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This is a Da'hal, what humans would call an Anthropomorphic Feline.

A female rookie just turning of age and fresh out of training has awoken. This is horribly wrong. She is in her Pod. Her head hurts horribly, her clothes are only just barely keeping her warm from the frosty chill of the hallucinogenic water inside of her pod.

She is wearing what would allude to a scuba-mask, it's to keep the liquid from touching her eyes and causing permanent eye damage. The steady cold breeze of oxygen is not being flown into the tube; the scent of blood, however, permeates Daemon-1995's nose instead.

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Daemon-1995 opens her eyes, she cannot see past the Pod Door but there is blood on the ground in front of her pod.

Muffed alarms ring in her ear, she is awake but she can tell by the lack of oxygen is resulting in the premature waking of Daemons and their subsequent death via drowning.

Daemon-1995, eighteen year old female rookie fresh out of training, is awoken in her Pod. Her head hurts horribly, her under-armor is only just barely keeping her warm from the frosty chill of the hallucinogenic water inside of her pod.

She is wearing what would allude to a scuba-mask, it's to keep the liquid from touching her eyes and causing permanent eye damage. The steady cold breeze of oxygen is not being flown into the tube; the scent of blood, however, permeates Daemon-1995's nose instead.

Daemon-1995 opens her eyes, she cannot see past the Pod Door but there is blood on the ground in front of her pod. There might be danger if she exits this pod. However, the oxygen flow has nearly ceased. A lever next to her arm is the emergency release, it will free her and save Daemon-1995 from the water but expose her to the risk of an attacker.

Should she pull the lever?

>>1341280
Maybe wait a little to see if anything is there and then pull it

>>1341280
>Yes

Maybe the leaver is a kill switch. It would be better then slowly drow inside a fucking pod.

>>1341280
Yes

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>>1341291
>>1341292
>>1341300
>Pull the Lever

Daemon-1995 had no other alternative and reached for the emergency lever and gave it a huge yank upwards. She heard pressure pop in her ears and the loud mechanical screech of various machinery overriding themselves and prying itself open.

Daemon-1995 pulled the scuba-mask off of her face and undid her bindings, which was nothing more than a few leather wraps. They were torn off immediately on the account of her sharp teeth.

She feels weak as gravity took hold of her and she falls out of the pod.

Daemon 1995 falls onto the mesh-tile floor, it feels like flesh and metal. She opens her eyes to find meat and bullet casings littered across the bloodied floor.

Although Daemon 1995's eyes are blurry from the toxic effects of the pod-drugged water, she has a bearing of her surroundings. To the right of her pod is a terminal and to her left is a blood filled Hydro-Hallucinstasis Pod, meat and bones float in the hallucinogenic water.
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Obligatory review of Daemon 1995's status:
>STATUS: Pure.
>HP: 100/100
>ARMOR: Daemon (E-1) Relaxed Clothes +0 AMR
>Headwear: None.

>>1341313
>STATUS: Pure
L-lewd
Look around the room for any anything useful, a weapon or anything like that our surroundings don't exactly look safe

>>1341313
>Wait for the blur pass.
>Check the surroundings.
>Check terminal.

If the pod is sealed with water and meat pieces it might be better to let it closed

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>>1341330
>>1341359
Pod Station 199A is empty of anything useful and everyone that could possibly be alive. Pod Station 199A only housed 1995 and 1991. 1995 didn't know 1991.

>Go to The Terminal

The terminal is inaccessible. The caret isn't even blinking. The power is out. The damn thing is useless unless 1995 could restore the power to the Pod Station. Every input on the keyboard makes a soothing, yet annoying chime.

>>1341400
Check if there's any accessible doors
Gtg sleep op
Cya

>>1341400
>Try to restore power

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>>1341422
[I'll make sure you don't miss much, Anon.]

The automatic doors on both side of the room are locked on the account of there being no power. The only way through is if she could manually open it through brute force or through opening it through the computer.

Daemon 1995 may be a bred soldier, but she's no strongman.
>>1341425
Last time Daemon 1995 checked, she wasn't spouting out electricity through her paws... or hands rather. Unless you want her to start conducting electricity through spent bullet casing and blood.

As if Daemon 1995 had the button to restore the power to the entire ship in her sweatpants pockets, that would make this situation a hell of a lot easier wouldn't it?

However, if she can get into the vents she might be able to leave the room and find a power station... but the Pods are connected to the vents. She could try to man handle the pod gas-pipes down, but it might attract whatever made this blood bath.

>>1341455
>Follow the bullet chassis trail try to see were it leads.
>Failed to find anything usefull go check the vent

>>1341455
>Follow the bullet chassis trail try to see were it leads.
>Failed to find anything usefull go check the vent

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>>1341506
>>1341523
are you the same guy?

whatever.

>Bullet casings

It's scattered, but they do tend to leave to the right door. The door is locked.

>Check the vents

The gas-pipes went down with ease, thus pulling down the vent with it. Instantly, the room reeks with rancid meat and fermented cherries.

It's pitch black.

Not to mention, there's no oxygen in there. She'll suffocate if she stays too long. If only she had some sort of light it would be a hell of a lot easier but that's how the cookie crumbles.

>>1341554
no
>Look for food/edibel

>>1341554
Same guy? No

>>1341561
There's nothing in the vicinity edible.

>>1341554
>Look into the other pods

>>1341554
Look for a light source we can take with us

[hey anons, op here. i'm away from drawing tab so no pics yet.]

>>1341808
You can't see past the blood and slushy of meat.
>>1341817
Instead of a light source, 1995 picked up a few bullet casing. Audio is better if no light is available.

>>1341910
Look around one last time for anything useful, some corpse bits with anything useful or anything like that
Then
Climb into the vents and use the casings to check if there's still vent ahead

>>1341912
>Look one last time
1995 found a BONE SHIV from a meat pile on the floor! Truely desperate times for desperate measures.
>Climb into the vents, using BULLET CASINGS as an echolocation kind of thing.

>Left

A squishy meaty sound. Using her limited night-sight, she found a body that has been stuffed into the vent fans. The fans has been blocked.

The left is clogged by a horribly disfigured corpse. 1995 couldn't even make out what isn't and is viscera. Nothing to loot.

To the right is a 90° angle upwards.

>>1341920
Get out for some air then climb back up and climb that vent to the right

>>1341920

Déjà vu, you lived by something like this before, maybe a training simulation? But this is real. Do not eat the dead, they might be infected

>>1341920
Get out for some air take with you the body to inspect and then eat then climb back up and climb that vent to the right

>>1342059

Do not eat the body, it might be infected with something nasty. Unless you are really hungry of course.

>>1341922
>>1342059
>>1342074
1995 refuses to eat the corpse, she doesn't even know what species the corpse is.

>Get a gulpful of air

1995 sticks her head out of the vent to get a deep gulp of oxygen before heading back in.

She threw a casing up to make sure no fan will chop her to pieces before proceeding.

>>1342125
Beware something might be on the vents. Maybe an abomination, maybe small killer robots. You might even get poisoned.

>>1342138
Abomination... Daemon 1995 feels as if she is intimately familiar with such a term.

Robots are the least of 1995's worries, they are programmed to protect Daemons.

Being poisoned is a huge issue if it happens. 1995 carefully traverses the vents, her face becoming crimson as she struggled to hold her breath.

>>1342146
Push forward!
There must be a vent exit or something

>>1342146
Careful, robots have an overide code. It is hardly used because Daemons are expensive, but there had been one or two cases were it has been done, or so rumors say.

>>1342155
That makes Daemon 1995 nerves break slightly.
>STATUS: PANICKY + SUFFOCATING (PNKY + SUFFCTNG)

>>1342149
Daemon 1995 dug her nails... claws... into the metal vents. 1995 gasped in desperation, no longer able to hold her breath.

She is too far to turn back.

>>1342174
Start smashing the vents to hopefully make a hole to breath through

>>1342178
Yes, do that, you don't want the killer tobots to get ya, right?

>>1342178
Daemon 1995 ends up wasting time and valuable oxygen in her bloodstream slamming her fists on the durable metal. She kicks at the walls, but it barely makes a dent. Only good in making tons of noise.

Daemon 1995 claws forward, choking and drowning in the unbreathable air being flown in her direction. She keeps throwing bullet casings in front of her.

Daemon's face is starting to feel tight, blood is rushing to her head.

>>1342193
Keep moving dammit!
We will not die in a shitty vent
Or
Take off shirt and wrap it around our nose and mouth, that should filter a little bit of air at least

>>1342193
Déjà vu, this... isn't how things went before.

>>1342206
>>1342216
This familiar, yet alien to Daemon 1995, it's uncanny... but this is very wrON-

The vent collapses forward into an incline plane. Daemon 1995 is expelled out of the vent and crashes onto a plant in a pottery. The pottery creates a gash in her left arm but 1995 paid it no mind, she was busy gulping the clean oxygen greedily, promising to never take advantage of oxygen ever again.

Daemon 1995 finally regains her composure and sat-up, she hissed at the stinging pain in her arm.

>>1342242
Take off a piece of clothing and bandage that wound then discard the leftover cloth

>>1342247
Then look around the room

>>1342242

Treat your arm, first aid is a must know, right?

Count to ten and try to calm down

>>1342247
>>1342251
Daemon 1995 goes to tear a piece of her sleeve when she is interrupted by a ferocious growl in her ear.

It was a dog, it's teeth are bare and snapping at 1995 defensively. The canine is missing her left eye, perhaps it was gouged out by an... abomination.

Daemon 1995 recognizes this K9 using her Neuron Chip, the bitch's name is Daemon K903. Part of the Security Personnel om the ship, these genetically augmented dogs are used to overrun anniversaries and bite them to oblivion.

K903 backed into her corner, ears flat. It obviously wants no quarrel.

>>1342275

>First your arm then talk.

"Easy there, I am not here to fight you."

>>1342275
This
>>1342279
Then it et fluffy doggo

>>1342283

No petting. She is a combat model and we are a cat. Just fix your arm and don't touch her.

>>1342306
Okay

>>1342279
>>1342283
>>1342306
>>1342309
>Carefully talk to the K9 unit to assure safety.

"Easy girl, I'm not going to hurt you,"

Daemon K903, seemingly recognizing 1995, lowered her haunches. On the side of the dog were bags slung over the back of the dog.

1995 reached into the bag and pulled out ROLL OF GAUZE. She applied the ROLL OF GAUZE onto her arm.

"Right then," 1995 tries to dismiss the dog but K903 refuses.

>>1342396
look around

>>1342396
>>1342441
Seconding, we need to know where we are.
Glad to see you back, I've missed this quest.

>>1342441
Upon inspection, it appears to be a sort of a hallway. Plants and soda machines decorated the walls along with plaques of high ranking officers. Various awards are also pinned onto the wall like badges of honor.

A shotgun shell, slugs, are littered all over the ground. There is nobody or a body to be seen. There was a hatch to go downwards into the lowerdeck, probably where matinence and utilities are. There she could restore the power.

>Daemon K903 HAS JOINED YOUR PARTY

Commands must be made by addressing a character in greentext.

>>1342707
>SEARCH plant pots
>attempt to BREAK soda machine and STEAL soda

>>1342712
>Search Potted Plants
1995 found a SKULL! There's something rattling inside of it, sounds mettalic.

The Soda Machines are not 21st Century Soda Machines. It's more like 3D Printers that spits out cans of sodapop for 0.03 Credits a pop. Trying to break the SODA PRINTING MACHINE would be like breaking a phone open to reach the voice inside.

>>1342769

>Examine Skull
>Get a Soda
>Look over the dog more carefully.

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>>1342792

>Examine SKULL

There's a key inside of here! What kind of antiquity kind of lock needs this?

>Get a soda

Unfortunately, Daemon 1995 is short on credits. No soda-pop.

>Look over K903 carefully

A female golden dog with a missing eye and a carry-bag. She seems to be more afraid of you than you to her. K903 is currently docile but suspicious of you, as if she is keeping an eye on you.

1995 can't help but think that she and this dog has... prior history of some sort.

On her collar, it reads K903. There's a tag, it reads 'Ava.'

K903 "AVA" STATS:
>STATUS: PURE
>HP: 30/50
>ARMOR: STANDARD ISSUE K9 COLLAR +0 AMR
>Headwear: None.

It livess!!!!

>>1342847

>"Look, we have to work together to survive. And if you are actually a more human like Daemon who got stuck in a dogs body because our bosses are assholes, is not my damn fault!"

>>1342961
Ava is uninterested in your speech, but it's safe to say that she understood you.

The quest to restore the power continues, 1995 anf Ava goes down the hatch into the lowerdeck. If it wasn't for the alarm's red chemical light, it would be pitch black. Tall towers of servers and geek tech stuff surrounds you like a maze.

>>1343483
Use the light to maneuver around the lower deck and sneak around, we don't know if there's anything here that might hurt us

>>1343561
With a dire nees to be silent, 1995 and Ava walk along the mesh tiles of the ship. Until they reach a fork in the metaphoric road.

It wasn't a fork, but instead a four way crossroads. North, East, West, or back the way you came.

There's a note on the ground with various squibbles and strange doodles.

The Tech Room Maze, the other side of the note called it. Guess work is going to have to be had unless 1995 is observant in the Tech Room Maze.

the note reads as follows:

>THE TECH ROOM MAZE
The mazes uses portals to confuse intruders and unauthorize personnel until Security Detail can arrest them. Anyone with the Security Clearence knows exactly how to solve the Tech Room Maze.

One misstep will send you back to the start.

There is a symbol on the wall. It's a three-leaf clover.

The two Daemons can go...

>FORWARD

>APORT

>ASTARBOARD

>ASTERN (Abscond from The Tech Room Maze)

>>1343689
>ASTARBOARD
And ask Ava if she knows how to traverse this maze

>>1343701
Ava tilted her head at 1995 confusingly and whined, she does not.

>THE TECH ROOM MAZE
The mazes uses portals to confuse intruders and unauthorize personnel until Security Detail can arrest them. Anyone with the Security Clearence knows exactly how to solve the Tech Room Maze.

One misstep will send you back to the start.

There is a symbol on the wall. It's a Heart.

The two Daemons can go...

>FORWARD

>APORT

>ASTARBOARD

>ASTERN (Abscond from The Tech Room Maze)

>>1343742

>ASTERN

We cannot go losing time.

>>1343785
If you ABSCOND, you will not reach the POWER UNIT any other way and thus unable to restore power to the ship and likely die from no life support.

Are you sure?

>>1343856
FORWARD!

>>1343898

Daemon 1995 and Ava feels sick as they walk through the wrong portal and end up back at the start.

>THE TECH ROOM MAZE
The mazes uses portals to confuse intruders and unauthorize personnel until Security Detail can arrest them. Anyone with the Security Clearence knows exactly how to solve the Tech Room Maze.

One misstep will send you back to the start.

There is a symbol on the wall. It's a Three Leaf Clover.

The two Daemons can go...

>FORWARD

>APORT

>ASTARBOARD

>ASTERN (Abscond from The Tech Room Maze)

>>1343914

>APORT

Last time at least it wasn't a damn guessing game.

>>1343933
Okay let's take a step back maybe I didn't explain this all the way through so let me reiterate.

The note has scribbles and various doodles on it, maybe the symbols on the walls have something to do with it. No one asked to look at the doodles in detail, so I assumed you wanted a guessing game.

>Take a look at the doodles on the note?

>>1343963

>Yes!

>>1343963
Yes
I thought they we're incomprehensible doodles since we didn't get more details about it

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>>1343969
>>1343981

Let me know if i have to explain things better in detail, or if something is not understandable.

Daemon 1995 took a look at the various doodles. Ava looked curiously at Daemon 1995.

>THE TECH ROOM MAZE
The mazes uses portals to confuse intruders and unauthorized personnel until Security Detail can arrest them. Anyone with the Security Clearance knows exactly how to solve the Tech Room Maze.

One misstep will send you back to the start.

There is a symbol on the wall. It's a Three Leaf Clover.

The two Daemons can go...

>FORWARD

>APORT

>ASTARBOARD

>ASTERN (Abscond from The Tech Room Maze)

>>1344121
Right!
Cause i sont know which is right in sailor terms!

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>>1344276

>Starboard

>THE TECH ROOM MAZE
The mazes uses portals to confuse intruders and unauthorize personnel until Security Detail can arrest them. Anyone with the Security Clearence knows exactly how to solve the Tech Room Maze.

One misstep will send you back to the start.

There is a symbol on the wall. It's a Heart.

The two Daemons can go...

>FORWARD

>APORT

>ASTARBOARD

>ASTERN (Abscond from The Tech Room Maze)

>>1344335
Follow the heart!

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>>1344343
1995 tells herself this possibly can't be right and refers to the note.

Is it supposed to be mirrored? Because surely she went right when it called for her to go left, thus contradicting itself. Perhaps whatever the note says she should do the OPPOSITE of the instructions...

>go PORTSIDE instead of STARBOARD

It worked, the symbol has changed.

There is a Club on the wall.

>FORWARD

>APORT

>ASTARBOARD

>ASTERN (Abscond from The Tech Room Maze)

>>1344371
Man im dumb, 2much4me
Go in the opposite direction of the club!

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>>1344386
>FORWARD + ASTERN

This room is barren. The only way now is to proceed forward into the Utilities Room. To reunite electricity into the ship and finally figure out what the hell is happening to The Echelon.

Sorry about the cliff-hanger, thanks for playing so far. I need to draw up more sprites and review the story once more to iron out some inconsistency problems, I shall return at 5:00 PM EST Friday with a new thread.

A throwback to Pre-Redux DaemonQuest; I still have no idea how to archive a thread so I request the assistance of an anon.

>>1344428
Noice
Okay op, l8er

Draw a no sign on your chest with your blood

>>1344428
I got you senpai.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/1341207/

Continuation:

>>1345854