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Colson

Primary weapon: power driver
Backup weapon: electromacuahuitl
Backup weapon: autobore

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Emery

Primary weapon: diagnostic set
Backup weapon: autobore
Special: robot buddy

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Valdez

Primary weapon: photon abrader
Backup weapon: marker pistol
Backup weapon: autobore

WE'RE BACK

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Select character:

>Colson
>Emery
>Valdez

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whichever character you select, please! To roll, put dice+1d12 in the Options field!

Rolled 10 (1d12)

>>39554549
Emery, I'm biased to Mixel joints.

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"Check it again."

"I JUST CHECKED IT."

"I don't care, check it again!"

"FINE. CHECKING.... CHECKING... SORRY, STILL NO SIGNAL. LOOKS LIKE WE'RE ON OUR OWN."

"Just keep your voice off the external speakers. I don't want to attract any more of those... things."

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"Check it again."

"ARE YOU SERIOUS?"

"Just do it."

"I'M NOT CHECKING IT AGAIN. JUST FACE IT, WE'RE DONE FOR. THE PROBABILITY OF RECEIVING A SIGNAL IS-"

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"- HEY, WAIT!"

"What? What is it? Is it home base? Is it-"

"NO, LOOK!"

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"A STAGING DEPOT! OR WHAT'S LEFT OF IT, I GUESS. THAT COLLAPSE REALLY DID A NUMBER ON EVERYTHING."

"Maybe there's spare oxygen! Or some food. My protein meter is almost in the red."

"MAYBE THERE'S A SPARE BATTERY."

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"WARNING! LIFEFORM DETECTED!"

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"AWW, IT'S JUST A BABY!"

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whatever you do, please! To roll, put dice+1d12 in the Options field!

Rolled 9 (1d12)

>>39555238
Train the young beast and make it your personal steed

Rolled 1 (1d12)

>>39555238
Murder it gently.

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"Come here, little critter!"

"THIS WILL NEVER WORK. IT'S A WILD ANIMAL. THE LIFE ON THIS PLANET PROBABLY DOESN'T EVEN COMPREHEND FRIENDLINESS."

"Just keep your voice off the external. Come on, here cutie! Come on..."

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"See? Told you!"

"...I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'RE PUTTING YOUR HAND ON THAT THING. IF YOU LOSE IT I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW I ALREADY FILED A BLACK-BOX STATEMENT OF PROTEST FOR THE INTERSTELLER EXTRACTION UNION."

"It's not going to bite me. See? It thinks I'm its mommy! Don't you? What the heck am I gonna call you?"

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"YOU'RE NOT GOING TO REPLACE ME WITH THIS THING, ARE YOU?"

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"I might."

"NO YOU WON'T!"

"Oh, yes I will. It's a lot cuter than you. Probably doesn't insult me as much."

"YOU'RE NOT REALLY GOING TO REPLACE ME, ARE YOU?"

"No, of course not."

"OH. GOOD."

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Select character:

>Colson
>Valdez

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whichever character you select, please! To roll, put dice+1d12 in the Options field!

Rolled 12 (1d12)

>>39555746
Colson.
I need to know what an electromacuahuital is

Rolled 4 (1d12)

>>39555746
Colson!

>>39555774
aren't they those aztec or incan swords that are like a wooden plank with obsidian blades stuck into it?

>>39555931
Yeah.
But, they usually weren't electric.

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The stone explodes inward under the pounding of the oranganium-tipped power driver, forcing the tremendous air pressure compressed even more.

"Knock-knock," Colson mutters to herself. Talking to herself is a bad sign, she thinks as her heads-up flits over the scant information its external pickups can provide. Still no signal from home. "If only I had a buddy like Emery's."

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"At least my direction finder still works," Colson says to herself, but a voice inside asks, does it? Maybe it's leading you in circles. Maybe it's leading you right to the pit where those nightmare things spawn. Maybe-

"Shut up," Colson says into the silence of her helmet. "Enjoy the walk. Haven't seen any mon- any animals for-" she checks her log, tiny starlights flitting over the heads-up - "three hours. Wonder how the rest of the crew is doing." Wonder, sure. They're probably doing much better than you. They're probably already d-

"Shut up."

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"Uh?" Colson is caught off-guard as a new message blinks into being across the surface of her heads-up.

ANOMALY DETECTED 5 METERS AHEAD

"Anomaly? What kind of- detailed report!" she demands.

NO FURTHER INFORMATION

"Dammit... that's right on the other side of this wall."

What will you do now?

>>39556391
Get it before it gets you! Blasting walls out underground couldn't possibly work against you.

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Her heads-up can't tell Colson what's on the other side of the rock, but it can tell her exactly how hard the wall's composition is, and give the precise vector where to strike. It can even route Colson's power armor to aim with machine precision.

But Colson likes doing things her way, so she takes the heads-up as good advice and trusts it when it tells her that she's got everything lined up.

"Time to bring down the house," she mutters to herself and engages the power driver.

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A tremendous single bang is muffled by the external pickup on her helmet, and so Colson only hears a loud crunch as the wall explodes, but no alarms shriek in her ears and the silence tells her she's still alive.

"Well?" she demands to her heads-up as she squints to see through the haze of dust, but her helmet's computer is dumb to their situation. Colson flexes her trigger finger on the driver, nervously licking her lips as the thought of something lunging out of the dust at her begins to rise, when suddenly lights twinkle all around her.

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"Mother of everything," she exclaims, suddenly breathless.

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Oranganium! Raw, uncut, depending from the cavern ceiling from some terrible poison spring buried in the crust of this world. A single handful could pay her wages for a year or more!

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whatever you do, please!

Rolled 11 (1d12)

>>39556873
Collect some of that stuff! We've just stuck it rich.

>>39556873
Fucking harvest some! She got a bag or something?
And is the electromacahuital sharp/durable enough to cut it?

Rolled 6 (1d12)

>>39556873
Drop a beacon so we can find the cavern later! It's not like we can haul all of this stuff with us now. Oh, and go find our teammates I guess.

Rolled 11 (1d12)

>>39556929
Fucking dice.

Rolled 5 (1d12)

>>39556873
Take as much as we can carry. If we meet up with our fellows, share it out so we can each afford a ship off this dump and into a life of luxury.

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Oranganium, Colson thinks to herself. Civilians like her aren't even allowed to possess it. Just to use the bit at the end of her driver meant signing a draconian contract promising more money than she could ever repay if she was in any way responsible for losing it.

The electromacuahuitl may not be able to stand up to a direct hit from a device made of oranganium, but when Colson's heads-up twitches with electrostatic frequencies and the air around the blades begin to shimmer she knows it will do what she needs it to do.

>>39557059
2 11s, and a 6 and a five, which add up to eleven.

I blame the reptoids

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Cut. Slice. Sever.

Radiation spews from the gash as Colson's electromacuahuitl peels it away from the icicle, and her heads-up filters spectrums that would blind unshielded human eyes. The cavern glows like fire, brighter and brighter, and Colson pushes harder as the oranganium spike begins to loosen...

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... and suddenly she's holding something more valuable than anything she's ever seen in her life.

"Wow. This is-" she breathes. "I'm rich. I'm rich," she laughs. "All I have to do is get off this rock and I'm rich!"

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The heads-up has other ideas. Colson holds the spike of oranganium up close, marveling at how it glows with its own light, when her view is obscured by intrusive letters.

ENERGY SIGNATURE DETECTED

"What? What kind of energy?"

INTERSTELLAR EXTRACTION UNION POWER ARMOR

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whatever you do, please! To roll, put dice+1d12 in the Options field!

Rolled 5 (1d12)

>>39557337
Stash the oranganium in one of the many useful pockets your power armor is surely festooned with and act innocent. Also really excited, because you're being rescued and found this giant load of oranganium.

Rolled 3 (1d12)

>>39557337
GET OUT
ACT CASUAL
DON'T LET THEM KNOW YOU'RE RICH

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Just as quickly as it comes, the signal disappears, leaving Colson wondering if it was even real, or just a ghost from her helmet's damaged computer..

"Shit," she hisses into her helmet.

Is this a continuation of a previous LegoQuest, or a new one?

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The oranganium is making me greedy, Colson thinks to herself. "The whole crew can share it," she tells the silence, and regards the spike one more time. "I'll be lucky if I can fit this inside my pack," she laughs. "Won't that be funny? All this and I can only carry one piece!"

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In the moment that follows, realization washes over Colson. The pressing need to escape this deadly underworld overrides the new selfish desire to capitalize on the oranganium horde, and Colson turns her back on the cavern.

The armor's signal might be gone, she tells herself...

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... but I know which direction to head.

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Select character:

>Valdez

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whichever character you select, please! To roll, put dice+1d12 in the Options field!

Rolled 11 (1d12)

>>39557758
>The monster stalking Valdez

Rolled 12 (1d12)

>>39557758
The player to be named later

Rolled 12 (1d12)

>>39557758
>Sir Not-appearing-in-this-quest

>>39557787
>>39557840
>>39557790
...the fuck are you doing, dice.

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Light drags across its bulging eyes, triggering vestigial mechanisms unneeded for a billion years or more. Nothing of its world produces light quite like this, and it is intrigued, even through the pain. Hunger drives it on, the hunger that all its kind face down here at the bottom of this world.

And so it moves.

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The light bobs, spurring it to hurry, and it glides silently across the rocks, closer and closer. It is desperate for a meal, but nothing lives long down here without being patient.

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And the light is not very fast.

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Roll a d12 and link to this post for whatever you do, please! To roll, put dice+1d12 in the Options field!

Rolled 4 (1d12)

>>39558100
Valiantly attempt to eat the shiny thing.

>>39558100
Follow it. Wait for it to get against a wall where it can't run.

Rolled 3 (1d12)

>>39558159
Oops.

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Evolution has taken atrocious and shocking leaps in this place, for to keep alive means contorting one's form into the most awful of shapes, but it is perfectly made for what it does, and it flexes its three primary teeth in preparation for a lunge-

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-but just as its muscles begin to tighten, the light spins around, and emits a noise it is incapable of understanding.

"I don't think so, ugly."

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Rolled 6 (1d12)

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Rolled 9 (1d12)

>>39558339
EAT THE LASER BOLT
So nice of you to feed me, human!

Rolled 4 (1d12)

>>39558339
Our best weapon is the darkness! Destroy the light maker and slither away to strike again.

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It cannot understand exactly what happens when the photon abrader strikes a beam of solid light against its fangs, but it has extruded them from a diet high in heavy metalloids and the human technology is useless, scraping off the blood and scouring a pristine track across the surface of one, and then it has what it wants!

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The light falls to the stony ground and part of it is easily torn away, leaving the rest to be dev-

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Rolled 1 (1d12)

"Well, you're about the orneriest bug I've had to-"

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Rolled 11 (1d12)

>>39558663
Remove hand.

Rolled 10 (1d12)

>>39558663
Kick it in the nose area, chitin buckles.

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Valdez screams when the fangs slice her wrist apart and her external mic is on and so it hears the sound and quivers and she feels it clench her as it pulls itself up to finish the task.

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"No, no, no," the light shouts into the black air of the underworld as her heads-up blares and dumps cocktails of shock absorbers into her bloodstream. She fumbles for her autobore as the creature probes and tugs methodically, looking for joints in her power armor.

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Rolled 2 (1d12)

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whatever you do, please!

Rolled 10 (1d12)

>>39558979
>Roll to let loose.

Rolled 4 (1d12)

>>39558979
>Roll to skidoosh.

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Suddenly Valdez feels the tentacles go slack and it drops her to the ground, slithering away into the dark beyond the range of her heads-up glow, and she realizes she's been holding her breath.

The heads-up is full of red text. She can't read it, even with the drugs her armor is pumping into her.

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"I think I should be in shock?" she asks herself.

>>39559155
Let loose means to go crazy and wail on somebody, you daft tentacler!

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"Well, this ain't so bad. Things could always be..."

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"...worse."

Sorry Lego Quest, this is a bit off topic, but I've been meaning to ask.

How did you remove the moustache from the head piece you used for Red?

>>39559213
Why isn't that girl getting tentaclered? I rolled a 10!

>>39559193
>>39559213

you were saying?

>>39559249
That's a bug, not the tentacler. It scared the tentacler off.

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New character unlocked!

Crew Boss Harper

Primary weapon: autobore
Backup weapon: power mallet

Man, I really wanted to eat that girl this thread, and now I can't.

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Well, that's it for tonight! For the anon who asked >>39557576
>Is this a continuation of a previous LegoQuest, or a new one?
This is a sorta-spinoff of Deep Shaft 8. It's an expansion lol that tells about what happened in a different mine elsewhere at the same time.

>>39559328
Before you go, could you quickly answer >>39559237 please?

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>>39559237
>How did you remove the moustache from the head piece you used for Red?

First I put strips of tape over the mask and mouth, then I put a little bit of Brasso on a Q-tip and wiped it over the exposed part of the head. It only took a few swipes before the mustache was completely gone. However, newer pieces have harder coatings, so they take a lot more effort to remove prints. We'll see some more about that this weekend hopefully!

>>39559364
Okay, cool. Thank you very much.

>>39559328
Awesome! I'll have to read that one before the next thread hits then!

Awesome

>>39559364
>We'll see some more about that this weekend hopefully!
Ooh, you're going back to Red? She's my favourite of your questlines. And that cliffhanger is just tortureous.

>>39561192
That's right, this game was just a fun Friday-night one-shot (which will continue pretty quickly). The weekend's big plan is a new episode of Red's adventures, which is all ready to go this evening.

>>39563355
Sweet.

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New Game
>Resume Game

LOADING SAVED GAME

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Select character:

>Colson
>Emery
>Valdez
>Harper

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whichever character you select, please! To roll, put dice+1d12 in the Options field!

Rolled 4 (1d12)

>>39564164
>Harper

Rolled 7 (1d12)

>>39564164
>Harper

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"Shit, another dead-end! I'm going to wear out my autobore at this rate!"

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"Huh?"

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"Oh no you don't!"

>Equipment check:

* One autobore
* One power mallet
* One set power armor

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whatever you do, please! To roll, put dice+1d12 in the Options field!

Rolled 2 (1d12)

>>39564510
Flatten it's head with the power mallet!

Jesus this thread is epic!

Rolled 3 (1d12)

>>39564510
Trepanation!

>>39564573
like always. OP is based!

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"Uff!"

Harper grunts as she feels the impact through her power armor as both mallet and autobore are driven from her hands as they collide to the stone. The creature, enormous as it is, moves like a cat. Ambush predator, she thinks to herself.

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Rolled 9 (1d12)

"Nnnnnnoooo you don't!" she strains, grimacing as her heads-up flashes red.

STRENGTH TOLERANCES EXCEEDED

The monster's bite pressure begins to overcome her power armor, and Harper's eyes roll backward, catching the glow of her stray power mallet.

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whatever you do, please!

>>39564777
Turn your helmet light on high and blind the beast!

Rolled 12 (1d12)

>>39564777
Grab it and mash its brains out!

Rolled 3 (1d12)

>>39564796

Rolled 5 (1d12)

>>39564777
Die with dignity.

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"Come on, just a little more-" Harper grunts as her gloved hand stretches painfully, groping for the power mallet while the cacophony of her heads-up shrieking and the blood pounding in her temples deafens her to all else.

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"Only live once, right?" she laughs as she disengages all the safeties, all the overrides, and the monster senses that its prey has finally relaxed and it rears back to swallow Harper whole, but then Harper's hand closes around the power mallet-

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- and the cluster of nerves that served as the monster's brain disintegrates in the force of the power mallet's tremendous blow, as its entire nervous system is driven out of its exoskeleton like a sausage out of its casing!

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"Now where did you come from?" Harper asks herself as her eyes trail up to the cliff from where the monster emerged.

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Rolled 9 (1d12)

>>39565542
Climb up the cliff

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(Sorry for the long lag just now - I absolutely COULD NOT get the set to cooperate with me. I took 65 shots before I finally got one that I was satisfied with. Pic related.)

Rolled 11 (1d12)

>>39565542
Check your suit vitals.

>>39564476
Hot damn, LQ. The glow on these fluorescent parts is amazing. You gave these the Pledge treatment, right? What other kinds of pieces and colors have you applied it to?

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"Well..."

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"... that's new."

(Lego Quest will resume after a short intermission!)

>>39565880
Woah. Molten Oranganium? It feels to me like there is potential for the crew to bump into some Ice Men miners (unless we -are- working for the Ice Men).

>>39565914
You inspired me to pick up Lego again.

Rolled 1 (1d12)

>>39565880
swan dive

>>39565914
How do you get parts to be in mid-air during shots? I've seen it in prior LQ stuff, but can't see anything obvious.

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>>39566232
Not LQ, but he usually just grabs an antenna piece and applies sticky tack on both ends. Camera work maintains the effect.

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>>39566334
Although I think he also uses this little rig sometimes.

>>39566334
>>39566374
Ah. Makes sense, should've been obvious.

Thank you. And keep up the good work, LQ.

short intermission bump

Had to go make some food - just give me a few minutes to scarf this down and we'll be back in action!

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Select character:

>Colson
>Emery
>Valdez

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whichever character you select, please! To roll, put dice+1d12 in the Options field!

>>39567740
>Colson

Rolled 3 (1d12)

>>39567740
The one with the giant cannon thing.

>>39567740
Is it first to reply who's dice counts, or is it the highest roll, or is there another system?

Rolled 5 (1d12)

>>39567770

Rolled 7 (1d12)

>>39567740
Valdez

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"This isn't so bad," Colson says into her helmet. "Maybe I scared them all off."

She keeps walking through the darkness, toward the ping where her heads-up briefly detected the energy signature of someone else's power armor. All she can think about is getting to them. Once she reaches them things will get better.

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"Almost there..."

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"... oh, no. No. Nonononono-"

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Colson almost shrieks when her heads-up blats a notice, and when she sees it telling her that another set of IEU power armor is immediately in front of her, she spins around, waving the power driver like a torch in the blackness, and sees what she's been traveling through the darkness to find.

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Rolled 11 (1d12)

And she screams into her helmet as the oranganium tip illuminates the writhing, glistening mass of fangs that sits atop the body of one of her fellow miners and Colson clenches her hand down on the trigger but nothing happens except her heads-up flashing text that obscures the nightmare beyond her visor.

IEU WORKER DETECTED

POWER DRIVER WILL NOT ENGAGE

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whatever you do, please! To roll, put dice+1d12 in the Options field!

Rolled 8 (1d12)

>>39568492
Use it as a club!

Rolled 4 (1d12)

>>39568492

Electromacuahuitl, go for it!

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Colson swings the driver like a club, a feat she wouldn't be able to pull off without her power armor, but the nightmare stuffed into the other armor isn't hindered by human anatomy, and it lunges out of her swing in an unnatural way. Caught off-guard, Colson is dragged after the oranganium's momentum-

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- and tumbles to the ground, finding herself lying in a bed of clinging, sticky slime.

"What? Eggs?" she gasps, trying to pull her hand free from the morass, when she feels something tug at her boot.

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Rolled 8 (1d12)

And finding what it seeks, the nightmare surges out of the power armor's belly like spilled guts, entwining around Colson's legs and dragging her out of the nest toward its fangs!

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whatever you do, please! To roll, put dice+1d12 in the Options field!

Rolled 4 (1d12)

>>39568970
Is that a power saw on her back? CHOP YOURSELF FREE, COLSON!

Rolled 8 (1d12)

>>39568970
It's soft and squishy and you're in power armor. RIP AND TEAR.

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Colson reaches backward for her electromacuahuitl, but the nightmare batters her arm out of the way, pinning it between her and the stone floor.

"Shit," she gasps, as it drags her backward another meter, leaving a smear of broken egg along the rough ground.

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The autobore, she thinks, but as she reaches for it the nightmare's tentacles smother her, and as it tugs on her leg again Colson is horrified to realize that she can actually feel it as her hip begins to separate and the heads-up is flashing

STRUCTURAL BREACH

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Rolled 3 (1d12)

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Rolled 6 (1d12)

>>39569354
Did you not see the RIP AND TEAR? RIP AND TEAR.

Rolled 9 (1d12)

>>39569354
Activate the suit's self destruct sequence.

>>39569354
I think Colson's had it, guys...

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The nightmare shifts its bulk in preparation for one final tug to tear her leg off, and Colson seizes the opportunity, rolling to the side enough to free one hand! As she thrusts it up it brushes a tendril that reflexively twines around it, but the action distracts the nightmare from its task and it focuses on Colson's hand!

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Rolled 8 (1d12)

>>39569706
Turn on the high beams and blind the chode.

Rolled 9 (1d12)

>>39569706
Can we thump it in the eye or something to get it to weaken its grip further?

Rolled 3 (1d12)

>>39569706
Yank it off.

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Colson's heads-up makes her confirm twice and she does so, shouting louder each time.

"Full power!"

CONFIRMED

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Her helmet shines like a star, pumping out enough energy to boil the nightmare's bloated eye, even if it hadn't been instantly blinded by the flash, and it shrieks as the ropy insides erupt outward, spilling parasites and ocular fluid in a swath across the stone floor...

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,,, and collapses, eye socket steaming with hideous vapors, atop Colson, raking its mandibles over her visor feebly in its blind quest to devour her!

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Rolled 12 (1d12)

>>39570368
While it's weakened, flip it over and just rip it to shreds. Is there enough power left in the armour to do that?

Rolled 6 (1d12)

>>39570399
Get the fuck outta Dodge

>>39570399
I >>39570400 replied to the erroneous post, does it still count?

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Colson's heads-up continue crying warnings at her, but she can't read them anymore, and they only serve to make her more agitated, and so when she cycles up the suit's power to full capacity and tears the nightmare in half she doesn't stop to think what it will mean for her reserves.

When the nightmare's screams echo in her helmet Colson smiles.

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"Well, shit."

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"Which way am I gonna go now?"

That's it for right now, but I'll be back in a few hours with more fun! This game ran longer than I'd planned on, because there were just so many neat things that happened, so we can either continue with this or do something else!

Thanks for playing, and I'll see you soon!

>>39570995
Thanks for the thread LQ, you rock.

>>39570995
I wish I could stay awake for it, but I'm super sleepy.

Thanks again. It's been said, but your UV light trick is really neat looking.

Sooo, what's happening?

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>>39573501
You mean right now, or in general?

>>39573536
In general.
Though I was just bumping it so it wouldn't die, honestly.

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Bumping with a classic.

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Select character:

>Emery
>Valdez

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Rolled 10 (1d12)

>>39577869
Emery. Robot Buddy time!

Rolled 3 (1d12)

>>39577869
>Emery

Rolled 6 (1d12)

>>39577869
Valdez

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"WELL? WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO CALL IT?"

"I told you, I don't know yet."

"THAT'S HOW YOU DO IT, RIGHT? WHEN YOU ADOPT A PET YOU NAME IT?"

"It's not a pet."

"BECAUSE THAT'S ILLEGAL."

"Right. It's an experiment. I'm seeing how tame it is. Isn't that right, cutie? Besides, why do you care? You got your batteries. I even found a snack."

>>39578284
Oh that's kinda cute.

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"I STILL THINK IT'S DANGEROUS. IT COULD BE VENOMOUS FOR ALL WE KNOW. AT LEAST DISSECT IT AND-"

"We're not dissecting it! If I didn't know better, I'd say you were jealous!"

"I AM NOT JEALOUS! I JUST THINK IT'S DANGEROUS."

"Sure. It seems pretty fierce."

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"ARE WE GOING TO WAIT HERE UNTIL SOMETHING BIGGER SHOWS UP?"

"I suppose you're right. Hopefully somebody else sees the safety lights. And now that we know where it is we can always come back."

"ARE YOU TAKING THAT THING WITH?"

"I knew you were jealous!"

"I AM NOT!"

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"See? It wants to stay near me. I told you, it thinks I'm its mommy!"

"THAT'S NOT A GOOD THING. WHAT IF IT TRIES TO NURSE?"

"That's a good point, I wonder what it eats. Are you hungry, c-"

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"-oops! Hey, what's the matter, cutie? What, are you scared?"

"LOOK!"

"Wha-?"

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"...Oh, wow."

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YES

Rolled 2 (1d12)

>>39578518
Check it out, see what's broken.

Rolled 12 (1d12)

>>39578518
Rummage for supplies.

Rolled 8 (1d12)

>>39578518
HACK THE PLANET!

i mean driller, hack the driller

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"It looks like the only real damage is the main bore axle. The drill shouldn't be a problem to fix. And the power still works. This should be a piece of ca-"

"WARNING! LIFEFORM DETECTED!

"It's probably just..."

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"...cutie?"

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"OK, maybe it hasn't noticed us. Let's just back away and-"

"HOLD STILL! DON'T MOVE!"

"What? It can't reach us from here."

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"Oh."

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Rolled 9 (1d12)

>>39579169
Power-armor-assisted leap and autobore trepanation.

Rolled 10 (1d12)

>>39579169
Huuuuh. Back up to the other gribbly and hope they fight over you?

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"Override jump!"

"WHAT ARE YOU DOOOOOO-"

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"YOU NEVER TOLD ME YOU REPROG-"

"Are you going to argue or are- oof! -are you going to help me aim this autobore?"

"YOU'RE THREE DEGREES OFF OF ITS MAIN NERVOUS CLUSTER... ONE DEGREE... THAT'S IT!"

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>>39579486

Rolled 9 (1d12)

>>39579486

Rolled 7 (1d12)

>>39579486
Come on..

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"Yaaaaah!"

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"NICE JOB."

"I couldn't have done it without you."

"WHAT NOW?"

"Good question. Let's take a look at the digger and see what we have to work with."

"WHAT ABOUT THAT OTHER THING?"

"If it's hungry, it's welcome to help itself."

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"DOESN'T LOOK LIKE ANYTHING ELSE HAS MOVED IN."

"Let's hope not."

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"Hey, look at this! It's not locked, either!"

"THAT'S NOT EXACTLY REGULATION."

"I won't tell if you won't tell."

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"Oh, wow!"

"OH, WOW!"

"Jinx!"

"WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?"

"Never mind, look at this!"

"SAY, THAT'S ONE OF THE NEW-MODEL AUTOBORES!"

"I thought we weren't getting these until next year!"

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"All systems seem to be online... the only problems are with the wheel and the bore."

"HEY, THIS HAS A STATUS HUB!"

"Huh? Oh, you're right! We can detect everyone else... oh. There's us... Valdez... Colson... and Harper. That's..."

"OH. THAT'S NOT EXACTLY THE BEST NEWS, IS IT?"

"No..."

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"...but we might be able to reach one of them with it."

Who will you try to contact?

>Colson
>Valdez
>Harper

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Rolled 10 (1d12)

>>39580101
>Valdez

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"THIS WILL NEVER WORK."

"Don't be a pessimist."

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"Have a little faith."

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"...swear if I ever get outta this... I'm going straight... I promise, no more... no more... parties... no more... foolin' around... just-"

"Valdez? Can you hear me?"

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"Who said that?!"

"It's me, Emery!"

"No, no, no... this is all in my head, I'm just hearing things!"

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"No you're not, it's really me!"

"HI, VALDEZ!"

"See? I found a digger and patched my console through it, so I can-"

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"Wait, this really is Emery?"

"Yeah, I-"

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"Shut up and tell me how to get outta here!"

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Rolled 12 (1d12)

>>39580449
Help her get outta there

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"Keep going, you're almost..."

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"... there."

"Well, howdy!"

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That's it for tonight, Legonauts! Sorry there was such a long break earlier - I had a lot more real life than I expected, but I'm glad I got to do as much as I did and I hope everybody had fun!

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In case the thread isn't around in the morning, you can check out almost all previous episodes (with all images) on the suptg archive:

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=lego%20quest

The official Lego Quest wiki has info on Deep Shaft 8 along with hundreds of other random things:
http://legoquest.wikia.com/wiki/Lego_Quest_Wiki

and if you follow me on Twitter, you'll get a tweet whenever an episode starts or resumes!
@EndmanOfFuturon

Good night, everybody!

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Oh yeah, I forgot to mention: earlier this week the very excellent artist Radium drew a picture of Cassiopeia, thus putting her in the lead for "amount of artwork based on a LQ character". As soon as I saw it I had to put it on the wiki.

>>39580816

I believe in you, Wanderer!

>>39554483
That picture looks like some sort of tropical cave

Ohkay, this thread seems to be done (including not having much image space left), so I've gone archived it.

>>39580865
Go Endman!

>>39580816
That's pretty cool. I missed the quest but it's always nice to read them. Thanks!

>>39582618
You mean like the helmet is actually a doorway?