“Let’s make Dad proud.”
End its life quickly.
Also, practice your original puzzle book first, cross referencing it with this one. We’re going to figure this out and teach others what they need to figure out theirs out of spite. That teacher shouldn’t be in charge of first year classes if he can’t even teach people this new way of thinking. Aren’t there books in the library we can just check out about magitech?

could CAVERNS be this worlds' dungeon? if so... *gulp* here we go again... Though maybe not, they seemed to have been cleared pretty easily. Maybe the CAVERNS are at the early stages of being dungeons though?

Killing raises karma sooooo... I guess as long as it's just monsters and wildlife for survival?

Tell Pon that hunting non-threatening monsters and wildlife are sometimes required if he wants to hunt for food like our father did for us back at home. There could be a situation where he may find himself without resources when traveling to different world plates, even those far from civilization, and he might have to kill a harmless creature like a wild rabbit to survive. It's part of the circle of life, after all. (Would our teaching skill help Pon? maybe in courage or perseverance, one of those two? I feel it might be courage to help Pon in since we are feeling a little hesitant from the pressure ourself. TEACH Pon courage a little bit.)

Ask the teacher if you can cook and eat the monster after killing it, so that its death doesn't feel so needless especially in its bounded and helpless state. (assuming monsters are edible of course)

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For our two upcoming activities:

with the MEETING WITH OLD FRIENDS event

ask William and Marth what classes they are taking, their future plans and careers (you're thinking about looking into saving the world plates, but also, you think you feel inspired at taking a shot in teaching MAGITECH, you need to learn how to teach better though. Also talk to Marth about Meditation. Suggest all taking a meditation class together the second half of the year maybe.)

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>>1003975
>>1003976
Oh, yeah, to add on to these: Restrain it on the ground first. Then, place a cloth on the back of its head, both to position the knife for a double-handed press without hurting the poor thing and to act as a splatter-guard. Finally, press down, hopefully killing it instantly, and wait until its vitals have ceased and you've turned its body to the side before removing and cleaning the knife. Pon wouldn't be reassured to see all of his friends covered in blood after doing the deed.

Kill it by removing the mana crystal in the back of its neck.

>>1003962
Oh. So, the 1/1000 thing is just... that most people have no potential for learning Runescripting? I was hoping it was some sort of world-spanning metapuzzle made by some mad genius.
>IGNIS seems fine
That's because he's using his CHARISMA effectively. He's had practice. Maybe William is used to his earlier, clumsy attempts at garnering favor with women. It really is intimidating that he got #1 while spending so much free time socializing...

>>1003966
Do it. Make it as quick as possible.

Absurdity DeVoid 2021/06/23(Wed)11:01 No. 1003991 ID: 47be15
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Since you are being so cooperative, it would be fair for me to confirm your fear. Yes, currently we are monitoring your heartbeat for any discrepancies.

Absurdity DeVoid 2021/06/23(Wed)11:01 No. 1003992 ID: 47be15
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I still don't see the need of questioning me if you already have my camera, if you are going to accuse me of something might as well get it over with.

Absurdity DeVoid 2021/06/23(Wed)11:02 No. 1003993 ID: 47be15
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Well it is true that we have your recording, but there are a couple of blind spots where we are not sure of what actually happened and we need you to fill in the blanks.

Absurdity DeVoid 2021/06/23(Wed)11:04 No. 1003994 ID: 47be15
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Now I would like to hear from you what exactly did you choose to bring to your mission, starting with your suit armor. This will give me a better insight into what you expected to find on that planet.

Notes from the quest author

Because you choose for this character to be a master survivalist he gets three armors that change the attributes of his astronaut suit. Pick whichever do you believe will be the best for him, but he can only wear one armor piece. Also whatever you choose as your armor pice the same thing is applied to Bull Finkle.

A) Ranger armor pice, this one is primarily designed for withstanding attack from predators and any other kind of blunt and any other kind of attacks. I provide the most defense, it is fairly heavy and it isn't that flexible.

B) All-terrain exploration armor pice, this is primarily designed for withstanding all elements of nature. The cold weather, warm deserts, and even allows underwater diving. It is second best at defense, it is the heaviest of armor pieces but it has better flexibility than the ranger armor piece.

C) Jungle survivalist armor pice, this armor provides the least defense, and it is the lightest one of them all of them but where it excels at it is the camouflage ability. It is best used for avoiding conflicts and sneaking around your problems.

Absurdity DeVoid 2021/06/23(Wed)11:05 No. 1003995 ID: 47be15
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Notes from the quest author

One last thing that I have to add about the vitality of our protagonist. He has two things that are keeping him alive the power of his suit and the wellbeing of his H.T.A.P.U. if one of them is severely damaged there will be penalties for them on your other skills. But it is also possible for fixing any damages that one or the other gets. For the suit power core, you need engineering and components to fix it as for the H.T.A.P.U. you need magic to fix it.

Keklocke 2021/06/22(Tue)08:53 No. 1003919 ID: aa0cb9
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Indeed the time is nigh for some pancakes, with some blueberry syrup! thankfully there's still some left.
"my god" upon his messy face, a perfect pancake to salvage and to eat at a reasonable pac-
aaand he's already eaten all of it, though that means Laurence is very happy! a happy bun is a lovely bun.
It lessens his STRESS by gaining -15 [-20/100].

(you guys are the best! how did you know my favourite berry?! i mean gosh- how rich are the pancake and the syrup! as well as gulping it down with some fresh milk too... mmh, i need to pay a visit at Weaver's again when i can!~)

the digestation of an uppies young is considered unforgivable and is punishable by being placed at the breaking wheel, and also throwing rotten fruits at them is free, so that parts cool.

also, nah i just really like being naked when no ones around, after all its my own darn tootin' home. just means the people in the town just a buncha peepin toms if they ever do catch a glimpse of me~.)

one block has been consumed from Laurence's provervial incorporeal time slot, you still have one more.
you can perhaps persuade him to cover up his indecency like any rational uppie before he truely needs to leave (though what clothing should he wear?), read one of the books,browse through your phone, maybe even [DISABLED, CARNAL TOO LOW]. there's still a bit of time before Laurence goes to work after all.

Put on your working clothes and read your kewl books!
Nudity is lowie animal stuff.

Admire completely unobstructed nudity in a mirror before picking out a wardrobe.

1/2 Keklocke 2021/06/23(Wed)08:29 No. 1003977 ID: aa0cb9
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Laurence placed and washed the dishes and other items back in their respective places, with food in his stomach, he decides to finally stop doing any tomfoolery and decides to grab a hold of his work clothes; short overalls and a white tee, though a certain idea pops up in his mind, plagued a bit with some desires due to a bit of some idle hands working its own way through their owners fur...

(mmh, man it would be so easy to just pose and take a pic right now... just letting myself understand as to how far i've cultivated my own body... just to admire the works, even for a little bit~...

nah maybe when im finished at work haha. thoughts like those are just asking for trouble in the long run. maybe later ill find someone whom i'll be able to do the same thing~. and you are pretty right, only small brained lowies wouldnt think twice about putting on atleast something cute before meeting others!)

Laurence has gained +22 on CARNAL [30/50] which can affect his dialogue and even actions when unloosed.
Laurence then equipped his neat clothing along with his trusty small satchel. it can hold up to 4 items.

2/2 Keklocke 2021/06/23(Wed)10:06 No. 1003983 ID: aa0cb9
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As laurence reaches for a designated "kewl" book,suddenly, a ring hits the air. its one of his acquaintences that typically cabs people to and fro as a side gig. wondering what its all about, he accepts the call.

>Tom: hey Laurence, sorry to bother you before going to work and such, but you remember that favour you owe me?

he blushes in silence. >Laurence: u-hhm... perhaps some poetry first bef-

>T: no, not that kind damn it,was that really was the first thing you thought of? jeezums man. listen, you remember a certain someone recently deceased?

>L: you mean Doctor Reynauld? what about him? (blessed be his name)

>T: this just damn in,his son is coming right up at the town. turns out he just found out about it 3 days prior. You still got a room there right? i know this is just out of the blue, but the hotel's damn full from what i remembered. hell, maybe you can charge him a few bucks just to keep him in, yknow?. after this were even stevens, got it?

>L: fine, he better be a looker. also, the hell's his name by the way?

>T: yeah hold on one sec, sounds of him moving to a certain side yeah! so whats your name again? you werent exactly loud enough for me to hear

What is the name of this illusive man?

2/2 FUN 2021/06/22(Tue)08:54 No. 1003920 ID: a34b8a
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Elsewhere back at the station, about an hour has passed since the beginning grilled cheese wars.

Which one of these 3 remaining ladies will we take control of for the evening.

None of the above.

Vermillion

>>1003920
Big Momma Vermillion!

Lets see what makes Scarlet tick

Toxoglossa 2021/06/22(Tue)18:33 No. 1003941 ID: 07b0f1
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“Gaaaabe!” Delilah calls. The snow seems to muffle all sound, taking her words and tumbling them in the wind.

Vivian curls her tails around her legs and mutters, “Maybe we should have brought Cauldera. Let’s find somewhere warm, shall we?”

Delilah nods. Despite running a fairly hot core temperature, she feels the cold bite at her and she shuffles towards the farmhouse. “Litany, aren’t you chilly?” She asks.

Toxoglossa 2021/06/22(Tue)18:33 No. 1003942 ID: 07b0f1
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The fey blinks and appears to consider this, “Should I be? My travels take me places much colder than this.”

Is it an angel thing that they're so detached from their own body? In a metaphysical sense I guess. Wasn't bothered by the loss of his eye either.

>>1003942
Weather resistant messenger I suppose.
Find something that's not a tree or snow.

>>1003949
Considering that they were flying through a thunderstorm for their job, I get the impression that their resistance to extreme conditions was formed the hard way.

>>1003762
Be a bad boy, play rough.

>>1003762
Be a bad boy, play rough.

Start slow, then seriously ramp up it when their conversation lulls.

I think it's time to go up a little, and by that i mean your finger in her pussy.

>>1003762
Now that Captain Eliza is here, this is probably a good chance for you to figure out the identities of the twins! She said she can always tell the twins apart when she salutes them, so you’ll get your chance to identify them when that happens. Don’t worry about not being able to see the twins saluting, just listen for when Captain Eliza starts calling them by name we she identifies them.

If the Captain calls one of them Mili and that twin replies normally, then that means Mili is in the back of the kiosk preparing the desserts and the one with your face between her legs is Mala.

If the Captain calls one of them Mili and that twin seems to be struggling to talk normally, then that means Mili is the one with your face between her legs and the one in the back of the kiosk preparing the desserts is Mala.

>>1003797
Hey, a Miklik wasn't one of the specimens, right?
Look through the checkpoint before progressing.

SubCritical: Weapons that Live, Chapter 4: Those who Venture Triti 2021/06/23(Wed)06:06 No. 1003968 ID: 5f1f8d
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Toal and I decide to look though the checkpoint first. There's little here, save for the hum of the ventilation system.

"I found a file on this terminal." Toal waves me over. "Looks like a short report."

We both read over the file.

>Unnamed Report on Security Terminal in Lab 4P
Subject 12 from Lab 4S has breached containment. Ensure all subjects in Lab 4P are secure and arm all security staff for maximum force. Orders are to neutralize any and all threats using any means necessary. This incudes breached subjects from any lab.

"Do you think Subject 12 is why they abandoned this place?" Toal looks to me for an answer.
"I think it was one of them. Arcanos has vast resources and firepower at it's disposal, so a single issue like this shouldn't result in the whole lab being abandoned." The alternative is that Subject 12 is just that powerful, which is a prospect that I don't really want to consider.
"So you think there were several issues that resulted in them abandoning the labs?"
"It has to be. Arcanos would never leave stuff in a condemned sector if they had the chance to clear it out."

I notice a list of armaments on the terminal. What sticks out to me are weapons classed as 'herbicidal', so maybe they were experimenting with weaponized plants, or at least weapons effective on plant lifeforms.

It looks like it's time to move on. Should we keep pressing forward, or should we look for anything else here?

>>1003968

Time to press on

>>1003968
You guys should go pick up some of those herbicidal weapons. You might run into some weaponized plants or plant based life forms.

>>1003968
Check if there are any of those weapons nearby, you could need them.

Flatten him, Veisar!

>>1003865
Veisar could fall on his back or maybe Driga can help get the Tripoid off him.

Sarcopholacooda 2021/06/22(Tue)21:54 No. 1003952 ID: 11f77a
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The engineer’s hands pat up and down his body as the tripod clings with a four-limbed hug. No amount of shaking can throw this gray pest off.

‘Well,’ the gard thinks, ‘I hope this’ll teach him—’

The towering lizard throws himself backwards with hope that he’ll simply squish the tripod against the floor. He manages to grab one limb, but the minion reacts accordingly and forces himself to push away in time to avoid a nasty landing.

“Whoa!!!” the tripod yelps.

A new round begins!

A tripod will be acting next. Brace for an attack!

TEAM STATUS: ROUND 4
Driga::(near Veisar)
Veisar::(fighting Goggles)
Njar::(fighting Wrenchie)
Sertis::(near Njar)

Block wrenchie, Njar

Googles is too close to Veisar, he should stand up and be prepared.

>>1003417
Mmm, I don't know if we should be with their females, thay are less likely too fall for our facade. Go play the good wife with Guk.

Follow Guk as Tok will be there. If Guk is out of comission, Tok can take over and he can be manipulated.

Actually what are your priorities? Like by list of importance? Does mah-kag fit in there?

Baron 2021/06/22(Tue)17:42 No. 1003940 ID: 7a1a17
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You decide to follow the two, playing the part of a worried mate. Tok may be susceptible if he's as weak to Rezans as the rest of these tuva. You run ahead. Knowing their relations, Tok will believe whatever story you make and won't listen to Oklak. So that means-

"Please Master Tok!" you shout. The large fat one jumps when you tap him.

"Gah! When did you get out?!"

"Master Guk has been poisoned! Please, you must help him!"

"What? Guk? Oh dammit I'm already treating one, now another? What happened?"

"The Rokof sent someone to kill him Master Tok! They are getting dangerous. I caught the nightblade, but not before it cut Master Guk with his knife! It is killing him! Please save my claim-mate!"

"Ugh. Problems on problems." he mutters to himself as he stomps off "I'll never get to open that door..."

The door. Discovering the Door has added an unknown factor to your plans, but the goals stay the same. You spy Ivaka and Vaglinka. You sign to them. The others. How are they?

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Here's the play: manipulate these arrogant elitist rapists to target the leaders of all the Rezan factions. With your intel and manipulation, you can get them to use their obscurity to perform decisive ambushes while letting them think it was all them. Except you manipulate them into thinking your own clan's leader is secretly one of the lieutenants pulling the strings. Without their 'leaders', the factions will devolve into infighting and reckless skirmishes, except your faction will only play stupid and paranoid until it's time to make a decisive push. After that, they'll see what a single united full force of Rezans can do, right until they all have axes in their necks.

Get more enemy slaves, that door needs sacrifices to open. After all, you don't care about the death and misery you'll cause for the glory of your House.

>>1003940
Tell Tok to abduct Rokoffs and Makags for the door, but not before attending Guk.

>>1003950
break the momentum with your shoulders though because otherwise you're gonna snap your necky-wecky

Parting words for mike: sorry Mike, but we gotta save Hoefler-Kurosawa!

Realise that even if you fall now, you'll never catch it. You'll need to figure out where it landed and go after it by another method.

It's too late. You'll have to try going down in a saner mode of transport like a shuttle.

Moment of truth, Penny:
Do the Windy Thing.

>>1003843
7, hard mode let’s go

4, though I'm sure you can get away with some plant-related side research. Breed something really weird and forbidden, and possibly tasty.

3.
Genetics sounds like fun. Maybe you can design yourself to stop looking like candy corn. Or maybe everyone else look like candy corn. The candy corn possibilities are endless!

>>1003843
4. Hydroponics

>>1003843
Research sounds fun.

>>1003816
I like the idea of the producer or lead writer being an angel.

Edmango 2021/06/22(Tue)02:45 No. 1003885 ID: afe7de
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RHODIE, the lovable Cacti-Lioness PLANTIMAL(™) arrives carrying:

-Motorized Extendable Clipper Bo Staff: Reach out and clip someone! The clippers at the end clip so fast they can’t even be seen. Can be turned off and planted in the ground to launch its wielder up like a superpowered pole vault.
-Double Trouble Pistol: To protect the world from devastation! This gun’s a wicked sick creation. Flip it over and fire again for twice the fun!
-Fertilizer Ray: Pick your favorite PLANTIMALS(™), give ‘em a good dose of transformation sequence, and watch them evolve to do battle in the name of friendship!
-Garden Gloves with Claws: Bonus to digging and super effective at uprooted foes!
-Exploding fris-ball: A ball holstered around Dog’s side. Dog can launch it with a spin of his body, and it explodes once it hits its target. The explosion is nice- but what’s nicer is that it also, turns into a giant frisbee with a razor’s edge, slicing and dicing as it returns straight back to Dog. Dog can command the frisbee to turn back into a ball and catch it, or just let it loop back like a boomerang, sending it right back to its target to explode again, and again, and again until it runs out of explosive fuel. Go fetch yourself!
-Clipper Derringer: Small, but packs a punch! Doesn’t count toward the character’s loadout limit.


Rhodie’s had to ask for help from FIG PIG, the hungriest PLANTIMAL(™) but also the best one to give belly rubs!

FIG PIG is carrying:

-Roto-Tiller Bladed Chainsaw Gun: A gun so big and badass you can ride it! Can shoot its long blades at targets, and comes with six extra blades because the toy designers really hated those foam guns that only came with the exact number of bullets you could shoot.

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Edmango 2021/06/22(Tue)02:46 No. 1003886 ID: afe7de
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Combat will function a little differently than seen previously in CATALYST. You’ll have 4 characters to control, but two will act each turn. Once a character on your team has acted, they can’t act again until the rest of your team has made their moves. Each character can do an action and gets a movement. Using items costs an action or a movement. If both characters attack the same target, depending on their BOND LEVEL they will have a chance to do a COMBO MOVE dealing extra damage on top of their normal damage. If all of your Allies gang up on one enemy then there’s a possibility of doing a TEAM MOVE, a powerful all out attack that deals tons of damage.

Advantages and disadvantages won’t be a thing in this style of combat to reduce decision paralysis. After your members perform a move, your opponents will get a chance to move, where up to two lower level enemies will act, bouncing back and forth between you and them. BOSSES will take up both enemy actions to take their turn because they’re stronger than you.

Turns will cycle until both sides have acted fully and then it will repeat again. Some characters have special quirks that let them do extra things in combat, so experiment and have fun!

PLANTIMALS(™) is characterized by crazy ass weapons, crazy ass moves, and cool fight scenes, so feel free to get creative and try to do CRAZY STUFF like quadruple backflips and bisecting enemies by just pulling your blade out of your sheath slightly.

You can choose two weapons for each hero: a PRIMARY and a BACKUP, and one DRONE if available. Rake’s drone gets bonuses to maneuverability and COMBO MOVES. All guns can be used as melee weapons (and all melee weapons can be used as ranged weapons with insane combo moves), but only Lopper gets a bonus to using big guns at point-blank range.

Which drone does Rake control personally, and which does she send to aid her teammates? What weapons go to what he

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Lopper gets
Drone: Rake-Cycle Drone
Primary: Roto-Tiller Bladed Chainsaw Gun
secondary: Buzzsaw

Rake gets
Drone: Jet-Whac Drone
Primary: Motorized Extendable Clipper Bo Staff
Secondary: Double Trouble Pistol

Hose gets:
Drone: HYDRAN-T-GEA Drone
Primary: super secret container of WEIRD-KILLER
Secondary: Fertilizer Ray
Bonus loadout slot: Clipper Derringer

Dog gets:
Drone: Riding Mower Drone (because animals riding Vroombas are funny
Primary: Exploding fris-ball
Secondary: Garden Gloves with Claws

To start, Rake will fly with the jet-whac drone and taunt and attack the WHIRLYBIRDS with the Motorized Extendable Clipper Bo Staff while Lopper will drive the Rake-Cycle Drone towards the TORTOISES on autopilot while standing on it with awesome balance and shoot the tortoises ahead of her to keep them from shooting Rake in the sky. When she gets close enough to the tortoises, pick up speed and drive past them (try not to run over them though, they might cause Lopper to crash)

Idea for team move: try to have Rake lure the WHIRLYBIRDS towards and above the tortoises with her taunts, or push them above the tortoises with her attacks so that when Lopper drives past the tortoises while she shoots at them and weakens them, the WHIRLYBIRDS can try to rain stinging nettles from the sky in an attempt to shoot at Lopper as Lopper drives past the Tortoises, but since Lopper will pick up speed after getting close to the tortoises, the nettles might miss Lopper and attack the Tortoises instead in their weakened state from the shooting. Afterwards, Rake can attack the Whirlybirds.

>>1003914
This, but give Clipper Derringer to Rake instead for the clipper bonus she has.

Gotta first power up Rhodie and fig pig ASAP with the fertilizer from Hose. Dog should throw the frisbee with its razor edges at the flying enemies. Say something like "go hedge" instead of "go fetch" though we're really stretching for puns at this point.

>>1003534
D/b

A primary & d secondary. so the eggs won't go to waste and to see if you can cook and prepared them in your faux dragon form. especially with cooking tools if you are able to use them effectively in that state.

B, A

D / A

Protein for the boys, so they can handle all that D.

Also because letting the eggs go bad seems like a waste.

why do I now want to know how many dragon eggs it takes to bake a cake?

Resume interrupted Bonding! And then amiel A meal after to get back some energy~

2/2 Argine 2021/06/22(Tue)05:05 No. 1003891 ID: 5bf1bd
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Right then.
Today, we're meant to be gathering info on Nickel and her sector. We don't have the time to go off and make friends with Amica or to have that long walk with Nanoweaver - but we can still ask the two of them.

Here's the brief - I'd like to briefly remind you lot of my methods from before, the four I's - Investigation, Interrogation, Impression and Innovation.
This is more like you folks deciding what my time's best spent on. You guys don't necessarily know where everything's at, so that's up for me to sort out. But you're welcome to give me any ideas or suggestions that I didn't come up with.
You're tactical advisors, right? Surely you've got some kind of complex algorithm that means that what you guys spit out is gonna give me better odds.

But anyway, if we're going to Investigate Nickel, she's got a few places where I think I can get some info on her.
I can watch footage of her previous combat logs to glean more information about how she fights. I've seen some of them before, but not in great detail.
There's also me reading up about the Power Grid and Covert Ops division itself. Stuff like floorplans or other information I could try and exploit during the actual fight. I don't think they'll like me sneaking around in the actual place before the fight for recon. Not sure if that was in the rules or not, but there wouldn't be this huge setup if they could just let me waltz right on in there, right?

We could go and Interrogate some folks. While Ozone and Mnemosyne probably don't have much to say (nor do they want to talk to me prior to their fights), Judicium is a trainer. She's been around long before that, and she was wanting to have me do some tasks for her anyway.
...And there's Astrolysis. I could go ask her as well, given how close the

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>>1003890
Okay, cards on the table: it's possible she wants to marry you. I mean, what do I know about romance when I'm just a snippet of programming inside your head, but you do your own research on the subject.

>>1003891
Honestly? Treat this like you would a regular assassination; head out with Investigation to diagnose the problem, then Innovate a solution. Talk to as few people as possible so they don't spread the word.

Nickel is gonna "cheat", as in, nothing will be fair. She probably won't reveal herself before shooting you, and her entire area is bound to be booby trapped with simple traps you can't use with your parasignia. Think 13 tripwires at the front door booby trapped. It'll be excessive.
This will be a battle of INFORMATION. Whoever manages to best control the flow of it wins.
You'll need to change your entire fighting style and approach.
Investigate and Innovate.

You'll want to get a feel for the general layout out of the area, or at least get us a map so we can direct you.
You'll also want to find or make an alternate entrance, or sneak in early and hide somewhere until it's time. Not only your location, but your presence itself is a piece of information that Nickel can exploit.

As for Innovate... Go steal yourself a security camera, maybe from the abandoned sector. You'll need a projector too, a place like this should have several, but I imagine they'd be in the admin sections. You may need help on that one from Diagram or Amica.
Combined with your barrier, those make active camouflage. You could take down Nickel in melee.

Alternatively, impress Judicum for armor (No clue on what she'll demand) And Astrolysis for more explosives or a flamethrower. (Of course, she'll wanna fight or torment you in some way).
Then you could just go in and burn the whole sector down until Nickel had no where left to run or hide.

If you're feeling particularly insane, I suppose you could also go get a chunk of Amica, either through violence or agreement. If you eat it or pass it into an open wound, we could probably integrate the nanites into our matrix, and grant you additional capabilities.
Side effects may apply, of course.

>>1003890
Innovation.

One word is the bane of snipers: Artillery.

You might not have a long range weapon - but you do have the next best thing in a splash weapon that can be lobbed in big wide arcs to strike a larger area. Your Pitch Prefect. And with a little modification you could make it even more so. Maybe add in an airburst feature, so you can ensure a wider spread.

Pitch is sticky and slowing, and your opponent is quick, small and likes to camouflage - getting struck with the pitch would slow them down, stand a chance of ruining their camo and be hard to get rid off without struggling. Giving you a chance to close the distance and catch up.

Ask Nickel how to beat her. Easy-peasy!

...No? Okay, new plan:

We could go ask Judicium and Asymptomatic about her.
We should also research the dueling grounds and innovate our gear to resist high caliber bullets and booby traps.

FRANKLIN 2021/06/20(Sun)03:08 No. 1003721 ID: fd4d13
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“ ‘M done being ladylike. Come on, you can do this…” Serah says under her breath, psyching herself up. She grips the edge of the table nervously. “Um ... Franklin?”

Franklin looks over from the spectacle on the other end of the table, fidgeting with something under the table; and gives Serah a big, dorky grin.

Serah stares him right in the eye, face flush with drink and mind blown with need. “I want to kiss you really bad.”

Franklin takes a swig from his freshly-filled glass of party punch, setting it down before responding, “Actually, I think it might be pretty good”

Serah catapults herself across the table.

Drinks crash, cards fly and chips crunch in a great, unholy racket. Before Franklin knows what’s hit him, he’s pinned back in his seat and utterly engulfed in Serah’s eager kisses.

Franklin claims Serah’s mouth with a deep, lingering kiss of his own. He draws out the moment, teasing her trembling lips with a slow, soft nibble, until Serah can’t restrain herself a second longer and she presses herself against him even harder. With a soft, pleading moan, she reaches between Franklin’s shoulder blades and grabs ahold of his fur, tugging tight and pulling as close as she can. She accidentally kicks a plate off the table, which might have been worth noticing five seconds ago but it’s not Franklin’s lips so who cares?

Serah’s tug is just enough to slide the legs of Franklin’s chair out from under him. He goes down with it- but the two are still twined around each other so tight that Serah is pulled under the table with him. There’s a resounding crash and a yelp as the two hit the floor.

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Poltergeist Ethanoic Acid 2021/06/20(Sun)03:25 No. 1003722 ID: e51896
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Author's note: Special thanks to Harbard Grim for helping me with this update drawing Morpheus, and Phobetor. You can find his artwork here https://questden.org/kusaba/draw/res/37534.html

:"Soooooo... our sandmen in our dream universe tend to bring people to specific dreams based off of what is on a dreamer’s mind, or in the deepest recesses of a dreamer’s subconscious… I’m interested in knowing what’s the weirdest dream everyone had recently been sent to with that in mind. Y’know, just to get to know you all more as potential clients to help deal with any nightmares you may have better.."

Cat: Uh yeah I’ve got a weird one. I recently went to an auction run by a demon where they used my achievement points to purchase goods and it appeared in the real world. Was that a dream or was I teleported? Did my soul leave my body. I have lots of questions about that tbh.

Arthurius is thinking hard, trying to connect the dots while whispering to himself.

:”Auctions with demons… Achievement points… Dungeons… Powers… Apocalypse"

His fist starts to tremble and suddenly, he pounds his fist hard on the table causing it to shake a bit, grabbing the attention of everyone on the table.

:”OH SHIT! I SHOULD HAVE FUCKI

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Poltergeist Ethanoic Acid 2021/06/20(Sun)03:26 No. 1003723 ID: e51896
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Cat: Thanks for the history lesson, this is all just so… weird.

Cat: Well they’re demons, can’t expect them to get every item the legitimate way. Or is that racist? Racism or not they’re killing kin on Faunus so I stand by my statement.

Willamina: Hear, hear!

: Speaking of demons, My sis said she danced really briefly with some kind of anthropomorphic corkscrew with demon horns at that Romance Festival... she said he wasn't bad despite himself claiming to be a sociopath. But whatever, she's weird, but then again, I can respect that she can always find the good in people.

: Anyway, I think I’ll bet my dreamcatcher net this next round... It’s getting outdated, and I could use a new one anyway… and I’m down to clothes I don’t want to lose. I use it to capture nightmares and nightmareciers… though I’m not exactly sure if it works in reality. What you can do though is put it near you as you sleep, and a sandman will take it with you to the dream world so if you face a nightmare, you can capture them in its web.

“It fixes nightmares?" Landi leans over the edge of the table and yells at the two lovebirds still going at it. “Serah! Serah, you have to win it!”

Serah doesn't even notice.

"Oh, well. I'll play for her this round!" Landi says. "We have to win it! Do you have any idea how horrible it is to have a pillow that whines? It’s bad! Also, the pillow is a fox.”

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Edmango 2021/06/22(Tue)02:09 No. 1003881 ID: afe7de
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Willamina and Cat look at eachother and give a shrug.

Willamina: SO, who do we have to KISS?

Cat: Uhhhh, anyone? I’m lazy let’s smooch the kin next to us.

Willamina: I’m GAME.

Cat gets up and saunters over towards Arthurius, getting real close and up in his business.

Meanwhile, Arthurius doesn’t notice Cat coming in close as he is lost in thought over the realization that Mary’s win means that he is going to be getting his first kiss. He nervously talks to himself.

:Errr… I’m supposed to kiss somebody too, right? Umm… hahah wow, err… I’m not even sure how to start with that, like… I always thought my first kiss would be with someone I love… and how do I go about kissing someone? Who do I even kiss? Who would even want to kiss me or get kissed by me?? What happens if I kiss somebody, but they get really uncomfortable with me kissing them and they slap me or something?!? I-I-I don’t want to get hurt again! ACK! THIS IS TOO MUCH PRESSURE!!!

At that moment, being reeeeeeeally close, Cat taps Arthurius’ shoulder, and as he turns to face him, expecting to answer Cat’s question, Cat grabs the back of Arthurius’ head and leans him forcfully into a huge sloppy kiss, with tongues tangling each other. Arthurius is at first in huge shock, almost about to try to struggle to escape, but he soon surrenders to this new feeling he is experiencing. He shuts his eyes and relaxes himself.

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Regardless, he finally speaks up, albeit awkwardly.

:ummm… Errrr… Th-thanks for loosening me up there…
Cat: No problem!
Cat gives Arthurius a pat on the head and heads back to his seat, picking up the camera and getting ready to snap a new photo.

Mary claps gleefully and gives Arthurius and Cat a wolf whistle and a thumbs-up.

Willamina then follows suit and heads over to Arthurius, feeling some competitiveness. She grabs him by the shoulders and just starts slobbering all over his mouth, sitting on him and having a generally good time.

Arthurius almost tenses up, but after experiencing his first kiss with Cat has become a little more comfortable with the second kiss. He almost raises his arm to grab Willamina’s back and lean her closer to him, but decides against it, worried about how she might react, and remembering that Mary had said her friend has romantic feelings for Willamina, not wanting to ruin that relationship. He does however allow his tongue to playfully twist around Willamina’s tongue a tiny bit this time around.

However, Willamina uses this opportunity to playfully move her arms from his shoulder to his neck and steals his bowtie. She then passes it over to Mary.

Arthurius getting the wrong idea becomes very nervous over this, thinking she might be stripping him with the intention of taking this to the next level.

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Snake punch Vadico!

>>1003861
Knock his lights out!

Should probably clarify we want punch snake Azzeki to do the punching

Sezeda take a swipe at Jadi with your weapon. Best to keep these attackers on the defensive as much as possible.

>>1003860
Yeah it violates the normal turn order to suggest this but Sezeda and Azzeki pool your collective snakeiness and give Vadico a double uppercut, I would say give em a double wrapping but people here are already deadset on the punching idea.

2/2 BAN 2021/06/17(Thu)21:38 No. 1003586 ID: e30795
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The men defending your formation's flanks signal that they've sighted enemies multiple times, but you all manage to avoid detection. You succeed in getting into the city proper without further conflict. Each squad splits into 'packs' once again, hiding in any and every alley, bush and pile of rubble within a block or two of the police department. Your pack is the first to have eyes on the target. A glance at your watch says that you have just over 20 minutes to take this building.

Your heart feels like it's about to explode. You're all completely surrounded, now--once you set it off, it's not going to stop until they're all dead, or you are. Your vision's so sharp, it's making your head hurt. Christ, this feels better than any drug...

>"This is batshit," Dane murmurs. He pulls his binoculars out and scans the scene. "There's movement in the windows. Fuck, there has to be a platoon in there, right? They wouldn't put less in an asset like that. Those guys on the outside near the door have cop uniforms on, too. The whole department could be in there. And you know they've got to have it all rigged, by now."

>"Don't jinx it, meatsack," MUDA whispers back. "You're paranoid. I see five fucking guys out front, and a few guys walking around in there. We could rush it, easy."

>"Don't 'meatsack' me, cyclops. That's the problem with you dickheads, all that extra bloodlust fucks with your common sense." The sergeant nudges you and frowns. "I really don't like the looks of this, LT. Doesn't feel right..."

You take Dane's binoculars and scan the scene yourself, for a moment. There are five men in front of the building, maintaining what looks like a

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I think we should split into two groups with eight guys moving in while the other thirteen including THOMPSON and his machine gun stays behind to cover. The eight lucky ones can begin to move towards the police department at a wide angle from the side to reduce their visibility from the front windows and the support can open fire on the guys outside and anyone in the windows or on the roof that could potentially respond to this. Once the eight reach the building they can throw their grenades through the windows and the quite numerous supporting group will likely be able to maintain fire superiority over whoever’s in the building. This would force their heads down and prevent them from reacting to anyone outside, giving the eight plenty of time and agency to raid the building basically however they want, perhaps even having enough time to scale the fence to attack from the back.

I say we split into three groups- a false frontal assault, everyone else on two sides of the front.

Set up the heavy weaponry and just open up on the front; mow down who can be, pop the windows, everything to make casualties and draw attention at the same time, as long as is comfortable with our ammo reserves.

Then, have the HMG gunner fucking ghost on them. See if we can draw them out- and then send in the side teams to pincer and dismember. Just expect more men than you'd think; PDs usually have big basements.

BAN 2021/06/21(Mon)20:11 No. 1003864 ID: b7456f
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You've got it all laid out in seconds. Your squad will hit the police department from the side while the rest of the men cover you from the front. When things are looking good, a third team will split off from the main group to take the other flank. You send MUDA to relay the orders to the rest of the platoon.

>Dane stares at the men on the street and grinds his teeth. "Here we go again," he says. "Jesus, my heart's gonna burst at this rate."

You elbow him in the side playfully. "You really do bitch a lot, Sarge."

>Your friend scowls at you. That weird vein on his face is starting to throb again... "So what if I do, LT, is that so wrong? I just don't want either of us to get plugged in this shithole of a country, goddammit. We--!"

A barrage of gunfire opens up from further down the street. Two of the policemen are down almost immediately. The third falls soon after, and the fourth takes a couple hits while scrambling back inside. The soldier yells something and manages to get a few shots off before THOMPSON's machine gun explodes his skull.

>"Shit," Dane spits. "Hold that thought..."

The rest of your squad comes sprinting into view. They cut to the right, using nearby buildings to cover their approach. Looks like CONN's come along too, rounding your team's number out at eight. You and Dane break from cover and join their mad dash for the building.

Return fire comes sporadically from the windows, but it's too late. MUDA and JOAN sling grenades with deadly accuracy, and the front of the station is rocked by two explosions. The muffled screams that follow are music to your ears.

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You have the initiative, use it to flank from all sides! Have two demon soldiers throw grenades from the front door, have your stealthiest soldier open the back door and infiltrate, the rest shoot from the windows.

>>1003691
>the best policy is not to get hit at all
That's only possible with a focus on evasive combat techniques or an overwhelming advantage over the enemy like the ability to kill them before they get close to you. Fights usually don't turn out that way, only hunting does. Healing is an extremely important resource and it's good that you have a source besides potions. That both gives our alchemist the freedom to focus on offensive potions and ensures we have enough healing when we need it instead of potentially running out of healing potions in the middle of the wilderness because we didn't make enough.

>>1003697
>the druids
Can you hire a messenger? The druids themselves need to know what they've done. You eliminated the spirit, they didn't. They might not know it existed.

>>1003699
Be honest. Tell her you're going clothes shopping. It might be inconvenient but you're going to be spending a lot of time around them and they may have more chances to inconvenience you during the months you're spending on the mission. Might as well start getting used to it. Plus, if you're thinking about trying things you hadn't considered before, it would sure help if you had people to consider things for you! And give you opinions on if something looks good or not! Lastly, I believe the things you described are what friends do with eachother...
The s

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>the best policy is not to get hit at all
Agreed, but you're going into hostile, frozen terrain. Your agility isn't going to be as effective up north.

>Clothes shopping
It's not a waste as long as you dress for the occasion. Your job will plow you through miles of dirt, snow, and giant monsters to meet a dragon. You need to buy multiple layers of cold-resistant armor, and you need to look presentable at the end. That also goes for the rest of your party.

Tell her you're equipment shopping instead of clothes shopping, just to help drive in the fact that you're not looking to waste time looking for fashionable clothes, just stuff that will effectively help you.

Buy something extremely fluffy and warm. This is important.

OH
Ask her when she's gonna honor her part of your original deal, and help you with getting an animal companion.

>>1003709
Oh wait, she lost her rings, so she can't shoot. Ummm... kick? Kick him so hard that he falls off the building

>>1003708

If you run away, then it's that much more distance for your soldiers to catch up with you. Meanwhile, you'll keep on getting bullied by the two enemies already in range.

You should take a chance and charge towards Raschid. Either attack him to get revenge for your hair, or just try to retreat towards your troops, but that's definitely the direction to go. Your troops will be able to catch up to you quicker, and form a defensive line around you.

Support on running towards out teammates.

Crawl towards Raschid for a rendezvous.

>>1003708
Give Skal the boot.

>>1003759
Yeah, let's try farming that last vine; let's plant and zap it. Might want to just water it instead of giving it waste? Reptekas just mutate, but plants have a tendency to die when exposed to toxic stuff.

>>1003757
So they aren't both idle today!

I think we should give BLU some legs instead of arms, so they can go out and explore with the others. Also, so that we could potentially move to a new base location.
ROCKS should get upgraded arms. Let's go with the tentacle arms we didn't pick!

>>1003781
Do upgrades make them idle? I didn't think so.

>>1003781
Upgrading doesn’t make them idle.