You have piqued my interest. Please, continue.

You are an advanced model and as such you are well equipped for war. You have:

Great strength- You are easily as strong as 20 men.

Mianan Inducer- You can generate powerful bolts of electricity over short ranges.

Steamgun: You can fire large armour piercing bullets over medium ranges.

Engine: Your clockwork is kept wound by a small steam engine. It is designed to be efficient and conserve water but will run out over time. You currently have three days of fuel and three days of water left.

What do you do?

Walk about for a bit?

>>14017688
Poke one of the soldiers to see if they are dead or unconscious.

check out the black object.

FIND
THE
WATCH

>>14017688
Become a real boy.... 12 feet tall man.... thing.

CHECK TIME

>>14017688

Look yourself over to make sure whatever happened didn't damage you in sone way as well.

Assess the situation, check the casualties. And note the time.

>>14017954
Auto-watch in our body will take care of that.

So, yeah. A handful of dust will knock us out, OP. Better not be a lot of dust coming out from that large black object that fell from the sky.

Apologies for the slow reply. Firefox is being funny.

>>14017879
>>14017954
Picking up one of the soldiers, they seem to be dead. (Your clockwork brain is built for combat, so you are well equiped to tell when someone is dead). There seems to be a trickle of black liquid coming from their mouth.

>>14017895
It seems to be a large shell of some kind. There is some distortion in the air about it.

>>14017902
You are not aware of any watch.

>>14017929
>>14017954
You have an inbuilt time keeping system. It is 7:38:18 on the first day.

>>14017954
There are no enemies that you can see and there seems to be no-one to command you. Your fellow clockwork units are just standing still

>>14017939
You are undamaged.

>>14017924
As far as you are aware, you already exist.

Check the time.

Then point gun in direction of where the black object landed, and overwatch. Hold fire.

>>14018112

Can we identify the black liquid? If not, collect a sample somehow and store it so we can get it examined some other time.

>>14018112
Gather 2 lesser clockwork men, instruct them to approch the black object from 2 different angles and report their findings. Stand your ground and provide cover fire if needed.

>>14018142
It is 7:39.
You point your gunarm in the direction of the black object and wait.

>>14018151
Your eye has very low distinguishing ability. All you know is that it is a dark liquid.

Your only methods of storing liquids are the fuel tank or smeared on yourself, so you wipe one of the soldiers on your arm.

>>14018210
The lesser clockwork men have less intelligence than most particularly stupid animals. They are able to fight and follow, little more. Also, you are unable to talk.

>>14018328
Shove two of them towards it, then. They'll get the picture.

Poke black object with our gun. See if it does anything.

>>14018254
Throw a rock on the object.

Hmm. Even an experimental and unprecedentedly intelligent clockwork man isn't too bright. Obviously, we should pursue our previous mission. What was that? Were we fighting something? Our master may be dead, but we can still kill his enemies!

>>14018389
Is he dead? I saw his horse run away.

>>14018347
You push two Clockwork Men towards the object. They resist for a bit, but eventuall give in and start to walk towards it. They stop shortly before walking in it. Neither is attacked or notices anything to fight.

You spot an object moving in the sky. It seems to be heading towards you.

>>14018452
Shoot at it.

>>14018452
rape it, then eat it, then tell it the time

>>14018452
Note its speed, stand immobile.

>>14018361
>>14018359
You poke the object. It clunks.

You throw a rock at the object. It thunks.

The distortion in the air has cleared now.

>>14018389
Unfortunately, your masters did not deem it important to brief the equipment. From the little you were able to understand of the soldier's talk, you are heading to a tactically important point.

>>14018417
The master rode off along the road, seemingly wounded.

>>14018556
>it clunks
>it thunks
Clearly we are dealing with highly advanced technology
See if we can convince one of the clocmwork men to enter it.
A gentle push, and a nod should do it.

Try to track the Lord.
Keep an eye on the flying object.

>>14018556

Try to follow the Lord, getting the fellow Clockwork men to follow suit. Aid him in whatever manner he chooses.

>>14018461
You shoot. It is too far away.

>>14018513
You do not have a penis, or a mouth. Also, you cannot reach. The time is 7:43

>>14018521
It is moving rapidly. You then stand immobile and wait for it to pass. You see it is a scout gyro, then it moves beyond your ability to look up. After 8 minutes 16 seconds you see it move off the way it had come.

>>14018607
>>14018626
Seconded.

Bring the black objet to the lord as a present.

>>14018716
NO

find the boss

>>14018607
>>14018626
You manage to attract the Clockwork Men's "attention" and then continue down the road. After 39 minutes walk you see a small plume of smoke. After 57 minutes walk you see an immobile horse on the road. After 1 hour 23 minutes you come into a small village. The smoke is coming from a small factory. Villagers stare at you.

pick up villager, add to inventory

>>14018833

Go to the factory. Maybe someone there can help.

>>14018885
Show off your arms to dem maidens along the way.

Is the horse the same horse as the General?
Do we detect black stuff?

>>14018833
Some of the villagers run off. 10 minutes 5 seconds later a small group of villagers return supporting a man. You are able to recognise him as your Lord, but he is stumbling and barely able to walk. Upon seeing you, he screams and drops to the ground.

>>14018955

Stand motionless, await further directives. He'll get over his weird human thing soon enough.

Offer Our Lord a hand.

>>14018955
Tell him the time.

>>14018966
It is a white horse, which is the same as the Lord's. You cannot tell much more. There was a pool of black stuff around it's neck.

>>14018966
>>14018980
You offer yourself to your Lord. He manages to stand up, and punches you. He yells in pain. He shouts something, you are only able to understand YOU CAPTURE CONSIGLIO and DEAD. He breaks down coughing, then quickly walks away.

Are we capable of writing human language?
We seem to understand it and we have a three-fingered hand.

>>14019089

Welp.

Take our loyal clockwork minions and return to the battlefield, and continue on to whatever enemy encampment we might find.

>>14018867
You pick up a villager and put it on your head. It screams. The other villagers seem to be anxious.

>>14019166
Alright, put the villager down, and then proceed as we were before the crazy black object.

>>14019089
It's Consiglio time, put up sunglasses.
Then conclude he should be captured DEAD.

>>14019222
NONONO.
Why would we do that?
The instructions were very unclear. We should either clarify or bring him alive.
Live prisoners can be executed, but dead ones cannot be brought back.
Plus capture implies that he wants him alive.

>>14019222

This.

>>14019222
We probably don't have the room to maneuver in our orders in order to translate CAPTURE to BRING BACK DEAD...

>>14019136
You can write fractured Vinci, but as a war machine your vocabularly means talking about anything more than battle plans is difficult.

>>14019147
>>14019212
You put down the villager and move through the village. It seems to be very lightly industrialised. The houses are still made from wood and brick. You soon come to a large bridge accross a fast flowing river. Next to the bridge is a large and heavily fortified defense tower. The turret swivels to face you.

>>14019222
Lacking sunglasses, you put on your anti-glare lens.

DEAD is a fragment, not a full command. Therefore, we disregard it and focus on the known objective: capturing Consiglio and responding to attempts to prevent said with lethal force. We weren't given a bullet-gun and a taser for nothing.

Maybe we should stock up on fuel and water while at town, though.

>>14019331
I must inform you that the "taser" generates currents capable of melting steel.

>>14019393
Yeah, that's what I said. Taser.

Where is that guy anyway, stand immobile, maybe someone will tell us.

>>14019500
You stand immobile. Villagers start to crowd around you. There are large flashes emitted by handheld devices. Small children come up to touch you. Eventually, a group of five soldiers come out of the defence tower and approach you. From their uniforms them seem to be Venucian units (servants of the Consiglio).

>>14019617

Follow soldiers, pretend to be one of their Clockwork men. Then capture Consiglio.

>>14019617
Requesting more specific data on soldiers: equipment, dress, number, etc.

>>14019651
The soldiers lead you into the factory's storage area. It's large enough to accomodate all of the Clockwork Men. They seem hesistant. As they shut the door one of them burst out in laughter. 37 minutes 34 seconds later you hear a loud clanking and screeching outside. 5 minutes 21 seconds after that, the door opens again. Outside are two Clockwork Spiders, easily 8 foot tall and 8 foot wide each. With them is a unit of Venuci soldiers. One soldier with different armour seems to be leading them.

>It's large enough to accomodate all of the Clockwork Men. They seem hesistant.
The Clockworks seem hesitant or the soldiers?

>With them is a unit of Venuci soldiers.
Approximately how many soldiers is in a unit?

>One soldier with different armour seems to be leading them.
Can we identify this character as Consiglio? Can we hear and recognize any of their speech?

>>14019817
Go to the human in different armor. Ask him if he's Consgliscus or something.

>>14019883
>The Clockworks seem hesitant or the soldiers?
The soldiers leading you were hesitant. Clockwork men are never hesitant.

>Approximately how many soldiers is in a unit?
You count 20, plus the leader.

>Can we identify this character as Consiglio?
His hat identifies him as a high ranking officer, but you do not know what the Consiglio looks like.

>Can we hear and recognize any of their speech?
They are talking quietly to themselves in a dialect you are unfamiliar with. You can only pick up CLOCKWORK, TRAPPED, EASY.

>>14019895
You approach the Officer. He stumbles backwards and makes a signal. The men raise their guns but do not fire. A clockwork spider fires a steel cable at your legs, wrapping around them and causing you to trip.

What do you do?

>>14019949

Kill fucking everyone. Trap worked like a charm.

>>14020008

Oh goddammit updating like a split second before me. Nevermind. Shoot the spider with the armor-piercing bullet, indicate to all but one of the clockwork men to attack the spiders and the soldiers, prioritizing the spiders, and order the last to grab hold of Cosiglionietceterawhatever.

>>14019949
The soldiers are not our allies. We need to formulate a response to the inevitable attack.
Firstly, what do we have in our immediate surroundings?
How tall is the building? Are there any large objects hanging overhead? Are there any large objects within reach? Is there any cover? How many entrances are there to the building?

We can make use of the building to keep the men from getting a good shot at us or just any materials available to kill them outright. Collapse something ontop of them, swing at them with a large metal beam, etc.
Failing anything like that just shoot them. Try and gain at least some cover for our legs and vital mechanical parts. Try and corral our fellow clockwork men behind some cover if we have time. We want to try and curb losses.
Use the "TASER" on the clockwork spiders when given the chance. Melt their weapons/cannons.

>>14020008
Aw fuck. Guess my long post was useless.

Well... can we break or melt the cable?

>>14020008
FUCK THIS SHIT TASER ALL THE SOLDIER AND THE SPIDERS. LET'S SEE HOW THE FUCKERS LIKE BEING MADE OF ASH.

>>14020041
>Firstly, what do we have in our immediate surroundings?
The room itself contains larges crates of unknown contents, several open crates containing large shells, large sheets of thick steel and large metal tubes. However, with your currently trapped legs you can only reach the door control mechanism and a single crate of munitions.

>How tall is the building?
Roughly 20 feet tall.

>Are there any large objects hanging overhead?
There is a crane systems with several large hooks and magnetic grapples.

>Are there any large objects within reach?
One crate of munitions.

>Is there any cover?
Crates can provide some cover, but you are very large.

>How many entrances are there to the building?
The front entrance is the only one large enough to allow passage for men of your stature. There is a door you could just about fit though into the factory proper, and human sized door.

>>14020036
You shoot a spider in the tank. It starts jetting high pressure steam, and the machine guns seem to be incapacitated. The other spider turns its guns on your fellow Men, and traps one in a steel net. The soldiers open fire. Your Men knock many of the soldiers into the arm with powerful arm sweeps, but take minor damage.

What do?

>>14020054
You can melt the cable.

>>14020180
>>14020180
>>14020180
>>14020180
>>14020180
WHY HAVEN'T WE UNLEASHED THE LIGHTNING YET? THERE SHOULD BE LIGHTNING BY NOW!

>>14020289
>>14020180
You charge up you inducer and send a bolt of lightning into the nearest soldier. His head explodes, his uniform sets of fire and his watch stops. The Men also start to use their inducers. Lightning bolts aimed at the Spiders manage to burst or melt several important pipes. All of the men have minor damage, and one of them has lost function in its arms.

Pick up mutions crate. Throw it at the enemies then zap it with lightning.

Recall the men, grab the leader then >>14020473

>>14020473
What? And destroy the ammunition for our steamgun?
You are a fool!

>>14020537
Surely it's worse to be dead and well stocked than alive and gunless?

Well, as alive as we can be.

>>14020558
Rather than detonating the munitions which may shower us with shrapnel fragments as well, would it not be more prudent to simply use our steam gun to shoot the soldiers?
Sure, detonating the munitions crate is faster, but without knowing how powerful the explosives are, we can't calculate if it would catch us in the resulting explosion as well.

>>14020376
Put on anti-glare lens, look at the watchless soldier.
"Looks like you weren't on time"

>>14020607
You unload another few rounds into the spiders, until they stop moving. By now, the soldiers are either dead or fleeing. One of your Men crushed one of the few remaining under his foot and captures the Officer. The battle appears to be over for now.

>>14020704
Is there anything with which we can write with?
We need to know if this officer is the Consiglio or not (probably not).
Morbid though it may be, can we write "IDENTIFY YOURSELF" on a wall with the blood from one of the soldiers?
Barring that, let's crack open the munition crate and see what we got.
Oh, and remove the steel cable from our legs.

>>14020704
This is me. If you ever feel like starting a quest thread, don't do it when you're internet is acting up.

>>14020736
You melt the cable off your legs. You can write simple phrases using the blood from the soldiers, if you wish.

>>14020853
>You can write simple phrases using the blood from the soldiers, if you wish.
Write these two questions:
"IDENTIFY YOURSELF"
"WHERE IS THE CONSIGLIO"

>>14020853
>>14020704
These are both me.

You find a suitable corpse and tear it open. Using its blood you write INDENTIFY YOU on the walls. The officer says something, and you are able to understand VENUCI, LIEUTENANT and SERVICE OF CONSIGLIO.

Stand, and take inventory of the state of all weapon systems and your Remaining clockwork men. Tell the operational units to form up into a Phalanx and Inform any severely damaged ones to stand by and hold the Area. If needed restock you Arm gun with munitions from the nearby crates, and then inspect the spider tanks, If there are any visible upgrades take them and integrate the with your system.

Conduct full systems check and then move out, these soldiers seem to be against you, and the first order of business should be to cripple to enemies main defense. In this case, the defense tower.

Once completed we can forumlate addition plans

>>14020891
You write LOCATION CONSIGLIO. Again the man makes a string of sounds, from which you can pick up PALACE and VENUCI.

>>14020954
>Stand, and take inventory of the state of all weapon systems and your Remaining clockwork men.
You are standing. You are fully operational, with minor scratches on your framwork. The men have not fared so well. Of the four you started with, one has only partial movement of one arm, two have damage to core gear systems and one has damage to one leg. Thankfully, clockwork men are capable of some level of self repair. Given time and resources they could be fully functional again. All men are almost wound and charged down. They have less than an hour left. You can rewind them.

>If needed restock you Arm gun with munitions from the nearby crates,
You restock your gun.

>inspect the spider tanks
One of the tanks appears to been seriously melted. The other tank has several bullet holes.

>If there are any visible upgrades take them and integrate the with your system.
Given a few hours you could install the machine gun, and with a few more hours you could install the cable firing system.

>Tell the operational units to form up into a Phalanx and Inform any severely damaged ones to stand by and hold the Area.

While they do not understand Phalanx, they do understand Guard.

You become aware that combat is more draining that low level activity. You have 52 hours of fuel and water left.

>>14021245
Rewind the other Clockworks.
If this is a factory, then there should be tools to facilitate self-repair. Have the two with core damage begin self-repair while the other two stand guard.
We should probably begin integrating the machine gun; we'll need more firepower as more Venuci men are doubtless to arrive.

rolled 7 = 7

Noted.

Take the time to wind up your remaining men, let them guard the warehouse and the Officer.
Proceed towards the guard tower. Hopefully aside from destroying thier defenses we may be able to scavenge some extra Fuel.

Once that is taken care of Perhaps we should hold out in this Warehouse and add the spider tanks machine or cable gun to our frames, and if no other opportunities present themselves, march on this Palace.

>>14021316

Sure, lets integrate the gun first. Extra firepower can't hurt.

>>14021316
>>14021356
>>14021382
You wind up your men, which takes roughly an hour each. Using some spare part from the factory they are able to repair themselves to passable condition. Not quite factory standard, but combat capable.

You then set about welding the machine gun to your shoulder, as well as connecting ammo feeds. The process take 3 hours 47 minutes. By the time you've finished it all, it's starting to get dark.

You Clockwork men following, you head towards the Defence tower. As soon as you are within range, the turret swivels to face you. There is a thundering boom and the road next to you explodes.

What do you do?

>>14021547
zap the tower with taser
if not in range move towards it in a fire and cover type deal and zap when in range
climb tower and report on what you can see

>>14021663
Pretty much this.
Hopefully we can cause the next shell to be loaded into the turret cannon to cook off before it can fire.

>>14021663
You head toward the tower, ducking behind houses when possible. More than one house is badly damaged by the tower's shells, but you make it to the base of the tower unharmed. Your fellow men are not so lucky. One of the men takes a direct hit from a shell, tearing it in half.

At the base of the tower, you zap the building, but it is heavily armored and you cause barely any damage. You do manage to incapacitate a machine gun mounted on the side. The other Men continue to electrify the building to little effect.

You are not the best climber and the tower is very smooth. Using electromagnetism from your inducer and great strength you are able to make some headway. Eventually, you reach a small platform next to a viewing area at the top of the tower. Rather than armor, there are only large windows.

Your sight is not made for long distances. You can see large badly defined stretches of land, with a long black stripe running through it. In the sky there are a number of blobs moving around a large black rectangle.

>>14021855
is there any way to disable the turret from your current position?
if so do it
then climb down and head towards the long black strip (guessing road)

>>14021730
You move along the the roof onto the barrel of the gun. Blasting it with your Inducer, you hear an explosion from inside.

>>14021889
before leaving town search for fuel, water and restock

>>14021909
This, also check the clockwork man that was torn in half.Can he be repaired or his parts salvaged?

>>14021909
You climb down and find some fuel inside the factory. The workers just stand aside as you take it from them. It's enough to refill completely. You now have three days fuel left.

As you move back to the tower you hear a low rumbling sound and see the soldiers from inside leaving on horses. Your clockwork men are still vainly attacking the walls.

You start to head off along the long black strip. You fall in the river.

>>14022009
Ow.
Hey, is it possible that we could ya know, weld more clockwork men onto our bodies, make us taller, perhaps a hivemind?

>>14022009
If the horsemen pose you no threat, refill your water supply, seeing how you are in a river and all.
Tell your clockworkmen to stop attacking the tower.

>>14021946
Climbing out of the river (which refilled your water) you check on the clockwork man. He has been damaged beyond the automatons ability to fix him. A skilled engineer might be able to, but they are more likely to just build a new one.

>>14022009
>You start to head off along the long black strip. You fall in the river.
Oh come on! We didn't get the other Clockworks repaired, or the destroyed one salvaged!

>>14022098
The intricacies of clockwork and valve based brains are a bit beyond your skills. You might be able to graft their arms and legs onto your frame.

>>14022099
You have to pull the Men of the building manually, but you manage to stop them attacking.

I wonder, what was the purpose of creating a self-aware clockwork man? If it was to control other automatons then why can't we speak or otherwise interface with other units? Is it to better understand orders? Also, I hope you guys realize that five clockwork men against two clockwork spiders and a unit of musketeers is a pretty even match, so the fact that we slaughtered them is very impressive.

I suggest we avoid rivers for the time being, given that our internal steam engine could be put out. OP, what kind of range can we expect from the machine gun? It's a new weapon so obviously we wouldn't know statistics right off the bat, but are we capable of firing a few test shots to calibrate our aim? Oh, and rip the dead clockwork man apart and integrate his springs and energy cells into our own body and inducer.

>>14022145
Excellent. If possible, grab torn clockwork soliders poor remains and user our inducer to weld his parts to our frame, providing more armor

>>14022145
oh while were at it, Might as well rip their inducers off and attach them to our own. is it possible we can place an inducer in our eyes so we may have lightning vision?

>>14022170
>I wonder, what was the purpose of creating a self-aware clockwork man?
That is a question only your creator can answer.

>OP, what kind of range can we expect from the machine gun?
Preliminary testing indicates that it is rather inaccurate at all ranges, but can perform well at close to mid ranges. Do you want exact numbers?

>>14022170
>>14022171
Many important parts were damaged in the blast, but you are able to graft on some armor to provide better protection for your vital areas. You also manage to salvage some of his action springs, making you slightly stronger, and a small storage spring, which slightly increases the time you can go without fuel.

>>14022232
Theoretically you could. You'd be blind, but you could do it.

>>14022301
Hey, if we were to attack our clockwork men to scrap them and add to our arsenal, would they respond back by trying to melt us to death?

>>14022332
Yes. Yes they would.

The rumbling is very loud now.

>>14022325
Don't do it if it will leave us blind, we have poor eyesight as it is.
Do we know where the Venuci Palace is?
We still need to capture Consiglio.

>>14022379
What rumbling?

>>14022301
No need for further detail, vague approximations are sufficient.

So it seems to me that the most pressing matter at hand is to link up with friendly forces. Five clockwork men are going to do jack all in the scheme of things, especially since our task is to apparently assault the capital palace of our rival city-state.

>>14022392
See >>14022009
A low rumbling started shortly after you disabled the tower.

>>14022384
You do not. All you know is that Venuci is an enemy state.

>>14022398
Unfortunately, you are not aware of the nearest allied forces.

Speaking out of character, you all seem very dedicated to following the assumed orders of a man who attempted to punch a clockwork giant to death and was obviously terrified by your presence.

>>14022469

we are a simple clockwork man stop asking questions

carry on down the black stripe avoiding the river

>>14022469
well, he is our lord, and was leading our unit prior to the biological attack, or whatever it was.

And damn you for running this quest at 1 AM, op. I have a life tomorrow morning...

Gather the men together and take shelter in the tower, prepare to meet whatever is arriving head on

>>14022469
Well, the man WAS our master, wasn't he? I mean what else could we do if not follow his orders? We should at least try to find any friendly troops.
Is our brain capable of learning human language beyond those few words that we know?
Can we learn to speak? What parts would be needed to upgrade ourselves to allow speech?

>>14022533
>carry on down the black stripe avoiding the river
As advanced as the technology is, you are not that good at doublethink.

Every attempt you make to walk on the black stripe leads to you falling in the river.

>>14022537
You do raise a valid point. I could put this on hold until a more appropriate time.

Also, you gather the men, but are unable to fit into the tower. All doors are less than 6 feet tall.

>>14022539
You are very bad at learning, unfortunately. It would require the attention of a great inventor to grant you the ability to understand more than the most basic terms. Speaking could be done easily by an inventor, again, but you lack the understanding to construct a voicepiece.

>>14022586
If we can't fit into tower, we should either make the factory we visited earlier our stronghold or flee the village alltogether.
I'll let others decide.
Make "mental" note to find an inventor who could grant us speech and ability to learn.Once we can learn we will become Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger!

>>14022624
The rumbling stops.

>>14022637
Looks like I'm the only one left in this thread.
What did the rumbling sound like? Men marching, horses? Or more like machinery, threads?

Might want to archive this thread on suptg.

>>14022817
I believe you are. Thread archived here http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/14017473/

To your less than discerning listening apparatus the rumbling sounded like machinery.

I'll bump this up later, when more people might be interested.

Hey OP, not >>14022817 but am following, will definately join in this when it continues :D