>>358626

Do we have enough food and supplies to wait out a sweep?

It might only be reacting to the guilder. If they have stuff only they can use, then it makes sense for something to work the opposite way, right?

Just a light touch. That's all. It only lightly hurt the guilder, and she reacted more strongly to the same tech/radiation before, so you'll be affected less.

Go on.

Do it.

>>358621
Lightly toasting? You could try touching it too, just to see if it provokes the same reaction, but prepared for the flames. Alternatively, we can have someone boost the others over so you don't touch it. Lar is probably strong enough for that.

Lonelyworld 2011/10/16(Sun)22:45 No. 358861 ID: f72f26
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Lar goes to assist the Guilder.

Dom: "come on, let's see if we can find a way around

* * *
Rose can't seem to shake the idea of touching the glowing alien object

Rose: "so what do you think these big sphere things are?"

Dom: "hell should I know, more alien stuff, probably best we don't touch these either"

there appears to be a wall blocking further travel in this direction

eject a bullet out of your gun and throw it at one of the orbs. and if nothing happens throw it at the cable.

>>358861
Rose: Give in to the temptation. You've dealt with fire before. What's a few more burns for the chance of getting a different result?

Do not touch the obviously dangerous glowy things. Just keep going.

Lonelyworld 2011/10/17(Mon)21:53 No. 359110 ID: f72f26
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Domonic tries throwing bullets at the alien thing and the huge orbs, they bounce off and produce no reaction

Domonic and Rose continue on to the wall
Lar and the Guilder catch up

Dom: "hmm it doesn't look too high, maybe we can figure out a way over"

Grab an orb off a pedestal and use it as a stool.

while dom is distracted touch the wire, rose

>>359113
Don't do that. You are still wearing a flame pack.

Lonelyworld 2011/10/18(Tue)08:48 No. 359149 ID: f72f26
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Rose: "Maybe we can use one of those big orbs as a pedestal to get over the wall."

Dom: "I just said we shouldn't touch anything!"

Rose: "hey we're touching the ground aren't we? besides those things aren't even glowing."

Dom: . . .

Rose: " . . . or we could just wait here and do nothing."

Lar: " I like that plan."

Dom: "come on Lar, let's see if we can get one of these things down."

while Domonic and Lar are distracted Rose puts down her flame pack and makes for the glowing alien cord.

the Guilder watches in eager anticipation.

Rose touches the object and a path opens

the Guilder is visibly disappointed.

Dom: "DAMNIT ROSE!"

everyone through the gap, rose last in case the cord only likes her.

roll that thing through the gap and advance.

>>359151
This.

Dom: Reluctantly admit that this alien stuff must like humans.

Lonelyworld 2011/10/19(Wed)05:47 No. 359387 ID: f72f26
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Try as they might Domonic and Lar are unable to budge the giant sphere

they give up and travel on

Rose: "Dom look those Statues! they almost look like Solars don't you think! and that pool has more glowing lights, I wonder what it does?"

Dom: "Rose we shouldn't touch anything more then we have too"

Rose: "this play WANTS us to be here it wants us to experience this, it LIKES Solars!"

Dom: " . . . I guess, or maybe it just likes you."

Lar is deep in thought, staring at the enormous tree.

what object warrants further attention?
the Statues?
the pool?
the tree?
something else?
or nothing? (return to the main road)

>>359387

check the pool with the glowy lights. glowy lights are always a good indicator of where to go.

get the riskiest thing done first, the pool.

The statues are shaped like four people standing at the corners of the pool.

>>359387
Ask the guilder about this place, seriously, what did they think was down here? How did they find it?

Proceed to pool while questioning.

>>359448

>>359448

This sounds pretty good.

Lonelyworld 2011/10/19(Wed)21:30 No. 359520 ID: f72f26
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Rose heads in the direction of the pool and the others follow

Domonic turns to the Guilder

Dom:"hey you guys dug this place up, what were you guys looking for?"

guilder: "Puffefeh wah mad, he look foh weapon. Puffefeh talked of power, power enough to bwekk Astranian Blockade . . . power enough to kill all the stranners on all the wohlds. Puffefeh promih Daztren would be free . . . no one believed any of that, but we had no welss to go, noff elss to do so we digged."

Dom: "I guess he must have known something, how did he know were to look?"

guilder: " he didn't, so Puffefeh dugged hole evywerr. thih emine hole numbah ix-free-one."

hmmm, so he knew this thing was on the planet, but not where. and apparently it's supposed to be super ungodly powerful.

well if this isnt it, then it's an anomaly at the very least. nice find ! proceed to allow corruption of your very bodies and soul, sacrifices to the precursors !!

>>359520
>Even her underwear has triangles
Now that's dedication to a factional theme.

Poolwards!

interesting

now off to that pool. investigate it.

Lonelyworld 2011/10/21(Fri)10:42 No. 359818 ID: f72f26
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Lar: "we shouldn't be here, we should leave this place now."

Dom: "and why is that?"

Lar: "you heard the Guilder, the weapons her boss was looking for, such things are best left hidden!"

the four explorers arrive at the strange pool

go hotly into how if something doesnt give, solars astranians and all people will slug mercilessly through millions more lives and losses before pointing out you all kind of need a bath anyway; except the guilder, shes clean as a whistle she is

examine liquid, make sure it is non-toxic and safe for personal hygiene use

Touch it with your dirty human hands.

>>359818
We're not here to find weapons, we're here to find a way out without going through the robots, like maybe a stargate or something. Shit, what something here goes back to the Solar homeworld? This is weird ancient Solar stuff, they've got to have had something connected to it.

Yeah, this is kind of the place not full of killbots.

Examine statues. Maybe they're informative w.r.t. the nature of the hot tub pond.

>>359818
"I know, Lar. But we're only going to leave once we find an exit that doesn't lead to certain death.
'sides, just 'cause he was lookin' for a weapon doesn't mean s'what's here to find. This sure's hell don't look like guilder work."

rose, it likes it, poke one of those corner bits. looks like a wave pool or something.

Lonelyworld 2011/10/21(Fri)20:40 No. 359900 ID: f72f26
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Dom: "We're not here to find weapons, we're here to find a way out without going through the robots, like maybe a stargate or something."

Lar: "and if there is no way out?"

Dom: . . .

Rose touches one of the pool stones, there is no effect, she then pokes the water with her finger. it has a slightly syrup like texture, and has a faint flowery sent

Rose: I don't think this is plain water . . .

Rose has a strange urge to taste the liquid.


Dom: "you think maybe Solars could have built this thing? maybe early explorers?"

Lar: "No, we've never built anything like this."

Dom: "well it sure as hell wasn't the guilders, I wonder who did build this place . . ."

so far the strange urges haven't led to you being hurt so sure, taste.

Rose: Give in to your urges.

>>359900

Place a tiny drop on the tip of your finger and give it a taste.

How about Rose, uh, not? Let's look around some more before we take any more actions that hold obvious risk.

Go right ahead Rose. Chances are that nothing will happen until we do so just like we did with touching the plant.

Lonelyworld 2011/10/22(Sat)11:53 No. 360023 ID: f72f26
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Rose tastes the the liquid no more than a drop

Rose: *gasp* "the taste is beautiful, I can feel it making me whole . . . one drop is not enough!"

Rose scoops up a handful and drinks it down before even realising it, she ponders for a second the safety of this, but it's flavour, it's power is too much to resist. Rose quickly scoops and drinks two more handfuls.

Rose: "I feel no more hunger, I feel no more thirst, I feel no more pain, I feel no more regret. I am whole once more."

>>360023
Rose: Now that you're fully healed and drugged out of your mind, what do you think of the current situation?
Lar? The Guilder? This place? Dominic? The Astranians? The bugs?

do you understand this place?

...Everyone that's not rose, back away.

>>360023
Uhm, guys... careful that Rose doesn't gorge herself to death on that stuff. While it does seem to have healed here I don't think anyone else is in dire need of it at this instant.

Huh, does anyone have any waterbottles or flasks? We could scoop up a bit for later perhaps (assuming it retains it's properties.)

OH GOD SOMEBODY CALL ISAAC QUICK

>>360023

Awesome, a healing font! Every take a drink.

grab rose and pull her back and take that flamethrower off in case she goes nuts.

Don't let her drink too much of that, she might get fat like Penji and nobody wants to see that.

Lonelyworld 2011/10/23(Sun)11:26 No. 360278 ID: f72f26
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Domonic Pulls Rose back.

Dom: "Rose, That's enough!"

Rose: "nooooo, just a couple more mouthfuls please . . ."

dom: "no, not until we find out what it did. so far it seems addictive. tell me why i should let you go"

>>360278
I wonder what would happen if Lar drank some. Would it cure him?

>>360278
"You can have more when you've convinced me it hasn't screwed up your head."

>>360278
>health bar
Glowy!

Examine statues.

>>360278
push GILDER into POOL

Let's leave the strange liquid alone for now, go check out the statues.

Lonelyworld 2011/10/24(Mon)15:18 No. 360710 ID: f72f26
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they progress onwards to the statues

Dom: "huh I guess these kinda do look like Solars, Lar you sure we didn't build this place?"

Lar: " . . . they aren't statues, nor are they Solars, they're war machines built in the image of the Goddess Lifewell."

Dom: "well they look like Statues of Solars to me."

Rose: "Domonic I see another gateway!"

Beyond the statues Domonic can see another glowing passage leading into some sort of tower.

>>360710
The Goddess Lifewell, warmachines? How the hell do you know that Lars?

Let's go check out the tree first.

Lonelyworld 2011/10/31(Mon)00:04 No. 362616 ID: f72f26
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Domonic turns his attention to the strange alien tree.
unfortunately He can discern nothing of interest.

Rose: "Goddess's,warmachines how do you know so much about this place?"

Lar: "process of elimination mostly, but why not ask Domonic, he probably knows the legends far better than I."

Domoni: "we should keep moving."

while walking tell them the legends.

>>362616
Soooo. Have you ever considered the possibility that the goddess Lifewell was a solar?

>>362616
Lar: ponder about the dangers of being in an environment saturated with deadly rays that, should even a small seam or tear open up, will fry you death in agony thus far unknown to mankind. For extra precautions, take the rest of the guilder's clothing and sew/tie them around the outside of your suit.

safety first!

also, ask the guilder her name.

>>362616
There are legends about this place? Do tell, of importance would be any that would talk about 'why' a goddess of life is the template for a bunch of giant war-machines (presuming she's one of those conveniently named types of deities and not like mayan corn gods who also happen to enjoy walking around in human skins.)

I'm tempted to tell you to try climbing the tree to see what we can see, but we should probably head to the giant glowy pillar/tower.

Lonelyworld 2011/11/04(Fri)09:40 No. 363576 ID: f72f26
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Lar decides not to pester the guilder for more clothes, he doesn't want to make it angry.

Lar: "Miss guilder, I don't believe we've heard your name?"

guilder: "Is Weldexil"

Lar: "I'm known as Lar."

Domonic heads off towards the tower, the others choose to follow.

* * *

Rose: "so what was that Lar mentioned about a legend?"

Dom: "Lar thinks this place was built by the Sun-Cult Arkonnists: The Tearrendill,"

Lar: "I always did have trouble remembering names of things . . ."

Rose: "who are they?"

Dom: "nobody, they got wiped out about three hundred years ago. The Astranians called them out as being a threat to all other race, the other races bought the story Banded together and wiped the floor with em, end of story."

rose "well the Astranians hate us too, so if these guys pissed them off then they are alright in my book"

>>363576
Rose is back to normal. Everybody else should try the water now.

>>363581
Why? In particular, the water would probably seriously harm Lar considering what the light did to him.

Or it could cure his affliction.

>>363585
>>363594
Drip a little onto his skin. If it just burns, stay away. If it burns and leaves behind regular skin, then it's his call to take a swim in it or not.

Lonelyworld 2011/11/05(Sat)07:18 No. 363772 ID: f72f26
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Dom: "We should take another look at that pool."

* * *

Dom: "maybe this thing will cure your mutations"

Lar: "I'd rather not touch it all the same . . ."

put a drop of blood on the ground, then drip some of the liquid on it. if it turns back to normal looking then move to a single drop on his skin.

Time to science using that liquid. Work up to seeing if it kills Lar.

>>363772
"You sure Lar? This shit is like some weird miracle substance and this is our only chance to take it. You could have a normal life with the Solars again if we escape, no racist assholes getting all hung up about radiation, mutation or anything like that. I'd say take a small risk here, just touch it a little bit."

>Beyond the statues Domonic can see another glowing passage leading into some sort of tower.
Alright, enough pissing about. Let's go.

>>363772

Shove Lar in.

Lonelyworld 2011/11/06(Sun)10:02 No. 363955 ID: f72f26
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Domonic convinces Lar to help test the water.

Domonic puts some of the water on Lars blood it has no effect.

Lar touches the water.

Lar: "oooah! it burns!"

Yeah, I figured as much.
Since we don't have a container to store any in, we should just leave the pool for now and investigate that tunnel.

examine the part he touched it with. did it cause an actual burn or does it look like it burned the toxins out of him or something?

>>363958
We can't examine the part without exposing him to the light... let's move on for now. To yon tunnel.

>>363955

well, we tried. let's move on to the tunnel.

Lonelyworld 2011/11/07(Mon)07:04 No. 364287 ID: f72f26
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the unlikely comrades approach the tower like structure.

at it's base they find a gate.

Rose: "that gate looks almost Solar in design, I wonder if that could be more than coincidence . . . "

Dom: "you heard Lar earlier, Solars didn't build this place. hell we couldn't have, this whole complex was buried under ruins ten years before we even made it to the sector."

Rose: "you think this goddess might have actually been a Solar?"

Dom: "what I think is that you aren't listening to a word I'm saying."

rose: prance through the gate

Could it be some heretofor-unknown aliens that are secretly working with the Solars somehow? The coincidence is just too much. ALSO WE MUST INVESTIGATE THIS NOW.

poke a thing through the gate, see if it remains intact.

>>364287

Does anyone have a stick they could use to make sure that portal is legit?

I kinda agree with the stick option. Let's take things as slow and carefully as we can.

Lonelyworld 2011/11/08(Tue)08:04 No. 364496 ID: f72f26
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Domonic picks up a nearby stick and tests it on the glowing service, the stick is unaffected by the process.

Dom: "It's not a gate."

Lar: "it isn't?"

Dom: "no It's just a light projection made to look like one, seems like there's still a passage on the other side though."

>>364496
"Fucking prophecies. Why'd ya go and drag us into this shit?"

Dom: Go swim in the not-water. SCIENCE!

everyone through the glowing door

Investigate passage.

Btw guys, how are your hunger levels? Injuries, that sort of thing. May as well take the time to see how we're doing.

Lonelyworld 2011/11/09(Wed)19:22 No. 364786 ID: f72f26
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Dom:"come on let's go"

* * *

the four venture through the glowing door, unkowing as to what awaits them on the otherside . . .

Lonelyworld 2011/11/09(Wed)19:24 No. 364787 ID: f72f26
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Secret level completed!

Lonelyworld 2011/11/09(Wed)19:30 No. 364789 ID: f72f26
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curious as to what happens to your favorite heroes? never fear for their exiting adventures continue in the new quest GODSEED!!!

note: the quest GODSEED may or may not ever exist.

>>364787

Nice!

>the four venture
+1 slightly indifferent Guilder earned?

>>364857

the more, the merrier.