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"Laoc's a walled city in the shape of a rough circle, and it's divided into four quarters; North, South, East, and West, with the Town Hall in the dead center, where we are now." Sierra explains as she strides over to the bar and, with one tendril's caress across the surface, transforms it into a rough map of what you're dealing with. "The Eastern Quarter is the first one you entered into, and it houses many vendors and their assorted wares while the Western Quarter has a variety of homes and 'restaurants', which are really just parlors for various delicacies, novelty foods, drinks, and the like. The Northern Quarter is where the higher-class wares can be found, in addition to the Library. Finally, the Southern Quarter is an upper-class neighborhood, and it's where the Mayor is right now."

"North and south have solid firing lines, but west and east are full of clutter." Magpie notes, racking the bolt of her imposing rifle. "Shots won't be impossible, but straightaways'll be a bitch to find."

"What of the device atop the roof?" Francine interjects, a point of calm in the sea of growing agitation around you. "What can it do, precisely?"

"It's the Town Hall's broadcast tower, and it can transmit a Neuromancer, Skintalker, or Phantasmal Conduit's power city-wide thanks to the Relic up there." Sierra replies, casting her single eye towards the tavern's double-doors. "You'll need it if you're going to get intel on where conflict's popping up around Laoc."

""I think we may have a more immediate solution to that." You say, turning to your resident Skintalker. "Amara? Can you get me a status o-"

"Seven North, nine East, eight south, and six west." The girl replies quickly, sheathing and re-sheathing her sword impatiently with her thumb. "Dunno what powers they have since big bird's flyby has the terrain all confused too, but there seems to be more people getting spooked in the north and west."

Thirty targets.

Mere moments ago, it was just over two dozen. Now...

"Nicely done, Amara." You say, placing a hand on the girl's shoulder as you turn to look at both Lara and Magpie as concern stirs in your chest. "Alright, we're going to need to split into teams to tackle what's ahead, and to do that effectively I need to know what you two can bring to bear."

Lara glances over to Magpie who merely gestures for her to go first, much to the girl's chagrin.

“I’m a lot, uh…’sturdier’ than I look.” She replies with a flutter of her wings, and just behind her you catch Rath’s lips twitch with the hint of a smile. “If I get hit, then this dust comes out. Doesn’t do much on its own, but when I burst some light from my eyes, then it’s blinding. Makes it easy to go into melee, and it catches fire real quick, too."

"Hitting elements and critting to end fights fast from afar's still my bread and butter." Magpie sighs, chuckling when you cock an eyebrow at the veritable arsenal she's brought to bear. "No surprises there."

(Continued)

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>>3951969

“Good to know." You nod, still a little perturbed by the indescribable sensation you get when you look at any of the six black guns Magpie now wields. "Okay, as for the rest of us, we…Holly, what are you doing?”

“Stretchin’!” She replies happily, touching her toes before crouching on the ground and promptly doing a split to test the limits of her new body. “I’ve been training with Johanna, but I wanna make sure I’m used to this thing before I fling myself into the fray, yeah?”

Catching Gina's eye, the brunette just gives you a small shrug of her shoulders before you get back on task and address everyone present. "Alright. Speed and efficiency is key in this. No drawn-out plans, no amping up. We get Julia and Dorian back on board and we end this, hard and fast as possible. Understood?"

A series of fervent nods from your family is the only answer you need as it all comes together in your mind. Four sections, over a dozen active threats, and a town living on borrowed time. You take a breath, holding it as your mind churns with ideas and strategies to stop Laoc from turning into something like the Spiraling Fear before it's far too late. Then as now...you hate this. The people that succumbed to the hunger couldn't help what happened to them. A twist of fate, a roll of the dice, and their lives and sanity were ripped from them by something torn from their worst imaginings. Regardless of their current states, you know you can't afford to hesitate with what comes next.

For the good of everyone, you know what you have to do.

"Alright." You declare, with an air of finality. "Here's the plan."

>>ASSIGN TEAMS, GOALS, & RELICS FOR THE FOLLOWING DAUGHTERS

>>[Shu, Gina, Rath, Amara, Holly, November, Francine, Magpie, Lara]

>>RELICS: https://pastebin.com/Qwme4CGr

>>THREATS REMAINING: N:7, E:9, S:8, W6 (Amara will keep you informed of the number of active threats, and this UI be updated continually as more succumb to Hunger or are successfully neutralized.)

>>Write-In

YOU ARE IN CONTROL

>>3951970
BHOP, would it be alright to assume what relics Julia and Dorian had on them, or did they bring nothing, due to assuming no threat would be present?

(Gentlemen, voting shall remain open for the next three hours to grant you time to plan and me time to answer what questions you may have. Below and in the post that follows, you'll also find a more in-depth recap from the Intermission regarding Lara and Magpie's capabilities. I hope your morning is going well, and good luck.)

>>Lara: Despite her fragile appearance, Lara's shell and wings are incredibly durable, and her HEALTH capacity is quite high, being an Unnatural Predator. Her melee attacks deal potent slashing and piercing damage, while attacks against her have a chance to proc a blast of dust from her wings, afflicting the foe with a coating of chaff-like dust that has a chance to blind them, foil any extrasensory abilities they may possess, and renders them incredibly vulnerable to flame-based attacks. In fact, Lara may scatter a large cloud of this exceedingly flammable material over a wide area, subsequently flaring an incredibly bright light from her luminous eyes and reflecting the beam wildly off her dust, allowing her a massive AOE chance to blind her foes with a high rate of success. She may also flare her eyes in melee range as part of a follow-up attack to give her the edge in a skirmish. No mid-to-long range damage abilities to speak of, as most of her kit allows her to close the gap and inflict devastating melee wounds. Finally, her surplus of limbs coupled with her surprising strength allows her to easily carry up to two normal-sized allies during flight, with a third being capable at the cost of use of her upper arms.)

>>Magpie: if the single rifle and odd assortment of Relics at her disposal were Magpie at her least serious, the raven-haired woman’s current Loadout is her playing hardball. Her long, reinforced jacket grants her moderate protection against all elemental damage types, while the living necklace she has tucked into her shirt grants her a heightened chance to avoid critical hits and allow her a counter-attack on dodge. Meanwhile, the Heaven’s Guns are a sextet of devastating firearms that offer a ballistic solution for nearly every problem, though with an unfortunate drawback. Where’s Magpie’s concerned, violence isn’t a solution - It’s the question…and the answer is ‘yes’.

(Continued)

>>3951972

-Magpie’s Arsenal-

>>Scylla & Charybdis (Twin M1911 Semi-auto pistols): ELEC-infused pistols that have the ability to generate a powerful magnetic pull between targets shot with their rounds, pulling them together and allowing Magpie to follow up with…

>>Lupara (Sawed-off Double Barrel Shotgun): The devastating buckshot delivered from each barrel deals catastrophically potent piercing and slashing damage, with the blade-like flechettes igniting furiously if left within a living target at the end of the round.

>> Strelitzia (FN P90): A curious weapon for a curious woman, the Strelitzia fires a cascade of alternating elemental rounds, ensuring that any elemental weakness her foes possesses is capitalized upon. Additionally, any elemental weakness hit while firing the Strelitzia automatically notifies the wielder of their foe’s vulnerabilities, making follow-up hits from other elemental damage sources (belonging to Magpie or her allies) much more powerful.

>>Red Dahlia (Pfeifer-Zeliska .600 Nitro Express Revolver): The second-most powerful weapon in Magpie’s arsenal, a single shot from the Dahlia is fully capable of knocking even large Amalgams and targets flat regardless of their ability to resist being stunned or knocked prone. Additionally, the creeping ACIDIC properties of the round spread through the target’s body, dealing unparalleled damage over time. However, this obscenely powerful weapon can only be fired once per round, rendering it a situational, if lethal tool.

>>Alex’s Mercy (Mosin-Nagant):, The crown jewel of Magpie’s arsenal is a thing of unrivaled damage potential, easily capable of piercing through the toughest of armors…even that of the living fortress, Marrow Dragoon. It is a simple thing, optimized for sheer, simple piercing damage, with untold amounts of biomass and sacrifice invested in its creation to ensure that even a single shot fired from this most terrible of weapons is enough to end any threat Magpie encounters across the Fleshscape. A single shot, a swift death…it’s a gift of mercy, in a world gone mad.

>>3951971
(They do not have any Relics equipped, no. However, you are welcome to send Relics to them via teammate or Swarmling, though it'll take some time to get to them.)

>>3951973
alright, thanks.
and glad to see this back, already cooking things up haha.

>>3951973
BHOP, do the clones give off Amara Aura of calm?

To reiterate:

>North: Library, No notable defenders located. 7 Targets. Magpie notes that she may have good vantage points from the tower.
>South: Neighborhood and Plaza, 8 Targets. Magpie notes that she may have good vantage points. The Mayor is located there.
>East: Vendors and Market district. 9 Targets. No notable defenders. Poor vantage points for sniping.
>West: Restaurant District, 6 Targets. Julia and Dorian are located there. Poor vantage points for Sniping.

Can Shu die? Will the quest end if Shu dies?

>>3951970
Relic Loadout;
Shu:
>Contender(Twin Maxims)(3x Honey)(3x Fullbore).
>Matrons, Whistle(OMA SUTH).

Rath:
>Sui Tormentis, Gutgrab Daggers, Ignition Gauntlets, Pacekeepers, Deliverance of Ego.

Gina:
>Spine, Rebuke + Montags Flame.

Amara:
>Vocem Virtutis(Free: SUTH)(Upgrade: SUTH, RHO).
>Shawl, Void Orrey.

Francine:
>Spectacles, Hydras Heart, Sui Sacrificium.

Julia:
>Cutis Tractus, Caelorum.

Dorian:
>Sui Interitus, Margraves Blade.


November:
>Slotted: Dainsleif(Arm), Uzi(Arm), Cursus Alas(Leg), Nail(Leg), Crimson Jesters(Head), Gamma Pharynx(T5 Slot).

(1/4)

>>3951970
>>3951985
Teams;
Tower Team:
>Amara Clone, Gina.

North:
>Shu, Holly, Amara and Fuzzbuzz.

West:
>Julia and Dorian.

South:
>November and Geschoss, Magpie.

East:
>Rath, Lara, and Francine.

(2/4)

>>3951986
>>3951970
Individual Orders;
AMARA:
>Spawn 32 Clones.
>>Send 4 North, 6 West, 12 East, 10 South.
>have a clone climb the Tower, and use it to hit the town with a constant GRA SUTH OMA.

SHU:
>Spawn 8 Stealthed Jacklings, send two to each Sector to get a layout of whats going on and keep tabs easier on things. Try and make a connection with any groups you can to help coordinate and consolidate efforts.
>Have 3 Double Stealthlings go find Julia and Dorian, taking them the relics listed for them.
>Send a Stealthed Rook to each Sector, and make them find a good group to bunk down with.
>Armor up yourself and Holly(20 pieces) in a full set of Chitinous, with added Recursive and Rook Properties.
>Give Holly a Spriteling.
>Give Rath, Holly, and Lara a Bishop.
>Fill out the rest of your Slots with basic Swarmlings.

RATH:
>Attach a group of 3 Controlled-Boils to Shus Rooks, to give you easy access to getting around the town.

GINA:
>Climb the tower with the clone, and intermittently swap out with it, hitting the town with the Halos stun targeted at all enemies. Have the clone help the ability lock onto enemies only if necessary.

Team Orders;
ALL;
>focus first on connecting to and consolidating surviving daughters, to both calm them down and stop further losses.
>try and gather info on top threats to isolate and take down first.

North;
>Focus on the heightened fear, use Shus fame and Amaras Aura to get everyone calm.
>Use the Clone and extra Swarmlings to lead all survivors to the most advantageous location possible.
South;
>Find the Mayor and follow her plan.
>Use the tank as both a barricade and covering fire to give more time to gather under the Mayors banner.

East;
>Have LAra use her flight to help better rescue and consolidate survivors, before teaming up with them and Rath to bring the hurt.

West;
>Julia and Dorian can both Handle the panic and level of threat, we trust them. Along with the Relics, send them word of the plan, and that we trust their judgement. They should, obviously, consolidate daughters first before striking hard.

(3/4)

>>3951981

(Yes, though clustering multiple clones will not make the field additive.)

>>3951983

(She can absolutely die, though there's a system in place to continue the Quest. Even my death will not stop it, as others have strict instructions to continue it upon my incapacitation or demise.)

(I will not stop.)

>>3951987
so just to explain some things;
we dont need full on Amara to cast spells from the tower, nor for her aura i think, so i think having the real Amara out and about would be better. Ginas stun going town wide could easily turn the tide, but she has to be there for that, but i think its worth the loss of her being in the field.

Shu North to help clam people down, and i think her combined with amara field will easily do that. combine Shu, Holly, and the real Amara, and i think we can clean North up REALLY quickly to get everyone there to other sectors.

i trust Julia and Dorian to the west. its not the most in danger numbers wise, and i trust Julia and Dorian to calm people down.

November and Magpie south, as their ranged weapons will work best there, and its the second in most need, and they bring alot to bear.

Lara and Rath East as its most in need numbers wise, but i trust Raths strength. plus, combine Raths blinding boils with Laras chaff flash? i think together they can actually take care of the higher numbers really really well. Farancine just to help out as it is still the most in need area and she can heal them and help with her swarm.

(4/4)

>>3951988
awesome.

and neat to know on both of those second accounts. im actually glad to see Shus death is a possibility, makes it have more bite to it.
ill send bodyhorror manga and figurines to your loved ones if you die BHOP, to honor your memory.

>>3951985
just realized i forgot to change something. November will have the Rebuke and Montags Flames, Slotted, and... never decided who to give the Uzi to honestly.

>>3951996
>>3951985
oh, pfft fuck. Amaras tower clone has the Void Orrey too, not Amara specifically.

>>3951997
give it to Holly.

>>3951998
the void Orrey? why? its a massive AOE that if we do end up using, would be better suited in the middle of the town and doesn't need to be in a combat zone. Holly wouldn't get anything from carrying it.

>>3951999
I meant give the Uzi to holly. Sorry, my bad.

>>3952001
oh, ok, yeah that works.

>>3951985
>>3951970
Amending Relic Loadout;
Shu:
>Contender(Twin Maxims)(3x Honey)(3x Fullbore).
>Matrons, Whistle(OMA SUTH).

Rath:
>Sui Tormentis, Gutgrab Daggers, Ignition Gauntlets, Pacekeepers, Deliverance of Ego.

Gina:
>Spine.

Amara:
>Vocem Virtutis(Free: SUTH)(Upgrade: SUTH, RHO).
>Shawl, Void Orrey(Tower Clone).

Francine:
>Spectacles, Hydras Heart, Sui Sacrificium.

Julia:
>Cutis Tractus, Caelorum.

Dorian:
>Sui Interitus, Margraves Blade.

Holly:
>Uzi(x2 Mags of Heat, Frost, Acid, and Radiant).

November:
>Slotted: Dainsleif(Arm), Montags Flame(Arm), Cursus Alas(Leg), Nail(Leg), Crimson Jesters(Head), Rebuke(Chest), Gamma Pharynx(T5 Slot).

>>3951987
I've got an issue with you idea of having a clone do a constant cast of Gra Suth oma. The issue is that it costs 34% bio and 3 ACTs in order to cast that spell chain and a clone carries only 100% bio. and will be only viable for 2 turns before completely running dry. If we are to have a clone stay up there and continuously cast Gra suth oma, then we need to set up a clone duplication system up on the tower. And even then, that'll leave 32% bio left after 2 turns of casting for the clone that was used for the Gra Suth oma.

So I'm thinking about this as a solution:
>Send 2-3 clones up to the tower. the first clone is used as a battery to power the Gra Suth Oma spell chain while the other two focus their efforts on duplicating themselves. A clone Duplicating itself would cost 30 hp and 20 bio from it's static 150% hp and 100 bio pool per fresh clone. A clone could create 5 more duplicates before completely dying from lack of hp and bio.

>Clone #1 spends 2 full rounds powering the Gra Suth Oma spell, expending itself down to 150% hp/32% bio.
>Clones #2 & #3 spends 2 full turns churning out 4 fresh clones each. to a total of 8 new clones per round before moving out to form a 6-clone squad to a nearby district with 2 clones left over to stay at the tower every other round.
>Every 3rd Round, Clones 1-3 move out from the tower to form a 8-clone squad to support the fighters while 3 fresh clones stay at the tower to repeat the process.

Also, I was thinking making OMA free and upgraded using Vocem Virtuitis, but then I realized that it eats up the upgrade. So never mind that.

>>3952009
Gra and Suth are both free(in my setup), so it will only cost 30% and for them being able to spawn new ones and that being its ONLY job, i see not issue.

we can send up two clones if you're that worried though, so they can more easily switch off, but we really dont need to waste more resources than that on it.

>>3952009
>>3952013
actually, the Tower already makes the spell an AOE automatically, so OMA might not be necessary, making the spell 100% free.

>>3951988
would adding OMA to the tower spell be necessary or give any benefits?

>>3952017
(It would not, no.)

>>3952019
>>3952009
awesome, problem solved. clones can just to GRA SUTH for free constantly, so only one is necessary.

>>3952019
>>3952022
I just had a horrifying thought for Julia:
>You're in this town on a date with your boyfriend, suddenly 6 daughters have gone hunger mad
>Then you hear the shrill screech of your niece yelling "Gra Suth!" followed by "RHO CUNT" in the town loudspeaker.

>>3952024
hahaha
she will never forgive us for letting Amara change the word to that. dont we still have like 5 word changes saved up? still honestly dont have any ideas i like for that, the curse word ones alright but theres few options there that dont feel forced to change like that.

>>3952026
considering Amara's mischievous nature and backstory (which makes her a ripe candidate for skintalking), it would make sense that she might've overheard grown adults using swear words on the occasion.

>>3951970

I'm not really good at helping out with these, but >>3951985 >>3951986 >>3951987 seems like a decent plan.

Current music mood for this fight to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjmF4BPA4Hs

>>3952030
well, yeah, im not saying theres no excuse to change them to such, only theres limited options for what words can really change what spell word and it still be easy to remember what it does.

I guess RHO kinda does a bit of everything, so 'Fuck' might work for it, but do we really want Amara saying FUCK THA all the time?
Julia might just have a heart attack if Amara lovingly yells that in her face.

>>3952022
I had a thought. Rath's got the Sister's Constellation augment, which means her flames cause literally Zero friendly fire issue. Shame about the collateral property damage though.

>>3951987
But it does bring to issue of what the orders are for the Amara clones:
Should the brandish their bone katanas and strike down hunger mad enemies? or should they be ninja escorts to rescue the townsfolk?

>>3951987
>>3951970
just incase no other changes take place, change;
>have a clone climb the Tower, and use it to hit the town with a constant GRA SUTH OMA.
to
>have a clone climb the Tower, and use it to hit the town with a constant GRA SUTH.

>>3952035
well, i was just kinda gonna let them go with the overall flow assigned to the teams, so second part first, then switch to the first once they have consolidated their areas as best they can. for BHOPS sanity's sake, im pretty sure once the teams split off, we wont really have control over them, so hopefully they can follow the flow and orders of eveyone else in their area well enough.

...wait, is Rath, Lara, or Francine 'in charge' of East Team? its gotta be its gonna naturally fall on Francines shoulders, Lara doesnt seem that outgoing and Rath is dumb but i cant see her being a tactician either. poor Francine. i still think it makes sense to put you on that team, but it also puts you 'in charge' or a very rowdy bunch.

also i sent a Tank into the rich kids neighborhood. the Town can rebuild, but there has to be people left to do that with first. everything else does not matter except the tower.

>>3952037
This plan may need refinement. We should also keep Jackling comms to all fighting squads.

Also, come to think of it, Even though it's not bio-efficient, we could have Gina subtly Terraform several places in a town district to help rescuers get an avenue of escape while aoe-stunning the mad mob.


>Sending a giant moth, a rowdy Fire elemental, and a "Dr. West" into a rich kids neighborhood.
>Rath burns down the buildings and has a time of her life
>Francine be like "come with me if you want to live" to terrified daughters.
>And then there's Mothra.

>>3952042
the plan already has jacklings going to each sector. sure, not specifically our teams, but the point is to consolidate forces, so that shouldn't end up being an issue at all. plus, with Amaras backing them up and the main Amara with us, we have a line of communication still aswell. communication really should not be an issue. Gina being up in the tower might even give us some options there aswell.

>>3952032
>>3952019
A fitting theme song for a event like this:
But I'm sure Bhop has this song in his playlist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma-WJUidpRU

>>3952042
>>3952037

Rath is rowdy and generally takes the most direct path through opposition, but isn't a freaking pyromaniac. I mean, she doesn't think about collateral damage to structures, but she isn't actively going to just light things on fire for giggles.

The image of a cackling Rath throwing firebombs, while Lara watches enraptured going "oooooh", and Francine face palms so hard it breaks time and space does entertain though.

>>3952047
I... now want a BHOP Darkest Dungeon mod. Sometimes I curse my lack of artistic/programming skills for such things.

>>3951987
>Armor up yourself and Holly(20 pieces) in a full set of Chitinous, with added Recursive and Rook Properties.
>Give Holly a Spriteling.
I think we should amend that with Holly's platelings being plate-Spritelings. That way she gets five Spritelings' effect connected to her.

>>3952077
alright, sure.

>>3951987
>>3951970
amending orders to;

Individual Orders;
AMARA:
>Spawn 32 Clones.
>>Send 4 North, 6 West, 12 East, 10 South.
>have a clone climb the Tower, and use it to hit the town with a constant GRA SUTH.

SHU:
>Spawn 8 Stealthed Jacklings, send two to each Sector to get a layout of whats going on and keep tabs easier on things. Try and make a connection with any groups you can to help coordinate and consolidate efforts.
>Have 3 Double Stealthlings go find Julia and Dorian, taking them the relics listed for them.
>Send a Stealthed Rook to each Sector, and make them find a good group to bunk down with.
>Armor up yourself in a full set of Chitinous, with added Recursive and Rook Properties.
>Armor up Holly in a full set of Chitinous, with added Recursive and Spriteling Properties.
>Give Rath, Holly, and Lara a Bishop.
>Fill out the rest of your Slots with basic Swarmlings.

RATH:
>Attach a group of 3 Controlled-Boils to Shus Rooks, to give you easy access to getting around the town.

GINA:
>Climb the tower with the clone, and intermittently swap out with it, hitting the town with the Halos stun targeted at all enemies. Have the clone help the ability lock onto enemies only if necessary.

Team Orders;
ALL;
>focus first on connecting to and consolidating surviving daughters, to both calm them down and stop further losses.
>try and gather info on top threats to isolate and take down first.
>Those with Sui or similar Relics, Build up their bonuses as you see fit, to prepare for a hard fight.

North;
>Focus on the heightened fear, use Shus fame and Amaras Aura to get everyone calm.
>Use the Clone and extra Swarmlings to lead all survivors to the most advantageous location possible.

South;
>Find the Mayor and follow her orders, aswell as convey the plan to her.
>Use the tank as both a barricade and give covering fire to give more time for daughters to gather under the Mayors banner.

East;
>Have Lara use her flight to help better rescue and consolidate survivors, before teaming up with them and Rath to bring the hurt.

West;
>Julia and Dorian can both Handle the panic and level of threat, we trust them. Along with the Relics, send them word of the plan, and that we trust their judgement. They should, obviously, consolidate daughters first before striking hard.

>>3952086
Oh, and do we have to have the Amara clone actively working to channel its calm aura through the broadcaster? Or is the fact that that's passive mean we can just assume it will? A ruling, BHOP?

>>3952088
>>3952019
linking the question to BHOP, though GRA SUTH should be free on ACTs so im thinking it wouldn't make a difference here.

>>3952088
we've already talked about it and have an amara clone to work on the problem.

>>3952088
(It will simply work, so no worries there.)

>>3952094
Yeah, but we want to double it up if we can. As much calm as can be had.

>>3952104
Okay, cool. Time to get hit by a big calm bomb, Laoc.

>>3952094
if Gra Suth is Free, then should we have Amara cast "Rho Cunt" as the spell (that consumes the clone's action economy after Gra Suth? We could also cast "Rho Tha" to boost their mental resilience against stress factors and hunger.

>>3951970
Amara clone in the tower:
>Free spell: "Gra Suth"
>Spell: "Gra Rho Tha" or "Gra Rho Cunt"

>>3952108
If we get a replication chain going up there to make sure that the Amara clones don't run out of Bio to fuel it, sure. Cycle them through, keep the spell up.

Wait. Oh my god, I just had the stupidest idea and I'm sure it will not work but I need to say it: Joyous Many is a Phantasmal Conduit ability. BHOP, can the Amara clone up in the tower broadcast Joyous Many to have clones pop up throughout Laoc?

>>3952108
Rho Tha would just add armor, but we dont need that as much right now. also i thought the concern was the Clone running out of steam, so i figured just let her focus on the singular spell. she would have to stop and switch to the other one anyways, which starting out i dont think would be a good idea too, not until we get things a bit more stabilized.

>>3952111
>>3951970
and im voting against adding this.

>>3952115
(They'd still use Amara's biomass to spawn, but yes. I intended for it to offer you a variety of clever applications for your current predicament.)

>>3952115
im not sure thats a good idea honestly. we dont know the layout nor how much we can control that. it could easily just end up with a bunch of wasted biomass from them spawning and getting killed. sending them in squads will still work better i think, allows them and us to survey the way forward and make sure they arent wasted as easily. plus, the Tower uses Amaras, over the Clones, so thats not gonna be as viable either.

>>3952125
Ah, so we can't get a ton of clones everywhere for free. That was the "I'm sure this won't work" part I was thinking of. Ah, well. As for other clever uses, while we could do interesting things with broadcasting Dominus Bloodline or Neon Ascendant or Creation's Strings from the tower, I think those party members would be better off out in the field where they can use all their abilities instead of just using their Neurotic powers from the tower. That's the advantage of Amara, she can be in more than one place at once so having a clone up in the tower using Skintalking doesn't diminish her utility elsewhere.

Wait, maybe Shu can be in two places at once for this: Can Succlings be used as a stand-in to channel Dominus Bloodline through the tower? Those remove the need for line of sight on Leash/Bloodline. So we send a Succling up with Amara, it broadcasts the Dominus Bloodline for us, every hostile Daughter in the town gets an Exsanguinating Leash draining half their regen and dealing constant damage. Is that viable?

>>3952125
>>3952132
id think the Tower has a limited number of abilities that it can work with at once though, so im not really sure its worth it to try and setup too many options. wont really have the room to switch them out, least not for the first few rounds.

>>3952138
Yeah, but if it works I'd like to have the option lined up for if we get the chance.

(Writing now, Gentlemen.)

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>>3951970

“Amara, you’ll be with me along with Holly…and I’m going to need thirty-two more of you for what I’m planning.” You declare, and the skin along the younger girl’s exposed arms immediately begins to writhe, as if trying to escape its youthful owner. “Gina? Take one of Amara’s Joyous up to the tower with you. It’ll spam calm throughout the city while you terraform evacuation routes for the townspeople the Joyous and my swarm are able to round up.”

“Gotcha.” Gina nods, giving your hand a quick squeeze before scooping up a barely-humanoid blob of flesh from the ground at Amara’s feet, the jelly-like flesh slowly coalescing into Amara’s form even the brunette disappears around the corner.

“I trust the Western Sector to Julia and Dorian.” You announce, rounding on the two tallest members of those present as you continue relaying your plan. “Magpie, November? You’re my heavy munitions, so I’m deploying you to the Southern Quarter.”

“Affirmative.” November intones, immediately setting off with Magpie hot on her heels and with that, you turn to Rath, and Lara. “I’m thinking that the two of you can do great things with flame and dust, just be sure not to set the whole quarter on fire, alright? You’ll be taking Francine with you, too. Follow her lead and get everyone to safety.”

At that, the good doctor just cocks her eyebrow at you, amused at the implication of her being your choice of leader. In any case Rath doesn’t argue, settling to give you a smirk and a high-five as she leads Lara to the tavern’s exit, with Francine giving you an ungloved thumbs-up just before the door shuts behind the unlikely trio.

Left with Holly, Amara, and the latter’s faithful Sir FuzzBuzz hovering by her side, your hive begins to ache with the effort of creation.

“Alright you two.” You say to those remaining, wincing as a series of Jacklings begin to squirm forth from your spine and take flight, filling the air with their silently hovering forms. “Ready?”

Amara’s blade sharply clicks shut, and Holly’s stomach splits into a wicked vertical grin, matching the horizontal one on her excited face.

As if you really had to ask.

Throwing open the doors of the Town Hall, over fifty Swarmlings explode forth, their glossy black shells reflecting the scarlet light of the false sky above. You and Holly flank Amara, the two of you clad head-to-toe in the sleek green-black armor of the Chitinous Stalwart while the girl between you holds her ivory sheath at the ready. Townspeople scramble back and forth, casting a few furtive glances your way as their pace begins to slow, and once you reach the bottom of the calcite steps, their collective gaze falls.

When you meet their eyes, watching their expressions go from fear, to recognition, to awe…you realize.

They know you.

They trust you.

So here goes everything.

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>>3952202

“Haha! I’m the merc with the mouth! Get it?” Holly jokes quietly, pointing at the grinning line of vertical teeth that stretch along the length of her torso and trying to lighten the oppressive atmosphere’s that’s settled along the mainstreet. Amara stifles a laugh, even as the three of you make haste through the Northern Quarter, a host of your swarmlings and a quartet of Amara’s Joyous Many serving as your vanguard into the unknown.

“We need to focus. We know numbers, but that’s only half the battle.” You urge, vigilantly sweeping the streets with your omnipresent gaze as you round a gentle curve in the immaculate street. “We’re going in blind as far as the Hunger-mad’s capabilities, so…”

“It’ll be alright! We’ll make this quick, then we…uh…” Holly trails off, helm tilted forwards as she notices the sight that’s given you and Amara cause to stop in your tracks. “…what the heck *is* that?”

The street ahead of you is wrong. Your scouts showed pristine calcite avenues and alleys only moments before, but now that’s you’re almost upon them you find the architecture choked with the stench of rot and decay, the well-maintained walls sloughing off layer upon layer of their previously hardened flesh, now liquefied and plopping to the streets just below them. The calcite’s hardly better, the ground at your feet struggling to maintain its rigidity even as it buckles and warps under the influence of something that remains a dangerous unknown.

A pair of screams from nearby cut through the chaotic din that engulfs the whole of Laoc, and your vision shifts to the swarmling closest to the source. Through the compound eyes of your creation, you see them; a woman with a young child held tight in her arms, scrambling on unstable legs to escape their dogged pursuer. The hunter’s a ragged-looking young woman propelled after her prey by over a dozen jagged limbs of blackened bone, the Calcite Armorer’s spikes holding their creator aloft as she cackle incessantly after the terrified woman and the bawling child she’s trying to save. Your breath hitches when the woman trips, her bare and bloodied feet practically ripped out from beneath her as she screams, having been caught on the carpet of obsidian thorns that have erupted from the street that would have been her salvation.

You move, lunging forwards until Holly’s tongue yanks you back with rib-crushing force just as the main street begins to bubble and froth, suddenly shifting into a grotesque path of foul-smelling sores that blister into open wounds within seconds when the rot advances towards you with alarming speed.

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>>3952204

Amara’s hand is on her blade as you steady yourself in time to witness the source of the infection stagger from the side street a few meters ahead of you. The teen’s ragged clothes hang off her waning frame, the vast majority of the skin on her left side little more than a tremulous shroud of reddened, rotting flesh. Open sores appear and disappear all along her constantly decaying body, while empty sockets endlessly weep a thick red jelly from the voids in her skull.

“…Healthy.” She coughs, as though her lungs are filled with viscous fluid. “S’all healthy. Why can’t I…why am I…?”

A begging, pleading scream from the next street over causes your heart to clench in your chest, the insane Armorer almost upon her hapless prey while your path forward is blocked by a living infection. The diseased girl steps forward, forcing you and your team to take one back as the infection surges forwards, urged onwards by its source’s unsteady gait. For a single, fleeting moment, you’re frozen in place.

And then…

…you MOVE.

Shu the Defiant, Hunter of Gods

vs.

>>FOETID FASCIITIS

&

>>ONYX BUTCHER


HP: 1620% (+325% [Dominus: Untethered])
BIO: 1940% (+270%, 8x Sneak-Jacklings, 3x Double-Stealthlings, 4x Sneak-Rooks, 10x Recursive-Rook-Platelings, 1x Spriteling, 3x Bishop, 25x Banelings, 54/54. Matrons, Whistle: OMA SUTH. Armored)
CONTENDER: Gemini Maxims. 3x Honey, 3x Fullbore
RAVENOUS MAW: Primed.
HUNDRED-HANDED: None.
ACT: 3/3

AMARA: 1490% (+230%. Vocem[Suth:FREE], Cloaked. HUNTER’S HONOR: 5 Charges)
HOLLY: 2,480% (RESIST: Heat, Cold. IMMUNE: Acid. Uzi(x2 Mags of Heat, Frost, Acid, and Radiant, BISHOP: Untriggered. Armored)

THREAT: Butcher advancing on two low-level Daughters, medium distance to your left and one street over. No line of sight. Fasciitis is advancing upon you, pushing ??? your way. Medium range, line of sight established.

THREATS REMAINING: N:7 [2 Engaged, 5 Unknown], E:9, S:8, W6

YOU ARE IN CONTROL

(Gentlemen, voting shall remain open for the next three hours. I do hope your day is going well.)

>>3952206
Wait, so is the idea to have Gina do a city wide stun not viable? Because if so, if have liked to know as id have set her on a different task then.

>>3952206
Saving the daughters should be a priority.

>Shu propels herslef up using her Hundre handed ability and gets the terrified dauhgters with the same ability once she has established line of sight.

>Unload the Contender into the Onyx Butcher to trap her whiel we deal with the Fasciitis

>Available Banelings rush the Fasciitis to try and kill her if they ares startign to ebcome corrupted via exposire to her let them detonate before they become unusable
>Amara casts CUNT GRAH SUTH to impede the enemy in front of us while the Onyx Butcher has to get to us.

>Activate Queen Crimson to defend the two low level daughters from the enemy


>Holly goes in for maybe a quick bite i am not sure what her other powerset is aside form her core and hold teh enemy at bay until the swarm we have can deal with them

>>3952208

(Apologies, it did go off, though some passed the save or were immune. The current status is as follows;)

THREATS REMAINING: N:7 [2 Engaged, 5 Unknown], E:9, S:8, W6

North: 4 Targets stunned, 3 Active

East: 6 Targets Stunned, 3 Active

South: 4 Targets Stunned, 4 Active

West: 2 Targets Stunned, 4 Active

(Thus, your plan has practically cut the number of active threats in half.)

Right, let's do some analysis.

>>3952204
>Onyx Butcher
Calcite Armorer, obviously, with some sort of Augment that I'd guess refines the edges of her bone blades. Obsidian sharpness, that sort of thing. Calcite abilities focused on generating articulated bone-limbs, expect flexible attacks at unexpected angles. Some degree of terrain manipulation, generating caltrops to impede ground-level mobility. Not aware of Shu and party, surprise attack possible.

Currently bearing down on two noncombatants. Prioritize rescue.

>>3952206
>Foetid Fasciitis.
Class uncertain, given themes of disease and comments on being healthy I'd expect some sort of highly-derived Vitruvian power. Be prepared for Vitruvian-style defenses, if so. Likely to be able to inflict status effects and damage over time thanks to infections. Currently infecting fleshscape, creating terrain obstacle that at minimum will harm mobility thanks to gooeyness. Aware of Shu, currently attacking.

>>3952206
Orders;

SHU and AMARA CLONES;
>Have what clones are close by bide their time.
>Have one of the areas Jacklings stab the ground, to try and give you the rotting girls location if she tries to dive underground.
>send forth the first wave of Swarmlings as a distraction and to test this girls abilities, quickly replacing them with a wave of banelings. See if you cant melt the rot away with acid, and if not the acid, the fire damage it now gives off.
>Fire off the Honey maxim into the rotting girl, see if you cant pin her down or at least slow her down.
>Have the Nearby Clones cast RHO CUNT and RHO 'Terrain radiant' if fire damage does the trick.
>If the Honey rounds work, fire the Fullbore Maxims into her.
>Keep back for now. You need to end this quickly but a terrain controller like her is nothing to take lightly.

AMARA, HOLLY, and FUZZBUZZ;
>use swarmlings to slingshot both of you up and over the rotting mess to get to the other fight. Neither of you are suited to fighting a blob of rot anyways.
>Put yourselves between it and the Butcher. Have Holly disteact it with swings and grapples of her tongue, to give Amara an opening with her swords unsheathing bonus.
>Have Amara Activate Queen Crimson.
>Add a blast from Oxygenic artillery to Amaras lunge to add some speed to her unsheathing attack.

>>3952220
Ignoring the rotting girl is a bad idea, we dont need to box ourselves in here.

>>3952222
Alright, thanks.

>>3952224
Fasciitis is aggro'd to Shu, that leaves Holly, Amara, and 4 clones open and active.
>>3952222
>North: 4 Targets stunned, 3 Active
That means Bone Butcher and Foetid Fasciitis are 2/3 of the active threats.

>>3952229
We can have Amara cast "Rev Ter" to halt the bubbling terrain effects and make it passible.

>>3952228
We can't afford to hold back. We need to take out Foetid and rescue two daughters.

>>3952229
was >>3952138
getting pizza BTW.

>>3952231
dont think that would be necessary? it didnt seem to be anywhere near as bad over where they were, and Im unsure she would have the Acts for it.

also im not holding back, im just not having Shu rush forward against an opponent that possibly has an aura of rot everything. we may need to go quick but it would be stupid to underestimate our enemies either. we cant save anyone if we get ourselves killed, and terrain controllers like her can be very deadly. it sucks be having Shu hold back and test her defenses and what will work very easily could let us kill her faster, over rushing forward without knowing what she can do and getting ourselves seriously outplayed or injured.

>>3952229
We need to get the two daughters out of dodge and under our protectzin. They are prone already they are really close to dying and or breaking. the quickjest way for us to do that would be by catpultign shu up using hundred handed and getting them back to us while pinning the butcher. SO then we can go all out on the rotting girl

and the clones should make more clones if they can we can always use more clones

i thikn the rotting girl will be bad news for our honey so i would advice agaisntz it the butcher would at least take a round to get out of them so we can actualy take care of them without the butcher or the rotting girl following us.

Splitting up even more is a bad idea though i like the idea of using the jacklings to determine where the girl is

>>3952237
no, if we dont hold off the rotting girl and keep her separate they are dead anyways. Using her Tongue and Swarmlings Holly can easily get over there with Amara, and unlike Shu neither of them have any way to fight the rotting girl, while Shu has much better methods to do so.

we also already split up and are only like going one street down. Shu will also have some clones probably near her. we cannot afford to not take both threats into account, and Shu is the only one with a clearly viable method to fight the Rotting Girl. we'll see on the honey but even if it only helps for a second it will be useful and we wont know until we test it out.

>>3952231
>>3952235
actually wait, Vocem gives and extra Act so Amara should be ok for that spell.

>>3952206
SHU and HOLLY
>Bungee-tongue up to roofs on our left, carrying Amara.

SHU
>Fire three Ravenous Parabellums and three Attract-mode B.33s into Fasciitis.
>Attach Dominus Bloodline to Holly, to grant regen.
>Bombard Fasciitis with Banelings, seeking to set on fire or corrode flesh with acid.

AMARA
>Clear terrain effects with OMA SUTH TER, removing caltrops and foetid ground.
>Have clones activate Queen Crimson and Oxygenic Artillery, fire upon Fasciitis to knock back and cause damage.
>Aim thrust from Artillery to land clones one street to the left, drawing Butcher's attention both from the sound of the Artillery and the sudden appearance of the clones.

SHU and HOLLY
>Upon Butcher being distracted, use bungee-tongues to grab civilians with Impulsive Swallow, bring them up to roof where they will be safer.

SHU
>Attach second Dominus Bloodline to Butcher.
>Fire full clip of Honey-mode B.33s into Butcher.

AMARA
>Use remaining ACTs for OMA RHO CUNT to impede movement of foes.

How does this look? Foes appear to be close-ranged from current knowledge of them, so I'm trying to keep everyone at a distance and preferrably off the ground. Everyone who isn't one of the Many, anyway.

>>3952240
I think we could use Neuromancy to deal with the Fasciitis. With Dominion Tethers combined with the Dominus Bloodline and Halo in Isolation mode, we could Dominate the Foetid and then go for a Coup- de grace.

Issue is that Foetid's main gimmick is rotting everything with advanced necrosis. Elemental attacks could do the trick and bypass the fact that all bio-equipment rots within close range. in fact...

>>3952246
Do you think we can have Amara enhance our attacks with Radiant Damage? She's got NUKA in her library.

>>3952246
Looks much bettter than the other attempt.

maybe have two clones move up and activate queen crimson and the other hang back?

Just in case the enemy has an AOE move they could use against the clones. We dont want to risk loosing all or most of them.

>>3952246
it might nto be terrain effects,so that may be a waste of a spell, hence me aiming for Amara to turn the enemies terrain into an attack, as that wont depend on an unknown.

i still think Shu should focus the rotting Girl alone, i think Holly and Amara can deal with the other and only Shu can really attack her anyways. Shu should stand her ground to keep the thing more distracted, if she runs off with Amara and Holly it will just cause issues i think with keeping too many enemies in one area.

you and the other anon are under utilizing our numbers heavily and how dangerous it would be for the others if the Rotting Girl isnt kept distracted by a full on enemy before her.

>>3952250
maybe, but the fact she isnt stunned already makes Neuromancy an iffy option.

>>3952257
Point. What's your opinion on imbuing Radiant Damage into Shu's attacks? If Rot-girl has an AOE that melts flesh, bone, and relics, she would theoretically be vulnerable to elemental attacks.

>>3952250
>Do you think we can have Amara enhance our attacks with Radiant Damage? She's got NUKA in her library.
Maybe. I'm not sure Fasciitis is weak to it, though. I can see the logic, radiosurgery to burn out an infection, but let's see how she fights first before we make that call.

>>3952251
Oh, they're not attacking with Queen Crimson, not getting into close range. They're activating it for the sake of level 6's effect that boosts damage and critical chance of ranged attacks.

>>3952257
If you're worried about it not counting as a terrain effect I'd be fine with changing the spell Amara casts. I definitely think we need to get Shu up onto the roof with Holly, though. I want two bungee-tongues ready to grab the civilians, just in case they've been separated and the woman is no longer hold the child. I agree that Fasciitis is potentially very deadly, but that's why I'm getting everyone out of her reach. Up on the roof away from her aura, with the Oxygenic Artillery attacks blasting her away while we burn that infection out.

>>3952228
>>3952206
Second Draft;

SHU and AMARA CLONES;
>Dominus the Rotting Girl and Holly.
>Have one of the areas Jacklings stab the ground, to try and give you the rotting girls location if she tries to dive underground.
>send forth the first wave of Swarmlings as a distraction and to test this girls abilities, quickly replacing them with a wave of banelings. See if you cant melt the rot away with acid, and if not the acid, the fire damage it now gives off.
>Fire off the Honey maxim into the rotting girl, see if you cant pin her down or at least slow her down.
>Have the Nearby Clones cast RHO CUNT and RHO TER NUKA if fire damage does the trick.
>If the Honey rounds work, fire the Fullbore Maxims into her.
>Keep out of the rotting zone. You need to keep her attention on you buy you cant risk getting infected.

AMARA, HOLLY, and FUZZBUZZ;
>use swarmlings and Hollys Tongue to slingshot both of you up and over the rotting mess to get to the other fight. Neither of you are suited to fighting a blob of rot anyways.
>Have Amara cast TER SUTH to give a clean landing zone.
>Put yourselves between the downed girls and the Butcher. Have Holly distract it with swings and grapples of her tongue, to give Amara an opening with her swords unsheathing bonus.
>Have Amara Activate Queen Crimson.
>Add a blast from Oxygenic artillery to Amaras lunge to add some speed to her unsheathing attack.

>>3952262
well, im hoping the clones can turn the terrain into a Radiant attack, but id hope the acid and/or heat damage will be enough, and am unsure its worth the ACTS to imbue her attacks with it over going for more direct damage, given the Radiant Terrain attack could possibly more easily burn away the rot if it works.

>>3952263
I disagree with pull Shu away instead of her acting as a heavier distraction, and i think Oxygenic has too limited a range for that, aswell as my earlier statements Amara and Holly can do more good focusing on the Butcher. we also dont actually know how many Clones we have to play around with, as their job was not specifically to stay near us.

>>3952263
Ah okay i thought they were geting ther to interpose themselves between the enemy and the two girls my mistake.

>>3952265
I think you are still ignorinn the fact the Butcher is almost upon the two dauhgters and will kill them unless we provide a very good distarction pretty much immediatly.

Sure ignoring the rotting girl is not a good idea but we could have Shu attaack her with a barrage of cosntruct arms to try and deal with her without geting infected, while getting the other girls out of dodge and away form the butcher as well.

Holly and Amara could even take them of our hands(Read intercept them in the air and let them down on the rooftops outside of the firect reach and line of sight of the butcher) when they go over there.

>>3952276
no, im not, hence having TWO character throw themselves at the Butcher and putting themselves intbetween it and the others.

like, its almost like two entire characters orders are based around that fact or something.

>>3952270
>and i think Oxygenic has too limited a range for that
Huh. You know, I've been assuming it's a ranged attack because Isabel used it as one, but it doesn't actually state the range. Maybe it doesn't get ranged capability until a higher level.

Hey, BHOP >>3952206, can you clarify on Oxygenic Artillery's range?

>aswell as my earlier statements Amara and Holly can do more good focusing on the Butcher
My priority is getting those two Daughters out of the fight. I don't want to just put Holly and Amara in between them and Butcher, I'd like to evacuate them to a safer position. Butcher's got all these weird branching spikes, I'm worried that would count as AoE and do harm to the civilians.

>we also dont actually know how many Clones we have to play around with, as their job was not specifically to stay near us.
I think they're still pretty close to us, they were described as our vanguard. I suppose they could have moved on, though, it is a bit ambiguous. Another thing to ask BHOP, then.

>>3952280
the civilians can get themselves away if we give them the opportunity, we'll do them more good taking the heat off them and trying to get RID OF the Butcher of just playing 'juggle the civilians'. you also have to remember we need this fight done NOW. we need them to engage and kill the Butcher NOW, not in one turn after we get people who can do their own thing away. they will do everyone better outright damaging the butcher and focusing on simply brute forcing it back and maybe even hurt it badly, over wasting time and ACTs only focusing on helping the Civilians. every second we're here others could be dying. at some point, those we're rescuing have to have a bit of self autonomy or this will literally never work, we cant keep getting them out of harms way while also trying to kill things we dont have time to waste turns on.

>>3952280
also id think the Oxygenic is close-to-medium, im just not sure medium will be long enough here either. plus, i want her to focus her ACTs on the Butcher.

>>3952280
(Oxygeneic artillery has a medium range, though like most cone-type attacks it's most potent at close range, with medium range having decreased power and long range being practically nothing...though this can certainly be mitigated at later levels, as you saw when B'ni used it's stronger form and it was catastrophically powerful.)

(Also, the four clones you sent to the Northern Quarter are within long range, and can return to you by the middle or end of the next round depending on their rolls and if they can successfully navigate the Daughters they’re helping to safety.)

>>3952207
>>3952290
BHOP, would THA TER basically make a piece of terrain warp to be beneficial to your allies?

>>3952290
>>3952280
>>3952276
>>3952262
id honestly prefer for the Clones to keep helping whatever Daughters they are myself, was kinda the point of them.

>>3952290
>>3952291
oh, sorry, meant TER THA here.

>>3952295
If Amara is cloaked, wouldn't it be better to hit the Butcher with an Oxygenic Artillery at point blank range?

>>3952297
>>3952291
(Yes, it would. While the exact nature of the benefit is somewhat random, it's guaranteed to be helpful in some way.)

>>3952298
dont think so. i think the unsheathing bonus would still do significantly more damage. it also keeps it in the killzone, while Oxygenic might do less damage and push it out of reach, which both i want after it are melee fighters.

>>3952285
You're right that we need speed, I'm still just worried for these two. The mother(?) is injured, specifically via caltrops, she's going to have trouble walking. As for taking Butcher out fast, I'm just not sure a single Hunter's Honor strike will do enough damage. I think this is going to take at least two turns no matter what we do. But hey, maybe I'm wrong and she's not that durable, that would be nice.

>>3952290
Ah, alright then, that idea is busted. Didn't realize they were already off and helping other Daughters. That's a good thing they're doing, I'm not going to draw them back from that. And if Fasciitis is not getting blasted back then we need to do something else to handle her. I guess having Shu focus on her is the right thing to do, then.

>>3952206
I think i will amend my vote from>>3952220 to this

HOLLY
>Bungee-tongue over the roofs on our left, carrying Amara.
>Get in the butchers face by using your tounge to fling yourself through their defenses

SHU
>Fire three Honey rounds into the Rotting girl.
>Attach Dominus Bloodline to Holly to grant regen and over the swarmling to the Butcher. We can safely drain her regen
>Bombard Fasciitis with Banelings, seeking to set on fire or corrode flesh with acid.
>Stay out of the rotten zone by utilising your tounge movement

AMARA
>Clear terrain effects with TER THA, to make the groudn benefical to you and allies instead of dangerous
>Activate Queen Crimson to improve the damage of the ranged attacks
>Get in there after Holly made an opening by distractign the butcher to swing in with your blade
>Use remaining ACTs for GRA RHO CUNT to impede movement of foes greatly making it easier ot target them and more difficult for them to land a hit.

Keep clones back and have them start replicating as soon as they can to help out the people that need helping towards the town center

>>3952300
great, thanks.

>>3952303
a x5 Unsheathing bonus on top of whatever Holly manages to do will easily cut the amount of turns here down though, guarantee it. and will still cut them down more than not attacking her here will do. i Also disagree, in the sense if we keep the Butcher busy i think they'll be more than fine, walking or crawling away.

ill compromise and have Shu move to a higher vantage point though, but i still want her in a different location than Holy and Amara to draw the Rot Girl further away from them. getting the rot away from them and the downed girl certainly will help more than drawing it towards them.

>>3952265
>>3952206
third Draft;

SHU;
>Dominus the Rotting Girl and Holly.
>Have one of the areas Jacklings stab the ground, to try and give you the rotting girls location if she tries to dive underground.
>send forth the first wave of Banelings as a distraction and to test this girls abilities, quickly replacing them with a second as you can. See if you cant melt the rot away with acid, and if not the acid, the fire damage it now gives off.
>Fire off the Honey maxim into the rotting girl, see if you cant pin her down or at least slow her down.
>If the Honey rounds work, fire the Fullbore Maxims into her.
>Keep out of the rotting zone, get to higher ground, but make sure the rot Girl stays focused on you. You need to keep her attention on you but you cant risk getting infected.

AMARA, HOLLY, and FUZZBUZZ;
>use swarmlings and Hollys Tongue to slingshot both of you up and over the rotting mess to get to the other fight. Neither of you are suited to fighting a blob of rot anyways.
>Have Amara cast GRA TER THA to give a clean landing zone.
>Put yourselves between the downed girls and the Butcher. Have Holly distract it with swings and grapples of her tongue, to give Amara an opening with her swords unsheathing bonus.
>Have Amara Activate Queen Crimson.
>Add a blast from Oxygenic artillery to Amaras lunge to add some speed to her unsheathing attack.

>>3952206
Gina:
>Maintain Stun
>Pin active Daughters with Terraforming if possible via impalement.

>>3952310
>a x5 Unsheathing bonus on top of whatever Holly manages to do will easily cut the amount of turns here down though, guarantee it. and will still cut them down more than not attacking her here will do.
Sure, it will cut it down. But I think my plan would have done pretty well, too, prioritize getting rid of Fasciitis while getting Butcher's victims out of the way, then focus fire on Butcher once Fasciitis was down. But the clone Artillery barrage doesn't appear to be viable, so let's just scrap that plan. Whatever, move on.

As for the current plan, I'd like to propose that we split the B.33s between Honey and Swarm rounds, not all Honey. Swarm will boost the damage the banelings do to her. We only actually need one Honey round to get her trapped in a big ball of honey like Pooh Bear. We should fire more than one, for the sake of spray-and-pray, so how about three and three? Triple the chance for the honey ball, and if the Swarm rounds land the Banelings will do up to 33% extra damage.

>>3952316
Can we have SIR FuzzBuzz Ferry the two daughters away? iirc, Sir FuzzBuzz is a knight-class Swarmling.

>>3952331
im not sure we can actively switch if its honey or Swarm round, so it being pre-loaded it might be too late.

if so, fair we can switch two over i suppose, im just not sure we can. my thought was if the rot slowly eats away at the honey extra honey will help mitigate that. Im also hoping the fullbores being instant damage will do a hefty blow, and again, are already loaded in.

>>3952334
he is a x4 Knighted-Nomling yes. however, the entire downside to the heart is we have no control over him.

>>3952334
Huh, now there's an idea. He is about the same size as Amara, he could at least take some of their weight and make it easier for the mother to hobble away. Yes. I like that. Assuming we can convince him to leave Amara to help protect another little girl, of course. That's going to be the hard part.

>>3952207
also BHOP, im unsure if it was a mistake or something else, but we switched from just giving Holly a Spriteling to making her Chitinous set all Spriteling based. was that not viable?

>>3952344
(No, that's totally viable. You'll see the correction on the next update. )

>>3952347
oh, ok cool.
also, is the Swarm/Honey modes for the BB set in stone or more like a switch?

>>3952353
(It's more like a switch, if I recall correctly. I'm away from my notes at the moment, I'm afraid.)

>>3952412
alright, thanks.

>>3952316
>>3952206
Fourth Draft;

SHU;
>Dominus the Rotting Girl and Holly.
>Have one of the areas Jacklings stab the ground, to try and give you the rotting girls location if she tries to dive underground.
>send forth the first wave of Banelings as a distraction and to test this girls abilities, quickly replacing them with a second as you can. See if you cant melt the rot away with acid, and if not the acid, the fire damage it now gives off.
>Fire off the Honey maxim into the rotting girl, see if you cant pin her down or at least slow her down. Dont go full Dakka, see if the honey works, and if it does, switch to Swarm rounds, otherwise if its at least slowing her down keep up the honey.
>If the Honey rounds work, fire the Fullbore Maxims into her.
>Keep out of the rotting zone, get to higher ground, but make sure the rot Girl stays focused on you. You need to keep her attention on you but you cant risk getting infected.

AMARA, HOLLY, and FUZZBUZZ;
>use swarmlings and Hollys Tongue to slingshot both of you up and over the rotting mess to get to the other fight. Neither of you are suited to fighting a blob of rot anyways.
>Have Amara cast GRA TER THA to give a clean landing zone.
>Put yourselves between the downed girls and the Butcher. Have Holly distract it with swings and grapples of her tongue, to give Amara an opening with her swords unsheathing bonus.
>Have Amara Activate Queen Crimson.
>Add a blast from Oxygenic artillery to Amaras lunge to add some speed to her unsheathing attack.

(Gentlemen, I'll be leaving voting open for another hour as I wrap a busy workday, so if you haven't voted yet, please do so now.)

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>>3952532
hope work wasn't too brutal BHOP.

>>3952554
(It was busy, but the good kind. Given the sheer amount of actors in play in the current combat, then there's a lot more moving pieces than usual.)

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>>3952554
>>3952532

>>3952532
I don't think I've updated my vote, might as well formalize it. Supporting >>3952422

You know, thinking about it, I feel bad for Fasciitis. For all the Hunger-mad Daughters, of course, they didn't ask to turn into monsters. But she seems less aggressive than lashing out in fear. She's probably a Vitruvian, she hasn't personally experienced the body horror that other Daughters do, and then her flesh starts rotting off her bones. And now we're going to come along and start burrowing insects into her flesh, furthering the "living corpse" imagery. Not going to be a good experience. I know she can't be talked down, the Hunger has her permanently locked into a fear state, but I still feel some sympathy for her. Let's hope there's enough of her corpse to recover past the decay and damage we'll inflict that someone can eat her and give her a nice Dreamscape to live in.

>>3952565
>giving her a nice dreamscape to live in
that requires consuming one of her abilities for a chance or her core ability for a guaranteed invitation.
Granted we can always melt down the core for stats in an engine and reconfigure if we find a good hybrid combination.

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>>3952560
i split between 'but why?' and 'ive seen better pictures for that before.'

>>3952557
oh, i thought you meant actual job work, not game work.

>>3952565
actually, she does seem oddly lucid, but then again, Holly wasn't totally mentally gone either, and it was clear she couldn't be saved, and Uzu had some clarity, though that was from death clarity i think. Niku fought back physically too, but i think that had to do with her not being the one in control, and more like a phantasmal construct sorta i think.

still, point is, the Hunger is a fucking nightmare where you're half lucid but still cant stop yourself from hurting people infront of you it seems, or at least for some.

>>3952581
melting for stats is never a bad thing, but we can handle the consuming issue later. might have to hook the Appetites up to the tower or something so people can save what friends they can... we'll see.

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>>3952592
Oh the Saryn Warframe.

>>3952581
Well I didn't mean us, necessarily. Maybe she has friends or family here in Laoc who would want to take her in. Though if we did consume her, I'd have no problem with just grabbing her Core just for stats and preserving her mind. It would only be a single level per Daughter in exchange for big stat gains, I think that's an acceptable trade-off for not putting that level into our main abilities.

>>3952592
>still, point is, the Hunger is a fucking nightmare where you're half lucid but still cant stop yourself from hurting people infront of you it seems, or at least for some.
Yep. The ones who go full berserk or turn into sadistic monsters I don't have an issue with killing. They're too far gone for sympathy, turning them into Dream Daughters is undeniably the best thing to do. But the ones that have some awareness of what's happened to them are horrifying.

>>3952592
(Oh, I was referring to actual work with the first part, apologies for the confusion.)

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>>3952598
i think the girls getting a bit too friendly with her construct there...

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>>3952608
She might be that way because it might be her boyfriend piloting that snake construct

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>>3952608
girls with sharp teeth.

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>>3952614
how would that work? I know BHOP said some girls find their husbands and such as Amalgams but i dont think he has said or we have seen proof of their minds being salvageable.

bet any Daughter who could do that though would have one hell of a good business opportunity.
>'for only ten, yes ten levels ill tears your husband outta that nasty Amalgam body and shove him inta whatever you want! eachadditionalfetishaddedcostsoneextralevelafterthethridnotresponsibleforanyrelationshipissuesorinstanitythisallmaycause!"

>>3952630
Maybe it was someone she hooked up with post-Crucible. A glitch like Carter or a transman like Dorian. And then they died and she consumed them and now lets them pilot her constructs.

>>3952630
(There's a Phantasmal Conduit/Neuromancer Hybrid out there currently that running this exact business.)

>>3952640
Well shit, let's hunt her down. Sounds like she'd be very helpful in engenerating the stored minds after we hack the Cord.

>>3952640
>>3952630
A damn shame that daughter didn't visit Cradleton.

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>>3952639
maybe, but both are pretty rare for that.

>>3952640
oh, well ok then. Im a bit unsure how to take that. wait, even the fetish part?!

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>>3952650
do we really want to go down that tangent?

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>>3952651
no, but we have before. for worse, definitely for worse that we have. but still, hasn't stopped us before.

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>>3952657

>>3952650
(No, not the fetish part...but don't give her any ideas.)

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>>3952732
..ignoring the more awkward applications of that line of thought, that does bring up some odd ideas for some martial arguments and issues...

>"What do you MEAN you turned down the promotion because it required hybridizing your Neuromancy with Skintalker abilities!? i do NOT slave over a radiant oven just for you to keep us in a two bedroom house!"
>*Husband slams down fists.* "LOOK WOMAN, ive already told you, im am just NOT comfortable with those kinda abilities! Aint having that be a part of me, especially cause I know th type of folks who have access to that damn skinternet or whatever. damn people like kevin down the street, fuck kevin."
>"OH, maybe i just will! least he apparently has the makings of a CEO, unlike SOME PEOPLE!"

and this is how Amaras are made.

>>3952745
welp. somethings are constant in all civilization. Domestic arguments and family drama are one of them.

>"Mommy goes to Kevin's house every Wednesday!"
>"...Honey, I want to cut the Cord."

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>>3952753
...huh, i do wonder how the 'crimson cord' like connection will affect marriage(and friendships, seeing as how its any connection that can make such a thing.). seeing as how its in part time based, would it be a thing where you are encouraged not to get married til one forms you think?

cutting it would absolutely be part of the divorce process though yeah.

oh god, i just had a fucking HORRIBLE thought.
>Be technical Construct.
>But basically an individual.
>made from mommy and daddy working together as a symbol of their love.
>...now they dont love eachother anymore and are are afraid about what 'each getting half of you' means...

>>3952762
Divorce Court apparently is a VERY messy process and not one to be taken lightly.

It also somewhat highlights the problems the Hexane had to face in their civilization before they did the arduous process of making a global empathy/telepathy network which Ironically made their civ progress stagnate.

>>3952772
helps them though that their relationships were much less permanent due to the lack of offspring from said relationships.

though maybe literally emotion melding took the place of that or something, so splitting up left you both cutting off a very intimate connection or something.

>>3952776
I still say that their reproductive strategy makes no sense. No way that's a natural trait, they had to have reproduced some other way in the past. Something their ancestors decided would disrupt their empathy network and so removed from the species.

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>>3952796
maybe, but there are both creatures on earth who at least have that option, and they are technically plant based, and i think some plants can do similar too.

mind you, talking alien plant here. alien plant that became basically an animal for all intents and purposes. so. something.

>>3952805
>"Oh! sweet outfit! where'ja get it? did you make it from your core?"
>"Please, I just need some decent clothes!"
>"Ooh! an Amalgam hunter! Whadidja hunt?"
>"Just get me a decent shirt and pants! PLEASE! I'm tired walking around in fish guts and yanking squid tentacles out of-" *sigh*

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>>3952814
two kinds of people i suppose...

>>3952805
Oh, sure, I believe that they're naturally capable of parthenogenesis. What I don't believe is that parthenogenesis is naturally preferred method of reproduction. Because the Hexane only produce one offspring in their entire life, maybe two if they're very lucky. It's no way to build a population, that just doesn't work. In earthly life that's capable of parthenogensis it's used mostly as a last-ditch method if normal fertilization is not available. I assume that's why the Hexane evolved it, and the modifications made to them have sterilized their normal reproductive abilities.

>>3952823
or maybe the need a species middle man to transfer the pollen back in the old days.

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>>3952823
well, the one offspring thing is cultural though, right? nothing says they can only have one, as far as i can remember. its just cultural they dont have a kid til they are ready to off themselves, i dont think anything biologically is saying they could not continue to live after making said offspring or that they could not make more than one in their life.

>>3952828
I got the sense from Silvis' description of it that it was biological, not cultural, but maybe it was. That they could produce more budlings earlier in life but didn't anymore thanks to cultural conditioning. That is possible. I still feel fairly certain that they had to have some means of reproduction that shared genetic information, though. They have a pair bonding instinct, you don't have that if you don't mate.

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>>3952891
maybe. but ill admit im no expert on alien plant humanoids that for some reason look like angular carved stone.

>>3952895
Well, their planet had two suns, so maybe it's an exoskeleton to protect against the heat?

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>>3952904
oh, im sure there is an explanation, im just pointing out how utterly bizarre they are as a species is all. honestly their odd affinity with Hexagons, while not impossible for nature, still feels a bit... 'tindalosy', if that makes sense. like, not that they are related to said doggos, but they have something odd like they are going on in their development.

>>3952904
More like an exoskeleton to keep the water in. High winds, two suns, lots of wind, a civ that builds its infrastructure underground, making solar panels and wind turbines while the rest of the plant people live in cool damp (and most importantly moist) areas with water.
Their bodies adapted to the harsh surface climates first, then they discovered the natural cave systems of their planet and then evolved from there.

>>3952909
Well that's what I meant, I guess. Prevent water loss from the heat, not protect against heat directly. There's a plant called the stonebud that I was thinking of, a type of desert succulent that looks like a stone because of its tough outer skin holding in water.

(Posting now, Gentlemen.)

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>>3952206

The Dominus Leash finds two targets in Holly and Fasciitis, and the instant your bubbly companion throws an arm around Amara’s waist a half-dozen of your Banelings surge forth, obscuring the rotting girls’ vision and allowing your allies to slingshot over towards your real target. You’re disappointed but not surprised when the first barrage converges on their prey only for their shells to dull, then melt into bubbling piles of biomass that collapse at the girl’s feet as the acid does nothing to her bare legs.

She’s less confident of her footing when the acid catches fire, dark green flames rapidly spreading throughout her field of corrupted terrain as Holly and Amara disappear, having vaulted to the next street over and leaving you with the rotting girl before you. Another step, and she falters as the flames start to gout billowing, noxious smoke into the sky. It's thick, but not enough to throw off your shot as you send a pair of B.33 rounds burrowing into Fasciitis' chest.

You can feel them through your connection, drilling into her stomach until...they're gone, rotted to nothing and instead absorbed as fuel for the girl's alarmingly durable form. The flames continue to crack and blacken the seething biomass, but despite the obvious damage she’s taking she continues to advance past the remains of your second swarm of Banelings even as a sudden melee erupts from the next street over.

“GRA TER THA!” Amara roars, her enhanced command shuddering the streets and prompting a frustrated howl of fury from the unseen Butcher, almost making you miss when Fasciitis attempts to dive into the corrupted ground at their feet to extinguish the flames and doubtless sneak in a strike.

Relief isn't so forthcoming, thanks to your foresight.

Your Jackling's powers flare to life, causing the biomass just below the infected surface to resist the rotting girl's attempt to dive, and she looses a gurgling scream of irritation as the flames continue to spread...

...and then you hear the strangest thing.

A sneeze of a volume more akin to a clap of thunder, and then it's as if the sound itself is cut short by the whistle of blade on sheath. You can't see it, but as the air a few meters away from you sizzles with a perfectly-placed stroke, everything else falls away when you hear Amara's blade snap back to its sheath, followed by the shattering of obsidian remains on the unforgiving pavement.

>>HUNTER'S HONOR - CRITICAL BLOW

>>ONYX BUTCHER - ELIMINATED

[...Did she just]

"Yeah. I...fuck. Yeah, just...fuck, holy shit." Holly answers across the empathic channel, her voice filled with a healthy mix of awe and fear. "Anyway, I'm, uh...I'm gonna help this mom and kid out, Amara's on her way to you now!"

{You wanna hear some bullshit?!}

Gina’s voice suddenly lances through your mind, her unrestrained fury readily apparent in her tone. {Some dickbag out there’s breaking my goddamn stuns in the Eastern Quarter}

(Continued)

>>3952942

“Two! Two bags of dicks!” Amara declares suddenly, cutting across your channel with a blurt of static. “There’s two Daughters messing with the Hungry people!”

{Wait, like...*sane* Daughters?} Gina asks incredulously, and Amara sends a flicker of affirmation as she ushers the woman and child to safety alongside Holly.

"Yes! I'm sorry I couldn't see them, but I could only ask so much!" Amara cries apologetically, and you send a pulse of comfort across the line as Gina's attention shifts back to you.

{Look, the Relic installed up here’s got a short cool down, so I’m not sure how well it’s gonna hold up if both the Joyous and I keep alternating with it} She urgently explains, her frustration and indignation blending with yours into a swirl of rage at the idiots who’d throw fire on a crisis situation like this one. {I need to know if the calm or the lockdown’s more important, Shu}

You’re about to answer when a thunderous explosion roars across Laoc from the opposite side of town, and across your empathic field you sense Amara’s satisfaction at the annihilation of two threats with a perfectly-arced shell from the Metall Geschoss. Another ping of joy from your young ward, and you see a flash of a Hunger-mad Daughter shredded by a single booming blast of Magpie’s double-barreled Lupara that almost drowns out a distant peal of thunder.

Through Amara, you sense two more are felled, one in the East by a mob of townspeople, and one in the West...you don't have to guess how that one met its swift end, given the bolt you heard mere moments before.

Hope.

Hope blossoms, as you feel the woman and child reach safety outside the range of your empathic field, as you sense the tide start to turn. Hope, as...

You kick backwards, a hair's breadth saving you from being subsumed by the lunging carpet of corrupted biomass that spears forth from the obscuring flames. You land just outside the field's range and land in time to watch the rot spreading faster than before, the flames continuing to lick at the spreading biomass, but not fast enough to overcome the decay that siphons the ambient terrain's very nutrients back into the Fasciitis' failing body. Goddamnit, if ony she were a target you could-

The crack of a whip sounds overhead as Holly's tongue lashes out, snatching a handful of fist-sized objects from the air before they can fall upon you. Your ally gives a yelp and a hiss of pain as her Ravenous Maw swallows the foreign objects, and you turn your attentions skyward through your swarm to observe the new threat from above as well as the advancing one before you.

A limp, languid Daughter gazes down at you from high above the town, the air she hovers on screaming with a high, buzz-saw like screech that only grows in volume as her insectoid wings bring her closer to you. Her hair’s cut short, leaving a pock-marked face fully visible as she stares down at you with a pair of large, yellow…

…hornets.

(Continued)

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>>3952948

From out of the girl’s empty sockets crawls a pair of African Hornets, their antennae and claws sprouting into wickedly sharp needles. Each spine is nearly twelve inches long and growing ever longer as the hornets unfurl to full size, while even more members of the growing swarm pour forth from their host’s eyes and slackened jaw, freed from the living hive that is the girl’s entire body. The girl’s swarm surrounds her, a vast cloud of spiked constructs that churn the very skies they infest as the terrible din of their collective wingbeats descends upon the melee you’re embroiled in.

Her furious vanguard surges down towards you and the rotting girl, and while your swarm moves to protect you, there's a terrible clash of claw and needle as both swarms find themselves evenly matched, deadlocked as they tear each other apart in mid-air. The rotting girl pays them no heed even as she single-mindedly advances on you, heedless of the massive hornets as they stab and spear at her dying flesh, her dead nerves forbidding her from registering any pain as her aggressors melt away, first their bodies, then their stingers, powerless in the face of the Fasciitis' unstoppable curse.

Shifting focus again, now that the aerial Hive Mistress is closer you can see newborn hornets emerging not only from every hole in her face, but squirming forth from gaping wounds in her joints, from the tears in her pants and shirt as they pour forth from innumerable orifices, both natural and not.

The things she's spawning are wild, unpredicatable agents of wrath, swarming forth across the Western Quarter with no aim but to exact their bloody fury.

You, your allies, even the Foetid Fasciitis...

...this living hive's hatred is indiscriminate, for one and all to bear.

>>MANDARINA’S HOST has joined the battle.

HP: 1620% (+675% [Dominus: Holly & Fasciitis])
BIO: 1940% (+270%, 8x Sneak-Jacklings, 3x Double-Stealthlings, 4x Sneak-Rooks, 5x Recursive-Rook-Platelings, 5x Sprite-Platelings, 3x Bishop, 14x Banelings, 40/54. Matrons, Whistle: OMA SUTH. Armored)

CONTENDER: Gemini Maxims. LEFT: 1x Honey. RIGHT: 3x Fullbore
RAVENOUS MAW: Primed.
HUNDRED-HANDED: None.
ACT: 3/3

AMARA: 1490% (+230%. Vocem[Suth:FREE], Cloaked)
HOLLY: 2,480% (RESIST: Heat, Cold. IMMUNE: Acid. Uzi(x2 Mags of Heat, Frost, Acid, and Radiant, BISHOP: Untriggered. Armored)

THREAT: FASCIITIS is advancing upon you. Medium range, line of sight established. HOST'S swarm is attacking indiscriminately, with a new focus on you and your allies. Long range, airborne.

THREATS REMAINING

North x8: 2 Targets Active, 5 Stunned, 1 ELIMINATED

East x8: 7 Targets Active, 1 Stunned, 1 ELIMINATED

South x5: 2 Targets Active, 3 Stunned, 3 ELIMINATED

West x5: 4 Active Targets, 1 Stunned, 1 ELIMINATED

>>Please reload the Left-hand Contender with 1 FREE round.

YOU ARE IN CONTROL

(Gentlemen, I shall be pausing here for the evening. Voting shall remain open for the next thirteen hours, with posting to resume in fifteen, give or take. I'll be around a little while longer to address any questions, concerns, or criticisms you may have, though I will be heading to bed in the next hour or two so as to catch up on some sleep and hopefully not burn myself out too early like I so often do. Thank you all so much for your continued patience, participation, and enthusiasm, and I hope you have a restful evening and a wonderful night's sleep.)

(As an additional point of interest, Holly's Bishop has yet to trigger, as Amara dispatched the Butcher so comically fast that I thought it would be foolish to trigger it when there was no need.)

Last update:

North:x7 4 Targets stunned, 3 Active

East:x9 6 Targets Stunned, 3 Active

South:x8 4 Targets Stunned, 4 Active

West:x6 2 Targets Stunned, 4 Active

Current update:

North x8: 2 Targets Active, 5 Stunned, 1 ELIMINATED

East x8: 7 Targets Active, 1 Stunned, 1 ELIMINATED

South x5: 2 Targets Active, 3 Stunned, 3 ELIMINATED

West x5: 4 Active Targets, 1 Stunned, 1 ELIMINATED

And then add the two daughters that are screwing with Gina's lock-in.

>>3952956
Bhop, is it possible for Amara to tell which district the anarchist daughters are at?

>>3952956
Can Amara tell us how the Towns doing in resisting the hunger, and how much she at least thinks her Aura and spells are affecting that?

>>3952956
oh, and how much does it cost Amara to spawn an unsheathed version of the sword? her level one entry does not say.

>>3952956
Also, of the stunned daughters, how many of them have broken lock?

>>3952942
Okay, guess Hunter's Honor was enough. Damn, that's a good sword. I owe you an apology for thinking it would take two hits, Amara. Now sheathe that thing so it can start recharging.

>>3952948
>“Two! Two bags of dicks!” Amara declares suddenly, cutting across your channel with a blurt of static. “There’s two Daughters messing with the Hungry people!”
Vultures. We've got vultures, taking advantage of this. They want to rile this up into a massacre so that they can scavenge the remains. Rath, burn them alive, please.

>>3952949
>From out of the girl’s empty sockets crawls a pair of African Hornets, their antennae and claws sprouting into wickedly sharp needles.
BHOP, this is going to sound a little crazy, but can we improvise Ironblood Brood to raise the temperature of our swarmlings without detonating the acid? There's a technique called "heat-balling" that bees use to kill hornets. They swarm around them, raise their body temperatures, and cook the hornet alive in an oven made of their own bodies. I want to do that here. Swarm Mandarina with banelings, have them heat up, cook her out of the sky.

Also, wait, Mandarina? Mandarina is a type of snail, not wasp. Oh my god, this is inspired by that "nature has developed aircraft carriers" meme someone posted here a long time ago of a snail with a wasp nest built on its shell, isn't it? Is that the joke you are doing with her name, BHOP?

>>3952956
How many new daughters have succumbed to the hunger riot?

>>3952956
(A correction; the North Quarter Threat should read as follows.)

North x7(not 8): 2 Targets Active, 5 Stunned, 1 ELIMINATED

>>3952959
(They're in the Eastern Quarter, as you can see by the sudden shift in numbers.)

>>3952961
(The town is doing very well, or else the active threat would have increased dramatically. Everyone got good resistance rolls, thanks to Amara's calm field.)

>>3952965
(30% BIO)

>>3952966
(Hostiles that have broken stunlock are moved to the 'Active' threat list, so by my count there are six targets that broke free, though half of those were not of their own volition.)

>>3952977
hrm, didn't answer my question really, unless you are implying they are only doing so well because of the calm field?

>>3952977
does the "Gra Suth" spell/Calm aura last the entire town event or is there a need to refresh the spell?

How many daughters have successfully evacuated to safe areas from the assistance of the Amara clones?

>>3952979
Anon. I think it's time we changed priorities on the Amara clone army. We've got them spread out and distributed, now we need to have them divide and conquer.

>>3952985
depends on what you mean by that. they are a very useful tool to getting the townsfolk together.

>>3952979
(Apologies; yes, Laoc's only really holding up so well as a result of Amara's calm field.)

>>3952985
(Due to the properties of the Relic atop Town Hall, it needs to keep being cast. Also, the Joyous are currently funneling the townspeople to the Town Hall/Tavern to keep everyone safe, and will continue to do so unless directed otherwise.)

>>3952976
(None, though the Hunger checks get incrementally harder for each turn that passes, so you're effectively on the clock if it wasn't obvious already.)

>>3952975
(That's quite possible, yes.)

(As far as the meme, it was actually hilariously opportune; when they posted that pictures, I was already concepting for a Hive Mistress whose when the 'numbers' path of her Choice with her corruption, resulting in the girl you're fighting now. However, 'Vespa Mandarinia' is the name of the Asian Giant Hornet, which is her given swarmling. I tweaked it a little, and thus it became her name.)

>>3952949
first draft. note, i will respond, but ID may change for a sec as ive been waiting on BHOP to post before getting food for like two hours.

SHU;
>Load up Free Round as a Honey round.
>Send the Banelings forward to keep pressuring the HOSTS swarm, but then spawn Grapplings into the new slots, except for one.
>Spawn a Stealthed Knighted-Drillling, and have it wait for its opening next to Amara.
>Have the new Grapplings focus on Sending out a swarm of HHs to gather up and grapple as many of the Hornets as they can, making an opening.
>Once the SK-Drillings sees its opening,Have Amara give it a speed boost with Oxygenic Artillery to slam into the HOST and drill her brains out.
>If the Grapplings need it, fire a Honey round into the Hornets to help wrap them up. But dont waste the round if it is not necessary.
>Otherwise, give Amara supporting fire with the Fullbores if you can.

AMARA and FUZZBUZZ;
>get to an advantageous vantage point, and Use Oxygenic to launch extra swords through the Rot Girl.
>Slow the rot Girl down with GRA NUKA CUNT TER.
>When its time, help out Shus Knight, as in her orders.

HOLLY;
>Lay down Uzi Covering fire into the HOSTS swarm.
>If and/or once Shu has the hornet swarm under control, unload Radiant and/or Heat magazines into the Rot Girl.
>If you think you see an opening you can risk, take a bit of rot damage to swing by her and deal a massive biting blow to her, though whatever you do, spit out her rotting biomass, PLEASE!

GINA and AMARA CLONE;
>Keep up the Calm Aura and Spells.
>Have Gina go on a special mission; Find and kill/hinder the saboteurs. Her Neuromancy and ability to swim in the fleshscape should give her easier access to getting to them quickly, aswell as at least slowing them down safely.

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>>3952999
>>ive been waiting on BHOP to post before getting food for like two hours.

(Oh my word, I'm so sorry. I'll say this for you and anyone else that's ever waited for me to post; if you're holding off on something so you don't miss an update, please let me know so I can either try and speed up or let you know a time range that I'll be posting. I make everyone lose enough sleep with combat and level-ups, so please don't put off eating on my account, too.)

>>3952993
>(Apologies; yes, Laoc's only really holding up so well as a result of Amara's calm field.)
Okay, definitely drop the stuns, then, it sucks but we need this more. However, we may still be able to use Gina using Neuromancy from range. She can use it on anyone she can see and has telescopic and X-ray vision. The effectiveness drops off the farther from the target she is, but how much does it drop off? Because I'm looking at

>NEON ASCENDANT (Lvl 4): Adding yet another cruel trick to her growing arsenal of abilities, Gina may now focus her attentions on a single Daughter for the cost of 2 ACTs and 200% BIO, forcing the next use of a Neuromancer, Generator, or Phantasmal Conduit ability used by the target to backfire catastrophically. This also doubles the negative effects of the resulting backlash, be it the severity of the status effect applied, the amount of damage inflicted, or the strength of the Dream manifestation that is summoned. However, this ability may only be used against a given target once per combat. (BIO +40%, BIO REGEN +20%)

and having very nasty ideas. Amara spots for Gina, Gina zaps them with a backlash debuff, their heads explode the next time they try to rile up the crowd. Unless the distance from the top of the tower to anywhere in the city is just too far without the broadcaster, then we should have her going hunting like >>3952999 and zap them once she gets closer.

>>3952999
>>3953006
Last update:
Total of active threats: 30

Current update:
Total of active threats: 25

>>3953006
Hey bhop, there's something that I've been meaning to ask:
If the entire town is a battlefield, and 5 enemy daughters just died on the first round, does that mean Julia gets 5 additional temporary ACTs from Carnivorous Carver's Rage on this upcoming round?
Total of active threats: 25

>>3953006
Nah, i mean, ill do it if you're ok with it but part of it is I don't want to rush you or make you hold off for me.

Its also part my stubborness. Usually, it takes you an hour after voting closes to post. So i waited an hour, but wasn't hungry then. Then, i remembered heavier sections like this, the average is two hours... So i waited another... Then i was like 'damnit, ive waited this long, ill wait another!'

Not my smartest moment, but damnit, im allowed to have those.

>>3952993
>(None, though the Hunger checks get incrementally harder for each turn that passes, so you're effectively on the clock if it wasn't obvious already.)
Then why does North district still have 7 active targets this round?

It was 7 targets at the beginning, and we killed Bone Butcher, which should bring the number of Active threats down to 6.


How much of the populace have successfully evacuated from all the combat areas?

>>3952999
Rather than using Oxygenic Artillery, which might impact accuracy of the ranged attacks, we should just have Amara get into Medium distance of of both Shu and Holly. Queen Crimson boosts the ranged damage of all allies within its radius of effect. It also deflects melee attacks back at nearby enemies, meaning that if the hornets try to sting us, Queen Crimson will have them stinging each other.

>>3953016
(Technically, the town's broken up into the four distinct Quarters, so only fallen foes in the Quarter that Julia's in would trigger her ability. That said, the Hunger-mad that Dorian just blitzed with her will trigger an instance of Rage.)

>>3953020
(I'm totally okay with it if you speak up, and the same goes for any other player that has a timing issue, as I'll try my best to take those into consideration or work with them to ensure they don't miss anything or wait on something I can give them a more precise time on.)

(Also, I forget to eat all the time by just putting it off until it's time to go to bed or something silly like that. Half the time if my wife works late, I'll just forget to have dinner...and I never eat breakfast, so...)

(...hrm.)

>>3953024
(Good grief, I can't math today. The number of active threats IS six, you're quite correct.)

>>3953025
she has no other way to use her own swords as projectiles though and she wont do aswell against the swarm, aswell as we have plenty else to deal with the swarm. she can hold off the rot Girl until the HOST and her swarm thats making a mess of the entire north area is taken care of.

>>3953028
hey, on only have like two meals a day myself. but seriously BHOP, eat, eat good meals, you deserve it.

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>>3953028
I now imagine you as a charlie brown in a meat world.

also
>Two daughters causing trouble.
>Two Daughters kicked out by the Mayor.
>Two Daughters asking about Magpie.
well i guess we know the type of assholes that one group used to house.

>>3953042
Good thing they're in a different district.

>>3953035
>she has no other way to use her own swords as projectiles though and she wont do aswell against the swarm, aswell as we have plenty else to deal with the swarm.
She's already got Queen Crimson active anyway, I'm saying that we might as well bring the entire current group into its area of effect. Let everyone get that boost. As for using her Hunter's Honor blades as ranged projectiles, they don't have to be swords, just bladed weapons. And she gets an automatic critical with each new type of blade she spawns, so let's have her cycle through a lot of bladed throwing weapons for Queen Crimson to boost. A shuriken, then a throwing knife, then a chakram, a hatchet, a boomerang, etc. Things designed to be thrown so she doesn't need a wind-blast to give them enough momentum, and taking advantage of the first-hit critical effect.

>>3953042
Shit, you're probably right, aren't you? They were Apex Sisterhood, too, of course they'd see something like this as an opportunity to "climb to the top of the food chain" or however they'd justify it. We should have Gina make sure to point out to them when they fight that they're scavengers, not predators.

>>3953046
for now. we dont know what they are even actually doing. could be they plan to make their way through every sector and make a ruckus, and if it is them, and they spot Magpie?

well, as much as i trust in November, Magpies, and the Mayors strength, I doubt those daughters will be open and blatant about whatever they pull, and in a sector that at least started out less well off.

>>3953050
>"Apex huh? So why are you slinking around like scavenging starving vultures?"

>>3953050
i thin kit still has to be melee weapons, other Calcite abilities have been limited like that before.

and shes still just a kid, and the Oxygenic will add to the damage still.

we also wont really need her Queen Crimson, and again, she'll do a better job of holding off the Rot Girl if she is not actively drawing it towards the rest of us.

>>3953050
>>3953056
oh, but yes, we can have her cycles weapon types regardless.

>>3953028
oh BHOP, you overlooked a decently important question here;
>>3953008

>>3953059
(Ah, thank you for bringing this to my attention.)

>>3953008
(It's typified as long range, though the distance from the tower to anywhere in the city is out of Gina's range of effect, so she will likely have to hunt for them or find some alternative to bring them closer to her striking distance.)

>>3953038
(Ha, that's a rather adorable mental image, come to think of it.)

>>3953056
I hope it doesn't have to be just melee weapons, what ninja is complete without their shurikens? But if that is the case we can still probably justify knives and hatchets and stuff, smaller weapons that while meant for melee can be thrown. That way we wouldn't have to use Oxygenic. I get the idea, you want to accelerate them that way, but I'm worried that the throws will go wild if she does that.

Fair point on distracting Fasciitis, though we'd have to have Amara drop stealth to really provide a good distraction.

>>3953070
>(It's typified as long range, though the distance from the tower to anywhere in the city is out of Gina's range of effect, so she will likely have to hunt for them or find some alternative to bring them closer to her striking distance.)
Dang. Okay, then she'll have to go hunting, though given her X-ray vision she should definitely inflict backlash before she engages them in combat. Just peer up through the ground and zap them, if we're lucky she won't even need to fight normally.

>>3953070
you didn't really answer the question of how much of the populace is out of harms way. Because I believe much of our plan would be waiting for the all-clear for Shu's family to let loose and go on a killing spree on the hunger mad.

>>3953071
im not thinking it will be that big a deal. i suppose i get the concern but Amara has little if any strength enhancements so i simply cant see her getting the strength necessary to really deal a good hit or even possibly get the range she needs via throwing them normally.

plus, making each connecting hit that much more potent should hopefully end this sooner.

Actually...

>>3953070
BHOP, any Northern Clones both free and close enough to cast a spell?

>>3953077
(Ah, apologies. I'll also include an evacuation tracker in future updates, as well.)

EVAC: 17%

(100% would mean that everyone is either safe in the center of town and closest to the calming field, or safe with other townspeople and barricaded indoors and effectively rendered safe from any outside threats that could locate them.)

>>3953078
>>Clones
(Yes. Of the four you sent northward, two are close enough to you to connect with a spell.)

>>3953089
ah, neat, thank you.

>>3952999
>>3952949
Second Draft;

SHU;
>Load up Free Round as a Honey round.
>Send the Banelings forward to keep pressuring the HOSTS swarm, but then spawn Grapplings into the new slots, except for one.
>Spawn a Stealthed Knighted-Drillling, and have it wait for its opening next to Amara.
>Have the new Grapplings focus on Sending out a swarm of HHs to gather up and grapple as many of the Hornets as they can, making an opening.
>Once the SK-Drillings sees its opening,Have Amara give it a speed boost with Oxygenic Artillery to slam into the HOST and drill her brains out.
>If the Grapplings need it, fire a Honey round into the Hornets to help wrap them up. But dont waste the round if it is not necessary.
>Otherwise, give Amara supporting fire with the Fullbores if you can.

AMARA CLONES(2);
>Have one Clone cast THA GRA NUKA on Amara to give her attacks a Radiant edge.
>Have the other closeby clone cast GRA RHO CUNT TER on the Rot Girl to help keep her back.
>After casting spells split as you can and go back to business as you were.

AMARA and FUZZBUZZ;
>get to an advantageous vantage point, and Use Oxygenic to launch extra weapons through the Rot Girl, cycle through weapon types for the new bonuses.
>Slow the rot Girl down with GRA NUKA CUNT TER.
>When its time, help out Shus Knight, as in her orders.

HOLLY;
>Lay down Uzi Covering fire into the HOSTS swarm.
>If and/or once Shu has the hornet swarm under control, unload Radiant and/or Heat magazines into the Rot Girl.
>If you think you see an opening you can risk, take a bit of rot damage to swing by her and deal a massive biting blow to her, though whatever you do, spit out her rotting biomass, PLEASE!

GINA and AMARA CLONE(tower);
>Keep up the Calm Aura and Spells.
>Have Gina go on a special mission; Find and kill/hinder the saboteurs. Her Neuromancy and ability to swim in the fleshscape should give her easier access to getting to them quickly, aswell as at least slowing them down safely.

>>3953096
I just remembered something: Fear To Tread has a tractor effect on enemy constructs. Flyers get sucked right down into the spiral. We can skip the stuff with the Grapplings, just make a vortex and pull her hornets all out of the sky.

>>3953204
the issue is that if we're to use it effectively, we need to put it down with Fasciitis as the epicenter or put it at the midpoint between Host and Fasciitis

>>3953210
Why? We could just make a big enough one, they're both within range of the maximum size spiral. Fasciitis will get knocked down and prepped for Amara's nuclear barrage, and the sky will be cleared of hornets. Holly can scoop up Amara and take them into the air for that initial spiral formation to keep them from getting caught in the knockdown effect, too.

So, my vote. Pretty similar to the other one, just with the added use of Fear To Tread. Which with the other terrain effects we're throwing at Fasciitis, should put her in a thermonuclear blender.

>>3952949
AMARA and HOLLY
>Get to positions of high ground, to avoid what is to come

SHU
>Allocate free reload to Swarm B.33
>Spawn Subversive Knight-Drilling
>Create spiral with Fear To Tread reaching to Long range
>Fire both B.33s at Mandarina
>Once hornets are sucked down, send Banelings to heat ball Mandarina
>Replace any killed Banelings with Bane-Grapplings aimed at keeping the hornet swarm busy
>With Mandarina occupied, have Knight-Drilling charge in to eviscerate her
>Fire Fullbores at Fasciitis, support Amara's barrage

AMARA CLONES
>One clone casts GRA NUKA THA on Amara
>Other clone casts GRA RHO CUNT TER on Fasciitis after she's knocked down by Fear To Tread
>Resume aiding evacuation afterwards

AMARA
>Cast GRA NUKA CUNT TER on Fasciitis
>Bombard Fasciitis with thrown Hunter's Honor blades, cycling through blade styles to maintain critical bonus
>If possible, use Oxygenic Artillery to accelerate Knight-Drilling's charge

HOLLY
>Provide suppressing fire with Uzi at Mandarina
>If made unnecessary, switch to Heat magazines and target Fasciitis
>If opening presents itself, swing in for a bite, spitting out flesh afterwards to prevent serious infection.

TOWER CREW
>Joyous Many keeps up calming aura and spells
>Gina goes hunting for saboteurs. Have Joyous Many swarm spot for her, while she uses her own Neuromantic senses and burrowing to approach them stealthily.
>Upon finding them, zap with backlash-inducing Neuromancy effect from behind cover.
>After they take damage from their own Neuromancy, do best to kill or at least drive off saboteurs.

>>3953240
>>3953215
Hate to bring it up so late, but the issue that I'm having with Gina leaving her watch tower post is that without her to maintain the Town-wide stun, North District (where Shu's group is located) will have 4-5 rampant daughters regaining agency and action.

Can we have at least 1 Amara clone in each district spend 1 action creating 4 more clones? The more clones we have, the faster we can evacuate the town and the more manpower we can provide in the riot suppression.

>>3953250
It's a problem, yeah. But she more or less explicitly said that the broadcaster could either keep up the calm or the stun, and I think the calm is more important. I'd be fine with having the Many start multiplying, but it will take a turn for them to get the cycle really started and that will still leave us vulnerable for a bit. On the plus side, Fear To Tread actually accelerates friendlies passing through it, so that will help us get people out of the quarter. Just head for the nuclear flesh-vortex and it will pop you out closer to safety.

>>3953260
Judging from one round of conflict, this might take 4 more rounds before the entire town event is done, so having at least 1 amara clone in each district start multiplying each round would help us greatly in stabilizing and suppressing the situation.

>>3952949
I will support this >>3952999


>>3952999
One questiont though.
If your shooting the Contender we can also reload it since in the past it was reload and fire in the same action. As far as i can remember

>>3952949
>Amara Clone squad: Have at least 1 amara clone in each district create 4 clones to bolster their numbers.

>>3953240
Only 'issue' i have is I don't think Fear is at all necessary and thus is extra costs and Acts i dont think we need to spread out. Swarmlings that survive can easily be changed or reused too, Spiral can't as easily.

Either idea i think will work so im just going off the only other thong to go off here really, in which I don't think its worth or necessary for the extra resources here for that.

>>3952949
Amara Prime and FuzzBuzz:
>Fuzzbuzz shields Amara from Hosts's hornets
>Amara Prime activates Queen Crimson and redirects and Funnels all of Host's Hornets to Fasciitis
>Gra Nuka Cunt Ter
>Send FuzzBuzz to assist Shu in landing a decisive killing blow on Host with a new slashing weapon.
>Throw bone hatchets and other slashing weapons at Rot girl.
Amara Clones in Northern district close to the fighting: (2)
>Cast Nuka Tha on Shu and Amara respectively

Amara clones that are away from combat in each District:
>Have one of you spawn 4 more clones.

Shu:
>Load up Honey Round, fire one at Rot-girl and Host.
>Banelings pressure Host Hornets and maintain bombardment on Rot girl by keeping the engagement area on top of Rot girl's head
>Contain the hornet spread by spawning recursive swarmlings to tie up the Hornets
>Contain Rotgirl's Flesh rotting influence by terraforming.
Holly:
>Lay down covering Uzi fire with one Nuka Mag at Rot girl
>Swat the hornets.

Gina:
>We've got Saboteurs, go out and deal with them. Deal with them by dragging them into the ground with your terraforming and entombing them, or kill them if necessary. Just take them out of the equation. They're vultures with Neuromancy.

(Finally able to sit down and write after a busy morning. Update dropping as soon as I'm able, Gentlemen, so thank you for your patience.)

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>>3952949

[Gina, I need you to find the assholes that’re messing with your stuns and end them] You order, splitting your attentions between the hovering Hive and the infected girl before you.

{Alright…I’ll give one more pulse of the stun, but it’ll drop sooner rather than later} She hastily replies. {I’ll find ‘em, Shu, so don’t worry about that…but are you sure you’re okay with dropping the city-wide lockdown?}

The crack of a rifle ripples through the city, Amara’s senses informing her of another threat that Magpie’s swiftly disposed of.

[Do it] You reply, and with that, she’s off. At your silent command another fleet of Banelings takes to the skies, clashing with the Host’s vicious and varied multitude. As her swarm draws ever closer, you can make out distinct classes among the yellow-black swarm akin to those in your own brood; heavier variants whose claws are practically reaping scythes dart to and fro, while a few hornets are hanging back, twitching at odd intervals as they observe the proceedings with increasing irritability as your swarm and the Host’s repeatedly tear each other to pieces in a flurry of claws and stingers. The brutal mid-air trades shower you and your other ground-bound foe with acid that just rolls off your bodies harmlessly yet cracks and sizzles against her creeping infection…and to your credit, the shower of corrosion isn’t the only thing you sent your brood on a suicide mission for.

With your swarm thinned and your concentration freed, it’s time for reinforcements.

Your back aches as a fleet of unnerving newborns emerge from the holes along your spine, their chitnous shells immediately sprouting arms that thicken with artificial muscle the moment they squeeze free of your hive…all except one, that is. The moment they’re free Amara’s at your side with incredible haste, surrounded by the thin, wispy tendrils of blood that make up the formidable Queen Crimson as the threads lash protectively at the air around their ward.

The Fasciitis stumbles forward once more, desperate to catch you and the girl at your wide within its lethal field before Amara loses a thunderous sneeze, Oxygenic Artillery launching her sword blade-first and busying the weapon in your foe’s chest all the way to the hilt…and the diseased young woman doesn’t even flinch at the wound, ignoring the impact completely.

“GRA NUKA CUNT TER!” The child bellows, and the Fasciitis’s laborious gait is slowed even further with the potent effects of Amara’s Lexicon, the ground at your foe’s feet becoming a clinging, shifting thing, even as it blisters and pops with the infection’s cruelty. She grins, and in her small moment of victorious distraction you swing the Contender to bear with your right hand, two consecutive pulls of the trigger sending a pair of Fullbores tearing into and through the twin Reaper Hornets that were almost upon her.

(Continued)

>>3953714

Through their shattered remains flies another, faster construct, barreling towards its young target with its stinger lancing towards her eyes, and just as you’re about to shift your aim you find the thing plucked from the air and summarily dismantled by Sir FuzzBuzz, who simply does not truck with such silliness. Two more hornets dart in and promptly receive the same treatment, shorn to pieces with nigh-surgical precision by Amara’s faithful guardian before he picks her up and carries her to the rooftop to your left and out of the rot’s path, dropping her next to Holly as the blonde promptly fills the air with a staccato of gunshots, courtesy of the Uzi whose recoil she’s fighting to control. Vicious hornets begin to drop like pathetic flies as her cloud of lead tears through the swarming mass, and with every construct the bullets tear through, the twitchy hornets in the fringe of the conflict grow ever more restless.

If this irks them, then they haven’t seen anything yet.

Your Grapplings surge forth as one, a sudden burst of Hundred-Handed reaching out from each of them and seizing hornets by the armful before drawing them in close, quickly clearing the skies of over half the swarm in one fell swoop…and that’s just the opening you and Amara were waiting for. The little one unleashes a sneeze with such force that the windows on the both sides of the street are shattered from the change in pressure, the blast of concentrated wind hurtling your secret weapon directly towards the Hive Mistress that lords high above you. Your foe’s left with no time to react before your Knighted Drilling’s cloak drops a mere meter from impact, and just as she opens her mouth, the Drilling’s spear is thrust into the front of her face and out the back. Its drill revs, and that’s all it takes to snap the girl’s neck as you watch her head twist at an impossible angle…and keep twisting, as a flurry of hornets flee her body as her entire form curls up and around the offending drill.

There’s no blood, no muscle, no bone…just an empty shell of papery skin.

You see what she’s become as your drilling pulls back and away from the four newborn Reapers that surround their Mistress’ Core, nested within a small, fast hornet that glares down at you with unnervingly humanoid eyes, wild and wide with the glint of madness. Her too-large eyes light up with the erupting pillar of flame that reaches skyward from the East Quarter, and the combination of Rath and Lara’s volatile skill sets claims the lives of three of the Hunger-mad in a dazzling display of destructive force. A second booming rifle shot rings out across the chaos of Laoc, followed up by a terrible crash as another set of hostiles are felled by the consummate professionals you sent to deal with the issues of the Southern Quarter.

(Continued)

>>3953715

Your relief almost makes you miss the sudden shudder of movement from the immolated zombie that shuffles towards you, her right arm raising up and towards you in judgment…a half second before it and the shoulder it’s attached to are shorn free in a blur of dark green armor and golden hair. Holly skids to a stop just outside the ring of rotted street, a grin on her lips as her second mouth violently expels the shredded limb in a pile of bone and saliva while she slings the Uzi over one shoulder.

“Well, Host was a bust, but I think we got this in th-!” She begins before a shudder overcomes the Spiritus Shell. You and she glance down simultaneously, watching the constructed body’s lips begin to crack and blister, the tongue bubbling with yellowed cysts as it roils in her stomach. All the while, the Fasciitis continues forth, the infected area spreading over every surface is sight eve as her body continues to burn and decay, your efforts beginning to wear her thin.

“Oh, fudge.” Holly mutters, her second set of teeth starting to turn black as you scramble to formulate some sort of plan…your efforts made harder as you realize that time’s about to run out on Gina’s stun, freeing the rest of the Hunger-mad throughout the city. Things are going to get much worse before they get better…

…and it’s up to you to ensure the second part of that holds true.

HP: 1620% (+675% [Dominus: Holly & Fasciitis])
BIO: 1940% (+270%, 8x Sneak-Jacklings, 3x Double-Stealthlings, 4x Sneak-Rooks, 5x Recursive-Rook-Platelings, 5x Sprite-Platelings, 3x Bishop, 2x Banelings, 24x Grapplings, 54/54. Matrons, Whistle: OMA SUTH. Armored)

CONTENDER: Gemini Maxims. LEFT: 2x Honey. RIGHT: 1x Fullbore
RAVENOUS MAW: Primed.
HUNDRED-HANDED: None.
ACT: 3/3

AMARA: 1490% (+230%. Vocem[Suth:FREE], Cloaked)
HOLLY: 2,127% (RESIST: Heat, Cold. IMMUNE: Acid. Uzi(x1 Mags of Heat, Frost, Acid, and Radiant) BISHOP: 2 ROUNDS REMAINING. Armored

>>HOLLY INFECTION: 29%, Torso.

THREAT: FASCIITIS is advancing upon you. Close range, severely wounded. HOST'S swarm is largely bound but alive, Eight Reapers active, 4 ??? vibrating strangely. HOST Core is long range, airborne.

THREATS REMAINING

North x5: 1 Targets Active, 4 Stunned, 2 ELIMINATED

East x7: 5 Targets Active, 4 ELIMINATED, 2 NEW HUNGER-MAD

South x0: AREA PURGED

West x5: 3 Active Targets, 1 Stunned, 2 ELIMINATED, 1 NEW HUNGER-MAD

EVAC: 28%

>>Please reload the Right-hand Contender with 1 FREE round.

>>ALL STUNNED TARGETS WILL BE FREED IN THE MIDDLE OF NEXT ROUND

YOU ARE IN CONTROL

(Gentlemen, voting shall remain open for the next three hours. Thank you for your patience, and I do hope your day is going well.)

>>3953722
>>3953724
oh, hrm, did i misword that then? I kinda meant for Holly not to go for any attack there unless it looked more like a killing blow, not just to impede it or damage it. this situation is literally exactly what i was trying to word her orders to avoid.

>>3953724
also, would Amaras Oxygenic Artillery currently hve the effects of the Nuka damage addition spell, or did that not go off at all?

>>3953725
(It would've been a killing blow if Holly hadn't botched the dice roll, as Fasciitis is hanging on by a literal thread due to the interaction noted >>3953727. Fasciitis is terribly weak to Radiant damage.)

>>3953730
grah, fair enough i suppose.

>>3953733
(I'm mad, actually. I wanted to write Holly being a badass and getting that kill, but I'm sure she'll have her time to shine soon enough.)

>>3953737
hopefully.
am I/was i right to assume that the rot effect would subside once the daughter causing it was dead, just like with Kosi and the Hound? as, though probably obvious, was what i was aiming for to make that attack safe.

>>3953741
(It won't clear 100% on source death, but it will disappate over time instead of ticking up.)

>>3953730
if south district is clear, where will November and Magpie go next?

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>>3953743
ah, alright. good enough.
like always, thanks for the answers.
have a meme.

>>3953743
Good to know. Given that Fasciitis is so close to death, let's finish her off this round and save Holly any further trouble.

>>3953722
First Draft;

SHU;
>Free Reload; Fullbore Round.
>Fire off a Honey round into your own Grapple piles, to help them grab more Hornets and hold captive the ones they do have.
>Jump onto your Knighted-Drilling and take to the skies, draw the attention of the core Hornet and its protectors. Fire off Fullbores(then Parabellums for cost effectiveness) at the core to rile them up and take pot-shot swings at them with HH Drill tipped lunges.
>While doing this, have the rook we sent to this area try and stealthily fly high and above the Core Hornet, before dive bombing for it.
>Once the Rook is as close as it can get without being noticed, Teleport swap with it, then FLare out a net of HHs to try and stop it from being able to escape, before slamming into it with you revved up drill you have been hiding on your back.
>Have the knighted Drilling charging from below, just as a backup.

AMARA and FUZZBUZZ;
>Aim towards the Rot Girl and Burn a path to her with Oxygenic Radiant Bursts before finishing her off with whatever you need to bring to bear.
>CUNT OMA GRA RHO TER the second Holly gives word the other foes are aproaching.

HOLLY;
>For the first half of the Round, help keep the skies under control.
>About just before we expect the stun to wear off however, turn your attention outward, and be prepared to suppress any newcomers to the fight, to give Shu and Amara time to deal with our current adversaries.
>If you see a good Maw opportunity on a new foe, go for it, but only if it doesn't break formation or impede otherwise on holding them off for Shu and Amara. If doing so would benefit keeping them back of course, go for it.

sorry Holly, the works not kickass, but it may just save our asses nonetheless.

>>3953715
>and just as you’re about to shift your aim you find the thing plucked from the air and summarily dismantled by Sir FuzzBuzz, who simply does not truck with such silliness
You're the best, Sir FuzzBuzz!

>>3953743
Ah, that's a relief.

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>>3953751
yeah, glad to see Sir Fuzzbuzz finally doing his job getting some limelight.
also i refuse to believe it is not Canon Amara brushes/washes him in a way that makes his fluff seem even fluffier.

>>3953743
speaking of, any Clones free, or are they all busy again? perfectly fine if they are, they have a main objective afterall we want them doing.

>>3953746
(That's up to you. By default, they'll head toward the next most affected area, which will be the East Quarter, though they can be directed elsewhere, as the East's narrower streets will give Geschoss some trouble.)

>>3953754
where is the Mayor heading?

>>3953754
also, and sorry for the constant split posting, but would the West Qurter be much better for the Geschoss?

>>3953753
>yeah, glad to see Sir Fuzzbuzz finally doing his job getting some limelight.
And he didn't even take any damage, this time. Instead of taking the bullet for Amara he snatched it out of the air and tore it apart. Best bodyguard bee.

>also i refuse to believe it is not Canon Amara brushes/washes him in a way that makes his fluff seem even fluffier.
Yeah, I think there's no possible way that Amara isn't keeping FuzzBuzz as fluffy as possible.

>>3953753
(Not currently, as they're speeding EVAC efforts.)

>>3953755
(West Quarter.)

>>3953758
(No worries! It would, marginally.)

>>3953722
Is the New Hunger-Mad count included in the number of Active targets, or is it added on top because they've just turned and aren't properly "active" yet?

>>3953761
(They're part of the total threat count and will be free to act at the beginning of next turn.)

>>3953750
>>3953722
MAGPIE and NOVEMBER;
>Magpie, head East.
>November, head North.

East needs some help severely but i just dont think adding a massive tank with porr arcs of fire to that will help. Magpie at last has some guns that will work in CC. November does too, but the tank can help more elsewhere. the Mayor also is no pushover and West while not doing superb doesn't seem to be doing bad, so i think she will be enough. meanwhile, we're not doing bad, but worse case November and her Tank are overkill and help us clean up the north sooner to help other areas, and is also the other area her Tank has good angles at.

>>3953767
I disagree on this. Magpie should go north and November goes east. Metal slug stays in town center for artillery support. apex daughters are in east district and are sure to gun for magpie. beaides, the apex seem to be neuromancers if they are able to break gina’s stun lock.

>>3953772
well, i Disagree with that. Magpie can handle herself and she wont be alone. Gina is already after them too. it may even help us stop them if they get distracted by her, especially if that stops them from causing more trouble elsewhere.

its also a significant waste AND risk to allies to do artillery fire over putting November and the Geschoss to direct use, especially into areas of tight quarters, as artillery fire is much more inaccurate.

>>3953775
Yeah, let's not shell the most populated region, that's a recipe for friendly fire. Rath doesn't burn who she doesn't want to, it's okay for her to go all-out with big plasma blasts in tight quarters. November doesn't have that insurance.

As for Magpie, we can just warn her to be on the look out for the saboteurs and that they might try to take advantage of the chaos to get a hit in.

>>3953767
>When giving orders over November's commling, tell Magpie about the saboteurs, that we think they might be Apex Sisterhood, and that Gina is hunting them.

>>3953775
>>3953781

makes sense.

>>3953722
>>3953750
Second Draft;
only a minor change and otherwise just consolidation really.

SHU;
>Free Reload; Fullbore Round.
>Fire off a Honey round into your own Grapple piles, to help them grab more Hornets and hold captive the ones they do have.
>Jump onto your Knighted-Drilling and take to the skies, draw the attention of the core Hornet and its protectors. Fire off Fullbores(then Parabellums for cost effectiveness) at the core to rile them up and take pot-shot swings at them with HH Drill tipped lunges.
>While doing this, have the rook we sent to this area try and stealthily fly high and above the Core Hornet, before dive bombing for it.
>Once the Rook is as close as it can get without being noticed, Teleport swap with it, then FLare out a net of HHs to try and stop it from being able to escape, before slamming into it with a revved up drill you have been hiding on your back.
>Have the Knighted Drilling charging from below, just as a backup.
>New Swarmlings should be Bane-Grapplings, to try and essentially suicide grab the Hornets to keep Shu and the Knights path clear.

AMARA and FUZZBUZZ;
>Aim towards the Rot Girl and Burn a path to her with Oxygenic Radiant Bursts before finishing her off with whatever you need to bring to bear.
>CUNT OMA GRA RHO TER the second Holly gives word the other foes are approaching.

HOLLY;
>For the first half of the Round, help keep the skies under control.
>About just before we expect the stun to wear off however, turn your attention outward, and be prepared to suppress any newcomers to the fight, to give Shu and Amara time to deal with our current adversaries.
>If you see a good Maw opportunity on a new foe, go for it, but only if it doesn't break formation or impede otherwise on holding them off for Shu and Amara. If doing so would benefit keeping them back of course, go for it.

MAGPIE and NOVEMBER;
>Magpie, head East. Warn Magpie about the saboteurs and who we think they might be, aswell as Gina going after them.
>November, head North.

>>3953828
Just to be sure, is Shu wearing a subversive swarm to better sneak up on the Core Hornet?

>>3953838
no, her armor is just recursive and rook. she doesn't really need to be sneaking, in matter of fact sneaking would be disadvantageous here.

>>3953838
The Rook is subversive though, so it should have a good chance at getting into position and getting us close. Though i think the stealth works significantly better on the ground or walls than the air with how it works.

>>3953828
Actually, can I propose a modification real quick that I just thought of close to the wire? Conceal the drill in our Maw, not on our back. Swallow Mandarina's main body, hold it in place while the drill goes to work. She's a construct-sized object, the Ravenous Maw is perfect for grabbing her.

>>3953873
Sure, if we can put a drill in our maw.
Im not home to make that change though.

>>3953722
Supporting >>3953828
With the change of
>Grab Mandarina with Maw before drilling her
>Spawn drill inside mouth, on Hundred-Handed protrusion if needs to be a limb.