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[Eotyrannus]

WAIT! This could just strengthen the resolve of other heroes to kill us. By doing this, we break the Moral Event Horison.

Instead, take the higher moral ground. Leave her a note, and try to convince her that there's something wrong with heroes. They treat us like we're not human, like we don't deserve to live. And yet, we've been right next to her bed, and we've let her live.

If there's one thing we want, it's our lives. If we can prevent drawing the anger from killing a child, and get a heroic Hero who will keep us alive and bring us to prison if we lose, then that's far better than many, many angered Heroes, including Heroic Heroes.

[shadenight123]

And so you nod to Chemista, who takes out a syringe filled with a deep green liquid and injects it into the girl's IV.
"We should leave now," Chemista states plainly. You nod and, with the rest of your troop, head towards the exit.
You manage to reach the rooftop, and enter your zeppelin. It is just as it departs, and you're about to leave the Asylum behind, that you hear an ear piercing howl.
You look through the glass of the Zeppelin back down, where Knighthowl stands in the courtyard of the facility looking up to where you all are.
"OVERLORD! I WILL FIND YOU!" he roars, "AND I WILL AVENGE THE HERO!" he thrusts his sword shining brightly upwards. "REMEMBER MY WORDS OVERLORD! I WILL NOT HAVE PEACE UNTIL YOU DIE!"
"He has a thing for theatrics, doesn't he?" Chemista remarks dryly from your side.
You give a nod and then return to your position in the Zeppelin. You now have to wonder...how did Psysquid's own go?

The Supremely Beautiful and Intelligent Psysquid and his Wonderful Diary of Evilness. Excerpt

"The mission proceeds well, my dear Diary Bob," he remarks, before looking out of the window. "Escorted as I am by Squidconda -who winks at me through the glass whenever she can- and the Catfish Behemoth -who appears to be bored out of his wits- we will find a nice place to let our submarine's torpedoes detonate in the hope of finding something important."
A city filled with ruins and ancient evils lurks in the background, but Psysquid is too busy writing on his diary to notice.
"I admit this trip appears completely eventless..."
the bright city of Atlantis stands in the background, but once more Psysquid doesn't see it.
"And I wonder if moving dirt will be all that detonating a bit of the sea level will do," mermaids and tritons pass by laughing, but Psysquid is busy writing and humming, so he doesn't hear them.
"The ecosystem is admittedly sane, and completely lacking in pollution."
Barrels of radioactive waste -sealed barrels of radioactive waste- float by harmlessly.
"I can't help but wonder if it will all change after...ah, enough is enough!" Psysquid roars. "FIRE THE TORPEDOES! HIT SOMETHING OR NOT, IT'S ENOUGH!"

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1d12= 4 + (0.5 Dark Advisor) + 2 (Behemoth Catfish-size) + 1 (Aquatic) + 0.25 (Squidconda)= 7.75

The torpedoes fire.
An underwater mountain cracks apart.
Shining veins of Precious Metals appear!
There is a loud crack, as on the sea bed a bright light starts to shine. Magic Crystals found!
Laughing, Psysquid fist-pumps. "Yes! Finally!"
Then he turns and leaves, ignoring the babbling curses the awoken Cthulhu snarls at Atlantis in the background while the mermaid and tritons attack them both.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

this fluff-mission bit came from Monkey Island's intro scene in the Third Game.

Weather the Storm

You return home, half-expecting Gamington to have put up a Disco party.
He actually has, but it's more of a Karaoke.
"Let's go! Tunz-tunz-tunz!
I am the Gaming Lord!
I am Gamingtonlord!
Is someone's as hot as me? NO!
Is someone as sexy as me? NO!
I am the dancer number one,
I am the charmer number one,
I am a Dark Advisor!
Yoh baby, lick my visor?"

You crack your knuckles.
Gamington turns sheepishly. "Oh Computing...Overlordness! You have come back! I wasn't bored! At aaalllll! Psysquid came back early too, said it was extremely boring his mission! Nothing happened and we can now Upgrade the Base with Underwater-Mining Facilities tomorrow, if you want!"

Cerulean slowly slides inside her room, quietly avoiding any mean of dinner.
Chemista shrugs and heads off to her laboratory. "When you wish to mutate the Scientist, tell me with what, Your Evilness."
"Oh right," Gamington exclaims. "When you want to design new stuff, talk with me your Evilness!"
"Is the Overlord back?" Psysquid appears exhaling loudly from a hallway. "There's some news you might want to hear on the television right about now!"
You run in front of the television, where Knighthowl stands apparently holding on to his sword as a half-scared interviewer holds the microphone close to his jaws.

"PEOPLE OF B-CITY!" he roars, "THE OVERLORD HAS RETURNED! We must bound together to fight such a monster! Already, a young and innocent girl died and her spirit cries out for revenge! B-city! I plead of you to keep your eyes peeled and notify back immediately when you see the Overlord! That monster cannot be allowed to live!"
The newscast then turns to the man in the studio.
"From Heroes-News channel, this is Superhero Casternews, with the last news on heroes and Overlord activity."
"Tell me Casternews," a small children speaks from the back of the camera. "Is the Overlord going to kill me too?"
"No little Timmy, he won't! Remember kids, when in danger against a monster, you must find it in yourself to scream as hard as you can! But something even better is available! Ask your parents to buy the HEROCALLER! A supreme and beautiful device that will call a hero, who will answer as fast as he can! To hear more about the device, call One-O-One- One-One-One-Two-Two-Two-One-Zero-BOOM! Remember, the price of Twenty-Nine dollars and Ninety-Nine cents is available only to those willing to participate in the 'Discover your Hero Self' programs! Remember, from nine pm to six am, Newscaster Casternews is here for you children!"
"Yeahyyy Hurray for Casternews!"
Then the television is turned off.

"That bastard," Chemista holds on to the remote, before surfing out of the room.
You frown. There seemed to be a bit of a history behind that gesture.

You are now in Upkeep.

[Eotyrannus]

Research Knighthowl. Figure out if THE HERO was the girl, or someone else.

If we can do it with absolutely no risk to ourselves, our base or anything apart from a single minion, send a message to HEROES.

'We are more alike than you think. You take advantage of grief-stricken children by hammering it into their minds that they should find and kill those who are Evil. You train them to be murderers, on a never-ending quest for vengeance for a crime that they will one day commit against us. Your job should be to protect the innocent by finding the willing, and teaching them to keep Evil at bay. That girl would have grown up to be a murderer, and because of you, I had to help her escape that life. And, because I value my own, there was only one possible way. Do you remember those five Magical Girls? They didn't try to kill us, and all of them lived. We even took one in, and gave her a family, like any young girl should have, and what those girls didn't have. Remember that Fairy? The Fairy killed that girl's adopted parents in an instant, and made her wish to kill any Hero in her path. We told her that we are Evil, not Cruel. You Heroes would have encouraged her.

Teach them to save lives instead.

*BUNNYWITHCIGARSIGNHERE*

[Knit tie]

We should talk to Creulean. Explain to her that causing needless death and suffering can only lead to more suffering, that we should not be like heroes, brutally murdering everything that opposes us. That girl could have lived a full, happy life, but after her mind was broken by the sight of her mother being digested alive, the only thing we could do was euthanise her. Tell our daughter that vengeance is a never ending cycle that takes people's lives by the hundreds and hungers for more, and that whenever we kill someone, we do it only because there was no better choice. In the end, ask her if she has learned her lesson. Regardless of the answer, hug her affectionately and say that we only want the best for her.

And cross the scientist with a succubus.

EDIT: Also try to make catfishes terrestrial via human DNA and summon a hydraulic succubus. We could buy a mail-order wench, right?

EDITEDIT: If we do not know that Cerulean digested a woman alive at the supermarket, infer that from the guards' chatter or simply confront our daughter and ask her if she knew the girl.

[Imp]

We didn't lose any cogs this previous uptime.  We can automatically replace up to 10, right?

Sacrifice a hodgepodge of 'replaceable stuff'.  The number of cogs we can automatically replace - assuming we can manage that many in a single act of sacrifice without expecting their resistance to succeed in saving them or disrupting the sacrifice, if not, default down to the number we can control in sacrifice.  As well as a few of our new magic crystals and a few of our new precious metals.  One of the kidnapped pets that we have not yet done anything with, a puppy as perhaps we have more dogs than anything else?  And a pint of our own blood.  If possible sacrifice all of this as a single offering.

None of these things is irreplaceable to us.  Though we surely prize our own blood quite highly, we will easily replace it in the weeks to come.  This combined offering forms a large and rather generous sacrifice, especially compared to the previous attempt.  It will surely show us a hint of what the best we can expect from 'easily replaceable things', and whatever we get from it should be useful to us and different from what we already have.

[Tomcost]

We should try to sacrifice a bunch of cog minions to see what we get.

But DON'T do this, it's excessive.

Sacrifice a hodgepodge of 'replaceable stuff'.  The number of cogs we can automatically replace - assuming we can manage that many in a single act of sacrifice without expecting their resistance to succeed in saving them or disrupting the sacrifice, if not, default down to the number we can control in sacrifice.  As well as a few of our new magic crystals and a few of our new precious metals.  One of the kidnapped pets that we have not yet done anything with, a puppy as perhaps we have more dogs than anything else?  And a pint of our own blood.  If possible sacrifice all of this as a single offering.

Regarding our general strategy, we should try to lower our profile, you know, so that we don't get chased by crazy heroes. Spending the nextmission turn building underwater will help with this.

[sjm9876]

Enquire as to Chemista's history with the newscaster.

Scientist + succubus  (If we have any succubus mutagen left, what with them being dead.)

[Knit tie]

[bias]I still think we should summon a hydraulic succubus. They are pretty much the game's mascots and have brought us useful stuff from every mission where they were not brutally murdered. I'd even suggest we summon one to keep around the base - they give bonuses to rolls involving technology and will help us corrupt whatever hostages we may capture in the future. We can even order her to pretend that she is the late Isabella - poor Cerulean can use some good news right now. [/bias]
In all fairness though, they are useful on run-and-grab and kidnaping missions.

Research the magic crystals and their properties along with the methods of banising demons - so that we can save them if they are about to be killed and easily remove them if they get uppity.

[wer6]

Enquire as to Chemista's history with the newscaster.

Scientist + succubus  (If we have any succubus mutagen left, what with them being dead.)

This.

Build up the base.

We didn't lose any cogs this previous uptime.  We can automatically replace up to 10, right?

Sacrifice a hodgepodge of 'replaceable stuff'.  The number of cogs we can automatically replace - assuming we can manage that many in a single act of sacrifice without expecting their resistance to succeed in saving them or disrupting the sacrifice, if not, default down to the number we can control in sacrifice.  As well as a few of our new magic crystals and a few of our new precious metals.  One of the kidnapped pets that we have not yet done anything with, a puppy as perhaps we have more dogs than anything else?  And a pint of our own blood.  If possible sacrifice all of this as a single offering.

None of these things is irreplaceable to us.  Though we surely prize our own blood quite highly, we will easily replace it in the weeks to come.  This combined offering forms a large and rather generous sacrifice, especially compared to the previous attempt.  It will surely show us a hint of what the best we can expect from 'easily replaceable things', and whatever we get from it should be useful to us and different from what we already have.

This +1

amd

[bias]I still think we should summon a hydraulic succubus. They are pretty much the game's mascots and have brought us useful stuff from every mission where they were not brutally murdered. I'd even suggest we summon one to keep around the base - they give bonuses to rolls involving technology and will help us corrupt whatever hostages we may capture in the future.[/bias]

Research the magic crystals and their properties along with the methods of banising demons - so that we can save them if they are about to be killed and easily remove them if they get uppity.

+1

[sjm9876]

We didn't lose any cogs this previous uptime.  We can automatically replace up to 10, right?

Sacrifice a hodgepodge of 'replaceable stuff'.  The number of cogs we can automatically replace - assuming we can manage that many in a single act of sacrifice without expecting their resistance to succeed in saving them or disrupting the sacrifice, if not, default down to the number we can control in sacrifice.  As well as a few of our new magic crystals and a few of our new precious metals.  One of the kidnapped pets that we have not yet done anything with, a puppy as perhaps we have more dogs than anything else?  And a pint of our own blood.  If possible sacrifice all of this as a single offering.

None of these things is irreplaceable to us.
-snip-

I'm not sure this will work. The fact we are prepared to offer it itself shows we don't value it as highly as what we hope to receive. A sacrifice of this kind would probably only work well when we HAVE to because we're desperate.
 Thinking along the lines of the succubus summoning, we should probably try something more symbolic.

 Perhaps a dog and a cat together? even if the rest of this is rubbish, I still propose we sacrifice a dog and cat together.

[Knit tie]

Going for an overkill summoning might not be prudent if we are not sure that whatever we summon wouldn't be too much for us to control. As for the value of our sacrifices, I believe their material worth also counts - the demons might not value money, but I have never read about an extraplanar entity that does not like magic crystals.

EDIT: Or how about sacrificing a wrench in wench blood along with a cat? Catgirl hydraulic succubus FTW!

[Tomcost]

Going for an overkill summoning might not be prudent if we are not sure that whatever we summon wouldn't be too much for us to control. As for the value of our sacrifices, I believe their material worth also counts - the demons might not value money, but I have never read about an extraplanar entity that does not like magic crystals.

This is one of the most sensible things that has been posted regarding sacrifices.

[shadenight123]

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I made a mistake last update. It is 'You are now in DOWNKEEP'
Sorry, sorry.
You still don't have the 'Wench' blood.
You do have a Wrench though.
You don't have Female Blood. But you can try your own or use the scientist's one before mutating him.
Or you can try Psysquid's blood or Psysquid himself.
Of course, that would mean 'strapping him to the altar' and all of that. Cogs are alive too, and programmed with Self-Preservation instincts. They will fight back even if one alone.
You don't have magic crystals YET, or stronger metals. You have to build the upgrade to mine the resources and have it. So this turn, you can't use them.
So, to recap and taking the majority of votes are:

Sacrifice Cat and Dog: 1 voter.
Sacrifice A Cog. 1 voter
Sacrifice a Wrench coated in cat blood with the cat. 1 voter.

And remember to be specific! Not 'A bunch of stuff' but "I'd like to sacrifice a pillow, a marshmallow and an Iguana". That is the difference between a 'All right, Shadenight can finally post an update!' and 'Shadenight wastes a post explaining more stuff'.
 

You wish to sacrifice on the SAD system...what, exactly?

You still do head over to Chemista, who is surprisingly tight knit on the affair. In the sense that you don't find her. At all.
She might have gone in some small crevice of sort, or maybe ended up down the drain...maybe she'll show up for breakfast tomorrow. Maybe.

[sjm9876]

I stand by cat + dog. But maybe a wrench in our own blood? In the hopes of some form of technology demon.

[Imp]

Whoops!

Alright, I'll back the sacrifice a cog idea then.