>All you have to do is keep him from stabbing your central diamond in your head, and you can keep functioning.
Oh yeah...

Okay, if he goes for the diamond, duck under the blow and grab his arm, pulling forward for a good solid slash. If he goes for anywhere else, avoid the blow if convenient, but don't worry about it too much. Higher priority is grabbing his arm. Then you can step forward and cut him.

Suggestion 2009/09/07(Mon)11:37 No. 39287 ID: f98e0b
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>>39265
>>39267
John Focuses.
He finds it hard to think clearly, but the Orb's voice cuts through his mind as surely as Oberan's knife through his arm.

So, grab Oberan like SO and bring the knife up like THIS.

Oberan's cut caused him to miss his target of the throat, but John gets a cut in on the eye and (more importantly) is still
alive
hah

>>39287
Okay, if you keep a firm grip on his arm, you should easily be able to twist for a low blow through his belly, and then come up again for a decapitating blow.

>>39288
>Decapitate
>With a knife
KNIVES DO NOT WORK THAT WAY.
Knives are best for stabbing, not slashing. They suck at slashing. Hold his arm and thrust into him repeatedly until he stops moving.

>>39287
Do not let go of that arm. As long as you hold it, he cannot employ the punch dagger.

You are Qal. Your form is yours to command. As you grip him, begin regenerating the flesh burned by the laser, and start converting more tissue to muscle (start with the now unsued pain receptors, and anything that you don't need to live at this very moment. It has become a close quarters fight, and you should adapt accordingly. Go ahead and get rid of organs that are needed for long term survival and convert them too: They can be reformed into their original state later.

This adaptive biology of yours is your greatest weapon. It lets you heal, and become capable of responding to any situation. Use it. Make yourself stronger, more capable of winning a grappling contest.

>>39294
Knifes don't work that way on humans. But look how thin his neck is, a good blow with the edge of the knife could easily take the head off. And even if it doesn't, it's going to severely incapacitate him.

Also, repeated stabbing is actually not a very fast incapacitate, if you don't hit heart or lung, and I for one have no idea whereabouts in this species' body those would be.

Suggestion 2009/09/07(Mon)13:47 No. 39400 ID: f98e0b
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>>39299
John starts converting more to muscle. There go pretty much all of the reproduction and excretory systems, but the boost definitely did something. Already his burn and the wound on his arm are fading.
>>39294
>>39344
He tries for another stab, this time to the throat. Let's see if he can get through that skinny neck.

Oh.
Oberan was waiting for him this time and he's grabbed john's arm and he's using the momentum from the meaty swing to twist them in a most peculiar way and he's leaping forward and he's dropped his knife but john is

falling
backward

>>39400

DO NOT HESITATE.

Use your new strength to wrench your arms apart, and plant your feet solidly behind you. You have greater mass and strength, and quick action can prevent his maneuver.

Once his attempt to bring you to the ground is stopped, try to convert bacteria in you hands into a flesh eating kind. Start consuming him. It doesn't need to be fast, you just need to cause him pain to dull his movements.

Let's see. If you thing you're capable of it, let him push you back, but roll out of it so you're on top. Then punch him in the face until he dies.

Suggestion 2009/09/07(Mon)17:33 No. 39553 ID: f98e0b
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NO.
John isn't going to die again. Not right now.

>>39408
He will not move, because he is not weak. He is Qal.

He needs no knife, because he's not a hero, no matter how many you've worked with in the past, or how much he wishes he was one.

John 2009/09/07(Mon)17:56 No. 39572 ID: f98e0b
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He's a janitor.

(animated)

>>39572
...Did you just headbutt him with a magic flashlight?

>>39574
I think it's a broom.

John 2009/09/07(Mon)18:03 No. 39578 ID: f98e0b
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>>39574
John's antimatter swabber rocketed out of his uplink directly into Oberan's face.

Um

He isn't entirely sure how that just happened. It was pretty cool though, all things considered.

The lights turn back on, the door reopens, and the cover elements vanish.

The NOTE is still on the wall. John's swabber is lying on the floor in a pool of blood.

OBERAN is here, but his face is conspicuously absent.

>>39578
...Read note, hug Oberan's corpse.

>>39578
Get your... um... body healing, or whatever.

You have to be in top shape for your date tonight!

John 2009/09/07(Mon)18:24 No. 39590 ID: f98e0b
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>>39582
RIGHT. Right. The date.
John's gonna tell Cassie all about this. That was some FLCL shit he just pulled (you pinkos had some pretty good ideas, and that show was one of them). He's pretty sure the intense stress caused his mental uplink to spit out the swabber from his inventory with a high amount of force. He's heard of it happening before, but never to him.

>>39579
>hug corpse
Oberan's covered in Delter blood, which is mildly electrocuted. He wouldn't get fried, but he'd be damaged, and he's turned his system back to normal, which means he feels pain.

His arm and leg both sting, but they're already healing quite well.

>read note
>"John: If you're reading this, amazing job. Oberan managed to defeat Colm fairly easily when they dueled, and Colm was a good soldier, not a janitor. Your responsibilities as gunnery sergeant come next, but you've had enough excitement for one day, I think. Now get out of here. There's a certain purple lady who requested the pleasure of your company.

>In the more likely even that Oberan is reading this: Good job once again, I hope you made it quick, and clean up after yourself."

>>39590
He defeated Colm?! But Colm's an Assassin (or a Rogue if you're retarded and/or don't want to use Rennac).

You should go the extra mile and clean up. Then get out of there.

>>39590

Uhh. Do remember you got rid of most of the ... bits that will be helpful in this date. Restore self with PROTEIN!

...I guess you could eat the body.

>Clean up
>eat the body

Kill two birds with one stone?

>>39605
ELECTRICAL BLOOD BAD.

But sure, we should totally clean up. I mean, we do have cleaning apparatuses and experience at cleaning. Besides, it would be both courteous and funny.

But only if you can do it fast, because yeah, the date takes priority.

>>39592

Sadly, I don't think Colm realised twin daggers, even with a critical hit, stand little chance against a blaster.

P.S. Jaffar was here, Colm is a whiney, archer loving loser.

>>39590

Probably should try and at least give the dead some dignity, somehow. Otherwise, get outta there and claim your prize.

>>39665
I dunno, we just used a broom to kill a guy with a laser gun, so...

Also, for the longest time I thought Neimi was Colm's sister, so that whole Support thing really weirded me out...

John 2009/09/08(Tue)13:11 No. 39976 ID: f98e0b
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>>39592
>>39612
>clean the blood
...heh, why not. John's swabber is right there and everything.

He whistles a little while he works. He's giddy from having survived.

>>39599
>>39605
>eat Oberan
Even if John were that kind of guy, Oberan is both synthetic and electric. It'd be like sucking a sparkplug.

>>39976
Reform those organs you converted during the fight while you finish cleaning.

It would suck to have the date go well and realize you have nothing to enjoy it with.

John 2009/09/08(Tue)14:40 No. 40033 ID: f98e0b
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>Four hours later
>Military Apartments Gratis by Ebony Beach, Algrieb

John 2009/09/08(Tue)14:46 No. 40039 ID: f98e0b
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John's sitting on Cassie's deck, listening to the ocean.

You did reform those sexual organs, right?

If not, do it now.

>>40044
Because we've been saying to do so for quite a while, so if you haven't, you'll be hearing screams of 'railroading' so loud you'll have to turn off your pain receptors.

John 2009/09/08(Tue)15:34 No. 40064 ID: f98e0b
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>>40044
>>40047
Don't freak, orb. John's got his systems under control. If he missed this opportunity he'd friggin' kill himself...
and, um, he'd turn his respawner off first.

The date was great. They went to some fantasy flick about a yellow thing with knives for arms, and spent the whole time cracking jokes and statting the characters for Cyclopes and Castles and pissing everyone else in the theater off and having fun.

Then they came home, played that FPS that stars that guy with big shoulders, and then Cassie suggested they look at the sunset then locked him out as a prank.

John is determined to outlast her and not bang on the door.

>>40064
....This is a test.

You need to find some way back inside without her help or damaging anything. Do that, and sweet, tender lovin' awaits.

Probably.

Anyway, take stock of you surroundings and what you have available to you.

>>40064
Ooh, if you really want to get her back, leave a note on how she's made it painfully obvious that she's just been stringing you along and doesn't care about you, then leave. She'll feel so bad it'll be hilarious, and the makeup sex will be awesome.

>>40077
...I somehow get the feeling you aren't being entirely serious. NOW WHERE COULD I GET AN IDEA LIKE THAT.

>>40064
Assume form of yellow thing.
Make sadface at the door.

>>40082
I think you failed your sense motives test. I'm being 100% serious. Don't let her win, ESCALATE THINGS. Turn the situation around, take the war to her villages! Slaughter her women! Rape her livestock!

John 2009/09/08(Tue)16:16 No. 40104 ID: f98e0b
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>>40077
>>40085
>>40090
You're right, O glassy, pinko-voiced friends! John has not yet begun to fight! He'll get even somehow. He'll fight 'er on the rooftops, he'll fight 'er on the streets, he'll fight her, um somewhere else...
>Click
"John?"

>>40104
Dismiss plans, get ready for tender loving.

Oh, John 2009/09/08(Tue)16:17 No. 40108 ID: f98e0b
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"I made waffles."

>>40108
<3333

>>40108

For a pile of bacteria she sure... uh.. makes good waffles.

>>40108
"And I brought the syrup."

John 2009/09/08(Tue)16:56 No. 40142 ID: f98e0b
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Several thoughts flit through John's head as Cassie pulls him inside and closes the door. Thoughts of ecstasy, love, and where she could have found a translucent apron.
he realizes as she takes it off and they join together

It doesn't matter now.

>>40151
John is a real bro, to give us some of his waffles.

>>40162
Thanks I could help bro!

>>40108
stupid sexy alien...