>>150520
"Yeah, don't fuck with us humans." And lets try and get the hell out of here after rigging all bodies to explode like frag granades.

>>150524
Well, she is acting just like a human would in my estamation as a Tozol. I suggest she tries to hurt this asshole more. Fucker calling us Abomiations. And that jerk on the phone saying our brain is too small. Asses.

Just shoot him in the head. There's no need to be monsters about this.

"What are you doing to Steve? It looks painful."

Test Pattern 2010/03/21(Sun)19:58 No. 150536 ID: 0fc814
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"Hey. Stop that," I say.

She's already, er... withdrawing.

The human slumps blankly to the floor.

"I..." Mitzi says, not quite looking at me. "Did you say Valcien?"

"Yeah. I checked your records."

"They rewired me with space shark!?"

"Uh," I say, unsure how to respond. "That's what the word means? I remembered it as something different."

"Oh God," she says. "Oh Jesus. Oh Murphy's black mind."

I should say something.

>>150536
"Um. What's the problem?"

"Hey don't worry. Your still you, just only with super powers like in comic books."

"What's wrong?"

Check Steve's pulse.

Make note of possible extra applications for tenticals.

"well at least you have superpowers."

>>150536
"Aaaaanything I should know about?"

"so... did you eat his brain or just kill him?"

"Don't worry, it doesn't change my opinion of you any. We're still getting out of here."

So the guard is dead, or just brain-eaten?

>>150536
Check his pulse, then give Mitzy a hug and that kiss you promised her.

>>150577
Agreed.
After all, you promised.

"For what it's worth, everything I've seen today leads me to believe that humanity is massively overrated."

"Oh, and mind telling me about these space sharks?"

>>150536
And who in the hell is Murphy?

Well the kiss really depends on if killing the guard could be considered fucking up.

>>150613
Nah, not too much.

>>150613
It was a fuck-up, but she didn't fuck-up in combat.
Besides, after the kiss but while still hugging is the perfect time for Penji to say "I can't blame you, but prisoners are more useful than corpses."

Well, no kissing until she's more emotionally stable. Right now she's kinda freaking out about the space-shark thing.

'heh, well at least now you KNOW what you are, fact that space sharks are around may mean i'm an alien.'

>>150536
Ask her to please tell you what a Valcien is. It's possible you're a prototype of the process used on Mitzi or connected to the Valciens in some other way.

"What did you find out in his mind?"

>>150536
"Did you say space shark? Just what happened at Athelhom? What did they find?"

>>150760
"Can you give me the cliff notes about what's been going on for the past 40 years? Specifically anything to do with aliens?"

I know you can't remember anything before waking up in the tube, but it looks like that's when shit got real.

>>150541
Wait. You can hear Steve's heartbeat. You don't need to check his pulse.

>>150536
well... you can say that she has gifts instead of being an abomination

I mean, by the same logic, you're an abomination. You all can be abominable buddies...

And if you can turn that dude into an abomination, we may have the best teamate/torture from him.

Maybe that room you were in has some sort of... automated processes

Don't go for the HMG, don't spend time standing around interrogating this guy or chatting with Mitzi. Maybe use him as a meat shield. Just grab what we can and run, and pray that we haven't left it too late already.

If we have an HMG in the lab, they'll have better stuff outside given enough time. And they'll know we have it, and be prepared.

He's dead, Jim.

Suggestion 2010/03/23(Tue)06:16 No. 151084 ID: 67c611
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>>150894
The point is, what are they going to do about it? Anything they can field we can destroy in seconds with the HMG. They are going to send those after us whether or not we take the HMG. And if we don't take the HMG, when we fight them we will be screwed.

With the HMG we can take out security bots in 4-5 seconds each. So if they have three of them waiting for us as we leave it will be a 15 second fight.

Take HMG = Fight mechs = cakewalk
Don't take HMG = Fight mechs = difficult battle

I simply cannot stress enough how much of an advantage an HMG will give us. It will tear through any armor we come up against in seconds. A single shot to the torso will make a mess out of a human. It will go through doors, glass, riot shields, and desks and will kill the thing on the other side. It will cause another tactical withdrawal at the first sight and/or sound of it. In one hour all of that power will be yours.

It's worth it.

>>151084
It might have been if we took it before opening the door, but right now we don't have the hour we need to retrieve and reconfigure it.

>>150536
>Murphy's black mind

"Yeah, Eddie Murphy was pretty funny in Coming To Ameria and Trading Places, but his career kinda slumped, or should I say klumped, after the 'Nutty Professor' remake."

Who gives a crap about the guy who was trying to kill us. Let's just get out of here before they swarm us with more teams.

>>151117
Because if he's alive we can still extract information from him or force his buddies to shoot through him to tag Penji or Mitzi.
Prisoners are more useful than corpses.

>>151118
Mitzi consumed his brain, she probably knows as much as he does. He'll just slow us down, leave him and let's just go.

>>151135
Why are people assuming that she not only ate his mind, but also took information from it?
I know of no creature which is capable of eating something's brain and gaining its memories, and she hasn't said anything suggesting she can.

Penji: Hug her before she has a breakdown, THEN check if the guard is alive. Don't mention anything about eating brains or her tentacly goodness.

>>151144
>I know of no creature which is capable of eating something's brain and gaining its memories

Space Marines.

Anyways, shoot him in the head, once, hug Tazer Tits.

We're going to have to stop her from doing this in the future. Shit's weird. Let's not bring it up now though.

>>151148

Sylar?

2010/03/23(Tue)14:48 No. 151154 ID: f52552
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>>151148

Dogmeat 2010/03/23(Tue)18:28 No. 151201 ID: d11779
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>>151144
>A creature which is capable of eating something's brain and gaining its memories.

>>151201

If that was actually what's happened here...

This quest would suddenly become much more badass...

and Penji would become in awe of Mitzi's superiority to her...

Test Pattern 2010/03/23(Tue)19:45 No. 151220 ID: 0fc814
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>Just grab what we can and run
Good idea. At the very least, it gets Mitzi away from the human. I take her by the... hand? Maybe not.

"What's wrong?" I ask.

"W-what the hell do you think?" she says. "I'm spliced with some... some... Look at me! I've got thumbs on my feet!"

"Yeah, me too," I say. "They're handy. Get it?"

"I have tentacles!"

"At least yours aren't on your butt."

"I... I killed people!"

"Prisoner's still alive, so only one," I say. "Maybe zero, if medics can really save those without brain trauma." I suppress a shiver. "I'm way ahead of you."

"Wait. What medics?"

"Talked with the weird voice again," I reply. "I think the best thing we can do for these guys is leave."

"How will they know we left?"

"By checking ten minutes after we're gone, if we're very lucky."

"Oh..." she says. "So... how do we do this?"

Good question. We don't know what's beyond the door I barracaded. My instincts say to be either sneaky-but-fast, or fast-but-sneaky. That means not being methodical, though.

>What did she find out in his mind?
Can she do that?! I should ask. I'm worried about sending her into another freakout, though. Are all humans this unstable, or is it a side effect?

>>151220
Sneaky-but-fast, certainly.
And I'd ask her about any knowledge she absorbed - kindly.

>>151220
>Are all humans this unstable, or is it a side effect?
Little of this, little of that.

>>151220
Don't ask her if she absorbed knowledge. Just ask her what she did to the hostage.

As for our options... Weren't there two doors out of the big room, one leading to HS2 and the other leading... to wherever they came from? Going into HS2 won't lead us out of the facility, but they already said that we can't escape so maybe if we go in there we can find out more information.

>>151220
Kiss her then run

>Are all humans this unstable, or is it a side effect?
We're community-minded animals. People that are strange are usually ostracized or sometimes killed. Thus, the fear of being different is ever-present in our minds.

>>151220
side effect of a traumatic experiance.
Imagine what you'd be like if you SUDDENLY TURNED HUMAN. You'd suddenly gain new senses and loose old ones. You'd miss your old body.

Understand Mitzi's pain

In this case, fast is of higher priority. You are running out of time to prepare. You need that gun though. And maybe leave a post-it on that guy saying you're sorry for what your partner did... and put the guy in a visable area for the medics...

Don't forget the body armor, LMG, and grenades.

>>151232
This post-it note thing had better happen.

>>151220
If you want to ask about Mitzi possibly being able to read minds by sticking tentacles in people's heads, you might wanna phrase it somewhere closer to "What exactly did you do to that guy?" as opposed to "Did you absorb the information from his brain when you ate it?" Just sayin'.

I'm always a fan of sneaky. Although our choices there look basically the same. So I guess head through a door. I don't know, I'm not the only one you're talking to.

Put on some armour then fast but sneaky

>>151220
Assure her that she is still very much human, just with some extra bits and pieces.

Do it sneaky but fast. If you get any oppurtunities to snatch and grab then have Mitzi do it, with that funky tentacle arm of hers she should be able to restrain and disable them before they get any chance to call out.

Oh and by the way, which door did you run through?

>>151240
Yeah, a vest would be useful for us, and mitzi could wear most of the armor. See about getting her some leggings, a chestpiece, arm guards, and a helmet.
Make sure there's some way to for you to identify her.

>>151392
what, the tentacles aren't enough?

>>151230
would agree with this, best thing you can do is be her friend.

>>151404
Good point.
I was thinking she would wear a full suit, for some reason, even though it wouldn't all fit.
Still, she should wear as much of the armor as possible.

Test Pattern 2010/03/28(Sun)16:34 No. 153866 ID: 0fc814
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The humans have a few different types of armor, but we can kludge two suits together without much trouble. More or less.

"These are all too big," I say.

"Well, you're what, five foot seven?" says Mitzi. "Go back one or two centuries, and that's about average for human males. Soldiers these days get boosts. Strong, robust. That kinda thing."

"Looks like they're trying to figure out how to do better."

"Well, they figured that out a long time ago. Just, you had to be born with it. All kinds of social problems. Most of the Ascendi left for alien space. Brain drain. Heh."

>>153866
Ok, some questions for Mitzi.

What are Valcien.
What aliens do they know of.
Who were the ascendi.

Test Pattern 2010/03/28(Sun)16:37 No. 153874 ID: 0fc814
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"Speaking of that..." I say.

"I don't know what I was doing," says Mitzi. "Just... got so angry. Went with instincts. Not... human instincts."

"Did you learn anything?"

"Not much. His name's Daniel. Twenty seven years old. Said most of that stuff because he's scared."

"So he doesn't think you're... you know?"

"Oh yes he does," she says. "I don't think we're talking our way out of this."

"Guess I should've given you more time."

Mitzi shrugs.

okay then, if they KNOW mitzi is/was human and still consider her not to be then these guys are no mercy.

"What is your civilization like? Technology, space travel, aliens?"

"All I know about myself is that I said some non-human phrase out of habit, 'By the precursors'. I'm not actually sure what it means, but the word feels comforting. Old. Well, okay, obviously old, but more than the obvious. The ancient masters. The star gods."

"That and one of the weird creatures they have preserved in a jar in analysis. It was perhaps a sea creature. I felt like I should have recognized it, but I didn't."

"My diet consists of pretty much anything. I found myself eating the food wrappers without thinking about it. And some metal I licked tasted edible. And I still have a craving for superconductors."

>>153887
Still, it's better to avoid fighting if you don't need to fight.

Call up their command center and say "I didn't expect your guards to know about your human experiments. I'm gonna sleep easier knowing everybody I kill here is an amoral monster.
Right now I'm going to do you one major favor; I'm going to tell you that escape is my primary goal. If you decide to make that difficult, then I'm going to track you down and force you to watch as I slaughter every damn one of the people working here, and then see just how long I can drag out your death."

>>153921
It's on motherfucker.

Hey. Let's not forget about that kiss we promised Mitzi.

I'm guessing the Ascendi were those that were born with special abilities like regeneration.

Test Pattern 2010/03/28(Sun)17:17 No. 153964 ID: 0fc814
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>>153873
"Ascendi? Who are they?" I ask.

"Uhh, transhumans, posthumans, parahumans, bioroids, whatever," she says. "Smart, adaptive, different body types, all that crap. Kinda put them aside from the regular humans. Lot of social tension. Probably would've sorted it out in another few decades, but then the aliens found human space. Alien economies only wanted the best and brightest, and we'd been giving them a hard time, so they started leaving. The more that left, the less popular they got. Not too many around, these days."

"What kind of aliens?" I ask.

"Uhh... major ones," she says. "Vertai. They're like lizards with fur and six legs. Tesau, they're like, dragons, sorta. Cobra heads, tail that splits into three. Four eyes. You'd like them."

I don't know what dragons or cobra heads look like, but I don't want to interrupt.

>>153924
Sweep her off her feet into the most spine-tingling kiss you can pull off. Make use of your long and flexible tongue.

Test Pattern 2010/03/28(Sun)17:19 No. 153967 ID: 0fc814
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"Diplomats," she continues. "Nobody knows shit about them. Four legs. Like to be invisible. They usually mind their own business, until they decide you're their business. Decided we were their business after Athelhom, for awhile. Oh, and Valcien. They don't usually have much to do with people. Big monsters in space. Like whales. Sharks. Living starships. Eat asteroids or something."

"No Tozol?"

"Never seen or heard of you," she says. "Neither had Dan, there."

"Do you figure he knew you were human?"

"I ... think so," she says. "Maybe not me specifically, but humans get brought in here and don't leave. Sacrifice for the future."

She sounds unconvinced.

>>153967
Thought: This is all a big experiment to force the evolution of the Human Race via genetic modification using DNA from various alien races.

>>153967
Sounds like they might have been trying other ways to make ascendi here.

Ask her what the Athelthom impact thingy was.

Ask Mitzi if she got any info about the security HQ for this facility and any relevant details.

so Valcien are Space Monsters? do we need Gun-Buster?

>>153966

We need more power. To gain power, we must explore the rest of the facility.

We should go into HS2.

>>153969
...By force-initiating a third impact between alien races that will convert all humans, forever changing destiny.

Test Pattern 2010/03/28(Sun)18:15 No. 154091 ID: 0fc814
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>>154028
She's having some trouble getting her armor adjusted. You'd think it'd be easy when you can just shapeshift to be the right size.

I approach to help, but when I draw near, I put my mouth to hers.

It feels incredibly awkward, but I try not to let it show.

"I. Uh. Thanks," she says.

>>154091

Bow chicka bow wow.

>>154091
dawwwwww. we'll work on that later.

while moving make a joke about: since space-sharks eat asteroids maybe if you find some bare rock she could eat an escape tunnel. when she looks at you indignantly just smile and say 'just kidding'

Say you're welcome.

She didn't push you away or anything. That's a good sign.

>>154091
Well, here's a question: Do you find her attractive? Not in aesthetics sense, but in a physical or romantic way?

Reserve your judgment on romantic interests with her for later. You don't want her in love with you because you don't abuse her, and you don't want you to love her 'cause we said so.

>>154091
NotSureIfWant.jpg

Good to know the information about the aliens, though not sure what else I could possibly suggest to do now. ...and I'm not sure if randomly flirting with this girl will help either of us get out of here, though it might just help you both feel... human.

>>154091
try not to suck out her lungs by accident... You seem strong enough to actually do that...

Do you think you can save that prisoner on your own? She was brain reading, not rupturing him. Maybe we can temporarily connect with him too! We hve tentacles! We can heal! If we can create a connection... Maybe we can save him?

>>154199
I agree. Lets shove our tails into a wall socket and connect our bums to the internet.

Hey, it worked in Avatar.

Test Pattern 2010/03/28(Sun)19:43 No. 154211 ID: 0fc814
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I help Mitzi fit her armor.

"I don't get it," she says. "Armor, guns. How can you know more about this than me?"

"It seemed the proper way."

"Maybe humans made you," she says. "Or, I don't know. Maybe you were human before."

>>153913
"Maybe," I reply. "But I had a term pop into my head earlier. Precursors. The Star Gods. The Old Masters. The words felt comfortable."

Mitzi doesn't say anything.

>Maybe we can temporarily connect with him too! We have tentacles!
I think he's had enough tentacles for one night.
>Other HS wings.
"I was thinking of trying to check the other high security rooms. Think we can do that in a hurry?"

"Probably not. This one took an hour," she says.

I feel we've already taken too much time. Anything else, before we leave?

>>154211

No! Leave now and ignore any voices that say otherwise!

>>154211
They came out of the hallway to HS2, didn't they? Check if that door is open.

Holding hands? Comfort the poor girl, ask a few more questions. I really have no idea where we are. Are we on earth?

Ask Mitzi if she got any info on the layout of this place. Get moving. Out that door the guards were trying to retreat to.

>>154213
this. Stop wasting time dicking around.

>>154211
I guess not.

Yeah.... We should probably get going...
And we should drag the prisoner with us. At this point, he's in danger (they must realize he's a liability now. We can access his brain! We can at least change his perception over time... And we don't have to use alien vaginas either

Take that guy with you.

You will become great friends. Plus if my genre savy is correct most security teams are not aware of what truly goes on in freaky labs like these. Once you learn more about each other, things will be fun-times.

Do not take the prisoner with us. He'll just slow us down, since they don't negotiate for hostages.

Test Pattern 2010/03/28(Sun)20:37 No. 154266 ID: 0fc814
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>They came out of the hallway to HS2
No. They came from the hall to the rest of the facility.

>No! Leave now!
Now you're talking my language.

We move past the wrecked bot and into the dark corridor. There's rooms branching off to the left and right, but we probably don't have time for that if we're to avoid whatever they're sending to stop us.

Keep going if you don't have the time for extremely quick peeks.

Test Pattern 2010/03/28(Sun)20:41 No. 154273 ID: 0fc814
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Might already be too late.

*Applauds*

We are Oscar Mike.

Stay frosty.

Daddy like.

Good chapter, Test. Can't wait to see what's up next.