I will not take this bait, I will not, I will not...

pfft. I think I've done more hurting of things than you have... heheh.



Yes, you will. It is unavoidable. Give in to Fate.

Dooooooooo eeeeeeeeeet. You KNOW you want to. Hell, I know you want to.

Doc, the idea of you hurting things more then I do scares me immensely.

I swear to god I wasn't going to do this - I really wasn't - but then this came on my mp3 rotation. So now I hate you all.


I need a shower.

Ok, You have EARNED that karma. Take it now. ^____^

More karma then possibly imaginable has been earned
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Seriously, that's amazing. You're my fucking hero.

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No.. no that's all I have to say right now... My eyeballs need to be washed... with bleach. I think I jammed a screwdriver in my ear to kill the inner sound system that was putting that all to music ;p

Guys, I think we killed the Doc.

Madrigan, we make a great team. I come up with the mindrape ideas, you implement them.
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Ohgodsletsneverdothatmyeyesarebleedingaaaaah

That's wrong on so many levels.

How do you think I feel?

Violated?

Annnnnnyways...

*Bleeding tentacle creatures wave from the distance*

So... Ears, I'm afraid we're going to skip your action. So much hurt has been poured into one area that the only way you could cock this up is by dropping six grenades infront of everyone in the party.

Yesssh.

New IC post is going up.

I'm a bad, bad man...


I find your suffering highly amusing, and wish to see more. Bring on more psychological torment for all!

Alright, IC post is up. You uh... killed the fuck out everything, congrats ;p

Dumori I'm sorry but everything was dead after troll axe... troll axed.

Yes I know the tentacle creature was supposed to go before Madrigan but it's not like it was going to be able to hazard him before it sucked down a force 8 mana bolt with 5 hits.

Soo yeah, that's that... back to your regularly scheduled story. Thanks for reminding me that I need to up the challenge

Just out of curiousity... how many IPs did the tentacle monsters have?

Does this mean I get six grenades, provided I do something really stupid with them? Pretty please?

I hope not. Between Troll Axe, uberspeed gunbunny(Go Kerrigan Go!), and mage-boy, I don't think we need grenades in the mix.

On a more serious note, what in Hel's name were those things?

Somebody with better luck than me needs to search the Paracritter database for "Jellyfish, FUCKING BIG".

So the roll for my drones knowlage test: Drones test (7d6.hits(5)=1)

And Marcuses Parazoology (8d6.hits(5)=2)

And an inrest test anime how much he knows so he dosen't sound a fool:
Anime test (5d6.hits(5)=2)

Inrest anime test?

Zombayz: What are you wiping your axe down with? The axe metal is pretty resilient stuff so the acid from the tentacle creatures isn't exactly eating through it... but it is smoking and leaving some pretty wicked etching in the blade.

Ears: I'll think about it You want to do some investigating, investigator?

Mickle5125: I'm not prone to give you all... you know the answer but I'll just say this. You felt the creatures were reacting at about 1/4 of your speed

Madrigan: That should totally be it's technical name. Also:


Dumori: I have no idea what the anime test was for but the other tests yield the name and some info (it helps that you know now that it secretes acid, likes to drag people into the water, and seems to prefer ambush to frontal assault). At anyrate you ID the critter as:

Scyphozoa fidealis
Common Name: Fideal
Executive Summary: The fideal is a freshwater creature normally found stalking reeds or other water grass around the edges of bodies of water. It normally grows to no more than 0.5 meters in diameter but larger specimens have been reported. Fideal typically hunt by waiting in obscuring flora and striking with their numerous tentacles at anything that swims by. In the case of larger creatures fideal will typically wait to be stepped upon before entangling the prey and dragging it under the water to drown. All the while the fideal will secrete an extremely reactive digestive enzyme that dissolves most substances aside from: Gold, stainless steel, and various other rare metals and alloys. The fideal feeds by macroscopic variation on phagocytosis, it completely engulfs it's prey in a phagosome and secretes special enzymes that rapidly dissolves it's prey. This process can take days and the various inclusions can often be seen within the fideal's gelatinous mass. Reports of undigested substances remaining for months or years inside a fideal inclusion are not unheard of.

Fideal is capable of altering it's body to have virtually the same refractive index as water and therefore is virtually impossible to detect using visible light. It's unique biochemistry also means it gives off very little heat. Their unique chemistry also makes them very suspectible to fire, their digestive enzymes burn readily as the heat denatures them.


There's more of course but the the rest is a technical discussion about genemapping efforts, some discussion about whether fideal is natural occurring or not, and some speculation on uses for it's very impressive digestive enzymes.
But some things jump out at you:
1. Fideal seems to be unusually adaptive. Saltwater variants have been reported and it's been known to alter it's behavior to better conceal itself in it's chosen environment. It's even been reported to move short distances on dry land, using it's jelly like body to squeeze through incredibly small cracks.
2. Fideal isn't this big. These fideal are some of the biggest ever recorded and that might account for some for their aggressiveness.
3. There's some mention of fideal being used to monitor local vermin levels by capturing them and counting their inclusions... still very hypothetical.


GM Freebie: There are at least two ways you can flip this combat for some cold hard cred, I'll leave it to you guys to figure out how.

Just out of curiousity... what effect does a manabolt have on giant jellyfish? Does it make them 'splode, or simply stop moving? because if it's the second... we have a very, very intact carcass to sell. Not that Kerri's gonna mention it... she'd rather shoot it and make sure it's super dead.

Yep, you have a very very intact carcass... covered entirely in a highly reactive enzyme that eats through just about everything you own

obviously we need to shoot it dead.

if we have a way of carrying it or parts of it we could sell those plus with a few snapshots of the thing we can at least sell the data we've observed and with the links to the academic world I'm sure ill get some thing for it. Plus with my chemistry skill I might be able to stableise the enzyme some how.

In fact they could be pest control messure gone wrong so I'll sue for damages or more likely do a data search.


The Ainime test was really a joke/ a way to see if Marcus got the whole tentacle rape thing.

Note to self: entire day spent walking and job hunting is NOT conductive to PbP.

sorry for my brief absence. And I guess I'll be wiping, or scraping as the case may be, my axe on the side of the ledge thr ghroup is walking on.

You're apologizing for missing a single day in a pBp with a stated post schedule of once a week?

Crazy kat, go get a job

Oh and I have a new post going up in a minute that involves you


ALLCON:
I need Sense Motive tests. Charisma+Con or Charisma+Intuition.

Cha + Int = 7 dice = 3 hits

I'm insane, I know. But I enjoy PbP games, even if I'm not the one playing. All the wit and humour of real gaming, with none of the nerd-horde(don't ask) and my beers being drank by people who aren't me.

Roll:4d6(2 Cha+2 Int)=1 hit

Zombayz:
Harris just tossed you a spliff. Are you gonna smoke that shit or what?

Roll, roll, roll the joint....take a toke, hold the smoke....blow your fuckin mind!

And why do I have a terrible feeling that this is somehow related to that sense motive test?

Sadly S*P will never no... poor low charisma guy that he is

Would my emotoy add to this??

I'm sure that being baked doesn't help either. And the emotoy would only amuse the stoners further

Sense Motive via Charisma (4) + Intuition (3)
7 dice for 2 hits

Hm, investigations? All that I can think of is having my comm search for news reports of people getting attacked by tentacle monsters (or even Fideal) in or near the sewers. And hey, while I play the decker I might just as well have it check the city's bounty list for dangerous animals for an entry labeled or containing "Fideal" and do a general net search for "Bounty" in combination with "Fideal".

Oh, and of course I'll @Doc

Do you want any rolls with that?

And btw what would the attack malus have been, had I ever gotten around to pulling the trigger while pointing the flashlight at the unspeakable abominations?

Thinking of the troll axe's troll axe being burned away gave me an idea too. Sending a message to my contact Bobby-Ray to say if an armourer would have any use for some of that stuff, given we can get it to him

I'll roll if needed

Edit: glass containers maybe?

Do you think 2070 still has perfectly usable stainless steel bathtubs cluttering its trash dumps?
One of which we could borrow to levitate the corpse around in...

Hmm, I should stop having ideas. @Doc

If it was making my axe smoke, then I wouldn't trust steel to not dissolve eventually

From the entry on these things:
"...extremely reactive digestive enzyme that dissolves most substances aside from: Gold, stainless steel,..."

Of course if these mutated killer Fideal also dissolve those materials, we could always resort to Levitate or Spirits of a Force high enough (say two) to ignore 4P if we just want to move the corpse.

I retract previous ignorance.

my sence motive roll int+cha+emotoy (11d6.hits(5)=3)

... did you just stab the giant, fluid filled sack of animal with javelins?

Bah, only aiming for the tentacles. if they're strong enough to latch onto a troll and try to drag him under, they'll survive javelins. without pouring everything out. And, it's already taken a troll axe to it. I don'

The troll axes uh... troll axe isn't made out of stainless steel... it's made out of some advanced alloy that gives it extra spring and resilience.

And sadly makes it a little susceptible to digestive juices. To be clear you're fairly certain it's not going to eat your axe tonight... but it is etching the metal... dunno though, it might give it a cool design on the metal.

More updates in a bit. Gotta get a few things sorted

Ears: I'm looking into those things

Uhhh....


When did axes start needing spring? Here I was thinking they were sharp heavy chunks of metal on sticks

Axe gets spring damnit! SPRING!
Okay that's just what it said on the wrapper... the truth of the matter is that stainless steel is really expensive and this alloy was cheaper. Corporate conspiracy... who would have thunk it...

Look it's just flavor text... you got acid on the axe and now you're goign to have cool acid etched markings all over it (with no actual reduction in strength or keen) It makes your axe distinct damnit!

Dumori:
Emotoy will certainly help... but it's gotta be out to be useful and the moment has passed unless you want to try to strike up a conversation with Harris while it's up and running. Where the heck do you keep it when you're killing bad things?

A chemistry and/or biology roll might help you figure out a bit about this enzyme, especially if it was followed up with a good datasearch roll. Unless you have a chemistry kit on you though, it's unlikely that you're just going to sprinkle some fairy powder over this and walk away with it in your back pocket.

Ears:


Zombayz:
Stabbing the jellyfish of doom doesn't deflate it like a balloon, but it isn't a very good way to drag it around... the thing keeps sliding around. You really need... like a bag or a shovel or something...
Bobby-Ray doesn't know what the fuck to make of your offer. He figures he could find something to do with it if you could get it to him but.. yeah... from the size and all that's goign to be a tall order.

Take #2: we get the bathtub as suggested, and use javelins to make carrying the tub easier?