Bob.

>>12773553
Bob. Right. Damn, you knew you shouldn’t have picked your codename while you were hung over. ‘I mean, what kind of idiot names themselves Bob in the right state of mind?’ you mentally ask yourself. Thinking about the subject, you should have picked something cool, like Ghost, or Scarecrow. Really, what’s the point of being a part of some scary, super-secret organization if you don’t get an awesome code name? Still, it has its uses. At the very least, you can blend into the crowd, and who suspects a guy named Bob of being capable bringing down an evil cult?

Finishing up your morning routine, you walk back to the couch, when you hear the secret knock and code word for entrance coming from the front door. But it’s a little early for the team to be back already…

>what do you do?

>>12773602
Grab an auto stubber, and answer the door with bullets. Cell mates would have phoned ahead if they were back early.

Answer the door, but not with bullets. Do have a weapon ready though.

Also, take a second to remember the events that lead you to this crappy hotel and what your mission is.

>>12773805
You grab the nearest gun you can find, a hellpistol. Damn, as shitty as your lodging is, your boss sure does know how to arm you. Silently, you make your way to the door, and look through the peephole. On the otherside you see three figures, each covered in plain, drab clothing while the one in the middle has a hood over his head. They seem to be hiding in the dark, obscuring your ability to see them. For a moment, you’re unsure if they’re your team, until you see Jack’s tell tale bright orange beard. You’re relieved, because no one else on this damn planet would even think of braiding their beard.

You open the door just a crack and ask for the password, when Jack says, “Open the damn door boy, we’re ain’t got all day. We have shit to do today.”

>What do you do?

>>12773908

"Password or I open fire"

>>12773908
If Jack's our equal:
"Well what the hell, Jack? Have some manners and stick to the protocol."
If not:
"Course m'lord, but why such a hurry?" and open cautiously, with the hellpistol readied.

>>12773975
Change the second option to pretending we're struggling with the lock instead of opening.

>"Open the damn door boy,

Just how old are we? Were they wearing the robes when they left earlier? What are the ranks here, and should he be talking to us like that?

Ask for that password.

>>12773944
Jack is visibly flustered, saying, “Damn it, boy the password’s defenestrate. Like what I’m going to do if you don’t let me us in. I swear, you keep this up and I won’t take you get you anymore of Eire Fire to drink.”

With the password and the threat of alcohol withdrawl floating above your head, you allow the trio to enter. Jack bulrushes his way in, shoving the door open and you along with it, while the other two follow him inside. Picking yourself up off the floor, the hooded one walks past you and offers a soft apology for Jack’s behavior.

>>12774121
Once inside where the threat of identification is gone, the three get out of their disguises. Jack, the loud and boisterous man he is, throws his disguise to the wall, thankful to be in his kilt and regular shirt once more. After berating you for leaving them out on the door step once more, he walks into the kitchen to grab a drink. The other unhooded figure sits down on the couch, and carefully begins to remove her wig and make up to reveal herself as Katherine, a lithe black haired bomb shell who continuously threatens to cut your throat in your sleep whenever you try to hit on her.

Last but not least in Lily, who removes her hood to reveal her stark white hair in a bob haircut. Ever shy, she moves into the girl’s joint room to remove her disguise.

>What do you do?

Well without knowing what the mission is or what the others were off doing, our lines of questioning and suggesting actions is somewhat limited.

A little help with info here?

>>12774135
Guess we need some information on Bob and his team: Where are they, what's the mission, what's the specialization of each team member(Bob included). I assume Bob's gotta know at least SOME of this.

Anyways, ask them where they were and how did it go. And get yourself a beer.

>>12774232
>>12774213

You walk into the kitchen to grab something to drink too, only to find Jack took the last Eire Fire, leaving you with a fifth of rotgut. Eh, better than nothing. Grabbing a shot glass, you take a hit, and wander back to the couch, wondering how you ended up in this shit hole.

Guess it has something to do you not being a very smart man. Clearly, you have made some bad decisions in life. Admittedly, not all of them were yours. Honestly, you would have preferred not to been an orphan and sent off to the Schola Progenium. Gotta play the cards you were dealt, you guess. No, your decisions really went south while you were there. Top scores at fencing, marksmanship, and small team tactics earned you a place as a storm trooper. Low scores in just about anything else made damn sure you we’re going any higher. Armed with the knowledge that you wouldn’t rise above, and the how to get away with shit turned you into a man black ops team of a teenager, hellbent on having fun. After almost getting thrown out (i.e. executed) for sneaking into the Sister’s dorm after hours, you drew the attention of a visiting Inquisitor. In hindsight, the worst mistake you’ve ever made.

It’s been five years since then, and you’ve made a life out of doing shit people don’t need to know about. Assisinations, Intrigue, Drugs, Psykers, Xeno and Deamon cults, you’ve dealt with it all. The Fall of the Obsidian Empire? You pulled the trigger. The Burning Pyre of the newly renamed Hive Repentance? You light the match. That messy affair with the Tau back on Gammalon 5? You didn’t have shit to do with it, but you did put chunky end to the rebellion on Gammalon 6.

>>12774434
What are you doing here? Apparently some minor official in the tech cult has been sabotaging the sewers here, which could end badly for the city above if the underground explodes from the backed up pressure. You’ve got to find him, find out why he’s doing this, and find the pipe and fix it.

Fun.

>What do you do?

>>12774437
take another shot and see what the team was up to

>>12774437
"So, why so early home? Got anything?"

>>12774464

You take another shot of rotgut, and ask the team how they fared. Jack, ever the elegant one, answers you with a belch. The two of you share a small laugh, while Katherine mutters something derogatory about your gender. Removing the last fake eyelash, your sharp-witted compatriot moves her raven haired head in your direction, and says, “We went down to the slums where our contact was going to meet us. After a bribe, she divulged that some short little whiskered men had been seen in the underground lately, apparently going off towards the pipe. Thanking her for her time, we went to meet up with Mark’s part of the cell, and exchange information. Apparently, they had heard similar things.”

“Once more, they had apparently found some shocking news. An alchemical plant had been raided the night before. Apparently those robbed freight transports you had found out about were from the same company. They stolen material seems to add up to make a bomb. Nero and Lily figure that they’re done waiting for pressure and are trying to speed up the explosion date. Jack decided to look into this personally, and went down underground to look into this. He says he flashed his badge and got the suspect to cooperate. Given that he came back with the suspect in a burlap sack unconscious, I doubt this was the truth, though given that it’s Jack, he could have done that even if the guy was cooperating. Long story short, we have the suspect unconscious tied to a chair back at the warehouse,” she explains with a not so inconsiderate amount of passive aggressive spite being thrown at Jack.

Jack, for his part, doesn’t seem to notice. Turning her attention back to you, she inquires with a barb, “So, how was house sitting?”

>>12774624
"Friggin' awesome. No, really. Did you come here for a drink and a makeover, or am I supposed to beat the crap out of someone properly?"

"As exciting as could be expected."

So hey Bob, your team doesn't happen to have a psyker, does it?

Also, calling that we are playing the Seneschal's background.

>>12774773
“Yeah, yeah. Well, after we get changed we’re going down to the warehouse to interrogate the son of a bitch. I haven’t worked with you before, but Jack and Lily say you can be one cruel asshole when you need to be. So, you wanna be good arbiter or bad arbite?” Katherine responds.

>>12775727

>bad arbite

A drunk space FBI agent. Just what I've always wanted to be.

>>12775727
yeah its time to crack some heads let do bad arbite

>>12775145
No, we're playing our background. We were in an inquisitorial acolyte cell, remember? That's how we got cheated out of planetary governorship.

>>12777806
Nope

>>12777780
Katherine smirks at you’re statement, “Figures.” You switch into your full gear which includes, but is not limited to carapace armor, Krak and frag grenades, a built in hud, grapnel gun, hell gun, hell pistol, and a mono-molecular edge knife. Ah, the perks of duty. Throwing a cloak over the top of it, you prepare to exit when Lily exits her room.

“Lily, as radiant as ever,” you note as she exits. It’s true, too. While Katherine is has a sexy, dangerous feel, Lily has a touch of youth and innocence. Dressed in her miniature power armor, and a hand flamer at her side, you’re surprised to see her wait supported by this shit hole’s floors. Best not to think about it really. Cerulean eyes gaze at you, and her pale skin blushes as she says quietly, “…Thanks.”

>>12778094
Katherine, Lily, and you exit the room, leaving Jack behind to watch the safe house. An hour later, after several winding turns, back alleys, and underground segments, you have arrived at the warehouse. Sneaking inside, the three of you walk in the darkness towards the captives cell. Well, more like ten be ten concrete room where he’s been stashed. Taking a look inside from a security camera, you spy him tied to a wooden chair, with a burlap sack secured over his head.

“Well, he’s secured,” you say to yourself. In fact, he’s still unconscious.

“So, you want to go first,” Katherine asks.

>>12778292

Walk over and wake him up with a smack across the head. Don't take the bag off yet, the disorientation and sensory deprivation will make things worse for him.

>>12778339
You nod affirmative, and enter the room silently. Shutting the door quietly, you move about the room without making a sound. He seems to be still out, but you know the answer to that. With a quick smack you knock him and his chair onto the floor. He lands on the floor with a resounding whack, and slamming his head to the ground. His scream alert you to his regaining consciousness.

>What next?

>>12778483
shoot him in the foot. It'll cauterize

>>12778538
Moving too fast. The next step is a rough greeting and a declaration of "how it's gonna be". Save the shooting in the foot for his first sign of defiance.

>>12778556
“You put on your dangerous voice, and declare to him, “Listen up. We’re going to do this one way, and one way only. I’m going to ask questions, and you’re going to answer them. If you don’t, I start hurting you. The less you answer, the more I hurt you. You understand?”


You only response is a femine, “…please *cough*… let me go.”

>>12778852
Well, we warned her.

>>12778852

Drag them back onto the chair and slap them hard in the stomach. "Your choices were Yes or No. I don't recommend no. Understood?"

>>12778873

He is a she? Meh, a job’s a job. You set the chair back up, and punch her in the stomach, saying, “Your choices were Yes or No. I don't recommend no. Understood?"

You only response is a wimper.

>What do you do?

>>12778924
Lets start asking questions. Probably should figure out what they want to bomb.

>>12778924
"What was that?" Short pause. "We'll default to 'no' and go from there, then. I've always supported the school of thought that said understanding was improved by beating the correct answers in."

>>12778936
You grab her by the neck, pulling her hidden face towards yours and saying, “We know about the raids. What are you planning!?”

>Roll a 1d100

rolled 70 = 70

>>12778955
/tg/ dice? In my quest? It's more likely than you think.

>>12778961
She struggles to breathe, and coughs up on the burlap sack from inside it. “P-please, I, I don’t know any *gasp* anything.”

Not working.

>>12778978
Take a glance at Katherine, since if we're playing bad cop I'd have expected the good cop to come in by now, then shrug and continue if she's not helping out, I guess. "That is a damned shame for you." Break a pinky. "Does that provide any inspiration?"

>>12778978
Well then, if that's the case then she's not much use to us, is she?

I think it's our civil duty to inform her of that fact.

We should probably inform her that we have a flamer at our disposal, be rude really not to.

>>12779004
You glance up at the security camera where the girls are watching from, and then back at the woman. "That is a damned shame for you," you say, as you grab her hand. She wimpers, and says something like no, or mercy, but you don’t care enough to pay attention. If it isn’t information about the bombs, you couldn’t give a crap. You take her pinky, and slowly break it, saying, "Does that provide any inspiration? If it doesn’t, well, I guess you just must know anything. I mean, if that’s the case, I’ll be happy to let you go."

Her head looks up towards your general direction, almost hopeful under the sound of the tears streaming down her face. You squash this hope, by saying, “Of course, I just can’t let you leave though. You’d be a loose end. We do have that new flamer I’ve wanted to try out….. Yeah, that’ll get rid of evidence nicely.”

>Roll for intimidation again

rolled 16 = 16

>>12779107

Come on low rolls

>>12779163
She snaps at the combination of pain and terror, saying, “I-I-I saw something. Rat-men. I don’t what they wanted, they were, um, taking barrels of stuff. The barrels had dangerous looking stuff in them, judging by the signs they had on them. I, um, don’t know much else.”

She is crying, clearly in tears under her burlap sack. Hunched over in the chair, she strikes a pitiful image. As you contemplate this new information, you hear the door open behind you. Training kicks in, and you snap around, raising your hell pistol. Instead of an enemy though, its Katherine. Walking over to the burlap woman, she says, “Leave her alone! Can’t you see she’s in pain!” Once in front of the prisoner, Latherin kneels down and rest her palm on the uninjured hand, cooing, “Hush now, it’ll be ok.”


>What next?

>>12779223
"Dammit, bitch, she's holding out! I should just start cutting pieces off, right now!"

>>12779262
Then leave and get a cup of very hot recaf. You'll see why.

Katherine turns back to you and smiles, but her voice gives off a much different tone. “Leave her alone you prick! She’s been through enough.” Turning her back to the woman, Katherine quietly inquires, “Isn’t it right?” Please, tell us as anything else that you can. I promise, if you tell us everything you know, it’ll be alright.” The prisoner perks up slightly at this, and through all the sobs you begin to think Katherine go through to her.

>Any questions?

>>12779729
"Give me ONE good reason I should let you live. ONE. If you can remember ANYTHING, you'd better tell me."

>>12779729

Say to Katherine "You're always soft on them." Ten say to the woman "Fine then, I see I'm not wanted. I'm heading out, but if you don't talk I'm coming back with the flamer."

>>12779729

Punch the wall and mutter angrily, then leave the room.

>>12779809
You give the woman your final threat, before sexiting the room. Taking great care to slam the door so that the prisoner knows that you’re gone, you leave the holding cell and join Lily in the ‘command center.’ Joining her at the command consol, the two of you watch as Katherine systematically rips aparts all of the prisoner’s defenses, and slowly but surely gets answers. “Damn, she’s a freaking sociopath,” you say aloud, to which Lily can only uncomfortably nod.

Options:
>Talk to Lily
>Go back to prisoner
>Time skip till end of interrogation

>>12779881
Talk to Lily.
Ask her if she thinks I overdid it.

>>12779881
Come back with a spaceball bat (you see what I did there) and a pound of grox meat.

>>12779897

Why not, let's make some conversation.

Watch Katherine's technique too. As long as the answers keep coming, we're better off outside

>>12779935
>>12779897
Thirding this

>yescar THE
interesting captcha, are you saying we'll be going into a car soon?

>>12779897
Lily is almost stunned that you actually spoke to her, before getting over her chronic shyness and saying with conviction, “I think you did great. If she’s a heretic, she deserves exactly what she has coming to her. We must be ever vigilant, for the enemies of mankind come in many forms.” Caught off guard by her own enthusiasm, she stands up and says, “The enemies of mankind, be they within, without, or beyond, will have no mercy on us, so we shouldn’t on them. They may appear weak and fragile, but it is a terrible truth to know their true horrors. We carry this burden, and with it wield it as a torch in the darkness.”

Her speech finished, she is surprised to find herself standing up, with you staring at her, and quickly sits down, trying to make herself as small as possible.

>>12779881
>>sexiting the room

I hope this is not a typo and Bob was, in fact, sexily exiting the room.

>>12780035
"Damn straight. Where's the damn rotgut?"

>>12780061

You're right, it wasn't. Bob has a nat forty in fel, and can just sexily exit the room.

>>12780035
That was actually pretty good. Slight applause might be in order.

Also, shamelessly hit on her. At least she won't threaten to slit our throat in our sleep. Hopefully.

>>12780035

Nod approvingly and congratulate her on her enthusiasm.

I really like this chick.

>>12780123
here
>>12780115

Seconding the shamelessly hit on her part.

>>12780106
>>12780115
“I, um, didn’t bring any. Katherine says from the after action reports she read that your not allowed to any during active duty because of the hive spiring blowing up last time,” Lily meekly explains. Damn, you were really hoping no one read that report. Ah well, you might as well make this half hour worth while. Removing your helmet so you can have a face to face conversation, you start talking to her about relatively innocent things, like what she thought about the last mission, or what her favorite hymn is. In between rplies, you manage to flirt with her shamlessly, all the while Katherine interrogates the subject.

Just as Katherine is about to exit the cell, Lily is bright red in her face, while you keep laying on the compliments and flirts. Noticing your time is about up, you..

>Ask her out to dinner
>Ask her to the shooting range
>Give her one last harmless flirt
>Nothing
>Other

In any case other than nothing, make a 1d100 charm check

rolled 92 = 92

>>12780183
>>12780183

here we go...

rolled 74 = 74

>>12780183

Let's ask her to the shooting range. Going straight to asking her to dinner would be a bit too direct, I think. This is a semi-professional thing that shouldn't require too big a charm success thing to get. (I hope).

>>12780205
You didn't actually specify what we were going to do though.

So my vote is that since Katherine is on her way up, and the last thing we want is for her to walk in on us asking Lily out (she'll probably manhandle us in unpleasant ways), we should make a speedy retreat.

welp there is always next time

rolled 6 = 6

>>12780183
What the fuck does she DO?
Anyways, try dinner.

>>12780183
Leave, hopefully that poor roll can be burned on us turning around and getting a door opened in our face.

>>12780222
>>12780205

This is why I hate leaving things up to the tender mercy of /tg/'s dice roller.

What say you, OP, I think a professional date like a shooting range thing shouldn't require much lower than a 35 base, and with our nat 40 Fel even that poor roll just works out.

what fun is there if every roll is a success.

clearly we fumbled some words and since she's a sororita she's a bit shocked at our attempt to ask her out on a date.

Maybe she'll warm up to us later.

>>12780294

I knew we shouldn't have asked about the rotgut first.

>>12780222
She gives you a stunned look, her face more red than the armor of a Blood Angel. For a moment, you think you broke her, before she begins to regain basic functions, replying, “You mean, like a date?”

>>12780349

"For official purposes, it'd just two colleagues exchanging tips on close quarters marksmanship, and getting to know each other." Smile "Besides, a woman like you deserves to go somewhere much nicer for a date."

>>12780370

Smooth. We might save this one yet.

>hobarway Floated

That seems promising, captcha.

>>12780370
I like this, though I worry we might actually break her this time.

>>12780433

On the upside, it allows us to see if people really can spontaneously combust.

>>12780370
“Oh, well in that case-“ Lily responds, only to be cut off by Katherine exiting the holding cell. The fierce looking interrogator turns towards the two of you, her demeanor demanding respect. Lily and you shoot straight up, both ready for anything.

Her face drawn into a vicious smile, Katherine peers at the two of you, saying, “Alright, I’ve found out the following: there seems to be an ab-human race of sorts in the underground. Bob, you’ve served with ratlings before, right?”

“Small, thieving little buggers who are devils with sniper rifles?” you ask, hoping this isn’t going where you think it is.

>>12780550
“Those are the ones. Apparently, some had gotten on the planet a couple centuries back or so, and set up a breeding population in the underground. They’ve adapted to the environment, becoming, bigger, stronger, and a hell of a lot more vicious. In addition, or probably because, of that, they’ve set up alliances with local mutant cults and other recidivists, to bring this city down under its wait. They figure if they can’t show their face up here, they’ll bring the capitol of the planet down to their level. Now, this place might not be that big, but it’ll crumble under its own weight all the same, and the amount of economic power lost to the planet and consequently the sector because of it will be greatly harmful. Unfortunately, we can’t completely alert the government to this because of sell outs and traitors, not to mention the panic it would cause,” Katherine explains with a murderous look.

“Well, it can’t be all bad, can it?” Lily asks hopefully.

>>12780550
>>12780553
>Ratlings are short and squat, although not strong. They are idle, hedonistic, gregarious, over-friendly and sexually promiscuous.
SURE SOUND LIKE SUBVERSIVES TO ME.
And how the fuck do they have actual whiskers?

>>12780553
>>12780550

"Do you think we could just gas the entire damn underground? Wouldn't even need to be military grade, just vent enough factory exhaust down there and it'll do the trick soon enough"

>>12780553
Turning her full attentions towards the Sister, Katherine says with a wristful look, “Thankfully not. We can still get some allies. In addition, we have a good idea of what’s going on now. While we don’t know who the traitor tech-priest is, we also have a general idea where the damage is. The prisoner over there isn’t a heretic, and was more than willing to tell me everything she knew.”

“Speaking of which,” she says thoughtfully, before turning around. Drawing her laspistol Katherine opens the door, and pulls the trigger once. You immediately hear an all too familiar sizzle, and know the prisoner has been taken care of. A content smile on her face, Katherine turns back to the two of you, saying, “Alright, lets meet up with Jack and decide on a plan of action.”

>>12780587

These are Ratling CHUDS.

>>12780603
Her eyes flash, revealing how intent she is thinking about the mission, and she walks off. In the awkward silence of it all, you begin to put your helmet on, only to be interrupted by Lily approaching you and whispering in your ear, “I look forward to going to the shooting range when this is all done.” Dumbfounded, you can only watch as she giggles like a school girl and rushes on after Katherine. Snapping your helmet back on with a grunt, you begin to follow them, taking your time.

Nobody pays notice to the corpse of the innocent in the cell. In this world, there is no innocence, only guilt. People go on with their lives, fighting for every scrap of happiness. Some people get screwed, like her. Some people get lucky, like Bob. At the end of the day, it’s what you do with your life, what you fight for, that matters.

>>12780606
CHUDs did not have whiskers.

>>12780609
Yeah, we get that. The point of this being?

End part 10

>>12780628
Alright, I know post wise this was a pretty short one, but given how long it's been going, I'll probably have to call it a night unless you guys want to keep going.

Any questions? Suggestions? Requests?

>>12780638
So who's Bob?

>>12780638
Was there a point to this, or...?

>>12780653
The guy who you're playing. I assure you, he will have an impact of Dolemite and the rest of the main crew soon enough.

>>12780675
You have a thing for shy, submissive girls, don't you?

>>12780717
No, but I do know what /tg/ likes. Anyway, can someone archive this?

>>12780717
Given how quickly /tg/ homed in on both Invidia and Lily, I think it's a fa/tg/uy thing in general.

I enjoyed it, though you seemed to be preoccupied.

>>12780742
Slightly. I will have this going smoothly either tomorrow night or sunday. I am not a fan of all day quest threads, personally. Nothing wrong with long ones, but I have class and stuff

>>12780727
Done.

>>12780765
Thank you. Now, any other questions or suggestions? If you have any request for the quest, I'll take them now.

>>12780775
Can you explore the past of the crew a bit more, or let us play as them? I can't be the only one who would like to play as H1256-J47

I'm really loving these I don't know what to call them maybe prequel quests.

Be awesome to switch between dolemite and bob.

One has the more politican life of a rogue trader while we can get the pew pew of a acolyte of an inquisitor.

>>12780787
Hm. I think that might be nice.

>>12780789
Thanks. I thought for Bob there would be soul crushing despair mixed with utter baddassery, while Dolemite gets to be utterly crazy awesome

Here's the sup/tg/ page

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/12773523/

>>12780827

>soul-crushing despair

Between the rotgut and Lily, we should be able to stop our world from getting too grimdark to handle.