Your data
ID Hxu-2891
Software: Level 1 Leader, Level 1 Technician, Level 1 Medic
Implants: Lateral Sense, Targeting computer, Cyber Sync, Eye coating, Land breathing
Current Inventory: Tech-box, Advanced-key, Medi-kit

Recollection:
Last mission was a total failure the infiltration had been foiled by an unknown faction of Gillmen who are the enemies of both you and the humans. You did not receive any points for it. But time does not stop the next mission awaits!

Lupin Reporting in. Good afternoon/evening DM

Again you do not know how long you were asleep the reactivation program awakened you. You step out of your tank and feel refreshed the scars of the last mission are gone. Once you are standing outside you notice that your vision is different the eye coating plastic is made of light sensitive matter that adjusted itself to the light that is much dimmer outside of the tank.

Leaving the incubation you go to the deployment hall with several of your kind for mission briefing.

The last mission remaining from the first set is Artefact Raid, prepare yourself!

You receive standard Sonic Rifle 2 clips, 2 grenades equipment then board a Hunter with three squad mates and launch to a freshly discovered communications site. The reactivation of such a site could potentially yield equipment, machinery and data left from the past and it will help to widen control over the world’s oceans. You do not know much right now except that you will be working with other aliens Aquatoids and Tasoths.

While you are in flight you have a little free time to do what you wish.

i play imaginary video games inside my head for something to do.

>>8957387
hehe okay

The mission takes you to a far corner of the ocean to a deep region. After landing you march out seeing that Tasoths and Aquatoids are already here working about. Getting rid of debris and examining the site. You see several Pyramid structures of seemingly random size and location around you one is 2 floors tall and some others just seem to be solid blocks of stone.

Soon an Aquatoid with two Tasoth guards approaches the four of you. He tells you that your job will be to explore the lower levels of the site while they work up here. Then they guide you to the elevator and after a few minutes of messing with the controls the elevator powers up. The four of you take the place in the elevator and being your descent to the lower levels.

You pass through some blast gates and finally arrive to the bottom floor, the lights automatically turn on as you arrive. The lower levels are not in a good shape you see the corridor in front of you has collapsed and more debris litters the room. There must have been a major Earthquake here recently.

After arriving one of your squad mates takes his Tech Box and connects to the base’s network and contact the local Synomium device for information.

note to self, obtain tech 2 and fab some remote camera robots.

Who's in command?

>>8957597
Do the same with yours.

Then go explore north

>>8957675
Technician 0882 who started to work requests query he is in command for now. He also sends his data to everyone.

Technician 0882
Software: Level 3 Tech, Level 1 Leader
Equipment: Sonic Rifle 2 clips, Expert Tech-box, Advanced Key, Thermic Lance
Implants: Adv Cyber-sync, Land Breathing, Adv Targeting computer, Lateral Sense, 2 Artificial Organs

After receiving the technician’s data you realize his number is really old, this technician must be from the first generation of deployed Lobsterman, meaning he has been in action for more than a year now and yet he is still alive.

Soldier 6861
Software: Basic soldier
Equipment: Sonic Cannon, 3 clips, Thermic Lance
Implants: Adv. targeting computer, Air Breathing, Eye coating, Adv Cyber Sync

You recognize 68 from your second mission he also seems to remember you.

Soldier 3261
Software: Basic soldier
Equipment: Sonic Rifle 2 clips, 2 grenades, Heavy Thermic Lance
Implants: Eye coating, Land breathing, Bio monitor

Sidenote: Forgot to add you also have a thermic lance with standard weapons.

is the door to the north open?

What's thermic lance?

>>8957794
no it is closed

>>8957797
To put it simple the Thermic Lance is a high powered alien built drill. In TFTD it served as the 2nd level melee weapon, Lobstermen take double damage from drills and it ignores their armor.

Thermic Lances are a terribly powerful melee weapon. They, and Sonic cannon, are the only weapons capable of piercing our genetically engineered tank-like carapace. We can use our big claws to cut a human wearing aquaplastic armor's head off, with the lance, we could enter into hand-to-hand with a tank, (assuming we don't get shot by its main-gun) and win

Squad Leader: what are your orders?

>>8957118
i must reiterate that this image is awesome. Did you draw it DM?

Squad leader: “Survey area for anything worth vile! I hope I will be able to get power on everywhere soon.

You see that the light does not turn on until you step into the next room, probably to conserve power. Looking around the next room the same scenery welcomes you as the first room, the place will have to be rebuilt before it can be decently used.

After several minutes of work an alarm goes of and you can hear the Synomium device contacting Squad leader and everyone else. The data feed is sporadic and inconsistent.

“Danger Security compromised”
“Eliminate hostiles!”
“Countermeasures active!”

Suddenly all the lights go out and the alarm also shuts down the doors close and lock up and you are trapped in the second room. An emergency lighting comes online and provides dim visibility to the room.

Squad leader: “Just as I feared. The Synomium is device heavily damaged. It recognized us as hostiles. We need to reach it and deactivate it manually. Number 28 Stay where you are we need to force the doors open.”

>>8958046
yes I am an amateur drawfag

hmm, we've got a thermic lance, and the door is in our way... Squad Leader, I believe it possible to force door to open using my thermic lance

Squad leader: ”Correct, start in the middle to separate the locking mechanism.”

rolled 42 = 42

i assume you'd like a roll for that, so here it is.

my drill will pierce this door!

also, I, Can, Break, This, Door.
(dumb joke about a dumb meme is dumb)

You take your TL and fire it up, it starts to accelerate rapidly and heat up to high temperature. Yet it is surprisingly quiet for a heavy duty power tool. Then you push it into the middle of the door to destroy the locking mechanism. The plastic material heats up and cracks form in as you drill through it.

Sidenote: In this case I will not require a roll because you are not in danger and if we continue to get bad rolls we can just sit here and keep rolling for hours just to get through a door.

Squad Leader: What 'countermeasures' can this facility take against us?

You pull the drill back and examine the hole you are satisfied with it for the first try it seems you will need a bit more practice with this weapon. You continue and shortly you notice that the rest of the squad are working on the other side as well.

Soon the locking mechanism is completely broken and you simple force the door open with your bare pincers. You note that after the lock is removed the door is easy to force open for your squad.

Squad leader: “This is going to be a slow moving mission, we have to find the way to the control room but there could be at least a dozen rooms around us.”

>>8958269
Squad leader: ”It depends we do not know how damaged it is, in the best case it just closes itself down. In the worst case we will be under attack by drones or anything that defends this base.”

You all move to the next room and see that the next door is also closed.

Squad-leader: i believe forcing the doors may go faster if 32 uses his heavy lance to do so.

Squad leader: ”Correct again! It is good to see a more creative and talkative brother around. Yes 32 did use it at the first door.”

Your squad moves to the next door and gets to work, on the next door. 32 works diligently to get the door open faster.

While at it you examine the room, mostly there is nothing but trash. Pieces of machinery covered with dust and sand sometimes a thin layer of algae, rocks and stuff. But a tiny pyramid shaped object in the northwest corner catches your eye as it seems to be intact.

examine the tiny pyramid then

You got it and pick it up it is pretty light it is about twice as big as a grenade, cleaning it reveals some numbers and symbols on it that you cannot identify but there is an interface plug in on it just like most of the other equipment you use.

give the thing to squad leader, his experience is much more likely to enable him to identify and use it

Your leader examines it and connects to it with his Advanced key and wait a bit.

Squad leader: ”This here is a Data Canister, an archival device that stores data information for longer periods of time. This one could have been lying here for quite some time, it does not contain much useful info.”

He gives it back to you and resumes work.

guess we wait till the door's opened

32 and 68 is finally finished with the door. They force it open into another room which is much smaller. The only difference here is that (can you guess) a lot more trash is here almost as if an explosion took place in here. There are piles of junk in every corner. To your right there is the next door. Leader goes there and examines it closely. In a few moments he stands up and turns to you three.

“This is a blast door we cannot get through it with our drills. I identified the console where it can be opened, it is in the previous room I will go back and attempt to open it you stay here and be one guard 32 will come and guard me while I work. Please wait.”

With that he takes his tools and leaves you and 68 here.

how does the lateral sense work? (not concerned about the technical details of how it works, but what it means to us)

i remember deciding to get it because you said it'd let me figure out if something is behind concealment/cover, and thus determine if an explosive was a good idea

>>8959179
Lateral sense implant is similar to how fish in real life are able to sense their surroundings. Here it basically works as if you had a sonar or radar. Sadly it is not as good as the human’s motion scanner. To use it you need to ignore/switch off all you other senses and stay stationary while doing it. When that is done you should be able to detect movement around you from the change of water currents around you. You might also detect the geography around you.

However in the current situation it is probably not very useful because you are in a tight completely sealed environment, for instance you cannot see what is behind an airlock. It is much more useful in an open area.

You might be disappointed with the limited function please note that this was a cheap and basic implant.

keep guardin'. nothing to do till SL is done opening the door

got food, be back in 20

i have returned, earlier than i expected.

>>8959685
Back as well

You wait for awhile and you are really getting bored once again looking back towards leader and 32. Then right beside you the foliage moves and something bumps into your foot.

poke it with my foot, discover what it is

You poke it back and this alerts the creature. Suddenly you feel a tug on your right foot and an a dark green liquid like substance start to quickly wrap itself around it and climb upwards.

use my awesome lobsterman physique to ripNtear the crap out of whatever this thing is

You grab the thing and try to tear it to pieces but when you start to tug it off it stretches like rubber now you see that it poured around your other leg and started to wrap itself around it.

Seeing you moving around 68 ask you: “Is everything alright?”

"i'm being attacked? restrained? by this thing."

use the thermic lance to stab the bits of whatever's grabbed me that are still on the ground

You take your Thermic Lance and turn it on it takes a few seconds for it to heat up while this is going on the green blob is still climbing up it reached your tights. You stab the superheated drill into it. When the drill buries into it, it emits a screeching noise and immediately lets you go and retreats then disappears in the dark foliage under the junk.

68 witnessed the events and tells you that this was most probably a Calcinite.

ask 68 if i should pursue and eliminate it

>>8960304
>tights
Are they... fishnets?

>>8960370
YEEEAAAAAH!!

>>8960370
ummm that part is best left unexplained

>>8960326
68 says that you shouldn’t bother if Calcinites are not controlled by someone directly they are not dangerous creatures.

Side note:
Alright mates I apologize for the sudden change but sadly we have to wrap for tonight. This mission will be a longer and more complex one probably the most complex we did so far and right now I can barely keep my eyes open and I feel that right now I m just boring you.

Please Provide feedback about tonight now if you have any but I understand if you are dissapointed that almost nothing has happened during the session tonight.

I'm always up for Lobsterman quest

archived, lobsterman quest 6.

As for when is next time most probably next Friday as usual, maybe just maybe next Wednesday is a slight possibility but on Wednesday it should be starting around 17:00 instead of 15:00 and will be a shorter session.

>>8960577
thank you

>inb4 Lobsterman wades straight into a group of X-com operatives, shoots 4 of them per turn, and laughs as the puny earth weapons are harmlessly deflected off its nigh-impenetrable carapace.

Alright then thanks for everyone who participated tonight! I shall now return to the depths of the Ocean for slumber.

Fucking Lobstermen. I remember raiding a cruise ship full of these mother fuckers. My three best soldiers used all their TP discharging their Heavy Sonic Cannons into just one Lobsterman. The next turn he killed all three and ran away.