>>3017612
Miellewds-guy here.

>>3017626

Happy Halloween

***

Well, since our rockitboat is all the way at the eastern end of the continent right now, we're going to have to fly there on our often-forgotten mount.

Radiant is more than happy to see us, and enjoys our head-patting while letting out a soft coo.

"Big brother, can we go too?" - asks Portia and Zoe
"Well..."

>We need Radiant to carry us and Lyann already, so we'll just take some samples and come back after burying the body.
>We can take one of you (which one?) but will need to leave Lyann here.
>Other

>>3017633
>Other
Isn't Squidward mostly not doing much because he has a hard time fitting in dungeons? Couldn't he carry one or two?
And Lyann and Aritsu should get their own flying mounts when they've got the time.

>>3017642
seems fair. We surely could ask him to carry two 40k girls

Anyway lets wait a little for someone else to show up

>>3017612
Here

>>3017633
supporting >>3017642

"Alright" - we reply to our itty bitty kitty and the itty bitty spider imoutos

Calling out squidward, our pet has no issue picking up the girls (Portia is actually much lighter than you'd think), and flying alongside us on our way to the crash site.

Ah, I think its a good thing that they're just riding on its head... there'd be something inherently wrong to seeing our imoutos wrapped in tentacles, after all.

At the crash site, we see that indeed, there's very little left of the [ERROR]. The main body has been broken and shattered, and there's... lets call it ooze, all over the mountainside.

We shouldn't have brought our little sisters along.

Or so we thought, but Portia seems less affected than we are as she starts picking up samples and storing them into some of the new test tubes the succubus village has been pumping out.

Zoe is actually standing by with a toughtful look.

"If it is dead, shouldn't it have faded away already?" - she says - "It's been much longer than five rounds."

>"Everyone step back!" - its playing dead
>Blast it with as many spells as we can
>Other

>>3017826
>"Everyone step back!" - its playing dead

>>3017826
>>"Everyone step back!" - its playing dead

>>3017826
>"Everyone step back!" - its playing dead
>Send out the grass type pokemon

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>>3017855
>>3017833
>>"Everyone step back!" - its playing dead

"Eh?" x3

Lyann, Portia and Zoe look at us, slightly confused.

Well, its really, REALLY broken, alive or not.

But, it may be a bro? As if not wanting to let us look ridiculous, it flails one of its broken wing-like appendages. clearly trying to leap. Not that it can do more than wiggle slightly in place.

"Oh!" - Portia looks pretty excited - "We finally get a live one!?"

Well, we have plenty of magically preserved bodies, but this is, indeed, the first living specimen we've gotten. Indeed. it is a good thing we didn't do something silly like blasting it with spells or something like that.

"Alright, let's set up a forcefield around it and ferry it back." - we suggest.

It actually takes us the whole evening to do so, but we do manage to go back to the university, grab some generators, come back, assemble them, and ferry the thing back.

It isn't really healing, but it doesn't looks like it is getting any worse either, which is quite amazing considering how little of it is actually left.

Still, this is a great success! We finally can experiment with a living(?) [ERROR]!

"Well, let's start tomorrow early." - we tell our imoutos
"Aww..." - both of them protest
"If you two little ones aren't home on time, both our moms are going to get worried. You don't want to make them worried, right?"
"Right..."
"No, big brother."

Well, we managed to send them home safely.

>Actually, let's go home to greet everyone and have dinner with the family
>Its a little early, but let's go check with Mako
>Its just about mid evening in Mantequira, so let's go visit Ren
>Other

>>3017919
>>Its just about mid evening in Mantequira, so let's go visit Ren

>>3017919
>>Actually, let's go home to greet everyone and have dinner with the family

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>>3018005
>>>Actually, let's go home to greet everyone and have dinner with the family
>>3017986
>>>Its just about mid evening in Mantequira, so let's go visit Ren

going to wait a little bit for a tiebreaker. Also, the hands in this picture confuse the fuck out of me. I know im 95% blind, but it looks like she has two left hands to me, plus the position itself is weird

>>3017919
>>Its just about mid evening in Mantequira, so let's go visit Ren

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>>3018030

We smooch Zoe and Portia, but Athena walks in to pick them up and leave together, so we have to bribe our blood-related imouto with smooches and promises we'll play with her soon, so she won't tell mom and dad we could have gone home for dinner but chose not to.

...where did our imouto learn such a bad habit? Well, its okay since she's cute... I think.

Actually, I'm a little worried. She's 10 and already manipulating men, you know? Plus, she's super cute.

Ah, lets tease her a lot when we do play with her. Yup, that will teach her.

Anyway, we...

>Pick up Dusk and Kya from the orphanage.
>Let them stay the night
>Other

>>3018102
>Let them stay the night
We really shouldn't take Kya to Mantequira until after Majin and Succubi are Civilized.

>>3018102
>>Let them stay the night

Guess no session today.

>>3018102
Let them stay the night

>>3019702
sorry, i've been busy today.

>>3018140
>>3018251
>>3019717
>Let them stay the night

Aww I feel a bit sad we don't get cute kya and dusk pets

Im sure Ren would have loved them.

Typing

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Well, I guess we shouldn't take Kya to Mantequira for a while... though she does make such an adorable pet.

Ah, its not like we can't do it for fun later, though.

The soldiers are quite used to seeing us come out from the sacred peach tree in the imperial garden, so we have no issues making it into the palace. We do need to ask around for Ren's whereabouts, though.

She is at the audience chamber, meeting with general Li and other high ranking officers about the budget for the incoming year.

>Well, we are her minister of the right and duke in charge of the budget, so we pro~obably should go to that meeting.
>Let's wait for her to finish
>Other

>>3019733
>Well, we are her minister of the right and duke in charge of the budget, so we pro~obably should go to that meeting.

>>3019733
>Well, we are her minister of the right and duke in charge of the budget, so we pro~obably should go to that meeting.

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>>3019743
>>3019738
>>Well, we are her minister of the right and duke in charge of the budget, so we pro~obably should go to that meeting.

We apologize for our lateness as we go in, but apparently we were not notified about the meeting.

Hopefully it wasn't because we were 'meeting' with Yin...

"Ah, duke, please come in." - says the empress

The generals are standing at the feet of the throne. I guess that's the traditional way to do this.

As it turns out, the navy is complaining about the ships lost in the battle with the Alquian fleet, and how they haven't been replaced yet.

They managed to refloat one of the sunken ships somehow, but the rest were dragged away by the tide and they have not been able to locate them.

To add insult to injury, they've been tasked with ferrying about the army as of late, which means that their regular pirate hunting activities are lacking, and the navy commander fears a pirate resurgence.

The general states that it is unavoidable since the army is ferrying supplies and goods to the villages attacked by the [ERROR]s, and while the new road network has been a great help, it is still too slow to go by land to the furthest reaches of the empire.

With the new trade routes we opened with Alquia, we could afford two new ships, if we do not authorize any new projects...

>Let's announce we're authorizing a budget for new ships
>Research is too important for the future
>Rebuilding is vital. It affects the citizens' lives today
>Let Ren decide what to do
>Other

>>3019759
>Other: As the Minister of Finance, inform the Empress that we currently can afford two new ships due to our new trade routes with Alquia. We will not be able to start any new projects, however.
It's our job to let Ren have an understanding of what she has at her disposal and for her to make those decisions.

>>3019759
supporting >>3019768

>>3019768
Yup lets do this

>>3019759
>>3019768
+1

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>>3019856
>>3019781
>>3019768
>>Other: As the Minister of Finance, inform the Empress that we currently can afford two new ships due to our new trade routes with Alquia. We will not be able to start any new projects, however.

"Nh, nh." - Ren nods nods with a little smile - "Thank you, duke."

She nods nods and switches which leg is on top, then announces that there will be two new rockitships, but one will be as armored and as big a super trader as the shipyards can produce, because she wants to 'keep enhancing the commercial routes'.

Uhmm... if we have a 'super tanker' rockitship dedicated specifically dedicated to trade, we can probably snowball that into actual ships of the line for the navy.

"Yes, your highness." - chorus of the generals and admirals
"Ah, crew it with officers and crewmen close to retirement. If they wish to, they can remain on board with private contracts after retiring." - nods nods Ren

Well, I guess that would be a cozy job for former combat staff to 'retire' to, if they don't actually want to retire.

Once the meeting is over and the staff leaves, Ren walks over to stand on her toes and give us a smooch.

"Duke, you were late!" - she admonishes us while still smiling
"Honestly, I didn't knew there was a meeting."
"Eh?"

>Look into it
>Let it go. Its probably our fault because we were playing with Yin
>Other

>>3019887
>Look into it
The Asian etiquette of accepting responsibility for the failure (because, as the American saying goes, “The buck stops here”) and for rectifying it (Thrawn: Was it an error, or a mistake?).

>>3019887
>>Look into it

>>3019906
>Was it an error, or a mistake?
I wasn't aware of that gem. I knew "We'll stop training if you're injured. Are you hurt, or are you injured", but not that one.

>>3019887
>Look into it

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>>3019974
>>3019955
>>3019906
>>Look into it

"Hn. We will send the invitation." - she says - "Personally, next time." - she nods to herself
"Alright." - we lean in to kiss her

She takes us to her room... well, its better to call it her palace wing, I supose. Of course, her personal quarters are as large as a small manor, with her actual, proper bedroom in the middle, surrounded by several convenience rooms, including a spring, a (yes, separated) bath, a stone garden, and a studio full of surprisingly good paintings in ink and brush.

>Let her show us around
>Take her to (insert room here) for some mild lewd
>Other

>>3020112
>Let her show us around

>>3020112
>>Let her show us around

>>3020112

>Let her show us around

>>3020112
>Let her show us around

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>>3020228
>>3020125
>>3020117
>>3020114
>>Let her show us around

"This, is the studio." - says the shining empress - "You can not look at these. They are not finished, alright?"

She exclused two paintings in the east side of the room. The ones that are complete look really nice, though.

Most of them look like self portraits until you notice the head accessory we gave to Mako.

So, she really misses her that much.

The ink and brush loan themselves well to soft shades, giving the portaits a delicate look, though you can't help but feel oil painting is better... ah, we haven't actually seen any oil paintings, have we? Let's make a set of oils for her later, then.

There's a platform at the center of the studio, with a simple chair and a white pedestal next to the chair, probably for fruit baskets and such.

The studio has a nice, comfy, slightly sleepy mood to it.

>Gently hold her from behind as we kiss her
>Let her led us by the hand as she shows us her rooms
>Other

>>3020399
>Let her led us by the hand as she shows us her rooms

>>3020399
>Let her led us by the hand as she shows us her rooms

>>3020399
>Let her led us by the hand as she shows us her rooms

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>>3020612
>>3020504
>>3020406
>Let her led us by the hand as she shows us her rooms

She happily tows us around her studio. Its full of portraits of Mako, the shadows, and those in her life. There's one of general Li, the doctor, and plenty of the lionguards.

There's a few of landscapes, with amazingly detailed, painstakingly detailed trees, and cute honeyfaeries here and there... eh, her tastes are surprisingly girly.

Well, she is very girly. No, more like feminine in a delicate way. Even though she's higher level than us... its complicated.

"...and this is the meditation garden." - she explains as she stands at the edge of the zen stone garden - "Ah, the shadows help us train here, too."

We nod nod, mostly just enjoying her presence as she shows us around.

"You are not meant to disturb the stones while fighting on it." - she says, brushing off a bit of hair that had fallen over her face - "Ah! Do you want to see the spring? We could enjoy the water and have a light meal and tea!"

She's fidgeting slightly, and avoiding our eyes. Its a fresh sensation.

>Alright, let's enjoy some clean, healthy time with our empress
>Lewd
>Other

>>3022311
>>"Does the empress need personal attention?"

>>3022311
>Alright, let's enjoy some clean, healthy time with our empress

>>3022311
>Alright, let's enjoy some clean, healthy time with our empress

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>>3022864
>>3022520
>>Alright, let's enjoy some clean, healthy time with our empress
>>3022354
>>>"Does the empress need personal attention?"

"Is it good?" - we ask her after spoon-feeding her
"Hn!" - she cries out softly, smiling with her eyes closed as she holds her left palm against her pretty face.

She's having a spoonful of alquian berry jam, one of the products recently added to the capital's menu after we set up the new trade route. In a way, you could say its a care package from her sister, isn't it?

Ah, we should take some local products and try this with Mako, too.

"Ah... that, is a bit too sweet." - she says after a moment, her face slightly flushed
"Are you bad with sweet things?"
She shakes her head softly "No... I... ah!" - she corrects herself - "We rather like them, but it feels like it isn't something to eat on its own, does it not?"
"Alright, then..."

>Prepare a toast with butter and jam for her, then feed her by hand
>Rub our finger in the jam and have her lick it clean
>Other

Unrelated, but how's this pic for a ninja/shadow Stella? Still needs the tail and ears, though.

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>>3024562
>Prepare a toast with butter and jam for her, then feed her by hand
The body fits, and the clothing is what I would expect from this world, but the expression seems a little too confident for Stella, like she's finding you amusing because you're not as good as her.

>>3024562
>Prepare a toast with butter and jam for her, then feed her by hand
For the shadows itl be good

>>3024562
>Prepare a toast with butter and jam for her, then feed her by hand

>>3024562
>>Prepare a toast with butter and jam for her, then feed her by hand

>>3024562
>>Prepare a toast with butter and jam for her, then feed her by hand

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>>3024594
I like the pic but somehow feel that's a cat. Also she should probably be a little darker in skin tone, but I guess that can be messed with/edited. Easier than drawing tails and ears in the original artist's style, anyway
>>3024594

>>3030204
>>3027695
>>3024677
>>Prepare a toast with butter and jam for her, then feed her by hand

"Alright, wait a moment." - we slice a round bread in three, shaving off the topmost and bottom slices, creating a pseudo sliced bread, then grill it on top of a metal grid while the empress watches.

The grid was nearby as part of a plant pot, in case you were wondering, but the vine was much too small yet to reach it, in case you were wondering. We [Clean] it before using it, and will [Clean] it again before returning it to its spot.

"Duke...?" - she looks at us with interest
"This is called a toast."

She nods and waits patiently.

Yup, a 1st sphere [Fire Wall] on top of a metal dish is more than enough to toast the bread 'slice' quite nicely. Once it is firm, we butter it up and spread the jam on it, then...

>Bite it first as a test, just in case
>Hold it for her to bite at
>Other

On pics I've been wanting to use. I modified this pic some years ago, and am still looking for a good use for it...

This is the original version

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>>3024594
>The body fits, and the clothing is what I would expect from this world, but the expression seems a little too confident for Stella, like she's finding you amusing because you're not as good as her.

That would be easy to explain. Its Monster Vision (TM) because she's leveling up her [Shadow] job levels in a dungeon. Aka the last thing the monster saw.

This is the modified version of the previous pic, btw. Like I said, I've been waiting for YEARS for using it

Now that i've begun thinking about modding that pic again (it originally had the breasts exposed. You can see what I mean if you just use a googly image search) for Stella, I wonder. Would the tail be husky-like? You know, curled upwards. Or would it be the falling down kind?

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Oh right, before I forget again.

***

A message pops up.

[For creating a new dish, the job [Cook] has been unlocked]
[You can now create [Bread Slice] with a [Fine piece of bread]
[For creating a new dish, your [Cook] job has reached level 2!]
[You can now create [Toast] with a [Fine piece of Bread]
[You can create [Bread] with [flour] [water] [yeast] [oil] [sugar], and [salt]
[You can create [Fine Bread] by using higher class ingredients]

Eh? I am pretty sure i've cooked before, though? Wait, didn't Elly cook while I gave tips from the side?

Wow, I haven't actually cooked (anything new) before? I guess that means Ellie has plenty of [Cook] levels, right? Well, I guess that makes sense since she worked as a maid for my dad for 1/2 a decade...

Uhnn... I'll have to pay more attention to what I see at tables everywhere from now on.

Actually, aren't these recopes somewhat wasteful? I mean, it means I'd need to spend materials to make regular bread, then use that bread to make toast... less try making a bread mold in the future, and/or sliced bread.

Also, I hadn't really thought about it, but this bread does have a different taste... that's because it isn't made with milk, uh? I wonder if we could popularize bread made with milk. It would give the aurochkin another source of income.

>>3030762
>Other: motion over one of Ren's Shadows to taste test/poison test the new dish

>>3030813
What? We never got the Cook Job? That seems like an oversight somehow. Didn't they get some interesting and useful skills at high levels?

>>3030908
>Didn't they get some interesting and useful skills at high levels?
Yes but we had a maid/nanny, then lyann to cook for us. I don't remember us cooking, which is funny because when I was planning this thread waaaaaaay back, a big part of it was i wanted to play with the idea of improving people's lives through improving their diet

>>3030762
Hold it for her to bite at

>>3030762
supporting >>3030908

Oh, I just remembered, we didn't follow up with Okaba about the attempted assassination of Aura and their child. Does he have any suspects, and was he able to capture the poisoner?

>>3033834

Well, there's honestly a few suspects.

Oh, I'm not familiar with the story for Guilty Gear Xrd but I like the new heroine's character design. Very Stella-like colors, don't you think?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9JXEUqrPQ8

Anyway
***

We hold the toast for her, and our beautiful empress goes "aaah" and nibbles on it, her soft soft lips pushing a little bit on the butter and jam before there's a soft crunching snap, and she starts chewing on it without leaning back.

"Hn." - she smiles while holding a hand against her cheek
"Did you like it?"
She nods nods, then swallows.

>We kiss her to clean her lips and tongue
>We gently clean her mouth with a napkin
>Other

>>3033908
>We gently clean her mouth with a napkin

>>3033908
>We gently clean her mouth with a napkin

>>3033919
>>3033913
>>We gently clean her mouth with a napkin

"Ah, let me clean you..." - we gently brush her lips clean.

Our empress blushes softly, then smiles as she holds our hand in hers.

"Your hand has grown larger since we first met." - she says while looking at our fingers - "But it is still a very gentle hand."

One of the lionkin guards walks in, and stands by the entrance's side until Ren addresses him.

"What is it?" - she asks after letting us go and sitting back down
"There are news from the islands, your majesty."
"Yes?"
"The portal has opened." - declares the lionkin

The portal would be the [ERROR]s portal, right? But if it they were invading, surely we would have received the message in a more urgent manner?

>Has everyone been evacuated safely? (worry about the citizens first)
>What's the status of our defenses!? (worry about the troops garrisoned there, first)
>Other

>>3033933
>Has everyone been evacuated safely? (worry about the citizens first)
I thought we had more time.

>>3033933
>>Has everyone been evacuated safely? (worry about the citizens first)

>>3033951

"Yes, sir!" - replies the lionkin
"Are there any super large enemies? What are they attacking with?"
"...nothing, sir. The gate is already open, but nothing is coming out."
"Un?"

From what the guard reports from now on, it looks like the gate known as The Black Moon is already open over its predicted target, but nothing has come out yet.

Well, we thought the attack would be in two months still, but why is the gate open, then?

"Well, what are they sending, then?"
"Nothing we could spot, sir."

Hn.

>We should take the chance to send as many probes as we can while the gate is open and close to the ground
>I wonder if our prisoner has anything to do with this? (the [ERROR] that followed our probe back and crashlanded in the mountains)
>I'd feel retarded if we mass the army outside the gate and they throw a bomb at us. Let's keep most of the army on the rockitships, and the ships themselves ready to swoop in with reinforcements
>Other

>>3033975
>I'd feel retarded if we mass the army outside the gate and they throw a bomb at us. Let's keep most of the army on the rockitships, and the ships themselves ready to swoop in with reinforcements
>I wonder if our prisoner has anything to do with this? (the [ERROR] that followed our probe back and crashlanded in the mountains)
>Other: Start casting wide area AoE spells in cast the [ERROR]s have sent in small units that are invisible to the naked eye.

>>3034011
>Start casting wide area AoE spells in cast the [ERROR]s have sent in small units that are invisible to the naked eye.
I guess its not paranoia if they're out to get you

>>3033975
supporting >>3034011

>>3034022
>I
I mean y not try this to make sure?

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We order the general to the islands, and suggest he keeps most of the troops in reserve on the rockitships, rather than deploy them under the portal.

"I'm going, too." - we explain to Ren, and finish cleaning her lips
"Duke, be careful." - she says softly
"Yes, your highnes."

Well, we've been preparing for a while, but this is quite ahead of schedule. I wonder if we are truly ready? Ah, we should write a message to Mako and explain why we're not showing up tonight, let's do that right now...

We pull out a linked journal and let Aritsu know. She can transmit the news to Mako.

>Bring Lyann and Miel along
>Send them to Mako
>Leave them here
>Other

>>3036020
>>Leave them here

>>3036020
Leave them here

>>3036076
>>3036035
>>>Leave them here

"E-eh!? But why?!" - says a very upset-looking redhead as we tell her we're leaving her behind
"I'm not taking my sweet loved ones to a battlefield. Just no."
"I'm higher level than you!"
"Still's a no."
"Fuu~"
"Master, be careful." - says a slightly trembling honey faery queen

We hug and kiss her gently. As usual, she fits easily between our arms, and her everything is soft as we kiss her.

"They're not actually invading yet, so I'm just going to see what is happening and return."
"In that case, why can't we go!?" - clearly, Lyann is pretty upset about this
"Uhmm..."

>Because I say so
>Because I don't want to expose you to those things
>Other

>>3036082
I knew Lyann would react like this.
I just worry that she'll do something dumb to try to protect Eldric and get herself captured.

But how to say "I think you'll do something dumb" without hurting her feelings?

>>3036082
>Other
They can come if they promise to stay on the rock-it ship and take graphology picts of the portal and the area.

>>3036082
supporting >>3036109

>>3036109
Sure do this

>>3036227
>>3036109
>They can come if they promise to stay on the rock-it ship and take graphology picts of the portal and the area.

"Uuuh~ " - Lyann looks away and says something under her breath that roughly sounds like 'alright'
"Was that a yes?"
"No..?"

Since we had to leave at least one 'rule' running on her collar, we left the 'can't lie to us' option going.

"Will you please just stay safe and help collect date?"
"Fuuu~...fine."
"Thank you." - we give her a little kiss, but she's clearly not happy, still.

So, we step unto the deck of a imperial fleet rockitship, and head out towards the islands. Straight ahead is a hole in the sky, ominously visible as round blackness against a background of slowly appearing stars, visible only because it is complete nothingness, a perfectly cut round nothing in the sky.

The general joins us, and the troops run in on wide lines up the ramps, then our ship sails off, the water splashing as we leave port, then dripping off the deck as we leave the water and rise into the skies. Soon, the hull is dry, and we lift over the clouds while heading for that disk of nothing in the sky.

>If there's nothing under the portal, bombard the area, once.
>Encircle the area under the gate
>Other

>>3036646
>>If there's nothing under the portal, bombard the area, once.

>>3036646
>>If there's nothing under the portal, bombard the area, once.

>>3036646

>If there's nothing under the portal, bombard the area, once.

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>>3036827
>>3036806
>>3036709
>>>If there's nothing under the portal, bombard the area, once.

Sorry guys, we had a minor earthquake and it cut off my internet for almost a whole day. Plus 1/2 the city was without water, so I guess I can't complain. You got to know which things are vital, after all.

***

"Yes sir." -replies the captain of the ship, and sends several signal flares out, asking about the status of the site

Once the reply comes from the ground troops, the captain orders for the bombardment. The lightning ballistae sweep the area, but nothing seems to happen.

Well, I guess that if they were invisible to begin with, they may remain invisible after you shoot them. That, or there was nothing there to begin with. Either way, shooting costs nothing but a few seconds to recharge the capacitors, so its okay.

"And now we wait." - we sigh
"How long should we wait?" - asks the captain
"General?" - we defer to the general in these matters
"The invasion was scheduled for 2 months from now, on the assumption they couldn't open the gate before then. This has clearly been proven to not be the case. We'll remain ready to move in for a full day, then allow the troops to rest and change it so we can move in within minutes, for now."

Ah, I guess it would be just too petty to complain about how this will wreck our schedule, right? Moreover, I wonder what we should do...

>Write to Zoe and have her 'kill' the [ERROR], see if that closes the gate
>Ask her to bring the specimen here, see what happens
>Other

>>3039515
>Ask her to bring the specimen here, see what happens
This is most dangerous, but we need information. We need to be ready to kill it at a moment's notice, however.

>>3039515
>>Ask her to bring the specimen here, see what happens

>>3039515
>Ask her to bring the specimen here, see what happens

Why do I get the feeling this error's important to the enemy?

>>3040165
>>3040165
>>3040040
>>>Ask her to bring the specimen here, see what happens

Of course, our dependable imouto writes back, letting us know that she will prepare the creature for transport by wrapping it in a stasis field.

And a short while later, the portal closes all of a sudden.

>Write her again and tell her to let it out of stasis (but continue to wrap it in its forcefield cage)
>Wait for her to bring it over
>Other

>>3040182
>Write her again and tell her to let it out of stasis (but continue to wrap it in its forcefield cage)

>>3040182
>>Write her again and tell her to let it out of stasis (but continue to wrap it in its forcefield cage)

can i get a thread description?

>>3042450
"Braving the minefield of imouto and girlfriend relations, we realize Athena is already good at getting what she wants"

>>3042450
>>3040241
>>Write her again and tell her to let it out of stasis (but continue to wrap it in its forcefield cage)

Sure enough, the portal reopens, so we ask her to enclose it again.

Looks like we just got a key for what we didn't know happens to be a door. This is great. Probably. It means that rather than squeezing in tiny probes, we will eventually be able to send an actual ship (or a missile?) through.

We did promise Portia we would rescue her mom, after all.

"Well, let's keep it closed. Looks like we won't be able to work on the specimen until we can make a large enough stasis/isolation field..."

With the portal closed again, we are able to downgrade the alert level, and send the navy back to its usual duties.

I wonder if we...

>Should organize our first international military effort and invite Alquia's navy (and mostly its super dreadnought) to make a show for the [ERROR]s invasion in two months.
>Should start working on some bombs, now that we can open the portal whenever we want. No reason not to bomb the reality-eating monstrosities, really.
>Other

***

>>3042450
>can i get a thread description?
Found the on/off switch for the [ERROR]'s portal

>>3044022
>Should organize our first international military effort and invite Alquia's navy (and mostly its super dreadnought) to make a show for the [ERROR]s invasion in two months.
We don't know where the prisoners are being kept, so bombing without knowing that would be irresponsible.

>>3044022
>>Should organize our first international military effort and invite Alquia's navy (and mostly its super dreadnought) to make a show for the [ERROR]s invasion in two months.

>>3044070
>>3044026
>>Should organize our first international military effort and invite Alquia's navy (and mostly its super dreadnought) to make a show for the [ERROR]s invasion in two months.

>>3044026
>We don't know where the prisoners are being kept, so bombing without knowing that would be irresponsible.
Well, I meant "bombard the gate during the invasion" not "combard that continent we saw"

You know, try and hit the massed [ERROR] troops right by the gate.

***

Alright, moving the troops into the ships, the ships into position, and readying them took quite a few hours, so it is actually pretty late in Bastion by now, and probably a little before midnight in Alquia. I guess we could:

>Go to Alquia and cuddle with Mako
>Go back and assure Ren we're okay
>Other

>>3045510
>Go back and assure Ren we're okay

>>3045510
>>Go back and assure Ren we're okay

We promised to spend more time with Mako, but we just left Ren and these are her soldiers we're putting in harm's way, so she deserves an update more than Mako needs cuddling.

>>3045736
Hi guys, sorry im so late, I have no excuse except that I genuinely forgot while playing civilization. Hold on a couple of minutes while I start a new thread

>>3049459
Waiting warmly.

>>3049518
Sorry I forgot to press Submit so it didnt get started. Noticed when i checked "why is noone saying hi?"

>>3049541