4/7 Polo 2015/05/12(Tue)21:06 No. 640065 ID: 86b099
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It's a lucky break. A model that advertises that there's no assembly needed, that it's ready to go, battery charged and everything.

5/7 Polo 2015/05/12(Tue)21:07 No. 640066 ID: 86b099
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Thanks, Santa. I'll be taking this from....

A 7 year old was going to receive this? That isn't a good sign, but the boxing still looks promising. This is not the time to ponder such things, but when I was 7 years old I was lucky to get a remote controlled car.

And I accidentally drove it off a cliff three days later.

6/7 Polo 2015/05/12(Tue)21:07 No. 640068 ID: 86b099
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It flares to life. Just as I start getting ready to go, I hear an engine far behind me.

>>640069
GUN IT! Also see if you can shoot the bike. That'll slow down the fufa.

We need confirmation that it's Rokoa, yell at her to bleed

>As is potentially snapping my neck while keelhauling myself.
Pff. That's not even fatal for you. Probably. Just very inconvenient.

>A 7 year old was going to receive this?
That's one lucky kid, one rich hive, or a dad buying his own toys on the sly.

...this isn't just the universe making a joke about your size providing you with a children's bike.

>>640069
If you can hear the engine at this distance, and if it is an engine and not a motor, that most likely means it has some kind of fuel (as opposed to running an electric motor via battery). And pretty much every fuel source explodes and/or burns. That bike the fufa is on is your best weapon against it.

If possible, plug your suit into your bike and have Bell auto-pilot along the tracks, while you snipe the bike. AP round, aim for the engine blook or the fuel. (Although you should definitely take over manually when things get hairy).

One drawback for you is that battery powered vehicles tend to have less in the way of raw power. But your bike only has to haul little old you, while that fufa is probably considerably heavier than Rokoa.

Alternate tactic: drop an EMP and take off. Set the timer so the fufa's bike will be in the blast radius when it goes off, and the hover bike will crash. Good chance that'll break it bad enough to strand the fufa. (Feel free to shoot at the same time, as a distraction).

>>640075
No badge, and real-Rokoa would be wearing more gear.

And if she'd fought her way through an enemy base showing that much skin, she'd be at least scratched. It's not her.

Honestly I wonder what orders the fufu has involving you. Would be entertaining if its job is to bring you to the Grinch.

But best not to bet on that prospect. Could just have orders to lure you somewhere and kill you. But honestly with how things have gone so far I am guessing it is planning some stupid Christmas themed nonsense.

So gun it and work on stealing some bombs from the train when you get there.

1/3 Polo 2015/05/13(Wed)18:09 No. 640230 ID: 86b099
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Rokoa.

Or more likely, the fufa. That is not her normal badge, there is no blood on her, hers or others, and she is still wearing little gear, and no bio armor.

However, there is a slim chance that Rokoa came into the salikai base and got here without so much as a scuff mark, and did not put on bio armor, or took it off. And simply does not have her badge.

"Rokoa, bleed for me!"

Upon yelling that, I realize that if it is the real Rokoa, that probably sounded strange. I fire a normal shot. If it's the real Rokoa, then she probably won't be hindered so long as I miss any joints. I shoot for an ear, but it grazes her head.

That shot confirmed it's the Fufa. I almost feel relief that I did not just shoot Rokoa in the face, but I remember that there is a Fufa coming at me at high speeds.

2/3 Polo 2015/05/13(Wed)18:10 No. 640232 ID: 86b099
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I immediately follow the shot with an AP round through the bike.

Its engine stops and it drops right onto the train tracks, but not before I yank the throttle to max to get out of here.

3/3 Polo 2015/05/13(Wed)18:12 No. 640233 ID: 86b099
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This present for a seven year old has a connector that I can plug my suit into. Bell begins autopiloting along the tracks, while the fufa hits the ground running at me like a barbarian. My bullet is already gone.

Despite the awkward running motion, if anything, it's moving faster off the bike.

I also hear some thing - or multiple things - farther behind the fufa. I cannot tell what, as it is from around a bend. It sounds like it may be smooth running engines, but even Bell can only give a long list of possibilities.

Right, we need to slow her down. Drop a grenade on her. Cook it to get the timing right. Did we pick up any incendiary grenades?

Polo 2015/05/13(Wed)18:46 No. 640237 ID: 86b099
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I take a second to review my inventory while I make sure my grenades are accessible.

Sniper
-19 Normal
-19 Armor Pierce
-20 Explosive
Pistol
- 7
Baton w/ Stunner
Plasma Sword
-90%
4 Frag Grenade
Smoke Grenade
Flashbang
EMP Charge, 3 uses, 20m range
Zip ties
Taser
Rations
Mini-Flamethrower (empty)
CAI NUMBER
General Spy Kit of Small Miscellaneous Objects

Bike didn't blow up. Why can't anything ever explode when you want it to?

>I also hear some thing - or multiple things - farther behind the fufa
Enemies from the severed train cars or the enemy base in pursuit, or possibly your backup in pursuit. No way to know.

>what do
Only tactic to lose it I can think of is to use it's momentum against it. Time an attack with a sharp turn in the track. Blow out the legs with a dropped cooked grenade (concentrated shrapnel won't hurt it, really, but it could rip up formed limbs) and blast it in the face an HE round at the same time. If you blind it right as it loses footing and is trying to take a sharp corner, it should careen off the edge before it reforms its limbs and eyes.

Then you'll have a little breathing room until the thing climbs back up.

Remember you're going to need to take over for Bell when you start overtaking the train. She's good for auto-pilot, but evasive maneuvers versus incoming fire is may be another matter.

>>640237
If there's anything combustible in the- actually forget it. Just nail it with a few HE rounds. Aim for the legs, try to throw it off balance so it topples off the rails. Priority one is to get it off your trail, not to kill it (as if you could).

Just for kicks, ask it what it will do if it catches you.

>>640237
If you can get a shot off of your explosive rounds on her, the fufa should lose cells and start to brun.

Well keep going full speed down the tracks and wait until you have a sure shot and hit it with a explosive round. Will take a bit to get back to the train and if you space your shots and make each one count you can destroy a lot of its mass on the way there.

Avoid using grenades unless absolutely needed due to the difficulty in timing them right to hit it.

What sort of info do you have on fufu's? Are they considered protected sentients or are all of them mad scientist weapons? Also if it loses enough mass will it start regressing mentally?

1/7 Polo 2015/05/13(Wed)20:33 No. 640267 ID: 86b099
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I kill time while I wait to get by a curve up ahead. There are no sharp curves here, as the rail tracks were made for a gigantic train's capability for curves, but any curve is better than none.

"What'll you do if you catch me?"
>"Restrain you and receive backrubs!"

I get the fufa to run over a grenade that I am hoping will make it lose its footing while it turns.

The grenade activates, and I don't wait to see if that alone knocks it off. I fire an HE round into the fufa, and the blast sends it over cliffside. Unfortunately the fufa does not ignite from the explosion.

2/7 Polo 2015/05/13(Wed)20:35 No. 640268 ID: 86b099
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The fufa's malformed Rokoa face expands, as I realize it's taking in a great deal of air.

3/7 Polo 2015/05/13(Wed)20:35 No. 640269 ID: 86b099
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It expels the air with such force that not just does it manage to propel itself, but it knocks off a stalagtite from the sheer air blow.

The fufa is launched closer to me, but it didn't seem to aim right, and it is going off to the side.

4/7 Polo 2015/05/13(Wed)20:36 No. 640270 ID: 86b099
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It leaps off a rock past me ahead on the train tracks, and I hit the brakes.

It's deformed enough that it staggers ahead, but it's slow. Still, it begins running away, towards the lost train ahead. It's fleeing. I look back behind myself as I see what's making that distant noise.

7/7 Polo 2015/05/13(Wed)20:37 No. 640273 ID: 86b099
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The honorary secret agent.

>>640273
Tell her she should stop showing off, she may need that flamethrower fuel. But thank her for the timely arrival. Tell the fufa that it should know to surrender or escape now that it cannot complete its mission without being burned to death. Regardless, we have to catch up to the train.

>>640273
"It's about damn time!"

I am going to assume there's no way in hell she bothered with a jammer or stealth at all and that her empathy obviously identifies her.

Pursue the train. If her bike is faster, latch on. Possibly refill your flame thrower since she apparently has fuel to burn (or see if she'd got one of those in your size).

If her empathy actually does ID her, tell her to stop wasting fuel when there's a fufa to kill.

Oh so you yell at Kappi for drinking coffee but smoking is fine?

Stop wasting fuel and get over here.

Lets just hope your "toy" bike can match what she is riding.

Assuming her empathy IDs her, you should turn off your silence to ID yourself, so she knows you're not a CAI bot or anything.

>Tell her she should stop showing off
>"It's about damn time!"
Both of these.
> Oh so you yell at Kappi for drinking coffee but smoking is fine?
Smoke doesn't harm Neumono, since their lungs regenerate. The Coffee, however, tends to be hollow energy, leaving the Neumono weaker.
>I am going to assume there's no way in hell she bothered with a jammer
Whether she did or not, she better have brought a jetpack. Because dammit, you need a jetpack.

>>640397
I don't think "doesn't harm" is a fair way to phrase it. It's just the harm is more reversible than in other cases.

Most species just don't have the option of cutting out their lungs and regrowing them when they get diseased and full of tar and cancer.

Rokoa's got a gaping hole of exceptions in her health code for doing violent cool dangerous awesome things, anyways.

>dumb idea
It occurs to me lighting up could actually be a reasonable standard practice countermeasure to fufa infiltration. Anyone holding burning material that close to themselves probably isn't a super combustible fungus monster. And it's something you can check by sight, you don't have to do a bleed-test over and over. And cigarettes are way more common in military squads than x-ray scanners.

1/3 Polo 2015/05/14(Thu)19:05 No. 640468 ID: 86b099
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>Empathy ID
I released my silence, and Rokoa feels like herself without any jammer to speak of. The fufa was able to emulate her deceptively well.

"Rokoa, about time! Stop wasting fuel."
"You're gonna see me and the first thing you do is judge?"
"You judged Kappi for drinking caffiene, but now I see you smoking."
"I was chasing the fufa, you know. That thing that might've killed you." Rokoa says, unpinning what looks like a napalm canister. With her teeth.

2/3 Polo 2015/05/14(Thu)19:05 No. 640469 ID: 86b099
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"Thanks for slowing it down." she continues, as the fufa does not seem to avoid the canister.
"Do you have a spare jet pack?"
"Damn right, I knew you'd be too uptight to bring one yourself."
"I admit I was wrong about that, this time. There is still no reason to smoke."

3/3 Polo 2015/05/14(Thu)19:07 No. 640471 ID: 86b099
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She flicks the cigarette at me.

"Petty." I say after a long pause, having waited for the fufa's screams to die off.
"I gotta check if you're a fufa, too. So what have you been up to?"
"Although I fell off the train, I did put a tracker on it. It looks like it's functional despite their jammer. With any luck, we can catch up. Is any backup coming?"
"Yeah, most people are cleaning up the base, but there's some hoverbikes on the way. Alison's telling me that they have a rough approximation of where the train is, but the wind is blowing too hard for normal air transportation. And I'm going ahead, because the backup is slow as hell."

>>640471
"Going ahead? You mean tagging along."

Start the engine back up, we have to catch up to the train.

>I gotta check if you're a fufa, too.
Technically, a Fufa could be wearing an external suit of armor... I'm sure they'd know Polo would be the sort to always wear her armor. Remove a glove and cut yourself, or something.

>>640473
Yess. Anything else can wait until she catches up.
Assuming her vehicle isn't faster, that is, 'cause if it is, you'll be the one tagging along.

Polo 2015/05/14(Thu)19:36 No. 640479 ID: 86b099
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>Technically, a Fufa could be wearing an external suit of armor
Rokoa doesn't apparently think of this, and I don't need to convince myself, so I don't bother taking off a piece to bleed for her.

"Going ahead? You mean tagging along."
"Only if your dinky little bike can keep up."

We exit the tunnel. While my bike has less power, it also has less mass to carry, and our speeds are nearly equal. Visibility is extremely poor, but we do have radio contact. I turn it back on so that Rokoa and I do not get separated. I also get a location on the train, which likely still is under radio silence.

>"It's making a huge curve!" Alison starts talking. "We have parts of the continent mapped out, Polo, and they're almost definitely going through the channel I've marked out. It's not at all a straight line for them, but you can hover over everything and cut them right off."
"So we can derail the train in advance." Rokoa states.
>"Um.... you can, if you really feel like it's the only way, but we'd like to take in the Grinch alive for questioning."

>>640469
Huh. It really could have avoided that. Makes me suspicious. Did it fake getting hit to escape? Sacrifice mass to survive? (Although that would involve sacrificing cells, it would have to be real desperate for that).

>what do
Equip jetpack. Let the bikes do the heavy lifting to get you close- save your fuel and airtime for when you actually get there. Double up with Rokoa if the 7 year old's bike can't keep up. (Rokoa really needs to make a crack about Polo needing to ride on children's toys).

Refill flamethrower if you can.

Right, our objective is to stall the enemy, and/or disable the engine or track ahead of the train so they can be caught. You can play aerial sniper, or if you get the opportunity, try the CAI number again.

Warn Rokoa that if she sees a cyborg arkot, it's actually competent.

>>640476
Polo turned off her silence. We don't need additional anti-fufa demonstrations.

>we'd like to take in the Grinch alive for questioning.
I don't suppose our EMP can be detatched for use on a timer? shutting down the systems on the train should result in it stopping, right?

Well catch up and play it by ear once you get there.

If you can keep detaching cars as you go through the train you can emp the grinchs car and capture him. Heck spook that arkot enough and he will do it for you.

Just be prepared for more Christmas themed doomsday weaponry.

Derailing the train would risk destroying more presents. Let's not ruin Christmas.

Cut the connection between the fist car and the rest of the train. Then make a surprise entrance by breaking through one of the windows.

Warn Rokoa that if the presents are lost, she will lose your present to her. Backrubs, namely.

Tell Rokoa you've been doing a really good job keeping things nonlethal, like police should, and you'd prefer to stick to that goal as much as possible.

For one thing, going lethal force on someone means you've acknowledged them as a real threat, as an enemy, as an equal. The police do not have enemies: they have a bunch of overgrown children who make messes, for reasons of ignorance, emotion or weakness. A cop's job is to prevent or clean up those messes, and provide discipline.

Also, the Grinch and his goons are a bunch of silly weirdos and it would be embarrassing to need to use lethal force on them.

>>640479
Even if it's likely the Grinch will survive derailing the train we probably shouldn't risk killing the others on board. However, we can still take advantage of access to their rails. DIVERT the train. Or put some huge bulky magnets on the rails so that when the train hits them they lock up its wheels. That'd stop the train, at which point we can take whatever measures we want to secure it.

1/2 Polo 2015/05/18(Mon)18:01 No. 641324 ID: dd338c
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"If you destroy presents needlessly, you won't get my present to you."
"What is it?"
"It's a surprise, Rokoa. That's why they're in boxes."

>I don't suppose our EMP can be detached for use on a timer?
It has a timer, but the 3 charges is all one package, I cannot detach each activation. The train, however, does seem low tech enough that I imagine it won't be entirely stopped by an EMP alone. However, it will temporarily deactivate the CAI outlets.

While we travel, I refill my flamethrower addon.

"By the way, if you see a cybernetic arkot, then it's competent."
"I don't believe you."
"Then get shot if you're going to be dumb about it."
"Tough words from the one on the kiddie bike."
"Regardless, I have a plan. I'm going to get on your bike when we approach."

>Separate the first car from the rest
I plug my suit into Rokoa's bike, and have Bell drive it right up to the car 1 and 2 connector area, have Rokoa leap off, and have bell pull back with both bikes.

2/2 Polo 2015/05/18(Mon)18:01 No. 641325 ID: dd338c
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Rokoa, with her large plasma sword, can slice through quickly. I have the bike run to the side to give cover fire for Rokoa while the Grinch's forces scramble to get Rokoa out of the picture.

I use several bullets. They did not see us coming, though, and so resistance is slim. I can no longer avoid causing casualties, but they will certainly not hesitate to kill Rokoa if I let them.

>Going lethal force on someone means you've acknowledged them as a real threat, as an enemy, as an equal.
They have proven to be a mass threat to the public, but I do not see them as equal. Even Rokoa, as a cop, is hardly doing police work right now.

I do not see any windows to enter by, but I hear a distant rumble from farther away than I can see. There is a jammer in the train as well, judging by how I cannot sense Rokoa.

Am guessing the distant rumble was someone shooting a cavern wall trying to hit you with a landslide shortly.

So be on the look out for that and get in close so you can jump off the bike quickly if need be.

>I can no longer avoid causing casualties
Unfortunately you can only pull so many punches against threats to public safety attacking a fellow officer. If this gambit is successful, you spare everyone on the rear cars, at least.

>>641325
Did Rokoa take the emp? It might have been a good idea to plant it on car 1 and set it off once she's done with the plasma blade cut, so the CAI can't help them pull off anything.

Although if the EMP is gonna mess with the bikes, you'd have to keep them out of range.

If any of those arkots received cybernetic Christmas presents, I can't tell from here.

Which direction is the rumble coming from?

>>641325
Man there are a LOT of arkots coming over that train car. If you can get a smoke grenade onto the first car, it will billow smoke over the second, making it hard for them to see Rokoa to shoot her.

>>641331
Yeah, good idea. Blind the arkots.

Polo 2015/05/18(Mon)19:07 No. 641335 ID: dd338c
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>"Rokoa, EMP!" I tell to her, tossing her my EMP. She sets it off, as Bell shuts down for a moment. While she activates that, I toss a smoke grenade ahead of the arkots to save myself bullets and blind them.

The train connector is split in half, and Rokoa doesn't waste any time turning around and using her sword on the front door with her usual recklessness. At least if there are any lasers pointed back at her direction, they'll be shut down with the EMP, and I doubt the arkots above the train will get a good shot in by the time she digs a hole.

While she continues, I look ahead in the direction of the rumble. The fog lifts just enough to reveal that it's no landslide. A gigantic christmas tree rising out of the ground beyond the fog is now in view.

>>641335
Okay this is ridiculous. First off, Bell is down so that means the second bike is no longer controlled. Better grab it or something.

Secondly... radio this in. And yell at Rokoa that there's a giant fucking christmas tree up ahead.

Just a thought but this whole thing could end up being some televised thing to make you look bad. Or god knows what.

Say the Grinch shows up on camera worldwide and does the whole Grinch giving back the presents thing and then you two run in and he makes it look like you blew up the presents or something?

Honestly at this point we still have no idea what this whole stupid mess is about so just be careful.

Huh. I'm surprised the plasma blade works after an EMP. And that if Bell was in range, that the hover-bikes still work.

I guess it's just advanced computing that shuts down? Your regular electronics must be hardened enough to take it.

>Giant Christmas Tree
It's gotta be a rocket. That's the escape plan.

>what do
Back Rokoa up. Get alongside, or ahead, on the outside of the train. Provide supporting fire through the windows, and/or try to damage the engine with a few well placed AP shots.

Not sure if it's time to rocket pack to the air yet, or if we save that for the tree.

Polo 2015/05/18(Mon)19:35 No. 641342 ID: dd338c
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I take everything about them being a serious threat back.

>Some things still working
Rokoa's bike is on cruise control parallel to the tracks until Bell comes back online to take them again. Plasma swords are simple enough in practice to avoid EMP affecting them.

"Rokoa. There is a giant christmas tree up ahead." I yell.
"How big?"
"Mountainous."
"There's a bigass laser up front that just tried to fire at me, I'm gonna blow it up."

Bell comes back online while I hear various explosions inside the train. I cannot supply cover fire, as there are no windows.

"Alison."
>"Polo! We're detecting huge thermal signatures down below - do you see anything?"
"A giant christmas tree. It might be a rocket"
>"It might be a ro - er, yes, you're probably right! Scanners indicate something that may be a missile silo!"

I see the train tracks heading into an upward ramp inside of the tree itself. I will have to follow Rokoa inside, although there is not much stopping me from using my plasma sword to enter what may be the train's engineering or piloting room. I can also attempt to damage the train engine.

>>641342
I kindof want to just derail the train now that all the presents are detached. At this point that would be an anti-climax though so get to the engine. Toss a frag grenade down the exhaust pipe or something.

Rocket pack- engage.

You're cutting in through the side with your plasma sword. And/or attacking the engine.

Well a Christmas tree rocket is a thing I guess.

Well the train is going into it so that makes things easier. If you can shut it down quickly that's great but I think it will be stopping soon on its own. Might want to save some firepower for whatever this rocket ends up being.

1/3 Polo 2015/05/18(Mon)20:26 No. 641360 ID: dd338c
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I use my rocket pack while strapped on the bike to speed up, and take aim with an AP round when I'm caught up. Surprisingly, it seems to go through easy, and I hit it a few more times. Smoke starts billowing, and the train slows down. It seems too easy.

2/3 Polo 2015/05/18(Mon)20:27 No. 641362 ID: dd338c
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It was. The ceiling bursts open as a sleigh, lead by jet powered robot reindeer.

3/3 Polo 2015/05/18(Mon)20:28 No. 641363 ID: dd338c
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>"HAHAHAHA, foolish neumono, you thought it would be so easy? That train is the only way you had available to board my Anti-Christmas Rocketship, and you just blew it to smithereens! I'll come back for your frozen corpses later, fuzzballs, but for now, I'm off to see my grand scheme come to fruition!"

Shoot him.

>>641363
Pump HE rounds into his reindeer.

Yeah just shoot the reindeer.

Take to the skies, Polo. Final boss fight time- with mandatory sudden genre shift from tactical stealth and action to flying shmup.

I think it's time you put Rudolph down, Polo.

Rokoa can jump on her bike and head for the rocket. I'm sure she can break it somehow. She's a snow hiver in her element. I'm sure she can cut down an evergreen. (Snow borrowers. She'll get snow borrowers to knock it over)!

1/2 Polo 2015/05/18(Mon)20:52 No. 641369 ID: dd338c
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BOOM

I think I just shot down evil santa.

2/2 Polo 2015/05/18(Mon)20:52 No. 641370 ID: dd338c
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"... you're not bad, Polo." Rokoa says.
"Rokoa, I'll clean up the Salikai, I see his parachute. Go after the rocke - are you okay?"
"I am very happy right now, Polo.
"Go after the rocket. What I thought was shrapnel kept on flying up to the rocket. I don't like it."

I wonder if there's any gear on me that Rokoa should have while going ahead.

Give her the CAI number, and a few 'nades. The rocket might need blowing up, and it might have the enemy CAI in it. The escaping Grinch you're chasing won't have usb ports, though. Probably.

Your visor might be useful but it wouldn't fit her. If she's going into the rocket, which is likely CAI-controlled, maybe she should take the CAI number? Not like the salikai's going to have a port to jam it into, unless you get very upset with him.

Also, remember to call in about medical assistance for all the hapless goons Rokoa maimed, won't you? It's not like any of them had any real say in becoming minions, probably.

Give her a high five and the usb stick. Also some explosives. Tell her to bring back the cai module so we can lock that up as well.

Then go track down the Grinch. But be ready for stupid tricks.

1/9 Polo 2015/05/18(Mon)22:15 No. 641393 ID: dd338c
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I give Rokoa the CAI number and a few grenades. A high five can be her present after this is over.

I ride up to Vanski as he lands, with my sniper pointed.

"Hands up!" All of them, I don't care if your belly is on the ice! Alison, get us a medical and a recovery team."
>"Yes, yes, standard procedure, Polo. I'm surprised, you could have killed me! You seem to have respect for my intellect, knowing that I would have a backup incase I was taken out of the skies."
"No."
>"... regardless, worm, you are far too late! The plan is set in motion, and I was only wishing to see it in person - and I still can, albiet in less comfortable surroundings. You see, this was all a ruse - the present stealing was a means to an end. After all, it's global christmas time - as we speak, even in the parts of the world where it is the middle of the night, they will celebrate it all at the same time as a connected ultra-hive global event! And right now, they are finding a great deal of disappointment under their christmas trees."

2/9 Polo 2015/05/18(Mon)22:15 No. 641394 ID: dd338c
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>"Then my super planetary array of sadness gathering empathy will reach full peak, and power my Sadness Cannon, destroying the minds of all neumono!"
"Powered by only sadness?"
>"Yes, there is no way you could have thought that!"
"It was one of my first thoughts, but even I did not think you would be so stupid to do something like that."
>"Stupid? We will see how stupid you are, when you and your awful partner's minds enter untold depression! Not even jammers will block rays of this intensity!"
"No, Vanski. You made one error."
>"Oh?"

3/9 Polo 2015/05/18(Mon)22:16 No. 641395 ID: dd338c
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"It is true that right now, we have not delivered the christmas presents, and few got what they wanted. However, that does not make us sad. We do not get melancholy over such things."
>"Hmph. Let's watch then, Polo, I will bring out my portable television set. Yes, there it is, close by."

I keep my gun on him, but it appears to be a regular TV.

4/9 Polo 2015/05/18(Mon)22:16 No. 641396 ID: dd338c
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>"Ah, there is my drone, and I hear the neumono in the streets. Sounds, Polo, sounds of - wait, what is this? They are not sad! This is not the sound of sadness! These sounds, they are..."
"I told you, Vanski. You will never understand neumono. We will not get sad."

5/9 Polo 2015/05/18(Mon)22:17 No. 641397 ID: dd338c
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"We will get unreasonably pissed off. I can already see an untold number of simultaneous riots and looters. The amount of legitimately sad neumono will be paltry."

6/9 Polo 2015/05/18(Mon)22:17 No. 641398 ID: dd338c
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>"NO! How? I had such low expectations of neumono around the world, but this! They have fallen short of even the shortest bars! Christmas didn't come for them, so they resort to looting! They will take christmas if it means the downfall of society itself! I didn't stop christmas, I simply put the responsibility in their own hands!"
"Give up, Vanski."
>"... well, I suppose it's plan B, then. Alison, fire the nukes for me, won't you?"
>"You got it."

7/9 Polo 2015/05/18(Mon)22:17 No. 641399 ID: dd338c
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"Rokoa!"
"On it, good thing you gave me that CAI number. There, there's terminals everywhere in here."
>"Please, you already numbed me with the same number. It's just gonna make me groggy and weak this time, but I can still push the damn nuke button."

8/9 Polo 2015/05/18(Mon)22:18 No. 641400 ID: dd338c
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>"Fuck! Oh, come on!"

9/9 Polo 2015/05/18(Mon)22:20 No. 641404 ID: dd338c
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smack

>"Stop being mean, Mafia-Me." the allied Alison says. Our CAI will have an easy time subduing the enemy CAI while they're numbed.

With this christmas is... not really saved, but we will launch a report saying that we did find most of the presents in order to appease the masses, and over the course of a couple of months, most of everyone should get their presents.

The next update will serve as the epilogue, so suggestions will be used to tie up loose ends.

I kinda feel bad for this guy. He must have been pretty driven by something to pull this off, so you should see if you can get him some help. And a christmas present.

A present to enjoy after you've arrested him, and thrown him in the slammer.

>epilogue stuff
Polo needs to go home to her hive for Christmas and that party they were planning.

Pilon needs to somehow come through with that coffee cake he promised (even in an altered mental state).

The baddies need to be shown locked up, working in Christmas chain gangs or something.

Alison forcibly rehabilitating her alternate.

Rokoa's owed a fight with Az. And a present from Polo, after that conversation on the bike.

And last and most importantly. Polo. You owe Ramella a date. You said yes- it's happening.

Tell Vanski he was a vainglorious moron with poor taste in everything imaginable.

Get those signatures for Rokoa, if she didn't already get them. Then tell her you're taking her for a fight with Az, drinks, and then backrubs after she pulled through.

Date Ramella. See how it goes. Tell her you doubt she expected much of a chance with her arresting officer and to convince you of what to do next. Something like that. A challenge.

Investigate whatever shenanigans Hok is up to now.

Man that is a really short bar to set that they all would just riot like that.

Everyone needs to get laid.

It's Christmas.

>>641404
Some Belenosian scientist is likely very happy to get his hands on the fufa data. Or maybe there's another advanced fufa still alive in that base...

>>641427
I think it's like empathic peer pressure.

Tell Vanski that if he wanted to make everyone sad all at once he should have gone into broadcasting. Then he could have made a popular show about a young Neumono and her pet Toya that go on adventures together. Have it run for 2-3 seasons until it hits peak popularity. Then for the season final have a heart wrenching episode where they get lost in the woods in the middle of winter and the girl has to eat her loving pet to survive. And then minutes later she is saved by her hive so if only she had waited! And then she gets brain parasites.

Anyways tell him he is bad at this and should feel bad.

Make sure you track down that Arkot. He was the only slightly effective person on the Grinch's team.

Also all of your counter intelligence people need retraining. Your security has more holes in it than the Grinch's plan did.

And then go enjoy Christmas with your family.

Wait, we can save Christmas from rioting. Take Bell's visor recoding of the train takedown action, give it to the CAI to edit, and distribute it as a Christmas special. Instead of being pissed off and needing an outlet, people will get to see the people responsible blown up. Instant vindictive celebration.

Go antagonize the omega waveforce a few more times before becoming their sixth ranger.

1/7 Polo 2015/05/19(Tue)21:46 No. 641600 ID: dd338c
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>Appease the forces
That has already been done.

Nonetheless, a ship comes to pick us up, and Vanski behind bars appears in the paper the next day.

>Tell Vanski he was a vainglorious moron with poor taste in everything imaginable.
Many things are said about him and his terrible and terribly poorly executed plan.

>Tell Vanski that if he wanted to make everyone sad all at once he should have gone into broadcasting. Then he could have made a popular show about a young Neumono and her pet Toya that go on adventures together.
Implausible. Vanski especially is the type that must be in control of everything, and being in control of the show means having to know how to pull neumono heartstrings. An impossible task for him.

It still would have been a better plan, because making bad television shows is not against the law, contrary to some opinions on the matter.

2/7 Polo 2015/05/19(Tue)21:46 No. 641601 ID: dd338c
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I go home, enjoying the company of my hive on christmas day, or at least what little I can before going back to work.

3/7 Polo 2015/05/19(Tue)21:47 No. 641602 ID: dd338c
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By the time I go back to work to wrap things up, no pun intended, Az is already awake. I tell him that I would like to be less of a field agent, and instead begin reworking our security system that currently has more holes than the Grinch's plot.

Az says he'll accept if I can defeat him in a one on one duel, wording it in such a way that I end up able to sic Rokoa on him to get her that fight she wanted.

She wins, with Az quoting something along the lines of 'I meant a clean, fun wrestling match, but shit if she didn't try to murder each bacteria individually in me.'

This act reminds Rokoa that she is a violent brute, and being an agent, even under Az, falls short of personal face to fist time with criminals compared to being a cop in the capital town. Rokoa prefers being around her hive as well, so it's an easy choice to go back to being a regular police officer.

4/7 Polo 2015/05/19(Tue)21:47 No. 641603 ID: dd338c
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Rokoa and I are given light duty during cleanup in respect to our previous work, and she reminds me that I owe her a present. I forgot about it, and she insists on enough backrubs that I have to double check that she's not the fufa. The fufa ended up alive after all, and is given the chance to regrow in an ultrahive lab much to the belenosian's delight.

I have also been told that the enemy CAI is under constraints. While normal jurisdiction would sentence a criminal CAI to stasis, Alison believes her worse half can be salvaged, so they are being given a second chance.

5/7 Polo 2015/05/19(Tue)21:48 No. 641605 ID: dd338c
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Over time, the presents are returned, and the Voklit assist Pilon in handing out presents to all of those he talked to as santa. This includes a coffee cake for me, and it was one he baked himself. I offered to repay the present, but he insists that he would feel bad accepting any gifts after everything I did for him.

6/7 Polo 2015/05/19(Tue)21:49 No. 641607 ID: dd338c
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As for the voklit reservation itself, most of the innocent bystanders end up let out after confirming they are healthy again. Rokoa gets the football team's signature, and I specifically avoid the Omega Wave-Force, as they apparently are taking it especially hard that not just did they get mind controlled, but they were beaten by, I quote, 'a lone ranger with our own weapons.'

At least Rokoa's kids get a signed football for christmas.

>Investigate whatever shenanigans Hok is up to now
Given how hot the trail is on him, I expect that he is going to be laying low for a long time. Nonetheless, Hok, Whiskers and that arkot have not been found.

The First Neumono Christmas END Polo 2015/05/19(Tue)21:50 No. 641608 ID: dd338c
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>Date Ramella
While she is not hit the hardest with the legal processing, it still lands her in jail. Nonetheless, I did tell her I would see her, and so I do show up on visiting hours. She appears to do her best to make it romantic for some reason, but it is difficult. Candles are contraband, and the guards inspect all of Ramella's food for contraband on top of it. I also have to bring my own food in.

While I am still confused as to why she wanted a dinner date with me, she is incredibly pleased that I actually showed up.

>Everyone needs to get laid
I cannot help but notice that Ramella feels like this would be a nice thing to have happen, but I doubt that I will experiment outside of my hive. Regardless, I have not been called 'adorable' outside of my hive often, and inside of a single visiting period, Ramella got the majority stock hold of those times. She does not remind me of a criminal outside of the obvious jail wear and surroundings, and I would be more receptive to her advances if she works to make up for the bad that she's assisted in.

She asks for more dates. Perhaps normally I would decline, but I have been reminded that I have good reason to loosen up sometimes, so between that and her enthusiasm, I end up making occasional visits for her.

There is a lot to do, and the effects of this christmas are going to last through the next one. In fact, I am unaware if we will even have a second christmas after what happened the first time.

If we do have another christmas, it can only happen again too soon.

>>641608
No stinger where this ends up revealing that Polo was captured and thrown into a holo-sim?
Whew.
I thought we were screwed back when this whole thing started.

Yaaay!

>>641608
*victorious music* MISSION COMPLETE!

Well, that was a fun time.