Son of a bitch.

>>130090
Three metal pins that don't look like they belong in a computer case?

Damn it. Would the firing pin from the gun with 1 bullet left fit?

Also, check the launcher to see if it works.

That MG on the robot should have a firing pin, plus it's also a machine gun. Let's see if we can get that off of the robot. hopefully there will just be a mechanical linkage we can remove and use for the trigger.

Well you can still use it as a club, and for scaring humans that don't know it's missing.

...You can't replace it with a pistol part can you?

Well, tits. I guess check all the guns to make sure. It's not like you have anything else to do, really.

Check the gun on Hugs to see if it is similar to the rifles.

Strip. Sprint through decon.

Test Pattern 2010/02/19(Fri)21:50 No. 135760 ID: cfad4e
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>...You can't replace it with a pistol part can you?
No way. Not the right size.

>That MG on the robot should have a firing pin
That's a different caliber, I think. Even if it wasn't, it's probably not the same type of breech.

>Well, tits. I guess check all the guns to make sure.
Why the hell would they break just one? This is infuriating!

>Three metal pins that don't look like they belong in a computer case?
Oh come on! That's the dumbest thing I've ever

Test Pattern 2010/02/19(Fri)21:51 No. 135761 ID: cfad4e
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>>Three metal pins that don't look like they belong in a computer case?
Oh fuck me.

>>135761
Yeaaaah. Has Mitzi tried to turn off Decon yet though? If she can't do it you may as well try just shutting off the computer and grabbing the pins.

No, impatience is a bad idea. We don't know if the decon hall is hooked up to mains or if it's ALSO on backup power.

Worst still, Mitzy is working on hijacking the decon hall power, so activating it might zap her with all its flesh-cooking power.

Instead ask Mitzy to tell you when the decon hallways' sensors are deactivated, then gather up everything that's not plugged in or nailed down in the break room and start sorting it all out.

Also, check to see if the helmet has a built-in radio.

Uhh.....don't yank them out. Tell Mitzi we need one of those taken out undamaged (preferably 2). And that the current layout needs to remain unchanged.

Who the fuck would take the firing pins out of 3 guns and use them instead of wire? And why the hell would they put the guns back together? And then put them on the rack? And ..... fuck I don't know anymore.

Go get them pins! We need working guns.

>>135761
No thanks, you're not my type, Jellyrolls.

>>135769
I'd hit it. So would you. Stop fooling yourself.

>>135771
No way man.
1) Jelly Rolls
2) Those tails!
3) That insanity.

>>135766
Somebody who wanted people to grab the guns and assume they were working. Normally you only fire a gun when you want to shoot something, at least when you're familiar with it.

This tells us:
A: Somebody has already escaped.
B: The escapee is intelligent to the point of planning for the non-immediate future and laying traps.
C: The escapee has an advanced understanding of electronics.

If I had to hazard a guess I'd say Mitzy's brother IS the escapee, and that he is working to make life easier on Mitzy. Mitzy's ease with the decon hall supports this theory, since it doesn't attack her and was clearly hacked hackingly.

Test Pattern 2010/02/19(Fri)22:19 No. 135776 ID: cfad4e
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>Go get them pins!
I rush into the room.

"Hey," I say.

"Oh, hey. I was just thinking, if I could bend this pin a little, I-"

"DO NOT DO THAT!" I bark. "I need one. Preferably two!"

"Seriously?" she asks, not seeming to appreciate the gravity of the situation. "Listen, this is really amazing stuff. It totally reworked the scanner. Counts everything as hostile except mutants with my signature. I bet Marcus did it!"

>>135776
"Yeah, I bet he did, but those are the firing pins to these rifles. You got through Decon, so they served their purpose. Now please shut it down so I can use the pins, and go back through Decon to get supplies."

"Those are the firing pins for these guns. We need them out of there and undamaged or else we can't shoot."

>>135760
I meant to take the whole damn gun and use that instead.

>>135776
"I figured that was the case. Thing is, those pins are from these rifles, and I'd REALLY like to have one working.
I'm not really comfortable without one, I feel kind of naked, to be honest..."

>>135776
Have her head back to the box with all the Suppress in it and bring a few back. Then break them open and wash them in the sink.
THEN rip the needles out of the syringes and hand them off to Mitzy. She can have all the METAL CONDUCTORS she wants, and you get ALL the firing pins back.

>>135788
This ++, ask Mitzi if this would work, she's the expert. Also tell her not to mess with the metal pins because they're probably the firing pins for these guns and we need some firepower.

Uh, guys. We have a filing cabinet drawer full of wire. All shapes and sizes.

>>135796
SHHHHHHHHHHHH!
MacGuyvering solutions is a tradition!

Ah, well. The point is that you need the pins, and Mitzy doesn't.

>>135796
We need to go get ahold of that then. And the soldering iron. Wherever that was.

>>135802
Mitzi has both.

>>135776
You best explain WHY she can't bend the pins. AKA you need them to make the guns work. And that you think you saw wire elsewhere that can take the place of them.

"Those are firing pins. We need them for the guns. I can get you some wires or needles to replace them.
Oh, and the next CS is yours; I needed the one I found after getting charred by the decon."

She doesn't need to know, which is exactly why she must be told. Trust is vital.

On a similar note, rather than digesting or disgorging the nanites, would it be possible to concentrate them in one area and then bleed them out? I think an injectable killswitch would be a lot more useful if it wasn't full of stomach acid, soda, and junk food.

>>135817
>>Oh, and the next CS is yours; I needed the one I found after getting charred by the decon."


HELLS NO WE ARE NOT TELLING HER THAT!

>>135821
Yes, we are. But we're adding, "If you need it."

We should keep CS consumption equal. While us using it would boost our physical abilities, I doubt we'll be able to rip and tear our way out. We'll need Tazer Tit's skills unclouded by suppress. Also we don't want to be a big fat bitch.

Mitzi doesn't need any more CS, I think. We'll keep using it on us until she specifically tells us she needs more.

Actually, no, you're right, we shouldn't tell her. We should try to keep it even between us and Tazer Tits, however. But who knows when the next tube of CS will show up? We might have just gotten our asses kicked and need the extra healing, or something. Don't want Tazer Tits pissed at us for breaking a promise.

Tazer Tits has no more suppress in her system. Giving her CS is a waste.

If Tazer Tits starts bitching about the CS allocation we dare her to drink a single drop of our blood. It will have her on her knees vomiting because there is so much suppress in it. That will shut her up.

Test Pattern 2010/02/19(Fri)23:28 No. 135839 ID: cfad4e
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>>135783
"They're firing pins for these assault rifles!" I say. "We need them. Look, I saw wires elsewhere. We can use those."

"Huh. Well, they're doubling as resistors right now," she says.

"Meaning what?"

"Meaning you can have either your guns, or this people-burning hallway, or else I'll need, like, an hour, minimum, to jerry rig another solution."

"It's also a me-burning hallway."

"I can fix that," she says.

Test Pattern 2010/02/19(Fri)23:32 No. 135842 ID: cfad4e
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"I would be... much more comfortable, with a working rifle."

She gives me a look.

"Well, can't have it both ways," she says. "Either I focus on getting us out ASAP, or barricading us in while we work on something else. Hell. I'm not actually sure if even THIS machine has enough juice to open the outer door."

"You're joking."

"I gave it a look while you were humping your gun. It's made to lock like a motherfucker in the event of power failure. I need an absolute ton of juice to counter that. Decon has a lot of capacitance, but I think we'll need to run it in parallel with something else like it. Some other big power-hog kill machine, or whatever."

"Where the hell would we find that?" I ask.

Mitzi shrugs.

"I don't know. You've been in more rooms than me."

>>135786
I looked at Hugs' gun when I was tearing it apart. It's a chaingun. Needs power to operate. However, there is that bigger MG in Back Access. It'd take some work to detach from the ground, but maaaaaybe I could make it work manually.
>>135772
>3) That insanity.
That's your fault!

You need to get out ASAP. You've been able to handle yourself without much firepower in the past, you should be fine for a while yet. Besides, much better to leave than add more opportunity to kill people that may or may not be against. you.

>>135842
Well, if she needs something like the pins than:
>>135788

>>135842
>while you were humping your gun
...someone needs to draw this

"I've got a plan. We need two of those pins out. We need a hallway that burns anything not you and me. We don't worry about opening the door. We let them open it. lure some of them into the hallway and fry them. Then ambush the rest with the two guns and maybe some rigged up shit I can piece together."

"Can you find a way to keep that door open when they open it? Even if they try to close it again?"

[guys I need help putting this plan together. At this rate it's going to turn into a gunbattle with the entire security force.]

Penji, get to work trashing the cameras in security and the break room.

More thoughts coming.

Get out ASAP is what I say. Even barricaded in you're sitting ducks. The best way to fight powerful authority, of all the history I've read, is to be somewhere they can't find you.

As for another source of electricity HEY HOW ABOUT THAT KILL SWITCH

>>135842
Power-hog kill machine? Well, there's the coilgun.

Have her make Decon stop frying you, so we can go back through and get another power source. Um, if she can turn Decon harmless without bending the pins, anyway.

If she can't make Decon safe for you without bending the pins, uhhhhh

>>135842
Could you use those electric prongs in that tube you woke up in?

>>135854
Oh man yeah.

That thing has a good bit of electricity, doesn't it.

Ok, fuck decon. Kill it's power entirely. Get those pins loose and that door open asap.

We have the HS3 battery and decon as power sources. We might be able to intercept the main power cable coming into HS3 and get all the power that is going to security and the break room.

We are going to assume that the only thing they have that can deal with us is suppress dart launchers. If they have battlemechs we are fucked. (Shit I really need to sleep on all this info. It's too much to process this quickly. Fuck.)

Fuck fuck rfuc kfuck fuck.

I'm going to zone out for a while. Don't get Penji killed.

/me prays that he isn't the only one making the correct decisions that are keeping Penji alive.

Test Pattern 2010/02/20(Sat)00:36 No. 135881 ID: cfad4e
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>HEY HOW ABOUT THAT KILL SWITCH
Holyshit.

"Mitzi! I can get us out!" I say. "I mean, uh, I can get enough juice."

"How?"

"They were keeping me in a tube full of conductive liquid. There was a giant power box running to a pair of electrodes in the tank. It was basically made to run a bolt of lighting straight through me for awhile."

Mitzi doesn't say anything for awhile.

Test Pattern 2010/02/20(Sat)00:38 No. 135883 ID: cfad4e
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"Penji," she begins. "I know I've asked you this before, but... What in all the names of God and Satan ARE you?"

>>135883

"I DON'T KNOW THAT'S JUST IT"

>>135883
Tell her the truth.

I.E. you don't really know.

"I don't know, okay? I don't know. If it turns out I'm part of a race of alien psychopaths, I promise not to hurt anyone unless they try to hurt me first."

>>135886
And then you two need to get to work on the killswitch thingy.

>>135883
"The most dangerous thing in this entire facility and possibly the most dangerous thing known to humankind."

"But I'm fuzzy. How can you not like me?"

>>135883
"Look at my head, Mitzi. Someone shot me. In the brain. I can't remember anything about myself, or the past... except, a huge explosion. I can regenerate, I'm really strong, I've got armor plating under my skin, and I can control my inner biology. I don't think I belong on this planet."

>>135883
"I'm Penji. I'm a Tozol. I'm from the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kastaberous. I'm 903 years old and I'm the woman who's going to save your life and the lives of anyone else trapped in here. You got a problem with that?"

"See this scar? I'm pretty sure that any knowledge of who I am was hidden in the bit of brain it protected. Any luck figuring out what you are, by the way?"

"I don't know. ...except that apparently, I am the most bad ass motherfucker who ever lived."

>>135883
Tell her that she will be among the first to know once you know yourself.

Tell her you think you're a Tozol, but you don't know what that is really, the people in charge seem really scared of you though.

"I'm on your side, thats what matters."

>>135883

"I don't know. I really don't know. But I do know that I'm not going to hurt you and that we're getting out of here alive. Okay?"
Add a not-creepy smile for emphasis.
Preferrably without too much sharp pointy teeth, some humans take issue with that.

Tell Mitzy to figure out the resistance on the wires. My needle suggestion might actually be viable if they're looking for resistors.
Also tell her that you don't know if decon will have any power left after the door is opened, so planning to use it is premature.
What kind of multitool do you have? Can it handle electronics?

Can you deconstruct ONE nanite and determine the result? Occasional minor losses would have to be expected, so it wouldn't trigger defenses.
This is important, since Mitzy most likely has them as well, and knowing what they do and how improve your odds of survival significantly.

Also, and this is VERY important: Can you shift your focus from EVERYTHING else and start rebuilding your blood supply?
You have access to more than enough nutrients, so if you can bleed out the Suppress AND the nanites you could be near full regenerative strength in under an hour.

Show her the autopsy picture. Nothing could possibly go wrong.

>>135954
Take the non-needle end off a tube of Suppress and dump it out in the sink. Rinse it out thoroughly.
Cup some water in one hand, put the open end of the tube in your mouth, and try to use the needle to suck up some water. It will probably need a lot of suction for not much result, but if it works at all you can use it as a crude tap.

If it works then find something sharp and cut back the needle so it has a wider aperture, but be careful not to pinch it shut.
Once you have some time, you're going to jam this into a vein and apply suction so you can control the rate of blood loss, which you couldn't do if you just tore your flesh open.
We know the needle will keep the hole open so the blood can flow since those IVs were in your arm for decades without being healed.
You want to be able to measure-out a quarter liter. That's about how much blood a healthy human of your size could lose before it started to become noticeable. If you can replace blood quickly then you're going to want to bleed out at least that much before you start the regeneration process so you can get the most tainted blood you can out before you start adding fresh blood.
If you're feeling confident then go for a half-liter, but be aware that you might start impairing your capabilities at that point. Take care before going over that.

If we assume you have about as much blood as a human, then every 0.25L you bleed out before regenerating contains 4.5% of the Suppress in your system. 0.5L means 9%, 0.75L means 13.5%, 1L means 18%.

Let Mitzy know before you try this, and keep in mind that the Suppress won't be ANY less effective until you start rebuilding your blood supply.

>>135972
Mitzy doesn't need to see that, and it would distract her from her work.

"Buggered if I know. Can't remember a damn thing before waking up in that tank."

Hell, maybe you should tell her why. You got shot in the head and regenerated. It won't be too much of a stretch, since she knows you can regenerate, lookin' fine after sprinting through decon.

>>135975
>>135954

(how about we stop trying to break the game, and just keep a lookout for more injectors of CS?)

Bleeding yourself out sounds like a great thing to do after you've found a hiding spot somewhere they don't know about, but with 6 or less hours until the cavalry arrives you probably can just focus on staying as hale and whole as possible, Suppress or no Suppress.

>>136106
(Because limiting ourselves needlessly is going to result in a suboptimal ending. Good endings are something you need to WORK for, not the result of going along for the ride.)

That's why it's important to know if regeneration covers blood, and how effective this idea would be. If a bit of downtime now would put us in a MUCH better situation later, then it's damn near necessary to take that downtime.

>>136123
(Quick reminder, Penji was positive to the idea of metabolizing the micromachines in her bloodstream. Also, discussion thread here http://www.tgchan.org/kusaba/questdis/res/316424.html
It's way awesome, use it! )

>>136123
>>135954
>>135975

No no no no no no no wait. I just realized. This is a great idea.

This is an awesome idea.

You must PISS SUPPRESS

>>136508
That would be awesome if it's possible, but we don't know the exit vector for Suppress. Renal? Hepatic? Biliary? Perspiration? Mucociliary?
What's the bio half-life? Could the process be sped up without nasty side-effects?

We know one of the IVs provided it, but it's possible that all the Suppress was injected decades ago and simply never leaves the body on its own - it wouldn't be the only chemical known to do that, after all.

Still, this bears investigating.

>>136514
Suppress degrades slowly. I don't know the exact amount per unit of time. This is according to Mitzi.

>>136516
In _humans_. Mitzy started as human and still has quite a bit of human left in her. Tozol physiology might not be able to process it at all.

Test Pattern 2010/02/23(Tue)22:02 No. 138226 ID: cfad4e
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"I already told you I don't know."

"Don't give me that," she says. "You know something."

"I know this. The mark above my left eye is from a high powered weapon," I say. "Probably a beam or kinetic kill munition. The mark on the back of my head is the exit wound. I found my autopsy file. Much of my brain was gone, with surviving nervous tissue suffering visible burns."

"What? I... I had guessed something, but..."

"Visible burns," I say. "On my brain."

Test Pattern 2010/02/23(Tue)22:04 No. 138229 ID: cfad4e
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She makes a sound, trying to find words. I cut her off.

"All I can remember is an explosion," I say. "A fireball miles tall. Burning everything. Turning the night red."

"Athelhom," she whispers.

I have her attention.

Should I be nice, or firm with her?


>>135907
Being 'badass' doesn't come from your genes. The greater your natural ability, the more is expected of you.
>>135975
You're assuming it's only in my blood.

Subjugate her.

Oh wait, wrong quest... or is it?

>>138229
Gentle firmness.

Ask nicely, but put a bit of a grave serious tone in your voice.

>>138226

Whoever you were is long dead. You are a new person who was born earlier today by clawing your way out of a metal womb. You know nothing but skills and flashes.

Eh be nice. At the end of the day you want her to tackle you because she's pushing you out of the way of gunfire, not because she's hungry.

>>138229
Firm. Reality of the matter is that this lab has not been abandoned long. Matter of fact, it's going to be very active in a short time, and mostly hostile. If she and you don't figure out something fast, It's back in the tube, and back in the cell.

Be nice. You're BOTH under a lot of stress and she's being surprisingly reasonable. All things considered, anyway...

>>138229
Gentle, she's also been through rough stuff.

>>138229
Who says you can't do both? These aren't mutually exclusive terms you're using here.

>>138238
But if you're mandating a choice I'm leaning toward nicer.

>>138235
That's more than five hours away. There's plenty of time to do things RIGHT, and NO time to do things WRONG. You NEED her trust, and you NEED her calm.

Be NICE.

>>138229
I'm assuming there's enough in your blood so that Mitzy could taste it.
If you can regenerate blood then it's worth doing a small test, since the potential risk is low and the potential gains are high.

>"Athelhom," she whispers.

Wait, what? What the fuck is this? And I would rather her like you than fear you, so be nice.

Also, I wasn't saying that being basass was in your genes. I was saying YOU ARE BADASS.

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>>138231
>>138232
>>138233
"Whoever built this place thought I was dead. They were right," I say. "I died a long time ago. Whatever I am now, it's not who I was."

"Penji..." she says softly.

"I am leaving," I say. "If you can trust me, I will do everything I can to protect you and bring you safely out of this place. If you can't, then get back in your cell."

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She's quiet for a time.

"Promise me," she says. "Swear to me that you're going to get me out."

>>138250
"I'll do everything in my power."

Brofist

>>138250
Is this the part where she goes down on you?

... dangit Karen's Heart!

Yes.

>>138250
"I can't promise you that, but I can promise you that I'm willing to die fighting to get both of us out of her."

>>138250
"You and me, yes. ... They found something in Athelhom, didn't they?"

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"I can't promise you that," I say. "But I promise that I'll die trying."

"I guess... I guess that's all I can ask for," she says quietly. "I'll trust you."

"Good," I reply. "Because I don't have a clue how to get out without your help."

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We get to work. There's a lot to do.

yay

Backpack of Useful Things (add two-button scanner to that list). >>135373
Check Main Control bathroom.
Check autopsy circled items of interest. >>135373

[Curse you sleep!]

>>138249

Nice use of the ol' hypno-vision, boss!