Jesus, this sounds terrible

>>20857817
Thanks for sharing.

>>20857799

THE ZERG HAVE INVADED YOUR VITAL REGIONS

I would like to point out some things in your post that are GLARINGLY WRONG
>Search for perfect life form
Uhmm..That would be the Hybrids of each generation of the Purity of Form and Essence races. This generation those are the Zerg and the Protoss.

>Cube
CUBE? THEY BORG NAO!?

>>20857817
I agree.

>>20857817
Meh, we have worse. But good news everyone! I remembered this week, and CA isn't late! Huzzah!

Anyway, back to the matter at hand, or claw, or tentacle, our boarding parties.

>>20857799

Make it so, CA.

Are we at least able to completely disable that craft? We can at least have that for salvage while we wreck the rest.

>>20857859
It's not SC2, and it's an one cubic mile crystal on a planet near the center of the galaxy. Not borg, but we did kill Skynet and steal its terminators.

>>20857874
We're still in battle, so I'd say salvage later. Also we need to keep firing their weapons. We might get lucky. Also the engines, and the KITCHENS! WE MUST STEAL THEIR FOOD FOR THE GLORY OF THE SWARM!

>>20857859
>Glaringly wrong

This'll be a post full of not having read the Quest, and thus having no idea what's happened, how things have changed, and what parts of canon did or did not happen, isn't it?

>Hybrids

Oh, hey! Right off the bat, you're using shit from SCII, which isn't canon in this Quest. Not only did I start the Quest before the first game in-universe, I started the Quest before the release of the second game IRL, so I have explicitly rejected all of that bullshit about the Xel'Naga having the most convoluted method of reproduction in the history of fiction.

So, yeah, if you had any idea what you were talking about, you wouldn't be making this objection.

>THEY BORG NAO!?

You didn't even read the OP, did you? It's a cubic crystal activated by a particular psionic signature that allowed them to resurrect.

I'm familiar with the Borg. When the fuck have they used crystals to resurrect? Are you so terrible at life that you don't realize cubes exist outside of one sci-fi franchise?

>>20857923
ANYWAY!

Let's try to find more vital systems.

>>20857923
You spread LIES CA! Geometric shapes exist only in Star Trek! There are no SPHERES of any kind outside of the Klingon Spheres of Prey!

>>20857961
Yes let's. So, try to use the engines and fire the weapons from that one worldship where we control the weapons array.

>>20857969
The Borg actually have spheres and diamonds, so we could just chuck out most simple polygons...

>>20857961
>>20857918
>>20857874
Goood, good. Roll yourselves 7d4.

Rolled 4, 3, 1, 1, 4, 4, 1 = 18

>>20858003
Three dimensional figures are over rated anyway.

Rolled 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 4, 2 = 18

>>20858003
Here's hoping it works this time.

Rolled 4, 4, 2, 2, 3, 2, 4 = 21

>>20858003

ROLLING

Rolled 3, 3, 4, 2, 4, 3, 4 = 23

>>20858003
Oh god

Rolled 1, 4, 2, 1, 4, 4, 3 = 19

>>20858003
Rolling

>>20858019
>>20858033
(Gosh, if having to ignore a couple of trolls means I get a full house of players, I'll take trolls every week)

Our boarding parties fight their ways through the ships' twisting corridors. After pitched fighting, the Zerg aboard the worldship on which we control the weapons systems discover and attack the engine room. The Xel'Naga are incapable of repelling our attack, but manage to sabotage the controls during their retreat. The only way to control the ship's navigation now is the bridge.

On the ship that we have control of the engines, our forces find and storm the bridge. The Xel'Naga commander is taken completely by surprise, and the bridge crew is dead before any sabotage or lockdown can be initiated; the ship's central controls are ours!

Another group discovers the bridge of its ship while the battle for its weapons control station continues from earlier. The news from the bridge is dire, as a Gaussling's incendiary attacks ignite something in the chaos of battle, and three-quarters of the room is caught in an explosion, which depressurizes what is left. As some of our troops drift away from the ship, they confirm to us that nothing left in the bridge appears usable. On that same ship, however, there is still good news. The Xel'Naga holding the weapons station have been killed, and our Brood has taken control.

Battles rage on the other ships, but no vital systems have been secured or destroyed, as of yet.

>>20858209

Immediately attempt to target the unboarded worldships with the weapons station and fire.

>>20858209

FIRE FREE MY MINIONS.

>>20858209
Have any of the other boarding parties fount the KITCHENS!? Keep searching until they do, then keep searching for weapons control, engendering, or the bridge.

>>20858264
You're a silly man.

>>20858258
>>20858242
That's a 2d100. Go get 'em, tiger.

Rolled 44, 1 = 45

>>20858317

MWAHAHAHA

>>20858209
Have the Worldships that we control weapons on attempt to target those Worldships that we do not have boarders on, and fire all weapons.

Concentrate all boarding parties on acquiring weapon and engine controls.

Rolled 10, 41 = 51

>>20858317
FIRE!

Rolled 45, 15 = 60

>>20858332
>>20858352

So much fail

>>20858342
Worldship uses 'Firing Main Cannon.' It's not very effective.

Rolled 20, 50 = 70

>>20858375

Then we shall use PSY-BEAM

>>20858332
>>20858352
(Oh, my. DM rolls...and you bitches got lucky)

We fire volleys from the worldships on which we control the weapons. The first ship's weapons simply miss entirely, its shot careening into space. We hope nothing gets in the way of that, somewhere down the line. The second ship's weapons fire exactly where we don't want: directly at the other ship we just fired from. Luckily for us, the blast rakes across the ship's bridge...which we had already accidentally destroyed! Pressurization in surrounding sections becomes a problem, and a few more of our units end up incinerated or drifting away from the craft through space, but overall, the effect is limited. That could have gone much worse.

(Roll 4d4 for me)

Rolled 2, 1, 4, 1 = 8

>>20858434

You got it, boss.

Rolled 4, 3, 4, 4 = 15

>>20858434
What four? Bad pun.

Rolled 1, 2, 3, 4 = 10

>>20858434

How to I dice roll?

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>>20858468

GJ

>>20858468
Oh? Do the /tg/ dice like bad puns?

>>20858466
>>20858468
As we are bungling the weapons firing, we manage near-simultaneous victories on the four ships where systems were still in dispute, bringing our holdings up to:

1 - Weapons
2 - Life Support
3 - Weapons
4 - Weapons
5 - Weapons
6 - Engines, Bridge
7 - Engines

Not too shabby, we think.

>>20858483
/tg/ is fond of bad puns, yes.

>>20858527
But no KITCHEN! This is a complete failure! How will we know of their food allergies? Are they lactose intolerant? Allergic to nuts? Come on we could weaponize that stuff! I blame the state of out juvenile zerglings on show like Larvae and Laurels, and Teen Queen. I don't know what has gotten into Artisanlord lately.

So, lets fire some lasers, any nukes we can, and maybe crash a worldship into the crystal.

>>20858527

Well we know where we went wrong right? Have those guns which are only facing the enemy open up on the xel'naga.

No sense attempting another repeat of that ship.

>>20858527
>Life Support
Time for SCIENCE!

>>20858527
Ships 1, 3, 4, 5 continue firing on non-controlled Worldships.

Ship 2, shut down Life Support except in Zerg-controlled areas. Vent the air if we can.

Ships 6 & 7, using the layout we've discovered about the Worldships, try to take control of Weapons.

Accountantbrate has released all mineral and vespene gas reserves for emergency wartime production, correct?

And finally, is Warbrate believe we can pulls more forces to this battle, using our remaining heighliners to drop forces off at the edge of the system where they will be safe from being shot at, and where reinforcements can then make the short hop in via conventional Warp travel?
Weaken our forces along the Protoss border if we have to.

>>20858527

Okay, take the functional worldships and mass fire at the GIANT CRYSTAL THAT'S LETTING THEM RESPAWN.

>>20858595
If I remember correctly, we didn't really commit ourselves to this battle. Mostly Love Muffins initially, took heavy losses trying to board more ships. Ask Warbrate how improved our chances of boarding more worldships is, now that we have a few to provide covering fire.

>>20858623
Nargil hisses into our mind that the crystal is exactly what we need to revive Father without provoking the Protoss. We can't pass up yet another opportunity to revive Him, it insists.

>>20858579
Xel'Naga computers aren't straightforward to begin with. The presence of multiple AIs in the computer system makes it even harder to control.

>>20858623
>>20858595
>>20858591
So, I'm seeing shutting down the life support, firing weapons, pressing the attack inside the other ships, and attacking the crystal. What parts of that are we all agreed on?

>>20858800
Shutting down the life support, firing weapons, pressing the attack inside the other ships, because I want to make Nargil happy. He's a very sad cerebrate.

>>20858800

I'm guessing simultaneous operations aren't possible?

If so I vote fire first. Then we can continue them assaults.

>>20858800

I'm retracting my attack the crystal plan - forget we were planning on resurrecting Dad.

Anyways, I think we should fire the weapons on the ships we control, aimed at the ships we haven't boarded yet.

Oh, and tell Gorn to sally out the Swarm; I want strategic control over the Crystal as soon as possible.

>>20858838

I'd rather we blew it up.

I don't wanna restore pops. SInce it'll set us on another war path with the protoss.

Tempted to 'create' an 'unfortunate accident'. Like a love muffin on its death plunge.

>>20858800
Shut down life support, fire weapons, press the attack inside the other ships.

>>20858891
>>20858857
>>20858838
>>20858824
>>20858818
Alright, lemme see how to do these here dice.

Let's make this 7d100!

Rolled 53, 19, 11, 41, 21, 75, 75 = 295

>>20858986

I CALL UPON THE SPIRITS OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM.

EAGLE!

BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN!

OCTOPUS!

HOUSE CAT!

GREATER WOMBAT!

Rolled 81, 55, 96, 6, 52, 61, 49 = 400

>>20858986
70 100 it is.

>>20859009
This is /tg/ so it should be an awakened house cat, or alternatively a rogue who got turned into a house cat and proceeded to continue adventuring with crossbow strapped to its back.

Rolled 35, 81, 58, 56, 16, 39, 37 = 322

>>20858986

>>20859033
Awakened butt plug, maybe.

>>20859009
>>20859011
2d5 again, if you please!

Rolled 3, 2 = 5

>>20859157
Rolling!

Rolled 1, 1 = 2

>>20859157

GOGO DICE o DOOOOM

Rolled 1, 4 = 5

>>20859157
No, there was a guy who asked for advice after his DM turned him into a house cat. /tg/ said play it, so he did and posted the results, it was quite entertaining. Check sup/tg/, it's there somewhere. And have a superfluous roll.

>>20859166
>>20859171
(Why, thank you)

On the...well, "on the ground," we have mixed results. Despite several minutes of arguing with the AI on the second ship, we still haven't managed to change the ship's air supply from nitrogen/oxygen to chlorine gas. We discover the life support center for the sixth ship, and slaughter the Makers manning it, but it seems they saw us approaching and have destroyed the controls; the system will be locked until (if) it can be repaired. However, after a bit of infiltration into the air vents on the seventh ship has us bursting into the bridge like demons, ravaging the ol' grandparents and taking control with hardly any casualties at all.

Outside, we manage to fire the weapons on three of the ships, two of which actually destroy enemy worldships. Our first enemy kills with a Xel'Naga weapon!

>>20859230
Yeah, but sup/tg/ also has the thread about the DC for climbing undetected into a humanoid's asshole during combat, so nothing's really out of the purview of this board.

>>20859367

And super gluing of his Emperor's guardsmen to penises.

>>20859344
Did we just oneshot them with their own guns?
These things are stupid powerful. Let's try to loot some, if we can't get an intact worldship.

>>20859367
It's a mixed bag, but house cat with an automatic crossbow turret on its back is still fun.
>>20859344
Push more weapons buttons! And bring up the layout of the ship, or ask one of those useless AIs how to get to the kitchen/cafeteria.

>>20859344

Excellent!

Call for reinforcements from our nearby fleets and keep up the rates!

CA, can we keep communications between ourself and select cerebrates private from the others?

I want to blow up that crystal.

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>>20859429

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>>20859461

Please state the nature of the medi- legal objection.

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>>20859461
Pic not relevant, but fun.

>>20859429
Just doing the boarding right now. We'll do more of the outside battle later.

And we can, but the nature of our minds means that the excluded party will be aware that it is being excluded.

>>20859385
...to...to the Emperor's penis? How...I'm not sure I really want to know how that came up.

>>20859553

Have you not seen this thread?

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/4956404/

>>20859589
Oh, sweet Christ, I was there for that thread. I had completely forgotten it happened.

>>20859344
So, I can has plans?

>>20859553
Back to the task at hand.
Continue firing those weapons on Xel'Naga controlled Worldships. Don't stop firing until we say so.

Have we been able to grab Weapons Control on Ship 6 yet?

>>20859710
Ships 1, 3, 4, 5 continue firing.
Ship 2, try to take Weapons Control.
Ship 6 and 7, try to take Weapons Control.

>>20859730
>>20859741
In that case, give me 7d100 again, soldier.

Rolled 23, 91, 39, 37, 81, 34, 85 = 390

>>20859887

KILL

Rolled 26, 33, 71, 39, 31, 13, 87 = 300

>>20859887

Rolling for BIG MONEY

Rolled 88, 99, 18, 41, 14, 44, 18 = 322

>>20859887

>>20859929
>>20859949
Another flash of weapons fire lashes out into the night, disabling a worldship.

Meanwhile, we've finally managed to worm our way past a troublesome AI on Ship 2 and released large amounts of phosphine into the air. If the Old Ones' physiology is anything like most air-breathing fauna we've encountered, this should lead to a substantial, permanent decrease in the opposition aboard this ship.

Thread archived for posterity, but we can keep going if there are still people about (if not, is next Monday alright for next thread? Thoughts? Questions? Complaints? Declarations of undying affection?)

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/20857799/

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>>20860137

KEEP FIGHTAN'

How is our fleet holding up?

>>20860137
Let's keep going.
And keep fighting.
Still have to take Weapons on Ships 2, 6, and 7.

>>20860137
Keep going.

Also, fine day.

>>20860222
Oh, right, that part. We captured the weapons on 7 that round. Sorry. I got all excited to pick a toxic gas for the air supply and forgot all about it.

>>20860254
Plans are still the same, then. Capture weapons on 2 and 6, all other ships fire on Xel'Naga ships.

>>20860284
>>20860223
>>20860222
That'll be 9d100

I did notice something in the last thread I thought was rather stupid.

The reason we moved the nukes off of nukeworld was to prevent them all going off at once.
The plan was to set them up on multiple planets that Toasty controlled so we'd have the advantage of nukeworld without the giant glaring weakspot.

Who ordered them back?

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Rolled 3, 82, 71, 2, 24, 15, 18, 53, 16 = 284

>>20860356

Rolled 63, 99, 17, 92, 41, 75, 91, 21, 81 = 580

>>20860356

>>20860366
I don't really recall who, but I believe it was because you guys were angry that distributing them throughout our empire required a lot of time and manpower. I try not to be judgmental, but that seemed pretty derpy, to me. I'm cool with whatever makes the apocalyptic war with extradimensional gods more dramatic, though.

>>20860369
>>20860386
The fourth ship's weapon emitters rake back and forth across the side of a nearby ship, stripping layers of the ship away before its engines begin exploding. Without engine control, we can't take evasive action, and the ship is hit with a not-inconsiderable amount of flaming debris.

On ship 2, the weapons control center is completely unprepared for our assault, even with our gausslisks prudently keeping their incendiary attacks out of play in the newly-flammable atmosphere. After a few moments wiping the pureed remains of our enemies from the displays, the weapons are under our command.

Ship 7, however, is not such an unqualified success. Several worldships turn toward it, and open fire; the Xel'Naga seem to have finally decided on how to deal with our attacks. We keep control of the ship's systems long enough to fire wildly and, eventually, to lay in a last-ditch collision course. In a dazzling explosion, two worldships crash into one another, taking about 50,000 Zerg with them into oblivion.

>>20860554

50 thousand for how many of them, hmm?

Worth it. Would pay that toll again.

>>20860604
Statistically, about .5% of the entire species...

>>20860689

Excellent progress.

SEND IN THE NEXT WAVE

>>20860554
Still keep on attempting to take Weapons Control of Ship 6. Once we do so, have it warp out to Yoshus, where we will take complete control of it and begin deciphering its secrets after we infest the Xel'Naga aboard.

As for all other ships, continue firing.
Boarders are to attempt to next take Navigation, so that we can ram them into other Worldships if it looks like they'll be destroyed.

Finally, will Warbrate be able to get another wave of boarders ready, using all Heighliners at our disposal to get our Swarm to a rally point slightly outside the system? We're doing pretty good all things considered, but we need more Zerg boarders.

>>20860713

Good plan. Heightliners as logistic funnels.

>>20860704
>>20860713
Urg, at least finish the first wave before you start in with this second wave business. Is the plan just to capture the weapons and shoot until the Xel'Naga blow up the ships?

>>20860803
Yes.
Except for Ship 6, which is the closest to being captured in such a state that we could bring it to one of our planets for full infestation.
All other ships to continue firing on Xel'Naga Worldships.

I wanted to have the Second Wave come in while the Xel'Naga were still busy dealing with the First, but okay.

>>20860803

YES

If they attempt to shoot them down, drive towards them.

(But just have our forces prepare and gather for the next wave. The whole point is not to give them a break to recover and regroup.)

>>20860830
Well, we'll have to find out next time how that works.

If I'm feeling really ambitious and this thread is still around when I'm at work tomorrow morning, I might see if anybody's around and continue.

Well, really ambitious, but not ambitious enough to actually get a jump start on my work. That's crazy talk.

>>20860879
Can we at least have the Second Wave begin gathering at the rally point, so they can Warp in second after the First Wave is finally wiped out? It's still 6 ships against 100, and it'll go down to 5 when Ship 6 is ready to be taken to one of our planets for infestation.

Gasp! The thread's still here!

>>20863573

CA's not getting out of tomorrow's session so easily.

>>20860803
Here's a good joke for you:
Q: What kind of useless cerebrate ignores the whole massively coordinated hive-mind thing and only does one thing at once?
A: The same one that thinks Zerg shouldn't have overwhelming numbers!
It's you, Cerebrate Anon. I don't think you're a cerebrate at all. I think you're trying to run this quest with one of those pathetic human brains.

Psychic defence/offense: Just in case the Xel'naga decide to try to overwhelm the psychic link between the broods, all the cerebrates should join or minds together in a way that ensures that, even if we are separated, we can still act in concert with one another: through galaxy-spanning kareoke!

I present our first song!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DJC-ECU8IE

alternatively, here's an old classic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKeGwOKr7K8

If we can, we should pump our songs of fury through the Xel'naga communications systems.

On a more serious note: do the Xel'naga world ships which we have captured give us any clues on where it would be safer to warp our troops when trying to board the enemy world ships (ie any nice empty spaces on the ships with easy access to the rest of the ship)?

Final requests: Make sure to bring lots of EMPs and lock-down grenades with us on the next wave. The EMPs can be used to knock down the Xel'naga shield and drain them of energy so that they can't pull dirty tricks like prevent us from warping in. Make the CUBE a prime EMP target. The use of lock down grenades should be obvious :) Strap the grenades and EMPs on zerglings and scourge if we have to.

Final request: start Recalling incapacitated Xel'naga for research and infestation. Sew-together/skin a few hundred of those psychic-null mantas and use their living tissue to form padded cells for our new inmates. The Xel'naga were the second alien species that Daddy ever infested, it should be EASY.

>>20864614

Nah, we should just play this on repeat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwiZJRMV4co

So, CA. Did you mean tomorrow?

>>20869804

He means today.

So bump for potential ZQ.