The players have looted two worlds successfully so far:

The first, a Dating Sim world gone wrong when a smelly, obese neckbeard found a way to bring women through the Meta to him and mind control them into servitude, leaving many canons without some of their main characters.
You went in, picked up everything that wasn't nailed down, and got out.

The second, Black Mesa from Half-Life. The G-man was too busy playing Quake 3 Arena, and relied on you, Transpace Guard operatives, to fill plotholes and loot everything that wasn't nailed down.
You proceeded to do so.

Now, the players are in their 3rd world: A Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup run. Thus far, they have defeated the Dwarf Fortress crossover, and have looted most of the main dungeon. The Tomb, Dungeon below D:18, and Zot are yet to be complete, however.

Most of the DOSH you'll earn from this mission comes from capturing enemy creatures alive, though items are worth picking up as well. Do this for as many creatures as possible, then head back to base to get paid.

The players' loadout, in brief, is as follows:
>Heavy Teleport Support, TG-made
>Instant Revitalization Device from Earthbound
>An Alien Containment from X-com

>2 Competent 10-man Warcraft Teams
>The Mentor from Orcs Must Die!
Knows how to freeze enemies in a solid block of ice, which is useful for capturing the undead (who don't need to breathe). Particularily strong creatures must be smacked around a bit first before the spell will work.
>A Blastoise from Pokemon
Modified so that its cannons fire Holy water instead of normal water.
Carrying a 200 kilogram Anti-teleport AoE gem to prevent abyssing.
>1 Hero Auror, from the Harry Potterverse
>Max, from MDK 2
He is equipped with 4 TMAR Small Launchers, a fusion of Serious Sam and X-com technology, that each fire Stun bombs at a rate of 90 rounds per minute and never run out of ammo.
>A Minecrafter, from Minecraft
>1 Cleric of Desna, from Pathfinder
Currently level 14, and rising steadily.
>1 Silent-spectre-in-a-box-on-wheels
Portable AoE silence.

>>17991734
The players' loadout, more thorougly, is as follows:

-NOT IN THE DUNGEON-
>Heavy Teleport Support, TG-made
Teleports up and down 10m x 10m x 10m cubes of material every 30 seconds, or person-sized objects every 3 seconds. Requires line of sight to a ground troop or a deployable beacon to work.
Electrified Steel Nets for the Teleport Support
>Instant Revitalization Device from Earthbound
Touch it, and instantly get the benefits of a good night's sleep
>An Alien Containment from X-com
Stores the creatures you stun/disable.
>Recette from Recettear
3% bonus to DOSH earned
>Skyranger from X-com
Equipped with meta transit drive.
Equipped with early 21st century sensors.

-IN THE DUNGEON-
>2 Competent 10-man Warcraft Teams
They have been given stun "staves" to use on enemies in melee combat.
>The Mentor from Orcs Must Die!
He is equipped with various Warcraft 3 Aura items, for +10% damage dealt, +10% runspeed, +5% attack speed, +100% mana regeneration, and +15% Exp gained to nearby troops.
He is equipped with Diablo II Magic Find and Gold Find gear, to allow him to build more traps.
He has a Staff of Negation to spam AoE dispels on enemy summons.
He has completed his Freeze Solid spell, which works to capture the Undead, Golems, and other non-fleshy things you encounter. Particularily strong creatures must first be weakened by smacking them around a bit first.
He is now putting experience towards his Nonlethal Traps.

>more

>A Blastoise from Pokemon
Modified so that its cannons fire Holy water instead of normal water.
It knows Holy surf, Holy water spout, Blizzard, and Focus blast.
It is carrying a 200 kilogram anti-magic gem, which blocks nearby teleports reliably, and unreliably dispels other magic effects. It can be turned off and on, but not applied selectively.
It is carrying a Grounding Belt for Lightning immunity, and a +50% damage to the undead mask.
>1 Hero Auror, named Peter Perigree, from the Harry Potterverse
As a custom hero, his traits are as follows:
Master of the Arts: Peter is skilled at learning spells from other canons, and can learn a potentially infinite amount of spells.
Loot Magnet: Peter is skilled at looting shit, and can equip many more items than a standard Auror.

In addition to his Harry Potter spells, he has learned:
Clairvoyance, Detect Objects, Detect Monsters, Detect Unseen, and Charm Monster from Nethack,
"Totalum Requiscat", a custom TG spell that Accios everything in Line of Sight,
ALL THE CRAWL 0.9 SPELLS.
He is equipped with a Mana Shield (take damage to MP instead of HP, if MP > HP)
He is wearing a crapload of Diablo II Fast cast rate / Mana regen gear, WoW Spellpower / Int gear, and Crawl Wizardry gear.
He is also holding your Bag of Holding, which currently contains ... basically everything in the dungeon that wasn't nailed down.

>more

>Max, from MDK 2
Able to fire 4 weapons at once, to a high degree of accuracy.
Robotic construction, but can still drink booze and smoke cigars.
He is equipped with 4 TMAR Small Launchers, a fusion of Serious Sam and X-com technology, that each fire Stun bombs at a rate of 90 rounds per minute and never run out of ammo.
He is carrying 2 TMAR Tau Cannons, a fusion of Serious Sam and Half-life technology, that fire powerful beams of subatomic particles that can pierce walls. He is not using them at the moment.
He is wearing Fire Mail from Chrono Trigger, an item that makes any Fire damage you take heal you instead of hurt you. He is abusing this to consistently overcharge his TMAR weaponry and heal himself from the overheating.
He is wearing a Life Gem from Warcraft III, that doubles his HP.
He is wearing Increased Attack Speed, +damage, and Faster Run Speed gear from Diablo II.
>A Minecrafter, from Minecraft
He is equipped with a large amount of Gems from Diablo II, and Pickaxes/Axes made from these.
He has made himself a set of Ruby armor, which grants him +life, and an Amethyst sword, which has an increased chance of hitting.
He is carrying buckets of Lava. How he does that without burning his hands is unknown.
He is also carrying a large amount of Wood, Rock and Iron.
He is carrying a Unicorn Horn from Nethack, an item that lets you cure ability drains, poison, sickness, confusion and hallucination by touching someone with it.
>1 Cleric of Desna, from Pathfinder
Currently level 14.
Provides buffing spells, allows a limited amount of rerolling, and hits things in the face with a metal stick.
She is wearing some low level Diablo II survivability gear.
>1 Silent Spectre in a metal box on wheels
Portable AoE silence.

Your players' LOOTED ITEMS is as follows (the monsters are NOT charmed, and are presumably hostile if you release them):

---

LOOT

---

LAIR BRANCH DONE, ORC BRANCH DONE, D:18 done, Hive done, Vault done, Crypts done.
Jiyva (? DOSH)
>Looting gods: Fun and profitable
A bunch of random crappy monsters (1150 DOSH)
36 Stone Giant (900)
100 Slime Creature (500)
24 Acid Blob (480)
24 Vault Guard (360)
22 Yaktaur Captain (330)
>Success in resolving the crossover (300)
29 Deep Elf Knight (290)
9 Shadow Dragon (225)
11 Deep Elf Death Mage (220)
5 Tentacled Monstrosity (175)
15 Azure Jelly (150)
10 Greater Naga (150)
7 Deep Elf Annihilator (140)
7 Hydrae (140)
7 Deep Elf Sorcerer (105)
3 Titan (105)
9 Merfolk >implier (90)
3 Fire Giant (75)
3 Kraken (75)
2 Bone Dragon (70)
7 Siren (70)
6 Dire Elephant (60)
2 Frost Giant (50)
5 Merfolk Javelineer (50)
3 Merfolk Aquamancer (45)
2 Deep Elf Blademaster (40)
2 Deep Elf Master Archer (40)
2 Dragon (40)
2 Ice Dragon (40)
2 Iron Troll (40)
8 Oklob Plant (40)
4 Orc high priest (40)
1 Lich (35)
7 Shining Eye (35)
3 Deep Elf Demonologist (30)
1 Golden Dragon (30)
1 Iron Dragon (30)
6 Hell knight (30)
5 Necromancer (25)
1 Storm Dragon (25)
2 Deep Elf High Priest (20)
4 Eye of Draining (20)
1 Orc Warlord (20)
4 Rock Troll (20)
2 Wizard (20)
1 Alligator Snapping Turtle (15)
3 Death Yak (15)
3 Hill Giant (15)
3 Spiny Worm (15)
2 Boring Beetle (10)
1 Curse Skull (10)
2 Great Orb of Eyes (10)
1 Very Ugly Thing (10)
1 Giant Orange Brain (5)
1 Fire Crab (5)

>more

Random dungeoncrap (525 DOSH)
45 Zot Traps (225)
35 Unique Spellbooks (175)
16 Glorious Artefacts (160)
4 Runes of Zot (100)
20 Royal Jellies (40)
2 Scroll of Acquirement (20)
2 Scroll of Holy Word
2 Scroll of Torment
1 Scroll of Vulnerability

The Royal Jelly (100)
Frederick (35)
Nikola (35)
Norris (35)
Mennas (35)
Xtahua (35)
Wiglaf (30)
Ilsuiw (25)
Kirke (25)
Roxanne (25)
Rupert (25)
Aizul (20)
Azrael (20)
Donald (20)
Frances (20)
Gastronok (20)
Maud (20)
Dissolution (15)
Polyphemus (15)
Erica (10)
Joseph (10)
Nergalle (10)
Nessos (10)
Urug (10)
Blork (5)
Psyche (5)
Purgy (5)
Sigmund (5)

>>17991809
The players have access to COMMON SENSE.
If you make a retarded suggestion that would completely fuck you over, you lose a bulb of COMMON SENSE, but that action is prevented.
If you make an ingenious and creative suggestion that would allow you to bypass much difficulty, you gain a bulb of COMMON SENSE.
If you earn a bulb of COMMON SENSE when your bulbs are already full, you SUPERCHARGE a bulb. Supercharge all of your bulbs to earn upgrades to your common sense!

Currently, your common sense loadout is:
>Extra Bulb 3
You have 3 extra bulbs on top of the standard 3
>Red 2
Whenever you would normally supercharge 1 bulb, you instead supercharge 3
>Green 1
Your bulbs start Green. A bulb will turn from Green to Yellow and upgrade actions automatically, if a small adjustment (that you should have thought of) will turn a plan from OK into Good, or Good into Great.

>>17991826
Currently, your Minecrafter is digging his way to below the Golden Rune in the Tomb. You have a plan to extract it via the floor, thus gaining controlled teleportation in that branch.

The rest of your forces are idle.
You can clear D:19 to D:27, or you can clear the Tomb.
Where to?

>>17991773
There were nails in the dungeon? Why didn't we loot those and then loot the things they were holding down?
Do we get xp or extra DOSH for charming those monsters? if so, let's have our magic users all learn charm monster and get grinding.
Let's task our scout package with looking for animals on the surface, okawaru just wanted their skins, maybe he'd pay more for the whole animal?
Things really got rather silly at the end of last session, but it was fun thinking up hypothetical looting methods.
Box of silence, 3d flanking, Teleport shennanigans, and mentors new self spreading trap should help us significantly, aren't most of the tombs foes made easy for us with our portable silence?

>>17991891
>Do we get xp or extra DOSH for charming those monsters?
No XP as they are already defeated, and HR has low cost solutions in place for recruitment.
You would, however, get the opportunity to use them to fight with you.

>aren't most of the tombs foes made easy for us with our portable silence?
Yes. Push the Silencebox forward, Mummies can't use spells and are reduced to slow-moving melee attackers. By making a suitable hallway (which you've been doing for most of the game), you then have most of your team able to weaken or capture the mummies in relative safety.

>Finding animals to sac to okawaru
You send WoW team 2 to hunt boars in the forest to curb their impatience, and send the boars to Oka.
Oka seems pleased.

>>17991844
If we dig a pit under the rune, putting an observer at a slightly raided place adjacent to the pit so we can flood the pit with holy water, couldn't we make looting the rune easy and safe?
Silence box gets put nearby to stop the undead from using spells, maybe have the pit be two levels deep, so we can divide the pit into a grid so that the things that fall into it get seperated when they fall to make capture easier.
We can dig out the floor with teleport suppoer and minecrafter won't be put at risk, and we can just have him tunnel up under the rune when it falls into the pit

rolled 18 = 18

>>17991927
If you want, you may have Max, Blastoise, or some of the non-religious WoW players, act as agents of Okawaru.

>We can dig out the floor with teleport suppoer and minecrafter won't be put at risk
Not in the Tomb you can't, no cTele for the whole place until you get the rune.

So, you wish to loot the Golden Rune with a plan that isn't risky to your troops, but may harm the Greater mummies?

That is acceptable.

wot no metaquest?

I hope metaOP is ok. And that his house didn't burn down.

oh well

LOOTING TEAM GOOOOO

>>17991971
On his own merit (read: greenbulb), your Minecrafter constructs a makeshift filtration system using a grate and flowing water. There are 3 Greater Mummies in the pit, all silent, and you can now cTele.

>>17991971
If it would harm the mummies, then let's fill the pit with regular water and spam stumbombs at our silenced foes.
We don't want to break our loot. It would probably be better to risk our troops a little than to risk the loot, as we can rez our troops easily, but we cant rez mummies. Can we rez enemy units? if so, we could simpily teleslice all the living things and rez them after putting them in cages.
What does being an agent of okawaru entail? Are they basically animal skin looters? Does okawaru prefer the animals alive so he can gift "pets" to his followers?

>>17991995
This isn't to say Greater Mummies can be taken lightly. It'll be a bit of a grind getting through the Tomb properly, since you'll have to lure the mummies to the right place so that your healers are NOT silenced, but the mummies ARE, and you'll have to wound them slowly so as not to kill any.
WoW 2 is sitting this one out, for that reason.

You could, of course, just attackmove it with the box and make it faster, but this carries higher risk.

Take which option:
A. Slow, reliable
B. Fast, Fast.

>>17992030
>What does being an agent of okawaru entail?
kill things, pray while standing on corpses to sacrifice corpses.
Oka will let you raise your skills in battle.
Oka does not like it when you harm or kill your allies.

>>17992046
Oka also gets upset if you spend a few hours without killing anything.

>>17992033

I'd lean towards slow and reliable, if we're not on a deadline or if there's a time-sensitive issue that we need to address (i.e. XOM taking over the now-vacant Abyss?).

>>17992067
XOM will take a month to take over the abyss.
You will take 2 to 3 hours to clear the Tomb.
You believe you can clear the Tomb before Xom makes any notable progress.

rolled 13 = 13

>>17992067
Righteyo. Assuming I roll any number above 25, everything goes well.
10-25, there's a bit of a grind but nonetheless things are fine.
6-10: Res pls
1-5: Your box dies.

>>17992033
>>17992046
Slow gives us more loot, so let's go with that.
Does okawaru mind if they only kill 0 DOSH things to sac to him? Following oka basically gives our troops increased xp gain?
Do the monsters gods send as punishments despawn? (probably a bad idea to taunt the gods for extra loot, but i think i should mention the possibility)
Can we teach the WoWers, Dnd cleric, etc extra spells?

>>17992089
The going is slow. Even without their spells, the Greater Mummies put up a hell of a fight - some of them utterly REFUSING to be frozen solid until a critical hit from Blastoise or Max kills them, and thus beating on your Mentor considerably. Healers gon' heal, though, so nothing is lost there.

>Does okawaru mind if they only kill 0 DOSH things to sac to him?
Oka is fine with sacs of deers/boars/goats. It's what most of his worshippers do. He lets your troops be more effective in non-magical combat.
For example, Max would be a good candidate.

>>17992097
Punishment monsters are A. typically not a good idea, and B. never give XP or leave a corpse.
You cannot teach the WoWers or the DnD cleric extra spells, as they lack the many years of magical study background that the Auror has.

rolled 58 = 58

>>17992112
Someone needs a WISDOM check

---

LOOT

---

LAIR BRANCH DONE, ORC BRANCH DONE, D:18 done, Hive done, Vault done, Crypts done.
Jiyva (? DOSH)
>Looting gods: Fun and profitable
A bunch of random crappy monsters (1250 DOSH)
36 Stone Giant (900)
100 Slime Creature (500)
24 Acid Blob (480)
28 Greater Mummy (420)
24 Vault Guard (360)
22 Yaktaur Captain (330)
>Success in resolving the crossover (300)
29 Deep Elf Knight (290)
9 Shadow Dragon (225)
11 Deep Elf Death Mage (220)
5 Tentacled Monstrosity (175)
15 Azure Jelly (150)
10 Greater Naga (150)
6 Sphinx (150)
7 Deep Elf Annihilator (140)
7 Hydrae (140)
7 Deep Elf Sorcerer (105)
3 Titan (105)
9 Merfolk >implier (90)
3 Fire Giant (75)
3 Kraken (75)
2 Bone Dragon (70)
7 Siren (70)
6 Dire Elephant (60)
2 Frost Giant (50)
5 Merfolk Javelineer (50)
3 Merfolk Aquamancer (45)
2 Deep Elf Blademaster (40)
2 Deep Elf Master Archer (40)
2 Dragon (40)
2 Ice Dragon (40)
2 Iron Troll (40)
8 Oklob Plant (40)
4 Orc high priest (40)
1 Lich (35)
7 Shining Eye (35)
3 Deep Elf Demonologist (30)
1 Golden Dragon (30)
1 Iron Dragon (30)
6 Hell knight (30)
5 Necromancer (25)
1 Storm Dragon (25)
2 Deep Elf High Priest (20)
4 Eye of Draining (20)
1 Orc Warlord (20)
4 Rock Troll (20)
2 Wizard (20)
1 Alligator Snapping Turtle (15)
3 Death Yak (15)
3 Hill Giant (15)
3 Spiny Worm (15)
2 Boring Beetle (10)
1 Curse Skull (10)
2 Great Orb of Eyes (10)
1 Very Ugly Thing (10)
1 Giant Orange Brain (5)
1 Fire Crab (5)

>>17992212
Random dungeoncrap (570 DOSH)
70 Zot Traps (350)
22 Glorious Artefacts (220)
>40 Unique Spellbooks (200) (MAX'D OUT SON YOU GOT 'EM ALL)
5 Runes of Zot (125)
20 Royal Jellies (40)
2 Scroll of Acquirement (20)
2 Scroll of Holy Word
2 Scroll of Torment
1 Scroll of Vulnerability

The Royal Jelly (100)
Boris (40)
Frederick (35)
Nikola (35)
Norris (35)
Mennas (35)
Xtahua (35)
Wiglaf (30)
Ilsuiw (25)
Kirke (25)
Roxanne (25)
Rupert (25)
Aizul (20)
Azrael (20)
Donald (20)
Frances (20)
Gastronok (20)
Maud (20)
Dissolution (15)
Polyphemus (15)
Erica (10)
Joseph (10)
Nergalle (10)
Nessos (10)
Urug (10)
Blork (5)
Psyche (5)
Purgy (5)
Sigmund (5)

Boris did not kill himself while in your captivity, despite the fact that he resurrects.

so are we pretty much done for this world?

I'm worried for main quest: it hasn't run since monday.

Perhaps our copious offerings of LOOT will rouse MetaOP from his slumber.

Now, the question remains.
The only dungeon branches left undone are:
>Dungeon 19 to 27
>Abyss
>Pan
>Hell

The Abyss is a nasty motherfucker that will split your party. If you wish to send a person in, it must be only ONE person. They will not have teleport support and they will be completely cut off from your assistance.

Pan is also nasty. You will lack teleport support, and have to spend a few minutes at each portal "setting up" so that your forces all arrive in the same area, meaning fast escape is impossible, and even with the powerful lords of Pan dead, it's still a nasty place.

In Hell, the only path open is to Gehenna, which is currently flooded by water. You'd need to break into the Dwarven Fortress, which still has badass dwarves living in it, to loot Geryon's Horn and the Obsidium rune. This might prove tricky.

The main dungeon should not be tricky.
Zot:1-4 will be a grind.
Zot:5 ... well. I'm waiting.

>Your Cleric of Desna is now level 16!

>>17992282
>so are we pretty much done for this world?
Just you wait son. Just you wait.

>>17992301

Let's go for the Dungeon, then. Relatively easier looting is always a good thing.

>>17992336
Note that you are not required to do the Pan/Hell/Abyss.

Dungeon? Right. Give me a few minutes to load my notes, it's been a WHILE since main dungeon branch.

>>17992365
Would you like to go floor by floor, with me asking for any input on special tactics, or zoom on down to Zot with your 3-D flank and Silentbox?

>>17992282
I hope it does not kill our creativity in the process.

Hint: Brasta is armed with mech-sized weighted nets. The Hyaku Shiki has a birdlime(a kind of goo for patching holes in space colonies) launcher inside its hands.

>>17992425
>implying you ever had creativity

>>17992414
Just zoom.
>>17992438
Hahaha that's funny because it's true ;_;

rolled 67, 37, 91, 39, 33, 89, 65, 19, 28, 9, 47, 63 = 587

>>17992438
DICE!
Max, Auror, Mentor, Blastoise, Crafter, Cleric, WoW1, WoW2, 4 rerolls, 4 enemy rolls.

rolled 41, 46, 99, 51 = 237

>>17992487
4 enemy rolls here.

Blastoise got 39.
Minecrafter got 33.
WoW team 2 got 19.
For rerolls, you have 28, 47, 63.
Assign these rerolls to whichever party member you think merits them most.

And hope I roll low here. ;)

>>17992507
Can we assign a reroll to that enemy guy who got a 90+?

>>17992507
And the Auror got 37.

Also, I see that 25% of your enemies will be scarily competent, accurate, highly-damaging, and 75% of them will be normal. This pleases DM.

so. Assign your rerolls to whomever you think it would benefit more, and I will show you pain.

>>17992532
No, Cleric of Desna's rerolla top dolla is for party members only.
Now assign them rerolls son or I'll have WoW team 2 die to the first mob, the Minecrafter get impaled on a crystal spear, and then the Auror forget he can summon birds. :P

>>17992487
Bloody cleric soaking all the good rolls.
>>17992507
63 to crafter, 47 to WoW team 2. Sucks to be Blastoise today.
Also,
>99
Oh boy here we go.

>>17992555
Max 67
Auror 37
Mentor 91
Blastoise 39
Minecrafter 63
Cleric 89
WoW 1 65
WoW 2 47

Let us party.

>>17992555
>>17992579
D:19.
Mara.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMqxveujf0I
Mara's first impression is to start summoning illusions.
First two of herself.
First one of Max.

Your own team experiences the fury of TMAR'd Stunbombs. Max, being a robot, is unaffected - but only the Auror, Blastoise, Mentor, Cleric of Desna, and WoW team 1's tanks are standing after a blast like that.
"ABJURATION!" screams the Auror.
It ... misses.
The Cleric of Desna locks onto the real Mara and starts channeling any buff-stopping spells she has.
Max launches a volley of stunbombs - they hit their mark.
Blastoise is wobbling unsteadily, interposing himself between Mara's Fire bolts and the Cleric. Blastoise grunts in pain.
The Mentor lays down a fury of Observation towers.

Mara then summons an illusion of your Auror.
"PETRIFICO"
No.
"TOTALUM"
Nono.
"TOTALUS."
Awfuck.
Though your Auror and Cleric's spell resistances hold, the Paralysing attack hits home on the rest of your people.
"Balls to this, we're getting out of here."
"Not yet we aren't."
Your Cleric of Desna leaps forward, invoking her power of Mobility to free herselves from stuns, as your Auror catches a volley from Max.

Mara gets a customary smack to the face. It's enough to put her down.
With her illusions still standing.
Your team teleports out. Shaken, stunned, paralysed, but alive.

You got Mara. I hope it was worth it.

>>17992691
Let's charm her and use her for her illusions with magic ability

>>17992691
Max grumbles about paralysis for about 15 seconds before finally hoofing his way to Blastoise's anti-magic gem. It does its thing, and cures paralysis. Slowly but steadily.
The Observation traps, combined with teleport support, net you one stunned Mara and one fight on your hands over.

It's a while before a Healer gets back up from their dirtnap.

>>17992754
What tactics will you use for this? She needs to be awake to charm her, and Silence doesn't work on Rs.

>>17992754
>>17992787
Awaiting player input.

>>17992787
Can she make illusions if she's buried alive, with the only gaps within 100 meters being a small air shaft just wide enough to drop stun bombs down, and a cramped place for the auror to stand while he charms her, with the only access being by teleporter?
Gag her so she cant verbalize, everything but her head and torso being encased in rock
We could also parylize her, if not magically then maybe with a dagger to the nerves?

>>17992892
Your plan is brutal. I like it.
MARA joins your party.
Mara has more HP than your warcraft spellcasters, about as much as your cleric of desna, and roughly half that of max.
Mara is pretty decent at dodging or absorbing blows.
Mara is really good at resisting magic.

Mara's abilities are:
Mislead - Target can't tell what type of creature a friend or a foe is, only that something hostile exists.
Bolt of fire - 3d27 of Pain.
Mara summon - summons 2 extra copies of herself for even more bolts of pain
Illusion: Makes a copy of target.

>>17992892
However, since you seem to be the only person playing, I shall PAUSE the quest here.
I will now have a nap. See you when I wake up. Hopefully more players then!

>>17992949
Is it worth repeating this procedure on any of the other natives we have?
We caught someone who resurrects if he dies, can we use him to farm xp by killing him over and over again?
If we can't use the burying alive method on him, maybe we could find out exactly where he resurrects, and put a box around it, so that if he suicides while being charmed, we can recapture him easily for another go. We should probably drug him either way, so he cant figure out how to escape while in captivity.
We should only do the charming on things that would give us a large advantage though, as we have a limited abount of time.

What are the limits on this illusion ability? Could we make an illusion of the end boss, a dwarf, or a god? How many illusions can he maintain at once? How often can he make a new illusion if the old one is destroyed?
Hypothetical end boss plan: Send in wave after wave of illusionary aurors that then try casting charm, stunning spells, etc on the endboss, until one succeeds at it.

>>17993220
>Mulching allies for EXP
NO.

I have returned
...2.5 hours after thread creation.

Hey Boots, TL;DR the current status of our party and their quest, please.

rolled 31, 46, 22 + 30 = 129

BUMP for more players!
...Fucking perfect time for a nap, DM.

>>17993220
I don't like the "mulch allied units for XP" idea, but illusions could draw fire during the end boss fight, if we decide to deal with it ourselves.

>>17994210
Dis nigga knows his shit.
...In all seriousness, though, it could be a plan for later.
Albeit a gay and counterproductive plan, it is a plan.

>>17994308
I'm sorry to tell you that most people don't appreciate being killed (except the WoW team). It's not just counterproductive, it's a horrible idea.

Also, it figures I get here after Op went back to sleep.

>>17994593
DING DING DING, you have got it!
SPARRING WITH EACHOTHER FOR XP.
That sounds like a 10x better plan! Good job, dude.

...As for the sleep part, iknowthatfeel.jpg
He said "Nap", which implies his return, though.

I AM MONITORING THIS THREAD

rolled 249 = 249

STILL MONITORING THREAD.
ROLLING 1d1000 FOR IF OP WILL COME BACK
[AND IF I WILL DISABLE CAPSLOCK]

Lol Codeki, didn't know I had you on Steam already.

>>17994004
>Hey Boots, TL;DR the current status of our party and their quest, please.
Takin' a nap son. Or to be more precise, Max is dragging people to the revitalization chamber one by one.
Nobody died. I suppose you could call it a Total Party Stun?
Anyway, I'm awake now. Time to Zoooom.mp3 down to Zot.

>>17993220
>Is it worth repeating this procedure on any of the other natives we have?
You could potentially charm any monster to work with you, as long as it's not magic-immune. However, their AI isn't the best, and they're likely to turn on you if you're the only thing standing between them and the orb of zot.

Mara and TRJ are easily the strongest options. Antaeus, too, if you can be arsed to go through the trouble of finding him.

>We caught someone who resurrects if he dies, can we use him to farm xp by killing him over and over again?
He respawns in a random location. It's likely you'll never see him again.

>What are the limits on this illusion ability? Could we make an illusion of the end boss, a dwarf, or a god?
Yes, Yes, and Yes.
> How many illusions can he maintain at once?
I have no idea, but they last for a limited time (maybe 10 minutes?), and I've only ever fought one of my own ghosts at once. Presumably it's 1 per target.

Also, heard of the term "tripfag"? You're being one, Khronos.

>>17995968
D:20:
An extremely competent Titanic Slime Creature was here. You killed it from range.
An extremely competent Dragon was here. You killed it by outhealing its damage.

D:21:
An extremely competent Great orb of eyes was here, and a Yaktaur captain as well. However, you were easily able to dispel the 1st's crap, and outheal the second's damage.

There is a gateway to the vestibule of hell. It contains a ruined Dwarven trade depot, and no monsters. The trade depot is empty.

>cont

>>17996056
Would Kali's "Raise Fallen Enemies" work on the dragons? We could use them as canon fodder.

>>17996056
D:22: A group of extremely competent yaktaur captains frustrated your team by moving out of range of traps and shooting from edge-of-vision after pinging Max with enough arrows to force him to retreat. However, you were eventually able to wall off enough of the level to trap them.

D:23. Margery was here. To those unfamiliar with her, she's the commander of a group of Hell knights and Necromancers.
However, Max was wearing the fire mail and had rN+++. She screamed before she died. ... er, well, got captured.
There were also another group of competent yaktaur captains, however these were in a side vault (pictured). Narrow area + teleport support + stun bombs = lol.

>cont

>>17996122
There have thus far been 0 dead dragons. The strongest thing you could use it on would be Greater Mummies and Mummy Priests.

>>17996153
>An extremely competent Dragon was here. You killed it by outhealing its damage.

Did you mean we captured it, then?

>>17996196
Killed, captured. My bad. :P

>>17996056
Gateway to Hell, eh?
Let's pass on that one.

>>17996206
Zoomin' past D:23

LAIR BRANCH DONE, ORC BRANCH DONE, D:22 done, VAULT BRANCH DONE.
Jiyva (? DOSH)
>Looting gods: Fun and profitable
A bunch of random crappy monsters (1500 DOSH)
37 Stone Giant (925)
128 Slime Creature (640)
32 Yaktaur Captain (480)
24 Acid Blob (480)
28 Greater Mummy (420)
24 Vault Guard (360)
>Success in resolving the crossover (300)
29 Deep Elf Knight (290)
9 Shadow Dragon (225)
11 Deep Elf Death Mage (220)
5 Tentacled Monstrosity (175)
15 Azure Jelly (150)
10 Greater Naga (150)
6 Sphinx (150)
7 Deep Elf Annihilator (140)
7 Hydrae (140)
5 Fire Giant (125)
7 Deep Elf Sorcerer (105)
3 Titan (105)
9 Merfolk >implier (90)
4 Dragon (80)
3 Kraken (75)
2 Bone Dragon (70)
7 Siren (70)
7 Very Ugly Thing (70)
6 Dire Elephant (60)
3 Ice Dragon (60)
2 Frost Giant (50)
10 Hell knight (50)
10 Hill Giant (50)
5 Merfolk Javelineer (50)
5 Orc high priest (50)
3 Merfolk Aquamancer (45)
2 Deep Elf Blademaster (40)
2 Deep Elf Master Archer (40)
2 Iron Troll (40)
8 Oklob Plant (40)
8 Necromancer (40)
1 Lich (35)
7 Shining Eye (35)
3 Deep Elf Demonologist (30)
1 Golden Dragon (30)
6 Great Orb of Eyes (30)
1 Iron Dragon (30)
6 Rock Troll (30)
6 Spiny Worm (30)
1 Storm Dragon (25)
2 Deep Elf High Priest (20)
4 Eye of Draining (20)
1 Orc Warlord (20)
2 Wizard (20)
1 Alligator Snapping Turtle (15)
3 Death Yak (15)
2 Boring Beetle (10)
1 Curse Skull (10)
1 Ettin (10)
1 Stone Golem (10)
1 Giant Orange Brain (5)
1 Fire Crab (5)

Random dungeoncrap (590 DOSH)
85 Zot Traps (350)
23 Glorious Artefacts (230)
40 Unique Spellbooks (200) (MAX'D OUT SON YOU GOT 'EM ALL)
5 Runes of Zot (125)
21 Royal Jellies (42)
3 Scroll of Acquirement (30)
2 Scroll of Holy Word
2 Scroll of Torment
2 Scroll of Vulnerability

The Royal Jelly (100)
Margery (40)
Boris (40)
Frederick (35)
Mara (35) [Working for you]
Nikola (35)
Norris (35)
Mennas (35)
Xtahua (35)
Wiglaf (30)
Ilsuiw (25)
Kirke (25)
Roxanne (25)
Rupert (25)
Aizul (20)
Azrael (20)
Donald (20)
Frances (20)
Gastronok (20)
Maud (20)
Dissolution (15)
Polyphemus (15)
Erica (10)
Joseph (10)
Nergalle (10)
Nessos (10)
Urug (10)
Blork (5)
Psyche (5)
Purgy (5)
Sigmund (5)

Do you wish to try to convince the ROYAL JELLY to work for you, too? The downside is, if it dies in combat, you will also lose Jiyva.

No thanks. I'd rather keep our "pet" god alive.

>>17996258
Also, Mara very openly admits he is here for the Orb. He'll help you reach it, but once you've got it, all bets are off.

D:24:
Fucking nothing.jpg. Well, there was a competent ettin. You outrun it and outrange it. It got captured.

D:25:
It's hard to call a Stone Giant "Competent". However, these ones were. Massive hurled boulders force a respawn on your minecrafter, batter your Auror's shield, bowl over your Cleric of Desna (not dead, no con loss), and send Max plummeting to the ground. Timely intervention by your Mentor prevents any more casualties.

From the back, a pair of competent Fire Giants are handled by your WoW teams. The Fire giants seemed to target the Healers first, but before your WoW team could fully bite the dust, you were done with the Stone Giants.

>>17996336
>Mara
Eh, we never said we were actually going to get the orb. He can try if he wants, but that doublefaggot in the basement seems pretty beefy.

>>17996336
If that's his attitude, I say we put his ass on the line when we fight the monster at the end of this dungeon.

>>17996371
Truly said doublefaggot is beefy.

>>17996379
You can indeed send Mara in to fight me. I'm sure he'd like his chance at revenge.

>>17996371
I second the proposal of not engaging the SUE. We'll probably end up doing it anyway, though, despite the fact that we don't have Reality Emitters or any similar anti-SUE gear.
Fuck it, I say we just bring down the roof of that entire dungeon level and leave the SUE for the actual Editors to sort out.

>>17996411
D:26:
A pair of competent Storm dragons uses the techniques of Bolt Bouncing to score quite a few lucky hits on your troops, before your Auror remembers that he can Reflect that shit.
A group of Yakety Saxtaur captains again do the whole "Lol I shall run out of los of your shooty alcove" bullshit until you are able to box them into one area of the level.

If you want, you can send teams to the Abyss or Pan. This is not required.

And yes. You are roflstomping the dungeon.
You took 800 dosh of troops on a mission rated 250. :P

>>17996447
Well, we had some extra, and we wanted to make this place easier.

>>17996460
Considering you're looting 10,000 DOSH of creatures from it, I'd say it was wise.

COMPLICATIONS ROLL, D:27

rolled 70 = 70

>>17996485
NOW WITH ADDED 1

>>17996485
>>17996491
Nothing unusual happens! Isn't that a relief?

Music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69tYI7rRqdg

You stand at the entrance to the Orb of Zot. Hundreds have tried before you to reach this, possibly even thousands. They have all failed.
You have 5 runes - the Slimy, Barnacled, Serpentine, Silver, and Golden runes of zot are yours.

Elyvilon is watching over you.
Kali stands ready to provide aid.

Open the realm of zot?

>>17996538
I'm tempted to say leave now. . . but we might as well.

>>17996538
Nah. Let's quit while we're ahead.

>>17996538
Zot:1-4 = LOOT ALL THE THINGS
Zot:5 = NOPE.JPG

>>17996567
Okay, I'm seconding this. Ignore my earlier post.

>>17996538
Reflect shields are up.
Cleric buffs are up.
Speaking of which, level 17 Cleric.
Fish feast is prepared.
Repair bot dropped, and used.
Your Mentor is taking time to consult with your Auror and WoW users about possible trap designs, now that he has spare XP.
Your Auror chants for a while, and transforms ... into a 6-armed, blue-skinned avatar of Kali.
"More arms mean more rings."
Kali is pleased.
Your WoW team are practicing their drills. They've bought some expensive potions - flasks and whatnot.
Blastoise checks that his Blizzard works. It does. Extremely. In fact, if you're going nonlethal, poor blasty ain't got nothin' to do!
Max inspects his TMAR cannons for heat damage. Seeing very little, he opts to push them Harder.

Gentlemen. It is go time.

>>17996600
Blasty can Holyificate anything that's disproportionately difficult to capture. Particularly anything that can cause permanent stat losses.
Level drain is less concerning, unless it starts stacking.
Also, if it looks like a TPK, he should feel free to kill everything forever.

>>17996600
Theurge has lvl 7 Divine spells and lvl 5 arcane.

>>17996600
Small question, Would one of those rings work on our Cleric for a caster level boost?

>>17996600
Mara is maintaining illusions of the Auror, Blastoise, and 2 of himself. Claims he can handle one more, but wishes to save it for "the big guy".

Your Mentor has invented a Creeping Freeze Vine Trap. It bounces AND freezes. Your Mentor has invented a Healing tower. Your Mentor has invented an Aura/Totem tower. Your Mentor has invented a Swarm tower (upgrade to Wall tower, it periodically summons weak enemies to block the path).

He will default to using the Healing and Aura towers on clusters of friendlies, then the Creeping Freeze tower everywhere else.

>>17996665
Your Cleric of Desna equips a ring of Wizardry. While it doesn't raise spell levels, it does make her feel like she can cast more spells per day.

>>17996673
Mara is mostly hanging around in the back. He doesn't quite get the concept of "Nonlethal", so you're mostly just having him around as TPK prevention.

Zot:1 to 4 look extremely normal. The biggest problem is that you can't seem to dig the Floor beyond Zot:4 for some reason.

Zot:5 ...
... you're not sure what to make of it. It looks like someone's been preparing for War.

>>17996712
Righto then. Unless there's anything left to loot, let's ditch. Or can we call down a Reality Emitter?

>>17996727
Mark ll doesn't exist yet so it shouldn't dull canon magic, so it won't really be useful

>>17996712
Our Theurge's level on Zot 5?

I'd like to go back and try to loot a hell branch or two. We can grab the horn from Gehenna and use it to open the others.

Let's send Mara in to rough the dude up a bit.

Illusion Bootleg's guy and then push the antimagic box to them. When the illusion dies, do it again.

And again and again and again. We won't lift a finger.

>>17996712
>>17996727
You can indeed call to base and request backup with a S.U.E. if you want.

Zot:1 to Zot:4 have an assortment of Dragons, Draconians, and a few electric golems.
Zot:5 has a large amount of powerful creatures, milling in the rooms to the left and right of the orb.
Standing on the Orb itself is Enigma, a Legendary MdFi of Kali.
>>17996745
20 by the time you reach me, 19 when she enters.

>>17996727
Seconding the ditch-out.

>>17996753
>of Kali
Wait what when did that happen.

>>17996753
MdFi of Kali?

Have Kali revoke her aid from him. Instant-easy.

>>17996760
Our Theurge has Antimagic field now.
Would Mara's illusion casting it remove the illusion itself?

I suggest we finish looting every other avenue before grabbing the orb
WE CAME HERE FOR LOOT
LETS GET SOME FOOKIN LEWT
Hopefully we'll find a Bazaar

>>17996773
>>17996774
"What, you want me to revoke my aid from the one who summoned me to the mansion? The one who brought me here in the first place? On my strongest servant? You're out of your bloody mind."

>>17996776
Self only 10ft radius, and if you walk into Mara's illusion, it disappears, then reappears when you walk away.

>Summoned creatures of any type and incorporeal undead wink out if they enter an antimagic field. They reappear in the same spot once the field goes away.

>>17996791
I mean, if we were to have Mara make an illusion of our Theurge and then have the illusion cast it.

>>17996791
This is important. Will Kali act against us if we attack Bootleg's dude?

Alternatively, why don't we call base and report the existence of an author-sue, and request some backup or some reality emitters? We can trade some of our loot for it.

>>17996789
Your options are:
>1. Send 1 person to the Abyss to grab the rune. This is quite risky.
>2. Go to Pan. This is risky, as you will be without teleport support, will be stuck there until you find a gate back, and it takes time to safely transition between levels.
>3. Go to Gehenna. It is flooded, and there are surviving uberdwarves in a fort at the bottom guarding the rune and the horn.
>4. Just piss off now
>5. Do Zot:1-4 then piss off
>6. Do Zot:1-5, but NOT the orb chamber, then piss off.
>7. Get dat fukken orb

>>17996809
Kali reports that she won't act against YOU, either. However, your Cleric of Desna gains no such protection, being a worshipper of Desna and not Kali.

>>17996809

We could also go back to base and tally up our absurd amount of DOSH, then leave an editor group to deal with it.

We're not editors or MetaQuesters. We're looters. If there's a reality distortion that we can take care of, great. But if the distortion is a SUE or an otherwise relatively extremely dangerous encounter, we say "screw that" and continue looting easier places.

We're not here to be heroes, we're here to provide a personnel/cash flow for TG.

>>17996799
Mara reports great difficulty in copying your Theurge. The Theurge comes into existence, spams buffing and debuffing spells, then goes out of existence.
>Mara
>Directly controlling your summons
>pick 1

>>17996829
Let's run Zot 1-4, then get the fuck out.

>>17996829
>However, your Cleric of Desna gains no such protection
Welp.
Let's try Zot:1-4 and see how that goes, then decide on 5. I'm all for leaving it, though.

>>17996809
But is it an author sue if it IS the canon main character for that playthough?

>>17996829
1-4 and piss off.
If Mara complains, we'll eave her ass behind.

rolled 84, 34, 16, 46, 100, 21, 29, 55, 78, 28, 70, 81, 28, 63, 75, 13 = 821

>>17996845
Zot:1-4 it is.

Rollin'.

We need that orb guys i mean come on we'd be leaving the biggest peice of loot in the canon. Even if we lose men we'll be making pure profit

>>17996852
That was Max (84)
Auror (34)
Mentor (16)
Blastoise (46)
Minecrafter (100)
Cleric of Desna (21)
WoW 1 (29)
WoW 2 (55)
4 rerolls (78, 28, 70, 81)
Enemies are 28, 63, 75, 13, or in other words, "Pretty normal split".

Assign Rerolls to which allies?

>>17996857
We could well end up dead. Can't get paid when you're dead.

>>17996883
You can, it's just that you can't enjoy it.

Mentor 81
Auror 78
Cleric 63
28 wasted

>>17996875
I agree with
>>17996894

>>17996892
Anyways, aren't "WE" on the ship with Recette commanding them?

We can get paid, we'll just be sad that we didn't get our money back for our troops. And sad because our Super Wizard and Theurge are gone.

BURN A BULB TO GET AN "I WIN" PLAN TO DEAL WITH BOOTLEG.

HAHA.

WE ARE GETTING THAT FOOKIN ORB! AND AIN'T NO LIMP WRISTED PANSIES STOPPING US!
-Clear Zot 1-4 looting along the way stop outside 5
When we're out side it have minecrafter seal stair ways out so BOOTLEGS PC cannot get out.
-Send teams to PAN to get more PHAT LOOT
-Loot other hell branches (Did we loot Dis? don't remember)
-Ghenna(Flooded but who cares we got magic and DON'T HAVE TO EXPLAIN SHIT) if we can't stun DORFS kill them and take rune anyway SWEET SWEET DOSH

>>17996918
Already suggested that. He laughed.
I also suggested Diplomancy. He laughed harder.

>>17996923

No.

>>17996905
Let's not get our best troopers killed needlessly, then.

Zot 1-4: Loot all the things
Zot 5: Nope.avi

>>17996875
>>17996894
Max (84)
Auror (78)
Mentor (81)
Blastoise (46)
Minecrafter (100)
Theurge (63)
WoW 1 (29)
WoW 2 (55)

Your Minecrafter sees a pick lying next to the body of a dead dwarf.
... It's not a pick.
It's an ¤Adamantite Pickaxe¤. It has a name.
Your Minecrafter reports that he is now CTHON, THE GOD OF THE UNDERGROUND.

Your Auror, powers massively boosted by this 40 rings, 3 pairs of gloves, 3 wristbands, and all his other gaudy crap, finds that he's able to spam the everloving crap out of Stunning Blast, while being virtiually immune to damage.

Max, not wasting a moment, dashes through the corridors, firing widlly on anything that approaches. Hit after hit after hit, Zot is a flurry of stunbombs.

Mentor, not wanting to be left behind, is leaving a trail of Freezing Plants and Aura/Healing whereever he goes. If anything forces you to take a step back, it ain't no issue.

Blastoise seems frustrated at how not useful he's being.

The Theurge ... Buffs. All the buffs. All of them. Everyone's acting bigger and better than before.

WoW team 1 seems to be having disconnect issues and is lagging behind. They bring up the rear.

WoW team 2 is pushing ahead, providing heals and tanking some damage, buffing friendlies, CCing enemies. It's proving effective. It's almost as if they run through a lair of dragons every single week...

>>17996918
THIS
and also i vote plan 7

>>17996923
We could clear zot 5 except orb chamber, then seal off the whole layer and pump the air out. Or utilize the dwarven mechanism to flood it with water, courtesy of Blastoise.

There's surely a way to do this that doesn't involve walking into a sword.

I still think calling base and having them handle it is a good idea. And then looting the orb ourselves.

>>17996923
Please read >>17996927.

Let's get the fuck outta dodge after Zot 4. We're not hardened SUE-killers, we're looters.

Could we not distract the sue with illusion magic creating an articial Orb of Zot and absconding with the real one? It'll be more of a mad dash out then, well...we could use the minecrafft to block the way out. Go a few levels up. Teleport out the stairs and leave the SUE no way of reaching us. Unless it's a god-mode-sue then even the editor team we'd call would be fucked

By the by, did we ever take care of that issue regarding Xom taking over the now-vacant abyss?

>>17996957
Pumping out all the air could work.

If we do decide to take on Bootleg, then the desna chick will have to stay behind. Don't want Kali smiting her.

>>17996991
Supposedly we'll be LONG GONE by the time he does

Guys. Let me get this though your heads

AUTHOR SELF INSERT
HE CAN READ EVERYTHING WE SAY BECAUSE HE'S THE GUY RUNNING THE FUCKING QUEST.
There is no way to outsmart him. Only thing we could do is use special abilities to overpower him, and I'd rather not chance that.

>>17996991
Yes. It's either Desna, or the Quake 3 guys.

>>17996945
Your Teleport support seals passages after you have cleared them, to prevent any ... "surprises", and also prevent anyone who might grab the orb and run for it from going up the stairs.

The enemies here would be a match for you.
...
If you weren't funneling them into 1 tile wide corridors of stunning, traps, and more stunning.

Let's see. Did you encounter any Ancient Liches, Orbs of Fire, Elec Golems, or Curse toes?
>list

>1 Orb of Fire
>1 Bone Dragon
>1 Bone Dragon
>1 Curse toe
>1 Orb of Fire

The Bone dragons are trivial by this point. Tank 'em with blasty and hit 'em till their HP's low, then ice 'em.
The Curse toes eat an Anti-magic field. Shit's off like Donkey Cough. They might torment you when you move the field away to freeze them, but other than that.

Now, Orb of fire.
It goes fast.
It blinks.
It does Fire damage. Not enough to be an issue since you have the equivalent of rF+ on everyone and rF++ on your squishies, but it's hard to capture. How do?

>>17997010
Does it count as a fire elemental? We could have a Shaman hold elemental. I can't think of a way to capture it afterwards though.

>>17996997
THIS. A THOUSAND TIMES, THIS.
WE CANNOT SURPRISE THIS FOE.
WE SHOULD NOT ENGAGE IN COMBAT WITH HIM.

We can look into the Abyss, we can check up on Hell, but for the sake of Raptor Jesus, DON'T RUSH THE SUE.

We capture it same way modern scientists hold anything fucking dangerous: With ridiculous magnetic fields.

It won't even touch the sides of its box.

Or we could be cheap and use a fireproof, non-melting substance. Maybe there's some bauxite about.

>>17997045
It can blink. . .

>>17997021
It's Magic immune, it strongly resists most forms of damage, it's got no fleshy parts to stun, and it has a ton of HP. And my mistake, it DOESN'T blink, that's the Elec golem.

Orbs of Fire are worth 50 DOSH each, the Elec golems are worth 15 DOSH each.

However, the Orb of fire is so f*cking fast that even when you're hasted, if you try to lure it into a corridor it'll catch up to you and spam fireballs at you.

Elec Golems are mostly harmless as you reflect their bolts.

rolled 34, 30 = 64

>>17997010
Well, being made of fire, we probably can't freeze them.
Drop a box on them from above?

>CAN'T SLEEP ORB TIME
>Dear god it's 4am
>mfw when i have work in the morning

Does the elemental burn the air around it to stay aflame? if so, we can box it and control the air mixture so that it's nothing more than a lit match.

>>17997070
>Drop a box on them from above?
You can box them by leading them into a hallway. As for freezing them solid, you're right, you CAN'T do that.
>No stun
>No freeze
>No magic
>:S

... Tell you what. Just this one time I'll let you capture it by sending it up to your containment center in a box.
But just this once. Okay?

>>17997079
It's magic I ain't gotta explain shit

>>17997084
And now they're Logistics' problem.

>>17997070
indeed it would be a waste to kill
If we're at the zot levels where we can't PORT we use the rest of the nets we had. I'm assuming we didn't waste them all on those elephants

>>17997084
>>17997089
So. With proper tactics ... and proper management ... and perhaps a few "Teleport up to the Skyranger to res and rebuff"s, you loot Zot 1 through 4.

Loot tally soon, fellow stalkers...

Those nets remind me. We could lay them down on the ground and make an electric stun-trap. When he walks over them he's zapped.

What's his rELEC?

>>17997103
Doesn't matter, now that you've posted it he knows and will just, you know, NOT step on them.
The only way we can beat him is by beating the everloving shit out of him. Frankly, with all our squishy casters I doubt that will work.

>>17997119
Pretty much.
So, let's tally our loot and get the fuck outta here.

>>17997119
Did he say that he knows what our strats are this way? I figured it was just a very powerful dude who made it to the final level.

If he's reading this, then we need reality emitters, which means calling base.

Let's just call base and have them kill him. I wanna loot the orb so bad. And then watch the gods go apeshit when we leave the universe with it.

rolled 99 = 99

>>17997096
So, Mr. Bootleg. . .
Have you ever felt like you could make a difference in the universe? Well, today, you can. Just sign here, here, and here.

Congratulations, welcome to the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints.

>>17997147
Lol no.

>>17997147
Wow.

Looks like Bootleg is a Jehova's Witness.

Right, if you want to plan:
Inventory

>>17997158
Spells

>>17997162
resists

>>17997158
mutations

>>17997171
And me, standing on the orb.

Just ignore the TSO for now, Kali's not implemented in game yet.

>>17997167
>Res. Acid
>+ . .
Oh ho. What have we here?

>>17997195
1 level of resist acid.

>>17997183
Would Kali go after the cleric if he buffs them ahead of time?

If not, get http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/s/spell-immunity on everyone.

We could make the party immune to all his damaging spells.

>>17997213
Go back to slime pits, grab assloads of acid-covered blocks, harvest acid, launch acid at Bootleg.

>>17997276
You plan to carry this acid how?

He also only have 1 level of elec resistance so shocknets and related things would be fantastic.

We enter from both sides of the orb chamber in staggered formation so we don't murder each other. then we just murder the fuck out of him with lightning and acid.

>>17997279
TRJ drinks it. Then spits it back out.

>>17997287
TRJ does not drink acid! Nor does it spit things out.
You are a silly person.

>>17997283
We could flood the level with water. Then electrify the water. Worse comes to worse, Bootleg dies.

>>17997283
But in Crawl, 1 level of rElec is IMMUNITY to electricity.

>>17997297
This is indeed doable! You should probably loot the creatures on the level first, you know.

>>17997306
It's 66% resistance, not immunity.

>>17997312
How valuable are the creatures on that floor?

>>17997349
THE VALUABLEST. In the entire game.

>>17997367
But also bloody dangerous, right?

>>17997367
Kali reports that I wish to talk to you.
Do you wish to talk to me y/n?

>>17997377
Sure, what do you need Kali?

>>17997377
Not really but go ahead.

>>17997380
>I
>me
Uh.

>>17997380
Putting you through now.

"I'm pleased at your progress. You've done very well. I shall let you have all the creatures in the dungeon. I shall let you have the abyss. I shall let you have your god."
"But I will not let you take this orb."
"It is crucial to upcoming events that this Orb stays in position, and I will guard it with my life."
"I've placed the orb in an 'unbreakable' wall. I know damn well you'll rip the wall from the ground, but that will take time. If you need that orb, you'll have to go through me, first."

>>17997402
Could you explain why? We're willing to hear you out.

>>17997405
"... Because I think it'd be really funny to flood the Abyss and Pan with holy water."

>>17997402
>Implying we 'need' the orb
Pfthaha.

>>17997410
But you just said we could have the abyss. Why would you want to flood it anyway?

>>17997418
>>17997423
Hmm.
... I suppose you're right. It is a bit of a big change. But if there's one thing dwarves have to do in life, it's flood the planes with lava. Or holy water.
Be it the Abyss, or Pan, or the Hells. If it ain't flooded, it needs to be.
And if you pick up this orb, then the portals will close!

(how much damage to the canon would it be to let him have his way?)

How did you move the orb without shutting the portals yourself? I thought if someone grabbed it, portals closed.

>>17997445
"Oh well okay you have fun with that we'll be going now SAY HI TO THE EDITOR TEAM FOR US~"
And now we can bitch out.
Right guys?

>>17997456
The orb never moved. I built the wall around it.
>>17997463
It matters not if you send forces to destroy this world. I know that I am mortal. I never said that I would win. Just that I would die trying.

>>17997456
>(how much damage to the canon would it be to let him have his way?)
Flooding the planes with holy water has got to be one of the, um, ...
... Let's just imagine you're playing D&D, right?
And then, there's no Evil gods any more.

>>17997469
(Would it be possible to talk him into being moved to one of the many Minecraft hardmode worlds where the main character died? It'd be perfect for him.)

>>17997485
No! The planes must drown!

I shall make you a deal.
All of the monsters on this level. You can have them.
My entire stash of items. You can have it.
But you can't touch this orb.

>>17997494
Fair trade. We will let you have the orb.

(The Editors can deal with him. Don't bring Blastoise down to that level, he might try to acquire some of his holy water.)

>>17997508
I shall leave this thread overnight for others' input.

Here is Zot:5, for those who care:

A wide open area.
The floor and ceiling are too hard to dig.
Some of the walls, including those around the orb, are too hard to dig.

Enemies in this area include:
1 Elite draconian (Caller)
3 Draconians
2 Killer Klowns
1 Bone Dragon
1 Curse Toe
2 Ice Dragons
3 Dragons (fire)
3 Storm Dragons
3 Tentacled Monstrosities
3 Golden Dragons
27 Orb Guardians
3 Orbs of Fire
4 Ancient Liches

You would have to fight them on one z-level only, and TPK is TPK here due to no controlled teleport.
That said, Look at all that money.

Regarding contacting base:
It seems that whenever you try to use your comms, Base always responds as though you just said "We're encountering the orb of zot, and there's an orb of zot here. We may need a party after dealing with the orb of zot" or likewise...

>>17997560
Well, my vote is still BAIL OUT.

>>17997560
I mean, that's 1,500 DOSH of monster right there.
DOSH!
DOSH DOSH DOSH DOSH DOSH.

>>17997581
But dosh! :[

Anyway, here's your loot so far:


Random dungeoncrap (650 DOSH)
105 Zot Traps (525)
24 Glorious Artefacts (240)
40 Unique Spellbooks (200) (MAX'D OUT SON YOU GOT 'EM ALL)
5 Runes of Zot (125)
21 Royal Jellies (42)
4 Scroll of Acquirement (40)
2 Scroll of Holy Word
2 Scroll of Torment
3 Scroll of Vulnerability

The Royal Jelly (100)
Margery (40)
Boris (40)
Frederick (35)
Mara (35) [Working for you]
Nikola (35)
Norris (35)
Mennas (35)
Xtahua (35)
Wiglaf (30)
Ilsuiw (25)
Kirke (25)
Roxanne (25)
Rupert (25)
Aizul (20)
Azrael (20)
Donald (20)
Frances (20)
Gastronok (20)
Maud (20)
Dissolution (15)
Polyphemus (15)
Erica (10)
Joseph (10)
Nergalle (10)
Nessos (10)
Urug (10)
Blork (5)
Psyche (5)
Purgy (5)
Sigmund (5)

>more

>>17997589
Jiyva (? DOSH)
>Looting gods: Fun and profitable
A bunch of random crappy monsters (1500 DOSH)
46 Stone Giant (1150)
52 Draconian (1040)
44 Yaktaur Captain (660)
128 Slime Creature (640)
20 Skilled Draconian (500)
24 Acid Blob (480)
28 Greater Mummy (420)
12 Tentacled Monstrosity (420)
24 Vault Guard (360)
>Success in resolving the crossover (300)
12 Shadow Dragon (300)
12 Storm Dragon (300)
29 Deep Elf Knight (290)
11 Deep Elf Death Mage (220)
10 Dragon (200)
10 Ice Dragon (200)
7 Fire Giant (175)
8 Hydrae (160)
15 Azure Jelly (150)
10 Greater Naga (150)
6 Sphinx (150)
4 Bone Dragon (140)
7 Deep Elf Annihilator (140)
7 Deep Elf Sorcerer (105)
3 Titan (105)
4 Frost Giant (100)
2 Orb of Fire (100)
9 Merfolk >implier (90)
8 Very Ugly Thing (80)
3 Kraken (75)
7 Ettin (70)
7 Siren (70)
6 Dire Elephant (60)
3 Iron Troll (60)
10 Hell knight (50)
10 Hill Giant (50)
5 Merfolk Javelineer (50)
5 Orc high priest (50)
3 Merfolk Aquamancer (45)
2 Deep Elf Blademaster (40)
2 Deep Elf Master Archer (40)
8 Oklob Plant (40)
8 Necromancer (40)
1 Lich (35)
7 Rock Troll (35)
7 Shining Eye (35)
3 Deep Elf Demonologist (30)
2 Electric Golem (30)
1 Golden Dragon (30)
6 Great Orb of Eyes (30)
1 Iron Dragon (30)
6 Spiny Worm (30)
2 Deep Elf High Priest (20)
4 Eye of Draining (20)
1 Orc Warlord (20)
2 Wizard (20)
1 Alligator Snapping Turtle (15)
3 Death Yak (15)
2 Boring Beetle (10)
1 Curse Skull (10)
1 Curse Toe (10)
1 Stone Golem (10)
1 Fire Crab (5)
1 Ghost Moth (5)
1 Giant Orange Brain (5)

>>17997589
>>17997595
Truly, you are the Doshmasters.

Spending 80 hours so far in the dungeon, you have lost none of your initial loadout of 850 DOSH (resells for 425 DOSH).
In fact, Blastoise went from a 50 DOSH unit to a 90 DOSH unit, owing to his experience level rising.
The Cleric of Desna went from 20 DOSH to 150 DOSH.
The Mentor, starting at 65 DOSH, is now worth 75 DOSH.
Noting that reselling gets you only half, you earned 90 DOSH from working your units.

This is, of course, in addition to the Loads of money you get from selling loot and creatures.

In total: You will have 15,265 DOSH if you leave now.
If you loot Zot:5, you will have 1570 more DOSH, for a total of 16,835 DOSH.

That's a lot of DOSH.

fistfucking SUE... we are LOOTERS.
voting LOOT and OUT

I say we bug out. 1500 isn't all that much compared to what we have.

>>17997730
Exactly my view. Not our job to chance death to kill a ʇoz ɟo qɹo, our job is to loot things that are valuable. They can send an actual security team to go kill the ʇoz ɟo qɹo which we will tell them about as soon as we leave this place.

Tell him to bring the loot pile to us, and we'll leave.
(Planning on leaving anyways, but the loot's a bonus)
If he doesn't trust us, we can go up to the ship, and have the teleporter grab the loot as he drops it off for us.

Goddamn ʇoz ɟo qɹos.

>>17997942
Suddenly, I get the feeling that we're going to run into a certain ʇoz ɟo qɹo in the main quest if we don't deal with him now.

Oh well. . .

If we do run into him, here's a message for future me. "Screw you, future me! Sincerely, current me"

>>17997977
>>17997730
>>17997798
Loot'n'out, eh? Roger that.

Sure is Loot in here.

404 prevention.

>>18000000
A weak get. For shame.

>>18000011
Aww cmon. 18mil has to be worth something, right?

>>18000029
>bragging about a GET on /tg/

>>18000061
Fine, screw it.

>>18000067
delete your GET post. If you destroy it, then you'll know it was truly yours.

>>18000084
Might as well. Now NOBODY can enjoy the get!

>check /tg/ shitload of times yesterday in case of Meta or Bootleg
>find nothing
>today, this thread
We really need a better way. At least I didn't miss much.

Bootleg: You and Meta should set up a shared DeviantArt account and use it to disseminate quest alerts and schedules, and collect fanart. Like CF did with Boonequest.

>>18000125
I end to derp up between 18:00 and 22:00, then hang around until 4am.
metaquest OP likes to derp up between 19:00 and 21:00, then hang around until 3am.

Also I occasionally astroturf my thread.

>a shared DeviantArt account

Son, I like GIRLS. Not boys.

>>18000084
May I ask for a source?

>>18000163
I think it's a girl, Blackheart.

>>18000163
I'll do ya one better.
http://www.mangareader.net/732-34725-1/the-lucifer-and-biscuit-hammer/chapter-1.html

read away.

>>18000138
A Steam group and use announcements?
It worked wonders for a certain /v/ Internet radio.

>>18000172
Thanks!

>>18000170
I occasionally enjoy girls anyway.

>>18000216
Well I'll be.

>>18000172
Here, I'll trade you a link to something good I'm reading. Though its pretty new so there arent a lot of chapters.

http://www.mangafox.com/manga/baiou/

By the way, is the session for this quest over?

>>18000236
No, just collecting opinions overnight.
It's a pretty big issue, whether to attack my crawl char or leave him alone, so I figure I'd let people provide input for a day or so.

In any case, it looks like popular option is to just get the hell out.

>>18000250
Supporting it. Especially since you know, killed crawl chars have a horrible bad habit of not staying permanently dead.

>>18000250
It looks like next thread will be a Talky section, where the players screw around at base talking to NPCs, and plan their loadouts for the mission afterwards.

You'd be surprised how much you learn about random unrelated bullcrap by running one of these. Maybe I won't suck so much ass at the Entertainment section of trivial pursuit now.

Anyway, good to have you here, Blackheart. But know that this quest doesn't involve much, if any, romance. It's mostly stealing shit for money.

>>18000260
>>18000264
Not to say that romance is autoblocked, but most characters will default to "Not interested in romance or sex". Keeps the quest cleaner that way. Wouldn't want to end up like the Shipper union!

>>18000264
I don't mind no romance at all. Or sex. Only quest that had me interested and featured a lot of those was sadly overrun by trolls from /i/. Sigh.

>>18000302
Ah. Well, in that case, Hi!
I guess I'm confusing you with Lace or something.

The players have been well-behaved, and often creative/ingenious. I like it.
It's strange that nobody's tried to romance any of the side characters at all. There's been at least five times when they talked to a female NPC to try to help them with their problems, but no times when they were trying to get in someone's pants.

>>18000339
Well, it would be bad to hook up with someone from a canon whom we cant take with us, right? We'd be like that guy from the Dating Sim world

>Recette
Oh man, I love this quest already.

>>18000475
Actually, I had lines beyond "lol no" for many of the characters so far, though only one of them would consent to relations.

The Auror would complain about the lack of women in the upper tiers of Hogwarts, and ponder fixing it with magic.

Blastoise would say that he only likes Pokemon. Specifically those of the Monster and Water 1 egg groups. He would express worry about Hedonist/Shipper attacks on Pokemon canons.

The WoW teams would talk about the razing of Goldshire, and the effects it has had on their world. The gnomes and dwarves would also complain somewhat about their lack of popularity.

Elyvilon would point at Sehanine and shrug, and might also complain about Xom if pressed.

Kali - no comment. Find out what happens if you flirt with Death!

>>18000339

We're TG-looters.

We ain't got no liiiife.


But in all seriousness, it seems a bit creepy to try to romanticize chars. Especially after seeing the Grognard in action.

>>18000588
In the prior missions:

Mission 1:

Rocksfall_youdie traps were present for most of it. Literally in one case.

There was one among them you could have legitimately romanced. Guess which one!

Mission 2:

Fission Mailed if you tried it on Alyx while Eli was nearby. Otherwise no responses.

>>18000687
>Literally in one case.
Roxanne.

>Guess which one!
I got nothing.

Why couldn't we have just taken his deal and looted the creatures, then betrayed him? We had no incentive to follow through on our half of the agreement except that it'd be a hard fight. Oh well.

So Bootleg, if we HAD fought you, how would we have beaten you, and who would've died? Would any of our plans have worked?

>>18000616
>But in all seriousness, it seems a bit creepy to try to romanticize chars. Especially after seeing the Grognard in action.
That's what I was hoping for. Still, DM wouldn't be doing his job if he didn't plan for the possibility of the players Killing, Romancing, or Ignoring every NPC the players come across.

If you put in a BBEG, the players will ignore him.
If you put in a plot-delivery talkative NPC, the players will kill him.
If you put in a random world flavor NPC with no lines, the players will make her the party mascot.
It's a constant of freeform gaming that your players will try to Loot it, Kill it, Fuck it, or Ignore it, and will do this utterly randomly.

rolled 55, 59, 1, 69, 44, 24, 54, 84, 86 = 476

>>18000749
I have no idea of the capabilities of the Cleric of Desna.

First, I'd simply sit in my Room-o-zot until the party entered. At which point I self-buff, step out from behind my Portable-DM-Wall-Of-Invulnerabilty-so-the-players-don't-kill-the-BBEG-as-he-talks-to-you, and things are on.

I had a lever in there that'd lock the doors, but it's still possible to teleport out if you deliberately stepped on one of the 8 teleport traps I had lying around.

Also, the room was like 33% zot trap, thanks to a few Decks of Dungeons and minefield draws. Shit would get very silly very quickly.

Let's just roll some dice and see how well it goes.

>>18000789
>we roll shit, you roll high

Yeah, maybe its for the best.

>>18000789
For starters, I'd open with Walk With Death (kali piety) to raise 2 Dwarf Marksmen and 2 Dwarf Miners as allies, and have them target Max.

I would then walk straight up to Blastoise and start spamming Fire Storm until either I ran out of HP or your Minecrafter and WoW healers were dead. Guessing by those rolls, I'd be able to block/dodge Blastoise's Focus blasts enough.
(Focus blast? Does 50% of my HP. Easy. I'm steel type, it's fighting, it's super effective, he's max level. I don't block it or dodge it, It's PAINFUL.)

>>18000817
Fire blast against a water type?

Wow. I think that this fight might've been pretty doable after all.

>>18000817
If Max is still up at this point, I watch whether you're using him to shoot at me, or are holding fire while I tank blastoise.

If you ARE shooting at me, Summon butterflies and semicontrolled blink on top of him.
>If you are NOT, kill Blastoise asap.
That's the crux of this plan.

If I'm able to get Blasty down then I take your Anti-magic gem, pick it up, and get out my axe of Distortion.

>>18000856
And yes, I know Fire storm does fuckall to Blasty an Max. I target it on the minecrafter and WoW healers.

>>18000863
Thankfully, your mentor rolled a goddamn -1- so he was eaten by Zot traps. If he wasn't, then I'm reasonably sure he + Auror can take me down.

I hit the scroll of silence, Abyss your Auror (he'll be back), proceed to carve up anyone still standing while chainchugging health potions.

Right now, Elyvilon's boon activates. Bam, you guys are up, I'm wounded as fuck.
I hit Dance with Death, then Walk with Death to summon dwarf miners to collapse the dungeon, I run away from the orb of zot into the Zig and haul ass through it like Death itself was after me.

I'd have the Max put those bouncy traps around Blastoise so that you couldn't get close enough to melee.

Also, since Blastoise has an anti-magic gem, how are you spamming firestorm?

>>18000913
So, in short, even with damn unfortunate rolls on your part, I'm stuck with "Collapse the dungeon, gtfo", and you just hit Dance with Death to survive the collapsing dungeon.
Your Auror comes back, says "Hey picked up this Abyssal rune and where'd the dungeon go".

>>18000928
Fortunately it's mostly antiteleport and only works on hostile enchantments. As for bouncy traps, I -fly-, son.

For my Win condition, I need to burn Ely's boon, AND your Dance-with-death.

And may I say, if you've got DWD up then I have to use mine or your entire team just lols and powers through me.
And THEN I have to kill you twice. It's not good enough to kill you once and drop the dungeon on you, your shaman can selfres.

It was quite a hopeless fight on my end, I must admit.

>>18000938
You fly? Could the auror control your flight then?

You know, maybe we could've sent TRJ down there and just punched him with our fists in order to make him spam a horde of jellies that we'd send at you to whittle you down. That would be funny.

>>18000984
If your damn Auror wasn't able to bypass my frickin' AC/EV/SH *grumbles*.
I'm tanky, but I'm not Magic-avatar-of-the-god-of-death tanky.

Without that fucking Auror I'm good, though.

So basically we could've taken you, but everyone else got scared and wimped out.

Thanks loads, guys. I wonder how much DOSH the orb was worth.

>>18001049
Without HIM, I smite your Mystic Theurge, dwarves on Max + firestorm on healers, and chop Blasty.
THIS time, I'm not on critically low HP when everyone pops back up, because only Blasty and Max can reliably get past my SH/AC.
Blasty goes straight to the goddamn Abyss, and I fly directly to Max to chop his face in.
Grats, now I outheal the rest of your team.

Any chance on having our ship physically blast its way down there and just shoot you to pieces?

>>18001147
Your ship has no weapons.

>>18001079
And of COURSE you could've taken me, do you really think I'd put an unkillable NPC as the final boss? Really? :P

>>18001079

Hindsight is 20/20 and all that.

It's real easy to say "omg we could've taken him you spazzes fuuuuuuu" when the author belts out the exact way in which we could have taken him and lists all of his char's intimate weaknesses and strengths.

>>18001180
Just how much DOSH would your character be worth?

>>18001152
Why does our ship have no weapons? We need to put weapons on our ship when we get back to base.

>>18001189
Actually, there was ONE way in which I win.
You send in Mara first.
I kill him, I use Walk with death to raise Him + a few dwarves.

Also feel free to be upset about the fact that I'm taking a bulb off you and giving you the 1500 DOSH of creatures that were on Zot:5.
Stairdance, my good friend, is the sport of kings, and by placing metal walls as pictured, you get only one tile of LoS to the stairs.

>>18001253
One bulb for 1500 DOSH? Fair trade.

>>18001253
>>18001273
For those unfamiliar with this easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy-sort-of-lame-and-kind-of-cheezy tactic of Crawl, only monsters immediately adjacent to the stairs will follow you up and down it.
You can lure individual strong monsters out of a pack of enemies.
Or, if you'd prefer, lure them into a crapton of stun traps, a place where you HAVE tele support, and have already captured shit like this before.
You even have the Silent Spectre In A Box to make ancient liches just look sad for a few minutes before being captured.

>>18001296
I know, I just thought we already got the hell out of here. I would have voted to fight you and go for the orb, but alas, I wasn't here then and now there's no turning back.
Oh well, that single bulb was worth almost twice the loadout, and we're now much richer than before after everything.

Now to fix the Abyss part as a "parting gift". Did we decide on the new god already? I was voting for the Quake 3 one.

>>18001329
It'll happen. First let me tally up your loot, and tally it up properly.
SPREADSHEETS LADS. TO THE SPREADSHEETS.

>>18001397
SPREADSHEETS, FUCKYEAH

>>18001397
>>18001448
Right lads.

17365 DOSH.
Count it.
Count it good lads.

>>18001571
>LOOTING.jpg

>>18001571
>>18001588
When we say "Looted the Dungeon", we really do mean "Looted the Dungeon".
Unfortunately, my stash turned out to be ... missing, when you arrived. Perhaps the distortions were only able to affect Zot:5?

>>18001571
That's a lot of bloody handfuls.

>>18001610
How convenient.

>>18001571
Is this including the 3% bonus?

>>18001618
1 DOSH is about $50,000, by my estimate. Could be 10 times that, could be a tenth of that. Arbitrary unit of LOOTING indeed.

In any case, you lads are damn near close to bein' billionaires, and it's no fuckin' wonder considering what you just looted.

>>18001646
Yes, on all except the Crossover resolved and on Recette herself.

>>18001656
"Right lads, we're done."
But aren't we-
"Not our job to deal with SUEs. Our job's done. Let's rack off."
But the Abyss, and-
"Fuck that, too risky for the pay. Job complete, pack up time, get in and fuck off."

Your crew loads into the Skyranger.
Blastoise is upset it didn't get to kill more things. the WoW teams are upset that they didn't get any gear upgrades and that setting up defensive emplacements is so slow, but at least they were able to earn the merit of Okawaru by killing boars in the forest.
Your Auror maintains his 6-armed form, until he falls asleep, and he returns to normal. His gear clatters around a bit before you put it in a box next to him.
Max inspects himself for damage, poses for a non-existent camera, and claims to be looking forward to getting paid.
The Minecrafter seems to be content at his journey, but he too needs rest.
Your Cleric of Desna simply repeats "VGCG" and "VGTG" over and over. You have no idea what this means, but she seems happy.
As for the Mentor?
Well, he's looking forward to killing more orcs. Maybe he'll try out that nonlethal run.

>>18001727
Looking froward for the talky session, maybe in the meantime the Abyss gets fixed.
What the fuck happened with the Darwin and its crew, by the way? Did they already leave?

>>18001727
The crew of your rented flying brick speak up to you.
"Now, your Skyranger is high atmo, and this ship is Low space. We'll need to bring the brick into the upper atmosphere to make the jump."

Shortly into the Brick's descent into Low Atmo, the ship's captain calls you in a panic, warning sirens blaring in the background.
"WE'RE TOO HEAVY. WE'LL BURN UP ON RE-ENTRY, AND WE'RE TOO FAR INTO THE GRAVITY WELL TO RE-ENTER ORBIT."
"WE'LL NEED TO JETTISON MOST OF THE LOOT."

...

The ship's captain breaks out in laughter.
"Ha! Had you going there. Naw, we're good. Jump in 30, most systems green, Fuel is amber. Hold onto your butts, lads."

>>18001781
The jump is smooth as your two ships enter the Plothole. They spend a few minutes travelling through the Void Between Stories, popping out at your designated looting station.
A Piggyback craft comes to ensure your Flying Brick lands safely, and your Skyranger touches down on one of your outpost's many landing pads.

Lads, it's been 4 days, but you're back.
Welcome home.

>>18001811
Most of your troops file off to other assignments, cash paychecks, or to do whatever it is people do to pass the time before Logistics send them somewhere.

Being more concerned on the effects of your job or the changes to Canon, your first instinct is to find out what's going on with the Abyss.

It seems notices for an "Abyss grand opening tourney" in a week's time are already being posted around the base, but you can find no trace of the Vadrigar who is to lead it. Perhaps he's on assignment at the moment.
Nonetheless, it seems that within a week, there'll be an infinite layer of rocket launchers and respawning for everyone.

You head back to your usual "Chill the fuck out and bullshit with people" depot. It's as clean and comfy as usual. You're pretty sure you could take some time off now and nobody would give a shit. You DID just make a lot of pay back there.

>>18001874
You are at BASE.
You have three options.
#1: See what's happening to the troops you captured.
#2: Look into that Tourney.
#3: See who's in the bullshit lounge to chat with.

>>18001891
#1
Lets go in order.

>>18001922
This can only end in jesuschristhowhorrifying.jpg

>>18001891
>>18001922
Actually, it'd be best to save this for next session.

So I'll just lay your choices out now, and you can mull over them, and I'll get all the LORE up next thread.

Things to look into:
#1. See what's happening to the troops
#2. Look into the Tourney, and the mission to reclaim the Abyss (these are one in the same)
#3. See how the mission to Alpha Centauri went
#4. See how the mission to the Sailor Moon "everyone bring your own fan character" place went.
#5. Bullshit to people.
Your Auror and Mentor are already off to teach other people of the skills they learned, and your Theurge, Minecrafter and WoW team 2 have gone straight to HR for assignment (since I forgot to give them a personality).
Available for bullshitting:
Max
Blastoise
Kali
WoW team 1
+ whoever else you find in 2-3-4.

>>18002108

After that is done, your missions available are:
#1: Time off
You are entitled to take 5% of your total DOSH earned from last mission, i.e. 868 DOSH, and spend it on shit that interests you.
#2: Beer run with Max
Max has expressed interest in an unofficial mission with you to pick up Booze, Smokes and Chicks from as many canons as you can in one night. You will have the limited 868 DOSH budget.
#3. Loot a planet, A:
A planet with Psi-rich crystals has been located in the Starcraft Universe, and is currently being fought over endlessly by Zerg, Terran and Protoss. Conquer this planet, establish a year-long peace treaty with each of the three, and we'll loot the entire planet.
#4. Loot the planet, B.
A planet with time-morphing capabilities, the Little Planet, has appeared in orbit of Moebius, as part of the "Sonic CD" canon. We are yet to determine exactly what place in the Timeline this occurs due to the interference. Ensure the Canon takes place as intended, then loot the planet afterwards.
#5. Loot the planet, C.
How would you like to rule the world?
We have located a Civilization canon. Because it's literally not KNOWN what the canon eventually will turn up like, and because you probably don't want to spend 6000 years on one job, you will be equipped with a Chronosphere that allows you to make jumps forward, and backward, in time as need be.
Ensure that you have infiltrated and taken over whichever nation is to conquer the world, by as early (in-game time) as possible.

Note that those last 3 missions may not necessarily give you return on your loot. We are not sure how much these planets are worth to us - so don't spend all your money trying to take one over.

>>18002108
>>18002146
And that's it for this thread from me. The rest of you can argue about which mission to take, of course!

Feel free to e-mail me with complaints about how I'm not including your favourite japanese animes, and ask me whether I'll include your fanfiction in my quest.
Or, if you're not a complete weeaboo, you can give me constructive feedback on how to be better at running the quest.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Bootleg%20Metaquest

Archive should be up shortly. Have a great day.
I'm going to sleep soon, so don't expect anything later today from me. Hopefully Metaquest OP will be back! :)

>>18002146
Also, in case it wasn't obvious, you can do ALL 5 of the items in the first list (bullshit around the base),

But you can only do ONE of #3-5 on the second list (major missions).

>>18002108
>>18002146
As for the mission to beat back the S.U.E.?
Strange. As soon as you left the area ...
... it seems the S.U.E. left, too. Wonder why ...

>>18002321
Obviously as an author-sue, the power manifesting his existence disappeared once the author lost interest in us.

I wonder what the gods are doing right now. Elyvion must be freaking out. "THEY WERE SO CLOSE TO THE ORB WE WERE GOING TO SAVE THE WORLD TOGETHER WHY DID THEY LEEEEEEAAAAVE!"

starcraft planet sounds sweet
wait, no vote from me yet
is this brood war or sc2 planet
that influences things

a'ight here's how i vote
if its brood war starcraft planet mish
else civ planet

>>18002724
forgot pic

>>18002321
If the S.U.E. is gone, lets jump back and swipe the orb while he's not paying attention just to spite him.

>>18004097
sorry, but the SUE's in charge of the quest
Bootleg OP !!Cuw+lR6NxOH
if we go back so does the SUE
catch22

I'm voting Civ planet.

Maybe take a robot that can A) pass for human and B) last for a reasonable amount of time between recharges (say, 100 years or so-obviously taking some means of recharging it with us in the chronosphere), or recharge itself through lightning or whatever? If we took, for instance, a reprogrammed T-X, they could take the slow path, perhaps establishing a secret society or cult to guide things in our absence. Not to mention, perhaps taking to the field of battle (in disguise) to turn the tide of key battles? Hell, it would probably take till the industrial era for the development of weapons that could damage or expose it.

>>18004134
But he's not paying attention right now.

>>18004193
Civ sounds good, and due to time travel, we can't loose.

My suggestion would be to find one of the huge worlds and immediately go help the nation that's on a continent by itself. Have it tech up as fast as possible (with some help) and take over the rest of the world by diplomacy (with some help).

It's amazing how many people will join you if every leader that says no has an unfortunate accident.

>>18004277
why pick just one nation? get some kind of templar/assassins shit set up multinationally. whoever loses, we win. Besides, that way we can shoot for a New world Order through diplomacy, rather than risk the needless expenditure of war that could be better spent on technological progress.

We have to make sure that we have people on the Alpha Centaurai-bound ship, too (preferably the whole crew, but a majority should be enough, especially among the command crew)

>>18004372
Good plan, then we can loot the planet from Alpha Centari too.

I vote for planet B. Given that it is the Sonic CD canon, we can timetravel with what is already there by just GOTTA GO FAST enough.

oh boy, Metaquest should be getting posted soon!

...right?

>>18000000
. . . too bad someone caught it.

>>18004372
I'm in support of this if we run the Civ canon mission. Which I'm voting for.

what's happened to metaquest? it hasn't run since monday. Is MetaOP ill?

Looters! assemble supplies of MEDS, DOSH and GOOD WISHES and deliver it to MetaOP! Pronto!

MetaOP, come back! We miss you!

Either of the OPs will do. I'm bored!

>>18005312
i really hope metaOP comes back soon. I WANT TO RECRUIT ZE-I mean, save the multiverse. Save the multiverse, yes.

Metaquest is TOO AWESOME TO DIE.

>>18005035
Yes. I'm recovering, though. Nothing serious, but I've learned I can't Quest well when my mind is all foggy. Hopefully thread tomorrow (Sunday).

If you guys can get a plan together, we can try to power through a chunk of Dystopia.

>>18005457
OP, YOU'RE ALIVE!

Awesome! Glad to hear you're better!

OK chaps, let us plan the FUCK out of the next session. I'll start a planning thread tomorrow around midday board time if we don't have one up. And if I remember (not a guarantee).

Will the quest be online at the usual time, OP?

>>18005570
Barring meteors from the sky, yes.

>>18005637
>Barring meteors from the sky, yes.
aaaand I have a new 'waiting for OP' image.

I'm voting for Planet B, because it's awesome. However, if we can get enough people to agree to it, we should REALLY go with Max on the Break Run - booze, smokes, and chicks sounds god-damn awesome.

Just to be clear: You can do the Booze run and then the Civ/SC/Sonic CD world. Time off is, basically, "Here's some money and a meta drive, don't fuck up anyone's canon, go have fun".
As for me? Still kind of tired. Think I should go back and sleep more.

And yes, most of the Canons I know of are videogames from 1990-2005. You can guess how I spent my youth.

>>18006308
while it does indeed sound quite awesome, having a whole planet at our disposal is more awesome. And that being the case, I'm voting planet C, because it might lead to the SMAC techtree, which is awesome.

Although if Holtz is anywhere in our direct chain of command, I might be willing to reassess our plans.

>>18006407
Woah, you're just like me then.

>>18006407
being a cool guy who doesn't afraid of anything?

>>18005570
Whose/which timezone?

>>18006423
You know of one or two people named Holtz, mostly Farmers or guys in Logistics. None of them resemble the Holtz from Metaquest.

Also, it's completely up to MetaOP whether Dr. Grimm 2nd-in-charge-of-human-resources is the same person as, father of, or completely unrelated to, the Dr. Grimm from Metaquest.

>>18006407
>>18006424
YOU, TOO SPENT YOUR CHILDHOODS PLAYING THE VIDYA?
TRULY WE ARE BROTHERS IN SPIRIT!
>>18006446
Board time/US Eastern, or 5:00PM GMT for the sensible people like me.

>>18006471

Sup boots.
Can i get a tl;dr for the thread? Or a short briefing?

>>18006407
You have great taste in games and that is all that matters.
I vote for Booze Run + B

I'm fine with doing booze run first, but I want to go for planet C as a follow up.

>>18006407
Let's go steal Donkey Kong's banana horde, for shits and giggles!

>>18006407
Lets go to PLANET NEWNAMEK [Or DBZ Earth], and loot the dragonballs! [Surprised noone has thought of this]
We shall wish for the wish to be put into our loot stash, for later use.

>>18007429
Like I told you previously, getting the dragonballs is a retarded idea. Expecially when other canons have casters that can CAST wish. Hell, our Cleric is one of them!

It's a troll, Codeki. Put him on your filter and ignore him, I've done the same.

>>18007614
...Khronos isn't a troll... At least, not a purposeful one.
I thought it was a cool idea.
Clerics can cast wish?! I WISH FOR DRAGONBA--- Wait...


But on a more serious matter, fun cannons to fuck with:
Paper-Mario universe
A Minecraft world, with lots of random villagers, and asshole moderators who fuck with us
The worlds from DARK CLOUD
What you believe to be a rift between cannons, turning out to be the cannon from SuperSmash bros Brawl
The Harry Potterverse, in which, only the Auror [And other Potter-Magic] will work

Any other suggestions?

I'd like for us to play a Looting Mission in the Far Future (TM) so we can recruit Zolomon and acquire the TGbein components we need.

If you're not a troll, then I'm sorry, it must be hard living in a world where your brain doesn't work the same way as everyone else's. That said, your suggestions are just so different to those of a typical player that I cannot and will not use them.

Seriously though. You post dumb suggestions while wearing an !AWEsomEEEE tripcode. If that ain't tripfag trollin' then I'll be damned.

...Do you really think I'm a troll?
Maybe i misunderstand the game herea, or something.
Sorry dudes, I'll watch silently. Play on.

...Fucking OUCH, literally, same second.
Trying to apologize, dude, but whatever.

I am trying to understand the line(s) of thinking that would lead a person to believe that going to "A minecraft world where the moderators fuck with us" would be a good idea, but I cannot find them.
It is the same way for many of your suggestions. I cannot reasonably talk about them, since I literally cannot understand the lines of thought that would lead a human being to make those suggestions.
As I cannot interact constructively, and it's never a good idea to yell angrily at someone, I opt to ignore it, as it's the best I can do.

This is my last post for a while.
God, man, calm the heck down.
...don't have to be insulting, though,
a /b/tard's esteem is already as low as it gets.
...damn. sorry. and no more tripcode [that took a month to search]
Ok? Ok. Lets shake hands, and I'll stop posting in your threads.

...I'll wait for an apology, assuming you're not stonehearted.

As for the rest of you: Don't panic, we're not deliberately pissing off any Canon moderators or stealing the Dragonballs.

Thank you for not posting, and I already apologised.

Regarding a /b/tard's self-esteem:
*laugh* the hundreds of camwhores say otherwise. /b/ is a haven for people who give absolutely 0 shits about the rest of the world. That is what makes it both incredibly ugly and also incredibly win. It only goes to crap when people obsess over camwhores, or whine about their feelings. The rest of the time, it's pretty good.

>>18007762
Arcane Casters can cast wish.
Clerics can cast Miracle, which does the same.

Our friend is a Theurge which means he can cast either.

Planning thread where?

>>18009365
Here, kinda.
Plan if you want to, the quest is done for now.

>>18009405
So, how do we unfuck ourselves with talking to Dr. Light?

Also on requisitions, I have a couple of ideas.

>>18009551
I think we should pull the "Alien" card.
We're from another planet which was destroyed by the Space Pirates and we want to get back at them. We're willing to help out Light, if he's willing to help out us.

>>18009603

Any specific things to say before he shoots us?

>>18009631
How about a good old, "Don't shoot us, we got your message and want to help you."

>>18009748
Any predictions what people are going to spam to cockblock us from our beloved Zolomon and tgbein parts?

in b4 PROXY AND ZERO AND GILES

>>18009759

Those three were planned before your beloved Zolomon, lol. Anyhow, we'd be better off BUILDING a Zero. We may be able to find his plans when we're digging around in Wily's computer to erase the data.

Anyways, Gile's redundant now that we have the sages.

>>18009799
/tg/bein or /tg/quarion?

Seriously though, I'd love to have capital grade firepower readily available on a 60-foot bot.