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Metroid V Quest
- Thread starter Leila Hann
- Start date
- Sci-Fi
- Location
- Somewhere over the Rainbow
So... What exactly are the protocols we saw?
I noted one is basically racial bias in relation to 'Chozo' (I know there's another term that means this, but I can't remember it off the top of my head)... Which would explain the conversation earlier on we had.
[x] when facing enemies under a certain danger level (anything but top tier), if no supermissles are needed to destroy them - use Missles. We want to ensure we have Super Missles for later, since we might not be able to restock before Final Boss.
[x] Scan Holtz mass
[x] when we head down, keep an eye on the pockets in the walls. The acid (radioactive waste) could possibly be dumped on us, or there could be foes hiding in there.
I noted one is basically racial bias in relation to 'Chozo' (I know there's another term that means this, but I can't remember it off the top of my head)... Which would explain the conversation earlier on we had.
[x] when facing enemies under a certain danger level (anything but top tier), if no supermissles are needed to destroy them - use Missles. We want to ensure we have Super Missles for later, since we might not be able to restock before Final Boss.
[x] Scan Holtz mass
[x] when we head down, keep an eye on the pockets in the walls. The acid (radioactive waste) could possibly be dumped on us, or there could be foes hiding in there.
[X] Scan Holtz mass, drain if useful. Scan hidden Fireblood chambers.
Also, because I'm a sucker for diplomacy:
[X] Tell the Heir Apparent to consider you a melitanzo-class Chozo Servitor, and ask it to stand down and tell you its demands.
Hopefully, Samus won't have too many issues with calling herself Not Technically Chozo. The language difference might help - the redefinition isn't internal, after all.
Also, because I'm a sucker for diplomacy:
[X] Tell the Heir Apparent to consider you a melitanzo-class Chozo Servitor, and ask it to stand down and tell you its demands.
Hopefully, Samus won't have too many issues with calling herself Not Technically Chozo. The language difference might help - the redefinition isn't internal, after all.
13th Bee
Worker
- Location
- Tennessee, USA.
Oh god, not this shit again. We are not doing that again.
[X] No trying to fucking talk to the enemy.
Barondoctor
The things I chase come to me.
- Location
- The other side of the mirror
- Pronouns
- He/His/Him
Diplomacy, particularly in this case, has been called "the art of soothingly saying 'nice doggy' while you find a big enough stick."
With that in mind:
[X] Tell the Heir Apparent to consider you a melitanzo-class Chozo Servitor, and ask it to stand down and tell you its demands.
-[X] Scan it thoroughly (combat assessment) while doing so.
If diplomacy works, great. If not? Figuring out how to kill it better.
How's that, @13th Fleet ?
13th Bee
Worker
- Location
- Tennessee, USA.
No. It's still freaking dumb.
- Location
- Patriarchova
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I don't see what we would scan, why the enemy would stand down even if it considered us such a servitor, or how we would attempt to say any of this to the enemy in the first place.
- Location
- Patriarchova
Some are much further along than others. Either way, they won't be combat ready until they get their exteriors added (which takes several more hours).
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cB557
voOOP
Was thinking if any of them are going to be taken to armoring soon, we might remove them. Not to keep them from being finished, but so that another one would start being grown right away. If they'll get taken away before we can sap their health from them they're no use to us, so I figured we could just get the next one growing sooner.
- Location
- Here and there
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] Tell the Heir Apparent to consider you a melitanzo-class Chozo Servitor, and ask it to stand down and tell you its demands.
-[X] Scan it thoroughly (combat assessment) while doing so.
Talking is a free action.
-[X] Scan it thoroughly (combat assessment) while doing so.
Talking is a free action.
Talking certainly wasn't a free action the last time we tried to talk to this thing.
- Location
- Here and there
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Talking is *mostly* a free action.
13th Bee
Worker
- Location
- Tennessee, USA.
The last time we tried talking, it was a complete clusterfuck and the people participating in the quest at the time were gullible idiots. Trying to talk to enemy again is fucking retarded. If a dog almost bit your hand off when you tried to pet it, you have to be an imbecile to try petting it again the very next day.
This is a Metroid quest modeled after the games. Metroid is not a series where you talk to your enemies. Pretty much the only things that are ever exchanged between Samus and her enemies are attempts to kill one another. Samus's wholesale slaughter of her foes has always been and still is the correct course of action in the end. The closest to it being a mistake is her extermination of the Metroids, which unbeknownst to her were keeping the X-Parasites contained, but they were still a grave threat that needed to be destroyed to ensure the safety of the universe.
cB557
voOOP
While I'm skeptical of trying to reason with the enemy here, I don't think we should take the option off the table completely. Yeah, it's not something you can normally do in the games, but it is something you can do in a quest. Going off the intended route is one of the coolest things with these sorts of role playing games, it seems a shame to just dismiss the option entirely.
- Location
- Here and there
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Plus there's still way too many maybe's. Fusion has taught us that we really can't trust up front mission objectives.
Puzzle Tiem
- Location
- Patriarchova
[X] Tell the Heir Apparent to consider you a melitanzo-class Chozo Servitor, and ask it to stand down and tell you its demands.
[x] when we head down, keep an eye on the pockets in the walls. The acid (radioactive waste) could possibly be dumped on us, or there could be foes hiding in there.
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Perhaps you hadn't taken the right approach with this entity last time. Or, even if you did, desperation might make it more amenable to diplomacy now.
"I'm a subordinate melitanzo," you broadcast, without lowering your armcannon or your awareness, "the chozo are my masters. We can talk about our goals. We might not need to be enemies."
No response.
Considering your next words, you float down to the central platform and begin scanning the walls. The DEV reveals a path extending beyond each, blocked after a short distance by paired orange barrier shields; you doubt a power bomb will be able to bleedthrough enough energy to flicker both simultaneously. A pair of violas hover in wait before each blockade.
[x] when we head down, keep an eye on the pockets in the walls. The acid (radioactive waste) could possibly be dumped on us, or there could be foes hiding in there.
...
Perhaps you hadn't taken the right approach with this entity last time. Or, even if you did, desperation might make it more amenable to diplomacy now.
"I'm a subordinate melitanzo," you broadcast, without lowering your armcannon or your awareness, "the chozo are my masters. We can talk about our goals. We might not need to be enemies."
No response.
Considering your next words, you float down to the central platform and begin scanning the walls. The DEV reveals a path extending beyond each, blocked after a short distance by paired orange barrier shields; you doubt a power bomb will be able to bleedthrough enough energy to flicker both simultaneously. A pair of violas hover in wait before each blockade.
You are unsurprised when all four paths begin spilling fireblood into the central chamber through a set of valve pipes far too small for the morph ball, causing the level to rise. You only have a minute or two before it fills up.
"Perhaps we can talk later," you broadcast.
GO:
[] Write in.
SCAN:
[] You may subject one or more objects in this room to more intensive sensor scanning.
....
ENERGY: 915/1,200
MISSILES: 240/250
SUPER MISSILES: 22/30
POWER BOMBS: 30/30
"Perhaps we can talk later," you broadcast.
GO:
[] Write in.
SCAN:
[] You may subject one or more objects in this room to more intensive sensor scanning.
....
ENERGY: 915/1,200
MISSILES: 240/250
SUPER MISSILES: 22/30
POWER BOMBS: 30/30
- Location
- Here and there
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[x] Scan the pipes.
If we can freeze them up/melt them closed, that provides some options.
If we can freeze them up/melt them closed, that provides some options.
