>>42206164
>2
Any limitations?

>>42206164
1) Srouh Artac
2) a copy of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas
3) [ ] BEING A CYBORG IS FUCKING AMAZING

>>42206212
Well, you're not a walking Metal Gear, but otherwise, anything you can hold in two hands maybe three if we're getting kinky and want to soup up to Revengeance levels of badass is a go.

>>42206164
1:Iron Maiden.
2: A High Frequency Halberd
3:[ ] BEING A CYBORG IS FUCKING AMAZING

>>42206164
1) What's your ID on the battlefield? The thing that the Mooks will piss themselves knowing they'll have to defend against THAT?
Mike. Im a simple guy.
2)Your weapon of choice. No soldier goes into battle without something to combat with.
I use a scar 17 silenced, edtech sight, magpul gear up the wazoo, M9 bayonet at my side if i need it.
3)Just how did you end up in your position? (This one I'll actually write up options for, otherwise they're all options made up by you folks and ultimately decided on by me.)
[ ] My family had to eat, and so I had to become a soldier to help them.
[ ] War's boring if all you are is flesh.
[ ] BEING A CYBORG IS FUCKING AMAZING
[I was a boy who wanted to be a soldier, and now im a man who wants to be the best soldier, even if that means im no longer a man. ] (Write-in Option)

>>42206164
MGR Isn't Canon!

>>42206232
A weapon consisting of 3 short HF blades that can unfold and spin like a buzzsaw, normally attached to the forearm, can be thrown and controlled for a time before being recalled. Can be use to deflect bullets when spun up.

>>42206164
1) Iskandir
2) Daggers
3) BEING A CYBORG IS FUCKING AMAZING

>>42206284
>>42206244
You two. I like you both.

To be honest, any weapon idea that I like but doesn't make it in as the MC's weapon will probably be shunted onto the bosses.

>>42206246
>a gun as a weapon
Nah man, every good MGR character has melee's.

>>42206164
1) Locust
2)>>42206244's HF Halberd is a good idea
3) BEING A CYBORG IS FUCKING AMAZING

>>42206164
1) Ian Moone (I am no one, it's a great line to pull out when they ask.)
2) Pilebunker(s).
3) BEING A CYBORG IS FUCKING AMAZING

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>>42206309
Alright then.
I suppose I will use a sword resembling a roman spatha that fold into three and attaches to my right arm, and a roman legate shield that wraps around my left and straightens into a 6 foot by 4 foot wall of metal. Both detach of course
And in spirit, the name changes to Marcus

>>42206164
>my very first GMed Quest Thread
you're gonna need to know a few things first

like putting on a trip for one

>>42206297
1. Iskandir is confirmed our MC's callsign/alias!
>>42206244
2. HF Halberd is confirmed our weapon!

And damn near unanimously, BEING A CYBORG IS FUCKING AMAZING is our backstory.

Some other preliminary information before we begin.

You, Iskandir, sometimes Rome to those who aren't allowed to strictly know you, work for the extra-military organization SAFEHAVEN (unrelated to THAT Haven, trust me). You and your squadmates, Leonidas, Tell, Joan, and Alexander work to secure post-Patriot/Desperado technology to ensure no malicious groups use it.

You're one of the few ones who can seem to crack a joke in the heights of your missions, but the others seem to appreciate levity in the face of death so many times in a row.

NEXT QUESTION: Who's your main compadre of the above? Any of your squadmates, your unseen Ground Control, or even some new option are all viable.

>>42206485
shit trust me im as noob as they come have mercy on me

>>42206487
>HF Halberd is confirmed our weapon!
That dude needs to stick to Afterlife Quest.

You and yer fookin' halberds.

>>42206487
Tell. Based on the name I'd expect him to be some sort of cyborg archer, and ranged support is valuable even in a world where the sword has once again become the weapon of choice.

>>42206487
The 7 ft 6 tall Cyborg Girl Joan .
Who is totally not a spy for some evil Orginisation and tries to backstab me in every Mission. It's not Actual Backstabing, more the "Check this Bomb out!" kind of Joking she does.

>>42206487
Tell.

Give him a bow.
It'd be funny and make no sense.

>>42206487
Alexander, provided he is indeed great

>>42206593
2nd

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>>42206564
>>42206545
>>42206544
confirmed for halberd-firing archer

>>42206487
A young black kid named Justin. Make him the Otacon of the story.

>>42206335
>>42206244
>tfw a halberd has only striking points at the extreme edges, the length of the shaft is used entirely for maneuvering the weapon and thus cannot be made into a "high-frequency" zone since it would fuck our hand

So basically, you want to put an axe with a spike on top of it, with a hammer end on the back, charge it up with badass technology, and then put it on the end of a NORMAL STICK

What.

Why?

Why are you doing this?

What the fuck, guys?

>>42206665
They dont allow us to use guns, and its the future.

Just go with it

>>42206665
The normal stick could be used like a Telescope stick. For changeable reach an' stuff

>>42206665

The senator was nanomachines, son.
A weapon's a weapon. Rule of cool, ect.

>>42206665
Doesn't have to be a normal stick. It could have all sorts of gadgets built into the shaft. Maybe it's a made of CNT muscle fibers, lets it shift its length and center of balance to optimize strikes. Or maybe there's a linear motor running down it, and we can use the spike as a pile bunker. Maybe the shaft breaks apart into a bunch of robotic drones. This is Metal Gear Rising, and we're a quirky miniboss. I sincerely doubt we're not going to have a gimmick weapon.

>>42206724
It's still something that the average mook could just grab.

If a mook can grab it, a badass boss could EASILY do so.

>>42206718
Bruh, pls.

GUIS!

>>42206752
Halberds aren't cool, though, mang.

And Armstrong got killed anyway.

You guys couldn't choose something that would be harder to deal with in a fight than a goddamn halberd.

Faaaaack.

Oh well. Carry on.

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>>42206648
Waffles, fuck off, I know it's you.

Anyways, we're tied between Tell and Alexander at the time of writing.

The only solution...

THREE-WAY BRO PACT.

On the Squadon, your two strongest allies in the field have always been Tell and Alexander.

Tell, with his quick hands and hawk's eye can pick off opponent's from hundreds of yards away. He's drier than the Sahara, but sometimes that's the funniest thing while you're unwinding back at HQ. You and Alexander seem to be the only squadmates he talks to outside of missions, where he's otherwise calm, collected, and occupied with training and upkeep on his cybernetics.

Alexander is the complete opposite, as a crude, boisterous man as imposing socially as he is physically.

You actually decked his smug ass on the first day.

It was friendship ever since, kicking it back and letting Alexander charge in with shield and lance in tow, while you used him as a springboard to deftly cleave operative's into quivering meat.

Your competitions of one-liners and bravado have made you both a favorite even to the people back home at base.

no you're not gay

Next up, and final thing before we truly start: has there ever been someone, man, woman, or something inhuman entirely, that's beaten you in your past?

What are YOUR demons, Iskandir?

>>42206922
My addiction to Hardcore Drugs and Rock'n'Roll. I was a Gang Member once, lost everything to it. Got fucked up by the Boss, thrown in the gutter and left to rot. Then i got better. In Cyborg Upgrade i so gonna fuck you Later Asshole Gangboss better.

>>42206922
Faulty body or bad maintenance that has resulted in a botched op.

>>42206922
>Next up, and final thing before we truly start: has there ever been someone, man, woman, or something inhuman entirely, that's beaten you in your past?

Only one has ever bested us.

La Bestia

The beast.

It's her fault we had to pay so much to replace our fucking limbs!

>>42206922
We were part of the security detail guarding a sick old man, a retired officer. He wasn't even conscious, a persistent vegetative state, but he still had enemies gunning for him. We failed him. Some operator out of nowhere took out our team like we weren't even there, kidnapped our charge, and murdered him in the middle of a graveyard. It was disgusting. Who would do that? We never caught the guy, and so we'll probably always feel guilty for your death, Major Zero.

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>>42206997
>>42207080
>>42207090
>>42207104
also, we got, like, fucked by or mom or something

>>42206922
Trains. Man, fuck trains. Nothing good ever happens to me around trains. Train ran over my legs. Got thrown out of one, right into a fucking beehive. Had another blow up, taking my apartment with it. Even lost my damn sunglasses on a train.

>>42207138
Actually, you could mix ALL OF THEM

We were hired by a government agency to guard a vegetable dude in a coma, but our repair just was so fucked by Frank the High mechanic, so the boss bitch of a rival gang fucked our shit up and killed the dude we were hired to guard,.

>>42206922

BEING A CYBORG IS AWESOME
Wait what i have to do repairs
Aka i vote for
>>42207080

>>42207080
This works out, gives us a reason to triple check our augments.

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>>42207138
https://youtu.be/t5D_3BlOWOQ?t=2m47s

>>42207104
I love the idea, but part of this IS working as an Anti-Patriots group.

Still, that detail can be something we were never told.

>>42207090
Liking it.

Rivals are good shit.

>>42207154
You got fucked on a train by her. Every MGR protag has to get fucked up on a train.

>>42207080
Hence why you don't hang around Tell when he's doing self-repairs. It brings up that awful moment where your entire body felt dead, you were nothing but a head attached to a body--

We don't think about that.

LET'S BEGIN FOR REALSIES.

---

HQ wanted you and the rest of the squadron on this boat, protecting what now can only be called scrap metal.

Scrap metal of what was once EXCELSUS, but scrap metal nonetheless.

Watching over the railing to the tossing sea, you're honestly more than a little miffed that you're put on glorified security detail. Still, what pays pays.

You look out behind you to the ship.

Tell is on top of one of the security crates, twisting himself into some meditative pose, his HF bow lying beside him.

Joan is chatting it up with a female sailor by the way to the boiler room. Her hammer is still firmly clutched in one hand.

Alexander is over by the starboard side opposite you, shadowboxing and occasionally 'defending' with his shield.

As for Leonidas...the man's nowhere to be found.

What do you do?

>>42207359
Search for Leonidas. The dude always tries to skimp on the Job.

>>42207359
See if we can see any fish.

>>42207359
This is where you would usually list options for us to pick from, one of them usually being >write in

Try to use the HF halberd as a fishing rod to pass the time.

>going to suggest a rapier type weapon, high frequency or energy based

>go take a shower first

>A HF Halberd wins

Eh? A halberd is a bashing, stabbing, and chopping weapon, all of those aspects are hindered by the fact that the haft will contact the target and stop it before it go entirely through something large, so why even make it specialized for slicing with a HF enhancement? It can go any further than the length of either blade or hammer portion.

With Raiden and his sword, the whole leading edge can cut, and it never grows thicker or dull along the way like a HF halberd would.

Maybe I'm sperging a bit hard on the weapons like that anon above, but, shit, guys, a halberd?

Points for the fact that no one would use it, but, there's a reason no one would use it.

I guess that's what I get for taking a shower instead of posting first.

>>42207579
You forgot about comedy points.
We can try to fish with a halberd. You can't with a rapier or katana.

>>42207437
>>42207417

Fishing it is.

(Also, yeah, minor fuckup on my part. Good thing it can get rectified early, eh?)

Taking some spare nearby fishing wire and collecting a hook from room just before the boiler (naturally saying hello to Joan along the way), you make a fair makeshift rod.

Real men don't need bait to attract their prey, only raw power behind the cast. With a powerful motion, you send it flying out past the boat, and so you wait.

You also realize you'll have to pull up on your halberd really hard to get anything you catch, and it's far more likely you'll lose your weapon than get something resembling lunch.

>[] Fuck it, press onwards!
>[] I should find something better to do with my time.
>[] HQ's been a bit quiet, maybe I should check in...
>[] Write-in

>>42207674
Fuck it! Press onwards!

>>42207674
>[] Fuck it, press onwards!
>[] HQ's been a bit quiet, maybe I should check in...

>>42207660
Well, if the rapier has a proper casket guard you could loop the fishing line through it, then drive the blade into the ship, or slip it between the railing, then just chuck the line out and pull on it when you have a bite.

We have metal fingers, it wont dig into our lack of skin if we loop it around our finger.

But, I mean, this is entirely theoretical.

>>42207674
>[] HQ's been a bit quiet, maybe I should check in...
>[] Fuck it, press onwards!
Radio while fishing, like a real man.

>>42207674
>Fuck it, press onwards!

At worst, we reroll for a new weapon.
At best, lunch!

>>42207674
>[] Fuck it, press onwards!
We didn't get a kickass cyborg body so we could -think- about stuff.

>>42207736
>>42207711
>>42207702
>>42207697

You're not stopping until your rod is ripping from your hard, grasping hands.

this rp isn't gay i swear

You feel the light pull of something on the line. That challenging spirit of yours has certainly attracted a fighter, alright. You can just sense it.

As you prepare yourself to start your nautical battle, you remember it's been over an hour since HQ called in. You've never been the worrying type, but today just seems a little bit different.

Better safe than sorry.

You tap your earpiece briefly, opening the commlink.

"Iskandir here. Checking in, everyone okay?"

There's a momentary buzz of static, but you get a response.

"Everyone's fine here, Iskandir. Are you hurt? Is the mission compromised?"

You grin, beginning to pull up on the makeshift-rod, grunting a bit suggestively into the microphone on total accident.

"I'm doing just fine, Angie." you say, licking your lips as you await your challenger's rebuttal.

"It's Angel, Iskandir. Don't get cute about nicknames."

>[] Continue to pester Angie. You know she can take it.
>[] Be a pussy and abandon your fishing quest.
>[] Accidentally become more suggestive than you already are.
> [] Finish off your opponent in the seas.

>>42207883
> [] Finish off your opponent in the seas.
> See if we can fillet the fish as it flies

>>42207883
>[] Accidentally become more suggestive than you already are + start making fish puns

>>42207911
>using a brute-force weapon to fillet a fish

I mean, you'll get it in half, easy, but I don't think Iskandir can Zandatsu the everything.

He probably has his own bullshit mode, though, that does something else equally ridiculous.

>>42207883
>>[] Continue to pester Angie. You know she can take it.
> [] Finish off your opponent in the seas.

>our name is Iskandir and our best bro's name is Alexander
>Iskandir and Alexander are variations of the same name
I wonder if anyone will comment on this in game

>>42208019
nah man, it's just like peacewalker where 1/3 of the characters are named "peace"

>>42207915
This, and finish him.

>>42207958
Helicopter Mode confirmed...?

>>42207915
>>42207911
>>42207966

"Oh c'mon, Angie, you don't 'cod' to be that way!"

You prepare your metal muscles for things you swear you've never made them do before.

"I'm going to blacklist your frequency if you say another word."

"But Angie, what if I need your 'kelp'? You gotta be 'squidding' me!" You grunt lowly, before puffing out more air in bursts, sounding like...

You get the idea.

"Are you seriously making comments about fish while you're--"

"FISHING!?" You exclaim, lifting your halberd to the heavens above, sending a whopper of a catch your way, a massive black sea bass, easily the size of your torso. "WHY, YES, I AM!"

With second-by-second motions, you remove all accessories from your halberd and leap into the air, swinging your halberd around in a slash that sears two halves of the bass by the inside, both landing near Tell and interrupting his concentration.

"Iskandir!" He shouts across the ship, "this mission is no time to be misusing your weapon! It is your tool, your extension of the self!"

"Tch, yeah." You reply, walking over and retrieving your catch's remains. "An extension of how fucking awesome I am."

Tell groans and returns to his meditation. You can notice the frustration even through his full-face mask.

>[] Check with the captain on your ETA
>[] The seas must be hunted further!
>[] Leonidas is still a no-show...
>[] Write-in

>>42208151
>[] Leonidas is still a no-show...

>>42208151
>>[] Leonidas is still a no-show...

>>42208151
>Leonidas is still a no-show...

>>42208151
>[] Leonidas is still a no-show...
Ask tell if he's seen him. Then go searching.

>>42208316
>>42208271
>>42208171
>>42208340

Your mind wanders back to your missing teammate. That's quite a bit of concern. For as much bravado as you put out, Leonidas could be considered the real leader of the team. The man's picked you up any time you couldn't get up yourself, and his mid-war speeches have driven you to cut harder and move faster than you ever have before.

So finding him is pretty important.

"Tell, you seen Leondias anywhere? He's been out of my sight since we got on the boat, now that I think about it."

"He's down in the boiler room, if I recall correctly." he says, in a measured tone, not opening his optics to answer, or even emote. "I do seem to remember him saying he wanted some 'peace and quiet' to think. Perhaps that's the reason why you haven't seen him, mm?"

Damn, Tell knew just how to be smug enough to hurt, but enough of a friend to be pretty likable. Still, that one stung.

>[] Head on down.
>[] A man doesn't take a jab like that lying down!
>[] Write-In.

>>42208434
>Radio him

>>42208434
>>42208484
Where would we get our hands on the kind oftech needed to wirelessly communicate with someone in near proximity. Oh, wait. Yea.
>Radio him, give sitrep.

>Revengeance quest
Fuck yeah.

While I'm not thrilled we've got a halberd, I think it could be pretty great if we have some good gimmicky bullshit to go with it(And being a Metal Gear character we NEED a gimmick. It's a rule of nature). Anyone put any thought into what our gimmick should be?

>>42208484
>>42208607

You tap your earpiece again, getting into communications.

"Leo? You still alive down there, old man?"

"...Do you always find it necessary to infringe on my privacy, Iskandir?"

You cover your earpiece, whispering to Tell.

"He's a little grumpy when he hasn't had his nap."

"I heard that. Have you something more important to say? Otherwise--"

"Caught a huge fuckin' fish!"

"..."

You hear a slow clap on the other end.

"I commend your fishing skill. Now go back to guard duty."

"Listen, Leo, don't you find it a little suspicious the job has been so lax? We're carrying the corpse of the machine a guy who was going to assassinate the President was using. This should be the flame all the moths gather to."

"You...make a good point." He breaks into a brief coughing fit before continuing. "I'll be up on the main deck. I'm getting a bad feeling about this mission."

"Over n' out, Leo." You say, sighing and looking around the ship.

That's when something crests along the waves.

Two massive claws reach out and break the water's surface, and you can see piercing orbs of red glowing beneath the surface, practically painting the ocean near starboard side bloody.

Tell immediately leaps into action, retrieving his bow and notching it with an arrow.

"UG! UG spotted off the side of the show, appears to be a Leviathan-model! Iskandir and I about going to engage! Everyone else, eyes out for others like it!"

You take one look at the metallic crab-beast rising to the surface, and another at your comrade.

>[] Tell him to fire an arrow and ride that shit to the target!
>[] Let him give covering fire. Go in and break the optics first!
>[] Hold the line until the rest of SAFEHAVEN on the ship can get on deck.
>[] Write-In

>>42208434
>>42208750
Oh, and
>Head on down.

>>42208755
>[] Tell him to fire an arrow and ride that shit to the target!

GIANT ENEMY CRAB

>>42208755
>Tell him to fire an arrow and ride that shit to the target!

>>42208755
>[] Let him give covering fire.
>[] Hold the line until the rest of SAFEHAVEN on the ship can get on deck.
Halberd pole-vault onto it if it closes within stiking distance of the ship. Remeber to twirl it for extra lift.

>>42208755

>Ride that shit to the target

>>42208797
>>42208814
>>42208989

GET UP ON THE HYDRA'S BACK

"Tell! Remember that thing I did with you back in Cuba?"

"The thing that sent us both to the repair shop for three months each?"

"Well, no, the thing right before that thing!"

"Oh, that thing that thing. Very specific of you."

He pulls back his arrow and lets it fly straight. You run after it, taking a flying leap and landing on the end with all the grace of a ballerina, and the bloodrage of a true warrior.

The arrow strikes square between the two glowing eyes of the Leviathan, and you've got a prime spot to attack. Taking out your halberd and lifting it high over your head and even back further, you chop downwards like it's a log, causing a gash to split in the cranium of the enemy crab.

"ISKANDIR!" Tell shouts. You look behind you, as he's gesturing to his quiver and making repeated downward motions. You grin and decide to let the man have a spotlight for a moment.

You'll be stealing it right back as soon as the next UG rises anyway.

With a running jump off the claw of the Leviathan, now sputtering and smoking in the water, you grab onto the handrail and flip backto the deck.

Tell, upon seeing your safe return, takes a handful of HF arrows from his quiver and places them in front of his bow, as they suspend in mid-air with electromagnetic energy. He breaths in slowly, as the arrows spread out into a vertical line. A moment passes, and he lets them loose, a trail of arrows landing up the head of the Leviathan, decommissioning it for good. You grin and pat your buddy on the back.

"Isk! Tell!" You hear Alexander over the radio. "Come on up by the front of the ship! You've gotta see this shit for yourself!"

Time for some glory.

>[] Charge in, fuck whatever Alex has to say on arrival!
>[] Make sure everyone's safe before you attack once you arrive.
>[] Write-in
>[] Better analyze the enemy first.

>>42209152
>[] Charge in, fuck whatever Alex has to say on arrival!

>>42209152
>meet alex at the front of the ship

>>42209152
>Go up by the front of the ship, see that shit for yourself

>>42209290
>>42209244

(I'll mention this now, but it's likely I'll mix some choices that don't directly contradict and make ol' Isky do both, so long as they coincide. Such as right now. Two posts take a non-violent approach, one doesn't, therefore the two that work together can be done. Does that make any sense?)

You run up, jumping right from the deck up the stairs to the bow of the ship. Everyone's gathered there, including the deckhands, as well as the rest of SAFEHAVEN. Alexander's evidently been looking for you.

"Isk, buddy, you might want to radio in and say the mission might have some casualties now. We just saw a flash of the other thing in the water..."

"What, another big UG?" you reply, scoffing and setting your halberd, leaning against it.

"...It's piloted, Isk. It's an MG."

What blood you do have in you runs colder. Despite your long list of missions, you've never actually encountered a manned Gear, outside of VR simulations.

But VR sims only go so far, and they've only got the older models. The new toys running around in Liberia and the like, so you hear, make things like RAY and EXCELSUS look like a Ford Pinto in comparison.

As your thoughts fester, the water breaks and your submerged adversary rises, going to a full height towering far above the ship. You note...some emblem emblazoned across the front. You can't read it now, your adrenaline demands action, not speculation.

>[] Get SAFEHAVEN geared up to fight!
>[] Charge in alone! I'm made for this!
>[] Write-in

>>42209481
Tell, covering fire. Alex, hold the line. Joan, you and me are fronting that thing. Charge!
>Dunno what Leo does, he can figure it out.

>>42209481
>[] Get SAFEHAVEN geared up to fight!
What does it actually look like? Is it pink?

>>42206164
1) Cleaving Havoc
2) High Frequency Executioner's sword.
3) I wouldn't be alive if i didn't choose to be a cyborg.

>>42209481
Makes sense to me.
>Get SAFEHAVEN geared up to fight!

>>42209690
>>42209620

The emblem ain't pink, sorry to say. It's more of a red-green color scheme, but this is no time for color theory!

"Tell! You rain em' down with arrows! Alex, make sure all these workers get down where it's safe! Joan, we're gonna be hitting it head on! Leo--"

He looks at you, with eyes that have seen a lot of shit. This is possibly the tenth or so Metal Gear he's faced in his lifetime, so this isn't his first time at the rodeo. Still, you can feel something like pride emanating off him.

"I think I know what to do. Could it perhaps be attacking the pilot?"

You pause for a moment, thinking.

"Uh, yeah, that! Great idea, Leo!"

Shit, you should've thought of that one.

"SAFEHAVEN, move!"

You and Joan rush out to the bow, jumping in tandem onto the railings and straight onto the MG. She swings for the arms, beating it back with a slam of her hammer, while you cut straight and allow yourself to slide down, ripping through the metal and exposing some of what the outer shell was hiding.

You look up and see the 'head' of the beast baring down on you, a massive cyclopean eye with a red, piercing orb as the only indicator of a pupil. The Metal Gear reaches the arm nearest you over to Joan and peels her off, tossing her at the wall of the boat. With surprisingly dextrous fingers, it takes her HF Hammer from her collapsed form and crushes it within it's hand.

Okay, the pilot knows what he's doing. That's not good.

Tell takes the opportunity to riddle the bare-left arm of the bipedal menace with arrows, and makes a hand signal over to the left at you.

The bastard wants you to climb them up it.

>[] Tell's never let me down before! He can help Joan in the interim.
>[] Never leave a comrade behind! Check up on Joan!
>[] Distract this thing and help Joan while Leo finishes it off.
>[] write-in.

>>42209787
You a little late.

>>42209871
>>[] Distract this thing and help Joan while Leo finishes it off.

>>42209871
>[] Tell's never let me down before! He can help Joan in the interim.
Wouldn't the obvious tactic be for Tell to kill its optics, though?

>>42209871
>Tell's never let me down before! He can help Joan in the interim.

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>>42209988
>>42209961

(SHIT IT'S THE 2AM GETTING TO ME)

You nod back to Tell and shimmy and shuck your way across the body of the Metal Gear, moving quickly to avoid it's hands. You then acrobatically swing from arrow to arrow, ascending up to the shoulder, looking the thing dead in the 'eye'.

"Hey, fuckface!" You say, brandishing your halberd at it. "No one man, woman, or being beyond dares to cross the path of Iskandir and hopes to live!"

You click the button just beneath the neck of your weapon, as it hums and the red markings indicating it as HF glow a deeper shade.

"When you meet the devil, tell him I sent you!"

Swinging 360 degrees, you slash at the head of the creature.

https://youtu.be/-5koepEEiYU?t=1m5s

With a deft, burning cleave, your blade catches fire and burns through the metal, leaving an odd-half left of what you originally called the Metal Gear's head.

You look down to Tell, still in shock at the beast's head-half falling into the water with a deafening splash.

He can only thumbs up in reply.

That's when shit starts.

"Iskandir! Alexander, Tell, Joan! Get the ship out of here!" Leonidas frantically shouts over the commlink,

"What? But we've got this guy on the ropes!" You say back. Something's starting to eat you out of fear now.

"I found the pilot...if you could call him that. There's...there's wires, and machinery all forcing him to do this. Someone else has been remotely controlling this!" he shouts back. Tell gets Joan over his shoulder down on the deck, looking up with concern at you.

"I don't get how that's something to evac over, though!" you shout back.

"He's....He's loaded, Iskandir."

Your eyes widen as you look down below and shout to Tell, an arm outreached in desperation.

"The hull! Get to the hull, Tell! It's going to blow!"

>[] Get out yourself! Jump in the water!
>[] Fuck it, you're not leaving the old man! Find the pilot and him!
>[] I'll cut it wide open, dammit!

>>42210174

>[] Fuck it, you're not leaving the old man! Find the pilot and him!
>[] I'll cut it wide open, dammit!

>>42210326
This. The rest need to gtfo, though. Isk is the only one playing hero.

>>42210377
>>42210326

You take one last wistful look at Tell as he runs with Joan in tow. The bastard better make it.

"With all due respect, Leo...never leave a man behind. We're no ordinary for-hire PMC assholes. We're family. We're SAFEHAVEN."

You almost hear him laugh over the commlink.

"Drinks are on me if we make it out alive." he says. There's a resigned sadness in his voice you can simply feel.

You raise your halberd up high, the farthest back you've reached it in all your career. Holding it in place, you reach a hand quickly to mash the button beneath the blade, the halberd's entire body growing hot with each press. As it begins to sear your metal hands, you know it's time.

You swing, riding the momentum and force all the way down until you fall through to a cavity within the Metal Gear, to the cockpit. Sure enough, there's some sorry sonuvabitch locked into a macabre contraption, moving him like a flesh puppet.

If there's one thing that pissed you off more than anything, it was this sort of manipulation. You ready your halberd once more to swing, before Leo presses a hand to your chest.

"Iskandir..." He gestures to the puppet's chest.

0:00:0.

In his final moments before the blast, he looks at you with the light approving smile you remember you father gave you when you won your first baseball game, or caught that tuna all by yourself.

The tears somehow sting hotter than the explosion as you make one, final, futile swing.

The world turns to flame and melting metal, and as you slip into unconsciousness, maybe even death itself, you feel the ice of the water sting you.

Something that sounds like helicopters welcome your drift into sleep.

---

There's a faint tickling of music as you come to. A song you know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmDakhg45rk

Your eyes open with a start, as your body jerks awake.

A man you've never seen before smiles at your awakening. (cont.)

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>>42210174
I vote>>42210326

Also i tried drawing Isk but fucked it up

>>42210504

You notice immediately there's the same emblem on the Metal Gear on his jacket. Connecting the dots, you flail towards him--only to discover the chains. Which soon becomes a discovery of something worse for you.

It's not just any chains.

Chains to an operating table.

Oh no, no no no.

"And out of the wreckage comes the golden boy himself. You'll be far prettier when you're done, my boy...beautiful, even." A smile is hinted at his thin lips, before he turns and switches off the iPod dock playing your awakening music.

All hint of humor leaves his face as he turns to some mechanic-cum-doctor, talking about 'the conversion'. You finally see the emblem and can read out 'LOKUST'. It's a humanoid skull with compound eyes, much like a fly, dripping mysterious green liquid from it's orifices.

Once, you might've had hope of rescue, or better yet, breakout.

That hope is gone. Gone in that ball of fire that landed you here.

As you struggle futilely against your chains, the man in the jacket grows tired of the noise, it seems. He grabs a crowbar off a nearby table, smacking you and beating you until the pain forces you into another slumber.

(I think that's my last plot post for the night, guys. It's about 3 AM where I am.

Still, loving the turnout this got. You guys are fucking great.

I'm open to some suggestions to do better or plot out more. If you guys wanted to use the rest of this thread as brainstorming/wishlisting, I'd love to cherrypick the best shit.

I'm thinking roughly Tuesday/Wednesday night EST will be Chapter 2, if you'll have me.)

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>>42210570
This is not the ending I expected

holy shit isk

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>>42210570
well that got dark fast thanks for running boss

>>42210612
>>42210607

I SWEAR THIS IS THE SETUP TO YOU MEETING YOUR QUIRKY MINIBOSS SQUAD

>>42206164
>can you truly call it Theseus' Ship?
Yeah so long as Theseus owns it.

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>>42210625
WE ARE CHAINED TO AN OPERATING TABLE

AND THE ONLY OTHER PERSON HERE IS SOME KIND OF SUPER PERV

I AM WORRIED FOR ISKANDIR'S SAFETY!

>>42210628
The idea behind the thought experiment goes a little more detailed than how I wrote it.

Basically, is identity ownership, or is it what the identified object is made of physically?

I wanted to explore that in a transhumanist angle for this thread as an overarching theme.

As long as I don't, you know, fuck it up.

>>42210651
you are an adult

>>42210570
>It's a humanoid skull with compound eyes, much like a fly, dripping mysterious green liquid from it's orifices.
Is that the doc?

>>42210683
no

>>42210670
I'm not an adult enough adult for this. Iskandir requires a better adult, preferably one that will remove the strange badtouch man.

Also most of Iskandir is technically not 18 years old yet, assuming. Thus I give you a checkmate!

>>42210704
So it is for us then?

Kamen Rider?

>>42210711
Well, the Winds of Destruction had that as their theme.

So this Quirky Miniboss Squad must have...

>>42210731
Not Kamen Rider, winds, winds were their theme.

It's insect shit.

It's Revengeance Kamen Riders but more badass

And out of paranoia that the thread would be lost to time, I slapped it onto sup./tg/.

I'd say we made it, guys, but I'm still nervous. But I really can't thank you enough. A Quest is nothing without it's players.

And like I said, feel free to echo chamber cool shit and ideas, I'd love stuff to implement besides my own. Hell, SAFEHAVEN's squad names literally got made up on the spot because our MC was named Iskandir. That's the power you have, you know?

But again, see you soon for Iskandir's quests and trials and tribulations and all that.

>>42210901
I'm still waiting to see if anybody has any ideas for what our gimmicky bullshit will be. The best I've been able to come up with is 'Halberd can split into connected segments kind of like L'etranger'.

>>42210969
If enough people agree on it, the Halberd can be considered lost to the seas since our capture by LOKUST.

Other weapons with easier/more straightforward gimmicks could help. That, or we could Raiden this shit and have multiple ones we pick up over the course of it all.

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>>42211018
Despite the filename and content, it is something.

To be honest, I was hoping to go for hammer as our main weapon this thread, but the notion of the Patriots told me so free will made me ask you guys.

>jet hammer is always still an option u gaiz

>>42211144
Could go with that triple HF blade buzzsaw idea and extend it to the wrists and ankles. Now you can move around with roller blades and you still have your hands free for a sword.

>>42210969
>>42211018
I kinda like the halberd, even if I didn't vote for it. The arsenal idea works too, the right weapon for every job.
As for gimmicks: microjets or explosive caps at the back of the blade for extra speed; a grapnel and cable that can shoot from the tip or base; momentum-driven capacitors to add some electric shock to our hits; and, of course, >>42208151 Helicopter Mode.

>>42211144
I'm eternally going to be a fan of the idea of strapping a rocket to the back of a hammer, that's actually given me an idea for a gimmick.

>Multiple arms, Asura/Mistral-style
>Only use one/two of them to hold our main weapon, equip the rest with HF knives and then Rocket Peace them at the enemy

>>42211572
Well, there was already a guy in MGR that used a giant rocket-assisted HF chainaxe.

>>42211606
Was that the guy from the Bladewolf DLC? I never actually got an opportunity to play either of the DLCs.

>>42211698
Yes.

>>42211698
Yeah, Khamsin. The Winds of Destruction member so pathetic, a miniboss beat him.

>>42213853
His mech and weapon were pretty cool tho

>>42211572
Perhaps later into the Quest, when we have more cyborg(exp) points the GM will let this come true

>>42215016
DON'T FUCK WITH ME BOYS, I GOT SO MANY FUCKIN' ARMS

Seriously though, I love the fuck out of Asura's Wrath, and I thought Mistral and Monsoon were probably the most creative of the bosses. I'd certainly count it in as a possible feature of Iskandir's conversion.

>>42215042
So when can we expect the next chapter of our dashing cyborg adventure?

>>42215042
OP

HOW MUCH MURDER WILL GO ON.

AND WILL THERE BE WAIFUING?

WILL WE HAVE TO MURDER OUR WAIFU

OR WILL SHE KILL US?

WELL OP?

I'm mostly joking. Did you plan the first thread or completely make it up.

>>42215127
>>42215122

Planning for right now is to start Chapter 2 tomorrow night, about 8 PM EST, give or take an hour or so. I'm moving into my college dorm, so I'm out for the majority of that day. I dunno what forced things I have to attend to that day, hence why I mark it up for being at night.

plus it's easier to keep a thread alive at night

As for murder: It's Revengeance, dude. You'll be hacking people down like weeds.

As for waifuing, fun fact of the day was that if Iskandir was chosen to bother Joan, she would've...bluntly stated that she doesn't swing that way.

As for waifus down the line...well, LOKUST does have a waifu or two, I figure.

I planned the broad strokes, knowing that a lot of it should be left to the audience. It's the difference between 'look what I made' and 'look what we did together!', y'know?

LOKUST's capture of the MC, as well as their Miniboss Squad were the first ideas I had for the Quest. That said, 75% of this quest was on the spot bullshitting off of your suggestions.

>>42215210
What does our hero really look like?
Is his metal full body like Raiden?
How visible are the enhancements?

for maybe drawfagging purposes

I know it's a bit late for this, but what kind of arrows (and bow) could a cyborg capable of suplexing giant robots be able to use? (Assuming the bow can also be made of crazy future shit such as artificial muscle fibers)

Also some character needs nanomachines AND HF blades for a modular weapon with hardening capabilities. Maybe a boss.

>>42215277
To be quite honest, I left extensive physical descriptions out and left it to the viewer's mind, just because the thread is so fledgling that it would be odd to not get more of a consensus on Isk's looks, you know?

That said, I can confirm Isk is pretty much full cyborg from the neck-down, and unlike Raiden, he doesn't have much qualms about it.

>>42215286
Well, Tell's bow is made to be able to fire HF arrow spreads via magnetic suspension and eventually firing them out the same way. He can get more creative/analytical with them if he needed to say, aim and eliminate three targets simultaneously.

I think we can kind of throw ideas at the wall and see what sticks in regards to drawfagging.

>>42215321
I guess I should have been more specific.

What could the maximum size/weight of one of these arrows be in universe? The maximum height of the bow prevents telephone pole-sized arrows, but would cyborg strength allow for the carrying of a ballista whole outdoors?

Just how utterly ridiculous could a MGS cyborg using arrows possibly be?

Aren't you suppose to be doing CoK with Chuckles Eail?

>>42216434
...What?

>>42215862
Well, I think the nature of magnetic suspension in release such as Tell's bow opens up the range of arrows a lot.

And by range of arrows, I mean 'if you can lift it, you can fire it.'

So basically, while Tell is limited to something on-par with the average size of regular arrows, only HF versions, a Raiden-style protagonist could easily mash, say, a guardrail and turn it into a makeshift spear to be launched via the bow.

Good idea y/n?

>>42217185
He would need a big bow

>>42217396
Extending bows certainly aren't out of the question.

>>42217396

So the question then is, if you the Tell's height as a size restriction on the bow, what materials could the bow be made of on the setting to also increase its power? I'm not to familiar with the related cyborg lore, but couldn't their muscle fibers and armor alloys be used to make one hell of a bow, even for a regular human? I mean, if a cyborg's punch can be as powerful, if not more so than a jackhammer, what could that tech do in a bow?

Concrete walls and most armor would probably be worth shit against that, right? (Even in universe with HF arrowheads)

>>42217517
I believe the cyborg strength would increase your power to launch the bow, meaning what you fire hits harder and hits faster. Adding in any kind of optical upgrade, and you've got a hell of a sniper.

Admittedly, bows haven't ever been portrayed, but cyborg tech relegating to a bow can definitely mean it could extend and/or carry more weight on it's arrow shots.

And the arrows/ammo can definitely pierce standard Mook armor or walls.

As far as MC gimmick goes, if sticking with the halberd, maybe small EMP/shock element on the business end? So if someone is too close to the blade, even if it missed it could still short an elbow or something.

>>42217562
Since we have a Halberd can we Name it Sky scorcher after the one true Husbando. Lu Bu?

Also I'm surprised none of the anons made a joke about that.

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>>42217517
To prevent going into full silliness territory, something like this perhaps?

>>42218045
>full silliness
>this is the game that launched DON'T FUCK WITH THIS SENATOR into a meme

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>>42218067
I meant as in "silly enough to be believable" type silly.

>>42218112
Oh, definitely. This isn't Gurren fucking Lagann here.

cuz we're not a bad anime

MGR had an excellent sliding scale of spectacle that I want to be able to match here, even if it's just a side-ops weapon that you pick up probably from Tell's charred waterlogged corpse

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>>42218150
That's also what I really like about Metal Gear in general.
It's got just the right amout of weeb and westaboo to not be obnoxious.

RIP brave soul

Make to halberd have a bearded ax-head, making it barbed. Stab it into someone without it being on HF, twist, then pull to embed the ax head as a barb. Whatever you just stabbed is now the head to a giant fucking hammer. Want your halberd back? Turn on HF and cut right through the thing you stabbed.

So, just as a general question: does just about all the audience agree we should get side-arms from things like minibosses (Monsoon's sai and L'Etranger, things like that?)

I think it marries the notion of people wanting to keep the halberd while also appeasing those who want variety or a different main weapon entirely.

>>42218277
As long as we get a high-frequency cestus pair, eventually.

>>42218277
We could turn the Halberd into a rifle or something.

things about six feet, could insert a clip and instead of the spear point it's a gun barrel.

Sort of Like the Custodes from 40k

>>42218277
Yes we should get extra gear.

>>42219340
>>42218324
>>42219015
>>42218244

All sound good. Consensus (as of who's posting right now anyways) sounds like side-weapons and some upgrades to the Halberd are in order.

More questions, because I'm endlessly curious about audience reactions: how far do you want Iskandir's connection to the squad to run? I know this sounds quite obvious, but depending on how important you view it to be, elements of SAFEHAVEN can rear their heads in the future.

Some moreso than originally planned.

Personally, I'd love for a heartwrenching battle as you fight off your LOKUST conversion while your squadmates hardly recognize you as the practical sibling to them that you are, but that's just me.

>>42219557
If you look at Big Ajax, he used a huge shield while his brother Teucer would fire arrows. Ajax would move the shield that covered both of them aside for a moment while Teucer fired, and they picked off many officers that way. Alex and Tell could easily have been doing something similar, with us serving to keep the enemy from swarming the pair while they worked. Any time someone would try to pin us down, Tell pinned them to the far wall. Anytime someone tried to get around Ajax's shield, we'd be there pinning them to the ground.

This does mean we'd need to be an agile sumbitch, but being fast enough to reach cover even when being blindsided isn't the worst design out there.

>>42219722
Iskandir essentially works as the agile butcher while Alexander is better at covering teammates and making the occasional raw-power push, with Tell working as ranged attacks.

Joan was around for additional melee support, and Leonidas was simply the best leader SAFEHAVEN's seen. Even in age, he slid seamlessly from conventional warfare into the new age of cybernetics like a glove.

He also slipped into that explosion-y death like a glove too.

>>42219796
PERFECT! Joan would be our backup on the front lines, but things never quite meshed with her because we did the job she's done for so long better than she ever had. She's always been more than a little jelly, and her relations towards the rest of the team deteriorated as a result.

Leo was the papa bear towards everyone, a sponge that kept soaking up the various drama the team had, however his own reluctance to share his stories kept him from getting too close to the rest of the team. Given how many good people he's had to send to their deaths, he half-prefers it that way.

>>42219891
The man's looked at you more than once and said the wrong name, before stumbling over his words, apologizing, and shoving you out of the room before you could question it.

Truly, you got the feeling that he was one hole you couldn't dig to the bottom of in your lifetime.

Joan definitely feels challenged by you, and there's definitely a running contest of one-uppings between the both of you (think keeping a kill count on Mooks during a wetwork mission). At the end of the day, you probably never truly hated one another, and you in fact always at least checked up when someone went in for repairs.

That bitch still stole your kill on that terrorist leader though, and that's unforgivable.

>>42220001
Welp, I'm cool with it. Just need other anons to give their approval.

Whoever the boss in this scenario is, we need to beat the shit out of him with our bare hands.

>>42218277
>Getting sub-weapons from minibosses
Hell yes.

Also, really surprised this thread's still up. I brought up the Asura/Mistral thing, but since the thread seemed pretty dead I decided to just go to sleep. Wonder if it'll last all the way until the next one?

>>42220218
Granted, I'm lurking my own thread like a fucking no-lifer, so that's a big contributing factor.

>>42220204
you mean our bare unlockable cyber claws

No, I mean our bare motherfucking fists.

Going out to eat with the fam as a last-day-before-move-in celebration, keep the thread alive, uh...

Shit, the people involved with this thread need a collective name.

...Revengefriends?

I'll be back in roughly three hours.

I might start Chapter 2 tonight out of boredom but probably not cause I need to move in early

>>42221430
Well all right man but the claws would make it more painful, just sayin.

>>42221430
Depending on who/what he is, that might not pan out as well as you'd think. I mean Raiden, a guy who can THROW MOTHERFUCKING METAL GEARS, went all Fist of the North Star on Armstrong, and it barely did any damage.

Raiden didn't have Improved Unarmed Strike.

why don't we just upgrade our dick until we can cockslap every enemy into a bloody past. We can be robodick.

We can do that with a two-level Monk dip.

How many minibosses and what insects do you have in mind already?

>>42222524
Spoilering it for those who want a surprise.
Spider
Scorpion
Dragonfly
Beetle and Scarab
Atlas/Hercules
Hornet (AKA you post-conversion)

>>42223631
Bombardier Beetle?

>>42223693
he's a tag-team boss with scarab

>>42223728
Is Scarab egyptian/egyptian themed?

Will we get a motorcycle?

>>42223757
Scarab is the more analytical and collected, while Beetle is MORE DAKKA RIP AND TEAR personified.

And it's pretty likely.

Is it too late to join?

>>42225900
Nah, never. As long as you're read up, you can do whatever you please.

For anyone still lurking, I'm gonna start up Chapter 2 in a few minutes.

I'm gonna break for sleep about 2-3 hours in, so find a way to keep the thread alive in the morning while I settle into my dormitory and I can return to you. Sound good?

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>>42227070
you might need to start a new thread, but we'll see what we can do boss

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>>42227070
>Quest finally starts
>3 Am

Good luck lads

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LIVE

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i can't keep bumping myself guys someone else need to take over

>>42210742
>It's Revengeance Kamen Riders but more badass
I'm just catching up after seeing the thread in catalogue, but with that you have my undying love.

>>42217185
>...What?
Eail is a QM of several other quests that's been having vague ideas to run a Metal Gear quest.
Although IIRC he was planning to go to earlier times rather than flat out MGRR.

>>42219557
>More questions, because I'm endlessly curious about audience reactions: how far do you want Iskandir's connection to the squad to run?
I'd like some very deep, yes.
And that spoiler, all of my fuck yes.

>>42220001
Everything really neat here too.

>>42227070
Oh there's a new one already.
>>42230991
why, then?