Re-read through some IC posts, I've seen 2-3 that mentioned 'blasters'. If this is just slang for firearms, then carry on, but if it means laser weapons then they don't exist in this world. Think Catharyn mentioned that at some point, it's ballistic weaponry only. Just a heads up.
well there goes my plan for an army of tiny imperial guardsman with lasrifles. Does that laser rule also amply to the anti missile ones I put on the Rapid Evening or not, because those kind of exist irl, in the prototype stage at least.
The bug queen finally spoke up, and surprisingly she claimed not to be an alien after all, that she had been transformed into one by...
”Xenomorphs? Like from the movie Aliens?”
Shen was briefly dumbfounded by this comment.
”You watch movies?”
”I spent 20 years in that facility, there was very little to do. So I watched a film where an alien killed a load of humans. Just like what happen outside really.”
”And in both the humans won in the end”
”not in the film they didn’t”
”... yes they do, Ripley, the kid, the android and a bunch of the marines shoot the crap out of the aliens, escape and nuke the site from orbit.”
”Not in the one I had. She falls into a reactor and the aliens live happily ever after. I’m… not sure about the kid and the android. The editing at the end is kind of sloppy but presumably the kid gets eaten and the android escapes”
”I. What? Why would they? Wait. The editing at the end of the one I saw was crap in comparison to the rest of it too...”
They should probably just move on at this point and leave the topic behind.
”Anyway, um.”
Where had she been. Ah. yes. The suspicious humanoid that claimed to be human. Most of the Elders troopers had been part human and she sure as hell wouldn’t trust them, so even if she spoke truth she wasn’t magically in Lilly’s good books now. The fact that Kerrigan followed up with a threat on their lives if they endangered the town was neither for nor against her humanity really, but Lilly was pretty sure that no matter what Kerrigan was, Shen didn’t like her attitude one bit.
”I’ll keep that in mind.”
Lily took note to make a mind shield as soon as possible on her PDA for future reference, along with the various dates the others, including one from a man straight out of a noir film who had just joined them, gave her. The mention of zombies in 1998 was certainly an anomaly, but that might have been an event that either nobody had brought up or had been covered up at the time. There was a president for cover ups after all, XCOM itself was originally a covert operation and there were some indications that something XCOM related had gone done in 1962 as well.
”Thank you all for that information, and it's nice to meet you mr Payne, I’m Lily Shen. Yours seems to be the highest date so far, baring my own of 2036.”
As for the rather dusty room it looked to be filled with junk, non perishable food, complete with a dinner plate and some unidentifiable drugs found by the others.
It was Julian's advanced sensors that eventually picked up on the anomaly in the room ( he noted that Abe was watching him in fear and took it as a compliment). While Shen was marveling at probably the most delicious smelling meal she had ever witnessed he carefully(as careful as a giant robot can be anyway) edged his way towards the odd shimmer that was sitting on one of the benches.
”The hell is with this noodle bowl? It smells amazing and laced is with… stimulants and medical spray?”
She muttered to herself. It was the best she could find to describe what she smelled, unable to even think of the existence of magically infused food.
”Can’t hide from me!”
Julian suddenly roared, his metal fist slamming into the invisible thing and then bouncing harmlessly off of the energy shield. This did cause the suit to de-cloak and fall from its perch on the bench however.
”Julian what are you doing? And When did that get here?!”
She was startled first by the attack and then by the appearance of the collapsed inhuman figure
”Just showing off my superior eyesight and protecting you”
After an inspection of the fallen foe she announced
”well, good job from saving me from an empty suit. Still, this is entirely out of place, it’s way too advanced”
It was incredibly advanced just in general and while the aliens had exhibited instances of shield tech on shieldbreakers and invisibility on the seekers from the original invasion this was, on first inspection, a sublime combination of the two that didn’t seem to fit any previously encountered alien life form. The sophistication of the tech was promptly demonstrated as the suits shields recharged and it dropped from sight again. It was a shame it didn’t fit anyone, but she was definitely going to see if she could dismantle it later and retrieve the generator and hopefully salvage the unusual metal the suit was made from too.
The suit itself was carefully placed back on the seat and the plate placed on its lap to denote it’s position. She would work on those once they returned.
She and Julian joined the others at their embankment point, ready to head the north. It was as good a direction as any, she honestly couldn’t remember which direction her little group had come in from in the first place anyway.
She was busy attempting to fix the man, Farris’s blow had managed to dislocate his knee, when the princess arrived in the room and so was a little late on the whole saluting thing, what with her facing the wrong way initially, and so only noticed when the wounded man himself saluted. She spun round and after she managed to recover from the shock of turning around and finding royalty standing in the door frame and gave an awkward salute from her kneeling position next to her patient.
She was surprised as everyone else that they were getting leave while the fort they were in was getting it’s royal inspection. Maybe they just wanted rid of the anomalies so they could review the fort in its normal state, or the princess, who had been a student at Academy she remembered, was bias towards her fellow magic users and also wanted something to rub in the face of the Commander who had tried to blame them for the state of affairs.
At any rate, after the princess left Althea forcibly rammed the mans knee back into its socket using her gauntlet and then stood and joined the others. The man himself quickly fled and left the Cadets and Aquarians on the own in the mess hall.
“I’ll go get ze others I guess, I need to check on Gradon anyway.”
She was a little unsure if she wanted to be outside the fort right now, what with the hostile column heading their way. She briefly wondered if this was some weird elaborate preemptive flanking maneuver disguised as an outing to fool spies or something, though that was probably her tired mind making conspiracy theories where none existed.
She went and found Gradon and Ferris, telling them that the princes was here and that they were going on a trip outside the walls to the town. She also checked on Gradon’s injuries but fortunately they did not seem serious, some light bruising for which she prescribed the same treatments as she had to Viola.
where are your two chars at the moment so Althea can come check on Grandon's many bumps and break up what Ferris is trying to do to him and tell them both about our town adventure. Is it just some random hallway?
Though fella weaponry is a very plausible side, I don't think the suit work work. Especially when we have a a walking tank, basically. If it were scaled down, possibly to a backpack containing a charger, as long we it is balanced, you should be fine to have it.
well then. That is the most powerful yet functionally useless item I have ever seen. At least in Sophia's hands it can't give Lily an ironic ending where she brings back Max and then the egg instantly eats him to give her another wish.
edit: note: this is not an insult or something. I will take any excuse for Sophia to get mad
Description: A Sentient aquatic race from the frozen moon WT-319, also known as Aquaria. By the time of xenos discovery they had built a relatively advanced pre industrial society, culturally at least, despite the difficulties of performing metallurgy underwater. They live in undersea city states built around areas of large amounts of geothermal activity resulting from the gravitational heating resulting from its close orbit to its gas giant. Each city state has large hunting grounds around it, where the majority of their food comes from either net based fishing or trained shivers of hunters who bring in the larger catches. The geothermal vents are then used to cook these catches, to be server in grand feast halls found built in the center of the city.
After extraterrestrial contact and trading they made use of vacuum and space suit tech to finally make use of their moons rich ore deposits, massive accelerating their tech advancement. While still below other races they have made a habit of researching and making use of the technologies of all they come across. These days they are rather wide spread, their aquatic lifestyle allowing them to cohabitate world with other sentient species, occasionally without them knowing about it. For example, it took 20 years for humanity to realized they had built a city in the pacific ocean and another 30 to figure out whether that was legal or not, by which point it was basically impossible to remove them the colony anyway.
Physically they are a carnivorous water breathing race who are something of a cross between a shark and a mermaid, featuring a strong swimming tail, sharp teeth and tough skin. Their “hair” is a semi flexible series of tentacles that they have some control over and that can be an indicator of their emotional state. The existence of these additional mini appendages makes it much easier to wire in additional limbs than it does to other life forms, as an engineer can simply redirect some of the nerves from these tentacles to whatever mechanical components they desire.
When going on land they make use of modified space suits that filter and oxygenate water around their heads and use a variety of neural linked wearable cybernetics for mobility. Without these they will eventually suffocate and be limited to crawling and flopping for terrestrial locomotion.
Name: Arra Species: Syreni Chondrichthyes (Aquarian) Age: 21 Gender: F Height: 1.8M Weight: 56 KG
Personality: She is inquisitive, eager to explore the many strange worlds most of her kind will never other to even read about. Probably gets a bit too excited when killing things. When not hunting she is rather laid back and will generally either go sight seeing, be reading about new places she could go or trying out new meats.
History: One of the fairly rare members of her kind that take any interest in living above the waves she has taken up monster hunting as a profession primarily as an excuse to explore strange new worlds and get paid for it.
Originally one of the many hunters employed by her city to sustain it’s endless desire for meat she showed enough aptitude and saved enough money to take her profession to the stars. She is currently rather new to land based hunting, and thus lacks the firepower to take down anything particularly large or well armored. She learned this the hard way when a Rathanus Slicianus cut off one of her hands when her glaive got stuck in it’s cartilage. She managed to get away and then get mechanical replacement and was somewhat humbled by the experience, forcing her to come to terms with the fact that without a hunting shiver to back her up she would need to be more strategic with her approaches, which is when she bought the harpoon gun and dart launcher.
She is currently writing a cookbook of the various xenos meats from an Aquarian hunter’s perspective and is hoping to expand her repertoire of hunted beasts in order to expand it.
Weapons/Supplies: Mobility belt: an array of 4 tentacle like limbs that are used for on land mobility, generally for 4 legged walking. The limbs feature optical sensors that help the user gauge how close they are to terrain. These are naturally linked to her, and so their movements are the same as using her own natural limbs. Extra-aquatic survival helm: An extremely durable bullet proof glass dome and an accompanying life support system keep her from drowning on land. It also includes an inbuilt communication suite for getting sound in and out of her watery enclosure and for making long distance calls. Features an airlock system to get food in and out. Glaive: A traditional hunting weapon, though this example’s blade is made of steel rather than the sharpened bone of yester-years. Emergency survival kit: including flares, rations, glass repair patches, bottled seawater, a swiss army knife, emergency lift balloon and other small useful items.
A regular old harpoon launcher is useful for stopping pray from escaping. Featuring a strong cable trailing from the large metal bolt that stays fixed in its target, if the user manages to secure the launcher to a tree quick enough it can trap a quarry and leave them ripe for butchering.
While this pistol sized weapon features virtually zero penetration power, if it can deliver its payload of elephant tranquilizers to a weak spot of a target then it can knock small creatures out cold or make larger ones tired and sluggish.
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