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[shadenight123]

"Because they hurt people I care for, they are evil," Cerulean replies, holding a smile on her face. "And people who are evil must be killed, right dad? I mean...if the 'good' can torture me because they're 'good', then if we who are 'evil' see someone else doing 'evil', we should make them suffer even more, right? We should break them, butcher them, torture them, kill them...we should smile and smash their faces, cave their skulls, farm their bones and make sticks to stab them on the ground, we should..." she sniffles for a moment, "We really should make an example out of them, right dad? So they learn they can't take things away from me. It's all their fault Lionel died. SO they all have to pay. Mom's right. Humans really are inferior creatures who must be purged from the face of the world. We're going to kill them all, right dad?"

If Yes.

Cerulean Cruelty Mode Unlocked

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+1 bonus in Destruction-related success when tied to making someone suffer.

If No.

Nothing Earned

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...Will the Story prevail over the Bonus, will the Bonus prevail over the story. Will something be unlocked later, will something Not be unlocked later...ah...decisions.

[Gamerlord]

EMPHATICALLY NO.

She needs to understand that it's their minds that make them weak and it's their minds that must change.

[javierpwn]

No!
Humans are bad, but we can't kill them all! What else would we use to test our most volatile mutagens?

[Knit tie]

Is this even a question?

No.

We are not cruel.

Also, Cerulean needs help. Lots of it.

[Cattani]

Is she still fucked up in the mind?
As promissed, I'm not suggesting anything. But we already had lots of talks and gave her lots of examples in how to have standards and not be a heartless bitch. She just won't get it, right?

[Gamerlord]

You're earning yourself a oneway trip to Castration Land Cattani; tread carefully.

[shadenight123]

"But..." she sniffles. "It just...it hurts. How do you cope with it Dad? It hurts so much...losing someone. But I...I get what you're saying Dad, we'll capture humans and make them monsters, so they'll become better. Humans are inferior, monsters are superior." she sniffles a bit more, and then carefully surfs away. You don't know what she'll do after this talk, but at least it appears her 'let us burn the humans to death' phase was nipped in the bud.

You should decide whether you want to reinforce your troops, and if so how many of 'what' precisely.

You are still in Upkeep

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Ohi. I'm sure the intent was just to joke on it, Gamerlord, but no personal attacks on any suggesters. Ever. Everyone has the right to express their suggestions, questions and doubts.

[Gamerlord]

Sorry, it was a joke. Mostly. Maybe.

[shadenight123]

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It's really not a problem. I didn't quite catch why that 'Lordship' forum game failed or not, but with suggestion games I know the principle cause is infighting between the different sides and I really don't want to close this game in particular (I used 'Lordship' as an example, no need to explain to me why it closed). I try to do as the majority wishes for, but if there are any problems just speak to me plainly about them. I try to keep a fair outlook on things, but I am just human and can make mistakes. And Cerulean's 'path to sanity' is a long one. She might reach it. She might not.
It's all on the suggesters' shoulders.
The more suggesters are interested in a character, the more I work on it and give it more fluff-limelight. In the end, as always, the choice is to the reader/suggester.

[Knit tie]

Well, to begin with, we should explain to Cerulean that making others suffer does not make one feel better, it instead creates a self-replicating prion disease of revenge and misery that ultimately destroys everyone's lives with no one benefitting. We then should reming her that we, and her mother, and lord Gamington, and Psysquid, will always be there for her (we are much harder to kill than flying puppies, for starters) and that she can always come and cry into our robes, or Psysquid's robes, or Chemista's goo when she feels pain and that she can always learn cog-tinkering with us, do science with Chemista and dance with Gamington when she feels happiness. Anguish is not lessened by focusing on that which is lost, as it happens with vengeance, it is fought by reminding oneself what one still has.

As for troop augmentation, give cogs assault rifles. Probably give guardogs machineguns too.

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Threatening people with castration is so 19th century, by the way.

[Gamerlord]

-snip-

+1

[Cain12]

Well I think she deserves revenge and should bury any lasting commitments or reminders of her old life so she can try to start fresh, but the whole butcher thing was a tad too psycho, suggest kidnaping a therapist or something for her?

Well, to begin with, we should explain to Cerulean that making others suffer does not make one feel better, it instead creates a self-replicating prion disease of revenge and misery that ultimately destroys everyone's lives with no one benefitting. We then should reming her that we, and her mother, and lord Gamington, and Psysquid, will always be there for her (we are much harder to kill than flying puppies, for starters) and that she can always come and cry into our robes, or Psysquid's robes, or Chemista's goo when she feels pain and that she can always learn cog-tinkering with us, do science with Chemista and dance with Gamington when she feels happiness. Anguish is not lessened by focusing on that which is lost, as it happens with vengeance, it is fought by reminding oneself what one still has.

As for troop augmentation, give cogs assault rifles. Probably give guardogs machineguns too.

+1, guess we should collect those tears now for when we do the sacrifice thing?

[Naryar]

We don't have assault rifles, nor machine guns. What we have is sonic equipment that can be mounted on a dirigible, and what we can do is try to miniaturize.

although what baffles me is how many gun-using mooks we have defeated, and we haven't looted any firepower, nor armor.

I'm pretty sure we would get shotguns while helping the hillibillies either.

anyways,

Sacrifice Mauve's robes with Cerulean's tears.
Build a training room.
See what we have to improve our troops.

[shadenight123]

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I was actually asking if you want to build more cogs this turn, and if so of what type.
You know...troop reinforcements.

You decide to tinker with the idea of giving Cogs assault rifles, but you'd have to buy them and find an arms dealer and all that stuff. Then you realize a simple truth: why give it to them when you can build them into them? And why not do the same with Guardogs?
Hence, you prepare the blueprints for:

Assault Cog: Skills Unknown.
Machinegun Guardog: 0.25 Des attack, 0.50 Des defense minimum (probably) -real skills unknown.

You can probably build one of each this turn in Upkeep, and probably a maximum of Three per 'Full' Turn. (Upkeep+Downkeep)

After a few minutes of looking for a sulking Goo teenager, you finally find her toying with 'small' Behemoth Catfishes. Apparently, the eggs finally hatched.

Two Behemoth Catfishes acquired

"You know what you can do to make the pain go away?" you say carefully, staying behind Cerulean who doesn't turn around, but perks her ears. "Instead of sulking, you could learn something to keep your mind occupied. Something like..."

Gamington.
Chemista.
Psysquid.
Me.
Other?

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Saw your post Naryar, but I'm resolving first the Cerulean situation then moving up with the 'sacrifice Mauve stuff' and the likes.

[Eotyrannus]

Helping us and Chemista think of and create some useful-around-the-base things (mutant or Cog), which wouldn't get brought into combat and hurt.