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[Kedly]

((Recommend sending live rabbits in little spacesuits to see if they have a stab reflex.))

Spoiler:  Made me think of this (click to show/hide)

Spoiler:  This one is probably more PW appropriate (click to show/hide)

((Also, I'm sure we'll find more universes to make first contact in. We can leave some of them alone, so that PW can turn them into their own missions? I can leave this verse alone though if enough people want me to however, I don't want to ruin peoples fun =P))

[Ozarck]

That is now exactly how fractalverse looks in my mind, with PWs image of the metal fractals as background.

[Empiricist]

Send a Phase 1 probe to (0, -1, 0). But have it return after two minutes. See if the irradiation and decay rates match that of the first probe. If there is no increase, send another that returns after three minutes. Then another that returns after four. Then another that returns after five.

Send a Phase 1 probe to (0, -1, 0). Have a Phase 1 probe proceed to collide lightly against it and maintain physical contact for one minute and disengage. Are there any odd effects experienced by the colliding probe afterwards?

Send a Phase 1 probe to (3, 3, 3). Send some sort of remotely operated robot or piece of machinery or another probe to try and dislodge the rods.

Send a modified Phase 1 probe to (17, 3, 18). It will have add some rudimentary mechanical limbs. These limbs will not be connected to any power supply at all nor will the probe be able to send any signals to them.

[DoctorMcTaalik]

See if there are any "geographists" on Heph interested in analyzing the sapphire. Also look into getting it cut and polished, if possible.

[piecewise]

I'm afraid I'm gonna have to interrupt you because that hissing, dissolving sound is getting louder.

Getting louder for everyone, including sy. And the room around the probe is starting to get heavily pot marked and rusty, almost as though it is being dissolved by acid.

And that acidic effect is starting to spread; not just to the areas around the probe but to the control room and even to Sy's little bunker.

[Empiricist]

"Every time! Every fuck-ing time! This is fucking bullshit!"
Charles' facial display activates, displaying a flashing warning sign.

[Twinwolf]

-snip-

On second thought, get on a shuttle and try to escape. Evacuate.

[Ozarck]

Edit: resist the psychic infection. Take a mind stim if one is available (I have none in inventory, but I believe we were given access to them them as part of our exploration package). If successful,
Lockdown the Apocalypse lab, send a text message to all ships in orbit to contain  evacuees and have no interactions with them, and to lockdown Saint as well.

Spoiler: if unsuccessful (click to show/hide)

My action last turn was, first and foremost, to launch that probe, and the entire room it was in, back into it's universe of origin. Since that is no longer possible, evacuate Apocalypse lab and launch the entire thing back into 0, 0, 57. attempt to outrun the acidic effect. To be clear, we are not waiting for slowpokes either. Sound the alarm, Get to a shuttle, and if it isn't dissolving already, get
off station. If the dissolution outruns me, launch immediately.

If the above is successful enough that I can get orders out, Forbid any shuttles from heading toward Heph until this is resolved, nor toward any of our other valuable assets place at all except empty space. Order us shot down if we try. Any ships nearby which have not yet heard the sound are to back the fuck up into deep space, with weapons trained on all Apocalypse lab objects. Make these orders as I flee the control room.

Uh... try to find the cause?

Nope. run. get to a shuttle, get into deep space, and hope you haven't been contaminated.

[Empiricist]

Activate the MkIII's buzz mode. Get the hell out and into a shuttle. If escape is not possible and probably death/possession approaches, Summon The Sheep.

[Kedly]

Evacuate immediately! Preferably with others, but nearest non fucked escape ship takes priority

[Gentlefish]

...Is that the freaking sideways probe?

Shit.

Evacuate immediately. Join Dester. A broken nose is enough for me.

While in the infirmary, get some drugs that will induce amnesia, preferably ones that can cause memories to be retroactively forgotten.
Make a note on my data-pad: "If you don't hear a hissing sound, the drugs have worked. You are safe." Set it to my main screen after any messages I send and delete.

If the medics in the infirmary cannot hear a sound (Don't be specific AND ASK THEM BEFORE THEY EVACUATE I AM RIGHT HERE IN THE CLINIC), order them to drug me with said drugs above before carting me out, and tell them to bring as much as they can with them (and on me since I might be KO'd on a gurney).

We're going to Dester and co.

[Empiricist]

((Welp, we haven't seeded the multiverse with our kin at all. Instead, we've learned that the multiverse is apparently an alien bukkake line.))

[Radio Controlled]

((Welp, we haven't seeded the multiverse with our kin at all. Instead, we've learned that the multiverse is apparently an alien bukkake line.))

((Thread title material right there.))

[Egan_BW]

((All M26 titles must be sexual references, by law.))

[syvarris]

1.FYI, I am not in a bunker.  I am on a warship orbiting the planet, and have been for the entire mission.  See below quote from Dec. 12th, because I knew something like this would happen.

2.I'm gonna stay onboard one of the orbiting warships, even if QEC is broken.  If the BLOPS team kills the planet, well, Steve can send more lackeys, and we can rebuild the lab somewhere else.

2. Fair enough.

2.Put my ship on full burn away from the Apoc lab, immediately.  Shut off all video/sensor feeds sourced from the lab.  After both these things have been done, scan my entire ship for signs of the anomaly.  Make sure all diagnostics are set to alert me to the slightest changes.  If there is anomalous activity on my ship aside from hissing sounds, open the first spoiler for the rest of my actions this turn.  If there is no anomalous activity, open the second spoiler.

Spoiler: OH GOD IT'S ON THE SHIP (click to show/hide)

3.Check what level of armor I have--I'll assume a Heavy Robotic Body, since those have flight or manueverability, and Saint's paranoid enough to be in one, but you can decide.  Also, if at any time here my assumption of what's happening is dangerously far from what is actually happening, please end turn and explain the discrepancy to me.

4.Have a robosod possess my body, activate buzz mode, and head towards the escape shuttle which is farthest from the anomalous area, which I can reach without crossing anomalous area.  If I do not have equipment capable of flight, have the possessing robosod run towards the escape shuttle, and have all clean robosods on this side of the anomaly run to my body's position and carry it to the escape shuttle.

5.Command all other unaffected robosods to head to the unaffected escape shuttle nearest to them.  If robosods cannot tell anomalous area fromo normal area, tell them to head towards the nearest escape shuttle which isn't the one I'm heading to.

6.Contact the universal transferring machine.  Have it start sending all still-functional probes to a location slightly in front of my ship (to account for my ship's current velocity).  The probes that are furthest away should be re-sent to me, so that they'll hopefully end up closer by luck.  The nearest probe should fly directly towards my warship, while my warship flies directly towards it.

7.If 6 doesn't work, due to the UTM being nonfunctional or slow or something, throw all sods out of my escape shuttle and escape immediately.  Send an order to local warships (which I didn't just escape from) to converge on my position.  Cut all external sensor views except for those needed to direct local warships to my position.  Inspect my shuttle for anomalous anything.  End turn.

8.If 6 DOES work, keep track of the anomalous area's spread.  Once it starts getting relatively close, have the warship I'm on rotate so that the escape pod's escape vector is lined up with the warship's vector of travel (I.E. aim the escape pod at the closest probe, and hopefully add the warship's speed to it).  Fire the escape pod.  Cling to the exterior, and have any robosods that made it to the escape shuttle with me cling to my body.  Have the warship change its path, and get the probe to update its destination to be my shuttle.

9.If current closing speed is sufficient to kill me, fire retrograde (backwards) thrusters on both the probe and shuttle.  Once I am about to hit the probe, release the shuttle and use the probe's thrusters, and if applicable, my own thrusters, to make last-second course corrections.  If any robosods are attached to me, tell them to arrange themselves to cushion my landing.  If I collide with the probe and don't immediately fall unconcious or die, send below text message to everyone, and tell the UTM to transfer me and my probe to the cavernverse, and then back to this reality ten seconds (If I have personal flight equipement; minutes otherwise.) later.  End turn the instant I get to the cavernverse

goinToCavRescMeWhnSf

((Yes, I'm pretty sure this is entirely unnecessary and will only be interrupted a couple of sentences in if the anomaly is on the ship.))

Spoiler: OH GOD IT'S PROBABLY ON THE SHIP AND I JUST CAN'T SEE IT (click to show/hide)

3.Contact whatever human lackeys we have back on the surface of Hephaestus (At least 48 AU away from here), and ask them if they have noticed/observed any hissing or sudden acidic surfaces back there.  Have they?

4.(If they haven't)  Tell Hephaestus to completely shut down all communications with the Apoc lab, immediately, in case the hazardous situation can transfer through perception.  After that has been done, ask them if they already received any footage/sound/whatever from the anomalous area of the Apoc Lab.  If it did not cause any spreading of the effect, tell them to reopen comms.  Close my comms with Hephaestus if I hear any indication that the anomaly has spread to Heph.

5.Check if the anomaly is on my ship, again.  Hissing still doesn't count.  If it is, GOTO Spoiler One.

6.Only after I am sure the anomaly cannot spread through sensors, and is not on my ship, start examining the facility to see how widespread the anomaly is.  Focus on where the blops people are, and what safe paths they can take to get to uncontaminated escape shuttles.  Attempt to use +4 AUX wizardry powers to help guide them to safety.

7.Details: Anybody who has been in an affected zone will be guided to shuttles seperate from the ones unaffected people are guided to.  If there are no unaffected shuttles to guide a person to, they will be guided to an affected one.  Any unaffected robosods which are already present in the base will be sent to assist individuals without mobility equipment.

8.Send a message to all BLOPS people that if they make their way to an uncontaminated test room, and get in the probe, I will send them to the cavernverse.  Use aux wizardry to highlight available paths to uncontaminated test rooms, and differentiate them from escape shuttle paths.  If anybody does make it to a test room and get in the probe, send them to the cavernverse.

9.Sigh.  Then contact the Doctor and ask him what to do.  Does he think simply shooting the anomaly with nukes remove it?  Or should it be left to devour the planet?  Ask him even if I never looked at the Apoc Lab due to being unsure if the anomaly could spread through perception.

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