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[#DTGAO] The memo for the hit best-selling 2016 game Abyssal Oddity, by Violet Citadel.
Memo is now Secret by CAT
Memo is now Invite-Only by CAT
CCC made AT an OP.
CAT made GG an OP.
CAT made AC an OP.
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CTC: Fun
CAT made UC an OP.
CAT made TC an OP.
CAT made AC an OP.
Memo is now Invite-Only by CAT
CAT: Would you like to begin game?
CURRENT absoluteCoolness [CAC] RIGHT NOW responded to memo.
CAC: >yes
CAT: Remember, a majority of votes must be achieved before the game can load.
CURRENT universallyCognizant [CUC] RIGHT NOW responded to memo.
CUC: >yes
CAT: ((GG, TC.))
CURRENT godmoddedGolem [CGG] RIGHT NOW responded to memo.
CGG: >yes
CAT: Loading game...
CGG: (sorry, was researchıng)
CAT: ((NP. Thaumcraft happens.))
CAT: Loading game...
CAT: Loading game...
CAT: A B Y S S A L O D D I T Y
CAT: PLAY GAME / ACHIEVEMENTS / MUSIC / CREDITS / QUIT
CTC: >Credits
CUC: >Credits
CAT: http://pastebin.com/4pvkgtd5
CTC: >Pressing F to pay tribute
CUC: >Achievements
CAT: >Achievements: http://pastebin.com/9btBtCMQ
CAT made FC an OP.
CAT made CA an OP.
CAT made AA an OP.
CAT: Please enter command.
CTC: >start
CUC: >Play game.
CAT: Is this your last saved game: http://pastebin.com/5nWQJ3AQ
CURRENT flamingCarbohydrates [CFC] RIGHT NOW responded to memo.
CFC: >all that jazz
CUC: >Yes.
CAT: File successfully loaded.
CUC: >Wait.
CAT: Waiting.
CUC: >Oh, yep.
CAT: Game loaded.
CUC: >Resume.
CFC: >ye
CUC: ((Misread a bit in the log.))
CAT: You are on board your ship, doing whatever. You have one hour until arrival on the main continental structure of the Mu Sector. You could build a robot, sort through salvaged parts, mess with music, et cetera.
CUC: >Sort through your salvaged parts.
CAT: MECHANOMATERIALS: Hunk of Refined Infused Arcanium x5, Hunk of Vesperium x2, Three Piles of Miscellaneous Mechanical Shit, Centurion Sojourner Circuit Core, Psioglass Tube x8, Cyanic Mechanovitae Tube x2, Orchid Neon Light x3, Psionic Filter (12/14).
CURRENT allogeneousAboulomaniac [CAA] RIGHT NOW responded to memo.
CAA: >examine the piles of miscellaneous mechanical shit
CAT: Similarly, your schematics to use these things number exactly two.
CAT: You did examine the piles when you were frantically attempting to find that psionic filter a while back.
CAT: What will you do?
CUC: >What are the schematics?
CAT: Would you like the full version, or the list?
CAT: ((Oh, also, you have that injector pipe, sorry.))
CUC: >Full version.
CUC: ((Eh.))
CAT: SCHM1: Infusion Drone: Spent Medkit, Sonic Repulsor Engine, Cyanic Mechanovitae Tube, Injector Pipe. SCHM2: Magnetizer: Sensor, Sonic Repulsor Engine, Cyanic Mechanovitae Tube, Lapis Stone.
CAC: Are these the robots we can build
CAT: These are indeed miniature orbiting droids you can construct.
CUC: >What is the infusion drone?
CFC: >Check inventory for parts for SCHM2
CAT: The Infusion Drone. Oh, you don't really KNOW what this does fully. You've been assured it is a nonlethal device to be used in case of medical emergency.
CAT: Perhaps it automatically applies medkits, or something of the sort. Injects them.
CAC: >Look it up
CAT: ERROR: THIS SEARCH REQUIRES A LEVEL NINETY CLEARANCE CODE.
CFC: >Check inventory for parts for SCHM2
CAT: You have everything but the Sensor and the Lapis Stone.
CUC: >Check for parts for SCHM1.
CAC: >Recall what magnetizer does
CAT: ((I'll do the first, then the second.))
CUC: ((K.))
CAT: Spent Medkit: You could feasibly just use a regular medkit for this. Sonic Repulsor Engine: check. Cyanic Mechanovitae Tube: check. Injector Pipe: check.
CAC: Nah, wait until we use a medkit?
CFC: ^
CAT: A Magnetizer senses H2O from long distances, and draws it to you on command.
CUC: ^
CAC: >Wonder if infusion drone can be made then not activated yet
CFC: >On that note, check health
CAT: The Infusion Drone would presumably only apply medkits when needed.
CAT: Azure: ███████████████ HP.
CAT: You know, you DID use that one medkit after the battle with the Lupine Beast...
CAC: >Search for it
CAT: But where?
CFC: >Under your ma~~ress
CFC: >In the ship control room
CAC: >Whereever you used it
CAT: You find the used medkit right next to the mixture of bloodstains from two beings on the ship's floor.
CAT: That was painful.
CAT: You cringe recalling it.
CAC: >Take used medkit, clean bloodstains
CFC: >Stop cringing
CTC: >think of happy thoughts
CAT: You stop cringing, take that medkit, and fail to clean the bloodstains. The only cleaning materials you've seen in a while were back at your parents' house, back on Earth.
CFC: >fondly recall cleaning materials
CAT: You think of happy times, and cleaning materials. They are almost exclusively from before you had to go work with the G.M.F.
CAC: >Clean bloodstains using lapotron
CAT: With some effort, you manage to liquify the dry blood, and remove it from the ground with the Lapotron Power Core.
CAC: >Check for storage
CAT: "Destiny" by Mr. Universe continues to play in the background, from the audio terminal.
CAT: Please clarify.
CAC: >Storage for liquids
CAT: Nothing. You could melt down some psioglass tubes, you suppose?
CFC: ((brb))
CAT: Sadly, the iodine/water mixture was left behind on the island.
CAT: You curse yourself for panicking and letting go of it mentally.
CAC: I don't imagine blood will be very useful...
CAT: Probably not.
CAC: >Incinerate it
CAT: You successfully annihilate the blood.
CAT: ETA: forty-five minutes.
CAT: You can indeed construct the Infusion Drone.
CAC: >Create Infusion Drone
CAC: >While doing so, try to discern purpose
CAT: As you put the thing together from the schematic instructions, you can see the thing is definitely some sort of medical droid.
CAC: >See if it requires medkits
CAT: The tubes within it are empty.
CAC: >Give one medkit
CAT: Also, it is off.
CAC: Hmm
CAT: You apply one MEDKIT to the Infusion Drone.
CAT: Would you like to activate it, or just allow it to lie on the table somewhat sadly?
CAC: >Turn on
CAT: You connect the main wires.
CAT: The neon lights of the thing flicker to life, and it projects a holographic screen before you.
CAC: >View screen
CAT: "GREETINGS. I AM THE AUTOMATED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OF THIS DRONE. I CAN ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE FUNCTION OF THIS DEVICE YOU MAY HAVE."
CUC: >What do you do?
CTC: >Do you have a name?
CAT: "I AM A SURGICAL DROID, YET I PREVENT YOU FROM PERISHING BEFORE THE SITUATION OCCURS."
CAT: "I AM NAMELESS. CALL ME WHAT YOU WISH."
CAC: >Examine shape of drone
CAA: >mr surgical droid
CAC: >How do you do that?
CAC: No
CAT: The thing is about five inches tall, with a conical top.
CAC: Aw, it's not a sphere.
CAT: "I INSTALL A LITTLE BIT OF A FAILSAFE. AUTOMATED MEDKITS, IF YOU WILL."
CAC: >Are you easily destroyed
CAT: "MY CONSCIOUSNESS IS ETERNAL. MY BODY IS BUT A SHELL."
CAT: "BUT THIS IS A CONSTANT FOR ALL."
CAT: "WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO BEGIN A FAILSAFE PROCEEDURE?"
CUC: >What is the failsafe procedure?
CTC: >name the droid either Strangelove or Lovecraft
CAC: >Name the droid temmie
CAT: "IT IS ESSENTIALLY THE EQUIVALENT OF HAVING AN AUTOMATIC MEDICAL INJECTOR TO APPLY NEEDED HELP TO YOUR PHYSICAL HUSK IF IT IS DAMAGED."
CAT: Please vote for one of the given names.
CUC: >Strangelove
CAC: >Are automated medkits less effective?
CGG: >strangelovr
CAT: "THEY ARE EXACTLY AS EFFECTIVE. WHY WOULD THEY EVER DECREASE IN EFFECTIVENESS FROM A SIMPLE MOVEMENT OF POSITION?"
CAT: The droid's name is now Strangelove.
CAC: >RPG mechanics
CAC: >Are there any downsides to automated medkits?
CAT: "THIS IS THE REAL WORLD, NOT SOME SORT OF GAME."
CAT: "SO, NO."
CAC: >Is the number of failsafes limited?
CAT: DO YOU WANT TO HAVE TWO AUTOMATED NEEDLES JAMMED INTO YOUR BODY, THE SECOND LIKELY NEAR VITAL ORGANS?"
CAT: *"
CAC: >Are there any risks in the fallback procedure?
CAC: Failsafe*
CAT: "ONLY IF YOU WISH TO DO IT AWAKE AND UNAFFECTED BY ANESTHESIA."
CAC: >Do you apply anesthesia
CAC: >Also, how long does it take?
CAT: "I CAN DISTILL THIS FUEL YOU HAVE PROVIDED ME INTO IT, YES."
CAT: "ULTIMATELY, I THINK I CAN SQUEEZE IT INTO A TIME SUITABLE FOR YOUR ARRIVAL."
CAC: >Begin procedure
CAT: Please second suggestion.
CAT: Majority required.
CUC: >Begin procedure. With anesthesia, of course.
CAT: 2/7.
CAT: (4 required.)
CAC: GG
CGG: yes
CTC: Has anyone got the reference to Strangelove?
CUC: AA CA TC FC
CAT: 3/7.
CURRENT chemicalAssailant [CCA] RIGHT NOW responded to memo.
CCA: ((?))
CFC: I'm sorta tabbed
CFC: jsut
CCA: half-vote
CAT: 3.5/7.
CAC banned CAA from responding to memo.
CCA: no wait 2/3-vote
CCA: there majority
CAT: That isn't how it works.
CCA: fine
CAT: 3.66666(repeated)/7, regardless.
CTC: I vote for it
CAT: Motion successful.
CAT: "PLEASE CLOSE YOUR EYES. THIS WILL BE QUICK, I ASSURE YOU."
CAC: >Close eyes
CAT: You close your eyes, and feel the pressure of a needle filled with anesthesia enter your bloodstream. You pass out."
CAT: Loading...
CAT: Loading...
CAT: Loading...
CAT: Sensation returns.
CAT: Please enter command.
CFC: back.
CAC: >Open eyes
CAC: >Check for both kidneys
CAT: You open your eyes.
CUC: >Look around, assess how much time has passed
CAT: Thirty minutes have passed.
CFC: >Assess body.
CFC: >check for additional limbs
CAT: You have both kidneys, and a normal count of limbs.
CAC: >Look for droid
CAT: The only odd sensation is some sort of odd pressure in the middle of your back. That's probably the medkit.
CAT: Well, auto-medkit injector.
CAT: Strangelove is floating next to you, inactive. The tube is devoid of medical fluid you applied, so it was indeed used.
CAT: The only odd thing that appears to have changed is a large teardrop-shaped marking on the side of your Lapotron Power Core.
CAC: >Put it away, I guess
CFC: >assess health
CAT: It can just stay there, really.
CAT: It is off.
CAT: Azure: ███████████████ HP.
CAC: >Examine marking
CAT: It's teardrop-shaped. Probably 4.5 inches in length.
CAT: Nothing else appears to have changed with the thing.
CAC: >Activate drone
CFC: >tap the marking
CAC: >Ask what marking is
CAT: You poke the marking, and nothing happens.
CAT: Then, you reactivate Strangelove.
CTC: Remember Strangelove has a German Accent
CAT: "THE INSCRIPTION? THAT WAS JUST SOMETHING A LITTLE EXTRA I APPLIED TO YOUR WEAPONRY. IT SHOULD SERVE AS SOME SORT OF FOCUS."
CAC: >What does that mean
CUC: >Thank Strangelove for the focus.
CAT: You thank Strangelove.
CFC: >thank mr skeltal
CAT: You have fifteen minutes to kill. What now?
CFC: >search for a library
CAT: The track on the audio terminal has switched to "Just A Comet". You love this album, fuck.
CAT: You don't have a library in your ship. Why would you.
CFC: So you can learn the sick majjyks
CAC: >see if delta has responded to your thanks
CAT: Delta's left a quick "Mhm." and gone offline.
CAT: You can see the continental plate from here. You are almost there. What shall you do?
CAC: ... Did I miss something
CAC: >Prepare yourself
CAT: "CAT: Delta's left a quick "Mhm." and gone offline."
CAT: You are ALWAYS prepared. By which you mean you are always prepared to burst into tears at the drop of a hat.
CAT: You ready yourself, you suppose.
CFC: >Play solitaire.
CAT: Oh, of course.
CAT: ACHIEVEMENT: Injected Completed!
CAT: You just sort of play holosolitaire for fifteen minutes.
CAT: ETA: now.
CAT: Please enter command.
CFC: >Finish solitaire by cheating.
CAC: >Open door
CTC: >ready weapon
CAT: You mess with the code of the holocomputer, and finish holosolitaire, then walk over to the hatch.
CAT: ...You're going to have to unweld this again.
CGG: >go back to audıo termınal
CAC: >Do that
CAT: You go back to the audio terminal.
CFC: >Write a reminder to ger a be~~er hatch
CAC: >Unweld that is
CGG: >play song not by mr. unıverse
CAT: You play the hit album that came out about two years ago. Hamilton.
CAT: ACHIEVEMENT: Culture COMPLETED!
CGG: whee
CFC: 
CAT: That one was obvious.
CAT: Now what?
CAC: >unweld
CGG: >unweld termınal
CAC: >ni
CAC: >no
CAT: You carefully use the plasma cutter to unweld the hatch.
CFC: I actually can't remember why we were here.
CFC: What are we doing?
CAT: Dust pours into the chamber. You cough somewhat, and peer at the arcanium slate.
CAT: Why, you're here to get the VOID SHARD the map detected.
CAC: >Examine surroundings
CAT: You drop down onto the slate, and examine your surroundings.
CAT: There's an extremely large plate of arcanium slate, and a massive complex on top of it, surrounded by a brick wall of pseudo-medieval architectural origin.
CAT: Unlike last time, there IS an entrance.
CAC: >Approach building
CAT: You carefully creep over to the structure. Nothing happens.
CAC: >Pass wall
CAT: The second you take a step forward, three orchid lights atop the wall blink to life.
CAT: Another Centurion?
CAC: >Back off
CAT: It doesn't seem to have noticed you yet, but it might.
CAT: You take a step back.
CAT: The hulking metal being rises into the air.
CAC: >Return to ship
CUC: >Return to ship
CFC: >aye
CAT: You attempt to flee, but the thing projects a red light from its left arm, tracing a line between the ship and you.
CAT: Nothing happens. All is still.
CTC: >try to greet it
CAC: >no
CAC: >Limbo/Jumo over line
CAC: Jumo
CAC: Jump
CUC: >Don't cross the line
CAT: Which one will it be?
CAT: Jump, or stay?
CAC: >Estimate if jump can be made
CTC: >clutch head in confusion
CAT: The line is literally like four centimeters in width.
CUC: >Is the Centurion currently attacking you?
CFC: >Has it noticed you?
CAT: The thing is not technically assaulting you, but it clearly has noticed you.
CAT: And thusly projected this... line.
CAC: >... Talk to it
CFC: >Don't cross the line.
CTC: >greet it
CAT: What do you say?
CTC: >"Hey... there..."
CAT: It is silent in response.
CAC: >Can you understand me?
CAT: No response.
CFC: >Awkwardly walk sideways
CAT: You can see a cube with a psi on it within its left hand.
CUC: >Don't look hostile, whatever you do.
CAT: It appears to be the source of the line.
CAT: You attempt to look casual, but you are kind of terrified, so you only pseudo-manage.
CAC: >Offer it a left handed handshake
CAT: It is flying in the air several meters above you. You cannot reach its right hand.
CUC: >Is there a line any other direction?
CAT: The line cuts you off from your ship in a round fashion, meaning the only direction you can currently go is through the entrance.
CAT: Without touching the line, that is.
CAC: >Go in
CUC: >Go in?
CAT: You walk through the entrance.
CAT: You can see at least a dozen other sets of orchid eyes light up on the walls as you do so.
CTC: >Go in
CTC: *cancel
CUC: >Crap?
CAT: What shall you do?
CTC: >grenade and calmly walk out
CAC: >wait and watch
CAT: Which is it?
CAC: A grenade probably isn't enough
CTC: >observe first then use plan B if needed
CUC: >Wait and watch.
CAT: Five other sets of red lines trace a rough circle around you as you just sort of stand there, watching.
CTC: >find something to throw into the red line
CFC: >watch also
CUC: >Well, shit.
CUC: >Throw something through the red line.
CAT: What?
CUC: >Something non-essential.
CUC: >Do you still have all those things?
CAT: Current inventory: Lapotron Power Core, Medkit x3, Water Vial x4, Gluon Destabilizer x3, Welding Equipment.
CAC: >some pocket lint
CAT: You left the other stuff back on the ship. It was heavy, in your defense.
CUC: >Splash some water through the line. If nothing happens, toss the emptied vial through.
CAT: You splash a little water in the direction of the line. The instant it passes over the line, several sets of lines light up, and within instants, beams of pure plasma follow the lines, vaporizing the liquid.
CAT: The circles are retraced.
CAT: *((Eyes light up, not lines. Sorry.))
CTC: >FUUUCCCK
CAT: There was a small delay, though.
CUC: >Well, shit. Was there a delay between the lines being activated and redra -- YESS!
CTC: >wonder how good your reflexes are
CUC: >Splash some more water through the lines, then run through quickly. Go back in the direction of the ship.
CUC: >Hopefully you'll be able to hit some of the bots with your ion cannon if you get back to the ship.
CAT: You ready the water, and splash it, immediately sprinting in the direction of ship. Let's hope you can do it fast enough.
CAT: POT check: failed.
CTC: Ouch
CAT: Coin flips are fun.
CAC: Rip
CUC: RIP.
CTC: >pray to whatever deity you believe in
CUC: Good thing we did the auto-injector thing.
CAT: You get caught in the chest. Mere seconds pass, and you feel an odd sensation in you mid back.
CAT: The plasma pretty much instantly annihilates the lower part of what I'd call your mortal husk.
CAT: Your vision fades as the heat in your back grows greater and greater, white dust flowing from your body.
CAT: Please enter command.
CTC: >respawn
CAC: >die
CTC: Please no permadeath
CAT: You die. Horribly.
CUC: >Succumb to the blackness. You'll either get healed or die.
CUC: Ah.
CTC: ...
CAT: Everything is black.
CAT: But, wait. A teardrop-shaped blue crystal lies upon the ground in the midst of a Centurion compound.
CTC: >Is this the real life
CTC: >..?
CAT: The thing glows with an unearthly blue light, and levitates into the air.
CAT: You can... feel?
CAT: Your sight is within the gem itself.
CUC: >Holy shit, the Gem is real.
CUC: >What can you do?
CTC: >realize you are a magic girl
CAT: A glowing figure composed of pure energy surrounds the gem itself.
CAT: Blue light floods the continent. The Centurions are unresponsive.
CUC: >Azure: Ascend.
CAT: Then, in seconds, everything is back. You breathe heavily.
CTC: >start screaming
CAT: You don't know what just happened, but you aren't dead, or even damaged bodily?
CAT: Would you like to start screaming?
CAT: Y/N.
CUC: >N.
CAC: >n
CAT: You hold in a scream.
CAC: >open eyes, look around
CUC: >Assess what's around you and your new status.
CTC: >try to chill the fuck out
CAT: You open your eyes. You're right where you fell. The Centurions do not appear to notice yourself at all.
CAT: HIDDEN ACHIEVEMENT: Lapis COMPLETED.
CAC: .... Hmm
CTC: We
CAC: >Return to ship
CTC: Are the Crystal Gems
CAT: Hah.
CTC: >Don't do that
CAT: You turn to head back to the ship, but another red line traces over the ground toward safety.
CUC: >Check where your Lapotron Power Core is.
CAT: You choose not to do that. You must act quickly.
CAT: You have your Lapotron Power Core.
CAT: It seems somehow lesser, devoid of energy.
CTC: >time to kill
CAT: Nay, that same power instead pulses through your veins now?
CAC: >Move water rapidly over and away from line
CUC: >Are you now naturally a hydrokinetic. That is awesome.
CAC: >In hopes of tiring the centurion, I guess
CTC: >grin
CAT: With revitalized strength from your apparent regeneration, you just sort of do the cat and laser pointer thing with Centurion Wardens.
CAT: Your smile right now is much bigger than a grin, I can assure you.
CAT: The wall of the inner complex slides open as all of the Centurions are distracted.
CUC: >Enter the inner complex!
CAC: Huh
CAT: It appears to have been some sort of hivemind concentration door.
CAT: You rush into the inner complex, diving through the entrance. It closes behind you.
CAT: What now?
CAC: >Look around
CAT: The chamber appears to be a staircase leading straight down into the depths.
CAC: >Downward
CAT: You descend.
CAT: The hallway below appears to branch off further down, into a left, right, and straight path each.
CAT: Shapes move at the end of the thing, regardless.
CAT: The euphoria and heat still flow through you.
CAC: >Examine shapes
CAT: You observe them carefully. Yeah, they're Lupine Beasts. They haven't seen you yet.
CTC: >realize that 60-70% of all organics are made of water
CFC: >Recall what Lupine Beasts do
CFC: >That you should be aware of
CAT: These things are Drybloods. You don't know why you know this. Or how.
CUC: >What is a Dryblood?
CAT: Oh, yes.
CAT: Lupine Beast: ███ HP. NOTES: Covered in bloodstained entrails. Dryblood.
CAT: A Dryblood.
CAT: Hmm. You recall your sudden knowledge.
CAT: It appears to be a being possessing a non-water based vascular system.
CAC: >Check how much water is in them anyways
CFC: Plus bloodbending is super dark
CAT: This is so cool. You are screaming with joy internally.
CUC: >Sigh, retrieve the water from one of your vials and prepare for battle.
CFC: avataaaarrrr...
CAT: Anyhow, you can't really get a grip on much of their other fluids.
CAT: So, you just pull out a vial of water, and prepare. Though, you'll only be able to take one out at a time.
CAT: If only you had some sort of chain weapon, or something that could harm multiple beings at once...
CAC: Hmm
CAC: >Count how many there are
CAT: Five.
CAT: Hmm. You WONDER.
CAT: INV: Lapotron Power Core, Medkit x3, Water Vial x4, /Gluon Destabilizer x3/, Welding Equipment.
CAT: IF ONLY you had some sort of, say, grenade.
CUC: >Contemplate if shaping your water into a long blade and sweeping it through them to cut multiple... ooh. Never mind.
CTC: >blow them to kindom come
CTC: *kingdom come
CUC: >Grab one Gluon Destabilizer, prime, and carry it in a bubble of water to where it'll hit the most enemies.
CAC: >check if your automatic medkit is still there first
CUC: >Keep well away yourself -- behind cover.
CAT: You carefully trap a Gluon Destabilizer in a water bubble, prime it, and carry it over.
CAT: You're pretty sure that Strangelove did nothing but cut out the core infused lapis lazuli gem in you Lapotron Power Core, and surgically implant it into your body.
CAT: You duck behind a little cover up the stairs.
CAT: Shall you detonate the thing?
CAC: Yes
CAC: >
CUC: >Detonate it. Blow them to pieces.
CTC: >Boom, baby
CTC: >realize that Strangelove is a wizard
CAT: Red flame pours into the steps at the bottom of the stairs, searing them solid black instantaneously.
CAT: Please enter command.
CAC: >Carefully descend
CAC: >When the flames fade
CAT: You return to the bottom of the stairs when the flames fade away into embers.
CTC: >laugh at your fallen foes
CAT: How can you laugh when there is no remnant of them?
CAT: Nothing to laugh at at all.
CAC: >Gather any liquid which survived
CAT: Also, you're not a sociopath.
CAT: No liquid survived.
CAC: >Examine the paths
CTC: Fine
CAT: Forward, right, and left.
CTC: I'll quell my blood frenzy
CAC: >Look down them
CAT: Forward carries on into the distance, to some sort of metallic wall with light cyan neon lights.
CAT: Left just keeps on going into the darkness, and right appears to be filled with orchid light at the end.
CAC: Orchid
CTC: >decide that left is not an option
CAC: >Check water supplies
CAT: You've still got three vials of water.
CAC: >Forward
CAT: You walk forward, reaching the metallic construct obstructing your path.
CTC: >wonder where all these beasts came from
CAC: >Examine lights
CAT: Localized evolution of particles.
CAT: You examine the neon lights. Now that you're here, you can see a bit better. The largest ones are light cyan, though there are actually some orange ones. They are all embedded into this wall.
CAT: There are two light green keypads on the left and right halves of the door.
CAT: One each.
CAC: >Examine keypads
CAT: They're standard holokeypads. A through Z, alpha through omega, aleph null through aleph null.
CAT: They presumably unlock the door.
CAC: >use leet hacking skills
CUC: >Input 'Mu' into one of the keypads?
CTC: >take several steps back afterwards
CAT: ERROR: Source: 'incorrect password.'
CTC: >not risking a laser bolt to the face
CAT: You take several steps back, but nothing else happens.
CAC: Hrm, did I miss something
CTC: >sigh in relief and check the other paths
CAT: Yes, two paths.
CUC: >Examine the neon lights.
CTC: We need to figure it out
CUC: >In more detail.
CAC: Oh, that makes sense
CTC: It is a puzzle
CAC: Nah
CAC: >Go to left path
CAT: They're standard neon lights. You'd find them before Hierophants and Hanged Men and poisoned toads.
CUC: >Go on left path.
CAT: If you catch my drift.
CAT: You go left.
CAT: Soon enough, you end up in total darkness.
CAC: >Use your phone as a flashlight
CAT: You pull out your holophone, and reveal that you are now within a singular chamber that appears to be the end of the path.
CAT: The entrance slides shut behind you as triads orchid lights ignite above.
CAT: *triads of.
CTC: >you make a mental note to call your friend after this is all over
CAC: >Examine lights
CAT: You make the note.
CUC: >Bemoan the builders of this complex's collective boners for Centurions.
CAT: You know exactly what they are.
CAT: A red light flashes down onto you, in a dotlike shape.
CAT: Would you like to engage in combat?
CUC: >Yes.
CAC: Yes
CAC: >
CAT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE
CAC: /afk
CAT: Note: observation is a free action.
CUC: >Observe, first.
CAT: Centurion Warden: ██████████ HP x3. NOTES: A modified Centurion Sojourner redesigned to serve as a gatekeeper of an area. Incredibly deadly. Wields a copy of the infamous ψ-Bioschema.
CUC: >Do you have a clear shot at one of their power cores?
CAT: One of them. The other two are hidden in the darkness of the room beyond your holophone.
CAC: :/ Repost observation pls
CAT: "CAT: Centurion Warden: ██████████ HP x3. NOTES: A modified Centurion Sojourner redesigned to serve as a gatekeeper of an area. Incredibly deadly. Wields a copy of the infamous ψ-Bioschema."
CAC: >Assault
CUC: >Draw water, form needle, shoot the visible one's power core.
CAT: You immediately spike one through the core, instantly destroying it. The ruined husk drops to the ground before you, inert.
CAT: ENEMY TURN.
CAT: The right hands of the Centurions immediately light up with red light, and a plasma bolt strikes you in the shoulder. You scream a bit.
CAT: Okay, more than a bit.
CAT: YOUR TURN.
CAT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE
CUC: >HP status? ((I assume this is a free action as well.))
CAC: >Assault
CAT: It is, yeah.
CAT: ((I'll put it in black for Fseftr.))
CAT: Azure: ███████████████ HP.
CUC: Welp.
CAT: ((11/15, AC.))
CUC: >Can you see the other two more clearly now?
CAT: Not really.
CAC: >Just turn your phone
CAT: Would you like that to be your action? You can pair it with a non-assault move as well.
CAC: >Defend as well?
CUC: >Turn your phone to light them up, defend.
CAT: You create a shield with what is essentially superdense water, and turn your phone.
CAT: ENEMY TURN.
CAT: One of the Centurions drops down to you level, while the other fires another blast at you. The water absorbs most of the impact, but you do slam into the wall, breaking your concentration on the shield.
CAT: YOUR TURN.
CAT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE
CUC: >Assault the most visible one with another needle of water straight through the core.
CAT: One shot, one kill.
CFC: ima go
CFC: pchooo
CUC: bye
CFC ceased responding to memo.
CAT: ((I've got to go AFK once more. Enjoy the cliffhangar on the enemy turn for like fifteen minutes, sorry.))
CUC: ((Eh, bye for now!))
CAT: ((/UNAFK.))
CAT: ENEMY TURN.
CAT: The remaining Centurion rushes toward you, a plasma blade erupting from its wrist. You have a chance to react, but the core is glossed over with some sort of pseudometal.
CGG: >duck
CAC: >Defend
CAT: 'Duck' is not a possible combat command.
CAT: You draw up another water shield, and the thing plunges into it, diving for your stomach.
CAT: The strike is delayed, fortunately.
CAT: YOUR TURN.
CAT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE
CGG: >ASSAULT
CAT: How?
CGG: >uh
CGG: >stab ıt wıth water
CAC: >Punch at the core through the back
CAT: With your fist alone, or with water?
CAC: >Water
CAT: The hydrokinetically commanded water punctures the energy core, and emerges out the other side.
CAT: The Centurion yet lives.
CAT: Somehow.
CAT: ENEMY TURN.
CAT: The Centurion Warden draws up a shield of pure plasma, backing up.
CAT: YOUR TURN.
CAT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE
CAC: Hmm
CGG: >ASSAULT
CAT: Be more specific.
CAT: Also, that's probably pointless.
CGG: >Send water straıght back through open wound, attemptıng to harm electronıcs
CGG: waıt, what kınd of shıeld
CAT: It's made of plasma.
CGG: ıs ıt reachıng all the way around
CGG: or
CAT: Yes.
CGG: oh, okay
CGG: hm
CGG: >Defend?
CAT: BEGIN: SHIELD-OFF.
CAT: ENEMY TURN.
CAT: The Centurion just sort of stands there, the shield growing hotter and hotter.
CAT: YOUR TURN.
CAT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE
CTC: ASSAULT OPTIONS?
CAT: There are no options. Only creativity.
CAC: >Use water to bring down wall above centurion
CAT: You crush the thing.
CAT: Moments later, it emerges. What is this thing made of, and how is it still living.
CAT: ENEMY TURN.
CTC: >the power of errosion has failed you
CAT: The Centurion leaps from the rubble, and charges you, slamming shield into shield.
CAT: You shout out as your back is forced into the wall incredibly painfully.
CAT: Heat from the plasma covers your whole front.
CAT: YOUR TURN.
CAT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE
CAC: >Observe
CAT: Centurion Venator: ███████████████ HP. NOTES: A modified Centurion Warden redesigned to serve as an elite soldier. Incredibly deadly. Wields a copy of the infamous ψ-Bioschema.
CAT: (4/15, Fseftr.)
CAC: Is that our health
CUC: No.
CUC: >Check our HP.
CAT: That is the Centurion Venator's health.
CGG: >Use water to cool down body
CAT: Azure: ███████████████ HP.
CAC: >no
CAT: (4/15 as well.)
CAC: Gmm
CAC: Hmm
CUC: >Utilize: Medkit.
CUC: We're close to death, after all.
CAT: You pull out a medkit, and stab the syringe into your body, restoring your health to full.
CAT: ((You'd respawn, now, but still.))
CAT: ((Bluh bluh, we are the Crystal Gems.))
CAT: ENEMY TURN.
CAT: The Venator pulls up its arms, and miniature rectangles of plasma appear upon them.
CAT: YOUR TURN.
CAT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE
CAC: Is the shield still up
CAT: Barely.
CUC: >Observe the rectangles. What do they appear to be intended to do?
CAT: They appear to be what is basically akin to boxing gloves for Centurions.
CAC: >Bring shield above self, bring down wall above both self and centurion
CAC: Using water
CAT: Would you like to perform this action? Please confirm majority.
CTC: >do that but leap out of the way
CUC: >Do that, but leap out of the way.
CAT: You crush the thing.
CAT: It dies.
CAT: The entrance door slides back up, and a small plate of inscribed metal pops out of the side of the wall.
CAC: >Examine
CUC: >Take plate.
CAT: You take the plate. It appears to have exactly twenty-one symbols upon it, ranging from aleph to aleph, alpha to omega, and A to Z.
CAT: ((*aleph null, that is.))
CAC: >Take deep breaths, then go to right path
CTC: >heal thyself
CAC: /afk
CAT: You take a moment to relax, taking a deep breath.
CAT: You've got full health.
CAT: You proceed on right.
CUC: >We're at -- AOja.
CTC: >realize you are now a badass
CGG: ((holy shit the ace attorney anime))
CAT: Are you, though? You nearly died, and you're pretty sure you did up on the surface.
CTC: >realize that you are now a badbutt
CAT: You just continue down the hall, to the orchid light.
CAT: Please enter command.
CTC: >hold the plate up to the light
CAT: You hold the plate up. Nothing happens. At all.
CAC: >Examine light
CAT: It appears to be... neon lights, and in fact not the deadly Centurions that you had thought they were earlier.
CAC: Hmm
CAC: >Determine existence of puzzle
CTC: >facepalm and grumble to self
CAT: You haven't even walked into the room yet.
CAC: ... Oh
CAC: >walk into room
CAT: ((One sec. I'll BRB, please don't go anywhere.))
CAT: ((Back.))
CUC: Welcome back.
CAT: The room is rather oddly arranged. It is a... oh god no.
CAT: It's a jumping puzzle, isn't it.
CAT: It is.
CAT: It is a fucking jumping puzzle.
CUC: >Good thing you're a hydrokinetic. How much weight can you lift using water?
CAC: >Examine puzzle
CAT: You think you could probably just lift yourself, hah.
CAT: This puzzle was clearly not designed with YOU in mind.
CUC: >Cheat on puzzle.
CAT: You cheat on the puzzle, and reach the highest platform.
CAT: There's a lever on it.
CAC: >Pull
CUC: >Pull the lever, Azure.
CTC: >Just do it
CTC: >DO IT
CAT: You pull the lever. A plate pops out of the wall down below, and the entrance is unsealed. You hadn't even noticed it close.
CUC: ((The Emperor's New Groove. This is what the refrance.))
CTC: >grab another plate
CAC: >Lift yourself down to platr
CAC: Plate
CAT: You lower yourself once more.
CAT: Wow, that was easy!
CAT: You pick it up. Another series of 21 characters.
CAT: Please enter command.
CUC: >Return to central room.
CAT: You head back to the intersection of the three halls.
CAT: Well, four, but the way out is sealed.
CAC: >Center route
CAC: >It is?
CUC: >Enter the sequence on the plate from the left hallway on the left keypad.
CAT: ((Yeah, it closed behind you.))
CAC: Huh
CAT: You enter the left plate's code on the left pad. The pad glows green.
CUC: >Do the same for the right plate and right pad.
CAT: You do so.
CAT: The pad lights up green as well.
CAT: The door hisses, and steam pours forth.
CAC: >Back up
CAT: The metallic thing is bisected horizonally down the middle, and both halves enter the ceiling or floor.
CAT: Another hall awaits, leading to a room lit by torches.
CAT: Odd for the Void, but still feasible, you guess.
CAC: >Forward
CUC: >Forward
CAT: You tenatively head onwards.
CTC: >nod in wit respect for whoever lit these torches
CAC: Why odd for the void?
CTC: *with
CTC: >they know how to set the mood
CAT: This place is highly advanced technologically, as you've clearly seen.
CAT: Back home on Earth, they only have standard physical computers!
CAC: >Consider selling void tech to Earth
CAT: Uh, that's how Grayhold gets money.
CAT: Only, they sell it to people who would never let it see the light of day again.
CAT: Sadly.
CAC: >Forward
CAT: This action requires majority confirmation.
CAC: But you already said we headed onwards?
CAT: ((Not a second time.))
CGG: >onwadrs
CAT: ((I do majority confirmations if the action could potentially harm you.))
CAT: 2/5.
CAC: But... We didn't go anywhere??
CAC: Or did I miss something
CGG: >observe surroundıngs
CAT: ((You didn't go onward ALL the way the first time.))
CAT: Just torches and bricks.
CAC: UC
CAC: Wait...
CUC: >Forward.
CAT: 3/5.
CAT: You enter the room.
CAT: The first thing you see is about twelve solid fucking feet of corotite plating.
CAT: Five amethyst lights blink to life on the head.
CAT: Yet ANOTHER Centurion, it seems.
CAT: Would you like to engage in combat?
CAC: >Look around room, then engage
CAT: There's just torches and bricks.
CUC: >Well, let's do this.
CAC: >Wonder if Centurions are flammable
CAC: >Do it
CAT: BOSS BATTLE: MU.
CAT: YOUR TURN.
CUC: >Observe.
CAT: (ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE)
CAC: >Observe
CAT: Centurion Sorcerer: █████████████████████████ HP. NOTES: A hulking mass of armor plates, cyanic mechanovitae, and circuitry, all powered by a central infused cyan gem of some type beneath about half a meter of complex metal plating.
CAT: (25 HP, for AC.)
CGG: >throw torch
CAT: That isn't how it works. You have to take a torch, then Utilize it.
CGG: >take torch
CUC: >Defend, first.
CAT: You defend.
CAT: It watches on silently.
CAT: ENEMY OPTED TO SKIP TURN.
CUC: >Take a torch, then?
CAC: >Use water to drop torch
CAT: Bluh blah, YOUR TURN, ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE, &c.
CAT: You hydrokinetically drop a torch on the Centurion Sorcerer.
CAC: >On centurion
CAT: It doesn't really do anything...
CAT: ENEMY TURN.
CAT: The Sorcerer's eyes glow with an arcane light. The thing's chest glows cyan, and pulsating waves of electricity vibrate across its form.
CAT: Within a second, a wave of energy sweeps across the room, instantly pummeling you. Everything goes black.
CAT: Then, you are the teardrop gem once more.
CAC: Welp
CAT: You glow with blue light, this time facing much less euphoria and much more fear.
CUC: >Well, crap.
CUC: >That thing's strong.
CAT: Fortunately, you make it out of your regeneration undeformed.
CAT: YOUR TURN.
CAT: ((Note: dying makes every enemy in the room regain all their health.))
CAT: ((Just so it isn't a free deal.))
CUC: >Form a needle of superdense water, like your shield, and stab the thing in the chest where the cyan glow was strongest with all the pushing force you can muster.
CAT: You manage to form a superdense water skewer, and impale the thing in the chest.
CAT: It appears to only be external damage, but hey. That still counts, right?
CAT: ENEMY TURN.
CAT: The Sorcerer takes a step forward. The earth shakes before it.
CAT: Then, nigh-instantaneously, a plasma blade erupts from its elbow, and the being stabs towards you. You have mere instants to react.
CAT: YOUR TURN.
CAT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE
CAC: >Defend
CAT: How?
CAC: >Parry using a blade of super dense water
CUC: >Defend by dropping to the floor while using a blob of water to push its arm up.
CAT: Which one?
CUC: The water blade would probably boil away, Fse.
CAC: >Do Crystals
CUC: >Mine.
CAT: You manage to hold the thing's arm up, plasma blade tangibly crackling in the air.
CAT: ENEMY TURN.
CAT: The Centurion Sorcerer looks toward you with its five eyes, and simply raises the other arm.
CAT: Revealing the palm, a red dot appears right on your body.
CAT: Fortunately, the blob of water deals with most of the blast, but it is still somewhat painful.
CAT: YOUR TURN.
CAT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE
CUC: >How do the connections between the arms and the body look?
CAC: Hmm
CUC: >Also, observe.
CAT: ((Should I just give you your health and the enemy's health at the same time with observing, BTW?))
CAC: >Examine its eyes
CAC: Probably
CUC: ((Would simplify things, yes.))
CTC: Tes
CTC: *Yes
CAT: Centurion Sorcerer: █████████████████████████ HP. NOTES: A hulking mass of armor plates, cyanic mechanovitae, and circuitry, all powered by a central infused cyan gem of some type beneath about half a meter of complex metal plating.
CAT: (23/25 for boss.)
CAT: Azure: ███████████████ HP.
CGG: 11/15
CAT: Hey, just a little hint.
CAT: You know what would be great right now?
CAT: Bombs.
CGG: >use bomb
CGG: gluon destabılızer?
CAC: Ye
CAT: Confirm with majority, please.
CAC: I am always very hesitant to use items
CAC: What if you run out and die
CTC: You should have said that the Centrions dislike smoke
CUC: >Use gluon destabilizer. If there's a hole in the being's armor big enough to wedge it into, do so.
CAT: Nothing really major, but you attach it to the arm with the plasma blade nonetheless.
CAT: You have a split second to defend yourself from the blast. Creativity = higher chance of coming out unscathed.
CTC: >create a shield in the shape of a middle finger out of water
CAC: >Use water to collapse the ceiling between you and the centurion
CUC: ((Let me think...))
CAT: ((Will do.))
CUC: >You run around to the other side of the Centurion, letting its bulk shield you from the blast, before you form a shield of superdense water shaped to deflect the blast with the minimum of its force hitting the shield. This makes it look a little like a parabola would if you rotated it into 3d.
CAT: Hah. Nice.
CTC: NERD!
CAT: You do so, and the world erupts into red in front of the Centurion.
CAT: That nerd just saved you from taking any damage.
CUC: *fistpumps*
CAT: YOUR TURN.
CTC: Nothing wrong with that
CAT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE
CUC: >Observe, first.
CAC: Our turn again?
CTC: Just that was insanely nerdy
CAT: ((Nerds and nerdism is a great thing, my friend.))
CAT: Centurion Sorcerer: █████████████████████████ HP. NOTES: A hulking mass of armor plates, cyanic mechanovitae, and circuitry, all powered by a central infused cyan gem of some type beneath about half a meter of complex metal plating.
CUC: ((Indeed, nerdiness is a great thing.))
CAT: Your health is the same as before.
CAT: ((Aye.))
CAT: Please enter command.
CAC: Whats its health
CAT: Oh, right. Sorry.
CAT: 17/25.
CAC: Well then.
CUC: Wow, that little damage done.
CAC: >Observe damage on Centurion
CAT: You've managed to detach the entire plasma blade arm.
CAT: Cyanic mechanovitae is spilling everywhere from the stump as the blade melts through the ground.
CTC: >cleave it in half with a spear of water
CAC: ... No
CUC: Ooh.
CUC: I just had a WICKED idea.
CUC: The blade's still powered.
CAT: ^
CTC: Oh
CTC: My
CUC: Does mechanovitae contain water?
CTC: God
CTC: Becku
CUC: Probably not.
CAT: Cyanic mechanovitae is a combination of cooled liquid mercury and nanobots.
CUC: Ok, hmm.
CAC: I mean, we can just use water to move the arm?
CTC: *Becky, Anyway sounds like this will be fun
CUC: >Form a hand of water, grab the arm, slice the Centurion with the hissing plasma blade.
CAT: Where do you slice?
CUC: >Cut its other arm off, if at all possible.
CUC: >If not, cut its head.
CAT: With some difficulty, you lift the entire hulking mass of the arm into the air, careful not to touch the blade, with water or otherwise.
CAT: You deprive it of its other limb just as it attempts to fire.
CAT: ENEMY TURN.
CAT: The amethyst glow of the eyes seems to grow even more intense than before. The Sorcerer is SERIOUSLY damaged.
CAT: The cyan glow of the hidden core floods the room.
CAT: Your hair begins to stand on end from the electricity in the room.
CAT: You have ten seconds to react.
CAT: ((Ingame.))
CUC: ((Ah. Thanks.))
CAC: Hmm
CUC: ((Is the electricity coming from the centurion?))
CAT: ((Yes. From the core.))
CAC: Where is the glow strongest
CAT: The glow is strongest near the lower abdomen.
CUC: ((Is this purely a defense, or can we attack as well?))
CAT: ((Either works, really. If you can stun it, the attack will go down to a manageable level.))
CUC: *grins*
CAT: ((Also, the same Centurion rules apply to this as the others.))
CAC: >Separate plasma blade arm at elbow for precision, stab blade into centurion's lower abdomen
CAT: ((Core-wise.))
CUC: ((Destroy power core, it's disabled and all?))
CUC: ((Yeah.))
CAT: ((Ye.))
CAT: You must confirm this action through majority.
CUC: How thick does the metal plating look.
CUC: Forming a plan of defense.
CAT: "NOTES: A hulking mass of armor plates, cyanic mechanovitae, and circuitry, all powered by a central infused cyan gem of some type beneath about half a meter of complex metal plating."
CUC: Well, slash attack.
CUC: How long is the plasma blade, about?
CTC: Is the armor rounded or flat
CAT: Three meters-ish.
CTC: Strikes would suck against rounded armor
CTC: Piercing would be better
CAT: This is a plasma blade, Revan.
CUC: Ok, my plan is either to ground the electricity out or follow Fse and stab it.
CAC: I'm imagining these things as basically registeels, am I off to do so.
CTC: Sorry
CAT: You know that Summoner centurion-esque boss from HLD?
CTC: I think of swords as swords
CAT: The Centurions look kind of like them.
CAC: ... no
CAT: Or, that.
CAC: That?
CAT: Sorry, Sorcerer. Not Summoner.
CAT: http://hyperlightdrifter.wikia.com/wiki/The_Sorcerer
CTC: Plasma is hot
CTC: Really hot
CAT: Gasp.
CAC: I'm just waiting for Crystal, who's presumably typing up some long thing
CAC: I suggest stabbing, of course.
CUC: Hmm. I'm going with Fse's plan, with the added caveat of stabbing slightly above the target and slashing down with the aid of gravity.
CTC: Erelye your snark is showing
CAT: Confirm action with majority.
CAC: Tc vote
CUC: [X]Fseftr's plan.
CTC: Of course
CAT: Alright. Here we go.
CAT: You swiftly pull the blade from the arm, and make your move.
CAT: However, mere seconds before the blade plunges into the Centurion--"Wait!! Stop!"--a voice sounds out, not from the head of the being, but from the core into your mind.
CGG: >stop, I guess
CAC: What
CAT: The sudden voice startles you, and the blade plunges slightly to the left of the intended target, and you lose concentration.
CAT: The weight of the blade actually drives the thing to the ground regardless.
CAC: Did I miss something
CAT: "CAT: However, mere seconds before the blade plunges into the Centurion--"Wait!! Stop!"--a voice sounds out, not from the head of the being, but from the core into your mind."
CAT: The head fizzles with amethyst energy, but no further voices emerge.
CAT: YOUR TURN?
CAT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE
CUC: >OBSERVE
CAC: >Retrieve blade, then observe
CTC: Should we attempt to talk to it
CUC: I think we should.
CAT: Centurion Sorcerer?: █████████████████████████ HP. NOTES: A hulking mass of armor plates, cyanic mechanovitae, and circuitry, all powered by a central infused cyan gem of some type beneath about half a meter of complex metal plating.
CAT: (4/25.)
CUC: If this thing is sapient then we should see if we can, say, not kill it.
CAT: Your health is still the same.
CGG: >run
CAC: ... Ni
CAT: Where?
CAC: No
CAT: There is no entrance anymore. It is sealed.
CTC: >lay down your plasma blade
CAC: >Retrieve blade, say hello
CUC: >Say something. See if it responds.
CAC: No
CAT: What will it be?
CAC: ... Unless I'm missing something?
CAT: Shall we go with Crystal's plan?
CGG: >y
CUC: >"Uh... Hello?"
CAT: No response, save the fizzling of thing thing.
CAC: >Retrieve blade first tho
CTC: >"Sorry for trying to murder you?"
CAT: Okay. You retrieve the plasma blade.
CAT: Still no response?
CAC: ... Hmm
CAT: The initial voice came from the core, not the head, if you recall.
CAC: >Think loudly at the core
CAC: >Hello
CAT: Still nothing...
CTC: >poke the core
CAC: ... no
CAT: Underneath a half-meter of metal? Yeah, good luck with that.
CAC: >Talk to the core?
CAT: You already have, and there was no response.
CTC: >strip it of its armor
CAT: How?
CUC: >Begin using the plasma blade to carve it away.
CAC: >Carefully, using the plasma blade
CTC: >no damage to the Core
CAT: You carefully remove the layers of heavy corotite plating.
CAT: Beneath all of this is the Core Chassis.
CTC: Shall we poke it?
CAC: >Talk to the core now
CUC: >Does the core appear damaged?
CAT: Within is a cut cyan stone, glowing faintly with light, attached to hundreds of psiofibers, sensors, and wires.
CAT: Entirely undamaged.
CTC: Sapient rocks
CTC: Huh
CAC: >Recall if core requires host body to survive
CUC: >Holy crap!
CAT: The core does not require a host body.
CUC: ((Is this another Gem expy?))
CAT: The body can die, but the core lives on.
CAT: ((Maybe.))
CAC: >Quickly finish the body by stabbing it in the head
CAT: You decapitate the head.
CUC: ((Hmm, electricity powers. What Gem has that...))
CTC: Peri?
CAT: NIGHTMARE SLAIN.
CAC: >Extract the core
CUC: >Extract core.
CAT: You pull out the glass tube within which the Core resides.
CAT: Some sort of apatite in there, it seems.
CAT: Anyhow, the wall on the opposite end of the room slides back, revealing a pedestal.
CAC: >Talk to it
CAT: There is no response.
CTC: >grab some psiofibers
CAC: >Approach pedestal, examine
CAT: Oh, yes. You can harvest the body.
CUC: >Harvest the body.
CAC: >Do that too
CTC: >you still want a psionic coffee machine
CAT: +20 Psiofibers.
CAT: You'll have to open up the rest of the body, though.
CAT: The head was sadly destroyed.
CAC: Go back and harvest the left path later.
CUC: ((Hmm, Erelye. What would have happened if I'd tried to ground that electricity attack?))
CAC: >open up the rest of the body using the plasma blade
CAT: ((You probably would have either survived just fine, or been electrocuted to death.))
CAT: ((Coin flip.))
CUC: ((Ah.))
CAT: You unseal the legs, and the severed arms.
CAC: >Loot
CAT: You've got a large plasma cannon in one, and the core mechanism for the PLASMA BLADE THAT IS NOW PULSATING WILDLY AND FIRING OFF SPARKS OH GOD.
CUC: >AHH GET IT AWAY
CAT: You throw it into the wall, and it explodes.
CAT: +1 Plasma Projector Cannon, Starship-class.
CUC: >Welp, that was -- Holy shit.
CAC: >See if you can scavenge anything from the blade
CUC: >^
CAT: The legs hold starship-class repulsor thrusters each.
CAC: Spaceship upgrades whee
CAT: The blade was annihilated in the explosion, save for a little cube with various Greek symbols upon it.
CUC: >Examine cube, but do not touch.
CAC: >Take
CAC: >Yeah
CUC: >You already know bioschemas are dangerous.
CAT: It appears to be a Delta-Psi-Phi class Bioschema.
CAC: I wasn't there for that lel
CAC: What are they and what do they do
CAC: >Approach pedestal, take object if it's a void shard
CUC: Well, all that we know is that a Beta-class one would apparently incinerate us if we touched it.
CAT: They're essentially arcane laser weapons, and they burn your limbs off if you hold one without identification to wield one.
CUC: And we don't have the identification. Yeah.
CAT: You might be able to hotwire one, but how would you transport it to a place with technology capable of dealing with it?
CTC: Our new gemfriend would be helpful
CUC: Are they waterproof.
CAT: Probably not.
CAC: >Approach pedestal
CTC: Lets grab some scrap metal
CTC: Then float it atop that
CAT: The pedestal is devoid of objects, save a singular navy hash carved into it, and a hand, inscribed into it.
CUC: Can we turn water into ice with our hydrokinesis, or otherwise make it solid enough to not flow?
CAT: No. You'd have to be better at hydrokinetics to do so, sadly.
CUC: Dang.
CTC: We have scrap metal
CAC: >Examine pedestal
CAT: So, not YET.
CAT: "The pedestal is devoid of objects, save a singular navy hash carved into it, and a hand, inscribed into it."
CAT: The hash is in the middle of the hand.
CTC: We can just use the scrap metal to hold it
CAT: You can try.
CAT: Will you?
CUC: Nah.
CTC: Too many holes?
CAC: Hmm...
CAC: >Take the scrap metal
CAT: One-of-a-kind Bioschemas are sadly dangerous.
CAT: You take some scrap metal.
CUC: We could always bend the metal into a rough box with a water hand and then scoop the Bioschema into it.
CAT: +3 Sheet of Corotite.
CTC: Perfect
CAT: Do you do this?
CAC: >Look up what the symbol hand with hash is
CUC: Being careful to not touch it, yes.
CAC: I say no.
CAT: Vote, then.
CUC: We'll scoop it in with another sheet of corotite.
CTC: I vote yes
CAC: >fine
CUC: So we don't actually touch it at any point.
CAT: +1 Contained Delta-Psi-Phi Bioschema.
CUC: Plus, uh, we can regen --WOO!
CAT: Water hands are certainly nice.
CUC: Might regen, I guess.
CAC: Alright!
CAT: Now, the pedestal.
CAT: Please enter command.
CAC: >Lift pedestal
CUC: Navy.
CUC: Hmm.
CAT: You know what else is navy? VOID SHARDs.
CUC: Place your hand in the carving of a hand.
CAT: The hash flashes slightly, and the light fades.
CAT: A small patch of metal on the pedestal slides back, revealing a small compartment.
CUC: Examine contents of compartment.
CAT: ████
CAT: Now, the pressing problem.
CAT: There's no way out.
CAT: Still, most of the pedestal is yet unexamined.
CAC: ??? Did I miss something
CUC: >Remove the core you got from the centurion from its housing?
CAT: ((Just a graphic saying you got the second SHARD.))
CAC: Ah
CUC: Ah.
CAT: You twist the handle of the housing, and pull it upwards, steam puffing out in the process.
CUC: My de-blued screen rendered all of that black.
CUC: Also, hey, another HLD reference.
CAT: Removing the top of the Chassis, you can easily grab the Core.
CAT: But will you?
CTC: It is a fellow gem
CAC: >Examine pedestal more closely
CTC: It should be nice
CAT: It might be some sort of corrupted thing, perhaps. It was used to power a death robot.
CAT: You never know!
CUC: But it called out for help.
CAC: Maybe that was a trap
CAT: Will you remove the Core from the Chassis?
CAC: >I guess
CUC: >Yes.
CGG ceased responding to memo.
CAT: Other than the MASSIVE static shock you get from absorbing all of that electricity, and then touching open fucking WIRES, you get the Apatite Core.
CAT: ...
CTC: >take the wires
CAC: >Put core into container in pedestal
CAT: Nothing happens with the gem. No regenerations.
CAT: Do you follow through with AC's plan?
CAT: Also, you take the wires from the Chassis. In fact, you just take the entire Chassis.
CAT: +1 Crystal Core Chassis.
CAT: Now, what shall you do?
CAC: Ehhh
CAC: >Lift up pedestal
CAC: If it's not attached to the ground
CAT: You remove the plating of the pedestal's top. There's a series of wires within it connected to one lime button.
CAT: Along with some indestructible crystalline psiowire.
CAC: Press line button
CAC: >
CAT: Confirm with majority.
CUC: >Press button.
CAC: UC, Tc
CTC: We have made Azure a klepto
CTC: Yup
CAT: Hah.
CAT: You press the button.
CAC banned CCA from responding to memo.
CAT: The wall before you breaks in half, crumbling to the ground.
CURRENT godmoddedGolem [CGG] RIGHT NOW responded to memo.
CGG: thanks
CGG: what dıd I mıss
CTC: We got a gem friend
CAT: This reveals another path, lined with torches and a staircase.
CAT: But not really.
CAT: It is just an apatite stone thus far.
CAC: >Take wires from pedestal
CAT: You take the wires too, you kleptomaniac.
CAT: +1 Indestructible Crystalline Psiowire.
CAC: Damn, can't backtrack to loot the left oath
CAT: ((Damn straight.))
CAC: >Forward
CUC: >Loot the rest of the Centurion, if there's still anything to loot.
CTC: Oh yeah
CAC: >Take one of the torches
CAT: There's naught but the plates.
CTC: Azure is a klepto now
CAT: You take a torch.
CAC: >Forward
CUC: >Forward
CAT: She is the greatest technoklepto in Facet 9.
CAT: You move onwards.
CAT: The stairs are rather long, you must admit.
CAT: Perhaps this is to the roof of the compound?
CUC: Never know when you'll need some rare component to complete the perfect new device, after all.
CUC: Huh.
CTC: Isn't she the only klepto in Facet 9?
CUC: >Azure: Ascend to the highest point of the building.
CUC: >If this is to the roof, that is.
CAC: Never know what you might need to make a psionic coffee machine
CAT: You reach a door with a hand inscribed into it, along with two navy hashes in the center.
CAT made GG an OP.
CUC: Ohhh.
CUC: I see.
CAC: >Place hand
CAT: Yeah.
CUC: Place hand.
CAT: The door opens, revealing a dark room.
CUC: >Be glad you brought a torch
CAT: You are quite glad.
CAC: >Enter
CAT: But also REALLY fucking sore.
CAC: Crime pays
CAT: You look into the room.
CUC: >Enter
CTC: >sit the fuck down if you can
CUC: Ooh,
CUC: *,
CUC: *.
CUC: dammit
CAT: There's a lever, and a large stone slab, coated in fuchsia symbols you cannot understand.
CAT: There is yet another hand upon the base of the slab.
CAC: >Pull lever
CAT: Well, it is really more of a pillar.
CUC: >Are there any marks on the hand?
CAT: None.
CTC: >place your hand upon it
CAC: >Place hand
CUC: ^
CAT: It glows fuchsia.
CAT: ████████
CAT: (1/8, for Fseftr.)
CAC: Wat
CUC: Ooh.
CAC: 1/8 what
CUC: This really is HLD inspired.
CUC: I think I see.
CGG: one of 8 blahs
CAT: You feel a rush of cool air around you.
CAT: Dark liquid oozes from the edges of the structure.
CAT: Soon enough, it pools into a basin at its foot, an oily substance with a fuchsia sheen.
CAT: It looks like it wants you to take it.
CAT: You don't know how you know that.
CAC: >Take
CAT: How?
CAC: >Check for empty vials
CUC: ^
CAC: >Fill
CAT: None, but you probably have some shit you can mold into a vial with hydrokinetic hands.
CAC: >Make a container using some metal
CAT: Confirm?
CAT: You have a bit of indestructible crystalline material.
CAC: >Use that
CAT: Majority vote, please.
CUC: >Use the crystalline material.
CAC: Uc Gg Tc
CGG: >confırm
CAT: You scoop up as much of the substance as you can take.
CAT: +4 Cthk'aryvt's Blessing/Curse.
CTC: Oh dear
CAC: Well
CAT: ITEM CONDITIONAL: YOU CANNOT REMOVE THIS ITEM WITH YOUR INVENTORY, SAVE TO USE IT.
CAC: >Pull lever
CAT: *FROM.
CAC: Oh boy
CAT: You pull the lever.
CTC: We now are a servant of the Old Ones
CAT: You hear a grinding noise from back by the boss room.
CAT: The apatite stone in your hand grows nearer and nearer to body temperature.
CAC: >Return to boss room
CTC: >set stone down
CAT: You head back to see that the original door has been opened once more, and like that the first door has as well.
CAC: Why, no
CAT: You never picked it up?
CAC: >Head back to intersection
CTC: I thought regen would be happening
CAT: You end up back at the intersection. Every path is clear to go through. Even the left.
CAC: >Go to left, loot everything
CTC: I'd rather not have another being be reborn in our hands
CAT: You literally just tie all of the bodies together with some stronger wire, and start dragging them with you.
CUC: >Loot everything except the biosc -- HAH!
CUC: Nice!
CAC: >Take apart passcode door and loot its parts
CAT: Okay, that's too far.
CAT: Also, those are in the walls now.
CTC: This is getting stupod
CAT: Just take your corpses, and go.
CTC: *stupid
CTC: What are we even doing
CAT: Heading back to the ship?
CAC: >Head up
CAT: Then again, you did leave some friends back up on the surface.
CAT: At least a dozen.
CUC: >Do we still have that plasma cannon, and can we fire it somehow?
CAT: Yes, and maybe.
CAC: >Head up
CAT: You surface.
CAT: Red lines stop your path about ten feet in.
CAT: Would you like to engage in combat?
CAC: Yes
CAT: YOUR TURN.
CAT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE
CTC: Can we be nonviolent
CAC: Utilize Plasma Cannon
CAC: >
CAT: Majority vote for starship-grade plasma cannon use.
CAC: >Observe first tho
CTC: >^
CAT: Centurion Sentry: █████ HP. NOTES: A modified Centurion Sojourner redesigned to serve as a gatekeeper of an area. Incredibly deadly, but weak physically. Wields a copy of the infamous ψ-Bioschema.
CAT: (5/5 for Fseftr.)
CAC: >Utilize Plasma Cannon
CAC: UC, GG
CGG: sure
CUC: >Utilize plasma cannon, firing it through the greatest concentration of them.
CTC: >roll your eyes, don't these guys ever quit?
CAT: You utilize the plasma cannon.
CAT: You kill nine of them instantaneously, and severely damage the other three. The Cthk'aryvt's Blessing/Curses in your inventory seem to cackle maniacally, growing colder and colder with each destruction of a core.
CTC: Um
CTC: Oh god
CTC: Wait
CTC: Those had
CTC: ...
CAC: Whatever, whatever l.
CAT: Have you ever heard of gem shard cores?
CAT: Hah.
CUC: Shard cores.
CTC: I know
CTC: But still
CUC: So, happily, hopefully they weren't full gems.
CAT: ENEMY TURN.
CTC: Those were once people
CAT: You nearly get decapitated by a plasma blast, but instead take a hit to the arm.
CTC: Now I feel like a prick for laughing
CAT: YOUR TURN.
CAT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE
CAC: >Defend
CAC: With a shield
CAT: Of water?
CAC: Y
CAT: You tank most of the superheated plasma bursts.
CTC: >in the shape of a triangle
CAT: You have a split second to make a run for it. Will you?
CTC: >run
CAC: >Sure
CAT: UC?
CUC: >Run.
CAC: >Retrieve plasma cannon first tho
CAT: You make a run for it after grabbing the cannon, and are caught in the back, just below where that surgery was performed.
CAT: An apatite and a lapis lazuli stone fall to the ground, side-by-side.
CTC: Goddamnit
CAT: Good job.
CUC: Damn.
CAT: You regenerate, and grab the apatite.
CAT: Due to death, the enemies you damaged, but did not kill, are fully healed.
CAT: YOUR TURN.
CTC: >create a hand made of water
CAT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE
CAC: So what, being hit in the lower back is an instakill?
CAT: No, just really being hit at all.
CTC: >assault
CAT: These things are probably the second worst.
CAT: How?
CAT: Remember what these things are when you answer.
CAC: >See how far you are from ship
CAT: You haven't yet exited the walls.
CTC: >create a hand made of water, proceed to pimpslap
CAC: >Fire water through a core
CAC: ... No
CTC: Why
CAT: Would you like to impale some cores?
CAC: Yes
CAT: Majority vote for moral question.
CTC: >no
CAT: UC?
CAT: GG?
CAC: Morals, smorals
CTC: I want to disable them
CGG: ?
CTC: I mean
CTC: Perhaps it is a mercy kill
CAC: It's so much easier, do you want to die
CAT: Do you or do you not want to use a plasma cannon on some Centurions with gem shard cores?
CUC: >Try to disable the centurions.
CUC: >Do not destroy the cores.
CAT: Generic's vote decides it.
CGG: hmmmmm
CTC: >hand of pimpslap
CGG: no
CGG: 
CAT: You will SAVE THE CORES.
CAT: How will you do so?
CAC: >Blast them and worry about that after
CTC: >fuck the sadist Old One, disable their weapons by corroding the interior
CTC: >with water
CAT: You manage to take out two out of three.
CAT: ENEMY TURN.
CAT: You have a moment to react as a plasma beam careens toward you.
CAC: >Roll out of the way
CAT: You do so.
CTC: >do a barrel roll
CAT: YOUR TURN.
CAT: ASSAULT / UTILIZE / DEFEND / ABSCOND / OBSERVE
CAC: >Disable it with water, I guess
CAT: How so?
CAT: Spike to the head? Internal corrosion?
CAC: Hmm
CAC: >Corrosion
CAT: 3/3 Centurions slain.
CTC: >Loot the shit out of all of them
CAT: Would you like to extract the three remaining cores?
CAC: >Loot them too
CAT: Because there's no way in hell I'm letting you take anything other than cores until you unload at the ship.
CAC: >Take the cores and return to the ship
CAT: You pry plates art with aquahands, and retrive three pieces of some exotic gem that seem to fit together.
CAT: Sadly, there are a few smaller chips missing.
CTC: >push it together
CAC: Ah well.
CAC: >return to ship
CAT: Majority vote for returning to ship. Everyone should probably stick around for the unloading, just saying.
CUC: >Wonder if you can find someone with gem-fixing abilities.
CTC: >return to the ship and lonad
CUC: >Also, return and unload.
CTC: *load
CUC: ((Is Apatite going to reform?))
CAT: You have no idea. Perhaps you can use the Infinity Eye to do it, when you have all the SHARDS. It is designed to repair rifts.
CAT: ((2-1.))
CAT: You return to the ship.
CAT: Holy shit am I not going to record what you got until later.
CTC: >what
CAT: You just put it all in the material storage room, save the Blessing/Curses, and the apatite stone.
CTC: *What
CAT: ((On my notes.))
CTC: >name the Apatite?
CAT: Do you want to name the apatite stone>
CAC: >Go back out and loot the new corpses
CAT: *?
CAT: Loot later, name first.
CUC: >Name it Cyan for now.
CAC: ... Sure?
CAT: Cyan is the name, then. For now.
CTC: >Loot corpses
CAC: Why are you naming a stone
CAT: You go and steal some Sensors from the de-cored bodies.
CUC: It sent us a mental message.
CAT: Everything but a Lapis Stone for the Magnetizer, now.
CAC: Does it not have a name for itself tho
CAT: Strangelove seems to stare at you silently.
CAT: You can't tell, as they don't have eyes.
CAT: But it feels like it.
CTC: >greet Strangelove
CAC: >Ask him why he didn't say what the surgery was for
CAT: "HELLO MASTER."
CUC: We can ask it its name if it communicates with us again. Until then, it's Cyan.
CAT: "DO YOU HONESTLY THINK YOU WOULD HAVE LET ME DESTROY YOUR WEAPON AND STICK AN EXPERIMENTAL CRYSTAL INTO YOUR BACK?"
CTC: >nod in approval
CAC: >So are automated medkits not a thing?
CTC: >and then glare at him
CAT: "PROBABLY NOT, MS. AZURE."
CAC: >Wonder if you have a last name
CAT: Oh, you do. Recall from the very beginning of this adventure?
CAC: no
CAT: "Your name is Azure █████.
CTC: >scream at the sheer copout
CAC: >Ask Strangelove about Cyan
CAT: You scream, then cry a little, and then you feel somewhat better.
CUC: ((My new headcanon is that her last name is Lapis. Just because.))
CAT: Just let it all out, Azure. It'll be mostly okay.
CTC: May I note his full name is Doctor Strangelove
CAT: ((Votes on this last name, then? Want to go with Crystal's?))
CAT: ((My personal vote is oui for it.))
CAC: I say Azure
CAC: As in Azure Azure
CAT: ((Yeah, no.))
CAC: Eh, sure, Lapis
CUC: ^
CAT: Your name is Azure Lapis, and you're pretty sure you have the second worst doctor in existence on your ship.
CAT: The first, of course, has now gone online on Skype.
CUC: Hah, plus this way her name literally means 'blue stone'.
CAT: ((Aye.))
CAC: >Crash for about twelve hours, screw Delta.
CTC: >greet ((David was it?))
CAC: Or whoever
CTC: *Delta
CAT: Delta can wait, you decide.
CAT: Before crashing, why not plot a course to the next Sector, to make use of sleeping time?
CAC: Did we visit that second island?
CUC: >What paths are there?
CAT: The second island had nothing of value according to scans, and the other Sectors with SHARDS in them are probably the best options.
CAC: >Path to the closest one
CUC: >^
CAT: There are two equally close.
CAT: In Psi and in Nu.
CTC: >"Computer plot a course to the Psi sector."
CAT: Votes?
CAC: Sure, Psi
CTC: >You need to stop watching Star Trek
CUC: >Psi.
CAT: Eh, your dad is more of the Star Trek fan, you think to yourself.
CUC: *yawns*
CAT: You plot a course to the Psi Sector.
CUC: After Azure crashes, so too shall I.
CAT: You turn to go crash for like twelve hours, and see the apatite stone floating in the air, glowing with cyan energies.
CUC: >Gasp?
CAT: You do nothing but sort of look on it, yawning somewhat.
CAC: >Ignore it
CAT: Nah.
CAT: You watch it.
CTC: >"Sup."
CAT: Also, you weld the ship hatch shut quickly as it happens.
CAT: A cyan form, appears, and some girl around your age drops to the floor of your ship, near a few severed bits of that bisected lupine corpse you missed in the incineration.
CAT: Please enter command.
CAC: >Hello
CUC: >"Hello?"
CTC: >"Sup."
CAT: Which greeting do we go for, hmm?
CTC: >You've stopped giving a shit at this point
CAT: You go for a slurred 'sup'.
CAT: "..."
CAT: "WHAT IS GOING ON OH MY GOD."
CTC: >"Welcome to my world"
CUC: "Welcome to my world."
CAC: Did I miss something?
CAT: Long story short, she starts screaming, you start tiredly blinking, and the narrator asks if you wish to save your game.
CAT: "CAT: "..." CAT: "WHAT IS GOING ON OH MY GOD.""
CUC: >Yes. Save.
CAC: Yes
CAT: Saving game...
CAT: Saving game...
CAT: Saving game...
CAT: Game saved.
CAT: Would you like to quit your game?
CUC: >Yes.
CAC: Yes
CTC: >N but Yes
CAC: Now, I'm going to... Probably not sleep tbh
CAT: Alright, done.
CAC ceased responding to memo.
CAT: Good night, and good game, really.
CAT: That was the best session yet.
CUC: gg.
CUC: Now, I must to bed.
CUC: Bye.
CAT: Good night.
CUC ceased responding to memo.
CTC: Ciao
CTC: To
CTC: Crystal
CTC: And
CAT: I'm going to ban you two now to clear this thing out.
CTC: Dead
CAT: Good night.
CTC: Seppuku
CTC ceased responding to memo.
CAT banned CGG, PGG from responding to memo: [Session over.].