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>>1306379

Vice Edition

Soundtrack: Miami Vice Theme
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Ayyy

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>>1306379
I'm ready

first

>>1305694
Woohoo HQQ!

WOOOOO
Daily reminder.
>Raid OQ
>Read the locked memories of that thinker.
>Board a scav vessel for their FTL.
>Send a diplomacy team to earth.
>Build that new FTL prediction building.
>Take Reprive (I think that is the system that our mother made her last stand and it only has mining corvetts, it would be a great test for our raiding fleet.)

>>1303161
>The pale one, it seems to be cursed by some fell magics. (Vampire)

>>1303161
>The one in a suit of armor. It's head seems to be missing and it's bound to life by fell magics. (The Dullahan)

>>1303161
>>The one in a suit of armor. It's head seems to be missing and it's bound to life by fell magics. (The Dullahan)

You are amazed by the sights and sounds of an actual town. The first satomobile you have ever seen. The first three stroy building that was not carved into a tree. The utter lack of swampwater around your feet. Not to mention the smell of freshly baked pastries, the intoxicating smells of city food are more than enough to throw you into a mad fit of hunger.

"Hey pops, I'm starving. Can we get a bite to eat?"

"Yeah sure, Xo." your father rifles through the back of his wagon and produces a small bag. "Got enough here to get a nice meal, head down to the *White Dragon* and get us a table. I'll catch up soon." your father tells you.

You take the bag and tell your father goodbye as you head down the street your father pointed you down. You pass several curious and interesting shops. Curious, you slowly walk by the windows of some of these shops.

'Verik Industries, point and shooty store' a small shop with several curious seemingly handheld devices. "Neat"

'Cabbage Co, Walker talkers' a shop full of brick sized black boxes "Cooleo"

'Future industries, S.D.P.R' a shop full of what seemed to be small metal men, so bigger than a child. "Weird"

and several other stores with various other oddities. When you finally see the *White Dragon Cafe* a cozy little shop with the aroma of freshly brewed tea wafting gently from the door.

This diamond in the rough was a clear winner for nicest shop on the block. Looking around, you notice several sketchy shops.

*The bare fox-robbin*
*Sheershnews kill*
*Avatars bane*

"This place seems pretty out of place" you think to yourself.

Always an adventerous youth you had always been curious as to the things around you. Now is no different. But as you look around yourself at the various shops, your fathers words echo in your ear.

"White dragon"

>A) Enter the Bare Fox-robbin
>B) Enter Sheershnews Kill
>C) Enter White Dragon
>D) Enter the Avatars Bane

>>1305538
>>C) Enter White Dragon

>>1305538
>A) Enter the Bare Fox-robbin

>>1303038

>Link to the last threads

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/1220100/
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/1265471/

Specifically, last time you had been kidnapped and imprisoned in an island fortress of sorts belonging to a rival tribe known as the Geletres by their chieftess, Ranuelle. It seems her plan is to keep you captive until you relent to accepting the proposal of uniting your tribe and this rival one.

All is not lost though, since you've made a friend in a sympathetic goblin whom has been providing for your needs, and as well you know to have sent a spy among this tribe and others so perhaps help will come when you discover this spy.

>>1303053
what're we doing now? Where we at?

>>1303086
Currently you are being woken up by the goblin lady and an orc helper, after a good night's sleep. She has breakfast brought for you, and should you wish she can fetch Ran who will give you permission to wash and clean yourself. She says, because after a few days here you've got hair on your face bristling, and she takes that as a sign that you could do with a cleaning.

That is of course your own choice, she simply provides the option, after setting the breakfast on wooden plates upon a table in your room for you, pouring a drink and asking the orc with her to draw the curtains and let some light into the room.

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the yellow thing gets more arms for better grappling

>>1302928
Alogo

Also, how does it eat, as it doesn't have a mouth or parts resembling a mouth i assume it dissolves its prey after it wraps around it

>>1302934
Yeah, pretty much just absorbs it. unless you wanna give it a mouth, and change how it eats.

You glance around, certain one of the other thralls working in the butcher shed will react. They remain focused, knives moving with rhythmic, practiced efficiency as they cut meat for the gryphons too young, injured, or sick to hunt. But you're new to service in Aerie, the capital of the Vaengren Empire. Even as you try to remain diligent, you can hear the voices through the flimsy walls of the shed.

The first voice is loud and familiar. You and the speaker, Eini, have shared chores. He's a bit gruff, but he's been kind to you. The other voice is lower, and it has a cruel edge. You recognize Unner, one of the fledgling gryphon keepers. He's your age, and as a fledgling, he's still in training. He has to obey his sponsor and any other senior gryphon keeper. But you have to obey him, as does every other thrall.

"You'll do what I say, thrall," says Unner, his voice hard with menace.

"Like wyrm dung I will," shouts Eini. He really shouldn't speak to a gryphon keeper that way, even if Unner is still a fledgling. With a few words to the right people, Unner could have Eini sent to the front lines. You've heard about the war, the enemy's enormous, bright-scaled wyrms filling the skies with fire. Eini wouldn't last the week.

You'd better act fast. But you've got work to finish, too.

>I have to look out for myself first. I'll finish my task and then check on Eini.

>If Eini needs me, I have to help. I leave without stopping to clean up.

>If I want Eini to listen to me, I better look credible. I splash some water on myself, and then go to see what's happening.

>>1304759
>If I want Eini to listen to me, I better look credible. I splash some water on myself, and then go to see what's happening.

You find a basin to rinse in. The water is icy, and you shiver as you scrub the blood off. Still damp, you head into the training yard.

You arrive just in time to see Eini stagger from a punch to the jaw. You hear his sharp hiss of pain, quickly muffled. Unner rubs his knuckles and smiles.

"I could feed you to Dustfeather, thrall," says Unner. He's tall, even for a gryphon keeper, and his white—and—gray fledgling uniform is so clean it looks new. He makes Eini, a short, broad boy, look dingy by comparison. However, Dustfeather, Unner's eagle and panther gryphon, says more about the fledgling than his clean uniform.

>Announcements:

Exterminator Quest will now run all week long but will continue to have the most vigorous activity on Saturday nights. This new state of affairs will be referred to as”indefinite running” and will hopefully increase the activity and exposure of the Quest. Also I will soon perform the much overdue task off revising the rules I've cobbled together here.

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You flip open your laptop and make quick work of analyzing today's quota of external accounts, finishing your basic duties before Deng Li makes his way through his Rice Crunchies. You're ready to compile your report but you have noticed two abnormalities: a massive increase in expenditures by a corporate body listed as “Universal Engineering” and dramatically reduced returns from a small independent returns from a local extermination business. You decide to highlight these discrepancies before sending the results off to your boss. It'll probably be a few hours before he bothers to check his inbox but you've technically completed all of your duties for the day in under two hours.

“I'm done.”

Deng Li looks up from his iLegal phone.

“Already? You must be more of a corporate wunderkind than I realized, Sun. I guess I should be going... unless you wanted to do something today?”

>Go home, Deng. I could use some privacy.
>I guess we could see about obtaining those explosives you seem to need so badly.
>Let's go day-drinking
>Let's go to the arcade
>Why don't we contact some of my other friends?
>Actually, I wanted to do (write-in)

>>1302628
>Simmons is back
>I guess we could see about obtaining those explosives you seem to need so badly.

Its been awhile mate, lovely to see you up and running again

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Convincing fellow magi to fight alongside you is easier than one would imagine. All you have to do is go up to them and ask.

“Airi, let’s do this.”

“Hey Michiko, want to fight a match together?”

“Nina, you look bored, let’s team up.”

“Shall we begin, dear Keiichi?”

“Florence, I swear to god, if you fuck this up I am going to kill you.”

Nine of ten times, they agree. The remaining 10% is overcome with a little bit of gentle persuasion, generally the reminder of a favour owed. This eagerness stems from a universal trait of magi: the desire to seek power, consciously or unconsciously. Offering them the chance to battle is like placing a tray of fresh cookies in front of a ravenous child.

You’re just thankful the process isn’t so complicated, because god knows enough bullshit has happened to you in the battle arena already. Sometimes, when she’s feeling bored, Nina sends you a link to the video that was recorded on your very first day at True Hearts. You sometimes muster up the courage to peek at the comments section. Submerging your head into a bog would give you less of a headache.

>>Keiichi: Ask Hideki to fight with you.

You catch him at one of the desks in the library. He’s scribbling something in a notebook, snickering and giggling to himself as he goes. He always does that when he finds something particularly interesting. You expect to see a fresh article on the amateur journalist site tonight. Maybe you’ll read it if he sends you the link.

“Hey, Hideki.” You greet, walking up to him.

“Keiichi!” Hideki gives you a grin, turning his head to look at you. “What can I do for you?”

You jerk a thumb in the direction of the battle arena. “Want to fight together? It’s been a while.”

“Sure! Hold on, let me finish this up…” There’s some more scribbling, “Okay, I’m done. Let’s go, buddy!”

The two of you leave the library and head for the battle arena. The two of you make small conversation. It’s just two boys doing boy things and not considering the opposite gender at all. Some way through the walk, Avery interrupts you.

“Eh…hey Keiichi, are you sure about this guy? He doesn’t look particularly strong…”

“As opposed to who?” You answer, “Michiko? Airi? Nina, whose muscles are nearing atrophy from all the video games she plays?”

Avery flinches. You know this due to the gap in her chatter. “Yeah, I see your point, but this guy doesn’t seem like he’s suited for pure combat. He’s kinda scrawny, y’know?”

“One-on-one, maybe, but he’s good at supporting.” You reply. Simultaneously, you nod and casually reply to what Hideki is saying. Talking to the spirit in the mind while communicating with the physical world is something you have learned over the course of your mentorship. Akasha-Alea actually classified it as an important real-world skill. She talked to you a lot during the initial stages of your mentorship. It was annoying. “I know from experience.”

“If you say so…”

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“Don’t let it dampen your excitement.”

“Dampen? You sayin’ I’m not excited? I’m hell excited!” Avery shouts. “I’ll show you just how great of a revolver I am, damn it! You better not screw up too, got it?”

“Yeah yeah, let’s do this…”

“So how does your friend fight, anyway? What’s his magic art?”

“He’s an annoying prick.”

“…”

“That’s how he fights. I’m serious.”

The battle arenas of Shibuya are a window into the soul of their respective academies. Stonewolf’s is formal and Spartan, using the results there for its assessment of its students. In Caelestis, the participants are expected to fight beautifully as they claim victory. Lady Sagisawa’s hooks its students up to machines and records the data from the fights—all with their consent, of course. Last but not least, True Hearts, being the reliable, standard and sometimes overlooked of the Big Four, constructed its battle arena with the sole purpose of letting its students to enjoy themselves. There’s an air of casualness inside the waiting room that its rivals notably lack. It suits you just well.

To register for a fight, students must go up to one of the self-serve machines and apply for the matchmaking process. Once done, they are given a ticket and told to wait until their designated time. Each match takes from five to ten minutes. There’s plenty of arena spaces for enough students to work their kinks out every day.

>>Keiichi and Hideki: Do all of what was described above.

You press buttons on the matchmaking machines and wait for the process to complete. A few seconds later, this is what pops up on the screen in big white letters. You and Hideki stare at it.

KEIICHI HIRAYAMA and HIDEKI NISHIO vs. MICHIKO TSUKIWAKI and AIRI HIRAYAMA.

“Wow.” You utter after a moment’s pause.

“Man, this could be a bit troublesome.” Hideki chuckles, a bit nervously. “Glad it’s not Nina.”

“Of all the opponents…” You mumble. “Yeah, this might take a while.” So much for a quick and easy match to test out Avery, eh?

“To be placed against some of True Hearts’ toughest girls…” Hideki says, “This is some luck we have, eh Keiichi?”

“Well, it might not be all that bad.” You reply. “Airi isn’t in top condition today.”

“How come?”

You don’t answer, because you suddenly realize the aforementioned girls are standing by the machine next to yours.

>“Are you ready for men to be proven superior?”
>“I’ll give you a handicap. Revolver only.”
>“Okay girls, prepare to get your ass kicked.”
>“Airi, are you sure you can do this?”
>“Let’s have a good match.”
>custom option.

>>1302102
>>“Airi, are you sure you can do this?”
>>“Let’s have a good match.”

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>>1301608
“Sounds a bit like someone we both know,” you nod, reminding her that Ichigo has a similar problem, “except mister Substitute just doesn't seem to ever really run out of energy.”

“Ah, to be young again...” Yoruichi sighs.

“We're not that old yet,” you snort. “As strong as we've gotten it'll be at least five hundred years before we really have to start rationing our reiatsu.”

“Speaking of things that won't happen for five hundred years,” Yoruichi grins, “what's going on with those notes of yours? Can I help?”

“A second set of eyes couldn't hurt,” you shrug, “so long as you can make sense of my handwriting.”

“Let me see,” she sighs, easing herself onto the floor by your side and looking over the sea of papers. “Yeah, I see the problem... on the face of it at least, none of this really makes sense. I can understand the words but with no idea what they refer to I can't even guess their meaning, like the whole thing is written in allegory.”

“Least it's not in puns,” you shrug. “I don't think I could live with that.”

>Let's try to start at what looks like the “beginning”, maybe work our way up from there.
>Maybe if we find one passage that makes sense the rest of it will start to make sense too?
>Skip ahead to the last page, see how this movie script you've written actually ends.
>Other?

>Let's try to start at what looks like the “beginning”, maybe work our way up from there.

Hello, I'm surprised I caught this so early

>>1301610

>Let's try to start at what looks like the “beginning”, maybe work our way up from there.

>In 500 years Riku will be a goddess and she knows it. Denial much?

>>1307099
>I should go to the street vendors

>>1307122
>You decide to head to the street vendors.
>You walk up to the food vendor and exchange coin for a honey biscuit and some jerky.
>You then go to peruse the weapons.
>You peer over the weapons they have.
"You got any with a built in venom chamber?"
>The shopkeep gives you a confused look.
>"Built in? Well no but.."
"Ah dang, that's such a shame."
>He chuckles.
"I thought most Faloconians hated venom based weaponry. What with the B.V.S.D raids and all."
>You sigh showing him the snake neck tattoo indicative of any Vieperian.
"First of all, I'm not a Faloconian, I'm a Vieperian. Secondly, it was the rebellions at Valis which caused the attack to happen. The Faloconians brought it on themselves for opposing the Black Venom Death Squads at the time."
>He sighs.
>"I'm not gonna argue politics with you, I'm a Boarian, we were allies in the wars remember?"
>You spy the boar shaped tattoo on his neck.
>"Still, your light hair, I mean, it's an easy mistake-"
"I don't have the dark colored hair of most Vieperians. My sister has dark hair though. Honestly me and sis never knew our parents, for all I know, maybe there is some Faloconian ancestry in our blood."
>You bite into your honey muffin.
>"I wouldn't say that you're a Vieperian too loudly around here though honestly."
"The Faloconians still holding that grudge huh?"
>He gets real close leaning in.
>"It's more than them. It's Coalescence."
"Coalescence?"
>"The agents of Coalescence are said to be everywhere, in every faction."
"How? What is it?"
>"It has members of every group all working toward a common goal."
"Sounds shady."
>"I dunno, but their group is starting to turn heads. Maybe something will happen."

>I should get back to sis, I should tell her about Coalescence and ask what that is in greater detail

>I should get back to sis, but keep what I learned a secret.

>>1307209
>I should get back to sis, but keep what I learned a secret.

Rolled 9, 7, 10 = 26 (3d10)

>>1306534
Hmm i'm not one for stealth so...
>Try to get a shot off despite the distance. (Roll 3d10)

>>1306750
Oooooooo

>>1306750
>>1306753
You can make the shot, you know you can. You level the gun, exhale, and squeeze the trigger letting off a short burst blasting the things face with lead -- it grunts and sways. The warrior seizes the opportunity: a hand letting loose a bolt of fire which denotates with devastating effect.

It retreats back into the fog, which melts back into the ground as mysteriously as it came. The view behind you is sobering. Bandages have already been brought out, first aid is being applied but even on a cursory glance you can see many will not make it. Maybe if you had surgical tools. Maybe.

The warrior, who you now recognize as the head of the collum, Magnar Osklenn, nods at you as he runs past back to his men. Your skill in battle management allows you to quickly mentally eliminate those who will certainly die (+3 to assisting the most injured by not attempting to save the unsavable). You're left with three groups to help:

>Help the lightly injured
>Help the moderate injured
>Help the extensively injured but still salvageable.
In each of the above cases roll 3d10 and drop lowest. The difference between them in how high you have to roll. For every 2 above the DC, you will help/save an additional Raven.
>Simply Observe instead
>Write in

>>1302180
>High-powered application of sharp objects to vital areas (melee)

>>1302180
>Moveshootmoveshoot (standard cover to cover tactics)

>>1302184
>Moveshootmoveshoot (standard cover to cover tactics)
Save the CQC for room clearing.

>>1301850

It seemed that the attack was a one of sort of deal, but that made no sense, had it been triggered by your first brood? Was that it? At any rate the numbers started to come, by not leaving the hive and concentrating on growing it, you amassed a good number of soldiers and workers. Albeit your workers were not capable of leaving the hive these were not meant for the eternal winter raging outside. And you needed the nutrients early on, so they were the best investment at the time. However, while you have derived a new soldier. The Heavy Winter Soldier, armored in chitin plates just like the enemy, stacked like scales, but with four arms all directly storing internal slug throwers, and capable of its own ammo manufacturing. You've dubbed them Queen's Guard. But for the moment only four of them.

There is something disturbing, this creature, this enemy that attacked you is most certainly the product of a queen. It has the proper genetic markers, its DNA is a match. However it lacks a command structure, a primitive sort of animal brain is distributed along a redundant nervous system. But It is incapable of accepting or rather it cannot receive the commands of a thinker or a queen. It lacks the proper mental capacity to be little more than a rabid animal with heightened aggression. Worse yet, it is capable of asexual reproduction, but only of its own caste. This is a nightmare, an abomination that should not exist. However, upon closer examination your thinkers found a genetic countdown clock. It is a sort of halt order, in which this creature can only lay a certain numbers eggs and it passes on a smaller reproductive clock down. From the looks of things, it seems in 37 generations it will be unable to lay more eggs.

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>>1301851

This is a weapon, to consume nutrients and copy itself with no regards to wildlife, to ecosystem. And in a certain number of generations stop and then die out. Insidious, and most horrendous.


Current research:
>none

Possible research:
(days per every 2 thinkers. Add more thinkers to lower threshold.)
>Research local animals for adaptations(specimens required.)
>Research Hiding thermal signature(3 days)
>parasitic defense(resistance to poison) (2 days)
>Dissect local predator(defensive traits or offensive traits)(4 days)
>Analyze/vivisect Spikeback creature. Seems a bit docile(4 days)

Parts unlocked:
Armor scales.

>Current resource reserves
Nutrients: 157
Metals: 0

>Upkeep cost
Queen – 5
First Clutch Worker (0) – 0 (Sad.)
Thinker (6) – 18
Workers(42) –84
Winter Workers (0) – 0
Winged Winter Worker(6) –36
Winter Soldier(50)– 450
Miners(40)- 160
Screw Scout(4)–16
Infrastructure(per base)-160
=
Total Cost:
1029
>Income
Nutrients: 1115
>Net: 86N(amount that can be used)

>>1301854

Current Construction
None

>Eggs gestating:
0

Hive Structure
>Infrastructure(heated interior) 40N
>Hatchery(Eggs can be hatched half a day early +%25 loss expected)
>Throne room (Fortified location for the queen)
>Doors (increases defenses)(No metal)
>Dedicated sentry outposts(increases defenses)
>Vesper pens 75N per day
>Algae farms(4) 1040N per day 4 workers required.
>Fortified entrance (40N)

Previous quests:
https://archive.moe/tg/search/subject/Hive%20Queen%20Quest%20Beta/

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http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?searchall=hive+queen+quest+beta

Twitter:
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Pastebin:
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Possible Construction:


Work detail:
16 normal workers on the farms
4 winged winter workers as sentries
12 workers as helper to thinkers
14 workers Idle
40 miners Idle


>What to do now you ask your many thinking threads, and your thinkers. (Write in)

>>1300406
>Visit someone you know?
Breakfast with the gang?

>>1300458

this works for me too

>>1300406
>>Visit someone you know?
>Breakfast with the gang?