>>259863
"That'd be a damn stupid move on their part, seeing as how we're talking instead of shooting. The smart thing would be to notice that the squad of armed Astarans is making polite conversation and see what can be haggled out of them first instead of jumping right to fighting and dying."

>>259888
This

I'm gonna go with >>259823 and >>259888. Let's hope our small size and soggy look doesn't ruin our attempts.

Bluff. Bluff, all the way.

>>259864
This is the best idea.

Also, everybody get their melee weapons ready.

Tell him you'll give him some RayTech once you get out of this mess if he comes with you. If this guy's keeping pirates at bay it might be beneficial to keep him around.

>>259902
He said he has no use for raytech, so that wouldn't work.

>>259929

It sounds like they're valuable. Maybe he can sell it if he can't use it. It's not like he DOESN'T know where to fence it.

LonelyWorld 2010/11/26(Fri)16:31 No. 259943 ID: b6c6fc
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Oken: "that'd be a bad move on their part, I think we're more than equipped enough to handle a few Pirates"
pinkskin: "if your thinkin about RayTech, they know. always bitchen bout the damn water thing"
Prince: "the pinkskin is correct, there are a number of pirates within visual range . . . none moving"
Hoft: "and they've got guns trained on us, no doubt"
Oken: "Pinkskin, feel like doing something stupid and dangerous?"
Pinkskin: "cute, if your asking me to help you, then ask."
Oken: "uh-"
Pinkskin: "the answer's no."

Hoft: "Oken, you can dodge these guys, find some place to hide. your quick, a survivor, you can make it. . . we can provide a distraction"
Pinkskin: "ya got a smart friend, 3 corpses are better then 4"

>>259943

>>259888
>>259890
>>259891

Fighting is going to get EVERYBODY killed. They have guns and range, you have melee and wet fur. If you fight you're going to die.

If you want everybody to make it through this alive then you're going to have to give up the RayTech guns. If you want to try to keep them, then they'll take them off your rapidly cooling corpses.
They WILL walk away with the RayTech guns; the question is if you walk away broke, dead, or with something for your troubles.

The best move is to just give them the guns. The stun gun(s?) you should keep, they're probably common around here and they might be waterproof. If any of your weapons have gone unnoticed (the tazer and Hoft's pistols especially) you should hang on to them. I don't think they'd care much about your other gear.

>>259943
Priority should be making yourselves less of a target. Get to the stores if you can and sell the RayTech to buy some functional weapons but if that fails and you get cornered just give up the guns because right now you've got no chance whatsoever of winning a fight.

Okay great yeah, since we went to the pirate city we lose all of our shit and possibly get some party members killed or worse. Great job, /quest/.

Tell Hoft to quit moping, we'll get through this somehow.

>>259966
Such negativity!

Get off the street and into the building.

>>259943
Why don't you just fucking ask them for a trip off this planet in exchange for the raytech? That would be a way for them to get the weapons without using a battery weapon charge.
Ask this young gentlemen is a possibility, ask him if there'd be a way for a peaceful exchange of weapons.
There's a damn good chance they'll kill you anyway after you're defenseless but that requires a bit of a higher effort/cost ratio then the exchange as well as being meaningless. They don't give a fuck about you if you're NOT packing pricey heat... unless they want to kill themselves some furries.

>>259943
Well, what you do here really depends on how long it takes to dry out raytech weaponry. As PRINCE to calculate a rough estimate on how much more time you have... at least until his eye lasers are back online.

If it's not long (minutes?), consider trading for shelter.

If it's long... attempt to trade with the pinkskin here (as in, right in front of us). Offer raytech weapons in exchange for supplies, information, and cheap pinkskin weaponry. The pinkskin weaponry is essential. If the pirates notice you getting rid of them, their next target will be whoever ended up buying them. This guy might be crazy enough to do that, at least.

HUMANS CANNOT USE RAYTECH.

I think that was established sometime during Pinkskin Quest

LonelyWorld 2010/11/26(Fri)20:53 No. 259995 ID: b6c6fc
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we put down our weapons as a sign we don't want to fight

the three Pinky Pirates come out of hiding, then a guilder comes out of the bar and approaches us

Oken: "um how about we make a trade"

guilder: "yarrr, I be thinking the same thing, here's how it's gonna be, you'll be getting to keep yer lives, and we'll be getting everything you own"

Oken: " . . . "

guilder: "now ye best be putting everything in this here sack, clothing too, wouldn't want ye to be hiding nothing valuable"

>>259995
While putting some stuff in the bag, Hoft or Fuze should stab the leader. Somebody else should shoot the other two with the stun gun while they're distracted.

>>259995

SHOOT THEM ALLLLLLLLLLLLLL!

>>259995
"Yea, I don't think you quite understand. We want to negotiate joining a crew.
RayTech's not a bad haul, but a squad of Astarans working on your side? Shit, you can't even recharge these things on your own."

>>259995
"AAnnnnnnd we get to ride in your ship next time you leave port for another planet. Or we can risk a fight, having weapons damaged and with less charges with optimized profit unobtainable. There's no cost on your part at all. We'll even work hard on your ship to pay for our food. Just have to get away from the damned bugs."

Shooting them with the guns you put on the ground that don't work is stupid and won't work.

Leaving the raytech shit there, duck in the houselet behind you. They're there for the Raytech stuff, they'll probably just go for it.

I did a quick check and there are pretty much four close-quarters weapons, one for each of you. Deer with the crowbar, Fuze with the knife-thing, Mint with the Wrench, and Hoft with the thing that looks like a machete. Prince can probably use his arms as decent bludgeoning weapons.

Assuming you can manage it, have y'all jump into that nearby GIRLS joint and from there you can negotiate a bit better, forcing them to come in at you where you can get at them in close quarters. Using that as leverage, suggest that perhaps a more fair trade might be in order. If they have a complete upper hand they have no reason to give y'all anything. But if they have even the slightest chance of being killed, it makes them much more likely to compromise.

Also are we REALLY to assume that these hyper-intelligent bugs that can control minds and influence them from afar, tunnel through extremely reinforced vault doors, and who-knows-what else can't find a way to cross a small bit of water? You might bring it up to them, or at the least bit bluff and say that they've already started making a bridge-device.

>>260002
Probably this.

>>260006
We also have the stun pistol, until somebody says otherwise it still works damn it.

LonelyWorld 2010/11/27(Sat)07:11 No. 260077 ID: b6c6fc
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with out a distraction, we'll not get one foot through the door, even with a good one I don't think Prince nor Mint are quick enough to get in on time

as for fighting, we might be able to charge the leader . . . though I don't know how good we'll do in close combat with a guilder

Oken: "um how about in exchange you let us join your crew?"

guilder: " aarrrr, furres are too scrawny to make good pirates, 'specially you lot"

Oken: "um fine, uh how about we get passage on board your ship when you leave world?"

guilder: "yaaaarrr, ye drive a hard bargain . . . DEAL. now put yer stuff in the sack before I change ma mind"

>>260077
He is a pirate, his words means nothing. But you are not in a position to negotiate...

Point out that you can use the raytech gear and they can't. Wouldn't it be more useful to have folks who can actually shoot the guns once they dry out? Tell him you just want to get the fuck out of here, and could care less about the alliance or the guns, really.

Put the raytech in the bag, but keep your clothes and stuff on. Try your hardest not to let them intimidate you. If you look like you're in a good position to bargain, people will treat you like you are.

>>260077
>didn't mention possibility of gun-running or easy passage through Astaran space
>didn't mention recharging RayTech weapons
>my facepalm

>>260077
>guilder: " aarrrr, furres are too scrawny to make good pirates, 'specially you lot"
He doesn't look particularly like a human to me. Mention this quietly, you might be able to use it as a bargaining chip if he's managed to pass as a pinkskin so far.

>>260191
(Guilder is a race: >>/questdis/337444 )

Awww shite Guilders can use Raytech. That makes your position even less. And quite frankly, if they don't murder you at this point I'm not sure they're very good pirates. Once they get your stuff they've absolutely no reason to spare you.

LonelyWorld 2010/11/28(Sun)07:01 No. 260364 ID: b6c6fc
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I can't think of any way out of this

they have no reason to let us live either way, but if we're not a threat at least they don't HAVE to kill us . . .

>Oken and Co put their raytech in the sack

Oken: "please, we don't care about the Alliance or the weapons, we just want to get off this planet"

guilder: "yarrr, now everything else!"

(what does Oken do? does she obey or do something else?)

(Oken can expend her [LuckyEaring] to get her out of any 1 bad situation, this Item will NEVER be taken from her, it can only ever be used once)

(use [LuckyEaring] now?)

Comply for now, and if it looks like they'll kill you anyway, then use it.

I think it would be best if you waited for a situation where you're left with no choice but to use it, rather than wasting it on a situation where it wasn't absolutely required. After all, I'm pretty sure you're not getting another one, and you may need it more later.

I'd hate to have you use it now, just to find yourself in a tighter spot later, and have no way out of it because you used the earing in a situation you could have found a way out of on your own.

>>260364

What do you mean by 'everything else'?

Use the lucky earring.

>>260364
Don't quite use it just yet. We'll probably find a better use for it a little later on.

>>260384
Obviously this is one of those rape things.

>>260364

Give him any usable tech; retort saying that clothing will serve no purpose to them (they can't wear it, and it'll hardly sell -- if at all).

Furthermore, inform him that travelling disrobed would be an insult to him and his crew. Make sure to appeal to his sense of power, authority, and greed.

Quick Tiny Fox use your feminine charm to ease the situation.

You gotta do what you gotta do. But since it's YET to be a life-or-death situation, preserve the earring. Yeah you've got to lose everything else, including the clothes (and let's be honest we the audience aren't terribly displeased about that), but you're in this situation and removing yourself from the situation (and in a best case scenario, you get, what, your useless weapons back and get to keep your clothes) doesn't help you get off the planet or escape the bugs.

Use the goddamn earring.

Use earring, get out of dangerous situation.

Actually, hold on. Waiting until a life-or-death situation is a much better idea. If this happens to escalate into that, we'll look into it then.

Use that deus ex machina!

>>260364
@Mint: Can you rig up a way to recharge RayTech weapons? If you can, then "You've got a choice. You can either take our stuff, or I can recharge your RayTech weapons."

Comply for now, I'm assuming we're just going into our overalls for a bit much to the disappointment of /quest/, least you wanna sacrifice the saftey of your crew in exchange of a bit o' luck.

LonelyWorld 2010/11/29(Mon)06:42 No. 260627 ID: b6c6fc
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Oken: "Fuze, your better at talking then me"

Fuze: "well um, Mr. guilder, you know forcing us to prance about naked could be seen as sexual harassment on your part"

guilder: "arr NO! it's ta make sure ya aren't hidin' any booty! . . . ARG, I BE MEANING SWAG,
PLUNDER, nothing be wrong with searching for swag! my crew get's it!"

>the pirate crew gives the guilder strange looks

Fuze: "it's not a matter of how your crew sees it, it's how the StarPolice see, they're really harsh on sex crimes you know . . ."

guilder: " . . . "

>Oken and Co, are permitted to keep their undergarments
>Prince is deactiavted and taken by the Pirates

. . .

guilder: " YaaaaRR, thanks for being all nice, BOYS put em in irons!"

Oken: " . . . "

guilder: "I pride myself on being a man of my word, yarr and I promised you your lives and you'll keep em, though I never said a word bout your freedom! YAR HAR HAR HAR HAR!

>>260627
USE THE GOD DAMN EARRING

Not yet. They'll transport us from A to B. We can have a better opportunity to spend it.

>>260627
Oken: "Well, since you decided to negotiate in bad faith we're no longer willing to provide our RayTech recharging services.
You should've accepted our request to join your crew."

They have betrayed us. This will not do.

You saw the others. The crew do not trust him. The guilder is not in control. Bring them under our influence so we might seek our revenge. Fuze is weak; we must act in his stead.

Betrayal shall be met with betrayal.

>>260627
>Prince is deactiavted
Well dang. Should have set a wake-up timer on the guy. Have him perform some SUBTERFUGE from the cargo bay.

Definitely wait for a better moment to use the earring if need be. We've yet to run into a situation that there's no other way out of. Even "in irons," there is the off chance we can negotiate our way out of this (not necessarily with the guilder), or potentially get ourselves "sold" to allies. But if they make you do manual labor or something unacceptable like that... well then that's something else.

>>260649
BITCH DON'T BE STUPID THEY ARE GOING TO SELL US AS FUCKING SLAVES

USE LUCKY EARRING
PRINCE IS REACTIVATED
EVERY PIRATE FUCKING DIES TO A ONE TIME ONLY SPECIAL LASER LIGHT SHOW COURTESY OF THE ROBOT'S EYEBALLS AND THEY ARE ALL INVITED

>>260710
Prince. Does. Not. Have. Eye. Lasers. Any. More.

>>260713
then the magic earring will give them back this is a deus ex machina of the sexiest tiny deer kind

okay fine but still this is a really bad situation
just don't not use the 'get out of jail' free card because you THINK something worse might come along

>>260715
just you wait a goddamn huge ass crab shaped bug will show up and screw us up something mighty fierce without that baby.

Mint scare the fuck outta that Guilder with your badass aura. Face it you are the scariest goddamn thing in this fucking galaxy it is time to rip it up. Just think that these people are why you didn't get your beefy icecat men! They took them dammit you better show your goddamn assertiveness. SHOW ME YOUR WARFACE MINT ARRRRRAGGGGGGGH

We have deliberated. It would appear to be best to make use of our earring.

We must not harm our comrades.

LonelyWorld 2010/11/29(Mon)19:48 No. 260737 ID: b6c6fc
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>Oken and Company are taken aboard the pirate ship

guilder: "a man of my word, I always be saying, Honest Arklite the captian calls me, I always be keeping me promises, and we'll be takin you of this world as per the deal"

>Mint decides not to antagonize the guilder despite how very tempting it is

guilder: "probably wondering what we're gonna do with Astranner slave right? you always be wondering that, truth be told you types make terrible slaves, worse pirates . . . and your dainty eating make you cost a small fortune ta keep round, so why are we doing it, Yar har har har"

it's so dark it's almost impossible to see down hear

guilder: " second thing ye always be askin, s'bout the RayTech. why do we want it? we can't use it, no one can be using it. oh we be saying we can but we be just spouting steam, we can't use it. so why do we want it? well that's where you be coming in, you CAN use it, Astranners be the only ones"

Oken: "but you said we couldn't be part of your crew . . . "

guilder: "I never be lying, yar har har har . . ."

>>260737
So... Tell them to stop being cryptic and spill the beans, what are they going to do?

Notify them that they can't gain your ability to use the weapons if they eat you, it didn't work for those idiots in District 9 and it won't work for them either.

This seems bad, but let's let him finish expositing his plan.

you might choose to inform them that they can get a hefty ransom for y'all at least

>>260737
So they're going to be like Astranian gladiators for the Solar/Guilder/Pirate/whatever francise? Oken point out that you're some of the most practiced individuals in AStranian space, you'd make the best fucking pirates. You're an ACE PILOT, AN ICEKITTY ENGINEER, A FIVE-STAR SOLDIER, and MEIN DOCTURRR

You've got skills out the ass.

>>260752
PS they're probably going to cut off your arms and transplant them or something. Maybe sell them on the black market where people are dumb as shit will pay a fortune for them even though they don't work, like krogan testies

>>260737
"You tell us you lied about being able to use RayTech, then immediately say you never lie. Tell us what you want with us already.

>your dainty eating make you cost a small fortune ta keep round
I thought they only eat small portions of vegetable products? Seems like they'd be cheap to feed...

Follow along and feel retarded for not fighting them.

We obviously need to take this pirate ship for ourselves. Just need to wait for the right moment to use our collective chains and strength to strangle our captors and steal their weapons.

Arr, methinks we be shanghaied.

LonelyWorld 2010/11/30(Tue)16:29 No. 260952 ID: b6c6fc
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we are shoved into a large cell

Oken: "uh you probably could ransom us off, we're all highly skilled officers and stuff, I'm sure-"

guilder: "that be too much hassle"

Oken: "so what horrible things ARE you going to do to us, and could you please cut to the point!"

guilder: "YARRR, you be no fun, we ain't be doing a single horrible thing to you . . . as long as ye behave, all we be needing is a pint o blood every now and then. Yarrr Astranner blood tis practically liquid gold to us . . . don't worry we'll leave you enough to live"

Oken: "what if we don't behave?"

guilder: "ARRRR let's just be saying we'll be doing horrible things you don't want us to be doing"

Oken: " . . . "

>Fuze starts to cry

LonelyWorld 2010/11/30(Tue)16:36 No. 260956 ID: b6c6fc
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>and so our poor heroes fall into clutches of vile SpacePirates, the Alliance believing them dead will never look for them, and even if someone did desire to find them, they would never know where to look)

>we may never know what horrible fate befalls them, but perhaps we can hope that their suffering does not last long


THE END

>>260956

D:

WHAT

The moral of this story: When you have a god damned "Get Out Of Jail Free" card, use it.

>>260971

I tried, I really did, but I wasn't the majority. I don't understand why people didn't use what they had when they needed it. Or why they got themselves into that situation in the first place..

>>260956

>>260971. So fucking >>260971.

I DEMAND A DO-OVER! Or a mulligan! Or reloading a checkpoint! SOMETHING!

Bah, what crap, they could still escape, but fiiine, lets just end it.

Gay.

>>260973
Because there was a reasonable expectation that it would continue to "you are in a jail cell, what do?", not "GAME OVER".

>>260976

They can escape? All of their equipment, including Prince who is currently the only means of self-defense for the party, is gone. Aside from the lucky earring we collectively decided not to employ at feasible moments of use, they're down to their skivvies. There is no escape, we fucked up, that's that.

Waah waah when happy endings aren't guaranteed. In quest you should be happy for endings at all.

It was a good run, we earned what we got, and I look forward to what comes next from LonelyWorld. Maybe next time we'll be more careful.

pff, like there hasnt been escapes like that in other quests, and anyways, you dont stress a one time use item that way right at the moment before you can only use it you're going to get a bunch assuming they can use it later. derp.

>>260986
isn't the careful mindset what got us in this mess? If anything we need to be more risky AND violent, a few dead allies lost in combat is way better than losing freedom completely.

>> Game Over
dude, seriously? That's a load of bullshit.

This is not yet the end.

And so everything from the fanart thread becomes canon.
Especial the deleted stuff.

What the fuck, I come back and you guys somehow got a game over even when the author gave you a god damn free pass which you then ignored in favor of volunteering to have the characters sold into fucking slavery. What the hell guys.

>>260956
Lucky Earring: They're carriers of a blood-borne a pathogen that's harmless to Astarans but lethal to Guilder and Humans. Make it happen.

Fanart End! :D

Bite, no. BAD.

Oh wow, we suck at this. But anyway, I'm with the group that wants a do-over.

>>261006
Do it.

??? ??? 2010/12/01(Wed)06:45 No. 261155 ID: 917cac
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servant1: "Mother your prophecy was incorrect, you said they would never leave this world!"

BroodMother: "hmmm it appears that way, I suppose well have to rely on other talents, Psych?"

Servant2: "we can't mother, they're too far out, we have no crawlers that far"

BroodMother: "your lack of creativity dissapoints me, prepare my bio pod"

Servant1: "but mother, the Hive! we spent-"

BroodMother: "-30 years? wasted 30 years. I tire of this world . . . and hunger for Pirate flesh"

servant1: "but-"

BroodMother: "do as I say before I hunger for yours"

servant: "understood BroodMother"

(epilogue end)

>>261155
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

Actually, this is pretty cool. Still a small chance for our 'heroes' to become bug-bait. ;D

Well played, LW.

>>261180
Yeah, except the IP hash of >>261155 is different from the usual b6c6fc and not seen anywhere else in this thread.

It might be someone else's fanart, it might be LW who deliberately changed IP to mess with us. Therefore, I can't be sure it's canon or not.

Well trolled, >>261155 . Well trolled :)

>>261216
The art looks a bit different as well... but the text, if not written by LW, is a very good imitation of his style.

It is a mistery!

>>261225
It wasn't drawn with a tablet - no pressure sensitivity anyway.

>>261216

>917cac
>>/questdis/337627

>>261248
Yes, I am stupid.