Hardmode Civ Quest.

>>369119
Constructs

Mana wastes

>>369119
>Underwater
>Machines

>>369183
>>369187
Welcome!

2 Mechanical races right off the back!

Centaur plains. Cause an entirely mounted force will make short work of the predators.

>>369119
>Machines
>Tundra

>>369196
A good combination of race and place too!
Good to have ya.

>>369187
>>369200
2 for machines!

1 more vote and theyll be locked in for better or for worse.

Terrain remains unlocked with all choices being equal!

>>369201
Sadly I require sleep. I'll have to see the pick in the morning. GL.

>>369119
>machines
>volcano

>>369217
>>369200
>>369187
Machines locked in

Location remains unlocked
>Volcano
>Underwater
>Tundra

Please select from these locations based on Machine votes

>>369221
If not locked in soon I will roll and lock it in randomly

>>369221
>volcano

>>369221
>Volcano

>>369221
>Volcano

>>369230
>>369234
>>369240
Volcano is now locked. Give me a little bit to write the opener and we can get this show on the road!

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Your first protocol is simple. Activate your primary systems. With a whir generators your mind snaps awake.

You’re falling, your rapid descent hurling you towards a world currently obscured by thick clouds. Your outer shell is taking the heat of entry well, and a quick scan informs you it will take the impact as designed. In seconds the clouds blot out your eyes and ears, blind you can only scan local temperature. Its far too hot. You were meant to land in an area you could thrive but the heat here will prove difficult.

The clouds pass in an instant and youre greeted with a land of molten stone and hard, shimmering obsidian.

The impact of landing racks through your huge frame, blinding you and knocking several systems into restart mode. Your shell is still in shape and with some effort you will it open, letting you free into the open air. A subsystem flickers to life, your eyes and hands are listed to you in a stream of information. Some did not survive the impact, but the damage is within acceptable parameters.

A prompt opens before you. What is your first action?

>Run a more in-depth scan of the local area (scouting)
>Awaken your hands and eyes (population)
>Scan systems and assess damage (current buildings)

First choice with 3 votes will be used.

>>369263
>Awaken your hands and eyes (population)

>>369263
>Awaken your hands and eyes (population)

>>369240
we have IDs here OP

>>369263
>Awaken your hands and eyes (population)

>>369263
>Awaken your hands and eyes

>>369268
>>369270
>>369274
>>369278
Awaken your hands and eyes
>Writing

>>369274
I know. I know, casting my own vote is kinda selfish

To function you first need your eyes to see the land and your hands to work. Routing some of your surplus power to your exterior units they flicker to life. Several of viewpoints flash over your own systems. A few of the drone bays are crushed, scrap scattered across the ground near them. You take a moment to get a feel for your first awoken drones.

The Workers are light framed and slow, meant to work without duress and danger these first few are meant to be easily replaced through another of your systems. Each has a pair of thick clamping arms and a dozen underslung tendrils to assist them in their labors. Upon each back sits a dip for them to carry materials in held aloft by a thick set of heavy-duty treads. Your hands flex pleasantly, many chirp and beep at each other, their own subsystems giving them a life of their own.(20 Worker Drones awoken)

Next to awaken are your Eyes. Only a small handful are operational due to their fragile frames but those that do wake take to the sky easily. Their propellers chew through the smoke and take the heat of their new homes well. So long as they do not fly above the smoke layer above they seem to function properly. Their perspective gives you a new view of your home. A lava stream lazily flows just over a hundred yards away. Your Eyes soar around each other with uncontained energy. (5 Moble Scouts awoken)
(cont)

Next come your fists. The Security Drones roar to life, pulling free from their bays and checking themselves with military efficiency. Once finished they stomp out to the edge of your platform on 4 sturdy legs, syncing with your Eyes and spreading themselves into a defensive formation. Each sports a single long pneumatic Spear-Thrower on one side and a crushing claw on the other. Their red scanners flicker around the base, hungry and alert. (10 Security Drones awoken)

Last comes your second mind. It requires the most power, more than all your Workers combine. Its eyes and mind sync with your own and in an instant it seizes control over your Workers. Its form is a lazy sphere held up by many spindly legs and topped with a huge spruce of detection and guidance arrays. (1 Command Drone awoken) (population cap raised +20)

Your power runs at its current limits as it reaches to last frames, unable to wake them. Youre unsure how much power theyd require or how much your systems are producing but youre sure theyre something important, dangerous. An Eye flies close to where theyre kept and you can see the twin doors locking them away. GUARDIAN is printed in bright yellow pain in front of each. (2 Elite Guardians sleeping)

Current Season: Unknown
Temperature: Infernal
Population: 20 Worker Drones-10 Security Drones-5 Moble Scout Drones-2 Elite Guardians-1 Command System-
Energy: Unknown
Structures: Unknown
Unlocked tech : Unknown
Weapons:Tooth and Claw
Stockpile:
Current Actions: 2 Actions Per Turns
>A. Scout(Which direction?)
>B. Gather Trade Good (What from Where?)
>C. (Locked)
>D. Build Structure
>E. Research Technology (locked)
>F. Research Magic (Locked)
>G. Engage in Diplomacy (locked)
>H. Other

>>369303
>>369310
Sorry that took so long to do, trying to get used to writing again so please be patient with me!

>>369310
Scout the general area that we landed in.

>>369310
>A. Scout the vicinity of our landing site for basic dangers and resources

>>369310
>A. Scout the vicinity of our landing site for basic dangers and resources

>>369310
>A. Scout(the area around us)

>>369315
>>369320
>>369325
>>369328
Scout the local area in search for dangers and resources.

>Please roll 1d100, the first 3 rolls will be used

Rolled 25 (1d100)

>>369329

Rolled 15 (1d100)

>>369329
Roll for skynet mode

Rolled 86 (1d100)

>>369329

Rolled 70 (1d100)

>>369329

>>369332
>>369335
>>369337
Whew, brutal start.
>Writing!

>>369335
fml. Always either 80+ or fucking -40. No middle ground with my fucking dice.

You need to know more about where you are and you send your Eyes skyward. They fly in lazy patterns low over the rugged terrain, scanning and watching for anything of note. Some movement by the lava-flow draws the attention of one Drone and it drifts towards the molten river. A few scans reveal nothing spectacular of note. Disappointed the Drone flys away. Before it can leave the edge of the lava its vision is cut off. [TERMINATED] flashes in bright red where its unit number was before. Another Drone turns and keeps its eye on the river, scanning for signs of movement. Nothing but the slow flow of lava (-1 Mobile Scout Drone)

Meanwhile another Drone flys southwards, theres a steep drop off, scans confirm that the stone here is brittle and fragile but half way down the cliff-face it scans a thick, large deposit of iron. It will be difficult for your Workers to reach but once they do the materials will be quite abundant. (Large Iron vein located)

Current Season: Unknown
Temperature: Infernal
Population: 20 Worker Drones-10 Security Drones-4 Moble Scout Drones-2 Elite Guardians-1 Command System-
Energy: Unknown
Structures: Unknown
Unlocked tech : Unknown
Weapons:Tooth and Claw
Stockpile:
Current Actions: 1 Actions Per Turns
>A. Scout(Which direction?)
>B. Gather Trade Good (What from Where?)
>C. (Locked)
>D. Build Structure
>E. Research Technology (locked)
>F. Research Magic (Locked)
>G. Engage in Diplomacy (locked)
>H. Other

>>369357
B. Gather Trade Good

>>369357
We need to find a place to set up shop so let's keep scouting. Uhh.. let's send some combat drones to the downed scout while the other scouts head different random directions.

>>369357
Assuming we have tools built-in,
>D. build some basic shelter from the environment out of local stone.
If not,
>B. Gather iron from the vein in the cliff face

>>369357
>B. Gather iron from the vein in the cliff face

>>369357
Different person same IP sorry, and to clarify I meant gather the cliffside iron

>>369365
>>369369
>>369370
>Gather Iron from cliff face (Difficulty- Dangerous)

>Please roll 2d100, first 3 will be used.

Rolled 19, 77 = 96 (2d100)

>>369371

Rolled 67, 60 = 127 (2d100)

>>369371

>>369371

Rolled 76, 14 = 90 (2d100)

>>369371

>>369378
>>369373
>>369376
Yeesh guys.

>Writing

Resources are badly needed, your own storehouses are unknown to you at the moment so you send your Workers towards the Iron deposit. Their treads bite into the hard stone of your steeps and when they get close to the cliff they note with small amounts of alarm that the stone is caving beneath their weight. Still, you urge them onward and with the assistance of the Eyes they make good progress. Using their powerful vice arms they begin to tear away at the stone, down the Cliffside. Its slow work due to the dangers but they continue on with mechanical efficiency.

Meanwhile you expand your systems, feeling out your structures and generators. Youre delighted to find most systems undamaged save for your construction bay. Aside from that the only thing that takes you by surprise is the energy output from your generators. Theyre straining hard to keep your drones powered, and your backup power storage is running low.

Back at the cliff your workers reach the iron and begin to load themselves up. Once filled to capacity they make the return trip. One Drone sends out an alert to the others around it moments before the stone gives away under its new weight and it tumbles down the cliff and outside your control range. (-1 Worker) The others make the return trip without ceremony, the brittle ground behind them badly damaged. (+30 Iron)

Current Season: Unknown
Temperature: Infernal
Population: 19 Worker Drones-10 Security Drones-4 Moble Scout Drones-2 Elite Guardians-1 Command System-
Energy: 3 Turns
Structures: 2 Low Energy Generators, 1 Storage Bay, 1 Processing Bay, 1 Construction Bay (damaged)
Unlocked tech : Unknown
Weapons:Tooth and Claw
Stockpile:30 Iron ore
Current Actions: 1 Actions Per Turns
>A. Scout(Which direction?)
>B. Gather Trade Good (What from Where?)
>C. (Locked)
>D. Build Structure
>E. Research Technology (locked)
>F. Research Magic (Locked)
>G. Engage in Diplomacy (locked)
>H. Other

>>369398
>H. repair construction bay

>>369398
H. Repair the construction bay
or
B. Build Low Energy Generator

>>369398
>B build Low Energy Generator

>>369398
B. Build Low Energy Generator

>>369403
>>369407
>>369408
Low Energy Generator

>Please roll 1d6+2
This will be our construction time.

Rolled 6 + 2 (1d6 + 2)

>>369415

Rolled 1 + 2 (1d6 + 2)

>>369415
I like that we're pitiful enough to have earned a handicap

Rolled 2 + 2 (1d6 + 2)

>>369415

>>369423
Lowest Roll selected.


You set your Workers to gather iron and begin the construction of a new Generator. Replicating the design from your other power sources they manage to cut the time to build it severely. Using their smaller tendrils they work tirelessly to do your bidding.

A blip and small alarm lights up your system, a Security Drone has spotted movement within its scanning range. A moment later 2 more Drones report the same. No visual can be found due to their lack of vision systems so your Eyes take to the sky. From above the movement is fairly easy to spot, it looks like several pieces of stone are moving around your compound. Another blip lights up and your Drones their Spears threateningly.

First Contact
>Attempt to communicate (Command Drone is the only one able to speak)
>Open Fire (Security Drones have the high ground but cant see the targets well. Eye enhanced)
>Wait (Security Drones are not meant to take heavy damage)
>Other

>>369438
Escort Command Drone with meat shield retinue of Security Drones and Workers to establish contact and diplomacy

>>369438
>Open fire
Normally I'm all for diplomancy, but we're in a volcano watching rocks jump around. This is more than likely some kind of horrific lava salamander or magma worm, not anything sapient.

>>369443
IM ALL IN YIPPIE KAI AYE MUTHERFUCKKER

>>369438
>Attempt to communicate (Command Drone is the only one able to speak)
And do this>>369441

>>369438
>Open Fire (Security Drones have the high ground but cant see the targets well. Eye enhanced)

We don't speak their ogga booga language.

>>369446
>>369441
2 for Communication with a protective guard.
>>369452
>>369443
2 for opening fire from an elevated position.

>Please break the tie or Ill roll to break it randomly.

>>369454
Our spears probably won't do much to solid rock, but they most likely fucked up our scout drone. Shoot em down.

>>369438
I swing my vote to open fire

>>369456
>>369452
>>369443
>>369458
Open Fire.
(Combat initiated)

>Please roll 2d100
first 3 rolls will be used.

Rolled 56, 74 = 130 (2d100)

>>369461
HERES GOES NOTHING!!! YEEEEEEEEEE BOIIIIIII

Rolled 86, 82 = 168 (2d100)

>>369461

>>369465
He gets the Rambo head band

Rolled 55, 68 = 123 (2d100)

>>369461

>>369469
Oh thank god, I really didn't want to roll.

>>369463
>>369465
>>369469
Finally some good rolls!
>Writing

At your command your Security Drones gather together into a dense formation. Using their powerful legs they brace themselves on the edge of your platform. The Eyes link a live feed to the Security and in moments their lines of fire are cleared. In a single roaring burst of air they let their long spears fly. The lethal payload hurls into the moving stone and where they land, loud keening screams break out.

Seeming to have given up their attempt at ambush a large group of stone-encrusted crustaceans clatter forwards. A few sport the shafts of spears that struck their thick hides, steadily leaking bright red fluid down their shells. Their claws yawn wide as they charge your base. Your Security has time to lock in another set of spears and fire off a half charged volley. A few of the skittering beasts fall but several more reach your platform and begin to climb. Your Drones screech back, blaring alarms and raising their powerful claws high against this threat.

>Step back and fight them on equal ground (Will give enough time to load another spear)
>Fight them as they climb (High ground advantage)
>Counter charge (Charge bonus, protects platform from combat damage)
>Other

>>369479
>Fight them as they climb (High ground advantage)

>>369479
>Step back and fight them on equal ground
Best to utilize our range as much as we can, since their claws are probably as strong as ours. Also, fucking volcano crabs. For every one you see on the floor there's another thousand in the walls.

>>369479
Fight them as they climb with Security Drones and counter charge the flank with workers

>>369485
>>369489
Fight them as they climb.

>Please roll 2d100
First 3 will be used.
Whered everyone go?

Rolled 82, 83 = 165 (2d100)

>>369498
LETS DO IIIIIIIIIIIIT

Rolled 97, 48 = 145 (2d100)

>>369498
Bed, I figure

Rolled 27, 33 = 60 (2d100)

>>369498

>>369499
>>369500
>>369503
Writing!

The stone crabs make impressive time up your bastion, powerful claws and reaching legs scrambling for purchase up the metal support struts. Up close your Eyes can make out more clearly their features. Hard obsidian-like mandibles glitter beneath beady, stalked eyes. Their carapace is a deep red, and where their blood leaks from cracked shells small clouds of steam speak of incredibly internal heat.

Your Security is undaunted. The front rank steps towards the edge and begins the process of crossing claw with claw. Their powerful metal vices crush chitin and crack shells as the crustaceans struggle to gain a foothold. The back rank drops a fresh brace of spears into place and begins to pressurize their lethal payload. Where a crab gains the platform it is met with fierce and disciplined spears and claws. Within minutes the last of the attackers drops from the platform, slapping dully on the wet stone below. Your Security raise their blood-slicked, steaming claws to the sky, blaring in triumph. A few of the scavengers flee towards the river, quickly scuttling across its drifts. Your Eyes note with some interest that while they all attempt to flee across, some vanish beneath the lava never to resurface.

Your security take some time to rip shells and chunks of chitin from the fallen crabs, decorating their plated frames in some ritual you cant find the protocol for.

Crushing Victory. (har har) (+36 Lava-Walker Bodies)

>>369529
Some of your Workers come and scan the Lava-Walker's bodies and find that beneath the stone of their shells is a layer of titanium-infused bone. Likely due to some part of their diet.

Current Season: Unknown
Temperature: Infernal
Population: 19 Worker Drones-10 Security Drones-4 Moble Scout Drones-2 Elite Guardians-1 Command System-
Control Cap: 20 (Main Core) (20 Connand Drone)=40 Pop
Energy: 1 Turns
Structures: 2 Low Energy Generators, 1 Storage Bay, 1 Processing Bay, 1 Construction Bay (damaged)
Unlocked tech : Unknown
Weapons:Tooth and Claw
Stockpile:30 Iron ore
Current Actions: 1 Actions Per Turns
>A. Scout(Which direction?)
>B. Gather Trade Good (What from Where?)
>C. (Locked)
>D. Build Structure Low Energy Generator (2 Turns)
>E. Research Technology (locked)
>F. Research Magic (Locked)
>G. Engage in Diplomacy (locked)
>H. Other

>With that Im gonna stop for tonight. With any luck and fair fortune Ill be back tomorrow night for another session!

>>369534
Good shit, man. Always good to see a QM who can make it through the first session. You said that you were out of practice, but I'm digging the writing, too. Keep it up, you do good work.
> D keep working on the Low Energy Generator

>>369534
D

>>369542
+1

>>369534
>>D. Build Structure Low Energy Generator (2 Turns)

>>369534
>D.

>>369539
>>369542
>>369544
>>369547
>>369550
We all want the >D

>>369539
Thank you. Im just glad I had you players to make it happen.
>>369539
>>369542
>>369544
>>369547
>>369550
These will be part of the next turn. Ill also work on a pastebin for info

>>369559
you already here op ?

>>369571
Just got home.

Due to some complications Ill have to postpone hosting until tomorrow maybe?

>>371572
Damn. Was looking forward to this civ quest.

>>371661
Sorry! I hate to let you down on only my second run.

>>371572
Tick tock

Need a new thread, this one is dead