Art of Domination Thread 04

Well since Mayu just confirmed the factory doesn't absorb kinetic energy, could we reconfigure our Enderstike canon to dropp ordinary metal rods instead of the usual Durangium ?

So far the best plan of attack, assuming the portal thing doesn't change things radicaly, I have:

• Use the weather machine to neutralize or at least weaken the brain trees by imposing a weather in which stormclouds and lightning generation would be made much harder if not downright impossible.
  
  
• Carpet bomb the region around chaos bed with poison gas. We should still have a large avaliability of those from Cobalt city.
  
  
• Send in a large force of sonich mechs to finish it and smash everything to pulpy bits. because the factory couls have other tricks than biological stuff, have some more conventional forces ready to intervene with bullets
  
  
• set the weater machine on very cold to freeze the remains. Later some crews came come in with liquid nitrogen and sample gabs with tweezers to clean and studdy.

You have a plan.

You: Ghulls, can we have the Enderstrike weapon re-configured so it shoots metal rods?

Ghulls: Uh, we could, but we’d need someone who can handle the- oh, right! Anna can do it.

Lagantis: Demolition Girl? Call her up, boy.

Ghulls: Please don’t call me that.

Anna/Hawkeyes answers the call.

Hawkeyes: Hey. I heard you needed me to mod the Darangium cannon?

You: Yes. We’re going to try shooting this thing with plain metal rods to minimize the chance of this thing suddenly splurting out more monsters while we try to attack it.

Hawkeyes: All right, chief. Gimme two hours. Need to be extra careful with this stuff.

Meanwhile, your Seeker drone shows something falling out of the newly-formed portal. It floats gently down to the ground as the portal that delivered it disappears.



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Lagantis: An outhouse?

Rainhar: Talk about ‘Chamber of Horrors’.

Ghulls: Should we leave it alone for now?

You: What do the Seeker’s scans tell us?

Ghulls: There’s… um… nothing inside.

You: What do you mean, ‘nothing?’

Ghulls: I mean, the drone’s not picking up anything beyond the thin wooden walls, it’s just a vacuum. Not even a microbe or dust.

Rainhar: That shouldn’t be. The thing’s got holes in it!

Ghulls: I know.

Lagantis: Careful. This could be another version of the Murderhouse, or an offshoot.

Yet, despite there being ‘nothing’ inside the Chamber of Horrors, everyone can see it shaking. You also notice some kind of symbol painted on the door.

Intruder senses that you can see the symbol.



Intruder: The Seal of Cosmic Truth.

Lagantis: Intruder?

Intruder: Recover that seal, if you can. Anyone who physically touches it is granted knowledge.

Something then passes through the door.



Lagantis: Intruder, what the hell is that?

Intruder: I don’t know.

Lagantis: Not even an inkling of what it might be?

Intruder: Whatever it is, it was made using advanced knowledge and an Author didn’t make it… which means a Redactor did, due to the seal on its container. Only Redactors and Auditors can use that symbol, and Auditors cannot alter your physical space.

Lagantis: Goddamn it, we have a Redactor getting involved now?

Intruder: You already had one interfering. The Rat King was here.

Lagantis: I mean on THEIR side.

You: Should we assume that the creature’s hostile?

Intruder: Yes.

What should you do?

- Attempt contact with the creature

- Attack it

- Observe first

- Send in Spec Ops to recover the outhouse

- Distract the creature with a drone while Spec Ops nabs the Chamber of Horrors

- Attack the creature AND the Chamber of Horrors.

- Wait for the creature to separate itself from the outhouse, then nab the outhouse.

- Something else.

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