Sombermann 2015/08/18(Tue)19:30 No. 663779 ID: b171ff
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>C
[yeah. some food right now would be very nice.]

K-Zel: meat-hall is not very far from here, i'll show you.

-20 min later

Jackie - status: minor food poisoning
Fuse - status: minor food poisoning

[urrghhh~... how did i not see this coming.]

A- back to the guest-house
B- meet the elder

Dang. It was a trap!

A. We don't want to barf on the elder.

>>663780
Agreed.

>>663779
Sssssso I guess they don't eat that type of creature Fuse ate earlier?

>>663789
that thing was a space dog.
>>663779
it's only minor, suck it up and meet the elder.

A

We need to warn lefty before she makes the same mistake as us

Sombermann 2015/08/19(Wed)21:37 No. 664045 ID: b171ff
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>A
Jackie and Fuse returned back to the guest-house.
After a couple of hours spent on recuperating from a major indigestion, Jackie and Fuse are back in action... more or less.
[shit. we need to get off this planet ASAP.]

Lefty is back.
Lefty: commander. i almsot finished with the Conqueress. how was the village tour? you look kinda green...
>We need to warn lefty before she makes the same mistake as us
Jackie: don't eat anything here...
Fuse: (BARF)
Jackei: i'm serious...
Lefty: ok. so what's with meeting? i would assume making someone wait is universally frown upon, even here. they did grant us entry into their village, but i still sense caution and even fear. i would prefer if whole squad attended the meeting... preferably armed. we need to play safe here. you need remeber commander we are still behind the lines on enemy territory.

A) attend to meeting alone unarmed
B) attend to meeting along with your squad unarmed
C) attend to meeting along with your squad armed
D) request so the meeting is being held at the guest-house.
E) request so the meeting is being held outside the village walls.

Go to meeting unarmed but stay in radio contact with squad. If they do plan something against us lefty can just drive the tank though a wall and wecan run like hell

>no eatable food
Um, Fuse ate that dog thing fine. Maybe we can survive on alien dog food? (I doubt we'd be welcome long if we started eating all the pets).

>>664045
This isn't enemy territory, at the moment. The Mad legion doesn't hold this settlement, even if they have forces on this planet.

We're guests in this town, and we just engaged what was technically a joint military exercise. Which at worst puts on footing here as mercs, and at best as tentative allies. In those circumstances, showing up armed to the teeth like you expect betrayal or a fight is a big sign of disrespect. We need to be leveraging maximum spunk here, not picking a fight.

Go with a or b. I don't object to bringing our people along, but we're not here to fight.

Attend with squad armed. Have to be on alert with the mad legion on the prowl.

>>664047
Yep. Go to the meeting unarmed, and have the squad wait in the tank so they can Cool Aid Man in if anything goes wrong.

Sombermann 2015/08/19(Wed)22:31 No. 664060 ID: b171ff
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Jackie decides to go in alone.

Jackie: i will turn my comm-link on during the meeting, if something is up, be ready to to come in gus balzing.

-on the meeting with the village elder.

R-Zah: my name is R-Zah, i'm the village elder. i heard about your exploits from R-Tur. he speaks highly of you. i value his word as this village protector... but i only trust what i see with my own eyes.
Jackie: ...
R-Zah: you came here alone and unarmed. wich speaks greatly of your true nature. wich i hope bears no ill intent towards my people.
Jackie: ...thanks. i take it as a compliment.
R-Zah: i was told you have some questions that needs answers, and i am the only one who can give them to you.

Say you're looking for a way back home... And maybe some way to fix or even upgrade your tank

yes, how long ago did the mad legion get here? what did the previous humans do that made them untrustworthy?
have you seen more humans around recently?

Tell her that Earth is NOT a unified front. Your people are mercenaries at heart and will fight for good and evil regardless of their morality. They will also make allies and enemies of various peoples, including R.

Begin negotiations. You know that the Mad Legion is razing colonies. You also met a few humans who proceeded to open fire with advanced technology. How can we protect R, and what can we get in return?

1/4 Sombermann 2015/08/20(Thu)03:23 No. 664112 ID: b171ff
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>Say you're looking for a way back home
R-Zah: with such task i'm afraid we cannot help. beings that comes from the stars travels in ways wich are beyond our comprehension.

>maybe some way to fix or even upgrade your tank
[i doubt they can help with that]

>yes, how long ago did the mad legion get here?
R-Zah: accursed illithy made their way to our world 45 years ago.

>have you seen more humans around recently?
R-Zah: you and your companions are first in many years.

>what did the previous humans do that made them untrustworthy?
R-Zah: they brought illithy into our world.
Jackie: i did hear this story from R-Tur before. he said you were there when whole thing happened. i need to know more about it.
R-Zah: ... as you wish.

2/4 Sombermann 2015/08/20(Thu)03:23 No. 664113 ID: b171ff
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R-Zah: 45 years ago i was a simple temple acolite, our daily job was tending to needs of a guardian and his disciple. one morning, me and my sisters were on our way to the sun temple, it was then we met an unusual traveler. she was a being not of this world. all traveler asked for was a place to stay for a few days. ways of our ancestors demanded that we provided shelter weary traveler. looking back at it now... i curse the day we let that "thing" into our live. she stayed for a couple of days. spending most of them with a "circle of elders". on a third day she left this very room covered in blood of the elders. relic of sun was clenched in her fist. then she headed for the temple, where she killed R-Tur's predecessor. later on the same day a beam of light illuminated sky above the temple and the "legion" came. i saw her again later commanding collosal war-machines now with others of your kin. many of my friends and family where slaughtered for reasons we yet to understand.

3/4 Sombermann 2015/08/20(Thu)03:25 No. 664117 ID: b171ff
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>Tell her that Earth is NOT a unified front. Your people are mercenaries at heart and will fight for good and evil regardless of their morality.
R-Zah: i see what you'r trying to say. protecting actions of your kin. any krodacian that worth anything would do the same. there is only one difference... you speak of people yet all i saw was demons. unnatural preversions of nature... pale-skins... beings of the same face... face that betrayed our hospitality... face that took our world away from us... face i will never forget...

4/4 Sombermann 2015/08/20(Thu)03:28 No. 664118 ID: b171ff
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R-Zah: YOUR FACE!!!

[... talk about sudden tension rise.]

You're not a clone by any chance?

"well I am a ditto. We're basically clones grown for... jobs. Mostly as solders but we sometimes we get "hired" as other things. But I"d be lying if I said I didn't find this strange. Did this girl or any other of the dittos leave anything behind? An old piece of armor you grabbed of a dead on, a symbol, anything like that? If you do it would give me a better idea on who attacked you and why."

Oh and if she starts getting pissy about trusting you and blah blah blah do feel free to point out the fact that the mad legion is a race of mind controlling aliens, for all we know they could have simply mind controlled a large group of dittos they beat and used them as a vanguard/cannon fodder for the opening attack.

admit you are a clone, a person grown and programmed from a tube. you were made to think and lead, they must have been made only to follow orders without question. is another at your home who was made to dance.

>>664118
"...Do you have Alzheimer's? We might be able to help with that.

Between the alien artifacts and interdimensional portals I don't remember what my original face looks like. Chill, b****.

Seriously, it was 45 years ago. Most of us develop saggy skin on our faces if we live that long."

I am a ditto. A clone. When one of your people proves themselves, copies can be made. New children, siblings with the same face, same potential, but different lives.

It saddens you greatly to learn that one of your siblings is responsible for the suffering here. Even more troubling to hear she brought an entire batch with her, but you never heard tale of their disappearance before.

I can only hope my actions speak louder than my face. I am an enemy of the mad legion, and if any of my ditto sisters stand with them, I am their enemy as well.

I can only hope you give me a chance to redeem this dishonor on my line.

>>664137
Adding on:

The potential for greatness cuts both ways. One with the potential to be a great hero has potential to be a great evil, should they turn down that path.

(I am not sure they have clones here, and since the idea of artificially growing people would seem unnatural and gross to them I think we should talk in terms of siblings.)
Say that they sound like they were some of our sisters. Explain that in your world some people have many dozens or hundreds of siblings, though you do now know why any of them would help the Legion when the Legion is hostile to everything. Say that you are sad that any of your kin would so such a thing and that you apologize, and ask if they had any symbols or markings on their armor so that we might be able to find out which of our sisters it was.

1/3 Sombermann 2015/08/20(Thu)07:11 No. 664149 ID: b171ff
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>admit you are a clone, a person grown and programmed from a tube.
R-Zah: this doesn't in any way elevate my doubts about you and your people.
-she makes a subtle gesture and two guards position themself behind Jackie.
R-Zah: from this point on thread lightly pale-skin. ability to detect falsehood is something that comes with age...

Lefty: (static) what's happening commander? (static)
Jackie: (whisper) stand down... i got this.

2/3 Sombermann 2015/08/20(Thu)07:12 No. 664150 ID: b171ff
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Jackie: i can't deny possibility that my side may be involved in it. but it doesn't mean anything for me.
R-Zah: ...
Jackie: i can only hope my actions speak louder than my face. but don't get in a wrong way... (lights her cigar) the potential for greatness cuts both ways. one with the potential to be a great hero has potential to be a great evil, should they turn down that path. i'm not a hero... i'm a soldier. i don't fight for absolutes like good and evil. i'm a living weapon... just point me to where the enemy is. and you know firsthand how effective i can be. i am an enemy of the mad legion, and if any of my ditto sisters stand with them, i am their enemy as well. so now you tell me... are you my ally... or enemy?

3/3 Sombermann 2015/08/20(Thu)07:13 No. 664152 ID: b171ff
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Fuse: so how did it go?
Jackie: eh... could'v gone a lot worse.
Lefty: like how much worse.
Jackie: i'm still alive and thats a plus in my book. we can stay all we want but elder forbidded villagers from helping or talking to us.

Did she forbid finger-puppets and charades? I don't think so!

Ouch. People can't even talk to us? That's unfortunate. Hard to gather intelligence for a way home that way.

(Wait, does K-Zel count as a villager, as a refugee? Have we only been forbidden interaction with civvies, can we follow up with R-Tur?).

Warn your squad that there might be hostile dittos with your face hereabouts. Just in case one tries to impersonate you- they should be prepared if "you" start acting weird. Set up call and response password(s) just in case.

Lefty could use a brain probe thing for a solid ID one way or the other if it's ever really necessary (your memories are one thing no ditto can fake, even in the worst case where passwords are compromised) but we only have so many of those.

are gonna need that mechanic. unless we can find a new barrel on an old tank.

Ooh, yeah! 45 years of war must have left some battlefields that we could scavenge! You'll have to ask the elder directly, as she is most likely to know and forbade us from speaking to villagers anyway.

>>664152
eh, we have a good resting point if we need it. For now lets get some rest and then we can start looking for ways to fix the tank, get back home, and probably find something we can actually eat seance we might be here for awhile. Oh and maybe see what the fuck dittos where doing here if we can find anything.

>>664152
We need salvage, really, really fucking badly. Gotta fix this tank. If your kind were here 45 years ago, we need to find the battlegrounds where conflict happened, and get the tank up and running, then we need to find out if there is another lead.

-Ask the elder if K-zel is ok, what will happen to her, and if she is free to speak with us as she is not of this village. Maybe she will join up.
-See if R-tur can chit chat, and if there is anything else to blow up.
-See if there are any things that the elder needs taken care of.
-We gotta go hunting anyway, get some real food.

1/2 Sombermann 2015/08/21(Fri)06:25 No. 664318 ID: b171ff
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>Warn your squad that there might be hostile dittos with your face hereabouts.
Lefty: like this day couldn't get any weirder.

>Did she forbid finger-puppets and charades? I don't think so!
Lefty: i would assume she considered a loophole like that.

>Ouch. People can't even talk to us? That's unfortunate. Hard to gather intelligence for a way home that way.
[there is no helping it. all we have to go of from is a fact that temples where used by illithians for instant portal travels.]
Jackie: temples...
Lefty: what?
Jackie: R-Tur mentioned that sun temple where used as some kind of portal to warp legion to this planet. maybe we can find another working one.
Fuse: ...and use it to catch a ride back to Korath.
Lefty: so how we suppose to find one without any intel from the locals?

2/2 Sombermann 2015/08/21(Fri)06:26 No. 664320 ID: b171ff
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>Wait, does K-Zel count as a villager, as a refugee?
K-Zel: i don't care what elder orders. i want to help you guys. you saved my life and this debt is not one to be taken lightly.
Jackie: you sure about that? if elders finds out about this...
K-Zel: she probably would banish me. but i don't care. without you all i wouldn't had this chance anyway.

[taking help from K-Zel would probably backfire on her. should we accept her help?]

A) yes
B) no

NEW SIDE-MISSION
-find info on other temples.
-find the temple
-find way to activate it

>can we follow up with R-Tur?
[he is probably resting right now. we shouldn't disturb him.]

>hunting
Fuse: i can take care of that. (send Fuse to hunt.)

>more missions
[elder won't speak to us for now.]

A) This will have consequences, but your mental state will plummet if you leave K-Zel here only to watch her die to a public execution or the Mad Legion. She wants to help, so let her help.

Send Fuze to hunt with professionals. And bring the tank.

>taking help from K-Zel would probably backfire on her. should we accept her help?
Her situation isn't very good if we accept. If she gets exiled, there's no knowing if we'll find another village for her. If she travels with us, she's a non-com civie in a combat situation. She might even end up coming back with us, which leaves her stranded in the wrong dimension.

I feel like the right answer to this is B. But she's an adult, able to make her own decisions, not to be patronized. But your crew needs help, and it's damn hard to turn down willing help. We can't stop informed enlisting.

Restate the risks, be frank about the dangers. If she still won't back down, accept her help. That means we're then responsible for her, like any of the rest of the crew.

If/when we accept her help, she should still distance herself from us, do what we can separately. See what information we can learn before getting exiled. (Is there a library or something? Could look up temple locations).

A. She's already talking to you, and it's easier for her to beg forgiveness that ask permission.

Perhaps instead of talking were people can see us we could arrange to both be out hunting/gathering at the same time and place?

she is an adult, right? if sh knows the consequences there isn't much reason to stop her.

If think you really understand the risks you're taking, then go home and think about it for a while. If you still want to help, then we need the location of another temple. We'll be here through tomorrow.

Have K-zel gather up any extra supplies and find out what she can about temples before the village discovers that she's working with us.

A and send her with fuse so she doesn't end up actually killing someone else's pet. Try to keep it to actual wild game seeing as we're kinda on thin ice already with the elder. Also if they're both gone with no one to see them it might take the village longer to notice K-zel is helping us and by the time they do notice they'll hopefully warmed up to us enough not to punish her.

As for what the rest of the party can do, scout around a bit, with the squid nest out of action the area should have a bit more breathing room for us to scout around with out running into TO much trouble. We can also stay in radio contact with Fuse and K-zel if we need to ask K directions.

>>664320
Take K-zel with, she might as well get a bad ass new life with us.

1/2 Sombermann 2015/08/23(Sun)06:17 No. 664629 ID: 927d69
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>A
>Have K-zel gather up any extra supplies and find out what she can about temples before the village discovers that she's working with us.
Jackie: if you could find out any information about other temples. it would help us a lot. oh and we could use some extra supplies you could get from the local market.
K-Zel: i'll find what i can. you can count on me.

>food
Jackie: we would need a few days to prepare. you'll handle the supplies Fuse.
Fuse: got it.
>and send her with fuse so she doesn't end up actually killing someone else's pet.
Jackie: oh and K-Zel. could you like... keep eye on Fuse, so she doesn't accidently kill someone's dog.
K-Zel: ...ok. uhm... what's a dog?

2/2 PART ONE END Sombermann 2015/08/23(Sun)06:19 No. 664630 ID: 927d69
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(static)
???: commander and her ragtag brigade holed up in the kordacian village.
????: i heard you engaged them in feild. boss is not gonna like it Casso.
???: sheesh... don't rub it in. i just wanted to see what all the fuss is about.
????: so... how would you evalutae her?
???: nothing special. blowed up the nest... big f**king deal. i can level this entier village with flick of a finger.
????: do that and boss will have your head. and i will make sure of that.
???: don't be such a partypooper Bishop.
????: and you keep acting in line with your mission. Bishop out.
---
???: ok! ok! Bishop! please don't inform boss about my screw up! please! that scar still burns like hell.
????: keep... acting... in line with your mission.
???: ...yes sir. by the by wasn't there an oldman with them?
(static)

>by the by wasn't there an oldman with them?
Poor oldman. Wandering an alien planet all alone.

Oh well. At least there's a chance he's okay. If we'd left him in his cell he'd be exploded to hell already.

old man is gonna remember he was once a badass commando and'll come save our assess later just you watch.