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>>1698270
You feel the notice of a Distant Mind
>Psionic research has received a small boost
>Slip drives have a 10% chance to alert you to their usage

>Current resource reserves
Nutrients: 28,387,150N
Metals: 19,934,864M
Credits: ₡602,226
Credits in Lyle’s account: ₡1,175,000

Active trade routes
>Leeland – Lanway: HMS Orphan, Captain John Spreckels
[FormOther brand Fusion Reactors]

>Construction underway
made but unpaid for
[Light Fleet] x5
[Heavy Fleet] x15
[Ambush Fleet]x10
[Fast Assault Fleet] x5

>Formed fleets and orders
Citadel Hive Ship – [Awaiting orders]
Small Heavy Defense Fleet [Patrolling Leeland space]
25 Heavy Battle Fleet [Supporting Commonwealth Liberation]
5 Missile Ambush Fleet [Awaiting orders]
30 Light Fleets [Supporting Commonwealth Liberation]
20 Light Fleets [Awaiting orders]
10 Fast Assault Fleets [Awaiting orders]
10 Ambush Fleet
6 Carrier Battle groups

Clone upkeep/special projects and expenses
[Gemini]
3 Taidaren Hybrids (105)
4 Human flash clone upkeep – 120
18 Human hybrid clone upkeep – 540
Specializations:
>Tech
>Engineer
>Brawler
[Hive space]
100 Human Hybrids – 3,000
Lyle Rogers – 57
Jackob Eisner – 56
Dillon Reager – 30
Clone/project upkeep – 3,908N

>Income
Metals: 2,950,500
Nutrients: 7,636,000
Net:

Total upkeep
Nutrient costs: 6,675,390

(Nutrient stat + structures) * 1k * dev score + modifiers = Nutrient income total
(Metal stat + structures) * dev score + modifiers = Metal income total

Espionage Activity
Gemini: This planet holds an embassy, random chance to gain intelligence each day, +1 Active Operation available. This planet's population is highly irritable and aggressive to Hive influence. All failure and detection chances are increased. Increased rate of psionic resistance in the local populace. Any attempt to increase unrest will receive a bonus to success chance and increased detection rate.
[Covert Infiltration] Resources: 1 sleeper cell planted in maintenance and sanitation department.
>Beggars and Taidarens

Path: This planet is currently under military lockdown, dramatically increasing failure and detection chances. The local population is anxious and afraid of the future due to recent events, increasing the population's psionic vulnerability to influence.

Huron: This planet's condition is unknown, no monitoring effort is under way.
[Maintain Concealment]

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>>1698270
Time to make mother happy

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>>1698288
Hive Territory
[G-426]
*Leeland (capital)
N 60+40
M 45
Development 50

Income:
4.886MN
162.5KM

Defensive structures
>Surface to Orbit Missile System: Uses long range missiles to attack enemy ships in the system (1KN, Additional costs per launch)
>Anti-orbital battery grid: Directly attacks enemy ships in orbit (8KN)
Military structures
>Hangar facilities: Deploys atmospheric and orbital drones to intercept attackers, uses aerodynamic and fighter drone designs (4KN)
>Psionic Shroud: Conceals hive activity from psionic senses (1KN)
Industrial structures
>Docking Pylon: (2000) (100KN)
[Empty docks: 8000/8000]
Economic Structures
>Capillary Tower [under construction]
>Smart Mines active: Calculates development stat twice for metal income
>Algae Farm: +25N
>Film harvester dock: +15N
Asteroid mining base: 50KM per day added to nearest planet.

[M-662]
Raligha
N 90+20
M 10
Development 25

Income:
2.75MN
0M

Defensive structures
>Surface to Orbit Missile System (1KN)
>Anti-orbital battery grid (8KN)
Economic structures
>Bloodroot collectors: Pipes running from Bloodroot trees extract nutrient rich sap +20N
>Greystalk farms: [under construction]
>Greenwall pit: Genetically engineered plant efficiently recycles waste material, Extra N income x2
>Temple alter: A place for the Ralighan locals to worship and bring offerings to your hive, built in the likeness of your local fake queen, +500N per day

[M-323]
>Orbital docking pylon: Space for docking and construction of 4 sub capitals or 1 capital ship, (50N)
[Empty docks: 0/4]
>Mining corvette salvage operations +2,688,000M per day (+8000M per corvette)

[Farcast]
Derelict Sensor array

Glassed Hive world
N 0
M 100
D 10

Income:
0N
100KM

>Smart mine mantle excavation: Calculates development stat 3 times for metal income

Deep space waystation
>100 docking pylons (10KN)
[Empty docks 400/400]

Espionage Rules
https://pastebin.com/kH6fmTV6

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Archived threads:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Wretched%20Sea

1st Thread: Introduces naval combat and economic mechanics.

2nd Thread: Introduces looting in the ruins, the large-scale Battle of Sbvysek.

3rd Thread: Heavy exposition for the Republic, the Citadel Navy, and Reynolr himself.

4th Thread: Revelations about the unsettling amulets popularly worn by Scrap Bay nobility, and a great deal of exposition in general from a untrustworthy and evasive source in Céleste Chapuis.

5th Thread: Strange journeys with Miss Chapuis using the amulet - after dropping off the Republic prisoner with your new acquaintance in Scrap Bay, you set out into the southern Interim Sea on escort duty only to face a remarkably accurate Republic ship in a blinding storm.

6th Thread: Exploring the ruins of the fortress, you encounter a thinking relic of the Old Empire, and after an unsettling encounter, repair the Brora. After, you find your way to... Vryag, was it? You were chasing something, but you can only really remember the red speckling the walls, and a wreck-strewn beach. It seems like another world, but no one else shares your memories.

7th Thread: You explored an island, didn't you? Something about a mission, and cliffs of crystal... a sharp headache dulls this line of thought. You've stopped thinking about it, mostly - the present, your duty, and your crew - those are what's important.

8th Thread: You fight a battle with an uppity civilian, and the cargo you seize entangles you in the mission of Mr. Bucard, who seeks an ancient spire north of the Kraegsk.

9th Thread: Alongside Céleste and Kenneck, you pass the time on a cargo ship with stories. Upon reaching the Volcano, you board Bucard's airship, where all is not right…

10th Thread: Aboard Bucard’s airship, you settle in, take stock of your situation, and land yourself in a desperate fight against fanatics that want nothing more than Bucard’s expedition meeting its end before the Spire is ever sighted.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScribeQM

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The situation is desperate - your skin is torn in a half dozen places, deep cuts that stain your clothing with blood. Céleste is clutching a gunshot wound on or near her shoulder - you can’t quite see. Kenneck is the only uninjured member of the group, standing in the front and facing down the monstrosity with a levelled rifle. The demonic visage writhes in front of the clothed Visage, an apparent statue that was the jewel of the cache - you’ve wounded the monster, and it’s growing and boiling, fissures and pus exploding from the brittle skin as it strains its unholy self for a final effort.

Kenneck: Damn you, monster! You won’t have my soul!

Céleste: Reynolr, the amulet - I can use it, I can get us out of this before he gets hurt too, or worse -

>Never! Madness defeating madness doesn’t help us! We kill it with steel!
>No! Céleste, you can’t use that damned thing, not like this - we kill it with steel!
>Alright - end it, if you can! Be careful!
>Something else?

>>1698189
My favorite quest. Finally caught it live. Glad to have you back, Scribe. Don't forget to update Twitter if you haven't yet.

Anyway, could we use the amulet to power up Reynolr's pistol? 3 points of damage (2 base + 1 red) will probably do the thing in.

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>>1697708
>>1697625
You steer the vehicle to the right, finding yourself in a vast room. Sunlight streams in from a hole above the center, which appears to be a glass window under the river above. It must be morning now.

The light shines down on a city that fills the chamber. There are four large structures that support the rest of the chamber, and a monument sits in the center. You can make out the remains of people in the center, it looks like some sort of protest occurred. Most of the buildings are intact, but a few appear to be broken into and looted.

A shopping complex (not as impressive as the ones in your homeland) dominates the quarter on your immediate left after entering.

The road seems to rise in the north, as well as straight across.

You would need an army of people to loot this place, as well as a whole bunch of transport vehicles.

There are no military installations, just upper-class homes, schools , and entertainment buildings. This was a city for the rich. Ollam had let its labor and workers burn in the city above while the wealthy elite lived below...

...Only to starve to death and riot it seems.

The girl flickers into being above the monument. Speakers crackle.
"It's... coming... civilians... behind... barricades... All... defense... beach..."

You can hear a clamor as you see several war machines leave the streets and charge up the northern road.

It seems this place is protected from... whatever is happening to the north.

What do you do?
>Explore (and loot) the city
>Go back
>Go straight ahead
>Follow the war machines to the left
>Go down to the right.

>>1697817
>>Explore (and loot) the city

>>1697817
Follow the killbots. I want to know what exactly is trying to get out.

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>>1699269

Went on hiatus for a couple weeks but back again, to continue where things left off, directly from the previous two threads;

>http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/1514772/
>http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/1596007/

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You are Owen, a 20-year-old newcomer to the town of Diamond Shoals, and new acquaintance of the resident Gems there. In your spare time you've been helping them out with the odd job here and there, though this is another proper mission you've accompanied them on. And so after making your way through the structure within the first giant tree and onto the second, you've taken shelter from a dangerous monster. Some sort of hostile plant mass having sprung to life in the greenhouse after the team made an effort to restore it to some working order. No thanks was given however, as the monster attacked any and all around it and forcefully disbanded the group, some being smashed out the greenhouse windows and to a likely fatal fall.

Now it's just you and Sarah, another of the group, having taken cover together in the water irrigation room joined to the greenhouse. By hiding, keeping quiet and merely watching (no easy task after watching your teammates cast out), you noticed that eventually the plant creature gained some composure overtime. As if getting used to its surroundings, it uprooted itself and after a short exploration of the room, made for the exit onwards. Perhaps driven by whatever force animated it in the first place. Even out of immediate danger for the moment, naturally you and Sarah aren't any less worried. For yourselves, for your friends, if they're even alive that is.

>Move into the next room, the greenhouse, and see what the aftermath is. The monster may have moved on though, but you still want to be discrete about it.
>Check your belongings, see what you have left. With just the two of you remaining, success or survival may come down to what you can use and rely on.
>Assure Sarah that it's going to be alright. You have no idea if it will of course, but she's just a kid and it must be hard for her after seeing her friends dispatched in such a brutal fashion.
>[Write-in.]

>>1699291
>>Assure Sarah that it's going to be alright. You have no idea if it will of course, but she's just a kid and it must be hard for her after seeing her friends dispatched in such a brutal fashion.
And then go and retrieve the gems.

DECEMBER 19TH, 1971

Slowly but surely, you open your eyes. The dim light of your common room reaches your eyes and you're once again thankful for the Slytherin dorms for having such soft lighting. Being under the Black Lake probably plays a big role in that, you think. Stretching yourself out, you move yourself out of your bed and let out a yawn. Jeez, it feels like you slept for months! Wiping the sleep from your eyes, you look around and survey the dorm. From the looks of it, you seem to be the first one up. Everyone else sleeps soundly around you, and you even swear Sev is snoring. Grinning to yourself, you think about what you want to do today. Slug Horns party is later tonight and youre invited. But until then youve got no real obligations, except maybe study a little if you feel like it.

>A. Wake up everyone
>B. Get ready and leave
>C. Study until everyone wakes up(specify subject)
>D. Other

>>1706600
>>A. Wake up everyone

>>1706600
>A. Wake up everyone
F

>>1701584
What about /qtg/?

>>1701663
/qtg/

>>1701663
>>1701667
/qtg/?

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This hasn’t been the best evening of your military career. First, you and your formation get grounded because of maintenance issues, then you learn that Major Castro is going to be shipping back to Earth for court-martial in a couple weeks, and now the whole base is under massed attack. You look down at the freshly-dead Imperial soldier, feeling your stomach threaten to turn. You’ve pulled triggers and dropped bombs before, probably killed hundreds since the War started. But you’ve never seen someone killed up close like this.

“I need a weapon,” you say to the marine.

“Right,” he nods. “Take that guy’s shotgun if you want. He’s certainly not using it.”

You pick the shotgun up, checking the chamber to ensure it is loaded. It’s an old-school pump shotgun with a heat shield and bayonet, either an antique or replica of one. Certainly not standard issue. “Okay. Lead the way.”

You and the marine make your way through the trenches leading to the command center, narrowly avoiding death several times. Eventually, you both arrive at an area where the trenchworks have been completely destroyed, leaving only craters in their absence. It’s a damn killing field out there in the open, with Imperial and Federal bodies lying all over the place. Littered about are wrecked vehicles and equipment. You’re sure they would make good cover if you decided to cross, but would you be able to make it?

You look to the marine, both of you grimacing. He is the first to speak up as you both duck behind cover. “That was a hardened trench half an hour ago.” He pauses to fire from cover at something just out of your view. “We can go around, but it’ll take a lot longer than if we try to book it across the craters…” He frowns sternly. “It’s your call, sir. I’ve got your back regardless.”

>”Let’s move.” (charge across the craters, roll 1d100)
>”I don’t want to risk it. Let’s find another way around.”

Rolled 19 (1d100)

>>1701237
”Let’s move.” (charge across the craters, roll 1d100)

>>1701237
>”I don’t want to risk it. Let’s find another way around.”
We have nowhere to hurry to.

Oh hey, I remember this. It was sorta nifty.

>Cut off a small corner of one of your sandwiches
>Pour some water into the portal along with the sandwich corner.

First things first, gotta solve the food problem first.

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>>1699907
You create the TUNA SANDWICH.

Inventory:
Peanut butter and jelly sandwich
Peanut butter and jelly sandwich (missing a chunk)
Plastic container (containing the sandwiches)
Pocket knife
Compass (seems to have stopped working after being put in this room...)
Bottle of water (X4)
Bottle of water (2/3 full)
Tuna sandwich

>>1699952
Let's cut off some of our hair, than put lock of hair into portal along with compass.

>>1699285
>Let's go over the combat in more depth.
I want to ask about the mechanism for missing an attack, crits, and determining damage.

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>>1699412
>I want to ask about the mechanism for missing an attack, crits, and determining damage.
I guess I'll answer this to start off.
>Missing an attack
I will have a hidden DC for certain actions. The reason why it's hidden instead of direct is to give you the opportunity to feel out and discover weaknesses. A near miss will result in less damage, a very bad roll will result in no damage.
>Crits
A base 2 is always considered a miss, and overrides other rolls unless there is a critical hit (a base 20) present. Critical hits will always down an enemy, meaning that if they are a single non-Monster enemy, they will immediately try to negotiate, if they are in a group they will not take their next turn, and if they are a Monster the whole party will gain a temporary buff.
>Damage
Less numeric, more narrative. I'll have a general idea of how much damage you do, but since people seem not to like me taking the time to work with a lot of numbers, I'm not going to. I'll just indicate 'how much' damage you do with an adjective, like 'Massive' or 'Sicknasty'.

>>Open Floor
>I still want to know more about the combat.
>Can I suggest a different resolution method?
>I want to know more about the characters.
>I think we should change the quest's name.
>Let's get to the recap.
><Write-In>

>>1699285
>>Let's go over the combat in more depth.
Personally speaking, I actually rather enjoyed your combat system, but admittedly it is overly complex and bogs things down. I'm curious how the ew combat system will affect specifically Faust, because of his Devour ability.

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>>1698533
>Yuu Saki.

>>1698533
>>Yuu Saki.

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Now the grandson of Vandal Bloodfur, Undred Bloodfur, rules Kirotr. There has not been a Bonebeak raid since his youth, and the Lord of Kirotr has many winters under his belt. He grooms his son and daughter, Fick and Lisinna, to rule after his passing. The Kirotr army has never been bigger, and threatens to overtax the gentlebeast families of Whitenort. To the northwest are the Snowhare tribes, reclusive but dangerous when provoked, and to the south lies the Rakka Tan Kingdom, a large collection of warrior squirrel clans that have always eyed the Bloodfurs with mistrust.

Castle Kirotr is frozen in a moment of chaos. You feel it, practically walk through it as you pass under the gatehouse. You and your soldiers enter to find the castle grounds full. Gentlebeasts from the river and fields, Kirotr soldiers looking worn from the days fighting, the wildcats in their plate armor. But in the center, surrounded by all these creatures, is Reginald and his trope. The various squirrels, mice, hares and otters are holding tightly to the youngins you and your soldiers rescued from the hoard. Your eyes narrow, the tired wheel of your mind turning.
“What’s going on,” You say, crossing the grounds towards the center. You motion at Reginald. “Why are you holding on to those dibbuns,”
“The children are the foolbands!” Fick yells, stepping forward with a raised fist. The son of Undred Bloodfur now wears a jagged three lines diagonally across his face, from where a Pine Martin clawed him.
You turn to Reginald again. “These are your children?”
Reginald, head raised, nods. “And we thank you for rescuing them,” He says, his voice oddly neutral. You are too tired to process this. Something is wrong, but between the cold morning air and the battle you can’t get your mind to work.
“Commander Blackfur,” Undred Bloodfur says, stepping forward. “This trope’s children were taken by Drakkold the Sly as leverage for their cooperation,” Undred points a claw at a small squirrel child huddled behind its mother’s legs. “They were to work their way inside our castle, earn our trust, and when Drakkold and his hoard arrived they were going to open the gates for them,”
Your eyes find Cass, the ottermaid who was so skillfully performing only a day ago. She meets your gaze. Beside her is a young otter cub, grasping at her hand. “But you didn’t stay in your castle like Drakkold thought you would,” Reginald says. His ears have drooped some. “You took your army out to meet him in battle, surprising the dastardly villian.”
“But had we stayed,” You said, the blood rising in your rattled head. “You would have opened the gates to them,”
“We had too,” Reginald says. You think you catch a hint of pleading in his voice. “He had our children,”
“Commander,” Undred Bloodfur says. “I must bury Tobbi Hackles, among his kin in the catacombs,” Undred turns away, as do most of the wildcats. “I ask that you take care of this,”
The wildcats leave, bearing the wrapped body of Tobbi Hackles on their shoulders. You turn to Reginald and the trope. Your soldiers, almost unconsciously, form a loose circle the trope.
"Please sir," Reginald says, doing his best to keep his chine up. "We did it for our children,"

>Punish the trope, be it lightly or....most severely
>Be merciful

old thread >>1682654

>Thread Theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOlBcMLyqkk
>Character Sheet
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-eNk92s6EpIHyVpv59rJFOgex9Q-IVyVK-VPkhxwCgI/edit?usp=sharing

>>1697122
>Hide! These Manthings will cower before you, but first they need to have their back to you

We're not scared, it's tactical

>>1697122
>Hide! These Manthings will cower before you, but first they need to have their back to you.

You visit 7.

He is not happy.

>wrangle a beaver you jive turkey cat hazard
>cheer up 7
>make milk
>ask 7 for wapon
>writ in

>>1702036
>>make milk
MILK 7

As the light dies, so too does the vivacity of the hold. The town square is soon desolate as the citizenry flock into their domiciles for the evening, leaving you standing alone atop the wall, silhouetted against the night by a burning brazier. The square is devoid of life now.

Your mind begins to wander, conjuring up wistful images of your bed, calling your name...

And with a start, panicked cries for help jar you from your daydream. They're coming from an alleyway, just out of sight from your position atop the wall.

>What do you do?

>>1701632
Stand fast. Our job is an important one, we have our orders.

>>1701877
The Captain's orders echo in your head as the screams echo through the streets. By a fear of will power alone, you stifle your curiosity and stand at the gate. Eventually, the screams die down and the streets are quiet. By the light of the torches illuminating the town square, growing dimmer as the early hours of the morning tick steadily by, you see a hooded figure, taller than a dear friend, and taller than even most men, emerge from an alleyway behind the Frostholm Inn. His robes glisten by the fire and moonlight, and appear to be damp with what you can only assume to be blood. Nonchalantly, he begins to walk deeper into the city of Anvil, taking the road towards the warrens.

The warrens, you think to yourself... What a pit. Once a great mining district for iron and silver, once the deposits dried up, so too did the work for the miners, and, now, most are left living in squalor and destitution. Those that don't often resort to criminal activities to bolster their paltry incomes.

You wonder to yourself - having suspicion of a crime being committed on your watch, and a potential suspect, can you now justify to yourself leaving your post?

>Stay put
>Pursue your mark
>Write in

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>>1694345
First for Devil Herb! Hope you're having a good night Gobble!

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[The rule 63 has some, but not all of the stories done. I was going to release it today and do the other parts after, but it feels a little unfair. I wasn't happy with the quality of some parts.

I can't apologize enough for being so late with it. This will be many times larger than any other lewdbin though, so I hope that helps partially make up for it.]

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>>1694366
[Thanks! I've been pining for more all week. Had a lot of surprise last minute things come up and missing too much sleep.]