yes, play it cool.

Fuck your arm

Make one out of steel

Tear THAT one off bitches

>>229708

I guarantee it will just shift the limb loss habit to a different limb. What he needs is some invulnerability ointment for his skin. And bullet proof leave in conditioner.

Go get the Doctor, first, then come back for your arm. You do not want them to know you just saw that - they were trying to keep it secret for some kind of reason.

Also, who did that? Sister or the Organist? Looked like the Organist, but it got hard to tell in there.

Yeah go see Doc. This bears thinking about. You'll have to find out if they're actually trying to conceal something from you or if they just didn't want you close because that magic-looking trick could have hurt you.

Did it hurt you seeing that?

Nonetheless it might be a good idea to be more paranoid in the future. It seems like everywhere you go there's something trying to stop you or hurt you. Once you get some resources maybe you can invent a nice protective suit for yourself, like with threat detection and point defense forcefields to prevent surprise decapitations.

Tory 2010/09/12(Sun)09:45 No. 229986 ID: 9b6c31
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"Hey Doc, I got this little problem with my arm..."
>"Tory--- You lost your arm again?"
"Yeah."
>"So--- Where is it?"

Uuuuh.

"Just wait a sec!"

----------------
So, I got my arm! Sister and Organist are now with us, Doc will soon stitch my arm back.
>"So--- I heard yelling--- What was it?"
>"Just an ancient golem armed with wires. It cut off Tory's arm."
... And my hat.
>"Yes! Then Sister managed to send it to hell through mysterious spell! Good show!"
They are not telling the truth.
"Good--- I have made--- progress. Worm is now--- immobile and I am "rewiring"--- ventral nerve--- cord."

Good to hear.

>>229986
Hm, I wonder why they're hiding that? Maybe we can ask later... very carefully. After you get your arm stitched up, let's go see what the golem was guarding.

Tory 2010/09/12(Sun)12:12 No. 230029 ID: 9b6c31
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I don't like stitching my hand back that much. It is better than being armless, but it is pretty uncomfortable.

Yeah. I am not too sure why are they hiding. Organist is weirder lad than I thought... Pulling out money and resources out of thin air and sucking things though his hand.

So, Doc said that he would be still working on the worm? Should I go ask about it really carefully or should I just go investigate this temple more?

You know, it's just an utterly random idea, but you might want to think of getting a labcoat that won't stain with blood. You seem to be developing a habit of getting your arms lopped off.

>>230029
Looks like you have more than 1 demon living under your roof.

Go back in there and see what the golem was guarding. Let doc get his work done in peace.

Doc seems to be doing an excellent job on that worm. How well can he be trusted? I think you should hold off on any questioning until you can do said questioning under your own terms, the kind where you have particle cannons pointed at the subject.

At this point I guess all you can do is explore onwards and claim the secrets of the ancients that the golemthing spoke about.

>>230029
Continue exploring the ruins.

Utilizing SCIENCE!, obtain armor skin. Because seriously you need to stop having your arms cut off. How can you gesture dramatically without arms? How can you throw ze switch or pull ze lever without arms? Answer: some sort of neural interface or maybe some mechanical tentacles. But it's easier with arms!

Actually mechanical tentacles are great for all occasions. Give 'em claws, or guns, or blades, or all of the above! And a spare hand is always useful when SCIENCE!ing.

i think we CAN trust them. they probably have a good reason not to tell you. if they wanted to kill you they had more then ample opportunity. sister has only ripped off your arms when you were in range of getting back to the doc.

Tory 2010/09/13(Mon)10:59 No. 230307 ID: 9b6c31
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Doc can be trusted. He is my best friend, doctor, co-worker. He has saved me countless times.

Anyway, here we are! We went through the trap-filled hallway ( there were still some traps, but we disabled them. )
We arrived in big room. REALLY BIG room. There are stuff like some metallic objects, tiles ( from the ceiling? ), scrolls which seem to be destroyed by time and some chest. And oh boy, there sure are lots of engravings!

There is some sort of gate in the room. It is pretty huge, but I don't think it is that gate they were talking about.

you have any brighter lights? anyway, let's try the chest.

>>230307
Oh god.
Oh GOD.

Are the engravings of cheese and things being struck down?
If so, run. Run as far as you can. Blow any explosives you have to collapse the entrance to this place and forget about it.

Take some quick photos of the engravings. Never know when this place will self-destruct and you can decipher them later.

Have a quick look at the metallic objects and those chests. This is getting good, but remember to watch out for more traps or guardians.

>>230307
Ok, lets get this properly set up. Collect evertyhing and get records of it, then put it in safe storage boxes and take it back to your tower for further research. Get photos of every single square cm of this entire place, and take a few bore samples of the stone in select places for dating purposes and stuff.

Once you have it all safely hauled back to your tower you can properly research it in a safe and controlled enviorment.

Oh, and set up some solid defenses here as well. We're gonna want to further explore this place and see what we can make it do once we have examined our findings here. This seems like a really good hit so we can't let anything be wasted simply by sloppy research standards or something like that.

>>230307
Engravings first. Find out what this place is before we touch anything.

Besides, the chest could have a trap on it.

>>230307
If the engravings feature random objects and/or dwarves, get out of there NOW.

Tory 2010/09/15(Wed)11:00 No. 231107 ID: 9b6c31
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I don't have camera with me. Damn. What a shame!
Well, chests are pretty fucking heavy ( I cannot move them around ) and are locked. I might be able to open it with laser! Metal objects are not very interesting. Most of them are rusted and they don't seem to have any kind of function.

Anyway, to the engravings. No cheese or dwarves, just depictions of ancients. There quite bit of information about the Void, portals, dim

Wait.
Wait.
HOLY FUCKING RAILCANNON SHOOTING SHIT. I just...
This explains little bit more about making portals and the void! Justjustjust awesome!
I AM SO EXCITED!

Okay, I took notes about the engravings. I cannot wait to get to my tower and test this shit!

>>231107
Get a camera or sketch fucking everything.

>>231107
Ask if Sister and the Organist can stay here and make sure nobody can disturb the place while you get your gear.

Go back to the tower, get your archelogical digsite gear. If you don't have that then curse and get what you have as well as a few more guys to help with carrying stuff around and crap like that.

Then make sure you take photos of every single square cm in here. And once you have that then cut off the walls with engravings and take them back with you as well. So take everything here, even the stuff that's nailed down.

Tory 2010/09/16(Thu)14:00 No. 231344 ID: 9b6c31
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Yeah, I gotta take photos!
--
Yeah, I got my equipment! A camera and uuuh. A spade. That's all I got.

Tory 2010/09/16(Thu)14:02 No. 231345 ID: 9b6c31
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Excellent. I took photos of the most important stuff here! Some of the information is crypted, but I think I can break it. Now I will have some sort of timesink until I have to visit Mr. What-was-his-face again.

So, what now? Should I got and decipher them or still check out that toxic pool? Chests are heavy, so I cannot haul them to my tower.

>>231345
Wait, the temple is under the tower? Are there ruins under every location you can warp to?!

Open up the chests with the laser.

>>231345
Check out the pool. And get zombie minions and whatever living minions you have left to carry the chests back to your tower. That's what minions are for after all.

>>231345
Investigate the pool, carefully. Be ready to run from whatever the hell pops out.

>>231345
Well instead of taking the chests, see what is inside of them. Maybe we can take that.

Is there any way you can use an x-ray or millimetre radar to check the content of the chests first? If they have more angry golems or something dangerous inside then it would be good to know before unsealing them.

Go check out the third passage as well. I presume that's wherr the pool is.

Tory 2010/09/19(Sun)12:19 No. 231933 ID: 9b6c31
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I forgot the tools for opening the chests ( I was way too excited ). Opening a chest with laser would be a bad idea as it might damage whatever is inside the chest.

Anyway, I found the pool. And huge pool it is! I don't know how deep it is, and I am not too eager to find out ( yet ).

The liquid itself is... somewhat familiar. It sometimes seeps from my Void-Reactor. I have no fucking idea what it is.

I think I can see something in the liquid. It is unnerving.

>>231933
GET OUT OF THERE NOW.

>>231933
Use extreme caution. Let's set up a sentry to guard the entrance to the temple, so we can make sure nobody else comes and fucks everything up. Then we come back with proper tools to open the chests, and some kind of probe to send into the pool.

What does Sister have to say about this pool? Maybe it's some kind of void-waste. Your new void knowledge doesn't mention this stuff at all? Could it be used to store something horribly dangerous?

What's the surrounding area like? Any idea what the pool was made for? The Ancients seem to have been an absolutely crackers lot if they leave uranium and void goo all over the place.

Are there more passageways?

yeah, pretty sure that is some kind of... void-born creature. what do you do with the stuff when it leaks out of your reactor?

>>231933
Fuck yeah. These people probably used some motherfucking epic void engines and shit then.

Stake your claim on this place. Dig a tunnel down here from your tower and wall up the tunnel worm entrance. And get that worm thing to act as a guard of this area. You're gonna want to pick over this place and make sure no pebble goes unturned or some spot is missed. And make sure you keep several copies of the information here on several servers as well as several hardcopy documents.

>>231933
When you stare into the void, it stares back at you.

>>231937
>>231946
>>231972

What the hell are you guys seeing? I stretch the levels like silly putty and only get a few reflection highlights.

Tory 2010/09/20(Mon)11:38 No. 232254 ID: 9b6c31
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Oh, it was just my reflection I guess. No worries.

>>232254
You know boss, your reflection is looking kinda crazy. How about you get out of this place now and get your set up for longterm archelogical work and cataloging. Then there's gonna be some decoding and stuff, don't want to miss out anything that is written anywhere in here.

>>232254
inb4facebittenoff

yes, just leave for now.

Tory 2010/09/20(Mon)12:03 No. 232265 ID: 9b6c31
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( I don't really do anything with that liquid. I simply dump it into the reactor! )

This is so fucking weird. It looks crazy, so it might be better if I just backed off and took a break. I mean, that reflection doesn't even look like me! It is ugly and has eyes wrong way!

Goddamn this liquid is cold.

Tory 2010/09/20(Mon)12:06 No. 232266 ID: 9b6c31
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W H A T T H E H E L L D A M N T H I S L I K E A R E A L L Y B A D T R I P.
>"H e l l o T o r y."
W H A T T H E F U C K I S T H

Tory 2010/09/20(Mon)12:07 No. 232268 ID: 9b6c31
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Oh fuck I am so confuse I cannot think straight or even breath properly fucking shitsuck

>>232268
Wait what the fuck? Did you fall into the god damn fucking pool? Don't tell us you just took a dip into the very fucking essance of the void itself? Because if you did then there had better be some fucking rad superpowers coming out of this mess or there's gonna be a grumpy blue ball.

>>232268
Get out of the black water you goddamned idiot!

for a genius you can be a real dumb-ass sometimes.

Rand 2010/09/20(Mon)12:12 No. 232273 ID: 9b6c31
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