>>3603685
>You'll probably take her up on that, then. Let's get looking. >Transformative Cell Biology Research

This is the place to find the study about the aliens and Seither.

>>3603685
>You'll probably take her up on that, then. Let's get looking.
> 3rd Floor: IT and Data Storage

>>3603685
>But...no, it'll be easier to find where the hell the generator is. Can still bug out before they get here.

>>3603685
>You'll probably take her up on that, then. Let's get looking. (Where?)
> 3rd Floor: IT and Data Storage
>Other: Can she convert mana to her own electrical power now? Could she use our mana crystals to keep her reserves high?
The Data Storage level should have the data backups from all of the computers from all of the levels, though they may not have the most recent data (because users never use the cloud backup storage settings or save things on the network shares they're supposed to use).

>>3603696
i guess securing the main objective is a valid option too.

> 1st Floor: Transformative Cell Biology Research

Alien samples and probably were we can find the effect of Siether to the enviroment of earth.

> 2nd Floor: Imaging Centre and Fabrication Labs

Probably reverse engineering of alien tech and how to process Seither? Or maybe it's just a Walker/weapons research department

> 3rd Floor: IT and Data Storage

Main objective is probably here

> 4th Floor: Finance and Administrative Services

Probably intel.

> Basement: Utilities (Authorized Access Only)

I dunno a living samples? Maybe a alien in stasis?

>>3603710
it's possible that sensitive or secret information would not be in a easily accessable hardware.

>>3603685
> Basement: Utilities (Authorized Access Only)

Lets power the place up like Prima recommended.

>>3603715
Such information might be kept on a portable drive within a safe, that's protected with encryption and anti-copying protections so that data can't be copied off of it, and data can only be added.

>>3603724
Prima recommended NOT to power on the facility, though.

>>3603685
>IT and Data Storage
Main objective first.

>>3603724
I would be up to power the facility. HOWEVER!! I think we cna use Prima to buy ourselfs more time. Then once she has done her thin we cna go to turn in the power and once we finish collecting the data and the owner comes trying to stop us we overload the reactor and let all of it explode in their faces.

>>3603730
IT could at least allow us to acess mutiple points. If they work on a single network we could pull files from the less secured places and narrow our area of search.

But then again you would think such things would be in a private system.

>>3603685
>You'll probably take her up on that, then. Let's get looking. (Where?)
>3rd floor
Can't the bots turn up their eye sockets to use as torches? + Randa can see in the dark so hopefully we can just brute force our way past most barriers and limit power consumption

>>3603730
I actually hope people come.

I'm curious about the effect of Flux Wave on mechs. Unregulated power surges tend to be bad for equipment.

>>3603775
Well, we do have a flaming sword we could use as a torch...

>>3603800
i'm too even if it's just to turn the power on as we walk away and once the people get in expecting to face a invader we just blew the thing sky high.

>>3603820
Let's just remember to power down our mecha first.

Oh god, it will really suck for the people plugged into their mecha.

Wait. Does this mean we can steal their mecha by killing just the pilots?

>>3603837
Unlikely since we would need something to carry the mechs and to pilot you apparently need a pilot and a AICA.

>>3603839
I have the feeling that we only need a robot to steal a mech because jago was capable of moving our mech without our direct permission.

>>3603845
>“MOVE!” Jago shouts, and almost without your permission your mech jukes to the side
>almost

Last thread is not archived btw

>>3603839
No, what we need is something to carry pilots to the mechs. Or just pick them up.

Jago has a rocket pack, so he must have some flight capabilities.

So what we need to do is steal a transport ship.

>>3603903
Something something pirates of the caribbean.
We're gonna steal a ship. That ship.

>>3603903
I don't understand why do you wan't to steal other people's mechas when we have our own super-duper secret project top of the shelf 'Zeon' mech, which, you know, we aren't allowed to leave behind - the contract implies that this job is also a testing run for this new model.
And I don't think that we have anything that could kill the pilot and leave their mech in operable condition.

>No, what we need is something to carry pilots to the mechs. Or just pick them up.
You mean to get Miranda close to mechs? We borrowed Owlia's Levitation Crystal and Vanishing Sigil to be able to approach them unnoticed, but I already said that this is not a good idea in the first place.
>So what we need to do is steal a transport ship.
Our job is to pilot 'Zeon', not grand theft of walkers.

>>3603685
>>You'll probably take her up on that, then. Let's get looking. (1st Floor: Transformative Cell Biology Research)

>>3604076
>I don't understand why do you wan't to steal other people's mechas when we have our own super-duper secret project top of the shelf 'Zeon' mech, which, you know, we aren't allowed to leave behind

So that we can give them to Owlia and have a Magical Mecha Girl Squadron.


ESPECIALLY since we have to leave the Zeon mech behind. Speaking of which, we should be sure to grab blueprints from it.

If we are able to disable and capture mecha in good shape, we absolutely should.

> You mean to get Miranda close to mechs? We borrowed Owlia's Levitation Crystal and Vanishing Sigil to be able to approach them unnoticed, but I already said that this is not a good idea in the first place.

I missed that discussion, and I also disagree with it.

Besides, our best bet is to rob a place where they keep Mecha. Since they'll have ships for transporting them there anyways.

> Sneak onto ship. Flux wave right before take-off to disable pilots. Have Jago fly us out of there.

Besides, Mecha must be worth a lot of money. Maybe if we get enough, we can convince them to let us keep the prototype. They're usually much better than production runs as they're built as "proof of concept" before budgetary concerns change things.

>>3604123
Aren't we already getting blueprints from old mechs and some weapons for doing extra work?

>>3604123
>Basic Hangar- A simple addition to the HQ that allows for the storage and protection of large vehicles. Has room for two vehicles, and comes with vehicle ‘security’’ zones to allow safe transportation of vehicles to mission location.
We don't have enough space for another vehicle, Transport Heli and Jet Fighter would take up the only two slots that the Hangar would provide, and Hangar expansions cost 100 Lotes. So we'll probably have to do 3-5 more missions to be able to deploy mechas or leave one of the aircrafts mothballed. And then there's also upkeep, but honestly I don't understand how it works except that it takes cash from company funds instead of HQ pool.

>rob the place where they keep mecha
An unlikely scenario, though maybe we can ask Sal to do the same trick that he did back in Artificer crossover if something like that would actually happen.

>Maybe if we get enough, we can convince them to let us keep the prototype.
I think that the price of Zeon is comparable to our paycheck for this job.
>So that we can give them to Owlia
This>>3604140. We can also ask Prima to scan Zeon, maybe lending her our FutureSight could help.

>>3603685
>You'll probably take her up on that, then. Let's get looking.
> 3rd Floor: IT and Data Storage
Where the scientific reports and studies are likely to be stored in.
I also want to know what's in that basement, can we use the futuresight to scan the area. does it have an x-ray app installed though?

>>3604249
I'm 80% sure there's some hidden entrance where all the actually good stuff is while all the other floors were stripped from anything valuable long time ago except for clues on how to get to the secret floor.

>>3604257
We should test that theory. Find an elevator or something and try to blast straight down. See what happens.

>>3604271
We could try to use the mech's radar. A low enough frequency should be able to pass through walls and show us if there is some sort hidden room.

>>3604271
Honestly what I said is baseless speculation, so please don't do that.

>>3604274
A combat-oriented radar wouldn't work like that. You wouldn't want it to work like that; you'd get too many false positives and sensor ghosts.

If we go to IT, then we might find the desks of the sysadmins, and either their little notepad of passwords, their spreadsheet of passwords, or get access to their password manager.

>>3604283
Its worth a try, though.

>>3604257
We could try to push some mana into the power circuits and trace where they go.

>>3604910
we can also use gartoun to scout the other parts of the building.

>>3604934
Gartoun cost mana.

>>3605125
so? there is lots of mana here and so far, gartoun hasn't drained us out of mana in any of his appearances.

>>3605128
>Magical Level: Low (Estimated Recovery at 1500 mana per night's sleep)

>>3603858
done
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/3575114/

>>3605128
No...the facility is not in a hot zone so there is no mana around.

Unless you are saying that the facility is being powered by seither.

>>3605204
We used gartoun when we were mana drained and all of the drain came from the multiple walls that we used. We also didn't get drained when we used him to kill ferrah.

>>3605206
Our mech is powered by seither, which means that we can tap from its fuel tank or directly from aegis. Given that the researcher whatshisname is really eager to gain research from us, i doubt they would deny our request for mana.

>>3605125
>>3605204
>>3605224
I think that Gartoum has his own separate manapool and the speed at which he spends it depends on amount of mana around - he quickly drained himself out when he was in the Intersection while he could mess around for an hour or so during the last mission, although he noted that the mana there is not as abundant compared to his world of origin.
But! If he has his own manapool and he has to try his best to follow our orders means that he's likely emptying his tank after each summon, so he probably has to spend some time to restore his mana reserves - there were days long intervals between using the ring.
Honestly I think we should read the scans of summoning books and learn how to handle him, how does his mana works and how does the Bond work. Oh, and one more thing - Gartoum is unfamiliar with this tech level, so there's not much he can do if we summon him now.

>>3605356
>he quickly drained himself out when he was in the Intersection
But that was more of the intersection inherent antimagic/mashed up magic field fucking with every magical being in there. That's why Mono doesn't need to feed on others essences or why its harder for us to train magic skills outside of specific training grounds that are built to negate said field.

>But! If he has his own manapool and he has to try his best to follow our orders means that he's likely emptying his tank after each summon, so he probably has to spend some time to restore his mana reserves - there were days long intervals between using the ring.
I'm not so sure about that. Honestly, i'm not sure of how many days passed between us using him to deal with ferrah and the ambush, but it couldn't have been more than three, and if the mana tank thing is true, then this is the right time to use him because he can understand the world(and ask us how this modern stuff works) without many pressures and he will be acclimated for the next time that we need him.

>Gartoum is unfamiliar with this tech level, so there's not much he can do if we summon him now.
The idea is that he would search for hidden rooms. Given that he moves trough shadows, it would be extremely easy for him to slip between the cracks and find said rooms.

>>3605404
>I'm not so sure about that.
Yeah, all we can do is to make blind guesses untill we actually read the manual. We'll probablty have to push it as >Other option when we return back to the Aegis Bay, but for some reason I think that there aren't many anons who would be interested in it.

>>3605476
Probably the same reason why no one voted to read the summoning books in the summon world.

>>3605488
But we read them back then, it's just that we didn't have our own summon at that time to justify a more extensive research.

>>3605476
Support

>>3603685
I'll support >>3604934


Since we're using our Mecha for combat anyways, the low rate of mana replenishment isn't really a huge concern. We're also essentially carrying around giant mana tanks in our mechas.

>>3604934
Support

>>3606126
Could we ask Crane for extra Seither tanks to fuel us directly?

>>3606517
i don't think there is a space for it in the walker...Not to mentiin we don't know the size of a seither tank and as far as i remember Seither can be found naturaly in crytal form (Tiberium sun anyone?) and gaseous form.

We could probably ask for a container that has a seither crystal in it and try to absorv it the same way we do it with mana crystals?

>>3606529
Maybe we can crush up some crystals and snort it, or get a capsule of Seither in gas form and inhale it like we're taking a hit?
Just something to entertain ourselves by freaking out the locals during the downtime between objectives.
Also let's us know if we can use a quick refill of mana if we have to go loud with mana blasts when retrieving an objective.

>>3606536
Anon, that's some really weird stuff, I don't want Miranda to snort glass. Can't we just borrow one of their Seither crystals and use it to fill the Mana Condenser?

What the heck

>>3606536
>Just something to entertain ourselves by freaking out the locals during the downtime between objectives.
But why? we're already hated by mostly everyone; we don't need to make things harder just for a little gag.

>>3606536
Considering that Seither exposure in large doses make the normies go crazy and whatever, not to mention the dangers of snorting crystal dust and possibly mana miasma.

I th8
ink i would rather go with this: >>3606564 and experiment the condeser of just sit and meditate in a room full of Seither crystals. Same way how Lori recovered from her coma during our job with Dynamic Methods by resting inside their mana reactor.

>>3606627
I'm confident that doing so would work.
I was wondering about combat applications; could we use the gaseous form of Seither to give ourselves a quick boost of mana under combat conditions? Since it's not practical to keep ourselves hooked up to the mana condenser while fighting.

>>3606564
>>3606617
>>3606622
There's always the one anon with the really nonsensical ideas.

>>3606639
I think the most likely thing we could do is leave a mana crystal were the seither is let the air itself fill the crystal up with seither and then we drain the contained mana from the crystal.

Also it's not like getting a recharge from a mana crystal takes that long.

>>3606639
Mana = seither is still just a theory at this point. And mana crystals do the same thing already. The only slow thing about them is fishing them out of the bag, and that can be mitigated with a little prep beforehand.

>>3606657
Didn't Randa said that Seither sounded a lot like mana to her? I guess that could still make it count as a theory though...

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>>3606622
>we're already hated by mostly everyone
I just remembered that we're wearing sunglasses indoors 24/7, so Aegis pilots probably think that we're some Kool Kid douchebag, aside from the Scrapper thing.

>>3606669
Other than the few who saw our eyes that is

>>3606669
They probably think we looted the glasses from someone else. Since i think that's the only think of our clothes that aren't dirty or ragged or damaged in anyway.

>>3606695
I always gind funny that the CLEAR sunglasses. Ended up being tinted. It would be funnier if they were red tinted as if we wanted to hide our eyes colours.

>>3606704
>CLEAR sunglasses
wait, didn't it get changed when we came here?

>>3606731
It did. That's what i find funny.

>>3606666
It should work like that, because there is no way that all the other forms of mana are exactly the same as the one she uses. OR, mana works just like the elements in the periodic table and its immutable from universe to universe and therefore, seither is the same as mana because they are fundamentally the same thing.

> "So, what'd you call me for?"

> "Crane. You're aware that our recent...asset...is unusual. Exceedingly so."

> "Oh, rather! It's very fascinating, and honestly, the methods and technology used to transport her here have fascinating applications- but, then again, her, ah...patron...did say as much. Have you made further progress on that front?"

> "Nothing. I thought that investigating her AICAs would help a bit- match up some details or at least cause some vague similarities to crop up, but...nothing. On THAT front, though? There's some REALLY strange idiosyncrasies in their design- they're juuuust similar enough to your usual AICAs to make you think they're just heavily modded, but something about them just doesn't wash. The design and features make me think more miniature Walkers than Combat Assistants."

> "Tate, Tate, Tate. She IS a Scrapper. You can't tell me you haven't heard stories about them being modded to be combat-capable, can you?"

> "Of course I've heard! But that's not what I...nevermind. Anyway, what I'm personally curious about is the girl herself. Let's get back to that. Do you REALLY think she's Seither dependent?"

> "Honestly, I do. Or at least, I believe she needs it to perform at peak capacity. I don't think we want to have her TOO rowdy, though, so..."

> "Goodness, no. She'll probably get enough on her outings. We don't have to risk our people like that for now."

> "Oh, speaking of. Avos talked with me earlier, as well as Kine and a couple of others. He was...well, he wasn't happy we didn't tell him immediately about our new guest. Had to clarify THAT. Then he said he was intrigued by her, despite being a Scrapper- or maybe because of it, to be honest- but also suggested we be wary. He also requested that he be permitted to join her on a mission some time soon."

> "Avos WOULD suggest that. The whole thing is sport to him. Wants to check out the competition, no doubt."

> "True. I DO wish he'd be a touch more responsible..."

> "So, getting directly to the point. I think we need to get some blood and tissue samples. If she's managed to integrate Seither on a natural, biological scale...well, if we could replicate that, I think that'd solve a lot of humanity's problems, in theory."

> "Hmm. Interesting idea. Do you think she'll be so forthcoming? Or that we have means to keep her under even with the Seither in her system?"

> "Not at all. Most modern anesthetics get diluted by Seither, if you'll recall, and she's still a Scrapper. Probably sleeps light. That plus those modded AICAs? She clues in, things could get ugly, quick."

> "Well, we'll figure something out. Maybe we'll get lucky. In the meantime, we'll use her as intended. Have to admit, this certainly complicates our initial 'retirement plan'."

> "Yeah. Too valuable to just dispose of. We can pick this back up later, then. Heh, would be funny if a Scrapper of all people ends up being the key to restoring mankind."

> "Very. See you around, then."

>>3606775
And this would be the downside to the client not being clued into our nature. I'm not surprised they were planning to off us; with how secretive this job is it makes sense as we're only a Scrapper, and could in theory tell tales at some point.

>>3606775
So, aside from the other predictably disturbing plans to study Miranda's 'adaptation' to mana, now I'm wondering if they ever planned to Pay her. I mean it's one thing to try to clean up loose ends, but not actually paying the costs of the mission is another thing entirely.

>>3606800
There's not much point in paying a dead man walking. I assume they have a ability to pay, otherwise Sal wouldn't have had it listed. But he should have paid better attention to their motivations. A very valuable secret + a lone "raider" no one will miss = dead.

>>3606791
i think it fine.

>>3606775
>Miranda is a Newtype.

kek

>>3606791
>And this would be the downside to the client not being clued into our nature.
But they literally never know that we are an alien from between the universes. That's bad business and would prompt them to do more stupid things like try to kidnap us with more force.

>>3606800
>now I'm wondering if they ever planned to Pay her.
Well, we're talking about a megacorp that is letting us use their top of the line/top secret mech and they are basically one of the alpha predators in this world. There is no way in hell that they would honor the deal. But it allows us to completely fuck them when they decide to off us.

>>3606808
You are implying that Miranda and the bots can't handle this people.

If they try to kill randa they break the contract if they break the contract well... we can break all of then and get all the money we want from their corpses.

>>3606811
Kinda one of the reasons why Randa likes to up the intimidation. Stops people/clients from thinking they can get away with the deal or hurt her.

>>3606819
>the Plainess focused outfit was a mistake.

>>3606819
but keep in mind that we're talking about a megacorp. For them you are just another number due to how powerful they are. Add to it that their ego is very much inflated because they not only stopped, but are beating an invading alien force and well... that will make them very arrogant, to say the least.

>>3606811
Sal did imply before we sent off clients usually have at least an idea that we're very much from not around here, even if they don't have a full understanding. That's why we're a scraper this time.

>>3606815
I was merely describing their line of thought. If they try to get violent we can absolutely make them regret it. But if they jump us and knock us out we won't even be able to request an emergency recall until we awake. We've seen this before. Remember the Outgoer we rescued that Sal managed to wrangle a favor out of?

Pride cometh before a fall. Never think you are invincible.

>>3606837
well yeah, but again, they never know the actual truth and this is a megacorp. They just don't care, specially when it involves deniable assets.

>But if they jump us and knock us out we won't even be able to request an emergency recall until we awake
Sal can Evac us without our consent if the need arises, but that would be incredibly embarrassing and sal would never let it die. It would be outgoer's discount 2: electric boogaloo.

>>3606830
Let this be a lesson i guess. It was mentioned that to much plainess could have some interesting results. Now that we know what a high plainess does. Maybe we keep it at the low, or just use it for jobs that require to keep ourselfs easy to hide.

Like the one job that was asking for us to go scout the badlands. Ot has it's usefullness but not for this job.


>>3606834
That may be true but high intimidarion would have they thinking better about trying anything funny. We kinda got lucly that we became to valuable to be disposed and that Randa (and most of the girls) are usualy pretty resistant to firearms.

Although we never tested getting shot by a beam/plasma weapon. I think it would be in the same effect as a magic blast.

>>3606837
I think you are just being unhealthly paranoid. Miranda is also with the bots

I mean, we can just show them that we're TOO dangerous to try to rip off. Just have to do it in a not too meta-gamey way.

>>3606842
>>3606845
>That may be true but high intimidarion would have they thinking better about trying anything funny.
You know, i think that the low intimidation will work in our favor. That will make them think that we can be killed by a single man in a room, instead of trying to blow us up inside the mech. Its better to make them feel that we are an easy target than forcing them to kill us in more ...dramatic and effective ways

>>3606845
Use our skill of harmonized mana and start to make the walker fire magic bolts and use light barriers.

That should give then a scare.

>>3606845
Probably have to Nebula Blast a couple of times during our assignments. Like the task to destroy this facility.

>>3606846
>>3606847
Imho that's metagaming, unless you come up with a reason to do it intentionally while in-character

>>3606848
You think we could nebula blast and use the walker seither reactor to charge the blast?

>>3606848
>>3606847
that would just force them to blow up the mech. Now, i'm pulling these numbers out of my ass, but having the key to humanity's survival(and have everyone pay you for said survival) and not paying our exorbitant fees is worth the destruction of the mech we are in and maybe the whole facility we are on.

>>3606851
You just gave it. A Nebula buster would be perfect to blow up the facility.


Nothing more scary then a living
walking nuke.

>>3606854
>thinking they would blow up their prototype just to eliminate one person

Come now anon...and if they ever do that we can probably sirvive with a magical barrier

>>3606856
I don't think Miranda needs to do anything particularly scary today, she'll probably make the "angel of death" crap his pants a bit when they go on a mission together.
Ez pz

>>3606843
I don't expect us to get KO'd and strung up. But it never hurts to keep an eye out. Just in case.

>>3606848
While the bulk of the fighting looks like it'll be in the mechs, at only 1500 regen a day we'd need a real good reason to spend that much.


>>3606851
While I like these little glimpses into other characters, this isn't the first time it's revealed something Randa would have no reason to know. I wish they wouldn't reveal anything metagame-able like this.

>>3606854
They're not blowing us up now, and they can't blow us up when we'll be delivering the Volatile McGuffin Power Source.

>>3606861
Hmm fair point. Also it would be better to save mana for a real emergency and just plainly using it without a care is a stupid move. Even if we have a 20% decrease in mana cost.

>>3606863
Well, honestly sometimes anons can completely miss the point. Like that thing with the Veilspeakers in the last mission - they've mentioned the Weild, and later we learned about the Wild and the Veil, but no one clued in that these are the aspects of the same thing, so then we had one paranoid anon trying to force his ideas that Veilspeakers are evil illuminati when they were some sort of recluse monks that worship the good dead gods instead. So I wouldn't fault QMs for being direct from time to time when anons can't clue in.

>>3606859
Think about it as a megacorp. The profits you will gain with humanity's survival are infinitely higher than the cost of destroying the mech. Also, the mech can be remade and they only need to kill us once. The math is clear and we'd need to be as big as another megacorp in order for them to take us seriously.

>>3606864
Unless they ask us to guard the place while their "recovery" team arrives (with mech disabling weapons and lots of rocket launchers). But that is an extreme case. I'm betting that right now the'll try to kill us with more cost effective methods, like with a bullet to the head.

>>3606863
>real good reason to spend that much.
Can luring Orion reinforcements into proximity to the facility or blowing up a (hypothetical) hidden bunker under the building count?

>>3606848
Oh hey, that's similar of my thoughts about if it was possible that Miranda could use her magic channeled through the mech, and take advantage of the mana it uses to cast spells for less mana draw from herself, or more powerful spells from it's addition. That and making it do physically impossible feats it was never designed and built for. But not sure if that might be doing too much on a mission that's is meant to debut Prima and Jago.

I'm also wondering if healing people with spells fueled by mana/Seither could somehow make them more resistant/adapted to it, but that seems unlikely.

>>3606875
Blowing us up also has the chance of destroying us so any explosion that would require to blow up the mech and keep enough of our corpse intact to be researched won't be enough to destroy a magic barrier so a explosion is unlikely to take us out.

>>3606879
The first option seems to be possible if we harmonize our mana witht he one feeding the mech? I think we will have a huge boost in synch with it and also be able to make it shoot magic blasts thanks to the emphatic setting they have for it.

>>3606875
>I'm betting that right now the'll try to kill us with more cost effective methods, like with a bullet to the head.
With the scientific interest, they be weighing "preservation of the body" against "making sure it kills us before we can react" and "we've only got one shot at this". I dunno how the math adds up for them, but I hope "bullet to the back of the head" isn't the result. We're sturdy, but not that sturdy.

>>3606879
While the mech may run a Seither, that doesn't mean it can channel it. Just because something runs on electricity doesn't mean you can use it to shoot lightning. Not unless you fiddle with it before hand and aren't worried about it working afterwards.

>>3606863
By the way, with the Meditation Room bonus it would cost us only 3000 mana out of 12500, and we'll have to spend a couple of days resting and waiting for them to repair Zeon, plus we usually fight inside the mech, sooo...

>>3606891
Wait i fucked up the math, it's 3200

>>3606875
I think that in the extreme case that they give up on the whole contract and just want to study Miranda to save humanity, they will want a live test subject first and foremost.
Killing their mutant mercenary scrapper would be like killing the last silverback gorilla to harvest it's DNA, a damn shame and needlessly wasteful.

>>3606889
We..actually are. Lori got shot by a firearm in the robot world and she was fine

We are probably more dangerous outside of the mech than in. Something to remember if it's ever disabled, or we fake it to pop out the cockpit and d cut theirs into pieces with a magiwave

>>3606882
>any explosion that would require to blow up the mech and keep enough of our corpse intact to be researched
I think they would assume there surely exist more like us elsewhere. Like i said, the benefits of killing us outweigh everything else.
Explosions are pretty quick. Now, given that we can be tagged by bullets, I don't think that we have the reflexes to block an explosion at point blank, specially if we also have to keep jago and prima safe.


>>3606897
>Killing their mutant mercenary scrapper would be like killing the last silverback gorilla to harvest it's DNA, a damn shame and needlessly wasteful.
Remember that their original plan was for us to retrieve a power source that would restore humanity. We are just a nice extra that appeared out of nowhere. Unique, yes, but not indispensable.

>>3606906
In the mafia world we got shot and bled. I think that handler also said in that same thread that we aren't bullet proof.

>>3606775
I'm honestly shocked they didn't vpnsider buying our DNA off us.

>>3606873
That anon was right about them using the other races and being willing to manipulate them "for the greater good" though?

>>3606918
Eh whatever, worrying about that i useless and i would rather deal with the problem when it happens rather then plan for it.

>Do you think she'll be so forthcoming?
I think the least troublesome solution would be to show Miranda's overwhelming magical power during the assignments while agreeing to medical tests so they can work with the limited material that we'd agree to offer. You know, speak softly and carry a big club.

>>3606926
We will be charging for those tests right?

Oh, and I don't remember if it works for sure, but we can take off some of our clothing items and take intentional hits to our stats.

>>3606926
I'm afraid all that's going to do is make them prep better beforehand.

I don't think we can agreed to the tests. Considering what that external information would to the balance of the world, it would fall under spreading of disruptive information.
usually that's tech (no plasma on a kinetics-only), but, say, unleashing a virus or introducing the concept of communism are also things that would be bad for a world's stability, something the Dealmakers are trying to avoid.

>>3606938
Okay anon, you're really grating on me with your paranoid speculations and husbanding mana when we're topped off. Let's pretend that this OOC glimpse never happened and act according to what we actually know IC.

>>3606930
I actually proposed that last thread, so definitely down with this.

>>3606891
oh shoot, we could totally blow a nebula blast one every deployment then. That's good to know.

Came up with some ideas for group training. My -tism power level is showing too much here, but I decided to do this list anyways. Used the old pastebin cause why not?
https://pastebin.com/S0sLtv2B

I don't think this was meant to be some kinda OOC warning since they basically called it off for now.

Metagaming sucks though. I like interludes, but not when they cause problems.

>>3607255
I don''t think this will change our performance that much though. We've had several texts like this one and everything has gone well so far, so as long as we understand that we can't abuse this information because miranda doesn't know about it, everything will be fine.

this is just some silly musings but I wonder if Prima can hack into our clients database or whatever. If the time comes for our client to renegade on the contract we can blackmail them with spreading confidential data to their rivals (bluffing and all)

>>3607210
I like it, this quest really is good for autistic lists like this one. Yeah when we get back we should arrange a meeting for "SES employee technique improvement" with the main goal of making everyone a versatile outgoer regardless of the types of jobs (stealth, narrative bound, hunting etc.)

>>3607268
>Spoiler
Maybe? But we'd really have a good reason, which we sadly don't have right now.

>>3607255
Honestly I kinda am waiting for a client to betray us.

So that we can steal ALL of their stuff.

This includes their lives.

Do slaves get turned into motes if they're taken as payment?

>>3607833
Genie rules, no sacrifices, no souls, no sentiments count as valuable. Just cold hard cash or non-sentient goods that can be turned into motes.

>>3607833
>Do slaves get turned into motes if they're taken as payment?
Even if that could work, it goes against miranda's morals

>>3607833
Would livestock, pets, or anything living? I doubt it. Too many potential knock-on effects.

>>3607833
>Honestly I kinda am waiting for a client to betray us.
I think this is so far the job with the highest chance of the client betraying us. It's a bit like the wild west job (in terms of who's hiring us - client being a private corporation that can make people disappear without having to worry about law enforcement) with the exception that this time our client won't have any idea about Miranda's abilities. Unless we later on have to get out of our mech and start blowing shit up with spells.
So maybe your wish will come true.

>>3607964
>Miranda punching mechs with her bare hands.

Even if that does sounds awesome i hope we can avoid it.

>>3607978
Me too. This is a sci-fi world so maybe their materials are so sturdy that we can't beat the mechs without having to rely on nebula buster. And it's just not worth it as long as the other option is to use our own mech to beat the opponent.
And it's the bots' first mission so I think letting them do as much work as possible is a good idea.

>>3607978
> Mana fists though

Gonna go full Rourke Susan Starwind.

>>3606938
You're assuming that samples would show that, what, exactly? There is absolutely no indication that the intersection changes anyone's DNA. Now Miranda is a magical girl and may be different from normal humans, but whatever they find is not something they can use or make sense of.

Instead of shutting down everything with paranoia and wild assumptions that for some reason we are wholly incapable of dealing with a hit when our CV includes conquering nations and destroying continents single handedly, we can just ask Sal if it's ok.

You know later if they ask politely and this is no longer meta

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>>3608067
>not going Master Asia.

>>3607978
I think we could topple a mech with the new Over-Channel technique. If it was standing still and not doing anything else that is.

>>3608123
>Not knowing who Rourke susan starwind is.
Lurk Moar.

Wait, is Roarke, not Rourke

>>3608137
>not knowing who Master Asia is
Fuck off, Normie.

>>3608280
oh i know who Master asia is, but in the context of /qst/, Roarke is just a little bit more important than him, normie.

>>3608301
Nah. Some shitty quests character will never outshine the masterclass that is anime on a weebsite like 4chan, autist.

>>3608339
Roarke (autocorrect before) had a successful and surprisingly realistic harem of strong independent women that had Darkskin Ara-Ara Emprese, Cute Mecha Engineer Nerd Childhood Friend, DFC Gothic Lolita Trap, Yandere Space Ace Broken Smile, Hair Drills Alien Noble, and Roarke also banged the hot reporter.

All of them honestly earned through being a Big Damn Hero and a truly silly amount of seduction crit rolls.

They fight beside him, with each other, and all have their bottom lines that would have ended the relationships if we crossed them. Like, a shocking amount of work and risk was put into it. No isekai "slave girl falls in love after being treated with the bare standard of respect a human being is due."

Also we had grapple-kun.

>>3608535
Thanks for supporting me. I appreciate you taking my side, by providing proof for how garbage the characters are.

>"slave girl falls in love after being treated with the bare standard of respect a human being is due."
Except. you know, that's how we got fatima. and she was a princess, but those are just extra details.

>>3608671
Nah man, we kidnapped Fatima first remember?

And we didn't buy her as a slave, we fought a legit army including a secret super-weapon to rescue her, thumbing our nose at the main Powers of the setting to do so despite being in a diplomatically vulnerable position.

>>3608608
Nigga you just too lazy to read and that's why you have shit taste.

>>3609152
But she fell in love with us when she was prisoner in our cells and we showed her our skills with the "french harp". The only reason she didn't try to fuck us on the spot was her customs.

>>3609152
Not that anon, anon but harem anime of any kind is just bad taste and I won't take anything related to that seriously.

>>3609173
>>3609152
Uh, guys. This is getting way off-topic.

>>3609182
all the waifus were hard earned, specially fatima. We literally tanked a nuke to the face for her and almost died due to it. The only one that saved us was one anon that had the uncanny ability to always roll a 10 on a d10

>>3609196
>>3609182
>>3609173
>>3609152
Wrong quest anons.

>>3603685
“Alright, then,” you decide. “I’ll be relying on your for that, in that case. Let’s take a look at IT.” She nods, and you both set out to find the nearest staircase.

Along the way, you find a number of indicators that despite the relative cleanliness of the place, something clearly happened. There are old books still open and worn to tatters, sludge on various tables and desks that could only be someone’s meal left to rot. Desks that have drawers open, and more. Signs, essentially, of people having left in a hurry. Curious.

You find the stairs with little trouble- mostly just following signs that were still understandable. You reach the 3rd Floor, and it’s pretty easy to locate the server room and the various IT desks for the workers. Hopefully, you’ll be able to figure out what’s what here. It’s a pretty large room- at least three rows of dusty and old servers, wires and plugs still inserted, but everywhere. Hopefully they’d still work. “Hm. We’d need to power one of these AND get the system working…” Suddenly, you’re not so certain Prima would be able to deal with this…

“Perhaps not,” Prima says nonetheless as she looks around. “It’s likely that the local machines would have data on them, and there aren’t as many, nor are they as power intensive. I may be able to briefly power them all, search for file histories within specific parameters, and utilize that to hone in on our desired server target- provided what we desire is not on a local system in and of itself, that is.”

“And if it isn’t there?” you ask. It’s both for her learning and actual curiosity.

“Hm...well, then.” Suddenly, she jogs off towards the nearby server room, and you follow, only to catch her rooting around for...something around the back. She at least seems undaunted. “I may be able to- ah, success!” It’s a plug, but a rather large one. They couldn’t have fed all that power through one socket, though…and as you look further, you do see more than a few of similar size. At least their wires are still neat and tidily arranged after all this time... “This should be a power system for a certain number of servers. Similarly I should be able to manually power them myself in sequence until we find what we require. It would require more power from me, but I would estimate my data search speed to be increased by approximately 85%, resulting in a time save of approximately 73 minutes. ”

> “On second thought, maybe it’s better to just power the system. I don’t want to have you weak in the knees like that.”
> “Let’s start with the local computers. We can handle it if anything tries to kick us out.”
> “If you’re positive about those numbers, then alright. Search the servers. We’ll just have to make it back faster.”
> Other

Geez, that's a lot more discussion than I was expecting...

>>3609243
>“If you’re positive about those numbers, then alright. Search the servers. We’ll just have to make it back faster.”
>Also send gartoun to explore the area and get used to modern technology.

>>3609243
Seconding >>3609267

>>3609243
>>3609267
Supporting. Time is of the essence right now.

>>3609243
>> “Let’s start with the local computers. We can handle it if anything tries to kick us out.”
She's not going to be learning much if she's too tired to function well.

Against Gartoun. It doesn't make and sense to bring him out here.

>>3609326
why not? he needs to get used to modern tech and this place is dark and dead. That's the perfect combination for him to learn.

>>3609243
> “Let’s start with the local computers. We can handle it if anything tries to kick us out.”

>>3609243
>>Also send gartoun to explore the area and get used to modern technology.
>>3609243

Also supporting this

>>3609326
Hey, paranoia-anon, if we accidentally activate automated defences then having one more guy with us would help a lot.

>>3609243
>> “On second thought, maybe it’s better to just power the system. I don’t want to have you weak in the knees like that.”
No ring guy.

>>3609243
> “Let’s start with the local computers. We can handle it if anything tries to kick us out.”

>>3609243
> “Let’s start with the local computers. We can handle it if anything tries to kick us out.”
Bring up Gartoum. They'll probably think it's an alien if he attacks them.

>>3609243
>“Let’s start with the local computers. We can handle it if anything tries to kick us out.”
I'm worried of triggering black ice on prima, let's take this carefully.

>>3609243
> “On second thought, maybe it’s better to just power the system. I don’t want to have you weak in the knees like that.”
Silly Prima, this mission is to test you and Jago as outgoers, don't go knocking yourself out of the action at the first opportunity, that's just bad form.

>>3609243
>> “On second thought, maybe it’s better to just power the system. I don’t want to have you weak in the knees like that.”

>>3609243
>“Let’s start with the local computers. We can handle it if anything tries to kick us out.”

>>3609243
> “On second thought, maybe it’s better to just power the system. I don’t want to have you weak in the knees like that.”
although I agree with getting Gartoum out to check out every room and grab papers or something and get used to advanced tech.

>>3609243
>“Let’s start with the local computers. We can handle it if anything tries to kick us out.”
I'm against summoning Gartoum because the gun we got from our client might have a listening device hidden in it.

>>3609908
Scan the gun with the futuresight or ask prima if she can see any tracking device on it. Not that hard, paranoid-chan.

>>3609939
If we give it a thorough checkup before summoning Gartoum, then I'm all for summoning him.

>>3609939
Oh right, should've done it ages ago. Good thinking anon.

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>>3609940
It's a gun. Just unload it and pass a flux wave through it. That should fry any electronic device in there, if there is any because guns have no spaces for anything else other than their required components. Also, a bug in a gun is a stupid idea because it will destroy the microphone or other sensible things with the recoil and the noise it generates.

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>>3610164
It's a sci-fi gun, possibly with a sci-fi bug installed - I don't need to explain how it works.

>>3610164
It's not a purely mechanical chemical gun, though.
It's a mag-rail gun.

>>3610177
>EM pulse on every shot
>contains sensitive electronics
pick one.

Now that I started thinking about it, did they give us a holster with the gun? If you put the mic there then you won't have to worry about it being destroyed when the gun is used for the first time.

>>3610174
>>3610177
Having a bug that transmit to their HQ stupid for a simple reason: its a huge security risk for a so called black ops mission. If someone captures us or we lose the gun, whoever has it will know who our contractor is due to the bug. Also, something that is transmitting information will have some kind of output signal, which again, is a huge no-no. And it should have a battery to power the antenna that sends the data back to HQ. And it should also have some kind of IR receiver to have power and not run out of energy 20 minutes later.
This might be a sci fi world, but there is no proof that they can create something so small and so powerful.

Either way, if you all are so jittery with the gun...and now the holster for some reason, just put the things inside the bag of holding. Problem solved.

>>3610182
I also think that there's no bug in the gun for the reasons from >>3610207
But that doesn't mean that the tech of this world has to still be electronics. They could be using photonic chips, and we won't know until we get a look at their current tech.

>>3610207
I mean, don't we have a comms system?

You know, one they could just have always listeningfor key words like how cellphones do?

Or just recording to data dump when we return to base?

A bug in the gun is silly though, but being paranoid when on a black ops isn't silly.

>>3610449
The mech intercom? You're right, which is why I thought we agreed to avoid talking about Intersection stuff while in the mech.

But we're on the ground now. The only thing we have on us they gave us is the gun, which is why some anons were freaking out about it being bugged.

>>3610449
i'm pretty damn sure that they are recording the cabin, that's why i was saying that we shouldn't talk about the intersection while we're inside the mech. but the gun bug...well, its silly.

>>3609243
>> “On second thought, maybe it’s better to just power the system. I don’t want to have you weak in the knees like that.”

>Summon gartoum

It's fine to be paranoid but there's no reason to be retarded about it. A microphone bug on a gun? Come on. They've got the mech comms and surely a satellite uplink with video feed. We're on foot, underground, in a structure without power so this is probably the safest place possible at the moment.

>>3610933
I would make a comment on that but this idea of spying and bugged gun has gone to far and i would rather not continue it.

So i will just say that yes this bugged gun is a stupid idea an we should jut move to other topic. Such as were we will sebd Gartoum

>>3610964
>Such as were we will send Gartoum
He could check the first floor in case someone decides to attack us, or Vera survived.

>>3610964
He could check the bottom floor and see if there's anything there we should check out, or if it really is just maintenance utilities.

>>3610964
I still don't think we should, but if we're going to it needs to be somewhere someone from multiple eras lower in the tech tree can still be useful. We can't send him looking for anything, he's not going to recognize anything. Overwatch is pointless with Jago outside already.

>>3610978
I would be okay with that.

>>3610986
You mean the Basement? I was going to suggest it but Gart oum doesn't know tech so i doubt he would manage to describe to us or would be able to find anything usefull inside.

>>3610999
i think the voting for calling him is already winning so...

>>3610999
We're doing it so he can soak up all the new stuff so he could be usefull later, you silly willy.

>>3611331
I know, but him wandering around isn't going to help him learn anything. If we want him to learn, he's going to have to be taught. At least enough to gain a foothold.

And we're on the clock.

>>3611446
Are we? I mean i know we don't know if the people we just scared away warned the Orion higher ups about what happend here yet.

But i think that Prima's plan of not turning the piwer on so people will figure oit were exactly we are should give us some cover for a time. Otherwise i can't see the reason for her to suggest that since we will blow this place anyway.

>>3610999
He's just looking for secret rooms and such.

Also anything alive, or glowing, or using mana/seither which he DOES know about.

Sorry for taking so long with updating.

Seems like the choice is 'local computers'
but also call Gartoum and see if he can help.

Writing!

>>3613287
Not a problem. Patience is a virtued.

Thinking about it, you can appreciate the quicker resolution...but the cost of her getting worn out so much isn’t as appealing. “Let’s start with the local computers. We can handle it if anything tries to kick us out.” Hopefully, you’ll be able to figure out what’s where before anything heinous happens.

“Very well, I’ll begin, then.” At least she doesn’t argue the point- wonder if it’s because she would prefer not draining herself so much either. Rather, she just heads towards the nearest computer and beings to set herself up as she takes the plug in her hand. This IS going to take a while, though, and part of you wishes you had another body here to give the place a quick comb-over. Nothing major, just a bit of skulking around and checking in a shadow or two to make sure nothing’s hiding in them. You’re going to have to- wait.

Feeling in your bag briefly, you close your hand around a small piece of jewelry you nearly forgot…

“Gartoum, come out!” The inky blackness immediately begins flowing, causing Prima to briefly stop and look over in concern.

“Er, Miss M- Lane? You are aware that, uhh…” she seems torn between coming over to help and continuing her duty.

“It’s fine,” you assure as the black, inky smoke coalesces. “I’d like you to meet another member of our little group, in a sense. This would be-”

“Gartouuum!” the individual in question states as he forms- a bipedal form that resembles a bipedal mantis-like insect this time, it seems, with an elongated head and shadow robes covering most of his body. “The lord of shadow and mischief, and…” he pauses as he looks around, violet eyes widening in naked curiosity. “...and my word, this is a most unusual room. Just what might you be involved in this time? He looks around rapidly, as though sniffing. “I sense a...strange mana in the air. Heady, spicy, energizing... and yet it makes my senses spin somewhat. How odd, yes…certainly nothing like our previous locale...”

“Yeah, this isn’t what you’re used to- at least not right now,” you affirm. “This technology is something you’re going to have to get used to. I figured now would be a solid opportunity for that.”

(cont)

>>3613479
“Ahh...curiosity after curiosity.” He seems almost preoccupied with taking in his new surroundings- at least before his head swivels towards Prima. “And you being one of the biggest! A living doll, are you? Metallic in nature...ah, but there is emotion behind those strange eyes of yours.” He flows towards her briefly, and she doesn’t say anything, but instead takes a brief step back and approaches something approaching a combat stance. “Yes... VERY fascinating!”

“P-please remove yourself from my immediate space- I have an important a-and time-sensitive task to perform…” Prima says. Huh...is that fear in her body language?

Well, you’ll worry about it later. “She’s right,” you insist. “We’re inside a very large research facility that’s abandoned. A really big building that’s supposed to be about studying the body and other things. Long story short, I want you to investigate the bottom floors and see what’s there.”

“A rather tall order, and rather a fluid one in addition!” Gartoum laughs. “Perhaps you could describe for me in better detail what you desire of me?”

> “I’m basically giving you permission to wander around the facility and mess with things- so long as you don’t intentionally break anything. If you have any questions about a thing, ask me.”
> “Actually, go down as deep as you can while still being in the facility. I want to see if there’s a secret floor in this building.”
> “In particular, I want you to look around a certain area…” (What floor?)
> Other

>>3613481
>> “Actually, go down as deep as you can while still being in the facility. I want to see if there’s a secret floor in this building.”

>>3613481
>> “I’m basically giving you permission to wander around the facility and mess with things- so long as you don’t intentionally break anything. If you have any questions about a thing, ask me.”

>>3613481
> “Actually, go down as deep as you can while still being in the facility. I want to see if there’s a secret floor in this building.”

>>3613481
>“Actually, go down as deep as you can while still being in the facility. I want to see if there’s a secret floor in this building.”

>>3613481
>“Actually, go down as deep as you can while still being in the facility. I want to see if there’s a secret floor in this building.”

Also, we have a solid confirmation that seither is 100% mana.

>>3613514
Appears to be spicy mana
>>3613481
> “Actually, go down as deep as you can while still being in the facility. I want to see if there’s a secret floor in this building.”
>You have permission to mess with stuff on the way.

>>3613555
>Appears to be spicy mana
I wonder if its gonna make us speak with a latino accent.
>>3613481
Changing to:
> “Actually, go down as deep as you can while still being in the facility. I want to see if there’s a secret floor in this building.”
>You have permission to mess with stuff on the way. And ask me if you have any questions.

Delve down. Writing!

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>>3613555
>>3613563
>>3613514

I'm more impressed with gartoum appearance. Do you guys think that the aliens are actually mantis people?

>>3613593
that's an interesting take and might explain why they used the "OH SHIT" tactics so soon after engaging them.

>>3613481
>>3613495
>>3613504
>>3613505
>>3613511
>>3613555
>>3613563
You frown. You’ve got a hunch, and this might be the best chance to confirm or refute it. “Actually, go down as deep as you can while still being in the facility. I want to see if there’s a secret floor in this building. We’re only supposed to be able to go one floor below the ground, one called ‘Facilities’,” you explain. “If there’s more, I want to know ASAP.”

“Oho? I’m to do some dungeon delving? Fascinating… and in such a place…” He seems quite interested in the concept. “I can’t say what I’ll find...but I’m sure it’ll be intriguing.” Suddenly dropping to all fours he skitters out, melting into the wall next to the door. Weird sunnavabitch.

“Is it gone…?” Prima asks quickly.

“Pretty sure,” you say- although you still eye the space where he left just in case.

“Good,” she says quietly. There’s a twitch from her- as though she wants to say something, or maybe that’s supposed to be a shiver- but she ignores it, plugging a wire into her skull, with the first out of her body, and her eyes proceed to dim a bit. “Searching now…”

...right. The waiting.

>Roll 2d20, best of 3, please.

Rolled 20, 7 = 27 (2d20)

>>3613640

Rolled 17, 17 = 34 (2d20)

>>3613640

Rolled 15, 7 = 22 (2d20)

>>3613640

>>3613640
>“Good,” she says quietly.
Aww poor thing, she's still traumatized by lori's actions.

>>3613656
Hey...what you think it would happen if we made Gartoum to meld with the Zeon Walker?

>>3613648
Prima proves again why she is best haxzoorr!!

>>3613667
We'd get a fucking STAND!
He might be able to enhance our machine maybe? The interesting thing will be when he enters inside an enemy machine. We need to create a cover for him. maybe call him a hacking algorithm, so it doesn't raise any suspicion?

https://youtu.be/m7J3Kjk6k-8

Writing.

>>3613690
>that link

welp...time to kill some living experiments or abominations.

>>3613686
How long can Gartoum last outside of the ring?

>>3613690
>link
there's some fucked up shit down there, gotta ready our bombs to blow this place to kingdom come.

>>3613702
Dunno. So far he has no limits regarding that(i don't take in consideration the intersection summon because those were very specific circumstances).

First Gartoum and then some biological horrors. Prima can't catch a break.

>>3613640
>>3613648
>>3613653
>>3613655
“Oh dear,” you hear Gartoum say mentally after about ten minutes. “It’s QUITE expansive down here…”

“Wait, what? Expansive? So there was a hidden floor?” Friggen knew it. It always is, you swear.

“A couple of them, it seems,” you hear as a response. “Rather some interesting things down here, though I’ve not the foggiest as to what they all are. Large metal constructs...oddities taking the form of metal facsimiles of humans, some that strike me as some strange combination of flesh and iron, and more besides! Strangely enough, it’s...not as amusing as I’d thought it would be. They’re all placed behind glass as though it’s an exhibit- a showcase, as it were. It all feels...well, it feels like nothing. Hm. I suppose that’s the problem, isn’t it? Might I be able to see to making my own fun, then?”

Before you can answer, you’re distracted by a sudden movement from Prima. “I believe I have found success! I have located within the local hard drive a drive map of the facility, as well as a history of file transfers and residual metadata- as well, some of the remaining text files on this system pertain to requests for files involving geographical coordinate data, and requests for research data involving Seither experiments. Of relevant terminology, I have an 80 percent match with key words from an aural analysis of Crane’s mission statement, and thus can come to a conclusion that this data will be relevant to the request. I believe I now may be able to locate the server in question and retrieve the files requested with minimal error.”

“Good job, both of you.” When Prima looks at you in question, you explain. “Gartoum’s found a secret facility under the basement- off the record, no doubt, and it sounds like something’s down there. Something we probably need to check out just in case our employers might like to know.”

She pauses, her head micromoving between looking at you, the computer system, and the server room. “A-are you certain about this course of action? Surely Mr. Gartoum has the skillset required to deal with the situation himself? Or perhaps you would prefer to assist him? I believe that I perhaps should stay here to retrieve the files as requested.”

...Well, she’s not entirely wrong, but...it’s obvious she just would rather not get close to him.

> “Well, lucky you, the plan is I’ll head down myself, and you get back to the Zeon asap. Don’t lollygag, though. I’m expecting efficiency.”
> “You can’t be a good Outgoer without getting into some uncomfortable situations. I’ll wait for you, and then we’re both going, clear?”
> “Honestly, we’re going to blow it all up anyway, so if he softens up the situation before we get there to take pictures, so much the better.”
> Other

>>3613725
>“You can’t be a good Outgoer without getting into some uncomfortable situations. I’ll wait for you, and then we’re both going, clear?”
>Garoutm just look and don't touch. We're going to your position after retrieving some files.

>>3613725
>“Well, lucky you, the plan is I’ll head down myself, and you get back to the Zeon asap. Don’t lollygag, though. I’m expecting efficiency.”
This option includes Prima retrieving both the mission data and the seither research data we're after, right?

>>3613725
>> “Well, lucky you, the plan is I’ll head down myself, and you get back to the Zeon asap. Don’t lollygag, though. I’m expecting efficiency.”

>>3613725
> “You can’t be a good Outgoer without getting into some uncomfortable situations. I’ll wait for you, and then we’re both going, clear?”

>>3613736
Yes.

>>3613725
>> “Well, lucky you, the plan is I’ll head down myself, and you get back to the Zeon asap. Don’t lollygag, though. I’m expecting efficiency.”
I Would like to personally see what's down there.

>>3613725
> “You can’t be a good Outgoer without getting into some uncomfortable situations. I’ll wait for you, and then we’re both going, clear?”

>Other: Flashback for the first time you were a outgoer and you got a assasination mission from Sal

Ah happy memories.

>>3613744
The "I'll wait for you" option means that we're going down there together, and I think that having Prima around in the secret basement could help.

>>3613725
>>3613739
>Other
>ask why is she scared of Gartoum so much, he's our partner

>>3613725
>Swan, you'll need to experience these situations sometime, unless you want to always rely on a partner.

>>3613725
> “You can’t be a good Outgoer without getting into some uncomfortable situations. I’ll wait for you, and then we’re both going, clear?”
>”So, why’re you so nervous around Gartoum? I assumed you’ve been in the Intersection long enough to meet scarier sentients.”

>>3613767
Well he IS a bit of a spooker if you're firmly in the land of science and law, given he is of magic and chaos

>>3613785
> “You can’t be a good Outgoer without getting into some uncomfortable situations. I’ll wait for you, and then we’re both going, clear?”
With >>3613771, >>3613767 and >>3613785

Nice try, but you're coming too! Writing!

>>3613791
I think the most surprising thing is how Randa is pretty chill with all this weird stuff. True she has 90 years living in the intersection and working as a Outgoer, so i guess makes sense not much would phase her.

Anyway Prima still needs to get used with the weird stuff. It comes with the job and if she is used to it now she will be less scared when something similar happens to her.

>>3613804
Handler are you still with us?

Fuck I got caught up in watching wres I'm sorry!

>>3614160
I feel like I should do a picture of Miranda giving Lori a Kinniku Buster.

>>3614167
this kills the lori

>>3614160
Dammit Handler...

>>3614167
Do eet!

>>3613810
>Anyway Prima still needs to get used with the weird stuff. It comes with the job and if she is used to it now she will be less scared when something similar happens to her.

In time. Randa started out as a bone stock magical girl, personality and all. She's a lot more competent now, but a lot more cynical and morally grey as well. Wouldn't want Prima to end up like us too quickly.


Speaking of, both of the bots will need to be 'blooded' at some point. There's no rush, but until they are their flexibility on-mission is going to be limited.

>>3614292
Wouldn't Jago be "blooded" already? We did just destroyed the robot and probably killed the lady pilot

>>3613725
Shaking your head, you step a bit closer. “You can’t be a good Outgoer without getting into some uncomfortable situations. I get things may weird you out, but that’s just part of the deal now. So I’ll wait for you, and then we’re both going, clear?”

She doesn’t have a mouth, but you can pretty much hear her sigh anyway. “...very well. Some time, please.” She takes a moment to disconnect, and wordlessly she walks back to the server room, yourself following behind. It doesn’t take her long to find the server in question- number 73, apparently, and she’s quick to do similar in finding its own power source, connecting, and her eyes dim again as she searches.

There’s a brief time where she blinks here and there, eyes flashing for whatever reason- but after about 5 or 10 minutes, she lights back up a bit, and nods to you. “I’ve located and downloaded the data. It mentions an area that is claimed to be a theoretical ‘test site’ for a biological rejuvenation device. They are unsure of the nature of this device, but had intended to attempt to experiment with it due to its potential ability to convert Seither into a harmless form. They never managed to perform such studies, however, as they were forced to quickly depart from the facility for ‘security reasons’.” As she gets up, however slowly, you mull over the report. Security reasons? Had the aliens discovered them? If so, then why would they not scorch everything or take it with them?

“We might find out more downstairs,” you murmur out loud in answer to yourself. “Come on, let’s get a move on.”

“Ah, yes…” It’s clear she’s not happy about it, but she follows you anyway. “How will we get down there?”

“Hm…” Wonder if Gartoum could-

“There’s an opening in the first basement I JUST made for you! Right outside of that funny little place with the metal box attached to the ropes! It’s in a rather large shaft, so- ”

“The elevator,” you surmise. “We’ll make our way down there. Come on.”

(cont)

>>3614348
It’s fortunately not too hard to locate the elevator, and use the ropes therein once you force the doors to essentially rappel down to the basement floor. Using the emergency hatch, you hop in the elevator, force the doors open again, and indeed, as you look around at the Basement floor- to which you can see a directory on a wall nearby- and a hole to the left of that. You take a moment to peer down into the inky blackness- which is quickly lit when Prima lights up her eyes, creating a rather strong flashlight. “Huh. That helps,” you quip, and grabbing her quickly, you hop down, falling for a couple of seconds before you land on solid steel.

“Over to your right, if you care to see what I’m talking about,” comes Gartoum’s voice. Setting Prima down on the ground (which doesn’t exactly stop her from sticking VERY close to you), you take a quick look around- what little light is here shows a rusted, webbed, and overall VERY in disrepair research floor, with various doors to rooms either choked with dust and debris, or otherwise broken off doors and- well, it’s just a damn mess, really.

“Right, on our way,” you say softly, and tugging Prima along, you make your way along the steel walkway.

It’s strange, you pass a number of empty surgical rooms, some rooms with nothing but old chairs in them...and then you walk through the hall, and you’re in a WIDE, circular room. On the walls are various diagrams and x-rays, most faded with time, but some you can still make you. All humanoid...but clearly not human. Several point out organs that you know don’t exist in natural humans, and others showing cutouts of things like massive claws, bulging additional musculature, a proboscis even on one. “This is...highly unusual medical research,” Prima says as she too studies the pictures, her fear momentarily replaced by curiosity. “Perhaps we should take some of these samples back to our employers? I cannot imagine they would be able to find much use for this, but it may be worth being able to study to assist in preventing these issues from coming about due to malpractice.”

> “...eh, they didn’t ask for them. Not worth the hassle.”
> “Sure. Might even thank us properly for it.
> Other

>>3614348
Cmon Gartoum you were from a semi-modern magical school setting I'm sure they've invented elevators... probably. Room service dummy waiters at the least.

>>3614359
>“Sure. Might even thank us properly for it.

>>3614359
>> “Sure. Might even thank us properly for it.

>>3614366
Granted he was also locked inside a ring hidden inside a book for who knows how long, but still.

>>3614359
>> “Sure. Might even thank us properly for it.
potential bonus pay would be nice

>>3614366
Why use elevators when you have portals that teleport you to anywhere you like?

>>3614359
> “Sure. Might even thank us properly for it.

Cabe did say he wanted anything that researched the aliens OR Seither. This is a research to make Seither in a not harmless form i think the nerds would apreciate that.

>>3614359
> “Sure. Might even thank us properly for it.”
See if there’s an organ cooler or some old blood samples around. The nerds would love that shit.

>>3614359
>“Sure. Might even thank us properly for it.

>>3614359
> “Sure. Might even thank us properly for it.
Pictures, sure, we can bring those, didn't Gartoum mention some mechs down here? And some hybrid flesh mechs?

>>3614359
>“Sure. Might even thank us properly for it.
>Other: make sure to scan them first with the FutureSight so that we can sell the paydata back at the Intersection/give them over to our R&D team.

>>3614359
> Sure

> Also take scans and such with our futuresight. Data is easily the most fungible product to bring back to the Intersection.

>>3614407
>>3614359
Supporting the get a copy of the information as well. This might speed up our plans of making a direct mana to electricity converter.

>>3614407
>>3614425
Support

>>3614407
>>3614425
>>3614439
So you guys would be okay in scanning the device our clients are looking for? The enviromental one if it's able to suck the ambient mana and turn it into unharmfull it should be able to help Owlia research.

>>3614359
>“Sure. Might even thank us properly for it.
So they'be been sticking in seither to people using a weird device they fou d on the ground? So what's the security risk then? Place sounds too undamaged to be experiment subject breakouts, this feels really suspicious.

>>3614468
Of course. There’s nothing in the contract or professionalism guidelines that say you can’t make copies for personal or non-competitive use of items that the client wants stolen/“recovered”.

We'll take a bit for them...and for us.

Writing!

>>3614485
>and for us.

Everything that isn't nailed on the wall?

>>3614338
I'd call that an assist at best. Jago was managing the mech, but we were controlling it. Plus there's the abstraction layer of destroying a piece of unthinking machery, instead of someone you can see.

>>3614485
Owlia is gunna hate us at this rate

>>3614503
Fair point.

>>3614359
>>3614376
>>3614380
>>3614388
>>3614394
>>3614395
>>3614402
>>3614404
>>3614407
>>3614425
>>3614439
>>3614465
You can’t help but grin a bit. “Sure. Might even thank us properly for it. Of course...we could keep some copies of this information for ourselves, as well. I have to imagine at least some of it might sell back home…not to mention what our scientist friend might be able to do with it.”

“Was she not more skilled in mechanical engineering than biology?” Prima asks, although she’s looking around with a slowness that you hope is her scanning everything as you take some pictures yourself with the FutureSight.

“Yeah, but you never know,” you admit.

After a few minutes taking highly detailed pictures and video for you both, you continue on, where you can hear Gartoum’s humming, now. You find yourself, before long, standing in a hallway that very noticeably has a pair of what looks like mounted automated machine guns, inert, but at each end of the hallway. You can also hear...something else?

Something like sloshing in the distance, like a liquid being shaken up. Stepping a bit faster, you move past a corner, and come face to face with a MASSIVE vault door, iron and thick and just barely wedged open. “Should be here, you mutter, and you grip the side of the door, and heave it open after a moment’s effort.

Gartoum is off to your right as you both enter and take in the site of the large, three rows of what are clearly stasis tubes, with even more machinery in the back. “Ah, made it at last, hm? See what I mean? Don’t you think this is fascinating?!” Inside, to your surprise...is light. Artificial light- coming from a dim, but clearly still working, set of ceiling lights. And what they’re shined on is what is in those rows, floating in a strange, golden liquid.

People. Mutants, each with variations more off-kilter than the last. Some with bulbous heads, some with oversized jaws, with long and sinuous tongues hanging out, some with massive claws and an elongated head- it seems like each is unique in its own grotesque way. “Simply fascinating, if perhaps morbid for humanity, hm? A veritable grotesquerie of the mortal body.”

“Mhm,” you nod grimly. Turning to your bot partner, Prima seems...well, she’s just staring. “Hey, you okay?”

“...a moment, please.” Hm. You’re not sure what, but...if she needs a minute, fine. You can at least take a look around.

(cont)

>>3614678
Poor Prima. I think we might be pushing her a little hard. She and Jago aren't nearly as worldly as our other hires, and are much younger to boot.

>>3614678
It’s strange, browsing the various captives. They’re all hooked up to a sort of wired breather, and have various electrodes or something akin attached to their skin in various places. You notice there’s a control panel below each one, with a name, and below that three LEDs, green, yellow, and red each. Controls are on all of them, although you’re not sure what the three switches are for. All of them that you see are green save for one or two that are yellow, and only one is red- although you notice that that single individual doesn’t even have liquid in its tube and seems to be deceased, so you’re pretty sure what the lights are for. As for the machinery in the back… “You mentioned strange metal constructs, didn’t you?”

“Yes, I did! Over here!” He takes you further back, and you see a mechanical arm, constantly moving back and forth over what seems to be some kind of small conveyor belt, each with small bits of liquid in them. It has a very small, stick-like device in its pincers that it dips in every one as the conveyor belt moves in intervals, and then deposits it into a test tube. Behind it you can see a desk- with someone’s remains in it, no less!

You quickly hop over the belt to take a closer look- this is the first human remnant you’ve seen so far. His nametag on his shirt identifies him as ‘Lawrence G.’, and he seems to have died in the middle of working on...something, as the position of his rotted skeleton and body seems to still be over the keyboard, despite the system itself apparently being turned off...although looking at it, perhaps it was just in sleep mode or something.

“There’s also an area not far from here with those strange humanoid facsimiles. Remind me of your metal doll, they do. A bit bigger than her- not nearly as lively, aha!” Gartoum seems to think that funny, but it just makes you think…

>Action? Multiple can be taken, so.

>I've got to bounce for the night. Sorry for the delay, will try to make it up tomorrow. Also if you want to do that art piece >>3614167 by all means!

A part of me feels like Lorelei would try to make it awkward on purpose, though.

>>3614686
True, she's had some polarizing experiences so far, maybe she needs some time to just experience normal existence a bit before she goes full mercenary. I mean she was living with Lorelei.

>>3614695
Well, I feel like we should power the computer up amd download whatever it had on it. Grab whatever physical notes left first, as well as the test tubes and such.

Just in case powering the computer changes the status of the mutants.

Once we know more about them we can decide what to do with them.

Maybe leave the other three and take the corpse back with us.

>>3614695
>Look into the computer ans see if we can get the data of what is happening here. So far it seems they were trying to create a human hybrid to make humans immune or able to use Seither.

>While Prima tries to recover the data go with Gartoum look at the living mechs.

Should we call Sal see if he is able to teleport the mechs? They might be worth to someone.

>>3614695
>Check the automated machineguns, make sure that they won't activate by accident. Salvage them if possible.
>Take a few pictures of vats and the machine, scan tube samples and take a couple to add to downloaded research info.
>>>3614709

>>3614709
I think we should take the corpse or at least try to open the yellow one. He could stay here in charge of the others?

Or we could just kill all the amuties put then in a bag and let the nerd fiddle with it once we bring the corpses back?

>>3614718
Oh right, ask Sal if he can transport the mechs.

>>3614695
>>3614712

One more thing. Scan the muties with Futuresight it should be able to give us a bio on then as well of their status.

>>3614695
>Look into the computer ans see if we can get the data of what is happening here. So far it seems they were trying to create a human hybrid to make humans immune or able to use Seither.
>While Prima tries to recover the data go with Gartoum look at the living mechs.
>Check the mechs' values in motes with the futuresight.

>>3614695
>Action?
This is the first corpse. It looks like he was caught unaware, which runs contrary to the state of the rest of the place. There's not a pill bottle or a gun or something nearby, is there? Maybe when the rest of the place left in a hurry he was abandoned. More generally, see if there's enough left to figure out how he died, might give some clues as to what happened here.

We should have Prima have a look at the computer, but move the corpse out of sight if she hasn't already seen it. She seems... stressed.

While she's looking at the computer, let's have Randa take a look at the "metal dolls". I suspect they are ACIAs, or something in the same family.

I doubt the sentry guns arte anything special, but we might be able to get a few motes for them back home. Low priority though.


>>3614712
He's only going to want to bother if they're particularly valuable, and he think he can find a buyer. Let's take a look at them before hawking them.