MU 2.

[OUTPUT: Would you like to begin game?]
>yes
>yes
>yes
[OUTPUT: Loading game...]
[OUTPUT: Loading game...]
[OUTPUT: Loading game...]
[OUTPUT: A B Y S S A L O D D I T Y]
PLAY GAME / ACHIEVEMENTS / MUSIC / CREDITS / QUIT
>Credits
>Credits
[OUTPUT: http://pastebin.com/4pvkgtd5]
>Pressing F to pay tribute
>Achievements
[OUTPUT: >Achievements: http://pastebin.com/9btBtCMQ]
[OUTPUT: Please enter command.]
>start
>Play game.
[OUTPUT: File successfully loaded.]
>Wait.
[OUTPUT: Waiting.]
>Oh, yep.
[OUTPUT: Game loaded.]
>Resume.
>ye
[OUTPUT: You are on board your ship, doing whatever. You have one hour until arrival on the main continental structure of the Mu Sector. You could build a robot, sort through salvaged parts, mess with music, et cetera.]
>Sort through your salvaged parts.
[OUTPUT: MECHANOMATERIALS: Hunk of Refined Infused Arcanium x5, Hunk of Vesperium x2, Three Piles of Miscellaneous Mechanical Shit, Centurion Sojourner Circuit Core, Psioglass Tube x8, Cyanic Mechanovitae Tube x2, Orchid Neon Light x3, Psionic Filter (12/14).]
[OUTPUT: You also have that injector pipe.]
>examine the piles of miscellaneous mechanical shit
[OUTPUT: Similarly, your schematics to use these things number exactly two.]
[OUTPUT: You did examine the piles when you were frantically attempting to find that psionic filter a while back.]
[OUTPUT: What will you do?]
>What are the schematics?
[OUTPUT: Would you like the full version, or the list?]
>Full version.
[OUTPUT: SCHM1: Infusion Drone: Spent Medkit, Sonic Repulsor Engine, Cyanic Mechanovitae Tube, Injector Pipe. SCHM2: Magnetizer: Sensor, Sonic Repulsor Engine, Cyanic Mechanovitae Tube, Lapis Stone.]
Are these the robots we can build
[OUTPUT: These are indeed miniature orbiting droids you can construct.]
>What is the infusion drone?
>Check inventory for parts for SCHM2
[OUTPUT: The Infusion Drone. Oh, you don't really KNOW what this does fully. You've been assured it is a nonlethal device to be used in case of medical emergency.]
[OUTPUT: Perhaps it automatically applies medkits, or something of the sort. Injects them.]
>Look it up
[OUTPUT: ERROR: THIS SEARCH REQUIRES A LEVEL NINETY CLEARANCE CODE.]
>Check inventory for parts for SCHM2
[OUTPUT: You have everything but the Sensor and the Lapis Stone.]
>Check for parts for SCHM1.
>Recall what magnetizer does
[OUTPUT: Spent Medkit: You could feasibly just use a regular medkit for this. Sonic Repulsor Engine: check. Cyanic Mechanovitae Tube: check. Injector Pipe: check.]
Nah, wait until we use a medkit?
[OUTPUT: A Magnetizer senses H2O from long distances, and draws it to you on command.]
>Wonder if infusion drone can be made then not activated yet
>On that note, check health
[OUTPUT: The Infusion Drone would presumably only apply medkits when needed.]
[OUTPUT: Azure: 15/15 HP. ]
[OUTPUT: You know, you DID use that one medkit after the battle with the Lupine Beast...]
>Search for it
[OUTPUT: But where?]
>Under your ma~~ress
>In the ship control room
>Whereever you used it
[OUTPUT: You find the used medkit right next to the mixture of bloodstains from two beings on the ship's floor.]
[OUTPUT: That was painful.]
[OUTPUT: You cringe recalling it.]
>Take used medkit, clean bloodstains
>Stop cringing
>think of happy thoughts
[OUTPUT: You stop cringing, take that medkit, and fail to clean the bloodstains. The only cleaning materials you've seen in a while were back at your parents' house, back on Earth.]
>fondly recall cleaning materials
[OUTPUT: You think of happy times, and cleaning materials. They are almost exclusively from before you had to go work with the G.M.F.]
>Clean bloodstains using lapotron
[OUTPUT: With some effort, you manage to liquify the dry blood, and remove it from the ground with the Lapotron Power Core.]
>Check for storage
[OUTPUT: "Destiny" by Mr. Universe continues to play in the background, from the audio terminal.]
[OUTPUT: Please clarify.]
>Storage for liquids
[OUTPUT: Nothing. You could melt down some psioglass tubes, you suppose?]
[OUTPUT: Sadly, the iodine/water mixture was left behind on the island.]
[OUTPUT: You curse yourself for panicking and letting go of it mentally.]
I don't imagine blood will be very useful...
[OUTPUT: Probably not.]
>Incinerate it
[OUTPUT: You successfully annihilate the blood.]
[OUTPUT: ETA: forty-five minutes.]
[OUTPUT: You can indeed construct the Infusion Drone.]
>Create Infusion Drone
>While doing so, try to discern purpose
[OUTPUT: As you put the thing together from the schematic instructions, you can see the thing is definitely some sort of medical droid.]
>See if it requires medkits
[OUTPUT: The tubes within it are empty.]
>Give one medkit
[OUTPUT: Also, it is off.]
Hmm
[OUTPUT: You apply one MEDKIT to the Infusion Drone.]
[OUTPUT: Would you like to activate it, or just allow it to lie on the table somewhat sadly?]
>Turn on
[OUTPUT: You connect the main wires.]
[OUTPUT: The neon lights of the thing flicker to life, and it projects a holographic screen before you.]
>View screen
[OUTPUT: "GREETINGS. I AM THE AUTOMATED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OF THIS DRONE. I CAN ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE FUNCTION OF THIS DEVICE YOU MAY HAVE."]
>What do you do?
>Do you have a name?
[OUTPUT: "I AM A SURGICAL DROID, YET I PREVENT YOU FROM PERISHING BEFORE THE SITUATION OCCURS."]
[OUTPUT: "I AM NAMELESS. CALL ME WHAT YOU WISH."]
>Examine shape of drone
>mr surgical droid
>How do you do that?
No
[OUTPUT: The thing is about five inches tall, with a conical top.]
Aw, it's not a sphere.
[OUTPUT: "I INSTALL A LITTLE BIT OF A FAILSAFE. AUTOMATED MEDKITS, IF YOU WILL."]
>Are you easily destroyed
[OUTPUT: "MY CONSCIOUSNESS IS ETERNAL. MY BODY IS BUT A SHELL."]
[OUTPUT: "BUT THIS IS A CONSTANT FOR ALL."]
[OUTPUT: "WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO BEGIN A FAILSAFE PROCEEDURE?"]
>What is the failsafe procedure?
>name the droid either Strangelove or Lovecraft
>Name the droid temmie
[OUTPUT: "IT IS ESSENTIALLY THE EQUIVALENT OF HAVING AN AUTOMATIC MEDICAL INJECTOR TO APPLY NEEDED HELP TO YOUR PHYSICAL HUSK IF IT IS DAMAGED."]
[OUTPUT: Please vote for one of the given names.]
>Strangelove
>Are automated medkits less effective?
>strangelovr
[OUTPUT: "THEY ARE EXACTLY AS EFFECTIVE. WHY WOULD THEY EVER DECREASE IN EFFECTIVENESS FROM A SIMPLE MOVEMENT OF POSITION?"]
[OUTPUT: The droid's name is now Strangelove.]
>RPG mechanics
>Are there any downsides to automated medkits?
[OUTPUT: "THIS IS THE REAL WORLD, NOT SOME SORT OF GAME."]
[OUTPUT: "SO, NO."]
>Is the number of failsafes limited?
[OUTPUT: "DO YOU WANT TO HAVE TWO AUTOMATED NEEDLES JAMMED INTO YOUR BODY, THE SECOND LIKELY NEAR VITAL ORGANS?"]
>Are there any risks in the fallback procedure?
Failsafe*
[OUTPUT: "ONLY IF YOU WISH TO DO IT AWAKE AND UNAFFECTED BY ANESTHESIA."]
>Do you apply anesthesia
>Also, how long does it take?
[OUTPUT: "I CAN DISTILL THIS FUEL YOU HAVE PROVIDED ME INTO IT, YES."]
[OUTPUT: "ULTIMATELY, I THINK I CAN SQUEEZE IT INTO A TIME SUITABLE FOR YOUR ARRIVAL."]
>Begin procedure
[OUTPUT: Please second suggestion.]
[OUTPUT: Majority required.]
>Begin procedure. With anesthesia, of course.
[OUTPUT: 2/7.]
[OUTPUT: (4 required.)]
yes
Has anyone got the reference to Strangelove?
[OUTPUT: 3/7.]
half-vote
[OUTPUT: 3.5/7.]
no wait 2/3-vote
there majority
[OUTPUT: That isn't how it works.]
fine
[OUTPUT: 3.66666 repeated/7, regardless.]
I vote for it
[OUTPUT: Motion successful.]
[OUTPUT: "PLEASE CLOSE YOUR EYES. THIS WILL BE QUICK, I ASSURE YOU."]
>Close eyes
[OUTPUT: You close your eyes, and feel the pressure of a needle filled with anesthesia enter your bloodstream. You pass out."]
[OUTPUT: Loading...]
[OUTPUT: Loading...]
[OUTPUT: Loading...]
[OUTPUT: Sensation returns.]
>Open eyes
>Check for both kidneys
[OUTPUT: You open your eyes. ]
>Look around, assess how much time has passed
[OUTPUT: Thirty minutes have passed.]
>Assess body.
>check for additional limbs
[OUTPUT: You have both kidneys, and a normal count of limbs.]
>Look for droid
[OUTPUT: The only odd sensation is some sort of odd pressure in the middle of your back. That's probably the medkit.]
[OUTPUT: Well, auto-medkit injector.]
[OUTPUT: Strangelove is floating next to you, inactive. The tube is devoid of medical fluid you applied, so it was indeed used.]
[OUTPUT: The only odd thing that appears to have changed is a large teardrop-shaped marking on the side of your Lapotron Power Core.]
>Put it away, I guess
>assess health
[OUTPUT: It can just stay there, really.]
[OUTPUT: It is off.]
[OUTPUT: Azure: 15/15 HP. ]
>Examine marking
[OUTPUT: It's teardrop-shaped. Probably 4.5 inches in length.]
[OUTPUT: Nothing else appears to have changed with the thing.]
>Activate drone
>tap the marking
>Ask what marking is
[OUTPUT: You poke the marking, and nothing happens.]
[OUTPUT: Then, you reactivate Strangelove.]
Remember Strangelove has a German Accent
[OUTPUT: "THE INSCRIPTION? THAT WAS JUST SOMETHING A LITTLE EXTRA I APPLIED TO YOUR WEAPONRY. IT SHOULD SERVE AS SOME SORT OF FOCUS."]
>What does that mean
>Thank Strangelove for the focus.
[OUTPUT: You thank Strangelove.]
>thank mr skeltal
[OUTPUT: You have fifteen minutes to kill. What now?]
>search for a library
[OUTPUT: The track on the audio terminal has switched to "Just A Comet". You love this album, fuck.]
[OUTPUT: You don't have a library in your ship. Why would you.]
So you can learn the sick majjyks
>see if delta has responded to your thanks
[OUTPUT: Delta's left a quick "Mhm." and gone offline.]
[OUTPUT: You can see the continental plate from here. You are almost there. What shall you do?]
... Did I miss something
>Prepare yourself
[OUTPUT: "CAT: Delta's left a quick "Mhm." and gone offline."]
[OUTPUT: You are ALWAYS prepared. By which you mean you are always prepared to burst into tears at the drop of a hat.]
[OUTPUT: You ready yourself, you suppose.]
>Play solitaire.
[OUTPUT: Oh, of course.]
[OUTPUT: ACHIEVEMENT: Injected Completed!]
[OUTPUT: You just sort of play holosolitaire for fifteen minutes.]
[OUTPUT: ETA: now.]
[OUTPUT: Please enter command.]
>Finish solitaire by cheating.
>Open door
>ready weapon
[OUTPUT: You mess with the code of the holocomputer, and finish holosolitaire, then walk over to the hatch.]
[OUTPUT: ...You're going to have to unweld this again.]
>go back to audıo termınal
>Do that
[OUTPUT: You go back to the audio terminal.]
>Write a reminder to ger a be~~er hatch
>Unweld that is
>play song not by mr. unıverse
[OUTPUT: You play the hit album that came out about two years ago. Hamilton.]
[OUTPUT: ACHIEVEMENT: Culture COMPLETED!]
whee
[OUTPUT: That one was obvious.]
[OUTPUT: Now what?]
>unweld
>unweld termınal
>ni
>no
[OUTPUT: You carefully use the plasma cutter to unweld the hatch.]
I actually can't remember why we were here.
What are we doing?
[OUTPUT: Dust pours into the chamber. You cough somewhat, and peer at the arcanium slate.]
[OUTPUT: Why, you're here to get the VOID SHARD the map detected.]
>Examine surroundings
[OUTPUT: You drop down onto the slate, and examine your surroundings.]
[OUTPUT: There's an extremely large plate of arcanium slate, and a massive complex on top of it, surrounded by a brick wall of pseudo-medieval architectural origin.]
[OUTPUT: Unlike last time, there IS an entrance.]
>Approach building
[OUTPUT: You carefully creep over to the structure. Nothing happens.]
>Pass wall
[OUTPUT: The second you take a step forward, three orchid lights atop the wall blink to life.]
[OUTPUT: Another Centurion?]
>Back off
[OUTPUT: It doesn't seem to have noticed you yet, but it might.]
[OUTPUT: You take a step back.]
[OUTPUT: The hulking metal being rises into the air.]
>Return to ship
>Return to ship
>aye
[OUTPUT: You attempt to flee, but the thing projects a red light from its left arm, tracing a line between the ship and you.]
[OUTPUT: Nothing happens. All is still.]
>try to greet it
>no
>Limbo/Jumo over line
Jumo
Jump
>Don't cross the line
[OUTPUT: Which one will it be?]
[OUTPUT: Jump, or stay?]
>Estimate if jump can be made
>clutch head in confusion
[OUTPUT: The line is literally like four centimeters in width.]
>Is the Centurion currently attacking you?
>Has it noticed you?
[OUTPUT: The thing is not technically assaulting you, but it clearly has noticed you.]
[OUTPUT: And thusly projected this... line.]
>... Talk to it
>Don't cross the line.
>greet it
[OUTPUT: What do you say?]
>"Hey... there..."
[OUTPUT: It is silent in response.]
>Can you understand me?
[OUTPUT: No response.]
>Awkwardly walk sideways
[OUTPUT: You can see a cube with a psi on it within its left hand.]
>Don't look hostile, whatever you do.
[OUTPUT: It appears to be the source of the line.]
[OUTPUT: You attempt to look casual, but you are kind of terrified, so you only pseudo-manage.]
>Offer it a left handed handshake
[OUTPUT: It is flying in the air several meters above you. You cannot reach its right hand.]
>Is there a line any other direction?
[OUTPUT: The line cuts you off from your ship in a round fashion, meaning the only direction you can currently go is through the entrance.]
[OUTPUT: Without touching the line, that is.]
>Go in
>Go in?
[OUTPUT: You walk through the entrance.]
[OUTPUT: You can see at least a dozen other sets of orchid eyes light up on the walls as you do so.]
>Go in
*cancel
>Crap?
[OUTPUT: What shall you do?]
>grenade and calmly walk out
>wait and watch
[OUTPUT: Which is it?]
A grenade probably isn't enough
>observe first then use plan B if needed
>Wait and watch.
[OUTPUT: Five other sets of red lines trace a rough circle around you as you just sort of stand there, watching.]
>find something to throw into the red line
>watch also
>Well, shit.
>Throw something through the red line.
[OUTPUT: What?]
>Something non-essential.
>Do you still have all those things?
[OUTPUT: Current inventory: Lapotron Power Core, Medkit x3, Water Vial x4, Gluon Destabilizer x3, Welding Equipment. ]
>some pocket lint
[OUTPUT: You left the other stuff back on the ship. It was heavy, in your defense.]
>Splash some water through the line. If nothing happens, toss the emptied vial through.
[OUTPUT: You splash a little water in the direction of the line. The instant it passes over the line, several sets of eyes light up, and within instants, beams of pure plasma follow the lines, vaporizing the liquid. ]
[OUTPUT: The circles are retraced.]
>FUUUCCCK
[OUTPUT: There was a small delay, though.]
>Well, shit. Was there a delay between the lines being activated and redra -- YESS!
>wonder how good your reflexes are
>Splash some more water through the lines, then run through quickly. Go back in the direction of the ship.
>Hopefully you'll be able to hit some of the bots with your ion cannon if you get back to the ship.
[OUTPUT: You ready the water, and splash it, immediately sprinting in the direction of ship. Let's hope you can do it fast enough.]
[OUTPUT: POT check: failed.]
Ouch
[OUTPUT: Coin flips are fun.]
Rip
RIP.
>pray to whatever deity you believe in
Good thing we did the auto-injector thing.
[OUTPUT: You get caught in the chest. Mere seconds pass, and you feel an odd sensation in you mid back.]
[OUTPUT: The plasma pretty much instantly annihilates the lower part of what I'd call your mortal husk.]
[OUTPUT: Your vision fades as the heat in your back grows greater and greater, white dust flowing from your body.]
[OUTPUT: Please enter command.]
>respawn
>die
Please no permadeath
[OUTPUT: You die. Horribly.]
>Succumb to the blackness. You'll either get healed or die.
Ah.
...
[OUTPUT: Everything is black.]
[OUTPUT: But, wait. A teardrop-shaped blue crystal lies upon the ground in the midst of a Centurion compound.]
>Is this the real life
>..?
[OUTPUT: The thing glows with an unearthly blue light, and levitates into the air.]
[OUTPUT: You can... feel?]
[OUTPUT: Your sight is within the gem itself.]
>Holy shit, the Gem is real.
>What can you do?
>realize you are a magic girl
[OUTPUT: A glowing figure composed of pure energy surrounds the gem itself.]
[OUTPUT: Blue light floods the continent. The Centurions are unresponsive.]
>Azure: Ascend.
[OUTPUT: Then, in seconds, everything is back. You breathe heavily.]
>start screaming
[OUTPUT: You don't know what just happened, but you aren't dead, or even damaged bodily?]
[OUTPUT: Would you like to start screaming?]
[OUTPUT: Y/N.]
>N.
>n
[OUTPUT: You hold in a scream.]
>open eyes, look around
>Assess what's around you and your new status.
>try to chill the fuck out
[OUTPUT: You open your eyes. You're right where you fell. The Centurions do not appear to notice yourself at all.]
[OUTPUT: HIDDEN ACHIEVEMENT: Lapis COMPLETED.]
.... Hmm
We
>Return to ship
Are the Crystal Gems
[OUTPUT: Hah.]
>Don't do that
[OUTPUT: You turn to head back to the ship, but another red line traces over the ground toward safety. ]
>Check where your Lapotron Power Core is.
[OUTPUT: You choose not to do that. You must act quickly.]
[OUTPUT: You have your Lapotron Power Core.]
[OUTPUT: It seems somehow lesser, devoid of energy.]
>time to kill
[OUTPUT: Nay, that same power instead pulses through your veins now?]
>Move water rapidly over and away from line
>Are you now naturally a hydrokinetic. That is awesome.
>In hopes of tiring the centurion, I guess
>grin
[OUTPUT: With revitalized strength from your apparent regeneration, you just sort of do the cat and laser pointer thing with Centurion Wardens.]
[OUTPUT: Your smile right now is much bigger than a grin, I can assure you.]
[OUTPUT: The wall of the inner complex slides open as all of the Centurions are distracted.]
>Enter the inner complex!
Huh
[OUTPUT: It appears to have been some sort of hivemind concentration door.]
[OUTPUT: You rush into the inner complex, diving through the entrance. It closes behind you.]
[OUTPUT: What now?]
>Look around
[OUTPUT: The chamber appears to be a staircase leading straight down into the depths.]
>Downward
[OUTPUT: You descend.]
[OUTPUT: The hallway below appears to branch off further down, into a left, right, and straight path each.]
[OUTPUT: Shapes move at the end of the thing, regardless.]
[OUTPUT: The euphoria and heat still flow through you.]
>Examine shapes
[OUTPUT: You observe them carefully. Yeah, they're Lupine Beasts. They haven't seen you yet.]
>realize that 60-70% of all organics are made of water
>Recall what Lupine Beasts do
>That you should be aware of
[OUTPUT: These things are Drybloods. You don't know why you know this. Or how.]
>What is a Dryblood?
[OUTPUT: Oh, yes.]
[OUTPUT: Lupine Beast: 3/3 HP. NOTES: Covered in bloodstained entrails. Dryblood.]
[OUTPUT: A Dryblood.]
[OUTPUT: Hmm. You recall your sudden knowledge.]
[OUTPUT: It appears to be a being possessing a non-water based vascular system.]
>Check how much water is in them anyways
Plus bloodbending is super dark
[OUTPUT: This is so cool. You are screaming with joy internally.]
>Sigh, retrieve the water from one of your vials and prepare for battle.
avataaaarrrr...
[OUTPUT: Anyhow, you can't really get a grip on much of their other fluids.]
[OUTPUT: So, you just pull out a vial of water, and prepare. Though, you'll only be able to take one out at a time.]
[OUTPUT: If only you had some sort of chain weapon, or something that could harm multiple beings at once...]
Hmm
>Count how many there are
[OUTPUT: Five.]
[OUTPUT: Hmm. You WONDER.]
[OUTPUT: INV: Lapotron Power Core, Medkit x3, Water Vial x4, /Gluon Destabilizer x3/, Welding Equipment.]
[OUTPUT: IF ONLY you had some sort of, say, grenade.]
>Contemplate if shaping your water into a long blade and sweeping it through them to cut multiple... ooh. Never mind.
>blow them to kindom come
*kingdom come
>Grab one Gluon Destabilizer, prime, and carry it in a bubble of water to where it'll hit the most enemies.
>check if your automatic medkit is still there first
>Keep well away yourself -- behind cover.
[OUTPUT: You carefully trap a Gluon Destabilizer in a water bubble, prime it, and carry it over.]
[OUTPUT: You're pretty sure that Strangelove did nothing but cut out the core infused lapis lazuli gem in you Lapotron Power Core, and surgically implant it into your body.]
[OUTPUT: You duck behind a little cover up the stairs.]
[OUTPUT: Shall you detonate the thing?]
Yes
>
>Detonate it. Blow them to pieces.
>Boom, baby
>realize that Strangelove is a wizard
[OUTPUT: Red flame pours into the steps at the bottom of the stairs, searing them solid black instantaneously.]
[OUTPUT: Please enter command.]
>Carefully descend
>When the flames fade
[OUTPUT: You return to the bottom of the stairs when the flames fade away into embers.]
>laugh at your fallen foes
[OUTPUT: How can you laugh when there is no remnant of them?]
[OUTPUT: Nothing to laugh at at all.]
>Gather any liquid which survived
[OUTPUT: Also, you're not a sociopath.]
[OUTPUT: No liquid survived.]
>Examine the paths
Fine
[OUTPUT: Forward, right, and left.]
I'll quell my blood frenzy
>Look down them
[OUTPUT: Forward carries on into the distance, to some sort of metallic wall with light cyan neon lights.]
[OUTPUT: Left just keeps on going into the darkness, and right appears to be filled with orchid light at the end.]
Orchid
>decide that left is not an option
>Check water supplies
[OUTPUT: You've still got three vials of water.]
>Forward
[OUTPUT: You walk forward, reaching the metallic construct obstructing your path.]
>wonder where all these beasts came from
>Examine lights
[OUTPUT: Localized evolution of particles.]
[OUTPUT: You examine the neon lights. Now that you're here, you can see a bit better. The largest ones are light cyan, though there are actually some orange ones. They are all embedded into this wall.]
[OUTPUT: There are two light green keypads on the left and right halves of the door.]
[OUTPUT: One each.]
>Examine keypads
[OUTPUT: They're standard holokeypads. A through Z, alpha through omega, aleph null through aleph null.]
[OUTPUT: They presumably unlock the door.]
>use leet hacking skills
>Input 'Mu' into one of the keypads?
>take several steps back afterwards
[OUTPUT: ERROR: Source: 'incorrect password.']
>not risking a laser bolt to the face
[OUTPUT: You take several steps back, but nothing else happens.]
Hrm, did I miss something
>sigh in relief and check the other paths
[OUTPUT: Yes, two paths.]
>Examine the neon lights.
We need to figure it out
>In more detail.
Oh, that makes sense
It is a puzzle
Nah
>Go to left path
[OUTPUT: They're standard neon lights. You'd find them before hierophants, hanged men, and emperors.]
>Go on left path.
[OUTPUT: If you catch my drift.]
[OUTPUT: You go left.]
[OUTPUT: Soon enough, you end up in total darkness.]
>Use your phone as a flashlight
[OUTPUT: You pull out your holophone, and reveal that you are now within a singular chamber that appears to be the end of the path.]
[OUTPUT: The entrance slides shut behind you as triads of orchid lights ignite above.]
>you make a mental note to call your friend after this is all over
>Examine lights
[OUTPUT: You make the note.]
>Bemoan the builders of this complex's collective boners for Centurions.
[OUTPUT: You know exactly what they are.]
[OUTPUT: A red light flashes down onto you, in a dotlike shape. ]
[OUTPUT: Would you like to engage in combat?]
>Yes.
Yes
>
[OUTPUT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE]
/afk
[OUTPUT: Note: observation is a free action.]
>Observe, first.
[OUTPUT: Centurion Warden: ██████████ HP x3. NOTES: A modified Centurion Sojourner redesigned to serve as a gatekeeper of an area. Incredibly deadly. Wields a copy of the infamous ψ-Bioschema.]
>Do you have a clear shot at one of their power cores?
[OUTPUT: One of them. The other two are hidden in the darkness of the room beyond your holophone.]
>Assault
>Draw water, form needle, shoot the visible one's power core.
[OUTPUT: You immediately spike one through the core, instantly destroying it. The ruined husk drops to the ground before you, inert.]
[OUTPUT: ENEMY TURN.]
[OUTPUT: The right hands of the Centurions immediately light up with red light, and a plasma bolt strikes you in the shoulder. You scream a bit.]
[OUTPUT: Okay, more than a bit.]
[OUTPUT: YOUR TURN.]
[OUTPUT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE]
>HP status? ((I assume this is a free action as well.))
>Assault
[OUTPUT: Azure: 11/15 HP. ]
Welp.
>Can you see the other two more clearly now?
[OUTPUT: Not really.]
>Just turn your phone
[OUTPUT: Would you like that to be your action? You can pair it with a non-assault move as well.]
>Defend as well?
>Turn your phone to light them up, defend.
[OUTPUT: You create a shield with what is essentially superdense water, and turn your phone.]
[OUTPUT: ENEMY TURN.]
[OUTPUT: One of the Centurions drops down to you level, while the other fires another blast at you. The water absorbs most of the impact, but you do slam into the wall, breaking your concentration on the shield.]
[OUTPUT: YOUR TURN.]
[OUTPUT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE]
>Assault the most visible one with another needle of water straight through the core.
[OUTPUT: One shot, one kill.]
[OUTPUT: ENEMY TURN.]
[OUTPUT: The remaining Centurion rushes toward you, a plasma blade erupting from its wrist. You have a chance to react, but the core is glossed over with some sort of pseudometal.]
>duck
>Defend
[OUTPUT: 'Duck' is not a possible combat command.]
[OUTPUT: You draw up another water shield, and the thing plunges into it, diving for your stomach.]
[OUTPUT: The strike is delayed, fortunately.]
[OUTPUT: YOUR TURN.]
[OUTPUT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE]
>ASSAULT
[OUTPUT: How?]
>uh
>stab ıt wıth water
>Punch at the core through the back
[OUTPUT: With your fist alone, or with water?]
>Water
[OUTPUT: The hydrokinetically commanded water punctures the energy core, and emerges out the other side.]
[OUTPUT: The Centurion yet lives.]
[OUTPUT: Somehow.]
[OUTPUT: ENEMY TURN.]
[OUTPUT: The Centurion Warden draws up a shield of pure plasma, backing up.]
[OUTPUT: YOUR TURN.]
[OUTPUT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE]
Hmm
>ASSAULT
[OUTPUT: Be more specific.]
[OUTPUT: Also, that's probably pointless.]
>Send water straıght back through open wound, attemptıng to harm electronıcs
waıt, what kınd of shıeld
[OUTPUT: It's made of plasma.]
ıs ıt reachıng all the way around
or
[OUTPUT: Yes.]
oh, okay
hm
>Defend?
[OUTPUT: BEGIN: SHIELD-OFF.]
[OUTPUT: ENEMY TURN.]
[OUTPUT: The Centurion just sort of stands there, the shield growing hotter and hotter.]
[OUTPUT: YOUR TURN.]
[OUTPUT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE]
ASSAULT OPTIONS?
[OUTPUT: There are no options. Only creativity.]
>Use water to bring down wall above centurion
[OUTPUT: You crush the thing.]
[OUTPUT: Moments later, it emerges. What is this thing made of, and how is it still living.]
[OUTPUT: ENEMY TURN.]
>the power of errosion has failed you
[OUTPUT: The Centurion leaps from the rubble, and charges you, slamming shield into shield.]
[OUTPUT: You shout out as your back is forced into the wall incredibly painfully.]
[OUTPUT: Heat from the plasma covers your whole front.]
[OUTPUT: YOUR TURN.]
[OUTPUT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE]
>Observe
[OUTPUT: Centurion Venator: 4/15 HP. NOTES: A modified Centurion Warden redesigned to serve as an elite soldier. Incredibly deadly. Wields a copy of the infamous ψ-Bioschema.]
>Check our HP.
[OUTPUT: That is the Centurion Venator's health.]
>Use water to cool down body
[OUTPUT: Azure: 4/15 HP. ]
>no
Gmm
Hmm
>Utilize: Medkit.
We're close to death, after all.
[OUTPUT: You pull out a medkit, and stab the syringe into your body, restoring your health to full.]
[OUTPUT: ENEMY TURN.]
[OUTPUT: The Venator pulls up its arms, and miniature rectangles of plasma appear upon them.]
[OUTPUT: YOUR TURN.]
[OUTPUT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE]
Is the shield still up
[OUTPUT: Barely.]
>Observe the rectangles. What do they appear to be intended to do?
[OUTPUT: They appear to be what is basically akin to boxing gloves for Centurions.]
>Bring shield above self, bring down wall above both self and centurion
Using water
[OUTPUT: Would you like to perform this action? Please confirm majority.]
>do that but leap out of the way
>Do that, but leap out of the way.
[OUTPUT: You crush the thing.]
[OUTPUT: It dies.]
[OUTPUT: The entrance door slides back up, and a small plate of inscribed metal pops out of the side of the wall.]
>Examine
>Take plate.
[OUTPUT: You take the plate. It appears to have exactly twenty-one symbols upon it, ranging from aleph to aleph, alpha to omega, and A to Z.]
>Take deep breaths, then go to right path
>heal thyself
[OUTPUT: You take a moment to relax, taking a deep breath.]
[OUTPUT: You've got full health.]
[OUTPUT: You proceed on right.]
>realize you are now a badass
[OUTPUT: Are you, though? You nearly died, and you're pretty sure you did up on the surface.]
>realize that you are now a badbutt
[OUTPUT: You just continue down the hall, to the orchid light.]
[OUTPUT: Please enter command.]
>hold the plate up to the light
[OUTPUT: You hold the plate up. Nothing happens. At all.]
>Examine light
[OUTPUT: It appears to be... neon lights, and in fact not the deadly Centurions that you had thought they were earlier.]
Hmm
>Determine existence of puzzle
>facepalm and grumble to self
[OUTPUT: You haven't even walked into the room yet.]
... Oh
>walk into room
Welcome back.
[OUTPUT: The room is rather oddly arranged. It is a... oh god no.]
[OUTPUT: It's a jumping puzzle, isn't it.]
[OUTPUT: It is.]
[OUTPUT: It is a fucking jumping puzzle.]
>Good thing you're a hydrokinetic. How much weight can you lift using water?
>Examine puzzle
[OUTPUT: You think you could probably just lift yourself, hah.]
[OUTPUT: This puzzle was clearly not designed with YOU in mind.]
>Cheat on puzzle.
[OUTPUT: You cheat on the puzzle, and reach the highest platform.]
[OUTPUT: There's a lever on it.]
>Pull
>Pull the lever, Azure.
>Just do it
>DO IT
[OUTPUT: You pull the lever. A plate pops out of the wall down below, and the entrance is unsealed. You hadn't even noticed it close.]
>grab another plate
>Lift yourself down to platr
Plate
[OUTPUT: You lower yourself once more.]
[OUTPUT: Wow, that was easy!]
[OUTPUT: You pick it up. Another series of 21 characters.]
[OUTPUT: Please enter command.]
>Return to central room.
[OUTPUT: You head back to the intersection of the three halls.]
[OUTPUT: Well, four, but the way out is sealed.]
>Enter the sequence on the plate from the left hallway on the left keypad.
[OUTPUT: You enter the left plate's code on the left pad. The pad glows green.]
>Do the same for the right plate and right pad.
[OUTPUT: You do so.]
[OUTPUT: The pad lights up green as well.]
[OUTPUT: The door hisses, and steam pours forth.]
>Back up
[OUTPUT: The metallic thing is bisected horizonally down the middle, and both halves enter the ceiling or floor.]
[OUTPUT: Another hall awaits, leading to a room lit by torches.]
[OUTPUT: Odd for the Void, but still feasible, you guess.]
>Forward
>Forward
[OUTPUT: You tenatively head onwards.]
>nod in wit respect for whoever lit these torches
Why odd for the void?
*with
>they know how to set the mood
[OUTPUT: This place is highly advanced technologically, as you've clearly seen.]
[OUTPUT: Back home on Earth, they only have standard physical computers!]
>Consider selling void tech to Earth
[OUTPUT: Uh, that's how Grayhold gets money. ]
[OUTPUT: Only, they sell it to people who would never let it see the light of day again.]
[OUTPUT: Sadly.]
>Forward
[OUTPUT: This action requires majority confirmation.]
[OUTPUT: 2/5.]
>observe surroundıngs
[OUTPUT: Just torches and bricks.]
Wait...
>Forward.
[OUTPUT: 3/5.]
[OUTPUT: You enter the room.]
[OUTPUT: The first thing you see is about twelve solid fucking feet of corotite plating.]
[OUTPUT: Five amethyst lights blink to life on the head.]
[OUTPUT: Yet ANOTHER Centurion, it seems.]
[OUTPUT: Would you like to engage in combat?]
>Look around room, then engage
[OUTPUT: There's just torches and bricks.]
>Well, let's do this.
>Wonder if Centurions are flammable
>Do it
[OUTPUT: BOSS BATTLE: MU.]
[OUTPUT: YOUR TURN.]
>Observe.
[OUTPUT: (ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE)]
>Observe
[OUTPUT: Centurion Sorcerer: 25 HP. NOTES: A hulking mass of armor plates, cyanic mechanovitae, and circuitry, all powered by a central infused cyan gem of some type beneath about half a meter of complex metal plating.]
>throw torch
[OUTPUT: That isn't how it works. You have to take a torch, then Utilize it.]
>take torch
>Defend, first.
[OUTPUT: You defend.]
[OUTPUT: It watches on silently.]
[OUTPUT: ENEMY OPTED TO SKIP TURN.]
>Take a torch, then?
>Use water to drop torch
[OUTPUT: Bluh blah, YOUR TURN, ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE, &c.]
[OUTPUT: You hydrokinetically drop a torch on the Centurion Sorcerer.]
>On centurion
[OUTPUT: It doesn't really do anything...]
[OUTPUT: ENEMY TURN.]
[OUTPUT: The Sorcerer's eyes glow with an arcane light. The thing's chest glows cyan, and pulsating waves of electricity vibrate across its form.]
[OUTPUT: Within a second, a wave of energy sweeps across the room, instantly pummeling you. Everything goes black.]
[OUTPUT: Then, you are the teardrop gem once more.]
Welp
[OUTPUT: You glow with blue light, this time facing much less euphoria and much more fear.]
>Well, crap.
>That thing's strong.
[OUTPUT: Fortunately, you make it out of your regeneration undeformed.]
[OUTPUT: YOUR TURN.]
>Form a needle of superdense water, like your shield, and stab the thing in the chest where the cyan glow was strongest with all the pushing force you can muster.
[OUTPUT: You manage to form a superdense water skewer, and impale the thing in the chest.]
[OUTPUT: It appears to only be external damage, but hey. That still counts, right?]
[OUTPUT: ENEMY TURN.]
[OUTPUT: The Sorcerer takes a step forward. The earth shakes before it.]
[OUTPUT: Then, nigh-instantaneously, a plasma blade erupts from its elbow, and the being stabs towards you. You have mere instants to react.]
[OUTPUT: YOUR TURN.]
[OUTPUT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE]
>Defend
[OUTPUT: How?]
>Parry using a blade of super dense water
>Defend by dropping to the floor while using a blob of water to push its arm up.
[OUTPUT: Which one?]
The water blade would probably boil away, Fse.
>Do Crystals
>Mine.
[OUTPUT: You manage to hold the thing's arm up, plasma blade tangibly crackling in the air.]
[OUTPUT: ENEMY TURN.]
[OUTPUT: The Centurion Sorcerer looks toward you with its five eyes, and simply raises the other arm.]
[OUTPUT: Revealing the palm, a red dot appears right on your body. ]
[OUTPUT: Fortunately, the blob of water deals with most of the blast, but it is still somewhat painful.]
[OUTPUT: YOUR TURN.]
[OUTPUT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE]
>How do the connections between the arms and the body look?
Hmm
>Also, observe.
>Examine its eyes
[OUTPUT: Centurion Sorcerer: 23/25 HP. NOTES: A hulking mass of armor plates, cyanic mechanovitae, and circuitry, all powered by a central infused cyan gem of some type beneath about half a meter of complex metal plating.]
[OUTPUT: Azure: 11/15 HP. ]
[OUTPUT: Hey, just a little hint.]
[OUTPUT: You know what would be great right now?]
[OUTPUT: Bombs.]
>use bomb
gluon destabılızer?
Ye
[OUTPUT: Confirm with majority, please.]
I am always very hesitant to use items
What if you run out and die
You should have said that the Centrions dislike smoke
>Use gluon destabilizer. If there's a hole in the being's armor big enough to wedge it into, do so.
[OUTPUT: Nothing really major, but you attach it to the arm with the plasma blade nonetheless.]
[OUTPUT: You have a split second to defend yourself from the blast. Creativity = higher chance of coming out unscathed.]
>create a shield in the shape of a middle finger out of water
>Use water to collapse the ceiling between you and the centurion
>You run around to the other side of the Centurion, letting its bulk shield you from the blast, before you form a shield of superdense water shaped to deflect the blast with the minimum of its force hitting the shield. This makes it look a little like a parabola would if you rotated it into 3d.
[OUTPUT: Hah. Nice.]
NERD!
[OUTPUT: You do so, and the world erupts into red in front of the Centurion.]
[OUTPUT: That nerd just saved you from taking any damage.]
*fistpumps*
[OUTPUT: YOUR TURN.]
Nothing wrong with that
[OUTPUT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE]
>Observe, first.
Our turn again?
Just that was insanely nerdy
[OUTPUT: Centurion Sorcerer: 17/25 HP. NOTES: A hulking mass of armor plates, cyanic mechanovitae, and circuitry, all powered by a central infused cyan gem of some type beneath about half a meter of complex metal plating.]
Well then.
Wow, that little damage done.
>Observe damage on Centurion
[OUTPUT: You've managed to detach the entire plasma blade arm.]
[OUTPUT: Cyanic mechanovitae is spilling everywhere from the stump as the blade melts through the ground.]
>cleave it in half with a spear of water
... No
Ooh.
I just had a WICKED idea.
The blade's still powered.
Oh
My
Does mechanovitae contain water?
God
Becku
Probably not.
[OUTPUT: Cyanic mechanovitae is a combination of cooled liquid mercury and nanobots.]
Ok, hmm.
I mean, we can just use water to move the arm?
*Becky, Anyway sounds like this will be fun
>Form a hand of water, grab the arm, slice the Centurion with the hissing plasma blade.
[OUTPUT: Where do you slice?]
>Cut its other arm off, if at all possible.
>If not, cut its head.
[OUTPUT: With some difficulty, you lift the entire hulking mass of the arm into the air, careful not to touch the blade, with water or otherwise.]
[OUTPUT: You deprive it of its other limb just as it attempts to fire.]
[OUTPUT: ENEMY TURN.]
[OUTPUT: The amethyst glow of the eyes seems to grow even more intense than before. The Sorcerer is SERIOUSLY damaged.]
[OUTPUT: The cyan glow of the hidden core floods the room.]
[OUTPUT: Your hair begins to stand on end from the electricity in the room.]
[OUTPUT: You have ten seconds to react.]
Hmm
Where is the glow strongest
[OUTPUT: The glow is strongest near the lower abdomen.]
*grins*
>Separate plasma blade arm at elbow for precision, stab blade into centurion's lower abdomen
[OUTPUT: You must confirm this action through majority.]
How thick does the metal plating look.
Forming a plan of defense.
[OUTPUT: "NOTES: A hulking mass of armor plates, cyanic mechanovitae, and circuitry, all powered by a central infused cyan gem of some type beneath about half a meter of complex metal plating."]
Well, slash attack.
How long is the plasma blade, about?
Is the armor rounded or flat
[OUTPUT: Three meters-ish.]
Strikes would suck against rounded armor
Piercing would be better
[OUTPUT: This is a plasma blade, Revan.]
Ok, my plan is either to ground the electricity out or follow Fse and stab it.
Plasma is hot
Really hot
[OUTPUT: Gasp.]
I'm just waiting for Crystal, who's presumably typing up some long thing
I suggest stabbing, of course.
Hmm. I'm going with Fse's plan, with the added caveat of stabbing slightly above the target and slashing down with the aid of gravity.
Erelye your snark is showing
[OUTPUT: Confirm action with majority.]
Tc vote
[X]Fseftr's plan.
Of course
[OUTPUT: Alright. Here we go.]
[OUTPUT: You swiftly pull the blade from the arm, and make your move.]
[OUTPUT: However, mere seconds before the blade plunges into the Centurion--"Wait!! Stop!"--a voice sounds out, not from the head of the being, but from the core into your mind.]
>stop, I guess
[OUTPUT: The sudden voice startles you, and the blade plunges slightly to the left of the intended target, and you lose concentration.]
[OUTPUT: The weight of the blade actually drives the thing to the ground regardless.]
[OUTPUT: The head fizzles with amethyst energy, but no further voices emerge.]
[OUTPUT: YOUR TURN?]
[OUTPUT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE]
>OBSERVE
>Retrieve blade, then observe
Should we attempt to talk to it
I think we should.
[OUTPUT: Centurion Sorcerer?: 4/25 HP. NOTES: A hulking mass of armor plates, cyanic mechanovitae, and circuitry, all powered by a central infused cyan gem of some type beneath about half a meter of complex metal plating.]
If this thing is sapient then we should see if we can, say, not kill it.
[OUTPUT: Your health is still the same.]
>run
... Ni
[OUTPUT: Where?]
No
[OUTPUT: There is no entrance anymore. It is sealed.]
>lay down your plasma blade
>Retrieve blade, say hello
>Say something. See if it responds.
No
[OUTPUT: What will it be?]
... Unless I'm missing something?
[OUTPUT: Shall we go with Crystal's plan?]
>y
>"Uh... Hello?"
[OUTPUT: No response, save the fizzling of thing thing.]
>Retrieve blade first tho
>"Sorry for trying to murder you?"
[OUTPUT: Okay. You retrieve the plasma blade.]
[OUTPUT: Still no response?]
... Hmm
[OUTPUT: The initial voice came from the core, not the head, if you recall.]
>Think loudly at the core
>Hello
[OUTPUT: Still nothing...]
>poke the core
... no
[OUTPUT: Underneath a half-meter of metal? Yeah, good luck with that.]
>Talk to the core?
[OUTPUT: You already have, and there was no response.]
>strip it of its armor
[OUTPUT: How?]
>Begin using the plasma blade to carve it away.
>Carefully, using the plasma blade
>no damage to the Core
[OUTPUT: You carefully remove the layers of heavy corotite plating.]
[OUTPUT: Beneath all of this is the Core Chassis. ]
Shall we poke it?
>Talk to the core now
>Does the core appear damaged?
[OUTPUT: Within is a cut cyan stone, glowing faintly with light, attached to hundreds of psiofibers, sensors, and wires.]
[OUTPUT: Entirely undamaged.]
Sapient rocks
Huh
>Recall if core requires host body to survive
>Holy crap!
[OUTPUT: The core does not require a host body.]
[OUTPUT: The body can die, but the core lives on.]
>Quickly finish the body by stabbing it in the head
[OUTPUT: You decapitate the head.]
[OUTPUT: NIGHTMARE SLAIN.]
>Extract the core
>Extract core.
[OUTPUT: You pull out the glass tube within which the Core resides.]
[OUTPUT: Some sort of apatite in there, it seems.]
[OUTPUT: Anyhow, the wall on the opposite end of the room slides back, revealing a pedestal.]
>Talk to it
[OUTPUT: There is no response.]
>grab some psiofibers
>Approach pedestal, examine
[OUTPUT: Oh, yes. You can harvest the body.]
>Harvest the body.
>Do that too
>you still want a psionic coffee machine
[OUTPUT: +20 Psiofibers.]
[OUTPUT: You'll have to open up the rest of the body, though.]
[OUTPUT: The head was sadly destroyed.]
Go back and harvest the left path later.
>open up the rest of the body using the plasma blade
[OUTPUT: You unseal the legs, and the severed arms.]
>Loot
[OUTPUT: You've got a large plasma cannon in one, and the core mechanism for the plasma blade that is now pulsating wildly and firing off sparks.]
>AHH GET IT AWAY
[OUTPUT: You throw it into the wall, and it explodes.]
[OUTPUT: +1 Plasma Projector Cannon, Starship-class.]
>Welp, that was -- Holy shit.
>See if you can scavenge anything from the blade
[OUTPUT: The legs hold starship-class repulsor thrusters each.]
Spaceship upgrades whee
[OUTPUT: The blade was annihilated in the explosion, save for a little cube with various Greek symbols upon it.]
>Examine cube, but do not touch.
>Take
>Yeah
>You already know bioschemas are dangerous.
[OUTPUT: It appears to be a Delta-Psi-Phi class Bioschema.]
I wasn't there for that lel
What are they and what do they do
>Approach pedestal, take object if it's a void shard
Well, all that we know is that a Beta-class one would apparently incinerate us if we touched it.
[OUTPUT: They're essentially arcane laser weapons, and they burn your limbs off if you hold one without identification to wield one.]
And we don't have the identification. Yeah.
[OUTPUT: You might be able to hotwire one, but how would you transport it to a place with technology capable of dealing with it?]
Our new gemfriend would be helpful
Are they waterproof.
[OUTPUT: Probably not.]
>Approach pedestal
Lets grab some scrap metal
Then float it atop that
[OUTPUT: The pedestal is devoid of objects, save a singular navy hash carved into it, and a hand, inscribed into it.]
Can we turn water into ice with our hydrokinesis, or otherwise make it solid enough to not flow?
[OUTPUT: No. You'd have to be better at hydrokinetics to do so, sadly.]
Dang.
We have scrap metal
>Examine pedestal
[OUTPUT: So, not YET.]
[OUTPUT: "The pedestal is devoid of objects, save a singular navy hash carved into it, and a hand, inscribed into it."]
[OUTPUT: The hash is in the middle of the hand.]
We can just use the scrap metal to hold it
[OUTPUT: You can try.]
[OUTPUT: Will you?]
Nah.
Too many holes?
Hmm...
>Take the scrap metal
[OUTPUT: One-of-a-kind Bioschemas are sadly dangerous.]
[OUTPUT: You take some scrap metal.]
We could always bend the metal into a rough box with a water hand and then scoop the Bioschema into it.
[OUTPUT: +3 Sheet of Corotite.]
Perfect
[OUTPUT: Do you do this?]
>Look up what the symbol hand with hash is
Being careful to not touch it, yes.
I say no.
[OUTPUT: Vote, then.]
We'll scoop it in with another sheet of corotite.
I vote yes
>fine
So we don't actually touch it at any point.
[OUTPUT: +1 Contained Delta-Psi-Phi Bioschema.]
Plus, uh, we can regen --WOO!
[OUTPUT: Water hands are certainly nice.]
Might regen, I guess.
Alright!
[OUTPUT: Now, the pedestal.]
[OUTPUT: Please enter command.]
>Lift pedestal
Navy.
Hmm.
[OUTPUT: You know what else is navy? VOID SHARDs.]
Place your hand in the carving of a hand.
[OUTPUT: The hash flashes slightly, and the light fades.]
[OUTPUT: A small patch of metal on the pedestal slides back, revealing a small compartment.]
Examine contents of compartment.
[OUTPUT: I-III.]
[OUTPUT: Now, the pressing problem.]
[OUTPUT: There's no way out.]
[OUTPUT: Still, most of the pedestal is yet unexamined.]
>Remove the core you got from the centurion from its housing?
[OUTPUT: You twist the handle of the housing, and pull it upwards, steam puffing out in the process.]
My de-blued screen rendered all of that black.
[OUTPUT: Removing the top of the Chassis, you can easily grab the Core.]
[OUTPUT: But will you?]
It is a fellow gem
>Examine pedestal more closely
It should be nice
[OUTPUT: It might be some sort of corrupted thing, perhaps. It was used to power a death robot.]
[OUTPUT: You never know!]
But it called out for help.
Maybe that was a trap
[OUTPUT: Will you remove the Core from the Chassis?]
>I guess
>Yes.
CGG ceased responding to memo.
[OUTPUT: Other than the MASSIVE static shock you get from absorbing all of that electricity, and then touching open fucking WIRES, you get the Apatite Core.]
[OUTPUT: ...]
>take the wires
>Put core into container in pedestal
[OUTPUT: Nothing happens with the gem. No regenerations.]
[OUTPUT: Do you follow through with AC's plan?]
[OUTPUT: Also, you take the wires from the Chassis. In fact, you just take the entire Chassis.]
[OUTPUT: +1 Crystal Core Chassis.]
[OUTPUT: Now, what shall you do?]
Ehhh
>Lift up pedestal
If it's not attached to the ground
[OUTPUT: You remove the plating of the pedestal's top. There's a series of wires within it connected to one lime button.]
[OUTPUT: Along with some indestructible crystalline psiowire.]
Press line button
[OUTPUT: Confirm with majority.]
>Press button.
We have made Azure a klepto
Yup
[OUTPUT: Hah.]
[OUTPUT: You press the button.]
CAC banned CCA from responding to memo.
[OUTPUT: The wall before you breaks in half, crumbling to the ground.]
thanks
what dıd I mıss
We got a gem friend
[OUTPUT: This reveals another path, lined with torches and a staircase.]
[OUTPUT: But not really.]
[OUTPUT: It is just an apatite stone thus far.]
>Take wires from pedestal
[OUTPUT: You take the wires too, you kleptomaniac.]
[OUTPUT: +1 Indestructible Crystalline Psiowire.]
Damn, can't backtrack to loot the left oath
>Forward
>Loot the rest of the Centurion, if there's still anything to loot.
Oh yeah
>Take one of the torches
[OUTPUT: There's naught but the plates.]
Azure is a klepto now
[OUTPUT: You take a torch.]
>Forward
>Forward
[OUTPUT: She is the greatest technoklepto in Facet 9.]
[OUTPUT: You move onwards.]
[OUTPUT: The stairs are rather long, you must admit.]
[OUTPUT: Perhaps this is to the roof of the compound?]
Never know when you'll need some rare component to complete the perfect new device, after all.
Huh.
Isn't she the only klepto in Facet 9?
>Azure: Ascend to the highest point of the building.
>If this is to the roof, that is.
Never know what you might need to make a psionic coffee machine
[OUTPUT: You reach a door with a hand inscribed into it, along with two navy hashes in the center.]
Ohhh.
I see.
>Place hand
[OUTPUT: Yeah.]
Place hand.
[OUTPUT: The door opens, revealing a dark room.]
>Be glad you brought a torch
[OUTPUT: You are quite glad. ]
>Enter
[OUTPUT: But also REALLY fucking sore.]
Crime pays
[OUTPUT: You look into the room.]
>Enter
>sit the fuck down if you can
Ooh.
dammit
[OUTPUT: There's a lever, and a large stone slab, coated in fuchsia symbols you cannot understand.]
[OUTPUT: There is yet another hand upon the base of the slab.]
>Pull lever
[OUTPUT: Well, it is really more of a pillar.]
>Are there any marks on the hand?
[OUTPUT: None.]
>place your hand upon it
>Place hand
^
[OUTPUT: It glows fuchsia.]
[OUTPUT: 1/8.]
Ooh.
I think I see.
one of 8 blahs
[OUTPUT: You feel a rush of cool air around you.]
[OUTPUT: Dark liquid oozes from the edges of the structure.]
[OUTPUT: Soon enough, it pools into a basin at its foot, an oily substance with a fuchsia sheen.]
[OUTPUT: It looks like it wants you to take it.]
[OUTPUT: You don't know how you know that.]
>Take
[OUTPUT: How?]
>Check for empty vials
>Fill
[OUTPUT: None, but you probably have some shit you can mold into a vial with hydrokinetic hands.]
>Make a container using some metal
[OUTPUT: Confirm?]
[OUTPUT: You have a bit of indestructible crystalline material.]
>Use that
[OUTPUT: Majority vote, please.]
>Use the crystalline material.
>confırm
[OUTPUT: You scoop up as much of the substance as you can take. ]
[OUTPUT: +4 Cthk'aryvt's Blessing/Curse.]
Oh dear
Well
[OUTPUT: ITEM CONDITIONAL: YOU CANNOT REMOVE THIS ITEM FROM YOUR INVENTORY, SAVE TO USE IT.]
>Pull lever
Oh boy
[OUTPUT: You pull the lever.]
We now are a servant of the Old Ones
[OUTPUT: You hear a grinding noise from back by the boss room.]
[OUTPUT: The apatite stone in your hand grows nearer and nearer to body temperature.]
>Return to boss room
>set stone down
[OUTPUT: You head back to see that the original door has been opened once more, and like that the first door has as well.]
Why, no
[OUTPUT: You never picked it up?]
>Head back to intersection
I thought regen would be happening
[OUTPUT: You end up back at the intersection. Every path is clear to go through. Even the left.]
>Go to left, loot everything
I'd rather not have another being be reborn in our hands
[OUTPUT: You literally just tie all of the bodies together with some stronger wire, and start dragging them with you.]
>Loot everything except the biosc -- HAH!
Nice!
>Take apart passcode door and loot its parts
[OUTPUT: Okay, that's too far.]
[OUTPUT: Also, those are in the walls now.]
This is getting stupod
[OUTPUT: Just take your corpses, and go.]
*stupid
What are we even doing
[OUTPUT: Heading back to the ship?]
>Head up
[OUTPUT: Then again, you did leave some friends back up on the surface.]
[OUTPUT: At least a dozen.]
>Do we still have that plasma cannon, and can we fire it somehow?
[OUTPUT: Yes, and maybe.]
>Head up
[OUTPUT: You surface.]
[OUTPUT: Red lines stop your path about ten feet in.]
[OUTPUT: Would you like to engage in combat?]
Yes
[OUTPUT: YOUR TURN.]
[OUTPUT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE]
Can we be nonviolent
Utilize Plasma Cannon
>
[OUTPUT: Majority vote for starship-grade plasma cannon use.]
>Observe first tho
>^
[OUTPUT: Centurion Sentry: 5/5 HP. NOTES: A modified Centurion Sojourner redesigned to serve as a gatekeeper of an area. Incredibly deadly, but weak physically. Wields a copy of the infamous ψ-Bioschema.]
>Utilize Plasma Cannon
sure
>Utilize plasma cannon, firing it through the greatest concentration of them.
>roll your eyes, don't these guys ever quit?
[OUTPUT: You utilize the plasma cannon.]
[OUTPUT: You kill nine of them instantaneously, and severely damage the other three. The Cthk'aryvt's Blessing/Curses in your inventory seem to cackle maniacally, growing colder and colder with each destruction of a core.]
Um
Oh god
Wait
Those had
...
Whatever, whatever l.
[OUTPUT: Have you ever heard of gem shard cores?]
[OUTPUT: Hah.]
Shard cores.
I know
But still
So, happily, hopefully they weren't full gems.
[OUTPUT: ENEMY TURN.]
Those were once people
[OUTPUT: You nearly get decapitated by a plasma blast, but instead take a hit to the arm.]
Now I feel like a prick for laughing
[OUTPUT: YOUR TURN.]
[OUTPUT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE]
>Defend
With a shield
[OUTPUT: Of water?]
Y
[OUTPUT: You tank most of the superheated plasma bursts.]
>in the shape of a triangle
[OUTPUT: You have a split second to make a run for it. Will you?]
>run
>Sure
>Run.
>Retrieve plasma cannon first tho
[OUTPUT: You make a run for it after grabbing the cannon, and are caught in the back, just below where that surgery was performed.]
[OUTPUT: An apatite and a lapis lazuli stone fall to the ground, side-by-side.]
Goddamnit
[OUTPUT: Good job.]
Damn.
[OUTPUT: You regenerate, and grab the apatite.]
[OUTPUT: Due to death, the enemies you damaged, but did not kill, are fully healed.]
[OUTPUT: YOUR TURN.]
>create a hand made of water
[OUTPUT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE]
So what, being hit in the lower back is an instakill?
[OUTPUT: No, just really being hit at all.]
>assault
[OUTPUT: These things are probably the second worst.]
[OUTPUT: How?]
[OUTPUT: Remember what these things are when you answer.]
>See how far you are from ship
[OUTPUT: You haven't yet exited the walls.]
>create a hand made of water, proceed to pimpslap
>Fire water through a core
... No
Why
[OUTPUT: Would you like to impale some cores?]
Yes
[OUTPUT: Majority vote for moral question.]
>no
Morals, smorals
I want to disable them
?
I mean
Perhaps it is a mercy kill
It's so much easier, do you want to die
[OUTPUT: Do you or do you not want to use a plasma cannon on some Centurions with gem shard cores?]
>Try to disable the centurions.
>Do not destroy the cores.
hmmmmm
>hand of pimpslap
no

[OUTPUT: You will SAVE THE CORES.]
[OUTPUT: How will you do so?]
>Blast them and worry about that after
>fuck the sadist Old One, disable their weapons by corroding the interior
>with water
[OUTPUT: You manage to take out two out of three.]
[OUTPUT: ENEMY TURN.]
[OUTPUT: You have a moment to react as a plasma beam careens toward you.]
>Roll out of the way
[OUTPUT: You do so.]
>do a barrel roll
[OUTPUT: YOUR TURN.]
[OUTPUT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE]
>Disable it with water, I guess
[OUTPUT: How so?]
[OUTPUT: Spike to the head? Internal corrosion?]
Hmm
>Corrosion
[OUTPUT: 3/3 Centurions slain.]
>Loot the shit out of all of them
[OUTPUT: Would you like to extract the three remaining cores?]
>Loot them too
[OUTPUT: Because there's no way in hell I'm letting you take anything other than cores until you unload at the ship.]
>Take the cores and return to the ship
[OUTPUT: You pry plates art with aquahands, and retrive three pieces of some exotic gem that seem to fit together.]
[OUTPUT: Sadly, there are a few smaller chips missing.]
>push it together
Ah well.
>return to ship
[OUTPUT: Majority vote for returning to ship. Everyone should probably stick around for the unloading, just saying.]
>Wonder if you can find someone with gem-fixing abilities.
>return to the ship and lonad
>Also, return and unload.
*load
[OUTPUT: You have no idea. Perhaps you can use the Infinity Eye to do it, when you have all the SHARDS. It is designed to repair rifts.]
[OUTPUT: You return to the ship.]
[OUTPUT: Holy shit am I not going to record what you got until later.]
>what
[OUTPUT: You just put it all in the material storage room, save the Blessing/Curses, and the apatite stone.]
>name the Apatite?
[OUTPUT: Do you want to name the apatite stone?]
>Go back out and loot the new corpses
[OUTPUT: Loot later, name first.]
>Name it Cyan for now.
... Sure?
[OUTPUT: Cyan is the name, then. For now.]
>Loot corpses
Why are you naming a stone
[OUTPUT: You go and steal some Sensors from the de-cored bodies.]
It sent us a mental message.
[OUTPUT: Everything but a Lapis Stone for the Magnetizer, now.]
Does it not have a name for itself tho
[OUTPUT: Strangelove seems to stare at you silently.]
[OUTPUT: You can't tell, as they don't have eyes.]
[OUTPUT: But it feels like it.]
>greet Strangelove
>Ask him why he didn't say what the surgery was for
[OUTPUT: "HELLO MASTER."]
We can ask it its name if it communicates with us again. Until then, it's Cyan.
[OUTPUT: "DO YOU HONESTLY THINK YOU WOULD HAVE LET ME DESTROY YOUR WEAPON AND STICK AN EXPERIMENTAL CRYSTAL INTO YOUR BACK?"]
>nod in approval
>So are automated medkits not a thing?
>and then glare at him
[OUTPUT: "PROBABLY NOT, MS. AZURE."]
>Wonder if you have a last name
[OUTPUT: Oh, you do. Recall from the very beginning of this adventure?]
no
[OUTPUT: "Your name is Azure █████."]
>scream at the sheer copout
>Ask Strangelove about Cyan
[OUTPUT: You scream, then cry a little, and then you feel somewhat better.]
((My new headcanon is that her last name is Lapis. Just because.))
[OUTPUT: Just let it all out, Azure. It'll be mostly okay.]
May I note his full name is Doctor Strangelove
I say Azure
As in Azure Azure
Eh, sure, Lapis
^
[OUTPUT: Your name is Azure Lapis, and you're pretty sure you have the second worst doctor in existence on your ship.]
[OUTPUT: The first, of course, has now gone online on Skype.]
Hah, plus this way her name literally means 'blue stone'.
>Crash for about twelve hours, screw Delta.
>greet
[OUTPUT: Delta can wait, you decide.]
[OUTPUT: Before crashing, why not plot a course to the next Sector, to make use of sleeping time?]
Did we visit that second island?
>What paths are there?
[OUTPUT: The second island had nothing of value according to scans, and the other Sectors with SHARDS in them are probably the best options.]
>Path to the closest one
[OUTPUT: There are two equally close.]
[OUTPUT: In Psi and in Nu.]
>"Computer plot a course to the Psi sector."
[OUTPUT: Votes?]
Sure, Psi
>You need to stop watching Star Trek
>Psi.
[OUTPUT: Eh, your dad is more of the Star Trek fan, you think to yourself.]
*yawns*
[OUTPUT: You plot a course to the Psi Sector.]
After Azure crashes, so too shall I.
[OUTPUT: You turn to go crash for like twelve hours, and see the apatite stone floating in the air, glowing with cyan energies.]
>Gasp?
[OUTPUT: You do nothing but sort of look on it, yawning somewhat.]
>Ignore it
[OUTPUT: Nah.]
[OUTPUT: You watch it.]
>"Sup."
[OUTPUT: Also, you weld the ship hatch shut quickly as it happens.]
[OUTPUT: A cyan form, appears, and some girl around your age drops to the floor of your ship, near a few severed bits of that bisected lupine corpse you missed in the incineration.]
[OUTPUT: Please enter command.]
>Hello
>"Hello?"
>"Sup."
[OUTPUT: Which greeting do we go for, hmm?]
>You've stopped giving a shit at this point
[OUTPUT: You go for a slurred 'sup'.]
[OUTPUT: "..."]
[OUTPUT: "WHAT IS GOING ON OH MY GOD."]
>"Welcome to my world"
"Welcome to my world."
[OUTPUT: Long story short, she starts screaming, you start tiredly blinking, and the narrator asks if you wish to save your game.]
>Yes. Save.
Yes
[OUTPUT: Saving game...]
[OUTPUT: Saving game...]
[OUTPUT: Saving game...]
[OUTPUT: Game saved.]
[OUTPUT: Would you like to quit your game?]
>Yes.
Yes
>N but Yes
[OUTPUT: Game quit.]