Suggestion 2010/12/06(Mon)20:20 No. 262577 ID: 8f70ca
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Ok, the path stops here after leaving the goblins' place. It intersects another tunnel. Dugut says that left heads to the river, and right goes to the magma flow. People going both directions have turned up missing, lately.

Left to the river!

>>262577
Let's definitely head to the river first, we might find some iron so we can make a bucket for some magma.

River first.

River

>>262577
Lets see what we find in the direction of the river. Keep your eyes out for anything hostile.

What were we doing again?

I keep hearing good things about this river.

>>262612
>>/questarch/63626
Disappearing group of guards by the magma. We should have our weird hairball pet that was found by a dormant magma vent in our left hand, too. So let's go to the magma.

Suggestion 2010/12/07(Tue)16:59 No. 262753 ID: 8f70ca
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OK, we'll head to the river first. Looks like there's a big chamber up ahead.

Keep your eye on that hole in the upper left corner, and approach cautiously. Ask the goblin if he sees anything good in said hole. Do you hear water or anything?

Use your scanner on the area, especially before walking in front that hole in the ceiling.

Investigate the stalagmite.

>>262753
Looks like a very good ambush site. Send in Dugut first, tell him to be careful.

Suggestion 2010/12/08(Wed)11:15 No. 262917 ID: 8f70ca
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>>262755
yeah, I can faintly hear water from the other side of this room.

>>262762
Hmm, looks like there's three large creatures farther back, nothing in the hole.

>>262791
it looks like a normal one, from what I can tell.

>>262875
What should I tell him to do, exactly?

>>262917

What is their height? Any features you can recognize with the heat vision. I assume the details are indistinguishable, but a frame, height and features like the number of fingers should tell us what we might have to deal with.

Suggestion 2010/12/08(Wed)11:32 No. 262920 ID: 8f70ca
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Hmm, big.. I'd guess about about two and a half meters tall or so, heavy frame, and it's got only two fingers. They're pretty far away.

Looks like trolls. See if we can get their attention for a visual, and confirm it before opening fire.

Definitely aim your gun at them though and prepare to fire.

>>262920
Tell him to watch your back and make sure nobody sneaks up on us.

Hook up the heavy maser and fire at will.

Proceed and attack if necessary, I don't think you should just shoot at them until you're sure they're not docile.

Trolls indeed. You should attack, but make sure you won't get flanked. That Maser is pretty damn good, but damn. If we get in CQC, we're fucked. Make sure that goblin is covering our ass.

>>262920
Looks like there might be a fight ahead. Tell him to watch your back, be ready to step in if they get too close and keep an eye on the hole.

Load up with delicious heavy weapons and prepare to blast some weird ass creatures.

Aren't troll eggs pretty valuable? Hide in the hole, make some sort of noise to attract them past you (or have Dugut act as a lure), then sneak behind them to pilfer the eggs. This also works as a flanking manoeuvre.

Suggestion 2010/12/09(Thu)18:51 No. 263255 ID: 8f70ca
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OK, I'm in the hole now, they aren't trolls, but three large bipeds. They appear to have no eyes.

Shout down at them if they want some cash to see if they are sapient/hostile. Being that you're in the hole, they probably can't easily get to you, so you will not be giving up the advantage of the high ground/good ranged attacks.

What's that red thing in the lower right there?

Suggestion 2010/12/09(Thu)19:32 No. 263270 ID: 8f70ca
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Well that got their attention! That was probably a bad idea now that I can get a good look at them.

>>263267
That's Dugut.

...I guess we should start shooting, huh?

Yeah, let's shoot those motherfuckers. After firing, use your remaining actions to move further into the hole.

Suggestion 2010/12/09(Thu)20:26 No. 263286 ID: 8f70ca
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DAMMIT! Uhh, I meant to do that!

Suggestion 2010/12/09(Thu)20:27 No. 263287 ID: 8f70ca
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Whoa, they're really pissed off now. My warning shot didn't scare them off. Now they keep throwing broken off stalactites and rocks in the hole.

How far up does the hole go now? Poor goblin. I hope he had the sense to run.

>>263287
Wait for them to stop then wave your gun out there to see if they can see at all.

I agree, wait for them to stop and quietly peek out to see how they sense you, whether by hearing or something else.

Put on your mask just in case they aim for the face.

>>263287
Wait for their rockthrowing to die down a bit. Then respond with superior firepower and kill their fucking asses.

Suggestion 2010/12/18(Sat)14:25 No. 265131 ID: 8f70ca
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They don't seem to notice me, I can be fairly certain that they navigate by sound. Any one I should aim for?

Shoot the bottom left one, from our perspective. It's got the best angle to throw things back at you.

And position your considerable self to get the fuck out of the way in a hurry.

>>265136
Agreed.

>>265136
That does seem like the one to shoot. And having a plan for rapid redeployment is always good.

Suggestion 2010/12/18(Sat)15:58 No. 265147 ID: 8f70ca
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I blast one of them right in the head! It lets out a horrible low bellow and a cloud of its unnatural colored blood boils out of the wound. It falls to the ground. That seemed to scare the other two off.
>>265136
My what?

>>263332
((I meant to address this last post, but a gas mask offers no protection from damage))

sweet, fight or flight instinct kicked in and since they saw nothing to fight then flight was their only option.

Check on Dugut.

Investigate the monster more closely to see if you can determine what it is a mutated version of.

Don't unplug your maser yet.

Suggestion 2010/12/18(Sat)16:35 No. 265155 ID: 8f70ca
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I've got no idea what this thing is. It sure smells horrible, I can't tell if the burning is an improvement or not. Dugut had the good sense to hide when he caught sight of them.

Keep heading to the river. Keep your eyes peeled.

If you ask me it's a giant naked mole rat. Some kind of... moleratman.

Let's continue onwards.

>>265166
Mole rats are hive-based mammals if I remember... that wouldn't bode well.

Also your ass is big. Like, super big.

>>265190
It's true.

>>265190
What are you talking about? Her ass is delicious size. Stop putting your camera perspective so close to her tail and you won't have this problem.

Her ass is a completely normal size for a Lohrke.

it's a bit on the small side if anything

Could stand being bigger. Onwards!

>>265155
Not quite sure why a humanid without eyes should wear pants if not as a storage.

Loot the body and tell Dugut to cut open it's stomach ... maybe we find one of the missing goblins or something of value.

>>267028
I've yet to see a loincloth with built-in pockets. Still, if the aclops have clothes, then they probably have other belongings.

Suggestion 2010/12/27(Mon)11:43 No. 267170 ID: b7798b
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>>265190
>>265195
>>265197
Stop trying to flirt; this isn't the time or place for that.
>>265235
>>265257
Hey, no need to be insulting either!

>>267028
Eww, gross. I'm not going to do that.
>>267108
Yeah they probably don't have pockets.

I'm going to head to the river.

Suggestion 2010/12/27(Mon)11:44 No. 267173 ID: b7798b
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Should we head upstream or downstream?

Upstream is clearly where the treasure is.

Downstream.
You're looking for some shit if I remember correctly and shit tends to get flushed downstream.

Left.

>>267173
Look for tracks before deciding. If you find stuff indicating that the big uglies cam from any direction then go after them.

If you don't find any tracks then I guess downstream works.

>>267173
Downstream or Upstream?

Any information about where the river might be headed or where it came from? Maybe the slightest of clues? Some rumor you heard?

Else you could just throw a coin.

>>267173
Upstream

Upstream is most likely to contain a secret

>>267170
Hey don't be a pussy.
Tt's dugut who will cut them open for you.
Do you want to know if those ... things ate the goblins or not?

You can go upstream after that.

Follow tracks. If no tracks can be found by your tracking buddy, go left.

Suggestion 2010/12/29(Wed)17:04 No. 267636 ID: 0b5a64
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OK, there are some tracks headed to the right, which is upstream. As far as I know this river could originate at an aquifer or it could come from the Forbidden Place.

>>267636
Well then, sneak your way forward and keep an eye out for anything weird.

Every now and then sneak a peek with the scanner. Maybe something interesting's in the water or on the walls... or further up the river.

Also make sure nothing's coming up behind you.

Suggestion 2010/12/29(Wed)17:45 No. 267662 ID: 0b5a64
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>a secret has been revealed!

Hmm, what's this? It looks like a boat or something. There's also a side passage that I suspect heads toward the chasm if my directional sense is correct.

>>267662
...perhaps the Illithid slaver's boat?

>>267662
Investigate boat. Then investigate side tunnel for tracks.

Steal dat boat. Go moar upstream.

Scan the side-passage and look into it.
If there's no obvious danger tell your slave to guard the passage and check the boat for any clues.
And no, don't fucking steal it. You're not some filthy gobbo after all.

>>267662
Check the side passage and if you have to flee take the boat to get away.
But don't use it now or the motor will resound in the whole cave

Suggestion 2011/01/15(Sat)11:52 No. 271684 ID: 687829
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OK, I'll examine the boat further. Is there anything I should be looking for? The side passage goes off into some more cave systems, it doesn't look like there's anything down there that I can see.

>>271684
Looks like there is a compartment under the seat and one in the front of the boat. Check out both of those.

Do you mean you can't see anything from where you are or is it empty?
if it goes further explore it a bit, the boat should have an owner.

>>271685
Might as well check it out.

>>271684
>>271685
inb4asecrethasbeenrevealed

Suggestion 2011/01/17(Mon)18:08 No. 272398 ID: 446f39
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There's some stuff folded up here, looks like clothes, and some leather thing. The front compartment is full of chains and shackles. Looks like this belonged to the slaver.

>>272398
What's the leather thing?

Let's steal the boat before he comes back. We chan check the leather thing while we're on the water. Use the oar and let's go downstream because paddlin updstream is a bitch.

>>272422
Or sabotage it. Pilfer the spark plugs from the motor. That way the slaver has a boat he thinks he can use but can't, and we have a boat we can use but no-one else can.

>>272398
Well then, unfold the cloth and the leather thing. Could be something useful.

>>272422
>>272577
Didn't we blow his brains out in the first thread? Or was that another guy?

>>272587
We killed a slaver. Could be more around. Although I suspect that's not the case.

>>272398
looks like a wallet.

Steal it!!

>>272602
Yoink!

Suggestion 2011/01/23(Sun)15:45 No. 274129 ID: 446f39
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Inside the wallet is a card with a picture of that thing I shot and some scribble-scratch all over it, some keys, and some more of those tab looking things but silver colored. Under it is some heavy leather clothing as well as some welding goggles or something.

See if the keys can start the boat.

>>274129
Wait...so we now have both his keys and his spare keys or something?

Check the other compartment. Take whatever other people suggest.

>>274129
Check how much gas there is in the motor. It seems like we've found out why people are disappearing in THIS direction, so why don't we go downstream a bit?

What's the texture of material of the tabs? They look like they're either earplugs or coinage.

Tabs are coins. Put the stuff back in the wallet and take the wallet. Let's check down the tunnel. Maybe it's a hideout.

Suggestion 2011/01/23(Sun)16:40 No. 274162 ID: 446f39
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>>274131
None of these fit, but one of the ones I picked up earlier does.

>>274133
These must be to something else. Well the little one works on the shackles in the front compartment.

>>274139
I don't see any gas cylinders but this tank has is about half full of whatever passes for fuel for this thing.

They look just like the other things I picked up, you'd have to have really weird looking ears to stick these in them.

We'll head downstream in the boat. After traveling for a while I can see a light up ahead.

>>274162
...I'm doubting this thing has a magma-proof hull. Find somewhere to land.

No reason to use the motor. Use the paddle and keep going forward. You have your goblin with you?

Suggestion 2011/01/23(Sun)19:46 No. 274230 ID: 446f39
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There's a weird glow coming from here, but no heat.

Use scanner? Definitely be cautious.

Hmm. You're not especially deep underground, are you?

Scanner ahead. It doesn't look too good...

>>274230
Use that scanner. Lets hope there are no magma giants there.

Suggestion 2011/01/30(Sun)09:36 No. 276436 ID: 1aa4f8
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We should be deep underground. This has been going slightly deeper as far as I can tell.

Hmm, there's nothing on the scanner. Background radiation is slightly above normal, but nothing dangerous. The passage curves to the left after a while though. I'm getting some possibly odd mineral readings, though I'd have to go farther in to check it out.

Yeah, go in and check it out.
let dognuts scout a bit in advance

Go in together, unless our buddy thinks he can sneak about unnoticed better than we can by walking on the ceiling.

>>276436
Sounds like a mine for radioactive materials.

Do you know Races using Nuclear power or radiated weapons?

Suggestion 2011/01/30(Sun)11:58 No. 276461 ID: 1aa4f8
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I don't think either of these cultures have any where near the technology level to recognize the significance of radioactivity. And this doesn't look like a regular mine. There's spikes and body parts all over the place, and it's deathly quiet. There's veins of a bright blue ore I'm not familiar with.

>>276461
Sheeeeet, Dwarves did this, but somehow I doubt there are dwarves here anymore. They dug too deep, too greedily.

>>276461

ON SECOND THOUGHT, LET'S NOT GO THERE. THAT IS A SILLY PLACE

>>276461
Does that entrance lead anywhere? Is it hot in there or just orange by some strange other means? and, if it isn't too hot, can you kinda "kneel" on the ceiling and walk over all the spikes with out getting hurt?

I think you should investigate. WHAT'S THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN

Actually, on second thought, send the goblin to investigate.

of course you have to check it out, that's like the reason you're here to begin with.
Go carefully onward.
Try to avoid firing your heavy weapon, it might react with the weird minerals.

Suggestion 2011/01/30(Sun)12:29 No. 276474 ID: 1aa4f8
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Dugut won't go in. He says he has nothing to pay tribute to the demon with. Sounds like some nonsense to me, I'll just take a peek. I can hear a faint whistling noise. There's no movement that I can- that does NOT look like it belongs there.

>>276474
nope.jpg

Let's uh... not go in. Ever. We can report it to the dwarves but do not go in there oh god

>>276474

Unless you want to be raped, murdered, twisted, driven insane or otherwise horribly maimed, you shouldn't go in there.

Nobody's noticed you. Keep investigating.

What is it? A bit hard to make out.
Go somewhat closer if necessary.

Let's, uh, not go this way.

Go in! What's the worst that could happen?

Go somewhere else.

Go on
It can't be actually demons and you can shot any slavers or whatever it might be.

Seriously if you go this way you will probably die horribly.

A hole! Investigate it. [I]Thoroughly.[/]

keep the maser handy, as huge guns are the only things that can hurt the fuckers

I wonder what Imli's gun would do to the HFS.

Where's your sense of adventure? Onward!

>>276474
Uh, let's backpedal the fuck out. We're not equipped to handle demons.

Also, watch your shirt you harlot.

Don't go in. There be demons here.
Get that gun ready.

Imli, be extremely careful. Does your race or any other race you know of have a myth of a "hell", a demonic underworld? Because you've just found it.

This actually looks like the v0.28 glowing pits as opposed to v0.31's hell. That's good, right? I think you could clear those. And that was with the dwarves' technology.

>>276549
Yeah, but DF dwarves are like a short, drunken version of Bruce Willis. They don't die, they just get pissed.

Suggestion 2011/02/03(Thu)09:31 No. 278690 ID: 1aa4f8
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OK I'll leave. Where to now?

>>278690

Ask Dugut why he has such a blank expression

Suggestion 2011/02/03(Thu)11:27 No. 278716 ID: 1aa4f8
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"wasn't aware that I was making a face m'lady." "I'll stop immediately"

On second thought lets do go in the glowing pit. It may contain secrets.

>>278717
In my experience, glowing pits contain nothing but Fun. You should begin spelunking immediately.

Examine the blue ore some more with the scanner.

>Where to now?
I forget where else we need to go.

The best course of action would be to do something to block off the tunnel. Is there any way you could acquire explosives or something to collapse it? Bad things come out of those pits. Do examine the blue ore, though. It's almost unimaginably valuable.

Isn't there any way to explore that glowing pit? I mean the mission is to find out why people disappear, right?
And that place seems like an prime candidate.

Suggestion 2011/02/03(Thu)14:57 No. 278756 ID: 1aa4f8
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Getting hold of some explosives shouldn't be a problem. I can't fit down the hole, there's all kinds of pipes and stuff over the top.

The ore is some kind of dense fibrous material, I'm not a geologist so I'm not sure how to extract it or any of its other properties though.

Enter the glowing pit. Keep your weapons ready.

Before we go in, ask Dugut what kind of tribute is appropriate.

Try to just pry some out and see what happens.

Suggestion 2011/02/03(Thu)16:33 No. 278769 ID: 1aa4f8
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>>278760
>OK, what do we need for a tribute them?

"I don't know, I've never actually seen one! Probably elven babies or something?"

Well that isn't very helpful.

I'm not going down the rapemurder hole. Was there something else in that room I should look at?

More of a Boatmurder hole... Er...
Continue onwards.

How are your tits staying up? They should be covering your mouth when you're standing like that.

Suggestion 2011/02/03(Thu)18:04 No. 278795 ID: 1aa4f8
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>>278770
That being what direction?

>>278786
I'm not falling for that again.

>>278795
HOW ARE THEY LEVITATING LIKE THAT!?

>>278796
her bra is made out of the stuff based off what her tail and feet are made off of

>>278796
It's called underwear, real women usually wear it.

was there an exit through the raperoom?

If not, let's just go back to the boathole and check that out.

Suggestion 2011/02/03(Thu)18:31 No. 278811 ID: 1aa4f8
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>>278803
There was a door looking thing, do you mean that?

I'm not gonna go down in that hole though. >>278796
>>278800
>>278802
Well one of you understands.

>>278811
Let's check out the door looking thing, yes.

>>278811
Sure, let's try the spooky door. See if Dognuts will at least keep guard should something go to block your route back.

Shame we ditched the radio-controlled slaver collars; one would have made a good panic signal.

Suggestion 2011/02/03(Thu)18:59 No. 278818 ID: 1aa4f8
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This looked smaller from the ceiling.

>>278813
I suppose something exploding would make a good alarm but you could only use it once. It would take the good part of a day to go back and get them.

>>278818
I thought you found a button on the remote that just made them emit an angry "stop it or I'll blow you up" beeping. Still, a day is too much of a detour.

...can you open those doors?

Suggestion 2011/02/03(Thu)19:36 No. 278832 ID: 1aa4f8
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I can't seem to get it open with force! Yes I tried pushing first.

>>278832
Check out that circular recess under the door. And to the left of it, why not.

Can you see anything through that crack?

>>278832
So is the demon thing up and to your left just a statue?

You've got a fusion cutter. There is a locked door here. Normally I'd suggest simply blowing a hole through the obstruction, but with the potential of all sorts of ancient nasties, I favor caution.

Suggestion 2011/02/17(Thu)14:10 No. 282108 ID: cc1ccd
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I can't see inside the crack, or in any of the holes. No light seems to be passing through them, it's weird.

>>279129
I'm- not sure. It's some ugly frog thing but it's seamlessly welded to the metallic surface. It seems like part of a carcass, but I can't figure out how it would have gotten like that.


>>279421
I should be able to cut through it, it's meta from what I can tell.

>>282108
Poke the carcass.

Also say "Hello?"

>>282108
Try cutting through the frog demon itself, should be easier. however, you may wish to stand back a bit, some of those things are made of some weird and or toxic materials.

Or hell it might even still be alive, just... stuck.

Suggestion 2011/02/25(Fri)09:14 No. 284210 ID: 9d3d72
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Eww, It's weirdly and seamlessly melded with the metal wall when I cut it off.

Does anything on the wall look like a lever or handle that rotates? Anything on the floor?

See if you can cut out a piece of the metal by digging around inside the corpse.

Suggestion 2011/02/25(Fri)20:09 No. 284344 ID: 9d3d72
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>>284211
Not that I can see. It looks like the only way to open this is gonna be to cut it open.


>>284251
Gross! No. I'm not going to do that.

>>284344
Pansy.

>>284344
The river is really close, you can wash your hands after.

WELL LET'S CUT IT OPEN THEN.

...ergh. This seems like a bad idea... but it's not like we're opening the pit, right? Let's go see what's in there.

>>284344
Can you modify your weapon?
your weapon looks like the output can be regulated.
If you set it to a smaller effect area while raising the time it shoots you could create a good cutting tool.

>>284410
She has Cutter attachment. She could use that... or mess with a Maser and maybe break it... or WORSE

>>284441
She got a high powered Anti Tank weapon and can't handle it properly?
i don't want her to open that thing up but i'm sure she can change the fokus manually to a smaller one while multiplying the interval of the shot.
That way she'd get a small and constant microwave beam.

Suggestion 2011/03/03(Thu)09:01 No. 285895 ID: 72d5e4
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All right, that's enough time wasted, I'm gonna cut this thing open. Looks and cuts like it's metal. Is there anything I should do before I go inside?

>>284410
I'm not a mechanic, and that seems like kind of a waste of time to do anyway when I have this perfectly working cutter.

>>285895
Well you should tell your buddy what you're doing.

>>285895

Prepare yourself. Demons there might be REALLY dangerous

>>285895
Well my point was that you could have a slicer taht works from FAR AWAY so you don't have to stand infront of the door ...

Better take a look around > .> it's quiet

Suggestion 2011/03/03(Thu)15:50 No. 285979 ID: 932db9
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I.. I don't like this place. The air is thin, and I feel like I'll float away if I don't stick to the floor. It's disorienting, I can't tell which way is up or down. There's something floating off in the distance, and it's dead silent except for a slight breeze from the hole I cut.

Those things in the holes on the ceiling couldn't possibly be stars, could they?

Make sure you are well and truly stuck to the floor. Don't stay here long, but let's at least go see what the floating thing is.

>>285979

What are those floaty thingies and uhhh... you know, make sure to leg it if things are getting too bad. But first things first. Get Dugut to tie a rope harness around your body and make him hold to the other end of the rope hard. If you will lose grip, he will be able to pull you back in and provide an extra grip.

>>285979
Oh my god it's full of stars

Suggestion 2011/03/03(Thu)16:29 No. 285996 ID: 932db9
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Ok, I'm tied to the rope, Dugut knows where I'm going, and I'm not gonna lose my attachment to the wall or floor or whatever this is. Ok, that's definitely a corpse, and it looks like there's more farther down the hallway.

If those dots of light aren't some space-warping reality-destroying insanity, then they are either glowing mushrooms or stones, or EYES. Here's hoping on the mushrooms.

>>285996

What you have here, girl. Is a portal leading somewhere...

Turn back and walk away from here. Bad things might delve there and you certainly don't want to get lost in space or anything.

>>285996
This looks like a bad place to be. It has looked like a bad place to be for a while but now it really looks like a bad place to be.

>>285996
>Head tentacles floating in all directions
Alright, who forgot to pay the gravity bill?

Use floating pickaxe to hook corpse a bit closer if you can. See if it looks like they died of something nice and mundane. Possibly gingerly poke a cyan thing.

Grab cyan thing, leave, seal door behind you.

>>285996
What's in the holes?

>>285996
Take Shiny Rocks, GTFO NOW! Seal behind behind you. Remember to mark this later as a possible site for research and exotic resource extraction.

Suggestion 2011/03/03(Thu)20:13 No. 286056 ID: 932db9
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The bloody colored stuff is the same stone that I saw earlier. I can take one. The corpse is really ugly looking, they aren't normally all splotchy like that.

Search the corpse.

it... looks like it died from decompression. poke a blue rock with the pick before grabbing any.

>>286056
don't touch him, he probably died of a horrible disease
this is based off DF2010 right?

>>286056
I think it's the effects of the lack of gravity. The blood settles in weird places. Normally corpses get blood pooling at the bottom, as it is...

>>286081
Possibly. At least he hasn't had his face melted off from seeing incomprehensible horrors or anything.

Gingerly poke a blue thing with the pick.

When you poke it, make sure you poke it towards the side so that the force doesn't send it careening deeper into the mine.

>>286066
He looks to good for decompression ... if there was no air at all his lungs would be on the outside of his body by now ... and there wouldn't be flying blood.

>>286056
Ok take a wild guess if you want ...
How long do you think is he dead and how did he die? Is there something in his pockets? and don't come with "Ewww that's gross" we don't care.

Then look out of one of the holes. i want to fucking know what's out there.

>>286337
>He looks to good for decompression ... if there was no air at all his lungs would be on the outside of his body by now ... and there wouldn't be flying blood.
(FWIW, pretty much every part of this is wrong.)

>>286340
To be fair, that depends a lot on whether or not they attempted to hold their breath during sudden decompression.

I second the suggestion to look out the windows. This place needs SCIENCE! done to it.

>>286340
Regarding all the water behind the lungs, my guess is the lungs would pop inside out like an airbag after a while.

And why would there be blood if water evaporates in a vacuum? The pressure lost wouldn't have been for a long time then > .>

It's sad that noone ever put a human in space (only near vacuum) to see what happens ... any volunteers? It's for science :3

So: microgravity environment, lower pressure but nowhere near vacuum. May or may not have been previously depressurised, but not in the recent past (floating liquids, no condensation frost).
>>286523
There have been vacuum exposure incidents (all involving sudden decompression). None have been fatal. Those who maintained consciousness described the feeling of the fluids in their mouth and around their eyeballs boiling as 'weird', but no incidents of lungs being turned inside-out or any similar movie vacuum nonsense.

Suggestion 2011/03/11(Fri)14:06 No. 287697 ID: 4d7cb4
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The blue thing is a rock, looks like the stuff I saw going into the hole room. I'm not a doctor, I dunno what killed this one or all this crap about vacuums. He's been dead for long enough to be, uh, dead but not enough time to get all rotten. So like, I dunno, a day or so? I don't know how long it takes stuff to get all rotten. There's air here though but it's thin. I can go farther down and look for more evidence, or I can go look out this window thing or do something else.

Check the windows carefully, and then go farther in.

PEEK OUT THE WINDOW

>>287697
Window.

Suggestion 2011/03/11(Fri)16:29 No. 287727 ID: 4d7cb4
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My god, it goes on f-f-forever! IT'S AN ENDLESS EXPANSE OF NOTHINGNESS!!

Suggestion 2011/03/11(Fri)16:30 No. 287728 ID: 4d7cb4
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OK, Ok. OK. I'll be fine. Just a little shaky, that's all. Not gonna think about it. I can go ch-check this place out without freaking out. I think. Just don't look out there again.

good lord! did you somehow warp into OUTER SPACE?!

You've never been to the surface, have you. This is extremely disconcerting, because somehow this shaft is distorting space itself. I'm starting to get the feeling that these are something other than "regular" demons. You should continue with extreme caution. Also, try not to break any windows...

Best venture forth, then.

>>287728

I think it's time for you to leave, young lady

>>287728
Okay, here's a little sanity loss for you, all that space out there, it's empty, you can't breath in it, not just thin air, no air, understand? If you break the windows you will have perhaps 30 seconds of consciousness, no, you can't hold your breath like being underwater.

DO NOT BREAK WINDOWS OR YOU WILL DIE JUST LIKE THOSE DWARVES.

Also, welcome to the a greater truth about the universe, 99.999999999999999999999999% of it is empty space. Your entire world of stone and air is but an aberrant speck of dust floating in a sunbeam before darkness.

Please take your complementary 2d6 san loss at the door. Mind the steps, they do go ALL the way down.

Grab the gems you can and then let's get back to the real world.

>>287728
You're here to investigate disappearances. Well, this is a damn good place to start.

Proceed with caution. It's a crazy, reality warping space hell in here, probably. Watch out for spess demons.

>>287728
Oh my god, its the Myst series all over again!
Particularly, Riven. Remember the part at the end where you broke the glass with the telescope?
Here's a link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YulhuEwJ4jE
This world may be just an Age.
Or we have encountered some weird outer god dickery.
Ia! Ia!

>>287727
>>287728
Hey guys, something to keep in mind, her species NEVER goes tot he surface: nothing of interest there. As such, both the culture, and the instincts of their species meets anything resembling a boundless sky with PANIC and OHFUCKOHGOD WHERE'S THE CEILING?!

Our friend here has just gone from 'underground claustrophobia? that's my favorite!' to 'A Glorious Dawn', minus Carl Sagan's calming influence.

Suggestion 2011/03/12(Sat)09:55 No. 287849 ID: 4d7cb4
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guys, take the discussion to the questdis thread please. Also I've been forgetting to draw the rope, but it's been there the whole time.

OK, this is the next closest one. The last one is floating off farther down the hallway.

>>287849

What happened tho this one??!!

Um, it looks like he's jammed through the wall. Let's NOT move him, in case he's sealing an air leak.

>>287849
take a closer look. Is he fused to the wall like the demon thing in the other room or just stuck in a hole?

And i srsly don't know ... my first thought was you're in the middle of an asteroid but with all the flowing water, creatures and gravity, this just can't be.
I REALLY have no clue how you could have been transfered into space without noticing it.

>>287853
if so ... wouldn't he start whistling through his sphincter at some point?
(trying to get this image out of my head)

Get out of there already!

>>287849
Proceed, I guess.

>things 'fused' into solid walls
>regular ribbed structure
Can't help but think of some sort of weird-ass digestive tract. Maybe the blue stones act as Gizzard stones, or are a digestive byproduct (sort of like amber).

Suggestion 2011/03/20(Sun)10:28 No. 289553 ID: 4635e1
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Doesn't appear to be fused into the wall like earlier. There's a bunch of dents and scratches all around where he's stuck in.

>>289553
So, uh... Don't touch it. Continue on your merry way.

Is it airtight? ...I really doubt it's airtight. See if you can find out. Maybe try pulling on him; that's not likely to fuck anything up.

>>289599
How about not. What do we have to gain from doing this potentially deadly action?

Suggestion 2011/03/20(Sun)13:40 No. 289617 ID: 4635e1
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Ok, this is the end of the rope. If I want to go any farther I'll have to untie it.

>>289617

Go back. It might not be worth it.

Well, the plot's that way, so it seems we have to.

Don't advance, I see nothing in that direction and continuing without the rope could be a problem. What if we get unstuck from the floor?

I think we try to dislodge the dwarf, since seriously, there's no chance for him to be blocking an air leak. If there was an air leak there, then A) we probably wouldn't be able to pull him out of the hole and B) we could just plug him in there again.

...dents and scratches... He was digging a tunnel in, and got stuck.

Go on, it might be worth it.

...Tie the rope to the dwarf. Hopefully he's well stuck in.

We can't give up now, surely there are ungodly treasures within!

Make extra sure you're sticking to the floor and go right ahead.

>>289617
Short question, does the Maser have any recoil?
If the damp that comes out of it is the cooling mechanism it shoult have enough power to blast you back to the entrance.

So IF something happens and you're untied from the rope you can push yourself back to the entrance ... even if it causes a leak back in the cave.

JUST DON'T SHOOT IT ANYWHERE ELSE

>>290341

It's just a beam of radiation, so it shouldn't have any recoil.

Let's get the hell out of here

>>290389
Radiation has SOME recoil, just not a lot. If you fired it for long enough it would work, though throwing objects on your person the opposite way would be more efficient than that.

Don't untie that rope, trust me, moving in zero-gravity is not fun. Instead go back and get a sackful of rocks to throw.

>>290389
>>290400
i know it's radiation but something needs to cool that thing down. hence the damp.

>>289617
You have grippy surfaces, loads of random inventory to chuck, and a mystery to solve.

Untie rope.

do you have an EVA pack?

No.

Do not unite that rope young lady. The plot is not down there, the plot is not anywhere, this is a sandbox.

Leave this place.

>>290546
We'd know by now if it opened up to space or anything like that, and we aren't bothered by lack of gravity because wall-walking.

Go back already.

Go forward.

Seriously that's enough of this. Go somewhere else.

Go forward!

Suggestion 2011/03/31(Thu)11:56 No. 292199 ID: 9f327a
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About thirty meters down the hallway ends.

>>292199
turn back

>>292200
If you're thinking vaccum, it'd probably be safer to make a little hole, since that would reveal any pressure difference without creating large forces or letting any appreciable volume of air out.

Either way, onward.

Investigate that... split-up rectangle next to the door.

Do not cut the door.

Look if there's any mechanism to open the door.
If not use your cutter to drill a little peephole in it.

NO STOP IT GEZt OUT OF HERE WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING

Suggestion 2011/03/31(Thu)14:16 No. 292251 ID: 9f327a
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The thing on the wall or floor or whatever direction this is supposed to be looks like some kind of glyph under a clear material. Should I cut a hole in the door or do something else?

>>292251
Remove or smash the glass to get to the glyph.
It's probably some kinda opening mechanism.

Use your cutter if necessary.

>>292253
This, but use the dwarf pickaxe if necessary (you grabbed that, right)?

>>292251
Feel around it, see if you can open it without breaking it.

Suggestion 2011/03/31(Thu)17:18 No. 292311 ID: 9f327a
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It lights up faintly where I touch it but nothing else happens.

Trace the pattern with your hands and see if it does anything.

GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE BEFORE YOU ACCIDENTALLY OPEN AN AIRLOCK

>>292311
Yeah can we leave already

Touch it in, uh, different ways and see if anything different happens.

If the glyph does nothing you'll have to try and cut the door open though.

>>292311
Wait, it's table-sized? Just how huge are those doors?

>>292312 I guess. We can't go back without answers.

it needs power. unplug your stuff and jam one of the cables from your pack into the surface.

>>292321
"let's shock this thing we don't know with a huge electrical charge! That sounds completely safe and will in no way endanger our equipment or our bodies!"

Yeah no, get the fuck out of here already.

Suggestion 2011/03/31(Thu)18:17 No. 292332 ID: 9f327a
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It leaves a trail that gradually fades; tracing the pattern doesn't do anything.

>>292332
Well that's damn weird.
Ok, looking back, we still have a branch to check out, and it's the one we should have gone to to sort out the gobbos' problem in the first place (>>262644). We can send some Lohrke technomancers this way to examine the giant iPhone later.

What if it's a hand scanner? It would make sense for doors that size. Can you lay down on it in a way that covers the whole outline?

>>292334
Sure, this.

>>292335
That sounds stupid enough to actually work.

If not try to cut the door open.

>>292335
This does make some sense, not sure though if we really want to meet someone who has windows underground that look out on space and has a palm the side of a coffee table.

Just trace the glyph with your hands.

>>292332
Sit on it and hit the copy button. Send pictures of your butt to all your friends.

This is going to be Fun. Lots of Fun.

That symbol suggests a body about the size of yours laying down with arms up. I would recommend assuming such a position atop it, but only if you can keep ahold of your weapon and *not* break your adhesion of the wall.
Zero gravity is a PITA at best and can be deadly for the unprepared.

>That symbol suggests a body about the size of yours laying down with arms up.
Some sort of magical pressure-suit applicator, maybe?

>>293884
Nah. Look at how huge the doors are. For something that could regularly use such a door, the device would be relatively small. The guess about hand-scanners >>292335 seems most likely.

>>293909
They could be loading doors rather than personnel doors.

>>294033
True, but if the race that used them wasn't gigantic, then they wouldn't be able to reach the panel. Because of the design of the doors and hallway, I don't think that this area is supposed to be lacking gravity.

It seems pretty clear that this place very much *wasn't* meant for ZG. To clarify my earlier post, the point was to cover the entire symbol with something it reacts to, which is to say your living body.

Suggestion 2011/04/27(Wed)21:23 No. 299790 ID: 940ab2
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Something's happening...

Suggestion 2011/04/27(Wed)21:25 No. 299791 ID: 940ab2
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The door's opened. There's some kind of particulate crap floating out. It smells like a cave that's been forgotten for centuries.

ince you know the path to this particular spot is stable, head back and get the rope. then come back here.

>>299790
that actually worked?
>>299791
well in that case see what's inside since the doorway didn't lead to the OUTSIDE VOID OF NOTHING

>>299791
Let's get on in there. Well, wait for it to air out a little first.

Suggestion 2011/04/28(Thu)10:15 No. 299860 ID: 940ab2
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I'll head in. There's more of that crap floating out of the room, it's starting to burn my eyes.

Wear your gas mask.

>>299868
Back up and don your gas mask.

Exhale sharply, close your burning eyes, and back up while putting on your mask. If you can't do that with your eyes closed then just peek when you need to. Continue moving back as necessary to stay out of this stuff while you use your scanner.

Beware its deadly dust! (In other words, I second the gas mask / backing up)

>>299860
Awww, shit. Zero-G means that convection won't be happening, so that dust is going nowhere.
Screw the gas mask, i hope you can scroung up a full-body enviro-suit, because you're about to go swimming in poison/acid.

Suggestion 2011/05/05(Thu)09:04 No. 301628 ID: 940ab2
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The hallway continues on.


Th-this place is a tomb.

this must be the owner of this place. look around. maybe under what looks like a giant blanket.

Yeah check under the blanket, you dirty girl.

Oh by the way it could be undead.

>>301628
Looks to have had a nose or crest that extended well past the skull. Odd.

However, I doubt this place was designed as a grave, the scannerlock and the fact that this fellow looks a bit... undignified for having been a proper interment is evidence against this.

It also looks like he couldn't have stood up in here while alive.