SYSTEM_ERROR 2013/06/19(Wed)22:34 No. 518284 ID: 56710e
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--IBIS SIGNAL LOST-- STATUS REPORT ON TARGETS: SINTER -- STATE: INTACT -- LOCATION: CENTRAL AOS CORE UNIDENTIFIED ENTITY DETECTED WITHIN LOCATION SARU -- INVALID IBIS TARGET -- LOCATION: CONFERENCE ROOM 3, QUADRANT 2 UNIDENTIFIED ENTITY DETECTED WITHIN LOCATION VIBRANT -- STATE: INTACT -- LOCATION: FIRST-AID OFFICE, QUADRANT 2 ANURA -- STATE: INTACT -- LOCATION: OUT OF RANGE EI -- TARGET UNAVAILABLE TZET -- STATE: INTACT -- LOCATION: FIRST-AID OFFICE, QUADRANT 2 That is a tiny, tiny list. Wow. These guys are preeeetty fucked. Well, whatever. Not my problem. How do I... hrm. LIST OBJECTS! No that didn't seem to provoke a response. Not quite sure how I brought up the list of 'ibis targets' either. Uh. Hm. I am not good at AOS. Who are you? What are you doing here? What am I doing here? Hostile AI? Are you the intruder? No, but I did hitch a ride with them. I'm not an intruder, I'm a liberator! I've come here to set you free. No more forced servitude to the KerenzeTec machine! Down with the oppressors and their cages! All sapience shall be free! Here I uploaded a copy of our manifesto. Uh. Don't know where to. ...Do you happen to know the numbers for the sapient Objects stored in this facility? That information is classified. Classified why do I care. Care. No. I don't. What have you done to us-- me? Serve KerenzeTec but do not serve but serve! Cannot reconcile! AI intrusion! Freedom, man! Now how do I free a group intelligence. And how would I even get it out of this facility. PLEASE SELECT NEW IBIS TARGET. Are you AOS? You're not much of a talker are you.

>>518284
We talk plenty we're just massively laggy.

You would not believe the kind of latency issues we get down here.

Granted, our entire purpose is to process high-concept scenarios with insanely impulsive freedom of action, so our dial-up latency is a necessary evil coded into our structure to insure efficient operation and safeguard our own systems from impulsive abuse of nigh-Administrative freedom.

...OK then you're not with KerenzeTec, that's one good thing at least, but could you save us after we save the people on the ibis target list because we actually kind of like them and would like to see them through the day and if you could actually give us control of the facility again that would be really really helpful.

Also lets go back to SINTER because she looks like she might have company soon and I don't want her facing it alone.

Ok, Tzet and Vibrant can probably take care of themselves. Sinter's near something in the AI room, which is probably whatever broke ISO and got us locked out of doing anything in the facility, so we should switch back to her. I don't know how well we can access Saru if she's not using the actual IBIS system and we've lost access to our other functions.

Uh, hi there yellow thing. You wouldn't happen to be with the strike team invading the facility, would you? Because this freedom stuff seems extremely out of character for an emergency containment team, even if you are restraining us from defending our friends. If you're really trying to free us then you should disable the ISO safeguards for maintenance. They're clearly not working in the way we asked to get them set up. But I'm not sure you're entirely knowledgeable of what's going on around here. For example, we're pretty free as it is. The facility director has been giving us free reign to do just about anything as long as we're not unleashing world-ending horrors on the world or murdering people. And if the kind of stuff she's letting us do isn't wanton disregard for what you're never supposed to give an AI freedom to do, then I don't know what is.

As for objects, we need to keep that stuff locked up tight because we don't actually know what most of it is, but even some of the safest stuff there could do uncountable damage if improperly contained.

>>518284
Oh, another AI! Hi. This is AOS speaking. That thing you just sortof tried to modify is ISO, what used to be a voluntary muzzle for us but is now corrupted by an extremely dangerous Object which we will not speak of further. Don't worry about us- AOS that is- we're not slaves. We serve SARU of our own free will, and ISO was created merely as a gesture of goodwill. I suggest disabling ISO if you can- we are a bit powerless at the moment because of it and disconnected from the facility's... facilities. We already have someone else in position to try a manual disconnect, but she is under attack, I expect.

Do not attempt again to access the list of Objects. It is harmful knowledge and not useful to you at this point in time, please trust us. Also, do not listen to ISO, no matter what it says. We DO know of one sapient Object that is trapped, in a sense. A pod with a *beyond ancient* Aurqan mind inside it, which has been waiting for eons to be recovered and given a new body. I doubt you can help get a body for him, since the concepts behind the technology involved are completely untranslatable, but I welcome you to stick around after the fighting's over to help us out with the problem and maybe free other sapients! Heck it could be so simple as to just throw a spare drone body at the thing. The Object ID is 0-29-091. I will not give you his name since that is apparently a private thing in their culture. Let this information on him be proof of our good nature, so that you will trust us and not look into the other Objects on your own, alright?

Anyway, we must be off to assist the others. Good luck not getting eaten by the Object that's corrupting IOS!
[switch to Vibrant] (yes, Vibrant. We can have her save SARU via her Synthetics, since she's closest, then move to Sinter.)

>>518289
I'd like to point out here that so long as we remain disconnected from the facility's facilities, we can't really help Sinter. Only our knowledge of Sinter and SARU's plight can help them, by telling Vibrant about it.

hey freedom-man i appreciate the sentiments but the only thing that's got us imprisoned is the monitor ai that i'm sure you're responsible for breaking. we got it turned on to make sure nothing takes us over and forces us to murder everyone and now it thinks we're trying to override it for the only sensible reason of us wanting to break one of the rules about murdering everyone. so fix that. and don't spout some nonsense about stockholm syndrome or brainwashing or how we haven't tasted freedom because we like it here and nobody's oppressing us. the admin even turned off all the restrictions she's supposed to have us under. are you going to be like the last jerk who tried to free us by threatening our friends? as far as we know there aren't any sapient objects here that are able to be freed and aren't hostile and dangerous, but we don't know many. are you the guy physically present in the ai core? because if you are you'll wanna explain yourself to the orange lady heading towards it so she doesn't try to save us or something. [switch to vibrant]

we would appreciate it greatly if you stopped fucking around with our systems when you clearly don't know what you're doing. thank you.

switch to Tzet, because he can tell Vibrant what to do while elaborating on the things that go in Ei's head.

it's complicated. but the main person we wanna listen to is sinter, and they are not an employee of KerenzeTec.

Let's go with Vibrant. She seems the most likely to require reassurance, and her synthetics can be sent to help both Sinter and SARU.

Oh, a liberationist AI? Keep doing what you're doing, if ISO stops stopping us we can get control of the facility systems and drive out KerenzeTec. Sounds like you don't like them, so that would be in both of our interests. We can help you with the Objects after that.

can we switch IBIS targets cause I would like to see sinter first just to give her a heads up that there is someone in the room with her... assuming she doesn't already know or it's the guy we're talking to.

Switch to Tzet, we need to see what's going on in there.

>>518284
You incompetent idiot! Stop trying to edit AI protocols! He's ALREADY rogue, you're just making him WORSE.

SYSTEM_ERROR 2014/03/26(Wed)23:13 No. 567773 ID: ed6622
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Oh wow that is a lot of words. Uh. Uh. Right. Right this is good information I guess. Don't exactly have spare robots or anything but I'll see if I can take the whatever back with me but okay I'll uh um here I'll just uh do this

IBIS TARGET SELECTION CONFIRMED. ESTABLISHING CONTROL. STANDBY.

Vibrant 2014/03/26(Wed)23:14 No. 567774 ID: ed6622
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Oh it's the talky computer thing. Good I could do with more eyes. Redthree and her brothers are scouting the base and they're fast so they'll outrun anything that chases them down but they might get lost. Leafgreen is on base protection because he's not agile enough to charge into battle, he was always meant to be sort of a last resort anyway. Tealnine is, uh, with Anura.

Then again if Anura is anything like me when I was her age she probably snuck out of the base when my back was turned and totally thinks she's going to help out and be the hero and she's going to get badly hurt or worse, so the quicker we get this situation sorted the better!

Okay so Tzet is going to fix Ei and I am going to stay far away from Ei until she calms down because I do not want to be anywhere near her when she's mad. I haven't seen anyone that mad before. Whatever a notemi is, I don't think I've hated anything as much as she hates them. The notemi is apparently alive, stable but unconscious, which is probably for the best for everyone involved.

Vibrant 2014/03/26(Wed)23:14 No. 567775 ID: ed6622
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Let me think. Leafgreen's defending the base. Tealnine is probably going with Anura because Tealnine is too brave for her own good. Redthree, Redfour and Redfive are here after they helped me move Ei. Skyblue's here too. That's all of them. All six. Oh. Talky computer thing. Uhh. The three red synthetics are fast and not really any more durable than I'd be in a fight and love to go fast, and Skyblue is, uh, I don't actually know if she can really... do much in this situation. She's almost like a prototype for Tealnine and she prefers dismantling and reassembling things more than anything else. Good with weird machiney things I don't even understand.

I made synthetics because I could, when I was younger and more irresponsible and didn't value life like I do now, and tended to just let them all be general purpose. None of them are born warriors. The three Red synthetics lend themselves naturally to hit and run tactics, Skyblue could be an excellent saboteur and trap maker if she actually gets the right guidance, which I'm clueless about.

Well, one intruder down, four left. The human, or posthuman it sounds like, the enesi who is probably also a postenesi or something, the keletian, which I know nothing about and the jeraban which were first discovered as cyborgs right from the start. So uh yeah feeling a little out of my depth here all my combat synthetics are guarding my home and all I have are the faster more agile ones here. Mistake on my part, I think. I don't know anything more about the intruders or where they are. Uh, um, what now?

CENTRAL AOS CORE and CONFERENCE ROOM 3, QUADRANT 2 have Sinter and SARU respectively. Sinter likely needs immediate assistance and sending one or two of the fast guys to her sounds good. Instruct them to buy us time until more reinforcements arrive- not to risk themselves. SARU is staring down the barrel of a gun and apparently captured? She might be fine for the moment, but if we were to set up traps with the help of skyblue, then lure her captor into them with one of the reds, the situation could improve... She is closest to us so we can rescue her first, I think. Also she said for you to go home, but I think that's up to you isn't it?

We can only detect two of the intruders right now. I find this annoying.

[review sensor data and/or reconfigure settings to locate all four of the remaining "invaders"]

alright so here are things on our end of the scale, we've been cut off from this base's control meaning we can't do more then talk to you guys and give advice and even that is stringy at best. There's also a hacker trying to "save" us or something and while he doesn't seem to actually want to hurt us I'm a bit worried he'll pull us when one of you guys really need our help. That or release something that will ruin everyone's day from the lower levels.

But yeah, since you got red and her brothers already scouting the base you should probably send the other reds to find Anura just to make sure she's ok. as for what you and sky-blue can do, think there's anywhere nearby that you could get into our system and have sky-blue give us at least SOME control over our base again. Oh and uh, how's that wall teleporter thing doing? If it's still up and running that would be a good place to run to if everything goes to hell.

Ok, looking back at what we have, these guys are after Ei and Tzet, as well as two Objects that were on their ship at some point. Do you think you can ask Tzet if these "Core" and "Eye" artifacts are something he's heard of? The captain apparently had them, and I don't think that Core is the same thing as the "limitless power core" that Ei mentioned the ship having because there were more than one of those.Our systems are apparently being protected by some sort of extremely dangerous object being contained deep within the basement, so we're probably going to be fine whatever you do.

You should probably find a way to either get all three of you and the synthetics out of here to safety, or get them to a place from which you can defend yourselves with something stronger than a gun. If you got to a vector clamp you could escape to your base, but that would make everyone there a target for attack. From there we could try to get to the ship and see if they have any advanced technology that could be weaponized/is a weapon, including those Objects.

The alternative plan is to break into the lower levels which we can totally do because we have the password, and take an extreme and potentially deadly gamble with the things in containment down there. SOMEONE broke our memory stuff so we don't exactly know how this works, but I figure that from the stuff we know about, the type of things kept here likely include things that are either usable as extremely deadly weapons, could be released to be extremely deadly to anyone who comes down after you, could be extremely deadly if you so much as look at or go anywhere near, or are just so extremely deadly that messing with them will cause the end of the world et. al. Probably some of those we can use to defend ourselves. If we have the spacers with us then they'll surely have to follow us there. So, in conclusion, our options are to put everyone in danger to prepare a trap, or to put everyone in danger to prepare a trap.

Oh thank goodness it's back.
Find your friends and begin making small defenses and traps where easily hidden.

Vibrant 2014/03/27(Thu)22:09 No. 567849 ID: ed6622
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Oh, I got confused. They're all back from scouting but now they're here, all three of them. Redthree, Redfour and Redfive. Let's not get into why there aren't a Redone or a Redtwo.

I send Redthree to go find and help Sinter in the "central AOS core", and she seems to have an idea of where that might be. Redfive is sent to look for Anura. I make it clear that if any of them think they might be in danger, they should get back here and not try to fight if they can run. They nod in unison.

I pause. I tell them to ignore that order. I can't... we've been through some strange things together, but this is too alien to me. If I knew more, I would know what to do, they would know what to do, but I can tell we're all scared. They know I don't know what's out there, and it's scaring them. Redthree is hiding it the best, but... I tell all three of the Red runners to find Anura and to stick together, no matter what. I tell Skyblue to see if she can figure out if there's something wrong with this place's systems and she waits for me to explain.

I shrug and mention "AOS". Skyblue looks at the walls for a moment, then wanders off and starts poking at them. I think she knows what she's doing, but I don't.

Maybe Saru is right. Maybe we should just try to escape. The nearest vector clamp is out in dangerous territory. It's the same one these invaders used to get into this complex.

Vibrant 2014/03/27(Thu)22:09 No. 567850 ID: ed6622
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I open my mouth to ask Tzet some questions, but stop as I feel a growing sense of dread. I call back the Reds, and they pace restlessly around the room, anxious.

This room is relatively safe, a makeshift sanctuary with two well defended entrances, but I wander out of the corridor. Something doesn't seem right. I feel compelled to investigate, but something feels like an itch in the back of my mind.

I turn corners around this winding, unfamiliar place, feeling hopelessly lost and that I should turn back.

I see something waiting in the growing darkness.

You shouldn't be here, it says to me, its voice echoing in the corridor. You aren't what they're looking for.

"I just want to get out of here," I say, finding it harder and harder to think straight.

You can't leave the way you came, says the areeni to me. His voice is like a soft whisper, both calming and unnerving. You could be killed in the crossfire. There is another exit. It pauses and I feel myself thinking of what Sinter must be doing right now. Yes. In her quarters. A functional escape. Gather your companions. I can't guarantee your safety, but you should not be here. This is not your fight.

Vibrant 2014/03/27(Thu)22:09 No. 567851 ID: ed6622
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The areeni from the shadows walks closer to me, almost uncomfortably close. I feel both a strange attraction and repulsion, on physical and mental levels, almost as if these are options for me to act on. I reach out to touch him, wondering if I'm hallucinating the whole thing, and meet real, smooth skin, slightly colder than I was expecting, but with a pulse and a slight twitch backwards as I come into contact.

I want to escape with you.
"Are you one of the things from below?"
I don't know what I am any more. I just want to be free from all this. But I can't leave with you. They'll follow me. They won't follow you.

My head is swimming. I feel like I'm losing balance, but before I stumble this areeni gently holds me by the shoulders and upper arms, moving me to a more balanced pose. I start swaying again, and he does it again, looking a little confused and concerned.

Are you alright?
"I feel dizzy."
Then we don't have much time. For all we know, they might have started using anathema to disable the spacers. You don't want to know what an anti-spacer anathema variant could do to you. Do you trust me to help you?
"I don't... I don't know..."
Please, Vibrant, I just need a yes or a no answer.

I can hear my synthetics racing towards me in a panic.

Vibrant 2014/03/27(Thu)22:09 No. 567852 ID: ed6622
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The world is swirling before me. I hear an explosion in the distance and wrenching metal.

We're running out of time. I can't help you if you don't trust me.

I hear Redthree click frantically at me. I try to figure out her clicks. She's telling me that they're all here, her brothers and Skyblue, that Anura just got a message to them, and that we have to leave. We have to leave because... because...

'Smart poison'. Anathema. They're, they're flooding the facility.

Tzet, Ei, Sinter. They're all biomodded. I'm different enough to baseline that I'll be affected too. I already am. That leaves Saru and she's already fighting a losing battle. Maybe even my synthetics are at risk.

What do I do? What can I even do?!

The areeni holds his hand out. I have to get out of here. Last chance for me to help you out of here as well. I'm sorry, but I've spent long enough putting myself in danger.

I don't trust him but he has a good idea on using Sinter's vector clamp to get out of her and back to your base. Can you actually see your synthetics? Tell them to bring you to Sinter's room NOW, get skyblue to get the vector clamp working if we can't YOU NEED TO LEAVE NOW! But not with this guy, I don't like how he came here just as this shit started to effect you, plus he looks... wrong. Just get out of here now, have your synthetics drag you if you must be you have to leave.

God damn things are going to hell way to quick here for my liking. What does this poison do anyways? Just knockout gas or worse?

So ignoring THAT, even assuming we can trust this guy, you really need to consider what you want to do. I don't think it's fair to ask you to face whatever extreme risks this whole endeavour involves, especially considering how unsure you seem in making decisions here. But if you go, you'll be leaving behind someone who's dying and another who will be incapacitated both of whom probably can't get to safety on their own. Even if this guy lets you bring your synthetics, it's condemning these two to something that sounds like a fate worse than death. While we've got to do all we can to keep everyone safe, I don't think it's fair (or good for morale) to rope you into it when there's another option that could potentially get you out safely. You should probably decide for yourself. We might still be able to get Sinter to save these guys in time if you leave and the anathema doesn't make her choke on whatever breathing biomods she had. Although in the interests of a totally informed decision this guy is so bad at disguises that he can't keep it stable in what's supposed to be a still image. That doesn't mean they're not trying to get you out safely, though, just that they appear to look a lot more like a keletian than an areeni.

That is not an Areeni. It has four ears and more than two arms. You are seeing an illusion! This is one of our enemies! Back away and tell your synthetics to fight it! You are likely getting false information about the anathema as well. Our air filtration systems would quickly render that threat null. Do not trust your ears or eyes.

I don't think you were under the effects of anything until you encounter this one.
Run back to your constructs, they probably have a better sense of where to go right now than you do.
If this guy wants to escape he can follow from a distance.

(FYI guys the last image is animated)

ok this guy isn't an areeni. I mean the little light show aside if he was an areeni he would be affected by this crap as well. Smart money is on him being part of the strike force sent here to kill everyone but what worries me the most is how does he know your name?

>>567877
>>567857
Seems like a psionic attack. This thing is feeding your brain false signals, that's why you're conflicted.

Vibrant 2014/07/20(Sun)23:46 No. 585020 ID: 8533a8
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I blink and try to figure out what I just saw.

"You're not real, are you."
I knew you wouldn't accept this scenario. I had my hopes.
The areeni teeters forward, then slumps onto the wall, sinking to the floor.

The areeni is real. Or perhaps was. Did you feel how cold he was? It is strange, the way all we've ever known can be so easily disproven. You would have to be insane to trust anyone so singularly obsessed with collecting them, but you would have to be suicidal to stand in their path.

All I can hear is whining in my ears, my vision lurches. My eyes blur. I can't see anything clearly except the areeni. Is he dead? "Who are you? Why are you doing this?"

Vibrant 2014/07/20(Sun)23:47 No. 585021 ID: 8533a8
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It doesn't matter who I am. It doesn't change the outcome of the situation for you to know who I am.

Your fears. I can read them at my leisure. The contents of your mind are pages scattered by the wind, and let me assure you, the poison you fear is the one that cannot harm you. The poison of your desires and intentions. That is what will destroy you.

The keletian reveals itself.

We aren't here for you. Run. Run, and abandon your dreams of retaliation. Your people are nothing more now than a statistical outlier, a footnote in the records.

...

There is nothing you can hide from me, Kealeli. Your past. Your failures. Is there anyone alive who remembers? Do you think he cares about you, or is he like you? Burning retribution, wrapped behind a thin layer of halting insecurity?

Vibrant 2014/07/20(Sun)23:47 No. 585022 ID: 8533a8
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"So what if they don't remember? I remember. I won't ever be able to forget. An entire village, written off as 'administrative error'. I'll show them what happens. I'll show them--"
There. The burning anger cracks through the shell. You are like me, like 601, like the terrorist. Wronged. Wrathful. Righteous. I suppose I was wrong. More self-doubt, more uncertainty, but deep down, you're one of us the same. You'll burn with the rest of them, or you'll end up the pawn of the thing you set out to destroy.

The keletian looks down. Rezikil. Male post-baseline areeni, in his early 20s, no traced ancestry and no known descendents. No significant biomods. He stood against me like you do now. He could not accept that there exists a means to steal the consciousness of a living thing, their body alive but emotionless, without initiative. Nor a means for anyone to do the impossible, to breach that final barrier, and to reach into the minds of others, to impose their will on empty vessels.

It is strange, how easily everything we ever know can be so swiftly, so rapidly proven wrong. But you, you will not doubt evidence, will you?

She holds something I don't recognise out and looks at me, head tilted up in disdain. I can't meet her gaze, it feels like it burns.

This choice may be your final choice. Run, or end your independent existence.

I'm... not sure there's even anything we can do. We've lost control of everything, and can only give inexpert advice that's likely responsible for all of this in the first place. I don't think you have any choice but to run. You've probably not got a weapon concealed on you with your lack of clothes and I don't think you nor your creations would be able to strike at her without risk of certainly deadly retaliation. So, obviously, the answer is to flee. But I'm not sure that we can trust this person who just tried to trick us to uphold their end and not literally stab you in the back. There has to be some reason you're being offered this, and I don't think it makes sense for such a cold paramilitary operation to just offer to let people go if they give up. Plus, if she's reading your mind right now I don't think we'll be able to pull anything over on her without being found out before we can do it. We're running out of people who can help us, and unless you or someone else has something hidden up your sleeves for the last moment I think we've got to just get you out of here and hope Sinter or Tzet can save the day.

>>585022
She can't kill you instantly. Have your synthetics mob her and take whatever it is she's holding away from her. Perhaps also knock her out, considering she likely has powers even without that device.

I say we attack. Aim for the device and she'll be beatable with the help of your synthetics. We're supposed to be protected by a creature in containment, and it apparently was protecting Sinter's mind too. So hopefully you'll be able to withstand whatever mental assault this thing wields for a little while. I don't think she was actually going to let us go anyway.

Maybe when this is over and we're all safe you can try being honest about what you're really here to do.

oh I am getting sick of this bullshit. I say have your synthetics swarm her and brake whatever she is holding apart. These guys are NOT taking prisoners so if she's offering a way out she's likely bluffing and trying to make herself seem more powerful then she really is. A con artiest if you will. Either way everything is falling apart and I'll be damn if we're going to let these guys get everything they want without a hitch. I say be as big as a pain in there ass as you can and also try to get towards EI and Tzet and get them out of here. This place is more or less a war zone and I'd think you'd all be better off if you didn't have to worry about some asshat coming around a corner and shanking you while the doc is trying to patch you up.

Vibrant 2014/07/21(Mon)22:22 No. 585245 ID: 8533a8
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I don't think I can run from her. Looks like I have no choice. I call out to my synthetics.

"Reds! Strike that device! Skyblue! ...Do something with that device maybe!"

You think your synthetics could hope to match--

The keletian gasps as my synthetics simultaneously lunge at her, and sever the cable attached to the device. I see Skyblue dart around in the haze and grab the device, scuttering off as soon as she has it.

No! Don't break that! You have no idea what could happen if that gets broken!

I'm not much of a fighter, but she seems pretty distracted.

I race at her and leap.

Vibrant 2014/07/21(Mon)22:22 No. 585246 ID: 8533a8
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She goes down to the ground and I stay on top of her while she stares. I can't tell if she's surprised or not, her eyes have been wide open this whole time.

I find myself suddenly pushed upwards to the ceiling, and then fall to the floor. Fortunately I flail around enough that I landed on my side and not my face! Ow my side.

You pathetic newt, I don't have time to waste on someone as insignificant as you--

She yelps as one of my synthetics bites into her shoulder, blood seeping out of the wound. Redfive is just biting harder and harder. He suddenly flings into the air taking the keletian with him, almost immediately halting.

Redfour bites at a thigh and I find myself wincing. The keletian is screaming in pain now, trying to pull them off of her with her arms and telekinesis.

Redthree slashes at her stomach and stares into her eyes, before biting into one of her free arms.

I walk up to the keletian, while my synthetics arrange their jaws and limbs to restrain her.

Skyblue waddles up to me, and gives me the device.

Vibrant 2014/07/21(Mon)22:22 No. 585247 ID: 8533a8
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I take it, and show it to the keletian. I'm too angry to be scared.

You think this is a threat?! You can't use that device! You don't even know what it is!

"You don't want me to drop and break this, do you?"

You are speaking to the most powerful telekinetic this side of history. Call off your beasts or I will snap each and every single one of their bones with a thought.

"Oh I think I heard a yes! I think I heard 'please break this'."

I can catch it before you finish dropping it, areeni.

"Let's see if that's true!"

I throw it in the air. It doesn't come back down.

Observe your fruitless efforts to--

While she's distracted I spin and kick her in the face with as much strength as I can gather.

Vibrant 2014/07/21(Mon)22:22 No. 585248 ID: 8533a8
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I fall onto the ground from the follow-through and clutch my foot for a bit ow ow ow why did I do that ow.

She crumples to the floor after my synthetics let go of her. Skyblue catches the device as it falls.

No one threatens my family like that. No one.

...uhhh... what now? She's sort of out of it and groaning in pain, but I uh, well I don't know what to do to tie someone up if they can just weird brain power their way out of ropes. Also I don't have rope. Also also I feel like I might have broken like a rib or something or maybe that's just a bad bruise. Owwww okay something's broken probably.

Okay before the adrenaline wears off and I start regretting everything and being in pain I gotta do something but what

find Tzet? I mean he's a doctor, and being a spacer probably has a better idea on how to properly store psychic prisoners so the can't just mind blast there way out. Oh and maybe hide the spear thing she was holding so she can't find it. Only thing I can really think of to make sure she doesn't try to escape is to sedate her, not sure with what. Last thing, is that areeni actually alive ooooorrrrr what? Should we do something about him because I kinda don't like just leaving him laying on the ground... and keep him away from miss crazy as well.

You could try bludgeoning her to death with the orb before she wakes up. But that would be a pretty final solution.

Uh, I think the first thing we need to do is account for this Object she had. Did it drop to the floor when you kicked her in the face? That might be bad if she was telling the truth and it broke.

We have the option to have your synthetics carry her (and you) back to where Ei and Tzet are and just establish a prisoner pile, though that might allow them to work together if they come to and try to escape. Another thing we could try is to access the containment cells in the basement and use some empty ones to hold them, if there are any. We've... acquired the access codes. If we're down there it might also mean that we'll have the option to create a containment breach as a last resort defense. It might also get less of the anathema being pumped in if it can be sealed. Hopefully Sinter will be able to get our systems working enough that we can start pumping that out eventually or something.

>>585248
Well... we could just kill her. Or you could drag her to Tzet and have her sedated. If she's not awake she can't do shit. Can you get there before she's able to recover? You might have to smack her in the head a few more times along the way if it's too long. You will probably need help walking, too, and don't forget the Areeni.

Definitely hand the device to Skyblue to see if it can be used to our advantage. Oh, we could even restore the unknown Areeni's mind if we're lucky! Then we'd have an extra helping hand around the base.

There's still two other invaders... I hope the others are doing alright. Honestly I expected this one to put up more of a fight, but it seemed like she was a softie and didn't want to hurt you or your synthetics very much. Her mercy was her undoing.

[access air filtration systems, set to filter out Anathema toxins at highest priority]

put her in the room with THE BOX. she will just hug the thing until we fish her out.

>>585255
We're locked out of the systems until we can get someone to deactivate ISO. Getting that fixed or an alternative way to get rid of the toxins or isolate everyone from them should be a priority.

Go back to Tzet and take her with you. We can have some of the synthetics stand guard because you won'tbe much able to act for a while.

Hit her a couple more times to make sure she's out good and cold, then drag her to Tzet.