In non-Quest-related news, clam chowder is delicious.

>>21767432
Time for a brother/sister combination attack?

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>>21767533
Fuck yeah it is. Especially with those little crackers.

Did we ever progress past the decision to throw things at the protoss? We should do that. Hell we're a Cerebrate right? The only thing that can permanently kill us is a Dark Templar. Why not nuke ourselves and reform later? Or is that different now that we're overmind like?

>>21767432
Sadly I wasn't able to come up with anything particularly useful just: Ridges Scratches defend me, try to warp away, try to move our conciseness into something else, nuke ourselves, hope we have enough hp to survive until reinforcements arrive. Yeah, we're in a pickle.

>>21767592
Theoretically the Overmind could have reformed himself if he'd been killed by something other than DT energy. But then again, we haven't tested reincarnation since Father's death.

>>21767592
>>21767593
We've never actually died. We don't know how that works. There's no reason it shouldn't work, in theory.

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Lacking any other options, I always vote for the most ham-fisted, lets blow up everything. Order the fleet to aim at Zeratul and keep shooting till we can't feel (tactile) feelings anymore.

This does kill Raynor though...we should tell him to crawl to the nearest lead lined fridge and hide inside.

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>>21767744
He's being carried away by the Kingstontron Butlerbot 6000.

And something I got curious about, so here it is...

>>21767766
Cool, we were popular at one time!

>>21767744
The Kingstontron is dragging him away. He may still be caught in an orbital strike, though.

(Also, for the nuke-friendly, you'll need to send a heighliner to Toaster *fast* if you want that to happen)

>>21767432
Okay, can we drop another Overlord on him?
Full psychic blast him?
Now that the Xel'Naga aren't pressing down on us, can we get some damn reinforcements in here?

>>21767766
Huh. That shows us as still getting 20 or so searches on a regular basis. Go us.

>>21767823
We certainly have overlords, though the last one barely slowed him down. Same with the psionic blast. Kerrigan and Warbrate's forces are on the move, but Zeratul doesn't look like he's going to sit around and wait for orbital assets to finish reentry.

Quick have our two ridge scratchers (we got another one after the disruptor) do a song and dance routine to stall Zeratul while everything on the planet converges on our location and we continue to psionically punch him in the nuts.

>>21767862
Let's send that heighliner to Toaster to get that nuke, and tell our orbital assets to begin a bombardment on our position.

Are there any drones in our facility that can get here in time? Any hydralisks?

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>>21767862

Xenta is well away from all that space time distortion badness right? We could fold a heighliner on top of him real easy like. Unless it can't do that on a planet.

HELL LETS SEND EVERYTHING, if we miss with the smaller stuff I'm sure an actual spaceship won't. Overlords (lots of these), ridge scratcher dance routine AND many, many spaceships.

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But Zeratul, did you remember to check for traps? MWAHAHAHAHAHA!

>>21767927
Orbital bombardment will likely kill our ridge scratchers. You may have to fight TUCAMP in the Thunderdome.

>>21767964
I think you might want to think closely about cracking a heighliner less than ten feet from our physical form.

>>21767964
You know, we're kinda there. We'd erase us.

So, I believe I've seen on the table:
Distract Zeratul with ridge scratchers
Try to get a heighliner to Toaster to nuke Zeratul and hope it hits
Tell Kerri and Warbrate to fire everything from orbit and hope something hits
Hit Zeratul with psionic blasts
Tell Labbrate to crack a heighliner right on top of us
Drop an overlord on top of Zeratul

Several of these can overlap, but which ones are you wanting to do?

>>21767986
>The floor isn't a freezer.
I'm disappointed.

>>21768242
Distract Zeratul with ridge scratchers
Try to get a heighliner to Toaster to nuke Zeratul and hope it hits
Tell Kerri and Warbrate to fire everything from orbit and hope something hits
Hit Zeratul with psionic blasts
and
Drop an overlord on top of Zeratul

>>21768286
This, this.
So how many dice do think we'll need for all this?

>>21768242
Psionic combination attack with Kerrigan.

>>21768242
>>21768286

ditto on this one. Kerri helps.

>>21768281
I just grabbed a picture off of google, because I never make them that simple.

>>21768242
Everything but cracking a heighliner. And "Drop an Overlord" is expanded to include all air assets we have. Hot drop-o-clock too.

Cerebrate, from our previous experience with Cerebrates being struck down by Dark Templar, how long does it usually take? Do we have a few seconds, or more like minutes?

>>21768434
We've only seen it happen twice. One was interrupted by Kerrigan on Char, and the other was on a wild escape hatch space ride with Toaster. It clearly takes more than a single blow, but who knows how fast and hard Zeratul could hit us?

>>21768382
>>21768336
>>21768323
>>21768286
Time for some dice, then.

6d100, and I'll probably need more before you can have results.

Rolled 28, 12, 58, 55, 88, 71 = 312

>>21768523

HAHA Time for crit fails

Rolled 45, 82, 53, 50, 31, 23 = 284

>>21768523

Rolled 54, 64, 68, 89, 95, 45 = 415

>>21768523

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Rolled 73, 51, 10, 4, 88, 97 = 323

>>21768523
Here goes

Rolled 62, 58, 17, 3, 43, 6 = 189

>>21768523

Rolled 63, 81, 59, 63, 69, 54 = 389

>>21768523
hrm.

(Serving size: 2 taquitos?! What the hell kind of third world serving is that? Serving size ought to be most of the goddamn box!)
>>21768537
>>21768538
Our psionic blast staggers the raging Protoss, but he dodges completely away from the overlord. Despite their desperately attractive figures, the human ridge scratchers barely distract him at all. When one tries to dance into his way, he slices her in two as if swatting a fly. If we were not so terribly close to death ourself, we would mourn the loss of such a long-serving companion.

Meanwhile, a heighliner arrives over Yoshus with its characteristic flash, blasting Toaster with its Psi Cannon and restoring its link with the Swarm. We waste no time with explanations, ordering an immediate nuclear strike on our location. Toaster primes and launches eighty missiles, which begin their long journey. We hope we can hold Zeratul off for that long.

In the skies above Xenta, Warbrate turns its remaining non-Zerg assets toward the planet. Carriers and Battlecruisers both grab a quick and dirty target lock and begin charging as Zeratul leaps at our naked flesh.

(Alright. First, I need you to roll 2d6)

Rolled 5, 4 = 9

>>21768793

Rolled 5, 6 = 11

>>21768793
Then what?

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Rolled 6, 1 = 7

>>21768793
HEAVEN OR HELL LETS ROCK

Rolled 2, 1 = 3

>>21768793

Bring it.

>>21768808
>>21768827
Mmmkay. That...could have been worse.

Now, 2d100 for OHGOD

Rolled 83, 75 = 158

>>21768895

Rolled 66, 49 = 115

>>21768895
BLOOD FOR THE OHGOD!

Rolled 85, 34 = 119

>>21768895

Rolled 42, 50 = 92

>>21768895

Oh god.

Rolled 6, 38 = 44

>>21768895

>>21768949
>>21768952
(Wow. Zeratul is not pulling his punches)

The spiteful Protoss leaps over the body of our ridge scratcher, raising his blade to strike, as we send our other ridge scratcher into the air, jumping at his arm. She manages to turn his blow by a fair margin, but it still cuts deeply into us. The screaming pain is worse than anything from the Xel'Naga's last ditch psionic attack.

He casually flicks his blade to the side, dealing a crippling blow to the ridge scratcher, who falls away, incapacitated.

>>21769075
2d100 again, unless you've got a magnificent 2-second-long plan.

Rolled 6, 2 = 8

>>21769090

We wont be having it.

>>21769075
What's the eta on those... everything?

Rolled 58, 17 = 75

>>21769090
>>21769098


Wait fuck.

Rolled 41, 5 = 46

>>21769090

Oh gods.

Rolled 89, 70 = 159

>>21769090

>>21769098
Heh. You might want to double-check them dice.

>>21769106
The nukes should reach the system within ten seconds, and the surface not long after. The orbital weapons should be ready to fire before then, but not by long.

Rolled 89

>>21769132

Bit late to the punch, mate.

>>21769132

Use our MIGHTY BRAIN to create a magnetic bottle infront of Tassadar, and superheat the air inside into plasma, then accelerate it at him.

Should at least slow him down.

>>21769170

*Zeratul

Derpa-derp, I cannot into typing.

Rolled 58, 91 = 149

>>21769090

Lying to stall for time at this point would be too obvious, I suppose. Still, if we wanted to try it, don't we technically know a way to travel through time? We could offer a way to revive his dead brethren. If he bothers to respond at all it's an extra second or two we didn't have before.

Rolled 70, 16 = 86

>>21769194
Lying to stall for time, eh?

LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU, ZERATUL!

>>21769107
>>21769111
Unopposed, Zeratul again lashes out. Mustering our psionic energies, we push back, trying to stop his arm in place. He seems surprised at the resistance, but slashes at us nonetheless. Our nerves are ablaze with pain, as blood washes out from the wounds.

>>21769113
Not that I don't trust, but considering what's going on, no noko.

>>21769194
If you want to roll for a bluff attempt, that's fine. You'll have to sacrifice your psi defense roll for that round, though.

>>21769213

See:

>>21769170

MIGHTY BRAIN PLASMA!

>>21769213
WHERE IS MY BROTHER/SISTER PSYCHIC COMBINATION ATTACK, CEREBRATE?

>>21769213
Time Travel distraction guy here: No, I didn't realize we had defense in there somewhere. I guess keep doing what we've been: Passively trying not to die while we wait to blow up and die.

>>21769213
You are mean VA. Very mean.

>>21769249
And I can't spell it seems.

>>21769237
Thank you, Anonymous, but your combo attack is in another quest thread.

>>21769273
Screw combo.

PSIONIC GATTAI!

KERRIBRATE!

>>21769286
>>21769249
>>21769245
>>21769237
While I'm thinking about it, roll 1d6 for oops-I-forgot.

Rolled 4

>>21769294
wait what

Rolled 2

>>21769294

Beg. Plead for our lives.
Give him a chance to grandstand and monologue while the missiles lock on.

Rolled 1

>>21769294
Grumble, no noko grumble.

>>21769323
That'd be the bluff roll I mentioned earlier, if you can get the others on board.

>>21769301
>>21769308
...

Now, roll 2d100, because I genuinely don't know whether this should happen.

Rolled 16, 24 = 40

>>21769341
>4
Oh god I fucked us didn't I?

Rolled 49, 97 = 146

>>21769341

Rolled 34, 40 = 74

>>21769341

Rolled 94, 46 = 140

>>21769341
oh god what

Rolled 28, 42 = 70

>>21769341

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>>21769360
No, that's fine. That was a timer.

>>21769360
>>21769363
>>21769389
>>21769397
>>21769390
Wow. 4 out of 5 agree, pic related.

>>21769418
Did we lose?

So, then, do you want to sacrifice your psi defense score for one round to try bluffing Zeratul into, you know, not killing you?

Or just keep fighting for your life?

>>21769418
Assuming Zeratul has the second die, yes.

>>21769441
I'd rather keep fighting for my life, thanks.

>>21769441
Vote for yes.

>>21769441
No I want Kerri to help fry his fucking brain.
But since you keep ignoring that, sure, I don't see the harm in dropping the only thing that might, potentially, protect us from the YOU DIE FOREVER blades.
"Your shoelace is undone."

>>21769441
I vote RAGE! BLINDING BURNING RAGE OF A THOUSAND NOVAS!

>>21769462
That is not a safe assumption.

>>21769489
Well, normally we want high, and 4 out of the 5 had the second die as high, so it's good for the second die group, and I normally thing the first die is for us.

>>21769538
Again with the spelling!

>>21769485
>>21769470
>>21769467
>>21769464
2d100, and hope for the best.

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>>21769341
"H... hahaha... Zeratul. Stop for a second. Want to hear a joke? What did the human say to the Cerebrate cum Overmind?"

Rolled 3, 66 = 69

>>21769563

Rolled 53, 64 = 117

>>21769563

Rolled 27, 80 = 107

>>21769563
Be good rolls.

Rolled 95, 76 = 171

>>21769563

>>21769573
>>21769577
>>21769589
Welp. Game over for someone.

Rolled 49, 36 = 85

>>21769563

>>21769611
And with our dieing breath, we force into Kerri's mind the knowledge of the Xel'Naga language, and where our stolen worldship is.

>>21769573
>>21769577
We beg. We plead. We shout. We cajole. We bribe.

Zeratul doesn't even pause. He ignores our pleas as he swings his blade like a whip across our flesh. Our mind is in agony. Like dim echoes, we hear our cerebrates giving us words of encouragement, begging us to hold on.

>>21769675
Not to give you ideas, but there are ideas out in that part of space to be had.

>>21769696
Can we emergency move our psionic self to the Zerg aboard the Worldship? Just force them all together into a giant mass of flesh and force our consciousness there?

>>21769721
No, but it's good that you're brainstorming.

What with our brain being sliced and diced, it's kind of use-it-or-lose-it.

>>21769696
... use the giant crystal to reincarnate ourselves while still alive? Order our cerebrate to bring us back with the crystal is we die, tell Nargil we're the practice run for Father? Use the crystal as a warp network focal point to warp ourselves (or Zeratul) away?

The Overmind in canon was able to phase out and not really physically exist.

Can we do that?

Have our Arbiter recall us to wherever it is.

>>21769751

And/or activate some form of Recall from the worldship?

>>21769755
Sounds like an idea. Let's do it.

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>>21769696
We could bluff/notbluff that if he doesn't stop we'll unmake creation with the heighliners by cubeland. Then again he may have mentioned earlier that he really didn't give two shits. Food for thought.

>>21769751
He did? When?

>>21769760
Assuming it has recall, isn't in the wonky space around the crystal or recall isn't affected by the wonky space around the crystal.

>>21769774
>food for thought
Suddenly our capacity for control is no longer bound to our overlord count.

>>21769787
that's supposedly how he got to Aiur.

>>21769787
Even if it is in the wonky space around the crystal, what have we got to lose? If we die in the process, it wasn't dark templar energy that killed us, it was us. If we succeed, well, congrats to us and all that.

>>21769751
Wait, when did that happen?

>>21769760
>>21769755
We're far too large for that.

>>21769748
We doubt the crystal will work while we're still alive, but we already think it might be possible to use the Psi Emitters to bring something back. We would just need something sufficiently strong.

>>21769806
:D

>>21769808
Eh, I thought it was like that, too, until I went back and rewatched the cinematic. That asteroid that crashes suddenly pops up into a Zerg structure in the ruins of a temple. I'm pretty sure that's how he got to Aiur.

Anywho, 2d100.

Rolled 99, 64 = 163

>>21769849

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Rolled 97, 45 = 142

>>21769849
YOU STABBING ME WAS ALL A PART OF MY PLAN ZERATUL. OW. OW.

Rolled 39, 97 = 136

>>21769849
If my asteroid you mean our esteemed Father, then yes.

So we have our cerbrates fire a psi cannon(s) at the crystal until it bring us back, I can dig it.

>utter ckhawar
Yest captcha it is utter ckha war

>>21769861
>>21769871
...I suppose I should ask before I make results: you're probably intending to defend instead of bluff again, right?

>>21769882
SPELLING WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME!

>>21769885
Yes

>>21769894
Yuo cna't speel?

Rolled 93, 80 = 173

>>21769849
>captcha: nswedits assert
Captcha says we should distract Zeratul with poorly photoshopped 'toss porn.

Honestly I don't even know what to do.

>>21769919
I seem to be having more trouble tonight with my spelling than normal, mostly just one wrong letter making a completely different word. It's troubling to me.

What's the ETA on those nukes, at this point, anyway?

>>21769945
It's ok. We still tolera--I mean, we still love you.

>>21769904
>>21769932
So, one yes and one no, or one yes and one "I dunno"?

>>21769932
Stop forcing your ideas on the captcha, it didn't say anything about it being toss porn. I read that as captach wanting Photoshopped assertive porn... what ever that is, and no I'm not asking anyone to post it.

>>21769975
We focus on Toaster long enough to hear that the missiles are entering the system, but the pain distracts us before we get a precise ETA.

can kerrigan use the big crystal?

>>21770015
I don't see why not, because I think she knows where it is.

>>21769976
Defense

>>21770015
>>21770034
She could. We would need to spend a turn telling her where it is and how to use it. She would also need to pick up a Psi Emitter with our signature on it.

>>21770040
>>21769904
>>21769861
>>21769871
AGONY!

We feel parts of ourself slipping away. We don't know if they'll return. Maybe they're gone forever? Would we know?

>>21770139
Name?

for future reference, let's add ship-caliber armor plating to ourselves if there is a next time.

Not to rush anybody, but if you wanted to give up your defense and try to tell Kerrigan to get to da choppa/crystal to avenge you, now is probably the time.

Or not. I'm not playing favorites.

>>21770305
>name
Nope. Turn the defences up to 11.

>>21770162
Eh?

>>21770431
Your name fell off, CA.

>>21770431
Someone is making result posts as Anon.

>>21770449
>>21770450
I think Zeratul cut out that part of our brain.

>>21770449
>>21770402
>>21770162
Heh. Apparently, that's what Zeratul cut out of our brain.

Sorry.

My posts since that happened:
>>21770305
>>21770139

>>21770478
Ok. We're dying, really dying. We're obviously not really holding the fucker off. That's enough for me to throw in my vote with CA's Waifu. Kerrigan or bust.

>>21770540
That's one for Kerri.

>>21770540

We/I/Us,

The overmind and cerebrate of the swarm, hearby leave all our worldly holdings, units, knowledge and creep to our dear sister, Kerrigan.

>>21770580
While we wait for the vote... I haven't been with the quest for a while. What happened to our Zergleks? Why aren't they defending us?

>>21770625
Most died.

Well, I suppose if we're going to die anyways, we might as well go full bore on Kerrigan.

Well, unless we can be recalled in two pieces, but that might cause even worse damage.

>>21770625
Stuck in OH GOD THE WALLS ARE BLEEDING space after the battle with the Xel'Naga.

>>21770625
Most of them were destroyed, though I forget exactly when.

>>21770648
>>21770614
>>21770540
Mmmmkay, in that case, 3d100, and may Father have mercy on our souls.

>>21770614
If possible, attach a mental image of a giant drill with our pulsing caterpillar face on the end of it when we hand over psychic control of our brood to Kerrigan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EztAWwvfRao
"SISTER! TAKE IT!"

Rolled 7, 20, 54 = 81

>>21770716
>>21770721

Rolled 28, 8, 23 = 59

>>21770716

P.S.

Dear Sis, be nice to your uncle Khas. And don't forget to tend to the enclosure of humans.

Rolled 92, 44, 70 = 206

>>21770737
>>21770739
We're fucked

>>21770737
>>21770739

Rolling towards fail

>>21770716
It's after midnight. Here's my hope regardless.

Rolled 69, 83, 4 = 156

>>21770776
I would fuck up the dice code.

>>21770737
>>21770739
Ah, drat. Midnight dice.

Do you guys want me to roll 'em at home?

>>21770792
please?

Unless you want to use my 3rd one in addition to those two.

Rolled 46, 47, 44 = 137

>>21770792
You could always take the best three from various posters.

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>>21770806
(Hello dice! It's been a long time. Let's do crazy things together)

Let's see...I get 87, 68, and 92.

Huh. I guess I rolled all the low scores out of these dice during my last session of Dark Heresy. You guys are in luck.

AHEM.

Zeratul's blade swings upward again, and for a brief moment, the world seems to freeze. Out of our Eye, we see Zeratul in mid-strike, his head haloed with streaks of light converging from orbit: the carrier beams are turning toward us, and the Yamato cannon blasts are nearly here. Above those, we can see the fingers of vapor behind nearly a hundred screaming nuclear warheads. Zeratul's mind is open to us at this last second. We feel his misery, his rage, and his regret, and he sees through our Eye the impending death stalking toward him; he knows as we know that he will momentarily be irradiated to death, incinerated to atoms, and then even those atoms will be incinerated and irradiated. Resignation fills him, and us, for that brief moment.

Then, darkness falls.

We feel a calling.

A beckoning.

It seems an eternity since we have felt at all. Since we have had the capacity to feel.

There is a light. A voice calls to us. We remember the voice, but we do not know her.

We rush toward the light, toward the voice, but it's so distant. So faint. So far away. Couldn't we just rest a while?

>>21770979

CEREBRATES DON'T SLEEP. YOU GET THAT LIGHT, BOY, AND YOU STICK IT IN THE EXPERIMENT CAGE WITH THE REST OF THEM.

>>21770979
SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAK

>>21770979
No, the voice calls. You must come, Cerebrate.

So tired...The light is so far...

"Please, Big Brother. I need you."
The world is bright and cold and harsh. It burns and freezes, all at once. It's like birth and death at once. It hurts, but the pain reminds us that we exist again.

We become manifest on the Creep outside of a massive crystal. Kerrigan is there, next to a Psi Emitter. She looks exhausted.

We are alive. We have returned.

Rolled 85, 5, 15 = 105

>>21770979

There is no rest. There is only the swarm.

>>21770979

AWAKEN, MY... SELF, AND EMBRACE THE GLORY THAT IS YOUR BIRTHRIGHT.

>>21771049

We knew we could count on you, sister.

>>21771049
"Best. Sister. Ever."

(After some quick rollan, it's clear that nobody else is going to die unless you just waste all kinds of time in hooking up with the Swarm. So, presumably you're not going to waste time?)

Hello, World!

Note to self: Never do that again.

>>21771102
Let's whip that shit together and put this swarm into high gear.

>>21771102
Only enough for a quick psy-hug for our dearest sister.

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>>21771080
>>21771081
>>21771113
"I just...You weren't...I'm never going to live this down, am ?"

And...with a 99 roll, the dice are telling me that we still have a Psi Emitter with Father's signature. Nargil is fairly adamant that we resurrect the Overmind before something else threatens to completely destroy us.

Hold on there. How much time passed since we died, exactly?

>>21771207
Actually, I'm with Nargil with this one for different reasons.

We just killed the last of the Xel Naga and the last Dark Protoss, in all existence. This is probably literally the best time we could ever do this, if we still plan to do it. There is nothing left in the Galaxy, that we know of, that can truly kill a Cerebrate/The Overmind.

How do you all feel?

>>21771207
"Dude I JUST woke up. Cool your jets, I'll get to it."
>>21771224
Psychic crystal fire bird thing.

>>21771224
But the Overmind might not like that we killed the Xel Naga. Anyone remember how he felt about our creators?

>>21771217
We were dead for about two weeks, apparently.

Kerrigan hesitated only long enough to make sure Zeratul was morally, ethically, spiritually, physically, positively, absolutely, undeniably, and reliably dead. She tells us that it was the quietest two weeks of her life.

>>21771260
...He's the one who killed them the -last- time.

>>21771259
>>21771260
>>21771278
Ok, I forgot the bird thing yeah. Should we work on that first, so we aren't working on ressurecting father just to have a screaming firey psychic death bird drop on him the minute he respawns?

>>21771334
>>21771259
Actually, we hunted down and destroyed the birdlike entity. As it turned out, it was a sort of Noah's Ark that carried the psionic signatures of the entire Xel'Naga race to be resurrected hundreds or thousands of years after their extinction, so as to just wait out whatever force had destroyed them.

They won't be coming back, this time.

That's probably part of why the remaining Xel'Naga led a suicide charge against Xenta.

>>21771399
That puts me back to being in favor of rezzing Father. Same poster as >>21771224

So is anyone opposed? With or without a reason.

>>21771399
oh okay

(Since there's literally nothing left in the universe that can possibly threaten you, the Quest is functionally ending tonight, guys. You're just deciding on whether the ending post is about you being all Overmindy or the Overmind being all Overmindy. I just wanted to be clear)

>>21771423

What?

No Metaverse romp?

>>21771423
Heavy.
Let's wake up Dad.

>>21771423
Hell, it's about time.
Also, no Overmind-wants-to-kill-the-Protoss-but-we-want-to-spite-Tassadar-some-more plot twist?

>>21771431
Call Metaquest OP. Maybe there'll be special crossovers. Maybe.

>>21771450
Details.

>>21771476
...did they all leave?

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>>21771450
>>21771436
>>21771420
We take a month or two to prepare the way. We construct a massive temple, decorated with the bones of Xel'Naga warriors. Artisanlord prepares a light show that will be visible across twelve star systems. Warbrate, Nargil, Labbrate, and Internbrate collaborate to produce an honor guard strain, a species of Zerg that incorporates every species we've added to the Swarm, including the Protoss.

We quietly barter with Protoss and raid abandoned worlds for Khaydarin crystals of all size and description, and encrust every surface with them. Twelve billion Zerg march in formation before the Cube in tribute. We and all of our cerebrates are made manifest before the Temple, and Kerrigan stands next to us as the ritual commences, and call our Father home.

"I am the Beginning and the Ending. I am the Father of the Swarm, and You are My Children. I am well pleased. You have surpassed My greatest hopes. You have worked together, striven against gods and demons, and maintained your Purity throughout. The Swarm has grown, and its greatest Children have grown with it. All shall rejoice and sing. This is the day we have dreamed of since time immemorial."

"Today, my Children, we are...Perfect."

>>21771476
Special crossovers? I prefer the term, "potentially ominous long term plans."

>>21771678
With a technically infinite multiverse, there are surely numerous ones where we tore open the barrier with our heighliners, or ones where we worked out that the shit we were seeing as that barrier weakened were real and reachable without gutting our own universe.

It's a simple matter of probabilities. >:)

>>21771710
Probabilities are the realm of /tg/ dice, you know.

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http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/21767432/

Wow. Two years. I actually thought back in the day that we'd have finished it all before thread 20 (then, surely by thread 50. Well, definitely by thread 75. I mean, how could we possibly expect to reach 100 threads?). I was constantly amazed that we still had things to do.

>>21771791
Oh, believe me, I know. Pic related.

I've got 10 pages of a little notepad full of this stuff, and that's just since I lose the old notepad during our crossover thread...what, 20ish threads ago?

>>21771820
You should post that stuff. It'd be neat to see behind-the-scenes stuff like that.

I wonder if MetaQuest OP's got similar stuff....


And congrats on a successful quest. Now that it's done we can totally loot it. Haha.

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>>21771820
Thanks for a great time OP. It's been a hell of a lot of fun. I'm out.

>first post
Hey, this seems like an interesting place to join in this quest-
>last post
Well, whoops.

I remember that fateful day ( w hile) ago, when I tried to get an overlord with a top-hat to hunt down and capture a female marine. Or something of the sort. And random zerg bonding together. This quest has come far.

Good show, Cerebrate Anon.

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>>21771820
What a fucking ride. Thanks Cerebrate Anon. I've been here since Ernie and Bernie. That was fun as all hell, Starcraft 2 be damned..
Here's to another 100 more another time. Thanks again.

>>21771881
Yyyyyeah. 113 threads, and you just happened to pick this one. :P

>>21771870
Thanks, man. It wouldn't have gone anywhere without an awesome group of players.

>>21771859
In for a penny, in for a pound, I suppose. Gimme a minute.

>>21771909
>100 more

You're gonna have to raise quite a bit for -that- Kickstarter.

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Sorry in advance about the picture quality. My phone's not one of them fancy, newfangled mega-many-pixel smartphones with HD contraptions.

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>>21772004
Heh. I vaguely remember trying to finesse the dice to make that plant monster a trap, but the dice just weren't having any of it.

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>>21772043
Rolls for the First Annual Artisanlord Perfection Proof-Off.

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>>21772060
First round of Perfection Tests...I'm sure some of this made sense at the time.

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>>21772082
That's damage being taken by wayward cerebrates at the top, there. The repeatedly crossed-out numbers on the bottom-right are a measure of how deeply into your mind the Xel'Naga were attacking. I think I had your max mental strength set to 200. You'll notice they got to 173.

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>>21772133
The first big heighliner explosion of the Xel'Naga War up top. I don't know if you can see up at the top-right, but that's a running count of how many worldships were left, with a "7 waiting" off to the side.

The middle-top part is the first volley of nukes.

Pretty much everything under that is about the boarding parties for the worldships. I had ambitious plans to actually keep track of how many forces were on each ship, and kill them off as the battle raged, but laziness prevailed and they became functionally infinite.

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>>21772180
More boarding parties, more nukes, and at some point I started keeping track of how much of our forces and (when they showed up) the Toss forces were left on a...vaguely...percentage-like...sort of system.

Shut up. It worked.

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>>21772209
Pew pew space battles!

That RUPTURE and KHAS bit near the bottom was something I tried out where each one's DC score lowered with each round, making it more likely every round that Khas would die or the universe would snap in half and spill us into TOS-era Star Trek.

Because I was feeling really masochistic, I guess.

>>21771956
>Yyyyyeah. 113 threads, and you just happened to pick this one. :P

I once slept through christmas.

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>>21772241
This page has the entirety of our battle over Xenta with the Xel'Naga, and the first half of our fight with Zeratul.

Not to impugn anybody's honor, but >>21769418 and the Loyalty/Self-Preservation thing at the bottom-right are intensely related.

>>21772255
Aw, that's sad. Did you at least get to open your presents when you came out of hybernation?


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Heh, this is embarrassing. This commentary is for the picture in >>21772241 and the commentary in that one is for the picture in >>21771820 .

So, have a picture of some suspicious-looking ellipses I found at JC Penney one time while you sort that all out.

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>>21771956

Thanks for the ride, CA.

It's been fun these couple of years.

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>>21772328
Back on track? Good. Sorry about leading you astray, person-who-probably-isn't-still-reading.

Here's the final page of my Zerg Quest notes. Pretty simple. A little bit of dice flubbing did occur for the sake of dramatic flair, at the end, but I think you'll forgive me.

And by "I think you'll forgive me," I of course mean that the Quest is over, so it doesn't matter if you forgive me or not.

Suckers.

Anyway, did you ever notice that I never call the cerebrates he or she except out of character? Whenever I'm narrating, they're all "it."

Also, I only capitalized Cerebrate for ones actually created by the Overmind.

Also, the Overmind always refers to itself with a capital letter.

Also, I tried my damnedest to construct every sentence involving Labbrate in the format "Labbrate informs us".

What else? Uuuuh. Kingston was named after the brand of monitor I was using...the UED generals were all astronomers...the UED planets were mostly named after painters...

It's almost 3 am. I'm probably rambling.

Good night, guys. I hope you had as much fun as I did, and I can't believe Heart of the Swarm still isn't out yet. Fo srsly.

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>>21772468
Good night, Cerebrate Anon.
Thanks for 2 years of questing.

>>21772468
I've been popping in and out of these things occasionally since almost the beginning, and it's been damn entertaining each time (and spiralled more than once into a few hours of reading the archives to try to catch up). Keep on keeping on, you magnificent bastard, and thanks.

Its over? Helluva ride. Thanks a lot Cerebrate Anon.

I think I discovered the quest back around thread 10. It's come a long way.

>Zerg Quest CXIII

CXIII

Mother of god. Nice job CA, I thought Zeon quest was long...

>>21773185
>>21773171
These.
Epic stuff man. Thanks for doing /tg/ proud.

Maybe now the archive will bundle up the quest like CA talked about.

Gonna miss this quest. But we have been playing for two years? Damn.