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First Thread: >>1551976

Inventor Penkala, Intern Whitworth, and Bosun Joy descended to the surface of Planet FSA-89 to investigate the abandoned Carpos Station. Their ship, the Capsula Cinerea, was badly damaged. In order to escape, they needed to find a new radial charge incapacitator.

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>>1618533
A second landing pad that could potentially contain spaceship parts was speculated to exist at r31. The crew began their trek.

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>>1618535
They faced many robotic adversaries as they traversed the station, and made a valuable ally in the robotically enhanced teddy bear Penkala created, named Teddy Robovelt.

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>>1618539
Their investigation also turned up some unsettling discoveries, such as the corpse of what appeared to be one of the station's former staff. What happened at Carpos Station and why was it abandoned?

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>>1618540
In the west wing of the station, the crew faced a formidable foe in the spider mech, but were able to overcome it using teamwork, strategy, and Whitworth's master baiting.

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>>1618544
They discovered another corpse, along with some curious/sinister plant specimens, which they wasted no time in incinerating.

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>>1618546
Though the team needed to enter r14 to progress to the promised landing pad, both entrances to that wing of the station were locked due to damage sustained by the main generator. To fix the generator, they would need to locate a new power unit elsewhere in the station.

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>>1618549
The team moved on to the east wing with the support of the Rough Rider, a suit of power armor made for Teddy out of various salvaged parts and one of the cannons from the now unflyable Capsula Cinerea.

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>>1618553
However, progress into the east wing was quickly halted by a horde of enemy robots in r8.

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>>1618555
In the ensuing combat, the Rough Rider was badly damaged. This is where the situation stands now.

What will you do?

>>1618558
Is it possible to salvage parts from elsewhere and make repairs?

>>1618772
Yes, though doing so with the robots chasing after you might be a difficult proposition. The Capsula Cinerea on the landing pad in r1 could still be dismantled further.

For those joining in for the first time, the current action is taking place in r7 and r8, by this map: >>1618535

>>1618558
Have the Rough Rider shoot the robot on the left and kick the burning junk into the central and right robots to obscure their sensors.

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>>1620685
The Rough Rider fires off a blast at the left-hand robot, striking true.

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>>1621179
It then kicks the terminal debris towards the pair of bots on the right. The flying metal smashes through the basic drone and takes the advanced bot's shields offline.

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>>1621183
However, the heavy cannon bot remains standing to deliver a harsh reprisal. Meanwhile, the now unarmored drone and the bot in the mech suit advance towards the Rough Rider.

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>>1621187
The Rough Rider is quite literally on its last legs, and also on fire. This may not be the safest place for Teddy.

Orders?

>>1621194
Advance! Make Robovelt use the last bits of power to get close to the mech suit and fulfill the duty in the brightest shine of glory.

>>1621194
>Teddy: retreat
>Joy: shoot the Robovelt cannon manually from behind. Target the cannon bot.

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>>1621432
>>1622779
Teddy spends a moment of deep introspection contemplating the options laid before him: whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the bolts and lasers of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a space-sea of space-troubles and by opposing end them. To die, to sleep—wait, die? To hell with that!

Teddy bails out of the Rough Rider into Penkala's arms and hands the cannon over to Joy.

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>>1624352
Joy fires a shot at the increasingly dangerous cannon bot, destroying it.

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>>1624355
However, the bot in the power armor uses this opportunity to close the distance and lay hands on the salvaged cannon barrel. It gives a mighty twist.

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>>1624361
The cannon pops out of its socket like a bootleg Technic pin. Joy is knocked to the ground and loses 1 HP. Brushing off the flames, the enemy mech reaches down and rips the out core of the disabled Rough Rider—the treasured Scala potty.

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>>1624375
What will you do?

>>1624377
We've got no cannon bot, and a giant mech is staring us down. I think a strategic fallback is in order.

>>1624499
Which room would you like to retreat to? You're faster than the mech on foot and it has no ranged attacks, so escape is a definite possibility.

>>1624638
that door to our immediate right looks promising

>>1624648
That door (to r14) is locked due to the damage sustained by the station's generator, as is the door from r4 to r14. You're currently in r7.

>>1624660
Loop back around to r11?

>>1624667
I'd say this

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>>1624667
You beat a hasty retreat to r11, the site of your previous victory over an overwhelmingly large mechanical foe. The situation now seems about as bad as it did then.

Out in the hallway of r4, you can hear the footsteps of the mech as it prowls about, and lighter pitter-patter of the unarmored drone accompanying it. However, you're not certain which part of the hallway they're in. You suspect the doors here are small enough that the mech wouldn't be able to fit. You hope, anyway.

Whitworth pops open his laptop and enters a quick Google: "stuck in tinie room+can robot reach insde?"

"Your search - "stuck in tinie room+can robot reach insde?" - did not match any documents.

>>1624711
see if penkala can fashion any makeshift explosives from the scrap laying around for use against the mech

>>1624711
How about throwing the cup through one door as a distraction and fleeing through the opposite door?

>>1626400
Which door would you like to throw it through?

>>1632124
Throw the cup through the northern door, then escape through the southern one, loop around and attack the enemy from behind.

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>>1632622
google: "how 2 make dedly bomb w/ household supplies"

From a surveillance station lightyears away, Whitworth's name is quietly entered onto the SPIII terrorism watchlist.

>>1632622
>>1636378
RIP Whitworth.

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>>1636378
However, his and Penkala's endeavors are met with great success. Using the lights from the r11, some circuitry from the television in r12, and a cellphone left lying around by the couch, the pair are able to jury-rig a pair of remotely activated bombs. They should pack enough punch to knock out the lesser bot, but you're not so sure about the mech.

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>>1636391
Joy mounts one explosive to the doorway and throws the other out into the hallway together with the cup that was on the table. They make quite a clatter in the corridor, and before long you hear the sound of metal feet clanging their way over.

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>>1636446
The most dangerous game is afoot and has thrown the gauntlet at the hunter, who now becomes the hunted, racing headlong into darkness like one too many metaphors hurtling into each other in a figurative ten-car pileup.

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>>1636456

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>>1636460
The robots have found something curious in the corridor and they're not quite sure what to make of it. Are they lightbulbs? Soda cans? Bottles of apple juice?

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>>1636466
Maybe if you take a little sip to find out...

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>>1636472
It wasn't apple juice.

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>>1636474
The crew leap out from around the corner and stage an ambush!

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>>1636483
In a shower of sparks, the mech bursts into flames from within. It comes tumbling down like the chorus from one of Whitworth's favorite space-Japanese anime. The pilot bot collapses, vanquished.

Though hard-won, the victory is yours.

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>>1636495
What will you do?

>>1636500
Salvage that mech and the wreckage of the rough rider to make Teddy a new set of power armor

>>1636500
Build the Rough Rider Mk. II from the ashes of the first. Also add parts from the giant robot.

>>1636500
Combine the Rough Rider's and the mech's wreckage to build the Even Rougher Rider

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>>1636688
>>1637226
>>1637870
With the heroic sacrifice of the Rough Rider fresh in mind, you begin gathering together the pieces from its wreckage, as well as the damaged hulk of the power armor. You can rebuild it; you have the technology, and more importantly, the Mixel joints.

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>>1640067
Like a 30264 Frax's Phoenix Flyer from the ashes rises the Rough Rider Mark 2: Teddy's Second Term. This machine comes equipped with an arm cannon, a secondary sensor pod, and even an opposable thumb.

It does not come equipped with the ability to fit through 4-wide doorways. Lamenting your poor choice of location for a photoshoot, you quickly disassemble the Rough Rider II, haul it out to r4, and reassemble it there. Whew, problem solved.

What will you do?

>>1640087
Rip the table to use as a shield for RRM2TST.
Since it doesn't buckle under RRM2TST's weight it must be ridiculously strong.

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>>1640144
Taking note of the table's fantastic structural properties, Penkala wastes no time in converting it into a makeshift shield for her adoptive plush son. This new addition should greatly increase Teddy's defensive parameters, as well as your readiness to stage a picnic on the go.

What next?

>>1640192
Investigate the room where the power armored robot was found.

>>1640192
Wait, what is that green thing?

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>>1640235
Green...thing...?

You feel a tingling on the back of your collective necks as though someone's been surreptitiously watching you since, say, the latter half of the first thread. With a quick draw and pivot you turn to investigate, but when you look, there's no one else in the corridor.

>>1640250
>Shudded
>Investigate the room where the power armored robot was found.

>>1640250
Wait, no.
What is that little green thingy on the floor around the corner?
Investigate it while keeping the flamethrower at the ready.

>>1640263
AND WHOSE HAND IS POKING OUT FROM BEHIND THE DOOR?

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>>1640265
There doesn't seem to be anyone behind the door; just good ol' familiar r5. But if there's no one there, then who left it ajar?

You turn your attention next to the peculiar green mass.

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>>1640271
>>1640263
You don't need to be a rocket scientist to know plant matter when you see it. This particular specimen looks a bit like algae, but then again, you're no botanical scientists either. If you squint, it almost looks a little like a footprint. Most peculiar.

What will you do?

>>1640274
Search r5 and try to track whatever left that footprint.

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>>1640278
Nothing out of the ordinary here. The doors to the hanger and the r7 corridor are both shut, but you're not entirely sure that's a comforting sign.

Orders?

>>1640288
Leave someone on watch in r5 and search the hangar. It has no other exit.

>>1640293
Orders received. I'll pick up from here tomorrow, if that's alright.

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>>1640293
You enter the hanger bay where the Capsula Cinerea is docked. Though "docked" might a little optimistic. Even with a new radial charge incapacitator, will this thing really fly?

More concerning than that, however, is your current situation. You don't sense the presence of anyone else in the room, but one thing does strike you as menacingly amiss: someone has taken the buzzsaw from your supply crates.

You also spy something in the cargo hold.

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>>1640800
Another splattering of space algae.

What will you do?

>>1640804
Investigate r8

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>>1640855
The route to r8 is littered with debris from your encounter with the power suit and the Rough Rider's demise. You were here not too long ago to scavenge for parts to use on the RRM2TST, and things look much as they did then, though somewhat less on fire. r8 itself appears empty.

What will you do?

>>1640939
>Station RRM2TST in the room.
>The rest investigate the ajar door to r2

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>>1642989
To prevent an ambush, you decide to leave one member of the crew on watch in r8 while the others advance into the unknown.

Whitworth's offer to man the back lines is quickly shot down by Joy and Penkala together, under the tacit understanding that Whitworth, left to his own devices and device, would certainly choose to watch a number of rears, but probably not the team's. Instead Teddy is stationed as the sentinel. Just as well, since he'd hardly fit into r2 anyway.

Inside, you find what appears to be sleeping quarters for four. A heavy layer of dust covers everything. No one's slept in these beds for years.

Orders?

>>1643016
I definitely remember the door was closed the previous time we were here
>Read the newspaper
>Look under the beds
>Look in the vents if there are any

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>>1643024
While the other two busy themselves with searching for traces of their mysterious stalker, Whitworth settles down with a cup of excessively aged coffee and begins combing through the paper for anything of interest, making it as far as the front page.

BREAKING: New UCS Millennium Falcon due out this year!

You spit a mouthful of dusty coffee across the table. By Godt, a new UCS Falcon! You were this close to blowing your whole college savings on a MISB copy off mc^2Bay, but this changes everything! It's practically your dream come tr—

Wait a second.

This paper's dated 2007.

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>>1643030
Whitworth is shaken from his readings by an unpleasant squelching beside him. Penkala has thrown a sprout of some kind on the ground.

P: "Found this under the covers. I reckon it's a plant, but organics aren't my forte. A bit on the twitchy side, this thing."

The "thing" wriggles a little on the ground.

What will you do? I'll take any orders you have now and pick up with those tomorrow.

>>1643033
take a picture and reverse image search, that always works

>>1643030
Which year is it now?

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>>1643043
Whitworth places his faith in the almighty Google and snaps a pic of the thing on his shitty laptop webcam.

Best guess for this image: plastic

Gee, you think so?

>>1643049
It is the year Space 2017, a year much akin to our 2017, but in space.

What will you do?

>>1643396
look around and see if the plant-man left a trail of plant matter

bump

>>1644601
Alas, bumps don't work on old threads in /qst/. I'll have a post up in a minute, though.

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>>1643714
Whatever this strange plant creature may be, it merits investigating. However, after many, many turns of being ambushed by robots lurking just behind a door, you decide to limit your investigation to r8 for the time being.

There's actually quite a lot of ancient, dried plant matter littering the room, as though splattered about during some long-ago confrontation. It gives you no hint as to where your quarry might be now, though.

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>>1644739
You notice that one terminal in this room is still functional and take a go at logging in. This console lists the personnel who once staffed Carpos Station:

Anthea Preston, neurosurgeon.
Al Graft, botanist.
Cory Phil, experimental biologist.
Owen Moore, military scientist.

What will you do?

>>1644751
does the console say anything about what they were doing at this station?

>>1644751
Go into the sleeoing quarters and see if there are any tags on the bed where we found the green thingy.

>>1644953
All information pertaining to the research projects carried out at Carpos Station have been scrubbed, at least from this terminal. However, a map file on the computer indicates that r28 and its adjoining rooms constitute the station's research facilities. The names of the rooms in that wing are, in no apparent order, are: "Farm", "Op", "Tank", "Hanger 01", "Stock", "Terminal", [REDACTED], "CSE", "Cyber", "Monitor", "MNTN", "CR", and "Twins".

>>1644960
On closer inspection, you notice namecards mounted to each bunk, corresponding to the four researchers formerly stationed here. The green thingy (which is still twitching around on the floor in there) was found in Al. G's bunk.

Orders for tomorrow?

>>1645131
>Update the map with the new information
>Mark the rooms we have visited
>Mark the doors we know to be locked
>Investigate r9

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>>1645160
I can at least get you the map tonight. This should cover everything you've seen so far. Explored rooms are green; unexplored are orange. If I missed anything or there's something you'd like to see, let me know and I'll add it in.

>>1645206
r14 wing or r28 wing?

>>1645206
Huh, I just noticed the atmospheric composition. Abnormally high oxygen and low CO2, huh.

>>1645213
Sorry for the terminology mix-up; I called it the r14 wing there because you can't access any of those rooms (including r28) while the doors from r4 and r7 to r14 are locked, and r14 would be your entry point. However, r28 is the actual heart of the research wing, at least according to the terminal.

For convenience, shall we call r4 and its rooms the Utility Wing, r8 and its rooms the Residence Wing, and r28 and its rooms the Research Wing?

I also forgot to add that r6 and r36 contained corpses. If you want that on the map, I can add it tomorrow.

>>1645240
Thanks, that would be nice.
Also, are you archiving this anywhere?

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>>1645256
I haven't personally made an archive of it, but some kind anon has archived the first thread here: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Funtron%20Space%20Adventure

Many thanks to whoever did that, by the way.

Additionally, here's the most recent map. Only visited rooms have names, and all rooms are now color-coded by wing.

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>>1645160
Lest you alert any unseen enemy to your presence, you open the door to r9 with great stealth and subtlety. In retrospect, knocking probably would have been polite.

What will you do?

>>1646290
What is it holding?
>Gank the bot
>Loot the room

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>>1646303
Apparently a lightsaber.

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>>1647094
Orders?

>>1647097
>Retreat and let RRM2TST deal with that bot

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>>1647401
Anticipating a not-so-restful time in the restroom, Whitworth turns tail and scrams.

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>>1649780
Luckily, someone's looking out for him.

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>>1649781
This is why you use the buddy system.

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>>1649785
All clear.

—————
And this is where I'll leave off tonight, and likely for this thread since it's already on page 10.

On Sunday, I'll start back up again with Round 3 in a new thread, and I'll post in /lg/ when it goes live. I think completing the mission is a possibility for Round 3, but we'll see how it goes.

Thanks again to everyone who's joined in on the adventure, and I hope to see you next thread!

>>1649790
Thanks for running!