mp5 seems a good size for us and would be handy

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>>30113213
Nab the IED and the C4. Both are going to be fantastically useful.

RPK, while it would be hilarious. Is far too big and heavy for us.

MP5K is perfect loli-size, we used the full size one back in the garbage like 10 threads ago.

Deagles while pistols, will have far too much kick for loli.

We could nab everything we can carry and sell the stuff we are not using? Pretty sure a gasmask would be a good purchase.

>>30113213
-MP5
-some C4, like one bar

>>30113213
we should grab a few charges of plastic, just in case

and just leave the rest alone for now. i mean, it's not as if we were getting ready for something huge
unless...

>>30113386
Actually, idea.

Take the C4, work it into a Suicide vest. But with no detonators.
Put some crap together for what looks like a deadman's switch.

Use it to blackmail people. We get captured enough, it will probably be useful.

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>>30113213
>Read all of the threads in two days. All of them.
>Hoping to join in on one eventually.
>MFW 12am thread start.
I fucking love you Herr.

Also suggesting we get some of the grenades for the launcher Vasa snagged. Even if she doesn't end up using it, we can always sell the ammo too.

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>>30113213
>Take the MP5; it's our size
>One desert eagle. We need to test the kick, and this way we'll have one left over if the first gets lost or stolen.

Also, is there any way to mount the RPK on Doggy?

>>30113213
The explosives you picked up fit just fine in your Hello Kitty backpack, but it's pretty much completely full now. The little machine gun that Vasa calls an "MP5K" has a sling that you've found fits comfortably over your shoulder, so it hangs at your side as you move.

Vasa finishes doing whatever she's doing, and moves a little way from the bedroll to start packing away her own gear. She seems to be struggling to find a way to stash the four RPG warheads into her already full cookware/survival kit pack, and every one of her pockets and pouches are full of ammunition or other tactical gear. The launcher itself, she appears to be planning to simply sling over her shoulder.

[ ]Ask her about Kris.
[ ]Offer to help carry stuff.
[ ]Talk about... [Write-in]

>>30113213
MP5K
4 bricks of C4
(two to keep, two to sell)
Whatever Vasa wants to carry.

>>30113451
>[x]Ask her about Kris.

>>30113451
>[ ]Ask her about Kris.
>[ ]Offer to help carry stuff.

>>30113451
>Ask about Kris

>>30113507
Seconding.

>>30113451
>[X]Ask her about Kris.
she's ok, right?

>>30113451
You call out to her, "hey, Kris is okay, right?"

She stops what she's doing to glare in your direction. "No thanks to you. And I don't honestly know. Head wounds. She might be fine, she might be dead in the next few minutes. What do you care, anyway?"

The question hits you like a physical attack. "Of course I'd care, she's my friend!"

"HA! This is how you treat your friends? Sure as hell glad I'm not one of them, then."

You stop yourself from screaming back that she IS your friend, too. You feel like it wouldn't help right now. Instead, you offer to help her carry those grenade things. She doesn't bother to look at you this time as she answers. "No need. I can carry my own stuff. I'll carry Kris' stuff, too. Since she's in no shape to haul weight." She gives one final shove and the fourth grenade slips 'comfortably' into place in Kris' food bag.

>(How) Do you respond?

[ ]Insist on taking Kris to the Doc.
[ ]Head back to Skadovsk, its time for loot selling and new clothes!
[ ]Wait here for Kris to wake up.
[ ]Other

>>30113678
>[ ]Insist on taking Kris to the Doc.
>[ ]Head back to Skadovsk, its time for loot selling and new clothes!

we need to make sure friend Kris is okay, and get her new pajamas

>>30113678
>[x]Insist on taking Kris to the Doc.

Pretty certain keeping her alive is a good idea.

Plus we can go sell our loot and get clothing while we are there...

And Star Princess Loli's modelling agency...

>>30113678
Let's bring Kris to Doc.
He can patch her up better than us; we can trade some C4 if we need cash, and grab a new outfit (and money) while we're there. Maybe order some new pajamas for Kris, too.

>>30113699
Seconding. Again. Kris might be fucked up and we've got spare loot to sell.

Screw the whole 'no outside contact' these two have going; doc can probably do something for her... right?

captcha; quite ndsorc

>>30113739
Unless Vasa has some extensive first aid training, Doc is our best bet.

>>30113678
>[ ]Other
see if we can do anything for Kris with our (no matter how low) medicine skills
[ ]Insist on taking Kris to the Doc.

>>30113678
>[x]Head back to Skadovsk, its time for loot selling and new clothes!

I say we ditch them both.

>>30113678
You move over to Kris' sleeping form and start to check out her injury. "OI, what are you doing?" Vasa's stood behind you and looks as if she's ready to pull her gun on you. It was adorable how relieved she looked when she managed to find the pistol she dropped during the fight.

"I'm just checking..." You gently lift Kris' head, supporting her neck with one hand as you run the other gently around her skull. You can feel a pretty bad swelling at the base of her skull, and she winces and cringes as you gently feel around it. "...We should take her to the Doc," you tell Vasa.

"No. Hell no. I don't care what you say, we're not taking her into that den!"

"You said it yourself, she might die! The Doc can take care of her better than you or me! I'll pay for it and all."

"Tha-" Anger flares on Vasa's face, but she doesn't try to argue the point.

"Or do you not really care if she dies either!?" You raised your voice more than you meant to, but it had the desired effect.

Vasa's face lowers as she gives you the darkest look you've ever had.

"Fine. But you're taking responsibility. If anything goes wrong, I kill you first." She shoves you out of the way, and tenderly picks Kris up, the latter groaning weakly as she's lifted from the bedroll once more.
"Grab those and let's go."

She heads for the cave mouth, leaving you to grab both your own and Kris' bags as well as her bedroll.

...
It's really, really awkward to walk with all this.

>>30114044
Taking bets that they shoot someone for gabbing ass at the bar...

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>>30114044
And walk we shall!

For Kris.

>>30114086
...We have ass to grab?

>>30114044
You struggle to keep pace with Vasa as she crosses the long distance to the boat. She moves as if she was carrying nothing at all, still managing to move from solid ground to solid ground even at speed across the marsh. You do your best to match her steps with your own load, but manage to miss-step a few times, your boots plunging deep into the mud. They barely look like the smooth white beauties they were by the time you finish the trip.

The guard up top doesn't even seem to register that the three of you have passed under him, and you finally catch up to Vasa as she stands next to the door. You can't tell if she's just waiting for you to open it, or is expecting you to go in first.

[ ]Open the door, let her through.
[ ]Go in first, hold the door open from the other side.

>>30114164
We should go in first; let the guys know Giltine brought a friend.

>>30114164
>[ ]Go in first, hold the door open from the other side.

>>30114198
Beat me to it.

>>30114164
>Go in first, hold the door open from the other side.

>>30114164
>[ ]Go in first, hold the door open from the other side.

>>30114164
>[x]Go in first, hold the door open from the other side.

We've killed a bunch of stalkers, had a photoshoot, managed to cause heart attacks via cute and led many rookies to their doom.

Pretty certain people know not to mess with us.

>>30114164
Seconding >>30114198

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>>30114137
>Loli? Well, she has the ass of a twelve year old. So not really.
>Vasa's ass is permanently concealed by her ghillie, so who knows?
>Kris has a fantastically pert butt, but she's being fireman carried by Vasa right now, so it's not exactly in grabbing reach. Though she's also not in a position to object.

>>30114239
So basically we can stroll in, let them know the girls are with us, and be on our way without issue. Okay then.

>>30114164
You put one of the bags down to free up a hand for opening the door, then grab it again to hop through the door first. The room in general, once again, turns to glance once in your direction, sees you leading, and turns back to their business.

Vasa follows at a sedated pace, carefully eyeing every corner of the establishment. You're already almost to the stairs, giving Beard a quick greeting wave, but Vasa's maybe only a third of the way through the room before a few whispers kick up. "Hey, look at that. There's three of them now." "Girls in the Zone?" "Hey, how long have they been here?" "Why'd noone tell me?"
Vasa's head starts to swivel faster and faster as she's obviously trying to track the whispers without having any experience with situations like this. You take a few steps back to her and take her hand firmly. The whispers silence immediately, though you feel an extra few pairs of eyes tracking you now.
You lead Vasa the rest of the distance to the stairs and up to the Doc.

"Ah, great, you again. What now?" You've had warmer welcomes, but you greet him enthusiastically anyway, then gesture to Kris and ask him if he can do anything.

He tells Vasa to put Kris on the bunk, and after she complies, he gives Kris a quick once-over. You note Vasa's hands curl into tight fists as Doc's hands pass over Kris' body, lingering in some places longer than others. "Okay, so no serious injuries anywhere but the head." He feels the back of her head gently, "and only one here. Blunt trauma, heavy swelling, possible cracked skull."

He stands up again and turns to the two of you. "I've got some kick-ass drugs that should deal with most of the problems. Anti-inflammatory, antipyretic, painkiller. I wanna check her when the swelling goes down, so let her stay here for a bit."

>>30114643
Vasa's eyebrows raise slightly. "Really? There's a drug like that for this??"

Doc turns to stare her dead in the eye. "Yup. Aspirin." You can almost hear Vasa's gears grind to a stop as her sudden burst of faith in the Doc's abilities is banished.

You just take the information in, and agree to leave Kris in his care for a while. Vasa tells you she'll stay here to watch over her, leaving you free to act as normal for now.

You head back down to the bar, and notice Beard visibly perk up at your arrival. "Morning, girl. Good to see you still alive and kicking. We got a bit worried when we heard Kiyiya was after you. We could hear the fight from here. Thought he might've gotten you."

You giggle a little. "Someone like him, killing me? Hahaha! We sent him running!" Beard smiles at your optimism, but there's still a hint of worry on his face.

"So anyway, what can I get you today?"

[ ]"My new clothes!"
[ ]Ask about clothing for the girls.
[ ]Ask about... (Write-in)
[ ]Trade.
[ ]Other

>>30114729
>[ ]"My new clothes!"
>[ ]Ask about clothing for the girls.

we can trade after those

>>30114729
>Clothes, for us and the others.
If they aren't also willing to model, we can probably cover for them. At the very least, we can nab Kris replacement nightwear.

>>30114729
>[ ]"My new clothes!"
>[ ]Ask about clothing for the girls.

>>30114729
>[x]"My new clothes!"
>[x]Ask about clothing for the girls.
"But they won't model, sorry."

>>30114729
"My new clothes! Are they here yet?"
He chuckles, before reaching under the bar for a package. It's kind of impressive how he always seems to have the exact items you're after hidden just under the bar in front of him. You put the thought out of your head as you take the bag of clothes for him, instead asking for the other two. "Could you maybe get some clothes for my friends, too? I don't think they really want their pictures taken, but they do like nice clothes too!"

He hrrrms for a few moments, before slowly nodding his head. "It would be easier for me, and more profitable for all of you if they did. But I can get them clothes, no problem. What sort do they want?

[ ]Choose clothes for them! (Write-in)
[ ]Let them choose themselves.

>>30115233
>[ ]Let them choose themselves.
but we should get both of them nice pink and girly pajamas

>>30115233
[ ]Let them choose themselves.
but it'll probably just be something practical and tacticool

>>30114729
Make sure to take a minute to address the present company and let them know that if they touch, bothet, or look at our friends the wrong way we will be very angry.

>>30115233
>[x]Let them choose themselves.

>>30115293
That should read bother.
>>30115233
Let them choose. Later.

>>30115233
"Hmmm.. I don't really know what they'd like, so I think they should pick for themselves. Oh! But they definitely need new pajamas! Something really silky and comfortable, but also maybe pink and definitely really girly!" You inform him of your demands, and a small smile forms on his lips.

"That I can definitely do. Now, how about you get changed and we get our business out the way?"

You hop away from the bar to your usual spot behind the stairs and once again strip to your underwear, tossing your old clothes aside and donning your new outfit. The last set aren't exactly in bad condition bar the layer of mud on your boots, and are certainly practical. You stuff them into the bag you got the new set in and lash it to your backpack. You're really starting to collect more stuff than you can realistically carry.

The new clothes seem to be... some sort of sailor uniform? A white blouse with black trims over a purple jean collar and deep purple ribbon tie, and a pleated purple skirt frilled at the hem. The kit also has a pair of black tights with a purple diamond pattern up the outside leg, a small jewel that clips around the back of your left hand and a small metal buckler shield that straps around your left wrist. A purple hairband and a cute little watch finish off the costume. The set also had a pair of black high heels, but they look so ridiculously impractical that you just toss them aside.
Oddly, the re-attachment of your pistol holsters seem to blend perfectly into the outfit, as opposed to every previous one that they clearly weren't meant to be there and usually spoiled the entire look.

You skip back to Beard to show off your new look, and he nods approval. "Right, this time I definitely want to insist you dye your hair. You've got the perfect hair for it, it just needs to be black instead of blonde...

[ ]Agree, let him dye your hair.
[ ]Refuse! Loli is and shall remain a blonde!

>>30115401
if we agree, how long will it last?

>>30115401
>[ ]Agree, let him dye your hair.
Eh, black is stealthy I guess.

>>30115401
>[x]Other

Use a wig

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>>30115401
Black hair is cute. I wouldn't mind dye.

>>30115401

>[x]Agree, let him dye your hair.

Better camo than blonde if nothing else.

>>30115401
[x]Agree, let him dye your hair.
Let's fully transform into the watch wearing dildo.

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>>30115632
>>dildo
>I wish that term would get used less in that quest. To be "a dildo" is to be something that fucks someone. "A bag of dildos" fucks someone in all their holes, hard.
>It's getting used so much now that it might as well just say "faggot".

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>>30115401
You agree, and he pops open a side entrance for you to enter the bar. He leads you into a back room you didn't even know existed, which appears to be his personal bedroom. A single bunk takes up the majority of the room, with a few personal belongings on shelves lining the walls. In the corner of the tiny room is a washbasin with an attached showerhead.

He sits you down on a stool before the wash basin, produces a tube of black hair dye as if from nowhere, and he gets to work with a maniacal grin on his face.

[Timeskip.]

You both emerge into the back of the bar together. "That... was the first time someone's done that to me," you say in a weak voice. "You could've been more gentle... And my hair's still all sticky."
Beard makes a choking noise behind you as the entire room goes into silent, seething anger directed squarely at him.
"Though I suppose black does suit me! Thank you~!" The room at large finally take note of your new hair color and the anger dissipates.

Beard takes a few moments longer to recover, but finally brings his camera to bear. "Alright, pose time I guess." At that phrase, you can hear a chorus of other picture-taking devices being drawn eagerly behind you.

>>30115840
So from this, if we cry "RAPE" anywhere near loner stalkers they are likely to help us...

Good to know!

>>30115293
Please do this now

Rolled 4

>>30115840
Your usual poses don't seem like they'd fit this outfit, so instead you opt for a few competent- and intimidating-looking poses, popping your pistols out for a few of them. A few serious-looking faces pulled for the crowd make the rapid-fire camera snaps double in intensity each time, and you generally do your best to cater to the audience as usual. After a few minutes of that, you opt for one final cute pose, with a cheeky wink at the end.
The crowd goes wild.
You actually get concerned that they're going to try something, with the hungry, eager looks in their eyes. But they seem to calm themselves when you remind them that you're very well armed by pulling one of your pistols and cocking it loudly.
In the moment of silence that follows this motion, you inform the men that if they touch, bother, or so much as look at either of your friends the wrong way, you will be very, very angry.
You punctuate the speech by twirling one of your pistols around your finger and slamming it home in its thigh holster, cowboy style.

Beard gives you the okay when he's got enough pictures and the crowd settles down back to their tables again, each table quickly distributing pictures of you from various angles between themselves.
Half-way up the stairs, you see Vasa in the shadow, watching you, mouth hanging slack.

>RANDOM ENCOUNTER DICE, GO!

>>30115805
Which it is. Was for a long time. It's just old slang

Rolled 3

>>30116050
You're about to go check on Vasa, ask her for her thoughts, when a heavy hand lands on your shoulder. You turn, bewildered, to find the familiar face of Ice before you.
"Hey, uh, listen. I still feel bad about before. But you seem to be alright now. Anyway, uh. Here, it's my number." He hands you a slip of paper with a long number on it. You can probably use it with the PDA or something, you assume. "If you need me or something, let me know. I'll see if I can help." Before you can respond to this gesture, he's already turned away from you and is making for the door.

[ ]Stop him, ask him something. (Write-in)
[ ]Go talk to Vasa (Check on Kris, does she want clothes)
[ ]Trade with Beard.

>>30116129
Wait what did Ice do? I don't remember being mad at him?

>>30116129
>[ ] thank Ice using your PDA
(can these things send texts/mails? that'd be perfect)
>[ ]Go talk to Vasa (Check on Kris, does she want clothes)

>>30116157
we're not mad at him, he just didn't really enjoy seeing us loot his friends.
and probably felt bad about letting us run away

>>30116129
>[x]Go talk to Vasa (Check on Kris, does she want clothes)

>>30116162
>>(can these things send texts/mails? that'd be perfect)
>PDA's are basically smartphones, except they can actually survive being dropped/thrown around, and they've been around since the 1980's.
>Data storage, data playback, internet access, web browsing, audio and text communication, GPS, appointments calendar and contacts lists.

>You know, the good stuff.

>>30116198
Ohhh, he stilk feels bad about what WE did. That makes sense. We could maybe make it up to him some time. Either way, go get yelled at by Vas again.

>>30116129
>[ ]Go talk to Vasa (Check on Kris, does she want clothes)
ask if she wants to trade with beard or anything

>>30116129
You find the email function on your PDA and type out a message as quickly as you can, sending it to the contact information he's just given you. You hear a bleeping from his pocket just as he's stepping out of the door. Right, it works!

You turn to face Vasa, still awe-struck on the stairway. "So... what'd you think?"

"I don't even... what was that?"

"My work, of course! Beard dresses me up and everyone takes photos. Didn't I already tell you that?"

"And... he pays you for that?"

"Yup! You two can join in too, if you want. But, I also told Beard you wouldn't want to. He said you can still get clothes from him if you want, and he'll just take it out of my pay."

Her face softens a little. "You'd do that for us?" She clears her throat, "well, I'll think about it, alright?"

"Un~!" You nod happily at her, before changing the subject. "So... how's Kris now?"

"The swelling's gone right down, and she's woken up. It looks like it was just a big bruise after all. Doc reckon's she's fine and we can go whenever."
Well, that's good news, though Vasa still looks pretty uncomfortable.

You take her by the wrist and start dragging her down the stairs. "Come on, help me trade with Beard. Then we'll be ready and we can get out of here!" She doesn't resist you as you pull up in front of Beard.

Before you can ask to see his wares, though, he hands a large wad of cash to you. "For the photos. Right then, what can I get you?"

INVENTORY:
Cash
-A large wad

Hello Kitty backpack
-Bright pink thin leather belt (floral)
-4 bars of chocolate
-1 week of tinned food
-First aid kit
-Plastic explosive
-Vividred Cosplay

Body armor
-1 Mp5 mag
-4 pistol mags


Weapons
-MP5K, Full
-Light pistol, Empty
-Dark pistol, Empty
Survival Knife

Survival Gear
-Torch + headband
-Detector

>Alright, let's try this stuff in a hopefully easier way. Just list off some stuff you guys think you want/need, and I'll tell you if it's in stock and if you can afford it.

>>30116535
Even easier: Ask Vas if she thinks we need anything. She's smart and might point out something good, and it'd show that we think she's smart and trust her.

>>30116535
-ammo for all the weapons
-filter mask
-goggles
-NVG
-combat knife or bayonet

>>30116535
a new belt?
the sturdy kind, possibly with some pouches?
paracord?
something to start a fire?
more ammo?
gas mask?

>>30116535
seconding >>30116621

we need some medical supplies and rations to keep us going, chocolate can only do so much

as also need a bigger better backpack and maybe a better vest to carry more gear

also seconding >>30116631

>>30116650
We have food for a week.

>>30116535
We need a better bag, and a gasmask.

An extra knife or two can't hurt.

>>30116644
>a new belt?
>the sturdy kind, possibly with some pouches?

as good as our pink belt has served us, we need a serious battlebelt now

>>30116535
DETONATORS!

and a deadman switch

>Larger backpack
>Ammo for Deagle brand Deagles
>Ammo for MP5
>Filter mask
>NVG
>Another knife

To put in the stash (Hello Kitty backpack):
>Pink leather belt
>Vividred Cosplay
>2x M1911A1 "American looking pistols"
>All of our .45ACP
>Filter Mask
>1 day's worth of canned food
>1 bar of chocolate
>Minor medical supply kit (some bandage and painkillers)
>1 knife
>Half of our leftover cash after purchase

To keep with us:
>MP5K
>All 9mm ammunition
>Deagles (which caliber? They come in .357mag, .44 mag and .50AE)
>All our Deagle ammo
>Rest of our food
>Rest of our medical supplies
>NVG
>Rest of our Chocolate
>Explosives
>Torch/headband
>Detector
>Rest of our cash

>>30116748
We didn't take the Deagles.

>>30116650
>chocolate can only do so much
lies and deceit

>>30116771
>Didnt take the deagles
Are you fucking retarded?

>>30116830
>The explosives you picked up fit just fine in your Hello Kitty backpack, but it's pretty much completely full now. The little machine gun that Vasa calls an "MP5K" has a sling that you've found fits comfortably over your shoulder, so it hangs at your side as you move.

Are you?

>>30116890
I'm telling you to go back and get them.

You don't simply find Deagles and not take them.

>>30116535
You turn to Vasa, "is there anything you think we need?"

She visibly thinks for half a heartbeat, before saying "yes, but it's going to cost a lot."

"That's alright, I have a lot!"

"How much is a lot?" You hand her the wad Beard just gave you, as well as what's left of your savings. "This... isn't a lot. Do you even know how money works?"

"OF COURSE I KNOW HOW MONEY WORKS! You work and people give you money, then you use it to buy things from other people. But you can't buy happiness with it, and everyone always needs more of it!"

She stares at you with an indeterminable expression for a long few seconds, before slowly starting her explanation. "Riight, look, money is the solid form of currency, which is an arbitrary value assigned to items to help the trade economy run smoothly..."

[A long few minutes later...]
[CONGRATULATIONS! Loli now understands currency.]

Vasa takes all of your money and starts haggling with Beard for a few more minutes. You sit and watch in awe as the prices go down while the number of items goes up and up. She finally stops talking and hands all of your money to Beard, as well as another wad she pulls from somewhere in her vest. Beard pushes the items across the bar to her and thanks her for the business. She pockets only a few of the items, before handing the rest to you. "Didn't get what I was hoping for, but no matter. We just need to avoid irradiated areas like we do anyway. Here, you should find these useful."

She's managed to acquire you a large bag similar to hers and Kris', which looks pretty sturdy and would blend in pretty well with the ground wherever you had to drop it, as well as a pair of wicked looking serrated knives with matching sheathe. She also gives you a small respirator, which you hang about your neck.

>>30116943
taking the girls here was the best thing we did so far

>>30116943
You start to move all the kit from your Hello Kitty pack to the larger ruck, and generally distribute everything about yourself for ease of use. Meanwhile, Vasa disappears upstairs once more, returning shortly with Kris leaning gently on her side. "The scum overcharged for the aspirin, but otherwise we're good to go."

Kris waves meekly at you, a thin smile on her face. "I have such a headache, you wouldn't believe." She's barely finished making the comment when her pocket starts vibrating. She looks down in vague surprise, before pulling out her PDA and answering the call, leaning away from Vasa to listen. "Yeah, it's me. Yeah. Yeah... right. No, no not... got it." She hangs up, and looks uncomfortably at Vasa. "That was the guy. He says your Dad's moving again. We need to stop hanging around and get after him."

Vasa's face goes blank, before she takes off towards the door. "Well, what the hell are we waiting for then? Let's get after him!"

>Anything else to do here? If so, speak now.

[Interlude.]

>I need to sort some stuff out for the day. Back in an hour, maybe a little more.

>>30117082
>Anything else to do here? If so, speak now.
guess not, unless we need a small checkup / have a few wounds to clean

>>30117082
>Actually, leave you on something to discuss.

Just as you're about to leave Skadovsk after Vasa, a hand catches your arm. A gruff voice, "'ey, girl, wait." It's Sergei. "'ts'a long shot, but 'ow 'bout takin' me with ya? This place sucks an' Sultan c'n choke on a dick fer all I care." His balaclava is still covering his features, but his eyes seem eager and honest, as far as you can tell.

Well, you're not sure if you can trust him, or how well the girls would take having a man accompany you, but they said the north is really, really dangerous, right? You really need all the help you can get.

[ ]Let him accompany you.
[ ]Turn down his offer.

[Interlude For Real.]

>>30117195
ask them if it's okay?

>>30117195
I'll second >>30117226

Lets ask the girls, but I'm inclined to let Sergei come along, we can always castrate him if he misbehaves

>>30116928
We have no use for them.

>>30117195
[x]Let him accompany you.

>>30117195
this: >>30117226
and possibly suggest ice as bckup?

>>30116928
deagle brand deagles are not all they are cracked up to be, but they are still guns, guns we can use, if we have to leave the area looking for Vas' dad, we should swing by the stash and give Kris the RPK and as much ammo as she can carry and bring the Deagles with us, never know when our 1911's get lost or break or run out of ammo

>>30117174
Spent all our money.
>>30117195
I don't like it. We have had close to zero interaction with him, he has no idea where we're going, and he wants to tag just because he's bored or tired of his employer or something like that?

>>30117195
>trusting a cheeki
tell him to fuck off in the cutest way possible

>>30117262
More than just misbehaving, he could spy on us and feed information to bad people. We have no way to know because we have no experience with him

>>30117311
Kris didn't really get a shot at the stash. If they think we can spare the time ask Kris what kind of guns she prefer, or what Vas thinks is best for her since she probably had a hand in what shooting Kris knows anyway.

>>30117311
>>30117662
I say we get the deagles as our regular pistols and stow the 1911's in a stash.

>>30117662
yeah, we need to give Kris her share of the lootz

>>30117710
dude, deagles are more sensitive to ammo and dirt than 1911's, we're going to want to keep them around

>>30117730
>more sensitive to ammo and dirt than 1911
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

About the same, really. You give those outdated pieces of shit too much credit. These aren't the highly tuned modern custom rangequeens either. These are worn, battered combat A1's that like to feed only ball ammo and aren't really all that reliable even in a clean environment.

>>30117710
I think there was concern the deagles would be too powerful for Loli? That seems a valid point, maybe try them out to see if we can use them well? Otherwise, Kris and Vas are stronger than us and might be able to use them.

>>30117776
>You give those outdated pieces of shit too much credit.
I don't, I carried a shitty 1911 through Iraq in the marines, and it worked better than a DE did in perfect range conditions after being cleaned and fed proper ammo

>>30117808
>I carried a shitty 1911 through Iraq in the marines
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

>>30117730
Kris probably doesn't care about loot, but if some of it would be more helpful than what she has, she should have that. Makes it easier to not get hurt, and if Kris doesn't get hurt Vas won't have to cry when she thinks nobody is looking.

>>30117934
Take your shitty meme back to /b/.

>>30117989
shall I take your shitty posing back with it then?

>>30117999
Wow. You are retarded. You should visit /k/ once in a while. It would bring you on the level, so to speak.

Of course you won't reach Master Chief up there, but at least you'll know a shit gun when you see it.

>>30118047
Yeah, like any 1911 you're going to find in the Zone.

You talk as if you've only been to a range 2 times in your life.

>>30118084
I've never been on a range, unless you count me firing my assigned rifle during my time of conscription, but I'd rather have a Zone-1911 than a Zone-Deagle.

>Err, okay. So what's happening? We're asking the girls what they think of Sergei, then stopping by the stash?

>Alrighty, writing.

>>30118238
You weren't assigned shit, poser

>>30118375
You keep saying that. I'm in a country that had conscription until recently. I was FORCED to learn to use weaponry. I had no choice in the matter. The only one posing here is you. Are you going to tip your Fedora at me soon?

>>30118274
sounds good

>>30118375
>>30118468
gentlemen, calm your shit

>>30117195
You turn to Kris, who's stopped behind you, looking after Vasa. "What d'you think?"

"Eh, oh. Well. If he's dodgy, we can always butcher him later, right?" Sergei shifts uncomfortably, "Vass won't like it, but she doesn't like anything so it's fine." You take this as a positive, and tell Sergei he's welcome to come along if he'd like, before running out the door after Vasa. Kris and Sergei immediately follow, and you hear Sultan screaming after you about how he didn't give Sergei permission to leave, and how he's going to track him to the ends of the-
The rest of the threat is cut off by the boat door slamming shut.

A little ways away from the boat, you manage to catch up to Vasa, who has apparently realized that you can't keep pace if she doesn't wait for you.
After a quick discussion, you convince her not to blow Sergei's brains out of his head on the sheer principle of the matter, and to make a short detour back to the stash. She agrees to the first on condition that Sergei removes his balaclava, which he does, and to the second on condition that Sergei waits outside and that she's the one to distribute weapons.


An hour later, you're stood on the road outside the sawmill with your assembled team. Vasa is still sporting her silenced sniper, Kris has traded up for what is apparently a slightly better variant of her old Russian assault rifle, and Sergei is grinning from ear to ear while hefting a machine gun that basically looks like Kris' rifle, but with a longer barrel and a bunch of drums instead of the more common box magazines.
Doggy appeared while you were all rummaging, but luckily Sergei didn't react by shooting him up, and proper introductions were made. Doggy seems content with the addition to the team, sitting by Sergei's side, wagging his tail as you take aim with one of your two new desert eagles held firmly in both hands.

[D20 Shooty check]

Rolled 20

>>30118619

>>30118640
Yay me.

Rolled 1

>>30118619

Rolled 18

>>30118640
We have a winner.
>inb4 I roll a 1

>>30118653
For fucks sake.

>>30118653
Cum on.

First nat20 I roll and it gets trod on.

>>30118653 (you)
i knew this would happen

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>>30118640
>>30118653

I'm assuming this is to determine how we manage the recoil. Pretty good with that 18 there.

>>30118682
If you knew it would happen, why didn't you stop it? Not that it matters, we came in at a solid 18 which is just fine.

>>30118584
I am calm. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to play WarThunder.

>What is it with this quest and cancelling nat 1/20's? Goddamn, guys. It's like you don't even want to crit.

>>30118768
Crits are for scrubs.

Or 50 cals.

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>>30118768
Can't be having fun now, that would be silly.

>>30118768
Personally, I think the whole critting on a D20 is, no offense, completely retarded.

A d20 just doesnt have enough sides to make it a unique occurrence.

If you want to keep the crits, I suggest you switch to D100 and just x5 all the DCs.

>>30118735
i usually am a failure at divination/predictions
>>30118768
sowie

>>30118789
20s are more fun though.

>>30118619
You pull the trigger, and the gun leaps in your hands. You keep your grip though, and just about manage to put strength into your arms again before it cracks you in the face. The round hits the road and skips away, only a few inches from the rock you were aiming at.

Vasa comments from behind you. "Well. The recoil didn't break your arms. I guess you can use it if you want. Though I'd recommend you keep a real weapon to hand. You know, in case you need to actually shoot something." Sergei sniggers, and you give both of them a withering glare. "Alright, enough messing about. Let's get out of here already."

Vasa once again takes point and leads the party away towards... wherever it is you're going. You don't really care, so you just stay quiet and let her lead, chatting quietly to Sergei. Apparently he has quite a colorful history in the Zone, but he never really goes into detail as to what exactly he's been doing. He tells how he got this scar when a bloodsucker attacked his squad and he took it on with a bread knife, and this other scar when he got captured by bandits a few months back. This other burn scar, he got trying to rescue his friend trapped inside a flame anomaly, and this one was...
He admits he ended up in Sultan's debt and has been working as his bodyguard for a short while to try to pay it off. He took a chance with you, hoping that Sultan would have enough brains to not come after this group. And if they did, they certainly wouldn't stand a chance.

After a few hours of walking, the entire party suddenly comes to a stop. "Eh, Vasa, what is it?"

She points forwards. And then to the left. And to the right. And finally behind you. "Anomalies. Anomalies everywhere. We're lost." In each direction she points, you can sort of see a faint glimmer in the still air, as if something is disrupting that spot. The glimmers are all around you.

>Actions?

>>30119010
get out our detector and see if we can plot a path through them

also, I've forgotten what the different anomolies do, any anons care to inform us of these ones particulars?

>>30119010
whip out dem bolts or whatever small disposable objects we have and find a way through.
Stay on the lookout for any juicy artifacts

>>30119010
bip bip bip, that detector isn't for finding old coins

>>30119010
We could let Sergei "test the waters" for us, if we feel we don't want to be a hero anymore. Or do it ourselves, we've had some experience with this.

>>30119010
You got this deep into an anomaly field without your detector alerting you?? You take it out and check it. As far as you can tell, it's working just fine, but it's not reading anything despite being so close to the haze. You look around for anything to throw, but find nothing useful to hand. Sergei seems to get what you're looking for though, and offers up a single bolt out of a bag of bolts he apparently keeps in his vest pocket for some reason.

You toss it underarm into the haze in front of you, and it disappears. A whop behind you makes you turn, to find the bolt lying at Kris' feet at the back of the party.
"Well that's not good," Sergei mutters."

You retrieve the bolt and try throwing it behind Kris instead. It plomps into the ground at the head of the column. Throwing it to the right, it disappears again, and a bolt falls from the sky, bouncing off Vasa's head. She glares at you, insisting you did that on purpose.

Only one direction left... you throw the bolt to the left, and it disappears. It doesn't come back.

>Actions?

>>30119187
turn around to face everyone, strike a pose with a big ass smile and then dive into the unknown

>>30119187
Throw more bolts until we have made sure there is no opening. Not even one we could crawl through.

>>30119187
no no no no this is too tempting, it MUST be a trap
check if we can escape without jumping in an unknown dimension
i feel like it's either jump in or try to rocket jump away

>>30119187
throw an armed grenade into the last one? Maybe we can hear or see it if it comes out anywhere?

>>30119187
Turning to face everyone, you strike a dashingly heroic pose. You summon up the biggest smile you can possibly muster, before diving head-first into the haze. The world warps around you, and you feel like your breakfast is being forced back up into your mouth. The team look like they're being flung away from you, or you from them. You can't quite tell. The consistency of the marsh you're walking through goes from browny-green to a dull grey.

Then your face meets concrete. You shift your weight to your forearms and roll the rest of the impact off, bringing yourself back to your feet and ready for action. You're in a street, in the middle of a built-up residential area. In the distance ahead of you, you can make out the shape of a power plant. The buildings on either side are separated by narrow streets, and most of the doors have been cracked open.

After a few moments, the rest of your party comes stumbling into the street beside you. Kris immediately drops to her knees and wretches against the wall.

[ ]Head towards the power plant.
[ ]Try one of the side roads.
[ ]Try the buildings.

>>30119327
[x]Try the buildings.
Cover. Fast. We don't want to get shot.

>>30119339
seconding this

do the monolith still think we are one of them?
this sounds awfully like their territory

>>30119327
[ x ]Try the buildings.
oh, and i guess we can check our PDA to see where we are?

>>30119327
Get to cover/hiding. Cities have a tendency to be loaded with baddies for us. Then ask the team if they recognize the place. Or check if WE do. You never know when most of your experience happened while mind controlled.

>>30119367
We didn't hand in any resignation or anything. Last encounter was friendly and not that long ago ingame so they might, but not to our party.

>>30119327
Being out in the open is no good. As Sergei bends down to retrieve his bolt from the ground, you quickly rush to the nearest door and step through it. Inside is a street in a built-up residential district, with a power plant visible in the distance and the rest of your team, looking in confusion between you and an open door.
Sergei mutters one word. "Crap."

[ ]Ask the team what they think.
[ ]Try a different door.
[ ]Try the side streets.
[ ]Go for the power plant.

>>30119419
[x]Try the side streets.
COVER!

>>30119419
FUN.
Try the same door a few times.

>>30119419
>[x]Ask the team what they think.
um... we fucked up?

>>30119419
haha time for Pripyat exploration!
>[X]Try a different door.

>>30119419
You run straight back to the same door again and step through. You're back in the street. One more time. Still in the street. "Ain't gun' change," Sergei calls to you, "called a space anom'. Pretty much fucked 'less we c'n fin' an exit hole." Well, that's helpful.
You throw yourself through a different doorway, and find yourself stepping out of one of the side streets. About-facing and walking back down the street, you find yourself exiting the street opposite it.

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>>30119563
LET THE MINDFUCKERY COMMENCE

>>30119563
Hopelessy, you try throwing yourself down every possible exit from the street, but every door, street and road just leads straight back to this street.

>Ideas?

>>30119598
Do we have a rope or some string? If so use it to tie us together so we can double back through places, going through the routes in a systematic fashion

>>30119598
Doggy is sure to be able to find a way out

>>30119598
So the street leads to the powerplant, but whats in the direction opposite to it?

So this is a quest about a child in the zone.

Why does it NOT seem dissonant?

Child should not fit in zone.

Maybe zone is just so fucked up that anything would fit here.

>>30119598
You look to Doggy. "Doggy, we need you to help us. Can you find the way out, Doggy?" He barks once, wags his tail and starts sniffing around the ground. "Good Doggy, gooood Doggy!" He moves off to one side, barks happily at something, then runs through the wormhole. A few seconds later he comes from behind you and leaps into the wormhole again.
Yep, he's got no idea.

Behind you, Kris is mumbling under her breath to herself, deep in thought.
"...Hey, Sergei. You've seen these before? How, uh... how tall are they?"

"Eh? They's not tall 't'all. Maybe tall's me? If that."
She goes into quiet thought again.

>>30119598
welp, to the power plant, i guess?
i'm not sure if it's just because i WANT to, but i feel like we'll have to blow everything up

>>30119674
Kris mumbles something else that you don't catch but Vasa does, and she makes her way to the nearest building and smashes one of the windows in. She clambers through it, falling onto her ass out the doorway next to it.

"Hmmm. So even the windows on this level are covered..."

[ ]You're beat. Sit and wait for Kris to get you out.
[ ]You can do it, Loli! Break the puzzle.

>>30119674
Climb over something? Windows? Blow one up? Or just go to the plant like the Zone wants?

>>30119744
how about we try to blow up a wall?
but let's make sure everyone is in a safe(ish) spot from a teleported explosion

>>30119598
The one that's LEAST worn is the one that gets tried only once. That's the way out. And don't tell me nobody's gotten out. Where do you think Mutants come from? Shit like this.

find the path least travelled.

>>30119744
>[ ]You can do it, Loli! Break the puzzle.
Go vertical. See if we can go over it.

>>30119744
>>30119749
>>30119788
You run a critical eye over the entire

Hey... Hey, Sergei. Give me a leg up?" He walks over the building next to you and offers you his hands, cupped together. You put one foot in them, and he hauls you upwards. You grab onto the ledge of the open window and quickly haul yourself inside. You're now standing in the bedroom of a dilapidated old one-bedroom flat of a three-story apartment. Most of the opposite wall is gone, and you can see a fire escape on the other side. The main corridor leads to a bunch of other similar-looking flats, with a flight of stairs at the end leading to the other floors.

You call out to the others that you're in just fine, and Sergei quickly gives a leg-up to the other two as well, before clambering up himself, unassisted.

[ ]Try the fire escape.
[ ]Go for the stairwell.
[ ]Try one of the other flats.

>>30119822
Let's try the fire escape.
The stairwell would lead us to the same floor again, I think.

>>30119822
>[ ]Try the fire escape.

>>30119822
>Oh gods, what? Why is the first line missing?

You run a critical eye over the entire length of the first floor of the street's windows. Most of them are either smashed or still in their frames. One of them, however, lies open.

>>30119822
>[ ]Try one of the other flats.
>Keep geiger counter out, + anomaly detector
>Make sure to focus on LISTENing, becuase you can hear certain inhabitants of buildings before you can see them

>>30119822
>[ ]Try the fire escape.

>>30119822
Check the other flats, quietly.

>>30119822
You make for the fire escape. The ladder to the next floor up is gone, but the one to street level is still there. You grasp it tightly, and start clambering down it. As your feet are about to touch the floor, it's replaced by the bottom of a sewer tunnel. You're gripping onto the access ladder at the bottom of an open manhole. The tunnel itself looks pretty bleak and uninviting, but the manhole cover looks as if it's only recently been pushed aside.

[ ]Climb up.
[ ]Try the tunnels.

>>30119870
Freaky shit.
We must go further.
I'm resisting to say ''we must go deeper''

>>30119870
>[x]Climb up.
We can always climb down again.

>>30119870
Make sure the others know where we went, by leaving Bolts or something behind us, and [x]Try the Tunnels, because Lolis in tunnels is my fetish.

>>30119870
Climb up. Check the other routes before going further to get a feel for it.

>>30119870
[ ]Try the tunnels.
tell it to the rest of the group first

>>30119893
>>30119898
>>30119899
>>30119926
Loli stop bouncing up and down.

>>30119926
They already know how much loli loves dark scary tunnels. Remember?

>>30119892
Was this a vote for tunnels? We're going deeper?

>>30119954
Yep, it was. We must go deeper.

Rolled 2

>>30119954
I don't know so have a coin flip

>>30119954
yup
your face: kira_just_as_planned.jpg

>>30119970
Such engrish, many wow.

>>30119980
Go away, tumblr.

>>30119954
See: >>30119893

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>>30119870
When confronted with the option, there really is no other choice. You finish dropping to the floor, and start your way along the sewer pipe. You're sure the others will work out where you are soon enough.
After just a few short paces, the light from the manhole stops being useful, and you have to resort to your headlamp to see any further.
As soon as the lamp comes on, you're confronted with the horribly familiar sight of a hunched figure half-wearing a gas-mask. He's staring straight at you. And with a growl, he leaps.

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>>30119994
I'm not tumblr you cis white male heteronormative white oppressing shitlord, go play in traffic! Hey everyone ignore this guy's posts, he's a misogynist.

I'm trolling. Please don't fall for it.

>>30120005
Sure you are.

>>30119996
We got shiny new knife!

I know how this works.

If you stand in the Snork's hitbox so your feet are on his head, he can't hurt you, since he lunges forward to attack you, and his attack's hitbox goes PAST you. You can then merrily knife his hilariously ineffective ass to death.

I also know how to win a knifefight with a Pseudogiant, if it comes to that.

>>30119996
You barely have time to react, pulling both your pistols from their holsters and bringing them to target with a terrified squeal. They'll never make it in time. It's going to hit you right in the face!

With a soft whop, it disappears mid-air before you. Well, that was close.

You shrug and continue along the tunnel for a while, until you come to a junction. You try the left tunnel, but it brings you out on the right side. Trying the left tunnel brings you back to the right.

Bah! It's a long and disappointed shuffle back to the access ladder to get back out of the dead end.

When you haul yourself out the hole, you're greeted by the party waiting for you.
"Where on Earth were you?" Kris asks as soon as you emerge.

Vasa answers. "Dark, scary tunnel full of who-knows what mutants and no obvious sign of an exit. Do you really need to ask where she was?" You sense a deep hint of annoyance from Vasa. Sergei just looks between you all, confused. Doggy just barks happily. Wait, Doggy? How did he manage to keep up with the party when it's all been climbing so far?? Eh, whatever.

>>30120059
Doggy climbed.
Anyone know way out?

>>30120059
doggy to the rescue!
or not

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>>30120059
There's something there.
I can sense it.
You don't see illusions for nothing.
The Monolith calls us.

>>30120103
Looks like Cheeki Breeki got Cheeki BROKEN.

>>30120059
The street you're now standing in is very similar to the first, except one of the buildings has collapsed into a pile of rubble on one side, and the power plant seems a little closer.

After a few attempts at poking around the area, you again discover no obvious way out. Your last resort is clambering over the rubble. As you do so, you hear voices ahead and gesture for everyone to stay low and hold back. Vasa crawls up to the edge of the rubble with you. Just over the other side is a small clearing with two men in the distinctive full-length rain coats. One of them is holding a map, while the other is looking with rapt attention over his shoulder. "Great," you mutter to Vasa. "Maybe these guys know the way!"

You both crawl forwards into better positions, watching over them from just a few yards away.

"I can't believe we're spying on bandits to find a way out of here," Vasa grumbles beside you. You hush her, you're trying to listen to what they're saying.

The first bandit, holding a map in both hands, turning it about in his hands in futility, finally exclaims. "Where the hell are we!? We've been here for a month! How the hell is it even possible to get lost in a city!?"

At this a third bandit appears from a side street, calling to them. "Hey guys! I found a way out!" Both men turn to face him. Without further ado, he places the barrel of his rifle in his mouth and pulls the trigger.

The clearing is silent for a long moment, before Vasa breaks it. "Well, that was kinda depressing..."

[ ]Ask the bandits for clues.
[ ]Butcher them both and take their map.
[ ]Back off, find a different way out.

>>30120143
>[x]Butcher them both and take their map.
The act of kinging a piece in checkers.

>>30120143
>[ ]Butcher them both and take their map.
We get to practise our knife skills while helping them take the same way as their friend. It's a win win

>>30120143
Maybe Sergei should ask these guys? Bandits would shoot us, but maybe not him.
After that we should stick with them if they don't go full retard with the trigger fingers. If they do, welp, what a shame.

>>30120143
>[ ]Ask the bandits for clues.
weapon-grade cuteness
weirdly, they're not nazis

>>30120167
>>30120168
No guys we need knife practice for the next time we go up against Kiyaya

>>30120176
Muh humanity.

>>30120143
[x]Butcher them both and take their map.
Worked in Gone with the Blast Wave.

>>30120143
>that reference
Oh you glorious bastard

>[ ]Butcher them both and take their map.

>>30120143
You shrug, and tell Vasa you're getting that map, before leaping off the rubble and into the middle of the two men.

[DC 14 Stabby check]

>>30120143
[ ]Ask the bandits for clues.
They may not know the way, but whatever they do know may be useful. And really, what better time for Giltine to appear than after being "sated" by a willing sacrifice?

Rolled 1

>>30120218
SHATTYSTABSTAB

Rolled 9

>>30120218
here goes

Rolled 12

>>30120218
whee

>>30120212
reference to what? i feel like i should know

Rolled 10

>>30120218

Rolled 9

>>30120229
this is what I get for misspelling STABBY as SHATTY...

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Rolled 17

>>30120231
webcomic called Gone With the Blast Zone

Rolled 6

>>30120218
>>30120229
Welp.

Rolled 14

>>30120238
>>30120233
>>30120231
>>30120230
>>30120229

Gewd
Jaerb

>>30120218
>>30120229
Right as you're about to hit the two with your extended knife, space distorts around you again. Both men spin in place at the "whop" you make as you disappear, and you find yourself above them, falling straight onto them. You don't have time to react though, before you plummet between them and, with another whop, hit the floor in the rubble next to Vasa. She turns to stare in sheer mind-numbed awe at you.

"I know you said you were getting that map, but I was expecting a more... linear approach." You tilt your head in confusion at her, before you notice that your blade is currently piercing the map they were holding.

That was totally your plan all along, right?
The spray of rapid gunfire over your heads brings your focus back into the game.

>Kris, Sergei and Doggy are at the base of the rubble below you.
>Vasa is beside you.
>They're both in the open, but moving quickly to cover.

>Actions/Tactics?

>>30120267
There should be a witty joke in there somewhere but I just want to cry..

Rolled 5

>>30120293
Pistol on. Apply directly to Center of mass

>>30120293
Open fire and then run.

>>30120243
Wave. It's even in the watermark, you double heretic!

>>30120295
"Roll your age, for once."

>>30120293
shoot until they die

>>30120293
I feel like Kaleun has become the master of satisfying crit fails because of this quest

Rolled 15

>>30120293
Tell them we're in a hurry and they should stop wasting time thinking they can fight Giltine in this place and just follow their friend. Else we will have to play a very special game with them...

>>30120293
Do we have a grenade? They work wonders.

>>30120293
An easy kill if ever you saw one! You pull both pistols and open fire freely into the space ahead, hoping that the sheer weight of rounds being unloaded will take them both down.

[DC 15 Shooty check]

Rolled 13

>>30120324
FUCK NO.

>>30120329
pew pew motherfucker

Rolled 4

>>30120329
welp

Rolled 19

>>30120329

Rolled 2

>>30120329
LEL I rolled low

>>30120343
whew, saved

>>30120343
>>30120344
Wow! talk about catching a bullet

Rolled 7, 5 = 12

>>30120355
It's ok i'll roll high

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>>30120329
>>30120343
It's a smooth execution. The volley from your left pistol tears through the left bandit, while your right pistol guns the right bandit down.
You still have at least half a magazine left, too!

With the dust settling and no other bandits appearing from the woodwork, you're pretty sure it's safe to check out the map now. The group assembles, and you unfold the map before them.
One glance tells you immediately why the bandits were struggling to find their way out using this thing.

[ ]Poke around randomly some more.
[ ]Attempt to navigate by the map.

>>30120424
Randomly. pass the mass off to Vasa...

Wait, no.

Pass the map off to Doggy.

>>30120424
So retarded.

>[x]Poke around randomly some more.
And feed the map to Doggy.

>>30120424
>[ ]Attempt to navigate by the map.
Just take the red line to the Themes and then follow the water out.

Rolled 13

>>30120424
Let the smart people read the map, the rest can look around. They can decide between themselves who is which.

Rolled 6

>>30120424
give the map to Vasa while we loot the bandits

>>30120458
You realize that you should give a real vote as well as the joke, right?

>>30120462
Please tell me you are retarded. Or didn't look at the map.

>>30120471
>You realize that you should give a real vote as well as the joke, right?

Well I thought that decision would be pretty in character for Loli.

>>30120495
I thought Loli wasn't a retard IC, she was just really uninformed of the world?

>>30120471
Why so upset?

>>30120514
Why so dumb?

Rolled 19

>>30120529
Why so 8?

>>30120504
No but she tends to just go with the flow. And deriving your decisions from a map of the London underground felt like something she would do.

Why does it matter? the majority obviously didn't agree with me.

>>30120540
Just wonderin y u hef 2 b mad

>>30120424
>>30120424
You attempt to feed the map to Doggy before checking the bandits and poking around randomly some more. Right before Doggy chows down on the map, though, Kris leaps forwards and snatches the map from you. "Don't! This is the map out!"

The group stare blankly at her for a very long few moments. "No, look, see. If you assume we started at Watford Junction, then we made the change at Oxford Circus. The little jaunt through the tunnel then was us crossing to the Edgware Line. So all we need to do now is follow the line to Euston and through to Highgate, which is clearly where we want to be!"

"That still doesn't tell us where we need to go."

"Sure it does!" She consults the map for a few more seconds, then skips forwards through a doorway and disappears. Sergei looks between you all, shrugs, and jogs through the door after her.

Under Kris' guidance, it only takes two more wormhole jumps (both of which she gets first time), and you find yourself stood in front of the power plant, outside the space anomaly field.

"And how in the hell do you figure that, genius?" Vasa asks her incredulously.

"I, uh, had to travel on the Underground once. I just figure maybe the Zone has the same logic? Or lack of."

"So, uh, where are we anyway," you ask noone in particular.

It's Sergei who answers for you. "Jup'ter plan', in Yanov. We en't too far frum the station. Reckon we c'n crash there jus' fine t'night."

[Part 19 End]

Rolled 15, 8, 5, 20, 13, 1, 7, 17, 14, 6, 9, 10, 12, 13, 13, 15, 19, 5, 15, 12 = 229

>>30120548
<the fatass throws his dice across the table in ritual celebration. Although he is happy, it is one of the most obnoxious things you've ever seen, as everything is knocked over and there are dice on the floor.>

>>30120548
Awesome work, thanks for the thread.

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Phew, thanks for the thread, folks.

I'll be sticking around on-and-off for a while for any Q&A, and you can use what's left of the thread for whatever.

Now I need to go do stuff, though.

>>30120548
i'm not completely sure of what happened, but we got out of it.
yay?

anyway, thanks for the thread, see you next time

>>30120548
Thanks for the thread, bro. 'Twas breddy gud.

>>30120585
Q. Why?
Specifically, Why this?

>>30120538
Why so 19?

>>30120589
This happened:
http://stalker.wikia.com/wiki/Space_Anomaly

>>30120593
A: Because fun things are fun.

>>30120625
What is fun?

>>30120585
thanks for the thread Kaleun, cya next time

>>30120585
Q I can't ask from ingame knowledge alone and you probably won't answer but I want to ask anyway. If nothing else maybe someone will speculate: Why the hell did Kris and Vas keep stalking Loli after she was taken by the Monolith? Did they not realise? Did they know she would escape? Did they just blindly hope? I just don't get it.

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>>30120766
They didn't? I'm not sure what to say without anything being a potential spoiler, but I can confirm that they weren't stalking you why you were under Monolith control.

>>30120766
no idea how this anon got that impression, we only encountered them after moving to skadovsk, after breaking free of monolith control

>>30121313
iirc we were being watched by something since the beginning (Ice's group I think?) which that anon may have gotten confused with the girls

>>30121441
More specifically, 2 voices with a tone similar to theirs. I am even more interested in learning that wasn't them.

The observers only tracked you until you were picked up by the Spetsnaz team outside Rostok.

You were next observed entering the sewer system after getting all your stuff stolen.

You were not observed at any period between those two points, including the weeks under Monolith control.

>>30123332
Ah, but that was so shortly after escaping that it would take one hell of a coincidence for said observers to just run into us unless they were
a) watching us all along or
b) otherwise knew that we would escape as well as when or
c) an entirely new set of observers

I had first assumed it was option A. Knowing that it must be one of the others is definitely interesting to me. And yes, I am too invested in this plot for my own good.

>>30124444
Seeing as we are the only Loli death machine in the zones history, I do believe we would attract attention and that c) is most likely.

Also, your shadowruns, untwist them.

>>30124481
Perfectly likely that more people would stalk us, yes. That's why I even included it as an option despite the extreme similarity between pre-Monolith observer dialogs, the post-Monolith observer dialogs, and conversations with Kris & Vas themselves.

You've got the stressing on "introducing ourselves" well, you've got the optimist/pessimist duality with the latter generally being a practitioner of brevity, you've got the one figure observing through a sniper's scope, the stealthy avoidance of gendered pronouns...

I just feel like either it is all them OR Kaleun specifically set out to make me think it's all them only for it to turn out not to be.

I didn't leave it alone, so I'm going to just post this one thing I had completely failed to connect previously.

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>"I hate to get straight to business like this, but it certainly is exciting that you stopped by here. I'm sorry about the less-than hospitable welcome by my guards, by the way. I had expressly forbidden them to do any harm to you. But this nonsense about the 'Giltinė' rumors... Ah, anyway! Yes, those two suggested that you'd be around here soon what with that whole mess the Marked One is kicking up. I really didn't think you'd actually show up this quickly, though! Just goes to show how impressive you really are, hmm? Maybe the Zone really does favor you."
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/28054227/#p28054630

>"She didn't help them."
>"I'm aware."
>"But... if she doesn't help them, she won't join the expedition."
>"I'm aware."
>"If she doesn't join the expedition, we can't introduce ourselves!"
>"I'm. Aware."
>"How are we supposed to re-unite her with the mutt now?"
>"Don't worry, we'll get another chance. Somehow. Come on, she's entering the tunnel. We'll intercept again on the other side."
>The grassy knoll at the top of the ridge shifts its weight about slightly, then transforms into a blur of motion into the suburb.
>The knoll next to it sighs despondently before following suit.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/28054227/#p28065049

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I guess I wasn't doing as good a job on researching as I should have been.

what ever happened to getting revenge on that scientist and his mercs, did we just forget about that?

>>30125873
Yes.

>>30125873
not entirely, but we are a long way away from where they were

>>30125873
We didn't forget, we've just been busy. Though it'd be fair to say that Loli probably forgot. Her attention span hasn't been spectacular so far. Note how she also has done next to nothing to investigate this whole monolith thing and why she was able to escape, despite the whole 'mind controlled murderslave' being a pretty nasty fate and one that she has absolutely no idea how to prevent. She hasn't even stopped to wonder if she can do anything to help not getting mind controlled again.