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>>3025957

>>3025957
Poor Valen, we really should throw them a bone.

>>3025957
I hope those Valen aren't dead.

>>3025957
SUFFER NOT THE WHALE

Weekly reminder

>Raid OQ
>Board a scav vessel for their FTL.
>Board and take over a scav world ship.
>Send a diplomacy team to earth.
>Take Reprive (I think that is the system that our mother made her last stand and it only has mining corvetts, it would be a great test for our raiding fleet.)

>>3025970
Bring out the Rip drive and ask them if they want to form a monopoly.
>>3025976
They're really more like slugs or snail in how look. Seriously have you seen the artwork?

>The Valen embassy, on the other hand, is bustling with activity as shuttles stream in and out of their shuttle bay one after another and air cars swarm overhead in search for space to park.

Ah! Even the whales reconized that the sagest place now is near our embassy. The bugs just routes a Void Cutter war raid!

>>3025978
Yeah but we have being calling then whales a looooong time. Besides if Kissinger can call then gators the Hive can call the Valen Whales.

>>3025978
They're whales with good variety.

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>>3025957
My Favorite part of the week!

>>3025978
It won't be a monopoly if we're doing it too.

>>3025982
No you've been calling them "whales" or some other retarded shit pretty recently in quest. Crocs is older to anyone that's paid attention.

>>3025994
Gators.

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>while those who remain clash with police as local lawn enforcement drive out looters and rioters diving headlong into the apparent apocalypse.

Doing the smash and grab...for mother

>>3026002
Right.

>>3025970
The bone is adoption with immortality and second heart included. The ultimate gift.

>>3025994
It's gators. If you are going to try to rally something at least check the older threads. The old players have being calling the Valen whales since the start.

>>3026009
>since the start
That's bullshit and what are you going to call the actual space whales?

>>3025994
>>3026002
We've been calling them whales ever since we first came up with a nickname for them. A bit late to change them now.

>>3025957
>looters and rioters diving headlong into the apparent apocalypse.

Agitation at 100%. The perfect cover for some Taidarens looting the nerve stapler and whatever expensive drugs are nearby.

>>3025957
Elizabeth watches as the burning inferno parts as Emmerich walks through, his skin burnt and tattered as it tears and melts away seemingly without his notice. She glances to the table, where a small sidearm can be seen in the debris of the table's remains, having fallen from a broken drawer. She holds out her hand and the chitinous weapon flies into her hand, its inner working moving like animated finger bones as the flesh of the grip conforms to her hand and the small cluster above its barrel locks onto Emmerich's form, the barrel contorting by several fractions of a centimeter as it adjusts its aim.

She fires, pulling the trigger until the weapon runs out of munition mass as a rapid stream of small chitinous slugs puncture Emmerich's form with a burst of what almost looks like human blood. His skull snaps open with a loud ping, and ruby red and black fragments, like colored ice, shatter from within, quickly melting into soupy liquid that rapidly evaporates in the air.

cont.

>>3026018
All according to the keikkaku. Keikaku mean plan

>>3026023
Ouch.

>>3026023
She fires, pulling the trigger as the weapon lets out a sudden, wet snapping noise of cracked bone and torn tendons, her finger already pulling it again as the barrel stutters in an attempt to expel the jammed slug within, and then bursts open into splinters of bone, meat, and metallic magnetic micro-rails. Elizabeth quickly holds out her hand and the weapon and its chunks are expelled towards Emmeric. His form contorts, diving into multiple places at once as dozens of Emmerichs are riddled with shrapnel and collapse dead only to vanish, until only one is left, untouched by the failed weapon.

The thinker cluster above suddenly comes alive with mental activity. Elizabeth looks up for a split moment, and back to Emmerich as he suddenly grabs his head in pain, his face twisting in several directions at once, as if a dozen images were suddenly out of synch with one another. A moment later, the room is at once filled with the screaming sensation of your psionic jammer, Elizabeth gripping her own head from the sudden pain. Emmerich suddenly charges, his body contorting as if viewed through the surface of choppy water. Elizabeth leaps into the air, gripping the ceiling with her weaver arms as Emmerich leaps up after her, and suddenly falls the rest of the way, as if gravity were reversed, landing on the ceiling just as she lashes out her claws, her arms stretching the distance like a whip and raking across his face, carving deep beneath the flesh and tearing off a chunk of skin.

cont.

>>3026017
>A bit late to change them now.
>implying it's ever too late to discard a shit meme
>>3026025
Or a thoroughly dead one in this case. Seriously who uses this anymore? The Death Note memes should have all died with the english remake.

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>>3026056
Dam Liz...so proud of our girl.

>>3026056
Emmerich leaps up after her, and suddenly falls the rest of the way, as if gravity were reversed, landing on the ceiling just as she lashes out her claws, her arms stretching the distance like a whip as Emmerich falls back, the razor-like claws missing his face by several centimeters, and Emmerich's body seems to contort in a way that isn't quite visible, his form sliding up from the ceiling to stand on it as if it were the floor, with even his hair and tattered clothes hanging off in the correct direction.

There is something off about his face, a strange scar along his cheek, but not a scar, more like a festering wound, but at the same time his face is the same, the images seemingly overlaid atop one another as his body continues to ripple and errode.

>Have Elizabeth attack with her psionics
>Attempt to flee the lab and fall back
>Send in drones to reinforce the situation
>Send in Lyle
>Other (write in)

>>3026076
>>Attempt to flee the lab and fall back
>>Send in drones to reinforce the situation
>>Send in Lyle

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>>3025957
I no longer know if my picture is still accurate, but considering that the void is concentrated psychic violence, Im going to continue posting it anyway.

>>3026076
>Attempt to flee the lab and fall back
Tactical retreat
>Send in drones to reinforce the situation
Temporary backup
>Send in Lyle
"Hey Lyle, go punch a ghost."

>>3026076
QD can psionics from multiple medium relays stack?

So hey, remember how we voted NOT to send Seiner, the only other Void Crafter we know, after Emmerich to save Elizabeth so he can do his training?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1F4OduqrtQ

Do you want to
>A: go into a multidimensional wizard battle with a space demon >B: watch a rock from the start of time to the end of time?

>>3026076

>Send in Lyle

I honestly have no good ideas here...

>>3026076
>>Send in Lyle
Tell him he can get as drunk as likes for the rest of the concert if fucks this guy's shit up.

>>3026076
>Send in Lyle

Hey lyle have you eber punched a ghost?

>>3026076
So we still remember one of those undone timelines where he got scratched.
>Send in drones to reinforce the situation
>>Attempt to flee the lab and fall back

Let's see if there's a conservation of ninjitsu effect here.

>>3026076
>Send in drones to reinforce the situation
>Send in Lyle

>>3026076
>Send in Lyle

>>3026103
>>3026099
Drones are a bad idea because of Void. But maybe Liz can take over some of the drones to fuck up with Emmerich.

>>3026076
>Send in drones to reinforce the situation
>Send in Lyle

Okay, so Void Crafting is basically manipulating timelines so that the one with the best possible outcome for you comes out on top?

One solution is to basically spam damage everyfuckingwhere so that it gets harder for Emmerich to reach the spacetimebranch where he gets undamaged.
Ergo, shoot him a whole fuckign lot with area effect weapons

>>3026107
He's a void crafter not a psion.

>>3026076
>Send in Lyle
He is our heaviest scariest warrior. Why would we NOT send him?!

LET THE CQC SLAMFEST BEGIN

>>3026107
Have you never listened to what QD said about drones? NONQUEENS CAN'T CONTROL THEM

>>3026107
Our drone's brains will melt before it allows the void to touch it. Remember Nowhere?

>>3026091
>Send in Lyle
drones cant do anything

>>3026112
Elizabeth is now so close to being a queen we can let her 'inherit drones' the same way we let the barren queen. Its not a good option, but it is an option anon.

>>3026110
I remember him burning and freezing stuff with his mind. so i take he is both.

>>3026076
>Attempt to flee the lab and fall back
>Send in drones to reinforce the situation
>Send in Lyle

>>3026107
That's not how it works.

Vaughn is already there anyway, far more powerful in psionics than most drones.

There are already drones in all the walls, they are the walls, usually, in Infrastructure, they just can't fight.

Waitt where are the barnacles, those can attack. They're in the walls and ceilings.

>>3026113
No i don't. I just rememebr the drones didn't worked when trying to close the hell gate.

>>3026117
She's never been close to being a queen. Stop being deluded by your own lies.

>>3026118
That was Elizabeth, the most I could remember him doing was turnong the table thrown at him into dust.

>>3026117
That only works between closely related Queens, numbnuts.

Anyway, the only way to end this battle is to present a trap that has zero percent chance of escaping.

But he can just step around 3-dimensional obstacles...so hardlight projection trap entirely surrounding him isn't quite enough.

>>3026127
You sure it was her? Maybe i read it wrong then.

>>3026110
>One solution is to basically spam damage everyfuckingwhere so that it gets harder for Emmerich to reach the spacetimebranch where he gets undamaged.
>Ergo, shoot him a whole fuckign lot with area effect weapons

I JUST REALISED
THIS IS THE BAIN JOHNS FIGHT

>>3026132
You could try using the dead shard on him but I have no idea what that would do.

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>>3026123
The drones where dying partly because of psionic interference from the void shard being forced open, partly from proximity to an open void shard.

>>3026134
DONT REMIND ME
FUCKING BAIN JOHNS

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>>3026134
Lyle. Get the dakka. All of it.

>>3026140
It's on Leeland not here, but worse he might just steal the thing, which is irreplaceable.

>>3026076
>Send in Lyle

Yeah the solution seems to be to harm him so many times that he runs out of possible paths

>>3026076
Lyle halts in his tracks, a sudden realization of the situation washing over his mind. Jackob and Dillon turn around as he falls behind, the general impressions of the events unfolding washing over to Jackob as Lyle suddenly turns on his heel and charges down the hall. The other two chase after him with a mixture of concern and confusion as Lyle quickly builds up speed, his cybernetics carrying him far faster than any human could naturally run.

Please roll 1d100, best of 3 for Lyle's intervention.

>Have Elizabeth Fall back
>Have Elizabeth maintain her position in the psionically sealed lab
>Other

Rolled 98 (1d100)

>>3026167
For Mother

Rolled 74 (1d100)

>>3026167
FOR MOTHER!

>Have Elizabeth maintain her position in the psionically sealed lab

Rolled 6 (1d100)

>>3026167
>>3026168
wow

>>3026161
Nothing worse then a stalker ex following you around in a party.

>>3026167
>Have Elizabeth maintain her position in the psionically sealed lab

>>3026168
hahahahah for mother indeed

>>3026167
Okay uh... funny thing, he reacted in the present to the psionic jammer being activated in the near future. He's using futuresight which makes him vulnerable to future-jamming.

Not seeing a way to exploit that though. Unless, hm. Well, what if we try a drone with the Siren adaptation? He sees all, hears all, sees the future. Make him see too much. Overwhelm his senses.

Or Vaughn escapes the range of psionic jamming behind suddenly closed psionic insulation wall, maybe. It will hit him before it hits her, giving her time to get behind the barrier and not get hit at all.

Rolled 5 (1d100)

>>3026167
HELL NO, VOID WON'T GO

>>3026168
Daaammmm...dynamic entry!

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>>3026168
Ghost Status: Punched

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>>3026167
>>Have Elizabeth maintain her position in the psionically sealed lab

>>3026168
Mother loves all her children so very, very much.

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>>3026167
Adding to my vote >>3026168

>Have Elizabeth maintain her position in the psionically sealed lab

>>3026167
>>Have Elizabeth maintain her position in the psionically sealed lab

I guess we don't have quite as much psionic insulation prepared elsewhere.

...Should we consult EchoMom in the white crystal archive to check for a 'how 2 fight void projection battle' manual?

You guys do realize leaving Elizabeth in the lab alone leaves her vulnerable right?

>>3026167
>Have Elizabeth maintain her position in the psionically sealed lab

We still have subjects in the lab right? Need to make sure Emmerich won't infect anyone with his void fuckery and cause trouble to the hive.

>>3026198
i think lyle's about to write the book

>>3026167
>Have Elizabeth maintain her position in the psionically sealed lab

Please roll 1d100 for Elizabeth as Lyle gets there.

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>>3026210
You ain't paying too much attention, are you?

Rolled 62 (1d100)

>>3026222
For Mother.

Rolled 39 (1d100)

>>3026222
For Mother

Rolled 11 (1d100)

>>3026222

Rolled 19 (1d100)

>>3026222
DONT DIE ON US LIZZIE COME ON

For Mother

Rolled 68 (1d100)

>>3026222
Alway bet on Mother!

Elizabeth Status: More than one piece.

>>3026223
The rolls say otherwise.

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Rolled 34 (1d100)

>>3026224
>>3026225
>>3026232
>>3026233
>>3026234

Rolled 22 (1d100)

>>3026222

Boy i sure am glad we gave Liz a parasite.

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The Dice are forsaking us

>>3026237
Eh she has a parasite and we don't lack healling pods inside the resort.

There's nothing you can do Elizabeth

>>3026251
Maybe you shouldn't vote to have her stay in the same room as a guy with timefuckery.

>>3026251
She will be fine. A little bruised and needing some healling but the cavalary is getting close.

Now that I think about it, maybe we get three rolls because of the void crafting that's been done in our favor?

>>3026255
It's inevitable Ms. Vaugh.

hears hoping that he doesn't have perma damage or something

>>3026260
>bruised
>against temporal manipulation
You're underestimating how dangerous he is.

>>3026269
She has a in build parasite that is as good as a healling tank and lots of cybernetics.

She may get trashed around a little bit but she will survive.

>>3026258
If Emmerich is that bad with psionic insulation all around him restricting his movement somewhat, imagine how worse it would be if he wasn't impeded. That and and we do have a psionic jammer in the room to help Elizabeth.

>>3026270
Yeah, this. A critfail could erase someone here. We're quite lucky it was at least above 50.

>>3026270
And you are overestimating him.

>>3026279
No one can be erased. That isn't how it works. Those branches where you were never born were already pruned.

>>3026284
I'm not. Time manipulation even when limited is pretty overpowered.

>>3026291
I don't mean that he'd be going backwards to do it you silly goose.

>>3026279
>>3026291
>>3026300
Void Craft time manipulation can't change the past, but it manipulates what possible future outcomes will happen.

Right now I think Emmerich is both trying to physically fight Elizabeth while fucking with the timelines to make sure he comes out on top.

>>3026300
As the events thus far have very well demonstrated, the extent to which he'll be able to warp things will be impeded by things like psionic jamming, being set on fire, and having his head shot off, all of which Elizabeth is capable of.

>>3026314
>having his head shot off
That didn't happen in -this- timeline. It was an echo.
In this timeline the gun jammed and exploded

>>3026311
>even when limited
I know void crafting can't manipulate the past only the present and future. I'm saying it's still broken shit even if it's limited to just "possible" futures.

>>3026311
that's exactly what he's doing seiner said as much last thread

>>3026314
His head wasn't really shot off in the timeline he allowed to survive.

And has he ever disappeared entirely into the 4th dimension in this fight so far? Odd if he hasn't tried to teleport behind you yet.

Anyway, you need something undodgeable. Something that covers the entire room at once. If he's really avoiding leaving this 3-dimensional plane for some reason.

>>3026342
Elizabeth tried that with the psionic spores+thermokinesis fireball combo

It's easy to see what will happen. Liz gonna have her shit kicked by Emmerich and once Emmerich start to monologue Lyle will do a dynamic entry and kick him out of Liz.

>>3026342
Oh i have a idea...we can just space him.

>>3026327
>>3026314
Well we just need more guns, now don't we

>>3026332
>>3026342
The "manipulating outcomes" thing kinda relies on there being something to manipulate as well as how hard it is to reach that outcome given the circumstances at the time and place you're manipulating.

The one thing that we can do to counter that is reducing the chances of him dodging a hit to near zero. Which is why I advocated bringing in drones. More guns equals more chances to get hit and less chances to dodge. Explosives and firesprays. More Dakka.

>>3026349
Emmerich probably fucked the timelines and picked one where Elizabeth's attack failed. Try doing that with a dozen drones spewing fire at the same time and it'll get harder for him

>>3026364
Void crafting is time/space manipulation. He always has room to avoid stuff.

>>3026364
Basically we need to force the scenario whereby so much AOE damage is incoming over a prolonged period of time to make coming out unscathed impossible.

>>3026349
Oddly, Vaughn's claw attack has left a more permanent wound than anything even if it seems to have never happened now.

That was different. That was progress.

>>3026376
Yes, but he's still anchored to the 3 Dimensions of this reality and is fighting Elizabeth there. He can try avoiding damage from dozens of drones firing at him, but it gets progressively harder to come out unscathed compared to just fighting and manipulating probabilities against one person.

>>3026383
He's a multidimensional entity too. It'll take a lot of damage to outright kill him.

>>3026388
Maybe we can't kill him but we can hurt him enough to force a tactical withdrawal.

Should we bring a speaker to Jacob and Dillion with a couple beers and explain to them that we sent Lyle to punch a space ghost scientist just to see their reactions?

>>3026395
I cannot think of any sufficiently logical reason to reject this proposal.

>>3026409
Jackob already knows and can inform Dillon himself.

>>3026222
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqOFSNKcfiM

Elizabeth drops from the ceiling as Emmerich charges forward, his arms reaching out from multiple spaces, his hands contorting like a spear as a portion of her weaver graft arm is severed. She shouts out in pain, the wound less a cut and more a rotting, decayed chunk of flesh, like a gangrenous limb. She attempts to roll as she lands, her wounded limb breaking the roll and sending her sprawling on the ground. She quickly looks up to the ceiling as she tries to lunge back onto her feet, but he's no longer there. An instant later, a sudden movement in the corner of her eye catches her attention, and she rolls out of the way of a sudden reverberating impact as Emmerich's arm swings down to the ground. It is no longer a hand, but some manner of armored club, almost like the clawed arm of a crab, its edges sharp and its pincers like knives. Several images are seen, the strange club arms merging together into a coherent image at the very moment of impact before splitting again as Emmerich stands in several places at once, his forms partially overlapping by several inches. He hoists up the arm and swings again as Elizabeth rolls to her back and holds out her arms, imparting a wall of kinetic force in the process. The club slowls and falters as Emmerich struggles to bring it down on top of her, its shell sprouting several small spikes in the process, growing bulkier as he strains visibly. His face flashes with the blur of sudden motion, but does not actually move, his skin becoming more tattered as darkened growths begin to sprout along his head.

Suddenly a claw grips Elizabeth's arm from the side, and Emmerich throws her across the room, his new position overlapping with his old for only a moment. Elizabeth impacts the wall with her mind first, slowly the impact enough to prevent breaking a rib. She looks up as Emmerich stands hunched over, his back split open as shifting growths of dark crystal sprout from his spine, rupturing the skin. Elizabeth grips her arm as she stands, feeling a sudden and growing pain within as the flesh is discolored with necrotic tissue. Her hand is numb, while the flesh just above the elbow burns with the sharp, needle like pain of frostbite. Your parasite within quickly senses the toxins begin flooding the bloodstream as the tissue's necrotic flesh is suddenly filled with fresh blood once more, and begins pouring the toxic, septic blood left stagnant within back into the body. She grabs the arm by the bicep, and pulls, the necrotic tissue ripping like old leaves as she tears off the dead arm before it can poison her any further, and swings it like a whip at Emmrich, its claws flailing out blindly as its bones extend and wrap around Emmrich's more normal arm as he attempts to block, the claws shredding at his skin.

cont.

>>3026422
But it would be funnier that way

>>3026425
So yeah. Normal damage isn't going to cut it here.

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>>3026425
Decaying touch?
Entropic fuckery?

>>3026425
metal

>>3026425
Yeah liz gonna need some time in the tank after this.

>>3026425
>Liz pulls off her own rotting arm and uses it as a ranged weapon.
God. Damn.

>>3026425
You think it's hard when someone rips another man's arm off and beats him to death with it. Real badasses tear their own arms off and use them instead.

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>>3026425
>Several images are seen, the strange club arms merging together into a coherent image at the very moment of impact before splitting again as Emmerich stands in several places at once, his forms partially overlapping by several inches.

Clearly this is when he is most vulnerable.

>She grabs the arm by the bicep, and pulls, the necrotic tissue ripping like old leaves as she tears off the dead arm before it can poison her any further, and swings it like a whip at Emmrich

pic related

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>>3026425
>is skin becoming more tattered as darkened growths begin to sprout along his head.
>She looks up as Emmerich stands hunched over, his back split open as shifting growths of dark crystal sprout from his spine, rupturing the skin

>>3026448
To be fair she has what? Two extra arms?I forgot what her augs werw.

>>3026453
She has two arms and six helper arms.

How long until our parasites can do this?
https://youtu.be/JZKZA0GM2DM

>>3026451
That's probably also when he's at his most dangerous too

>>3026453
She's got her normal arm and leg set up (enhanced of course) but also the weaver graft which adds four giant spider leg type limbs reaching from her back

almost like a biopunk doc ock

>>3026452
EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING

>>3026464
Technically we can already do that it just isn't instantaneous. Hibrids and Chimeras can grow augs on then when they are able to cacoon themselfs.

>>3026453
She has the weaver augment which is like 4 extra arms.

She also has a lot of the biological upgrades (chemical fabricator, fermentation gut, etc.) in addition to the parasite which should give amazing poison resistance. If she didn't have those upgrades the necrotic stuff probably would have killed her already.

>>3026464
Never. That's multidimensional bullshit.

>>3026452
Well at least now he has a obvious weak spot were Lyle can punch and the others can shoot.

>>3026476
Well no wonder she discarded one of the arms.I think some of Lyle might be dripping into her from the hive mind

>>3026478
So what you're saying is that we need to miniturize non-euclidian space to the point where we can shove a ton of biomass into our parasites for them to use?

You think you can stop me?

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>>3026497

>>3026425
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJMrrzjELlY

She grabs the arm by the bicep, and pulls, the necrotic tissue ripping like old leaves as she tears off the dead arm before it can poison her any further, and swings it like a whip at Emmrich, its claws flailing out blindly as its bones extend and wrap around a slender, armored forearm, insectoid in appearance covered in small, wispy hairs. He flexes the boney, skinless fingers, their sharp hide sliding over one another with the sound of grating metal, and the torn arm suddenly begins to wither like a dying plant, its flesh shrivelling and snapping apart as it erodes into dust.

"You think you can stop me?" Emmerich says. It is a gurgling, echoing noise, as if spoken from many places at once. "I will tear you from this reality!"

Elizabeth lets the arm go as the oozing shoulder in her hand begins to rapidly rot, and flexes her remaining arm, her other weaver limbs extending outward and then quickly pulling themselves forward as she uses them to focus the growing energy, her mind expanding out to find her target as the static buildup begins sparking between her and the wall behind her, arcing out in growing bursts of sparks as she deeply inhales the spore-saturated air. The energy quickly flows through her remaining limbs, funneling into the air as a sphere of growing plasma forms at the point between the tips of her weaver arms, and she reaches out to it with her remaining hand, compressing it as the burning orb of electrical energy and extreme heat begins to emanate an audible sound as if fights against her attempt to compress it, like a sudden, rapidly growing scream like a small jet engine. Even with your psionic spores, you sense her mind is growing tired, the strain of functioning at such an unnaturally enhanced level quickly taking its toll. As the energy builds to critical mass, Emmerich charges, his massive arm pulling the rest of his body like a lever as he lunges towards her.

>Use your own mind to help boost her abilities
>Keep your mind a safe distance from the fight
>Other (write in)

>>3026510
>Use your own mind to help boost her abilities

>>3026510
>>Use your own mind to help boost her abilities


We are not losing Elizabeth to cowardice. This is dangerous, but we need to know if we can beat them and how to fight them too.

>>3026510
>>Use your own mind to help boost her abilities
We boosted Elizabeth earlier in the fight without ill-effects. We should try to support again.

in-before the Void uses this to mind-crush us and bypass the shroud

>>3026510
>Other (write in)
Ghost Beetles, Sirens, and any speakers near the complex need to all send Elizibeth their energy.

We cannot help you goku, but the whole world will feed your spirit bomb.

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>>3026510
>Use your own mind to help boost her abilities
COME ON ELIZABETH

>>3026510
>>Keep your mind a safe distance from the fight
Jesus contacting him would probably hasten the wearing away at the psionic shroud.

Lyle is here in a second. He's the real combat guy.

>>3026510
>Use your own mind to help boost her abilities

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>>3026510
>Use your own mind to help boost her abilities

Getting real tired of this Void Crafting bullshit.

>>3026507
uh

>>3026510
>"You think you can stop me?" Emmerich says. It is a gurgling, echoing noise, as if spoken from many places at once
UHH

>>3026510
>Use your own mind to help boost her abilities

You don't dare hurt her you asshole.

>>3026531
No we didn't. We avoided that. We boost with spores. We're still bosting with psionic spores.

>>3026510
>>Use your own mind to help boost her abilities
And supporting >>3026532

If we're going to help out in this fight we may as well go all in. The more guns firing the fewer timelines Emmerich will have to escape to.

>>3026510
>Use your own mind to help boost her abilities

Please roll 1d100, best of 3

>>3026510
>>Keep your mind a safe distance from the fight
We can't risk more void contamination.


>her arms stretching the distance like a whip and raking across his face, carving deep beneath the flesh and tearing off a chunk of skin.
>her arms stretching the distance like a whip as Emmerich falls back, the razor-like claws missing his face by several centimeters

> its claws flailing out blindly as its bones extend and wrap around Emmrich's more normal arm as he attempts to block, the claws shredding at his skin.
> its claws flailing out blindly as its bones extend and wrap around a slender, armored forearm, insectoid in appearance covered in small, wispy hairs.
Not sure if QM or Void.

Rolled 29 (1d100)

>>3026545
For Mother!

Rolled 61 (1d100)

>>3026540
An anon has been taken. It has begun.

>>3026545
FOR MOTHER!

>>3026510
>Other rile up the concerts and flood the station with spores. We need everyone to start rocking out ASAP and flood as much emotions and energy around. We need Liz to have dance with the devil music and rock out. (But not too hard. We don't want any harm to the guests after all.)

Rolled 14 (1d100)

>>3026545
FOR MOTHER!

Rolled 85 (1d100)

>>3026545

Rolled 19 (1d100)

>>3026545
here we go. for mother

>>3026510
>Other (write in)
Is there a band currently playing that we can use to provide background music for the fight?

>>3026551
This basically.

aw fuk

Rolled 72 (1d100)

>>3026545
DON'T YOU DARE TO HURT HER!

Rolled 50 (1d100)

>>3026545
>"I will tear you from this reality!"
It really is like Dragon Ball Z.

Rolled 81 (1d100)

>>3026545
FORM OTHER INDUSTRIES

>>3026553
You're late

You know what would be real void fuckery, if when we were fighting the Void directly QD used the lowest of 3 rolls instead of the best of 3 as a result of the void closing off the paths where we succeed.

>>3026563
Too bad the rolls are shit.

>>3026547
>>3026548
>>3026552
Oh well guess is time to advance the time table again...

>>3026547
>>3026548
>>3026552
UH OH

>>3026540
>>3026546
You though he was attacking her? No, he is attacking us.

Do you hear that siren call?

>>3026568
We've been rolling lots of 90+'s recently. The rolls had to go south sooner or later.

That won't work twice, Vaughn.

>>3026567
I'm right on time as always. It's everyone else that has bad timing.

>>3026567
If this is true, keep in mind we rolled a 6 for Lyle to show up...

>>3026590
Now that's a BIG OOF moment.

So, guys, what's the plan if Emmerich shows up in the Queen's bunker intent on murder some day? The Queen's not exactly built for individual combat. Do we have any psychic guards? If so, we should make some.

>>3026594
The Queen is extremely powerful psionically already, and I'm sure we've got guards.

>>3026594
We die of course.

>>3026594
We do have the psion template for the human clones. Just need to make then.

>>3026590
>>3026593
You'd think that QD would at least say "Roll 1d100 *worst* of 3".
Because frankly doing that without any warning smells like bad DMing to me.

>>3026594
Did we build the psionically insulated panic room? Also we're still covered by the Psionic Shroud.

>>3026599
>>3026602
Yeah, we should have those psionic humans/hybrids/chimera be personal guards for the Queen. This attack on Elizabeth hits too close to home.

>>3026601
You are just a great big ol ball of fucking sunshine today, aren't anon?

>>3026610
If we can't kill him here I have little hope for actually surviving a direct confrontation.

>>3026607
We are covered by the shroud for now, but our recent shit rolls might degrade that protection.

Also, the panic room might not work. We built it, but the psionic shields on the lab didn’t help Elizabeth once Emmerich was already inside.

This is all assuming it actually happens.

>>3026615
We're gonna peg down Psionic Thought Construction/Non-euclidean Architecture next for actual defenses, right?

>>3026615
As it stands, the best defense against a hostile void walker outside of intervention by one of our own seems to be overwhelming firepower, and maybe more room to run, but I don't think the latter is possible for the Queen.

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>>3026614
>Getting ambushed by an antagonist whose abilities were completely unknown at the time means we'll never be able to come up with a way of countering him!
Did you forget we've got our own void crafter learning his trade right now?

>>3026634
Nope, you seem to forget he's nowhere near ready.

Well one thing is for sure if the void finds out the Queen is on Leeland we will get a chance to test all our defense plataforms.

>>3026638
He could be three inches under him with how we know the Void works. It's just that fucky in the void.

>>3026638
And you seem to forget we're safely ensconced within a psionic shroud. It will take Emmerich far longer to learn how to get around that than it will take the First to finish tutoring Seiner.

>>3026614
>>3026638

He's basically doing the thing Nick Cage did in that one movie where he simultaneously lives all possibility spaces until he can pick the one where he gets the outcome he wants.
Or, in the terms of last thread, he's picking through all the branches simultaneously and then pruning at the last possible moment.

That means he's susceptible to wide area attacks that can't possibly be dodged because they hit everything. If every outcome is zero, then he can't win no matter which branch he picks.

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>>3026638
>nowhere

>>3026645
I wonder how the Union and Commonwealth would react when suddenly EVERY SINGLE SHIP in our entire armada disappears at once. I assume we would redeploy everything if there were an actual attack on the Queen.

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>>3026645
>The Union when it finds out the Hive was wiped out by an even bigger, more aggressive fish

>>3026659
The movie is called next he's a precognitive in that movie

>>3026659
Yeah, I agree. Honestly I think we should have had Liz run and to have sent in drones while Lyle pulled up.

I wasn’t there for the vote and it’s to late to regret now, though. All we can do is learn in the event of future attacks.

>>3026658
No I fucking haven't. Everyone else is screeching about how Emmerich show up at home and I said if he shows up right now we have no chance of surviving considering how things have been going.

>>3026659

Is that what's going on here? I wrote if off as a QM thing initially, but now I wonder...
>>3026546

>>3026661
Not much that ships can do when someone can invade your own bunker. But if he finds out i'm certaing Auntie will send all of her ships to Leeland.

>>3026664
And they still need to deal with OQ creep on Path.

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>>3026546
Thats pretty much how it seems to work.

>>3026659
>>3026690
Definitely the Void. It’s turning out successes into failures by fucking with the timeline.

>>3026659
You know what would be perfect in this situation? A colossi with a plasma thrower. Just literally fill the lab with fire. Emmerich can't time slide away from Elizabeth's attacks if there isn't anywhere left in the room that isn't on fire.

Hey, it works on a Smith, it will work on this asshole.

>>3026682

You seem to be taking the notion that QD is a gaping guttercunt who all-of-a-sudden wants to destroy the story he's spent years working on (and very recently returned to) by janking it into a 1984-style nihilistic narrative of inevitable failure and hopelessness.

There's no need to give voice to the absolute worst possible events that could happen, because QD isn't retarded enough to force them on us out-of-the-blue. Calm down and accept that good things can happen, mate.

>>3026723
Yeah, I think that's the level of attack needed to kill him. Something that no adaptation, and no selectively perfect movement can save him from.

>>3026723
Except if he cuts or picks the brench were the rotatory stinger of the plasma fails to ignite.

>>3026723
Several colossi working in union. Elizabeth should be able to stop her self crispy frying via the spores and our backing.

>>3026723
We have a Lyle. That should be good enough.

>Elizabeth get Spore buff
>Plus get the elite agents of the Hive to go into her rescue
>And finnaly has the Queen herself boosting her psy powers

Can't wait for the day that we also boost Lee power against some idiotic terrorist.

>>3026736
True. If there's anything that squares up against probable victories and well pruned plans like they don't matter, it's a Lyle.

>>3026728
You seem to assume that I think he will instantly find us or is it just you who thinks that?

I just realized. Why don't we have Elizabeth use psionic cloaking again?

>>3026762
I think we're still researching it from the Phantoms right?
Can't remember

Speaking of cloaking, I kinda want to deploy Whisper Drones to places like Deckard's Claim and other places we just annexed

>>3026751

No, I'm pointing out that the majority of posts you've made after you failed to bitch people out of calling the Valen whales has been needlessly pessimistic and/or antagonizing. Are you really that irritated over a nickname?

>>3026775
Nope we have it. That's a different application you're thinking of.

>>3026781
Like I give a fuck if your panties are in a bunch.

>>3026782
>>3026762
Pretty sure we're still working on it with the Scarred Queen. In any case, I doubt it work as intended when Elizabeth is actively fighting a sentient void shard.

>>3026775
We should send some drones. As well as we should start to build a trading post were se tinel was so we can start trading with the Commonwealth.

>>3026785
So it was the whales.

>>3026775
I'm fine with deploying the mind-influencing drones in our own space. It could help with our PR.

>>3026786
May I point the White queen researched that shit before going to war with the Void.
>>3026794
What about the Canians?

>>3026796
Should send thrn to Decker. To bad we have so little space and can't create clones/replicants yet.

>>3026800
Aww fuck, I keep forgetting about the Canians. We still totally need to rescue them from Union oppression and forced labor canderon mining, through adoption.

>>3026134
This made me remember that Shoggy said he'd post the next part on 7/2/18 which apparently he actually did

>>3026800
>Giant balls of sentient ionized protein chains living on the surface of a star
>whales
That makes less sense than any of your sea-salt over Valen nicknames, and you've been pouring in on thick tonight.

>>3026817
The way that things are going on the Union they might not need us to free themselfs from the Union.

That population can't take more happenings as it has being accuring to then.

>>3026545
Elizabeth focuses the energy as her own mind is suddenly bolstered with your own. Drones across the city halt for a brief moment as the combined mental capacity of entire star systems of your Hive become focused onto one singular effort, the psionic spores within the room visibly energized from the concentration as arcs of electricity jump from place to place and scattered debris and loose papers swirl in rapidly growing eddies of artificial wind as thermal fluctuations grow throughout the lab. Elizabeth expands her weaver arms, sending the plasma hurtling forward against Emmerich's charging form as the plasma suddenly plumes into a wall of energy, tearing bulkheads and floor plating away as it passes and flash-boiling chunks of building-flesh.

The city shakes. The rumbling carried along the floor and walls of its wards. The organic lights dim and flicker as the drones halt in their place for a brief moment, as if the whole city were shuddering from a sudden microseizure. Your guests do not notice as the power surge sends sparks hurling from several converter panels where cables trail off to the grand stage, sending a pyrotechnics and laser display erupting on stage like a volcano as the first band kicks off the first day of the concert. The sudden sway of the ward's structure only becoming a part of the audience's movements as they thrash their heads and eye-stalks.

cont.

>>3026844
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNRCA1hbvQk

The lab is gutted from wall to wall, the sealed bulkhead across cracked open with a spiderweb of open cracks as a trail of growing fire coats every surface beyond Elizabeth, the flames slowly ebbing around her as bolts of electrical discharge crackle around her. Her other arm is gone, incinerated up to the elbow. She breathes heavily, the flames around her reacting to the mental effort behind the physical strain, rising and falling, trailing and reaching with her breaths. In the flames, rubble creaks and pops, simmering in piles, and suddenly shift. A large shape, like an armored gorilla more than a man, shrugs its shoulders, sending debris sliding from its hide. It is a mass of darkened, charred bone and simmered, burnt flesh. Shifting crystals sprout from its hide, reaching out from its spine and growing over its arms. Its forearm is a massive crystalline claw, while the other is a horrid looking black armored stick covered in thorns with far too many joints. Its face is akin to a skull, the jaw slack and hanging open as tendris hang from the burnt and shredded flesh of its cheekbones like jowls. Its legs are long, spider like stems ending in barbed claws. It roars, a bestial, inhuman noise, and looks to Elizabeth with an unnatural rage as any sanity or intelligence left in its eyes seem to seep away. It begins to move, crawling forth from the crater in which it was embedded, its legs snapping and re-forming under its weight, thicker and more mutated with each step as it shifts into a gallop.

There is a presence at the door of the lab. You attempt to open it, but the impact is too fast, the psionic shielding of the bulkhead snapping suddenly as Lyle's augmented arm lands two solid hits on it and cracks the rim of the door's seal and he leaps in through the hole, his arm catching the cracked fragment of door bulkhead as he spins, tearing it from the cuticle holding it to the door and hurling it like a discus into the creature's head. It impacts with a sudden thud and a strange, ringing noise that seems to sound before the contact was made. It turns as Lyle is already mid-charge, a large segment of the lab's destroyed wall in his grip. He swings it like a bat, impacting the creature's face as it staggers to the side, and then lets out an inhuman roar. The creature that was once Emmerich swings its arm, the surface rippling and boiling as it suddenly stretches towards Lyle in a long line of mismatched flesh and collected debris, impacting Lyle as he holds up the wall, the growing flesh mound crawling over and around the makeshift shield until a burst of lightning flashes against the arm, sending it retracting back as Emmerich's form turns back to Elizabeth, only to receive another impact from the wall section, snapping it in half as Lyle breaks it over its head.

cont.

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>>3026848
BEST BOY IS HERE

>>3026848
It's so cute seeing our children playing nicely together.

>>3026848
oh what the fuck this

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>>3026844
>sending a pyrotechnics and laser display erupting on stage like a volcano as the first band kicks off the first day of the concert. The sudden sway of the ward's structure only becoming a part of the audience's movements as they thrash their heads and eye-stalks.

>>3026824
Better than calling something looks like a snail a whale based on size alone also don't think I've actually been salty, some guy was flipping out at me having said "that we'd lose a direct confrontation" for some reason.

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>>3026873
I've always thought that they were more crocidilian mixed with a turtle and pipe organ then a snail, despite what that one anons image. I thought I remember QD saying so way, way back.

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>>3026848
>A large shape, like an armored gorilla more than a man, shrugs its shoulders, sending debris sliding from its hide. It is a mass of darkened, charred bone and simmered, burnt flesh. Shifting crystals sprout from its hide, reaching out from its spine and growing over its arms. Its forearm is a massive crystalline claw, while the other is a horrid looking black armored stick covered in thorns with far too many joints. Its face is akin to a skull, the jaw slack and hanging open as tendris hang from the burnt and shredded flesh of its cheekbones like jowls. Its legs are long, spider like stems ending in barbed claws. It roars, a bestial, inhuman noise, and looks to Elizabeth with an unnatural rage as any sanity or intelligence left in its eyes seem to seep away.

inb4 the Void was also empowering Emmerich at the same time

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>>3026844

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>>3026894
Well you're not entirely wrong. They probably got the nickname "gators" from their eating habits. Also pic for how valen look.

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>>3026848
And now, shit gets real.

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>>3026848
Lyle always knows how to make an entrance doesn't he?

>>3026894
If you mean the one drawn by MrSmiles he drew that to QD's specifications just like the Scav and Skyl pics

>>3026848
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z_0Dq5nCbw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ALwKeSEYs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq_Fm7qfRQk

>>3026873
They don't look anything like any species on Earth, whale works as well as any other name.

Has Emmerich finally reached his final form?

>>3026904
>>3026905
Is it wrong that the first thing i though when the fight started was. Mosh pit!!!

>>3026902
I always imagined the head and arms to be much more walrus-like.I like that pic though, I haven't seen that one in particular before.

>>3026919
Not at all.

>Lyle came for the mosh pits
>He stays to fight the Void demon

>>3026917
Hopefully. I'd prefer he had to sacrifice the remainder of his humanity for this little powerup, since he'd be far more of a threat trying to act subtle against us than as a monster we can just beat into the ground.

>>3026917
I'm really stoked that he's gone feral. That means his ability to do any really harmful voidcrafting beyond the end of this battle might be gone, even if he survives. Pruning the web of fate takes intelligence and foresight that he doesn't have anymore. Because he's a creature of the Void and his mind became consumed with blind rage, that's what he literally is now.

At least it sure seems that way at the moment.

>>3026929
Yep, he's not going to be doing any cloak-and-dagger master-manipulator shenanigans if this transformation is permanent. Of course, I hope he actually gets turned into an indistinct smear across the void as a result of this fight, too.

>>3026915
>They don't look anything like any species on Earth, whale works as well as any other name.
I could say just like the Canians who are peaceful giants that swim through space and filter feed on plasma but the inspirations are pretty obvious for the Valen.
>>3026917
If this is his final form then I'm fuckin disappointed.

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>>3026848
>a burst of lightning flashes against the arm, sending it retracting back as Emmerich's form turns back to Elizabeth, only to receive another impact from the wall section, snapping it in half as Lyle breaks it over its head.

>Note to self we can actually use the psionic walls to punch psionic manifestations.

I guess Lyle just gave a new idea to our thinkers.

>>3026956
I'm reminded of the foam finger gun from Dead Space.

>>3026954
But they're not peaceful giants. They've fought religious conflicts between themselves over the exploitation of their star for Canderon.

And they don't swim through space.They're bound to the surface of their star.

And how they feed has never been established. We don't even know IF they need to feed to sustain themselves.

>>3026848
Lyle dives to the side, flanking the creature as Elizabeth hoists up a streaming series of debris chunts, firing them like a machine gun as chunks embed into the crystalline hide. It reals back, quickly turning to Elizabeth as Lyle fires his weapon, sending three rounds into the mass of flesh before it jams. He tosses it aside and unsheathes his blades, charging in as the creature shudders against a torrent of lighting bolts arcing from Elizabeth's weaver arms.

Lyle swings his arms as he lunges forward, chopping through several limbs with each strike. It stumbles, falling down onto its massive arm as the severed legs suddenly swirl together like curling taffy, merging together into a massive clawed limb that swings back and kicks Lyle in the chest, sending him hurling back and into the wall. He lands with a thud as he gasps for air, his ribs quickly fusing back together. He looks up and quickly grabs a portion of a support beam that had fallen from the ceiling, the armored beam of psionic insulation looking like a five foot long femur more than anything else as Lyle grabs it at the narrow end and charges again, leaping up over a mound of destroyed equipment as he brings the club down onto the Emmrich creature. He lands to its side, swinging it again into its lower jaw, shattering it like glass as it reels back, bolts of lighting arcing over its body.

Lyle dives after it, leaping into the air as he hoists the club over his head, imparting his whole body into the swing as it hoists its smaller arm up to block it. Lyle lands on top of it as it falls back, and he hits it again, cracking through the hide until it throws him off with a swing of its arm. It hoists itself to attack, and several more beams from the ceiling fall, most missing as they snap and bounce against the ground around it, while another, guided firmly with Elizabeth's mental grip, punctures its hide and pins it to the ground. Lyle rushes forward with his own club again, and swings it madly at the creature as it thrashes its arms up in attempt to block the torrent of blows.

cont.

>>3026920
The drawfriend also did one of a skav

>>3026968
They're also literally plasma balls with tentacles. I'd call them jellyfish if anything.

>>3026984
I did catch that one

... After Lyle makes sure that it's dead, make sure that the parasite is disabled so he can drink as much as he wants on this station.

>>3026982
>>3026995
I swear if Lyle gets us out of this we're going to have to give him psionic implant upgrades in addition to the free infinite drinks. By this point he's earned it.

>>3026965
It's not like that idea wasn't mentioned last thread.
>>3026968
By far? They are the most peaceful race around, only religious extremist (who aren't that violent either) are aggressive mostly targeting the mining stations that they think are hurt their star and source of food
>And how they feed has never been established
This has established early on. They feed by absorbing the plasma that comes off their star.
>>3027000
Which do you think is better? Void Crafting or Psionics?

Shouldn't have gone on vacation, Elizabeth

>>3027000
we're going to ask if he wants one first if he does all the power to him

>>3027007
"The Queen demands that the rest of your vacation be spent unconscious in this medical tube regenerating your limbs."

>>3027007
No, bad anon! Our girl deserves a break.

>>3027000
>Lyle
>with psionics
>drunk
>during a black death metal concert

I cannot for the life of me find the reaction image I'm looking for, but it's as scared as it is excited.

>>3026982
Uh...psionic insulation can be added to weapons and blades to hurt void crafters...good to know i take it.

>>3027010
>"Hey Lyle, do you want a tool that will let you blow things up with your mind like you saw Liz do?"
I have a feeling he's going to want one ... but you're totally right it's his call here.

>>3027019
kek

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>>3027000
>So Lyle, do you want to shoot lightening and fire with your mind like Elizabeth?

>>3026982
There's a purity is just picking up a large bone or stick to bludgeon your enemy to death

>>3027005
if-no when we get good enough to give him both he gets both for maximum asskicking

>>3027007
Hey we wouldn't be setting up the biggest party these lower lifeforms have ever seen if we didn't bring Elizabeth.

>>3027012
>>3027007
After this vacation she is never leaving the bunker is she...

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>>3027019
Is it this one?

I wonder if the material itself has some effect on Emmerichs ability to avoid the damage. From how I'm reading it seems like all attacks made using the insulating material seem to hit.