolled 1 (1d12)

>>38090962
I believe I can fly!

Rolled 6 (1d12)

>>38090962
DRILL-ON!
APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!
DRILL-ON!
APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!

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The creature must weigh two thousand kilograms or more. The spiraling carapace on its back must weight at least a ton, but yet the beast launches its bulk into the air purposefully and terminates Darwin's arc prematurely, snatching him from the air!

"Aaah!" he cries as the autobore is knocked from his grasp!

Rolled 3 (1d12)

Equipment check: your bare hands!

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whatever you do, please!

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>>38091341
Forgot my image!

Rolled 3 (1d12)

>>38091341
Dive down its throat and make it choke on your power armour.

Rolled 8 (1d12)

>>38091341
>>38091366
STRANGLE IT FROM THE INSIDE

Rolled 10 (1d12)

>>38091341
>>38091366
scream like a scared bitch
then kill it from within

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Darwin struggles against the steel jaws of the deep creature, grasping for its throat to rip it out, when the beast reflexively swallows, shoving him further inside its maw! His heads-up shows the rapid decay of his power armor's strength as the monster forces its jaws shut and thrashes, knocking a crate into the darkness, but Darwin hangs on-

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- and though the monster's gnashing becomes more frantic he holds fast still, as the heads-up begins to advise him that his power armor will soon be dead, and the beast thrashes, and thrashes...

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...but only when its trembling limbs cease their last weak movements does Darwin clamber from its throat, slick with blood like a newborn babe!

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"Annalee!"

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Darwin turns her over and Annalee's unfocused eyes drift like leaves on water. "Darwin?" her voice asks in his ear.

...Roll a d12 and link to this post for whatever you do, please!

(15 minute break so I can go get some junk food)

Rolled 9 (1d12)

>>38091932
Save her life

Rolled 10 (1d12)

>>38091932
Check her suits vitals

Rolled 2 (1d12)

>>38091932
resuscitate!

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"I think I'm dying."

"You're not dying," insists Darwin, but when he kneels down and checks the external readout of Annalee's armor he finds that her vitals monitor is offline. "You're not dying," he repeats.

>>38092833
What's the air down here like? Is it breathable in emergency situations?

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He says it one more time and reels out the diagnostic cable of his own power armor. "I can use my vitals monitor to check yours," he says, reassuring them both as the crisis training embedded into him begins to surface. "The armor can adminster microinjections to speed healing."

And Darwin sits and waits patiently while his heads-up plays nursemaid, dosing Annalee with painkillers, stimulants, cell rejuvenators. Once he hears something in the distance, but nothing comes close enough to be caught in the glow of the safety lights.

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And then Annalee opens her eyes sleepily and asks "Darwin?"

"About time you woke up."

"I thought I was dead," Annalee says. "Dead again."

"I wouldn't let you die," Darwin says into his mic.

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"I haven't gotten to take you out to dinner yet."

What will you do now?

>>38092931
>What's the air down here like? Is it breathable in emergency situations?
Roll it.

Rolled 2 (1d12)

>>38093054

Rolled 4 (1d12)

>>38093054
>Roll it.
I hope it smells like warm root beer!

>>38093054
Well, if Annette is well enough to move, let's check out the supplies and, just for shits and giggles, check out the elevator.

Rolled 6 (1d12)

>>38093054
continue to comfort Annette while she recovers
this may be magitec healing but she needs a minute i bet

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Annalee laughs, then her face drops. "I need to get out of this helmet. I can't breathe. I can't- I can't breathe,"' she insists, and Darwin awkwardly grabs her wrists with his gloved hands and holds them against her power armor.

"You can't, the atmosphere here will kill you in seconds," he reminds her, and silently grimaces as their power armors struggle for a moment before she stills.

"I'm sorry," Annalee says. "I don't know what came over me. I'm all right."

"Can you stand?" Darwin asks as he reels the diagnostic cable back inside its compartment.

"Yes, I think so," she says.

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"This planet is supposed to be uninhabited," Annalee says as her heads-up illuminates the giant corpse of the creature.

"Maybe they didn't know about these things," Darwin offers.

"These things know about us," she replies.

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"This is their world. We're the interlopers here. They were made for this place."

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"All the more reason for us to get out of here as soon as we can," Darwin tells her as he turns and walks across the gloom toward the supply crates. "Come on, let's see what they left us."

Roll a d12 and link to this post, please! And roll another d12 for Annalee as well!

>>38093443
1) Crates
2) Annette

Rolled 4, 6 = 10 (2d12)

>>38093443

Rolled 7, 1 = 8 (2d12)

>>38093443
Loot loot loot

>>38093471
dammat

>>38093471
>Annette
Annalee

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"Couple of batteries," Darwin mutters over the mic. "They might come in handy," he asserts, nodding his head, then looks at Annalee. "Find anything?"

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"I think I'm in love!" Annalee exclaims and holds up the autobore for Darwin to see. "This is one of the new models. I didn't think the company had these yet!"

Rolled 2 (1d12)

>>38093757
Is there another? Please please please high roller

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"Is that the only one?" Darwin asks.

"Seems like it."

"Maybe we can get through to the surface from here," Darwin mutters to himself as he finds a computer console identical to the one by the safety frame. "Or at least find out what's still working." Unlike the other console, this one has no error lights.

"What did you say?" Annalee asks in Darwin's ear.

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whatever you do, please!

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Rolled 2 (1d12)

>>38093492
oh come on
>>38093917
tell her what we said!

Rolled 6 (1d12)

>>38093917
See if we can contact home base with that terminal.

Rolled 1 (1d12)

>>38093917
"I said HACK THE PLANET!"

Rolled 1 (1d12)

>>38093917
Ask Analee for help with the tech.

Rolled 2 (1d12)

>>38094006
>>38094008
STOP FUCKING ROLLING

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/tg/ is on fire tonight

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"I thought we might be able to connect to the surface from here. I tried it from another console, but it was... a bad connection."

"Do you know what you're doing?" Annalee asks Darwin as his rhythmic typing become agitated jabbing.

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Darwin yells "Dammit!" and kicks the console in frustration, immediately regretting it when the echo booms off of the cavern walls.

"Darwin," says Annalee in his ear.

>>38094368

this is all your fault >>38094008 and >>38094006

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"We can charge our armor here, we've got three autos and two batteries, you've already killed two of these things, and we know how to get to the elevator from here. You saved my life twice. I can't forget that. I was going to die, and you saved me!"

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"Now come on, let's go find that elevator."

And so Darwin and Annalee gathered up their things and turned away from the light of the supply shed and began to walk. After a few minutes the glow from the safety lights faded away, but they kept walking...

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...into the unknown darkness.

Rolled 11 (1d12)

>>38094638
That was good

>>38094652
WHERE THE FUCK WERE YOU BEFORE

>This is the first Lego Quest thread I've caught since the last Apprentice Quest one
>I have missed liek fucking 13 LegoQuest threads

this is a terrible feeling. thank god i was on time for this one.

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[dramatic minor chord music]

>>38094767
2spoopy

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Oh man, that was several metric tons of fun! I wasn't even planning on running this game; I just took some shots of a Power Miner as part of a lighting test last night, but it looked so cool that I knew I had to run a game right away!

>>38094838
i wish i had enough of a together set to try this...
10/10 stars OP

>>38094838
That was some very impressive lighting. Or lack of lighting, rather. How'd you get the faceplates to glow like that?

>>38094910
Blacklight.

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A couple of Easter egg in this episode... this monster is made with a Duplo animal eye block. You can see that it's much larger than the standard animal eye block used to make such loveable favorites as shreep and bukows. I came up with the idea for this critter all at once this afternoon, which made me proud because I got less than five hours' sleep last night!

>>38094899
Thanks, anon! I hope you had fun!

>>38094961
Wait, you can use Duplo with normal Lego?

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>>38094910
>>38094921

Of course, the most eye-catching thing about this episode is the whole reason this episode exists! I recently got a blacklight bulb, and tried it out for the first time last night. Trans-neon Lego pieces glow under UV light, so all I had to do was make sure that the light was always at the proper angle to shine on the entire faceplate.

Pic related is the lighting test that I did right before someone on /toy/ said "This is going to be a very interesting Lego Quest", which was the prod I needed to throw it together.

>>38095046

DUPLO are functionally double-size LEGO. So yes, although the joins don't hold exactly as well as sticking to one or the other.

>>38095060
Great game, LG.

Have you bought anything recently?

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>>38095351
Thanks anon!

>Have you bought anything recently?

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Plus the Double-Decker Couch.

>>38094961
i had a lot of fun
very inspiring

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I guess that's another Easter egg... Annalee's new autobore is made with Unikitty's horn.

>>38095502
I'm glad you liked it! It's great when people say they had fun!

>>38095442
>dat double-decker Unikitty

whaaaaa?

Also, LQ, I think you're pretty cool. I also wish I had the time and self-control to do something like this.

(Pee Ess, have you ever thought about doing webcomics like Irregular Webcomic?)

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>>38095624
>have you ever thought about doing webcomics like Irregular Webcomic?

Some of the characters and props for the first Lego Quest were builds that I had lying around from the sci-fi horror webcomic idea that I never did anything with.

Pic related is prototype Officer Clarke with Olga Christiansen's head and hair.

>>38095718
Awesome. I was thinking of doing one like a million years ago. Maybe one day... when I'm super rich and not super lazy.

HA HA HA

AS IF.

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>>38095981
I had the whole first chapter made, part of the second, and an overall script for the whole six chapters.

You might recognize this piece of equipment.

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Clarke uses it in the fourth episode of Spaceman Quest to project a hologram map of the Fringe.

>>38095442
>*sausage fest.jpg*

You sonofabitch, you owe me a new monitor. The old one just got sprayed with beer.

>>38096121
Any chance we could see it?

>>38078674
Yo thats a fucking awesome intro shot
also HELL YEAH LEGO QUEST

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>>38096337
>Any chance we could see it?
Sure, why not. The first chapter is 26 images.

Rolled 12 (1d12)

>>38096433
Clearly, the planet has far too high an ICE value for us to deal with.

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>>38096488
I've posted this at least once on /toy/ after someone asked me about it.

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>>38096495
12s confirm

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>>38096537
The tone of this was bleak existential crisis in a universe where tiny groups of people were spread out over light years that took significant time to cross.

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>>38096558
It's nothing I'm particularly proud of, but it was the first organized thing I did with my pieces after I finished sorting them all when I came out of my dark age.

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>>38096594

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>>38096617

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>>38096632
The hologram graphics in Spaceman Quest were originally worked out for this.

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>>38096653

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>>38096670
The reflection of the baseplate in his visor is a shop, if you can't tell.

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>>38096698

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>>38096737

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>>38096758
"New J" is New Jerusalem, even though I don't think they say its full name in this chapter.

http://legoquest.wikia.com/wiki/New_Jerusalem

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>>38096787

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>>38096881

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>>38096901

>>38096787
>Well, if you weren't so terrible at Random Number, you wouldn't be out there getting all that fresh air.
I find this hilarious for some reason.

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>>38097075
That's the only complete chapter. You might recognize this Space Police cruiser.

I loved the blacklight effect you used for this. Any chance you can make a pic with a large spaceship all lit up?

Also, the only reason Darwin survived all these 1's is because some anon rolled a 1 attempting to die right?

>>38097104
Pretty cool.

Damn I missed most of the quest again. I'm loving the special effects though

>>38099760
>I missed most of the quest again.
you missed the whole quest
this is the credits anon

>>38100467
No I was there when it started before the site went down.

Sweet

Does this work on any transparant Lego piece or just on neon green? I guess that OTC orange should work as well.

>>38101950
There's a family of colors (ie. All colors with 'neon' in its name, glow in the dark colors) that react nicely to blacklights. Not all transparent colors are neon, so regular Trans. Green won't react the same way as Trans. Neon Green.

The OTC is Trans. Neon Orange, so it should glow well.

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>>38101950
>>38102416
Yep, it's just the trans-neon pieces. You can see the trans-neon green and trans-neon orange pieces glowing in this bag, but none of the regular trans-pieces glow.

>>38099760
At least you're here now!

>>38098444
Thanks anon! I might try to do some other fun things with this light.

>>38103681
This is pretty neat.

>>38103681
What color is that in the middle between the two trans-green pieces?

>>38106146
I think it's just the angle.