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720657 No. 720657 ID: b2e8b1

By which term do most sentient species characterize us?
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No. 725198 ID: 094652

Let him live, but poison him in the dick.
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No. 725328 ID: 3e182c

Do what you need too and get going, if Ubitrax escapes to the surface with your sister, she could end up anywhere. If this is the only surface entrance near Hansaki, then you may be able to set up an ambush in the cave, or perhaps stealthfully take your sister, if not, then you need to make your way back to Hansaki while the trail is fresh.

Waste this fool and get goin.
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No. 725481 ID: 619c7c

Nah, blow both of his kneecaps and leave him there. Maybe poison him a little, enough that it hurts, but not enoght to kill him. Let the mothefucker suffer.
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No. 725555 ID: a075ba

Keep your promise not to torture him to death by doing something very painful to him, then leaving him alive to suffer.

Take anything useful he was carrying. You have a slaver merchant to track down.
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No. 726357 ID: b2e8b1
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726357

>>Torture the motherfucker leave him alive.
I leave the ghilloid to her misery after cutting off her scissors, which are actually the most valuable thing on her. I also find seven cylinders of dynamite, some gold and diamonds. Her gun is too heavy for me to carry and I don't know how to shoot it even if I could figure out the mechanism to reload. so I fuck up his gun and drag it into water. I also find cooked fingers of cavefish. I take her clothes and make them into bandages with her cave machete. Then I dress her wounds and poison them, so she doesn't bleed to death.

I continue the journey in the increasingly deep stream that soon submerges the whole cavern around Hansaki towards the Tendrakki territory in the eastern Underdrought.
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No. 726388 ID: ce861e

uh, are those other bubbles from a benign source or is there a creature below you?
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No. 726675 ID: b2e8b1
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726675

>>726388

There seems to be a tight hole where the bubbles are erupting. The bubbles themselves come from bubbly tube corals. I could fit inside easily, but I would have to leave the bag behind - maybe my jacket too. I also posses a cave machete so I could cut off one of the elastic tube organisms. The water from the hole seems to be warm and has a strong mineral tint to its taste. Light emanates from behind the first curve.
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No. 726703 ID: a075ba

>>726675
Ignore sidequest. You have a mission already, and we don't know how time sensitive it is right now. Rescue and vengeance take priority now.
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No. 726780 ID: 3e182c

>>726675
Ok, that could be a fumarole. Noxious Chemicals, and unpredictable very, very hot water. Don't go in there. The tube thing... Unless you know its not venomous or have a way of not touching it while taking it with you, ignore and move on.
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No. 727947 ID: b2e8b1
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727947

The underground river flows underneath a boiling soup of steam and molten green glass. The burnt glass around the boiling soup is nearly intorelably hot to traverse on. I have some strips left from the bounty hunter's coat, those strips that weren't needed to lace him up.

The way across is either south or north. South from here is presumably a guard post the authorities chasing me have manned with exceptionally mean and loyal personnel. The north is yet unkown to me.
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No. 727948 ID: b2e8b1
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No. 728104 ID: a075ba

>>727947
Well, if we're going to get into Hansaki, we'll need to go through the guard post, unless we can find a way around.

You said you were a refugee before, does this mean we can expect the guards to be less than happy to allow you through?
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No. 728119 ID: 3e182c

North looks like a fairly direct route, plus it has the benefit of opening up near a cavern exit.
If your sisters captors are moving topside in any expedient fashion, north could give you a chance to intercept them.

If you must walk on this hot glass crust, at least wrap your feet with the cloth.
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No. 729416 ID: b2e8b1
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729416

I take the northern route around the hot green death away from the guard post.

I see two guards aiming rifles or Dracksters, sort of advanced rifles at a sacrificial maiden. From a distance it looks like it's not my sister, but someone else. I don't know what the gown colors stand for, but there's a reason she's being ritually executed. I can't hear any communication, but the scene hints me that the officer is persuading the victim to perform a ritual jump.
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No. 729455 ID: a075ba

>>729416
If the guards are focused on their tasks and the slow drama of convincing the maiden to jump, you might be able to ambush them from behind, thus securing you more supplies.

And a maiden, I suppose. Who can be returned to wherever she was taken for favors / rewards, used as a servant, or sold as a slave.
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No. 729600 ID: 3e182c

I really don't like a 2v1. But... Its not like we can just walk up to our sister's Captors unarmed and ask politely. We need a weapon, and since we seem to be a fugitive, a disguise. Everything we need is right here.

We need to be able to sufficiently disable one guard so we can rest control of his weapon and bring it to bear on the other, either silently enough so the second fails to notice, or quickly enough that the other fails to react.

We do have a unique opportunity here though that could make this not suicide: The Maiden.

If we sneak up on the guards, and wait for the exact moment when she finally jumps, they're attention will be fully focused on that spectacle.
If we strike then, we may be able to take them both out before either fully understands what's going on.
Her demise will only buy us a second extra, maybe two if we're lucky, but that may be the only difference between saving our sister and a grizzly death.
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No. 729993 ID: b2e8b1
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729993

>>729455
I sneak behind all of them three and their droughtlisk. The droughtlisk spots me, but it's too tame to alert the military guardsmen. I have a perfect shot at any of them now.

>>729600
I can now hear what the officer is communicating with the maiden. The maiden is overcome by cruelty of the world now and is trying to jump.
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No. 730004 ID: 3e182c

Is that Dynamite? And a convenient molten glass pool to light the fuse?

Fuck Yes.
No fiddling with matches or relying on our single stick.

Procure that dynamite (Both sticks) and position yourself near the glass pit, behind the close guard.

Wind your body tightly like a spring, legs ready to pounce, hands and arms holding the dynamite, already positioned to throw' fuses (but not the dynamite itself) positioned inches above the molten glass.

As maiden jumps, dip the fuses in the glass to ignite them. In a single motion, throw them at the ground between the two guards further from you, and pounce onto the guard closest to you, landing with all your weight on his tail, biting into his neck (Both to poison him and help balance yourself). Get your arms under his and gain control of that weapon.
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No. 730010 ID: 2bc681

>>729993
the poor dear.
welp, time to prove her right! because that is a LOT of loot just waiting to be liberated from those guards.
if possible, ambush the closest guard to get his weapon and use his body as a meatshield as you gun down the other two.
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No. 730067 ID: a075ba

>I have a perfect shot at any of them now.
Shoot the captain, then start shooting the others.

Maybe the maiden will still jump, maybe she'll stop in confusion. You immediate priority is killing the soldiers, though. They have good loot.
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No. 730098 ID: 094652

Throw the droughtlisk some food and throw a few dynamite sticks behind the soldiers so they are blasted into the river, then tackle the officer and threaten to stuff a stick of dynamite down his dirty dent.

Convince the maiden to spend the rest of her short life in hedonistic pleasure (and then snap her out of it after you've had a taste).
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No. 730202 ID: 3e182c

>>730067
Don't we have bullets but no gun?
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No. 730211 ID: b2e8b1
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730208

>>730202

I load ammunition to both my gun in less than 30 seconds, getting time from the maiden still hesitating, but making clear attempts to approach the inevitable, that satisfies the captain. I have now 8 bullets in the gun chambers and 52 ammunition left in the small black metal box.
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No. 730224 ID: b2e8b1
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730224

The dynamite finishes all three.
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No. 730225 ID: b2e8b1
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730225

The problem is now that most of the guns, helmets, outfits are rendered junk by the explosion.

The droughtlisk is wounded from a thousand small and big shards thrown around by the explosion.

I could avoid most of the shards, but it's become dangerous to just slither around here.
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No. 730226 ID: b2e8b1
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730226

The maiden did not jump in time, and she's dead.
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No. 730252 ID: 3e182c

>>730211
We seem to have underestimated the dynamite.
Welp. Inspect the draughtlisk, maybe it had something else in its pack. Check if it can move or be tended to or if it's just meat.

As for the corpses... Too much dangerous terrain, not enough time. That explosion was probably heard for miles down here. We should probably make ourselves scarce before more show up and continue on.

Though... If we make ourselves hidden nearby, we may get lucky enough to be able to ambush anyone following the sound.

Whether we stay or go though, doing our best to stay out of sight seems prudent.
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No. 730346 ID: a075ba

>wrecked their gear and the maiden
Reflect on the problem of overkill. Sure, it gets the job done, but then there's nothing to loot!
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No. 730470 ID: b2e8b1
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730470

Food and a MIL-STD revolver pistol and papers.
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No. 730503 ID: a075ba

Might as well dump the maiden in lava, she was headed there anyways.

Read the papers.
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No. 730550 ID: 3e182c

>>730503
and move over jagged terrain and hot sharp rock bits to do so? She can stay where she is.

Do read them papers though.
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No. 731279 ID: b2e8b1
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731279

>>730503
>>730550

I leave her where she is.

I can't read.

I hear very silent score of footsteps and someone clocking a gun behind my incompetent ear tunnels. This guy starts to smell like coal as soon as he's there.

He speaks my language with an unknown accent. "Found something there? You know it's ellegal to kill, mutilate, blow up authorities like that? Very ellegal."
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No. 731295 ID: 78df21

>>731279
Lie for your life, claim you were just a bystander that watched, too far away to act when the maiden, furious at being dragged back, set off the dynamite and nearly killing you.
whether he believes it or not, he'll probably be distracted enough to shoot or venom him.
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No. 731316 ID: a075ba

>>731279
Of course it's illegal, that's why I blew all of them up. So they couldn't do anything about it.
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No. 731369 ID: 3e182c

That was fast. and you Can't read? Shit. Put that down as something that needs learning once you find your sister.
>>731316
This. Say this.
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No. 731380 ID: b2d501

"Yeah, and what do you call waving a gun around a girl's face while your trigger finger is doing the Macarena? Justifiable homicide?"

Search your bag. Find fresh meat. Throw at gun. Duck.

Wait for your heavily marred friend to MAUL the @#$%er, then treat their wounds so they don't bleed out.
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No. 731433 ID: b2e8b1
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731433

>>731295

>I was watching here when the maiden unveiled a dynamite from her sacrificial clothes and threw it at us, not all of us were lucky to survive the blast! Was I closer would have stopped the maiden --"

He interrupts: "Let's cut the crab poop and get on top of your setuation." His hand coordination matches my head movements perfectly, even though he is like not paying attention at all. "Your sister is in the hands of my _customer_. You however, are in my _contract_. If only the word, 'sister' rings a bell, she was bought by a Tendrakki _corporation_ and you match your sister's description perfectly. My customer seems to believe that his _employees_ work better if they're _not_ separated from their families. Now if you please, I will lower my gun does not mean that I'm _not_ afraid of your serpent reflexes or spit _at all_. Och! As a future potential college, I need to tell you how my customer likes his newest assassin. He hopes you will prove, ass effecient ass your 'ssister'."
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No. 731439 ID: b2d501

>>731433
I don't think he's lying; there's no real reason he would come all this way and point a gun at a bomb maniac if he wasn't working for someone else.

Once he stops aiming, go back to the draughtlisk and try to save them. Then walk with the overconfident hunter and prepare multiple assassination and escape plans. Maybe you could smear some meat or any other high-smell food on his back. "Kick me", but with wounded animal pouncing.
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No. 731444 ID: 3e182c

We could always duck behind the draghtlisk, toss our last stick o dynamite into the nearby magma pool, and shoot the guy as he desperatly dives away...

But that would be reckless.
What kind of control devices exist that would make it a pain in the ass to just walk away once we are reunited with our sister?
Because if there arn't any, we might as well let this guy bring us to her and double cross thm sater.
However... If there are such devices... Lava rain might be a better alternative.
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No. 731988 ID: a075ba

>>731433
Ask how this would work, then. He just leads us back or...?
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No. 732325 ID: b2e8b1
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732325

>>731439
>>731444
>>731988

"How would this thing with my sister work?"

"IT WOULD BE AWESOME! I can't even describe how I like my occupation. Drink and eat the finest, corporation takes care of the fines, as long as you don't make too many "friends", you're living like a king. Of course after the practikum period you are free to leave and go as long as don't violate the service terms. Could be months, could be even a couple of years between removal jobs. Only that sucks."

I take the remaining dynamite and hide it inside my pocket as an instrument of escape for the future. I tend the wounds of the draughtlisk as well as I can, but it seems little is to be done. It won't move.

"I have a spare saddled cave crocodylus, leave the droughtlisk to its agony, or make end of it, your choice" The hitman tells.
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No. 732339 ID: b2d501

>>732325
Give the Draughtlisk some food and leave.
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No. 733074 ID: 3e182c

Eh. Leave the thing, we're going with this guy.
Maybe it'll live, maybe it'll die, maybe it'll end up the meal of some terrible creature. Not our problem.

Ask about the jobs, the removal jobs, the practikum period, what you do between jobs, this guys life, the corp, more on your sister, the works. It'll be a somewhat long trip yet, and this guy seems rather loose lipped. If he is hiding something, maybe he'll let a clue slip, if he,s not, we'll be in the know. Also ask if you'll be able to learn to read.

He seems excited from our last question, so ride that excitement for your next. Everything should feel... natural.
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No. 734609 ID: b85ea2
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734609

>>732339
>>733074
Leaving the droughtlisk to die.

I walk where the contract killer wants to lead me while asking questions.

Not after long we're mounting the cave crocodili.

I manage to discover that

Practikum period is meant to test if you're suitable for your position before you reach it. Between the contract kill jobs you're supposed to practice more and develop new strategies, but this slimy guy, who doesn't share his name yet in doubt of my namelessness, says it's more like spending time with dimwit chicks and mostly second step politicians keeping them entertained. Your life is strictly controlled by secrecy protocol.

He claims he's a Tendrakki himself. He has been a janitor before he applied to a corporate special program to train paramilitary forces to the army, which lead to a contract killer job. He has three wives with some kids, all of which he coupled to their passing persons of interest and polygamy lovers when he started a secret life. He pretended that he had been fired from his job as a janitor and couldn't pay the bills anymore. All this information he swears will not pass to many lips before I would end up dead.
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No. 734807 ID: 3e182c

>>734609
>Janitor
Ok, so this "employer" is interested in people from all walks of life. That gives this some credibility. Good.

I'm also starting to think this guy is an idiot. Which is also good.

Continue the conversation, Get all the details necessary to get in contact with this employer of his, along with more personal inquiries. Go ahead and surrender a little more personal info on yourself than you'd normally be comfortable disclosing too.

We want this man to trust us, because we're bringing his head to our new employer.

The Practikum period starts now.
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No. 737832 ID: b85ea2
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737832

>Make him talk
Realising his social buttons with my intelligent and all-round survivor nature I get him all talky. He even speaks so much spit starts to accumulate on his mouth tentacles.

>
Hitman: "What if I made the case you are a key to a plan by certain corporate interests to forcifully enter sacred Kleid (means snake people) tunnel systems. There has been strong rumors there's some thing of great power hidden there."

>
"I'm not the best of hitmen the corporation I work for has enlisted, it appears that the best types can express their own talent on others too, when they're relaxed. My specialty is sneaking. I'm not a bad shooter, but sometimes it's just hard to take aim close, even momentarily. Aha- what got me the job is that I talk mostly all the time when I'm not with OTHER Tendrakki. Tendrakki can be such loose lipped women..."

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"We speceal corps are a dirty secret from the Tendrakki publec and it's commonplace to have few select from every race, using their raceal feats to complement whole teams en some cases. Nobuddy expects seven to therteen person replace and enfeltrate target's life, or if does, then there's less to do than against onle one."
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No. 737886 ID: 3e182c

>>737832
(I don't know why but I absolutely adore this illustration.)

Oh wow. We have no idea if this place is safe to talk and he's already blabbing about secret plans. Hell we're not even technically employed yet.

Also, there was the gaff about sucking at up close combat. He is at a disadvantage here. It's so perfect I'd normally say it was a trap... if his left hand weren't full of rein and his right full of cigar.

See if you can get his name again, but more importantly, get our new employers contact info.

Once we have it, let him take a nice big drag off that cigar. Then make it his last.
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No. 738749 ID: b85ea2
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738749

>>737886
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No. 738752 ID: b85ea2
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738752

Last words: I work for a corporation called CavegulliGroup.
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No. 738775 ID: 3e182c

And his name was and forever shall be, Retard.
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