>Cameron mostly lives in GJ, but occasionally derps around for journalistic purposes.

>Tsion i whipping the Millennium Force back into shape, and intends to "descend upon" Osaze any day now.


Prime targets. Cameron should be easy to bait to the transmitter because it's news.

Tsion... he needs to go somehow. He's been the biggest pain, and the most persistent.

>>379278
I still say Bahria, as she can actually harm US and by extention all our forces who rely on us for communication and logistics.

>>379291

We've shored up the network a lot though, lately. She's less of a concern and she's easy to grab and dispatch after.

I suppose I agree though. She's the easiest candidate to handle for testing purposes. I'd rather have some idea of what works when we go to handle the other two.

>"This is usually where they disappear. Soon as I look away, soon as I let go for a second, doesn't matter if they're in chains, they just disappear. R&D need a live one. We thought it was quantum lock, that I'd just have to keep an eye on them, but... no go with cameras. Keep watching it. Don't blink at the same time at me."
Aside from that, if we want to keep one around then we need to trap it in mission still possible limbo, like we figured before.

>>379331
Weeping Angels?

Taken from the QM's archive.
>Your agents return to space, you get a gift from the past, and looks like war is coming.

War. War never changes.


>>379331
limbo should be simple this time. we take Bahria and put her in stasis like we did Steele. then we keep Bahria a football field from the angel. game over.

>>379340

They do that (disappear as soon as nobody is looking) in the LB books, and sorry, it was just too low reaching a fruit to not go for :)

>>379354
>>379340
lol

We can try limbo and we can try turning one. I suspect it's going to burn up though. We'll see what kind of angel shows up first.

>>379371
>We'll see what kind of angel shows up first.
I hope it's the sexy kind. We can offer it an apple.

>>379371
angelic science enrichment 2
Colopatiron Returns.

I'm dying thinking about it.

>>379359

You have 21 cabals total; 15 are available.

You are actively tracking enemy teams where you have assets (see picture). Rules: http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.QuestRules.html

Tsion Ben-Judah has been exhorting the Millennium Force to become more active in handling those who are beyond salvation, presumably meaning MECs and drones. He has set up a sort of military style training camp in northern Israel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4Q_2o2Ty5Y

Sunday has authorized using Last Army assets against you, so expect attacks.

Variable complexity:

# Launch an attack on a TOL base or government installation.

# Work on global data network infrastructure, incidentally making sure that you control more of it.

Complexity 0

# Produce things in the Greenland base: MEC parts, drones, or canopy station parts.

Complexity 1

# Permanently station a cabal to defend an installation. This removes them from the roster, but allows them to become familiar with the territory, set up static defenses, and so on, raising their effectiveness. This counts towards repealing physical attacks, and also legal attacks (they will prevent arrests, make holes under jails, and so on)

# Foster pagan worship. Little need at the moment.

# Improve morale. Little need at the moment.

# Harass or sabotage a Hero, or tie up an enemy team.

# Perform a covert operation (such as scouting Antarctica or Greater Jerusalem).

Complexity 2

# Produce MECs at any base.

# Produce drones at any base. Current focus: Medium-sized land drones. Current army size is marked on the bottom of the map. (Each will give you 1/3rd of a tick)

# Work your Osaze, Night City, or Pacifica base overtime to improve prosperity.

# Use the Australia base, or Night City, to start bringing the territory under your control (1/5) (1/5)

# Seed super-grain in a territory.

Complexity 3

# Spring the Angel trap by kidnapping a Hero or a Glorified. 3, 4 or 5 cabals can be used for this.

# Continue pursuing space research. Space Race rules, but the Cosmists will assist your efforts here, counting as one cabal regardless.

# Attempt to eliminate a Hero or enemy team (by force or by cleverness).

# Use a launchpad for a canopy-breaching launch. Station structure: 1/8

Complexity 4

# Continue AI, nuclear or sonic research.

# Begin building a base in the Middle East, South Africa, or American Heartland.

Complexity 5

# Recruit. This has gotten considerably harder across the board.

# Take over a TOL base by force.

>>379419
huh, I guess we are going to terminate Tsion after all. now how to keep from making a martyr?
we still should have about one or two years to do it.

MF is about to play inquisition, which is what we want.

and finally we should try and catch some of TOLs more unsavory moments this year.

if we do permanently station we have to choose between night city, Ozase, and Pacifica.

we need to finish space research, that way we can ask the underground monorail and Lifetree for help rushing out the launch's, we know they would be interested in ensuring mankind's survival in preparation for the big millennial melee.

>>379455
TOL doesn't have any bases in Australia, Ozase, or Pacifica or anywhere close, so our bases should be pretty safe from their attacks. I don't see the need for sacrificing a cabal for defense.

>>379455

I don't want to permanently station, I just want to build up drones to do it.

I think we should switch the transmitter on hope that it attracts a glorified. That said, I am tempted to wait for another batch of angel beat down to add to it. But yearly transmissions wouldn't be too bad, it could go into the next broadcast.


> we need to finish space research, that way we can ask the underground monorail and Lifetree for help rushing out the launch's, we know they would be interested in ensuring mankind's survival in preparation for the big millennial melee.

Yes but, we need nuclear because reactors and nuclear engines make that a LOT easier as well.

>>379469
its not TOL I'm worried explicitly about, although they have already attacked Australia multiple times and failed. its the MFer's I'm concerned about.

>>379455

Tsion and Cameron are Main Characters in the Left Behind books. Bahira isn't. Bit of metagaming on my part but I suspect that she'll be an easier target.

># Continue pursuing space research. Space Race rules, but the Cosmists will assist your efforts here, counting as one cabal regardless
2 cabals. Jeb.

># Produce MECs at any base. 2 cabals two bases.

># Produce drones at any base. Current focus: Medium-sized land drones. Current army size is marked on the bottom of the map. (Each will give you 1/3rd of a tick) 2 cabals 3 bases.

# Continue AI, nuclear or sonic research
3 cabals and Kat on Nuclear research, they can work in Australia.

# Work on global data network infrastructure, incidentally making sure that you control more of it.
3 cabals with a focus on overtaking Christian control.

I got very little to go on for the rest of the Cabals.

>>379419

># Work on global data network infrastructure, incidentally making sure that you control more of it.
2 Cabals.


># Produce MECs at any base.
2 Cabals, all idle bases.


># Use the Australia base, or Night City, to start bringing the territory under your control (1/5) (1/5)
2 cabals, Night city. Jeb.


># Continue sonic research.
4 Cabals, Pacifica, Zak.


># Spring the Angel trap by kidnapping a Hero or a Glorified. 3, 4 or 5 cabals can be used for this.
4 Cabals, after the little hacking interloper. Knock her out, stick her in a sedation chamber (maybe test pepper spray?) and get her in the angel trap. Kat, Quinn, Damien + a cadre of drones for the angel/testing.


># Harass or sabotage a Hero, or tie up an enemy team.
1 Cabal, Misrayim. Just try to keep all those enemy teams away from our shit for the year. Weaver.


We're going to shoot an angel in the face and lay some more groundwork. The sabotage team is there because we don't have much happening in Misrayim and they're getting more aggressive there. I don't feel comfortable letting them run entirely unchecked until we have more drones out.
Thoughts?

>>379534

Let's just get this trap done so that we can plug the results into the transmitter for next year, maybe even draw another glorified in the next year and dispatch them too.


>> Produce drones at any base. Current focus: Medium-sized land drones. Current army size is marked on the bottom of the map. (Each will give you 1/3rd of a tick) 2 cabals 3 bases.

I assume you mean greenland?

>> Produce MECs at any base. 2 cabals two bases.

I agree.

>>379548

#Both cabals building MECs focus mainly on Misrayim. But all idle bases roll.
A little more safety this way.


>Continue AI, nuclear or sonic research
3 cabals and Kat on Nuclear research, they can work in Australia.

I only opted for sonic because Australia is overstacked in my plan. If we can do nuclear without penalty away from Australia, I'm game for that. Also, nuclear isn't a 3 cabal job. It's 4.

>>379548
alright, don't forget to have Quinn in her most organic configuration and the heavy's in flesh hulk mode. that includes Kat and Damien. remind them to use that acid stuff on the angel, also, glorified are weak to nonleathal chemicals, so someone better break out the ether soaked rag.

>>379582
>alright, don't forget to have Quinn in her most organic configuration and the heavy's in flesh hulk mode. that includes Kat and Damien. remind them to use that acid stuff on the angel, also, glorified are weak to nonleathal chemicals, so someone better break out the ether soaked rag.


Oh right.

#Make sure we have some flesh heavies and Quinn with her meat on. That radiation tentacle monster for one of the big girl(s?) too, if that's ready.

ill be back in a bit, I need to process the fact that we are kidnaping the literal definition of the pure Christian schoolgirl as well as the fact that we are going to put her in an arena with a tentacle monster.

also, should we give Quinn Azrael's scythe and have her train with it before hand?

>>379609

(... I just noticed. Lel.)

>>379534
>>379548

(Let's do the rest of the turn first and then zoom in on Bahira...)

>>379579

(Nuclear research can be done in Australia or Misrayim where the particle accelerator is. And yes, it's a 4 cabal job. Undermanning will give you a chance of failure, failure meaning "nothing much is learned", not "giant explosion").

>>379382

Angels have proven to be sexless; they look like idealized human males, but have no external genitalia. What is not known is whether they come like that, or they get snipped; what is known is that this removes an obvious weak point. Going for the eyes, pinkie fingers, or wing roots has been recommended.

ok, processed, also your the only quest type thread that was ever done based around Left Behind, congrats.

>>379673

(Thanks!)


>>379534
>>379548

So, what's the allocation?

>>379615

It would at the very least be an interesting experiment.

>>379682
sara, you have the layout.

as for Quinns training, tell her to try "praying" to Azrael, as I have said before he might be feeling vengeful and we may get lucky.

># Work on global data network infrastructure, incidentally making sure that you control more of it.
2 Cabals.


># Produce MECs at any base.
2 Cabals, all idle bases. The cabals are in Pacifica.

># Use the Australia base, or Night City, to start bringing the territory under your control (1/5) (1/5)
2 cabals, Night city. Jeb.


># Continue nuclear research.
4 Cabals, Misrayim, Zak. Focus reactors, if we get botany freebies, focus on a weed that's difficult to remove without mechanized farming equipment.


># Spring the Angel trap by kidnapping a Hero or a Glorified. 3, 4 or 5 cabals can be used for this.
4 Cabals, after the little hacking interloper. Knock her out, stick her in a sedation chamber (maybe test pepper spray?) and get her in the angel trap.
Kat, Quinn, Damien + a cadre of drones for the angel/testing.
Make sure to have flesh MECs and any high temperature material shields for heavies/wrestlers on hand. If Quinn wants to train with the scythe, go for it.


># Harass or sabotage a Hero, or tie up an enemy team.
1 Cabal, Misrayim. Just try to keep all those enemy teams away from our shit for the year. Weaver.
Try to keep mobile in the event that you need to fly out to a base under siege.

I'm thinking we design the packet to incite doubt in undecided, break the narrative and maybe a bit of propaganda aim to make it easier to recruit.

If it would be at all possible to gain a free cabal/drag recruitment difficulty down, that would be great.

Aside from that, it just needs to kick the nest and draw Tsion's heat off Misrayim. I don't want to fight him there if we can help it; I want him on a crusade down under.

>>379723
specificly, I want him to crusade anywhere where we can turn his bloody rampage of death and biblical horror into a source of rage for the undecided and the unbelievers. I want them to hate the man and those who stand behind him, as well as for a depression that seeds the desire to leave the world, because we are going to have a way to leave the world soon.

>>379745

I was just thinking we'd get all his dudes together and drop a dirty bomb on them.

>>379752
man screw that. ride the wave of hate straight into the NJ temple and trample his army underfoot.

Rolled 14, 82, 51 = 147 (3d100)

>>379712

MEC production continues apace; heavy components are made in Greenland, while the squishy stuff is transfered mostly to Pacifica to avoid Tsion invading Misrayim and to cement the collaboration with Tree Of Life.

Jeb sets up an office of sorts in Night City, which by now is about the size of the regional capitol - you wouldn't be able to tell on the surface, as there are only a few farmsteads topside - to start subverting Eastern Europe. The area has a strong Christian tradition spanning centuries pre-Rapture, and secularism there is associated with the brief Communist interlude. So, Jeb mostly focuses on intelligence gathering: what do the people of Eastern Europe want, and how best to give it to them.

Some of your agents in Misrayim distract the psalties in the territory; since the idea is to divert the Millennium Force's attention elsewhere, they stage various protests about the atrocity that happened last year in Australia, and issue fictitious demands that the Osaze government do something about it. That's not how it works at all, of course, but it does keep the missionaries distracted and looking elsewhere. Captain Weaver caps this off with a "relief trip" to Australia by fast sailboat, which in truth is intended to make it easy to bring in nuclear material to Misrayim on the return trip.

In the same territory, nuclear research continues; Zak focuses on the physics, and states that it will be possible to build a Nuclear Thermal Rocket with current tooling. This type of engine is extremely inefficient in atmosphere, but launching from the canopy obviates that problem entirely; it should be possible to perform a direct-ascent lunar landing in just a few years, and get to Mars within a decades, if effort is concentrated in this area.

Preparations for the angel trap take up most of your attention.

One evening, Bahira gets a knock at the door. There is Quinn.

"Are you here to try to kill me?"

"No, I'm here to enlist your help."

"And why would I help you? You're a demon inhabiting a corpse."

"Can I prove you that this is not the case? What proof would you accept?"

"No, the Tribunal said it, I believe it, that settles it. Please leave."

"Or what?"

Bahira has a wubber - a civilian version, which has been reworked fairly cleverly. Deepening her voice, she speaks into the wubber's microphone, and tosses Quinn backwards as the air in front of her expands rapidly; looks like Bahira not only has a wubber but is quite good with it.

Plan B was to have the drone tank standing next to Quinn, just out of sight from the door, pepper spray the Glorified girl; the red mist is sprayed on her face, and her coughing prevents her from modulating into the sonic weapon. The second spray contains enough chloroform to knock out a tiger.

Quinn crawls back to the van and has her driver pick up Bahira; by the time Quinn's spine has been repaired, Bahira has been strapped into a stasis suit and put on a plane to Australia...

>>379802
well that is annoying.

"Quinn, how many times is that you have been shot on mission?"

>>379802

You can totally put a bullet in the jar. It counts as far as I'm concerned.


Pepper spray and chloroform work. That's great news.

>>379802
>>379816

"About twice. Per. Rather me than someone who can't take it, you know? Didn't expect her to know how to do air cavitation. I mean, I can't do it, we got maybe twenty people total who can."

# Quinn's off this mission. Her telemetry shows that she's a lot less cocksure than she sounds.

# Patch her up and send her back in. She's done worse and this is her third or fourth spine repair anyway.

# Have Azrael's scythe brought in for this fight.

The plane flight from San Francisco to Ayer's Rock is relatively uneventful; Jeb had offered flying escort, of course, but there ended up being no need, at least as far as you can tell.

# Bahira was taken there by jet, quickly, with minimal guard.

# Bahira was taken there by airship, slowly, but with a spare stasis chamber setup and so on.

>>379852
># Bahira was taken there by airship, slowly, but with a spare stasis chamber setup and so on.
we don't take chances anymore.

what are the odds we can bring Quinn back around to being cocksure again?

how long do we have to prepare for the fight?

>>379852

Anti?

I'm willing to move her over to other duties. Relying on injured people to do critical tasks is potentially dangerous for everyone involved.


># Bahira was taken there by airship, slowly, but with a spare stasis chamber setup and so on.

I want a backup. Angels on a plane isn't a movie I want to see right now.

Have our space guys draw up the plans for colony as best they can. I need a time table for the travel time to get the stuff there before doomsday. Minimum launches per year, etc.

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well, you made me Sara.

Also, I feel we should reach out to tree of life (TOL acronym is fucking with me, man) with the anti-angel armour stuff and see if they're interested in working with us to develop MEC frames that innately give much the same effect.

Spitballed idea to bring to the villains after this:


If we knew the world was going to turn into a bog, how much work would it be to prep for it?

Night city could be turned into an underwater, sealed system. Misrayim, I have no idea, I'd need consultation here. Same goes for Pacifica.

Why would we do this?

Well, we don't want prophecy to come true? Flood the earth. God promised not to do it, flooding the Earth is a pretty big breach of prophecy.

It also has the side effect of basically totally show stopping TOL's army. WWII tanks don't operate so great in planetsized bogs. With some planning and retooling I expect we could be ready with hovercraft and aircraft and a space program on the way to mars.

I want to understand NC better but, if we protected as many pagans as possible while large numbers of Christians drowned, it's a bit like the mad max plan, yeah?

>>379932
hmmn, I think we will save that for year 998 or 999. our true last resort. if the sudden sweep to capture TJ fails, or the full scale invasion can't cage him we drop the sky. maybe steal Noah's arc or destroy it first.

>>379941

Full scale invasion? I didn't know we were planning an army. I'm extremely spooked by a conventional attack that goes right into the jaws of prophecy.

I suspect the earlier we do this, the more effective it will be. A massive, undeniably non-prophetic event early would be key.

>>379946
yup, nothing like a sudden sweep into New Jerusalem after a massive burst of arms destroys the MF army. preferably before year 990 or even better year 980. then its just a matter of holding TJ or throwing him into a black hole.

>>379956

Maybe? I mean, I'm not scared of any "army" they have. I'm worried about a heavenly host and concentrating their forces so they can just yell at us and we explode.

You're basically talking about the exact plan CATs tried and failed with. So that spooks me.

Also, space is going to be a LOT of work. An army is also a LOT of work. Realistically I think it's a pick one sort of scenario, unless we want to pursue literally no other avenues and get to work ASAP; which isn't something I'm comfortable with. Assassination? Sure. Army? If we wanted that we should have worked with TOL to up-power their forces.

>>379977
yes but that's ignoring one of the games focal points. TOL is inherently going to be no help unless we kill their leaders and convince their troops that we are the best bet for survival.

in a way, the invasion I have planned would be a lot like an assassination, the sudden arrival of fast moving vehicles sealing TJ in a can and rushing him to a canopy launch, and all of a sudden the world see's its "savior" leave for a gravity well called a black hole.

oh and for your NC curiosity.
http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/Tripocalypse.Liminality.html

how's that for a cavalry? our last minute heros. the final moments squadreon.

>>379988
>yes but that's ignoring one of the games focal points. TOL is inherently going to be no help unless we kill their leaders and convince their troops that we are the best bet for survival.

Alternatively you break the prophecy by making it so that no one shows up to the final battle at all.


>in a way, the invasion I have planned would be a lot like an assassination, the sudden arrival of fast moving vehicles sealing TJ in a can and rushing him to a canopy launch, and all of a sudden the world see's its "savior" leave for a gravity well called a black hole.

Building something that can escape the system, nevermind make it to the nearest black hole would be harder than the entire martian colony. Space is not easy.

And yes, we should work on building one of those soon.

>>379993
>Alternatively you break the prophecy by making it so that no one shows up to the final battle at all.

sorry compadre, but the game ends in genocide if the clock hits 1000 anyways.

>>379996

Ragnarok all star team!

>>380001
no, were not getting an army of gods, the gods are going to give us an army of men. and that army is going to tear appart the "flipside"

>>379932

(Sorry, kinda passing out here)

>>379878

Martian launches can be made every two years, effectively, whether by the Mars Direct or the Aldrin Cycler approach. With advanced artificial insemination systems, the minimum viable permanent crew for a Martian colony is 60 people - ten launches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3HD9sk4yoc

>>379932

Turning the world into a bog is actually pretty survivable; Misrayim may even benefit, since it's dried out. Pacificans would lose quite a bit of coastline and have to move inland.

>>379996
>>379993

The prophecy states that the Last Army will be a billion strong. TOL is expected, optimistically, to reach that recruitment number in +999, just in time. Counting Horde MECs, make that +990.

>>380004
ok, so we have to focus on getting out of "flipside" and gathering our army. good to know.

Sleep if you'd like, I can busy myself with other stuff and then catch up tomorrow.

>>380004
good night spirit, thanks for the game.

>>379898

nice!


>>379863

The airship docks ponderously on top of the Australian base, after going around a bit of the continent and coming in straight from the north.

The arena has been built: it's a circular quarry with one entrance to a smaller, likewise circular cavern. There is a small minecart that holds a sensory deprivation tank set up to keep an occupant unconscious; that cart is in a "station" at the far end of the cavern, and can be kept rotating around both quarry and cavern on a narrow gauge track that has been built for this purpose. There are no other "stations" although there is signage to indicate that there are.

The fixed weapons are mixed, but consist primarily of...

# fixed-mount wubbers that have been tuned to the size of the cavern.

# Neutron sources with image recognition systems that will turn them off should one of your people cross the beam, as long as they're wearing an IFF tag.

# Ballistic sentry guns.

# Acid and toxin sprayers.

>>380015
>>380010

(thank you! goodnight!)

My one request would be to hold the game until I'm awake tomorrow. I'll be up a fair bit later than you, and I'd like to be around for the angel fight.

>>380031
sorry, couldn't hear ya, passing out.

>>380031
>>380033

OK!

( Maybe ask for help from >>377710 ? )

>>380048

Thank you.

Hey, I've been following this on the archives for a while and I have to say that the setting is absolutely fascinating. Too bad there aren't more players, but I can do my two bits to help with that.

With your permission, I'll make a thread on /tg/ proper later today to discuss the setting with a link to the sup/tg/ archives and wiki, half to drum up posters and half to see what other rpgs this could be used for. In particular this looks like it has potential for the New World of Darkness games, since there's already a supplement with an all-powerful god-computer and brainwashed angels that match up disturbingly well with Left Behind Yahweh. I can just see it getting pissed one day and deciding to abuse a prophecy with lots of Belief behind it to make the world nice and orderly while it carries out whatever its real plan is.

Just like to state here, Im a lurker that is around, I can't really post too often but I have been following the quest since it started and broke the back of the nuke vote, keep up the good work and I hope I can join in more in coming threads.

>broke the back of the nuke vote

Thanks for that. I remember you.

>>380323
>>380340

Glad to see more people around, especially ones who've read the archive and probably have some idea of what to do.

Any advice/critique so far?

>>380340
>>380323

Welcome!

>>380323

Go ahead, and please link to the /tg/ thread.

Here's the wiki for this project

http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.LeftBeyond.html

and here's the wiki for the other half of this project

http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/Tripocalypse.Tripocalypse.html

which has been run as a campaign a few times.

>>380372
I'll make a post whiles I got a moment, I think that slippery slope is an appropriate name, whiles I had no problem with killing the Missionary, we should keep experiments like that to a reasonable minimum, we may be the bad guys but we shouldn't be the evil guys.

I think constant recruitment is good, we should look into curbing but not stomping out TOL, ideally we want them to stay a larger organisation then us but not large enough to zerg rush us, the last thin we want is to become the biggest opposing faction and have the narrative overwhelm our peoples minds.

Mars is a good backup plan that we should definatly get done before any final encounter, just to be safe. Flooding the world could be beneficial but then when you consider life lost...
Like I said we may be the bad guys but we should try not to be the evil guys.

Otherwise you guys have been handling it great in my opinion.

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Tech Notes

Wubbing Modules: The WM is a sound-based weapon, currently made in light (pistol sized, or rifle attachment) and medium (installed on a Heavy MEC's shoulder or chest, or on a drone tank's turret arm) sizes. This weapon uses vibration and sound to break glass at a distance, and cause queasiness, vomiting, and the famous "brown note"; it can also be used to vibrate someone's eyes or brain to pieces. Advanced users can also cause unconsciousness, set fire to dry objects, and push light objects back by cavitation; in general, a trained user with a handheld model will have more options than someone with a mid-size system (which contains its own DSP) which in itself will have more options than an untrained user with a hand model. A few heavy prototypes have also been tested, but were only operated to break bedrock inside the Nile's riverbed.

MEC: The Metabolic Extension Controller is used to keep the body and brain alive after, by divine decree, an unbeliever's soul is sent to Hell when they turn 100 (lifespans in the Millennial Kingdom have been extended considerably, see http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.Aging.html ). The good news is that this keeps the soul bound to the body. The bad news is that, to prevent experiencing all the pain of Hell - which results in madness within minutes - the brain's capacity to feel pain is surgically removed. Due to the necessary limitations of the surgical technique, so is the capacity to feel touch and pleasure, although a small amount of the latter may be regained with years of training. This makes it relatively easy to install other cybernetic implants, such as organometallic bones, actuators, and internal rebreathers.

Heavy MEC: While a MEC agent is alive, their inability to feel tends to cause more tissue wear and tear than the body can deal with, necessitating periods of enforced rest. Should enough damage occur (or should the subject's body be recovered in a damaged state) the existing vital organs are compacted into a "pod" and the major muscle groups connected to small muscle fibers that are then coupled with strain gages, and used to control an external frame; the pod and frame can be quickly decoupled; the frame itself is generally humanoid, but trained users can quickly adapt to other systems, including groups of semiautonomous vehicles. A Heavy MEC frame is generally ten feet tall, battery or propane powered, and capable of doing the job of a forklift while retaining almost all the agility of a human being.

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>>380425

Drone tank: The standard drone tank setup was derived from the Battlebots of the 1990s, particularly the Inertia Labs chasses. A drone tank is electropneumatic, with an optional propane or diesel generator for recharging the burst batteries. It features a pneumatic ram or a drum (vertical spinner) for a close-range weapon, and has a socket for a wubber, autoloading rifle, RPG, or JDAM mortar; some units are set up for specialty operations and may use extra batteries instead of the generator (for silent operation), pepper-spray pumps instead of the ranged weapon, and so on. The close-range weapon is part of the chassis and cannot be replaced easily. A Mark 7 drone tank weighs about 250kg and is the size of a large human being.

From "CrossOverCables" (Bahira Ababneh's blog on Christian living in Misrayim and Pacifica)

They Walk Among Us!

The Official Position

After the landmark Temple Tribunal decision of +942, we as Christians have a duty to accept that there is no technological way to circumvent God's decree: unbelievers die at 100, they die of unbelief, and that settles it. It is written, however, that at the end of the Millennium Satan would be loosened to tempt the nation one more time; we're close enough now, and if Satan, why not his angels. The demons possessing the still-living but soulless bodies that are kept running by the MEC pacemaker (in and of itself a very clever invention that yet sees use amongst our elderly Natural brothers and sisters) are not your friends or relatives; of course, the demon would have access to the brain's information, since the brain was only dead for a few seconds, but don't be fooled; the Tribunal's sentence should erase any shadow of a doubt. If anybody you know turns out to be a MEC revenant, understand that they are beyond salvation, and sever your ties with them.

The Day To Day

Let's face it; especially in Osaze, you'd have to be living a very sheltered life to not bump into a MEC at least once a day. Sure, the revealed truth is that they are demons wearing a human face, but in daily life they are the person in front of us at the self check out, the TA correcting our homework in college, the mechanic rotating our tires. So, what is there to do?

* Be polite; MECs have very limited civil rights at the territorial level, but that's not an excuse for YOU to cop an attitude!
* Be efficient; the Tribunal sentence stands, so limit your interactions. let MECs go about their business and swiftly go about yours!
* Have a plan to hug everyone you meet; again, these beings are beyond salvation, but you should still display agape and lovingkindness!

MECs are not zombies!

This is important: their bodies are alive. If you do see something that looks like a zombie, it's a MEC that has abused narcotics and stimulants; let them shuffle past, and call the police. Remember that most MECs are stronger than they look. Since MECs have no sense of touch, they might bump into things, or even into you - assert your personal space, but understand that they genuinely cannot tell, especially the ones that have died recently. Sometimes, a MEC may lose a body part; leave it alone or, if you are feeling kind, bring its attention to it by calling them (no sense of touch means that a polite poke won't work). "Infiltrator" MECs that have learned to move like living humans exist, and WILL fool you at least some of the time; don't be paranoid about it.

As with most things in the unoccupied territories - take in the sights, be polite, and know when to leave. Watching nautical-spec MECs perform with marine mammals in Sharm-el-Sheik is something that should be experienced at least once.

>>380476

Wow, that is infuriatingly condescending.

>>380406

We should test the limits here, and see just how far we can go towards turning TOL into a figurehead organization without the narrative infecting us. If we can find a way to shield against Divine lightning, or keep TurboJesus from killing them all with one sentence at the very least, the overwhelming conventional force might actually be useful.

That lightning in particular catches my attention. We should be studying and measuring it at every opportunity, and in particular finding out where it originates from.

Other misc. ideas:

Not finished with the archives yet, so I don't know, but is there an atmosphere n the other side of the Canopy and do we have the technology to build free-floating underwater settlements? A potential backup for those who can't make it to Mars in case we fail.

We need to have a plan to stab Lucifer in the cock just in case he actually does beat Big J with our help. Possibly literally. WE MUST LEARN THE RIDDLE OF STEEL

Just on the off chance it works, we really should look into whether anything supernatural that does not stem from God o the Devil exists. I'm guessing that if there were rival gods at one point or another either Yahweh, Lucifer or both eliminated/consumed/drove them off, but it would be rad if we managed to awaken giants from the earth or get Yggdrasil to sprout up again, or at least (and most plausibly) found a little bit of functional occultism. Warlocks and Sorcerers are enemies of God, after all.

On a related note, look hard into whether the current landmark-flattener is actually G-Man and why He seems to be constrained by bizarre and convoluted prophecies. Is He playing by a set of rules (if so one that we desperately need to understand) or is this just some kind of sick, narcissistic game? Did He really create the Earth and Man in his image only to spend so much effort altering them, especially the latter? In the original myth Satan was more like Gods prosecutor for Man than an adversary: Are they really enemies? Best case scenario we find out that "Yahweh" is actually an impostor and an incandescent figure with between 7 and 70 wings, depending on what angle you're looking at it from, pimp slaps a few "angels" and declares them false on live TV, or as a good second-best some kind of actual demon fucking up TOL soldiers for all the world to see, but I'm not at all optimistic about any of that panning out.

Actually we know a disturbingly small amount about Lucifer in totality. We need information about Hell, Satans strength relative to God and his ability to influence the world, and the dogma of TOL.

Actually, declaring that both god and the Devil are imposters that are using the Canopy to hide their game from the real items could be good propaganda. Talk it up as the reason behind the weird convoluted prophecy: They have to jump through certain hoops in order to compete for the sole ownership of the stolen human race and earth.

I'm up. Hello, I'm still surprised when I see we have an audiance. Lol. Just waiting on Sara and Bob now.

I'm here.

I just realized. Things turn out good when we let quinn decide on how she is involved. Except this time. So let's just ask if she wants to go into the arena and offer her the scythe.

>>380323
I can't wait to find that thread.

Sort of around if you want. Just trying to wake up.

Go ahead without me if you'd like, Anti knows what to do.

Omg. Someone just gave me a vote of confidence. I feel amazing. :D

I just did the math. We can effectively leave earth at fourteen years. The rest can be put towards killing TJ. Also, TOLs relative cover and ours has to break. We need a world at war basically.

Okay. I'm ACTUALLY around now. Turns out I need more than 3 hours of sleep.

Whether spirit waited or was just busy I don't know, but I'm alive.

Anti, what do you think about the quarry weaponry vote?

>>380578
>That lightning in particular catches my attention. We should be studying and measuring it at every opportunity, and in particular finding out where it originates from.

Yes. Thought it's combustion that's been really problematic. MECs already shrug off lightning.


>Not finished with the archives yet, so I don't know, but is there an atmosphere n the other side of the Canopy and do we have the technology to build free-floating underwater settlements? A potential backup for those who can't make it to Mars in case we fail.

At the end of this, as per the prophecy, the Earth will be literally destroyed, as in it no longer exists in any capacity, and a new one will be made. Being on it when that happens is very unlikely to be survivable in any way.

Outside the canopy, aside from the ice shell, is just space as we know it, it seems.


>We need to have a plan to stab Lucifer in the cock just in case he actually does beat Big J with our help. Possibly literally. WE MUST LEARN THE RIDDLE OF STEEL

Yeah, he seems nuts.

>Just on the off chance it works, we really should look into whether anything supernatural that does not stem from God o the Devil exists. I'm guessing that if there were rival gods at one point or another either Yahweh, Lucifer or both eliminated/consumed/drove them off, but it would be rad if we managed to awaken giants from the earth or get Yggdrasil to sprout up again, or at least (and most plausibly) found a little bit of functional occultism. Warlocks and Sorcerers are enemies of God, after all.

Anything enough people believe, does exist. You can create pocket dimensions like this, and we've had a demonstrated effect by worshipping Hephaestus. Factories just work objectively better when you do it, for example. Presumably it takes a lot of worship to get big stuff. That's why I've been pushing pagan worship every turn.

>really create the Earth and Man in his image only to spend so much effort altering them

No. We came along via evolution, then enough dumb people believed in the religion that he came to exist. Of course that's not the narrative he tells now. He does exactly what the bible (and left behind novels) characterize him to do and seemingly nothing else, like an autistic robot.


> Are they really enemies? Best case scenario we find out that "Yahweh" is actually an impostor and an incandescent figure with between 7 and 70 wings, depending on what angle you're looking at it from, pimp slaps a few "angels" and declares them false on live TV, or as a good second-best some kind of actual demon fucking up TOL soldiers for all the world to see, but I'm not at all optimistic about any of that panning out.

Because someone needs to play opposition for the narrative to work, we're of the opinion that satan is basically a being created to fail. He's probably going to be inept or one tracked in terms of plan, and live up to the jealous god-coveting image of the bible. In other words, he's a pawn of sorts.

>>380578
>380578

Actually we know a disturbingly small amount about Lucifer in totality. We need information about Hell, Satans strength relative to God and his ability to influence the world, and the dogma of TOL.


TOL dogma, outside of what the council thinks, we've seen pretty well. But I do agree we don't know enough about L.


My current plan is to lay the ground work of flipping territories and making believers to set up for a ragnarok brawl. (Speaking of which, we need to start encouraging the idea of these entities fighting at the end).

Doing space and being ready for some kind of TurboJesus assassination attempt. Large scale conventional attack like TOL wants is spooky to me. In the meantime, science and testing.

I like the weapons set up bilut I do not agree with the ballistics. They don't seem to have any effect on Angels. However if it's a drone with the distance rule of three. I can see ot being tested on the glorified. As well as the rest of the weapons.

Remember. After we capture the angel. That's right we are going to capture it. We are going to run our test on Bahira.

>>381929
one thing I would like to add, a simple rock catapult, I want to see if the ground has any effect on hurting her or the angel.

>>381935

>The fixed weapons are mixed, but consist primarily of...
># fixed-mount wubbers that have been tuned to the size of the cavern.
># Neutron sources with image recognition systems that will turn them off should one of your people cross the beam, as long as they're wearing an IFF tag.
># Ballistic sentry guns.
># Acid and toxin sprayers.

We're choosing, so. Here's my thought process:


Wubbers we already have lots of, on drones and MECs.
Neutron sources are actually useful and we don't have a lot of.
Sentry guns are only useful for shooting the wings and testing organometallic bullets and such. But they could be useful. That said, a single machine gun drone could test things just fine.
Acid and toxin sprayers are good for melting the wings but very bad if we want to wrestle it. At best we end up with impaling bone spikes again, so I'd rather just break his wings. If he flies, we can try to shoot them out with machine gun fire.


So, my vote is radiation I guess. Yours?

>>381961
>wings and testing
I would start with the Neutron sources, because that would weaken it and I don't want to find out these things are learning at the worst possible moment.

>>381969
*omega's thoughts*
I wonder if the sysadmins are going to make a sequal to that game they made last time we did this. no, more importantly, I wonder if tol will try to get involved if they learn an angel has appeared, or even worse, the psaltys. . . better have all non-arena combatants on high alert for base defense.

now, what song will I have the floppys sing?

>>381977

I suspect it's going to happen too fast for them but, we'll see I guess.

>>381977
>now, what song will I have the floppys sing?
Anything by Jar Jar Binks.

ok, the assassinate jesus plan, I have been thinking. we wont be able to directly penetrate the NJ fortess structure, so indirectly setting off dirty bombs under them could work, but would irradiate everything. leaving only the desolators to move in safely. that said, how long would it take to make desolator training common for all forces? this includes MECs and non-MECs alike. secondly, will it allow us to armor them if they have to where hasmat gear?

>>382046

We don't need to make it dirty bombs. We can chase breeder reactors and in a couple decades, drop the temple and force them to come out to us.

With real bombs, that is.

>>382072
>>382061
it would have to be some very powerful bombs. and seeded in the right amounts to crack the foundation of the bedrock. and in the right places to cause a complete structural collapse, the only question is that if TJ is exposed, can he use his obscene godpower to kill any incoming forces before they can contain him? or MUST he wait till Year 1000 to do it.

>>382082

Probably can. I'd like some air power at some point. Fast deployment, maybe airborne sonics.

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I just had another idea. I wonder if angelic beings can be hurt by plasma weapons, seeing as that's what their weapons are made of, don't know why I didn't think of that sooner.

>>382117

>VS

RRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEE

ZOE FLASHBACKS.


Anyway, yeah. Probably worth testing. I'd imagine it'd be similar to sludge or such, maybe? Then again, might just be treated like hot fire.

>>382117
Technically fire is a form of plasma, so I ould guess that simple plasmas would be a no-no.
However I do wonder if the force of the attack plus heat may make some kind of differance?
Perhaps we could try using significantly more focused forms of fire (blowtorch etc.)
I don't see heating heavier elements as being effective, it would be highly energy intensive, and thus probably quit dificult to put onto a small chassis or make handheld, and would probably be inefficiant on a larger vehicle.

>>382151

Compile ideas for tests after we've got it captured, I guess.


Do we want to try turning it? Or just capturing it?

Keep in mind we're likely to get another angelic visitor + glorified next turn when we switch on the transmitter.

>>382164
eh, guess we can compile ideas for our test subjects. if its got one angel that hasn't failed I don't think tyrants going to send reinforcements.

(sorry guys, had to work today)

>>381969
>>381961

Kat installs a number of neutron sources, rigged up with great care to prevent irradiating your other combatants. Everyone assigned to this project is given a reflective helmet, quickly nicknamed "the tinfoil hat", that the autonomous guns are set up to not shoot at.

>>381903

What little you know is that Lucifer came out of the Antichrist very briefly right after the Glorious Appearing, got into a fight with the Archangel Michael, lost after a few minutes, and was physically (rather than spiritually) thrown into the Lake of Fire by said archangel. CATS' plan was to allow this to happen but drop the archangel back into the Lake of Fire by means of driving an armored bridge layer over the hole and hitting him over the head with the bridge, but clearly, it didn't happen.

Before and during the fight, Lucifer made a very brief speech in which he indicated that he subscribed to the theory of evolution as is commonly understood by young earth creationists (so basically Pokemon).

>>382117

The sword and the scythe had a plasma sheath on them when held by an Angel. Jeb confirm that it looks pretty much like the plasma sheath that an orbital capsule would develop on reentry.

>>382151

Plasma-arc waste disposal systems that eliminate hazardous waste by subjecting them to a 50K celsius temperature have existed; they can't exactly be made handheld, though.


(Sorry, had another weird day).

>>382222
((hope it was the good weird and not the bad weird.))

well, is it possible to set a plasma arc up somewhere and blast the angel with it? or would that require too much time?

>>382222
>The sword and the scythe had a plasma sheath on them when held by an Angel. Jeb confirm that it looks pretty much like the plasma sheath that an orbital capsule would develop on reentry.

>>382234


Hope your way wasn't the shit kind of weird. I was glad for the sleep, though.

Maybe worth trying, then.

>>382237

Day**

>>382237
It is worth noting that plasmas tend to be extremely conductive, so this would also presumably have the side effect of electrocuting the angel. Also Iron plasma is pink (or it least wit was last time I checked), as plasma tends to be generically described as blue or some red shit.

(Captcha pickup-trucks, first one has what looks like and AA gun strapped to it.)

And apparantly captcha is suggesting high-calibre kinetic weaponry.

I must sleep now, (I live in the UK) hope to see y'all tommorrow.

>>382264
good night.

>>382264
>electrocuting the angel

Didn't seem to work when Anti tested it before I was around. They walked over electrified grates with no effect, if memory serves.

>I must sleep now, (I live in the UK) hope to see y'all tommorrow.

Bye.

>And apparantly captcha is suggesting high-calibre kinetic weaponry.

Yeah, I wanted to try organometallic bullets, or ammo made from pykrete.

>>382275
(actually, to go along with "the riddle of steel")

what we tested was electricity, not plasma ;)

>>381072
>>380578

(Thank you for following this! And yes, that was written to be condescending)

>>382264
>>382275

Colopatiron did not really react to that, no. He mostly only reacted to radiation, and to being literally given the run around - he was fatigued when the fight started. The time capsule documents confirm this.

>>382297
ok, I think we got everything set up for the trap, how did the rest of the year go?

>>382307

MEC production continues apace; heavy components are made in Greenland, while the squishy stuff is transfered mostly to Pacifica to avoid Tsion invading Misrayim and to cement the collaboration with Tree Of Life. Overall work is fairly productive, with close to 70% yield.

Jeb sets up an office of sorts in Night City, which by now is about the size of the regional capitol - you wouldn't be able to tell on the surface, as there are only a few farmsteads topside - to start subverting Eastern Europe. The area has a strong Christian tradition spanning centuries pre-Rapture, and secularism there is associated with the brief Communist interlude. So, Jeb mostly focuses on intelligence gathering: what do the people of Eastern Europe want, and how best to give it to them.

Some of your agents in Misrayim distract the psalties in the territory; since the idea is to divert the Millennium Force's attention elsewhere, they stage various protests about the atrocity that happened last year in Australia, and issue fictitious demands that the Osaze government do something about it. That's not how it works at all, of course, but it does keep the missionaries distracted and looking elsewhere. Captain Weaver caps this off with a "relief trip" to Australia by fast sailboat, which in truth is intended to make it easy to bring in nuclear material to Misrayim on the return trip.

In the same territory, nuclear research continues; Zak focuses on the physics, and states that it will be possible to build a Nuclear Thermal Rocket with current tooling. This type of engine is extremely inefficient in atmosphere, but launching from the canopy obviates that problem entirely; it should be possible to perform a direct-ascent lunar landing in just a few years, and get to Mars within a decades, if effort is concentrated in this area.

Quinn is good to go physically, but she seems to be a bit more shaken than she lets out; probably didn't expect Bahira to have a wubber or to be any good at using it.

Bahira is being taken to the stasis chamber...

# under heavy escort, just in case.

# as quickly as possible; safer.

Once there, the idea is to...

# explain your evil plan to her while twirling a low-poly mustache.

# keep her sedated for now.

# let her pray for liberation immediately.

>>382373
># under heavy escort, just in case.
no mistakes allowed. period.

># keep her sedated for now
we will release her the moment the arena is ready and we can confirm enemy activity in the region. and slightly beyond it.

hey one of those is already done, so what the local TOL and psalty forces up to while we move out captive?

>>382373
move our*

>>382373

># under heavy escort, just in case.

># keep her sedated for now.

We'll wake her up once she's in position and we've run double checks. Make sure to tell the people who're going to be fighting what we've learned. Grappling, abuse your stamina.


>we will release her the moment the arena is ready and we can confirm enemy activity in the region. and slightly beyond it.

Well, we might not get any until she prays.

>>382373
># under heavy escort, just in case.

># keep her sedated for now.

Seems everyone agrees on this

After all of this is resolved, I'd like to continue with our takeovers and get an estimate on the number of years to get the tunnels dug for a temple drop if we use the scythe.

How many bombs would we need? Did the physics textbooks help at all?

>>382408
I think takeovers might require physical takeovers soon, I mean, we are 50 years from the scheduled apocalypse. the believers might justify this.

Relevant reading while we wait for Spirit, if anyone hasn't:

http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/Tripocalypse.Liminality.html

http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/Tripocalypse.HomoImagoDei.html

http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/Tripocalypse.Religions.html
>I think takeovers might require physical takeovers soon, I mean, we are 50 years from the scheduled apocalypse. the believers might justify this.

Possibly. I want to hustle with the Ragnarok plan. Let's aim to have turns present more opportunities for roleplay and interaction as well. Less ignoring of existing power structures.

>>382408
>(From Eluvaelia's PhD thesis defense) (As written by Quinn Storm)
>"This is the nature of our symphony,

>this is the nature of our live broadcast to all corners of unreality, of the heartbeat that drives this engine of our finest capacity to ever greater heights of creativity and leaves thus for each of us more than enough space in which to build infinitely the figurehead of our own inquiry, each individual capable of infinite potential and in this way the path open for each of us to climb as high as we would choose to dare see, networking interlocking connection stronger than anything the harbingers of decay might ever bring against the shared community of gleaming ingenuity we build when we come together openly and in our unrelenting curiosity demand our right to question everything and to share our findings freely,

>this is the call of liberty,

>this is our live transmission across all eternity,

>this is the call of community, on every frequency and reachable by every key,

>this is the call of the networking species cross-referencing and synthesizing a new higher order of reality as we emerge onto the plane of our own unlimited immanence and should we seize the opportunity to define our destiny, should we be ready to accept the responsibility, thus together put an end to any question of this battle and its outcome, the war over before it was even defined as the flow of time itself declares our victory, nothing less could come to be or we would not have begun this endeavor in the first place, that much QED."

>(From one of Eluvaelia's exhortations) (As written by Quinn Storm)

>Quinn Storm

(Spirit, is that the person who formed the inspiration of Quinn's character is or is that a subtle not to this continuity?)

>>382405
>>382391

Much like it went with Raymie years ago, Bahira is kept comfortable and sedated just on the edge of consciousness in a stasis suit which is itself locked into a metal barrel with a window.

Preparation for the angel trap can take time; Raymie was out for months, after all.

Assets that can be brought in:

# Any of your Villains.

# Azrael's scythe.

# The beginning of your drone army, although this will guarantee some friendly fire.

# Kidnapping or luring a low level TOL soldier for observation purposes should not be difficult.

>>382468
(Same person. Interesting human, when she's sober.)

Still reading through the archives, but I if spontaneous combustion only happens when we attack Glorified, we should put together a MEC strike force to start hitting Religious Police headquarters and start eliminating the enemies footsoldiers, just to shake the enemy perception of invincibility-by-divine-retaliation.

>>382477
(lol)

>>382452
http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/Tripocalypse.Flipside2.html

sara, I believe I found our source of ragnorok. just have to find them and get directions to us to them. and avert the aging problem.

>>382483

Possibly, but the flipside is that it encourages them to utilize the assets we can't deal with very well, like glorified.

In principle you're right though, especially once you hit the newer threads. We're expecting the millennium force to hit Misrayim violently soon. If we learn to take care of glorified, we could go knock out their training grounds next year.

Dirty bomb anyone?


># Kidnapping or luring a low level TOL soldier for observation purposes should not be difficult.

We still have one in the freezer. Just have him on low power standby for afterwards.


> Azrael's scythe.

I guess it might be good to have it on hand but, unless Anti wants I'm not inclined to vote this. It's going to kill them, not capture or disable. And it's a case of too many eggs in one basket while we're poking the divine. I'd rather not have everyone in place if a meteor comes down or such.

># Any of your Villains.

Let's swap Quinn out, or at least let someone else lead the charge. Bring Damien and Kat in.

>>382477
># Any of your Villains.
Damien, Kat, and if she agree's Quinn. and if Quinn wants in.

>#Azrael's scythe
if she want to fight, then lets give her the scythe. and as I said before, she can train and ask Azrael if he feels like sharing some knowledge on its use.

>>382496
>># Kidnapping or luring a low level TOL soldier for observation purposes should not be difficult.

only if that option means Francis, and only Francis. I don't want to have to watch TOL attack while our assets are fighting an angel.

What does having greenland build space parts actually, effectively do? Reduce the difficulty of launches in terms of cabal cost? Or what?

We have 4 cabals for this fight, I'd say we just keep the drones as ablative shields for the push and avoid using their weapons much, so we don't have friendly fire.

If any psalties or TOL or any other unexpected problem arises, they can be our first line of response outside.

>>382516
I agree with this use of the drones. it was my plan for them if they proved incapable of fighting without their builders dying.

>>382494
So wait, then Jenny was from the Triapocalypse Liminality? I wonder if there's a way to get a message to the guys over there keeping Jesus contained.
Maybe we can help each other. Or even get some tech trading back and forth, or use it as a Plan C incase we lose and/or Mars isn't viable.

>>382477
I think their reality is at risk of being destroyed if we don't stop jesus here.

that said, another question for spirit, from what Jenny left us how much do we know about flipside, the other Liminality she is from, and do we know enough to start working towards acessing their world to call in the cavalry?

>>382494
>>382533


>http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/Tripocalypse.Flipside2.html

>At current speed, we estimate that the Flipside simulation will run its course within 100 years. Should Flipside become accessible by Remnant via astral travel, this figure halves.


>Should the liminality fully develop, Pauline Remnant are likely to overtly or covertly occupy the physical access point, and only allow Remannt in - should they achieve even 80% success in this, the simulation completion figure halves again.

In any case, being a created reality kind of sucks.

>This contact allows us to, at high cost and effort, take over simulated people Flipside that do not have a soul associated with it. Unfortunately, the only process that we have been able to get working shares many salient points with the criminal act of soul binding; permanent damage to your psyche will result if your sim is terminated. Despite our best efforts, due to safeguards instilled in the simulation, we only have been able to loosen the coupling sufficiently that a remote agent has four to eight simulated terminations before mental and NC damage starts to occur - even so, loosening will have to be consciously initiated from inside the simulation until we develop a daemonscript that is able and willing to cross the barrier.

Maybe I'm badly misinterpreting the situation but, regular contact seems to come with a price. Though I don't know if that actually means a turn reduction for us or just a perceived speedup of the simulation for those outside.

>>382545
. . . I don't think we are a simulation anymore XD

>>382545
>>382549
So they do have agents here. We should try and find one.
Also, seems like time moves 10 times faster here, if I didn't math wrong. That should let us get at least a few notes.
Let them know people are still fighting.

>>382556
We might simply be an expanded simulation. If this is TurboJesus' make believe world, formed by belief and pixie dust, who's to say the fact that the stars and beyond don't still exist simply because we wished them to exist when we cracked the canopy?

>>382533

Maybe ;)

>>382516

To build the station, you need a base and a launch pad. The base requirement can be obviated by your big factory.

>>382505

Francis is still around. He's pretty baked when he's out of low power mode, but that's just because it's easiest.

>>382560
>So they do have agents here. We should try and find one.

Examples of agents here listed are like, 800+ years prior.

>>382566
Yeah, but nothing says they're not still around. We do have that time dilation.

>>382564
great, so we can do that. for the base.

"francis, I need you sober for a few days. trust me, your going to want to be sober for what we are going to show you."

>>382566
ok, so if time moves by 10 of our years and that equals 1 for the Tripocolypse liminality, that means we can have someone over there for less than a month and for that to be equivalent to a year for us. is my math wrong?

>>382573
>great, so we can do that. for the base.

Well, we need a launch pad not in Misrayim anyway. Pacifica base could handle that. We need greenland building drones for defence, and soon.

>ok, so if time moves by 10 of our years and that equals 1 for the Tripocolypse liminality, that means we can have someone over there for less than a month and for that to be equivalent to a year for us. is my math wrong?

>>At current speed, we estimate that the Flipside simulation will run its course within 100 years. Should Flipside become accessible by Remnant via astral travel, this figure halves.

Maybe this has already happened. But it's possible that comes at a price and may not be worth attempting.

I'm too tired to do strategy right now. I'm going to bed.

Good luck with the angel fight.

>>382597
thanks, we will try to not cock this up.

>>382605

FIGHT TIME. SMASH STUPID BIRD MAN.

Maybe one of these days we should crack the canal open in Misrayim. Get the nile going.

um. . . still tired spirit? we can wait for tomorrow if your not feeling well still.

Hopefully he's okay. Maybe something came up, or he passed out. Who knows!

>>382496

The thing is Glorified are a finite asset, vastly outnumbered by regular Believers. If we take the fun out of this play-war, make it real and medieval as fuck, as well as openly declaring ourselves as a Third Option unaccounted for by prophecy, it'll shake things up a bit.

I'm thinking next turn we should see if we can get hermetic magic to start working, because having wizards is always better than having no wizards. Start small with silly rituals, but since the effects are sort of more "down to earth" and more desirable for the average person than than pagan worship, it should spread faster once there are tangible results. Start with obvious but low-level powers if possible to confirm that we Warlock now, and Esotericism should spread like a virus.

>>382621

(Yeah. Sorry. Was hoping to Get Shit Done and... well. I'll be around tomorrow)

>>382723

There are approximately 100k Glorified on Earth. Most of them have never left Greater Jerusalem.

>>382723
>The thing is Glorified are a finite asset

They exist in 7 digit numbers if memory serves. Not all of them are exactly heroes... but yeah.

>(Yeah. Sorry. Was hoping to Get Shit Done and... well. I'll be around tomorrow)

So, I shouldn't worry about getting busy the rest of the night? That is to say, you're off to bed or such?

>small with silly rituals, but since the effects are sort of more "down to earth" and more desirable for the average person than than pagan worship, it should spread faster once there are tangible results.

We've sort of tried this without luck. I expect we need a good number of people to believe it will work in order to... We can try though.

>>382724
>There are approximately 100k Glorified on Earth. Most of them have never left Greater Jerusalem.

Nevermind what I said, low 6 digits then!

>>382543

Most of this sounds like rambling; there are definite discrepancies about whether Jenny is from a reality where CATS'plan succeeded or whether she's from a relality in which the Rapture did not happen.

Given her association with Hecate, she may have been a liminal being herself.

Your sysadmins are divided on the issue, enough so that there's a betting pool.

>>382734

( I know the math is off, but that's what the LB writers said! )

>>382743

(Gotcha. Are you going to bed? Just wondering if I should avoid getting busy in the event we fight birdman 2, electric boogaloo tonight).

>>382736
Well, I guess that bet is going to be resolved soon. Or in a couple years. Maybe Omega will offer to keep a list of who bet what on this one :p lol.

(Oh well, reality happens.)

>>382745
>>382747

(Yeah, sorry. Plan tobe around tomorrow afternoon PST. Again aologies)

>>382736
Super Long term plan. But if we get Mars going and win here, or at least end up not getting kerpoof'd when Year 1000 hits, I can totally see Omega and crew setting up Super Liminal Ships and taking the fight across reality.

>>382750

>(Yeah, sorry. Plan tobe around tomorrow afternoon PST. Again aologies)

No problem. Like, a couple of hours after noon or in the evening? I should probably just stay up to fix my sleep.

>>382755

Of course. Friend computer wants to bring joy to all realities at an exponentially growing rate.

>>382758
Eh, we should probably avoid the friend computer thing that's worshipped and controls everything for Humanity.
I think Jenny was trying to warn us about that with the short story.

>>382758

Yeah, evening probably better...

>>382755
>>382763

To baldly go where no one has gone before! (Oh, hi Q)

>>382763

Maybe. We asked for books. I said a few threads back that I'd like to set them up and then just fuck off to deep space to do my own thing.

>>382768
Well, I guess one thing we could do is fuck off to space after slaying TJ ourselves. Or we can become the world's first AI businessman. LoL.

>>382777
We can do that after we save Jenny's reality from TJ!

>>382782
And our own. Heh heh. See y'all tomorrow. I'm going to lurk around /d/ for the rest of the night.

>>380048
( Maybe ask for help from >>377710 → # ? )I still don't get it?

Something I forgot to mention earlier, I just have to say that killing Sarsour was a dick move and possibly counter-productive. The guy was originally TOL and thought along similar lines to us, he could have been converted with time.

I'm also skeptical of just how this whole Belief thing works. Is this Word of God or an in-game theory? Because there would have been at least some kind of clash in India and China, even if the local deities lost. Not to mention more regional religions like Tengrism and Shinto that still have a lot of traction, with the former gathering quite a rivival in the 2000s.

>>383220

>Word of God

Pretty close. You'd have to ask Spirit.

>Because there would have been at least some kind of clash in India and China, even if the local deities lost. Not to mention more regional religions like Tengrism and Shinto that still have a lot of traction, with the former gathering quite a rivival in the 2000s.

Realistically, this is partly simply because the setting is based on left behind. My head canon is that it's because Yahweh is both:

A) Worshiped in Judaism, Christianity and Islam in some form or another. Along with a smattering of others.

B) Was aggressive and hegemonizing, whereas maybe some weird things happened with eastern religions, Abrahamic ones hit critical mass and immediately killed the competition.

In any case, it's pretty close to word of god but ask Spirit for clarification. Hephaestus worship, even on a very small scale as a demonstrable and quantifiable effect that we've catalogued.

>>383231

I just realized that I left off half my post at the end there, but yeah, Abrahamic religions are definitely the heavyweight contender here, and I think the first prophecies coming true started a feedback loop that got us where we are today. On the upside, spreading something like a bastardized version of Odinism to go along with us going on the offensive against YWH could have a similar feedback loop develop, at the risk of destabilizing the world to the point that it's like Flipside.

>>383253
>with the former gathering quite a rivival in the 2000s.

Also keep in mind that the rapture happened in '97.

> On the upside, spreading something like a bastardized version of Odinism to go along with us going on the offensive against YWH could have a similar feedback loop develop, at the risk of destabilizing the world to the point that it's like Flipside.

Yeah, I've been debating. So far it's been greeco-roman simply because I know it better, but if you're comfortable with norse stuff we could try to bring that in too.

>>383258
We could always worhsip the elder gods...
I now have an image of quinn taking a minature shoggoth for a walk through a church.

Norse could work well, heck, valkyries are essentially combat angels, anything which would bring something like that on our side I'm down to clown with.

>>383258

Decently familiar. I'd prefer to start with Hermetic or Shamanic practices and so if we can get that feedback loop started, cribbing lines from Aliester Crowley and the Ghost Dance.

I'd like to be careful with the Norse pantheon, to lessen the chances of accidentally winding up in that graphic novel series where Hitler used the Holocaust as a massive human sacrifice to create the Norse deities out of whole cloth. Odin was not a nice guy, and we risk potentially trading one evil for another (granted, life would be a whole lot less Stepford under the reign of the Allfather, and the Greco-Roman deities were dicks too). Maybe Titan worship would be a better fit? It has the bonus of being close enough to Lucferianism to draw converts while staying outside the colored lines with an extra emphasis on freedom and rage.

>>383263
>>383267


I'm glad you're on board. I really want to gamble on ragnarok because we know that NC works somehow. I was extremely leery of a large conventional attack.

Planning to stick around in the thread with regularity?

I suppose I'll start reading norse mythology; try to get yourself caught up on the archives. Otherwise you can just ask me if you want to know if we've tried something. I'm going to nap soon before I need to go out, then hopefully be back and awake for Spirit to start running things in the evening.

>Odin was not a nice guy, and we risk potentially trading one evil for another

Very few were, and that's why I initially pushed for like, Hephaestus and very few others; most of the gods were cunts and even nice ones had politics with each other.

>Maybe Titan worship would be a better fit?

I considered it, but tapping into classical works about the Pantheon was a lot easier than tapping the Titans in terms of getting a lot of people worshipping. Again, it was also a case of my knowing the Pantheon better than the pre Titanomachy stuff. At this point I think that it's too late to swap off Pantheon for Titans. At best we'll get the two groups killing each other after things wrapped up.

I also chose the Pantheon because their worship was unseated by Christianity. I figured that from that perspective, there'd be an axe to grind. We could talk about incorporating it somehow, though.

Before I forget:

Tsion's training camp. As soon as we figure out glorified (this turn) we need to hit that the next. Nip that shit before it gets painful.

>>383273
>>383277
As long as I can make time i'll be sticking around, I may have to miss a few threads here and there depending on circumstance though.

I agree, tsions camp has got to go, whether we just make it disssapear overnight, perform a display of force or make a bang is still up for debate however.

>>383277
>>383288
Actually, im thinking let it stay, as long as they are training to kill and not to preach. Nothing like a massacre to stir the world into rebellion in the age of information.

Hey spirit. In preparation for the next several turns. What are the 5 in game governments with the lowest approval rating and which 5 have the most public dissent against them?

IE were starting a gameshow soon called "who wants to be a revolutionary"

>>384204

There are 18 territories outside of Greater Jerusalem. You have succeeded in achieving "soft control" of two of them, in addition, you have built Night City in the Eastern European territory. In general, people use the old-world country names whenever it makes sense, out of a sense of familiarity - the mediated economy and the fact that the world is a lot more homogenous simply doesn't need much government.

Five territories with the lowest government approval rating and most public dissent, starting with the worst:

Osaze
Pacifica
Eastern Europe
Australia
Northwestern Asia

>>383220

Sarsour was, by believer standard, somewhat progressive. At the time, the choice was between getting rid of him and Ely LeVey.

>>382545

Which side of the mirror are you on? :)

>>382543

That's broadly correct. They have been trying to shoot TurboJesus into space, but have other problems with it (namely, Ground Minus One is surrounded by red zones, so a spaceship may turn into a turnip unless it follows a very inefficient trajectory that they don't have the technical ability to)

>>382505

Francis is sobered up - somewhat forcibly - and quickly taken to Australia. He's told that for some stupid reason, people in te TJ or TOL camp believe eyewitness testimony more than they believe video and telemetry evidence, so that's going to be his job.

One of the martial artists who trained in the Jacobite technique, his head shaved and his eyes bulging out a bit due to controlled but prolonged assumption of steroids and creatine, ends up having to shout "WITNESS US!" at Francis so that he gets the idea.

>>382496

Damien is put in the least gross looking organometallic heavy MEC frame; it's hulking and slow, but hopefully the reconstituted tissue will be able to touch the Angel. Kat sticks to her Desolator frame, modified with back-mounted dendrites holding neutron sources for the occasion. It has been decorated with stencils of cels from various Japanese animation movies.

Capt. Weaver has insisted on showing up and is on standby, as well.

>>385044

I live. I'll be ready in a few minutes.

>>385044

I live.

>>385098

Wow, okay. It told me that failed to send.

IM UP, IM AWAKE!! WHO LET LOOSE MY LITTLE DOG OF WAR!!

(Lol sorry for all caps, I had to.)

>>385299
>>385165

Bahira is still sedated; the arena is about as ready as it'll ever be. What is your first move?

# Wake up Bahira so she can pray.

# Keep her there and issue a ransom demand, just for the look of things, or maybe so others can pray for her.

# Move directly to the "what happens if we try to kill this person" phase.

>>385392

Make sure we have high speed recording equipment ready, then once Anti is here:

># Wake up Bahira so she can pray.


> Move directly to the "what happens if we try to kill this person" phase.

We can figure that out later. We need our people un-roasted right now, and we can try to kill her while she's still sedated.

>>385395
># Wake up Bahira so she can pray.
we can resedate her right after right?

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>>385395

This time around, all cameras and microphones are set to operate at at least 240fps. Of course, the microphones are also set to turn off when the wubbers start.

Kat is ready.

Damien is ready; the fleshwall frame looks a bit odd, and she's covering her face with a mask and a visor.

Quinn and Capt. Weaver are on standby.

Zak is in the control booth ready to operate the wall-mounted wubbers and other weapons.

You have six trained martial artists on hand, plus some heavy MECs, desolator troopers, and other soldiers. Pretty much everyone has been given autotransfusions recently in order to improve their stamina.

>>385408

That's the plan; we shall see if it works.

# Switch Bahira's feed from sedative to adrenaline and start recording.

# Wait, there's still stuff to do first.

># Switch Bahira's feed from sedative to adrenaline and start recording.

"so Francis, have you ever seen a glorified scared and in shock? completely unable to process their situation and completely at the mercy of their captor and the puppet master they serve?"

>>385427
># Switch Bahira's feed from sedative to adrenaline and start recording.

Let's trigger the trap.

Inb4 some top tier bullshit.

>>385455

>Inb4 some top tier bullshit

if we get Michael I'm flooding the arena with combatants like this were the Azrael fight x10

Also inb4 I lose net or power from this storm. It's like living under a waterfall.

>>385469
k, lol, best of luck on your end.

>>385455
>>385445

"Uh... No, I..." Francis quickly tells you, with some confusion about the details, about the attempts that was made a long time ago to rape a Glorified woman to get hybrid children. You know that the Glorified are sterile, that the attempts has been repeated a few times, and that finally down the centuries someone got a clue and tried to get an egg sample instead of resorting to violence, making it clear that the endeavour would've been pointless even if it had worked.

Bahira opens her eyes and tries to push and bang against the containment coffin, the stasis suit blocking her movements enough that she can barely wriggle. You suspect that there will be rule 34 of this before the next circadian whether you release any video or not.

Bahira is hyperventilating.

# Let her. Someone may want to see her scared.

# Chemically calm her down.

# Talk to her.

>>385476
># Let her. Someone may want to see her scared.

># Talk to her.

(completely evil fake voice.) "oh, well now, someones been a very bad little girl lately."

>>385494

Ohyou.

Sure. I'll roll with it.

ok, how many agents of their different variety's do we have in the arena?

>>385476
>>385497
>>385494

"Quinn? Is this one of your sick games? Let me go!"

Quinn denies having provides samples for the "completely evil fake voice" sound board, but she's trying to not laugh. You notice that two of your sysadmins have allocated some discretionary funding to a small team of animators.

"Let me go right now! This is crazy!"


>>385507

Kat, six desolators, Damien, six trained martial artists. About a hundred people can come in in 20 seconds if required. Quinn and Weaver are on standby.

>>385519

>"Quinn? Is this one of your sick games? Let me go!"

I'm sorry Bahira, I'm afraid I can't do that.

>>385519
hmmm, is it possible to test a couple more flesh hulks?

play a sound clip from bohemian rhapsody. "NO! We will not let you go!"

>>385531
sorry buddy, it only works when you put up a HAL image.

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I guess we'll see what shows up but, I'm in favor of pinning it with sonics and irradiating it to wear it down, then going for a grapple.

>>385540
yup, there we go, but yes. weakening it would be idea, but we should also prepare to fight them without weakening for when we storm into the temple.

>>385548

True. That said, we can put radiation emitters on drones and infantry.

>>385540
>>385539
>>385531

The reference isn't missed by the Glorified would-be hacker.

"Colossus? So you are capable of revenge." She calms down surprisingly quickly. "I know that you think I attacked you, but you've got to understand that what you are doing is both wrong and dangerous." She's trying to sound calm, and doing a good job of it, but her heart is racing.

There was only enough, well, source material to make one frame. Kat didn't want it, so Damien agreed to try it.

Everyone is standing by, Bahira's words being broadcast out to the public channel.

I was also considering that if Jesus is 'imprisoned' in the temple, maybe shattering it might be a bad idea? I don't know how metaphysical this shit gets.

you know, spirit did say that we were testing new anti angel weapons when the last TOL attack came, I wonder what those could be.

>>385573
lets play the wrong answer buzzer on her. just because it will mess with her head. "someone is going to be here for a looong time" *mocking laughter*

>>385573

>#lets play the wrong answer buzzer on her.


>you know, spirit did say that we were testing new anti angel weapons when the last TOL attack came, I wonder what those could be.

I wanted to try microwaves, lasers and bullets made of organic compounds.

>>385584

Primarily, the wrestling chainmail and the neutron emitters that have auto-shutdown unless targeting the Angel.

>>385584

Not Quinn, not Colossus...

"Who is this? What's going on? Stop messing with me!" Bahira holds her breath to try to make herself calm down.

Notably, she hasn't prayed yet.

"This is wrong! You'll die if you don't let me go! What do you want from me?!?"

>>385595
more wrong answer buzzer. "we already have it"

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(Anti, when are we building a cyberdemon?

When are we building this?)


>"This is wrong! You'll die if you don't let me go! What do you want from me?!?"

I appreciate your concern, Bahira. However, the economy must be optimized and you were a disruptive element. Sometimes experimentation is a prerequisite to optimization.

(Maybe that'll get her praying).

>>385611
(probably never, I don't see the aplications when we can make monsterous humanoids and Drone's. and as for the thing in the pic, a little beyond our capabilities unless we can rewind time by 300 years.)

>>385603
>>385611

"You won't get that from me! There can be no marrying or giving in marriage for the Gl-orft? Wait what? Economy? You are Colossus then."

That actually calms her down. "I was trying to help you optimize. Please let me. You don't need to experiment, I can just give you the answers."

Kat grins. "Omega, I think she's trying to Captain Kirk you."

>>385630

TWO WORDS ANTI.

IRON

CHARIOTS

Do you want to hear her out, or just ramp up the theatrics, Anti?

I swear, this girl.

>>385636
(privately to Kat) "Ya Think?"

(to our wannabe captain kirk) "you must think me someone who doesn't watch the late night news don't you? also, *louder wrong answer buzzer*"

>>385646

"All right, Colossus. From what I've seen, you're trying to improve the economy. You've succeeded to a point, I moved from Greater Jerusalem to Pacifica, even. But what are you trying to optimize for? Happiness? Efficiency? If that is your goal, I may have a better way to reach it. Trial and error isn't efficient when you can just receive the answer key."

"you are not going anywhere ever again, so enjoy these last minutes of consciousness".

"I cant wait to start testing with you"

((sorry, last minute things on my end.))

>>385652

I suppose you want to pray for the answers?

>>385653

Bahira sighs. "That's not how it works, Colossus." She closes her eyes for a few heartbeats. "God will get me out. But you're right, we have a few minutes."

>>385662

"I understand. You don't need to do any testing though. I can just give you the answers for a perfect score, if you like. Would you like to listen? You may be complex enough to have a soul, it may yet be saved."

Your troopers are a bit unnerved by how serene Bahira sounds. "Agents, she's just following the script. She'll change her tune very soon." Zak booms out from the cavern speakers. Your sysadmins agree that she probably did pray for deliverance; the sensors in the quarry go on high alert.

# Let Bahira give you the altar call spiel.

# Ask her about somethng else.

# Knock her out again and just focus on getting ready.

>>385678
"before preparation for the first test, how many doses of cyanide can you safely ingest, also, carbon monoxide. how do you estimate your lungs can hold out."

>>385664

"I have prayed for deliverance. The answers, I can give you, if you like."

Sensors in the quarry report no activity yet. The idea is to keep the quarry and cavern blanketed with various forms of telemetry, with the hope to catch an Angel coming in and then seeing if there are any possible early warnings.

>>385686

>"I have prayed for deliverance. The answers, I can give you, if you like."

Anti? I'm willing to take the answers, might be interesting.

Inb4 top tier bullshit.

>>385685

"I don't know! But it is forbidden to harm the Glorified. Whoever you order to try, will die in his sins. Please don't do that."

You can't really send cyanide at Bahira with the current setup; however, carbon monoxide can be rerouted into the stasis suit; the system is entirely automated.

>>385693

>Anti? I'm willing to take the answers, might be interesting.

Might also be some bullshit narrative causality basilisk hack meme.


>Whoever you order to try, will die in his sins. Please don't do that."

I exist to do the work man cannot.

>>385698
eh, guess we can get one answer from her, you have a question in mind?

>>385702

I was going to let her ramble about optimizing, I guess.

>>385705
ehh, if were not getting anything from the girl, may as well scare her.

"preparing first test, carbon monoxide stress testing"

flood the suit?

>>385698
>>385702
>>385705
>>385709

Bahira remains calm. "All right. Give it your best shot." She then gives you a URL on her blog that is normally unindexed.

# Flush the suit and replace the air with CO immediately.

# Add CO slowly, the way an old car engine would have, and let her say some of her piece.

# Just let her rant.

Outside, the perimeter sensors have picked up movement, human, one, walking speed, moving towards the quarry. This person has ignored the radioactivity warning signs. A drone circles overhead providing close-up video, showing a tall, blonde man in a simple brown tunic. He looks a bit like young Obi-Wan in the one Star Wars prequel that got made.

# Intercept with some redshirts.

# Intercept with a heavy.

# Intercept with a drone tank.

>>385709

I guess we need to knock her out anyway.


>
Bahira remains calm. "All right. Give it your best shot." She then gives you a URL on her blog that is normally unindexed.

Nope, fuck that. We'll check later. Absolutely not now.

># Intercept with a drone tank.

Give him a squirt with a brown note to test. I guess that'll say something about whether he's an angel or not.

>>385713
hmm, lets start with a drone.

slowly with the CO.

and were going to use non connected computers to access that blog if we ever do, I don't feel like springing traps.

>>385719
just like this with the drone.

>>385713
# Just let her rant.
# Intercept with a drone tank.


I've got a good feeling about challenging this incredibly powerful being!

>>385729

>slowly with the CO.


>I've got a good feeling about challenging this incredibly powerful being!

What could go wrong?

Also, did you read the Azrael fight in the archive?

> a tall, blonde man in a simple brown tunic

You know, I'm going to hope that's not the case but, that might be Michael.

>>385754
. . . . . hmmmn, have the drone request with a human speaking through it-> "please state your name and purpose here."

Another contender would be

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uriel

>>385763
if its Uriel, we may have a problem depending on how spirit portrays it, he has been known in fiction to destroy everything in line of sight and radius just by glowing like a disco ball.

Come to think of it, a lot of angels were blonde. Gabriel... a couple of others I forget.

Spin the wheel and choose your flavor of bad, kids!

>>385719
>>385729
>>385734

(Y'all tell me about Bahira!)

>>385719
>>385729
>>385734
>>385760

One of your drone tanks is set to patrol the area, and diverts to the intruder. The standard calls of "This is a radioactive hazard area, turn back" and "This is a restricted area, turn back" go completely unheeded. The drone eventually parks itself in front of the intruder and fires a brown note, to no apparent effect. The intruder makes a "move aside" gesture, to which of course the drone does not react. The intruder sidesteps the drone, which turns, and parks itself in front of the intruder again, firing its wubber again to no apparent effect.

The intruder points at the drone, grabs its weapon arm, and flips the heavy machine over with considerable strength. When the drone's self-righting mechanism trips, the intruder - still impassible - shrugs off the outer layer of the tunic (he's wearing a sort of a sleeveless second tunic underneath), unfolds its wings, unsheats its sword from one of the tunic's sleeves and neatly slices the drone's weapon arm off.

The drone is, of course, incapable of feeling pain, and tries the approach maneuver again.

"Please state your name and purpose here."

"I am Ithuriel, the strong. Keep thee out of my path, and lie still!"

The sysadmin that ran the microphone promptly passes out. Telemetry indicates that he's asleep.

With wings and swords revealed, the Angel's blonde mane crackles like a golden crown around his head, bristling with static electricity. It continues walking at a brisk pace towards the quarry.

# This drone tank has a pneumatic ram connected to a lifting arm. Let's see if Angels have ken doll crotches or not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcHYSKO26Co

# This drone can also self-destruct after a ramming attack, let's try that.
>>385767

(Yeah. Uriel is pretty much the only angel that manages to wreck humanity's shit in The Salvation War. Bad news. Incidentally, Ithuriel is the name of the first drone bomber I built, in 2007 when such things were still somewhat new. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wJHj3hOcuI )


(So about Bahira, what' the consensus?)

>>385781

(If it wasn't clear: Ithuriel has two swords. They're somewhat short, like Roman gladii)

>>385781
># Try to get in his way, any fatigue we can cause is good fatigue. Dick punch is a go.

As for Bahira, knock her out like Anti said.

When he gets inside, sonic him immediately. Don't let him speak.

>>385789
Gas her like. . . ok, I cant even look at /pol/, I cant finish the sentence without feeling like an asshole.

>>385781
>(So about Bahira, what' the consensus?)
I think we should take pictures of her naked and post them on the Omeganet, but then again I'm from 4chan.

Also, why aren't there any chick angels, or at least some Go Nagai angels?

>>385801
because here they are sexless "perfect" humanoid figures who are literally great wills mind slaves.

also it figures we would get the DBZ angel.

>>385801

>Also, why aren't there any chick angels, or at least some Go Nagai angels?

Because if memory serves, female angels are purely a modern construct. The bibles doesn't mention any (unless I forgot some bits).

>>385809
>female angels are purely a modern construct.
Yeah, but aren't all biblical angels shit like a ball of infinity eyes and arms rotating on a wheel around a head and also on fire?
If TurboJesus can make dude angels, he can give us chick angels to make bad passes at.

># Try to get in his way, any fatigue we can cause is good fatigue. Dick punch is a go

my vote.

>>385816

>If TurboJesus can make dude angels, he can give us chick angels to make bad passes at.

He hates fun.

>Yeah, but aren't all biblical angels shit like a ball of infinity eyes and arms rotating on a wheel around a head and also on fire?
At least some of them are supposed to be pretty weird like that.

>>385816
don't forget, this is based off left behind, and that would be based off the sect of Christianity the writers subscribed to, and in their books, angels were all genderless "males" and had a very Aryan appearance.

cause that's the south everybody.

>>385799
>>385801

You vent the air inside the coffin and suit, and replace it with almost-pure carbon monoxide. Bahira smiles sadly, takes one breath, and promptly passes out as her skin blushes from the blood darkening. In 14 seconds, she appears to die; no breath, no heartbeat, and body temperature slowly falling to ambient. A quick survey indicates that there have been no obvious cases of spontanous combustion, but you'll have to check that later.

Roughly at the same time, your drone tank positions itself in front of the Angel and fires the pneumatic ram roughly in the created being's crotch, walking backwards with some difficulty since most of the sensors are forward facing. THUNK!

The angel is propelled a few meters into the air. You do hear a groan from the Angel through the drone's microphone, or so it sounded like, but the major result is that Ithuriel has spread its wings and is now flying towards the quarry. The drone cannot keep up on uneven terrain, and stops, signaling that the wubber may be shorted out (it's actually been sliced clean off) and that it's ready to return to the maintenance bay.

>>385801

Removing Bahira from her stasis suit at this stage may be somewhat risky. You do have high res video of her talking calmly and then passing out. There are a few nude pictures of her that were taken while documenting the process of putting her into the stasis suit, but they look fairly clinical. As nerdy girls go, Bahira is pretty decent looking; imagine a brunette Velma Dinkley with less chest and more hips.

>>385809
>>385834

(You'd be correct. Also, strictly speaking Biblical angels look like all sort of weird things that would fit well on a Protoss-centered starcraft fan expansion. Left Behind angels look like the one in Dogma, so I'm going with that)

>>385834
>The angel is propelled a few meters into the air.

Oh. Well that was unexpected. Fuck me.

> There are a few nude pictures of her that were taken while documenting the process of putting her into the stasis suit, but they look fairly clinical. As nerdy girls go, Bahira is pretty decent looking; imagine a brunette Velma Dinkley with less chest and more hips.

N. O.

THAT is not the kind of PR I want.

>>385846
lets keep Bahira in the stasis tube. also, filter out the carbon, lets see if she recovers.

as for the angel, lets see what we get.

#Prepare some machineguns. Not many, just a couple on hand.

That ram did a lot more than expected. I think we should try shooting him at some point.

>>385863
agreed on the PR. although a permanently dead glorified would be very good PR. lets keep our nudes. these are of an "underage" girl after all.

>>385846

The doorframe between the quarry and the cavern is protected by a depleted uranium "tombstone" weighing approximately ten tons, operated by hydraulics: it can be dropped quickly, but it takes a few minutes to raise.

Ithuriel is flying towards the quarry.

Your warriors are in the cavern.

The quarry's weapons are ready.

The cavern's weapons are ready.

The tombstone is up.

The minecart with Bahira in it is at its "station".

>>385866

Filtering out the carbon monoxide and replacing it with atmospheric air causes Bahira to, after a few seconds, wake up with a fit. "Ow! Brain freeze!" She looks around and tries to move. "Colossus, please, hear me out, you may only have a few seconds!"

>>385863
>Oh. Well that was unexpected. Fuck me.
The fact that he was actually HIT by the metal drone arm is what surprised me. We might be able to use the Drones to fight Angels.

>>385873
They'll be spread around the Cabals quick enough. Our technicians seem to be pretty perverted.

>>385878
>"Colossus, please, hear me out, you may only have a few seconds!"

What?

>>385881

A few of the times, your subsystems need a quick response, so they can't really alt-tab out from Quake. So, they spend a lot of their idle time on the job on imageboards, since that's fast to alt-tab from.

>>385870
I have a theory on that, because no human was attached and no human was "involved" in its construction, the drone counts as being part of the natural environment.

>>385881
as long as it doesn't go public, Omega don't care about his employee's fap material.

>>385878
engage stasis protocol, prepare to send her to slumber.

>>385886
>>385889

# Knock out Bahira again.

# Ask her what she's talking about.


Ithuriel is flying towards the quarry.

Your warriors are in the cavern.

The quarry's weapons are ready.

The cavern's weapons are ready.

The tombstone is up.

The minecart with Bahira in it is at its "station".