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Factor Mystic
Mar 20, 2006

Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
ONE

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Thallium
Mar 14, 2007

Nice thread. NOW WHERE IS OUR CHAINSAW ARM?
Now closing thread pending next update!

Thallium
Mar 14, 2007

Nice thread. NOW WHERE IS OUR CHAINSAW ARM?
You try to take off your robotic arm in the hope that this will keep Protobot out of your mind, but tearing off your own arm is hard.





Too hard.





Lily Ross has been found guilty of attempting to subert Father Meadowfields' new empire. She has been judged too troublesome for conversion. Instead, she will be executed.



You have been selected as an executioner for Father. You are very excited to do this important job for him.



You love Father Meadowfields very much.



Arse Porn Cage
Oct 9, 2003

Well, that was a letdown. :smith:

Akumu
Apr 24, 2003

(L)oad

Revolver Bunker
May 12, 2004

「この一撃にかけるっ!」
Oh god....NOooo! :smith: indeed

Butterfly Valley
Apr 19, 2007

I am a spectacularly bad poster and everyone in the Schadenfreude thread hates my guts.
Oh well that loving sucks.

Sockser
Jun 28, 2007

This world only remembers the results!




M.......mom?

BLUE. BLUE BLUE BLUE BLUEEEEEEEE

White Legs
Apr 24, 2006

"Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay its price." :911:
So shall there be another :D?

Redjakk
Apr 24, 2007

cormano sigue siendo mi hermano
Fun Shoe
Well that didn't go as well as I'd hoped.

Old Man Fancington
Jul 24, 2007

by T. Mascis
Nooooo! :smith:

edit: Fantastic story, Thallium.

Old Man Fancington fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Jul 11, 2008

Old Man Fancington
Jul 24, 2007

by T. Mascis
double post by accident :(

liquorhead
Jul 11, 2002

Well, that ending really sucked.

Dubious Merit
Apr 25, 2007

Thallium, I applaud your artistic and your storytelling skill. Thank you for an amazing experience.

edit: Beichan said it better than I could below.

Dubious Merit fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Jul 11, 2008

Beichan
Feb 17, 2007

pugs, pugs everywhere
As much as I hate this ending, I do really love that you followed through.

No pussy cop-outs to save us when we're stupid.

mynnna
Jan 10, 2004

:gonk:

There is no :smith: big enough.

Beichan posted:

As much as I hate this ending, I do really love that you followed through.

No pussy cop-outs to save us when we're stupid.

Well yeah, this is true.

RiffRaff1138
Feb 28, 2006

Every single motherfucker thinks they're gonna save the fuckin' world... Why not do something about the shitty economy or whatever instead?! Son of a bitch!
And next you're going to show us what really happened, because we didn't actually go this way.


...Right?

Warheart525
Jun 22, 2008

Ab-so-lutely!
Nice 1984 reference!

Not the ending I'd hoped for, but certainly not a BAD one.

I told you guys the arm thing wouldn't work, but nooooo...

m2pt5
May 18, 2005

THAT GOD DAMN MOSQUITO JUST KEEPS COMING BACK

Akumu posted:

(L)oad

(R)estart

Thallium
Mar 14, 2007

Nice thread. NOW WHERE IS OUR CHAINSAW ARM?

White Legs posted:

So shall there be another :D?
I dunno.

maketakunai
Jan 11, 2006

What do you mean,
"it's only a game"?!
^^ Oh, you goddamn tease.

Maybe I'm dumb but I can't figure out how a right hand can hold a gun in that position.

Other than that.. goddamnit, did you have to put that ONE YEAR LATER part in? Couldn't you have just left us at "Too hard. THE END"? :cry:

maketakunai fucked around with this message at 01:05 on Jul 11, 2008

Shimrra Jamaane
Aug 10, 2007

Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.
You just had to vote 2 didn't you? DIDN'T YOU!?!

PKMN Trainer Red
Oct 22, 2007



:smithicide:

It was a great ride while it lasted.

Now, shouldn't we get FUTURE ASSASSIN ADVENTURES of Pigtails with a chainsaw arm? Hmmmm?

Arse Porn Cage
Oct 9, 2003

Thallium posted:

I dunno.


Please, please? :unsmith:

Nice artwork through the whole thread, too.

Gibmiser
Feb 20, 2006
Bored.
I enjoy bad twists of fate just as good as happy endings. I think you should continue the story with her in the dystopic future with a warped personality trying to cope. Not sure where it would lead her, as in what great conflict there would be except maybe revenge...


run with it, start a new thread as part 2

that is, if you are up for it and not bored.

Epiq
Dec 3, 2005

This post is the best!
How about some alternative endings for us fans, huh? That'd be sweet.

ExtraFox
May 22, 2003

~all of these candy~
I never once posted in this thread, but I followed it. I now have blueballs (blueovaries?). Please continue her life.

Thallium
Mar 14, 2007

Nice thread. NOW WHERE IS OUR CHAINSAW ARM?

maketakunai posted:

Maybe I'm dumb but I can't figure out how a right hand can hold a gun in that position.
ROBOT SCIENCE. :science:

...I don't know, I just got sick of redrawing that panel over and over trying to get it right. I am terrible.

afflictionwisp
Aug 26, 2003
Glad it was finished, but that ending sucked. Not because it was tragic, but because it was just to sudden. An extra update, or this one being longer, to build up to it would have made it work better. This was an awesome thread. YAY, Thallium!

kukrunkarmaskin
Mar 28, 2005

you should see my TMNT® Machinegun
Fantastic story, I applaud you.

Shimrra Jamaane
Aug 10, 2007

Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.
This will soon have a well deserved place in the goldmine.

marit
Nov 16, 2006

Superfreak

Epiq posted:

How about some alternative endings for us fans, huh? That'd be sweet.

I'd much rather have this than a deux ex machina ending. I was a somewhat disappointed with the Choose your own Adventure clown-monster Dropsy thread from a few months ago. It was all in good fun, of course, it even got goldmine'd.

But I didn't like the deux ex machina Savior sent from the heavens ending.

Okay he wasn't really sent from the heavens, but I'd have much preferred to see Dropsy be self-sufficent in his victory. The prim-and-proper clown just kind of came out of nowhere. I don't like that.

Evidently it is, in fact, possible to choose enough "Wrong" answers in this kind of thread to result in a "Game over."

Bob Smith
Jan 5, 2006
Well Then, What Shall We Start With?
That was a very nice way to end the thread. Nice, that is, in the same way that Christy Moore lyrics are "nice" and that is a punch in the gut.

Bravo.

Zero_Tactility
Nov 25, 2007

Look into my eyes.
Grandpa, grandpa. Wait. That's not the end, right? I mean... it's just a dream, right?

Nurse Fanny
Aug 14, 2007

Wait, um did that count? Because I had my finger on the page before we dedicated to the final out come.

Either way, Thallium, you have created an incredibly amazing story set in a magical world. You would do yourself a great injustice by not expanding on the story, characters, or whatever else you managed to create.

Thanks a million for this awesome thread.

The Proper Gander
Nov 16, 2004
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Thanks so much for this, Thallium. This thread was/is loving incredible.

If too tedious to show us other plotlines, it'd be really really cool if you could simply tell us what the other outcomes would have been or a general summation of the critical options?

Utter brilliance though, woman. I checked SA more than I usually do to follow this.

Bravo.

maketakunai
Jan 11, 2006

What do you mean,
"it's only a game"?!
So, uh, what happened to Dr. Stratford? Was he purposely helping Meadowfields the entire time? Did Meadowfields jack him up after we syringed him? He never had a (fully?) roboticized brain, so Protobot shouldn't've been able to take hold of him..

e: Oh, wait, we didn't have one either, yet Protobot got us from just that arm. Maybe he had a robotic toenail or something.

Trinexx
Aug 31, 2007

Ask me about time-shares at scenic Turtle Rock!
Well this was a awesome ending to a great thread. I applaud you Thallium.

On a side note: Has anyone been collecting the pictures and captions and willing to share in a zip file or something?


Edit: Also... did we ever get our officially sanctioned Chainsaw Arm?

Snow Job
May 24, 2006

Ha ha, whoops. Sorry for starting the "rip off the arm" bandwagon. That's a pretty awesome bad ending.

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LadySage
Dec 26, 2005

AA: i am very much alive
AA: and i intend to stay that way :)
gently caress. I can't believe it ended that way. :smithicide:

But still, bravo Thallium. In all that it's the "bad" ending, it's a great bad ending. Thanks for the thread.