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The Adventure Continues!

Sorry to keep you waiting, and I hope this can both challenge and entertain.

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If you're behind, be sure to check the archives, some of the shit mentioned there may be useful in this episode, depending on how you choose to do things.

Last time, you finally managed to get the righ combination of doors open, and defeated a Heretek many times your size, and have since begun a lengthy ladder climb into this mining facilities actual mine....

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As you stagger out into the mine, you see paths in both directions.

Leokadia, who has internalised the EMPLOYEE DATA onto her internal cogitator, mentions that this shaft contained 4 miners, 2 of which were dosed with the experimental chemical.

As Stenz, the man from cell A was logically one of them, that still means one miner here is infected. You're unsure which. Best to play it saafe.

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Eeeny... meeeny... miney (heh, miney).... RIGHT!

You walk to the right, the path goes no further this way, and there are some lockers

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Inspect Stenz's locker, but don't open it straight away. Are there any anti-tamper devices or tripwires attached to it?

The lockers are all devoid of locks and are not booby trapped. Your peer into Stenz's locker, it smells a little bad, but not unusual.

Names, check.
Could be important.

Leokadia confirms these are the names of the 4 miners: Toors Denote, Hunt Lowry, Kaleb Stenz and Suam Kapuna

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There's a battle going on up above, i think the miners have higher priorities than worrying about who's going to look at their lunchboxes.

Cut to the chase and open every locker.

You reason that, as the lockers are without locks and you're on a mission from the God Emperor, theres no harm in at least looking in all the lockers and seeing what you make of the contents, which are as follows:

Denote's locker:
COMMBEAD, PASSWORD REMINDER

Lowry's locker:
WARM BEER, CONDOM

Stenz's locker:
MINERS OUTFIT, TECH TITTIES

Kapunda's locker:
NOTE

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Oh god, um okay...I'm just gonna collect and read all stuff, bare with me.

The MINERS OUTFIT is too heavy to carry.

The COMMBEAD works fine. Leokadia points out that this can be used for two people in the same team to split up, over short distances.

The PASSWORD REMINDER reads:
Sylvester Peter Matt John David Tom Colin William Paul Patrick CHristopher.

just a series of names. Huh.

WARM BEER is warm

CONDOM is unopened, it seems to be a 'Hopeful Tomcat' brand

TECH TITTIE smells a little ripe, but not inhuman.

the NOTE reads:

xx viii v v xiii xvi v xviii xv xviii xvi xviii xv xx v iii xx xix

A boiler suit's too heavy to carry? Eh? What's in the pockets?

The MINER'S OUTFIT is made of layers of thick, VULKANISED rubber and brass, with a back pack and an air filter, its all one piece, sadly.

No pockets.

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Use the commbead and try to contact someone.

You already have a COMMBEAD of your own.

Does C-16 want the beer? AT very least let her carry it. I mean, '16 and Leokadia still have PLENTY of inventory space.
Also, does Leo want the magazine? She's all about the porn.

C-16 detests warm beer, but opts to carry it for you, at least, putting it in one of her empty grenade pockets.

Leokadia points out that TECH TITTY is full of female techpriests, and she's into dudes. But she's okay with carrying it.

TAKE ALL and then GO LEFT.

You head left, there is a sleeping MINER and a large screen. You are able to keep heading LEFT

Wait, I thought she already had a porn magazine? And that THAT one had chicks too!
Anyway, what's the red thing on the ceiling? Also, have C-16 standby to MAIM-ULATE the minor if the Minor is hostile.

The Magazine you gave Leokadia; "TECH TUSH" is full of male techpriests. You never confirmed otherwise. Why do you think it was in the bin of Kalebs cell?

He obviouslly wanted TECH TITTIES (his favourite) and got that instead.

Probably The Emperor Protects. Someone got the N and M switched?

derp. yes.

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SEARCH room for anything interesting
DRAW LASPISTOL
REVIEW inventory.

You draw your weapon. The others follow suit. You check your inventory before deciding what to do next.

what's the blue rolled up thingie?

It's a bath towel.

I'm gonna start tallying votes for waking the MINER or not, and how to go about it.

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Being careful, you get C-16 to stir the MINER, who, though startled, stands up calmy and then shrugs.

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Ask him to identify himself and remove the mask. The whole suit would be good too.
Also, why were they sleeping in the middle of the mine?

Ask him to identify himself.

The MINER replies that he is HUNT LOWRY, and that he was sleeping because he's been working hard and is now tired.

He lifts his mask, ver briefly revealing an unattractive but very human face. He rather reproachfully declines removing his suit.

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lol, duly noted.
Ask 'im about any recent funny business, and what's normally on the Telly.

"Funny Business? Well we had this cute technian called into to fix the drill, and then she went missing without a trace before the thing got fixed. Then Kaleb went missing. The screen is where the boss makes announcements."

Sleeping... in the middle of the room?
Also, what's that screen and that red thingy on the ceiling for, mister miner? HUH?

"Don't got a bed. The suits pretty padded. I have no idea what that thing is. The only question I ever ask is 'why the hell haven't I been paid?'"

oh CF, how I love you.
Anyway, ask him why here? Isn't there barracks somewhere? Where do the miners NORMALLY go when not... mining? Also, what are they mining?

"We have most of the amenities we need here. We're mining the ore that is used to make ceramite, I think"

We are rule breakers, expect the unexpected, draw the undrawable, Oh and comment him on his ravishing good looks.

"Not now. Not later. Not ever."

Offer him the warm beer from his locker. Apologise for snooping but explain that it's an emergency. Best to be on the level with him from the start

LOWRY shrugs "I don't get mad at dames. You can keep the brew if you like, I was keeping it, but then it got warm. Blech."

Please dont start fights or argue guys. If people want to participate in threads that they hate, let them. It's a free world, and I can fully appreciate the mindset of enjoying being angry.

Be cool, brothers.

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Announce that he is now been volunteered for the service of the Holy Orders of the Emperor's Inquisition. We're *sure* he's not a heretic.

"I was told the Emperor had abandoned us. If you say otherwise, great. But I'll believe when I see it."

Demand to know what he knows about SEPP.

"I ain't joining your party, if that's what you mean."

We can go on to the left, right?
Ask him what's there. Ask him if anyone else is here.

"Seb? Seb's a no account bum who kept sneaking into the mine to hit on the nice technician and tried to steal kaleb's porn. Heard he got arrested again. Figures."

I'd rather we stay with us. IN FRONT of us in fact.

"if you keep going left there'll be an offshoot to deeper into the mine. There's the drill, the COG ROOM, and it's where DENOTE and KAPUNDA would be. There's some neat stuff there, I guess. If you ignore the offshoot and just go LEFT twice, you'll find a KORNHEISER ARMORED MINING HOVER VEHICLE. Best of luck getting it to work, though."

>>The only question I ever ask is 'why the hell haven't I been paid?'"

Toss one of our coins at him. "Will this keep you awake for a while?"

LOWRY flicks the coin back to you.

"That's a gimmicky souvineer coin. Not currency."

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Offer him the TECH TITTIES magazine instead as a form of payment in kind. He had a condom in his locker, and from his dialogue he's evidently receptive to this sort of thing.

Do this. Walk with us for a while and you can enjoy your off-hours with the lascivious pleasures your colleagues denied you.

Offer him the TECH TITTIES magazine instead as a form of payment in kind. He had a condom in his locker, and from his dialogue he's evidently receptive to this sort of thing.

LOWRY offers you the best of luck, and yawns.

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Hey man, second hand porn is just fine.
GO LEFT, but make sure to keep an eye out for him trying to backstab us.
WAIT! WAKE HIM BACK UP! Make him make us a map!

Let's go LEFT. There doesn't seem to be more we can do right now.

forget the fatty and head to the left?

Isn't it obvious, we go LEFT!

You briefly wake LOWRY and ask him to make you a map. He pauses, then almost immediatly goes back to sleep.

You got left, there is a tunnel that goes DEEPER and a path to the LEFT

In this area is also BURNING RUBBISH

tallying votes.

Let's see...

The votes are tied on kicking it and tipping it with PSY powers.

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Seriously, kick it. Or let C-16 punch it over with her weapon.

You gesture toward the bin and strike a violent pose, C-16 walksover to it and kicks it so hard that it scares off the fire. She seems desperately unsatisfied.

Seems like it was just burning rubbish. looks like food wrappers,mostly.

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BALDERDASH.

MY META-SENSES KNOW PLOT WHEN I SEE IT.

Cheer up our friend Psychopath!
Then look through the ashes. Never know when the game devs will try and get sneaky,

You sift and pat through the ashes, C-16 helps you and gnaws on a few chicken bones you find, but all in all you can find nothing of intrest. Seems like it was just burning trash. Leokadia watches with mild disgust.

Bwaaah ha ha ha ha ha, I knew it.


Keep going left.

Heading left, you find the KORNHEISER ARMORED MINING HOVER VEHICLE,

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have leokaida check it out and see what it needs to get up and running

Well Leo is already wet with excitement. Let her poke around and see what the problem is and how to fix it.

Check VEHICLE cab for interesting things.

Leokadia pokes around for a while then nods happily.
"Like all KORNHEISER vehicles, the ignition is a little tricky, it's one of those tracer-ignitions, we can cross that once we get it running. To do THAT, we just need to get some really cold metal into its engine bay. That'll cheer it up"

Maybe the techpriestess should give it a look.

Leokaida = Asian woman driver.

THERE WERE NO SURVIVORS.

Leokadia is a Polish name, I think. Dunno if there are stereotypes about them as drivers.

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COLD metal? Hmm... might we get some from going DEEPER?
Also, check the cab. Might be something cool and we should snag the keys.

You go DEEPER.
Here you find a BEER MACHINE and a PUBLIC VOX.
There are paths to the LEFT and RIGHT

Late-roman with greek roots, actually.

Leokadia is the Polish version of the late-Roman Leocadia, yeah.

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Get a COLD BEER. Feed it to the KORNHEISER

What's the Machine Say? Also, will THAT metal (from the refrigerated beer cans) be cold enough?
Will the refrigeration coils themselves be cold enough?

Hmm. Does that beer machine keep things cold? Could we cannibalize its coolant systems to make the vehicle work?

A COLD BEER (Jurgenbrau: All the awseome, none of the stank) would work on the KORNHEISER, but you need CASH MONEY, and you have none. The machine, is re-enforced quite strongly, and Leokadia, as you know, is touchy about having machines just ripped apart.

The PUBLIC VOX gives off a dial tone, and is clearly connected. There is a toll free number etched into it "FINISH WHAT I SAY, GET SOME ANSWERS. 3 TIMES A CHARM. 1800-YOURFRIEND"

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Let's play.
Maestro, take us to the puzzle interface!

We'll have to find money then.
Try the Vox thing, then find the other miners. The may have money,

The vox number seems legit lets give it a call.

You call the number, you here the line pick up, there is drunken mumbling and what sounds like a lot of bottles being knocked over, suddenly, a ver animated voice yells down the line at you, then pauses.

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L.I.M.P Bizkit is right here!

The man on the line seems delighted.

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Where I can pick up some CASH MONEY quick.
Also, what's with the war shit happening on this rick?

The man seems to find something funny. He asks if you want to play again.

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say yes and this time ask him what the key code combo for the debug mode one (Jurgenbrau: All the awseome, none of the stank) vending machines is.

You agree to play again, but before you can ask your question he begins singing over the top of you.

Let's play later. We should explore everything first, and THEN if we're stuck, use the Hotline. We only have 2 questions left!

Don't worry, you can ask more than 3 questions, these ones are just the ones that get you your PRIZE.

After these 3, they will get harder, though.

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They'll be more than you can stand.

The man is delighted. Ask away.

New thread?

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Ok, so I have no idea what to ask, so I leave it to you guys,
But the NEXT question is "Which of the miners is infected?"

The man clicks his tongue.

"LOWRY had a CONDOM in his LOCKER. The serum that mutates people makes them want to have sex, but for the purpose of infectioning others, so you can rule him out. KAPUNDA seems like he's loyal to the Emperor, based on the NOTE in his LOCKER, which he coded for the others to not understand..that leaves.."

New thread?

nvm

C-16 is getting shorter in every single screenshot.

Yeah, its tricky. Heh

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Moving on, to the LEFT!

either Stenz or Denote. I forget which one is dead.
And I'd forgotten what the infection did.
Save the last question and see is Leo can get the Beer Machine open.

Denote, who awaits us farther into the mines themselves.
Check.
Gird thy souls, faithful of da Emprah.

You save your last easy riddle, whatever the PRIZE is, you can come back for it when you have some questions. You move to the left.

There is BROKEN RECAFF MACHINE, a MEDBOX and sure enough, CASH MONEY caught on some protuding spikes.

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Would Spectral Hands be too easy?
Is there any way to psychically prod to be sure the Veil isn't Weak around here?

No, SPECTORAL HANDS would work. The veil isn't weak in these parts.

DAMN IT! Ok, check to make sure the spikes aren't a trap. If they aren't then take money, loot medkit, and check out the coffee machine

The spikes aren't a trap, the medkit contains a 2 vials with long complicated names you don't understand fortunately, Leokadia has enough MEDICAL INTERN to tell you that the ORANGE VIAL is anti-psychotic and the BLUE VIAL is for indigestion.

The RECAFF machine is out of everything except MILK

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If we can get it another way... Like standing in C-16's shoulders.

You make a motion to climb onto C-16's back, she lets out a low growl, and you think better of it.

Leokadia mentions that she would try to boost you, but that she is too weak. She sighs slightly dreamily and mentions how she bet Daneel could have helped.

Have Leo stand on the recaff dispenser and have her use the blunt end of C-16 spear-thingy to remove the cash from the spikes.

They dont actually line up, sorry. Flat perspective issues.

Can WE lift Leo? And She's Augmented, aren't there some strength augments in there.
Or, rather then getting ON TOP of C-16, could SHE just lift us?

Leo's AUGMETICS make her way quite a lot, and Boone is far, FAR to noodley to lift her. Sadly, they don't grant Leokadia augmented strength either, they are purely the source of her ADMECH POWERS

You try to communicate to C-16 to lift you, if she understands, she doesn't seem keen. It's either poor communication of some sort of warrior pride. She's been doing a lot of menial stuff lately.

If only we had some way of using the teleporter again, maybe we'd get him back.
Can Leo's gizmo thing that we got off the dead Techpriest be used with the teleporter, or do we REALLY have to wait for the chick in the tube to be better so we can use the piece she had?

The THENEZZ-AUGER HYPERCONDUCTOR is as good as 2 THENEZZ AUGER SPARE PARTS and can work with anything that uses them, it also has its own power source.

Without Nel, you won't be able to get the TRANSPONDER to bring Daneel back (if that is indeed possible) but you can fix it for another use OR the CHIROTUBE, OR Locke

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We gave her booze! Besides, we love her!
Thank her for all her help so far and tell her how much you admire her strength. USE PUPPYDOG EYES!

Are puppydog eyes a Psyker power?

We gave her booze! Besides, we love her!
Thank her for all her help so far and tell her how much you admire her strength. USE PUPPYDOG EYES!

PUPPYDOG EYES, ENGAGE!

We gave her booze! Besides, we love her!
Thank her for all her help so far and tell her how much you admire her strength. USE PUPPYDOG EYES!

You stick out your lip and dilate your pupils at C-16...uh..I think this is an avenue best not pursued, she seems to disapprove.

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rolled 8 + 3 = 11




Seems like it's PSY-TIME. You have enough RATION to spare , so let's do this. It's been a while!

(GM: There is no one solution to what to do with the THENEZZ AUGER HYPERCONDUCTOR, in enough time, Nell will be cured, leave the tube and lock will be able to repair himself and dettach from it, I just put it in there incase people wanted to use it to change party members Nell/Locke/Teleported in chum. You seem to be doing well, and it's up to you. Just wanted you to have that option)

Childs Play! You float the CASH MONEY into your hand.
C-16 nods. You are no warrior, but you do what you do well.
Leokadia breathes a sigh of relief, and is impressed. "I'm glad you made it, I was worried I would have to MAGLEV FLOAT up there.."

... do what now?

Due to the time between threads, maybe a recap of everyone's powers would be handy at the beginning of future threads?

... do what now?

OH MOTHER...
Ok, Techpriests basically have a fusion reactor of sorts strapped to their back. As they learn to use it, they can do all KINDS of crazy shit w/ it, from killing people, so powering stuff, to floating/flying.

THANKS FOR THE HEADS UP BEFOREHAND LEXUS

... do what now?

... do what now?

Leokadia has ADMECH POWERS

Luminen blast: A weaponless ranged attack
Ferric Summons: Attracts metal to her hand
Maglev Float: Allows her to hover, instead of walk

These abilities drain 10% of her PP when used,

Electric Succour: Converts PP into HP

(GM: Noted, but there is a LOT to keep in mind with this particular quest, if I restate everything to keep in mind at the start of each quest, then the entire thread will be me restating things. I'll do what I can, though.

Maybe you could keep current info on the status of the end of the previous Boonequest on your shitscribble account?

There's thinking. So are we buying that beer?

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AS MUCH AS WE CAN!
Also, how much longer tonight CF? I love these threads but it's getting late and we hit bumplimit

You insert the CASH MONEY valued at 5 credits, it buys you one FROSTY BEER, which is goddamn disgraceful price gouging.

We can end whenever, you guys haven't hit a defined end, but we can save her and I'll try to be back same time tommorow (5.30 Central USA, I believe or Sparrow Fart where I am.)

There is still a quite some to do here.

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Ok, ok.
LET C-16 drink the beer. But have her do it quick. (We only need the cold metal for the car)

I believe we can keep going past all rational things such as 'post limits', Lexus. I hope you do too. ;)

After she uses it to start the thing up, the beer will keep the metal cool for a long time, compared to just cold metal in your warm hands (metal = low heat threshold).

Then the cold drink will be replaced by warmer air, so it will warm up faster.
Is the can even usable for this whole thing? Ask Leo.

Well take the can TO the car and THEN have her drink it!

It's not really of any huge concern, C-16 doesn't drink HOOCH as weak as beer. She requires SPIRITS for her SPIRIT. She hold her WARM BEER aloft and grins fondly "THIS....DANEEL....LIKE."

You take the FROSTY BEER to the KORNHEISER. Insert can?

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Oh, and Lexus, does Boone like Milk? Can we use is as rations? We should totally check the milk machine while the Techpriest starts up the machine.

Leokadia puts the FROSTY BEER into the engine cahmber and it hums to life, she runs her hands over the machine and sighs in a vaguely indecent manner.

You offer C-16 a good natured thumbs up for her Gothic. She smiles, and imitates the Praetorian salute as she stands to attention. Good bonding, /tg/. Know your team mates values!

I'll be going to work in about 2 hours, so I wont worry about starting a new thread, this thread may not be bumping, but its a long way off its limit, I think.
I leave it to anons disgression.

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Looks like things have died down. Good hussle, guy's.

I'll put up a reference page on my shitscribble account (in scraps, mind you) and will do the next thread (if my calculations are correct) 5:30pm (USA Central) Sunday Night, if that works for you.

Thank you all. This is a lot of fun. You guys are the best.