>>5827414
>Run your plugsuit's diagnostics

>>5827414
Run suit diagnostic

>>5827414
>Run your plugsuit's diagnostics

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>>5827635
>>5827647
>>5827971
You pull up your plugsuit's built-in wrist manager and run a diagnostics. That ass pain from earlier aside, you seem to be fine! While the ship's safety devices are managed by the On Board Assistant, your suit's own defense systems are fully automatic, lucky you!
The only problem is... the automatic defense systems drained quite a lot of your suit's battery power, consequence of the whole "automatic" thing. Many of your suits functions, namely all the nanotech installed within, runs on said power, so hopefully no hostiles in need of a disitegrated foot (courtesy of your plasma pistol) show up to ruin your day... eh, it can probably still fire a couple of shots before the battery completely dies down, better save it for when you need it!
What will you do now?
>Look around
>Try to call partner using your wrist communicator
>Inspect a part of the STR-K that isn't on fire

>>5828018
>Try to call partner using your wrist communicator

>>5828018
>Try to call partner using your wrist communicator

>>5828018
>Try to call partner using your wrist communicator

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>>5828055
>>5828063
>>5828094
You switch your wrist manager to "Call Mode" and attempt to contact your partner.
>[ERROR: Recipient disconnected or out of range.]
Welp, that was a bust... Oh, but it seems like she also tried to call you while you were knocked out a few minutes ago, even left a voice message, let's see...
>"Heey Storkie! It's you-know-who. Just landed in some weird... mushroom forest place? I guess that black hole thing warped us somewhere, tried to find out where this is and where you are but the ship keeps giving me errors. If you get this message call me back or something, I'm gonna stay put and wait for you! Love-you-miss-you-mean-it!!"
Ugh, yeah, looks like she's fine too, better in fact since her ship is still working. Strange that she's not picking up your calls though, maybe she tripped and broke her wrist manager again.
Oh, looks like you also got a call from OBA-337, your On Board Assistant, a few seconds after, probably won't be much infomation there but better to check anyways.
>[H-He-Hey D-Dud-Dude-e-e, y-you-yo-your fri-fr-frien-friendori-rino 337 he-h-errre. Sh-Shi-Shit's bust-b-bust-busted up y-y-yo-y-yo, r-repo-reporting o-ou-ou- *BZZZZT*]
...what a "helpful" report... Well, maybe now that he's busted up for good the higher ups will give you a better OBA, hopefully one that uses less surfer dude slang and activates important defense mechanisms when it needs to...
What to do now?
>Look around
>Inspect a part of the STR-K that isn't on fire
>Try to contact command using a long range signal

>>5828109
Inspect a part of the STR-K that isn't on fire

>>5828109
>Inspect a part of the STR-K that isn't on fire

>>5828109
>>Inspect a part of the STR-K that isn't on fire

>>5828109
>Look around

>>5828109
>Inspect a part of the STR-K that isn't on fire

>>5828109
>>Look around

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>>5828112
>>5828135
>>5828194
>>5828294
After circling the flaming corpse of your deceased companion, you notice that the trunk is busted open and, miraculously, not on fire! You quickly dash towards it, maybe you can find a spare power cell for your plugsuit or something-
>[D-DA-AT-DATA L-Li-ink, Onl-Onl-in-ne]
Once inside the small crawspace, your suit immediately connects to the ship's controls, you're surprised it can still do that even in this state...
>[Downloading 337.oba], [Downloading 337.dat], [Downloading-]
A vast amount of files and folders begin to transfer themselves from the ship and into your suit. You try to cancel it, but the download speed is so fast it finishes the process before you can even understand what happened! Damn you, superior technology!
>[Hey hey dude, whatsup??]
>"Oh no..."
>[Oi, what's that reaction for?! You think I'm just gonna stay in that junk until it explodes? "Captain goes down with the ship"?! No siree, not for me! I'm not- hey are you listening to me?]
>"Ughh, not in the download folder... Where did you get stored at...?"
You mumble under your breath as you flick through the folders in your wrist manager.
>[Are you tryna delete me?? Not gonna happen chief, even if ya find me I'll just move somewhere else! Kyahaha- Huh, did you hear somethin'?]
You take your attention away from your device and look straight ahead...

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>>5828429
>"S-Stay where you are!!"
Two strange looking people are standing in front of you, a boy holding a sword and a girl holding a bow with a bright red glowing arrow ready to fire. They are wearing strange green and brown clothes, like they're made out of grass and ropes, and those sure are some pointy ear! Are these... aliens? Or manchildren playing pretend? You really hope that there aren't humans in the year of our Lord, 4023, walking around with metal sticks seriously trying to hurt anyone, but you've also never seen such... human-looking aliens before.
>"Zeith, get ready to shoot if she does anything funny..."
The girl one points her bow straight at your chest. Meh, nothing your titanium-infused skeleton and high-grade monocrystal plugsuit can't handle.
>"I can't see a mushroom on her head, doesn't seem like she's with Her, maybe she's from the capital?"
>"Are you sure she's even human? She looks... weird..."
>[They're callin' ya fat!]
>"Oh shut up-"
>"Don't move! And don't shut me up!!"
The boy one takes a step fowards and threatens you with his pointy metal stick.
>"Zeith, I'm tying her up. We need to take her to the Queen, she'll know what to do. Keep an eye on her."
Woah woah woah! Threatening someone with a stick is one thing, but tying them up is a whole 'nother issue! You should probably do something right about now, what will you do?
>Let yourself be captured
>Run away into the forest
>Shoot (boy/girl) in the leg
>Shoot (boy/girl) in the head
>Just beat them up normally

>>5828431
>Let yourself be captured

>>5828431
I kinda want to shoot both of them in the legs but bullets are a precious resource. Definitely not teaming up with the fantasy equivalent of tap water though. Running into the forest is a bad idea because these guys live in them. We might be able to beat both of them up if we have good fire resistance, which a good space suit should have.

>>5828431
>>Just beat them up normally
Bust into some Kung-fu moves!

>>5828431
>Just beat them up normally

>>5828431
>>Let yourself be captured

>>5828431
>Just beat them up normally
Fuck Elves.

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>>5828537
>>5828545
>>5828851
>>5828936
>"Alright, that's enough!"
You confidently puff up your chest and take a step fowards. As soon as you do so, the girl one instantly shoots her arrow at your stomach... it bounces off, turns into smoke and dissipates into the air before it reaches the ground.
>"W-What the- Grrahh!!"
The boy one charges forth next with a jump attack, presumably upset at the fact that his plan failed.
>"Gaaah- ...huh...?"
You grip the tip of his sword with your hand and bend the blade to the side. It's worse than you thought, at least the girl had, what, a photon... arrow... thing... but this isn't even titanium coated or something, just a normal metal sword... You should probably have a talk with the local authorities if this is what constitutes a "weapon" on this planet.
>"Well y'know, after I take care of this."
>"...huh..."
The boy is still shocked at your... slightly above average feat of strength. You take this opportunity to punch him once in the jaw and... that knocks him out. Well, that was easy. The girl one tries to run away, but you quickly catch up to her and deliver sweet justice to her face as well.
>[Y'know bro, pretty sure you could like, get locked up for life for just punching two duderinos without even knowing what juri-stiction you're in.]
>"Oh shut up, I'M pretty sure trying to kidnap someone is a bigger crime, self defense! *nod* Mhm!
>[...I think the man bro is dead dog...]
>"...Well it's not MY fault their muscles are made out of toothpaste and red food coloring!"
>[Kinda insensitive dude, maybe their species is just like that, you dunno...]
>"Aghh, whatever, turn yourself off and don't speak unless I tell you to."
>[Not happenin' dude.]
>"Nghh... Huh?"
You notice a shadow peeking from behind one of the tress, it has pointy ears just like those two, most likely from the same species. Once it notices you, it panics and runs away deeper into the forest.
>[Told ya dude, they're callin' the policia.]
Well this is bad, maybe that was some really weird cultural ritual for meeting foreigners and you fucked up badly. Don't wanna get locked up... in a prison made out of twigs and palm tree leaves or whatever... Okay maybe you're not THAT worried about this...

What will you do now?
>Stay where you are and interrogate the girl one once (if?) she wakes up
>Run in the direction of the shadow
>Run in the opposite direction of the shadow

>>5829017
>Stay where you are and interrogate the girl one once (if?) she wakes up

>>5829017
>Stay where you are and interrogate the girl one once (if?) she wakes up

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>>5829021
>>5829108
You skillfully tie the girl up using the boy's rope (after harnessing your ancient girl scout skills from way back when) and wait for her to get up.
>[Uhh... Y'know, it's taking a while... You think she's-]
>"Nope, still breathing. I checked the last 16 times you asked... It's only been 10 minutes by the way."
>[Yeah she's breathin' and all dude, but, like, what if she has ya know, brain damage or somethin' and can't get up?]
>"Then we're gonna sit here and wait around until she dies, I guess! What do you want me to do??"
>[Actually broski, didn't ya say like an hour ago that tying up people you don't know without any reason is a "big crime"-]
>"TEN MINUTES ago! And yeah I did, but this is a completely different situation- Oh she's up."
>"Uuugh... Wha... Uhhh.."
Great timing! What do you ask her first?
>"Where is this place?"
>"What... are you?"
>"Where's the nearest ship repair shop?"
>"What was that red glowy arrow you shot earlier?"
>"Are you, like, stupid or something?"
>Write in

>>5829502
>>"What... are you?"
>>"Are you, like, stupid or something?"

>>5829502
>"Where is this place?"
>"Where's the nearest ship repair shop?"

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Random main character "on model" concept art (I guess?) before I go to sleep

>>5829678
Nice. Very nice. 9/10

>>5829510
+1

>>5829502
>"Where is this place?"
>"Are you, like, stupid or something?"
>>5829678
Neat.

>>5829678
The tapes need to go off

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Phoneposting cus the 4chan blackout fucked up my posting schedule
>>5829510
>>5829720
Two for "what"
>>5829640
>>5829902
Two for "where"
Not a super big choice, so I might just roll in an hour or two if there's no more votes
>>5829905
Don't think that's how plugsuits work and don't think she'd let you do that, though that is a good point, probably should add a bit more detail to it so it doesn't look like she's naked

>>5829927
Don't listen to him. The drawings are fine how they are, that man is just talking crazy.

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Rolled 2 (1d2)

Alright rolling, 1 for what 2 for where

>>5829927
I change my mind. It looks fine. (just needs a window)

>>5829640
>>5829902
>"Hey, lady, you awake?"
>"Hghh... Uhuhh..."
She still seems kind of dazed, better to ask questions now, before she fully realises what's happening and becomes rebelious.
>"Hey, where is... here?"
>"Uuh...? It's the... the, uh, Garanol Forest... yeah..."
>"Uh, sure, but I meant what planet am I on?"
>"Huuh? Pla-net...?"
Okay, maybe she's got a concussion. You grab the girl's head and force her eyes open, like you've seen doctors do in that one HV show you watched once and then never again.
>"Okay, lis-ten."
>"Uh huh..."
>"Wha-t, plaa-net, a-re, weee, o-nnn?"
>"Uuuh... the... RoGenBrand Kindgom...? The uuhh.., south..."
Okay, clearly she's unable to tell you what planet you're on for whatever reason (probably because you hit her too hard), but that's SOME information at least.
>"A kingdom, huh? No wonder you guys are walking around with swords and bows. How primitive, haven't invented democracy yet, huh? Don't worry you'll get there eventually."
>"Ehh...? What's wr- ugh- ong with bows...? I rolled an... 18 and every...thing..."
"Rolled"? What's that mean?
>"Man, is everyone around here this stupid, or is it just you and that other guy? Did I get sent back in time or something- Oh no wait, that might actually be what this is... God, I hope not... Quick, do you guys have toilets?? Plumbing???"
>"Uhh... well, "we" don't but... the capital..."
>"Oh thank the lord, so it IS just you... forest people that are like this, good..."
>"Grrr..."
Oh crap, looks like she's getting mad at you (for no discernible reason)! You can probably only ask her one or two more questions before she gets too rowdy to hold a conversation. What will it be?
>"What... are you?"
>"Where's the nearest ship repair shop?"
>"What was that red glowy arrow you shot earlier?"
>"What's "rolling"?"
>Write in

>>5830075
>prod the boy with our foot to check if he really is dead

>what are you

>>5830075
>"What... are you?"

>>5830075
>>5830076
+1

>>5830075
Why'd you attack me? I just wanna fix my ship and get off of here.

>>5830075
>>"Where's the nearest ship repair shop?"

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>>5830076
>>5830108
>>5830111
You walk behind the girl and poke the boy in the face with your foot a few times. Yep, definitely pretty dead.
>"Your uhh, species wouldn't happen to have... regenerative powers or anything like that, right?"
>"Huuh... no...? Why...?"
>"Nothing. No reason."
>"Well... I guess if you- ugh... if you used GRN magic I gueesss..."
>"Green magic?"
"Magic" huh? Wow, these poor fools keep getting worse.
>"You know... GRN... the uh, life energy... gifted to us by Garanol... healing and- ughh... e-electricity magic and... uhh... the... uhh... GRN text..."
Electricity?! Now THAT sounds pretty good right about now. Whether it's actual "magic" or not doesn't really matter as long as it's real!
>"Wait, you guys have electricity?! Actually, what even ARE you?? You're not humans, are you?"
>"We're uhh... Northen Elves... You really don't.... know...? Uuh...?"
Crap, she looks like she's gonna pass out again. You really shouldn't have hit them THAT hard.
>"Wait wait wait! Focus! Eeeee-leee-ctriii-ciiiii-tyyy! Wheee-ree. Isss. Iiiiit?"
>"J-Just ahh... G-Go there... Th-Through the invisib-oough-ble barrier... Th-The Q-ugh-Queen can... do... it..........."
The girl points to her left with her head, towards a denser part of the forest surrounding you, and passes out again. Well, shit, that barely answered anything!! Electricity "magic" DOES sound pretty tempting though... But who knows what's roaming around in that forest?
>[What ya did today would get ya locked up in 'bout 100 solar systems, by the way-]
>"SHUSH!!"
What will you do?
>Go into the forest (Carrying/Not carrying girl)
>Go in the opposite direction (Carrying/Not carrying girl)
>Stay here and wait again (Kill girl/Don't kill girl)
>Write in

>>5830303
>Go into the forest (Carrying girl and boy)
Anyone asks, I found them like this.

>>5830303
Go into the forest carrying the girl, give the boy a cowboy funeral (kill dirt on him)

>>5830303
>Go into the forest (Carrying girl)

>>5830303
>>Go in the opposite direction (Not carrying girl)

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>>5830318
>>5830323
>>5830895
You throw some (a lot, just to be sure) dirt on top of the boy as some kind of makeshift grave. Amen, or whatever you say in your magic forest caveman religion.
>[Hiding a body. That's another felony dude...]
>"I'M NOT GOING TO PRISON!"
You hurl the girl over your shoulder and walk into the forest.

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>>5831094
As it turns out, this forest is surprisingly clean! You were expecting a bunch of bugs and mud everywhere, but so far it's just been grass, and trees, and grass... Actually, where ARE all the animals? No way a place like this wouldn't have at least one bird-like creature flopping about. And, come to think of it, you are getting kind of hungry, some meat would be nice... You've seem some "berry bush"-looking plants strewn about, but, like the space girl scouts always say, "Never eat random stuff you find on the ground of an alien planet, especially if it looks like food".
After walking in a straight line for about 20 minutes, you decide to lay down next to some of the aforementioned bushes and relax for a bit. You're not actually THAT tired, but it never hurts to chill out sometimes.
>*Bzzt Bzz*
>"Huh? Woah!"
The girl (you honestly forgot you were carrying this entire time) starts emmiting strange green electricity from her body. Before you even realise what's going the forest in front of you warps and opens up like the curtains in a theater stage, revealing a secret pathway!
>"Woooahh... Camouflage? Is it a hologram? Or some kind of refraction sphere? So cool..."
Since your missions usually involve shooting things, bombing things or grabbing random space junk, you never really get to use any of your, uh, "super stealth gear", as your partner calls it. It is amazing what you can do by simply manipulating the light around, quite fascinating.
>"Uh oh..."
You notice someone with pointy ears on the other side of the illusion and crouch down behind the bushes again. Would look kind of weird to walk in while carrying a concussed girl you beat into a pulp. You need to talk to this "Queen" person if you want your electronics charged up though... What will you do?
>Walk in like you own the place (Carrying/Not carrying girl)
>Try to stealth your way in (Carrying/Not carrying girl)
>Pretend you found the girl like this and ask for help
>Nevermind, let's go in another direction (Carrying/Not carrying girl)
>Write in

>>5831095
>Walk in like you own the place (Carrying girl)

>>5831095
>>Nevermind, let's go in another direction (Not carrying girl)

>>5831095
>Walk in like you own the place, carrying girl.

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>>5831200
>>5831307
>"Wait... What am I even hiding for?"
You get up from the bushes and march fowards through the hologram-camouflage-thing.
>"Kyaah! An intruder!! Ahh!!"
The girl you saw earlier screams loudly and runs off into one of the many moldy wooden shacks scattered around the area. The air feels thicker and more humid around here compared to the forest itself, almost like what you saw back there was merely a "perfect representation" of a forest, meant to conceal the real deal.
Underneath your feet is a pathway leading towards a big tree with a wooden gate in the center of its trunk, its roots crawling across the ground and wrapping themselves around the shacks, giving the place an overall "abandoned" feel. Definitely feels like a "Queen" would be hiding in there.
Spread around the area are a bunch of signs talking very negatively about fungi, and teaching what to do if you are ever "infected" by one of them. Crap, it's one of THOSE types of planets isn't it? The type with the gross parasite monsters that spread through your spine and eat your organs and-
>"Bleeugh! No no no! Don't think about it! Focus on the now- AUGH!!"
An elf appears from the side holding a knife while you're busy thinking about gross stuff, surprising you! You instinctively stretch your left arm, punching them square in the face. That definitely won't leave a good impression.
You see a group of other elves coming out of the big tree gates, probably here for you. What will you do?
>PUNCH PUNCH PUNCH your way fowards
>Create some kind of hostage situation with the girl on your shoulder
>Try to talk this out
>Write in

>>5831541
>>PUNCH PUNCH PUNCH your way fowards

>>5831541
>PUNCH PUNCH PUNCH your way fowards
The quickest way between two points is a straight line.

>>5831541
>PUNCH PUNCH PUNCH your way fowards
We can explain ourselves after we box everyone

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>>5831541
>misspells "forwards" twice in the same post
I hate this language, I WROTE IT LIKE HOW YOU SAY IT DAMNIT

>>5831561
lol Git gud.

>>5831541
>>PUNCH PUNCH PUNCH your way fowards

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>>5831543
>>5831550
>>5831560
>>5831626
Nothing some fisticuffs can't solve! You run right into the middle of the crowd of metal-stick-carrying elves and start punching faces! You knock each of them out in a single hit, some fall down before they can even swing their swords, others try (and fail) to run away in fear.
>"Hahaha! Man, this is kinda fun! Maybe I should try some boxing when I get back..."
>[Kinda worried for ya mental health sis...]
You notice a second group forming, a handful of archers have formed a semicircle around you. As they pull their empty bow strings back, a glowing red arrow suddenly appears out of thin air.
>"Aaahh!!! Ouch ouch ouch!"
...Except for one of them, whose bow instead suddenly caught on fire, causing her to run in a panic and quickly dip her hands in a nearby water-filled bucket.
>"S-Sorry... Rolled a 1... Hehe..."
>*whisper*"Why'd you put Anis on the bow squad, dumbass?! You know how bad her luck is!"
>*whisper*"We are running out of troops man, give me a break- AGH"
Jab! Jab! Uppercut! While they're distracted talking about their anus or whatever you beat the crap out of the entire squad. Easy peasy!
You push open the wooden gates and walk inside the tree. There she is, sitting in a (seemingly) naturally-formed throne in the middle of the trunk, the "Queen". Or at least she looks like one, she has a crown and a weird looking staff, so it seems pretty likely. What will you do now??
>Beat her up and force her to charge your suit (Careful to not kill her!)
>Try to be civil for once and talk to her calmly
>Make up some BS to see if she falls for it and charges your stuff
>Create some kind of hostage situation with the girl on your shoulder (You forgot she was still there...)
>Write in

>>5831780
>Make up some BS to see if she falls for it and charges your stuff

>>5831780
>Try to be civil for once and talk to her calmly

>>5831780
>>Beat her up and force her to charge your suit (Careful to not kill her!)

>>5831780
>Try to be civil for once and talk to her calmly

>>5831780
>Try to be civil for once and talk to her calmly

>>5831780
>Beat her up and force her to charge your suit (Careful to not kill her!)

>>5831780
>>Beat her up and force her to charge your suit (Careful to not kill her!)

>>5831780
>Try to be civil for once and talk to her calmly

>>5831780
>Try to be civil for once and talk to her calmly

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>>5831796
>>5831819
>>5831997
>>5832216
>>5832260
You lower your fists. Right, probably best not to threaten the only person here that could be of some help to you.
>"Uh, hey... ma'am? Lady? Your highness?"
>"L-Leave. Now."
She raises her staff up and clanks it back into the ground. She looks angry, but you can hear a slight shakiness in her voice and see some sweat dripping down her forehead. She's probably just scared.
>"Look, sorry about the commotion, but seriously, you guys are WAY too aggressive around here! This one here and the other blonde guy just attacked me the second I showed up!"
>"Leave. Now. And never return. Don't force our hand, wench."
Wench?! Man, these guys sure are rude!
>"I'm not leaving! I need your help, in fact. You see, my suit is all out of power so-"
>"Help?! Why in Readon's blazes would we help you?!"
>"Ughhh... Whatever, you're so annoying. Just shut up and charge my stuff okay? I'd rather not stick around here any longer anyways."
>"Enough!"
The Queen lifts her up her staff and a bolt of green electricity comes out of it, aimed straight at you!
>[Charger model ꅐꁝꊿ ꈵꃔꊿꅐꈜ: Plugged in. Charging... 10%-50%-74%-100%]
>"Woah, score! Thanks lady! Wow, didn't think that was gonna work..."
>"What the-?!"
>"It's okay lady, I'm charged up already. You can stop now!"
>"Tch. No effect...? Some kind of GRN magic repelant perhaps?"

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>>5832310
The Queen turns off her electric voodoo magic staff thing and-
>[WARNING! Power levels: CRITICAL]
>"Wait what the fuck??? Where did my charge go??"
>"Hoh? Are thou not familiar with the ways of GRN magic?"
Uh oh, she's looking kinda smug now.
>"Leaving your GRN energy outside your body for longer than necessary would just be foolish. There are many techniques that would allow your opponent to steal your energy for themselves in a split second."
>*mumble*"Kinda wish I had one of those right about now..."
>"What did thou speaketh??"
>"Oh uh, nothing."
Her vocabulary is reaching and unbearably annoying level of fanciness that you despise.
>"Okay, okay. Just do that again, but leave it in my body this time alright?"
>"Imbecile! I shall not do such a thing! Does thou want me to perish?!"
>"Come ooooon! Look, my partner is stuck in some kind of mushroom forest place and I need to save her-"
>"Mushroom forest you say? Thou must be referring to the Fungal Queen's territory... it has expanded quite a lot over the last few moons..."
>"Yeah sure, whatever you say. Anyways, I need your electricity to charge up my suit so I can activate my gas mask add on and go in there, really don't wanna inhale any weird mushroom spores y'know?"
"And most importantly, for my gun!" You said in your head.
>"That would be quite wise, yes. Her spores have been strengthening in power for unknown reasons, she has already taken over most of the outer forest. I believe only our territory has remained due to the barrier..."
Oho, she's looking quite vulnerable now, perfect time for easy negotiations!
>Ask her to come with you to the mushroom forest
>Ask her to order one of her subordinates to take you to the forest (and maybe help out there, would be nice)
>Ask her for a face mask for the spores and some directions
>Just leave, she's so rude!
>Write in

>>5832311
>Ask her to order one of her subordinates to take you to the forest (and maybe help out there, would be nice)

>>5832311
>Ask her to order one of her subordinates to take you to the forest (and maybe help out there, would be nice)

>>5832311
>>Ask her for a face mask for the spores and some directions

>>5832311
>Ask her to order one of her subordinates to take you to the forest (and maybe help out there, would be nice)

>>5832311
>Ask her to order one of her subordinates to take you to the forest (and maybe help out there, would be nice)

>>5832311
>>Ask her to order one of her subordinates to take you to the forest (and maybe help out there, would be nice)

>>5832311
>Ask her to come with you to the mushroom forest
I doubt she's doing anything that important to help (from our perspective

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>>5832314
>>5832319
>>5832411
>>5832452
>>5832511
>"Hey, I know! How about you tell me where this "mushroom forest" place is, and if I happen to find this Fungal Queen lady I just beat the shit outta her for you? Seems to be working quite well so far at least!"
>"Mm, indeed. Thou does seem unnaturally strong for thine appearence... And I can't find even a trace of magic usage in your aura. In fact, I can't even find your Lvl number, strange..."
>"Sure sure whatever, just hand me one of your boys that knows the way and I'll get off of your hair."
>"One of "my boys", huh? Well, "my boys" appear to be in no condition to help you due to mysterious circumstances, mayhaps they have all collectively caught a cold of some description...?"
She sure knows how to switch from "serious" to "smug sarcasm" fast.
>"H-Heyyy Queen... I, uh, hehe, fixed the barrier the intruder broke, hehehe..."
>"Ah, Anis, thank you..."
>"N-No problem m'lady... eheheh..."
>"Oh hey, how about her? Can't she help me?"
To be fair, you don't REALLY wanna hang around this girl for too long, she smells like eggs and rotten citrus, you can see the coat of natural oil covering her hair from here, and you're pretty sure she was the one that set her own bow on fire a few minutes ago, but she seems to be the only option you have.
>"Ah, well... Anis can be rather... peculiar..."
>"I-I-I don't wanna help out a weird looking foreigner a-a-anyways! Bleeh!!"
She sticks her tongue out at you.
>"Mm, come to think of it, I've made up my mind. Anis, guide this woman to the Fungal Queen's territory at once."
>"Hehe... Don't worry madam, I'll take you there s-safe and sound... heheh... f-f-follow me."
Wow, her tone changed real fast! Maybe these weirdos are all just naturally two-faced.
>"O-Oh... t-take this... If you don't w-wear one of these while you're out there... You'll turn into one of Them... ehehe..."
Anis hands you a brown bandana... mask... thing. You tie it around your neck and lift it up to your face, it smells like old paint. You never thought you'd miss your air conditioned, lime scented gas mask add on before...

>>5833010

You and Anis exit the village and head towards (what she says is) the west. Apparently this fungi infestation has spread towards all parts of the forest except for the north, where the village is. Though according to her, the actual "mushroom forest" area where you need to go is limited to the southern region, where the infection began, so the search shouldn't take TOO long... once you actually get there.
>"A-Alright... here we a-are... hehe..."
You both reach the west side of the forest surprisingly quickly! How big even IS this forest...? You thought this trip would take hours, but it only took around 20 minutes. You haven't spoken a word since you left the Elf Queen's throne room, and Anis spent the entire trip laughing to herself while blushing heavily, so the atmosphere overall feels pretty awkward.
>"Y-You should st-start getting the chills once you c-cross this line on the ground here..."
Ah, I see! They must have set up some kind of invisible barrier to keep the spreading infection at bay, and that must be keeping all the animals and bugs and gross stuff out of the northern forest as well! No wonder it looked so peaceful and nice...
>"Chills? What do you- Aaughh~..."
Wow, she wasn't kidding. Immediately after crossing the line you feel your hairs try to stand on end under your plugsuit. Your vision is also instantly covered by a gross magenta fog, most likely fungi related., better not take that mask off! Or rub your bare eyeballs against it for too long... Yeah maybe squinting through this is a good way to not lose your vision later on...
>"O-Okay... Hehe... N-Now we can either m-move to the south o-of here and end up in th-the southwest mushroom f-forest... hahah... O-Or we can g-go to the east and go t-to the center south one..."
What will you do?
>Split up, each one goes to one of the mushroom forests and reunite later
>Go to the southwest one
>Go to the south one
>Write in

>>5833012
>Go to the south one

>>5833012
>Split up, each one goes to one of the mushroom forests and reunite later
>Go central south
Fuck Anis, I don't like her and she seems suspicious. We're going it alone.

>>5833045
Supporting

>>5833012
>Split up, each one goes to one of the mushroom forests and reunite later

>>5833012
Supporting >>5833022

>>5833210
>>5833101
>>5833045
>Abandoning an abused slave
That's pretty fucked up, not gonna lie.

>>5833260
Who cares about some primitives

>>5833045
+1

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>>5833022
>>5833045
>>5833101
>>5833210
>>5833434
>"Actually I have a better idea. You go down there, and I go east. That way we can cover more ground!"
>"B-But uhhehe... A-Are you going to be fiiine by y-yourself... haha... Wh-Wha-What if you get l-lost...?"
>"Oh I'll be fine. I've been on multiple galaxy-spanning missions, I can take an itty bitty forest like this one easily!"
>"Ohh hehehe... Impressive... I think...? Heheh-"
>"Alright, see ya! Bye!"
You dash out of there at max velocity towards the east. Thank god that's over for now, you really hope this is one of those horror movie scenarios where one of the people that splits up gets horrifically injured while the other one's fine.
You start to notice an obvious change in the terrain and vegetation, the ground goes from grassy plains to a slightly muddy marsh, and the trees are slowly replaced by gigantic mushrooms. The fog gets thicker and the entire area darkens around you, you must be there already.
You finally see signs of life, a mammalian creature weakly crawling across the floor, like it is sick. Mushrooms and other types of fungi cover its back completely, definitely infected. As you get closer, you notice dark magenta "drool" dripping from its mouth, and a slight glow of the same color on the creature's dead, beady eyes. Gross, gross, gross!
You pass by a couple dozen different creatures on the way, all in the same state. You wonder if this shitty ass mask you're wearing is REALLY that effective, you'd rather die than become a mindless roaming zombie thing...
*crunch crunch clang* You hear the sounds of metal being torn apart. You approach it and see the CC-DA, your partner's ship, being torn to pieces by a trio of fungi zombies! Well, just its outer shell for now, but who knows what'll happen if they reach one of its many delicate and super important inner parts?! You also realise the pilot of said ship is nowhere to be found.
>"That dumbass! If I saw MY ship getting destroyed by zombies, I'd defend it with my LIFE! Ooh, I'm DEFINITELY reporting this behavior to command after we get outta here..."
>[Told ya "Captain goes down with the ship" was an outdated rule.]
>"Alright then, NEXT TIME my ship's defense systems "mysteriously" fail and it turns into a ball of flaming metal, I WON'T inspect a compartment that just so happens to still have a functional plugsuit connection, and WON'T save my AI from fiery robo-death!!"
>[Wack delivery, but I see your point.]
You COULD just punch the zombies like you've been doing so far, but you have no idea how this mushroom infection stuff even works, maybe it can lay its spore eggs on your suit or something, that would be gross! You'd rather avoid that. But then again, EVERYTHING around here is mushrooms, you can't even grab a stick to use as a weapon! What will you do?
>PUNCH them anyways
>Shoot one of them to see if it scares them off
>Shoot all of them
>Abandon the ship and try to find the pilot
>Write in

>>5833500
>>Shoot one of them to see if it scares them off

>>5833500
>PUNCH them anyways

>>5833500
>>PUNCH them anyways

>>5833500
>PUNCH them anyways

>>5833500
>Shoot one of them to see if it scares them off

>>5833500
>PUNCH them anyways
Make sure none of that stuff gets in your eyes

>>5833500
>Shoot one of them to see if it scares them off

>>5833500
>>Shoot one of them to see if it scares them off

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>>5833559
>>5833566
>>5833569
>>5833901
You punch the zombified elf right into the CC-DA, his head crumples like a soda can and magenta colored goo sprays out all over the ship, mega gross!! The zombie starts emitting gurgling noises from his smashed up head, he's clearly still alive but you wonder if he can still move around or not. All the other zombies wobble away after your attack, did you scare them off? Or is it instinctual self preservation? You wipe the goo on your hand off on the elf's clothes (self reminder: wash gloves later) and walk inside the ship's cockpit, your plugsuit lighting up, indicating a successful connection. Here we go, come on baby, mama needs some charging-
>[LOCKED: Passcode required for PLUG ACCESS.]
>"Oh, COME ON!! Ughh... Of course, of course! It couldn't be that easy for once, could it?! Alright, think, think! What would that dumbass use as a password..."
>123456789
>[INCORRECT Passcode. [3] Attempts remain.]
>987654321
>[INCORRECT Passcode. [2] Attempts remain.]
>CCDA_Rulez
>[INCORRECT Passcode. [1] Attempts remain.]
Alright better stop now, lest you activate the ship's self defense systems by accident.
>[Uhh, dude, why don't ya just hack it? Or y'know, let ME hack it?]
Oh, right, you forgot that guy was useful for something.
>"Alright then! Can you do that?"
>[Sure... It's just gonna take like, an hour or two... or four.]
>"Auugh, four HOURS? What kind of hacker are you??"
>[Well sooorry! Y'think it's as easy as 1, 2, 3?! Shit's complex man! I can't just press a button and solve everythin'! Plus, what are ya even afraid of? Y'can beat these bros easily.]
>"Yeaaah... But it's like.... gross... And it's ruining the ship's paintjob..."
>[Yeesh... Tell ya what, defense systems are REAL easy to activate, I'll just activate the shields while I work then!]
>"Won't that drain the battery you idiot?! I need that!"
>[Won't drain ALL the battery! It's either that or the ship getting pink-ified, your pick.]
What will you do?
>Stay inside the ship while he works (Shields on/off)
>Stay outside the ship while he works (Shields on/off)
>Go look for your partner so she can input the passcode (Shields on/off)

>>5834610
>tie vote while I'm writing the update
>forgets to F5 the page before posting
Yikes, sorry my guy

>>5834656
>Go look for your partner so she can input the passcode (Shields on)

>>5834657
Don't worry about it

>>5834656
>Go look for your partner so she can input the passcode (Shields on)
>Ask OBA-337 to log our movement and map out the surroundings based on observation so we can find our way back later
>Or do it ourselves if it's not too hard for a space pilot

>>5834776
>>5834727
+1

>>5834776
Supporting

>>5834776
+1

>>5834776
+2

>>5834727
>>5834776
>>5834812
>>5834825
>>5834861
>>5834981
>"Mmmm- Alright, turn the shields on..."
>[Okie dokie!]
>"Actually, you think you can start making a map from here on out? I'm gonna go look for that knucklehead and I don't wanna lose sight of the ship."
>[Oh yeah, foh sure! While I'm in there shielding up I'll set up a barebones map system and slip it to ya, won't have any details but it'll at least show ya the way.]
>"Yeah, thanks! Wow, you're... uh... being surprisingly useful out of nowhere..."
>[What can I say? It's my natural talent. Alright, see ya in a bit!]
Your On Board Assistant zaps itself into the CC-DA and activates the shields, a few seconds later it zaps back into your wrist manager, with a new map application attached. Once opened, it displays a black screen with two dots, one being you and the other presumably being the ship, not the prettiest UI you've ever seen but it works for now.
Now that you have a work-in-progress map ready, you start feeling pretty confident and decide to walk in a random direction. That dumbass can't have walked too far away from here, she probaby got scared and hid in a hole somewhere once the creatures started biting into the ship.
After some time of randomly walking to similar-looking fungi -infested places you hear something, hurried footsteps coming from somewhere close and a weak voice mumbling something far away. Before you realise what's happening the footsteps go from "close" to "very close", like "right behind you" close-

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>>5835194
>"AAAAHHHHHHH-"
>"EEEEEEEKKKKK-"
>"AAAAAAnis?? What are you doing here?!"
>"Wh-What do you m-m-mean?? You t-told me to go here~... heheheh..."
>"Oh, right. Man, this forest really IS small, huh?"
>"S-S-Seems pretty b-big to me... hehe... Ah wait!"
Out of nowhere, she springs up and covers both of your mouths with her hands.
>*whisper*"What??"
>*whisper*"I-I-I-I think I f-f-found your friend... C-come over here..."
You both walk towards the mubling voice and hide behind a mushroom tree. There she is! Your nincompoop companion is laying on a bed of mushrooms, her head in the lap of one of the zombies, though this one looks distinctively different. The mushroom on her back is absolutely massive, and constantly spewing out that gross magenta goo, the tendrils connecting it to her back are numerous and look quite firm, like the roots of a tree. You wonder how that skinny body can even lift up that giant thing.
>"Th-Th-That's the F-F-Fungal Queen..."
>"What? The girl?"
>"N-No... hehe... The mushroom... Th-They say she only p-p-picks female h-hosts... She probably w-w-wants your friend n-n-now that her current body is d-dying off... hehehe..."
You notice your partner is wearing her gas mask add on. That should offer good protection against the airborn spores, but you worry the goo might do something to her unprotected face.
The Fungal Queen's mumbles are incomprehensible to you, you can't tell if she's not speaking English or if she's just slurring her words. She doesn't look totally braindead like the other zombies, but you wonder how much sentience she has. It's possible this behavior is purely instinctual, you've heard of many species of alien fungi that act this way, some even destroy entire planets' ecosystems and eventually die off when they run out of hosts. Quite fucked up.
What will you do?
>PUNCH PUNCH PUNCH
>Shoot her, you'll get some charge soon anyways
>Try to talk to her, maybe it'll work
>Ask for more information from Anis
>Write in

>>5835202
>PUNCH PUNCH PUNCH
No not anymore. We're done talking.

>>5835202
>Ask for more information from Anis

>>5835202
>Try to talk to her, maybe it'll work
there ought to be a reason why your partner didn't try and knock her lights out. Also, considering diplomacy worked with the other queen we could maybe even play both sides against each other to get what we need.

>>5835202
>offer the native in exchange for idiot friend

It is a good deal, we'll its better than giving them beads in exchange for vast swathes of land

>>5835202
>Shoot her, you'll get some charge soon anyways

>>5835202
>Try to talk to her, maybe it'll work

>>5835202
>Shoot her, you'll get some charge soon anyways

>>5835202
>Try to talk to her, maybe it'll work

>>5835202
>>Shoot her, you'll get some charge soon anyways

>>5835202
>>PUNCH PUNCH PUNCH

>>5835473
>>5835860
>>5835987
3 for talk
>>5835713
>>5835878
>>5836118
And 3 for shoot
Unsure if >>5835492 counts as "Talk" or not, gonna wait a little longer plus I was really busy all day today with a barbecue and am now really tired so I couldn't write anything anyways

>>5835202
>Shoot her, you'll get some charge soon anyways

>>5835202
>Try to talk to her, maybe it'll work
>offer the native in exchange for idiot friend
Knowing how weird mushroom biology is I bet this is just one part of the queen and her real body is the entire mushroom forest or something.

>>5835202
>>Shoot her, you'll get some charge soon anyways

>>5835202
>Try to talk to her, maybe it'll work

>>5837203
Switching to this because we might need the slave girl later

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>>5835713
>>5835878
>>5836118
>>5836526
>>5836821
You move your right hand to your waist and pull on your plugsuit like you're trying to tear it out, the nanotechnology responds to your motion and begins to shift into the inside of your fist, in a flash the mass of greyish micro-robots in your hand transforms into your weapon, a plasma pistol. This (recently made legal (only in certain solar systems)) baby can disintegrate any fleshy lifeform in a range of 20 yards... hopefully.
You roll down from behind the tree and shoot before asking questions, firing one shot into the zombie's head and one shot into the center of the big mushroom, just to be sure. The Queen topples over and splats into the ground, forming a big puddle of the colorful goo, that is now leaking out like a waterfall.
>"WAHHHHH! Storkieeeeee!! *sob* I was so scaaaaaaaared!! *sob sob*"
Your partner immediately gets up and waddles towards you with her arms stretched out, looking for a hug.
>"Eugh, no! Stay right there! Don't come any closer!"
>"*sob* Th-There were these g-gross zombie things and- *sob* -and I ran away and... uhh... WAAAAAHHHH!"
>"Ugh alright enough! Explain later, now we need to get you back to the CC-DA, those two shots cost quite a bit of power and I need to charge asap."
>"*sniff* Okay..."
>"No, don't come any closer! Stay at that distance and walk behind me until we get you cleaned up, or for the rest of your life if possible."
>"*sniff* Teehee... you really always know what to do Storkie, I'm so glad..."
>"And please, stop calling me that."
>"Nope!"
>"Ugh, why do I even bother- Wait, where did that one girl go??"
You look behind you to where you were hiding. Anis isn't there anymore, you didn't even hear her leave-
Suddenly the ground shakes, the muddy terrain wriggles beneath your feet like hundreds of worms are crawling beneath the soil, the mushroom trees around you shake back and forth like palm trees in the wind. What in the world is going on?!
>"Eeek! Not again! This happened before when I tried to shove that gross skinny lady away! It stopped when I let her sit me down though..."
In the middle of the commotion, you can hear them, hundreds of moaning voices of different pitches and volumes, all around you, in every direction, the pitter patter of their feet approaching you extremely quickly. The shaking ground and wiggling mud is making it hard to stand up straight, your partner almost falls head first into the Fungal Queen's shot up body multiple times.
What do you do?
>Stay here and fight what's coming
>Run towards the CC-DA
>Run towards the Elf Village
>Run in random direction
>Write in

>>5837310
>Run towards the CC-DA

>>5837310
>>Run towards the CC-DA

>>5837310
>>Run towards the CC-DA

>>5837310
>Run towards the CC-DA
Damn we're the "smaller" of our duo.

>>5837353
>>5837363
>>5837482
>>5837483
You instinctively grab your partner's wrist and start running back the way you came, forgetting about her gross goo-covered arm momentarily. Once the gooiness of your actions sinks in, you quickly release her and rub your hand against your thigh.
You pull up your wrist manager, start up that rudimentary map app you set up earlier and adjust your route, once you reach the CC-DA you can just fly away from here and boom, all problems solved!
Once you reach the clearing where the ship is located, you notice the zombie you squashed up earlier is nowhere to be found, huh, strange-
>"Aaughhh!!"
>"EEEKKK!!"
The zombie emerges from a shaking mushroom tree behind your partner, aiming to bite her neck off! Without thinking twice you dash to her side and uppercut the creature into next tuesday, making it land two meters away with a big "crunch". You try heading towards the ship, but you're distracted once again by the "crunch" sound, it happens again, and again, like hundreds of femurs being snapped in half like twigs one after the other. You turn around to check, the zombie has gotten back up once more, his left arm and neck making constant crunchy noises as they move back into their usual places. You wonder if these mushrooms have regenerative properties, or if they're just dragging their host to his absolute limits, like a broken marionette. Creepy~

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>>5837974
Quickly one more zombie shows up from behind the spore fog, and another, and another... Okay, that's a lot of them, and they don't look nearly as peaceful as before! Looks like shooting their Queen activated some sort of "emergency mode" for the entire forest, before the place looked disgusting but gloomy, but now it's hostility all around, as far as the eye can see.
Looks like your partner has already activated her ship, you jump into the (really cramped) cockpit and finally, FINALLY get some sweet sweet charge!
>"Woah, Storkie stop! The ship's low on power because one of the two power cells got damaged during the crash!"
>"TWO?! I always tell you to bring FOUR cells every single time you leave, for situations exactly like this!"
>"I know, I'm super sorry! But I'm telling you, with me and you charging at the same time it's gonna drain a lot of power! It's already at 10%, if it runs out we're gonna be stuck here!"
>"Alright, alright calm down! I'll turn off the charging then, already got 24% charged anyways, can probably shoot my gun like... 10 times with that! Maybe 12 actually, if I REALLY milk the last 1%..."
>"Storkie... There are better uses for your suit battery than your gun... *sweat*"
>"Yeah yeah I know- Agh!"
You were so distracted by your banter that you didn't even realise the army of dozens of mushroom zombies sitting right outside the ship, biting and tearing into its outer shell! You need to do something before they break the last power cell you have!
What will you do?
>Fly the ship up and away (use all battery)
>Shoot them up with the ship's guns (use half battery)
>Activate shields, maybe that'll make them give up (use most of the battery)
>Get out of the ship and start punching them
>Get out of the ship and start shooting them
>Don't do anything, just sit there and pray
>Write in

>>5837977
>Shoot them up with the ship's guns

>>5837977
>>Fly the ship up and away (use all battery)

>>5837977
>Shoot them up with the ship's guns (use half battery)

>>5837977
>Shoot them up with the ship's guns (use half battery)

>>5837977
>Fly the ship up and away (use all battery)

>>5837977
>Fly the ship up and away (use all battery)
Go to elf controlled forest.

>>5837977
>>Shoot them up with the ship's guns (use half battery)

>>5837977
>Get out of the ship and start punching them
RIP AND TEAR

>>5837977
>>Fly the ship up and away (use all battery)

>>5837996
>>5838085
>>5838098
>>5838261
4 for shoot
>>5838084
>>5838113
>>5838152
>>5838456
4 for fly

Wow, never had so many conflicting votes before (or so many votes so fast in general), guess I'll wait a bit longer. Gonna try to increase update speed back to 2+ updates a day on the next few weeks which will hopefully solve this

>>5838539
I'll switch mine >>5838286 to shooting

>>5838539
>>Shoot them up with the ship's guns (use half battery)

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>>5837996
>>5838085
>>5838098
>>5838261
>>5838593
>>5838603
>"Alright, I've had enough of this!"
You pull up the (now unlocked) CC-DA's controls and activate its external turret system. You wish you could use the frontal blasters since they feel way more satisfying when they hit a target, but being lodged to the ground kinda limits your options.
About a dozen small photon turrets emerge from the ship's shell and begin to blast the zombies into smithereens. Photon blasters are way weaker than plasma ones, only burning the target instead of disintegrating them, but they still work perfectly against regenerating enemies like these.
One by one the zombies fall down into the mud, the shots piercing through their paper-thin skin and drained out innards like a plasma knife cutting through butter. It seems that damaging their insides directly is way more effective than blunt damage or cuts, you wonder if the cauterizing effects of the burns are affecting the regeneration of their bodies.
>"Aah, Storkie! There's more coming!"
Just as soon as you finish blasting through a wave of zombies, more and more show up from behind the fog. You only saw a handful of zombies back when you were exploring the forest, where were all of them hiding? You DO notice that the number of zombies is decreasing rapidly however, the second and third waves having significantly less members than the first one, maybe if you keep this up you'll be able to kill all of them?
At this point you don't have enough power to fly the ship like normal, however, if you use all your power at once on the thrusters in a strategic manner, you should be able to launch the ship into the air like a firework. No idea if the landing will work, but if you aim it correctly you should be able to land somewhere safer than here.
What will you do?
>Continue shooting with the guns (use all battery)
>Lauch yourself towards the Elf Village (you think?) (use all battery)
>Lauch yourself in a random direction (use all battery)
>Activate shields, maybe that'll make them give up (use all battery)
>Get out of the ship and start punching them
>Get out of the ship and start shooting them
>Don't do anything, just sit there and pray
>Write in

>>5838737
>Lauch yourself towards the Elf Village (you think?) (use all battery)

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More "concept art" or whatever you would call this, more two more shades of green in this one!

>>5838737
>>Lauch yourself in a random direction (use all battery)

>>5838769
Beaten the boobs department. Sad

>>5838752
+1
>>5838788
She min maxed Brain to boob ratio

>>5838769
OH YEAH! YOU JUST KEEP GIVING US THAT GOOD STUFF, OP.

>>5838737
>Continue shooting with the guns (use all battery)

>>5838737
>Lauch yourself towards the Elf Village (you think?) (use all battery)
>>5838769
Good work!

>>5838737
>Continue shooting with the guns (use all battery)

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>>5838752
>>5838819
>>5839155
You charge up the CC-DA's thrusters with all the power it has left and blast yourself upwards with great strength. flying through the mushroom trees and fog and into the clear skies above.
Briefly looking around, you can see a rocky area right next to the forest, and a snowy area covered in a white mist further away, giant concrete buildings piercing through the foggy air, and an even bigger tower at the center of it, reaching all the way upwards beyond your field of view.
But you don't have time to focus on that, you have to land this thing! Your speed increases again as you quickly fall fowards. The ship crashes through a tree, heavily damaging its outer shell and almost hitting the cockpit. You swing the manual controls left and right in a futile attempt to steer it, it proves basically ineffective. As you're slowly down, you once again run into another tree, crashing "softly" onto its upper branches and finally stopping for good. You eject the cockpit's cover and land safely down onto the ground with your partner.
>"..."
>"Uh... Don't worry about it Storkie... I have insurance... and I need it for our work anyways, I'm sure they can just give me another, cheaper one..."
>"*sniff* ...yeah...."
A single tear runs down your cheek as you look at your partner's damaged equipment. Two in one day. God really doesn't exist.
You rub your eyes with your hands, need to focus on the now. You motion to your partner to follow you and start running fowards, you can see a group of trees bending and twisting like a mirage in the distance, that's probably that barrier from earlier.
You approach the area and hide behind a tree, a group of zombies are attacking the barrier, tearing into it with their teeth and claws, distorting the space in front of them. It hasn't been broken yet, but you doubt it'll make a good hiding place now.
You notice a tiny slit of the barrier on a dark corner of the forest has been opened up, seems like the zombies haven't noticed that obvious opening yet. You silently dash towards it and hop right inside.

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>>5839437
Inside the village, you see Anis and the Elf Queen talking, sweat covering both of their foreheads.
>"S-S-Sorry my L-Lady... if I had j-j-just protected that w-woman from the in-infested ones... heheh...sh-sh-she could have h-h-helped us b-before this- AAGH!"
Anis turns around with a shocked look on her face.
>"O-Oh, i-i-i-i-it's a miracle! Hehhe... Sh-Sh-Sh-She survived...! Haha..."
>"You! Oh, and another one too..."
Guess she gave up on using that fancy language from earlier.
>"Heya!" *peace sign "Sorry, I have no idea what's going or who you are. My name is-"*
>"No time for introductions, we need to leave this place, now. The Fungal Queen is throwing one of her "tantrums", there is nothing we can do at this point. I have already evacuated my people to the cave system, or at least the ones that remained-"
She glares daggers at you...
>"-... They should be heading for Readon's Canyon right about now. All we can do is run away, wait until she calms down again, and take back the forest, little by little..."
You hear pain in her voice as she says that last part, you doubt she really believes what she's saying.
>"Hey, question, are you sure you can't just beat those zombies down with, like, guns or something? My ship's turrets were doing quite a number on them..."
>"..."guns"?"
You pat your partner on the head.
>"Don't even bother girl, they're... uh... *whisper* underdeveloped..."
>"Oohh... Well, don't be ashamed, they aren't THAT small-"
>"Not THAT kind of "underdeveloped" dumbass!! *thunk*"
You punch your partner on the head.
>"Hehe, I know... You're funny, Storkie!"
>"Don't patronize me-"
Suddenly, greenish the sky around the villlage warps and disappears into thin air, the barrier has been broken.
>"Damn it all! How did they do it so fast? There is not enough time..."
The Elf Queen turns to Anis with a worried look on her face.
>"I cannot believe I am saying this, but Anis, I need you to take this to the others."
She hands Anis her strange looking staff
>"Th-Th-The Floral Queen's staff... B-But-"
The ravenous zombies walk into the exposed village, a thick fog following right behind them.
>"No "buts"! Take this, go to Readon's Canyon and give it to the others, preferably to someone more... competent... than you..."
>"R-R-R-Right!" *salute* "Heheh... B-But what about y-you...?"
>"I am going to use the GRN Texts, that should buy you enough time to run away."
>"B-B-B-But w-won't that-"
>"I said GO!!"
>"Eeek!!"
Anis gives up arguing and runs away, staff in hand.

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>>5839440
The Queen stretches her arms forwards, towards the incoming zombie horde, and closes her eyes. Suddenly, a wall of green text appears in front of her, it's written backwards from your perspective, so you have no idea what it says, but it does seem to be in English strangely enough.
>*whisper* "Woah... Magic spellcasting..."
Your partner seems pretty impressed at least.
>"*sigh* ...Do not fuck this up, Anis..."
Whispers the Queen as a holographic keyboard appears in front of her chest. She reaches both her hands towards it-
>"AAGHH!"
When suddenly, a zombie elf approaches from behind her and bites into her neck! One of the elves you punched to death earlier must have been infected by the fog. You can hear her flesh being ripped into from here, blood spraying like a fountain from the wound, through the zombie's teeth. You look at your partner, her eyes and fists are tightly shut, you can't blame her for looking away. Before you could even realise what had happened, it was over. The Elf Queen falls to the ground, her projections disappearing like a hologram screen had been turned off. The zombie lifts up her unconscious body and takes it to the rest of the group.
While the zombies are distracted, you and your partner run the fuck away from there. After a few minutes of running towards a new direction, you spot Anis walking into a cave, her legs shaking. From here you can also see that giant tower from earlier through the trees. That looks quite important indeed. Where do you wanna go?
>Into the cave with Anis
>Into the cave right behind Anis, without telling her
>Towards the big tower
>Back to the Elf Village
>Back to the Mushroom Forest
>In a new direction
>Lay down and stop for a moment
>Write in

>>5839441
>Towards the big tower

>>5839441
>You can hear her flesh being ripped into from here, blood spraying like a fountain from the wound, through the zombie's teeth.
BRUTAL

>Into the cave right behind Anis, without telling her

>>5839441
>>Into the cave right behind Anis, without telling her

>>5839441
>Towards the big tower

>>5839441
>Lay down and stop for a moment

>>5839508
>>5839941

>>5839570
>>5839673
Tie again, waiting a little longer

>>5839441
>Towards the big tower

>>5840416
Just roll next time

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>>5839508
>>5839941
>>5840492
You and your partner proceed fowards towards the gigantic tower in the distance, ignoring the cave. The environment begins to drastically shift after you cross through a final row of trees, the air immediately becomes drier and the grass below your feet becomes rougher.
>"Huh, what a weird biome shift- *growl* Uhh..."
Your stomach growls loudly. Of course, you had been so focused on your little forest adventure that you forgot that you need to eat to survive! You turn to face your partner, looks like she feels the same way. As the sun begins to set behind the tower, a giant rectangular shadow covers you in total darkness. Right, you also need some shelter for the night, unfortunately.
>"Hey Storkie, look over there! A little cowboy town!"
You follow her pointed finger, indeed, there's a little village in the distance. You both run towards it as fast as you can, before it becomes too dark to see.
You reach it in a handful of seconds, as expected of course, these bio-enhanced legs aren't just for show! Just like your partner had pointed out, it looks like a town you would see in one of those ancient cowboy movies (you remember borrowing some hologram tapes from your grandpa with some of those movies in them, you used to love the scene where the main good guy pulled out his photon pistol and shot the evil alien right in the balls, good times...). No borders or defense systems, just a bunch of gross wooden buildings you could break in half with one fist. You kind of prefered the forest village honestly, at least that one had a cool holo-barrier thing.
Besides the unmarked buildings (presumably houses), there is one labelled "Jackinton's Bar", one simply just labelled "INN", one labelled "K's Cuties & Studs" with a picture of a half naked lady and a muscular arm drawn on the sides, one labelled "Library" with multiple boards hammered to the entrance with rusty metal nails and some spider webs covering its windows, and, most strange of all, a huge and very distinct building, with the words "Happy Happy!" carved onto its long triangular roof and a massive smiling face painted onto its entrance.
Where do you want to go?
>Jackinton's Bar
>INN
>K's Cuties & Studs
>Library
>Happy Happy!
>Ignore town and continue fowards

>>5840771
>Jackinton's Bar
A stiff one to wash away the day.

>>5840771
>Happy Happy!

>>5840771
>>Jackinton's Bar

>>5840771
>INN

>>5840771
>INN

>>5840771
>>Happy Happy!

>>5840771
Switching to
>Happy Happy!
To avoid a tie

>>5840771
>Happy Happy!

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>>5840947
>>5841492
>>5841763
>>5841789
You decide to enter the big "Happy Happy!" building out of curiosity, maybe it's the local version of a circus or something. After passing through the huge entrance doors, you find yourself inside an equally huge room covered in metal folding chair, all facing towards a wide stage all the way on the other side. A dozen people or so are sitting in the chairs, facing the stage with neutral expressions, not moving or saying a word, except for one, a timid young man wearing ragged clothes, he's shifting around on his seat with a nervous look on his face, guess he's new to whatever this is too?
You decide to sit on one of the empty seats on the back and your partner does the same, looks like you don't need to pay or anything like that, is it a charity event? As your eyes dart across the room, you see it, all the way on the back, a big "Donations! :)" sign, and below it a basket filled with all kinds of (what you assume are) food. A couple fruit-looking things here and there, some bags filled with grains, and, on top, what you think is a dead and defeathered bird-like creature covered in plastic wrapping, ready to be cooked. Man, after eating nothing but "flavored" dry nutrient sticks for weeks, some bird meat would be real nice...
You're so distracted by the food you don't even realise the "show" has begun. A spotlight is illuminating the center of the stage and the crowd is clapping their hands against their thighs in a rhythm.
>"Gooooooood evening everybody~!! ;p Gelbe~ Gelbe~"
A woman pops out from behind the curtains on the left side, doing a little twirl and hitting the center of the stage with a cute pose. The crowd gets up and starts clapping in unison. The nervous man is even more nervous now.
>"Mwah~! Mwah~! Giallo! <3"
The lady throws kisses at the crowd with theatrical gestures while saying some incomprehensible words. You really hope this is not gonna turn into a pop idol performance.
>"Wooow, so many people tonight!! And are those some new faces I see?! I'm soooo glad~!! >w<"
Her smile is bordering on obnoxious now, you kinda wanna punch it off of her face.
>"Don't worry newbies, you should understand the gist reeeeally quickkly! And, if you have any questions, feel free to hop on the confession booth after the show~! I will answer as much as I can, as best as I can!! ;p"
Oh no, confession booth? Is this a religious thing? Or just a weird pop idol gimmick?

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>>5842777
>"Now, continuing where we left off last week! Ta-da~! ;3"
The lady reaches towards the curtains on the right side and pulls out a person. A naked person. And throws her right into the center spotlight. Her strangely hairy arms are tied behind her back, and her scaly feet have what look like sharp claws at the end of their toes. You can't tell what on her body is hair and what are clothes.
>"Let us continue the purification of this ravenous creature who is unable to smile! Hi-Yah!! >:)"
The woman reaches for her waist, and pulls out a long black whip with spiky bits on its ends. The tied up girl shrieks as the whip hits her flesh.
>"Smile! *whip* Gelbe! *whip* Smile! *whip* Giallo! *whip* You rageful beast who can't feel love! *whip* Those who can't smile do not belong in this world!! Smile! SMILEEEEE!!!"
>"Gelbe! Gelbe! Giallo! Giallo!"
The crowd gets up from their chairs and begin shouting those strange words with huge smiles on their faces and tears streaming down their cheeks. Yep, definitely some cult-type shit. The nervous man is holding his head on his hands and pulling on his own hair.
>"*sniff* Ugh... Storkie..."
Your partner is covering her eyes and crying. You can't blame her, this is straight up live torture.
>"Uh... Y-You can wait outside if you want, it's fine..."
>"*sniff* Yeah..."
She gets up and runs for the exit. Poor girl. You, on the other hand, can only focus on that delicious looking donations basket. These guys are clearly evil, SURELY stealing some stuff from them would be a good thing in the end right? Karmic justice and whatnot?
You look back towards the stage, the tied up girl isn't moving nor growling anymore, her body covered in blood and bruises.
>"Ughh *sob sob*... *sniff* I'm sorry, my dear lost lamb~! *sob sob* I couldn't... color you with my happiness... *sob* Waaaaah!! I'm soooo sorryyyyyyyyy!!! WAAAAAAHHHHH!! GELBEEEEEEE!"
The woman holds the girl's body in her arms and starts crying, tears streaming down her face like a waterfall. The crowd does the same, holding their faces in their hands and sobbing loudly, almost cartoonishly so.
>"*sniff* Do not worry darlings! One day I- no, WE- shall eliminate all sadness from this world! Do not blame the Animalians, darlings! These poor beasts are naturally incapable of feeling happiness, as I have demonstrated to you hundreds of times! But we cannot let that stop us!! We shall one day change the rules of reality itself with our happiness, so that even the most disgusting, wretched creatures like this one can be colored by our smiles! Oh, and please, don't forget to donate something to our very own charity project, so that one day children all over this land shall find happiness like you have! I shall see you all tomorrow once again, remember to keep on smiling! Ciao!! ;p"

>>5842778
The lady bows down and hops away from the stage, heading for the confessions booth mentioned earlier, still sobbing slightly. You can't tell if she believes all that or if she's just exploiting these clearly derranged lunatics for free food, but she's clearly a weirdo either way.
The nervous man looks more nervous than ever. He's staring down the confession booth line, clearly thinking whether he should go in there or not.
Now that the show is over, what do you want to do?
>Head for the confession booth
>Try to steal some food from the Donations basket
>Talk to the nervous guy
>Talk to one of the cult members
>Head outside and check in on your partner
>Write in

>>5842782
>>Try to steal some food from the Donations basket

>>5842782
>Try to steal some food from the Donations basket

>>5842782
>>Head outside and check in on your partner

>>5842782
>Try to steal some food from the Donations basket
By the way any particular reason for the color shift? Gives me vibes of like original gameboy games being played on GBC

>>5842782
>>Try to steal some food from the Donations basket

>>5842782
>>Try to steal some food from the Donations basket

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>>5842871
>>5843244
>>5843337
>>5843346
>>5843925
You head directly for the donations basket and start stuffing as much produce as you can into your arms, mostly things you could eat on the fly like fruits and vegetables... but no way you were gonna let that delicious-looking meat escape you either!
You turn around with a full course meal in your arms, ready to beat your way out of this place kicking and screaming... But no one seems to care that you're stealing from them. All the creepy cultists are just sitting in line for the confession booth, silently smiling. Even the nervous man finally caved in, and is now sitting right in the middle of the line. Creepy, but you're not gonna complain! You leave the Happy Church with a spring in your step.
It's now nighttime, and the air is considerably colder than it was previously. Your suit protects you enough from the cold by itself, but you wish you could turn on your heating system without wasting precious battery life...
Your partner is sitting on the steps outside the entrance, looking a bit down. You put on a big smile on your face.
>"Uh... Oh, Storkie! How was it? Are you okay??"
>"Must... Smile... Must... Smile..."
>"Oh no! Storkie, are you in there?! Can you hear me??!"
Your partner gets up in a panic and starts shaking you violently.
>"Ahahahah! Just kidding, just kidding! I'm fine, plus, I got some free food!"
>"Uuuh... Storkie, that wasn't very nice..."
>"*still giggling* I know I know... Hey... are YOU okay...?"
>"...Yeah... It's alright... Anyways-"
Your partner straightens her back and calms herself.
>"-...Where are we sleeping tonight...?"
>"Mmmm..."
You COULD sleep in at the Inn, that'd be the most obvious solution, but they'll probably ask for money, and you don't even know what currency this planet uses.
What will you do?
>Go to the Inn
>Go to the Inn (Gun in hand)
>Sleep on the ground in a corner somewhere
>See if someone else around town can lend you a room (there are only like 5 houses anyways)
>Don't sleep at all, just continue walking towards the tower
>Write in

>>5843337
>By the way any particular reason for the color shift?
World is divided into three "zones", and each one is associated with a different color, which is related to some other plot stuff I'd rather keep hidden for now

>>5844044
>See if someone else around town can lend you a room (there are only like 5 houses anyways)

>>5844044
>>Go to the Inn

>>5844044
>>See if someone else around town can lend you a room (there are only like 5 houses anyways)

>>5844044
>See if someone else around town can lend you a room (there are only like 5 houses anyways)

>>5844044
>See if someone else around town can lend you a room (there are only like 5 houses anyways)
>>5844048
Thanks for the answer, patiently waiting to see the reason why be revealed

>>5844044
>>See if someone else around town can lend you a room (there are only like 5 houses anyways)

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>>5844167
>>5844434
>>5845055
>>5845115
>>5845252
*knock knock*
>"Uh, heeey! Sorry to bother you this late at night, but could please-"
>"F-For the last time, we don't want to buy anything! Goodbye!"
>"Wait no! Please- *slam* Grrr..."
You go walk the minuscule town knocking on people's doors, hoping they'll have a spare room they could lent you. As it turns out, they won't even let you ASK for the rooms, shutting the door on your face immediately once they see you.
>"What is WITH these people?? Does everyone on this planet have a stick up their ass or something??"
>"Umm... Maybe it's because you are walking around with all that food on your arms Storkie..."
>"Oh... Right."
Makes sense, if you saw a weird looking stranger knocking on your door holding a bunch of stuff, you'd immediately assume they're there to sell you something that may or may not be a scam.
You approach the only house you haven't visited yet and knock, can't hurt to try I suppose. However, unlike in the other houses, you don't get accosted by some old woman with a nasally voice. You don't get accosted by anyone at all, in fact. You look through the window, it's filled with cobwebs and dust. An abandoned house perhaps?
>"Nnnnm... *inhale*"
You position yourself in front of the door, squat down, concentrate your mind-
>"...HIYAA!!!"
And kick the door down with all your strength. It flies through the empty house and ends up on the other side of the living room, shattered into pieces.
>"Storkie! We could have just gotten in through the window!"
>"Uh, yeah..."
You're afraid the joy of beating things up in hand-to-hand combat is getting to your head...

>>5845755
Once inside, your partner clears the living room table of its coats of dust with a couple good swipes and blows, and you place your pile of assorted foods on top of it.
However, before you can partake in your delicious feast, you first need some fire! You grab all the pieces of the broken down door and toss them into the fireplace in the corner of the room. Not the best kitchen ever, but it'll do.
>"Mmm, how were you supposed to start a fire again...? If only I had a lighter or something, really wish I hadn't quit smoking right about now... Mmmm! C'mon, girl scout me from the past! Help us out here would you..."
>"Storkie, are you okay...? You're talking to yourself..."
>"Mmm, maybe there's something in one of these other rooms that can help...?"
>"Uh..."
You walk into the hallway, and then into one of the two adjacent bedrooms. It looks pretty empty, there's only a bed and a couple historical(?) books and novels sitting around on a dusty shelf.
>"Oh, that floorboard looks a bit weird..."
Next to the small bookshelf, you notice a floorboard that looks slightly loose. You grab it with your hand and pull it up, it simply tilts to one side like the lid of a box, exposing a secret compartment under the floor. Ooh, secrets!!
Inside the compartment you find three books that seem different from the other ones you saw. "Rolling: A Guide (For Kids!)", "Through The Color Spectrum: RGB Magic 101" and a dirty brown book with nothing on its cover. You feel kind of dissapointed, it's probably just some more religious nonsense about forest magic or whatever. However, in the corner of the compartment, barely visible through the floorboards, you see a sphere made out of what looks like plastic, with something red and glowy inside. Could it be...? You reach into the hole and pull out not just one, but three of these mysterious objects. Like you suspected, there's something that looks like fire hidden inside the plastic. How is this possible? Not only should the plastic be melting, the fire shouldn't even be able to exist without oxygen or other similar gasses. Anyways, if you throw one of these into the fireplace, that should take care of the fire problem!
...Maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to read one of those books before you go to sleep, just to see what these silly locals get up to in their off time. What book would you like to grab?
>Random historical book
>Random novel
>Rolling: A Guide (For Kids!)
>Through The Color Spectrum: RGB Magic 101
>Mysterious brown book of mystery
>Don't grab anything, reading is for nerds!

>>5845757
>Through The Color Spectrum: RGB Magic 101

>>5845757
>Mysterious brown book of mystery

>>5845757
>Through The Color Spectrum: RGB Magic 101

>>5845757
>Don't grab anything, reading is for nerds!

>>5845757
>>Random historical book

>>5845757
>Through The Color Spectrum: RGB Magic 101

>>5845757
>Through The Color Spectrum: RGB Magic 101

>>5845757
>>Rolling: A Guide (For Kids!)

>>5845757
>>Through The Color Spectrum: RGB Magic 101

>>5845757
>>Mysterious brown book of mystery

>>5845766
>>5846111
>>5846345
>>5846368
>>5846571
You grab one of the books and the little fire ball thing and head back to the living room.
You toss the ball into the pile of broken door bits and the fireplace is the immeditaley brightened up by a bright red flame, you can't even see any tones of orange or yellow in the blaze, it looks completely monochromatic, you hope the weird fire won't affect how the food tastes.
You grab some of the vegetables with your gloved hands and hold them above the flame, luckily your suit is completely fire-proof, but it does still feel kinda hot...
You take one out of the fire and take a big bite out of it. Tears stream down your face, it's delicious. In two more bites, the entire thing has been completely consumed.
>"H-Hey Storkie! I need some too, y'know?"
>"Oh, right."
You take the fruit you've been holding with your other hand and give it to your partner- Oh, it got burnt...
>"Oh, haha, sorry. I got distracted by how good the other one was!"
>"Yeah... I saw it..."
You decide to let your partner have the next two vegetables as an apology.
You both take the bird-looking thing out of its wrapping and rotate it above the fire.
>"Hey, Storkie... You think we should... take turns sleeping tonight...?"
>"Huh? Why?"
>"Well... We don't have a front door anymore, anyone could just barge in and, you know..."
>"Pfff, yeah right! Have you seen what all the people around here are like? They think metal sticks are gonna protect them from invaders! They're clearly not advanced enough for space travel, much less developing any actually useful weapons! My left eyelid can do more damage than these shmucks."
>"Right..."
>"Okay how about this, you go to sleep, and if I see anyone come in through that door, I crush them. Deal?"
>"Sure... Thanks Storkie..."
You both enjoy a delicious and filling dinner. You decide to stay in the bedroom you visited earlier while your partner stays in the other one. You open up the book you picked up earlier and- Wow, it's kinda long... Maybe it's best you pick only one section to read right now. What chapter of the book will you read?
>Introduction
>GRN: Creation and Lightning
>RED: Destruction and Fire
>BLU: Control and Water
>History of the CYMK

>>5846781
>GRN: Creation and Lightning

>>5846781
>GRN: Creation and Lightning

>>5846781
>>History of the CYMK

>>5846781
>GRN: Creation and Lightning

>>5846781
>>Introduction

>>5846781
>>Introduction
Need a foundation before we start jumping in to shooting lightning from out hands

>>5846781
>>Introduction

>>5846781
>Introduction

>>5846781
>Introduction

Ironically I was so busy drawing yesterday I didn't have time to update the drawquest. Update coming later today

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>>5847124
>>5847455
>>5847962
>>5848227
>>5848515
You open up the thick book in the place any normal person would start reading, the beginning.
>Darkness. It was said that, before light, there was darkness. Instead of the blue sky, there was only a wide black abyss. Instead of the blue sea, there was only glass, a forever expanding sea of glass as far as the eye could see. But suddenly, in the blink of an eye, color emerged into this world. The glass sea glowed a bright white, and from there, a blue sea emerged from within nothingness, a red mountain emerged from within the sea, and a green patch of grass emerged from within the mountain. Our Supreme Lord, RoGenBrand, created our little island, using only the power of light!
The drawing on the other page shows three colored circles, a red, a blue and a green one, crossing into each other, and a drawing of an island emerging from the center. Definitely sounds like any regular old religion alright. You decide to skim the rest so you can get to the wacky magic stuff faster, that's gotta be a laugh.
According to the author, this "RoGenBrand" god was attacked by a cult called the "CMYK", who believed that the "promised land" exists below the glass sea, and that this island is merely a delusion created by the god to distract people from the truth... or something.
At the end of the day the cult managed to separate the god into three parts, Garanol the creator of life, Readon the creator of the land, and Berlum the creator of the sea. Both the cult members and the god's fragments disappeared into thin air, but the light he had created stays strong to this day...

>>5849515
Oh, here you go, this looks like some magic stuff! "Rolling", huh?
>Rolling has been used by humans for decades, from building houses to playing games, with a bit of luck on your side, any task becomes a breeze to perform. And yet, humans still have huge difficulty learning to use magic to this day, why is that? Low Lvs? Or a lack of faith perhaps? Nonsense, regardless of our Lvs or beliefs, the light of our Supreme Lord still flows through us just as brightly. What we have, my dear readers, is a lack of willpower, imagination!
The picture on the next page shows a man's forehead split open horizontally. His brain replaced by a big number 20.
>You see, building a house is easy, you just need to follow the building plans. Winning a game is easy, you just need to follow the rules. But magic isn't about "following the plan", it's about creation, and destruction, and control! Taking what exists and changing it into something new! Next time you Roll and that big 20 pops into your head, what are you going to do with it? Sure, you could use it to deliver a perfect vertical strike into your swordfighting opponent's shoulder, or you could use it to get a discount on your favorite ice cream. But just think about this, reality itself is flowing through your veins. Create life with your own hands. Destroy life with your own hands. Control life with your own hands. You, me, RoGenBrand, we were all created from the same light, that bright white light that emerged from the glass sea. We can all use its power! So go, and create your own world, just as he has created our own!
The book then trails off into explaining various types of mental exercises that might help the reader visualize what they want to create.
>"Ppfff, imagination, sure. That's what old people used to play with when they didn't have mind internet installed into their brains! And "leaving things to chance" is just foolish! If I'm not 100% sure something's gonna work, I'm not even gonna try-"
>['Ey sis! Tryna' sleep over here!!]
>"Waah! Oh, right, you haven't piped in in a while so I forgot you were there..."
>[Hmmph!]
>"Wait, do you even need sleep- Oh, he's turned off."

This seems like a good stopping point. You close the book and lay down, thinking about what you should do tomorrow morning... It'd probably be a good idea to:
>Go to the bar
>Go to the inn
>Go to "K's Cuties & Studs"
>Go to the library
>Go to the Happy Church (and maybe steal some more stuff)
>Continue towards the big tower in the distance

>>5849516
>Go to the bar

>>5849516
>Go to "K's Cuties & Studs"

>>5849516
>Go to "K's Cuties & Studs"

>>5849516
>>Go to "K's Cuties & Studs"

>>5849516
>Go to the bar

>>5849516
>>Go to "K's Cuties & Studs"

Resuming writing in like 4 hours, was my sister's birthday today and I needed to help with the party stuff

>>5849593
>>5849647
>>5849895
>>5850323
One good night's sleep later and you and your partner are back in action! You both exit the house as fast as possible (seriously, that place reeks!) and head towards "K's Cuties & Studs" to ask for some information. It's clearly a place where horny creeps go to have fun, so you think maybe you can pull out the ol' charm and get some easy info for free... Or at least you would, if the place was still open.
You see a bunch of buff men carrying the building's signs into a large wagon and cleaning the sides of the building of the many lewd drawings that cover them. You walk to the least buff guy you see, who is just standing around watching the others work, that's probably the building's owner. He's wearing an eyepatch and smoking a cigarette, but his relatively skinny appearence makes him look like a little kid next to the other men.
>"Hey~ Uh, what's going here exactly?"
You ask, in a semi-flirtatious manner, hoping that will score you some extra social points.
>"Huh? Oh, we're moving out. Those *cute voice*"happy happy" fuckers took all my customers away... Again."
What? No way men would give that kind of "stuff" up just because of some wacky religion, right?
>"Those assholes! They've been spreading their little churches around all over the canyon too, and I'm definitely not setting up shop at the capital again after last time... Soon I'm gonna have to go play with the elves in the forest to get some cash..."
Oops... better not ruin that dream for him. Heheh...

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>>5851598
>"Heyy, Storkie! Got bored of standing around back there doing nothing sooo... I'm here now! Whatcha talking about?"
>*whistle*
The man creates a concerning sound with his mouth and stares down your partner from head to toe.
>"Hey~ I'm Kein, the owner of... the place we're tearing down right now, haha! You come here often? Don't remember seeing you before, you're definitely not from around town..."
Well, he got awfully cheery...
>"You bet we're not! We're trying to leave this planet actually!"
>"Planet? Never heard of them, but I'll root for you!"
>"Yeaahh, I thought you wouldn't... We think that big tower over there in the distance could be of some help with that though! You know what it is?"
>"What? You mean the capital? Well, I suppose if you want some kind of question answered that's the place to go."
>"Ooh, the capital, I see! Yeah, we should probably get there as soon as possible then! Thanks for the help!"
>"Haha, no problem! Actually I've got an idea, I'm actually planning to move to a town on the other side of the canyon to get some supplies, you wanna come with? We'll be leaving in an hour or two, there's some free space in the girls' wagon, I'm sure you'll fit in just fine! Oh, and your... uh... friend can come too I suppose..."
>"Ooh, hear that Storkie? No more walking around~! Of course we'll-"
>"Hold on! Team huddle!"
You grab your partner's shoulders and pull her a little closer to you.
>*whisper*"Do you really trust this creep?! You were scared of being attacked by creeps just last night!"
>*whisper*"Yeah... But you said it yourself. We're stronger than anyone here, even if he tries, it'll be fine!"
>*whisper*"I dunno..."
>"Hey, you know I can hear you two, right? You just moved a couple feet-"
>"Shut up! You're not in the team huddle!"
>*whisper* Hey Storkie... Are you jealous cus he did the funny whistle thing at me... and not at you?"
>*whisper*"...........maybe."
>*whisper*"Heheh~ You're silly~"
>*whisper*"Don't patronize me."

What will you do?
>Walk to the tower on foot
>Go with Kein
>Stay in town for now
>Write in

>>5851601
>>Go with Kein

>>5851601
>Go with Kein

>>5851601
>Go with Kein

>>5851601
>>Go with Kein

>>5851601
>Go with Kein

>>5851601
>>Go with Kein

>>5851601
>Go with Kein

>>5851619
>>5851653
>>5851745
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>"Alright mister, me and Storkie decided that we're gonna go with you!"
>*mumble*"Reluctantly..."
Kein guides your partner to one of the wagons, you follow them.
>"Thanks so much for the ride! It really helps us out a lot!"
>"Oh no it's not a favor, it's a duty. What kind of man would I be if I didn't help a pretty lady like you~!"
>"Ooh~ Hehe..."
>"Grrr..."
You grit your teeth and power through their conversation. As you approach the vehicles, you realise they are being lead by giant birds with thick, strong legs. Cooler animal choice than you expected to be frank, but nothing beats a good old laser powered spaceship like the one you... had... Better not think about that too much...
>"Okay, here you go!"
Kein unveils the wagon's back door and helps your partner up the steps. Inside there are about half a dozen scantily dressed women making small talk. Your partner quickly joins the group and starts introducing herself, she's always been good at making friends. You wonder how she does it so easily...
>"Ah, not you, sorry."
Kein's face immediately goes back to the gruff look he had back when you first interacted. He lights up a cigarette behind his back and puts it into his mouth. You can't see a lighter on him or anything like that, so you wonder how he even did that.
>"What?!"
>"Wagon's full. If you wanna come, you're gonna need to go into one of the other two."
He points with his thumb towards the two other wagons sitting a small distance away. One of them is filled to the brim with random objects and the big sign you saw being placed inside it earlier, while the other is slowly being filled up by the muscular men you saw moving said sign. You assumed they were construction workers or something, but it's seems like they are actually the "Studs" the establishment is partially named after. Must be hard working for this loser.
Which wagon are going into?
>Junk wagon
>Guy wagon
>Girl wagon anyways, he can't tell me what to do!
>Go with Kein on the front
>Write in

>>5853851
>Go with Kein on the front

>>5853851
>Girl wagon anyways, he can't tell me what to do!
Better stick with our partner, they might try to pull a fast one on her.

>>5853851
>>Guy wagon

>>5853851
>Guy wagon
HELLO GENTLEMEN

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>Guy wagon

>>5853851
>Junk wagon

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>"Alright, fine! I'm going with the guys then, maybe they aren't blind like you, one-eye!"
>"What did you call me...?"
>"Ohh~ don't pull the "what did you say??" bad boy act on me, one-eye! Why don't you go talk to your pretty ladies over there that you love so much while this gross hag moves away from your perfect little face, alright? Good. See ya."
You jump angrily into the men's wagon and sit in an open spot all the way in the back, without explaining the situation to the boys at all. One of the men approaches you, looking confused.
>'Ey lady... youse cart's ovah on the-"
>"NO TOUCHING!"
You instinctively slap him right across the cheek, sending him flying against the wagon's wall and knocking him unconscious. All the other guys decide to look away and pretend you're not there. Except for one.
>"H-Hey hey ma'am... Can we... calm down a bit...?"
A buff dude with a nice looking beard and an extremely tight pair of shorts walks up to you, holding his arms out at you like you're a ravenous beast he needs to calm down. How rude!
>"I *AM* CALM! Grrrrr!!!"
>"R-Right right! So, since we're all so calm, why don't we sit down and talk a little bit..."
>"Grrrr..."
You eventually comply, sitting down cross-legged on the floor.
>"He got you into his "I'll do you a favor if you work for me" thing, didn't he? Don't worry, he will actually let you leave after you pay him back, plus it's not THAT bad-"
>"HAH! So there WAS a catch! I knew it!! Hahahahah!!"
>"O-Oh, so you didn't know...?"
>"Ohh I knew alright, nothing in this planet has been easy so far, no way a free ride right to where we need to go would just pop up like this."
>"Well, sometimes he DOES actually give out rides and gifts from the kindness of his heart, usually to girls he likes and stuff."
>"...Oh. So, girls he likes are safe then, huh...?"
>"Yeah pretty much. Apparently he just takes care of this business because his bastard father owned it before him or something. Turns out he just wants to find a pretty girl to marry and settle down with a more... clean job in the capital eventually."
>"Mmm... Nah, definitely a lie... Wait, why did you assume I was part of his scam deal then, instead of him just giving me a ride for free cus he likes me..?"
>"W-Well, uhh... You know, you're kind of-"
>"Not you too! I don't look THAT bad! Is it the smell? It's not like I have a shower installed in my ship, and sometimes work takes a couple of days to finish up. When am I supposed to clean up then, huh?!"
>"Uhh... I... Uh..."
>"Oh why am I even telling you this, you people barely just invented a bath! Probably use some voodoo "cleaning magic" or something to not smell the rat shit, guess what, we have that too, it's called perfume!"
>"R-R-Right..."