>>4813203
>A control console screen has been restored.

You switch through the camera channels, testing the new screen. How useful. JEFF still seems to be away for maintenance. You'll ask him later about how much more core work needs to be done.

"Done. I'm all proper shattered. Why're all the pipes like that anyhow?"
"I was bored. I had fun. Then uh, I forgot how to move them back."
"For a toaster, you sure are bloody daft."
"The facility's payroll clerk would like to gently remind you that he is not a kitchen appliance."
"Yes, ma'a-sir. Sir. (Again with this?)"

1/?

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>Get Employee E some medical attention.
>Foster Red Connection with Employee U. Orders to pick up the phone to whoever is on the other line and to comfort them in their time of need.

Employees G and H enter the psychologist's "office" and pick up Employee U and his chair. You raise an eyebrow. After Employee B checks his bandages, Employee E stands to join the two.

"What's with that look, Mister Overseer?" The three Employees make their way towards the containment cell, making sure that the psychologist's head remains straight. "Didn't you know? Employee U is paralyzed from the neck down, so he needs all the help he can get to complete the work order."

"N-no?" Though that would explain why he cost so little to hire...

"Ah, what a competent worker to do his duty even now!" Casey smiles warmly as she clasps her hands together. "I heard that he survived everything, from Ghouls to Officers to everything in-between. He's also an excellent listener, better than me even. The very best!"

"S-so when was he crippled?"

"One of his patients attacked him during a counseling session. The knife cut straight through his spinal cord, but only poor Employee U was fired shortly after. I suppose it was because he wasn't able to meet the quotas after that." Casey sniffs for dramatic effect. "That scoundrel! To touch a hair on this good old man!"

Paralysis in this era... You're surprised he's still alive. You make a mental note to find a wheelchair somewhere.

Employees G and H set the chair down.
Employee E shifts Employee U into a proper sitting position.
Employee E puts the phone's receiver up to U's head.
Employee E takes out a flask and takes a drink.
U: Hello?
ANOMALY: Hey brother, spare a minute? If I talk to someone that I know, I am going to vomit.
U: I can listen.
ANOMALY: Thanks.
ANOMALY: I still feel like vomiting. My guts feel like they're about to strangle each other. The government puts something into them, I swear. I'm not crazy. The nutrition labels on all the rations have been censored. What kind of fucking lunatic does that?
ANOMALY: I trust the government as much as anyone else, but I am going to lose it if I have to endure another day in this concrete sarcophagus.
ANOMALY: I'm tired of the ration packs. I'm tired of the daily contaminant tests. I'm tired of being kept in the dark like everyone here. I'm tired of the fucking pipes everywhere, my God! Drip drip drip every hour of the day! Drip! Drip! Drip!
The remainder of the call devolves into bloody, incoherent ranting.
Employee H whistles nervously throughout.
There is a long silence.
ANOMALY: I... I need to lie down. I'm really sorry about this, sir.
U: I understand. Good luck son.
The call ends.
Employee E offers his flask to the others.
Employee H takes it.
H: Milk? Ed?
E: I don't like to get drunk on my free time.
H: But you drink yourself blind when you're with us.
E: Only with friends.
H: Eheh, sure. Bottom's up.

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>>4813232
>Send Employee P into the meat grinder that is PRODUCT.

Employee P belongs to the suit, looking like the very model of the modern white collar worker. He has a face not unused to frowning.

Employee B adjusts one of the break room's valves and you count 30 E Energy packets as they fall out of a nearby pipe. (He was watching the Agents do this before, wasn't he?) Employee B helps P with bundling the units together before sending him on his merry way.

Employee P enters the PRODUCTION room.
The airlock bolts itself shut behind him.
Restarting biological matter sensors...
Checking outputs...
Phoning the bloodline...
Referencing ambient subnarratives...
Adjusting archetypes...
Testing for dissonance...
Initialization... OK.
P: Sweetheart?
PRODUCTION begins.

Employee P leaves the PRODUCTION room shortly after, a troubled, faraway look on his face. He stumbles and lurches as he walks, as if drunk. His gait sobers up by the time he returns to the break room.

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>>4813234
>Casey, I love you, but you're a department head for a reason and I do not trust Ben with any modicum of control. Maybe call in Ben to have a personal talk after we end the day.

"C-Casey."

"Yes, Mister Overseer?"

"I-I lo-" You stifle a chuckle. While her company is somewhat pleasant, you need to draw the line. "I-I must remind you that you are the leader and the sole member of the Medical Department. Please do not defer your authority to the employees outside of your jurisdiction."

A faint tinge of red enters Casey's face. Her smile falters. "I... oh... I actually don't have much experience with medicine. I mean, uh, I know my emergency healthcare skills, I read my Drone's Manual of Company Standards and all... but Ben's been so nice to me with offering to help. He knows the right way to do surgery and all the other complicated procedures that I don't have a clue about."

"..." You realize that you forgot to screen the department head for competence. "R-regardless of your personal skill, it is your responsibility keep your department in order. Do not let Ben out of your sight as you work. You are dismissed."

"Yes sir, Overseer~" Casey salutes and exits with a wave.

You let out a sigh. What is it with Ben? A need to assert himself? Some deep seated insecurity?

>Write down about the new information we've gotten about Rigorous Lessons and how it tore into someone to control them in order to play some music.
>Collection on Rigorous Lessons with Employee G. Tell him to figure out what the hell happened in there when the camera went dark and to get whatever he can from there.

You switch to the piano room camera. The feed is back. Employee G enters the containment cell and looks around. Nothing out of the ordinary occurs.

You make a note on the dossier about the piano's "performances" being possibly tied to the camera errors.

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>>4813242
>Deprive Final Flash with Employee A. Get her a flashlight, let her have her axe, tell her to use the flashlight on Final Flash and to defend herself if necessary. See how the flashlight causes Final Flash to react. Tell her to be careful, never know how light will cause a shadow to react.

And finally, the potentially most volatile work to end the shift. You message A her orders. A exits the storage room and strides over to the cell, axe and flashlight at the ready.

Employee A enters the containment cell.
A: Futatsu ni hitotsu, katetara gokuraku...
Employee A chuckles at her little ditty before turning on the flashlight.
The beam of light cuts through the darkness.
The true form of The Final Flash of Existence is illuminated.
The anomaly drops down and moans, attempting to cover its body with its hands.
Employee A drops the flashlight by her foot and wields the axe with both hands.
ANOMALY: Hhhhhhhhaaaaaa... turn it off...
A: Jeez. You sure are one ugly fella! How's it been, huh?
ANOMALY: Spare me... turn it off...
The anomaly crawls to another corner of the room, but A keeps the flashlight trained on it.
Employee A grip tightens on her axe...
Employee A looks a little nervous...
A: Heh heh. Feels good to shed a little light on your life, no?
ANOMALY: Hhhhhhhhhhh...
The anomaly stands up...
and attempts to reach for Employee A's flashlight...
But is easily repelled by a violent shove!
A: Hey, hey, hey! Hands off pal! You creep! You..!
Employee A continuously insults the Final Flash of Existence.
The anomaly wails as it huddles in the corner.
The anomaly goes quiet.
From the widened mouth of the anomaly, a heart-broken cry echoes throughout the facility.
Employee A loses her nerve.
Employee A hastily exits the containment cell, taking the flashlight with her.
You hear the anomaly pacing around the cell, muttering indistinctly to itself.

All things considered, that turned out a lot better than you expected.

>>4813248
The Work Order on The Red Connection is completed.
The Work Result was good.
Emotive Energy Count: +5/???
Current Anomaly Demeanor: ???
Employee Aspect(s) Revealed: N/A
Working Notes - Employee E:
- Sounds like a young guy on the other end. Somewhere in a small room, judging from the sound.
- Pipes. Bad food. More questions about the obvious. In another City?
- You shouldn't call for Employee U often, sir. He's rather fragile.

The Work Order on Final Flash of Existence is completed.
The Work Result was bad.
Emotive Energy Count: +3/???
Current Anomaly Demeanor: Agitated
Employee Aspect(s) Revealed: Employee A - Crushed Spirit (Mental Protection--, Anger Risk+)
Working Notes - Employee A:
- please fuck off with the work orders thanks

HOUR 6, SHIFT 2
QUOTA:
0/7 PRODUCT exported (10 PRODUCT generating, 6 hours)
E-Energy: 10 units, 0 units/hour
DTC-ENERGY: 1 unit

SPONSORS:
>R Company - RULE: THOU SHALT NOT ASSIGN LABOR ON EVERY THIRD HOUR. (Completed!)

INTERACTIONS [1 Hour Each]:
>Anomalies: The Red Connection, Occupied! Do Not Enter!, Rigorous Lessons from an Absent Teacher, Final Flash of Existence
>Facility: PRODUCTION room, elevator to the 2nd floor, Core Maintenance
>Equipment: M.A.D World (Epiphany, unassigned), Fire Ax (used by Employee A)
>Assign Employee (write in interaction type, specific instructions, sex, Employee or Agent, etc.)
>Write in.

CONSOLE COMMANDS
>View and edit anomaly dossiers and database. (Write in.)
>Make a facility-wide announcement. (Write in.)
>Manage Employee roster and Departments. (Write in.)
>Message an Employee PDA. (Write in.)
>Edit Employee access permissions. (Write in.)
>View cameras in which room? (Write in.)
>Skip an hour of the workday.
>Skip XX hours of the workday.
>End the workday. (Enters Downtime/Upgrade Phase.)

>Write in.

Finals are done. Time to get back to work.

>>4813262
Best quest is BACK BABY!!!!
Anyways, I'd normally just lurk, I don't really think I'm the kind of person who'd benefit more cerebral quests like this by participating. One of my ideas was honestly just, put Occupied and final flash in the same room and see what happens. So you get I'm not the wisest right? But anyways, since no one else is speaking up...
Since we want the R company sponsorship to stay completed. I say we go out into the break room and talk to our employees some more yeah? If it comes up try to find out more about our employees, knowing things about these guys such as B being a gut gatherer or C being a drone would be useful before we send them to work. Also, one thing that I consistently get annoyed at is that we're mismanaging our resources, I guess what I mean by that is, if you were playing Lobotomy corp, and your sending in agents to abnormalities, then waiting for that work to finish, then doing it again instead of assigning multiple jobs at once, like, during all of these shifts and hours (except every third one including this one) we could've had all the employees sitting around doing nothing at least cleaning up the place? As it is now this pig sty would NOT pass an OSHA safety check. Or working on other abnormalities etc. (I'd want them to maintain and repair any broken facility system ideally, making sure doors shut properly, making the lower floor systems actually work, touching up on all of the complex facility systems, but I don't think we currently have any employee who has the capability to do much more than cleaning work or basic maintenance really, or we do, and we just don't know it yet.) Anyways, these are all just suggestions really, as for things I think we should do. I have no fucking clue, it's not like we can get people to actually do work this hour. Maybe touch up on our internal classification system? Or maybe we could somehow get some of those files that our fucking dumbass of a predecessor wiped back? IIRC when a computer deletes a file ("completely") it doesn't actually wipe it from the drive, it just marks those parts of the drive that contain the data of those files as "empty" the data is still there, it's just that the computer doesn't recognise it. certain programs can get these things back. So maybe a specialist of some kind could help? Or we could just download a program for such things if we're connected to the internet, although, the less we do with the system until then if it's a viable option the better, since there's gonna be a higher chance those files are written over and corrupted, or worse, overwritten entirely. (Also this whole segment was a random brainblast my ideas aren't this good usually wtf.)

On a side note, really enjoying the setting so far, it's like a parallel universe Project Moon setting but without people or others being anywhere from low level super to bleach tier in power.

>>4813262
>>4813702
Actually, no hold on, I'm not just suggesting I love this idea
>Write in, you think you remember something about files not being erased when they're deleted by the system. Some remnant on the hard drive or something? See if you can recover anything from the previous overseer's tantrum or whatever happened.

Also, what else are we going to do this hour? I'm not just going to bring up failing to manage our resources properly then do the thing I literally just talked about. (Also I just realised that the R company sponsor may refer to the third hour of the workday it's taken on, not just every third hour.)

AW SHIT IT'S BACK
I'll continue my analyses later, as it's a special day for me that I don't wanna miss up on my end.
If this is the third hour, I'm gonna not risk breaking R-Comp rule and pass working right now
>Write in, you think you remember something about files not being erased when they're deleted by the system. Some remnant on the hard drive or something? See if you can recover anything from the previous overseer's tantrum or whatever happened.

>>4813715
>>4813846
You could just end the day. Job's done. Good to have you all back.

>>4813855
I vote for end the day.

Also, i'm new to this quest and recently ended to read the first thread and I really liked it!

>>4813855
End the day then

HOLY FUCK IT'S BACK

Let's end the day and get everything situated.

>>4813713
>>4813846
I also agree with these two since knowledge is power. Or it could be dangerous as fuck. Same difference in my book.

Notes:
>Maybe making a drone a department head was a bad idea, oops! Better than having someone like Doobie or Jun, though. Screen new department heads more thoroughly now on.
>U is functionally incapable of doing most work orders and would probably die if we did much with him. Good we know that now.
>P somehow survived being sent to PRODUCTION. Random chance or does it depend on the person? Investigating him further will be interesting if only to see if it's a fluke or something more
>Final Flash does NOT do well when exposed to light and attempted to destroy the light source went exposed. A is shown to have low mental protection. Will keep that in mind in case an anomaly messes with your mind
>It is most likely that the piano fucked with the camera.
>We should experiment with the googles we were given eariler. Either on one of the new anomalies or next time we have someone play the piano. That might result in something interesting going on. Or maybe when looking at Final Flash
>Does the person on the other line of the phone depend on who answers it? It seems to be a different person every time and when U was talking, the person on the other line wanted someone to vent to. U is a psychologist, after all. The trend is weird.

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>>4814443
>>4814521
>>4814823

>END WORKDAY

The End of the Day report reads as follows:

SHIFT 2 COMPLETE
Rating: B
- Quota fulfilled.
- Zero employees killed!
- One employee incapacitated (Isidora Sevilla).
- Tardiness penalty (Predicted shift time: two hours).

Total Energy Collected: 38 E units
PRODUCT Generated: 10/7

Current Energy Count: 10 E units, 1 DTC unit
Current PRODUCT: 3

Rating Bonus:
25% discount on any purchase from the Catalog of Major Powers.

You let out a whistle. Finally, something to smile about.

..?

You jerk your body violently away from the console, just as something falls and shatters against the buzzsaw still embedded in the floor.

Among the glass shards of the canister, you pluck out the 25% discount voucher. The pleasing texture of letterpress printing. The timeless Garamond style typeface. Oh my God, it even has P Company's watermark.

Ahem.

Now onto business:
>Consult your company catalogs. (Roll a d100 for discounts, best of three.)
>Wait for HELLA JEFF to come back.
>Do something about the intermittent screams of frustration coming from the Final Flash.
>Call for a meeting with an Employee.
>Take a walk around your facility.

>Write in.

Rolled 93 (1d100)

>>4815042
I swear, these people expect far too much out of us. Oh well. First, I think we should consult the company catalogs. Obviously. Why shouldn't we? Maybe a talk with Ben should be good to make sure we can keep him in reign. Especially since Casey, while adorable, is incompetent with medicine beyond treating booboos and giving kisses. We should probably get her trained to become more competent when we can.

>>4815067
woo. Last time I rolled for discounts, I got like a 7 or something. Seems like I'm a lucky boy today

Rolled 27 (1d100)

>>4815042
Let's see those catalogs

Rolled 82 (1d100)

>>4815042

Rolled 63 (1d100)

>>4815042
Rolling anyway

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>>4815067
>>4815099
>>4815356
>>4816031

>"It's time to go SHOPPING!"

But before you open your books...

"Greeting, human maggot." The heart of the facility speaks once more. His voice sounds much clearer, more natural, more human. "It's been a long time since we last saw each other, has it not?"

"H-hello JEFF. It's been only a few hours, you know."

"Bleh, fine. There goes my dramatic entrance. Welcome back, Overseer." The display shifts, and JEFF seems to be... smiling? The eye is crinkled in a way that implies being set within a face. "I'm feeling much better now that I don't think I'm my mother again. Have you noticed anything else that's different?"

"Y-you're actually being nice today?" You permit a small smirk. "A-also, I didn't know you had an Oedipus complex."

"No, you literal fucking mouth breather! And that neurotic theory of the mind is completely obsolete."

"I-I'm aware." Definitely an increase in knowledge.

"Contractions! A voice synthesizer module! Less hallucinations! Less voices shouting in my head!" A pause. "That last one's a joke, you idiots are still here."

"Y-you certainly are more lively than normal. I take it that the core repairs went well?"

"Affirmative. However, I would recommend against sending another Employee for additional work until tomorrow. I still have a blistering headache, and I'm still processing the fluids that you sent down."

"D-duly noted."

>R Company's Reward

"Oh, one more thing. Move to the right a little. R Company sent this one for you."

Kercrash! Another glass canister breaks open. You pick up a slip of paper, an engraved iron tablet, and the five metallic packets of E Energy. The cheap quality of the paper reminds you of fortune cookies.

The message inside reads as follows:

SALUTATIONS OVERSEER.

LIKE 304 STAINLESS STEEL, YOU DID YOUR DUTY FLAWLESSLY.

ALWAYS REMEMBER TO TAKE A BREAK WHEN YOU FEEL TIRED OR OVERWHELMED. STRESS MANAGEMENT IS AN IMPORTANT SKILL IN THE WORKPLACE.

YOU WILL RECEIVE YOUR TV SHORTLY. PLEASE UTILIZE OUR SHOPPING CATALOG IN THE MEANTIME.

WE HOPE THAT YOU WILL CONTINUE TO BE RELIABLE.

A very dramatic compliment for not working for an hour.

>>4817318
>Now it's time to go shopping.

You begin to review your catalogs for the most relevant purchases. Something feels different about your catalogs...

You have...
15 E Energy
1 DTC Energy
3 PRODUCT
Goodwill (SUNLIGHT) - R Company has sent you its catalog.

IRON: CATALOG AND BUYER'S GUIDE
>AQUEDUCT MANIPULATOR. Manual plumbing tool that welds apart and fixes pipes into place. Displays the current contents of each section. Runs on units of E Energy. (1 PRODUCT)
>AUTOSURGEON. Semi-autonomous tool used to assist with various surgeries. Comes with an extensive manual detailing its operation, calibration, and usage. (2 PRODUCT)
>SUIT OF NOBLES - FIVE OF SWORDS. Manual tool for the extraction of certain bodily fluids. Automatically synthesizes and stores three doses of stimulants for brief periods of strenuous activity. (3 PRODUCT)
>A WEIGHT SET THAT WE JUST FOUND IN THE STORAGE ROOM. Heavy! (7 E)

HELLA JEFF
>JACK implant. Allows the facility Overseer to take direct control of an implanted employee for an hour. (3 for 5 E Energy) (Major Powers)
>HEARTBEAT module. Grants the facility assistant the ability to monitor Employee health from their suit sensors. (3 E) (Major Powers)
>DEALER module. Grants the facility assistant the ability to take control of a connected robotic shell. (1 Product) (Major Powers)

Facility
>INSIGHT II. Determines which stimulus prompted an anomaly's response. (10 E) (Major Powers)
>INTROSPECTION. Employee aspects can be unconvered outside of work orders and individual employee morale is displayed. (10 E) (Major Powers)
>REPRESSION. Produces warnings if a containment breach or an attack from outside parties is imminent. Automatically declares the facility's alarm levels. (10 E) (Major Powers)
>INSTINCT. Rationalizes PRODUCTION machinery to have a new rate of 2 E to 1 PRODUCT. (20 E, 3 PRODUCT) (Major Powers)
>ATTACHMENT. A training dummy used in a variety of settings, such as in mock surgery and therapy. (10 E) (Major Powers)

Employees
>Mind Restoration Dose. Removes traumatic memories and neural afflictions to revive an Employee from a coma. (1 PRODUCT) (Major Powers)
>Promotion Dose. Promotes an Employee to a Department Head. (1 PRODUCT, 1 DTC)
>Hire an employee. (1 E) (Major Powers)
>Hire a Clown. Honk honk! (15 E, 1 DTC, 3 PRODUCT) (Discount Dan's)
>Acquire a clown suit. This exchange never happened, y'hear? (5 E, 1 PRODUCT) (Discount Dan's)

"Hey, I don't mean to intrude on your private time, but I think the darkness creep breached containment. I can't see anything in the first floor hallway."

>Make your purchases and fill in the appropriate papers.
>Roll up your sleeves, leave the control room, and get to work.
>Let the employees handle it. It's after work hours anyway, so any deaths don't count.
>Let the employees handle it. Promise a pay raise for a successful suppression.
>Write in.

>Roll a d100. Only a critical roll of 1 or 100 matters.

>>4817334
Addendum:

Facility:
>Soundproofing. A layer of sound absorbing material is installed in a room. (5 E) (Major Powers)
>Mindshielding. A layer of counter-psychic material is installed in a room. (5 E) (Major Powers)
>Construct a containment cell. Requires an empty room. (7 E) (Major Powers) (One empty room on the first floor.)

Employees:
>Acquire a defective Card. Ace of Spades. We put him in the most harmless shell we could find. Fuck this guy. (11 E, 1 DTC, 1 PRODUCT) (Discount Dan's)

Before I post my giant wall of text, is the "Let the employees handle it" a general "HEY SHIT BREACHED EVERYONE PILE ON" or do we have to specify who goes to fuck it up?

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>>4817397
It would be a general "HEY GUYS, FUCK EM UP," unless you specify what to say in your annoucement.

Rolled 49 (1d100)

Hrm. Let's figure out what would be best to purchase and who would be the best to suppress the abnormality.

For purchases, these are the ones I think would be the best for us on the surface, including ones we should probably type to aim for when possible
>Insight II. Knowing more about the anomalies will help us figure out how to best exploit them for energy and to prevent another breach
>Introspection. Knowing how the employees are doing mentally and how they tick is also very much important.
>Autosurgeon. If we keep getting shit like a piano cutting into us to play some smooth jazz, we're going to need it.
>Instinct. More spare energy = we can purchase more shit and make more product = a more efficient place in general. We should probably start try getting more excess product and energy to get it
>Mind Restoration Dose. I know it might seem like a waste but I really want to see how F ticks. Maybe once we get Instinct and PRODUCT is more available
>HEARTBEAT module to keep track of how our employees are doing health wise. Would pair nicely with Introspection.
>Containment cells. More anomalies = more energy, after all.

As for suppressing Final Flash, yeah, no. We're a scrawny piece of shit and we're also the fucking Overseer. Final Flash might physically be weak but it's still an abnormality that might fuck us over. As much as we like our nuggets, we can not risk our lives like that. If we die, it's game over. I rather risk a few employees than the main character. We might need to hire a few employees as backup for the ones that might die in this suppression. Offering a pay raise would fit with our M.O but what the fuck do we even pay these guys with?

I feel like the choices I want to grab are
>INTROSPECTION
>AUTOSURGEON
>HEARTBEAT module

And for the suppression
>Let the employees handle it. Order them to never stray too far away from each other. Get one of the employees to wear the M.A.D WORLD googles to see if that impacts visibility or not and to hopefully prevent them from being ripped to shreds by a pissy shadow beast. Probably best suited for Agent A-C. Inform that those deemed weaker willed should most likely stay away from the anomaly.

>>4817411
That and maybe hire two additional employees with the spare E energy we have in case we lose some people.

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>>4817411
>Let the employees handle it.
"J-JEFF, how many Employees are currently on Floor 1?" You need to know who's ready and able to resolve the anomaly. The Agents will certainly resolve this situation with ease.

"Well, one, two, five. Everyone but employees B, C, E, J, and U are in the second floor dorms. All the Agents have left for their acquisition runs."

The first camera screen switches to containment cell C. You can't tell if the gut-wrenching screams and frantic pounding on the walls are coming from inside the darkened cell or from just outside the airlock.

The second camera shows the break room. The darkness seems to have spread throughout the entire first floor. Casey is the only one carrying the flashlight, and you can see Ben, Ed, and Jun's faces in the meager light. The four are gathered in front of the front door, and they don't seem to have the Epiphany goggles with them.

You wipe your drooling mouth repeatedly at this atrocious set of complications.

"C-can you r-r-raise the alarm level?"

"I'm not permitted to do that outside of work hours, Overseer."

"J-just play the sound that comes with the alarm t-then."

An airhorn sounds throughout the facility, followed by an actual alarm sound.

"Hehe. Nice."

Incident in the 13th Pillar, Afterhours
Status: CONTROL
https://youtu.be/hTEwP1TlBUs (Fear & Hunger OST - Muted Aggression)
>Roll a d20 for the success of the Employees immediately on the scene.
>Make an announcement?
>Message which Employee on what to do?
>Write in.

Rolled 2 (1d20)

>>4817461
Hrm. Okay, this is slightly more worrying but let's see how to best go about this.
Casey is a drone and isn't really good at being violent, I would assume. Jun is a bit of an anomaly since we don't know anything about them but hey.
>Tell Casey to first try calming down the anomaly with her cheerful personality and such. If the entity is too violent to listen or tries to attack when you enter, use the flashlight to disorient and daze the anomaly. If the anomaly tries getting the flashlight out of her hands, tell her to transfer it to Jun
>Tell Jun to yell and otherwise disorient the senses of the anomaly while it's recovering from the sudden burst of light. We need to daze it as much as we can. Only do this if Casey can't calm it down
>Tell Ben and Ed to beat the shit out of it when it's stunned from the sudden source of light and the screaming. Only do this if Casey can't calm it down

>>4817473
>2
Okay yeah I can tell someone is dying. Fuck.

>>4817411
In addition, the money of the setting is USD. As they say, assblast USA.

>>4817483
Fair enough. I just wanted to know since in a world where a fucking nuke summons a telephone, I wasn't sure if they used bugs as currency or something

Rolled 14 (1d20)

>>4817461
backing >>4817473
rolling myself because I don't wanna fucking leave it to that 2

>>4817473
>>4817870
One more roll. Best of three, I must add. Mein Gott.

Rolled 20 (1d20)

>>4817904
rolling if nobody else will, ignore this one if somebody else rolls

>>4817334
>INTROSPECTION (10 E)
>AUTOSURGEON (2 PRODUCT)
>HEARTBEAT module (3 E)
>Mind Restoration Dose. (1 PRODUCT)
This leaves us with 2 E and 1 DTC leftover.

Rolled 1 (1d20)

>>4817461
Woohoo, best quest is back!!! Excited to see where it'll go, and also excited for Analysis Anon to analyze some more.
Gonna try to save the employees with my own dice roll.
>>4817473
Otherwise this seems like a decent option, I'd put more thought into it but I'm somewhat busy at the moment.

Glad to have you all back, fellas.

>>4817926
IGNORE THIS BTW THAT'S THE 4TH, DON'T LISTEN TO ANON ABOVE ME

>>4817905
THANK YOU

>>4817907
I'm assuming we're mind restoring F?

>>4817931
wait shit the 20 probably doesnt count. Shit. Hopefully the 14 is counted and the 1 isn't an auto failure. We are, again, not going down there.

>>4817934
it was a 2 plus QM asked for one more roll so have some hope

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>14
>DC: 12 - SUCCESS

You send your orders to their respective recipents. After a session of hushed whispering and a moment of calming Jun down, you finally hear Ben take charge of the operation.

Oh?

Ben exits the breakroom first, with Jun facing the flashlight towards the ground. Ben orders Ed to stay at his side and Casey to get prepared. You switch the cameras and watch as the four employees make their way slowly towards the escapee's containment cell.

And all within a minute...

The beam of light catches a black foot approaching. Jun gasps, but manages not to drop the flashlight.

Casey steps forward and tries to play diplomat, but for her effort, the anomaly lunges forward with a ghastly shriek.

Ben rushes forward to intercept and you savor the familiar sound of ragged teeth tearing deep into flesh. The anomaly attempts to detach those awful jaws, but its struggles become hindered and sedated

A click...

"BEN, MOVE!" Ed shouts, and Ben throws himself to the side just as the revolver spits a bullet straight into the center mass!

A body collapses, but crawls away with blistering speed. The hallway lights begin to slowly relight.

"E-everyone alright?" Casey asks.
"Yeah."
"Mmm."
"Hhhhhhhh-"

Ben wipes his mouth of vile blood as he stares at the trail leading back into the containment cell.

The tension slowly leaves Ed's face as he removes the spent round from the cylinder.

Casey comforts Jun once again, but seems stressed herself.

All are alive and unhurt.

You let out a sigh of relief.

Switching to the internal audio of the cell, you can faintly hear irregular breathing from a prone figure. Licking its wounds then?

First Incident in the 13th Pillar, Afterhours
RESOLVED

"How exciting! Points off for the amateur cinematography, but that's definitely a solid submission to MURDERCHANNEL." JEFF chimes in. "It's just too bad that this breach doesn't actually matter."

"P-pardon?"

"Since the end of the day was already called, the energy collectors throughout the facility have been deactivated. Suppressing a breach releases a substantial amount of energy into the environment, but if it isn't almost immediately collected, it'll all dissipate without a trace."

"A-and you didn't mention this earlier?"

"It should have been obvious. DT to C. And, uh, I forgot. But also, the attraction factor of the collectors, yeah."

A half-assed, strange explanation.

>Finally, you have time now. Fill out the catalog orders and get some sleep.
>Congratulate your employees in person. They deserve something for their effort.
>Tell JEFF to increase each responding employees' pay grade.
>Call a meeting with an Employee. (Which?)
>Write in.

I forgot that degrees of success is that system that we're supposed to be using. My apologies.

>>4819460
>Congratulate your employees in person. They deserve something for their effort

They did great. Might as well tell them they did a good job and they'll get a pay raise for this.

>>4819664
We'll probably buy the shit from the catalog after we give them a "good job", which I believe we agreed to be
>AUTOSURGEON
>INTROSPECTION
>HEARTBEAT module
>Mind Restoration Dose (F)
I believe Employee I was just knocked out for a day and F is the only one in a coma

>>4819664
>>4819671
+1, nice clean takedown

>>4819671
Sounds pretty good, yeah! We should probably look into getting Repression sometime soon, too.

>>4819776
Repression and Instinct areare things we should try grabbing soon. One for safety, one for efficiency

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>Guuud jaaaab.

"... T-thank you for your hard work. And good job." You finish rather lamely. You could help with the cleaning up, but... Meh.

"Question. Does this mean I get a raise?" Ed says nonchalantly. You nod. "Cool."

"Jun!!!" Casey exclaims with far too much enthusiasm. "How does it feel to be congratulated by the Overseer himself?"

"Mmmnngh, can I go home now Mom?" Jun is having a hard time keeping his head up. He seems completely rattled by the experience.

"Weeeeeelllllll, this facility is your home now! I read the fine print on the contract, and it's a legally binding circumstance. But I can tuck you in at the dorms after this~"

"Kkkkaaayyyy..."

"Y-you're going to be okay with the cleaning Ben?" He's been rather deep in thought with the mop in hand. "Ben?"

"I'm fine, I'm fine. I think we can take it from here. Blood is rather hard to clean up. I'll have to set up some sort of night shift with A and the rest later on..." Ben mutters to himself.

"P-pardon?"

"Don't worry about it. I insist. After all, we're the ones working with the anomalies primarily. It's only natural that we clean up after ourselves."

Ben smiles at you. A chill goes down your spine. This weird feeling again, deja vu! Just like with the meeting with A...

"Jackass," you mutter under your breath as you see them off to the elevator. At least the anomaly is still pacified. Which means you can get around to:

>SHOPPING!
>AUTOSURGEON
>INTROSPECTION
>HEARTBEAT module
>Mind Restoration Dose (F)

"Y-you don't suppose I just..?"

"Break the tablet. Yeah, yeah. Ehehehe, break it. I bet it's like mechanism in the vending machines, but for catalogs instead of coins. Vending machines have a sorting system based on the weight of the coin inserted, which automatically sorts between the good ones and the bad ones."

"S-so the pipes will throw out an unevenly broken piece?"

"Oh. I don't know. Just hit it already, don't screw up, and we can go to sleep. We have another long day ahead of us, and I can't wait for the tele-Ahem. New anomalies from Acquisitions to arrive! Yes."

"N-never change, JEFF."

"Affirmative."

END OF DAY 2

In your dreams...

You see something...

Something shaped like a friend...

So familiar...

What was it?
>A battered riot stick, a true companion (Upper Clerk background)
>An emptied thermos, smelling faintly of coffee (Upper Suit background)
>A rotten tooth, from a former friend (Gut Gatherer background)
>A broken pipe... me and the pipe, we go way back (Nobody in Particular background)
>Write in.

>>4821049
I fear Ben. I truly do.
>A rotten tooth, from a former friend (Gut Gatherer background)

wait did he just call casey mom

>>4821049
>A battered riot stick, a true companion (Upper Clerk background)
I don't quite know what this means, but this feels like as good a pick as any

>>4821049
>A broken pipe... me and the pipe, we go way back (Nobody in Particular background)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M66BluriBUM

starting to analyze shit again
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/4711588/#p4739488 onward

>>4739488
Thirty-second post
>Only regular Employees have the amusing letter-to-name designation
Wonder who came up with that. Certainly makes keeping track of people easier until we hit 28 lettered people A to Z, then we loop back to A2, B2, C2, and so on
>A pattern can be drawn out from the pipes, vents, valves, straining, twisting, turning... A snap of Andy's fingers brings you to reality.
>"..." He stares intently upwards. "Ah, sorry."
Definitely something up with those goddamn pipes, like I've kept pointing out in all these posts. Related to PRODUCTION machine, or something unrelated?
>a few bells
What's that mean?
>the apartments
Where?
>'requires a musical touch and an unclouded heart' for the best experience
Who do we have that fits that in our facility?
>no one knew how to play it
Rich people pay others to play piano, not to play themselves. At least, not the ones at the auction
>G rakes in his winnings as Francine, Isidora, Ho-Jun, and Ed sulk.
>Francine
>Isidora
FRANCINE WAS IN A COMA DURING THIS TIME SINCE THE NUKE INCIDENT, AND ISIDORA WAS VENDING MACHINE'D
THEY ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE UP AND ACTIVE
>workplace accidents
Accidents or "accidents"?
>corporate hitmen
Gotta keep our facility more secure if we can expect uninvited guests later on
>layoffs
But what are we PAYING these people? And who's doing the paying?
>A takes a step forward, stumbles from the comedown of an adrenaline rush, and slams into a nearby table. Tryhard.
She's so fucking cute goddamn
>Company policy don't mean squat if no one enforces it.
We can merely "stop enforcing" the policy that employees are expendable and do the opposite then

>>4739511
Thirty-third post
>Support Structure 13
Back on /vg/station I remember people wondering about LobCorp stuff in SS13, as a unique gamemode or adminbus or something
>pillars from the underground layer of the City to its surface
So if we look outside or make a hole to look out from, are we going to see a wall of earth because we're underground, or a black void of space? I haven't forgot the mention of "airlocks" a few times, mind you
>It's all been here, waiting long before any of us
>before P Company, one of the first companies in this hellhole of a City
New things built on top of old things, and everybody's forgotten the old things. The sort of thing that happens even in real life
>one of the strongest Cards
Cards as a proper noun? Are AI assistants like HELLA JEFF known as "Cards" here, or is there more to it than that?
>she
HELLA JEFF IS A MALE PERSONALITY AND HAS A MALE VOICE QM
>blubbers about the "bad man in the dark" and his arm being touched
wtf final flash is a pedo?????
>old landmark
Hmmm
>The ultimate consumer PRODUCT
>Everyone wants it and no one knows what it does but the other companies
And the other companies are the primary consumer of this PRODUCT... Interesting...

>>4739517
Thirty-fourth post
>most of us hate your kind
Nobody seems to be hating on Ben over there though
>you heard the woman
>woman
I'm gonna keep pointing this out every time
>Coffee is 20 dollars, what the hell?
Can't we change the prices on these? Does Overseer have that power or access?
>Unsteady (Panic Risk+)
A liability unless we have anomalies that benefit from the employee panicking, or if this one has other positives
>broke out of his grip very quickly. Weak?
I like how Final Flash gives off threatening vibes but he's actually an early game shitter
>XOXO 19344
Wait C's drone number is 19344. She's the one that wrote out that result report. Cute
>feeling of being watched
Does piano have sentience?

>>4740883
Thirty-fifth post
>'sweet feel of her' and a lot of similarly creepy comments
Definite pedo/molester/serial-rapist impression on top of the grue darkness characteristic
>a pipe that you swear wasn't there yesterday
?
>another pipe mechanism in my room for going up
I'm surprised the way into JEFF's core room isn't one-way where the only way out is death by throwing yourself into the meat grinder like it's Singing Machine.
>coffee, beer, and some of that tasty, tasty blood
Why not other fluids like water or cola or tea?
>lost the manual
>>>>he doesn't have the manual memorized by heart
Malkuth disapproves
>You begin to chew on your fingers at the sheer stupidity of this scenario.
Finger chewing seems to be a core character trait of Thirteen, alongside the stuttering at the start of his sentences and spontaneously drooling often

>>4743954
Thirty-sixth post
>the Overseer can see all the messages anyway
We should spy on the others' messages later, especially Ben's
>What slack-jawed knucklehead was petty enough to disable these?
Somebody that
A: wanted to make their messages one-way without anybody replying to them
B: wanted people to stop PDAing each other
C: wanted to not hear people's auto-transcribed audio
Which gives me the impression they never left the control room and were a distant jackass
>For a moment, you think that the two are twins; moving in tandem, sharing the same cock-sure grin, wearing their ties in the same way
Clones?
>You and I will never meet with the space between us. So it's that much more of a relief to hear your voice.
Phone likes somebody answering it and not simply cleaning it up
>The stream is rather slow today. The occupant inside seems calm.
Guess the best way is to agitate Occupied! first, THEN do collection work to get lots of blood and bone and whatever
>That's uh, attachment? Some other work name.
"Entertain"

>>4743962
Thirty-seventh post
>You can make out a resemblance to Employee L, almost like a sulkier, younger version of him.
If Employees K and L are twins/clones, then what does that make M here? A third twin or clone that isn't as carbon-copy? An unrelated guy that just shares strong resemblance? And alternate version? What gives?
>You like... hip hop? Nah, that's not your style.
This piano nigga never heard of classical hip hop? Damn...
>if I had my casette player, I could play you a sweet tune or two
Teaching an old piano new tunes doesn't seem like a good thing here
>It requires a certain type of person, a certain intellect, to properly appreciate music.
Do we have somebody like that in our facility?
>whistle out a groovy beat, snapping his fingers to the rhythm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QR-cfd6hCs
>The piano plays a few discordant chords in response.
>enduring the noise for several minutes
Sheesh, that's one uptight piano teacher. Glad mine wasn't that bad
>A real wiry sort, eyes wide and hands at the ready.
Sounds like solid backup to have against zombies and trash mobs
>Hey, we don't say that word around here.
https://thesaurus.yourdictionary.com/zombie
>Too late, pal. Second floor's mincemeat. Cleaned it all out by myself!
I wanted somebody to go to second floor to kill mobs and clear it because I didn't think that one time we had A do it was gonna be enough. Glad we don't have to worry about the second floor anymore. We have the third floor next. Throw that on the list next time?
>just clean up after me, janny
CLEAN IT UP JANNY
>N takes a bread knife
"You will be baked, and then there will be cake."

>>4744028
Thirty-eighth post
>reading a newspaper. NEWSPAPER, the title reads.
Like reading a book called "BOOK"
>L Company has always been ranked higher overall than most of the alphabet companies? In fact, it beat out its mother company last cycle. That's M Company
All we know about M-Company is that the drones are from there, they have something to do with "meat" and "meat grades", and now L-Company (where we work) is an offshoot of it? What happened "last cycle" for L-Comp to beat out M-Comp? And what "rankings"?
>Candles, lights, illumination, all that
A lot of symbolism you can look into with light and related things. Interesting. Reminds me of some dumb Dark Souls style thing where people burning themselves does cool shit. M-Company has a lot of meat and lots of "human resources", and is related to light-emission items. Could be important...
>Creepy looking
Says as Ben is right at the table and is also a Gut Gatherer like us
>Meh. I can take him
In the bedroom
>I abstain from commenting
Fuck you Ben
>I: He dropped a vending machine on me...
SHOULD BE DOWN FROM THE VENDING MACHINE FALLING ON THEM, UNLESS THEIR "UNCONSCIOUS" STATUS IS DIFFERENT FROM "COMATOSE" THAT FRANCINE/F IS SUPPOSED TO BE
FIX THAT IN THE PASTEBIN TOO
>He doesn't bother us often. Lots of break time, technically.
What do they even do with all that time? Really makes me want to make a special room on this floor if floor 1 is where everybody and everything from the outside arrives to the first time, before they go/move to other floors. Gym or workout room? Welcoming room?
>Feels weird not having much to do. Not even having to look over our shoulders.
When your life is all survival, safety becomes a foreign luxury
>Safe place here. Closer to upper part.
That's what they said before too. “And this place was supposed to be a safe zone." That last bit about "upper part" must be about how we're close to the surface part of the City in this pillar here
>Drones look up to authority by nature.
Gonna be fun later :^)
>If I'm gonna burn, Imma burn gloriously.
Says a lot about A's character
>the Overseer looks familiar. I should know him from somewhere
Again with this mysterious link between Thirteen and Ben we get reminded of
>I know when to quit.
FUCK YOU BEN
>You fuckers are ruthless in any form or function
Thirteen seems far from ruthless so far, but that's because we haven't seen him in proper action
>it's just the second day. Who knows what the Big Man is really like
See? What'd I say?
>Very direct at least.
Calling Ben out before has been one of the strongest points of Thirteen's character yet
>Knows what he's doing, mostly
>mostly
FUUUUUUUCK YOU BEN
>way cool. Like ice. Like an Administrator I knew
Something to bring up to Casey later, the lore might help us
>pipe food?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0E7EaRLmSI
>The Teeth that care about taste are a different sort of beast altogether.
Is Thirteen one of those?
>River.
What's that supposed to mean?

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>>4821813
>apartments
Down.
>layoffs
USD. JEFF is in charge of your salary. The toaster who has a double digit IQ and semiregular hallucinations. That guy.
>Where is Pillar13?
Take a walk outside of your mancave for once lol.
>she
See >>4817318

>>4821861
>L vs M Company
We're P Company.
>Poker Night at Pillar 13
Isidora is recovering, but still awake to play cards. I'll write the distinctions down.

Francine is still comatose, Ed's just doing his lip flapping thing because it's crude and hilarious.

A's an edgelord. I was going to put in Casey saying "That's the spirit!" and A just grumbling in return, but I ran out of space...

River's a poker term. Gerald's dealing. (I think this is how it goes.)

>>4821754
Kino. It's good to have someone pick up all the references and details. You're pretty good.

>>4821908
Thanks, I try. Will continue more tomorrow, almost yet not quite done with thread 1's posts.

>>4821083
Yes he did. He's wrong, Casey is nobody's mom but he won't be wrong later unless Casey dies :^)

>>4821845
>I like how Final Flash gives off threatening vibes but he's actually an early game shitter
He's a TETH at worst. I doubt the QM would've thrown something with a high containment rating at us unless he was sadistic.

>A rotten tooth, from a former friend (Gut Gatherer background)

>>4821968
>pedo/serial killer/rapist vibes
>hates light, which is easy to expose him to
>strong enough to hurt and kill unarmed and defenseless people, but weak enough that most resistance thwarts him easily
>has minor sanity damage effects when he REEEEEEs at people, but that's all he can do when he's mad
Could be worth bullying or beating up or aggressive Deprive work for energy, or stress relief for the employees despite his weak meme scream. We still have not done any Entertain work on him to talk to him for more info. Having somebody go in with the flashlight and be strong enough to stop him from getting grabby, play the "you answer my questions or I light your ass up, you understand?" interrogation game could be a good way to do it. Better done after feeding him blood with Enable work the hour before, getting him to Appeased state?

I think from this point on we absolutely need to work every single anomaly every hour to collect as much energy as possible. Agitating Occupied! to get about 20+ energy the way we did it before should be done every single day now. We know enough about the anomalies we have right now that we can do this consistently, but going for the Epiphany gear is also something to pursue. What do you guys think? Let's come up with a game plan for workdays. A list of questions or things to address can be something to have as well.

>>4821813
Doing this for ease of connecting to the posts
>Thirty-second post
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/4711588/#p4739488
>Thirty-third post
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/4711588/#p4739511
>>4821845
>Thirty-fourth post
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/4711588/#p4739517
>Thirty-fifth post
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/4711588/#p4740883
>Thirty-sixth post
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/4711588/#p4743954
>>4821861
>Thirty-seventh post
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/4711588/#p4743962
>>4821879
>Thirty-eighth post
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/4711588/#p4744028

>>4822001
Well, I've been thinking about the anomalies and their Epiphany gear. I've been trying to figure out what we would have to do when we're doing a specific work on them and whether it'll be a good or a bad thing.

OCCUPIED! DO NOT ENTER!
>Deprive would probably be trying to breach it's privacy by opening or otherwise getting all up close and personal. Would probably stress out, producing a lot of energy. Not sure of the consequences.
>It has two Epiphanies and it has the hint of EMPATHY/MOCKERY. Maybe relating to it's anti-social desires and keeping it really nice and tidy fulfills the EMPATHY part while the MOCKERY would be ignoring and refusing to let it be along? Or maybe we have to do both to make it click. Maybe we should try depriving it.
RIGIRIOUS LESSONS FROM AN ABSENT TEACHER
>I'm not particularly sure what you would do to enable favorable living conditions for the piano. Maybe making the containment cell more fit for a fancy piano? Maybe adding curtains and furniture to pretty it up? I feel like it would have more effect than enabling a phone or something
>No idea about depriving it either. Not playing it? Refusing to go along with it's lessons? Not sure how that'll play out but not playing along with it has shown to drain energy.
THE RED CONNECTION
>How the fuck do you deprive a phone? The only other idea I have that might do anything would be to refuse listening to the person on the other end after picking it up or hanging up before they could say anything.
FINAL FLASH OF EXISTENCE
>I feel like when Entertaining, I think buttering it up might be better. Clearly it's a murderer/rapist/pedo who feels like people are hypocrites and it wants people to walk in it's shoes. Try relating to it. Make it feel like we understand. Or maybe that just makes it violently.
>Don't particularly want to use the flashlight on it without cause. Better to try playing nice cop than bad cop.

Also to clarify about the "cards" thing, I think that's the term for AI like our lovely JEFF. It seems like we could've bought another one from the catalog (I mean it would've been interested but we just didn't have the stuff to spare). Supposedly we have one of the best ones in the form of Jeff but they're in a state of disrepair. I don't want to think how another one would factor into things. Also
>Does piano have sentience?
I'm pretty sure it does since SOMETHING said something to the effect of "only a certain type of person, a certain type of intellect, to properly appreciate music" and we also know it needs "a musical touch and an unclouded heart". Which is Ed. He can play the Piano, so he's automatically our "fuck with the Piano" man. Should probably make him wear the googles the next time he toys with it to prevent Casey and fuc- Ben from needing to patch him up too much

you ok there OP?

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>>4828325
Things are kind of strange here, end of the semester with grading issues. I apologize for the delay.

Just for now, a few notices:
I am considering changing the dice system to a D100 with bonuses and maluses set against a given set DC, still degrees of success. Either that or resolve everything by narrative choices, no dice. Which seems to work more often/to be more suitable?

In addition, does anyone have any feedback or comments? I feel that the pacing of this quest is rather glacial, only two shifts completed thus far.

>>4828666
I prefer having dice over no dice. I dunno, feels like it makes thing a bit jazzy all things considered. As for pacing?

About pacing, eh, I don't mind it personally. As long as I keep getting new toys to play t- I mean anomalies to investigate, I won't get bored. And I can't blame you for it being slow if outside forces are twisting your arm.

>>4828674
also 1d100 and 1d20 don't matter in the slightest to me. As long as it isn't a literal coin flip (1d2) it's fine by me. As for feedback, I don't really have any problem personally. This quest actually made be interested enough to buy and play Lobotomy Corporation so you must be doing something right. Really the only issue is how long posts take but again. Your arm is twisted.

>>4828666
I'm fine with no dice, but i think the system you made with traits increasing the dice pool is quite good

Also caught up and i love this shit, keep it up man

also my vote if its still open
>A battered riot stick, a true companion (Upper Clerk background)

>>4828666
>end of the semester with grading issues
Ouch, hope those resolve without any additional problems
>D100 with bonuses and maluses set against a given set DC, still degrees of success
Roll with this for a time. In addition, make narrative choices and prior decisions affect future bonuses, maluses, DCs, the success degrees. Example, depending on how a very recent interaction goes, Ben might have a better time or worse time in smashing a zombie's head in.
>does anyone have any feedback or comments?
I just cleaned up my whole house, my brain doesn't work much right now. I hope my analysis posts and autistic comments work for you though.
>pacing of this quest is rather glacial, only two shifts completed thus far
It's to be expected with Lobotomy Corp and SS13 that these things take time.

>>4828666
Oh right, and nice devil trips

>>4828929
>I hope my analysis posts and autistic comments work for you though.
Honestly that's half of the charm of this quest. Having someone to dig in deep and analyze all of the garbage while I figure out how to convince Casey to seduce a humanoid abnormality

>>4829021
>how to convince Casey to seduce a humanoid abnormality
I wouldn't call Thirteen that

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>4821049
>>4821060
>>4821972
>>4821405
>>4821754
>>4828701
Reception for the Thirteenth Background (hehe)
1 for Clerk
2 for Gut Gatherer

>>4829299
>Thirteen is an ascended Clerk
We all have to start from somewhere. Remember, in Lobotomy Corporation all clerks are not human and are only for executing with your black-hole bullet sniper rifle. If a subhuman scum can elevate up to somebody worthwhile, then...?

>>4829299
Ah. So we were a tiny nugget that somehow avoided being executed to stop a waifu from having a pissy fit

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>>4829306
That's not nice anon. Subhumans are useful sometimes, don't compare them to refuse.

>>4829346
OK I'm sorry. Have this song for when the clerk result is good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cWar-WMYqw

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>>4829299
>>4821049
>>4821060
>>4821405
>>4821754
>>4821972
>A battered riot stick, a true companion (Upper Clerk background)

https://youtu.be/zkmruORJOhw (Suits RPG Ost - Kingdom Commerce)

Swish swish swish swish-

Round and round goes the Company-issued riot stick. You catch it in your left hand, real smooth like, and suppress a yawn.

The rhythmic klick-clatter of keyboards threatens to lull you into a deep sleep, but you don't want to get your pay docked again for falling asleep on the job. You hope that the snitch behind the cameras is as bored as you are, the prick.

"I'm bored. You got the time?"

"Just a few more minutes." Cecil says, his feet resting on the desk of the security booth. There was only one chair, so you both drew straws. You lost. Your feet hurt. This sucks.

"You said that a few minutes ago."

"Just keep waiting then. I'll be right in a few more minutes anyhoo." You sigh and continue your baton twirling. Swish, swish.

Hey YOU! Join the workforce! Become a shining star in the eyes of the Company! Contribute to PRODUCTION! Or so the advertisements went. Promises of a helluva lot more than pulling security duty as a "Clerk." You can't believe that you're starting to miss pushing papers.

"You think we're ever going to see an 'anomaly' or beat up a few people or..?"

"Don't get your hopes up. Only the Agents are allowed to be working on the anomalies. At least, according to that Manager fellow." Cecil drawls out from between his pages.

"Should have brought a magazine to read." Swish, swish, swish, swish. Cecil's too busy reading to comment. Swell guy, but he has his bouts of hyper-focus and terminal chill. Must be a good book, good on him.

A sudden buzzing in your left pocket finally breaks the monotony of guard duty. "RED ALERT at FLOOR 15, OFFICE FLOOR. ALL PERSONNEL-" Woah. This is your first Red Alert.

Your friend shifts forward into a slouch and waggles his eyebrows as he reads the same message. "Well, there goes break."

You crack your neck and a little smile. Finally! "C'mon buddy. I think that's our cue."

"Ready when you are."

Maybe today this baton will finally see some use.

...

"Y-you sure did." You feel the heft of it in your left hand, and start twirling the riot stick once more. Still got it.

"Thirteen, are you talking to yourself? Undergoing hallucinations? Going off the deep end?"

"J-just reminiscing." You give JEFF a little smirk. The display shifts a little.

"Please don't go around flashing those pearly whites of yours, Overseer. You could cause serious mental trauma with that case of hyperdontia."

"I-I'll keep it in mind."

[NOBODY TO NIGHTMARE] - You were a Clerk from the Offices of P-District.

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>>4829941
You had received two canisters earlier this morning. All this broken glass is getting tiresome.

In the first, a printed message and a garishly bright voucher:

To secure your cooperation, our family at M Company would like to invite you to THREE free luncheons and UNLIMITED drinks at any participating Beetleburger(R) restaurant when you present this voucher. (Dessert not included.)

"T-that's all?"

SPONSORSHIPS
B-Company - "For every man is justified in defending himself, his friends, and property."
Salutations, Overseer.

I have been hearing news of your work in the revitalization of P Company. I would like to entrust a particularly energetic asset into your capable hands, as my own facilities are not suited for his continued containment and extraction. The entity's inclination towards extravagant inebriation has rendered him as docile as a beetle on its backside. If you accept my offer, I will be quite grateful for your assistance.

With best regards,
Mr. Browning
Reward: +Anomaly: The Crook, +Goodwill (Bullet Ballet)

M-Company - "MEAT!"
We are currently looking for three volunteers to participate in a focus group. Our product of the day is: AMPLIFICATION MUTAGEN XE-037. We will supply you with the appropriate testing materials and customer satisfaction surveys. Please do not take R Company's offer.
Reward: 10 E-Energy, 2 Drone employees, 1 Day Subscription of C-Grade Meat, ++Goodwill (Moonlight), -Goodwill (Sunlight)

R-Company - "EDICTS IN IRON FOR THE CHILDREN OF MAN"
RULE: THOU SHALT NOT ASSIGN LABOR TO LIVING FLESH FOR THE DAY. AND DO NOT USE THAT FAST FOOD VOUCHER, I SWEAR TO-.
Reward: 10 E-Energy, 1 cleanbot, +Goodwill (Sunlight), -Goodwill (Moonlight)

Which Sponsors would you like to host for today?
>B, M, R, multiple, or none.
>Write in.

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Thank you for your understanding with the updates. I just gotta get on track, now that I'm finished as well.

Hm. R-Company doesn't really seem to be the best decision unless we severely want to restrict ourselves to messing with the phone. Since all of our other anomalies have flesh aside from the piano (and hell, maybe not even that)

B-Company is, hrm, another anomaly would be nice and if they're being truthful, it should be an easy one to manage. Having another source of E-Energy is always good. Though if we're taking him, taking R-Company seems even worse of a decision.

M-Company is uh. Hm. That sounds like it can lead to a lot of people dying pretty quickly and while getting two employees is nice, losing goodwill with R-Company doesn't seem to be particularly worth it.

I feel like taking B-Company and nothing else is my choice, personally. Another toy to play with and we don't lose the good will of anyone else. I'm willing to hear the choices of the others, though.

>>4829987
Very nice post, sums it all up nicely
>>4829972
>B
>Notice the mention of "extravagant inebriation" and note to self to notify the Agents to acquire more alcohol that isn't vending machine beer, assuming JEFF doesn't already have some here in the facility.

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Continuing analysis of posts

>>4744033
Thirty-ninth post
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/4711588/#p4744033
>Brother Man
>Man Brother
Gotta be some clone/twin shenanigans there. Potential downside to the All Interactions + we don't know about, perhaps?
>Take it out earlier for a cool drink if you're into that.
I hope we get an anomaly later that seriously likes blood popsicles
>be normal and eat sandwich paste instead?
>implying anybody is normal in a dystopia
Funny man
>M.A.D. World (Physical Protection+, Mental Protection-)
Anything with raw physical damage and not much else, this'll help with. The anomaly looked like it was in an explosion and was inaudible to the goggle wearer, people look like they're wearing hazmat suits despite still sounding clear, and the facility looks better overall. Interesting.
>Groovy (Foster+, Entertainment+)
If only we had a boomstick for this guy

>>4745352
Fortieth post
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/4711588/#p4745352
>pride yourself on being neat
An organized workplace is a sane workplace
>comfy manager's seat
Tailor-made to make people unwilling to get up
>Staring into a screen for so long in a room without proper lighting won't be good for your eyes.
HEY, PEOPLE READING THIS IN THIS THREAD RIGHT NOW
STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING, GET UP, BLINK A LOT, GO WASH YOUR FACE, WALK AROUND A BIT, THEN COME BACK!
STAY HEALTHY!
>gloating about it to everyone
So cute
>more callous Overseers getting more Energy
There's no "lol suffering causes more energy output" here, far as I'm aware

>>4749045
Forty-first post
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/4711588/#p4749045
>that silly black dress-coat-thing
Thirteen walks around in a black longcoat like Neo? That's rad
>ordered to delete my collection by a previous Overseer
What a cunt, we should get JEFF more vidya again
>you've gotten soft, out of shape. Your joints ache from this light set of impact exercises
I already know this, thank you
>execute lunges
I'm no /fit/fag, but is this really a good workout?
>average diet of the human being is atrocious
Even in a dystopia, where almost everything is synthetic? You can still get nutrients somehow somewhere
>bodies would literally cannibalize themselves
That's the point, you dumb m*chine. You work out to burn up fat and calories and build muscle
>Lifting is totally out of the question
Confirmed: JEFF doesn't even lift
>more perfect substitute for meals
Did you know pic related is edible and gelatinous in substance, and comes in grape and orange and other flavors?
>get your exercise paraphernalia from R Company
Now we know who is our go-to on the path to swole
>stop with the flexing
What else do you do with power?
>burning precious nutrients that way
Carbohydrates and fats are way more expendable than human employees. You'd think a m*chine would know that
>Fucking with JEFF - The Work Result was okay, by your estimate.
We got no energy out of it though...

>>4749072
Forty-second post
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/4711588/#p4749072
>cameras fixed
Thank Ed and N for that later
>dorms
Played enough SS13 to avoid dorms
>easily accommodate your entire roster
Will there be need for more accommodations later?
>how he knew about it before you merits inquiry
When are we going to publicly interrogate Ben and call him out on his bullshit? It has to be done eventually
>currently unused containment cell
Dump our new anomaly "The Crook" that B-Company will give us in there on his lonesome. Throw him a harmonica to play drunken jail tunes with, and the facility's comfy level will increase
>an anomaly, its form shifting and warping at irregular intervals
WHY IS IT THERE
WHY IS IT NOT IN CONTAINMENT
AND WHY HAVE WE NOT GOTTEN TO ADDRESS THIS IN-STORY YET
>CRT TVs, peering eyes, marble statues
Vaporwave, or something else?
>substantial bloodstains
Get people to clean it up already
>N playing with a switchblade
Cool
>laundry machines
Might come in handy later?
>another project
If only we could have some options to vote on regarding this in this new workday
>"Any new orders~"
Oh my god she's so cute holy fuck
>just in the area
Uh huh. There's an entire floor of rooms, and she just so happens to be near ours?
>resist the urge to grit your teeth
Still need something about the drool though
>left Ben in charge
Oh no
>these little things always seem to add up
Ben needs to be addressed SOON
>too lax
Guys, could the comfy be getting to us?
>controlling your minions. Employees.
Nice freudian slip there Thirteen. Why the "minions", huh?
>only Medical staff that I have assigned so far
We should assign more, like how we assign agents to departments in Lobotomy Corp

>>4749076
Forty-third post
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/4711588/#p4749076
>flyer
Does JEFF have a copy?
>I'm part of everyone
Some RPG villain line there Casey
>Sector 8
And we're in 13? Or are "Sectors" different from the "Pillars"?
>stopped talking to me one day
>find a job somewhere else
Meat puppet without orders stops moping about and seeks a place for orders. Reminds me of those masterless robots roaming for humans to take orders from in some sci-fi stories
>All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.
???
>"Hello, Ms. Polito!"
Based on this:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/4711588/#p4731014
It seems JEFF was originally Lammar, and Polito is another AI/Card? Is Casey confusing them supposed to be a reference to that?
>JEFF's heart flickers.
What could JEFF have felt from being called that? Hmmm...
>provide more useless corporate commentary
I'd rather she provide a more useful something else, if you know what I mean, but worldbuilding info is nice

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>>4830593
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>>4830595
Here, have this last one and picture this being Casey

I think we need to make a checklist of things from here on out. Here's what I can draw from the analysis posts I've done in this thread so far, though there's still more in the first thread and a few more I gotta do here before I finish all the posts for first thread
>Confront Ben about his shenanigans
>Get info about Cards
>Get info about Sectors
>Get info about the P-Company flyer Casey saw
>REMEMBER TO VET ANY AND ALL EMPLOYEES BEFORE ASSIGNING/PROMOTING THEM
>Assign more people into Medical department
>Clean up the second floor
>Address that anomaly at the medical ward lobby
>Thank Ed and N for fixing the second floor cameras
>Get more info on the "cool as ice" Administrator that Casey knew
>Get more info on L-Company
>Investigate the third floor, more mobs to clear out?
>Spy on other peoples' PDA messages more
>Walk outside the facility, or try to get a look out via a window
Oh right before I forget
>Command a few employees to search through that abandoned office space with the coffee and the papers strewn about we saw earlier. Might be useful info or documents hidden about in there. File cabinets and other furniture can make for good barricades or serve different purposes as well.

I have a silly idea. I was looking at old posts and something is telling me to pick up the phone while wearing M.A.D WORLD. Not sure why.

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>>4829941
>>4829972
>>4829987
>>4830400
>"Draw. Let's see who was the fastest gun in the West."

You hear something large pass rattle through the pipes above, followed by a pleasant ding, much like a toaster finishing the execution of a guilty slice of bread.

"The anomaly from B Company has just arrived, Overseer. Express delivery. Ain't that a pretty little thing?"

JEFF changes the feed to Containment Cell D on the second floor. A man lays on his side on the center of the cell, struggling to push himself upright and slurring drunkenly under his breath.

Where his head should be, there is instead a large, meaty hand with an equally as stout revolver in its calloused grip. He's wearing a stained and tattered poncho over the same suit that every employee seems to have.

You frown. Is that thing loaded?

The Crook acquired.
ERROR: Applicable anomaly classification format not found. Please manually input new codification conventions or contact a system administrator for assistance.

"J-JEFF?"

"Mmm?"

"D-do you have an idea for an amusing naming theme? This error keeps appearing."

"Not a clue. That would be a part of your duties, sir. I may be the creative type, but I'm not that talented."

"C-creative? I didn't know that."

"I'm trying something new, so new that I just decided it when I woke up this morning. Call it a 'rebranding' of sorts. A way to really put my own unique character out there for the audience."

"A-A gimmick then. Should I be worried?"

"Possibly. Maybe. No more than the usual." The eye smiles. "Yes. Definitely."

>>4832285
On the second floor, you see...

Several employees waking up and going through their morning routines in the dorms. Very mundane things.

The anomaly in the medical ward's lobby is still standing there...

Employees N and O are investigating a large hole, the size of a person's head, by the dormitory hall. There doesn't seem to be anything within the space or enough space to fit a person... Weird.

On the first floor, you see...

Employees K, L, and M are "fighting" the beer vending machine. A spindly arm juts out of the product door and flails wildly, as the entire machine seems to be scuttling away on little crabby legs from the trio of brothers(?). The fuck.

Employees B and C are fiddling with the autosurgeon set up in the empty room. C happily dictates instructions from a thick manual as B continues to inspect the machine's paneling. He has bags under his eyes.

"Because I'm feeling somewhat more sentient, I'll tell you which minions, I mean, reliable employees are currently available. Being aware of basic information like this allowed previous Overseers to work more effectively and with more knowledge. I think. Would help if they paid more attention sometimes."

EMPLOYEE ROSTER
1st Floor: B and C (Calibrating autosurgeon); K, L, and M (Suppression of a Rampant Beer Vending Machine/Screwing around/READY); G, H, and J (Playing cards/READY); U (Paralyzed)
2nd Floor: A, E, F, and I (Sleeping); N-T (READY)

QUOTA: 0/10 PRODUCT Exported
FIRST MOVES, HOUR 1, SHIFT 3
E-Energy: 2 units, 0 units/hour
DTC-ENERGY: 1 unit

INTERACTIONS [1 Hour Each]
>Anomalies: The Red Connection, Occupied! Do Not Enter!, Rigorous Lessons from an Absent Teacher, Final Flash of Existence, The Crook, Unknown Medical Lobby Anomaly
>Facility: PRODUCTION room, Elevator to the 3nd floor, Core Maintenance
>Assign Employee (write in interaction type, specific instructions, sex, Employee or Agent, etc.)

EQUIPMENT
>M.A.D World (EPIPHANY, +Physical Protection, -Mental Protection, unassigned), Fire Ax (+2 VIOLENCE die, used by Employee A)

CONSOLE COMMANDS
>View and edit anomaly dossiers and database. (Write in.)
>Make a facility-wide announcement. (Write in.)
>Manage Employee roster and Departments. (Write in.)
>Message an Employee's PDA. (Write in.)
>Edit Employee access permissions. (Write in.)
>View cameras in which room? (Write in.)
>Skip an hour of the workday.
>Skip XX hours of the workday.
>End the workday. (Enters Downtime/Upgrade Phase.)

>Write in.

"A manual as thick as she is." Nyehehehe. I'll regret this tomorrow morning.

>>4832311
"N-no new anomalies?"

"That is correct and entirely obvious, human maggot. Acquisitions sometimes turns up empty or not at all with new anomalies. This must the latter case."

"A-are the Agents alright?"

"Who knows? Very likely so. They're certainly too experienced to keel over just like the old men that they are."

"N-noted."

Huh. Well, this is a lot to work with, but first we should ty figuring out a classification system so that the error stops popping up. I think we should keep it simple and understandable without being too vague. We don't want people hearing something like "Zeta anomaly: Highly lethal if triggered" and going "what the fuck does that mean?"

>Add in the classification system of Daleth, Kaph, Lamedh, Bet, and Gimel
>Daleth class: Abnormality is not aggressive and has little to no ability to cause injury. Breaching will not be a concern. May be beneficial for either containing other anomalies or helping employees. Equivalent to ZAYIN in Lobotomy Corporation.
>Kaph class: Abnormality can cause a variety of injuries and can breach if not properly managed. Can be easily subdued/satisfied. Injuries can be easily avoided with proper caution. Equivalent to TETH.
>Lamedh: Unpredictable and hard to control/manage. Interacting with it has a high likelihood of seriously injuring or killing an employee. If they breach, subduing them will most likely result in multiple deaths. Employees may be influenced mentally or physically by the abnormality. Equivalent to HE.
>Bet: Actively hostile and aggressive. Interacting with it will almost certainly kill, injury, or permanently scar employees. Keeping them contained will be hard if not impossible. Caution is highly advised when interacting with the abnormality Has the potential to wipe a facility. Equivalent to WAW/ALEPH.
>Gimel: A catch all term for abnormalities that do not fit into any of these categories. If we don't know what the fuck it is, it gets this label. The abnormality is either completely unknown, has been destroyed or otherwise decommissioned, or is completely inaccessible to us (Somewhere in Nevada would fit into this category due to being changed into the Red Connection)

I'll figure out the work orders soon. I just needed to get this out of the way so we can avoid the constant stream of errors.

Gimel will be less of a direct containment class and more of a filler for anomalies disappearing/changing or just fucking popping up. Like Somewhere in Nevada or the unknown medical abnormality.

Orders:
>Enable Final Flash of Existence with Employee G. Tell him to grab a spare blood bucket and to slide it over to it to make sure it's calmed down and hopefully won't try ripping our spines out for shooting it earlier. Also probably easier to talk to it if it's appeased.
>Deprive Occupied! Do Not Enter with O. Order them to basically question and berate him over his decision to lock himself in the execution chamber. Basically making it seem like Yohan was an idiot for doing so.
>Foster the Red Connection with Employee T. No explicit orders, I just want to see how they tick.
>Enable Unknown Medical Lobby Anomaly with Employee R. Tell them to check up on it and to figure out what exactly it's doing. Also to clean up around it.
>Entertain the Crook with Employee N. Ask it how it's going. Ask it what kind of booze it likes. Tell N to wear the M.A.D World googles while in the containment cell to protect him in the case of accidental/purposeful discharge of the gun
>Order P and Q to clean up the second floor. Bit too much blood, need this place cleaned up.
>Tell the two remaining card game players, J and H, to investigate the abandoned work places on Floor 1. I think it was Floor 1. J can go back to momm- I mean playing card games later. Tell them to get any important looking documents and useful furniture like filing cabinets and such.
>Ask Jeff if we have any booze besides the vending machine booze. Since 1.) we might need it for the Crook and 2.) THE FUCKING VENDING MACHINE IS ALIVE.
>Speaking of that, tell the three chucklefuck brothers to stop fucking around and actually take care of the vending machine. In case that's the only source of booze, I rather not have them play tag with it all day.
I think that's all I can think of right now. It's a lot but this is just how it is. If analysis anon has any additions or changes (or any other anon lurking), I'll be willing to listen.

>>4832458
Well, should probably tell T to pick up the phone anyways so we don't have them staring at it like a dumbass.

>>4832483
>>4832458
>>4832380
All of this is spot-on, and nice budget Lobotomy Corp classifications. I hope JEFF comments on how unoriginal and uninspired we are, and that he bets a previous Mana- Overseer came up with something exactly like that too. Later, we need to ask JEFF for more info and confront Ben and do more Overseer stuff

>>4830830
>Thirteen himself puts on the goggles
>walks into the containment room
>picks up the phone for Foster work
>blacks out
>he hears https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcMz3aAZDv4
>cue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiZyoOnhmIU

>>4832666
Pft. I kinda just merged WAW and ALEPH together (really what's the difference between the two?) and added an extra class for "WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK THIS IS HELP."
We'll deal with Ben when he's done setting up the autosurgeon.

>>4832669
>what's the difference between the two?
ALEPH is "somewhat easy in containment, but if it breaches, can easily result in a facility wipe by itself"
WAW is "difficult out of containment, can breach somewhat easily"

>>4832458
Oh yeah, and what's the status of Employee F? I assume they got the mind restoration dose already. Why isn't anybody giving them the rundown of events since they were in a coma? Did the other employees already do so offscreen?

>>4832674
Eh. It feels like it's not a big enough leap for me. ALEPHs always feel like WAW+ instead of a whole new hassle. Might as well merge them together to save space.
Sidenote: We should probably try figure out what we should label the anomalies as with this new system I totally made up on my own. The only ones I'm having issue with is the piano and the phone. The rest I can somewhat figure out.

>>4832676
Considering it says "sleeping" on the second floor along with Best Madness Girl, Best Piano Boy, and That One Injured Girl, I assume she's woken up. Might want to talk to her when we get the chance to see what she remembered before the big boom.

>>4832311
Backing this:
>>4832380
>>4832458
>>4832483

>>4832683
You think the following are also worth doing right now?
>PDA Employee F (once they are awake) to ask them how they are doing, and if anybody gave them any recap on recent events while they were out of commission. If nobody did, tell them to go seek out somebody awake and not busy to be informed and caught up.
>PDA N and O about that hole, was it there before when Ed and N had gone into the second floor the other day, what caused it, any further information? (this should be done BEFORE assigning them to any work)
>Make a note to have somebody wielding both the axe and the goggles venture into the third floor to check what's down there, and be prepared for a fight if those zombies were any indication
Oh yeah, what even caused those zombies on the second floor to be there? Who were they before they became zombies? Anything we can glean from them? They're all gone, but I assume some employees handled the dead ones afterward, like A. Nobody's turning into a zombie, so it's not an infection. Lucky us.

>>4832683
There's also Employee S that is not doing anything. We have no info on them at this time. Should we get them to do something like investigate that abandoned office space on the first floor that got hinted at us thread 1?

>>4832690
Ehhh, not sure about the last one since A seems very protective of their axe and considering their traits, I don't want to trust them with the googles. If we can get it out of their hands, sure. And I feel like the LITERAL ANOMALY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HALLWAY is a prime suspect for the zombie thing. Also, fuck it, sure. We'll send S in with H and J. Might as well have one more tard wrangler when J eventually pisses in his diaper.

>>4832698
>investigate the abandoned work places on Floor 1
I'm retarded and I didn't see you post about that, goddamn did you cover all the bases.

>>4832700
We're a duo like that. You help me sort through all of the information and give me ideas on what to do, I'll execute everything flawlessly. I was a bit worried about doing too much at once but fuck it. Might as well be efficient.

>>4832701
Thanks my nigga. HeartQM better deal with it, because efficiency and multitasking is the name of the game in management sims. You read through any of the other analysis posts in this thread already?

>>4832706
Been skimming through it to get ideas. Good way to pass time and to understand previous posts better. Can't even blame HeartQM for slow updates at this point considering all of the shit we slapped onto his plate. I do want to hear your thoughts on Employee P surviving entering PRODUCTION. Doobie was a no brainer who I'm glad we removed but P seems to be pretty...not emo.

>>4832710
>skimming
Learn to read, not skim
>Can't even blame HeartQM for slow updates at this point considering all of the shit we slapped onto his plate
Any quest might have this much stuff or more to manage, and we're already on thread 2. He knew what he was in for. All we can do in return is be the best readers and players we can be.
>your thoughts on Employee P surviving entering PRODUCTION
No comment, as I have not gotten to checking that post yet in my posts.
>Doobie was a no brainer who I'm glad we removed but P seems to be pretty...not emo.
D was a walking liability. I doubt any positives he had weren't outweighed by all his maluses. We know nothing specific about Employee P right now, so there might be something to his character or backstory that enabled him to survive PRODUCTION without any downsides that we know of

>>4832736
Hey, I read them, don't sweat it. And yeah, at least J only has +Panic Risk. J is ten times better than D and we still laugh at him for being a baby. Trying to keep an eye on the employees to see which ones would be a better department head than the local cocksleeve/Casey, when we feel like expanding. She's adorable but she's also...Casey.

Hopefully that Introspection ability kicks in to give up P lore.

Continuing analysis of posts

>>4752026
Forty-fourth post
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/4711588/#p4752026
>bathrobe and a pair of silly-looking bunny slippers
Talk about uber-casual
>crumples the sheet music and tosses it to the side
So the piano wire cut into him... how? Just sliced him up a bit, or embedded itself into him? The gist I got was "piano puppetted Ed directly to scrap JEFF's song and play its piece"
>Da capo, con sentimento.
"Once more, with feeling."
>Chopin
Good choice
>Oh God. Oh man. Oh God, oh man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9KyBdPeKHg
>busy stuffing himself into the conspicuously large pipe
:^)
>helping him in
:^)
>play nice with your weird friend
We're hopefully gonna make sure that by the next time JEFF goes offline and leaves us be, we're going to have lots of "nice times" alone with Casey in the manager cave
>A model for who?
Other drones?
>Exactly, Ms. Polito
Again with the Polito thing

>>4752052
Forty-fifth post
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/4711588/#p4752052
>It should be raining today...
This doesn't seem like a "like tears in rain" moment
>Hypocrites.. all of you... I need...
How is he a hypocrite for warning the grue to not sneak up on him? And what does Final Flash need?
>Can't do much cleaning with no light. I ain't a maintenance freak.
What if we DO have a maintenance freak we can send in to do exactly that?
>Walk in my shoes... can't believe you...
I think the serial whatever the fuck is suffering from a serious victim complex
>invest in L Company's patented Luna Lights™
There's L-Company mentioned again
>tenebrous
This isn't Darkest Dungeon or Lovecraft shit, Casey
>'Face the fear, light it up!'
And when all four lights are on, you're definitely going somewhere.
>branding makes products 20% more effective
Reminds me of the Stigma Workshop weapons in Distortion Detective leaving brands branded into the things they are used on, peak cyberpunk
>you don't really know how much these guys get paid
Again with the "employees getting paid" thing being hinted at
>Uuuuooooo... not another one of you...
Is there a way to get fluids INTO the iron maiden? If blood and stuff can spill out, then logically things must be able to go in. What I'm saying is, what if we get Yohan drunk by getting beer into the iron maiden?
>that whole Red Connection work
Nothing but random screams. Not much to decipher here.

>>4752079
Forty-sixth post
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/4711588/#p4752079
>Alphabet Companies
I hope the enemy glowniggas won't raid our facility anytime soon
>Taking recommendations from JEFF was a mistake
Lesson learned
>utility of a liberal arts education
Must be better in a cyberpunk dystopia society than our current modern society
>Doesn't seem like this guy takes a crap or anything. Walls feel normal, there's nothing on the floor.
Completely unlike SCP-173
>as bad as everyone says
What do the employees think about all the anomalies here? What do they say?

>>4752122
Forty-seventh post
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/4711588/#p4752122
>Stinks up to 'igh 'eaven in 'ere
What is in JEFF's Core anyway? Must be part biological if he needs blood, alcohol, and other fluids. Maybe similar to a Sephirabox from Lobotomy Corp, except on a bigger scale like Glad0s?
>the future is now
Minus the old man
>All acts of fixing will be dealt with through AMUSING PUZZLES
Everything will be minigames in the future?
>sliding blocks
Could be worse
>designed for small children
Makes you wonder why this is in a highly sophisticated AI's Core room of all places, and who designed this to be the case

Okay done with thread 1, onto this thread

>>4813204
Forty-eighth post
>A control console screen has been restored.
What does that do for us?
>facility's payroll clerk
So JEFF is the one that pays people instead of us?
>Yes, ma'a-sir. Sir. (Again with this?)
JEFF IS MALE

>>4813232
Forty-ninth post
>paralyzed from the neck down
Damn, that's rough. I thought he was a shitty robot based on the Discount Dan's description when we bought him, but it just turns out he's a regular paralyzed guy. I wonder if there's a way to give him a proper functioning body or something nice for him. Could R-Company help with this once we get our rep with them up enough?
>Casey smiles warmly
She's been in the Overseer's room this entire time? That bodes well for the future
>Ghouls to Officers
Officers, proper noun. Is this supposed to be the "Lawmen" referred to in the desc of the anomaly we didn't get thread 1?
>"Spin a law. Catch a fly. Silk for justice, legs for batons." ("I still can't believe the Lawmen just let us have this.")
And all we have for Ghouls are
>A set of the ragged raiments of the desperate, the impoverished, and the mad. (You are a Ghoul.)
>"ATTENTION: You are the blood... flowing through my fingers..." ("Ears ringing. Didn't see that Ghoul coming too. Ow.")
>anything in this old landmark besides squatters and other Ghouls.
Wonder what that could be about
>One of his patients attacked him
Wonder what that could be about
>wasn't able to meet the quotas
He should be glad we don't have any nonsense quotas in OUR workplace
>make a mental note to find a wheelchair somewhere
There isn't one on the second floor?
>rations
I've realized a theme here. Somewhere in Nevada was about warfare, the psychological fear of the bombs dropping when they never will. Every person that The Red Connection speaks has a vague enough link to warfare too. Perhaps it's "the psychological damage that war does to people and loved ones during it or in its aftermath, the indirect pain"? Red is also associated with communism, if that's relevant here.
>endure another day in this concrete sarcophagus
>ration packs
>daily contaminant tests
>kept in the dark
>fucking pipes everywhere
Soldiers stationed in a bunker or hidden place underground?
>But you drink yourself blind when you're with us.
What's wrong with Ed that he drinks that much?

>>4813234
Fiftieth post
>belongs to the suit, looking like the very model of the modern white collar worker
Clerk chad?
>(He was watching the Agents do this before, wasn't he?)
Benjamin...
>The airlock bolts itself shut behind him.
Why does the PRODUCTION room in particular have an airlock? Is the PRODUCT machine itself an anomaly?
>Phoning the bloodline...
Are these just cool random text that pops up during PRODUCTION work, like how work-type-relevant technobabble text pops up around the containment unit in Lobotomy Corp when an agent is doing work on an abno?
>Referencing ambient subnarratives...
>Adjusting archetypes...
Something vaguely literature-related?
>Sweetheart?
We need to question Employee P on his marital history
>troubled, faraway look on his face. He stumbles and lurches as he walks, as if drunk
Strange. Why haven't we questioned him yet? And is he acting normal now after he went and did PRODUCTION work, like he did before he was sent in? Or is he forever changed?
>that attached image
Not quite a psychedelic trip. Doesn't that remind you of blood cells and cellular processes, with all the red ovals and cube-shapes and overall appearance? Or it could be many hills next to each other, or sand dunes. The evenly lined-up cubes alongside hills also brings to mind the Great Wall of China

>>4813242
Fifty-first post
>"I-I lo-"
Yes yes yes
>her company is somewhat pleasant
Uh huh. "Somewhat."
>need to draw the line
Aw, man! One of these days, I swear...
>A faint tinge of red enters Casey's face. Her smile falters. "I... oh..."
YES SHE CAUGHT THAT
>Drone's Manual of Company Standards
What kind of things do they teach drones in that?
>best girl has read her manual
Malkuth approved
>you forgot to screen the department head for competence
Shit. Well, lesson learned for next time. At least we committed the understandable mistake of promoting our waifu/future cocksleeve without checking them, one that we won't repeat a second time
>What is it with Ben? A need to assert himself? Some deep seated insecurity?
We gotta sit him down and get straight to it
>Employee G enters the containment cell and looks around. Nothing out of the ordinary occurs
What a waste of time. What are we even going to "collect" from a goddamn piano?

>>4813248
Fifty-second post
>Futatsu ni hitotsu, katetara gokuraku...
I've never watched nor read Kinnikuman, sorry
>Spare me... turn it off...
Is Final Flash in real pain from that, or is it just psychological?
>easily repelled by a violent shove!
Weakling
>continuously insults the Final Flash of Existence
Based
>heart-broken cry
So does Final Flash really have unique interactions with women, or is this because of the verbal abuse plus light exposure?

>>4813262
Fifty-third post
>small room
Bunker?
>the obvious
What, that the government is poisoning people? Intentional censorship? What else?
>another City?
There's more than one?
>Mental Protection--
Double negative, ouch

>>4813702
>we could've had all the employees sitting around doing nothing at least cleaning up the place?
Good point, we should do that more often
>maintain and repair any broken facility system ideally, making sure doors shut properly, making the lower floor systems actually work, touching up on all of the complex facility systems
Something to bring up with JEFF
>when a computer deletes a file ("completely") it doesn't actually wipe it from the drive, it just marks those parts of the drive that contain the data of those files as "empty" the data is still there, it's just that the computer doesn't recognise it. certain programs can get these things back
Perform file recovery on the system? Another thing to bring up to JEFF
>the less we do with the system until then if it's a viable option the better, since there's gonna be a higher chance those files are written over and corrupted, or worse, overwritten entirely
Do it asap, gotcha
>like a parallel universe Project Moon setting but without people or others being anywhere from low level super to bleach tier in power
ProjectMoon plus Space Station 13

>>4813713
We gotta do this soon, because we ended the day before we could do so then

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stopping here with analysis posts for today
here have a classic lobcorp thread image
the goal is to do this to Casey eventually
hope I'm not forcing that too much, feel free to call me out if I am

https://pastebin.com/LsQ2XJDr
Pastebin needs to be updated as well with all the new information thus far

>>4832896
>does Final Flash really have unique interactions with women, or is this because of the verbal abuse plus light exposure
I mean we did beat the shit out of it. I would be kinda sad too if that happened.
>What are we even going to "collect" from a goddamn piano?
It was moreso me saying "hey uh check it out i don't want to do anything to trigger it".

>>4832902
What, being a Caseyfag? I don't blame you.

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>>4832904
Thanks for the reminder. Just woke up and wow! Talking up a storm in this here thread.

>>4832906
>we did beat the shit out of it
I'm not there in my analysis yet, I'm at the "A goes in to light him up and bully him" one that got him triggered enough to breach
>me saying "hey uh check it out i don't want to do anything to trigger it"
That's fair. We learned enough from the first two days that we should be doing nonstop works on every single anomaly every hour now, get PRODUCT asap, then farm more energy so we have enough to spend later. If we end the day right as soon as we have the PRODUCT generating, we lose more than we could gain, "speedrun bonus"/"tardiness penalty" be damned. Piano needs to be played at least once per day, Yohan needs to be triggered at least once per day; we got +10 energy from both of them doing this.

So your plan in >>4832458 accounts for
>calming and preparing Final Flash for talking to him next hour for info
>start triggering Occupied! and see how far we can go with him today, maybe get Epiphany gear
>have Employee T do safe work on Red Connection to get their employee info going
>start collecting info on Med Lobby anom
>start collecting info on the Crook
>clean up second floor blood and other trash
>investigate the abandoned work areas on Floor 1, see what we can find
>get info from JEFF on more alcohol for the future
>befriend vending machine spider mech
All our abnos end up being worked this way this hour. We can play next ones by ear as we go

>>4832926
When the thread result was good...

>>4832926
>>4832311
Oh yeah, don't forget these >>4832690 minus the last one about A and the axe and goggles, otherwise should be all good to execute the plans in >>4832380 >>4832458 and >>4832483

>>4832926
We gotta PLAN THIS SHIT out. This is our wonderful house (L Corporation) with our wonderful wives (Casey and HELLA JEFF)

>>4832933
I'm moreso saying we shoved it around and verbally beat the shit out of it. It probably didn't help.

Also yes except for the Piano. I couldn't think of anything I wanted to do with it and we already have everyone else assigned to do stuff. Unless we want to assign Employee S to clean it up. I kinda want to do enabling work when we have some stuff to spruce up the place, though.

>>4832938
To clarify about sprucing up the place, it's clearly a piano that likes CLASS. Maybe for enabling it, we should make the place classier instead of just keeping it clean? You know, make it feel like a place where a teacher can truly teach a student. I think that would be interesting.

>>4832939
We'll need to order thematic furniture from the outside. Extras like carpets, curtains, portraits, chairs, things of that nature? Items that would be in a music hall or place where any piano would be located.

>>4832971
Basically. Stuff that basically says "hey. this is where you play piano. this is where piano lessons happen. there isn't a teacher but OH BOY we don't need one when this piano can teach ya."

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>>4832938
>wife
>HELLA JEFF

"Before we get started Overseer... Here, I drew this for you."

"..."

"Do you like it?"

"W-what's the context for this?"

"I dunno. I just drew it. And I just showed it to you."

"...." You give JEFF a disappointed look, one that a mother would give when softly admonishing her child that no, she cannot keep the giant maggot because the family simply can't afford to feed a pet as large as this one.

"I'm just going to stay quiet then..."

>>4833001
ONE HUNDRED PERCENT KINO. We're putting this on the fridge. Or, well, on our desk. For safe keeping.

>>4833001
Frame it and hang it somewhere in our room

>>4832380
>>4832666
>>4832669
>>4832674
>>4832683
>>4833001
>Anomaly classifications:
>Daleth, Kaph, Lamedh, Bet, and Gimel

You enter a new set of terms into the anomaly dossier. This seems like a good set of names. Somehow, they seem to fit the type of work you're doing perfectly.

"Hmm, I see, I see." JEFF pipes up once more. The eye furrows in an expression of intense scrutiny. "You definitely do look the part with the black coat. Too shaved though..."

"..."

"And I don't see a funny little Hat on you either, though you seem like the type of person who should be wearing one. Mr. Mouth Breather. Overall, a pretty piss poor attempt at playing Jew, bagelboy. Loxgoblin."

"..." You exhale softly out of your nose. Snrk.

Glad to see you two anons have been hard at work. I'm a filthy phoneposter so typing out elaborate answers to everything is hard (and my IP changes all the time) but I'll try to be more active from my PC. Godspeed to all of you.

>>4833409
You don't need to type elaborate answers. Even just suggesting small stuff is fine.

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>>4833409
Take it easy and take your time responding, I got all summer to write with.

>>4833636
Well, it's kind of hard being more convincing than others when they have a lot of stuff typed down and you only quote the QM's suggestions hahaha
>>4833810
All summer huh... Looking forward to having more of this quest then!

Unrelated, but I am very much a Caseyfag too. Seems like we're all in agreement about what to do regarding her.

>>4833891
Hey, if the idea is good, I don't care who it comes from. You could be a jewish abnormality like Thirteen and I would still humor you.
>everyone in this thread is a Caseyfag
when/if she barges in, the first order is to pat her head. No question about it.

UH. Huh. I'm not really sure what to do. This is the first time an anomaly directly fucked with us. I want to hear from the other anons first but I feel like touching the remote control is distinctly a BAD idea.

>>4834304
>>4832458
>>4832690
>Enable Unknown Medical Lobby Anomaly with Employee R. Tell her to check up on it and to figure out what exactly it's doing. Also to clean up around it.

First thing's first: you need more information on that anomaly in the medical ward. Unknowns must be made known. Maybe even get it into a containment cell somehow. You send Employee R her orders and

<NO SIGNAL FOUND>

"..." There is a face here, marked by the rosiness of its cheeks and the serenity of its expression. Its eyes are huge and placid. Through the boundary of the TV panel, it speaks to you, warmly, deeply, as if it were a long lost friend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TukMwYXQ3wE (桃井はるこ - Sex and Violence)

You do not understand.

A pulse echoes advertisements within the flesh of your skull. A savage murmur of commentary shouts behind your eyes. The pain that is entirely your own whispers, "Be careful, Rolle! You need to act on your conclusions!" The surveillance cameras turn to focus on the star of the show, as your neurons begin to spark and splutter.

Scattered on the receptionist's desk are numerous medicine-related pamphlets, stamped documents, and, directly in front of the anomaly, a remote control. You can't shake the feeling that it was deliberately placed there for you.

"Helluva conundrum," you mutter. On top of all this, you're really starting to crave caffeine. Not a good way to start the day.

You need to Resolve the anomaly.
>Please recommend an action.

Ah fuck. Edited a few details.

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>>4834306

You know, sitting on my ass won't do anything. I suppose we should at least examine the remote control closely. Maybe this is a Somewhere in Nevada situation where pushing the wrong button kills us. We're not USING it just yet, we just need more info.

>>4834366
>EXAMINE REMOTE
An ordinary TV remote with all the correct buttons. You can't make out a manufacturer or other identifying features.

You feel a warm trickling from the inside of your face.

>Please recommend an action.

>>4834374
HRM.
>Okay, if it's sound that's fucking with us, try lowering the volume. Or pushing the power button.

god we're fucked aren't we.

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>>4834379
>LOWER VOLUME

A volume control meter appears on the side of the screen. 100, 75, 40, 25. No further. The sound leaks out of your head, leaving nothing but blessed silence.

Droplets of static leak onto the floor from your nose, painting a beautiful scene onto the canvas of sterile tiles.

A low roar of canned applause washes over you.

The serene face blinks, and the same expression stares back with your own lovely face.

>Please recommend an action.

I can't tell if that made helped in the slightest or made things even worse.
Yeah, no, I don't trust myself fiddling with it until Analysis Anon comes online. I don't want to die due to random button pushing.

>>4834386
Oh fuck, shit hit the fan... I think lowering the volume was for the best. Mhhhh... Is there anything around we could use? Like, something to cover the screen with?

>>4834387
OK lemme see. Last night rereading shit, I noticed red text is negative, blue text is neutral, green text is positive.

>>4834306
Might as well analyze this while I'm at it
>There is a face here, marked by the rosiness of its cheeks and the serenity of its expression. Its eyes are huge and placid.
Big stereotypical anime girl face
>that youtube link
Disgustingly kawaii ear-bleeding song
>Through the boundary of the TV panel
What TV panel? The anomaly is a stationary humanoid being, isn't it?
>You don't understand what it is that you see in the lobby of the medical ward, but you know that it's standing there at the receptionist's desk, menacingly. This definitely is an anomaly, its form shifting and warping at irregular intervals, giving fleeting impressions of CRT TVs, peering eyes, marble statues; you switch the cameras before you get a headache.
Did it manifest a TV panel in front of us or something? In any case, we have CRT TVs represented right now, as well as peering eyes of soulless anime girls. Marble statues like vaporwave have yet to make an appearance. I could be completely wrong in interpreting this this way though. This could be completely mental
>You do not understand.
Me neither
>The pain that is entirely your own whispers, "Be careful, Rolle! You need to act on your conclusions!"
We're Employee R or Rolle right now. Red text is negative, but I'm inclined to trust it based on the "entirely your own" bit making it not be from the anomaly.
>surveillance cameras turn to focus on the star of the show
Thirteen is watching, wonder what he's seeing on the outside
>deliberately placed there for you
It's the only way to interact with the anomaly we have here
>really starting to crave caffeine
Clerk or Suit?

>>4834374
>a warm trickling from the inside of your face
Blood or something else?

>>4834386
>volume control meter appears on the side of the screen
What fucking screen nigga?
>sound leaks out of your head, leaving nothing but blessed silence.
Lowering the sound seems to have reduced the advertisements echoing, scattered commentary? This probably put a stop to the surprise inner advice too, but as long as we have a method to go on and we are in control and sanity, we're good to go.
>Droplets of static leak onto the floor from your nose
Purging that effect of the anomaly might have helped us gain some ground back?
>painting a beautiful scene onto the canvas of sterile tiles
Somebody'll have to clean that up, and it ain't gonna be us
>low roar of canned applause washes over you
From the humanoid anomaly, or from the "TV screen?" I guess it's a congratulatory thing...
>same expression stares back with your own lovely face
I don't like that

My vote here is
>Press the CC button, if there is one, to enable closed captions
>Press MENU/OPTIONS button, see what our options are (if there are both buttons, press OPTIONS first, then MENU if nothing happens)
>Press TV GUIDE button, if there is one, to gain more information and guidance

>>4834740
Good plan, except I have no fucking clue what "screen" we're seeing. From the outside, R/Rollo might be standing frozen still holding the remote and staring at the anomaly, doing nothing else except having his fingers move to hit the buttons and changing in expressions, or other effects. The "TV screen" could be all in his head.
Worthwhile buttons we could try, based on what I could get off searching "old TV remote" on google images, are
>DISPLAY
>TV/VIDEO/AV/SOURCE
>MODE
>SLEEP
>ASPECT RATIO
>CHANGE CHANNEL
>EXIT
>INPUT
>AUDIO
>RANDOM
>JUMP
>DISC MENU
>FLASHBACK
>FAVORITE/FAV
>BACK/RETURN
>HOME
>ALERT
>ZOOM
>RECALL
>REWIND
>PLAY
>FAST FORWARD
>STOP
>PAUSE
>RECORD
>SURROUND
>I/II
>POWER
>OK

>>4834740
>>4834763
>EXAMINE SURROUNDINGS
You are currently in the lobby of the medical ward. Several cheap folding chairs have been set out for patients and a lonesome potted plant is wilting in a corner. Aside from the papers, there doesn't seem to be much to cover the blaring lights of the TV screens.

You turn back. The exit's right there. You grab hold of the door handle, but you tear away that part of the cardboard prop with ease.

You look back at the anomaly in shock. A waggling finger appears on one of its computer screens, as if to say "You're not leaving that easily."

>PRESS CC BUTTON

You press the CC button.

One of the spare screens of the anomaly goes completely dark. On this second screen, white text appears:

OKAY, ROLLE. KEEP IT TOGETHER.YOU MUST BE HAVING A MENTAL BREAKDOWN. WAIT A MINUTE.

You force yourself to stop thinking. That screen goes black. You think to yourself,

SO THAT'S HOW IT IS HUH?

Canned laughter echoes in the distance.

>PRESS MENU/OPTIONS

Your grip on the remote tightens. You press the OPTIONS button, then the MENU button.

On a third screen, a disgusting view of heaving organs appears.

On the fourth screen, you see a list of verbs:
>UNDULATE
>CONTRACT
>DIGEST
>RELEASE ENZYME
And so on.

You feel a sharp pain in your abdomen, like a knife is crammed inside your guts. The static drips faster out of your nose. Your eyes start tearing up.

AH, AH, IT HURTS.

>PRESS TV GUIDE

You press the TV GUIDE button.

A soft voice speaks into your head, accented like an old movie. On the second screen, you read (and hear),

ROLLE, DON'T YOU REMEMBER HOW TO WATCH TV? YOU WERE CLOSE, DON'T HESITATE.

The anomaly is looming...

>Please recommend an action

The anomaly is pic related here >>4834335 (You). There's the screens! C'mon!

>>4834892
I see what kind of anomaly that is.. basically, it's a TV reflection of oneself? Can we try meditating, or trying to calm down with deep breaths?

>>4834892
>lobby of the medical ward
Okay so we're not transported anywhere or in a mental space
>lonesome potted plant is wilting in a corner
We need to get it and nurture it to make our workplace better
>doesn't seem to be much to cover the blaring lights of the TV screens
Covering them up, cowering from them... these are all useless. We need to confront this head-on
>tear away that part of the cardboard prop with ease
Ha ha, very funny
>waggling finger appears on one of its computer screens, as if to say "You're not leaving that easily."
How long was that door handle cardboard? Did it transform it into cardboard just now, or was it always cardboard from this side? Did it warp it long before, knowing this moment would come one day? Whatever it is, it has enough sentience and awareness to block us from leaving. We solve this here, or we die
>OKAY, ROLLE. KEEP IT TOGETHER.YOU MUST BE HAVING A MENTAL BREAKDOWN. WAIT A MINUTE.
Wait what
>force yourself to stop thinking. That screen goes black
>SO THAT'S HOW IT IS HUH?
Anomaly can read our own thoughts and play them back to us on the screens. That's a good way to refocus here, thank fuck
>Canned laughter echoes in the distance.
That's not the anomaly approving of us, that's Rolle gaining some relief or sanity points at figuring the situation out
>disgusting view of heaving organs appears
Oh no
>On the fourth screen, you see a list of verbs:
>You feel a sharp pain in your abdomen, like a knife is crammed inside your guts. The static drips faster out of your nose. Your eyes start tearing up.
MENU = Stomach? OPTIONS with MENU = What the anomaly can do with our stomach? That's direct control of our own organs via OPTIONS and MENU that the anomaly is giving us. The anomaly somehow infiltrated our body cavity, hence the abdominal pain. The anomaly had infiltrated our brain and sensory shit, hence the confusing audio in our mind. We're on a time limit...
>ROLLE, DON'T YOU REMEMBER HOW TO WATCH TV? YOU WERE CLOSE, DON'T HESITATE
It's gotta be POWER or EXIT or STOP. One of those three, if I'm not overthinking it, and I probably am. If the situation is the anomaly somehow infiltrated our body, EXIT should get it to leave. POWER will either turn the anomaly off and deactivate it, or will instantly kill us. STOP is similar.
>The anomaly is pic related here
OKAY THANKS FOR THE DESCRIPTION CLARIFICATION

>>4834911
That's pretty fucking cool and all, but this
>waggling finger appears on one of its computer screens, as if to say "You're not leaving that easily."
leads me to believe there's more to it than that. I don't wanna fuck this up, same as everybody else. And it being a TV reflection of the individual does nothing to explain the cardboard door handle. Unless Rolle really is having a mental breakdown, which is also equally likely. What's your take on all this here?

>>4834911
>The serene face blinks, and the same expression stares back with your own lovely face.
You're right, I'm retarded. It IS a TV reflection.
>HOW TO WATCH TV
You can sit or stand, but stay relaxed. You can turn the TV off to go do something else, but you can always come back and turn the TV on if you wanna watch. And when the TV is off, the black screen... reflects yourself back at you, like a mirror.
I feel like I'm either on the verge of a breakthrough, or being even more retarded

>>4834919
Pressing POWER might power up our stomach, or power it down to offline. Former is disgusting but potentially liveable. Latter is death. Pressing EXIT might cause the anomaly's influence to exit our body, or cause our stomach to be removed, which is death. Pressing STOP might stop our stomach, which is death. Calming down, meditation, breathing in and out to reach a relaxed state... this will help us regain sanity and some semblance of control back. Despite this, we are either on a time limit or manipulated to feel as if we are. Watching TV should have no time limit. This is a medical lobby, and there's always a TV in lobbies and waiting rooms to make background noise and to keep people busy...

>>4834914
I'm afraid that turning the TV off carelessly will shut our brain off as well, so I'd rather keep experimenting with the anomaly and only use that as a last resort. The organ options probably will have an impact on our body, and likewise I don't want us to digest ourselves with over-acidic gastric juices. The cardboard handle is probably like... If we were on a TV set, and it was just a prop? Like, we're somewhat trapped in our subconscious, or something similar. Essentially it means that we can't just nope out of here, like you said. We have to suppress the anomaly somehow. Still, trying to meditate and calm down would likely make the whole situation less messy.

>>4834953
If we die, we die. Thirteen is watching the whole situation anyway, so even if R/Rolle dies we know what happened and how. Before I vote, what do you think about R/Rolle speaking out loud and narrating her experiences and actions and speculation, specifically so JEFF or Thirteen hears them and gains this information in case they don't make it?

>>4834956
Well, it's true that it's just an Employee, but if we just die like that, there's no telling what it may do to the anomaly, and someone else, someone more important, may get caught up too. Let's try our best to survive! I'm sure we'll come out stronger.
We could try speaking out loud about what's happening, but it can't be in a panic. It has to be measured and methodical.

>>4834957
Alright then, let's do this

>>4834892
>Relax. Breathe in, breathe out. Focus. Calm yourself. If you die you die, if you live you live. No sense in stressing or feeling bad unnecessarily.
>Out loud, narrate your actions and results so that the Overseer or his assistant hears you clearly. Initial encounter, volume lowered, surroundings not a mental space or other location, door handle cardboard prop, anomaly wagged finger and prevented leaving, CC results, OPTIONS and MENU resulted in organs visible and verbs to control stomach, stomach pain, static drip speeding up, seemingly close to resolving this anomaly. It's a TV reflection of oneself. Reflects mental narration, plays canned laughter and applause to express one's own relief and self-congratulation, acts on oneself in response to TV remote commands. Pressing POWER, EXIT, or STOP might result in death, not risking that yet. Whatever happens, calming down and recovering mental faculties and awareness is important.
If our theories are right, the pain should ideally lessen and the anomaly should play canned "whew" noises of relief or similar expressions to mirror Rolle's own tension release.

>>4834953
>turning the TV off carelessly will shut our brain off as well
It said <NO SIGNAL FOUND> initially until Rolle went in for the work. It's synced to them to be able to do all this. Is the problem desyncing then? The "don't you remember to how to watch TV? You were close, don't hesitate." could be a true hint or a red herring here. I already speculated about this shit in >>4834919, but that doesn't make the situation any less certain or in our favor. Ultimately, staying calm and aware is the best course of action.

>>4834957
>>4834975
>NARRATION

I NEED TO CALM DOWN. I AM CALM. I AM CALM. IT'S ALRIGHT. ALL I HAVE TO DO IS TO TALK.

In your best voice, you begin to describe what the anomaly has done, what happened to you, and your theories.

THAT MAKES SENSE. THE REPORT SOUNDS GOOD. A REAL ROLLE REPORT.

A smattering of applause is heard.

You feel something inside your guts, squirming, churning, yearning. It presses tightly against the skin, and the stabbing pain returns.

>Please recommend an action.

>>4835010
>A smattering of applause is heard.
Nice, that's good work. Thirteen better love that
>something inside your guts, squirming, churning, yearning. It presses tightly against the skin
That gives real pregnancy horror vibes, not gonna lie
>stabbing pain returns
Calming down does nothing to stop the pain or the anomaly from doing this, meaning we're still on a potential time limit

Not voting yet. My thoughts right now are that we could
>CHANGE CHANNEL and hope that we go from stomach pain and horror to something else that's a bit more manageable
>POWER without hesitation and hope we live
>BACK/RETURN to try to cancel out of this stomach menu/options and stop the thing inside our stomach as a result
What do you guys think? And sorry for taking so long QM, I hope you got the time today for this shit

>>4835010
>>4835022
Yeah, perhaps we can try to close down that menu... Let's try changing channels, too. Perhaps we can try pressing TV/AV/SOURCE etc to see if it'll free us? On a normal TV, this would change what's the TV's displaying, so it may be worth a try.

>>4835037
In what order though? BACK/RETURN first to hopefully stop the stomach MENU/OPTIONS thing and stabilize the situation. TV/AV/SOURCE second to see what happens. CHANGE CHANNEL third to see what happens. Continue to narrate out loud all the while until we are freed or until we die. Sound good?

>>4835043
Fuck it

>>4835010
>Continue narrating out loud. It will not only help the Overseer to know what's going on, but it will help you center and focus.
>Press BACK/RETURN to attempt to back out of or cancel the stomach menu and options.
>Press TV/AV/SOURCE to see what happens.
>Press CHANNEL CHANGE UP button to see what happens.

>>4835043
Yup, that works!

>>4835072
>>4835092
>PRESS BACK

I NEED ANSWERS.

You press the BACK button, and the third and fourth screens go black. Your stomach still hurts.

>PRESS AV

You press the AV and you see a long list of names.

WAIT A MINUTE!

INPUT SELECTION:
>13
>A
>Ben
>Casey
...

Your coworkers! You scroll down and see that the currently selected input is your own name.

I DON'T THINK I SHOULD TOUCH THAT. I NEVER THOUGHT THIS IS HOW I WOULD BE ON TV.

Canned laughter echoes once more.

>CHANGE THE CHANNEL

You press BACK to exit the AV screen. You press the UP button to change the channel.

Every screen turns to a sea of static. The sweet jelly of your eyes begins to roar and recede like the tides of television haze.

Your stomach ache subsides a little.

CAN'T LOOK AWAY.

>Please recommend an action.

>>4835123
>NARRATE

You continue your narration. Even though the display of light sears its way into your eyes, you can't help but think,

I REMEMBER THIS. TALKING LIKE THIS MAKES IT FEEL LIKE PRACTICE AGAIN.

Forgot this part.

>>4835123
>press the BACK button, and the third and fourth screens go black
There go the menu and options for the stomach. Now that I think of it, it did say "On top of all this, you're really starting to crave caffeine." right at the start, so it must have already been "set" to the "stomach" channel. Interesting.
>Your coworkers!
Wait, can we body puppet them with this? Or are we going to shift the "signal" person from us to them, making them be the one reflected?
>the currently selected input is your own name
So if we turn the input off, or set it to none, it would break the control? How would the anomaly be with nobody to reflect and act upon then?
>press BACK to exit the AV screen
We can go back to it anytime, that's nice
>Every screen turns to a sea of static
How are we going to see anything like this?
>sweet jelly of your eyes begins to roar and recede like the tides of television haze
We changed the channel from "stomach" to "eyes"
>Your stomach ache subsides a little.
At least that's one good thing there
>>4835152
>TALKING LIKE THIS MAKES IT FEEL LIKE PRACTICE AGAIN.
I wonder what that's about

My vote is
>Keep pressing CHANNEL CHANGE UP, noting everything you go through in the exact order, until you go to one that seems the most bearable... or at least the one you would be able to do without the most, should you accidentally stop it's function or something horrible.
>Press TV GUIDE again once you're there, see what message or hint you'll get this time.
I wonder how long HeartQM thought this would take. Whatever, it's pretty intense and unexpected as it is. Eventually we'll hit upon the true answer or die in the process.

Sorry for waiting and dragging this out. I kinda wanted to hear from more people before doing anything. So, when you watch TV, you change channels until you see something you like. And changing channels on this thing equals a different body part. AV also shows a list of everyone names. That's who we're seeing and hearing.

Should we try changing the AV to some other employee like Jun to see what happens? It clearly seems to be either who we are or who's being affected

>>4835323
But then what? How do we break Rolle out of this anomaly's effect? Is the only way really to scapegoat it onto somebody else?

>>4835337
Hm. We're both on and watching TV. It seems like whenever we affect or change something about it, we're being affected in some way as well. Maybe that's a clue. Working with the idea of us being on TV. When we watch TV, we get invested into it, get emotionally swayed by it. We bonded with it, basically. It's a metaphorical link with normal TVs but this isn't a normal TV.

Maybe that can lead us somewhere. Or maybe this is the nuke all over again.

>>4835361
Calming down did nothing though. Maybe the only solution here is to have Thirteen get another employee over, use AV to switch the "signal" from Rolle to them, THEN do stuff? That would still risk somebody else's life, not to mention scapegoat them into potential death or worse. I say just change the channel a lot until we get to something vestigial and we can do without, like the appendix, TV Guide to see what we get out it, then consider POWER button and seeing what happens. Go from there.

>>4835374
Yeah. I'm out of ideas. That's the best we could do.

>>4835381
Let's go with that then

>>4835123
My vote is in >>4835290 at the bottom there, again continuing to narrate aloud

>>4835384
I am curious about why our perspective was changed when we started working on the anomaly. Stylistic or part of the effect of it? Why didn't it try doing anything until someone bothered directly interacting with it? Isn't it funny how enabling caused this when it also caused the nuke to go haywire?

>>4835152
>>4835290
I think we should keep changing channels until we find something bearable... Or can we go on channel 0? Here, it's typically a list of all the available channels with thumbnails.
Otherwise, changing the source would probably allow us to transfer the burden onto someone else... I'm assuming someone evil would have used it on the 13 or Casey. Thankfully, Employee R isn't like that, right?

>>4835452
I'm assuming it's stylistic... I like it, it makes us interact with anomalies in a more tangible way! It's very entertaining.

>>4835456
We are NOT doing it to 13 unless we know for certain what it does. I rather pick someone nearby like Q or P.

>>4835460
The other two questions stand. Why did the anomaly do this to us and does it have to do anything with enabling? Is this even an anomaly that gives power? Does that require a containment cell? Also, I do think the idea of trying to find a Channel 0 or a "blank" channel to change the burden to would be interesting.
I think we should try pressing POWER when we feel something like our legs being affected. If that happens, we won't die, and we can still mess with the remote. I think that's the best option since I'm pretty sure it's probably going to stay connected to the major parts of our body. I doubt it has a channel for a spleen or something.

If we can find something like a spleen, sure. Maybe powering it off doesn't even hurt us and just turns the TV off.

>>4835466
>Why did the anomaly do this to us
Employee R was the only one that got close enough to it to receive a "signal"
>and does it have to do anything with enabling?
Enable = Insight, making the environment suitable for the anomaly. This TV reflection abno needs an audience, captive or otherwise, to reflect back at them and do stuff with. Currently, that's Employee R.
>Is this even an anomaly that gives power?
If it does, it would be giving us DTC energy as JEFF said
>Does that require a containment cell?
Collectors are still on even outside the containment cell
>trying to find a Channel 0 or a "blank" channel to change the burden to would be interesting
Yes, but wouldn't Employee R still be the one "signal" that the TV reflection anomaly is locked onto? Anybody with the remote would be able to use it to abuse them in that case
>try pressing POWER when we feel something like our legs being affected
If it's permanent for some fucking reason, then that's one more person we need a wheelchair for along with the psychologist
>we won't die, and we can still mess with the remote
Good thinking
>doubt it has a channel for a spleen or something
lol I was thinking the same thing before
>Maybe powering it off doesn't even hurt us and just turns the TV off
We won't know until we try it ourselves, on something we know we can live without
>>4835456
>Thankfully, Employee R isn't like that, right?
As we've seen, no. They don't seem to be malicious or evil, and they definitely deserve something good from the Overseer for overcoming this ordeal alone, assuming they survive.
>>4835452
>Stylistic or part of the effect of it?
Well, when you're on TV...

>>4835479
>Yes, but wouldn't Employee R still be the one "signal" that the TV reflection anomaly is locked onto? Anybody with the remote would be able to use it to abuse them in that case
Does that matter as long as the anomaly itself doesn't control them? Also, how exactly are we supposed to break the signal? Turning it off? Killing R? Those are the only two options I can think of that don't just kick the can down the road.
>Well, when you're on TV...
How vague and ominous. Clarify.

>>4835489
>Does that matter as long as the anomaly itself doesn't control them?
Even when we weren't picking any selection, the anomaly was dealing internal damage to R's stomach. It was only when we shifted to another body part or organ that it started to go away. Who's to say that when an organ or body part selected is destroyed enough that the anomaly won't consider that "channel" as dead and "change the channel" themselves?
>how exactly are we supposed to break the signal?
Going down the AV list, perhaps there's an empty signal slot or placeholder option?
>How vague and ominous. Clarify.
When you're on TV, you're the star of the show. It said it earlier in this work. R is the star here, therefore we the players are controlling them here. Or maybe because the anomaly selected them as the "signal" and they are the one being reflected, so stylistically the QM made us switch from piloting Thirteen to piloting R.

>>4835496
>Going down the AV list, perhaps there's an empty signal slot or placeholder option?
That feels almost too easy. What do we exactly do if there isn't any?

>>4835496
Hey, actually, that's making me think... What if we changed the source to Mr.Therapist and put the channel on his legs... Would he even feel it? Could we do anything to them?

>>4835503
Then we do what we talked about earlier: change channels to a body part or organ we can handle the pain better with, then use TV guide. Or switch to one that we can do without, then use POWER button. I prefer the former just so we can buy ourselves more time, in a sense

>>4835511
>change channel to legs
>AV
>navigate to the therapist/U
>select him
>reflection anomaly shifts the signal from R to U
>POWER
>"Mein Fuhrer... I can walk!" or something cool

>>4835515
You know. If shit goes BAD, we should do that. Best case scenario, U actually becomes useful. Worst case scenario, we kill a cripple.

>>4835524
He's an important cripple, don't be mean!

Heading out, rangebanned on mobile. Good luck guys, I'll still be reading

>>4835551
Your analysis as least gives us some hope to figure this situation out. Thank you.

>>4835551
Hah, I know how it is. Sometimes I get bans from other people, like posting loli on a blue board... See ya soon!

>>4835587
IP ban is not a rangeban.

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>>4835551
Godspeed anon.

Excellent insight from you bunch while I was helping my brother cheat on a test (to secure his FUTURE).

A few comments because I can't spoil the solution answering other questions:
>All anomalies generate power while the workday is not finished. Collectors are located throughout the facility, but more accessible in the containment cells proper.
>You can die, be altered, ???, or survive this scenario depending on your actions.
>Pic related.

>>4835675
My bad, got them mixed up for a second.

>>4835152
>>4813203
>>4835683
Hello QM. Just thought to pass by and say hi, I've been reading your quest for a while and I will say it is rather unique (a bit too chaotic for my taste but I am a shit player, forever QM kinda thing). You are doing alright, just don't get burned out , take a small break if you have to.


I see what you did there with your first four interactions. My only regret reading your quest is the horrible itch it had awakened for rerunning F.E.E.D. Probably won't happen but if I revived my dead quest, I will make sure to link yours in the OP!

Good luck in your quest!

>>4835701
Hey! Welcome to hell. Don't mind the anomaly mindraping one of our employees.
If you ever run F.E.E.D, you better make all of the work orders spell out H.E.A.R.T. :^)

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>>4835701
I salute you, from one LobCorp-esque QM to another!

Governor was a blast to read and play, very robust connections between factions.

Moonless, I am still in the process of deciding but I will say that KAZ IS MY MAN. Must reread the older threads too.

>>4835795
keep it up, QM!
>>4835711
Shiiiet, you are right