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[Prosperus]

Continue helping Bishop

[Corsair]

Snap out of coma of inactivity and help bishop

[piecewise]

Hmm... That's interesting. Symbiotes? A colony? Multi-specied organism? I wonder what they eat...

Let's try giving some food to the blobs. See if it gets better then. Give one of them some of the food from the fridge and the other a rock like the one the rock lice were eating. Let both of them on the sack first. If nothing happens after a while, push them further in, but do not break the sack.

Also, I had some drones (along with other crap) in my exosuit's backpack, did any of those survive?

I'm depositing 2 gel-sea goo-sacks (one of them has a black tower sample in it and is marked for size changes), black tower samples from sector 18 and 15, black dome air samples from sector 16, ground and air samples from the dry lakebed on sector 15 and ground samples from where the giant laser-firing glass-tower thing left holes on the ground from walking with its spike-legs and some molten ground I got after the thing vaporized itself.
Did I get any of the air samples I requested from the orange goo before it got free? If so, I'm depositing them there too.

Also, here's what I have in the vaults in my work-in-progress notes, including what I'm depositing now:

Spoiler: Lab (click to show/hide)

-Ground samples from sector 1 & 3[Flint Westwood] TESTED
   --"Well, your acid testing reveals that your rock samples are a complex blend of things, but that they are porous, igneous rocks  resemble Gabbro but lack olivine in any significant amount. They don't have any unique qualities that set them apart from normal terrestrial stone, although it does hint that the surface here is the result of some sort of volcanic upwelling, since this material only forms underground at high pressures."
      ---Simus
-Ground samples from rock lice feeding grounds (sector 5) [Simus] TESTED
   --Contains organic material
-Rock digested by rock lice (sector 5) [Simus] TESTED
   --Lacks orgainc material
-Small blueraditite artifacts [Anton Chernozorov, Michael Alexander] TESTED
   --Test results logged in the artifacts section
-Iron samples from the iron sea (sector 5) [Auron Kell, Michael Alexander] TESTED
   --Probably an Iron-nickel alloy, contains carbon-silicon impurities
-Dead and dissected rock lice [Simus, Lukas, Miyamoto]
   --Test results logged in the artifacts section
-Orange goo sample MISSING
   --See the artifacts section for more info
-Ground and air samples from the dry lakebed (sector 15) [Flint Westwood]
-2 gel-sea goo-sacks (sector 19) [Flint Westwood]
   --One of them has a black tower sample in it and is marked for size changes
-Black tower samples from sector 18 and 15 [Flint Westwood]
-Black dome air samples (sector 16) [Flint Westwood]
-Ground samples from where the colossus walked [Flint Westwood]
-Molten ground sample (from after the base disaster)
   --See the "Attack of the colossus" event in the events section for more info
-? Orange goo air sample? [Flint Westwood]

((Some people (Miyamoto?) also caught some bugs and bug skeletons in sector 19 but I don't think they deposited them. Bishop has a sample of liquid crystal from sector 16. There is a large blueraditite near the zone 1-6 boundary. Vich has a pink tree sample and pink mist sample. And these are all the samples I have noted. Tell me if I'm forgetting anything.))

You can assume the backpack survived.

Your first test shows that the organisms will eat human food, but won't eat rock. Interesting. The addition of food also seems to reinvigorate the surviving organisms to a degree.

You deposit your samples- which you keep documented much better then the universe, it seems- in the vault.

More boulders.

[str:2]
You can't even manage to push a single rock. Mostly because you can't even stand up. You just sort of drag yourself around using your chin a little bit.

awaken from real life induced coma.
fix program, paint yellow stripes on gilgamesh in cool angular patterns.

[aux:2+1]
[Handi:5-1]
You continue not being able to figure out how to do anything with computer. How do computer?

Your attempts to pimp Miyamoto's ride works pretty well. Though you can't stop yourself from adding some flames and a wizard riding a unicorn. Really, why the hell would you paint a machine and NOT add that?

((Lars caught a mostly-eaten-and-broken black tower beetle shell, and probably some dirt from other sectors, but I think that's about it.  Also, trying to get a dust sample but failures.  At least my 1/3 str bonus saved me from seriouser failure.))


Lars bounced and rolled.  "Algis ow save oof me!  Steve, may your dammit light shine shit on me!  Ow!"


Get control of self.  Orient to Vich.

[dex:1]
[End:2]
The wind keeps you tumbling, bouncing on the stones till one catches you just right in the ribs. You like someone's taken a sharpened sledgehammer to your side and you taste copper.

((I have a lot of samples from right now, but other than that, Flint seemed intent on always posting an action first, and going on a sample frenzy. I think I've got the salt crystal samples from where the shuttle-half lay. (not the underground ones, Flint+Bishop got those.) I think I've also got the air sample from where the Colossus lake was, before I disturbed it.

Also, did I miss somewhere the peanuts from the Black Towers, and the beetle that was caught there? Maybe the beetle evaporated with the shuttle, but the peanuts that Flint wanted to eat should remain.

By the way, does camera footage make any difference in tokens? Because I remember making sure that all the different anomalies we saw were captured on drones/cameras.))

"Third.. I mean, B, negative. Or so I remember. Though if you're thinking of transfusions, I think I'd rather walk or sleep it off."

((I really like how you're managing to consistently sneak in these cultural tidbits. Keep up the good work.))

"Lars, what the bloody hell happened? You haven't even reached the storms yet!"

Which direction is Lars rolling? To the storms, to the sides, etc?
How fast is he rolling?

Hurry up with my Syndrome afflicted friend to where the Lars is. If he's rolling to the side of the storms, also run to the side to keep up with him. Try not to cross the invisible boundary yet, by keeping a fair distance away from it.

By the way, and I think it's important, would Lars have been caught like this if he was using the pole/rocks to feel his way forward? Because I think that at this point we can pretty much assume that we are always doing it, whenever exploring unknown territory.
On the same page, would it have affected the inky thing almost-disaster?

(Camera footage might get you more if you get some really good stuff.)

Also no, the wind just caught him. As it will catch you if you go anywhere near lars. If you have a good str roll you'll manage to stay on your feet. If not, you'll go rolling. There's no real "Invisible boundary".

Continue filling up the crater, breaking rocks down if needed. Then, head north to the white domes area, via route of the slow-zone passthrough.

((Isn't there a clear-ish path to the white domes with a possible cave system area? I seem to have lost the map link. We do have the map available, right?))

You continue rolling boulders like a very confused dung beetle. The hole is half full now.

Bishop turned to look at his biological 'help'.

"Does it look like we're done? There's still a big ass hole in the wall, so I'd say no."

Continue working on the wall like last time. Take extra care to not have anyone stand under any of the bits that are going up higher on the wall incase they fall.

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[Handi:4+1]
Bishop and his manual labor manage to completely rebuild the garage wall. All thats left to do is pressurize the room.

 

Do repair stuff.  Suddenly wonder about the whereabouts of my pet hand.

"Uuuhhhoookay. It's official, my head isn't working right now. I'm going to lie down and try to focus. Mesk, do me a favor and don't do anything with those replacements until we've got a working one. I'd rather have no leg than have one I can't properly use. Although I should probably do something about the suit..."

See if there are any materials on hand that could be used to seal up the MkI in its current condition, and try applying them if there are. Get Mesk to help. Then lie down and keep recovering lost blood until my head is clearer.

Your pet hand is probably still in the barracks around here.
[anton handi:1+1]
[Mesk handi:4]

Anton attempts to repair his suit but just spends the entire time flailing his hands at the open stump of a suit, doing literally nothing.

And then mesk, probably feeling sorry for him, just seals suit shut around his leg stump and hands him a crutch.

"Have fun, gimpy."

[Thearpox]

((Well, how am I supposed to know (i.e.: tell you) if we caught any good stuff? That stuff with the fog changing around the tree as we took out a chunk, was that any good? Or anything else, really?))

Not good. Well, he doesn't seem to be handing this very well, so will need to get to him. But better not to rush on this.
 

Try to minimize the chance of being blown away by not standing on my feet, but crawling forward on my fours.
Also crawl in such a way as to not be hit by wind sideways, but the opposite of sideways, (kill my English,) even if it means crawling with a bent.
The scatter-brain is coming with me as a backup.

[Toaster]

((You don't know if a sample was useful until the end of the mission.  Really, you may not ever know- the only feedback you're likely to get is the fluctuation of your token reward.))

Lars winced.  That hurt.  "Brother Vich, I fear I have broken something.  I may need to see a disciple of Emar-i sometime soon."

Stop the damn roll!  Stabilize position enough to start trying to get out of here.

[Thearpox]

((The problem was, if you forgot, that Piecewise lost his damn artifact data, and we had to remind him what we had. So there is a very meta reason why we should know if anything was important.))

"I'm coming for you, or at least trying to. Rather slowly, might I add. Do try to stop rolling in the meanwhile."

[Tavik Toth]

Pressurise room.

[kisame12794]

Rest, then go check the side of the gravity well that was opposite where the crystal used to be.

((Wow. A perfect descending string of rolls. Wonder what the odds of that are.))

[Parisbre56]

((Wow. A perfect descending string of rolls. Wonder what the odds of that are.))

1/(6^6)=1/46656=approximately 0.00002=0.002%

[PyroDesu]

((The lab umbilical's walls are going to end up no longer existing, being replaced with nearly pure weld spots by the time we're done on this planetoid, I'll bet.

On the plus side, we'll have no issues with contacting Steve when he arrives to pick us up!))

Cut a hole for the antenna, get it outside, then seal the hole back up again.

[kisame12794]

((Wow. A perfect descending string of rolls. Wonder what the odds of that are.))

1/(6^6)=1/46656=approximately 0.00002=0.002%

((Damn you and your science.))

[Thearpox]

((Wow. A perfect descending string of rolls. Wonder what the odds of that are.))

1/(6^6)=1/46656=approximately 0.00002=0.002%

((Damn you and your science.))

((The correct question would be: What is the chance of a string of rolls that will make us wonder what were the chances of that string happening. If you've heard of Black Swan, you know exactly what I'm talking about.))

[Unholy_Pariah]

fix program, if unsuccessful repeatedly start from scratch until useable program is made.

[Doomblade187]

"You see, this is why you shouldn't send a flesh-body to do a robot's job. Though to be fair, I do miss my old body a bit."

Finish filling the hole, then start on my way north via the pass in the speed-modifying zones.

[Parisbre56]

((The correct question would be: What is the chance of a string of rolls that will make us wonder what were the chances of that string happening. If you've heard of Black Swan, you know exactly what I'm talking about.))

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

((I don't know what that black swan is, however
Chances=Desirable outcomes/Possible outcomes
Assuming the possible outcomes are not infinite, due to the fact that the time one can live is not infinite, then you just need to know the number of desirable outcomes, ie the ones that will make someone wonder. However such knowledge is extremely hard for a human to attain, since they involve knowledge of the human mind and many other hidden variables.
So you're better off getting an estimate of those chances by performing experiments with different people and different strings of rolls to get an estimate of the threshold or the conditions which make a certain string of rolls seem improbable to a certain human, then combine those info with estimates about the psychology of the average human (or better yet the average Bay12 forum member) and that's it. You have your estimate.
Or you can rig the game. Remember all the strings of rolls that have come up during the course of the game and always wonder about the chances of that particular string of rolls happening, thus ensuring 100% chance of someone wondering, since you'll always wonder.))

((Any mistakes?))