Oken 2016/01/08(Fri)20:56 No. 692341 ID: fe06ff
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Oken: "owwww . . ."
everything is dark, my body hurts all over.

Can you feel anything wet? Can you move? Are you bleeding? Do you still have all your limbs?

Pat yourself down and check for any injuries. We need to check on everyone and then get moving quick before Mint can get down her to silence us.

The faster you can get your story to people the better.

>>692341
Check self for bleeding and broken bones, call out to the others.

If the ship has any instrumentation working, check if you can get any readings of the outside environment. You got air out there?

Slowly test out your arms. Do not move your legs. Check for shrapnel and call for help.

Find the nearest first-aid kit and patch yourself up. Then make sure your squad is okay.

Oken 2016/01/09(Sat)06:38 No. 692425 ID: fe06ff
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it hurts if I try to move my left arm, I use my right arm instead.

I try pushing several buttons . . . nothing happens.

it hurts to breath.

my face feels wet.

Focus on not dying and try to stand. Can you remember how to turn on auxiliary power?

you probably have a concussion. stay awake. be happy you are not dead.

You probably have broken ribs, a broken left arm, and a concussion.
Call out to Fuze or Hoft if you can.

Stay focused. You are an ace pilot. You know what to do in the event of a crash. There should be manual functions in the event of power failure, and safety features designed to be used in events like this. I'm sure you know where they are.

Well, you've confirmed you're injured (apparently bleeding from a head wound, sprained / dislocated / broken left arm, possible broken rib(s) and/or your chest is crammed up against the console or under debris).

Assuming gravity is oriented towards the bottom of your seat (you're not dangling from your seat-belt, right?) start feeling around for the manual release on your seat restraints.

If possible, call out to the others. You have a medic on board, it would be nice if he were in one piece. Or at least alive and conscious. (Although your passages didn't even have a seat, they probably got thrown around worse than you did).

Oken 2016/01/09(Sat)10:14 No. 692443 ID: fe06ff
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Auxiliary power should have kicked in already . . .

I try to activate auxiliary power manually . . . the console must be broken.

I stand up and call out

Oken: "Fuze! are you there?"

. . .

no response.

would the ship have sealed off the breach you made getting in? if so then just work your way to the door, opening it should let the carrier's light in.

We can't try to open our ship until we know there's air outside. We don't know if the cruiser has sealed the breach on the deck you crashed into yet, or if they just closed the interior bulkheads and let your location decompress to contain you.

Does the ship have an emergency flashlight or anything stowed under the console? It's good practice to keep one in a car, why not a ship.

Failing that, start feeling around. The cockpit wasn't very big, you should find the other two quick enough. Hopefully they're just unconscious.

Oken 2016/01/09(Sat)15:30 No. 692529 ID: fe06ff
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Under normal conditions any hull breach is sealed automatically through the ships shielding.

I don't have a flashlight, but I do have my raygun,
I turn it on.

>Under normal conditions any hull breach is sealed automatically through the ships shielding.
I wouldn't trust that.

>>692529
Check on your crewmates. Is there a pulse / breathing? Can you see any major injuries? (And uh, I'm not sure how you check a robot's vital signs).

Oken 2016/01/09(Sat)17:00 No. 692542 ID: fe06ff
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Both of them seem to have a pulse, Fuze has blood on his head, like something hit him.

Prince was broken before, he doesn't seem anymore broken now.

he may have been bonked by prince.

is there any way to check pressure on the other side of the door? can you get basic power on in here? if you can't do anything in here besides open the door then you will probably have to.

>>692542
Hoft isn't here.
Weird.
How does a man with no legs walk?

>>692545
he's strapped to the seats that are now on the ceiling.

Is any of the bleeding on him (or you) still happening quickly, or is it mostly dried / staunched already? There's a medkit there if you need to stop blood loss.

>>692542
Medkit. Apply medical treatment to yourself, then others.

Oken 2016/01/09(Sat)19:09 No. 692574 ID: fe06ff
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All the systems seem offline, including life support . . . I don't think I can get anything to work on this ship.

I use the medical kit and what basic first aid training I have to patch myself and Fuze up.

can you get hoft down safely or would he just crush you?

Try to determine if anything is blocking the exit. Open the door and look outside. Then pull Fuze out of the ship and try to find the others.

>>692574
You need to determine conditions outside of the ship without instrumentation.

Are their any non-electronic viewports where we can look out?

Oken 2016/01/10(Sun)17:10 No. 692813 ID: fe06ff
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Maybe I should get Hoft down . . . no with my bad arm I'd probably just hurt him or myself.

I'd like to take a look outside but the viewports are all broken, I may have no choice but to just open the door.

Open the doors too early, and you asphyxiate. Open them too late, and you probably find a bunch of troopers in power armor waiting for you.

Assuming you can safely get off the shuttle, what would you do?

>>692836
opening late also results in asphyxiation, we have no life support and three bodies consuming oxygen.

take the chance, pop the hatch.

Wait, you crashed straight into the hull of a battlecruiser. The exit to your ship is in the rear. What are the odds, given all confidently known parameters, that the opening of the ship is not subject to the vacuum of space?

I think you should focus on healing Fuze, who can then fix the Comm Link. You can also repair the door-opening mechanisms, but use them when you're heavily breathing.

>>692848
fuze is a doctor not a mechanic.

Oken 2016/01/10(Sun)19:21 No. 692866 ID: fe06ff
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If I open the door we might die from the vacuum . . . then again the life support is shot so if we stay in here we'll suffocate anyways.

At least if I open the door it'll be quick.

Oken opens the door

well I'm not dead . . .

Well now to get your story to someone in charge before Mint can silence you.

What does the area around here look like? Can we move the others or do you think its best to leave them here while you go out alone?

hooray, look around. hopefully the AI will have to report your presence as an astranian and confuse the hell out of everyone as to why an astranian ship was close enough to cause a hull breach when everyone was saying the area was clear.

>>692866
Look around, see if you can determine what deck you're on / where on the cruiser you are.

Oken 2016/01/12(Tue)08:46 No. 693196 ID: fe06ff
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Okay I need to find-

well crap that's not good.

????: "Miss Oken your piloting skills were . . . impressive."

who's targeting you?

>>693196
I'm not an Ace Pilot for nothing.

*sarcastically* Permission to come on-board?

That's three different people, hopefully they're not all with Mint.
Surrender.

"Thank you?"

Probably best to be polite and go along with what they want until you know what's happening.

>>693196
You might want to lower your weapon. Or raise your hands. Or otherwise assume a posture that makes the snipers watching you less likely to pull the trigger.

LW 2016/01/12(Tue)14:59 No. 693323 ID: fe06ff
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I look around and see nobody just some damaged rooms

Oken: " . . . um, Thanks"
I say to the empty room.
Oken: "but you shouldn't be surprised seeing as I'm an Ace Pilot."

????: "Is that so?"

I see the person speaking to me. he wasn't there before . . . or was he?
It's a Cult-ops Agent they operate outside of astranian law and work directly for a Counselar.

Normal they're used to hunt down traitors.

????: "I'm going to have to ask you to follow me."

Is that the hole you came in though in the wall? With a shield holding the air in?

>>693323
...you say ask, but it's not as if I have a choice, do I?

Lead on.

We'll, you're hardly in a position to do otherwise. Follow and hope for the best. Also inform them that your companions need medical attention.

"I don't suppose you could maybe help me follow you? I'm pretty banged up. I'll follow, but I'm in a lot of pain right now."

I'd say that Mint's probably been the one branded a traitor over you, Oken. These cult guys are psychic, they'll probably know when you're lying. It's probably how he was able to mask his presence for a second. Don't do any bullshit about following him, it's just going to annoy the biggest threat in the room. Might as well try and get him to like you instead of annoy him, in case he's here to arrest Mint, so don't act like too much of a smart alec.

Actually, you know what Oken, compliment his fly outfit.

"I have two injured crewmates that need treatment."

with your gun not already pointed at them i have no doubt they could aim and fire before you could. so follow.

>>693323
"I'm injured, but I'll do my best.
I've got two wounded crewmates who need medical attention.
Also, we came to warn you that we discovered Mint has been in collusion with a techleech."

>>693365
Actually, yes, that is a good point. Say that.

Oken 2016/01/13(Wed)12:58 No. 693513 ID: fe06ff
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Oken: "I guess I don't have much of a choice"

????: "you always have a choice"

. . .

Oken: ". . . I have two friends on board they're injured and-"

????: "they'll be taken care of."

* * *

we enter the central transporter

????: "I'm going to need to hold onto your Raygun."

not sure what more harm that can do. already at their mercy. can say you really don't want to after being betrayed before.

Can you disarm your Raygun, oken, take it apart without breaking any laws? Even just the ammo clip? I'd suggest doing that before handing it to him.

>>693513
"Only once I can confirm you're not the traitor I'm chasing who infiltrated the ship. I'll need to see your face."

Oken 2016/01/13(Wed)14:42 No. 693537 ID: fe06ff
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Oken: "No, I don't even know who you are!"

????: "You will give me that weapon."

Oken: "what happened to always having a choice?"

????: "I would advise against pointless defiance"

he starts walking towards me

Just sigh and hand him the weapon, butt first.

Submit like a deer.

>>693538
May as well throw the damn thing.

At his face.

Oken 2016/01/13(Wed)18:59 No. 693645 ID: fe06ff
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he's right it's pointless, I'm no match for an agent in close quarters like this, and hurt as I am.

I hand him my raygun, he takes it.

* * *

We seem to be going to the Commander's audience chamber. normally it's only for meetings between Commanders and Counselars

>>693645
So... you're either being taken right where you want, or Mint has completely taken over and is waiting for you.

I wonder if those are guns embankments in the walls.

Oken 2016/01/14(Thu)12:04 No. 693855 ID: fe06ff
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I don't know why or how, but there she is . . .

Oken 2016/01/14(Thu)12:05 No. 693856 ID: fe06ff
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. . . Geragine Mint.

>>693856

Are you shitting me.

Oken, grab the nearest Raytech weapon and start firing it at Mint right now.

Challenge her to trial by combat to take the throne. Just make sure the fight involves spaceship combat. Surely your culture has some ridiculous system that would make that work.

If not say hi.

>>693856
Hey,Mint.

So you wanna start by bragging how you pulled this coup off, or by gloating that you have me in captivity?

Oh my god, Mint...

Tell her you just don't care anymore. You just don't. Go ahead Mint, do what you gonna do. Just wipe the smirk away, for the love of god, you don't deserve it.

Ok Oken if you are going to have a chance here you will need to stay calm and keep your wits about you.

If you start shouting at her about betrayal or trying to call her out on what she did its going to end badly. You have no evidence on hand and it will just weaken your position. Even her attack on your ship was a weapon test that you were warned about.

So keep calm and politic the crap out of this. There will be a time to set things right but now is probably not it.

Treat her like your old friend and let nothing slip about what happened. If she brings up you ramming the ship just apologize and mention that you were under attack. Thank her for the brilliant idea of staging a weapons test to scare off the pirates. As she knew a ace pilot such as yourself could easily avoid it.

Then do the same with anything else she talks about. Make it so that if she takes action against you it is obviously because of her personal vendetta. If you give her a chance she will use your words against you so keep things simple and polite.

>>693856
"So are you actually in charge here, or did this whole fiasco only net you a promotion to the Rank of the Commander's Official Seat Warmer?"

stay calm. wouldn't have brought you here for nothing.

>>693856
Is the other guy still here?
If so, then "Wow, selling our species out to the leeches worked out well for you."

Don't be an asshole.

Stay completely silent. Let her talk first. Even if it drags on awkwardly long because Mint was expecting you to speak by now. ESPECIALLY if it drags on awkwardly long because Mint was expecting you to speak by now.

Oken 2016/01/15(Fri)12:27 No. 694121 ID: fe06ff
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>>694101
I choose to keep quiet for now

Mint: "So you managed to convice Target to spare you, now THAT is a feat."
"Not even an ace pilot should be able to do that."

Oken: " . . . "

Mint: "you're right there's nothing really more to say."

Oken 2016/01/15(Fri)12:29 No. 694122 ID: fe06ff
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Mint: "Agent Target, I thought I told you I don't care if she's an ace pilot, that was an order"

Oken 2016/01/15(Fri)12:29 No. 694123 ID: fe06ff
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Mint: "KILL. HER. NOW."

Oken 2016/01/15(Fri)12:30 No. 694124 ID: fe06ff
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Target: "Oh, she's not an ace pilot"

Oken 2016/01/15(Fri)12:31 No. 694125 ID: fe06ff
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Mint: "Eh?!"

Completely ignore the serious situation and threat to your life and focus on them questioning your status.

>not an Ace pilot
I'm not? That doesn't sound right. I'm pretty sure I am.

Hey that's uncalled for.

I can handle the possibility of my imminent death. But I am not going to let someone claim that I am anything less than a ace pilot.

So take that back.

>>694128
don't say that, just give a *WHAAAA?* expression.

>>694129
who's says it's less? clearly we are above an ace pilot.

>>694125
Cock your head in confusion.

We did just crash a shuttle into an 'allied' battle ship.
That's gonna look terrible on her track record.

Dispite all weapons lock on us, the lasers fired at where we were and not where we were going. He wasn't aiming to destroy us. Oken only avoided getting shot because they didn't want to shoot us without giving us a chance.

Alright everyone just sit down for a second and try to figure out exactly what the hell is going on now.

>>694125
yeah im a super ace pilot

>>694125
Maybe now's not the time to stay silent, since that smirk is off her face and you now have regained some control of the situation.

Mint, how did you go from trying to kill me in self defense to wanting to kill me over... I don't know. But that's murder.

No trial, no nothing. I'm not even a traitor by any regular Astranian standard I see, I never even betrayed our friendship, you did. You were going to use Astranian tax payer money to kill me out of a grudge. Fuck off, Mint. I could forgive you for doing your weird, sneaky stuff because you were doing it because you believed you were being patriotic, but I can't forgive attempted murder, without a trial or explanation.

Man, Mint, if you have always been like, secret Cult-Ops or whatever, like, that's fine, but your desire to see me die has nothing to do with Astranian matters. I was your fucking friend, maybe your ONLY one, and you want me dead. Did I investigate the murder you did, yes, I did, nothing wrong with that, I'm a captain, you murdered an asset that was helping us off planet when he hadn't actually asked us for anything in return, me and Fuze had to investigate. Did I question your motives when you explained, yes, I did, for good reasons.

But the thing is, I saved your life. I granted you mercy when, for all intents and purposes, I had a traitor on my team, and a traitor to our friendship. Because, despite EVERYTHING, I cared about you, you were there for me when I needed someone the most, and I appreciated that. How have we come to this, Mint? You were my best friend, and now you want to kill me? Are you the same Mint that helped me through my planet's destruction

>>694157
We made a boarding breach with our ship. 100% intentional and we did it well.

Is this the part where he announces that after that stunt you just pulled you got a promotion and now outrank Mink

Oken 2016/01/16(Sat)21:24 No. 694648 ID: fe06ff
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Oken: "Whaat?!"

Target: "Evaluating her records, she simply doesn't have the aptitude to be any sort of pilot let alone an ace.
Even is she was, it still would not explain her actions, even a perfect pilot could not predict the pattern
to the degree of accuracy required to compensate for the shuttle's poor maneuvering"

Mint: "well clearly she must have had some manner of abnormal skill to dodge those shots."

Target: "Skill is no object here, I evaluated the weapons record each targeting orb
had a momentary glitch upon firing leaving the shots a degree off target.".

Mint: "sabotage?"

Target: "not exactly, it's a known flaw, Commander Flek is still working out the bugs, it happens 0.01 percent of the time"

Mint: " are you telling me she just got lucky?"

Target: "Yes."

Mint: "no one is that lucky . . . unless"

Target: "Normally I would have to assume personal error on my part but-"

Mint: "-But my event report convinced you otherwise, created a pattern of unlikely success."

Target: "Yes"

Oken 2016/01/16(Sat)21:25 No. 694649 ID: fe06ff
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Mint: " . . . heh"

Mint: "heh heh heh"

Mint: "HAH HAH HA HA!"

Wait so I have psychic luck powers?

Also lets be fair that piloting was pretty good.

?????????

Oken's got some creepy MGS2 luck powers going on here.

I guess this is what happens when you breed deer for luck.

"Look if you're not killing me yet could I get a better explanation."

Wow, Oken. If you are secret subconscious psychic instead of an ace pilot, then instead of having an innate talent, an enhanced awareness of the world around you, and an affinity for astranian technology, you instead have an innate talent, an enhanced awareness of the world around you, and an affinity for astranian technology.

It would change everything!

Maybe if you glare at Mind hard enough she will have a heat attack :V

Ask where IS Flek anyway, or the ship's crew for that matter.

I find it more likely Target isn't on board with Mint and is fucking with her for his own amusement, or for some other reason.

It could also be that the bugs are helping us.

Channel self-hatred into Mint's frontal lobe.

>>694649
Mint, shut the fuck up you sound like a film villain, seriously.

I wonder if it's the lucky ear tag thing

You are too an Ace Pilot.

"sorry mint but the comedy show your seeing is only going on in your head..."

>>694662
pshh.
Yeah though, pretty much this. All this means is that your "ace piloting" abilities have always just been more versatile in application.

>>694649
"So are you two having a private joke before you kill me? ... Because I don't see the punchline."

Oken 2016/01/18(Mon)20:34 No. 695333 ID: fe06ff
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Oken: "Wait, do you mean I have magical super luck powers?"

Mint: "no you idiot, you have Chrono-Caller!"

*FLICK!*

Oken: "AAAARRGH!"

Oken 2016/01/18(Mon)20:35 No. 695334 ID: fe06ff
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Oken: "ooooowwwww"

My poor broken snout . . . hasn't it suffered enough?!

wait did she say Chrono-Caller?

I know what those are . . .

Slap her shit!
You don't deserve this treatment, this fucking disrespect.
What the FUCK happened to the friend we called Mint!

Well figure out how to use your chrono powers to slap Mint silly then.

>>695334
Well, we've got no idea what that means.

"Ugh, why are you being so mean? It's not like I did anything to you!"

well then use it now to avoid the nose flick.

Oken 2016/01/18(Mon)21:11 No. 695352 ID: fe06ff
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there's an old legend

Three hundred years ago the precursor guardians of the sector known as the
Obilisc Enforcers decided to pass the torch onto a new order,
an order that would become the Astranian Alliance.

as a sign of faith the Obilisc deputized the greatest heroes with badges of office,
in time of dire need these badges could be drained of power to call forth a Enforcer from lost time.
these badges were known as Chrono-Callers.

there's never been any hard evidence of these badges ever existing though.

and I don't remember being deputized, or even receiving a badge . . .

or I never earned one because I inherited it from my Father.

What are they supposed to do, then?

Is it possible your good luck charm is a badge?

Why would being one of these make impossibly improbable things happen around you, anyways.

Address the others: does the alliance have hard evidence Chrono-Callers ever even existed? That kind of information would have been way above my security clearance.

who gave you that 'lucky earring'?

If you're a Chrono-Caller, you outrank Mint and have the right to fuck her up.
Can you slap her shit now?

How does calling an Enforcer result in improbable fortune? Do they have luck powers?

>>695352
"....
No, seriously."

Oken 2016/01/19(Tue)11:45 No. 695459 ID: fe06ff
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There's no legends of the chrono callers protecting anybody or anything like that, they were supposed to be a kind of time radio.

Oken: "Chrono-Caller? but theres no hard evidence they even exist!"

Mint: "Oh whats that? the glorious Alliance has kept secrets from it's troopers? truly I am shocked."

I guess if it's top secret stuff I wouldn't know.

Mint: the good news is that you don't need to die anymore, no one does,
all you need to do is give us the Chrono-Caller and we'll be on our way."

>>695459
You expect me to just hand over the only leverage I have on you? Now I'm shocked.

No you won't Mint. You'll get off by shooting Oken and raping her corpse.

Oken, open fire! You have the Chrono-Caller, you can do this!

You're lying Mint.
You're trying to kill me for personal reasons, not patriotic. You'll kill me as soon as I give you what you want.

I guess... if it's a time thing, then a Chrono-Caller might be "predestined" for whatever use it's eventually put to. Like, if it calls something from the past, then technically it's already been used. The point in the future at which it will get used is as much a fixed point in time as the one in the past. So, if a Chrono-Caller's past can't be altered, then its future can't be altered either, only the path that it takes to get there.

So, anything that would theoretically prevent it from being used in the way that it's going-to-be/already-was used just can't happen. It's impossible. Ridiculous coincidences will prevent it from being destroyed or disabled.

But... that shouldn't have protected you, Oken. It should be perfectly possible for something to kill you and leave the Chrono-Caller to be taken. The shots fired at the shuttle, for example, could have killed you and left the Caller to be salvaged.

Unless it's not only that the Chrono Caller has already will have been used, but already will be used by you. Which means you can't lose it, give it away or have it taken. Some ridiculous coincidence will happen to prevent any such thing.

So, you can explain that to Mint. Whatever she wants to use the Chrono-Caller for, she needs you to be the one who actually uses it. So maybe she should try explaining things for once.

She said you would be better off not knowing any of this, but she ordered your death anyway now, so one would assume that's passed. She might as well try telling you what's what and hoping you agree with her decisions on what to do.

So uh, how are we supposed to give you something we didn't even know we had, or can't even see?

Laugh in her face. She seriously expects you to believe she won't kill us if she has a chance, after she has made it exceedingly clear how desperately eager she is to do just that? No, if she isn't killing you to take the Chrono Caller from your corpse its because she can't without draining its remaining power in the process.

might not need to but whose to you wont kill anyway?

Oken 2016/01/19(Tue)17:59 No. 695576 ID: fe06ff
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Oken: "No way you'll kill me no matter what, you have it in for me."

Mint: "I've tried so hard to spare you Oken, it's why I've kept you in the dark, if you didn't know anything you couldn't screw it up. Then you pushed me too far, you forced me to use the Portal Matrix, we couldn't have you knowing about that.
But the Chrono-Caller changes everything, our time table will leap forward, nothing you know would be able to even slow us down, even if they believe you.

Oken: "You're lying to me like you always do! you'll shoot me dead the second I hand it over!"

Mint: *sigh* "Asnia Oken I don't want to kill you, I never have,
I like you Asnia, you saved my life, you inspired me to make a difference.
It's that same inspiration that has set us apart.
I will do what's best for the alliance . . . even if I have to kill you."

Oken 2016/01/19(Tue)18:00 No. 695579 ID: fe06ff
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and for a moment Garagine isn't the laughing monster, she's just the crying Maloran I met three years ago when my world burned.
Memory of flames that will never die, it felt like she was the only one who cared.

Mint: "But it doesn't have to be that way this time, just give me the Chrono-Caller"

Well then. She just ran out of excuses to not explain herself. Either you cooperate, she has what she needs, and you're literally incapable of harming her efforts by her admission. Or, you resist, she kills you, she has what she needs and you're doubly incapable of harming her efforts.

You deserve an explanation.

If it doesn't matter what I know, then tell me. Then you either kill me for my silence, or I give you the badge and you accelerate your timetable to the point where it doesn't matter what I know.

"I don't care if you work for Heaven itself, if you can't be anything more than a paranoid trigger-happy self-righteous government lapdog then @#$% you and @#$% everything that you believe is good. You can call me an idiot, but are you so mentally retarded from the secrecy that you can't even mutter the truth to an empty room in the middle of your giant battlecruiser out on the fringes of the galaxy?"

If I could believe that what you are doing is best for the alliance I would help you in a heartbeat. But you have kept me in the dark and done nothing to prove to me that you are not just some rogue agent.

Prove to me you are trustworthy and I would be right at your side helping you.

>I don't want to kill you, I never have, I like you Asnia
Well gee, maybe she-
>heh heh Hah Hah HAHAHAHA [...] GOOD BYE AND GOOD RIDDANCE . . . ACE PILOT OKEN!
- oh right, that. Spoilered because we should keep quiet about the blatant contradiction while trying to get an explanation, and Oken would as likely as not blurt it out.

>nothing you know would be able to even slow us down
Tell her that if she no longer cares about what you know than to prove it. Demand she explain what her plan is, who the "we" planning it is, how the Portal Matrix and Chrono Caller come into it, how all this secrecy and lying helps the alliance. Point out that if she really wants to keep it a secret she can just keep you here on her big empty ship.

>>695579
Well, this incredibly complicated situation has a simple solution:
You can't trust Mint. At all. For anything. Ever.
She has made a habit out of lying and betrayal, and even now she says she tried so hard to spare you immediately after multiple attempts to kill you.
She also just flicked you right in your broken snout, which is a total dick move.

So here's what we'll do. Her cohort here seems to be more honest, so they will explain EVERYTHING that's going on so you can make an informed decision. You will not turn over a powerful artifact unless you can be certain it will be used properly.
If they decline, or you think they're deceiving you or holding out on you, then activate the tag to summon the enforcer and purge the ship of everybody but you and the two squadmates you CAN trust.

>>695597
Pretty much, yeah.
This is a pretty shitty piss-poor plea for sympathy after all the shit she put us through.
C'mon mint, try a BIT harder.

Call the Enforcer, let it decide who to help.

>>695579
Tell me one thing first, why did you laugh at the thought of my demise when I was flying my way here?

Oken 2016/01/19(Tue)20:15 No. 695662 ID: fe06ff
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Oken: "tell me everything about what you plan to do with these things, and your secret orginization."

Mint: "by the dead gods, you really are good at missing the point."
and just like that the image is gone and the monster returns.

Mint: "nothing you know NOW can hinder us. Long story short I'm not telling you jack shit about our plan, your prize for the trinket is you and your chump friends in the shuttle getting to live."

>>695662
"Gee, it's almost like you've given me absolutely no reasons to trust you this whole goddamn time, mint."

Do a rude hand gesture, one of the REALLY bad ones.

I think it says a lot about her true intentions that she apparently never even considered that you might choose to join her if you knew anything about her plan.

"... You can call us losers because that's what we think we are. You can lord over us like kings when you hold the guns. You can draw up a plan and predict the future. Fine.

Now you claim that the gods are dead.

This was never about making the galaxy a better place, of course. But it was NEVER about getting filthy rich and happy while everyone else suffers.

It was always about CONTROL.

Your alliance can't handle the fact that it will never be in control of everything. Dimensions crack. Atoms shift. Demons and gods are born and die.

So it built a lie out of the dead.

For what it's worth, maybe some do want to control the galaxy to make things better, because chaos brings madness and destruction.

But now you claim that the gods are dead. That means there's no higher power controlling us all. Why would you ever say that, if you didn't want the Alliance to fill in the gap.

This thing brings luck and you WANT it. A @#$%ing 0.1% chance of failure in your cannons of your @#$%ing giant battlecruiser, and it scares you enough to crave a stupid badge. A piece of chaos scares YOU.

You have power that I'll never have. Take it, and leave us alone."

You're still asking me to trust you without showing any in return. That's sill not enough. I'm sorry, but I can't.

the caller can't be taken only given, if she kills you to take it it will be lost to her forever.

also yeah, she thinks it somehow is impossible to convince you that what is happening would be for the good of the alliance? cause that is the only reason she could have to not tell you. meaning whatever her plan is would be bad for the alliance.

>>695662
Ok, activate the badge.
"You just convinced me you plan to use this for horrible purposes, so I HAVE to keep it from you. Only one way to ensure that."

"Did you ever consider that I might agree with you if you told me what it was you were trying to do? If the Chrono Caller has been keeping me from dying and keeping me from losing it then I can't give it to you and you can't take it anyway, it must need me to use it. I know you think we're all stupid Mint but you won't lose anything by trying to convince me now."

No the point was if you could be trusted then that was the way to maybe prove it.

Now I know you are a traitor to the alliance and this is just about power and control. If I give up the badge me and my friends are as good as dead.


Well Oken if you cant figure out how to used that badge shortly you are dead. And with how shady Mint is being and her having a battlecruiser and minions I think this would count as a time of dire need. Whatever she is up to its no good for anyone other than her.

>>695662
You have done nothing but ensure me that you are a sociopath. Are you even the real Mint? Did you take her memories? I don't KNOW YOU!

The real Mint would have NEVER said such a thing about her team. She might joke, she might prod, but she would never belittle their lives!

Oken 2016/01/20(Wed)11:57 No. 695903 ID: fe06ff
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Oken: "I can't trust you! I'll never trust you again! All you've done is convince me you're a sociopath!"

Mint: "Hah! maybe I am. To be quite honest I wouldn't trust me either, fortunately for both of us you don't have to!"

Oken: " . . . what?"

Mint: "You've probably noticed that I can't just take the Caller from you,
(as much fun as strip searching you to find it would have been) no it has to be given, but there's another catch . . . what do you know about the Obilisc?"

Oken: "I know they made the Chrono-caller, and that the Astranian Alliance replaced their order."

Mint: "That's right, but there's more to it, they didn't promote us out of benevolence, they needed stewards to watch the sector, they had hoped to return.
The Obilisc through their near constant use of time travel destabalized themselves from reality their bodies dissipating into little more than shadows and their minds fracturing into insanity. Soon the Obilisc Enforcers began to loose sight of their difference between good and evil, right and wrong, or even friend and foe, but they had a solution. They invented a Psyche sensor known as the "moralode", a sensor to find malcontents for them, ultimately the machines didn't work but I'll get into that later.

When they created the Chrono-Callers they equipped them with a Dimshifter hooked to a moralode, the idea being that only people with an honest heart could receive one. Thing is Moralodes don't and have never worked (a scanner to detect good and evil is pretty stupid so go figure),
but they do have an interesting effect however and that is their ability to detect deceit, which they are really good at.

Essentially the Caller will know if I'm receiving it based on false pretenses. so if I believe I'm deceiving you to get it, I could never touch it.
So the Obilisc and their Moralodes are really the only ones you have to trust."

Oken: " . . . "
I've never heard any of this stuff before.

Yeah none of that matters. It could all easily be lies. And you have seem to done a great job of deceiving yourself Mint.

If your really wanted to go that way you would have just told me what you were up to and tried to convince me normally. But its becoming obvious that you cant or wont tell be because your plan is so ridiculous or cartoonishly evil that I would never agree with it.

>>695897
...so instead of trusting you, I let magic trust you. If I trust you're telling me the truth about the magic I've never heard of in the first place.

In the end that still means trusting your word, Mint. You haven't changed the equation.

She's probably telling the truth that it needs to be given, at least, since otherwise she would have just taken it by force.

>>695903
If I was entrusted with a Chrono Caller Badge, doesn't that mean I outrank you in our society? That I'm better than you? It means our forefather's trust me, one way or another. That I bear a legacy for the Alliance, not you.

Couldn't I just order Target to arrest you, right now?

So we can trust that you're not lying... IF we trust that you aren't lying right now?

"what's stopping me from just calling the enforcer and having them kill you?"

>>695905
Yep. We've given Mint ways to accomplish her stated goal, but she insists on building up her claims instead. It's obvious she's not even going to change tactics.

Also? Even if it can't be transferred under false pretenses, the only statement Mint has made is that she'll let you go. She could do that by shoving you back into your now-ruined shuttle and shoving it at the planet.
She didn't even agree to not come back and kill you later; she only said she didn't HAVE to.

Besides, you're military. You have a duty to deny assets to the enemy, and in this case it is painfully obvious that failure is worse than death. Her refusal to tell you what she intends to use it for is proof enough that she intends to use it in ways you would find morally reprehensible.

Ask Target to take you to see your friends and explain what is going on.

So instead of trusting her, she wants you to trust a description of ancient technology... that was told to you by her.

>destabalized themselves from reality their bodies dissipating into little more than shadows and their minds fracturing into insanity.
>no physical body
>fractured mind
>dubious sense of right and wrong
You know, I am beginning to suspect that Oken can't summon the Obilisc Enforcer now... because we're already here!

>>695947
Well then, let's experiment!
[Pick up Mint and Target]

>>695947

Yes use enforcer powers to set mints hair on fire a little bit.

>>695903
"I think you're too far gone to realize that you're deceiving yourself. So logically, the moralode wouldn't work."

>>695947
Oken: Say "That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death might die."
If we ARE an enforcer then there is absolutely no possible way we aren't using that as an identifying keyphrase.

Oken 2016/01/20(Wed)18:19 No. 696014 ID: fe06ff
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Oken: "wait that doesn't change anything! I would still have to trust the stuff you just said!"

Mint: "and here I thought you WANTED me to tell you stuff, my mistake."

Oken: "what's stopping me from just summoning the Obilisc and ordering it to destroy you"

Mint: "Sanity? Common sense? a desire to live? maybe you missed the part where they've gone completely insane. The Chrono-Caller isn't a magic control device, or even a badge of authority, it's a signal beacon."

Oken: "again more lies!"

Mint: "well if you're just going to not believe anything I say, I guess we're done here."

Target: "Are we returning to plan A?"

Mint: "seems like it."

Oken: "Target! as a bearer of the Chrono-Caller I order you to arrest Mint!"

Target: "No"

Mint: "If it makes you feel better, he's promised to kill me after our plan succeeds."

Target speaks into his sleeve

Target: "Aimlock, Bring up the Rirthian"

This is where they will probably try to torture and or kill the rest of your crew in front of you in order to make you give in.

So if they try it I would go with the summoning and hope your luck stays with you.

>>696014
They're bringing up Fuze? They're probably going to attempt to force you to comply by threatening him, and hoping you won't realize they'll kill all of you either way.
If they threaten Fuze then immediately activate the badge. Your squad's odds of survival are a wash either way (Maybe slightly better against an insane time ghost than they are now), but for the ship of traitors they'd go from certain survival to certain death.
If your squad is dead either way, then the best way to go out is taking some monsters with you.

You know, they never explained how a simple beacon made ridiculously improbable misses happen.

>>696014
No, Mint. Ultimatum: If you try to torture and/or kill my friends to make me comply, I will just summon it. Even if it kills us all, the consequences won't be any worse for me and mine, and will likely be resolved faster.

>so if I believe I'm deceiving you to get it, I could never touch it.
...wait, could we just test this? Have someone who's not Mint say something we know is a lie to Oken, and then see if they can touch it.

Just activate it.

Fuck you, Mint.

>>696035
This. (The ultimatum part. Testing someone touching it might be interpreted by the device as "giving", and there are no neutral parties here.) If she is going to harm your friends than you will truly have nothing left lo lose.

Or if you can figure out how to do so now, activating it now instead of threatening probably would be the best thing to do, for the reasons stated in the threat.

Oken 2016/01/20(Wed)19:58 No. 696059 ID: fe06ff
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Target: She's asking "dead or alive?"

Oken: "If you hurt him I will use the Chrono-Caller and summon the Obilisc!!"

There is a moment of silence, Geragine stares at me dead on, her eyes wide, yet I can see no trace of fear.
she smiles in a way that chills me to the bone.

Target: "Us dying here would prove a major setba-"

without blinking or averting her gaze from me, Geragine speaks

Geragine: "Tell Aimlock I want him dead."
Target: " . . . very well."

>>696059
>summon that shit, we aint no wuss-ass nerd

Ask Target if they are willing to suffer such a setback just to appease Mints sadism.

As for using the badge we are really out of options. Might be a horrible idea but its probably your best chance. So if you cant convince Target that Mint is not fit for command go ahead and use it.

Okay, we might wanna stop, that's the face of someone who's either completely batshit insane or someone who's about to get exactly what they want. We have no idea how this thing works and she only said to kill Fuze after we freaked on her.

I don't suppose you could just smack Target's communicator so it breaks.

...or it could suffer a highly improbable equipment malfunction?

This still doesn't make sense. If she wanted it summoned, she didn't have to try and talk you into handing it over. She could have pushed you into a confrontation sooner.

I think she realizes that you can't use the badge.

So bend it REALLY HARD.

>>696059
Do it. Activate the badge in the hopes that it cleanses the ship of hostiles.

Even considering the possibility she wants you to use the badge for some convoluted reason, doing so is over all our best chance of stopping her at this point.

Fuck it. Summon the Power of Grayskull

>>696090
Pretty much. Handing it over is the only other option we can say would definitely have a worse outcome no matter what they're trying to manipulate Oken into, but our ability to influence Oken will almost certainly break if they use her friends as a means to attack her compassion.

If they weren't going to force the issue then the best option would have been to refuse to engage them, but that's not an option.


Wait, crazy idea here - can you fly this ship? They haven't even attempted to bind you, and they might not even be able to kill you, so perhaps you could ruin their carefully constructed manipulation scenario by hijacking the ship and flying it someplace it definitely shouldn't go.

>>696059
Sucker punch Mint.
RIGHT IN HER FAT GUT!
Also summon at the same time.

>>696059
Grin maniacally right back. "Well if you're both okay with that setback."

Then use it.

Death to Astramarr's enemies.

Do we even know what or where the badge is? Were just accepting whatever mint says at face value. This could just be a setup.

Oken 2016/01/26(Tue)18:20 No. 697472 ID: fe06ff
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I'm not sure how I know what to do
but I do

Oken 2016/01/26(Tue)18:23 No. 697477 ID: fe06ff
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Target: "erg!"

something happens quickly, but I don't see what and my mind is elsewhere . . .

Oken 2016/01/26(Tue)18:23 No. 697478 ID: fe06ff
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. . . it's absorbed by the figure before me.

Oken 2016/01/26(Tue)18:25 No. 697479 ID: fe06ff
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. . . An Obilisc enforcer

Oken 2016/01/26(Tue)18:29 No. 697483 ID: fe06ff
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Chapter 9: end

>>697483


Oooohhhh shit.

Still probably won't be worse than Mint.

I swear to god if this is going to be one of those reverse psychology things where this is what Mint wanted to happen I will be so pissed!

Oken 2016/01/28(Thu)17:26 No. 697922 ID: fe06ff
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The Obilisc emits a series of trumpeting hoots.

???? *Dwooot-Dwoot-toot-Dwoooot-Dwooot-Wip-Dwoot-Dwooot-wip-Dwoooot-Dwooot.*

sounds that only moments ago meant nothing to me assault me from all angles with new meaning!

||-Shade-|
-surface-|
||>home<||
|-shadow-|
>welcome<|
-obsidian-
||-night-|

>>697922
Uh, can you whistle? Try to reproduce the "welcome" tone.

Try humming the fifth one.

Oken 2016/02/04(Thu)17:09 No. 699038 ID: fe06ff
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I try imitating some of the sounds.

Oken: "Mwooot!"

Obilisc "Dwooot"

this time the Obilisc's sound doesn't come back. I try again

Oken: "Meh Maah Moooh!"

Obilisc "Dwooot-Teh-Taa-Dwoooh"

I don't think I'm very good at making these sounds, Mint and Target seem unimpressed.

Mint: "So this is an Obilisc Enforcer huh? . . . well? aren't you going to enact justice? maybe kill me or something?

Obilisc: "Wip-Dwoot-T'wip-tute-Dwoot-Duwoot"

-Mindless-
>realm<
-Justice-
>sleep<

Mint: "you hear that? "Justice sleeps", this bastard isn't gonna provide help worth beans."

I think Mint can't hear some of the words. Try to talk in words and not sentences.

Ask it kindly to move forward? Shield you?

[Obilisc: Move forward, shield user Oken, imprison criminals Mint and Target]

I was sort of expecting your status to be the reason you could understand the beeps, but I suppose it's an open band if Mint can hear it. That, or she's the same as you.

If we can't get it to act by trying to communicate with it, maybe we can force it to act by putting yourself in danger, starting a conflict. Attack one of the others, force it to take a side.

Dunno if Target every passed on that kill order, or if he ignored it over the summoning.

Before it said home and welcome, but in the wrong order. its bottom to top in order and only >< words. so this time it said "sleep realm" or perhaps "justice mindless". i think - - things are read top to bottom so "mindless justice".

>>699038
Might those symbols or intonations of the words may have some significance on their translation. After all, they are chronologically confused, thus they may habitually prefix their words to denote order (rather than assuming order would be transmitted properly in time.)

||-Shade-|
-surface-|
||>home<||
|-shadow-|
>welcome<|
-obsidian-
||-night-|

Shade, home, and night, all have the '||' mark. However only home includes the closing '||' mark.

welcome and home share the '> <' mark.

surface, shadow and obsidion all have '- -'.

All words close with a '|' excepting obsidian and home. Since home closes with a double '||' maybe that represents a complete message end?


Possible translation: obsidian surface shadow night, Shade, welcome home.


-Mindless-
>realm<
-Justice-
>sleep<
Sleep Realm. Mindless Justice.

At least, that makes slightly more sense than 'mindless realm justice sleep'? Or maybe I'm just looking for a solution in the wrong place.

explain your case. mint is being a huge dick and basically everyone on her side is too and needs to die.

>>699040
Seconded.
ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL OF THIS FORM.

Look this giant crystal buddy probably isn't going to be too impressed if we tell it that we called it here just to keep Oken and her friends alive, or to kill Mint.

So, tell it there's a threat to all astranians in the form of mind controlling bugs manipulating you and another species into war with each other and you want it to help figure out what's going on and deal with it, please, if you don't mind mister crystal space demigod. And this nice lady here was telling me she knows how to solve problems and I called you here because of her suggestion, so I'm sure she can explain things better than me.

>>699187
seconding.

Oken 2016/02/08(Mon)16:00 No. 700269 ID: fe06ff
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I try all manner of statements and expressions, trying to getting any sort of reaction, and it only ever sends back a meaningless jumble of words

If only I knew more about the Obilisc . . .

After a few more minutes of trying to get through to the floating crystal Mint seems to get bored

Mint: "The Obilisc are relics of the past who spent too much time in the future and not enough in the present, They can't help help us anymore, Astramar stands or falls alone."
A pained look crosses her face.

She starts walking towards me and that look quickly vanishes,
Replaced once more with the murderous glee of a night reaver.
Mint:"I really wished you had just given me the Chrono-caller, I wish it didn't have to be this way."
I'm sure if she's lying to me or to herself.
She reaches for a weapon.

I Swing hoping to not give her the chance, but my broken body just responds too slow.
Mint laughs.

Obilisc, non-lethal takedown!

ARE YOU DEAF?! KNOCK THE FAT PSYCHO OUT!!!

Headbuttt!

Obilisc, your summoner is in danger!
Protect! Protect!

Okay, there's one sure way to make the obelisk activate.

Attack it. You can't hurt it anyways, Mint is about to kill you, but if you show it aggression, you'll probably trip a defense protocol.

What kind of dorau do you call yourself if you can't headbutt someone, Oken!? And look, one of your goggles' eyepieces is already broken, if you headbutt her with that it'll probably shatter in her face!

She's got one of those warp keys around her neck! Flail for it with your good hand or trip up her legs and take it!
Or I guess alternatively, try to set it off while its still on her and hope it sends her some place inconvenient.

Try and grab that key off her neck and see if you can use it to teleport away. Or at least break it off and wave it about as a delaying tactic. If we can teleport away we can re-approach this situation on our own terms, hopefully with friends as well.

Oken 2016/02/13(Sat)07:08 No. 701507 ID: fe06ff
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I try to grab the portal matrix . . .
but Mint is too fast and my body in to much pain

Oken: "Obilisc help me!"

Obilisc: "Wip-Dwoot-T'wip-tute-Dwoot-Duwoot"

-Mindless-
>realm<
-Justice-
>sleep<

Oken 2016/02/13(Sat)07:10 No. 701508 ID: fe06ff
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Mint's bladed hand swing towards me
I prepare a head butt counter attack

Oken 2016/02/13(Sat)07:13 No. 701509 ID: fe06ff
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before I can strike
Mint cringes in pain and then collapses, paralyzed from a stun shot.

>>701509
"... Huh. I was kind of expecting you to shoot her but I thought it'd come AFTER I'd been killed."

Yeah, I wondered why he didn't do that earlier.

Okay, take a few minutes to discuss the alliance's current agenda, then negotiate for the Obilisc.

Maybe you need to touch the Obilisc? Or, knowing you guys, maybe bleed on it?

Um, thank you, but why?

If Target allows you, you should probably disarm Mint before she recovers.

>>701507
No change, it repeated itself exactly. I guess it will remain in a loop until the right stimulus occurs.

My best guess is Mint was trying to get a response from it by attacking you, and Target didn't want that. He did that to keep the obelisk inert, not to help you.

(Which means one option for trying to get the obelisk to take some action might be deliberately harming yourself. Not sure we'd be able to right now, Target would probably stun you if he saw you trying).

>>701509
oh my god, target, THANK YOU for wiping that smug smirk off of her.
And saving my life, but really, the smug smirk was more important.

Do you have anything useful in your pockets?

Oken 2016/02/21(Sun)07:07 No. 704150 ID: fe06ff
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Oken: "Um, thank you, but why?"

Target: "I had a choice to make, we always do."

Oken: "that's . . . not really an answer."

Target: "It's all your getting."

>Do you have anything useful in your pockets?
I have a [space compass] and a [battery]

frisk mint, so if she comes to she will be unarmed.

So now what; is she under arrest? ...Am I?

Also rifle through Mint's pockets. See what she has. Take her boots and jacket or something.

Relieve Mint of her weapon, if Target allows it. He already took the portal matrix.

I don't suppose the compass is giving off any interesting readings around the Obilisc.

Step on Mints neck and stand there until long after she stops breathing.

>>704150
You know, could you call off the order to kill my friends if you save my life please? Or did you fake that?

Can we just go home now? I don't know why Mint complicated that for us, even with her mysterious goals. There's no way they were incompatible. My goal still didn't change when she betrayed us, I had a duty to get my team home, that was the priority. She was even fine with you killing her after she got whatever THIS whole thing is done, so it wasn't her trying to save her neck. She's done a lot that doesn't make sense.

I don't want the full picture, it's not my responsibility to know and report it, since you already do. I just want to go home. If you're still going ahead with her plan, go ahead, I don't know what it even is. I'm not going to stop you. Just please don't kill a bunch of people to do it, and that's jsut me politely asking. My priority, as it's always been, has been the safety of my team. I'm not going to compromise that under any circumstances. I can't save Mint, though. Not anymore. You can't save a person from themselves. And she left the team when she tried to kill it.

Can I just say again that she basically tried to kill us all for no REAL reason at all? It's fucking bonkers, Target. I don't mean what she did just now to get me to break the Chrono caller, I know that was manipulation. I was talking about trying to prevent me from coming aboard the ship with that INSANE shootemup dodge game.

Oken 2016/02/21(Sun)17:24 No. 704311 ID: fe06ff
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>>704155
She has an uplink hand-computer, and several-CarvDiscs some of which she was using as makeshift weapons.

>>704165
I'm not taking her jacket, it's just a standard dress coat.
her Gravboots are a newer model then mine, but I'm not really interested, I know mine better.


>>704173
I want to crush her, I feel it in my veins, like a pulse that beats with my heart, I want to see the traitor die . . .

Target's words echo in my head.

I Look to Target, and he stares back for a moment, he says nothing then throws me my RayGun.

>>704311

Letting her go in the past has always proven to be a mistake.

Execute her.

Be better than her. Spare her life.

...that, and I suspect the Obilisc will react to a killing. Mint was willing to attack you to set it off, but Target would seem to prefer you did. I'm not sure we have any reason to trust him, either.

Make as is you're psyching yourself up to kill her, then stun him at the last moment.

Then see about restraining the both of them.

She's insane, so use her as a hostage. Start by crippling her so that she can't fight back. Kill if necessary.

Kill the shitty fat cat.

You're going to regret her survival.

You're going to regret letting her go.

If she gets up right now, she's going to flay you.

I suggest you end her, the consequences of her death, who she's working for, and what her long term scheme was can be figured out later.

You've been out of the frying pan and in the oven for a while now, might as well light a match.

>>704315
>>704316

She's not useful as a hostage, she's a gigantic liability at this point. There's no point to sparing her.

"Hey if I shoot her is that going to make the obelisk do things? Like, I really want to shoot her but I'm not a complete idiot here"

>>704348

Or, are we going to get labeled as a traitor for killing off the captain for him? It seems like the kind of dick move the higher ups of any military would pull.

Just tie her up and threaten her if she still refuses to explain herself. Shoot her in the leg or something.

>>704311
"So, Target, can you explain... Well, any of this? I've been incommunicado for awhile, but even if I wasn't I'm pretty sure I'd have no idea why this is happening."

Kill her. She's exploited every previous second chance and bit of trust extended to her.

>>704311
If you're going to kill her, don't do it out of malice. Don't take pleasure in it.
Calm your head, purge your thought of those emotions, and make it like any other duty you've done.

Remember the good times only as you kill her. Make it so you don't WANT to kill her when you do. Then kill her.

She's caused you nothing but pain. Kill her and enjoy every second of it. Traitors get what they deserve.

Mint has to die at this point, but taking pleasure in it wouldn't be right. We're doing this for Astramaar, not personal gain, okay?

>>704350
*shrug* There's a reason Agents don't reveal their true names. Their entire job is to hunt traitors to Astramaar. If he said that Mint was a traitor he'd probably get off scot-free, or 'Target' would be 'executed' and his other identity would not get punished at all.

Just fucking shoot her.

>>704311
Once you decide what to do with Mint. Anything important on that hand computer?

From the looks of things we have no choice at this point. Just shoot her, it's obvious whoever this is she's far from the person you knew.

Don't say anything, don't listen to anything she says, just kill her quickly.

Maybe don't kill her, you are better then that. But don't just let her off lightly. Lex Talionis, blast her legs off for Hoft.

>You're going to regret her survival.
>You're going to regret letting her go.

You are gonna regret anyway, why not?

You're not going to regret it. You're going to feel a great weight off your shoulders as a constant threat to you and your actual friends disappears.

Oken 2016/02/27(Sat)08:01 No. 705892 ID: fe06ff
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My heart pounds with exitement and desire
Oken: "ALL TRAITORS MUST DIE!!!!"

Oken 2016/02/27(Sat)08:01 No. 705893 ID: fe06ff
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*Crick*

Oken 2016/02/27(Sat)08:02 No. 705894 ID: fe06ff
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There is no guilt,
no remorse,
only a deep feeling of rightness within me.
I have done well.
even the pain of my injury feels like nothing in the face of this triumph.

The Traitor is destroyed.
Geragine Mint is dead.

That crack in the Obelisc sure is ominous...

Mint is dead, but it's unlikely she was working alone. You probably won't get any straight answers from Target, but ask him what the hell she was up to anyway.

I'm fine with not knowing what's up.
Just get me and my team medical attention and home. I don't care about anything else.

I wouldn't call it a triumph really. A old friend went a bit crazy and tried to kill you several times over while never explaining themselves. More of a tragedy really.

Specially if she was under the control of the mind leech things.

But if you had let her live she would be instantly back to trying to kill you.

Ask target what happens now.

Well, she was crazy and a threat. That's all.

I don't think she can be a traitor if she's too insane from watching her planet explode to remember that she was on your side.

Whatever, you did what you thought was best. I'll respect your decision. Grab the skull and let's move.

You have stirred the Obelisc. You have no idea what it might do. Brace yourself.

Way to be a spaz, Oken.

Be on guard you have no idea what to expect form the Obilisc or Target.

If he's still there and not hostile then ask target what's next, what to do about the Obilisc, and if your crew are alright.

Try and find your other crew members, their safety is why you did all this!

>Evil red eye
>Crack in Obelisc

Oh yeah that's a good sign alright. Nice one Oken.

>>705894

DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD!

Earning Renegade points has never felt so good.

Good fucking riddance. Now let's find our buddies. Maybe the good doctor might know more about the obelisk? He's a scholarly type!

Some day, in some way, you will regret this.

>>706101
Sure, and someday we'd regret letting Mint live in some way, too.

Oken 2016/02/29(Mon)16:48 No. 706329 ID: fe06ff
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>You probably won't get any straight answers from Target, but ask him what the hell she was up to anyway.
I glance around the room for Target . . . it seems he left

>You have stirred the Obelisc. You have no idea what it might do. Brace yourself.
The Obilisc is cracked now, other than that it still doesn't seem to want to do much.

I hear the sound of a door opening followed by harsh words in voice distantly familiar
???? "SURRENDER OR DIE-"
the voice stops short

Turn and see who it is. But keep your gun at your side so they don't get a itchy trigger finger.

Whoops, looks like you just got framed for the murder that you technically did do.

Oken, how good a shot are you? Decide if you want to test your luck or put the gun down slowly

except that's probably one of your squad members. Turn around slowly.

>>706329
"I've already handled the traitor. Where are my crew mates?"

"Everything's ok. Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are The traitor is dead."

>>706329
Drop the gun and slowly turn around. No reason to get shot now.

>>706329
"The traitor lays dead, and I'm in no position to fight. If you're here to kill me, hurry up, it's been a horrible day ... Oh, and this is an Obilisc Enforcer. It doesn't say or do much, but the cracks are new."

Keep hold of your weapon but do not raise it or make any hostile movements, just turn and look at who is addressing you. Hopefully it'll be a friend or crew-mate.

Oken 2016/03/05(Sat)15:19 No. 707458 ID: fe06ff
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I turn around, but they don't even seem to notice me, they're all just standing there staring at the giant crystal floating in the center of the room.

Fuze: " . . . An Obilisc? here?"

I recognize Combat-Master Pary-Zegh, she was chief of security aboard the Ecliptor Last I was aboard.

Oh now you guys are here. A minute earlier and this would have been way different. Did you find Fuze 5 seconds after I got kidnapped by the creepy spec ops person or what?

Bet its to late to jam the damn thing back in your earring.

Fuze, your ok! Do you know what is going on around here? This traitor *kick Mint bone* was acting like she owned the place.

Acknowledge your superior then ask Fuze what he knows about the Obilisc. If you feel like you're in good enough company to do so then explain what happened to summon it. Also find some time to ask if he and Hoft are alright.

explain all the who said what truthfully.

>Fuze: " . . . An Obilisc? here?"

Yeah I was kind of hoping you'd be able to elucidate. Some chucklefuck called Target is in league with Mint. They have a plan. Fuck knows what it is. Mint fell victim to her own hubris. Target has wandered off somewhere. If we're gonna get any answers it's probably from him.

You've been through a lot, express relief to see Fuze okay and concern over Hoft.

>>707517
Yes.
Tell them you would explain what happened, but you don't really understand it yourself.

Oken 2016/03/08(Tue)16:28 No. 707830 ID: fe06ff
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Fuze: "I wonder why it's here?"
Pary-Zegh: "I'm not sure, but clearly it's the reason the traitors retreated."

Oken: "I summoned it here."

they are startled by my words and take note of me for the first time

Fuze: "Oken! you're alive!"
Pary-Zeigh: "And you've killed a traitor, excellent work trooper!"

The sense of awe broken the Combat-Master and her triplet bodyguards scan the room.
I try to tell them what happened but other than Fuze they don't seem to be listening
"room clear" one of the Pelt triplets states

Pary-Zeigh: "Let's keep moving there may yet be enemies lurking aboard."

Fuze: "I'll need to take Oken to Med bay, she's likely suffering from Binder's Lash, on top of her crash wounds."

Binder's Lash, I've heard of it. When and Astranian kills another for the first time it can cause short term lunacy and severe heart pains, I don't know much else about it, but apparently it has to do with conflicting ritual oaths.

I feel fine though, good actually, just a warm heat soothing my chest

say that you don't think leaving the room right now is a good idea. what with the Obilisc and all.

>>707830
What about your injuries, Fuze? You should have a concussion.

When you came to, did they brief you on everything Mint did? She was really confusing, I don't even know how she came to power here, or how everyone knew she was a traitor.

Take a nap, you might be too drugged on euphoria to feel pain. Plus, you'll want a full body scan to make sure Mint wasn't diseased.

oh fuck, idea. what if the Obilisc just rewrote history? as in. everyone was sure zane was on their side and shit. but now, suddenly, everyone knows zane was a traitor. everything warped so you are the hero.

>>707886
It also might be the source of that righteous anger that enabled Oken do what needed to be done. It might fade, so prepare for that.