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>>27408005
>>27407617
Scouts who went down in the tunnels never came back up again. We don't even know what happened despite them being range for the Hivemind. Worse yet there is something going on with the tunnels.
hm two crit ones for a mobile factory...in a row. Wow.
Anyway our mobile factory we tried building got wrecked beyond repair...we don't even got in blueprints. Apparently we sort of need Markus or something not that it matter any mores considering even the plans are fucked. The bandits however got their mobile factory its just ours that got wrecked beyond repair...again. Apparently the bandits were smart enough to negotiate with Markus about a little something extra special for them.
Basic three the scouts we sent to the Giant Mega Battle didn't return...apparently it hasn't ended yet holy shit its been a entire month already and its STILL going on plenty strong. Worse yet the Mega Battle has now begun to spread out...even in our bases direction.
Borg STs weren't supposed to be built in the mobile factories not only didn't we lose the STs its also the reason why we lost our Mobile Factory...again.

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>>27408026
>>>>>>Food: good
>>>>>>Water: good
>>>>>>Morale: good
>>>>>>Armaments level: good
>>>>>>reputation level: NIGHTMARE INCARNATE
>>>>>>Infrastructure: Fast Breeder Reactor(online) Biofuel Emergency Generators. Biofuel purifier. Biofuel Production Facility+. Barracks. Private Quarters. Storage labs(glowing flowers, finger biter fish, experimental fluids). Medbay. Laboratory. Workshop. Armory. biology splicing chamber. biotech research labs. biostorage facility. Psionic research department. A.I. Core. chemical warehouse. Secure warehouse. Holding cells. Holding tanks. Offices. Data Storage. Super Computers. Bionics lab. Cloning facility(occupied). Nanite bed(busted). Broodnest. Lovenest+. Crystal Grove(under construction).
>>>>>>Defenses: Reinforced Buildings. Reinforced Gate. sand bags. Two bunkers. walled compound. sensor tower, Death Trap. Defense systems Online
>>>>>>vehicles:1 Digga Drilla. 10 bandit spider tanks(biofuel) 4 Paramilitary spider tank(runs on biofuel). 21 plasma thrower spider tank(biofuel). 6 laser battery spider tank(biofuel). 3 transports crawlers(biofuel). 9 siege mk1.2 tanks. 2 'metal rain' artillery. 5 swamp walkers. 1 booty tap trap layer. 7 Piercing Demon(BIG holes small target) 9 Plasma Baby(YOU SAID RADIATION IS BAD FOR YOU) 7 BOOM-town( you said WHAT) 9 Bloody Bandit(Extra bloody and BEATTA) 7 Paramilitary Supreme(I can't hear you over the sound of how AWESOME I am) 0 doom buggies. 1 bombardier (if you thought boomtown had boom you don’t know BOOM) 3 Forsaken Bandit (When solo go FORSAKEN)

>>>>>>Power: Fast breeder reactor( 5 years), emergency biofuel generators, 0 mini reactors(cannot construct Behemoth class vehicles)
>>>>>>materials: concrete, plastic, acid flesh and rock, Industrial chemicals, medical supplies. rusted metal.

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>>27408143
>>>>>>Weapons: Pistols, Assault Rifles, Grenades, rifles, Traitorous Battle Rifles limited, sniper rifles, smg, shotguns, flame thrower, mono knives, stun batons, spears, elemental spewers limited (flame acid, electric, plasma mk1). Elemental Variants/ammo. heavy weaponry basic. Psionic Railgun(crude). Hilly Billy weapons(limited).
>>>>>>armor: Environmental protection body armor. mk 2 power armor(limited 20 suits),125 Marauder plate. Chamleze body armor(100 suits). Hilly Billy Body Armor(limited).
>>>>>>Technology: Super Advanced biolabs, Complex A.I. flower research(complete), spider tank conversion, Hydra, Super Spider Tanks(Markus edition), serum mutant. Mutagen Serum. Psi crystals. SpiderBorgs. Psionic tech(extremely crude)
>>>>>>psionics: Hivemind, Mind blank, Nexus ME, Overmind, Hive to Hive, No Limits. Wrath. Psionic Stealth.
>>>>>>communications: hivemind, short range radio, Overmind
>>>>>>Mutations: Base, Hivemind. Toughness.


>Month 77
>>>>>A. Scavenge for food.
>>>>>B. Try to improve the base
>>>>>C. Try to improve weapons.
>>>>>D. Research technology.
>>>>>E. Pursue new mutations.
>>>>>F. Explore in a direction/something.
>>>>>G. Scavenge for raw materials.
>>>>>H. Your choice

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>>27408026
>Anyway our mobile factory we tried building got wrecked beyond repair...we don't even got in blueprints.
How does that even happen. How? The blueprints are memorized by all our people and stored electronically in you EDE?

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>>27408143
You forgot our new reputation.

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>>27408184
because crits, thats the worst thing abou this quest is that crits are overpowered for both sides

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>>27408201
Find correction

Reputation level Diabolic Infernal Vile Aberrations

>>27408184
2 1s in a row. Basically user the data got corrupted through an uplink through the factory that the ST borgs produced. Amazingly clever didn't expect that.

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>>27408218
I wouldn't say that's such a bad thing.
When the punches hit, they hit. HARD. For good or bad.

The good's I like, the bads, not so much.

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>>27408026
Ah forgot to mention our groups that got sent to the ghouls and bandits to apologize are convinced we did it just to brag and even show off. Further declining our rep.

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>>27408283
Like I have stated before I don't pull punches. In whatever I run you should expect and even count on it.

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>>27408301
>The Supermutants this time let your forces go but they made it abundantly clear that you are dead men for working with a Broodmother.
So what are they still on their way? Did alexis even ask what they were coming for?

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>>27408366
Alexis went to the hill billies. She wasn't dumb enough to go to the super mutants. Even while wasted.

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In any case was the last thread archived?
Plus what is consensus?

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>>27408177
>Basic 1
We find Marcus. Ask if there's anything we can trade him, food, fuel, parts, anything at all for the designs to a new mobile factory.
>Basic 2
Clora researches on those artificial wombs that simply gestate newborn Memor, not degrade their quality
>Basic 3
Send a scouting team to search for the big Brood King to tell him his daughter is at risk of being killed by his mortal foe. Enemy of my enemy and all.

Extra: Update on Richards secret research

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>>27408541
We...sorta already have the gestation sacs user. As in why since the very beginning. You just never asked about it.

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>>27408523
Yes, it is archived.
I think people were discouraged after the psionic nightmare we unleashed.

If anything, the thread will pickup tommorow.

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>>27408571
Then change that to
>Wil and Alexis track and hunt down that strange patrol and find out who they are

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>>27408571
Bah correction you got them when you first acquired Clora'Zel.

>>27408610
Ugh I doubt I can run it tomorrow. Sorta have to take a break and do other stuff.

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>>27408675
Hmm, pity.
Thread probably won't last then, but it might. Don't think there's going to be much activity though.

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>>27408610
This guy has it right.
>Basic 1,2,3
>Does it even matter?

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Anyway, for what it's worth

Basic 1:
Research Viroz immunity mutation
Basic 2:
Expand Lovenest
Basic 3:
Research Carl

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>>27409137
Rerolling and voting for self

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>>27409137
And again.

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>>27408610
It does get a little discouraging. Trying hard to grow, to move out of our little base, to expand. Getting sent back and back by malfortune and the lose of our heroes can be very disheartening.

But when we do succeed our achievements are all the more savory that way. We have 4000 new members, and that's a blessing to count even amidt the crises.

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>>27409522
Thirding.

bump
Maybe we could have a discussion tommorow.

Seriously though, I'm so disheartened. I told you guys not to do the field, just to quietly grow crystals in a lead-lined chamber, I told you to check out the tunnels but no

> :/

>Am so disappoint, fellow hiveminders.

>Obligatory vote in case I roll 100 >>27409137

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>>27410852
Oops.

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>>27409588

I feel more like it makes our achievements a suspense builder while we wait for them to be taken away by a 1.

>>27410852
It passed so quickly I hardly noticed.
Too bad, I should've objected.
On a good note, we have some kind of weapon we can sneak into an enemy base and unleash monsters on them.

>>27410895
If at first you don't suceed, try try and try not to get killed by monsters.

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>>27411009
The Memor certainly are stubborn fucks.

We can only sneak it into enemy bases if we start up a crystal farm. Not looking like we'll live to do that.

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>>2741132
Bump

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>Concerns

Supermutant/Military Remnants, with much superior weapons and likely superior numbers, along with their Psionic Commandoes are coming in 2-3 turns. Unless we can roll a few 100s they'll overwhelm us outright.

She Who Hungers was woken up and will likely come right before, right after, or when the Supermutant Military Remnants hit. Imminent and overwhelming psionic attack incoming from She Who Hungers.

Wil is off with Richard down in Richard's lab doing something that OP desperately hopes will save us. Possibility of losing Richard, and Wil. Strong chance Wil will judge us not worth his time/the trouble afterwards. (though he might just be intrigued by the excitement)

Alexis is out wandering the swamp, unescorted.

Our layer of the swamp is now becoming exclusively populated by Massive (and above) level Deep Swamp Monsters.

The Battle of 4 Armies is spreading out and will likely include us in 2-5 turns. We wouldn't be able to deal with the military might being tossed about in this Battle even if we didn't have the Military Remnants and She Who Hungers to worry about.

Our manufacturing abilities have been neutered, and there's no way to get them back online.
I advise we just go hella into biotech and not bother rebuilding the factory, a biological/biotech factory would be a good alternative

We may or may not have any psionic crystals left. We have a structure: "Crystal Farm: Incomplete" but it's unclear whether that means there are crystal seeds in it or not. If there are no crystal seeds in it then Tabula Rasa can grow crystals, but it will take a very long time to get enough to begin farming operations.

>Oh, and Torg hasn't been mentioned in a while. I know he drops off the map a lot but god only knows what he's up to this time.
Possible Torg will be heroic sacrifice for us to survive She Who Hungers and Military Remnants attacks.

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>>27415757
>Supermutant/Military Remnants, with much superior weapons and likely superior numbers, along with their Psionic Commandoes are coming in 2-3 turns. Unless we can roll a few 100s they'll overwhelm us outright.
>She Who Hungers was woken up and will likely come right before, right after, or when the Supermutant Military Remnants hit. Imminent and overwhelming psionic attack incoming from She Who Hungers.
Here is where I hope the "Enemy of my Enemy" principle applies. One of them is going to hate the other more than the one. I also pray that we can call back King Brood daddy, because he hates both. Although, maybe General Dukov will listen to reason. We have Ramona.
>Possibility of losing Richard
Absolutely NO. We need his biotech.
>and Wil. Strong chance Wil will judge us not worth his time/the trouble afterwards. (though he might just be intrigued by the excitement)
Sigh, I can expect that. But I like Wil, as much as I liked Voss as well, we didn't get to use him before he leaves/dies.
>The Battle of 4 Armies is spreading out and will likely include us in 2-5 turns. We wouldn't be able to deal with the military might being tossed about in this Battle even if we didn't have the Military Remnants and She Who Hungers to worry about.
Again the "somebodies bound to hate us less/hate them more so envoy envoy envoy. I'm looking to the Ghouls, but strangely the Odd bandits didn't really care about voss and maybe their anger has died down a little in the face of 3 hugefuck armies.
>Our manufacturing abilities have been neutered, and there's no way to get them back online.
I advise we just go hella into biotech and not bother rebuilding the factory, a biological/biotech factory would be a good alternative
Yep. Which is why the death of Richard is the doom of us all.

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>>27415757
>We may or may not have any psionic crystals left. We have a structure: "Crystal Farm: Incomplete" but it's unclear whether that means there are crystal seeds in it or not. If there are no crystal seeds in it then Tabula Rasa can grow crystals, but it will take a very long time to get enough to begin farming operations.
[Redacted] material are the equivalent of the Holy Grail to us. Unless we send out Wilfred Didrikson and Alexis Tectus on some sort of quest to find it, crystals are out of our reach.

>Oh, and Torg hasn't been mentioned in a while. I know he drops off the map a lot but god only knows what he's up to this time.
>Possible Torg will be heroic sacrifice for us to survive She Who Hungers and Military Remnants attacks.
I can see that. But I wouldn't like it Torg has been incredibly usefull.

Also there's still the matter of the strange patrol Alexis discovered. I'm wondering if they aren't Cortana's forces or possibly the Corporation. Their trying to profit of the war WE proudly started. Pah.

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>>27415911

>Here is where I hope the "Enemy of my Enemy" principle applies

Not in this instance. We consort with a broodmother that is the spawn of what the Supermutants fought for centuries. The Supermutants steadfastly want us dead. They agreed to our parlay because they're in a tight spot and their Psionic-Bandit-Commandoes didn't support assaulting us.

But then we activated our Psionic Field. I told you not to fucking do that That has wakened She Who Hungers, and so it's likely shifted the Psionic-Commandoes into thirsting-for-our-blood mode.

So both parts of the Military Remant-Supermutant/Psionic Commandoes faction hate us.

There will be no parlay with them.

Also see >>27408423 "She wasn't dumb enough to go to the super mutants. Even while wasted"

>Possibility of losing Richard
I agree, Richard is second only to Clora'Zel in terms of value (and that's just because Clora'Zel is responsible for half of our military, and keeps us from being annihilated by the Arch Brood King [if he's still alive]). We should sacrifice almost everything to keep him alive.

>The Battle of 4 Armies
There's not going to be any parlay with any of those factions. We started the fight and everyone knows it. We have Infernal Diabolical Aberrations or whatever it is reputation, and all the parties involved in the Battle of 4 Armies were specifically snubbed by us.

We definitely won't be able to parlay with the ghouls. We brought like 5 goddamn zombie hordes into their battle with the bandits. Also, we tried sending envoys to ghouls and bandits and they just thought we were bragging about how badass we were for getting them all to fight.

>Yep. Which is why the death of Richard is the doom of us all.
Well I'm glad we agree on it being next-to-useless to rebuild the mobile factory in the immediate future. See my above on Richard, he is indeed key to our survival. He might get fed up w/ us too and leave though.

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>>27415944

>[Redacted] material are the equivalent of the Holy Grail to us.
[Redacted] material is god-tier to us, but it's not out of our reach. We cracked open the lower levels of our facility and gained Richard and Clora (our two best, most valued heroes) out of it. That was [Redacted}. A.I. EDE stated that it would "take a while" for Tabula to figure out crystals. If we devoted significant time and resources to just researching them then we will be able to crack them even without unlocking EDE's [Redacted].

And I guarantee you mastering crystals and psionic tech will be worth it. It'd be the edge we need against everyone else. The technology no one anticipated because psionic crystals are so rare.

>Torg has been incredibly useful.
He has? I mean, he cleared the hivemind and gave us some upgraded Bombardier schematics, and he's blown some people up a few times...but I feel like he's on the verge of going Marcus on us anyway. Not devalue any of our heroes, but I would've kept Voss over him.

>Also there's still the matter of the strange patrol Alexis discovered.
I doubt that they're Cortana's forces (Cortana's forces are the Psi-Commandoes w/ the Super Mutants). I don't think they're Corporate remnants, because they talked about their officers. I think they're an as-yet undiscovered faction. The OP has not given enough hints for us to discover their identity, characteristics, or agenda Other than they want power, and presumably to take over the swamp. Also that they have sufficiently advanced technology to send out long-range patrols into the increasingly hostile swamp.

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>>27416706
>>27416759
I'm just saying if the battle reaches us, I don't think many of them would like to divert their forces and potentially lose ground against their enemies in such a precarious war. And if we do see the fight looming over the horizon. The offer of extra muscle to at least tip the battle in our little part is tempting.
We've sent a small force to assist the ghouls before, if we send another and raise the Ghoulish flag and start helping their troops it may just be enough to get them to see us on speaking terms. Or it might not be. But there is no harm in trying.

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>>27416759
>And I guarantee you mastering crystals and psionic tech will be worth it. It'd be the edge we need against everyone else.
Of course. The potentials are near limitless. Even now we have some sort of monster beacon to drive all sorts of enemies in the direction we want, while keeping off the small fries. And it only took a few amount of crystals.

But, as per this example, it is also a double edged sword. One which we must tread lightly.

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>>27417100

I'm glad you're partial to siding with the ghouls. The ghouls are easily manipulated, and we have a shitton of them to research so we can control them even better. That, of course, being a long-term thing.

>>27417118

I meant more like the psionic railguns.

This venture was pure idiocy from the start. Any sort of large-scale constant psionic activity will produce a result similar to this clusterfuck we have ourselves in now.

On the upside, if She Who Hungers does indeed come out, and we deal with the Military/Psi faction, and the status quo between ghouls, zombies, and bandits remains so that none of them venture further into the swamp, lots of "ifs" there Then I think that OP will have played all of his immediately accessible "fuck you and your expansion!" cards.

>>27417325
Thread crashing. Sitting behind you in English. I know your secrets

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>>27417325
>The ghouls are easily manipulated
The mindless ferals at least. We're gonna have to treat the sentients as an actual nation because that's what they've seem to become.

>Any sort of large-scale constant psionic activity will produce a result similar to this clusterfuck we have ourselves in now.
Now if we could only drop the clusterfuck on somebody else like, like we sorta did this time.

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>>27417325
Also I'm partial to anyone who can be of service to us.
For now that is the Ghouls. If it were anyone else, I don't care who they are.

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>>27417428
Yeah, think, nobody but us has had the psionic power to call down so many Monster Mayhems and the very Zombie hordes themselves.
We have the pontential to call forth the Deep Swamp at our bidding. Now if only we could control it!

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>>27417689
For example, say we finally want to venture into the Deep Swamp.

We find one of our enemies bases, put a machine behind it out of their sight in secret (so as to put their base between to the DS and the machine), and activate it.
Not only do we call down a Deep Monster Mayhem on them, we clear up the Deep Swamp and make it easier for us to venture into. Two birds with one stone.

>>27417934
Don't forget we can use the tunnel networks we mapped out. They'll never see it coming.
Also, I'm pretty sure since Voss moved the machines, whatever was down there is likely headed to the 4army warzon since they were attracted to it.

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>>27417428
>>27417689
>>27417934

Really? This disaster just wasn't enough, you want more?

The OP hasn't sent strong enough signals to "don't fucking mess around with widespread psionics yet you fucking retards!" to you yet?

>>27418325
We don't have the tunnel networks mapped out, we have the locations of a few entrances. The tunnel networks are infested with psionic creatures from She Who Hungers that are powerful enough to kill teams of Tectus at will, and sufficiently potent with psionics to block their hivemind while they do it.

And no, whatever is down there isn't going to head to the Battle of 4 Armies unless it suits it to do so. She Who Hungers isn't some mindless monster like the monsters of the swamp, or the zombies, or the feral ghouls, that will follow the source of the nails-on-a-chalkboard screeching. It's a massive psionic entity that makes our Prophet look like a goldfish trying to protect our juicy morsel of a hivemind from a shark.

>>27417390

>Implying secrecy

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>>27417689

The Heart of the Swamp and her minions had exactly the psionic power to call down Monster Mayhems and Zombie hordes (and ghoul hordes). And they weren't even SPECIFICALLY psionic.

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>>27417689
>>27417934
to be honest we kinda have up till now. with everything except that monster madness we accidently triggered we have used this place against our enemies very effectively. we had the Arch Brood King of the deep swamp defending our base there for awhile.

How likely do you think it is for Archie to bring Cloras sister up to join us?

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>>27418434
Honestly I wad just joking about the "drop the clusterfuck on them" line.

Some people just take things way too seriously

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>>27418568

Clora's sister is corrupted by She Who Hungers...hunger. He'll save her from immediate danger because he's obsessed with saving what's left of the Heart of the Swamp, but he's not likely to bring her to where she might infect the untainted sister. and if he does I think we need to kill her as soon as possible

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>>27418599

Yeah, I figured. Most of my venom was targeted at the other guy, who seems hellbent on getting us killed.

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>>27418605
you seem to forget how The Prophet cured Clora'Zel of her Hunger, it may be a little harder but with the combined efforts of The Prophet, Clora'Zel, and Tabula Rasa i think it could be done. not only that but if Archie fails to cure her himself then we are his only option

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>>27418568
Well, we did manage to shift the monster madness into the middle of someone elses war.
Honestly as manipulators we ain't half bad
>Nuke an enemy base, get the ghouls to eat them for us
>Ah whoops, wrong machine. Let's move it to that war over there.

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>>27418664
Actually Torgs bomb did that I think.

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>>27418434
But now that she's awake, how could calling monsters on somebody else's turf backfire on us?
Not that that's a very bright idea to begin with, heavens no.

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>>27418664

We are immune to "The Hunger" for some reason. Torg's bomb cured us of the collective psychological trauma that was fucking us over.

However, the Arch Brood King stated there were "2 problems" and we only cured 1.

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>>27418815
>>27418886
that isnt the hunger that im talking about.

im talking about when Clora woke up from her 5 turn hibernation and almost dominated the hivemind with her hunger, The Prophet half reasoned her out of it half slapped her out of it

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>>27418886
No, we fixed the other problem because we've managed to store our emotional memories of the dead electronically, removing the buildup of excess hatred and negativity. The "hunger" itself the problem we haven't fixed, whatever it is.

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>>27418804
I don't know, but from now on whenever we do dangerous stuff let's do it away from our base.
Maybe set up a secret lab in the wastelands. Shit fucks up, it's somebody else's problem.

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>>27418958

Do you want me to dig in the archive? Both the Arch Brood King and the Psi-Commandoes/Super Mutants have said things to the effect of:

"You're immune to the hunger, but you behave as if you aren't! Unacceptable!"

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>>27418993
Misquote, that's for >>27418840

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>>27419036
That's exactly what I was getting at. Whatever is causing us to "act hungrily"

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>>27419060
our own dam actions are. the ones that "WE" in the thread are deciding

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>>27418958
see this>>27418948

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>>27419060

I think it was/is player idiocy.

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>>27419161
The solution is simple.
We have the Prophet cut off this strange otherworldly source from the hivemind.

And the Memor lived prosperously ever after.

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>>27419192
but anon! I wanna Conquer The World

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>>27419192

Seconding, rolling for this.

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>>27419192
Thirding.

> Crit fail: Quest continues, but henceforth every order has one crucial typo

>Crit win: We watch as the Memor guide themselves to paradise without us being able to influence them.

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>>27419763
>>27419563
>>27419192
so basicaly you want EDE to just write a book as we watch? because we are so fucking stupid that we cant make some decent decisions? im down

[spolier] For reals though i think we could like hand the reigns over to them for like 5 years and get a nice time skip

So just found this, gonna lurk for a while. Was this Marcus like a memor or someone something else who the memor found?

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>>27421394
He was an engineer who specialized in weapons development. He became a hero and built us shittons of godawesome weapons and let us reverse engineer captured vehicles. We got attacked by a massive bandit horde and he beat them off using a Mobile Base he had secretly constructed, saving us from certain death.

Then he removed his mutations and left the hivemind (and us) to pursue his own goals. The hivemind hasn't had any contact with him since.

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>>27421394
Don't bother lurking, the QM isn't here and won't be til tomorrow. We're just discussing and keeping it from 404'ing.

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>>27421394
So, yes he was a memor. Would you like me to try to dig up the links to previous threads for you?

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You know, I think you're right in that "The Hunger" that the Arch Brood King and the Psi Commandos said we act out though we're immune to it is player actions...but I had forgotten about this: >>27418948

Clora woke up from her 5 turn hibernation and was tremendously angry, and wanted to force her will upon us and everyone else.

>While she was in hibernation she was cut off from the hivemind
>Comes out of hibernation and wants to expand herself and eat everyone

That sounds like she was infected with The Hunger, but that the hivemind/The Prophet cured her of it. So things under the influence of the hivemind are immune to the hunger, but that immunity doesn't last.

Now we need to consider whether everything that has psionic acuity is automatically infected with The Hunger, or whether She Who Hungers deliberately targeted Clora'Zel to try and disrupt us/gain a powerful pawn. I lean toward the latter (though I think that weaker-willed things probably are affected in the former way also), because Tabula hasn't been infected, and some of our other heroes also don't/haven't shown signs of ravenous, unfettered aggression.

Now let's operate on the premise that She Who Hungers can deliberately target useful entities with Her unique brand of bloodlust. Aren't the ghouls led by two ghoul heroes (one of whom is psychically attuned right?) and haven't they been waging wars to expand their territory for a while now?

Is it possible that when we activated our Psy field it pissed off everything in the swamp so much because it exacerbated The Hunger?

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>>27421394
>>27421488
It's a real damn shame that some of our best and brightest Memor who become hero's get the privacy privileges, and thus lose the absolute loyalty garauntee and can leave at will.

Thankfully the Prophet, Clora, and hopefully Richard all hold Memor deep at heart. Dr. Claire might have no reason to leave too.

We were also very fortunate to be able to give Voss and Duelfists what they wanted, a final fight. The loss of a great wrangler and warrior was still bad though.

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>>27422639
Good points. One thing I also considered. Brood control. How is it done?
For what reason do our fleshbeasts obey on matriarch over another. Or why do not all fleshbeasts obey SWH (like Arch King ect.).

I'm wondering, if the Prophet and the hivemind concentrate on giving Clora a huge boost of psionic power, could she possibly turn the hordes of fleshies that are coming are way? SWH's psionic control might be weaker at great distance, and Clora's stronger in proximity.

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>>27422639
>>27418434
>>27417325
>>27416759
>>27416706
>>27415757
This is all archaeologist-anon, by the way.

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>>27422684
Since when did we have fleshbeasts coming for us?

Also, She Who Hungers is the as-yet unidentified psychic presence that was detected by the Prophet in Thread 1.

The Heart of the Swamp was the Brood Queen that spawned the swamp as a means of defense, controlled all the fleshbeasts that weren't Clora's, and was killed by the Military Remnants-Super Mutants and the Psionic Commandos a thread or three ago.

Brood control is (probably-certainly) psionic in nature. The Arch Brood King was under the Heart of the Swamp's control until she died, but he's an advanced enough creature to have independent thought processes and to command lesser broodspawn.

A plan where one of our psionics, backed by the others, tries to shatter hostiles' minds and/or kill-disable their psionics is good in principle, but She Who Hungers outclasses us far and away. Which is why we were advised to lay low on the psionics by the Arch Brood King and by EDE.

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>>27423121
I had presumed, after we awoke her, she is sending forces on our way. Possibly the new underground horde, but then again we don't even know what they are.
We still haven't tried Mass Wrath on physical objects.
But, after that last bout, let's lay low on the psionic flexing and turn to our other strength. Mutation.

Perhaps, while Richard is away, we should have Clora mutate the 10k+ fleshbeasts we have since they are our most numerous troops and our industry is fucked.

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>>27423221

I think "Mass Wrath" is the power that suspends the body's inbuilt limits. (I also think it's the only power we have)

Oh, that's what you were talking about. We don't have any confirmations on what's in the tunnels (but what's in the tunnel IS probably SWH's forces). They may be fleshbeasts, as it seems unlikely that the Heart of the Swamp would be the only thing of her kind in the Swamp.

I think that She Who Hungers is something that's taken up residence in the fuckmassive water purifiers waaay below us (the ones that are broken/leaking and make the swamp so...swampy and wet). It's reasonable to posit that she's another broodmother (maybe one more specialized in psionics) if we take into account that Clora'Zel and her sister are the only two sentient entities we KNOW to have been infected. (what better to stealthily infect a broodmother than another broodmother?) Again though, that's only (well-founded, i strongly assert:true, now that i think about it) speculation.

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>>27423705
Weird, I thought the water facilities were under hillbilly land. Must've misread.

And at least we we don't have to worry about anymore tunnels directly under our base, since those were connected to cave of the Heart and destroyed. We'll only have to worry about them popping out of the ruins. From the northeast, the battle of 4 armies might cover that. And from the south, the Military Faction might be of use.
It's the west and northwest they can march to us uncontested.

Also possible, is they pop out of every single ruin simultaneously.

>>27423787
>wasted 100
Son of a bitch that's the 2nd time this week

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>>27423221
Also, on the same note as the above post i think we should focus on a way of securing Clora's communication with her brood. If She Who Hungers could wrest control of them from her in the heat of battle...well our odds already weren't good.

"Keeping low" on the psionics would've been a good plan if we hadn't drawn the attention of everything psionic in god-knows-how-big a radius. The simpler minded things may be satisfied chasing agter the Psyfield generator into the Battle of Four Armies, but the more powerful, dangerous, intelligent things wouldn't fall for that shit.

So we're on the radar of who-the-fuck-knows-what now, but those unknown things are undoubtedly all very powerful psionics and probably going to come looking for us.

And we're desperately unprepared to meet them. Like i said before, we jumped into the river without checking how deep it was first when we activated the PsyField, now we need to learn how to outswim the sharks and we need to do it NOW.

>>27423787
Also what we should try is more "anti-flesh" tactics.
What we could do is get our chemical factories to produce as much caustic Alkali as possible for our elemental spewers.

Alkali is possible the worst thing any living being made of flesh can encounter. It's worse than fucking acid and fire. Acid and fire only destroys flesh, killing nerves is does. Alkali not only melts and destroys, its chemical action incites the nerves beyond imagination. It is the most painful way to die. Turning every single receptor into a constant screamer of pain, which gets unbelievable worse as it seeps into the rest. It even blocks out normal autonomic nerve signals, so the fleshbeast should not be able to control its own body once covered (if it's not already writhing on the floor, well not even writhing at all just sitting there melting, burning on the inside and everywhere).

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>>27423937
Good idea, but then she could just make a new batch of fleshbeasts or mutate the old ones to have acidic flesh+blood and neutralize those weapons.

>>27424153
Chemically speaking, having acid blood would only make things worse for them if we spray them with Alkali.
Such a reaction would literally melt them in moments.
Likewise, if she does make a creature whose very alkalized, the solution would be to spray them with a strong acid.

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>>27424231

Hmm, yes it would wouldn't it? On another note, before you pointed that out this scenario played through my head.

>Acidic fleshbeast appears!
>Lone Memor sprays it with intensely alkali substance!
>Tunnel floods with water.

>>27424304
Well, that is sort of what would happen. nothing left but water, bones, and a very inert goop.

>>27424304
>>27424346
And salt. Lots of salt.
to salt the surviving fleshbeasts corpses to trade to the Ghouls.

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>>27424381

Hah. Shall we, the Memor enter into the flesh trade...?

...the SALTED flesh trade!

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>>27424395

Fleshbeast jerky for everyone!

>>27424395
Salted meat is an excellent way to get into the food business, seeing as how we don't have any that much refrigerated containers. We can store that stuff for months without it going bad and send it off on long distance convoys. Hell, the Caravans can do the trading for us.

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>>27424381
>>27424346
You're also forgetting Carbon Dioxide.
Basically the air of wherever this is going down is going to be immensley toxic to all life, mutant human or fleshbeast. Not only huge amounts of CO2, but enough salt in the air to shrivel eyeballs.
Remember to bring gas masks.

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Does anyone have a link to the archived last thread?

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>>27424567
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/27392541/

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>>27424628
How about the one before that? The chain got broken somewhere along the line.

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>>27424751
I don't believe so.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/27368841/

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>>27424521

Heh, yeah. We wouldn't actually be able to sell the meat with whatever exotic salts would be produced. If we got a 100 on salvaging the flesh though I bet we'd be able to make explosives from them.

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>>27425233
>"exotic" salts
I'll let that slip into the realm of rule of cool.

And absolutely. We could even use them as defoilage and herbicide.

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>>27425302

"Unusual," if you can stomach that better.

Jokes on you, I actually mean salts from the Mediterranean and Middle East!

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So military dudes. . .
They're probably gonna be the most dangerous enemy we've ever faced bar SWH.
Even at the loss of all their mobile fortresses their still charging through the deep swamp (though, that may be also because we lured a bunch out but still it's the damn DEEP SWAMP).
They're not simple bandits, not even high tech bandits, they're a psionically active force hailing from the ancient superpower of the old world and having fought the Heart of the Swamp in her own lair.
For all we know, they might even have sufficient psionic users to make their own semi-hivemind.

. . .any idea's?

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>>27425802

They do have a semi-hivemind, or at least some sort of communication that doesn't require noise. The psionic commandos anyway.

One of the psionic commandos (although admittedly it may've been their most powerful...no guarantees though) immobilized Ramona's Massive-tier Forsaken Bandit last time we fought them.

They also have tech that's capable of shorting out our vehicles without destroying them, the psionic commandos deploy this tech. The commandos are also sufficiently stealthy and elite as to slice+dice Memor without the Memor even getting a chance to fight back. And THAT was before they fought all of the Heart of the Swamp's hordes and won. They've undoubtedly improved.

That's just the psionic commandos.

The Super mutants have higher stats across the board than any one of our units, and they have military training and are hot on the heels of the biggest battle in centuries. The military training alone would make them superior to our forces, as would their mutations, but atop that they have weapons that can take down Deep Swamp Monsters (you know, the ones we struggled to keep from nomming us even with a very effective and extensive defense system at our base) with ease.

Last time we fought them they were almost certainly deploying only a token force, as they considered us a small and relatively weak faction. This time they know we have a broodmother so they'll have deploy in full force, the supermutants will be frothing at the mouth for our blood, and the commandos likely will be too, as we just awakened She Who Hungers.

Working in our favor though:

They didn't have very many vehicles last time. It's possible that they were only partially deployed against us, and that's why such was the case (it's quite likely they were only partially deployed against us, in fact)...but they're also coming off one of the biggest, most intense battles since The Fall so we can reasonably hope that they still don't have many vehicles.

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>>27425802
We cover our base with leaves and shit and pretend to be ruins

activate Psionic Concealment.

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>>27426159
Plus remember. For all our strongarms, virox, and Tectus we're still only mutatnts.

Theses guys are SUPERmutants.

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>>27426159

Cont.

Working in our favor though:

They're also probably pretty exhausted and demoralized (maybe not, they did win) so hopefully OP will give them some sort of penalty in combat.

Aside from those two things though, we don't have anything working for us.

We do have Richard/Wil (Richard was obviously accompanied by Wil and the Chalsyn Soldiers) working on getting something as an ace-in-the-hole, but OP has stated that even calling in all his safety-valve measures wouldn't be enough to save us so.

Also we can hope/pray that She Who Hungers pops up and murderfucks the Supermutants because She maybe has one of the Psionic commando members captive. That's likely to be as bad for us as for them though.

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>>27426198

Yeah, they'll likely be immune to biological and chemical weapons as a result, by the way.

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>>27425802
>>27426170

We certainly don't stand any chance in a conventional fight. Their forces are superior in every category (except, possibly numbers. But it's likely they outnumber us too.).

So we have to fight unconventionally. I suggest, again, that we delve into psionics and hope we can pull something out of our asses.

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>>27426251
>Also we can hope/pray that She Who Hungers pops up and murderfucks the Supermutants because She maybe has one of the Psionic commando members captive.
That's what I'm hoping. Also don't forget the big battle of the 4 armies is reaching out to us. We might even see a battle of 6 armies if things get tangled up.

And we're smack in the middle of it all.

Also to be noted, is I'm not entirely sure if King is gonna sit this out.
She Who Hungers. King Arch Brood.
two devils we could strike a deal with to save our lives if the barbarians are at the gates. Also, we have the (not exactly)Doomsday Virus.

Rolled 45

>>27426170
>>27426349
We dress up as Military faction and attack Hillbillyland.

How about a battle of 7 armies?

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>>27426349

The Doomsday Virus has been certified useless. Richard shot missiles of Grey Goo and Doomsday Virus into the swamp and the swamp just fought back. (and eventually won)

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>>27426416
>The Doomsday Virus has been certified useless.
It's certified to not cause doomsday.

But it's still probably pretty deadly, or at least certainly hazadous and a good distraction to whoever we throw it at.

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>>27426445

I'd be more apt to weaponize the glowing plants we found. Toss some of those seeds in front of their path of advance, bury some of the Radiation-Burst beasts in the dirt, wait for them to reach the location and encase them in virulent plant growth.

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>>27426494
Whatever plants we have or could mutate, it's probably nothing compared to what living green horrors are in the Deep Swamp that the SuperMutants are marching through.

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>>27426346
If there's one thing Memor are good.
One single fucking thing in this entire planet.
It is fighting unconventionally. Everyone else has their armies, and their industry, and their hordes.

Only we spawned a genius who, at the last moment, unleashed the first mobile fortress of it's kind upon our foes.
Only we had the gall to irradiated enemy bases and sent in ghouls to fight for us.
When monster hordes and zombies were headed at us, we took that fight and shoved it onto to someone else.
Memor will find a way. . .somehow.

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>>27426587

Really? I hope so, but EDE has been heavily implying that this time isn't like any of the other times we've been threatened with extinction because this was spawned by phenomenal stupidity instead of bad luck.

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>>27426587
Which is why we are the Diabolic Infernal Vile Aberrations. Its mainly because we use the swamp against our enemies. Every major victory included forces of the swamp fighting for us and in every defeat they were absent.

Guys.... lets just become the Swamp

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>>27426734
well, even if he does EDE said that he was gonna start another in this world. though probably not anywhere near here. im fine with either, i say we choose a water city next time.

or alternately we could just hand the control over to the memor for like 5 years or so and see if they can make it through this, it'll make for a nice timeskip and change up the setting enough and give us a good base to build from so that the stupidity that has been occurring (and is likely to still occur) will at least decrease if not go away

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>>27426743
>Guys.... lets just become the Swamp
All part of She Who Hunger's Plan. Long Live the Queen
>>27426734
It was severely escalated by bad luck though, two ones. Calling down the Super Mutants on us.

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>>27426827
two 1s and the psionic disaster.

and we were doing so well to

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>>27426826
>We start a new civs
>Things go well
>Suddenly exposions everywhere, radiation leaks, ghouls on their way
>Our psionic users scream in pain, and a strange crystal device is found snuck in the base. Now hordes of monsters and zombies are coming
>"Who the shit is doing this?"

>we know who

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>>27426864
which us why we start on the other side of the world in a desert.

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>>27426826

Skipping 5 years would get us dead. We got the Memor into this position, the only way they/us are making it out is with us guiding them.

And getting fuckloads of 100

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>>27426932
you really think they wouldnt do better on their own?

think about it like this, every time something or someone has dropped out of the hivemind or shielded themselves from it or made their own decisions things have turned out wonderfully. not only that but EDE would be able to start us off on the paths that are actually beneficial to us.

i am seriously for this plan.

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>>27427035

It wouldn't work because we're imminently doomed. If we can get out of this then we might be able to skip forward 5 years (although at that point I wouldn't want to), but if we just skip out now then we'll get assraped by She Who Hungers and the Military Remnants and the Odd Bandits and the Ghouls and the Scientist Faction and the Hilly Billys and the Unknown Patrol Faction.

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>>27427112
i think EDE would allow it, he would use those 5 years kinda as a penalty for getting us out of it. plus we already have a few routes on how to survive, and he doesnt actually have to resolve the conflict. he could just have it take a good three years of stalemate before we won (or lost and fled). we have a chance and we have a few possible aces and we have some sacrificeable heros

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>>27427174

Well I'd be vehemently opposed to it no matter what.

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>>27427256
just out of curiosity, why?

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>>27427397

Because losing 5 years so that QM fiat can get us out of a bind that we got ourselves stuck in feels like cheating. If we don't have to pay the piper his due when it comes time there's no thrill in winning or losing.

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>>27427397

Also, I don't think EDE would allow it. He doesn't pull punches.

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>>27427525
that wouldnt be all we lose, we would probably lose a hero or two and a lot of forces, but we would also gain some as well

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>>27427525
It's funny because we've been doing the piping, and now the rats are coming to get us.

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>>27427587
exactly, we obviously aren't piping correctly

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>>27427600
Oh no, we're piping perfectly. We're doing it in the wrong bloody place.

The correct form of piping is to do it at enemy bases. Sneaking in crystals. You get the idea.

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>>27427635

Back to this again...

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>>27427635
not just the crystals, half of the goddam quest

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>>27427726
^ This guy knows what's up.

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>>27426170
I for one, feel this plan has some value to it.

bump

'notha bump

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>>27428813
It really doesn't.

Remember, the base is painted orange with purple hearts

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>>27432808

Hah, I remember that now. And if we remove the hearts we remove the bonus to rep with swamp denizens.

Not that we need the bonus any more after all the terribly evil and anti-cooperative things we've inadvertently done.

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>>27433100
> Hey guy's, OP says we increase our rep
> three threads later
> Diabolic Infernal Vile Aberrations

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>>27433249

We ought to get in contact with some Reavers. I bet they'd be delighted to join us.

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>>27433610

I mean, judging from the one we've had contact with they're good things to have around (if you don't care about your reputation).

OP did warn us about just how VERY EVIL they are though, so if we got some we'd have to keep them busy raping and pillaging our enemies.

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>>27433610
You know maybe we should. I'm thinking since we aren't improving our rep in the slightest we should just roll with it

>>27433630
>>27433645
At this point does it really matter?
We're at the status of being VERY EVIL already. Maybe we should embrace being bad.

We hire reavers to pillage and rape villages, then we offer them protection so long as they join the mind. When they do join, they see it was all for the greater good of Memor and the absolute loyalty bonus.

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>>27434301
On another dark note. Deals with the devil.
What do you think embracing She Who Hungers is like? We have served her well, and if it's anything like joining the broods of Clora/Heart of the Swamp how bad can it be?
We'd no longer have to worry about cleaning the huner, and rather than fending of her hoards instead we can welcome them as protectors. And we get a massive boost in fertility.

the only problem is getting our heroes on board. Or if SWH is even remoltely interested. We can help her terraform the swamp to her liking, if she keeps the monsters away like she does her own brood.

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>>27434348
It would a dark path toward world domination

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>>27434379
What does it profit the Memor if they save their soul, but lose the whole world?

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>>27434348
SWH may not be interested in mutants at all. If we join her brood themselves are gonna want to take it over for ourselves. And we can probably do it to. We have a broodmother, a psionic powerhouse Prophet, and a creature made of pure psionic crystals. We have raw unrefined psionic power

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>>27434886
>>27434763
>>27434348

You're under the impression that we're going to be offered the chance to parlay, that we're anything more than ants to SWH, and that She wouldn't have her interests better served by eating our biomatter.

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>>27435158
Really though you guys must be the same ones who wanted "Just one little psionic field" in the first place. You do get that we're an incredibly weak, ill-equipped, small and minor faction in this world right?

No, obviously you don't.

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>>27435158
>>27435199
Just exploring all options to save our hides.
Even ants serve the Queen.

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>>27435199
The small fry don't earn the reputation of diabolic infernal vile abberations. We earned our reputation, even if it wasn't through straight up fighting.

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>>27435158
>>27435239
>She wouldn't have her interests better served by eating our biomatter.
Unless we can prove otherwise. Really I was against the whole idea of psionics long before this event even started.

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in all seriously guys, i think the possibility of Archie saving our asses here is pretty high.

He has plenty of reasons to come up here:

1. To finish off the supermutants who hate his kind
2. To protect Clora'Zel
3. To see if we can cure Clora sister of The Hunger like we did to clora. (after she woke up from her hibernation)
4. To consolidate the things he wants to protect.
5. Plot

About to make new thread realize this one wasn't allowed to die...damn.

In any case your rep has so many words in because I am literally running out of evil enough words even with using a thesaurus. Shit I thought it couldn't get any worse until that crit 1 happened. I swear I am running out of words...


IN any case update with new actions will be available shortly along with a scouts report and mini game for keeping this thread up. As a bonus. Seriously though wasn't expecting that.

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>>27436804
i like mini-games im guessing it is either Richad and Wil or Alexis

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>>27409137
Viroz immunity mutation is hasn't turned out no ordinary mutation. Rather its sorta of strange hybrid of multiple things working in unison. Very complex and amazingly effective for what it does.

Lovenest expansion completed. Yet more new areas have been opened.

Carl is not available for research having returned to the megacity.

Resource points 12

>Month 77
>>>>>A. Scavenge for food.
>>>>>B. Try to improve the base
>>>>>C. Try to improve weapons.
>>>>>D. Research technology.
>>>>>E. Pursue new mutations.
>>>>>F. Explore in a direction/something.
>>>>>G. Scavenge for raw materials.
>>>>>H. Your choice

Scouts report.

We found Archie the Arch Brood King...he is sorta dead. Not before taking out Mobile Fortress though. Seriously though its been entire months and the Southern Swamp is still completely littered with wrecks and corpses. According to the other Sister the battle was beyond vicious and unlike the previous battle this one was spread out which cost the enemy dearly. Sadly their experience prevailed then they retreated to recover. That is when the whole psionic thing happened which convinced them they were search in the wrong place especially once they found out about Clora. Still not going to keep her sister around though. She made it abundantly clear that all brood forces were wrecked and combined with that strange psionic device that ruined her mother's work...she is leaving. Only stuck around long enough to get a hold of her sister while she prepared for her departure. She told us some interesting things though.

Their mother was slumbering for 2 reasons.

1 to locate her wayward children while mutating.

2 to contain the swamp.

The monsters throughout the swamp were gently contained by her. As in why even the weakest monsters never fled the swamp was due to her influence. The Deep monsters on the other hand she used to boost the development of her Brood. Problem is that isn't the whole story.

>>27436929
Was the heart of the swamp responsible for monster proliferation? With her death can we expect the deep swamp to be less deep swampy?

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>>27436929
>1 to locate her wayward children while mutating.
wait, how many children did she have?

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>>27436929
Ask her where she is going and if we can keep in touch.
Sisters have to stick together or something

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>>27436929
As it turns out dear ol mommy was using the monsters to keep the things underground...underground. She as when she tried to crack it she largely failed. So she used the monsters to keep them contained while her forces built tunnels, hives, and lairs underground to form a buffer to contain them...which we sorta exploded. Literally. Now that precious buffer was gone only thing was keeping them contained was the Monsters...which we sorta expelled out of the swamp. Worst part is it was the fodder ones which will naturally draw out the bigger ones. Basically all the containment methods we completely wrecked. Plus that whole device lit us up like a giant neon sign for who knows what AND awoke whatever was down there. Plus what directives she has given them for her death got wiped when we activated the device. Basically monsters are not longer contained which no longer contains everything else.

>>27436986
She was indeed partially responsible for them to degree anyway. As for her death the Deep Swamp will spread, collapse, and then explode outward.

>>27437016
Didn't say.

>>27437024
She didn't say.

In any case Clora'Zels sister is leaving the swamp with the remnants of her forces. Apparently she doesn't plan to stick around and plans to use her sister as a decoy while she makes her getaway.

Scout Report over.

Choose.

Ravager.
Reaver.
Marine.
Spawn.
Monster(describe).

Rolled 31

>>27437058
Monster:
The apex predator of the deep swamp. The monster of monsters. It hunts all others

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>>27437058
>Ravager.
>Reaver.
>Marine.
>Spawn.
>Monster(describe).
can i ask what we're choosing for?

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>>27437058
>Marine.
I think we need an inside agent here. but knowing what it is we're choosing would be helpful.

Those military guys, if only they knew. It's her sister infected with the hunger, not clora. And their letting her go to haunt us all in the future.

I expect to see her as the vanguard of SWH

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>>27437112
Mini mission/quest until this thread hits autosage. Then I will start a new thread.

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>>27437162
nah, i think she's gonna be leaving the quest for a good long while

>>27437170
then whichever them is the most combat adept. ie. whoever would win in a fight. you pick

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>>27437162
To be fair they BELIEVE Clora'Zel is her sister and that they had just been faked out BIG time. Not to mention you rolled so poorly as to be rubbing it in their face.


>>27437195
They are all combat adept user. Except maybe monster but then that one is your choice with just how good it is.

Marine
We have monsters mutants bandits mercs. We even had warriors and scout
But we've never had a trained soldier

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>>27437106
Heh I am gonna laugh my ass off if that one is chosen.

>>27437136
Might be might not be got to get enough votes to find out.

>>27437058
So the Deep Swamp monsters
Were a buffer for the heart of the swamp
Who herself was holding something down...
And that's probably not even close to She Who Hungers.

I really hate this place

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>>27437288
Correction I am gonna laugh so hard my laughter contaiment filter becomes broken so broke I can actually laugh despite being an A.I.

Rolled 75

I demand swamp marines

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>>27437339
fine then, just to fuck with you.
>Monster:
>The apex predator of the deep swamp. The monster of monsters. It hunts all others

for all the shit you've done

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>>27437364
Marines CONFIRMED.

>>27437378
Better luck next time user.

>>27437333
Hah that is what happens when I roll insanely high for threats in the very beginning.

You are Gregor a super mutant serving under General Dukov. Right now you are heading to finish off the Brood threat once and for all. At least until your lines got paralyzed by some new threat. Who apparently was causing untold havoc. Lucky for you and your team were way out there scouting. Unlucky for you couldn't do anythig to help them dealing with whatever it was that was until you recieved orders to come back to base...which means something has changed big time. Now the question rises however just HOW the hell your gonna do it that when the massive battle that has been unending for months has just encompassed your position.

Forces available.

Jar Jaw Juggernaut. Jar Jaw is old as balls itself according to the rumor mill.

Fred Commando. From Cortanas force only human among your number.

Fran Specialist. Part of Special Operations got attached to your forces for some unknown reason. Despite her rank she doesn't order anyone around even yourself.

Soldier Jen. strange survivor picked her up when you and her forces got caught in the Gigantic Battle. She was the only survivor among her forces. While you suffered heavy losses its how you realized how screwed you all were.
Right now you have several options.

To go through the underground and prey you can find your way out again.

Punch through Bandit Siege Lines.

To pierce through the Ghoulish Barricades.

Finally there is always fighting through the Zombie and Monster hordes.

Then...there is what Jen suggested pick up from whatever group she is from.

Rolled 66

Pick up Jen's group

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>>27437736
If this is anything like king arch, which it may or may not be, beware of obvious choices.

That said...fuck it. Do what Jen says

Rolled 38

>Dat mystery box, you know?

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>>27437333
Hah, under that threat there are probably 3 more deeper threats that were gonna inevitably unravel

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>>27437816
Memor = Pandora

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>Secondary action: Think to self about the exact nature, disposition, capabilities, and weaknesses of all the forces we know.

>>27437926
Zombies - Hungry sons of bitches. Sentients and ferals. Maybe vechs but mostly infantry.
Monsters - Big. Bad. Ugly. And generally infantry can't do shit against them.
Ghouls - Also hungry. Sentients and ferals. Maybe vechs. Mostly infantry. Heals with Radiation.
Bandits - The Odd bandits. Lots of advanced vechs and tech. Not exactly the usual raiding pillaging type, so more rational and level headed.

Supermutants - Like us. Only better. At everything.

Rolled 25

>>27438039
I meant Gregor thinks to himself.

>>27437926
Zombies-hungry sons of bitches always starving unlike ghouls. All feral yet somehow have a sort of hivemind with they way they behave. Mostly infantry with mutations galore as support. Weaknesses for basic zombie is taking out the brain stem/spine is the quickest way to kill. Otherwise its just lotsa damage mutant variants unfortunately do not necessarily go by the same rules.

Monster- Big. bad. and ugly. Infrantry can't do shit against the huge variants. Not to mention the variety of them no true weakness for them all or allows us to know general capabilities. Luckily for us we are used to this and know how to compensate.

Ghouls- hungry bastards the lot of them. Mostly Feral with a good hard sentient base. Mostly infantry with increasingly heavy vehicle support. Radiation heals them and unlike zombies all of them are amazingly agile, quite tough, and strong. No easy weaknesses besides starving them but starving them out but that doesn't kill or makes them crazy. So its just good ol fashion eat lead and not nukes.

Bandits- Greedy and bloodthirsty savages. Love their toys and not reliant on infantry. Apparently they too learned their lesson in that regard. Only identifiable weakness is their inability to take care of themselves without being depraved.

Our own forces are made up of advanced super mutants led by General Dukov and the Outcasts led by Cortana and her mate. Both forces are highly trained. Capabilities is everything but fliers still got them just know better then to use them. Hopefully that changes soon once we break out of the swamp. Only weakness is our inability to reproduce our equipment. But that has been nicely fixed thanks to tapping into old bases and trading.

>>27438381
Correction Starvng ghouls doesn't kill them just makes them crazy.

>>27438381
>>27438407
In any case what is the consensus.

>>27438381
>Bandits- Greedy and bloodthirsty savages
>Only identifiable weakness is their inability to take care of themselves without being depraved.
Oh so these aren't the "greater good" bandits then.

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>>27438381
The problem with Ghouls is that we've made their beds for them in this swamp. We've irradiated bases, fed them time and again. And you can't just unirradiate an area.
We're not gonna be going on a Ghoul extermination ever. That's not to say we won't act in self defense.

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>>27438424
We've already opened Pandora's Box, we're doing the same with yours.

>Meet with Jen's survivors

>inb4 Jen is Alexis

Jen's definitely part of the Unknown Patrol Faction

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>>27438381
Don't forget the piece de resistance. What they've thought of us over the years.

>>27438492
At first they knew they were going to have to deal with the wretches who are more then happy to unleash zombies and ghouls upon their enemies. Thin was first had to deal with the Brood. So you weren't on top of the list. That was until they discovered you are part of one.

>>27438549
>have to deal with the wretches who are more then happy to unleash zombies and ghouls upon their enemies
So is that exclusive to us or generally just a taboo that other have done in the past?

>>27438604
Its a massive taboo to unleash something like zombies or ghouls upon considering what they do.

It was decided that you would be best to take off with whoever Jen's forces are. After all its not unlike a detour would be too bad you were quite out there after all. So you got an excuse. Only problem is you have to get at a clearing that is currently abandoned but not for long. So you and your forces booked it over and there bunkered down. While Jen called in support. Which was when the artillery began to rain down around you. At first you thought they were targeting you until the ground erupted from under you. That was when you found yourself fighting amongst a sea of monsters as explosions rained around you. Then came the ghouls and zombies. Looks like you were gonna get caught in that 4 way battle after all...

Luckily it didn't take too long for the air support to arrive for pick up. Only problem was hanging on. Which you did mostly by hiding under the corpses of the all fallen. But you got picked up and found yourself in strange company veering off away from where your supposed to be going. Jen promised you that they would take you back home problem is they didn't know where that was yet.

month 78

>>>>>A. Scavenge for food.
>>>>>B. Try to improve the base
>>>>>C. Try to improve weapons.
>>>>>D. Research technology.
>>>>>E. Pursue new mutations.
>>>>>F. Explore in a direction/something.
>>>>>G. Scavenge for raw materials.
>>>>>H. Your choice

Resource points 12.

>>27438829
Is Richard and Wil still away?

Rolled 37

>>27438829
Any idea on how far away the other forces are approaching?

Rolled 51

>>27438633

So basically the only way we could rehabilitate our rep to neutral would be to go hand out food and medicine to widowed mothers and orphans right?

Or initiate Operation Dreamweaver, like we once discussed.

>>27438858
Affirmative.

>>27438923
The Super Mutant forces have ceased their assault and withdrawn.

>>27438927
I doubt either of those would be nearly enough user.

Rolled 74

>>27438829
So we didn't figure out Viroz immunity right?

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>>27438946
>The Super Mutant forces have ceased their assault and withdrawn.

Now I'm scared. they know who's also coming after us.

>>27438927
We could always send in another small support team to the Ghouls to at least show even if we're evil we're on there side.

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>>27438829
>Basic 1
Send a small force of 1 Plasma baby SST's and 2 plasma thrower ST's in the nearest ghoul direction with packages food, ammunition, and fuel. Raise the Ghoulish flag along side our Memor flag. Start blasting away at anything and everything that isn't a ghoul.
>Basic 2
Alexis and her crew scout the Ruins near our base for signs of enemy intrusion
>Basic 3
Build 1 Plasma baby and 2 plasma throwers (in case we lose the ones we sent).

Rolled 51

>>27438829

>Basic 1
Research Clora-Brood communication and strengthen+secure it.

>Basic 2
Research psionic communication in general, figure out how to block commands/information from being transmitted psionically.

>Basic 3
Research crystal growth.

Here's hoping we make it out alive.

Rolled 91

>>27439027
Rollin

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>>27439027
>>27439038
I'd rather a mix of these.

>Basic 1
Send a small force of 1 Plasma baby SST's and 2 plasma thrower ST's in the nearest ghoul direction with packages food, ammunition, and fuel. Raise the Ghoulish flag along side our Memor flag. Start blasting away at anything and everything that isn't a ghoul.
>Basic 2
Research psionic communication in general, figure out how to block command/information from being transmitted psionically.
>Basic 3
Research Clora-Brood communication and strengthen+secure it.

Crystals aren't gonna grow yet until [redactied] is found. Richard and Wil are working on something redacted related.

Rolled 63

>>27439027
Implying 1 SST and 2 STs isn't just going to insult the ghouls with how weak we obviously think they are.

In sum, do not advise.

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>>27439075
We've done it before, and they didn't seem to mind

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>>27439075
> isn't just going to insult the ghouls with how weak we obviously think they are.
It's the otherway around really.
They think we're puny but conniving. So they'll understand if our force is puny.

>>27439106
You seemed to be forgetting users that we cannot easily build more Spider tanks.

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>>27439055
They'll grow if we set Tabula to it long enough, why can't you get that?

Sending so few forces into that battle is exactly like letting Torg blow them up for shits and gigs, except it'll just piss off everyone involved.

Do that and it's wasted effort, wasted forces, and a wasted action.

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>>27439137
>They'll grow if we set Tabula to it long enough, why can't you get that?
All he's been doing for the past 5 times we've had him research them was stare at crystals.
"It's going to take a LONG time without the nodes"
If you said research node crystals, then by all means. But the crystals are always here, this battle is reaching towards us every single day and soon we'll be engulfed.
>Sending so few forces into that battle is exactly like letting Torg blow them up for shits and gigs, except it'll just piss off everyone involved.
>Do that and it's wasted effort, wasted forces, and a wasted action.
If the issue is the force is too small, we up the size and send them the same sized we sent them last time.

In any event, I just want to ensure after this battle of the 4 armies reach us we have an ally to count on.

Rolled 92

>>27439178
I think we should do crystals and ensuring ghoul relations.

Clora has a pretty firm grasp on the brood for now and theres no indication of them waning.

Rolled 76

>>27439090
See this >>27439127
Also, that was before we went up in their faces and said "Hey guys, we brought the zombies and swamp monsters down on you. LOL!"

Rolled 91

>>27439250
Well fine then, I'll change my vote to>>27439038

Still, we should at least try to say "no hard feelings" sometime soon.

Rolled 41

>>27439283
When they get close, I'm sure sending a few well aimed shells over there heads and onto a zombie horde should suffice.

Knowing our luck with the dice gods it'll hit them instead

Rolled 77

>>27439283
Probably best we wait until after the battle, when they're weak and unable to negotiate from a position of strength.

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>>27439335
>After the battle
The battle could reach us at any moment.

And presuming the Ghouls win, they could be stronger than ever after absorbing all those zombies.

When they are, the mindest of
>"Well, you did call them down on us you helped us when we needed it."
sounds preferable to
>"Alright you assholes, you started this mess and made us clean it up. What've you got to say for yourselves.."

Rolled 97

>>27439331
>Roll to bombard zombies attacking ghouls
>Action, Second, Third
>Three 1s in a row
>Artillery doesn't touch a single zombie
>Wipes out all the ghouls in our part of continent
>Wipes out bandits and supermutants
>Destroys swamp and SWH too

mfw

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>>27439399
I'm all for breaking the zombie hivemind for them or bombarding the zombies w/ artillery, but without the means of producing more tanks and with SWH heading for us we don't need to put any of our forces at risk.

Rolled 85

>>27439331
True. But still that's more like circumstantial self defense, rather than an actual show of aid.
>"You were only doing it to keep them away, you didn't give a shit about us"

>>27439408
I'm sorry to say I have to entertain a lot of that as plausible.

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>>27439475
Which is why I recommend a small riskless force.
And it's not that we can't produce more, we just lost the mobile factory and our free production move (and also the ability to produce Behemoths). We can still build ST's and SST's, but it's probably limited to the old (4 st's, 1SST) per basic move deal.

As for breaking the hivemind with powerful psionics haven't we already been through this?

Rolled 76

>>27439475
>>27439508
Plus, if all goes fantastically well (unlikely, but still) we provide aid and help them beat the 3 armies, they help us fend off SWH's latest offensive.

Rolled 83

>>27439508
No, we've been through an untargeted, dispersed psionic iritation field. We've not even considered looking into direct psionic-psionic countermeasures.

But we need to because SHE is coming.

Rolled 33

>>27439038

Voting.

>>27439038
You are Clora'Zel and you are really fucking bored. Ever since the incident with Prophet your forces have gradually evolved into Many and with the cloning facility/pools they don't even really need you for reproduction shit even mutagen work is nigh nonexistent.. So instead you get to lay out in a center of a gigantic 24/7 orgy that you swear keeps getting bigger. Now however they want to know how Brood communication works. Which is annoying as its a mixture of gestures, scents and psionic communication. Now they want to know how to strengthen it...well I suppose some work could be done psionicly and preventing other broods from jacking it. Its just so complicated its quite rare anyone tries anything and it never ends well for those who do. The brood mind is not a good place to be for an outsider and the rest of the brood is evolving so quickly communication methods are in constant turmoil. Bah well suppose its better then tinkering with...this 'tech' that you have tried to learn about out of sheer boredom.

Psionic communication is a complicated affair. Lots of ways to do...and not so good ways to block it out. Real problem that.


Rasa once more stares at the crystals. Knowing that the whatever it is they feed is just isn't appearing..so how does one detect that of which one does not know is actually there. That is something Rasa must figure out...eventually. Maybe finding something other then the base would be easier...

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>>27439597
She is. And I was hoping we could put some of our enemies/allies in between her and us. Better still, when inevitably the battle comes to engulf our base we have a natural buffer against her forces, with the Ghouls and our own military keeping the battle at bay.

Arch-king said lay low on the psionics, but if you want to have another episode then be my guest.

>>27439671

month 79

>>>>>A. Scavenge for food.
>>>>>B. Try to improve the base
>>>>>C. Try to improve weapons.
>>>>>D. Research technology.
>>>>>E. Pursue new mutations.
>>>>>F. Explore in a direction/something.
>>>>>G. Scavenge for raw materials.
>>>>>H. Your choice

Resource points 12.

Rolled 7

>>27439680
The episode has already happened, we need to be able to defend against a psionic assault if we want to live through all the psionic things our field attracted.

Rolled 9

>>27439698
We can't have Clora growing bored on us. Let's keep her occupied.
>Basic 1
Clora researches the creation new class of flying fleshbeast, based on local insectry and other beasts of flight we have seen in the past. Let's see if we can't have some kind of aerial hivemind reconnaissance, harrasment deal going on.
>Basic 2
Research some kind of "Mass Shield". Akin to Mass Wrath, but designed to stop psionic assaults by other hiveminds rather than go on the offensive.
>Basic 3
Have Alexis converse with Tabula and EDE on where is the likely place to find any material that could aid our crystal efforts, and have her scout there.

>>27439852
Allow Clora'Zel to force evolve her brood?

Rolled 55

>>27439883
That's not remotely what I meant. I was simply thinking of a new type of flesh beast variant.
What does she mean by "force evolve"

Rolled 67

>>27439698
>>27439671

Let's give her something to do then, shall we?

>Basic 1
Clora researches how to make Strongarms have TWO strong...arms.

>Basic 2
Clora (or whoever) researches/produces the Symbionts she and richard made together

>Basic 3
Research biological manufacturing facilities

Shameless Crit-fishing

Rolled 3

>>27439934
>Symbiots
>Biological manufacture
Should we wait for Richard to return since those would not only be his territory but also his bonus?

Rolled 75

>>27439883
>>27439852
Yes! I don't even care about the possible consequences!

Rolled 41

>>27439852
>Clora researches the creation new class of flying fleshbeast, based on local insectry and other beasts of flight we have seen in the past. Let's see if we can't have some kind of aerial hivemind reconnaissance, harrasment deal going on.
I like the sound of that.

Maybe some kind of mosquito, sucks the blood out of enemy monsters to multiply. Also maybe viral weapon based on the viroz like a monster malaria or parasite.

>>27439930
The brood automatically evolves naturally and rapidly. It already has several types like that. Force Evolve Brood Mother Clora'Zel enables the ENTIRE brood to be modified in mass. However it temporarily disables them while they all undergo the changes.

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>>27439968
Good point. I hope he survives.

Rolled 58

>>27439987
>Monster parasite
>Brain parasites + Broodmind = Monster Mind Control

lhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGSUU3E9ZoM

Rolled 75

>>27439987
>>27440022
This. This is a good idea.
>>27440000
>However it temporarily disables them while they all undergo the changes.
How long? We're sort of in the middle of an unkown pending invasion.
The last time Clora went into hibernation she came out with such wonderful effects and it only took 5 turns. I pray we can hold out that long without her 10k fleshbeasts and guards.

Rolled 89

>>27440051
Unknown user depends on how you want her to upgrade as well as whatever she plans to do.

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>>27440022
More flesbeasts monster parasite ideas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMG-LWyNcAs

Rolled 47

>>27440087
Well, fucked if we don't<maybe not fucked if we do.

Go für it

>Captcha: SAID Gamorex

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>>27440087
>depends on how you want her to upgrade
Flying Fleshbeasts "mosquito" and fleshbeast parasite.
Mosquito sucks the blood out of biologicals, while depositing this parasites as well as eggs of itself. The parasites multiply, making their way to the brain to control it via chemical/broodming action. And after a time, the monster becomes so engorged by the feeding mosquito eggs it bursts into a swarm of fleshbeasts mosquitoes. Also capable of displaying aerial images to the broodmind both above and on level with the swamp for recon.
As well as strengthening her own control over her brood as far as possible
>as well as whatever she plans to do.
Give her free reign of that

Rolled 14

>>27440194
Also the parasite should be able to affect all biologicals, monsters, humans, mutants, even other fleshbeasts.
Emphasis on the "other fleshbeast" part.

Rolled 34

>>27440194
>>27440215

'mosquito' based strain would be minimal as many creatures have significant defenses in that regard user. Granted we already have a strain or two like that its just that their not used all that often.

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>>27440230
Can't you make it bigger/stronger then? With piercers strong enough to pierce even the thickest hides or find the weak spots in monsters?

Rolled 64

>>27440230
Well, there's still the superbroodparasite part.
We can load those into shells and pierce them in big enemies or rain them down on a horde.