Test Pattern 2010/01/01(Fri)21:45 No. 103196 ID: 51d0f5
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The door to the Specimen Lab opened on its own. There's a tracked robot looking at me. A small red light on its head came on, followed by a larger, amber one.

>>103196
Evasive maneuvers.

EVASIVE MANEUVERS.

>>103196
Well, wait to see what it does. It's not like it can really hurt you.

>>103196
Awkwardly stare at it for a few seconds. Then snap out of it and then >>103198

Perform a HEADSHOT.

GET THE FUCK OUT NOW

>>103200
It took 40 years last time, let's not risk it!

Yell for it to state its purpose while running towards cover.

Test Pattern 2010/01/01(Fri)21:51 No. 103207 ID: 51d0f5
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>Well, wait to see what it does.
Okay. It's not making any hostile motions. Just rolling slowly out of the lab towards me.

>It's not like it can really hurt you.
I mentioned it's got a turret, right? It has two barrels. One large-caliber, one small. It's not really-...

Wait. The amber light just turned red.

>>103207
Move move move! Get behind cover!

>>103207
RUN

Jump up and towards it, it's probably more adept at aiming on the X axis.

Cover. Now. Fast. Get out of its sights! You aren't going to beat the thing with a pea shooter.

A map of our present location for places to run would be much helpful.

>>103207
OH SHI-
DIVE!

RUN AWAY

Oh boy, it's one of those. Crap, I wish we'd had the presence of mind to duck out of its field of view for a few seconds earlier.

Well, better late than never. Dive left, please.

Test Pattern 2010/01/01(Fri)22:12 No. 103236 ID: 51d0f5
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>A map of our present location for places to run would be much helpful.
Not really a lot of room to maneuver! The hallway is narrow and not long in any direction. About the only way to maneuver at all would be to get past it into the lab, or into another room.

I can open any of the doors around me, including the one behind me, but it'll take a second.

Don't have much choice, open the door behind you.

>>103236
Okay. Red light means bad. We don't have time to think. Shoot now, or drop the gun. This thing has us at sheer firepower, hopefully luck is on our side.

>>103236
You're pretty close to it. Leapfrog over it into the lab.

Ride robot like a mechanical bull. Seriously. It looks like it won't be able to aim at you if you're on its back.

Y'know the great thing about turrets? They usually can't shoot straight up. Think you're up to vaulting that thing?

>One large-caliber, one small.

That thing, or one like it, killed you before, didn't it? Remember the smaller entry wounds and the larger one on yo-

...erm, never mind. We can talk about that later. Open the door behind you for now and enter it; it'll give us some room to breathe and time to think. If you can, try to take out any of its optical sensors (the lenses mounted on its head) with your pistol while you're at it.

The thing does have -arms- folks. Nasty looking clawed ones! Jumping over it? Risky. Actually riding it like a bull? Quick way to get ourselves killed.

>>103250
It has arms, but they look flimsy. The sort of thing that come right outta their sockets with a little bit of that excessive force we've seen demonstrated a few times already.

Alright then. Jump on its back and rip off its arms.

>>103236
Fire three or so quick shots into the head. If that seems to disable the sensors, charge it, throw a haymaker, and run past. Alternately, don't run past, and tear it to pieces. You're strong enough to dent, bend, and almost certainly break steel. All that is only if the shots seem to disable the sensors, if it tracks you after you shoot it, then don't hit it, just run, and keep your head down.

Test Pattern 2010/01/01(Fri)22:58 No. 103290 ID: 51d0f5
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I take a shot, hitting it in the center of the head, where the smaller red light was, and start dashing.

Test Pattern 2010/01/01(Fri)22:58 No. 103291 ID: 51d0f5
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It's still moving, but hasn't fired yet.

Move to the side slightly, does it follow you?

>>103292
If it does follow you, than run past. If it doesn't, go for the kill.

Test Pattern 2010/01/01(Fri)23:20 No. 103308 ID: 51d0f5
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>Move to the side slightly
I move, and just far enough to miss a shot from the larger barrel.

Looks like some kind of launcher, rather than a real cannon. The dart it fires is large and fast enough to send metal fragments spinning as it hits the cell door, however!

If the bullets are not working at all, escape is a good alternative for now.

Jump up high, see if you can clear it. If not, try to land on the gun.

>>103308
Fuck, it's still tracking you. Leg it. Get into a more open area so you can maneuver.

>>103308

Uh-oh. The rapebot fires date-rape darts. Try to knock out it's other sensor.

>>103308
Fuck. How much you want to bet there's suppress or rhino-strength tranq in those darts?

Get over the robot. This thing doesn't look particularly mobile.

Shoot the turret!

>>103341
Don't, that looks like almost solid metal surrounding the barrels, which aren't exactly feeble on their own. Shooting the turret would be a waste of time and ammo, better to run and dodge until we find a way to get behind it safely.

uhhhh... get a door open then!

Test Pattern 2010/01/02(Sat)00:12 No. 103360 ID: 51d0f5
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I run and take a leap over the machine before it can fire again.

Shit! It clamps down on my ankle!

Is it really strong? If not, try twisting around.
If it is, Drop your hands and use your leg as leverage against the side, kick with all your might.

>>103360
FFFFFFFFFFFFF-
Okay, you obviously need to get your leg free, but the question is, of course, "how?" Start off by just pulling with your leg. If that doesn't work, and it probably won't, than try to pry the claw open. Don't let it pull you off a surface you can stand on, though, and don't let it aim that turret at you. I'm sorry I can't be more useful, but that's all I've got for now.

Seems like this thing isnt bulletproof whatever it is, if you cant free your leg with your own strength try blasting the thing off at the arm, also try firing a shot directly into the dart launcher barrels since you're this close

>>103360
Damn... we should have released Tazer-tits when we had the chance.

>>103373
Hmm, at this range, it could be worth trying to land a shot inside the barrel...
Try for a couple shots, that should cause it to misfire, and might just damage the chassis, hopefully allowing you to escape.

Use the combined strength of your free hand and your trapped leg to try to pull yourself free. If this doesn't work, and I'm guessing it won't, then fire a shot at the arm itself, while trying to aim for a joint. Once again, this may not work, in which case, you should empty your handgun into the machine's head. Seriously, though, unload into the fucker; destroy every last lens or sensor on the thing. Then you should have some time to get your leg free without the danger of a point-blank tranquilizer dart.

Make sure if and when you shoot it this close it is not at an angle that will ricochet off and hit you.

Test Pattern 2010/01/02(Sat)00:52 No. 103387 ID: 51d0f5
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>Drop your hands and use your leg as leverage against the side, kick with all your might.
I scrabble to gain purchase against the machine's moving treads. Having a gun in one hand doesn't help.

The machine grabs my leg with another arm and slams me into the wall.

Apply gun to treads

Shoot the arm, aim for the joints.

>>103387
Despite your pain, You look hotter then ever...ehhhh

Where were we?

Ah yes. Robot thing. Kicking our ass.

Hmm. Try shooting the offending arm. See if we can't loosen up some bolts.

>>103387
>>103389

Idiots.

TAZE THE MACHINE. Current + Electronics = Oh boy, is dat sum fried 'lectronics?

>>103391
UHM.

METAL CONDUCTS ELECTRICITY.

>>103406

I know. But do you want to get shot by a ricochet and waste our ammo on the bot or get tazed as we fry the bot?

Test Pattern 2010/01/02(Sat)03:27 No. 103474 ID: 51d0f5
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>Shoot the arm, aim for the joints.
It keeps throwing me around, but I take careful aim and shoot, hitting the joint of the first arm that grabbed me, nicking the second, and somehow managing to avoid hitting myself.
It's still holding me, but it's been significantly weakened. Should I focus on freeing myself, keeping moving, shooting more, or something else?

>>103474

RIP AND TAZE

RIP AND TAZE

Shoot. Aim for its neck juncture.

Try and free yourself, but keep attempting to shoot this thing in vulnerable spots (Down the barrels of the weaponry, the pivoting neck joint, arm joints, treads) aim for the ones you think you can hit the easiest first.

Just because it has a 'head' does not mean it is a vital component for it. It is a robot, you sillies.

Aim for joints or places with hoses or wires. Tough to tell where vital circuitry is without being able to peek inside it.

Rather, keep attempting to shoot if you get free.

>>103508

Well i'm more concerned that the thing still seems to be able to tell where we are and what appear to be four to seven guns on its head rather than the head being full of vital robot brains.

Your hands seem to be a lot stronger than that gun you have. Punch it in its vision sensor. If you can't reach it, drop the gun and grab the arm with both hands and snap it.

Does it have any obvious sensors? Engage those.

>>103474
Save your ammo, you never know when you'll need to fight at a distance.
As for now, you should try to rip it's arms off, then force open the chassis and tear any and all wiring you see. To be on the safe side, shoot whatever looks most like a power supply before you start tearing the wiring.
Rip and tear.
You're a Tozol and a half.
A twelve point oh on a ten point scale of badness.
Dynamite.

Suggestion 2010/01/02(Sat)10:38 No. 103734 ID: 3297aa
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>>103716
RIP AND TEAR, RIP AND TEAR

>>103716
Oh, and while you're doing that, remember to shout "There's nothing wrong with you that I can't fix, WITH MY HANDS!"
You must do this because it is huge, so it must have huge wiring.

>>103738
Fucking second

Rip off the weakened arm and beat the robot to death with it.

>>103474
Free yourself, then taze the fucker! Taze it in the hole you made in its sensor bay!

Test Pattern 2010/01/02(Sat)17:53 No. 103904 ID: 51d0f5
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>that the thing still seems to be able to tell where we are and what appear to be four to seven guns on its head
They're cameras. That's probably how it can see me.

>>103716
You forgot the counter-suppress. She's a counter-suppressin' Tozol and a half.

First off, tear off the damaged arm and start beating the shit out of the machine. After that we can work on the cameras.

Taser one and simultaneously shoot the other one!

>>103904
Well, if those are cameras, than punch the shit outta them. Then rip and tear its huge wiring.

Test Pattern 2010/01/02(Sat)17:58 No. 103909 ID: 51d0f5
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>Does it have any obvious sensors? Engage those.
I engage a hole right through the biggest one.

Try talking to it.

"If you can understand me, let me go."

>>103909
Continue to destroy the cameras. If this robot was designed with any safeguards at all, it will stop hostile actions while blinded.

Rip and tear the cameras off

Yeah, either tear yourself free from the weakened arms or keep destroying the cameras.

Test Pattern 2010/01/02(Sat)19:31 No. 104001 ID: 51d0f5
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>Either tear yourself free from the weakened arms or keep destroying the cameras.
I multitask! The bullet just deflects off the corner of its head, but I rip free of the machine's grip, taking a claw with me.

The turret's tracking me again!

>>104001
I see a weakness in its firing arc! It can't aim below the top of the treads! Fall flat to the floor and shoot the rest of the cameras.

Do you think you could disable the turret by physically grabbing the barrels and twisting or doing something to them?

Either rotate the turret suddenly to snap the drive or push the barrels upward past the maximum angle. If you can get behind the machine, do that.

scratch my plan.

>>104007
Ok, this would work. Don't let it run you over or grab you and pull you into its firing arc.

someone could be watching this, we could think up something to say.

im actualy inclined to declare neutrality.

also get taser, taze the first bullethole you made on it.

>>104017
>>someone could be watching this, we could think up something to say.

If you can hear me, give me a sign?

>>104019
i was thinking more into recordings and transmissions.

>>104019
I think more along the lines of flipping them the bird just before finishing off the bot.

Test Pattern 2010/01/02(Sat)20:42 No. 104049 ID: 51d0f5
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I crawl up close to the bot, below the depression of its guns.

"Hello?!" I yell. "Turn this off! Do it or I'll break it!"

Did it do it? If not, you'd better break it.

>>104049
it can still grab us. watch its hands and tracks.

>>104049
We meant lay on your back feet towards the robot, gun out, plink, plink, plink.

>>104049
"More, I mean!"

If it reaches down for you don't worry about the arms. Crush the manipulators and it won't be able to pick you up.

Test Pattern 2010/01/02(Sat)20:56 No. 104056 ID: 51d0f5
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"More, I mean!" I yell.

>watch its hands and tracks.
Its tracks start to move in rev-FUCK! MY EAR!

Can you flip it over? If not, destroy the treads.

Grab the gun barrels with your hands. Important: stay out of the line of fire. Left on left, right on right. Push up. Bend them backwards until they break.

>>104057
That'll probably be impossible. I reiterate my prior suggestion to create an opening in the chassis, than rip and tear the wiring. It is huge, so it must have huge wiring. Here comes the night train. Remember, we're a counter-suppressing Tozol and a half.

>>104056
its head already have quite a hole on it. punch it and taze the lol out of it.

but first, dodge the dammed turrent.

>>104059
Applause. That was like 3 injokes at once. I have a feeling the "we're an X and a half" will also become an injoke in due time.

Supporting the bend gun barrels until nonfunctionality idea. Also, has anyone seriously considered just pushing it over like a turtle?

>>104063
I considered it, but it would probably still be able to shoot at us. Unless...
Flip it on its side and attack its vulnerable underside!

>>104064
Yes. This is what I meant.

Preferably, grab barrels and exert upwards force. Either the barrels bend or we push the bot over where we can rip at its huge wiring.

>>104056
You've got three more, don't wuss out now!

>>104067
Wait. Please don't tell me the barrels are warming up from being fired. Or that they're already hot.

its likely a em-empowered gun, using metal stakes and low velocity to prevent damage to the wall and most likely hull of this place.

im inclined to think we are in a science ship or space station due to the secrecy needed to keep us.

Test Pattern 2010/01/02(Sat)21:47 No. 104083 ID: 51d0f5
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>Grab the gun barrels with your hands.
I grab the barrels and push. The mechanisms howl and grind. I force the guns to maximum elevation, and the robot's suspension tilts. I might be able to flip it over!

GO FOR IT! PUSH PUSH PUSH PUSH PUSH!

Watch out, its left arm might be trying to grab you.

>>104083
It's still trying to grab you! Dodge out of the way of the claw while pushing it. Like, move around towards the front. You could get better leverage that way too.

With that many arms, it won't have any trouble righting itself. Concentrate more on fucking up those turret barrels. You just have to bend them a little before they lose the ability to fire.

Test Pattern 2010/01/02(Sat)22:15 No. 104099 ID: 51d0f5
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I keep pushing. I try swinging around, but I can't get enough purchase against the floor to overwhelm the turret mechanism.

I feel a tight, cold grip around my neck.

>>104099
we are dead. if we flip it, it still has our neck and it can unflip itself. if we release any gun barrel it shoot us at point blank.

try to move sideways. use its body as a cover for the turrent.

the fucking gun. it cant be on the floor.

or better yet, yield gun with feet, shoot ar remaining eyes/arm joints.

Right hand grab claw piece under your chin. Snap that bitch.
Left hand stay on turret barrel. Keep doing what you are doing.
Right foot kick that thing in it's head.

Before we do any of this, double check that we won't be playing twister with the robot.

>>104099
Are you capable of using the gun with your strange clawfeet? If the gun is in foot range, shoot the fucker!

>>104099
Use one hand to get the claw off of your neck, and keep the other on the turret. Instead of pushing up, though, force the guns to one side; if you keep pushing upwards, then the gun you're not grabbing can swing down and fire at you.

After that... well, I'm not too sure. Could you possibly deliver a kick to its head? Destroying the sensors should end the fight pretty quickly.

Test Pattern 2010/01/02(Sat)23:20 No. 104125 ID: 51d0f5
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>Are you capable of using the gun with your strange clawfeet?
I can try!

Test Pattern 2010/01/02(Sat)23:25 No. 104127 ID: 51d0f5
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Yes!

I manage to put a round through the shoulder joint. The arm freezes, locking around my neck. I can still breathe, with effort.

The gun's down to two rounds, meaning the robot has more cameras than I've got bullets.

Shoot INTO the turret, one shot for each hole!

Try to disable the other two arms with the pistol.

>>104127
Drop the gun for now, you may need it later.
In the meantime, put all of your strength into tipping the robot, or at least ripping the turret off. Once you've managed to one of those things, rip and tear it's huge wiring.

If things go to hell, yell "Parlay".

>>104136
That's only a guideline.

>>104127
Save bullets, tip over the robot. Then get behind it and take out the cameras with your hands.

Test Pattern 2010/01/03(Sun)00:07 No. 104146 ID: 51d0f5
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Managing not to get my hands caught in the treads, I flip the thing on its side. It was too busy trying to grab at me to catch itself, but I hear it trying to right itself now.

The gun barrels try to retract again, but they seem stuck.

The whole machine's become a racket of clicking and whirring and grinding.

>>104146
Clicking and whirring and grinding? Sounds like it might explode.

Destroy it, you might not have another chance. Get out the taser gun and zap it in the cameras.

just to be safe grab the girl out of the cell and vacate the hallway

>>104146
Now! Be twelve point oh on a ten point oh scale of badness! Be a counter-suppressing Tozol and a half! Don't use your gun, guns are for wusses! Here comes the night train! Other reference to the Doom Comic! Ye gods, I'm uncreative!
Anyways, rip and tear.

The under armor is weak. Rip and tear.

Yes, get the fuck out, but don't get too far away. Try to get to some shelter to if it does blow, you'll be fine, but also close enough so if it has a self righting mechanism, you can push it back over.

Can you open the cell with Mitzi from the inside?

>>104146
Go around the side of it so you're 'behind' it, and destroy its cameras.

Actually, I'm changing my suggestion to ripping and tearing the underside.

Can we taze it now to be sure it's dead?

Test Pattern 2010/01/03(Sun)01:25 No. 104182 ID: 51d0f5
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>rip and tear
I don't see a significant seam or fracture I can grab hold of.

So I make one.

Test Pattern 2010/01/03(Sun)01:51 No. 104194 ID: 51d0f5
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I rip the belly plate off and yank out cables and components.

This is pretty fun!

>>104194
See what happens when wire #23 touches with wire #543

Test Pattern 2010/01/03(Sun)01:57 No. 104201 ID: 51d0f5
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I think we're done here.

Test Pattern 2010/01/03(Sun)01:57 No. 104202 ID: 51d0f5
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What next?

Maybe you should go check on psycho girl again, see if she's less homicidal and more willing to answer questions and help you explore.

well its safe now. so let uh ..shocktits out.

Open cell 2 and check on Tazer Tits.

Yeah, let's go talk to the shapeshifter again.

go talk to Mitz

check room from where it camed from. find ammo for pistol, we would also like more CS.

>>104202
To slay is human, to disembowl is feline.

Good kitty.

>>104268
Second, we've got one round left at most, if we get in a firefight, we're screwed. We need a big gun. A really big gun.

>>104287
Thirded actually, let's do that before we go chat to the mutant.

Backup always comes first. Let Taser Tits out.

I'd recomend the following: Open the door to cell 2, say "You obviously aren't human, so I ask again, what are you?", Leave the door open and go to investigate new room / loot robot.

[Sorry I keep thinking up new stuff.]

Where is the drawn picture of Penji? We need to find it and some writing utensil and sign it "Love, Penji".

I also think writing some diary entries on the start computer would be neat. Don't need to act all that out.

Ask Tazer Tits if she knows who 'Ophion', 'Nyx', or 'Phanes' are. Also does she know anything about the 'Athelhom Impact Event'. Then open the viewslit on the door to cell 3. With Mitzi with you open door to cells 1 and 3 and have her check the blind spots.

Explore every nook an cranny thoroughly.

>>104384
True, it's better to have a second pair of eyes, ears, and fists. Another vote going to releasing Mitzi, then searching for more ammo.

Say, Penj, have you had a good look at your own anatomy? It's clearly different from a human from what we can see, but even those things that seem close to human... what are they like? Are your fingers the same, are they clawed or stronger or sturdier? Is your spine more, less flexible? How long can you hold your breath? Do you have similar lungs, digestion, skeleton? Reproductive organs...? :3c

First aid on ear. I hope that damage isn't permanent.

>>105560
And make sure you don't get an infection.

>>105560

Given Penji regenerated from having her brains blown out I think her ears should regenerate eventually.

Go back for the mutant girl. She may know more about the facility.

Test Pattern 2010/01/10(Sun)02:36 No. 108674 ID: 51d0f5
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Carefully, I turn to the mutant's cell.

I have only one bullet left.

>>108674
"If I open this door, are you going to behave?"

>>108674

"Are you feeling okay? If you promise to be good, I'll open the cell."

Do some variation of the "I let you out of there and you help me find a way out of this place" deal.

When you get to a computer with a search function, or backtrack to that first one, look up counter-suppress. See if it has any information on where it is stored.

Alternatively dont be a jerk and open the cell saying. "Had to make sure it was safe.."

Don't look into the slot. You'll get your eyes skewered.

>>108674
>One bullet left
Be sure to save it for yourself.

Say "Hey, Mitzi, sorry about closing the door, but there was an angry robot out here. Don't worry, there was nothing wrong with him that I couldn't fix - with my hands."

>>108827
Second, except the saving the bullet for yourself thing. That probably won't work.

>>108830
By that I mean don't save the bullet for yourself, find more bullets, and save them for your enemies. Don't shoot Mitzi.

Recruit Chloe

>>108674

"If you have any anti-supress left, bring it out with you" *open door*

Try to (be able to use) the taser with your weird claw-feet.

Check your ear.

POST MORE THAN ONCE EVERY 4 HOURS ;_;

>>108936
Seconded.

Test Pattern 2010/01/10(Sun)23:53 No. 108999 ID: 51d0f5
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I let the creature out. She seems hostile, but cautious. More nervous than when I left her.

"Do you have any more Counter-Suppress?" I ask.

"No. I needed it."

"I needed it more," I say.

"No way," she says. "I saw what you just did."

Did you ever check the last cell?

Well that wasn't very nice either, you should apologize again. It's true though, you kick ass.

Ask her what she did prior to your meeting, see if she still has her memory.

>>108999
"Well I guess you have a point there."

Check out the last cell.

"Let's work on getting out of here. Come on."

Open cell 1 and check the blind spot. Check cell 3.

Test Pattern 2010/01/11(Mon)00:40 No. 109013 ID: 51d0f5
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>>109003
"Sorry about locking you up," I say. "I didn't know if it was safe. Guess it wasn't."

I'm not technically lying.

"Right. Fine," she says.

"What are in the other cells?" I ask.

"My brother's in three. Can you get him out?"

"Sure.

he uh...he wont eat my foot right."

>>109013
Sure, if he's not gonna claw my eyes out or something.

Test Pattern 2010/01/11(Mon)00:58 No. 109018 ID: 51d0f5
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"Is HE gonna bite my foot?" I ask.

"I could walk in front."

"Then sure."

She stands there for several more seconds, just staring at me.

"What ARE you?" she asks for the second time.

"I really dont know."

>>109018
"I'm not exactly sure, but I think I'm a Tozol."

"A Tozol. That is literally everything I know about my species. I think I was created from scratch."

Should we tell her everything we know about ourselves? And should we tell her about the voices that can somehow see the back of our head? (It is possible to prove that the voices can see things that Penji can't, such as counting the number of fingers Mitzi is holding behind her back.)

For future use, have us use 3rd person view to look around corners without exposing yourself. Maybe it's some kind of ESP.

Just tell her you're trying to figure out what both of you are, since she isn't human. Well, full human at least.

>>109018
"I don't remember anything. All I know about myself is what I was able to get from journal entries in the computer where I woke up."

Test Pattern 2010/01/11(Mon)01:40 No. 109040 ID: 51d0f5
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"I don't know," I say. "I don't remember anything before, uh... about two hours ago. And I spent an hour of that asleep. I don't even know my name."

"Oh..." says Mitzi. "Cause that was going to be my next-"

"Call me Penji."


>Say, Penj, have you had a good look at your own anatomy? It's clearly different from a human from what we can see, but even those things that seem close to human... what are they like?
I don't really know anything about humans.
>Are your fingers the same, are they clawed or stronger or sturdier?
I have small, retractable claws. They don't seem good for hurting things. Maybe they're so I can grab onto things?
>Is your spine more, less flexible?
All I've seen of a human spine was a little pile of vertebrae. So... Less flexible than that.
>How long can you hold your breath?
I don't know. Maybe ten minutes if I'm not doing anything, at a guess? My endurance is getting better as I heal.
>Do you have similar lungs, digestion, skeleton?
The bones in the box had cylindrical ribs. I have bands and small plates protecting my torso.
>Reproductive organs...? :3c
Yes. Why?

Just trying to get a full overview. What about Mitzi, notice anything in particular that catches your eye?

>>109040
Hey, did your ear regenerate completely already?

Test Pattern 2010/01/11(Mon)01:58 No. 109047 ID: 51d0f5
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>Hey, did your ear regenerate completely already?
((Nope! I just fucked up drawing it.))

>>109040
If you have reproductive organs, then it's HIGHLY unlikely you were made by humans. They'd never allow a chance for an experimental biological weapon to breed. Not unless... do you have all the parts there? I mean, are you fertile?

>>109048
Well how could she know that? Barring something painfully obvious of course.

>>109057
I'm willing to bet that someone who can sense their own biology and detect minute damage would be able to figure out if they're fertile.

someone forgot to look for bullets before releasing the possible violent prisioner...

we need to look around. if there is CS around now we have to divide among 3 of us. and we already had 2.

>>109048
If I had hands, I'd slap this voice silly.

Yo, Crazy. Miss Cranky pants over there's brother might be just as crazy as you, and just as hungry as her. Get the food ready.

>>109094
Generally, one bullet is enough if you hit.
Even if she didn't hit, she's still super-strong.
Besides that, it'd be easier to find things like ammo with two people searching. It's better to get Mitzi and her brother to trust you to have the gun, and get them to help find ammo, than to waste time searching by yourself only to piss off Mitzi due to how long it takes to find anything.

>>109040

Skeletal plates, eh? Then you probably are a bit less flexible than a human in some ways, which makes sense if you're a land-based superpredator; humans are basically big swimming monkeys.

Hmm, there's a thing. You seem pretty small, so it's likely that your muscles are much more developed and dense. That would impede your ability to swim. Be careful around water, ok?

furst, there is the advantage of range. guns almost always wins because of that.

second, just because WE can take a railgun to our head doesnt means our enemies can too.

third, bullets are universal lock pickers :3

>>109040
Are you able to give us an image of your skeletal structure similar to how you gave us the image of your various systems and their states of disrepair?

>>109115
You raise many excellent points, and I agree with all of them.
However, if we needed to fight Mitzi, a gun would hardly be needed, and if we didn't, as is the case, we'll have an easier time finding more ammo with other people helping us look.

>>109116

How about save that for next time we have Counter-Suppress

>>109048

Yes, carefully analyze your taxonomy, *after* you've gotten out of this facility and to a place of relative safety. Until then, all you need to worry about is if they implanted some sort of remote controlled explosive device in your body. Not likely, otherwise they would have detonated it while you were fighting the camera robot. You only read of one kill-switch, and it was in that tube back there.

>>109013

Look inside to make sure her "brother" isn't some kind of even more dangerous monster, but it should be fine. Even if hostile, the more things you free, the less time the facility has to devote to capturing or killing you. Mitzi's given you no reason not to trust her, aside from, you know, trying to eat you.

Ask Tazer Tits if she knows who 'Ophion', 'Nyx', or 'Phanes' are. Also does she know anything about the 'Athelhom Impact Event' or some kind of alien machine called 'Tethys.'

>>Search Ophion, Nyx, Phanes, Tethys
>The vast majority of these files are locked or not resident. 'Ophion', 'Nyx', and 'Phanes' are experimental biotechnology... creatures... kept in this portion of the facility. Mutated or engineered or... something. 'Tethys' is code for some kind of artifact that was recovered a long time ago, from something called the 'Athelhom Impact Event.'
>'Ophion', 'Nyx', and 'Phanes' are experimental biotechnology... creatures... kept in this portion of the facility.
>kept in this portion of the facility.

I think we found one of them......
The second is in cell 3 and the third one is likely responsible for the mess in lab control and autopsy.

Forget about asking Mitzi if she knows anything about the experimental creatures. Ask her which one she is.

If her brother is a cutebold, I'm leaving.

>>109048

And hey, if all your makin'-bits do work, that means there are more of you out there!

That's encouraging, right?

>>109271
Unless Tozols are prone to violent psychopathy, with Penji being the notable exception due to whatever happened between her death and her rebirth.

let us stop with the creeping on her sex.

its likely she is indeed a supersoldier genetic experiment, optimized for space battle. so of course she would be "functional", but half breeds arent really that good.

oh boy, i bet the brother is already out.

>>109278
if tazer tit is also a genetic experiment, we should question her about changes and what has been happening lately.

that must be why she claimed to be human and was in a big prison, they are determining if the alterations are useable.

they also most likely used criminals on the research.

>>109285

If Penji were a genemod weapon-creature, she'd be more... purposeful. Who'd make a creature with inner armour plating and great regeneration, and then give it claws that are only good for climbing? And those tails? Not to mention letting your tank-beast have enough sapience to question itself - if they could do this level of tinkering they could have lowered her intelligence.

Naw, she's some sort of alien, I reckon. But if you want to debate it, we'd better go to the discussion thread.

Penji, I've come to the conclusion that you are an artificially created lifeform.

You were their first. A prototype of prototypes. You have many things that humans would like to study. Digigrade legs, foot graspers, enhanced sight, two sets of ears (one high frequency, one low frequency, that exceed the capabilities of human hearing [that's my guess, anyway]), enhanced strength, reinforced body structure, fur, retractable claws, feelers, and what may be some form of esp. You are a biologist's dream. They were studying you and at some point you tried to attack them or escape. They were unable to capture you alive and decided to use lethal force to prevent whatever you were trying to do.

Even after killing you, they didn't want so much invested time and effort to go to waste. They tried to bring you back. As the years went by, they gave up hope of you ever waking up. Not many resources were required to keep you alive so they decided to keep you around on the off chance you woke up someday. They either didn't know what you were capable of breaking out of the tube (unlikely), or they were counting on sedatives to keep you unconscious if you did come back to life.

>>109301

But... that's not good science!! If you want to look at all those things, you should make one creature for each - that way you can get a good look, do tests, get info without them all interfering with each other. And each additional quality added to a single being will only increase the likelihood of lethal complications! This is a professional lab - they're not going to make mistakes like that.

Penji, you're the alien that crashed in the Athelhom Impact Event, and most of the experiments here are derived from either your biology, or whatever technology you brought with you. I highly encourage you attempt to acquire this "Tethys" as it probably is the key to ensure your continued not being brain splatted. Then again, it didn't seem to help the last time...

Also LOL FOURTH WALL LET'S TALK ABOUT THINGS THAT PENJI TOTALLY HAS TIME TO CONSIDER RIGHT NOW, AND MAKE SURE TEST PATTERN HAS NO CHANCE FOR SURPRISES FOR US AT ALL BECAUSE MYSTERY AND INTRIGUE IS LAME AND WE JUST WANT TO SEE MORE TITS.

>>109398
Personally, I only post speculation as a means of bumping the thread, or if I see a flaw in someone else's speculation, or if I want to subtly encourage lesbianism.
The last one is a constant state of being for me.

Oi you gits need to move on to the discussion thread.

Is there a discussion thread?

Hug Tazer Ti-I mean, Mitzi.

>>109436
I'll try and avoid speculation on the quest thread.
Seconding that you hug Mitzi.

Test Pattern 2010/01/11(Mon)23:09 No. 109564 ID: 51d0f5
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>>109243
I think back to the file.

"Do you know anything about Ophion, Phanes, or, uh..."

"I'm Nyx," she says. "They called my brother Ophion. His real name's Marcus."

"What's Tethys?"

"I dunno," she says. "Can we let him out, now? Or does it take awhile?"

"Well, wait a second," I say. "Something to do with the... Athelom Impact Event?"

"Athelhom? That was the town that got blown up, right?"

>>109564
So Penji, how's your grasp of ancient Earth mythology, if it even exists?
If you have none, Nyx is the goddess of night and is basically depicted as being fucking powerful and beautiful.

That means your new friend here probably was not named Nyx in irony, so keeping on her good side would probably be a good idea.

It would appear so. Might as well let him out, he could know stuff his sister doesn't.

>>109564
yay, it is genetic experiment + alien bodies. so what means "tythies"?

>>109564
Hug Mitzi, release Marcus.

Test Pattern 2010/01/11(Mon)23:36 No. 109592 ID: 51d0f5
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"It's just a name I saw," I say. "Like the others."

I walk past her, and open the view slit to cell three.

>>109592
Oh.
Um...
Wow.
That's...
Unpleasant.

Turn around and look for any hostility, whether from Mitzi or any other source. Tell Mitzi to look in the cell, and warn her it isn't pretty.

>>109592
"Nyx, I'm sorry, but I'm not sure if your brother will be coming out or not."
Allow her to look inside, unless she's looking over your shoulder.

>>109592
check if that is marcus.

the mutant trio must be together to form the mutant megazord!

he somehow escaped early and managed to wreck havoc in a secret facility. he most likely had more strength that needed to overpower everything, instead of calling backup they evaced station.

isnt ophion related to sleep or hallucinations?

Test Pattern 2010/01/12(Tue)00:05 No. 109609 ID: 51d0f5
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>Turn around and look for any hostility
Mitzi's looking in. She stares through for awhile.

"Nyx, I'm sorry..."

"Open the fucking door," she says. "Whatever you are."

Tell her you're an intelligent being, just like her and open the door.

>>109609
"As long as you understand, Nyx, I didn't do this to him. How could I have done it? I've been in a coma until a few hours ago and came to your cell first."

Open the door and then I guess clam up until she wants to talk. Still, be prepared for her to blame you simply because she can.

Test Pattern 2010/01/12(Tue)00:36 No. 109615 ID: 51d0f5
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Mitzi heads for the body under the blanket. I check my corners.

There's another corpse. Human, I guess. This one's wearing a lab coat.

Test Pattern 2010/01/12(Tue)00:37 No. 109616 ID: 51d0f5
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"This... this isn't him." Mitzi says. She doesn't sound sure. "Can't be. Can't be."

good lord stop calling her nyx.

Leave Mitzi for now, let her be sad for a bit. Check the human body, try to look refined while you do. Oh, and watch out for more foot biting.

>>109616

Check if the corpse is wearing clothes other than a lab coat. Mitzi was naked, so unless the people who run this lab are just perverts (and also all male and straight or female and gay), then it's unlikely to be her brother.

Get out of the room and guard the door. Or do something to destroy the door like rip it off its hinges. You don't want to get locked inside.

>>109616
What's that up in the corner of the ceiling? Broken camera?

Also, search the dead human.

>>109622
if they where former commandos, its lilely they could use clothing to kill.

pen, inquire mitzi/tazertits/nyx about her memories. DO NOT claim yours are gone, only taht you want to access what skills she has.

>>109617

Listen to this voice.

Also, whoever left that message probably left it for the jailors, not fellow prisoners. Unless that /is/ her brother? :( It might be important to know, but give Mitzi time. And space. Remember she can bite your leg off, or something.

>>109665

Um... not sure why they'd need too given they're shape shifting horrors of mad science

>>109665
Alternately, tell her everything you know so far.
It's better to have someone who trusts you, and knows what you know and what you can do.
If she knows you can regenerate from what you did, she won't want to try killing you since it'll be futile. If she knows that you punched your way out of the tube you woke up in, she won't want to try picking a fight with you.
More than any of those things, if you tell her everything, she'll take that as a sign of trust, and be inclined to return that trust.
It's better to have a loyal, well-informed ally, than it is to have someone who could turn on you at any moment if they think it'll help them in the long-run, doesn't know what you can do, and lacks information that may be useful for her to have.

>>109683

And when Mitzi gets ahold of some Counter-Suppress the first thing she's going to think is "No way in Hell am I going to let that Tozol get any more of this stuff."

Better skip the part about punching out of the tube.

>>109716
The whole point of telling her everything is so she'll trust us.
If she trusts us, she won't exactly want to prevent us from getting more powerful and as such more able to help her and Marcus escape.

>>109730

The question is, can Penji trust her?

>>109762
Trust needs to be earned, both ways.
For now, the best way to earn trust is by opening up, assuming Mitzi is willing to listen.
Also, one of the best ways to earn trust is by giving it. If Mitzi trusts us, than we can trust her, and as I just said, the best way to get her to trust us that's available right now, is by trusting her.

>>109765
In short, don't be so cynical.

Also if Mitzi knows how strong we are, and that we will get more benefit out of C-S than her, and that that is better for both of us, then she will be more willing to give it to us.

Alternatively beat the everliving fuck out of her to prove that even if she uses another one, we are still stronger than her, and will kill her for wasting it.

>>109776
But beating her will make her perfectly willing to find a gun, not tell us, and then kill us when we're not looking.
Trust, honesty, and friendship will work better in the long run, as well as the short-term.

>>109616
Hug her. She's sad, clearly in denial. Probably on the verge of tears.

Why are we trying to befriend Mitzi anyways?

I know, backup and the like, but we're in a mad science lab, mind you. She's most certainly a horrible mutant, her first reaction was biting Penji in the foot. She is, at best, mentally unstable. I see no reason to trust her.
Besides: We have to share food, counter suppress, weapons, and the like with her. Goods which are most certainly of a certain rarity here.

I say we dispose of her as soon as possible, especially since she seems to have a mental breakdown right now. This simply cannot end well.

Lock her in a cell, shoot her, RIP AND TEAR her, anything.
But no, do not trust her. Not in this enviroment. Not in this lab.

>>109782
Uhhh, noooo...
Just because she's almost certainly a mutant doesn't mean she's insane.
Given that we have a gun, super-strength, and regenerative abilities, I think we can afford to give her the benefit of the doubt.
And besides, where would Ruby be if she hadn't trusted Tom?

>>109782
To be fair, I'd probably bite Penji on the foot if I saw her, too. She's pretty crazy lookin'. We need all the allies we can get. That robot there would have been much easier with some help, but instead we took some damage and used nearly all our ammo.

Besides, Tazer Tits is a pretty cool gal.

>>109782
Not to mention that if she IS having a mental breakdown, it probably won't be violent, and most likely it'll only be temporary.
It's being caused by grief, not extreme, mind-breaking trauma.
If anything, she'll just cry, scream a bit, and maybe, MAYBE, but probably not, ineffectually hit attack us. If she does do that, she won't hurt us, and is much more likely to hurt herself.
As it stands, she's no threat, and could be VERY useful, especially since she knows more about the facility than we do.

>>109782
She bit penji's foot because she was starving to death in that cell.

>>109783

Eh, she was locked up in a cell for who knows how long. Pretty good condition to go bonkers, if you ask me. But we don't have seen enough of her to judge that fully, I guess.

Still, watch your back. Don't simply throw yourself at her. There is no metal fence between Penji and Tazer Tits here, and the "five buttons of possible doom and bonding"(tm) are also lacking.

>>109784

I'm probably being simply paranoid here, but I dislike the thought of fighting a heavily armed robot, and suddenly being backstabbed by a used-to-be-human-mutant-thingy which we just found jailed in a cell in a mad science lab who probably thinks we're an aberration from outer space.

>>109786

I'm no psychologist, so I cannot judge that. Therefore I expect the worst. And that can't be good.

>especially since she knows more about the facility than we do.

Point taken, she might be useful. Just simply do not trust her blindly. We've just found Mitzy, and we still know next-to-nothing about her.

(also, good night. It's way after 1 a.m. in ol' Germania here, and I need sleep)

>>109806
I'm not saying trust her blindly, I'm saying trust her in order to make her trust us.
If she trusts us, we'll be able to learn more about her.
I'm saying we should tell her everything we know, because it'll most likely have an effect similar to Stockholm's Syndrome.

>>109806
We could, of course, let the robot shoot her while we gouged out its eyes. If we don't trust her, we bring her anyways, as a meatshield. If we do trust her, we're the meatshield, as we're tough as shit and regenerate from nigh anything. A stab in the back would probably just be very inconvenient, but not deadly.
Either way, the best action now is to hug her. In addition to helping her cope with the loss of a friend, it moves us a step closer to getting Tazer Tits and Penji to make out. Everybody likes lesbians!

>>109809
I know I like lesbians, they account for about 75% of any reason for me to do anything on the internet!
All of your other points are also good, but less important. But that's me. To me, almost everything is less important than lesbians.

>>109783

BUT TOM WAS THE EVIL

>>110022
Well, yes, but he saved our ass more than once.

Discussion thread: >>/questdis/316424

Test Pattern 2010/01/13(Wed)16:58 No. 110325 ID: 51d0f5
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I examine the dead thing in the corner while Mitzi continues examining the one under the blanket. It has rough lacerations and tears in its skin on the neck, face, arms... pretty much anywhere I check.

>Check if the corpse is wearing clothes other than a lab coat.
It's got more on, yeah. Pants and shoes and stuff. One of the labcoat pockets has a rectangular device. The other pockets are empty. One's pulled inside out.

>What's that up in the corner of the ceiling? Broken camera?
Yes. Point impact of some kind broke the lens. A little more precise than what I've been doing to them.

Look over at Mitzi, see how she's doing.

Examine rectangular dealie saying.

"It looks like your brother can take care of himself i'm sure he's fine."

>>110325

Point out to Mitzi it's unlikely to be her brother

Examine his ID card holder to see if it still has an ID in it.

>>110325
Well, looks like a human.

Grab the rectangular thing.

Stand guard at the door until Mitzi is done.

If it's not an ID card holder, just examine the device.

Test Pattern 2010/01/13(Wed)17:47 No. 110369 ID: 51d0f5
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>Look over at Mitzi, see how she's doing.
She's sitting by the other corpse. She put the blanket back on it.

Neither of us say anything.

Go sit with her till she's ready to move. :/

If a pocket is inside out, that means someone must've already taken something out of it. Take the rectangle, and is just the lab coat good enough for you or do you want bloody pants as well?

>>110369
>you are next
could this be a warning from her brother?

Test Pattern 2010/01/13(Wed)18:02 No. 110381 ID: 51d0f5
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>Grab the rectangular thing.
It's shaped sorta like the stun gun, but with an array of little domes, lenses, and a fold-out antenna instead of the prongs, facing off at an angle. I hold those parts away from me.

There's a readout, currently blank, on the side opposite the lenses. There's a thumb switch, with a plastic cover, and another switch for my finger. There's also a little dial, labeled 'A' through 'I.' It's currently set to 'A.'

There's a computer port on the base. It doesn't look like any I've seen so far.

Well that's... weird. Guess it's time to leave then. Go over to Mitzi apprehensively.

>>110381
You say one of those buttons has a safety cover?

>>110381
RETAIL EXPERIANCE GOOO

That's a scanner. You need to plug it into a computer database to retrieve base data and to input ner data.

Test Pattern 2010/01/13(Wed)18:34 No. 110397 ID: 51d0f5
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>You say one of those buttons has a safety cover?
Yep. It's not locked or anything. I can just flip it open.

>That's a scanner. You need to plug it into a computer database to retrieve base data and to input ner data.
That might make sense. It'd explain all the sensor-type things on the front. But what the hell does it scan?

>>110397
Um... Try pointing it at Tazer Tits.

>>110397
Jesus Christ! Close that cover!

For the love of crap close the cover, that might be a bomb trigger.

>>110397
I'd wager it scans lifeforms.

>>110399
...Just to be safe, how about Penji tries to scan the dead scientist instead? We're not sure exactly what features it has, if it somehow has a defensive/offensive feature on it, it would be bad form to be pointing it at someone we'd prefer to keep on our side for now.

Now, yes, that might be a ridiculous idea; but what in this facility has showed you that everything here is normal?

>>110397
Ok, so. They have a safety cover on that button. That means that they don't want someone to accidentally press it. Why don't they want someone to accidentally press it? Because it is difficult to reverse what it does. What is difficult to reverse? Killing someone is pretty hard to reverse.

It's got a radio antenna along with other sensors. That means it broadcasts and/or receives radio signals.

They don't want someone accidentally sending a radio signal to detonate an explosive inside a subject's body.

Don't point that thing at anyone or press any of the buttons.

Ask Mitzi if she recognizes the device. Ask if she has ever had unexplained pain, blackouts, or other things that would incapacitate her.

I don't trust Mitzi enough yet to hand that over to her if we don't know what it can do. Keep hold of it.

it can be a rigged radio trigger device. somewhere someone may have a bomb in its head and you are scratching the trigger...

take mitzi to a computer room. look for the cord to connect the device there.

Test Pattern 2010/01/13(Wed)18:50 No. 110410 ID: 51d0f5
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>...Just to be safe, how about Penji tries to scan the dead scientist instead?
I point it at the dead human without pressing any buttons. Nothing happens. Surprise!

>>110410
Tap the finger button. Leave the covered button alone.

Test Pattern 2010/01/13(Wed)18:57 No. 110416 ID: 51d0f5
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>Tap the finger button.
No go.

Sergalfag 2010/01/13(Wed)18:58 No. 110418 ID: 3381f2
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Hmm, I say push that button you were about to push.

What is the likelihood that it is actually detonator?

Well the covered button is covered for a reason. Check on Mitzi, and ask her if she knows what it is if she doesn't look too sad.

covered buttons are important. we do not press them.

point at tazer ti- mitzi, turn the dial. if nothing happens, look for a on/off button/switch.

Check the batteries. See if it's compatible with the taser or not.

I advise against using it on Mitzi.

Test Pattern 2010/01/13(Wed)19:38 No. 110433 ID: 51d0f5
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>look for a on/off button/switch.
There are TWO buttons on the device: The one that doesn't do anything, and the one you don't want me to push.

Should I just leave it here? My pockets are full.

I guess I could take the dead person's pants, but they're ripped and drenched in blood and probably don't fit me.

Well at least ask Mitzi first.

>>110433
Most certainly keep it. Ask Mitzi about it.

You can turn the pants into a pack by tying a knot in each leg. You used up a ration and two C-S tubes. What filled up the free room?

>>110433
ask mitzi to hold it. it may need batteries.

ask mitzi if she found anything asides her brother's last week dinner bleeding everywhere.

If you get a chance, go look into the lab that the robot emerged from, where that extra lighting was coming from. If you see any more robots in there RUN

>>110445
Nah, we wouldn't need to run.
We know how to fight the robots now.
Disable sensors, flip, RIP AND TEAR.
Besides, given the size of that thing, I doubt there'd be more than one in a lab.

>>110433
I think that could be some kind of restrainment device or emergency killswitch. Each letter should correspond to one of the specimens kept here.

Hug Mitzi.

>>110466
Second.

Test Pattern 2010/01/13(Wed)20:41 No. 110476 ID: 51d0f5
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>>110442
"Hey," I say. "Mitzi. Found anything?"

"It's got no skin," she says.

"Oh. Well, that's bad," I say awkwardly.

"I don't think it's him," she says.

"Then that's not so bad," I say.

"That means he left me here," she says. "Or he's dead."