>>24562412
>https://twitter.com/PredatorQuest1
Thanks for the twitter updates!


B. Take the high ground and observe from there but watch out for flying drones.

>>24562412
>B. Climb a nearby scaffolding to a catwalk overhang and take the high ground.

Unfortunately this is one time when we cannot stop and observe, we need to keep moving and let weyland-yutani occupy most of the hive while we go for the queen.

>>24562412
B Higher ground so we can get a better view.

>>24562412
It wouldn't be possible to mine the APCs while they're engaged in a firefight would it?

>>24562478
>B. Take the high ground and observe from there but watch out for flying drones.

You pull yourself up to the scaffolding and take a moment to assess the battle below.

The Weyland forces are stretched to the breaking point, but they seem to be holding for now. A massive torrent of various beast strains pour in from all directions.

You hear a sudden shriek, and suddenly find the beasts launch into a full retreat.

The tide of hard-meat suddenly recedes as individual drones pull back into the depth of the hive. The deafening chatter of autocannons slowly dwindle to silence. They are momentarily bewildered.

You put your vision mask into deep scanning mode and discover a vent above the tunnel extending deeper into the hive running above the Weyland forces.

Do you:

A. Take this time to shimmy your way into the air vent above you.
B. Stay where you are and continue to observe

>>24562612
this is strange behavior... can we insight check to see if we have any idea what's going on? surely our master would have taught us if they'd do something like this

(this is a sort of counts as b)

>>24562612
This is a trap. The xenos are going to launch an ambush somehow. The questions are: How, when, and where?

>>24562655
I'll second this if we can.

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>>24562683
>classic look up to the ceiling above from aliens


Fuck. I don't know what we should do.

>>24562612
>evil OP keeps tempting us with airvents

>>24562612
B. Stay and observe. Any wisdom from our mentor?

>>24562715
We could use the vents more safely with a liberal use of las mines to cover our asses.

>forgetin grave

>>24562655
>>B. Stay where you are and continue to observe

You maneuver along the catwalk and hold yourself close to where it meets the tunnel wall.

You quickly cycle through your vision modes, but could find no sign of anything amiss.

The two Weyland exosuits decide to slowly advance down the tunnel.

On a hunch, you perform a structural integrity scan on the tunnel walls. You find a massive thickness discrepancy in one of the sections of of the tunnel walls, just ahead of the exo-suits. The other side of the wall has been methodically hollowed out by heavy corrosion, and as the result, the walls have been made brittle.

A faint rumble on your mask's seismic sensors confirm your suspicion.

The black beasts plan to launch an ambush through the tunnel walls.

Do you:

A. Patch into the exo-suit comms systems and warn them.
B. Continue observing.

>>24562840
A) These guys might be handy and we can't really risk letting them lose. Stalemate is good, successful ambush is bad

>>24562840
A.

>>24562840
A. Warn them and then move through the vents covering our ass and intersections with las mines.

>>24562840
A We need them to survive long enough to hold back the tide of xenos for us.

>>24562840
A.

>>24562840

As much as I'd like them to win this fight, it'd be a huge tactical loss if they realized we could imitate there comms like that.

B

>>24562894

*their

Alright, can we at least try to pass it off as a random synthetic noticing that?

>>24562840
>>24562894
Well, if we could get a hold of one of their comms units, we might be able to trick them into thinking we just salvaged one of theirs. They'd switch encryption, sure, but we should still be able to intercept. Hopefully.

>>24562934
We could use the synthetic we killed's ID. Was it C1? C3? Something like that.

I just wanted to note that someone at the end of the last thread said we haven't fought any warriors, just drones and runners. That's not true, that bunch we plasma casted were warriors. I'm pretty sure we fought a few more too.

>>24562952
Except that one was supposed to be guarding the entrance - so having it suddenly go "HURR THE WALLS ARE HOLLOW" would be even more of a give away.... considering its supposed to be at the entrance

>>24562989
sure sure, i guess i was hoping they'd take that a breach in that guys encryption like >>24562934
suggested.

>>24562840
What if we used the plasma caster to shoot a hole in the thinned walls, thus taking the hard meat by surprise?

>>24562989

Were we broadcasting to every synthetic, or just the two at the front?

>>24563053
wouldn't really do anything the exosuits aren't already capable of and would give away our position

Why not just use the synthetic voice, patch in real quick and tell them that it's fragile before patching out again. They'd be curious as to where it came from, but the whole Hard Meat ambush should hopefully prevent them from looking into it too far.

>>24563071
True, I was just wondering if there was a way to alert the humans without showing that we can hack their comms.

>>24563078
Yeah, lets just tell them about the ambush and get the fuck out. We can break any puny soft meat encryption they throw at us.

>>24562871
>>A. Patch into the exo-suit comms systems and warn them.

You tune your mask's interception system to one of the exo-suits and spoof yourself on Weyland comms.

"X1, X2. HALT. REVERSE. Watch the walls."

The two exo-suits come to a hard stop and begin to step back.

The walls before them suddenly explode inwards and two massive bestial figures pile into the tunnel.

They are tall - even taller than the exo-suits, and they wear the signature fan-shaped crown of the praetorian strain. But these have a distinct blue tint about them, and a tail far longer than the praetorians you've studied back home. You study them for a brief moment with a trained hunters eye. Their muscle density and strength is incredible. You realize these strains seem to be derived from the local Na'vi.

The exo-suits open fire.

A barrage of rockets smash into one of the praetorian's head and breaks its crown into fragments. But the other leaps to the side with incredible agility and dodges the rocket barrage at near point blank.

The tunnel once again explodes with the cacophony of battle with the sound of auto cannons and rockets. From behind the broken walls, you detect a massive swarm approaching.

Do you:

A. Attempt to fire at the praetorians with your plasma-caster (DC: Medium)
B. Attempt to take down one of the praetorians with your disc. (DC: Medium-hard)
C. Provide covering fire with your plasma caster at the smaller hard-meat to help thin the swarm (DC: Easy-medium)
D. Make for the air-vent and proceed inward.
E. Continue observing and do nothing, for now.

>>24563071
>>24563084
We already blacked out their coms, which means either we are free to patch it in from the 'outside', or just source it it from the unit we eliminated and explain we are relaying it from the outside due to interference.
In either case it's not going to matter in the slightest because none of them are getting out of here alive.

>>24563100
D

>continued xhbcond

captcha knows what's up

Rolled 5

>>24563100
A. There are going to be more of those, and I rather like our exo-suit friends.

Rolled 8

>>24563100
A.

Rolled 4

>>24563100
A

Rolled 19

>>24563100
>B.
It is very likely the disc wouldn't be noticed at all with the fierce battle going on, and we need the Weyland forces to make it to the queen,, or at least close to the queen.

>>24563100
I'm in the mood for E.
Lets see how this plays out.

>>24563169
...On second thought, B sounds like a fine option.

>>24563143
>>24563157
>>24563164
Oh balls

>>24563100
b

Rolled 18

>>24563157
here, anychance i can change my vote to>>24563169 ?

>>24563100
B!

Fortunately, it looks synthetics aren't very independent. As long as we relay as a trusted source, they'll probably obey our commands without question.

>>24563100
>They are tall - even taller than the exo-suits

Holy fuck, this is bad. A standard Praetorian is about 10 feet tall. These ones seem to be about as big as a standard Queen. Which means there's a very good chance that this queen is massive.

>>24563169
>>24563194
>>24563100
B is rolling rather well... I guess we'll take it.

I didnt even notice disc was an option when I went with >>24563143

Rolled 17

>>24563205
damnit.

>>24563143
>>24563157
>>24563164

Unfortunately, A wins, and we fail against a DC of 2.

Write up incoming.

Rolled 9

>>24563220
>every B roll is above a 16

CURSE YOU CRUEL FATES!

>>24563220
>DC of 2.
and I got an 8, I'm sorry but wat?

>>24563216

I think 3 rolls for A and 2 rolls for B.

>>24563220
T_T all that wasted luck on b

>>24563236
He meant the dc was 10 and we failed by 2

>>24563220
>and we fail against a DC of 2.
You mean we fail the DC by 2. Because 4, 5, and 8 are all greater then DC 2.

>>24563236
He probably meant 12 just forgot the 1.

>>24563236
Sorry, DC of 10. Typo.

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>>24563220

>We fail against a DC of 2

>>24563238
erm no, there is
>>24563169
then me changing mine from A to B
>>24563194
and then this brilliant gentleman who forgot to roll
>>24563205
>>24563218

A gets 3, B gets 3, b has higher rolls, B wins.

>>24563238

A
>>24563143
>>24563157
>>24563164

b
>>24563169
>>24563177
>>24563188
>>24563205
>>24563216

3 to 5.

>>24563215
So basically we are on a suicide mission and we just don't know it yet?

>>24563238
1 of those A's changed to a B, so that would be 2 A's, 3 B's

Rolled 5

>>24563220
>>24563260

Probably for the best to keep us honest. We really started to pile on B after the 18 was rolled

>>24563260
>>24563259

He's always done the first to three rolls. If you're gonna petition for a change in the rules, I'd do it when it doesn't strictly benefit us.

>>24563272
>>24563275
agreed.

>>24563275
but its never been explained if there are two competing sets of rolls, what makes one the victor?

>>24563272
Just saying that when a choice has been contested we've been given time, and that while yes we did dogpile on b once that 18 was rolled op was pretty quick to call the rolls.

Ultimately it's up to OP.

>>24563293
A crit fail or crit success, otherwise it's generally the one with more support (though seeing rolls does make us dishonest a bit)

>>24563293

There's no possibility of a tie with that system; one option has to get to three rolls before another.

>>24563261
Technically this isn't our mission.
I'm pretty sure we were just supposed to figure out what Weyland-Yutani is up to?

>>24563220

You decloak and lock on to one of the praetorians. Your caster hums as it charges and releases a massive plasma shot at the beast.

The Praetorian leaps into the air with unbelievable agility and narrowly dodges it.

It rears back its head and thrusts it forward, hurtling a massive spittle of acid straight at you.

You leap to the side and dodge the shot. The acid spittle splashes against the catwalk and begins to eat through the scaffolding at a rapid pace.

You find the ground giving in. The catwalk is about to collapse!

Do you:

A. Leap towards one of the walls and grab one of the vertical pipes. (DC: Medium)
B. Leap down to one of the APCs before the catwalk collapses. (DC: Medium-easy)

>>24563302

And that's a problem with our current system; we can't deliberate over DC rolls, because we'll be biased by the earlier rolls (vote with high rolls, against low rolls)

Rolled 10

>>24563344
A)

>>24563330
>>24563261

If we go for glory it's suicide. If we're ded' kunnin' we'll live.

>>24563275
This is correct. Generally, we take the first 3 rolls of an option and find the highest of the 3.

Rolled 5

>>24563344
A

>>24563359
That's a good point. I'm up for suggestions on a better systems.

Rolled 6

>>24563344
A

Rolled 18

>>24563344
A

>>24563344

A

Rolled 9

>>24563344
A.Hopefully my luck holds and I'm not too slow

>>24563384
I can't think of a way to make it 'better'... at least with this method combat isn't bogged down by people competing on things

Argue after the quest

>>24563384

a. Declare the victor, have us roll afterwards. This would take longer.

b. Declare the victor, rolling with that post. Quicker, but doesn't let us roll (I wouldn't mind, but I know people like being subjected to the dice gods).

>>24563409
>>24563464
A good call. Maybe set a time limit after the choice is issued and tally those results? It should be something short to prevent piling on the high roll...3-4 minutes maybe?

>>24563390
>>A. Leap towards one of the walls and grab one of the vertical pipes. (Pass)

You make for a running start as the catwalk gives way beneath your feet, and leap into the air. Your hands snatch the pipe and grip on.

You turn to see the massive praetorian raging towards you. The exo-suit turns, and fires a volley of rockets into its back. The beast shrieks in pain and turn again to engage the exo-suit.

You grip the pipe with one arm and twist your torso.

Both exo-suits are heavily damaged, but they somehow managed the take down one of the Praetorians. The remainder of the Weyland forces are also accounting well for themselves, as drone corpses begin to litter the field.

You hear a loud buzzing from up on high, and suddenly notice several dozen flying strains crawling out from the vent above.

Most begin to dive for the Weyland forces, but four of them turn in your direction.

A. Bring your plasma caster to bear and shoot them down! (D20 divided by 4 rounded down is how many we take down.)
B. Quickly slide down the pipe to reach solid ground.

>>24563509
Most votes after x minutes then best of 3 rolls?

>>24563509

I like a time limit combined with one of my >>24563483 suggestions.

But yeah, we'll roll with this for now, talk about it after this quest.

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Rolled 7

>>24563521
A) Fuck drones. Fuck Praetorians. Fuck xenomorphs.

Rolled 11

>>24563521
A

>>24563527
Fine with me. I'll declare when voting has closed after 3-4 minutes.

>>24563521

B

Rolled 20

>>24563521
A!

>>24563573
haha. okay.

Write up incoming.

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>>24563573

>4 turn in our direction
>D20 divided by 4 round down is how many we take down

>>24563573

So we kill.... five out of the four?

>>24563573
Pop pop pop watching motherfuckers drop.

>>24563607
We're so good we got the one we didn't see.

>>24563607
well we did have a praetorian stomping towards us too, lets just assume he got a face full of FUCK OFF.

>>24563573
>>A. Bring your plasma caster to bear and shoot them down! (Critical Success!)

You fire a charged shot from your plasma caster at the incoming forms. The powerful shot hits one of the beasts head on and instantly vaporises its head. The shot continues to travel through and smashes into the chest of the beast behind it.

The shot explodes in a brilliant plasma fireball and engulfs the remaining two flyers in searing heat.

All four forms drop to the ground, dead.

You detect a second series of rumbles through the collapsed walls. More praetorians are on their way.
Do you:

A. Slide down the pipe to reach the ground.
B. Climb along the side of the tunnel wall past the Weyland forces.

>>24563613
No it just means you killed them with style

>>24563711
B

>>24563711
Lets get going while the goings good.

B

>>24563711
That reminds me, have we heard anything over the WY about us dicking around in here?

>>24563711
B.

Ground = Praetorians.

>>24563711
>B
Let's push on.

>>24563753
They have some knowledge that an intruder is here, but not exactly what or why it's here.

>>24563737

Fair enough.

>>24563711

I don't think we're getting to the queen without WY's help.

A

How are we on suit power?

>>24563815
We were at about 75% at tunnel entrance... if we've dipped below 50% now it wouldnt surprise me. We have a battery that can give us back 33% (or probably make a nice explosive if we rig it and then hit it with a caster shot - this might be of use on queen).

And as these fuckers spit acid, plasma caster is definitely an option vs queen.

>>24563711
I'm kind of in the mood for A, since it's not like after we kill the Queen, all the hard meat is just going to fall into a coma or whatever.

>>24563815
Relatively well. About 70%.

>>24563745
>>B. Climb along the side of the tunnel wall past the Weyland forces.

You use your climbing gloves to grip the bullet-ridden wall and begin to climb.

The firefight is still raging hard below you. You come to the collapsed section of the tunnel walls.

Do you:

A. Attempt to leap past the gap and grip the wall on the other end (DC: Medium-hard)
B. Drop down to the ground and sprint forward.
C. Drop down to the ground and enter the gaping hole to the infested tunnels beyond.

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>>24563928

A

Rolled 3

>>24563958

Wrong field.

Rolled 3

>>24563928
A, but is there any chance we could like, throw our combi stick, shoot a spear, or use our blades to help give us hand holds?

Rolled 17

>>24563928
A

Rolled 9

>>24563928
A

>>24563928
C) It's where the queen will likely be. Deploy whatever mines we have remaining to thin out whatever may end up coming towards the exosuits, giving them a bit more life against praetorians is nice.

>>24563976
we've got climbing gauntlets

>>24563928
How far of a drop is it if we miss?

>>24563985

Well we can't exactly run past the swarm cloaked.

>>24563999
>>24563979 is probably a success

>>24563979
Voting has closed. A wins with max roll of 17.

>>24564015
Do you not trust in our ability to fuck everything up with a plasma caster? Seriously - when given caster challenges we've gotten 19/20 drones one time and 5/4 the other time

>>24564048
If we ran out of power before the queen we will probably get fucked sideways.

>>24564048
While those are great odds, it sucks at close range (it's amazing we got 5/4!) and we'll need a suit energy for the queen, not the horde.

>>24564048
we have also failed spectacularly with it before, it eats up energy, and it doesn't do well in close range

>>24564078
We're at 70% suit which is 42/60, and we've got a battery on us that restores 20.

>>24564094
>it eats up energy,
suprisingly no more than a standard caster, but it eats energy regardless, its the most energy hungry thing we have

>>24564048
We're really not kitted out to wade into the hard meat tide. We had the option of heavy powered armor, a close combat mask, and heavy blades.

But we're Opredator. We gather intelligence.

>>24563979
>>A. Attempt to leap past the gap and grip the wall on the other end (Pass, vs. DC of 14)

You launch yourself across the gap and find purchase with your climbing gloves on the opposite surface.

You climb for some time, leaving the battle behind you, and drop to the ground.

You scan the surroundings.

Judging from the E/M emissions, the queen's next to should be to your left, somewhere behind the wall.

There are three means of reaching it.

You can:

A. Enter the series of maintenance shafts which extend above the main tunnel.
B. Continue down the tunnel and go down one of the service tram tracks.
C. Backtrack to the Weyland forces and enter the collapsed section of the wall.

>>24564149
>Opredator.
oh god, my terrible nickname caught on

>>24564154
B

>>24564154
B) We want this thing dead before wey-yu get here.

>>24564154
B sounds good?

>>24564154
>Entering maintenance shafts in a xenomorph hive. Ever.

B. Definitely B.

>>24564154

A, hopefully the queen called back most of the potentially wandering drones to the battle.

>>24564154
B sounds the safest I guess.

>>24564171

That may be a tad optimistic, to say the least.

>>24564180
knows whats up.
B.

Maybe we can find a tram we could rig up for a quick escape or something.

>>24564198
Maybe, but trolling Wey-Yu is like the most honorable activity in the galaxy, so we must do it.

>>24564176
>B. Continue down the tunnel and go down one of the service tram tracks.

You proceed further down the tunnel and reach the tram tracks.

You step into the freight tram and try engaging the throttle. To your surprise, you notice the tram still works.

Then you notice the cargo large, heavy crates filled with tons and tons of ammunition. There doesn't seem to be any way to unload it.

Do you:

A. Abandon the tram and continue down the tracks on foot.
B. Ride the tram down the tracks.

>>24564242

I'm still unclear on this, how exactly does WY intend to use the Xenomorphs?

>>24564248
B
What could possibly happen

>>24564254
you make the mistake of thinking that WY has thought that far ahead

they have not

>>24564248
My god. We could rig the whole tram up to blow if we use our battery as a bomb.

>>24564254
Step 1. Acquire xenomorphs
Step 2. ?????
Step 3. Profit?

>>24564248

A

>>24564248
B We'll probably attract some company though but if we ride it all the way we'll have a nice way to escape or something to blow up.

>>24564270

Xenomorphs are to WY as tuuuuubes are to space pirates.

>>24564248
A. The tram will make too much noise, but the tram bomb>>24564260
should be noted. Can we rig it remote mines?

>>24564248
>>24564260
OR! We could put a prox mine on it. Proximity mode so it explodes when it either stops or something fucks with it, or remote mode for a remote 'car bomb'.
Personally I'd go with the second, and ride it down to see where the rails go.

>>24564260
Or we could just use some mines and not waste our battery.

>>24564248
>tons and tons of ammunition
On the one hand, should the puny humans make it this far, they might be able to reload and continue to make our eventual escape easier.

On the other, could we set off that ammunition and make big boom?

>>24564248
B.

Ammo detonations can be fun *and* useful

>>24564254
Dogs chasing cars my friend, they wouldn't ever know what to do if they caught the damn things, but damn do they ever want it.

>>24564292
>>24564296
>>24564297
>>24564298
>>24564300
/tg/ i am proud.

Can we quickly rig the tram for remote operation?

>>24564296
Ride it half-way to 3/4 way down the rails and either rig it for detonation via remote command or proximity trip (set to not blow us up), provoke queen into chasing us, run for our fucking lives and if all else fails, blow the whole thing with a caster shot.

Dad would be proud

>>24564329
>>24564313
>>24564300
>>24564298
>>24564297
>>24564296
>>24564292
Which I take we vote B., and prox mine with remote det.

>>24564367
>>B. Ride the tram down the tracks.

You step into the tram and engage the throttle.

The massive machine begins to move forward slowly at first, but gradually begins to speed up.

You take a look at your cargo and count your mines. You have five left.

Do you:

A. Mine the cargo in remote detonation mode.
B. Mine the cargo in proximity mode.
C. Do nothing for now.

Also, if A and B, say how many mines we'd like to deploy.

>>24564292
A. While there are merits to attention being focused on the WY suckers, this hive is pretty fucking old, and even though their numbers have been thinned signficantly, they will always outnumber us.

We really should rig the tram with mines...and if we could remotely operate the tram, that'd be aces.

>>24564407
How many mines do we got? Also A because if some xeno decides to jump on while we are riding we are dead.

>>24564407
A. 2 mines placed to cause the biggest explosion.

>>24564407

A

>>24564407
>A. Mine the cargo in remote detonation mode.

2 Mines.

Should be sufficient to cook off the ammo. Need to save some in case we have to cover our retreat.

>>24564407
Can we set it up so that proximity activates when we command? Because i don't really like the idea of that blowing up behind us.

and I think >>24564329 is best plan. Stopping before queen chamber, provoking her into chasing us and then blowing the thing as we nope the fuck out of there.

And 3 mines if possible, still gives us a few to cover our retreat with

>>24564428
A, 2 mines seems to be the popular choice.

Write up incoming.

>>24564451
Yeah, lets stop before the queens chamber. Is there anyway Three-Claw can rig a proximity alarm to let us know when something gets close to the tram?

>>24564457
You place two mines to be detonated remotely on the cargo behind you.

You notice a station coming up ahead. You decrease the throttle and slow the tram down.

From the E/M signatures, it looks like the queen is situated in a massive round silo further ahead. Your vision mask scan shows another tram station further up, leading right to the silo.

Do you;

A. Park the tram here and continue on foot.
B. Continue ahead to the final station.

>>24564485
Can't think of any aside from a proxy mine.

>>24564492
Are we close enough to get a size estimate of the queen yet?

>>24564492

A. Gotta be careful now.

>>24564492
B) we leave our trap at the tram station then now it's just a matter of running up to the queen and shouting "COME HERE YOU FUCKING CUNT" and then bravely running back to our prepared killing ground.

>>24564492

How far is further away? Hundred or so meters, a mile?

>>24564500
Can we get confirmation on rough distance that the tram station is to the queen? are we looking at another moderate run in order to get her to the station or is the station basically 10feet away from the queen?

>>24564492
Do we have to park at stations?

>>24564519
>>24564515
If it's a few hundred meters from queen to where we are now, I'm content with leaving our bomb here. If we're leaving our bomb well out of range of the queen I want to move our bomb to the tram station, because I dont want to try to outrun a queen for more than a few hundred meters.

>>24564529

Ah.. so.. I think A is winning, right?

>>24564529
Not necessarily.

We can park anywhere.

>>24564580
Need more info distance wise please.

>>24564580
I think people are waiting to cast their votes after they get some intel.

>>24564580
Kinda curious how far "farther" is. 50 meters? 100? a kilometer?

>>24564587
I cast my vote for A, but i'd really prefer for our tram to get to like, i dunno, 200 meters of the silo chamber.

>>24564594
Each station is about 250 meters apart.

From here to the silo is about 300 odd meters.

>>24564608
>>24564607
I change my vote to B then.

>>24564587

In that case, get ~500 meters from the silo entrance.

>>24564580
We're mostly waiting on some confirmation of distance between where we are, where station is and where queen is.

We don't want to leave our bomb 2km away from the queen, but we dont want to drive it right up to her either. I think at most we want to leave it a few hundred meters away, because well, queens are fairly smart but if we piss her off and provoke her into chasing us we can probably beat her in a footrace.

>>24564594
B then. I don't trust us to outrun a Queen for 300 meters.

>>24564621
Man, i don't really trust us to outrun her for 30 meters.

>>24564608
B but I say we stop at somewhere around 150-200 meters away.

>>24564608

So we're 300 meters from the silo at A?

A then

>>24564614
>>24564621
B it is.

Write up incoming.

>>24564608
And how far from silo is final station?

>>24564640
Station is 250 from us. Silo with Queen is 300. So that puts the Station at 50 meters from the bitch.

>>24564653
See>>24564587

>>24564632
>>B. Continue ahead to the final station.

You drive the tram past the station and onward to the next one. Along the way, you continuously scan the surrounding area.

The tram tracks end after the silo station. At the end of the tracks is a thin wall, beyond which is the top of the silo. You're not able to determine what kind of silo it is, but it is quite massive.

Suddenly, you hear a screech before you and you spot a 10 foot tall praetorian in the distance sprinting towards you at full speed down the tunnel.

Do you:

A. Disengage the safety brakes and throttle up to max speed to ram it head on. (You may not be able to slow the tram down fast enough before the track ends)
B. Open fire on it with your plasma caster (DC: Medium)
C. Aim your disc at its neck and throw it. (DC: Hard)

>>24564688
caster makes too much noise and I dont want to risk an accidental cookoff. so C

Rolled 5

>>24564698
rollin for c

>>24564688
Can we do A then jump off? We could have a bunch of them crowd around it then boom.

Rolled 20

>>24564688
Oh god the choices.

Oh god.

Uhhhhh......... C! FUCK IT, ITS HONOR TIME.

Rolled 9

>>24564617
Queens are very smart to such a degree that it is actually possible to communicate/reason with them. Which makes them a quite the threat, as only I think what one or two strains are capable of decent level intelligence besides a queen.

>>24564688
C can't risk cookoff or using to much energy.

>>24564718
>Uhhhhh......... C! FUCK IT, ITS HONOR TIM

HONOR TIME

C wins.

>>24564688

(How do you keep getting doubles)

A, worst case we fire in the hole and hope for the best

Rolled 15

>>24564688
C

Is our ranged spear gun only useful on softer targets?

>>24564718
Yes.
Yes it is honor time.

Rolled 16

>>24564718
YESSSSSSSSSSSS

>john focktio

>>24564718
We Honor Time now bitches.

>>24564717
I really, really wouldn't recommend it. Praetorians are fucking *sturdy* bastards and doubt it would down it, especially na'vi praetorians, I imagine trying to ram one with our ammo dump would be like watching hancock stop a train.

>>24564720
Well aware that queens are very smart. Which is kind of why I wanted to place the bomb close, but not so close that she'll figure it out right away, and not so far that she'll obviously realize we're baiting her.

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>>24564718
Hell yeah.

>>24564723
Best part is all these feeds are recorded, also we totally need to take some sort of trophy from it cause goddamn.

>>24564718
well, there wont be anything left of the queen to take a trophy from, BUT HEY COOL PRAETORIAN SKULL YOU'VE GOT ON YOUR WALL

>>24564718
Two 20s and not a single 1 in sight. We're on a roll!

>>24564757
>>24564758
These praetorian heads are probably about as big as a normal queen head. We should take it and store it somewhere safe nearby that we can grab as we leave after we explode the queen.

Unless OP says we can store it in our Inventory where it has no weight.

>>24564729
It could be used on drones or runners, but it's not even worth bothering with on a queen or praetorian because A) they're fucking huge B) their crests are prettymuch a solid few inches of whatever the fuck xenos are made out of C) it wouldn't have any stopping power vs them

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>>24564757
oh god what are the other going to think when they see the part with the fis?

>>24564757
Man after we show them this we are going to be drowning in pussy. Actually on second thought we probably shouldn't show anybody.

>>24564759
Damn you anon you just totally jinxed us just watch.

>>24564753
Aye I will admit the queen worries me especially considering all these new pandoran strains.

>>24564775
Agreed I REALLY don't want to give up that awesome of trophy.

>>24564794
"You let it swallow you and then you killed it dead? Awesome"

>>24564718
>>C. Aim your disc at its neck and throw it. (Critical Success)

You grab your reflex disc and activate it with a sharp hum. You lock on to the neck region of the massive beast and throw it forward.

The heated disc sails through the air towards the praetorian. The beast suddenly flexes and leaps into the air, attempting the dodge. But you anticipate this and remotely lift the disc upwards.

The disc slices through the beast's neck and exits out the other end. The beast howls madly and stumbles. It looks up at you, dazed, as your tram smashes it in the face.

The beast screeches horrifically as its body is ground to bits beneath the tram's massive wheels. You recall the disc, which once more slices into its neck during its return trip, and the praetorian's massive crowned head separates from its body.

You bring the tram to a stop and look behind you at the sizzling mess.

You decide to take a trophy. The head is too large to fit on your belt. Do you:

A. Take a section of its elongated tail.
B. Take one of its secondary claws.
C. Rip out its secondary mouth.

>>24564775
Honor has no weight you fool! It is a burden every warrior must carry!

>>24564794
Well we did cut one from the inside out so that's kinda badass.

>>24564812
Secondary mouth.

>>24564812
>A. Take a section of its elongated tail.

Wrap that bitch around us. I wish we could keep the head but that thing is like 900lbs.

>>24564775
Would it be considered dishonorable to cut a smaller part of the praetorian off as like a spare in case we can't take the head with us, but destroy it if we are?

>>24564812
a

>>24564812
C

>>24564812
>C. Rip out its secondary mouth.

Hell yeah. We don't have one of those yet.

>>24564812
A

>>24564812
Fuck yeah secondary mouth.

Stylish.

>>24564812
C cause hell yeah.

>>24564729
http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/Queen_%28caste%29
http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/Praetorian

These are 'standard' versions. Navi versions are going to be *much* bigger.

>>24564825
Well if the head of this is to large for us to carry I wonder how large a queen's head is.

>>24564852
>yfw when our tram bomb is the only thing big enough to carry a queen skull back

>>24564828
Couldn't this nigga just carry a camera with him to document his kills like a normal person? An iPhone maybe? Do they not have Kodak on Predator-world?

>>24564863
He has one, but you know, pixels can be edited and all...

>>24564863
...

Our helment has been doing just that, this entire time.

>>24564852
If we do it right, the hive will get a lot dumber once their link with the queen is severed and we can just cheese the rest of wey-yu and take some time to recover the queen head... I fear it will be too large for our ship though

>>24564863
you take physical trophies of kills you're proud of or you feel worthy of taking from.

>>24564852
Huge+1.

The only way I see us nabbing the head is if we can hijack a vehicle large enough to carry it, which may be problematic since we're planning to blow the tram.

>>24564871
We'll tie the damn thing to the hood if we have to.

>>24564863
Our mask has everything we have done so far.

>>24564873
I mean, in all honesty, we probably won't be able to kill the queen. But that decision is coming soon.

>>24564883
It's also being uploaded to the ship right?

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>>24564816
>>24564809
true I forgot about that I was more thinking of all the failures beforehand, I guess by the end of this will end up pic related

>>24564845
You pry open its jaw and rip out the blue-tinted secondary mouth along with the jaw stem from within using both your hands. You look over your trophy. It is as large as a warrior drone's head in size.

You slide a length of trophy coil around its length and clip it to your back.

You move the tram a bit further to the next station.

Your mask's scan indicates the vast majority of the queen's forces are engaged in battle with Weyland forces, but there is likely to be a few praetorians on guardianship duty this close to the hive.

The silo is close now.

You have two options:

1. Enter through tram station and ride the cargo lift down to the silo ground.
2. Slide into one of the maintenance shafts hanging above the silo.
3. Jam the tram throttle to have it break down the thin wall in front of it and into the silo.

>>24564888
Even if our mask breaks as long as our ship makes it the records will still be there. I just really hope our mask never breaks as it provides solid evidence for everything we have done.

>>24564890
If the queen doesn't kill us the women back at our clan might.

>>24564893
..and by two options, I actually mean 3 options.

>>24564893
3 we need surprise.

Going through the lift would provide too much of a heads up and well you NEVER use shafts and other crevices when were talking aliens.

>>24564893
>It is as large as a warrior drone's head in size.
...Yeah I can't really see us taking down the queen, especially honorably.

>>24564904
oh please, we such a baddass that they would want to mate with us multiple times, ensuring our survival

>>24564893
At this point I think instead of luring queen back to trap, we might just want to send the bomb straight into her lair and clean up whatever isn't killed by the resulting cookoff.

Can we combine 3) with a plasma caster shot into the wall?

>>24564893
>2. Slide into one of the maintenance shafts hanging above the silo.

Queens and Praetorians can't fit in maintenance shafts. Using the lift or busting down the wall would both alert her to our presence.

>>24564910
...also I don't know why I suddenly switched to numbers.

Just roll with it I guess.

>>24564893

2/b

>>24564893
If we do go with 3, we need to use our vocabulator to yell "OH YEAH!" as we do it.

>>24564893
2 We can use their fuckhuge size to our advantage since they shouldn't be able to fit into the shaft.

>>24564904
hrm, with all the extra attention we may be getting more offers than just our sexy librarian, i wonder if the librarian would be accepting of other offers, if not, we get to watch a badass duel to the death over who wants the D more

>>24564926
Normally i'd agree with >>24564916


But if most of the hive is away....maybe we could risk it. 2


>inb4 flying queen

>>24564893
2

I wonder if we can get the navi/xeno queens penis ponytail as a trophy

>>24564926
That's a good point.

Maybe just this once vents can be our ally.

>>24564921
>>24564904
jesus now all I can think about is us messing it up so badly we have to cut our way out of a female

>>24564952
>inb4 the queen is so big it fills the silo

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>>24564952
>inb4 flying queen

Despair! The thought of a flying xeno queen has left me in despair!

Abandon planet. Abandon solar system. Abandon galaxy. Nuke it all.

>>24564977
>Linb4 the queen is the silo

>>24564977
>>24564988
>inb4 the queen has assimilated the navi goddess and is now the planet

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>>24564952
>Flying queen
If that happens we should just nuke the fucking planet.

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>>24565003
That reminds me.

We have seen no evidence of Fis xenos.

Could the fis be the heroes that Pandora needs?

>>24565010
they were most likely down in the cave thingy we did not enter

>>24564957
>>2. Slide into one of the maintenance shafts hanging above the silo.

You lift yourself up to one of the shaft entrances and craw inwards.

The shaft is barely wide enough to fit a human, you feel quite constricting as you crawl along it.

Signs of black ichor drip from the sides.

You hear a faint skittering behind you and suddenly feel something rub your leg.

You feel several small legs crawling tapping your leg.

It's impossible for you to turn and see what it is, but your vision mask's E/M sensors show it's most likely an infant beast - a facehugger.

It skitters along your legs and feet, but is unable to find your face.

Do you:

A. Attempt to give it a good kick.
B. Keep crawling forward.

>>24565022
A

>>24565022
KILL IT KILL IT KILL IT.

ABORT ABORT ABORT. WHO THE HELL FUCKING FORGETS THAT THE THRONE ROOM ALSO HOUSES TONS OF FUCKING EGGS AND HUGGERS.

SEND IN THE FUCKING BOMB

>>24565022
A.

Go away facehugger. We don't have time for your bullshit.

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>>24564961
If it has one and we have the right to take a trophy then I totally agree.

>>24565022
B we still got mask so we are safe, also if we harm it the queen may very well be alerted to risky.

>>24565022
A Crush that fucker before it makes some kind of noise and gives us away.

>>24565022

(Doubles again)

B

>>24565033
Well to be fair, they're usually chillin' in their eggs until something comes close enough to alert them.

>>24565022
Thank god for masks. Lets let it be and move on. I don't want to risk burning our selves in confined space.

B

>>24565040
>>24565047
Killing the face huggers tends to alert the queen. Especially considering how close we are.

>>24565055
3 Bs 3 As.

Tiebreaker anyone?

>>24565033
>WHO THE HELL FUCKING FORGETS THAT THE THRONE ROOM ALSO HOUSES TONS OF FUCKING EGGS AND HUGGERS.

Apparently we do.

>>24565022
B

>>24565053
If we're entering from the top of a silo, unless these eggs happen to be hanging from the walls...(god i hope not), we should be ok.

>>24565046

We just killed a massive fuck off zenomorph, I think the queen is more likely to notice that

>>24565067
Bah, she cares about here would be children, not here current ones.

>>24565061
B since killing it might set off a psychic alarm or something?

>>24565067
Queens are much MUCH more sensitive when it comes to facehugger/eggs then any of her other children.

>>24565064
>>B. Keep crawling forward.

You ignore it and continue forward.

You feel it crawling against your back and attempting to squeeze past your torso, without much success.

You ignore it the best you can.

You notice vent opening up ahead. You crawl over it to find yourself on top of some sort of control room which overlooks the silo.

The skittering behind you grows somewhat louder. You suspect more face huggers are coming, but they're far away still.

Do you:

A. Drop down to the control room and deal with the face huggers.
B. Continue crawling forward.

...

Don't we still have that Navi head?

>>24565067
Xenos are weird. They tend to give less than zero fucks about casualties unless its an Egg/Hugger/Chestburster or Queen. I'm not really sure WHY, considering two drones dying to protect an egg that will just end up being another drone is not a beneficial trade, but it is what it is.

>>24565111
B

>>24565111
B
They can't do jack shit as long as we got our mask. Plus what this anon said>>24565121 makes an excellent point.

>>24565121
it makes more sense than anything WY has ever done

which says alot about how both somehow still exist...

>>24565111
>A. Drop down to the control room and deal with the face huggers.

We'll have to deal with them eventually, and we may as well do it before they get clogged up behind us. Plus, the control room might give us a look at the queen. Any maybe we can punch her with a crane or something.

>>24565121
Hive defense response.

Workers are expected to die, eggs and larvae or queens are not.

>>24565150
>Punch her with a crane
you got my vote.
A

>>24565144
>They can't do jack shit as long as we got our mask.

Well, they can try to choke us and muck up our vision. More annoying than dangerous, unless it happens when we're trying to run or fight something else, in which case it could be deadly.

>>24565158
Looks like a tie.

2A 2Bs

need a breaker.