In the last thread we left off with a couple things, so let's start with those before our journey resumes.

Mutate the "comatose" atmospheric technicians body into a brain mass? (Difficulty 85, dangerous, would increase the number of things you can take control of by 5).
>Yes (1d100)
>No

>>41039263
>No
We need to wait until we at least have control over the majority of the crew.

>>41039263
>>No
Patience

>>41039325
Speaking of, we should get a little more aggressive with spreading our spores. We should have everyone under our control before we reach our destination.

>>41039354
We have a very short number of hours before arrival.

There's reason to be in a hurry here.

Rolled 53 (1d100)

>>41039263
>>Yes (1d100)

>>41039370
To be more exact, the current time is 0800. The ship is expected to arrive around 2200 (assuming no faults).

>>41039263
I forgot to mention (I seem to forget a lot of things!) that if you succeed the check (best of 5) it won't be inherently obvious that his body has been tampered with upon inspection.

If you fail it, you'll be hoping that the doctor is blind, or otherwise she'll notice that his body has been mutated in a strange way.

Lets infect the doctor first. Get him or her some coffee.

>>41039554
or seduce her

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>>41039706

>Mixed feelings
Let's move on for now, and I'll present the option again if a bunch of people decide they want to do it, or if it becomes slightly safer (or easier) for the spore to do it.

Current time: 0800
Docking time: 2200

The spore's engineering host opens the door to engineering, a vast room with pipes, tanks, and computers galore. Every wall seems to have a readout or a gauge. In the back of engineering he can see the first section of the engine, as well as a door marked "Reactor Core."

There are a great many things here, and your host knows a bit about all of it because of his previous gains!

With the other engineers off at breakfast, your current task is to watch the faultboard, over by the main computer station.
>Inspect the room
>Inspect the engineering consoles
>Stare at the faultboard
>Write-in

-- (Comatose)
>Wake up? (Optional)

-- (Mallory)
At this point people have started to leave for their respective duties. The other engineers enter the common room to retrieve theirs, as well as some of the bridge crew.

"Hey Card, the captain is taking the breakfast shift again and wants his meal on the bridge. You got a plate ready for him?" says one of the bridge officers. Mallory isn't very familiar with this person, but she thinks his name is Alexander. He is the ship's navigation officer (pilot).

At this point, Mallory has little to do until they land. She is expected to inspect cargo before the loading and unloading process begins, and to make sure all the lifters are working properly. That task usually only takes about an hour, maybe two.
>Write-in

>>41039263
>>41039554
The doctor will be easy. The patient is under constant but basic observation, correct?
Have him move a little, as if starting to wake up, but not totally and just wait for the doctor to come in to investigate
Bite his arm when he approaches.

Also
>No

I don't want to risk a host with a brain exploding on us. tg dice are not known for mercy.

>>41039798
>Inspect the engineering consoles

>Stay Comatose

>Offer to take the plate up to the bridge for card cause Mallory has nothing better to do

>>41039798
>>Inspect the engineering consoles
>Don't wake up

Mallory
>Go get some infected coffee for the doctor as an appreciation for patching everyone up.

>>41039798
I've got a question, actually. Do we have full access to all of our host's knowledge instantly, or are those things locked within his personality that we are suppressing?

>>41039798
>"Hey Card, the captain is taking the breakfast shift again and wants his meal on the bridge. You got a plate ready for him?" says one of the bridge officers.
Maybe we can volunteer to bring that plate instead somehow.

>>41039888
We clearly don't. Did you not notice we had to read a book to relearn engineering and had to ask where the hell we were going.

>>41039798
>Inspect the engineering consoles

-- (Comatose)
>Other
Just sorta twitch a little, just a bit of arm or leg movement to get the attention of whatever is monitoring the host. If we can adjust heart rate or something to get the doc in here.

-- (Mallory)
Offer to take the captain's meal to the bridge for him, since we don't have much to do.
Infect it on the way.

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Found our waifu

>>41039915
That's why I asked, I figured if the host's mind is still there but suppressed, maybe we could start searching through memories to get more detailed data on things.

Hey Spore, once we get enough vectors could we actually mutate or morph their bodies into specialized organs?
Like spore producers or biological sensors that can detect nearby biomass etc?

Remember to archive now before some anon screws with the tags

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>>41039888
>Do we have full access to all of our host's knowledge instantly
Academic things yes. When you take a new host you get a good understanding of what they know.

Because of the way the spore suppresses the personality of its host, it makes it more difficult to access their memories. Making contact helps jog your memory.

>>41039915
You were much stupider at the time, so even though you knew what he knew you didn't understand it. The book allowed you a better understanding of engineering. Keep in mind, your host is a low-rung engineer. The chief would know a lot more than he does.

>>41040001
>could we actually mutate or morph their bodies into specialized organ
You can now already, but you're not very good at it. The more visible the mutation, the easier it is.

>>41040003
Uh, will do.

>>41040057
So the process of taking over the brain messes with the memories and makes them harder to get to. Makes sense.

>making contact
You mean with the host's personality? Would we be able to do that without relinquishing control of the body, even temporarily? We may want to try that at some point.

>>41040149
Making contact with people the host knows or knows of. That's why every time the spore sees something new they recall information about it.

>>41039853
>>41039858
>>41039960
>Inspect the engineering consoles
The Richardson host sits before the primary engineering console and shakes the trackball to wake it up.

From this console you can see the status of everything related to engineering, arranged in easy-to-use tabs! The status of the engine and the reactors, the level of the various tanks, and all kinds of other things that an engineer would need to know.

From here you can also make some adjustments. A lot of the really important stuff requires the chief engineer's passcode to enact, but you know that from here you could cause a lot of damage. Or fix a lot of things if they break.

Your host has spent a lot of time in this room, and sitting at this console.
>Do something with the console (write-in)
>Inspect the room
>Stare at the faultboard
>Write-in

-- (Comatose)
The comatose host remains in his "coma."

From the commons room, Mallory sees the doctor walk out with a cup of coffee and her nurse.

-- (Mallory)
>Offer to take breakfast to the captain.

"Hey Alexander!"

"Mallory? What uh... what can I do for you?" He looks a bit nervous as she approaches him.

"I can take the captain his lunch. I've already eaten."

"Sure... yeah. That sounds great. Thanks! I'm starving." Alexander seems extremely grateful for the offer, and allows Mallory to take a plate of food to the bridge.

Mallory proceeds to the bridge.
>Infect the food.
>Don't infect the food.
>Spit in his food.
>Fuck the captain. Eat his food.

>>41040292
>Inspect the room
>Infect the food.

>>41040292
-- (Richardson )
>Inspect the room
-- (Comatose)
>continue as planned
-- (Mallory)
>Infect the food.

>>41040292
>>Inspect the room
>Infect the food.

>>41040328
Second

>>41040328
This sounds about right.

>>41040292
>infect the food

>>41040292
>Inspect the room

-- (Comatose)
>Continue
I still think we should have him just go full zombie when the time comes.

-- (Mallory)
>Infect the food

>>41040605
I vote to infwct the doctoe and nurse then start mutating him in a beserker or giant.

>>41040629
No.

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>Inspect the room
Richardson leaves the console behind and mills about the room. Inside one of the walls he can see windows and consoles for the coolant and fuel tanks. There are also a number of pipes that he knows lead from engineering, and supply a feed of cold air for any air-cooled systems or parts, each with a temperature and pressure sensor and a cut-off valve.

The section of the engine located in this room is where the engine intakes fuel and coolant. It also has its own consoles for monitoring its status, and controlling the various functions. From here, and with the chief engineer's passcode, someone could control the speed of the ship or even move the ship into subspace for FTL!

The reactor room door leads to the reactor room, unsurprisingly. Richardson opens it for a moment, and sees the reactor control room, with various monitors and a window into a large chamber. It also contains two radiation suits with oxygen tanks, because the reactor room is a dangerous environment.

As Richardson closes the reactor room door, he hears a loud "whoop whoop!" noise behind him.
>Investigate the fault board
>Go back to the engineering console
>Write-in

-- (Mallory)
Before the Mallory host enters the bridge, she inserts some spore cells into the captain's breakfast.

"Captain? I brought your food."

"Hm? Oh, Mallory. If you're trying to butter me up to get me to accept your transfer, you'll have to do a lot more than that." Captain Joseph Buchanon says with a gruff voice. He takes the food from Mallory and sits back at the captain's chair, setting it on a tray next to him.

You feel that your host dislikes the captain very much.
>Tell him off
>Flip him off while he's not looking
>Write-in
>Leave

>>41040682
>>Flip him off while he's not looking

If we don't display the normal human aggression he will become suspicious she spat in his food.

>>41040682
>>Investigate the fault board
>Flip him off while he's not looking

-- (Richardson )
>Investigate the fault board
-- (Mallory)
>Flip him off while he's not looking

>>41040682
>Investigate the fault board

>Flip him off while he's not looking

>>41040682
>>Flip him off while he's not looking

>>41040682
>Investigate the fault board

>Flip him off while he's not looking
then
>Leave
The spores can work their magic in time.

>Investigate the fault board
Richardson stares at the fault board. It displays a tree of lights for various components of the ship. The lights are all green, except for one.

The light labelled "Coolant Outtake - 'B' Junction" has started blinking red. Richardson knows that this indicates the detection of a serious fault related to that system, and he selects the fault on the fault board's computer display.

"'B' Junction Coolant Outtake - Low Pressure Detected - Fault Code 101948"

(Roll 1d100 for either option to guess what the fault means)
>Leave engineering and investigate it yourself
>Let the chief engineer know

-- (Mallory)
Mallory flips the captain the bird as he's sitting down. She attempts to wait for him to take a bite of his food, but the captain looks behind him and tells her to leave.

Unfortunately for him, telling Mallory to buzz off made him hungry, and he finally takes a bite of his meal.

The captain takes some time to control, but all humans are more or less the same. In a few moments Captain Joseph Buchanon joins the ranks of the spore.

Knowledge gained: Piloting (basic), Stellar Phenomena (Advanced).

You feel that he doesn't actually know very many interesting things beyond how to pilot the ship, but he does know more about the phenomena of the universe than you did before.

What will Mallory do?
>Go to the cargo bay
>Write-in

-- (Captain Buchanon)
At present the ship is on a course for the planet, as expected. It will arrive in a little over 13 hours.

The bridge is simple. It allows control of the engine and the maneuvering thrusters, as well as communications. The bridge lacks intricate control of various systems of the ship, because it relies on the various departments to fill those gaps. Your captain host feels that it is a cheaply made freighter that can do little more than move things.

With the authority of the captain you have much more flexibility.
>Continue monitoring the bridge.
>Write-in

>>41040682
>Investigate the fault board
>Flip him off while he's not looking

Rolled 84 (1d100)

>>41041083
>>Let the chief engineer know
Dont want this place blowing up.

>Go to the cargo bay

>Continue monitoring the bridge.

Rolled 17 (1d100)

>>41041083
>Let the chief engineer know

>Go to the cargo bay

>Continue monitoring the bridge.

Rolled 63 (1d100)

>>41041083
>Let the chief engineer know
You always tell your boss on board, never go on your own initiative. Suggest calling up the captain and shutting down the engines to our boss
>Go to the cargo bay
>Continue monitoring the bridge.
But if the boss calls him up, shut down the engines(this'll give us time to infect more people)

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What kind of music should this quest have?

Spooky and/or foreboding?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xfn3l8xZYw

I feel like when we start picking up momentum we're going to become The Flood levels of terrifying.

Rolled 31 (1d100)

>>41041083
>Let the chief engineer know

-- (Mallory)
>Write in
Go to the medical bay. Complain of queasiness, then throw up on the doctor. Our comatose host may or may not get involved at some point, but either way we need to get the medical staff infected pronto.

-- (Captain Buchanon)
>Continue monitoring the bridge.

>>41041083
>>Write-in
We have to use captain's authority to get the chef infected.

Then everyone else can be spored at the next mealtime. We have one or two meals left.

>>41041212
Depends on what we're doing at the time, I guess.
Some of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7iRoTqUvcg
Maybe?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyUiu_2jjP8
Is obligatory, of course.

>>41039197
>Will Richardson's naked body forever be burnt into the mind of Old Man Martin?

Just spewd my drink all over the damn desk. Thanks man.

>Let the Chief Engineer know
Richardson takes the radio from his belt and chimes in on it.

"Chief, there's a red code for the coolant outtake from 'B' Junction. It's for low pressure, and I think it either got blocked, or it's leaking."

"Shit, seriously?" You hear him telling the other engineer to stop eating and follow him. "Fuck. I'm sending Kennings to engineering, meet me at 'B' Junction."

"Roger."
>Go to 'B' Junction
>Write-in

-- (Comatose)
The doctor and nurse walk in and start doing their rounds. They check the room to make sure nothing is out of place and all the machines are operating as intended, and then the nurse comes over and starts looking over the atmos tech's information.

"Hm... Daniel seems to be a bit better. You know, minus the brain injury and the coma?"

"Yeah? Well good for him."

The atmos tech continues to feign his coma.
>Write-in (You can attempt to assault and turn them, but the danger of doing so goes without saying).

-- (Mallory)
Mallory leaves the bridge and heads toward the cargo bay.

-- (Captain)
The captain remains in his chair. It's a really comfortable place, with monitors and the view of a desolate-looking blue ball of ice surrounded by some asteroids.

The captain sees an alert pop up on the engineering monitor.
>Ask what's going on
>Bitch at engineering about the alert
>Write-in (The captain has a lot of options, although things like redirecting the ship would meet him with resistance. People like getting paid)

>>41041505
>Go to 'B' Junction
atmos tech
>gather up a lot of spores and start coughing
-- (Captain)
>Ask what's going on

>>41041505
>Bitch at engineering about the alert
>order Alex to bring him another meal.

Then when he brings the meal, infect it, take a bite, and tell Alex to try a taste, does this taste different to him?

>>41041505
>Go to 'B' Junction

-- (Comatose)
Just twitch the foot. Wait for one of them to check the eyes for dilation or otherwise lean over the host's head, then take a nibble. Don't do anything unless we get that golden opportunity.

-- (Captain)
>Bitch at engineering about the alert
Damn ship's holding together from rubber bands and bubble gum. The hell is it this time?

>>41041588
Then order to see the chef too. Get a third opinion after spored Alex agrees.

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>Go to 'B' Junction
Richardson meets the chief and they enter the junction together. The room is unusually hot, and you can see a puddle of blue liquid ahead.

"Shit, this isn't good!" the chief says as he runs down the corridor.

You follow him, and you see that the pipe you had repaired earlier has sprung a leak at the joint of two pipe sections immediately after the sensor you had fixed.

"It wasn't like this before," Richardson says.

"Damnit. The system must've hiccuped again when we dropped from subspace. I keep telling FMC that this freighter needs an overhaul. This time they're not going to have a choice. We'll have to cut off the pipe and run at reduced power until we can get it fixed."

The Chief grabs his radio and tells the other engineer to cut off the flow to this route, and after a moment the leak slows to a stop.

"We'll need to clean this up, then we'll have to try and take this shit apart and see if we can't fix it."
>Clean up coolant with the chief.
>Attempt to forcibly infect him (1d100)
>Write-in

-- (Comatose)
>Attempt to wake up and cough some spores into the nurse to infect her (1d100)
>Try to bite the nurse and infect her like some kind of zombie (1d100)
>Do nothing

-- (Captain)
"Hey, chief. The fuck is going on down there?"

"One of the coolant pipes sprung a leak. We're going to have to try and run on reduced power to avoid overheating the engine."

"God damnit."
>Slow the ship and recalculate the flight time
>Do nothing
>Write-in

>>41041946
>Clean up coolant with the chief.
>Attempt to wake up and cough some spores into the nurse to infect her (1d100)
>Slow the ship and recalculate the flight time

>>41041652

Wait, can we do this but have the coma victim sneeze?

Autonomic reactions aren't crazy and even to paralyzed people, they can sometimes exhibit coughing or sneezing even if they're vegetables.

Rolled 97 (1d100)

>>41041946
Richardson
>Clean up coolant with the chief.
Coma
>Attempt to wake up and cough some spores into the nurse to infect her (1d100)
Captain
>Slow the ship and recalculate the flight time

We don't want to blow our cover, coma patients will occasionally go up a level and not need breathing tubes. They start choking and coughing, they don't try to bite someone's nose off

>>41041946
>Clean up coolant with the chief.
>Attempt to wake up and cough some spores into the nurse to infect her (1d100)
>Slow the ship and recalculate the flight time

>>41041946
Well maybe we can find an opportune moment when he's doing heavy lifting or something.
>Attempt to forcibly infect him (1d100)


>Slow the ship and recalculate the flight time
Well that's convenient. We didn't have to have the engineer sabotage it for us.

>>41042059

The best kind of sabotage and espionage is the kind that happens when you do jack-all.

>>41041974
Fair enough.

The 1d100 will only be for success, instead of arousing suspicion.

>>41042106
Sometimes the RNG Gods roll in your favor.

>>41042033
>97
(Sweet Mary mother of Typhoid)

-- (Engineer)
Richardson collects cleaning supplies and helps the chief clean up the mess of coolant. It takes some time, but eventually you manage to collect it and dry the floor.

The chief engineer starts to remove a section of the pipe, and once the pipe is removed it is revealed why. A minor pressure hiccup caused the pipe to warp, creating a gap in the joining between it and the neighboring pipe.

Richardson knows that it'll take some effort to try and correct the pipe and fit them both back together without a gap.
>Help the chief fix the pipe (1d100)
>Infect the chief (1d100)
>Write-in

-- (Comatose)
As the nurse is checking the eyes of the comatose atmos tech, your host body forces a sneeze into her face and mouth.

She recoils in disgust, and the doctor turns and giggles at her misfortune. "He doesn't seem to like you, Janice."

After a few minutes Janice's personality goes dormant under your control. Unfortunately, she has little knowledge to offer a being such as yourself, as you know more about human physiology than she does. The doctor, on the other hand...

>Attempt to infect the doctor (1d100, failure will be suspicious)
>Continue doing your nurse duties.
>Write-in

-- (Captain)
The captain host slows the ship to half its speed. Now, instead of taking another 13 hours to land, it'll take a whole day.
>Write-in

Rolled 15 (1d100)

>>41042380
>Help the chief fix the pipe (1d100)

>Attempt to infect the doctor (1d100, failure will be suspicious)
At this point it's 2 on 1, it should be pretty simple now. Have the nurse grab and hold him, and have the comatose guy bite him.

>>41041974
Less fun but more effective, I agree.

Rolled 97, 75 = 172 (2d100)

>>41042380
>Help the chief fix the pipe (1d100)

>Attempt to infect the doctor (1d100, failure will be suspicious)
Kiss the doctor

>Write-in
Try to get some more data on our destination

Rolled 2, 34 = 36 (2d100)

>>41042380
>>Help the chief fix the pipe (1d100)
>Attempt to infect the doctor (1d100, failure will be suspicious)

First roll for pipe, 2nd for infection.

Rolled 10 (1d100)

>>41042380
>>Infect the chief (1d100)
Now is the chance.

>captain
get a new meal.

>>41042380
>Help the chief fix the pipe (1d100)

>Continue doing your nurse duties but have the comatose guy get up and when the doctor notices try and convince him he is seeing things and that he is still just lying there comatose.

>Do wateva

>>41042380
Maybe we can have

1) comatose get up, freaking out. incoherent.
2) nurse ask for help restraining him.
3) nurse and comatose patient turn on doctor together.

>>41042563

I'd support this. If we can get the doc and the head engineer, we can fake some engine trouble and try to have a support team come out to "rescue" us.

Then we get valuable Intel on the space station and also station crew to infect the general station population with.

>>41042675
WHAT space station.

Why do people keep thinking any space station has been mentioned.

>>41042724
Anon we were on a planet in a picnic and now we're flying towards a space station in our picnic-mobile.

>>41042724

Sorry, I misread the first post. The plan is still good though. Lure a squad from the mining colony and then infect them.

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>>41042451
>97 to fix the pipe
Richardson and the chief fix the pipe up real nice. It'll take them about half an hour to fix the pipe, and then fasten it back on. They work really quickly!

In the mean time...
-- (Janine)
>Kiss the doctor to infect her (75)
Janine walks toward the smirking doctor and spins her chair around. The doctor seems very confused. When Janine attempts to apply some good old fashioned loving on her lips, the doctor is totally unprepared.

By the time she breaks away and starts freaking out, it's too late. By the time she finishes bitching at her nurse for trying to totally misreading their relationship, the doctor falls under your control.

(Learned: Human Language (Advanced), Human Culture (Basic), Human History (Basic), Human Physiology (Expert), Penmanship (Rudimentary) | Abilities: Spore-Human Morphing (Advanced))

-- (Mallory)
Mallory arrives at the cargo bay. The room long and takes up nearly the entire bottom deck of the ship, sectioned off into various cargo compartments. There is a small office off to the side with some computers, and in the primary room there are some small hover platforms for moving horizontally and vertically to navigate the various cargo boxes, of which there are a good many. In the ceiling of the room there are two heavy-duty cranes. Both walls also appear to have three conveyors on them. It's clear that of all the sections of the ship you've seen thus far, the cargo bay is one of the most efficient sections of the ship.
>Inspect the consoles in the office
>Fuck yeah hover platforms!
>Write-in

>>41042937
>>Fuck yeah hover platforms!
How can I not.

>>41042756
Where are all the pets we saw before as disembodied spores anyway, have they even been mentioned since?

>>41042937
>>Fuck yeah hover platforms!

>>41042937
>Proceed to infect ALL the medicine!

>Fuck yeah, hover platforms!

>>41042937
>Abilities: Spore-Human Morphing
yessss

>>41042937
>Fuck yeah hover platforms!
So how many uninfected vectors remain on the ship?

>>41042937
>(Learned: Human Language (Advanced), Human Culture (Basic),

But it looks like we already had that last one.
>>40960423

>>41043136
we got 6 out of 15
3 last thread and added the captain, nurse and doctor

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>>41042937
>Penmanship (Rudimentary)
Same joke that HQQ made I see.

>>41042937
>Bring up the medical records of every vector on the ship for review.
> Have nurse being damaged vector to the ship's morgue if there is one.

>>41043136
>So how many uninfected vectors remain on the ship?
(You've currently infected 6 of 15. Almost half-way there!)

>>41043150
>Already had it
(Whoops. My mistake. You just gain human history then.)

-- (Mallory)
>Fuck yeah hover platforms!
Mallory approaches and mounts the hover platform. She knows that these are a very popular device among members of the crew, even though only cargo technicians are authorized to use them. Occasionally younger members of the crew will sneak in and hold "plat races."

She boots up the hover platform and gives it a joy ride. It's a bit noisy, and the design itself isn't terribly efficient, but it gets the job done.

The platform starts speeding through the corridors between boxes. The feeling of rushing through the air is fascinating to the spore.

Underestimating his speed, the spore's host starts to quickly come up to the end of the corridor. If Mallory doesn't slow down, she'll crash into the door or the wall.
>Roll 1d100

Rolled 5 (1d100)

>>41043220
Hha oops.

Rolled 70 (1d100)

>>41043220
HWG

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, MIGHT I ADVISE THAT IF OUR GOAL IS INTERSTELLAR CONQUEST WE KEEP OUR INFECTION RATE TO A MINIMUM UNTIL WE ARE MORE AWARE OF THE MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES WE ARE DEALING WITH.

THIS MESSAGE BOUGHT TO YOU BY UMBRELLA CORP.

Rolled 76 (1d100)

>>41043220

>>41043254
Noted Umbrella Corp, always happy to work with you.

>>41043254
You losers cant handle shit all

you lot are worse than Cerberus at keeping a project working

Rolled 45 (1d100)

>>41043220
Maybe not finding out what they were shipping was a mistake.

>>41043307
Eh its to a mining colony

Whats the worse that can happen?

>>41043364
>wow, our fungicide order finally came in! we've been having so many mold problems.

Hey, with the captain and doctor under control now.


>Doctor noticed nurse displaying symptoms of [notoriously infectious disease people get quarantined for]
>threatens to call in a full quarantine on the ship if Captain doesn't agree to her checking out every member of the crew one by one to see if they need to be quarantined too
>captain 'reluctantly' agrees and makes it so

>>41043588
Not a bad idea.

>>41043364
"We found this strange alien obelisk in a cave. Made a couple of the guys sick. Y'all should take it back with you for research.

>>41043291
-- (Mallory)
Mallory leans and tries to drift the platform safely around the corner to avoid hitting the wall. The corner of the platform just barely grazes the edge and a couple of sparks fly, accompanied by a shriek of metal. The door opens and closes behind you as its proximity sensor demands.

Mallory continues her journey at a slightly slower pace. Hopefully nobody notices the scratch on the wall.
>Use your engineering knowledge to circumvent the limiters on the hover platform
>Stop fucking around and have Mallory do her job
>Investigate the cargo consoles.
>Write-in

-- (Captain)
The rest of the bridge crew comes back together, having finished their breakfast. The navigations officer sits at the piloting and navigations terminal; the communications officer sits at his communications and sensors terminal; and the bridge monitor sits at the monitoring console to monitor the status of various ship systems.

Terry, the monitor, speaks up immediately when he sits. "Sir, there's an alert here?"

"Hm? Yeah. There's a problem with a coolant outtake. They're fixing it now. We're at half speed until then, so we don't overheat the engines."

"Piece of junk," you hear the pilot say under his breath.
>Defend the honor of the Golden Galleon
>Keep doing regular captain things
>Write-in

-- (Doctor and Nurse)
You can now safely morph the atmos tech into a big brain to host your massive intellect and exert control. However, the greater the morphing , the more obvious it'll be. The more control you gain, the more quickly you can spread yourself among the crew. With five control you could take half the remaining crew at once.
>Stealthy: 5 control
>Moderate: 10 control, easily noticed, more difficult

>>41043683
>"We found this strange alien obelisk in a cave. Made a couple of the guys sick. Y'all should take it back with you for research.

BRING IT ON NECRO FUCKS! 1v1 ME NO SPORES!

>>41043683
>>Defend the honor of the Golden Galleon

>>41043683
>Doctor
Try and call in a fake quarantine using that big knowledge of space diseases >>41043588

>>41043683
>Investigate the cargo consoles.
>Defend the honor of the Golden Galleon
>Stealthy: 5 control

>>41043683
>>Investigate the cargo consoles.
>Stealthy: 5 control

>Doctor and Captain
Enact this plan
>>41043588

>>41043683
>Investigate the cargo consoles.
>Keep doing regular captain things

>>41043683
Mal
>>Investigate the cargo consoles
Cap
>>Defend the honor of the Golden Galleon
Doc'n'N
>>Moderate: 10 control, easily noticed, more difficult

>>41043683
>Use your engineering knowledge to circumvent the limiters on the hover platform
YOLO
>Defend the honor of the Golden Galleon
>Stealthy: 5 control

The medbay isn't locked, we just walked in and no one noticed us. Better to stay subtle

>>41043683
Do any of the crew we have infected know anything about the planet we're heading towards?

Population, security measures, tech level?

>>41043841
Eh i feel that's this place is a deadend mining town in the sticks

We need to get this ship infested and travel along the trade route infecting as many places as possible before anyone catches on

>>41043961
We need to touch down on a planet and begin spreading so we aren't easily removed.

>>41044040
Yeah on a major populated planet not some mining colony in the deadend of space

>>41044142
Infecting restaurant chains should be fun.

>>41044175
Nah too much competition in those places

>>41044142
Where is irrelevant, as long as we spread, as we can keep spreading.

>>41043841
>the planet
(Joker is a shitty arctic mining outpost with about 40 residents, the majority of which are miners. They mostly use remote-controlled mining drones and large drilling machines. Its only real purpose is gathering titanium. It's owned by the FMC like the freighter is, so the tech is the same. Early FTL tech. The colony itself is made from the colony ship, so it's basically a prefab structure.)

-- (Mallory)
>Investigate the cargo consoles
Mallory enters the cargo office and sits at the cargo console.

The console gives access to all the systems in the cargo bay, including the automatic crane system and the door. She can also manually control the cranes from here.

Mallory looks through the manifest. There aren't any interesting things here beyond supplies for the colony. The most interesting item is the large drilling machine, which is split across ten containers. Mallory doesn't know much about mining, but she suspects you could get a lot of ore with something that needs ten containers to hold.
>Write-in
>Have Mallory do her duties (2 hours)

-- (Doctor/Nurse/Captain)
>Start a biohazard quarantine
(Clever, Anons)

In order to accomplish this you would need to convince the other bridge officers that there is a credible cause, or fool the ship's sensors into believing there is a credible threat. Tripping the quarantine would lock down the ship, and make it so that only medical personnel can travel throughout the ship.

You think that the easiest way to accomplish this would be by releasing a large quantity of spores into the ship's ventilation. You do have control over botany. However, you would need to have the plants grow and infest their fertilizer and water supply so that they can accomplish this.

There's also an additional caveat: The outpost will be alerted, and you'll eventually have to convince them.
>Grow the plants and trigger quarantine (1d100)
>Try to convince the bridge crew (1d100, difficult)
>Alternative (write-in)
>Do nothing

>>41044229
Yes it does

We need to hit a high traffic planet to infect as many places quietly before quarantines and blockades get put in place

Every single time either Madagascar or Greenland would shutdown any way in before the infection could start

Rolled 38 (1d100)

>>41044314
>>Have Mallory do her duties (2 hours)
>Grow the plants and trigger quarantine (1d100)

Rolled 22 (1d100)

>>41044314
>>Try to convince the bridge crew (1d100, difficult)
Sure why not.

>>41044314
>releasing a large quantity of spores into the ship's ventilation
Well, we don't really want the computer systems to get a good pattern on our biology.

Can we just run some artificial evolution cycles on normal human gut flora to make them more pathogenic? Release that, immunize our hosts.

>>41044314
>Have Mallory do her duties (2 hours)
>Do nothing

There is bigger places than here

Rolled 85 (1d100)

>>41044314
>Have Mallory do her duties (2 hours)

>try and infect all of the bridge crew.
>Grow the plants and trigger quarantine (1d100)

Rolled 66 (1d100)

>>41044314
>Have Mallory do her duties (2 hours)
>>Try to convince the bridge crew (1d100, difficult)

Best not to alert far off places. And if we fail to convince, well we have other ways to spore them.

>>41044314
>Have Mallory do her duties (2 hours)

>Alternative (write-in)
Have Engineer guy accidentally cut the chief so that he has to go to medbay and get it cleaned and then he is infected voila.

>>41044314
>eventually have to convince them.
Convince them of what?

>>41044432
huh
That's a good idea
Backing
>>41044314

>>41044440
I assume he meant convince them to allow us landing.

>>41044440
The biohazard lockdown is pretty risky anyway. I mean, there is an actual biohazard. We don't want people investigating /that/ one.

>>41044314
I thought the captain outranked the rest of the bridge.

It'd be in his interests not to report quarantine if there's a chance they can deal with it themselves, quietly.

>>41044494
On a 13 man freighter crew?

I think he's just a formality like the guard

its going to take all the staff to agree before they take the risk of declaring a quarantine

>>41044314
Sure >>41044432

>>41044440
If your ship were automatically entered into quarantine, the outpost would also be alerted. Both your ship and the outpost are run by the same company, and they have all sorts of insurance regulations that they either have to follow, or impose themselves.

The alert would 'only' hit the outpost though. This freighter is made on the cheap, and can't communicate long distances.

>>41044494
>I thought the captain outranked the rest of the bridge.
It's a corporate freighter. He's in charge, but they also don't want him doing really stupid stuff like declaring a biohazard above a major trading hub, causing a massive crisis because he had mold on his sandwich.

Basically they're worried about SS13 players.

>It'd be in his interests not to report quarantine
It would indeed. The company would be happy to not allow the crew to do biohazard quarantines at all, but the sensors can't detect everything.

>Choice is tied
(Since I explained it a bit more in depth, I'll let you guys vote again. The risks are low, but the colonists may prevent you from docking.)
>Trigger a biohazard quarantine with the plants
>Convince the crew
>Do nothing

If you don't:
>Attempt to injure the chief engineer and send him to infection bay

>Stealthy
(Didn't have room to do this before)
You morph the inside of the atmos tech into a weak mass of brain-like matter, and you feel that your ability to control multiple lifeforms has expanded. You also feel that your next step in evolution is getting closer.

The vitals of the atmos tech drop slightly, but with the medical bay in your control this has no meaning.

>>41044691
>Did we already archive?
Yes.

>>41044713
>Do nothing
Best not to have them look for a biohazard when there is a real one we don't want them to pay attention to, in retrospect.

Wait does the mining planet have any comm tech?

>>41044713
>>Do nothing
Too risky.

>>Attempt to injure the chief engineer and send him to infection bay
We can just be clumsy, you know. Should be easy. Not so deliberate, but at the same time, sort of ignore caution.

Even a papercut will do. Those sting.

>>41044713
>Convince the crew
We have medical personnel under our control.

In fact, could we grow spores on something to use as 'evidence?'

>>41044713
Damn
>>Do nothing
>Attempt to injure the chief engineer and send him to infection bay

>>41044713
>Do nothing

>Attempt to injure the chief engineer and send him to infection bay

>>41044713
>Do nothing
>Attempt to injure the chief engineer and send him to infection bay

>>41044713
>Do nothing

>Get the nurse to hand out infected refreshments to the bridge.

>>41044713
>infection bay
Heh.

>>41044713

Don't trigger a biohazard quarantine yet. If we can, let's try to do this on the down low. We don't want the colony freaking out or being warned. They probably have deep space communication. Let's try to convince the crew. With the medics under our control and the captain, it shouldn't be too hard.

Don't attempt to injure the chief engineer. He could die and I have a feeling we'll really need that level of technical knowledge. Instead, perhaps we can get close to him in another way and infect him secretly? Maybe "accidently" cut him with an infected knife or tool or something.

>>41044807

Infected refreshments sounds like an excellent idea. I change my vote from convince to this.

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>>41044830
>Maybe "accidently" cut him with an infected knife or tool or something.

>don't injure the chief engineer
>instead, injure the chief engineer!

>>41044851

I guess I wasn't clear. I meant don't injure him enough so that he has to go to the medbay. Instead try to inflict a very small wound to serve as an infection vector.

>>41044886
Why not just cough on his face?

>>41044830
So you want the following?
>Convince the crew
>Attempt to injure the chief engineer and send him to infection bay
That was pretty wordy

>>41044713
I'm Voting for
>Do nothing
>Attempt to injure the chief engineer and send him to infection bay

>>41044924
Why not just roll to seduce?

Chief, it's getting so hot with the coolant malfunctioning, I have to take my clothes off again.

>>41044942

Sorry for the confusion.

I chanced my vote from convince the crew to serve infected "drinks" on the bridge.

I wanted to cause a very small injury to the chief engineer to infect him, but not enough to send him to the medbay. I don't want to risk him dying. I was thinking perhaps on the level of an infected paper cut. Coughing in his face is probably a better idea, though.

I hope this clears things up.

>>41044748
(The mining colony has better communications technology, but it can't make long range transmissions either.

That might seem odd, but with the early-FTL tech these guys are running on, they require a subspace transmission buoy to be in the area. Those are expensive, and FMC typically reserves those for more lucrative colonies, or colonies in a dangerous area.

Your captain has been running this route for years, and this is actually a relatively safe area. It's only in the last year that pirates have shown up at all.)

>Attempt to injure the chief engineer and send him to infection bay
(I'll use the rolls from before, since they were discarded)
As Richardson and the chief reattach the coolant pipe, Richardson's hand "slips" and he "accidentally" makes the chief burn his hand on one of the adjacent pipes.

"Fuck! Fuck!" The chief starts dancing with all the grace and expertise of a man with a serious burn.

"Shit chief, I'm sorry!"

"Just fucking finish reattaching the pipe. I'm going to go back to medbay." The chief walks out while holding his burned arm and complaining about the pain.

Richardson finished reattaching the pipe.
>Tell Hendrickson to resume coolant flow (will speed up the ship)
>Delay
>Write-in

-- (Medbay)
After a few moments, the chief enters the medbay.

"Dooooc! I burned my arm again! Glorious Gloria, won't you help my burn?" the chief asks in a singsong tone.

Your doctor host, Gloria, rolls her eyes at him. "How many times do I have to tell you to stop rolling your sleeves up?"

How will you infect the chief?
>Cough or sneeze in his face (1d100)
>Give him a pain injection (1d100)
>Write-in (1d100 to infect)
>Don't, for some reason.

>>41044959
Are you seriously saying coughing one of the most affective ways of travel for germs and for us since it's a common human thing and can be covered by us feeling a bit under the weather is on the same level of stripping?

Rolled 21 (1d100)

>>41044989
>>Delay
>Give him a pain injection (1d100)
With some spores mixed in if that isn't already implied.

>>41045001
It's a signposted anon ignore them.

Rolled 12 (1d100)

>>41044989
>>Delay
Obviously.

>>41044989
>>Give him a pain injection (1d100)

Rolled 68 (1d100)

>>41044989
Put some infected aloe on that burn.

Just spit in the aloe or something.

>>41044989

Seconding "delay" and pain injection.

With regards to the delay, let's say we found something funny and wanted to run a few tests before putting coolent in.

Rolled 21 (1d100)

>>41044989
>Delay
>Give him a pain injection (1d100)

>>41045001
No, that was mostly a tangent. Coughing to infect him requires getting right up into his face and personal space for some inexplicable reason, might as well kiss the bastard.

Rolled 2 (1d100)

>>41044989

>Delay
>Give him a pain injection (1d100)

Will the spores themselves be able to grow into something with it's own combat potential, or will it always need a host to do the fighting?

>>41045070
Jesus you don't know how coughing or sneezing works do you?
There is a reason that most viruses spread so fast.

>>41045103
I would assume so, but we haven't had time to mess with biomass.

Rolled 88 (1d100)

>>41044989
>Delay
>Write-in (1d100 to infect)
Mix spores into a burn salve or sprinkle them on bandages

Rolled 68 (1d100)

>>41044989
>Delay
Give the chief a tranquilizer and then infect him

>>41045001
We can probably sort of stub our toe then cough in his face accidentally.

Or get some vectors on whatever we prod his wound with.

Could we just turn our comatose patient into a spore chimney or something?

Morph him in hydroponics and it can use all the water and fertilizer to continually pump out spores.

>>41045070
http://www.healthline.com/health-news/coughs-and-sneezes-send-particles-far-041314

>>41045185
over kill for 7 people don't ya think?

>>41045185
Why not just dump his body into the eater supply?
Also why didn't we vote to infect the supplies we are bringing?

If this fails, I think that biomass unit 'Chief' desires physical intimacy with vector 'Gloria.'

We could infect him through fuck.

>>41045211
It's also preparation for landfall at the mining colony.

>>41045233
Honestly there is no need to hide anymore most people should be alone in their stations except for the bridge we can honestly group up on them one by one.
He'll the engineer is in here with three infected.

>>41045275
Yes really 40 people going to come here?

Again overkill

Wait till we reach a real city

>>41045275
Easier to spread a healthy dose of spores on the supplies and infecting their water supply.
Than going at it by our vectors.

>>41045298
>Yes really 40 people going to come here?
Nigger what?

>>41045275
We really aren't short on spore production and increasing it won't make things go faster.

That is so infinitely far from being a bottleneck it's not even funny.

>>41045341
There is only 40 people in this mining colony

A waste to change a host just to infect this lot

Better to keep pretend this host is in a coma and transfer him to a hospital when we reach home-port

>>41045373
>A waste to change a host
This is in no way difficult or wasteful.

>>41045373
Or we could just fake his death and claim his body went out the airlock at the time of malfunction.

keep him on the mining planet in our growing brain-base deep underground.

Now, once we get to the mining colony, THEN we can call down a biohazard lockdown. Because then we have 55 people in lockdown not just 15, and warning the other 40.

>>41045373
>Transfer him to hospital, where they have better medical tech
Yeah I'm sure they won't notice anything.

>>41044989
With the control of so many woman and knowledge about humans at advanced couldn't we have the girls produce strong pheromones?

>>41045103
>Will the spores themselves be able to grow into something with it's own combat potential
Eventually. There's a reason why I occasionally say that the spore is close to evolving a new ability.

(Presently you can much about with the humans and plants you infest quite a lot. You could transform them into a blade-armed monstrosity if you so choose. Provided you have the energy and nutrients to do so, of course. You could now if you really wanted to.)

>Give him a pain injection
>All those shitty rolls
(So lucky you had a savior to bail you out)

Gloria retrieves a pain medication from the cabinet and puts it into a syringe, but not before some spores find their way inside the bottle. "This will dull the pain while we treat the burn. The treatment will cause you a great deal of pain without it."

"Well hey, I don't want no- holy shit!" The chief tries to contain his pain as Gloria stabs him in the arm.

The spores quickly overtake Chief Engineer Strausman, and in no time his personality is suppressed.

(Learned: Engineering (Advanced), Ship Design / Construction (Basic))

-- (Chief Engineer)
Almost immediately after you gain control of his body, a voice chimes in on the radio. It is the last engineer, Christine.

"Chief, Richardson, how's progress on that pipe going? I haven't heard anything from you guys in a while."

>Lie
>Announce that the problem has been fixed
>Go to engineering and try to infect her too
>Write-in

-- (Captain)
One of the consoles announces an incoming transmission originating from the colony.

"Golden Galleon, this is Joker Colony. We're reading you on our sensors. Welcome to Joker, again. Your ship is moving quite slowly, is there a problem?"

"Just a malfunction with the engines. You'd think they'd get us better freighters if they're going to send us out into the deep reaches of space."

"I hear you, Golden Galleon."

>Ask them some questions (write-in)
>Disconnect.

>>41044989
Can we go out of adding now?
As far as we know most of the post are manned by a single person and with our small group we can systematically take one at a time before the rest noticed.

>>41045396
In this case it is

What are we going to say when we reach home

Sorry one of our guys turned in to that after falling into a coma?

Please don't quarantine us and put us through medical inspections

>>41045437
On a company health plan?

Have you ever seen those terms?

It take months going through paperwork just to get a checkup sometimes

>>41045426
Why make a base on a dead planet with no industry to get off world?

>>41045472
>>Announce that the problem has been fixed
>Disconnect.

If we are going to forcibly infect people we need to double up.

Maybe we should have the Nurse bring infected drinks to the bridge crew.

>>41045472
>Go to engineering and try to infect her too
"I burnt my arm so Richardson is finishing it off, I'm heading back to engineering."

>Ask them some questions (write-in)
"How's the weather down there?"

>>41045472
>>Lie

>>41045472
>>Ask them some questions (write-in)
"You guys got any medical personnel down there? Our doc got injured and hasn't woken up yet."

We need to lure their medical personnel onboard ("we don't want to move him") so we can infect them, then call quarantine on the mine.

>>41045472
>Lie
>Go to engineering and try to infect her too
>Disconnect.

>>41045525
We don't want to call in a quarantine man

>>41045472
>Go to engineering and try to infect her too
>>Write-in
Have the nurse and doctor follow to infect the girl.

>>41045498
Because it's isolated and people only come here occasionally. There's no reason not to have a hidden base here once all personnel are infected.

And we have to hide him somewhere, because this ship is owned by a bigger company so we can't hide him onboard for long.

>>41045472
>Announce that the problem has been fixed
>Go to engineering and try to infect her too

>Ask them some questions (write-in)
Do you hear the voices too?

>>41045525
Why the he'll do you want to close off the mine?

>>41045525
Quarantine wouldn't help us, cause we'd be in quarantine.

So would any of them who entered our ship.

>>41045549
Explain why not, because this planet has no long range communication tech.

>(The mining colony has better communications technology, but it can't make long range transmissions either.

No one can hear you scream.

>>41045554
>>41045472
Ask the lady if she is expecting any visitors other than us.
>>41045564
Only the crew knows he was hurt we can pass him off as a normal guy.

>>41045594
nigger whats the point

we will have plenty of hosts after all this

>>41045569
>>41045579
The exact same reason for the previous plan to call in quarantine on the ship, before it was learned it would entail warning the colony. What exactly has changed besides no longer warning anyone else?

It puts medical personnel in charge, and everyone on the planet in lockdown. Only they would be allowed to go door to door and infect people.

>>41045587
Except they can nigga how do you think we got the job to bring them supplies the am said there is a buoy somewhere around here that sends the message out.

>>41045564
Isolated with no biomass and easy to blockade and isolate

Have you never played a pandemic game?

The point is to spread to as many major population centers before being found out and the blockades and quarantines start shutting down the trade routes

We should not infect Old Man Martin.

>>41045607
Yo check if there are any surprises and to ser if we can get another target.

>>41045594
>we can pass him off as a normal guy.
But we turned most of his muscles into brain tissue.

>>41045624
There is no buoy. Reread.

>>41045616
>Medical people go onto ship
>Quarantine declared
>Everyone who has been on ship doesn't get to leave it including the medical people
>We're stuck on the ship.

Do you know how quarantines work?

>>41045656
I said "call quarantine on the mine".

As in their own medical personnel go down and call it on the motherfucking planet.

>>41045646
But then he might pull an old man Henderson. I'm not prepared for that.

>>41045643
whynotboth.jpg

You know that's not amutually exclusive strategy with having a base that gets little to no scrutiny right.

>>41045652
I wonder how they sent the order for supplies than, and I thought the vote was to fix him up.

>>41045673
Why would they quarantine it?
We're the ones who arrived, we're the only thing that could bring a disease, the mine has done nothing, and I doubt the rest of the people there would agree to them being quarantined.

>>41045686
For some reason he's acting like we can only be on one planet.

>>41045697
Because you obviously do it after the ship's crew come onto the mine and obviously expose everyone to the biohazard, at which point everyone must suffer protocol.

>>41045673
Jesus what do you check after a quarantine is called?
THE ONES WHO COULD HAVE BROUGHT ONE.
As of now unless you want to wait a bit having a quarantine called on the mine right after we got there is asking for trouble and scrutiny to us.

>>41045723
Then why bother with quarantine when we could just act normal and slowly infect everyone without causing a big fuss and scaring everyone?

>>41045753
Because it gives us a chance to do it much easier and faster by handing complete control of the mine to people we already infected.

Scaring people doesn't have a negative impact on ability to infect, since we're isolated.

>>41045472
So can we do any of these two or get thoughts about them?
>>41045450
>>41045496

>>41045673
We would be also quarantined and not allowed to leave either because we had contact with the mine and they would check us for any infections

>>41045686
What base?

On a dead rock with no biomass other than what gets shipped in?

We are an infection, our base are the things we infect

We have to follow the herd man

That means no spooking them about any quarantines and lost contact with mines in the middle of nowhere

>>41045741
>what do you check after a quarantine is called?

Who does the checking? Medical personnel. Which is why you infect them before doing that.

>>41045778
You realise that when a quarantine is called everyone who went near the ship would be isolated, doesn't matter if they're a doctor or not?

>Let's quarantine the mine!
>Let's not!
(The only affect that would have is on how other ships treat the mining colony. If you're broadcasting a quarantine, they're not going to land, and would likely return home to report the issue. At that point, FMC would send a ship to figure out why their titanium mine isn't titanium mining.)

-- (Chief Engineer)
>Infect Christine too
The chief engineer attempts to heal the burn wound on his body, but it proves to be quite... difficult. Healing is progressing, but at an almost human rate.

Despite this the chief engineer presses on and heads down to engineering to infect Christine.

"Hey Chief! I expected you to respond on the radio. What's the deal with the pipe?"

"Oh, the pipe? Richardson is working on it. I burned myself so I had to go back to medbay. Doc recommended I let Richardson handle the rest."

"Ah, I see. Maybe I should go and help him?"

How will you infect her?
>Try to cough spores into her mouth
>Injure her "accidentally" and send her to medbay (risky, 1d100)
>Write-in (1d100 to infect)

-- (Captain)
>>41045521
>"How's the weather down there?"
"Hell, if hell was made of ice."

>>41045567
>"Do you hear the voices too?"
"Huh? Sorry, that's just the XO mouthing off at one of the miners for being drunk during his shift."

>Ask the colonists more questions
>Disconnect

WHY AREN'T ANONS VOTING TO INFECT THIER SUPPLIES?
we literally have someone who can do that now.

>>41045846
They're not supplies that you lick.

>>41045838
>>Try to cough spores into her mouth

Rolled 15 (1d100)

>>41045838
>Ask the colonists more questions
Us she expecting visitors?
Cough/sneeze

>>41045838
>>Try to cough spores into her mouth
>Disconnect

>>41045838
>Let's not!
>Write-in
Send her to help Richardson and then infect her

>Disconnect

>>41045846
Cause the supplies are probably sealed and will be inspected when they are offloaded

>>41045805
I said brain-base.

We benefit from having lots of brain tissue. You must construct additional pylons. The coma guy is effectively that. We can plop him and produce more raw brain tissue someplace hidden and out of the way.

Someplace no one will notice our pylons.

>>41045810
Jesus if you already have the medical personable there is no need to do a quarantine, he'll with just that you can help spread the infection quickly and silently.

>>41045908
We don't know our operating distances

Maybe not interstellar

And more brain tissue on a actual populated planet then a dead mining rock

>>41045916
>he'll with just that you can help spread the infection quickly and silently.

That makes no sense. Having just the doctor and nurse on this ship doesn't make infecting the others quick unless you cause injuries like we did just now using the non-medical engineering guy.

Doctors don't get to do random checkups on everyone daily.

>>41045838
>Try to cough spores into her mouth
>Injure her "accidentally" and send her to
Ask if she is expecting visitors the quarantine idea hinges on this answer.

Guys please.

No fucking quarantine. Stealthy infect the mining colony then stow away some people on the next titanium shipment.

Be fucking patient jesus christ.

>>41045838
I forgot to include the (1d100) requirement for the coughing.

All infection attempts against conscious targets requires a 1d100 roll. Need four more rolls.

Goddammit just infect the cook

Just injure the guy and send him to the infection bay

Instant win on the ship

Rolled 57 (1d100)

>>41045973

Rolled 58 (1d100)

>>41045973

>>41045838
>Let's not!
It'll take time for them to notice a lack of shipments, by then we'll have all of the miners infected
>Try to cough spores into her mouth

Rolled 99 (1d100)

>>41045973

Rolled 47 (1d100)

>>41045973
Here we go

Rolled 2 (1d100)

>>41045973

>>41045987
We could continue to ship and stowaway spores in them.

Rolled 27 (1d100)

>>41045978
We can do that in the colony infect their cooking staff that should spread the infection quick.>>41045973

>>41045989
Damn do I feel gangster.

>>41045987
I'm pretty sure we are going to load up on metal for the return trip

Its how thing goes for isolated work sites

>>41045987
Presumably we can call off and forget the quarantine as if it never happened once they're all infected, though. No one would be able to contradict that story.

>>41046001
That too, though I assume the ore is instantly melted down in a refinery

>>41045973
So can we make honey pots that exude pheromones from the girls since we have advanced human body knowledge?

It's like I'm reliving the early days of AI Quest.
I never asked for this.
Someone wake me from this nightmare.

>>41046035
Humans probably do not work that way, this isn't Batman.

>>41046042
this quest already has a no experimenting no fun player

>>41046042
All this need is for fluff and his merry band of autistic name fags to ruin the quest and focus on assuming details that don't add anything to the quest.

>>41046035


Seriously tho, if we can infect the prostitute industry from your common street walker to your high class escort, we are in like Flynn.

>>41046052
Most miners are gonna go for any piece of ass that appears. Use our new knowledge to do a little plastic surgery on the chicks...

>>41046052
It's been proven pheromones work, he'll men can tell if a girl us on their period through photos since women do subtle changes that screams this.
What I'm asking for is a supercharged version that makes comprehension harder for the opposite sex through what the human bodies produces

>>41046089
>in like Flynn
I do not understand your idiom.

>>41046104
Its like roger dodger or what's the plan, stan.

>>41046089
Sounds like a good place for our merry group of males to go to once we dock back at the station.

>>41046102
>supercharged version
That's the point. You would have to have had human brains to somehow evolve to be ultra-receptive to this hypothetical super-smell?

If pheromones are a key to unlock a subtle effect in the human brain, it doesn't follow that creating a new "supercharged key" will find a supercharged lock in the target's brain that humans just never used before.

I mean you could BS it cuz scifi, so it doesn't hurt to ask, but it's doubtful.

>>41046119
I still don't get it.

Are you appending a pronoun that rhymes in order to elicit humour?

Like:
We are in (like Flynn).
What's the plan (, Stan).
Roger (as an affirmation) (Dodger).

I'm not seeing the point, and I don't know why you would think that it's amusing, but I'm struggling to find a more extensive explanation.

>>41046209
It's not a pronoun.

But...yes?

>>41046209
is your stripper name "The Great Autismo" by any chance?

>>41046209
Yes.
Those are common sayings.
They are hilarious.

>>41046208
Combine pheromones, super hot chicks thanks to spore plastic surgery, and living on a lifeless rock with no attractive woman. Do you think any of the miners would turn down a slut that comes up to them?

>>41046229
Flynn and Stan are pretty obviously pronouns. 'Dodger' less so.

>>41046246
Now I might not be good at social intercourse but I do know that that isn't a very nice thing to say.
But I'm going to assuming it's in the spirit of "ribbing" and has little to no real malice to it.

Reading you boys driving an interesting quest into the ground is like a form of self-flagellation.

OP, thanks for your work, and I'll see you in the Arrivals Rage Cage one of these days.

(Quarantining the mine wasn't a vote by the way. I was just making a comment about the discussion.)

>>41045989
(Hot damn)
As Christine passes the chief engineer he coughs loudly, and with great force. Christine wasn't even that close to him and she felt it on her face.

Just as she reaches the door her personality is suppressed under your control. You now control all the engineering personnel. This puts you at 8/15 crewmen.

-- (Captain)
"Expecting any more traffic, Joker?"

"The Platinum Falcon is supposed to do another titanium pickup next week. Drop us some fuel too."

"The Platinum Falcon eh?"

The captain knows the Platinum Falcon as the other freighter that frequents this fringe outpost. Each outpost is usually assigned two freighters to move materials to and from, and each freighter is assigned two locations to make supply runs.

>More questions?
>Disconnect?

-- (Situation Report)
8/16 crewmen
Remaining: Chef, Hydroponics, Navigation Officer, Communications Officer, Bridge Monitor, Security Officer, Atmospherics Technician, Janitor

(Would you believe me if I told you that I made a slight miscount? Apparently janitors don't count as crewmen. There are now 16 crewmen on the ship.)

Engineering: Engine is at 50%, but can be pushed back to 100% at any time.

Medbay: Controlled

Hydroponics: Plants controlled

Cargo Bay: Controlled, 1 hour remaining for job completion.

Bridge: Captain controlled. Currently communicating with the Joker colony.

At this point you guys have taken control of most of the ship, and you have the capacity to take the rest of them in one fell swoop if you actually succeed at your attempts to do so. (I'm going to open up the scale a little bit.)

What would you like to do? (choose any/all)
>(Captain/Engineers) Speed the ship back up
>Wait until lunch, attempt to infect the crew (2 hours wait; Everyone)
>Send someone to try and infect another crewman (Who do you send? Who is the target?)
>Alternative Option (Write-in)

>>41046299
It's really, really annoying.

>>41046306
>Wait until lunch, attempt to infect the crew (2 hours wait; Everyone)

>Send someone to try and infect another crewman (Who do you send? Who is the target?)
Send Nurse to Chef.

>>41046306
>Wait until lunch, attempt to infect the crew (2 hours wait; Everyone)

or

>Send someone to try and infect another crewman
Send the medical staff
Target the cook

>>41046306
>>Wait until lunch, attempt to infect the crew (2 hours wait; Everyone)
>Send someone to try and infect another crewman (Who do you send? Who is the target?)
Get that Chef infected.

Rolled 47 (1d100)

>>41046306
>Wait until lunch, attempt to infect the crew (2 hours wait; Everyone)
Have someone go and infect chef first

>>41046306
>>Send someone to try and infect another crewman (Who do you send? Who is the target?)
Kiss the Cook.

>>41046306
>Hydroponics crewman uninfected.

I see visions of a spore dump when they enter the bay.

Realistically, though, keeping the ship's pace down until after lunch infection is probably our best bet; things are going swimmingly, and nothing to show that we've been discovered at all. Then we can bring the Greater Good to the Joker.

>Lunch Reunion

>>41046306
>>Send someone to try and infect another crewman (Who do you send? Who is the target?)
Send one of our engineers to infect the chef, then infect everyone else at lunch time.

By the way, while I *am* amused at the thought of forming a free-love cult, I would like to head that shit off at the pass. DON'T THINK I'M NOT ON TO YOUR GAME.

I agree with everyone else who has said to infect the cook, and then infect everyone else at lunch. It sounds like a solid and not too dangerous plan.

Can our hosts still die of normal means?

Can we infect them so thoroughly that their blood is nothing but a spore sludge and getting their brains blown out would just force us to grow the body new sensory organs?

>>41046525
Haven't had enough time to mess around with biomass yet.

>>41046540
We really need to takeover that mining facility quickly so we can experiment with this shit.

>>41046525
>Can we...
(You can do many things. You've yet to have time to experiment with what you can do because the other spore anons have been using safe strats for this initial phase of the game. As the spore evolves, you'll also be able to do more things.)

>>41046370
(I'm quickening the pace mostly because we're closing in on the end of the episode.)

>Wait until lunch
>Send medical staff to infect the chef.
The nurse stays behind, but Doctor Tanner heads to the common area.

As she's making her way there, she sees the security officer leave his office. He's a big man for the doctor, and he's wearing standard issue red armor with a red helmet that has a visor that can be flipped down. When he sees her, he stops her, but from an abnormally-long distance.

"Doctor Tanner. How's the atmos tech?"

"Same as always. Just dropping out to grab some coffee for myself and Gonzales."

"I see. Hey, have you seen the engineers? Supposedly there's been an incident with the coolant outtake, but it's been really quiet. Was just heading back there to see what's up."

Roll a 1d100 to convince him, regardless of which option you choose.
>Say you haven't seen them. (1d100)
>Tell him the chief was injured and the fix was delayed. (1d100)
>Try to infect him (very difficult, 1d100)
>Write-in (1d100)

Rolled 59 (1d100)

>>41046597
>Tell him the chief was injured and the fix was delayed. (1d100)

Rolled 70 (1d100)

>>41046597
>>Tell him the chief was injured and the fix was delayed. (1d100)
Truth really

>>41046597
>He's a big man
for you

Rolled 100 (1d100)

>>41046597
>Tell him the chief was injured and the fix was delayed. (1d100)

>>41046646
well then
if only you'd rolled to infect him

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>>41046646
>Talking
>Accidentally get a little spit in his mouth

>>41046653
100 could mean that we slip him a kiss.

>>41046646
HA
HAHA

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>>41046646
so... we infect him anyway or something right?

>>41046597
>using safe strats
There are strats that work, and strats that look like they might work if you roll a six on the die, but really it was a d5.

>>41046691
Greedy

>>41046704
>Greedy
maybe, but that's doesn't mean no

>>41046597
Wait.

> but from an abnormally-long distance.

...Were there security cameras in the med lab.

>>41046740
dun dun DUUUUUUUN

It begins.

>>41046740
Knew it!!!

Knew it!!!

>>41046740
>>41046740
p.s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E781QE7ZQK8

I was just wondering what would step forth to oppose us.

It could've been a persecuted minority of humans who were telepaths, and who could read our thoughts and tell we were abominations.

It could have been a rival race of parasitic slugs that were already trying to take over the human race, we saw them first.

It could have been Skynet robots or an alien race that sought to exterminate humanity rather than conquer it.

...Or it could be one especially observant security guard.

>>41046740
(That's just him using his training. FMC security officers aren't part of the crew. They're agents of FMC, and if there was a security issue they would take over the ship. Most of the crew thinks he's just a nosy jackass, but it's his job.)

>>41046817
>what would step forth to oppose us.
(If you could kindly start failing your checks, maybe you'll find out.)

>>41046646
>Perfect 100
(So much for that then)

"Poor chief got himself burned trying to fix the pipe, so it's just Richardson over there now. I hear they're supposed to have the ship back up to full in good time."

"Oh. I see..." The security officer almost looks dejected by this news. "Well... let me know if anything interesting comes up."

The officer slinks back to his office, no longer having any reason to go and investigate things. Perhaps one day he'll get to be a great space detective!

The doctor proceeds to the common room, and approaches the kitchen's counter.

"Hey Chef."

"Hm? Ah. Doctor Tanner! Let me guess: A black and an ice?"

"You know us too well, Card."

The doctor spots the chef's own coffee as he sets it on the counter between the common room and the kitchen before going off to brew your coffee. It looks steaming hot. Perhaps too hot?

>Try to infect the coffee (1d100, may not work)
>Try to sneak into the kitchen and infect him (1d100)
>Wait for him to come back, and try to sneeze or cough in his face from across the counter (1d100)
>Write-in (1d100 to infect)

>>41046842
>Perhaps too hot?
You mean too hot for spores to survive in it?

Rolled 32 (1d100)

>>41046842
>Write-in (1d100 to infect)
Feign taking a sip of his coffee and give it plenty of backwash.