>>16932479
"Okay. What about the priest and the family? Locals? Or people who were drawn towards Silent Hill?
"Also, did you hear anything on the news or radio about what was happening in the other states, like Pennsylvania? And other countries, like England or Japan?"

Has the EMH completed his examination?

>>16932479
We also have the Mountains of Madness in Antarctica.
And REALLY DENSE swirly fog over Japan.
There may also be other things elsewhere on the globe.

Well, I'd say now's a good time to ask the survivors if they want us to take them to a safe location, or if they're happy where they are.

Currently:
We're waiting on a probe report from Antarctica
We're planning to send an away team of robots with Data to Pennsylvania to try to research resistance/immunity to whatever turned the zombies into zombies.
We're debating if we should send a person into Transylvania to talk to the locals and learn more info, or talk to Strahd or Dracula since neither are mindless killbots, and they may be reasoned with.
As noted, we're talking to Heather.
We're doing absolutely fuck all with Japan since the mist is too strong to look past by any means, so we're focusing on other things first.

Since Heather's finished her canon storyline, it's likely that whatever was in Silent hill can't be generating the fog any more.
The Fog, then, is likely spamming out of Japan. The difficulty in stopping it is that we literally CAN'T FUCKING SEE there, and going in blind is just going to get everyone killed.

So. waiting for EMH @ Maine, waiting to see if Heather and the other survivors want to come to our ship, and waiting to see if the ship actually can leave atmos.
Waiting for more science! reports on Zombies
Waiting for more Recon on the mountains of madness
And waiting for /tg/ to argue whether it's a good idea, or a dumb idea, to send some of our living humans into Transylvania to chat with the locals.

from last thread.

>Also, can we identify anyone familiar among the survivors?

>>16932569
But Heather has clearly been fighting Silent Hill type monsters, and the astronauts saw the mist spreading from Silent Hill's location first.
Even if the final boss is indeed Walpurgis Night, that doesn't explain the monsters.

>>16932569
Well, the locals are a bunch of fucking Medieval peasants. From what they were saying, it seems likely that they're part of one of the two vampires' local peasantry.
What we could try to find out is if the two vampires are on speaking terms, or they hate each other, each thinking the other is a pretentious windbag.

But first, we need to find out if our transporters can even penetrate the mist that's there.

Also, the ISS astronauts did say that the Mist was also coming out of Silent Hill.

>>16932569
>>16932602
Which reminds me again that we haven't heard the report from the probe sent to England.

>>16932569
You forget we also have Ry'Leh there too.

Juuuuust to be sure, do a double check scan around Neptune for signs of pic related.

Can our sensors determine the Height of the mist?
If so, I'd like to target a Remote region of earth that isn't used in horror stories (e.g. Kalahari Desert), and fire LOW-POWERED orbital weaponry at it, to see if the mist strengthens or disperses in response.
We need to find some way to penetrate mist.

>>16932658
Oh lord in heaven no no NO NO NO!
SCAN NEPTUNE IMMEDIATELY!

>>16932670
The problem is, affecting the Mist in that fashion might draw attention to our actions. It's a dangerous course of action.

>>16932658
If Event Horizon does show up, imma grab a jetpack and an ox-supply, go out da' ship, and start slapping shit manually.

Scan the FUCK out of Neptune ASAP.

>>16932680
Oh crap. We should do this too.

>>16932658

That fucking ship.

I'll space myself, thank you very much.

>>16932730
If we find that ship, I say we just blow the fucking thing up.
Unless our Gellar fields work on it.

>>16932753
Nah, first step we blast the midsection with a singularity beam and separate the gravity core from the main ship.
Then rescue any survivors with our Knight Inductor Silencers.

Neptune is clean.

You don't see any familiar faces among the survivors.

The EMH determines that everyone is free of contaminants and with his treatment should be relatively healthy. They are malnourished, however.

Heather appears to be thinking deeply about something.

We need more answers.
We've seen what horrors have been unleashed, let's put more effort into locating the respective Protagonists.
We'll need to get someone that can get the villagers to talk in Transylvania.
We need to determine which Zombie outbreak is in PA. If RE-style, locate Raccoon City and STARS. If LFD style, locate the Survivors.
Japan seems pretty hairy. I mean, while it might not have started there, Japan's horror stories will make you shit white. Avoid for now, see if a probe can get a long-range scan from far off, but under the cloud cover.
Etc.

Recon, Locate heroes, Back them up and gain info.
DON'T tell them about the Meta.

>>16932782

There should be rations in the landing craft.

Maybe even some emergency personal arms we can pass to heather and the adults.

>>16932782
Again, if there are any spares int he landing craft, we need to attatch a Reality Emitter to Heather.
She's a walking reality distortion.

>>16932782
Alright, do we have any rations or food bars on the Leopard? May as well get the people something to eat.

Have Data prep a Chaffee-class shuttle from the Indefatigable. Get a tricorder and a phaser, and extra rations from the Relentless and medical supplies, then go down to where the Leopard is and pick up the EMH and give some food over to to Heather and the survivors. The two are to then go to Pennsylvania in order to research the zombies there.

Should we transport the people off planet now?

>>16932828
Yeah, but a distortion which way?
And what will happen if we try to have her wear one?

Anyway, the EMH should have one, and Data can bring down a spare when he goes down.

>>16932782
Inquire as to what Heather might be thinking about.

Start preparing to move the dropship, but first see if we can locate an other Silent Hill protags in the region.

>>16932837
Wait a second, can the Leopard craft fly back up?

>>16932782
Well, now we just wait for things.
> see if a probe can get a long-range scan from far off, but under the cloud cover.
We tried but unfortunately we lost contact with it. It looks like no communications can go In or Out of the mist.
>We'll need to get someone that can get the villagers to talk in Transylvania.
Beam down Spike Spiegel if our teleporters work. If they don't work, we'll send Spike down in his Swordfish (it has VTOL capability).
>Get the Dropship and the survivors out of the mist
Try this to see if it works.

We're still waiting on Cmdr. Data's report on the zombies he was sent down to look at (to see if we can resist their infection).
It'll be many hours before we have a clear picture, but we have a Probe searching Antarctica for the lost expedition and any survivors from it.

>>16932842
We can't get a transporter lock through the fog. Already been tried and failed.

>>16932856
We can try, but the Farseers already said that it will be much more difficult to leave the planet than to enter it.

>>16932864
We are not sending down Spike without an escort, he's far too easily ambushed.
Send down some Knights Inductor.
All humans have always venerated a Space Marine, even if they never saw one, Should help with the communication and cooperation.

>>16932864
Didn't the lost expedition take place in the turn of the century? Why would there be anything left?

>>16932875
Hm. If we can't get the survivors out of the fog, then I'm worried that we'll be forced to play a round of Heather Tower Defense against hordes of incoming zombies and Cthulhus or something.

>>16932837
Data isn't needed for zombies. Send HK-50 with the EMH to provide fire support if needed.

Have Data working sensors and handling the piloting of shuttlecraft by remote. Also, we should prep more shuttlecraft to head down to locations.

Who do we trust to deal with a double vampric threat and get suspicious villages to open up?

You still are waiting on the report from the Pennsylvania probe.

>>16932853
"I hate to do it... but... I think I should go back to Silent Hill," Heather murmurs. "I can't shake the feeling that some answers are hidden there, somewhere. And sitting around isn't my style. Even if it is a hell of a lot more comfortable."

>>16932883
Good point. Hopefully they've left journals or an Elder sign.

>>16932864
I don't like sending Spike down, alone, into a village of possibly hostile peasants, and the domain of two vampire lords.

>>16932889
> I think I should go back to Silent Hill
"Gee, I think I should get horribly murdered today! Doo de dee".
Still, if it's something she thinks she has to do, we should at least send the Leopard with her.

>>16932889
I agree. We need to get he some back-up with reality stabilizers.
Again, I say send down Darius and crew to back her up and level the playing field. Possibly Data as well.

>>16932889
>"And sitting around isn't my style. Even if it is a hell of a lot more comfortable."
"Sorry, heather, but I can't allow that. You are the only proper eyewitnesses we have and we can't lose you yet."

Should I add this?
>and worse yet, our more occult associates inform us that if any harm comes to you, something bad happens."

>>16932889
As much as I hate to say it, you're probably right. But it would be appreciated if you wait for us to air lift these other people, and send down some escorts.
Don't get me wrong, we aren't impugning your competence on any level, it's just that we would prefer you not go in alone the second time around.

>>16932913
Heather already knows her death is a bad thing. If she thinks she needs to go back to silent hill, I trust her.

>>16932899
SHE IS THE KEY.
...
Remember that. We need to help her unlock the mystery here.

>>16932889
"You may be right, Miss Mason, however it's still too dangerous. Let us first secure the area, make sure it's mostly safe."

There, that should get her to stay still for a while.

Send the probe droid back out to check out the town of Silent Hill.

If we send in any person, they'll be attacked by their worst fears and subconscious demons. Again, a living person is a liability in Silent Hill.

Guys, we know that there are multiple horror Canons crossed over into this one.
We don't know if the dimensional incursions from The Mist have occurred or not.

I think it's too dangerous to send anyone to Silent Hill without at least making sure that the only monsters there are the ones that our teams bring in with them.

>>16932889

>>16932887

This is where Darius & the KI might come in handy. While I know very little about WH40k or the Reasonable Marines, they probably have a lot of experience in calming down huge crowds of relative peasants and comforting them so they can do their job of killing Chaos stuff. Plus, huge knight-looking figures in shining armor with legendary weapons that practically glow with goodness.

>>16932949
I wonder if we would be better off if we had 40k Orks under out control in Silent Hill.

>>16932933
My rage for you is like a thousand exploding suns.
If I went to Silent Hill, YOU would be attacking me.
And I would kill you with fire.

We need to keep her alive, and let her do her thing so we can solve this. We _cannot_ do that without sending people to her and with her.

>>16932963
I'm sorry, but the Orkz win over ANY horror genre I know of.
That's their nature.

>>16932963
An Ork's greatest fear is having nothing to fight.
So the Ork will go into Silent Hill, and have to battle against NOTHING.
And it will truly be horrifying for him.

>>16932933
>>16932889

If nothing else, we can probably afford to spare a drone to escort her while she does her business.

A scouting probe is the least of our arsenal, but having a floating robot with advanced sensors and a blaster cannon couldn't hurt her chances.

We have been explicitly told that she has to survive, and you are advocating sending her off without an escort? Or with just a drone?

Are you ain idiot? Or are you a troll trying to ruin this quest?

>>16933013
Well, any escort we send summons monsters!

>>16932981
>>16932980
My god.

This is pure genius.

We probably should have tried sending Orks against Zombies too.

>>16933013
It's more likely he just joined after that statement was made, maybe even just this thread.

>>16932957
Same reason I want them on Silent Hill duty. The Knights Inductor are pretty much supernaturally calm and resistant to all forms of mindfuckery, and heavily trained.

>>16932979
And you're an impatient idiot that would get people killed just as long as your need for something to happen was satisfied.

>>16933023
>The Knights Inductor are pretty much supernaturally calm and resistant to all forms of mindfuckery, and heavily trained.
Especially with the Silencers with them.

>>16933020
Yes, but the least of the problems with hiring and Ork is that he would have to be sterilized so he wouldn't keep spawning Orkz.

>>16933023
Okay, but Silent Hill doesn't fuck with your head, so much as materialize all of your inner demons and regrets.
As someone in the previous thread pointed out, the KI have a lot to be regretful for.

>>16933023

While they would no doubt be an asset in protecting Heather, we must also consider the fact that they might be facing Silent Hill versions of the enemies that they've faced in the past. Heather might be handy with a lead pipe against bleating bipedial flesh-things, but not so much against faceless crab-walking not-quite-Orks that yell ¡HHHGGAAAW and shoot bleeding squigs from their eyes.

>>16933030
We. Are. On. A. TIMER.
She is the KEY.
She has to do her thing, and we are NOT going to send her out there with 'maybe a droid' when she is the most important person we know here right now.

>>16933047
see
>>16933038
The Silencers should counter the effect as long as they stay together and all have Reality Emitters.

>>16933058
Well, we can send the KIs and Heather into Silent hill, while Data and the EMH work on finding a counter to the Zombies.
Send Tosh to bullshit around in Transylvania (he knows how to hide if he's attacked).
Meanwhile, our probes keep searching Antarctica for anything useful.

Any science team should try to understand what the fuck this goddamn mist is, and how one could potentially communicate through it. Even if it means duct taping a Reality emitter to a rock, tying a note to the rock, and throwing the rock back and forth between the surface of the planet and space.

>>16933056
We have 2 fucking weeks.
Three hours to scan the area and make sure that it doesn't have any monsters except those that Silent Hill will create when someone enters will not adversely affect our ability to complete our objective.

>>16933058
No, they counter the warp and psykers.. though the Farseers DID compare what they felt to the Warp, so hell, maybe they can.

All reality emitters do is cancel out SUE abilities, they are no good against Canon abilities.

>>16933079
>We have 2 fucking weeks.
Nope. the Elfdar said if we want a Good End, we have to get shit done TODAY.

>>16933051
It's actually pretty ingenious. Anyone we send will likely make the enemies much, much more deadly, as Silent Hill gets fresh material.
Like if we send people down who actually are good at fighting, than the monsters of Silent Hill will also likely learn to do more than just shamble around in a disturbing fashion, which means that they will be much better at being able to kill Heather.

ANON, and Farseers: Do we believe that Silent Hill can access Mr. Data's subconscious or not?

>>16933080
>, they are no good against Canon abilities.
Incorrect. The less sense something makes, the weaker it makes it, even if it's a Canon thing.
If you try to throw a rock, it does nothing, but if you try to throw a Ki Blast, it would weaken it so it wouldn't kill you, and if a S.U.E. tries to snap her fingers so your head pops, nothing happens.

>>16933077
I'd like to send the other Survivors up to our ship even if heather isn't going, so the Psions and Aurors can probe their minds for any pieces of information they may have.

>>16933097
That is incorrect.

>>16933095
This. Heather should be able to handle her own as she did in canon, so just sending her with a probe seems like a pretty good idea.

>>16933088
They said no such thing.
"Human... great evil has made this its home. We cannot allow it to remain unchecked. Though we have wandered into the jaws of oblivion, know that even a day's delay may cost you the world here. Of all the futures we saw, the only ones that held any hope in them were those in which we confronted the demons of this place, sought its mysteries with all haste. We are not sure why... But now that we are here, we invite disaster if we try to leave. You MUST NOT attempt to leave until this planet is free of taint..." The farseer closes her eyes. "We have two weeks before the horrors within this places roils forth into the greater multiverse. We have that time to stop it."

That is the text what they said.
Yes, they said that delaying too long is bad. But so is blindly charging in and making the situation worse.

Okay guys. This might sound like a stupid suggestion, BUT:

We should send either a person, or a drone, into the office of any of the major News stations around the world, and see if there's any surviving Papers or Computers or People that can tell us the news as it pertains to this world.

>>16933111
okay, but we need to send down some armor and weapons.
OH!
DROP POD DOWN A MASS EFFECT SUIT AND MASS RIFLE FOR EVERYONE!

>>16933119
>see if there's any surviving Papers or Computers or People that can tell us the news as it pertains to this world.
YUS!
BLOODY BRILLIANT!

>>16933097
About the ki blast: no, it won't protect against directed energy attacks like that, because it would not protect against a fireball spell.

>>16933120
Ah, right. Drop podding down some equipment for Heather will be good regardless of what she does.

>>16933119
Seems wise. Considering the weird bullshit going on in the eastern United states, we might try the Los angeles times or the BBC.

>>16933111
She needs more because this Silent Hill is more.
This is the center of a massive reality distortion.
For all we know, Silent Hill _itself_ is a SUE, particularly since it seems the 'god' was not in the picture when all this went down.
She needs a reality stabilizer with her, and preferably some armor and a better weapon.

We're arguing over other back up.

>>16933120
Now that's a good idea. Even with the infinite ammo submachine gun, and the motherfucking magical girl powers, the enemies didn't become any more powerful.
Theoretically, a change in equipment won't provoke a response.

>>16933096

If we get a positive "no" from the Farseers that Data's past will not be subject to being manifested by SH, and that he will not be affected by SH, he might be the best person we can send with Heather. A naturally fast/strong android with a positronic brain for those brain teasers, and who also has combat programming and training from years of away missions during his time on the Enterprise.

>>16933141
Seconding.
>>16933139
Well, we can agree on better armor/weapons, and there shouldn't be a problem with sending another RS with her, but I really, really don't want to give SH more stuff to throw at us that we aren't prepared for.

>>16933119
Considering that the mist generally started from the eastern US seaboard, trying LA or San Francisco might be a good idea.
Also Moscow, Paris, and Hell, even Cape Town in South Africa, and Sydney in Australia.

>>16933113
THIS.
We can't sit back too much.

>>16933119
"Hey, Transpace Guard officer, do you want me to hand you this Newspaper of major events in the world from a few weeks ago when all this shit started happening?"
"NO, FUCK YOU, I NEED TO FIND INFORMATION ON THIS WORLD. SEND THE DRONES TO SIBERIAAAAAAAAAAAA"

Because I have nothing else to contribute, here's some music to listen too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3an8jdsVM3s

>>16933162
>"SEND THE DRONES TO SIBERIAAAAAAAAAAAA"
That being said, are there any horror things that happen in Siberia? Need to be thorough.

>>16933143
Exactly.

>>16933163
>mfw I just posted that in another thread

>>16933180
What can I say?
I literally dropped my jaw when I opened it, figured I needed to share it.

>>16933174
IGNORE NEWSPAPERS AND SEND DRONES EVERYWHERE.

>>16933189
Disregard media, acquire madness.
A good, Transpace-Guard-esque plan.

Fuck it man, let's just exterminatus the whole planet and be done with it.

I just thought of a counterpoint.
In Silent Hill 3, Heather fought monsters that were the result of Claudia's and Alessa's subconscious as well.
We have no idea who the fuck brought Silent Hill up to turbo, but it is very likely that the monsters will be based on -their- crazy as well.
Like if a SUE is responsible, who the fuck knows what the monsters would look like?

>>16933201
Farseers already said that's a bad idea.
You think we didn't already ask them that?

>>16933119
Egon: "You know, I hear there are people whose entire JOB is to gather information about what's happening to the world at the moment. The files I have refer to them as 'news reporters'".
/tg/: "Shutup Egon. Send more drones."

>>16933162
Yes let's pickup news media stuff. Should be faster than having drones do the scouting and we don't know what's up.

>>16933189
DROOONNNEESSSS!!!
>Drones crash into Dracula's coffin
>Drones rain down upon the city of Ry'Leh
>Drones populate the Strip at LA (ever noticed how similar it sounds to Ryleh?)
>Drones taking pictures at Niagra Falls
>Drones playing hockey in New York.
>DRONES

>>16933204
>Like if a SUE is responsible, who the fuck knows what the monsters would look like?
A complete lack of sex, an excess of fatty foods, and social awkwardness.

PREPARE SHIPS FOR EXTERMINATUS OPERATION

>>16933219
Dude, we should just read the Newspaper.

>>16933217
The drones should still be doing the scouting in areas to find what's going on RIGHT NOW, such as what monsters are there, and if there are any protagonists that need rescue.

We just need to raid the news offices in order to find out how things led up to the current situation.

>>16933201
No, we already figured that wouldn't work.
That was Plan A.

>>16933119

That might not be such a bad idea. Or if we can see if ANON can do the same without sending a probe.

>>16933120

Now this might be a GREAT idea. If we have such armor that's easy to wear/use for a woman of Heather's height/size, we should definitely send one down for her to use. Maybe even for Detective Cartland, since he insists on going with Heather.

I'd hold back on the guns though, unless we have some arms that don't require much training. An untrained civilian with a mass rifle may cause a lot more harm to her allies than her enemies.

>>16933223
The farseers warned us that trying that will just piss off Yog-sothoth, Cthulhu and Azathoth.
Protip: You do not want to piss any of these off.

If Heather needs to get into Silent Hill, I support sending Knights Inductors in with her. Preferably Darius and the Silencers at the least, a full squad just in case. Seriously though, having the Echo of the First Age to boost everyone's courage and willpower is definitively needed to confront Silent Hill. I imagine Heather would be glad to have a squad of superhuman heroes as a bodyguard the second time around.

We can use of SCP, Delta Green and UNIT troops on the other (less mind fucking) locations along with our other Heroes, with the Marauders and the second KI squad on standby in Low Earth Orbit (can you say Orbital Drop Shock?).

>>16933119
I'd do this.
>>16933219
>pic related; drone misfire

You know, as soon as I posted that Meshuggah song, everyone went nuts.

Creepy.

Let's have a the shuttle carry the Silent Hill team to wherever they need to go, and get them armed, armored and Reality shielded.

>>16933235
What comic is this?

>>16933248
Still saying that sending in Space Marines who've endured decades of combat and the horrors of war is just inviting trouble.

Go ahead, take the KI along. And when monsters and demons from their regrets and memories appear, we'll all know to blame you.

>>16933263
Deadpool comic. Don't know which.

If only we had Ruby with us. She's good at this kind of stuff.

>>16933266
Actually, we do.
However, I don't want the world to summon up Czopaje.

I wonder what she's been doing all this time? Playing (cheating) poker with Spike and that one mech pilot fellow?

note to thread: remember to stay frosty and keep your eyes open for any bullshit.

Yes, apparantly we need to be reminded of this.

as well, we clearly need some Nanotrasen grade Assistants up in this bitch, because we apparantly have run out of hardass motherfuckers who know everything about everything and are robust as fuck

>>16933236
somehow I doubt we have arms that could be used by mere mortals

>>16933245
You mean Demonbane and mankind's Elder Gods won't clean up after us?

>>16933302
The Elder Gods are already awake.

>>16933264
Calm rational ones are better than our other choices.
Think about our selection of troops. KI are the most well adjusted in the whole bunch.

However, if ANON and the Farseers say Data is Silent Hill immune, then we may just send him with her. Along with armor and weapons.

>>16933096
"We do not know."

You send your probe off to collect the locale newspapers. The last one is dated a month ago. Apparently whatever happened was so swift as to prevent reports on it. You do, however, find a few reports on doomsday cults holding 'worship services' all over the world. These cults were mainly characterized by a Six-Fingered Hand symbol, but you also recognize a few Mythos and Order cults as well. All of these cults appear to have arisen simultaneously and independently.

>>16933328
Those fuckers from d20 Modern are at it! They're the worlds most generic doomsday cult, but they're everywhere. Well, the more we know.

>>16933248

Again, it may not be a good idea to send the KI with Heather. They would be kickass, no doubt, but remember: Silent Hill can and WILL match any living beings we send with her with their worst nightmares and subconscious horrors made flesh.

Darius with that legendary blade *might* be able to defend Heather well enough against crab-walking Un-Orks that rip open their chests and spawn squigs that barf rusted sheets of razor-sharp metal. Or fleshy, faceless comissars that attack you by shooting themselves in the head and spraying you with corrosive viscera.

But we have no guarantee that they could run into horrors that they would not be able to defend themselves against! Remember Pyramid Head? The invulnerable horror that James really couldn't do much against except run away and shoot them ineffectively? Imagine that, but dialed up to 15000000x due to dealing with the unmentionable horrors of the Warp and the sometimes equally horrifying policies of the Imperium.

The catch with this scenario is that IF we send a team of BAMFs with Heather, Silent Hill will match us point for point and then some! If we send someone who isn't technically alive or conscious, though, we may be able to circumvent that. Ditto if we send Heather/Douglas with advanced equipment to help them survive.

>>16933278
You don't have her yet. She's been in reserve since the first thread, essentially letting you know you can pick her as a Hero choice at any time you gain an additional Hero.

>>16933347
Right which is why I advocate just relocating some of our troops' mass effect armor and mass rifles to be given to the 7 survivors and Heather.

>>16933347
I suspect KI Silencers + Reality emitters would help, as of course would giving Heather and Douglas some armour.

>>16933328
...
:-|
If we didn't know it specificly from what the farseers said, I'd reality bomb this place.
Castlevania, Silent Hill, Lovecraft mythos, doomsday cults, some type of japanese bullshit I don't understand.
What's next, A Flaming wheel within a flaming wheel with eyes on each spokes trundles along, says "Lol no" and turns cities into pillars of salt?

>>16933328
http://www.scribd.com/doc/52102078/147/SIX-FINGERED-HAND-THE

For people that don't know.


Okay, I'm voting that we send Data, with a small medkit, tricorder, Reality Emitter, kinetic shield, emergency transporter armband, and phaser rifle along with Heather and Douglas.
We also supply the two with kinetic shields, spare reality emitters, and some of the pulse rifles from the TG rookies. The pulse rifles are pretty much just fancy assault rifles, so they should be easy enough for the two to use.
Also send the Probe Droid with them.

>>16933371
>some type of japanese bullshit I don't understand.
Let me tell you the reason why we must NEVER go to Japan in person.

Junji Ito.

>>16933378
I hope Data's already collected enough information on the Zombies for our research team to finish the work.

>>16933328
Show to the Delta Greens and have them confer with ANON. See if we can put together any leads.

And fuck it, easy test. "Mr. Data, take a drone with you and do a scan on foot of the block surrounding the dropship. Report anything unusual."

>>16933371
You over-estimate the effectiveness of reality emitters.
Also, KI Silencers really only work against the Warp. While some of the horrors here might be Warp-like in nature, there's no way to know if Silent Hill is one of them, or if that trace was caused by another horror Canon.

Dial-up their Elder God versions, then they clean up after our mess =D

>>16933395
True, but there is ONE aspect of the Pariah Gene that carries over universally:
No mind reading, no psychic influences, at all.

>>16933400
Did we ever test that with the Aurors and the Psionicists?
We should test that right the fuck now, and see if that holds true or not.
I want to see if all of these assumptions about the power of the Silencers to resist any kind of psychic intrusion actually has any basis in Meta-fact.

They're all still up on the Storm, so it should only take a minute of trying.

>>16933236
Why not send down a couple of these?

>>16933400
Exactly. And the whole Knights Inductor are descended from a null-aura gene-seed. Silencers are just the most powerful examples.

I keep trying to tell people that and I get blown off.

>>16933394
Data and the probe comply, not finding anything in that area.

>>16933422
>And the whole Knights Inductor are descended from a null-aura gene-seed
Wait, really?
Not as far as I know. IIRC they try to make any blanks they find into Space Marine Silencers, or at least agents of their force.

>>16933425
How's the research on Zombies coming, OP?

>>16933432
You are STILL waiting on the probe. I don't know why people thought research got started.

rolled 7 = 7

Quickly what year is it on this earth ?

>>16933425
ANON, please have the Knights Inductor Silencers, X-COM psi troopers, one of the Aurors, and one of the psionicists please go to one of the Psi-Labs for a brief experiment.

Let's see if the Silencer is really immune to ALL psychic effects or not, and get this settled once and for all.

>>16933387
>Juni Ito
>Uzumaki, The Enigma of Amigara Fault
Let's NOT go to Japan.

>>16933441
Apparently people think hours have passed, when it's only been...what, 10-15 minutes in-game?

>>16933425
Alright, groovy.

Outfit Data, Douglas, and Heather with some armor and weapons they are comfortable with plus reality emitter, along with a probe-droid and an Observer drone, let Heather do her thing.

Have the Knights Inductor loaded onto a dropship and ready to deepstrike as needed.

>>16933425
Okay, so it's safe for androids, it seems.

We send Data, with a small medkit, tricorder, Reality Emitter, kinetic shield, emergency transporter armband, and phaser rifle along with Heather and Douglas.
We also supply the two with kinetic shields, spare reality emitters, and some of the pulse rifles from the TG rookies. The pulse rifles are pretty much just fancy assault rifles, so they should be easy enough for the two to use.
Also send the Probe Droid with them.

>>16933442
It is October 30th, 2011.

>>16933472
>>16933458
We could see if the Indefatigable's replicators can make some kevlar vests.

Not much, but we don't really have anything else readily available.

>>16933452
2 hours since you arrived.

>>16933446
The Silencers seem to be immune to everything X-COM can throw at them, but who knows what Silent Hill is capable of.

Everyone seems to be in agreement over arming Heather and Doug with a pulse rifle (that can be done) and armor (cannot be done, you have no spare armor.)

I'd like to know if you are sending people with her, and who. A clear consensus would be nice. It might be the sleep deprivation, but trying to follow what you're planning has been especially hard this night.

>>16933485
>Not much, but we don't really have anything else readily available.
Yes we do.
Borrow the Mass Effect suits from some of our troops, send them down.
Done.

>>16933493
>and armor (cannot be done, you have no spare armor.)
see
>>16933494

>>16933494
OK, so you're taking off a KE barrier from someone and giving it to them. OK that can be done, we'll say the MI lose out since they're heavily armored anyway.

>>16933472
Is this all you're sending?

rolled 2 = 2

>>16933480
dam want to time jump back to pre 2003 and fix up Fred Rogers to easy mode all this silent hill stuff

>>16933493
It looks like Data will do, and people might agree on the Silencers now.

>>16933505
Yup.

Unless we wanted to send down the Silencers as well?

>>16933472

I'd be content with this plan.

If/when we need the KI, we can call upon them in that scenario as well.

Also two of our KotOR masks for Heather and Douglas to borrow.

>>16933505
I'm still for only Data and the probe droid. Maybe an Observer drone as well.

As the scientists said, the Silencers may be immune to Potter-magic and psionics, but they might still be vulnerable to Silent Hill.

>>16933525
Actually, enough masks for all the survivors.

>>16933527
Fiar enough.
If SHTF then we can drop-pod down the Silencers.
Sound good?

>>16933505
Data, the Silencers, Darius (+Ringil), and the equipment.

You know what this means, people.
ESCORT QUEST. :D

In the meantime, see about getting the EMH, and any survivors that want to follow, up onto our orbiting vessel. Restrict their access to a break room or something so they don't see any incriminating info.
I'd like to have the Psions and the Aurors pick through their minds to see what else we might be up against.

>>16933529
Oh, right. Get Masks on everyone, and Reality stabilisers on everyone.
Gotta get mindfuck resistance rolling.

>>16933529
But why? The survivors aren't going back into Silent Hill, they're staying aboard the Leopard.
Only Heather and Douglas are going back in, with our support.

>>16933529
The regular survivors we can try evacing entirely.

>>16933537
>ESCORT QUEST. :D
Timed underwater escort boat mission boogaloo.
I'm not paid nearly enough.

>>16933542
Oh, ok.
I figured thoroughness was good.
>>16933537
Sorry bro, but no go.

>>16933537
Nah, let's save Darius for another locale.

All right, I've got to call it here. Sorry we got so little done today, but the late night of yesterday is taking its toll.

>>16933505
>>16933537

I think Darius might be put to better use investigating Transylvania with some other people. His experiences in the Reasonable Marine Corp. may make him especially qualified to deal with commonfolk who are currently beset by horrors beyond their understanding.

Plus, we won't have to deal with any monsters that SH can cook up using the immense amounts of regrets and/or terrible experiences that any active member of the military in WH40k experiences.

>>16933527
I'd say include at least one Silencer. If it does function similar to the Warp, then he will also be protecting those around him as well.

>>16933568
>Plus, we won't have to deal with any monsters that SH can cook up
Ah, yeah, that's a good point. We're out of the dominion of SH and into the dominion of Castlevania.

Okay, since Data is going down in a shuttle, he can bring all of the extra stuff along, and while he goes with Heather, the EMH and HK-50 can go to Pennsylvania.
Now, does the Leopard have an astromech or some other droid that can operate the Leopard? Otherwise, I don't like leaving the survivors alone in the dropship, and it might be better to have HK-50 stay with them, or try to get the dropship into orbit.

The EMH really doesn't need protection, really. He's a hologram. Unless someone has photonic weapons, they're not going to be able to harm him at all.

>>16933561
Alright OP. Do you have enough that you can start right away tomorrow night?

>>16933583
Data is already down there. We even sent him on a semi-solo patrol to see if Silent Hill managed to throw anything at him.

>>16933594
...shit, I'm with OP. Last night's session must have taken its toll.
The idea of having the HK-50 stay with the dropship is still sound, I think.

>>16933583
You forget the little emitter. He needs some protection. ie, HK-50

Archiving needed. As usual most us too tired to think it at.

>>16933625
already done.

>>16933592
Yeah, I think so. I'll open with the Silent Hill team exploration.

>>16933630
Did it go through? Not seeing it.

>>16933653
Oh damn, you're right

I just noticed.
Have we been calling her Heather, or just Ms. Mason?
Because at the end of SH3, she says she doesn't need the fake name of Heather anymore, and can go back to being Cheryl.

>>16933677
We'e been going back and forth.

So we have Data and the probe droid (?) escorting Heather and the Detective (equipped with some of our finest weaponry?) into Silent Hill, to solve its mystery.
We also have a probe dispatched to Antarctica, to find the remains of the Expedition, the lost city, and with any luck, find an Elder Thing.
We're also entertaining the notion of sending Darius and the Knights Inductor to Transylvania, to see what's going on with the vampires.
Also we're trying to analyze what type of zombies we're dealing with in Pennsylvania, and SCIENCE up a vaccine? But who's doing the science, if Data is with Heather (also when did that happen? I thought he was deployed to PA).

Just checked, Egon Does have experience with Cthulhu shit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e24tkBx4mNQ

Is OP still on for tonight?

>>16933979
>Also we're trying to analyze what type of zombies we're dealing with in Pennsylvania, and SCIENCE up a vaccine? But who's doing the science, if Data is with Heather (also when did that happen? I thought he was deployed to PA).
The EMH is going to be doing that, and people seem to want to send HK-50 with him as fire support.

Data first needed to land in Maine because our transporters can't penetrate the mist, and so we would need to use a shuttle to get the EMH to go to Pennsylvania.

I also suggest we show the survivors (who appear to be just local natives, rather than any Canon characters or Protagonists since ANON couldn't identify them) how to close the dropship doors and to use the radio to talk to us, in case something tries to attack the dropship, and we can deepstrike KI or MI backup.

Bump.
The Fairy Warband Quest guys are still running their quest, and I'll not have a bunch of damn pixies show us up!

Bump. In the hope that the attacks are stopped by the time quest time rolls around.

>>16937285
I still think we should endeavor to bring them to our ship.
I mean don't we only have the one leopard dropship?
Like our teleportation tech is ineffective, and I don't think bringing any of our space ships below cloud level is a good idea.

>>16937704
>I mean don't we only have the one leopard dropship?
No, we have 2 Leopard dropships. We could try to get them to come up into orbit, but the Farseers did say that it's easier to go down to the planet than it is to leave. Trying to get the dropship to leave the planet might result in...undesirable consequences.
Such as the dropship crashing due to Canon Plot interfering.

>>16937711
Oh hey, looks like the attacks have stopped for now.

Okay, as for the Peabody Expedition in the Antarctic:
Someone did bring up the point that the original expedition was sometime at the turn of the century, 1920's-ish.
While true, we don't know how time works in a crossover. The Mountains, and the expedition, might have been here for the better part of a century. Or, it might have been brought to this world a day after the Elder Thing came out of hibernation and escaped from Peabody's camp.

Until we find the expedition's camp, we won't know.

>>16937724
Watch out for The Thing while you're out there.

And whooo first time post after the dodos' attack!

Huzzah! The quest lives!
Oh, and 4chan too.

Furious beating to those responsible for interrupting questy goodness!

>>16937812
That's true. The Thing might be another horror Canon that got pulled into this.
But since it's a bio-organic lifeform, and we made sure to send a droid, we should be okay.

>>16937812
Fortunately, the Thing From Another World would be in the Arctic, rather than Antarctic.

Side note: Let us never visit the Arctic of this world.

>FDA-Approved oughloa
I don't care if it's FDA-Approved, captcha. I ain't eatin' it.

>>16937842
Well, that depends, though.
If it's The Thing from John Carpenter's The Thing, then it's in Antarctica somewhere.

>>16937877
Damn, you know, I never realized that difference before.

>>16937923
Yeah, see, this is what's so dangerous about Crossover Events. You might think you know what you're up against, only to find out that you're fighting a different version of it, and that your plan has led you to an ignoble end.

>>16937954
Which reminds me, nearly everything we've seen on this world seems to be sourced from games, video and traditional, which makes me wonder what variant of Mythos we are dealing with, rather than straight up Lovecraft. I want to guess Delta Green, but really we have no evidence yet.

>>16937974
Yes, so far everything appears to have come from games, but we can't be sure.

Now, the appearance of the cults seems to coincide with the S.T.O.B. being deployed.
And the cults all seem to be ones from games.
However, we should still take care; we're not completely sure, and we could get blind-sided by a Cloverfield or a Jason Voorhees if we're not careful.

I was wondering since this is horror world with cults and eldritch abominations, should we try and get the only Elder God who is actually semi-quasi-friendly to humans? I'm talking about Mantorok from Eternal Darkness. He even was a fertility god for his people. Or would getting him to be on our side make us a target for his enemies, three lesser gods and a lich from Roman times?

>>16938232
That assumes that Eternal Darkness is one of the horror Canons that was brought into this world.
Also, how would we even get in contact with it without drawing attention to ourselves prematurely?

>>16938250
I can think of two places where we may talk/get info about it, Roivas mansion, Rhode Island and the Cambodian temple. The "without drawing attention to ourselves prematurely" that's gonna be a bit harder.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyknBTm_YyM

A certain violinist may be of use to us in this moment. I wonder if we can find Erich Zann

Was thinking about Antarctica anomaly

If its Lovecraft, as stated before, its definitely the Elder Thing's city. Hopefully its the one from the 1931 Peabody expedition, in which case we might have a handful of Elder Things, and at least one shoggoth, and of course albino penguins
- If so, bring electricity, lots of electricity

If its John Carpenter's The Thing, well, we'll need Data & EMH to isolate some signature that can detect the presence of The Thing. Once it absorbs you, it'll be you, and every part of it is conscious, making it a serious menace. Extremes of fire and cold work well to kill and immobalize it.

If its Mountains, get Egon and Delta Greens working together. Possibly Tobin's Spirit Guide has something we can use to our advantage.

Also, if we can, have someone scan the coordinates:
47 degrees 9 minutes South; 126 degrees 43 minutes West
and
49 degrees 51 minutes South; 128 degree 34 minutes West
See map here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%27lyeh

They're the locations that Lovecraft and Derleth (in that order) each located R'yleh, in which case we have Cthulhu to deal with too.
- Lure him to Coney Island and use lightning to dispose of him, old hat for Egon at this point I would imagine.

Lastly, I was horribly reminded of the CoC publication "Beyond the Mountains of Madness" (see pic) and if this is the case, that really worries me.

>>16938343
Even if the Mountains and the Elder Thing city are at the Antarctic, there's no way to know if other stories from the Mythos have also crossed over.

Besides, Zann disappears at the end of the short story, and so far, the only Canon character we've made contact with, came from after her Canon had stabilized and become a closed Canon.

>>Was thinking about Antarctica anomaly


There's a Shin Megami Tensei game that takes place in Antarctica. I think it was called Strange Journey.

>>16938391
Alright. What structures or things can we look for to confirm if that Canon is one of the ones pulled to this world? Are there people or places to look for?

>>16938391
If it was Strange Journey, we would know right away, since we would notice a giant all-encompassing black mass threatening to engulf the entire world.

>>16938482
>>16938391

If the SMT: Strange Journey canon is in here, then there should be a huge cylinder made of darkness expanding from an area on Antarctica.

>>16938518
Picture of the Aforementioned black mass: The Schwarzwelt

>>16938570
Judging by that picture, it should be pretty easy to spot. Though if it was that big, I would hope that either ANON or the probe droid would have reported it by now.

I mean, we already have a probe droid on the surface of Antarctica, and it hasn't reported anything like that. It sounds unlikely, then, that the Strange Journey Canon is present here.

Now that 4chan lives once more, no reason to let this thread go to waste.
So does anyone have any bets on what the inciting incident of all this was? Like how did the Six-Fingered Hand ruin everything forever?
And aren't they too obscure for someone to make SUEs of?

Aside from the Silent Hill Investigation, and the Pennsylvania Zombie Investigation (EMH and HK-50 only), we need to consider our options concerning Transylvania.
We need to test to see if the mist is thinner there, and if our beaming technology works. If not, then we need to choose which dropship to send, and which team.

I would suggest Darius and a Knight Inductor Team equipped with the magic weapons. The Space Marines are bigger, stronger, and faster than humans, and so would be good against any attackers. The magic weapons should prove useful against the vampires and their minions, if they prove hostile.

Now, I'm hoping that, as two sapient and fairly arrogant vampire lords, they won't like sharing a world with another vampire lord, let alone all of the eldritch horrors that are trying to awaken.
They may be willing to not interfere with our investigations.
Of course, they could just as well be contaminated by SUE-energy, or they may decide that they like it here and will oppose us.

Also, if we send the Al'Kesh down, we should test its beaming technology on the surface, see if it can do site-to-site transports while within the mist, rather than through it.
Yeah, it's not logical, but the mist isn't a logical thing, it's a Plot Device and probably operates on its own rules.

>>16939085
I don't think they made S.U.E.'s.
I think they are simply a disruptive force, that normally can only destroy a single Canon world, if the Narrative calls for it.
But by being sucked through a Crossover Event, Narrative no longer keeps them down any more. There's no Narrative here leading adventurers and protagonists along to stop the cults' plans at the last moment, saving the world.
And this world is the result.

Alright, anyone got any ideas on how we're supposed to resolve this mess?

From what we've seen so far, I think we have to 'beat' each Canon. Silent Hill has puzzles to be solved, we probably have to get some Protagonists to an extraction point in Pennsylvania, we may have to defeat both vampire lords in Transylvania, defeat whatever's in Japan.

But I don't know what we're supposed to do in Antarctica. We can't save the Elder Thing that was revived in the short story, because it has to die. Maybe we're supposed to rescue the Protagonist after he evades the shoggoth and gets out of the tunnels?

>>16939085
It seems that when the STOB went off, suddenly every cult on this world suddenly ramped up and unleashed each version of hell they could come up with.

Also yay for the site working for a bit. Hope OP hasn't gotten too discouraged by 4chan being down.

Here are some notes on the Knights Inductor from Not LongPoster from the Knights Inductor thread:
Some notes on Knight Inductor gene-seed, since there seems to be some confusion on the questers' part: all Knights Inductor gene-seed has the Blank gene spliced into it, but as most Neophytes Inductor are not Blanks, and they only get the organs implanted after they are mostly grown up (late teens), the effect is basically an increased resilience in the face of Warp weirdness (and a complete deadening of any psychic abilities, assuming the implantation takes -- their gene-seed doesn't play nice with psykers, and since the Knights need astropaths and Librarians, they generally just bar psykers from getting implants entirely). Said resilience is more mental than physical; I chose to represent it in Deathwatch as a bonus to Willpower.

On the other hand, Neophytes who are Blanks are substantially empowered by the process, and with training and a set of implants similar to the Animus Speculum, they can manipulate the size, shape, and intensity of their null-field. With enough experience, they can have enough control to extinguish daemons at close quarters while not affecting their allies.

>>16940186
Mental note: Consult Kei Katsuragi on how to disarm STOBs.

>>16940258
It's not so much disarming them, as finding them.
We need to find them before the Void Engineers or Chaos can find them.

>>16940490
Eh? Hadn't gotten the impression before that we were dealing with any more STOBs, just clean up after the one.
Geeze, the sector is well and truely fucked if there are more of those damn things floating around the Meta.

TG QUEST WILL RETURN!

Tomorrow at the usual time. Sorry I couldn't show up, but every time I checked the 'chan, the DDoSers were having their way with the poor thing. Hopefully they won't return tomorrow.

>>16940579
Roger that, OP.
We'll see if this thread survives until tomorrow night. You'll have to make a new thread, but if this is still alive, it'll make finding the new one easier.

>>16940573
Well, I thought that the bit of intercepted communication that the TSAB showed us implied that the Void Engineers believe there are more S.T.O.B.'s to be found in that sub-sector, and that's why they and Chaos are fighting so hard to secure it.

This is a question I've been meaning to ask, but does Heather remember being Alessa? And does she have any of the psychic power Alessa possessed?

>>16940653
Yes, by the end of the games she has regained 'her old memories.'

As for the psychic powers... Well, there are ways to look into that, if you care to.

>>16940677
...I'm just gonna table that. Indefinitely.
Although then again, didn't Alessa create both the fog world and the otherworld?
Like that's a legitimate question. I thought she did, but I'm pretty sure there have been games set sequentially "after" Silent Hill 3 where the curse is still there.

>>16940779
I don't think so. Silent Hill 4: The Room takes place in a different town, South Ashfield, but does involve an alternate world like the Otherworld.
As for Homecoming, I'm not sure when in the timeline it's supposed to take. We'll need a Silent Hill expert to weigh in on that one.

Catching up with TG quest and I had a few thoughts (some of which is reiterating points already made):

- Glad to see reason winning out against the need to turn this into yet another large scale combat engagement. Well done all you people arguing for caution.

- We have this elven tracker/ranger guy right? Wouldn't he be a good fit with medieval Transylvania?

- Even though we all seem to be familiar with the canons involved here, I don't think we can assume that they are as we remember. There are reality distortions everywhere. This means the Plateau of Leng might have more than a few Elder Things and a Shoggoth.

- Egon is probably an expert on the Cthulhu mythos. The original Ghostbusters was extremely Lovecraftian.

- Whatever we commit on the ground, we should hold some big guns back. We have no guarantee that we'll be able to transport them back up in a hurry and we have no idea what threat Japan poses.

>>16941401
>We have this elven tracker/ranger guy right? Wouldn't he be a good fit with medieval Transylvania?
I suppose so. In combination with Darius and the Knights Inductor, he would be good in pointing out to them natural hazards.

Of course, he might also be useful in Pennsylvania. The problem with Pennsylvania is that it contains both heavily developed cities, like Allentown, Philadelphia, Harrisburg, and Bethlehem, interspersed with farmland and just forests.
Walk 5 minutes away from a Wal-mart and you could end up in a forest with no idea where you are, even though there might be a major highway not 50 feet away.

>we have no idea what threat Japan poses.
We might need to send another probe down there.
But instead of bringing a probe down onto Japan like last time, maybe target Korea or China, and have the drone fly low into Japan.
At the very least, we'd find out whether there are survivors in those other countries.

Huh this thread is still around. TG Quest will go active in 20 minutes. Sorry for the delay there were... unforeseen consequences.

>>16942987
Boards are up and down. In the vein of conspiracy and dark tidings, I am slightly suspicious that the lobbyists supporting the bill are the ones DDoSing because they think that the mythical 'anonymous' is amassing its forces here for an attack.

>>16943064
Hmm. Think I should wait until all this blows over?

>>16943073
I want to say no because I'm bored, but we should probably wait until it blows over so the regulars can all come.

Hey, /tg/ is finally working.
How we looking here?

I was set to start up, but it looks like no one's around due to lolattacks.

>>16943200
Amusing that I can't get on all day, but once it is Meta Quest time, /tg/ seems to be working alright.
Maybe the jerks are fans of the quest too.

>>16943270
That, or the ones stopping them are.

Well, looks like only a handful of people are around, so I guess we'll try again on Friday.

Bum rape the nearest person.

>>16943552
Ah, dammit. I get in just to find out the session's cancelled.

Then again, with idiots like >>16943568
around, it's probably for the best.

So, Friday, then?

>>16943712
Yeah.

>>16943989
I'll see you at 7PM server time on Friday, then.

Oh, question: Will our White Mages acquire Job Points and be able to train into other jobs?

>>16944056
Possibly. Depends on how long they live.

>>16944056
Hopefully they are at least maxed on White Mage.
>>16944061
That will be the challenge most of our people must overcome in the service of the Transpace Guard.

On a related note, I've seen people mention Time Mage a few times, unfortunately that is off of the Black Mage so parlaying our White Mages into those would take time, unless OP says they have some Black Mage cross training already.
Also, it occurs to me that Chemist is the White Mage prereq, so that might be some knowledge we could leverage as well. Though in game you still had to by the potions they used, in theory they may have useful knowledge.

>>16944280
Maybe if we get workshops, they could brew up some healing potions and ethers.
Though I think we need a Bulk Transporter first.

>>16944280
Our plan in the previous thread or so, was for us to cross-train/multiclass the White Mages with Time Mage/Summoner/Geomancer/Oracle skills.

Summoner for the Carbuncle spell (massed magic reflect).

Geomancer and Summoner have spells that, when creatively used can raise up temporary bunkers/fortifications on the spot.

Time Mage spell for casting haste, etc. Oracle for defensive stuff and messing up the enemy with blind/confuse/mute.

>>16944697
Of course, keep in mind how much training that much development would have required in FFT, and then transfer that to over here.
We'll probably not have them that strong for a while, and we'll need to be throwing them into dangerous situations for XP and Job Points, and making sure they don't die.
Which means that we need to plan things obsessively rather than charging in and trusting in our weapons to see us through.
Faith in firepower is misplaced.

>>16947760
>Which means that we need to plan things obsessively rather than charging in and trusting in our weapons to see us through.
Fortunately for our troops, we've become quite taken with obsessive planning. The benefits of which were awesomely obvious at the Battle of Tokyo.

I'm amazed these threads last so long without dropping off the board.

Since Silent Hill is "finished," I'd be interested in unlocking Heather's abilities and recruiting her if she's interested.

She's willing to go back to a literal hell to save her world. That's not something you find every day, and we can always use another psychic with experience in hell-worlds.

>>16948506
Maybe, and that would save on all the memory editing we're going to have to do otherwise. Hopefully we can keep her sane while she tracks down whatever it is she is meant to uncover to solve the problems here.

>>16948506
Possible, though I am worried about her reality distortion.
Maybe it's the result of her coming from a video game Canon?
It's possible, however unlikely, that another Silent Hill game might be created with her in it. Maybe this is a manifestation of that potential?

>I'm amazed these threads last so long without dropping off the board.
Part of it, I think, is that some of us use stealth sage's in order to allow post counts to increase while not adding to the bump limit.

Remember that it's not a post limit, but a bump limit. Sage's help to let the thread stick around longer. That's why it's funny to me seeing people trying to sage-bomb something, when in reality it does nothing.

>>16948532
I think Silent Hill will be much easier to go through with a team of kill-droids at her back.

Those monsters are fucked.

>>16948888
That'll be because Silent Hill won't be able to feed upon the regrets of a droid.
The kinds of horrors that would be produced by sending in Space Marines would have meant instant mission failure.

So is it agreed that the probe droids were pretty much the best idea ever?
The only regret I have is that we didn't think to requisition one of these (there were like at least five more besides the main one). Or would it have been worth too many points?

>>16949263
It's still possible, of course, that Silent Hill might be able to get something from Data. However, since his regrets revolve around the lack of emotions, I don't think they'll present much of a threat.

Most of us believe that sending only the robots with Heather was the best choice.
There's still the guy that wanted an entire KI squad to go with her right into Silent Hill.
He'll probably make a return to advocate more head-long charges into danger.

>>16949283
He's probably the same dude who wanted to destroy all those American cities for no fucking reason in that world we reset.

I hope that that Silent Hill: Shattered Memories game doesn't have any unfortunate ramifications for what's happening with Heather, since it effectively reboots her, as well as Dahlia, and Harry.

>>16949283
As the person that initially suggested it, the idea wasn't for charging headlong, they simply seemed like the best living people to send along.

Thinking on it though, I've decided holding back on them would be better, the null-aura generates Disquiet, and even though the Silencers can shape and control it, I don't think extended exposure around other people in that place is wise. Still our best choice to drop in if Heather and company get in over their head.

>>16949398
>As the person that initially suggested it, the idea wasn't for charging headlong, they simply seemed like the best living people to send along.
But that's exactly what you were doing; charging head-long into a dangerous situation and making it worse by bringing along people that would be a liability with their own emotional baggage and the completely unknown and unpredictable result of bringing the Null gene into the Silent Hill-controlled zone. By using Data and the probe droid, we get around the problem of walking into a psychoreactive area with living beings, and still provide extra firepower support for Heather.

All things that we already went over and explained, even as you continued to demand we send a Knights Inductor squad into Silent Hill.

>>16949508
I agree completely. But I also think we should send kill-droids in there, not just probes.

What happens if something huge shows up?

>>16949508
I wasn't the only one suggesting their use, there were some other fools suggesting sending a crazy kill squad of shoot everything.
I suggested them because I felt they might be immune, or at least resistant to Silent Hill's effects.
I was also the one that suggested sending Data instead if he proved immune/resistant, and the one that sent him on a patrol to fully test that theory before backing sending him and the probe droid.

Please try not to assume everyone you disagree with is the same person, just as I'll try to assume you aren't the only person that sounds like a pretentious ass.

>>16949734
That may be the case, but I still believe you to be a reckless asshole, and I won't be satisfied till you're dead and your entrails splattered against a wall.

>>16949766
I love you too.

bumpo

Depending on the type of zombies that are down there in Pennsylvania, this might be a good time to get our TG Recruit squad some combat experience. It may perhaps be best to keep the Al'Kesh with them, for easier emergency pickup.

I'm actually now regretting that we didn't keep the Ring teleporter on the Al'Kesh; the much stronger matter confinement field used by the Rings would probably be able to punch through the mist's interference.

>>16955743
I guess we'll have to think of getting one Al'kesh with the rings when we can get more. I think those things are my favorite little bomber/transport now.
Though when we get around to upgrading we should get some shielding and/or ablative armor on them to beef them up some.

>>16957941
They already have shielding, and they have a cloaking device.

Actually, I think we should get a pair of stargates.
Have one on the Storm, and the other on the Al'Kesh.
That way, we can Ring down one gate, and have our ground troops use that to go back and forth from the Storm and the planet.
And if we need to pull out, everyone goes through the gate, and then it gets Ringed up on to the Al'Kesh.
This would be one way to go back and forth quickly if there's something interfering with our transporter technology, as happens sometimes.

Sup lads, I'm here.

Earlier today, I had a dream in real life. A Canon had been violated (An assassin killed the president). First, a female agent was sent in to restore the canon, and failed miserably, necessitating a prince of persia "wait, that wasn't really how it went" rewind.
Then, I was sent in, and though I fucked up at parts, I did okay.

The plan: 1. Ensure the Vice President makes the same important decisions that the President would have made, if he were still alive.
2. Prevent the Assassin from doing further damage to the timeline.

How she went about it:
Use Hax powers to seduce the Vice President and seduce the Assassin. Enact a truly bullshit web of lies to somehow keep BOTH romanced, which then collapses, leading to her seducing even MORE people in an attempt to maintain power.
This is where I'm sent in, I defeat her in a fight scene, and time rewinds to see how I'd do it.

>>more

This thread is still here? Wow.

All hands brace for TG Quest in one hour!

>>16958145
>>more
How I went about it:
As soon as the female agent warps in, kick her in the cunt and tell her to piss off.
Use Hax powers to disguise myself as people who are supposed to be in the Whitehouse, steadily learning more about my next mark, then disguising as him or her until I was in a position to talk to the Vice President regularily.
Convince the VP to have the same policiesm approaches and attitudes that the President had.
Collect Evidence on the Assassin's attack on the President (again, mostly hax-fueled), then have the Assassin imprisoned.

My plan backfired when the Assassin escaped and tried to destroy Washington with a nuclear device. I had to use my hax in a public area to prevent the explosion, and I blew my cover.
I portrayed myself as being sent from God to enact His will, and bullshitted up reasons why the VP had to follow the (dead) president's plan.
I murdered the Assassin while he was in jail to prevent him from trying that shit again.

To correct the hole left in the Canon by having an Angel showed up, I started a conspiracy theory that there was OBVIOUSLY no nuclear threat to Washington and DOUBLE OBVIOUSLY there was no angel, it was all governmental bullshit to push their policies through.

I had to destroy any hard evidence of my presence, and murder people who knew too much and wouldn't stfu about it. I was successful, but that left the hole in Canon of several other government workers being dead.

I didn't try to fix that hole; just said "Job done" and got a B rank for the mission, with the Canon holes of "The Vice President received Divine Inspiration" and "Some other people are dead".

>>16958030
Somehow I think a pair of actual Stargates are going to be a little too expensive. Al'kesh is comparatively cheap and easy to come by, particularly after the Goa'uld are largely defeated.

Maybe we can track down a similar solution from another canon for mass gateway operations. I can think of some magic based ones, and Protoss use that sort of technology a fair bit.
As for shielding, I'd just feel better for our troops if we increased that beyond the baseline for the Al'kesh. At the moment I wouldn't want to use it outside of situations where stealth was relatively assured.

Then again, I have to wonder where the SG teams were getting some of those extra Stargates they were using for special projects, there's enough other people figuring out how to make them, maybe the SGC was as well by the end and never really talked about it much.

>>16958184
Awesome. We'll be here.

>>16958327
I think for cheap Stargates, all you have to do is find a planet that's on the cartouche but was listed as uninhabitable.
They don't show them that much in the show, but there is mention that some planets just don't have anything besides the gate and DHD. We could probably take some of those.

>>16958184
Bracin'.

So, the plan is:
1. Darius and the Elf to Transylvania.
I think Spike would be good to also send, since he's pretty much our King of bullshitting, and being able to talk down Strahd or SotN!Dracula will be useful.
2. Droid to Pennsylvania to beam up data for the SCIENCE! team to science over
Works for me. Need to find out if these are viral zombies, magic zombies, parasitic zombies, or all three.
3. Data and the Silencers with Heather to Silent Hill
Also works, but I'm really scared about this one.
4. Wait for the Observer to finish searching Antarctica for the remains of Peabody's expedition.
Works too.
5. Check for survivors in Korea or China
I think we should use Auror/Farseer scrying instead of a droid for this one, since there's a damn fierce storm near there.

Have Egon look into The Mist. The Storm has sensors. He mightn't be able to understand much, but he may have some input on how it works.

Have the UNIT, SCP, Delta greens, X-com squad, WHMs, Psions, Abjurers, Sandmen, TG squad, (rest of the) KI squad, Mobile Infantry, Madcat pilots, Destroid pilots, Starship crewmen, Tosh and Char tell each-other horror stories to pass the time. It might increase their plot savviness.

>>16958608
I think we settled on Data, Probe Droid, and Observer drone, with the Silencers on standby to be dropped in if shit hits the fan hard enough.
And Data is already there.

We were sending the EMH and HK-50 to examine the zombie situation in PA more closely.

I don't think we should risk Spike in vampire territory.

>>16958608
No, that's not the plan.

1. Darius and Fanalon to go to Transylvania with a squad of KI, but only after checking that they can be beamed down and back up. Otherwise, they'll need to take either the other Leopard or the Al'Kesh.
The problem with bringing Spike along is that he's human, and so is food for either of the vampires.

2. Data and the probe droid are going with Heather. Not the Silencers.

3. The EMH and HK-50 are taking a shuttle to Pennsylvania to start tests on the zombies while the probe droid continues searching.

>>16958659
>>16958671
Oh, my bad. Proceed then.

>>16958608
>Have Egon look into The Mist. The Storm has sensors. He mightn't be able to understand much, but he may have some input on how it works.
Actually, that makes me think of something we should have thought of long ago. Have Egon start work on tuning our sensors to register EKG readings. Having ships do flybys while he uses his little hand-held unit has been kinda silly.

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>>16958700
I could have sworn that we had asked him to hook up his PKE meter to the ship's sensor array before.
Am I remembering incorrectly?

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>>16958739
Not recently, but if he and science team can make phaser-proton beams and convert ships into giant ghost-traps, there's no reason he shouldn't be able to tweak the sensor array.