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Cpt. Penelope Kentuckyan AP 2, Exhausted Uncontaminated inside the EVA suit, Penelope weighs the smug joy of an "I told you so" vs the risk of getting shot. After the last thing she errs on saying nothing. "I mean we could do that old stereotype and pretend to be gods. Fly up, light show, noise amplifiers, etc."
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Narinth dal Krodven AP: 5 | Conditions: Exhausted, Infected (Nanites, First Contact) Doomykins posted:You can discern that these are Vularens "While I enjoy Shock and Awe as much as the next gal, I think our people have had enough trauma for one day." Narinth replies wryly to Penny after Bella reports her findings. "Nice work Bella. Still, something about this feels off..." She looks out the window again, then shakes her head. "Let's move in on foot and make contact. Veri, stay behind with the Bumper and keep it hidden. Anyone who is up for an evening stroll, on me." Narinth exits the vehicle and starts heading for the nearest search party, moving slowly and keeping her eyes peeled for anything out of place. Narinth makes an unskilled attempt at Scouting Intent: Carefully approach the nearest group of Vularen (Ascended roll) Roll: 🎲1d6 (1) = 1 Result: Task performed with minimal competency
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Deputy Therapist Bella AP: 2 | Conditions: Winded, ᗪᕮᕮᖘԲᖇᓰᕮↁ, Infected "It seems..." Bella trails off, hesitant and unsure, and the slowly creeping sense of grime pulls back into herself. The little bits of emotion and color pull back as well, limited only to the raw audio of her vocoder. Very disturbing. "It seems they're just survivors from the crash? Scouting. I'm mostly sensing... anticipation. Hope, even, but the sort of resigned hope of someone who knows that help will still come uncomfortably late." ~~~ She tilts her head, curious. "They're not running from the ship, are they? I agree that this feels unsettling, but perhaps the situation is merely... unremarkable, sensible. They crashed in a remote area with thankfully no threats, and are taking a short look around. We will make contact, and retrieve them without any further issue. Visualize it, manifest it--energy follows thought."
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Everyone: With Bella's scan and Narinth's bold walking directly towards them in the open(exhaustion is a big bitch against protocol, as training leads would warn) you hail one of the scouting groups and are soon brought up to speed on the status of the crashed evacuation ship. : "Thank the Matron you found us! We've gone silent because we've heard at least three broadcasts already.. kind of a weird robocall from slavers, but then the jackholes that chased them off told us that as soon as they find us they're stripping this "blessing from above" to match their "blessing from below", whatever in the abyss that means..." Just a casual talking fella in an environmental protection suit. His head tilts and he does boggle briefly at some of you being unsuited, though his companion gives the slightest incline of the head to Penelope in approval. "And the third is just messed up... look, we need engine repairs, if we can get airborne at all we can cross atmosphere easy, but the engine block safety locks are hard engaged. Likely we'll spin on one end of our axis or just blow up if we go around that and hotwire it." : "I'm on it!" Veri takes your tools and parts from the Bumper on a hover-dolly, hastily moving in with one of the scouting groups to enter the ship. Soft lights on the interior suggest that at least they aren't huddled in the dark waiting to die! Yet.--- Doomykins posted:If you received an unknown comms request with no unusual downsides for accepting it(i.e. being scanned by SomAI) would you accept it, or try to maintain further radio silence by not doing so? Everyone: Something is broadcasting loud and clear, with no attempt to encrypt or use a specific channel. It's as though it were broadcasting to as many as it could at once, including a weak psionic broadcast that Bella can detect. It feels similar to the earlier call from the planet, though maybe just in delivery method.. a different signal altogether, only distantly adjacent to that strange primordial call, or the shock you experienced with Reyla at her mental screening. This planet seems to have a surplus of broadcasting... things.  : As it speaks clearly over the radio as well, there's no mystery as to what is being said. Arin translates, and Bella can feel the intents from the psionic part of the broadcast. "Worry not, dear receivers. You will not know torture at the hand of "skulltist" psychotics, for my brood shall bring salvation to you shortly. Wait indoors, draw close, share good memories and love with your kin. Our harvester shall protect and escort you to a new... understanding." You could swear you hear the words reverse and curl at times, though how your ears would see... the reverbs are ghastly, to say the least.And something bellows in the distance, not a part of the broadcast, horrid and simply loud. : "... What do we do?! I trust any of these freaks about as far as I could push the drat ship!" : With a heavy sigh Reyla leers at the helmet briefly, then looks to the rest of your squad. "It's a hold out. Fighting is going to be rough... what can we do to put our thumb on the scales? All we need to do is delay until takeoff."You've access to the resources of the Evac-Ship as well as some extras from the Bumper. Broad ideas first, skill checks later, unless you're feeling risky(or have yet to cash in your wild nanite boosted rolls!)
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 SEBASTIAN XII HP 10/10 AP 4 | Condition: Exhausted, Infected (Nanites, First Contact) "...Nanites." SEBASTIAN shrugs, his body now infected like the others. Not a strong reaction, but it would be something annoying to deal with. Until it can be fixed, meanwhile, he would have to mind himself. Finding the other survivors, however, was a relief, the House needed every hand it could get, and thus it was in his interest to rescue as many of them as possible. When meeting the crashed ship crew, the butler nodded at the man with the environmental suit. Hrm, on retrospect even him would have welcomed using that thing. "You met natives? From what you say they might just be scavengers, strange religious ritual or not. Worry not, by the time I'm done, we will be long gone before they return for the ship." SEBASTIAN nodded while following Veri towards the engine room, his arm now opening into several parts where many repair tools would begin to prod out of their steel compartments, with the android quickly beginning to look for any signs of damage into the ship's engine and repair them as soon as possible. SEBASTIAN uses his Machine Repair skill, uses an Ascended Roll... But gets a five!
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Narinth dal Krodven AP: 5 | Conditions: Exhausted, Infected (Nanites, First Contact) "That's a pretty big ask there, Sunshine," Narinth replies to Reyla. "Thankfully our new friends were nice enough to tell us how to hit them where it hurts." She motions with her head at the awful noise in the distance. "Whatever that 'Harvester' is, it must be pretty sizable if it's meant to scoop up all our colonists, and more importantly it's mission critical for our enemy. I get the feeling it's a perfect target for a bout of harassment. Question is how. Our harassing force needs to be quick enough to avoid taking hits, while at the same time being able to hit hard enough to draw attention." "Hey you," Narinth addresses the enviro suit. "What have we got to work with? I'm talking vehicles, heavy weapons, explosives, and such."
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Deputy Therapist Bella AP: 2 | Conditions: Winded, ᗪᕮᕮᖘԲᖇᓰᕮↁ, Infected "Oh joy, a tiresome and conceited psychic promising a glorious new way of being as part of some unremarkable collective. Never seen that before." Bella stretches, relaxing, giving off the mild impression of a hunting dog acquiring a new quarry, the focus and direction smoothing out her anxiety and stress. "The biggest question is whether this brood is oriented around adoration for the master like some irritating cult or simple diffuse submersion into a hive mind. <So nice to have an unambiguous foe again.> She turns to Narinth and... this other guy? "Would also appreciate explosives. I don't think I can quite manage the precision I usually need to disable larger targets right now. Guiding charges would be much easier. Also, forgive me but I'm not at my best, how should I address you?"
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SEBASTIAN: Success! You assign some maids to assist Veri and help identify the problem faster, though there's no rushing the physical and electrical work that needs to be done to remove the damage parts and synthesize replacements. All the same you will shorten the holdout time! Everyone: At your request some supplies are pulled from the downed ship. : "Ah, call me Simon of Ariness, Mistress." A title speaking to a loss of station or family ties, a loyal citizen of the house taking up their title instead. He gestures to what they've gathered. "We've got a few extra electronics you can break down if you need them, these are blasting charges.. uh, half of ours, since we don't know what mineral access is like on this planet. I hope you won't need more, though dying is terrible so we can get more at your command. We've also a bit of.. ah, scrap metal, cleared from the damaged spot and all!"Penelope: Your fly boys are also a resource and (I'll get some portraits and intros in the next post!)   (This isn't a conventional battle.) A shaded path to the West with heavy tree cover, an ominous path to the South ringed by strange stone and bone ornaments and statues, and an open path to the East where the eroded remains of most of a stone road still exist. Aside from that road the ground here is soft and fertile, easy to dig at, it'd give you trouble if wet or if the Bumper didn't hover! What do you do to prepare? Skill checks needed to make something out of nothing, as the terrain and the extra electronics/scrap are kind of useless as is.... otherwise you don't need skills to set the 6 blasting charges, though you may need skills later to detonate them properly!
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Cpt. Penelope Kentuckyan AP 2, Exhausted "Nice to meet ya Simon. If we've got any uppers or go-juice, I need that before I can take on whatever is coming. I've already been electorcuted, shot, bitten or stabbed..." She does math on her fingers "twelve? times in the past two day cycles." Penelope turns toward the squad. "Rest if you need it, otherwise help get kit and whatever else the team needs together. Wake or kick me when we're ready to roll." *Later, when its go time* "AUGH, okay, I specify, when I said 'kick' I meant "bruising", not "rib cracking." Ugh". She takes stock of the situation. "I advise me and my team move through the forest to keep out of sight as long as possible, we'll try to get as close to it with the charges as we can while still in the treeline. Someone else can distract it, we get up in there and given them a thermo-box enema. Okay crew!, here's how we jump through a forest without killing ourselves. First, we're going to hover and try to clear obstacles as close to the ground as we can. Branches come up in your face when you least expect it, and most of us are from species that don't regrow lost teeth in adulthood, so we gotta watch it, next... Prepare: Half hour power nap and asking for whatever the vular equivalent of emergency tanker chocolate is.
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Drazyn Elph-Ariness  AP: 4 | Conditions: Exhausted, Infected (Nanites) | Insight Tokens: 2 quote:Rambo-ing up some improvised traps for our upcoming guests; hidden pits, spear traps, anything I have the time to realistically put together.
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Narinth dal Krodven AP: 4 | Conditions: "No vehicles or heavy weapons? loving civvie outfit..." Narinth mutters sourly and spits on the ground. "Alright then, I guess we're digging in." She grabs four of the blasting charges then starts going through the electronics, looking for components that she could use for proximity fuses. "I trust you at least have a shovel, Simon?" She lifts her gaze and scans the terrain to the south. "Bring me a chainsaw and a hatchet too, then load up a cart with some of the gnarliest looking scrap you've got. We've got work to do." Stepping into the woods, Narinth pushes the creeping exhaustion out of her mind and doggedly gets to work transforming the area into a killing ground. She digs pits and lines them with jagged metal before covering them up with foliage, then lops down a few trees to create cover and funnel her enemies into the traps. Once she's satisfied that the woods were going to be a bitch and a half to traverse, she shifts her attention to the roads. She fells trees across them to slow down passage, then plants three of the demo charges, one on each road, and arms them. She keeps the remaining explosive on hand, just in case. Once the heavy labor is done she wipes the sweat from her brow, then puts on camouflage and covers up her armor with material from the surroundings. And then she waits. Spending an AP on Brush It Off to ignore my Exhausted condition for the duration of the conflict. Narinth makes a skilled attempt at Guerrilla Tactics Intent: Mine the roads with blasting charges and build pit traps/etc in the woods Roll: 🎲1d6 (6) = 6 Result: Success with a Bonus Bonus: Camouflage myself, rendering me hidden.
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Penelope: You're roused by a kick after Simon provides you with a dose of Whiplash, the Vular classic. Named for the old(or not) doctrines of imperial slavery, where the effects rouse you to work and leave you feeling withdrawn and hopeless much later. A pretty potent upper and one where people who ask about the formula too often get in trouble with officials. "Sorry... just following your orders." Spook is your typical Drow +1, extra child of a minor House noble: forgotten, soon socially isolated, destined to grow up withdrawn. Reading about heroics inspired her to enter the military of Ariness and have fun exploding due to a jetpack malfunction rather than waiting to die. She's pretty literal, mousy if tall and lanky, a classic Drow beauty if somebody might take the metaphorical glasses off her face. Base Art : "We've already whipped up, ma'am!!" Frund is only slightly atypical of the Humans in Ariness. Their lot in the Empire wasn't bad, but they always feel the need to push harder and inevitably crash into the rigid racial and cultural preferences. It isn't impossible for non-Drow to get ahead, there's just only so many that do. The rest tend to put their enthusiastic spirit into other things, like being a jetpack jockey. A massive jock, an overgrown kid kept a bit lean just by his tendency to forget to eat and sleep for a day or two at a time. Base Art : "Hmm." Pan, named for the flat trigger of a bear trap, is your iceman. If his pulse has ever risen in his life he's never shown it. You have to assume, he's the new recruit in light of the gaggle of little lizardfolk that joined up after your prison and escape break. Frund and Spook correct him on wearing the jetpack upside down and share a laugh, from guffaws to muted chuckles to muted, scaley grins. Base ArtDrazyn: No Twists/Costs: Your head feels clearer then you'd expect as you help Narinth, barely able to keep from getting in the way. Narinth: You down more trees on the West path than the other, accounting for the availability of trees and all. You dig and line pits on all three lanes, though the East path demands the pit be moved back a bit as digging through the stone or hauling it in time isn't possible. Penelope: The crew whips up, lights up and takes to the skies.  --- The Bumper is brought aboard the evac craft, squeezing every extra bit into the ships matching garage with its own light vehicles. : "We got blips on thermal. Real pings on radar further out, moving with purpose. Something big... repairs are going well but they're not going instantly, you know? Keep us clear, please!"Everyone: You might expect an attack... people opening fire onto you, the approach of "the harvester", vehicles or monsters or stars know what... but all is quiet. Too quiet, for too long. A shout rises from the skies, muffled by distance, and then clear gunfire comes through. : "Contact, all fronts." The Squad opens fire and thins out 8% of the approaching numbers. Sounds like they're shooting fish in a barrel! Or worms in a forest! A writhing blank of wriggling, feeling flesh surges along all lines, passing over the trees steadily with mild slowdown, and wriggling along and through the pits effortlessly, too light and clingy to trigger any. They don't seem particularly dangerous if you're not covered by them but this can't be good. Everyone: You're up. Combat Actions or Skill Checks to respond to the first thread! Worms: 92/100% Squad: 100%/100%/100%, West Path Pits: 3/3 Explosives: 6/6 (Narinth: 1) Doomykins fucked around with this message at 18:24 on Aug 27, 2022 |
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Narinth dal Krodven AP: 4 | Conditions: "Well then, ladies and gentlemen." Sensing the imminent need for lots and lots of lead, Narinth pulls out a fresh ammo belt from her pack and wraps it around her left arm. "Unless you wanna become worm food before you're even in the dirt, I suggest you join me for some unrestrained violence." She presses the first round into her weapon and yanks back the bolt with a toothy snarl on her face. "LET'S MOW THEM THE gently caress DOWN!" And with that, she rushes into the woods and hooks left, heading for the eastern road. As she comes upon the large writhing mass, she digs her feet in and levels her heavy rifle at it, aiming from the hip. She then squeezes the trigger and lets it rip, firing wildly and cutting through the worms with a stream of bullets! Move to J12 and attack the worms on the eastern road. Narinth attacks Worms with Pin Down Roll: 🎲2d6kh1 (5, 6) = 6 + 1 (Blitzer) = 7 Result: Critical Hit! Effect and 2 times 🩸 6 Damage plus an additional 3 if they move more than 1 square on their next turn. Narinth is no longer hidden.
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Drazyn Elph-Ariness AP: 4 | Conditions: Exhausted, Miss Tokens: 1 | Strikes: 1 Drazyn's mind was already occupied by the role that these creatures might have in the ecosystem and what sort of bizarre hive mind might bring them to act with such uniform purpose; annelids did not, as a rule, behave in eusocial ways the way ants or bees did, and it was indeed unusual that they'd- He shook his head. Right. There would be time to dissect them to check for a primitive brain later on. For now, he had to focus on other things. Such as Lulu's ferocious hissing; perhaps she wanted to prove that she was the most fearsome worm-like being around these parts, not these inferior carnivores. Drazyn was only too eager to give her the command to satisfy her craving as he braced the pistol and started shooting in the writhing mass, obliterating specimen after specimen and hoping that some would remain in solid enough state for him to study afterwards. Certainly, those exposed to Lulu's acid wouldn't be. Sadly, however, Lulu's powerful acid seemed to get stuck on the trees and miss the annelid menace entirely! Worried about his pet, Drazyn stepped in front of it, hoping to strike at more of them- quote:Lulu takes 1 step south, Drazyn moves to I1. Lulu will Mark the worm mass south of her. Hopefully Drazyn can stop them with his body and trigger an opportunity from Lulu, or else make them eat an opportunity as they try to get to Lulu.
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SEBASTIAN XII HP 10/10 AP 4 | Condition: Exhausted, Infected (Nanites, First Contact) Miss Token: 1 Strike: 1 Pest control is of course one of SEBASTIAN's many responsibilities, and having to deal with those wriggling worms may fall in that purview. He heads towards the east, calling upon a Bladed Drone to stand on their way and mow them down were they to advance... Only for the machine to fizzle out and break down on the ground immediately after it was teleported. Hrm, seems that there was interference around. Nevertheless, he will scan the worm cluster, trying to at least try and find something of note on the swarm... Moving to I8 Using Trooper on K16, rolled a 1 as well so a Miss Token and a Strike. Using Assess, rolled a 1 again, using to ask Special Traits from the Worms.
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Deputy Therapist Bella AP: 2 | HP: 10/10 | Conditions: Winded, ᗪᕮᕮᖘԲᖇᓰᕮↁ, Infected "Oh my, how delightful. I do like a good worm. And with a hive-mind, too? I wonder if they're naturally domesticable, or if that conceited scum is just brute forcing it. Well, anyway." Bella strides forward, humming to herself, idly snatching a nearby demolition charge with telekinesis. "Are we still expecting some sort of tremendous beast, though? Or are these all together... 'the harvester'? Regardless, if you're listening, 'friend,' you should really avoid relying on creatures of such ravenous hunger. Obviously it means you just need to direct them and let their instincts do the rest, but that's the problem... you just need to direct them." With an idle motion, she sends the western mass careening down the hill into the further off approaching swarm, a spike of energy agitating their hunger briefly but immensely so that the two more loosely related groups turn on each other. Move to G1, use Undeniable Command on the G/-9 worms, 4 for a solid hit, slide them 2 squares southwest and 1 square south, deal 3 damage, and Effect have them use an at-will attack on the other mass.
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Music(Turok 2 - The Death Marshes) Narinth: Stepping up first you receive this generous gift of metaphorical fish in a barrel, the worms advancing as a solid mass that makes missing nearly impossible. With almost a bullet for every one of them you open firing, shredding a nice percentage of the mess.. and lighting the ground up with incendiaries pays off when they advance through it until the raw mass of their cooked flesh finally smothers the burning, more crawling over their fallen. 9% Damage done! Drazyn: You and Lulu advance and try a complicated sweeping maneuver, barely sending the wave back slightly. Lulu has to mind your own traps, after all. You deal 1% Damage to the mass and hold your ground, trying something risky... while you think about it, you wonder if perhaps the shadowy voice offering your group strange boons has anything in common with the strange hivemind voice declaring intent to attack and absorb the evac ship. Between two voices and the naturally occurring nanites you wander if perhaps there's a lot of otherworldly powers at play... and how careful you should be working with one before you know more about it? SEBASTIAN: You and your Trooper try to stall a lane, firing into the mass. Not your best showing, 1% Damage done to the mass, but you observe them as they move. They're effectively mindless and known no fear, as well as being adept at moving across all terrain, albeit slowly. They also seem to be dangerous in these great numbers, overwhelming and moving over entities blocking them. A truly horrible swarm! Bella: (Lulu's in G1, moved to G2) Bella forces worm to fight worm, one clump of the mass surging backwards and small worms needling and biting at one another in a temporary blind frenzy. Bella's efforts deal 6% Damage to the worm horde! Penelope: Moved to D-1. (Adding Penelope to the Squad's daily firings) Combined fire for 12%. Further hooting, hollering, shooting. The worms are dying nicely, there's just far too many of them!  (And chipping in another 2% Damage for Reyla and moving her in one of the future maps to H14.) --- The worms surge ahead. The West path is blocked up nicely, the worms forced to reorient and surge ahead together in a messy, graceless bulk. They've backed up nicely due to this at least. The worms on the other paths surge ahead and overrun those in their path... A wriggling, biting, seething mass of flesh overruns Drazyn and the Maid Trooper! This deals 4 Damage to each and Drazyn is Sickened, subtracting 1 from every result he gets. The sheer mass of invasive flesh is absolutely disgusting and vile! Lulu is provoked, but the Worm advance can't be nullified without moving out of the affected space as the attack happens. Trying to withstand it is futile... and gross! The Maid Trooper vanishes under the mass, beginning to dissolve messily. Amid the shambling mass of worms advances a humanoid figure covered in similar wriggling red flesh. They turn a proper rifle on the downed droid and fire with a controlled burst, executing them. Similar figures advance calmly with the worms, not lurching or stumbling, but keeping to cover and watching your group warily. At least as warily as helmets, visors and goggles can allow for. There's always body language.   Worms: 61/100%, Deal 1d4 on contact and Sicken/Cover their targets. Slow. Red Humanoids: 1(100%), 2(100%), 3(100%), 4(100%), Guns. Squad: 100%/100%/100%, West Path Pits: 3/3 Explosives: 6/6 (Narinth: 1) --- Everyone: (You're up!) The mass on the West seems to not stretch back as far, having gathered in a final bulk advancing steadily. Doomykins fucked around with this message at 19:07 on Aug 27, 2022 |
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Drazyn Elph-Ariness HP: 2/5 | AP: 4 | Conditions: Exhausted| Insight Tokens: 0 Lulu's HP: 11/11 | Miss Tokens: 1 | Strikes: 2 The plan, at least in theory, was solid. Get in close, keep them busy, have Lulu melt them, get out of the way before they can hurt you. Problem is, Drazyn had miscalculated how much time he had to at his disposal, and now he was paying with his mistake in worm bites. He clenched his teeth in horrified disgust as he backed off from the chewing horde and hid behind Lulu as she vomited acid on his assailants. He began to pull them away for himself and throw them to the ground, but... he stopped for a second, holding one. For a second, he can't hear the sound of battle, or the melting flesh, or the shots of Narinth's guns. He can only see the writhing body he's holding, its elegance in its simplicity, its tiny clicking jaws and... He can't resist. He bites it, right in half, separating in two clean halves and closes his eyes, focusing on what his tongue tells him. Acidic flavor, negligible. This is not an animal that pre-digests his prey with stomach acid, like the Vloxian wasp or the cyan swamp drooler do. This one relies on the strength of its bite and its ferocity to do the deed. He opens his eye. "I name you 'Tanian fangworm'. quote:Originally I wanted to trigger this:
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Narinth dal Krodven HP: 10/10 | Miss Tokens: 0 | AP: 4 | Conditions: Narinth keeps the trigger pressed and the bullets flowing as the worms continue their mindless advance, but the explosion she had been anticipating as they overran the demolition charge was nowhere to be seen. poo poo! "The proxy fuses aren't working, detonate them manually if you have to!" She barks over her shoulder, just in time to catch a glimpse of Drazyn digging his teeth into one of the worms. "Yo Drazyn, the gently caress?" She blurts out incredulously, only to raise her eyebrow curiously a second later, "...They taste any good?" She sweeps her weapon over the pile of worms and takes aim at the explosive she knew was buried underneath. "I could go for some barbecue!" Move: If 6 squares of movement is enough to take me somewhere that has cover from the eastern road, go there. Attack: Narinth attacks Demo charge (K18) with Area Denial Roll: 🎲1d6 (4) = 4 Result: Solid Hit. 🩸 and Effect 3 Damage and create a 5x5 zone centered on K18. UEOMNT, any enemy that takes any action in the zone that doesnt result in them leaving it, or that ends their turn in the zone, takes 3 damage. They do not take this damage if they are adjacent to my allies for the entire action.
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SEBASTIAN XII HP 10/10 AP 4 | Condition: Exhausted, Infected (Nanites, First Contact) Miss Token: 1 Strike: 1 Marianne HP 5/5  Immediately after Drazyn is swarmed with biting worms, SEBASTIAN would manage to connect back with the base. Appearing behind him is Marianne, one of the House Doctors and first aid providers on the Maid Squad. Surrounding the young elf with a protective shield and standing between him and the worms, the grimoire she held began to glow with a soothing light that would patch some of his wounds while the butler himself shifted forth to the side. "Master Elph-Ariness, if you are that much in need for your organic consumption of food, I must ask you to at least wait until we are done with this so I can prepare the ingredients in a more civilized manner..." quote:Reaction: Summon Angel of Healing close to Drazyn. It will follow him around and he gains 2 Buffer Points. When Drazyn moves to C2, she will stay in front of him at E2 Plutonis fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Sep 4, 2022 |
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Deputy Therapist Bella AP: 2 | HP: 10/10 | Conditions: Winded, ᗪᕮᕮᖘԲᖇᓰᕮↁ, Infected At the sight of the humanoid worms Bella grows more quiet and yet more agitated, hissing out a confused and cautious "...could it be, The Worm that Walks?" She takes a step forward, and gathers her thoughts into an immense psychic hammer blow that launches the mass of worms off the cliff, scattering them into the other approaching worms. The blasting charge swings back up and around, making a thin warning tone as she arms it, attention drawn to the humanoid forms. Her attention flits over the worms, over the entire field, and a growing sense of unease and anxiety, bordering on terror, starts to seep out. Move to H2, Repulsion on worms, 6 for a crit dealing 4 damage and pushing them 3 squares south, control boost to Slow them until the end of their next turn, assess for another 6. For assess, are there any special powers the humanoids have, do they have any particular special traits over and above being worms; for the encounter, are there more hidden (or approaching?) enemies, is there a non-obvious escape route, is there something I can use against the enemies (particularly, is there a good soft spot for this explosive), and finally, of course, who's really in charge here?
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Penelope: (IRL stuff, adding to Squad until further notice.) More errant firing, chipping in 6% Damage to Worms! Drazyn: 5% Damage to Worms! (Giving you a soft Biology roll since I think it's valid but also no penalties since I'm rolling it without asking you.) Biology 1! No AP earned. You dare to sample the "Tanian Fangworm." As you bite into it and get it much closer to your eyes you pick up on finer details. The worms seem to have irregular design across individuals. The one you picked up looks like a toothy worm, but the latter half of its "body" looks like a humanoid knucklebone section? And the worms you rip off yourself, some of them look like animated fingers, their tips melting to the little gaping bloody maws. The effect is not unlike the worm mass is a crawling carpet of flesh! If you weren't already tapped out on being utterly repulsed you'd be sick all over again. Good thing you overloaded your tolerance and gag reflex... this time! Narinth: (Moving you to I14 then.) 6% Damage to Worms and a flat +25% Damage to the Worms, as well as +50% Damage to the Red Humanoid! The explosion tears through a great bulk of the mass and the lingering flames ruin worms that attempt to mindlessly slough through it, the fallen log providing outstanding kindling! Bella: You disperse most of the Southern Worm mass, leaving just a shambling mound before the approaching Red Humanoid. You try to determine what you know about terrible gatherings of lumbricina families. quote:For assess, are there any special powers the humanoids have, do they have any particular special traits over and above being worms; for the encounter, are there more hidden (or approaching?) enemies, is there a non-obvious escape route, is there something I can use against the enemies (particularly, is there a good soft spot for this explosive), and finally, of course, who's really in charge here? They seem to be supernaturally dull, mentally closed off, emitting no passive background noise or "inner monologue" thoughts. The tremors in the ground suggest something is burrowing and you know the Harvester is coming, whatever that is. The non-obvious escape route would be.. hmm, you could scale the cliff to the East and head closer to the strange nanite phenomenon. This explosive seems wasted in the South but the greatest bulk of worms remains on the West route. Who's in charge... well, you can feel all voices and a certain tingling leading down, underground. --- Enemy Movement: The Red Humanoids advance, triggering pit traps. Results of 1, 3, 1 going from West to South to East! There's sprays of blood from each and a bit of gore from the middle pit but they seem to react to being impaled... well, crawling out of the pits steadily despite their wounds. +10%, +25%, +10% Damage to relevant Humanoids! They open fire! Two shots ring clear upon Bella, a crude harpoon gun and a primitive rifle piercing her hide in equal measure for 4 Damage total(Tank Passive applicable)! The one facing Bella down fires a crude pulse laser pistol at her, scorching her for Environmental Suit Damage, making her more vulnerable to Worm and Nanite effects until End of Encounter! The last fellow stares at Narinth with unflinching, bloody malice, body scorched horribly and writhing mass of similar worm-flesh wriggling along it, anchoring and pulling up a crude bolt-action rifle, loosing a clean 4 Damage shot into her abdomen! Reyla: (Doing Reyla's actions together because... forgot! Haw!) Striding forward to support Narinth, Reyla flicks out her staff and scythes an acid-green line of energy across the Red Humanoid, though it veers to the side with an unnatural stomp. Marked by Reyla and attacking Narinth, Reyla closes in to seize the Red Humanoid by the shoulder and eviscerate it along the stomach in a matching wound, dealing 20% Damage to it. It wobbles and arches back unnaturally, as though it spine were broken, but the arms and legs stand upright, the gun still raised and the head angled down to stare forward. : "SOMETHING'S HERE, RADAR IS HOT!" As the rifle discharge loudly pierces the creepy ambience of the night you can feel the ground tremble horribly.Two pits split and form in the ground amongst your group, a pair of massive writhing tentacles erupting, as big as pillars! One immediately slams into and *splorches* across the surface of the ship, several messy individual tendrils piercing slightly into the metal, peeling and trying to wrench plates off. More tendrils grow and spread from the base mass as it tries to build up that strange, terrible grip! The other whirls about in the air overhead, alien senses trying to detect something to do void knows what to!   Worms: 15/100%, Deal 1d4 on contact and Sicken/Cover their targets. Slow. Red Humanoids: 1(100%), 2(90%), 3(75%), 4(10%), Guns. Tentacles: 1(100%), 2(100%, Grabbing Ship!), Cannot Be Moved Squad: 100%/100%/100%/100%, West Path Pits: 0/3 Explosives: 5/6 (Narinth: 1) --- Everyone: (You're up! You can also call for the Squad to go elsewhere and shoot specific targets.) Doomykins fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Sep 4, 2022 |
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Drazyn Elph-Ariness HP: 4/5 | AP: 4 | Conditions: Exhausted| Insight Tokens: 1 Lulu's HP: 11/11 | Miss Tokens: 1 | Strikes: 1 Drazyn laughs. "Why, Seb, I'm doing SCIENCE here! I have my own methods of-" His battle chatter is interrupted by the emergence of the spectacularly enormous tentacles emerging from the ground in a shower of earth and uprooted grass. Drazyn yips when he sees them wrap around the ship and furrows his brow. "Well that's not good. Lulu?" Drazyn clicks his tongue, sending the command to his monstrous companion. She's on the nearest tentacle in a moment, jaws biting, claws ripping, trying to pull it away from the ship. quote:Lulu will slither up to the nearnest tentacle; she's then using the Daily power, "Enjoy your Snack"
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Narinth dal Krodven HP: 10/10 | Miss Tokens: 0 | AP: 4 | Conditions: Powers: Trick Shot | Wind Up Strike | As the charred humanoid worm thing approaches Narinth she gets a good close look at it, and quickly realizes she might not be that hungry after all. "Void you're ugly!" The worm predictably raises its bolt-action rifle to fire at her, but is far too slow on the draw. Narinth unloads the rest of her ammo belt into it, reducing it to little more than a bloody pile of meat and bones. Interrupt: Narinth attacks Red Humanoid 4 with Split Their Arrow Roll: 🎲1d6 (4) = 4 + 1 (Blitzer) = 5 Result: Solid Hit. 🩸 and Effect The Red Humanoid takes 3 damage and its attack against me misses. "What!?" Narinth spins around and watches the tentacles appear with a snarl. "loving worms! Of course they'd be burrowing in!" She thinks to herself and fastens the emptied heavy rifle to her back. Time to do some damage. She thrusts her left arm out towards the large tentacle eating away at the ship, then clenches her hand into a fist, causing the hooks on her gauntlet to extend forward. She then flicks her index and pinky forward, making the special grip which springs the device and launches it. As the hooks find purchase halfway up the tentacle, she engages the motor that retracts the cable and pulls herself up on its 'back'. With a guttural roar she jams the muzzle of her shotgun into the tentacle and fires it point-blank! Move: Use the grappling hook to get up on the large tentacle Attack: Narinth attacks East Tentacle with Super Shotgun Roll: 🎲1d6 (5) = 5 + 1 (Blitzer) = 6 Result: Critical Hit! Effect and 2 times 🩸 The eastern Tentacle takes 10 damage!
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SEBASTIAN XII HP 10/10 AP 4 | Condition: Exhausted, Infected (Nanites, First Contact) Miss Token: 1 Strike: 1 Marianne HP 5/5 Gemma HP 5/5 Resist 1  "Hrm, never heard of any kind of Science of the kind." SEBASTIAN replies with a somewhat disappointed tone on his metallic intonation. Nevertheless, it seems the fight is turning more complicated, he never actually heard of those red... things before, and yet they were smart enough to use guns? But the Tentacles trying to attack the ship seemed to be far more of a concern right now. "Gemma, that thing is trying to steal House Ariness property. Dispose of it immediately.  "Affirmative!" Responded a voice on his comm, and teleporting behind the tentacle was another Mechanical Maid, wearing a pair of massive mechanical gauntlets as she struck the tentacle with a massive punch that echoed through the place and dropped the squirming thing onto the ground! quote:Move: Sending the Angel close to Drazyn, keeping her there so he gets the Buffer 2 when next turn begins. Plutonis fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Sep 10, 2022 |
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Deputy Therapist Bella AP: 2 | HP: 6/10 | Conditions: Winded, ᗪᕮᕮᖘԲᖇᓰᕮↁ, Infected, Vulnerable (to worms and nanites) Miss Tokens: 1 Bella stares at the giant tentacles for a few moments, letting out a simple "...hm," then refocuses on the closest swarm. A bit of focus primes the nearby mine and with a little circle around, she summons up a giant shoving wall of force, throwing down the worms and the explosive towards the humanoid figure, engulfing it in a modest fireball. She looks like she's about to make a quip ("front towards enemy"), but it quickly becomes clear that she perhaps made the wall of force a bit too wide and the vast majority of the worms are in fact tenaciously holding on to the cliffside. "Ah." Resolutely, she turns her head as if they are no longer her problem, and circles around, casting a minor bit of static on the nearby tentacle. "Simon Darling, what are we looking at for an ETA?" Ranged Basic Attack to cause an area of effect explosion with the bomb. Attack on worms misses with a 2, attack on humanoid glances with a 3, dealing 2 damage. Role action to weaken the closer giant tentacle, move to D/-1.
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Drazyn: Lulu violently wrenches the base of the tentacle with her acid-slavering maw! Narinth: You blow away this creep and ascend via grappling hook to help deal with the tentacle spreading across the ship, blasting large holes into it. It is very huge and remains intact overall, still grappling the ship! SEBASTIAN: Your Prone effect doesn't upend a pillar of flesh rising from a rooted position in the ground but it does break the grapple! Bella: With a violent blast the worms and Red Humanoid are blown to a fine red mist, drawn away by the breeze! Reyla, Penelope, Squad: Reyla whiffs vs East Tentacle(Miss!) Squad trades some bullets with the Red Humanoids(8 Damage, Spread!) on the West path, winging them significantly. They move closer to the ship as things get hot. --- : Comms pick up at Bella's request. "We're about to finish firing the engine up and clearing systems! You've got to keep the ship clear!" Things finish earlier thanks to SEBASTIAN's aid prior and Veri's expertise.--- The last mass of Worms surges down the West path, cresting the trees without hesitation. The Red Humanoids have to climb the fallen log and take awkward shots up into the tree cover at The Squad. Tree Cover makes the difference(Two Misses!) The East Tentacle attempts to seize Narinth, though it is a slow and ponderous thing to dodge!(Miss!) The West Tentacle violently lashes out, barely brushing by Lulu(Miss!) in a total blind slam to its Northwest, then slamming the ship to the North in a rapid motion. It is already arching and preparing to blindly continue the Circular Rampage! Distant muffled thumping and crashing becomes alarmingly close, the noises picking up in clarity and proximity. Something massive trundles up the Southern path, its very presence warping the ground... if it isn't just accompanied by a thriving mass, greater than the others, of wormflesh advancing with purpose.   Worms: 10/100%, Deal 1d4 on contact and Sicken/Cover their targets. Slow. Red Humanoids: 1(60%), 2(50%), 3(Ded), 4(Ded), Guns. Tentacles: 1(F6, Weakened, Dazed, Mark(Lulu), 91%), 2(55%), Cannot Be Moved Harvester: ??? Squad: 100%/100%/100%/100%, West Path Pits: 0/3 Explosives: 4/6 (Narinth: 1) --- Everyone: (You're up! This is the last round!)
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Narinth dal Krodven HP: 10/10 | Miss Tokens: 0 | AP: 4 | Conditions: Powers: From her vantage point halfway up the tentacle Narinth gets a decent view of what she could only assume was the harvester arriving on the scene. "Yep, sure is pretty sizable alright. poo poo... I need a bigger gun, or an airstrike..." She thinks to herself, then looks down at her allies fighting below and lets out a sharp whistle. "Oi! It's time to GTFO!" Narinth turns back to the tentacle and smirks. "But before I go, don't think I've forgotten about you." She holsters her shotgun and one-hands the blasting charge, setting the timer for six seconds with her thumb and then arms it. "I've got a present for ya!" Her smirk splits into a full-on sadistic grin as she shoves the explosive as hard as she can into one of the wounds left by her previous attack, then she disengages the grappling hook, leaps of the tentacle and rushes for the ship! Attack: Narinth attacks Tentacle 2 with Trick Shot: Demo Charge Roll: 🎲1d6 (3) = 3 + 1 (Blitzer) = 4 Result: Solid Hit. 🩸 and Effect Tentacle 2 takes 4 Damage and has the Demolition Charge planted on it. It will explode after the Players have taken their turns. Role & Move: Leap off the tentacle with a Shift 1 and a Move 6 and make my way through the nearby door to the colony ship if possible, otherwise to B7
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Drazyn Elph-Ariness HP: 4/5 | AP: 4 | Conditions: Exhausted| Insight Tokens: 1 Lulu's HP: 11/11 | Miss Tokens: 1 | Strikes: 1 "Yes, this seems like an excellent time to make ourselves scarce!" Drazyn whistles for Lulu to return to his side, but before both of them make their way on the ship, he fires a parting shot at one of the remaining explosive charges. The plasma shot bursts through the thin shell casing of the improvised explosive trap and it reaches the precious chemicals inside; the resulting reaction generates a wave of heat and destruction that obliterates worm-bodies by the thousands. Drazyn hesitates by the entrance and reminds himself to study some chemistry sometime before stepping into the ship... quote:Hitting the explosive charge on F-3 with a basic ranged attack, and having both Drazyn and Lulu retreat to the entrance of the ship on B3. If Lulu can't fit she'll hold on for dear life and Drazyn will hold on to her.
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SEBASTIAN XII HP 10/10 AP 4 | Condition: Exhausted, Infected (Nanites, First Contact) Miss Token: 1 Strike: 2 Marianne HP 5/5 Gemma HP 5/5 Resist 1 "I'll cover retreat, Lady Reyla, please, return as well!" SEBASTIAN says, making his way east towards the door as the others are ready to regroup. The tentacles of course need to be taken care of lest they keep the ship tethered, and thus Marianne begins to read from her Grimoire, the Angelic Machine beginning to send out an incantation that sends a searing blaze of light towards the massive tendril and singing it... if only rather slightly. Marianne follows Drazyn to C/3, SEBASTIAN moves to I/4. Marianne uses Healing Smite on West Tentacle. Rolled a 1, get a strike but use a Miss Token to make it a Glancing Hit and deal 2 damage. Plutonis fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Sep 23, 2022 |
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Deputy Therapist Bella AP: 2 | HP: 6/10 | Conditions: Winded, ᗪᕮᕮᖘԲᖇᓰᕮↁ, Infected, Vulnerable (to worms and nanites) Miss Tokens: 0 Bella turns her attention to the explosive orbiting nearby, giving it a twist and flinging it at the nearby tentacle, meanwhile focusing on the approaching 'harvester.' For a few moments she locks eyes (or whatever) with the creature, space beggining to warp and pulse around her, an echo shimmering over it in the distance... and then she shakes her head, muttering "no, can't manage it..." She turns to hustle up to the ship, then pauses and glances over at the not-yet-exploded tentacle. "Did I not prime it...?" Then it blows. Improvised Ranged Attack on Western Tentacle, 2 miss, spend a token to make it a glancing hit (2? damage?), Role action to weaken the Harvester, Move into the ship.
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Narinth: You set-up a violent, decisive explosion that will rend the tentacle to twitching tendrils and messy piles of gore, clearing its grip from the ship. You're able to escape into it by the nearest door! Drazyn: Lulu can get in just fine, and you dramatically damage the rampaging tentacle as it comes down just a hair short of the door and you two trying to enter it before it blindly slams to the side, upending one of the explosive canisters and sending it rolling. Almost struck it! You two get aboard safely! SEBASTIAN: In a mad dash you make for the ship and board it, your maids and Bella dealing decisive blows that... Bella: ... rend the Western Tentacle into a halved mess, a shriveled, twitching limb that lacks the muscle tissue to raise itself and shlorps in a blind circle around its emergence point. You safely get aboard with SEBASTIAN and the maids! Penelope, Reyla: As the Harvester crashes forward and pulps the fallen log beneath it a tidal wave of worm-flesh follows in its wake, the great hulking red figure leering at those fleeing with hundreds of eyes locked into the patchwork nightmare that makes it, a figure made from the raw flesh of countless humanoids churned together into the basic red building block of "muscled tissue", excess bits surging, bursting at the seams and flaking off into wriggling worm-like tendrils along it for a moment before rejoining and merging! ... The Squad detonates the trap at the West Log and blows away the autonomous worm tide there, then ducks in on their jetties and boards the ship. Reyla warps through the space between the tentacles and takes up the last cannister with a prudent "Hup." before boarding the ship as the ground begins to heave, another massive tentacle bursting up between the first two. It blindly senses at the air as the Harvester causes the ground to quake with an approaching step, a massive hand reaching for the vessel... --- Everyone: As the ship is larger enough to account for a great deal of refugees and practical infrastructure equipment it is no tight fit and you're able to throw yourself, badly Exhausted, onto any spread of floor that'll have you. Ariness crew in full-body environmental suits arrive quickly with practical first aid, de-contamination kits and a thermo of warming liquor. The ground lurches beneath your feet and buckles, an impact from the wall shaking everyone with concern. Then everyone feels a sensation of weightlessness for a second before the ship shakes again, the engines ignite and a rip-roaring departure is heard, only a slightly troubling rattling sending vibrations through the floor. A distant muffled roar fades away and only the hum of your engines is present, then the concerned murmuring of group conversation from the halls near you... sharp voices cut in on your comms and coordinates are issued, you can swear you hear Mei yelling about the Bumper, and then all is quiet. You've escaped! ---  Tentacles: 1(DED), 2(DED) Harvester: ??? Squad: 100%/100%/100%/100%, West Path Explosives: 1/6 saved.
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Drazyn Elph-Ariness AP: 4 | Conditions: Exhausted| Insight Tokens: 1 After the biting cold of the boreal forest, the sterile cold of the spaceship's floor feels like a welcome respite, or at least an acceptable variation on a theme. Drazyn listens to his own breathing slow down as adrenaline retreats from the battlements of his body, victorious once again in its eternal quest to keep him in one piece. When he feels slightly less like a living wreck, he stands to address the others. "So, as much as I would love nothing more than to sleep the sleep of the dead, we should probably get those nanomachines checked out. It's not likely that they're dissolving our bodies from the inside out as we speak, but I'd rather eliminate all doubt." paradoxGentleman fucked around with this message at 19:36 on Oct 8, 2022 |
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SEBASTIAN XII HP 10/10 AP 4 | Condition: Exhausted, Infected (Nanites, First Contact) SEBASTIAN of course didn't really mind cramped places as much as organics, after all, the cell they kept him on the prison was rather spacious compared to this. Nevertheless, Lady Reyla would likely need some more space for herself, and he would try to provide as much as he could, even if it came to pushing away other members of the group to do so. Drazyn, however, had a point... "Indeed... A full scan for any internal damage and contamination would be good. I never heard of nanomachine swarms on this planet either from the little information we got from it, so we might be dealing with something completely unknown."
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Narinth dal Krodven AP: 4 | Conditions: Exhausted, Infected (Nanites, First Contact) Narinth lifts her right hand which was freshly soaked with blood from the tentacle she had shoved it into, and stares at it for a moment. "So much for peace in the next galaxy," she mutters to herself, rolls her eyes and shakes her head, then grabs a mug of the offered liquor and downs it in one gulp. She looks at Drazyn and Sebastian and shrugs tiredly. "Pretty sure I'd notice if my guts were being turned to mush as we speak. But hey, knock yourselves out, I'm gonna catch some shut-eye. Wake me up if something not microscopic needs killing." She leans her back against a wall and closes her eyes, but her restful expression soon turns into a scowl and her eyes shoot open. "What the gently caress were the expedition leaders thinking, settling on this planet? We barely touch down before our colonists get hunted by organized flesh devouring worm things. Either we managed to pick the shittiest LZ possible, or they already knew what sort of stuff waited for us planetside and gave the green light anyway. Don't know which one is more messed up." She closes her eyes again, but the scowl remains. "Gonna have to have a little chat with the Gulgos broad we picked up, see if this was prior knowledge to her or not."
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Deputy Therapist Bella AP: 2 | HP: 6/10 | Conditions: Winded, ᗪᕮᕮᖘԲᖇᓰᕮↁ, Infected, Vulnerable (to worms and nanites) "Well that was bracing. I need to meditate, I'm verging on a psychic break. Extremely glad I didn't have to attempt a certain technique. You!" She points at the besuited Simon. "That was impressive, I like you. Stick around." She then addresses the rest of the group, particularly Narinth. "Right, exactly, we need to establish contact with the natives much more quickly. A being like the Worm is prideful and greedy, it would not tolerate communities to persist simply for its own amusement, however much it tries to promote that idea. We have evidence of at least two significant groups that retain either vestiges of polite society or the wasteful trappings of piracy, neither of which match the apparent threat the Worm poses. There must be a way to keep it at bay, some rules it has to follow or regions it has particular control over that we stumbled into." There's a moment where she pauses for a response or further questioning, then she gathers herself into a meditative pose and checks the gently caress out, thoroughly walling off the external world with a visible sheen of a psychic barrier.
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