LonelyWorld 2010/10/02(Sat)11:27 No. 237126 ID: b6c6fc
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you are ace pilot Oken
you have crashed behind enemy lines
thier soldiers are everywhere
your gunner and engineer are missing
what do you do

It appears you've arrived in a new and mysterious land, possibly hostile. Judging by the harsh, exposed terrain, the atmosphere is sun-baked, dry and hot. Sunstroke and heat are your primary concerns right off the bat.
Quickly, shear yourself. Don't want anything extra to trap heat.

Did they fall out? Do we remember the crash?

Do we have any food? Any weapons?

Check the crashed ship for any weapons and supplies like food and water.

Check BOXY FIGHTER for SURVIVAL KIT and SIDEARM

(Just remember your grammar and continue making the protagonist adorable and you'll probably do fine)

>>237126
What all do we have to work with, here? Anything left in the crashed thing?

>>237126
Give us a twirl.

LonelyWorld 2010/10/02(Sat)12:02 No. 237141 ID: b6c6fc
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you enter your broken starship

almost all the supplies are gone
you find no survival kit
your "friends" must have parachuted out when your ship got hit
they probably took all the kits with them

there might be a weapon in Hoft's locker, but
he gets real mad when you touch his stuff

what do you do?

>>237141
Raid Hoft's locker. He apparently left you to die anyway.

>>237141
Is Hoft even around? I mean, whether or not he cares is kind of a moot point if he's gone.

And a weapon could prove useful if you're behind enemy lines and alone.

>>237141
Loot it. He'll never know.

>>237141
YOU ARE A TINY DEER!

Break into his locker and take all his shit.

looting good. Also, are those robots capable to being made into useful robots that can help us?

LonelyWorld 2010/10/02(Sat)12:15 No. 237154 ID: b6c6fc
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yeah! screw Hoft! he's a jerk, I'm gonna take his stuff!

inside the locker you find a RAYGUN!
it has 10 shots before it will need a new battery

you feel dangerous, now what?

>>237154
Do you have any idea where a safe place would be? If the enemies noticed that this thing crashed I don't think you're gonna be able to stay here for too long.

>>237154
Awesome. Lets go look for the other peeps. Any idea where they may have landed?

>>237154
What, missing six shots? Bah.
If that suit offers any protective value, take it along, otherwise try and get a view of the surrounding terrain.

Is that a robot in the back, there?

Examine robots. Can you get them to work as guards or something?

Investigate robots~!

>>237154
How aggressive is you species?

You appear to be a doe. A deer. A female deer. This does not bode well for killer instinct.

Prince, your ship's robot
poor Prince I guess he was too heavy to use a
parachute

it's seems the crash nocked him offline
he doesn't seem too damaged though

>>237192
Can you fix him?

LonelyWorld 2010/10/02(Sat)12:55 No. 237204 ID: b6c6fc
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(posted wrong size)

>>237204
Well, crack that sucker open and see if anything needs reseating, then fire him up.

fix robot!

>>237192
Unless we can fix it really fast, we should move. The enemy will be here to investigate the crash soon.

LonelyWorld 2010/10/02(Sat)13:28 No. 237243 ID: b6c6fc
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you've seen Mint fix Prince dozens of times
you think he only needs to be rebooted
it shouldn't take long
how hard can it be?

but Mint did order you not
to touch anthing on him

>>237243
Mint's not here either.

Fix the robot! :D

>>237243
sweetheart, this mint and hoft left you on the ship while they bailed.
they took the survival kits too.
stop hesitating and reboot the robot. it may be your only chance for survival.

>>237243
See if there's any clearly labeled buttons that reboot him.

Also you are adorable

>>237243
Also, you're adorable.

>>237243
What's your robot do, anyway?

Because the enemy are going to be coming for this ship, and you probably either need it to come with you, or you need to take a thermite blanket to it.

So reboot it.

>>237248
Also also, I hate to break it to you, but your friends probably left you here to die.

So you probably shouldn't worry about them not wanting you to do things. Just sayin'.

LonelyWorld 2010/10/02(Sat)13:46 No. 237267 ID: b6c6fc
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"yeah! screw Mint too, she can suck it!"
you open up Prince and fiddle with his mechanics

DING DENG DONG
Prince: SYSTEMS ONLINE, ROBOT READY!
Oken?, where is Mint? did you turn me on
you are not otherized to do that!
the ship is damaged, critically so
where is Mint she will not be pleased
about this, you will be suspended . . .

Prince continues to rattle on

>>237267
Tell him that the ship's crashed. Emergency protocol dictates that you gather all available resources before moving out to search for the others.

>>237267
Mint is probably dead. The ship crashed and you seem to be the only one left.

See how he responds to that.

>>237267
Damn. Should have gone with the thermite.

We done looting? Climb on top of the ship to survey the surrounding area while the robot finishes its spiel.

>>237271
This.

>>237267
"Mint left me here to die."

Also what do these folks look like?

Are you sure you're an ace pilot? Because you're sounding more like an underling that your team doesn't trust very much.

LonelyWorld 2010/10/02(Sat)14:12 No. 237293 ID: b6c6fc
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of course I'm an Ace Pilot! haven't seen my awsome
Pilot's goggles?

Oken: Prince, we crashed, the pinkies shot us
down, Mint and Hoft abandoned us here to
die.
they're probably dead themselves
I need you're help Prince

Prince: . . . I see
it is clear our mission has failed, we
are doomed.
apon your order I will terminate you,
I will terminate the ship, and I will
terminate myself, the enemy will never
recieve our technology

>>237293
"Prince that is not help."

>>237293
Tell him to leave you until last.

>>237299
That sounds about right.

blowing up the ship? fine.
you and him dying? not fine.

>we crashed, the pinkies shot us
>down,

oh god here we go

Shut it back off! Shut it off!

>>237293
Tell him that you still have a pretty good chance of getting back.

>pinkies
Requesting further information.

LonelyWorld 2010/10/02(Sat)14:49 No. 237347 ID: b6c6fc
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Oken: Prince, that is not help.
I need you to gather any supplies left here
then you can blow up the ship

but not us! got that?
Prince: . . .Orders recieved,

Prince has joined the party!

well, get out of there I guess.

>>237347
Aight, let's blow this popsicle stand.

You have any idea of where would be a good direction to head from here?

best heading would be to get to the highest location and see if you can identify any towns or something.

LonelyWorld 2010/10/02(Sat)15:17 No. 237388 ID: b6c6fc
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Prince picks up [veggie rationsx20],[spacesuit],[batterie]
Prince begins to charge his eye laser
it will a little while before he has enough energy to vaporize the ship

Oken looks about for civilization, but all she can see is dunes, she could use her [space compass!] to track either animal life signs, plant life signs, energy signals, magnetic fields, gravity distortions or pirates

Scan through all that shit. Start with pirates I suppose, then animals.

energy signals, magnetic fields will give bad readings due to prince over there charging. let's look for plants. plants = food.

>>237388
We are a cute deer person.

Cute deer people eat plants.

Find plants Oken!

>>237407
We have plenty of rations.

Clearly we must locate pirates, presumably by scanning for abnormal concentrations of awesome.

Check for pirates.

LonelyWorld 2010/10/02(Sat)15:52 No. 237417 ID: b6c6fc
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Oken decides to make a quick scan of everything
plant scan: north, weak signal west
pirate scan: there are no pirates
animal scan, imediate area, east, west, south
magnetic scan: right of ship crash
gravatational scan: down
energy scan: east, south, south-west

>>237388
Pirates.

>>237417
>Gravitational scan: Down
THIS COMPASS IS SO HELPFUL.

Let's go north, to the area with plants (but apparently not animals?).

What's our objective here anyway?

>>237418
Disregard this post
>>237417
Head southwest.

get more detail on the plant scan.

>>237417
Which way were you flying, and were you returning to base or departing from it? (And was that a straight path?)

>>237417
I kind of want to say southwest as well.

>>237428
Wait, actually, >>237426. You were the pilot; I'd hope you'd know where you were trying to head for and coming from.

LonelyWorld 2010/10/02(Sat)16:39 No. 237446 ID: b6c6fc
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Oken "uh Prince, what was our mission plan again?"

Prince: "descend from orbit.
approach vector on enemy city [Parlshima Harbor].
deliver payload of nuclear robot.
enemy city destroyed."

Oken: "oh . . . right"
Prince: "have you determined our course yet?"

>>237446
So we're trying to get to ENEMY CITY and deliver one NUCLEAR ROBOT.

Do we have... I dunno. A map of the planet we're bombing? You could probably figure out which direction the city's in from there.

>>237446
Let's make our way to that city, if we can.

Which way is that from here?

Energy and animals are east. I'm guessing that's where the city is. Weak plant and animal is west. Keep in mind we had veggie rations... so our buddies are probably west.

Let's go west and pick them up before doing anything else... but first, scan that magnetic signal in a little more detail and track it down if it's really close by.

LonelyWorld 2010/10/02(Sat)17:05 No. 237478 ID: b6c6fc
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you don't know where the city is
nor do you have a map

this is all you have: novella, space compass,raygun (10 shots) pilot goggles,lucky earing, combat jacket, grav boots, 12 vapins (money), clothing

plant signal to north is small but close.
energy signal to east has dimmed
energy signal south is very strong

>>237446
>orbit
>probable rescue for downed soldiers

We just blew up our radio, didn't we.

>>237456
Change vote to west.

north.

West!

>>237478
East, toward the dimming signal.

>Grav boots
Hells yeah.

LonelyWorld 2010/10/02(Sat)17:33 No. 237498 ID: b6c6fc
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Oken: "screw the plants, I got plenty of food!
Prince, we're going west"

after a few hours of travel, Oken realizes that life in the desert is quite harsh without water

Prince: "Oken, my sensors are detecting movment over the next dune!"

have prince charge and you ready your gun. but don't shoot until you can confirm hostile.

Oh shit, this is desert? We need to find water quick, then.

Investigate the movement. It looks like one of your shipmates is here... that discarded wrench and parachute leads me to believe it's your mechanic.

>>237498
Grab the spanner. Tell the robot to shush. Stow the goggles momentarily, for while they are awesome, they are probably also very shiny and visible. Peek over the dune.

>>237498
Ready your weapon; don't be trigger-happy.

>>237498
Can you recognize what that thing next to the wrench is from? How about the footprints?

LonelyWorld 2010/10/02(Sat)18:37 No. 237529 ID: b6c6fc
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Oken picks up the spanner
the object appears to be a half barried parachute

Oken takes off her shiny goggles, and tells Prince to be quiet,you approach

PINKIES! it looks like they got Mint . . .

>>237529
Oh jeez you can't take on three of those guys at all. Stay down.

>>237529
Well, shit, It's the Imperial Guard. You are fucked. Well not literally, then they would be heretics but still.

>>237529
So, if your robot shoop-da-whoop's one of them, what the odds you could take the other two with the pistol, given they've got their backs turned and are apparently quite distracted?

Or is charging his laser noisy?

Got is an understatement. Man that`s -gooie-. How many bullets did those guys use?

Shed a single tear for your fallen Companion, feel guilty for thinking meanly of her earlier. I think our best bet is try to sneak off... they haven't spotted us yet, so lets get out while we still can.

There's no way we're taking three fully armored, and armed Pinkies with a single blaster!

Also what do our Grav boots DO? are they just for walking in 0g Environments or do they have other functions?

For that matter how powerful is that little sidearm? Does it just vaporize targets in one shot or is it similar to a Pinkie pistol?

how much damage could Prince do? he is a death robot, don't think their lasers could hurt him.

>>237535
On that note. Why are we at war with these guys anyway?

They... don't worship some sort of 'God Emperor of mankind' or something do they?

Turn right around and head for the plants area.

Go go go! MOVE MOVE MOVE!

>>237529
smug bastards look distracted. you can probably blast one before the others can react. order prince to attack after you make your shot and surprise is lost.

>>237529
You shoot at the one to your right, Prince takes out the two to the left. If Prince can't take out both, immediately follow up your first shot with another couple aimed at those two. Stay mostly behind the cover of your dune, sand is excellent for stopping small arms fire.

LonelyWorld 2010/10/02(Sat)19:39 No. 237555 ID: b6c6fc
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they're actually called the window corps, but no one calls them that, they call us furry devils, we call em pinkies, as far as the war goes, the second they set foot onto our planets, they opened fire, civilians, soldiers, children, they don't seem to be able to tell the difference, they just gun done everyone
we've been fighting this war for 30 years and we still don't know why

as far as thier gear goes, it's all garbage
thier bullets will have a hard time getting through my combat jacket, I'll be fine as long as they don't shoot me in the head
I don't even know if bullets can hurt robots

there's now way they could miss Prince's charge up, but if he could get if off they'd all be toast, though I guess he could do small blasts as well

Ray tech can either spread the beam, or focus it
a full spread would only shock them, a full focused beam could vapourize a guys head, even if he was wearing a helmet
though, I'm not really good at aiming

grav boots can do a number of things, but they pretty much make you stick or bounce off of stuff

>>237555
>a full spread would only shock them
...long enough for Prince to charge?

>>237555
Why is this war still happening if your light jacket makes you immune to their rifle rounds?

Why have your deer compatriots not just burned all the human worlds yet?

>>237555
Full spread, then switch to a tighter beam and kill them all while they're stunned. Take one rifle and several magazines (even if it's lower-tech, a rifle is much more accurate and has a lot more ammo available).

>>237555
Shock 'em.

OR "they started it" is just what your superiors tell you, why would a lower tech Civ attempt to fight something that outclasses them in all ways?

hmm, the one with the thing on his helmet is probably a leader. kill the other two and then stun him really fucking hard, then tie him up.

Spread shot. Prince: open fire. Concentrated shot on one of them. Go from there.

LonelyWorld 2010/10/02(Sat)21:03 No. 237588 ID: b6c6fc
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huh? Prince's laser didn't kill them?
. . . the Commander would never lie to us . . .

>>237588
Might want to shoot that one that dodged.

HIT THE DECK!

>>237588
Get down, you missed one.

Also I'm starting to second-guess pretty much everything about this operation here.

Focus beam the one that dodged. Prince can take out the one that's shocked.

LonelyWorld 2010/10/02(Sat)21:49 No. 237602 ID: b6c6fc
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Prince: Oken my weapons are failing . . .

>>237602
Crud, that means there's still one more.

But you seem pretty good with the gun, given the circumstances.

>>237602
You'll have to take out the pudgy pink scum yourself!

Gun for the nearest one, keep yourself covered.

i think Prince's beam only works on inorganic materials. take out the one with the gun, would leave the leader guy alive who doesn't have a weapon while you do.

just run

that is NOT bullets. they have laser guns. finish that guy off and then point your gun at the leader guy and demand answers.

Jump over the ridge and fire on his weapon arm! If your gun doesn't work, don't indicate it and jump ontop of him, and point it at his face! Say "Freeze!" if you can.

(I need sleep, I'll be back tommorow or sunday)

(tomorrow IS Sunday :P )

er yeah, I mean monday . . . sleep is good

>>237624
These guys are much better equipped than you gave them credit for. Take any useful gear you find on them.

>>237624
One of them should still be somewhat alive. Go and interogate him and see if there's any of their gear that would be useful to you.

Kill all three. Check on Mint. Loot. Inventory listing (take/leave etc). Head to next closest lifesign.

[Animal includes sapient beings?]

>>237778
Nononono don't kill everyone
If there's one alive the blood loss'll get him soon anyway, leaving you time to question him. THEN you steal their shit.
Their batteries aren't compatible with your crazy portable holemaker, are they? Cos if they aren't just take one of their guns. Or all three. Yeah all three.

>>237624
Robot stuck!

>>237782
Robot stuuuuuck!

>>237779
One gun blew up though. And it's uncertain wheter the owner died or not, his breastplate might have shielded him from most of the blast. Although it seems weird that the robot lazers could blow up a ship but now some pinks. Maybe it's less effective on organic compounds or something?

By the way, can you even speak pinko or do you have a translator? Because it could be hard to ask them questions and get useful answers without the ability to communicate. If you can't communicate then just cut their throats with some jagged piece of metal and then loot whatever you find that is useful.

>>237624
Try to carefully shoot his gun without killing him so we can interrogate him. We need to find out what direction the city is, and if they found our other crewmember.

LonelyWorld 2010/10/03(Sun)14:41 No. 237875 ID: b6c6fc
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I think the other guy with burnt chest plate is still alive, I hear him moaning

I don't speak Pinkie, but a lot of them speak a
little Astranian (our language)

Prince can translate just about any language,

[It's now safe enough for Oken to examine stuff]

Examine Mint's corpse.

yeah, check her out and have prince glare at them menacingly. while you work so they don't get any funny ideas. then ask them what they are doing here.

>>237875
Well that Pinko is going to bleed out and not be moving anywhere soon. Slice his throat, don't waste anymore of your precious ammo.

Then go find the rifle of the Pinko that tried to flank you and go interogate the last survivor. Lets see if we can get anything out of him before killing him.

>>237882
you never heard of the Geneva convention? turnacut the guy's leg and wrist. and ask questsions. if they see you aren't a monster they would be more inclined to answer.

>>237883
Sure I have. I tend to ignnore it when it's not useful. Right now one of them is dying from bloodless and then possibly infection. And he's very much criplled. We can't take the time needed to treat him and he could inform our enemies about our position. He dies. Other guy can also inform them where we are and what direction we headed in and what gear we have. He dies as well. We don't have the resources to play nice here so sadly they had some very bad luck right now.

Check mint, and keep your weapon trained! Is she truly dead?!

>>237875
Kill one, interrogate the other.

>>237883
I really don't think that random deer aliens are signatories. Also, considering that they rampantly slaughter civilians whenever given the opportunity and nuke cities I'm reasonably certain that neither side in this conflict is paying the laws of war much mind.

Find out if the third member of your crew has been found/killed yet, if you can. Also take anything useful from their gear (grenades, perhaps?) and find out how many more of their forces are in the area before finishing them off.

LonelyWorld 2010/10/03(Sun)15:34 No. 237912 ID: b6c6fc
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I don't have any thing sharp to cut a neck
and I'm not sure I could do that in cold blood

Mint's body is coated with mud
she has: 3 mostly empty cantines, a tazer, grav boots, hat, rubber gloves, multitool, medication, clothing, 23 vapins(money)

wait, so she ... drowned to death? are you SURE the pinkies are enemies?

Take her shit and then rough up one of the humans. Be all angry about it.

...wait is she even -dead-? I don't see any bullet wounds. What even happened here?

But yeah don't worry about killing both, maybe you can get one to talk by threatening the other if it comes to that.

Also have you helped the poor robot stand up yet?

>>237912
Wait, how the heck did she even die?

Did she even die?

>>237912
They probably have combat knife or something. Otherwise you could just order Prince to crush their heads under his tracks.

But time for some looting action. Grab the tazer, the tool, the rubber gloves and the medication.

Then go grab the intact pinkie rifle.

Medication for what? Damnit, is she alive?

>>237912
Check for life signs. If she's still warm, then begin CPR.

>>237912
Confirm that she is dead.

>>237912
>I'm not sure I could do that in cold blood

It's not a silly vengeance thing, or even hurr-pragmatics-means-The-Punisher; it's a mercy thing. With a hole like that in his leg he's going to bleed out anyway.

>>237942
>begin CPR.

That's not how CPR works.

>>237912
>coated with mud

Uh, is she bleeding at all? Maybe they just knocked her out. Check for vital signs.

The soldiers dumped their canteens on her for something. If you're out in the desert, you don't dump out your water unless you have a very good reason. Maybe they weren't attacking her and you killed them in cold blood.

>>237966
Err... Yea, it is. If she's cooled off then it's obviously too late, but otherwise there's a chance it'll work and thus it's worth trying.

Let's do CCR instead.

Or we could just use that medkit that's nearby. Got any crazy future tech for reviving people?

>>237979

Cold blood is when your blood is literally cold. That is, when you're not excited and scared and junk. Calm minded would be a better term, or level headed.

>>237986
CPR is better than CCR if the person is a drowning victim.

Screw it:
WE ARE ALL IN AGREEMENT THAT YOU SHOULD TRY TO RENDER MEDICAL AID TO MINT. ALSO, THERE IS A MEDKIT THERE YOU CAN USE.

LonelyWorld 2010/10/03(Sun)21:00 No. 238038 ID: b6c6fc
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Mint isn't dead at all!
she's been paralized with a stun laser!
the affect should only last 4-5 hours

a stimshot, might snap her out of it immediatly
it also might rupture her heart

funny though, the commander told me Pinkies never take prisoners

Step back, aim at both humans at once! Or alternating! HE'S DOING SOMETHING BAD TO YOUR ROBOT!

>>238038

The commander also told you that Prince's lasers would kill anything, and was that true? huh?

Oh my god is that

That's a ringed tail.

A tail with rings on it.

...pretend it's not even half as cute as your own.

point your gun at the guy with the helmet and growl at him. even if he can't understand words he will understand that. tell Prince to translate. "what are you doing here?"


also, looks like your commander is in fact a liar, he just wanted you too scared of them to worry about killing them.

Commander Windows is drawing a sidearm. You should shoot him in the face.

>>238038
What's HE so happy about? Half his leg's missing.

Anyway, yeah. Heads up for commander Windows. We'll figure out more about these mysterious contradictions after we've ensured that we don't become target practice.

>>238050
Might be shock. Losing a chunk of your leg will do that to you.

Yell at them not to move. Also tell Prince not to shoot for now.

Also I think maybe the humans' actions have been exaggerated. Like, a lot.

LonelyWorld 2010/10/03(Sun)21:45 No. 238053 ID: b6c6fc
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Oken: "FREEZE, YOU PUDGY PINK BASTARD!"

the pinkie ignores Oken

That went well.

>>238053
Glad you reacted as fast as you did; that could have been bad. Make sure that the other one is in no position to try anything, and bind your leg with something before it starts bleeding enough to slow you down. You've got a first aid kit or equivalent, yes?

i don't think the other guy is gonna try anything after seeing that. first aid kit right there, use it. then start interrogating the last guy.

Now a seasoned soldier would have just disabled the guy's weapon. But that's why being a green rookie with all the psychotic eager energy that implies, is so awesome. MAN DID YOU SEE HIS HEAD IT WAS LIKE POW AND HIS GUN WAS LIKE BANG AND ow shit my leg.

Use MEDKIT on WOUND.

Fall back on your ass, point the gun at the other human, hold your leg. Tell him to STRIP TO BOXERS so you won't have to kill him like the one that shot you!

Yell to the living soldier that You. Don't. Fuck. Around. Even if he doesn't understand a single word of your language, he'll get the message.

>>238053
You alright? You just got hit in the leg.

LonelyWorld 2010/10/03(Sun)22:28 No. 238067 ID: b6c6fc
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aahhh my leg hurts
I use the med kit, to bind my wound
I get Prince to make sure there are no more hidden
weapons, he also gathers up the other guns
Prince collects, stun rifle (48 shots) a revolver (5 shots) and 3 combat knives

I keep my gun targeted on the last Pinkie
[tears stream down Oken's face]

Oken: "D-Don't move or I'll F-Fucking waste you!"
Oken: "w-where's Parlshima! T-tell me!"
Pinkie: "south! south!, don't shoot!"

now what?

ask what his mission is.

>>238067
Find out how many other pinkies are in the region. And what they were planning to do with Mint.

Say "Why did you, uh, stun my friend?"

Feel bad as you realize that they only stunned her and then you blew them away. Question the morality of escorting a crawling nuclear bomb into a city.

What's all that stuff off in the distance?

>>238067
Demand answers. Nothing about this war seems "right." You've got tech that is clearly outclassing theirs, what the fuck is going on.

>>238067
Ask about your friend.
Ask about his mission.

>>238067
"Prince, it seems we've got quite a bit of bad intel. This is now an intelligence operation, do you understand?
Pinky! State your name, rank, and serial number! We'll go from there."

This guy is no threat, and he's terrified of you. See how well you can extract information from him; if he's cooperative, then treat his wounds and take him with you.
They took a prisoner and are equipped with energy weapons, so you are in dire need of finding out how much else of what you know is false. However, please note that this doesn't mean command lied to you; it's entirely possible that you were attacked by one faction of this species, and bad intel lead to command not being aware of the distinction.

See? This is why you kill them all. When you don't, you get shot.

Waste him and get moving to the next lifesign.

>>238122
We're still talking to him, sorry.

>>238122
I've changed my mind. Let's go with some other plan and see what happens. Start asking questions.

>>238067
Ask what was going on here and how many other soldiers are in the region. Then shoot him in the head with the revolver unless it seems like he has any other valuble information.

LonelyWorld 2010/10/04(Mon)05:51 No. 238183 ID: b6c6fc
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I glance over to the rock out cropping, . . . I don't want to look into his eyes

Oken: "What's your mission!"
Pinkie: "Patrol! Patrol!"
Oken: "how many patrols!"
Pinkie: "four, five, I don't know! don't shoot!"

I can't let him live, he'll tell the other patrols!

Oken: "S-SHUT UP, SHUT UP!!, you shot my friend, why?
Pinkie:"only stun! not dead! not dead!"
Oken: "WHY DID YOU SHOOT HER!"
Pinkie:"protect city!, only stun., not dead."

I can't let him live, I can' take him with me,
he's too dangerous!

Oken: "name. rank. serial number!"
Pinkie: " Enrad, William T., Parlshima Police, rookie

oh gods, they're just police, protecting thier
city . . . from people like me
I don't want to kill him, but I can't let him live!

I don't think he knows anything else
what do I do?!

"If I let you live, you'll probably bleed to death here or starve if no one finds you. If I shoot you, you die now, and I feel that much better."

>>238183
It sucks, but you did come here with the mission to nuke their city, which would have resulted in the death of hundreds of thousands if not millions. No point feeling bad about three guys if you were willing to do that.

So stop shaking and pull yourself together.

well your options are...

kill him and finish mission..

or b dont kill him and abort..

or C side with him, however its a bit early to be making that sort of decision.


patch up his leg, you cant really move till your friend is unstunned.

Tend his wound, then continue questioning him. It's obvious these people aren't heartless murderers; either your entire civilization is badly mistaken about the fundamental nature of the pinkies, or you've been lied to by your officers for some reason. You need to figure out which.

>>238183
Look away and ask Prince to handle it.

Prince can carry your friend while you keep moving. They're soon going to notice that one of their patrols went silent and send more people to investigate. You have already stayed here for too long, have to keep moving.

Blast him. You've just murdered two of his friends and you're on your way to nuke their city. You're already far too deep to wade out now, Macbeth.

tend his wound and explain your superior gave you faulty information.

>>238183
Check his body for weapons and disarm him. Then tend to his wound.

We're gonna have questions for our friend when she wakes up, but that's not gonna happen for several hours yet.

Given what we know now, I don't believe we can continue the mission in good faith. We need more information before we can come to a good decision.

Your priority should be to take the surviving human and your stunned comerade away from the patrol site, to a hidden location. We need to buy ourselves time for Mint to wake up.

Ask how frequent the patrols are.

>>238183
No. You can let him live, just not let him leave.
He may not know anything pertinent to the mission, but he does know everything that a common person would know, such as what their people have been told about the war.

Demand to know where his patrol vehicle is. Have Prince cover you while you treat his wounds, then have him watch the prisoner while you go jack his patrol vehicle.

>>238250
Yes. This is very important. Clearly there's some disconnect here, you need to find it out. First though, make him not die.

>>238215
Sunk cost is a terrible thing, oh Scottish tragedy.

>>238240
Probably this. How's Prince at manhandlng mans?

>>238183
Looks like you're going to have to...
[put on goggles]
...desert.

Heal him up and let him live. What kind of monster are you?

>>238183
Dangit, it's name, quest, favorite color.
That said, how long do you think you can survive out here?

Stun him. Leave him in the mud like they left Mint.

>>238343
Err... You know that Mint looks like they were treating her for severe overheating, right? Those weren't her canteens, and all that fur midday in a desert...

>>238317

She's a tiny deer.

>>238183

Your berserker rage is wearing off, so just give in to the hopeless tears and let yourself be nice to him. Trust me you'll feel better.

You can always pretend you were brainwashed by some crazy animal cult. Because this sort of thing only happens in cases like that.

The women children and so forth that they shooted on your planets, they wouldn't happen to walk on four legs and not wear clothes would they?

Oh one more thing. On no circumstances are you to let Prince get anywhere near Parlshima until you have a better idea what the situation is. Under no circumstances. Millions of lives could be at stake.

>>238401
Ah, yeah... is PRINCE the NUCLEAR ROBOT we were supposed to deliver? D:

LonelyWorld 2010/10/04(Mon)16:50 No. 238463 ID: b6c6fc
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"I-I can't do it, I'M NOT A MONSTER!"
Oken drops the revolver

Enrad sighs and colapses

Reality hits poor Oken like a ton bricks the two pinkies she's slain, the millions she was going to murder, the betrayal of her friends and comanding officers, her own fatige and injury . . .

Oken breaks down and sobs uncontrollably

Chapter 1 end

>>238463
Stop crying and start treating people! You are being silly.

There, there.

Was the robot going to explode to blow up the city, or just charge up a really big laser blast?

>>238463
Stop crying and get a move on. Once it becomes clear for the pinkies what your mission was and what happened here they're not likely to be in a very merciful mood. And even if they are, life in a prison camp is distinctly unpleasant and boring. And the alternative of turning on your own people is rather unappetising, since the pinks will never really trust you. After all, how can you trust someone that turns on their own species?

LonelyWorld 2010/10/04(Mon)18:44 No. 238516 ID: b6c6fc
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I hope you all enjoyed, the first chapter of CRASH QUEST,

you guys have all been awsome, thanks for all
the great comments, as a bit of a thank you
here's some concept art!

(I'm not sure If I'm supposed start the new chapter here, or in a new thread)

>>238516
Generally a new thread will do.

>>238516
It's only 200 posts. You could probably re-use this thread unless the next chapter is going to be much larger.

The cut-off is usually "when your browser locks up loading the thread".

>>238516
Goddamit now I have to recolor all my fanart. >:C

Yeah, you could do another chapter in this thread. At 500+ posts maybe start thinking about a new one, don't go over a thousand if you can possibly help it.

lol, please don't! the colours I chose might not even be cannon . . . I would be eager to see what colour Ideas you guys come up with!

heh, I guess it's too late for that now . . .

LonelyWorld 2010/10/05(Tue)14:22 No. 238825 ID: b6c6fc
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chapter 2 is go!

move your weapon away from him.

>>238825

Tend Enrad's wounds, unless you want to bump the ol' murder count to 3.

buck up soldier, your new mission is investigate.

>>238825
First: Stop crying, tiny deer.
Second: That man needs medical attention. Make it happen.
Third: Tell Prince that this is now an intelligence gathering mission due to glaring inconsistencies with current intel.

>>238825
Get Mint loaded up on top of prince, get your stuff and lets go. This area is going to be crawling with pinkies soon. Even if they're not the monsters they have been made out to be they're probably not going to be nice.

Oh, and you should probaly dump Prince once Mint wakes up. Having a walking nuclear device with you that leaves very visible tracks is not a good idea.

LonelyWorld 2010/10/05(Tue)14:36 No. 238840 ID: b6c6fc
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>Nuclear Smartbomb: PR156 "Prince" online
>STATUS: stranded in hostile territory
>SYSTEMS: functioning at critical
>MISSION: DETENATE IN CITY [Parlshima bay]
>CREW-GUNNER: MIA
>CREW-ENGINEER: Incapacitated/Dying
>CREW-PILOT: unknown Illness/Dying
>STARSHIP: DESTROYED

>ACTIVATING LOGIC SYSTEMS
>What is my current directive?
>_

question pilot on current status.

>unknown Illness/Dying

What

>>238840
Both have been compromised. Continue mission on your own. You have been given the direction, which seems to be south, you have your orders. Now carry out your mission.

>>238843
Price cannot compute sadness.

Quickly Prince, run over the hyyyyyyooooman. Squishy squishy. Tell Pilot to shut the fuck up or you're going to give it such a boo-boo.

Also I think both are listed as "Dying" because... they're not immortal. Such is a robot's perspective.

Current directive: request repairs.

>>238840
>What is my current directive?

Dance.

Then pick up the human.

>>238846
No, don't do this. Strange circumstances have arisen, it requires more investigation. Examine engineer, if medical attention can be administered, do so, unless you are unfit, in which case tell the pilot that despite her illness, she needs to "Administer medical attention immediately."

LonelyWorld 2010/10/05(Tue)15:41 No. 238886 ID: b6c6fc
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MEDICAL SOFTWARE: loaded
MEDICAL HARDWARE: undamaged

CREW REPORT:ANALASYS

CREW-ENGINEER: [Incapacitaded] paralized by stun rifle, Treatments: Time 4 hours;
stim injector? negetive, victim too weak
[Dying] Heat exposer, time till death, 2 hours, Treatment: remove from heat

CREW-PILOT: [unknown Illness] identified! SADNESS, Treatments: unknown
[dying] dehydration, time till death 8 hours, Treatments: ingest water, remove from heat

Zoom in on distant black shape, analysis? possible lowered heat?

>>238886
Identify shadow in distance. Warn PILOT and begin charging laser if hostile. If not hostile, alert PILOT to proper medical treatment of both her and ENGINEER.

>>238886
If only you hadn't been so eager to vapourise the shade-providing ship, eh?

>>238886
Alert Pilot to proper medical care for Engineer, Pilot, and CAPTIVE.
Identify unidentified target.

>>238886
Asses if the thing in the distance is a hostile.

Begin preparations for continuation of the mission on your own.

Get Oken some water. That might make her feel a little better.

Give the human captive medical attention.

LonelyWorld 2010/10/05(Tue)17:22 No. 238977 ID: b6c6fc
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object is a police class mobile dune tower
vehicle appears to be unmanned
vehicle is stationary
distance 700 metres

Prince:"Oken drink this water"
I give the pilot one of the three mostly empty cantines, she continues sobing but still drinks

PRISONER STATUS: critically injured /dying
[critically injured] massive leg wound, Treatments: amputation,cauterize.
major hand wound: Treatments: suture, bandage
[Dying]bloodloss, time till death 20 minutes
treatments: staunch blood flow, treat injury

>>238977
Laser-cauterize the leg wound.

The longer plan needs to be to get all recoverable persons to the shade of that vehicle.

>>238977
Drag the two crewmembers over to the vehicle and get them into shade.

See if you can find some information about human patrol patterns in the area and the best route to reach the city with. The base mission is still on, there is still an explosion waiting to happen.

tell Pilot that if she wishes prisoner to live then she needs to cauterize his wound.

>>238988
Yes, this. It's understandable for Oken to be shaken up about what she's done, but this is a bad time for her to be completely useless.

Definitely laser-amputate and cauterize the prisoner's leg.

LonelyWorld 2010/10/05(Tue)20:14 No. 239090 ID: b6c6fc
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Prince: "Oken! if you desire for this prisoner to live, he needs medical treatment, immediatly!"
Oken: "u-uh?"
Prince: "I cannot do this alone! I need your hands."
Oken: "right! I-I'll do my best"

we amputate the Pinkskin's leg, and give him proper medical treatment, he will live, for now . . .

Oken: "I'm sorry about earlier, prince I'll try not to let that happen again
Prince: "we are still indanger! the time for apologies is later!"
Oken: "right!"

(control switches back too Oken)

>>239090
Aight, Oken. You and Prince need to get yourselves, Mint, and the prisoner over to the vehicle Prince noticed. Mint in particular needs to get in the shade, as she's suffering from heat exposure.

yeah, all that fur can not be a good thing out here.

>>239090
You've got less than two hours to save Mint.

Ask Enrad what's needed to start the vehicle.
Take the cloth and drape them over Prince's arms. Use junk and hard armor to form a crude sun shelter for Mint and Enrad, then head for the vehicle. It should take you less than 15 minutes to walk there, and far less to get it started and drive it back, but setting up a crude shelter is quick and covers contingencies.

Once everybody is loaded onto the vehicle, start heading towards lesser lifesigns in the hopes that your buddy is still alive.

>>239104
This could work too. You have a lot more time to work with and aren't paralyzed or crippled.

>>239090
Drag your sorry asses over into the shade of that patrol vehicle that Prince noticed. Then I guess you should figure out what to do. While the pinks are not the monsters you have been told they are, they're not very likely to be nice either when they find out that you were on a run to bomb one of their cities with a nuclear device. Things like that tends to make people upset.

It would probably be a decent idea to dump Prince at some point. It will give you a bit more plausible denial. Then you can say that you really had no idea what the mission was really about and the crazy robot just went off on its own and then there was a big explosion and you were all like "What the fuck?! I have been walking around next to a fucking nuke? My people are crazy!" and hopefully not get sentanced to meet a firing squad at dawn.

Get to the vehicle. Get shade. Get water.

Jeezus not even any pain meds that might turn out badly.

LonelyWorld 2010/10/06(Wed)16:38 No. 239558 ID: b6c6fc
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>Oken can find no cloth
>Oken asks Enrad what's necessary to pilot the dune tower, he gives he a ring of keys
>Oken picks up the revolver and Mint, the party then travels towards the vehicle

Poor Mint, I remember her telling me she came from the IceWorld: Vin-Malor. the climate must be terrible for her here

we arrive in the shadow of the massive DuneTower

>Enrad can climb up despite his injuries, Oken can climb up even while carrying Mint, Prince cannot climb up

>>239558
He's grinning.

He's plotting something!

>>239561
are you sure that isn't a grimace?

anyway. look for any ramp controls or something to get prince loaded up onto the ship as well. get mint up and in the shade.

>>239558
...did Prince leave his right track in the sand? So much for repairing that, then.

Price can sit and laser-stare at the captive while Oken explores the cabin, then.

>>239558
He doesn't need to be in the passenger area. He can instead latch on to the supports and ride that way.
That will give you the chance to quietly tell Enrad what your mission was, and let him know that Prince is going to try to complete that mission on its own if it suspects something is wrong.
Look for life signs that could be your gunner. You need to find them as quickly as possible.

LonelyWorld 2010/10/06(Wed)17:27 No. 239577 ID: b6c6fc
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>Oken carries mint up into the cabin

It's nice and cool in here

>>239577
Well, examine everything. In particular if that cage is lockable for the prisoner, and if that winch will drag Prince up here.

Water supplies would be good too.

There is probably a radio or something similar in here, it must be found and destroyed immediately.

oh look a claw thing, you can use that to winch prince up.

Set Mint down and check upstairs for baddies.

>>239577
What is that, a box of donuts?

>>239579
Yeah. Also, get Mint set down somewhere.

LonelyWorld 2010/10/06(Wed)19:36 No. 239635 ID: b6c6fc
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I set Mint down next to the box of donuts, she always did like the smell of pastries

the cage is deffinitly strong enough to hold Enrad, plus I also have the key to lock it!

I don't see anything that looks like a radio, though I did find the contols for the claw, it
might be strong enough to lift Prince . . .

>>239635
Alright. Bring the pinkie up here and throw im in the brig. Lift Prince on board via craneclaw, and let's get this tower a-rolling.

The smell of... what... okay I'm not going to ask.

You're strong! You can lift Mint up that ladder all by yourself! Anyway open zee hatch. You can see Prince there below you that way.

>>239635
So what's that in the centre of the room?

Also check upstairs before activating the winch, lest the noise rouse somebody. Pistol at the ready for wide-angle stunning.

>>239650
Prince said this appeared to be unmanned, but...

It couldn't hurt to be safe. Just, y'know, don't run in shooting.

LonelyWorld 2010/10/06(Wed)21:10 No. 239681 ID: b6c6fc
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the thing in the middle looks like some sort of engine maintenance thingy, I dunno

I locked Enrad in the cell, he doesn't seem too happy about that

hmm it doesn't look like anyone is up here either, oh look there's that radio I was looking for

Let's prop Mint up on the comfy sofa and drink a cold one

okay cool. winch prince on board and then sit down and talk to enrad a little. tell him that you only locked him in there because you are currently very afraid of what would happen if he radioed for backup. also see about getting a free soda out of the machine.

>>239686
no no, the inside of the cabin is cool. up here is still really hot so it wouldn't help her condition.

>>239681
First things first. Winch prince on board, then use your height-boosted range to track down your gunner. Minutes count here.

This thing rocks.

Get Mint a flavored water from the machine.

LonelyWorld 2010/10/07(Thu)04:54 No. 239832 ID: b6c6fc
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OK! let's winch up Prince he's gotta see all the cool stuff I've found!

. . . uh oh

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF-
Mint is going to be pissed.
See if he can be repaired... or rebuilt?

>>239832
No great loss really. Just leave the walking nuclear bomb there, it's not safe to have him around anyway.

>>239834
We should at least keep track of where the big nasty nuke is, in case one of our buddies decides to do the job for us. Which part has the bomb? I'm assuming the body?

Reel it in, and possibly bring the head up as well.

>>239832
Man, they don't build nuclear robots like they used to.

We probably don't have time to schlepp all the bits up into the cabin right now. There's a horizon to scan for gunners.

>>239838
Explaining away why we have a nuke with us could be slightly problematical. Then there's the chance that he decides to blow up if he thinks we're about to be captured or surrender. Much safer to just leave it out in the desert and forget about it.

LonelyWorld 2010/10/07(Thu)08:17 No. 239846 ID: b6c6fc
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there's no way I could fix Prince, Mint probably could, she can fix anything

Prince: "that is odd, that fall should have set off my detenator, igniting a nuclear explosion that should have incinerated everything in a 30 kilometer radius"

...It's probably good that didn't happen then.

>>239846
Man, they really don't make nukes like they used to. One handling error and your whole airbase goes up...

Although Prince mostly seems to contain packs of carrots and metal sheets. If the head's standalone, grab it, along with whatever of his inventory survived.

What? There is no bomb inside you. That looks like... a combat knife? And maybe something else.

Sift through the parts and see what you find.

>>239846
Nothing went off. So... they lied about the bomb too, huh?

Jeez, girl. I think your commanding officers have some sort of pathology.

Check ROBOT REMAINS and bring the head with you.

>>239846
The truly dangerous parts are probably too big to fit into the head. So leave the rest and just take the head, that way we leave the bomb and we get the part that can act as a translator. Oh, and take whatever useful gear that was dropped with Prince.

Well then, time for some more interogations. We need to know where they have their spaceport and how tight security around it is. Hopefully we can steal a spaceship and then blast off and escape capture.

Don't forget to take the stuff that was inside Prince (rations and etc) and store it inside the mobile dune tower thing.

Prince is now a hat?

inform prince that he was a dud, the mission was suicide.

>>239854
Generally nukes don't go off when you just drop them, but lets not jostle him too much just in case. Take his computing module (head or head analog) and lets move somewhere less... within blast radius.

>>239846
Either he didn't have a live bomb to start with and this was all a setup or he didn't fall far enough for the detonator to arm fully. It's probably the first one, if only because it would be very hard to fit anything bigger than a sub-kiloton artillery nuke in such a compact frame.

>>239869
Well, Prince DID say that the bomb should have gone off. He's a robot after all, he knows better than any of us.

>>239860
Maybe the bomb is actually a dud, and this indeed was a suicide mission.

The question is, why?

>>239855
>We need to know where they have their spaceport and how tight security around it is.
I assume there must be a spaceport in Parlshima, which I think is in the background of >>239681, so it shouldn't take too long to get there.
Unless Parlshima is far far away and just really huge. Hard to tell without any movement parallax.

>>239846
"Not complaining. Do some diagnostics and tell me if it's broken or missing. Meanwhile, I need to find a way to get your important parts to the top."

Take the awning over the couch down, pile the parts into that, then tie the makeshift sack to the winch. Anything that's too heavy for the cloth you carry yourself.

>>239846
Obviously your command lied to you. Your mission might be secretive and you just have to deliver Prince to a secret unit in the city.

Good, that should ease your conscience a little. You killed cops just doing their jobs against an opponent race than a "nuke 'em all" race. They really didn't need to defend their citizens at all!

Or it's a dud and your still a monster.

>>239915
Let's not make her have another breakdown.