F5ing like a motherfucker

oh snap. boone away!

where'd this shit leave off? been a while.

Boone Quest Day is Happiness Day!

It's been a bit I admit, and there's a bit to take in at this point. There's a bit to take in also, so if you need a moment to look through the archives too, that's gravy pie.

There is also this cliff notes business here:
http://mr-culexus.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=scraps#/d48tyy5

Also, for what it's worth: as the game is getting more exposition heavy and based more around talking with people (mostly team mates) I've tried to make the 'talking to someone' screens slightly more interesting or detailed, generally just for team members but hey. Putting that out there.

Best get started, we have a short cutscene first...

[CUTSCENE]

The CHIRIUTUBE goes through its final cycle, making a bizzare noise like house keys down piano wire before a definate thud is heard and from the smoke emerges, at long last, Nel. Free from her affliction she has the look on her face of absolute relief and delight.

Tears well up in her eyes

She reaches out and pull you against her, not in a desperate attempt to cling to her humanity like last time, but with genuine warmth and grattitude.

"You have saved me, Alice Boone. Thank the Emperor for you. I will never forget this"

Behind you, a recessed holoprojecto flickers to life.

A hologram of GODEK, the now sainted (or whatever the techpriest equivilent is) head of this medical department.
A soft, commanding voice crackles from it.

"If you are seeing this, then you have managed to do what i could not, and save a life I was powerless to help. Please find contained within this receptical, the wordly possessions of Nel Torokvei, with one final gift of my own"

A floor tile slides open revealing a TECHNOMAT JUMPSUIT, a MULTITOOL and a CANONESS FRUIT PIE.

Nel takes this oppurtunity to change out of her PRISON CLOTHES (burning them for good measure) and puts on the TECHNOMAT JUMPSUIT.

She looks around a little before finally asking "What happened to Daneel?"

[CUTSCENE OVER]

he's uh... he's missing. and certainly not exploded. we should probably go fix up that teleport doodad and see if we can't get him back.

>>16863082
Nel is touched by your infectious optimism, but is pretty sure that sort of thing is beyond that humble transponder.

Head back up the higher level and reactivate the drilling machine?

>>16863160
GM:
Drilling machine is ruined, yo. You ripped apart for wires earlier. Also, you can only travel with 2 people at a time.

If people need a refresher, here's the last episode on the archive:

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/16182136/

>>16863219

This is good. Give us five minutes to get back up to speed, we'll be right with you.

To elaborate
Character besides those in you team, will follow you a short distance and help you out, but their travel distance and abilities are limited.

>>16863157
well there's no harm in trying is there? plus maybe we can teleport someone/thing else up later. Broken machine spirits help nothing!

I want to see what our new party member can do, so leave Leo down here and take Nell back up with us to the mining level, and speak to kapunda. Maybe a friendly face will get him onside.

>>16863258
I just read re-read Boone Quest 2 and this caught my eye
>Concerning Leokadia and tube treatment
>We'll slap her on the ass if Nel survives.

Well, seems like we'll have to do that now.

>>16863280
second.

>>16863280
>>16863303
third

The possibly apologize and say it was something we promised ourselves to do

>>16863274

Also, show us Nell's stats/inventory.

Take Nell up to the KORNHEISER and have her use her SPARE PART and REPAIR skill to reactivate it. Take Musou with us, for protection if Toors comes knocking, Leo can stay down here.

>>16863280
>>16863303
>>16863321
You place a firm smack on Nels backside and she squeaks and jumps forward, flattered, but flustered.
You explain to her that that was something you and Daneel agreed had to happen but that he was not here to administrate.

"well...he owes me one then..." she mutters. But she understands.

>>16863267
Depending on the button you press, the teleporter can bring in one of 5 new people

Oh, wait, we had to open the activation panel, didn't we?

Try this.

>>16863441
Let's simply ask Nel if she knows the code for that thing. If I remember correctly, she looked like a foreman of some kind on the vids.

>Dat blush
>Not into girls
Yeah yeah, keep telling that to yourself.

>>16863430
>5 new people
let us comence to fixinating.

I propose we leave C-16 here, unless we can be sure who we're porting in with only one person's expertise.

Or this

>So anyways, I was thinking it was about time I did a little more Boonequest
Comfy chair: ONLINE
Pepsi: ONLINE
Chips: ONLINE
+ + + DEPLOYING TO BATTLE + + +
Fatass #017 present, lads. Let's roll.

>>16863441
>>16863465
>Drilling machine is ruined, yo. You ripped apart for wires earlier.

no drill tank for us. moving on.

Oh fuck, I'm actually catching one of these live

MR. C!
Zomg!
YOU LIVE!

When we go back to the Cogitator on the upper level, also scan for xenos. Toors is still unaccounted for and Serum A may make him detectable.

>>16863497
i'm pretty sure we tried that after we blew our way through the bulkhead in pursuit, with no results.

>>16863274
>>16863335
Nels info, for the curious. She is a UTILITY character, as she has no PP and is non combatant, her skills can be used any time at no cost, but are situational, she's basically a way of helping you through tech related puzzles (in the same way C-16 helps you go through combat scenarios quicker)

With Nel, you need less parts to fix stuff also.

She will never fight, but can be relied upon to avoid danger.

She also has LOCAL knowledge and can answer more questions (though still not all) about the facility.

>>16863404
The Kornheiser is fixed, you just havent figured out the ignition code.

IMPORTANT: Flying the Kornheiser out of the shaft or beaming ina a new person will end this level. Just so you know.

Third try for the activation panel.

"The Machine God"

So I have no useful ideas, but what flavor is that fruit pie?

Actually, yeah.
>>16863404
has got a good place to start.

>>16863529
looks like pear.

or whatever grimdark pear is.

As far as we know, beck is still beneath the Blue Bulkhead. C-16 still has a grenade left - does anyone think it worthwhile going down and finishing him off?

>>16863520
Ahhh.
Ok, np then. She's not for point-work.
Hey, do we have anyone who can actually pilot the Kornheiser?

>>16863540

Pears are as grimdark as fuck. They're teeth-breakingly hard, then they're ripe and juicy for about, oh, 8.76 seconds, then they're a puking mushy slurry.

Okay, we've got a lot of suggestions here, I need some straight up consensus in simple terms fo my primitive Anglo-Australian brain to calculate.

Choose your team. Choose your action. Bit by bit.

>>16863545
Dunno. I'd guess the character with the skill "Pilot" might.

>>16863540
It might be...DIS-PEAR!

sage for bad, terribly old pun.
...although Nada would be a great substitute for C-16.

>>16863541
not really. bulkhead's locked and we should probably save it for something more imminent.

>>16863551

TEAM: Boone, Nel, C-16.

LOCATION: Kornheiser.

ACTION: Reactivate it. Don't necessarily fly off yet, look inside and see if there are any useful items.

>>16863550

>>Pears are as grimdark as fuck.

/tg/, you never fail to surprise me.

>Finished reading the archives of boone quest last night having never participated in a thread.
>Note the massive lack of boone quest since september
>Think that threads didn't get archived
>This thread
>My face when I get to participate

>>16863550
hee hee, +1 to you. Well done.

>>16863557
I am having some serious selective perspective problems today, no lie.

>>16863551
Port in NADA. Leave LEOKADIA. Take Party to KORNHEISER, and leave NEL in it as pilot. Take C-16 and NADA onward to ADVENTURE!


Edit: dammit, where's that image of C-16 attempting an Attillan salute?

>>16863520

>>She also has LOCAL knowledge and can answer more questions (though still not all) about the facility.

On the facility map, does nel know what the ? at A3 is? Just some random rocks or evil Chaotic stelae?

>>16863601
Good thinking.
Seconded. Let us PUMP NEL...for information.

>>16863597
porting in ends the level.

apparently nel + c-16 to the korneiser has the favor of the majority.

>>16863601

If it's Evil Chaotic Stelae, call up Yoahkim and bombard it.

>>16863616
Tis true.
I'm not clear if ending the level will change anything aside from not being able to solve any leftover puzzles.
That said, we do have a really good party right now. Aside from some serious ranged combat deficiencies we're damn well-rounded.

>>16863620
if we call him, we should probably point out the gun batteries too. he might want to take some initiative in bombarding them for his own reasons.

>>16863550

Eating a pear is like playing Russian Roulette with an automatic.

>>16863638
>implying C-16 charging headlong isn't a ranged attack

also, luminen blast, flashbang, and 2x guns

>>16863653

but there's no way to randomise the chamber with an automatic. It'd be a very short game.

>>16863659

>>thatsthejoke.jpg

Do we have any way of figuring out which character will be ported in by each button?

>>16863659
>the point
>your head

I missed a few threads.
I require:
Map
List of characters that happened after we met the KORNHEISER and HINT MAN.

>>16863571
>>16863597
>>16863616
CF, are you taking us to the kornheiser yet?

>>16863654
C-16 does great if she's not shot to death before she arrives. She lost a ton of HP to a single guard that one time she was unarmed.
So, Ranged:
1 (Power?) Spear throw. Short range -probably absurdly high damage though. Leokadia might be able to retrieve it with Ferric Summons.
2 Grenades. Short range, inaccurate.
2 Laspistols, and very critically, no combat rated shooters. Short range, low damage.
Luminen Blast, Short ranged and very limited ammo.

No, we have a definite weakness. It's not been a problem _yet_.

>>16863683

CF already posted the cheat sheet earlier. Here it is again:

http://mr-culexus.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=scraps#/d48tyy5

>>16863683
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=boone

study up.

>>16863696
That lacks FACILITY MAP and a description of NADA.

Take Nel and C-16 up to the COGITATOR on the mining level. Look through CAMERA ONE and CAMERA TWO.

>>16863597
Porting in NADA strikes you as unlikely, as she was not part of your shuttle (she was travelling with Quil, as usual), and the telporter seems callibrated to your shuttle only.

Okay...hoo..okay...From what I'm gathering here, we are at least temporaily making a team of C-16 and Nel, to go check out the KORNHEISER and are then going to take NEL to look at the MAP?

About right?

You and Leokadia make your fond fairwells, you remind her to watch out for TOORS DENOTE, and she gestures to the AUTOGUARD and smiles.

FUCK YES!
Ok, we should have Nel beam someone in with the Teleporter.
We have the spare part, and someone useful might come in. Or at least someone to watch Leo's back.
THEN we can use the Drill Tank to move foreword.

>>16863792
Right, good point.

I think that's it. Get to the Kornheiser, and prepare to move on.
Asking Nel about that one shrouded location is a good idea, too.

>>16863794

Also suggest >>16863742

>>16863794
If you teleport someone in, the level ends. You may wanna do that last.

I should point out, before you get your hopes up that the KORNHEISER is basically a hovering minecart, its bade for conveyance, not rock breaking.

NEL smiles fondly at the KORNHEISER and runs her finger along its activation panels in an almost memorised fashion with a base thud and an electronic whine, the Kornheiser rumbles to activation.

(SORRY. This puzzle was another meme one. I lack the chops for being actually clever, I was just kind of expectiong someone to google "Kornheiser' in desperation. Bit lame of me.)

anyways, to the map.

Dont panic, no one's stealing this.

>>16863914
They'd better not. We put too much time into Hovercraft.
And OK, Porting in someone LAST then.

>>16863914
>so obvious now

>>16863914
>Kornheizer
>Why
>KORNHEISER

...you sly son of a bitch

>>16863974
I know, right? I thought he made up the name.

You walk up to the COGITATOR MAP, and ask about the ? location.
Nel stares closely and nods. The damage here is consistant witha downed shuttle. The impact was broad and well spread, so, though damage was done, there'd likely be survivors if the shuttle was any good.

You pause, musing. Man, Nel kinda knows her shit.

You then opt to go to the Cameras.

Thread archived, btw:

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/16862657/

>>16864043
After this, we should probably relay this map, and attached information, to the captain in the ship in orbit. He might be able to do a bombardment, and it'll be useful to him.

>>16864043
hmm, also probably a good idea to be damn careful about any orbital fire. The survivors have probably taken shelter, but it's a cluttered battlefield all the same.

>>16864113
well hopefully if we can look at the cameras we can determine what's up at the crash site.

Camera two first, because you're like that.

Hmm. It seems to be live stream footage of the aftermath of a battle. You see two dead SAPP SOLDIERS strewn amongst a cracked concret and barrel barricade.

Hm.

SHIT!

The '?' section is not a shuttle crash!

I SAY AGAIN.

The '?' is not a shuttle crash!!

The CRAG is a shuttle crash. the '?' is just rubble.

>>16864165
-Two seems like too few. Could something have dragged others off?
-fatal torso wounds, looks like. Consistent with ranged las/bolter fire of a precise nature from the lack of collateral scarring.
Hmm indeed.

Camera One seems to be monted on top of the comm tower, instead of being some sort of sky cam it...
huh...

This fundamentum looks familiar. You bite your lip without even realising it.

>>16864211
Let's try the other camera too.
>>16864207
JUST rubble?
Once I was playing a game of D&D and the party walked into a room. The GM rolled something, and accidentally said "ok, the Zombie doesn't move. Shit!"

>>16864251
Daaamn, can we get print that somehow?

>>16864251
NADA!
I'm SURE of it!
There are few of the Ragged Edges who wear a bodyglove, and she's one.
Sorry, I'm apparently obsessing.

>>16864284
Wait, goddamnit.
That's Jonquil. Blue with black boots. Yeah.
Sage fer spammage.

>>16864251
She's on the Comm Tower? Can we get a message to her?
By the way, I'm dumping Cultist because of this thread.

>>16864284
>>16864296
pretty sure you're both wrong.

http://mr-culexus.deviantart.com/gallery/12423256?offset=0#/d2j5gf2

>>16864321
Yeah. That part about being atop the Comms tower worries me.
Either way we should later scout the guns to see if they need fragging, and see about extracting Ms. BlueBooty and Friends as needed.

The owner of the derriere, apparently aware that they're being watched, crouches into view and stares directly into the camera. Nel gasps and staggers backward, making the cog sign.

CUDDLES stares into the camera for a few seconds, the appetures on her eyes zooming in and out. You can't shake the feeling that somehow she not only knows she's being watched, but that she knows she's being watched by you.

>>16864360

Can we TELEPATH her thoughts, or is she out of range?

>>16864360
Blow a kiss at the camera.

>>16864360
WAVE AT CUDDLES! Tell Nel she's cool, Cuddles was with us.

>>16864360
Yay, cuddles!

>>16864360
we need to get her down here. creepy psycher + cute psycher for the greatest tag team ever!

>>16864360
In a word: YES.
Ohhhhh, ho ho. Alpha level Biomancer, personal bodyguard to Commissar Conrad Rage, and generally all-around annhilatrix/psychic comms network broadcaster.
High. Fucking. Speed.

>>16864165
Something about that...
Ask Nel if there's anything important about that image.
(... uh... am I allowed to translate?)

>>16864360
Could our Telepathy reach her on the comms tower?

Seven replies to a single post.
Got to be a new record.

oh uh...seems she DOES know.

You close your eyes and concentrate but the distance and your own weakness make it difficult, you think you hear, soft as a falling leaf:

'C-c-cCAan't cant leave-eave-eave post but can-an h-h-ELP HELP help help. See-e-e-e-e you sOOn-oon'

I wonder how the others react to the sight of cuddles, she isn't exactly normal

>>16864461
Perhaps she wants us to go find her?

>>16864461
Sis-fist Cuddles through the screen. Let her know you'll do what you can from this end.

>>16864461
>>c'monc'mon.mp3

AWESOME.
Alright! We're in serious business. Let's get our shapely fundaments accelerated, and get to the floatah.

WHERE DID SHE GET THE CARDBOARD!

So. What does atdineruniversalgreeting mean?

>>16864526
that someone is at the diner and they are sending a universal greeting obviously

>>16864461
Give her the psychic equivalent of a hug, tell her we made new friends and then soldier on.

You assure NEL that despite her appearence, CUDDLES is as on the level as anyone can get, and has acted as a bodyguard to Inquisitorial gents and indeed for Commissar.

NEL nods. Satisfied. She goes on to mention that, while she had assumed you were in someway affiliated with the guard or navy, she figures youre probably part of something bigger than you let on, but totally gets that youre not really much for talking about it.

>>16864526
Posessing more MILITARY MIND than you gave yourself credit for, you crack this rather elaborate code. You're a little puzzled as to its greater purpose, but you imagine it'll come to you.

Perhaps if our allies seem freaked we should tell them that we're cool with her.

>>16864609
Cool, beam this info up to Captain McCaptain, and let him know NOT to shoot the Comm Tower.

Is there a camera at the diner?

>>16864645
That's a negative.

>>16864643
You're unable to send this map to Toullemonde, sadly, as this COGITATOR doesnt have a SLATE PORT. Toullemonde is dependant on your instruction on this one. You think it best to call him anyway.

He starts of offended, but calms down quickly. You do that to people.

>>16864643
we should probably point out the gun batteries to him, give him some coordinates to bombard. he was complaining about them when we first talked to him.

>>16864381
>>16864383

WHOA WHOA WHO

maybe we don't even WANT cuddles? She's way more main character status than we are, we'd be overshadowed in our own quest!

>>16864747
Are the Gun batteries still bothering him? Because if so, fire on A1, A7 and G1.
We don;t have any allies at the Guns, do we?
OH! Also maybe shoot at D# while you're at it.

>>16864747
It's times like this that it's really good that we (Boone) are not the kind of person who rebuts unpleasantness with "I'm with the Inquisition, BITCH. TRY ME."

>>16864775
Lol, no no -it's our quest, she's just here to help.
And we do something unique: we shine a little Light in the Grimdark.

>>16864759
>>16864785
I have tangible reservations about using orbital fire until it's absolutely necessary.
Could just me being squeamish, but all the same...

>>16864809
orbital fire on gun batteries that are shooting at things in orbit seems fine. don't be such a bitch.

Burdell.
Has enough time passed that s/he might be in a position to feed us some information?

>>16864775
Cuddles as a fapfic and a few pieces on Culexus' page. Boone has her own quest. I think she can pull rank on Cuddles easily. Which she wouldn't, because she really likes the girl.

>Cuddles has a fapfic
why even

>>16864759
You give TOULLEMONDE the coordinates of the surface GUN BATTERIES, after a few seconds and almighty rumble from above, like a peel of thunder if its one of those peels that girls do when they peel an apple all at once to throw it over their shoulder to see if it forms the first letter of the person they'll marry sized..um..dunno that one?

Anyway, big damn explosion. TOULLEMONDE is delighted to finally be useful.

>>16864809
Then make sure to ask him if the Gun Batteries are still giving him trouble.

>>16864924
What about A1? Too close to something important?

Alright, that's done.
Next?

>>16864924
remind him not to enjoy the violence too much and thank him for the air support.

>>16864953
it's right next to the comm tower, risking fallout and cuddles being in the same vicinity is probably not a great idea.

>>16864953
No, no that's toasted too. Just forgot. brain sneeze.

>>16864989
That was 7A. 1A is next to Camera Two and the Diner.
Speaking of which, let's check on Cuddles?

>>16864891
Well, it wasn't really a fapfic. Although it gave rise to the rumours of her cursed privates.

Maybe we should have talked to Cuddles before the airstrike. But yeah, check on her.
However Lances are precision weapons, right? So we shouldn't be TOO worried about collateral damage.

>>16865012
You check on CUDDLES again, she observes one of the nearby smouldering wrecks then turns to the camera, you can tell by the way her shoulders and chest are moving that she is laughing quite hard.

'ahee ahoo goO-ood-ood onnnne'

>>16865109
Tumbs up, girl.

>>16865109
Anywhere else we can blow up from here that would help? Or should we get a move on?

We should consider visiting the diner... probably only after we get Cuddles, since she's almost undoubtedly the most powerful character around... and you might be dealing with Chaos dickery.

OHH SNAP IS THAT A BOONE QUEST I SEE?
I'll be monitoring...

>>16865165
You know what I haven't seen in a long time?
Smith Quest!

>>16865070
Actually, they're the equivalent of a Death Star superlaser (we're actually building a similar superlaser right now to TEAR A HOLE IN REALITY, FOR SCIENCE!) for meltaguns, on a huge scale. So it's a giant radioactive death ray formed from multiple smaller microwave death rays. It can work for orbital bombardment, but it's most effective in space, where the beam largely has no matter to disrupt it.

Compared to batteries of guns that'd make Schwerer Gustav and the Karl-Gerat mortars look like pea shooters, guns which fire miniature suns, and all manner of bombs & missiles, though, the Lance is precise, yeah.

>>16865109
In a word: whew.
Ok.
What's next, fa/tg/uys?
What's up with Burdell? If there's nothing else, we're about due to be done -either by leaving, or adding to the talent pool.

>>16865211
I'd forgot about that guy. He had that crush on Nel, right? Lets see if we can't cheer him up, get the Teleporter running. (THEN leave, unless it's all over chapter wise)

>>16865190
Yeah, I haven't done it in quite a while... man I wanna! But college, and work, and working while in college!
I can't promise anything, but wait a while. I'll do a quest soon.

>>16865237
Who I mean is the Callidus who was impersonating a traitor guard. I might have the name wrong.

>>16865262
She got beamed back up to a loyalist ship though.

>>16865262
That'd be Nada, if I'm not mistaken.
But yeah, let's try to fix the tellyporters, but who to tele in?

>>16865279
..zounds.
Ok then. Let's move on....

You wonder what to do next. Lot to think about.

>>16865149
Not particularly no, it may come in handy once you know more.

One other things, since it's being discussed. There were, to my knowledge 2 Cuddles fics that had any level of distribution.

One was written by Elite Pirate, and it contained romance towards her but no fooling around (it was just hinted at that those involved would like to) the guy who fancied Cuddles in that story died.

Another person, wrote an actual fapfic (if anything involving my characters can be called that) that involved a guardsman walking in on her servicing herself , then there's mindreading and rough sex. Not the sort of story I would write, necessarily, but still actually okay written and pretty much in character. The guardsman in THAT story also dies.

One of the guardsman who is mentioned as being dead in that godawful story I wrote 'Boones first time' was also dating Cuddles at the time they died. So the theory of her being cursed does seem to be thing.

I'm rewriting 'Boones first time' to make it suck less, but those that died still died.
agh. Anyway, back to Boonequest.

>>16865288
WE don't get to choose. CF chooses who comes in.
But yeah, that miner who liked Nel, we should talk to him.

>>16865337
> 'Boones first time
Wow, some /tg/ fapfic I don't know about? Colour me surprised.

>Cuddle's partners
Maybe she should stop dating guardsmen. There's a perfectly fine Boone right here.

>>16865337
Talk to Miner Man, then if there's nothing else to do, end chapter by starting up the Teleporter. After that (Next time or whenever) we'll Select the Team to take on the Hovercraft, and do stuff.

>>16865337
You should try your hand at more smut art and writing. Take one for the team!

And yes, let's head to the miner and see what he has to say to Nel.

>>16865388
Boone's first time is decidedly _not_ fapfic, Anon.

>>16865337
Lots of girls to write about, CF. =3

Stop talking about fapfics for shitty characters and get back to this shitty game!

>>16865337

Where...

Where can I find these?

>>16865459
No.
This is quest time.
Back on track, Anon.

>>16865337
I fourth/third/whatever going to see the miner that was crushing on Nel, he should know she's alright.

>>16865459
>>>/rs/tgfiction&from=ALL

Knock yourself out.

You return to KAPUNDA to show off your brand new HEALTHY HAPPY NEL.

Someone seems to have already been here.

>>16865482
Ugh, no idea why that doesn't work when linked.

Go to /rs/ and search for tgfiction.

This whole thread? Xenos did it.

>>16865503
Bugger.
Information!
Does C-16 smell anything? Anyone see any tracks/spoor/goo?

>>16865503
Lets check if how much he's been injured.

>>16865503
...HEAL
HEAL LIKE YOU'VE NEVER HEALED BEFORE

>>16865503
CAST HEAL! Heal him!
Then we get information.

>>16865546
HEAL.

>>16865525
>>16865537
>>16865546
>>16865555
>>16865575
WHAT THESE PEOPLE SAID.

>inb4 perils of the warp

>>16865537
You crouch down to look at SUAM's injuries, he seems his ribcage has ben punctured then sort of...dug through his organs. it looks as though he's been fed on.

With 2 heals, you can get him stable, you're pretty sure. but he's in a bad way.

I'd say we have a consensus, yes?

>>16865623
Make it so.

>>16865614
It only happened once! And that turned out for the better!
>>16865623
YES! I mean, we TOLD him to go down to the med-bay for protection, but NOOOOOO!
(Hey, did you draw him a face yet?)

>>16865623
Could we transport him the the healing tube without using our powers on him?

>>16865623
Do it.

Do it, Faggot.

>>16865647
We're only getting him STABLE with our powers. (And we have plenty of provisions to restore PP)
After that we can drag him down the the med-tube.

rolled 7 + 3 = 10

HEALING TEST ONE!!!

>>16865669
CRAP! We want, LOWER, right?
Well we have more PP, and more stuff that restores our PP.

rolled 1 + 3 = 4

TEST TWOOO!

>>16865689
Y'know, I can never remember.
But aye, we have the mojo to make this work.
And passion. Passion counts.

>>16865669
YESSSS
HEEEAL! HEAL SO YOU MAY LOOK INTO THE EYES OF NEL!!!

>>16865689
Nope, higher! Just no 9s.

>>16865696
UNACCEPTABLE.

rolled 3 + 3 = 6

TEST THREEEEE!!!

>>16865719
GODDAMN IT

she is going to be so tired after this

>>16865689
I think we actually need to beat the 7. As in higher.

rolled 3 + 3 = 6

LAAAAST SPUUUUUURT!!!!

>>16865696
>>16865719
Ouch, that's rough.
"...I hope thing's worth it." -Kasrkin Trooper.

>>16865737
No! D: well shoot, maybe we healed him but he's still out cold and needs medical attention?

>>16865719
>>16865737
EMPEROR DAMN IT! WE ARE SAVING THIS MAN!
Eat a pie or drink a beer!

>>16865737
>Dem rolls

Ouch. Tell C-16 to transport him to the repair tube as carefully and quickly as possible,

Damnation!
Use Chocolate for Psi-power?
I say yes.
One more Emperor's blessed try.

>>16865766
Chocolate, pie, whatever it takes.

As the last spark leaves your hands, you stammer to SUAM to hold on just a moment longer, you just need to eat something and then...

He doesn't respond.

You shake him. He's gone.

Nel tries to reassure you, but your eyes feel hot. You gave everything you could, and it wasn't enough. Not by half. You punch the ground bitterly.

>>16865805
UNACCEPTABLE.

>>16865805
>Not by half.
Hey, we managed one of two rolls we needed.
What a shit.

>>16865805
SWEAR VENGEANCE
his death will not be in vain.
a moment of silence.

>>16865805
....
Requisat in pax, true servant of the Emperor.
Go now to your rest, may you next open your eyes at the Emperor's side.

>>16865805
Well it looks like it's time to get C-16 to fuck somebody's day up.
She has a Grenade and a RAGE. Let's do this.

>>16865805
NOOOOOOOOOooooooooOOOOOOOO!!!!

>>16865805
>No chance to actually influence anything.
Fuck this, I'm out.

>>16865846
Hey man, I've been shouting unacceptable, but we did fail our rolls.

>>16865857
CF failed our rolls.

>>16865865
Same thing, rolls were made for boone, she failed them.
We had 4 attempts, we were just unlucky.
Now quit whining like a kid who can't have his own way all the time.

>>16865865
Not like he did it on purpose, we even have that +3 bonus. Just bad luck is all.

Alright.
We have a purpose, let's get to it.

If we don't have any clues, let's move right deeper in.
C-16 has point.

>>16865874
You're right. I'm gonna hide the thread, go to bed and stop bothering you.

>>16865886

>>16865896
Play nice.

>>16865886
Goodnight Anon, we'll frag whatever did this for you, too.

>>16865907
I suppose that was slightly uncalled for.

so we're agreed then? drop everything, find the heretic, and make C-16 do the worst things she can to his mutated ass?

>>16865920
Aye. I suspect CF's parsing whatever comes next right now.

>>16865916
A little. Empathy's a low-cost investment, never hurts to try a little.

>>16865805
By the Golden Throne... he fucked Cuddles, didn't he?

You stagger to your feet and storm back out to the main mine.

C-16 has been pacing.

( I will say - sorry I rolled like such a bitch there. I roll because its the best way I can think of to keep the tests neat - it'd be that or you guys would have to assign someone (witha trip) to be the designated roller for the thread, who would have to stay in the thread, monitering it carefully-the WHOLE time. This is neater. Also, as it's digital dice, giving the job to someone else, wont really help. Again, though, that was some bad rolling. War is hell.)

>>16865955
I feel incredibly bad for laughing.

>>16865960
Tell her what happened and ask if she's up for a little SMITING!

>>16865920
Sounds like a plan, perhaps Nel would like to do the honours? I'm sure C16 could subdue the target quite happily, or at least not quite finish him off.

>>16865939
I suppose, hard to empathise to a screen however.

>>16865955
The Fool! Had he not heard the stories?!?

SUAM KAPUNDA

>>16184189
to
>>16865805

"May the Emperor recognize his face, because no one else knows what he looks like..."

Yay Boone Quest!

Is... Is there nothing we can do?

Even if his body has failed... Can we at least try to get him and Nel a last meeting? Speak-to-dead type gittery?

>>16866010
That would be incredibly perilous. Pun intended.
No, in this universe the righteous dead have no voice and that's what's right.

>>16865971
You talk passionatley to C-16 about vengence and finding the blaggard who took Suam Kapundas life. You talk of tracking, and comeuppance and justice and...

C-16 cuts you off. She ...seems(?) to get the gyst of it..

>>16866010
There is nothing we can do except find out who did this and make them pay dearly.

>>16866031
Yes, very.

Would it be worth showing her the body?

>>16866031
"Someone need to get VERY dead."

>>16866031
Yes C-16. Someone needs to get very, VERY dead. Deader then Horus after the Heresy.

>>16866054
Nah. She's a soldier, she gets it.
Let's move out, find our enemy, and see just what our outrage becomes when it has a target.

>>16866031
Yes. Someone needs to get very, very dead.

Gentlemen! The hunt is on...

C-16 grabs your wrist, which startles you, she sniffs your gloved had for a few seconds and a smile comes across her face. She has been so very bored, lately.

>>16866127
What scares me the most is that she can't actually speak Gothic.
Her facial features are providing all this information to us.
Anyway, Lead the way C-16, you combat monster you.

Whose got it figured out?!
Left right, left right got it figured out!
Whose got it figured out?!
Left right, left right!
-Jack White.

>>16866127
Emperor have mercy on whoever gets in her way.

CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP. I have work and have to go to bed, so I won't be enjoying this in real time. Thank the Emperor for archives.

>>16866179
>"work" and "bed"
>implying "work" isn't filming your roommate and his girlfriend doing naughty things, and "bed' isn't doing even naughtier things to yourself, filming optional

Don't lie, you rotting perverted zombie git. You know it's true.

>>16866139
You follow C16 back through the shafts of the mine and back to the security area...she eventually stops.

Is she going to murder the fuck out of him in the shower?
Or int he overhead tunnels. (Speaking of which, where the HELL did the Warden guy go? Is he dead?)

>>16866242
He's obviously in the toilet, you git. NOONE WOULD EXPECT THAT.

>>16866229
Clearly, C-16 wishes to bathe. In fact, I'd say it's about time we all had a good shower. Everyone strip down and file in, no need to waste water.

>>16866229
I don't remember if we checked the toilet tank to see if there was a hidden switch. Perhaps we should check that?

>>16866312

I second this. It is logical.

TOORS drops down from the ceiling, he seems to have undergone some sort of change due to his recent feeding. he begins spewing some sort of villainous hivemind diatribe BUT YOU ARE IN NO MOOD.

>>16866359
C-16, I believe you reserved this dance?

>>16866359
boil his WORTHLESS BRAIN IN IT'S FUCKING SKULL

>>16866359
Language.

>>16866359
KILL IT KILL IT KILL IT! C-16, STAB IT IN THE GUBBINS!

>>16866359
Rip his fucking head off!!

>Your song is not our song
Suddenly, the many

>>16866359
fuck his shit up good

Also can we see Boone's character sheet?

>>16866412
http://mr-culexus.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=scraps#/d48tyy5

Go hence, Dorn.

>>16866359
Kill him with MIND LIGHTNING!

Bad dude over there!

KILL THEY ASS

C-16 does land the strike she has in mind, but its for the sake of dodging TOORS claw attack and mearly getting her head slightly chewed. TOORS Gags as decades old dandruff clouds into his mouth.

>>16866736
doesn't*

>>16866736
Rage time perhaps?

>>16866736
Support C-16. With MIND LIGHTNING.

>>16866736
Before killing him, try to delve into his mind.

>>16866767
Problem 1: Out of juice.

Problem 2: Very, very, very bad idea.

>>16866736
DAMNATION!
We have ANGER, we have OUTRAGE, we have HORROR as we never had have before.
Let these guide us, be the keys to the doors in our mind that bar us from a truly blistering show of POWER.

>>16866736
There is only one answer. Will all our rage and valor call out the the Emperor to bless out faith with his rightious fury.

>>16866803
none of that is important. what we have was not enough.

But C-16. C-16 has something better than any of that. C-16 has MUSOU RAGE! I propose we grab nel's hand, bolt for the door and give that two-word instruction to C-16 on the way out.

You worry as C-16 slides to the ground, allowing TOORS to strike her, she rises into a foward somersault crying out something you dont understand, but you imagine, if translated would probably stagger a Sororita.

For the second time in this little adventure, TOORS has taken it upon himself to make like a banana and be cut in fucking half.

>>16866882
Yessss. Hug C16. Then hyperventilate because we just hugged C16. Then do as the good book says: burn the xeno with purging fire.

>>16866882
We should probably BURN him this time.

>>16866882
Dead. Good.
He's got a date with the incinerator.

>>16866882
ACCEPTABLE.

>>16866882
Wait a minute, this is the same chucklefuck from the beginning of the game? The one who took 1000 damage the last time?

>>16866882
That's gonna be hell to clean up.

>>16866895
>>16866897
Your heart full of justice as even pacifist Nel cheers, you reach out to hug C-16 who, still seems to not recognise the gesture at all, and is, if anything, threatened by it. Her nose twitches, and it occurs to you that, in all likelihood, she finds YOUR smell offensive.

You instead offer to her a good natured thumbs up, which she recipricates, he hand stopping less than 1cm from your nose.

She then drags the bodies off to the incinerator, as has become oddly routine for her, She's a pretty good whistler.

>>16867011
Next time we see her we should compliment her ability to CUT THINGS IN HALF!
well since we're back here anyway, we should fire up the teleporter. Not much else to do but end the chapter (And I'd rather bring in someone new then just drive off)

>>16867000
That was SEB, C-16 turned him into meat confetti. This is TOORS.

Both are proper dead. Scouts honor.

>>16867034
>>16867011
Yeah, read the bulletin. Downtime tonight, probably a good idea to get to a stopping point.

>>16867011
The Peelz heal 1d100 damage, right? C-16's down to around 240 HP, so we should probably break that out.

>>16867034

Collector, I love you to bits, but please stop saying THEN when you mean THAN.

>>16867053
>>16867034
>>16867034
It's ACTION TIME.

Nel uses the THENEZZ AUGER SPARE PART and once more the TRANSPONDER hums to life.

PUSH A BUTTON.


Heh, looks like its the Collector making the choice. Neat. I like his style.

>>16867126
Sorry about that. I have terrible spelling and grammar, Spellcheck is my crutch.

>>16867139
Push the biggest button!

Push the blue button!
Blue like connie!
...
No harm in hoping right?

>>16867139
Push the oldest looking button.
Everything Imperial in 40K works better if it's older, right?
Or instead, the 2nd one. Two is the only even prime number.

BLUE IT IS!


A DEAFENING HUM FILLS THE AIR

>>16867139

How about you push one that will summon a dude?

As the smoke clears the smell of freshy iron linen fills the air as a short, steady figures steps through the smoke, preceeded by jangling kicker boots.

>>16867199
Dudes? We don't need no stinkin' dudes! All the ones up until know how heroically sacrificed themselves or gotten shot all to hell.

>>16867211
This does not look good.

>>16867199
Fuck your shit man. Its fine as is.

NEW TEAM MEMBER:

Lara Minhelm.

(oh god. any other button push would have brought a dude. You guys are just determined to amass an army of horrifying women.)

(also drew this at the start of the quest. sucks so so bad now.)

>>16867211
SMARTLY TURNED OUT, DISCIPLINED, AND ACCEPTABLE.

>>16867241
>Any other button
Great success?

>>16867241
Hey now, Badass Vagina Quest is a GOOD quest!
Can we get a Character sheet?

>>16867241
AAAAAAAH!
AAAA...
AHAHAHAHAHAHA! XD
This'll be fun with the emphasis on F and U.
Oh lawdy.

>>16867241

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

>>16867257
As the guy who suggested Blue,
Problem?

Oh, oh, fucking terrific!
Ok, so I'm going to guess....excellent combat generality.
Solid in CC, solid shooter, reasonably durable, and probably has a SCARE SHITLESS ability capable intimidating enemies and fright-buffing allies.
Laspistol, Chainsword, Flakk Coat, and a copy of the Infantryman's Uplifting Primer.
And probably she and C-16 are going to have problems...

She can teach C-16 to properly salute. And likely, provide sorely needed ranged combat skills.

>>16867241
OH JESUS FUCK MINHELM

IRON LADY OF THE RAGGED EDGES

WE ARE SO DEAD

Man oh man.

You guys did great today. Just great.
Except for Suam.

Still, the last thing he heard was Nel's voice.
He would have liked that.

Is it just me, or does she seem scarier than cuddles? Or at the very least more menacing?
At least cuddles is friendly towards us.

>>16867322
SWEEEET! Can we get Scary Lady's Character Sheet before you go?

>>16867326
Minhelm is, IIRC, a Mordian.
To the core.
Like, "Diplomacy is for them without authority."
>>16867244 says it right.
She's brass to the bone.
Party dynamics just got their first kick in the cogs.
Shame we don't have Daneel.

>>16867321
Care to elaborate?

>>16867336
THIS!
I know it's been a busy-whatever-hour-it-is-there for you, and as always Thanks for the good questing.
Brings a smile to an old fa/tg/uys face, it does.

>>16867352

>>16867397
Sweet, I was born in March.

=S
I wonder if CF's internetz died again.

I think he must have really had to dash, guys.

Eh, one bump for a chance at Minhelm's character sheet.

No character sheet yet, but I'm happy to answer any queries.

Oh. Its autosaging. Never mind.

What does she specialise in? Other than being intimidating?

I missed the end, but it looks to have been pretty close anyway.

>>16869586
She is a good all-rounder but her main skill comes from her passive skill MILLITARY MIND. It's basically a tactical analysis of what needs doing and the options you have, as well as having the knowledge of WAR and its practices/codes/drills.

For example if an anon had not cracked the morse code puzzle, Minhelm could have. As opposed to Nel who can help you through tech puzzles, or C-16 who makes combat easier, Lara is the first of your allies who will offer all round advice like " Didn't the captain say he could drop a vehicle for us?" or "Perhaps we should call the man on the vox again"

This is basically a representation of her direct, mission-minded approach to things.

She will also have a selection of combat and non-combat PP skills, and likely be carrying a modest handful of useful gear.

And lastly, here is a set of sketches showing the miners without their masks. Someone seemed to care about that. It's just me trying to draw celebrities, but that works.

Dammit I missed boonequest!