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The Shadow clings to your every step, seeming to warp even with the blots of rain as you shuffle past the tree that utterly destroyed your poor wall.

You think you're getting a feel for your own feet as you step outside, using your shovel as a cane, it gets... easier not to fly off. You're getting a bit more dexterous you'd like to think.

What concerns you more is that the wind seems... Alive.

As you move along the wall, the angle changes, like it's intent on dragging you into the Wood if you dare lost your balance.

A few of the Hive pray it's just coincidence.

You cannot hear over the deafening thunder if anything is approaching.

You can barely see with the rain obscuring your vision.

You cannot smell because you are a Robot.

The Shadow looms quietly behind you all the while, slow step by slow determined step...

>>5126315
>A few of the Hive pray it's just coincidence.
It's not. The world is alive and it wants to kill us. Nothing new. If anything that gives me motivation to kill it first.

Keep creeping along the windows of the pizzeria to hopefully spot some star dust. Knowing our fortune, try to keep enough distances away from the openings in case something tries to gouge our face off, again.

Though part of me wonders is that if the wind /is/ alive, if it is trying to guide us; that what we seek is *in* the woods.
Thoughts for another time, and only after we've scanned the pizzeria.

>>5127322
+1

>>5127322
Agreed. Also, let’s formulate a plan to kill the vacuum cleaner and use it to feed our strength (not tonight though obviously)

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You further your way against the wall. You keep low, and it takes some rough angling, but you discover the wood is malleable enough to dig your shovel blade into for even more support.

If that Stardust, whatever it truly is, is out here, you don't see it.

You wouldn't be able to see it with this damn storm. Desperation leads you to attempt something, though you’re pretty sure you know how it’ll turn out.

<inquiry>Any hints on where to find this Stardust?

...

The Shadow remains silent.

...

The Hive grumbles as you move all the way down to the first window of the Pizzeria you can reach. Well, the remains anyways. With no small amount of effort, you make your way into the Kitchen through the very small, shattered window you first saw the White Thing from.

It’s not an easy fit.

There’s various claw marks and disturbed plates and cups, it looks like the Canine was here earlier.

The echo of the rain is deafening indoors, but you can very faintly hear a sizzling, popping noise...

!!!

At the end of your line of sight, barely visible by flashlight... little white sparkles.

By whatever God(s) are applicable, it’s here.

On one hand, you found it, and there is much celebration.

On the other hand, it’s not where it was last night, and reason to despair.

>>5127524
Cautiously approach stardust, watch blind spots and corners, and avoid slipping on the wet floor

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>>5127524
What >>5127777 said (also, nice quads).
Didn't expect it to be in the same place, but it's a good thing that at least now we have our objective in sight and a means to fulfill it.

>>5127524
Ok, so it changes place within the pizzeria, but it does seem to stay within said pizzeria, meaning a much smaller area to search each time

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>>5127524
Exercise caution: assuming that the security door suddenly did not break down, that means that The Canine and The Vacuum are in close proximity. If he's not immediately in the party room, then he may be in the bathroom.
The Vacuum may not be a direct threat, but his bulimia episode may have restricted how much space we'll have to work with.

>>5127524
Well let's get it and then go back the way we came back to the safety of our office.

>>5127926
I've played Duskers before. Can we open the door, get the Canine to the other side of the building, then close it again? If the the sound of the door opening isn't enough for him to go investigate it, we could go outside and throw some of the glass through one of the windows if we're feeling brave enough.

>>5128689
Depends on whether or not we can pull him far enough away, I suppose.

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You can't help but wonder if it's too lucky these mystic lights were right dead center in the Party Room tonight.

Though you suppose you're not too lucky. The Party Room is still the most exposed location in your Pizzeria.

You try to be as stealthy as you can, hoping the brutal storm masked the noise of you crawling into the hole that once housed a very small Kitchen window. A very shattered Kitchen window as of earlier today.

Frankly you're amazed you fit through it at all. Leaving the Kitchen, shovel in hand... The Vacuum is spewing acid again, further ensuring that massive hole in the floor. It stares glossy eyed dead ahead. Like it isn’t even aware it exists any more.

Great.

You hear nothing around you, but on the upside, are not jumped by anything right off the bat.

You notice various deep scratches in the floorboard in various criss-crosses... The Canine is restless, and unless it ran outside there is no way you aren't less than twenty feet from it...

The Shadow detaches from you, a feeling that seems to freeze the Souls of the entire Hive briefly. If only you could shiver... The Stardust is consumed, and the Shadow is gone like it were never there to begin with.

You aren't sure what happens if you fail to find the Stardust in time. You're pretty sure you do not want to find out.

Just before you can plan to move to the Office...

In the restroom, back turned from you, you see the Canine, just barely.

It appears to be scratching against the wall as you sneak a little closer.

The wall to your Office.

>>5129575
Hrm! That's not good at all. Not sure what to do about it aside from trying to whack it across the head silly with our shovel.

>>5129583
We could still try distracting him by throwing the broken glass somewhere. If he hears what he thinks is us moving around hopefully that'll get him to stop whatever he is doing.

>>5129623
Agreed. But how we’ll make our way back to the office is a problem. I have a feeling once we open that door the Canine will somehow know and charge us, and the alternative is going around outside, an option we’ve gotten lucky with so far. I’d rather not test that luck further

>>5129811
Lets go back and hide in the kitchen, then use the remote to open the door, and try to hear what his reaction is. We haven't used the door before, we can probably better plan what to do once we know how it works and how everyone reacts to it. But my biggest worry here is that the Canine will break down the wall separating the bathroom with the office, which would essentially make the door useless by giving him an alternate route to the north side of the building.

>>5129575
Well fuck, hide in the kitchen and use the door remote.

>>5129575
Hide and see if making a noise with something will lure it elsewhere

>>5130034
>>5130080
Hiding in the kitchen isn’t necessarily a bad idea, but we still need to last 5 hours and I don’t think we can squat in the kitchen for that long due to the Canine roaming around

>>5130080
+1

>>5130306
Of course we'll move around eventually, this is just for now to stop canine from destroying the wall and as a temporary hiding place, also if canine does go past the security gate we can close it behind him and get him stuck on the other side.

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You're not an idiot. Well, at least you'd like to think most of the Hive isn't, and among you are some quick thinkers. The Canine is close, and you're exposed. Even if it doesn't notice you...

That Wall is crucial, if that wood is destroyed, there will be no safe areas left for you indoors.

You grab your pocket glass, and lob it into the Hallway.

>"I see the way out! Mommy!"

A child's voice lights in terror and excitement, audible even over the rain. You lurch into the Kitchen to hide just as you make out the vague shape of the monster running to the Hallway.

Desperate, and praying the storm doesn't interfere with the signal, once you get into the Kitchen, yearning for a proper Door...

You hit the remote’s button and...

You open the Hall Gate.

The foundation shakes. The Gate opens with a grinding squeal, and nearly tears the walls down with it, its powerful weight far stronger than this wood rotten shack of a Pizzeria can accommodate.

It's too muffled, but you know the Canine is at least... not in the Party Room.

Using the noise of the storm to your advantage, you "barricade" the kitchen.

Great, three full feet of coverage to hide behind, and exposed by a broken Window to anything and everything in the Wood around you.

>>5130986
Let's try to barricade the window, maybe rip off a door from a cabinet and stick it in the window.

>>5131395
Agreed, but we should also make sure it’s still a viable route. Also, aside from the Smiler, no entity from the Wood has ever gotten in, and I’m discounting the Smiler cause that could’ve been a unique behavior to the Smiler

>>5130986
Do we have a lot of glass left? If not can we reach through the window and grab some more? Now that we know it can work as a distraction I'd like to be sure we always have some, unless the cuts we get from picking it up could get so bad we lose hp.

I'd also like to close the gate now, but we don't know for certain if the Canine is on the other side of it. Would it be worth the risk to go back outside and look for him through the windows on the north side of the building? Or should we stay inside and shut the gate and just hope he isn't standing in that one spot just outside the Party Room before the gate?

>>5131400
that was also before we had massive holes being busted in via falling trees.

>>5131395
Support.

>>5131395
I'll support this.

>>5131395
+1

>>5130986
Seems like there's not much more we can do besides wait. Normally I'd suggest we conserve power/repair since there's nowhere we can really go right now, but deactivating may leave us too vulnerable to attack if anything from the outside comes prowling.

I guess hang tight and stay vigilant until the storm lets up?

>>5136051
Deactivating is definitely a bad idea. We already know there's stuff from the Wood that can mess us up, and there are threats inside as it stands.

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The materials they give you for this Pizzeria are more like cardboard than wood. Your shovel digs through the cabinet like paper. You have some nails and supplies in the Office...

Using the noise to your advantage, you lay the fresh-pulled plank over the window, and the wind from outside takes hold and slams it-and you with it, backwards.

The turbulence of the storm would tear the Window barricade open in an hour tops. For now...

Well, aside from the extreme, extreme property damage... You consider as you sit up-

The Shadow is gone. The Vacuum is stationary. The Canine is in the Hallway, hopefully past the Gate.

As far as you can tell, unless more trees fall or something from the Wood breaks in... You're safe.

Nothing has hurt you, and a part of the Hive sparks up at the idea that, generally speaking, you have developed a sense of control over the Night.

An Hour passes, and ... well, aside from guaranteed wood rot from the roofing you have that isn't tarp, nothing happens. No strange noises, and the storm is too heavy to see if anything is hunting you from the Wood.

>>5137421
How about we try to rest and restore hp?

>>5137421
Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer. ...Then rest. You deserve it.

>>5137421
Let's just rest for now.

>>5137421
Rest.

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A lone voice in the Hive shuts down your bounding confidence with an old, and simple Aesop.

<Reminder>Confidence is a slow and insidious killer.

You finish patting yourself on the back for managing this Night so well, at least in regards to handling monsters. You aren't damaged, at least not much, but given things are hopefully clear...

You go into Standby and Rest.

...

>BRRRING!!

You jerk back to life, almost exactly to the Hour-

>BRRRING!! BRRRING!!

It's the phone, it's so loud!

Even over the damn storm, it's ringing off the hook! How is it so loud even the storm can't mask it?

You hope the Canine isn't noise sensitive. You doubt they aren't.

>BRRRRRIIIING--BRRRRINNG!!

Either way, Corporate faxes you when they need to, it's not like it's your job to risk death getting to your Office.

Hell, on your first day they communicated to the Hive through your Unit!

>BRRRRING-- BRRRING--!!

Persistent bastard, whoever it is...

>>5137468
Shit, my first instinct is to check it out but I also don't want to.

But on the other hand, the Canine would tear up our office if they heard it for too long.

Shit. We gotta check it. We're at full health, we can take a hit.

>>5137468
Has anything changed? Is window still boarded up? Is there anything outside? And I'd ask if the vacuum is still doing its thing but I doubt we'd hear it over both the storm and the phone. The fact that a whole hour has gone by and it seems like nothing tried to break down the door makes me pretty confident that the Canine is on the other side of the Gate. Although, if we want to answer the phone, if not to satisfy our curiosity then to prevent it from drawing the attention of anything in the woods, we are now going to have to go that way.

>>5137473
If it won't take too much time to remove the board from the window, or if its already gone, we could open the gate again and try to trap it back on this side of the building, then go out through the window.

>>5137468
do we have the plush on hand? worst case scenario we can use it like the glass shards and distract the canine by yeeting it

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>>5137468
>pick up the phone
>be ready to shovel that fucking fox

>>5137552
+1 This is the way.

>>5137552
+1. Go through and hope for the best, but be ready to smack a bitch if you have to.

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>>5137552
+1
answer the call!

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>>5137552
+1

Bulk of the votes is to pursue that sexy phone, but how would you go about it? I want to specify from >>5137421

>you lay the fresh-pulled plank over the window, and the wind from outside takes hold and slams it-and you with it, backwards.

The storm is so strong you can't even make a barricade. The window is open and exposed. You can risk the Party Room to move to the Hall, then over the tree to your Office. Or go outside, or something more creative.

I also already have it down that if you are jumped, the encounter is ready to be braced offensively. It's been a few threads, so a reminder on combat:

If you and the Monster have enough time to see each other, you can use a Social Approach, Prepare to Dodge, or go on the Offense and attack.

If you're moving and anticipating being jumped, you have Offense or Dodging. It's also worth reminding that when you attacked the Canine once, the damage did carry over to Foxy. It did not, however, break him entirely and he was eventually repaired.

>>5138960
Lets open the Gate and go out the window. Once outside lets hug the wall and move either straight up to the north west corner and just walk inside, or depending on which direction the wind is blowing, if we think it will be less dangerous go south then hug the south side of the building and proceed to take the long route around to the eastern window on the north wall.
Hopefully the Canine will have wandered back into the Party Room by then and we can shut the Gate again and be safe from him.

>>5139190
Sounds good enough.

>>5139190
+1. It's a good plan and poses the least risk overall.

If our job is to lure the animatronics to be cremated. The stuff around burns too fast and cold to even melt lead.
An idea is to get a tall metal pole so we can get struck by lightning.
Gonna feel that the guests that came for pizza are robots and no rational kids is gonna even want to eat here.

>>5139495
You'd be surprised at the places kids would want to eat at. But I'm like, 99% sure this establishment is just a scheme by FazCorp to harvest shit from the Wood.

>>5139693
Fair enough. Must be either some real good pizza or soda.

>>5139693
>>5140937
This might be the reason we had to pick such isolated locations to start in. Not just to make it easier to cover up all the horrible shit that happens, but also because there's just not much else to do around here. When the nearest movie theater is a full day's drive away and the nearest city is even further the weird pizzeria in the woods suddenly seems more tempting.

>>5141166
One wonders where they got the money.
>inb4 people pan for gold nearby

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If a phone is ringing this late at night, it's likely something very important.

Possibly help?

It's a stretch, but the opportunity is too strange not to investigate.

With some of the Hive practically holding their breath, you open the Gate. Again the foundation shakes, but the roof doesn't collapse. Sawdust coats your shoulders all the same.

>BRRRRIIINNNG!! BRRRRRINNNG!!

You hope you can do that a few more times before it really does destroy the Hallway, if not the entire Pizzeria.

You take some time and analyze the Outdoors. It isn't easy, but with strong effort, you're able to make out a tree. A swaying tree, and determine that it is swaying hard from the East. It makes sense, this is how it tried to snatch you away earlier...

You force your way out the Window, it's a bit easier than going in, and dig your shovel in to keep from-

SNAP--!!

The blade of your Shovel embeds into the ground as the handle itself, used for so long as a walking stick, snaps in half. In a panic, you lurch and grip the side of the Pizzeria for support. If you had fingernails, which you don't, they'd have been torn out by the effort.

The handle of the Shovel is whisked deep into the Wood, the blade following as you hold on for your dear Lives.

Not wanting to stay at risk, you start sidling as fast as you can, desperate not to share your weapon's fate.

You still have your knife at least, you aren't completely defenseless, you tell yourselves.

It’s Hell and a half, but using the wind to your advantage, you’re able to move along the East Wall with relative safety, if anything saw you from the Party Room, they didn’t slam through the Window. That has to count for something.

The Window to your Office is open. You can barely make out the tree about ten feet to your right, along with the smashed wall fully exposed to let anything in, or out.

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You're pleased to not get jumped or harassed as you make your way into the Office, sopping wet. Desperate to stop the noise, you yank the phone off the receiver.

---

“Took you long enough, Christ, where were you trying to bunker down at...

“Unless things really changed, the Office should be the safest part of your Pizzeria. No time for formalities, call me Skin. Don’t respond to a word I say, Corporate will hear you."

Male, with a gruff voice, like a man suffering from pneumonia or a Cancer of the lungs for a long time. Luckily with a hundred listening in, it’s not difficult to make out what he’s saying and translate it to others.

“At Night, they can listen in but it’s manual, you’ll know if it’s happening. The power will flicker. In a few hours they will fax you something grisly. I know what you Hive sorts are like, no doubt you have guesses as to what it is. Listen close, write it down if you gotta and thank whatever Gods you believe in you got this call.

“What you’re told is true. The dangers they will mention are real, all new Fazbear locations are built on them deliberately to pressure you to do what they say. The methods they want will work. The worst thing I have to say is you will have to go along with it, at least a little bit.

“But not all the way. They lie. I’m sure you know this, and chose to take the job anyway. Do what you have to do, but do it just a little. Barely at all, and wait. The thing in the Lake is going to come for you, but you won’t need to use what they want you to use to stop it.”

A pause, and what sounds like a puff from a cigar, you think you hear another voice, a girl, teenage? She’s whispering something and you can’t make out much. The phone goes mute.

A minute passes, almost two.

Finally the Male returns.

“Twenty days, maybe a bit less or a bit more. Don’t give in to the crap they shove down your throat, we might be able to help by then.”

Click.

The phone goes quiet.

>>5142516
Welp, guess we’re gonna go kill Nessie!

>>5142516
Oh good, a lake monster!

>>5142516
Interesting, I was wondering why everything here was specifically so shit

>>5142516

So it's true, Corporate wishes to push us to desperation. To force us to make... Choices we wouldn't usually make.

Thank God for this warning, if only that it reaffirms what many of us feel.

Now we just have to do our best to drag our heels like the man said with whatever They want.

Is it odd to trust whoever's on the other end? So quickly?

Maybe.

But I'm sure as fucking hell not trusting Corporate.

If we can do something that can truly fuck them over, then I want in on it.

>>5142516
"<Statement> Better him than corporate."
Nothing else to do but wait, I suppose.

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After a brief discourse among the Hive, most believe Skin, as well as accept this was basically an inevitability. A small portion even express excitement at what Corporate is going to request of them.

It takes special sorts of people to sell their literal mind and body over to participate in a 'Career Opportunity' like this.

The Gate is still open, you hope if the Canine was past it, it won't get past the tree, or think to step outside and get you--

Oh God, assuming it can leave the Pizzeria...

Is it waterproof?

When you stabbed it, Foxy took the same wounds the morning after. Could it kill itself without meaning to? And take the Sea Dog with it?

>Scrrrrrr--p

From the left side--

>Scrrrrr-puh--

...

>DRRH--DRRRH--

The fucking... it never left the Bathroom! Bits of the wall splinter away, it can take a few more hits but... how many is hard to say!

>>5142829
Well shit. Personally I'm of the opinion that preserving that wall is more important than losing 1 hp, so lets do whatever we have to do to stop him.

I would suggest taking advantage of how thin the wall must be now by trying to talk to him and hope that he can hear us and hope that that doesn't cause him to attack the wall harder, but even if that did all go well I just don't think we can reason with this one.

>>5142969
Agreed, although we may need to snuff this one. Be ready for that and don’t resist, even if he is a fan favorite.

>>5142829
I rather lose 1 HP than lose the wall. Do everything we can to stop it. Yell at it, tell it to stop, swing our knife if that doesn't work. Anything.

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Catastrophe can happen, but unlike your last encounter, you aren't in stabbing range with the Canine. You can vaguely make out the beast through the splits in the wall, and do your best to sound approachable with your droning mechanical voice.

<Inquiry>Are you okay, little one?

The sound of the storm drowns out most of the response-

>”..just--... little--”

A child's voice, so quiet, so on a mission. That hook is this little boy's shovel, and he's digging a tunnel out. Before he was scooped under the shoulders and dragged to THAT room and-

Shut up! The rest of the Hive can keep that shit to themselves.

<Statement>It's dangerous to be digging here, you can get hurt! Please go back to your Mommy.

>"..."

Silence.

A shuffling, metal on wood...

>"You'll KILL MOMMY TOO if I leave!"

It takes a moment to register what is happening. Using a head sized gap in the wall, the Canine tore something, something that hurt it from inside and-

>SCHLUCK

You look down, and realize the massive steel spike now pinning you to the wall.

The Canine bolts from the Restroom as you register this.

The Gate is still open.

Black 'fluid' flows from your chest, and...

You're stuck. Pinned against your own Office wall.

>>5143123
Okay, shit, fuck. Try to pull it out, if it hurts too much or if it's stuck, just prepare for another attack as best we can.

>>5143123
well this night hasn't been going well for us now, have it? Moral of the story, we can't talk down these creatures, and with that important lesson in mind, let's try to either pull ourselves off the spike, or pull the spike out

>>5143127
Well, the Shadow seems reasonable (to an extent, with it fucking off the moment we get stardust), and the Vacuum is brain dead, so it's really only the Canine who's been 100% a cunt.

>>5143123
Isn't the Gate operated with a remote control? Could we shut it fast enough? And would that be worth the risk of it damaging the building?

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A small portion of the Hive recall a retro game, nearly ancient at this point called Devil May Cry, you had to play it with colored cables over thirty years ago. It even required a television to play it.

There was a scene some recall where the main character is impaled on a big sword, and decides that instead of pulling it out, he'd deliberately fall forward, pulling himself effectively off the sword instead.

Most of the Hive are demanding what the Hell this portion are talking about before enough control is assumed to do just that.

The spike is still embedded into the wall as you slide down it, until you free yourself without further damaging your internals.

You're leaking like a stuck pig, but can move what matters. Your arms, legs, and you can still see.

You aren't sure if it's luck or finesse that made that work.

You ... don't know if you'll get that lucky again.

>>5143137
Let's make the reference complete and procede to use the spike as a weapon. When this inevitably fails, let's ponder the choices in our lives that have led us to this point

>>5143137
We should just rest at this rate. Cover our leaking hole with anything we can find. We have used FAR too much luck today

>>5143173
I think the Canine is coming to get us. I think we'd need to barricade the office first.

>>5143188
Fair enough. If we can't get time to rest, then I agree on trying to free the spike (and then barricade the office if that fails)

>>5143137
Well we lost our shovel so pike weapon time.

>>5143123
I think we need to put the fox down

>>5143271
Either that or the vacuum, both are causing enough property damage to becoming too expensive to keep them both on board, that and we now have incentive for killing these things

>>5143287
I'd vote for the Vacuum. Look, the dude is eating us out of house and home with how much of the floor it keeps deleting with its vomit. And unlike the Canine or the Shadow, it doesn't seem to understand english and is utterly braindamaged.

So unless we can break the Vacuum's coma, it's probably the easiest to kill.

>>5143188
Seconding this.

>>5143290

And what if dismantling them might work towards what Corporate wants?

No, I won't have it.

>>5143599
I'm like 99% killing them or creatures from the forest is what fills up the remnant machine outside. We gotta use it eventually

>>5143188
+1
I'm not too keen on destroying any animatronics unless it becomes absolutely necessary to do so
Also, I've been wondering about the vacuum, is there anything that prevents us from just... moving him before the night comes? Like to some corner in the back of the pizzeria, or even outside? I mean who cares if he spews acid on a bunch of dirt behind the building, right? Better than on the party room floor anyway, and that way there's no need to kill anyone.

>>5143702
Putting him out exposed to the elements might damage him. Maybe if we covered him with a tarp it might help but he'll probably knock it loose.

>>5143737
Hell why even bother with putting him outside, we got a big ol hole in the floor that leads to an empty crawlspace, let's just stick his head in there at closing time and forget about it, out of sight out of mind
But anyway, that's never here nor there right now, we can always discuss the finer details once we've made it through the night

>>5143829
And that's when the acid breaches a hole into the pit of demons the pizzeria is built on top of probably

>>5143137
I'm just one voice in this shit of 100. For one, I want to grab the spike and use it as our weapon until we lose it. I don't want to kill any animatronic unless we absolutely have to, with Foxy being the most likely immediate candidate for us. Any antagonistic fucker from the forest comes for us or our pizzeria, we murder them and drag their body to that remnant machine and give it a test run. We need a stronger pizzeria asap for better security, but it won't last in our lives and you all know it. Going out to hunt, trying to build up our coordination, that's what we need.

>>5144222
also I want to burn fazbear company to the ground
if we kill any animatronic of ours, we need to remember them from that point on
we cannot solo that sea monster in that lake, even if it comes all those miles just to kill us
from now on any animatronic or monster we kill goes to the remnant machine
I want to use the power up feature repeatedly, damn the warning written, until we become hivemind god overlord
understand?

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You decide to take advantage of the situation as best you can, and try to tear the spike from the wall.

Doing so slices a bit of your hand open and you let go quickly. In some of the Hive's excitement you forgot there was no handle.

It's basic, but your Knife is reliable enough, and you still have that Chain you pulled earlier this week in the Office with you if you must have something heftier.

You're barricaded inside, and for now it's just waiting. You mull over some hard potential decisions, with little else to do...

Putting one of your Animatronics down, or at least their night version...

Foxy proved the damage would carry on, you'd have to ki-

Decommission them.

It'd be easier by Day you suppose.

The Canine nearly took a wall down and has injured you more than once. The Vacuum has ruined your Party Room on a nightly basis, limiting what can be fixed in the Morning while you’re shut down... The Shadow seems manageable.

But... you also don’t know what happens if you don’t reach that Stardust in time.

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With these heavy thoughts on your minds, even in your apprehension for what’s to come...

Nothing does.

If the Canine was actively trying to hunt you down, the tree must have slowed it. That or it fried in the rain, you won’t know until the Sun rises...

Nothing you can do... You aren’t sure if that’s comforting or worrying.

While the damage is far beyond extreme, the worst Night by far, and you not looking much prettier...

You survive your Fourth Night on the Job.

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And with that, Congrats! There's going to be a hiatus before the start of Day 5. First to do some serious number crunching on my end, and above all, tinkering to better balance out the engine.

As you've no doubt noticed, the pricing on Animatronics had to scale up to match the income you guys make. Heck, Foxy was 80 bucks on Day 1. Now he'd likely be 280. This isn't a problem, I just need to create a real system for a scaling 'economy' to ensure robots always cost something of value on percentage to make it more fair across the board. Right now, and I'm ashamed to admit it, all I had were "Base prices" and 'triple it after Day 3' and that's just not good enough.

Weather and Night encounter chances, supplies and how long they last, the priority of repairs done by the Truck Crew, all of that I want to map out in more detail than it currently is.

In the mean time, I'll be taking input.

What feels too hard? Too easy? Anything unfair or feel exploitable? This is the first time this engine has ever been run outside of practice games with myself before we started.

Also in the meantime if anyone wants any art of the characters, I can use the practice outside of in-game content.

Maybe I'm small minded but I feel like maybe we got a little bit too fucked this session and I don't know how we recover from this

>>5144614
We’re at a disadvantage, certainly, but we can probably recover. The biggest thing IM worried about is the cost from that tree. Corporate better pitch in a bit to keep us from instantly bankrupting cause removing the tree and fixing that hole will NOT be cheap, and I don’t expect it to be. But if it takes more than 40% of our current budget we’re gonna be kinda screwed

>>5144568
>>5144666
Same anon, basically this and I feel the ramping up delivery costs are basically gonna cuck us from ever getting anything again in a few days

>>5144666
I mean the damage was 100% out of our control, not like we could've done shit to prevent it unless you think "just tie trees down lol" would stop shit.

>>5144614
Increase entertainment so more "children" moneymakers come to us?

>>5144685
Yes, but it’s still gonna be expensive as fuck to remove it and repair the damage.

>>5142516
Ah, that must have been Micheal. What a neat segue.

>>5144568
That was intense! Thanks for hosting Ghost. The combat so far is 'aight, but I'm loving how this new engine of yours has been generating this so far.

>>5144568
Maybe lower the scale of property damage? as it is, it feels like our walls and floor are made of paper mache (which they are but shut up).
Having the tree not outright break the restaurant wall, but damage it? Or say, giving walls, doors, etc.Pseudo HP, so a wall in our pizzeria for instance currently has 2 HP, meaning it takes 2 normal events like foxy clawing the wall, and the tree falling, to destroy a wall. In exchange making repairs cheaper, but rebuilding the wall more expensive?

I would guess you are including more robust walls etc in pizzeria expansion, could you have the computer tell a bit on what the expansion means? Cause right now with no info, i feel we'll procrastinate on buying it.

We are also incentivised to not stay in our office, to get the stardust, to investigate stuff, to clean a room in the night, to avoid animatronics by staying outside. This is completelly fine, but kinda feels weird for a fnaf quest lol. Maybe make an incentive to stay close to the office? Like more common phonecalls. Once we get security cameras and other fnaf gear that will obv help.

Also, it feels like having only one daily deal kinda sucks, since we 80% of the time buy it, and have time spare during the day. It makes the progression painfully slow. I'd prefer if we got more tools, but harder mechanics, like the customers actually caring if stuff is damaged, or more events, positive and negative.

Speaking off, more tasks to do when we feel like it could be nice? Like say, letting us buy a chef kit, so we can make hand made pizzas for a money bonus?

In general it feels like we don't have many choices, from the horror angle, that's fine i guess, but as players it feels we are more at your will, and can't do much to prevent or remedy it. By this i mostly mean a lack of tools/skills to do anything on our own without the truck guys, who we can't even ask for something in particular. We can't board up a shattered window, cause we don't have the tools. We can't upgrade anything without waiting for the daily deal, or saving up for the expansion. This is disregarding getting more animatronics, as that's less an upgrade, and more a risk/reward.

Love your work mate, but i think if it goes on as it currently is, it will go stale quite quickly.

I’m happy the tree came up first, also this is on IOS so pardon the typos that are bound to happen, as I was imagining if I were a player, my immediate thought was: “This is just artificial bullshit to make this night harder because we’re doing ok.” It took a lot of willpower not to go out of QM mode to speak up, as doing so would have killed the tension. I’m so damn happy I can express what happened now.

There are 2-4 “Event Checks” (1d4, reroll on 1) every night, each allocated at random hours (number generator). During an event check, I roll a 1d6. 2 or less is a “bad event happens”, usually something small, like a smashed window, a door breaking, etc.

During storms that 1d6 has a “-1” penalty to encourage staying indoors unless the risk indoors is big. If you roll a 1, I roll a 1d4, if THAT is a 1, the damage is “Catastrophic”, a 4 is a “Minor Damage” as though you rolled a 2.

You guys got a 1, followed by a 1. Afterwards was a general Survival roll which happens anytime there is a dangerous situation, a 1d6 with a DC of 3-4 depending on how hard the situation is. You rolled a 5 on that, which is why the tree didn’t land on you. If it had, it wouldn’t oneshot (I will NEVER oneshot you unless it’s something I warn repeatedly could carry consequences that extreme) but it would have been rough.

The tree was a case of horrible dice luck, even without the storm penalties, it is not the norm. Were the Pizzeria upgraded that horrible of a pair would still have done something severe and overwhelming.

Skill checks also occured every “turn” trying to move outdoors in Extreme conditions. Failing one broke your Shovel. On the upside you passed many others.

I’ll keep addressing what I can as the day goes on provided I have Internet access. Not at my computer today. Also like I said above, now that it’s laid out, if that Outside event system sounds bad/unfair let me know.

Moving forward, the damage repair. Costwise I don’t think it’s that rough? I don’t have archive access but I believe it only exceeded 100 USD a single time.

Remember that the morning cost is the Shipping for every item/animatronic as well as repairs done, you bought a very pricey animatronic yesterday (Rockstar Bonnie, referring to today in game) and that took the bulk of funds, moving her in.

I’ll also break the illusion a bit, if you want the tension do not read on:

Repairs all cost the same, whether it’s a full floor or a broken window. What you buy is where those costs go up. Expansions do not affect this before that worry can come up.

The risk of repairs isn’t money, it’s chance. I take account of every single damage and put it on a list. Broken windows, damaged Animatronics, broken doors, ruined walls… and I roll for two of them, and those get fixed.

I’m considering an option before Sunrise where you can opt out of getting two Repairs for one specific one. But that feels like it’d be removing the Darkwood-ish sense of “Oh God ANYTHING can be destroyed at Night and it could have serious implications later” sensation. Especially damages that unchecked can cause even more damage overtime.

Please spare our boy Foxy, he's too cute to kill.

>>5142516
Faz Corp wants us to face an eldritch abomination from the Lake? Oh boy.

>>5145469
We’ll try, but he may put us in a position where it’s us or him, and it’s always gonna be us

>>5145092
>unless it’s something I warn repeatedly could carry consequences that extreme
For the record i do NOT regret hugging the bear

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>>5145798
Just don’t forget that key rule on Day 1, you cannot run an establishment with less than two Animatronics.

mr.hugs cannot be allowed to have any harm befall him. he is our emotional core and without him we are nothing
the ambigiously gendered rabbit can stay too I guess

>>5144497
>It'd be easier by Day you suppose
Fuck. I'd rather do the objectively worse and risker option of "decommissioning" him in the night while he's hostile. It just seems so fucked to betray our buddy like that. Really I'd rather not get rid of him at all, I really do think that it will be easier to avoid him at night when the building is bigger. If we make enough money tomorrow to upgrade the building and think we can last another night I'd like to keep him. Hopefully the weather won't be as bad tomorrow night and it will be safer to go outside.

Continuing on a bit more(I'm making an excel document now of prices and trying to find a good % increase by day method for now, while also doing a story) with the rest of the issues. Again this is all up for debate, I want to cover absolutely everything.

>Could you have the computer tell a bit on what the expansion means?
I can't, it's a roulette as to what gets added out of four different types of new rooms. The only guarantee is better walls/ceiling. Even then, it's a resource management game that you can die in, your Pizzeria is an extension of yourself and neither of you will be 100% safe.

>Incentivize staying close to the office, lack of phone calls and FNAF gear
Well, in some runs you would want to keep largely to your Office, but the strategy of play is largely dependent on what you guys got.

You have a Roamer, which encourages you to guess where it is at all times and avoid encountering it. You have a Stationary, which blocks off one area in this case (Top-East Party Room). I can't say what the Shadow is yet. Two of the enemies you got because of your choices in Robots demand movement.

The nature of the Animatronics you have put you in a situation where sometimes moving around is better than locking up. Even then, you guys have spent hours Resting after locking down your Office and the Kitchen, taking the risk of attack. This is FNAF inspired, but it's not meant to play like FNAF in text form, that doesn't really interest me.

>Tools to make things with money bonuses
I'm not necessarily opposed to this, but it would mean one of those precious 4 Day Slots being used to do that trade. Before we even go there, there's been a major means of moneymaking that has come up and has been mentioned over and over if you need big income fast:

Throwing a Party, you even bought the most expensive supplies for it.

>Customers caring if stuff is damaged or more elements
They do, the hole in the floor capped out the amount of guests willing to visit and lowered it. The Quality of Party Supplies around the Pizzeria determines a portion of how many customers come in, and the Cleaning Equipment (and how regularly things are cleaned) how many leave happy and keep you out of lawsuits. Every single Restaurant statistic implies the quality, and they wrap around each other for good and bad to handle profit, lawsuits, shipping costs, etc etc.

I've received complaints that this quest is too complicated to the point some have tried to get into it and couldn't. I tried to make it so that while it's still heavily complex on my end, you guys have the least to worry about.

There are 5 things you can do a day outside of independent actions: Talk to a Bot, Clean, Buy something, Throw a Party, or Rest. I think layering what you can do in the only time you're safe and generating profit in simple terms absent of sub-systems or skill sets is more player friendly.

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Text limit. Damn them. Anyways.

A lot of your concerns about events being out of your hands during the day will be changing, and not just with updates I'm doing on hiatus, but some that were set but not quite polished before Day 2. If things do get stale after that is introduced, then I'll consider the idea of a Skill System for learning things like Cooking, or Balloon Animals, etc etc. Especially because Daytime slots are extremely precious.

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--AND I think that covered almost everything. Thank you so much for everyone that's been enjoying it so far! And just in case, if any responses to ideas came off remotely snippy or mean, I promise that wasn't the intent. I try to take a very stoic approach with this one as unlike GhostQuest or BonQuest this is 90% Engine driven, much like 2-Bytes was before it got destroyed by the weird spam detector.

>>5146159
I am so glad you guys did, but at the same time, that one event almost made me decide to not even allow attempts at social interactions in combat encounters in this Quest.

But I also know no matter how hard I try, there's gonna be waifu/husbando elements that creep into this. It's hardwired in at this point.

>>5147314
>There's gonna be waifu/husbando elements that creep into this. It's hardwired in at this point
Be glad the only named character people can waifu over is a smug rabbit who goes "woah dude that's cringe" if waifu stuff is brought up

Also fair enough on the party thing. We should 100% do that once the game starts up again, if only so we can get some more space to breath in.

>>5147320
>thinking being called cringe will stop those people

>>5147314
Cheers for answering all my questions bud. To me, it felt too simple instead of too complex, but as you've shown, that's a personal perspective.

Also, even the tiny tidbit of "Pizzeria expansion adds a random room with a use" is really helpful, i was under impression it was like FNAF 6 where it was a total pizzeria makeover to make it better.

Excited for where you take this next bud.
p0pmw

We should start deciding which bot to scrap, I vote mr hugs

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Alright, almost there, and I think I have all the numbers crunched. There were mistakes, which are fixed now.

Namely that your Guest Cap was inverted (should have been 42, instead I had it as 47, luckily this was caught before it could hurt the Game) and I forgot that in Shipping, a negative score is good, this only affected display where I put a '+' instead of a '-'. I double checked the math (I do shipping and repair on paper so I can verify it if I make a mistake) and it was factored correctly.

With that said, also so if I ever fuck up or miss anything I can be told about it, this is the entire state of your Pizzeria as of the end of Day 4. This does NOT include the events of the Night which will change a few statistics. This does not include JJ.

Now that scrapping has come up among the Hive, I thought it wise to makes sure you all know what you'd be giving up should you choose to dismantle one of your Entertainers and to plan accordingly.

>>5149969
Is Foxy really that disgustingly filthy?

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Day 5.

The Truck Workers seem kind in picking what to fix up during your blackout. The massive Hole in the Party Room was boarded over, and most impressive is that the giant Tree has been moved. There is a sticky note on the broken wall next to it:

‘Out of time. Wall will be fixed tomorrow.’

More Party Room floor means more Guest room! You can fit 45 Guests in your Pizzeria now! The gap in the Wall is a huge pain, but it’s away from where Guests are allowed to roam, so it should hopefully only be a problem at Night.

Shelling out for the highest quality Cleaning Supplies gives you a lot of hygienic time, but everything must come to an end. The Restroom and Kitchen are no longer clean, and without tending will soon start ramping up filth again.

The Bill is next to the Computer, not letting you speak to the Truck People (may as well call them that for how impersonal they are) reading:

>JJ Animatronic, Jungle Gym Installation x1, P.Room Floor Repair, Tree removal, Total Costs for Shipping and Repair: 68 USD.*

>*PS: New Kid helped with the tree, enjoy the discount.

Well... Everything be damned. Expenses for repairs brings your Total to 407 USD. Before you can focus too much on the upcoming Day-

Your Computer flicks to life with startling speed.

A Jazzy Jingle begins as an old video playing program opens up, full screen. The voice of Corporate speaks out to you from the tinny speakers for the Second time since you all took this job.

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Good Morning!

We at Freddy Fazbear’s Entertainment have been monitoring your progress, and are very pleased with the Fun, Entertainment, and Profit you’ve been providing in spades!

We applaud your hard work, and hope to see you continue to improve your Pizzeria in the future. Let’s just say it really put a smile on our face to look in and see you even have **No_FOXY_15 there on stage!

We have full faith in you and your continuing fantastic Business Decisions!

In fact, we have so much faith in you, that we’ve decided to extend a Business Opportunity to your Circle specifically, and yours alone.

That is the extraction and use of an environmentally-friendly alternative fuel source we like to call ‘Remnant’.

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Before we continue, we would like to ask you, politely, to recall that on signing you gave Fazbear Corporate full right to unplug any of you from the Hive at any time. Page 17, paragraph 6; as you know, informs you of the risk of Death upon removal from the coma-like states your bodies’ are currently in.

This is not to frighten you! Death has only occurred in 89% of these unpluggings, with any other non-related Deaths within the next twelve hours after being unplugged deemed entirely unrelated with our legal teams.

Rest assured, we at Fazbear are monitoring you all very carefully, to ensure you all stay as safe as possible.

With your nerves hopefully now calmed, it’s time we talk about the massive Business Opportunity in extracting Remnant. You might have noticed outdoors a hole sometimes ‘poofs’ from the ground at night, and there you’ll find a patent-pending Remnant Device.

Using it cannot be easier! All you have to do is an Activity that would create Remnant, and it’s automatically carried to the Device, maintaining it should be a piece of cake! If you ever need to check up on just how much you have, all you need to do is look for that hole again at Night!

Don’t fret, if you’re actively searching for it, it will show up. We’re quite proud of our ability to engineer these sorts of constructs that are entirely industrial in nature.

But then comes the big question, how do we get a hold of this unique Fuel and why would we want it?

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The answer is simple! With big Risks comes a big Reward, and sometimes you have to scramble a few eggs to make a delicious omelet.

The Reward is you can tap into that Remnant and use it to do all kinds of Fun Feats to help preserve and maintain your lovely Pizzeria! Even keeping Remnant around can have all kinds of lovely benefits! Such as keeping hypothetical thugs and ne'er do wells from the Wood away from your Pizzeria.

Unfortunately, in events we had no means of foreseeing, those hypothetical thugs perhaps are coming in from the Wood, and you’ll all be needing a lot of Remnant as, if they were non-hypothetical, they are closing in quicker than even we anticipated! We strongly recommend you start stockpiling as soon as possible!

There is nothing more admirable than taking initiative!

Now how do you get it? Well, much like the Children are the lifeblood of your Pizzeria, these same Children are the Lifeblood of Remnant!

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Accidents happen!

A black eye, a broken leg... Guests know on arrival the assumed dangers that come with eating out. To assist in teaching lessons in the dangers of being unsupervised, as well as tap into the Remnant you all no doubt are excited to get:

You’ll need blood!

Added to your Computer browser is a section for Fun, New Equipment that may assist with the hard Work and Passion needed to carry out this Work! If those don’t interest you, we’ve also sent you a special code to speak to any of your Animatronics, and they can handle that stressful Job for you!

>‘DISMANTLE 13.05.99-’

Tell any of your Robots that catch phrase and you’ll be at the Top of your Game while they handle the ‘Dirty Work’! But... the other Guests will notice, so be aware of that.

Of course, if you're the Hands On Manager we believe you to be...

It’s not hard to convince an adventurous young spirit to venture into the Wood, is it? Kids go Missing all the Time!

-And spending too much Time asking questions is Time that could be spent working, right?

With that- we think we’ve bored you long enough! Best of luck collecting Remnant and remember above all else--

Work Hard and Have Fun, Fun, Fun!

--Fazbear Corporate.

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The video stops.

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Today is a New Day.

Cool, guess we're harvesting kid souls for more animatronic sentience juice.

And to think we could've left the jungle gym an un-repaired hazard for the perfect alibi to harvest more of it

>>5150894
I think we should check out what exactly this new equipment is on the browser.

>>5150894
Note to self: DO A PARTY TO GET MORE MONEY DURING THE DAY YOU DIPPY MOO

But until then, we should check out this new equipment they're selling for the black soul goop harvesting operation.

>>5150892
>that hidden frame in the gif
UHHHHHHH

>>5150925
Don't Worry About It :^)

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>>5150925
this is pretty fucked

>>5150930
>nuggeted Hive(?) body
>tied upside-down
>looks like the upper half of a toilet in the background just under and behind their head

...have we checked the ceiling of our bathroom yet?

>>5150933
I don't think it's a Hive. Looks pretty feminine.
Wait...
>"TATTLE TALE AINT GOT NO LEGS NO MORE."
>"Skin's" voice is described as sounding like he's suffering from pneumonia or some other illness.
>We heard a teenage(?) girl whispering in the background of his call.
I think corporate just killed Skin's wheelchair pusher (daughter?) and left him to rot/starve.

>>5150947
Fuck, it fits. Although if he's got even less to lose after that happened to her, that might make him more zealous to tattle further. What else can they do before he domes himself with a pistol at that rate?

Anyway, for my actual action vote. I concur with >>5150916.

>>5150947
fuck fuckity fuck.
>>5150894
Check the new section.
Let's trust this Skin. Let's harvest the bare minimum of remnant we need. This one of the hive believe it or not, does not like hurting children.

By fucked I meant we have no reasonable space to hide the activities. I suggest we acquire a new room before collecting anything.

>>5150930
>>5150933
>>5150947
I think it's from a previous quest.

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>>5150930
>>5150933
>>5150947
>>5150951
Meta knowledge: it's a callback to Ghostquest from years ago. That being said, perhaps it's best that we checktaht bathroom anyways if we have any time left over in case it's more than just an easter egg.

>>5150953
Seconding this, but proposing an extension of that idea: we go with a potentially more difficult survival strategy by relying on fashioning traps ahead of time. Most of which do not need a whole lot of resources or time to set up.

During the day, we could perhaps do minor tasks like dig punji pits, or spike traps such as pic related. Surely we can buy a new shovel or fashion some wood and nails into something that could at least give us the edge in a future fight. This voice concurs in that it does not want to harm children unless absolutely necessary, though I suspect that we would be going against the grain in doing so, and despite my previous enthusiasm for upgrading our frame to be more combat-effective. I wonder if the store sells any bear traps?

Also, check the damned browser. We're still down at least one shovel.

>>5150894
Anyways, I guess I should vote.
I think we should take advantage of the fact the computer is still booted up and browse the wares while we can.
God, we need stronger walls...

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<statement>Um.

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Too much to take in at once. Remarkably it's less of ethics, too many of you saw something like this coming. It's practicality and who to listen to.

Kids... murdering literal Children... Throw a Party? Maybe... Leading one into the Woods and making it quick might not be too bad? Oh hey, JJ is here--Why scrap a Robot if it can... fill the Remnant 'jar' a bit first? Wait, scrap a Robot? Those are friends, but Starbon said no but also...

Maybe not!

Maybe you can twist this to your favor? Not writing off Child murder right away-- half the Hive screams in protest at the segue way that proposes this idea- and everything goes quiet.

For the first time in Five Days, full silence in the Hive. Then a slow drone, as a few small voices come to life.

Perhaps the tools to be offered for the Murder of Children could be used for general safety.

The Hive exhales almost in unison. The Computer is already booted, giving you a rare situation, you can operate it before the Day officially starts.

A 'free' Browsing time. There's a new tab; "Fun 4 Kids": It's uh...

About what you'd expect it to offer.

>>5151085
Fire axe

>>5151085
There's something darkly funny about seeing a kid just being stabbed on the page.

If we can buy multiple, I vote for the bear trap and the fire axe. If we can only pick one, just the fire axe.

>>5151085
The fireaxe would be infinite useful for purposes other than prepubescent pupa purging.

>>5151085
Uh... uhhh...
DEBATINGLY HOVER over Friendly the Fire Axe. If its an actual fire axe that we can use in self defense/emergency scenarios? Great! If it's a Fire Axe on legs that sulks around the perimeter splitting kids' skulls in two? NOT GREAT.

>>5151085
I suggest purchasing one of everything if we can: the fire axe to procure a personal weapon, the bear trap (can we order multiple traps in one instance, or is there a cap?), and the cyanide. If it's a crystalized form, we could perhaps fix it to spear, spike or implement it into a trap, presuming the rest of the hive wishes to also use these as tools for killing monsters.
That being said, priority should go to the axe if we can only purchase one item.

The total would be $220. Steep, but I believe worth it since we are sorely lacking in armaments.

Can we also scrounge up some wood, nails, or recover that shovel head? If we can repair it, we could save us some money by repairing it ourselves.

For balance reasons (I know! It's boring but PC time is a precious commodity) you are limited to one Purchase, and items cycle by Day.

Don't forget that while not enough to repair anything with yet, you do have a number of 2x4s, nails, and that chain in your Office.

On an entirely unrelated note I know child murder is a bombshell but new girl helped bargain moving an entire goddamn tree to under 70 bucks and not one of you are tossing her a Hallelujah. :(

>>5151094
Fireaxe, then. Also TO BE FAIR, suddenly hitting 100 souls with the idea of kid murder so blatantly is gonna distract.

We'll definitely give her a shout out after coming down from the high of kid murder. fitting how we're wearing purple, then.

>>5151094
I was waiting to compliment her personally.

>>5151094
Thanks, Charlie.

>>5151085
Friendly the fireaxe. After the sad loss of our shovel, we are missing something to give us the feeling of safety.
Also, we can use it as a hammer, for our nails and planks. Use it to fix walls y'know

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>>5151085
I say we get Friendly the Fire Axe, as a fun little treat!

As for what to do about the Remnant situation. We are thinking about hosting a party. It wouldn't be too hard with so many kids running around to just, invite some into the back to see a super duper brand new special animatronic and just "entertain" them ourselves. For disposal we do have an animatronic that's constantly melting a hole in the floor, maybe before we board it up next time we just throw a few useless things in there. Let em melt a bit, then fix up the floor good as new, like nothing even happened...

>>5150885
What happens if we jump in the Remnant Hole?

>>5151145
We've done it before, we've seen the machine before. Nothing happened to us.

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>>5151159
Oh, what if we collected Remnant first then dipped ourselves in it? Skin said that we don't have to use what they want to stop whatever is in the lake, but that doesn't mean we can't take advantage of the Remnant in ways that wouldn't benefit Corporate right?

>>5151165
Eh, if we're already collecting remnant of all things, we're already kinda helping corporate do whatever the fuck it's doing. And I'm somewhat uncomfortable dipping raw soul juice on our body.

Probably best to use the machine if we're using remnant at all (Soul Strengthening would be nice)

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>>5151167
But anon... What if it's fun?

>>5151058
>02/04/22(Fri)04:04:19
>I wonder if the store sells any bear traps?
>>5151085
>02/04/22(Fri)04:52:49
>Beartrap Bonanza!
>>5151092
Nice call

>>5151169
pft. Fair enough. I just don't want to lose 5 HP because our fake "skin" sears off.

I have little meta knowledge on Remnant besides it being soul juice so who knows if it can even do that.

>>5151085
Buy the fire axe. Learn to chop trees outside to develop our dexterity. Tonight, we ditch the pizzeria a bit and go HUNTING. Skin said to do minimal work, yeah? I want to kill one of those hostile fucks in the trees and see what the remnant machine does with it. If we can avoid killing children, we SHOULD. Simple as. We use the remnant twice to power up ourselves... BUT WAIT

WHAT IF THAT "don't use more than twice" ON THE REMNANT MACHINE IS A LIE BY CORPORATE?

WHAT IF WE CAN KEEP BOOSTING OURSELVES FURTHER AND FURTHER WITH THE REMNANT MACHINE?

What if we can become GOD?

>>5151185
We will become schizo

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>>5151181
In SL Michael got scooped and came into contact with just a little bit of Remnant thanks to that which kept him alive and animated even without any of his organs or most of his middle bones. If anything us coming into contact with Remnant should give us HP, maybe do more than that too.
Imagine.

>>5151185
I somehow feel like even if it is a lie, overdosing on soul juice would have major drawbacks regardless

>>5151188
There's 100 people in this, what do you think we are?

>>5151192
Do it once, see how it goes, then do it a second time? Playing it one thing at a time seems optimal, but what do I know?

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>>5151185
>>5151192
What could pawsibly go wrong?

>>5151193
well, we can become one, and corporate will be able to pull us all in one touch of a button

>>5151190
Oh right, Purple Son. Honestly we're not too far behind him considering our fucked up state. Wonder how much of that is due to Remnant.

>>5151193
Yeah, one dose at a time. I don't want to try becoming a god overnight. (That and we might need to use the other functions)

>>5151194
everything

>>5151196
I think if we can kill like 4 or 10 kids and suck up all that Remnant we can fight any Fazfucks coming from the woods or that Corporate sends our way.
We can run the best children's entertainment parlour with our bare, soul infused hands.

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>>5150930
I bet that the entities named "them" from GQ have got something to do with the paranormal shit in the woods as well as the pizzeria

>>5151199
If we kill one child, we slip down the slope and killing more children becomes okay. If a kid ends up dying from something we have zero responsibility for, THEN we could grab their body and harvest the remnant from them guilt-free. I think that much is okay. Making our pizzeria an unsafe death trap on purpose is still our responsibility, and therefore the negative consequences fall on us for that, so that's a no-go.

>>5151196
Yeah I want to see what the "see the disaster" is supposed to do.

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>>5151211
We aren't making the ENTIRE pizzeria a death trap, just one room. Just one silly little room where we set up some streamers and chairs, some toys, some bleach in colorful cups. Just a funny playroom where we just kill a couple of kids, 1 or 2.
None of the parents will even notice 4 kids going missing, we can't be held responsible for the 9 kids missing that'd be silly. Our establishment is a safe place, we can just keep a little secret and our conscious will be clean when it all works out for the best in the end.

>>5151218
Shut the fuck up

>>5151229
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzpndHtdl9A

>>5151232
This is not a game bud. We are stuck in a single body ruled by the hivemind. We'll fight you over any unnecessary killing.

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>>5151249
>This is not a game bud.

Guys, could you please keep the memes and pic spam down to a minimum so the rest of us can focus on the quest? This is not a /v/ or /vg/ thread; the posting etiquette is different here.

Also, seconding what >>5151249 said, in that we are role-playing as a collective intelligence. All of our actions are governed by majority rule and/or strong/well-reasoned argumentation. It's a lot like driving a car at high speed with multiple hands on the steering wheel: if we do not communicate our ideas and intentions with one another, we will crash and burn.

>>5151249
Look, jokey jokes aside, I'm not against murdering a kid if it means I don't get gutted.

I know gutting kids for survival is morally grey at the very best but I just want to keep my options open. I'd say here's my suggestion on how to deal with the Remnant issue

>If we can get Remnant juice from killing the forest creatures, focus on that, do not kill kids
>If we can only get it from kids, keep the amount we harvest low. Enough to get a few uses out of "See the Disaster" or whatever it is or to buff our soul one time to see what it does to us.

I'm moreso worried about the exact ratio of Kid Killing to Remnant (KK to R, for short) than anything else. One or four kids, sure, we can decide to swallow our morals and kill kids. If it takes like twenty fuckers to get a soul boost or ten for a "See the Bad Thing", I'm not sure if it's worth the hassle of covering up missing kids.

Just saying. We're stuck in a cage that can only move well enough to be described as "roughly human" at times. Any means to increase our survival is worth it in my books. I do have to discuss some things about the whole Remnant machine. So, we have these four options

>see the catastrophe, takes just a little bit of it, do this often.
>soul strengthening, takes a bit more than a little bit, makes you stronger, don’t do more than twice.
>public hypnosis, takes a lot of this stuff, get away with anything you want for a day, don’t fully understand it, takes five days to activate again.
>weaponize it. you’ll know.

I'm gonna guess the "see the catastrophe" either involves the Lake monster or some other horrid beast we have to deal with.
Soul Strengthening is self explanatory but what exactly DOES happen if we do it more than twice? I doubt they're doing it as a lie since they're outright telling us "hey kill kids do it have a fireaxe".
Public hypnosis is the most outright powerful one (fuck, that's an easy money train from what I can read) but I'm trying to think of ways to exploit it besides "have everyone give me cash now" or "hey don't notice the kids being gutted it's fiiiine"

the fuck does weaponize mean, though? I get it's vague and ominous for a reason but still. It doesn't even give a value of how much it wants.

Let's not kill kids. Killing kids can only make this situation worse. Dumps gasoline on a fire.

>>5151372
See the catastrophe i would guess is a way to see the negative events in the future? Some sort of prediction? Either way, it lets us prepare for something

Weaponize it, i am pretty sure is meant to be for our encounter with the lake monster, what corporate wants us to prepare for, and skin tells us we won't need.

Public hypnosis is self explanatory, we can kill anyone for a day, maybe steal from them too. We likely wont use it since it takes a lot of murder, and generally only lets us do more murder.

Soul strengthening is the most likely one we'll get first. We need any advantage we can get. It also says "more than twice", so first 2 times are safe for sure.

Also yeah, if we can kill forest creatures for remnant, we hopefully can avoid killing kids, but i wouldn't count on it knowing our luck. Either way, fire axe and more animatronics are helpful to us. More animatronics is more money. And maybe some of the animatronics can help us in some way, like star bon does with info.

Speaking of Star Bon, after we buy the fire axe, how about we talk to them and update them on how fucked things are? They may have some ideas, or ways to help, maybe also ask them to bring the rest of the animatronics up to date, since we may need all hands on deck?

>>5151394
I doubt any of the other animatronics are gonna help much when it comes to the "Everything is fucked" situation but yeah, asking Star Bon couldn't hurt.

I don't think we should turn kids into mulch if we can. Skin said that we won't need it to stop the "thing in the lake."
Normally I'd be all for turning the little shits into red paste, 100% Evil mode! But if we can tread the morally safer path, then we should. It's what gramps wants.
If we harvest any remnant, then it should be from purely accidental sources. Like a kid breaking his neck while trying to walk on the jungle gym. Nothing personal.

>>5151426
I support going down this route, Skin said we have to play along for a little bit so we may as well minimize the harm we're doing. I also think >>5151185 has the right idea in chucking a dead wood monster in there.

We could use the public hypnosis to requisition a tank, just saying. Or some guns at least, this is America there’s bound to be someone with an M-16 lying around somewhere. This may justify a mild amount of child murder. Also if we get some guns and leave them around the little shits’re bound to shoot themselves with it and since they’ll be registered to everyone else but us, we can sneak the body away and let the owner of the gun in question deal with the fallout

>>5151555
Too convoluted. I as one of the voices in the hivemind, as that is the framing device we got here in this quest, say it's better to use mass hypnosis to rob everybody blind the entire daytime. Definitely once, if we can amass enough remnant for it. More than that, I dunno. And guns will not work against these monsters. We need brute force and melee skill. Developing and training this, alongside hivemind coordination and processing skills, is going to be vital in any inevitable future combat. The chain can be used to tangle enemies and hamper them, opening them up to an executioner's swing to the head.

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Oh God, all respective Gods' the entire Hive is yelling over each other. Luckily a few manage to yell loud enough to spur on one concrete, tangible action.

You purchase Friendly the Fire Axe.

Hell, this is going to get rough. 110 USD is spent, bringing your total to 297 USD. Pricey but regardless of what purpose it serves, an Axe is a good investment. You have around six or seven 2x4 Wooden Boards on hand and some Nails, maybe you could try and get crafty tomorrow with the remains of your Shovel lost deep in the Wood.

The whole Day is ahead of you, Guests won't be filing in for a couple of more hours. A selection of the Hive seem to be pushing the idea of taking a few later and just doing 'the Job'.

This is met largely with opposition... Although a select few small voices do point out that they'd technically not be directly responsible if a trap snares one... There is that code to make one of your Animatronics do the damage for you as well...

How does a Vacuum maim a Child?

Some even ponder if the natural damages that just come from the Hospital bills would count. Then you recall that last night, the meter was barely resting above zero.

Intent apparently comes with the territory, and the pondering comes up as to whether you're all dealing with Magic or Demons. Maybe both.

Can you go to Heaven if you share Souls with 99 others in the first place?

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This can be sorted later, the arguments are going in circles. Skin warned you this was going to come up, though not how extreme it would be.

Regardless, want it or not, it's time to start the Day.

>>5151581
I suggest getting some 2x4s and repairing the bathroom wall.

>>5151581
>>5151584
And see what's in the bathroom.

>>5151584
Seconding this. I'm also interested in seeing what JJ's deal is.

>>5151654
Thirding this

>>5151581
Go meet JJ, please. We should welcome the newest member of our cast and crew, and figure out what their personal quirks are.

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As annoying as children can be, I still propose a trap-heavy play style to minimize our reliance on child murder. I suspect that our actions and intentions otherwise will anger the woods and The White Thing, as they seem intent on destroying this location due it's very purpose as a remnant-harvesting plant. Based off of the human teeth and bone fragments found in the last wood-thing we killed, I also suspect that the things inside the woods were former victims, BUT THAT'S JUST A THEORY, A QUEST THEO-

That being said, I am not averse to killings that are absolutely necessary for our continued survival: merely to limit the cost as much as we can by relying on [human] ingenuity and forward planning.

I believe our personal objectives should be to keep the location profitable in order to fulfill our "surface" prime directive, while also retaining our self-preservation at a minimal human death toll. All non-human hostile creatures are fair game. If the fuckers attack they deserve to step in a septic punji pit.

Thoughts on how we should proceed? Game plans?

>>5151584
>>5151597
>>5151654
>>5151669
>>5151692
We can multitask: check the bathroom AND clean it all at the same time for raising Health/Safety. Using planks and nails to reinforce the bathroom wall that Foxy was breaking can also be done, but preferably not back to back with the bathroom check & clean, as kids need to use the bathroom too. The wall repair can be done office-side. At some point, we have to check on JJ and welcome them to our Pizzeria. Kitchen window and door are also unrepaired. Do we rest at day and monster hunt at night, or do we monster hunt at day and rest at night? Though if we do not have the fire axe yet, we cannot kill things easily even with our chain and knives. Resting to get a bit of health back should be done at some point soon, anyhow. Buying the fire axe just now makes us unable to order or check anything new until the night, so that's out while it's the workday. Buying traps could be good for placement outside breaches in our pizzeria to fuck with monsters, but outside of that one freak we haven't had any creature outright invade our pizzeria... and traps at ingress/egress points will also fuck us up if we need to use them to maneuver around or we trip into them, which is very likely with our lack of overall dexterity. We should start exercising and trying to develop our motor control and robo-speed and mechanical processing capabilities. There's 100 souls in here, that's 100 cores of processing power if we train and work together on that. Telling Starbon everything and making her our confidant can help our mental health and stability, but if Fazbear Management is listening then we're fucked. We are also fucked if the bastards put code into the animatronics, so a certain relevant phrase during our discussion of the management message could trigger them to kill us instantly.

What do you guys think?

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You struggle to work quickly, but no amount of team effort can make up for the sad reality that your Unit is just... really, really slow.

Despite this, you are able to get a few concerns handled. For one, there is nothing in the Bathroom aside from the battered Wall where the Canine tried to barge into your Office. It... wouldn't have handled much more abuse.

If you had a hammer you could try to patch it, but you don't.

You could try to use another 2x4 as a makeshift hammer, but given how poor your dexterity is now, you'd run a strong risk of doing more harm than good...

Speaking of harm, the Canine got you good last Night, but you're still well within operational limits. Just damp with 'blood'.

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Alright, the heavy stuff can wait. Time to meet the new member of the Crew.

Crew?

Foxy must be rubbing off on you...

It isn't on Stage, in fact... it doesn't seem to have a particular spot on Stage reserved for it specifically, much like Mr. Hugs. It's in the Hallway by the Gate, sweeping glass into a dustbin, whistling to itself.

Some of the Hive groan at how on-the-nose it is that the tune appears to be a very specific ditty from 'Pinocchio'.

It doesn't seem to notice as you approach, evidently deep into its work. JJ is... a robot styled to look like a girl, and as the browser put it, 'a friend'. Pastel pinks and blues seem almost disarming along with the curly hair and sanded wood that makes up its 'skin'.

<Statement>You must be JJ?

At this, JJ jerks up, and gives a quick smile. It attempts a curtsy with a broom in 'hand', forgetting it was currently 'hooked' over it, stopping midway to not fall over.

>"Yessir! I'm JJ, I think the ... fifth model? I'm not a big seller, I hope you don't mind I started early. I saw all the broken glass and..."

It gestures along the various floors.

>"On the off chance anyone came in early, I didn't want them getting injured... Anywho- It's a pleasure to meet you!"

>>5151704
Agreed on trap use/timing/placement, however: I question whether your assumption that Rockstar Bonnie is a trustworthy confidant is wise.
RB may be affable (I like them), but they have admitted themselves that they are not completely in control of their faculties. From the information provided by "Skin", we know that Corporate has this place (and perhaps even our own frame) bugged. This may extend to the performers themselves without their knowledge.
I would like to believe otherwise, but I insist on caution. Even they may not be aware of their own hidden directives if they indeed have any.
Still, you may be right in that they may provide some useful information by nature of being )seemingly) more self-aware than the other bots as to their dual-nature.

>>5151750
I suggest thanking her for her services and consideration, pre-programmed or not, and then question her about being the "fifth". That sounds... ominous.

>>5151393
If even a fraction of the rumors about Freddy Fazbear's are true, this. Being haunted by our victims will just make the situation worse.

>>5151750
>Animatronic doing chores for us
Fuck how have I never thought of that before? One person can get so much done to improve this dump when they aren't fighting with 99 other people over every action. Asking her to not worry about entertaining guests and just be a full-time janitor might be the more profitable way to use her.

>>5151256
You're laughing. We've been assimilated into an animatronic hive mind that runs on shitposting and you're laughing.

>>5151779
*schizo shitposting, VERY important distinction!

>>5151771
I also want to thank her

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<Statement, Inquiry>We appreciate your work, cleanliness is a near constant concern here. What do you mean by 'fifth' model?

JJ gives a weak laugh, lifting its arms to carefully unhook the broom to stand more comfortably.

>"The fifth time my Model has been used! Well, sixth, technically. But that was where my original parts were salvaged, probably decades ago. Most of us that are aware we're recycled refer to our Original selves as 'Zero', so..."

>"I've been at four Pizzerias run by Hives... and was scrapped. I guess I didn't do good enough, ha ha!"

The giggle is worryingly genuine...

>"They wiped my memories of how it exactly happened, but I do know I'm the Fifth, so... this is JJ, Chapter 5! If that's what you're okay with referring to me as."

>"D'oh! And you're welcome, Sir! Is there anything else you'd like to know? They wiped exactly how long it's been, but it feels like a long time since I've got to talk with someone...!!"

It's voicebox sputters, overlapping it's own audio in self-interruption.

>"--If you've got the time, of course!"

Inquire if it would be ok serving a custodial role, as well as serving as a minor distraction in the event customers invariably injure themselves

>>5151839
I'm a bit worried that they've been scrapped four times. Whether it's just because she's not very good or because there were unforeseen issues that became apparent down the line is a concern.
Maybe we should ask her everything exactly she's capable of on the off chance there's something bad hidden away in there, if she says something concerning or stutters unnaturally it might tip us off on things to look out for.
Aside from being cautious I vote we ask her to go clean up the restroom or kitchen while we clean the other one. I am interested in killing the kids for Remnant but there's no good reason to have them get sick and spread germs all over the place if we can help it.

>>5151839
So I guess its possible that she's just not that good for the business; maintenance must cost a lot or no customers like her or maybe both. But I can't help but worry that the reason the other Hives kept scrapping her has more to do with her "night mode". And considering we are only just now tentatively considering scrapping Foxy after all the danger his night mode has put us in...

Lets just wait and see what happens tonight. And I vote to keep talking.

>>5151862
Yeah talking to her some more might give us some clues on what her night mode is like, or how to talk to it and hopefully pacify it a bit if it's a problem.

>>5151839
Talking to her more, yes.
Is she willing and able to "officialy" clean rooms for us? As in, using cleaning supplies? Of course she's also free to entertain children in spare time, or when we need her.

Slight tangent, but is it just me or does the "noise" at the top of >>5150890 look like some sort of hidden message to anyone else? Does anyone have an idea on what it might be?

>>5152037
Probably just VHS noise, if anything.

>>5151858
>>5152011
Supporting these two about it being a defacto janny, since it seems willing to do it.

>>5152223
It already works out well!
>Clean it up, JJ

I vote to never harm JJ even if their night mode is hellish.

I vote to harm JJ if their night mode is hellish and tries to kill us

>>5151858
+1

I think we should just focus on having her keep the place clean. Maybe even get her and Mr. Hugs to just do that instead of being performers for the children. The less time we're spending repairing and cleaning, the more we can focus on expanding and making the place safe for us and our customers.

>>5152296
Not mister hugs. The fact that he’s reliably on stage means we always know where he is at night and also means he’s just gonna barf in the same hole, rather than make a new hole every night

>>5152296
Let's not. Mr Hugs moving around to clean would make holes all over the place rather than an easily avoidable spot that we don't really have to worry about when running around at night.

>>5152316
Although, maybe we could try positioning him right outside of foxy’s place by nightfall, ideally trapping the canine

>>5151839
This one suggests that we listen to what they have to say. It seems like they really need some affirmation/contact right now, and from a self-preservation perspective, we may learn something about themselves or another piece about the larger operation Corporate is running that may be of use to us in the future.

>>5151861
>>5151862
Agreed.
I too suspect it's because at night she is, at least potentially, very dangerous. Four other hives, assuming that they had similar personalities to ours and also wanted to spare their animatronic performers, found it necessary to destroy her for /their/ survival in four separate occasions.
I like this little robot, and during the day I would trust her, but we should be on edge about her night-counterpart. This seems very ominous indeed, but, we should wait and see, just to be sure and to know what her risk/opportunity cost is for the night.

>>5152296
>have her team up with Mr. Hugs
This could be a either a very good idea or a very bad idea for us at night, that being said, I support this idea, they might like each other due to their shared interest in /obsession with cleanliness.

>>5152311
This is also a good point, though. Perhaps we could set up a schedule or program so that they return to a certain spot every day so that we know where they will be/start at before nightfall, sort of like what a real-life manager actually does with their... "employees"?

>>5151839
Have her go talk to Mr. Hugs, they'll get along just fine

I feel as if people are glossing over the part where they will kill parts of us if we aren't enthusiastic enough about the child murder. we're gonna have to kill some kids

>>5155477
Maybe, but I think it's possible to put if off for the time being at the very least. It's also possible that if the creatures can get Remnant extracted from them, they'd be satisfied that way.

We'll likely have to test that out at night. All we gotta do is go find some Wood denizen, have it invade the restaurant, axe it to death, then go check on the Remnant machine and see if it got the good stuff.

If it did, we can start making a job out of creature hunting or something, if we want to avoid child murder entirely and Corporate decides they don't care how we got the Remnant so long as we have it at all

>>5155516
I think killing or at the very least stalling the creatures might be one of the endgame requirements, I wonder if there's a way to bait some of the night mode ""animatronics""" into killing each other, it's a easy way to get more remnant so perhaps we could bait night mode foxy into drowning in night mode hug's black waste

>>5155521
Also, if we end up decommissioning any of the nm animatronics or whoever then using their parts to fashion weaponry or armor would be useful although I think the remnant upgrade machine might be enough

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>>5155477
I mean we don't have to kill kids to get Remnant even if that'll always have my support, any sort of injury that can cause bleeding will give us Remnant, although corporate did say a black eye and a broken leg as examples. You can break a leg without penetrating the skin and bleeding anywhere however, so maybe it can also just be any sort of harm to Children?
If the majority doesn't want to vote on child murder or general maiming we could probably just make the place kind of unsafe to get the bare minimum. A loose board for kids to trip on, damage the wood on tables and chairs with the axe so it's more likely to give guests splinters, maybe a nail sticking out to graze kids running around.
So long as it seems like we're going out of our way to get some we should be fine. Not to mention we don't know if anything in the woods or the night modes of our attractions give out Remnant either, we know they experience pain considering when the canine stabbed us it also hurt itself to do so.
If it's injury and pain rather than just blood we could be good avoiding and letting a wounded creature just wander in pain to generate it.

>>5155516
Actually wait, I'm fucking stupid. Wasn't the machine already filled a bit when we checked it after we killed the Smiler? So chances are the Wood creatures do give Remnant.

Also, >>5155547 has a point. Corporate never directly said we had to kill kids, just that we needed blood from them. If we can maximize the amount of blood we can draw from them (and also adults) in the restaurant, while also keeping the customers flowing as well as they have so far, AND killing some wood creatures in the restaurant, then that'll be perfect for us I believe.

>>5155789
Continuing from this post, if we do go this route, JJ may be a problem, if her cleaning the glass up early says anything about how dedicated to health and safety she is

>>5155801
Oh god, that could be part of the reason why other hives scrapped her.

>>5155811
Pretty sure it isn't, considering Corporate said this whole "Business Opportunity" was given to only us. So we still have a problem with her to worry about, likely whatever her Night Mode is.

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<Inquiry: You seem proficient at Cleaning, perhaps you could assist Us?>

JJ perks up at this, the little curls of hair bouncing with it.

>"I'd be very happy to! But I don't really have the skills you do. I can sweep and mop, but a lot of the supplies you have are a bit beyond what I've been programmed to understand how to operate."

(If specified, when you clean a Room, JJ can clean a different one to save time. JJ does not have the Tech Savvy perk the Hive has, JJ’s work will not last the addition +1d2 Days)

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<Statement>Being scrapped that many times is concerning. Was it lack of quality work or...

>"Or my Night Mode? No Sir, I don't have one."

<Statement>You're lying.

It spits out harsh, but JJ doesn't so much as flinch, clearly expecting this response and taking on a serious tone for such a soft voice.

>"I don't expect you to believe me, and that's okay! If my memory was wiped, how would I know I don't have one, is probably what some of you are thinking right?"

It pauses a bit, before continuing.

>"But I know some of us are aware we have dangerous Night modes, others just think they recharge overnight. Either way, they all know they have a 'shutdown timer'. I don't have one."

She looks you over, before apparently realizing you can't emote, and continues her explanation.

>"I also don't see any routines to alter my AI at any specific hour. I'm almost certain I'll always be JJ. To be honest..."

The robot 'girl' glances at the floor, starting to speak then stopping, before finally working up the nerve.

>"I know my emotions are simulated, and I know they aren't real but... I'll be stuck here at Night with you and I can't remember the first four-I mean five! Times that I died.

>"But they had to wipe my memory, while making sure I remember it's awful. If it's not too much to ask, could you consider letting me stay with you at Night? I won't be a burden! I can just... hide under a desk or table, I don't want to be alone. Is that okay?"

3 Guests file in, netting you 60 USD.

>>5155901
Her Gimmick could be that she's the only helpful one at night, but i doubt it

I say we lock her up in a room at night, the little one in the kitchen maybe. will she hate us for abandoning her in a broom closet? Probably. But it's better than having her right next to us and she goes haywire, or lures The Canine to us

Let's tell her no, not until we see what she does. Then we MIGHT let her in the office the next night after

>>5155917
All of this. Way too dangerous, and way too much of an unknown. If we need an excuse, say that we'll need to be going out at night, which'll be dangerous for her. Except I don't think we should lock her up, but I don't know what else we could do.

This is a stretch as well, but if the White Thing comes back, could we trust it to keep JJ company at night? Doesn't put us in danger, and the White Thing seems to be friendly, so if JJ responds well then I don't see a problem with having her tag along the next nights.

>>5155901
<Statement> We'll consider it, once we've observed you at night.

So, do we got any plans aside from talking to Ms. Cutey Robot? I still wanna throw a party since we got party supplies (and we need the money)

>>5155901
Seconding >>5155933's suggestion of giving her a head's up.

>>5155933
Didn't we need to get shit from the Shed? Iirc it was the nails, but I remember that we couldn't bring everything we wanted from the Shed to the restaurant, but since we have the time we may as well do so

>>5155951
Fair. We can do that as well. I still want to try throwing a party today, as the QM basically had to point out at us that we had the ability to do so

I realize that the Hive decides the perspective, and it's been long enough you guys should have the reigns. You guys know Starbon's opinion on it, but that's one voice out of many, I'll leave it to group consensus here unless someone presents a strong argument against it:

https://strawpoll.com/38ffk7zpz

ALSO IN REGARDS TO PARTIES, and this is my fault for not making it specific:

The amount of money you make from them depends on the amount of people in the Pizzeria to celebrate it. A Party right now would have 3 Guests. You'd barely make any money until more guests file in.

>>5155981
Oh, so we'll need to save it for when more guests are in. So no party right now, but maybe around afternoon is when it'll be good.

So current plan is: deny JJ the night offer for now, say we'll consider it later though. If we need to, we can say we'll be doing dangerous shit so it's not a good idea tonight.

Then we go to shed, get whatever we needed, then head back and think what else we can do.

Any objections?

>>5156021
Thumbs up from me. I didn't know the specifics on the party until now.

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<Statement>This Unit will be traveling Outside tonight, you will not be safe to follow.

JJ's chipper voice dies before she responds, masking disappointment.

>"Oh. Well, maybe I can survive one night on my own! I don't really know how I got scrapped, I wonder if it was a situation like this... Well! it is what it is.

>"It'd be weird to expect you to trust a new Robot on the first day, I get it. Is there anywhere I should... hide?"

<Statement>There is a Pantry in the Kitchen with a functioning door and barricade. If you make no noise, you should be safe there.

>"Okay, I'll work something out. Worst case scenario I can whack something with my broom, maybe?"

She clearly has no confidence in this, but you cannot let empathy for your Robots risk the well-being of your Pizzeria or yourselves.

>>You feel your relationship with JJ hasn't improved or lessened.

You tell JJ to take care of herself, with emphasis on 'her', and take leave to the Shed. It's still a Hell of a trek.

You're able to grab the few things too heavy to carry during your first trip to the Shed. It takes a few hours, but you now have stowed under your Office cabinet:

>16 planks of 2x4 Wood
>A handful of Nails
>A Hammer (rusty and barely holding together, but functional)
>A Wrench
>Two Blue Tarps

Not a bad haul. On your return, 8 more Guests arrive, netting you an additional 160 USD, bringing your Total to 517 USD.

You could probably handle two more tasks today...

>>5156133
Well, we got a hammer. We should probably fix the bathroom wall.

I rather not have the canine break through it like tissue paper next night, especially with an unaccounted "what the fuck is JJ gonna do at night" moment

>>5156140
We could also take a risk and wait until tomorrow for the repairmen to come fix it and save a hammer. As long as we don't let the Canine past the Hallway Gate, then it'll never be able to get to the bathroom.

Other than that, only three things I can think of doing are throwing a party, seeing what the Daily Special is(don't think we need anything else right now), or Resting.

>>5156182
>save a hammer
Hammers are consumable?

>>5156240
The one we have in particular likely is, considering it's "barely holding together". I'd be surprised if it doesn't break down either in the middle of fixing the wall, or if we're lucky enough, once we're finished with fixing it.

If we don't think we'll ever need the hammer for anything else, then fine. But I'm just throwing the option out there in case we think we can survive tonight without doing wall fixes, and have a spare emergency hammer(however bad it may be) for later on.

I'll give the Hive a bit more time to decide, you have two Action Slots left. You used One to talk to JJ, one to move the Shed items to your Office.

To make sure for new faces, during the Day you have the following options to choose from:
>Clean a Room (JJ will clean another one if you ask her at the same time now)
>Throw a Party
>Rest (+1 HP)
>Order Online (Cleaning Supplies, Party Supplies, New Animatronics, Fun 4 Kidz, and the Daily Special)
>Talk to a Robot (can raise their Affection for you)
>Independent Action

So far the consensus seems to lean towards another IA to patch the Wall.

>>5156182
Is t there something we can do with those tarps?

>>5156348
Only thing I can think of is setting them up in rooms to cover us during the night, depending on how thick they are. Not too familiar with using tarps myself, so I don't have much to say for it. Someone more familiar with them than I am can probably give better uses.

>>5156333
Wait a second, did we ever fix the Kitchen window damage that the Canine did? If the hammer holds out I'll actually go back on saving it and fix that up as well, since we're having JJ hide there.

If it doesn't though, then I think our last Action is best spent either Resting or throwing a party, since we have 8 guests. I'd also suggest buying something, but I think we can do that in the evening.

Personally, I'm slightly leaning towards party because with 8 guests I think we'll get a lot of money for that, and I think we can last with 7 HP, unless Night 5 turns out even worse than Night 4 did.

>>5156133
We won't have to worry about the wall if we'll be out hunting and not hunkering down in our office. My vote for our action in this time slot is
>Talk to StarBon
Because we need somebody to unburden to, and she's a good voice of reason. Then, we
>Throw a Party
Because we need that money badly. In the night, we go into the woods to HUNT. Tomorrow we devote time to cleaning and repair.

Sound okay guys? Discuss

>>5156377
The window damage was swept up by JJ, but the window itself is still broken. With the Pantry door closed JJ would not be visible from the Outdoors, but it would still be a means of entry.

>8 Guests
You have 11, 3 filed in while talking with JJ, and 8 more while you went to the Shed. You'll almost always have the most Guests around dinner time.

>>5156380
Even though we won't be out hunting all the time though, and I think we still need to stay around the Pizzeria, I do agree here somewhat. Best case scenario, the Stardust is on our side of the Gate, so we don't have to encounter the Canine whatsoever this night. Only exception is if JJ gets attacked or something, but if we go hunting any creatures lurking around will probably go for us first, so the only real threat to JJ would be the Canine

>Making Starbon our confidant
Honestly, no. At least for now. Starbon admitted that even the more "aware" animatronics don't remember much about their night mode, and unloading more information about that probably wouldn't help them out, if we need them to be performing in top shape. That, and the fact that I generally just don't think we'll gain much from talking to Starbon about it right now means I'll instead say this Action should go towards Resting instead. If we're not fixing up the wall, we'll need all the HP we can get while going hunting, especially since we don't have the Axe yet.

>Party
+1 to this

>>5156401
Also I’ve got a sneaking suspicion the newer more up to date animatronics, if not all of them, are bugged, which is probably how Corporate keeps an eye on us when not actually looking through our eyes or tapping the phone line or whatever

>>5156431
Agreed. So that's why I don't think having Starbon be a confidant for our dangerous activities at night is a good idea. Not only do I doubt Starbon would appreciate hearing about it, I'd rather have Corporate know as little about what we do at night as possible, if we can help it. So that's why if we're not fixing the wall, Resting is the best option right now.

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You consider talking with Starbon for a bit, you haven't been talking to your 'staff' very often, but you've been pretty damn busy, and with this Remnant business, soon to be busier.

Whether it's collecting it, or finding ways to survive without it... It was ticking between Zero and One when you saw the machine, killing the Smiler didn't do anything for you.

The Hive ponders if that's possibly because you hadn't seen the Machine yet, or if Corporate was still installing it... A mild sense of unease comes to mind as to whether the smarter Entertainers are reporting your conversations to Corporate.

Then some of the Hive recall you are a machine built by Corporate and that every thought thus far the Hive has had from all one hundred of your Unit has been heard by Corporate. Likely also written down and studied and/or laughed at, like the other sects running similar Pizzerias now.

Fazbear can be evil in the most creative ways, allowing mutiny to thrive for a while to see if something profitable or unique happens isn't beyond them. These were the people that built a Haunted House to make a profit by openly acknowledging the murders committed by member(s) of their staff decades prior.

They know what they’ve done in the past, and they know they can get away with it.

No doubt this miniature rebellion has some of their Office Workers salivating to see what happens next. A select few of the Hive recall another vintage film, 'Cabin in the Woods', and has a grim chuckle at the parallels.

Mounting existential dread aside, hiding your thoughts from Corporate by Day would be as easy as dodging raindrops in a thunderstorm. You'd all have been unplugged already if any of your thoughts went too far against the grain.

Maybe not at Night though, you all mull to yourselves as you take a Hammer and drag some tools into the bathroom. If what 'he' said was correct, they can't access what you hear and see by Night without active effort.

That's... not as preposterous as it sounds. Stardust may as well be ‘Magic’, and you strongly doubt everything you've encountered so far in the Night can be summarized as malfunctions or really good robotics.

God. A paranormal EMP keeping them from tapping in. What a job you've gotten yourselves into.

You barricade the wall between the Restroom and your Office, it takes a while but... you did a bang-up job. This’ll do.

During the work, 11 more Guests file in, netting you 220 more USD, bringing your total to 737 USD.

>>5156556
Wait god fucking damnit that's one Action gone with the Wall thing

Okay fuck, party time. We need the money. Then we can either check the Daily Special later or Rest before it starts getting too serious.

>>5156564
I agree with this.

>>5156556
Should we be cautious about what we say here? At least until night?

>>5156585
It's not that meta, more a reminder that you are a Fazbear Corporate construct, attempting secrecy is pointless, your brain is essentially one of a hundred wifi latches connecting to your Unit.

I tossed the reminder in since this was all explained the very first session, which was a long time ago.

>>5156556
Party time, yes.
We can talk to starbon tomorrow.
What are our plans for tonight, beside getting the daily deal early into the night?

>>5156564
>>5156620
I suggest we cover our face with either a paper bag or a sack.

>>5156636
For...the Canine? Personally, I doubt the Canine hones in on faces specifically for targeting, plus I'd rather not risk being damaged by it in the processing of testing if face coverings work on the Canine, assuming we even have anything that works as a full face cover in the first place.

>>5156620
I know it was stated that killing Smiler didn't seem to have an effect, but there was some doubt sprinkled in there, so I would like to move forward with testing if they work at some point. However, we don't have the Axe yet, and considering that'll be our most powerful weapon when it arrives, I don't think we should specifically hunt for a Wood creature yet until tomorrow night.

So basically, my proposal is this: play this one by ear a bit. Check out the Daily Special first, go find and get the Stardust, if anything happens as a result of doing that take care of it, then Rest. Also keep an eye on JJ if possible. I have a feeling she's going to shape this night a lot, and we should be prepared for that possibility

>>5156700
The face covering is for the party. We look frankly bad and we don't wanna scare the kiddos.

>>5156556
If we throw a party will we be able to talk to an animatronic while it's going on, or rest in the corner? Might be a bit to meta gamey but dozing off during a kid's party seems like just the thing that would happen in a Fazbear's place.

Party time. We got 22 guests, we should be able to make tons of bank now.

>>5156700
Good plan. Agree to it

>>5156556
PARTY TIME
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7whbWCtOTU

>>5156636
>>5156725
seconding this

>>5156636
>>5156725
This too

>>5156636
+1
At this point the weird guy with a paper bag over his head will just add to the experience of eating at this shitty pizzeria.

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>>5156636
>>5156725
If any of the parents become concerned I'm sure we can move robotically enough to bullshit ourself as the new Fazbear Entertainment character "Sacky The Night Guard!" Here to monitor the party and ensure all the kids have a Faz-Tastic time!

>>5156911
we might look menacing and speak in robo-talk, but there's 100 of us in here trying to survive together and make money